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New Executive Director Appointed at Cynnal Cymru
BY Cynnal Cymru IN Uncategorized
Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales announces the appointment of a new executive Director to steer the charity though the next phase of its development as it continues to respond to the global challenge of sustainability – Sarah Hopkins.
Our current Director steps down after a successful period of restructuring the charity from a wholly government-funded organisation, to one that now generates income from embedding sustainable development at a practical level through its growing membership and via strategic partnership projects that enable collaboration between private, public and third sectors.
Sarah was most recently H&M’s Sustainability Manager (Cambodia and Vietnam) where she was responsible for setting and driving H&M’s social and environmental sustainability strategy in those countries. Amongst other projects, she managed social and environmental sustainability projects in the supply chain, including a high profile collaboration involving the ILO and other agencies to improve industrial relations, health and safety and living wages in the garment industry. She has a strong commercial background. Sarah lives in Cardiff and was previously a corporate lawyer in a London law firm. Sarah will be joining the team in January 2020.
Sarah Hopkins said:
“I am excited to join the excellent team at Cynnal Cymru and the movement towards a greener, more equal and globally responsible Wales. I look forward to meeting and working with our members and supporting them with their sustainability agendas and challenges. Cynnal Cymru is unique in building relations between sectors and industries and I hope to continue the great work already started. I believe that together we can learn, innovate and make a positive impact on people’s lives in Wales now and in the future.”
Gary Brace, Chair of Cynnal Cymru’s Board said:
“We are delighted to welcome Sarah Hopkins to be Cynnal Cymru’s new Executive Director. In addition to her many skills and experiences in the field of sustainability in the supply chain sector, Sarah is excited to be taking forward our forward-looking sustainability agenda in Wales. Trustees are looking forward to her building on the great foundations which Mari Arthur has put in place for Cynnal Cymru.”
Mari Arthur, Director of Cynnal Cymru said:
“I’m really proud of what we have achieved to date and it has been a privilege to work with so many talented and committed people in my time here at Cynnal Cymru. This is a really exciting opportunity to lead our charity through a next phase of its development, and I’m confident that Sarah will take up the challenge and continue to drive forward our mission in making Wales a truly sustainable nation.”
Cynnal Cymru is part of the WCVA Group structure.
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David Simister Architect
Housing and Houses
Master-plan and Concept
Olson Kundig The ‘Bigwood Residence’
One of my favourite architecture studios, Olson Kundig, have returned with another winner in the form of this rural Idaho home – dubbed the Bigwood Residence – that features a range of gadgets and gizmos.
Tucked into a hillside in Sun Valley, a resort town in Idaho, The Bigwood Residence, encompasses over 6,500 square feet and offers sweeping views of natural landmarks such as Bald Mountain, Griffin Butte and Adams Gulch.
The house is composed of two cantilevering bars made of glass and steel, which project toward the landscape. One bar serves as the main dwelling, while the other contains guest quarters. The rectilinear volumes sit atop a board-formed concrete base and are connected by a steel-and-glass bridge that contains a sitting area. The strong concrete masts that support the bars also act as fireplaces.
The Seattle-based architectural studio is known for its portfolio of rustic, modern dwellings and its incorporation of a number of clever hardware systems into the building. “This second home is full of surprises, from its humble-to-grand design progression to its myriad custom details,” explain the firm.
The bridge volume of the home features a 23-foot-wide glass wall that lifts up, enabling the space to be fully open to the outdoors. The wall is operated via a hand crank and is counterbalanced by a large, steel weight that rises five feet above the roof. Other bespoke pieces include a 14-foot-long black walnut dining table with wheeled legs, enabling it to be split in half. The lighting above the table can also be transformed. Overhead, a pulley and solid steel counterweight raise two custom light fixtures “to further open up the space,” the team added.
planning use classes link
Land and buildings are divided into various categories called ‘Planning Use Classes’ which determine the purpose for which they can be used.
This is stuff I like, old and new, that I hope you do too.
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Distance From () To Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
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Gifts & donations to the DNR
About the DNR
Licenses, permits, & regulations
Minnesota facts & figures
Future forest testimonials
Duluth Pack approached the Future Forest Fund with an idea: to donate one tree for every Duluth Pack-branded item it sold throughout Arbor Month. The company promoted its "Buy A Pack, We Give Back" idea on social media, in newspapers, and on the radio—with great success. It ended up selling enough items to plant 2,400 red maples in Cromwell, which is near Duluth. The area needed to be reforested, after emerald ash borer forced the harvesting of all black ash. The promotion was a win-win for the company, its customers, and Minnesotans: Duluth Pack engaged its customers in the importance of planting trees during Arbor Month, and the people of Minnesota reaped the benefit.
"There is truthfully nothing more rewarding than giving back and making a difference,' says Tom Sega, the president of Duluth Pack. "A priority of ours at Duluth Pack is encouraging our customers to get out and connect with the outdoors more than ever. The Future Forest Fund has helped us engage with the community and individuals and fulfill our mission of maintaining Minnesota's wilderness areas so that everyone has a place to go adventure."
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor may predict schizophrenia relapse
Australian discovers gene for deadly Kawasaki disease
An Australian researcher has identified genes which could make some children more susceptible to the deadly Kawasaki disease - an inflammatory condition in young children that can damage blood vessels. While the cause of Kawasaki disease remains unknown, it appears to be due to an infection in susceptible children and the breakthrough could lead to
Full Post: Australian discovers gene for deadly Kawasaki disease
A factor that helps optimize brain formation and function may also provide clues about whether patients suffering with schizophrenia are headed toward relapse, researchers say.
Over the next two- and one-half years, they are regularly measuring levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, in the blood of patients with schizophrenia to see if the pattern of their rise and fall is a good indicator that patients are headed for trouble, say Medical College of Georgia researchers.
“If you had something that would give you a better inkling that somebody is going to get ill, that would be extraordinarily helpful,” says Dr. Peter S. Buckley, schizophrenia specialist who chairs the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior in the MCG School of Medicine. “It’s a little bit of a shot in the dark, but the payoff would be huge,” he says of the study that piggybacks on another federally-funded study looking at whether injectable medicine, rather than tablets, can help deter relapses.
Not taking their medicines as prescribed is a big reason patients relapse but science has already shown that BDNF levels can start dropping even when they do, says Dr. Anilkumar R. Pillai, MCG neuroscientist who studies BDNF and other cell-nourishing trophic factors. That drop likely indicates the drug is becoming less effective and a relapse is imminent, the researchers say.
Decreased BDNF levels already have been associated with relapsing bipolar disease and depression, Dr. Buckley says. Dr. Pillai and others have shown that the BDNF levels in patients with schizophrenia are generally lower than in healthy individuals, an indicator of its importance in this disease, he says. BDNF levels may be even lower in patients when they relapse and go up, at least for a while, with treatment.
“Theoretically, at least, if you could know the point when BDNF levels start going down, you might change the treatment?that’s at least one approach for the future, if the study results point in that direction,” says Dr. Pillai. He also studies an animal model that has many behavioral as well as neurochemical abnormalities similar to schizophrenia. He’s shown the downstream signaling of BDNF, a key pathway in the regulation of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA, is not working well in these animals. “Now we are going to see how we can rectify the problem,” says Dr. Pillai who wants to keep BDNF levels on a more even keel.
About a dozen older schizophrenia medications and a handful of new ones adjust the activity level of a variety of neurotransmitters in the brain, Dr. Pillai says. Animal studies have shown the drugs have a differing impact on BDNF as well. Most initially improve the level then, with time, levels decrease of this factor that is required for brain development as well as cell proliferation, migration, differentiation and survival.
In the normal adult brain, BDNF increases stem cell proliferation so the brain is better armed if something bad, like a stroke, happens. Trophic factors such as BDNF also induce anti-apoptotic mechanisms that keep cells from committing suicide when stressed by a lack of oxygen, for example. Exactly where BDNF comes from or what controls endogenous levels is still unclear. Exercise can increase BDNF levels. Two drugs currently on the market for other medical conditions - erythropoietin for anemia and cysteamine for cystinosis - can as well. Dr. Pillai hopes his laboratory studies of these drugs will soon result in an adjunct therapy that can help patients avoid devastating relapse. “Our aim is to bring BDNF levels back to normal.” Dr. Pillai and colleagues already have shown in their animal studies that antipsychotic drugs do better boosting brain BDNF levels when administered along with any of the above drugs. He adds that both cysteamine and erythropoietin have been well studied for their potential to enhance cognitive function.
Schizophrenia affects about 1 percent of the population or some 2.4 million American adults. Hallucinations are a disease hallmark; patients hear voices and can even see, touch and taste things that are not real. Patients, when they relapse, can become aggressive, reclusive and suicidal. Dr. Buckley notes that even when patients are followed closely - every two weeks as they are in these studies - relapse occurs.
Today there is no objective way or “test” to diagnose schizophrenia, measure efficacy of treatment or predict the common problem of relapse, Dr. Buckley says. “We are looking for how to predict things in mental illness: could you predict whether somebody will get along well or not, could you predict whether a treatment will work, could you predict side effects?”
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Discovery of new molecule in blood-pressure control system
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s School of Dentistry have discovered that the nerve cells controlling heart rate and blood pressure synthesize a molecule known to be critically important for proper nervous system growth. The finding could someday play a significant role in the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and high blood
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Researchers find brain’s reward and stress signaling circuits are intertwined in complex ways
Rewarding and stressful signals don’t seem to have much in common. But researchers studying diseases ranging from drug addiction to anxiety disorders are finding that the brain’s reward and stress signaling circuits are intertwined in complex ways. Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have now discovered a functional link between reward and stress. They found that
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Interaction between gene variants may alter brain function in schizophrenia
A collaborative study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is giving what may be the first look at how interactions between genes underlie a key symptom of schizophrenia, impaired working memory. Functional imaging studies reveal how a combination of common variants in two genes is associated with reduced activity of important brain structures
Full Post: Interaction between gene variants may alter brain function in schizophrenia
New research moves us one step closer to personalised breast cancer treatment
Cancer Research UK scientists have found that a test, already used in breast cancer diagnosis, can also predict who will and who won’t benefit from commonly used chemotherapy drugs. The research shows that women who have a duplication of chromosome 17 in their tumour will benefit from anthracycline drugs, while others can be spared the
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Kynurenic acid in brain shows potential as schizophrenia target
New research has traced elevated levels of a specific compound in the brain to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia. The finding suggests that drugs used to suppress the compound, called kynurenic acid, might be an important supplement to antipsychotic medicines, as these adjuncts could be used to treat the disorder’s most resistant symptoms -
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Wires Home
Barcelona agree deal to sign Malcom from Bordeaux
Barcelona have agreed a deal to sign Brazilian winger Malcom from Bordeaux for 42million euros (£37.3million) – just a day after Roma announced they had a deal of their own.
Malcom had been linked with Everton and Inter Milan but Roma announced on Monday that they had agreed a fee of 40million euros (£35.5million) with Bordeaux for the player.
However, the 21-year-old has agreed a five-year contract at the Nou Camp and will undergo a medical on Wednesday.
Malcom is heading to the Nou Camp
🇧🇷 Here is Malcom, Barça´s new signing
⚽️ #EnjoyMalcom
🔵🔴 #EnjoyBarça pic.twitter.com/pCvp6i33dY
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) July 24, 2018
A Barcelona statement on Tuesday evening read: “FC Barcelona and Girondins de Bordeaux have reached an agreement for the transfer of the player Malcom Filipe Silva de Oliveira. The operation will cost 41 million euros and 1 million in variables.
“The player will sign with the club for the next five seasons, until the end of the 2022/23 season.”
Malcom, who has yet to represent his country at senior level, began his career in his homeland with Corinthians and was part of the Campeonato title-winning side of 2015 before moving to France in January 2016.
He spent three seasons with Bordeaux, scoring 23 goals in 96 appearances, and follows fellow Brazilian Arthur in moving to the Nou Camp this summer.
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“Paramodernities” at Jacob's Pillow
“Paramodernities”
NettaYerushalmy
Jacob’s Pillow, MA
copyright © 2018 by Gay Morris
Netta Yerushalmy’s “Para- modernities,” presented at Jacob’s Pillow on Saturday, is a hugely ambitious work, a three-and-a-half-hour marathon of what the Pillow billed as a deconstruction and re-examination of works by six major modernist choreographers: Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Bob Fosse, and George Balanchine. Taking on any one of these artists would be challenging, dealing with six seems a little mad. Yet Yerushalmy has done it with stunning success. Usually her programs include just three of the choreographers. Saturday was the first time she showed all six together, making it a Jacob’s Pillow world premiere.
“Para” as a prefix has a variety of meanings, from beside and beyond to ancillary and extra, which is a good indication of the breadth of “Paramodernities.” Each of the six sections is an independent entity, yet there are elements that connect them. To begin with, in each instance Yerushalmy invited an academic or writer to contribute an essay, which he or she reads on stage, while dancers perform choreography Yerushalmy has created based on movement drawn from a work by one of the six choreographers. For example, in the Graham section (“Paramodernities #2) art historian Carol Ockman read her text while Yerushalmy and Taryn Griggs performed Yerushalmy’s dances, which used vocabulary from Graham’s “Night Journey,”
Again, using the Graham section as an example, the dancers and reader often interrupted each other, and physically invaded each other’s territory (at one point the dancers were crawling over Ockman). Or the reader became a dancer (Ockman began her part by falling off a chair onto the floor, and later tried out a few steps at one side of the stage). While all this was going on, Ockman was reading a text that discussed Jocasta, the protagonist of “Night Journey,” in the context of Graham’s place as a woman in mid-century American society and of later feminist theory.
Each choreographer’s work was approached differently but each included a reader and one or more dancers and in every case the choreography was Yerushalmy’s. It should be added that with one brief exception, there was no music accompaniment and certainly no music from the works being considered. Also, the readers, although mostly academics, were not generally experts in the work of the choreographers they were dealing with. On the other hand, many did not focus on the particular work the dancers were referencing, but on broader issues of modernism that the dance evoked. The dancers were never from the companies of the choreographers whose steps they were dancing, although they were sometimes dancers from other major companies. For example, Marc Crousillat, who danced in the sections on Nijinsky and Cunningham, is a member of the Tricia Brown Company. On the other hand, Griggs, dancing in the Graham section, is a Pilates instructor with a dance background, and Magdalena Jarkowiec, who danced in the Balanchine section, is a costume designer (she designed the colorful costumes for “Paramodernities”), who clearly has had considerable ballet training.
The performance began with “Paramodernities #1” which dealt with Nijinsky and “The Rite of Spring.” While Croussillat danced Yerushalmy’s choreography derived from steps and gestures from Millicent Hodson’s well-known reconstruction of the ballet, philosopher David Kishik sat at a table, turning on and off a tape recorder that played a recording of another person reading Kishik’s text about the sacrificial body of the dancer. Sometimes Kishik interrupted the recorded commentary with live comments, enlarging on his original remarks. The sacrificial dancer’s body was here represented by both Nijinsky and the sacrificial maiden at the center of “The Rite of Spring,” but it is also a famous trope in its own right, found not only in many books and films but as a much referenced example of Michel Foucault’s disciplined body. Kishik spoke of the body in terms of the birth of the modern nation state and the body politic, where the body of the people is sacrificed for the nation, or national power. This section had the least interaction between reader and dancer, but the dancing part is usually taken by Yerushalmy, so the dynamic may be different when these two perform it.
Next was the Graham section, “Para- modernities #2,” then “Para- modernities #4,” which dealt with a variety of works from the Cunningham repertory. Yerushalmy’s dances made with Cunningham movement were performed by Crousillat and Brittany Engel-Adams, an Ailey trained dancer. Writer Claudia La Rocco often conversed informally with the dancers as she read her text, which included commenting playfully on the not-very-active vernacular movement she was executing, like sitting on the stage cross-legged, while her two colleagues were verbally tracking the complex and highly energetic movement they were doing. La Rocco’s text was supplemented by the Pillow’s archivist Norton Owen telling an anecdote about Cunningham’s early, and for thirty years only, appearance at the Pillow after enraging Ted Shawn with his avant-gardism. Conceptual artist Allana Clarke also contributed, reading her commentary from the audience. She questioned Cunningham’s use of abstraction, a key element of modernism that supposedly positioned art outside politics. Clarke contested the apolitical nature of abstraction, stating that everything is political, and “if I can’t divorce myself from the social, why should you?” Another memorable moment occurred when Crousillat, in the middle of executing Cunningham’s exacting steps, broke into pelvic movement as Getish Mamo’s Ethiopian pop song was heard. Seeing the flowing use of the pelvis was a shock in the midst of Cunningham’s centered, upright vocabulary. Suddenly one saw just how restricted Cunningham’s dance was, despite his interest in enlarging it through chance procedures.
Michael Blake, Joyce Edwards, Hsiao-Jou Tang and Megan Williams danced Yerushalmy’s choreography derived from Bob Fosse’s film, “Sweet Charity,” while dance historian Julia Foulkes read about the transactional nature of sex in his dances, and how, through them, commerce in the form of Broadway, films and television raised a seamier side of life to an acceptable level of taste. Foulkes roamed through the dancers as she spoke, merging with them in typical Fosse poses and making her points while the dancers sold themselves with the kind of over-the-top energy and faked smiles familiar to anyone who has ever seen a Broadway show.
The Balanchine segment (“Paramodernities #6) was one of the most unusual and compelling. Who would imagine connecting this choreographer, let alone “Agon,” with disability and rehabilitation? Yerushalmy did, and for it dancers Gerald Casel and Magdalena Jarkowiec were joined by Georgina Kleege, an author and activist, and Mara Mills, a professor of media, culture and communication at NYU. Mills’s text was delivered via video, which was shown on the side of a cube centered on the stage, the cube also serving as a prop for the dancers. The video was seen off and on throughout the live dance. Mills’s narrative included the terrible story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, a young ballerina and Balanchine’s wife, who contracted polio that left her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. But this was not a story about disability, rather it was about Le Clecrq’s rehabilitation exercises and how they influenced the choreography of “Agon,” which Balanchine created when he finally left her bedside. In one instance Jarkowiec repeatedly attempted to balance on point on the cube, a feat as difficult as some of Le Clercq’s rehab exercises must have been for her. The section also addressed how blind persons might become audiences for dance with new audio technologies that are being developed. Kleege, who is blind, danced an extended trio with Casel and Jarkowiec, while speaking of these new technologies and what the blind might bring to dance.
The afternoon ended with “Para- modernities #3,” devoted to Ailey’s “Revelations,” in which Tommy DeFrantz joined dancers Stanley Gambucci, Jeremy “Jae” Neal, Nicholas Leichter, Engel-Adams and Yerushalmy in a section centered on race and gender. In his talk, DeFrantz noted that Ailey made space for homosexuality as well as blackness on the stage. But what the dance made clear is how much of Ailey’s movement has become iconic, instantly recognizable as an imaginary of black identity.
The above remarks only touch the surface of what goes on in “Paramodernities.” It will take more thought and repeated viewings to adequately penetrate its multiple layers. It should be emphasized that Yerushalmy works her magic with many talented collaborators. At the same time, she remains a modest presence. Ambitious as “Paramodernities” is, I never felt it was about her. Even though she danced in several of the sections, it was always as part of a group. The focus remained steadily on a critical examination of how each choreographer’s dances relates to modernism and to our concerns today. New York Live Arts has scheduled “Paramodernities” for spring 2019 and the work will tour elsewhere, so it should reach many who missed it at Jacob’s Pillow.
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The Latest News on Dart's Lawsuit Against the New York City's Ban of Foam Foodservice Products
NYC Ban on EPS is OVERTURNED!
On September 22nd, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chan overturned the EPS ban calling it an “arbitrary and capricious” decision, due to the overwhelming evidence that EPS is indeed recyclable and there is a viable market for the recycled product.
Mayor’s styrofoam ban struck down by — science
Justice Margaret Chan overturned the ban on Styrofoam and related products, citing clear-cut evidence that recycling the materials could save the city at least $400,000 a year.
Court Chucks Arbitrary NYC Ban on Styrofoam
Overturning New York City's ban on plastic foam containers on Tuesday, a judge criticized the city's leading sanitation official for claiming that recycling the containers was not realistic.
No ‘Styrofoam’ ban: reports
A Manhattan judge has put an end to Mayor de Blasio’s ban on “Styrofoam” beverage and food containers because there’s enough evidence to support that the city could save money by recycling the material, published reports state.
Dart Container Wins Lawsuit to Overturn NYC Foam Ban
Mason-based Dart Container Corporation has won a lawsuit against New York City to overturn a ban on the use of plastic foam containers.
New York State Supreme Court Overturns City's Ban on Foam
The New York State Supreme Court today overturned Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia’s decision to ban foam foodservice items, clearing the way for the City to embrace a recycling program that would cover 100 percent of polystyrene products and generate new revenue for the City.
A ban on certain expanded polystyrene (EPS) in New York City is going to make an impact on senior living facilities. Polystyrene foam cups have advantages over paper cups in settings that cater to seniors. Healthcare providers will be forced to pay wholesale costs of alternative solutions that cost twice as much, or even more. That's tough to swallow when so many healthcare businesses are already being squeezed by tougher regulations and lower reimbursements.
NYC's piecemeal recycling hits small businesses
In the next few weeks, a New York court could set the city on a truly progressive path by directing it to recycle all plastic foam, rather than ban a small portion of it. But it shouldn't take a judge's order for the de Blasio administration to fully embrace recycling. The city should implement a plan now to recycle all foam at zero cost to taxpayers.
Restaurant owners petition to reverse New York's foam foodservice products ban
The New York Restaurant Action Alliance (RAA) says more than 1,000 small business owners from New York City’s five boroughs have signed a petition demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio reverse his foam foodservice products ban. Restaurants and bodegas say they consider the ban, which went into effect on July 1, 2015, but will not be enforced until January 2016, a serious threat. Those who signed the petition say the mayor defied his own campaign promise to strengthen the city’s small business infrastructure by enforcing the ban.
NYC provides businesses a foam grace period and hardship waiver
Good News in NYC! NYC has announced a “grace period” lasting from July 1, 2015 until January 1, 2016 during which they will NOT issue fines or penalties for business that use foam foodservice containers. Also, nonprofits and small businesses (not part of a chain) with less than $500,000 in revenue per year may apply for hardship exemptions from the Department of Small Business Services (SBS) if they can prove that the purchase of alternative products not composed of EPS would create undue financial hardship.
Upstate senators criticize de Blasio ban on foam containers
Two state senators from upstate New York have joined pro-foam advocates in attacking Mayor Bill de Blasio's ban on polystyrene food and beverage containers. Republican senators Betty Little and John Bonacic on Wednesday said the ban saying will kill jobs in their upstate districts and hurt the environment.
NYC polystyrene foam ban called "nonsensical" by former deputy mayor
Most cities want to recycle as much waste as possible, but a broad coalition of recyclers, foam foodservice manufacturers, individual restaurant owners and the Restaurant Action Alliance NYC have filed suit against New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio, Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and the NYC Department of Sanitation over the city's illegal ban of expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) foodservice products. The lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court seeks to overturn the de Blasio administration's January 2015 decision to ban foodservice products in New York City.
Industry Groups Sue to Stop NYC's Plastic Foam Container Ban
Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to ban plastic foam containers such as to-go cups and meal trays was politically motivated, out of step with a New York City law and should be stopped by a state supreme court judge, according to a coalition of restaurant, manufacturing and lobbying groups that filed a lawsuit Thursday.
Dart Corporation Files Lawsuit Against NYC
Dart container has joined a lawsuit against New York City over a ban on styrofoam plates and cups. The city's Mayor and Sanitation Department are named in the suit filed in New York's Supreme Court.
Dart Container Files Lawsuit Against the NYC Foam Ban
(New York, NY) – Dart Container Corporation joined with the Restaurant Action Alliance NYC, members of the recycling industry, and the City’s restaurant owners today in filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn the City’s ban on foam foodservice items. Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and DSNY Commissioner Kathryn Garcia are named as respondents in the petition, which was filed against the Commissioner’s erroneous determination that foam cannot be recycled. The determination flagrantly violated Local Law 142 as well as sound environmental and economic policy and plain common sense.
City businesses take fight against polystyrene foam container ban to court
A coalition including the Restaurant Action Alliance and Dart Container Corp. contends the ban Mayor de Blasio wants to start July 1 is illegal because the law requires the city to recycle such products, but Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia ruled arbitrarily that soft foam containers cannot be recycled.
Styrofoam proponents call NYC ban a ‘sham’
Styrofoam proponents filed a lawsuit claiming that Mayor de Blasio’s ban of their product is a “sham” — and that he only went through with it to keep his campaign promises and not because it can’t be recycled.
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India Insights with Varun Haran
News and Viewpoints from ISMG's India Team
Enterprise Mobility Management / BYOD , Events , Governance
Reflections on RSA APJ 2015
Observations From the Four-Day, Security Jamboree Varun Haran (APACinfosec) • July 27, 2015
As the third edition of RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan drew to a close on July 24 in Singapore, I was struck by how nuanced the security conversations are getting in the Asian region. While keynote speakers here may have asserted a broad need to re-imagine fundamental assumptions in security today, experts and researchers in the conference sessions offered in-depth studies of the dynamic changes taking place in the threat landscape.
Targeted attacks, next generation platforms like mobile and IoT, Information sharing, analytics in security and increasingly mature governance best-practices are just some of the topics that received focused attention at the RSA APJ conference. There was also an emphasis on infrastructure security and an increasing realization of just how dependent the Asian economies and societies are becoming on technology - and by extension, the security community, to secure this technological sprawl. [See: Staying Ahead of Cybercrime]
Asia may need to go beyond what may have worked in more developed markets, as a lot of the developments happening here are unique or, in some cases, even ahead of the west.
Policy was a much discussed topic as well. Many of the attendees agree that Asian economies are feeling the pressure from their increasing cyber exposure, and policy is going to be at the forefront of security conversations. There is a sense that Asia may need to go beyond what may have worked in more developed markets, as a lot of the developments happening here are unique or, in some cases, even ahead of the west. [See: Asia Needs Resilient Cyber Defense]
Takeaways and Observations
You can read some of my takeaways from day one of the event here. Days two and three saw some interesting keynotes and a slew of engaging sessions across the conference tracks. Attendees shared with me how satisfied they were the quality of the sessions over that of the keynotes, as these had more takeaways for practical application. Some attendees I spoke to say that there is a need in this market to get the fundamentals of security right, and conferences such RSA must address this specific need.
"It might be the un-sexy part of security, but the basics of security need to be actively addressed in this region," a session speaker told ISMG. The conference itself seems to have been well received, and the expo floor was very popular. According to estimates shared by the organizers, over 3500 people attended RSA APJ this year, from across this region. Singapore being a regional hub for commerce, it was interesting to see the mix of global executives from huge security brands, and local expertise from the region - sharing both the micro and the macro perspectives. However, I feel we could have done with deeper insights into the Asian security market.
One of the activities that received a lot of attention was the RSA innovation sandbox competition, which saw security startups compete against each other. The sandbox is aimed at regional innovation and providing startups a platform to showcase their security products to the world. This year, data security startup SODA won, for its no frills approach to data privacy issues.
It was certainly an eventful conference, and I had the chance to meet with many new faces. However, even as the conference scales up in this region, my take is that it needs to go beyond its product-centric flavor and expand on the knowledge-sharing and community platform piece. This is of course my personal opinion, but the fact is that the Asian security market - while it is growing rapidly - needs the commensurate grown in maturity and thought leadership to chart the right course. [See: Moving Beyond the Buzzwords
The media page for RSA Singapore has some of the Keynote videos, and other media from the conference, and you can see ISMG's coverage, exclusive interviews and features here.
I am looking forward to RSA Abu Dhabi in November this year. In the meantime, we will continue to bring you more analysis and features connected to some of the discussions we witnessed at RSA. Please share your RSA experience with us. What do you think can be done better at future events?
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Varun Haran
Managing Director, Asia & Middle East, ISMG
Haran has been a technology journalist in the Indian market for over six years, covering the enterprise technology segment and specializing in information security. He has driven multiple industry events such as the India Computer Security Conferences (ICSC) and the first edition of the Ground Zero Summit 2013 during his stint at UBM. Prior to joining ISMG, Haran was first a reporter with TechTarget writing for SearchSecurity and SearchCIO; and later, correspondent with InformationWeek, where he covered enterprise technology-related topics for the CIO and IT practitioner.
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BackOffice Associates: Guiding the Data Stewardship Journey for Large Companies
By Michelle Knight on July 11, 2017 July 11, 2017
When a large Fortune 1000 company merges and acquires many smaller companies, and undergoes a Digital Transformation, Data Governance and Data Stewardship become more complex. The well-known and established business may need to integrate up to 200 different ERP applications from a variety of systems across different divisions that span the globe.
Take this context into an environment where business responsiveness to customers becomes paramount to moving forward. It would be no wonder that a CEO would much rather trek the Amazon jungle or climb Mount Everest than face the complex policies needing to be set and enforced as a result.
Fortunately, Rex Ahlstrom, Chief Strategy & Technology Officer for BackOffice Associates, has the experience, and a simplified and unified approach. It should come of no surprise that companies such Eli Lilly, Kraft, and Graybar have all hired BackOffice Associates, and its Data Stewardship Platform to guide them on their data journey, reducing data migration costs by as much as 80 percent.
Ahlstrom says he does whatever business needs done. He describes his role at BackOffice Associates (BOA) as similar to “a chief cook and bottle washer.” After starting as an engineer with Westinghouse in robotics and image processing and DSI building spacecraft, Ahlstrom started and ran two companies, one that was sold to SAP. He worked at SAP for a few years and then transitioned to BackOffice Associates as the CEO’s second hire, looking after marketing, product development, and enhancing partnerships.
He became very excited about BackOffice Associates’ intellectual property created around data and its 20-year history “of dealing with some of the most complex data problems across a myriad of industries with Fortune 1000 customers.” In his 5 ½ years with BOA, Ahlstrom has directed the product from consultant utilities, analytical expertise and methodology, to an enterprise software platform adept at handling all phases of the data journey.
BackOffice Associates’ success can be attributed to its centralized and unified approach to the Data Journey – from Data Migration, to Data Quality, to Data Governance and Archiving. Central to the data journey is data as an asset, just like a profit or loss line item on a balance sheet. Through its consulting, software, large libraries of analytics and methodology, BackOffice Associates increases data’s value. Ahlstrom and BOA’s embrace of Digital Transformation as a business driver of the data journey has helped them to aid clients in shifting power from IT and a linear ERP view of production, to the business owner and the focused reactions and support of the consumer.
BackOffice Associates recognizes that any platform managing data as an asset needs to consider both IT and business. Ahlstrom states, “The traditional IT tools, which had been out there for a very long time, are not meeting the new needs of the market place.”
In the past, data has been siloed and locked into per business need (e.g. FICO, administration, customer service). Companies have found that this approach, frankly, does not work. Instead organizations select a combination of optimum applications, some of which may require deployment in the Cloud. Gartner describes this technical strategy as Postmodern ERP.
As a result, Data Systems have become hybridized and decentralized, because all data needs to be analyzed and working, to come together with the business users. This leads to an increased complexity in governing and managing data as an asset, as the business owner must be considered.
Ahlstrom says that if you look at all the buying centers (in a company) “50 percent of the budget that is being spent today on business IT is actually being spent by line of business owners and not necessarily by IT.” What a change from the old days where the CIO or CTO would control the purse, buy IT technology to solve the data problems and keep its infrastructure running.
Now, with Digital Transformation, businesses need to engage with customers and with legacy systems that cannot react fast enough. So, this creates upheaval “a massive Data Structure Rip and Replace.” How does a company continue to operate while going through such a Digital Transformation, including a hybrid landscape of Cloud and On-Site Data Storage? BackOffice Associates helps organizations navigate these changes through its Data Stewardship Platform, which sets and enforces data policies.
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Setting and Enforcing Data Policy
The Data Governance Market has been estimated to grow from USD 863.2 million in 2016 to 2234.7 million by 20212, at a Compound Annual (CAGR) rate of 21%. Key factors driving the Data Governance Market include the need to meet regulations and compliance deadlines, in addition, as Ahlstrom states, a requirement for a tool set to bridge IT and business, non-techie people.
In reaction to this, several players are trying to add Data Prep Solutions (e.g. Google and Trifecta have proposed a new solution). While Data Prep interfaces allow business analysts to easily interact with data and get results quicker and easier, as the Chief Strategy & Technology Officer of BackOffice Associates states, “Data Prep is really a necessary feature for enterprises to have in today’s market.”
As new regulations span systems, industries, and business processes, traditional Data Governance tools such as Data Prep cannot handle these changes, especially the resulting shifts in Master Data Management (MDM).
Ahlstrom talks about how lots of companies use these types of sophisticated web interfaces to cover data policy, to set it. In a sense, the Data Governance Market place has become saturated by Metadata Governance solutions, governance of governance policies. However, this leads back to the old problem of heavy IT involvement. Business leaders ask how to do they know the Data Governance policies are enforced, where they are enforced, and are how they are kept up to date with any changes. Here BackOffice Associates fills in the blanks by addressing the need for data enforcement, too.
Ahlstrom takes a page out of the Apple playbook. He remarks:
“If we create a complete vertically integrated stack that considers all aspects of the data journey, I can consistently set and enforce policies regardless of what phase I am during that journey. I can dynamically know whether what I have set from my policy is being enforced and where it is not. [It] would be much faster and easier to deploy and get real business value.”
This ties into the heart of BackOffice Associates success and why it experienced a 40 percent jump in year-over-year revenue growth in Europe and Africa based on strengthening its SAP S4/HANA expertise. BOA handles both sides of the Data Governance and Data Stewardship coin. Ahlstrom says, by “Setting and enforcing policy, and in doing so, keep the business person or less technical user in mind to be a contributor to that process” both sides of the same coin are addressed.
The real-world experience and daily problem solving that analysts of BackOffice Associates have taken and gained in Fortune 1000 companies, provides BOA its strength, along with its ability to be agnostic in how it integrates and works with different IT tools. BackOffice Associates works within its customers’ IT parameters to help them set and enforce Data Policies successfully.
Intelligent ERP (IERP): The Wave of the Future
When asked about the future landscape of the Data Governance Market Place, Rex Ahlstrom believes that businesses need to go back to standard processes to handle increasing complexity and the need to be nimbler. Here, Intelligent ERP (IERP), with its AI, Machine Learning and use of self-discovery automation becomes critical to identify future outcomes and continually reinvent and optimize key business processes.
Pure human brute force is just not sustainable, and once legacy systems change, will not be needed. Automation will be necessary for efficiency and for clean data; especially automation that can read configuration and metadata from an application, immediately glean information about the technical data structure and any business-driven policies, and enforce those policies. But automation, for the Postmodern ERP needs to be implemented practically.
According to Ahlstrom, Postmodern ERP automation needs to answer the following:
What does the automation do that reduces my service spend?
What level of higher business intelligence is provided because of automation?
The answers to these become paramount to a business moving forward. Ahlstrom poses the following problem, from a notable manufacturer producing chemicals and codes. In an instant, this company needs to know who is a customer that picks up the phone to find out about products and features this manufacturer sells. The outcome from these early interactions may mean the difference of them continuing to be a customer and engaging the firm or not.
The business needs to be responsive to deal with who they are. Ahlstrom says, “70 percent of the buying decision is already made before a consumer engages with you as a company.” How you shape that customer’s decision making process, through using the postmodern ERP, becomes crucial.
As firms struggle, in the future, to make good decisions from a complex and changing market place, Rex Ahlstrom and BackOffice Associates will be ready to help companies unlock the value of their data assets, through using the right data with effective Data Governance and Data Stewardship based on policies and standards that work.
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Los Angeles's Cultural Hot Spots
Ron Starr
An ever-expanding museum mile, a hyperactive restaurant scene and a wave of hotel openings have made Los Angeles a cultural capital.
By Amanda Friedman on July 06, 2011
In the 1920s, D. H. Lawrence didn’t mince his words in a letter to a friend: “Los A. is silly.” And though it was not his most inspired turn of phrase, the city seems never to have recovered. Endless sun, ribbons of concrete, mountains and sea obscured by an all-enveloping smog, air kisses, tans—Los Angeles sometimes gets a bad rap, especially among those who have no idea what they’re talking about!
Today L.A. is cool, fun, heady…and silly? Not really. These days, art blossoms everywhere, from the independent galleries in the Culver City Art District to the Museum of Contemporary Art, now directed by iconoclastic gallerist Jeffrey Deitch. Food is playful and plentiful, much of it feeding off the city’s patchwork of ethnic enclaves. Hotels, once set pieces of stucco and palm trees, are as sophisticated and exciting as the Los Angelenos who crowd their terraces and restaurants at night. “As the city continues to grow, it’s evolving its identity,” says L.A.-based architect Michael Maltzan, who recently designed Michael Ovitz’s massive mansion–turned–art museum of Dubuffets and Picassos. From caricature to cultural mecca, Los Angeles is more than ready to be taken seriously.
Eat Meets West
Traditionally, restaurant culture here has focused less on discovering the newest place than on uncovering the overlooked. A crop of new spots harness the past while reconfiguring the future. Nowhere is this more true than with Asian food. L.A.’s thriving Asian communities have mostly been concentrated in Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Tokyo and Thai Town. But the bright flavors and ingredient-driven philosophy of Asian food is being translated across the city.
At the highest level, literally and figuratively, is Wolfgang Puck’s 24th-floor WP24 (900 W. Olympic Blvd.; 213-743-8824; wolfgangpuck.com) at the Ritz-Carlton (see “Night Creatures,” next page). Another is Red Medicine (8400 Wilshire Blvd.; 323-651-5500; redmedicinela.com), which does Vietnamese fusion in Beverly Hills. Two friends who had worked under legendary California chef Michael Mina came up with the idea over late-night bowls of pho, and now they turn out smartly conceived dishes like sugarcane-cured ocean trout served with grapefruit and burnt chile, as well as cocktails like the #49 (Leblon Cachaça, rhubarb grenadine, lime and ginger ale served in a tall glass and garnished with orange peel and lavender).
In February, as a passing of the culinary trend torch, 42-year-old restaurateur Sang Yoon, of burger bar Father’s Office fame, opened Lukshon (3239 Helms Ave.; 310-202-6808; lukshon.com), a sleek 2,500-square-foot hot spot with pan-Asian cuisine like crispy coconut rice cakes with shallot chile jam, and Kurobuta pork ribs made with a spicy chicory-coffee barbecue sauce. Further proof of Asia’s ascendancy, and one of the most promising of L.A.’s new restaurant culture, is A-Frame (12565 Washington Blvd.; 310-398-770; aframela.com), the bricks-and-mortar spawn of Roy Choi, who first found fame with his Kogi Korean barbecue truck. (Take heart: The Kogi truck still rolls on. Check Twitter @KogiBBQ for its stops.) The casual setting—it’s a former IHOP!—belies Choi’s culinary ambitions. Fried chicken is served with radish kimchi. A delicious clam chowder is made with green curry, lemongrass, pancetta and coconut milk.
Even Michael Cardenas, who opened the popular Lazy Ox Canteen (241 S. San Pedro St.; 213-626-5299; lazyoxcanteen.com) in late 2009, is trying his hand at Japanese cuisine. Aburiya Toranoko (243 S. San Pedro St.; 213-621-9500; toranokola.com), opened next door to Lazy Ox in January, and Cardenas calls the space “Roppongi meets TriBeCa.” The exceptionally fresh sashimi is by Nobu Matsuhisa protégé Hisaharu Kawabe.
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Of course, the carnivore craze hasn’t completely bypassed Los Angeles. Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, who shot to name-brand recognition via Food Network’s Two Dudes Catering, opened Son of a Gun (8370 W. 3rd St.; 323-782-9033; sonofagunrestaurant.com) five months ago. The 50-seat joint is sort of a souped-up L.A. version of your classic New England fishing shack. Antlers and vintage life savers crowd the walls, and catfish with gold rice succotash and king crab cover the plate. Better lobster rolls would be hard to find up Kennebunkport way. And tucked among the fried chicken sandwiches and the alligator schnitzel, you’ll find an albacore tataki and a geoduck sashimi.
The best nightlife happens behind the closed doors, or neatly trimmed hedges, of L.A.’s luxury hotels. From Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman to Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, the L.A. hotel is as much a cultural institution as it is a place to lay one’s head. Many of the oldies still shimmer, like that five-year-old “instant” classic Sunset Tower Hotel (rooms, from $325; 8358 Sunset Blvd.; 323-654-7100; sunsettowerhotel.com), but the city has seen a swell of trendy properties.
