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DMS Expands Its Performance Marketing Capabilities With Significant Investments In Proprietary Technology And Impactful Leaders
By: Digital Media Solutions
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Oct. 10, 2019 - PRLog -- Digital Media Solutions® (DMS), the fastest-growing digital performance marketing company in the U.S., announced a powerful addition to its leadership team, appointing Jason "JR" Rudolph to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Rudolph spent the past four years as CTO for W4 – a performance ad market acquired by DMS in 2018 – where he oversaw the development of industry-leading technology which was leveraged to support W4's growth, and more recently, adopted to manage DMS lead generation campaigns.
Rebranded to DMS TRAX, the technology developed by Rudolph is an end-to-end platform that now connects and tracks DMS performance marketing data and call campaigns, offering valuable insight into consumer behaviors and campaign performance. DMS TRAX capabilities include:
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"With his vast industry knowledge and technological savvy, JR will be an incredible asset to the DMS team as we continue to build and leverage industry-leading, proprietary technology that rivals the most-used technologies in the digital advertising industry," said Fernando Borghese, COO of Digital Media Solutions. "Through the use of a cookie-less distribution tracking system, strict distribution rules and operationalized compliance procedures, DMS has created a reliable technology that allows our team to successfully match the right consumer with the most qualified brand, while providing unprecedented visibility into consumer actions and advertiser campaign performance."
In his new role as CTO of DMS, Rudolph will remain at the center of developing DMS industry-leading technology. DMS TRAX is built and operated in-house and rivals leading technology to propel the DMS business, support the company's massive growth and provide scalable and cost-effective performance marketing solutions to DMS clients and publisher partners.
"DMS has a history of making significant investments in its proprietary technology in order to provide the most targeted and impactful people-based marketing," said Rudolph. "Needless to say, I'm thrilled to be part of a company with such a high level of innovation."
Since its inception, DMS has earned continuous recognition on the Inc. 5000 list, securing its sixth consecutive ranking in 2019, and the Entrepreneur magazine "360 Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America" list in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Named one of America's "Best Places to Work" by Inc. magazine, DMS brings together some of the industry's most knowledgeable people, efficient processes and sophisticated technology across the digital marketing spectrum.
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Founded by a team of lifelong athletes, Digital Media Solutions, LLC (DMS) is the fastest-growing independent digital performance marketing company. DMS deploys diversified and data-driven digital media customer acquisition solutions that deliver scalable, sustainable and measurable marketing results. The company's precision performance marketing solutions connect the right consumers with the right offers at the right time to achieve the marketing objectives of clients in highly competitive industries. DMS continues to experience explosive year-over-year growth, with continuous recognition on the Inc. 5000 list, securing its sixth consecutive ranking in 2019, and the Entrepreneur magazine 360 list. Named one of America's "Best Places to Work" by Inc. magazine and awarded the 2018 Excellence in Lead Generation Award by the LeadsCouncil, DMS brings together some of the industry's most knowledgeable people, efficient processes and sophisticated technology across the digital marketing spectrum. The company continues to deliver on its strategic mission, which is backed by its board of investors including multi-billion-dollar Canadian private equity firm Clairvest Group. For more information about DMS, visit digitalmediasolutions.com. Keep up with DMS news at insights.digitalmediasolutions.com and connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/digital-media-solutions-group.
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Experiments in Detecting Persuasion Techniques in the News
Seunghak Yu, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov
Many recent political events, like the 2016 US Presidential elections or the 2018 Brazilian elections have raised the attention of institutions and of the general public on the role of Internet and social media in influencing the outcome of these events. We argue that a safe democracy is one in which citizens have tools to make them aware of propaganda campaigns. We propose a novel task: performing fine-grained analysis of texts by detecting all fragments that contain propaganda techniques as well as their type. We further design a novel multi-granularity neural network, and we show that it outperforms several strong BERT-based baselines.
* NeurIPS-2019 workshop on AI for Social Good
* arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1910.02517
A tree-based kernel for graphs with continuous attributes
Giovanni Da San Martino, Nicolò Navarin, Alessandro Sperduti
The availability of graph data with node attributes that can be either discrete or real-valued is constantly increasing. While existing kernel methods are effective techniques for dealing with graphs having discrete node labels, their adaptation to non-discrete or continuous node attributes has been limited, mainly for computational issues. Recently, a few kernels especially tailored for this domain, and that trade predictive performance for computational efficiency, have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a graph kernel for complex and continuous nodes' attributes, whose features are tree structures extracted from specific graph visits. The kernel manages to keep the same complexity of state-of-the-art kernels while implicitly using a larger feature space. We further present an approximated variant of the kernel which reduces its complexity significantly. Experimental results obtained on six real-world datasets show that the kernel is the best performing one on most of them. Moreover, in most cases the approximated version reaches comparable performances to current state-of-the-art kernels in terms of classification accuracy while greatly shortening the running times.
* This work has been submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible
An Empirical Study on Budget-Aware Online Kernel Algorithms for Streams of Graphs
Kernel methods are considered an effective technique for on-line learning. Many approaches have been developed for compactly representing the dual solution of a kernel method when the problem imposes memory constraints. However, in literature no work is specifically tailored to streams of graphs. Motivated by the fact that the size of the feature space representation of many state-of-the-art graph kernels is relatively small and thus it is explicitly computable, we study whether executing kernel algorithms in the feature space can be more effective than the classical dual approach. We study three different algorithms and various strategies for managing the budget. Efficiency and efficacy of the proposed approaches are experimentally assessed on relatively large graph streams exhibiting concept drift. It turns out that, when strict memory budget constraints have to be enforced, working in feature space, given the current state of the art on graph kernels, is more than a viable alternative to dual approaches, both in terms of speed and classification performance.
* Author's version of the manuscript, to appear in Neurocomputing (ELSEVIER)
Ordered Decompositional DAG Kernels Enhancements
In this paper, we show how the Ordered Decomposition DAGs (ODD) kernel framework, a framework that allows the definition of graph kernels from tree kernels, allows to easily define new state-of-the-art graph kernels. Here we consider a fast graph kernel based on the Subtree kernel (ST), and we propose various enhancements to increase its expressiveness. The proposed DAG kernel has the same worst-case complexity as the one based on ST, but an improved expressivity due to an augmented set of features. Moreover, we propose a novel weighting scheme for the features, which can be applied to other kernels of the ODD framework. These improvements allow the proposed kernels to improve on the classification performances of the ST-based kernel for several real-world datasets, reaching state-of-the-art performances.
* Neurocomputing, Volume 192, 5 June 2016, Pages 92--103
* Paper accepted for publication in Neurocomputing
Graph Kernels exploiting Weisfeiler-Lehman Graph Isomorphism Test Extensions
In this paper we present a novel graph kernel framework inspired the by the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) isomorphism tests. Any WL test comprises a relabelling phase of the nodes based on test-specific information extracted from the graph, for example the set of neighbours of a node. We defined a novel relabelling and derived two kernels of the framework from it. The novel kernels are very fast to compute and achieve state-of-the-art results on five real-world datasets.
* Neural Information Processing, Volume 8835 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 93-100, 2014 Springer International Publishing
Findings of the NLP4IF-2019 Shared Task on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection
Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Preslav Nakov
We present the shared task on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection, which was organized as part of the NLP4IF workshop at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. There were two subtasks. FLC is a fragment-level task that asks for the identification of propagandist text fragments in a news article and also for the prediction of the specific propaganda technique used in each such fragment (18-way classification task). SLC is a sentence-level binary classification task asking to detect the sentences that contain propaganda. A total of 12 teams submitted systems for the FLC task, 25 teams did so for the SLC task, and 14 teams eventually submitted a system description paper. For both subtasks, most systems managed to beat the baseline by a sizable margin. The leaderboard and the data from the competition are available at http://propaganda.qcri.org/nlp4if-shared-task/.
* NLP4IF@EMNLP-2019
* propaganda, disinformation, fake news. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.02517
Proppy: A System to Unmask Propaganda in Online News
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Israa Jaradat, Preslav Nakov
We present proppy, the first publicly available real-world, real-time propaganda detection system for online news, which aims at raising awareness, thus potentially limiting the impact of propaganda and helping fight disinformation. The system constantly monitors a number of news sources, deduplicates and clusters the news into events, and organizes the articles about an event on the basis of the likelihood that they contain propagandistic content. The system is trained on known propaganda sources using a variety of stylistic features. The evaluation results on a standard dataset show state-of-the-art results for propaganda detection.
* Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2019)
* propaganda, disinformation, fake news
Building Chatbots from Forum Data: Model Selection Using Question Answering Metrics
Martin Boyanov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov, Alessandro Moschitti, Giovanni Da San Martino
We propose to use question answering (QA) data from Web forums to train chatbots from scratch, i.e., without dialog training data. First, we extract pairs of question and answer sentences from the typically much longer texts of questions and answers in a forum. We then use these shorter texts to train seq2seq models in a more efficient way. We further improve the parameter optimization using a new model selection strategy based on QA measures. Finally, we propose to use extrinsic evaluation with respect to a QA task as an automatic evaluation method for chatbots. The evaluation shows that the model achieves a MAP of 63.5% on the extrinsic task. Moreover, it can answer correctly 49.5% of the questions when they are similar to questions asked in the forum, and 47.3% of the questions when they are more conversational in style.
* RANLP-2017
Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Articles
Giovanni Da San Martino, Seunghak Yu, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Rostislav Petrov, Preslav Nakov
Propaganda aims at influencing people's mindset with the purpose of advancing a specific agenda. Previous work has addressed propaganda detection at the document level, typically labelling all articles from a propagandistic news outlet as propaganda. Such noisy gold labels inevitably affect the quality of any learning system trained on them. A further issue with most existing systems is the lack of explainability. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel task: performing fine-grained analysis of texts by detecting all fragments that contain propaganda techniques as well as their type. In particular, we create a corpus of news articles manually annotated at the fragment level with eighteen propaganda techniques and we propose a suitable evaluation measure. We further design a novel multi-granularity neural network, and we show that it outperforms several strong BERT-based baselines.
* EMNLP-2019
Global Thread-Level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering
Shafiq Joty, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Simone Filice, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov
Community question answering, a recent evolution of question answering in the Web context, allows a user to quickly consult the opinion of a number of people on a particular topic, thus taking advantage of the wisdom of the crowd. Here we try to help the user by deciding automatically which answers are good and which are bad for a given question. In particular, we focus on exploiting the output structure at the thread level in order to make more consistent global decisions. More specifically, we exploit the relations between pairs of comments at any distance in the thread, which we incorporate in a graph-cut and in an ILP frameworks. We evaluated our approach on the benchmark dataset of SemEval-2015 Task 3. Results improved over the state of the art, confirming the importance of using thread level information.
* community question answering, thread-level inference, graph-cut, inductive logic programming
Team QCRI-MIT at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Propaganda Analysis Meets Hyperpartisan News Detection
Abdelrhman Saleh, Ramy Baly, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Mitra Mohtarami, Preslav Nakov, James Glass
In this paper, we describe our submission to SemEval-2019 Task 4 on Hyperpartisan News Detection. Our system relies on a variety of engineered features originally used to detect propaganda. This is based on the assumption that biased messages are propagandistic in the sense that they promote a particular political cause or viewpoint. We trained a logistic regression model with features ranging from simple bag-of-words to vocabulary richness and text readability features. Our system achieved 72.9% accuracy on the test data that is annotated manually and 60.8% on the test data that is annotated with distant supervision. Additional experiments showed that significant performance improvements can be achieved with better feature pre-processing.
* Hyperpartisanship, propaganda, news media, fake news, SemEval-2018
Cross-Language Question Re-Ranking
Giovanni Da San Martino, Salvatore Romeo, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Shafiq Joty, Lluis Marquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov
We study how to find relevant questions in community forums when the language of the new questions is different from that of the existing questions in the forum. In particular, we explore the Arabic-English language pair. We compare a kernel-based system with a feed-forward neural network in a scenario where a large parallel corpus is available for training a machine translation system, bilingual dictionaries, and cross-language word embeddings. We observe that both approaches degrade the performance of the system when working on the translated text, especially the kernel-based system, which depends heavily on a syntactic kernel. We address this issue using a cross-language tree kernel, which compares the original Arabic tree to the English trees of the related questions. We show that this kernel almost closes the performance gap with respect to the monolingual system. On the neural network side, we use the parallel corpus to train cross-language embeddings, which we then use to represent the Arabic input and the English related questions in the same space. The results also improve to close to those of the monolingual neural network. Overall, the kernel system shows a better performance compared to the neural network in all cases.
* SIGIR 2017: 1145-1148
* SIGIR-2017; Community Question Answering; Cross-language Approaches; Question Retrieval; Kernel-based Methods; Neural Networks; Distributed Representations
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness
Pepa Atanasova, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Spas Kyuchukov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov
We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 1: Check-Worthiness. The task asks to predict which claims in a political debate should be prioritized for fact-checking. In particular, given a debate or a political speech, the goal was to produce a ranked list of its sentences based on their worthiness for fact checking. We offered the task in both English and Arabic, based on debates from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, as well as on some speeches during and after the campaign. A total of 30 teams registered to participate in the Lab and seven teams actually submitted systems for Task~1. The most successful approaches used by the participants relied on recurrent and multi-layer neural networks, as well as on combinations of distributional representations, on matchings claims' vocabulary against lexicons, and on measures of syntactic dependency. The best systems achieved mean average precision of 0.18 and 0.15 on the English and on the Arabic test datasets, respectively. This leaves large room for further improvement, and thus we release all datasets and the scoring scripts, which should enable further research in check-worthiness estimation.
* CLEF-2018
* Computational journalism, Check-worthiness, Fact-checking, Veracity
Addressing Community Question Answering in English and Arabic
Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Salvatore Romeo, Alessandro Moschitti, Shafiq Joty, Fahad A. Al Obaidli, Kateryna Tymoshenko, Antonio Uva
This paper studies the impact of different types of features applied to learning to re-rank questions in community Question Answering. We tested our models on two datasets released in SemEval-2016 Task 3 on "Community Question Answering". Task 3 targeted real-life Web fora both in English and Arabic. Our models include bag-of-words features (BoW), syntactic tree kernels (TKs), rank features, embeddings, and machine translation evaluation features. To the best of our knowledge, structural kernels have barely been applied to the question reranking task, where they have to model paraphrase relations. In the case of the English question re-ranking task, we compare our learning to rank (L2R) algorithms against a strong baseline given by the Google-generated ranking (GR). The results show that i) the shallow structures used in our TKs are robust enough to noisy data and ii) improving GR is possible, but effective BoW features and TKs along with an accurate model of GR features in the used L2R algorithm are required. In the case of the Arabic question re-ranking task, for the first time we applied tree kernels on syntactic trees of Arabic sentences. Our approaches to both tasks obtained the second best results on SemEval-2016 subtasks B on English and D on Arabic.
* presented at Second WebQA workshop, SIGIR2016 (http://plg2.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~avtyurin/WebQA2016/)
Tanbih: Get To Know What You Are Reading
Yifan Zhang, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Salvatore Romeo, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Todor Staykovski, Israa Jaradat, Georgi Karadzhov, Ramy Baly, Kareem Darwish, James Glass, Preslav Nakov
We introduce Tanbih, a news aggregator with intelligent analysis tools to help readers understanding what's behind a news story. Our system displays news grouped into events and generates media profiles that show the general factuality of reporting, the degree of propagandistic content, hyper-partisanship, leading political ideology, general frame of reporting, and stance with respect to various claims and topics of a news outlet. In addition, we automatically analyse each article to detect whether it is propagandistic and to determine its stance with respect to a number of controversial topics.
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You’re a property manager – should you start your own business?
20 Nov 2019 · 4 min read
By Aislinn Dwyer
Business, Careers, Property Market, Property Managers
Despite entering the industry just twelve years ago, Tammy Vitale has had a vested interest in property management for nearly three decades.
“My husband and I have had investment properties starting in our late 20s, which we managed ourselves,” says Vitale.
“So you could say I’ve been in the industry for about 30 years.”
Entering the real estate profession as an assistant property manager, Vitale soon found herself promoted to property manager and then a department head.
However, even from the very beginning of her career, Vitale’s eyes were always on one specific prize – to either join an existing real estate business as a principal, or to start her own.
While working for two other agencies prior to the launch of her own, she became inherently frustrated that some principals treated the property management department as ‘a means, not a want’.
“I wanted to be able to offer a service which only deals with property management services”, says Vitale.
It was time to make a choice – continue to build a property management department for someone else, or to branch out on her own.
Taking the plunge into business ownership
Vitale reflects back on her thought process before she made the leap to opening her own boutique property management business.
“Would I have enough income, would my landlords support me, was the timing right?” says Vitale.
With the backing of several landlords that she worked with, Vitale and her husband, Armando, finally made the decision – they were going to go into business.
“There were so many steps, but the first consideration was what were we going to call ourselves?” says Vitale.
After deciding upon ‘Vitale & Co Property Management Services’, there was everything else to decide upon – office location, logos, marketing, software and uniforms, right through to signed Form 6s from landlords that indicated they would be happy to work with her once she branched out on her own.
Opening the doors to their office in March this year, Vitale says the support from her network of family, friends and clients has been inspiring.
“We are going well – we have found it overwhelming, but in a very positive way,” says Vitale.
“To think that you have made an impression on clients that trust you is so rewarding.”
Being a business owner presents a unique set of challenges
While Vitale and her husband have enjoyed the experience, she says going into business is not ideal for everyone.
“It’s not for everyone, and it’s not going to be easy – but anything worthwhile is sometimes hard,” says Vitale.
“You are now totally responsible to make it work so you can cover your costs and earn an income.
“As I am an independent, I do not have the backing of a franchise for the set up and advertising so the challenge has been reliant on my experience and relationships I have formed over the years.”
However, Vitale says the initial struggles are worth the perks of being your own boss.
“Working for myself allows me ultimate flexibility and no restrictions on my earnings,” says Vitale.
“If I work long hours, it’s for me, not someone else and my hard work will be rewarded to me.
“Running my own business enables me to be able to offer what I feel is appropriate to each situation – for example, if I get a referral, I can just get a thank you gift instead of having to ask if I can I have some money to spend on a gift from an Office Manager or Principal.”
Looking forward to the future
So, what’s next for Vitale & Co Property Management Services?
Growth, says the Wynnum/Manly-based Principal.
“I want to employ people, mentor and help support my local community,” says Vitale.
“After a fast start, we need to continue, so we have an opportunity to start employing other property managers which is our goal.
“We are excited for our future as we love what we do.”
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5 Myths About Increasing Your Chances Of Getting Pregnant That Are Not True
By Caroline Shannon-Karasik
If you are trying to conceive, then you probably know there is a best time to get pregnant (hint: when you are ovulating), and you've read all about basal body temperature, cervical mucus, and ovulation prediction kits. But you've also probably stumbled upon some advice that isn't exactly backed by science, but oodles of women saying, "It worked for me!" And the truth is, when you are TTC, you will try almost anything to ensure your success. Well, I say we boost your odds by weeding through five myths about increasing your chances of getting pregnant that are not true.
First up: Rumors that position matters when trying to conceive. Not true, says Dr. Sheeva Talebian, director of third party reproduction at Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in New York. "Missionary, all fours, it doesn’t really matter," she says. "What is most important when trying to conceive is that you have intercourse around the time of ovulation. The day proceeding and the day of ovulation are your most fertile days."
Talebian says this is due to the consistency of your cervical mucus during this timeframe, as well as the viability of the egg (typically if it does not fertilize within 24 hours of ovulating, it is no longer viable).
Also bogus? The idea that lying on your back with your legs in the air after intercourse can increase your chances of getting pregnant, Talebian says.
"Cervical mucus at the time of ovulation is designed to trap sperm, acting like a sponge," she tells Romper in an email interview. "The majority of fluid in ejaculate is extraneous. Yes, some of the excess fluid that 'leaks' out has sperm in it. But thousands upon thousands of sperm are still in the vaginal canal and even swimming up into the uterus within minutes of intercourse."
According to Today's Parent, another common misconception is that having sex every day will help increase your chances of getting pregnant. The truth is, sex that feels like a chore — even when it's for the purposes of conceiving — can make you feel more pressure about the situation than you already do. Dr. Paul Claman noted in the Today's Parent article that you should simply "make the most of your fertile window," having sex every two to three days starting 18 days before your next period.
And when you are doing the deed, Talebian says it's not necessary to have an orgasm like many people think.
"It is true that the uterine contractions associated with an orgasm can help sperm swim up and out into the fallopian tubes where they will hopefully meet an egg," she says. "However, if your guy has normal sperm parameters and normal sperm function, plenty of sperm will still find their way up into the tubes without an orgasm."
Also not necessary? Nixing all alcohol and caffeine in order to get pregnant, and going full throttle on your exercise routine, Talebian says. I know — but can we marry her for saying that?
"In fact, lifestyle choices that lower your stress level will be helpful to your mental fortitude when trying to conceive," she says. "Excess alcohol and caffeine (defined as less than two beverages a day) may be detrimental to your fertility (although data is limited to support this). Excess exercise resulting in progressive weight loss and eventually a lack of ovulation is also detrimental to your fertility."
Talebian adds: "A daily morning cup of coffee, evening glass of wine, and a daily workout will not lower your chances of conception."
And is that not the happiest true thing you've heard all day?
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Delhi to Almora
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About Akshardham Temple of Delhi
The swaminarayan akshardham temple new Delhi is one of the most popular tourist destination of delhi. Come, explorfe & take glimpses of mystery architecture of Akshardham temple Delhi. Enjoy the Delhi Akshardham temple water musical fountain show.
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Akshardham Temple of Delhi
The Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple is one of the newest temples in Delhi. This Swaminarayan Akshardham temple is a massive building that has a number of features that make it one of the newest tourist spots for Delhi as well as around Delhi. It features several great gardens and a number of unique attractions that are important to the beliefs of people around India.
The New Delhi Akshardham Temple was constructed in the early twenty-first century and was first introduced to the public in 2005. The building was made with more than two hundred pillars, nine domes and a number of statues of gods. The building is about 140 feet in height and is more than three hundred feet in both length and width.
The building was constructed with the help of nearly ten thousand people. About three thousand of these builders are people who work as volunteers to help get the temple built.
People who enter the Akshardham Mandir of Delhi will enter through the halls of the temple. This features a movie that has been commissioned for use in the building. This will feature a look at the long history of India. Also, people will be able to enjoy a travel along an artificial river in well made peacock boats. Enjoy the exciting twelve minute boat ride at akshardham temple Delhi features a series of displays of the history of India and the many different innovations that were created in India over the years.
There are even great attractions to see. There is the Yangnapurush Kund, a step well that features a fountain show during the evening hours. This features music and an illustration of the great cycle of life.
A large garden is included in the area. The Akshardham Temple is home to the Bharat Upavan. This garden is a place that features a series of lawns and a variety of statues. These statues are built with regards to the history of India. The statues feature some of the most notable figures in the country's history.
Another garden that is featured here is the Yogi Hraday Kamal. This garden features a variety of large stones that have been engraved with quotes from a number of important figures ranging from Swami Vivekananda to Martin Luther King Jr. to William Shakespeare.
Bharat Upvan is a third garden to see in the area. This garden features a massive series of lawns alongside a number of bronze statues.
There is an interesting audio and animatronics show in the middle of the temple. This is a show that is devoted to the life of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. This features a large audio show and a series of three dimensional dioramas that people can walk by. The show features a message of inner peace and care, a common point that Swaminarayan followed in life.
The water musical fountain show of the Akshardham Temple Delhi is an impressive show. This water fountain show features a great look into the elements of the world and how they apply to life and nature.
A large statue of Swaminarayan is also included at the central part of the temple. This statue is about eleven feet tall. It features a large series of smaller statues around it. These statues cover a number of different gurus from the sect that he was in. There is even a large monument devoted to the elephant and how it has been important to the religion and culture of India. This monument weighs thousands of tons.
The Akshardham Temple is a truly notable place to see in India. This temple is home to many great sights and a number of attractions for people who visit Delhi to enjoy. These features include many gardens and a number of valuable statues.
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Caesars Palace grooves into 2017 with Backstreet Boys
December 31, 2016 - 7:40 pm December 31, 2016 - 7:40 pm
New Year’s Eve at Caesars Palace was electrifying (with Calvin Harris) and also a dance party (with Backstreet Boys).
Sir Elton says death of George Michael ‘one of the saddest moments of my career’
December 30, 2016 - 11:50 pm December 30, 2016 - 11:50 pm
Under an image of George Michael, Elton John performed “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” at the Colosseum at Caesars on Wednesday, and is expected to continue the tribute this weekend.
A cold, yet warm, holiday transmission from Idaho
Lava Hot Springs is far below freezing — until you dip into the water.
A tall, cool one is the order of the night at the D Las Vegas
Richard Bell stopped in unannounced at the D Las Vegas on Saturday night. At 7-feet-8 inches, Bell didn’t go unnoticed for long.
In ‘Baskets’ role, Louie Anderson is the mother of re-invention
Louie Anderson was between gigs when he got a call from Louis C.K. offering him a role in an upcoming sitcom. Anderson accepted, then learned the details.
Lady Gaga returning to Wynn’s Encore Theater
Lady Gaga has played Cosmopolitan with Tony Bennet in December 2014, and Wynn Las Vegas as part of a CBS-TV special honoring Frank Sinatra. She’s back at Wynn again Dec. 30.
A sad time to close the chapter of my friend Muriel Stevens
Beloved around the community, Muriel Stevens wrote for the Las Vegas Sun from the early 1970s through the paper’s shift to a morning designin 2005.
Fireworks show (almost) sparks mayor’s NYE memories
December 16, 2016 - 12:00 am December 16, 2016 - 12:00 am
Mayor Carolyn Goodman remembers a funny night at … somewhere. Wait, yes, it was the Forum!
‘Raiding the Rock Vault’ hits the right combination with Hard Rock Hotel
“Raiding the Rock Vault,” a favorite of classic-rock fans for nearly four years, is set to shake up Vinyl at Hard Rock Hotel beginning in March.
Rock Hall of Famer Seraphine to play for toys
Danny Seraphine first played Vegas in 1976, with Chicago at the old Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts. He’s back this weekend for a benefit show at Orleans Showroom, and also to hit an old-Vegas haunt.
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S7 Technics assists Air Astana with first in-house C-Check
Russia’s S7 Technics aircraft maintenance service provider and Kazakhstan’s national carrier Air Astana continue to expand their partnership in terms of MRO of the airline’s fleet
In November 2019 Air Astana supported by S7 Technics’ team completed its first in-house base maintenance check – 1C-Check on an Airbus A320neo.The check was performed at the airline’s hangar facility at Almaty Airport under Air Astana’s own EASA Part 145 certificate.
To provide support to its key customer S7 Technics commissioned a team of six professionals to Almaty – project manager, deputy production manager, head of the department and three engineers.
In advance of its first base check Air Astana prepared its facilities and lined up the trained staff, as well as secured all appropriate approvals from aviation authorities.
“While Air Astana’s staff were working on their first C-check, S7 Technics’ team supervised directly at the customer’s facility in Almaty,” Alexey Zimin, project manager at S7 Technics explains. “Our team did not perform any procedures on the aircraft, but they shared their experience and best practices on planning and executing actions, on coordinating actions between different departments and on filing reports.”
S7 Technics and Air Astana have been developing their cooperation for the last three years. In 2018 the two companies signed a five-year contract for the airline’s aircraft to be maintained in Russia and Memorandum of Understanding, according to which the MRO service provider is assisting Air Astana in developing its own competences in performing base maintenance checks in Kazakhstan.
S7 Technics is also helping the airline build up MRO management system, train Air Astana’s specialists during their internships both at S7 Technics’ sites and at Air Astana’s facilities in Nur-Sultan and Almaty.
“This is the first project of this kind in S7 Technics’ history. But in aviation industry such cooperation, when a provider helps an airline develop its own competences, is not rare,” notes Igor Panshin, S7 Technics’ deputy general director for marketing and sales. “For an airline of Air Astana’s calibre developing in-house capabilities for base maintenance is not a fancy, but a logical cost-saving measure. We believe, that this partnership between Air Astana and S7 Technics really makes sense in this respect. The airline benefits from competent support from us, whilst we have won a valuable customer. While Air Astana’s base at Nur-Sultan is building its capabilities in A320neo maintenance, we continue our cooperation in other ways, including heavy checks on other types of aircraft operated by the Kazakh airline, at S7 Technics sites in Russia.”
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S7 Technics completes implementation of AMOS MRO Edition software"
MRO services provider S7 Technics has completed the implementation of AMOS MRO Edition, the innovative software application developed by Swiss Aviation Software (Swiss-AS)
S7 Technics’ Novosibirsk base gears up for components production for the Superjet 100"
S7 Technics’ production facility at Novosibirsk’s Tolmachevo airport has successfully completed its latest audit by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), manufacturer of the Superjet 100
Digitalisation of aircraft operations the focus of S7 Technics and IATA seminar"
S7 Technics, in combination with global airline association IATA, have jointly held a Digital Aircraft Operations 2019 seminar focusing on the critical subject of disposing of the burden of the industry’s paper mountain through the digitalisation of air transport management processes
S7 Technics to exhibit at London’s MRO Europe 2019 event"
Russia’s leading aircraft maintenance specialist is to take part in the MRO Europe 2019 Conference & Exhibition, Europe’s premier event for maintenance providers
Холдинг S7 Technics, +7 (495) 967-88-50, sales.mro@s7.ru
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Advent: Adoration, Retreat, Concert, and Feast Day
Posted on November 30, 2018 in: General News
December 2nd: Adoration
At 6 p.m. (after the 5pm Mass) a spaghetti dinner will be offered in the school cafeteria.
At 6:40 p.m. a candle lit procession will enter the church followed by a brief talk on the incarnation and Adoration by Youth Minister, Dan Harms. Deacon Charlie Giovannetti will expose the Blessed Sacrament and music will be provided by the Contemporary Choir.
Adoration will continue for about an hour and all ages are encouraged to attend!
December 7th & 8th: Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Join us in celebrating the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.
December 8th: Adult Advent Retreat
This year's Adult Advent Retreat titled, Proclaiming Christ: Making Room for the Savior, will be a morning spent in prayerful reflection with our returning retreat leader, Debbie Stollery. The idea of making room for the Savior calls us to prepare ourselves to receive Christ this Christmas, therefore increasing an awareness of His presence in our lives throughout the year. It also hearkens to the challenge of John 3:30 “He must increase, I must decrease."
Beginning immediately after the 9 a.m. Holy Day Mass of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the retreat will run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall on Saturday, December 8th, 2018. Sign up at stbliturgycommittee@gmail.com or call Vicki Gazolla at (804)-282-9511.
December 15th: Sacred Music for Advent
The Choirs of Saint Bridget join for a Joyful Concert of Sacred Music for the Advent Season.
Beginning at 4:30 p.m. this will act as an extended prelude to 5:30 p.m. Mass.
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‘I’m looking to sue’: Black activist says Twitter banned her as ‘Russian bot’
© Charlie Peach
Among the 201 Twitter accounts suspended from the platform for “Russian interference” in the 2016 US election was an African-American activist from Atlanta. Now she has come forward, telling RT she may sue the company for the unjustified suspension.
Twitter banned the 201 accounts in September, citing “prohibitions against spam” and other rule violations. Additionally, the company found 179 accounts that were “linked or related” to those banned by Facebook. Multiple media outlets, including Reuters, the New York Times and CNN, called the accounts “Russia-linked.”
RT has spoken to a banned Twitter user, who says she was swept up in the anti-Russia operation.
Russia used Pokémon GO to "meddle" in last year's elections? I was hatching 10 km eggs for a reason! 😂😂😂😆😆😆
— ✭James Saint-Franc☭ (@sirjamesa12) October 12, 2017
RT independently confirmed the identity of the owner of the Twitter account @PoliticsPeach, who asked to be identified by the name she previously used on the platform, Charlie Peach. RT confirmed that Peach is an African-American woman based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Peach joined Twitter in 2010 but didn’t start tweeting for about two years. The earliest cache of her account that RT found was in late March 2014, at which point Peach had well under 3,000 followers. The final cache available before her account was suspended from Twitter is from September 1, 2017 and shows Peach with more than 13,800 followers.
“This could upend my personal life,” she said. “I don’t know how far deep it goes with these people. But I don’t want to get on an airplane and my passport causes issues because of this.”
After her account was banned, Peach reached out to a friend at Twitter.
“She gets back to me last Saturday, crying and distraught... saying this person said I need to stay far away from you, that you’re listed as a Russian bot or Russian operative,” Peach told RT. “Even my IP address is shut down. I cannot even make another Twitter account from my IP. I tried with two phone numbers and created two different email accounts, with totally different Twitter handles and names, and it walked me through the entire process until it said your account is suspended.”
i hope dems/libs know that indigenous/black folks will remember the co-opting, erasure, and scapegoating in the name of russia come 2020. https://t.co/4fEmXAPKPY
— josh (@queersocialism) October 26, 2017
Before publishing a blog post about the ban on September 28, Twitter briefed Congress on its contents. The company said that, of the 450 “Russia-linked accounts” identified by Facebook, 22 had corresponding Twitter accounts. Additionally, Twitter found 179 accounts that were “linked or related” to those banned by Facebook. None of the 201 suspended accounts were advertisers on the platform.
“I was banned September 16, the same day that this girl they call Crystal Johnson,” Peach said. Johnson was one of the accounts Twitter accused of acting on behalf of the Kremlin by tweeting messages about Black Lives Matter.
“I always felt she was a bot. She didn’t interact with anyone, so I think she was automated.” Peach told RT. “Now a Russian bot? That seems strange to me. I don’t know about that. But she only tweeted positive information about black people.”
This Russia/#BLM narrative is a DISTRACTION from the real issues. I spoke w @Justin_Fenton of @BaltimoreSun abt it. https://t.co/Bc5Ix815le
— Lamont Lilly (@LamontLilly) September 30, 2017
Peach was "in the middle of a conversation" when she was banned. “I hadn’t said or done anything, I hadn’t harassed or threatened anyone, and I was getting harassed and threatened all the time by people in Hillary’s camp.”
Last year, Peach sent Twitter her personal information in an effort to get the coveted blue check, the service’s mark of authenticity.
“I had to send my ID, my birth certificate etc. They know who I am,” she told RT. “I’m not just some random person on Twitter. I’m have a background.”
Peach got on Twitter because she was “really big” into politics. Her career as an activist has included working with a number of political campaigns in Atlanta, including one of the mayors and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. She also did work for a Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate.
“I’ve been in politics for a long time. Twitter gave me an opportunity to speak on issues of political importance,” she said.
“Russia influence” is being leveraged in a few spaces to undermine people and their credibilityb
— B.I.E. Esq. ✊🏾 (@TheWayWithAnoa) October 25, 2017
Peach supported Senator Sanders in the Democratic primaries. She was blocked by candidate Donald Trump after she blasted his claims that President Barack Obama was not an American national.
Asked whether she’s ever even met a Russian, Peach said, “never in my life.” Nor has she ever been to Moscow. Moreover, even in her political work, she says she was “never paid by anyone” to use social media.
“What I’ve been trying to say to my people,” Peach told RT, “is we have been lied to, manipulated, they’ve played upon fears of black people and racism and everything else. They’re using Trump now, this boogeyman. Trump didn’t create racism. He didn’t create any of these things we’re dealing with that have always been in play. But the media has exploited them.”
Earlier this week, the Washington Post revealed that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid for the notorious Steele Dossier, which claimed that the Russian government was blackmailing President Trump using compromising material. Louise Mensch, a former British MP turned-anti-Russia activist, was a primary promoter of the Steele Dossier.
Peach says Mensch had asked her to write for her new blog. “And I refused she because she wanted me to attack Black Lives Matter,” Peach said. “I’m anti-Black Lives Matter because of what I think their overall purpose is. But I’m not against blackness or black people trying to liberate [themselves]. I’m not doing that. But she’s a complete nut.”
I do like how CNN framed teaching black people self defense as "sowing fear." black people learning self defense? russia is declaring war! pic.twitter.com/JWifaINyAu
— joe prince (@joeprince___) October 18, 2017
Her Twitter ban is a continuation of the corporate suppression of information, she said.
“This whole suppression of voices in using this Russian scare tactic is just way too far. In my lifetime I’ve never seen anything like this. I don’t remember the McCarthyism era, obviously, because I’m not that old, but my parents talked to me about it and things that were occurring at the time,” Peach told RT. “It ensures that the 1 percent continues to have a narrative and that anyone who opposes that are no longer allowed to speak. You look at CNN, MSNBC ‒ they gave us the Iraq war. This is what they do. The main media houses that run everything are the ones that continue to push the propaganda and make sure we’re shut down.”
Shortly after Trump’s upset victory over Clinton, whom the media gave a 98-percent chance of becoming president, accusations began that Trump must have “colluded” with Russia and that the Kremlin somehow “hacked” the election. Once evidence of that failed to materialize, the accusations morphed to far more nebulous charges of “influence” and “sowing division,” without any particular candidate or ideology in mind. No proof was offered for this either, but the mainstream media took it on faith.
CNN Next Week: #TrayvonMartin's hoodie was made in Russia, his Skittles were really Ruble & George Zimmerman is Putin's gardener. https://t.co/AtozbaWb6z
— Ni**as in Moscow (@Delo_Taylor) September 29, 2017
“What’s old is now new again,” Peach wrote in a Medium post addressing her Twitter ban. “Dixiecrats are using their old tactics of Communism that they used before they ‘supposedly’ transitioned into the now Democratic Party. Democrats are showing us all who they really are and have always been.”
She told RT that the experience has left her bitter about the influence of corporations on the media world.
“I’m not a fake person. I’m not a bot, whatever these people are trying to imply. It’s driving me batty and I’m looking to sue,” she said.
Twitter has not responded to RT’s requests for comment.
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110 kg (242 lb): How Janin Bounced Back from Rock Bottom
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At the beginning of 2015, Janin hit rock bottom: “I was overweight, depressed and unhappy with my job. But, I knew I was too young to keep living this way,” said the 29-year-old. So Janin from Schleswig-Holstein started looking for a new job. The new task got the 29-year-old motivated – and Janin used this momentum to start feeling comfortable in her own skin again. “I signed up for a gym. When I stepped on the scale there for the first time in years, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. 110 kg (242 lb) was staring back at me.”
So Janin began to exercise four to five times a week. Swimming and workouts on the elliptical and the bike helped her lose the first kilos. “Other activities like running would have been too hard on my body and my bones at the time. My weight was also causing me problems with my ankles. I am sitting in a wheelchair in the before photo because I had just torn my ligaments again and broken my foot.”
Janin changed her diet and after the first six weeks started to slowly do strength training, which really got the kilos melting. However, the 29-year-old has to admit that there were setbacks. “But I hung tight and never thought once about quitting. Soon, exercise became a big part of my life.” By the end of 2016, Janin could finally start running. She wanted to monitor her progress and keep an eye on her goals, so Janin started using the Runtastic app to track her runs.
“Of course, I started out small: at first, I ran 2 km in 17 minutes.” But her discipline and joy of running were soon rewarded: Janin took part in the Kiel.Lauf Race in September 2016. “I ran the 6 km in 24 minutes,” she said with pride. “But the biggest victory for me was that just one short year ago, I could have never imagined running even 200 meters.” A year in which a lot changed: Janin dropped a whopping 50 kg (110 lb).
“Now, I run 20 km in 2 hours and 20 minutes. This year I also plan to take part in my first half-marathon. My weight loss has also led to many other positive changes – and I’m not just talking about appearance. I feel a lot more self-confident and have a new attitude on life. It’s important for me to share my weight-loss success story with others. Because everyone can do it!”
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Synlait linking with Massey for R&D
Synlait managing director John Penno.
Independent dairy processor Synlait is to set up an R&D centre at Massey University, Palmerston North.
Synlait managing director John Penno says the move is aimed at developing expertise and capability in food technology.
Prompting this is Massey’s “excellent” food technology set-up, including Food HQ, and the opportunity Synlait staff will get to rub shoulders with other disciplines, to the company’s benefit.
The Massey proximity and the presence of FoodPILOT -- one of the New Zealand Food Innovation Network’s four hubs -- will see the Synlait facility at the forefront of innovative food technology research and commercialisation.
Synlait will initially spend $7 million on the facility and employ four R&D staff there permanently. It will lease laboratory space and use some of Massey’s technical facilities including its pilot dairy plant, in the same building.
The R&D centre will focus on new product development, process technology and packaging.
Says Penno, “After many years of specalising in spray dried products -- milk powders and infant formulas -- we are now moving into a category we call ‘everyday dairy’.
“We are now building a large facility in Canterbury where we have a contract with Foodstuffs South Island to supply all its house-brand milk products. That’s a start, but we have ambitions to use that as the base for a range of liquid export products.”
These could include drinking milks, cream products, fermented drinking products and even liquid infant formula. “For years, in the market, we have seen these products and the growth in demand; we’re wondering why they couldn’t be made here and shipped to China and South East Asia. Obviously because of the distance they would have to be long lifestyle products.”
The R&D facility will help Synlait understand more about milk and its uses, Penno says. The firm has a long way to go in fresh products, with their new disciplines and manufacturing processes.
“We can employ people with a history in these things but it’s a different area of expertise from what we now have in our organisation; and there is Massey’s pilot dairy plant.”
Penno champions interdisciplinary research and is a good example of it himself, having an agricultural science degree and a PhD from Massey, supervised by professor Colin Holmes (died June 2016).
Great research is done in collaboration, requiring people who understand the technical elements you are trying to deal with then working with a company with a channel to market and a focus on consumers.
“I have learned about manufacturing, the market and the modern, wealthy consumers we are targeting; they know about the world and want to know about products -- that they are produced in the right away and in a way they can be proud of. And they know the quality of products is more than just what happens in the factory: it goes all the way back to the point of production.”
University delighted
Synlait's intention is immense, says Massey University vice-chancellor Jan Thomas.
Massey has always worked hand-in-glove with industry partners, she says.
Synlait working on campus at its business will allow the university to help with research and give the students opportunity to work in the business.
She wants the university to get an on-the-ground sense of what the real problems are for industry, she says. “We can assist in the solution which then drives that innovation and productivity.”
Thomas wants to see benefits flow for companies and for New Zealand.
“We would like to see more of that co-location on our campuses for likeminded businesses, so we are able to work for mutual benefits especially in food and technology. This is critical for the Palmerston North campus, for Manawatu and for NZ.”
She says the deal with Synlait links perfectly with Massey’s desire to integrate its research and teaching with industry.
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The victims of the wars in the former Yugoslavia are not numbers – they are people, with their first and last names, their lives and their fates.
Those who survived have testified at the Hague Tribunal about the crimes committed. The Coalition for RECOM presents 100 video recordings of their statements.
One of the excerpts from the video recordings is Agron Berisha’s story about the killing of 49 members of the Berisha family in Suva Reka on 25 and 26 March 1999. The testimony of Saranda Bogujevci is also among those presented. In March 1999, at the age of 14, she survived the murder of eight members of her immediate family and six members of the Duriqi family. Also presented is the testimony of Nermin Karagić, who, as a seventeen-year-old, survived the massacre in Ljubija in 1992, in which his father was killed. And the witness Milica Đurić, a Croatian citizen of Serb ethnicity, talks about the events of 6 August, 1995 in the Krajina village of Đurići in the Plavno Valley, when her husband was burned alive.
Denisa Kostovicova: Sitting on the fence: How the London summit exposed the inertia in the EU’s reconciliation policy for the Western Balkans
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The 2018 Western Balkans Summit was held in London on 9-10 July. As Denisa Kostovicova explains, there was hope that the summit... Read more
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Munira Subasic is President of the “Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa”. She said: “In the Srebrenica genocide I lost twenty-two... Read more
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Ljubisa Filipovic was displaced from Kosovo and is now living in Montenegro. “With the help of the Great Britain Fund,... Read more
Mevludin Lupic
Mevludin Lupic comes from Zvornik, from the Lupic family which had fifteen men killed from June 1-7, 1992. His father... Read more
Suncica Antic
Suncica Antic is a displaced person from Kosovo. She lives in Serbia. On July 31, 1999, in the village of... Read more
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Kada Hotic from Srebrenica, member of the Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, lived with her husband Senad and son Samir... Read more
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Nada Bodiroga was born in Slavsko Polje, Croatia. Her parents, Danica and Teodor Samardzija, stayed behind in the village after... Read more
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In the session on “Public Testimony of Victims” at the Tenth Forum for Transitional Justice, held in Belgrade on November... Read more
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sad tale of dropping of Mithali Raj ~ would Board & coach explain ?
In Cricket, especially in shorter versions, it is the form and sooner a star player could be shown the exit – gone are those days, when players got selected on reputation. The effervescent king MS Dhoni stands omitted from T20s .. .. and there was more Shocking thing to happen – a player who has socred 663 runs in 10 tests; 6550 runs in 197 ODIs and 2283 in 85 T20s was dropped for an all important match – which India lost - it was a ,World T20 semi-final, against the very side that broke their hearts in the World Cup final last year.
In Aug 2014 at Wormsley ‘Indian women won the One-off test by 6 Wickets’… England Women 92 & 202; India Women 114 & 183/4 (95.3 ov) is what the brief score reveals .. There were 10 debutants – 8 from Indian side (E Bisht, Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini, H Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Nagarajan Niranjana, S Pandey, PG Raut and Shubhlakshmi Rajendra Sharma) and that has a story to reveal….a sad one at that ….. prior to that - the last time England Women hosted their Indian counterparts in a Test match was when Tony Blair was Prime Minister in 2006 and only three players of that match remained - players - Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and Karu Jain – not the fault of others, as 8 years had rolled by in-between. In Sept 2006 at Taunton, in Test no. 129, Mithali Raj was the Captain; the star was seam bowler Jhulan Goswami, who took five wickets in each innings and ended with superb figures of 10 for 78.
Mithali Raj is a fabulous player – way back in Aug 2002, at Taunton, Mithali Raj made the highest score in the history of women's Test cricket – 214 ! - The 19-year-old from Jodhpur smashed several records on her way making 214 off 407 balls with 19 fours .. a classy player, now getting drowned.
After enjoying an unbeaten run in the group stage of the Women's World T20 in Guyana, India's batsmen collapsed spectacularly against England in their semi-final in North Sound and exited the tournament. An attacking approach - amplified by captain Harmanpreet Kaur's blistering hundred in the tournament opener - had served India well in Guyana, but it worked against them at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, which offered more turn to the spinners. Harmanpreet, Veda Krishnamurthy and Anuja Patil all fell while looking to hit aerially, as India crashed from 89 for 2 to 112 all out. .. .. and there was no place for Mithali Raj !! – she had been dropped !!!
Mithali Raj has accused India women head coach Ramesh Powar and former captain Diana Edulji - a member of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) supervising the BCCI's operations - of leaving her "deflated, depressed and let down" with their actions during the recently concluded World T20 in the Caribbean.
