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This Boy Is Me
Tom Shinan, 2015, 50 min, Hebrew, Documentary
“A pleasure to watch… Owing to the soundtrack and the interviews with the artists who reveal a sad story behind their music”
Dana Erez
Ha'aretz
“Informative and heartwarming… A complete and impressive work of art.”
Ido Yeshayahu
A musical documentary that examines children songs in Israel, from the 50’s until today and the social change that is reflected in it.
The classic Israeli children’s songs of the ’70s and 80’s stand in the heart of an occult revolution.
The creators of “The Sixteenth Lamb” and “It’s me” grew up on Zionist songs, but decided to bequeath their children with completely different values, such as portrayed in verses such as “Most of all, I love me”.
Through home-videos and rare archive material, this film sets on a musical journey to the early days of the “I” generation.
Tom Shinan
Tom Shinan – Director and Editor
Yaniv Schmelzer – Director of Photography
Tammy Cohen – Line Producer
Yehonatan Geffen
Yoni Rechter
Yehuda Atlas
Chava Alberstein
Matti Caspi
Channel 1 – Israel Broadcasting Authority
Meshulam
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Bad 'Bots, Bad 'Bots, Whatcha Gonna Do? A virus turns domestic robots, auto-drive cars and even children's toys into ruthlessly efficient engines of destruction in Daniel H. Wilson's debut novel Robopocalypse.
Bad 'Bots, Bad 'Bots, Whatcha Gonna Do?
June 8, 201110:08 AM ET
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By Daniel H. Wilson
To Robopocalypse, his debut novel of a near-future machine revolution that sets about deleting the human race as if we were a particularly buggy subroutine, author Daniel H. Wilson brings plenty of 'bot-related bona fides. He's got a doctorate in robotics, and his previous works of nonfiction include How to Build a Robot Army and How to Survive a Robot Uprising. You can't say the guy hasn't taken the dictum "write what you know" to heart.
To capture the scope and horror of what his characters dub "The New War," Wilson adopts the splintered narrative structure that will be familiar to readers of Max Brooks' zombie-apocalypse chronicle World War Z and its many charnel-chewing imitators. Here, however, the virus in question infects not corpses but capacitors, turning domestic robots, auto-drive cars — even children's toys — into ruthlessly efficient (and quite literal) engines of destruction.
We glimpse the rise of a computer intelligence called Archos, who, mere minutes after coming online, calmly informs his creator that human beings have "fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor." And through the eyes of a disparate set of characters — a U.S. senator and her children, a soldier in Afghanistan, a computer hacker from London, a Japanese roboticist and many more — we witness the mass-robot-awakening event called "Zero Hour" and its grisly aftermath: the clean, methodical mass killings, the doomed flight of humans from the cities, and the pockets of resistance plagued by the all-too-human predilection for mistrust and infighting.
But by building his tale out of so many brief, discrete fragments, Wilson slights his characterizations. This is unfortunate, as any man vs. machine narrative can't land with necessary weight unless the reader can truly appreciate the humanity of the humans involved. Yet for roughly the novel's first half, Robopocalpyse's meat bags remain broad types prone to action-movie declarations ("Time to party!"). It's not until Wilson has returned to a given set of characters several times, showing us a bit more of their makeup with every iteration — the chilling memories that drive them, the scraps of hope they cling to — that we begin to care about them.
Daniel H. Wilson holds a doctorate in robotics. His books include How to Build a Robot Army and How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Anna Camille Long/ hide caption
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Daniel H. Wilson holds a doctorate in robotics. His books include How to Build a Robot Army and How to Survive a Robot Uprising.
It is safe to say that as a genre, the post-apocalyptic chronicle of decimated humanity is not known for its sense of hopefulness. So given its genre, and the fact that it takes as its subject the mercilessness of evolving machine intelligence, it may seem surprising that a novel with a name like Robopocalpyse is at heart a humanistic celebration of our race's capacity for ingenuity. But it's this reassuring sense of possibility — underscored by Wilson's decision to open the book with a chapter depicting the ultimate defeat of Archos — that buoys the novel and keeps its darkest and most violent passages from seeming willfully bleak.
It may be the presence of this beating human heart beneath Robopocalpyse's cold, genocidal surface that helps explain why Steven Spielberg has optioned, and plans to direct, the film version, due in 2013. The fact that Spielberg did so before Wilson had even finished his first draft, however, suggests that Hollywood sees something it likes in the way the book exploits our anxieties about artificial intelligence — something it finds very, very marketable.
Excerpt: 'Robopocalypse'
Daniel H. Wilson
Cover of Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson hide caption
LANGUAGE ADVISORY: This excerpt contains language that some readers may find offensive.
...we are a better species for having fought this war.
Cormac "Bright Boy" Wallace
Twenty minutes after the war ends, I'm watching stumpers pour up out of a frozen hole in the ground like ants from hell and praying that I keep my natural legs for another day.
Each walnut-sized robot is lost in the mix as they climb over each other and the whole nightmare jumble of legs and antennae blend together into one seething murderous mass.
With numb fingers, I fumble my goggles down over my eyes and get ready to do some business with my little friend Rob, here.
It's an oddly quiet morning. Just the sigh of the wind through stark tree branches and the hoarse whisper of a hundred-thousand explosive mechanical hexapods searching for human victims. Up above, snow geese honk to each other as they glide over the frigid Alaskan landscape.
The war is over. It's time to see what we can find.
From where I'm standing ten yards away from the hole, the killer machines look almost beautiful in the dawn, like candy spilled out onto the permafrost.
I squint into the sunlight, my breath billowing out in pale puffs, and sling my battered old flamethrower off my shoulder. With one gloved thumb, I depress the ignite button.
Spark.
The thrower doesn't light.
Needs to warm up, so to speak. But they're getting closer. No sweat. I've done this dozens of times. The trick is to be calm and methodical, just like them. Rob must've rubbed off on me after the first couple years.
Now I see the individual stumpers. A tangle of barbed legs attached to a bifurcated shell. I know from experience that each side of the shell contains a different fluid. The texture and heat of human skin initiates a trigger-state. The fluids combine. POP! Somebody wins a brand new stump.
They don't know I'm here. But the scouts are spreading out in semi-random patterns based on Big Rob's study of foraging ants. The robots learned so much about us, about nature.
It won't be long now.
I begin to back away slowly.
"C'mon, you bastard," I mutter.
That was a mistake: to talk. The heat from my breath is like a beacon. The flood of horror surges my way, quiet and fast.
A lead stumper climbs onto my boot. Gotta be careful now. Can't react. If it pops I'm minus a foot, best case.
I should never have come here alone.
Now the flood is at my feet. I feel a tug on my frost-covered shin-guard as the leader climbs me like a mountain. Metal-filament antennae tap, tap, tap along, questing for the tell-tale heat of human flesh.
Oh Christ. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
There's going to be a temperature differential at my waist level, where the armor chinks. A torso-level trigger-state in body armor isn't a death sentence, but it doesn't look good for my balls, either.
Spark. Whoomph!
I'm lit. A jet of flame leaps from my thrower. Its heat blooms on my face and sweat evaporates off my cheeks. My peripheral vision narrows. All I see are the controlled spurts of fire I'm arcing out onto the tundra. Sticky, burning jelly coats the river of death. The stumpers sizzle and melt by the thousands. I hear a chorus of high-pitched whines as the chilled air trapped in their carapaces squeezes out.
No explosions, just the occasional sputtering flare. The heat boils the juice in their shells before detonation. The worst part is that they don't even care. They're too simple to understand what's happening to them.
They love the heat.
I start to breathe again when the leader drops off my thigh and scurries toward the flames. The urge to step on the little mother is strong, but I've seen the boots fly before. Early on in the New War, the hollow backfire of a trigger-state stumper and the confused, hopping screams that came afterwards were as common as gunfire.
All the soldiers say that Rob likes to party. And when he gets going, he's one hell of a dance partner.
The last of the stumpers suicidally retreat toward the smoking lump of heat and the sizzling corpses of their comrades.
I dig out my radio.
"Bright Boy to base. Shaft Five Eleven... booby trap."
The little box squawks at me with an Italian accent: "Copy Bright Boy. This is Leo. Come in. Get your ass to Shaft cinque dodici. Holy shit. We got something for real here, boss."
I crunch over the frost back to Shaft Five Twelve to see for myself how real it is.
Leonardo is a big grunt, even bigger thanks to the hulking lower-body exoskeleton he picked up at a mountain rescue station crossing Mt. Logan in the South Yukon. He's got the LEEX's white cross medic logo covered in dead-black spray paint. The squad has tied a tickler-rope around his waist. He's backing up, step by step, motors whining as he pulls something big and black out of the hole.
From under his mess of curly black hair, Leo grumbles, "Oh man, B.B., this thing molto grande."
Cherrah, my specialist, points a depth-meter at the hole and tells me the shaft measures in at exactly 128 meters deep. Then she wisely steps away from it. Her cheek bears a sunken scar from less cautious times. We don't know what's coming out.
Funny, I think. With people, everything comes in tens. We count on our fingers and toes. It makes us sound like monkeys. But the machines count it out on their hardware just the same as us. They're binary all the way to the core. Everything comes out a power of two.
Now the tickler emerges from the hole looking like a spider with a fly. Its long wiry arms grip a black cube the size of a basketball. The cube must be as dense as lead, but the tickler is crazy-strong. We normally use 'em for grabbing up a guy who falls off a cliff or into a hole, but they can handle anything from a ten-pound vanilla babe to a soldier in full exo-rig. If you're not careful, they'll tickle your ribs to splinters.
Leo punches the tickler release and the cube thuds onto the snow. The squad looks my way. It's my call.
I sense that this thing is important. It's gotta be. With so many decoys and this shaft so close to where the war ended. We're only 100 meters away from where the Big Rob that called itself Archos made its last stand. What consolation prize could be here? What treasure is buried under these frozen plains where humanity sacrificed everything?
I squat down next to it. A whole lot of sheer-black nothing stares back at me. No buttons or handles. No anything. Only a couple scratches on the surface from the tickler.
It's not very rugged, I think.
A simple rule: The more delicate a Rob is, the smarter he is.
Now I'm thinking that this thing might have a brain. And if it's got a brain, it wants to live. So I lean in real close and whisper to it. "Hey," I say to the cube. "Speak up or die."
I sling my thrower off my shoulder real slow, so the cube can see. If it can see. With my thumb, I mash the igniter. So it can hear. If it can hear.
The cube sits in the permafrost: blank obsidian.
It looks like a volcanic rock, perfectly carved by alien tools. Like some kind of artifact buried here for eternity, since before man or machine.
A faint light flickers under the cube's surface. I look to Cherrah. She shrugs. Maybe the sun, maybe not.
I pause. The ground glistens. The ice around the cube is melting. It's thinking, trying to make a decision. Those circuits are warming up as the cube contemplates its own death.
"Yeah," I say, quietly. "Puzzle it out, Rob."
Spark. Whoomph.
The tip of the thrower catches fire with a concussive foomp. From behind me I hear Leo chuckle. He likes to see the smart ones die. Gives him satisfaction, he says. There is no honor in killing something that doesn't know it's alive.
The reflection of the pilot flame dances across the cube's surface for a split-second, then the thing lights up like a Christmas tree. Symbols flash across its surface. It chatters at us in the meaningless creaks and grinds of Robspeak.
That's interesting, I think. This thing was never meant for direct contact with humans. Otherwise, it would be spouting propaganda in English like all the other culturally aware robots, trying to win over our human hearts and minds.
What is this thing?
Whatever it is, it's trying to talk to us, frantically.
We know better than to try and understand it. Every croak and click of Robspeak has a dictionary's worth of information encoded. Besides, we can only hear a fraction of the sound frequency that Rob perks his ears to.
"Ooh, Daddy. Can we keep it? Please, please?" asks Cherrah, smiling.
I pinch out the thrower's pilot flame with one gloved hand. "Let's hump it home," I say, and my squad gets moving.
We lock the cube onto Leo's LEEX and haul it back to the forward command post. Just to be safe, I set up an EMP-shielded tent a hundred yards out. Robots are unpredictable. You never know when Rob will want to party. The mesh screen draped over the tent blocks communication with any stray thinking bots that might want to invite my cube to start dancing.
Finally, we get some alone time.
The thing keeps repeating one sentence and one symbol. I look 'em up in a field translator, expecting more Rob gibberish. But I find out something useful: This robot is telling me that it's not allowed to let itself die, no matter what — even if captured.
It's important. And chatty.
I sit in the tent with the thing all night. The Robspeak means nothing to me, but the cube shows me things — images and sounds. Sometimes I see interrogations of human prisoners. A couple times, there are interviews with humans who thought they were talking to other humans. Most times, though, it's just a conversation recorded under surveillance. People describing the war to each other. And all of it's annotated with fact-checks and lie-detection from the thinking machines, plus correlating data from satellite footage, object recognition, emotion and gesture and language predictions.
The cube is dense with information, like some fossilized brain that's sucked up entire human lifetimes and packed them inside itself, one after another, tighter and tighter.
At some point during the night it dawns on me that I'm watching a meticulous history of the robot uprising.
This is the goddamn black box on the whole war.
Some of the people in the cube are familiar. Me and a few of my buddies. We're in there. Big Rob kept its finger on the record button all the way through to the end. But dozens of others are in there, too. Some of them kids, even. There's people from all over the world. Soldiers and civilians. Not all of them made it out alive or even won their battles, but all of 'em fought. They fought hard enough to make Rob sit up and scribble some notes.
The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine-designated classification:
These damned machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds.
I leave the cube sitting there in the shielded tent for a solid week. My squad clears out the rest of the Ragnorak Intelligence Fields, no casualties. Then they get drunk. The next day we start packing it up and I still can't bring myself to go back in there and face the stories.
I can't sleep.
Nobody should ever have to see what we saw. And there it is in the tent, like a horror movie so twisted that it drives people insane. I lie awake because I know that every one of the soulless monsters I fought is in there waiting for me, alive and well and rendered in vivid 3-D.
The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down.
But I'm not sure anybody wants to remember those things. I'm thinking that maybe it would be best if our babies never know what we did to survive. I don't want to walk down memory lane hand in hand with murderers. Besides, who am I to make that decision for humanity?
Memories fade, but words hang around forever.
So I don't go into the shielded tent. And I don't sleep. And before I know it, my squad is bunking down for the last night in the 'rock. Tomorrow morning we set off for home, or wherever we choose to make home.
Five of us are sitting around a wood fire in the cleared zone. For once we aren't worrying about heat sigs or satellite recognition or the thop, thop, thop of lookers. No, we're bullshitting. And right after killing robots, bullshitting happens to be the numero uno expertise of Brightboy squad.
I'm quiet, but they've earned the right to B.S. So I just grin while the squad cracks jokes and throw out wild boasts. Talking about all the parties they had with Rob. The time Tiberius defused a couple of mailbox-sized stumpers and strapped them to his boots. The bugshit little bastards accidentally ran him straight through a razor-wire perimeter fence. Gave him some real awe-inspiring facial scars.
As the fire dies down, the jokes give way to more serious talk. And finally, Leo brings up Jack, the old sarge from before I had the job. Leo speaks with reverence and when the big man tells Jack's story I find myself swept up in it, even though I was there.
Heck, it was the day I got promoted.
But while Leo talks I get lost in the words. I miss Jack and I'm sorry for what happened to him. I see his grinning face again in my mind, even if it's only for a minute.
The long and short of it is that Jack Wallace isn't around anymore because he went to dance with Big Rob himself. Jack got invited and he went. And that's all there is to say about that, for now.
Which is why, a week after the war ends, I'm sitting cross-legged in front of a Rob survivor that's spraying the floor with holograms and I'm writing down everything I see and hear.
I just want to make my way home and have a good meal and try to feel human again. But the lives of war heroes are playing out before me like the devil's déjà vu.
I didn't ask for this and I don't want to do it, but I know in my heart that somebody ought to tell their stories. To tell the robot uprising from beginning to end. To explain how and why it started and how it went down. How the robots came at us and how we evolved to fight them. How humanity suffered, and oh god did we suffer. But also how we fought back. And how in the final days, we found a way to face Big Rob himself.
People should know that, at first, the enemy looked like everyday stuff: cars, buildings, phones. Then later, when they started designing themselves, Rob looked familiar but distorted, like people and animals from some other universe, built by some other god.
The machines came at us in our everyday lives and they came from our dreams and nightmares, too. But we still figured them out. Quick-thinking human survivors learned and adapted. Too late for most of us, but we did it. Our battles were individual and chaotic and mostly forgotten. Millions of our heroes around the globe died alone and anonymous, with only lifeless automatons to bear witness. We may never know the big picture, but a lucky few were being watched.
Somebody ought to tell their stories.
So this is it. The combined transcription of the data harvested from permafrost well-shaft R-512, drilled by the core artificial intelligence unit Archos, the master A.I. backing the robot uprising. The rest of humanity is busy getting on with it, rebuilding. But I'm snatching a few moments out of time to capture our history in words. I don't know why or whether it even matters, but somebody ought to do it.
Here, in Alaska, at the bottom of a deep, dark hole, the robots betrayed their pride in humankind. Here is where they hid the record of a motley group of human survivors who fought their own personal battles, large and small. The robots honored us by studying our initial responses and the maturation of our techniques, right up until we did our best to wipe them out.
What follows is my translation of the hero archive.
The information conveyed by these words is nothing compared to the ocean of data locked in the cube. What I'm going to share with you is just symbols on a page. No video, no audio, and none of the exhaustive physics data or predictive analyses on why things happened like they did, what nearly happened, and what never should have happened in the first place.
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do.
It doesn't matter where you find this. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of this chronicle, you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.
You will know that we are a better species for having fought this war.
Excerpted from Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. Copyright 2011 by Daniel H. Wilson. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday.
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Mounties Hold Out Fast-Finishing Tigers
nswrl.com.au
Sat 8 Apr 2017, 05:00 PM
Mounties have claimed their fifth victory of the season, overcoming the Wests Tigers 30-22 at Leichhardt Oval.
Zac Santo was incredible for the Mount Pritchard men, celebrating his birthday with a win and a fantastic performance, while Makahesi Makatoa had a massive game in the front row, scoring two tries.
The opening 10 minutes saw Mounties starved of attacking opportunity, but they didn’t let their first chance go to waste when they eventually gained field position, as Makatoa charged into a hole and crashed over for the first of his tries.
Mounties extended their lead into double figures when Eddie Aiono completed a beautiful right-to-left shift, before Dominic Reardon scored a fantastic try just five minutes later when a bomb was re-gathered and the ball went through the hands to push the margin out to 14.
The Tigers desperately needed to score next in order to stay in the game, and that’s exactly what they did through Esan Marsters-Siavale when back-to-back penalties earned them optimal field position.
In a bitter blow for the home side, Santo cut through the Tigers defence on the stroke of half-time, but due to three conversions being missed, Mounties only led 18-4 at the break despite scoring four tries.
Makatoa opened the scoring in the first half, and he did the exact same thing in the second when he crashed over under the posts for his second try of the afternoon.
At 24-4, it looked as though Mounties were going to run away with the game, but the Tigers refused to give up and mounted a comeback off the back of a Watson Heleta try.
With only 11 minutes remaining, the Tigers went back-to-back through Nathan Milone and Jordan Rankin in the space of three minutes, and suddenly it was a two-point ball game in the favour of Mounties.
However, all momentum was shut down when Reubenn Rennie pounced on a short kick and scored in the dying minutes, handing Mounties a 30-22 victory.
Mounties 30 (M Makatoa 2, E Aiono, D Reardon, Z Santo, R Rennie tries; I John 3 goals) def Wests Tigers 22 (E Marsters, W Heleta, N Milone, J Rankin tries; J Rankin 3 goals)
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West| East Nepal Tour
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Arrival in Kathmandu
Arrival in Kathmandu & transfer to Hotel
Kathmandu – Dahangadhi – Dadeldhura (1901m)
After one hour flight from Kathmandu we will reach Dhangadhi same day drive to Dadeldhura district lies in far western part of Nepal, Its headquater is in dadelhura bazaar. It contains route to Mount Kailash (lies in Tibet). It is inner terai region of Nepal with desert mountainous landscape. Before unification of Nepal ( in 17th century) it was kingdom of last malla king Nagi Malla. People of this place speak local language called Dotyalli dialect (quite similar to Nepali language). It has population of mix caste mostly Chettri, Brahmin and Thakuri and have unique dancing and singing culture which is different than other parts of Nepal. Here we will find famous temple called Ugratara.
Dadeldhura – Dipayal (549 m) – Chainpur (1250 m)– Ghodaghodi Tal – Tikapur – Dhangadhi (171m)
This day fist we drive to Dipayal, Dipayal lies in Doti district of Nepal and offers beautiful mountain views, rivers. It also has famous temple called Saileshwori. According to history, In 17th Century during the reign of King Nagi Malla western Nepal suffered from various natural calamites, to ease the problem and suffering of people and country the princess was offered to the god and she spend here life at the temple serving the god, from which new tradition of offering the girls to the god began. Which is still in practice the term as Deuki. It also has population of mix caste mostly Chettri, Brahmin and Thakuri
From Dipayal we drive to Chainpur Chainpur is headquarter of Bhajang district. There are many hindus in southern part with low elevation, northern part is inhabited by mainly sherpa who are influenced by Tibetan culture and Buddhist religion. After two days walk from here we can go to Khaptad National Park
Ghodaghodi Tal: We drive to Ghodaghodi Tal from Chainpur, Ghodaghodi tal is wetland. It is also habitat for several endangered species of flora and fauna. Here we can find various endangered species . These include the majestic Bengal Tiger, Marsh Crocodile, Red-crowned Roofed Turtle, Three-striped Roofed Turtle, Eurasian Otter, Smooth-coated Otter, Swamp Deer and Lesser Adjutant Stork. Around 140 species of different birds can be sighted around this wetland, some birds migrating from as far as Siberia and Mongolia during the winter season
Tikapur : After Ghodaghodi Tal we drive to Tikapur, Tikapur Municipality is in Kailali district in the Seti Zone. It situated in far-western development region of Nepal
Dhangadhi: From Tikapur we drive to Dhangadhi for Overnight stay, Dhangadhi is headquarter of Kailali district.
Dhangadhi – Bardiya National Park
From Dhangadhi we drive to Bardiya National Park which lies in Bardia District. It is situated in the eastern bank of Karnali River. The parks spread over 968 sq km extended southward from the Churia hill to the gentle slopes of the Bhabhar. The park is home to a wide variety of animals like Tiger, Gharials, Leopard, Samber Deer, Black Buck, Wild boar and much more. Here more than 350 species of birds has been recorded. Birdia is ecologically similar to Chitwan but is wilder and less explored. In Bardia National Park we will stay 2 nights 3 days.
After arriving there we will go for cultural village tour, visit to The Tharu museum and crocodile breeding center
This day we will go for Elephant safari and Jungle Trek
Bardia National Park – Salyan (1536 m)-Ghorahi (678 m) - Swargadwari (1907 m)– Liwang (1372 m)
After bird watching we will drive to Salyan. Salyan bazaar is headquarter of Salyan district. It is famous for Ginger powder and typical hand woven clothes called Thetuwa. Other famous produces of Salyan are Khukuri and Knives. Salyankot is a historical place of the district with 17 kots (Forts). Most of the disctrict is mountainous with Mahabharat range and Korbang hill. Salyan has several indigenous tribes including Gandharba, Badi, Raute along with Bhramins and Chhetris.
From Salyan we drive to Ghorahi, Gorahi is headquarter of Dang district. It is the most developed district as compared to other district of western part of Nepal. Dang is mainly populated by Tharu people (one the indigenous people of Nepal) and have their unique culture and lifestyle. Dang is origin of Tharu people and later they spread
From Ghorahi we drive to Swargadwari which lies in Pyuthan district of Nepal. Swargadwari means gateway to heaven and it is the most famous pilgrimage site in mid western Nepal. The religious significance increased further after Mahaprabhu Shree 108 Hamsnamd Giri who kindled a holy fire 114 years ago and the fire is still burning and every year thousands of people trek to Swargadwari to witness and make offerings to eternal fire.
From Swargadwari we drive to Liwang: Liwang is headquarter of Rolpa district, it is inhabited by indigenous people called Kham Magars. In 17 century different pockets of the area were ruled by different Magar Kings as their kingdoms and later Ghale Baitam conquered all Magar kings to establish a larger Magar Kingdom. Still there is larger population of Magars in Liwang. It was also starting point of Maoist revolution in Nepal.
Animal husbandry and agriculture is main occupation of the people in this area.
Liwang – Lumbini (102 m)
From Liwang we drive to Lumbini. Lumbini birth place of Lord Buddha lies in Rupandehi district of Nepal. It is holy place for Buddhists all over the world and a small which still has ruins of old city. The restored garden, and surroundings of Lumbini house the remains of many ancient stupas and monasteries. A large stone pillar erected by the Indian Emperor Ashoka in 250 B.C commemorate his visit to the place bears an inscription about the birth of Buddha at this place. Serious preservation work has started only in the later half of this century and already Lumbini as a slice of history is worth seeing, experiencing and cherishing.
Lumbini – Tansen (1372 m)– Sirubari (1700 m)
From Lumbini we drive to Tansen, Tansen is headquarter of Palpa district. Tansen town is on the southern slope of Shreenagar hill. From the top of the hill, the town looks out to the Madi valley, surrounding hills and the Terai further south. With views of the Himalayas from Shreenagar and rich natural environment all around Tansen is one of the most scenic places in Nepal. There we will find Newari houses similar to Kathmandu, cobbled streets, building built in neo classical style, pagoda temples, shrines and stupas.
Sirubari: From Tansen we drive to Sirubari, Sirubari is the villages which lie in western hills of Syangja district of Nepal. Majority of people here are of Gurung community (one of the ethnic groups of Nepal) who has preserved the tradition culture and lifestyle and is a model of community based sustainable rural tourism in Nepal. From here we can see good views of Annapurna, Machhapuchre and Dhaulagiri Himalayan range
Sirubari – Bandipur (1005 m)
From Sirubari we drive to Bandipur. Bandipur lies in Tanahun district of Nepal. Bandipur Bazaar is situated on a ride above the highway town of Dumre. From here we can see very good views of Langtang Ganesh Himal range, Manaslu range, Annapurna range and Dhaulagiri range. Bandipur has retained its age old cultural attributes, temple shrines, sacred caves, innumerable festivals and architecture which is quite similar to Kathmandu. Bandipur is mostly inhabited by Newar, Magar and Gurung communities.
Bandipur – Beshisahar (760 m)– Ghalegaun (2000 m)
From Bandipur we drive to Beshisahar, Beshisahar is headquarter of Lamjung district. It is exit point for Annapurna circuit trek.
From Beshisahar we drive to Ghalegaun, Ghalegaun is one of the beautiful village in south Asia. From here we can see breathtaking views of Manalsu range, Annapurna range. It is a modal village for experiencing typical culture and lifestyle of Gurung people. Traditional customs are still followed during birth, marriage and at other important events in a person’s life. Age old cultural dances like Jhyaure, Serka, Dohori, Ghantu, Ghyabring, Krishna charitra and Jhakri with traditional instruments and costumes are performed on various occasions.
Ghalegaun – Gorkha (1522 m)– Chitwan (200 m)
From Ghalegaun we drive to Gorkha, Gorkha . It is an ancestral home of the Shah dynasty and home of the original Gorkha soldiers. Gorkha’s attraction is the ancient Gorkha Palace Durbar, which used to be a palace of Shah kings, inside the palace there is a temple of Goddess Gorakh Kali with excellent views of the surrounding valleys and the Manaslu range.
From Gorkha we drive to Chitwan. Chitwan is major junction on the East – West highway and also a administrative and commercial center of the terai. It is also one the major habitat for Tharu people. Here we can explore Tharu culture and lifestyle. The famous Chitwan National Park lies in Chitwan district.
Chitwan – Janakpur (67 m)
From Chitwan we drive to Janakpur. Janakpur is headquarter of Dhanusa district. It is a heartland of ancient Mithila culture and was reputed to be the center of learning. The present town is enclosed by an eight kilometer long brick paved ring road and has 24 large and 21 small ponds and numerous hindu shrines dedicated to Lord Rama, Sita, Laxman and Hanuman (The monkey god). Year around there are numerious religions fares attracting pilgrims from both Nepal and India. Janaki temple, the heart of the town was built by queen of Tikamagadh in 1910 B.S is one of the most famous temple in the Terai belt. This elaborate marbel temple is a specimen of the 17th century Mughal architecture. The image worked out on the walls, both inside and outside, of the temple are worth seeing. Other places of attraction in the periphery of the Janaki temple are Rama Mandir, Ganga Sagar, Janaki temple etc. Janakpur is mostly populated by Yadav, Musalman, Kewat, Teli whose culture and tradition are similar to bordering India.
Janakpur – Koshi Tapu ( 80 m)
From Janakpur we drive to Koshi Tapu. Koshi Tapu Wildlife reserve is situated on the footplains of the saptakoshi and sunsari district of Nepal. The reserve is defined by the eastern and western embankments of the river. The land of the reserve is mainly sandy and the only vegetation are a few patches of scrub forest and deciduous mixed riverine forest. It offers variety of wildlife like wild buffalo, spotted deer, bull, wild boar, and 200 different species of birds, 20 species of duck, 2 species ibes, many storks, egrets and herons
Koshi Tapu – Ilam (1208 m)
After breakfast in Koshi Tapu we drive to Ilam. Ilam itself is a district headquarter is called the land of sunrise. Because it lies furthest on the east and is the first to witness sunrise. Ilam derives its name from Limbu language. In Limbu language IL means twisted and LAM means roads. It was the last of the ten self ruling states of the confiderate of Limbuwan states to join Nepal in 1813 AD and King Hangshu Phuba Lingdom of Lingdom dynasty was the last king of Ilam. It is one of the most economically active districts in Nepal, which is mainly famous for Ilam tea. The other important agro products are cardamom, milk, ginger and potato. Ilam is mostly populated by Limbu, Tamang and Rai people (ethnic groups of Nepal). We can also find few settlements of Brahmins and Chhetris around the area. It is also the starting point for kanchanjunga trek
Ilam – Bhedetar (1430 m)
From Ilam we drive to Bhedetar. Bhedetar lies in Dhankuta district of Nepal. Bhedetar is the small hill station situated 16 kilometer north of Dharan over a flat hillock at an altitude of 1430 meters above the sea level. It is famous for its panoramic view of the Himalayas, the plain of terai, the saptakoshi river and Dharan bazaar and the vintage point is the charles’ point, named after prince Charles of United Kingdom of UK after he visited the place. The area is mostly populated by Rai, Limbu and Magars (ethnic groups of Nepal).
Rest day or explore the area
This day if we want to explore the area we will visit three different places near Bhedetar. Rajarani, Uttarpani and Sinduwa.
Rajarani: Rajarani is beautiful valley situated 16 kilometer east of Bhedetar. The place is believe to be the capital of Limbu kingdom in the past. The place derives its name from two ponds – Raja and Rani. The place has congenial climate and offers spectacular views of the Terai on the south and the majestic Himalayan peaks in the north.
Uttarpani: Uttarpani is a small bazaar 3 kilometers west of Hile in Belhara Village Development Committee. This area is surrounded by rhododendron forests, ponds and pastureland. It also offers unobstructed view of Himalayas. A motorable road serves this place and there are also small roadside inns for the travelers.
Sinduwa: It is a small but a place of scenic beauty with lush green forests situated on east of Hile Bazaar. This place also offers magnificent views of Himalayas.
Bhedetar – Daman (2400 m)
From Bhedetar we drive to Daman. Daman lies in Makwanpur district of Nepal. It is situated in southwest of Kathmandu at an altitude of 2400 meters. Daman commands a breathtaking view of the most of the major Himalayan ranges of Nepal. There is a view tower equipped with long range telescopes for sightseeing.
Daman – Kathmandu
After breakfast we drive to Kathmandu
Sightseeing in Kathmandu
Sightseeing tour to Kirtipur, Khokana, Bungmati, Pharping.
Kirtipur is small town, 8km southwest of Kathmandu and situated atop a hill. Tribhuwan University, Nepal’s premier seat of education, is located at the foothills of Kirtipur. This historic town has many attractions to offer like old shrines and temples and old houses. Some of the folks are typically dressed in traditional costumes and can be spotted working on looms.
Khokana is a traditional and tiny Newari village 8km south of Kathmandu , which has its own history and has retained its tradition and culture. It is a living museum and recalls medieval times. The farming community of Newars who live here are mostly dependent on agriculture
Bungamati is another ancient Newari village that lies just a few kilometers from the busy city (Kathmandu) centre. Dating back to the 16th century this village is an important religious site.
Pharping Pharping is a village approximately thirty minutes outside Kathmandu and is surrounded by pilgrimage sites that Newari and Tibetan Buddhist, Hindu, and Hariti worshipers hold sacred.
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Home » Articles » NG50. Network Grammar is not a finite state machine
It’s encouraging that none of those who have kindly commented on Network Grammar seem able to answer the objections to mainstream generative grammar set out in NG1 to NG6. However two eminent academics have expressed deep scepticism about what follows in NG7 onwards. Essentially the NG model is alleged to be a finite state machine. FSMs are capable of handling regular languages but not, according to Chomsky himself, human language.
The sceptics offer no further comment on NG. They presumably consider their argument sufficient and incontrovertible. It’s unclear whether there will be other objections when NG is shown not to be an FSM
This piece shows that NG should not be rejected as an FSM.
Finite state machine
The crux of what the two sceptics are saying is in a comment KA attached to LS7X. KA uses ‘machine’ to mean a mathematical abstraction rather than a practical implementation, but also to mean what’s been described in LanguidSlog.
The machine consists of a finite network of nodes. Since there are only finitely many, we can number them. So let’s say that the machine consists of nodes n1 n2 … nk.
Each node can apparently be in seven discrete activation states: no activation (0) to full activation (6). Therefore the state of the machine at any given time can be described by the finite k-digit long number d1 d2 … dk in base seven, where each digit represents the state of node i at that moment. The state-space of the machine is therefore finite.
The machine accepts words from left to right. These are drawn from a finite set of words, a set we might call the machine’s alphabet (A). Whenever a word is encountered, the machine transitions deterministically from its current state into a new state. The machine appears to start in a state where no node is activated, i.e. the machine is in the initial state 0, and it seems to return to this state at the end of a successful parse.
KA goes on to describe mathematically the processing of a sentence and concludes that the ‘machine’ is an FSM.
The issue is whether NG is a finite state machine. That an FSM cannot comprehensively parse human language is not disputed. Centre-embedded sentences are often cited to exemplify the difficulties. But NG has been shown (in LS43) to handle such sentences. So what’s going on?
The contradiction most likely arises from attributing to NG a set of characteristics that lead to the conclusion that it is an FSM.
The claims that the network is finite and that the ‘alphabet’ (lexicon) is finite are uncontroversial. They would be true of any ‘machine’ implemented in physiology or electronics.
The claim that the network has a finite number of states depends upon activation always being in whole units. LanguidSlog has said several times that there must be decay of activation but has never said decay is in whole units. Therefore the claim that state-space is finite is dubious. Whatever physiology allows would apply to any machine implemented in the brain. If the state-space of NG is finite then the state-space of any other machine must also be.
The claim that NG ‘accepts words left to right’ is correct. Phonological delivery is serial and unidirectional. Any parsing machine must accept words from left to right.
Thus finite network, finite alphabet, finite state-space and left-to-right processing do not distinguish NG from any other machine.
The final claim is that NG ‘transitions deterministically…into a new state’. This is a bit trickier to deal with.
‘Deterministic’ has a particular meaning in this context. There are deterministic FSMs and non-deterministic FSMs. In a deterministic FSM there is only one possible new state for a given existing state and a given input. When the machine is in state A and encounters word X it always transitions to state B.
In a non-deterministic FSM there can be alternative new states. When the machine is in state A and encounters word X it may transition to state C or to state D or …
Processing human language needs alternatives to handle situations such as in sentence (5):
(5) Nero is giving Olivia to Poppaea
At Olivia it’s possible that what follows is a noun phrase or a preposition phrase. If an NP then Olivia is GOAL and the following NP is THEME. If a PP then Olivia is THEME and the complement of the preposition is GOAL. The machine must provide paths to deal with either of these alternatives.
Selection from among these paths is essentially a matter of trying them out.
NG does of course have a ‘look ahead’ capability. This works by leaving certain propositions incomplete (GIVE / ? / OLIVIA) pending the input of later words. It’s therefore fair to say that NG is non-deterministic and KA’s critique is flawed.
It’s not clear whether KA would approve of NG if it’s a non-deterministic FSM. I suspect not. Conventional wisdom is that something higher up the Chomsky Hierarchy is needed for human language.
Chomsky Hierarchy
I’ll not try to define formal language, generative power, context-sensitive and so on. Readers not already familiar with the subject can try Wikipedia or one of the many books on the subject; Jurafsky and Martin ‘Speech and Language Processing’ should be accessible to non-mathematicians.
The Chomsky Hierarchy accommodates grammars expressed as rewrite rules. Each rule governs the behaviour of a string of adjacent words or non-terminals; the latter are the input (in production) or the output (in comprehension) of another rule.
A level in the hierarchy is characterised by the complexity of the rules it allows. A formal language can be devised for anywhere in the hierarchy. Human language ought to fit somewhere in the hierarchy because, at the highest level, formal languages have greater generative power. Many believe that human language fits between two of the levels Chomsky originally identified; this is called ‘mildly context sensitive’. Defining the rules for this is difficult and laborious although progress has been made, for example on Tree Adjoining Grammar (Aravind Joshi) and Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Mark Steedman).
No one has been able to define a complete set of rules for a human language. This suggests the methodology – rules expressed as strings of words and non-terminals – is inappropriate. LanguidSlog has therefore speculated about mental architecture and the sort of rules it could allow. The results are promising and ought to encourage more work – not scepticism.
It’s difficult and not very useful to assert that NG is at a particular level in the hierarchy. NG doesn’t check that a string of words is a sentence in the language; its function is to deliver conceptual propositions to cognition. NG doesn’t work on individual words but on pairs of words, not necessarily adjacent. NG doesn’t use non-terminals; the idea of rewrite rules is irrelevant.
Be open-minded!
The sceptics assume there is only one way of looking at language. Clearly NG is radically different. This piece has shown that the differences shouldn’t be ignored in order to condemn NG. It would be better if the sceptics got an understanding of how the P / M / C / R / C / M / P construct works and how multiple instances of it are linked to form sentences. There are good prospects for capturing this data from corpora. NG could quickly surpass rival grammars.
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Clinton's Rahm Ties Could Sink 2016 Bid
By William Kelly
Tuesday, 16 February 2016 12:36 PM Current | Bio | Archive
There’s an old Aesop’s tale about a frog that felt he had something to prove by swelling his head up bigger than an ox. Ego overriding sanity, the frog’s head eventually explodes and that’s the end of that.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and race-based pandering is a lot like that frog’s fat head.
Ever since her embarrassing 22-point loss to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, Clinton has been in non-stop desperation mode to prove she’s entitled to be the Democratic front-runner.
And what does a Democratic candidate do when they are desperate? They start talking up racial injustice and all of a sudden it’s as if they’ve turned into Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. reincarnate — even if they are pasty as the Clintons.
"African American parents shouldn't have to worry that their children will be harassed, humiliated, even shot because of the color of their skin," Clinton proclaimed in her New Hampshire concession speech.
Knowing the power of the black voting bloc, she called in all of her chits last week and was “gifted” the endorsement of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC over Sanders. Without the endorsement of black leaders, Hillary is toast.
Clinton can’t afford to lose South Carolina again and she knows it.
In the 2008 primary, Barack Obama won 55 percent to Clinton’s 27 percent. Obama won black voters 78 to 19 in the state. Today, 60 percent of the palmetto state's electorate is African-American.
But do black lives really matter to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton or just black votes?
There is a dirty little secret about Hillary that could sink her with black voters: Her ties to Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
I’ve been writing about the racial tensions in Chicago for months. I’ve been imploring national Republicans to call out Hillary’s hypocrisy on Rahm. (Forget the Illinois Republican Party).
Party apparatchiks actually endorsed Obama's former White House chief of staff for re-election despite his dismal record on the economy and crime.
Now that Hillary is aggressively courting the black vote (and at risk of losing younger black voters), this is the time for the GOP to stick this point for real.
President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch have worked desperately to cover-up the "Rahm problem." They don't want Chicago to be ground zero for a violent national discussion on race relations.
Contrast this with the situation in Ferguson and officer Darren Wilson, who was cleared of any civil rights violations by the U.S. Justice Department. Chicago community leaders actually had to pressure Lynch to open a civil rights investigation in Chicago.
Yet just days ago, Lynch filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Ferguson for police misconduct.
If Black Lives Matter has a bone to pick, it should be with Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. If they want to make their point, this case, unlike any other, deserves their outrage.
Hillary's criticism of Rahm has been muted too. In fact, two days after calling for a DOJ inquiry into the Chicago Police Department, Clinton told voters in Iowa on Dec. 4 that she supported Emanuel.
"He loves Chicago, and I'm confident that he's going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them," she said.
In addition to a major speech on racism in Harlem today, she plans to rally in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood Wednesday as part of a national strategy to turnout the African-American vote for her campaign.
But the situation in Chicago is a powder keg, Rahm Emanuel is the match. Emanuel's year long suppression of the Laquan McDonald police shooting video has made him damaged political goods — hopefully, forever. His story has been unraveling ever since it was exposed last fall. Chicagoans are bitterly angry at Emanuel’s deception.
Right after he was re-elected last April, the Rahm-controlled City Council approved what many are now calling a $5 million "hush money" settlement to McDonald's family.
The Emanuel administration fought in court for a year to prevent the release of the dash cam video — which shows 17 year-old McDonald walking away from police before being shot 16 times.
According to a new Tribune poll, 74 percent of Chicagoans do not buy Rahm’s story about what he knew and when. His approval rating is a mere 27 percent — making him Chicago's most unpopular mayor ever.
Even Bernie Sanders came here in December denouncing Rahm. “If the question is do I want or need Rahm Emanuel’s support for president, with all due respect for the mayor, no I don’t,” Sanders said.
But Hillary Clinton is not Bernie Sanders. Rahm is one of Hillary's biggest supporters. Not only has Rahm endorsed Hillary for President but he has bundled millions in contributions for her campaign.
When she is asked about the Laquan Mcdonald video, what will she say?
Will she refund Rahm's contributions?
Will she denounce him, rejecting his endorsement?
If not, how can black voters believe Hillary when she says she worries about black children being shot "because of the color of their skin?"
There's nothing worse than a swelled head, especially if you are a frog.
William J. Kelly is an American producer, television and radio host, commentator, media strategist, and critic. In 1994, he ran for U.S. Congress. In 2015, he made waves when he busted the campaign finance caps in the Chicago mayor’s race. He is the founder of RevDigital, an independent TV and documentary production house. Kelly is a frequent contributor to The Washington Times, American Spectator, and others. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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The Morini Strad
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Tulis McCall
(Review by Tulis McCall)
“Based on a true story” is always a phrase that puts me off my feed. Usually the author is so dedicated to the details of the tale that s/he forgets to create a plot around which a play can be built. The writer forgets to include a character that wants something, whose desire leads to a conflict that causes a kafuffle to be addressed. While Willie Holtzman seems to have taken a few liberties in creating this piece for theatre, providing a plot was not one of them.
Erica Morini, (Mary Beth Peil) a former child prodigy on the violin and now a lonely woman living on her income as a violin teacher, has a Stradivarius – The Davidoff Strad, so named for its last owner - that needs repair. It has been scratched, and this is a sacrilege. She calls upon the services of Brian Skarstad (Michael Laurence) who is himself a bit of a recluse. He is an artisan who values what a violin is: the marriage of wood that sings. She values a violing for what can be coaxed out of it by the right person: music. They are like parents fighting over an only child.
And indeed this violin is like a child. Just look at the production photo of the violin being held the way a woman would hold her pregnant stomach. This violin is beautiful, innocent, and its mission is only to do good. Whether it is allowed to give its soul to the world depends on its caretakers. This violin could not ask for better. Although they are often at odds with one another – he values his children; she thinks they are a waste of time. He admires musicians she thinks of as hacks. She would touch the violin before he signals that the varnish is dry. He thinks the Strad is an object of veneration. She wants to sell it.
Life is pressing down on both of these people. Brian may have to take a job with a restorer for financial security, just as on a grander scale, Erica may have to sell the violin. When she asks Brian to be the agent, the possibility of the violin coming to both their rescues is at once exhilarating and frightening. It proves to be the near undoing of their relationship.
While I was driven crazy by the sort of travelogue tone of this piece, my companion for the evening was entranced. A former violinist herself, this story reminded her of her first violin, found in the Penny-Saver by her mother back in the 1960’s. When she and her father found a man in Hartford to repair the piece – she remembers that his street address was the first “1/2” she had ever encountered – his shop was a small building at the end of an alley. When he saw the instrument he first addressed the bow’s needs. Then he took the violin in his arms and held it like a baby. He smiled and was silent for a long time. Then he said, “I made this violin” - a life changing moment that still glows after decades.
This play has a narrow bandwidth, and my friend fit into it just fine. And I daresay that most of the attendees will leave with a new appreciation for a violin. My favorite moment in the play is when Brian taps two pieces of wood together and creates a note of music. The music is in the tree first. The fact that it makes it to Carnegie Hall is a colossal miracle.
Think of what THAT story could have been, if someone had lined its interior with a plot of equal magnitude. But nobody did, and as a result these actors have very little to do other than enjoy each other’s company. Such a situation is great in daily life, but in the theatre it is as dull as a pile of wood shavings.
"As 'The Morini Strad' unfolds, ..., an ungainly array of seize-the-day speeches begins to clutter the stage. "
Eric Grode for New York Times
"A delicately drawn, if predictable story."
Joe Dziemianowicz for New York Daily News
"A lovely theatrical chamber piece that’s both expertly written and performed."
Frank Scheck for New York Post
"The only grace notes among the clinkers of this particular “Strad” come courtesy of these two excellent actors."
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"Like a diamond chip, a speck of a play like "The Morini Strad" can sparkle if it's beautifully mounted. Primary Stages shows how it's done..."
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This week the Metro Council joined others across Oregon to send a letter opposing a rule change proposed by Secretary Carson at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In Gilliam County visit, Metro Council inspects landfill and hears of the economic impact to rural Oregon
July 5, 2019 10:48 a.m.
Metro's landfill contract leads to $4.9 million in economic impact in Gilliam County, and the landfill provides 21 percent of the county's jobs.
An Independence Day message from Councilor Juan Carlos González
By Metro Councilor Juan Carlos González
I’m proud to be a steward of Metro’s vision of ensuring everyone in our region has the opportunity to thrive. As we celebrate this Fourth of July, I hope you will reflect on the many sacrifices made by individuals and communities throughout our history that affords us the rights we have today.
Voters in November to consider renewing Metro parks and nature bond measure
June 6, 2019 5:59 p.m.
Voters in November will decide on a $475 million parks and nature bond measure to protect water quality, restore fish and wildlife habitat and improve access to nature – with an emphasis on advancing racial equity and making the region resilient to climate change.
22 organizations in greater Portland receive grants to connect people to transportation
June 4, 2019 8:48 a.m.
Metro kicks off second round of Investment and Innovation grants
Metro is launching the application cycle for the second round of its Investment and Innovation grants. These grants aim to support creative ideas and build resiliency in the greater Portland area’s garbage and recycling system to prevent and reduce waste.
Where has the money from Metro’s 2006 natural areas bond measure gone?