Last September, Sam Nazarian, L.A.’s nightlife king, opened The Redbury (rooms, from $240; 1717 Vine St.; 877-962-1717; theredbury.com) and populated its 57 spacious rooms with Persian rugs, vintage-style record players and brown leather sofas selected by photographer and music video director Matthew Rolston (Madonna, Beyoncé, David Bowie). The real scene, however, is on the ground floor at Cleo, a Mediterranean restaurant that serves terrific meze platters to a young Hollywood who barely touch the food. An even more exclusive upstairs lounge opened this summer, with an intimate bookshelf-lined parlor (although the books aren’t real) and a private outdoor terrace; entrance is reserved for hotel guests and friends only.
Down the street, the classic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (rooms, from $300; 7000 Hollywood Blvd.; 323-466-7000; thompsonhotels.com) has been refreshed with 60 redone poolside Cabana rooms, and the Public Kitchen and Bar serves classic American food like roasted chicken and split pea soup. But it’s the Spare Room, a cocktail lounge–cum–gaming parlor, that makes the Roosevelt a real new deal. With custom-built backgammon tables and two functional reclaimed-antique bowling lanes, the Spare Room fills with Big Lebowski–type hipsters and modern croupiers. But it pales in comparison to the Beacher’s Madhouse, an underground theater here, where a Vegas-like vaudeville show began a five-year residency in March. Reached through a “secret” passageway behind the library bookcase, the theater has burlesque dancers, acrobats, contortionists and fire-eaters multiple nights a week.
If you prefer Kobe Bryant to burlesque dancers, the year-old Ritz-Carlton (rooms, from $300; 900 W. Olympic Blvd.; 213-743-8800; ritzcarlton.com) is a game changer. The undulating, 54-story glass-and-steel tower abuts L.A. Live, the $2.4 billion sports and entertainment complex built around the Staples Center. This is the nexus of L.A. glam. Its lobby is often filled with NBA all-stars. Upstairs is a gas, too. In 1982, Wolfgang Puck shot to fame with his quintessential L.A. hot spot Spago. Now he does it again with WP24, a modern Asian brasserie on the 24th floor that serves crispy suckling pig and Peking duck to a handsome crowd as the city, seen at dusk, stretches like a web of ruby and diamond necklaces into the hills. The traffic, viewed from above, doesn’t seem so bad.
Across the I-10 freeway, Beverly Hills’ grandes dames outdo each other with facelifts. The iconic Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows (rooms, from $500; 9641 Sunset Blvd.; 310-276-2251; beverlyhillshotel.com) just opened two spacious three-bedroom bungalows whose private pools and Claes Oldenburg paintings are discreetly tucked behind banana leaves and palm fronds. After closing its doors for two years for extensive renovations, the 65-year-old Hotel Bel-Air (rooms, from $565; 701 Stone Canyon Rd.; 310-472-1211; hotelbelair.com) reopens in October with a brand-new lobby, 91 revamped guest rooms, 12 new hillside rooms and suites and a 12,000-square-foot La Prairie spa complex, all designed by Alexandra Champalimaud, as well as David Rockwell–designed restaurants and bars. The classic cocktails and clubby atmosphere of the famous lobby bar, happily, will remain the same. And the three-year-old Montage Beverly Hills (rooms, from $525; 225 N. Canon Dr.; 310-860-7800; montage beverlyhills.com) recruited Scott Conant to open Scarpetta Beverly Hills, the West Coast outpost of his haute-Italian osteria, and a casual nighttime sushi lounge opened in April. But with competition like the new Mr. C Beverly Hills (rooms, from $430; 1224 Beverwil Dr.; 877-334-5623; mrchotels.com), which opened in June by the Cipriani family, laying down the high-thread-count gauntlet, there’s no rest for the weary. But again, sleep was never the point of Los Angeles’s luxury hotels.
Shopping in Los Angeles: Independent Designers
Newly opened superstores by Tom Ford and Vivienne Westwood bring big-name glamour, but it’s the small independent designers who are the stars of the future.
Jewelry: Mannin’s founder, Suzanne Donegan, makes simple gold statement jewelry, like this Quarter Hinge bracelet. $7,260; manninstudio.com.
Graphic: Thirty-one-year-old artist Brad Lamers’s Pop art images (from $500) look good on gallery walls for sure, but why not on t-shirts ($25) and stickers? bradlamers.com.
Furniture: Bend Seating designer Gaurav Nanda features modern takes on midcentury classics, like this riff on an Eames chair. Farmhouse chair, $450; bendseating.com.
Footwear: Dragan Mrdja, a Yugoslavia-born, West Hollywood–based cobbler, designs colorful wing tips, oxfords and ankle boots. From $450; draganmrdja.com.
Books: Like the old Penguin paperbacks, BükAmerica’s slim volumes combine smart design and smarter writing on a vast range of topics. bukamerica.com.
Menswear: Feal Mor designer J. P. Plunier, known for his modern take on the Breton stripe, just opened a flagship boutique on La Brea Avenue. From $30; fealmor.com. —Erin Weinger
The Los Angeles Art Scene
Much of L.A.’s art renaissance has been fueled by a few well-heeled patrons. But the arts live in the streets as well as in estates. Here, a sliding scale.
On the second Thursday of each month, thousands of art lovers head to the Downtown Art Walk, a free gallery tour by day and a party by night. downtownartwalk.org.
MOCA’s new director, Jeffrey Deitch, known in New York for his Art Parade, inaugurates his tenure with “Art in the Streets,” celebrating graffiti’s controversial and talented artists. Through August 8; moca.org.
If the Islamic art at LACMA is too obscure (it isn’t), its new Renzo Piano–designed Mediterranean restaurant, Ray’s, has approachable cuisine. lacma.org.
Eli Broad, arguably the man who has done the most to put L.A. on the art map (he bailed out MOCA in 2008 and sits on the LACMA board), plans to open his own museum, The Broad Collection, in 2013, across the street from MOCA. broadartfoundation.org.
Former superagent Michael Ovitz just built a sprawling 28,000-square-foot mansion/museum for his de Koonings, Picassos and Jasper Johns. It’s open for exclusive, invite-only tours.
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Derry Peace bridge repair work to start in 2020
Panels on Peace Bridge in Derry smashed by vandals in July but still not repaired
WORK has been delayed yet again to replace a number of shattered glass panes on Derry’s Peace Bridge.
Three panels on at the iconic £14.6 million bridge were vandalised in July this year.
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) had said the panels would be replaced in November.
But now it says it will be 2020 before they are in place.
A DfI spokesman also said the repair work is likely to cost “in the region of £30,000”.
“This imposes an additional burden on the department at a time when we are facing significant budgetary constraints,” the spokesman added.
The bridge, which is 312-metres long, is designed for pedestrians and cyclists but has been the target for vandalism on a number of occasions since it opened in 2011.
“Many visitors and local people use this elegant landmark structure every day and the damage being caused is detracting from their enjoyment of the peace bridge,” a DFI spokesman said.
“We would appeal to those involved to desist from such mindless behaviour.”
The department said the “bespoke nature” of the glass “has resulted in a slightly longer manufacture period.”
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Mayor performs official dedication ceremony for Felix McCrossan pitch
MAYOR of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Councillor Michaela Boyle, has performed the official dedication of the Felix McCrossan Pitch at the Melvin Sports Complex in Strabane.
The event was attended by Mr McCrossan’s family, local elected representatives and members of the local sports fraternity and Mayor Boyle unveiled an official plaque at the side of the pitch.
The naming was approved by Elected Members of Council in May 2018 following a proposal from Councillor Paul Gallagher in recognition of Mr McCrossan’s outstanding contribution to local soccer both as a player and an official.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mayor Boyle, said the dedication was a fitting tribute to his dedicated and selfless work in local sport.
“It is a great honour for me to dedicate the pitch at the Melvin to Felix McCrossan who had a long history of involvement in local soccer as a player and subsequently as a linesman at local, Irish League and national level.
“As an administrator he was equally influential through his work with the Referee’s Association and his contribution to Youth Development including his membership of the organising committee for the Milk Cup.
“Away from sport he was an active trade unionist with the former National Union of Tailor and Garment Workers were he campaigned for equal pay for women and was a director of the Strabane Local Strategy Partnership and board member on the Western Education and Library Board.”
The Felix McCrossan pitch is a £1.2m multi-sport 3G facility which opened in December 2018 and caters for football, rugby and GAA.
It represents another significant investment by Council in sports and recreational facilities across the City and District.
Full booking and timetable information for Council leisure facilities are available at www.derrystrabane.com/leisure
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Sustainable urban drainage systems SUDS
3 Legislation and delays
4.1 External references
Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are systems designed to efficiently manage the drainage of surface water in the urban environment.
Sustainable urban drainage systems can provide an alternative to, or addition to, traditional drainage systems where surface water is drained directly and quickly into underground, piped drainage.
As population has increased, particularly in urban areas, and ‘soft’, permeable landscape has been replaced with hard surfaces, surface water runoff has reached traditional piped drainage faster and in larger quantities. This has been exacerbated by the loss of rural features that might once have slowed the passage of surface water, being replaced with large, intensively farmed fields that rapidly discharge surface water into piped drainage or waterways that make their way into urban areas.
The result has been higher peak flows resulting in serious flooding of urban areas, pollution, damage to habitat and contamination of groundwater sources.
Sustainable urban drainage systems aim to mimic 'natural' drainage by adopting techniques to deal with surface water runoff locally, through collection, storage, and cleaning before allowing it to be released slowly back into the environment.
According to CIRIA, ‘SUDS techniques seek to capture, use, delay or absorb rainwater, rather than reject it as a nuisance or problem. Sustainable drainage delivers multiple benefits. As well as delivering high quality drainage whilst supporting areas to cope better with severe rainfall, SuDS can also improve the quality of life in developments and urban spaces by making them more vibrant, visually attractive, sustainable and resilient to change by improving urban air quality, regulating building temperatures, reducing noise and delivering recreation and education opportunities.’
Image: rainwater capture at the Millennium Dome
[edit] Implementation
Sustainable urban drainage systems might adopt strategies to:
Reduce the likelihood of pollutants reaching watercources.
Reduce runoff by reducing impermeable areas.
Store runoff through attenuation.
Allow water to infiltrate into the ground.
Convey water slowly on the surface (where it is easy to inspect and can provide local amenity and habitat for wildlife).
Allow sediments to settle out.
Only then, and only if it cannot be dealt with on site, conveying runoff off site, but even then doing so slowly.
The benefits of sustainable urban drainage systems can include:
Reducing flooding.
Reducing the demand on existing drainage systems (potentially making a development viable in an area where it might otherwise not be viable).
Enhancing water quality.
Reducing pollution.
Providing habitats for wildlife.
Providing local amenity.
Recharging groundwater and watercourses resulting in a reduced risk of drought.
SUDS techniques might include
Filter strips and drains.
Swales.
Permeable surfaces.
Basins and ponds.
Underground storage.
Green roofs.
Rainwater harvesting.
Sustainable urban drainage systems should be considered during the site selection process. Different management strategies may be required for different parts of a site, and flows from roofs should also be considered.
Sustainable urban drainage systems are likely to become even more important as population increases, water resources are put under increasing pressure, and the impact of climate change is felt.
In February 2019, The Association of SuDS Authorities (ASA) was launched to promote the use of SuDS in property developments.
[edit] Legislation and delays
In October 2012, Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 came into force. This created the power to require the inclusion of sustainable drainage of surface water in developments that need planning approval or have drainage implications. It removed the automatic right, established by the Water Industry Act, to connect to public sewers and instead gave powers to local authorities as SUDS Approving Bodies (SAB’s) to approve new drainage systems and their connection to public sewers.
It was intended that sustainable drainage systems would be assessed relative to a new national standard that would address the way drainage systems are designed, constructed, maintained and operated, considering run-off destination, peak flow rates, volume and water quality.
The requirements of Schedule 3 were intended to be phased in over 3 years. Initially only major developments would have to submit sustainable drainage proposals for approval, but from October 2015 all developments of more than one house would need to seek approval.
However, in December 2014, the government announced that from April 6 2014, planning authorities would be given authority for approving SuDS on developments, not SuDS Approving Bodies. In addition it was announced that a threshold of 10 dwellings or more, or equivalent non-residential or mixed development will apply. See SuDS consultation for more information.
On 13 November 2015, CIRIA published The SuDS Manual (C753) which it described as the most comprehensive industry SuDS guidance available in the UK Intended to support uptake, manage floods and create better places and spaces. It deals with the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of SuDS. Its publication followed a ministerial statement made by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government earlier in 2015 which made it clear that SuDS must play a greater role in the planning system, and that it is a requirement in new major developments wherever appropriate.
Achieving sustainable clean water infrastructure for all.
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Future Water, The Government’s water strategy for England.
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Highway drainage.
Pitt Review.
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Construction Industry Research and Information Association.
CIRIA BeST (Benefits of SuDS Tool, W045), a new, free Excel tool for use on PC.
Sudsnet.
SUDS Wales.
British Geological Society: SUDS.
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NFL tours open in the UK and they include the Super Bowl trophy
The NFL London Games get underway next month with two games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Neil Bennett
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Special NFL-themed stadium tours will take place at the home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Along with behind-the-scenes insight into the custom built features of the stadium, fans will have the chance to get up close and personal with NFL memorabilia as well as the Super Bowl trophy itself.
NFL's London Games take place across October and November with Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium set to host the first two of four matches.
Visitors will be given the opportunity to see the stadium's bespoke NFL facilities including locker rooms and customised press conference suite before having the chance to see or try on authentic players' equipment including jerseys, balls, pads and gloves.
The tour will then take those in attendance through the dedicated NFL players'' tunnel and into the stadium where they will see the artificial pitch beneath the retractable grass pitch used by Tottenham Hotspur.
Visitors will then be bale to see what all NFL players strive to lift, the iconic Vince Lombari Trophy, presented to the winners of the Super Bowl, as they are taken into the NFL Commissioner's Suite.
To book an NFL stadium tour, visit: https://experience.tottenhamhotspur.com/home.htm
The Oakland Raiders meet the Chicago Bears on October 6 while the Carolina Panthers play their first ever game in London when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers one week later on October 13.
Later in the month, the action will return to Wembley - a stadium that has hosted NFL matches each year since 2007.
The Los Angeles Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals before the final match sees another London debutant, the Houston Texans, face up against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Match hospitality tickets now remain for the NFL London Games. They are available here on Ticketmaster .
Regular match tickets are also currently available from £65 through resale site StubHub .
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Sky Sports have exclusive UK coverage of the NFL. You can check out all of the current Sky Sports packages on the Sky Shop .
Alternatively, if you are looking to purchase single games, you can check out Sky's upcoming NFL schedule here and access them through a Now TV Sports Pass here .
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Exeter ChiefsWork starts on Sandy Park Hotel that will be 'biggest in the South West'The state-of-the-art hotel is the next stage in the development plans of Exeter's award-winning Sandy Park complex, which is home to Gallagher Premiership Rugby club Exeter Chiefs, and the region's premier Conference & Banqueting venue.
Exeter ChiefsExeter Chiefs 33 La Rochelle 14: Match report - Exe secure home quarter-final with rampant winExe overcame Stuart Hogg's contentious yellow card to secure a comfortable victory and - crucially - a home quarter-final tie in April
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DNB Bank partners with Collibra for next generation data-powered customer service
Norway’s largest financial services group recognizes the value of data
SWEDEN, November 15th, 2018 – Today, DNB Bank (DNB) – Norway’s largest financial services group – announced its partnership with Collibra – a leader in enterprise data governance and data cataloguing software – to enable the group’s global data strategy. The Collibra platform will allow DNB to better understand how data is being utilized in business processes to deliver value to customers, optimize business operations and monitor the bank’s compliance with industry data regulations.
“Digital adoption is driving an explosive growth of data, creating new challenges to manage and ensure compliant use of large volumes of data. The Collibra platform is bringing context to DNB’s complex data landscape and fuelling the shift to a data driven organization.” says Aidan Millar, Executive Vice President Group Digital Insights and Chief Data Officer (CDO) at DNB.
DNB’s partnership with Collibra is part of a broader group-wide focus on deploying a leading-edge data strategy. The bank is reinforcing the importance of data and its foundation to the bank’s Customer Insights strategy to listen to the ‘digital voice’ of the customer and deliver tailored digital customer experiences in a compliant and meaningful way – delivering the right offer, through the right channel, at the right price, at the right time.
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H.R.3370 - Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014113th Congress (2013-2014)
Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11] (Introduced 10/29/2013)
House - Financial Services; Rules
03/21/2014 Became Public Law No: 113-89. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
Roll Call Votes:
There have been 2 roll call votes
Array ( [actionDate] => 2014-03-04 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 306 - 91 (Roll no. 91).(text: CR H2128-2132) [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
Array ( [actionDate] => 2014-03-13 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate, under the order of 3/13/2014, having received 60 votes in the affirmative, without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 72 - 22. Record Vote Number: 78. [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Passed Senate )
Cosponsors (238)
Sponsor: Rep. Grimm, Michael G. [R-NY-11] | Cosponsor statistics: 238 current - includes 79 original
Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-6]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-27]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]* 10/29/2013
Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Enyart, William L. [D-IL-12]* 10/29/2013
Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]* 10/29/2013
Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-25]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-21]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-23]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-24]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-46]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]* 10/29/2013
Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]* 10/29/2013
Rep. Runyan, Jon [R-NJ-3] 10/30/2013
Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6] 10/30/2013
Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6] 10/30/2013
Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-17] 10/30/2013
Rep. Sanford, Mark [R-SC-1] 10/30/2013
Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1] 10/30/2013
Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] 10/30/2013
Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12] 10/30/2013
Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] 10/30/2013
Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30] 10/30/2013
Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3] 10/30/2013
Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1] 10/30/2013
Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27] 10/30/2013
Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27] 10/30/2013
Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7] 10/30/2013
Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6] 11/12/2013
Rep. Cardenas, Tony [D-CA-29] 11/12/2013
Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] 11/12/2013
Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] 11/12/2013
Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] 11/12/2013
Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3] 11/12/2013
Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2] 11/12/2013
Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2] 11/12/2013
Rep. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large] 11/12/2013
Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5] 11/12/2013
Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2] 11/12/2013
Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18] 11/12/2013
Rep. Marino, Tom [R-PA-10] 11/12/2013
Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2] 11/12/2013
Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] 11/12/2013
Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1] 11/12/2013
Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2] 11/12/2013
Rep. Watt, Melvin L. [D-NC-12] 11/12/2013
Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15] 11/12/2013
Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] 11/12/2013
Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] 11/12/2013
Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37] 11/12/2013
Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51] 11/12/2013
Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30] 11/14/2013
Rep. Negrete McLeod, Gloria [D-CA-35] 11/14/2013
Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19] 11/14/2013
Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2] 11/14/2013
Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6] 11/14/2013
Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2] 11/14/2013
Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] 11/14/2013
Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15] 11/14/2013
Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26] 11/15/2013
Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2] 11/18/2013
Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1] 11/18/2013
Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2] 11/18/2013
Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5] 11/18/2013
Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] 11/18/2013
Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1] 11/18/2013
Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10] 11/20/2013
Rep. Hanabusa, Colleen W. [D-HI-1] 11/20/2013
Rep. Nunnelee, Alan [R-MS-1] 11/20/2013
Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11] 11/20/2013
Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7] 11/21/2013
Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9] 11/21/2013
Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] 11/21/2013
Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7] 12/04/2013
Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] 12/04/2013
Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3] 12/04/2013
Rep. McAllister, Vance M. [R-LA-5] 12/04/2013
Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7] 12/04/2013
Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] 12/04/2013
Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4] 12/04/2013
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] 12/09/2013
Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] 12/11/2013
Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2] 12/11/2013
Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42] 12/11/2013
Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10] 12/11/2013
Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13] 12/11/2013
Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21] 12/11/2013
Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8] 12/12/2013
Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-14] 12/12/2013
Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] 12/12/2013
Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] 12/12/2013
Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18] 12/12/2013
Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] 12/12/2013
Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27] 12/12/2013
Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2] 12/12/2013
Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] 12/12/2013
Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] 12/12/2013
Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1] 12/12/2013
Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33] 12/12/2013
Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3] 01/03/2014
Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-32] 01/03/2014
Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23] 01/03/2014
Rep. Rigell, E. Scott [R-VA-2] 01/03/2014
Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11] 01/10/2014
Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19] 01/10/2014
Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4] 01/10/2014
Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2] 01/14/2014
Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1] 01/14/2014
Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] 01/14/2014
Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16] 01/16/2014
Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2] 01/17/2014
Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] 01/28/2014
Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2] 01/31/2014
Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20] 02/05/2014
Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3] 02/05/2014
Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5] 02/05/2014
Rep. Barber, Ron [D-AZ-2] 02/05/2014
Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17] 02/05/2014
Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7] 02/05/2014
Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4] 02/06/2014
Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17] 02/06/2014
Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2] 02/06/2014
Rep. Heck, Denny [D-WA-10] 02/10/2014
Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12] 02/10/2014
Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7] 02/10/2014
Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1] 02/10/2014
Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7] 02/10/2014
Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2] 02/10/2014
Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] 02/10/2014
Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] 02/10/2014
Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14] 02/11/2014
Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] 02/11/2014
Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] 02/14/2014
Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41] 02/14/2014
Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8] 02/14/2014
Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] 02/14/2014
Rep. Grijalva, Raul M. [D-AZ-3] 02/14/2014
Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11] 02/14/2014
Rep. Clyburn, James E. [D-SC-6] 02/14/2014
Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-12] 02/14/2014
Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28] 02/14/2014
Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1] 02/14/2014
Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1] 02/14/2014
Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8] 02/14/2014
Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5] 02/14/2014
Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-13] 02/14/2014
Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44] 02/14/2014
Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1] 02/14/2014
Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5] 02/14/2014
Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] 02/14/2014
Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9] 02/14/2014
Rep. Sanchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38] 02/14/2014
Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4] 02/14/2014
Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20] 02/14/2014
Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] 02/14/2014
Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17] 02/14/2014
Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] 02/14/2014
Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3] 02/14/2014
Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] 02/14/2014
Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18] 02/14/2014
Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-4] 02/14/2014
Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13] 02/14/2014
Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13] 02/14/2014
Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] 02/14/2014
Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16] 02/14/2014
Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1] 02/14/2014
Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36] 02/25/2014
Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15] 02/25/2014
Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-21] 02/25/2014
10/29/2013 - Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-6]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]*
10/29/2013 - Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]*
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Casey Anthony's "Righteous Indignation" In Pierce Morgan Alleged Conversation May Reflect Signal of Deception If Interview Did Take Place
Home / Article Archives / Casey Anthony's "Righteous Indignation" In Pierce Morgan Alleged Conversation May Reflect Signal of Deception If Interview Did Take Place
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:06 AM by Lillian Glass
Piers Morgan the lowest rated host on the failing low rated CNN stooped to an all time low in what appears to possibly be an attempt to gain ratings by having an alleged phone call with Casey Anthony that he reports. Mind you, there was no recording of Casey speaking to him. There was only Pierce’s statement to guest Cheney Mason, Casey’s attorney. We never heard Casey;s speech pattern or her voice and we never saw her on video or skype.
This is a bit odd in my view considering Casey was on video yacking away several months back. So why wouldn’t she go on skype and yack away so we can verify that she actually said those things to Pierce Morgan.
Are we supposed to go only on Pierce Morgan’s word that he spoke to Casey. After all this is a man who is suspect in light of all of the UK tabloid allegations of phone tapping. So how can we be sure this is true?
Allegedly Casey Anthony had a a 10-minute phone interview with Piers where she stated ” “Obviously, I didn’t kill my daughter Caylee”.
In terms of statement analysis the fact that she uses the word “Obviously “ at the beginning of the sentence is clearly telling in my view. It sounds as though she is appalled that anyone can think she was the one who killed her daughter. It shows righteous indignation which in my view often can be a signal of deception. It says How dare you think I killed my child. Notice she dis not say “I absolutely did not kill my child or “No I didn’t”. It also sounds like something Cheney Mason would possibly say. As we have come to find out, Cheney was rather scrappy and sarcastic and to me it sound like him, not Casey. It seems a little bold to come from Casey.
But her er selfishness is still evident in her alleged statement as she allegedly says how she has “gone through hell.” It is still all about her. She doesn’t mention the ill poor Cayley went through when she was put into a plastic bag like garbage and her little innocent bones were devoured by wild animals.
Then Casey allegedly goes on to say “If anything, there’s nothing in this world l’ve ever been more proud of, and there’s no one I loved more than my daughter,” The words there’s no one I loved embedded int his statement is an interesting choice of worlds. She could have said I have loved her more than anything. But putting the word no one I loved says a lot to me.
The fact that she refers to Caylee as an object- her daughter instead of referring to her by name in the statement also reflects her detachment in my view. On the other hand it also seems to me like something Cheney Mason may have said. She uses the term “daughter” which may also possibly be reflective of Cheney’s more distant and more objective verbalization of Caylee.
Concuurent with my view is the fact that Casey allegedly called the late child her “greatest accomplishment.” If Casey did utter those exact words it shows how delusional Casey is in my view.
Having a child out of wedlock where she most likely didn’t know the identity of the father is no accomplishment. her parents raised and provided for this child financially and emotionally. So Casey is once again deluding herself in my view if she thinks she accomplished anything with regard to her child. Once again, perhaps these may be Cheney’s words illustrating how Casey was a person who accomplished something in her life- like having a child She certainly didn’t accomplish anything else as a lying highs school drop out without a job who lied that she was in college and who was a complete loser.
Her statement that she’s “never been a party girl” is contracficted by her statement I don’t drink now. This disjointed logic and thinking is often seen in sociopaths. In essence by allegedly stating on the next breath “I don’t drink now,” she is saying that she did drink and party girls usually do drink as we have seen photos of her drunk and partying in the past. So it is clear she was indeed a party girl in the past. We discovered that all she she did when she was said to be “searching for Caylee was “party.”
Then her disjointed thinking also rears its head again as she allegedly adds she’ s “probably had a handful of beers” while on probation. It seems to me that this is a thought pattern of a sociopath, She just said “I don’t drink now” and then admits while on probation which only ended recently she had a “handful of beers.” The question is what does “NOW” mean? When did “NOW” begin. Did it begin when she was on probation or did “NOW” begin was she was allegedly being interviwed by Piers Morgan.
Also the term “handful of beers” to me sounds like something Cheney would say. Casey in her sloppy vernacular would most like say “a few beers” nor “a handful” . “A handful” seems like a more formal or old fashioned term used by an older person in a different generation than Casey.
When Piers allegedly asked her response to claims she is looking to cash in on her notoriety, she allegedly said the perception “couldn’t be further from the truth.” Again to me this statement reflect righteous indignation indicative of deception if she said that. But it also sound like Cheney Mason to me. It is too formal for Casey. She would most likely say ” No Way” or That’s not so.” Just listen to her recent home made video’s she would not say couldn’t be further from the truth,” It’s sounds like it has a smack of legalese to me.
She allegedly says “I‘m not making gazillions of dollars at the hands of other people, or trying to sell myself to anyone willing to throw a couple of dollars at me.”
The phrase gazillions of dollars is also an interesting choice of words if she did say these words. She says she is not trying to sell herself to those willing to throw a couple of dollars at her. But she doesn’t say she is not willing to sell her self to anyone willing to throw a gazillion dollars at her. It seems very carefully said. It seems to me that perhaps Cheney may be behind these words as he doesn’t rule out people paying money to her but says she is not soliciting monies.
In essence she or Cheney is saying that for the right price she may indeed be willing to sell herself. In essence it is what she or Cheney does NOT say in this statement that is important in terms of how she may be thinking in my view.
Cheney Mason says she has been reading the Hunger Games and watching I love Lucy reruns after This to me was Chenys attempt to make her sound like an average all american normal girl as they gear into her civil trial to defer herself against accusations she leveled at Zenaida Gonzalez. But I believe the part about I Love Lucy (to humanize her) this doesn’t ring true. It is generational and something Cheney Mason would watch and find funny as a member of his generation. I cannot picture Casey relating to Lucy and her crazy antics or being obsessed with Lucy. But I could see he realting to the gore, violence. sadism of the Hunger Games . So Cheney missed his mark with I Love Lucy.
If Casey did actually say what Pierce related, she shows a lot of signals of deception, entitlement, sarcasm, and animosity. If Cheney said these things it rings true to me as it sounds like him to me. If Pierce did make all of this up to improve his ratings and/or only interviewed Cheney Mason, and perhaps lied about interviewing Casey, he needs to be fired along with CNN.
Until I hear the recording or see the video of Casey Anthony actually speaking, I am questioning everything,
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Thank you. I knew something was off, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. You are right. Tho words spoken do sound like they came from an older person and the vocabulary is more sophisticated than Casey would use.
Also something that disturbed me were Jean Casarez’s comments. She admitted she was good friends with Cheney Mason, yet she was more than willing to give her opinion on the interview. As an ethical journalist, I think she should have declined to comment; however, I am talking about CNN.
NancyB
Thanks, Dr. Lillian. You have definitely nailed it. Cheney Mason, Piers Morgan & CNN continue to be absent any semblance of a moral compass. Your last sentence of this blog sums up my take on this ratings attempt, which ended up being nothing more than a cluster****.
“Until I hear the recording or see the video of Casey Anthony actually speaking, I am questioning everything.”
June 18, 2012 - 2:21 AM
Reruns of I love Lucy .
Please , that’s so scripted by her pimp lawyer.
She is sitting their with popcorn and candy snacks watching reality t.v.
I believe this fool was promised her own reality show after the big circus win was over.
Everyone else is making the money while she is sitting and stairing at television daydreaming of shacking up with Lindsey Lohan in Hollywood. Two psycho drama queens would make a perfect match. Scott Peterson , is more likely her evil soul mate in life . Maybe they could live together on death row sharing his steel toilet and stained bed matress he wakes up wetting in the middle of the night.
Oh Lord , Biaz new book coming out about Casey Anthonhy.
You know she is getting part of that money.
Biaz , seen money in her all along and it was a huge meal ticket for him.
Now he is suffering from depression and could not enjoy his childs birth.
What a selfish person he is and I allways thought he was narrsacistic like Casey Anthony anyway.
That’s why they where the perfect pair together in the court room.
Buy Biaz , book and I’m sure Casey will have money handed to her under the table to live off.
Poor Caley Anthony , all the blood money made off this childs death.
May they all live out her Karma in life , before they leave this world.
Dr. Glass, would slimeball Morgan be able to come up with such sociopathically disjointed contradictory statements? That makes me think that maybe she did do the interview…though it’s possible slimeball Morgan patched together transcripts.
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GreedFall Review — Explore Teer Fradee at Your Own Risk
Tomas Franzese
September 9, 2019 6:00 PM EST
Game GreedFall
Developer Spiders
Publisher Focus Home Interactive
Reviewed on PlayStation 4 Also on Xbox One, PC
Genres Role Playing Game
Review copy provided by the publisher.
ReviewsXbox OnePS4PC
GreedFall takes place in an amazing and intriguing world but fails to be interesting on the gameplay front.
Spiders have always been an interesting developer within the RPG scene. They are constantly trying to break through with games like Bound by Flame and The Technomancer, but they are usually held back by some frustrating design choices and are rough on the technical side of things. From its announcement, GreedFall looked like it may finally be the game to buck that trend with an original world centered around a colonizer-native relationship that is not often explored in-game narratives. Spiders were recently acquired by Bigben Interactive as well, so there was hope that these last few months of polish would help GreedFall shine.
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What results is Spiders’ best game yet, albeit one with major flaws. The story is as interesting and engaging as it seems with complex faction relationships and a feeling that nobody is ever truly in the right. Unfortunately, more than any Spiders game before it, GreedFall’s gameplay is derivative of its contemporaries to a fault, resulting in a somewhat repetitive experience that, while mostly polished, fails to have its own engaging identity like the story.
“GreedFall’s gameplay is derivative of its contemporaries to a fault.”
Spiders’ latest RPG begins with a somewhat bloated opening set in the city of Serene, but players soon venture out to the island of Teer Fradee in search of a cure for an extremely deadly disease called the Malichor. The player is far from the first person to arrive on the island though as it is already populated with several other colonizing factions as well as the natives who have always been there and are deeply connected to Teer Fradee.
GreedFall does do a good job at ensuring that no side is ever purely good or evil. Of course, its narrative highlights some factions as more belligerent and some as helpful, but missions do a great job at showing the ins and outs of this world. The natives may partake in some creepy pagan rituals and will capture and kill colonizers, but they are also just a nature-bound race desperately trying to protect the ever industrializing island in any way that they can. On the other side of the coin, the Theleme come off as well-meaning and helpful, but have a deeply racist and hypocritical underbelly of religious zealots.
Even the player’s own faction has its fair share of secrets and questionable decisions. GreedFall reflects the era of history it is inspired by well. Colonization is something that is often idolized and idealized but actually rooted in greed and the racism and classism that come along with that. Players who love lore in the RPGs should be satisfied by GreedFall, as it creates a deep world seeped with unique terminology, languages, and religions. Spiders clearly ensured that the world and story of GreedFall were an echelon above their previous outings, so these elements stand out as the game’s biggest strengths.
Where GreedFall manages to impress less is in gameplay, which isn’t broken but painfully dull. Those familiar with titles like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Dragon Age: Inquisition will not find much new, or better, here outside of the aforementioned world. Players can choose to specialize in melee, magic, or a rogue playstyle centered around traps, and have deep skill trees to progress through. One is for passive stat buffs and new abilities, one directly influences things like strength and health, and the final one gives players several attributes that are used to pass some skill checks over the course of GreedFall. They are pretty straightforward for the genre, which makes progression fairly uninteresting.
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For those playing, I would recommend specializing in lockpicking, crafting, and alchemy as those are the ones that can be used to progress through quests quicker the most often. I made a charisma focused character, which turned out to not be as useful as I was hoping. This was disappointing because of the game’s focus on faction relationships. Once combat starts, fights go through the motions with attacking with light and heavy attacks as well as keymaped (or button-mapped) items and guns. Constantly dodging is important, and attacks build up a meter that eventually allows players to strike with powerful fury attacks when the time is right. GreedFall’s fighting system is not broken, but lacks any sort of outstanding identity and can be unfairly tough at times.
This is an RPG I recommend playing on an easier difficulty so you can get more enjoyment out of the story it is trying to tell. The cracks in the game’s construction also start to show the more one plays. A lot of the animation is really rough, so poor facial animation can be somewhat jarring in otherwise well-written, interesting, and emotional scenes. The island is fun to explore, but also littered with some frustrating invisible walls. Worst of all, I had to restart multiple fights because I knocked the enemy out of their programmed range so they lost sight of me, restored all their health, and walked back to their original position.
“GreedFall is Spiders’ best game yet, but that does not mean it is perfect.”
These are just a few examples but show that Spiders has yet to overcome the jank that tends to bring down many of their games. GreedFall is constructed better than some of their previous titles, but this game is not as technically sound as the games it constantly reminds players it’s imitating. GreedFall’s moment to moment gameplay needed some cool hook, like The Technomancer’s multiple stance fighting system or a dialogue-focused structure, to ascend to greatness, but as it stands, combat dulls an otherwise sharp premise for an RPG.
GreedFall is Spiders’ best game yet, but that does not mean it is perfect. From a gameplay standpoint, players will not get anything out of this game that they can’t get in a more polished state in the Dragon Age series or The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, making GreedFall a slog to get through. That being said, the game’s unique renaissance and colonization era setting and complex factions is attractive to those that love a good world and story to sink your teeth into. GreedFall shows that we are on the cusp of a truly great game from Spiders, so I’m still looking forward to whatever they do next.
Greedfall’s Launch Trailer Will Have You Ready to Set Sail on Developer Spiders’ Grand Journey
Spiders' Greedfall is an ambitious action RPG set on a mysterious island. The game launches next week on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Here’s What You Need to Know About Focus Home Interactive’s E3 2018 Lineup
Trailer Introduces GreedFall’s Main Story With a Battle Against Settlers and a Magical Tribe
Focus Home Interactive Announces E3 2017 Lineup
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Lic Housing Chairmans Speech
India is passing through significant positive shifts in terms of income levels, aspirations, living standards and credit awareness. Interestingly, as this side of the sector is strengthening, the government is reinforcing its focus to bridge the gap that still exists in the housing sector. The government is playing a key role in the development of affordable housing sector in India. Under its watchful eyes, the housing sector has been seeing a healthy growth, with transparency and orderliness.
To address the wide unmet housing need of millions of Indians, we offer a disciplined distribution model, product innovation, and operating flexibility. At LIC Housing Finance, we bring to this fast growing sector our deep knowledge and a service mindset directed at enriching the customer experience.
Given the positive push by the government, housing finance is being perceived as the most lucrative sector in the current times, which is elevating the competition within the sector. At LIC Housing Finance, we believe that there is scope for everyone to differentiate and only the most adaptive companies will flourish. With this thought, we plan to leverage our extensive reach in the country to connect with the customer. Digitization will be used to plug the gaps to enhance customer experience and increase operational efficiency. We will continue to focus on due diligence in line with our policy of ''''zero tolerance for non performing assets''''
The impact of this policy has been rightly reflected in the improving asset quality trends of the Company. Our stability in asset quality can be largely attributed to the conservative LTVs, focus on retail home loans, catering predominantly to a salaried class customer base with sufficient collateralized lending.
At LIC Housing Finance, we remain committed to the needs of housing. Our future priorities persist towards expanding our network and visibility to maintain our market leadership position, creating consumer friendly products to target new customer, ensuring access to low-cost and diversified sources of funds, fortifying our operating processes and risk management systems and strengthening our balance sheet to ensure financial flexibility.
It was an honor to take charge as the Chairman of LIC Housing Finance Limited from my illustrious predecessors whose contribution in the success of the Company is inspirational. During the year Mr S.K Roy and Ms Sunita Sharma have exited the Board of Directors. These directors have contributed to the success of the Company. Mr Vinay Shah has assumed charge as the MD and CEO of the Company and has rich experience in the BFSI segment.
Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to our Board of Directors for their support and guidance. I am also grateful to all our stakeholders who have reposed their trust in us and given us constant support.
Wish Best Wishes,
Mr V. K. Sharma
We started FY2016 on the backdrop of optimism and anticipation in the
real estate sector triggered further by positive macro developments.
Several key initiatives were launched by the Government during the
year. The 100 Smart Cities Mission is an important call and so is
"Housing for All" Mission by 2022 under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
(PMAY) programme. The passing of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority
(RERA) Bill in December 2015 can be seen as a major milestone and
positive development with far reaching benefits for the sector. The 7th
Pay panel recommendation for hike in pay and allowances of government
employees will also act as a driver for home buying. Along with tax
incentives introduced in recent budgets for both owners and developers
of homes, these initiatives augur well for the industry at large, but
more importantly, for a greater increase in affordable home ownership
and improved financial access to it. The declining interest rate regime
further induces affordability to the end-users by driving down the cost
of owning their dream home.
LIC Housing Finance Limited (LICHFL) has always had a profound sense of
responsibility and optimism towards enabling home ownership and a
better lifestyle to the citizens of this country. As your Company
journeys through the third decade of its operations, its purpose is
further fortified with the immense trust and conviction of its
stakeholders and custodians. The Company is well entrenched in the
middle-income end user segment, which stands to benefit tremendously
from the demographic dividend we have been talking about for quite some
time, which mirrors the aspirations, consumption style and purchasing
power of India.
The greatest facet of India''''s economic growth story continues to be
nested within this rapidly expanding and dynamic middle income segment.
With a keen understanding of this consumer segment and its purchasing
power, LICHFL has chalked a robust roadmap ahead. In particular, your
Company is taking the commendable "Housing for All" initiative to heart
and hopes to keep increasing its role in this area.
Today, LICHFL has mastered the art of knowing how to measure, manage
and allocate risk in the home loans business, which is a key element of
this business. This along with a strong technology driven platform, a
wide range of products and a pan India reach differentiates LICHFL
superbly for value creation.
LICHFL is a very people-focused and a proficient enterprise, operating
in a multi-cultural environment. To achieve competitive superiority and
scalable growth, your Company has aligned competencies of its human
capital in line with its business strategies, empowered them with
relevant trainings and behavioural improvements. Your Company''''s focused
aim behind this is to improve its organisational capability and
vitality. Your Company is also making significant investment into its
IT infrastructure to advance to the next-generation scalable and
flexible technology landscape. This will help us to improve
productivity, customer convenience and sustain growth.
LICHFL is indeed well poised to maintain its steady growth trajectory
going forward ? by customer category, region and an expanding product
portfolio. Your Company will continue to drive innovation in India''''s
housing finance space to keep it standing firm as a respected peer in
the business. I look forward to the continued support of all our
stakeholders in taking your Company forward on this journey of
sustainable and profitable growth.
S. K. Roy
Dear Shareholders
"During FY 2015, our Individual Loan portfolio grew by 19 percent to
Rs.105,630 Crore. The solid performance this fiscal was the result of
dedicated efforts of our people to address the needs of our customers
through value creation and innovative services round the year."