Raj, who was controversially left out of the starting XI in India's eight-wicket semi-final loss to England, has also termed India T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur's decision to support her exclusion "baffling and hurtful". Ever since Mithali Raj was dropped for the World T20 sem-final against England, there have been murmurs that India's T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur does not get along with her senior team-mate. After the game, Harmanpreet had said, "We were going with a winning combination. We did really well against Australia. And that is the reason we just wanted to go with the same combination." In her email, Raj called Harmanpreet's decision "hurtful", but said she was still optimistic of sorting out any differences via a face-to-face meeting.
"I have nothing against the T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur except for the fact that her call to support the decision of the coach to leave me out of the eleven was baffling and hurtful," Raj said in the email. "I wanted to win the world cup for my country and it hurts me because we lost a golden opportunity. But I am of the opinion that Harman and I are senior players and our issues, if any, should be sorted out by the two of us by sitting across the table. Raj laid bare her feelings in an email on Tuesday to the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and the BCCI general manager, cricket operations and women's cricket, Saba Karim. Raj sent the email a day after meeting Johri and Karim in Mumbai to discuss the fallout of the controversy concerning her exclusion from the World T20 semi-final. Among others who met Johri and Karim on Monday were Harmanpreet and team manager Trupti Bhattacharya.
In the email, accessed by ESPNcricinfo, the majority of Raj's ire is directed at Powar, the former Mumbai and India offspinner who took over as the India women head coach in July, after Tushar Arothe's resignation.
Raj, who has opened the batting across formats for the past several years, was pushed down the order in India's tournament opener against New Zealand. According to Raj, Powar told her the move was made in order to increase India's batting depth. Raj says she approached Sudha Shah, the national selector on tour, after Powar told her she wouldn't open. On the morning of the next game, against Pakistan, Powar told her she would open. Raj opened against Pakistan and Ireland, and scored half-centuries in both games. Raj reaching out to the selectors, according to her email, changed Powar's behaviour towards her.
Raj injured her knee during the match against Ireland and missed India's final group game, against Australia. Raj says Powar told her "not to come to the ground" for that match, and - after she asked the manager to intervene - "not to step out of the dressing room" for its duration. Then, Raj says Powar called her onto the ground to join her team-mates in a victory lap. Raj's knee recovered in time for the semi-final, but she says it was evident days before the match that Powar had made up his mind to leave her out. Raj says she was paired up with the lower-middle-order batsmen in the nets, and made to face part-time bowlers. "The kind of practice given to a player who is not in your scheme of things in a key match." Raj also said she felt let down by Edulji, her former Railways and India captain, who had said it was not the CoA's "headache" to interfere in the controversy surrounding the semi-final, or any other decision of the team management.
The fact that the media gained access to Raj's mail, meanwhile, has perturbed Amitabh Choudhary, the BCCI's acting secretary. He emailed Johri and Karim, with the subject line "LEAKAGE OF REPORT".
For statistics, Mithali’s 214 was pushed to 2nd place in 2004 by Kiran Maqsood Baluch a Pak player, who made her debut in 1997. She went on to play 40 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 3 Test matches for Pakistan. Her 242 against the West Indies in 2004 is the highest individual score in Women's Test cricket.
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Kent Moore: Physicist, Hurricane Rider
By News Staff | February 20th 2007 12:00 AM | Print | E-mail
Science doesn’t always happen at a lab bench. For University of Toronto Mississauga physicist Kent Moore, it happens while strapped into a four-point harness, flying head-on into hurricane-force winds off the southern tip of Greenland.
Moore, chair of the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, is heading to Greenland from Feb. 18 to March 11 as part of the Greenland Flow Distortion experiment (GFDex), an International Polar Year research project involving Canadian, British, Norwegian and Icelandic scientists. Moore, a professor of atmospheric physics, is leading the Canadian contingent.
Credit: University of Toronto.
GFDex will provide the first evidence of the role that Greenland plays in distorting atmospheric flow around its massive land and ice mass, affecting European and Asian weather systems. Moreover, the findings may reveal how sea and atmospheric interactions in the Arctic and North Atlantic areas influence climate.
At the heart of GFDex are wind patterns known as “tip jets”. Greenland, an icy obstacle more than three times the size of Texas, forces air to go around its bulk and creates regions of high windspeeds. Tip jets travel east from the tip of Greenland towards Iceland, at speeds of 30 to 40 metres per second. Just as wind blows heat away from the body, making windy winter days feel even colder, tip jets blow heat away from the surface of the ocean. This now-cooler, denser water sinks, affecting currents of circulating warm and cool water within the ocean.
About two years ago, Moore discovered a different kind of tip jet, one that blows west towards Labrador. Now known as reverse tip jets, these also force circulation of water over the Labrador Sea to the west of Greenland. “We’ve seen these things in satellite imagery, but no one’s ever actually observed them,” says Moore. “We’ll be making the first in situ observations of these jets. It’s kind of exciting.”
The data will help scientists understand how the flow of air around Greenland affects weather downwind. “If things are happening near Greenland today, probably two days from now that [air mass] will move down over Europe,” says Moore. “Two or three days after it’s affected Europe, it affects Asia and then ultimately comes around and affects North America. So Greenland ultimately affects the whole Northern Hemisphere…our knowledge will potentially help improve forecasts.”
Moore is also hoping the findings will clarify the climate processes affecting Greenland’s glaciers, which have shrunk significantly in the past few years. “There’s evidence that the ice cap is retreating quite dramatically. In 2003, a cyclone came up on the east side of Greenland and there was a huge melting event,” says Moore. “It’s one of my hopes that we’ll be able to understand a bit more about the processes that determine the mass balance of the Greenland ice cap.”
Making these observations requires both advanced technology and a cast-iron stomach. Moore and his colleagues, along with graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, will be making 17 flights into the tip jets in a British research aircraft called FAAM (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements). Pods and sensors stud the outside of the aircraft. Most of the seats have been removed, creating space for racks of instruments measuring the presence of ice in the clouds, temperature, pressure and humidity. On-board radar gathers information on precipitation, and helps Moore—who, as a mission scientist, will sit in the cockpit—to direct the pilots where to fly. At the same time, “sondes”—paper towel tube-sized devices on small parachutes—are dropped from the back of the plane. Equipped with a barometer, thermometer, global positioning system and humidity sensor, each sonde radios its measurements back to the plane and provides a profile of conditions below the aircraft.
In order to get the best data, the researchers need to fly just 100 feet above the heaving seas, in winds of more than 140 kilometres per hour. “In these conditions and at these levels, the turbulence will be quite severe,” says Moore. “Once, on a similar flight in the Arctic, the lens of my glasses popped out!”
The GFDex experiment is funded by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council, the Canadian Fund for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the European Fleet for Airborne Research and EUCOS, the Composite Observing System program of 21 European meteorological services.
This article was written from a news release issued by University of Toronto
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Tony Cecchine & Matt Furey: Catch Wrestling's Newest Crisis of Confidence
I admit, I am just a guy with a passion for Catch-As-Catch-Can wrestling that has tried to put food on the table for my family by sharing my research.
I've tried to learn first hand from anyone and everyone that has claimed some connection to catch-as-catch-can. In this, I have been very fortunate.
As such, one of the most common questions I receive is "What is your opinion of so-and-so (insert name of self-proclaimed Catch Wrestling guru here)" so I thought this topic might make for some good blog fodder (also I can point people to this blog instead of repeating myself again).
Well there are two names that have done much to publicize Catch Wrestling in the last decade, for better and for worse: Matt Furey and Tony Cecchine. From my research, it is my opinion (and the opinion of a substantial number of other qualified individuals) that both Furey and Cecchine have inflated or been somewhat deceptive regarding their Catch-As-Catch-Can background.
While I completely respect that Furey is a verifiable division II NCAA collegiate-style wrestling champion and a world's champion in Shuai Jiao, his level of understanding of CACC is not very deep in the opinion of many catch wrestling experts, most notably Karl Gotch (please see the scans of the actual letter Karl asked me to post at the bottom of this page). Since Furey used Gotch in his ad copy, plus the fact that Furey has not competed in submission grappling or catch wrestling rules competition, it makes Gotch's dismissal all the more compelling.
I remember seeing a Matt Furey advertisement in a martial arts magazine promoting Karl Gotch's conditioning methods in 2000 or 2001. I had long had an interest in Catch-As-Catch-Can so I looked into it. It was good stuff, Karl was legendary so I was happy to see CACC getting the attention it so deeply deserved.
Soon thereafter Furey began promoting a $600 or $700 (!) videotape set where he promised to teach the secrets of the nearly forgotten art of Catch Wrestling. Keep in mind, at this time Furey had not yet earned his reputation across mixed martial art internet forums as "The King of Over-Promise and Under-Deliver" but still, it was simply way too much money. I figured I'd wait until someone sold their copy on Ebay.
When I finally got a hold of his material, it was a very mixed bag. I think that the Neck Crank video he put out is really good. The Farmer Burn's material, however is horribly over priced with little usable material, and a lot of filler of Matt "proving" his skills on what appears to be newcomers to grappling. There is some good material on there but I personally wouldn't spend $597 on the material when there is better, less expensive material by proven submission grapplers out there.
Turned-off by Furey's over-the-top "pie-in-the-sky" ad copy and outrageous prices, I began to look elsewhere. A cursory internet search turned up Tony Cecchine's name. He somehow had an endorsement from Lou Thesz so I bought his DVD course from Paul Viele and paid ~$250 for a lifetime membership to Chicago-based Cecchine's ICWA. When Cecchine stopped feeling like working on the ICWA, he offered no refund to the numerous people that just a few months earlier, had paid him this sum.
I personally knew Cecchine for the better part of a year and even was personally chosen by him to run the West Coast chapter of his ICWA. When I began the in-depth research for my first volume of the Authoritative Encyclopedia of Scientific Wrestling I naturally began to ask questions about Cecchine's claimed background and accomplishments.
These were the questions I raised years ago (and while I still have not received satisfactory answers, I have received physical threats and smears). I merely asked for evidence:
1) Of Cecchine's claim to be a Golden Gloves boxing champ (Made on a videotape by Furey while introducing Cecchine at a clinic. Shane Tucker has publically confirmed that Tony made this claim to him as well.)
2) That Cecchine actually trained with Stanley Radwan (I've never claimed Radwan didn't exist, that is a "strawman")
3) That Radwan actually knew CACC hooks
4) Can anyone explain the apparent change in Cecchine's knowledge from the infamous "Gotch tape" to LAOH?
"The scientific principle of the null hypothesis--that a claim is untrue unless proved otherwise--runs counter to our natural tendency to accept as true what we can comprehend quickly." (from Scientific American)
When I very politely and cordially asked for actual evidence of his claims (because I was writing my books for posterity and didn't want to "re-write" history in any way) I was booted from his online forum without warning. Members of Cecchine's inner circle then began a campaign of ad hominem and ad baculum smearing attacks. Later it was verified by the then ICWA Vice-resident that Cecchine had multiple "anonymous" usernames on MMA forums that he used to praise himself in the 'third-person'.
When this happened it only piqued my curiosity further and I became more and more determined to get to the bottom of things. Later, I was shown a tape that Cecchine had sent to Karl Gotch that proved without a doubt that as recently as the mid-nineties he had not trained in CACC. I did feel like a fool for having not only believing Cecchine's claims without asking for proof, but even worse, for endorsing him.
The strange thing was, when I started to ask questions, I found many, many others that had had similar problems and noticed strange things about his claims. Many of these people were once close to him and distanced themselves far from Cecchine once they began to independently figuring things out.
Glenn Ortiz is one person that has made public the problems he experienced with Cecchine so I can mention him by name. He is a MMA fighter and was one-time Grappler's Quest Champion. He had many many problems with the ethics of Cecchine and publically said so.
Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator Joe Rogan and 2003 ADCC champion Eddie Bravo also publically chastised Cecchine on a legendary MMA.TV thread for perpetuating a scam, never providing any solid evidence of his gradiose claims, and never competing anywhere.
Joe Rogan Has a Solid Reputation For Exposing Evidence of Scams/Frauds (seen here recently confronting Carlos Mencia)
Billy Wicks is another. He is a retired sheriff and Catch-As-Catch-Can wrestler (who learned hooks directly from Farmer Burns' student Henry Kohlen) that thinks nothing of Cecchine and has publically stated so. Cecchine once latched onto him for legitimacy but Mr. Wicks severed ties due to ethical lapses.
Please read the hand written letter below from Mr. Wicks saying that he feels that both he and Lou Thesz were duped by "Super-Hooker" (as he sarcastically calls him) Cecchine.
Click here to see 'Letter from Billy Wicks'
What motivates someone to inflate or make up unverifiable credentials; money, ego? Is it possible that Mr. Thesz made a mistake about Cecchine (as both Wicks, myself, and countless others have admitted to)?
One interesting tid-bit that I uncovered during my investigation is that Matt Furey and Tony Cecchine were business partners early on. Furey brought Cecchine in on a business deal that Furey had established with Lou Thesz. Furey told me on the phone (the only time I have ever spoken to him personally) that Thesz had an idea to capitalize on the grappling seminar market by barn-storming across the country as "The Three Hookers". To Mr. Furey's credit, he told me that he felt uncomfortable accepting the "Hooker" without competing as a catch wrestler.
Despite the unverifiable credentials and his poor ethics, I do think that several of the Cecchine "LAOH" tapes are decent. Cecchine certainly does draw heavily from CACC (I am guessing from watching Fujiwara & Hidataka Aso tapes and from the little bit that both Billy Wicks and Lou Thesz showed him).
Another interesting piece of information is that Thesz' longtime protege, a man named Mark Fleming, is a friend of mine. He ran Lou's wrestling school for years and wrestled in Japan for something like 17 different tours. Lou was the best man at his wedding as well. Mark said Lou never once mentioned Cecchine to him, ever, and catch wrestling was one of the topics they often spoke of.
I do believe that Furey is mostly interested in marketing himself and his products and does know a few legit catch principles and holds from his brief time with Karl Gotch. I know Karl personally and talked to him nearly every week for years. Unfortunately, Gotch personally does not think very well of Furey*.
If you really want to promote REAL catch wrestling, forget about the personalities involved. Find some place to wrestle. I started my club in Venice Beach on the grass with 3 guys. As the guys came on board we all pitched in to pay for some space in a small boxing gym, we'd meet Saturdays and some weeknights.
What will not promote Catch Wrestling effectively are fabricated histories, lack of gameness, "keyboard warrior" flame wars on internet forums, and any other "cult of personality" nonsense, all done at the expense of real Catch Wrestling done on the mat. I understand that sometimes people get caught up in lies or exaggeration, and for those who come clean there is forgiveness, even redemption! (As a matter of fact, the fastest way to make this disappear is to come clean and work together, in my opinion. Even Cecchine and Furey.)
Remember, there are a TON of instructionals out there to learn from. There are clinics to attend and seminars to provide the hands-on fine tuning you need. Then just get back there and wrestle and share what you know with the other guys.
If you wait for other people to do it for you, it will never happen. That is how Scientific Wrestling came about. I am just a guy that likes this sport and is trying to do everything I can to bring it respect (by supporting honest competitive catch-as-catch-can men, hosting seminars with men like Billy Robinson, Fujiwara, Dick Cardinal, Josh Barnett, etc.).
If you want to do catch wrestling, then wrestle best two of three falls and try to submit or pin your opponent. Just be careful, get liability release waivers and some cheap liability insurance. It can be done.
Bottomline, just wrestle... (and have fun!). Do that and the future of Catch Wrestling will look bright!
Meanwhile, here are some excellent useful links for detecting dishonesty and debunking unverified claims:
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
The Field Guide to Critical Thinking
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
I also highly recommend the article to anyone new to the martial arts. It is called "Are You In A Martial Arts Cult?"
*************************************************************** Tampa, 18th July '05
Dear Jake,
Thanks for sending me that copy of the fat man Matt Furey's website. As you know I don't have a computer and I don't know how to use it, but as I can see he employs it for a con game to steal from some poor guys that love the sport. He hung around me for about 5 months not over two years as he states.
He writes, "What's Old is New -- What's New is Old" well he uses this to put his hand in the poor guys pocket and grab the money. I found him out when he talked me into making a tape I had about conditioning commercial, I had made the tape as proof, because after my double hip replacement I could not do many of those things anymore and a picture is worth a thousand words.
I told him to never use my name again with anything he ever did. The man is a disgrace to wrestling and has no honor at all, he can walk under a snakes belly wearing a top hat.
To give you an idea what real pro-wrestling is lets take boxing as an example, even as an Olympic Champ when you turn pro you have to start all over again because it's completely different. Here in the U.S.A they had the best in the world, men like Strangler Lewis, Toots Mondt, John Pesek, etc. would take the life out of anyone that challenged them. Wrestling is opposite of what people think it is, it is not strength but knowledge, balance, and timing, leverage and where to place the fulcrum, that's what it takes to make it to the top in the noble art of wrestling.
Also, the most difficult sport is wrestling because contrary to other combat sports you have to learn to attack and defend from 3 different positions; standing-up, on all fours and underneath. It takes know how to do that, and your best hold is condition, even the best automobile won't run without gas, oil, and water. People now go for excitement and to something that is easy to understand, that's why football, base-ball and basketball are drawing the big crowds, plus they are team sport, they change their players in and out.
Wrestling in the amateurs should never be less than 12 minutes a match, then you can see the best man. I wrote you all this to show you that how can a fat slob like Furey, that doesn't know his elbow from his rear end, tell and show these poor boys that he charges an arm and a leg and a finger thrown in? Wrestling is a workman's sport, you need no expensive equipment and can practice it anywhere, and here is this greedy, fat no good misfit charging them all this money for nothing. I never took one cent from a boy to show him how to wrestle, all I asked for is guts. I can make you strong, fast, agile and train you for endurance and reflex, but guts you get when you are born.
I hope that we can find a way to stop this misfit from fleecing those poor guys, thanks again for letting me know. Yours, Karl
*Scans of the Actual Letter From Karl Gotch
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Click here to see 'Letter from Karl', part 1
"To Whom It May Concern,
If someone claims to have been trained by Karl Gotch, the first thing you need to know is that Karl would not show anyone techniques until they could "pay" him with the exercises. Karl wanted effort... and the truth is he rarely got it.
I met Gotch in the fall of 1993. I spent about eight hours a day with him everyday six-seven days a week until I left Tampa for good in mid-1995. After my initial fight in Japan in March of 94, I came back and had to leave Tampa briefly because of illness around early May of that year. I returned to Tampa about 8 weeks later to resume training until May of 95. Karl's wife died soon after.
I kept in touch with Karl weekly on the phone and continued to visit until his passing last year. Talking to a wrestling great did not mean that he trained you. Talking about wrestling on the phone does not constitute training time. Training for any kind of wrestling takes years to develop world class skill.
Training is working with sparring partners under the watchful eye of an expert who can correct your mistakes and show you the right way to do things. It takes years to learn the skills before you could be qualified to pass to them on to the next generation.
No one that respected Gotch or the sport of catch wrestling would dare to presume that a couple of months in the presence of a legend would qualify them to teach as his representative. To truly honor the man, the student would take years perfecting the skills he learned by drilling AND COMPETING before he would try to do is mentor justice.
The only people that Karl legitimately spent time teaching and conditioning for Catch Wrestling were the Japanese fighters like Fujiwara, Suzuki, Funaki and the rest of the young boys attached to the old UWFI. They are the only ones who could say that Karl consistently spent time on the mat with them.
No one that he talked to or went to a gym with him a time or two, myself included was given his blessing to instruct or write book about catch except for Fujiwara. HE HAD NO LIVE IN STUDENTS in the 15 years I knew him.
There was no such thing as "Gotch wrestling". For Karl, the throws, suplexes, controls and the ground game were just wrestling. Karl always hoped that pure Catch would come around again in his lifetime.
I believe from our conversations that he had hoped PANCRASE would have evolved into a forum for that. But as the American NHB scene evolved the Japanese product moved more toward the striking side of things to be competitive instead of developing the great grappling product that it already had.
He always spoke highly of the old UWFi match between Suzuki and Funaki. It is my opinion that this was the kind of product he respected and felt the world would want to see. But what do I know.
The name of Gotch, when it came to wrestling and conditioning was synonymous with excellence. An exacting standard, rarely met, and if you really did know the man, you would know how much he hated pretenders. And a pretender you would be if you thought that a few months training qualified you to speak for a legend or use his name without his consent.
At least, have the balls to make your own way, without having Gotch's name emblazoned on everything you do.
Signed, The Guy Busting His A** in the Conditioning for Combat Sports DVD"
Here's the BUZZ:
“Jake Shannon has single handedly resurrected one of the world’s lost arts of grappling through his ScientificWrestling.com crusade. I can’t think of anyone more enthusiastic about Catch as Catch Can Wrestling than Jake. He has breathed new life into one of the toughest styles of grappling in the world. I am thoroughly impressed by his knowledge and more than that his ability to have personally befriended CACC greats like Karl Gotch, Billy Robinson and others and how he has brought them back into the limelight so that their legacies could be shared with this generation. That took a lot of dedication and a lot of selfless effort on his part. Jake has truly brought back lost techniques and lost heroes. It is a great honor to have learned from Jake and to call him friend.” - Brandon Ruiz, FILA Grappling World Champion, NAGA Grappling World Champion, 2X Pancrase World Champion, Greco Roman Wrestling Pan Am Silver Medalist, 8 x Greco Roman & Freestyle Wrestling All-American, 2nd Degree Black Belt Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Ruiz Combat Grappling
"Honest, Hardworking, Strong Character, Creative, & Energetic... Wow. Jake you're on a roll with this certification! I support you wholeheartedly my friend." - Mark Schultz, Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler, successful UFC competitor, 2x Freestyle Wrestling World Champion, and 3x NCAA Wrestling Champion.
"[Scientific Wrestling is] the most legitimate, honest website and conglomerate of people that are true fans of catch wrestling that have the right spirit for it. It's not trying be something different or trying sell something. It's trying to honor the memory and trying to keep the history alive and that is really important to me." - Neil Melanson, Head Grappling Coach for UFC legend Randy Couture and Xtreme Couture Las Vegas
"Jake Shannon and his Scientific Wrestling program has allowed me to train with the best in the world. After visiting coach Shannon and training catch as catch can for the first time in 2007, I quickly realized that I needed to learn a style that didn't take away from my collegiate wrestling and judo experience. Instead, catch allowed me to learn submissions from positions that I was already used to. I couldn't be more grateful to Jake for putting me in that crooked neck scissors a few years ago and opening my eyes to painful techniques that really work. Nothing flashy, no politics, just catch as catch can!" - Luis Ojeda, 2X King of Catch Wrestling Heavyweight Champ, Current NACWA Heavyweight Champion, Scientific Wrestling Assistant Coach (under Billy Robinson)
"JAKE, YOU ARE THE VERY BEST INDIVIDUAL PERSON TO COME ALONG IN THIS GENERATION AND DO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR WRESTLING, I CAN'T FIND WORDS TO EXPRESS MYSELF. MUCH RESPECT" - Billy Wicks, Catch-As-Catch-Can legend and retired law enforcement officer.
"Catch somehow ignited a fire in me that those samurai esq styles could not. I have a renewed interest in all things Western! From various Wrestling styles, sword & pole-arm combat, hand to hand combat & most importantly: History & Autodidacticism. It all started with exposure to ScientificWrestling.com. Thank you for filtering out the nonsense so those who seek the truth about Catch Wrestling can do so." - Michael Guzman
"ScientificWrestling.com is an excellent web resource, offering a large number of high quality videos... The information is top notch, especially for submission wrestling. I got a particularly good compression armlock from the welcome page alone" - Review from Fighters Review
"Dear Jake, What you have put together is wonderful! Very insightful. You will run a great clinic and be a success. I have never seen anything like this." - Frankie Cain (aka The Great Mephisto), Carnival Wrestler and Boxer and Wild Bull Rider
"Jake is Southern California's true master of catch wrestling. Merely shaking hands with this gentleman can bring about an infinity of pain!" - Bob Calhoun, co-author of The Godfather of Grappling and author of BEER, BLOOD & CORNMEAL!
"Billy Robinson is like no one I've ever trained under. He is a true master. Jake Shannon and his ScientificWrestling.com are the real deal." - Tony Altermatt, Former Texas Peace Officer, JKD instructor, Former MN State Karate Champion
"Jake, you are a visionary in the world of wrestling. It amazes me how good your stuff is (which I am still studying), thank you!" - Master Sidartha Lonngi, 6º Dan
"I thank you for the education you have given me in western martial arts. It has been an eye opener and it was worth every penny. Many thanks," - Stephen Hore-Lacy
"Got your books today - currently going for my Master's and just finished a cognitive development paper on religion and gotta say, I'm pretty damn impressed you have Paul Bloom as a reference in the Certification manual!!! Did not see that coming!! Great stuff, have you set a date yet for the next certification? Take care," - Ali O.
"My son was able to use 1 of the techniques from the Schalles DVD in his first tourney today!!!
As he got the chicken wing and he jumped over I was thinking 'Oh Sh$t !!! he's gonna use that technique we watched last nite!' Needless to say he got the pin. Thanks!" - Bobby Delos Santos
"I just got the Complete Catch Wrestler package today. Whoa! It's a lot of information and I'm not sure where to begin. I wasn't expecting as much stuff as I received in this package. I feel very good about my order now. Thanks!" - Rob Tewis
"I have purchased all of the gracie, saulo riberio, mario sperry, and bas rutten tapes, what I have seen from Scientific Wrestling truly is the best Real grappling instructionals on the net!" - Jason Bray
"Hello! I just wanted to let you all know that the DVDs have arrived today. I have had my first look into them and they are in excellent conditions, and it's excellent material, Thank you very much!!! Best wishes from Berlin, Germany" - L. E. Schwarz
"The Scientific Wrestling news is one of the highest quality informative reads that I have found... And thanks again for the integrity to stand up for what is right!" - Ben Benito
"Your site is the best... I'm glad there's someone out there keeping real grappling alive and well. I'm also glad you hooked up with one of my favorites, Karl Gotch..." - Mike Brown
"Thanks Jake, and I'll try to keep up with whatever project you come out with next! Your credibility is definitely SOLID; You're a stand-up guy." - Donald Pillow
"Your website is a Beacon in the fog out there for Wrestlers/Grapplers &Submission Stylists." - David Tamura
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Wadjda to open Gulf Film Festival
By Ian Sandwell2013-03-26T13:12:00+00:00
Haifaa Al Mansour’s award-winning drama [pictured] will launch the sixth edition of the festival on April 11.
Wadjda has been confirmed as the opening film of the sixth Gulf Film Festival (GFF), which takes place in Dubai Festival City from April 11-17.
Writer-director Haifaa Al Mansour will be in attendance on the opening night for the screening of her film, which has won awards at the likes of Dubai and Venice.
Masoud Amralla Al Ali, GFF festival director commented: “Wadjda is the perfect film to open the festival and we are incredibly proud of Haifaa and the international success she has achieved with her impressive debut feature.”
He continued: “Wadjda first came onto our radars at a script workshop during the 2007 Gulf Film Festival and we fell in love with the story instantly. It only seems right that this remarkable accomplishment should be celebrated at GFF and we look forward to seeing what this incredibly talented filmmaker will present next.”
GFF is presented by The Investment Corporation of Dubai and held in association with Dubai Studio City. The festival is supported by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
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Tobias Harris Gave 76ers Exactly What They Needed vs. Nets
Justin Grasso
Over the offseason, the Philadelphia 76ers had enough funds to take on two max superstars. Fortunately, multiple prominent names were hitting the market, including two Sixers from the 2018-2019 season in Jimmy Butler, and Tobias Harris.
When some of the other big names such as Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving didn't give Philadelphia the time of day, the 76ers' front office focused on trying to retain their own. Butler was in the mix, but things went south behind the scenes.
Therefore, the Sixers decided a sign and trade involving Butler was their best bet. Meanwhile, Philly liked their midseason acquisition from last year, Tobias Harris. And although Harris wasn't the ideal fit just yet, Brett Brown and his staff had confidence in their ability to grow Harris as a better defender and scorer.
We're currently halfway through Harris' first season as a max superstar with the Sixers, and so far, things are going well. Harris has clearly upgraded his defense over the offseason, and now his head coach is working on growing him as a scorer.
A couple of months ago, Brett Brown mentioned he wants Tobias Harris to be the Sixers' new JJ Redick-type of a player. That doesn't mean a guy who is out there just chucking up three-pointers, though. He also wants Harris to lead and become the go-to guy in crunch time.
"What I have said to him is that I want you to score -- I want to grow you as a scorer," Brown said on Wednesday before the Sixers faced the Nets.
"I think [Tobias Harris] has grown his game to where I want it to be. He can get into the lane and jump over smaller people, and I'm happy with that. I think that if you take a deeper dive, you will see him in more pick and rolls and making passes out the pick and rolls. Historically, that has not been his thing."
Brown's pregame comments regarding Harris aged well a few hours later as the Sixers' forward took over the matchup against Brooklyn and helped seal the 117-106 victory.
During Harris' 35 minutes on the court, he drained 14 of his 20 attempted shots for a total of 34 points. Overall, Harris was solid. But his fourth-quarter performance is what was most impressive about his game.
"There is a genuine desire to win," Brown said in regards to Harris' big fourth quarter. "You can see it in his face and his action in the locker room. It matters, and he cares a lot. He was our bell-ringer tonight, and I was proud of him. It's deeper than him just making shots. It doesn't surprise me that he came out the way he did."
One clutch performance by Harris won't solve all of the Sixers' problems moving forward, but it is a start. As the Sixers host Chicago on Friday, they will look to put together another winning streak so they can continue to climb their way out of the sixth seed.
Justin Grasso covers the Philadelphia 76ers for Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on Twitter: @JGrasso_
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Home » Welcome to the SilverWood Bookshop » Fiction » Bridge of Straw (A)
A Bridge of Straw
Chris Budd
Secrets and the fragile nature of love set against the vibrant backdrop of the rock 'n' roll industry.
Mack has a secret…
Mack and Al used to be minor pop stars. They partied hard during the brief worldwide success of Mack’s song A Bridge of Straw. That was until a journalist with a vendetta threw the band apart and Al became seduced by Hollywood. Mack had settled into family life but Al returns, out of the blue, demanding a share of the royalties. Mack loses control as the situation develops, costing him his marriage and forcing him to retreat from the world that once acknowledged his talent.
Fourteen years on, Mack’s son Johnny is determined to help his father by uncovering the truth, and to prove his father’s innocence. But someone is trying to stop him…
Click here to get A Bridge of Straw for Kindle.
Chris Budd lives in Somerset with his wife and two children. He plays guitar and gigs regularly, reads lots of books and graphic novels, and spends far too little time watching cricket. In between this, he runs Ovation Finance Ltd, the financial planning business he started in 2000.
As well as being the title of his first novel, A Bridge Of Straw is also a real song written by Chris. Written for his girlfriend when she was working in Australia, the lyric is a comment on the fragile nature of love. That girlfriend is now his wife, which perhaps shows that writing songs works.
Read more about Chris at www.cbudd.co.uk
'A really rather excellent first novel. You get slowly absorbed until it delivers a dark twist at the end.'
– David Lloyd — scriptwriter (Eastenders, Doctors)
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Traveler Radio
CURUMIN
‘Arrocha means to hold on with a lot of pressure,’ Curumin says from his São Paolo home, describing the meaning behind his new album title. ‘In Bahia it’s a rhythm, a way of dancing where you hold your girl very close. That pressure is something we feel here in Sao Paolo. It’s a very big city and you are always surrounded by people. On this album I’m trying to make more sensual music, speaking with a lot of feeling and getting closer to people.’
Born of Spanish and Japanese parents 35 years ago, Luciano Nakata Albuquerque adopted the persona Curumin (KOO-roo-mean) as a way of exploring the possibilities of Brazil’s many sonic heritages. Known globally as the land of bossa nova and samba, the youthful vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/producer has borrowed much from his Brazilian culture but expanded upon it by creating an inviting, sensual tone while eschewing any lust for stardom through mainstream sounds. On the pioneering Arrocha (Six Degrees Records), he has built upon prior success in creating a melodically addicting and rhythmically potent exploration of modern Brazil.
Discovered by California hip-hop outfit Blackalicious on a 2005 South American tour, the duo helped Curumin gain international recognition by releasing his debut, Achados e Perdidos, in the United States. After successfully launching his presence in the States at CMJ that same year, he was quickly booked to perform at Chicago’s World Music Festival and the M3 Conference the following year. Natalie Portman included his track ‘Tudo Bern Malandro’ on a compilation; when ‘Guerreiro’ was used in a Nike ad during the FIFA World Cup, the fame he never sought was ensured.
It was Curumin’s second album, JapanPopShow, that really launched him in 2008. His unique fusing of samba, reggae, electronica, funk and hip-hop earned him gigs at Central Park Summerstage, Los Angeles’s Grand Performances, the Montreal Jazz Fest, the Red Hot Rio +2 concert at Brooklyn’s BAM and San Francisco’s Stern Grove. He’s performed alongside Femi Kuti, Jorge Ben, Money Mark, Blackalicious and Juana Molina, and earned glowing accolades from the NY Times, Spin, the Village Voice and Billboard.com.
Part of a wave of evolutionary Brazilian artists updating their native soundscape, this self-professed tropicalia and funk addict now delves deeply into the electronic sound of his MPC to control the direction. ‘I created different atmospheres and textures from doing a lot of research with all of the albums I have here in my house,’ he says. Being that his home would not cater to a full band set-up, Arrocha dives right into the heart of his intentions: it’s a warm, sensitive journey featuring gorgeous melodies floating over a wash of spacious percussion, guitars and bass, while never losing the danceable beats that his culture demands.
‘The electronic angle let me work inside of the machines,’ he says. ‘It’s a different way to do Brazilian music. But it’s also part of my Japanese heritage. The thing that I’m trying to accomplish in my music is connected to the past and tradition, as well as to the future. This is a very Japanese way of looking at things.’
Kicking it off with the hard edge of ‘Afoxoque,’ the word is an amalgam of the Portuguese word afoxê and the English shock. ‘I was programming the beat and just gave it this name. A few days later I tried to write lyrics, and I started to research what afoxoque could mean. Afoxê is a word from Yoruba, the African tradition here in Brazil, and it means ‘the power of speech.’ So it’s the shock that happens to you from the power of language.’
Not all of the album depends on metaphysical explanation. In fact, the topics of yearning and connection, to a soulmate, family member of friend, dominates the content. ‘Selvage,’ the album’s first single and video, is about getting wild. Having lived in downtown São Paolo for eight years, Curumin felt that past-future connection, noticing that very evolved people live daily with their primitive instincts. On ‘Selvage’ he waxes romantic over the ‘jungle’ of his former neighborhood, providing the listener with Arrocha‘s most upbeat, punchy track.
On ‘Paris Vila Matilde’ he tells a story about calling his girlfriend, who comes from the São Paolo neighborhood of Vila Matilde, while he was in France. This gorgeous two-minute gem is engulfed by that seductive term, saudade, an indescribable feeling of desire and aching made globally famous by the poetic hand of Federico García Lorca. And speaking of poets, ‘Pra Nunca Mais’ was penned by Arnaldo Antunes, Brazil’s renowned wordsmith and singer.
‘It’s like you’re waking up and coming out from a dream,’ Curumin says of that song. ‘But you don’t want to wake up, so you go back to your dreams and begin to float. Then the things in the dream start to happen again, but then you are waking up again, but you don’t want to.’
Following up on the many successes he garnered with JapanPopShow, Curumin has produced a record that’s certain to surpass previous praise. Introduced to Six Degrees Records via his friend (and now labelmate) Céu – who guest stars on the reggae-inflected ‘Vestido de prata’ – he’s excited to be moving in new musical directions, blending catchy tracks with an integrity and inventiveness unique unto himself. For him, this is all he could imagine himself doing.
‘I’m always trying to be minimal in my music and life, just putting in what’s essential and not too much information,’ he concludes, in what is perhaps another quality pulled from his Japanese ancestry. ‘I’m happy that the alternative scene in Brazil is building. If you just have mainstream music, nothing is creative, and no one is going to try to do anything strange. Now some people are doing strange stuff, and some people are listening to strange stuff too. This is very good.’
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As a 21st century cutting-edge international project, the SKA is committed to being forward-looking and innovative and a responsible global citizen. In terms of human capital development, the development of world-class talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and other fields is key to the continuation of innovation in radio astronomy and the delivery and use of the SKA to its full potential.
Fostering an open and diverse global community that draws from an array of unique experiences and viewpoints is a necessary step to realising this goal. This is why we have set out to feature on this page some of the key people around the world who are part of this incredibly ambitious project; people in all areas of expertise, such as science, engineering, technology and others; as well as people from all walks of life, demonstrating the diverse origins, and backgrounds of those who make the SKA what it is. With a diverse set of countries supporting it, this is the unique strength of the SKA: to draw from the best, no matter where they’re from or who they are.
Women have traditionally been under-represented in some fields of science and engineering and so the Team SKA initiative particularly features some of the amazing women involved in the SKA. By having positive role models young girls can relate to, we hope to help break down stereotypes of scientists and encourage girls to take up STEM studies.
Outreach Events the SKA HQ organises, supports or takes part in such as the Girls Night Out and the Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank also go in that direction, featuring a diverse and multicultural set of SKA staff working across disciplines to show the broad breadth of profiles and skills needed to deliver a project like the SKA.
Meet Team SKA
Team SKA is about showcasing the diversity of people who work on the project; mentors and role models from all backgrounds who can inspire others. They are the amazing scientists, engineers, technicians and experts in all fields involved in designing, building, and using the world’s largest radio telescope.
Jonas Flygare
Anna Scaife
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Kesseven Mooneyan
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Rebecca Wheadon
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Snehal Valame
Rodrigo Olguin
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Natasha Hurley-Walker
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Maria Grazia Labate
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Sailing with the Skinners
About Onegin
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As May rolled gently into June we continued to enjoy the sights in the Gulf of Corinth. It is definitely an area not to be missed, many people zoom through on passage to reach the Aegean via the Corinth Canal. Most notable was stopping in Galaxidi, which is a charming town, befriending an Aussie couple (who kept calling the Captain, Craig), hiring a car and driving everyone to Delphi. The scenery is stunning: Zeus chose well and the whole site is incredible; an amazing place to consult the oracle.
We had chosen the Corinth Canal as our route to the Aegean as it is the most direct from Preveza. A feat of engineering completed in the late 1800s by the French, after many other attempts over the years from the time of Emperor Nero onward. It was a grey and drizzly evening, and we were the only boat going through. The excitement of reaching the Aegean was palpable, hard to explain why. Perhaps the anticipation of exploring the larger area of Greek islands. The only challenge the Captain encountered was the tenacious, very large, Greek dog that would not let go of our mooring line when we were trying to leave the dock at the eastern end of the canal.
The Aegean is fabulous. The islands in and around the Eastern Peloponnese and Saronic Gulf are delightful. To see the largest surviving amphitheatre at Epidhavros was incredible. It seats 14,000 and you can hear a pin drop or a whisper on the stage from even the highest point. The island of Poros and nearby azure blue Russian Bay are stunning. A trip to the famous Idhra, home to Leonard Cohen and other famous names from the 1970s gave us a taste of another world, it was a little like a ‘wanna be’ Capri with large motor yachts and well dressed cruisers but somehow not quite the same. Not to be forgotten or missed was the nearby Skindos Bay, we spent a couple of very relaxing days in ‘our’ bay with the donkey, the farmer and a couple of other boats.
We waved good bye to Carrie on Idhra after a great ten days on board. As a travel expert who has visited many countries and many amazing places, we managed to show her some new sights and she is hoping to get back to Greece for work in the near future.
The travelog in June and July gets complex. This was the first time we had the boat to ourselves since launching and we did some moseying around the Eastern Peloponnese. Perhaps our favourite spot was the charming and unspoilt town of Astros. We met some fun Kiwis, Murray & Lyn on their Halberg 54’ and had fun chatting with a British couple who were chartering but had sailed round the world a few years ago on their own boat. Then to top it off there was a local dancing festival where the most nimble dancers were the tallest and largest bellied men you have ever seen!
The leisure time had to come to a close with the onset of very brown exhaust bellowing from our stern even at low revs. As any diesel engine expert would know, this is not a good sign. Limping carefully to Pireaus where we were expecting to leave the boat for a few days, we reached Zea Marina and put them to work to find a diesel engineer asap. This was Monday, bearing in mind we were to fly to the uk for Georgie’s degree show on Thursday, it was a tall order. BUT true to the mechanics word, he arrived at midday after the call and then proceeded to take the engine apart. By Tuesday afternoon the Captain declared he had NEVER seen the engine in so many pieces…….
Wednesday rolled around and remarkably everything was being put back together, a sea trial undertaken and no brown smoke at low revs or high revs. Only white. Hurray for the work done by the guys at Zea. We could head back to Loughborough University Design School degree show with easy minds knowing that we would be leaving the dock with our next guests in just a few days.
Willi, Shirley & Emma Powell arrived in the rain, we hadn't seen rain for weeks so this was a little odd especially as even in the UK there wasn’t a drop. It didn't matter though as it was still warm and so good to see old friends. The time with the Powells was great, as ever and having Georgie join us for the latter part of the trip so good too. The paddle board was used, we headed south as far as Milos and met up with sv Believe having wintered two rows of boats away from them and left Cleopatra yard within a week of each other it took 6 weeks to rendez vous! We had a super special trip down to the south of Milos, anchoring in flat calm weather next to the caves at Kleftiko. What a magical place and such a treat. Thank you Rick and Julie for taking us there. Then back to Milos for birthday celebrations for Julie who is now hopefully the proud owner of a paddle board.
The Powells left us in Milos, and we meandered back up towards Olympic Marina on the eastern tip of the Athens Peninsula. Next was a moment of inspiration from the Captain, after weeks of unsuccessful fishing with the lures that were promised and proven to catch tuna he decided to abandon all previous advice and strike out on his own. The lure from our old Canadian fishing boat, Pierre, was fastened and cast over the stern. As the wind picked up and the boat galloped along at 7kn we were suddenly aware of the rod and line pulling, with cries of "quick get the hammer, the ouzo, the gloves, the gaff" we carefully brought our first Mediterranean tuna on board. This was so exciting and a real sense of achievement in what seems to be a very overfished, understocked sea. Georgie was scheduled to fly back to the UK and I joined her on the trip to visit mum whilst the Captain took a survey expedition back to Lisbon. Onegin was abandoned for a few days with the prospect of big wind coming in, the first of the meltemi which had been widely talked about but actually yet to be encountered.
After a hectic week away, getting back to the boat was exciting. New guests and new conditions. The Captain who had arrived back earlier confirmed that indeed the wind had blown like stink and that we had more in the offing. Uh oh, how would Nick and Alice like this? Luckily as long as the wind blew and the engine was off everyone held their sea legs and stomachs extremely well as we revisited some anchorages and went to new ones too. The biggest wind we had off the back of Tinos were gusts of 35kn literally out of no-where. It was loads of fun and warmed us up for more fantastic ‘backside’ of the island gusting : heading past Ikeria the Captain and I were in gusts of 40+. This was a long way from the early part of the season when we hoisted the code zero on multiple occasions and enjoyed a good sail in wind of just 6kn. It may have been blowing 40+ but the sun still shone and the sky was blue as we reached along at 9knts with 3 reefs the main and and partially furled staysail.
We sailed past the north coast of Mykonos, the south coast (backside) of Ikeria and headed for Samos, right next to the Turkish border in order to fly back to the UK for the second graduation event: where we received our proud parents award at the University of Loughborough degree show from Lord Sebastian Coe. Samos is a delightful island, anchor off the main town in 2.5m. Funnily enough it was the home of the basil plant I had been given by another cruiser 6 weeks earlier in Zea marina and was continuing to nurture.
From Samos we needed to get to Mykonos to collect girls. This ended up being an amazing surprise as not only did we have the two planned girls: Charli and Dora but an extra of Georgie. I nearly keeled over with surprise but what a treat to have them all on board. Mykonos is very attractive although full of chic boutiques and tons of tourists, we were very lucky to meet up with a very old friend and former colleague of the Captain who has wonderful hillside house on the island, thanks to Jason and Paula for a wonderful dinner and amazing sunset, it was a great first night for out three new guests! This was followed by more fun dinners, fabulous sailing, a second fishing success, swimming, unfortunate too ‘up close and personal’ encounters with super yachts and more. Including an amazing trip to Delos, which is such an incredible archaeological feast very close to Mykonos. It was a fab time. We were thrilled to be able to get back to Milos and meet sv Maya with Rolf, Nicky, Audrey and Bertie on board. Woohoo, party time. The girls were our last guests for the summer and we waved a very sad goodbye.
For the two of us, it was to be around the tip and up the Western Peloponnese. Warnings from everything you read that it’s a difficult sail. The prevailing wind will hamper your journey and you could be stuck for days… that’s never good news for the Captain. Setting off from Milos in light air we felt happy we’d get round the corner to the first bay Elafonisos, which was a huge shallow bay with very long beaches and loads of shore based holiday makers.
Next to Methoni, where there is an amazing Turkish castle and tower, not a provisioning store to be found until you step behind the water front restaurants. There you find the baker & butcher and locals drinking their coffee. Onward to Pilos, a large natural bay where the battle of Navarino, the last sailing ship battle was fought in1827. Here we met up with friends John and Julia and had a lovely time ashore with them and then sat out the wind. We also rescued an Italian man’s boat, which was dragging anchor at speed towards the rocky outcrop in the middle of the bay. The manoeuvre was achieved without too much difficulty and rewarded with a bottle of bubbly from a very embarrassed, thankful and happy Italian man (out of breath too as he had run for half an hour along the beach to from that bar he was drinking at). We would never have left Onegin anchored alone in such a wind.
The consequences for us if things had gone badly could have been great, but we couldn't just watch another boat be lost without lifting a finger. It was a difficult place to anchor, only shallow close to shore and so once out the anchor was never going to hold again. Afterwards we went through the steps to deciding and the implications for us; boat dragging, blow fog horn to get their attention (perhaps they were asleep on board), see no-one was aboard, grab life jacket and get in to dingy, tie on and get onto dragging boat, is it locked, is the key in the engine, will the engine start? luckily not locked, no key needed and engine started; pull up anchor. hold boat into wind and see frantic man running along the shore and jump in dingy to get to his boat, we didn't have to take alternative actions such as pull out a sail whilst the wind blew to keep it off the rocks. One thing neither of us had thought of but a number of people mentioned afterwards were salvage rights, it wasn't even close to our thoughts we were only happy that the boat had been saved and the owner was happy (also v sheepish and aware that he should never had left the boat alone in such big winds).