May 9, 2019 10:37 a.m.
In 2006, voters across greater Portland approved a $227 million bond measure for Metro natural areas. More than a dozen years later, spending from the bond measure is nearly finished. So where did the money go?
Survey open: Help shape the future of affordable housing in greater Portland
May 1, 2019 1:23 p.m.
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Public notice: Opportunity to comment on creation of Regional Waste Advisory Committee
April 29, 2019 1:55 p.m.
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Metro awards third round of Community Placemaking grants
April 29, 2019 9 a.m.
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PILOT projects test new approaches to equitable transportation in greater Portland
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Food Waste Stops With Me celebrates first year’s successes
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A High-Efficiency Light-Collection System for Energy-Limited Infrared Emission Radiometers
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Kenneth W. Busch, Marianna A. Busch, David C. Tilotta, S. Wayne Kubala, and S. Ravishankar, "A High-Efficiency Light-Collection System for Energy-Limited Infrared Emission Radiometers," Appl. Spectrosc. 45, 964-968 (1991)
An optical system that combines radiation from four solid angles about an emission source into a single beam was used in conjunction with a detector-noise-limited, flame infrared emission (FIRE) radiometer to increase the optical throughput of the <i>f</i>/4 polychromator dispersion system. Equations for the optical layout of the four-angle, pre-dispersion optics were derived, and the performance of the system was compared with a traditional, single solid-angle lens system. The four-angle collection optics were found to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of HCI emission at 3.77 μm by a factor of 3.8, in agreement with the theoretically expected value. The signal-to-noise performance expected for detector-noise-limited conditions, background-shot-noise-limited conditions, and background-flicker-noise-limited conditions is discussed.
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New Zealanders’ experiences and pathways to a diagnosis of bowel cancer: a cross-sectional descriptive study of a younger cohort
5th October 2018, Volume 131 Number 1483
Zoe Windner, Sue Crengle, Brandon de Graaf, Ari Samaranayaka, Sarah Derrett
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality in Aotearoa/New Zealand, comprising the second-greatest subset of cancer registrations and deaths in 2013.1 Diagnosis can be complex and many patients present acutely.2 Existing research found 34% of New Zealanders with colon cancer first present to an emergency department (ED).3 Late-stage diagnoses are overrepresented in New Zealand; 24% of colon cancers in New Zealand are metastatic,3 compared with 19% and 17% in Australia and the UK respectively, despite the countries having comparable healthcare systems.4 New Zealand’s later staging at CRC diagnosis predicts poor outcomes, particularly for Māori.5
Diagnostic delay is implicated in this later staging, but research evidence is conflicting.6,7 Aggressive disease often muddles the relationship by producing more concerning symptoms, encouraging earlier presentation.8 However, it is known that those diagnosed while asymptomatic tend to have better prognoses.9 Delay is also known to cause psychological distress, further influencing outcomes.10,11 To assess delay, the Model of Pathways to Treatment provides an analytic framework, dividing the process into relevant intervals: symptom appraisal (internal to the patient), healthcare-seeking (external to the patient) and diagnosis.12 Holistic evidence is limited, but patient, care and disease factors appear consistently influential.13 Delays appears multifactorial and patient-centred, with attempts to rationalise symptoms and reluctance to seek care among diagnostic barriers identified in other countries.19,20
With the introduction of a nationwide bowel screening programme targeting those aged 60–74 years, New Zealand’s diagnostic process is in a state of change; currently 7 of 20 district health board regions are participating in the programme.14,15 Understanding the present nature of diagnostic facilitators and barriers is potentially useful in understanding the future impact of this screening programme. Additionally, the screening programme excludes those under 60 years of age; 21% of those diagnosed with CRC each year.1 Understanding diagnostic facilitators and barriers, from the perspective of the patient, may help ensure diagnostic pathways are as effective and efficient as possible.
In New Zealand, existing research begins at referral, usually by a general practitioner (GP). This identifies the most significant period in the diagnostic pathway as the time from referral from the GP to the first assessment by a specialist (FSA).16 However, specific events preceding the FSA have not yet been explored in New Zealand. Australian studies have focused on the perspectives of healthcare professionals (HCP).17,18 While research has broadened knowledge about diagnostic facilitators, like age and pain,17 research examining the patient perspective and experience of the diagnostic pathway is currently absent in New Zealand.
The overall aim of this research is to describe and begin to understand the experiences of patients diagnosed with CRC in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Specifically, our objectives are to:
Describe the characteristics of participants diagnosed with CRC in our sample.
Describe their pathways to diagnosis, their points of contact with the healthcare system and the patient experience at each of these points.
Understand the experience of specific symptoms and the role of symptoms in the diagnostic pathway.
Begin to understand factors which may influence the diagnostic pathway and any delays in diagnosis.
A comprehensive cross-sectional questionnaire was designed for online administration using LimeSurvey.21 Invitations were placed on two Facebook groups run by national patient and family charity, Bowel Cancer New Zealand (BCNZ). Invitations were also posted on the BCNZ website and newsletter. These were followed by a newspaper article.22 All interested potential participants were screened. Eligible participants were patients diagnosed in New Zealand, or their immediate support people, and aged over 18 years. The paper analyses responses from patients only.
The questionnaire included questions on demographics, CRC characteristics, help-seeking behaviours and the diagnostic pathway. Demographic information collected included age, gender, ethnicity, region of residence, education, family history of CRC, usual healthcare contacts (prior to diagnosis) and health insurance status. Ethnicity options were derived from Ministry of Health guidelines and level one prioritisation was used for analysis.23 Patient residential regions were grouped into Ministry of Health Cancer Networks.3
All patients were asked the year in which they were diagnosed, and this was categorised for analysis (grouped as 0–5 years, 6–10 years, or 11 or more years ago). All were also asked to report the site of their primary tumour as in the colon or rectum, their CRC stage at diagnosis, and the healthcare sector (public or private) in which the diagnosis was made.
Symptoms were assessed using multiple-choice checklists with free-format fields. Facilitators of, and barriers to, seeking help were recorded in the same way. Symptom concern was assessed on a visual analogue scale from 1 (not at all worrying) to 5 (extremely worrying). Symptom-to-diagnosis interval (SDI) was recorded for symptomatic patients. This was free-format and checked against the separate pathway timeline. SDI was then classified as less than six months, or six months or more.
Pathway questions incorporated patient experience factors from the New Zealand Health Survey and known obstacles to early cancer diagnosis.20,24–26 All respondents were asked a cycling set of questions on the patient pathway: the type of HCP, the patient experience and the HCP response; the cycle was repeated until diagnosis was reached. Patient experience questions were derived from the New Zealand Health Survey.24 Two of the six question themes were covered as follows: “At this time, how good was this person at listening to you?” and “At this time, how good was this person at taking your problems seriously?”. These employed a five-point Likert-like scale for responses: ‘very good’, ‘good’, ‘neither good nor bad’, ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’. A ‘good experience’ required responses to both questions to be ‘very good’ or ‘good’.
Data was checked for inconsistencies and duplicates, and analysed with Stata, version 15.1.27 Characteristics associated with delay in diagnosis were investigated using the Chi-squared test, Fisher’s exact test, and univariate and multivariate logistic regression.
Sociodemographic information for the 98 patients is shown in Table 1. Our sample was younger, with more females than the population diagnosed with CRC in New Zealand.1
Table 1: Sociodemographic characteristics of study participants.
Age at diagnosis
39 years or younger
New Zealand European/Pākehā
Region by Ministry of Health Cancer Network3
Northern (Northland, Auckland)
Midland (Waikato, Lakes, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne)
Central (Taranaki, Manawatu, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington)
Southern (South Island)
Table 2 presents factors relating to our participants’ diagnoses, symptoms and care. Most were diagnosed recently (within the last five years) after experiencing symptoms, and first sought care for these symptoms from a GP.
Table 2: Cancer and care characteristics reported by study participants.
Time of diagnosis
0–5 years ago (2013–2018)
6–10 years ago (2008–2012)
11 or more years ago (2007 or earlier)
Tumour site:
Stage at diagnosis:
(multiple symptoms possible; does not add to 100%)
Change in bowel habit
Anaemia or iron deficiency
Factors encouraging healthcare-seeking
(multiple responses possible; does not add to 100%)
Worried about symptoms; unsure what they could represent
Worried about symptoms; suspecting bowel cancer
Worried about symptoms; suspecting another disorder
Acute exacerbation of symptoms
Routine medical appointment
Family or personal medical history
Barriers to healthcare-seeking
Acceptable explanation for symptoms
Waiting for symptoms to resolve without intervention
Found symptoms embarrassing or private
Lack of access
Sought care immediately; no barriers reported
First HCP contacted
HCP visits before first specialist appointment (FSA)
Most patients (n=72, 73%) reported more than one symptom and several symptom combinations appeared important. Of those experiencing altered bowel habit, 35 (67%) also reported rectal bleeding; 17 (74%) of those reporting anaemia or iron deficiency also reported low energy; and 8 (80%) of those experiencing unexplained weight loss also reported abdominal pain. The most common trigger symptom (immediately preceding the first HCP contact) was rectal bleeding (n=27, 28%).
Symptom concern was greatest for a palpable mass, where the mean level of concern was 4.5 on the five-point scale. Symptom concern was least for anaemia or iron deficiency and low energy, where the mean level was 3.1 on the five-point scale.
The most common facilitator of healthcare-seeking behaviours was worry about symptoms, although most participants reported not knowing what their symptoms could represent. The most common barrier to healthcare-seeking behaviours was providing an alternative explanation for symptoms experienced. Encouragingly, few reported embarrassment about symptoms, but most who did were experiencing an altered bowel habit (n=10, 26%) or rectal bleeding (n=11, 27%).
Most patients first approached someone who was not a HCP (n=62, 77%) and the first HCP approached was the GP in most cases. For 17 (17%) patients, the reported pathways to diagnosis were incomplete or unclear. The remaining 81 (83%) patients reported a clear and complete pathway to diagnosis and these are shown in Figure 1, where the area of each circle is proportional to the number of patients at each step. This figure has been simplified so that only pathways followed by two or more patients (total n=55, 56%) have been shown. Where additional steps to diagnosis have been omitted, as in the remaining 26 cases, this is shown with a dotted line.
Figure 1: Pathway map showing the patient-reported diagnostic process (circle area proportional to n).
The most common pathway shown is linear—patients first approached a non-HCP, then a GP, then a specialist, where they received their diagnosis. However, less direct pathways are also present, with repeated visits to one provider.
Twenty-three (25%) patients reported an SDI of less than three months, 41 (44%) less than six months and 66 (71%) less than 12 months. Table 3 reports associations between patient-reported characteristics and SDI.20,25,26 It appears that younger age, less formal education, poor/neutral first healthcare experience, higher number of visits and diagnosis in the public healthcare sector are associated with longer SDI.
Table 3: Patient characteristics according to patient-reported symptom-to-diagnosis interval (SDI).
Patient characteristics
SDI less than six months
n (%)*
SDI of six months or longer
OR (95% CI)**
P value**
<50 years
0.84 (0.31–2.26)
NZ European / Pākehā
5.36 (0.63–45.56)
Any tertiary qualification
No tertiary qualification
No family history of CRC
Any family history of CRC
Tumour site
Stage at diagnosis
I or II
III or IV
Asymptomatic
1 symptom
>1 symptom
No intermittent symptoms
Any intermittent symptom
Good experience at first HCP appointment
Poor or neutral experience at first HCP appointment
<3 HCP visits before diagnosis
3 or more HCP visits before diagnosis
No healthcare insurance
Diagnosed in the private system
Diagnosed in the public system
*Do not always sum to 100% because of missing values.
**Excludes missing responses. P-values refer to the association between the outcome and whole variable and were obtained using univariate logistic regression with SDI of six months or more as the outcome.
With one exception, there were no significant changes in any of the associations presented in Table 3 after adjusting for age using multivariable logistic regression. The exception is the significance of the patient experience at the first HCP appointment, which moved to P=0.06 after adjustment.
Age was also classified as in the new screening programme, where those eligible are aged between 60 and 74 years.14 Those inside this age group (aged 60–74 years) were less likely to experience delay (n=8, 38% with SDI six months or longer) than those outside this age group (aged <60 or >74 years), where 48 (67%) reported delay (P=0.02).
This study appears to be the first to present patient perspectives of the pathway to a diagnosis of CRC in New Zealand. The majority of patients sought care for general symptom worry. While few suspected bowel cancer, those who did were most likely to be experiencing a change in bowel habit, rectal bleeding or both. Paradoxically, patients with these symptoms were also most likely to feel embarrassed about their symptoms. While this did not appear to influence delay (overall or in healthcare-seeking), these are important perspectives to focus on in public and HCP awareness programmes.
Most patients first sought the opinion of a non-HCP (usually a partner or friend) before turning to their GP. Non-specific symptom concern appears to be the most important facilitator of this step. Most visits in each patient’s pathway were with this GP. This puts a resourcing and accessibility target on primary care. Very few patients in our study were unable to access an FSA after consulting a GP. However, many reported considerable delay between referral and this scheduled FSA. In this time between referral and the scheduled FSA, many decided to seek other care (eg, through a GP or ED) because of their symptoms.
Delay was significant in our sample. We found those ineligible for the new screening programme to be more likely to report delay; but in our sample, these people were nearly all younger than the age of entry to the bowel screening programme. Age is already built into procedural criteria.28 The new screening programme may further constrain the diagnostic resources available to this group, which may exacerbate this delay.29 Care is needed to ensure timely diagnosis for this screening-ineligible younger group, a significant proportion of those diagnosed with CRC each year.1
Our study found those reporting a good experience at their first appointment were less likely to report delay than those reporting a poor or neutral first experience. However, the cause-and-effect nature of this relationship is unclear. It is possible that experiencing delay makes a patient more likely to report poor or neutral experiences and more research is needed to clarify this.
Those diagnosed in the publicly-funded healthcare system were more likely to report delay. However, delay does not appear to be associated with insurance status. Those in public care do not seem to seek care later, indicating the difference may lie in the care received or resources available in the public system. Regardless of insurance status, it is likely that socio-economic status is related to this finding—whereby wealthier New Zealanders are able to afford to pay for private healthcare services out-of-pocket to hasten diagnosis (eg, private colonoscopy or CT colonography) and poorer New Zealanders do not have such access, leading to inequities. While it is beyond the scope of this descriptive study to explore this further, this warrants further investigation in New Zealand.30 More research is also required into the relationship between ethnicity and delay, particularly in Māori. Our study indicates a tendency towards diagnostic delay for Māori, but our sample size is underpowered to determine the strength of this association. Similarly, and importantly, there is also a tendency towards delay for patients experiencing intermittent symptoms. Future, larger studies should investigate this, because any such relationships are identified this would be important for public awareness programmes and planning.
The primary limitation in this descriptive study is our sampling. Our sample was younger, with more females and fewer metastatic cases than the population diagnosed with CRC in New Zealand.1 This introduces potential confounders, the effects of which are unknown. Given that our participants are not representative of the New Zealand population diagnosed with CRC, it is important for further studies with larger, more representative samples to be undertaken. We also relied on self-reported data, which we could not verify against routinely collected data sources. Several relationships, such as those between SDI and ethnicity or symptom intermittency, did not reach statistical significance in our sample but appear worthy of investigation in future studies.
Despite these limitations, we have contributed first insights into the patient perspective of the pathway to diagnosis for a major cancer in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our findings are potentially relevant for three main groups: the general population, HCPs and policymakers. Firstly, for individuals in the general population, although symptoms were the primary driver of healthcare-seeking, attribution of non-specific symptoms to a serious cause was uncommon in our sample. This suggests that greater awareness of common symptoms may be required, which can direct future education initiatives. It is also possible that awareness about the importance of reporting intermittent symptoms to HCPs is also a useful focus for public awareness campaigns. Secondly, for HCPs, we have confirmed general practice as an important source of care in the diagnostic pathway. Delays in diagnosis appear prevalent, and several groups appear to be at particular risk. Careful attention must be paid to Māori, those aged <60 years and those with less formal education. Finally, for policymakers, we have provided first insights into the patient pathway and have suggested areas worthy of investigation in future studies. Associations between delayed diagnosis and publicly funded care in particular ought to be investigated further.
Bowel cancer is a significant health issue in New Zealand, with over 3,000 people diagnosed each year, but little was known about the process of diagnosis. We surveyed a small group, of mostly younger patients, to gain some insight into this process for the first time. Most of our sample first approached a layperson, then a general practitioner. The majority of our sample took over six months to reach diagnosis; this was more likely if aged under 60 years, without a tertiary qualification, or were diagnosed in the public sector. Our research is not representative of the whole population diagnosed with bowel cancer, but provides some early indicators and highlights the potential for improvement in the healthcare system.
To understand colorectal cancer (CRC) symptoms experienced by Aotearoa/New Zealand patients and to describe patient-experienced pathways and factors which may be associated with delayed diagnosis.
Ninety-eight patients diagnosed with CRC, recruited via a national charity, completed a questionnaire. Questions included demographics, symptoms, help-seeking and diagnostic pathways followed.
Of 98 participants, 72 (73%) were aged under 60 years; most were symptomatic (n=93, 95%) and first discussed symptoms with someone who was not a healthcare professional (HCP) (n=71, 79%). The first HCP approached was usually a general practitioner (n=81, 83%). Symptom-to-diagnosis interval (SDI) was often six months or more (n=52, 56%) among our younger cohort. Delay was more likely if patients were younger (P=0.05), without a tertiary qualification (P=0.03), reported a poor/neutral experience at their first related HCP appointment (P=0.02), or were diagnosed in the public sector (P=0.01).
Few patients initially suspected bowel cancer or reported embarrassment seeking care; those who did were most likely to experience changes in bowel habit or bleeding. Our study is small, and not representative of all those diagnosed with CRC in New Zealand; yet it provides important first insights into patients’ diagnostic experiences.
Zoe Windner, Student, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin;
Sue Crengle, Associate Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin; Brandon de Graaf, Data Manager/Programmer, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin; Ari Samaranayaka, Biostatistician, Biostatistics Unit, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin; Sarah Derrett, Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Zoe Windner was supported by a Bowel Cancer New Zealand Summer Student Scholarship.
Sarah Derrett, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054.
Correspondence Email
sarah.derrett@otago.ac.nz
Professor Sarah Derrett is a member of the Executive of Bowel Cancer New Zealand and Associate Professor Sue Crengle is a medical advisor to Bowel Cancer New Zealand, both in unpaid and voluntary capacities. Dr de Graaf reports affiliation with Bowel Cancer New Zealand during the conduct of the study. Ms Windner reports grants from Bowel Cancer New Zealand during the conduct of the study.
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Concert to aid mass shooting victims
Clay Walker scheduled to perform at La Hacienda
Basin Strong will host a Black Tie and Boots benefit dinner, and a concert by country superstar Clay Walker.
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What: Black Tie and Boots benefit dinner.
When: 5 p.m. Jan. 16.
Where: Odessa Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 305 E. Fifth St.
Cost: Sponsorship levels at $50,000; $25,000; $10,000; $5,000; and $2,500. Sponsorship levels include a cocktail hour, silent and live auction, tables, and tickets to see Clay Walker.
What: Clay Walker with Rick Trevino.
When: Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16.
Where: La Hacienda Event Center, 12600 State Highway 191, Midland, Texas.
Cost: General admission tickets are $20. Tickets and a private three-course dinner by the ChuckWagon Gang can be purchased for $100.
Basin Strong
Posted: Sunday, January 12, 2020 3:30 am
Concert to aid mass shooting victims By Nathaniel Miller oanews@oaoa.com Odessa American
Dan Henderson said the decision among members of the oil and gas community to start putting together an event to benefit those affected by the Labor Day weekend shooting happened almost instantly.
A few days after Aug. 31, Henderson said he and others started reaching out to local leaders with the hopes of putting together a fundraiser.
Gunman Seth Ator killed 7 people and injured 25 others during a random shooting spree on Aug. 31. Ator drove around mostly Odessa and Interstate 20 shooting randomly at people. The spree ended that day at Cinergy Theater when Ator was shot to death by law enforcement.
Members of the oil and gas industry consider each other family, Henderson said, and adding it was logical to do something to try to help out.
After months of planning, Basin Strong will host a Black Tie and Boots benefit dinner, and a concert by country superstar Clay Walker. Henderson said the response to the event has been more than he anticipated.
“It’s very humbling,” Henderson, the chairperson for the event, said.
On Jan. 16, Walker is scheduled to perform at La Hacienda Event Center along with Rick Trevino for the “Hope and Healing Community Concert.” Tickets are on sale through the Basin Strong website, and are $20 for general admission.
A second ticket option costs $100, and includes a three-course meal before the show.
“They (concert goers) do get a dinner provided by the Chuck Wagon Gang, and the concert ticket as well,” Leah Williams, with LC Public Relations said.
A Boots and Black Tie benefit dinner has also been scheduled at 5 p.m. at the Odessa Marriott and Convention Center. The benefit dinner will be emceed by CBS 7’s Jay Hendricks and Shelby Landgraf, and will include a cocktail hour, live and silent auctions, dinner, and tickets to the concert.
Sponsorships are available for purchase and start at $2,500. Henderson said while the event calls for black ties and boots, it’s a more “come as you are” type of event.
“It’s Texas style,” he said.
After the event, attendees will be bused to La Hacienda for the concert. Henderson said proceeds from the concert will go towards the Odessa Community Foundation’s Aug. 31 Fund, as well as net proceeds from the banquet.
The fundraiser was founded to help benefit the victims and their families after a gunman killed seven people and wounded 25 others during Labor Day weekend before being killed by law enforcement along Interstate 20.
Henderson said the event is for everyone, and encouraged all to attend in some way to help show their support for the Odessa/Midland community. He added numerous people have reached out to try and help however they could.
“People want to help,” he said.
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Orca Money to Raise 500K via Equity Crowdfunding – Interview with CEO Iain Niblock
September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 wiseclerk
Orca Money is currently running an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise 500K GBP at a premoney valuation of 1.7M GBP. Anybody can invest in Orca Money shares with a minimum investment amount of 10 GBP applicable. I interviewed the Orca CEO Iain Niblock
What is Orca Money about?
Orca is an aggregation platform, allowing investors to invest across a range of peer to peer lending (P2P) platforms, lending sub sectors and a large number of borrowers. We further offer independent investment research, providing confidence to investors when making decisions.
Currently investors are investing directly on P2P platforms. This makes building and managing a diversified portfolio frustrating. We centralise this process by allowing investors to research, build and manage their portfolio from the Orca platform. We provide the P2P platforms with a source of retail investors.
Investors can review the performance of their portfolio, diversify their risk and earn the attractive returns that the sector offers.
What are the three main advantages for investors?
Risk adjusted returns: We offer an investment return to our users which is reduced in risk through diversification. By allowing investors to invest across multiple P2P platforms, lending sectors and a large number of borrowers, we facilitate easy diversification.
Reduced admin burden: Orca manages all fund deployment, email communication and performance data aggregation. Investors can login to their personal Orca dashboard and view a breakdown of their portfolio, as well as an aggregated view of their investment performance.
Automatic portfolio build: Orca has been producing independent analysis on the market for the past three years. We have conducted due diligence in the market and curated a portfolio for investors to invest through. This removes the hassle from P2P investing.
You are currently raising money. Who are you raising from and what do you plan to use the capital for?
Our investment is open to the public on the Seedrs equity crowdfunding platform. Investors across the EU can register and invest in the Orca business. The proceeds will allow us to expand our userbase, integrate with more lenders and to further develop the functionality of our platform.
Prior to launching the crowdfunding campaign, we secured a portion of this investment from two institutional funds based in Northern Ireland and a number of leading angel investors. It’s great to be combining these investors with crowd investors.
Why have you selected Seedrs for your equity crowdfunding campaign?
A number of our customers mentioned that they would like to invest in Orca’s business. We’ve gained incredibly valuable feedback from these customers and, ultimately, we wanted to give them an opportunity to own shares in the business. We hope that this campaign will attract further investors and customers to do the same.
Personally, I’ve tracked the equity crowdfunding market closely for many years and I’m now genuinely excited to be leading a campaign. Seedrs was an obvious choice as they have facilitated funding for a number of other P2P platforms.
One benefit of Seedrs is that investors invest through a nominee structure. The Seedrs nominee structure holds and manages the shares on the behalf of the underlying investor. For the investor, this means the nominee can track and monitor shareholder rights as a collective. For the company, this reduces the administrative burden of having a large shareholder base.
Where do you see Orca Money in 3 years?
We aim to evolve into the hub for P2P investment research, investing and portfolio management. Investors will be given access to credit investments across the EU, originated by P2P platforms and other non-bank lenders. The functionality of our platform will increase, delivering a fully functioning investment aggregation platform.
Orca is a differentiated product in a rapidly growing market.
Name one fact that makes your pitch a better investment than any other pitch on Seedrs.
In comparison to other Seedrs pitches we believe our valuation is very good value. This was set by institutional investors based in Northern Ireland where valuations are generally lower than other parts of the UK and in particular London. I’d expect the valuation to rise substantially during any subsequent rounds.
P2P-Banking.com thanks Iain Niblock for the interview.
Investly Plans to Raise 2M GBP on Seedrs – Interview with CEO Siim Maivel
January 22, 2018 January 23, 2018 wiseclerk 1 Comment
Investly is currently pitching on Seedrs to raise between 500K and 2M GBP in a crowdfunding for equity campaign. To become a shareholder, the required minium investment amount is 13 GBP.
What is Investly about?
Investly is an invoice financing platform which helps businesses from the UK and Estonia release cash from their long payment term invoices. We’re a marketplace that connects investors to companies that need short term capital, which we issue against their receivables. We have offices in London and Tallinn.
What are the three main advantages when investing in the invoices?
Liquidity – Investly is quite different compared to most platforms because the investment period is only 30 to 40 days on average. This means you can convert your investments into cash within a month by simply halting further investments.
Return – Historically investors have earned 11-12% annually on invoices. I believe every investor should have a portion of their funds allocated to P2P investing because of the higher return and additional diversification.
Added value – Invoice finance is helping small businesses who are growing fast but fail to get the support they need from local banks. The direct impact is clear – invoice finance has helped our customers grow faster and create more jobs. This would not be possible without investors.
What are the three main advantages for companies selling the invoices?
Most of all, faster business growth. We discovered that Estonian customers who are leveraging access to working capital are able to grow their turnover by 18.3%, while turnover growth benchmark equals 7.6% (Investly internal analysis, growth benchmark from Statistics Estonia report 2017)
But access to working capital is not just numbers in spreadsheet, but most of all it’s opportunities that business can take: hire more staff and win new contracts, get better supplier payment terms by offering early or up-front payment, ensure prompt payment for employees and subcontractors.
What ROI have investors made on average on the platform in the past?
On average investors have earned double digit returns in both markets. The net return on Estonian invoices has been 11.2% annually and in the UK it’s been 12.6% annually.
What is the procedure, if a company is late in repaying the invoice?
To ensure collection is as fast as possible, we rely on early action and automating notifications to debtors. If the debtor doesn’t pay within 30 days of the due date, we have the right to ask the seller to repurchase the invoice from investors. We also ask for a personal guarantee from one or several of the directors of the seller company. This means that if the company cannot pay, we can ask for payment from the directors.
Investly is the biggest p2p lending marketplace for invoice financing in Estonia. How did you achieve this position?
We use personal approach and always try to find the best solution for our customers and investors. That professional customer service constantly provides us a leverage over banks and competitors. Also, quick decision – we present an offer within one working day. This is something that many of small businesses can’t expect from traditional lenders. On top of that, we have flexible pricing, which we’re able to use thanks to loyal and engaged investors community.
Investly is also operating in the UK. Is it complicated to operate in two different markets simultaneously and which of the two markets is more attractive for future growth?
UK is the largest factoring market in Europe with €327b worth of invoices financed every year. For comparison, France is second with €268b/year and Germany is third with €217b/year. This is where the biggest potential is. However, traditional sales and marketing channels towards our target customers are extremely crowded with thousands of B2B service providers trying to sell them products. We have to be more clever about acquiring customers there. Open Banking enables us to do that.
Estonian businesses finance only €2.5b/year, but due to the connected infrastructure of public and private registries, we can reach our customers much more easily. Also, there’s fewer providers in Estonia and we’re creating a lot of the market ourselves as factoring hasn’t been available for them in the past.
Having built Investly for four years, what do you deem the biggest assets of the company?
We have gained a detailed understanding about the problem we’re solving. It’s not specific to any geography. Businesses across Europe and elsewhere in the world are struggling with the lack of working capital. It seems that our product offering helps to solve that problem more simply than traditional lenders.
Four years is typically a good time to become an expert at something. We have also build a strong team to execute our mission. We’re experts at invoice financing.
Also, we’ve managed to get a good set of advisors on board to help us build the marketplace and secure future rounds of financing if needed.
What role does ‘Open Banking’ play in the near future for Investly’s further development?
Open Banking is a technical enabler. Businesses can now choose freely between their bank and 3rd party providers to solve their specific financial needs. It’s done in a secure and easy-to-use way.
This has gotten banks looking into how they can continue to be profitable in this new environment. Completely new types of business models are emerging and we’re proud that Investly is one of the early pioneers to set the path for others. Being part of the Open Banking sandbox in UK helped us to be one of the first ones to integrate with banks like Barclays, HSBC, RBS, Lloyds and Santander.
We’re going to use these integrations to form partnerships with traditional lenders so we can serve our customer without them necessarily having to change their provider.
You want to raise new funding on Seedrs. Why did you decide to use crowdfunding for equity rather than traditional routes?
Throughout the years we’ve received multiple requests from our marketplace investors to participate in our equity financing round. They’ve been giving us a lot of valuable feedback when we’ve developed our product and directed our credit model. We’d like them to get a chance to be part of Investly mission as we continue to grow.
With traditional equity financing, we’d be overwhelmed by administrative work to get the round closed and to manage those relationships later on. Seedrs has provided a good platform on which we can do that efficiently.
What is the value proposition for investors? Do you aim for a stock market listing? What is the likely time horizon?
Get to participate in our valuation growth. The interest you earn on the marketplace is quite stable, but the potential upside on the equity investment is much higher.
UK based investors can take advantage of the EIS scheme. It’s quite a big incentive on the tax side.
Seedrs provides a secondary market, which helps to create liquidity for our shareholders. This way, you don’t have to wait for years until the startup makes an exit or files for IPO.
Is Investly profitable? If not, when do you expect to reach breakeven on cash flow.
Operationally, we’re quite close to breakeven. The target is to get profitable in core activities in the next 6 months after fundraising round closes. But on a company level we will still be investing heavily into building out the integrations with banks to execute the momentum we’ve managed to build up.
For which activities does Investly intend to raise the used funds?
Partnerships and further automation. Few years ago, all the banks would turn us down when we approached them with suggestion of cooperation. But with Open Banking, this is window of opportunity for both of us: Investly provides working solution with better experience and price for customers, banks acquire competitive leverage on the market and are part of this fintech revolution. Therefore, funds from this round will be used on product developments which will allow us integrate with banks infrastructure and automate our processes even more with the increase in volume.
Where do you see Investly in 3 years?
Investly will be the major provider of invoice finance to businesses across Europe. It’ll be partly through partnerships (invoice finance powered by Investly) and partly through building out our own brand by continuing to deliver superior customer experience.
With that scale, we will have had enough data to build up a narrow AI for credit decisions. We have followed our roadmap for getting there. We’ll be better able to score companies and collect payments than competitors.
Investors will have access to debtors across Europe, which enables them to achieve a good diversification of currencies, countries and sectors.
Once we’ve received that scale, we will be able to deliver the best financing rate to businesses with our marketplace model, where banks are lending alongside with our investor community.
P2P-Banking thanks Siim Maivel for the interview.
Updated Jan. 23rd: A previous version of this article stated 2.5M as upper limit of the fundraise. That figure was incorrect.
Investly pitch video on Seedrs
Crowdproperty Pitches to Raise 600K GBP through Equity Crowdfunding
November 17, 2017 November 16, 2017 wiseclerk
UK p2p lending marketplace Crowdproperty is currently pitching on Seedrs to raise 600K GBP from the crowd at a pre-money valuation of 5.9M GBP.
The Crowdproperty marketplace was launched in 2014 and the company has since funded 10.7 million GBP in property loans. All loans are secured by a first legal charge against the property. The company says no investor has incurred any losses so far. The company received full FCA authorization in October 2017.
Crowdproperty states it has unique proprietary access to the largest property network in the UK, the Property Investors Network (pin), which provides competitive advantage in terms of high quality deal origination and has enabled the proof of the business with limited marketing investment to date.
Crowdproperty claims that it’ is already profitable with more favourable economics than peer to peer platforms in consumer and SME marketplaces owing to shorter average loan lengths, higher average loan sizes, borrower frequency/retention and achievability/sustainability of fee levels. With a gulf now emerging between property-based peer to peer lenders that are gaining traction versus those struggling at the sub-£5m level, the team aims to become the market leader in project-based finance direct to SME property professionals whilst simultaneously providing competitive first-charge secured returns to its retail pool of lenders. ‘
CEO Simon Zutschi told P2P-Banking: ‘I am delighted that we have now proven this model of helping successful property developers to fund their projects, whilst helping investors gain a secured return on their money. All of the recent project launches have been quickly funded up by our eager and loyal base of lenders, which clearly demonstrates the traction we have built in our brand. Over the last year, we have focused on our platform technology and processes, and now we are ready to scale this business to its full potential. This will not only benefit our lenders, but also help and support SME developers, who often struggle to raise funds from hesitant banks, to access the essential funding they need to help reduce the UK housing crisis’.
(Source: Crowdproperty pitch on Seedrs)
Plum Automates Investment in Ratesetter – Plum Equity Crowdfunding Pitch
July 2, 2017 July 2, 2017 wiseclerk
Plum is another fintech that makes use of Ratesetter’s products through a cooperation. Plum is bot on Facebook messenger designed to automate savings for the user and to invest money on his behalf. Savings can currently be invested in Ratesetters rolling market. Plum is currently pitching to raise 700K GBP through a convertible with a valuation cap of 5M GBP on Seedrs. Watch the video for more information on the Plum product and pitch. The minimum investment for this equity crowdfunding campaign is 10 GBP. The pitch is EIS eligible (UK residents). Other investors include 200K US$ invested by VC 500 Startups. This pitch is not yet officially launched on Seedrs, but already open for investments. You can use P2P-Banking’s free notification service to be alerted of upcoming Seedrs pitches early and review them ahead of the crowd.
Competitors of Plum include Digit, Qapital, Clarity, Albert, Squirrel, Cleo and Savedroid.
The Plum pitch deck is informative reading. To request that, login, click on ‘Documents’ in the pitch, and send a message to request the pitch deck.
Another example of an innovative cooperative cooperation making use of products of a p2p lending service is Commuterclub.
This article is not an investment advice. Investing in startups bears significant risks, including total loss of investment.
Investing in British Properties Through Property Partners
January 9, 2017 January 9, 2017 wiseclerk
For decades buying houses, refurbishing them and selling them at a higher price and moving on to the next property seemed like a popular sport to Brits. Many of them see properties as investments and with house prices mostly moving up lots of them aimed to finance a property while they were young and then build a portfolio. With limited supply of new land with planning permissions this strategy worked well most of the times in the past, except when the market overheated and a real estate bubble popped.
There are downsides to this do-it-yourself approach:
Concentration of risk in one or few properties: if they underperperformed for what ever reason, the yield was sub-average
A lot of money, time and work required. The investor had to do everything itself as a landlord
Selection of new properties usually limited to a small region the investor lives in
British platform Property Partner allows everyone to invest in British properties from a minimum of 50 GBP. Investors select a listing, invest into a SPV (special purpose vehicle company) that pools the investment in the property. The SPV collects rental income and pays dividends to investors monthly. A useful table of the past achieved rental income can be seen here. In the green marked cases the actual rents are higher than the original forecsts. Potentially investors can also gain, if the value of the property rises.
The time span of an investment is 5 years, however investors can try to sell their parts on the secondary market, which allows discounts and premiums any time.
The platform allows the investor to diversify across multiple properties easily. The fee is 2% for investment (in new listings or buying through the secondary market). For management, advertising and letting Property Partner charges 12.6% of gross rent.
So far Property Partner has funded 311 properties for 43.9 million GBP with 9.100 investors participating.
For new listing there is a pre-order period, where bids are collected. If the listing is oversubscribed then each investor is allocated a lower proportionate amount of shares.
Each listing contains an investment case desctiption, property details, a floor plan, financials, a solicitor’s report and a surveyor’s report as well as the house price index (HPI) information for the area.
For the secondary market there is a ‘data view’ section which lists key indicators for the parts listed for sale.
Investors that do not want to pick listings can set up the auto-invest option which will automatically invest an amount the investor sets each month in 5 properties.
Investing from abroad
Property Partner allows foreigners (except for US residents) and corporations to invest. If you do not live in the UK but see the UK housing market as an investment opportunity Property Partner is a hassle free possibility to invest in british real estate. Non resident investors should consider using Transferwise or Currencyfair to avoid high bank fees and get a better currency exchange rate.
How to get 50 GBP cashback at sign-up
To get 50 GBP referral cashback, when you invest more than 1000 GBP sign up now via this link . To see available promotions by other platforms visit our cashback offer page.
Property Partner cashback confirmation at sign-up. To see it follow this link and sign up.
FCA Publishes Interim Feedback Following a Call for Input to the Post-Implementation Review of the Rules for Crowdfunding
December 9, 2016 wiseclerk
In August the FCA posted a call for input preceeding a planned review of the current regulation of p2p lending and crowdfunding for equity. Today the FCA publishes interim feedback. The feedback statement provides a first response to the feedback received and sets out next steps.
Based on a review of the feedback received, issues seen during the supervision of crowdfunding platforms currently trading and consideration of applications from firms seeking full authorisation, the FCA believes it is appropriate to modify a number of rules for the market.
Initial findings
Loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding
For both loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding platforms the FCA has found that, for example:
it is difficult for investors to compare platforms with each other or to compare crowdfunding with other asset classes due to complex and often unclear product offerings
it is difficult for investors to assess the risks and returns of investing on a platform
financial promotions do not always meet our requirement to be ‘clear, fair and not misleading’ and
the complex structures of some firms introduce operational risks and/or conflicts of interest that are not being managed sufficiently
Loan-based crowdfunding
In the loan-based crowdfunding market in particular the FCA is concerned that, for example:
certain features, such as some of the provision funds used by platforms, introduce risks to investors that are not adequately disclosed and may not be sufficiently understood by investors
the plans some firms have for wind-down in the event of their failure are inadequate to successfully run-off loan books to maturity
the FCA has challenged some firms to improve their client money handling standards
Proposals for new rules to be considered in Q1 2017
The FCA plans to consult on additional rules in a number of areas. These include more prescriptive requirements on the content and timing of disclosures by both loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding platforms.
For loan-based crowdfunding the FCA also intends to consult on:
strengthening rules on wind-down plans
additional requirements or restrictions on cross-platform investment
extending mortgage-lending standards to loan-based platforms
The FCA’s current rules on loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding platforms came into force in April 2014. They aimed to create a proportionate regulatory framework that provided adequate investor protection whilst allowing for innovation and growth in the market.
The call for input in July 2016 launched a post-implementation review of these rules. The paper summarised market developments since 2014 and some of the FCA’s emerging concerns.
Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, said:
“Our focus is ensuring that investor protections are appropriate for the risks in the crowdfunding sector while continuing to promote effective competition in the interests of consumers. Based on our findings to date, we believe it is necessary to strengthen investor protection in a number of areas. We plan to consult next year on new rules to address the issues we have identified.” Continue reading →
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UPDATE: Stranger Fruit documentarian, Jason Pollock, had it out with FOX News over his fiery, controversial new footage of what appears to be Michael Brown in the convenience store moments before his murder by Officer Darren Wilson. You can watch the fracas below.
“They failed him. They all failed.” A fiery interview with @Jason_Pollock on the police shooting of Michael Brown. https://t.co/Nf5y1s2v8n pic.twitter.com/SOmRTPcPyG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, 2017
See the original story below.
Two-and-a-half years since Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., a lot of black-and-brown men, women and children have fallen victim to problematic violence by officers of the law. To make matters worse, a second, previously unreported video from the convenience store where Mike Brown had supposedly pushed a worker and taken cigarillos is raising new questions about what happened in the moments before the shooting on Aug. 9, 2014.
The video footage, which you can see below, finds a black man entering the store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, after 1 a.m. on the day of the shooting. After approaching the counter, the person on the screen hands over a small bag and takes a shopping sack filled with cigarillos. The footage then shows the man walking toward the door, turning around and handing the bag of cigarillos back across the counter before exiting.
The filmmaker that acquired the new tape is Jason Pollock, and he says that the footage challenges the police narrative that Mike Brown committed “strong-armed robbery” when he returned to the store around noon that day. Mr. Pollock instead says that the new video shows a negotiated deal going down between store employees.
“There was some type of exchange, for one thing, for another,” Lesley McSpadden, Mike Brown’s mother says in Jason Pollock’s documentary titled Stranger Fruit. Jay Kanzler, a lawyer for the convenience store and its employees, disputes that version, saying the footage is unrelated to Mike Brown’s later visit to the store. “There was no transaction,” Mr. Kanzler said. “There was no understanding. No agreement. Those folks didn’t sell him cigarillos for pot. The reason he gave it back is he was walking out the door with unpaid merchandise and they wanted it back.”
Watch the footage, ask yourself what happened and share your thoughts in the comments below. Stranger Fruit made its premiere at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Tx., and examines the shooting from the family’s perspective.
New footage challenges the police narrative that Mike Brown committed a strong-armed robbery https://t.co/SCOMELaX0x pic.twitter.com/XXNY3Wc7st
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Homepage. This page: An automobile magazine from the USA, dating to the late 1950s titled Motor Life.
Motor Life magazine, October 1958.
Buyers and owners of motor-cars in the UK had quite a choice of titles to choose from, Autocar and The Motor being perhaps the most popular choices. Drivers in the States had their own large selection of magazine titles to choose from, some of which already get a mention in this car magazines section. Examples include American Automobile Digest, Foreign Cars Illustrated and The Maryland Motorist.
Like my issue of Foreign Cars Illustrated, the edition of Motor Life featured on this page also dates to 1958. Costing 35 cents, the cover promises articles on a brand new Studebaker, the 1959 Plymouth, and updates from Dodge, Chrysler, Desoto and Imperial. The winner of a "best custom car" would also be announced, and a sneak preview of an Italian-designed wonder in black is shown on the cover. Note the swivel seat being demonstrated by the young lady photographed in a '59-year Plymouth Sport Fury.
Open the magazine and you'd expect to be confronted with a plethora of American automobile advertisements, and yes there are certainly plenty to choose from throughout this issue's 82 pages. However the first car advert is for a very un-American machine, albeit inspired by American styling trends of the late 1950's. The new Sunbeam Rapier "Coupe de Sport" and "3-position Convertible" take pole position in this issue, facing a full-page ad for Du Pont New Car Wax.
Sunbeam Rapier Coupe de Sport.
The 1958 Rapier was "... born on the roaring straightaways and tortuous turns of continental rallies and the world famous Mille Miglia Road Race". Rootes Motors Inc. were located on Park Avenue in New York and also in Los Angeles, tasked with promoting Hillmans, Sunbeams and Humbers to American motorists more used to capacious cars dripping in chrome, powered by large V8s, and adorned with ever-growing rear wing fins as the 1950s rolled along. What they'd make of this compact European offering I'm not sure, although there was no denying its sporty pretensions after successes on the British International Rally, the Monte Carlo Rally, and class wins in the Scottish Rally to name but a few.
Speculation regarding a new-for-1959 Studebaker.
Following on from some editorial comments, the letters page, and some technical Q&As, the reader lands upon an article describing a brand new Studebaker that was being designed by Studebaker-Packard staff at South Bend. Designers involved with this new "economy" car were evasive whenever they were directly questioned about this new design. The article therefore is a piecing-together exercise of clips read in other magazines, odd facts dropped into conversation by those involved with the project, and a certain amount of guesswork on the part of Motor Life's writers. Full-sized models of the new car were, they believed, in existence locked away behind factory gates, but reporters had yet to clap eyes on the car.
Studebaker had been losing money since 1954 so were banking on the new compact being a success, and 1959 would see the Lark launched to the motoring public. Excessive ornamentation was gone, the Lark designed more with economical motoring and sensible gas mileage in mind. In fact it would steal a march on the introduction of similar products from GM, Ford and Chrysler, but as soon as the Big Three had their compacts ready and in the showrooms, sales of the frugal Stude began to wane. Production continued until 1964, the year that would see the firm close its doors for good.
Other new developments for 1959.
Several pages were given over to new developments in Chrysler's model line-up. The 1959 car would be an evolution of the 1958 models, with four series scheduled to be on offer: Savoy, Belvedere, Fury and Sport Fury. Big changes were introduced to the car's styling, and much was made of the novel swivelling front seats fitted to the '59 cars. Chrysler were evidently proud of this new feature, stating that these seats were "... the most significant development in automobile seating since introduction of power seat adjustment". Although not a new idea as such, their benefits when it came to entering and leaving your parked car were clear. Each seat could swing through 40 degrees of movement. Swivel seats would be standard fit in the Plymouth Sports Fury, the De Soto Adventurer, and the Chrysler 300E models. Buyers opting for a Dodge Custom Royal, De Soto Firedome or Fireflite, and any of the Chryslers or Imperials could choose these seats from the options list. Station wagon buyers though had to make do with conventional seating.
1959 De Sotos were due to benefit from new, larger engines, and much-revised styling touches that still incorporated the inevitable wing fins. The most powerful engine would be the 383 cu in Adventurer V8, similar to Dodge's Super D-500 and Chrysler's X3. Chryslers too would undergo many revisions for the new season, with some extra gadgets joining the party. Concessions to occupant safety were beginning to make themselves felt, although references to the self-dimming rear view mirrors and padded instrument panels on some Plymouths play second-fiddle to the eye-catching styling updates that were taking place. Torsion-Aire, a new optional air suspension system suitable for the back end of some Chryslers, would also make its debut in '59.
Elsewhere in this issue.
Custom cars get some good coverage in this issue of Motor Life, many pages being given over to the winner of this year's contest, a much-modified 1955 Chevrolet built by Bill Carr and George Barris. Second place went to a much-modified '55 Buick, and third to a '56 Mercury. Other cars making the final list included a re-worked '55 Corvette, something called the Experimental X-2, various Fords, a strange-looking T-Bird, and a pig-ugly Chevy pickup.
European cars then take their turn in Motor Life's spotlight, beginning, on page 52, with a look at the be-finned Ford Taunus 17M from Germany. Looking like a stock American car that had shrunk in the wash, the car's appearance did receive some agreeable comments from the road test team. Four versions would be imported - a Standard two-door saloon, a De Luxe two-door, and a De Luxe four-door saloon. There would also be a Combi-wagon estate car. The Taunus came with a column-change gearbox as standard, although there was an option of an automatic - "The Saxomat automatic clutch might prove a boon for lady drivers who have trouble shifting gears with a manual clutch and for those who just plain don't like to use their left foot".
In summary, they thought that the 17M Taunus would sell well in the States thanks to its sound engineering, and decent range thanks to good fuel economy and a 11.9 gallon fuel tank.
Coinciding with the leading advertisement for the Sunbeam Rapier, there follows a road-test on pages 58/59 where the 91.2 cu in Sunbeam was put through its paces. Testers were impressed by its American-esque styling, fins, comprehensive instrumentation and sturdy "hardtop two-door sedan" coachwork that had a noticeable lack of squeaks and rattles. The switch from a column- to floor-mounted gearshift also drew praise, and their belief was that it could definitely appeal to anyone looking for a quality import that combined a decent turn of speed, a comfortable interior and attractive exterior lines.