On behalf of the Board of Directors and on my own behalf, I feel proud
to present the Annual Report for the FY 2014-15.
Indian Economic Scenario
The Indian economy grew at 7.3 percent in 2014-15, marginally up from 7
percent in 2013-14. The biggest surprise indeed came from the Index of
Industrial Production data (IIP) -comprising manufacturing, mining and
electricity sector, which overshot everyone''s expectations to dock 4.1
percent growth. Manufacturing grew at 5.1 percent while capital goods
among the industries -by- use segment registered a double digit growth.
Further, the balance of payment scenario touched a surplus of $30
billion in the quarter ending March 2015 from low double digit figures
in the previous three quarters. What''s more, beating its own financial
target, the Government contained the fiscal deficit to 3.99 percent of
GDP in FY 2015. Overall, the Indian growth story has largely been led by
domestic consumption and one can hope that India continues to register
handsome growth in the future.
We are looking at the Housing Scenario at a stage when the national
economy is on the road to revival, industrial growth rate which was at
a low of 1.5 percent is now a little over 5 percent. The potential for
housing in this country, is by NHB estimates around 20 million houses
which is huge. This means that a lot of investments can be expected in
the coming years. There is also talk of foreign direct investment coming
in which will add to the capabilities of the financial sector in meeting
the requirements of housing. As far as availability of finance to the
retail customers is concerned, there has been a tremendous improvement
in the last few years. The other significant factor that has kicked up a
lot of activity in the recent past, in the housing sector, is today''s
steadily failing interest rates of loans. The customer who is purchasing
a house today has not only the options of competitively low rate of
interest, but also choice of different types of loans starting from the
house-purchase or house-building loans to house-improvement loans, home
equity loans, home extension loans, NRI loans etc. It has never been
better than this ever before,
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. recorded a strong growth of 20 percent in loan
disbursements for FY 2015 as compared to FY 2014, to touch a new high
of Rs.30,327 crore. Individual loan disbursement was Rs.29,256 crore,
registering a growth of 20 percent over the previous year. Further, for
the year ended March 2015, the Company''s total income was Rs.10,799
crore as against Rs.9,335 crore during the previous year, a growth of
16 percent. Income from operations grew 16 percent from Rs.9,181 crore
to Rs.10,699 crore.
The outstanding mortgage portfolio was Rs.108,361 crore as against
Rs.91,341 crore, as on March 2014, thus registering a growth of 19
percent. Individual Loan portfolio stood at Rs.105,630 crore as on
March 2015, a growth of 19 percent, over the previous year. The Gross
NPAs of the Company stood at 0.46 percent on March 2015 as against 0.67
percent last year. Net NPAs were 0.22 percent as against 0.39 percent
for the corresponding period in 2014. At the end of the year, the Board
was pleased to recommend a dividend of 250 percent as against 225
percent for FY 2014. The solid performance for FY 2014-15 was the
result of dedicated efforts of our people to address the needs of our
customers through value creation and innovative services round the
Your Company complies with the Corporate Governance guidelines for
listed companies enunciated in the Listing Agreement executed with
Stock Exchanges.
Opportunities Ahead
A majority of Indians still find it hard to fulfill the desire to own a
home. Surprisingly, this is a decade when luxury items like LED TVs and
smart phones are becoming affordable and housing is getting more and
Many people in India still live in below average standard homes. This
does not mean that the average income of Indians is reducing, but only
that housing prices have been increasing exponentially. There is a
huge gap between supply and demand and people have fewer choices when
it comes to living standards. The main concern is that there is a huge
shortage of supply in this segment, 95 percent of this shortage is
still concentrated in the economically weaker section (EWS) of the
Indian population. If the current backlog is maintained, then by 2020
the country will be facing an extra demand for more than 30 million
additional homes. Fortunately, the Government''s Mission ''Housing for
all'' by 2022, suggests a mutually beneficial template that will be a
win-win for home buyers and housing finance providers. We do hope that
this mission will fulfil our egalitarian objective of a dignified
living while helping us deliver sustainable growth for the years ahead.
The Board of Directors places on record its deepest appreciation of the
valuable services and dedicated efforts rendered by the employees of
LIC Housing Finance and other stakeholders, in achieving the high
performance objectives during the year 2014-15.
I look forward to the continued support of all our stakeholders in
taking your Company forward on the journey of sustainable and
profitable growth.
Surya Kumar Roy
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Is this the flight of the future or art of the future?
You can decide for yourself now and for the next few weeks at PROTO, Gateshead, thanks to forward-thinking artist Charlotte Windle Mikkleborg’s collaborative project with British Airways; Fly.
The fully immersive art installation not only gives you chance to pilot futuristic flight, but also enables a look back at the history of flight, all from a motion platform within a pod, known as an interactive egg.
Entering through the boarding gate, your first view of the egg is quite breath-taking; I certainly had not anticipated the scale, which combined with the lighting effects are quite spectacular.
The egg’s surface has interactive panels, which change the lighting colour as your hands warm the egg up to eventually hatch its chick!
Inside the egg’s core is a motion platform, which tilts and shakes during flight, making the various flight experiences – from an eagle, to the Wright Brother’s historic first flight and even supersonic speeds from the cockpit of Concorde – even more realistic.
After my flight I caught up with Shaun Allan from Vector76, who was responsible for bringing Fly to Gateshead; “Bringing such a high profile experience such as #FlyVR from London to Gateshead totally encapsulates what our vision for Proto is all about.
“An amazing combination of emerging technology raises all senses in an outstanding installation, demonstrating how immersive tech enables new art forms that simply cannot be achieved with conventional media.”
Straight from the Saatchi Gallery in London, you can experience the flight of the future for yourself at PROTO between now and 17th November for just £10. Tickets available here.
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Tag Archives: emergency
Emergency and Preparedness Evaluation among Nurses in Selected Hospitals in Ondo State (Published)
Article Author: Akinpelu, Adewale O.1, Abiodun,Oluwaseun O.,1 Monehin,Samuel1, Ayeni, Adebusola R. Ashaju-Kayode, Oluwatosin C.. Idowu, Olanrewaju A. and Ayeni, Bamidele A.
Background: Reports from various centres and studies in Nigeria show a high mortality rate for cases that present to the Accident and Emergency Department. Thus, the need for a realistic hospital and emergency service response program designed on the principle of equitable distribution of appropriate equipment and supplies and well-trained emergency medical personnel, cannot be overemphasized. The study investigated emergency preparedness for emergency situations in selected hospitals in Ondo state. Methodology: A descriptive design was adopted. Using a convenience sampling technique, a total of 248 respondents were selected from four hospitals in Ondo State, Nigeria. Data collection was done with the aid of an in-depth interview schedule; and a checklist designed by WHO for basic requirement of materials/equipments that should be possessed by each facility in readiness for emergency/disaster. Results: Results revealed varying level of emergency preparedness as regards resourcefulness among nurses. Nurses in hospital A scored 41%, B (47%), C (45%) while nurses in hospital D scored 27%. The use of contingency plans, networking, use of worldwide web as well as multimedia were identified as available solutions by 12.5%, 11.7%, 10.5% and 9.3% of the nurses respectively. The study further identified the current roles played by nurses in achieving disaster preparedness as follows: facilitating communication and coordination of care (22.5%), acquisition of skills to give psychological support (17.7%), provision of quality health care (15.7%), giving first aid treatment (14.9%), and learning to triage victims (13.5%). The barriers and solutions to emergency preparedness were also investigated through interview schedule. The study showed that all the selected hospitals scored below average in terms of emergency preparedness. Specifically, hospital B recorded the highest score (47.4%) while hospital D recorded the lowest score (28.8%). Conclusion: It was concluded that emergency preparedness among nurses and in selected hospitals in Ondo State was at low level and materials/equipments needed to rescue the victims were inadequate.
Keywords: Nurses, Preparedness, emergency, evaluation and hospitals
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Psychological Distress of Aguata Suburban Female Bankers, Anambra State, Nigeria: Interplay of Perceived Organizational Justice, Job-Related Tension, and Organizational Frustration
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Amanda Powell Recognized for Award at Hartwick College
Last November, Amanda Powell was presented with the Hartwick College President’s Award as part of the EDD Memorial Fund’s 20th Anniversary celebration. Amanda is from Norwich, NY and she attends school at Pathfinder Village, a community for individuals with Down Syndrome. Amanda has been participating in EDD Memorial Fund events for many years by participating in clinics for biking, swimming, basketball, soccer and skiing. She is currently doing a yoga session, where she enjoys being with her peers and she is always willing to help them if they are struggling.
On January 30th, Amanda joined Hartwick College President, Margaret Drugovich, for a day at Hartwick College as part of her recognition for the award she received in November. Amanda and Dr. Drugovich were able to attend an art class, in which, they were able to see the art building, an art gallery and the pottery room. Amanda really liked seeing the art gallery; she was able to see various types of art, like sculptures and paintings. After visiting the art class, Amanda and Dr. Drugovich went to dinner at Panera where Amanda said she “got a really good salad!” Then, Amanda and Dr. Drugovich attended the basketball game where Hartwick College was playing Sage College.
At half time of the game, Amanda was recognized with an on-court presentation of the Hartwick College President’s Award. The announcer said a few words about the EDD Memorial Fund and Amanda’s participation in our events. Katie Marcella, the head women’s basketball coach, presented Amanda with a Hartwick Hawk’s down jacket. EDD Board Member Celie Smith gave Amanda a photo of herself from the EDD biking clinic last fall. Amanda was really excited to have been honored at the basketball game. Even though Hartwick lost in overtime, Amanda had lots of fun (and was glad that Hartwick wasn’t playing Syracuse because they’re her favorite college team!). Amanda said she had such a fun day with Dr. Drugovich at Hartwick College.
Keep updated on EDD program and event news here!
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Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
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Hoy está universalmente reconocida la renovada y creciente importancia de la patología infecciosa: aparición de nuevos agentes patógenos, de cepas resistentes, de procesos con expresión clínica hasta ahora desconocida, de cuadros de una gran complejidad. Paralelamente, la Microbiología y la Infectología Clínicas han experimentado un gran desarrollo como respuesta al reto planteado por la actual patología infecciosa. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica es la Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad Española SEIMC. Cumple con la garantía científica de esta Sociedad, la doble función de difundir trabajos de investigación, tanto clínicos como microbiológicos, referidos a la patología infecciosa, y contribuye a la formación continuada de los interesados en aquella patología mediante artículos orientados a ese fin y elaborados por autores de la mayor calificación invitados por la revista.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2017.01.006
Mycoplasma genitalium in Spain: prevalence of genital infection and frequency of resistance to macrolides
Mycoplasma genitalium en España: prevalencia de infección genital y frecuencia de resistencia a macrólidos
Alejandra Asenjoa, Johannes G. Kustersb, Tim T. Seversb, Juan-Ignacio Alósa,c,
nachoalos@telefonica.net
a Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Getafe, Madrid, Spain
b Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
c Universidad Europea, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain
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Luis Otero-Guerra, Fernando Vazquez
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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2019;37:144-510.1016/j.eimc.2018.04.008
Miguel Fernández-Huerta, Judit Serra-Pladevall, María-Jesús Barberá, Mateu Espasa
Table 1. Prevalence of M. genitalium in the 359 samples studied.
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium infection and the resistance to macrolides within a general population in Madrid in 2015.
We collected 359 urine samples from a general population with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). All samples underwent a real-time PCR. For the detection of macrolide resistance, a 283bp fragment of region V of the 23S rRNA gene of M. genitalium was amplified and sequenced.
We found a prevalence of 3.34% of M. genitalium and a macrolide resistance rate of 20%. In males, the prevalence was 6.62% and in women 0.96%, being significantly higher in males.
The prevalence obtained shows that it is a pathogen to consider in our environment. These findings stress the need for routine testing of M. genitalium infections and would seem to suggest the advisability of resistance testing.
Bacterial drug resistance
El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar en 2015 en una población general de Madrid la prevalencia de infección por Mycoplasma genitalium (M. genitalium) y la resistencia a macrólidos.
Se recogieron 359 muestras de orina procedentes de una población general con síntomas de infección de transmisión sexual. A todas las muestras se les realizó una PCR a tiempo real. Para la detección de resistencias a macrólidos, se amplificó y secuenció un fragmento de 283 pb de la región v del gen 23S rRNA de M. genitalium.
Se encontró una prevalencia de un 3,34% de M. genitalium y un 20% de resistencia a macrólidos. En varones la prevalencia fue del 6,62% y en mujeres del 0,96%, siendo significativamente superior en varones.
La prevalencia obtenida muestra que es un patógeno a considerar en nuestro entorno. Estos hallazgos hacen hincapié en la necesidad de realizar pruebas de rutina de infección por M. genitalium y argumentan que es recomendable realizar pruebas de resistencia.
Resistencia bacteriana a antibióticos
Mycoplasma genitalium is a fastidious organism found in the urogenital tract of humans now recognized as a common cause of nongonococcal urethritis in men. In addition, it is associated with increased risk for cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and spontaneous abortions in women.1–3
Routine diagnostic detection is based on nucleic acid amplification methods.
The recommended treatment for M. genitalium is a single dose of 1g azithromycin, but in certain environments this pathogen responds poorly, having declined the eradication rate over the years.4,5 This has been associated with the development of resistance to macrolides,6 predominantly based on single point mutations in the V-region of the 23S rRNA gene.6,7
There are still a limited number of studies related to the prevalence of M. genitalium in the world, that can widely differ depending on both the geographic location and the population tested; there are less studies related to resistance to azithromycin. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of M. genitalium infection and the resistance to macrolides in a symptomatic general population of two separate areas of the Community of Madrid, Spain.
Between May and September 2015, 359 urine samples of patients attending general inquiries or emergency departments with symptoms suggestive of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were collected from two separate areas of the Community of Madrid: the Getafe area with a population of 210,133 inhabitants (3.29% of the population of Madrid), and the La Paz area with 500,445 inhabitants (7.83% of the population of Madrid). 151 were from men (42.1%) and 208 from women. 7.52% of patients were aged between 0 and 20 years, 66.29% between 21 and 40 years, 20.89% between 41 and 60 years, and 2.2% were over 60 years. The samples underwent a technique of real time PCR in the Cobas 4800 (Roche®) to detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Cobas 4800 CT/NG Test, Roche®) and M. genitalium (M. genitalium EC LightMix Kit, Roche®) as per manufacturers protocol.
For the detection of macrolide resistance, a 283bp fragment of region V of the 23S rRNA gene of M. genitalium were amplified and sequenced.7
Of the 359 urine samples tested, 12 were found PCR-positive for M. genitalium, representing 3.34% of prevalence (95% CI, 1.48%–5.20%). In males, it was 6.62% (95% CI, 4.05%–9.19%) (10/151) and in women 0.96% (95% CI, 0%–1.97%) (2/208) (Table 1). Prevalence was significantly higher in males (p=0.003). The age range of infected patients was 21–40 (11/12) and 41–60 (1/12).
Prevalence of M. genitalium in the 359 samples studied.
CT+NG
Men 10/151 (6.62%) 18/151 (11.92%) 10/151 (6.62%) 5/151 (3.31%)
Women 2/208 (0.96%) 12/208 (5.77%) 0/208 (0%) 1/208 (0.48%)
Total 12/359 (3.34%) 30/359 (8.36%) 10/359 (2.78%) 6/359 (1.67%)
MG: Mycoplasma genitalium, CT: Chlamydia trachomatis, NG: Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
In the 359 samples studied, only C. trachomatis was detected in 30 (8.36%), only N. gonorrhoeae was detected in 10 (2.78%), and in 6 (1.67%) both agents were detected (Table 1).
Regarding the resistance results, we were able to determine it for 10/12 M. genitalium positive samples. Of these, 2 (20%) carried mutations that would render them resistant to macrolides: one of them had a mutation in the position A2058T and the other in A2059G.
To our knowledge there are no publications on the prevalence of M. genitalium in Spain, our study aimed to assess it in a general population of Madrid. The prevalence obtained, 3.34%, shows that it is a pathogen to consider in our environment in patients with symptoms suggestive of STIs. Infection with M. genitalium is generally assumed to result in more frequently clinical signs in males and this is supported by our finding that the prevalence was significantly higher in men than in women. The prevalence is in the range of other agents of STIs commonly searched for. However, testing for M. genitalium is not common, and in our opinion routine screening for this pathogen is advisable.
The studies carried out to date in other countries show different data. In the US, a national study in healthy young people, 1714 men and 1218 women, obtained a prevalence of 1%.8 In Sweden, in a heterogeneous population of 5519 women attending a gynecological clinic M. genitalium was found in 2.1%.9 In the UK, in 216 men with urethritis and without urethritis attending a genitourinary medicine clinic, the prevalence was 10.2%, higher in patients with urethritis.10 However, in France, in a study of 301 patients younger than 31 years who went to the emergency room with symptoms, a prevalence of 0.3%11 was found. In Denmark, 28,958 patients attending specialists and general hospitals were studied between 2006 and 2010, and the prevalence obtained, according to the year, was 2.4%–3.8% in women and 7.9%–10.3% in men.12 In Spain, there is no publication that discusses the prevalence of this organism, which makes this study of prevalence, co-infection, and macrolide resistance innovative. The findings in our study are similar to those obtained in the Denmark study12 that was also performed in the general population, but differs from other studies carried out in specific and selected population.
Data of macrolide resistance in other countries are also diverse and range from 14.2% to 43%.7,12,13 The data obtained in our study indicate an average rate of resistance compared to other studies.
After the rate of resistance to macrolides obtained, we thought that detection of macrolide resistance is required to guide the clinician in the choice of antibiotic and limiting the selection and propagation of resistances,6 and thus avoiding therapeutic failures. As an alternative, we propose a test of cure (test of care) on day 14 or later, due to the low probability of detecting nonviable DNA and its association if it is positive with resistance to azithromycin.5,14
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House Members Denounce Bill That Would Allow Fracking in Florida, Keep Toxic Fracking Chemicals a ‘Trade Secret’ and Prohibit Localities from Banning Fracking
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A Pennsylvanian with poisoned drinking water from fracking warns that Florida is next if the bill passes, and issues a challenge to Representatives who vote for the bill to drink fracked water.
Tallahassee, FL –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. Today Florida State Representatives Evan Jenne, Amanda Murphy, Dwight Dudley, Irv Slosberg, Mark Pafford, and Victor Torres joined affected residents from Pennsylvania living with contaminated drinking water, New Yorkers who helped ban fracking, and partners of the Floridians Against Fracking Coalition to denounce House Bill 191, the pro-fracking bill that is scheduled to be voted on in the floor in the next two days.
This bill would allow for the toxic, carcinogenic chemicals used in fracking to be deemed a “trade secret” under Florida State law and prohibit localities from banning fracking, even after 24 counties and 41 cities have passed ordinances banning fracking and resolutions demanding that fracking be banned in their municipalities and counties.
“No one will want to come and visit Florida to vacation next to a fracking rig. This bill is the oil and gas industry’s latest attempt to start fracking some of Florida’s most ecologically sensitive areas including the Everglades, while jeopardizing the life blood of our economy – tourism and agriculture,” said Representative Evan Jenne. “After 10 years of seeing the damage that fracking has wrought on communities across this country, poisoning the water, air and land of the American people, Florida’s State legislature should be banning the practice altogether, not moving it forward.”
A significant portion of House Bill 191 ensures that local municipalities will no longer have input on whether fracking is banned or restricted within municipalities and goes as far as nullifying the 60 local resolutions demanding that fracking be banned.
“By eliminating a key state statute on local control and enshrining pro-fracking language in state statute, HB 191 ensures that citizens have no decision-making authority over whether a drilling well comes into their community,”
said Representative Amanda Murphy. “It is an egregious and blatant giveaway to the oil and gas industry since so many localities have already said ‘no’ to fracking.”
This bill would allow the toxic chemicals used in fracking to be declared a trade secret under chapter 688 of the State’s code. This would prevent first responders, health professionals, and citizens from knowing the hazardous chemicals being pumped in frack wells that could threaten aquifers that Floridians rely on for drinking water. Pennsylvanian resident Ray Kemble brought a bottle full of contaminated water from his region to the State Capitol. Pennsylvanian state agencies verified that it was contaminated by drilling and fracking operations.
“Water is life. My community has suffered with contaminated drinking water for over 10 years and if Florida’s State Legislature passes this bill then your state will be next,” said Ray Kemble from Dimock, Pa. “I challenge any representative who wants to vote for this bill to drink this water out of my tap, because that is what you will be threatening to do to the people of Florida.”
Although proponents cite that fracking is already allowed in Florida and that this bill regulates it, the bill does nothing to ask the most important preliminary question: whether fracking should be banned in Florida like in other states including New York and Vermont. The bill also does not address the main method the oil and gas industry would use for fracking called matrix acidizing, that would use acid to burn away underground limestone.
“This bill fails to study or regulate the type of well stimulation most likely to be used in Florida,” said Brian Lee, the legislative lobbyist for the Floridians Against Fracking. “Without ‘matrix acidization’ included in this bill, and with the home rule preemption that voids ordinances written by local governments that have banned fracking, this bill would allow the type of fracking used at the Collier Hogan well in the Everglades in 2014 to go unregulated at either the state or federal level.”
Frack Action’s Director and New Yorkers Against Fracking coalition member Julia Walsh also highlighted how New York banned fracking in December 2014 after its Department of Health concluded that fracking posed a serious public health and safety risk in a published muli-year health review. Since then, a compendium of over 550 peer-reviewed scientific studies from health professional across the country, released by the Physicians for Social Responsibility, found that fracking causes significant harm and has serious health impacts.
“If fracking is not safe for New Yorkers then it’s not safe for the people of Florida!” said Walsh, a member of New Yorkers Against Fracking coalition.
“The members of the House chambers must open their eyes to the Trojan horse that the oil and gas industry wants to write into law,” said Michelle Allen, the Florida organizer for Food & Water Watch. “If allowed to go through, HB 191 will gut decades of laws meant to protect the rights of local communities and leave Floridians exposed to the devastation the fracking industry has already caused around the country.”
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ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Contracting Command has selected Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) to train the Afghanistan Air Force in aircraft maintenance. Raytheon will develop a new training program for the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation under the $108 million contract, called Afghanistan Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Training, or AMT.
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Jarry contends the positive test is the result of tainted multivitamins.
The 78th-ranked Jarry denied in an Instagram post that he knowingly ingested the banned substances. He added that the levels cited were "incredibly low" and didn't provide a "performance-enhancing benefit." Jarry intends to cooperate with the ITF and his legal team plans to test the vitamins that were made in Brazil.
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Philomena Higgins, an Irishwoman, the first non-French Superior General, was elected in Brussels on 2 August 1914, the day of the invasion of France by Germany – the invasion of Belgium took place on the following day. Consequently her early years as Superior General were deeply shadowed by the Great War. Her long generalate of thirty-three years included World War II also, so it is not surprising that the healthy expansion which had taken place under her predecessors did not continue to the same extent under Philomena’s leadership of the Society.
Between 1914 and 1918, Philomena’s overriding concern was for the safety of the communities and schools in Belgium and France, the main theatre of war. However, her anxiety for the English houses increased with news of the first offensive against Britain in December 1914 when a sea attack by German warships on Hartlepool in the North East of England made her keenly aware of unforeseen dangers. The FCJ community and school in West Hartlepool did not suffer directly in the raid, but the community were greatly affected by what had happened, and all over Britain morale sank at this undeniable proof of the strength of the enemy.
After the Great War, readjusting to a time of peace, Philomena reviewed the position of all the communities and their apostolates, visiting FCJ houses in different parts of the world. This review led to a number of closures.
After the war, the political troubles in France which had forced the Society to seek exile in other parts of Europe had faded into the background. As a result, two of the houses set up in Belgium to provide a refuge for some of the French sisters and their pupils were no longer needed: Namur closed in 1919 and Graty in 1920, while the communities from these places returned to Paris, Nantes and Sainte Anne d’Auray, where the houses re-opened. After an absence of 16 years, a small community also returned to St Philomena’s in Amiens, which, during the war, had become a shelter for as many as 40 refugees, who filled the house from cellar to attic. The house in Avenue Montjoie, Brussels, remained as the only, though sizeable, FCJ presence in Belgium. The sisters who had taken refuge in Switzerland, had struggled during the war but had survived safely. They did not return to France, and their boarding-school, La Chassotte, in Fribourg continued to operate. The little school in Cliftonville, Kent, England, closed in 1920, and the sisters moved a few miles along the south coast to join the Stella Maris community on the North Foreland, Broadstairs. Hawthorn in Australia closed the following year, 1921, and St Anne’s, Edmonton, in 1922. Two years later, 1924, saw the closure of Healsville in Australia, Gilbertville in the USA and Bagatelle in Jersey.
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1920 was the centenary of the foundation of the Society, and Philomena initiated preparations for a major celebration, which took place in Upton Hall, England on 2 August 1920. Delegates were sent from the different European communities to take part in the solemn High Mass and the festivities that followed. The guest of honour was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, London, and many other priests and friends of the Society were also present. A second, simpler, commemoration of the centenary took place in Amiens in November of the same year.
A major revision of the Code of Canon Law (1917) – in which 200 canons or norms related to religious life – meant that Philomena had to prepare a new version of the FCJ Constitutions. She asked a Canadian sister, Catherine Windle, who had been a legal secretary before she entered the Society, to help her.
M. Philomena Higgins bought Poles,Ware, England, described by the auctioneer as a ‘beautiful and unusually well fitted Replica of an Elizabethan Home’ in 1923 and established a boarding school. Poles was also for a time a novitiate house.
Philomena and Catherine produced a description of the way of life of the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus which consisted of two parts: The Nature of the Society and The Government of the Society, written in strict accordance with the Vatican norms common to all congregations. The new FCJ Constitutions were definitively approved by Pope Benedict XVI in 1921, and were published in 1922, with a preface by Cardinal Francis Gasquet, the then Cardinal Protector of the Society. The revised text bore little resemblance to the Jesuit Constitutions which Marie Madeleine had desired so passionately for the Society. Philomena was aware that the unique spirit of the Society could not be reflected in the uniform norms given by Rome to all congregations. She gave great attention to the accompanying book, entitled ‘The Directory’, thus ensuring that the spirit of the Society and its traditional characteristics would be preserved.
In 1939, when Philomena at the age of 82 was, as Superior General, still carrying overall responsibility for the Society, she had to face another major crisis, World War II. She stayed in England for the duration of the war, relying on her councillors to do what they could to support the European houses in those difficult times.
Philomena’s legacy included the more inward-looking, more ‘monastic’ lifestyle delineated in the Constitutions of 1922 which it had been her responsibility to write in accordance with the norms given by the Vatican. Philomena died, aged 90, at Stella Maris Convent in Broadstairs, Kent on 7 October 1947.
The Irish Free State was inaugurated in 1922 and the Irish government promoted education through Irish. In 1935 the FCJ sisters accepted the invitation to engage in a significant educational initiative and Laurel Hill Colaiste, Limerick, was opened.
New foundations under Philomena
1918: Bognor Regis, England
1921: Wednesbury, England
1922: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1924: Poles, Ware, England
1935: Colaiste (in which the Irish language was the principal medium of education), Laurel Hill, Limerick
1945: Ribeaucourt, France
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Feds to repeal 298 tax regulations
By Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon
The Treasury Department plans to eliminate nearly 300 outdated tax regulations, getting tax rules off the books that in some cases have not applied since the 1940s.
The department announced its proposal to eliminate unnecessary tax regulations this week, in compliance with two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump last year to reduce regulatory burdens and simplify the tax code.
“We continue our work to ensure that our tax regulatory system promotes economic growth,” said Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “These 298 regulations serve no useful purpose to taxpayers and we have proposed eliminating them.”
“I look forward to continuing to build on our efforts to make the regulatory system more efficient and effective,” he said.
Executive Order 13789, signed last April, instructs the Treasury to “bring clarity” to the tax code and identify all tax regulations that “impose an undue financial burden on United States taxpayers,” “add undue complexity to the Federal tax laws,” or “exceed the statutory authority of the Internal Revenue Service.”
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Indian migrants hit by tightening Canadian immigration laws
Published: 22 Jan at 6 PM
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Whilst job-seeing migrants from the West are praising Canada’s new Federal Skilled Worker programme, their Indian equivalents fear they will lose their chance to migrate.
Indian migrants make up 33 per cent of all new entrants to Canada, but the imminent introduction of the new scheme has led to the closing of other skilled migrant programmes to new applications. Worse still, the many thousands of applicants on the waiting list for processing have now been informed the list has been deleted and that they must reapply.
According to Canadian PM Jason Kenney, it’s preferable for skilled immigrants to have jobs lined up under the new programme before they arrive. However, he was not able to estimate the quotas for permanent residency for the coming years, saying instead that skilled migrants will still have the edge.
Delhi lawyer Rakesh Garg applied along with his family in 2005, paying a considerable amount of money in fees for the application and its processing and putting his career plans on permanent hold. His application was in the waiting list and has now been cancelled and its status deleted from Canada’s immigration website.
Last March, Garg and others affected formed the Backloggers Pre-2008 Association, which now has over 1500 Indian members. According to its estimates, around 65,000 skilled migration category applications from the Punjab are still pending, and fears are rising that, under the new rules, many applicants will have their Indian qualifications and experience rejected.
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Feb 10, 2019 - National Geographic Venture
Sunrise and double rainbow over the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Sean Neilson.
Motoring north into the Sea of Cortez, all eyes were glued to the water. Just beneath its steely gray surface lie hundreds of species of fish and dozens of whale and dolphin species. Deep troughs and submerged islands are also hidden in the deep.
Upon searching, we came across several pods of bottlenose dolphins and a small group of pilot whales. But the real show of the morning was the sunrise. Deep pink clouds gave way to a double rainbow in full display.
Like our sunrise, the afternoon yielded plenty of beauty along the beach of Puerto Gato, part of the Baja Peninsula mainland. Deep red sandstones were our backdrop for snorkeling, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, hiking, with dinner and a bonfire ashore later that evening. Suffice it to say that very few of us we were prepared for the other-worldly beauty that set the scene for day ashore, and yet no one hesitated taking full advantage of it!
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Iran playing ‘TERROR GAMES’ claims anti-regime group - ‘threat has rapidly intensified’
THE Iranian regime’s “terrorist threat and terror games” have “rapidly intensified” on European and US soil since Spring 2018 as Tehran embarks on terror attempts against their opponents, a dissident group has claimed.
By Sam Stevenson
PUBLISHED: 05:33, Wed, Jan 23, 2019 | UPDATED: 09:52, Wed, Jan 23, 2019
Iran news: an anti-regime group has claimed Iran is waging 'terror games' (Image: GETTY)
The damning claim was made by pro-regime-change faction the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The group says Iran’s “mullahs” - a term used to refer to a Muslim man or woman, educated in Islamic theology - are responsible for state-sponsored terrorism worldwide. The NCRI has cited various alleged terrorist plots planned for Western soil.
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Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NCRI, has argued a firm policy needs to be adopted including the “blacklisting” of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and their entities by the United States and the European Union, as well as the expulsion of intelligence agents working in Europe.
Mrs Rajavi said: “The mullahs must understand that their terrorist activities will have serious consequences and that Europe will not tolerate such malign activities as it is determined to fight against terrorism in all forms.”
Her plea came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of the "very real" threat from Iran in an address to the Davos World Economic Forum delivered via video link on Tuesday.
Mrs Rajavi's group has highlighted a series of alleged foiled terrorist attacks and terror-related arrests in 2018 to back up its claims about the Iranian regime's nefarious intentions abroad.
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Albanian media outlets reported the arrest of two Iranian agents who had introduced themselves as journalists, on suspicion of terrorist activities in Tirana on March 22, 2018, the NCRI said.
A truck loaded with explosives was set to attack 3,000 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who are refugees in Albania, the dissident faction explained.
The group also refers to June 6, 2018, when the Netherlands expelled two Iranian diplomats for an attack on an opponent, and to June 30, 2018, when a bomb attack against a major Iranian opposition rally in Villepinte, France was foiled, avoiding potential carnage thanks to the responsiveness of German, French and Belgian services.
Following the foiled plot, an Iranian diplomat stationed in Vienna was arrested in Germany for personally handing over the explosive device to the terrorist couple.
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On August 9, 2018, the United States Department of Justice announced two agents affiliated to the Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry, Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, who were allegedly “spying on” and “plotting against” the PMOI/MEK and NCRI, were arrested in the US.
And on October 21, 2018, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian, in contact with the Iranian regime’s embassy in Oslo, was arrested in Denmark in connection with a failed attack on an Iranian opponent in that country.
Thirteen months on, the European Union has decided to add Iranian entities to the terrorist list for attacks against opponents on European soil.
Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen announced the move on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, for the adoption of sanctions against two agents of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
According to the Danish Foreign Ministry, both Iran's intelligence agency and its director general of intelligence, Saeid Hashemi Moghadam, were now on the EU's terror list.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Image: GETTY)
Mr Samuelsen said the EU's decision marked "a huge victory".
He said: "No other country's intelligence services are on the terror list. So it's a very clear signal we send to Iran today."
Elham Zanjani and Elahe Arj from the Women’s Committee of the NCRI said: “While all signals are calling for an alert with the rise of the mullah’s state terrorism, the decision of European governments is a positive step to counter these, but more needs to be done.
“For years, western governments had adopted the policy of appeasement of the mullahs but the time is over for the policy of appeasement.”
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke to condemn and renounce terrorism in his own nation in December 2018.
Taking to his Twitter page on December 6 to react to a car bomb attack targeted at Iran's strategic port city of Chabahar, which he said was perpetrated by “foreign-backed terrorists,” he vowed to punish the “foreign-backed” perpetrators and “their masters”.
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Sharad Food Solution provides foodservice segment with turnkey dairy solutions
by Akshay Nayak December 9, 2019
Part of the Umbrella brand Damodar Chakubhai Group – a well-known grocery brand servicing the HoReCa industry, Sharad Food Solution excels in providing a wide range of dairy-based products to the HoReCa segment pan-India. Its USP lies in the degree of customisation that it brings to the products to meet the requirement of the customer. Speaking about the dairy industry in India, Nilabja Dey, director – Commercial, Sharad Food Solutions, said, “The dairy industry at large, 85 per cent of it remains unorganised in India. In the remaining 15 per cent, Amul is the market leader followed by brands like Mother Dairy, Gowardhan, and Prabhat. We at Sharad Food Solution – the super stockist of brand Nadini and Warana, essentially focus on the foodservice segment. In the foodservice segment quality, price, yield, pack size, and service play a major role. In the HoReCa segment, dairy products are an integral part of food production. Looking at these needs, we at Sharad Food Solution address all the pain points bothering our customers, i.e. the hoteliers and restaurateurs.”
Being the head of purchase at Sodexo for eight years and in the HoReCa industry for more than 27 years, Dey reminisces how he learned the exact need of the HoReCa segment in terms of materials when it comes to abiding by standard and quality services. “As I readily witnessed the gap between the humongous population striving quality products and a staggering per cent of the dairy industry being unorganised, I figured that bringing food safety, convenience and economy to this industry could yield multiplier effect in volumes and revenues,” expressed Dey. As the super stockist for Nandini Group in the west region, the company promotes and provides with Nandini’s dairy products like Ghee, UHT Milk, Butter and Cheese to the HoReCa sector across India. “Nandini has set up a 660 cr plant in Kanakapura near Bengaluru, where it produces cheese. As the local cattle there yield high-protein content milk, it gives increased elastic properties to the cheese, savoured by the end consumer. The launch of Nandini cheese about a month ago has witnessed increased demand by the foodservice segment, and by next year, we are confident that it shall be the market leader. Our endeavour is to offer excellent quality with low rates,” Dey informed. In the words of Dey, Sharad Food Solution is popularly known for turning around the business for the milk co-operatives that it works with by bringing expeditious growth in volumes and revenues, which lastly benefits the farmers who work for the co-operatives. “Under the guidance of Dr Vinaraoji Kore, chairman, Warana Group, a paneer (cottage cheese) production plant at the Sanpada Facility in Navi Mumbai was set up in January 2019 exclusively for Sharad Food Solution. Currently it is the busiest paneer producing plant in Mumbai and supplies monthly 100 metric tonnes of paneer to pan India clientele,” he voiced.
Speaking about the USP of the company, Dey said, “We pride ourselves on providing quality products. We also prepare an adulteration-free practices report. This is how we helped Warana to grow. Also, predominantly being a purchase professional and one of the founding members of Hospitality Purchase Managers Forum (HPMF), we maintain transparency about our business practices by organising frequent visits to the factories for the chefs and purchase managers of hotels, during which we also convey the costing parameters of various ingredients and production stages that is implemented on the end product. The central purchase teams of Taj Hotels, Holiday Inn, Vista Foods and many other known brands of hotels and restaurant chains were here to visit the factory.” Sharad Food Solution’s future view is to reduce the operational burden in foodservice segment “We are growing at 200 per cent year on year,” concluded Dey.
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General Mills seizes Nutrition Facts Label update as an opportunity to ‘optimize’ cereal fortification
By Elizabeth Crawford contact
05-Nov-2019 - Last updated on 05-Nov-2019 at 17:11 GMT
General Mills' booth at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo in Philadelphia.
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While many manufacturers continue to grouse about updating their Nutrition Facts Panels to comply with Nutrition Label Reform, General Mills not only has rolled out the changes for its “Big G Cereals” ahead of the upcoming deadline, it also took the opportunity to optimize the nutrient fortification of its iconic brands to help Americans close nutrition gaps.
“At General Mills, we believe in cereal and that it can provide a ton of nutrition for all Americans,” Amy Cohn, a registered dietitian and the nutrition & external affairs manager for General Mills cereals, told FoodNavigator-USA.
She explained at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo in Philadelphia late last month that “fortified cereal historically today – and likely in the future – really helps close the nutrient gaps for many Americans. It is literally the #1 source of many vitamins and minerals, including folate, iron, zinc, vitamin A and vitamin E for all Americans.”
And yet, she said, the company knew it could do better and it saw the upcoming deadline to comply with new Nutrition Facts Labeling as a good opportunity to reevaluate the fortification levels of minerals and nutrients in its cereals based on mandatory label updates.
The updates include increasing the serving size of ready-to-eat cereal from 1 cup to 1.5 cups for consumers older than 4 years as well as call-outs for different nutrients, updated daily values and a new added sugar line along with several other changes. These technically go into effect Jan. 1, 2020, for businesses with more than $10m in annual sales. However, last month FDA announced it would exercise enforcement discretion for an additional six months for products that needed the extra time to comply. Smaller businesses have until Jan. 1, 2021, to comply.
“We worked with Regan Bailey, who is a professor at Purdue University and also a registered dietitian, to do some modeling work with [National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey] data to understand with the NLR changes to the reference amount customarily consumed of cereal how to optimize fortification” of General Mills’ products, Cohn explained.
Based on that research, she said, the company reduced the amount of some of the B vitamins, including thiamin, niacin and riboflavin because it found “these were not longer problem areas for most Americans.”
At the same time, the company is still looking for ways to increase in its cereals the amount of typical shortfall nutrients, including calcium, vitamin D and potassium, but without negatively impacting the product or consumers’ experience, she added.
“We are still working through that, but I am excited that we will eventually be able to bring more calcium and vitamin D to our cereal,” Cohn said.
Beyond fortification, cereal is the #1 source of whole grain and fiber for Americans at breakfast and for children 2-12 years who eat cereal it comes with 57% of their milk consumption, which also helps boost their daily vitamin D and calcium intake, Cohn said.
Sugar reduction is an ongoing process
In addition to adding nutrients of value, Cohn said, General Mills continues to look for ways to reduce sugar in its cereals and educate consumers that the amount of sugar in its products has not increased, even though the new Nutrition Labels give that impression.
She explained that because the serving size now is larger in the Nutrition Facts Panel a serving of Cheerios has 2 grams of sugar, whereas before with the smaller serving size it had 1 gram. This increase is simply related to the larger portion size, not because the company added more sugar, Cohn stressed.
“At General Mills we have a long history of reducing the sugar content in many of our cereals. In fact, if you look back to 10 years ago compared to today, you will see a big difference in our sugar content. And we are always, always looking for ways where we can decrease the sugar content without impacting the taste, flavor or texture,” Cohn said.
She explained the company approaches sugar reduction two ways. The first is using sugar alternatives “that are acceptable” for consumers to maintain the sweetness while reducing calories from sugar. The second is to “use sugar differently so we can use less of it,” she said. For example, putting sugar on the outside of the finished product so that it hits the taste buds more quickly and increases the perception of sugar.
Finally, she noted, General Mills has “more than 100 different varieties of cereal for you to choose from, so I can guarantee you have cereals that will meet your sugar requirement, whatever that may be. It is all about choice.”