This excitement over and days of waiting for the big wind to go through left us anxious to get underway again. The following morning offered very light winds but the remains of a big sea and so we motor sailed to Katakolon. It was hard to believe we’d now gone full circle having been there in May to see Olympia. We were now in regular contact with sv Maya who were taking the Corinth route to Cleopatra. Both of us having the same haul out date, we knew we would meet for some R&R prior to haul out.
Having visited the islands in the Ionian already we decided to take the mainland route north. This took us to some lovely anchorages dotted among the fish farm activity. Among which was the huge bay of Petala which was 2.5m deep everywhere it seemed. Also Marathia in which we were one of only three boats (no room for many more) for a couple of nights entertained by the goings on of a butt naked German and serenaded by a British oboe player.
We managed to meet again with sv Maya and had lots of fun in various anchorages swimming, paddle boarding with all the Tunacakes. Some of the biggest anchoring challenges were encountered on this last leg of the trip. We had honestly never seen as many boats as the night anchored off Kastos: we arrived at 11am with a handful of boats around, at sundown we counted 60+. Again off Meganisi, there were tons of boats squeezed in and lots of inexperience and recklessness. To see a +50’ Amel come steaming in at speed to a small bay where there is a reef (the only place where no-one is anchored and tied stern to) and hit hard aground was the first astonishing sight. Follow this with a boat that literally dropped anchor, reversed and blew onto us then refused to move despite some fairly strong words from all aboard Onegin.
It seems the Ionian is busy in August. It didn't stop us from having a lovely last few weeks before putting the boat to bed again. The whole journey was fabulous, the company, the sights, the sailing and general affability of the Greeks meant sailing Onegin 2017 was fabulous.
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Back in November of 2017 we took a look at a bit of legislation from the FCC that'd all but destroy the program called Lifeline. Lifeline was created all the way back during the Reagan administration to help the poor afford telephone service. The FCC during the W Bush administration updated Lifeline to include wireless internet, then the FCC during Obama's presidency updated Lifeline to include broadband. Now the Trump FCC wants to gut Lifeline like a fish.
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George Michael rehearses Queen's 'Somebody To Love' as David Bowie and Seal watch on. Picture: Youtube / Eagle Vision & Queen Productions Ltd
By Giorgina Ramazzotti
Footage of George Michael singing an incredible version of Queen's 'Somebody To Love' while an impressed David Bowie and Seal look on is an incredible moment of musical history caught on film.
The video sees George Michael in rehearsal with Queen just hours before the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley - where he bravely stepped into Freddie's shoes to sing the vocally challenging hit.
George, then just 28-years-old, is seen giving a pitch perfect rendition of Freddie Mercury's iconic song 'Somebody To Love' as David Bowie and Seal, who had snuck into the rehearsal, stand together to watch his performance.
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The footage was taken just before George and Bowie took to the stage at Wembley to perform in front of one billion people worldwide on April 20, 1992.
David Bowie and Seal look on, smiling, as the room is left blown away by the performance.
Smoking a cigarette as George sings, David Bowie watches the star tackle the Queen song, accompanied by Brian May on lead guitar and a chorus of backing singers.
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As Queen continue to play 'Somebody To Love', Bowie moves and nod his head in time with the beat, culminating with the 'Space Oddity' singer breaking out in a huge grin as George hits the high notes of the notoriously difficult song.
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Seal stands alongside Bowie, smiling appreciatively and mouthing the lyrics, and David Bowie is left looking visibly moved, as the pair clap enthusiastically when the song comes to an end.
David Bowie and Seal watch George Michael's performance. Picture: Youtube / Eagle Vision & Queen Productions Ltd
David Bowie was an old hand at Freddie Mercury songs - he had dueted with the Queen frontman on their 1981 track 'Under Pressure' - but it was George's standout performance on the night that brought the former Wham! star's vocal talent to the world's attention.
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Despite more established artists taking to the stage including Elton John, Annie Lennox, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose and David Bowie himself, many media outlets and fans hailed George's performance as the stand out act of the night.
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Writing about the The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness concert, German publication Deutsche Welle said: "George Michael undeniably offered the best performance of the evening.
George rehearsing 'Sombody To Love' with Queen's Brain May on bass guitar. Picture: Youtube / Eagle Vision & Queen Productions Ltd
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley on April 20, 1992. Picture: Getty
"With his version of the Queen classic hit 'Somebody To Love,' he captivated fans just like Freddie had during his peak."
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Brian May, who performed alongside Queen bandmates Roger Taylor and John Deacon, came out in support of George's tribute song, saying: "[He] was the best [at the gig]. There’s a certain note in his voice when he did 'Somebody to Love' that was pure Freddie."
George Michael later said of the night at Wembley in 1992, that it was the "most important performance of my life.”
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However, years after the performance George revealed that he had been dealing with a tragedy of his own during the famous concert - his secret boyfriend Anselmo Feleppa was dying of AIDS, the same illness Freddie Mercury had died from just five months earlier.
In the star's last ever recorded interview for his documentary George Michael: Freedom released in 2017, he recalls the pain of going on stage with his secret lover watching in the audience - and no-one but himself and Anselmo knowing about the diagnosis.
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Speaking about his April 1992 performance of Queen's 'Somebody To Love', George - who had not yet come out about his sexuality to friends and family - said: “I went out there knowing I had to honour Freddie Mercury and I had to pray for Anselmo.”
"The performance most well known in my career was sung to my lover who was dying.”
“I just wanted to die inside. I was so overwhelmed by singing the songs of this man I had worshipped as a child, who had passed away in the same manner my first living partner was going to experience," he said.
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Huge turnout for rally in honour of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down on Friday.
Opposition supporters marched through Moscow in memory of Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose murder has increased concern about Russia’s future among opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
At least 10,000 people turned out in central Moscow on Sunday, many carrying Russian flags and slowly marching through an avenue alongside River Moskva in the Russian capital.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, who is reporting from Moscow, said security is very tight for the rally.
On Saturday, thousands of people laid flowers and lit candles on a bridge near the Kremlin where the opposition politician and former deputy prime minister was shot to death late on Friday.
The opposition said Moscow city authorities had approved Sunday’s march from 3pm local time (12:00 GMT), allowing for up to 50,000 people, though the organisers say more could show up.
National investigators who answer to Putin say they are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including the possibility that Nemtsov, who was 55, was killed by Muslim attackers or that the opposition killed him to blacken the president’s name.
Kremlin critics who were killed or died in suspicious circumstances
Boris Berezovsky, 67, a former oligarch and fierce foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Found hanged in a bathroom at his home in the UK on March 23, 2013.
Anna Politkovskaya, 48, a journalist, is shot to death at the entrance to her apartment block in central Moscow on October 7, 2006.
Alexander Litvinenko, 43, former intelligence officer turned Putin critic dies after allegedly drinking tea laced with radioactive on November 23, 2006.
Putin’s opponents say such suggestions show the cynicism of Russia’s leaders as they whip up nationalism, hatred and anti-Western hysteria to rally support for his policies on Ukraine and deflect blame for an economic crisis.
“It is a blow to Russia. If political views are punished this way, then this country simply has no future,” Sergei Mitrokhin, an opposition leader, said of Nemtsov’s murder.
Putin has described the killing as a “provocation”, and told Nemtsov’s 86-year-old mother, Dina Eidman, that the killers would be found and punished.
He also promised to do everything possible to bring to justice those responsible for Nemtsov’s killing.
“Everything will be done so that the organisers and perpetrators of a vile and cynical murder get the punishment they deserve,” Putin said in a telegram to Nemtsov’s mother published on the Kremlin’s website.
He said Nemtsov’s death was an irreparable loss and that he had “left his trace in Russia’s history, in politics and public life”.
Nemtsov was one of the leading lights of an opposition struggling to revive its fortunes three years after mass rallies against Putin failed to prevent him from returning to the presidency after four years as prime minister.
Putin has now been Russia’s dominant leader since 2000, when ailing President Boris Yeltsin chose the former KGB spy as his successor, a role Nemtsov had once been destined to play.
Even many of Putin’s opponents have little doubt that he will win another six years in power at the next election, due in 2018, despite a financial crisis aggravated by Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and a fall in oil prices.
Many opposition leaders have been jailed on what they say are trumped-up charges, or have fled the country.
Nemtsov had hoped, however, to start the opposition’s revival with a march in Marino on the outskirts of Moscow on Sunday to protest against Putin’s economic policies and what they see as Russia’s involvement in the separatist war in east Ukraine.
Nemtsov was shot at around 23:40 local time on Friday while crossing the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge accompanied by a Ukrainian woman [Reuters]
The Kremlin denies any role in the fighting.
Announcing a new plan after Nemtsov’s death, Leonid Volkov, one of the organisers, said: “The march in the Marino district which we had planned – a positive march with flags and balloons – does not fit this tragic moment and the magnitude of Nemtsov’s persona, as well as the magnitude of the red line we have now crossed and which we have not yet recognised.”
Nemtsov had said in an interview that he feared Putin may want him dead because of his outspoken criticism of Russia’s role in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Nemtsov had told him about two weeks ago that he planned to publish evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine’s separatist conflict.
“Someone was very afraid of this… They killed him,” Poroshenko said in televised comments shown in Ukraine.
US President Barack Obama called on Russia’s government to perform a “prompt, impartial and transparent” investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Obama called Nemtsov a “tireless advocate” for the rights of Russian citizens.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief, also condemned Nemtsov’s killing.
“The secretary-general was shocked by and condemns the brutal killing of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow on 27 February,” the UN press office said in a statement on Saturday.
Ban “notes that an investigation into this murder has been announced, and he expects the perpetrators to be brought to justice swiftly”, it said.
People visited the site where Nemtsov was shot to death near the Kremlin and Red Square in central Moscow [Reuters]
A photo and flowers were placed at the site where Nemtsov was killed near the Kremlin in central Moscow [Reuters]
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Birmingham Foundation releases anniversary report
The Birmingham Foundation is releasing the publication of its 15th Anniversary Report.
“Building a Foundation: 15th Anniversary Report” will be launched on the foundation’s website – http://www.birminghamfoundation.org – by May 31. The report will focus on grantmaking in South Pittsburgh over the last 15 years, the successes achieved and challenges faced by ten of the Birmingham Foundation’s grantee organizations and other special features.
The foundation will also mail out a printed ‘highlights’ report; it is available upon request by calling 412-481-2777 or emailing the office info@bfpgh.org.
The Birmingham Foundation was founded in 1996 as a private foundation with assets from the sale of South Side Hospital to UPMC. The Birmingham Foundation has awarded over $15.1 million in grants to more than 175 organizations since grantmaking began in 1997.
The foundation’s target area includes 14 communities, among which are Allentown, Arlington, Beltzhoover, Carrick, Knoxville, Mount Oliver, Mount Washington, St. Clair and South Side (zip codes 15203, 15210 and 15211).
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Katlego Mabusela – Entrepreneur Strategy is an afro-optimist entrepreneur, business and life coach, professional speaker, radio presenter and author of Bounce Forward- The comeback code for all seasons. With over 10 years of entrepreneurship experience and extensive coaching experience, Katlego helps individuals and organizations;
Identify and leverage the gift of failure and loss,
Embrace the power of authenticity,
Position for tomorrow as opposed to compete for today.
He has shared these insights with corporate audiences for blue-chip companies including Old Mutual, ACSA, ABSA Capital, SEDA and HP.
He is the founder and chief faciliator at You Inc and Chariperson of Tau Global Investments. Book through Speakers Inc
Katlego also has the pleasure of serving in non-executive advisory roles for a number of businesses ranging from start-ups in tech to logistics.
“BE MORE- GIVE MORE- HAVE MORE” That is the principle that Katlego Mabusela fosters in his life. An inspirational speaker, Radio DJ, author, entrepreneur, MC and voice over artist, Katlego is no stranger to adversity and overcoming life’s challenges. This includes having dropped out of university twice due to lack of finances and having been homeless on the streets of Johannesburg at some point during his entrepreneurial journey.
Even with this, he went on to build a successful below-the-line marketing firm, is a radio presenter who has worked for some of South Africa’s leading radio stations, an author and a professional speaker who looks to inspire others to reach for their fullest potential. As an avid student, practitioner and teacher of the most effective success principles and practices, Katlego’s presentations are sincere yet well informed, humourous and engaging.
He is passionate about giving back to the community and is involved with some charity organisation including the Aurora Project which is a full day workshop that he does with Kingsmead College where girls are brought from high schools in the township for a seminar on everything from personal branding, career choices, purpose, overcoming adversity, etc. He has also dedicated some time to mentor at the YCAP (Youth Citizens Action Programme); a programme where learners from each of South Africa’s nine provinces are required to identify a social challenge that adversely affects their school or community, and develop and implement a strategy to overcome it.
To sum up his achievements to date, Katlego Mabusela – Entrepreneur Strategy built a successful-below-the-line marketing firm called Dusty Gold that worked on some of the country’s biggest promotions. He has been profiled as “remarkable” and “An Inspiration” by some of his clients and peers in the industry. His future plans include working with his mentor and long time friend Billy Silikane. Some of his interests include tennis, Live concerts, fitness and doing everything he can to change the world one step at a time.
His interest in fitness and health has motivated him to dedicate time now in his questto compete in the Kaya FM 67KM Relay for Mandela Day in July. He has made media appearances on Metro FM, ETV’s Craz-E, KasiTimes Magazine and clients include
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Afrika Tikkun.
Katlego is available for keynotes, conferences, seminars, high school and university groups, motivational and entrepreneurial gatherings and his keynote topics range from ownership and commitment to outcomes to the power of possibility: DRIVE Time- Gear Up or Get Out!
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This keynote is a must have for individuals and organizations who are looking to gear up for any tough times ahead; be they in the pursuit of new goals/targets or in an effort to survive turbulent times. “If I can handle it, then you CAN too!”
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Rafael Nadal serves to Marin Cilic during the fourth round of the U.S. Open. (Seth Wenig/AP)
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Data collected during registration is for the use of the company 2L Multimedia, the data controller, and its partners. It will be used to ensure that you are shown profiles that match your personality. You have the right to challenge, rectify, complete, update, block or delete the data concerning you, or to object to the processing of said data or to its use for marketing purposes by contacting us at the address mentioned in the General Conditions of Use.
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The present service is owned and operated by 2L Multimedia, SAS, registered in the trade and companies register of Annecy, under number rcs 439 055 591, with registered offices at Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France, represented by its current chairman.
2L Multimedia has developed an online dating service. 2L Multimedia therefore provides an online platform to visitors, where they can communicate amongst them and therefore plays the role of technical service provider. The service is neither a consultancy nor a dating agency, and does not organise encounters between its members. The service is exclusively reserved to members registered on the platform in compliance with the present rules.
The members confirm having received all necessary documentation on the proposed services from 2L Multimedia and comply without reservation to the present service terms and conditions.
The members recognise that the use of the platform requires compliance with all the provisions defined in the present contract.
The members can benefit from the services proposed on the platform subject to compliance with the following prerequisites:
Be of legal age on the date of registration;
Have the legal capability to commit to the present terms and conditions;
Have the appropriate computer equipment to access the platform;
Have a valid e-mail address.
The terms below will have the following meaning among the parties:
'subscriber': any person who ordered one or several services proposed by 2L Multimedia.
'account': space of the platform reserved to members.
'member': any person who completed the registration process on the platform.
'platform': all the information systems for providing the services to the public. It consists of the back office and the database of members and subscribers.
'service': service and additional services proposed by 2L Multimedia, accessible online on a website supported by the platform.
The objective of the present document is to define the conditions of use of the services proposed by 2L Multimedia.
5. Contractual documents
The mandatory contractual documents for members are: The present service terms and conditions; The data-processing and liberties rules of service; The ethical charter of the service.
In case of contradiction between documents of different nature or rank, it is explicitly agreed between the parties that the provisions of higher rank contained in the document shall prevail for obligations in a conflict of interpretation. In case of contradiction between terms of documents of the same rank, the latest documents shall prevail on the others.
Rank criteria will be applied according to the following principles:
Obligation by obligation;
Or failing that, paragraph by paragraph;
Or failing that article by article.
6. Opposability
The present terms and conditions are opposable as soon as they are accepted by the member when subscribing to the service.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to modify the present terms and conditions as it considers necessary and useful. It shall do its utmost to inform members of the existence and date of application of new terms and conditions.
Any use of the service by the member within 30 days after a modification of the terms and conditions confirms the latter accepts those new terms and conditions.
The member may end using the service but remains responsible for any anterior use.
Members can access archived terms of use upon request by e-mail at: customer@easypayweb.com
The online terms and conditions on the platform prevail on any earlier printed version.
7. Registration to the Service
Access to the Service is reserved to persons registered on the platform.
To open an account and become a member, the user must previously register via the online form on the platform.
Two registration procedures are available:
Registration via facebook connect; Registration via online form.
7.2 Registration via facebook connect
To facilitate the service registration process, the user can use the identification information of his/her natural person facebook account and entering its username and password.
With the facebook connect application the fields to be completed will be automatically filled with the information taken from the user facebook account, under his sole responsibility.
The use of the facebook connect application is a simple technical feature provided to the user to facilitate his/her registration and complete the registration fields for the service: facebook connect is a third party service to the service and 2L Multimedia does not in any way guarantee the correct operation and reliability of the information obtained through that application.
No information on the registration to the service will be displayed on the facebook account of the user.
7.3 Registration via online form
The service registration procedure via the online form on the platform consists of the following steps:
Step 1: the user completes a registration form by completing the required fields - some are mandatory - depending on the services selected by the user. Some requested information builds the user profile and can be accessed by other members of the service: they must be correct and regularly updated.
Step 2: the user acknowledges and accepts the terms and conditions of the service by ticking the appropriate box; if the user does not accept the service terms and conditions, he/she shall stop the registration process and immediately leave the platform;
Step 3: once the profile is correctly informed, the user validates the form and receives a confirmation email at the supplied email address.
Once the user has confirmed the registration, he/she becomes a member of the service subject to formal acceptance of the present terms and conditions.
First Step technology is offered to members as part of our services. This technology uses an algorithm which allows members to contact others based on affinity.
The First Step algorithm allows members to contact others based on affinity.
7.4 Subscription via mobile application
The purchase platforms of mobile applications for mobile phones, digital tablets or any other digital communication device connected to the internet enable downloading an application dedicated to the use of the platform. Members wishing to use it must therefore have a connection to mobile internet.
This application enables subscription to the service from a mobile phone for example. It also enables subscription to paying functions.
The services subscribed from a mobile application in integrated purchase are subject to the present terms and conditions, as well as the terms and conditions of the purchase platform for mobile applications to obtain the application, the invoicing conditions, the payment and renewal terms of the service(s). It also means that an account must be created on that platform to enable the application download.
7.5 Profiles on hold
As soon as the service is subscribed to, the member profile is displayed as 'pending': during that variable period, the member profile is checked by 2L Multimedia to ascertain that the data and information supplied by the member meet the present terms and conditions and the ethical charter of the service. Finally, the user is offered the exclusive power to multiply his chances of finding love through the orientation on other sites if already registered or wants more contact.
If the terms and conditions are not complied with, the member is informed by email of the rejection of the profile and is proposed to modify it. If the member does not modify the profile in comformity with the terms and conditions 2L Multimedia reserves the right to definitively refuse it.
Acceptance of the profile does not validate its content, nor does it mean 2L Multimedia recognises its lawfulness.
8. Financial terms
In order to enable members discovering the functions of the service, access to a limited version of the service is offered free of charge to discover some functions of the platform.
The free access does not enable the use of all the functions of the platform or to meet other members.
Women wishing to be placed in contact with a man will specially receive free and complete access to the service, with the exception of additional services which remain payable.
In all cases where access is free, either partial or total, 2L Multimedia reserves the right to modify it both for conditions of access and financial terms of the service.
Except in the above cases, access to the service is payable.
The member subscribes to the service for the selected duration by the member, at the online price at the time of subscription and according to the payment methods proposed by 2L Multimedia and selected by the member. The access Club trial allows to maintain your active profile to visit the index forms of the other members, and to use in a unlimited way the features of searches for the service of meeting.
Access to the Service is immediate if payment is made by bank card. A processing period is required if payment is made by cheque or bank transfer. In that second hypothesis and when the service is unavailable to the member after a period of fourteen (14) days from the sending of the cheque by mail or the bank transfer, it is recommended to the member to send a message to customer services by means of the form accessible from his/her account via the 'Help' menu.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to propose temporary promotional offers to new members or existing subscribed members for a certain time. The proposed financial terms are exceptional and cannot be grounds for any complaint by the other members.
Subscriptions are automatically extended at the end of the subscription period chosen by the member, under the same conditions and at the same price. The extension can be cancelled according to the conditions of the article 'termination' of the present terms and conditions.
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8.2 Additional services
The subscribers or holders of full access to the service can order one or several additional services giving them access to the advanced functions of the service.
The ordering process for one of the additional payable services is done in two confirming steps:
Step 1: the member is informed of the price of the additional service and of the possibility to use his/her usual payment method, previously and through the ordering interface: he/she can validate expressly or refuse the order or modify his/her usual payment method;
Step 2: the member is informed by the same dedicated interface that his/her order is confirmed.
8.3 Order processing
At the end of the subscription or additional service ordering process, the member can access, permanently online on the interface of his/her account, the detailed summary of his/her subscriptions and additional services ordered.
You will find the details of our subscriptions plan and pricing by following this link
8.4 Costs
Any expenses for access, either material, software or internet access are exclusively at the member's charge.
8.5 Pre-selected boxes
In accordance with the second paragraph of Article L121-17 of the Consumer Code, 2L Multimedia shall reimburse members for any pre-selected paid options on request.
9. Right to withdraw
In accordance with Article L.221-18 of the Consumer Code, the Member has the right to withdraw during a period of fourteen (14) calendar days from the conclusion of the sale, without having to give any reason and without no sum to pay. To retract, the Member will send the withdrawal form available here, by email to customer@easypayweb.com or via the following postal address:
2L Multimedia Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France
In the event of the use by a Member of its right of withdrawal, 2L Multimedia will refund all the sums paid within fourteen (14) days from the date on which it was informed by the Member's decision to retract.
10. Obligations of 2L Multimedia
10.1 Quality of the service
2L Multimedia endeavours to provide a quality service. It enables members to use the available communication tools under the best possible conditions.
Because of the nature and complexity of the internet network, and its technical performance and response times for consultation, viewing or transfer of data in particular, 2L Multimedia makes the best effort according to the rulebook to enable the access to and the use of the service. 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute access or availability of the platform for access to the service.
2L Multimedia cannot be held liable for the correct operation of the computer equipment of the member and his/her internet access.
10.2 Maintenance and updating
2L Multimedia endeavours to provide a performing service to members. It shall use appropriate means to maintain the service in optimal operational conditions.
2L Multimedia reserves the right, without notice or compensation, to temporarily close the platform or access to services for update, maintenance, modification or changes to operational methods, the platform and access hours, without this list being exhaustive.
2L Multimedia is not liable for damages of any nature which might result from those changes and/or a temporary unavailability of the platform or the associated services.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to complete or modify, at all times, the platform and the services available there according to the development of technologies and shall inform the members by all means.
10.3 Moderation
2L Multimedia is not subject to any obligation of monitoring, moderating or checking the exchanges and contents posted online on the platform by the members who subscribed to the service.
2L Multimedia does not intervene directly in the content of the profiles. It checks at the registration of the member that the terms and conditions are met, but does not check the truthfulness of information supplied or their validity and does not monitor the later changes to the profile carried out by the member concerned.
2L Multimedia does not intervene in the relations and exchanges between members.
2L Multimedia shall react when illicit content, behaviour or use or not compliant with the present terms and conditions were reported to it under article 'notification of illicit content' in the present agreement or signalled via an 'abuse' link present on the profile of every subscribing member. 2L Multimedia will then take measures it considers most appropriate in the situation.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to remove any content which does not comply with the present terms and conditions after informing, if conditions allow it , the member concerned.
2L Multimedia is actively working to remove fake profiles and is taking numerous measures to help in this regard.
10.4 Safety
2L Multimedia makes its best efforts, according to the rulebook, to secure the service platform.
Considering the exponential nature of technological developments, 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute security of the platform or the absence of defects.
11. Member obligations
11.1 Reliability of profiles
The service enables the member at registration and later when he/she accesses his/her profile to complete the latter with data about his/her personality and his/her looks in particular. To enable reliable exchanges between members, each of them shall supply correct data, in compliance with laws and regulations and regularly update them.
The member shall not share a member account with other persons or grant access to the account to a minor.
The member shall not supply at registration or when updating his/her profile, identification data which do not correspond to reality or to unrightfully use the identity of a third person.
The photographs placed online by the member must particularly: Represent the member; Not only represent unrelated elements (landscape, animals, etc.); Not contain text; Not represent several people; Be respectful of common decency: no nude, suggestive photographs, with a sexual connotation or depicting minors.
The member is not authorised to indicate phone, address or electronic details on his profile.
11.2 Conform use
The member is responsible for the use of the service and his/her actions on the platform. He/she shall use the platform in a fair manner, in compliance with the present terms and conditions. The member's behaviour during the use of the service should comply with the rules of good conduct.
The member shall notify any manifest illicit content, conform with the procedure under article 'notification of illicit content' of the present contract.
The member also can report to 2L Multimedia the profile of a member not respecting the present terms and conditions through the link 'abuse' present on the profile of all the registered members.
The member shall not behave in an illegal or fraud-inducing way towards 2L Multimedia, other members or third parties.
Overall, the member shall report any defect of the service he/she notices to 2L Multimedia by means of the "help" menu accessible online on the platform.
Any behaviour not respecting the rules of good conduct above or those in the ethical charter of the service may be penalised under the conditions of the article 'termination' of the present contract.
It is forbidden for a member to access or remain fraudulently, in all or part of the platform. It is forbidden to use another access method beside the one made available by 2L Multimedia. Upon discovery of such method, or if the member enters a placeholder, without right, inadvertently, the member agrees to promptly inform 2L Multimedia to the following address customer@easypayweb.com so that it can take appropriate action.
The member is not authorised to remove or modify data on the platform or to fraudulently enter data or carry out an alteration on the operation of the platform. He/she shall make sure not to introduce a virus, malware or any other harmful technology on the platform or the services provided there.
Any access to an unauthorised space shall be considered fraudulous access as provided by the criminal code.
The member shall consider all the data he/she gains knowledge of during such access to an unauthorised space is confidential data and therefore shall not divulge them.
The member shall in particular not carry out any operation to saturate a page, rebound operations or any operation which could result in disturbing or distorting the operation of the platform.
The member takes all measures to ensure his/her own safety, in particular for the management of his/her usernames and access codes he/she keeps confidential.
2L Multimedia provides a customer service to its members which can supply all necessary information on the use of the platform and the services.
2L Multimedia makes the best efforts to provide a service accessible to all the members in the best conditions.
2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute technical compatibility of the additional functions and services it proposes in the service as their correct operation is subject to the software and hardware compatibility of the computer equipment used by the members. 2L Multimedia informs the members on the minimum required configurations to fully benefit from the service and additional services.
The use of a mobile application for the use of the service requires that the member previously has a compatible electronic communication device and mobile internet connection. Before purchasing the mobile application, the member should refer to the conditions of use of the download platform of the application to learn about the necessary configuration.
Should a member experience difficulties to access and/or use one of the services proposed on the platform, he/she can contact customer services at all times via the online form accessible on the platform via the 'help' menu.
13.1 Service elements
The present service terms and conditions do not include any transfer of intellectual property rights on the elements belonging to 2L Multimedia at the advantage of the member.
The website, brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, graphic charts, software and programmes, search engines, databases, sounds, videos, domain names, design or any other information or media presented by 2L Multimedia, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of 2L Multimedia and are protected by their copyrights, brands, patents and any other intellectual or industrial property rights they hold in accordance with valid laws.
Any reproduction and/or representation, in full or in part, of one of those elements, without the explicit authorisation of 2L Multimedia, is prohibited and would consist of counterfeit penalised by the articles l. 335-2 and following of the code of intellectual property.
Consequently, the member shall refrain from any act or action which could affect directly or indirectly the intellectual property rights of 2L Multimedia.
The member may never use, print or re-format the content of the platform or websites for purposes other than private or familial.
He/she shall not download, copy, transmit, sell, distribute or use the content of the platform and the websites.
The member recognises that the information and the databases accessible on the platform are the property of 2L Multimedia.
13.2 Elements of the third parties
The elements belonging to third parties, such as brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of their author and are thus protected by copyright, trademark rights or any other right recognised by the applicable law.
The member shall not undermine, directly or indirectly, the property rights of third parties, whose content is present on the platform and shall not use, in any way, the names, brands, logos, software, information, databases and all the documents communicated to him/her, in general, in the case of the application of the present service terms and conditions.
The member shall respect the integral rights of third parties whose content is present on the platform and shall not create any analogies in the mind of the public for any purpose.
Therefore, the member shall take all necessary measures for the protection of said rights for all third parties and, in particular, maintain all the property mentions on all the data, information and more generally the consultable elements on the platform or made accessible by third parties.
13.3 Elements placed online by the member
The member grants 2L Multimedia as required a right of use of the elements he/she places online, which are his/her exclusive property and which are protected by copyrights, brands, patents, and any other intellectual or industrial property rights which are or will be granted by the applicable laws. The member has the opportunity to further disseminate his profile containing his photograph on other partner sites by visiting the "My Account"
The user right covers the right of 2L Multimedia to copy, represent, adapt, translate, digitalise, use for service purposes or sub-licence elements regarding the member on the service, or on any electronic communication medium in the context of the service (in particular email, sms, mms, Internet).
The member authorises 2L Multimedia to modify elements to comply with the graphic chart or to make them compatible with its technical performance or any format supplied in the context of the service.
The user right is granted by the member to 2L Multimedia for the whole world, and for the duration of online access of those elements by the member.
The member shall take all necessary measures to protect said third party rights and guarantees peaceful use to 2L Multimedia.
14. Responsibility and guarantee
In the context of service providing, 2L Multimedia is subject to an obligation of resources.
Conform to the valid legislation, 2L Multimedia cannot accept civil liability for activities or information stored at the request of members, unless if 2L Multimedia was duly notified of illicit content under the conditions of article 'notification of illicit content' and did not react promptly to remove it.
The members recognise and accept that the details they supply, as well as their behaviour or comments on the service can be reported by other members and a subsequent check by 2L Multimedia, based on objective appreciation criteria, without prejudice to the appropriate application of the 'Termination' article of the present contract.
The member recognises and accepts that the divulgation of information on the service is his/her sole responsibility, and relinquishes any claim on 2L Multimedia, in particular on the basis of his/her right to image, his/her honour and reputation, the intimacy of his/her private life, resulting from his/her distribution of that information. The member is sole responsible for possible prejudice caused by the divulgation of that information.
The member guarantees and releases 2L Multimedia from any claim and condemnation originating from default of obligations the member is subject to by law or the present terms and conditions of the service.
The member cannot hold 2L Multimedia liable for any delay in information provided to him/her.
The responsibility of 2L Multimedia cannot be sought in case of fraudulent or abusive use or due to voluntary or involuntary divulgation of the username and/or password for connection to the member account.
2L Multimedia is not liable for the violation of the present terms and conditions by another member, nor for their actions on the platform, whether an offence or not.
The responsibility of 2L Multimedia can only be involved in case of direct damage, with the exclusion of indirect damage, resulting from the use of the platform by the member and shall be restricted as to the sums paid by the member to 2L Multimedia within twelve (12) months preceding the generating fact of the damage.
2L Multimedia, technical provider, only provides a web platform and cannot guarantee that exchanges between members actually lead to encounters. Furthermore, 2L Multimedia cannot be held responsible for encounters on or outside the platform, nor for the correspondence between information communicated on the service and the reality.
2L Multimedia endeavours to check the reliability of information and data of the member profiles, in particular by checking compliance with the present terms and conditions and the information supplied at the registration to the service. However, each member can later modify certain information on his/her profile. 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee the truthfulness of information supplied by its members, nor protect the members against identity theft and it cannot be held responsible on that basis.
2L Multimedia provides additional services to improve the communication functions and promote the visibility of the profile of a member on the platform. HOWEVER, those services are provided up to the same services other members might subscribe to: in case of multiplicity of members' requests for a service or for technical reasons linked to the correct management of the platform operation, the member recognises that 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee an unlimited period for the promotion of visibility of the member's profile or the effectiveness and uninterrupted availability of the additional service to which the member subscribed.
15. Notification of illicit content
Any notification of illicit content to 2L Multimedia must include the following information in comformity with article 6 i 5 ° of the law 2004-575 of 21 June 2004:
Date of notification;
If the notifier is a natural person: name, first name, profession, residence, nationality, date and place of birth;
If the notifier is a legal entity: its form, name, registered office and the body that legally represents it;
The name and address of the addressee or, if it is a legal person, the name and registered office;
The description of the contentious facts and their precise location (with copy of the precise url address of the content);
The reasons why the content should be removed, including the legal provisions and the factual justifications;
The copy of the correspondence addressed to the author or editor of contentious information or activities and requesting their interruption, withdrawal or modification, or the justification that the author or editor could not be contacted.
The member shall notify such content, conform with the information indicated in present article by sending mail to the following address:
Service client / service juridique Easypayweb Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France
We remind of the fact that, for any person, to represent content or activity as illicit with the purpose of having it removed or to stop its diffusion, whilst knowing that information is incorrect, is punishable by a year prison and a 15,000 Euros fine under article 6, i, 4° of the law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004.
The personal data may be collected during your registration on our site are intended for use by 2L Multimedia.
Personal data may be transferred to the following business partners : DNX Network Sarl, X CASH, Flirt Revenue et Salamandra Web SL. The Member has the possibility to delete his transfer authorization via the dedicated section on his account accessible through the menu "My Account", "My Settings".
17. Trackability
In order to provide an easily accessible and personalised service, 2L Multimedia keeps the history of the connections to the platform by the member and follows the navigation of the members on the platform with cookies, in compliance with the data-processing and liberties rules.
In order to respect the legal obligations relating to the storage and communication of data enabling the identification of any person who contributed to the creation of content posted online, 2L Multimedia stores a copy of certain contents posted online by the member, even if they are deleted by the member him/herself, for a duration of one year from the generating fact of the storage obligation.
18. Termination / end of the contract
18.1 Unsubscription
The registration of the member on the service is effective as long as the member connects to the platform and uses the service. When a member has not connected or used his/her account for two (2) years, 2L Multimedia deletes all his/her data and his/her account is automatically terminated.
The member can terminate his/her account at all times on the platform, without any other costs than those of the transmission of his/her request and without justification, via the section on his/her account accessible through the menu 'My parameters', then 'my subscription' or any other means which could be indicated to him/her in that section.
A subscribing member can only proceed with unsubscribing from the service if they have previously cancelled their membership.
18.2 Cancelling one's membership
Subscriptions are entered for the chosen period by the member during the subscription procedure.
The subscribing members can cancel the extension of the subscription after 15 days of use of the subscription to the service. The cancellation does not affect the access to all functions of the service for the initial duration of the subscription. In any case, the extension must be cancelled seventy-two hours (72) before the end of the subscription period at the latest, by using the function 'Cancel my extension' on the account accessible through menu 'Account', 'My parameters', 'My subscription', then 'Parameters'. Members who have subscribed to the two-week promotional subscription offer have the option to cancel the subscription renewal by following the unsubscribe procedure indicated above. Unless the subscription renewal is terminated or cancelled, for any seven-day period started, an additional two-week commitment is due. In the event that the Member terminates or cancels its renewal before the end of the minimum two-month period, an administrative management fee of €19.74 will be due.
The member shall then follow the procedure of cancelling one's membership indicated to him/her.
If he/she has not subscribed, the member can terminate his/her account at all times on the platform, without any other costs than those of the transmission of his/her request and without justification, via the section on his/her account accessible through the menu 'My account', 'My parameters', then 'my subscription' or any other means which could be indicated to him/her in that section. HOWEVER, if the member has subscribed, he/she previously must, to unsubscribe, terminate his/her subscription according to the terms of cancellation described in the present TCU.
This request shall be considered completed the working day following receipt of the cancellation request of the account concerned by the department. The request does not include any refund for the still outstanding subscription period.
The conditions and terms for cancelling the subscription from the mobile application are those provided in the terms and conditions of the download platform of the application and/or any indication on the interface of the mobile application.
18.3 Suspension and termination
If the member does not comply with the obligations of the present conditions, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to suspend access to the service until the reason of the suspension has disappeared, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to conform with the present service conditions.
Access to the service can for example be suspended when:
The member does not complete his profile in accordance with the present terms and conditions; The member posts a non-conform or infringing photograph online; The member behaves in a way that disturbs the tranquillity of one or several members; Overall, the member does not respect the ethical charter of the service.
If the member repeatedly does not comply with the obligations of the present conditions, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration and the subscription of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to conform with the present service conditions remained fruitless.
If a member notifies 2L Multimedia of manifest illicit content as provided in article 'notification of illicit content', 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration and the subscription of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it.
If the bank refuses the payment method used by the member, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration or the subscription or additional services of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services available to him/her with its subscription or additional services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to pay the outstanding sums with a new payment method remained fruitless.
Initially, cases of force majeure will suspend the application of the terms and conditions of the service.
If cases of force majeure last longer than two (2) months, the service terms and conditions will be automatically terminated.
Explicitly, the cases of force majeure commonly accepted by the jurisprudence of the French courts and tribunals shall apply.
20. Good faith
The parties agree to execute their obligations in absolute good faith.
21. Sincerity
The parties confirm the present commitments are sincere.
Thus, they confirm not knowing of any element that if communicated would have modified the consent of the other party.
22. Titles
In case of interpretation difficulties resulting from a contradiction between any title of a clause and any clause, the titles shall be declared inexistant.
23. Nullity
If one or several stipulations of the present conditions are deemed invalid, or declared such in application of a law, a regulation or after a decision enforced by competent jurisdiction, the other stipulations will maintain all their power and scope.
24. Integrality
The present service terms and conditions express the integrality of the parties' obligations.
No general or specific conditions included in the documents sent or supplied by the parties could be integrated in the present terms and conditions.
25. Proof convention
The acceptance of the terms and conditions by email has the same probatory value between parties as the agreement in paper format.
The digitalised registers stored in the computer systems of the platform will be stored under reasonable safety conditions and considered proof of communications between the parties.
The contractual documents are archived on a reliable and durable medium which can be produced as proof.
The information transmitted or received by 2L Multimedia during the use of the platform is considered confidential by nature and is subject to professional secrecy and shall not be communicated externally, apart from exceptions linked to the provision of the 'data-processing and liberties' law.
This provision does not infringe communications ordered by law or administration.
27. Language
The present service terms and conditions, the ethical charter and data-processing and liberties rules were drawn up in French and later translated.
In case of conflict between the parties or divergences on the interpretation of a word or a clause, only the French versions shall apply.
The present terms and conditions are ruled by French law.
It is the same for rules of content and form, notwithstanding the locations of execution of substantial or secondary obligations.
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This Privacy Policy (hereinafter the ‘policy’) is published by 2L Multimedia, SAS, registered in the trade and companies register of Annecy, under number 439 055 591, with registered offices at Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France, represented by its current chairman.
This Privacy Policy seeks to regulate the collection and use of personal data processed during registration on the Web Sites published by our company, the management & setting of Cookies as well as the rights of consumers.
1. Personal Data
The personal data likely to be collected during registration on the Web Site is intended for the company, the controller. This collection allows the creation of an account by the Member, prior to use of the Website and the possible subscription to a Membership. In the event where the Member refuses to fill in the information, they cannot then use the Web Site or optionally, subscribe to a membership.
The collected data is only intended for the company’s own internal use. Only the person acting under the company’s authority and on their instructions can access it.
Exceptionally, banking data is shared to service providers in charge of the management and collection of memberships. The Member expressly consents that his above-mentioned banking data be shared to said service providers and in the sole purpose specified above.
By another exception, the personal data collected during the registration process on the Web Site is susceptible to be disclosed to business partners only after the Member’s or Subscriber’s express consent and in order to facilitate their registration to additional Services.
This data shall be kept only for a period strictly related to the purpose of processing and at most two years from the Member’s last visit on the Web Site.
It is intended to be used to offer Members meetups that match their personality. Except for the Member’s email address which is mandatory data for registration, the Member has no obligation to provide further personal data, without effect on the contract.
It is strictly forbidden to retrieve, use or transmit personal data appearing on the Web Site to third parties, whatever the purpose.
It is also strictly forbidden to make contact in any way whatsoever or to send ‘junk mail’, or ‘spam’ mailings to current or previous Subscribers.
In accordance with the legal and regulatory provisions in effect on data protection, the Member has a right of access, correction, deletion and restriction of the personal data concerning them. The Member has a right to opposition, for legitimate reasons, to the processing of their personal data.
Further, the Member has the right to withdraw consent for processing based exclusively on their consent.
In addition, the Member has the right to share to the company their instructions on the fate of their data after his/her death.
Finally, the Member has the option to request their data be exported to a third party when he/she has consented to the collection of this data or when this data was collected as part of the performance of a contract.
All these rights can be exercised with 2L Multimedia, customer@easypayweb.com, Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France by registered letter, attested by an acknowledgment of receipt.
Further, the Member has the option to lodge a complaint before a data protection authority.
In the event where the Member would have reason to believe that their personal data might have been used, they must notify the company without delay.
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NYCR Comments on Unsolicited Third Party Mini-Tender Offer
NEW YORK (STL.News) – New York City REIT, Inc. (“NYCR”) announced that, after careful evaluation, its board of directors strongly recommends that NYCR’s stockholders reject the latest unsolicited mini-tender offer launched by MacKenzie Realty Capital, Inc. (“MacKenzie”) to purchase up to 500,000 shares of NYCR’s common stock.
NYCR does not endorse MacKenzie’s latest opportunistic offer and reminds its stockholders that MacKenzie is not affiliated with NYCR or the NYCR advisor. Make no mistake, MacKenzie is not a charitable organization, they are a for-profit business that capitalizes on the illiquidity of NYCR shares by buying shares at a price significantly below their estimated per share net asset value in order to make a significant profit.
MacKenzie has had limited success in acquiring shares from NYCR’s stockholders in its several previous mini-tender offers. NYCR’s board of directors strongly recommends that NYCR’s stockholders reject the latest MacKenzie offer, because, among other reasons:
Opportunistic Attempt to Profit at Stockholders’ Expense.
NYCR’s board of directors believes that MacKenzie’s offer represents yet another opportunistic attempt by MacKenzie to make a profit by purchasing shares at a low stock price and, as a result, deprive stockholders who tender their NYCR shares of the potential opportunity to realize the long-term value of their investment in NYCR. The MacKenzie $10.05 per share offer price is significantly less than NYCR’s current estimated per-share net asset value (“Estimated Per-Share NAV”) of $20.26 as of June 30, 2019. Although Estimated Per-Share NAV does not represent the price that a stockholder could obtain if he or she sold his or her shares, including if NYCR listed its shares on a national securities exchange or if NYCR liquidated its assets and distributed the proceeds after paying all of its expenses and liabilities, the price offered by MacKenzie is still $10.21 per share, or 50.4%, less than Estimated Per-Share NAV. See NYCR’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 25, 2019 filed with the SEC for additional information and qualifications related to Estimated Per-Share NAV.
We believe it is clear that MacKenzie would not be making the offer if it did not think NYCR’s shares would be worth significantly more in the future.
MacKenzie’s Offer Avoids Important Investor Protections and Disclosure.
The latest MacKenzie offer has not been publicly filed and avoids important investor protections and disclosure. In fact, the SEC has cautioned investors about mini-tender offers, noting that “[s]ome bidders make mini-tender offers at below-market prices, hoping that they will catch investors off guard…” The SEC has also published investor tips regarding mini-tender offers on its website at: http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/minitend.htm. Unlike tender offers required to be filed with the SEC, the MacKenzie offer materials in our opinion fail to adequately address certain matters, including: a complete description of the risks associated with the MacKenzie offer; a clear discussion of the methodologies used by MacKenzie to determine its offer price or how it has valued NYCR’s shares; completeness of disclosure as to the identity of MacKenzie, its control persons and promoters and their financial wherewithal; and a clear disclosure of NYCR shares owned by MacKenzie and its affiliates.
NYCR believes that each stockholder must individually evaluate whether to tender his, her or its shares.
The NYCR board suggests stockholders carefully consider all the factors discussed in the limited MacKenzie offer materials before deciding to participate, including consulting with any financial or tax advisors when considering the MacKenzie offer.
NYCR appreciates its stockholders trust in the company and its board of directors and thanks them for their continued support. NYCR encourages its stockholders to follow the board of directors’ recommendation to not tender shares in the latest MacKenzie offer. If you do not wish to tender shares in the MacKenzie offer, simply do not respond.
For questions or further information, please contact NYCR’s Investor Relations department at 866-902-0063.
About NYCR
New York City REIT, Inc. a public non-listed REIT owns a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate located within the five boroughs of New York City. Additional information about NYCR can be found on its website at www.newyorkcityreit.com.
The statements in this press release that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. These forward looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause the outcome to be materially different. In addition, words such as “may,” “will,” “seeks,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “would,” or similar expressions indicate a forward-looking statement, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of NYCR’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed March 15, 2019 and all other filings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission after that date. Further, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and NYCR undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results over time, except as required by law.
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Stonehill Squares Off Against Bloomfield for Elite 8 Bid
Junior Brian Hamor has led the Skyhawks through the first two NCAA Tournament wins with back to back 20-plus point outings. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr)
Second-seeded Skyhawks must go through defending East Region Champions for second regional title in program history and return to Elite 8
WORCESTER, Mass. (March 12, 2012) – Northeast-10 Conference Champions Stonehill College, among teams receiving votes in this week's NABC Division II poll, will face the defending East Regional Champions Bloomfield College, regular season and tournament champions of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, in the 2012 NCAA Division II Tournament East Regional Championship, hosted by Franklin Pierce University at Andrew Laska Gymnasium on the campus of Assumption College, on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students, children and senior citizens. Children under 2 will be admitted at no charge and tickets can be purchased at Laska Gym on game days. The game will be webcast live and free of charge via www.packnetwork.com, with links also available via www.stonehillskyhawks.com. Stonehill will also be offering an interactive live in-game blog, through Cover-it-Now, via the official website of Skyhawks athletics, with updates also posted on the Skyhawks' Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Second-seeded Stonehill (23-8, 15-7 NE-10) reached the "Sweet 16" with a 68-58 victory over third-seeded Adelphi University in Sunday night's regional semifinal after opening with a 65-61 triumph over seventh-seeded University of District of Columbia on Saturday afternoon. Junior Brian Hamor (Schenectady, N.Y./Bishop Gibbons) led Stonehill against Adelphi with a game-high 21 points (14 second half) on 5-of-14 shooting from the field, including a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range, while converting all eight of his free-throws in the closing minutes. He also added six rebounds, three steals, two assists and a blocked shot over 34 minutes. Hamor is averaging 23.5 points so far in the NCAA Tournament, shooting 40.6-percent (13-for-32) from the field, including 6-for-9 (66.7%) from three-point range, while converting 15-of-18 (83.3%) free-throws, to go with four rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals per contest. The Skyhawks have won six straight games at Assumption's Laska Gym dating back to a 64-62 loss to the Greyhounds in February 2008.