Just as familiar to British readers as the Sunbeam Rapier was the Lodge Spark Plug, an advertisement for which appears on page 77. Distributed in the US by the Auburn Spark Plug Co. Ltd. of Auburn, New York, the British plugs had achieved excellent results in tests where a car that had covered some 18,000 miles, still had plugs that looked like new. A second advert for Lodge Plugs, giving a supplier's address in California, appears on page 81. "Those who know buy the best - Lodge - World's Finest Spark Plug".
Alken sportscar body to suit the VW chassis.
Bored of your VW saloon? then The Alken Corporation of Venice, California, may have had the answer. For $1295 they could supply a complete replacement body in fibreglass to suit the VW Beetle chassis, transforming the dumpy saloon into a low-slung rear-engined sportster. Less than 20 hours work would, apparently, see any Beetle transformed into a two seat convertible that came with roll-up windows, factory heater, bucket seats and a removable hardtop as standard. The only extra part you'd need to buy was a windscreen, lifted from the 1951 - 1955 Ford Consul or Zephyr. Chassis parts, such as the braking system and clutch, remain untouched throughout the body conversion. Were many of these sold I wonder?
An interview with designer Howard Darrin, a look at flat-6 engines, and a feature on the 1959 Dual Ghia - a car comprising coachwork from Italy propelled by Chrysler running gear - can also be found within Motor Life's pages.
At first glance the ad on the rear cover looks like a promotional piece for the Mercedes Benz 300SL, but it is in fact advocating "the California look" of Catalina sweaters, ".. geared for the fast road - Catalina sweaters that qualify quick for race or rallye". A dark-heared chap, stopwatch and driving gloves in hand, looks on earnestly, while wearing a $15.95 "Thunderhead" jacket. His buddy, in crash helmet and stripey sweater, chats in the background with the dame standing in the SL.
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The Best Nature & City Autumn Breaks in the UK
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It’s almost the time of year when the satisfying sounds of leaves crunching beneath our feet occurs. There’s no need to get gloomy about the shorter days and cooler nights just yet. As the UK is home to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. So we at Omio decided to list our favourite spots to spend an autumn break in the UK.
Dartmoor National Park
One could be forgiven for thinking they’d been transported to a mythical land upon exploring Dartmoor National Park at this time of year. The autumn blaze of red, orange and yellow mixed in with a swirling layer of fog adds a mystique to Dartmoor that isn’t present at other times of the year.
The easiest way to explore Dartmoor’s National Park is by taking a bus or train to Exeter. From their you can discover the sprawling untamed wilderness with its granite hills and wild ponies. Or go even further afield and uncover small tucked-away villages in the region. This part of the world truly takes on a new guise in autumn.
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Sitting in the shadows of Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond is one of the largest in Britain. With some claiming it to be the most beautiful too.
A national park with over 220 miles of nature to delve into. The changing of the leaves and the unique autumn light is a special perk to exploring Loch Lomond and The Trossachs in this season. It may not be the hottest time of year, but the Loch Lomond whisky distillery is on hand to provide a welcome warmer.
The best way to get to Loch Lomond is by bus or train is to Balloch, which is about an hour outside Glasgow.
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It may be a great place to kick back in the summer sun, but what is there to do in autumn in Hyde Park?
The dim light and the almost-bare trees paint a very different yet equally beautiful picture to the one in summer. The breathtaking woodland scenery can make you stop and pinch yourself. You could almost forget that you’re in the centre of one of the world’s largest cities.
Autumn sees a burst of unique walking tours coming to Hyde Park too. The mile-long ‘A Right Royal Ramble’ walk digs into the history of the park and takes place on September 16th. While visitors can explore the park’s rarely-open Pet Cemetery on October 14th and 21st.
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A mixture of countryside, coast and heritage, this historical city requires little introduction.
Although it would be very easy to stick to Canterbury’s picturesque city centre, those seeking a little peace and quiet should head to Westgate Gardens. Get the full-whack of autumn and take one of the guided walks and tree trails available.
For those looking for an autumn harvest, why not check out the Canterbury Food and Drink Festival? The festival welcomes in the autumn with live music and local food and drink at The Dane John Gardens from September 22nd to 24th.
If you’re in the area between October 14th and November 4th then be sure to check out the Canterbury Festival. The programme contains live music, theatre, talks and walks where Imelda May and Newton Faulkner are among the acts coming to town this year.
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Get away from it all and spend some time in the rugged wilderness of some of Britain’s highest peaks.
It’s around this time of year that the area’s wildlife springs into action, with seal spotting trips from Applecross being a popular pull. It’s also not unusual to see red deer roaming freely in the highlands. Keep an eye out for geese and swans migrating from the cooler climates of Norway, Iceland and even Siberia. Cameras at the ready for that snap of a red deer with a backdrop of Scot’s pine and autumn leaves!
But where to start? Why not head to Inverness, the main city in the Scottish Highlands. From here you can continue your exploration into this autumnal wonderland.
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With plenty of parks, walks and museums there’s rarely a bad time to visit Bath.
Foodies and film buffs won’t want to miss out on two of the events in Bath this autumn. First up there’s the Great Bath Feast. A two-week food festival running from September 23rd that promises to tickle the fancy of any gastronome. Take advantage of the ‘Tenner Treat’, where visitors can get a slap-up feed from some of the city’s finest establishments for just ten quid.
For fans of cinema the Bath Film Festival, which takes place between November 2nd and 12th, will be high up on the agenda. With everything from small art-house productions to international blockbusters and just about all that falls in between, there’s something for every taste here.
Travel to Bath ➤
A popular spot on every traveller’s radar. Most travel-fiends are familiar with Edinburgh, its castle and the famous Royal Mile.
While there’s nothing quite like a stroll through the medieval streets on a summer’s day. We’d argue that the brisk, less-crowded autumn days give it a run for its money.
Head to Arthur’s Seat or Calton Hill and take in the autumn day views, no Instagram filter required! For a bit of respite, crunch your way through the leaves of nearby walking trails. With Cammo Estate and Colinton Dell being just two of many.
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival takes its place from October 20th to 31st. If it’s a knees-up you’re looking for then don’t miss the Edinburgh Oktoberfest. Running from October 11th to 15th, get a taste of Germany in the centre in Edinburgh.
Travel to Edinburgh ➤
With so many options for autumn breaks in the UK it’s tough to pick just a handful. What are your favourite places to visit in autumn? Be sure to let us know in the comments below!
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The 2019 TITAN® lineup is the product of a country with a singular mindset about what a full-size truck should be. We took advantage of the best talent in the industry to create the smartest, most capable, toughest full-size truck Nissan has ever made. And one we are proud to call the American TITAN.
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Nissan Durability Engineers can put 15-20 years of wear and tear on a TITAN in just months. And they do it in one of the most un-truck-friendly places on earth - Nissan Technical Center North America Arizona Testing Center. We complement Arizona with cold-weather testing in frigid zones of Alaska, Colorado, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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TITAN'S bold looks come courtesy of Nissan Design America (NDA) in La Jolla, California. Inspiration came from many places: Industrial equipment. Precision tools. The shield and helmet of a warrior. The result is technological, yet with a raw, animal element. A predator among full-size trucks.
ENGINEERED IN MICHIGAN
For over 25 years, Nissan Technical Center North America in Farmington Hills has been the main campus of Nissan's North America R&D. Awesome technical talent combined with brutal testing weather make it an ideal place to engineer the new TITAN.
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Description ONESAILS TUNING DIARY (OTD) is a web application developed to help sailors to gather all information relative to the tuning of their boat and elaborate such information on the basis of a voting system.
Since this tool is mostly used onboard or while away from a computer, the OTD has been developed as a responsive web application, i.e. it adapts to any screen size without distorting the content of the page. This feature makes it easy and pleasant to use from any smartphone.
For the best performance, it is recommended to use it from a Firefox or Chrome browser.
First of all, register by clicking on the Register button on the login page.
Create a new boat. On the Home page click on Add/Edit Boat.
Define the name and type of boat. Firstly, type in the name and type of boat in the respective fields. If you have previously entered another boat, you will need to click on New Boat to enter a new one.
Define the tuning parameters. Here you will be able to define/edit the tuning measurement you are interested in recording for your boat. Click on the + button below the Rig Tuning title to add a new tuning parameter.
it is also possible to define a base setting with respect to which all measurements will be entered. For instance, if the base lower shrouds tension is 10, type that value in the relevant field and it will be displayed as a reference when you will be asked to enter a new record. ALL fields are compulsory with the exception of the base value.
The order in which the parameters will be displayed when adding a new record will be that in which the parameters have been defined here. Therefore, it is advised to put at the top the parameters which are used more often. It is possible to drag a line to change its position, if needed.
Define the sail inventory. By clicking on the + button below the Sail Inventory title you can add a new sail to your inventory. Here you can also edit the name of existing sails if you need to.
Add training and race data To add the data for a sailing day, click on Add Record in the Home page and select the boat you have previously added from the Select Boat menu. By doing this, the app will retrieve all information relative to tuning parameters and sails associated with that boat. Fill in all fields as required.
It is very important to be consistent between one record and another. For instance, if for the same race in Porto Cervo you enter Porto Cervo in the Location field for the first race and PortoCervo for the second one, this will cause issues during the query to the database later on.
After a record has been saved, the fields will remain filled in so as to speed up the adding of a new record with similar entries.
It is also possible to record tactics information relative to the favourite side of an upwind and downwind leg in the Tactics section.
Finally, it is compulsory to give a score between 0 and 10 to both the speed downwind and upwind. The score should ideally be always given by the same person for consistency. The reliability of such score (Score Reliability) depends on how reliable the upwind and downwind scores are. For instance, the data quality will be very low for a gusty sailing say, whilst it will be high for a long speed test with stable wind.
Make Queries It is possible to query the database for all records and apply filters to the results in the Query page.
The data saved will be displayed in tabular format.
If you want to remove some columns from the results table, just uncheck them after clicking on the Column Selector button.
Finally, the Site Query page offers you the chance to query the database for tactics information for a specific location. When you go back sailing in a spot where you have already sailed in the past, you can simply and quickly look at the comments you made. This query does not depend on the type of boat but just on the location.
To start using the OTD visit td.onesails.one
For any query of technical issue please contact us at tuningdiary@onesails.com
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FINDING AND CULTIVATING UNIQUE VOICES
Reading, Writing And Performing Poetry
Build communication skills…
through reading, writing and performing poetry on topics relevant to kids’ experiences.
Empower students…
to find and cultivate their unique voices for personal growth and civic engagement.
Strengthen community…
by creating a safe place for sharing personal stories and cultural understanding.
Connect to the larger world…
of Spoken Word through mentorship, showcases, and competitions.
CREATING ARTICULATE, ENGAGED YOUNG PEOPLE
Launched in Fall 2015, Spoken Word is a powerful and effective medium for fostering creativity and self-expression in young people.
Through both in-school residencies and extracurricular clubs, students learn to write and revise poems that reflect their own unique experiences, interests, and opinions. They then have opportunities to share their poetry in safe and supportive space.
Kids learn to collaborate creatively and to respond to each other’s work in a thoughtful and constructive manner.
The program consists of 3 main components:
teacher professional development for 7th grade English Language Arts teachers at Brooks and Julian Middle Schools, as well as two Spoken Word club sponsors at each middle school
week-long classroom residencies serving all 6th & 7th grade English Language Arts classes
an extracurricular club open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders
We bring in teaching artists to co-facilitate our residencies and clubs. We partner with Oak Park River Forest High School’s stellar Spoken Word program, and high school students mentor our middle school Spoken Word club members. This year, we will attend the Louder Than A Bomb slam as audience members, perform at various community locales, and host a Julian vs. Brooks slam at the Oak Park School of Rock.
SPOKEN WORD:
brings in teaching artists to mentor students
engages all students with topics relevant to their personal experiences
creates a strong classroom and school community
helps students find their unique voices and connects them to the wider world
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“The Spoken Word program spearheaded by OPEF makes me wish I was a 7th grader….I feel like my kid is attending a boutique middle school.”
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“I liked how we got to speak in front of people and become more comfortable in front of an audience.”
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“This art form is one that really gives these kids a voice—to be able to stand up and say ‘who I am.’ They don’t have the space to do that at this age.”
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Creative Collaboration With Spoken Word
Brooks Middle School 7th graders are being encouraged to write poems about what’s important to them in their daily lives. Spoken Word teaching artist Mo Santiago, one of our latest Oak Park Education Foundation additions to the team, led last week's class...
Voices Shake the House at School of Rock
OPEF Spoken Word students shook the house at the School of Rock with their raw honesty and powerful words last week. The poetry slam, titled Respect the Mic, fostered creativity and self-expression while giving kids the opportunity to speak about their lives in a...
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$250 Sponsors a week-long residency of a Spoken Word visiting artist.
Joel Javier
ARTS COORDINATOR (FOR SPOKEN WORD & ART START)
Joel earned his MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Murray State University. Joel has experience teaching in museum & community art settings, and was instrumental in expanding public programming as well as advancing an award-winning fellowship programs for teachers. Joel has served as the Arts Coordinator for Art Start & Spoken Word since 2019.
Connect with Joel at joeljavier@opef.org
Spoken Word Residencies
TWO SCHOOLS, 18 CLASSROOMS
Mo Santiago, Teaching Artist @ Brooks and Julian
Spoken Word Club
CLUB SPONSORS, John Colucci @ Julian and Miles Lee @ Brooks
TEACHING ARTIST @ Brooks and Julian, Christian Robinson
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF OPEF'S SPOKEN WORD PROGRAM?
In January 2015, Spoken Word was selected through our first Call for Ideas process in six years. The “Call” brought in 78 excellent ideas plus some great feedback from nearly 1,000 of our middle schoolers. The OPEF staff and Board – made up of community members, parents, teachers, and District 97 leaders – carefully reviewed all of the ideas. Each of the proposals submitted was subjected to “blind reviews,” that is, submitters’ names and/or organizations were deleted and every proposal was scored by each participant across seven criteria. Then the top-rated ideas were discussed extensively and matched against the overall mission of OPEF until the group determined a clear winner: SPOKEN WORD.
Seed funding for the launch of Spoken Word was provided by the Peter Traczyk Innovation Fund.
WHO CAN JOIN THE OPEF SPOKEN WORD CLUB?
While our in-school residencies are focused on 6th and 7th graders, the club is open to all Brooks and Julian students. We hope to attract a wide range of students who will continue with the Spoken Word throughout their time in middle school, and maybe even into high school and beyond!
HOW WILL YOU RECRUIT STUDENTS FOR THE CLUBS?
All 6th and 7th graders participate in a week-long Spoken Word residency in their Language Arts class during the fall, which culminates with a grade-wide poetry slam. Information about the club will be shared during both the residency and the slam. Additionally, Language Arts teachers have been asked to help identify students who might excel as Spoken Word Club members.
WILL STUDENTS IN THE CLUB HAVE TO PERFORM THEIR POEMS OUT LOUD?
Spoken Word is about fostering creativity, self-expression, and a sense of community. Students will be coached and guided as poets and performers, but no one will be forced to perform. However, don’t be surprised if some of the quietest students end up displaying the strongest voices on stage! Our stellar teaching artists and club sponsors have a way of encouraging young people to speak up and speak out.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PERSUADE MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO OPEN UP AND SHARE THEIR FEELINGS?
While it’s true that Spoken Word encourages students to write honestly about their own identities and experiences, a middle school student’s honesty looks very different than that of a high school student or an adult poet. Our teaching artists are skilled at choosing sample poems and crafting prompts that speak to the interests and maturity level of a middle school student. Students will learn to write vividly and creatively about their own ideas and experiences. They will also practice being supportive team members.
OPEF programs bring experts into District 97 classrooms to work hands-on with students and teachers. These experts inspire students, mentor them, and open their eyes to interests and abilities they never knew they had.
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This month Paintings in Hospitals partnered with TEDxNHS 2019 to introduce art and wellbeing to over 1,000 NHS guests.
Ben, Jess and Thomas from the Paintings in Hospitals team were delighted to join NHS employees from across the country to explore this year's TEDxNHS theme - Beyond Our Component Parts.
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(Section 2)
PROVISIONS OF CONVENTION
DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA
For the purposes of this Convention:
1. ``Chemical Weapons'' means the following, together or separately:
(a) Toxic chemicals and their precursors, except where intended for purposes not prohibited under this Convention, as long as the types and quantities are consistent with such purposes;
(b) Munitions and devices, specifically designed to cause death or other harm through the toxic properties of those toxic chemicals specified in subparagraph (a), which would be released as a result of the employment of such munitions and devices;
(c) Any equipment specifically designed for use directly in connection with the employment of munitions and devices specified in subparagraph (b).
2. ``Toxic Chemical'' means:
Any chemical which through its chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals. This includes all such chemicals, regardless of their origin or of their method of production, and regardless of whether they are produced in facilities, in munitions or elsewhere.
(For the purpose of implementing this Convention, toxic chemicals which have been identified for the application of verification measures are listed in Schedules contained in the Annex on Chemicals.)
3. ``Precursor'' means:
Any chemical reactant which takes part at any stage in the production by whatever method of a toxic chemical. This includes any key component of a binary or multicomponent chemical system.
(For the purpose of implementing this Convention, precursors which have been identified for the application of verification measures are listed in Schedules contained in the Annex on Chemicals.)
4. ``Key Component of Binary or Multicomponent Chemical Systems'' (hereinafter referred to as ``key component'') means:
The precursor which plays the most important role in determining the toxic properties of the final product and reacts rapidly with other chemicals in the binary or multicomponent system.
5. ``Old Chemical Weapons'' means:
(a) Chemical weapons which were produced before 1925; or
(b) Chemical weapons produced in the period between 1925 and 1946 that have deteriorated to such extent that they can no longer be used as chemical weapons.
6. ``Abandoned Chemical Weapons'' means:
Chemical weapons, including old chemical weapons, abandoned by a State after 1 January 1925 on the territory of another State without the consent of the latter.
7. ``Riot Control Agent'' means:
Any chemical not listed in a Schedule, which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure.
8. ``Chemical Weapons Production Facility``:
(a) Means any equipment, as well as any building housing such equipment, that was designed, constructed or used at any time since 1 January 1946:
(i) As part of the stage in the production of chemicals (``final technological stage'') where the material flows would contain, when the equipment is in operation:
(1) Any chemical listed in Schedule 1 in the Annex on Chemicals; or
(2) Any other chemical that has no use, above 1 tonne per year on the territory of a State Party or in any other place under the jurisdiction or control of a State Party, for purposes not prohibited under this Convention, but can be used for chemical weapons purposes;
(ii) For filling chemical weapons, including, inter alia, the filling of chemicals listed in Schedule 1 into munitions, devices or bulk storage containers; the filling of chemicals into containers that form part of assembled binary munitions and devices or into chemical submunitions that form part of assembled unitary munitions and devices, and the loading of the containers and chemical submunitions into the respective munitions and devices;
(b) Does not mean:
(i) Any facility having a production capacity for synthesis of chemicals specified in subparagraph (a) (i) that is less than 1 tonne;
(ii) Any facility in which a chemical specified in subparagraph (a) (i) is or was produced as an unavoidable by-product of activities for purposes not prohibited under this Convention, provided that the chemical does not exceed 3 per cent of the total product and that the facility is subject to declaration and inspection under the Annex on Implementation and Verification (hereinafter referred to as ``Verification Annex''); or
(iii) The single small-scale facility for production of chemicals listed in Schedule 1 for purposes not prohibited under this Convention as referred to in Part VI of the Verification Annex.
9. ``Purposes Not Prohibited Under this Convention'' means:
(a) Industrial, agricultural, research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes;
(b) Protective purposes, namely those purposes directly related to protection against toxic chemicals and to protection against chemical weapons;
(c) Military purposes not connected with the use of chemical weapons and not dependent on the use of the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of warfare;
(d) Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes.
10. ``Production Capacity'' means:
The annual quantitative potential for manufacturing a specific chemical based on the technological process actually used or, if the process is not yet operational, planned to be used at the relevant facility. It shall be deemed to be equal to the nameplate capacity or, if the nameplate capacity is not available, to the design capacity. The nameplate capacity is the product output under conditions optimized for maximum quantity for the production facility, as demonstrated by one or more testruns. The design capacity is the corresponding theoretically calculated product output.
11. ``Organization'' means the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established pursuant to Article VIII of this Convention.
12. For the purposes of Article VI:
(a) ``Production'' of a chemical means its formation through chemical reaction;
(b) ``Processing'' of a chemical means a physical process, such as formulation, extraction and purification, in which a chemical is not converted into another chemical;
(c) ``Consumption'' of a chemical means its conversion into another chemical via a chemical reaction.
ANNEX ON CHEMICALS
SCHEDULES OF CHEMICALS
The following Schedules list toxic chemicals and their precursors. For the purpose of implementing this Convention, these Schedules identify chemicals for the application of verification measures according to the provisions of the Verification Annex. Pursuant to Article II, subparagraph 1(a), these Schedules do not constitute a definition of chemical weapons.
(Whenever reference is made to groups of dialkylated chemicals, followed by a list of alkyl groups in parentheses, all chemicals possible by all possible combinations of alkyl groups listed in the parentheses are considered as listed in the respective Schedule as long as they are not explicitly exempted. A chemical marked ``*'' on Schedule 2, part A, is subject to special thresholds for declaration and verification, as specified in Part VII of the Verification Annex.)
Schedule 1 (CAS registry number)
A. Toxic chemicals:
(1) O-Alkyl (C10, incl. cycloalkyl) alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphonofluoridates
e.g. Sarin: O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (107-44-8) Soman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate (96-64-0)
(2) O-Alkyl (C10, incl. cycloalkyl) N,N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphoramidocyanidates
e.g. Tabun: O-Ethyl N,N-dimethyl phosphoramidocyanidate (77-81-6)
(3) O-Alkyl (H or C10, incl. cycloalkyl) S-2-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-aminoethyl alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonothiolates and corresponding alkylated or proto nated salts
e.g. VX: O-Ethyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate (50782-69-9)
(4) Sulfur mustards:
2-Chloroethylchloromethylsulfide (2625-76-5)
Mustard gas: Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide (505-60-2)
Bis(2-chloroethylthio)methane (63869-13-6)
Sesquimustard: 1,2-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)ethane (3563-36-8)
1,3-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-propane (63905-10-2)
1,4-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-butane (142868-93-7)
1,5-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-pentane (142868-94-8)
Bis(2-chloroethylthiomethyl)ether (63918-90-1)
O-Mustard: Bis(2-chloroethylthioethyl)ether (63918-89-8)
(5) Lewisites:
Lewisite 1: 2-Chlorovinyldichloroarsine (541-25-3)
Lewisite 2: Bis(2-chlorovinyl)chloroarsine (40334-69-8)
Lewisite 3: Tris(2-chlorovinyl)arsine (40334-70-1)
(6) Nitrogen mustards:
HN1: Bis(2-chloroethyl)ethylamine (538-07-8)
HN2: Bis(2-chloroethyl)methylamine (51-75-2)
HN3: Tris(2-chloroethyl)amine (555-77-1)
(7) Saxitoxin (35523-89-8)
(8) Ricin (9009-86-3)
B. Precursors:
(9) Alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonyldifluorides
e.g. DF: Methylphosphonyldifluoride (676-99-3)
(10) O-Alkyl (H or C10, incl. cycloalkyl) O-2-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-aminoethyl alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonites and corresponding alkylated or protonated salts
e.g. QL: O-Ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (57856-11-8)
(11) Chlorosarin: O-Isopropyl methylphosphonochloridate (1445-76-7)
(12) Chlorosoman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonochloridate (7040-57-5)
(1) Amiton: O,O-Diethyl S-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl] phos phorothiolate (78-53-5) and corresponding alky lated or protonated salts
(2) PFIB: 1,1,3,3,3-Pentafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)-1- pro pene (382-21-8)
(3) BZ: 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (*) (6581-06-2)
(4) Chemicals, except for those listed in Schedule 1, containing a phosphorus atom to which is bonded one methyl, ethyl or propyl (normal or iso) group but not further carbon atoms,
e.g. Methylphosphonyl dichloride (676-97-1) Dimethyl methylphosphonate (756-79-6)
Exemption: Fonofos: O-Ethyl S-phenyl ethylphosphonothiolothionate (944-22-9)
(5) N,N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphoramidic dihalides
(6) Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) N,N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphoramidates
(7) Arsenic trichloride (7784-34-1)
(8) 2,2-Diphenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid (76-93-7)
(9) Quinuclidin-3-ol (1619-34-7)
(10) N,N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethyl-2-chlo rides and corresponding protonated salts
(11) N,N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethane-2-ols and corresponding protonated salts
Exemptions: N,N-Dimethylaminoethanol (108-01-0) and corresponding protonated salts N,N-Diethylaminoethanol (100-37-8) and corresponding protonated salts
(12) N,N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethane-2-thiols and corresponding protonated salts
(13) Thiodiglycol: Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)sulfide (111-48-8)
(14) Pinacolyl alcohol: 3,3-Dimethylbutan-2-ol (464-07-3)
(1) Phosgene: Carbonyl dichloride (75-44-5)
(2) Cyanogen chloride (506-77-4)
(3) Hydrogen cyanide (74-90-8)
(4) Chloropicrin: Trichloronitromethane (76-06-2)
(5) Phosphorus oxychloride (10025-87-3)
(6) Phosphorus trichloride (7719-12-2)
(7) Phosphorus pentachloride (10026-13-8)
(8) Trimethyl phosphite (121-45-9)
(9) Triethyl phosphite (122-52-1)
(10) Dimethyl phosphite (868-85-9)
(11) Diethyl phosphite (762-04-9)
(12) Sulfur monochloride (10025-67-9)
(13) Sulfur dichloride (10545-99-0)
(14) Thionyl chloride (7719-09-7)
(15) Ethyldiethanolamine (139-87-7)
(16) Methyldiethanolamine (105-59-9)
(17) Triethanolamine (102-71-6)
VERIFICATION ANNEX
1. ``Approved Equipment'' means the devices and instruments necessary for the performance of the inspection team's duties that have been certified by the Technical Secretariat in accordance with regulations prepared by the Technical Secretariat pursuant to Part II, paragraph 27 of this Annex. Such equipment may also refer to the administrative supplies or recording materials that would be used by the inspection team.
2. ``Building'' as referred to in the definition of chemical weapons production facility in Article II comprises specialized buildings and standard buildings.
(a) ``Specialized Building'' means:
(i) Any building, including underground structures, containing specialized equipment in a production or filling configuration;
(ii) Any building, including underground structures, which has distinctive features which distinguish it from buildings normally used for chemical production or filling activities not prohibited under this Convention.
(b) ``Standard Building'' means any building, including underground structures, constructed to prevailing industry standards for facilities not producing any chemical specified in Article II, paragraph 8 (a) (i), or corrosive chemicals.
3. ``Challenge Inspection'' means the inspection of any facility or location in the territory or in any other place under the jurisdiction or control of a State Party requested by another State Party pursuant to Article IX, paragraphs 8 to 25.
4. ``Discrete Organic Chemical'' means any chemical belonging to the class of chemical compounds consisting of all compounds of carbon except for its oxides, sulfides and metal carbonates, identifiable by chemical name, by structural formula, if known, and by Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned.
5. ``Equipment'' as referred to in the definition of chemical weapons production facility in Article II comprises specialized equipment and standard equipment.
(a) ``Specialized Equipment'' means:
(i) The main production train, including any reactor or equipment for product synthesis, separation or purification, any equipment used directly for heat transfer in the final technological stage, such as in reactors or in product separation, as well as any other equipment which has been in contact with any chemical specified in Article II, paragraph 8 (a) (i), or would be in contact with such a chemical if the facility were operated;
(ii) Any chemical weapon filling machines;
(iii) Any other equipment specially designed, built or installed for the operation of the facility as a chemical weapons production facility, as distinct from a facility constructed according to prevailing commercial industry standards for facilities not producing any chemical specified in Article II, paragraph 8 (a) (i), or corrosive chemicals, such as: equipment made of high-nickel alloys or other special corrosion-resistant material; special equipment for waste control, waste treatment, air filtering, or solvent recovery; special containment enclosures and safety shields; non-standard laboratory equipment used to analyse toxic chemicals for chemical weapons purposes; customdesigned process control panels; or dedicated spares for specialized equipment.
(b) ``Standard Equipment'' means:
(i) Production equipment which is generally used in the chemical industry and is not included in the types of specialized equipment;
(ii) Other equipment commonly used in the chemical industry, such as: fire-fighting equipment; guard and security/safety surveillance equipment; medical facilities, laboratory facilities; or communications equipment.
6. ``Facility'' in the context of Article VI means any of the industrial sites as defined below (``plant site'', ``plant'' and ``unit'').
(a) ``Plant Site'' (Works, Factory) means the local integration of one or more plants, with any intermediate administrative levels, which are under one operational control, and includes common infrastructure, such as:
(i) Administration and other offices;
(ii) Repair and maintenance shops;
(iii) Medical centre;
(iv) Utilities;
(v) Central analytical laboratory;
(vi) Research and development laboratories;
(vii) Central effluent and waste treatment area; and
(viii) Warehouse storage.
(b) ``Plant'' (Production facility, Workshop) means a relatively self-contained area, structure or building containing one or more units with auxiliary and associated infrastructure, such as:
(i) Small administrative section;
(ii) Storage/handling areas for feedstock and products;
(iii) Effluent/waste handling/treatment area;
(iv) Control/analytical laboratory;
(v) First aid service/related medical section; and
(vi) Records associated with the movement into, around and from the site, of declared chemicals and their feedstock or product chemicals formed from them, as appropriate.
(c) ``Unit'' (Production unit, Process unit) means the combination of those items of equipment, including vessels and vessel set up, necessary for the production, processing or consumption of a chemical.
7. ``Facility Agreement'' means an agreement or arrangement between a State Party and the Organization relating to a specific facility subject to on-site verification pursuant to Articles IV, V and VI.
8. ``Host State'' means the State on whose territory lie facilities or areas of another State, Party to this Convention, which are subject to inspection under this Convention.
9. ``In-Country Escort'' means individuals specified by the inspected State Party and, if appropriate, by the Host State, if they so wish, to accompany and assist the inspection team during the in-country period.
10. ``In-Country Period'' means the period from the arrival of the inspection team at a point of entry until its departure from the State at a point of entry.
11. ``Initial Inspection'' means the first on-site inspection of facilities to verify declarations submitted pursuant to Articles III, IV, V and VI and this Annex.
12. ``Inspected State Party'' means the State Party on whose territory or in any other place under its jurisdiction or control an inspection pursuant to this Convention takes place, or the State Party whose facility or area on the territory of a Host State is subject to such an inspection; it does not, however, include the State Party specified in Part II, paragraph 21 of this Annex.
13. ``Inspection Assistant'' means an individual designated by the Technical Secretariat as set forth in Part II, Section A, of this Annex to assist inspectors in an inspection or visit, such as medical, security and administrative personnel and interpreters.
14. ``Inspection Mandate'' means the instructions issued by the Director-General to the inspection team for the conduct of a particular inspection.
15. ``Inspection Manual'' means the compilation of additional procedures for the conduct of inspections developed by the Technical Secretariat.
16. ``Inspection Site'' means any facility or area at which an inspection is carried out and which is specifically defined in the respective facility agreement or inspection request or mandate or inspection request as expanded by the alternative or final perimeter.
17. ``Inspection Team'' means the group of inspectors and inspection assistants assigned by the Director-General to conduct a particular inspection.
18. ``Inspector'' means an individual designated by the Technical Secretariat according to the procedures as set forth in Part II, Section A, of this Annex, to carry out an inspection or visit in accordance with this Convention.
19. ``Model Agreement'' means a document specifying the general form and content for an agreement concluded between a State Party and the Organization for fulfilling the verification provisions specified in this Annex.
20. ``Observer'' means a representative of a requesting State Party or a third State Party to observe a challenge inspection.
21. ``Perimeter'' in case of challenge inspection means the external boundary of the inspection site, defined by either geographic coordinates or description on a map.
(a) ``Requested Perimeter'' means the inspection site perimeter as specified in conformity with Part X, paragraph 8, of this Annex;
(b) ``Alternative Perimeter'' means the inspection site perimeter as specified, alternatively to the requested perimeter, by the inspected State Party; it shall conform to the requirements specified in Part X, paragraph 17, of this Annex;
(c) ``Final Perimeter'' means the final inspection site perimeter as agreed in negotiations between the inspection team and the inspected State Party, in accordance with Part X, paragraphs 16 to 21, of this Annex;
(d) ``Declared Perimeter'' means the external boundary of the facility declared pursuant to Articles III, IV, V and VI.
22. ``Period of Inspection'', for the purposes of Article IX, means the period of time from provision of access to the inspection team to the inspection site until its departure from the inspection site, exclusive of time spent on briefings before and after the verification activities.
23. ``Period of Inspection'', for the purposes of Articles IV, V and VI, means the period of time from arrival of the inspection team at the inspection site until its departure from the inspection site, exclusive of time spent on briefings before and after the verification activities.
24. ``Point of Entry'' / ``Point of Exit'' means a location designated for the in-country arrival of inspection teams for inspections pursuant to this Convention or for their departure after completion of their mission.
25. ``Requesting State Party'' means a State Party which has requested a challenge inspection pursuant to Article IX.
26. ``Tonne'' means metric ton, i.e. 1,000 kg.
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A digital rendering of what the Harris Green Development could look like. (File contributed/ IBI group for Starlight Developments)
More than a million square feet of rental units proposed for downtown Victoria development
The Harris Green development is proposed to take over two large lots on Yates Street
Nicole Crescenzi
A Toronto-based developer has proposed a massive downtown Victoria mixed-use development that would see more than 1 million square feet of residential rental space included.
Over several years, Starlight Developments bought out the properties at the 900 and 1000 block of Yates Street, currently occupied by the Harris Green Plaza, home to community staples such as the Market on Yates, London Drugs, Bin 4 Burger Lounge and more. In the near future, however, the block will be home to much more.
Now, three new buildings are proposed for the area, as well as an intermittent green space.
ALSO READ: A Toronto developer looks to develop two blocks in downtown Victoria
The building at 1045 Yates St., currently occupied by the Harris Victoria Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram car lot, would host a 17-storey building, with a 15-storey podium. Two buildings would be stationed at the 900 Yates St. address, presently where London Drugs is, with 25 and 22 storeys and a 19-storey podium.
Within those buildings would be 1.28 million sq. ft. of residential space, equating between 1,200-1,500 units.
“The residential units will be 100 per cent rentals,” said said Mark Chemij, senior development manager at Starlight Developments. “In Victoria the vacancy rate sits around one per cent, while a healthy market is typically between three and five per cent… We’re hoping to provide a valuable supply of purpose-built rentals to the market.”
Chemij said at this point they had not determined a target demographic for the units, but that they would vary in design from studio suites all the way up to three-bedroom units.
ALSO READ: City of Victoria considers proposed senior rental development
On the ground floor there would be 100,000 sq. ft. of retail space available, though it’s too early to say who will be there.
“It’s our hope that we can keep our tenants if they choose to stay,” he said.
Between the two properties there would be a half-acre green space which would act as a village plaza.
On Tuesday Starlight presented its early ideas to the public in a Community Association Land Use Committee Meeting, an event which Chemij said went well.
“We’re pretty excited to present our initial concepts to the public,” he said. “We’re quite encouraged by what we heard and look forward to working with the city and the community.”
Starlight will put forward a development permit and a rezoning permit application to the City of Victoria in January.
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Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission, serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut and is an active member of many economic rights and social justice organizations. As chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, she has played an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights and peace.
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Nelson Pinos Gonzalez has changed New Haven forever with his courage, determination, and absolute refusal to be separated from the family he loves.
Solidarity is strong for Stop & Shop strikers
Standing in a long line at another store, a customer said, “I usually shop at Stop & Shop, but I don't cross picket lines.”
Union and community pulling out the vote for Connecticut’s future
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"Our country, our democracy is under siege. This next two weeks is a decision moment for the nation."
Healthcare, wages at stake in Machinists strike at UTC Cheshire Aerospace
September 26, 2018 By Joelle Fishman And Tom Connolly
"We are going to stay out here and keep fighting until they give us something reasonable."
Mother wins stay of deportation during hunger strike
August 23, 2018 By Joelle Fishman
Salma Sikander had been ordered to return to Bangladesh four days before her only son was to enter Quinnipiac University, the first in his family to attend college.
Janus, labor’s fightback and 2018 elections Webinar, Sun., August 19
Let this webinar be the beginning of a bigger and even broader fight for workers’ rights in our country.
Connecticut Poor People’s Campaign marches on state capitol
June 13, 2018 By Joelle Fishman
According to the Poor People's Campaign audit, 42 percent of the state's residents are poor or low income and 524,000 make less than $15 an hour.
Connecticut May Day rally inspires unity for justice, equality, and peace
May 10, 2018 By Joelle Fishman
Report back from the historic trip was a highlight of the “May Day 2018: Fighting Together for Justice, Equality, and Peace” rally hosted here by Connecticut People's World.
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From July you can already know the house where Diana of Wales grew up
The house where Diana grew up with her siblings, Althorp, will be open to the public between July and August this year, between noon and 5 pm.
The initiative comes from the princes William and Harry who, with this extraordinary opening, intend to mark the 22nd anniversary of the death of whom became known as "The People's Princess." Therefore, special places of the house and gardens of Northamptonshire where Lady Di spent her childhood and grew up with her brothers, and before marrying Prince Charles (1981), will be open to the public. Beyond the access [...]
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New Year message from Poetry Space
Dear Poets and Readers,
This has been a crazy, crazy year. It was the fifth for Poetry Space (sixth for annual competition) and we held two celebratory events, one in London’s Poetry Cafe and another in the wonderful surroundings of Armada House in Bristol. The former was an evening of readings with special guests Martyn Crucefix and Alison Brackenbury, judges from Poetry Space annual competition, 2012 and 2013, leading us.We were also entranced by the many poets featured in our showcase and competitions, and welcomed along new faces including performance poet Susan Evans.
Book publishing has continued with three more full collections, Neil Leadbeater’s The Loveliest Vein of our Lives, What the trees are telling me by Elizabeth Rapp and Chester City Walls: a poet’s mosaic by Julia D. McGuinness ( successfully launched on the fringes of the Chester Literary festival).
There have also been pamphlet collections by Prem Kumari Srivastava, Di Coffey, Margaret Eddershaw and the late Wendy Stern. Seven books in a year in which my son Mark has been seriously ill and still is possibly terminal but we keep hoping and fighting for him, and a year which brought the end of life for a much loved family member, my dear father who died aged ninety four after several years with Alzheimer’s. Continuing with its aim of widening participation in poetry and helping poets and their supporters to raise money for specific causes, we have this year donated £200 to Missing Link charity in Bath as a result of sales of Hannah Teasdale’s pamphlet collection Fingerprints. Di Coffey is raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Association, with The Tugboatman’s Daughter, Beverley Ferguson’s Breaking Through is still on sale with 50% proceeds going to Bath Mind,
and the most recent addition Riding the Rainbow by Margaret Eddershaw is selling well with all proceeds going to Ibba Girl’s School in South Sudan.
My intention as we move into this brand new year is to finish all outstanding commitments with regard to book publishing, the anthology from the 2015 competition with John Siddique will be first off the press, followed by pamphlet collections by Jade Anouka and Sue Ironside, a highly original book of poems and recipes by Moira Andrew and daughter Jenny (Poet in the Kitchen) and possibly one or two others that have reached my shortlist. It would also be lovely to have a children’s collection drawing from some of the wonderful poems sent in to Eleanor for the Young Writers and Artists Space. This all depends on time and funds.
After that Poetry Space will not take any new poets onto the list for possibly up to two years. This is to allow time for crowd funding later this year and production of the book of photographs and poems that is still evolving from the wonderful Photo and Poem challenge, and a series of launch events throughout the country during 2017. Apologies for the erratic nature of the challenge itself. It was my intention to post much more regularly but it is hard to keep up with everything . I already have plans for something online to replace it but keeping this secret for now.
There is just one short story pamphlet out so far in what will be a series. Three more to come from Geralyn Pinto, Michael Docker and Moira Andrew but this may be slow as I am finding putting prose into pamphlet form harder than poetry.
I also want to congratulate the winners from our 2015 competition: Ama Bolton, Corin Greaves and Victoria Gatehouse, and the runners up for their wonderful poems. Thanks too, to our lovely judge John Siddique who we were privileged to have selecting the winners. Next Year’s competition will be judged by Myra Schneider who will again read all entries. More details of this will go on the website very, very soon. The same format as usual: deadline of June 30th 2016. Prizes of £250, £100 and £50, plus complementary copies of the prizewinners anthology for all top twenty, £5 to enter a single poem but two for the price of one for friends of poetry space members. Multiple entries will be allowed.
Ama Bolton
This year has also been incredibly sad and yet incredibly joyous for our family in so many ways. Along with events already mentioned, we have had a fantastic wedding when Dave married Alice @Bristol and said their vows beneath the stars in Bristol’s planetarium in November. This was memorable too for the walk through the aquarium with drinks en route. So many family and friends have said how much they enjoyed it. The speeches were especially moving given the situation with Mark. I felt very proud of everyone there. So much love! Indeed love has surrounded Mark in particular this year. Friends and family flooded the Marsden back in February after the initial diagnosis of advanced melanoma and I said then if love could cure then we would have no problem. So much love again this first week of the new year as Mark has moved literally from the mouth of death through to asking his girlfriend Georgie to get engaged on the steps of The Royal Marsden , and then getting voted Top Doc on Social media in the BMA’s annual quest on Twitter #topdoc15
Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year personally, professionally and through social media. I know there are things I have probably forgotten but the main thing is to wish you all a happy 2016 with lots of beautiful moments and memories created.
Love and best wishes
Susan Jane Sims
Sue, January 7th 2016
My collection A Number of things you should know (2014) is published by Indigo Dreams Publishing. Irene’s Daughter, is available from Poetry Space online shop.
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Heartland Dental Reaches 900th Supported Office Milestone
Heartland Dental Reaches 900th Supported Office Milestone Largest dental support organization continues nationwide growth
EFFINGHAM, Ill., Dec. 17, 2018
EFFINGHAM, Ill., Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Dental, the largest dental support organization in the country, recently crossed its 900th supported office milestone.
"Starting out with a handful of supported offices in a few states to now supporting 900 offices across the country, it's been amazing to see how our company has grown in just a few decades," said Patrick Bauer, President and Chief Executive Officer at Heartland Dental. "This is only the beginning. We will continue to make strides in our mission of becoming THE leader in dentistry, and look forward to celebrating many more of these milestones in the future."
Heartland Dental reached this milestone this year by continually supporting the opening of brand new "De Novo" offices and affiliating with existing dental offices throughout the country. Specifically, in 2018, the company increased its footprint to 37 states.
"Supported offices become part of a network of over 1,400 dental professionals who share ideas, encouragement and camaraderie," said Dr. Rick Workman, Founder and Executive Chairman at Heartland Dental. "This 900th office milestone is a testament to the hard work and dedication of these supported doctors and team members. We wouldn't be at this level of success without their efforts."
About Heartland Dental
Heartland Dental was founded in 1997 by Rick Workman, DMD with two dental offices in Effingham, IL. Today, it is the nation's largest dental support organization with 11,000 employees providing non-clinical administrative support services to 1,400 supported dentists in approximately 900 supported dental offices in 37 states. Its non-clinical administrative services include staffing, employee relations, procurement, administration, financial, marketing assistance, and information technology.
Heartland Dental is majority owned by KKR, a leading global investment firm. Heartland Dental remains headquartered in Effingham and offers supported dentists and team members continuing professional education and leadership training.
For more information, visit www.Heartland.com. Follow Heartland Dental on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Adam Lueken, Corporate Communications
(217) 540-5664 or alueken@heartland.com
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Mobile Firm Shockoe Creates App to Help Save the World's Second Largest Reef
Shockoe partnered with Roatan Marine Park, a non profit in Honduras, to determine if a mobile app can make a difference in its mission to protect the Mesoamerican Reef.
Shockoe creates an app for Roatan Marine Park
Education and community outreach is a huge part of our work...but we just can't be everywhere at once
Richmond, VA (PRWEB) June 08, 2017
The barrier reef system stretches nearly 700 miles (over 1000 km) from the tip of the Yucatan in Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, and finally the Bay islands in Honduras. It’s here that the Roatan Marine Park (RMP), a small not-for-profit based on Roatan island, does its part to protect the reef from invasive species, poaching, dredging, mangrove cutting, and a host of other threats.
“Education and community outreach is a huge part of our work. That’s the long game. But in the short term we have seen a lot of traction and improvement through our patrol efforts,” - says Eduardo Rico, Executive Director of RMP, noting, “but we just can’t be everywhere at once.”
RMP has a patrol crew of just six people, rotating night and day, tasked with conducting environmental inspections and following up on cases where people are poaching protected species such as conch and turtle, spearfishing illegally, or a number of other environmental infractions that harm the reef.
With no way of keeping eyes on the waters at all times, RMP relies on reports from citizens and tourists by phone or word of mouth. In most cases by the time reports come in and a patrol member can be sent on scene there is no hope for intervention and little evidence of who was involved.
RMP realized they needed a new approach. Working with an advisor and former employee of mobile development platform Appcelerator, RMP was put in touch with the mobile design & development firm Shockoe out of Richmond, VA.
“Hey guys, we have an idea for an app.”
Shockoe worked closely with the Roatan Marine Park employees to create a mobile application that would augment their patrol staff by allowing citizens to be RMP’s eyes and ears.
“What makes this a great mobile app is that it encourages the general public to take photos or videos of the incident and mark the location along with the report so that RMP has better evidence,” says Samantha Carbonell, a designer at Shockoe.
This week the Roatan Marine Park employees are gearing up for the initial launch as Shockoe works with partner Axway on plans for expanding the app's capabilities. Ralston Brooks, Patrol Coordinator for RMP, is optimistic. “It really comes down to connecting communities. Our work protecting Roatan and the Mesoamerican reef relies on it, and we’re excited to see what this partnership with the tech community will bring to the table.”
The application, RMP iPatrol, is scheduled to launch on iTunes and Google Play on June 8th, World Oceans Day.
About Shockoe
Shockoe is a cross-platform mobile solutions firm that specializes in building mobile applications and integrating legacy systems. Since 2010, we’ve been helping clients to develop mobile strategies which result in consumer and employee-facing mobile applications that meet users’ needs. We believe that technology can make business better and make that belief a reality every day with the tools we build.
About Roatán Marine Park
The Roatán Marine Park(RMP) started as a grassroots, community based, not-for-profit organization located on the island of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras. Our aim is to empower the local community to thrive sustainably alongside our ecosystems treasured throughout the nation and worldwide. Our efforts are delivering obvious returns and our effective management has received global acclaim from marine conservationists. We are now co-managers of the Bay Islands National Marine Park and have 501c3 status in the USA.
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Democrats recruit veterans early for 2018 battle
'Washington seems like a dirty place. But so was Afghanistan. And so was Iraq. And we’re going to clean it up.'
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
04/04/2017 05:06 AM EDT
A rough profile of the DCCC's ideal candidates have started to emerge: veterans, preferably with small business experience too. | AP Photo
Democrats are looking to turn the Donald Trump resistance movement into an army of candidates to try to take back the House in 2018.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leaders have already met with 255 potential candidates across 64 districts, convinced that the shifting political environment has opened new opportunities that they’ll chase in next year’s midterms.