An affordable option
At FNCE, Cohn and the General Mills team also were educating nutritionists and other attendees about the value of cereal as a low-cost way to fill potential nutrient gaps.
“I am really proud of the affordability of cereal,” which on average costs just 50 cents per serving with milk for a General Mills brand, she said.
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The Chinese have long made glass of outstanding beauty. Overshadowed by its more famous rivals, porcelain and ink painting, the vast riches of the history of Chinese glassmaking are only beginning to be appreciated by historians and collectors. In this, the first book to draw on major recent archival discoveries, the authors illustrate a stunning array of glass manufactured in the imperial glassworks of China. In an excellent overview, Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere explains the development of the Chinese glass industry, the techniques and structures of the Emperors' glassworks, the use of glass in the imperial households, and its employment as gifts within the imperial household and abroad.Stunningly illustrated, with 60 colour and 65 black-and-white photographs, the book presents a visual survey of the best Chinese glass from collections throughout the world. Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China Curtis, Emily Byrne, Ashgate Publishing
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The Chinese have long made glass of outstanding beauty. Overshadowed by its more famous rivals, porcelain and ink painting, the vast riches of the history of Chinese glassmaking are only beginning to be appreciated by historians and collectors. In this, the first book to draw on major recent archival discoveries, the authors illustrate a stunning array of glass manufactured in the imperial glassworks of China. In an excellent overview, Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere explains the development of the Chinese glass industry, the techniques and structures of the Emperors' glassworks, the use of glass in the imperial households, and its employment as gifts within the imperial household and abroad.Stunningly illustrated, with 60 colour and 65 black-and-white photographs, the book presents a visual survey of the best Chinese glass from collections throughout the world. Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China Curtis, Emily Byrne, Ashgate Publishing<
Emily Byrne Curtis
The Glass of China: Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere
Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages; Physical description: xix, 134 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 30 cm. Summary: The Chinese have long made glass of outstanding beauty. Overshadowed by its more famous rivals, porcelain and ink painting, the vast riches of the history of Chinese glassmaking are only beginning to be appreciated by historians and collectors. This book draws on major archaeological discoveries, and the author illustrates a stunning array of glass manufactured in the imperial glassworks of China. The overview explains the development of the Chinese glass industry, the techniques and structures of the Emperors' glassworks, the use of glass in the imperial households, and its employment as gifts within the imperial household and abroad. Illustrated, with many photographs, the book presents a visual survey of the best Chinese glass from collections throughout the world. Contents: Form and ritual in Chinese glass, Daphne Lange Rosenzweig; Chinese glass technology; Glass wisdom, Ricardo Joppert; Islamic Glasses unearthed from China, Ma Wenkuan; Poem of the glass bowl; "Complete plan of the glass workshop"; The Rainha dos Anjos - her precious cargo; "When the glass is being made"; Glass - the yellow of a broom flower; "The harmony of the seasons", Emily Byrne Curtis and Ricardo Joppert; "A glass blowing shop"; Elegant enjoyment - scholar's objects.
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Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate
ISBN/EAN: 0754609812
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RoboForex Sets Roots in Australia, Registers New Company
RoboForex, the Forex broker based in New Zealand, is increasing its global footprint via the establishment of a new company in Australia. The new business is named RoboForex (AU) Pty Ltd and its current physical address is Dundas Valley NSW 2117. For those unfamiliar with the geography of the Land Down Under, we must clarify that Dundas Valley is a suburb of Sydney, so the broker is targeting one of the world's leading economic centers.
RoboForex (AU) Pty Ltd has already managed to obtain registration with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) - the Australian company number (ACN) of the new business is 167235332, in case you fall for formalities. From the photo below you can see the passport of the company with ASIC.
Click on photo to enlarge.
The first steps towards the incorporation of RoboForex's Australian business were obviously made in the middle of December 2013. The date is close to the date when the broker announced the official launch of its operations in Cyprus – as some of you know, RoboForex (CY) Ltd started accepting clients in the last month of 2013.
RoboForex has stepped up its expansion over the past months – the Cypriot business now runs a new office in London. Moreover, in January 2014, RoboForex became a member of the Hong Kong-based Financial Commission – a body for impartial resolution of disputes between brokers and their clients.
The establishment of a new business in Australia enables RoboForex not only to tap a wide market for Forex services but also to make use of one of the mildest investment climates in the world. ASIC is strict but fair – although the capital requirements are rough, the watchdog does not impose any cap on leverage and allows hedging and scalping. In addition, the FIFO (first in, first out) rule which is in force in the United States, is not in place in Australia.
This said, it should not come as a surprise that many Forex brokers have set their foot in the Land Down Under – amid those operating in the country for ages we can mention FXCM (through FXCM Australia). More recently, Cypriot Forex broker XM has set up its own business in Australia. Apparently, the Land Down Under has more to offer than endless highways through the deserts, kangaroos, and great surf beaches.
About RoboForex
RoboForex is an online forex brokerage firm registered in New Zealand that offers STP model with Bridge Technology to provide its clients both individuals and organizations with services in international financial markets. RoboForex LP is a member of the Financial Services Complaints Ltd. (FSCL) that provides resolutions to disputes amongst participating financial services providers and their clients. The broker offers excellent trading conditions: tight fixed and variable spreads, swap free accounts, leverage of up to 1:500 and fast execution carried out via the MT4, MT5 or cTrader platforms.
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Congratulations to GHC’s USY and Kadima Chapter!
Our chapter has won a “USY Membership Leap” award from United Synagogue for our increases in membership in USY and Kadima. We were given a gift certificate and are looking forward to using it for the chapter!
If you would like additional information about
USY or Kadima, please contact Yanira at VPYouth@g-h-c.org.
United Synagogue Youth, or USY, is a national organization for Jewish high schoolers across the country. USY is divided into regions. Our region is METNY, or Metropolitan New York. It includes all of Long Island, the five boroughs, and Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and Orange counties. Because we live in such a heavily populated Jewish area, our region is further divided into Divisions: Koach (Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and Orange Counties), Kiryah (The Five Boroughs), Rakevet (Suffolk County), and Chazak (Nassau County).
Our division is Koach and it includes Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, and Riverdale. There are events on the chapter level, divisional level, regional level, and even the International level (part of Canada is included is USY). A chapter is a synagogue affiliated with USY. Our chapter is Greenburgh Hebrew Center (GHC).
Download the USY and Kadima application
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Borris-Ileigh players Brendan Maher, left, and Paddy Stapleton celebrate after the AIB GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Club Championship semi-final between St Thomas' and Borris-Ileigh at LIT Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.
Borris-Ileigh storm to victory over St. Thomas'
Sunday 5 January 2020
AIB Munster Club Senior Hurling semi-final
Borris-Ileigh 1-21 St. Thomas’ 1-14
By John Harrington at the LIT Gaelic Grounds
33 years after their last All-Ireland Final appearance, Tipperary’s Borris-Ileigh are on their way to Croke Park again after this hugely impressive victory over last year’s beaten finalists St. Thomas’ of Galway.
They came into the match as underdogs just like they had against Ballygunner in the Munster Final, but once again they seemed to revel in that status.
There was even a conviction about their warm-up as their players a good deal of time fighting one another for ruck-ball, and it was surely no accident that they then won the majority of those contests in the match itself.
Once again, county star Brendan Maher summed up the mixture of defiance and class that have proven to be such a potent cocktail for this Borris team.
He scored a total of ten points, and left his best trick until last when he somehow managed to score a late point from play having seconds earlier split the bas of his hurley when converting his seventh free of the game.
That moment was symbolic of the Tipp team’s greater determination to win this match regardless of the circumstances.
St. Thomas gave their all too, though, and contributed hugely to a wholehearted and utterly absorbing game of hurling.
At times it looked like the Galway side had the better stick-men, but Borris had the edge in speed, raw hunger, and general derring-do.
It was St Thomas’ who landed the first heavy blow of the match when Eanna Burke drove an unstoppable shot to the roof of James McCormack’s net after a clever assist from Oisin Flannery.
Borris-Ileigh’s response spoke volumes about their character as they hit three points in quick succession to cancel out the Galway club’s goal.
The Munster champions were growing increasingly dominant thanks to the influence of Brendan Maher and Dan McCormack in their half of the field and the power of brawny attackers Conor Kenny and Jerry Kelly in the opposition’s.
The quicksilver James Devaney was also showing his speed and class whenever he was given ball in space, and a 20th minute effort from the teenager had the teams level by the 20th minute, 1-4 to 0-7.
Borris then hit two inspirational points in quick succession through Kevin Maher and Kenny and by half-time were leading by 0-10 to 1-5.
The teams exchanged a brace of points each early in the second-half but it looked like St. Thomas’ were gaining the upper hand when they hit the next three in a row as Darragh Burke and Shane Cooney really thundered in to the match.
But Borris-Ileigh gritted their teeth and hit back with three of their own to grasp the initiative again.
It was mid-way through the second-half now, a key period of the match, and St Thomas’ did themselves no favours at all with a series of poor wides.
They finished the match with a total of 14, and will surely reflect that they were architects of their own downfall to a certain extent.
Credit to Borris-Ileigh, they were in the mood to take full advantage, and a Kevin Maher point on 50 minutes felt like a crucial score both in terms of timing and context because the manner in which he blocked down James Regan and then drove the ball over gave both his team-mates and the Borris-Ileigh support a visible lift.
Conor Kenny then hit a very similar score himself after another block-down to further emphasise the fact that Borris-Ileigh now really had the bit between their teeth.
They finished with a real flourish too as Brendan Maher hit that miraculous point with half a hurley and then the speedster Devaney tore through for a real exclamation mark of a goal with the final play.
It was yet another heroic win in a season of them for a club that has given the people of their parish a serious lift after a difficult time for so many in it.
They’ll go into the All-Ireland Final as underdogs against reigning champions Ballyhale Shamrocks, but you just know they’ll be convinced they can pull off yet another shock and you wouldn’t doubt them at this stage either.
Scorers for Borris-Ileigh: Brendan Maher 0-10 (6f, 2 ’65), Kevin Maher 0-5 (3f), James Devaney 1-1, Conor Kenny 0-3, Kieran Maher 0-1, Jerry Kelly 0-1
Scorers for St. Thomas’: Darragh Burke 0-5 (4f), Eanna Burke 1-0, Conor Cooney 0-3, Bernard Burke 0-2, Shane Cooney 0-1, James Regan 0-1, David Burke 0-1, Oisin Flannery 0-1
Borris-Ieigh: James McCormack; Seamus Burke, Paddy Stapleton, Liam Ryan; Sean McCormack, Brendan Maher, Ray McCormack; Tommy Ryan, Dan McCormack; Kieran Maher, Niall Kenny, Conor Kenny; Kevin Maher, Jerry Kelly, James Devaney. Subs: Jack Hogan for Niall Kenny (57), Ciaran Cowan for Jerry Kelly (61)
St. Thomas’: James Barrett; Cian Mahoney, Sean Skehill, Cathal Burke; Donal Cooney., Shane Cooney, David Sherry; James Regan, David Burke; Fintan Burke, Darragh Burke, Bernard Burke; Eanna Burke, Conor Cooney, Oisin Flannery.
Referee: Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow)
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A List of 10 Bang-For-Your-Buck Games to Watch for on the Steam Summer Sale
Games with some of the best value for your money currently on Steam, just in time for the Summer Sale.
by Derek Paulus
The Steam Summer Sale is finally here. It is a celebrated time when gamers from all around abuse their wallets to purchase games they will play for 15 minutes before forgetting them forever to collect virtual dust on the Steam library shelf.
It doesn't have to be this way, however, and with some research and a little willpower you can restrict your summer Steam purchases to games that will keep pulling you back time and time again. Here are my picks for games to keep tabs on in this year's Steam summer sale that could get you the most for your money. These are either games that allow extensive gameplay, gameplay variety, have strong modding communities, or a combination of the three, regardless of whether or not they have yet been discounted on the Steam summer sale.
10. Garry's Mod
This is not a game for everyone but if you like a sandbox that allows you to create vehicles, flying machines, structures, and just about anything you can imagine, this is a game for you. Garry's Mod uses Valve's Source game engine to allow players to manipulate objects, meaning you can spend hours crafting and testing your builds.
Sharing items and downloading user-created props is made easy with the Steam Workshop. There are 342,165 entries in the Garry's Mod Workshop at the time of writing this article. If you get bored with the limits of your own imagination, you can always check out the imagination of someone else.
Additional multiplayer game modes are also available, with PropHunt currently being the top rated entry in the Workshop. "Trouble in Terrorist Town" is also a popular multiplayer mode that pits innocents against traitors, requiring social engineering to determine who is the traitor (or to convince others that you are not the traitor).
9. Fallout: New Vegas
This title almost didn't make the list, but after hearing so much about the endless playability from others, I felt it had to be included.
New Vegas seems to have a strong modding community despite releasing back in 2010. The game ends after the main quest is completed, so to get the most for your money, you will want to be sure to download a mod that allows you to continue playing even after you've beat the game.
There are also six inexpensive DLCs available right from the Steam page that can add even more gameplay.
8. Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition
What Borderlands 2 lacks in variety, it makes up for in length of gameplay. If you're looking for a roleplaying first-person shooter that provides lots of gameplay, this may be the game.
While the original Borderlands 2 provided under 100 hours of gameplay for some players, the Game of the Year edition has the potential to offer over 200 hours. With enough of a discount from Steam, this could be a no-brainer buy.
7. Total War Series
Pick the time period that best suits your interest and you will find yourself playing this game for a long time. If you prefer, however, you can purchase the whole series and play even longer if Steam offers the right price.
Total War offers a single player campaign mode that can continue as long as you want it to. Hours will be spent managing cities, recruiting troops, entering diplomatic negotiations with other nations, and of course, testing your military tactics on the battlefield. If you conquer the world with one nation you can always devise new tactics and conquer with another.
If you need more of a challenge, you can hop into multiplayer and battle one or more opponents to really put your skills to the test.
Moreover, Total War has a healthy modding community, with the Steam Workshop also available for Rome II and Shogun II, allowing players to continually alter their play to experience the game in new ways.
6. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
This game is long. Mind you, the main quest can be completed in a relatively short period of time, but with the variety in character creation, the adventuring, the side quests, and the time you will spend just staring in awe at some of Skyrim's sight-seeing spots, it seems like this game could never be explored to its full extent.
Many mods are also available that not only tweak various aspects of the game to fit individual preferences, but can also add news storylines and worlds to explore.
If you want to take a step back in the series, Oblivion is also an excellent choice with huge amounts of gameplay for your money.
5. Arma 3
Multiplayer is where you will likely find the most bang-for-your-buck in this game, though there are many player created missions that you can download if you want to increase your single player experience.
If you don't like putting in a lot of effort (what can sometimes feel like actual work) then this is likely not the game for you. If you're someone who doesn't mind coordinating with other players and traveling to your mission objective for 20 minutes before encountering the enemy, then you will find Arma 3 can keep you entertained for hours at a time.
4. Don't Starve
Don't Starve is a unique experience that seems to offer players new and strange encounters every time they open the game.
As a survival game it is no surprise that Don't Starve has the potential to offer lengthy gameplay. What really keeps this game interesting, however, is that you never quite know what you will find. You're thrown into a world that you won't quite understand and seems to continually provide news discoveries, keeping the game fresh for a long time.
A free multiplayer expansion will be released this summer, further increasing the games bang-for-your-buck quality. It would be wise to purchase Don't Starve during this Steam summer sale, however, since the regular price of the game will increase once multiplayer is released.
3. X3 Series
This is not a title I have experience with but from what I have heard, it has tons of replay value. Despite being a single player game with a campaign story, it takes place in an active world where you can expand your space empire through military and trading. This is a game I will likely be checking out.
2. Dark Souls
Despite the second installment of this series being released only months ago, some players expressed the feeling that the original had more replay value, which is why this particular game makes the list. Even so, both games seemed to be praised for this aspect.
Steam offers the Prepare to Die Edition, which features an untold chapter in the story.
Warband released in 2010, yet it still seems to be as popular as ever. Much of this has to do with the game's modding community constantly finding new ways to reinvent the game for both singleplayer and multiplayer modes.
The campaign has players take the role of an adventurer who starts with next to nothing and must build an army and income to slowly make a mark on the land, which by itself can go on without end. Singleplayer mode ends when you want it to. If you get bored with the original singeplayer, there are countless mods for you to download to enhance your experience
The game's multiplayer also has a wealth of mods with an active multiplayer community. With so many mods, it won't be surprising to find that many are no longer active, but you will find many that are. If you have a few friends, however, it can be fun to download a mod together and enter an abandoned mod to play by yourselves.
Additionally, a DLC is available titled Napoleonic Wars, which brings the muskets and cannonballs of the Napoleonic era to the multiplayer game. Spending a few extra bucks on this DLC will open you up to even more mods that can provide even more game experiences.
No doubt many games did not make this list, so feel free to share your bang-for-your-buck picks in the comments. Enjoy the summer, and spend wisely.
Derek Paulus
Games Arma 3Borderlands 2Dark Souls 2Dark SoulsDon't StarveFallout New VegasGarry's ModMedieval II: Total WarMount & Blade: WarbandShogun 2 Total WarThe Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimTotal War: Rome 2 Genres ActionAdventureCasualFightingIndiePartyRPGShooterSimulationStrategySurvival Platforms PC Tags steam games
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Skyrim is only $5, FTL:Advanced Edition is $3.99 I think and the Witcher games are also going for less than $5
There was a good first day bundle of Enemy Unknown w/ Enemy Within and dlcs for $16
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UCL Home / Geography / News & Events / News / News Archive / 2019 / August 2019 / Dr Ayona Datta appointed as UCL Professor of Human Geography
Dr Ayona Datta appointed as UCL Professor of Human Geography
International reputation in urban and feminist geography
Dr Ayona Datta has been appointed as Professor of Human Geography in UCLGeography.
Dr Datta, who is currently Reader in Urban Futures at King’s College London, has an international reputation in urban and feminist geography. Her research encompasses postcolonial urbanism, smart cities, urban futures, and gender citizenship.
She is author of The Illegal City: Space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement (2012), and co-editor of Translocal geographies: Spaces, places, connections (2011) and Mega-urbanization in the global South: Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state (2017).
Ayona is a publicly engaged scholar and maintains a personal blog, 'The city inside out'. This summer, she was also awarded the Busk Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for her contributions to the understanding of smart cities through fieldwork.
Before her academic career, she practiced as an architect in Delhi and London.
Dr Ayona Datta
Ayona Datta (Source: KCL News)
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In 1886, a young unmarried mailman, frustrated with his fruitless toil in the Midwest, moved to the woolly wilderness of Central Florida to make a better go of life. The land was angry. Summers were oppressively hot, the lightning relentless, and the tough earth, sodden and scrubby, defied clearing. The only domestic creatures that thrived there, it seemed, were the cattle, and even they turned out stringy and chewy. Undaunted, the young man planted a grove of citrus trees and waited for things to get better. They didn’t. His trees died in a freeze. Now penniless, he was forced to return to delivering mail, the very thing he had tried so hard to escape. By 1890, he gave up, defeated, and moved to Chicago to seek other work. The American dream appeared to fail Elias Disney.
The story could have ended there. But he was joined by his new bride, whose own father had died trying to tame Florida land. Back in the smoke of the Midwest, they had children and settled for an anonymous urban existence. One day, eight decades later, long after the young man and woman had lived full lives and passed away, two of their sons, now in the sunset of their own lives, would return to Central Florida, to the land that broke their father, and together they would transform the recalcitrant swamp into the most famous fantasy land the world has even known.
Little did Elias know that the dream was only skipping a generation and that his sons Walt and Roy would become synonymous with the same land that rejected him. Had he known that the Disney name would in due time define Central Florida, would he have been so despondent? Even if he had been granted a fleeting vision of what was to be, and what his family would mean to this place—and, indeed, to the United States—would he have believed it?
The Disney brothers turned a place of toil into a realm of pleasure, a place where hardworking people can put their struggles aside. The English have Blackpool; Canadians have Niagara Falls. Orlando rose to become the preeminent resort for the working and middle classes of America, and the ingenuity of its inventions inspires visitors from everywhere. Although other countries segregate their holiday destinations by income or some other petty quality, Orlando, in classic American egalitarian style, is all things to all people, from all countries and backgrounds. Orlando has had its share of tragedy, yet its tale is one of optimism and in classic American egalitarian style, it’s all things to all people, from all countries and backgrounds, rich or poor, young or old.
So Orlando represents something more powerful to American culture and history than merely being the fruit of a dream. It’s something shared. No matter who you are, no matter your politics or upbringing, when you were a kid, you probably went at least once to Walt Disney World and Orlando—or, if you didn’t, you desperately wanted to. Which other aspect of culture can we all claim to share? What else has given children such sweet dreams? I’ve often said that if somehow Walt Disney World went out of business tomorrow, the U.S. National Park Service would have to take it over—it means that much to the fabric of the nation.
Don’t think of the amusements of Orlando as big business. Of course they are, and the incessant reminder of that often threatens to shatter the fantasy. But Walt Disney World, and by extension Orlando, is Americana incarnate. The flair for showmanship and fantasy that they crystallize, now coined as the term “Disneyfication,” is the defining mind-set of our culture, in which even grocery stores are dressed like film sets and the “story” of your local burger joint is retold on the side of its beverage cups.
Orlando tells us about who we dream of being. Virtually nothing about it is natural or authentic, and yet there may be no more perfect embodiment of American culture. To understand this invented landscape is to understand the values of its civilization and our generation. And if you observe Orlando with a long view—starting with young Elias Disney cutting his hands trying to budge a tough Florida pine—you will be a part of the explosive, unexpected powers of the American dream.
And one more thing: If you can buck the system and relax, it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Role of Protein Palmitoylation in Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Differentiation View all 7 Articles
William N. Green
University of Chicago, United States
Veronica Ghiglieri
University of Perugia, Italy
Jin Woo Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Front. Cell. Neurosci., 02 April 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00115
mTORC1 Signaling Is Palmitoylation-Dependent in Hippocampal Neurons and Non-neuronal Cells and Involves Dynamic Palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 and mTOR
Shaun S. Sanders1, Francesca I. De Simone1 and Gareth M. Thomas1,2*
1Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
2Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) Complex 1 (mTORC1) controls growth and proliferation of non-neuronal cells, while during neuronal development mTORC1 responds to glutamate and neurotrophins to promote neuronal migration and dendritic arborization. Recent studies reveal that mTORC1 signaling complexes are assembled on lysosomal membranes, but how mTORC1 membrane targeting is regulated is not fully clear. Our examination of palmitoyl-proteomic databases and additional bioinformatic analyses revealed that several mTORC1 proteins are predicted to undergo covalent modification with the lipid palmitate. This process, palmitoylation, can dynamically target proteins to specific membranes but its roles in mTORC1 signaling are not well described. Strikingly, we found that acute pharmacological inhibition of palmitoylation prevents amino acid-dependent mTORC1 activation in HEK293T cells and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent mTORC1 activation in hippocampal neurons. We sought to define the molecular basis for this finding and found that the mTORC1 proteins LAMTOR1 and mTOR itself are directly palmitoylated, while several other mTORC1 proteins are not palmitoylated, despite strong bioinformatic prediction. Interestingly, palmitoylation of LAMTOR1, whose anchoring on lysosomal membranes is important for mTORC1 signaling, was rapidly increased prior to mTORC1 activation. In contrast, mTOR palmitoylation was decreased by stimuli that activate mTORC1. These findings reveal that specific key components of the mTOR pathway are dynamically palmitoylated, suggesting that palmitoylation is not merely permissive for mTOR activation but is instead actively involved in mTORC1-dependent signaling.
Mechanistic (previously mammalian) target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling plays a key role in many processes that are essential for normal cell growth and survival, including protein synthesis, transcription, cytoskeletal regulation, autophagy, and neuronal morphology. Conversely, mTOR signaling is overactivated in many disease states including cancer, type 2 diabetes, and a group of neurodevelopmental disorders termed “mTORopathies,” which are characterized by epilepsy and/or Intellectual Disability (Laplante and Sabatini, 2012; Costa-Mattioli and Monteggia, 2013; Crino, 2016).
mTOR is a protein serine/threonine kinase that belongs to the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related kinase family and is the catalytic subunit for two distinct protein complexes. These two complexes termed mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) and 2 (mTORC2) have unique protein components and respond to different cellular signaling events with distinct outcomes (Laplante and Sabatini, 2009). mTORC1 is activated by diverse intracellular and extracellular cues, including growth factors, stress, energy status, oxygen, and amino acids (AA), to promote protein and lipid synthesis and inhibit autophagy (Laplante and Sabatini, 2012; Ben-Sahra and Manning, 2017). mTORC1 is thought to be activated by at least two mechanisms. Growth factors and insulin stimulate Phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase-Akt signaling to phosphorylate and relieve inhibition by the negative mTORC1 regulator tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (TSC2), allowing mTORC1 activation by the small GTPase Ras highly expressed in brain (Rheb; Ben-Sahra and Manning, 2017). A similar mechanism is also implicated in neuronal mTORC1 activation by the neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF; Takei et al., 2004). mTORC1 is also activated by a second mechanism that involves not just Rheb but also the Ras-related GTP-binding (Rag) family of GTPases, which are activated following exposure of cells to nutrients, such as amino acids (Costa-Mattioli and Monteggia, 2013).
Interestingly, a key step in both of these mTORC1 activation mechanisms is the recruitment of mTOR to the surface of lysosomes (Sancak et al., 2008, 2010; Efeyan et al., 2012; Betz and Hall, 2013; Averous et al., 2014). Moreover, several other mTORC1 regulators are also either constitutively present on lysosomal membranes, or translocate to or from lysosomes during mTOR signaling (Sancak et al., 2010; Menon et al., 2014). However, the mechanisms underlying these membrane localization and translocation events are not fully understood (Betz and Hall, 2013; Averous et al., 2014).
One mechanism to dynamically control protein localization in response to signals is palmitoylation. This process, also known as S-acylation, is the posttranslational addition of long-chain fatty acids, typically palmitate, to protein cysteine residues, and often targets proteins to specific membranes and/or membrane subdomains (Hallak et al., 1994; Smotrys and Linder, 2004). Palmitoylation is the only reversible protein-lipid modification and is thus mechanistically analogous to phosphorylation. However, instead of a charged phosphate group being added and removed by kinases and phosphatases, respectively, the hydrophobic palmitate lipid is added by palmitoyl acyltransferases and removed by acyl protein thioesterases (Zeidman et al., 2009; Tomatis et al., 2010). Proteins can thus undergo cycles of palmitoylation and depalmitoylation in response to extracellular and intracellular signaling events, thereby leading to dynamic changes in protein localization and/or function (El-Husseini et al., 2002; Martin et al., 2012; Brigidi et al., 2015). Strikingly, recent curations of multiple palmitoyl-proteomic studies revealed that numerous mTOR pathway components are potentially palmitoylated (Table 1 and Figure 1; Blanc et al., 2015; Sanders et al., 2015). However, the functional importance of palmitoylation for mTOR localization and activation has not been addressed.
Table 1. Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTORC1) signaling proteins in palmitoyl-proteomic databases.
Figure 1. Putative palmitoylated proteins of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway. Palmitoyl-proteomic studies have identified a number of mTOR signaling components as potentially palmitoylated (outlined in yellow) including mTOR itself, subunits of the vacuolar ATPase, components of the regulatory GATOR2, Ragulator, and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) complexes, and other regulatory proteins. Additional mTOR signaling components are bioinformatically predicted to be palmitoylated (outlined in red).
Here, we report that activation of mTORC1 by amino acids in HEK293T cells and by BDNF in hippocampal neurons is prevented by acute treatment with a palmitoylation inhibitor, 2-bromopalmitate (2BP). Mechanistically, LAMTOR1, a key component of the Ragulator complex that is required for lysosomal targeting of mTORC1, and mTOR itself are both palmitoylated, while a number of other mTORC1 pathway proteins are not. Interestingly, following amino acid activation of mTORC1 in HEK293T cells, palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 increases rapidly but transiently, while mTOR palmitoylation slowly decreases. In neurons, palmitoyl-site mutation dramatically shifts LAMTOR1 subcellular distribution from lysosomal to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes. However, in contrast to its key role in activating mTORC1 in non-neuronal cells, LAMTOR1 (and hence its palmitoylation) is dispensable for BDNF-induced mTORC1 activation in neurons. While the key palmitoyl-protein(s) that control mTORC1 activity thus remains to be identified, these findings reveal a novel palmitoylation-dependence of mTORC1 activation that allows for dynamic control of cellular responses to a variety of stimuli.
The following antibodies were used for Western blotting: phospho-S6 Ser240/244 [Cat# 2215, 1:1,000, Cell Signaling Technology (CST), Danvers, MA, USA], S6 total (#2317, 1:1,000, CST), phospho-p70 S6K-T389 (#9206, 1:1,000, CST), total p70 S6K (#2708, 1:1,000, CST), tubulin (#T7451, 1:100,000, Millipore-Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA), Myc 9E10 (#3207, 1:250, University of Pennsylvania Cell Center), HA.11 ascites (#901514, 1:5,000, Biolegend, San Diego, CA, USA), GFP (#A-11122, 1:1,000, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), mTOR (#2983, 1:1,000, CST), LAMTOR1 (#8975, 1:1,000, CST), LAMTOR2 (#8145, 1:1000, CST), LAMTOR3 (#8168, 1:1,000, CST), GAP43 (#NB300-143, 1:5,000, Novus Biologicals, Centennial, CO, USA), IR-Dye 800 CW goat anti-rabbit (#926-68071, 1:10,000, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA), IR-Dye 680RD goat anti-mouse (#926-68180, 1:10,000, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA), sheep anti-mouse horse radish peroxidase (HRP)-linked whole antibody (#NA931, Millipore-Sigma), and donkey anti-rabbit HRP-linked (#711-0350152, 1:5,000, Jackson Immunoresearch Laboratories, Inc., West Grove, PA, USA). The following antibodies were used for immunostaining: Myc (#2278, 1:500, CST), GFP (#AB16901, 1:500, Millipore-Sigma, Burlington, MA, USA), GM130 (#610822, 1:500, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA), EEA1 (#610457, 1:200, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA), Ds-Red (#632496, 1:500, Clontech, CA, USA), AlexaFluor 488 goat anti-chicken (#A-11039, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), and AlexaFluor 647 goat anti-rabbit (#A-21244, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA).
HEK293T and HeLa Cell Culture and Amino Acid Stimulations
HEK293T and HeLa cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM, Thermo Fisher Scientific) with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 1% Penicillin-Streptomycin (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 1× GlutaMAX Supplement (Thermo Fisher Scientific). For amino acid stimulations cells were plated on Poly-L-Lysine (Millipore-Sigma) coated plates. 24 h later cells were placed in serum-free DMEM for 16 h and then incubated in Earle’s Balanced Salt Solution (EBSS: pH 7.4, 1.8 mM CaCl2, 5.3 mM KCl, 0.8 mM MgSO4–7H2O, 117 mM NaCl, 26 mM NaHCO3, 1 μM NaH2PO4, 1% glucose). Two hours later cells were stimulated with 2× MEM non-essential amino acids (Thermo Fisher Scientific) for 30 min unless otherwise indicated. Fifteen minutes prior to stimulation cells were treated with 20 μM 2BP (Millipore-Sigma, stock solution was 20 mM in 100% ethanol) or ethanol. Cells were lysed in immunoprecipitation buffer [IPB: 1× phosphate buffered saline (PBS), 1% (w/v) Triton X-100, 50 mM NaF, 5 mM Na4P2O7, 1 mM Na3VO4, 1 mM EDTA, and 1 mM EGTA plus protease inhibitor cocktail (PIC, Roche, Indianapolis, IN, USA) and 1 μM microcystin] with 1× SDS sample buffer [SB: 2% SDS (w/v), 50 mM Tris pH 6.8, 10% (v/v) glycerol, 0.005% (w/v) bromophenol blue, and 1% (v/v) β-mercaptoethanol] for phospho-blots or processed for Acyl Biotin Exchange (ABE) as described below.
Cultured Hippocampal Neurons and BDNF/Leucine Stimulations
Hippocampal neurons were dissociated from dissected embryonic day 18 rat hippocampi and cultured in Neurobasal media with B27 supplement (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as previously described (Thomas et al., 2012). At 14 days in vitro (DIV14), medium was changed to [artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF): 25 mM HEPES pH 7.4, 120 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, 2 mM CaCl2, 20 mM glucose, 1 mM MgCl2] for 2 h prior to the addition of 100 ng/mL of BDNF (#ab9794, Abcam, Cambridge, United Kingdom, stock solution was 100 μg/mL) or 5 mM Leucine (MP Biomedicals, Santa Ana, CA, USA). Cells were treated 15 min before BDNF/Leucine application with 50 μM 2BP (stock solution was 50 mM in ethanol) or 100 nM rapamycin (Cayman Chemical, 13346, stock solution was 100 μM in ethanol). 30 min later, cells were lysed in IPB containing 1× SDS SB or for ABE as described below. This study was carried out in accordance with NIH guidelines and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Temple University. The protocol was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Temple University.
Western Blot and Quantification
Lysates or ABE samples were run on SDS-PAGE gels and transferred to Nitrocellulose (phospho blots; #1620112, 0.2 μm, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) or Immobilon-P PVDF (ABE blots; #IPVH00010, 0.45 μm, Millipore-Sigma) membranes, blocked in 5% (w/v) skim milk/Tris-buffered saline (TBS) and blotted with the indicated antibody. Blots were subsequently probed with IR-Dye fluorescent secondaries for imaging on the LI-COR Odyssey Imaging System for phospho blots or HRP conjugated secondaries for ECL-mediated visualization (Western Lightening Plus-ECL, #NEL105001EA, Perkin Elmer, Waltham, MA, USA) and film (GeneMate Blue Lite Autorad Film, F-#9024-8×10, VWR, Radnor, PA, USA) for ABE blots. Image Studio Lite was used for all Western blot quantification and data were analyzed using the statistical test indicated in the figure legend using Prism 5 software. Error bars indicate standard error of the mean and in all graphs the mean is indicated. Uncropped Western blot images are shown in Supplementary Figures S4, S5.
Molecular Biology and cDNA Clones
Mouse LAMTOR1 cDNA was gene synthesized by Genewiz (South Plainfield, NJ, USA) and subcloned into the FEW lentiviral vector with a C-terminal Myc tag (Lois et al., 2002; Holland et al., 2016). Human LAMTOR1 cDNA was from the DNASU Plasmid Repository (Temple, AZ, USA) and was subcloned into FEWmyc or FEW GFP vectors. LAMTOR1-Myc CCSS was generated by mutating cysteines 3 and 4 to serine using mutagenic primers. A Lamtor1 shRNA (GCGTGGATGCGAAAGAAGA) was subcloned into a modified FEGW vector (GFP expressing; Lois et al., 2002; Holland et al., 2016) downstream of an H1 promotor and its effectiveness was tested in rat hippocampal neurons. Human mTOR cDNA mammalian expression construct (peYFP-C1 mTOR) was from the Addgene Plasmid Repository (#73384, Cambridge, MA, USA; Jain et al., 2014). Human ATP6V1A1 cDNA was from the DNASU Plasmid Repository and was subcloned into the FEWmyc vector. cDNAs for mouse RagC, human MIOS, and mouse FLCN were from Transomic Technologies (Huntsville, AL, USA) and cDNA for mouse RagD was from DNASU and were all subcloned into FEWmyc (Lois et al., 2002; Holland et al., 2016). Mouse NPRL2 cDNA was from Origene (Rockville, MD, USA) and was subcloned into the FEW vector with a C-terminal HA tag. Mouse RagA and RagB cDNA mammalian expression constructs (pCMV6-entry) were from OriGene and were tagged C-terminally with Myc and DDK tags.
Transfections
HEK293T cells were transfected using a calcium phosphate transfection protocol as previously described (Thomas et al., 2005). Hippocampal neurons on coverslips were transfected at DIV9 with Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as described (Thomas et al., 2012).
Acyl Biotin Exchange Assay (ABE)
ABE was performed as previously described (Thomas et al., 2012). Briefly, HEK293T cells or neurons were lysed in lysis buffer (50 mM HEPES pH 7.0, 2% SDS, 1 mM EDTA plus PIC) with 20 mM methyl-methane thiosulfonate (MMTS, Thermo Fisher Scientific) or N-ethylmaleimide (NEM, Thermo Fisher Scientific) to block free cysteines. Protein was precipitated and excess MMTS or NEM removed by acetone precipitation. Protein pellets were dissolved in 4% SDS buffer and then split in two and incubated with 1 mM Biotin-HPDP (Soltec Ventures, Beverly, MA, USA) plus either pH 7.4 0.7 M hydroxylamine (NH2OH, HAM, Thermo Fisher Scientific) to cleave thioester bonds and remove the palmitate and label the newly revealed cysteines with biotin or with pH 7.4 50 mM Tris (buffer control). Protein was then precipitated with acetone to remove excess HAM and biotin-HPDP, re-dissolved in lysis buffer without MMTS or NEM, diluted to 0.1% (w/v) SDS with 50 mM HEPES pH 7.0 with 150 mM NaCl, and biotinylated proteins affinity-purified using neutravidin-conjugated beads (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Purified palmitoyl-proteins were then eluted using 1% (v/v) β-mercaptoethanol (Millipore-Sigma) to cleave HPDP and then denatured using SDS SB and Western blotted as described above.
Lentiviral Infection and shRNA Knockdown
VSV-G pseudotyped lentivirus was generated in HEK293T cells as previously described (Thomas et al., 2012), by transfecting FEGW vector (with or without Lamtor1 shRNA) plus VSV-G, pMDLg, and RSV-Rev helper plasmids. Lentivirus was collected from the HEK293T cell media 48 and 72 h post-transfection and concentrated by ultracentrifugation. Viral particles were resuspended in Neurobasal media and hippocampal neurons were transduced at DIV9. Neurons were then stimulated with BDNF as described above at DIV16.
Immunostaining and Live Cell Imaging
Transfected neurons on coverslips were fixed in 4% (w/v) paraformaldehyde (Electron Microscopy Sciences, Hatfield, PA, USA) and 4% (w/v) sucrose in PBS for 10 min, permeabilized for 10 min using 0.25% (w/v) Triton X-100 in PBS, and blocked in 10% normal goat serum (NGS, Southern Biotech) in PBS for 1 h. Coverslips were incubated overnight at 4 degrees with primary antibodies in blocking buffer and 1 h at room temperature the following day with Alexa-Fluor conjugated secondary antibodies before mounting on glass slides with FluorSave Reagent (Millipore-Sigma, #345789). For EEA1 immunostaining, neurons were fixed in 4% (w/v) formaldehyde in PBS for 15 min, permeabilized and blocked for 1 h using 0.3% (w/v) Triton X-100 in PBS with 5% NGS. Coverslips were then incubated overnight with primary antibodies in 0.3% (w/v) Triton X-100 in PBS with 1% BSA prior to incubation with secondary antibodies and mounted as above. For Proteostat staining (#ENZ-51035-0025, Enzo Life Sciences, Inc., Farmingdale, NY, USA), neurons were fixed in 4% (w/v) formaldehyde for 30 min and stained according to the manufacturer’s protocol followed by immunostaining according to the first protocol described above. Positive control cells were treated overnight with 10 μM MG132 provided in the Proteostat kit. For LysoTracker live imaging, neurons were treated with 25 nM LysoTracker Deep Red (#L12492, Thermo Fisher Scientific) for 30 min followed by a 30 min washout in conditioned media, after which they were imaged live, as described for immunostained neurons below, in ACSF.
Image Acquisition
Transfected immunostained neurons and live neurons in ACSF were imaged using a Nikon C2 inverted confocal microscope with a 60× oil immersion objective (1.4 numerical aperature, plan-Apo). Z-stack images were taken with 0.15 μm spacing at 1,024 × 1,024 resolution and parameters were kept constant between different conditions. Maximum intensity projections were generated using ImageJ Fiji software for all images except those using KDEL-CFP for which two individual stacks are shown (Schindelin et al., 2012; Schneider et al., 2012).