Fifth-seeded Bloomfield (26-7, 15-3 CACC) staged a pair of upsets over Northeast-10 members on its way to a second-straight appearance in the regional championship, opening with a 91-83 victory over fourth-seeded University of Massachusetts Lowell in Saturday's opening round before eliminating top-seeded and host Franklin Pierce, 69-60, last night. Sophomore guard Terry Hicks (Neptune, N.J./Neptune) drilled a career-best seven three-point field goals and finished with a team-high 21 points Sunday night against Franklin Pierce, while CACC Co-Player of the Year Ahmad Harris (Linden, N.J./Linden) posted a team-best 23 points, which included a 13-of-15 clip from the free-throw line, against UMass Lowell. The Deacons have posted five-straight wins over NE-10 opposition at the NCAA Tournament, including three wins on the way to the 2011 regional championship.
Senior Patrick Lee is averaging a double-double for Stonehill at the regional after being named the NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year this winter. (PHOTO BY Bert Lane)
Tomorrow night will mark the third NCAA Tournament meeting between these two programs, with each notching wins on their way to their first regional championships and Elite Eight appearances in program history. Bloomfield posted a 79-66 victory as the No. 7 seed over third-seeded Stonehill in the regional semifinal last March in Waltham, Mass., as Gage Daye poured in a game-high 31 points to go with four rebounds and four assists. Current sophomore Kevin Udo (West Orange, N.J./St. Peter's Seminary) contributed 14 points, on 7-of-9 shooting, nine rebounds and three blocked shots. Stonehill opened the 2006 East Regional in Easton, Mass., with a 96-77 victory over the Deacons on its way to their lone regional title in program history as Nick Smith scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed ten rebounds to lead five players in double figures. Current Skyhawks assistant coach Chris Kraus added 12 points in the win.
Stonehill enters tomorrow night's regional final winners of a season and region-best eight straight and nine of ten. The Skyhawks, who won their fourth NE-10 Tournament Championship in program history, but first since 1989, last week, is participating in a program-record fourth-straight NCAA Tournament by way of the NE-10's automatic bid. It marks the fifth trip under head coach David McLaughlin and the 12th in program history overall. McLaughlin, who guided Stonehill its first regional title and trip to the Final Four in 2006, has become the winningest coach in program history this season with his 176-83 (.680) career mark, surpassing Hall of Famer Ray Pepin (171-151/.531).
Stonehill is one of the top defensive teams in the country, allowing a Northeast-10 Conference-low 58.4 points per game (4th nationally), .395 opponents field goal percentage (11th) and .313 three-point field goal percentage (33rd), with a league best 4.5 blocked shots per game (22nd), while also ranking third in rebounding margin (+3.1/gm), first for offensive rebounds (12.1) and second for fewest turnovers per game (12.5). The Skyhawks are ninth in the NE-10 for scoring (67.0 ppg), third in three-point shooting percentage (.377) and third with 37.6 rebounds per game.
Hamor, a second team All-Northeast-10 selection this winter, leads Stonehill with 14.1 points (14th NE-10), 3.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists (11th) in a team-best 32 minutes per game, shooting 40.7-percent from the field, including 36.8% (50-136) from three-point range, while converting 74% (114-154) of his free-throws. He scored 13 points off the bench in last year's NCAA Tournament matchup against Bloomfield to lead all Stonehill returnees from that contest. Hamor is averaging 15.3 points on 45.3% shooting, including 13-for-26 (50%) from three-point range, while converting 83.8% of his free-throws during Stonehill's current eight game winning streak.
Junior Adam Fazzini is shooting 5-for-10 from three-point range this weekend, averaging 9.5 points per game at the regional. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr)
Senior Andre Tongo (Acton, Mass./Acton-Boxborough), the NE-10 Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, is averaging 12.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists and a team-best 1.3 steals per game, while shooting 40.4% from the field, including 39.1% (68-174) from three-point range (17th), while converting 72.7% (56-77) of his free-throws. He is averaging a team-best 16 points per game in the postseason on 48.1% shooting, including 12-for-27 (44.4%) from three-point range, while converting 16-of-19 (84.2%) free-throws to go with 4.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.4 steals over the five postseason contests.
Senior Patrick Lee (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius), the NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year and a third team All-Conference pick, contributes 10.9 points and a team-best 8.8 rebounds (2nd NE-10) to go with 28 blocked shots (9th), while shooting 49.3-percent shooting from the field (18th). He is averaging a double-double through two NCAA Tournament games this season with 12 points and 11.5 boards per game. Junior Adam Fazzini (Drums, Pa./Crestwood) leads a Stonehill bench that outscores opponent reserves by an average of 6.1 points per game (20.0-13.9) with 9.0 points per game on 42.9% shooting from the field, including a Conference-best 45.7% (43-97) from beyond the arc.
Bloomfield is making its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance this season, reaching its second-straight regional final. The Deacons topped top-seeded and host Bentley University, 75-71, to earn a trip to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. Bloomfield ranks second in the CACC in scoring with 75.3 points per game, while ranking fourth in scoring defense (68.6). The Deacons lead the CACC with 43.4 rebounds per game, including a league-best 16.6 offensive boards per game, and rebounding margin (+6.1) – nearly four rebounds per game better than the second-best team in the CACC for rebound margin.
Senior captain Matt Wafula (Harlem, N.Y./St. Agnes) is averaging a team-high 16.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, shooting 49.1-percent from the field and converting 75.3% (116-154) of his free-throws. Hicks averages 13.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and two assists per contest, while Harris contributes 10.8 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game.
The winner of tomorrow night's game will represent the East Region at the NCAA Division II Elite Eight, which will be held March 21-24 at the Bank of Kentucky Center in Highland Heights, Ky., and hosted by Northern Kentucky University. The East regional winner will face the Atlantic Region championship between top-seeded and host West Liberty University, ranked No. 3 in this week's NABC Division II poll, and second-seeded Shaw University, ranked seventh in the country, being played tomorrow night in West Liberty, W.V., in a national quarterfinal on Wednesday, March 21.
2012 NCAA Division II
East Regional Tournament
hosted by Franklin Pierce University
at Laska Gymnasium on the campus of Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
Saturday, March 10 (Quarterfinals)
#3 Adelphi 66, #6 C.W. Post 65
#2 Stonehill 65, #7 District of Columbia 61
#1 Franklin Pierce 59, #8 Philadelphia 58
#5 Bloomfield 91, #4 UMass Lowell 83
Sunday, March 11 (Semifinals)
#2 Stonehill 68, #3 Adelphi 58
#5 Bloomfield 69, #1 Franklin Pierce 60
Tuesday, March 13 (Championship)
#2 Stonehill (23-8) vs. #5 Bloomfield (26-7), 7 p.m.
June 5, 2012 IRELAND 2012: Men's Basketball Trip Blog
May 30, 2012 IRELAND 2012: Men's Basketball Blog 4
May 28, 2012 IRELAND 2012: Men's Basketball Blog Day 4
April 13, 2012 Stonehill Holds Annual Academic Excellence Recognition Breakfast
March 26, 2012 BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: "Stonehill men's basketball team had quite a ride"
March 22, 2012 Stonehill Set to Battle #12 Western Washington for Championship Bid
March 22, 2012 NCAA SEMIFINALS: #12 Western Washington Stops Stonehill Run, 71-66
March 21, 2012 ELITE EIGHT: Stonehill Stuns #3 West Liberty to Reach Final Four, 91-90
March 21, 2012 BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: "Winning is old hat for Stonehill College mens basketball coach David McLaughlin"
March 21, 2012 THE DAY: "Montville's Quinn finds success in an unexpected place"
March 20, 2012 Battle of Wills as Stonehill Looks to Quiet #3 West Liberty
March 19, 2012 Lowry Receives NCAA Elite 89™ Award
March 17, 2012 BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: "Trek for Stonehill College basketball duo Tongo, Lee heads to Kentucky"
March 13, 2012 STONEHILL ELITE! Skyhawks Top Bloomfield, 75-70
March 12, 2012 Stonehill Squares Off Against Bloomfield for Elite 8 Bid
March 11, 2012 NCAA EAST REGIONAL: Second Half Surge Leads #2 Stonehill Past #3 Adelphi, 68-58
March 10, 2012 NCAA EAST REGIONAL: Second Half Runs Key #2 Stonehill Past #7 UDC, 65-61
March 9, 2012 BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: "Skyhawks’ senior class acts"
March 8, 2012 NE-10 Champion Stonehill to Battle UDC in NCAA Opener
March 5, 2012 NCAA East Regional Schedule Announced
March 4, 2012 Stonehill Earns No. 2 Seed in NCAA East Regional
March 3, 2012 #3 Stonehill Hosts #4 UMass Lowell in NE-10 Championship Saturday
March 3, 2012 CHAMPIONS!: #3 Stonehill Powers Past #4 UMass Lowell, 73-61
February 29, 2012 BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: "Stonehill men’s basketball coach McLaughlin sets school record for wins"
February 29, 2012 NE-10 SEMIFINALS: #3 Stonehill Tops #2 Adelphi for Title Shot, 73-60
February 28, 2012 Stonehill Visits Adelphi for NE-10 Semifinal Clash
February 26, 2012 NE-10 QUARTERFINALS: #3 Stonehill Shoots Past #6 Merrimack, 85-66
February 24, 2012 Stonehill Duo Earns All-Northeast-10 Honors
February 24, 2012 Stonehill Hosts Merrimack in NE-10 Quarterfinal Sunday
February 21, 2012 Hamor Lifts Stonehill to Last Second Win Over Saint Anselm, 64-62
February 18, 2012 Stonehill Soars Past Bentley, 81-55
February 14, 2012 Defense Keys Stonehill Past Southern New Hampshire, 52-43
February 11, 2012 Second Half Surge Lifts Saint Michael’s Past Stonehill, 66-64
February 8, 2012 Stonehill Storms Past UMass Lowell, 69-35
February 6, 2012 SHARON PATCH: "Special Needs Basketball Practice Addition has Visitors Winning, Too"
February 4, 2012 Merrimack Stops Stonehill, 51-43
January 31, 2012 Franklin Pierce Shoots Past Stonehill, 82-79
January 30, 2012 Tongo Named NE-10 Player of the Week
January 28, 2012 Stonehill Wins Fourth Straight by Topping Pace, 73-68
January 28, 2012 Stonehill Coaching Staffs to Participate in Suits and Sneakers Weekend
January 25, 2012 Stonehill Climbs Atop NE-10 Standings at Adelphi, 55-54
January 21, 2012 Stonehill Rolls at Southern Connecticut State, 81-58
January 17, 2012 Stonehill Cruises Past American International, 77-44
January 14, 2012 Le Moyne Outshoots Stonehill, 68-59
January 11, 2012 Stonehill Overcomes Slow Start to Roll at Assumption, 63-51
January 7, 2012 Strong Start and Finish Lifts Stonehill Past Saint Rose, 63-59
January 6, 2012 LeVangie Named Head Coach at Wheelock
January 3, 2012 New Haven Rallies Past Stonehill, 55-49
December 30, 2011 Philadelphia Tops Stonehill, 68-63
December 29, 2011 Stonehill Shoots Past Holy Family, 86-71
December 13, 2011 Stonehill Shoots Past Queens (N.Y.), 79-64
December 10, 2011 Bentley Rallies Past Stonehill, 73-66 (2OT)
December 6, 2011 Stonehill Turns Back Southern New Hampshire, 70-58
December 3, 2011 Stonehill Cruises at Saint Michael’s, 75-53
November 30, 2011 Stonehill Downs UMass Lowell, 72-59
November 27, 2011 Stonehill Rallies Past Merrimack, 73-64 (OT)
November 26, 2011 SAAC and Coaching for Change to Hold Shoe Drive
November 22, 2011 Franklin Pierce Shoots Past Stonehill, 57-47
November 19, 2011 Stonehill Clamps Down on Queens, 57-41
November 16, 2011 Defense Keys Stonehill Past Saint Anselm, 52-44
November 7, 2011 GAME DAY CENTRAL: Stonehill Visits Notre Dame for Monday Night Exhibition
November 7, 2011 Stonehill Falls at Notre Dame, 92-70
October 25, 2011 Midnight Madness to Hit Stonehill Thursday
September 26, 2011 Men's Basketball Holds Annual Professional Night
August 4, 2011 Quinn Named Assistant Basketball Coach at Stonehill
July 7, 2011 Support Coaching for Change in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge
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UPS partners with Shippo, offers 55% off shipping for online retailers
Morgan Forde @morgan_forde_
UPS announced Wednesday a partnership with Shippo, an e-commerce logistics solutions provider, saying it will offer up to 55% off shipping costs and waive surcharges for the 35,000 small- to medium-sized online retailers currently using Shippo's platform.
Businesses using Shippo will have access to automatic UPS account creation and UPS marketplace rates in addition to Shippo's main functionality, offering e-tailers the ability to manage orders and track deliveries across multiple sales channels at once, including Amazon and eBay.
According to Shippo's 2018 State of E-Commerce Shipping report, 75% of retailers surveyed said shipping costs were their biggest business challenge, up 7% from last year. This trend coincides with an uptick in customers wanting same-day, next-day or free shipping and returns, all of which are services that put the burden on retailers to recoup delivery costs.
UPS' partnership with Shippo represents an expansion of the carrier's e-commerce solutions portfolio aimed at smaller retailers, Kevin Warren, UPS chief marketing officer, said in a press release. By creating a seamless integration between Shippo's services and UPS logistics offerings, Warren said companies can "focus on what they do best – running their business."
Likewise, the carrier's recent partnerships with retail logistics provider HubBox and brick-and-mortar stores, including Michael's and CVS, are designed to help customers do what they do best – pickup and return their orders.
E-commerce retailers can take advantage of UPS' network of 38,000 access points worldwide to offer buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS) services to their customers without needing a physical storefront of their own. Consumers increasingly expect fast, reliable shipping to addresses that aren't necessarily their own and demand the returns process be equally fast and convenient.
FedEx has also been expanding its retail footprint, partnering with 9,000 Walgreens locations and 8,000 Dollar General stores to offer pickup and drop-off services. This week, the carrier announced it will its FedEx Returns Technology offering to 7,300 Walgreens stores, allowing customers to have their return shipment labels printed and affixed in-store, removing a key pain-point for consumers without easy access to a printer or who prefer to ship returns from a physical location.
Supply Chain Dive UPS, Michael's complete rollout of Access Points in 1,100 stores
Supply Chain Dive UPS and HubBox partner on last-mile delivery, BOPIS solutions
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About Swan
Best TV Shows of 2019
Our documentary The Curry House Kid made with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan is in the Guardian’s list of top TV shows of 2019: https://www.theguardi …
Asian Media Awards Win
Our documentary The Curry House Kid with the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan won Best Factual Show at the 2019 Asian Media Awards last night in Manchester. …
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Our latest documentary, The Curry House Kid, with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, transmitted to rave reviews across the board. The five-star review in The …
BAFTA Nomination
Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage has been nominated for a BAFTA at this year’s Television Awards in the Specialist Factual category. Congratulations to Grayson, …
Ryan Gander Documentary
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Jill Mulleady: Fight-or-Flight | Hyperallergic
Jill Mulleady’s painting “A Fantasy of Transcendence and a Preoccupation with Downfall and Ruin” (2019) burns with the heat of a desert. Against a sky of jammy violets and scorching oranges that stretches above emerald waters, a boyish figure rests on a landmass bisected by the stream of a rushing waterfall. Massive and awkward, like a fallen Goliath, he presides over a whimsical world of miniscule fauna and conical trees. Fenced in by a metal security gate and punctuated by human skulls and beheaded fish, however, the scene is more industrial landfill than fairytale forest; the hulking figure, with jaundiced eyes and mottled skin, a bloated hand resting wearily on his heart, appears more feeble than fabled. To his right, a digital tablet projects holograms of a map and vague data charts, useless and garbled accumulations of information that no longer serve a purpose.
The 11 1/2 by 15-foot work is the centerpiece of Mulleady’s US institutional debut, Fight-or-Flight at Swiss Institute (S.I.) in New York, curated by Laura McLean-Ferris with assistance from Daniel Merritt. Probably best known for rendering urban dystopias across sequences of multiple, color-drenched canvases, such as in those inspired by Edvard Munch’s “Frieze of Life” for this year’s Venice Biennale, the Swiss-Uruguayan artist here challenges viewers with a single, colossal painting and a group of provocative conceptual pieces. Harnessing the visual languages of myth, desertion, and apocalypse, they speak to environmental crises and strongholds of power; to the plight of people forced to flee regions of unrest and the lonely aftermath of their survival. The works in Fight-or-Flight are not easy to unpack or stomach; they portray with somber symbolism an unsettling present and an uncertain future.
S.I.’s new location in the East Village, inaugurated last year, was built in 1954 as a bank, and the building housed a Chase branch until 2015 before Selldorf Architects undertook renovations. Mulleady has excavated this history, transforming a small corner of the main gallery into a safety vault by barricading the space with an original 1920s day gate sourced from an outpost of the First National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago. Nearly hidden in the darkness behind a wall partition, “Vault Room” (2019) is illuminated by bright overhead spotlights that cast ominous shadows of the steel bars onto the floor. Inside the room is an automated teller machine that shows signs of being tampered with, its doors cracked open to reveal its innards.
A sense of trespassing, ransacking, and plundering pervades “Vault Room,” but most palpable perhaps is the feeling of unshakable solitude, as well as the attendant suspicion that this place was abandoned long ago and we are parsing through its ghostly ruins.
A section from a used crude-oil pipeline is in the center of the gallery. The large tubular sculpture, “Pipeline” (2019), seems to have surfaced from underground, like the collection of plastic debris that rises to the ocean in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A tiny gray mouse painted on the inside of the cylinder is the only embellishment to the otherwise readymade work.
With these enigmatic works, Mulleady constructs a sparse stage for multiple, disquieting interpretations. The stillness of her minimal interventions evokes the impending danger of an aftershock or the menacing silence of a minefield, pulling visitors into the eye of the storm.
On the second floor, four multicolored woodblock prints depict a gargantuan humanoid rat on horseback trotting away from a city. Referring to the exhibition’s title, a common term for the body’s acute response to stress as it prepares to face or flee a possible attacker, the press release describes the rodent as “embodying a desperate fight for life.” Seen in the context of Mulleady’s installation downstairs, however, its threatening snarl evokes an absconding criminal, not a victim in search of refuge. Glancing backward, as if catching a final glimpse of the destruction it has left in its wake, the creature could be the architect of the 2008 financial crisis, riding on the backs of bailouts into a sunset of impunity — or the current president of the United States, who has virtually eluded punishment even as he threatens democracy and advances policies that favor the rich and further marginalize the disenfranchised.
Or maybe it represents a sinister reversal of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend, wherein the city’s vermin become its saviors, luring away the parasitical human residents. As with Mulleady’s giant in the central painting, allusions to folk tales serve to draw viewers into familiar terrain culled from childhood and stories. She understands how to exploit the power of these references to disturb and stir us. Banks and gas pipelines index some of the most wretched hoardings of wealth in a market-driven society, and the loss of innocence Mulleady suggests in her works epitomizes a present in which we can no longer turn a blind eye.
Her message comes at a climactic moment, when the ethical quagmires of blood money and abuses of power are flooding the art world at unprecedented speed, revealing the complicity of major cultural actors. (S.I. had to grapple with its own accountability earlier this year, when an open letter signed by 50 artists and writers requested that the work of Tobias Madison, who faces charges of domestic abuse, be removed from the exhibition Life and Limbs, concurrent with Mulleady’s.)
The intensity Mulleady achieves in her smaller compositions doesn’t fully translate to a mammoth canvas; some areas of the large painting here may come across as washy or imprecise to those who have seen in person the ocean-deep richness of her surfaces. Little didactic material or guidance, aside from the press release, is provided to viewers who wish to navigate the exhibition as the artist intended. This is all the more reason to applaud Mulleady and S.I.’s curatorial team, who chose to present an uncomfortable and, at times, ambiguous exhibition rather than a crowd-pleasing one. Fight-or-Flight represents a major step in Mulleady’s career: she has determined to give us not what we want but what we need to see. – Valentina Di Liscia
Jill Mulleady: Fight-or-Flight
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TICKERS: SSRM
Acquisition of Nevada Properties 'Extends Asset Growth Potential'
A description of the properties and how this precious metals company will benefit from their addition are provided in a CIBC report.
In a June 27 research note, CIBC analyst Cosmos Chiu reported that SSR Mining Inc. (SSRM:NASDAQ) acquired two past-producing mines adjacent to its Nevada project Marigold for $22 million in cash plus the assumption of $23.1 million in long-term environmental and reclamation requirements and a 0.5% net smelter royalty.
"We view today's transaction favorably from SSR Mining's perspective as a lower risk and a lower cost way to grow the company's assets," Chiu commented. "We expect the company to be able to leverage its existing infrastructure to grow its production n while lowering costs in the Marigold region."
The analyst described the two acquired properties, including their size, location and past production history. Together spanning 8,900 hectares, they take the SSR Mining's total land ownership in the region to 19,800 hectares.
One of the assets, Trenton Canyon, 7,350 hectares in size and immediately south from Marigold, was previously run by Newmont Goldcorp Corp. (NEM:NYSE) as an open-pit run of mine, heap-leach operation from 1996 to 2001. Past production totaled about 290,000 ounces of gold.
The other asset, Buffalo Valley, comprises 1,550 hectares and sits to the southwest of Marigold. Production, which occurred there from 1989 to 1991, amounted to about 50,000 ounces of gold. The project was a joint venture between Newmont and Fairmile Gold Mining.
Both Trenton Canyon and Buffalo Valley "host the same rock formations as the Marigold mine while displaying more intense host rock alteration," Chiu highlighted.
He noted that upcoming potential catalysts for SSR Mining's stock include a technical study, expected mid-year, determining whether Red Dot can expand or extend production at Marigold. Others are a successful ramp-up at Chinchillas and a possible decision by SSR Mining on whether to divest of or increase its 9.7% ownership stake in SilverCrest Metals Inc. (SIL:TSX.V) and its Las Chispas project in Mexico.
CIBC has an Outperformer rating and a $16.25 per share target price on SSR Mining, whose stock is now trading at around $13.56 per share.
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Precious 'Mettle'
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the mettle necessary to trade precious metals at this time.
After Successful Drilling, Explorer Shifts to Preparing Permit Application for California Mine
The company temporarily stopped drilling to do the engineering work needed for submission.
Minerals Explorer to Sell Interest in Mexican Silver-Gold Properties
The Canadian company will retain exposure to the asset, though, through a royalty.
Miner Intersects New Vein 'Amid Continued Exploration Success' in Mexico
Recent drill results and their implications are presented in a ROTH Capital Partners report.
Silver Poised for a Breakout
Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports (07/01/2019)
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses why he believes silver is amazingly cheap and a sure sign that a major precious metals sector bull market is starting.
Gold's Epochal Breakout Will Not Be Negated by a Correction
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts the reasons why the recent gold breakout is genuine.
Nevada Gold Explorer Is on the Eve of Drilling Its Flagship Project
Source: Bill Powers for Streetwise Reports (06/28/2019)
U.S. Gold Corp.'s President and CEO Edward Karr, in this interview with Bill Powers of Mining Stock Education, provides an overview of the company and explains why geologist Dave Mathewson has called the Keystone project "the best exploration project he has seen in his career."
Alianza Minerals Raises C$750,000, Signs LOI with Coeur, Starts Exploration Programs
Source: The Critical Investor for Streetwise Reports (06/28/2019)
The Critical Investor provides an update on recent developments with an explorer that has projects in the Yukon and Nevada.
Prospect Generator Acquires Project Portfolio in Sonora
Dr. John-Mark Staude, CEO of Riverside Resources, speaks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable about his company's recent agreement to acquire a portfolio of properties in Sonora.
Bravada Gold: It's All About the Sinters
Thibaut Lepouttre, editor of the Caesars Report, considers the implications of the deal recently negotiated with OceanaGold for exploration of gold projects in Nevada.
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Forest Service efforts to end sexual harrassment
On behalf of Bohbot & Riles, PC, Attorneys at Law posted in Sexual Harassment on Wednesday, November 28, 2018.
Many employees in California have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment at work. Such problems have especially plagued the United States Forest Services over the past several decades. However, the federal agency is making efforts to stop workplace harassment and other misconduct.
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Facebook ends forced arbitration of sexual harassment cases
Discontent among technology workers in California and worldwide has prompted major companies to reform how they handle sexual harassment claims. Facebook, Inc. announced that it will stop requiring employees to address their sexual harassment complaints through arbitration. This decision arose one day after Google made a similar move to end the practice.
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Appeals court finds evidence of wage discrimination
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Why Chris Shepherd's Southern Smoke Fundraiser Is So Awesome
The Houston chef just threw the best party in the South, all for a good cause
By Alison Spiegel
Photo: Catchlight Photography
Thanksgiving is around the corner which means it's officially Time to Celebrate. All month long we're bringing you recipes, tips, tricks and stories that are equal parts memorable and delicious.
Chris Shepherd, chef and owner of Houston’s Underbelly, may be known for whole-animal butchering and Creole cooking, but he’s also about to become respected for his generosity as well. Look no further than Southern Smoke, his culinary fundraiser that raises money and awareness for multiple sclerosis, to see why.
The second annual Southern Smoke went down in Houston on November 6, bringing an all-star lineup of chefs together for a cause personal to Shepherd. When Shepherd’s former sommelier, Antonio Gianola, told the chef he was living with MS, Shepherd didn’t miss a beat. He decided on the spot to start an annual fundraiser to support Gianola and others living with this misunderstood disease.
Photo: Courtesy of Southern Smoke
“Nobody knows what MS does,” Shepherd says, alarmed at one of the most debilitating aspects of the disease, whose symptoms differ from person to person and also change over time. The lack of a clear, universal understanding of MS makes it even more difficult for those diagnosed and the people trying to support them. Shepherd felt this firsthand when he learned about Gianola’s diagnosis and sees it as a major obstacle in fighting the disease. “We’re encouraging people not to be quiet,” he explains.
With chefs like Aaron Franklin of Franklin Barbecue, Stephen Stryjewski of New Orleans’ Cochon and Ashley Christensen of Poole’s Diner coming out for Southern Smoke, plus a Grammy-winning brass band playing tunes, staying quiet is now out of the question.
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Not only has Shepherd managed to rally this enviable roster of chefs and entertainment, but he’s also enlisted the help of his entire staff, and seeing the joy on everyone’s face is one of the best parts for Shepherd. “We’re a restaurant with a greater purpose,” he says.
“It’s not the easiest thing to do, and you have to be dedicated,” he says of an undertaking like Southern Smoke. “But the goal is to make it bigger and bigger and bigger.”
Last year, the event raised almost $184,000, and this year, Shepherd surpassed his goal and raised $282,000.
“For me, it’s what I’m most proud of,” the James Beard Award-winning chef says. Hear, hear.
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Our daughter Taylor (also known as Taylor Bug) has Smith-Magenis Syndrome. She has had many therapies, medical tests and medical appointments. So we know the expenses that can accrue. Fortunately, we have had medical coverage to cover all of these costs the last 10 years. But through our journey in the world of Smith-Magenis Syndrome we have met several families who do not have coverage for these expenses. We wanted to help so Taylor Bug Kisses Foundation was born.
The Taylor Bug Kisses Foundation is named in honor of our Taylor Bug who can't get enough kisses!! She is full of love and has so much compassion for everyone and everything! She has been known to kiss the garbage can, the toilet, the vacuum, furniture, trees and other things that most people would not consider giving love to. We are lucky to receive her kisses several times a hour, every day, all day!
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Big day for University of Bath sport at London 2012 Olympics
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is set to be a huge day for sport at the University of Bath, with students and graduates battling it out for medals for Great Britain in rowing and swimming at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
University Sports Technology graduate Heather Stanning and her rowing partner Helen Glover are first up, representing Great Britain in the final of the women’s pair in the morning.
And later in the day University of Bath students Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis go in the final of the men’s 200m breaststroke after producing stunning performances in today’s heats and semis.
Heather and Helen both learned to row through the GB Rowing Team’s Start programme in Bath. They looked in impressive form in the heats on Saturday when the set an Olympic record to cruise straight into the final, which takes place at Eton Dorney at 11.50.
Attention turns to the pool in the evening when University of Bath students Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis (left), who both train at the British Swimming Bath Intensive Training Centre, go in the 200m breaststroke final at 19.30.
Michael, a University of Bath Sports Performance broke the British record in the heats this morning with a time of 2:08.98 – making him the first British man to dip under 2:09.00. He served up a repeat performance in the semi, smashing his new best to win his semi in another British benchmark of 2:08.20.
Andrew had also impressed in the heats, equalling his own English record with 2:09.33. The Chemical Engineering student slashed that further to finish second in his semi in 2:08.47.
Michael, who like Andrew is coached in Bath by David McNulty, said: ”I’m really happy with the time and I’m really excited for tomorrow, but I know there’s a long way to go yet.”
He also thanked his support team and training partners at the Bath ITC. “It’s been a huge team effort. Myself and Andrew are swimming for the rest of the squad as well,” he added.
Andrew added: “The crowd really helped me today, it was unbelievable. It’s amazing that we’re both doing so well and that we’ll both be in the final.”
Wednesday also sees Stacey Tadd make her Olympic debut in the women’s 200m breaststroke heats, while Chris Walker-Hebborn contests 200m backstroke heats.
The Team GB beach volleyball pairing of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin, who do their UK training at the University of Bath, faced a tough second contest against the Italian pairing of Marta Menegatti and Greta Cicolari.
The Italians shaded the opening set 21-18 and followed that up by taking the second 21-12. The GB pair now face Russia’s Ekaterina Khomyakova and Evgeniya Ukolova in their last pool game on Thursday (2 August).
“It’s very disappointing that we lost. The major thing for us coming out of that match is if we’d have played two sets like we had in the first set, then I think we would be in a better frame of mind,” said Shauna “It’s very disappointing to have lost that second set like that.”
“There were some good plays and we’ve got to focus on the positives,” said Zara. “We’ll be fixing whatever it was that went wrong today.”
For a round up of this morning’s London 2012 action featuring athletes with University of Bath links, please go to http://www.teambath.com/2012/07/31/jamieson-and-willis-impress-en-route-to-semis/
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London Bridge Articles | Telegraph Travel
Europe's highest afternoon tea at London's Shard
Fortnum & Mason's afternoon tea in the Shard
John O'Ceallaigh, Telegraph Luxury Travel Editor
24 June 2015 • 12:00am
John O'Ceallaigh
Could there be a better eyrie from which to sip afternoon tea? With picnic rug underfoot and clear blue skies above, yesterday evening I settled down to one of the first Fortnum & Mason afternoon teas to be served at the peak of London’s Shard skyscraper, some 800ft (or 244 metres) above the city.
The tea takes place in a pop-up approximation of an English country garden, currently occupying the uppermost, 72nd floor of the View from the Shard, the building’s three-level observatory. The incongruity of the setting means it doesn’t quite convince as a bucolic idyll, but organisers have gone to some effort to ensure it looks the part. Forming a colourful border against the Shard’s tapered window panes, some 2,000 plants (poppies, fox gloves, marigolds and more) have been bedded in 10,000 litres of soil, (artificial) grass provides a vividly green carpet and deck chairs are in place for those who might want to indulge in a sugar slump-induced post-tea snooze, or just admire the views.
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And what views they are. Visiting with a friend for the 6pm sitting, the last of the day, we approached our pitch as the sun, cutting dazzling beams through obstinate banks of cloud, cast a spotlight over London’s motley landmarks. To the east glinted the towers of Canary Wharf, across the Thames the Tower of London stood steadfast and, further along the meander of the river, the distinctive silhouettes of St Paul’s Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, London Eye and Battersea Power perforated the skyline.
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You can, supposedly, see for 40 miles or so from the top so it’s no wonder so many fleeting visitors to London make a pit stop here. What we hadn’t anticipated is that at times we’d feel like we were on show too. Until September 8, tea is served daily at midday, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4.30pm and 6pm; only two people are allowed per picnic blanket, of which there are just four – one in each corner of the room. We felt somewhat self-conscious as we positioned ourselves on the ground. For the melee of families, amorous couples and Instagramming teenagers circling the floor we no doubt confirmed foreign stereotypes that Brits will indeed find a way to drink tea at any given time and in even the most unlikely locality.
As for the tea itself, it’s a fairly rudimentary affair and not quite the elegant F&M experience you might anticipate. Our tea was presented in a box, prettily branded but nonetheless plain cardboard, that was unfolded to provide placemats and holders for the sundries therein. Products are made daily at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly and driven to the Shard throughout the afternoon, but still the sandwiches we tried – staples such as salmon, coronation chicken and cucumber – had dried somewhat, and the diminutive scones, to which we applied vacuum-packed cream and jam with a spork, didn’t distinguish themselves. We drank our tea from Starbucks-style takeaway cups and, to finish, we were served four dainty, different pastries to share.
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In terms of taste, there are better afternoon teas on offer in the Shard: Aqua Shard restaurant serves a classic version on the building’s 31st floor, and the Shard’s Shangri-La hotel serves both British- and Asian-style afternoon teas from its 35th-floor restaurant Ting. Some consider the views there better too – though the panorama of greater London and its surroundings is diminished from these levels, the city centre’s most significant landmarks seem grander, their multifaceted features and flourishes more pronounced.
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That’s if you’re seated by a window, however, and once reasonably sated we were able to join the crowds roving the observatory’s floors for a post-prandial sunset stroll. Though the tea itself didn’t match the vista, admiring the capital at our leisure seemed a most appropriate way to conclude what is, after all, the most indulgent and inimitably British of meals.
The VIew from the Shard's Sky-high Tea costs £85 per couple, which includes admittance to the attraction. A champage afternoon tea, including a bottle of F&M champagne, costs £135 per couple. Ordinary admittance to the View from the Shard costs £24.95 per adult or £18.95 per child.
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14 of the eeriest abandoned airports around the world
Airports have no more claim to permanence than any other building or facility, which is why a number have been left to ruin around the world after fulfilling - or failing to fulfil - their purpose. Read on for 14 of the most interesting.
Templehof, Berlin
As Jasper Winn discovered during a visit for Telegraph Travel, Berlin is an unlikely paradise for birders, with Tempelhof airport, closed in 2008 and now a city park, a good spot for sightings.
"For half a day we hiked around the abandoned runways and scrubby wastelands," he said. "Now a community park, it was key to the American airlift that broke the 1948-49 Russian blockade, when more than 200,000 flights brought in everything - from food to coal to cars - needed to keep West Berlin running. There were still wings in the air as we walked. Ignoring cyclists, joggers and in-line skaters below, a squadron of crows dog-fought with a juvenile buzzard, while meadow pipits and skylarks sprang high into the blue sky. Higher still there was a honking fanfare from a flock of migrating cranes arrow-heading north."
Whatever happened to German efficiency? Berlin's new airport is a contender for the world's most useless
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You are at:Home»MOVIE NEWS»Samantha Doesn’t Want That Film To Release In Telugu!
Samantha Doesn’t Want That Film To Release In Telugu!
By TeluguNow . on July 30, 2019 MOVIE NEWS
Samantha did not have any problem in any of her films releases in any language till date but with Super Deluxe, she does have a issue.
As per the reports, the actress has put a clause to Thiyagaraja Kumararaja before accepting the film that the movie should never be dubbed in Telugu.
The director-writer-producer accepted to it and the movie developed a cult following post the release. It had Vijay Sethupathi playing a transgender person role and Samantha played a woman who after marriage decides to cheat her husband with her ex-lover for one time but he dies in the middle of the act.
Such a character won’t be accepted by legions of fans here and even Akkineni fans will not be able digest such a role. So, she drafted that clause, it seems.
She scored a solid 20 crores share movie with Oh Baby on her own and with her husband, Naga Chaitanya delivered a 40 crores share hit, Majili. So, distributors and producers are looking to release her less known movies in Telugu to cash-in.
They don’t have many options but to go for Super Deluxe but like Nagarjuna who did negative role in Agni Varsha, a Hindi movie and put a clause that it shouldn’t be dubbed similarly, Samantha is not allowing Super Deluxe to have a popular, wide release in Telugu. Whoever wants to watch it, can catch it on Netflix with subtitles.
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You are at:Home»HEADLINES»This Actor Still Wants To Be a Governor
This Actor Still Wants To Be a Governor
By TeluguNow . on July 30, 2019 HEADLINES
Senior politician and veteran actor Krishnamraju wants to be a governor. He feels he can no longer play a role in active politics. He can no longer take up campaigning. Ever since Modi became the PM, he has been lobbying hard for governor’s post. He had even used his nephew Prabhas for this. He took Prabhas to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but to no avail.
Though Modi and Shah are appointing governor after governor, they are not considering Krishnamraju’s case. In fact, as of now, the BJP is appointing senior RSS and BJP hands as governors. But, Krishnamraju has not given up. He is joining the party membership drive and is working hard to prove that he is still of some relevance to the BJP. What more, he has also started targeting Chandrababu Naidu to get party leadership’s attention. One day, he termed Chandrababu a dead snake. The otherday, he said Chandrababu is a post-graduate in deception. Despite all these things, the BJP leadership is not looking at him.
Why will the BJP make him a governor? He joined the BJP when things were rosy and tht there was an alliance with the TDP. After the BJP went out of power, he resigned the party n adjoined Praja Rajyam. Then, he is back to the BJP again. This being the case, why will the BJP trust him?
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Man shot by police during arrest in Okanagan
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C has been called to Kelowna
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UPDATE: 8:26 p.m.
RCMP are confirming shots were fired by police officers near the Orchard Park Shopping Centre on Wednesday afternoon.
One man was injured in the incident and transported to hospital in Kelowna.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has deployed investigators to the officer-involved-shooting.
According to police at approximately 3 p.m., officers attempted to apprehend a man in Kelowna. During this interaction, shots were fired by police.
Any potential witnesses of this incident are asked to call the IIO witness line at 1-855-446-8477.
The IIO is the independent civilian oversight agency of the police in British Columbia. It investigates all officer-related incidents that result in serious harm or death, whether or not there is any allegation of wrongdoing.
The Independent Investigations Office is reporting that they are being deployed to Kelowna for an officer involved shooting.
Police are clearing the area near the CIBC and the public is being told to stay away from the Cooper Road and Highway 97 intersection of the mall parking lot.
A black Dodge remains on scene, behind police tape, with a smashed out passenger’s side window.
.@iiobc Deploys to Officer-Involved Shooting in Kelowna. Investigators will arrive later this evening. More details will be provided as they become available.
— IIOBC (@iiobc) January 24, 2019
RCMP are currently surrounding the CIBC at the Orchard Park Shopping Centre.
Dozens of uniformed, plain closed officers and canine units are searching the area, after reports of an unconfirmed shooting.
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The CIBC parking lot Orchard Park Shopping Centre parking lot is closed off as police are on scene.
CIBC staff person says the bank was not robbed.
Witnesses say someone may have been shot in the parking lot earlier on Wednesday.
A yellow cab appears to be smashed on one side and is taped off in the parking lot.
Orchard Park Mall remains open.
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August features creative art in Florence
El Dodge by Jon Grass
Aug. 7, 2019 — On Saturday, Aug. 10, many Florence-area galleries are showcasing local fine artists with receptions. Be part of the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour from 3 to 5 p.m. and visit more than a dozen galleries.
Galleries include locations in Historic Old Town Florence, around town and uptown. For a complete listing of participating locations, visit www.2ndsaturdaygallerytour.com.
Below are some gallery highlights and art happenings to look forward to in August:
Hot Havana nights continue to be part of August’s activities. Besides the Siuslaw Athletic Booster Club’s annual auction on Saturday night, The Studios at Jayne Smoley Designs is featuring unique mixed-media photography of Cuba and Havana with “Classic Cars in Cuban Culture,” a show by Jon Grass. In addition, there will be a "Classic Cars of Florence" Stand Around to go with the art show.
For Grass, inspiration struck during a vacation stop in Havana in April 2019.
The quick, one-day tour of Cuba provided by the cruise ship included a stop at a parking lot filled with Cuban taxis. With a giant painting of Castro overlooking, the lot was filled with cacharros: 1950’s era Chevy’s, Dodges, Pontiacs and Fords. The legendary Cars of Cuba. However, it wasn’t the classic Bel Aires or makeshift engines under the hoods that piqued Grass’s interest. It was the chrome. Or, more specifically, the light hitting the chrome.
“The light reflection drew my attention. I wasn’t even looking at the cars. I was drawn to the way the light was catching the chrome,” he said.
So he started snapping photos. While the other tourists were taking traditional shots, Jon was in tight, focusing on the chrome, the hood and the tail, with close-ups of the grill and the ornaments.
Earlier in his life, Glass was a painter and later went into commercial photography. Upon selling his company in 2017, he was eager for the next chapter in his life and began doing experimental abstract paintings before his Caribbean cruise. After going through his images of the Cuban cacharros, Grass had a new revelation.
He called up his long-time friend, Joshua Greene, owner of The Archives, a digital print and restoration studio located on the central Oregon coast, which printed ‘El Dodgé’ on rag media.
Grass pulled out his watercolors and started painting. Not thinking about the car, just seeing it as a work of art.
In the end, Grass created 31 paintings, all part of his show at The Studios.
Grass and The Studios resident artists Jayne Smoley, Tamarah Phillips and Gigi Lassan will attend the 2nd Saturday reception at 1458 First St. There will be live music and a new seasonal Studio Box will be on display.
Florence Regional Arts Alliance
Florence Regional Arts Alliance (FRAA) is featuring the photography of Craig Shreeve and the creative talents of Youth Artist and FRAA Scholarship recipient Alyssa Lydick during August at 120 Maple St. The public will be able to meet the two artists in person, enjoy refreshments and view a collection of their works at the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour.
Shreeve has lived in Florence for the past five years, retiring from the field of telecommunication work in California.
“One doesn’t have to go far to be able to see and capture the wonders that our beautiful coast has to offer,” Shreeve said. “I am grateful in my ability to see every photo as a blank canvas waiting to be recreated in the mood that I feel will best bring out the uniqueness of the subject matter.”
FRAA will debut prints and cards of Shreeve’s original photography at the reception.
Lydick is an 18-year-old graduate of Siuslaw High School, class of 2019. She participated in pottery all four years of high school, crediting art teacher Kim Pickell as being her mentor and helping her reach her full potential.
During her senior year, Lydick served as an instructor’s aide to a beginner’s art class. Besides working part time as a barista at Ocean Grinds Coffee Co., Lydick enjoys being outdoors hiking, fishing, going to the beach and playing with her dog Lola.
As for her near future, Lydick will be attending Lane Community College in Eugene to obtain her prerequisites, and then it is off to Montana State University in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education.
“I cannot wait to see what life has in store,” Lydick said.
Siuslaw Public Library
Artwork by River Gallery owner Jan Jagoe will be featured during the month of August at Siuslaw Public Library in Florence. Her work will be displayed in the entry hall and includes pencil drawings, photographs and a collection of close-up photography from Balboa Park in San Diego.
Jagoe studied art and photography at San Diego State University. Several years ago she began studying close-up photography with Paul Johnson at Palomar College.
“I love to share the beautiful things that I see through my camera lens,” she said.
Jagoe and her husband, Brian, own and operate The River Gallery in Historic Old Town Florence. Jagoe always dreamed of opening an art gallery featuring local artists. Living in Florence and owning The River Gallery has made that dream come true. The gallery features the work of more than 20 local artists.
Jagoe will be at the library during the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour.
Backstreet Gallery
Colleen McKnight, gourd artist, and Karen D. Nichols, multimedia artist, will be honored at a reception on August 10 from 3 to 5 p.m., at Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay St., featuring guitar music by Denny Weaver.
McKnight has developed her skills decorating gourds since 2015, converting her skills from systems design and flower design to transforming the organic shapes of gourds into works of art. Her gourd crafting patterns emerge from the use of wood burning, cutting and carving, then finishing with inks, dyes, paints, beading, embossing, decoupage, metal leafing, glass frit and mosaic work.
Whether looking for sculpture, a bit of whimsy, a playful animal, a useful vase, a basket or a beautiful decorative piece of art, individuals will appreciate McKnight’s expertise of taking nature’s gift and redefining it as fine art.
Nichols’ art includes, watercolor, acrylic and oils; however, her signature work is paper painting collage. The original technique she perfected starts with various kinds of fibrous papers. Using watercolor or acrylic paints, the paper is colored. By tearing, cutting and molding paper, she creates three-dimensional sculptural relief works. Certain papers lend themselves to feathery wings or animal fur. While birds continue to be Nichols favorite subjects, flowers and equine creatures come close.
Besides fine art, Nichols writes novels, short stories and poetry. Her seven books and Pocket Poetry can be found at the gallery. Her latest novel, “A Name by Any Other,” comes out in September.
She has edited and created cover art and illustrations for other authors. In addition, Nichols enjoys teaching and has been on writing panels, spoken at literary salons and taught classes at writing seminars as well as beginning art workshops.
Oregon Pacific Bank
Oregon Pacific Bank, 1355 Highway 101 in Florence, is showcasing the work of Jo Beaudreaux in August.
A photographer, mixed-media artist and art store owner, Beaudreaux surrounds herself with art every day. She also serves on the Florence Public Arts Committee, the Florence Events Center Gallery Committee and with other community- and arts-focused groups.
The bank is featuring Beaudreaux’s stunning encaustic mixed-media photographs, where she creates texture, drama and light effects by pouring wax over her photographs of the Oregon coast. For more information, stop by BeauxArts Fine Art Materials & Gallery, 2285 Highway 101, Suite H, or visit www.beauxartsfineart.com.
Florence Events Center
Galleries one and five at the Florence Events Center, 715 Quince St., continue to display FRAA’s “Spirit of Summer” community exhibit. In addition, there is an open call to artists for the next community exhibit, “Everything Odd-Umn.” For more information, call the Florence Events Center at 541-997-1994 or visit eventcenter.org for the application.
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Liew Chin Tong: No directive came from NSC on Ops Yemen 2
By MARTIN CARVALHO, HEMANANTHANI SIVANANDAM, TARRENCE TAN and FATIMAH ZAINAL
Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong. – Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: There was no "initiating directive" from the National Security Council (NSC) to involve the Malaysian military in Ops Yemen 2, says Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong.