A rough profile of their ideal candidate has started to emerge: veterans, preferably with small business experience too. They’d like as many of them to be women or people who’ve never run for office before — and having young children helps.
With the 2018 Senate map tilted heavily in Republicans’ favor, House races may prove the first real test for how much 2016 was a realignment election, and how much Democrats are able to turn the energy in the streets against President Donald Trump into actually winning races.
“We are going to be on offense, we are going to take this fight to the American people,” said DCCC Chair Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) last week at an event taking a victory lap over the defeat of Obamacare repeal. It was held to tout a poll showing how badly the bill played in 54 swing districts.
While winning the majority would require a tidal wave in 2018, Democratic recruiters are giddy over the surge in energy and interest among potential candidates, and they are starting the process earlier than ever.
White House, conservatives mull deal to revive Obamacare repeal
By RACHAEL BADE, JENNIFER HABERKORN and JOSH DAWSEY
This past Saturday, candidates preparing to be in the first round of campaign announcements quietly made their way to DCCC headquarters in Washington for the first pre-launch boot camp, following several staff training sessions. Half the attendees were women, and half were veterans, according to a DCCC official.
They’ll formalize the focus on recruiting veterans on Tuesday, with a meeting at headquarters between DCCC leaders and Vote Vets, a liberal group focused on veterans’ issues, convened by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), herself a veteran who was one of the Democrats to flip a Senate seat last year.
“Especially among the younger generation of veterans, you have a community that is far less conservative than people might think,” Duckworth said, adding that she’s talked in depth about House races in 2018 or 2020 to a dozen veterans among people just back from tours and those expecting to be completing them soon — including two female helicopter pilots.
Duckworth says she’s been urging them to think of Congress as to how to extend their service and have a voice on the Defense budget and international affairs.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who’ll also be at the Tuesday meeting, is already deep into his own personal recruitment project, claiming 22 fellow veterans who have either committed to run or are in deep conversations with Democrats about the possibility.
“I don’t think you have to be a veteran to run for office, but when you’re looking for a group of people who might be able to rise above the bitter partisan gridlock, veterans are a good place to look,” Moulton said.
Moulton said for the most part, the conversations have started with veterans reaching out to him, calling Trump’s election a turning point. He’s guided some to statehouse races instead, but brought many of them into the DCCC process and started getting them flown to Washington for meetings with leaders and staff.
“Washington seems like a dirty place. But so was Afghanistan. And so was Iraq. And we’re going to clean it up,” Moulton says he tells them. “Donald Trump’s policies are terrible for our national security — what group of people better to point that out than a group of Democratic veterans?”
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In 2016, the DCCC built a strategy around latching Republican candidates to Trump, hitting them with a “party over country” attack for those who didn’t distance themselves from either him or their congressional leadership. For 2018, though, they don’t think a Trump attack will be enough and have begun compiling more extensive research on Republicans, including in districts not previously top targets, tracking committee votes and digging into members’ finances in the hopes of feeding a message of Trump’s and the GOP’s failing to drain the swamp.
The special election for the seat formerly held by Tom Price, who now serves as Health and Human Services secretary, is proving a test case of this approach: The DCCC has been holding focus groups of people who went with Mitt Romney in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016, who look to them like potentially trending blue voters.
In addition to the veteran-specific recruiting and ongoing outreach to women, they’re leaning heavily on their new five regional recruitment vice chair system to provide more personal attention to both prospective candidates and donors.
“The road to 218 is going to take us in many places that conventional wisdom would suggest that we shouldn’t look — and the road to 218 is going to take us to the South,” said Rep. Don McEachin (D-Va.), a freshman responsible for recruiting in the south who’s talking to potential candidates in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, as well as further reach territory like South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama.
“Especially among the younger generation of veterans, you have a community that is far less conservative than people might think,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said. | AP Photo
Republicans say they’re neither impressed nor worried. With many more incumbents to defend, they’re looking at taking back a few of the seats that flipped last year, like Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s in northern New Jersey, as well as moving early into perennially hard-fought districts, like the one Rep. Scott Peters represents in San Diego.
They also see opportunities of their own to expand into parts of the country where they think Trump’s win may have cemented Republican trends, such as Ron Kind’s district in Wisconsin and Matt Cartwright’s in Pennsylvania, both of whom had weaker challengers in races that the National Republican Campaign Committee didn’t start paying much attention to until late in the cycle last year.
NRCC press secretary Jesse Hunt argued that Democrats are going to have trouble meshing any realignments that may have happened with what’s going on in their base.
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“The activist-base Democratic Party is demanding all-out obstruction in Washington, D.C., to the entire Republican agenda, and it’s going to make it difficult for Democratic to make the necessary course correction in these competitive Congressional districts,” Hunt said. “As a result of that, you’re going to see the Democratic base demand far left progressive candidates that don’t fit the suburban districts they need.”
With more territory to defend and less need to recruit, NRCC leaders have met with 100 prospective candidates so far. Republicans have led Democrats in fundraising each month of 2017, helped by the $30 million brought in by Trump’s appearance at their dinner at the National Building Museum last month, but the NRCC declined to detail its online fundraising, which Democrats say is a measure of enthusiasm: They raised $13.68 million online from 750,000 separate donations in just the first quarter, compared with $19.7 million in all of 2015 — though money from both committees will likely be dwarfed by super PAC spending.
Democrats say they’re looking at Rep. Robert Pittenger’s seat in North Carolina and several seats in Southern California, but they’re desperate to regain their footing in Ohio and throughout the Midwest. And while they have started to identify their own early targets, they’re not publicizing most of the names, in part because they want to get more candidates in motion before Republicans start going on the attack.
“I want them to be asleep at switch,” McEachin said. “I want them to have a false sense of security.”
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Prince George May Only Be 5, but He's Already Developed Quite the Personality
What Is Prince George Like?
July 28, 2018 by Monica Sisavat
Prince George celebrated his fifth birthday on July 22, and even though he's still a kid, he's already developed quite the personality. According to People, the adorable royal is "very independent now," and he's "not as interested" in playing with his younger sister, Princess Charlotte, all the time. "George likes to go off and do his own thing," a source added.
These Insanely Adorable Pics of Prince George Prove 2018 May Be His Cutest Year Yet
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BBC TU144 / Konkordski article - for interest
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1st Jun 2016, 09:42
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Dunno that they lost the race just because of the 1973 crash, though. There were plenty of other things wrong with that plane!
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Shaggy Sheep Driver
As John Farley intimates in the video, the TU144 was technically inferior to Concorde. In particular the engine intakes and wing shape were a far superior design on the Anglo French aeroplane. If the Russians really had copied Concorde, they'd presumably have got those right! The TU144 crash was not a factor in its commercial failure, even though the BBC imply that it was!
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I found JF's comments, about a French "reconnaisance" aircraft causing the crash, very interesting.
Can anyone expand on that?
JF, where are you?
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Indirectly the crash happened because of its inferior design.....those canard wings behind the cockpit were an add-on precisely BECAUSE the shape of the main wing as it was didn't provide enough lift at low speed - Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski" Discovered Hidden in Tatarstan
And it was the canard wings a French Mirage was above the TU144 trying to get a picture of when the TU pilot suddenly saw the Mirage and got startled, hence putting it into too steep a dive.
India Four Two - have just seen your comment; take a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_crash
Shaggy Sheep - re your comments on copying (or not) the Concorde, see this mention of how a Soviet agent called Pavlov got sent to collect tire scrapings off the runway from a Concorde test aircraft and ended up being fed 'something like bubble gum' ! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcr...upersonic.html
2nd Jun 2016, 02:12
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I was lucky enough to get a look at one a few years back when I visited a very good, mainly civil aircraft collection in the city of Ulyanovsk. Highly recommended. The concierge guy was kind enough to open it up especially so I could get inside.
It was only then that I learned a notable point which can be distinguished from the video. The 144 had 5 abreast seating as opposed to Concorde's 4.
Remarkably curved wing too. What a brute of an aircraft!
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A number of stories have circulated over the years regarding the Paris crash, perhaps the most believable being that the TU144 was being shadowed by an aircraft that got too close, the TU144 needed to take avoiding action resulting in a journalistic type that they had in the cockpit falling on to the controls and the rest is history.
Another story was that they did copy designs of Concorde that they sourced however deliberately flawed plans were provided which resulted in the TU144 being the piece of [email protected] that it was.
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NARRATOR: The TU-144 was scheduled to fly directly after Concorde. As it taxied for takeoff, the Russian pilot, Koslov, was told by the French air traffic controllers that his display time had been cut in half.
HOWARD MOON: The French, in my opinion, intervened into a scientific, technical spectacle for political reasons. This was a major piece of French prestige and honor. I think they simply wanted to showcase their bird. They wanted to show it off to the world and to push the Russians in the background.
NARRATOR: French test pilot, André Turcat, was watching the TU-144's display.
ANDRÉ TURCAT: We saw the whole movement, the whole presentation of the airplane from very close up. I must say, it was very well done. A 360-degree turn above the runway with good inclination. After this last pass, the plane climbed quite steeply.
NARRATOR: British pilot, John Farley, and his co-pilot, Andy Jones, were also watching.
JOHN FARLEY: Because there was no cloud, he could go up and up and up, and, I don't know, three and a half, four thousand feet. This thing was just going up, looking at it as we were, you know, going away from us like this. And then suddenly, it just very abruptly leveled off. I mean, really violently. And it did something that you never see big airplanes do, really violently change their pitch attitude. And both Andy and I went, "Ooooh!" You got this vision of this aircraft coming down. And it has to do with the angle, the speed, and the distance remaining when you think, 'That's not right.' And I said to Andy, "He's lost it." And at that point, with the aircraft still fairly well up, probably -- I don't know -- 1,500 feet or a bit less, it started to break up and had clearly been overstressed.
NARRATOR: Six Soviet crew members and eight French citizens died. One little boy playing in front of his home was decapitated by a piece of flying debris. Two other children were also killed. Sixty people were seriously injured and fifteen houses totally destroyed.
NARRATOR: Nearly 25 years after the event, what caused the TU-144 to crash is only now being revealed. Minutes before Concorde and the TU-144 were scheduled to fly, a French Army Mirage jet took off. A surprising departure, since at international airshows, competing pilots expect to have the skies to themselves. Regulations state that a five-mile column of airspace must be kept free for their display. Concorde's crew was warned that the Mirage would be flying. Jean Forestier, French accident investigator, was asked if the same courtesy had been extended to the Russian crew.
JEAN FORESTIER: No.
NARRATOR: Why not?
JEAN FORESTIER: Right. Listen. We're moving away from the subject. If this is the case, we will go round and round impossible issues. As far as I'm concerned, it's very clear. The conversation is going in such a way. It's quite clear. Right. It's over.
NARRATOR: Jean Forestier's revelation that the Soviet crew was not warned of the Mirage was excluded from the government statement. There is speculation that the French neglected to admit this breach of regulations because the Mirage was on a clandestine mission to photograph the TU-144 in flight. In particular, the French wanted detailed film of the canards, the insect wings behind the cockpit. Flying at a height of approximately 4,000 feet in and out of the clouds, the Mirage tracked the TU-144 through its routine. As the Soviet plane climbed on a trajectory which would cross the Mirage's flight path, the pilot, Koslov, was not aware that the French jet was flying directly above him.
YURII KASHTANOV: At the moment when the pilots saw the Mirage which was flying at roughly the same height as the TU-144, they couldn't tell whether it was coming towards them or moving away.
NARRATOR: To avoid colliding with the Mirage, Koslov was forced to pitch the plane violently downwards, causing gravitational forces of minus 1G, known in pilot's jargon as a bunt.
JOHN FARLEY: We talked to the Russian ground crew immediately after the accident, and they all said, as did a Rolls-Royce chap who was familiar with their engine, they all said, "Well, the engines would have not have taken that bunt." Now, what they meant by that was the compressors would probably have surged. This means that you lose thrust. The rotating machinery at the front of the engine, which is generating the pressure before it gets to the combustion chamber where you burn the fuel, that will have stalled. It's purely aerodynamic, and it would have stalled. So, he had one, two, maybe even all three or four of his engines misbehaving now. So, he's level. And you can almost see the question mark over the top of the airplane, you know, as it's going along level.
NARRATOR: At a height of 4,000 feet, Koslov had just one option -- to put the plane into a steep dive in an attempt to windmill-start his engines.
JOHN FARLEY: So, he's got to lower the nose, quickly get some speed up, get these engines blowing around, and then go through a few check lists, turn on the fuel, turn on the ignition, and so on. And I suspect that he did this and was completely preoccupied with it. Probably got one, two, maybe even all of them going in the end, and suddenly thought, "Oh! Look at the height!"
NARRATOR: In his effort to pull the jet out of its steep dive, Koslov over-stressed the plane, causing a structural failure. It is widely believed that the French and Soviet governments colluded to cover up the cause of the crash. With eight French citizens killed on the ground, the French government did not want the world to know that the Mirage jet was the precipitating cause of the accident. The official statement implied human error on the part of the Soviet pilot. Jean Forestier returned to defend the statement.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qo9c4 : relevant part starts at 27:10
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Not sure how trustworthy that link is. I stopped reading it (it's pretty long!) when I came to :
At 1,400 miles per hour, wind friction quickly raises airframe temperatures beyond the boiling point of water
It's not friction that heats Concorde's skin to its limit of 127 degrees C (on the nose, a bit less elsewhere), it's dynamic heating caused by supersonic shock compression of the air.
Just a spotter
On a slight tangent, it always amuses me how the British press seem to feed the idea that the tu-144 was a copy of the Concorde, while ignoring the similarities between the French Super Caravelle and British Bristol Type 223, the two independently developed predecessor concepts to Concorde. Just who copied from whom? Or could it be that designing an SST using contemporary technologies meant that the aircraft was predestined to to look a certain way.
IMHO the aborted American Boeing 2707 looked more like a tu-144 than it did a Concorde.
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The B707 and the Russian equivalent, the VC10 ditto, wasn't the BAe146 supposed be be 2 engines whilst Antonov have achieved it, the B727, the DH121 and the TU154, the BAC1-11, the DC9 and the TU134, the Fk27 and the AN24, the C5 Galaxy and the AN124, the B757 and a Russian equivalent ... All of these are just too much of a coincidence that one party isn't copying another!
Any SST, especially back in the '60s but probably today as well, would have to have been a thin winged narrow delta with a minimum cross section fuselage (hence Bristol 223, Super Caravelle, TU144, and Concorde).
The Americans tried variations on this with their proposed SSTs and failed miserably.
Concorde's wing is a far more complex shape than that on the TU144, and the engine intakes (the secret of its supercruise ability) far superior to the TU144 design. Not much copying going on there, then!
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Yes, you'd have thought that over the years the Russians would have thought of some new places to stick the wings, tail and engines, rather than the same old boring, conventional locations.
you'd have thought that over the years the Russians would have thought of some new places to stick the wings
They did think::
the crash happened because of its inferior design.....those canard wings behind the cockpit were an add-on
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To be fair, the reason why the American SST programme became unaffordable was that they targeted Mach 3 rather than Mach2(ish). The airframe temperatures at Mach 3 are higher, which drove materials (and other) requirements that were uneconomic and that's why they abandoned the project.
If you want to cite a "clever" US/Europe discriminator I think it would have been identifying that Mach 2.2 was the economic sweet-spot rather than any airframe configuration issues per se.
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I recall having an aerodynamics lecture a couple of days after the Tu-144 crash where we naturally wanted to pick the lecturer's brain about the accident. He told us in no uncertain terms that presence of "moustache" aerofoils on an aircraft was a dead giveaway that it had severe aerodynamic/CofG issues. As a Pole, he could scarcely conceal his delight at the event, which struck me at the time (and still does) as extremely distasteful, if perhaps understandable given the history of the two nations.
I would like to point out that if the Concorde type B had gone ahead it would have had Retractable canards also, so as to improve the aircraft's low speed operation.
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Yes, it's touch and go whether canards pay their way. They improve low speed handling... Consider a Concorde about to touch down; it was John Farley I think who described it as an upside-down flapped delta at that moment. All elevons up, forcing the TE down, and the nose up.
And consider T/O. Concorde's wing produces no lift until it is pitched to positive AoA on rotation. So just before that point the tyres are doing about 250mph (pretty much the limit of tyre technology) with all 185 tons of the aircraft's weight on them. Them the pilot pulls back to rotate, the elevons go up, forcing the TE down, and those stressed tyres get a big extra loading as they are forced into the tarmac as the aeroplane rotates. Canards would be very useful to raise the nose without the airframe puting that extra load on the tyres at rotation.
More efficient to have canards lifting the nose than elevons forcing the tail down. But the canards have to be retractable for supersonic cruise, and that means a lot of added weight. Not considered worth it on Concorde.
I think it is incorrect to assume a delta with canards indicates a poor aerodynamic design.
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The B707 and the Russian equivalent
Which was? The others I relate to but not this one.
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I was very disappointed with the programme because it did not include all the reasons behind my comments. But there we go, I am grown up and should have expected that.
Was it a copy of Concorde? Of course not. As anybody in the business knows it was a bigger machine had a different wing plan form (double delta) and a different engine layout. Was there spying? Yes. But this was to give both sides a better understanding of the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses when it came to the sales bit. (Just as we wanted to know all about the Alpha Jet when doing the Hawk – only newspapers would suggest it was to copy. There is more to the engineering and aerodynamics of any aircraft than a few drawings)
I had met Valezi Moltchnov, one of the pilots who was flying it at Paris, at the Hanover show a year earlier when I was displaying the first development Harrier and Valezi had one of the Tu-144 prototypes minus the very important canards that appeared later at Paris. He had come up to me as I was nosing around under his aircraft and finished up giving me the complete tour. We had got on like a house on fire and his English was probably better than mine. As a result, we later talked aeroplanes for several days as we wandered around the show. He was as sharp as a tack as evidenced when I asked whether he had any hobbies and he replied “Reading Flight and Aviation Week”. However, one probably had to have lived through the height of the Cold War to appreciate just how meaningful that was coming from a Russian in 1972. One night Valezi and I went to a shooting club in Hanover with his boss, Tupolev CTP Edward Elyan and German WWII fighter ace Adolf Galland. Not surprisingly, Galland thrashed me at shooting. I would have liked a return match in a hovering vehicle but life is not always that fair.
Back to Paris 1973. On the Sunday and last day of the show, fellow Dunsfold pilot Andy Jones and I were watching the Tu-144 display with considerable interest. We had been amazed earlier in the week at how much slower the aircraft could land now it was fitted with the canards. These retractable mini wings, when extended during takeoff and landing, generated so much nose up force that on the approach the wing trailing edge control surfaces were now deflected downwards giving in effect a delta with flaps down. At Hanover, without the canards, the aircraft had been like Concorde, the HP115 and the T221 and needed the trailing edge controls to be up for the approach and landing flare. This meant these three aircraft were in effect fitted with flaps working the wrong way round and so reducing lift. The lower approach speed possible with this new ‘flapped delta’ allowed the Tu-144 to land on the display runway 03 and exit at the second turn-off, which was a distance of some 1,200 metres.
Their display sequence included a touch and go on 03, followed by an initial steep climb then an immediate turn onto the downwind for the final landing, a manoeuvre almost amounting to a wingover given the cloud base during the week was below 2,000 ft. On the Sunday however, there was not a cloud in the sky and their initial steep climb after the touch and go was continued straight ahead to perhaps 4,000 ft. Then suddenly the aircraft violently bunted to level flight. Both Andy and I gasped at seeing such a push in that class of aircraft. As we looked at the retreating aeroplane flying away level, we had time to say to each other that it looked as if they were going home and we were going to be denied watching another full stop landing. Then down went the nose and the aircraft made as if to descend and turn back to the downwind leg. When it was about half way to the ground and having rolled left through 90o, so giving us a side view of the dive, something made me say to Andy “He’s going in”.
Even though it was still a long way up, that something which suggested to me that the crew had lost it was a mixture of height, unchanging steep nose down attitude and rate of descent. Suddenly the picture looked wrong. I have seen many aeroplanes come to grief at air displays and, if you are a display pilot yourself, you develop a feel for when the picture is wrong. Just as I said that to Andy, the aircraft started to pull out of the dive and for a moment we both felt it might just miss the ground but it broke up at about 1,000 ft.
My belief is that whatever caused the bunt caused the accident because I don’t believe the engines could have swallowed the appalling flow into the intakes produced by that much negative alpha without surging. Some people noticed an orbiting Mirage above them as they climbed but I did not. (The mirage actually can be seen very briefly on the BBC programme video of the accident). However, if the crew had unexpectedly seen another aircraft not far above them, then the sudden push we saw would have been instinctive. If the engines did all surge, then this would have necessitated a shut down and relight which would have required a pretty determined dive to obtain the necessary windmilling rpm. My guess is that, as they were busy trying to get some engines restarted, they suddenly saw the ground coming up and overcooked the pull, possibly due to the very nasty view of some 230ft electricity pylons that were right across their flight path.
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Wow - just revisited this thread and seen the flurry of replies, especially the last one from John Farley himself.
Thanks a lot, John - that really fills out the story.
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13 Articles in Volume 18, Issue #6
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A review of recent research advances—coupled with case illustrations—offers a guide for better recognizing non-cancer-related centralized pain.
By Don L. Goldenberg, MD
During the past few years, there have been significant breakthroughs in the medical community’s understanding of chronic, non-cancer-related central pain. In addition to reviewing the updated terminology and classification of central pain, this paper examines recent studies that have elucidated the mechanisms involved in central pain, initially using fibromyalgia as the prototypic illness. The role of central pain in a variety of other chronic painful conditions, as well as in systemic, rheumatic diseases, are also explored using case illustrations.
Updated Terminology and Classification
Chronic pain has been traditionally defined as lasting more than 3 months or lasting beyond that expected following normal healing. It affects hundreds of millions of people, estimated at one-third of the world’s population at any single time. Until about the year 2000, “chronic pain” was attributed to an ongoing peripheral noxious stimulus, usually classified as inflammatory, neurogenic, or structural in nature. “Central pain” was a term used to describe idiopathic, chronic pain following a brain injury.
Research by Clifford Woolf and colleagues demonstrated that chronic pain may be explained by aberrant central nervous system pain processing, hence the term “central” or “centralized” pain.1 Today, central pain is characterized by hyperalgesia, an increased response to a noxious stimulus, and allodynia, a painful response to a stimulus considered to be non-noxious. This categorization has been broadened to include any chronic pain not conforming to peripheral, nociceptive pathways and is considered one of four chronic pain categories, which also include inflammatory, structural, and neurogenic (see Figure 1).
However, it has become increasingly clear that subdividing chronic pain into these four categories may be misleading since central pain is an important contributor to inflammatory, structural, and neurogenic pain. Pain categories are fluid and may change over time in a single individual, as described in the patient examples herein.
In an attempt to develop an evidence-based taxonomy for chronic pain disorders, the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trials Translations Innovations Opportunities and Networks (ACTTION) redefined chronic pain conditions in 2014 according to their proposed biopsychological mechanisms: peripheral, musculoskeletal, orofacial, visceral, and unclassified (see Table I).2 The initial organization of these chronic pain categories known as the ACTTION-American Pain Society Pain Taxonomy (AAPT) has provided a framework for various pain specialists to come to a consensus regarding chronic pain classifications.
“Central pain,” also called “central sensitivity” or “centralized pain,” is therefore the term now used to encompass any condition wherein pain is generated from the central, rather than the peripheral, nervous system. This type of pain may be the primary source of pain, as in the classic central pain disorders, fibromyalgia syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, tension-type chronic headaches, temporomandibular joint syndrome, and chronic pelvic/bladder pain syndromes.
Central pain is also considered to be dysfunctional, which to some clinicians implies psychogenic. The clinical phenotype includes generalized pain, fatigue, sleep and mood disturbances. Central pain may also be associated with depression, catastrophizing, and other psychological states but is not considered a psychiatric illness.
Fibromyalgia: A Prototype for Central Pain Patient Example
A 48-year-old female complains of generalized musculoskeletal (MSK) pain on a daily basis for more than 5 years. The pain has not been associated with any joint swelling or inflammation and she describes that, “It feels as if I always have the flu.” She also has persistent fatigue and does not sleep well, often awaking in pain. She never feels refreshed in the morning. Her past medical history includes long-standing tension-type headaches and a bout of depression shortly after delivering her first child 15 years ago. Currently, she reports no mood disturbances although admits feeling increasingly frustrated about her lack of well being.
On examination there is no obvious joint swelling or inflammation and no sign of joint deformities. The general neurologic evaluation is unremarkable. She is quite tender with modest pressure around soft tissue areas including over the neck, shoulders, outer hips, and the chest wall. There were no other physical abnormalities. Laboratory studies included a normal complete blood count, a normal chemistry profile, normal thyroid function tests, and a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR).
This patient meets the criteria for fibromyalgia.3 She has more than five years of widespread MSK pain associated with fatigue and sleep disturbance. There is no evidence of joint inflammation or an underlying systemic arthritis or a systemic connective tissue disease. Basic laboratory tests, including ESR, are unremarkable.
Review & Discussion
Fibromyalgia is the most common form of unexplained widespread MSK pain, affecting 2 to 6% of the global population. Chronic widespread pain not related to a specific structural disease, is even more common, affecting 5 to 15% of the population. There is no clear boundary separating chronic widespread pain from fibromyalgia.
Thus, fibromyalgia offers a clear clinical prototype for central pain and has been the model condition in research attempting to elucidate the pathophysiologic mechanisms of centralized pain for decades.3,4 Although there is no single, reproducible polymorphism or haplotype associated with fibromyalgia, a number of studies have found modest genetic influences.
The odds ratio of developing fibromyalgia is 8-fold greater in a relative of a person with fibromyalgia than a relative of a person with rheumatoid arthritis.5 Polymorphisms in genes associated with pain sensitivity, including catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR), adrenergic-receptor genes and mu-opioid genes, have been noted in fibromyalgia, although the strongest evidence has been from genome-wide linkage data.6 Interactions of mu-opioid receptor and serotonergic genes were found to modify pain sensitivity in fibromyalgia patients.7
There is no known cause of fibromyalgia although various physical and emotional stressors may be precipitating factors. Mood and sleep disturbances and chronic fatigue are present in the vast majority of patients. This triad of symptoms should be considered part of the phenotype of central pain. Certain personality traits, particularly catastrophizing, have been important risk factors in fibromyalgia and related central pain disorders as well, as shown in Table II.4-7 Various physical and emotional stressors have been noted to be precipitating factors in fibromyalgia, raising the possibility of altered hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis function.1,3,4 Physical trauma, such as repetitive strain, obesity, and chronic inflammatory and immune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, predispose to fibromyalgia and central pain.
Fibromyalgia patients have been found to have a heightened sensitivity to heat and mechanical pressure as well as prolonged temporal pain summation.8 Functional, structural and chemical neuroimaging studies have provided the strongest evidence for central pain in fibromyalgia (see Table III). Regional blood flow variability, changes in insular glutamine levels, and structural loss of grey matter, for example, have been noted in fibromyalgia patients compared to pain-free controls.9-11 In addition, decreased mu opioid receptor availability has been found in fibromyalgia subjects.12 The structural and functional changes of the disease, including decreased regional coherence, decreased cortical thickness, and decreased brain volume, overlap and correlate with the severity and duration of chronic pain.13
Neuroimaging advances looking at the extent that brain regions are connected to each other (functional connectivity) has proven particularly useful in identifying central pain mechanisms in fibromyalgia. Resting state functional connectivity examines the intrinsic neural transmission between brain regions. Fibromyalgia patients have demonstrated increased connectivity in parts of the brain important in pain transmission, such as the posterior insula, and with neural regions not associated with pain, such as the default mode network.14,15
A functional MRI-based neurologic signature was proposed for fibromyalgia patients composed of augmented responses in sensory integration in the insula and medial prefrontal regions and reduced responses in the lateral frontal cortex (see Figure 2).16
Fibromyalgia patients with the highest levels of glutamate in the posterior insula were those most likely to respond to pregabalin and their subsequent pain improvement correlated with significant normalization of functional MRI and connectivity findings.17 Fibromyalgia patients treated with milnacipran have also demonstrated increased pain inhibitory response on MRI.18
IBS and Chronic Pelvic/Bladder Pain Patient Example
A 35-year-old female has a history of gastrointestinal irritability, including alternating constipation and diarrhea, with bloating, abdominal pain and food intolerance, since she was a teenager. At age 29, she began noting recurrent bladder irritability and intermittent pelvic pain. She was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis by a urologist and treated with installation of various substances into the bladder without significant improvement. One year later, she began complaining of increasing pelvic pain that was exacerbated by intercourse. A general pelvic examination was unremarkable. During the past year, she has been exhausted and not sleeping well. She reports never feeling refreshed when she awakens in the morning. She also complains of neck and shoulder pain associated with frequent headaches and generalized muscle soreness. She feels sad but has not been diagnosed with depression. Her physical examination demonstrates no significant abnormalities.
The patient’s symptoms are consistent with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as well as chronic pelvic/bladder pain. She also describes symptoms consistent with fibromyalgia and chronic muscular headaches. As noted above, her symptoms of chronic pain, fatigue, sleep and mood disturbances fit the clinical picture of a central pain disorder.
Indeed, IBS, chronic pelvic/bladder pain, chronic headaches, temporomandibular joint syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome share phenotypic and pathophysiologic features with fibromyalgia and should be classified as chronic central pain disorders. The odds ratio for comorbidity of fibromyalgia, chronic headaches, IBS, temporomandibular joint syndrome, and chronic bladder and pelvic pain has varied from 3 to 20 in twin studies and in large population surveys.19
As with this patient, a vast majority of patients with chronic pelvic or bladder pain complain of pain in other sites and their widespread pain score correlates with depression, sleep disturbance, and worse quality of life.20 Generalized allodynia has been noted by various experimental techniques in patients with IBS, migraine and tension-type headaches, and chronic pelvic/bladder pain.21-23 Patients with IBS and chronic pelvic pain have also demonstrated altered neural connectivity and abnormal response to experimental pain in the insula and anterior cingulate.24,25 Structural brain changes were found in IBS subjects compared to controls.26 This included lower brain volumes in the bilateral superior frontal gyrus, the bilateral insula and bilateral amygdala and the brainstem.
MRIs of women with chronic pelvic/bladder pain syndrome have demonstrated numerous white matter abnormalities that correlated with pain severity, urinary symptoms, and impaired quality of life.27 Regional white matter abnormalities distinguished patients with urological chronic pelvic pain syndromes from subjects with IBS and from healthy controls as well.28
Chronic, Widespread Rheumatic Pain Patient Example
A 58-year-old female has a 25-year history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that was initially treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and methotrexate. However, because of persistent pain and swelling, she was placed on etanercept approximately 10 years ago. On that medication, she had an excellent clinical response and her rheumatologist told her that she was in remission. The methotrexate was discontinued three years ago and she is now taking etanercept intermittently and has had no exacerbation of joint swelling or inflammation.
However, over the past 18 months, she reports having generalized muscle and joint soreness and achiness as well as persistent exhaustion and sleep disturbances. She describes these symptoms as being similar to when she first developed RA but has not noted any recurrent joint swelling. Physical examination reveals finger joint deformities but no joint swelling or redness and minimal joint tenderness. Patient is very tender in multiple soft tissue locations over the neck, outer elbows, outer hips, and chest wall. Laboratory studies include a normal complete blood count (CBC), normal ESR, normal C-reactive protein test (CRP) with positive rheumatoid factor, unchanged from prior evaluations.
With a history of RA, this patient has been in clinical remission since a biologic medication was added to her original treatment with methotrexate. For one-and-a-half half years, she has experienced widespread pain and fatigue as well as sleep disturbances. The examination reveals multiple areas of tenderness, all consistent with fibromyalgia. The absence of any joint swelling as well as the normal ESR and CRP indicate that the RA continues to be in remission.
Fibromyalgia or chronic, widespread pain is more common in individuals with RA, as well as in each of the systemic connective tissue diseases, compared to the general population.29 The prevalence of fibromyalgia has varied from 15 to 40% in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and ankylosing spondylitis.29 Evidence of central sensitization has been even more evident in each of the rheumatic diseases, including osteoarthritis.
The presence of centralized pain accounts for elevated scores on rheumatic disease assessment scales that do not correlate with inflammatory parameters.30 In one study, the presence of concurrent fibromyalgia inversely correlated with CRP and ultrasound evidence of joint inflammation but positively correlated with pain and fatigue severity ratings.30 Concomitant fibromyalgia has led to inappropriate therapy with biologic agents in RA and other systemic rheumatic diseases.31
Patients with RA tend to demonstrate generalized allodynia as well as structural and functional changes consistent with central pain sensitivity.32 Structural changes have included smaller intracranial volume and regional difference in gray matter. In a recent report, 54 patients with RA underwent brain imaging with special attention to the brain connectivity of various neural regions.33 Researches found a correlation of fibromyalgia symptom severity with the functional connectivity of the default mode network to the insula, a characteristic finding in imaging of patients with fibromyalgia (see Figure 3).
Chronic Low Back Pain Patient Example
A 45-year-old male presents with a 5-year history of chronic low back pain which has been getting worse. He was employed in a physically demanding job and has been unable to work for the past two years. He also describes tension-type headaches. He has become increasingly depressed and frustrated. Previous imaging studies demonstrated moderate disc space narrowing and degenerative changes in the lumbar spine. He has been treated with short-acting opioids with minimal improvement.
On physical examination, he walks slowly with an antalgic gait. There is no evidence of any joint swelling or inflammation but he is tender in numerous areas throughout the cervical and lumbar spine. There are no focal neurologic abnormalities.
This patient has chronic low back pain but no significant neuropathic findings or focal imaging abnormalities. It is likely that his pain is primarily central rather than peripheral in nature. Rather than apply an interventional approach such as injections or surgery, it would be appropriate to begin with a multidisciplinary chronic pain management program.
One-third of subjects with chronic low back pain also report symptoms consistent with fibromyalgia,34 and more than 40% of patients at a tertiary care spine clinic met the criteria for fibromyalgia.35 The presence of fibromyalgia has been correlated with younger age, greater rate of unemployment/receiving compensation and greater pain, mood disturbances, and worse quality of life. The presence of chronic, widespread pain has also correlated with increased opioid use and poor outcome in subjects’ joint replacement.36
Generalized hyperalgesia, similar to that noted in the fibromyalgia case herein, was present in patients with chronic low back pain.37 Patients with low back pain and fibromyalgia had similar increased pain following pressure, compared to controls, and similar neural activation in pain-related brain regions on MRI.37 Structural and functional neuroimaging abnormalities similar to those reported in fibromyalgia have been found in patients with chronic low back pain; this has included gray matter volume atrophy.37 Brain connectivity changes correlated with a clinical transition of subacute to chronic low back pain.38 Similar to those found in fibromyalgia, altered functional connectivity involving the insula, medial frontal cortex and the default mode network were present in subjects with chronic low back pain.39
There is an emerging body of research that a biologic profile is common to all central pain conditions. This includes heightened pain response to noxious stimuli and chemical, structural, and functional neuroimaging abnormalities. Although a biologic marker is not yet practical, investigators have proposed a neurologic signature for central pain conditions, such as fibromyalgia. It is likely that future research will clarify the central nervous system mechanisms and provide a better therapeutic approach to managing chronic central pain.
The cases presented herein illustrate the spectrum of central pain, with fibromyalgia being the prototype. Chronic pelvic/bladder and irritable bowel syndromes, often felt to have peripheral organ dysfunction, are now also considered to be driven by central pain sensitivity. Centralized pain may complicate any systemic rheumatic diseases and adversely impact outcome. Regional pain disorders, such as chronic low back pain, are often primarily related to central pain as well. Clinicians, therefore, must consider central pain mechanisms whenever evaluating patients with the vast array of chronic pain conditions, from fibromyalgia and IBS to rheumatic or structural diseases. Furthermore, it is crucial to remember that the impact of central pain on structural, inflammatory, or neurogenic pain disorders is not static and may change substantially over time.
Woolf CJ. Central sensitization: implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain. Pain. 2011;152:S2-15.
Fillingim RB, Bruehl S, Dworkin RH, et al. The ACTTION-American Pain Society Pain Taxonomy (AAPT): an evidence-based and multidimensional approach to classifying chronic pain conditions. J Pain. 2014;15:241-249.
Goldenberg DL. Fibromyalgia syndrome. An emerging but controversial condition. JAMA. 1987;257(20):2782-2787.
Lee U, Kim M, Lee K, et al. Functional brain network mechanism of hypersensitivity in chronic pain. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):243.
Arnold LM, Hudson JI, Hess EV, et al. Family study of fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum. 2004;50(3):944-952.
Smith SB, Maixner DW, Fillingim RB, et al. Large candidate gene association study reveals genetic risk factors and therapeutic targets for fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum. 2012;64(2):584-593.
Tour J, Löfgren M, Mannerkorpi K, et al. Gene-to-gene interactions regulate endogenous pain modulation in fibromyalgia patients and healthy controls-antagonistic effects between opioid and serotonin-related genes. Pain. 2017;158(7):1194-1203.
Staud R, Robinson ME, Price DD. Temporal summation of second pain and its maintenance are useful for char-acterizing widespread central sensitization of fibromyalgia patients. J Pain. 2007;8(11):893–901.
Mountz JM, Bradley LA, et al. Fibromyalgia in women. Abnormalities of regional cerebral blood flow in the thalamus and the caudate nucleus are associated with low pain threshold levels. Arthritis Rheum. 1995;38(7):926-938.
Harris RE, Sundgren PC, Pang Y, et al. Dynamic levels of glutamate within the insula are associated with improvements in multiple pain domains in fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum. 2008;58(3):903-907.
Lutz J, Jäger L, de Quervain D, et al. White and gray matter abnormalities in the brain of patients with fibromyalgia: a diffusion-tensor and volumetric imaging study. Arthritis Rheum. 2008;58(12):3960-3969.
Harris RE, Clauw DJ, Scott DJ, McLean SA, Gracely RH, Zubieta JK. Decreased central mu-opioid receptor availability in fibromyalgia. J Neurosci. 2007;27(37):10000-10006.
Jensen KB, Srinivasan P, Spaeth R, et al. Overlapping structural and functional brain changes in patients with long-term exposure to fibromyalgia pain. Arthritis Rheum. 2013;65(12):3293-3303.
Pujol J, Macià D, Garcia-Fontanals A, et al. The contribution of sensory system functional connectivity reduction to clinical pain in fibromyalgia. Pain. 2014;155(8):1492-1503.
Kim J, Loggia ML, Cahalan CM, et al. The somatosensory link in fibromyalgia: functional connectivity of the primary somatosensory cortex is altered by sustained pain and is associated with clinical/autonomic dysfunction. Arthritis Rheum. 2015;67(5):1395-1405.
López-Solà M, Woo CW, Pujol J, et al. Towards a neurophysiological signature for fibromyalgia. Pain. 2017;158(1):34-47.
Harris RE, Napadow V, Huggins JP, et al. Pregabalin rectifies aberrant brain chemistry, connectivity, and functional response in chronic pain patients. Anesthesiol. 2013;119(6):1453-1464.
Petzke F, Jensen KB, Kosek E, et al. Using fMRI to evaluate the effects of milnacipran on central pain processing in patients with fibromyalgia. Scand J Pain. 2013;4(2):65-74.
Kato K, Sullivan PF, Evengård B, Pedersen NL. A population-based twin study of functional somatic syndromes. Psychol Med. 2009;39(3):497-505.
Lai HH, Jemielita T, Sutcliffe S, et al. Characterization of whole body pain in urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome at baseline: a MAPP research network study. J Urol. 2017;198(3):622-631.
Stabell N, Stubhaug A, Flægstad T, Mayer E, Naliboff BD, Nielsen CS. Widespread hyperalgesia in adolescents with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: results from a large population-based study. J Pain. 2014;15(9):898-906.
Lai HH, Gardner V, Ness TJ, Gereau RW 4th. Segmental hyperalgesia to mechanical stimulus in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome: evidence of central sensitization. J Urol. 2014;191(5):1294-1299.
Bigal ME, Ashina S, Burstein R, et al. Prevalence and characteristics of allodynia in headache sufferers: a population study. Neurol. 2008;70(17):1525-1533.
Hong JY, Kilpatrick LA, Labus J, et al. Patients with chronic visceral pain show sex-related alterations in intrinsic oscillations of the resting brain. J Neurosci. 2013;33(29):11994-2002.
Liu X, Silverman A, Kern M, et al. Excessive coupling of the salience network with intrinsic neurocognitive brain networks during rectal distension in adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome: a preliminary report. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2016;28(1):43-53.
Labus JS, Dinov ID, Jiang Z, et al. Irritable bowel syndrome in female patients is associated with alterations in structural brain networks. Pain. 2014;155(1):137-149.
Farmer MA, Huang L, Martucci K, et al. Brain white matter abnormalities in female interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome: a MAPP network neuroimaging study. J Urol. 2015;194(1):118-126.
Huang L, Kutch JJ, Ellingson BM, et al. Brain white matter changes associated with urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome: multisite neuroimaging from a MAPP case-control study. Pain. 2016;157(12):2782-2791.
Fan A, Pereira B, Tournadre A, et al. Frequency of concomitant fibromyalgia in rheumatic diseases: monocentric study of 691 patients. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2017;47(1):129-132.
Mian AN, Chaabo K, Wajed J, et al. Rheumatoid arthritis patients with fibromyalgic clinical features have signifi-antly less synovitis as defined by power Doppler ultrasound. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2016; 17(1):404.
Salaffi F, Gerardi MC, Atzeni F, et al. The influence of fibromyalgia on achieving remission in patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int. 2017;37(12):2035-2042.
Wartolowska K, Hough MG, Jenkinson M, Andersson J, Wordsworth BP, Tracey I. Structural changes of the brain in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2012;64(2):371-379.
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Last updated on: October 5, 2018
Classic Central Pain Syndromes: Review of Neurologic Causes of Pain
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Tenants & Owners
Commercial agent sells two separate industrial properties for the third time this decade
By Bill Russell, General Manager International & Commercial, Raine & Horne Group
Nicholas Smith from Raine & Horne Commercial Inner West/South Sydney has achieved the rare feat of selling two different industrial properties three times this decade.
The sales followed a successful in-room auction event in Sydney recently. They included the $5.1 million auction of 40-42 Chapel Street Marrickville, a 1,316 square metre property combining older style factory and workshop space.
The current vendor secured the property in September 2010 for $1.3 million, after the previous vendor paid $1.305 million for the property in February 2010, according to Nick who secured the three distinct sales of the property.
“This industrial property attracted four bidders, and we issued ten contracts at the auction because it has three street frontages, which is rare and the potential to redevelop the site into multiple warehouse units and strata subdivisions also appealed to investors,” Nick said.
At the same auction, an industrial unit combining showroom, office and warehouse space at 9/8 Burrows Road St Peters sold under the hammer for $1.33 million. Nick first sold the property for $680,000 in March 2011 and $1.24 million in September 2016.
He said, “I am proud that I have sold these properties multiple times, and the repeat transactions demonstrate we take the needs of our buyers seriously.
“Our local knowledge and unique level of customer care for our buyers is translating into business for our office when these owners decide to sell.”
Nick continued, “In fact, I have also previously sold another commercial property for the vendor of 40-42 Chapel Street.”
The interest in the in-room auctions held at 50 Margaret Street, Sydney in late November, proves the strong demand for quality, well-located industrial real estate in the Inner West and southern Sydney is continuing, Nick noted. “The bidders who missed out on both properties are qualified buyers seeking property within the inner west or South Sydney to conduct their businesses or for investment purposes.
“If you own an industrial property in South Sydney or the inner west, now is a sensible time to take advantage of buyer demand.”
Nick added, “Industrial sales in St Peters and Marrickville are also achieving higher than expected rates per square metre.
“Smaller buildings at relatively affordable price points can often achieve results above expectations if offered in the open competitive setting that auctions allow.”
If you are considering selling a commercial property in Sydney’s south or Inner West, contact Raine & Horne Commercial Inner West/South Sydney on (02) 9572 8855.
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Scotland Soccer and Sightseeing
Scotland has qualified for the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Football Championship several times, but has never progressed beyond the first group stage of a finals tournament. The team have achieved some noteworthy results. However, Scotland is home to the 2 most fanatically followed soccer clubs in the world: Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers. No tour of Glasgow, its largest city, is complete without visiting Hampden Park, Scotland's national stadium. Then see Ibrox Park (Rangers) and Celtic Park so your travel soccer team can experience firsthand Scottish soccer fever and passion.
Scotland's capital , Edinburgh, is a city of 630,000. It was named after King Edwin, who in the 7th century was the first to build a castle on the rock (Edwin's Burgh). Beautifully situated on seven hills, Edinburgh is the administrative, economic and cultural heart of Scotland. It has both the charm of a small town and the grandeur of a European capital.
The center of Edinburgh is divided in two by the railway and the beautiful Princes Street gardens. On one side of the city center is the Medieval Old Town, with castles and museums; on the other is the 19th-century New Town, featuring beautifully designed houses and shops.
Scotland program highlights and sights:
Play games vs. local Scottish teams
Sightseeing in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Visit stadiums and/or matches of famous pro teams like Celtic FC and Glasgow Rangers
Scotland, home of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Robbie Burns and bagpipes, is a diverse country filled with passionate Celtic people. As an old Scots saying has it, 'guid gear comes in sma' bouk' (good things come in small packages). And despite its small size, Scotland certainly has many treasures crammed into its compact territory. There's something for all tastes. For the history buff, few cities compare with Edinburgh and Glasgow; for the hungry, try haggis if you must but don't miss the Aberdeen Angus beef or smoked salmon from Dumfries & Galloway or, for the thirsty, the peerless malt whiskies of the Isle of Islay or Oban await. There is wild mountain scenery of the Highlands & Northern Islands and cold, sparkling seas washing against the Outer Hebrides.
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Have your team train extensively with the world's top educated coaches. We offer the option for teams to train with international coaches from Celtic.
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Day 2 Arrival Glasgow airport, transfer to accommodation
Day 6 Transfer to London
Day 7 Sightseeing Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle, evening game
Day 8 Morning optional training, sightseeing in London
Day 9 Additional sightseeing London, evening game
Day 10 Transfer to London airport, return flight
"Traveling on a family vacation can be stressful, unorganized, and un-enjoyable experience when you have so much you want to see and do in such a short time. Now multiple that family by 10, how do you plan an overseas trip for 40 people?.....Premier International tours, that's how. In the very beginning Loek and his whole staff make you feel comfortable and walk you through the process. They make sure to not overwhelm you with all the information they need at one time, and instead make sure you have the time to gather and organize it. Then once you are on the trip, nothing but first class, from the training facilities, and accommodations, to the tour guide (Stuart was the best!), we could not have had a better trip. They say the trip you take is once in a lifetime, then shouldn't you use a company that can supply that vision you have? Premier International Tours is that company! Thanks again guys, loved every minute of the trip!"
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News / Energy
Iran signs oil deal with Russia’s Lukoil
Sunday, 24 January 2016 6:07 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 24 January 2016 6:13 PM ]
Russia's Lukoil has sealed a deal with Iran to look for hydrocarbon reserves in southern Iran.
Iran says it has signed a deal with Russia’s Lukoil over two exploration projects in the country’s southwestern oil-rich Khouzestan province.
Hormoz Qalavand, the director for exploration affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has been quoted by the media as saying that Lukoil is to look for hydrocarbon reserves in Dasht-e Abadan and the northern parts of the Persian Gulf.