Multiple mTORC1 Signaling Proteins Are Putative Palmitoyl-Proteins
mTOR is rapidly recruited to lysosomal membranes during its activation, while other mTOR pathway proteins are continuously present on membranes (Sancak et al., 2010; Efeyan et al., 2012; Betz and Hall, 2013; Averous et al., 2014). To address whether palmitoylation might account for either transient or long-lived membrane localization of mTOR pathway proteins, we examined two recent curations of palmitoyl-proteomic studies (Blanc et al., 2015; Sanders et al., 2015). This search revealed that the mTOR pathway contains multiple putative palmitoyl-proteins, including subunits of GATOR1 and 2, Ragulator, TSC, and mTORC1 complexes, as well as subunits of the vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) and also other regulatory proteins (Figure 1, Table 1). In addition, NPRL2, a component of the GATOR1 regulator complex (Bar-Peled et al., 2013), and Folliculin (FLCN), a Rag GTPase (Petit et al., 2013), are strongly bioinformatically predicted to be palmitoylated (Ren et al., 2008; Blanc et al., 2015). Importantly, only LAMTOR1 and V-ATPase subunit a1 of the V0 sector (ATP6V0A1) have been shown to be palmitoylated in low-throughput validation studies (Martin and Cravatt, 2009; Bagh et al., 2017). Thus, palmitoylation of one or a number of these mTOR pathway proteins could provide a mechanism to recruit mTORC1 signaling complexes to lysosomal membranes, hence facilitating mTOR activation.
Activation of mTORC1 by Amino Acids Is Palmitoylation-Dependent in Heterologous Cells
To test the hypothesis that activation of mTORC1 is palmitoylation-dependent, HEK293T cells were subjected to a starvation paradigm prior to stimulation with amino acid (AA) for 30 min (Figure 2A). Consistent, with prior reports (Blommaart et al., 1995; Hara et al., 1998; Manifava et al., 2016), AA stimulation robustly activated mTORC1, as assessed by phosphorylation of ribosomal S6 protein (p-S6) at Ser240/244. These sites are directly phosphorylated by the mTORC1 effector p70 S6 kinase and are widely used as a downstream readout of mTOR activity (Krieg et al., 1988; Roux et al., 2007; Sun et al., 2018). Strikingly, acute pharmacological inhibition of palmitoylation with the broad spectrum palmitoylation inhibitor 2BP (Jennings et al., 2009) completely prevented AA-induced mTORC1 activation (Figure 2B). S6 phosphorylation was also highly palmitoylation-dependent in HeLa cells subjected to the same starvation/AA stimulation paradigm (Supplementary Figure S1). Importantly, acute 2BP treatment did not alter basal p-S6 levels in the absence of starvation and AA stimulation (Figure 2C). To determine the kinetics of mTORC1 activation following amino acid treatment, HEK293T cells were harvested 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 min following AA stimulation. Phosphorylation of p70 S6 kinase at T389, a site directly phosphorylated by mTOR, increased rapidly and peaked at 20 min, whereas p-S6 levels continued to rise up to the 30-min time point (Figure 2D). 2BP prevented AA-induced phosphorylation of these two downstream targets of mTORC1 at all time points (Figure 2D). These data suggest that AA-induced activation of mTORC1 in non-neuronal cells is palmitoylation-dependent.
Figure 2. Amino acid (AA) activation of mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) in HEK293T cells is palmitoylation dependent. (A) Scheme of the AA stimulation paradigm. HEK293T cells were incubated in serum-free media 16–20 h (overnight) prior to being placed in Earle’s Balanced Salt Solution (EBSS). One hour and 45 min later cells were treated with EtOH or 20 μM 2-bromopalmitate (2BP) to inhibit palmitoylation. Fifteen minutes later cells were stimulated with 2× MEM amino acids (AA) for 30 min or left unstimulated. (B) Lysates from cells stimulated as in A were blotted to detect phospho-S6-Ser240/244 (p-S6, top, sites directly phosphorylated by p70 S6K), S6 (middle), and tubulin (bottom) levels. Quantifications are shown to the right of the Western blot images and are normalized to the serum-containing (+FBS) condition [two-way ANOVA: AA p = 0.0034 (F(1) = 16.89), 2BP p = 0.0023 (F(1) = 19.63), interaction p = 0.0047 (F(1) = 14.99); N = 3; Bonferroni post hoc test ***p < 0.001]. (C) HEK293T cells in regular growth media with serum were treated with 20 μM 2BP for 45 min and lysates were blotted for p-S6 (top), S6 total (middle), and tubulin (bottom) levels. (D) A time course of amino acid activation of mTORC1 in HEK293T cells was performed using the same stimulation paradigm as in A but cells were harvested at the indicated times post stimulation with AA. Lysates were blotted to detect phospho-p70 S6 kinase-T389 (p-p70 S6K, top, a site directly phosphorylated by mTOR), p70 S6K total (second from top), p-S6 (middle), S6 total (second from bottom), and tubulin (bottom) levels. The right panel histogram shows quantified data from multiple experiments normalized to the EBSS untreated (UT) condition [two-way ANOVA for p-p70 S6K: treatment p = 0.001 (F(1) = 14.69), time p = 0.032 (F(4) = 3.29), interaction p = ns (F(4) = 1.84); two-way ANOVA for p-S6: treatment p < 0.001 (F(1) = 36.30), time p < 0.001 (F(4) = 10.81), interaction p = 0.0008 (F(4) = 7.54); N = 3; Bonferroni post hoc test #p < 0.05 between EtOH and 2BP for p-p70 S6K and **p < 0.01, **p < 0.001 between EtOH and 2BP for p-S6].
Activation of mTORC1 by Neurotrophins Is Palmitoylation-Dependent in Hippocampal Neurons
To determine if activation of mTORC1 is also palmitoylation-dependent in neurons, hippocampal neurons were acutely incubated in amino-acid free medium artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF) and then stimulated with BDNF or Leucine (Leu) in conjunction with acute 2BP treatment (Figure 3A). BDNF stimulation robustly activated mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons, as measured by p-S6 levels, and this p-S6 increase was prevented by 2BP (Figure 3B). Although Leu alone did not significantly increase p-S6, 2BP reduced basal p-S6 levels in both the presence and absence of Leu (Figure 3B). These findings suggest that palmitoylation is important for both BDNF-induced and basal mTORC1 activity in neurons, but that, in contrast to non-neuronal cells and cortical neurons (Blommaart et al., 1995; Hara et al., 1998; Ishizuka et al., 2008) Leucine does not significantly activate mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons. Importantly, BDNF-induced mTORC1 activation was blocked by acute application of rapamycin, a direct mTOR inhibitor, consistent with established models that S6 phosphorylation is controlled “downstream” of mTOR (Figure 3C). Thus, activation of mTORC1 in neurons to a physiologically relevant stimulus, BDNF, is also palmitoylation-dependent.
Figure 3. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) activation of mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons is palmitoylation-dependent. (A) Scheme of the BDNF stimulation paradigm. DIV14–16 primary rat hippocampal neurons were placed in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF) for 2 h before stimulation with 100 ng/mL BDNF or 5 mM Leu. Fifteen minutes prior to stimulation, cells were treated with ethanol (EtOH) or 50 μM 2BP to inhibit palmitoylation. Neurons were stimulated for 30 min with BDNF or Leu. (B) Lysates were blotted to detect p-S6 (top), S6 total (middle), and tubulin (bottom) levels. Right panel histogram shows quantified data from multiple experiments, normalized to the regular growth media with B27 (+B27) condition [two-way ANOVA: 2BP p < 0.0001 (F(2) = 28.41), treatment p < 0.0001 (F(1) = 59.31), interaction p = 0.0017 (F(2) = 9.52); N = 3–5; Bonferroni post hoc test ***p < 0.001]. Panels are composites of the same Western blot image. (C) Neurons were stimulated as in B with BDNF, but 15 min prior to stimulation cells were treated with EtOH or 100 nM rapamycin (Rap) to inhibit mTOR.
A Screen of Putatively Palmitoylated mTOR Pathway Proteins Reveals That LAMTOR1 and mTOR Are Palmitoylated
To identify the palmitoyl-protein(s) that might be responsible for palmitoylation-dependent mTORC1 activation we took a candidate-based approach. In particular, we assessed palmitoylation of epitope-tagged versions of the following proteins: LAMTOR1, mTOR, ATP6V1A1, RagA-D, NPRL2, MIOS, and FLCN. Palmitoyl-proteins were isolated from transiently transfected HEK293T cells using ABE, a non-radioactive method to isolate palmitoyl-proteins from cell lysates. Myc-tagged LAMTOR1 (LAMTOR1-Myc), a subunit of the “Ragulator” required for lysosomal membrane localization of this complex (Sancak et al., 2010), was robustly detected in ABE fractions from cells treated with vehicle (EtOH), but was absent from ABE fractions from cells treated with 2BP or in negative control fractions lacking the essential ABE component hydroxylamine (NH2OH; Figure 4A). Palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 (also known as p18 or c11orf59) was previously validated in a low-throughput experiment (Martin and Cravatt, 2009). Consistent with these findings, we also observed robust palmitoylation of endogenous LAMTOR1 in ABE fractions from hippocampal neurons (Figure 4B). YFP-mTOR and Myc-ATP6V1A1 were also weakly palmitoylated in our HEK293T cell ABE assays, but no other protein tested was palmitoylated (Figure 4A). Thus, although many mTOR pathway proteins localize to lysosomal membranes and have been identified in palmitoyl-proteomic studies, only a specific subset of these proteins is palmitoylated under the conditions that we examined.
Figure 4. (A) Candidate-based screen of putative palmitoylated proteins of the mTOR signaling pathway. HEK293T cells were transfected with the indicated constructs for 8 or 24 (mTOR only) hours and were treated with 100 μM 2BP or EtOH at 4 h post-transfection. Palmitoyl-proteins [isolated by acyl biotin exchange (ABE); right panels] and total protein levels (in parent lysates; left panels) were assessed by western blotting with antibodies against the indicated tags. FLCN-HA panels are composites of the same Western blot image. (B) LAMTOR1 is palmitoylated in hippocampal neurons. Total LAMTOR1 (left panel) and palmitoyl-LAMTOR1 level (right panel) from DIV16 hippocampal neurons detected by western blotting.
Palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 Rapidly Increases and Palmitoylation of mTOR Decreases Following Amino Acid Stimulation in HEK293T Cells
To determine if palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 or mTOR change in response to AA stimulation of HEK293T cells, which may help explain the palmitoylation-dependence of mTORC1 activation, we used ABE to isolate palmitoyl-proteins from HEK293T cells following AA stimulation (Figure 5A). Interestingly, LAMTOR1 palmitoylation rapidly increased more than 1.5-fold between 5 and 10 min post-stimulation and this increase was blocked by 2BP (Figure 5B). This finding suggests that LAMTOR1 palmitoylation is dynamically regulated during mTOR activation. Under the same conditions, we observed a slower decrease in palmitoyl-mTOR levels in ABE fractions (Figure 5C), suggesting that prolonged mTOR activation correlates with decreased mTOR palmitoylation.
Figure 5. LAMTOR1 palmitoylation is rapidly increased and mTOR palmitoylation is decreased by amino acid stimulation (of mTORC1) in HEK293T cells. (A) Scheme of the AA stimulation paradigm. HEK293T cells were incubated in serum-free media 16–20 h (overnight) prior to being placed in EBSS. One hour and 45 min later cells were treated with ethanol (EtOH) or 20 μM 2BP to inhibit palmitoylation. Cells were stimulated 15 min later with 2× MEM amino acids (AA) and harvested at 5, 10, and 30 min post-stimulation. Control cells were lysed 30 min after sham stimulation with buffer alone. Palmitoyl-proteins were isolated by ABE and samples were blotted for LAMTOR1 (B) and mTOR (C) in the ABE fraction (top) and total lysate input fraction (middle). Lysates were also blotted for pS6 (bottom panels). Panels are composites of the same Western blot image. Lower histograms show quantified data from N = 4 experiments [*Student’s t-test with Welch’s correction vs. unstimulated condition (no AA control, first lane of western blot) for LAMTOR1, p = 0.040; #Student’s t-test with Welch’s correction vs. unstimulated condition (no AA control, first lane of western blot) for mTOR, p = 0.041].
Palmitoylation Controls LAMTOR1 Subcellular Localization in Neurons
We next sought to define the functional role of LAMTOR1 palmitoylation in mTOR signaling by generating a LAMTOR1 mutant in which two cysteine residues, C3 and C4, were mutated to non-palmitoylatable serine (LAMTOR1-CCSS). Although C3 and C4 are the only cysteines present in LAMTOR1 and are required to anchor the Ragulator to lysosomes (Nada et al., 2009), whether these sites are directly palmitoylated has not been previously addressed. In contrast to wild type LAMTOR1, LAMTOR1-CCSS was absent from ABE fractions, confirming that LAMTOR1-C3 and -C4 are bona fide palmitoylation sites (Figure 6A).
Figure 6. Palmitoylation is required for LAMTOR1 localization in hippocampal neurons. (A) Mutation of cysteines 3 and 4 in Myc-tagged human LAMTOR1 (LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc) abolishes its palmitoylation. Total expression (left panel) and palmitoyl-levels (right panel) of WT or CCSS LAMTOR1-Myc isolated from transfected HEK293T cells. Right histogram shows quantified palmitoyl/total LAMTOR1 levels (Student’s t-test with Welch’s correction, *** < 0.001, N = 3). (B) Hippocampal neurons were transfected to express wtLAMTOR1-Myc and morphology marker GFP. First column: images of Myc and merged images of Myc/GFP signals. Second column: magnified views of the boxed area of first column images. (C,D) As in A except that neurons were transfected with LAMTOR1-CCSS-GFP. (C) Phenotype 1 of LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc, observed in approx. 85% of neurons and (D) phenotype 2 of LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc, observed in approx. 15% of neurons. Scale bar indicates 10 μm.
We then used the LAMTOR1-CCSS mutant to assess possible roles of LAMTOR1 palmitoylation in neurons. In addition to the dual palmitoylation sites at C3 and C4, LAMTOR1 also contains a glycine residue at position 2 that is highly predicted to become myristoylated following cleavage of the N-terminal methionine (Nada et al., 2009; Martin and Hayden, 2015). Myristoylation allows proteins to sample membranes but does not provide stable attachment without a secondary membrane binding signal, such as palmitoylation (Peitzsch and McLaughlin, 1993; Martin et al., 2011). While wtLAMTOR1-myc localized to small puncta that resemble lysosomes (Figure 6B), LAMTOR1-CCSS-myc localized to larger, tubular structures in the majority (approximately 85%) of transfected neurons (Figure 6C; phenotype 1). In approximately 15% of transfected neurons, LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc was more diffusely localized (Figure 6D; phenotype 2).
To characterize the wtLAMTOR1 puncta and LAMTOR1-CCSS tubular structures, we assessed their colocalization with subcellular markers. We first expressed GFP tagged wt and CCSS LAMTOR1 in neurons and acquired images of live cells using LysoTracker, a well-characterized lysosomal marker (Chazotte, 2011). Consistent with prior reports (Sancak et al., 2010; Sun et al., 2018) the majority of wtLAMTOR1-GFP puncta were LysoTracker positive (Figure 7A; arrows). In contrast, the LAMTOR1-CCSS-GFP tubular structures were predominantly LysoTracker negative (Figure 7B; arrowheads). Individual line profiles confirmed the clear overlap of wtLAMTOR1, but not LAMTOR1-CCSS, with LysoTracker (Figure 7C).
Figure 7. Palmitoylated wtLAMTOR1 localizes to lysosomes whereas LAMTOR1-CCSS partially localizes to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes. (A) Hippocampal neurons were transfected to express wtLAMTOR1-GFP and morphology marker mCherry (mCh) prior to incubation with LysoTracker dye and subsequent live imaging. First column: images of GFP and LysoTracker signals and merged images of GFP/LysoTracker (Lyso.) and GFP/Lyso./mCh signals. Second column: magnified views of the solid boxed area of first column images. Arrows indicate LAMTOR1-GFP positive vesicles that are also LysoTracker positive Arrowheads indicate LAMTOR1-GFP puncta that are LysoTracker negative. Third column: magnified views of the dotted boxed area of first column images. (B) As in A except that neurons were transfected with LAMTOR1-CCSS-GFP. (C) Graphs of the fluorescent intensity profiles of wt (top) and CCSS (bottom) LAMTOR-GFP and LysoTracker along the dotted lines indicated in the third columns of A,B, respectively. wt-LAMTOR1 signal closely matches the profile of LysoTracker signal while LAMTOR1-CCSS signal does not. (D) First column: single slice confocal images from a region close to the bottom of the cell of a hippocampal neuron transfected to express wtLAMTOR1-Myc, the ER marker KDEL-CFP (detected using anti-GFP antibody), and mCh, and merged images of Myc/KDEL-CFP (KDEL) and Myc/KDEL/mCh signals. Second column: magnified views of the boxed area of first column images. Third and fourth columns: as the first and second columns, respectively, except images show a single confocal slice from a region close to the top of the cell. (E) As in D except that neurons were transfected to express LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc. Arrows indicate LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc tubules that are positive for KDEL-CFP, arrowhead indicates LAMTOR1-CCSS-Myc KDEL-CFP negative tubule. Scale bar indicates 10 μm.
To identify the tubular structures of LAMTOR1-CCSS, we examined LAMTOR1 co-localization with additional markers. Although, wtLAMTOR1 showed little co-localization with the ER marker KDEL-CFP (Thomas et al., 2012; Figure 7D), LAMTOR1-CCSS partially co-localized with KDEL-CFP, particularly towards the top of the cell soma (Figure 7E) and, to a lesser extent, within dendrites (Figure 7E; arrows in inset). These findings suggested that LAMTOR1-CCSS localizes, in part, to the ER. However, an alternative possibility is that the LAMTOR1-CCSS tubule structures could represent aggregates, potentially including other proteins. To address this possibility, we stained wt and CCSS LAMTOR1 expressing neurons with the aggresome dye Proteostat (Shen et al., 2010). We detected no positive Proteostat signal that co-localized with wt or CCSS LAMTOR1 (Supplementary Figures S2A,B, respectively), despite strong positive signal in cells treated with the proteosomal inhibitor MG132 (Supplementary Figure S2C; right panels). These results suggest that the CCSS tubule structures are not aggregates. We also examined the colocalization of wt and CCSS LAMTOR1 with markers for early endosomes (EEA1) and Golgi (GM130). Both wt and CCSS LAMTOR1-Myc co-localized with a small number of early endosomes (Supplementary Figures S2D,E, respectively; arrows in inset) but neither form of LAMTOR1 colocalized with GM130 (Supplementary Figures S2F,G). Taken together, these results suggest that palmitoylation predominantly targets LAMTOR1 to lysosomes in neurons. In addition, these findings suggest that the “myristoyl-only” LAMTOR1-CCSS mutant still localizes to membranes in neurons, in contrast to the diffuse localization of this mutant reported in non-neuronal cells (Nada et al., 2009). However, LAMTOR1 palmitoyl-site mutation results in mistargeting, in part to the ER.
LAMTOR1 Is not Required for Neurotrophin-Induced Activation of mTORC1 in Hippocampal Neurons
mTORC1 activation by multiple stimuli requires LAMTOR1 (Kimura et al., 2016; Hosokawa et al., 2017) and loss of LAMTOR1 is associated with decreased basal mTORC1 activity in hippocampal neurons (Sun et al., 2018). To determine if LAMTOR1 is required for BDNF-induced activation of mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons, we lentivirally delivered Lamtor1 shRNA into neurons and subsequently stimulated neurons with BDNF (Figure 8A). Interestingly, BDNF-induced mTORC1 activation (as measured by S6 phosphorylation at specific p70 S6K phosphorylation sites) occurred normally in Lamtor1-deficient neurons, despite the reduction of LAMTOR1 protein levels by >95% (Figure 8B). These findings suggest, surprisingly, that LAMTOR1 (and hence its palmitoylation) is not required for BDNF-induced mTOR activation. One possible explanation for this discrepancy is that LAMTOR2 or LAMTOR3 are palmitoylated in LAMTOR1 “knockdown” neurons and hence compensate for the loss of LAMTOR1. To address this possibility, we isolated palmitoyl-proteins from control or Lamtor1 shRNA infected hippocampal neurons. We robustly detected palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 in control-infected neurons and GAP43, a well known neuronal palmitoyl-protein, in both control and Lamtor1-deficient neurons. However, we were unable to detect palmitoylation of LAMTOR2 or LAMTOR3 in control or Lamtor1 shRNA infected neurons (Supplementary Figure S3). These results suggest that palmitoylation of LAMTOR2 and/or LAMTOR3 is not a compensatory mechanism for the loss of LAMTOR1.
Figure 8. LAMTOR1 is not required for BDNF activation of mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons. (A) Scheme of the viral infection and BDNF stimulation paradigm. Hippocampal neurons were infected with control (Ctl) or Lamtor1 shRNA lentivirus at 9 days in vitro (DIV). On DIV16, cells were placed in ACSF for 2 h before stimulation with 100 ng/ml BDNF for 30 min. (B) Lysates from samples treated as in A were blotted to detect p-S6 (top), S6 total (second from top), LAMTOR1 (second from bottom), and tubulin (bottom) levels. Quantifications of pS6 relative to total S6 [two-way ANOVA: BDNF treatment p = 0.0002 (F(1) = 24.07), virus p = 0.91 (F(1) = 0.013), interaction p = 0.94 (F(1) = 0.0052); N = 5; Bonferroni post hoc test **p < 0.01) and of LAMTOR1 relative to tubulin [two-way ANOVA: BDNF treatment p = 0.0009 (F(1) = 26.60), virus p < 0.0001 (F(1) = 822.6), interaction p = 0.001 (F(1) = 25.04); N = 3; Bonferroni post hoc test ***p < 0.001] are shown to the right of the Western blot images and are normalized to the control untreated (UT) condition.
mTORC1 signaling plays a key role in the regulation of protein synthesis, transcription, cytoskeletal regulation and autophagy, and is also essential for normal neuronal development and function (Sancak et al., 2008, 2010; Efeyan et al., 2012; Betz and Hall, 2013; Averous et al., 2014). A key step in mTORC1 activation by multiple stimuli is the translocation of mTOR itself to lysosomes (Sancak et al., 2008). Many other proteins involved in mTORC1 signaling are constitutively present on lysosomes (Sancak et al., 2010; Menon et al., 2014). The mechanisms underlying the precise constitutive and stimulus-dependent localization of mTORC1 signaling proteins are not fully understood, but our findings suggest that palmitoylation is essential for mTORC1 activation by multiple stimuli.
We recognize that this conclusion stems mainly from our experiments using 2BP, a broad inhibitor of palmitoylation with potentially multiple mechanisms of action (Davda et al., 2013). However, 2BP effectively blocks mTORC1 activation after only acute incubation, and the 2BP concentration required to block mTOR signaling is very similar to that required to block other palmitoylation-dependent events in cells (Mikic et al., 2006). These two findings increase the likelihood that our observed effects of 2BP on mTORC1 activity are due to bona fide inhibition of palmitoylation. This conclusion is further supported by our observation that at least one mTOR pathway protein is dynamically palmitoylated in a 2BP-dependent manner, with kinetics that precedes mTORC1 activation (Figure 5). Nonetheless, we recognize that identification of the key palmitoyl-protein(s) that is the target of 2BP will be essential to conclude that the effects of this compound on mTOR signaling are direct.
LAMTOR1 palmitoylation increases rapidly in response to amino acid stimulation in HEK293T cells (Figure 5B). This effect is one of a surprisingly limited number of examples in which palmitoylation dynamically increases in response to a stimulus (El-Husseini et al., 2002; Keith et al., 2012; Poggi et al., 2012; Akimzhanov and Boehning, 2015; Brigidi et al., 2015). LAMTOR1 might thus appear to be a strong candidate to be the key protein whose palmitoylation explains the effect of 2BP on mTORC1 signaling. However, we found that acute loss of LAMTOR1 did not affect BDNF-induced mTORC1 activation in hippocampal neurons (Figure 8B). This result was initially surprising, given that knockout of LAMTOR1 blocks mTORC1 activation by multiple stimuli (Kimura et al., 2016; Hosokawa et al., 2017). However, it is important to note that the conclusion that LAMTOR1 is required for mTORC1 activation by other stimuli stemmed from studies that employed long-term genetic loss rather than acute shRNA-mediated knockdown of Lamtor1. It is thus possible that other factors can compensate for the loss of LAMTOR1 over acute, but not prolonged time periods. Indeed, we tested one compensatory mechanism, namely the possibility that LAMTOR1 knockdown increases palmitoylation of LAMTOR2 and/or 3. However, we did not observe palmitoylation of these other members of the Ragulator complex, either in the presence or absence of LAMTOR1 (Supplementary Figure S3). Our study also differs because we examined the requirement for LAMTOR1 in neurons rather than the non-neuronal cells assessed by Hosokawa et al. (2017) and Kimura et al. (2016). To our knowledge, only one study has assessed the impact of LAMTOR1 loss on mTOR activity in neurons, and only modest effects were observed (Sun et al., 2018). Moreover, we found that the amino acid leucine, which potently activates mTORC1 in non-neuronal cells and cultured cortical neurons (Blommaart et al., 1995; Hara et al., 1998; Ishizuka et al., 2008), does not activate mTORC1 in hippocampal neurons. Thus, there may be differences in the LAMTOR1-dependence of mTORC1 signaling in neurons vs. non-neuronal cells and/or between different neuronal types. Consistent with this notion, growth factor-induced mTORC1 activation in non-neuronal cells requires the presence of amino acids (Sancak et al., 2008, 2010), while BDNF-induced mTORC1 activation in neurons instead requires the presence of glucose (Ishizuka et al., 2013). Nonetheless, palmitoylation is clearly required for LAMTOR1 neuronal localization (Figures 6, 7) suggesting that this modification is functionally relevant for LAMTOR1-dependent neuronal signaling.
At the subcellular level, we found that wild type (palmitoylation-competent) LAMTOR1 localizes predominantly to lysosomes (Figure 7A), consistent with prior reports (Sancak et al., 2010; Sun et al., 2018), while palmitoyl-mutant LAMTOR1 is partially detected on tubular membranes that colocalize in part with an ER marker (Figure 7E). In contrast, neither LAMTOR1 wild type nor LAMTOR1-CCSS localizes to aggresomes (Supplementary Figure S2). Under the conditions that we examined, palmitoylation therefore controls LAMTOR1 subcellular localization but is less likely to affect LAMTOR1 proteostasis or aggregation. However, we cannot exclude a role for palmitoylation in these latter processes in different cell types and/or under different conditions.
mTORC1 pathway activation triggered by amino acids correlates not only with increased LAMTOR1 palmitoylation but also a slight reduction in mTOR palmitoylation (Figure 5). A priori, it might appear that depalmitoylation could disinhibit mTOR, favoring its activation. However, the delayed kinetics of mTOR depalmitoylation (which only becomes significant well after the peak of phosphorylation of mTOR’s substrate p70 S6K; compare Figures 2D, 5C) reduce the likelihood of this possibility. It nonetheless appears possible that delayed mTOR depalmitoylation may represent a feedback control mechanism for this pathway, a hypothesis that could benefit from additional investigation.
Given a large number of mTORC1 signaling proteins that have been identified in palmitoyl-proteomic studies (Figure 1, Table 1), we were surprised that only a subset of these proteins was palmitoylated when tested in our candidate-based screen (Figure 4). It is, of course, possible that some of these palmitoyl-proteomic identifications may be false positives, highlighting the importance of low-throughput validation. However, there are other possible explanations for this discrepancy. In particular, it is important to note that, in contrast to other protein-lipid modifications (myristoylation and prenylation), palmitoylation is reversible and does not occur co-translationally. Importantly, we assessed palmitoylation of these proteins under one specific condition in one cell type. It is thus possible that these proteins may be palmitoylated in other cell types or under other conditions (for example at a specific developmental time and/or subcellular location), which may explain their initial assignment as palmitoyl-proteins.
While we recognize that key questions remain to be addressed, our finding that mTORC1 activation is palmitoylation-dependent supports a growing number of reports that this modification not only controls protein subcellular localization but governs activity of multiple intracellular kinase pathways (Kabouridis et al., 1997; Stoffel et al., 1998; van’t Hof and Resh, 1999; Davidson et al., 2005; Tsutsumi et al., 2008; Yang and Cynader, 2011; George et al., 2015; Holland et al., 2016). Moreover, because aberrant mTORC1 signaling is central to many disease states (Laplante and Sabatini, 2012; Costa-Mattioli and Monteggia, 2013), our findings raise the possibility that pharmacological modulation of palmitoylation could be a new therapeutic approach to reduce the impact of pathological mTOR dysregulation.
The datasets generated for this study are available on request to the corresponding author.
SS and FDS designed and performed the experiments. SS prepared the figures. SS and GT conceived the project and wrote the manuscript. SS, FDS, and GT edited the manuscript.
This work was supported by seed funding and unrestricted funds from Shriners Hospitals and Temple University (to GT) and by a Brody Family Medical Trust Fund Fellowship (to SS).
We thank Drs. Dale Martin (University of Waterloo) and Jingwen Niu (Thomas lab, Temple University) for their helpful input throughout the development of this project and to Dr. Dale Martin for assisting with the illustration for Figure 1 and for his helpful comments on the manuscript.
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2019.00115/full#supplementary-material
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Keywords: mTOR, mTORC1, LAMTOR1, palmitoylation, neurotrophins, BDNF
Citation: Sanders SS, De Simone FI and Thomas GM (2019) mTORC1 Signaling Is Palmitoylation-Dependent in Hippocampal Neurons and Non-neuronal Cells and Involves Dynamic Palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 and mTOR. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 13:115. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2019.00115
Received: 31 October 2018; Accepted: 08 March 2019;
Published: 02 April 2019.
William N. Green, University of Chicago, United States
Veronica Ghiglieri, University of Perugia, Italy
Jin Woo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea
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*Correspondence: Gareth M. Thomas, gareth.thomas@temple.edu
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Madison Social celebrates fifth anniversary
In the past five years, the wildly popular Madison Social has seen unprecedented growth in CollegeTown.
Madison Social celebrates fifth anniversary In the past five years, the wildly popular Madison Social has seen unprecedented growth in CollegeTown. Check out this story on fsunews.com: https://fsune.ws/2PWfPXD
Morgan Dobbins, Deputy Campus Editor Published 11:34 a.m. ET Sept. 2, 2018 | Updated 3:50 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2018
Starting as a trendy restaurant, Madison Social is now a part of many students’ college experience.(Photo: Special to the Democrat)
Madison Social has helped expand the popularity of the CollegeTown area since its inception five years ago by Florida State University alumni.
Its versatility and niche market in the Tallahassee community has led it to become a favorite hangout for many Florida State students, who colloquially refer to the establishment as “MadSo.”
Five years ago, CollegeTown wasn’t the "cool" area for college students, but rather an unknown area that many students didn’t really understand. Three FSU alumni, Matt Thompson, Alex Beltrami and Brian Mckenna, wanted to create a restaurant and bar that offered “pub fare with a twist.”
They envisioned Madison Social as a place to gather and watch games, but did not want it to fall in the realm of a sports bar. They designed a destination that could be a casual restaurant, brunch spot and bar.
Not everyone was sold on the idea.
“It was a bit of a culture shock for some people,” Thompson said. “Tallahassee also didn’t really have a place that could morph from restaurant/causal drinking spot to a bar all in the same day – especially a bar you could get your drink in a glass and your feet not stick to the floor. All of this was about the experience we wanted to provide, and I hope we have hit that expectation.”
Out of all the locations around Tallahassee, Madison Social has made itself a prominent brand within the Florida State community, especially amongst college students – many of whom regularly wear Madison Social branded shirts.
One of the main drivers of this dedication is the monthly challenge. However, trivia nights and other events like pub crawls has allowed Madison Social to build and expand upon FSU’s college culture. Now, getting a Madison Mule has become its own rite of passage for those turning 21 in Tallahassee.
“We would never have expected how the ‘Nole community has embraced us and, in some instances, stood up for us," Thompson said. "The connection people have to our brand is one I certainly cherish.”
Madison Social is one of seven food and beverage brands under For the Table Hospitality. It also encompasses Social Catering & Events, Centrale, Township, SoDough, Magda’s and Happy Motoring.
Beyond Madison Social, the other vendors in the CollegeTown area, such as Magda's, create a unique atmosphere, filling multiple niche markets that offer students a variety of options.
One way that Madison Social has managed to stay connected and relevant over the past five years is that it continues to evolve.
“I think we offer something different," Thompson said. "We went to FSU and love all the nostalgic places students have an opportunity to visit. We didn’t want to replicate the same experience."
Over the past few years, Madison Social has been named the Best Bar in Tallahassee (2014 and 2015) and 2016 Best Brunch and Best Happy Hour.
Looking back over the past five years sets a precedent for how Madison Social can evolve in the next five years.
“I just hope we keep being part of the DNA of Tallahassee and FSU," Thompson said. "I hope we see Tallahassee embrace students more and students embrace Tallahassee. The amount that has changed in five years has been remarkable, and if it continues, I think more and more students will want to call Tallahassee home.”
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Method for Real-Time Evaluation of Discharge Rate of Volcanic Ash – Case Study on Intermittent Eruptions at the Sakurajima Volcano, Japan –
Masato Iguchi
Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
1722-19 Sakurajima-Yokoyama, Kagoshima 891-1419, Japan
volcanic ash, discharge rate, volcanic tremor, ground deformation, Sakurajima
A method for evaluating the volcanic ash discharge rate by using seismic and ground deformation signals is proposed to obtain this rate in real time for southern Kyushu’s Sakurajima volcano. This volcano repeats vulcanian eruptions accompanying significant ground deformation showing deflation and nonvulcanian type eruptions that emit the minor emissions of volcanic ash associated with volcanic tremors but without significant ground deformation. We examined ground deformation and seismic amplitude as they relate to monthly sums of volcanic ash weight ejected from craters. We found that in monthly sums, both deflation ground deformation and the amplitude of volcanic tremors correlate positively with the weight of ejected volcanic ash. A linear combination of terms for ground deformation, seismic amplitude and a correction factor correlates better than single parameter of deflation or seismic amplitude with volcanic ash weight. The linear combination provides the volcanic ash discharge rate in quasi-real time and the total amount of volcanic ash distributed over a wide area immediately after a volcanic eruption ends.
M. Iguchi, “Method for Real-Time Evaluation of Discharge Rate of Volcanic Ash – Case Study on Intermittent Eruptions at the Sakurajima Volcano, Japan –,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.11, No.1, pp. 4-14, 2016.
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Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War (Book Review)
Adnan Qaiser
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CDA Institute Research Associate Adnan Qaiser, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, reviews Myra MacDonald’s book on Indo-Pakistan relations.
Rarely is history narrated in whole truth; it remains the voice of a vanquisher – or its publicist. No wonder, three factors play a crucial role in present-day warfare: Trend-setting, opinion making and perception management.
Falling into the same category Myra MacDonald’s scholarship, Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War, records events shaping-up in India and Pakistan between 1998 and 2016. The author bestows lavish praises, levels blind accusations, makes flawed conclusions and renders erroneous judgements in favour of “a rising world power” (India) against what she calls a “near-failing state” (Pakistan) (27).
However, she cannot be faulted. Having been Reuter’s correspondent for nearly thirty years with specialization in South Asian politics and security – most probably based out of New Delhi – Ms. MacDonald’s India-bent justifiably pervades and parades. Never mind, it brings her otherwise great research effort into disrepute.
In Pakistan, torn between blaming its external enemies and the ‘traitors’ of its internal power struggle, defeat is an orphan.” (261)
Dividing her scholarship into 12 chapters, the author shows her India leaning in the prologue by proclaiming Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) connivance with the Kashmiri militants in hijacking Air India’s flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1998 for the release of some militant leaders from India’s captivity (16).
Dedicating her first chapter to Indo-Pakistan nuclear issues, Ms. MacDonald claims the nuclear weapons “accelerated [Pakistan’s] downfall [as it gave the country] a false sense of inviolability [to] unleash militant forces that it could no longer fully control” (27). Endorsing the claim of Pakistan as “insufficiently imagined” by Salman Rushdie, the disgraced author of The Satanic Verses in the Muslim world, Ms. MacDonald believes “Opposition to India bind[s] Pakistan together” (30, 170).
Among at least three factual errors, the author erroneously quotes Pakistan’s leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, proclaiming in 1965 to “eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but [to] build a [nuclear] bomb of our own” (32). The words to that effect were said in 1974 after India had disingenuously carried-out its so-called “peaceful nuclear explosion.”
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Discussing events leading to Indo-Pakistan nuclear tests of May 1998, the author justifies India’s “nuclear restraint,” but conveniently forgets it was Indian leaders’ threatening and provocative statements that had forced Pakistan to carry-out its own nuclear tests. However, she considers Pakistan to have “lock[ed] itself inside a house on fire … by making itself impregnable” (44).
In chapter two, Ms. MacDonald expediently overlooks India’s clandestine takeover of Siachen Glacier beyond bilaterally accepted point NJ9842 in April 1984 and denounces Pakistan’s Kargil operation, which was carried-out in the similar fashion in 1999. Despite turning out as a “strategic disaster” (57) due to Pakistan’s civil-military discord and geopolitical pressures, the operation was a “brilliant tactical” manoeuvre which gave India a bloody nose (51). Disregarding India’s territorial quest in the region and Pakistan’s right to avail any unguarded opportunity offered by its archrival, the author is out giving India brownie points: “India was simply too complacent. Poor intelligence and its expectation of peace after the nuclear tests had lulled [India] into a false sense of security” (55).
The progress India made between 1998 and 2016 is a victory that has many fathers. In Pakistan, torn between blaming its external enemies and the ‘traitors’ of its internal power struggle, defeat is an orphan.
Chapter three covers Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s interactions with Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf during the 2000’s. Despite having contrasting personalities and opposing political constituencies, the “general and a poet” (71) made sincere efforts in resolving their bilateral disputes.
In chapter four, Ms. MacDonald discusses the Afghan jihad by Pakistan supported “Islamist militants”, whose “religious zeal” made them “natural opponents of the ‘godless’ Russian communists.” However, the author believes it was a “naïve Pakistani approach … it would come to regret” (87). Quoting Pakistan’s former ISI head, she accuses the ISI for redirecting “Islamist proxies … to the separatist insurgency that erupted in Kashmir in the late 1980s … ensur[ing] operational deniability” (89). In this dirty game of proxies, the author thankfully admits Indian intelligence’s Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) support to Ahmed Shah Massoud’s Northern Alliance by setting-up a base at “Farkhor” in Tajikistan (93).
Chapter five covers the 9/11 events and how in a rush to win Ms. MacDonald’s so-called “Great South Asian War” India “[broke away with] its politics of non-alignment that prohibited foreign troops on Indian soil [and] offered the Americans to use its military bases” (106). However, owing to India not having contiguous borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan having acquiesced to all US demands under the (disputed) US threat of being “bombed back to the Stone Age,” Pakistan remained America’s best bet (107). Nevertheless, the author ominously states: “In making an ally of Pakistan, the United States gave it leverage over American policies in Afghanistan, locking both into a war in which they were on opposite sides” (110)
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Chapter six covers the Indian parliament attack in December 2001. Terming it as “India’s 9/11” (121), India intensified its brutalization campaign in the disputed Kashmir Valley. While Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were suspected of having carried it out, (122) India hanged one of its double-agents, Afzal Guru, for the terrorist attack (123). Remarkably, Ms. MacDonald documents Indian Supreme Court’s decisions, first quashing the death-sentence against Guru, but later finding him “guilty of waging war against the state of India” (128) – a blot that stays on India’s higher judiciary.
In chapter seven, the author dissects the ten-month long India-Pakistan military standoff of 2001-2002, as India thought “it was time for a war to end all wars” (133). Ms. MacDonald believes India came out victorious as it achieved its objective “to defeat cross-border infiltration/terrorism without conflict [and] to contain the national mood of ‘teach[ing] Pakistan a lesson’ through international pressure” (134). However, Operation Parakram (valour) turned out to be a disaster for the Indian Army with high casualty-rate without engaging in war. India’s army chief, General V.K. Singh admitted: “We seemed to be at war with ourselves” (140).
The author, significantly points out that neither India had the political will nor military wherewithal to “destroy and degrade Pakistan’s war fighting capabilities.” She concludes “The Indian Army was not in a position to deal a decisive blow against Pakistan. Vajpayee’s best option was to use angry rhetoric to force the international community to squeeze more concessions from Pakistan” (135-137, 144). However, the author notes, the event led Pakistan to “expand its nuclear arsenal further … reinforce[ing] its belief that it was an insecure state that could be protected only by military force, including nuclear weapons and jihadist proxies” (149).
A reader – or someone privy to the events – noticeably finds the missing aspect of “Pakistan’s side of the story” in it.