He disputed former defence minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, who claimed on Wednesday (Dec 5) that the NSC handled the operation.
"I am disappointed that the former defence minister (Hishammuddin) is not here today.
"He said that the NSC had made a decision but after checking, the NSC did not produce any initiating directive.
"When an operation needs to be carried out, it needs the initiating directive from the NSC or in this case, a directive from the military top brass.
"However, there was no written directive from the Cabinet or NSC," said Liew in his winding-up address for his ministry for Budget 2019 in Parliament on Thursday (Dec 6).
He also urged Hishammuddin to come to Parliament to address the issue.
"This is a serious issue. I have asked the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Home Affairs to investigate the matter.
"This will be the first investigation for the committee," he said.
On Monday (Dec 3), Liew revealed in Parliament that Ops Yemen 2 was carried out without approval from the Cabinet.
Under Ops Yemen 2, which was from June 11, 2015, about 27 officers and 62 rank-and-file troops were deployed to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a rotational basis every three months.
However, the troops were withdrawn following a decision by the Pakatan Harapan government's on Sept 4 this year.
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School inspectors to quiz girls in hijabs
Sian Griffiths and Iram Ramzan
November 19 2017, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
The chief inspector of schools, Amanda Spielman, said hijabs could be seen to be sexualising children
Inspectors are to question children who wear the hijab to primary school, amid concern that girls as young as four are being forced to wear the Muslim headscarf.
The controversial move to ask children why they wear the hijab to school is announced today by the chief inspector of schools, Amanda Spielman.
It will be the first time the rise of the classroom hijab has been officially challenged in state schools in England — or the reason given for wearing it recorded in school reports.
Spielman says in a statement today that primary school hijabs could be seen to be sexualising children because the headscarf is traditionally worn as a sign of modesty in front of men when Muslim girls reach puberty.
Some schools could…
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A True Dog-Friendly Restaurant Set to Open in Brooklyn Next Year
by Andrea Huspeni December 22, 2016
After the first dog café hit Los Angeles, Brooklyn is next.
Named BYOD, as in “bring your own dog,” the dog-friendly restaurant is set to open in 2017 and will most likely be located in the Prospect Heights or Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.
Founded by Verena Erhart and Lauren Hanlon, BYOD will feature a seasonal vegetarian menu with delicious entrees, but don’t expect any ingredients that could harm dogs, like chocolate, to be included. Beer, wine, coffee and other beverages will also be served throughout the day, while dogs can enjoy treats and lap up water. There is also the possibility of having an outdoor mini dog run.
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Verena Erhart and Lauren Hanlon of BYOD
To work around the Department of Health (DOH) rule of no dogs allowed in restaurants, BYOD will have a set up similar to Manhattan’s cat cafe Koneko. There will be two, separate spaces – one for food preparation and the other for eating and hanging with dogs.
“We are working with a consultant to help us navigate all the DOH regulations,” says Hanlon. “We, by necessity, are getting creative with construction in how to separate where the food is prepared and where the dogs will be.”
If you don’t have a dog, no worries. Anyone can come and BYOD will be hosting adoption events for people looking to find their four-legged best friend.
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BYOD was dreamed up about a year ago. Erhart and Hanlon both separately dreamed of the dog restaurant before randomly meeting. Erhart hails from Europe and saw dogs often in cafes, while Hanlon has lived in Denver, and always “wondered why no one was at the local dog parks selling warm coffee in winter, or a cold beer in summer.”
Hanlon’s fiancé, Todd Holtry, and Erhart worked together at swanky Manhattan restaurant Eleven Madison Park and one day, “Verena asked Todd what I did for a living and he said, ‘she works in IT, but has always dreamed of opening a dog friendly café,'” recalls Hanlon. “We all went to dinner a week later. That was 10 months ago.”
Image credit: BYOD
Erhar and Hanlon started a crowdfunding campaign to help cover the costs and get BYOD off the ground. They are currently raising $35,000 on Kickstarter and need to meet that goal for it to get funded. The last day to donate is Jan. 6.
Related: This Adorable Foodie Pup Shares the Best Dog-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.
“We are so excited for this venture and it has already been a dream come true!” says Hanlon. “We are opening first in Brooklyn but ultimately plan to take BYOD nationwide since we feel city dwellers all over the country, and the world, for that matter, face the same issue.”
Andrea Huspeni is the founder and CEO of This Dog's Life. Her mission it to help dogs live a happier, healthier and longer life. When she isn't working, she spends time with her two dogs, Lola and Milo. She resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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CSFB shocks with $1bn loss
By Patrick Hosking
Updated: 19:00 EST, 30 January 2002
CREDIT Suisse First Boston sank to a shocking $1bn (£707m) loss in the fourth quarter as it counted the cost of disastrous hits from Enron and Argentina as well as its inglorious role in the Wall Street hi-tech floats scandal.
CSFB wrote off $126m against transactions with collapsed energy trader Enron and $213m on loans to Argentina, which defaulted this month.
Parent company Credit Suisse rushed out the announcement today to alert shareholders to the provisions, which were higher than expected, and to a blow-out in the cost of the job-shedding programme.
The restructuring cost, originally pencilled in at $650m, is now expected to reach $745m as new broom John Mack grapples to unwind ultra-generous pay packets put in place by his predecessors.
A $100m fine paid in settlement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over questionable initial public offering share allocation practices added to the tale of woe at CSFB. The loss, equivalent to $11m a day, was amplified by a $104m writedown on CSFB's private equity portfolio.
Mack, known as Mack The Knife for his cost-cutting reputation, put a brave face on the red ink. 'We made important progress during 2001, bringing costs more in line with the market and our competitors, resolving outstanding regulatory matters and making our firm more competitive,' he said.
CSFB, which has large operations in London's Docklands, was renowned as the most generous payer on Wall Street and the City, offering vast guaranteed bonuses to attract star people.
Mack has since been trying to unwind these arrangements. The grisly final quarter meant CSFB posted a full-year loss of $961m. The losses sent parent Credit Suisse to an Swfr800m (£331m) loss in the final 2001 quarter.
A spokeswoman said the figures had been released earlier than expected to warn investors who were not expecting the higher costs and provisions. Full results are due on 12 March.
Deutsche Bank, also reporting today, revealed a 67% slide in full-year net profits to e1.4bn (£852m) as it made provision for loan defaults and job losses. The profits fall, the first since 1997, came as Deutsche doubled its loan loss provisions to e1bn and put a e294m price tag on the cost of shedding 9200 staff.
Pre-tax profits from the investment banking unit, much of which is based in London, fell 34% to e2.7bn. Group chief executive Rolf Breuer said last year was 'a big challenge', adding: 'Our rigid cost management has had an impact.'
Lawyer Stephen Volk was today named as successor to CSFB chairman Joe Roby.
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Relief as Congress passes $700bn bailout
Updated: 10:01 EST, 4 October 2008
A wave of relief spread round the world's money markets last night after US lawmakers passed a $700bn (£400bn) plan to revive their economy.
At last: President George Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have been campaigning hard to get the bill passed
The rescue package was bullied and bribed through the House of Representatives amid promises it will ease the paralysing credit crunch.
The vote came just four days after the original version of the proposal was shot down by members who felt it only helped Wall Street executives and banks rather than voters.
Last night was a different story, with an emphatic 263 to 171 vote in favour.
With 218 votes needed for the bill to pass, the result included U-turns by 26 House Republicans who originally snubbed pleas from President Bush and congressional leaders.
Within hours, Mr Bush had signed the bill into law.
Speaking at the White House, he warned the plan would take time to take effect and admitted there were moments this week when Americans feared Congress could not 'rise to the challenge'.
But he added: 'This step represents decisive action to ease the credit crunch that is threatening our economy.
'By coming together we have acted boldly to prevent the crisis in Wall Street from becoming a crisis across the country.'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: 'Our eye now is to the future, to shine the bright light of accountability on our financial markets to ensure it doesn't happen again.'
Mr Bush's assertion that the effects would take time were evident on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones fell 157 points amid fears that the package may not be enough.
It closed at 10,325 despite being more than 300 points up at one point, showing that uncertainty remains about how the US economy will respond.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said: 'The legislation is a critical step towards stabilising the financial markets and enabling an uninterrupted flow of credit to households and businesses.'
Democrat member John Larson, who praised presidential candidate Barack Obama for his behind-the-scenes role in helping to broker the agreement, added: 'We have stopped the bleeding.'
Democrat leaders had had to quell a rebellion from congressmen and women angry about tax breaks added by the Senate, where the modified package was passed on Wednesday.
An influential faction of 47 conservative members calling themselves the 'Blue Dogs' had been insisting that tax benefits should only be included in the bill if they were paid for in the budget by tax increases elsewhere.
The extra ' sweeteners' included a measure to increase the government insurance for bank deposits from $100,000 to $250,000.
There was also a string of concessions that amounted to 'pork barrel politics' by offering £80bn-worth of benefits to individual constituencies.
Yet right up to the final minutes, House leaders were frantically lobbying members to find the dozen converts needed to turn around Monday's failed 228-205 vote.
With elections on November 4, lawmakers had been wary of voter backlash in asking them to pay for Wall Street's errors. But backers of the bailout suggested the record 778-point Wall Street crash after the plan bombed on Monday helped members realise how crucial the plan to stabilising the economy.
Altogether, the bill passed last night had grown from Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's original three sheets to 452 pages. The rescue package will let the government spend billions of dollars to buy bad mortgage-related securities and other devalued assets held by troubled financial institutions.
The Congress vote followed a shock rise in jobless figures, more bad news in the devastated housing market and results showing that factory orders had plunged 4%. The U.S. suffered its biggest monthly job loss since 2001 – an extra 159,000 off payrolls – and late payments on loans by homeowners using their property as collateral rose to their highest level in 16 years.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also wrote to Mr Paulson saying the state may need an emergency loan of £4bn soon or it may not be able to free up enough cash to keep operating. The solitary piece of good news had been an £8bn deal for WellsFargo bank to buy Wachovia, a rival on the verge of collapse.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, on the eve of an economic summit with British, Italian and German leaders, said the world stood on the 'edge of the abyss because of an irresponsible system'.
Relief Congress passes $700bn bailout for banks
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Camp for teens with HIV/AIDS destroyed in California wildfire
By: Adriana Mendez
A Milwaukee man who started a camp for children and teens living with HIV and AIDS is devastated by the loss of their campsite location in Malibu.
Neil Willenson started Camp Heartland 24 years ago after seeing the way children and teens with the disease were treated.
"Back in the day children with HIV/AIDS were really mistreated in this community and all over the country, so we created a safe haven for them," said Willenson.
The California Wildfires' Astonishing Numbers
For the past 24 years, those teens from Camp Heartland, now know as One Heartland, have made priceless memories at Gindling Hilltop in Malibu, through their "Hollywood Heart" program.
The week-long adventure offers the teens an opportunity to express their creative skills through filmmaking, fashion design, and creative writing.
Every summer about 80 teens attend the week-long program. Over the years multiple celebrities like Mila Kunis would stop by to lend a hand.
"It was a place where children from across the country affected by this disease could come for a week of unconditional love," said Willenson.
But overnight, the Woosley fire raging in California has reduced the camp to rubble and ashes.
"It was totally ravaged, two cabins remain off this beautiful hillside," said Willenson.
Next year the program is set to hold a 25-year anniversary bash, but now the location and plans are up in the air.
"Camp is not about the building it's about the community and when I think about my own memories, very few of them are of buildings. They were sunrise, sunsets, and stargazing. All the hugs and the community. Nothing will change in terms of the community that One Heartland provides for the kids but I think a couple years from now, there will be new memories to make," said Willenson.
Despite the destruction, Willenson is thankful no one at the camp was injured or died in the fire.
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'Not gained anything, only lost weight': SP's Azam Khan on his political journey
ANI | 13 Oct 2019 10:37 AM GMT
Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan turned emotional while referring to the slew of criminal cases he is facing in alleged land encroachment...
Rampur: Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan turned emotional while referring to the slew of criminal cases he is facing in alleged land encroachment scams at an election rally here on Saturday.
Khan said that in his long political career in which he has always stood up for the masses, he had not gained anything but had only lost weight and the institutions which he had opened for the common good.
Addressing an election rally for the upcoming by-polls in the state, Khan said: "I am being called a criminal because I'm your lawyer. I was framed because I fought for the general public and the general good. On the Triple Talaq and Ayodhya Ram mandir issue I had said that everyone should wait for the court's decisions. I said nothing more, and yet I am being punished."
"I thought there were people who consider me as a good politician and a good person. In this long political journey, I have not gained a kilo of weight but instead lost 22 kg weight," he added.
"What is the point if all the universities and schools that I have opened for children shut down? If I lose these institutions and my weight then I will be left with nothing," he added.
Khan is currently facing a slew of criminal cases in connection with land encroachments by the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University.
Khan on October 5 had appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which interrogated him for two and a half hours.
The court has now listed the next hearing in the case on October 29. Over 80 cases have been registered against the SP leader.
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2hrs Nirbhaya’s father urges Supreme Court to frame guidelines on number of pleas convict can file
Small creditors lean on big players via IBC
MUMBAI, September 16, 2017 21:46 IST
Collateral benet: Small vendors using the Code was not the aim of the IBC, says Ashish Chhawchharia of Grant Thornton
New bankruptcy rules give vendors the ability to extract outstanding dues ahead of large lenders
In late June, one of India’s top wind power equipment makers, Inox Wind Ltd., was dragged into insolvency courts by a logistics handler over unpaid dues of $88,000. Two weeks on, the matter was settled, with dues paid off.
The case illustrates how small creditors and vendors, previously at the mercy of large debtors, are now using India’s new bankruptcy code as a pressure ploy to secure payment of dues that would earlier have been all but impossible to recover.
India overhauled bankruptcy laws last year with the main goal of helping banks tackle a $150-billion bad loan issue that is crimping growth in the economy.
Less than a year on, insolvency professionals say it is vendors and small suppliers, also referred to as operational creditors, who are using the new rules as leverage to recover dues much more effectively than banks owed far larger sums.
‘Not the objective’
“It is not necessarily a negative thing, but it was not the objective of the new code,” said Ashish Chhawchharia, a partner at Grant Thornton who works on insolvency cases.
The new rules give any creditor owed ₹1 lakh the right to drag a multi-billion dollar company to court.
They lay out a stringent timeline for resolution, or force debtors into automatic liquidation, giving outsize influence to vendors and suppliers who would normally rank well below secured financial creditors, such as lender banks, in any bankruptcy process.
But they have also stirred fears of a tsunami of cases jeopardising the plans of banks with billions of dollars at stake, and which are forced to join such proceedings.
“If an operational creditor initiates a process, that basically brings in unwilling financial creditors, even if they do not deem it the right time or course of action,” said leading insolvency lawyer Sumant Batra.
“NCLT has to hold an enquiry at the beginning to determine whether this has been filed only for recovery of debt, or whether this has been actually filed for a resolution or a liquidation process.”
Sweden’s Ericsson became the first foreign vendor to use the tool, filing a petition to drag Reliance Communications to insolvency courts over unpaid dues of $180 million.
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Ryanair is basically running like a massive cash machine
The airline has promised to pass on savings from cheap fuel to its customers through lower fares.
By Peter Bodkin Monday 2 Feb 2015, 9:07 AM
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RYANAIR HAS PROMISED to pass on most – if not all – of the extra cash it expects to take in from the sudden plunge in global oil prices through cheaper airfares.
It comes as the budget airline announced it was forecasting bigger-than-expected profits this financial year for the fifth time due to booming passenger numbers.
Ryanair now expected to reap up to €850 million over the full 12 months and the airline is also sitting on a war chest of €447 million in cash – most of which it will use to buy back shares from investors.
The low-cost carrier said its customers were up 14% to 20.8 million for the three months to the end of December, while profits for the traditional slow season hit €49 million – compared to a loss of €35 million for the same time in 2013.
The airline will open three new bases in Bratislava, Copenhagen and Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, from March and April.
Cheaper flights on the way
But most importantly for punters, Ryanair said its main goal was to keep increasing passengers numbers – rather than trying to make more money from existing customers.
The airline has been buying its fuel in advance for as far ahead as 2017 to make the most of 11-year oil price lows, although it said some rivals would enjoy the benefits of cheaper fuel straight away leading to “downward pressure on airfares” over the next two years.
As lower oil prices kick in over the next two years, Ryanair intends to pass on much, if not all, of these savings to our rapidly growing customer base in the form of lower fares and therefore our profit growth expectations will be modest (next financial year),” it said.
READ: Aer Lingus reaps the spoils of a global oil glut as passengers pay sky-high fuel levies >
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The ‘cash machine’ continues
In a briefing note, Davy airline analyst Stephen Furlong said “Ryanair’s cash machine” was continuing with the latest results.
He said it looked like the airline would be profitable through all quarters of the year, including over the traditional winter lulls.
However, the airline’s share price still took a small hit this morning after it warned investors and analysts to “temper expectations” on its performance for 2016 because of price competition.
READ: Why does IAG want to get its hands on Aer Lingus so badly? >
READ: Ryanair fined for bad customer service… How’s that ‘nice’ thing going for you Michael? >
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Mercedes Safe Room/community Recreation Center on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Mercedes. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)
Some seek shelter as recovery efforts continue
Naxiely Lopez-Puente
A family of nine walked into the Red Cross shelter at the Mercedes Dome on Wednesday evening bearing a look of shock and visibly exhausted.
They politely declined to speak to The Monitor and went straight for the warm meal that awaited them: a burrito with a side of rice, corn and some fruit, all cooked by the Salvation Army, which is sanctioned to provide food for the Red Cross.
The family walked past the rows of cots where approximately 30 people have been sleeping, and joined others who were already eating.
There weren’t too many inside the facility around 4 p.m. Wednesday, with some working and others making the necessary arrangements to repair their homes.
Most are from Mercedes and many told shelter volunteers they were also affected during last year’s flooding, dubbed the Great Flood of 2018 by the National Weather Service in Brownsville.
None of them felt like talking about their losses.
The large room was mostly silent before the food arrived, with some of them sleeping, others reading, and some on their phone. It was nothing like last year’s scene, when shelters began reaching capacity within the first 24 hours, a volunteer said.
The thunderstorms that dropped more than a foot of water along the Mid-Valley area in less than six hours on Monday appear to have impacted fewer people than last year’s weather event, though no official count has been issued.
The preliminary data for affected homes and businesses is still being compiled, Hidalgo County Emergency Management Coordinator Ricardo Saldana said Wednesday afternoon. That information will likely be released Thursday, he said.
Still, the damage was enough for Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez to issue a local state of disaster proclamation two days after torrential rains caused widespread flooding in Mercedes, Weslaco, Monte Alto and the Delta area.
Neighboring Cameron and Willacy counties also issued their own declarations.
Cortez announced his decision via a press release Wednesday afternoon.
“ …The judge of the County of Hidalgo has determined that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and general wellbeing of county citizens in order to alleviate the suffering of people and to protect and rehabilitate property,” the declaration stated.
The designation will be in effect for seven days, unless county commissioners extend it. County officials also activated the county’s emergency management plan, which allows departments to deploy necessary manpower and resources to alleviate residents.
It also allows them to begin coordinating with volunteer groups to provide aid to those who need it. And while the county’s call center is now closed, residents in need are asked to call their respective precincts.
Precinct 1 – (956) 968-8733
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Naxiely Lopez-Puente covers Hidalgo County and Edinburg for The Monitor. You can contact her at nlopez@themonitor.com or (956) 683-4434.
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October 31, 2008 | Music News
How Faze got lost at Jo’burg airport
Source: http://nigeriafilms.com
By 'Nonye Iwuagwu
Chibuzo Orji, popularly known as Faze, has captured many hearts with his track, Kolomental.
No wonder he was a nominee in the recently held Channel O Awards, which took place in South Africa.
And expectedly, Faze was live at the star-studded, red carpet award ceremony.
Though he did not eventually pick the plaque, we hear the crooner was excited that at least, he was nominated.
Anyway, that is not the gist.
Life and Beat gathered that Faze got lost at the airport after the plane he boarded with some other Nigerian acts landed. It was alleged that the crooner went to use the gents and nobody saw him again.
Some busybodies claimed Faze was not used to the Johannesburg International Airport. He didn't get his bearing and as such, he couldn't locate where the entire Nigerian contingent he came with were.
According to sources, the delay was so much that airport officials almost towed the bus that was waiting to pick the group.
“We had to beg the officials that one of us was missing. They were about towing the vehicle. You can imagine, two people even went out to look for him but they came back without Faze.
As they were about to raise the alarm, Life and Beat gathered that Faze emerged, running towards the group and explaining how he lost his way because the airport was so 'big'.
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Black Lives Matter Awarded the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize
Michael Harriot
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In a groundbreaking departure from tradition, the prestigious international award that recognizes peacemakers around the world for promoting human rights, nonviolence and “peace with justice” will not be awarded to an individual. Instead, The Guardian reports that the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize will go to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Black Lives Matter awarded 2017 Sydney peace prize
Former winners Naomi Klein and Pat Dodson hail recognition of US-founded movement that ‘resonates…
Since 1998, Australia’s Sydney University has honored an individual who embodied the spirit of fighting injustice with peace. This year marks the first time the Sydney Foundation has chosen a movement instead of a single person as a recipient of the prize.
Global peacemakers and past award recipients applauded the Sydney Foundation’s choice as “bold” and “inspired.” 2008 winner Pat Dodson, who won for his advocacy of Aborigines and Torres Pacifica Islanders, hailed Black Lives Matter as a movement that stood against “ignorance, hostility, discrimination, or racism.”
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who stalked and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Marting in Sanford, Fla. Their efforts blossomed into a global movement that fights against injustice for people of color.
The prize will be awarded to the three co-founders at a November ceremony in Sydney. Past recipients include Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Muhammad Yunus, who also won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the concept of microcredit and microfinance.
In a separate announcement, the Worldwide Humanitarian International Tribunal for the Empowerment and Theft of Attention, Remorse and Sorrow (WHITETEARS) announced that it will honor All Lives Matter with the 2017 Wypipo Achievement Award.
Read more at The Guardian.
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Cable TV ‘cord cutters’ get tech help
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This screen shot provided by Netflix shows what the viewer will see when subscribers recommend movies and TV shows to their Facebook friends. Netflix is giving its Internet video subscribers a more discreet way to recommend movies and TV shows to their Facebook friends after realizing most people don't want to share their viewing habits with large audiences. Until now, Netflix subscribers linking the service to their Facebook accounts automatically disclosed everything they were watching with a potentially wide-reaching range of people. The automatic disclosures will end Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. A menu of friends culled from Facebook will appear after Netflix subscribers finish watching a video if they have turned on the sharing feature. (AP Photo/Netflix)
For cord cutters, a home antenna is an essential element since it pulls in over-the-air television programming in uncompressed, pristine high-definition form.
John Brillhart, founder of Cable Alternatives
By Julio Ojeda-Zapata | jojeda@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: May 12, 2015 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: October 28, 2015 at 1:10 am
Mark Fawcett of St. Paul is about to become a “cord cutter.” That is the phrase used to describe those who cancel their cable or satellite TV, and swap in other entertainment sources at a typically lower cost.
Fawcett, for instance, is hooking up a newly purchased TV antenna for over-the-air broadcasts, while relying more heavily on streaming-video services such as Netflix and Hulu+, and selectively downloading rented or purchased videos via Apple’s iTunes Store.
“I am paying a ton of money for cable channels I never watch,” said Fawcett, explaining his primary reason for making the tech migration.
Fawcett is hardly alone. The trend was first noted years ago, when streaming video was in its infancy.
In 2014, about 7 percent of U.S. households fit into this category, up from 4.2 percent in 2010, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services. The percentage rises slightly for millennial households, and substantially — to 17.4 percent — for households that use Netflix or Hulu+.
The percentages might grow higher but for one limiting factor: complexity.
Cutting the cable cord and setting up the alternatives can be a complicated undertaking with lots of moving parts — including antennas, digital video recorders, streaming-video boxes and more. Sorting out which of many streaming services to use can be daunting, as well.
The move was a breeze for Fawcett, who runs the St. Paul-based Mac Men tech-help firm. For others, it can seem a lot easier to just stick with cable, even if it costs more.
Enter John Brillhart, A Fridley man whose company, Cable Alternatives, helps consumers identify and set up alternatives to cable-TV and satellite-TV services. Business, said Brillhart, is booming, with 10 to 15 consultations in customers’ homes a week.
“I’ve been a cord cutter since 2009, and people used to look at me funny,” Brillhart said. “But in the last couple of years I’ve found myself giving cord-cutting advice to my family and friends.”
That, he said, is how he realized there is “a latent market for a cord-cutting consultant. Most families need someone to personally connect them with all the options out there.”
He set up his company last year with the slogan, “I help you watch the TV you love for less.”
Brillhart typically charges $75 per consultation. For hardware installations, he charges $220 to $320, which includes the fee. These charges end up paying for themselves, he noted, since his customers save an average of $100 per month with cord-cutting setups compared to what cable or satellite used to cost them.
No one household is the same; Brillhart describes cord cutting as “a very personalized experience.”
But such setups tend to have a few factors in common. He’ll typically start by setting up an outdoor or attic antenna for over-the-air reception of basic channels in high definition. Often he’ll add a TiVo-branded DVR to record those over-the-air programs.
His customers are then able to fill the programming gaps with various streaming-video services via devices like Roku boxes. Services include Hulu+, which offers time-delayed streaming of currently airing shows, plus Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video with film and TV-show archives along with new, original programming like “Daredevil” and “Transparent.”
Results can sometimes be unpredictable. One customer insisted on being able to watch recent episodes of Doctor Who, Brillhart said. But when the setup was complete, the client became so mesmerized by Netflix programming that the favored science-fiction series became more like “Doctor Who?”
Live sports programming is a sticking point because much of it isn’t available without cable or satellite. Most of Brillhart’s customers decide that is a worthwhile sacrifice given all the money they’ll save. But, after a consultation with one sports-obsessed cable subscriber, Brillhart ended up recommending the status quo.
For some, sticking with the likes of Comcast makes sense, as the Twin Cities-dominant cable and Internet provider has added bells and whistles to its service to keep customers loyal. One all-new perk, a voice-controlled remote, interacts with Comcast’s slick X1 video-recording set-top box.
Comcast provides “choice, convenience, value, reliability, innovation and local service,” said Mary Beth Schubert, a St. Paul-based spokeswoman. “Our X1 platform has been a game changer for customers. We continue to roll out new features and options for our customers.”
But Brillhart insists that “with cable, the value proposition simply isn’t there.”
Fawcett of St. Paul couldn’t agree more. He loves how his just-purchased antenna will gives him access to the top commercial networks, Twin Cities Public Television and other channels, many of these in high definition.
He added that he has scant need for all of Comcast’s live channels since “I’ve tended to catch up on current shows using Hulu+. Also, I’m very busy with my work and my kids are busy with school, so we don’t watch as much TV, anyway.”
His bottom line: “We are saving money while using technology that makes our shows available in ways that make more sense to us.”
Julio Ojeda-Zapata
Julio's Pioneer Press duties include writing, often about tech, and helping manage the paper's website and social media. He also uses virtual-reality cameras and other tech tools to commit journalism. In his spare time, Julio writes for the TidBITS Apple-news site, where he is a contributing editor. See his blog at ojezap.com.
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Home of Department
Home of American Studies
Juliane Borosch, M.A.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau
Florian Deckers, M.A.
Wiebke Engel, M.A.
Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag
Dr. Elena Furlanetto
Dr. Saskia Hertlein
Zohra Hassan-Pieper, M.A.
Christian Hunt, M.A.
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Basic Reading List
Studying and Working in the U.S.A.
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Anglophone Studies
Wiebke Engel
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Anglophone Studien
R12 S04 H17
Universitätsstr. 12
Room R12 S04 H17
E-mail wiebke.engel [at] uni-due.de
Phone +49 201 183-2925
Wiebke Engel decided to study English after an au-pair year in the United States, where she also attended a community college. She received her M.A. in American Studies, Sociology, and Political Sciences in 2008, after studying at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After working as a "studentische Hilfskraft" for Professor Raab, she started teaching at the Institute of Anglophone Studies (American Studies) and is currently working on her PhD thesis.
Contemporary American Literature
American Film and Popular Music
American Foreign Politics and Society
Essay "Anti-Bush Agit-Prop: Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11" (in preparation)
Courses Taught at the UDE
"I too Sing America" - A Survey of African American History and Culture
A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - A Different Approach to American Presidents
A Survey of American Literature
Cornerstones of 20th Century U.S.-American Drama
Depictions of U.S. American Society in Michael Moore's Documentaries
Dream Country or Country of Dreamers? Reflections of the American Dream in U.S. History
Introduction to 20th-Century American Drama
Popular Music as a Mirror of American History
September 11, 2001 - Between Mediated Catastrophe and Cultural Trauma
The Big (Bad) Apple: New York City in Film
The Eternal Marlboro Man? - Changing Images of Cowboys in American Culture
The Road to Perdition? - The Impact of the War on Terrorism on U.S.-American Culture
Department of Anglophone Studies
Universitaetsstr. 12
The Department of Anglophone Studies is located in entrance R12, 4th floor hallway A and H, 5th floor hallway A and B.
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Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK
This magical dwelling tucked deep into West Sussex woodland is surrounded by carpets of bluebells and snowdrops; craggy trees cradling the red tiled roof and the treasures that lie within. A hunting lodge with rustic appeal, Madam Butterfly is like something straight out of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Throw in a hot tub, pretty pond and four bedrooms dripping in Bohemian eclecticism and guests can live out their fairytale holiday dreams.
There's an unusual fusion within this unique lodge, hidden down a private drive in deep countryside. At first glance Madam Butterfly is a storybook cottage, but take a closer look and discover contemporary features dovetailed into the original design, cleverly expanding the space and light, to create a luxury self-catering homestay that's bespoke down to the last detail. Traditional vintage charm combines with boutique flair inside, with many secret spots to sit and absorb the tranquil grounds. Halfway between London and the coast, this hideaway in Billingshurst is ideal for anyone wanting a touch of class with their mythical hunter's cottage escape.
With its dual-style storyline, Madam Butterfly will appeal to many tastes. Persian rugs cloak stone floors in the two reception areas, with painted timber ceilings and furnishings upholstered in rich colours; all of this in fascinating contrast to the Scandic-style glass-walled kitchen extension with its bleached wood floors. Four bedrooms make slumberous havens. Picture leaded windows, ornate fireplaces and a master suite taking up the whole of the lower ground floor. On the uppermost floor are two further double bedrooms, one of them en suite. Two rooms have desks for dreamers, while the master features a fire and bathtub for lovers.
From above, Madam Butterfly is a red-roofed dot amidst dense woodland, with private access through folds of greenery. External features echo the eclectic interior: there's a walled garden with exotic Indian doors and a rose garden with a pagoda, while a smart wooden deck is uplit for night-time dining. Relax in the hot tub, or pick out a quiet terraced spot for al fresco dining, enjoying the wild location. Venturing back up the drive takes guests into the big wide world once more, where nearby towns yield a scattering of shops selling local produce, and the twinkly blue coast is under an hour by car.
Bedrooms and bathroomsThere are three double bedrooms, one with a super king-size bed, one zip-and-link super king-size bed and one king-size bed. One bedroom has an en suite, and the master has a bath in the room itself and a separate WC and shower across the hallway. An additional single bedroom is available on request at a cost of £150 per week or part thereof, sharing a family bathroom with bedroom three.
FeaturesHot tub available between Easter and September
FamilyChildren over the age of 12 are very welcome.
PracticalitiesMadam Butterfly´s drive is communal and shared with the neighbours on the estate. The house has parking for up to four cars. The modern kitchen has a large fridge, Aga, electric oven and hob, microwave, dishwasher and island. The dining table seats up to eight and there is an open fire at one end. A separate utility room offers washer, dryer, drying rack and second sink. Please note the house is a 25 minute drive away from Gatwick airport therefore there may be some disturbance during busy seasons, but visitors will still enjoy the natural beauty of the house and its surrounds. There is a hot tub and pond in the garden so guests are advised to take care of children. Due to the characterful nature of the property, there are steps and steep stairs in places which may be unsuitable for those of whom, with limited mobility. Please be advised that there is a residence close to Madam Butterfly, where the occupants can be contacted in an emergency. No candles are permitted at Madam Butterfly.
Homestay includesLuxury welcome hamper, 42-inch television with Sky TV, a gas barbecue, linens and towels, logs and kindling to get you started.House book - your property and destination guideDiscover more little luxuries
Equidistant between Guildford and Brighton, Billingshurst lies in the heart of rural West Sussex. This charming village sits within close reach of the South Downs National Park and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
On the Map Madam Butterfly is in West Sussex, not far from Billingshurst and Horsham, encircled by the Surrey Hills and South Downs.
By Car Under two hours drive from central London, and about an hour from several south coastal towns such as Worthing, Brighton and Bognor Regis.
By Train The journey time to nearby Billingshurst from London Victoria is just over an hour, with trains running approximately every 30 minutes, followed by a ten-minute cab ride to the house.
By Air Gatwick Airport is approximately 30 minutes by car, while Heathrow Airport is around an hour away.
“We are so happy with the careful restoration of this old woodland lodge, and we hope the colourful design gives as much visual pleasure as the contemporary details provide comfort. It´s all about comfort and relaxation in style.”
When I bought this gamekeeper's cottage about 20 years ago it was in a sorry state. There was no roof, water and no drive. It was quite a tour de force to actually get to the building! Madam Butterfly had been uninhabited and abandoned for 50 years, quite astonishing for a property so close to London.
The majority of fabrics in the house have been picked up from around the world, with the rug in the sitting room incorporating all the colours of the house. The dining room sofa is an essential feature as we like to have comfortable seating when eating, so one can chat and relax. The kitchen is where we spend most of our time, watching the birds and the deer as they amble past.
You may encounter Sidney the Carpathian sheepdog, Didge and Duster the terriers on your walks in the woods. We also have chickens in the orchard one of whom is a cockerel who may well decide to sweetly serenade you in the morning!
I think that good atmosphere and a comfortable, welcoming place to be is what we all yearn for, and that is what I believe Madam Butterfly is.
Pom and The Woodland Skills Team
Live like a local, discovering the best hidden gem restaurants, walks and attractions during your holiday in Billingshurst with an insider’s perspective.
Cruise the Causeway, Horsham
Horsham’s legendary picturesque street is charm personified, with a mix of Georgian and Victorian buildings, ancient trees lining the route, and its very own ghost, so they say. Wander the route then pop to Carfax central square for the twice-weekly market.
Watch the barges, Biillingshurst
A short drive west is the scenic Wey and Arun Canal, where barges line up for photo opportunities and boat trips are available for those who fancy a day out on the river. Choose from an electric or conventional narrowboat, then sit back and enjoy the ride.
The Blue Ship, Billingshurst
For traditional pub grub in a family-run venue, this red-brick inn provides a well-stocked menu for slap-up Sunday roasts or burgers to fuel those country walks. Book in advance as this is a popular spot that fills up fast, with dishes freshly cooked to order.
Fishers Farm Park, Wisborough Green
Don’t tell the children about this fun theme park unless you can promise to fit in a visit to its tractor rides, mini-golf zone and play parks. There’s more than enough to wear out the most energetic visitor (and parent), and plenty of options for buying food or having family picnics.
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Is car sharing the future? A look at the state of the industry in 2020
Carmakers seem to be adopting a wait-and-see attitude
by Paul Horrell | Jan 12, 2020
PHOTO: TopGear.com
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While the car industry tells us car sharing is the future, it’s not actually going well in the present. The joint BMW-Daimler service ShareNow (formerly DriveNow and Car2Go) has announced it’s pulling out of the UK (where it operated in London) as well as the USA and Canada.
Here, in brief, is what ‘floating’ car share is about: Use an app to find a car on the fleet, unlock it by phone, drive it for as many minutes as you needed, and drop it off at the curbside at the other end. It’s called ‘floating’ because the cars don’t use depots or fixed parking spaces.
But it didn’t work in London because of ‘low adoption rates’ (aka too few users), and also because some boroughs didn’t participate. So, you could pick up a car in Islington but not drop it off in Westminster. In 18 other more compact cities in mainland Europe, the scheme seems to have a critical mass of users and is continuing.
ShareNow used the more urban-friendly cars of the two companies: Smart, i3, 1-Series, and of course, Mini units.
Just before the closure announcement, I’d been asking Mini global boss Bernd Körber about such mobility services. He was downbeat. “It’s hard to see the future,” he said. “Few firms make money with it now. But technology and legislation and people themselves do change. The question is our role in that. We will provide the right cars even if it’s others who provide the platform.”
This is a notable row-back from the BMW Group’s optimism about such mobility services five to 10 years ago. Four years ago, Mini even showed a concept car designed specifically for sharing as part of the Group’s 100th anniversary song-and-dance.
Porsche’s boss, Oliver Blume, says similar things: “Today, nobody knows where you can make good margin with mobility services. But we have started with pilot tests.
“For example, in San Francisco, Porsche owners can lend their cars to other interested people. The business there for us is in selling our insurance and financial services. Also, many people using our pilot schemes have never owned a Porsche before, so they use it to decide to buy a Porsche. It’s a way to sell cars.
“Anyway, mobility won’t be our core business—it will be less than 10% for some time to come. Our core business is making and selling cars.”
Sharing has also been heavily promoted as a primary application for autonomous cars. After all, you could summon the car via app to where you are, and not have to walk to where it is. And autonomous cars will be expensive, so private individuals probably won’t be able to afford them initially. Finally, they’d be less vulnerable to the shall-we-say variable driving skills car hirers are known for.
But again, Körber doesn’t see this happening any time soon, not for Mini: “We will offer assistance to help the customer. In a traffic jam you don’t get the go-kart feeling even in a Mini. But driving is a key aspect of a Mini. We won’t be an autonomous brand.”
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Fiction & Nonfiction
Stories of Courage
Teacher's Guide to the Bluford Series: Volume 1
¡Leer Cambió Mi Vida!
Anne Frank: Courage, Sorrow, and a Lasting Legacy
Author: Paul Langan
SKU/ISBN: 1-59194-069-9
Reading level: 6-8
Lexile Level: 670L
This sequel to Summer of Secrets continues the story of Darcy Wills as she begins her junior year at Bluford High School. Eager to repair her relationship with her old boyfriend Hakeem, Darcy discovers that one of her biggest fears has come true. And worse: her closest friends have been secretly lying to her.
About the Bluford Series
What is the Bluford Series? A Gateway to Reading!
The Bluford Series is a collection of high-interest novels that have captivated teens nationwide. Set in fictional Bluford High, a tough but nurturing inner city high school, the novels speak to the interests, struggles, and concerns of today’s 5th–10th graders. Praised by faculty, parents, and students alike, the Bluford Series has transformed entire classrooms into reading zones. A frequent choice for school- and city-wide reading initiatives, the series has been widely reviewed in the Journal for Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) and repeatedly endorsed by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).
Key Features of the Bluford Series
Relevant topics: Topics, themes, and situations in the Bluford Series engage students’ real-life experiences. By having direct relevance to students’ lives, the books immediately hook readers.
Exciting and uplifting stories: The Bluford Series celebrates teenage characters who make positive choices, especially when such actions are difficult or unpopular. Readers become emotionally engaged in each character’s struggle and often cheer in triumph when it is resolved!
Common Core Aligned: The Bluford Series features a comprehensive teacher's guide that includes a wide range of activities aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Used together, the Bluford Series and the teacher's guide are a powerful Language Arts resource for students. Get details about the Bluford Series and the Common Core Standards.
Accessible writing style: Bluford novels are written to appeal to intermediate readers. While content in the series is sophisticated enough for high-school students and beyond, the reading level for the novels is between 5th and 6th grade.
Short length: Each novel in the Bluford Series contains fewer than 200 pages. This modest length encourages readers to finish their book. And once they read one, most students want to continue—a pivotal step toward becoming regular readers!
Continuity and depth: While each novel stands on its own, many characters and conflicts carry over from book to book. Readers are drawn into a complex fictional world they want to explore.
Broad appeal: Action, suspense, mystery, and romance fill the pages of the Bluford Series, offering something for all readers—boys and girls alike.
Great price: Every novel in the Bluford Series is available at $2 each—an unbeatable value!
Read First Chapter
Click here to read the first chapter of this book.
Paul Langan
Born in Philadelphia, Paul Langan spent his early childhood in the city before moving with his single mother to southern New Jersey. There he attended public school and worked a variety of jobs—including salesperson at a shoe store, attendant at a horse ranch, landscaper at a mental hospital, and a night-shift stockperson in a warehouse store near Atlantic City. “Each job,” he says today, “could be the topic of several juicy novels.”
In 1991, he enrolled at Camden County College and a year later transferred to La Salle University, where he studied creative writing and literature, earning a B.A. in English. While at La Salle, he lived with international students, traveled to his roommate’s home in Kenya, became a prison tutor, and found “the courage” to write.
After graduation, he worked for a nonprofit agency in Philadelphia and then joined Townsend Press (TP) as an Assistant Editor. After he contributed to a number of TP textbooks and taught English at a community college, Paul reconnected to his interests in creative writing through the Bluford Series. Originally working as an assistant with the Bluford novels, Paul’s role steadily grew. He now serves as both editor of the series and author or coauthor of several novels, including The Bully, The Gun, and The Fallen. His stories reflect his personal experiences, including the difficulties of growing up without a father, being the “new kid” in school, and dealing with the loss of a loved one.
In 2001, Paul completed a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to expanding the Bluford Series, he dreams of writing a successful movie script, preferably a “supernatural thriller.” Today Paul lives with his wife and three children near Philadelphia and stubbornly clings to the hope that he will one day see the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl.
You may contact Paul by writing to him at:
439 Kelley Drive
Click here for reviews of Shattered from Goodreads.com.
WHAT EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BLUFORD SERIES
All comments below are from letters sent to us by educators who are using the Bluford Series.
“My entire school has just finished reading The Bully and thoroughly enjoyed the book. They are moving on to The Gun, the next book in the series, and will begin reading some of the previous books also. In all the years that I have been a librarian, I have never seen urban children so enthused about a book. Our staff members love the books too. Thank you for igniting reading enjoyment in our students.”
—Corlette Mays, Librarian, Hatch Middle School (Camden, NJ)
“My students adore the Bluford Series. We are spreading the joy we find in these books very quickly. We find your books to be so interesting. We love the way they relate to real life situations. My students are reading a lot now because they have found something that really interests them.”
—Audrey Russell, Reading Teacher, Turner Middle School (Philadelphia, PA)
“Thank you for the wonderful Bluford Series! We bought a lot of them for that great price. We were looking for anything our reluctant readers would spend more than 10 minutes reading. Kids are now swapping books, discussing them, not wanting teachers to end SSR time, and teachers have been coming begging for sets for their rooms also.”
—R. Archer, Reading Teacher, Cabrillo High School (Long Beach, CA)
“I teach in a middle school, and there is little my students like less than to be asked to read. The Bluford books, however, have made a huge difference. The boys in particular will pick them up and actually lose themselves in them.”
—H. Pollock, Teacher North Brandywine Middle School (Coatsville, PA)
“We have not been able to keep the Bluford books on the shelves since the first students discovered them. Both boys and girls are reading them like crazy. They are making deals with each other – one brings the book back and another checks it right out. I have students who arrive in the library at 7:30 (school doesn’t start until 8:30). They sit quietly at a table and read while other kids are playing on computers.”
—P. Roche, Librarian/Media Center Director (Camden, NJ)
“My students have finished the series and can’t wait for more books. The Bluford books are wonderful for reluctant readers, and we need more like them.”
—Renee Wedderspoon, Reading Enhancement Program, Badger Ridge Middle School (Verona, WI)
“I would like to thank everyone at Townsend Press for the Bluford Series. The books have been flying off the shelves of the library for months now. Our . . . reading teachers have ordered sets of the novels for next year. These titles certainly filled a need in our school.”
—Deborah Mullin, Librarian, Rush Middle School (Philadelphia, PA)
“My students love the Bluford Series. Students were grabbing the books so quickly I had to keep careful track of them. They were even reading them at home, and their parents were shocked. Please write more!”
—Carole Koroluck, Teacher, Kennett Middle School (Kennett Square, PA)
“I have been using the Bluford High Series in my . . . classroom. I have not been able to keep the books on my shelves, and I've been spreading the word to other teachers about how great these stories are. They are wonderful, and the students are asking for more! It is a rare thing for me to have seen such excitement in [students] over books.”
—Cheryl Boulet, Teacher, Lafayette Parish School System (Lafayette, LA)
“After the Bluford books were delivered to the school, the real changes started. The novels flew off my shelf like hot tamales. The kids would not put them down. They would sneak them during each of their classes, and the other teachers were coming to me befuddled. My colleagues were thrilled that the kids had found books that they could identify with, but they were not paying attention in class. All day long, the students talked about the characters and the plot of each book. They have become inspired! Voracious readers now walk into my . . . classroom.”
—M. Patano, Reading Teacher (Philadelphia, PA)
“I purchased the Bluford Series for my high school library this year. They are WONDERFUL! It is so difficult to find good titles (with realistic characters) for my African American students. Please keep me on your mailing list, and let me know if any titles or new series are added.”
—Martha Gresham, Teacher, Collins High School (Collins, MS)
“One teacher who is using the Bluford Series at our Residence Facility reported that his students did not want to stop reading to go to lunch; they pleaded to stay and finish reading. Other resident students have taken the books to their rooms to continue reading in the evening and have finished all seven titles. Another teacher using the books reported that his students who normally have a very difficult time staying on task and concentrating can now concentrate totally for forty-five minutes while reading the novels. Many of his students have completed all seven books and are . . . completely captured by the stories.”
—M. Donohue, Director of Education, Saint Gabriel’s System (Philadelphia, PA)
“I am a high school Special Education Reading Teacher and work with a lot of disadvantaged students and children of migrant farm workers. I am thrilled with this series. So many of my students love the books, and some have barely read an entire book before reading one of your books. Several students took the books home and gave them to other family members to read and enjoy. Keep up the good work and give us some more books in the Bluford Series.”
—Lois Glennon, Teacher, South Dade Senior High School (Redlands, FL)
“The Bluford Series is a complete hit with my students at West Philadelphia High School. They really can’t get enough of them. Even the kids that you’d least expect to read are enjoying them!”
—Teacher, West Philadelphia High School (Philadelphia, PA)
“My kids LOVE the Bluford books. These are great books for young minds.”
—Deana D. Young, Reading Teacher (Allentown, PA)
“Thank you for these wonderful books and their exciting covers.”
—Doris Jeske, Reading Specialist, Carter School (Chicago, IL)
“Our students love the Bluford Series. I can’t keep the books on the shelves.”