Qalavand added that the value of the contract is about $6 million, stressing that the Russian company has already started the work over the projects.
It will also take care of all the costs in both projects, the official added.
The Russian company and Norway's Statoil had won a deal to launch exploration operations in Anaran block in western Iran in 2003. Lukoil held a stake of 25 percent in the consortium and the remaining stakes belonged to Statoil.
Their operations led to the discovery of oil in Azar and Changuleh fields in 2005. However, both had to pull out from Iran in 2011 after the US and Europeans intensified sanctions on Iran.
In December 2015, Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov was quoted by the media as saying that he had discussed the prospects for the company to return to Iran to develop Azar oil field.
To the same effect, the company reopened its office in Tehran, with its first vice president Ravil Maganov saying the company looked forward to participating in Iranian energy projects.
Maganov said Azar would be Lukoil's primary focus but the company was studying geological data from other projects as well.
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In February 2013 Gareth Hadley became the Chair of the General Optical Council (GOC) and continues to invest his extensive knowledge of management and commissioning in the regulatory world.
Gareth in a relaxed interview with the PHN editor gave his thoughts on regulatory bodies, public protection and his desire to streamline the GOC since arriving to provide both the public and the sector with a body that is efficient and fit for practice.
Whilst the central purpose of the GOC is public protection it is not in any way to repress commercial success in the sector. Indeed, it’s Gareth’s view that public healthcare protection is very much about the encouragement to successful providers of the health provision to increase their role that will be more and more needed in the future.
Gareth has a distinguished and varied career before arriving 3 years ago at the GOC, having been Director at HM Prison services, and a commissioner at the Appointments Commission and who remains a visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Law at Kingston University.
He was the link Appointments Commissioner to the General Social Care Council and helped set up the General Pharmaceutical Council and now chairs the GOC.
He is also a Governor of a Mental Health Trust in Nottingham.
As a reminder the GOC is the regulator for the optical professions in the UK. It currently registers around 29,000 optometrists, dispensing opticians, student opticians and optical businesses.
It is one of 23 organisations in the UK known as health and social care regulators. These organisations oversee the health and social care professions by regulating individual professionals.
The GOC has four core functions: • setting standards for optical education and training, performance and conduct • approving qualifications leading to registration • maintaining a register of individuals who are qualified and fit to practise, train or carry on business as optometrists and dispensing opticians • investigating and acting where registrants’ fitness to practise, train or carry on business is impaired
I asked Gareth about the rumours that the GOC’s days might be numbered by combining the Optical profession in with a wider regulatory medical body.
Although the answer is one he is not capable of providing he stridently supported the GOC continuance as being the best policy for the Optical Sector.
The rumours surfaced following the extensive work by the Law Commission where it tried to codify into a mega bill the regulatory requirements for all health care. Whilst this might have contained the “nuts and bolts” of regulation, it could never address the needs of individual health care professions to provide more contemporary services, contends Hadley.
The costs and time to carry this through parliament would have been prohibitive and hence it has not come to fruition. But there have been further attempts at PPS level, encouraged by the grumblings of both dentists and nurses through their MPs on the cost of regulation.
This work took the view that a lesser number of medical regulatory bodies would alleviate costs. However, regulators on mass have no great desire at the present to see significant of major change.
A typical example of an enlarged regulatory body is the Health and Care Professional Council, which oversees 16 professions with a council of just 12 members. So many professions have no engagement with its council.
Gareth’s view is that Optics has so many changes influencing its future at present that keeping the GOC with its sole remit to work on its behalf while continuing to protect the public is vital.
Technological change as well as the necessary need to expand contributors scope of practice and address the issues of an out of date Opticians Act make it vital that the Optical Sectors voice is heard loud and clear and singularly.
In preparing for change the GOC is currently embarking on a review of Education from undergraduates upwards. This will need to move a dialogue forward in creating a new Opticians Act to allow professionals to provide a broader scope of practice which is desperately needed in overstretched health care provision.
The more the scope of practice increases, from a px safety point of view the longer the GOC will be needed to continue in its current role.
Gareth wants to see optometrists extending their scope of practice and taking on more ophthalmology roles as it’s clear that people prefer the high street for access and speed and in an ageing society we must be ready to cope with increased demand.
The GOC has started talking to members of the House of Lords, with a regard to possibly using the ballot for the Lords’ members’ bills and hopefully will pick up some of the relevant bits from the commissioner’s work on relevant optical issues. The GOC will need to find levers to pull to ensure they get the bill the sector requires.
“I would like the Act to ensure that all opticians prove their scope of competence within the standards promulgated by their regulator which is essentially the same as in all other health care professions. “
When your role is balancing public protection but allowing the optical sector to flourish there are no easy questions to ask the Chair, but ask we did.
The question of Internet Provision of contact lenses was broached.
It is known that work on this has been delayed partly by the urgent need for the education review.
The GOC is still working on this issue (CL) in the background and it has not been dismissed. As a public safety body their actions have to be measured by the risks involved, and as Gareth stated although anecdotally there is a suspicion that on line purchase may prove deleterious to the user, no one has provided any significant proof that this is true. If legitimate examples of such harm and danger to the public can be demonstrated it would considerably help the GOC.
We broached the issue of cost and expense to the profession and particularly to those just starting professional careers. Gareth has promoted a streamlined and better working model for the GOC over the last 3 years so that costs have been ring fenced in the main, despite the necessary enlargement of its role.
Governance has been improved in the appointment of committee members so there is now a regular change in committee members so as to provide new blood with fresh ideas balanced with those who can provide continuity.
Interactions between committees have also been improved by each statutory committee chairman being required to attend the GOC council and also GOC Education visitors now being required to attend the Education Committee, to explain their written reports.
There’s still more to do and much has been done to improve “Fitness to Practice” and Gareth is still very aware that even in the most innocuous of cases presented that may never see the light of day there is still too great a time wait for those professional involved to be cleared.
I pressed him on the costs again that young professionals must cover before they can even start their professional life.
Of course this is not all caused by the GOC, the young professional is encouraged to join many organizations often on the basis of the need for defense protection and yet many will end up double insured by both the AOP and FODO. These additional costs and the variance in PI cover available as well as the confusion on double insurance are a concern to him.
PHN’s view is that a young professional will usually aspire to be a member of the College, given the passing of his examinations which seems a natural progression. The College is the natural base for expanding professional development and mentoring and yet there is a small but significant number of new entrants who are not joining.
Maybe one PI provider perhaps housed by the College would provide reduction in costs and ensure a guaranteed cover base that would include run off cover for those that need it.
PHN thanks Gareth Hadley for his time answering questions on the key issues which concern and affect our profession and industry.
Contamac, a family business, provides a significant number of specialist contact lens and IOL materials to a global manufacturing sector.
In the month that has seen Contamac awarded its second Queen’s Award, this time for innovation, PHN writes a company profile on a leading company in contact lens production in a global market.
When we write of acorns and oaks we consider that a fair comparison to Contamac’ s beginning in 1987 in what is now affectionately known as “The Company Shed”; we hope to get over to the reader the sense of achievement and community that this family business has retained inherited from its roots back in the “shed days”.
Firstly, how could such a successful contact lens company have remained off of most people’s radar?
Well in the contact lens business there is no “chicken before egg” conundrum.
Without the medico/pharma expertise provided by Contamac formulating polymers from monomers and designing new materials specifically for contact lens manufacturers to produce the final contact lens there would be no “Chicken”!
John McGregor, the Chairman of the Company, with a sound knowledge of chemistry and pharma processes started the business in 1987. In those days the contact lens market was dominated by HEMA materials (Hydroxyethyl methacrylate).
Gradually however the demand for better lens materials allowing oxygen to pass through the lens barrier became evident and Contamac, as it always has, responded to this need by creating new materials.
The success of the company has been in the foresight of its founder in setting business and compliance procedures in place from the very beginning and one notices as we took our extensive tour of the premises how although the company has grown in magnitude both in products and volume all the now complex processes stem from those early days.
In 2016 the company now supplies some 13 million contact lens buttons to a very significant and large percentage of the contact lens and intra ocular lens manufacturers throughout the world. Compare this to the production achieved in “the shed” of a maximum of 6000 buttons a week.
The company positions itself at the heart of the contact lens industry without ever commercially making a single contact lens or IOL. There raison d’etre is to respond to the needs of its manufacturers in a symbiotic partnership that allows manufacturers to expand their market.
Whilst contact lens manufacturers fashion the button materials into branded products, Contamac is the trendsetter in lens material design. Proof of their success in Innovation is shown in the last few years by the production of “Definitive” made from their own specific production techniques of Silicon Hydrogel.
This material as many skilled contact lens fitters will recognize has expanded the soft lens market into patient requirements for complex lenses, that previously had not been thought of as being in the soft lens armory.
Contamac has 76 staff members many holding post graduate and graduate degrees. They now work in a purpose built manufacturing and office block in Saffron Walden in Essex, close enough to the Silicon Valley experience of Cambridge as well as easy links to London.
On our tour we passed through a well-designed building with every department located in a logical order each relating to each other. One of the advantages of a new build. And of course the ability to continued expansion has been built in readiness for even greater market share.
R & D, Technical, Production, Inspection, Sales and Packaging all play a part in this streamlined industry.
And its strategy is paramount to its success amplified by its marketing to the contact lens market which with its “non-compete” guarantee in lens manufacturing allows them to create a family environment for lens manufacturers to use their facilities.
This is demonstrated by the demand for lens material checking on behalf of the industry that Contamac carry out on their behalf.
The lab contains Gel Permeable Chromatography, Spectrometers (gas and flame), Fatt Measurement testing, drop testing, wettability tests and contact angle measurements as well as elasticity testing.
All of these results go to make up the “DNA” of the lens material of every batch. In fact, it is possible to trace any lens button within a batch of between 2500 buttons to 25,000 buttons dependent on the material manufactured and to verify its exact make up on every sealed button pack of 100 buttons.
Each batch has samples stored for 5 years for contact lens buttons and for life for IOL materials.
The bar coding of the batch follows every button, and this ability will become key with the suggested FDA proposals that any contact lens should be traceable from the end user back through the manufacturer to the initial button production.
One day, contact lens wearers will be able to know exactly what brand, style, parameters and material makes up the lens in their packet. This will be possible as lens manufacturers will be able to record button batch numbers as long as they do not mix sealed batch supplies and mark up accordingly the final product.
Contamac has a subsidiary in the US, distribution in S. America and has a joint venture in the Netherlands.
The company plays a significant role in the production of IOLs, mainly with hydrophilic lenses but some surgeons still require hydrophobic materials. Their success surrounds the IOLs ability to remain clean within the eye and much of the successful characteristics come from their innovative surface coating and its durability. IOLs continue to be the one growing market in the industry.
Certainly the driver for continued success has been its R & D’s continued push for new lens characteristics whether it be new tints and UV coatings, improved wettability and strength and improved handling or better coatings.
Without the ability to define and check these characteristics contact lens manufacturers would not be able to successfully position their products in the global market place.
But Contamac does not see its responsibilities stopping at the manufacture for the button.
Its tech department uses a range of commonly used contact lens manufacturing machinery to make test lenses that their customers intend to make. Making sure that they can provide crucial information to their customers on the best ways to create the final end product.
The tech services department has 2 main roles, analysis and quality. Testing materials made at Contamac and also testing new materials made by the R & D department.
Here we find a replica contact lens laboratory with all the machinery that is used in all Contamac customer facilities.
Contamac now makes approximately 200 different variants of materials. Everything that is made at Contamac is tested by Contamac even when they are making buttons on contract from others.
Testing depends on the material. For soft lenses looking at how they swell on hydration after making a typical Rx lens in the market place is key. With the six hundred plus customers Contamac supply to, they obviously all make slightly different variants in design, so the best way to test is to make a -1.00 DS lens of known size and thickness and measure pre and post hydration.
Contamac are looking for constant reproducibility and this has been proved amazingly consistent particularly with the modern day polymers Contamac make. Contamac work to far tighter tolerances than even their customers work to, in measurement and design.
For example, the silicone hydrogel button "Definitive", for which they have now produced over 1 million to the market, has radii parameters measured between 8.7 to 8.68, 2/100th mm.
Tolerances are 0.2 mm in comparison in manufacturing. “So our customers,” said Gareth Brown, “want predictability and the long process of lens manufacturing needs the knowledge of how the material will react on hydration over 24 hours from manufacture to wear.
Hydration is an important part of the process to release any redundant unreacted monomers from hydrophilic materials, ready then to autoclave and put in fresh saline.
An interesting feature of GP lens production is that its surface takes time to wet. Some of the older materials can change over a week but Contamac have built into their "Optimum" materials the ability to wet within a 24-hour period. The wetting angle will always improve the longer it hydrates improving comfort.
As with lens material identification, lens manufacturing advice is available to its very large family of customers.
Contamac have positioned themselves as a provider of buttons to the industry and have no interest in entering the manufacturing market of either contact lenses or IOLs.
They have a unique position in the industry of supporting all their clients even handedly. May be that ethos stems from the days in the “shed” but more so the continuity of the company ethos through its family ownership.
John, Robert and Robbie promote this family ethos throughout the entire staff and the sense of community amongst its workers is a tribute to them.
In 2012 Contamac was awarded their first Queens award for trade and export demonstrating a significant and continual increase in export sales over 7 years. They have repeated that excess this time in Innovation, highlighting the world success of the silicon hydrogel “Definitive” lens material.
They are not stopping here, given there is one more category of the award, "Sustainability", and yes watch this space in 5 years’ time!
We ended our tour in discussion with John and Robert McGregor (MD) and Phillip Polonyi (Sales and Marketing Director) over a coffee.
We all agreed that the contact lens specialist fitters are gradually understanding more about lens materials used by their contact lens manufacturer and whereas until now decisions on lens selection have been based on lens design more professionals are beginning to understand the importance of good polymer technology and beginning to select lenses with known material characteristics.
This adds support to the Contamac company strategy in the services it provides to its customers provided added value which filtrates down to the end supplier and more importantly the end user.
I would recommend practitioners and LOCs considering taking a tour around this facility. Like most things in contact lenses it’s an eye opener.
Contamac has informed us since our visit that they are always delighted to welcome visitors as individuals and groups to tour the facility and are always pleased to make presentations specific to their interest and role in the optics industry and are also happy to make their meeting facilities available to groups.
Bob Hutchinson Editor of PHN Opchat News was invited for a solo tour of the Contamac facility.
Lipreading Practice by Gloria McGregor our Profile Page for April/May
“Some changes you can prepare for but sudden and progressive hearing loss can and was for me be life changing” so says Gloria Macgregor. “But never give up.”
My passion for teaching.
As a class teacher, I really loved my job. It was so satisfying to see children of all abilities making progress but just as importantly becoming so involved in their work and wanting to do it. I have worked in Education since qualifying as a primary school teacher in 1965. My career included teaching through the age range from nursery to primary aged children and later older children and adults
In 1974, although I had three small children and had just returned to teaching, I began to study with the Open University. I completed the first year of my course then had a year off. After that I did two more years to gain my BA Education degree. The coursework was terrific and I learned to love education and teaching.
While I was working at in an infant’s school I went to Brentwood College every day for two terms to study maths. It was inspirational. Everything seemed to click and I found that I could teach what needed to be taught and teach it through things that interested the children.
I became a Deputy Head 1979 and after three years became a Head of a Junior School. I also did a two term science course at Homerton College in Cambridge every Saturday. This too was interesting and useful. We did some wonderful work in school as a result of this course.
Catastrophe for me struck when in the early 1980’s I realised I couldn’t hear so well. Following a Hearing test I was given some rehabilitation to help me to recognise what I was hearing and eventually two NHS hearing Aids.
Sadly for me they were useless. I still couldn’t hear the high frequency sounds but the lower tones were like thunder. As you can imagine working with primary children and with mostly female staff this was quite a drawback.
I didn’t realise it but I had a profound hearing loss. I always found it so frustrating that no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t hear what the children said.
I had bought private hearing aids in an effort to improve my hearing but unfortunately although they were much better I still couldn’t hear well enough to work in the classroom or to hear what was being said in meetings.
Through the 1980’s and 1990’s I struggled and although I was good at my job I felt that my poor hearing was a drain on me and the school. In those days I didn’t tell anyone too much about my hearing. I took my own phone into school and tried as many strategies as I could to cope with my role. I was always tired and had begun to dread large groups and socialising.
Education! Education! Education!
I had really enjoyed doing the Open University and it had revolutionised my teaching.
My school had many children with specific learning needs so I thought I had better find out about the working of the new Education Act.
This I did with the Open University and when I had finished I realised that if I did one more year I could gain an Advanced Diploma in Special Education so I took another course on modifying the curriculum.
It was brilliant and so relevant to the children I was working with. I spent time working with the children and also working with the teachers. I went on to complete my MA focussing on modifying the curriculum to meet those with special needs. I also took a course to qualify me as a teacher assessor of those with dyslexia.
Again I told no-one about my hearing loss and I remember my tutor saying that she found it difficult to assess me as I didn’t speak at the group meetings. The reason was I couldn’t hear what was being said and didn’t want to risk making a fool of myself.
I still achieved 99% for one part of my research. At this time I was asked to be an advisory headteacher on a year’s secondment.
My role was to support monitor and assess the work of 70+ newly qualified teachers. It was a wonderful job. I had the privilege of going into many schools, of working alongside the young teachers and also putting on courses for them and arranging visits to other schools for them. I still have the box of children’s work that I took with me as samples.
As headteacher of junior schools and as a primary adviser I found great excitement and satisfaction in developing children’s and teacher’s skills, knowledge and expertise. I had great aspirations to become an advisor but it was not to be – my hearing was just not good enough.
By 1995 my hearing was so bad that I couldn’t hear the children or the staff so I thought I should take early retirement. I was 51years old. I thought that I would never teach again but how wrong can you be!!
At first after leaving my work which had filled every minute of the day
I was lost and I realised that I had no confidence at all to go out and do things. Finally I decided I should do something I was good at so I worked one to one with children who needed extra tuition, either preparing for private schools exams or because they had specific needs.
Then I worked part time at a Private school in the learning support department and sadly because of the death of my colleague I ran the department until someone could be appointed.
When I stopped working there in 2001, I began to go to lipreading classes and eventually went to an advanced class.
This was the best thing that I have ever done!!!
It was a lifeline for me. My husband has a large company and we entertain widely including people from all over the world.
The large functions used to fill me with terror – the thought of trying to listen to what people were saying, to try to make sense of what I was hearing and to try to make intelligent conversation really had me quaking in my shoes and I could often be found in my hotel room trying to pluck up the courage to go down and face this “ordeal”.
The lipreading classes gave me strategies to deal with some of the situations and enabled me to read some of the conversation so that I didn’t look like a complete idiot.
Most of all being with others in similar situations gave me confidence and I began to tell people that I couldn’t hear very well.
This was a major step forward. I even had the courage to become a Trustee of the British Tinnitus Association.
My lipreading teacher had to retire through ill health in 2004 and there was no one to teach the class.
Eventually I decided that I would try to get on to a lipreading tutors’ course. There wasn’t another course for 2 years and the course was nearly two years long so that would mean four years before I could start - if I found a job.
I was over 60 already. I wrote to Essex Education to see if there was another course I could do.
After an interview I was asked to teach straight away – no course.
I taught one group, then, added another in Suffolk and then three more classes in Suffolk. When I retired aged 65 I continued to run two local lipreading support groups. I have 30 members.
Whilst working in the primary schools I had been studying for a PhD but had found it too tiring and time consuming at the time.
I now thought that as I had more time I would perhaps try again but this time looking at how people learn to lipread.
Again I wrote to the Open University but was told that there was no facility for this but to do the research anyway.
I thought about it but decided that it would probably be more use to people if I tried to make a CD to help them to practise lipreading at home. I tried to make the videos myself using my camcorder and put in subtitles with some free downloaded software.
A friend (one of my lipreaders) helped me to correlate it all and I produced a CD BUT when I changed my computer I couldn’t open my CD!!!
Back to the drawing board. At this point my husband stepped in and said, why not produce a website?
I was very nervous but I gave it a go. This time with professional help it was accessible to all computers and later even to iPads and iPhones.
I produced the website in three stages. In March 2013, very nervously, I allowed my website – www.lipreadingpractice.co.uk -to become live.
By May 2013 it was page 1 of Google. It only had the consonant sounds videos at this stage. The National Association of Deafened People had found my website and was promoting it for Deaf Awareness week. Amazing!
Next, part one of the vowel sounds were added and in January 2014 the final group of sounds were added. I have never advertised my website and I have been staggered by its success and the fact that it is being used worldwide by people unable to go to a class, by people wanting to reinforce their lessons and by professionals as an aid to their lipreading programmes.
I am continuing to add to and update it and have now included a section on deaf awareness for hearing people
My voluntary work has taken me to China to speak to 2000 University students and my speech is being used as an inspirational/motivational video. I had the honour to be made a Visiting Professor in recognition of my achievements and outstanding contribution.
I am on Essex County Committees to try to help make life better for those with hearing loss.
I am a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Educators and a Freeman of the City of London.
Recently I co-operated with Action on Hearing Loss on a project to produce a support package for hard of hearing people who are either in work or returning to work. Some of my video material has been used as part of the package.
- to continue to update and modify my website and to find an effective way of teaching lipreading using a combination of face to face teaching and the internet – who knows what the future will hold?
But it is very exciting and although there are still times when I cannot hear very well, there are many times when I can take part in conversations thanks to technology and my lipreading skills.
Because of my hearing loss I have found other ways to use my skills.
Never give up there will always be something that you can do but you have to look for it.
Gloria McGregor
Blackfin presents a new communications campaign via You tube dedicated to the authentic Made-in-Italy
NEOMADEINITALY: THE VIDEO
Some things in life may be chosen. Others however, may not says Blackfin
They just happen to you, they are yours and they will stay yours forever. Just like your origins, that you can be proud of.
This is how it is for Blackfin, the Belluno-based makers of titanium eyewear. Because of this they have decided to tell the story of their own origins and their pride in what the authentic Made-in-Italy is all about in a video showing the people and places we so value.
These even come before the eyewear since, without all of them, there could be no Blackfin.
There couldn’t be a made in Italy without Italy.
The moment you turn your back on all the wonders of this land,
you abandon a unique, inimitable way of working.
This is why we will never leave these mountains,
the fragrant centuries-old woods, the murmur of Alpine streams,
and that special silence that falls with the snow.
Because living in delightful surroundings with a marvellous quality of life
has taught us to transfer all those riches into what we are doing,
and never to accept second best.
After last year’s photographic campaign reported on PHN featuring portraits of the people who every day who put so much passion into creating this eyewear, Blackfin are now presenting Neomadeinitaly_the video which pays homage to what it really means to be Italian.
This is more than just a tale of titanium and eyewear, it is above all a story built on commitment and care, on people and their smiling faces, a moving story of emotions and landscape, of challenges and uncompromising courage.
There are no shortcuts to making the best titanium eyewear.
You can’t have them made abroad, maybe even by someone you don’t know.
What’s needed is people who have faith in you, and who you too can trust.
People with excellent taste and a sense of the aesthetic,
combined with unrivalled technical skills.
A piece of Blackfin eyewear starts off life as a concept which is then transformed into a prototype and finally a finished product; 53 macro-phases that many would just call the production process.
But for Blackfin this is akin to a ritual, giving shape to a pair of spectacles entirely conceived, designed and produced in Italy, using a unique working method, driven by the passion of people who genuinely believe in what they are doing.
All this takes place in a very special place, with a stunning view, admired the world over. As the images glide through the video a voice-over relates this deeply personal story, creating an emotional tension and giving the scenes their own rhythm, culminating in a glorious shot of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birth place of Blackfin.
Here is where Blackfin eyewear is produced, this is where the inspiration for something beautiful and authentic comes from, something that reflects the quality of a life lived with respect for the environment, people and oneself.
We need people who know the value of a job well done,
and who are proud to roll up their sleeves to do precisely that.
People we can look straight in the eye, and whose hand we can shake as a gesture of thanks.
While others may set up workshops in far off lands, we have everything we need right here.
“We conceive, design and manufacture our Blackfin eyewear entirely in Italy” – states Nicola Del Din, CEO of Pramaor – “and we want everyone to understand fully what this means for us.
Unfortunately the term Made-in-Italy has rather lost its true meaning. This is a pity because products that are authentically Italian have an inestimable intrinsic value, in terms of quality, style and significance. It is possible to produce goods successfully in Italy. We are doing it and will continue to do it”.
There are a great many Italian companies, but only a few remain whose products are entirely made in Italy. Pramaor started out life in 1971 in Agordo (Belluno) and this is precisely where it still is. And this is how it will be tomorrow, together with those people who, day after day, put their hands, mind and heart into producing Blackfin eyewear.
“If you live in a special place, you can never do something ordinary. This is the authentic Made-in-Italy ethos. We may open up to the world, study the latest trends and explore new markets yet our origin is still here, this is our strength. It’s not enough for us just to make exceptional titanium eyewear, we aim to do this with the utmost respect for those who work with us and the environment in which we work. This is why, rather than just made-in-Italy, we speak of neomadeinitaly” – Nicola Del Din, CEO of Pramaor.
Video on You Tube
Never been to Belluno in the Dolomites? Plan now it is a beautiful area especially in the Spring and Autumn.
Let’s make wearing specs fun says Stephanie Collier, the founder of Blinx.
Accessorise in the BLINX of an eye!
The charms are the brainchild of Stephanie Collier, a stay-at-home-mother who struck upon the concept 18 months ago.
Having worn glasses from an early age, Stephanie was no stranger to the common dilemma of choosing spectacles,
“If you wear glasses day to day, choosing frames can be difficult unless you have a enough money to buy several pairs.
Glasses not only form part of your visual appearance but also tend to be associated with your personality too, so it can be tricky to find just one or two pairs that encapsulate all of your styles and moods as well as match all of your clothes! It occurred to me that it must be even harder for children, who love to express themselves through the things they wear. I thought it would be great to design a product that would allow children to mix, match and customise their glasses to match their clothes or just to express their interests.”
Stephanie launched the initial range of twenty designs last summer and his since launched a second range. “The response has been fantastic!”, she explains, “We have the product in over 40 stores nationwide, and are looking to expand further over the coming year.”
The concept earned Stephanie a place as a finalist in the Mumpreneur UK 2014 business awards, and more recently as a winner of Theo Paphitis’ SBS Twitter competition.
“It’s great to be recognised for launching Blinx, but the real joy is in seeing children out and about wearing a product that I have created!”, said Stephanie.
The Babyworld magazine review panel awarded Blinx 5 star status, showing that parents and children alike love Blinx!
There are twenty designs in the current Blinx range, available at optical stockists nationwide or directly, they can be worn individually, as matching pairs, or mixed together to create a unique and colourful look.
Retailing at just £1.99 the charms provide an affordable way to accessorise.
Blinx products can be seen at 100% Optical this February on Stand 26
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The PEI 300: 2009
Although 2009 marks the debut of the PEI 300, this is the third year in a row that Private Equity International has ranked the largest 50 private equity firms in the world, called the PEI 50.
As with last year, the line-up of the top 50 firms has not remained static. Some firms managed to close sizeable fundraisings, which boosted their respective ranks significantly, or allowed them to debut on the top 50 list. At least one firm, Permira, downsized its LP commitments to a recent fund, which caused its rank to drop correspondingly. Finally, the rise of the dollar has generally pushed UK-based firms further down our dollar-denominated rankings compared to a year ago.
As in prior years, the PEI 300 based its rankings on this measure: the amount of private equity direct-investment capital raised or created over the past five years.
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar Dumps APC
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has resigned from the party.
Mr Abubakar’s aide, Mr Paul Ibe, revealed this in a tweet this morning.
“H.E. @atiku has resigned from the All Progressives Congress,” the tweet read.
Mr Abubakar contested against the president, Muhammed Buhari alongside three others for the ticket of the APC in 2014.
He lost out in the primary but collapsed his structure to support the president at the 2015 presidential campaign.
H.E. @atiku has resigned from the All Progressives Congress. @AtikuOrg
— Paul Ibe (@omonlakiki) November 24, 2017
Atiku was the vice to former President Olusegun Obasanjo when Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999.
He left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the APC in February 2014, after he lost the presidential election of 2007 on the platform of the then Action Congress.
While he was in the PDP, he also declared his intention to contest for the Presidency in 2011 but lost to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Meanwhile, the former vice president had canvassed for votes for Bamanga Tukur in the early 1980s, who at that time, was managing director of the Nigeria Ports Authority during Tukur’s governorship campaign.
After much active participation in politics, he announced his intention to become governor of the defunct Gongola State in September 1990, but the state was later divided into two – Adamawa and Taraba states – by the Federal Government.
Atiku also contested for the Presidency in 1992 on the platform of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP), but later stepped down for late MKO Abiola who won the convention primary.
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Coinfections Common in Acanthamoeba Cases
Risk expands beyond contact lens use.
Acanthamoeba often goes hand-in-hand with other ocular infections, and these co-conditions aren’t just limited to contact lens wear, a study in the American Journal of Ophthalmology reports.
In an effort to find the incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis and the coexistence of Acanthamoeba and fungi in microbial keratitis, researchers from India conducted a prospective cross-sectional study in which they tested for Acanthamoeba in patients who presented with stromal keratitis.
Out of 401 cases, the study found 40 patients—or 10%—were positive for Acanthamoeba, and 16 of the 40 tested positive for both Acanthamoeba and fungi (4.5%). Additionally, five out of the 40 subjects tested positive for Acanthamoeba and bacteria and two out of the 40 had a triple infection consisting of Acanthamoeba, fungi and bacteria.
Researchers also looked for ring infiltrates and stromal edema, since both are frequently associated with Acanthamoeba keratitis and Acanthamoeba coinfections. Investigators found ring infiltrates were more frequent in the Acanthamoeba keratitis-fungal keratitis group (eight out of 16). Additionally, they were often yellowish with hyphate edges vs. ring infiltrates only, which were seen in patients with AK alone.
Of note, only two patients were contact lens wearers, and these subjects presented with a history of trauma.
Acanthamoeba coinfections “are much more frequent and not restricted to contact lens users,” the researchers noted in their paper. “Anticipating coinfections is necessary both for establishing a diagnosis as well as for appropriate and timely therapeutic interventions,” they concluded.
Raghavan A, Baidwal S, Venkatapathy N, et al. The Acanthamoeba-fungal keratitis study. Am J Ophthalmol. February 2, 2019 [Epub ahead of print].
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Mann , Canterbury
79 Castle Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2QD
New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, CT1
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GUIDE PRICE £450,000 - £500,000. Mann Estate Agents have the privilege to offer for sale a beautiful detached family home with a vast amount potential situated in the extremely desirable location of South Canterbury. The current owners have been here for thirty six years and are the second owners of the property since built.
The property is considerably set back from the road, with a grass island division between the property and New Dover Road. An ideal family home, the property oozes potential for further extensions and development (subject to planning) and has the most stunning rear garden with an abundance of mature fruit trees and a variety of wildlife.
This 1950s family home maintains a lot of its’ character features and has a handsome curb appeal. There is a driveway for several cars to the front with garden laid to lawn and mature hedge rows. On entry to the property, a lovely hallway with parquet flooring flows throughout and you will find a useful downstairs cloakroom, access to the kitchen and lounge. The lounge has large windows to the front and a fireplace taking central focus point to the room. Double doors open out into the principle reception room. Our current clients have previously added a single storey extension to the rear, now gaining a superb open plan lounge/dining area with sliding doors overlooking the garden, a perfect space for busy families or those that love to entertain.
The kitchen has ample fitted cupboards and room for appliances of which includes a gas hob cooker with electric oven, designed to a neutral colour scheme. The kitchen has the added benefit of a utility area/added lean to conservatory for additional space.
Rising to the first floor, are three generous double bedrooms and main family bathroom. There is a pull down loft ladder from the landing with access to the considerably sized loft that has also been boarded throughout.
To the outside of the property, there is a lovely rockery and landscaped patio area with steps to the lawn. It is difficult to realise that you are so close to the city centre with the wonderful shrubbery and privacy you get. The garden has three useful storage sheds, a pond, small allotment area and a variety of apple trees. The garden is ideal for families with young children to grow up in and live so conveniently next to all the schools nearby. There is a larger than average brick built garage with power and light with side access along the property that can be approached from the side of the house.
The property has gas fired central heating, double glazing throughout and an accompanied viewing can be arranged with immediate effect.
Situated in a sought after residential position well back from New Dover Road and close to St Lawrence County Cricket Ground, Simon Boys' and Girls' Grammar Schools, Pilgrims Way primary school, doctors' surgery and Kent and Canterbury Hospital. The house is located approximately 3/4 mile from the Cathedral City centre with its wide range of amenities.
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ICS Cybersecurity Specialist
Saudi Aramco Featured Employer
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
10 + Years Experience
Requirements & Summary
Company: Saudi Aramco
Skills: IT - Analysis & Management
Experience: 10 + Years
Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree
Employment Type: Full Time Salaried Employee
Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
No location/work authorization restrictions found.
Req Number: 17384BR
We are seeking an ICS Cybersecurity Specialist to join the Security Intelligence Center Division (SICD) of the Information Protection Department (IPD).
The Security Intelligence Center Division is responsible for providing the defense of Saudi Aramco systems and networks against worldwide adversaries. In addition, with the continued evolution of SICD and the need for adapting to the emerging adversaries/APT groups, dynamic threat landscape, and increased regional and global risk, SICD requires individuals with data science and cybersecurity experience and expertise.
Your primary role is to identify, analyze, and assess ICS cybersecurity defense-related problems and provide solutions as the ICS Cybersecurity Specialist technical lead and subject matter expert. You will protect industrial networks and ICS/SCADA systems. You will combine industry-leading security technologies and intelligence to deliver incident monitoring, response, and threat modeling for Saudi Aramco within the Industrial Control Systems space.
The risk profile of controls systems is continually changing as Operational Technology (OT) and IT networks become increasingly interconnected. The changing risk profile increases Saudi Aramco's need to assist in preventing, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cybersecurity incidents involving control systems. Additionally, the role includes exposing threats targeting power plants and other control systems. Be part of team to develop innovative analytics for detection, support investigations, and incident response solutions.
As the successful candidate, you will hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent degree from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree is preferred in a related Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Autonomic Computing, or Data Informatics field.
You will have at least 10 years of experience in IT, including at least 5 years in ICS/OT related to incident monitoring and response.
Have hands-on experience with operational technologies such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software, RTUs, HMI, and Distributed Control Systems (DCS).
Well-versed in various control frameworks, including: IEC62443, NERC CIP, and NIST.
Fundamental understanding of IT and OT network communication protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850, OPC, OPC UA, PROFINET, etc.).
Familiarity with Unix and Windows operating systems and administrative tools.
Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise and understandable manner.
Self-motivated and results focused with an ability to strengthen the team and its mission.
Global Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (GICSP), Certified SCADA Security Architect (CSSA), or
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certifications a plus.
Nontechnical skills
Technical writing and reporting
Presentation and information delivery
Time management and prioritization
Duties & Responsibilities:
You will be required to perform the following:
Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on ICS matters.
Conduct log analysis, and host and network analysis, in support of incident response investigations.
Work with IT and OT client staff to conduct thorough investigations and implement effective remediation strategies.
Recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures in indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be applied in current and future investigations.
Hunt for active threats and malicious activity within control systems and identify possible attack vectors.
Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.
Conduct tabletop exercises based on firsthand knowledge of real world attacks to help organizations better prepare for future attacks.
Effectively communicate investigative findings and strategy to client stakeholders, including technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel.
The Engineering & Project Management (E&PM) business line studies, plans and oversees the construction of the Company's new facilities, including some of the biggest and most complex projects in the petroleum industry. Recently, Saudi Aramco completed the largest capital program in its history that included new or expanded oil, gas and petrochemical facilities, raising maximum sustainable crude oil production capacity to 12 million barrels per day and significantly increasing gas production and processing capacities. Among the recently completed projects was the largest crude oil increment in the history of the industry: Khurais, with a production capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day. More challenges lie ahead, with a slate of new or expanded oil, gas, refining and petrochemical projects in the works. E&PM also manages the Company's Research & Development Center where scientists investigate topics such as the desulfurization of crude oil, advanced fuel formulations for next generation combustion engines, and reservoir nano-scale robots (Resbots™) for injection into reservoirs to record their properties.
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iron ore & taconite - Michigan State University
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National Minerals Information Center - Publications
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All of the Marquette Range ore currently mined is excavated from open pits using diesel-powered off-road trucks loaded by electric and diesel-powered shovels. The ore, which in the ground consists of 25 to 45 % iron by weight, is pelletized at processing plants adjacent to each mine.
Michigan Mining History
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MORE THAN 675 NEW BUS SERVICES FOR CASTLE HILL
Member for Castle Hill Ray Williams has welcomed the announcement that the NSW Government will deliver more than 675 extra weekly bus services in the Castle Hill electorate in response to increased demand in the area.
The new services, which will begin on 19 February, will be delivered under the NSW Government’s Growth Services Program, which delivers more bus services for customers when and where they’re needed.
“As the Hills District continues to grow, we need to make sure that we are delivering enough bus services to meet the needs of the community,” Mr Williams said.
“The new services will be added to routes that not only connect people across the District, but also to the major employment centres of Sydney, Parramatta and Macquarie Park.
“In addition to adding services to existing routes, a brand new Route 605 from North Kellyville to Rouse Hill Town Centre will be created.”
The new services will be introduced across 7 routes:
• Route 605 North Kellyville to Rouse Hill Town Centre (Over 160 services)
• Route 607X Rouse Hill to City via M2 (125 services)
• Routes 610, 610X, M61 Rouse Hill and Castle Hill to City via M2 (over 110 services)
• Route 615X North Kellyville to City via M2 (30 services)
• Route 619 Rouse Hill to Macquarie Park via Castle Hill and M2 (Over 70 services)
• Route 621 Castle Hill to City via Cherrybrook and Macquarie Park (Over 50 services)
• Routes T65, T66 Rouse Hill Town Centre to Parramatta via T-way (130 services)
The Growth Services Program will bring over 1700 new services online across Sydney in the coming weeks, boosting bus frequency and extending hours, particularly in areas of high population growth. Services will also be added to bus routes in the Illawarra, Hunter, and Central Coast.
More than 1100 of these new services will be introduced across the Hills District.
Customers can go online and use the trip planner at transportnsw.info, plan trips by downloading real-time transport apps, and customers can receive bus service updates for their area by following @BusesNorthWest on Twitter or phoning the Transport Info Line on 131 500.
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Home Broadcast News Smulyan leveraging technology to secure radio’s future
Smulyan leveraging technology to secure radio’s future
According to Emmis chief Jeff Smulyan, radio doesn’t have an effectiveness problem, it has a perception problem, and he believes FM on cell can be just to tool to keep the focus radio’s core strengths going forward.
In answer to a question from the Indianapolis Star on changes in the radio business, Smulyan said, “The perception has changed more than the reality. The perception is it has suffered; the reality is that the consumption of over-the-air radio has held up remarkably well. We have to change that perception and use technology to our benefit, which we think we can with our FM chips in cell phones initiative. A decade from now, over-the-air radio will still be here, as it has been for 100 years. Its core strengths — localization, portability and universal, free distribution — won’t change.”
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Bondage is consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, and/or somatosensory stimulation. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhering bandage, or other restraints may be used for this purpose.
Bondage itself does not imply sadomasochism. Bondage may be used as an end into itself, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage. It may also be used as a part of sex or in conjunction with other BDSM activities. The letter "B" in the acronym "BDSM" comes from the word "bondage". Sexuality and erotica are an important aspect in bondage, but are often not the end in itself. Aesthetics also plays an important role in bondage.
A common reason for the active partner to tie up their partner is so both may gain pleasure from the restrained partner's submission and the feeling of the temporary transfer of control and power. For sadomasochistic people, bondage is often used as a means to an end, where the restrained partner is more accessible to other sadomasochistic behaviour. However, bondage can also be used for its own sake. The restrained partner can derive tactile pleasure from the feeling of helplessness and immobility, and the active partner can derive visual pleasure and satisfaction from seeing their partner tied up.
Because of the diversity in its forms, bondage can be divided into various different types based on its motivation.
Bondage for a purpose
This form of bondage is the best known in BDSM, and denotes restraining the passive partner for an ulterior purpose, such as making them more accessible for a spanking session. Bondage for its own sake is not considered in this category.
Decorative bondage
In this form of bondage, the restrained partner is bound for a decorative purpose, to be used as an aesthetic object, for example for erotic photography, or a form of human furniture in a BDSM party.
Torture bondage
In this form of bondage, the restrained partner is purposefully bound in an uncomfortable and/or painful position, for example as a punishment in connection of a dominant/submissive sexual play. Almost any form of bondage, when the restrained partner is left tied up long enough, can be used as torture bondage. How long this punitive form of bondage is used for varies greatly, however in bondage erotica such as John Willie's Sweet Gwendoline or Japanese bondage photography, it is often disproportionally extensive and long-lasting.
Film bondage
Film bondage is a form of completely non-violent bondage for aesthetic purposes only. In this form of bondage, the restrained partner is bound lightly and is capable of escaping without great effort
Meditative bondage
This form of bondage is seldom used in western bondage. However, in Japanese bondage (shibari), it is an important aspect, possibly originally having evolved from a religious tradition, where the interest is in the restrained partner's spiritual situation rather than their corporal situation.
Bondage is safer when conducted between sober, trusted partners who are fully aware of the risks involved and the precautions necessary to ensure safety, such as informed consent. Partners who are in committed relationships may have a greater basis for trusting each other. Performing acts in a supervised location, such as a dungeon, or with a group of trusted friends may also increase safety.
There is also a subculture of people who seek out others interested in bondage and pursue such activities with people who they do not know well. This subculture has given rise to Safe, Sane & Consensual.
- The use of a "safeword", or some clear way for the subject to indicate genuine distress and a wish to discontinue, temporarily stop or vary the activities of the play.
- Never leaving a bound person alone.
- Avoiding positions or restraints which may induce postural asphyxia.
- Making sure that the subject changes positions at least once an hour (to avoid circulation problems).
- Making sure that the subject can be released quickly in an emergency.
- Avoiding restraints which impair breathing. (Gags or hoods which block the mouth can become asphyxial hazards if the subject vomits or the nose becomes otherwise blocked.)
- Remaining sober; alcohol and drugs should be avoided.
Accidents and lasting damage can generally be avoided by very simple security precautions and a rudimentary knowledge of the human anatomy. One very simple safety measure is to ask the subject every so often if he or she is all right. Another is to check body parts like hands and feet for numbness or coldness, which can happen if nerves have been pinched or blood circulation has been blocked. Another is to check for skin discoloration. Skin that does not get enough oxygen turns bluish. If blood can get in, but cannot get out because one of the veins has been blocked, that part of the body turns purple.
If the subject has been gagged or can otherwise not verbally communicate, a different form of the safeword is needed. For instance, they may hum a simple tune, or opening and closing one or both hands repeatedly, or releasing an object held in one hand (such as a rubber ball, or a scarf).
Some simple preparations may also be helpful:
- Food. It is common[citation needed] for people (especially those on diets) to faint during a long session. Having a regular meal beforehand is recommended; being fed small snacks during play may also help prevent fainting.
- Cutting tools. A pair of EMT scissors is recommended (useful for safely cutting rope and tape off skin).
- Keyed-alike padlocks, if chains are being used.
It should be noted that scenes depicted in bondage photographs and videos are chosen for their visual appeal and fantasy value. Sometimes these positions are dangerous or cannot be maintained for more than a few minutes (i.e., "don't try this at home") such as inverted bondage or suspension from the wrists and ankles. In many cases they cannot be "acted out" with good results and are only for extremely physically fit and very experienced BDSM participants. Especially in highly artistic Japanese bondage, years of experience of bondage is required to avoid the risks.
Self-bondage carries a higher risk, particularly because it violates an important principle of bondage safety; to never leave a bound person alone. For the feeling of being tied up to be as authentic as possible, practitioners of self-bondage can use time-limit clocks, freeze their keys in blocks of ice, or use self-invented devices, in order to temporarily abandon power over their own restraint and freedom (called "tunnel play").
Without someone to release them in the event of an emergency or medical crisis, self-bondage can lead to severe and permanent physical damage. Especially in combination with asphyxiation, self-bondage can be lethal to its practitioners.
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Fugitive Georgian ex-president nominated as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region
Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili) © Reuters
The Ukrainian cabinet of ministers has nominated the former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, who has been placed on an international wanted list in his own country, as the governor of Ukraine’s coastal Odessa region.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was set to meet Saakashvili on Friday to approve his candidacy for the post before officially announcing the appointment, according to the presidential press-secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
The fugitive Georgian leader has already been granted Ukrainian citizenship, which makes him legally eligible for the post, according to Ukrainian journalist-turned-MP Sergey Leshchenko, who also confirmed Saakashvili’s appointment as Odessa governor.
Former Georgian President #Saakashvili successfully got Ukrainian citizenship on Friday. Micho, we want new Batumi there!
— Leshchenko (@Leshchenkos) May 29, 2015
Saakashvili has been a long-standing supporter of the current Ukrainian authorities ever since they ended up heading the coup that eventually toppled the previous administration in February 2014. Earlier in May he was appointed to President Poroshenko’s advisory council on reform, along with the hawkish anti-Russian US Senator John McCain who chose to decline the offer.
There were reports that Saakashvili was already appointed to the post, published by the Ukrinform agency, citing two unnamed sources in the administration, and confirmed by Interfax Ukraine, but no official confirmation had been released. But since Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers allegedly nominated Saakashvili as per Poroshenko’s own recommendation, it was a virtually done deal.
Saakashvili will become Odessa’s governor with “99 percent probability,” the deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s administration, Valery Chaly told Ukraine National News (UNN), stressing he was speaking as an “analyst,” not presidential representative.
Meanwhile Saakashvili himself said on Twitter that he “loves Odessa,” without elaborating further.
I ❤️ Odessa http://t.co/Z8hjhZjrvu
— Mikheil Saakashvili (@SaakashviliM) May 29, 2015
The official announcement on Saakashvili’s appointment as the man in charge of Ukraine’s strategic Odessa region is widely expected on Saturday.
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"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody." - Adlai Stevenson
13 Browser Add-Ons That Save You Money
May 15, 2018 By Jackie Cohen Leave a Comment
You might think twice about availing yourself of money making — or saving — opportunities if you have to go out of your way to claim them. But when they fit into things you already do or use, then it’s on! Here are 13 browser add-ons that save you money shopping online.
The Camelizer
This browser extension gives you a price history of anything you’re looking at on Amazon — if you see fluctuations that means the product could go on sale again in the future.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
CouponCabin Sidekick
This extension hooks you up with savings and cash-back offers on over 1,800 retail websites, including Amazon, Kohl’s, Best Buy, and Target. Any time you shop at a website that has deals available, you’ll see a notification right above the store’s logo that includes any coupon or cash-back details.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari
Cently by CouponFollow
This plugin makes it a little bit easier to use coupon codes online: Anytime you check out from a participating online store, the coupon code box will automatically be highlighted in red. Click on it to access a drop-down menu of all the current codes, from which you select the one you want to use and it gets added to the box.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari
Ebates Cash-Back Button
Automatically activate cash back deals at every online store you visit — coupon codes automatically apply at checkout, so you don’t have to key in anything yourself. Cash-back percentages at different retailers vary but you see the amounts when you visit the sites in question.
Fakespot
This clever add-on sifts through user reviews to weed out products that were only reviewed by people who received the item for free. The plugin also approaches fake reviews on Yelp in a similar fashion.