Chapter eight discusses the contemporary history of the Kashmir conflict that has “become both a territorial and ideological contest between the two” countries. The author quotes Josef Korbel, chairman of the UN Commission on India and Pakistan until 1949 describing the conflict as “the uncompromising and perhaps uncompromisable struggle of two ways of life” (157). Ms. MacDonald highlights the causes of Kashmiri “grievances” and “anti-India sentiments” that led to a call for “Azaadi” (freedom from India) through a “full-blown separatist revolt” in 1989-1990 (159). She discusses Kashmir’s internal political dynamics and condones India trying to suppress the uprising movements and the freedom fighter groups through political manoeuvring and bribe, electioneering and brute use of military force including a “daily routine of humiliating searches” (162-164, 166).
In chapter nine, the author strides ahead with developments taking place in India-Pakistan bilateral relations during the decade of 2000. Here Ms. MacDonald has reserved some of her scathing comments for Pakistan. Reiterating Pakistan as “insufficiently imagined” she calls the country a “noble lie – a term coined by Plato for a myth told by the elite to maintain social cohesion” (170-171). She finds Pakistan erroneously seeing itself as a leader of Muslim world having an ideology rooted in threat and hatred for India, justifying the need and “use of Islamist proxies” (172).
Discussing “secret talks” (Track-II diplomacy) between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President General Musharraf after their agreed ceasefire at the Line of Control in 2003, the author finds the two leaders coming close to finding a solution on Kashmir (172, 182). However, she claims both countries had their own interpretations of the so-called ‘Kashmir formula,’ which was later crucified at the altar of: 1) Indo-US nuclear deal of 2005 (176); 2) Mumbai train blasts in July 2006 (blamed on Pakistan) (185) and; 3) Pakistan’s internal political chaos of 2007 (186-187).
The author carries-out the post-mortem of Mumbai attacks of November 2008 in chapter ten. Ms. MacDonald concludes that the “seaborne attack … carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba after months of intensive preparations, given their scale, could not have carried out without the knowledge of the Pakistan Army and the ISI” (191). “Given that links to militant groups were kept deliberately loose to ensure operational deniability,” she finds it “possible [that ISI had] signed off on plans for a single attack on Mumbai” – in consideration of ISI’s “tremendous pressure to keep its Afghan and Kashmir-focussed jihadists apart” (195).
However, while conclusions are drawn from confessions of alleged perpetrators and foreign intelligence reports (202-204), it is intriguing why a bounty of US$10 million on LeT’s head, Hafiz Saeed, continues to “seek information” about his role in the attacks (206).
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Chapter eleven examines General Musharraf’s flawed Afghan policy and his “good Taliban, bad Taliban approach” (218) which the author thinks: 1) granted a foothold to the Islamist militants (218); 2) revived Pashtun nationalism and “indigenous violence” in Pashtun culture (221) and; 3) made tribal militants turn their guns towards the state of Pakistan (220). “Blinded by competition with India and an unwillingness to recognize the changes wrought by its own security policies” Ms. MacDonald finds “Pakistan [to have] never formed a coherent, clear-sighted strategy towards Afghanistan and the north-west” (211).
According to the author three factors turned the Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas into a hotbed of militancy and terrorism: 1) “Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,” when the area became a “launch-pad for insurgency;” 2), mushrooming of “madrasas through Saudi money” and; 3) Pashtun migrant workers to the Middle East bringing back a “hard-line [version of] Islam of the Gulf.” She rightly sees “transfor[mation] and fissures [in] Pashtun society on both sides of Durand Line by the very modern influences of industrialized jihad and migration (213).
The disgraced author of The Satanic Verses in the Muslim world, Ms. MacDonald believes “Opposition to India bind[s] Pakistan together” (30, 170).
Highlighting the “US blunder [of] excluding the Afghan Taliban from the political process after 2001” the author found them “regrouping within a year with Pakistani support” (214) – calling it a “suicidal course” for Pakistan (217).
While Pakistan’s omissions and commissions are discussed threadbare, Ms. MacDonald finds a “grain of truth” in Pakistan’s accusations on “R&AW working with Afghan intelligence agency the National Directorate of Security (NDS) to destabilise Pakistan.” She admits “Indian intelligence agencies operated with far less oversight than their western counterparts. With their roots in British organisations designed to counter Indian nationalism, they inherited a tradition from the British of secrecy and non-accountability. Shielded from parliamentary oversight and public debate, and supported by a consensus that India’s security remained vulnerable, they had a certain amount of leeway in what they did in Afghanistan. Indian intelligence agencies were certainly not above giving money to Baloch separatists [in Pakistan] in exchange for influence and information” (216). The author quotes US General Stanley McChrystal: “While Indian activities largely benefit the Afghan people, increasing Indian influence in Afghanistan is likely to exacerbate regional tensions” (222).
After touching upon Pakistan Amy’s various unsuccessful military operations and peace deals with the tribal militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan, Ms. MacDonald concludes, “[Pakistan] was fighting a war it did not itself understand, one that originated in its own heartland, whose Islamist militant ideology it had then projected onto the Pashtun periphery” (226). (Translation: The war in the tribal areas was not a spill-over effect of the US/NATO war on terror in Afghanistan but a direct result of Pakistan’s jihadist policies).
Since it is the Pakistan’s military that is said to drive the country’s foreign and defence policies, Ms. MacDonald has reserved her last chapter to condemn army’s policies and its futile “pursuit of parity” with India (233).
Blaming the “bloody civilians” mindset of the Pakistani military, Ms. MacDonald finds “the army, like its British colonial predecessors, distrusts the people.” Highlighting the failures of the civilian governments to provide relief and rehabilitation to the hapless people of Pakistan during natural calamities like floods and earthquake – a void filled by the army and jihadist groups like Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) – the author concludes that the “symbiotic relationship [of jihadists] with the military would ultimately keep Pakistan permanently off balance” (236).
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Lauding India’s developmental achievements, the author finds no comparison between Indian and Pakistani economies. Pakistan’s lack of “domestic security” further makes her see China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) unviable. According to her “[A]s Egyptians had discovered when the Suez Canal was built in the nineteenth century hosting a crucial transport route was no guarantee for increasing a country’s prosperity and autonomy” (240).
Crediting India for its “internal strengths” Ms. MacDonald finds Pakistan’s overreach “damaging” to itself and its alliances (240-241). Behind Pakistan’s flawed policies and its failure to “make peace with India,” she finds Pakistan’s “Deep State in action.” The author notes “An agglomeration of sympathetic militants, bureaucrats, diplomats, and the security establishment, the Deep State [remains] bigger than the military alone” (243).
Regrettably, while castigating Pakistan’s “obsession with India,” Ms. MacDonald fails to find “India[n] antagonism towards Pakistan during state or national elections” (241, 246). It is on record that during the 2014 elections, while the Congress party demonstrated some responsibility, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blatantly used the ‘Pakistan Card’ – galvanising Hindu nationalist sentiment against the enemy Pakistan.
Furthermore, the way the author has brushed aside India’s dangerous Cold Start Doctrine – that could easily ignite into a nuclear conflagration between the two countries – while reserving her criticism for Pakistan’s nuclear program, demonstrates her infatuation with India. Ms. MacDonald thinks Pakistan’s nukes have “perversely made Pakistan more insecure.” She believes, “Nearly two decades after the nuclear tests, Pakistan was turning its own country into a suicide bomb” (249-250).
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) connivance with the Kashmiri militants in hijacking Air India’s flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1998 for the release of some militant leaders from India’s captivity (16).
Myra MacDonald’s favourable slant, tilt and predisposition towards India remain visible throughout the read. The book unmistakably stays as a one-sided narration of history, putting the scholarship’s authenticity in question. A reader – or someone privy to the events – noticeably finds the missing aspect of “Pakistan’s side of the story” in it.
For instance, while lauding India’s “reluctance to go to war” against Pakistan as “strategic restraint” Ms. MacDonald overlooks India’s revived nationalism and its desire for regional hegemony (248). Even while casually mentioning about India’s (heightened) “communal violence” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “authoritarian streak that suppressed dissent and challenged some of the basic underpinnings of democracy,” she draws parallels with Pakistan, which, she says, has damaged itself “by mixing politics and religion” (246-247)
Myra Macdonald reiterates her convoluted and prejudiced thesis in the end: “The progress India made between 1998 and 2016 is a victory that has many fathers. In Pakistan, torn between blaming its external enemies and the ‘traitors’ of its internal power struggle, defeat is an orphan.” (261)
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While logic can bend as easily as minds, Ms. MacDonald should know one thing: Nations cannot be made great by twisting facts; they need to earn their glory. As India’s time to fame is yet to arrive, it is too early to write-off Pakistan.
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Myra MacDonald
Hurst & Company, London 2017
Adnan Qaiser is a Research Associate at Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy. He can be reached at: a.qaiser1@yahoo.com. A similar version of this paper has been published by the CDA Institute. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent any institutional thought or the views of GVS.
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Tobacco Road: Tough to love or hate
Into a stiff breeze, the carry from the 2nd tee to the raised fairway feels like 200 yards plus.
Tobacco Road in Sanford, NC, made me sick the two times I have played it in the last six years. The first time it rained and sleeted relentlessly for nine holes before I quit with chills that didn't go away for four hours, despite the welcoming circular fireplace in the rather spare clubhouse. Last Sunday, I barely made it through 18 holes in sunny 60-degree weather; the treks up and down the steep faces of sand traps and the steps to the elevated greens took their toll on this out-of-shape 60 something. My feet took me boldly where no cart was free to go, although carts are free to go virtually everywhere through waste bunkers except up their slopes. The final five holes left me literally breathless, and I went six over par.
There is much about Tobacco Road that will take anyone's breath away, in the best sense of the word. At times the course's dramatic expanses of scruffy, sandy wastelands, deep bunkers at greenside and swirling fairways and greens seem to channel Pine Valley, the best golf course I have ever played. This being a public golf course, however, Tobacco Road could not exist as such if it were anywhere near as tough as Pine Valley. Forced
The final five holes left me literally breathless, and I went six over par.
carries from tee to fairway are reasonable, rarely more than 180 yards or so from the men's tees. The fairways are quite generous as well; you have to work at hitting the ball out of play, something I was unfortunately successful at a few times during the round. But scoring at the Road depends almost entirely upon the quality of your approach shots to the occasionally ridiculously obscured greens. Once there, the putting surfaces, though undulating, are generally forgiving, holes more often lying in funneled or flat areas than at the base or crest of the severe slopes.
The course ratings and slope ratings tell much of the story of Tobacco Road's schizophrenic personality. From the men's tees I played at a modest 6,300 yards, the rating is just 70.8 (against par of 71) but the slope is a robust 141. In other words, a scratch golfer should not shoot worse than par on the course, but a bogey golfer will have trouble. It played out that way for my son Tim and me. I am a "soft" 10 handicap these days, meaning most of my rounds are between 82 and 86, and I play enough bad strokes to be severely penalized on a course with a high slope rating. At Tobacco Road I shot 84 with three double bogies; I thought I played pretty well except for a few bad drives and approach shots.
Tim, who plays collegiate golf, loves Tobacco Road and all courses designed by the late Mike Strantz and carries a handicap near scratch, shot a splendid 69 from the back tees, which play to a short 6,530 yards. He didn't think he played any better than he did a day earlier at Pawleys Plantation, Jack Nicklaus' tough course in the Low Country of South Carolina, where he shot 76. At Tobacco Road, he hit his drive on #1 280 yards over the huge mound that guards the right side of the fairway (see photo accompanying Monday's posting), then put a solid three-wood shot up into the following wind. His ball wound up just 12-feet beyond the hole. He sunk the putt for eagle and played even par over the next 17 holes.
The yardage book describes the 2nd at Tobacco Road as a "welcome sight after the testy 1st hole" but it didn't look welcome to me from the tee
The second hole's bark is greater than its bite.
box. Into the wind, it required a drive of at least 185 yards into the 10 mph wind to clear the expanse of waste that runs from the tee. A narrow bailout fairway is available on the right but that leaves a long approach shot to a green guarded by fearsome bunkers right and left. But as with many holes at Tobacco Road, #2's bark is greater than its bite; just hit the drive relatively straight to the fairway, and the approach to the green is pretty straightforward.
The 3rd, a short par 3 (147 yards from the men's tees), is all about the narrow green, which runs 60 yards deep. We were fortunate the pin was in the middle of the multi-tiered surface. A shot to above or well below the hole puts a three-putt in play. And the green is just narrow enough to make the bunkers left and right a factor.
The 4th is perhaps the most reasonable birdie opportunity on the front nine, a 507-yard par five that requires a well positioned drive and second shot to a wide fairway about 125 yards from the green. That leaves a pretty simple short iron to a kidney shaped green but, as with every green at Tobacco Road, a pushed or pulled approach will almost guarantee bogey.
I'll have further comments and photos of other holes in coming days.
The green at the par 3 3rd hole is deep and narrow and multi-tiered. The only "easy" pin position is in the depression in the middle of the green...
...but if you come up short and right, it will be an uphill battle for par all the way.
The 4th may be the most reasonable birdie opportunity on the course, a par 5 with a generous landing area for second shots (upper right of photo), leaving a simple wedge or 9-iron approach to the kidney shaped green.
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Here’s the 411 on who we are, why we do what we do and what’s ahead — among other frequently asked questions.
What is the mission of GottaGoGolf?
GottaGoGolf believes golf should be fun for everyone, no matter their gender, race or income. Yet the industry has a history of discrimination and exclusion. This website is designed to acclimate women in particular (but men too) who feel excluded or intimidated by the culture of golf. We hope we make you smile.
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GottaGoGolf is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
We also accept advertising and assist small businesses targeting women golfers, and we place articles in other publications.
How large is the GottaGoGolf community?
About 5,000 opted-in subscribers receive the email newsletter, more than 2,000 belong to the Facebook community and the fast-growing website draws anywhere from 300 to 1,500 visitors in a day. We estimate that at least 95 percent of these are women interested in golf; we don’t pursue numbers for the sake of numbers but have a very targeted demographic.
Why do you call GottaGoGolf a magazine?
GottaGoGolf launched in October 2009 as a digital magazine. It’s our favorite format, but expensive to do and not yet widely accepted among our readers. In 2011 we replaced the digital magazine with a website and distributed a monthly email newsletter. In 2015, partnering with the Women’s Golf Alliance, we produced four issues of the digital magazine but could not make that profitable. This new website emerged in the fall of 2015 and we think it’s as close to a magazine as we can get for now.
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Interview: James Rosocha
February-March 2018
Guitarists and Bands , Interviews
Dan McAvinchey: James, thanks for joining us, let's get right into it. When did you first get interested in guitar, and how did you learn and progress as a player?
James Rosocha: I started learning the electric bass at age fifteen and was lucky enough to have one of the best private teachers in New Jersey. His name was Harry Leahey and he was a prestigious jazz guitarist who worked with saxophonist Phil Woods. Although I was a bassist, I studied scales, the modes, chords, intervals and repertoire with Harry. He had a very structured, sequential, no nonsense teaching style.
I also studied with bassist Dave LaRue of the Steve Morse Band and the Dixie Dregs. Dave was also a former student of Harry and his teaching style and methods were very similar. I went on to earn my Bachelor of Music Degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Since graduating I've worked with fusion, funk, jazz, latin bands, and even some theater work. My main gig for over the past twenty years has been with fusion jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz whom I've recorded over nine albums with, and toured both nationally and internationally. We do a yearly tour of Europe every summer and its been a blast.
Dan McAvinchey: Your new album "Avalon" is out, was it self-released?
James Rosocha: After working with the B.D Lenz group for over twenty years and recording nine albums, I was way overdue to record my own CD. All of the tunes were composed on the piano and the bass lines and melodies were added afterwards. We were under the label "Apria Records" for many years before the label went belly up. I decided to release the album independently so I could benefit from sales.
Dan McAvinchey: How would you describe the music on "Avalon" to someone who has never heard you before?
James Rosocha: The music on the album could be described as either funk, funky jazz, or fusion. There are very heavy, bass-driven tunes balanced out with some Latin and lighter compositions. I feel that a full onslaught of heavy funk tunes would be too much for the listener and it's always a good idea to balance the album out with some lighter, more sentimental compositions.
Dan McAvinchey: Talk about the compositional process, how did you go about writing the songs for "Avalon"?
James Rosocha: In order to compose the music for this album, I really had to get back on the piano and start practicing again. I cracked open all of my Berklee piano method books and even started teaching beginner to intermediate piano students. Something clicked and music began to pour out of me. All of the harmonies were composed on piano before the actual bass lines or melodies were added. I followed this same model on all of the tunes except "Avalon" which is a solo electric bass piece performed on a Spector NS four string.
Dan McAvinchey: Tell us a little about the gear you use to get your sound.
James Rosocha: I have an endorsement with Spector Basses, Eden Amplifiers and Hipshot Detuners. Although I've never been a five string player, Hipshot Detuners allow me the flexibility to detune my "E" string to a low "D" or "C" at the flick of a switch. I also use a Boss ME-50B multi-effects unit for reverb, digital delay and chorus options.
Dan McAvinchey: In the area of self-assessment, what do you feel like has been your greatest musical achievement to date?
James Rosocha: Persevering as an artist and performer and getting the opportunity to express myself musically while on tour in Europe has been a wonderful achievement. Finally releasing my own material and getting featured in Bass Musician Magazine was also a huge accomplishment.
Dan McAvinchey: From a publicity and promotion standpoint, what do you find is working best for you at the moment?
James Rosocha: In order to increase your visibility and gain a position in the mind of your listener or target audience, I feel it's important to invest in a public relations firm that specializes in the entertainment industry. I found that trying to do everything myself was time consuming and I didn't have the connections that a professional public relations firm would have already established. Also selling your product on a site such as CD Baby without a marketing strategy could be detrimental to your sales. There are some good music marketing courses out there to invest in.
Dan McAvinchey: What do you now find to be the advantages and disadvantages of being an independent musician?
James Rosocha: As an independent musician, you have the opportunity to collect all of the profits from your album sales. The bad side to this is the CD will never reach the geographic scope and population that it could reach with the help of a label. You could always sell your products on tour or through a well thought out marketing campaign over the internet.
Dan McAvinchey: If you could do a once-off recording project or session with any guitarist in the world, who would it be?
James Rosocha: I had the rare opportunity to perform with Trey Anastasio of Phish. If I could do a once-off album project with any guitarist in the world, it would be with Trey. I would love to be a part of his solo project when he is off the road with Phish.
Dan McAvinchey: With the new year now in full-swing, what do you have on your musical agenda for 2018?
James Rosocha: I'm practicing hard and gearing up for my summer tour with the B.D Lenz Group. We're hitting Belgium, Germany, England and Wales on a month long tour in July of this summer. I'm trying to keep a balance between all of the practicing and business related responsibilities like marketing and promotion. It keeps me very busy and keeps life interesting and always a challenge. Please visit jamesrosocha.com for more information.
Bassist James Rosocha has over 20 years of experience playing with fusion jazz guitarist BD Lenz, and quite naturally found himself wanting to write and record his own music. The result is the album "Avalon", which straddles funk, Latin, and jazz genres while allowing space to showcase his unique soloing abilities.
Dan McAvinchey conducted a long-distance interview with Rosocha to talk about "Avalon", his gear, and the songwriting process.
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Guatemala to elect president amid tensions over violence, migration
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Guatemalans on Sunday will vote for a new president, who will face the challenge of curbing drug gang violence that has convulsed the country and helped spur illegal immigration to the United States, fuelling tensions with President Donald Trump.
Nineteen candidates will compete in the election, which is expected to yield no outright winner, forcing the top two vote getters to face off in a second round on Aug. 11.
Former first lady Sandra Torres, of the center-left UNE party, has led the race to succeed President Jimmy Morales, a conservative former television host whose term has been blighted by accusations of corruption made by UN-backed investigators.
Torres, who has promised to send troops onto the streets to fight drug gangs, and to tackle poverty with welfare programs, has support of around 20 percent of the electorate, according to polls.
Her closest rivals, trailing by a few percentage points, are conservatives Alejandro Giammattei, who is running in his fourth campaign, and Edmond Mulet, a former United Nations official whose candidacy has increasingly gained traction in the run-up to the vote.
‘I want to see education improving, more jobs and for security to get better, because we live in a very unsafe country. And for politicians and lawmakers to stop stealing,’ said John Estrada, 24, a tattoo artist in Guatemala City.
Rampant violence and widespread discontent over corruption and impunity in the country of 17 million have prompted more and more Guatemalans to flee for the United States.
The surge of departures has undermined Trump's pledge to curb illegal immigration, and the US president has responded by threatening to cut US aid to Central America.
That prospect has caused alarm in Guatemala, where the legacy of the bloody 1960-1996 civil war continues to cast a long shadow over the country's development.
COALITION PROSPECTS
To avoid a run-off, one of the candidates would need to win more than 50 percent of the vote, a result pollsters deem unlikely. The outcome of the election will likely depend on candidates' ability to build a coalition for the second round.
In research report on Friday, Eurasia Group said Torres would struggle to win a run-off, given her high rejection rate and the ability of her likely opponent to unify the conservative vote and secure the support of the country's powerful elites.
Morales, who is barred by law from seeking re-election, took office in 2016 vowing to root out corruption after his predecessor was brought down by a probe led by the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
Instead, Morales himself became a target of a CICIG probe into allegations of campaign finance wrongdoing and was subject to impeachment proceedings in 2017. He survived the attempt to oust him, and then engaged in a bitter dispute with the CICIG before finally terminating its mandate, effective from September.
Questions of legitimacy have dogged the 2019 contest since two of the front-runners were forced out in the final weeks, including Thelma Aldana, a former attorney general who tried to impeach Morales with the CICIG. The government accused Aldana of corruption, leading to her exclusion last month.
Allegations of shady dealings have permeated the election, which has been fought out amid intensifying efforts by Trump to turn Mexico and Guatemala into buffer zones to keep undocumented migrants out of the United States.
Presidential hopeful Mario Estrada and congressional candidate Julio Jose Rosales were arrested during the campaign and charged with having links to Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.
Drug traffickers allegedly financed their campaigns in return for help transporting cocaine and heroin to the United States.
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WWE ARE PREPARING FOR MICHAEL COLES RETIREMENT
Michael Cole has been with WWE since 1997 and held several positions on and off the camera. He is very influential behind the scenes which it could be his full-time job responsibility soon enough.
Dave Meltzer was asked during Wrestling Observer Radio how much longer Michael Cole has on commentary and his response was that WWE seems to already be preparing for his move out of the position.
“Probably not that long, honestly. That’s why they’re hiring so many announcers to… I guess Tom Phillips will probably get the job, so then people — I don’t want to say they’ll wish for Michael Cole, but they probably wouldn’t like Tom Phillips in that spot either.”
RAW might not be the same without Michael Cole, but everything has to change eventually. He has some years left in the tank and could plausibly fill a commentary role for plenty more time, but he has also stated in the past how a transition might be preferential as well so he can focus on more backstage responsibilities within the company.
Michael Cole has certainly been a part of several memorable moments during his time on RAW.
First JR, The King and now Michael Cole.
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Malaysia offers an excellent opportunity for fascinating, picturesque overland travel. This preplanned itinerary includes stops in a rainforest, a hill station and 2 beach resorts. Then there is the interesting history and the unusual architecture to be viewed en route.
Malaysia Self Frive Road Trip Itinerary Idea
Start your self drive tour of Malaysia with an overnight in its capital, Kuala Lumpur. From here, your self drive car will be delivered to you at your hotel after which you set off for Taman Negara, a 4 hour drive away. During your journey, you will drive through the Malaysian countryside viewing tea plantations and colourful villages. On arrival, you will spend 2 nights at a lodge in the 130 million year old Taman Negara rainforest. That evening brings a Night Jungle Walk through the tropical rainforest.
The next day is free to choose from a number of activities such as a jungle trek, a boat cruise or a visit to a native settlement to learn about the local nomadic tribes’ lifestyles.
The following morning, drive to the Cameron Highlands where you will be spending the next 2 nights. The Cameron Highlands is one of Malaysia’s most extensive hill stations and is the same size as Singapore in area. It is popular due to its cooler climate and its lush surroundings.
On your full day here, you can simply relax or explore on your own or you can take one of the optional tours which include a visit to a tea plantation, a strawberry farm, or a fruit and vegetable market.
Next up is a drive to Penang Island reached via a connecting bridge. En route, consider stopping at the Bukit Orangutan Islands where these animals roam freely. Other interesting suggestions for stops are at a native settlement, the huge Lata Iskander Waterfall, Kellie’s Castle (sometimes also called Kellie's Folly), an unfinished, ruined mansion built by a Scottish planter named William Kellie Smith, or the Istana Kenangan Palace, built in 1926.
On arrival at Penang Island, stay 3 nights at the attractive beach resort of Batu Ferringhi on the north coast. You have the opportunity to drive to the south of the island to Georgetown, the capital city of Penang which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has many colonial buildings, 19th century churches, temples, mosques and Fort Cornwallis, the largest fort in Malaysia. Consider taking a trishaw ride, a fun way to get around the city. Other options during your stay are the Batu Ferringhi Night Market and a visit to Penang Hill via the Swiss funicular railway. You will get to travel through hill farms and lush tropical jungles and the panoramic view of the Island and mainland at the top is amazing.
At the end of your stay in Batu Ferringhi, you will leave your car and take the ferry to Langkawi for a 3 night stay. Langkawi is an archipelago made up of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, 30 kilometres/18 miles off the mainland coast of north western Malaysia. The interior of the main island where you will stay is a mixture of picturesque paddy fields and jungle-clad hills. The coastline is fringed by powder-fine sand and swaying coconut trees.
The island is recognized for its excellent scuba diving. You can both relax on the beach or head into the interior to explore the gorgeous and mountainous countryside.
Your self drive tour comes to a close after your stay in Langkawi.
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Marcos Souza and the gold in Abu Dhabi: “The fear of losing made me the champion”
Marcos Souza in the final match against Victor Estima, in the Abu Dhabi WPJJC. Photo: Dan Rod/ GracieMag
The black belt Marcos Souza (Bonsai) won the up to 82kg division in the fifth edition of WPJJC in Abu Dhabi. Marcos applied a takedown on Victor Estima to bring dollars and the gold medal to Japan, where he lives with his brother Roberto Satoshi.
As he tells GracieMag, the professor went through difficulties with his enrollment and ticket to fly to the capital of the UAE, and in the end the victory smiled at him.
GracieMag: You did very well in this category up to 82kg in Abu Dhabi. What was the determining factor to your win?
MARCOS SOUZA: When I woke up on the competition day I felt something different inside of me, I can’t explain. I had good energy and a lot of will to fight. When I qualified for the final, I watched my brother lose the semifinal to Leandro Lo in his weight. It was interesting, because at the same time I got sad, that made me stronger. I wanted so much to win for him because I didn’t want to see him completely sad. I just did enough to be the champion. In other competitions, I always go for the submission or I win by a good margin of points, but this time I admit that I played not to make a mistake and I did just enough to be champion.
How was the final with Victor Estima, the “Carcarazinho”?
Estima is a fighter who needs no comment, he has some of the most dangerous legs in the category. He is able to submit in any position, you know? I couldn’t miss. I can be much better than shown during the final. If he had swept me, for example, I would probably open the game to lead the score again. And if we fought standing up, I’d try a takedown. Anyway, at the end of the fight I even apologized to him. Victor told me: “If I was in your place, I would do the same thing. You knew how to manage the fight and won.” It was a major title at stake and I wanted to win more than ever. Regarding the takedown, I thought about pulling guard or letting him pull on me. I didn’t arrange anything and just went for it and took him down.
What was your worst moment in Abu Dhabi?
Hitting the weight, I was eight kilos over and had to lose them in one day. It wasn’t easy. And also when I saw my brother lost, I got very sad.
What do you think your brother Roberto Satoshi could have done to beat Leandro Lo and try to win the championship for the second time?
Satoshi has less than a year and a half of experience competing in the black belt division. He only lost two fights by points so far, and has won almost all of the light weight. He is always among the best three in the category. He is skillful and has an impressive will to win. My brother fights forward and it is impressive that he never thinks of a strategy, he gets in there and fights. In my opinion, to beat Leandro Lo today you need a strategy, because he has a different Jiu-Jitsu, unusual even. It’s hard to beat him.
What difficulties did you have until the podium? What happened?
The greater truth is that the fear of losing made me the champion. I went through many complications before landing in Abu Dhabi. Organizers in Japan hadn’t allowed the Brazilians to fight the trial, they demanded permanent visa or a Japanese passport. It was a fight for me to enroll in the trial. With the help of my friend Douglas Santos, I enrolled on the last day. But my brother’s ticket was missing. We taught in seminars in Hawaii and raised the money. Even defending the championship, things weren’t easy for Satoshi. The result of it all is that there was a lot of running around, and we ended up fighting the tournament without training (laughs)! I was not prepared technically. On one hand, it reduced my pressure to win, at the same time I was with a huge fear of losing. In the end, the fear made me miss very little and made me more strategic.
What lessons have you learned?
None of this lasts long: the fights, the gold medal and the prize money. The medal will rust one day, the fights will be remembered by a few people and the money is almost gone (laughs). The most valuable in Jiu-Jitsu is the opportunity to live special moments forever. Whether at breakfast, a hotel, in practice all together and even in the sauna, in every corner you have fun. The friendship and the good times last forever. The rest is fleeting, there are people and moments in Abu Dhabi that I will carry in my heart forever. Some people don’t really know what Jiu-Jitsu can do in your life and give more importance to be the champion or to a simple gold medal. Another important lesson: if only a few believe in you, fight for the few who believe. It is for them that you should give your best, no matter what others say. The dream is yours, chase it.
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Ofelia/Princess Moanna
Ofelia is a young imaginative girl who is told early on in the film that she is the reincarnation of a long-dead mythical princess, Princess Moanna. Her belief in the fantasy world of the labyrinth is what protects her through the vagaries of her real life, specifically the illness of her mother and her abusive and vindictive stepfather, Vidal.
Ofelia does her best to complete the tasks that the faun sets out for her, but falters at several moments. Throughout, she never loses her conviction that magic exists, even as the adults in her life try to convince her to be more practical.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the antagonist of Pan's Labyrinth. He was a key leader of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and has maintained a cruel and sadistic attitude towards the world. His political ruthlessness—his desire to brutally kill and torture guerrilla rebels—is paralleled in his ruthlessness in his personal life. He is the living embodiment of the fascist agenda, forcing everyone he meets to bend to his will and control.
Carmen is Ofelia's mother. She was married to a tailor until he died. Now she is remarrying Captain Vidal, but she has grown sickly in pregnancy. She loves Ofelia dearly, but she does not understand her daughter's more fanciful side and wants to convince her to take life more seriously. Her disbelief in magic leads to her untimely death when, against Ofelia's urging, she throws the restorative mandrake root into the fire.
The Faun
The Faun is an ancient creature who has been waiting within the labyrinth for the princess to visit him again. He is kind and helpful to Ofelia, telling her how she might rejoin the kingdom of the underworld and providing her with the healing mandrake root. However, when Ofelia breaks the rules, the Faun gets very upset and shows a harsher, sterner side.
Mercedes is Captain Vidal's housekeeper who also doubles as a mole for the Spanish Rebels. She is caring and helpful to the young Ofelia, and makes many sacrifices in order to support the rebel cause, but her public alignment with Vidal causes her grief. She is not connected to the fantasy world of the film at all, instead working to help the rebel cause.
Pedro is Mercedes' brother and a leader of a Republican Rebel Cell to whom Mercedes brings information and supplies.
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Streetwise: Big Brothers Big Sisters joins a busy Rail Yard
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin will move into space in the newest Rail Yard building while standalone townhouses are also rising.
Streetwise: Big Brothers Big Sisters joins a busy Rail Yard Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin will move into space in the newest Rail Yard building while standalone townhouses are also rising. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2019/02/11/streetwise-big-brothers-big-sisters-joins-busy-rail-yard/2836172002/
Jeff Bollier, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 2:00 p.m. CT Feb. 11, 2019 | Updated 1:00 p.m. CT Feb. 15, 2019
GREEN BAY - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeastern Wisconsin will be the first tenant in the latest building to be renovated in the Rail Yard district .
Executive Director Katie Hess said the agency will move into 3,200 square feet of second floor office space at 520 N. Broadway by April 1. It is one of the last two remaining Larsen Canning complex buildings to undergo renovations led by DDL Holdings, a partnership of Titletown Brewing Co. and Base Companies LLC.
"It's been exciting to see it start from nothing," Hess said. "We're excited to be the first, frankly, but it's just great to be moving downtown."
Hess said the organization's move from its home of more than 30 years on West Mason Street doesn't add square footage, but it does add versatility.
"We're starting up new initiatives and new programs and it's hard for us to grow in a space that confines us," Hess said. "That the new space allows us flexibility to increase program staff without increasing cost per square foot will be critical to the success and growth of our agency."
Joash Smits, Base Companies director of development, said the building Big Brothers Big Sisters will occupy has a total of about 60,000 square feet of commercial space, 42 underground parking stalls, private balconies and rooftop common areas tenants can use.
Prospective tenants have expressed interest in about 20,000 square feet of the building, Smits said, though leases are still being negotiated. The renovation is the latest phase in a multiyear effort to convert the Larsen Canning complex into commercial, retail and residential space.
There's plenty more happening in the Rail Yard, as this could be the year the northern half of the space begins to fill out. Here's what else to watch for:
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Rendering on a sign showing plans for remaining former Larsen Canning building with the already renovated structure at right Thursday, May 24, 2018 on North Broadway Street in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Exterior of the former Larsen Canning buildings under renovation Thursday, May 24, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Former Larsen Canning buildings renovation is ongoing Thursday, May 24, 2018 on North Broadway in Green Bay, Wis. Martin Stefanov works on clearing the third floor which is slated to be commercial space. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Former Larsen Canning buildings renovation is ongoing Thursday, May 24, 2018 on North Broadway in Green Bay, Wis. Martin Stefanov works on clearing the third floor which is slated to be commercial space. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Former Larsen Canning building under renovation Thursday, May 24, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
The last of the former Larsen Canning buildings is undergoing renovation this year, and plans are being developed to open up vacant land on the property for future development. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Jim Kratowicz, left, and Brent Weycker look at the demolition of the former office spaces inside the former Larsen Canning buildings undergoing renovation Thursday, May 24, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Rendering on a sign showing site plans for remaining former Larsen Canning building renovation on North Broadway Street Thursday, May 24, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Former Larsen Canning buildings renovation is ongoing Thursday, May 24, 2018 on North Broadway in Green Bay, Wis. Kurt McFadden works on clearing the third floor which is slated to be commercial space. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Vacant land in the former Larsen Canning Co. property seen from the roof of Titletown Brewing on North Broadway in Green Bay. The 16 acres of property north of Titletown Brewing is being redeveloped into the "Rail Yard" district. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A view of the Larsen Canning Co. property, east of adjacent to North Broadway. DDL Holdings is proposing to develop a mix of commercial and residential buildings on the 16 acre property. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
At least three residential projects will make serious progress this year.
The first, eight-unit block of the Rail Yard Condominiums already is under construction after a January groundbreaking. Two of the eight units have been sold; the remaining six units feature a variety of floor plans and range from $220,000 to $409,000.
Indiana-based TWG Development Inc. will start construction later this year on Broadway Lofts, a 93-unit apartment building and 14 townhouses planned for the far north end of the Rail Yard, just south of NEW Community Shelter. The $7.5 million project would add housing available at lower rents for income-qualified tenants.
An updated rendering of the Broadway Lofts building as seen from North Broadway, facing northeast. (Photo: Courtesy of TWG Development)
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The final, existing Larsen Canning complex building, located on Broadway just north of Elmore Street, will be converted into high-end, customized condominiums.
Public improvements
The last, but certainly not least, piece of the track that needs to be laid in the Rail Yard is roads, sidewalks and other public improvements.
Smits said Green Bay and DDL Holdings will start construction on an extension of Donald Driver Way to the north in March or April. The work will need to move fast, though: The first condominium units should be ready for owners by July or August.
The developers are still working out details of plan to carve out a pedestrian walkway from Elmore Street into the Rail Yard district.
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'A Flickering Truth': Venice Review
9:27 AM PDT 9/20/2015 by Deborah Young
Courtesy of Venice Film Festival
A dizzying journey through dust and rusty film cans in one of the most challenging countries to rebuild a film archive. TWITTER
How the Afghan Film archives survived the Taliban.
A documentary not just for archivists but for those who see film as a vital part of local culture, A Flickering Truth traces Ibrahim Arify’s tenure as head of the Afghan Film archives in Kabul and his vigorous attempt to reorganize the place in the post-Taliban years. Pietra Brettkelly is a sure-footed New Zealand writer and director (Beauty Will Save the World, Maori Boy Genius) who communicates her passion for the subject to the viewer, despite the fact that little happens on screen beyond dusting off rusty film cans. It's the challenging context of war and instability that makes this unusual look at film preservation so watchable.
Arify’s forceful personality centers the story, which begins with his arrival at the dilapidated archives. Its vaulted halls are the reign of spiders and dust. Strips of film dangle from half-open cans. Undeveloped films are at risk, and there is work to be done.
The archive is still recovering from the trauma of the Taliban years, when film was vilified as part of decadent Western culture. The caretakers were forced to burn their precious films in a huge blaze, on penalty of death. Fortunately some brave archivists hid many valuable pieces of the collection in a room they boarded up, saving them from destruction.
Arify, a filmmaker who went to prison under the Mujahideen in the Soviet era, fled to Germany to live. Now he has returned to rebuild Afghan Film. Complaining that there are no enterprising people left in Afghanistan, he approaches his task like a general commanding undisciplined troops who need re-training. His first confrontation is with the aged Uncle Isaaq Yousif, who has been living in his office at the archives for over 30 years and is a precious witness to its films and history.
Though the unsung heroes never unearth a masterpiece, many delightful excerpts from old films are included. Brettkelly uses them to fill in the audience with a quick history of the country, from the golden age of the '70s when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. competed with each other, sending experts and tech support to a free Afghanistan, to the tragic bombing of Kabul in 1992, filmed by a cameraman on a bicycle, and forward to uncertain present times.
Fearing that the upcoming presidential elections could spark a civil war, Arify bids farewell to the personnel at Afghan Films and heads back home to Germany. He has repeatedly stated he "doesn’t have the courage" to stay on, and it is easy to see the situation is dangerous. In spite of this, a team of archivists drives off in the Afghan Films Mobile Cinema van, traveling to villages that have never seen a moving picture show. In schools, where boys and girls are segregated, they show passionate, unveiled women in classic Afghan movies, and the kids’ eyes shine with wonder, as though they were watching a Spielberg film.
Jacob Bryant’s gritty cinematography echoes the hands-on spirit of the archives, but also detours to the vast expanses of desert, a landscaspe of the soul and of the eye.
Production companies: PBK Ltd.
Director, producer, screenwriter: Pietra Brettkelly
Director of photography: Jacob Bryant
Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
Editors: Nicolas Chaudeurge, Irena Dol, Margot Francis, Ken Sparks, Jacob Secher, Schulsinger, Cinzia Baldessari, Cushla Dillon
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CNA Sam Morris brightens up the days of Homeland resident
Sam Morris likes to wear bright socks.
“Yellow, blue,” he says. “The brighter, the better.”
On this day, he is wearing dark socks emblazoned with multicolored stripes in horizontal and vertical patterns. With his bright socks and bright smile, he brings cheer to the workplace as a Homeland Center Certified Nursing Assistant.
Homeland’s corps of skilled, motivated CNAs is an essential element in providing quality care for residents. Through their training and certification, they learn to assist residents with daily tasks such as feeding and bathing, and they support the nursing staff with basic medical duties including taking vital signs.
Morris knew all about the role of CNAs in nursing care because his late mother was a CNA at Homeland for many years.
“She was one of the originals,” he said. She taught him that a CNA “helps out everybody that needs help. You have to be compassionate.”
Morris has been a CNA in nursing homes since 1999, and he finally joined Homeland in October 2015.
“I like the good attitude here,” he says. “Everybody is family-oriented. It’s more like family than a job.”
As a lead CNA in second-floor skilled care, Morris is responsible for promptly completing needed tasks and that all equipment is operating. It’s all toward the goal of “making sure that the resident is safe.”
In Homeland’s quest for constant improvements, a new system for assigning daily duties promotes increased teamwork among CNAs.
“It works better that way,” says Morris. “If you need help, your partner’s right there with you. You don’t have to run for help.”
Before being assigned permanently to second-floor skilled care, Morris floated where needed, so he got to know all the residents. He has helped with activities including bingo and outings, as well.
He appreciates the many chances that residents have to engage with each other and enjoy community outings. He likes talking to them about family, the weather, and the day’s activities coming up.
Morris has lived in Harrisburg since he was 4-years-old and graduated from John Harris High School in 1990. He is among the 40 percent of employees who live in Homeland’s surrounding neighborhoods, part of Homeland’s commitment to the city it has served since 1867.