—J. Downing, Library Media Specialist, Grover Washington Jr. Middle School (Philadelphia, PA)
“I am a second-year teacher in North Carolina. I . . . cannot say enough about your books. I have many students who are VERY reluctant to read, but everyone I have talked to loves the Bluford Series. We read to our students during homeroom every morning, and my kids want to keep reading and take the books home. I cannot believe how much interest in reading the series has brought to our school. Will there be more novels? I know my kids will take all they can get.”
—Michele Johnson, Teacher (North Carolina)
“I have personally read all seven books and I would recommend them without hesitation to anyone interested in contemporary urban fiction featuring African American high school students. They would be a welcome addition to any Young Adult library.”
—John F. Caviston, Librarian, Samuel S. Fels High School (Philadelphia, PA)
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BLUFORD SERIES
All comments below are taken from reviews that have appeared recently in a professional reading journal.
“The novel introduces issues relevant to both male and female teen readers: the magic of budding romance, the personal struggles of children with parents in the throes of serious marital conflict; the importance of social popularity to teens, and, interestingly, male violence against females in teen relationships. . . . In a larger sense, the novel demonstrates how new hope can emerge from personal disillusion and disappointment.”
—A review of Lost and Found by Neal A. Lester in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
“[The Bully is] an enjoyable read. . . . The author is a good story teller who weaves in all the realistic details of daily life that make readers forget this is fiction. . . . The daily dramas of high school life—the cruelties, injustices, opportunities, and successes—make a good story when well put together. . . . A simple story simply told that succeeds in its purpose for its intended audience.”
—A review of The Bully by James Blasingame in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
“The book is well-written and easy to read. The situations hold the reader’s attention and are ones that teens can relate to.”
—A student review of A Matter of Trust published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
“A Matter of Trust shows the emotional volatility of teen romance, friendships, romantic and sibling rivalry, and relationship betrayals. . . The rhythm of the language—the character’s and the narrator’s—makes the various storylines engaging and real. Schraff captures well the workings of female cliques, parental discord, immediate personal responsibility in conflict with immediate personal desires, and relationship healing.”
—A review of A Matter of Trust by Neal A. Lester in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
“[Someone to Love Me] keeps you on the edge of your seat anxiously wondering what will happen next.”
—A student review of Someone to Love Me published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
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February in Scandinavia: Weather, What to Pack, and What to See
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If you are planning a trip to Denmark, Norway, or Sweden in February, you are in luck. This is a great time of year to visit these Scandinavian countries because winter sports are in full swing and you still have a chance to see the spectacular aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights.
February is still considered the off-season for tourism, so travelers can save quite a bit. Not only are the prices cheaper but the crowds are thinner. If you enjoy winter sports but are on a tight budget, Scandinavian in February can be a good deal. February is a great time of year for skiing, snowboarding, or sledding.
If you are traveling with a special someone, visiting Scandinavia on Valentine's Day around February 14 is the perfect opportunity to spend a romantic night in an ice hotel, which are only in operation for about four months of the year. With subzero temperatures in the guest rooms, you will not need an excuse to snuggle up in one of the expedition-tested sleeping bags provided to guests.
Scandinavia Weather in February
Depending on how far north you are in the Nordic and Scandinavian countries, a February day averages from 18 degrees to 34 degrees Fahrenheit (-7 degrees to 1 degree Celsius). Constant freezing is also not unusual in the northern parts of the countries. February has some of the lowest temperatures and can be windy.
Stockholm: 33 F (1 C)/27 F (-3 C)
Oslo: 33 F (1 C)/23 F (-5 C)
Bergen: 39 F (4 C)/32 F (0 C)
Copenhagen: 37 F (3 C)/30 F (-1 C)
In February, daylight hours slowly increase as Scandinavia emerges from its long, dark winter. Southern parts of the region, such as Denmark, can get seven to eight hours of daylight; meanwhile northern parts of Sweden may only get four to six hours. In certain areas of the Arctic Circle, there is no sun at all in the winter, which is a phenomenon called polar nights. This is the perfect time to view the northern lights and other amazing natural phenomena.
Be prepared for one of the coldest months of the year. If you are you headed to the Arctic Circle, bring sturdy boots for walking on snow and ice, a down-filled waterproof outfit, hat, gloves, and a scarf. If you will be visiting the cities, bring a down jacket and maybe a wool overcoat. For winter sports activities, bring insulated skiing gear.
No matter the country you plan on visiting as your final destination, an insulated coat, gloves, hat, and scarf are the bare minimum for travelers in February. It is a good idea to pack long underwear, which can be worn under clothing every day. It is better to have a heavy suitcase full of warm clothes than to freeze during your vacation or business trip.
February Events in Scandinavia
Winter sports fans are in for a treat, especially in the region's famous ski resorts. In addition to skiing, there's ice fishing, bobsledding, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling.
Sami National Day: Every year, February 6 is a celebration of an accord of the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
Vinterjazz: In Denmark from February 6 to 29, 2020, you can check out this winter festival with jazz greats from around the world.
Polarjazz: If you plan to visit the remote island of Svalbard in Norway, you can attend the unique the Polar Jazz Festival from January 30 to February 2, 2020 billed as the northernmost jazz festival in the world with the tagline "Cool place, hot music."
Rjukan Ice Climbing Festival: From February 7 to 9, 2020, watch competitors scale frozen waterfalls and learn more about this intense sport, and then head over to the Røros Winter Fair, a Norwegian market that dates back to 1854 and features festivities, numerous stalls, hot coffee around a bonfire, folk music, and storytelling. The fair takes place every year in January and February.
Stockholm Furniture Fair: Visitors to Sweden can make plans to visit this popular event from February 4 to 8, 2020, where designers come together and showcase their latest creations about to hit the mass market.
February Travel Tips
Scandinavia is generally very safe and poses few risks to travelers, health-related or otherwise. In winter, exercise caution, as slippery pavement and traffic accidents from elk crossing the roads common.
The aurora borealis is best seen on the Arctic Circle on very clear and dark winter nights. The northern lights have been seen in southern Scandinavia sometimes, but it is very important that you are in a dark and clear night, away from the city.
In addition to being a great time for winter sports, February is also less busy and travel and accommodations will be more affordable. Some airlines, like Icelandair and SAS, offer discounts of 40 percent or more off of fares.
Scandinavia has no shortage of great ski locations, but you should also consider other unique activities during your trip, like dog sledding, ice racing, and ice fishing.
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From salt dough toes to roses, local krewes have history behind their Mardi Gras throws
Mardi Gras throws are unique to every krewe. The history of throws gives way to unique medallions, edible catches, and eco-friendly gifts.
From salt dough toes to roses, local krewes have history behind their Mardi Gras throws Mardi Gras throws are unique to every krewe. The history of throws gives way to unique medallions, edible catches, and eco-friendly gifts. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/01/15/unique-mardi-gras-throws-lafayette-krewes-history-tradition/2774878001/
Victoria Dodge, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 1:07 p.m. CT Jan. 15, 2020 | Updated 6:13 p.m. CT Jan. 17, 2020
Lafayette Mardi Gras throws come in all shapes and sizes. Cups takeover cupboards, beads find a new home in trees, and unique throws are displayed proudly at home and work.
Last year, some of the ornate throws included wood doubloons and one-of-a-kind polymedallions. There are some unique items to keep an eye out for during this Mardi Gras season. Some throws are specific to a krewe, others are born out of tradition.
Krewe de Canailles Throws
Courir de Mardi Gras, rural Cajun Mardi Gras, comes from medieval French lifestyle. With the beginning of spring came fête de la quémande, the feast of begging. To mock the wealthy classes, peasants wore miters and pointed hats, then begged and danced for items to eat.
Float riders don costumes and throw beads to parade-goers as the King Gabriel Parade rolls through downtown Lafayette on Mardi Gras Day, March 5, 2019. (Photo: Scott Clause/The Advertiser)
At some point the roles reversed and those in the parade started handing out food. Krewe de Canailles secretary Leah Graeff remembers being handed sweet potatoes during Mardi Gras in her hometown of Sunset.
Through the years, throws turned into trinkets. However, Canailles has returned to the idea of handing out items that can be used or recycled. Salt dough, wood, paper and reclaimed plastics make up the majority of the trinkets' materials.
Instead of plastic doubloons, wood coins are stamped with local artists' designs. Abalone and sea shells are used in place of glitter. Last year, they even threw bags of Evangeline Maid hot dog buns.
"People do use plastic. There's stuff with glitter on it," Graeff said. "But it has to be handmade. So if it's not like eco-friendly, it has to be something that's handmade."
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In Krewe de Canailles, salt dough, wood, paper and reclaimed plastics makeup majority of the trinkets materials. Mardi Gras throws are unique to every krewe. The history of throws gives way to unique medallions, edible catches, and eco-friendly gifts. (Photo: Leah Graeff)
The term "throws" doesn't apply to the trinkets the krewe makes. Nothing is thrown during their walking parade; each gift is handed to someone in the crowd. The parade members even go so far as to gift trinkets based on the person they're handing it to.
"I walk up to you and I'm like, 'I want you to have this.' So people feel a lot more connection," Graeff said. "It's a little more special because it's like, 'Whoa, this person in this big costume is coming up to me. What are they doing? And oh my God, they have a gift for me.'"
Canailles sees itself as a low-key version of Zulu or Muses in New Orleans, where the throws are handmade and hard to obtain. The crowd is there for the experience of the costumes and floats, not the throws.
In Krewe de Canailles, wood coins are stamped with local artists designs instead of plastic doubloons. Mardi Gras throws are unique to every krewe. The history of throws gives way to unique medallions, edible catches, and eco-friendly gifts. (Photo: Paul Kieu)
Krewe of Victoria Throws
On Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras beads are removed, packed up and placed on anything with an edge. This practice happens with the penitential season of Lent.
Krewe of Victoria throws thousands of beads every year. Along with those beads come plush throws.
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Krewe of Victoria didn't skip a beat with their rose throws. The krewe's original queen Sally Burnett said they started throwing plush roses in 1994 with their first parade. The krewe decided on roses because of Queen Victoria's love for them. There are even a few roses named after the British royalty.
The stuffed, thorn-free roses are nicer to catch than a pile of beads to the face. But beads are still a crowd favorite, especially beads with krewe medallions.
Krewe of Rio Throws
In 2016, one of the most colorful krewes took it to the next level. They added maracas.
Rio was inspired by New Orleans krewes and their highly sought after throws — Muses’ shoe, Carrollton’s rubber boot, Nyx’s purse, and Zulu’s coconut.
Parade organizers estimate that the average female krewe member will have a dozen custom maracas ready for parade day, which will amount to over 3,000 custom prize throws (Photo: Courtesy photo)
The krewe felt the maracas were a perfect representation for the Krewe of Rio parade due to the Brazilian influence. The painting, gluing and glittering of the maracas start the summer before Mardi Gras so they can be ready for the upcoming parade.
More than 3,000 custom maracas have been made in past years. This sounds like a lot, but you might want to practice your best "Hey mister, throw me somethin'" yell.
Krewe of Apollo Throws
Gifts being tossed into a crowd started in the early 1870s by the Twelfth Night Revelers, a group that paraded around the streets of New Orleans before attending their private soiree.
Sweet treats were flung into the onlookers by a costumed Santa in 1872 following the Revelers "Mother Goose’s Tea Party" themed parade.
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In 1884, Krewe of Rex took it to the next level. They started using medallions instead of trinkets, similar to today's doubloons. These pieces, depicting the parade theme on one side and the krewe's emblem on the other, have become collectors items.
Local krewes, like Apollo, also create personalized beads with polymedallions on them. These signature throws have the krewes yearly theme on them. Past years have been Lights, Camera, Apollo in 2018 and Cirque d'Apollo in 2015.
Krewe of Apollo creating one-of-a-king polymedallions every year. The beads come few and far between during the parade, best of luck. Mardi Gras throws are unique to every krewe. The history of throws gives way to unique medallions, edible catches, and eco-friendly gifts. (Photo: Jacque Rowe)
Being a mystic krewe, this years theme is still unknown. But captain Darrell Fruge gave insight into the process. Once the captain has picked a theme for the ball, he sits down with a local graphic designer or artist, and works on bringing the theme to life.
Once colors are selected and the final artwork is developed, a mold is created and krewe members can purchase the emblems as keepsakes or gifts.
A few krewe members buy extra medallions to handout during the ball and parade. But throws for the parade are left up to krewe members, meaning not every float rider has the prized possession.
If you're not able to catch a medallion at the ball, try again at the parade.
Contact Victoria Dodge at vdodge@theadvertiser.com or on Twitter @Victoria_Dodge
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to step down
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Yahoo will replace founder Jerry Yang as CEO as soon as a replacement is found. The move announced on Monday will end Yang's rocky 17-month reign running the internet company that he started 14 years ago.
Many Yahoo shareholders have been upset with Yang since he refused to sell the Sunnyvale-based company to Microsoft for $US47.5 billion ($A73.13 billion) six months ago.
Although Yang had publicly expressed his desire to remain at the helm, Yahoo's board faced intensifying pressure to cast him aside as the company's shares plunged to their lowest levels since early 2003.
Once his replacement is hired, Yang will revert to his former role of "Chief Yahoo." He also will remain on the company's board.
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The aim of the study is to clarify the clinical effects of first-line chemotherapy regimens for advanced urothelial cancer on clinical responses and survival of patients grouped by renal function.
In this multicenter retrospective cohort study, 345 urothelial cancer patients received systemic chemotherapy for metastatic or unresectable disease in 17 centers (2004-10).
Impact of Suboptimal Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Perioperative Outcomes and Survival After Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy: A Multicenter Multinational Study.
To evaluate the effect of suboptimal dosing on the outcomes of patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC).
We retrospectively reviewed 336 consecutive patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder who were treated with NAC and RARC at three academic institutions.
Incidence and Effect of Thromboembolic Events in Radical Cystectomy Patients Undergoing Preoperative Chemotherapy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer.
We evaluated the incidence and effect of thromboembolic events (TEEs) in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with preoperative chemotherapy (POC) and radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND).
Inhibition of OCT2, MATE1 and MATE2-K as a possible mechanism of drug interaction between pazopanib and cisplatin.
We hypothesized that pazopanib is an inhibitor of cisplatin renal transporters OCT2, MATE1 and MATE2-K based on previous studies demonstrating an interaction between tyrosine kinase inhibitors and these transporters.
Intratumor cisplatin nephrotoxicity in combined laser-induced thermal therapy for cancer treatment.
Thermal ablation of tumors by Nd:YAG laser has been growing as a multidisciplinary subspecialty defined as laser-induced thermal therapy (LITT), and has been increasingly accepted as a minimally invasive method for palliation of advanced or recurrent cancer.
Involvement of the DNA mismatch repair system in cisplatin sensitivity of testicular germ cell tumours.
Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCT) are highly sensitive to cisplatin-based chemotherapy, but patients with tumours containing differentiated teratoma components are less responsive to this treatment.
Long-Term Renal Outcomes after Cisplatin Treatment.
Nephrotoxicity remains the dose-limiting side effect of cisplatin, an effective chemotherapeutic agent with applications across diverse tumor types. This study presents data on renal outcomes across multiple tumor types in 821 adults.
Long-Term Toxicity of Cisplatin in Germ-Cell Tumor Survivors.
Testicular germ cell tumors (GCT) are highly curable. A multidisciplinary approach, including cisplatin-based chemotherapy has resulted in cure in the majority of patients with GCT. Thus, the life expectancy of survivors will extend to many decades post diagnosis.
MAD2γ, a novel MAD2 isoform, reduces mitotic arrest and is associated with resistance in testicular germ cell tumours.
Prolonged mitotic arrest in response to anti-cancer chemotherapeutics, such as DNA-damaging agents, induces apoptosis, mitotic catastrophe, and senescence. Disruptions in mitotic checkpoints contribute resistance to DNA-damaging agents in cancer.
Mechanisms of cisplatin sensitivity and resistance in testicular germ cell tumors.
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are a cancer pharmacology success story with a majority of patients cured even in the highly advanced and metastatic setting. Successful treatment of TGCTs is primarily due to the exquisite responsiveness of this solid tumor to cisplatin-based therapy.
MicroRNA-101-3p advances cisplatin sensitivity in bladder urothelial carcinoma through targeted silencing EZH2.
Objective: Chemotherapy is a major therapeutic method for bladder urothelial carcinoma (BUC), which can effectively improve the prognosis of BUC patients, but the chemoresistance often leads to chemotherapy failure.
Molecular Mechanisms of Cisplatin Chemoresistance and Its Circumventing in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) represent the most common solid tumors affecting young men. Majority of TGCTs respond well to cisplatin-based chemotherapy. However, patients with refractory disease have limited treatment modalities associated with poor prognosis.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Patients with Muscle-invasive Urothelial Bladder Cancer Candidates for Curative Surgery: A Prospective Clinical Trial Based on Cisplatin Feasibility.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy demonstrated a survival benefit versus cystectomy alone in muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer. Despite this advantage, preoperative chemotherapy is not widely employed.
Nivolumab for the treatment of bladder cancer.
The checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab has recently demonstrated effectiveness against metatstatic urothelial carcinoma. Nivolumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody blocking PD-1 and thereby enhancing antitumour immune mechanisms.
Oncologic Outcomes for Patients with Residual Cancer at Cystectomy Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Pathologic Stage-matched Analysis.
While it has been demonstrated that receipt of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) before radical cystectomy (RC) improves survival compared to RC alone, the driving factor for this benefit may be from patients with ypT0 status at surgery.
Optimization of Patient Selection for Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Muscle-invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder.
Radical cystectomy (RC) is delayed in a subset of patients who respond poorly to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). The present study investigated the clinicopathologic characteristics predicting extravesical disease at RC and the factors associated with NAC tolerability to improve patient selection and the sequence of definitive therapy.
Origanum majorana Attenuates Nephrotoxicity of Cisplatin Anticancer Drug through Ameliorating Oxidative Stress.
Despite the fact that cisplatin is an important anticancer drug, its clinical utilization is limited by nephrotoxicity during long term medication. Combined cisplatin chemotherapy with plant extracts can diminish toxicity and enhance the antitumor efficacy of the drug.
PCAT-1 contributes to cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer through epigenetically silencing PTEN via recruiting EZH2.
The aim of this study was to investigate the functional role and the underlying molecular mechanism of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) prostate cancer-associated transcript 1 (PCAT-1) in cisplatin resistance of gastric cancer (GC).
Peri-operative chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: status-quo in 2017.
The role of perioperative chemotherapy associated with radical cystectomy (RC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer has been analyzed in several landmark randomized controlled trials (RCTs) over the past decades.
Physical exercise contributes to cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity protection with decreased CD4+ T cells activation.
Cisplatin is a chemotherapy used to treat different types of cancer, such as testicular, bladder and head and neck. Physical exercise has been shown to improve cancer therapy and recently, it was demonstrated to be able to diminish side effects such as acute kidney injury (AKI), a common side effect in cisplatin treatment.
Platinum exposure and cause-specific mortality among patients with testicular cancer.
Although testicular cancer (TC) treatment has been associated with severe late morbidities, including second malignant neoplasms (SMNs) and ischemic heart disease (IHD), cause-specific excess mortality has been rarely studied among patients treated in the platinum era.
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Study turns tables on value of breakfast, weight loss
Michelle Healy
Grandmothers, marketers and researchers alike have long touted breakfast as a must-have meal, praising its ability to rev up metabolism, stave off hunger, help calorie watchers keep their weight in check and improve concentration and cognitive function.
But for all the glowing endorsements, there have also been warnings against over-hyping the power of breakfast.
That concern was raised again this summer when a study comparing groups of overweight and obese adults dieters found that eating or skipping breakfast made no difference in how much weight was lost over a 16-week period.
"Our simple question was (when it comes to weight loss), does it help to eat breakfast? And the answer seems to be probably not," says David Allison, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Obesity Research Center and senior investigator of the study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
Allison emphasizes that the study sheds no light on the foods eaten at breakfast, about weight gain among underweight or normal-weight people or how breakfast impacts children. "It's not a study of any outcome other than weight loss," he says.
Before taking those findings as an excuse to down a Grand Slam Breakfast while also trying to shed pounds, other diet and nutrition experts say that eating a nutritionally sound breakfast is still a good rule of thumb when it comes to weight loss and good nutrition in general.
Story:Breakfast sandwiches among most popular breakfast items
Story:More kids skip school lunch, but breakfasts are up
The UAB study "didn't look at what or how much the breakfast eaters were eating," says nutrition consultant Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian in Chicago. It also "didn't look at benefits beyond weight such as focus, energy levels or appetite and hunger. There are many studies that show an association with healthy weight and breakfast," Blatner says.
Among those is research conducted by epidemiologist Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. In a 2008 longitudinal study in which researchers were able to account for varying levels of physical activity and dietary intake among teens, those who gained the least amount of weight over five years reported eating breakfast every day.
And in a 2013 study of adults, Pereira and colleagues found regular breakfast consumption was "very consistent" not only with lowering the rate of obesity, but reducing the risk of metabolic conditions, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Based on some preliminary studies, epidemiologic studies, and some small experimental studies, "it looks like there really may be something to the breakfast message," Pereira says. "I'm not going to say that the message has been validated and it is the most important meal of the day because we need more research on that. But I think it has a lot of potential."
"There are plenty of reasons to eat breakfast, not the least of which is that if you skip breakfast, people tend not to make up the nutrients lost from the breakfast meal," says registered dietitian Keith Ayoob, an associate clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "I absolutely encourage dieters and all my patients to eat a healthy, nutrient-rich breakfast. Not just anything," he says.
Given that too many kids and teens have poor diets (average scores of diet quality for kids ages 2 to 17 fall short of federal recommendations), breakfast "is an opportunity to get in important nutrients, vitamins and minerals to help with focus, energy and brainpower at school," Blatner says. "The only catch is it can't be quick junk out of the freezer or toaster."
Her recipe for protein- and veggie-rich Muffin Tin Omelets is one example of breakfast eating made quick, easy and nutritious.
Ayoob notes that in tracking adults who have successfully lost weight and kept it off over an extensive period of time, the National Weight Control Registry finds that about 90% of those success stories eat breakfast daily. "Breakfast remains a hugely important meal, whether you are trying to lose weight or not," he says.
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Access to a non-invasive procedure to treat depression is available to qualified patients at the UT Physicians Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic in the Texas Medical Center.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, or TMS, is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved procedure for patients suffering from major depression who have not improved adequately with traditional therapies such as medicine and psychotherapy.
“The TMS procedure involves an electromagnetic coil that delivers short pulses to stimulate nerve cells in the part of the brain controlling mood, known as the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,” said Joao L. de Quevedo, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). “The coil generates a rapidly pulsating magnetic field, which promotes the activity of neurons and pathways in the stimulated areas of the brain, as well as other connected brain structures. Repeated sessions, over time, can trigger changes in the brain’s electrochemical activity and produce antidepressant effects. TMS has shown promising results in terms of response and remission rates.”
With TMS, physicians are able to select which parts of the brain will be affected and which will not, unlike other brain stimulation therapies such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Since the electromagnetic pulses generally do not reach further than two inches into the brain, specific sites can be targeted.
TMS is safe and relatively painless with minimal side effects. The most commonly reported side effects are mild to moderate headaches and/or scalp discomfort, which occur less frequently after the initial sessions. Each session lasts approximately 20 to 30 minutes. The procedure does not require anesthesia or sedation.
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Political Headlines – Brexit Party fighting every seat and the latest in Tory leadership campaign
July 1, 2019 by Daniel Loman
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Today’s political headlines includes Brexit Party fighting every seat, Hunt announces £6bn war chest for no-deal and public sector pay freeze under Johnson.
Brexit Party to fight every Westminster seat
The Guardian report on Nigel Farage saying that the Brexit Party will have candidates ready to fight in every Westminster constituency within days. Farage said that even in the event Boris Johnson is leading the Government and they are moving towards no-deal the Brexit Party will still battle hard. At an event in Birmingham the Brexit Party revealed their first 100 candidates to an audience of 5,000 activists.
Jeremy Hunt announces £6bn war chest for no-deal
Sky News report on remarks made by Jeremy Hunt where he has said that if he becomes Prime Minister he will have a £6bn fund for farmers and fisherman who export to Europe. Hunt is also expected to form a committee that will get the Government ready for a no-deal Brexit and prepared for WTO tariffs coming into effect.
Public sector pay freeze over under Johnson
The Independent report on Matt Hancock stating that Boris Johnson will scrap the public sector pay freeze. The Health Secretary said that those who work in the public sector will get a fair pay rise if Boris Johnson becomes PM. This could be a targeted campaign from the Johnson campaign as his leadership rival Jeremy Hunt oversaw the new contracts for junior doctors.
Claims about Corbyn’s health are ‘fake news’The Times re
port on head of the Unite union Len McCluskey describing concerns about Jeremy Corbyn’s health as ‘fake news’. This comes after it was reported that senior civil servants had become worried about Corbyn’s health. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show McCluskey said the claims were fake news and a distortion.
Gordon Brown wants Theresa May to honour Conservative manifesto pledge on BBC TV licences
The Sun report on forming Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling on Theresa May to make sure that the Conservative manifesto promise of TV licenses being free for over 75s until 2022 is honoured. From June 2020 free TV licenses will be available to households where someone receives pension credit. The BBC has made this change as the cost of providing the licensers is going to be transferred to the broadcaster.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Feeling exhausted, with too few hours in the day to do what needs to be done?
Be careful of burnout -- especially after a new study finds it can raise your risk for the dangerous irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
"A-fib" -- long tied to higher odds for heart attack and stroke -- is the most common form of heart arrhythmia. It's estimated that 10 million people in the United States will have the condition by next year.
The new study found burnout might help trigger a-fib.
"Vital exhaustion is associated with increased inflammation and heightened activation of the body's physiologic stress response," explained study author Parveen Garg, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
"When these two things are chronically triggered, that can have serious and damaging effects on the heart tissue, which could then eventually lead to the development of this arrhythmia," he explained.
In the study, Garg's group surveyed more than 11,000 people about whether or not they had symptoms of burnout and then followed them for nearly 25 years.
Burnout "is typically caused by prolonged and profound stress at work or home," said Garg. His team published its findings Jan. 13 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Burnout "differs from depression, which is characterized by low mood, guilt and poor self-esteem," Garg said in a journal news release.
While the new study couldn't prove cause-and-effect, it found that people with the highest levels of burnout had a 20% higher odds of developing a-fib during the follow-up period, compared to those with little or no burnout.
The study did not find any link between a-fib and a number of other psychological issues, such as anger, antidepressant use or poor social support.
"The findings for anger and social support are consistent with prior research, but two previous studies did find a significant association between antidepressant use and an increased risk of atrial fibrillation," Garg noted. "Clearly, more work still needs to be done."
But when it comes to the impact of burnout on heart health, the findings "further establish the harm that can be caused in people who suffer from exhaustion that goes unchecked," he added.
Two heart specialists unconnected to the study agreed.
"There is a strong mind-heart relationship," said Dr. Satjit Bhusri, a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "When the mind is under stress, the heart will respond, either with an appropriate heart rhythm or an abnormal one, namely atrial fibrillation."
Dr. Marcin Kowalski directs cardiac electrophysiology at Staten Island University Hospital, also in New York City. He believes that "physicians and patients should be more aware of stress as a contributing factor to cardiac arrhythmias," and stressed patients should be counseled to help them avoid burnout.
"Hopefully, future studies can show the reduction in stress can lead to in reduction of cardiac arrhythmia," Kowalski said.
SOURCES: Satjit Bhusri, M.D., cardiologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Marcin Kowalski, M.D., director, cardiac electrophysiology, and associate director, cardiology fellowship program, Staten Island University Hospital, New York City; Jan. 13, 2020,European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
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WPGM Recommends: Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life (Album Review)
Posted on October 1, 2017 by Matt Hobbs
“I don’t wanna be cruel but you’re really grinding. I’m not a fool but I have a rage and it’s blinding“, sings the infuriated Ellie Roswell of Wolf Alice on the anagram-titled lead single “Yuk Foo“.
With it’s no-holding-back hardcore grunge attitude, vocal anger and abundance of expletives, it’s a track that encapsulates the approach of Roswell and her band Wolf Alice to her second album Visions of A Life. If they feel a certain emotion, they are going to express it 100% without the fear of judgemental backlash.
Other acts that have faced immediate success in their debuts have either try to follow it up with a record that’s more refined and polished to fulfill their record label’s urgent demands or have just managed to piece something together haphazardly in an identity-confused and writer’s block state. Not Wolf Alice. Despite it being only circa two years since their first release, they have unleashed a sophomore that’s even more raw and uncensored and just as confident.
At a time where guitar music is so waning that Radio X resort to playing rap music to fill in the playlist, it’s a welcome release in that genre. Whilst its shape-shifting entertaining style of grunge indie rock-meets-folk is similar to the debut My Love Is Cool, it’s also a smooth transition indeed.
Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (who worked on both of the childhood flashbackers M83‘s last two albums as well as the pop punkers Paramore‘s previous releases), the timing of its birth and producer choice could be a factor in its sound.
Wolf Alice frontwoman Ellie Roswell witnessed a lot of protests at her time in L.A including the Woman’s March and anti-Muslim Ban demonstration and the North Londoner herself has become a keen activist of late, even recording a YouTube video attempting to persuade young people to vote Labour in the latest UK elections.
Yep, another musician apparently on the Jeremy Corbyn supporting tour bus. This activism experience is perhaps why her lyrics so open and honest. The songs are meant to be like capital letters on a protest board. Whether it’s about anger or love, the goal is to relate to their crowd of followers.
Having an arsenal of versatile vocal colours (from shouting, to harmonising, to calm and measured to whispering) not only compliments Roswell’s honest emotions and the eclectic pace on display but it also shows a multiple dimension to the songwriter that will makes fans feel like they know all her vulnerable sides inside and out.
A human soul is showcased. “Yeah I have feelings, cause I’m human, a totally self destructive“, she sings on the aforementioned “Yuk Foo” (comparable to Blur’s “Song 2” for its short burst of messy emotion). She also yells with passion in moments on “Sadboy” and launches her voice in the skies in a manner similar to Karen O of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs on “Formidable Cool“.
Ellie Roswell whispers like Charlotte Gainsbourg on “Planet Hunter” (reminiscent of the French singer’s “AF607105” for it’s plane journey subject), “Don’t Delete These Kisses“, and “St Purple & Green” as a large contrast to her vehement moments and sounding like she’s reading a personal diary.
Furthermore on the dreamy folk of penultimate track “After The Zero Hour” – which jumps from a nineties sound to a seventies era – she adopts of the role of a Karen Carpenter or more recently Weyes Blood or Julia Holter.
Then there’s times when the mood alternates within one track and not so more then on the head-bashing, mosh-pit inducing title track finale “Visions Of A Life”. Not only does the drums’ signature switch frequently but Ellie’s personality transforms so much that it’s hard to believe it’s the same singer throughout.
As the tracks on the album are generally quite short (sometimes frustratingly), lasting less than 3 minutes and the album lacks a coherent concept with subjects ranging Ellie Roswell’s grandmother (“St Purple & Green”), to the death of a friend (“Heavenward“), to a fictional character from a high school flick Heathers in “Beautifully Unconventional” (another reference to a teenage film after the passion for The Virgin Suicides from the debut), it sounds like a bunch of short extracts from a journal rather than the first release’s concentrated focus on teenagehood and growing up in Holloway.
Yet this isn’t a bad thing when it contains poignant lines such as “I got 1 thousand million friends and I feel so alone” that are so so powerful and relevant they appear to speak to the lost social-media hogging generation that seek guidance. Wolf Alice appear to be their spokespeople and their guts and bravery musically and lyrically should also put them at the forefront of a new wave of indie rock music.
Out now on RCA Records, purchase Wolf Alice Visions Of A Life on iTunes here.
Words by Matt Hobbs
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in Gilman Notch, Center Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire
by Jonathon Herndon and Eric S. Greene
All photos by Eric Greene. Click on photos to see enlarged versions.
View of Bayle Mountain reflected in Connor Pond, Ossipee, New Hampshire
This is article was first published in the March-April, 2011 edition of Rocks & Minerals magazine. The only changes that have been made are to add extra photos. This article is reproduced with permission of the publisher. Rocks & Minerals is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g935274222.
Arguably the greatest thrill for any serious field collector is discovering, opening and collecting an over-sized, jam-packed crystal pocket. Unfortunately, it's an event that most field collectors never experience. When such an exciting find does occur, it's a thrill that we believe should be shared with the mineral collecting community. The tale of the Surprise Pocket is such a story - with an appalling twist - as told through the eyes of coauthor Jon Herndon.
Ossipee Mountains, Ossipee, New Hampshire, October, 2011
A pristine 3" smoky quartz crystal is removed from the pocket
Fortunately, it cleaned up pretty good!
What a perfect day for collecting! It was early October - the sun was shining, the temperature was in the low 70's, and the bugs had packed up and headed south for the season. Our day started with the long drive up from Western Massachusetts to Ossipee, NH, which is about halfway up the eastern side of the state. The fall foliage was at its peak, which unfortunately was none too glorious due to 6 weeks of heavy rain and the lack of a killing frost. We arrived in Ossipee at about 10:30 AM.
For decades, New England mineral collectors have been drawn to Diamond Ledge in north central Connecticut in search of the excellent quality milky quartz crystal plates and clusters for which it is famous. Those who have worked the site with grit, determination, and back-breaking labor have regularly been rewarded with significant specimens. And, those lucky enough to find pockets have sometimes brought home several 5-gallon buckets filled with these highly aesthetic and desirable plates of large-size milky quartz crystals. This well-known, prolific locality is in Shenipsit State Forest, in West Stafford, Tolland Co., Connecticut. It is a wooded area, giving plenty of shade even on a hot summer day, and at the bottom of the steep slope where collectors dig for crystals is a stream with a waterfall and ample pools of water for rinsing mud off of specimens or taking a quick bath.
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This sign marks the entrance to the world famous Bear Lake Diggings locality near Bancroft, Ontario
It was 3 p.m. Saturday before my collecting buddy Dave Redfield and I met up to start the long ten hour drive to Bancroft, Ontario (the so-called "Mineral Capital of Canada") for a week of collecting. Dave is a wonderful traveling companion on a collecting trip for several reasons: First, he volunteered the use of his truck, which could carry back a ton of rocks (assuming we found any good enough to keep). Second, he insisted on doing all the driving, so my share of the work was to navigate and keep talking so Dave didn't fall asleep. Third, Dave is a superb raconteur, and supplied a never-ending stream of stories and witty remarks that helped make the trip fly past. We stopped for dinner en route, then pushed on to Bancroft, arriving after 1:00 AM at our campground. Although our reservation didn't start until the next night, we were in luck and found a spot to pitch our tent and crawl into our sleeping bags for some much-needed sleep.
Rock face showing embedded pyrite crystals
by David Rusterholz
David contacted me in the summer of 2015, to ask about going to Navajun to collect. He is an avid collector, Chemistry Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and President of the St. Croix Rockhounds of Stillwater, MN. David asked a bunch of questions about what it is like collecting at Navajun. Apparently I answered his questions satisfactorily because in late November he and his wife Becky Kleager made the pilgrimage to Navajun, Spain to do some pyrite collecting at Mina Ampliación a Victoria. Below is his report. -Eric
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The Commission may declare a game to be an exempt game not requiring a minor gaming permit.
IN accordance with section 3, sub-section 8A of the Gaming Control Act 1993, the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission hereby declares the following games to be exempt games:
Tipping competitions in which the outcome or occurrence of a sporting event is tipped where:
(a) the total contributions do not exceed $10 000; and
(b) a participant does not contribute more than $150; and
(c) the total sum contributed, without any deduction, is distributed as prizes in money or money's worth.
Raffles in which the total prize value does not exceed $5000.
Sweepstakes where:
(a) the total contributions do not exceed $10 000;
(b) no participant contributes more than $110; and
(c) the total sum contributed is paid, either:
(i) without any deduction, to the winner, or as the case may be, to the participants drawing the three (3) contestants that finish in the first three (3) places; or
(ii) to the winner, or as the case may be, to the participants drawing the three (3) contestants that finish in the first three (3) places and the contestant that finishes last in the race in respect of which the sweepstake is held.
Fundraising Cards and Tickets (such as sport cards and margin tickets) where:
(a) the gross receipts do not exceed $200; and
(b) the prize(s) are not less than 50 per cent of gross proceeds for the game.
"Anzac Day Two Up" where:
the game known as "Anzac Day Two-up" is played during the period commencing at 0600 hours and ending at 1800 hours on the 25th of April in any year; and
the premises upon which the game is conducted is occupied on a permanent basis by an organisation, the majority of the members of which, are former members of the defence forces.
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July 2005 / Real Life Retail Fantasies
Jennifer's July Jargon '05
Den Haag / Ed Annink
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London — Designer’s Days is the epitome of the saying “Competition breeds business.” This event is a tale and legend in and of itself. Not only is this edition of Trendease about fantasy coming to life through retailers, showrooms, and designs, it also demonstrates how competition encourages business. Read Jennifer's rationale and learn about the highlights of this issue, while viewing some hot trendy designs in this gallery.
Crazy Dolls
Worldwide — Winter 2006 / 2007 is characterized by a fascination with old things and the poetry of the past. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Middle Ages are a rich source of inspiration. Learn about the Winter Gardens & Crazy Dolls trend and its color story with Pantone references before it is unveiled to the trade this September.
Splendid Baroque
Worldwide — Winter 2006 / 2007 is characterized by a fascination with old things and the poetry of the past. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Middle Ages are a rich source of inspiration. Learn about the Magnificent Red of Splendid Baroque trend and its color story with Pantone references before it is unveiled to the trade this September.
Celtic Attraction
Worldwide — Winter 2006 / 2007 is characterized by a fascination with old things and the poetry of the past. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Middle Ages are a rich source of inspiration. Learn about the Stillness of Celtic Attraction trend and its color story with Pantone references before it is unveiled to the trade this September.
The Blue Mood of Great Hopes
Worldwide — Winter 2006 / 2007 is characterized by a fascination with old things and the poetry of the past. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Middle Ages are a rich source of inspiration. Learn about the Blue Mood of Great Expectations trend and its color story with Pantone references before it is unveiled to the trade this September.
EcoChic: We are Covered!
Worldwide — We are now in the golden age of materials. Technological advances and innovative industrialists are providing an ever increasing selection of products for flooring, wall coverings, and upholstery to name but a few possible applications. Designers, decorators, architects and home furnishing buyers have to navigate this maze of possibilities according to aesthetics, technical requirements, and the bottom line. Let us help and keep you EcoChic at the same time.
New Talent: Everyday Neverland
Paris — This “Everyday Neverland” celebrates the freedom of thought and the ideas of dreams, creativity, inventiveness, and innovation with young talent. Dyson is celebrating its 100th birthday this year and asked students from three design schools to develop products that would solve problems faced in everyday life. See the presentation of the results here…
The Darkside with Beauty and the Beast
Paris — The Baccarat headquarters, boutique, and gallery - museum located in the mansion of 11, place de Etats-Unis, housed a breathtaking interpretation of Beauty and the Beast using the new Darkside collection designed by Philippe Starck. Walking through the rooms of the mansion alone was enough to fill one with awe; combined with the fairytale the journey left one with goose bumps. Step into this fairytale come true.
A New Magic Carpet
Paris — The Nightingale has flown from its cage and has become a jewel-encrusted design embedded in the newest line of carpets at Tai Ping. Take a journey into a tent where royalty is seated and this magical flooring is laid.
Mirrored Love
Paris — The dreamlike display found at Veronese takes us into an emotional world, sensitive to the legend of Narcissus. The retail showroom takes on infinite bright spots: the flower itself becomes a mirror and takes over the place, creating a surreal, graphic, and poetic landscape to stimulate the imagination and enchant the spirit of the shoppers.
Here Today for Tomorrow
Paris — A futuristic Thousand and One Nights at Cassina transported visitors to another time using a sleek color palette of silver and white textiles including metallics, fur, and leather, accented by metal and frosted glass. Welcome to this gallery, where the possibilities are endless.
Textiles Take on a New Form
Paris — The virile and violent characteristics of The Twelve Labors of Hercules were most creatively depicted through fabric sculptures made from the high-end textiles of Création Baumann. This fun, contemporary, off-beat way to show the latest collection literally had a line out the door of people waiting to get a glimpse. Now you too, can have a peak here—without the line!
A Crazy World of Designs
Paris — Alice in Wonderland at Sentou Raspail did a wonderful job of supporting the story using its merchandise. Chairs appeared to morph into exotic flowers, rabbits were decorative elements in the tabletop collections, over-sized teacups and chess piece candles captured the mood, while playing card motifs were printed on the table linen and also hung from the ceiling. Follow the white rabbit on a design adventure here!
The Color of Time, the Moon, and the Sun
Paris — In the original tale, to escape the incestuous propositions made by her father, the Princess Donkey Skin lays down three challenges to the King: he must make her a dress of the color of time, a dress the color of the moon, and a dress the color of the sun. For Designer’s Days fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac was challenged to give the princess three dream bedrooms decorated in the color of time, the moon, and the sun.
As Sweet as a Candied Apple
Paris — Kartell offers a new interpretation of the story of Snow White, putting the accent on the transparency of its products that play a lead role in the imagination that transforms the displays into a forest far, far away…
The Twelve Friends
Paris — Some shops during Designer’s Days took the liberty to create their own fairy tale to tell a story that created a history for the product line. While we don’t expect some of the story lines to be picked up by Disney, we do agree that customers will enjoy the tales, and in the case of Alessi and Anna G, feel that their purchase is going to a good cause. See the Twelve Friends in all of their glory here.
When Porcelain Becomes Magical
Paris — Bernardaud, the creator of some of the most exquisite porcelain tableware, jewelry, and accessories, commissioned India Mahdavi to design a magnificent over-sized necklace made of porcelain beads, each bearing different engravings and housing a light. This necklace conjured the idea of a giant magic charm, an integral part of the beliefs and daily life of the society described the tale of Kirikou and the Witch.
A Retailer's Desert Palace
Paris — Artelano brings the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to its shop. Adding richness to the room displays, piles of jewels drenched tables, shelves, and mingled between the glassware; Arabic wall hangings and carpets graced the space; play money was taped in patterns to the walls; and the movie of the tale played on a flat screen television in a room set up like a home theater. Enter the retailer's desert palace here.
A Forest of Textiles
Paris — The mysterious forest in the story of Hansel & Gretel takes on a new form as textile house Kvadrat employs minimalist designer Renaud Thiry to create a forest of fabrics.
Retail Duality
Paris — The Paris location of Italy’s Maxalto created an adventure for the visitors during Designer’s Days where all of their displays could be viewed in two ways. Learn how they did it here.
Paris — At Boffi Studio Paris, visitors were in for a surprise as they walked among the “beautiful stainless steel Italians” during the opening night of Designer’s Days. They were greeted as they walked through the door by adorable furry pet rabbits, and then as they ascended the stairs entered into a tale they will never forget; they will never forget the kitchens either. Come and see the kitchen that you will never forget.
Cloaking Invisible Cities
Paris — This textile showroom’s merchandising was inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Dedar’s fabrics encourage the imagination to travel to far away lands. The famous exhibition, First Papers of Surrealism, created by Marcel Duchamp in New York in 1942, laid the foundation for Dedar’s display. Hidden among the cloak of fabrics let their display transport you to distant kingdoms.
The Perfect Love of Furnishings
Paris — The displays put together at Silvera by Gary Glaser and Francesca Avossa use pieces from collections which are known as “icons of perfect taste”. This showing of pieces loosen up that image by arranging the furniture in a particular manner, using upholstery made to order for the exhibit, transferring images from post cards to textiles, and tongue in cheek sayings expressing Perfect Love.
Tie Down the Furniture…
Paris — For the Right Bank gallery’s participation in Designer’s Days Sentou welcomed a fantasy storm as it devastated the merchandising, leaving a unique display. Plastic interlocking “algae” embraces the pieces in an almost artistic manner. Come explore this gallery and brave the storm.
A Kitchen at the Heart
Paris — Gormenghast is the second book in the surreal trilogy Titus Groan by the 20th century English writer Mervyn Peake. The adventure takes place in the kitchens of the Gormenghast Castle. At Bulthaup, the visitor is invited into this “living” kitchen. The showroom boasts their latest in kitchen design.
Within Aladdin’s Lamp
Paris — For Designer’s Days the boutique and showroom Elitis transformed their space using their latest textile collection. Their designer imagined what it would be like to be inside the Genie’s lamp in the tale of Aladdin. Welcome to this gallery where you are taken inside this magical world.
A Labyrinth of Design
Paris — This interdisciplinary project at USM France combines design, architecture, and contemporary art. Here USM design arouses architectural and artistic reflection through mythological legend—the legend of Theseus and the Labyrinth.
Destruction of Merchandising
Paris — This fantasy of The Child and the Furniture tells of the temper of a child who, after being punished takes revenge on everything around him. The merchandising at Habitat takes the visitor into a world where habitual references are forgotten, where one enters visionary space where everything is possible, activated by a creative process around objects that are inspired, recomposed, and used in an unusual way.
Around the Kitchen in 80 Minutes
Paris — Or something like that. Gaggenau, a luxury brand of modern appliances, took Around the World in 80 Days to a new creative level. Each kitchen appliance display combines their sleek tempered glass and stainless steel with exotic locations around the world. Come into this gallery for a journey unlike any other.
Paris — In a galaxy not so far away, in a little shop of high-end china and flatware collections know as Puiforcat, traditional, classy designs take on an out-of-this-world feel which emanates from the merchandising.
107 Rivoli, a Chic Boutique in the Louvre
Paris — This fashionable boutique is the commercial branch of the Museum of Decorative arts in Paris, so sophistication is always the order of the day. For Designer’s Days, the theme was Metamorphosis, and on display was an ethereal and unusual collection of lighting.
Paris — Like Pinocchio, Cappellini sees itself between two worlds: one of dreams, and one of reality. Employing internationally renown designers such as Marcel Wanders and Jasper Morrison Cappellini enriches its designs with global flavor in a world made for dreaming.
Paris — The collective imagination of Etat de Siège recreates scenes from Gulliver’s Travels using today’s furniture designs. Oversized chairs and mini replicas, along with other pieces, play with the visitor’s eye.
Paris — In the tiny shop of Poltrona Frau The Wizard of Oz partakes in their latest offerings. Dorothy said it right, “There is no place like home.” Follow the yellow brick road through the Latin Quarter in Paris to see Poltrona Frau’s house warming.
Paris — NOW! design à vivre, a division of Maison & Objet, took the liberty of showing off some of their latest new talents by dressing a table and dining hall during Designer’s Days. Visit this gallery to get a sneak preview of talent entering the market.
The New Architecture of Childhood
Paris — While the latest Magis collection at Samaritaine showcased the story of Little Red Riding Hood one could not help but be distracted by the magnificent Art Nouveau architecture housing the exhibit. Welcome to the story we all know from childhood in a setting that cannot help but inspire.