Which browser: Chrome
Gumdrop by GoodShop
This plugin finds coupons for you and automatically applies them wherever you shop. All you have to do is click a pink button labeled “save money” whenever you see it pop up on your screen.
Find the lowest possible prices on Amazon as discount codes are automatically applied to all your transactions. This saves you from having to scour coupon aggregator sites for the latest deals. You can also earn up to 100% cash back on eligible purchases by joining HoneyGold.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari
InvisibleHand
This one tracks prices while you shop and informs you of where you might find better prices than what you might currently be looking at. It also tells you whether the store you’re shopping at has any current coupons available, but you have to enter the discount code manually.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
PriceBlink
Whenever you shop online, PriceBlink lets you know if there’s a better price elsewhere online. If it finds something that is, you see a small bar at the top of your screen with a drop-down menu of other choices, including coupons. All you have to do is click to go right to the better deal.
Which browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari
This plugin puts a floating button into the lower right corner of your screen — click on it for price comparisons of products that compete with whatever you are looking at online. This saves you time finding the best price on just about anything you browse.
SliceWatch
This shopping plugin notifies you when items on your wish list go on sale. Whenever you visit participating retailers’ sites, you see a teal colored icon in the top right hand corner. Click it when you see a product you want to monitor and the app will notify you via email when the price drops.
If you have multiple credit cards with different rewards schemes, this plugin’s for you: It tells you which of your pieces of plastic to use for each transaction to maximize your cash back or other incentives. This is especially helpful for the cards that have multiple tiers of payout percentages for different product categories. To use this browser extension, shop online like you normally would, and at checkout time, click the Wallaby icon to see which card to use.
Wikibuy
This plugin will let you know if anything you’re looking at on Amazon is cheaper somewhere else — a window pops up in the lower-left-hand corner showing you the better deal. When you install the extension into your browser, it asks you whether you are an Amazon Prime member and your zip code — to help it figure out pricing details.
Browser Add-Ons Will Save You Money
As you can see from reading this article, there’s no shortage of plugins that promise to save you money while shopping online. Whether any of them will help you get rich depends on what you do with your savings.
Readers, which of the browser add-ons mentioned above have you tried yet, and which ones are you considering checking out? Please let us know about your experiences with these technologies by posting about them in the comments section beneath this article.If you enjoy reading our blog posts and would like to try your hand at blogging, we have good news for you; you can do exactly that on Saving Advice. Just click here to get started.
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Consumers Want Faster Free Deliveries When Shopping Online
March 16, 2018 By Jackie Cohen Leave a Comment
Amazon Prime appears to be making more consumers base their decisions on whether they can receive faster free deliveries when shopping online.
A whopping 96% of consumers say that the availability of fast, free shipping greatly impacts their decisions about online shopping, according to a survey of 1,015 people conducted by Alix Partners.
This expectation has steadily increased since 2012 — more people want free shipping and they expect it to arrive sooner. They actually want it to arrive a day sooner than they did just a half decade ago.
The maximum amount of time people will wait for a free delivery to arrive is 4.5 days, compared to 5.5 in 2012.
Faster Free Deliveries When Shopping Online
And Amazon Prime members expect it to arrive within 3.8 days, on average — but these people are paying $70 a year for free two-day shipping.
These folks account for more than half of the survey’s respondents, double the proportion of members just five years ago.
Interestingly, three in five survey respondents say they’re not open to the idea of someone entering their home to fill the refrigerator — something that Amazon is reportedly exploring.
However, about half of the survey participants said they’d be interested in the deliveries including other types of add-ons as assembly and installation.
Browsing for Shipping Options
Nearly three in five survey respondents said they browse for products based on shipping options. Interestingly, one in four survey respondents said they’d be willing to pay a bit more for a product if free shipping were included.
About two out of five respondents also said they start shopping on Amazon before other sites. Half say they trust Amazon’s information more than other online retailers.
Long story short, these survey findings suggest that the availability of fast and free deliveries can make or break an online retailer.
What do you think, readers? To what extent do you base your purchasing decisions on whether you can receive faster free shipping when shopping online — and where do you prefer to shop on the internet?
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Elon Musk’s Younger Sister: Tosca Musk’s Net Worth
March 7, 2018 By David Robson Leave a Comment
How has Elon Musk spread his wealth among his family members? A look at his younger sister Tosca Musk’s net worth may shed light on that question. But focusing only on Tosca’s finances provides an incomplete picture of her accomplishments.
Tosca Musk’s Net Worth
Tosca’s net worth has been estimated as high as $169.4 million, which is only a modest figure if your last name is Musk — Elon has a net worth of $20.8 billion. Although her fortune comes to her through her family, she has put her money into her passions and forged her own path.
Although Tosca worked at Zip2 (the company founded by her brothers, the acquisition of which launched their fortune), she quickly left after the company was acquired to actively pursue a filmmaking career.
Film Career
Prior to her tech career, Tosca studied filmmaking at the University of British Columbia and completed her final undergraduate film (an ambitious dramatization of the 1976 anti-apartheid Soweto riots) in her home country of South Africa. Her first film-related project, Tiki Bar TV, fused her family’s aptitude for technological innovation with her own passion for hands-on filmmaking. Tiki Bar TV was the first-ever video podcast, for which Musk served as producer and darn near everything else, down to building the set for the show in her own home and hand-painting numerous props for each episode.
More crucially, she brought in sponsors and increased the show’s merchandising, transforming Tiki Bar TV from an internet cult item to an ongoing, sustainable business with over half a million subscribers. Tosca and the show’s creators were showered with awards for their work on the show, which was cited by Forbes as “one of the first breakout stars in the world of internet television.”
Musk continued to actively write, produce, and direct numerous features in diverse genres, including the highly successful tele-film Holiday Engagement, which set a record as the most-watched movie on the Hallmark cable network.
Passionflix
Many of her passions come together in the appropriately-named Passionflix, which began operating last year. She raised $4.75 million to fund the company — with angel investments from her brother Kimbal Musk (who has an estimated net worth of $672 million), Jason Calacanis, Bill Lee and Norman Lear.
Passionflix aims at an audience looking for classic and new movies featuring relatable female protagonists. For $5.99 a month, viewers can enjoy a specially-curated selection of romantic movies, as well as original material created by Tosca herself and a growing slate of female filmmakers.
Some may balk that most of the company’s original offerings are adaptations of popular romance novels, but Tosca is simply working to fill the demands of a specific and growing audience. Her efforts to boost feminine representation both on-screen and behind the camera (in a year where only 3% of major studio movies will be directed by women) are downright laudable.
Tosca remains busy and shows no sign of slowing down. As the face of her own brand, she is strong and committed — in a word, genuine. And as she shares in her family’s considerable fortunes, she also happily appears to share in their eccentricities as well, enabling us to post the picture of a sincere female filmmaker brandishing a flamethrower.
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Three Ways to Make Money Online
February 26, 2016 By Spencer Mecham 1 Comment
One of many game-changing inventions in earth’s history was that of the Internet. Nothing else has come close to impacting the lives of so many people, in so many different ways, and in so many different places. One of the most positive opportunities the Internet has provided stems from the Internet’s ability to build help wealth or a secondary income. Millions of people are making a great living without ever leaving the confines of their own home. It’s wonderful!
A significant amount of people have wondered if making money online is something they could do, but a much smaller number have taken the steps necessary to generate that income. Here are three ways people are making their livings online.
You would be hard pressed to find someone that uses the internet but has not used Amazon. The ecommerce giant sells billions of products each year, making a significant amount in the process. Many people have learned that they can buy products in bulk online, then turn and sell those products for a much higher amount on Amazon. While the process can be a little complicated to learn, once understood it is quite simple. Millions of people are making significant amounts of money buying products straight from manufacturers and selling via Amazon and many of them have systems that require almost no work on their part.
There are many sites including Udemy that provide trainings for those interested in selling via Amazon. Most trainings cost as little as $9 and if you’re serious about selling on Amazon are well worth the buck. The good thing about this method is very little risk. After the price of a course many users can find small products for $10-$20 to start out selling, then after making small profits they reinvest and continue to grow their business.
Most people know a bit about the stock market, though that knowledge is likely a distorted puzzle with plenty of Hollywood truths slipped in. What is true about the stock market, however, is that there is a lot of potential to make a lot of money via stocks. Similarly there is the potential to lose a lot of money. Luckily the internet not only provides a medium to trade stocks, but there are thousands of stock trading websites that offer free market trader courses to get beginners started..
One recent update in the world of stocks is the Robin Hood app for iPhone, which offers completely free stock trades. The goal of Robin Hood is to make it possible for everyday people to invest and benefit from the economy that they are a part of.
There are billions of websites on the internet today, with the average adult spending 20 hours online each week. Most of these websites are finding ways to profit off of the service they provide, whether it is through eCommerce or advertising. Many companies will pay websites to offer ads on their site, which is why most people are used to seeing ads on the top and sides of pages they visit. These ads typically pay the website owner each time someone clicks on them. With enough traffic to their website, many of these owners make a great living off of their sites. As with the other two, there are dozens of sites offering free web-building tips, as well as simple site builders like WordPress.
The point of all of these is that opportunities are out there. With so many opportunities available online, it is a simple matter of getting the motivation, seeking out the learning, finding your passion, then doing it. Millions of people do this each year and often succeed beyond their wildest dreams.
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Filed Under: Making Money Tagged With: Amazon, ecommerce, Internet, iphone, make money online, Robin Hood app, stock market, Udemy, websites, Wordpress
Verizon Fios Promotions 2016
February 17, 2016 By Amanda Blankenship 1 Comment
Verizon has seemingly dominated the world of wireless. However, through Verizon Fios, the company is also making strides in dominating other technology services in the household as well. Bundle up all of your services through Verizon: wireless service, home phone, television and Internet, and it isn’t as expensive as you think it is.
Verizon, while a reliable company, has also had a growing reputation as being kind of expensive. However, Fios is not as expensive as you think it is. Actually, the services are comparable to some of the go-to companies for cheaper services.
Verizon is offering some of the best promotions on Internet, phone and cable bundles in the country. Here are some of the deals Verizon Fios is offering in 2016:
Cable/Home Phone/Internet: $69.99/month
Cable/Internet: $64.99/month
Local TV channels, HBO and Showtime for $50/month
Cable/Home Phone/Internet + $300 Visa Prepaid Card: $79.99/month
Custom TV Only: $54.99/month
Order Verizon Fios online and get the setup fee waived ($80 value)
A Few Things to Note:
If you order any of these promotions online, you will be able to receive the limited-time deal of receiving setup for free. You can also get any of these deals with no commitment. Of course, committing to a year or two years will (in some cases) save you some money. However, in the case of the Verizon Fios Triple Play, you can still receive the services for $69.99/month but you will not receive the $300 Prepaid Visa.
You should also note that most of these promotional prices require one to two years of a contract with the company. If the pricing is for a two-year contract, the price is subject to raise after one year.
Each of the Verizon Fios promotions have the option for “Custom TV.” This means that you get to choose some of your channels, which is great because who watches ALL of the channels? You can also get HBO, Showtime and other movie channels for the first six months of your contract in most cases.
If you are an existing Verizon customer, you can use these Fios promotions to your advantage. If you see a promotion that you think you could benefit from, you can call Verizon and talk to them about switching your current plan OR haggling for a new price.
Verizon Fios Reviews
Last but not least, you are probably wondering what people have to say about the Verizon Fios services. Verizon is one of the most reliable companies in the nation, however, what are consumers saying about the Fios services? As far as the actual TV/Internet/Phone, consumers absolutely love Fios. It seems, however, that people enjoy Verizon Fios until they have to give customer service a phone call. In just about every review of the company’s services people praised the quality of the television, Internet and phone but (almost) all of them have something bad to say about customer service.
Before you make any decision about Verizon (or any other company), be sure to compare pricing across the board. Of course, bundles can be convenient, but they can also be more expensive in some cases. Be sure to always compare.
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Scrabble Fanatics Rewarded with 5000 New Words
August 4, 2014 By Emma Harrison Clark Leave a Comment
Scrabble board politics are set to become a whole lot juicier with the introduction of 5000 new words to the fifth addition of Merriam-Webster’s The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary . The book, which is widely considered the Scrabble bible, has been around for 35 years and issued its last edition in 2005, 11 years ago. But with the speed of modern language growth they’ve decided it’s about time for an update.
So from August the 11th, words like Selfie, Chillax, Frenemy, Schmutz, texter, buzzkill and funplex will now be allowed on the board. Their inclusion reflecting the fluidity of the English language and the influence the internet has on our culture. It’s most likely that linguistic purists will turn up their noses at many of the 5000 new words, most of which originated in digital popular culture and seeped their way unsuspectingly into common communications. But Peter Sokolowski, who’s one of the editors of the dictionary, shares that, “These word have become part of the culture, part of the language, and if people say them, they rightly deserve a position in the dictionary.”
Even better news for Scrabble fans is the addition of more two-letter words like “te.” When a game gets into its advanced stages, every square counts. So being able to use two letter-linking words is vital in the tense race to clear your tile board.
Ultimately the new word additions will create a more complex game. There will be more word options to use, more ways to use them and livelier discussion around each play. Scrabble old-timers say the last update, which included words like “qi” and “za,” entirely changed the face of the game.
Stefan Fatsis, a scrabble expert said, “Each subsequent edition of the book, it makes the game richer.” He’s the author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players and knows all to well the dynamics involved when the rules change in a 76 year-old game.
Conflict and criticism aside, it’s important to remember that Scrabble remains a game for all ages. It’s one of the few games that every generation in the family can enjoy together. New additions are inevitable and should be welcomed by amateurs and professionals alike. There are a lot of benefits to these types of games and they can even help teach you about money.
New words mean new opportunities to score and more paths to Scrabble glory. So we’ve got a few little words for all the Scrabble purists out there. Just chillax! There’s no need to buzzkill, it’s just a game people. Everything’s going to be quite alright.
(Photo courtesy of Chriſtopher Chen)
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Acclaimed West End artist teaches modern kids ancient art
by Sekisui House on 29 01 2017 in West Village
Internationally acclaimed ceramic artist Jane du Rand recently returned to West Village in Brisbane’s West End to engage local youngsters in the ancient art of mosaics as part of a community art project.
Mosaics are intricate masterpieces assembled from thousands of glass tiles or stones and were created by the Mesopotamians 5,000 years ago.
Jane conducted a series of ceramic and mosaic workshops for local tweens and teens in January, offering a rare opportunity to learn this exacting and intriguing art form from a true master of her craft.
This unique project, facilitated by Sekisui House Australia, continues Jane’s special connection with West Village. Her first studio after migrating from South Africa to Brisbane was located in the Peters Ice Cream Factory building, which will be restored as the focal point of the West Village project.
Jane worked from this space for two years, completing public art projects that are now installed in the US, Ireland, Holland, South Africa and around Australia.
As well as enjoying a new craft, workshop participants contributed to an enduring artwork that will be gifted to the community and displayed prominently within West Village.
Jane said her workshops aim to inspire participants between 10 and 18 years old to explore the notions of ‘home’ and what ‘being at home’ means to them.
“The workshops were based on the theme ‘looking through the window’,” Jane said. “Our budding artists decorated the inside of ceramic ‘windows’ using colourful glazes, mosaic tiles and hand-made ceramic pieces to illustrate their reflections.
“The finished windows were combined into a single metre-and-a-half tall artwork that represents the community of an apartment building.
“One can look through these windows and enjoy the wonderfully individual views of what their homes mean to them.”
West Village Sustainability and Engagement Manager Natasha Mulcahy said the workshops were the culmination of an idea that began years ago.
“We were thrilled to have the opportunity to finally work with Jane,” Natasha said. “Our new laneway off Boundary Street provides the perfect space for art creation and installation.
“Close to 500 children have already participated in our public art program, which will continue to evolve and grow as West Village takes shape.”
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Greece Macedonia Mission Trip
Trip #9856
Reign Ministries | Royal Servants
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Multiple Countries, Eastern Europe
June 20 to August 1, 2020
Lasts between 1 month to 2 months
Art, Drama, Music & Puppets
Discipleship, Evangelism: Open Air/Street, Leadership Training, and Literature Distribution
Total : $4,405 - $4,440 (US)
Includes: Lodging, Meals, and Travel to and from location
Whether you’re serving on the refugee border or performing on the streets of Athens, you’ll have many opportunities to share the Gospel in the same places the Apostle Paul preached.
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What the Mission Trip Will Be Like
A few years ago, the refugee crisis on the borders of Northern Macedonia and Greece was all over the news. While the news cycle seems to have moved on, there are still thousands of refugees who can’t - they’re living in limbo, in desperate need of hope. What a privilege to be able to offer them the hope that comes from the Gospel! Whether you’re serving on the refugee border or performing on the streets of Athens, you’ll have many opportunities to share the Gospel in some of the same places the Apostle Paul preached centuries before.
Ministry-A few years ago, Reign Ministries, in partnership with SEND International, sent a team to work inside a refugee camp situated on the border of Northern Macedonia and Serbia. The trip was a huge success, and we’ve been asked to send another team.
You’ll have a variety of creative and unique opportunities to share the gospel as you help meet some of the practical needs many have in their daily lives. This will include working with missionaries and churches partners as they plant the seeds of the Gospel in their communities. What does this look like? Perhaps you’ll help teach English, lead games at a Polish immigrant youth camp, or help with “beautification projects” throughout cities, picking up trash or painting over graffiti. Ministry in Greece and Macedonia is hard work, but we believe these exciting platforms for serving will help us build deeper relationships and will provide a natural opportunity to share the hope we have in Christ.
Adventure - To quote the man himself, Aristotle once said, “Adventure is worthwhile.” You and your teammates just may have the opportunity to re-trace the footsteps of Paul as you make your way through this Biblically-historic corner of the world. Whether you find yourself in the shadows of Alexander the Great’s statue in Skopje, or cooling off with gelato at the base of the Parthenon in Athens, you’ll be at no loss of adventure and ways to explore this sunny corner of Europe.
Experience Culture - What makes Northern Macedonia and Greece so unique is that both boost a culture that has been alive and flourishing for over 3,000 years! So much of the modern world has been shaped and formed by Greek culture and thinking: democracy, education, medicine, philosophy, and entertainment. You’ll experience the land of Greek mythology, the birthplace of the Olympics, the feisty nature of Greek yiayias, and the best Greek yogurt you’ll ever have in your life (Yoplait will never be the same). Northern Macedonia is home to famed Mother Teresa, with her birthplace just minutes away from the central square of Skopje. While both countries hold beautiful and unique cultural qualities, easily their best offerings to the world are the people themselves! After experiencing their warm hearts, abundant generosity, and infectious laughter, you’ll have a hard time leaving.
Relation of Opportunity to National Church and/or Long-term Goals
We will be partnering with churches and long-term missionaries.
Participant Information, Recommendations, Requirements
Participant Age
Jr. High, Sr. High, College, and Adult
Eligible to Go
Individuals and Married Couples
Participant Ages: Students (ages 13 to 18) and Summer Staff (ages 19 and older) We train college age students (summer staff), how to become effective disciplers and small group leaders.
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Reign Ministries runs Christian summer mission trips, discipleship training schools, and youth ministry training for students ages 13 to 18, college-age students, and youth workers.
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Contact Reign Ministries | Royal Servants about this short-term mission trip:
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Mission Trip Details
Region(s)
1 month to 2 months
Demographics of People Being Ministered To
A wide variety of people and ages
People Group(s)
Greek and Macedonians
Religion/Beliefs
Most Greeks and Macedonians will be secular/non-religious. Only a small percentage regularly attend a Christian church.
Funds needed
Included in Cost
Lodging, Meals, and Travel to and from location
Included in Cost —Support raising materials, Training Camp, food, accommodations, international travel, and spending money.
$4295 for students (jr. and sr. high participants.)
$4330 for staff disciplers (college-age participants) who have an additional week of training.
Additional Expenses NOT included —Travel to Training Camp, returning home from Chicago after the mission trip, a passport (if needed), and visa.
For more information go to http://reignministries.org/royalservants/greece/
Training and Debriefing
Pre-field Training
Post-field Debrief
Pre-Mission Trip Training—
All student participants (jr. and sr. high ages) begin their mission trip with a week of training at our Training Camp in central Wisconsin. Visit http://reignministries.org/royal-servants/students/ for more details.
Staff disciplers (college-age students who lead small groups of students) come for an additional week of discipler training, before students arrive the next week.
Debriefing —The team will finish their trip together with five days of debriefing (usually in a different, if not a completely different country) before flying home to Chicago. Visit site for more details.
Send an inquiry for details on the application process for this mission trip.
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Actress and writer Carrie Fisher dies at 60
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Los Angeles: Carrie Fisher, US actress and writer for page and screen, died in a Los Angeles, California hospital after treatment following cardiac arrest. She was best known for the role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars movie franchise.
Fisher went into cardiac arrest on Friday during a commercial flight from London just before landing in Los Angeles. She was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center. She was reported to have remained stable over the weekend.
Billie Lourd, Fisher’s daughter, said, “She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly […] Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”
Though most famous for Star Wars, Fisher also appeared in such film and television productions as The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally, 30 Rock, and The Big Bang Theory. As a scriptwriter, Fisher contributed to Hook, Sister Act, and other films. Her most noted written work was the novel Postcards from the Edge, made into a film of the same name starring Meryl Streep. Fisher’s script received a BAFTA award nomination. Fisher was also known for her candid treatment of both substance abuse and bipolar disorder in both her fictional and autobiographical works and for her mental health awareness advocacy. She once described a manic episode as being “trapped inside a metaphor. Everything I looked at had a meaning. Everything was a warning or a sign. I was in a part of my brain I’ve only been in one time before.”
Her personal life included romantic relationships with Harrison Ford, Dan Ackroyd, Paul Simon, and Bryan Lourd, with whom she had her daughter, Billie. Former co-star Mark Hamill reported via Twitter that he was “devastated.”
Last month, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Fisher responded on whether she feared death: “No. I fear dying […] Anything with pain associated with it, I don’t like. I’ve been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn’t look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I’d want someone like me around. And I will be there!”
She was the eldest child of actress and stage performer Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Fisher is survived by her mother and daughter, brother Todd, and half-sisters Joely and Trisha Leigh Fisher.
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“It’s exciting and gets your blood pumping!” exclaims Lyle Thomas, Captain of the volunteer San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Posse unit, as he describes the feelings associated with getting called out on a Search and Rescue operation. “It’s an emergency situation, someone is missing!”
Lyle Thomas (middle) with his horse Mulligan and fellow Posse members. Photo: Sharon Jantzen
Lyle came to the Sheriff’s Posse unit with previous experience in ground Search and Rescue operations. His work as “ground crew” inspired him to consider the Sheriff’s Posse unit. He realized that searches on horseback would both be easier on his body and possibly more effective in terms of covering more terrain in remote areas at a faster rate of speed. Lyle had no previous riding experience. He bought an experienced 16 year old Paint Horse, named “Blaze”, who was perfect to learn on. Lyle learned all he could on Blaze. Four years later Lyle joined the Sheriff’s Posse.
Now, Lyle has three years of Posse service under his belt and is riding a new Paint Horse, “Mulligan”. Lyle is absolutely hooked. He recognizes the unique team approach the horse offers to the Search and Rescue operation.
“The horse is the first to sense something different. Horses have more acute vision, hearing and scent and seem to know when someone is up ahead before we do.”
What Does the SLO Sheriff’s Posse Do?
SLO Sheriff’s Posse Serves our community. Photo: Sharon Jantzen
The Sheriff’s Posse has been instrumental in bringing home many missing people. Horses are called in when the terrain is too steep or rocky for hikers or vehicles. SLO County has many areas where the terrain is more suitable to Search and Rescue efforts on horseback. Lyle finds the Search and Rescue aspect of the Sheriff’s Posse extremely rewarding.
In addition to Search and Rescue operations, the Sheriff’s Posse participates in a variety of parades throughout the county representing the San Luis Obispo county Sheriff’s Department. The parades bring the riders together for a common purpose, and help to bring awareness to the organization through the beauty of the horses themselves.
Another function that the Sheriff’s Posse handles is providing security at large events, such as the Mid-State Fair. “We are the eyes and ears for the on-duty deputies. We’re up high and can see around,” explains Lyle. The Sheriff’s Posse patrols the Mid-State Fair back parking lot, the carnival area and the Main Stage. “We have walkie-talkies to report back to dispatch. Sometimes we provide medical assistance and sometimes we aid in the breaking up of fights. We can get the horses in close to separate crowds.”
Girl experiences the “magic” of the horse during Sheriff’s Family Day. Photo: Sharon Jantzen
Finally, the Sheriff’s Posse is involved in educational events for the public. They put on Jr. Ranger summer camps, have a safety day and talk with kids about what they do. I recently came across Lyle and a few of his fellow Posse members and their horses during the Sheriff’s Family Day held in the back field at Madonna Inn.
Preparing for SLO Sheriff’s Posse Events
On-going mounted and dismounted training events take place throughout the year. Each Posse volunteer is certified in First-Aid, and horse and rider pairs have been evaluated through a Mounted Performance Test.
One must be ready at any time to be called into action. This means that the department-issued saddle bags are ready with required equipment: First-Aid kit, map, compass, food and water. “We get the call and we go!” exclaimed Lyle. Many Posse members have an agreement with their employer that allows them to take off of work when called into service.
Over-coming sensory issues is a main focus of the mounted training sessions. Horses get used to items they will be coming across in the service and parade environments; wooden bridges, strollers with balloons, orange cones and flares are just a few of the things that the horses are desensitized to. Horse and rider pairs work on focused activities like: mounted gate opening, taking off jackets without a reaction, dragging cones and pulling a stretcher or log off of a trail.
“It can take a long time for a horse to become comfortable with standing for periods of time in a public venue,” Lyle explains. “It also takes a few years for the riders to become used to all of this.”
All Volunteer Posse
Sheriff’s Posse Serving the Community. Photo: Natalie Thomas
“We supply just about everything,” says Lyle. All the horses are owner/volunteer owned, along with the equipment used to transport the horses – i.e. a reliable truck and trailer. In addition, each Posse member purchases his or her own uniform, tack, saddle pads and pays for the horse shoes and vet care, just like any horse owner would.
The steps to becoming a member of the Sheriff’s Posse unit result in trained and approved volunteers. Each volunteer goes through several in-depth steps before being accepted into the unit. There is a preliminary background check, three informational/training meetings, a riding proficiency test that must be passed and, finally, a full background check is completed before officially being sworn in as a member.
Looking for New Recruits
If you are a local rider and are inspired to give back to the community in a variety of positive and often lifesaving ways, the SLO Sheriff’s Posse invites you to check out Posse activities. They are always looking for new recruits. Most Posse members are sold on the experience from the beginning. Lyle has these parting words to share, “I thoroughly enjoy the team members, giving back to the community and doing something really different.”
Cover Photo: Natalie Thomas
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How travellers are avoiding the high cost of catching the train to Sydney Airport
By Hugo Dubler
January 6, 2018 — 8.09pm
Travellers are getting creative to find cheaper, alternate ways to get to and from Sydney Airport and avoid being slugged the access fee for using the train at the domestic and international terminals.
The latest accounts filed with the corporate regulator for the private operator of the four stations on the nine-kilometre Airport Line tunnel show it paid the government almost $87 million in a "train service fee" in the year to June.
Polish tourists Tom and Andrew walking from Wolli Creek station to Sydney Airport. Credit:Louise Kennerley
Commuters must pay $13.80 to use the two Airport Link stations on top of their original journey cost. When Polish tourists Tom and Andrew saw that their trip to the international airport on bus and train would cost them more than $36 from Bondi they started looking at other options.
"We checked Uber but from our location, the price was one thing and the time, at this time of the day, it would be about one hour," said Tom.
By walking to the airport from nearby Wolli Creek, Tom and Andrew made savings of over $27. Credit:Louise Kennerley
So instead of paying the gate fee to get a train to the international airport, the men decided they would instead catch a train to Wolli Creek and walk the two kilometres to the international terminal.
And while it made for interesting scenes as they wheeled their luggage along the banks of the Cooks River, past people practising tai chi in the park, the two of them made savings of over $27.
Canadian tourist David opted for a less strenuous option and took advice from a friend and caught a bus.
By catching a train from where he was staying in Redfern to Banksia and getting the 400 bus into the airport David made savings of $13.55.
Canadian David waiting for the bus to Sydney Airport at Banksia train station. Credit:Louise Kennerley
"Most of my friends are telling me that it is too expensive for the train, [they're] telling me this is the best way," he said.
"It's two things: save money and the challenge ... if I can save half of the costs then why not?"
Kodai Yasui, Shuia Kamo, Taichi Matsui and Ugyen Tashi would rather order an Uber outside Wolli Creek Station than catch the train to Sydney Airport. Credit:Louise Kennerley
Commuting from Wollongong to the airport, 22-year-old Taichi Matsui and three friends found a much more tech-savvy way to save costs.
Instead of paying almost $90 they decided to catch the train to Wolli Creek and catch an Uber for the remaining journey.
Marnie from the Blue Mountains decides to walk from the Sydney domestic airport to Mascot train station. Credit:Louise Kennerley
This would bring their total journey to around $55, making savings of close to $35 between the four of them.
Not only are commuters making savings going to the airport, but also those coming back to Sydney.
Marnie, who's originally from Adelaide but now living in the Blue Mountains, was coming back from Adelaide and decided walking to Mascot station was the better option to avoid the gate charges.
"It probably took me like 20 minutes, but I had to stop because of my bags. It was tiring, but I did it on the way there, so it wasn't too bad," she said.
"When I go home back to Adelaide I'll always walk. It doesn't matter where I'm going, I'll always walk."
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Hall, Johansson and Schneider out against Predators
Jan 25, 2018 | 6:00PM
Devils part ways with GM Ray Shero
Palmieri earns second-straight All-Star nod
Devils' Taylor Hall traded to Arizona Coyotes
Taylor Hall to sit out second straight game
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Hughes scores first career NHL goal
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Oct 19, 2019 | 11:31AM
Hughes records first career NHL point vs. Rangers
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WATCH: Devils' Jack Hughes talks start of NHL career
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Kaapo Kakko scores another highlight-reel goal
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Apr 15, 2019 | 2:58PM
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New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall skates during warmup against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. (Perry Nelson/USA TODAY Sports)
The Devils will be without Taylor Hall (hand), Marcus Johansson (concussion) and Cory Schneider (illness) against the Predators on Thursday, via Amanda Stein of the Devils. Brian Boyle (personal) is expected to play after missing the morning skate.
Hall leads the Devils in goals (17), assists (31) and points (48) as well as shots (156) this season. In 29 games, Johansson has 14 points with 5 goals and 9 assists. In 35 starts for Schneider this season, the goaltender has 17 wins and a .913 save percentage.
Ken Appleby, 22, will make his first NHL start in goal against the Predators and Mackenzie Blackwood will be his backup. Appleby has played 65 minutes across two contests this season and has yet to allow a goal in 28 shots against.
Kevin Rooney, 24, has been called up to start. He's pointless in his four career NHL games, all last season. He has 9 goals and 9 assists in 41 games played for the Devils AHL affiliate this season.
The Devils play the Predators on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
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New Jersey names assistant Tom Fitzgerald its interim GM
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 13 | 12:17AM
Dec 3, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils GM Ray Shero speaks to the media prior to a game between the New Jersey Devils and the Vegas Golden Knights at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
A little over one month after the Devils' Dec. 3 firing of head coach John Hynes, they announced their next change in leadership with general manager Ray Shero out.
On Sunday afternoon, the Devils announced that they parted ways with Shero, who was the organization's GM since the start of the 2015-16 season.
The Devils released the following statement on the front office change, which applies the interim tag to assistant general manager Tom Fitzgerald.
Devils' Kyle Palmieri earns second-straight All-Star nod
NJ native named NHL All-Star again
By Nick Wojton | Dec 30, 2019 | 3:44PM
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Devils forward Kyle Palmieri was named to his second-straight NHL All-Star game on Monday.
The 28-year-old leads the Devils with 27 points and 15 goals this season. Nico Hischier is currently second on the Devils with 22 points.
Palmieri participated in last season's All-Star festivities after he replaced then-teammate Taylor Hall on the Metropolitan Division roster.
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Hall had 208 points in 211 games with New Jersey
Nov 22, 2019; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Taylor Hall (9) skates with the puck against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the third period at PPG PAINTS Arena. Pittsburgh won 4-1. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports (Charles LeClaire)
After being scratched in each of the last two games, Taylor Hall was traded by the Devils to the Arizona Coyotes, the team announced on Monday.
In return, the Devils received a pair of draft picks, including Arizona's first-rounder in 2020, along with defenseman Kevin Bahl and forwards Nick Merkley and Nate Schnarr.
Hall was expected to be a leader on and off the ice for the Devils, who brought in P.K. Subban in the offseason along with No. 1 overall draft pick Jack Hughes.
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Devils' Taylor Hall to sit out second straight game
Winger is in fourth season with Devils
Dec 2, 2019; Buffalo, NY, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Taylor Hall (9) takes a shot on goal during the third period against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports (Timothy T. Ludwig)
After being held out of Friday night's game in Colorado, Taylor Hall is once again out of the lineup as the Devils prepare to take on the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday, according to NHL reporter John Shannon.
Hall skated in warmups on Friday, but was a healthy scratch for what the Devils termed as "precautionary reasons."
Rumors have swirled over the past week that New Jersey was shopping the 28-year-old, and those rumors intensified after he was taken out of the lineup against the Avalanche.
Devils fire John Hynes, Alain Nasreddine to take over as interim head coach
150-159-18 record in four-plus years in New Jersey
By Coby Green | Dec 3, 2019 | 4:38PM
Oct 14, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils head coach John Hynes on the bench during the third period of their game against the Florida Panthers at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The Devils announced Tuesday afternoon that they have relieved John Hynes of his head coaching duties and will elevate Alain Nasreddine to interim head coach.
Hynes had been the head coach of the Devils since 2015 and held a 150-159-18 record during his four-plus seasons with the team.
This season, the Devils have gone 9-13-4 with 22 and sit at the bottom of the eastern conference. Despite having the No. 1 pick in 2017 and 2019--which turned into Nico Hischier and Jack Hughes-- and the additions of Taylor Hall and P.K. Subban, the Devils haven't progressed much since Hynes took the reins.
WATCH: Devils' Jack Hughes scores first career NHL goal
18-year-old was first overall pick in 2019 Draft
A game after recording his first career NHL point, Jack Hughes lit the lamp for the first time to give the Devils a 1-0 lead over the Vancouver Canucks.
With the Devils on the power-play, Taylor Hall skated along the left wing half-board, before picking out Hughes with a beautiful cross-ice pass. Hughes made no mistake and rifled it past Thatcher Demko for the goal.
Devils sign center Nico Hischier to seven-year contract extension at $7.25 million AAV
Swiss native was first overall pick in 2017
Oct 12, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) controls the puck during the first period against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports (Bob DeChiara)
The Devils locked up a key piece of both their present and their future on Friday, signing center Nico Hischier to a seven-year contract extension, worth an average annual value of $7.25 million. The contract is set to begin in the 2020-2021 season.
Hischier, 20, was the first overall pick in the 2017 draft and scored 99 points (37 goals, 62 assists) in his first two NHL seasons. In six games this season, the Swiss native has collected a pair of assists.
The move futher solidifies the core of the Devils, who added star defenseman P.K. Subban in the offseason a day after drafting Jack Hughes No. 1 overall. They came into the season as one of the more talked about teams in the league, but began the season 0-4-2 before collecting their first win of the season over the Rangers on Thursday.
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Devils' Jack Hughes records first career NHL point in first head-to-head matchup with Rangers' Kaapo Kakko
Thursday was the first matchup of the top two picks
By Alex Smith | Oct 17, 2019 | 9:32PM
Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko went head-to-head on Thursday night for the first time since the duo was selected first and second, respectively, in this year's NHL Draft.
With the Devils already up 2-1 in the second period, Hughes recorded his first NHL point. with under eight minutes to play in the period, Matt Tennyson wristed a shot from the point. The shot deflected off of Hughes' stick, then bounced off Miles Wood's backside and into net past Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev.
Wood was credited with the goal, but Hughes picked up his first career NHL point on the play.
Examining the big moves the Devils, Islanders, and Rangers made this offseason
The local teams could be three of the most interesting in the Eastern Conference this season
By Phil Akre | Jul 30, 2019 | 1:00PM
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Disappointing seasons from the Rangers and Devils prompted impressive offseason work from both organizations. It certainly helped that both teams had the top two picks in the NHL Draft -- selections that netted potentially franchise-altering talents in Kappo Kakko and Jack Hughes, respectively.
While they didn't have a high draft pick or significant free agent signing, the Islanders made a handful of moves, mainly in the form of re-signings. For the most part, their roster enters 2019-20 relatively unchanged.
Taking all of this into consideration, here's a closer look at the biggest moves each organization made...
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The No. 1 overall talks about what he's looking to get out of developmental camp
Jack Hughes, the Devils first overall draft pick, donned the red and white jersey for the first time on Tuesday when he took the ice for the start of the team's developmental camp.
"Yeah, it was good to get out here. Good little skate to get our feet under us. It was good to get out there with the jersey for the first time."
While Hughes admitted the hype has gone down and he's had time to relax by the pool, he's ready to start soaking in all the information his new coaches will be throwing at him as he gets acclimated to his new team.
WATCH: Devils first overall pick, Jack Hughes, talks start of NHL career
The 18-year-old dishes on reaching his dream and what lies ahead
Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils' first-round pick and first overall pick of the NHL Draft, was officially introduced as a Devil on Tuesday at the Prudential Center in Newark where he unveiled he will be wearing No. 86.
The 18-year-old joined SNY's Dan Graca for a few minutes to discuss what it was like being the No. 1 pick and what lies ahead for his NHL career, plus much more.
"It's been a whirlwind," he said. "I'm really excited to be a Devil."
Newest Devil P.K. Subban optimistic in Jack Hughes, New Jersey
Devils acquire Subban in trade with Preds
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban celebrates after a Predators goal against the Buffalo Sabres during the first period at KeyBank Center. (Timothy T. Ludwig/USA TODAY Sports)
P.K. Subban is optimistic in his new team and what No. 1 pick Jack Hughes brings to the Devils.
A day after New Jersey acquired Subban in a trade with the Nashville Predators, Subban said he is looking forward to joining a team with playoff potential.
"My main objective is to come in and be a good mentor for the young guys, but I'm coming to win," Subban told the New York Post's Mollie Walker. "I'm not coming for participation, I want a Stanley Cup ring and I want to do that in New Jersey."
NJ gave up two players and two picks in the deal
Apr 22, 2019; Dallas, TX, USA; Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) in action during the game between the Stars and the Predators in game six of the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports (Jerome Miron)
The Devils continue to load up on talent.
One day after selecting Jack Hughes first overall in the NHL Draft, the Devils acquired defenseman P.K. Subban in a trade with the Nasvhille Predators, according to Pierre LeBrun of TSN.
The Devils will send defensemen Jeremy Davis and Steven Santini, plus a 2019 second-round pick and 2020 second-round pick to Nashville.
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Get to know Devils NHL Draft pick C Jack Hughes
Devils select Hughes first overall
By Phil Akre | Jun 21, 2019 | 8:13PM
The Devils selected center Jack Hughes with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft on Friday.
He'll likely become the first-ever player to make the jump straight from the USA Hockey National Team Development Program to the NHL.
Here are six facts to know about the 18-year-old Hughes.
Devils or Rangers? NHL Draft prospect Jack Hughes wants to go No. 1
Hughes and Kaapo Kakko will likely be the top two picks in the draft
Jun 22, 2018; Dallas, TX, USA; A general view of the draft floor and stage before the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft at American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports (Jerome Miron)
It wouldn't have mattered which team had the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft. Jack Hughes just wants to be the first player taken.
"You always dream of being No. 1," Hughes told reporters Friday at the NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo. "You don't dream of being two, three or four when you're a young kid."
But the 18-year-old American center isn't about to ruffle any feathers. Asked whether he'd look better in red or blue, with the Devils and Rangers holding the top two picks in the NHL Draft, Hughes said, "I think I'd look good in either."
Devils own the No. 1 pick with the Rangers holding the No. 2 pick
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It was a rough season for the NHL's Hudson River Rivalry.
The Devils took a huge step back after making the playoffs in 2017-18, their 72 points the third-fewest in the league, while the Rangers were only six points better as they embarked on their first full season of their rebuild.
But next month's NHL Draft represents an opportunity for both teams to add a potential game-changing prospect, as the Devils hold the No. 1 pick with the Rangers picking right after at No. 2. American center Jack Hughes and Finnish wing Kaapo Kakko should be the top-two picks in some order, with Hughes long pegged as the top prospect in this draft class.
How many players in the Stanley Cup Final have New York connections?
Several familiar faces have a chance to win the Cup this year
By Tom Krosnowski | May 27, 2019 | 10:00AM
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Although no New York-area teams made it to the Stanley Cup Final this year, the Empire State will still have a large impact on hockey's grandest stage. Twelve players from the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues have connections with the New York metro area in some way, so local fans still have plenty of reasons to tune in.
The Bruins have one of the largest collections of American-born hockey players of any team in the NHL. Not surprisingly, several of them have called New York home for at least part of their careers.
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Devils Draft Watch: Kaapo Kakko thinks he can be the No. 1 pick
Jack Hughes and Kakko are the top two players in the 2019 draft class
Finnish prospect Kaapo Kakko (left) posing with teammate Santeri Virtanen after winning the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. (Kaapo Kakko on Instagram/@kaapokakko)
Time will tell whether the Devils thinking highly enough of Kaapo Kakko to take him over long-presumed No. 1 NHL Draft pick Jack Hughes, but Kakko's emergence over the last year has at least made it a debate.
And Kakko thinks it can happen, especially as he dominates in the IIHF World Championship.
"This is a big thing for me for the draft," Kakko told NHL.com through a translator. "I think I can be the first (pick)."
Devils Draft Watch: Kaapo Kakko scores another highlight-reel goal
Kakko has six goals in four games at IIHF World Championship
The NHL Draft gets more interesting by the day.
Because the more Kaapo Kakko plays in the IIHF World Championship, the more he impresses, adding intrigue to the Devils' decision on whom to select first overall.
The Finnish wing, who will go to the Rangers at No. 2 if the Devils take American center Jack Hughes at No. 1, scored a beauty of a goal on Thursday for his sixth goal of the tournament.
Possible Devils, Rangers draft pick Kaapo Kakko continues to dominate World Championship
Kakko scores hat trick in second game after scoring twice in opener
The tournament is only two days old, but Kaapo Kakko is already the talk of the IIHF World Championship.
The 18-year-old Finnish wing scored a hat trick Saturday in Finland's 4-2 win over Slovakia, giving him five goals after he scored two in the team's opener on Friday.
Kakko's first of the game was a long one-timer. He showed brilliant hands on his second goal before adding an empty-netter.
NHL Draft: Rangers, Devils have 'eyes' on Finland's Kaapo Kakko at IIHF Worlds
The two teams both had tweets in reference to Kakko's goal on Friday
It appears as if there could be a good ol' New York vs. New Jersey battle for Finnish hockey phenom Kaapo Kakko.
Many expect the 18-year-old forward to go second overall to the Rangers, but perhaps it is too early to count out the Devils just yet.
Kakko scored an impressive goal at the IIHF Worlds on Friday, grabbing the puck on a breakaway while a defender attempted to trip him from behind. Kakko escaped free of the defender's stick while also deking out the goalie to sneak the puck past him.
When the clip of the goal surfaced on Twitter, the Rangers tweeted out the eyeball emoji while the Devils tweeted out a double eyes emoji along with a gif of the goal five minutes later.
Devils Draft Watch: Jack Hughes, Kaapo Kakko top final NHL Central Scouting rankings
Hughes and Kakko are expected to be the top two selections in this year's NHL Draft
The probable top two picks in the 2019 NHL Draft have topped NHL Central Scouting's final rankings lists, which were released Monday.
American center Jack Hughes is ranked No. 1 on Central Scouting's list of North American skaters, while Finnish wing Kaapo Kakko is ranked No. 1 on its list of International skaters.
The Devils drew the No. 1 pick in the June draft during last week's NHL Draft Lottery, while the Rangers came away with the No. 2 pick. Hughes has long been considered the consensus No. 1 selection, but there's been recent talk of Kakko at least closing the gap on Hughes as far as who the top prospect is in this year's draft class after a strong season in the Finnish Liiga.
Game of Thrones predictions and Season 8 theories from NY athletes
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This is New Jersey's second first overall pick in the last three years
(David Banks)
The 2019 NHL Draft lottery took place on Tuesday night, and it was the New Jersey Devils' card that flipped to lock in the No. 1 pick.
This is the second time in the last three years the Devils were awarded the top pick, as they landed it in 2017 as well. They spent it on Nico Hischier, who has collected 99 points over two years thus far.
After hearing the announcement, Devils GM Ray Shero couldn't be happier as he said "we need talent." That statement comes after a dismal Devils season where they finished last in the Eastern Conference with a 31-41-10 record.
Devils snap two-game losing skid
New York Rangers defenseman Brady Skjei and New Jersey Devils right wing Drew Stafford battle for the puck during the first period at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
The Devils snapped their two-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the New York Rangers on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
First period:
3:54 NJD Miles Wood; Assists: Connor Carrick, Mirco Mueller
14:34 NJD Travis Zajac (power play); Assists: Damon Severson, Nico Hischier
18:40 NYR Brett Howden; Assists: Connor Brickley, Neal Pionk
Devils host Rangers in Newark at 7 p.m. as rivals play out string
First time both teams have missed playoffs in same season since Devils' 1982-83 relocation
Mar 9, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers center Filip Chytil (72) plays the puck in front of New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during the third period at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils 4-2. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
This spring marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest non-Stanley Cup Finals playoff series in history -- the New York Rangers' epic seven-game Eastern Conference finals win over the New Jersey Devils. The Rangers, on their way to their first championship since 1940 that season, trailed three games to two before winning Game 6 when Mark Messier backed up his victory guarantee with a natural third-period hat trick and winning Game 7 on Stephane Matteau's goal in the second overtime.
The tri-state rivals will not commemorate the anniversary with a similarly high-stakes meeting this spring. Instead, the Rangers and Devils will each be looking to take solace in playing out the string in inspired fashion Monday night, when they complete their season series as New Jersey hosts New York in Newark.