He loves the short, convenient walk to work every day and the proximity to mouth-watering barbecue from nearby Broad Street Market or Camp Curtin BBQ Station. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music – Michael Jackson is a favorite – and getting together with his tight-knit family, including his two sisters and nieces and nephews.
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Douthat: From the ashes of Notre Dame [Opinion]
By Ross Douthat April 16, 2019 Updated: April 16, 2019 6:40 p.m.
This photo taken and handout on April 15, 2019 by the Vatican press office Vatican Media shows Pope Francis (L) during a visit to Pope Benedict XVI at his residence of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican.
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A first draft of this column was written before flames engulfed the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, before its spire fell in one of the most dreadful live images since Sept. 11, 2001, before a blazing fire went further than any of France’s anticlerical revolutionaries ever dared.
My original subject was the latest controversy in Catholicism’s now-years-long Lent, in which conflicts over theology and sex abuse have merged into one festering, suppurating mess. The instigator of controversy, this time, was the former pope, the 92-year-old Benedict XVI, who late last week surprised the Catholic intelligentsia with a 6,000-word reflection on the sex abuse crisis.
Portions of the document were edifying, but there was little edifying in its reception. It was passed first to conservative Catholic outlets, whose palpable Benedict nostalgia was soon matched by fierce criticism from Francis partisans, plus sneers from the secular press at the retired pope’s insistence that the sex abuse epidemic was linked to the cultural revolution of the 1960s and the 1970s.
The column I was writing before the fire was mostly a lament for what the document’s reception betokened: A general inability, Catholic and secular, to recognize that both the “conservative” and “liberal” accounts of the sex abuse crisis are partially correct, that the spirits of liberation and clericalism each contributed their part, that the abuse problem dramatically worsened during the sexual revolution (a boring empirical fact if you spend any time with the data or the history) even as it also had roots in more traditional patterns of clerical chauvinism, hierarchical arrogance, institutional self-protection.
So the column was a defense of Benedict’s argument, in part, against secular sneers and liberal-Catholic sniping. But then it also agreed with certain criticisms of his letter, and worried about the ways that such an intervention contributes to the sense of a church in pieces, a church almost with two popes, each offering partial diagnoses to their respective factions.
That’s where I was, what I had at least half-written, before the fire began in Paris. But now let me try to say something larger, something commensurate to the symbolism of one of Catholicism’s greatest monuments burning on Holy Week, a day before Benedict’s own birthday, on the day after Catholics listened to a gospel in which the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom.
That larger thing is this: The problem of Catholic narratives that can’t find synthesis, of “liberal” and “conservative” takes that feed angrily off one another, of popes and former popes as symbols grasped by partisans, is not the problem of the sex abuse crisis. It is simply the problem of Roman Catholicism in this age — an age in which the church mirrors the polarization of Western culture, rather than offering an integrated alternative.
The church has always depended on synthesis and integration. That has been part of its genius, a reason for all its unexpected resurrections and regenerations. Faith and reason, Athens and Jerusalem, the aesthetic and the ascetic, the mystical and the philosophical — even the crucifix itself, two infinite lines converging and combining.
Notre-Dame de Paris is a monument to a particularly triumphant moment of Catholic synthesis — the culture of the high Middle Ages, a renaissance before the Renaissance, at once Roman and Germanic but both transformed by Christianity, a new hybrid civilization embodied in the cathedral’s brooding, complicated, gorgeous sprawl.
The Catholicism of today builds nothing so gorgeous as Notre Dame in part because it has no 21st-century version of that grand synthesis to offer. The reforms of the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council and everything after, have left the church partially and unsuccessfully transformed, torn between competing visions of how to be Catholic in modernity, competing promises of renewal and reform, competing factions convinced that they are the firefighters inside Notre Dame, and their rivals are the fire.
I belong to one of these factions (or to a faction within a faction; who can keep track?); I am a conservative of some sort, who fears that liberal Christianities usually end up resembling a post-inferno cathedral, with the still-grand exterior concealing emptiness within.
But I am also doubtful that anything so simple as a conservative “victory” will return the church to cathedral-raising vigor and make it feel, to outsiders, like something more than a museum whose docents all seem to hate one another. Especially given how often conservative Catholicism is in thrall to orthodoxies that are political rather than theological, how often — especially as it reacts to the destabilizing style of Pope Francis — its climate feels more like an airless bunker than a Gothic nave.
And it is impossible, as a Catholic, to be writing about this subject while the Cathedral of Notre Dame is literally burning on Holy Week and not feel that everyone engaged in Catholicism’s civil wars is being judged, and found wanting, and given a harrowing lesson in what is actually asked of us.
The cathedral will be rebuilt; the cross and altar and much of the interior survived. But all preservation is provisional. The real challenge for Catholics, in this age of general post-Christian cultural exhaustion, is to look at what our ancestors did and imagine what it would mean to do that again , to build anew , to leave something behind that could stand a thousand years and still have men and women singing “Salve Regina” outside its cruciform walls, as Parisians did Monday night while Notre Dame burned.
What is the synthesis that could make that possible? What lies beyond the stalemates and scandal and anger of our strange two-pope era?
Go ask the Catholics of 3019 A.D. It’s for them to know, and us, if God wills it, to find out.
Douthat is a New York Times columnist.
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Architecture, Design
Robots Could 3-D Print your new House
Minibuilders are the new effortless and realistic 3-D house printers from avid construction researchers Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic. This new introduction is in form or robots that are designed to mix concrete and bring into reality an architectural scale with little human assistance.
The minibots work similar to normal construction cranes but does this using a different style of approach as well as a simpler scale. Although these little robots may not be new in the world of construction, they appear to apply a better and realistic method towards robotic construction.
Unlike other machines, the minibuilders work like a team with each drone having its specialized function to perform. The concept isn’t just one big machine; it is a team of small machines to emulate real human working experience. Minibuilders spot an even interesting distinction: there is no limit as to the size of the building to be crafted. This eliminates the problem of having to work with bigger machines as the size of the building increases.
“The concept of Minibuilders is much more than these three robots, it’s about any construction robots capable of working in teams to create structures much bigger than themselves. We chose to make these three robots because they are all essential to fabricate the most important building elements like walls and ceilings, but the family of Minibuilders can be endlessly extended adding robots with diverse functionalities, from painting to insulation and beyond.” – Researcher Jovic.
So how do these machines work?
The whole construction process begins with a firm footing with the aid of the ‘Foundational Robot’ – this robot moves around with via tracks and uses a line-follower sensor to stay in position. It doesn’t run into curves as a result of the active line-follower sensor which tells it when to steer and to what direction. Foundation Robot has an in-built vertical linear actuator that positions the nozzle in relation to the height of printed layer.
The footprint is made by one or more of these Foundation Robots all through the first 20 layers of the structure. They are programmed to move in a specified path (going back and forth) with pipes connected to the smaller robots which are responsible for supporting the supplier robot to feed the printing material.
Following this, the Grip Robot begins its troweling work after being fastened by a construction worker. Its nozzle is fashioned to dispense horizontally and can bring about a dynamic texture on the building that is being crafted. For so many constructors who adopted the use of robots, the problem of structural imbalance has always been a major concern but the researchers behind Minibuilders seem to have a credible solution to that. A robot that inspects the building and adds reinforcement to the weak regions has been put to place. This undoubtedly is an impressive development to the world of construction in general.
The researchers are hoping that this project (obviously) will play a big role in the future of 3-D house printing and robotic construction.
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McDonald's offering regular and Spicy McNuggets for 99p today
Spicy McNuggets at McDonald's are just 99p as part of the new fast-food chain's app offers. The restaurant has been giving out free food and discounted items all week
Megan Nisbet
Spicy McNuggets are available for 99p at McDonald's (Image: McDonald's)
McDonald's has been announcing new app offers throughout January.
Those that download the My McDonald's App can get a range of deals from free food to discounted items.
So far McDonald's have given away free fries, free Cheese Melt Dippers, free McMuffins and free McCafe hot drinks.
They have also flogged Big Macs, Veggie Dippers and the new Fajita Chicken One for 99p.
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And now, in one of their best deals yet, McDonald's is selling Spicy McNuggets and regular McNuggets for just 99p.
On Saturday, January 11, customers can get six McNuggets for less than £1.
The deal is on all day, with the exception of breakfast hours, which run from 5am to 11am.
Six McNuggets usually cost £3.09, so it's a massive saving for customers.
To get the deal, all customers have to do is download the My McDonald's App for Apple or Android phones.
McDonald's free McNuggets offer is part of the 'Appy Days promotion, which offers 24 deals in 23 days.
Ben Fox, Marketing Director for McDonald’s UK&I said: "We’re excited to offer customers 24 deals over 23 days to brighten up the month of January.
"The daily deals are exclusively available through the My McDonald’s App, which also enables our customers to beat the queue, enjoy table service, customise orders and remember their favourite orders."
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Cyprian Fernandes: Headlines of my life!
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JOHN J D'SOUZA by Norman Da Costa and Merwin D'Souza
John de Souza – a Goan icon
By Norman Da Costa and Merwin de Souza
John de Souza was an indefatigable soul who, like Martin Luther King, harboured a dream. He was a Goan icon. He was a man of many talents. He was passionate about everything to do with the community – the Goan archives, his alma mater Dr Ribeiro’s Goan School and the local clubs. He was a historian and had the pulse of the nation at his fingertips. Ask him a question and within 24 hours you could be assured of an answer. Always willing to help on the condition he was kept in the background. He shunned being in the limelight.
John had his finger in every pie and many wondered where he got the energy to keep on motoring day in and out after making that long trek to work from his home in Brampton to the Pickering Nuclear Plant a distance of some 70 k/ms each way. He would get home, freshen up and then give a few ladies a ride to bingos or any function being held that evening. That was John, always willing to lend a hand.
His younger brother Romeo discovered John had passed away overnight on March 20 after a few phone calls went unanswered. The family usually met on March 19 to celebrate St. Joseph’s Day – the patron saint of Dr Ribeiro’s – and also to remember the day their father had died. This man with an encyclopedic mind saw his journey end at the age of 79 way too early since he had so many irons in the fire that needed urgent attention - primarily getting the different Goan organizations in Toronto together under one umbrella. He was rebuffed on several occasions but John wasn’t one to throw in the towel. He trudged on but his body obviously couldn’t pull him over the line. He will be remembered fondly for being the driving force behind several initiatives including the formation of the 55 Plus Goan Association, an organization in the west end of the Greater Toronto Association with a membership of 840.
The 55 Plus was formed after the West End Seniors could no longer accept any more members. He was also the heart and soul of the Active Goans Club at Mississauga’s Square One. John, of course, will always be remembered for single-handedly running the popular Goan Voice Canada website that featured local clubs and more importantly death notices. After several years John was forced to bring down the shutters on his favourite venture much to the chagrin of the community at large after Romeo had asked him if he had a succession plan. For the first time, John admitted defeat but he still had so much on his plate to keep him going. With help from Goans across Canada he promoted the Konkani Rosary in video and was a founding member of the Friends of Goan Welfare Society along with Jerry Lobo, Teresa Mandricks and myself to raise funds for needy Goans in Kenya. We intend to close the account in the coming weeks with a final donation in memory of John. John and I had a long relationship. We worked closely on three Dr Ribeiro Goan School Ex-Students, Canada, functions. John also kept in close contact with Merwin de Souza, another ex-student, who lives in Florida and, like John, spends countless hours keeping the extremely popular Goan School website alive.
John and I also worked on the Railway Goan Institute 100th anniversary celebration committee held in Mississauga on Sept. 20, 2009, and as co-editors put out a comprehensive 46-page glossy brochure. Of course, this piece wouldn’t be complete without a word from Merwin.
“John was a history buff, particularly our Goan history,’’ wrote Merwin. “He had an obsession for details, most of us would miss. Recently he was obsessed with the old G.I. Duke St. building which was one of the few stone structures built in 1905 or so. “Why stone? Do you know how much-corrugated iron roofing cost at the time . . . the sheer cost?. . . . Why such a permanent structure when many of our pioneers at the time only had temporary permits?” He'd question. Like I knew the answer?! He was fascinated by a seminal 1955 Golden Jubilee G.I. brochure my dad published which to this day is often quoted in lieu of any other community records. Interestingly, among his many other roles, he also assumed the responsibility of community historian placing on record, in the many brochures he produced, the journey of our generation.
John would often say “If we don't know where we came from and the mistakes we made, how do we know where we are going and avoid re-inventing the wheel each time.” A hint of his engineering background and continual improvement process would come out. “Never know why don't we do post-mortems on community events, figure out what worked, what didn't, what we can improve on the next time and pass the info on to new committees instead of reinventing the wheel . . . the only way we can make progress as a community.’’
His concern for the community was widespread from archiving a record of our contributions on this planet to raising the question should we as a community be concerned that our men and women of the cloth are being well looked after in their retirement.
Lately, it was becoming apparent John felt the time was running out and I could sense he was getting frustrated. The community has just lost its most valuable resource.”
Like Martin Luther King, John’s dream of unity in the Goan community remains just that . . . . a dream. Farewell, buddy, I will miss our weekly chats and I wish all those boxes filled to the brim containing prized newspaper cuttings will find a new home.
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Illinois state senator on ethics committee allegedly filed false income tax return
Ben Szalinski
by Ben Szalinski
Sources have identified state Sen. Terry Link as the FBI’s witness in their investigation into former state Rep. Luis Arroyo. Tax troubles may have led to Link’s cooperation.
Illinois state Sen. Terry Link, D-Indian Creek, is allegedly the FBI witness behind the arrest of former Illinois House Assistant Majority Leader Luis Arroyo, according to Chicago Tribune sources.
Federal prosecutors have said the state senator’s cooperation was in exchange for a lighter sentence on pending tax fraud charges. Link is a member of the Legislative Ethics Commission, an assistant majority leader and chairs the gambling subcommittee that Arroyo was trying to influence with the bribe.
According to the Tribune report, Arroyo and Link met at a Highland Park restaurant on Aug. 22 where the two discussed support for Arroyo’s gambling legislation. They then went outside and Arroyo offered him a bribe. Link was wearing a wire for the FBI.
“I’m going to give you this here. This is, this is, this is the jackpot,” Arroyo said as he handed Link a bribe of $2,500, with a promise for monthly payments of the same amount.
“Let’s be clear, my word is my bond and my, my reputation,” said Arroyo.
Arroyo was arrested on Oct. 25 and changed with bribing a state official. He now faces up to 10 years behind bars and has since resigned as state representative.
The federal complaint did not identify Link as the FBI’s informant, stating that a bribe was made to “cooperating witness one” who was an Illinois state senator. Link repeatedly denied being the federal witness.
As for the legislation he discussed with Arroyo, one of the proposed casino locations from last spring’s gambling package calls for a casino in Waukegan, which Link represents.
Link himself is also under federal scrutiny. It is believed he is cooperating with the FBI in hopes of a lighter punishment if charged with filing false income taxes in 2016. Illinois House Republicans have called for Link to resign his position on the Legislative Ethics Commission.
Revelations about Link and Arroyo are the latest in a long year of arrests and investigations of Illinois politicians. Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, 14th Ward, and state Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, have both been charged in federal corruption scandals. Federal authorities recently raided the offices of the architect of Illinois’ doubled gas tax, state Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, as well as those of numerous south suburban leaders in connection to a probe of a red-light camera company.
Curbing Illinois corruption
Despite the cost and damage of political corruption in Illinois, state lawmakers have done little to address it.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders should back commonsense anti-corruption reforms for Illinois, many of which were included in a 2009 state report released following the indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. They include:
Strengthened revolving door restrictions on state lawmakers.
Empowering the Illinois legislative inspector general, which is a muzzled watchdog office that must seek approval from state lawmakers before opening a corruption investigation in the Illinois General Assembly.
Mandating state lawmakers recuse themselves from votes in which they have a conflict of interest.
Reforming state House rules, which grant more concentrated power to the Illinois House speaker than any other state’s legislature grants their speaker.
Using objective scoring criteria for capital projects, akin to Virginia’s Smart Scale Illinois infrastructure dollars are too often directed by clout rather than need.
Passing a bipartisan constitutional amendmentto end politically drawn legislative maps in Illinois.
As the raids pile up and more officials become the subject of investigations and corruption scandals, Illinois residents quickly lose trust in their government. They deserve better than backroom deals from their elected leaders
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Nearly half of Illinois House candidates face no opponent
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House Speaker Mike Madigan has drawn Illinois’ legislative maps for three of the past four decades.
There are 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives. But before a single vote is cast on Election Day, nearly half of those seats will have been filled.
That’s because 54 candidates are running unopposed.
House members’ titles as “representatives” can ring hollow with so many voters having no real choice in the general election. And even in a die-hard blue or red district, losing the power to vote for the opposing party breeds apathy.
Of those 54 free passes, 42 are going to Democrats. Some of the blame falls on the Illinois Republican Party for failing to put warm bodies on the ballot in those districts. And they almost certainly pay the price for it, as any Republican House candidate would likely boost turnout for the top of the ticket.
The Illinois Senate is even less competitive than the House this year. Among 39 races, voters have one name to choose from in 20 of them. Fourteen of the 20 candidates running unopposed are Democrats.
More than anything else, these numbers on politically “safe” districts drive home the problem with partisan mapmaking.
In Illinois, politicians draw the legislative map every 10 years. Here’s how it works:
Both the House and Senate must approve a map, which the governor may then veto or sign into law. If state lawmakers can’t get a map to the finish line, party leadership appoints an eight-member committee to hash things out. If the committee can’t agree on a map, the secretary of state appoints a tiebreaking ninth partisan by random chance. Whichever party wins the lottery for the ninth seat then draws the map.
House Speaker Mike Madigan has drawn Illinois’ legislative maps for three of the past four decades. Notably, a three-member panel of federal judges forced changes to the first map Madigan drew following the 1980 census, after they found it unfairly weakened the voting strength of black and Hispanic Illinoisans.
According to a Chicago Tribune editorial published in January 1982, that was the first time a court in a northern state had found the Democratic Party guilty of intentional discrimination against minorities.
The judges’ ruling, “held in effect that those who drew up the map – primarily [then] House Minority Leader Mike Madigan of Chicago and Martin Murphy, [Chicago] Mayor [Jane] Byrne’s planning commissioner – deliberately designed it to keep black and Hispanic representation low,” the editorial board wrote.
“No defeat in court could have left the Democrats with such an inglorious black eye …”
Nearly 40 years later, the mapmaking process remains the same. And that means whoever becomes the next governor will have a key role to play in mapmaking after the 2020 census.
If J.B. Pritzker wins the governor’s race and the House and Senate remain under Democratic control, Pritzker will have to decide whether to approve a partisan map drawn by his own party come 2021 or demand a more independent process.
Gov. Bruce Rauner would face the same choice if he wins and Republicans take over the General Assembly.
Either man, if elected, must fight to get politicians out of the cartography game.
More Illinoisans deserve a say on who their communities send to Springfield.
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Innovation ideas
My passion is innovation. Over the years, I have written a lot of short concepts, this blog is for publishing edited versions of them in English.
Ohi Hybrid Power Plant
If a nuclear power plant with pressurized water reactors is still in good condition, but enhancing safe operation would be too costly, instead of full decommission, it would be better to modify it to other types of energy production.
Simplified structural diagram:
1. Ohi Unit 1.
3. Reactor vessel for heat energy storage.
4. The heat energy would be stored in molten salt, like in a concentrated solar thermal power plant.
5. Electric heater units.
6. Connecting to the national power grid.
7. Reactor vessel for power generation.
8. Pressurized water.
9. Primary coolant loop.
10. Heat exchanger in which molten salt can transfer the heat energy for the pressurized water.
11. The molten salt would circulate between the two reactor vessels.
12. The power plant would be equipped with waste incineration, which could be fueled by local or imported waste.
13. Waste combustion furnaces.
14. The molten salt would be heated by waste combustion.
Benefits of the hybrid power plant:
By modifying the Units 1 and 2, a fully renewable power plant could be created, which can work even for decades, and since the power plant infrastructure already exists from the control room to the turbines, the cost of expansion could be significantly reduced.
The molten salt could be heated by surplus energy from the national power grid, and in addition, dozens of wind turbines (mostly offshore) could be connected directly. Thus, this hybrid power plant could provide a balancing role for power supply in Japan.
Although without uranium fuel elements, the pressurized water will no longer have a moderator role, thus, the primary loop could be molten salt instead of pressurized water, however, using pressurized water is less expensive because of the way the steam is generated does not need to be modified.
Since one of the reactor vessels would storage the heat energy, and only one of them would produce the energy, the total energy output would be much less, but it could be completely safe.
If the technology works, it could be applicable to other nuclear power plants that await full decommission.
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Careers in protective services include a number of options such as correctional officers, fire fighters, police officers, private detectives, and security guards. The principal work of protective service professionals is to maintain safety within our communities and protect lives and properties from a variety of hazards. Many occupations in this field are considered stressful and dangerous, with the possibility of facing injury while performing job duties, such as those of a police officer dealing with criminals or fire fighters responding to a fire. Job requirements vary by field, with most requiring individuals to complete a specialized program and a period of on-the-job training.
Protective services careers tend to attract honest individuals with a high level of integrity. Individuals should like working with people and have an appreciation and respect for public service and the law. Good judgment along with the ability to make decisions quickly are also important skills to possess, especially in emergency situations. Many jobs have physical fitness and health requirements, as some protective services careers require a great deal of strength and stamina, and may also be stressful and hazardous at times.
Requirements vary by position, but in general, individuals interested in a protective services career must have a high school diploma or GED equivalent, with some requiring at least a bachelor’s degree, such as required for corrections officers by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Many occupations in this field are specialized and have their own classroom instruction and practical training programs, such as a fire or police academy. In addition, most positions have a period of on-the-job training, and may also require drug screenings and medical exams.
Several career options exist in both the private and public sectors in the field of protective services. The following are a few examples of job choices in this field:
Correctional officers, also referred to as detention officers, guard inmates who have been arrested or convicted of a crime. Correctional officers responsibilities may be both inside and outside of state, local, and federal prisons, such as escorting inmates between areas or outside to jobs or necessary trips, standing guard over activities, patrolling the grounds, and controlling disturbances.
Fire fighters protect life and property from fires and hazardous materials that may cause injuries due to fire or explosions. Considered a difficult and often hazardous job, fire fighters are usually assigned a specific duty at the scene, such as connecting hoses to hydrants or climbing ladders. Often the first responders to scenes such as traffic accidents or medical emergencies, fire fighters are trained in a variety of emergency situations.
Private detectives, also called investigators, perform investigations on behalf of individuals and companies to research facts in personal, legal, or financial matters. Private detectives use a variety of means to perform their research such as performing surveillance and background checks, interviewing people, making phone calls, and gathering evidence. They may also be called upon to present evidence and testify at hearings or court trials.
Security guards are responsible for protecting property or assets. Duties vary by assignment, but security guards are often hired in places such as hospitals, museums, banks, private businesses, government offices, department stores, and nightclubs. Protection may be done by a stationary or mobile patrol position, and may include performing security checks, working with emergency services such as police and fire, and writing observation reports, among others.
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"helping people and saving lives. But the most exciting part is fighting fires. You get an amazing adrenaline rush that helps you to do it."
"being able to serve the community. Firefighters are highly regarded by the public and enjoy an enormous amount of respect and trust. We are allowed access into people’s homes in the event of an emergency and are given complete trust with their lives and valuables."
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"being awakened out of a dead sleep and being forced to make urgent decisions, especially in the dead of winter. It is very tough on the body and the mind."
" seeing the suffering that comes with house fires, vehicle accidents and medical emergencies. The devastation or total loss caused by a house fire is tremendously painful for its inhabitants who often lose everything. Sometimes we are unable to save the lives that we work so hard to protect, and the loss of life can be very painful to see."
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Lipex Engineering, located near Munich, a specialist in the state-of-the-art technology for the glass fibre manufacturing industry, has finalised a contract with ABV Holding to build a turnkey plant for production of basalt fibres in Russia.
The production plant, representing an investment of EUR 50 million, will be built in Gukovo in Rostov Oblast, and is expected to be completed within the next two years. It will employ 160 people and offer an annual production capacity of over 5,000 tonnes.
The contract is a further step in the company’s plans to focus on basalt fibre production as a key area for future growth. Since change of ownership in the end of 2017, Lipex Engineering has been committed to building new business and reputation with focus on customer orientation and new developments. Now, it aims to help increase the demand for basalt fibres
The company also announced plans to deliver a basalt fibre nonwoven production line to the Chinese market in April. The delivery of the line will be during 2019 and the start-up of the line is planned for first half of 2020. This line will produce basalt tissue mainly for Chinese niche composites market. The annual capacity of the line is over 140 million m² and running speed is up to 180 m/min, the company reports.
“This delivery continues the strong focus of Lipex Engineering in the Chinese glass and basalt fibre industry,” said Tapio Korhonen, Lipex Engineering Commercial Director. “Since change of ownership end of 2017, Lipex Engineering has been determinedly building new business and reputation with focus on customer orientation and new developments.”
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News-Stock Analysis
Heron Therapeutics Inc (HRTX) Sustol To Be Included In Antiemesis Guidelines By NCCN
Published on March 1, 2017 at 9:34 am by Market Exclusive in News,Stock Analysis
In new guidelines, Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX) has announced that Sustol will be included as an extended-release injection. A recommendation of category 1 has already been given to Sustol by the NCCN – National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Sustol is used in preventing CINV – vomiting and nausea that is caused by chemotherapy in patients who have received MEC or HEC regimens.
“(N)ovel agents that can prevent or reduce the severity of this debilitating chemotherapy side effect have the potential to not only improve the quality of life of patients, but also enable patients to complete potentially life-saving treatment,” Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX)’s Chief Executive Officer, Barry Quart, said.
Evidence And Consensus
As an alliance that is not geared towards profit, the guidelines issued by NCCN are based on evidence and are passed after reaching consensus. They are aimed at assisting patients to get services that will ensure the best possible outcome.
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The Food and Drug Administration of the United States gave approval for Sustol last year in August and the drug is meant to be used as a combo therapy by being paired with antiemetics. This is mainly in adults and it is to prevent vomiting and nausea in patients undergoing chemotherapy. With regards to Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX)’s technology of drug delivery that is polymer-based, Sustol is the first therapy to get approval.
Not Recommended For All Adults
Sustol is, however, not suitable for patients who are hypersensitive to granisetron. Patients who are also hypersensitive to any or all of Sustol’s components are also advised against using the treatment. Sustol is also not recommended for patients with a hypersensitivity to any 5-HT3 receptor. The treatment should also be avoided in patients who are suffering from serious renal impairment. Patients suffering from a renal impairment that is not severe can, however, take the drug.
Since Sustol is injected into the body, sometimes reactions at the site of injection may occur. This includes induration, swelling, nodules, tenderness, pain, bleeding or infection. In some cases, these site reactions could happen even after a fortnight following the administration of Sustol.
In Tuesday’s trading session, shares of Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX) fell by 5.61% to close the day at $14.30.
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Norcross, Kim Announce Bill to Connect Veterans to Registered Apprenticeships
November 7, 2019, 2:28 pm | in
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressmen Donald Norcross (NJ-01) and Andy Kim (NJ-03) announced the Bringing Registered Apprenticeships to Veterans Education (BRAVE) Act – a bill that aims to educate veterans about registered apprenticeship programs and help their overall transition back into civilian life. The announcement of the BRAVE Act comes just before Veterans Day (Nov. 11) and National Apprenticeship Week (Nov. 11-17).
“Our veterans risk their lives for our freedom, and they should be afforded every opportunity to succeed as civilians. These well-trained, highly-skilled servicemembers are uniquely qualified to succeed in registered apprenticeship programs where they can learn and earn on the path to a rewarding career,” said Congressman Norcross. “The BRAVE Act will ensure our transitioning veterans have the tools they need to enjoy a bright future for themselves and their families after serving so bravely to protect us all.”
“We owe it to our veterans to help give them every opportunity to succeed,” said Congressman Kim. “The building trades, through programs like Helmets to Hardhats, have created a path to achieve the American Dream for so many in our community. The BRAVE Act would help expand that opportunity to many more. I’m proud to work with Congressman Norcross to introduce this bill, and look forward to seeing Congress move it forward.”
The BRAVE Act ensures that all transitioning servicemembers are provided information on registered apprenticeships and requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a user-friendly online system for veterans to access VA-certified registered apprenticeship programs with proven track records and endorsed by organizations like Helmets to Hardhats, a nonprofit that connects servicemembers with opportunities in the construction industry.
Congressman Norcross and Kim announced the bill this morning at the American Legion Post 372 in Cherry Hill where they were joined by South Jersey veterans, Building Trades leaders and an IBEW 351 apprentice who went through Helmets to Hardhats to find his apprenticeship.
“Veteran’s Day isn’t just one day of the year – for those who have served and our families, Veterans Day and advocating for veterans’ issues occurs every day,” said Joe Merimonde, Commander of American Legion 372. “On behalf of The American Legion and its nearly 3 million members, I commend Congressman Norcross and Congressman Kim for their work to ensure veterans can be connected to workforce training.”
“Many veterans require assistance and resources to find meaningful work outside of the service – and that is what the BRAVE Act provides by connecting veterans to registered apprenticeships and programs like Helmets to Hardhats,” said Dan Cosner, President of South Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council. “On Veteran’s Day – which happens to fall during National Apprenticeship Week – our servicemembers will not only be honored and thanked, but they will be provided with opportunities for a successful future. I applaud Rep. Norcross and Rep. Kim for bringing apprenticeships to our veterans.”
“In the military we spend a lot of time training, a lot of time preparing for war and a tremendous amount of time putting ourselves in a position where harm’s way becomes our way. When we depart from that, sometimes that transition becomes very rough,” said Stephan Jackson, an IBEW 351 Member and a Helmets to Hardhat Apprentice. “Veterans come out in need of guidance and direction. They are in need of the type of things Congressmen Norcross and Kim are introducing today through this bill. Thank you for giving us veterans an opportunity to perform, to learn, to develop and to build a future that allows us as Americans to do what we have been trained to do, and that is serve.”
Click here to watch the press conference. Click here to view or download photos from the press conference.
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'It's still Red Rock, but on steroids' - hit drama gets raunchier in new one-hour slot
Stars Melanie MacHugh, Anthony Brophy, Darragh O’Toole, Roisin O’Donovan and Chris Newman with Sean Mahon at The Lighthouse Cinema
'Red Rock' cast members Adam Weafer and Pandora McCormick pictured today at The Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield for a special media preview screening of Red Rock Season 3, which returns this September on TV3.
August 24 2016 8:23 AM
There are some big changes ahead for Red Rock as the TV3 series gears up to become raunchier as it moves to a new one-hour slot.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/its-still-red-rock-but-on-steroids-hit-drama-gets-raunchier-in-new-one-hour-slot-34991061.html
https://www.herald.ie/news/ae9db/34989362.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/2016-08-24_new_24033981_I1.JPG
The TV3 show, which previously aired on Tuesdays and Thursdays for half an hour, will now be screened only once a week, in line with the show's move from soap to serial drama.
The show is set to return from its summer break with an explosive first episode when fans will discover who murdered crooked cop Brian McGonigle.
Executive producer John Yorke promised exciting things when the series resumes on a yet-to-be revealed date.
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"It's starting to feel more like a drama than a soap. It's still got those hooks that make you want to keep watching."
Yorke said the change will give the show's bosses a chance to explore grittier storylines.
"We don't want to lose the existing audience, but being an hour means you can go into some things a bit deeper. You can be a bit sexier, you can be more violent," he said.
"It's still Red Rock, but Red Rock with a few steroids added."
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Royal Parks Half Marathon
Run the Royal Parks Half Marathon for Independent Age
Date Sunday 11th October 2020
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Run through beautiful parks of London for Independent Age!
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Applicant has to be present at the time of attestation of documents/signatures/photographs.
Miscellaneous form to be filled by the applicant at Embassy.
One passport size photograph to be pasted on miscellaneous form.
Only Commercial/official/documents from the business houses can be attested by an authorized representative. Copy of passport/ID of the representative to be attached with miscellaneous form.
List of documents required is given with type of services below.
1. Surrender Letter (Renunciation of Indian Citizenship):
1. Indian Passport Original and Copy.
2. Kitas / Kitab Copy and Original.
3. Letter of citizenship from Indonesian Authorities.
4. Photo 2inch by 2inch One Copy.
5. Renunciation Prescribed Form (At Embassy Counter)
6. Miscellaneous form to be filled (At Embassy Counter)
Fees:1,810,000(IDR-Cash-only)
An Indian national, including a minor, on acquisition of foreign nationality and Passport, is not entitled to retain his/her Indian Passport and has to immediately surrender his/her passport for cancellation.
- After renunciation, you will be given a letter of surrender stating that your Indian passport has been cancelled and that you are no longer an Indian citizen.
-Your cancelled passport will also be returned to you.
- The Surrender certificate will be given to the applicant only at the Embassy premises.
- On acquisition of foreign citizenship, all Indian nationals should surrender the passport (if acquired before 31/5/2010) or renounce citizenship (after 31.5.2010).
- Minors who have acquired citizenship (including Certificate of Citizenship) must surrender their passport (if acquired before 31.5.2010) or renounce citizenship (if acquired after 31.5.2010).
- A person (including minor) is liable to be penalized if after acquisition of foreign nationality, he/she retains the Indian passport beyond three years or travels on it beyond the grace period of three months, on a passport whose final validity expired on or after 1.1.2005.
- The fine would be imposed at the following rates:
- Retention of Indian passport beyond the grace period of 3 years - Rs.10,000/-.
- For each travel -Rs.10,000/- subject to a maximum travel of 5.
- If the Indian passport got reissued (after obtaining foreign citizenship /passport), an additional fine of Rs.25000/- would be charged
2. NOC for Indonesian Citizenship:
2. Kitas / Kitab- Original and copy.
3. Requesting Letter to Indonesian Immigration (Copy and Original).
5. Miscellaneous form to be filled.
Fees : IDR 365,000(Cash only)
3. Birth Certificate based on Passport:
2. Kitas / Kitab Original and Copy.
4. Miscellaneous form to be filled at Embassy.
4. NOC for Marriage (In Case of Marriage of Indian to Indonesian National):
1. Original and Copy of Indian Passport.
2. Photo 2 inch by 2 inch (Two).
3. Applicant has to submit a Certificate of bachelorhood/single-status/eligibility to get married issued by competent court having jurisdiction of the area of the residential address of the applicant. This can be in the form of a declaratory order for which a suit has to be filed before the appropriate court for the specific purpose which is required to be counter-attested by the Home Department of the State concerned. Thereafter, it is to be attested/apostilled by the Attestation Section of the Consular, Passport & Visa (CPV) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi.
Note: After marriage, the couple need to get attested their marriage certificate by Indonesia Foreign Office (Kemlu/Deplu) and further Attested by Indian Embassy. Also need to register their marriage with the registrar of marriage in India.
5. NOC Regarding Issue of Passport from India in R/O Minor: (In Case One Of The Parent Residing At India Applies For Child’s Passport)
1. Passport & Kitas (Original & Copy) of the Applicant.
2. Marriage Certificate.
3. Birth Certificate of the Child.
4. Prescribed Form To Fill Up For The Parent In Indonesia.
As per new rule there is no need to attest the Affidavit by Missions.
6. Indian Passport /Birth Registration for Newly Born Baby (One of the Spouse is other Nationality):
A. Birth registration of Children eligible for Indian nationality
1. For a child born in Indonesia, to be registered as an Indian citizen, the application is to be made online. For detailed information, applicants are requested to visit the website of Ministry of Home Affairs at web link: https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in
2. After filling-in the application online, the hard copy (printout) of the online application needs to be signed by the parents and the signed application form needs to be submitted at the Consular Section of Embassy of India along with other prescribed documents in original, a self-attested photocopy set of prescribed documents and the prescribed fee. For this service, applicants have to apply in Person only.
3. Procedure for submitting online application:
Go to Ministry of Home Affairs website by typing in address of web browser https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in/
The applicant after accessing the above mentioned website shall select the option “Registration of birth of a minor child at an Indian Mission under Section 4(1) of the Citizenship Act, 1955”
Click 'Apply Online' button to fill up the form.
Each online application form is meant for one person only. Separate application has to be filed for each case.
The online form should be filled in Block/Capital letters.
Furnish information exactly in the manner asked for in the forms, especially the names, address and date of birth as per entries in your passport.
Applicants are required to verify the application details before submitting the online application.
Once the online application form is submitted by the applicant, further modifications are not allowed. Hence applicants are requested to check and validate the details before submitting the online application form.
After filing all the details in the online application form, the form is saved.
As soon as the form is submitted, a MHA File number will be generated automatically and will appear on the screen as an acknowledgement. The applicants are advised to keep the MHA File Number for further correspondence and online status tracking.
Applicants have to upload the prescribed supporting documents and then click the Print application tab from the main menu.
After clicking on Print application tab from the main menu, the applicant has to enter his/her MHA File Number as an identity to access the submitted application. A PDF application form shall be displayed with an option of pasting applicant's recent passport size photograph. Recent passport size photograph of the applicant is to be affixed on each form in the prescribed space. Photograph to be affixed on the application should be of square shape of size 2 inch x 2 inch (with 80% coverage by face). It should have light colour background (not white) without border with front view of the child’s head and shoulders showing the full face in the middle of the photograph. It should not be stapled and should not have any signature. Photographs that do not conform to these standards will be rejected and may cause a delay in processing the applications.
The applicant shall take the print out of the application submitted. Parents are required to put their Signatures/Thumb Impressions (left for male and right for female) at the designated signature box.
* A person who has not attained the age of 18 years is considered as minor. Parents / legal guardians of the child must sign in the column prescribed for them in the form.
4. After submission of the application online, the applicants are required to submit hard copy of the online application form duly signed by the applicants in the space provided for signature and other supporting documents (as listed below) in original along with a self-attested photocopy set of the original documents at the Consular Counter of the Embassy of India, Jakarta. The original documents shall be returned to the applicant immediately after verification at the Consular Section. Part II of the online application form contains a declaration form. On the basis of information filled up in Part I, system itself generates Part II. The parent whose name appears in Part II of the online application form is required to submit the application in person at the Consular Section of the Embassy and sign the declaration (in Part II of the online application form)before the Consular Officer at the Embassy.
Documents to be annexed with duly completed online application form:
Declaration Form dully filled in and signed by the parents.
Passport of both the parents:
In case of Indian Passport Holders: Valid passport in original of both parents and self-attested copies of first two and last two pages of the passport and the page (s) containing passport officer’s observation (s) (if any).
In case one of the Parents holds Foreign Passport: Valid passport in original and self-attested copies of the passport pages containing personal particulars of the passport holder.
Certified copy of Birth Certificate issued by competent Authority of Indonesia.
Certificate of Indian citizenship of parent (s) if the Indian parent (s) has/have acquired Indian citizenship by registration/naturalization.
Marriage Certificate of the parents.
Proof of Residence: Copy of KITAS/Residence permit.
5. If the application is made within one year of birth of child as per above-mentioned process and subject to fulfilment of the eligibility criteria as per Ministry of Home Affairs guidelines, the Embassy shall register the birth of the child as an Indian citizen and issue the Birth Registration Certificate. In cases, where applications are made after one year of birth of child, the process is same. However, in such cases, a notarized affidavit or an affidavit executed before the Consular Officer of the Embassy from the parents stating the reason (s) for not registering the birth within one year of birth of the child, is also required to be submitted
6. Fee: IDR 365.000 and 27000 towards ICWF
7. Processing Time: Normally, 7-8 Working Days, if the application is complete in all respects.
Name of the father and the mother entered in the Birth Certificate of the child should match with the names appearing in their passports. In case of any discrepancy/some difference in names, an observation in this regard is required to be made from the concerned Birth Registrar’s office.
The documents (as specified in Para 4& 5 above and as applicable in individual cases) are mandatory requirements. The applicant (s) may be advised to submit some more documents, after scrutiny of the application and documents at the Consular Section, on case to case basis.
Applicants are advised to check that all fields in the online application form are filled in and prescribed documents are uploaded in conformity with instructions contained in the website of Ministry of Home Affairs at web link: https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in . In case any deficiency is noticed by the Embassy in online application form and uploading of documents, the applicants would be required to fill up new application form rectifying the deficiency and submit the same.