London — This week we bring you just the beginning of some of the hot new designs we scouted. This gallery covers 35 new talents and their exquisite textile designs. From new weaving techniques, new materials, trend-forward prints, to vivid colors and bedazzled neutrals, this gallery is guaranteed to inspire people working with textiles from upholstery through to apparel. We encourage you to review this gallery in high resolution to see the amazing details.
Côte d’Azur — Visit inspirational excursions to the Côte d’Azur where we picked up on the local culture and became emerged in la vie provençal. This week’s gallery shares this experience with you from the textiles, ceramics, housewares and gifts, to the local delicacies and spices (yum!), to the exuberant color palettes from nature and man. Come on a journey without leaving your home or office!
Paris — This newsletter will wrap up the July edition of Trendease. As promised, this issue, among other features, reports on over 30 retailers and showrooms merchandising their products under a common theme: Tales & Legends. Read about today's hottest tidbits inside.
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Munchkin Wonderland from Steve Jackson Games
Michael Long
New Munchkin-inspired game has a Wonderland theme, simpler rules, and less backstabbing – perfect for young kids
A new Munchkin-inspired game will let families with young kids explore Wonderland in a game that plays like a friendlier, simpler version of classic Munchkin.
In Munchkin Wonderland, players wander a whimsical landscape fighting enemies such as the the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, or the Jabberwock. They’ll get help from classic characters such as the Dormouse, March Hare, and Alice herself using weapons like the Vorpal Blade and Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
Unlike traditional Munchkin games, when one player fights a monster, other players can help, but they can’t make the fight harder. The game ends when there’s no more treasure, and the winner is whoever’s loot is worth the most!
Munchkin Wonderland is based on Munchkin Treasure Hunt, the first Munchkin game geared toward kids, but Wonderland has 100% more Stolen Tarts, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and Croquet Mallets.
About Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games, based in Austin, Texas, has been publishing games, game books, and magazines since 1980. Its best-selling game is Munchkin, with over 8 million copies of the games and supplements in print worldwide. Other top sellers are GURPS (the Generic Universal RolePlaying System), Zombie Dice, and Illuminati. Past hits have included Car Wars and Toon. Steve’s very first game, Ogre, originally released in 1977, drew almost a million dollars’ worth of Kickstarter support in 2012 for a super-deluxe edition, which was released in late 2013.
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Super Speedy And A Little Scary: 5G Is Coming To Boston05:17
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UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor Yan Gu demonstrates a robot on a 5G cellular network at the Verizon Alley in Cambridge. (Courtesy of Verizon)
Imagine downloading a full-length movie on your smartphone in just a few seconds — without connecting to Wi-Fi. That's the promise of 5G, the fifth generation of mobile technology which is slated to roll out in Boston later this year.
And there's more to 5G than lightning-fast entertainment. A new generation of wireless communication could enable robot firefighters or help defuse bombs in war zones.
Inside a nondescript, brick office near Harvard University's campus, entrepreneurs and academics are testing the limits of what may be possible on a 5G connection. Here, Verizon has created a small-scale version of the network it plans to build nationwide. The company calls this building the "Alley."
"We provide a live 5G network and invite others in to play with it, to discover how fast it could be, how responsive it could be," said Nicki Palmer, Verizon's senior vice president of technology and product development.
Boston-based telemedicine firm Proximie is among those testing the network. The company's developers hope 5G speed can help doctors guide surgeries from remote locations in real time, when even a few seconds' delay could be disastrous.
Boston telemedicine firm Proximie hopes 5G speed can help doctors guide surgeries in real time from remote locations. Proximie's North America market development manager, Wayne Kesti, right, demonstrates the company's software on a 5G cellular network at the Verizon Alley in Cambridge. (Courtesy of Verizon)
"What we're going to need, from a connectivity perspective, is the reliable, guaranteed, quality of service if we're going to have surgeons truly collaborating on patient outcomes," said Wayne Kesti, Proximie's North America market development manager.
The possibilities are exciting, but even when Boston joins the few cities that already have 5G, the upgrade will only speed things up for early adopters who buy new devices and more expensive data plans.
And 5G technology that could improve or even save lives could also cost lives, if networks are not secure and reliable.
The Alley simulates what it could be like to walk down the street in a time when 5G technology is ubiquitous — a time when the person walking next to you might not be a person, exactly, but rather a humanoid robot.
"When we need to test the 5G network and the integration with our technology, we come down here to do the experiments," said UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor Yan Gu, as she and some students piloted a small prototype up stairs.
The early model is prone to tipping over, but Gu sees a possible hero in the making. She pictures a dramatic, future scene with the robot as a first responder: "The robot is rescuing people who are desperate in a building on fire, and there is falling debris, there are walls collapsing, the floors are shaking" — and there is no time for even a few seconds' delay on a video feed or between an operator giving a command and the robot receiving it.
Gu says the leap from 4G cellular technology to 5G will make the necessary connection speed possible, but there is a catch: 5G signals actually travel shorter distances than 4G signals.
That means a 5G network requires a lot of transmitters close together, or there are dead zones, a problem some early users have noticed. The robot firefighter — if it ever exists — might work in a highly connected city; remote locations could prove challenging.
"But, I guess, maybe we can develop portable 5G cell towers," Gu said.
The possible need for portable towers is also on the mind of Michael Helfrich, CEO of Blueforce Development in Newburyport. His software company helps the military process data on the battlefield, where soldiers are used to hauling around cellular equipment.
"They'll actually take a LTE network with them and soon 5G," Helfrich said.
Blueforce Development, a Newburyport defense contractor, says high-tech vests with sensors and body cameras will run faster on 5G networks. The company tests its software on a 5G connection at the Verizon Alley in Cambridge. (Courtesy of Verizon)
What Helfrich takes with him is a life-size German shepherd plush toy, outfitted in a utility vest. If the vest with sensors and a body camera were on a real, bomb-sniffing dog — and if we were in Afghanistan, rather than Verizon's Alley — network security and reliability would be super important.
"It can't be taken down in our time of need," Helfrich said. "And I think that's a legitimate concern."
One specific concern is something called a kill switch, a hidden shutoff that could cripple a cellular network at the worst possible time. Another worry is a back door, a secret way to spy on network users.
Even though we call cellular networks "wireless," there are actually a lot of wires, chips and other hardware that help them run. U.S. intelligence agencies say there could be back doors and kill switches in the parts made by one of the world's largest telecom companies, the Chinese firm Huawei.
"Huawei is something that's very dangerous," President Trump said at a White House news conference in May, a week after he signed an executive order that effectively bans American mobile carriers from using Huawei equipment in their cellular networks. "You look at what they've done from a security standpoint, from a military standpoint — it's very dangerous."
Huawei says its equipment is secure and that it would not help the Chinese government collect intelligence. But a Chinese law requires companies to aid surveillance efforts, if asked. Many critics are skeptical of the company's claim that it would defy this law.
Helfrich remains wary of silicon chips and other equipment from China.
"We really have to control, as much as possible, the silicon to allow the United States or partner nations to build secure networks," he said.
There's a Verizon marketing slogan that says unlimited cellular data is "only as good as the network it's on." With so much important and sensitive information set to flow over 5G networks, that may be truer than ever.
This segment aired on July 11, 2019.
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Grand Theft Auto 3 (2001), Grand Theft Auto Vice City (2002), and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004), downloaded on PC, also classic games downloaded on PC, Grand Theft Auto (1997), Grand Theft Auto London 1969 (1998), and Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999). <3
Some features I didn't know on in the games, on San Andreas, they got a custom radio station, that let you put your own songs in the game to listen to.
GTA 2, on the PC version, it got a train station, comparing to the PS1 version that don't have it.
GTA 3 and GTA Vice City, they have player skin to change clothes and/or characters on the options menu.
You can also use a game controller for GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas by changing the control options, or using a computer mouse and keyboard.
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Ariana Grande Just Got REAL About What It’s Like to Be Objectified by Men
“I am not a piece of meat.”
By Korin Miller
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It’s a sad fact of life: Female celebrities are objectified all the damn time. But just because it happens a lot, that doesn’t mean it’s okay—and singer Ariana Grande is speaking out.
The “Dangerous Woman” singer took to Twitter this week to call out a male fan who made “sick” sexual comments about her to her boyfriend Mac Miller—right in front of her.
“Went to pick up food with my boyfriend tonight and a young boy followed us to the car to tell Mac that he’s a big fan,” she wrote. “He was loud and excited and by the time M was seated in the driver’s seat he was literally almost in the car with us.” Ariana says she thought it was cute and exciting until the boy said, “Ariana is sexy as hell man, I see you, I see you hitting that!”
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“Hitting that? The f‑‑k??” Arianna said. “This may not seem like a big deal to some of you, but I felt sick and objectified. I was also sitting right there when he said it.”
Ariana, 23, said that she felt “really quiet and hurt” afterward and says she worries that these kind of moments “contribute to women’s sense of fear and inadequacy.” She added: “I am not a piece of meat that a man gets to utilize for his pleasure. I’m an adult human being in a relationship with a man who treats me with love and respect.”
Ariana says that women should speak up about their own experiences in hopes that they will reduce the shame that often comes with them—and hopefully stop the comments from happening in the first place. “We need to share and be vocal when something makes us feel uncomfortable because if we don’t, it will just continue,” she wrote. “We are not objects or prizes. We are QUEENS.”
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Apparently some people didn’t get the message, because Ariana had to follow up with this on Twitter: “Seeing a lot of ‘But look how you portray yourself in videos and in your music! You're so sexual!’ .... please hold.. next tweet... I repeat, expressing sexuality in art is not an invitation for disrespect!!! Just like wearing a short skirt is not asking for assault.”
She added, “You are literally saying that if we look a certain way, we are yours to take. But we are not!!! It's our right to express ourselves.”
You’d think this all would be obvious but, as Ariana points out, it’s not. Props to her for speaking up and saying what needed to be said.
Check out that time we hung out with body-positivity guru Ashley Graham and Christie Brinkley:
Korin Miller Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more.
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Global Finance Leader Study: Three Ways CFOs Can Plug the Finance Skills Gap
This story, written by Steve Dunne, originally appeared on the Workday blog. We thought our local readers would also find it interesting.
Digital technologies create new opportunities for finance to add strategic value, and they are key to CFOs' ability to drive innovation within their function. However, CFOs face a significant obstacle to achieving their innovation objectives: a lack of talent.
Our "Finance Redefined: Workday Global Finance Leader Survey"—which gauged the views of over 670 CFOs and senior finance leaders around the world—pointed to a lack of relevant skills within finance as the number one barrier to driving innovation within the function. A lack of relevant skills outranked a number of other barriers, from budget constraints to the reluctance of leadership teams to challenge the status quo. This talent gap is also expressed in the EY study, "The DNA of the CFO 2016", with almost half (47 %) of respondents reporting that their current function does not have the right mix of capabilities to meet their future priorities.
How are finance leaders addressing this talent management issue? As part of our study, we spoke to finance leaders both externally and within Workday for their insights on preparing their teams for the future. We found that the skills needed in finance are evolving fast and finance leaders are going to have to reboot their approach to recruiting and developing talent if they are to close the gap between the skills they have today and what they will need in future.
Types of Skills Needed
The role of finance is evolving from a back-office function to a strategic partner of the business. Finance teams are focusing on looking forward and leveraging data to drive planning and support decision-making.
Only a third of finance leaders felt strongly that their finance teams had the strategic "soft" skills—such as strategic thinking or negotiating—to partner effectively with the business.
While traditional finance skills will always be important, the expanding role of finance and a greater focus on data and analysis is requiring new skill sets, from greater analytics skills to softer skills such as strategic thinking and communication. As Hamilton points out, businesses today require a finance professional who not only has experience in accountancy, but also some wider experience in other business areas.
New roles may also emerge in finance teams to support the need for these skills. According to the "Finance Redefined" study, data scientists are the most important emerging role for the future finance function, with statisticians and data security professionals reported as second and third.
How can finance leaders prepare their finance teams for the future and find the new skill sets and talent they need? In our research, respondents identified three ways they are helping to close the skills gap: Rethinking sources of talent, recruiting diverse skill sets, and retraining existing staff.
1. Rethinking Sources of Talent
While finance leaders may have a clear view of the talent and skills they need on their teams, finding the right candidates can be a struggle. For example, Workday's survey found that 71 % of finance leaders say they face tough competition when recruiting the best analytics and digital talent.
Finance leaders may need to take a fresh look at their recruitment approach and where they are looking for talent. Traditional approaches to recruitment may not offer many of the emerging skill sets needed in the finance function. According to the Robert Walters survey, "Bridging the Skills Gap in Finance Functions", 61 % of CFOs have trouble sourcing candidates from traditional talent pools.
"A client recently said that they expected their college interns to be cutting edge, and really thinking about topics such as visualisation and analytics. But they were hiring their interns from the same places they hired their CPA (certified public accountant) graduates", says Matt Schwenderman, Principal at Deloitte.
2. Recruiting Diverse Skill Sets
Finance leaders recognise that new recruits with degrees in a wider range of subjects can bring greater diversity to their teams, such as backgrounds in economics or psychology.
Assessing for soft skills—such as communication or critical thinking—as part of the interview process can also help identify candidates who could be well suited for a business partnership role. The Robert Walters survey notes that psychometric testing, presentation exercises, and preparing case studies ahead of an interview may give recruiters an opportunity to assess candidates' soft skills.
Given the expansion and diversity of skill sets emerging in finance, finance leaders may also need to rethink the traditional finance career path and how to develop and retain team members. This was reflected in the "Finance Redefined" study, with 76 % of CFOs reporting that finance career paths and incentives need to be re-evaluated to meet the expectations of younger finance talent and to deliver on the more strategic approach that is required. Collaboration with their peers in HR can help define a long-term strategy for recruiting and retaining finance talent.
As finance leaders look to plug their skills gaps, collaboration with their peers in HR can help define a long-term and innovative talent strategy. However, effective collaboration between these teams may be lacking. Our study found that only 31 % of respondents reported "seamless" collaboration with the CHRO, with 58 % reporting "occasional" or "little to no" collaboration.
Robynne Sisco, Co-president and CFO of Workday, notes the importance of HR and finance leaders working together to make decisions about talent investment. "Finance and HR need to work closely to understand hiring plans and where we need to invest in growing teams to move our business forward", she says.
3. Retraining Existing Staff
Addressing the skills gap is not just about recruiting new talent—the focus should also be on improving the skill set of existing staff. But how can this be done? Schwenderman describes the complexities of developing current teams. "As our business model becomes more integrated, our people need to be more integrated too", says Schwenderman. "But how do you evolve someone's collaboration skills, their analytics and insight skills, when they've grown up doing rotations around general ledger accounting, tax, and treasury? How do you get them to be collaborative partners and not order-takers, stewards, or technicians?"
The fast pace of change can also make it challenging to get existing staff up to speed with new technologies. "You have a number of folks that know their organisations well but that didn't grow up in a digital native age", says Schwenderman. "They are used to having more time to learn new tools and technologies and apply them than the pace of innovation is allowing today."
One solution is to provide better training and development opportunities in order to build the necessary skills. Over half of the respondents to the "Finance Redefined" survey identified "a training curriculum that focuses on digital and advanced analytical skills" as a priority over the coming three years, indicating the importance of training up teams to meet the demands of new technologies.
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Nighttime Lighting Guidelines for Work Zones: A guide for developing a lighting plan for nighttime work zones
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This material is based upon work supported by the Federal Highway Administration under Grant Agreement No. DTFH61-06-G-00004
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NIGHTTIME WORK ZONE ILLUMINATION LEVELS
TYPES OF LIGHTING FOR WORK ZONES
SUGGESTED STEPS FOR DEVELOPING A LIGHTING PLAN
Determine Work Activities and Lighting Levels
Determine the Work Zone Area to be Illuminated
Select Type of Lighting System and Source
Select Fixture Locations
Check Design for Adequacy
Field Check the Design
Finalize the Lighting Layout
STATE OF THE PRACTICE
OTHER INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE RESOURCES
Many State Departments of Transportation (DOT) use some form of nighttime work zone to conduct construction and maintenance activities on or near the travel portion of the road system. Roadway lighting eases the task of driving at night by illuminating the pavement to help drivers see the general direction of the roadway, aiding them in seeing structures alongside the roadway more clearly, and enabling them to see areas of the roadway where headlights do not provide adequate light. There is a similar need to provide adequate lighting in nighttime work zones. However, limited guidance is currently available to address lighting needs relative to the many different tasks that are conducted in a work zone. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and other existing guidance documents provide minimum specifications for certain general categories of work zone tasks, but they do not provide information regarding the appropriate type, quantity, or configuration of lighting systems to use for specific work zone activities.
This document provides a procedure for designing a nighttime lighting system in work zones where no formal lighting plan exists. Engineers, designers, and contractor personnel can use this process without the need to be an expert in illumination. These guidelines may also help in developing specifications and standards for work zone lighting for use by owner-agency as well as contractor personnel to ensure consistency, effectiveness, and safety. The document also presents examples of existing specifications that are intended to provide uniformity and consistency for agencies across the country.
The information contained in this document will help practitioners in selecting the most appropriate type, quantity, and configuration of lighting for nighttime work zones while not only meeting minimum industry-accepted lighting requirements for construction and maintenance work activities but also taking into account the need to minimize the negative impacts of glare on drivers. Practitioners can use this information to create a basic lighting scheme accomplishing the following objectives:
To provide the appropriate level of lighting that allows construction work to be completed safely and effectively;
To reinforce both the intent of the traffic control plan as well as provide better guidance for drivers traveling through the work zone; and, most importantly
To improve the overall safety of the workers and traveling public.
Any lighting scheme provided for nighttime work zones needs to meet all standards found in the MUTCD, including guidelines related to personal protective equipment, signing, barricades, or other traffic control measures.
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 498: Illumination Guidelines for Nighttime Highway Work developed a set of illumination guidelines that were based on work zone task illumination requirements. Three categories were recommended based on considerations such as minimum lighting levels recommended by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Federal and State lighting requirements and guidelines, research, and expert opinions. Researchers found these categories to adequately account for a majority of highway- and bridge-related construction and maintenance activities. Examples of work zone tasks and their associated recommended illumination levels are summarized in the Table 1.
Table 1. Recommended Illumination Levels by Task, Source: NCHRP 498
Examples of Tasks
Illumination Level
Average Minimum Maintained Illuminance
All work operations areas; setup of lane or road closures, lane closure tapers, and flagging stations Level I 54 lux (5 foot-candles*)
Areas on or around construction equipment; asphalt paving, milling, and concrete placement/removal Level II 108 lux (10 foot-candles)
Pavement or structural crack/pothole filling; joint repair, pavement patching/repairs; installation of signal/electrical/mechanical equipment Level III 215 lux (20 foot-candles)
*A foot candle (fc) is defined as unit of illumination that is equal to one lumen per square foot, or 10.764 lux.
Level I illuminance is important in areas where the work crew is in motion, moving from spot to spot. This level of illuminance is appropriate for tasks requiring low accuracy, involving slow-moving equipment, and where there are large objects to be seen.
Level II illuminance is recommended for areas on or around construction equipment to provide a safer environment for the workers operating the equipment, allowing them to perform tasks that require a moderate level of accuracy, as described in Table 1 above.
Finally, Level III illuminance is appropriate for those tasks that require a greater level of visual acuity or for tasks with a higher level of difficulty.
There are limited types of temporary lighting available for use for nighttime roadway construction, although new technology and innovations may provide better options in the future. The most commonly used temporary lighting systems include:
Figure 1 — Lighting System Orientation
Portable Light Plant Towers — This lighting consists of numerous luminaires mounted to a mast arm that is capable of holding the luminaires at various mounting heights. The mast arm is attached to a trailer with a generator that can be towed by a vehicle. To prevent glare these lighting systems should not be aimed toward traffic and should be aimed downward at the work and rotated outward no greater than 30 degrees from straight down unless the light has been designed specifically to prevent glare. (See Figure 1).
Balloon Lighting — This type of lighting consists of a large balloon type luminaire that provides a fairly large area of evenly distributed light and is relatively glare-free. Balloon lights can be mounted on slow-moving equipment or portable light towers.
Roadway Luminaires Mounted on Temporary Poles — This would consist of any permanent roadway lighting fixture mounted on temporary poles and hard wired to an electrical system. This type of system would normally be prepared by a lighting design professional.
Factory-Installed Lights on Equipment — Headlights installed on most equipment do not normally provide adequate lighting for most work operations and as a large component of glare should not be used when facing any oncoming traffic.
The following factors should be considered when selecting the types of lighting that are best suited for the work zone.
Mobile work zones, such as a paving operation — If the work zone is mobile, the length of the work activity for one night may dictate either that the lighting plan be continuous for the length of the work zone or that a mobile system be used so that the lighting moves with the various work activities.
Stationary work zones — Work duration would determine the type of lighting in this situation. A long-duration work zone could use roadway luminaires mounted on temporary poles, while shorter duration work zones could use trailer-mounted light towers or balloon lighting at fixed locations.
Glare — Glare from the lighting systems should be minimized for both the workers and any adjacent motorist. Glare should be considered from each direction and on all approaching roadways and opposing lanes of traffic, even those separated by grass medians.
Light Trespass — Trespass occurs when light spills onto private property. This could be a problem in a residential area-depending on how long the lighting system is in place-and could require shielding as a preventative measure.
Cost — The rental cost for portable light plant towers ranges from $500 to $900 per month and the purchase cost ranges from $9,000 to $15,000 per unit. These costs vary depending on location, type, size, height, etc. Based on a similar range of factors, the cost for balloon lighting normally ranges from $2,000 to $3,800 per unit.
Figure 2 — Example of Portable Tower Lighting
Figure 3 — Example of Balloon Lighting
1. Determine Work Activities and Lighting Levels
At this step, identify the work activities to be performed. This step requires a good understanding and knowledge of the planned work process, whether it is construction or maintenance. Based on the work activities, the lighting levels needed for the work should be noted (See Table 1 for examples).
Figure 4 — Balloon Lighting in a Nighttime Work Zone
Source: Illinois Center for Transportation, Nighttime Construction: Evaluation of Lighting Glare for Highway Construction in Illinois, Research Report FHWA-ICT-08-014, December 2007.
Unless otherwise stated by State DOT standards or policy, use an initial luminance level of 5 fc throughout any area where workers and slow moving equipment are in close proximity. Flagging stations should be designed with this as a minimum level of luminance. As a rule of thumb, practitioners should ensure that drivers can see the flagging station at a minimum distance of 1,000 feet at night.
Next, identify where an illumination level of 10 fc is needed. These are the locations in the work area that require closer interaction between workers and equipment. The speed of the equipment or the complexity of the work may necessitate an increase in illumination (see Table 1 for examples). To increase the illumination to 10 fc, additional fixtures may be added directly to equipment. Adding balloon lighting to the equipment, as shown in Figure 2, provides even illumination in a circular area around equipment with minimal glare. This is a noteworthy treatment for equipment located adjacent to traffic lanes.
Workers performing tasks requiring the highest level of attention to detail and care fall in the last category. Examples of tasks requiring 20 fc would be work at signalized intersections, installing lighting, and pouring/filling pavement cracks.
2. Determine the Work Zone Area to be Illuminated
The general steps in determining the lighting area of a work zone are as follows:
Use a scale layout of the roadway (a scale plan sheet from the construction plans if available) to determine the area of need.
Draw the project area on the layout. This should show types of work, with location of workers and equipment. This may need to be done to match the construction stages of the work and should include any other incidental work and workers such as material testing inspectors (pavement coring after the paving operation), installation of lighting or signing structures attached to a bridge, or any other work after the major work has been completed.
Sketch locations of key items from the traffic control plan and other site characteristics on the layout such as lane drop details, on-site obstructions, existing street lighting, and lane shifts.
Locate any flagger or spotter stations on the layout and provide for lighting their station.
3. Select Type of Lighting System and Source
Once the work activities have been identified, it is necessary to determine the type of lighting source to use. Based on the planned work activities and whether the work is mobile, stationary, or long duration, a lighting source using balloon luminaires, portable light plant towers, or roadway luminaires should be chosen. See “Types of Lighting for Work Zones” above.
4. Select Fixture Locations
Examples of Iso-footcandle Charts (Iso-footcandle charts are a tool for evaluating and comparing the light pattern a luminaire produces.) provided by lighting vendors are shown in Figure 5. Based on the type of fixtures selected, these kinds of diagrams can be overlaid on the layout of the work zone to determine where the lighting levels fall on the roadway. If the diagrams overlap on the roadway, the foot-candles can be added at a specific location. Much of this information is contained in most roadway lighting software and can be a more practical method to determine the lighting scheme for large work areas.
When placing lighting sources on the design the location needs to be one that is accessible and adequate for transporting and placing the light source.
Figure 5 Examples of Iso-footcandle Charts
Source: GloBug Light Coverage for Flood Lighting
5. Check Design for Adequacy
Once the lighting plan is installed and activated, field observations of the work zone lighting should be performed by driving and walking through the work zone. The field check should be conducted from the vantage point of the motorist and workers to ensure that glare is controlled and the lighting is adequate for the work being done. Agencies may indicate that field observations are adequate to ensure the lighting plan is appropriate. Some State DOTs may require that a photometer, used to measure illumination, be furnished on the work site so measurements can be taken to verify that the necessary lighting levels in the work area are met.
Once the field check is complete and the work area has been reviewed, any necessary modifications or adjustments should be implemented and the work zone plan or inspection report should show that deficiencies were identified and remediated. As with any modification or adjustment to a plan that puts the work zone in greater compliance with standards and policies, complete and thorough records must be kept.
A number of States have created lighting specifications for nighttime work zones. The following table summarizes the specifications used by seven agencies:
Activity or Task
Caltrans All Nighttime Operations
10 fc
Florida DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Proper workmanship and inspections
5 fc
Georgia DOT (Vecellio, 2006) All Nighttime Operations Average maintained horizontal illuminance
20 fc over the work area for tower lights
Minimum 50,000 lumens for a tower light
460,000 lumens combined outputs of all fixtures on each tower light
Machine lights shall have light outputs between 22,000 and 50,000 lumens
Illinois DOT All nighttime operations Tower Lighting and/or Balloon Lighting
Provide a minimum of 5 fc throughout the work area
Provide a minimum of 10 fc for flaggers
Missouri DOT Construction equipment and labor are active
Missouri DOT Flaggers and other specified locations in lighting plan
0.6 fc
New Jersey DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Tasks on and around Equipment
uniformity ratio of 5:1 or less
New Jersey DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Specific tasks such as crack filling, saw-cutting, and joint sealing
North Carolina DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Tower Lights
50,000 — 460,000 Lumens
North Carolina DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Machine Lights
22,000 — 50,000 lumens output to provide 10 fc
13′ mounting height
Nova Scotia DOT and Public Works (Vecellio, 2006) All Areas Where Workers and Inspection Staff Work
60 lux average; 30 lux point
Rhode Island DOT (Vecellio, 2006) Rollers, pavers, and pick-up trucks
Use 250 watt Metal Halide type lights
Note: See “Other Information and Guidance Resources” below for source information for these standards.
*A foot candle (fc) is defined as unit of illumination that is equal to one lumen per square foot or 10.764 lux.
In addition, the following specifications were adopted by the Illinois DOT after the 2007 ILDOT study, Nighttime Construction: Evaluation of Lighting Glare for Highway Construction in Illinois. (Federal Highway Administration, Nighttime Construction: Evaluation of Lighting Glare for Highway Construction in Illinois, by K. El-Rayes et al. (FHWA-ICT-08-014). Available at: http://ict.illinois.edu/publications/report%20files/FHWA-ICT-08-014.pdf)
SECTION 702. NIGHTTIME WORK ZONE LIGHTING
702.01 Description. This work shall consist of furnishing, installing, maintaining, moving, and removing lighting for nighttime work zones. Nighttime shall be defined as occurring shortly before sunset until after sunrise.
702.02 Materials. The lighting shall consist of mobile and/or stationary lighting systems as required herein for the specific type of construction. Mobile lighting systems shall consist of luminaires attached to construction equipment or moveable carts. Stationary lighting systems shall consist of roadway luminaires mounted on temporary poles or trailer mounted light towers at fixed locations. Some lighting systems, such as balloon lights, may be adapted to both mobile and stationary applications.
702.03 Equipment. The Contractor shall furnish an illuminance meter for use by the Engineer. The meter shall have a digital display calibrated to NIST standards, shall be cosine and color corrected, and shall have an accuracy of ± five percent. The sensor shall have a level indicator to ensure measurements are taken in a horizontal plane.
702.04 General. At the preconstruction conference, the Contractor shall submit the type(s) of lighting system to be used and the locations of all devices. Before nighttime construction may begin, the lighting system shall be demonstrated as being operational.
702.05 Nighttime Flagging. The requirements for nighttime flagging shall be according to Article 701.13 and the glare control requirements contained herein.
702.06 Lighting System Design. The lighting system shall be designed to meet the following.
(a) Lighting Levels. The lighting system shall provide a minimum of 5 foot candles (54 lux) throughout the work area. For mobile operations, the work area shall be defined as 25 ft. (9 m) in front of and behind moving equipment.
For stationary operations, the work area shall be defined as the entire area where work is being performed.
Lighting levels will be measured with an illuminance meter. Readings will be taken in a horizontal plane 3 ft. (1 m) above the pavement or ground surface.
(b) Glare Control. The lighting system shall be designed and operated so as to avoid glare that interferes with traffic, workers, or inspection personnel.
Lighting systems with flood, spot, or stadium type luminaires shall be aimed downward at the work and rotated outward no greater than 30 degrees from nadir (straight down). Balloon lights shall be positioned at least 12 ft. (3.6 m) above the roadway.
As a large component of glare, the headlights of construction vehicles and equipment shall not be operated within the work zone except as allowed for specific construction operations. Headlights shall never be used when facing oncoming traffic.
(c) Light Trespass. The lighting system shall be designed to effectively light the work area without spilling over to adjoining property. When, in the opinion of the Engineer, the lighting is disturbing adjoining property, the Contractor shall modify the lighting arrangement or add hardware to shield the light trespass.
702.07 Construction Operations. The lighting design required above shall be provided at any location where construction equipment is operating or workers are present on foot. When multiple operations are being carried out simultaneously, lighting shall be provided at each separate work area.
The lighting requirements for specific construction operations shall be as follows.
(a) Installation or Removal of Work Zone Traffic Control. The required lighting level shall be provided at each truck and piece of equipment used during the installation or removal of work zone traffic control. Headlights may be operated in the work zone.
(b) Milling and Paving. The required lighting level shall be provided by mounting a minimum of one balloon light to each piece of mobile construction equipment used in the work zone. This would include milling machines, mechanical sweepers, material transfer devices, spreading and finishing machines, and rollers; but not include trucks used to transport materials and personnel or other vehicles that are continuously moving in and out of the work zone. The headlights of construction equipment shall not be operated within the work zone.
(c) Patching. The required lighting level shall be provided at each patching location where work is being performed.
(d) Pavement Marking and Raised Reflective Pavement Marker Removal/Installation. The striping truck and the attenuator/arrow board trucks may by operated by headlights alone; however, additional lighting may be necessary for the operator of the striping truck to perform the work. For raised reflective pavement marker removal and installation and other pavement marking operations where workers are on foot, the required lighting level shall be provided at each truck and piece of equipment.
(e) Layout, Testing, and Inspection. The required lighting level shall be provided for each active area of construction layout, material testing, and inspection. The work area shall be defined as 15 ft. (7.6 m) in front and back of the individual(s) performing the tasks.
701.13 Flaggers.* …For nighttime flagging, flaggers shall be illuminated by an overhead light source providing a minimum vertical illuminance of 10 fc (108 lux) measured 1 ft. (300 mm) out from the flagger’s chest. The bottom of any luminaire shall be a minimum of 10 ft. (3 m) above the pavement. Luminaire(s) shall be shielded to minimize glare to approaching traffic and trespass light to adjoining properties.
Source: Illinois Department of Transportation, Division 700. Work Zone Traffic Control and Protection, Signing, and Pavement Marking, http://dot.state.il.us/desenv/spec2012/Div700.pdf, January 1, 2012. Page 589
Illinois, of course, is not the only State with nighttime lighting standards and specifications. Below is an excerpt from the New York State Department of Transportation’s Standard Specifications.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS of May 1, 2008
619-1.19 Nighttime Operations. Work shall consist of developing a Nighttime Operations and Lighting Plan, and furnishing, installing, operating, maintaining, moving and removing lighting equipment for nighttime construction operations as shown in the contract documents or as directed by the Engineer.
619-3.19 Nighttime Operations. Work occurring after sunset and before sunrise will be considered nighttime operations. All workers involved in nighttime operations shall wear protective helmets and nighttime apparel in accordance with §107-05A. High Visibility Apparel at all times. Vehicles operating on the pavement of a closed roadway or travel lane shall display four-way flashers or rotating amber beacons at all times. Vehicles using headlights, except for rollers and vehicles retrieving channelizing devices, shall travel facing in the same direction as adjacent traffic in order to avoid glare and confusion to drivers.
The Contractor shall meet the following additional requirements for work zone traffic control during nighttime operations.
A. Nighttime Operations and Lighting Plan. Thirty days prior to the start of nighttime operations, the Contractor shall submit a written Nighttime Operations and Lighting Plan to the Engineer for approval. The plan shall detail all aspects of the traffic control setup, the functions, responsibilities and identities of the traffic control supervisor and other details as necessary. It shall include a contingency plan identifying foreseeable problems and emergencies that may arise, and the approach that will be used to address them. This plan shall be revised and updated by the Contractor as necessary during the progress of the work to accommodate conditions on the contract. The Contractor shall submit a Nighttime Operations and Lighting Plan to the Engineer, at a scale and printed size similar to the contract plans and appropriate to adequately describe the work, including the following:
Layout showing location of light towers, including typical spacing, lateral placement and mounting height, and clearly show the location of all lights necessary for all work to be done at night.
Description of light towers to be used and electrical power source.
Specific technical details on all lighting equipment, including brand names, model numbers, power rating and photometric data.
Details of any hoods, louvers, shields or other means to be used to control glare.
Attachment and mounting details for lights to be attached to equipment.
Lighting calculations confirming that the illumination requirements will be met by the layout.
The Contractor shall maintain a supply of emergency flares for use in the event of unanticipated situations such as traffic accidents, equipment breakdowns, failure of lighting equipment, etc.
B. Lighting for Nighttime Operations. Prior to the first night of nighttime operations, the Contractor shall set up and operate the lighting equipment at night as a trial run to demonstrate its ability to establish a safe, properly illuminated, nighttime operation. The Contractor shall furnish the Engineer with a photometer, capable of measuring the level of illumination, for use as necessary to check the adequacy of illumination throughout nighttime operations.
1. Equipment. The Contractor shall supply all lighting equipment required to provide a work zone safe for the workers and traffic. Material and/or equipment shall be in good operating condition and in compliance with applicable safety and design codes.
a. Light Towers. Light towers shall be provided as a primary means of illumination, and shall provide Level I illumination throughout the work space. They may be supplemented to the extent necessary by lighting fixtures mounted on construction equipment to provide Level II or Level III illumination where required for paving, milling and similar moving operations. Light towers shall be sturdy and free-standing without the aid of guy wires or bracing, and shall be capable of being moved as necessary to keep pace with construction operations. Light towers shall be positioned to minimize the risk of being impacted by traffic on the roadway or by construction traffic or equipment.
b. Light Towers on Paving, Milling, and Finishing Machines. If needed to supplement portable and/or trailer-mounted light towers, towers shall be affixed to paving, milling, and finishing machines to provide the required level of illumination for the specified distance in front of and behind the machine. No portion of machine-mounted light towers shall exceed a height of 13 feet above ground. Luminaires shall be aimed and adjusted to provide uniform illumination with a maximum uniformity ratio of 5:1. The hopper, auger, and screed areas of pavers and the operator’s controls on all machines shall be uniformly illuminated.
c. Construction Equipment Lights. All construction equipment, including rollers, backhoes, loaders, and other equipment operating in areas not illuminated to a minimum of Level I Illumination, shall be equipped with a minimum of two 500 watt flood lights facing in each direction to provide a minimum of 1 foot-candles of horizontal illumination measured 60 feet in front of and behind the equipment. In areas illuminated to a minimum of Level I, construction equipment may move unescorted. In non-illuminated areas, construction equipment shall be equipped with conventional vehicle headlights, shall be illuminated with flood lights on the vehicle, or shall be escorted to permit safe movement. Headlights shall not be permitted as the sole means of illumination while working.
d. Equipment Mounting. The Contractor shall provide suitable brackets and hardware to mount lighting fixtures and generators on machines and equipment. Mountings shall be designed so that light fixtures can be aimed and positioned as necessary to reduce glare and to provide the required illumination. Mounting brackets and fixtures shall not interfere with the equipment operator or any overhead structures, and shall provide for secure connection of the fixtures with minimum vibration.
e. Portable Generators. The Contractor shall provide portable generators to furnish adequate power to operate all required lighting equipment. Fuel tank capacity and availability of fuel on site shall be sufficient to permit uninterrupted operation throughout the planned shift. Adequate switches shall be provided to control the various lights. All wiring shall be weatherproof and installed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926 Subpart K requirements. All power sources shall be equipped with a Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter.
2. Illumination Requirements. Tower-mounted luminaires, whether fixed, portable, trailer-mounted, or equipment-mounted, shall be of sufficient wattage and/or quantity to provide the required level of illumination and uniformity over the area of operation. The uniformity of illumination, defined as the ratio of the average illumination to the minimum illumination over an area requiring an indicated illumination level, shall not exceed 5:1. Illumination levels on approach roadways should be increased sequentially to prevent motorists from becoming disoriented by rapid changes from full dark to very bright conditions. Existing street and highway lighting shall not eliminate the need for the Contractor to provide lighting. Consideration will be given to the amount of illumination provided by existing lights in determining the wattage and/or quantity of lights to be provided. Such consideration shall be presented in the Contractor=s Nighttime Operations and Lighting Plan. In the event of any failure of the lighting system, nighttime operation(s) shall be discontinued until the required level of illumination is restored.
a. Level I (5 foot-candles). Level I illumination shall be provided for all areas of general construction operations to include all work operations by Contractors= personnel, including work zone traffic control set-up and operations, staging, excavation, cleaning and sweeping, spoil disposal, landscaping, planting and seeding, layout and measurements ahead of the actual work, borrow areas, spoil areas, and truck cleanout areas. Level I illumination shall be provided at the area of lane and/or road closure tapers continuously, including the setup and removal of the closure tapers. Level I illumination shall be provided a minimum of 400 feet ahead and 800 feet behind a paving or milling machine, or for the entire area of concrete placement or pavement work if less than 1500 feet. This area shall be extended as necessary to incorporate all vehicle and equipment operations associated with the paving operation. The only exception to the requirement for Level I illumination throughout the area of construction operations is that finish rollers can work beyond the area of Level I illumination using floodlights mounted on the roller.
b. Level II (10 foot-candles). Level II illumination shall be provided for flagging stations, asphalt paving, milling, and concrete placement and/or removal operations, including bridge decks, 50 feet ahead and 100 feet behind a paving or milling machine.
c. Level III (20 foot-candles). Level III illumination shall be provided for pavement or structural crack filling, joint repair, pavement patching and repairs, installation of signal equipment or other electrical/mechanical equipment, and other tasks involving fine details or intricate parts and equipment.
3. Glare Control. All lighting shall be designed, installed, and operated to avoid glare that affects traffic on the roadway or that causes annoyance or discomfort for residences adjoining the roadway. The Contractor shall locate and aim lighting fixtures to provide the required level of illumination and uniformity in the work zone without the creation of objectionable glare. The Engineer will determine when glare exceeds acceptable levels, either for traffic or for adjoining residences.
The Contractor shall provide shields, visors or louvers on luminaires as necessary to reduce objectionable levels of glare. As a minimum, the following requirements shall be met to avoid objectionable glare on roadways open to traffic in either direction:
Tower-mounted luminaires shall be aimed either generally parallel or perpendicular to the roadway.
Luminaires shall be aimed such that the angle between the center of the beam axis and the vertical mounting pole is no greater than 45E.
No luminaires shall be permitted that provide a luminous intensity greater than 20,000 candelas at an angle of 72E above the vertical.
Except where prevented by overhead utilities or structures, towers shall be extended to their full working height when in use to reduce glare and provide uniform illumination.
These two specifications were chosen to show the differences in how a specification could be developed that would provide lighting for a work zone. The New York specification, as with several other state specifications, requires a lighting plan:
Be developed and submitted for approval 30 days prior to the start of construction,
To provide details on equipment and basically assumes portable light towers would be the lighting source.
To provide lighting level computations be submitted to show the lighting levels will be provided by the layout, which would require a lighting professional.
The Illinois specification requires the contractor to provide certain lighting levels for specified construction operations and activities. It is basically up to the contractor to provide the lighting with no prior plan approval.
State DOTs and local agencies should consider the information contained in this guide to be a tool to help them improve the safety of both workers and the traveling public in work zones at night. Those agencies that do not have lighting specifications for work zones may want to use this guideline as a first step in developing a specification for contractors to use. It is also advisable for all agencies that perform road work at night to train their key personnel in minimum lighting requirements, needs, and best practices by project and work activity.
In the end, the key steps practitioners should follow in developing a light plan are to:
Select type of lighting source
This guide may be used to facilitate such training sessions, discussions, and improvements in practice for both public and private sector stakeholders. Doing so will ensure that lighting schemes in nighttime work zones accomplish the following vital objectives:
Provide the appropriate level of lighting that allows construction work to be completed safely and effectively;
Reinforce the intent of the traffic control plan and provide better guidance for drivers traveling through the work zone; and most importantly,
Improve the overall safety of workers and the traveling public.
MUTCD
Federal Highway Administration (2009). Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Washington, DC.
Jennifer S. Shane, A. K. (2012). NCHRP Report 726: A Guidebook for Nighttime Construction: Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
Ralph D. Ellis, Jr., Scott Amos, Ashish Kumar (2003). NCHRP Report 498 Illumination Guidelines for Nighttime Work. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.
Bryden, J. E., and D. J. Mace (2002). NCHRP Report 476 Guidelines for Design and Operation of Nighttime Traffic Control for Highway Maintenance and Construction. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.
Marwa M. Hassan, Ibrahim Odeh, and Khaled El-Rayes, “Glare and Light Characteristics of Conventional and Balloon Lighting Systems.” Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. on January 11-15, 2010.
Vecellio, R. and J. McCarthy (2006). “Lighting Specifications for Nighttime Construction Work Zones on Active Highways” Report 930-470. Available at: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/files/centers/hrc/930-470.pdf
Delaware Department of Transportation (2011). Delaware Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Huckaba, D. A., “Safer Nighttime Construction Zones Through Better Lighting,” TR News 260, January – February 2009.
Federal Highway Administration, Nighttime Construction: Evaluation of Lighting Glare for Highway
K. El-Rayes et al., Construction in Illinois (FHWA-ICT-08-014). Available at: http://ict.illinois.edu/publications/report%20files/FHWA-ICT-08-014.pdf
Standards, Policies, Specifications
California Government, Department of Industrial Relations, Subchapter 4. Construction Safety Orders, Article 3. General, 1523 Illumination, accessed from http://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/1523.html on 10/17/12.
Missouri Department of Transportation; Engineering Policy Guide 616.20, accessed http://epg.modot.org/index.php?title=616.20_Flagger_Training#Work_Zone_Manuals on 10/17/12.
New York State Department of Transportation Standard Specifications of May 1, 2008, Section 600 Incidental Construction, https://www.dot.ny.gov/main/business-center/engineering/specifications/english-spec-repository/section600.pdf, page 591
Illinois Department of Transportation, Division 700. Work Zone Traffic Control and Protection, Signing, and Pavement Marking, http://dot.state.il.us/desenv/spec2012/Div700.pdf, January 1, 2012. Page 589
Topics: Lighting; Night Work; State of the practice
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WRITERS. TELL. ALL. (or mostly)
READERS TELL ALL.
Segura Continues to Excel as Pete Meets His Swan Song
Alex Segura's astonishing"Pete Series" starring Pete Fernandez is coming to a close with the astonishing final novel, Miami Midnight. Miami Midnight gathers up a lot of what makes Pete great: in a sense, it's the final homecoming novel for Pete, the return to every dark part of him, the understanding that nothing is actually right or wrong, not entirely so, and instead we must invest in and trust Pete's ability to decide what must be done.
The novel is a sort of fairy tale--one that might not be as gruesome as a story about a mermaid and her demise or a dancer with special shoes and, well, her demise, but Pete is destined to fight against seemingly impossible odds and in doing so he prove to be a true hero for a noir series. Here, Pete must prove he is--and isn't--what he's been all along, as he's suffered with his self-doubt, mental illness and alcoholism, the losses he's experienced over the years, and every other way he's been defined by others and therein through their eyes viewed himself.
With Pete trying to save the day and pull off impossible feats, hoping save lives and stop something much bigger than himself, he becomes a character not to be messed with, and a sleuth and investigator who stands among the likes of Sara Gran's Claire Dewitt, one of my all-time favorite characters, much like Pete. In fighting to save lives--including his own--Pete must prove himself some sort of hero. The same goes for Segura, a marvelous wordsmith with an expert ability to plot novels so well even JK Rowling might be envious.
The novel, in many ways, is the mirroring of the first novel in the Pete series, and it is the mirroring of what started off as a regular blockbuster novel and has now, in the novel's final stages, swelled to a height somewhere between films like Melancholia and the Broken Earth series, or any novel by William T. Vollmann. Here we wonder if Pete and Kathy will be together by the end of this novel--or if either of them will even be alive. Here there is the question of what Pete will ultimately discover--for past the miraculous twists Segura manages to whip up, beyond the grand reveals and the secrets, we must learn the truths about all of us, human nature, the worst and best parts of us we are either unable to see or try to avoid.
Here is a love story, my love story, to Pete Fernandez and Segura as well. This past year has been difficult for me personally, and it's so important to see the (realistic) resilience of Pete, his ability to keep standing and keep fighting, whether it's for his own health or the safety and lives of others. In Pete's world, we see the grittiness of Breaking Bad, but unlike Breaking Bad, with a "good enough" finale, Segura does not hold back. Granted, there's no gust-worthy climax like in the previous novel, Blackout, but that may be the very point of the novel: Segura isn't looking for fireworks. He's looking for a K.O.
Bask in the series. Love them and let yourself love Pete and every person in his world, and all the fights he overcomes. Pete is resilient, but his fate is undecided. Miami Midnight comes out soon, and you should preorder, and if you haven't read the entire series, feel free to catch up. Midnight signals the end of one day, the bridge to another, and likewise we may say goodbye to Pete and his world, but Segura is a master with words and characters and story, and whether Pete returns again, we are lucky to have Segura stick around and tell more tales, break my hearts, and drop more bodies than we can count.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Alongside fellow heavyweights Megan Abbott, Laura Lippman, and Lou Berney, Blackout has been nominated for the Anthony Award for best novel. Just another reason you should dive into Pete's world.