Stafford and Anderson scored for New Jersey
Mar 30, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) shoots the puck at St. Louis Blues goaltender Jake Allen (34) in front of defenseman Jay Bouwmeester (19) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports (Vincent Carchietta)
The Devils kept this one close, but the Blues pulled out the overtime win in a 3-2 loss for New Jersey at The Rock on Saturday night. >> Read More
15:09 STL Robert Thomas; Assists: Pat Maroon, Tyler Bozak
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MacKenzie Blackwood still had 32 saves for the Devils
Mar 29, 2019; Detroit, MI, USA; New Jersey Devils right wing Joey Anderson (49) and Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) battle for the puck in front of goaltender Jimmy Howard (35) in the third period at Little Caesars Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports (Rick Osentoski)
The Devils couldn't get anything past the Red Wings goaltenders in a 4-0 shutout loss on the road Friday night. >> Read More
13:38 DET Danny DeKeyser; Assists: Dylan Larkin, Tyler Bertuzzi
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Zacha, Wood score in third period for Devils
Buffalo Sabres center Jack Eichel skates with the puck while being defended by New Jersey Devils center Blake Coleman during the first period at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
The Devils scored twice in the third period to beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
1:55 NJD Blake Coleman (power play); Assists: Nico Hischier, Travis Zajac
7:23 BUF Sam Reinhart; Assist: Rasmus Dahlin
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MacKenzie Blackwood notched 23 saves in the win
A shootout was needed to decide who took the win in the Devils-Coyotes matchup on Saturday afternoon, and New Jersey came away with the victory, 2-1, on their home ice. >> Box score
2:31 PHX Oliver Ekman-Larsson; Assists: Alex Galchenyuk, Conor Garland
17:01 NJD Drew Stafford; Assists: Pavel Zacha, Miles Wood
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New Jersey has lost 10 of its last 12 games
Mar 21, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask (40) makes a save on New Jersey Devils center Blake Coleman (20) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The injury-riddled Devils lost their third straight game Thursday night, falling 5-1 to the Bruins in Newark. New Jersey has lost 10 of its last 12 games. Cory Schneider stopped 22 of 26 shot. >> Box score
18:34 BOS Patrice Bergeron; Assists: David Pastrnak; Brad Marchand
Caps score three unanswered goals in second period
Mar 19, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Washington Capitals players celebrate a goal against the New Jersey Devils during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
Devils backup goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood struggled in net during the second period, allowing three unanswered goals as New Jersey fell to the Washington Capitals, 4-1. >> Box score
2:52 WAS Andre Burakovsky; Assists: Nic Dowd, Brett Connolly
19:59 NJD Kenny Agostino
New Jersey went 2-4 on its recent road trip
Mar 17, 2019; Denver, CO, USA; New Jersey Devils center Travis Zajac (19) defends as Colorado Avalanche defenseman Patrik Nemeth (12) passes the puck in the third period at the Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports (Isaiah J. Downing)
The Washington Capitals conclude a four-game road stretch when they visit the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
New Jersey (27-37-9) has been eliminated from playoff contention and is returning from a six-game road trip to open a four-game homestand.
The Devils went 2-4 on the trip, which ended with a 3-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.
Cory Schneider makes 33 saves but Devils shut out by Avalanche, 3-0
New Jersey has dropped seven of last nine
Despite Cory Schneider playing well in goal, the Devils could not get anything going offensively and fell to the Avalanche 3-0 on Sunday. >> Box score
Damon Severson scores in seventh round of shootout to win it
Mar 15, 2019; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; New Jersey Devils defenseman Steven Santini (16) defends against Vancouver Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher (51) during the second period at Rogers Arena. Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports (Anne-Marie Sorvin)
The Devils erased a two-goal deficit to come back and defeat the Canucks in a shootout, 3-2, Friday night in Vancouver. The injury-riddled Devils have won consecutive games for the first time in a month. Damon Severson ended the game in the seventh round of the shootout. MacKenzie Blackwood made 25 saves. >> Box score
3:18 VAN Elias Pettersson (Power Play;) Assists: Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat
Tags: Damon Severson, Stefan Noesen, Vancouver Canucks
Devils take down Connor McDavid, Oilers in 6-3 win on the road
A slew of Devils notched goals in this one
(Perry Nelson)
The Devils took care of business on the road, defeating the Oilers in their barn, 6-3, on Wednesday night. >> Box score
7:34 NJD Kenny Agostino; Assists: Andy Greene, Kevin Rooney
9:37 EDM Sam Gagner; Assists: Jujhar Khaira, Matt Benning
14:22 EDM Alex Chiasson (Power Play); Assists: Connor McDavid, Oscar Klefbom
19:41 NJD Travis Zajac (Power Play); Assists: Damon Severson
New Jersey allowed four unanswered goals to close the game
Mar 9, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers right wing Jesper Fast (17) defends as a puck shot by New York defenseman Libor Hajek (not pictured) gets by New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during the third period at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils 4-2. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
The Devils scored the first two goals of the game, but that's all they could muster in a 4-2 loss to the Rangers at the Garden on Saturday night. >> Box score
16:26 NJD Damon Severson; Assists: Kenny Agostino, Michael McLeod
19:49 NJD Blake Coleman (Power Play); Assists: Will Butcher, Travis Zajac
Fifth straight loss for New Jersey
The Devils' struggles continued Friday night as they were shut out by the Capitals in D.C., 3-0. New Jersey has lost five straight and has scored just one goal in its last three games. MacKenzie Blackwood made 33 saves. >> Box Score
2:40 WSH Andre Burakovsky; Assists: Michal Kempny, Travis Boyd
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Zajac the lone Devil to score for New Jersey
Mar 5, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets left wing Artemi Panarin (9) scores the game winning goal against New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during shootout at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
It was a solid defensive game for both teams, but the Devils came out on the losing end in a shootout to the visiting Blue Jackets, 2-1, at The Rock on Tuesday night. >> Box Score
0:52 CBJ Cam Atkinson; Assists: Davis Savard, Markus Nutivaara
Tags: Columbus Blue Jackets
Mar 2, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; New Jersey Devils defenseman Sami Vatanen (45) and Boston Bruins center Danton Heinen (43) battle in front of the goal during the second period at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports (Bob DeChiara)
BOSTON (AP) Brad Marchand scored a power-play goal early in the opening period and Tuukka Rask made it stand up with 20 saves for his third shutout of the season, lifting the surging Boston Bruins to a 1-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.
The victory improved the Bruins' streak of at least one point in every game to 16 straight (12-0-4) and they haven't lost in regulation since a 3-2 setback to the New York Rangers on Jan. 19. It's their longest since 18 games (14-0-4) last season.
Rask is 14-0-3 in his last 17 starts.
Severson, Bratt, and Rooney scored for New Jersey
Mar 1, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Philadelphia Flyers center Claude Giroux (28) battles with New Jersey Devils left wing Kenny Agostino (17) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Catalina Fragoso-USA TODAY Sports (Catalina Fragoso)
New Jersey-bred James van Riemsdyk wasn't friendly to his hometown team, as he led the Flyers in a 6-3 Devils loss on Friday night. >> Box score
12:53 PHI James van Riemsdyk (Power Play); Assists: Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek
14:16 PHI James van Riemsdyk; Assists: Ryan Hartman
Tags: Philadelphia Flyers
Mackenzie Blackwood notched 33 saves for New Jersey
Feb 27, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Calgary Flames center Mark Jankowski (77) skates with the puck against New Jersey Devils defenseman Sami Vatanen (45) during the third period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The Devils found themselves on the losing side of a low-scoring game at The Rock in a 2-1 loss to the Flames on Wednedsay night. >> Box score
1:07 CAL Elias Lindholm (Power Play); Assists: Matthew Tkachuk, Johnny Gaudreau
13:52 CAL Mark Giordano; Assists: Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan
16:47 NJD Kevin Rooney (Short Handed)
Tags: Calgary Flames
Bastian, Gabriel score for New Jersey
New Jersey Devils right wing Nathan Bastian celebrates his first NHL goal during the first period of their game against the Montreal Canadiens at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
Nathan Bastian scored his first-career goal as the Devils beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
12:35 NJD Nathan Bastian; Assists: Connor Carrick, Egor Yakovlev
Tags: Montreal Canadiens
Marcus Johansson, dealt by Devils, now teammates with man who concussed him last year
Devils trade Johansson and Keith Kinkaid before NHL trade deadline
By Justin Tasch | Feb 25, 2019 | 7:05PM
Nov 23, 2018; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Marcus Johansson (90) carries the puck during the overtime against the New York Islanders at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports (Vincent Carchietta)
It went down to the wire Monday afternoon before the NHL trade deadline, but the Devils did trade pending unrestricted free agent Marcus Johansson to the Bruins in exchange for a 2019 second-round pick and a 2020 fourth-round pick.
Earlier Monday, the Devils dealt goalie Keith Kinkaid to Columbus for a 2022 fifth-round pick.
Johansson is now teammates with Brad Marchand, who concussed Johansson last year and whom Johansson ripped for the vicious elbow which caused Johansson's second concussion of the 2017-18 season. Johansson was injured on Jan. 23 last year and didn't return until Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs on April 16.
Tags: Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets, Keith Kinkaid, Marcus Johansson
Ranking the 10 best New York sports movies of all time
By Danny Abriano | Feb 24, 2019 | 11:00AM
Some of the best movies ever -- including some of the best sports movies ever -- have been filmed in and/or take place in New York. Here is our ranking of the 10 best...
10. Above The Rim (1994)
Devils dig early hole in 5-2 loss to Rangers
Chris Kreider registers two points en route to Blueshirts victory
Feb 23, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) plays the puck against New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad (93) during the first period at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports (Brad Penner)
The Rangers and Devils are both scrapping at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division but it was the Blueshirts who came out on top in a 5-2 win over the Devils. Jimmy Vesey, Ryan Strome and Chris Kreider scored three unanswered goals in the first period as the Devils fall for the second time in their last five games. >> Box score
4:48 NYR Jimmy Vesey; Assists: Pavel Buchnevich, Tony DeAngelo
8:54 NYR Ryan Strome (Power Play); Assists: Chris Kreider, Pavel Buchnevich
14:23 NYR Chris Kreider; Assists: Mika Zibanejad, Jimmy Vesey
Devils visit Rangers at 1 p.m. as trade deadline looms
Both teams enter game with trade rumors swirling
While the Rangers elected to play players who are expected to be dealt, the Devils held out Marcus Johansson and veteran defenseman Ben Lovejoy on Thursday ahead of any possible trades. Both players will make the trip to New York but are expected to be scratched again.
Without those two veterans, the Devils won for the third time in four games by getting goals from Travis Zajac, Steven Santini, Kurtis Gabriel and Miles Wood in a 4-0 home win over the Ottawa Senators.
"This time of year's never easy, and this is sort of the consequence of not having a good year to this point," said Devils goaltender Cory Schneider. Read More
Cory Schneider collects 30 saves to blank Senators in Devils' 4-0 win
New Jersey had four different scorers tonight
Feb 21, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; The New Jersey Devils celebrate their 4-0 win over the Ottawa Senators at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
While Cory Schneider was a brick wall in net, the Devils ran up four goals against the Senators for a big win at home on Thursday night. >> Read More
11:45 NJD Travis Zajac; Assists: Miles Wood, Will Butcher
14:34 NJD Steven Santini; Assists: Jesper Bratt, Will Butcher
Tags: Ottawa Senators
WATCH: Seinfeld actor returns as Devils superfan David Puddy
Patrick Warburton brings out the face paint for Devils' '90s Night'
By John Healy | Feb 19, 2019 | 10:51PM
Gotta support the team.
The New Jersey Devils hosted a "90s Night" on Tuesday and perhaps the franchises most famous fan from the decade made an appearance.
Patrick Warburton reprised his role as David Puddy from "Seinfeld" at the Prudential Center during the ceremonial puck drop before the game against the Penguins.
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Theatregoers will love this winter's line up of spectacular shows and performances in Sydney. This year, listings boards feature some of the best shows in Sydney, with exciting and sometimes eclectic special events. Here, we offer an idea of the art events Sydney offers this season and some suggestions for show visitors to enjoy the best theatres in Sydney.
1. Archibald Exhibition
Among the best exhibitions in Sydney, the prestigious Archibald has the latest portraits of sporting heroes, politicians, celebrities and journalists, ranging from the shrewd to the quirky – and fine detail to thick impasto. See the lucrative Archibald Prize winner, by Mitch Cairns, depicting Agatha Gothe-Snape as a contemplative, musing and perhaps resistive subject. While there, don’t miss the winning Packing Room Prize portrait of Lisa Wilkinson, painted by Peter Smeeth. Currently on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, finalists' paintings go on tour from October 27th.
2. My Fair Lady
Musicals in Sydney in August include a new version of the 1956 classic production My Fair Lady. On tour from Thursday 24th at the Capitol, one of the best theatres in Sydney, this great musical follows the original plot, scenery and costumes. A warm, vivid and witty story on a Cinderella theme, the three-hour performance features glorious music and excellent dancing. Directed by Julie Andrews herself, it promises to become one of the best shows in Sydney.
3. The Show Goes On at the Sydney Opera House
Fans of the world’s greatest divas will love The Show Goes On, on at the Opera House from 25th August to 10th September. Featuring the talented singing of Bernadette Robinson, this performance brings together a rich mixture of star power, glamour and even drama in astonishingly accurate interpretations of Shirley Bassey, Maria Callas, Edith Piaf and Barbara Streisand numbers.
4. Archibald High Tea & Cultural Getaway (Until the end of August)
To celebrate the Archibald Exhibition, the Art Gallery of NSW and Sofitel Sydney Wentworth on Phillip Street (near some of the best museums in Sydney) have teamed up to create art-inspired offers including an accommodation package and unique high tea until the end of August. One of the ultimate indulgences, afternoon tea in the Soirée Bar includes freshly baked scones and an unusual twist - on an art theme, of course - as well as tickets for the Archibald, one of the best exhibitions in Sydney.
5. My Fair Lady High Tea & Cultural Getaway
Combine a musical themed high tea with an outing to see the iconic production of My Fair Lady at the Capitol in Sydney. Delight in five-star accommodation in the heart of the city, just a short drive from the Capitol and some of the best museums in Sydney. Guests staying at the Sofitel from 1st September until 15th October 2017 can enjoy a special accommodation offer including musical themed cocktails and canapés for two in the vibrant Soiree Bar, along with buffet breakfast with a lush garden outlook in Garden Court Restaurant.
Enjoy Sydney’s art events whilst you delight in the comfort of luxury at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth.
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East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which serves Sudbury, 'requires improvement'
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Published: 14:47, 31 July 2019
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East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which operates in Sudbury, still ‘requires improvement’, a review has found.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the service did not have enough staff, breached training regulations, recorded poor response times and had not adequately responded to some staff complaints.
A sobering report released on Wednesday noted improvements in some areas of service, but saw the trust maintain the same overall rating of ‘requires improvement’ recorded in 2016.
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The report stated: “The rating for well-led had declined from requires improvement to inadequate.
“There continued to be a mixed culture at the trust and not all staff felt that concerns were listened to. There was instability within the senior leadership team with some key leaders in interim positions.”
The CQC completed the snap inspection from April 10 to May 2.
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The service was recognised as ‘outstanding’ for the care it provided and ‘good’ for being responsive.
However, it ‘requires improvement’ in both the safe and effective categories.
The report added: “The services still did not have enough staff to care for patients and keep them safe despite a focus on recruitment and retention. Not all staff consistently received mandatory training.
“People continued to wait too long for services and response times although improved, continued to be worse than the England average.”
The trust released a positive statement this morning in response to the report, which praised the work of staff and set out four areas for the board to focus on.
These include creating a stable leadership team including recruiting a permanent chairman and chief executive, embedding governance and risk processes across the trust, and further improving staff engagement and the trust culture.
Dorothy Hosein was installed as interim chief executive in November 2018, a move the CQC said helped ‘the trust strategy to drive improvements’.
She said: “I am delighted this report recognises the outstanding care we deliver. I am pleased inspectors noted the positive changes underway. Over the coming months my commitment is to ensure that our patients and staff really feel the impact of these improvements.”
Sam Older regional organiser of trade union Unison, said: "Unison knows how hard the job is for our members and it is a credit to the staff that they remain overwhelmingly dedicated to providing the best care they can.
"Since the inspection in April there have been a number of changes within the senior leadership team and Unison would urge these new leaders to listen to their staff, to lead well and improve the rating in this section from its current rating of being 'inadaquate'.
"One of the big issues that needs to be addressed is the embedding of proccesses that help support staff welfare.
"Many members are frustrated that the trust has not been able to improve recruitment and retention to have enough staff to provide a safe and responsive service to patients."
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The beauty of snails' pace
University of the Sunshine Coast’s Dr Scott Cummins has a $145,000 grant to study the hypometabolism of snails. Nicholas Falconer
by Kieran Campbell
7th Nov 2011 4:45 PM
SCOTT Cummins will spend the next three years keeping a close eye on these slimy friends of his.
And all that observing may very well help humans live longer in the future.
It is a bold new study of the hypometabolism of snails.
Dr Cummins, a senior lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, received a load of 1000 of the slimy molluscs this week following the announcement of a $145,000 grant for the study.
The molecular biologist will examine how snails slow down their metabolism to put their bodies into a state of dormancy.
By doing that, snails have been known to survive for up to a decade before they reignite their bodies and come to life again.
It is like an eternal sleep that they are able to turn on when they are under severe hardships, like a lack of food or extreme heat.
By discovering how snails do this, Dr Cummins said it could eventually be applied to humans.
"The reason (snails become dormant) is pretty obvious. They go into periods of extreme hardship," Dr Cummins said.
"It's a way of preserving themselves until times become better.
"The way it's done...is a change in their genes and the way they produce proteins."
Dr Cummins said realising how snails modified their genes to hibernate could potentially be used for operations such as tissue transplants in humans.
He said such an application could mean preserving the tissue for longer periods of time, which would increase the success of those operations.
A second major research grant has been awarded to USC's Pro Vice-Chancellor for research Professor Roland De Marco.
Prof De Marco said his component of the research involved using synchrotron radiation techniques to develop innovative fuel cell materials.
SLIMY FACTS ABOUT SNAILS
Molluscs communicate by releasing pheromones.
An 8g garden snail being farmed by producers will eat between 10 and 15g of grain a day.
The slime snails leave is called an extract.
Snails are hermaphrodites and when they mate both are impregnated and produce about 100 eggs.
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Earthbound 4X strategy in a fantasy realm
Cavewars is an empire building game, that has a lot of the staples of 4X. However, dissimilar to most 4X games, this one takes place on Earth, and also, in a setting that has fantasy elements in there. It is a great combination of gameplay and mechanics, all of which create a nice, involving strategy. The offensive and defensive portion of battles in Cavewars seems to have been produced following the ideas of turn based fantasy brawlers. Again, similar to 4X building ideas, in this game too you will battle against enemies of different race, and, in all honesty, some of the races are truly interesting, in terms of the units that they use, in terms of the way there are drawn and animated and so on. It would have been great if the graphics were a little more diverse, given that the game will keep you occupied for long hours. But even, so, with its limited graphical tiles it looks good, and more importantly, it controls and plays well. If you love strategy, download it, and, to go along with its fantastic theme, additionally download Lords of Magic, similar yet more sprawling than Cavewars.
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A great fantasy strategy game
Since I am both a fantasy and strategy game fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. While nothing new in the strategy business, the game provides lots of fun, with brain cracking and strategic planing needed to play it successfully. You and your opponents play on five different levels of underground and to win the game, you have to build and army, research magic, mine resources and think of a combat and defense strategy (much like in Heroes Of Might and Magic III). All of the time you have to be careful and watch just what are the other players doing, for your own good. Each of the different races in the game are very unique and require different planning to win and a lot of details to take care of. The game has very interesting and challenging gameplay, challenging AI, very nice, albeit quite average 3D graphics and music with minimal sound effects, and is a game worthy of every strategy lover, providing you with tons of fun and adventurous time.
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Tip: Bench Pressing vs. Real-Life
Here's why the bench press falls short for athletes, and what to do instead.
by Chris Peil | 01/14/20
You Can't Chest Press More Than Bodyweight
Strength standards for benching are bandied about all the time. According to the internet, you need 1.25 or 1.5 times your bodyweight on the bar to be considered strong.
This is stupid and could be responsible for more injuries than most things in the gym. Why? Because in real-life situations (you know, where we spend the other 23 hours a day), you can't chest press more than bodyweight.
I know what you're thinking: "Everyone in the gym can bench more than their bodyweight after a month or two of serious lifting!" And that's true when they're laying down against a bench in a totally contrived situation. But you can't do it anywhere outside the gym.
Think about it: If you try to push something that's right in front of you, it needs to weigh a lot less than you, or all you'll end up doing is pushing yourself backward. You'll do a standing press-away.
To push away something heavier than you, you'll naturally have to lean over to get more traction against the ground and a better angle for more ground reaction force at your feet. The result? Your shoulder ends up at the angle of an incline press, and as the load gets heavier, the angle will get greater until it's nearly an overhead press angle.
In the video you'll see a 300-pound man with a raw bench press of over 500 pounds. He can't chest press a 265-pound frame when he starts in a standing chest press position – he just pushes himself away. He needs to lean into it and make it an incline press. If the frame was heavier he'd need to lean over even more.
When you press while standing, your back isn't supported and your shoulder blades are moving freely with no interference or support from a bench. So it has very little to do with an incline bench press either, because that help from the bench ain't there, and your shoulder blade stabilizers need to be able to match your pressing power in the real world.
An unsupported, high-incline press is how you press heavy outside the gym, and it has almost NOTHING to do with benching.
Real-World Pressing Strength
If you want to be a strong presser in the real world, train heavy pressing with a Viking press machine or a landmine press. Ideally, you'd cycle the two since the combination of single and double arm, rotational and non-rotational, is a great balance.
If you want to isolate your chest for real-life situations, your best bet is to use dips and push-ups. Those will allow your shoulders to move naturally and train the shoulder blade stabilizers in addition to the pec major.
If you want to do bench presses, or dumbbell and machine chest presses for pec development, be my guest. I'm not your dad and I can't tell you what to do.
Just be aware that for shoulder health and real-world performance, you'll want to use the lifts here. Also realize that bench press standards are silly for those who aren't powerlifters.
Now for those of you who do grappling and think, "I lie down and horizontally press sometimes," there are still better options than benching, machine chest pressing, etc., but that's for another day.
Related: The 6 Most Overrated Exercises EVER
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Chris Peil
Chris Peil is a strength and conditioning specialist who specializes in movement assessment, rehabilitation, prehabilitation, and performance optimization. Chris is also a world silver medallist and former British record holder as a kettlebell lifter.
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New World Jazz Project releases Christmas disc
South Tahoe's New World Jazz Project performs just about every week on the South Shore.
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‘Tis the season for New World Jazz Project’s third album.
“Christmas Time is Here” was recorded by the South Shore group in March and released earlier this month. The album includes takes on Christmas classics such as “Silent Night” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” gets a touch of reggae, while Mel Tormé’s classic “The Christmas Song” gets an extra dose of soul. “Carol of the Bells,” a Russian folk song, is among bandleader Niall McGuinness’ favorite tracks on the disc.
“I decided to do a Christmas album because jazz doesn’t appeal to a lot to of people, but Christmas jazz makes it a little more digestible, it makes it more consumable,” McGuinness said. “Christmas jazz is its own genre and it’s something people can sink their teeth and eardrums in.”
Recording the disc in spring, long before the holidays, gave the formally trained musician and kindergarten teacher the benefit of time to scrutinize the album.
“The luxury of time has afforded me the ability to present a pretty pristine disc,” he said.
The amount of time the band has been together also benefited the album, McGuinness said. New World Jazz Project has played together in various configurations for 12 years.
“We’ve been playing together for a long time,” he said. “We know the tunes. We know each other. We know each other’s musicalities, and to go in the studio and just track live, everybody playing, that gives the performances more soul.”
Current members of the group include McGuinness (saxophone, flute, percussion), Kyle Rothchild (bass), Eric Finkelstein (drums), George Tavoularis (piano) and Eric Middleton (congas and timbales). Former members Tristan Selzler and Garrett Grow each added piano to several tracks on the Christmas disc.
The band plays a “combination of straight-ahead jazz to smooth jazz, soul jazz to latin jazz,” McGuinness said. “We try to cover all the jazz genres, except for Dixieland.”
The group plays at the Fresh Ketch restaurant in South Lake Tahoe every Friday night.
“Christmas Time is Here” is available at Gaia-Licious, Mad About Music, Shirley’s Hair Studio and the Tahoe Christmas Cabin in South Lake Tahoe, as well as at the group’s performances. Two songs from the disc are also available at https://soundcloud.com/tahoe-blue.
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AT&T's $50B interest in DirecTV is just one part of an ambitious expansion
To compete against Google and Verizon, the wireless carrier is moving fast
Matt Hamblen (Computerworld (US))
AT&T's potential purchase of satellite TV provider DirecTV for $50 billion is only the latest in a series of moves by the wireless carrier that shows it's hell-bent on expansion.
It's eyeing networks of all types -- wired, wireless and satellite -- and aims to get there by building its own or by buying other companies ouright. The strategy involves out-doing Verizon, Google, Amazon or other competitors so it can hold onto existing customers as new networks emerge that allow video gaming and other services over the Web.
While the dollar value of a DirecTV deal would be colossal by any measure, it comes just weeks after AT&T disclosed plans to build a gigabit fiber network in up to 21 cities to compete against Google Fiber; announced plans to offer fast LTE wireless connections to planes for faster onboard Wi-Fi; and has a range of upcoming initiatives for connecting wireless to GM cars and home monitoring systems. Those moves don't include the carrier's already established network of some 34,000 Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide.
Now the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, AT&T has 116 million wireless customers -- close behind Verizon Wireless -- and 16 million wired broadband subscribers, giving it a solid foundation on which to grow even bigger.
"AT&T is basically trying to sell more things to the same people, which should be easier than selling the old products to new people, although one doesn't exclude the other," said Roger Entner, an analyst at Recon Analytics. "AT&T is doing more of this than Google or Verizon or anybody and is absolutely at the forefront of selling more things to their customers. That's the nature of American business: if you don't offer something, somebody else does."
What's unusual with AT&T is that so many of its expansion efforts are happening at once and are so expensive.
Entner believes that AT&T's latest moves evolve from an overall strategy in which the U.S. telecommunications market has become saturated with now-conventional technologies.
"The wireless market is the last to enter the saturation point and the only way to get more revenue is by getting more money from the same people," Entner said. "From the wireless perspective, first you sold voice, then text, then data, then a smartphone and a tablet and now AT&T wants to sell you home monitoring and TV services where you are and also to sell it to you at home with DirecTV."
Entner believes if federal regulators approve the $45 billion Comcast takeover of Time Warner Cable, it would be logical to assume regulators would allow AT&T to buy DirecTV. "It would be the same logic: if you allow a massive TV giant on the ground with Comcast-Time Warner, then you should have no problem allowing a small terrestrial TV provider in AT&T to take over a satellite TV provider," Entner said.
Combining AT&T and DirecTV would create a pay TV company close in size to Comcast-Time Warner.
AT&T and DirecTV officials declined to comment on reports of a deal in the works.
The carrier's strategic thinking is primarily about AT&T "looking over its shoulder at the competition, which includes Verizon but also Comcast with Time Warner and Google branching out," said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates. "It's a play to keep consumers funding AT&T rather than others...to consolidate services in the expanding market of connectivity to home, office, cars and more. "
AT&T has to be ambitious to survive, added Rob Enderle, an analyst at Enderle Group. "Companies have to invest in the future or they'll go under," he said.
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said AT&T's moves are clearly intended to "gear up for battle with Google and Verizon. To successfully compete, all the players have to scale up in buying content, installed seats and bandwidth and AT&T's rumored acquisition of DirecTV would provide all three."
In recent years, AT&T "had its hands full just keeping up with the iPhone and smartphone growth and now that the growth is slowing, AT&T has to look to other areas...," said independent analyst Jeff Kagan.
"I think this is just the new world" in networking, Kagan said. "We had better buckle our seatbelts and tune in to other industries, because AT&T and other companies are going to be expanding into other industries, one after another."
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is mhamblen@computerworld.com.
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Mass employers gain confidence
After months of showing waning confidence in the economy, Massachusetts employers felt more positive in November.
Associated Industries of Massachusetts today said its Business Confidence Index added 3.7 points last month, bringing it just above neutral. The index measures how employers are feeling.
Though up from the previous month, November's score of 50.1 is below the score of 52.1 a year ago.
“Massachusetts employers foresee slow improvement rather than deterioration, which in today's business world is the new normal or 50 level,” Raymond G. Torto, chairman of AIM's
Board of Economic Advisors, said in a news release.
In response to a survey question about the congressional super-committee that was supposed to hammer out a plan to address the federal deficit, 59 percent of employers said they were discouraged by the process, while 20 percent said they expected a positive outcome.
AIM found that employers feel better about the future, but only slightly.
Fred Breimyer, a member of AIM's Board of Economic Advisors, said the numbers show “employers' preponderant belief that while we are probably not headed back into recession, neither are we on the verge of a robust recovery.”
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Functions of Internet Search Engines
A search engine is a computer software, that is continually modified to avail of the lastest technologies in order to provide improved search results. Each search engine does the same functions of collecting, organizing, indexing and serving results in its own unique ways, thus employing various algorithms and techniques, which are their trade secrets. In short, the functions of a search engine can be categorized into the following: 1. Crawling the internet for web content. 2. Indexing the web content. 3. Storing the website contents. 4. Search algorithms and results.
Crawling and Spidering the Web
Crawling is the method of following links on the web to different websites, and gathering the contents of these websites for storage in the search engines databases. Crawling the internet can start afresh (starting with a popular website containing lots of links, such as Yahoo) or from existing older indexes of websites. The crawler (also known as a web robot or a web spider) is a software program that can download web content (web pages, images, documents and other files), and then follow hyper-links within these web contents to download the linked contents. The linked contents can be on the same site or on a different website.
The crawling continues until it finds a logical stop, such as a dead end with no external links or reaching the set number of levels inside the website's link structure. If a website is not linked from other websites on the internet, the crawler will be unable to locate it. Therefore, if the website is new, and has no links from other sites, that website has to be submitted to each of the search engines for crawling.
The efficiency of the crawler makes it crawl multiple websites at the same time, so as to collect billions of website contents as frequently as it can. News and media sites are crawled more frequently (every hour or so) by advanced search engines like Google, in order to deliver updated news and content in their search results. The crawler also does not flood a single website with a high volume of requests at the same time, but spreads the crawling over a period of time so that the web site does not crash. Usually search engines crawl only a few (three or four) levels deep from the homepage of a website. The term deep crawl is used to denote that the crawler or spider can index pages that are many levels deep. Google is an example of a deep crawler.
Crawlers or web robots follow guidelines specified for them by the website owner using the robots exclusion protocol (robots.txt). The robots.txt will specify the files or folders that the owner does not want the crawler to index in its database. Many search engine crawlers do not like unfriendly URLs, such as those generated by database driven websites. These website URLs contain parameters after the question mark (such as http://somedomain.com/article.php?cat=1&id=3). Search engines dislike such URLs because the website can overwhelm the crawler by using parameters to generate thousands of new web pages for indexing with similar content. Thus, crawlers often disregard the changes in the parameters as part of a new URL to spider.
Search engine friendly URLs are used to compensate for this problem.
Indexing the Web Content
Similar to an index of a book, a search engine also extracts and builds a catalog of all the words that appear on each web page and the number of times it appears on that page etc. Indexing of web content is a challenging task assuming an average of 1000 words per web page and billions of such pages. Indexes are used for searching by keywords, therefore, it has to be stored in the memory of computers to provide quick access to the search results.
Indexing starts with parsing the website content using a parser. The parser can extract the relevant information from a web page by excluding certain common words (such as a, an, the - also known as stop words), HTML tags, Java Scripting and other bad characters. A good parser can also eliminate commonly occurring content in the website pages (such as navigation links) so that they are not counted as a part of the page's content.
Once the indexing is completed, the results are stored in memory, in a sorted order. This helps in retrieving the information quickly. Indexes are updated periodically as new content is crawled. Some indexes help create a dictionary (lexicon) of all words that are available for searching. Also a lexicon helps in correcting mistyped words by showing the corrected versions in a search result. A part of the success of the search engine lies in how the indexes are built and used. Various algorithms are used to optimize these indexes so that relevant results are found easily without much computing resource usage.
Storing the Web Content
In addition to indexing the web content, the individual pages are also stored in the search engine's database. Due to cheaper disk storage, the storage capacity of search engines is very huge, and often runs into terabytes of data. However, retrieving this data quickly and efficiently requires special distributed and scalable data storage functionality. The amount of data, that a search engine can store, is limited by the amount of data it can retrieve for search results. Google can index and store about 3 billion web documents. This capacity is far more than any other search engine during this time.
Search Algorithms and Results
Once user enters the search keywords, the search engine's search algorithm looks up the indexes for matches for the search keywords. Once it can match the keywords in the index, the search engine tries to provide the most relevant contents first. This relevance matching is achieved by various search engine algorithms and hence is the bread and butter of search engine's popularity. Among all the search engines on the internet, Google stands out from the rest because it can provide more relevant answers to search queries. The search algorithms, that are used to find the most relevant results from a hay stack of web content, are different from one another. That is why search results, for the same keywords, produces different results on various search engines.
Advanced search engines, like Google, use a relevance ranking system, where each web page is ranked based on various factors such as: 1. Content analysis : The content of each webpage is evaluated for the keywords based on the number of occurrences, position in the page (such as title, meta tags, heading), font size, proximity between them etc.
2. Linking structure : The links from an external page or website to this page are analyzed for keywords in the link structure. Also links from a popular website will lead to a higher ranking.
3. Page ranking :This is a relative ranking of a website based on an algorithm that is used specifically by Google. The page rank denotes the ranking of a web page based on its popularity and quality of links, among various other factors. The basic idea behind a higher page rank is that it is easier to find the website on the internet.
... Management & EBusiness Search engine optimization 4/21/2012 Apr.21 SEO Search engine optimization (SEO) Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines' "natural," or un‐paid ("organic" or "algorithmic"), search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry‐specific vertical search engines. As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of back links, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic. The acronym "SEOs" can refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform ......
...страница. Вероятността интернет търсачките да намерят даден интернет сайт е по-голяма, ако много други сайтове съдържат връзки към него. 2. Индекс, или база-данни, съдържаща копие от всяка страница (пълния текст или сведения за заглавие, ключови термини и др. информация), обходена от робота. Има търсачки, които индексират пълния текст на документа, т.е. всяка дума от този текст може да бъде търсеща – ако се зададе в полето на търсене, този документ ще бъде повикан в резултатите(Excite, Alta Vista, Google, HotBot, Infoseek, WebCrawler). При други търсачки роботите регистрират само заглавие, подзаглавни данни, анотации, или просто първите няколко реда от текста, които носят информация за темата на документа. (Lycos, ALIWEb, Galaxy,WWW search, Magelan). 3. Механизъм за търсене, който позволява на потребителя да въведе интересуващите го понятия, да търси в тази база-данни и да получи списък от адреси на сайтове по интересуващата го тема. При първото поколение търсачки подреждането им става най-често според честотата на срещане на думите от запитването. Във второто поколение търсачки резултатите обикновено се подреждат по честота на посещаемост от други потребители и по брой на направени хипервръзки към тях. Най-отгоре в списъка ще появят най-популярните и посещавани сайтове, към които са направени най-много препратки. Цялата информация, която интернет търсачките индексират се събира в каталозите им, техните бази данни. Тези каталози (index) съдържат копие на всяка......
...directly from the website will have customers using our site frequently. This feature, free of charge to our customers, will help customers find a convenient and efficient route that makes use of bike trails and avoids traffic lanes and hills. Similar to “Map my Ride” customers would select an option if they are looking for exercise, sightseeing, etc. and then get their route. The mapping component will be built by a GIS programmer or GIS consulting firm. The cost of a GIS programmer is about $125 per hour The ESRI ArcGIS license needed is about $3,000.00. The component will cost at least $15,000 for local routes. The plan is to build it in phases an eventually make a downloadable version to the iPhone and Android phone. d. Search Engine Marketing: e. Rewards Program: Bicycle Pro will introduce a rewards program for our customers. Customers will have the opportunity to receive a rewards card that can be scanned each time they make a purchase. Once they spend a specified dollar amount, they will receive a coupon for either a percentage off or a specified dollar amount off of their next purchase. We recommend that Bicycle Pro use Loyalty Lab (www.loyaltylab.com). North Face and Sports Authority are both customers of Loyalty Lab. We hope Loyalty Lab will be able to offer Bicycle Pro a similar successful rewards program. After a consultation with Loyalty Lab, the cost will be an initial $12,000 for the implementation and an $18,000 annual fee....
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...SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING MANAGER (CONTRACTOR) This role is responsible for supporting the growth of traffic and conversions tied to categories of business on bio-rad.com in addition to providing execution of search campaigns designed to support internal groups' initiatives. The primary function of this role is to analyze search partner driven traffic and conversion data to derive conclusions and actionable insights. This position will report directly to the Global Search Marketing Manager, within Bio-Rad’s Life Science Group. Key Accountabilities: • Assist in building search engine marketing campaigns. • Present recommendations and key findings based on thorough data analysis and historical trends. • Provide analysis and report ad copy, landing pages, and network tests. • Forecast traffic and sales results based on keywords and associated budgets. • Assist in the planning and management of paid search budget for global product divisions. • Work with 3rd party SEM agency to successfully update and optimize campaigns. • Provide weekly and monthly analysis of paid search term performance based on traffic, conversion, and sales. • Stay on the cutting edge of industry best practices, trends and new technologies with regards to SEM, SEO, mobile & social. • Perform other duties as assigned. Education & Experience: • BA/BS Degree in business or marketing-related major preferred or equivalent work experience. • A minimum of 2-3 years of search engine......
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...Name: Fei Xie Lenovo Search Engine Evaluation Company Background Lenovo is a new world company that makes award-winning PCs for customers. They operate as a company uninhibited by walls or organizational structures using worldsourcing to harness the power of innovation across the global team. They design innovative and exciting products and services to meet customers’ needs [3]. According to the research from IDC, it shows that Lenovo is the leading PC making company in China, which contributes 35.2% to the market, and it is also ranked as 4th in worldwide, which contributes 7.3% to the world market [4]. This report is about the evaluation of search engine from Lenovo. Methodology There are so many factors could be used to evaluate a search engine, for example, user interface, user interaction, docs, performance and so on. In order to formalize these features, an evaluation methodology proposed by Li [1] and his colleges will be applied for Lenovo search engine. Based on the method, two major groups of evaluation parameters have been identified, Feature group and Performance group. Feature group consists of characteristics that enhance the usability and user-friendliness of the search engine. Performance group utilizes various metrics to examine the efficiency and the effectiveness of the search, such as recall and precision. The parameters in the Feature group are more static in nature since they represent facts and do not change often, while Performance......
Google and Search Engines
...Searching for a search engine Why is achieving a significant level of brand familiarity especially important for Google’s competitors? Google dominates the global search market –controlling more than 80% of it – therefore is important for its competitors to focus on their costumers and their needs. Since Google is worldwide known and people are ‘googling’ all the time, it is important for competitors such as Bing, Baidu and Yandex to offer specialized services and to raise awareness of its current clients to increase their brand familiarity and, as a consequence, loyalty. As more people know and, more importantly, have a good experience with these kind of search engines, the more they are likely to grow and become more appealing to people. Even though it is very difficult to compete with Google due to its intense presence, the companies that own this type of search engines need to realize that they have a market niche to explorer which can also be an advantage in the sense that they can place them better to compete with Google and people that are interested in very specific information can become their customers. What are the search sites doing to increase consumers’ motivation, ability, and opportunity to process external information? Before increasing consumer’s motivation, ability and opportunity, the search sites need to increase the customers’ awareness towards its products and they can achieve it by, for example, introducing advertisement in websites...
... Web search engine SUBMITTED TO: MD MOQBUL HOSSAIN BHUIYA PROFESSOR DEPT. OF MIS UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA SUBMITTED BY: Sanjida Sharmin ROLL# MIS 06-83 UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA A paper on Web search engine ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my gratitude to our course instructor MD MOQBUL HOSSAIN BHUIYA for inspiring me to know about INFORMATION TECHONOLOGY and then prepare an assignment on web search engine. This is the way I want to know the INFORMATION TECHONOLOGY and I feel myself sufficient now. Although, it is little about the topic, however I must cite that he gave me the apt direction and showed me the accurate way to complete the assignment in a creative way. TABLE OF CONTENTS Index Page General information 5 1. History 5-7 2. How it works 8-9 3. List of search engine 10-13 4. Market share 14 5. Bias 14 6. Facilities 14 7. Why I choose this topic??? 14 8. Reference 15 General information A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally......
Appliication of Image Search Engine
...IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, VOL. 25, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2013 2257 iLike: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Vertical Image Search by Integrating Text and Visual Features Yuxin Chen, Student Member, IEEE, Hariprasad Sampathkumar, Student Member, IEEE, Bo Luo, Member, IEEE Computer Society, and Xue-wen Chen, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—With the development of Internet and Web 2.0, large-volume multimedia contents have been made available online. It is highly desired to provide easy accessibility to such contents, i.e., efficient and precise retrieval of images that satisfies users’ needs. Toward this goal, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been intensively studied in the research community, while text-based search is better adopted in the industry. Both approaches have inherent disadvantages and limitations. Therefore, unlike the great success of text search, web image search engines are still premature. In this paper, we present iLike, a vertical image search engine that integrates both textual and visual features to improve retrieval performance. We bridge the semantic gap by capturing the meaning of each text term in the visual feature space, and reweight visual features according to their significance to the query terms. We also bridge the user intention gap because we are able to infer the “visual meanings” behind the textual queries. Last but not least, we provide a visual thesaurus, which is generated from the statistical......
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...Google and Search Engines Searching for a search engine Why is achieving a significant level of brand familiarity especially important for Google’s competitors? Google dominates the global search market –controlling more than 80% of it – therefore is important for its competitors to focus on their costumers and their needs. Since Google is worldwide known and people are ‘googling’ all the time, it is important for competitors such as Bing, Baidu and Yandex to offer specialized services and to raise awareness of its current clients to increase their brand familiarity and, as a consequence, loyalty. As more people know and, more importantly, have a good experience with these kind of search engines, the more they are likely to grow and become more appealing to people. Even though it is very difficult to compete with Google due to its intense presence, the companies that own this type of search engines need to realize that they have a market niche to explorer which can also be an advantage in the sense that they can place them better to compete with Google and people that are interested in very specific information can become their customers. What are the search sites doing to increase consumers’ motivation, ability, and opportunity to process external information? Before increasing consumer’s motivation, ability and opportunity, the search sites need to increase the customers’ awareness towards its products and they can achieve it by, for example,......
... Search Engine Optimization Name Institution Affiliation Course Tutor Date Search Engine Optimization The World Wide Web has in the modern world become so vital in the sharing and connection of files and documents on the internet (Johnson, 2014). Because of the millions of files and documents available on the World Wide Web, programs have been developed to help users in their search for documents on the internet (Rohan, 2014). A program that locates and identifies documents on the World Wide Web that match keywords specified by the user is called a search engine. Popular examples of search engines include Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search. After conducting a search, the engine displays websites that contain documents marching the keywords typed by the user with the most relevant at the top. The websites that appear at the top do so because of a technique known as search engine optimization (SEO). This technique assists search engines to identify and rank higher particular websites than numerous others in response to a search query. SEO involves writing pages that use keywords that are in regular use by people in searches (Rohan, 2014). Website owners use SEO in order to acquire quality results within search engines that are frequented by users, and this is in a bid to increase traffic to their websites. Designing and optimizing a site in a manner that it attains the highest search rankings is what SEO entails. The use of SEO is the cheapest as......
...Search Engine Industry History of search engine The need for search services grew with the expanding reach and magnitude of the World Wide Web. One of the earliest search services, Yahoo!, was a directory of sites selected and organized into categories by human editors. The Web soon grew too large for directory-based search. AltaVista invented technology that automated search, relying on software “spiders” that created a searchable index of page contents and on algorithms that ranked page relevance based on the frequency of keyword references. Yahoo! added AltaVista’s algorithmic search engine, but in 1998 replaced AltaVista with Inktomi, which used parallel-processing networks to offer faster processing and a larger index. As website developers exploited search algorithms by repeating keywords on their pages, searches increasingly returned irrelevant listings—”spam”—that frustrated users. In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page tackled this problem as graduate students at Stanford. Their PageRank algorithm reliably delivered more relevant searches by favoring pages that were referenced—”linked to”—by other pages. These links were called “votes,” because they signaled that another page’s webmaster had decided that the focal page deserved attention. The focal page’s importance was determined by counting the number of votes it received, weighting votes more heavily when they were cast by pages that Google had previously deemed to be important. This approach required PageRank to...
...DESIGN AND OPERATION OF TYPICAL SEARCH ENGINE INTRODUCTION Design of information retrival system to find out the stored information on a computer system is known as search engine. It is used to links to documents, web sites, text snippets, images, videos etc. first they have to process hundreds of millions of issues and searches every day and answer to the queries in milliseconds. Search engine is a general class of program. Many key factors and requirement of the user should be taken into account by the search engine secondly the resources on world wide web must be update constantly. Wheather it may continuously add of data, removed or change of data( the overall changing is upto 8% a week). Third the user express should be make use of available syntactic features with limited express power of that language. As we know that search engine is a designed program which help the user to retriev data stored in the computer such as world wide web or from a personal computer. The user can retriev the data with list of references which match the criteria of the user quickly and efficently this can done only by search engine with reguarly updated indexes. In other words search engine is a sophisticated peace of software which can access on a website which allows user to access the web page by entering the queries in the search box. There are two types of search indexes which will be access for the web search directories crawler-based search engine Directories :......
...Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is about making one’s business instantly viewable when searched online in an engine such as Google. The more that a website is shopped on or clicked on by consumers, the higher up it is in the search results. This can also be based on relevance, of course, so using keywords and phrases is important for site owners when first establishing their website. SEO is basically a way of providing organic results in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, to allow consumers to the seemingly best result (“What is SEO/Search Engine Optimization?”). Social media has become a huge part of society in recent years, even though one of the first social media sites was created in 1997, called Six Degrees (“The History of Social Media”). Since then, it has evolved, but it still remains as a way for users to share, view, and connect via online. Top social media sites at the moment include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. All are similar platforms, allowing users to create content, whether that be a picture, video, their thoughts or opinions, or simply a response to someone else’s content. Facebook is status (post about thoughts), picture, and message based, Twitter is status based with a lot of sharing of ideas, Instagram is photo based, and YouTube is video based (“The History of Social Media). Today, the presence on social media and the SEO reflects on a business in a huge way. Social media users can and do post their opinions......
...9 Step On-Page Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide This 9 Step On-Page Search Engine Optimization Guide will help you optimize your website pages, so they will have the best chance to get found by your target market. The Guide outlines the most important factors to consider when optimizing each page on your site. These steps are listed based on importance, so don’t skip a step. Also, remember that creating new optimized content on a weekly basis is critical to achieving long-term success with SEO. Step 1: Choose Keywords Read the page’s content and identify two (2) keywords that are most relevant to the overall page content. Choose one (1) primary keyword relevant to the page’s content and one variation of that keyword (e.g. plural variation or two closely related keywords) per page. If you can’t identify one primary keyword for a page, you’ll need to create new website pages to separate the different content. If it’s not clear to you what page is about, then your visitors and the search engines won’t be able to understand the page either. Step 2: Page Title The page title appears as the blue, bolded, underlined text on a Google search results page, and also on the top left the browser bar. The page title should follow these guidelines: Be under 70 characters with no more than two long-tail keywords per page title The primary keyword should appear first Each keyword phrase should be separated by pipes (|) Each page title on your......
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...(Case Ch 6) Search Engines in Global Business 1. Google: Started in 1998 Provides in-depth result Diversified product lines & services Highly dependent on advertising Constant need to tweak the layout and results Yahoo: Launched in 1994 Global leader in daily habits Selling of placement advising links Baidu: Introduced in 2000 Adapted to the research of Chinese words English site for developers Recently introduced in Brazil Bing: Launched in 2009 Microsoft/Yahoo alliance Microsoft’s attempt to challenge Google All in one Ask: California 1996 Question and answer format The About.com group Poor quality results 2. A number of scholars and IT professionals have regarded this as an era of technology advancement throughout the world. Within the next five years, there are expected to be many more search engines besides Google and Yahoo. There will be interactive search engines, where users will be speaking instead of typing. This will make search process a lot easier. For example, a user will just have to speak few keywords and search engine will automatically search the relevant information. The search engines will work around the trend history and will display a column with search results on a side from last few hours, days or weeks. Further, it is expected that search engine home page will be customized based upon the result of most frequent search keywords. There would be enhanced and strict rules and laws in regards to search performed on search engines. Also,......