B. After online registration of Birth, you can apply Passport for the minor on the link: www.passport.gov.in/nri/ and submit printout of the passport application along with self-attested copies of following documents and with originals:
2. Both Parents Passport Original and Copy.
3. One of The Parent’s Kitas/Kitab.
4. Baby’s Birth Certificate from the Hospital and from the Local Government (both required).
5. Baby’s Photo 2 inch x 2 inch, two Copies with white background with contrast dress.
6. Self-Affidavit from the Parents certifying that they have not applied for any other Passport.
Jl H.R. Rasuna Said, Kav. S-1,
Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan 12950,
Tel 62-21-5204150/52/57/5264931,
Fax 62-21-5204160, 5265622, 5264932, 5226833,
E-mail : info.jakarta@mea.gov.in
Officer-in-charge: Mr. Debashish Biswas
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INVERLOCH LIFE
HAVE YOU SPOTTED THE INVERLOCH TASMANIAN TIGER?
" It wasn't a dog. and it was to big to be a cat ". There have been lots of reported sightings of the fabled Tasmanian Tiger on the rambling coast of South Gippsland, most recently right here in Inverloch just off of Ullathornes Road and reported in The Great Southern Star. The last Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine in capivity died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936, but sightings of the animal have been prevalent ever since, particularly along the Gippsland coast where it is believed a breeding pair of Tasmanian tigers were released at Wilsons Promontory just after WW1.
A recent Tasmanian tiger sighting was reported in South Gippsland recently. Venus Bay Caravan Park owner Tony Holgate came across a tiger at the park in December, and Barrie Murphy reported a sighting at Inverloch. The Inverloch resident said he was positive he caught a glimpse of the nocturnal marsupial and added jokingly he had just one glass of wine for the whole night.
“At about 10.30pm, I was driving along Ullathorne Road when it crossed the road in front of me,” he said. “First of all, I thought it was a fox or a cat, but as it moved off the bitumen on to the green verge, I realised it was dog sized, about the same as an Alsatian.”
Mr Murphy said as he got closer to the animal, its tail captured his attention. “It was the long, straight tail, which could have been a metre long. It was straight out, white and strong looking,” he said. Because he was in his car, Mr Murphy was unable to see the creature’s head, but he did recognise one of the Tasmanian tiger’s most distinctive traits. “The thing that really made me twig was, as I drove past it, I saw the stripes down its side and onto its flank,” he said.
“I thought to myself, I have seen something exceptional here, so I turned around and went back, but it had disappeared.” Mr Murphy said in the past, he has heard two accounts of Tasmanian tiger sightings, both from reliable sources. “After seeing one myself, I thought I would report it so other people can keep a lookout,” he said.
Read the full article in The Great Southern Star HERE
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The possible continued existence of a thylacine population, particularly in South-Eastern Victoria, is clearly and graphically displayed in Murray's well documented website. Murray McAllister has been working for several years now in the course of thylacine research, his enthusiasm, dedication and staunch determination in seeking to collect sound and conclusive evidence of thylacine activity throughout the Gippsland area of Victoria is commendable. Evidence would suggest that there is every possibility of conclusive proof eventually emerging that will, sooner or later put the issue beyond doubt that the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger has survived not only in Tasmania, but on mainland Australia as well. Thylacine researchers such as Murray McAllister are proving invaluable in their on-going research towards achieving this.
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State bodies told to find solution to owed €20m from school builds
Pearse Doherty: "Do not facilitate them in anything but making sure the subbies get a payment. You hold the aces."
Friday, July 27, 2018 - 03:40 AM
By Niall Murray, Education Correspondent
State agencies have been told by TDs and senators they must find a resolution to the non-payment of up to €20m owed to contractors on a public-private partnership (PPP) school building project.
Sub-contractors and suppliers who had provided equipment or work on the five schools and a further education college are collectively owed between €5m and €20m following the liquidation of the main contractor Sammon in June.
Some placed pickets on sites last week but court injunctions forced them to be lifted and work has resumed as the replacement main contractor takes steps to have three of the schools ready to open by the end of August.
At the Oireachtas finance committee, National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) officials insisted that responsibility for payment was with the Sammon group, now in liquidation, which had sub-contracted the various suppliers and other companies which were left out of pocket.
Sammon was the main contractor for the PPP company with which the Department of Education entered into a deal in 2016. But UK building firm Carillion, one of two partners in the PPP company, collapsed in January which, in turn, contributed to Sammon’s liquidation.
The NDFA said it has impressed on Dutch Infrastructure Fund — the remaining company from the original joint venture with Carillion — that they should engage in the first instance with contractors in the supply chain established by Sammon before its collapse.
However, they repeated their assertion to committee members three weeks ago that the agency has no authority to insist who should be engaged by DIF or Woodvale — which has replaced Sammon — to complete and certify works on the site.
Whilst DIF (and its counterparty Woodvale) will endeavour to reach agreement with the existing subcontractors where possible, they have made it very clear that they cannot accept a position whereby they must use the existing subcontractors, including resolving the amounts being claimed for work done by those subcontractors but not paid for by Sammon,” said NDFA head of project management David Corrigan.
The NDFA paid around €3m last year for preliminary site works but it has yet to pay the PPP company any of the scheduled €264m for the building and maintenance of the schools over the next 25 years.
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty told the NDFA it holds the aces as building regulations say the sub-contractors have to sign off on their own work, and the PPP company will not begin receiving payment from the State until the schools are delivered.
Do not facilitate them in anything but making sure the subbies get a payment. You hold the aces. You are the ones who will authorise the cheques of over quarter of a billion to this company, they have got an awful lot to lose,” he said.
Committee chairman, Fianna Fáil’s John McGuinness said the NDFA, Department of Education, and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are continuing to wash their hands of any responsibility to sub-contractors.
He appealed to all the parties to use their common sense and find a resolution, noting the committee would be asking the Comptroller and Auditor General to examine the matters.
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Quarry planning appeal rejected
By Gordon Deegan
THE company behind plans to extract 4.5 million tonnes of material from a site in Co Clare has failed to secure planning permission for the proposal.
Last year, the council refused planning for the contentious quarry near Ruan, which attracted the support of a number of bogus supporters, with unknown people supplying fictitious names and addresses with the council in support of the scheme.
Lagan Bitumen Ltd appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála on a number of grounds.
Bord Pleanála has now refused planning permission, endorsing the view of its inspector. The inspector also determined that quarrying activities on the site have been determined to be unauthorised.
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Rumblings over theistic evolution
Last Sunday's NYT magazine has an article about a pastor who calls himself an evolutionary evangelist:
For the last six years, he has traveled across North America with his wife, Connie Barlow, in a van that displays an image of two fish kissing each other — one labeled Jesus, the other Darwin — explaining to conservative and liberal congregations why understanding and accepting evolution will bring them closer to spiritual fulfillment. The religious advantage to embracing the evolutionary worldview, Dowd says, is that it explains our frailties, our addictions, our infidelities and other moral deficiencies as byproducts of adaptation over billions of years. And that, he says, has a potentially liberating effect: never mind guilt; once we understand our sinful ways, we can get past them and play a conscious role in the evolution of humanity.
Read the full article here. It includes criticism both from religious and atheistic side for his views. Indeed, the pastor seems to go a bit too far in incorporating evolutionary psychology into his spiritual (?) world view. But at least he accepts science for the explanation for the physical world.
On the other side, William Dembski has gone ballistic over Ken Miller's new book and his brand of theistic evolution. Read commentary on this at Open Parachute and at Pharyngula. The funniest part of Dembski's rant is that he calls Ann Coulter for his defense. Really? C'mon Billy D... you can to do better than that.
Here is what he has to say about Ken Miller and Francis Collins:
Could it be that the evolutionists’ assault on both science (by perpetuating the fraud that natural selection has unmatched creative powers) and religion (by using evolution as a club to beat people of faith) is undermining America’s soul? Not according to Miller. He’s got other fish to fry. For him, it’s the ID proponents’ assault on evolution that is undermining America’s soul. Forget about Dawkins and his blasphemy challenge. Let’s shaft the ID community.
Francis Collins agrees. His endorsement of Miller’s book leaves no doubt that the ID people are a bigger threat than the atheistic evolutionists like Dawkins:
“In this powerfully argued and timely book, Ken Miller takes on the fundamental core of the Intelligent Design movement, and shows with compelling examples and devastating logic that ID is not only bad science but is potentially threatening in other deeper ways to America’s future. But make no mistake, this is not some atheistic screed — Prof. Miller’s perspective as a devout believer will allow his case to resonate with believers and non-believers alike.” –Francis Collins, Director, the Human Genome Project and author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
With devout believers like this, give me a good infidel any time.
Hmm...this is so much fun! And then Billy D. lays out his strategy, which includes the unleashing of Ann Coulter over the civilized world:
What’s our strategy. The strategy is multipronged. Let me just give you one prong: WIN THE YOUTH. The release date for Miller’s book is June 12th. I’ve got a book titled Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language (co-authored with youth speaker and high-school teacher Sean McDowell) whose release date is July 1st. It is geared specifically at mobilizing Christian young people, homeschoolers, and church youth groups with the ID alternative to Darwinian evolution. You might want to compare Francis Collins’ endorsment of Miller’s book with Ann Coulter’s endorsement of mine:
In my book Godless, I showed that Darwinism is the hoax of the century and, consequently, the core of the religion of liberalism…. Liberals respond to critics of their religion like Cotton Mather to Salem’s “witches.” With this book, two more witches present themselves for burning: Sean McDowell, whose gift is communicating with young people, and Bill Dembski, often called the Isaac Newton of intelligent design. I think Dembski is more like the Dick Butkus of Intelligent Design. His record for tackling Darwiniacs is unmatched. This book gives young people all the ammo they need to take on Darwinism and understand the only viable scientific alternative to Darwinism: intelligent design. Every high school student in America needs a copy of Understanding Intelligent Design. –Ann Coulter, BESTSELLING author of Godless: The Church of Liberalism.
Yes, please do compare Collin's endorsement with Coulter's.
Read Isaac Newton's - er.. I mean Bill Dembski's full rant here. Also Ken Miller's book is Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul.
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Philip H. Jordan sold 1324 76 Rd. to Trenton M. Burgess for $169,600 on April 29.
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Stephen G. Peggs sold 42 Penny Ln. to Bei Xie for $163,000 on May 2.
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Gearlene Herndon sold 208 Cleveland Ave to Leslie Ackerman for $172,000 on April 30.
Elizabeth Field sold 109 Vinegar Hill. to Richard Rocco Griffith Campanale for $180,000 on April 30.
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It “…was the worst blow ever struck at any tribe in the whole plains region, and this blow fell upon friendly Indians.” That is how one survivor, George Bent, begins his description of the massacre that took place on November 29, 1864 in southeastern Colorado. Bent was the son of Owl Woman, whose father was a prominent Cheyenne chief, and William Bent, a famous fur trader of the era. Thanks in part to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, which opened to the public in 2007, many more people know about that shameful day in settlement history than in my childhood. Although my hometown was less than a hundred miles from Sand Creek, it was never mentioned.
To briefly summarize: At dawn on November 29, 1864, U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington and 700 men of the Colorado Cavalry attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, murdering between160 to 200 people, approximately two-thirds of whom were women, children, and infants. The peace chief Black Kettle had chosen to camp at Sand Creek because Colorado’s Governor Evans had assured him that his people would be safe there.
Bent fled with others upstream and dug a pit in the sand to hide in. Soldiers fired howitzers into the pits, killing most who took refuge there, but Bent survived. Of the night that followed, he wrote, “There we were, on that bleak, frozen plain, without any shelter whatever and not a stick of wood to build a fire with.” He describes how the able-bodied tried to prevent the wounded from freezing to death by covering them with their own blankets and robes, or with handfuls of grass.
Riders who had escaped the attack and raced the forty miles to Big Timbers—a Cheyenne Dog Soldier camp on the Smoky Hill River, in Kansas—returned the next morning with mounts and blankets for the survivors. “As we rode into camp,” Bent wrote, “everyone was crying, even the warriors and the women and children screaming and wailing. Nearly everyone present had lost some relations or friends, and many of them in their grief were gashing themselves with their knives until the blood flowed in streams.”
Chivington’s men did not stop at killing their victims, but went among them afterward, slicing away scalps and body parts as trophies. A Congressional investigation that followed found it “…difficult to believe that beings in the form of men, and disgracing the uniform of United States soldiers and officers, could commit or countenance . . . such acts of cruelty and barbarity.”
Reading of these horrors, I was consoled somewhat to learn that two officers refused to participate in the massacre and ordered their men to stand down. One of them, Captain Silas Soule (Sole), was among the first to report the crimes. While an Army Judge censured Chivington for committing “cowardly and cold-blooded slaughter, sufficient to cover its perpetrators with indelible infamy,” Chivington was out of the military by then, and no charges were ever brought against him or his men.
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Nicky Napier is crowdfunding
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Weʼre raising £100,000 to support the development of the Bernard Molloy Trust (Fellowship and Apprenticeship Programmes)
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The Bernard Molloy Trust, is in the process of establishing the Bernard Molloy Fellowships - as a model of best practice, to support future generations of young leaders in the Logistics and Materials handling industries. The main aim of the Fellowship programme is to equip each Fellow with the skills and confidence required to become part of the next generation of leaders in their industry. The Fellowships are aimed at young adults’ who have finished an apprenticeship course / or post school education, and who have been working in the industry of their choice for a minimum of 2 years.
As part of the wider remit for the Bernard Molloy Fellowships each alumni of the Fellowship programme will be tasked with becoming an active BBB Ambassador, working alongside the Bernard Molloy Trust, with the principle aim to generate on-going debate and dialogue around the need for appropriate apprenticeship models in the industry.
The first round of Fellowships will be offered towards the end of 2020.
Thank you everyone so far for your donations! In case you haven't seem this: Liverpool City Region LEP invite the business community to remember and celebrate Bernard's great work in global logistics; his energy and passion for apprenticeships and the City Region; and of course his ‘life & soul’ character, on Thursday 10th October. Venue: Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool L2 3SW. Time: 4pm-6pm (including refreshments). Please RSVP to events@liverpoollep.org Thank you!
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What a wonderful thing to do. I hope enough money is raised to make this legacy come to life and help many more people in the future. Good luck!
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A very worthwhile concept and in memory of a seriously talented leader, a huge figure in the logistics industry and a top bloke. One of a kind Bernard.
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New International Bridge and Customs Post Facilitate Cross-Border Transport
The Rusumo International Bridge at the border of Rwanda and Tanzania is a key logistics link for the inland countries of East Africa. The bridge is on the Central Corridor, an arterial roadway from the Indian Ocean to Rwanda. For many years it was subject to constant congestion due to traffic limits made necessary by the bridge’s structural deterioration and to the complexity of customs procedures. To address this problem, the Japanese government extended JPY 3.72 billion (USD 35.4 million) in grant aid to undertake the Project for Construction of Rusumo International Bridge and One Stop Border Post (OSBP) Facilities, aimed at achieving a dramatic decrease in the amount of time required to cross the border. This major project, based on technical cooperation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), included both construction of a new bridge and the introduction of OSBP facilities to streamline customs formalities.
Overview of the new Rusumo International Bridge and One Stop Border Post (OSBP) complex. The area beyond the curve in the river on the left is the site of the OSBP on the Tanzanian side of the border.
The new two-lane bridge, built with high-level Japanese technology, eases passage by allowing twoway traffic. And the new OSBP complex reduces congestion and promotes smoother cross-border trade: Whereas previously it was necessary to go through customs separately on both sides, a process that could take about 14 hours, now the procedures can be completed more expeditiously in one stop. Over a period of eight years the Japanese government worked steadily with various government organs in Rwanda and Tanzania and with the East African Community (EAC), which has been promoting the adoption of the OSBP concept, to support the enactment of relevant legislation. JICA also assisted with the preparation of operational manuals and technical training for customs officials. On March 1, 2016, the long-awaited OSBP was inaugurated, greatly shortening the time required to clear customs. JICA estimates that in the first year of operation, the new facility will result in savings of USD 1.8 million in costs for round-trip transportation between the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Kigali, capital of Rwanda. And the improvement of the Central Corridor logistics network will promote the flow of goods and contribute greatly to the economic development and modernization of East Africa’s inland nations.
The project has also produced positive effects in enhancing the capabilities of the local engineers who were involved. Ryutaro Murotani, acting senior representative at the JICA Rwanda Office, notes, “Rwandan engineers who worked on this project have put their experience to work on another project: the construction of an OSBP on the border between Rwanda and Uganda.” Representatives of local construction companies also report that working with a Japanese company on the bridge-building project offered them a good opportunity to learn Japanese civil engineering technology and highquality construction techniques.
JICA’S goal is to see a uniform system of one-stop border posts adopted throughout Africa’s distribution network so as to enhance the interconnectivity among the countries of the continent. The agency is now at the preparatory stage, working on a sourcebook together with the regional organizations and national government organs currently operating OSBPs based on their own systems. Support for the Rusumo International Bridge project has been a part of this undertaking, and the project’s successful outcome will be a step toward further support for Africa’s development.
A commemorative panel at the approach to the bridge displays the flag of Japan along with those of Rwanda and Tanzania. Local university architecture students visited the site frequently to see the Japanese launching erection method used in constructing the bridge.
An engineer from a Japanese construction company (left) provides guidance to local engineers as they work together on the project.
Congestion on and around the old bridge. The Rwandan side of the border is in the foreground. On the far side, in Tanzania, a line of trucks wait to cross the border. The former bridge had an axle load limit of only 8 tons and the speed limit was 5 kilometers (3 miles) per hour; only one large truck at a time could cross it.
A view of the new bridge from the Tanzanian side. The yellow-fenced pathway-like structure on the left is the old bridge.
The major roadways for transport of goods from the Indian Ocean to inland areas. The Northern Corridor was formerly the most-used route, but two border crossings made it time consuming. With the inauguration of the new bridge and OSBP, the Central Corridor has come to play a much bigger role as a transport route.
Improvements expected to result from the project: In addition to the lowering of transportation costs thanks to the introduction of OSBP facilities, the opening of the new bridge will allow the passage of trucks heavier than the former limit of 8 tons.
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Nearly all items are sold as single items, including collar badges, shoulder titles and rank badges. We are not tailors or outfitters. Our main business is with insignia for collectors, and collectors tend only to want single examples. The other factor is that we might only have a single example, particularly of older rarer items.
Sometimes we might have more than one of an item, but they do not exactly match - this could be because the government has placed supply-contracts with different manufacturers over the years, or because of how the original wearer polished or washed the insignia. We are not manufacturers, but deal in original items for collectors and in the nature of authenticity, variations do exist.
If any items are sold as pairs, they will be clearly marked "(Pair)". Where there is potential for confusion, some items are also marked as '(Single)'.
Sometimes we list items as "Pair Available", this means that we have a matching set in stock, but the price will be based on single items. In other words you need to order 2 if you want a pair.
If in doubt, assume that the price is based on single quantities. We sell items as collectibles, and collectors tend to want only one of a kind, not duplicates.
Some military collar and arm badges are made as "mirror-image" pairs: typically these are badges with animals and they are made to face left or right; usually so that they face forwards when worn on a uniform. We usually sell these as single items and use the following abbreviations:
FL Facing Left (as seen by an observer)
FR Facing Right (as seen by an observer)
If a badge is marked FL or FR, it is undoubtedly a single, not a pair.
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Unfortunately, many complex legal questions can arise when there is a conflict between shareholders and a company and amongst partners in that company. When there are multiple parties attempting to work together to steer the direction of a company, legal conflicts and disputes are bound to emerge.
Everyone involved in a situation likely has an opinion about the most appropriate steps to take next regarding any business method or a new concept, and the opinions presented by the relevant stakeholders can conflict with one another. When disputes between the company’s management and shareholders happen, sometimes legal action must be taken in order to settle the dispute. Other methods may have been attempted to resolve the problem without going to litigation but unfortunately, some problems are so complex that they require the insight of an experienced litigator to handle shareholder and partnership disputes.
How Disputes Emerge
When shareholders are active regarding their input for the company, this may lead to a greater chance of a dispute between partners and shareholders. In the worst case scenarios, this can lead to deadlock. Attempts to resolve things outside of court may fail and compromise the company entirely, which is why the company may explore litigation for partnership and shareholder disputes.
Common Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
Partnership and shareholder disputes do not affect just one industry or kind of company.
Shareholder and partnership disputes can arise in many different ways but it is essential to give them proper attention as soon as possible in order to mitigate any possible damage to the company. Time spent away from working on company issues can lead to detrimental impacts on the company as well as distracted partners. There are many different kinds of disputes that can emerge, involving contracts, customers or any of the other essential parts of the business. What follows are some of the most common shareholder and partnership disputes that a business may experience:
Management deadlocks. Where company management is unable to move forward on decisions without using litigation to break through the gridlock
Buy-sell agreements. When assets are being sold that belong to the company or when it is time to purchase new assets. This is one of the most common situations in which partners may disagree with shareholders over the appropriate next step.
Breach of contract. A contractual breach may require enhanced involvement by an attorney in the form of shareholder and partnership litigation to resolve. One party may allege that the other has breached the contract and that other party may allege there was no breach or that it was the first party who breached the contract.
Succession planning. The future of the company can present many complicated and challenging questions for a business and succession planning issues are most likely to emerge in family owned businesses but they can affect any company.
Corporate regulation violations. If partners or shareholders act in any way that is in violation of company bylaws, it may require litigation to resolve these issues.
Executive compensation. One of the most common reasons for a disagreement to emerge between shareholders and partners has to do with compensation for key management individuals.
Resolving Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
When a dispute first emerges, relevant parties may attempt to settle it on their own. Unfortunately, there are many reasons why a dispute cannot be handled effectively outside of court. When it becomes clear that litigation is necessary, retaining the right law firm is extremely important.
If business management and shareholders have attempted to come to an agreement on their own but been unable to resolve the legal issues, this may require the insight of an attorney to help mediate or litigate the situation. It is worth trying to resolve this issue outside of court if possible, but unfortunately many of the issues involved in a complex partnership or shareholder dispute will require going to litigation. In this situation it is essential to hire an attorney and law firm with experience in litigating these complicated and essential disputes.
Handling the dispute effectively and efficiently is critical so as to minimize the impact on the business and allow all vested parties to address the issue promptly. As soon as a legal issue emerges that cannot be properly addressed by management on its own, it is worthwhile to reach out to an experienced attorney immediately.
Has a dispute emerged between shareholders and partners and the conflict is gridlocked? If so, you need to take action right away and work with a law firm of attorneys who understand these complex business issues. Contact KPPB LAW for more information on litigation for partnership and shareholder disputes.
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Heinrich Böll Foundation Belgrade supports KRIK
Published by KRIK.rs at March 18, 2016
The Informer tabloid which stands close to the Serbian Prime Minister has launched today a smear campaign against the anti-corruption portal KRIK and its Editor-in-Chief Stevan Dojčinović.
As always, the published criticism of obvious abuses in Serbia’s judiciary, administration and government is condemned as a personal attack against the Prime Minister. Such idea can only occur to someone who is convinced that, apart from the Prime Minister, there are no responsible persons in Serbia: no independent judiciary, no institutions that operate according to their own democratically established rules. In fact: the Informer campaign proves that this country has been taken in possession by one party, indeed by the Prime Minister personally, and that a part of the Serbian press is openly supporting him in the process. For this very reason, the work of independent investigative journalism is of major importance for a democratic Serbia which respects not only majorities, but also checks and balances, and that is why the Heinrich Böll Foundation Belgrade supports the work by KRIK.
Dr. Andreas Poltermann
Stevan Dojčinović (credit: VOA)
KRIK Editor Detained on Abu Dhabi airport and Deported Back to Serbia
Drew Sullivan (credit: OCCRP)
OCCRP Outraged by Editor’s Detention and Denial of Entry on Eve of UN Anti-Corruption Conference
Milica Vojinovic (photo: N1)
KRIK’s Journalist Made a Statement to the Police About Breaking-And-Entering of Her Home
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ZAMBALES | The Heritage Churches of Zambales
I have previously wondered about the heritage churches in Zambales, or more accurately, the absence of them. I knew that the Spanish conquistadores have definitely reached this part of the Philippines, but every time I visit my wife’s (Blissfulguro) hometown of Cabangan, the churches I pass en route are all modern ones. This province is old, founded in the 1500’s, but where oh where are its massive stone churches?
It was only recently that I finally got a glimpse of the Spanish colonial churches in Zambales. It turns out, I need to go past the sleepy town of Cabangan to finally see these old behemoths. Out of the thirteen municipalities of Zambales, four of these has old churches (it’s worth noting that all of these are located on the northern parts of the province), and of these, one even has a seal of being a National Cultural Treasure. Not really a lot, and I’m really curious as to the reason why, but still a good enough collection worthy of a Visita Iglesia pilgrimage in Zambales.
STA. MONICA CHURCH
A town away north of Cabangan is the Sta. Monica Church in Botolan. Judging from the wall color on its side walls, it seems to be constructed out of limestones. The façade has a more darkened patina and is symmetrical in design. Two niches set on both sides of the church contains terra cota-like figures of St. Augustine and, where the church was named after, St. Monica. The belfry is set right smack on top of the triangular pediment with three old bells hanging on wooden yokes. Sadly, we weren’t able to enter its halls, its huge wooden double doors closed during our visit, to inspect its interiors.
THE STA. MONICA CHURCH IN BOTOLAN
A STATUE OF STA. MONICA | A VIEW OF THE BELFRY
STA. MONICA CHURCH BELFRY APEX
IBA CATHEDRAL
At the center of Zambales, adjacent to its capitol building where the annual Dinamulag Festival is celebrated, stands the Iba Cathedral. Formally known as the Cathedral of Saint Augustine, it is the seat of the diocese of the province. Built by the Recollects or the Franciscans in the 1700’s it features a fancy façade set with faux white columns on a plain beige wall. An octagonal belfry, five storeys high, stands on its right side, and a larger than life statue of St. Augustine stands on its left flank. Under its painted front, you can glean its material—said to be limestone and coral stones—along its buttresses and side walls. The interiors are painted in the same hue as the outside, the floors set with colorful machuca-esque floor tiles. A thing worth nothing are the two midget statues set on the niches on the facade.
THE IBA CATHEDRAL FACADE
WEDDING INSIDE THE IBA CATHEDRAL
A CURIOUS MIDGET STATUE ALONG THE CHURCH FACADE
MASINLOC CHURCH
While I was unable to visit Masinloc Church or the San Andres Apostol Parish, this is actually the most important Catholic structure in the whole of Zambales. Styled in Baroque architecture, its simple façade is set with cut coral stones with a peeling coat of white paint. A bell tower is incorporated on its right side—a somewhat tasteless addition, its style totally unfit with the whole architecture of the church.
The Masinloc Church, which had its multiple share restorations and renovations due to earthquakes, has been declared as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum in 2001.
THE MASINLOC CHURCH FACADE IN ZAMBALES ~ PHOTO BY JOEL ALDOR
STA. CRUZ CHURCH
And on the northernmost tip of Zambales is the Sta. Cruz Church. Arguably the prettiest heritage church in Zambales, its coral stone façade is beset by decorated faux pillars, wall trim moldings, window tympanums, and stained windows. The only thing missing is a belfry, which actually provided a symmetry to its face.
Dubbed as the St. Michael the Archangel parish, it fronts a square and is adjacent to a parochial school with turn-of-the century wooden walls and sliding capiz windows.
THE STA. CRUZ CHURCH FACADE IN ZAMBALES ~ PHOTO BY RAMON VELASQUEZ
Tags: [ARCHITECTURE], 2019, Botolan, Central Luzon, Churches, Iba, Masinloc, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
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Comic Creator Tom Kerr
Tom Kerr
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Tom Kerr began his career in the late 1940s, drawing 'Little Lew' for Pets' Playtime Comic published by Philmar. Then in the 1950s he drew 'Fay' in the Weekend Mail Comic and 'Monty Carstairs' in Mickey Mouse Weekly. He also drew for girls comics such as Marilyn ('Mum', 'Wham! My Man!'), School Friend, Girls' Crystal and June.
He was present in Buster from the early 1960s with his own comic 'Kip Kerrigan', but also with fill-ins on 'Kelly's Eye', 'Captain Hurricane', 'The Steel Claw', 'Charlie Peace', 'Kraken' and 'Black Axe'. Longer running serials were 'Life with Uncle Lionel' (1963-65) and 'Mary Jo' (1964-67) for Princess. Among the other comics he drew were 'Boy Bandit' in Jag Comic (later Tiger) in 1968-1969, 'Tara King/Avengers' in TV Comic (1968) and 'Oddball Oates' in Lion (1969-70). He also worked for comics such as Thunder, the Eagle, Knockout, Valiant, TV21, Lady Penelope, Solo and Jet.
In the 1960s and 1970s he also drew for many annuals including the Monkees Annuals and Look-In Annuals. In 1970 he drew the first ever 'Adam Eterno' strip in Thunder, as well as 'Peter the Cat' in Score 'n' Roar and 'Billy's Boots' in Scorcher. Other work from the 1970s was 'Crowther in Trouble' in Look-In, 'Phil the Fluter' in Lion and 'Orphan Alone' in June, as well as the 'Clarks Commandos' advertising strip. His final comics work was for D.C. Thomson's nursery comics Twinkle and Little Star.
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Burnley Beer Shack bedsit plan approved
By Jonathan Grieve @JonGrieveLDR Local Democracy Reporter
Beer Shack in Burnley
PLANS to turn a former town centre micro pub and solicitors’ office into bedsits have been approved.
Burnley Council’s development control committee considered proposals to turn the terraced building in Manchester Road into ground floor offices with six bedsit rooms over the first and second floors.
The application had initially been recommended for approval but members requested more detail about the internal layout of the development.
And they voted to give delegated authority to the head of housing and development control to
grant planning permission following the receipt of additional and satisfactory details.
The building, part of the borough’s town centre conservation area, was formerly home to Beer Shack and Eric H. Smith solicitors.
Lancashire County Council's highways department had initially raised concerns about lack of provision for cycling storage and bin storage.
But further details were submitted proposing to put a bin area and cycle store in the rear yard.
Case officer Alan Rogan said: "The proposal would provide a beneficial use for the building, putting it in good order.
"The submitted Heritage Statement concludes that the renovation of the building, without major external change, would contribute to the attractive street scene of this part of Manchester Road.
"The rear extension would be of modest size, set within an enclave formed by the similar out-buildings of adjoining properties.
"The proposal would enhance, rather that harm the building; the new use would be a sustainable addition to the town centre, preserving the character of the
conservation area.
"The applicant wishes to design the ground floor street frontage of the building to suit future occupiers and a condition is recommended to require details
to be submitted in due course."
Burglar jailed after ignoring judge's offer
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Drawings by Emily Brown, Avy Claire, Patt Franklin, Marilyn Honigman, Benjamin Potter, Claire Seidl and Dudley Zopp
Drawing the Line #8
Daniel Kany
When I first learned June Fitzpatrick would dedicate the entire year at both of her galleries to drawing, I wondered if that wouldn't drain the well. But her shows have only gotten stronger throughout the year. "Drawing the Line #8" is a great show featuring seven excellent artists, most of whom have footing both in Maine and New York. Not only has Fitzpatrick kept her flavor while sticking with drawings, but she also seems to have further refined it. Her shows at her MECA space have kept an air of sophistication and elegance while being surprisingly accessible. I think the key is that we have become comfortable with seeing works on paper presented unframed even in leading galleries: Only two of the seven artists' work are framed. The result isn't simply more casual -- it brings us literally closer to the processes of the artists. By more easily sensing the intention and actions of the artist, we can better see their talent, effort and intelligence.
The most obvious examples are Avy Claire's 8-foot-tall ink on Mylar trees made from lines of script, in which Claire writes out phrases from the news she hears on the radio. That the trees are all virtually the same terrific drawing only points out their internal logic. Doing Internet searches from her phrases, for example, could lead you to pinpoint the exact times and dates she worked on these drawings.
Moreover, I have never seen drawings anywhere in which the real time of their making is so well spelled out to the viewer. Claire writes out words as she hears them from the radio, and any viewer can read them at the pace of the spoken word and feel the piece come together in real time. It's brilliant.
Patt Franklin's drawings are also large and unframed, and made with rhythmically insistent marks. Associating regular mark-making with Monet or Seurat leads many people to think of such an approach as a well-developed style, but more often than not, it has a pixilation effect that does more to limit the artist's range than anything else. Franklin's work comes across this way to me: The inverted "V"s could be replaced with virtually any mark in black pastel to achieve a similarly swirling space. It's the only work in the show I don't really care for.
Benjamin Potter's cut lead sheet "drawings" are also so visually tactile, we can't help but see what he has done. All three pieces have been punched with holes and bent into freestanding semi-cylinders (certainly they are drawings, but they are good sculptures, too) with loose, natural world rhythms: A disbursing wave on the beach, a stand of trees and the staccato kernels on an ear of corn.
Even Potter's "Corn" has the feel of a diorama and so helps to coalesce the overall landscape feel of the show. The only work at odds with the unspoken theme is Claire Seidl's ink on Mylar, "The Long and Short of It," a vertical black-and-white piece in which white forms float freely on a black ground. Seidl's "Middle of Nowhere," on the other hand, is so atmospheric it could be nothing but you in a foggy landscape.
My favorite work in the show -- by Marilyn Honigman -- is just as atmospheric but with incredibly subtle and sophisticated mark-making among roiling clouds in groundless, mystical skies. Honigman's graphite drawings are intimate and gorgeous. They read perfectly from afar and, from an intimate distance, dissolve completely and deliciously into elegant abstraction.
Unfortunately, there is only one drawing by Emily Brown. "Dormant" is a view of the branches of a deciduous tree in winter. The drawing is as spare and cool as its subject, reminding me of Neil Welliver and Alex Katz. Brown is first-rate, and I wish she had a bigger presence in the show.
Dudley Zopp's work tries harder than anything else in the show to convince you that it's up to something. His pieces are made up of drippy watercolor worked over a few loosely round forms on a light pencil line grid. While the drips in two of the drawings point down -- the way drips tend to flow -- they are inverted in three of the drawings. Surprisingly, between the grid and the frame and the rough, natural forms, they don't insist on being flipped over. The drips aren't simple paint drops, but are instead wet watercolor that not only flows on the paper, but sinks in. So while "Terrains #4" looks like jelly fish with their droopy tentacles, "Terrains #7" has the upward logic of, say, sprouting plants.
Considering Fitzpatrick used to own The Drawing Gallery in London, it's no surprise her exhibitions have been among the best of the Maine Drawing Project. It's the brainchild of the Maine Curators Group, who decided to focus on drawings this year and organized dozens of drawing exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout Maine.
While I was miffed they didn't choose abstraction for 2011 (after all, this is the 100th anniversary of the birth of abstraction in our culture), I am starting to think they weren't so wrong to go with drawing. And nothing makes that case better than shows like "Drawing the Line" at June Fitzpatrick.
Freelance writer Daniel Kany is an art historian who lives in Cumberland.
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Connor McClymont
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The Un-healthiness of the Australian Health Sector’s Data Security
By Charlotte Osborne, Connor McClymont & Margie Tannock
More than twelve months after the commencement of the Australian Notifiable Data Breach Scheme,[1] statistics published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) have begun to reveal trends present in the 812 notifiable data breaches recorded in Australia between 22 February and 31 December 2018. One key trend is the clear susceptibility of the health care industry, which suffered one fifth of all data breaches recorded in Australia throughout 2018, the highest…
Australian Information Commissioner’s Office Releases Report on Notifiable Data Breach Scheme
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released its second quarterly statistics report into the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme on 31 July 2018 (Report). The Report provides further insight into the operation of the new scheme, which commenced February this year. The scheme provides for mandatory reporting of ‘eligible’ data breaches to the OAIC and to potentially affected individuals. Whether a data breach is eligible depends on whether the unauthorised disclosure, or loss, of…
In the post – FWC delivers mixed messages on dismissal for social media indiscretions
By Connor McClymont
Following recent differing decisions of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) it seems that Australian employers must still tread a fine and uncertain line in determining whether employee misconduct on social media is a valid reason for dismissal. In the recent case of Stephen Campbell v Qube Ports Pty Ltd t/a Qube Ports & Bulk in March 2017, the FWC considered the conduct of a veteran employee who publicly disrespected his employer’s management on social media.…
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a river in N California and NW Nevada, flowing NE to the Carson Sink. 150 miles (241 km) long.
a male or female given name.
a set of tools, supplies, construction materials, etc, for use together or for a purposea first-aid kit; a model aircraft kit
the case or container for such a set
a set of pieces of equipment ready to be assembled
(as modifier)kit furniture
clothing and other personal effects, esp those of a traveller or soldiersafari kit; battle kit
informalclothing in general (esp in the phrase get one’s kit off)
NZ a flax basket
the whole kit or the whole kit and caboodle informal everything or everybody
a kind of small violin, now obsolete, used esp by dancing masters in the 17th–18th centuries
an informal or diminutive name for kitten
a cub of various small mammals, such as the ferret or fox
NZ a plaited flax basket
abbreviation for
Christopher, known as Kit Carson. 1809–68, US frontiersman, trapper, scout, and Indian agent
Edward Henry, Baron. 1854–1935, Anglo-Irish politician and lawyer; led northern Irish resistance to the British government’s plan for home rule for Ireland
Rachel (Louise). 1907–64, US marine biologist and science writer; author of Silent Spring (1962)
Willie, full name William Hunter Fisher Carson. born 1942, Scottish jockey: rode four winners in the Derby (1979, 1980, 1989, 1994)
late 13c., “round wooden tub,” perhaps from Middle Dutch kitte “jug, tankard, wooden container,” of unknown origin. Meaning “collection of personal effects,” especially for traveling (originally in reference to a soldier), is from 1785; that of “outfit of tools for a workman” is from 1851. Of drum sets, by 1929. Meaning “article to be assembled by the buyer” is from 1930s.
“small fiddle used by dancing teachers,” 1510s, probably a shortening of Old English cythere, from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara (see guitar).
American marine biologist and writer whose best-known book, Silent Spring (1962), was an influential study of the dangerous effects of synthetic pesticides on food chains. Public reaction to the book resulted in stricter controls on pesticide use and shaped the ideas of the modern environmental movement.
bleeder resistor
dermopathy
to the nth degree
Shubert
koses
artistically
back-pedal
semiofficial
bernina pass
rock maple
melanoameloblastoma
heterostyled
anticlimactic
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Nikon D850 FX-format Digital SLR Camera Body
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Let us have a speedy review of the characteristics, D850 offers us:
Nikon D850 FX-format Digital SLR Camera Body has a tilt-able touchscreen LCD. You can rotate it to any angle according to the need.
Zoom in when you are taking live shoots, and when you need the pinpoint autofocus to focus on an object.
Use it at press conferences, golf matches, wedding parties, and more occasions need silent filming. Its feature for ‘filming without vibrations and sound’ allows you to add music and other sounds later in the film.
A wide range of detachable lenses offers you a variety of selection from which you can choose according to your needs.
Nikon D850 FX-format Digital SLR Camera Body has a much-improved battery performance with added timing. Now you do not need to worry as you can shoot for 70 minutes continuously with a single charge.
The 4K Ultra HD filming facility makes it the best choice for cinematography with its wide and ultra-wide lenses. So, what are you waiting for? You can have it with the starting price of $699.00 for used and new cameras.
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Are you a photography or film making buff who wants to have a superb and advanced technology camera that is brilliant in every way? If yes, Nikon D850 FX-format Digital SLR Camera Body is for you. This is a yardstick for DSLR cameras, introduced as the newest gadget you must-own. It has come to the market after five years by Nikon and is the next generation HD cameras with new advanced features. With 45.7 megapixels of outstanding picture quality and resolution, elegant design, shutter speed, focal length, and autofocus mechanisms, this is absolutely the pick of the day in today’s cameras.
The Camera Special Features
It is equally brilliant for still photography and video filming. This camera is the most striking of all ever seen. Its backside has an illuminated full-frame image sensor with a dense collection of pixels. It gives you true and genuine image, which you cannot experience with the human eye even. The Nikon D850 FX-format Digital SLR Camera Body has an unmatched quality: the lowest of ISO. It gives you the finest and fullest details and sensitivity of colors and light. Its ISO 64 can expand down to as low as 32.
Since the days of 35mm film cinematography, Nikon has been working to improve it more and more. Its present full frame format gives you the sharpness, which has never seen before in any camera. Its Gold Ring Series of lenses has developed after the continuous efforts of 80 years. These marvelous lenses can adjust according to the lighting conditions and environment. Autofocus with improved frame coverage creates a precise image both in stills and in a movie. Even the fast-moving subjects are much clearer with D850. Lenses like Bokeh and Fisheye have the effects, which you want to have on screen. Its 4K time-lapse videos with slow-motion filming with up to 120 FPS make it the D850 the best choice for photographers and video makers.
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