Writers Tell All
Readers Tell All
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Tag Archives: Biography
Julie Orringer, THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO & Robert Matzen, DUTCH GIRL
Eighty years ago on September 1, 1939 World War Two broke out. Today, we talk about a new novel and a surprising biography that illumine important but lesser known stories about that conflict: Julie Orringer’s acclaimed novel, The Flight Portfolio and Robert Matzen’s fascinating biography of the young Audrey Hepburn and her work with the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis, Dutch Girl.
Writer’s Voice — in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004. Rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts!
August 29, 2019 Audrey Hepburn, Biography, Fiction, Julie Orringer, Robert Matzen, WWIIFrancesca Rheannon
Damion Searls on Uwe Johnson’s ANNIVERSARIES & Peter Filkins, H. G. ADLER
We talk today with Damion Searls about his acclaimed translation of Uwe Johnson’s landmark of 20th Century literature, ANNIVERSARIES, now in English for the first time.
Then, we welcome Peter Filkins back to Writer’s Voice; we’ve spoken with him before about his translations of the works of H.G. Adler. Now, he tells us about his biography of Adler, H.G. ADLER: A Life in Many Worlds. Continue reading →
March 28, 2019 Biography, damion searls, Fiction, H. G. Adler, peter filkins, Uwe JohnsonFrancesca Rheannon
Brad Gooch, RUMI’S SECRET & Samuel Bercholz, A GUIDED TOUR OF HELL
Brad Gooch talks about his biography Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (now available in paperback from Harper Perennial.) Then, we’ve all heard of near-death experiences — going through a dark tunnel toward a brilliant loving light. But what if your near-death journey is to the nether regions instead? Buddhist publisher and author Samuel Bercholz tells us about his graphic memoir, A Guided Tour of Hell
February 9, 2017 Biography, Brad Gooch, memoir, Samuel BercholzFrancesca Rheannon
Ellen Meeropol: On Hurricane Island & Cecelia Tichi: Jack London
Ellen Meeropol talks about her new novel, On Hurricane Island. It’s about what happens when an innocent American citizen is abducted to a domestic black site and tortured. Meeropol also discusses how being married to one of the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has influenced her writing.
Then, a look back at one of the greatest writers and critics of America’s first Gilded Age and his relevance for today, Jack London: Cecelia Tichi talks about her biography of the great writer and democratic socialist, Jack London: A Writer’s Fight For a Better America.
March 31, 2016 Biography, cecelia tichi, ellen meeropol, Fiction, NonfictionFrancesca Rheannon
Andrea Wulf, THE INVENTION OF NATURE & Jack Cushman of Inside Climate News
Andrea Wulf talks about her bestselling new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. It’s listed as one of the ten best books of 2015 by the New York Times. Then, we check in with journalist Jack Cushman of Inside Climate News about the historic climate pact out of Paris and how the just-passed omnibus spending bill will affect carbon emissions. Continue reading →
December 24, 2015 andrea wulf, Biography, Book Excerpt, climate change, environmentalism, global warming, history, jack cushman, reporterFrancesca Rheannon
Books For Last Minute Gifts
Some picks for last minute book gifts from Writer’s Voice — even if the gift is just for you. Continue reading →
December 24, 2015 advice, Biography, children's literature, David Pogue, environmentalism, Fiction, history, how to, memoir, Nonfiction, scienceFrancesca Rheannon
Graphic Biographies: Ted Rall, SNOWDEN & Kate Evans, RED ROSA
We feature the work of two political cartoonists who have come out with graphic biographies: Ted Rall talks about his new graphic bio of Edward Snowden, Snowden. And then British cartoonist Kate Evans talks about her new graphic biography of the revolutionary leader, Rosa Luxemburg, Red Rosa. Continue reading →
December 17, 2015 Biography, Book Excerpt, graphic books, kate evans, ted rallFrancesca Rheannon
The Amherst Affair: Austin, Mabel & Emily, Too
William Nicholson talks about his new novel, AMHERST. It’s about the passionate affair between Emily Dickinson’s brother Austin and Mabel Todd. And later we re-air part of our 2007 interview with Debby Applegate about her biography of another 19th century figure associated with Amherst, Massachusetts: fiery evangelical preacher Henry Ward Beecher. Her book is THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA. Continue reading →
February 26, 2015 Biography, debby applegate, emily dickinson, Fiction, history, Nonfiction, william nicholsonFrancesca Rheannon
The Power of Asking Questions: Ethel Payne, First Lady Of The Black Press
Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris discusses his just-released biography, Ethel Payne, First Lady Of The Black Press. Few Americans today have ever heard of Ethel Payne, much less understood the giant role she played in reporting the story — and advancing the agenda — of the civil rights movement in America. Through Payne’s riveting personal story, Morris takes the reader on an inspiring journey through the civil rights movement — and to a greater understanding of issues that continue to resonate strongly today. Continue reading →
February 18, 2015 Biography, Book Excerpt, ethel payne, james mcgrath morris, journalist, NonfictionFrancesca Rheannon
The River Runs Through Us, Episode Six: Russell Powell, A Sense of Place & Series Highlights
Russell Powell
(photo by Bar Lois Weeks)
Thomas Cole – “The Oxbow”
Writer, artist and historian Russell Steven Powell talks with Drew Adamek about the intersection of the natural world and our place within it, as it relates to the Connecticut River, the metaphorical spine that flows through our region. And in this, our last episode in our special series The River Runs Through Us, we also air highlights from previous episodes in the series.
Our thanks to Mass Humanities for their support for this series.
September 26, 2013 Andrew Fisk, Biography, Book Excerpt, Connecticut River, historian, Kerry Buckley, Naila Moreira, nell painter, novelist, River Runs Through Us, sarah s kilborne, Susan Stinson, tom juravichFrancesca Rheannon
Lois Leveen, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER & Eve LaPlante, MARMEE & LOUISA
Lois Leveen
Eve LaPlante
Lois Leveen talks about the remarkable true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who became a Union spy right inside the Confederate White House. Her acclaimed new novel, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER, is based on it. And Eve LaPlante talks about her terrific new book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her mother Abigail. Continue reading →
March 28, 2013 Biography, Book Excerpt, Fiction, history, lois leveen, mary bowser, Nonfiction, novelistFrancesca Rheannon
Sarah Skinner Kilborne, AMERICAN PHOENIX (extended interview)
https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2013-02-21-Web_Extra.mp3
Sarah Skinner Kilborne
Sarah S. Kilbourne
Silk manufacturing was one of the most important industries to emerge out of the Connecticut River Valley in the 19th century. William Skinner was, perhaps, the most influential of the textile magnates. He lived the American Dream: a poor immigrant, he used grit and skill to build an industrial behemoth– and then lost everything in a catastrophic flood. But he rose like a phoenix, rebuilding his mill on the mighty Connecticut River and thereby putting Holyoke, Massachusetts on the world map.
Francesca Rheannon talks with his great granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, about her book, American Phoenix, The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny, to learn more about the forces that shaped his life and the economy of the Connecticut River Valley.
February 21, 2013 Biography, sarah s kilborne, Web ExtrasFrancesca Rheannon
Martin Duberman, HOWARD ZINN & Howard Zinn, VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY
Martin Duberman
Martin Duberman talks about his biography, HOWARD ZINN: A Life On The Left. We’ll also hear an excerpt from a 2005 interview with Zinn, five years before his death, about the book, VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (co-authored with Anthony Arnove.) Continue reading →
January 17, 2013 Biography, Book Excerpt, howard zinnFrancesca Rheannon
Gail Levin, John van Sickle & Jeff Sharlet
John van Sickle
Art historian Gail Levin talks about her acclaimed LEE KRASNER: A Biography; John Van Sickle talks about his translation of VIRGIL’S BOOK OF BUCOLICS, and WV airs a brief excerpt from an upcoming interview with Jeff Sharlet about his book, SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE.
October 26, 2011 art historian, Biography, Jeff Sharlet, journalistFrancesca Rheannon
David S. Reynolds & Charles C. Mann
David S. Reynolds
Charles C. Mann
David S. Reynolds talks about MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Struggle for America and WV airs a 2005 interview with Charles C. Mann about his book 1491: New Revelations of America Before Columbus. Continue reading →
October 11, 2011 Biography, Book Excerpt, charles c mann, david s reynoldsFrancesca Rheannon
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Denver Beer Co. Will Take Over Maddie's Spot Near DU
Roaming Buffalo Doubles Down With Upcoming Golden Smokehouse
LoDo's Blake Street Vault Will Close After New Year's Eve
Mark Antonation
Denver history is etched into the brick walls at the Blake Street Vault.
Facebook/Blake Street Vault
Mark Antonation | December 28, 2017 | 9:54am
The Blake Street Vault has been a favorite for LoDo bar hoppers at 1526 Blake Street for the past decade, but the drinks will soon stop pouring. The bar and grill just announced that it will close at the end of the year, with one last party planned for 2018.
Here's the message from the Blake Street Vault Facebook page:
Goodbye. Adiós. Arrivederci. Ciao. Auf Wiedersehen. Sayonara and Slán. The Blake Street Vault bids goodbye this week and invites you to come in and share in the 'Irish wake'. If you have a good Vault story, we would love to hear it. It's been great to know you all for the last 10 years. Regular business hours will end after New Years Eve, and there is one final sendoff on Friday, January 5. Thanks for the memories and Aloha!
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The Vault was more than just a bar; it was a time capsule of downtown history. Originally built in 1863, the brick edifice remained mostly unchanged through its life as a number of saloons, boardinghouses and retail stores, including the American Costume Company, which was the last business to occupy the address before the building was restored in 2008 and the Blake Street Vault moved in. The bar preserved much of that history in its decor, and the basement still houses the original walk-in vault for which it was named.
Stop by on Sunday, December 31, or Friday, January 5, to say goodbye to the Blake Street Vault before new owners (who have yet to be disclosed) take over the space.
Mark Antonation is the Westword Food & Drink Editor. He got his start by eating at and writing about every restaurant on Federal Boulevard and continues to cover metro Denver's diverse international food scene, as well as the city's quickly changing restaurant landscape. Mark was awarded Outstanding Media Professional by the Colorado Restaurant Association in 2018.
Twitter: @mantonat
Instagram: mantonat_westword
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President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is set to begin Tuesday afternoon.
2 dead, 15 injured in shooting outside nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri
The shooting happened outside while the venue was hosting an event to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs making it to the Super Bowl.
Delta tops annual WSJ list of best and worst US airlines
The Wall Street Journal list ranked nine U.S. airlines based on the number of on-time arrivals, delays, cancellations, mishandled luggage and more.
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15-year-old Coco Gauff is the youngest woman in the Australian Open field.
'No other option': Prince Harry makes first public comments on Royal split
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Baby Trend stroller sold at Target and Amazon recalled for fall hazard
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Shooting kills 2 Hawaii officers before homes catch fire
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When is Super Bowl 2020: Date, time, performers and more
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New York Times endorses Klobuchar, Warren in Democratic race
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Video: WFMY News 2
Changes Coming to Hot Spots on Elm Street in Greensboro
Natty Greene's announced renovations the same day as the ribbon cutting ceremony for Centric Brands.
Author: Alma McCarty, Marissa Tansino
Published: 8:33 PM EDT November 1, 2019
Updated: 11:55 PM EDT November 1, 2019
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Downtown Greensboro is booming and a lot of the action is happening along Elm Street. Natty Greene's announced a makeover, and Centric Brands is officially open.
At Centric Brands, 90 people already moved in this past Monday, and next Monday, another 150 people will move in. That means over 200 more people will be working in Downtown Greensboro.
President of Downtown Greensboro Incorporated Zack Matheny says this means it'll even more business for downtown restaurants and shops.
Centric Brands is made up of apparel fashion brands. Matheny says about 10 or 12 brands are partnered together in the name.
"It's the largest, non-manufacturing jobs announcement that Greensboro has seen, quite frankly Guilford County has seen, in well over 30 years," said Matheny, "So, this is a huge addition, not only to Downtown Greensboro but the Triad as a whole."
Just a block and a half away, a staple of downtown Greensboro announced renovations.
Natty Greene's will make changes and revamp their first and second floor over the course of 60 days. In 2020, they'll also make changes to the third floor and patio area.
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Natty Greene's will stay open during the renovations. They plan to section off parts where construction is taking place.
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The owner is investing $800,000 in these renovations.
Chris Lester says they're going to gut bathrooms, redo the bar area, and install reclaimed wood floors using wood from old factories.
"Fifteen years ago we saw such a resurgence I think we’re just scratching the surface of what we're going to be in the next 15 years," said Natty Greene's owner Chris Lester.
These changes are something to get used to, though.
Matheny says over the next 15 years, Greensboro's skyline and feel, will only get better.
Also having its grand opening in Greensboro this weekend: SouthEnd Brewing Company on Lewis Street. Owner Eric Kevorkian tells WFMY News 2 he wanted to open up now, as things are starting to grow.
"It's super exciting. We are just thrilled to be a part of the community," he said, "We named our business SouthEnd Brewing because well, that’s where we are, and it’s our neighborhood. We have tried to structure this to be a place for the community to gather and share plates and share beers."
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"It's not right to say John spends every waking minute thinking about Houdini; he's a levelheaded guy with a job and a life. But it is right to say John would like to spend every waking minute thinking about Houdini."
- Joe Posnanski, The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Hello, my name is John Cox, and I'm wild about Harry!
My fascination with Houdini began in late 1975 when I was hit with the double whammy of seeing the 1953 Paramount biopic, HOUDINI, and watching the late great Doug Henning perform Houdini’s Water Torture Cell live on NBC. Who was this amazing Houdini fellow who could escape from anything? The next day I went to the local mall and bought my first two Houdini books; the perennial Houdini on Magic by Walter B. Gibson and William Lindsey Gresham’s biography, Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls. I was hooked. Forty plus years later, I am still on a never-ending quest to find out more about the "Master Mystifier", with a collection of over 500 books and more than 2000 individual items.
As a teen, I dabbled in escape and performance magic and wrote articles about Houdini for my school newspapers. Inspired by Houdini skills as a self-publicist, I was able to attract newspaper coverage of my escapes and growing Houdini collection. I even appeared on the Toni Tennille Show where I did a straight-jacket escape. On weekends, I would haunt the bookstores along Hollywood Blvd. for Houdini rarities. I became a member of The Magic Castle on my 21st birthday...held in the Houdini seance room, of course! (I also had my 50th birthday there.)
Along the way I met and learned from great Houdini experts like Manny Weltman, Patrick Culliton, John Gaughan, and Sidney Radner. I was also fortunate to strike up a relationship with Houdini’s niece, Marie Blood. As with the secrets of magic, there is still much about Houdini (and Bess) that is passed down via oral tradition.
After graduating from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1990 (where I made a Houdini documentary as one of my projects), I became a professional screenwriter, penning projects for MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, ABC, USA, and the WB networks. (You can read more about my screenwriting here.) Today I work in Digital Cinema Quality Control.
Not surprisingly, I have a keen interest in Houdini’s film career, not only because it is my own profession, but I feel this is an area of his life that is under-researched. I've published two articles in MAGIC Magazine related to Houdini and film and appeared in the 1998 documentary, Houdini Exposed. I've also consulted on various Houdini projects for film, radio and television, and I give illustrated lectures on Houdini's life and career. I'm currently working on a definitive chronology of Houdini's life which I plan to publish.
In 2005, I started a monthly online Houdini newsletter. The following year I launched my first Houdini website, Houdini Lives! I expanded that site into WILD ABOUT HARRY in 2010. Here I keep up with all current Houdini news, auctions, book/DVD releases and cultural references. I also delve deeply into Houdini history, and in some cases have rewritten that history. In 2015, Houdini family members George Hardeen and John Hinson honored me in allowing WILD ABOUT HARRY to be called "The Official Houdini Website."
Yes, I'm wild about Harry! And so are you.
"John Cox is the loving and diligent caretaker of my grandfather's and great uncle's astounding legacy. Thanks forever, John. You're a true brother to me!" - George Hardeen
"If you're wild about Houdini, you'll like this very well-done Houdini fan site." - Teller
"Your WILD ABOUT HARRY site continues to amaze us all. I have no idea how you do it!" - John Gaughan
"If anyone is interested in learning anything about Houdini, it’s a wealth of information that you won’t find in a book. I learned an enormous amount from John." - Kristen Connolly
"Thank you for your continuing dedication to Houdini. Your blog is far and away the best Houdini resource in the world today." - Bruce MacNab
"John is performing a service for us all by going the extra mile, past those first few Google result pages, to find the really obscure, undiscovered stuff." - The Mandala
"A great resource for Houdini info." - Potter & Potter Auctions
"You are a star." - David Copperfield
With David Copperfield in the Copperfield Collection, 2018.
With Houdini (aka Michael Weston) at The Magic Castle, 2016.
With Bess Houdini (aka Kristen Connolly) and Tom Interval, 2013.
With Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz at The Grim Game premiere, 2015.
With Houdini's original sub trunk in 2006.
Inside Houdini's house in 2017.
Exploring the Laurel Caynon Houdini Mansion in 2008...and 1976.
With the remains of the Water Torture Cell in 1999.
With Bess Houdini (aka Janet Leigh) in 1986.
The "Houdini Enthusiast" in 1980.
With Houdini.
The Magic Word Podcast
Dash Finley, Dark Times interview
Interview with Pacific Rim
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Beyond Reality Radio interview
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Baroque Potion Five Minutes With John Cox
On With Scott (Episodes 10 & 11)
Interview on WFTE FM (Part 1)
Done Deal Interview
Return to Malibou Lake
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278 wood lath Water Torture Cell by Barry Spector
Mystifier, Third Quarter 2000
Houdini echoes in the canyon
Final weekend for 'Inescapable: The Life and Legac...
Houdini in 1920
Welcome to our WILD 10th year!
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Green Bay beats Marquette 49-47
First victory over Golden Eagles since 1995
Green Bay coach Brian Wardle didn't give much thought to the Phoenix's opponent before Wednesday night's nonconference game.But it was certainly an important game for Wardle, who was trying beat his alma mater, Marquette, for the first time. Wardle played for Marquette from 1997-2001 and was 0-2 coaching against his former school, with both games being on the road.Keifer Sykes scored 20 points as Green Bay held on to beat Marquette 49-47."I actually apologized to (Wardle) after the game for beating his alma mater, but I think he's still happy about it," Green Bay junior Alec Brown said.Last season, Brown had a 21-point, 14-rebound, five-block performance against Marquette. On Wednesday, he managed nine points and seven rebounds.Greg Mays added 11 points and five rebounds for the Phoenix. Marquette's four-game winning streak came to an end."It's a nice win. This is a very, very good team we just beat," Wardle said. "You beat Marquette - great tradition, great program - and obviously a very good program under Buzz Williams. He's done an unbelievable job with them, so it's a big win."Green Bay (4-7) went ahead for good at 45-44 on Sykes' free throw with 3:10 to play. Brown followed with a jump shot to put the Phoenix up 47-44 and Mays later added a free throw. Marquette got back within 48-47 with 1:25 left on Davante Gardner's three-point play.Marquette's Vander Blue missed the front end of a one-and-one with 35.1 seconds remaining, but the Golden Eagles pulled down the rebound. After two timeouts, Marquette got Jake Thomas an open 3-point look with 3 seconds on the clock, but it was missed. Brown got the rebound and hit one free throw. A desperation heave at the buzzer by Marquette was no good.The Phoenix, who entered the game having lost four in a row and seven of the last eight, beat the Golden Eagles for only the third time in 12 meetings - but this was the first one played in Green Bay."I think this means a lot for the community, a lot for the school, for the program," Sykes said. "It just tells you the direction we're going in."Jamil Wilson had 16 points for Marquette (7-3), but was held to two points in the second half. Junior Cadougan added eight points."I thought they (Green Bay) were great. I thought they got 98 percent of every 50-50 ball. I thought they forced us into uncharacteristic turnovers," Williams said. "Credit to Green Bay, credit to coach Wardle, credit to the healthy guys that they had playing. I thought they were superb."Green Bay starting forward Brennan Cougill missed his second straight game after violating team policy. The Phoenix lost without him on Saturday to Southern Illinois.Despite being undermanned and undersized, the Phoenix managed to outscore the Golden Eagles 22-20 in the paint.The Phoenix play hard-nosed defense all night and limited the Golden Eagles to 27 percent shooting (6 of 22) in the second half and only 39 percent for the game."We want to let teams beat us from over the top by shooting instead of banging it inside because we lost Brennan Cougill, so we're thin on the front line," Sykes said. "It hurt us a little bit against SIU because we were adjusting to it but it worked well for us tonight."Marquette led 10-6 early before Green Bay went on a 17-4 run, capped by back-to-back layups by Kiefer Sykes, to go up 23-14. The Golden Eagles responded with a 17-4 run of their own to make it 31-27 right before halftime. Marquette led 31-29 at the break.In a seesaw second half, Marquette went up 37-36 on Jake Thomas' 3-pointer. Green Bay ended a drought of more than 6 minutes on Greg Mays' basket midway through the half that pulled the Phoenix within 39-38.
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
Green Bay coach Brian Wardle didn't give much thought to the Phoenix's opponent before Wednesday night's nonconference game.
But it was certainly an important game for Wardle, who was trying beat his alma mater, Marquette, for the first time. Wardle played for Marquette from 1997-2001 and was 0-2 coaching against his former school, with both games being on the road.
Keifer Sykes scored 20 points as Green Bay held on to beat Marquette 49-47.
"I actually apologized to (Wardle) after the game for beating his alma mater, but I think he's still happy about it," Green Bay junior Alec Brown said.
Last season, Brown had a 21-point, 14-rebound, five-block performance against Marquette. On Wednesday, he managed nine points and seven rebounds.
Greg Mays added 11 points and five rebounds for the Phoenix. Marquette's four-game winning streak came to an end.
"It's a nice win. This is a very, very good team we just beat," Wardle said. "You beat Marquette - great tradition, great program - and obviously a very good program under Buzz Williams. He's done an unbelievable job with them, so it's a big win."
Green Bay (4-7) went ahead for good at 45-44 on Sykes' free throw with 3:10 to play. Brown followed with a jump shot to put the Phoenix up 47-44 and Mays later added a free throw. Marquette got back within 48-47 with 1:25 left on Davante Gardner's three-point play.
Marquette's Vander Blue missed the front end of a one-and-one with 35.1 seconds remaining, but the Golden Eagles pulled down the rebound. After two timeouts, Marquette got Jake Thomas an open 3-point look with 3 seconds on the clock, but it was missed. Brown got the rebound and hit one free throw. A desperation heave at the buzzer by Marquette was no good.
The Phoenix, who entered the game having lost four in a row and seven of the last eight, beat the Golden Eagles for only the third time in 12 meetings - but this was the first one played in Green Bay.
"I think this means a lot for the community, a lot for the school, for the program," Sykes said. "It just tells you the direction we're going in."
Jamil Wilson had 16 points for Marquette (7-3), but was held to two points in the second half. Junior Cadougan added eight points.
"I thought they (Green Bay) were great. I thought they got 98 percent of every 50-50 ball. I thought they forced us into uncharacteristic turnovers," Williams said. "Credit to Green Bay, credit to coach Wardle, credit to the healthy guys that they had playing. I thought they were superb."
Green Bay starting forward Brennan Cougill missed his second straight game after violating team policy. The Phoenix lost without him on Saturday to Southern Illinois.
Despite being undermanned and undersized, the Phoenix managed to outscore the Golden Eagles 22-20 in the paint.
The Phoenix play hard-nosed defense all night and limited the Golden Eagles to 27 percent shooting (6 of 22) in the second half and only 39 percent for the game.
"We want to let teams beat us from over the top by shooting instead of banging it inside because we lost Brennan Cougill, so we're thin on the front line," Sykes said. "It hurt us a little bit against SIU because we were adjusting to it but it worked well for us tonight."
Marquette led 10-6 early before Green Bay went on a 17-4 run, capped by back-to-back layups by Kiefer Sykes, to go up 23-14. The Golden Eagles responded with a 17-4 run of their own to make it 31-27 right before halftime. Marquette led 31-29 at the break.
In a seesaw second half, Marquette went up 37-36 on Jake Thomas' 3-pointer. Green Bay ended a drought of more than 6 minutes on Greg Mays' basket midway through the half that pulled the Phoenix within 39-38.
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Former Clinton Administration official agrees with Wizbang
Jay Tea August 16, 2005 Illegal Aliens 20 Comments
Over the weekend, I described our illegal alien problem as an “invasion,” and outlined why I thought that term was valid to use. I was pretty comfortable with my reasoning and beliefs, and still am.
It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who thinks so. New Mexico’s governor, Democrat Bill Richardson (Bill Clinton’s UN Ambassador and Secretary of Energy), says the situation on his state’s southern border that he’s declared it an “emergency,” specifically citing illegal immigration and the subsequent consequences.
I kinda wish I’d seen that story at the time I wrote my piece, because it would have given me an additional piece of evidence to back my case. But by not hearing about it until today gives me a chance to re-visit my initial piece — and reaffirm it.
But one political aspect of this worries me. I think that illegal aliens could be the big issue in 2008. And it’s starting to look like Democrats are realizing that first. And not only are they talking tough about it, they’re actually doing something about it.
The inmates are running our asylum policy
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Invasion is the sincerest form of flattery
The New Immigration Reform Plans Look A Lot Like George Bush’s Plan
Jay Tea
-S- August 16, 2005
My hesitation about Richardson’s plan (to construct a fence along New Mexico’s southern border due to the invasion) is that Richardson intends:
— to remove any existing barriers BEFORE he begins the construction.
I’d feel more conident if the plans included leaving whatever barriers currently exist in place and THEN constructs additional barricades/walls/fences…because otherwise the possibility exists (he’s a politician and this is what they do, to be realistic, and that is they change their positions and often), the possibility exists to start the process (secure the federal dollars) and THEN say, OOPS, holdups, problems, have to rethink the plans, might not work as intended, gotta redesign, OOPS, maybe not a wall, maybe a few new roads, a ticket booth, OOPS, have to redesign…
Just leave existing, however flimsy, whatever in place while whatever not flimsy is being constrcuted. Just to be sure.
About the party differences, unfortunately, we have Bush Republicans who are hardwired to establish an open-borders policy with Latin countries (the focus from what I read is that they want “good workers” and the legalities of citizenship and/or immigration can always be tweaked however), and then there are the rest of us in the GOP who don’t support that, who want enforcement of existing immigration laws, want secured borders and want all public dollars supporting illegal aliens to be eliminated, including: no anchor children status for citizenship and no amnesty, and most importantly, severe penalties to those who employ illegal aliens.
Tancredo from CO is among the latter sort of Republican and has a growing number of Republicans supporting him. He’s also against CAFTA, which sets him apart from Bush Republicans, so to speak. I’m liking Tancredo more and more, the more that I hear from him.
Moreover, Tyson Chicken — among the many large commercial organizations that relies on huge numbers of illegal aliens in their employ — is one of the leading funders to the DNC (and friend/benefactor to the Clintons). The DNC has no special handle on this issue, is my point, other than their numbers are just as responsible for the problem of illegal aliens in our country as anyone else.
Unfortunately, the numbers of illegal aliens in our country has greatly increased since Bush took office, based upon the colloquial understanding by many cultures that they can, will and should illegally gain foothold due to no fear of reprimand. And so they do and have in ever increasing numbers since Bush took office.
Our recent elections haven’t left many of us much choice at the voting booth, either. Republicans are divided on the issue of illegal aliens just as much as Democrats are, is my point.
Mark August 16, 2005
How friggin’ ironic is THAT???
I’m happy to see the more realistic Dems tackling this situation. Even Hilary seems tougher on immigration than Dubya. But where does this leave the rest of their party? It’s hard to imagine moonbats lining up behind anybody advocating realistic and tough border and employment policies.
More importantly, and more puzzling, is what’s up with the administration???? What in the hell is this administration thinking? I briefly heard a blurb on FOX about Dubya’s “immigration reform” –what is that? Does he actually have a rational plan for immigration? –one that protects the interests of the country and its citizens?
Gotta take some more vicodin now, which means I’ll probably miss the broadcast. ZZZZzzzzzz…..
Ah, wrote mine before -s-‘s post appeared. I think she answers some of my questions.
Another thing…Aspen, CO and similar predominantly (wealthy) Democrat enclaves have large numbers of illegal aliens employed in their construction and food service/tourist industries.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, among many other predominant Democrats, have homes in Aspen…the Aspen Institute, Brookings…they’re all there.
They could remedy this problem and quickly by making it very uncomfortable to employ illegal aliens and improving vastly our border security.
“They” means anyone/all in U.S. government. They certainly have enough money to fund just about everything else and that they’re now only getting around to “guest worker” concepts is ludicrous, given that that only bestows citizenship to illegal aliens inorder to make them no longer illegal. And provides further incentive to illegally immigrate (they can become citizens so go ahead and commit the illegal acts along the way, is the message there to many).
What I’ve decided is that the two parties are commonly dissuaded by large organizations (penalizing Wal Mart a few millions for employing illegal aliens does not seem to be much of a penalty when they have so many more millions) that the opinion of voters is now secondary.
Another thing: yesterday I read that Home Depot has arrived at some agreement with La Raza, of all organizations (it’s a racist organization for Mexicans, byline is: “for the race…[and against all other races, to that effect]”).
So, Home Depot is now among the large box stores commisserating with the illegal alien employ process. A lot of people wonder where their agreement is with Blacks, Asians and, oh yeah, us “white” people. Don’t see any plans for those…
So, with Home Depot, Wal Mart, Tyson Chicken, Ford Motors and even our banking industry not only not being penalized for their agreements with illegal aliens, but incentivized to employ them…the old U.S. taxpayers get to fund all the housing, healthcare and educational costs (or a large portion of those) for those here illegally, and then stand by and watch while wages and conditions are sent downward by the illegal alien employees. Home Depot is just the latest to jump on that…
I’ve never shopped at Home Depot and only at Wal Mart while in CO (out of necessity, no other options for much of what Wal Mart sells in a certain area there), but I’m among the consumers in the U.S. who is no longer buying from ANY company that employs illegal aliens, and that includes the banking industry. Citizens of the legal kind, residents also, people are tired of this and withholding shopping dollars is the only way I know to make a point.
bullwinkle August 16, 2005
The democrats are pretending to be against illegal immigration to siphon off a few conservatives. Doesn’t mean a thing and certainly won’t last long.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050715-121229-7851r.htm
Jim August 16, 2005
I agree with Bullwinkle.
I’m working on an article regarding the New Mexico state of emergency declared by Bill Richardson — who is planning a presidential run as another… ahem…moderate — and have discovered it’s all baloney.
I contacted my law enforcement sources down there and discovered Gov. Richardson sent 56 — YES 56 — National Guard troops to the Mexican border. Even that number is deceiving. In order to cover one post with one man (or woman) for 24/7 requires 4.5 guardsmen. So the BIG 56 soldier beef-up translates into about 12 soldiers covering about 180 miles of border at any one time, if you believe that amount of territory is the problem area as stated by Gov. Richardson.
I’ve seen states deploy more National Guard troops for snowstorms than Gov. Richardson deployed in his phony “state of emergency.”
Also, Gov. Richardson signed legislation allowing illegal aliens: 1) access to a college tuition lottery that was supposed to help poor citizens pay for college; 2) access to driver licenses; 3) access to healthcare. He’s also a proponent of amnesty and guest-worker programs that actually reward law breakers.
The man is a politician and like his pal Hillary Clinton he talks out of both sides of his mouth. His whole strategy is about getting positive press from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Wiz Bang Blog, while at the same time continuing the DNC mantra — perhaps more gently — that “Bush Sucks.”
I’m taking a “wait-and-see” posture on Gov, Richardson’s “state of emergency” before heaping praise upon him. We all know — or should know — Democrats always talk a good war.
By the way, Hillary Clinton is another phony on the illegal alien issue. Read this article and see how she really feels about border security:
http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/chch_news_338.htm
John August 16, 2005
So what bullwinkle is saying is that popular will of the people, which also doesn’t conflict with the constitution, doesn’t have a hope in hell of being observed by the government.
Essentially its time for a revolution.
No, what I’m saying is that while a democrat is promising to do something that he has no intention of doing for the sake of getting some republicans to switch parties he’s doing it with a wink at those on the left to make sure it’s just another campaign promise that won’t be fulfilled. If he meant a word of it he’d have called up a lot more national guardsmen. What I’m saying is trusting a democrat to do what he says against the will of his party is a big mistake. With a few exceptions, and it’s damn few, you can be sure that they are lying.
Posted that before I was finished.
He’s blowing smoke. Even if those national guradsmen detain the illegals there’s no guarantee that the Border Patrol will treat them any differently than they do the ones arrested anywhere else by local authorities. Richardson is selling a bill of goods he can’t deliver. Looks good on paper and the sound bites sure do sound sweet but it’s going to amount to more of the same old BS in the long run. The solution will always be getting the Federal government to enforce the laws we have. Always has been. Does anyone here believe that a republican administration is suddenly going to start doing that for a democrat governor when they haven’t done it for the republican governors on the border?
Lew Clark August 16, 2005
I want to do a Howard Dean scream every time I hear “Hillary is tough on illegal immigration”. These are her phoney words to get elected. Probably words that will bite her. Since the illegal immigrant vote is the Democrat’s most solid block.
I hope, and believe, Bush is playing smart poker politics with illegal immigration as he has done with other issues. If Bush had closed the borders and gotten tough on illegals even right after 9/11, the MSM would have had a field day. “Punishing the wrong people, just poor law abiding people trying to make a decent life for themselves and their family. Why not go after the real terrorists?” If you don’t think they would do that, look at their “racial profiling innocent Muslims” theme.
But Bush is getting them where he wants them. When he does crack down on illegals and secures the borders, he has “Gee I was only doing what you asked”. I, like most conservatives, want it to stop and stop yesterday. But none of us really appreciate the difficulty of the job of President. We can yell “Do the right thing no matter what the consequences.” But he must be mindful at all times of the strength of his enemies.
lawhawk August 16, 2005
Heard Gov. Richardson on the radio earlier tonite, and he was essentially calling for an amnesty program for those illegals already here in the US. He argued that we ought to provide some kind of classification status for those illegals in the US who are here for a period of time and have otherwise abided by the law (notwithstanding the fact that they are here illegally).
He also argued that he’s really doing something to protect the borders with his national guard callup of what – 56 guards? That and 2 bucks gets me a ride on the subway. Poseur.
AnonymousDrivel August 16, 2005
RE: lawhawk’s post (August 16, 2005 09:16 PM)
Heard Gov. Richardson on the radio earlier tonite, and he was essentially calling for an amnesty program for those illegals already here in the US… Poseur.
Ugh. That is weak. Poseur indeed. Is he backtracking already? And after his peer in Arizona has declared an emergency of her own after following his lead? [see Napolitano Declares Emergency, OKs Funding for Border, Monday, August 15, 2005 – By Paul Davenport]
Well, at least they are talking about it. Heck, that used to be a third rail. Kinda’ like Social Security reform. You know it’s bad when such supposedly divisive topics enter the political conscience, openly, and the representatives start to test the limbs.
Christopher Fotos August 16, 2005
FWIW, I heard Richardson briefly on Imus this morning and he opposes the Minutemen.
Sue Dohnim August 16, 2005
One word – triangulation.
Julius Geezer August 16, 2005
Three Dollar Bill
That is what Richardson is becoming known as, here in Albuquerque because he is so fake.
Claims to have reduced taxes, but has actually increased them by approx. 170 million thru the trick of raising “Fees”, etc.
Wow! He is providing 1.75 million to solve the problem of illegals. Let’s see, if one guard costs about 50,000 annually (with benefits included), that would provide about 35 additional guards – is the math correct? That amount would not include any high tech equipment, vehicles, fencing or anything else. This man must be really awsome to pull this off.
Lets see it for what it is worth, nothing but a publicity stunt for his Presidential campaign in 2006.
Remember his past statements: “if all an illegal has done is cross the border, then he hasn’t done anything” (or something really close to that about two years ago).
He also offered sanctuary to any illegal that could make their way to Santa Fe, as well as promoting Drivers Licenses for all illegals. Why a reporter won’t ask or confront him on these things is beyond the citizens of New Mexico.
The sad thing is, the right-wing (outside of New Mexico) is falling for it.
The Lonewacko Blog August 17, 2005
Richardson might have been too smart by half.
The media usually tries to smear those who opposed illegal immigration. When they do that in the future, just point out that Richardson is opposed to illegal immigration as well, and he’s not being called a racist.
It’s also worth shooting down again this bit about the National Council of La Raza from a comment above. The slogan “to the race everything…” is not from the NCLR, it’s from MEChA. MEChA and the NCLR are not the same.
The less extreme but more powerful NCLR is a Ford Foundation-sponsored far-left organization. And, their name means “National Council of the Race”. That latter bit is probably the best way to show what they’re about: simply translate their name. (Extra credit translation: “National Council of the Cosmic Race”).
Again, I agree with bullwinkle and Jim, among others, after reading up far more than earlier today, first comments…
Seems Richardson has declared a very limited (something like 90 days or so) “emergency,” and that the Governor of Arizona, also a Democrat — who has also: refused to endorse a voter-passed referendumm to deny drivers’ licesnse to illegal aliens, deny social services and more to them, Governor just refused to enforce it after voters opted to pass the legislation — anyway, Arizona Governor, also a Democrat, also who has declared an emergency similar to Richardson’s, it seems that they’re creating pressure to both obtain additional federal funding and to perhaps encourage a “guest worker” legislation plan on the federal level, BECAUSE, these two individuals as governors of these two states have contributed royally by their very actions to the very problems they now say they have no control over (and thus, the basis for their emergencies).
I agree that the emergencies exist. I think I more than see the smokescreening underway by both these Democrat governors, however, who have done all that they can to create attractive incentives for ongoing illegal immigration and opposed even their own constituencies from stemming the incentives.
If they were serious about border security, they’d get the National Guard on the border, they’d build a security wall (whatever it takes) and they’d welcome citizen support to do so, much less honor the ballot opinions of their own citizens.
Bill Richardson was on O’Reilly the other day and his one point of emotional break was when he began saying that “Mexico is really, really UPSET with me…” and O’Reilly reminded him with the interruption, “your responsibility is to the citizens of your state, not to Mexico.” Richardson seemed to sorta catch himself at that, realizing he’d been getting emotional, calmed down, smiled, fell silent…BUT, what it tells me is that Richardson’s concerns are as to what MEXICO thinks of him, moreso than what U.S. citizens are undergoing, and right there in New Mexico, not Richardson’s New Mexico, but New Mexico.
I’m going to unofficially quote someone else, who made a very excellent comment about the heart of this issue:
“The action of Gov. Richardson’s state of emergency may be good from a publicity standpoint, but in the long-term, no state has the resources of the Congress. The Congress and President should reread Section 8, Clause 15, of the Constitution of the United States, To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions. Does 700,000 illegal aliens moving into our country each year qualify as an invasion. I and many others believe it does.”
I agree with that, too.
Harlan April 20, 2006
I am including a copy of an email which I am sending to
every member of congress ,both senate and house;
to every member of the Alabama State House; to the
President and the Governor. I would wish everyone
could send them the same email.
Maybe when their mailbags are jammed full of the
same message for a few days they will take the hint and
realize just who matters and who holds the power
in this great country of ours.
Your Job is at Risk
Thank You for letting me voice my thoughts and for
letting me be a part of this movement.
Until later. Harlan
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Richard Madeley reveals how close Judy Finnigan came to death after ‘vomiting blood’
Amy Hunt 30 May 2019 10:50 am
Presenter Richard Madeley has spoken candidly opened up the terrifying moment last year in which his wife Judy Finnigan was left vomiting blood and fearing for her life.
Just was left dangerously ill after taking over-the-counter ibuprofen, which left her with four dangerous stomach ulcers.
Speaking to The Sun, the 63-year-old GMB star revealed that the fast-reacting ambulance service essentially saved his wife’s life.
He revealed, “I dialled 999 and the ambulance arrived in about four minutes.”
Sharing how scarily close Judy came to death, he continued, explaining, “It was touch and f***ing go. While she was coming round from that, the surgeon said, ‘She’s going to be fine. Did you call the ambulance immediately?’
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“I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘Good, because if you’d waited another 20 minutes she probably would have bled out.’ Half an hour tops and she would have died.”
70-year-old Judy has also spoken openly about her experience, writing in the Daily Express. Explaining that she had been taking the pills daily for four weeks, Judy described how one night she woke up in bed, and “vomited copious amounts of blood”.
She continued, saying it came, “Totally out of the blue. Never experienced anything like it before and hope to God I never will again.”
The former This Morning host revealed that luckily, after heading to the hospital, she received two “life-saving blood transfusions”.
“I survived thanks to an exceptionally swift-arriving and skilled ambulance crew, superb emergency treatment at London’s Royal Free Hospital, and two major life-saving blood transfusions.
“My hugely experienced gastric consultant later told me that the smoking gun in my case was ibuprofen. He said I’d developed four large stomach ulcers in as many weeks. He’d found one directly above a main artery, which had ruptured.”
Judy explained that as a result of the horrific ordeal, she’s stopped taking the common painkiller altogether, and is keen to get her loved ones to do the same.
She confessed, “I’m absolutely fine now but I’ve become evangelical about stopping friends and family from taking ibuprofen. My consultant says he (and many of his colleagues) believe it should be banned from over-the-counter sale.”
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While the NHS don’t, at the moment, deem ibuprofen to be unsafe, they do provide information about the risks it could pose to you if you have existing health conditions, or don’t take it correctly.
They also warn that “Taking high doses of ibuprofen over long periods of time can increase your risk of strokes and heart attacks.”
Stomach ulcers, like Judy’s, are also mentioned as a potential, but less common side effect, of taking the pain-killer.
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England has a wealth of beautiful gardens to visit and explore, says Adrienne Wild
The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall have a wonderful jungle area © Alamy
On a sunny spring day, it’s hard to find a more idyllic spot than Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan. Not only do they hold National Collections of rhododendrons and camellias, they also have an amazing history that will capture your imagination.
The story begins when the 80-acre gardens, which were part of the former seat of the Tremayne family, fell into serious disrepair as a result of the First World War.
It is picked up again in 1990, when ecologist Tim Smit (who went on to create the Eden Project) and John Willis (a Tremayne descendant), discovered the remnants of this Victorian garden beneath tangled undergrowth.
Today, the wild and formal areas, like the Italian Garden, are fully restored, along
with Victorian glasshouses and an original manure-heated pineapple pit, which is once again producingthe exotic fruit.
The garden features productive flower and vegetable gardens that hold over 200 heritage varieties, as well as a series of lakes that are fed by an ancient ram pump. It’s also home to the Jungle, which many visitors say is the most stunning element of Heligan.
Located in a valley, it’s accessed by steep paths that cross over ponds full of exotic water lilies and past giant palm trees, ferns and bamboo, many of which were introduced by the Victorian plant hunters.
Info: 01726 845 100; heligan.com
Savill Garden, in Windsor Great Park © Alamy
Savill Garden & The Valley Gardens
Set in Windsor Great Park, these are among Britain’s finest gardens to visit. From April, the 35-acre woodland site, created by Sir Eric Savill in the 1930s, comes alive with vibrant camellias and magnolias.
It’s also particularly stunning when swathes of daffodils and crocuses clothe vast informal lawns.
The borders feature stunning plant combinations, for example bold drifts of ‘candelabra’ primulas and skunk cabbages, rub shoulders with Siberian iris.
Visit in May to see the iconic blue Meconopsis and the amazing pocket handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata (sprigs of which were used in the last royal wedding decorations) in bloom.
An enormous Magnolia ‘Peter Veitch’ and flowering Japanese cherries add to the spectacle.
In the Valley Gardens, glades of rhododendrons and azalea walks give the gardens their wow factor. And walking through the groves of sweetly scented Loderi hybrids is a heady experience you won’t forget in a hurry.
The most famous display is the Punch Bowl, where thousands of Japanese Kurume azaleas flaunt their blooms. Have your camera ready!
Info: theroyallandscape.co.uk
Pashley Manor in East Sussex. Much of the food produced is grown on site. Photo: David Dixon
Pashley Manor
Pashley Manor in Ticehurst, near Wadhurst, East Sussex, was once a Tudor hunting lodge owned by Anne Boleyn’s family, and the giant 500-year-old oaks near the entrance gate give a clue to its origins.
Today, the 11 acres of award-winning gardens, carefully restored and cleverly planted by owners Mr and Mrs Sellick, offer visitors the treat of seeing colour and plants of interest throughout the year.
A key feature is the abundant kitchen garden, which is a work of art, growing vast amounts of herbs, salads and vegetables used by the kitchen at its Garden Room Cafe.
The bluebell wood, however, is the real joy of spring, and as the season progresses the fragrant rose walk, imaginatively and tastefully planted herbaceous borders, and ponds with fountains and colourful wild fowl inspire.
Don’t miss the popular Tulip Festival in late April/early May, when more than 20,000 tulips carpet the whole garden, with at least 100 different varieties on display.
Quirky metal and wooden sculptures (which are all for sale) are also integrated with the plantings, providing a surprise around every corner and lovely photo opportunities.
Info: 01580 200 888; pashleymanorgardens.com
Rydal Mount – Wordsworth’s historic home and gardens
Rydal Mount
Golden daffodils ‘fluttering and dancing in the breeze’ was the awesome sight that inspired William Wordsworth to write his famous poem Daffodils.
The cheery sight of these jaunty flowers filled his heart with pleasure, a sentiment shared by millions of gardeners each spring.
So what better place to see them in all their glory than Wordsworth’s historic home and gardens at Rydal Mount, in Ambleside in the Lake District?
Wordsworth, who lived at Rydal Mount from 1813 until his death in 1850, was a keen landscape gardener and this four-acre plot remains very much as he designed it – informal and in complete harmony with its surroundings.
The extensive grounds have lush emerald-green lawns, fell-side terraces, rock pools and an ancient mound, and in March and April, the riotous bursts of yellow from the daffodils are followed by bluebells and rhododendrons.
The garden also boasts 26 rare plants and trees of special interest, which will please the plant enthusiasts among you.
Visiting this romantic garden is a peaceful experience, especially if you take time to sit down by the waterfall or stand on the mound and take in the magnificent lake views.
Wordsworth’s spirit is reported to remain at Rydal Mount, so maybe you’ll even be inspired by his presence! The shrine for spring visitors is the National Trust-owned Dora’s Terrace, where Wordsworth planted native daffodils in memory of his daughter.
Info: 01539 433 002; rydalmount.co.uk
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