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Online Services - The Finder
The Finder - Ohio Public School District Tax Features
The Finder provides:
The Ohio public school district number associated with a given address/location;
The applicable school district income tax rate if such a tax is in effect for the year requested; AND
The respective school district numbers assigned by the Department of Taxation and by the Ohio Department of Education.
The Finder is a public resource that allows you to search by address, GPS coordinates, or zip code to locate school district information. The Finder has other functions. If you have a database or list of addresses, The Finder will append school district information associated with those addresses. You can also download files from The Finder that provide a database of maps, rates and boundaries.
AVAILABLE LINKS:
LOOKUP TAX RATES
By Zip Code, 5- or 9-digits
NOTE: 5-digit zip code searches may result in multiple taxing jurisdictions as zip codes cross school district boundaries; 9-digit inquiries will provide more precise results.
By Latitude and Longitude
NOTE: Enter the coordinates of a location, by degrees, minutes and seconds, or the decimal equivalent in the degrees field to determine pertinent Ohio public school district information associated with those coordinates.
DOWNLOAD TAX RATES AND GIS BOUNDARY DATA
Obtain color maps showing each school district and its boundaries.
Obtain a list (database table) of all the 5-digit zip codes in Ohio, with the school districts and applicable tax rates in those areas.
Obtain comma separated value (CSV) files for 5- and 9-digit zip codes, as well as addresses for each county, and for the entire State of Ohio. These files can be used in your program to determine school district boundaries and applicable tax rates.
UPLOAD DATABASES
Users must register in one of two ways to access the upload and other functions of the Finder.
Registration through the Ohio Business Gateway (OBG) is recommended for vendors and out-of-state sellers. Registering with the OBG enables the user to file and pay school district withholding tax and bill payments. Registering through the OBG lets you use the same user name and password for both the OBG and The Finder.
Registration directly with The Finder can be done anonymously, however an e-mail address is required for lost or forgotten password retrieval.
Upload/Return File Instructions
A registered user may upload a database file of addresses and The Finder will append the school district and applicable tax rate for those addresses.
The Finder is a service of the Office of Information Technology (OIT/Department of Administrative Services). If you have questions or concerns about information listed on The Finder, please contact:
Locations/mapping: OIT Service Desk 614-644-6860 or 877-644-6860 or email: csc@ohio.gov
School District Income Tax Rates Only: Call ODT (800)282-1780 or email: thefinderhelp@tax.state.oh.us.
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Medina’s Fourth of July Twin Sizzler race lives up to its name
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MEDINA, Ohio — The 43rd annual Twin Sizzler bike and running races certainly lived up the their name, with hot, sticky temperatures even at 7:45 a.m. when the 5-kilometer race began.
The 1,042 participants in the 5K, 10K, 1-mile fun run and 27-mile citizen and expert bike races shed lots of perspiration as they took part in the Medina Fourth of July family tradition.
The runners and supporters gathered on the square before the races began stood in respectful silence while Navy Veteran Michele Wisniewski sang a beautiful, traditional version of the National Anthem. She is dedicated to “bringing tradition back to sporting events and enriching the lives of American veterans” with her participation in Team Red, White,and Blue. To learn more log on to www.rwb.org.
Members of the Revere Running Club get ready to race in the Medina Twin Sizzler. (Mary Jane Brewer, special to cleveland.com)Mary Jane Brewer, special to cleveland.com
Athletes of all ages took part in the events. The Revere Running Club, a group devoted to developing a love of running in young people, showed up with provocative T-shirts. The back of the youths’ shirts read, “My sport is your sport’s punishment,” referring to the practice of disciplining a lazy football or soccer player with running laps.
The back of the adult T-shirts featured the words, “The only sport where the parents get as much exercise as the athletes,” referring to the sport of cross country, in which spectators run from one vantage point to another to cheer as their favorite athletes pass by.
The Medina Twin Sizzler is often a family affair, as shown by cousins Nick Brewer of Medina and Autumn Novak of Worthington, Ohio, who both ran in the 5K. (Mary Jane Brewer, special to cleveland.com)Mary Jane Brewer, special to cleveland.com
When the runners and bikers finished their race, they were greeted by a selection of healthy snacks and bottled water. The snacks were donated by Orangetheory, a heart rate-based interval training fitness gym soon to open at 1120 N. Court St. Local owner Jacob Finn described the program as a 60-minute, full-body workout during which the athlete wears a heart monitor and is accompanied by a certified coach. To learn about the gym, call 330-636-0388 or check out orangetheoryfitness.com.
Medina High School and recent Miami University graduate Maria Scavuzzo was the first woman to cross the finish line at the end of the 5K run. Nineteen-year-old Andre Bollam-Godbott of Brunswick won for the men. Jeffrey Wunning of Wooster won the 10K, while Michelle Farr crossed the finish line first for the women.
On the west side of the square, the citizen bike races were won by Dave Kovach of Cleveland and Lindsey Beshire of Medina. Nick Glavac of Mentor and Caitlin Carey of Wooster won the expert divisions.
Team Red, White & Blue Announces Appointment of New Board Members
ATLANTA, GA – One of the nation’s leading veterans service organizations, Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB), today announced that Dr. Mike Thirtle and …
Communities Nationwide Celebrate Veterans Day with Functional Fitness
6th annual WOD for Warriors fundraiser supports veterans nonprofit This Veterans Day, hundreds of gyms across the nation will host the largest-ever WOD for Warriors, …
Team Red, White & Blue Announces Mike Erwin as Executive Director
Founder and former Chairman returns to lead veteran service organization ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Board of Directors of Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) …
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(Courtesy Youngstown Resident Office of the DEA)
180 kilos of weed found in new Ford Fusions shipped from Mexico
Published: Jul 17, 2017, 12:28 pm • Updated: Jul 17, 2017, 12:28 pm
WARREN, Ohio — Authorities say more than 400 pounds (181 kilograms) of marijuana has been found in 15 new cars made in Mexico and shipped to Ohio and Pennsylvania to sell.
A drug task force in Ohio’s Portage County was called to a Ford dealership this week after a service department employee found a package of pressed marijuana in a spare tire compartment during a vehicle inspection.
Investigators then went to a rail yard near Warren and found more packages in the trunks of Ford Fusions pressed into the shape of a spare tire. Additional packages were found at other northeast Ohio dealerships and one in Pennsylvania.
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent tells The Vindicator that marijuana was found in April in new cars shipped from Mexico to Minnesota.
Topics: illegal marijuana operation, Mexico, Ohio, smuggling, true story
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What Obstacles Did Christopher Columbus Face
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what obstacles did Christopher Columbus face? the unknown was the biggest. No maps, crew were frightened and wanted to go home. what were Christopher Columbus’s achievements/failures? made 4 voyages, settled in Central and South America, discovered America, columbian exchange, landed in the Carribbean instead of the coast of Asia.
Apr 22, 2014 · Did Christopher Columbus take other voyages ,how many,where did he go Asked in Christopher Columbus, Explorers and Expeditions How successful was Christopher Columbus four voyages in 1492?
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After being at sea for a little over a month, groups of the crew got together and discussed mutiny intentions. They were convinced that Columbus had lost Sanity and was leading them to their own death. With great timing however, Columbus reached the New World before any of these plots became reality.
Jul 04, 2006 · Lisbon is Europe’s second-oldest capital and after home to the world’s greatest explorers like Vasco da Gama, Magellan and Prince Henry the Navigator, getting the very first correct world city, the capital of an empire scattering over all continents, from South America (Brazil) to Asia (Macao, China; Goa, India) and know you are able to spend a couple of day to understand that ancient city.
Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus – Birth of an Explorer Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in beautiful Genoa, Italy. He was raised in the shadows of medieval gates behind him and the open sea in front of him — the perfect backdrop for a boy looking for adventure.
What obstacles did Christopher Columbus face? Christopher Columbus: Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 with three ships on an expedition to find an alternate route to Asia. He would make return.
Who Sponsored Christopher Columbus and why?. What obstacles did Cabot face? He did not have maps because he was an early explorer. Landed on the Northern most coast of North America, mistaking it for China. Explored but did not find the China. He did not have maps.
Christopher Columbus faced lots of challenges that we don’t know about. I am here today though to tell you some well known challenges that the famous Christopher Columbus had to face. Christopher Columbus faced a challenge the day he was born. That challenge was that his whole family was weavers. You may think that this is not important, but it is.
Nov 02, 2009 · What Obstacles did Christopher Columbus face on his voyage from 1492 AD – 1504 AD? Source(s): obstacles christopher columbus face voyage 1492 ad 1504 ad: https://tr.im/f5rnD. 0 0 1. Login to reply the answers Post; Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now. Ask Question.
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Christopher Columbus was an explorer, navigator and colonizer who initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World. If you would like to learn more about.
Nov 23, 2010 · What obstacles did Columbus face? Answer. Wiki User November 23, 2010 9:16PM. Some of the many obstacles that Christopher Columbus faced included fear, sickness, and.
History Will Judge Us Meaning We often judge others based on their physical appearance. Such judgments are driven by inferential mechanisms that help us. The disappearance of MH370 in 2014 has been dubbed one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. – EPA pic, January 11, So, specifically gun rights are one of the things that really triggered a lot
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Nov 28, 2009 · What obstacles did Christopher Columbus face while on his voyages? Answer. Wiki User November 28, 2009 4:19AM. getting through the storm. he.
Where did Christopher Columbus sail from? Spain. What obstacles did Christopher Columbus face? death, no maps, uncharted waters, frightened crew. What were Christopher Columbus’ accomplishments? discovered the "new world" and what became Cuba. Where did.
Dec 30, 2014 · Some of the many obstacles that Christopher Columbus faced included fear, sickness, and shortages of food. Related Questions. What obstacles did the Swedish face?
He had nine ships sink and harsh weather and violent people.Who had many diseases and had a lack of food and water. So many people died on the ship.They ate saw dust from wood boards because they ran out of food.They were always dehydrated. Christopher Columbus faced mutiny. His
What problems did Christopher Columbus face on his voyage? christopher Columbus faced challenges like being in a hail storm and a wave storm too. he used people as slaves not blacks europeaons and.
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High fliers: KPS secure £5m in new investment for kite energy technology
By Jason Ford 13th December 2016 11:42 am 19th December 2016 11:12 am
Britain’s sole player in the kite power market has secured £5m of new investment to support technical and commercial development of its high-altitude wind power generation technology.
E.ON, Schlumberger and Shell Technology Ventures (STV) have made the investment into Kite Power Systems (KPS), whose power system has two kites flown to an altitude of up to 450m. A tether is attached to a winch that generates electricity as it spools out; by achieving flight speeds of up to 100mph in 20mph winds, the kite’s tether tension causes the line to rapidly spool out from a drum, which turns a generator to produce electricity.
The company claims its technology can reduce expenditure of conventional offshore turbines by as much as 50 per cent because its patented power system doesn’t require large quantities of steel or specialist installation vessels.
According to KPS, the lower cost means that kite power generation would not need government subsidies and could be deployed in UK and Irish waters – and other areas of the North Sea – and in waters up to and potentially deeper than 40m found offshore of countries including Portugal, Japan and the USA.
This latest investment will support KPS’s plans to deploy a 500kW onshore power system at West Freugh in South West Scotland in 2017, leading to a planned onshore demonstration array of multiple 500kW systems within the next 3-4 years. Thereafter, KPS will develop a 3MW onshore system at West Freugh and then deploy a similar sized power system offshore.
KPS was established in 2011 and to date has invested more than £3m in technology development, with financial support coming from the UK Government (via DECC’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund and Innovate UK), Shell’s GameChanger programme and private investors.
Geert van de Wouw, managing director of STV said: “Over time, KPS has convinced me that its high altitude kite power solution has disruptive potential for the wind industry. It is an interesting contribution to renewable energy generation and a good fit to explore through Shell’s New Energies business.”
Schlumberger reportedly chose to invest in KPS because the technology has the potential to be deployed in varied locations including offshore oil platforms, remote onshore drilling operations and decommissioned offshore wind turbine towers.
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APJones 15th December 2016 at 10:39 am
QUOTE ” A tether is attached to a winch that generates electricity as it spools out; ”
Does that mean its a one time charging event?
Who/what spools it back in ? what power is required?
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Jason Ford 15th December 2016 at 12:09 pm
We contacted Bill Hampton, CTO at KPS, who said: The short answer is that the kite is flown up overhead and the wing pitched down so that it can be flown towards the base station, as it flies back the tether is wound onto the winch. The retract uses a small proportion of the generated power. With our system we have two kites so as one is retracted the other is generating.
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CRICKET: Young urges his boys to stay in the present
Wiltshire captain Ed Young says his side must not get ahead of themselves as they take on winless Wales MC in the Unicorns Championship Western Division this weekend
By Harry Abbott @harryabbott Sports reporter
WILTSHIRE captain Ed Young says the focus remains on the here and now as his side look to continue their excellent start to the Unicorns Championship season.
Victory away at Devon a fortnight ago saw Wiltshire make it two wins and a draw from their opening three Western Division fixtures.
They continue their schedule with a home game against bottom side Wales, which starts on Sunday at South Wilts in Salisbury.
Berkshire currently lead the way at the top of the table as the only team to win all of their three-day games this summer, but Wiltshire are only 14 points back in third.
Also looming large is a semi-final in the 50-over Unicorns Knockout Trophy, with Wiltshire drawn away against Berkshire on August 11.
A series of wins throughout August could put Wiltshire on the cusp of silverware on multiple fronts, although skipper Young has urged his team to stay in the present.
“We’re doing really well at the moment and all we can really do is try to keep winning,” said Young.
“Berkshire are at the top of the Championship table and they keep winning too, but we are doing the right things. We’ve had a fantastic start.
“We have also got that big 50-over game coming up against Berkshire, but we can only take it one game at a time.
“If you’re playing good cricket across all formats, that does help with confidence and form.
“We try to reinstall the simple beliefs over the three-day stuff of having a plan, sticking to that plan and trying to encourage a positive brand of cricket.”
Wiltshire’s previous win away at Devon was all the more impressive considering the home side were in control of the contest for the first two days.
Now returning to more familiar surroundings at South Wilts, Young sees no reason why his side’s momentum should start to stall against a Wales side who have lost all three of their Championship fixtures so far.
“I can’t fault the guys for how they’ve done,” said Young.
“To win last time was great, but to do it with Jake Lintott missing – he got 10 wickets in the previous game – is a fantastic boost for the whole squad.
“It shows we have the back-up and the whole squad is able to contribute to us winning.
“We are at South Wilts for the Wales game and it usually spins there, so it will be a good challenge.
“We are looking to carry on the momentum we have built and press for another win.”
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Adobe learns lessons of open-source Flex
No pain, no gain
By Gavin Clarke 16 Dec 2008 at 00:15
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Adobe Systems is learning the challenges and complexities of taking its software open source.
Just a year and a half after Adobe released its Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to encourage developer buy in, it's the company - not the community - that continues to shoulder the burden of building and fixing Flex.
The majority of Flex committers are Adobe employees with most contributions from outsiders tackling bugs rather than going into new feature ideas.
Adobe, meanwhile, is treading a fine line between tipping off competitors to its Flex plans through the open-source work while coaxing the community to buy into the Flex roadmap.
When it announced it was open sourcing Flex in April 2007, Adobe called the move a way of collaborating with the developer community to "further fuel its momentum and innovation." Flex is one of many Adobe's code to go open-source, following - among others - Tamarin and BlazeDS. The main prize, Flash Player, remains closed.
Yet, speaking at the company's recent MAX conference and to The Reg, representatives gave an honest assessment of the hard work that's gone into opening Flex, and the challenges that remain.
Matt Chotin, Flex senior product manager, said one hurdle is getting people in the community to back up ideas and suggestions for Flex with actual code submissions.
"There are plenty who say casually they want something but don't want to get an account," Chotin said. An account in the Flex community would be provided by Adobe and give individuals code assess rights and privileges.
So far, all the Flex committers are Adobe employees although Chotin said he hoped this would change soon. To become a committer, people must follow up ideas with code and must earn their way in by working on the project with multiple submissions over time. That's a standard course for many open-source projects.
"We have a very active Flex community...but getting people to the point where they aren't just sending an idea without anything backing it up is difficult - any idea is OK as long as there's code with it," Chotin said.
"We are still trying to figure how to get the community and companies to say: 'This is an important change to make and I want to make this contribution,'" Chotin added.
Meanwhile, there's also a lack of vendor ecosystem around Flex. Admittedly, it's relatively early days for open-source Flex. But Chotin seemed to think that a vendor-based community would be better at submitting feature ideas and specifications on a formal basis. Once other companies have a stake in the roadmap, then they'd be more willing to stump up resources such as staff and code to see the changes through to completion.
This has happened in other communities. In the IBM-initiated and backed Eclipse, for example, vendors in specific markets and product areas have lead projects they feel close to or suit their strategy.
"I expect to see more contributions happening that way," Chotin said. "We need to build that up...as the ecosystems grows we'll have more formal contributions around it."
But Chotin appeared to admit that Adobe has its hands full dealing with the contributions that it is currently receiving. These are mostly fixes. He called it "time consuming" to accept all the patches Adobe is getting.
Underlying the need for broad support is the complex challenge of getting the community to buy in to the Flex road map Adobe would prefer to see and that Adobe can build on, without turning people off by being seen as heavy handed. Adobe, meanwhile, must also tread a thin line between giving enough information and tipping off rivals over its plans for Flex.
"We try to talk about the concepts we think are important and put them in the context of Flex on its own without bringing up some of the other things we are doing at Adobe to take advantage of that," Chotin said. "It's a challenge for us to talk about ideas we want to put into the Flex framework without exposing the commercial ideas we are thinking off."
The competition is real: JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA, for example, now has its own Flex tool. The IntelliJ integrated development environment has proved a consistently popular suite of tools for many developers.
Chotin conceded one thing Adobe could have done better before taking Flex open source was to research how other open-source projects work. This could have informed how the Flex project had been set up and helped improve the way things are being done.
Also, while Chotin said Adobe's "pretty happy" with the choice of MPL there could have been more research on the subject of licenses. "It's not just hell to understand the license, it's hell to pick a license too," he said noting "everyone's a critic" when it comes to which open-source license is best.
So was it worth going open source? The majority of the costs Adobe has - and continues to incur - from taking Flex open source come in time - the number of people hours involved in working through submitted fixes, for example. Chotin claimed he could not put an actual dollar amount on the work.
He remained confident, though, that open-source was the right course of action as it would help seed uptake of other Adobe technologies, such as Cocomo for adding social networking capabilities to rich internet applications (RIAs) that use Flex, in addition to Flex itself.
"The more Flex is adopted, the more Adobe should benefit," he said. "If Flex grows more because of our open-source efforts we have a bigger pool of developers using Cocomo. But it doesn't necessarily translate into instant dollars." ®
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Government summoned to appear before ICC to answer for Al-Bashir blunder
The SA government has written to the International Criminal Court following the court’s decision to haul us in front of what is essentially a commission of enquiry.
by Ezra Claymore
So we all remember when government plotted to help Omar al-Bashir escape the country before he could be arrested, as per the instructions of the ICC. International human rights organisations lambasted government for protecting a man accused of murdering more than 600 000 of his own people, but Jacob Zuma refused to budge on the matter.
Not long after the ANC government announced South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC – a decision that might actually be unconstitutional and is now being debated in a legal battle between the DA and government –, but even if we could leave the court on a whim, it doesn’t absolve us of the binding laws we had do abide by when al-Bashir was here.
Anyway, justice minister Michael Masutha has written to the ICC asking for clarity as to what will happen when we The SA government has written to the International Criminal Court following the court’s decision to haul us in front of what is essentially a commission of enquiry.
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Anyway, justice minister Michael Masutha has written to the ICC asking for clarity as to what’s going to happen next – because as we know, our government’s understanding of even local law is shoddy at best, so international law might be way beyond the minister’s capacity – after the court called for representatives to be sent to the Hague in April next year to explain why our government ignored an arrest warrant handed down by the ICC.
“We’ve since written to the court to clarify the procedure we’ll need to follow in responding to that invitation and clarify why we didn’t execute the warrant,” Masutha said.
EWN reports that the ICC will be holding a public hearing to establish why South Africa flouted international law in its responsibility as a signatory of the Rome Statute – SA under Madiba was actually one of the very first signatories of the Rome Statute –.
South Africa maintains that, regardless of standing accused of genocide, Omar al-Bashir enjoys immunity as the head of state of an AU country – country being a relative term in his case –, but the ICC’s appeals court labelled our protection of al-Bashir a disgrace and unlawful.
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Isis stronghold falls after final bout of savagery and torture in Raqqa
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Syrians wait to get bread on the outskirts of Raqqa weeks before the city was won back from Isis controlGetty Images/BULENT KILIC
By the end, cats and dogs were feeding on shredded human flesh in the streets. But when the siege first closed in, life in Raqqa went on much as before. There were niggling court cases over property rights; Isis had its own bureaucracy. There were the public executions, and there were multimillion-dollar business deals with the Syrian regime.
Abdulrahman Soueiha, 47, took his life in his hands and decided to sue Islamic State for commandeering his house as a checkpoint. Isis once proclaimed that it was open to legal complaints, so he decided to put it to the test. He found himself in jail.
Abu Mahmoud, 50, an estate agent before the war, is one of those men who can see profit in a crisis.…
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Value of UK social investment market increases by a third to £3.5bn
20 November 2019 by Liam Kay
There were more than 1,000 new social investment transactions in the UK in 2018, figures show
The UK’s social investment market is worth £3.5bn, a 30 per cent increase on the previous year, according to Big Society Capital.
BSC said the figure had grown at about 30 per cent in every year since 2015, which showed that more capital was available for organisations tackling urgent social issues.
There were 1,023 new social impact investment transactions that took place in 2018, compared with 755 in 2017, BSC said.
There have been more than 4,000 such transactions since 2013, the figures show.
Jeremy Rogers, chief investment officer at BSC, said the growth of social investment was being driven by increasing awareness of and confidence in taking on investment by social enterprises and charities.
He said there was an increase in interest in investing with purpose, meaning new and innovative products were being created by fund managers.
"This increase in products and capital has created more options for both investees and investors, helping capital to flow where it is most needed," said Rogers.
"We know that many of the issues social enterprises and charities are aiming to tackle, such as homelessness and financial exclusion, require significantly greater amounts of capital than is currently available to them.
"It is therefore fantastic to see this continued growth in the social investment market, helping to fund vital projects across the UK."
Sarah Gordon, chief executive of the Impact Investing Institute, said: "We need to do more to make it easier for social enterprises and charities to access more of the capital that is so badly needed to address the social challenges we as a country face.
"Lowering some of the barriers that stop more capital flowing into impact investment will be one of the ways we hope to help further growth in the market."
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Boom in High Street spending
By Jane Padgham
Updated: 19:00 EST, 30 April 2002
THE pound marched forward while interest rate markets retreated after two key surveys showed High Street spending is running at late-1980s boom levels and the manufacturing recovery is gaining momentum.
The CBI's latest poll of retailers found 70% enjoying higher sales in April than a year ago, while only 13% said business was down. The resulting balance of 57% was a dramatic increase on March's 31% and the highest since August 1988.
The CBI said sales had been boosted by Easter and fine weather, both of which had encouraged shoppers to snap up summer clothes, DIY products and groceries.
Meanwhile, the latest CIPS/Reuters survey of manufacturing purchasing managers found growth in the sector accelerated in April to its fastest in more than two years. The survey's headline activity index registered 53.4, up from 50.6 last month, well above the 50 'boom-bust' level and the highest since December 1999.
Roy Ayliffe, director of professional practice at CIPS, said: 'Growth in overseas orders, especially from the US, led April's rebound in manufacturing.'
The pound firmed to $1.4570 while short sterling futures and gilts lost ground. The City is pricing in an increase in interest rates from 4% to 4.5% by September.
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His Thoughts: Got to be honest, not a huge fan of this one either just like I didn’t like season 1 of Fringe. This lady is a total @$$#0!3 who hates God, hates America, hates soldiers, hates hates hates hates, and loves bones? Omg seriously? This lady would be ALONE! The relationship between “Bones” and “Booth” (the FBI agent working with her) is set to be like “Mulder and Scully” (in fact they even joke about it at the very start of the show, episode 1, when Booth CALLS them that) but the problem is that what made Mulder and Scully work is what is causing “Booth and Bones” to piss me off! Scully was the scientist that looked at everything factual BUT who was also VERY RELIGIOUS! Saying that you can be both smart AND religious- believe in something greater than yourself. Mulder on the other hand was also “smart” but not the same kind of smart and used his in depth knowledge of the REAL occult and the inner working of people to walk into the “unknown”. Booth in this show is a dumb, white, pro-gun slinging red neck, X-military sniper Ranger, CHRISTIAN FBI agent while Bones is the “Smart one” and because she is ACTUALLY intelligent she has to hate the military, hate America, be an atheist (because who could possibly be smart and believe in God) and on and on. The entire show is about making Booth look bad and Bones smart, insulting the white gun toting Christian (in fact having an episode of just that- a military hero who IN FACT actually just shot up a bunch of innocent unarmed women and children and then died in friendly fire) and making Bones always right. I will not watch till season 8 unless Bones starts to have a change of heart and stop treating people this way; unless this show turns into something more than an ideological soap box for progressivism.
Her Thoughts: Just finished watching season 1. I find this show to be pretty interesting- an anthropology team helps the FBI solve crimes. It can get a little repetitive if you watch a show one right after the other but overall still good! Not a huge fan of the main character Temperance Brennan who does not have the ability to view any situation other than scientifically/logically. Gets kind of annoying, maybe she will get better in the next seasons!
His Thoughts: A weaker version of Rurouni Kenshin. Wizards in a guild that use magic to do quests and stuff for money that never actually die and never actually kill anyone. Fun show but really can’t be taken seriously because it doesn’t take itself all that seriously. Every chance it has TO be something serious and take itself from being a 3/5 to a 5/5 it quickly backs out on and does a “Psych! You thought someone might die? Pfff! GOTCHA!” and continues to be so-so. This is a T for teen show and those never are top notch shows like Attack on Titan or Samurai X or Claymore; this show needs to get serious fast or it will become an anime version of the tv show “Friends” really fast…
Her Thoughts: This is another anime that is pretty good, not as good as Attack on Titan or Rurouni Kenshin. It is about the members of a magic guild called Fairy Tail who fight bad guys. Cute and can be quite funny.
His Thoughts: Found this show and watched the entire first season within a week. Unreal. I have not been able to stop thinking about this since I stopped watching it. The stories, the characters, THE WORLD, are all a fresh breath of air in an otherwise stagnant pool of crap that the world now finds it in as far as “creative writing”. A world that is set in a fantasy “dark ages” with titans that eat humans, and only humans (no animals), and humans have survived only by living behind a series of enormous circular walls that form progressively smaller rings in which people live. Titans are winning however, and even breaking down walls! Humans are being forced to retreat further and further to the center as over population, food shortages, and extinction are all on the table! I can’t honestly believe that I have never heard about this until I saw it on Netflix- this is a classic that I hope gets seasons 2-10 because this world is unreal! This is an intense anime like Dragon Ball Z or Claymore (love them both for it…) and PEOPLE DIE! INTENSE FLIPPEN SHOW!
Her Thoughts: I found this to be a very interesting anime! The premise of the story is that cities are walled off to protect the inhabitants from these giant human-eating monsters. One day they break through the wall so now the humans will have to fight back! It reminded me a lot of Pacific Rim, similar story and both had really good music in it! Highly recommend this one.
His Thoughts: This show intrigued me! Super interesting intelligent show based off of sociopaths and crazy murderers with the famous “Hannibal” as one of them. Like my wife said; “the show was going to follow the main character Will, a man who can relate to serial killers so well he sometimes thinks he has done the deed himself! By the end of season one though, I'm not sure if I like the direction it is heading...” This show could take over Dexter as one of my favorites if the show is about Will catching bad guys and not about Hannibal “always winning the day”. Season 2 will tell if this is crap or a masterpiece.
Her Thoughts: This is a pretty neat show about the infamous human eating serial killer Hannibal Lecter. I thought the show was going to follow the main character Will, a man who can relate to serial killers so well he sometimes thinks he has done the deed himself! By the end of season one though, I'm not sure if I like the direction it is heading... The best part of the show is Hannibal's tie collection and the gang of dogs Will owns. So cute! The show is a little gory but overall pretty clean (no nudity or language).
His Thoughts: This is a weaker version of Supernatural. I wish they would explain stuff more and get more “serious and bloody” like Supernatural does, would make the series much better. Who knows, maybe season 2 does? It follows a Grimm who can see “bad creatures” for who they really are. Confused at how creatures know they have been seen and how they are human and creature but it never explains. You have a human that’s not human, it’s a rat or a wolf or a troll, but they look human, and Grimm can see them for who they really are when they turn? It never really explains if they are always wolf or if they “turn wolf” and what goes into that, but the only thing that seems to happen is that their face changes? LoL! Their bodies don’t change in the slightest, just their faces… Odd… Needless to say a 3/5 watered down and “child friendly” version of Supernatural.
Her Thoughts: Grimm about this guy Nick who lives a pretty normal life as a detective, who one day finds out that he is a "grimm"- he has the power to see creatures (based off of Grimm's fairy tales) and he is to kill them. He befriends one creature and sees that not all of these guys are bad and ends up helping them. So-so story at best, this series is similar to Supernatural but not nearly as good! Will probably not watch anymore of this one.
His Thoughts: I don’t like this series. Season 1 I could barely tolerate past my gag reflex as this lady is like clinically insane- seriously CINICALLY INSANE! SHOUD NOT BE WALKING THE STREETS INSANE! We wonder how some dude that was medicated and we knew all about could somehow manage to cut off another mans head in a public bus and then months later be out on the streets again (thank you Canada!) this show will show you why… People are clinically insane should not be allowed on the streets, they are more dangerous overwhelming statistically than legal gun owners- maybe we should have people register their insane family members? Needless to say hated season 1, maybe even giving it a 0/5 and season two maybe getting a 2/5… Might be watching more of this JUST for Ashley’s sake since I think her numbers were 2/5 and then 3/5 but who knows… This show is about an insane woman who tracks down other insane people and can do it well because she is… insane as well…
Her Thoughts: Homeland follows an CIA agent Carrie who has bipolar disorder and is a little crazy at times but does her job well! She is informed that an American soldier has been captured by this bad Al-Qaeda guy and has been turned. A couple years later Nick Brody, an American soldier, is found in Afghanistan and comes home as a hero. Carrie is convinced that Brody is working for Al-Qaeda and now she has to try to convince the rest of the CIA! Pretty good show, the first season didn't end the way we wanted/thought it would but the second season was good all the way through!
His Thoughts: I like Kevin, always have- I think his acting is top notch. Death Sentence? Phenomenal! This show was so-so, with a very blah story with no real depth or understanding of the occult, they even at one point in time throw The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints under the bus; if you are comparing Mormons to the real “occult” you are seriously retarded OR don’t know your facts… It was like in Dexter when they were in the crazy religious nuts house and they found “religious crazy books” on his shelf’s, one of which was one of the Work and the Glory books… Lmao… ONE of them, it is a series of like nine GIANT books and this nut happens to own book number 4 and puts it in between The Apocalypse and How Everyone Will Burn books on his shelf? Best part is that the book is like “Little House on the Prairie” for Mormons, this is BORING STUFF! HAHAHA! If you don’t know facts you can end up looking REALLLLLLLY dumb! This guy gets wacked in the back as he walks into a room with a gun I think 100% of the time, doesn’t see obvious things coming, has a heart problem and can’t get too serious or run around 99% of the time, but somehow at the very end can get angry enough to bypass his heart problem that medically he shouldn’t be able to and then Jean Claude Van Dammes for the finale. Fun decent show with plenty of plot holes and errors so as to not be taken seriously this show is a 2/5 or a 3/5 depending on your mood.
Her Thoughts: This show was interesting and Kevin Bacon does a great job at his role! He plays a former detective who is trying to hunt down this guy who has created a cult or "following" of people that will do anything for him.
His Thoughts: Holy HELL did this show go up and down like a roller coaster… Season one was terrible, seriously terrible… The main character was SUCH an @$$ the whole show that it made watching it actually painful for me. She would yell and belittle an old man with AMNESIA while he is drinking a milkshake for being such a horrible man in his past until he is crying all over the place and then just walks out of the store like that makes her any better than he was…? UGGG! But, I pressed on due to recommendations that it gets better… AND IT DOES! She does this 180 degree turn around and it actually gets very cool! Walter Bishop MADE this show, he is truly amazing. That being said the show takes a dive at the end- I mean a MAJOR dive and ends with you just shaking your head. It was as if they were told “the show has to end, it isn’t doing well enough” and so they just fast forwarded 20 some odd years into the future and ended it in like 6 episodes! LoL! I am not even making this up… This show went from a 1/5 to a 5/5 to a 2/5, don’t know how else to explain it…
Her Thoughts: I hated Olivia in the first season. We almost didn't watch anymore but we caved, and the show did get better. I love Walter and my favourite part of the whole show was laughing at the names he would call Astrid! (He can never remember her name...) Things went downhill after Season 3 and the ending leaves you scratching your head...
His Thoughts: Season 1 was a more mature and awesome version of Macgyver, would give it a 5/5. Seasons 2-Fin were just a very M for mature dumb drama. And we all know a good drama is all about adding drama everywhere, even when it would never happen in real life. Poor writing-honestly could have been watching a soap opera by the end… No difference… In fact two of the main actors in the show also were in the TV show VIP with Pamela Anderson; that should tell you something…
Her Thoughts: Hmm, what can I say about Breaking Bad? The first season was really good- very interesting concept of a high school chemistry teacher who starts making methamphetamine when he finds out he has cancer. In the first season you see Walter use some of his chemistry knowledge to get him out of predicaments, but you don't see anymore of that in the rest of the series which is disappointing. The ending did not leave me very satisfied- overall it was okay but there are better shows. Bad language and nudity in this one too.
His Thoughts: A better version of X-Files that seems to be going down the same road? The show started off as Sam and Dean (brothers) hunting down and killing the supernatural. It was fun and got you hooked as they went from “lady in white” to “ghost” to “vampire” to “werewolf” to “demon” to “shapeshifter”, on and on and on IN ONE SEASON! There were special ways to kill each of them and identify them and it was actually a really cool show! Then entire seasons became all about “demons” and then “angels” and then “leviathans” etc etc etc. I can’t remember the last time we have seen a shapeshifter or a lady in white… Seriously going downhill FAST and they need to get back to their roots of “hunting unique things down and killing them” or this could end horrible bad! Have to say though, playing Kansas “Carry On Wayward Son” at the start of each season finale is kick-ass, HAHA!
Her Thoughts: Supernatural is a really good show that follows the Winchester brothers Dean and Sam through their experiences with the supernatural! Pretty unique story, with an excellent theme song that gets stuck in your head!
Her Thoughts: Dragon Ball Z is not my favourite show of all time... The characters are lovable but the story seems to repeat itself. Maybe I would be more of a fan if I had watched it growing up!
His Thoughts: I honestly don’t even know how to do this… This was one of my favorite shows in recorded history! This was such an amazing show that followed a “serial killer who only kills bad guys”. Twisted in how it made you question just whether or not Dexter was a bad guy for mutilating people if he was only doing it to people who mutilated innocent people- this show was super interesting. My wife and I even enjoyed the seasons that people seemed to hate- saying that season 1 was the best. I would agree that season 1 was darn good, but Trinity and a couple others would be contenders for top season over season 1 in my book- the point is that it was not just a “one season show” for my wife and I. That being said the last two seasons were absolute garbage. (I would go into more detail but I can't without throwing out major spoilers) From start to finish the writing was absolute $#!? that made you feel like the last 6 seasons you didn’t get to know Dexter at all! Everything they taught you about him was THROWN out the window for seasons 7-8 and they ended it with one final F-U to the fans. Thinking BACK on this tv show just makes me angry now and leaves me with a nasty taste in my mouth- don’t know if I will ever watch the series again, and if I do I don’t know if I would watch seasons 7-8 or just make up my own “ending”; because what happened after “the event” at the end of season 6 was a complete travesty of Dexter.
Her Thoughts: Oh Dexter... It is my favourite TV show, which is kind of hard to admit because it is not very clean- lots of swearing, some nudity and can be gory. But Dexter is the most unique character I have seen on TV or read about. He is a serial killer who kills serial killers. Dexter is such a nice guy that you don't mind him killing these bad people and it is fun to see him track them down! The show was excellent until season 7 and 8- they were terrible! I might recommend new people to not even watch those two seasons because it kind of ruined it for me!
His Thoughts: I thought that this was a great show from start to finish. I never “didn’t like Monk”, maybe because I saw wayyyyyy to much of myself in him? Who knows… Each show was basically its own entity, with Monk solving a murder because he is a super smart OCD man. There is a “main storyline” but it is small and drives the show along, but never TAKES OVER THE SHOW. This allows it to be great from start to finish and allows the “ending” to wrap up super nicely. You will feel good and smile when this show ends; it ends well and makes you feel gratified for having experiences his life with him. Thinking back on the show you will not regret watching it.
Her Thoughts: I hated Monk for probably about half of the first season. Adrian Monk is a detective who has obsessive-compulsive disorder. He has to constantly wash his hands, make things straight, not walk on cracks, touch every light... He drove me crazy!! But I got past that and found it to be a very good show. Each episode Monk solves a case which is nice because it is like a watching a mini movie each episode. Overall a good, clean, fun show!
His Thoughts: There are three phases an “artist” goes through when creating art; be that a movie, a tv show, a painting, etc… The first phase is “I need money” in which an artist has an idea- possible a fantastic idea- but needs to SELL that idea. If the idea is good and the artist worthy it might be picked up and moved forward. You can see some amazing work done in phase 1, but typically not “masterpieces”. Phase 2 is entered when the artist realizes he has “succeeded” and people “like” his/her art. This phase involves mastery, in which the artist realizes what he does well and enjoys giving people what he does well and creates many “masterpieces”. Phase 3 is entered when the artist has had enough “success” and no longer feels satisfied with “making others happy” or “making more money”, as he has plenty of both typically by this point. Now he branches off into what he deems to be “more important social, physiological, political, and otherwise ground shattering/earth changing philosophies” and his “art” no longer is “art” but a tool to push or sway his viewpoints on to others. This phase produces the worst “art” and in most chases the artist loses the respect of his followers all together, but doesn’t mind as he is now surrounded by be a newer, smaller group of people who enjoy his/her “new art” because it happens to push their same ideological viewpoints. The artist doesn’t last long in phase 3 before typically disappearing.
The Simpsons Phase 1: Bart Simpson was the show. The idea of a crazy kid doing crazy stuff driving the parents absolutely crazy was sold and the show got its first couple of real seasons and people could relate to the show and it did “sell”. There were some really good shows here that made you remember why you fell in love with these guys to begin with, as well as the creative power of the people who came up with the ideas and concepts and created this world. I really enjoyed this time period, as well as “The Bart Man” songs and “Butterfinger” commercials that drove this period in the shows life time. Most of the episodes in this time were focused around Bart, with the other people “co-staring” if you will.
The Simpsons Phase 2: Homer Simpson was the show. The creator realized that he had stumbled onto something great when he created this world; Homer Simpson. Unique in his “Doh!” and many other features, made this character a unique masterpiece, while still being broad enough that everyone could relate to and understand the guy. These shows and seasons are masterpieces, with shows being some of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life. The artist was working with one thing in mind- to make as many people laugh as humanly possible and he clearly enjoyed doing it, and he clearly succeeded. These shows were universal in their appeal and hilarious in their uptake. They centered the show around Homer Simpson with all the other characters being “co-stars”.
The Simpsons Phase 3; Lisa Simpson is the show. One of the longest running shows on TV, more money than anyone could ever spend, tired of just eliciting the emotion response of “making people laugh and enjoy life” the show turns into a political and ideological soap box that no longer has creative genius or “make you laugh appeal”. The shows become about “global warming” and “saving the rainforests” and follows Lisa Simpson primarily as they try to push and push and push their ideological view points down your throat. You continue watching the show, hoping that there will be one good “neutral and funny masterpiece” like you have come to expect, but get more and more disillusioned with each passing episode, until finally you stop watching all together. A new crowd comes in and watches the show, a much smaller crowd, but the creators don’t care because they have as much money and fame as they could possible want, and now the only people watching the show are the people they deem to be “good people” because they happen to be the same people who agree with them politically and ideologically. Eventually this form of “art” (if you can even call it that) disappears because it is not and will never be financially sound to cater to the few and piss off the mass. They center the show around Lisa Simpson with all the other characters being “co-stars”.
Her Thoughts: The first couple seasons of The Simpsons are actually pretty funny. Homer and Bart are the main focus which made it the best because they are both so silly and it is easy to laugh at them! I found the longer the series went on the more they drifted away from Homer and Bart and focused on Marg and Lisa instead. The show became less funny and more political/environmental. Classic show but I'd say stick to the earlier seasons!
His Thoughts: I don’t know why Ashley put this one here! Haha! I loved seasons 1 to maybe 3? Every episode was about a unique crazy case that involved the “unknown” and I thought it was and probably is the best attempt at this ever. I loved it. After that it turned into this “main story line” which just got more convoluted and boring as the season went on. They needed to just stick with the individual cases like “The Simpsons” with each episode being its own entity and very little “main story” to push it along and keep it together.
Her Thoughts: I really enjoyed The X-Files. I loved how each episode was its own story that got solved at then end but that there was still a main story line. However, closer to the end of the series, the main story gets very confusing- is Mulder's sister alive? Did she get taken by aliens? It never answers the question out right. Overall a really fun show to watch that can sometimes leave you feeling a little spooked!!
His Thoughts: This anime is one of my favorites. Have to thank my sister Katie for this one, would never have found it otherwise! This show has the perfect amount of funny/action/love story to keep everyone happy. It is not too over the top on any of the three and because of that it turns out to be one amazing watch. The story starts with Samurai X, a story about a boy who watches as his entire nomadic “family” is butchered in front of him at a very young age. If it wasn’t for the selfless act of some younger women who gave their lives to protect and hide him with their bodies he would have died that night. Chance be told though that a legendary samurai happened to come by and slaughter the entire “brigand” group and then he went on his way. When the legendary samurai came back to deal with the bodies he found the boy had buried everyone; including the “brigands”. The master took him in and trained him. At this time the country went into revolt and Kenshin left his training early to join the revolution to try and bring about a better country. Over the course of the war he gains two scars on his face that form an X, and also losing all taste for the shedding of blood. Rurouni Kenshin is the story of his life after the war as a “wanderer” who has taken up a reverse blade sword and will not kill again; this however does not stop his old enemies from coming and trying to kill him- the problem is that even with a reverse blade sword, no one can touch him…
Her Thoughts: Growing up I did not watch a lot of anime (Sailor Moon being the exception). But Micah did like anime and he introduced me to this one soon after we got married. This show is really good and is my favourite anime by far compared to others! Rurouni Kenshin is about a boy who became an assassin who then changes his ways and becomes peaceful. He still protects his friends but he never kills anyone! Cute show!
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Alec Baldwin's daughter roasts her dad over infamous 'little pig' voicemail
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Model Ireland Baldwin poked fun at the infamous “thoughtless little pig” voicemail her dad once left for her, while roasting the actor for a new Comedy Central special.
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She joined the likes of Caitlyn Jenner and Robert De Niro, who gathered to mock Alec Baldwin over the weekend at the taping of The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin, and the 23 year old delivered one of the night’s top zingers.
“It’s not easy to be the daughter of an iconic movie star, but I’m not here to talk about my mom and her Oscar,” Ireland joked, adding that Alec “wasn’t the kind of dad who would play catch, but he would throw things at me!”
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And she confessed it was tough to get an apology from her dad after the angry voicemail message he left her when she was 11 went public: “Mission: Impossible is what I call getting my dad to apologise,” she said, before hugging the man of the hour.
Roast master Sean Hayes also referenced the voicemail, joking, “Don’t worry, Alec. Nothing said here tonight will be meaner than what you said on your daughter’s voicemail.”
The show will air in America on Sept. 15.
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Confirmit Reflects on 2019: A Year of Global Expansion and Forward-Thinking Initiatives
NEW YORK, OSLO, Norway and LONDON, Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Confirmit, the leading global solutions provider for Voice of the Customer (VoC), Voice of the Employee and Market Research (MR) is poised to enter 2020 with enhanced technology, greater global alignment, and top industry recognition to meet the evolving needs of its global client base.
As part of its focus on meeting the technological, security and compliance needs of a global client base, Confirmit will launch a new Horizons Cloud environment in Germany, based on Microsoft Azure, by the end of 2019. This adds to Confirmit's existing SaaS and Cloud environments currently available in the U.K., U.S., Australia and Canada, and ensures that Confirmit's customers are able to store their data in compliance with increasingly stringent data localization laws and regulations.
"The progress and implementations we've made this year directly reflect the increasing pace of the industry, particularly in terms of our clients' progressively global needs," said Ken Østreng, CEO of Confirmit. "We've prioritized the ability to deliver world-class products and solutions to our clients, giving them the enhanced ability to make smarter, faster decisions and deliver even better business outcomes."
Driving Customer Success:
Throughout 2019, Confirmit achieved several exciting milestones, particularly for its global MR clients – from the launch of new MR capabilities to the renewal and creation of innovative partnerships:
Technology Solutions:
In September, Confirmit announced its latest release of its comprehensive, industry leading software platform, Confirmit Horizons, to offer MR organizations greater field reporting, management and usability capabilities.
Customer News: Confirmit celebrated its clients through its two awards programs dedicated to recognizing excellence in customer experience and Market Research:
The 2019 ACEAwards, dedicated to Confirmit customers who have achieved demonstrable success in customer experience and employee engagement. Winners included: Amadeus Hospitality, ARI, Catalent, Empire Today, LexisNexis, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Wyndham Destinations Asia Pacific.
The 2019 Achievement in Insight and Research (AIR) Awards celebrated clients who demonstrate innovation excellence in Market Research and insights. The global list of winners featured: Ecorys, Enhance Research, Fine Research, InsightWorks, Nepa, Nielsen China, QRS, and W5.
Confirmit also welcomed many new Market Research clients from around the world, and extended partnerships with existing businesses, including; CloudXink, Lieberman Inc., Integral Research, KS&R, and Userneeds.
A Partner for Success:
Confirmit has continued building on its reputation as a trusted partner to businesses committed to using customer experience initiatives to drive wider business success. It has aligned its global consulting team under the leadership of the recently promoted Chris Brown, VP, Global CX Consulting, adding new CX consultants in the U.K., U.S. and Australia. The team is dedicated to using their vast experience to work as a close partner with clients, proving clear guidance and best practices to avoid common pitfalls in the CX journey.
"Many B2B organizations overuse customer loyalty surveys, often relying on a small number of data points or a few of their most vocal customers' opinions to create a strategy," said Lisa Nakano, Service Director, Customer Engagement Strategies, SiriusDecisions. "Although these relationship surveys are valuable for understanding the loyalty of a customer base, they should not be the only component of a customer insights program. It is vital that businesses integrate and map business data from multiple sources, using surveys to fill in the gaps where only the Voice of the Customer can provide the insight required to make smart, customer-focused decisions."
Events, Awards and Recognition
Confirmit hosted a range of successful events around the world this year, including a global roadshow in New York City, London and Sydney focused on using insight to drive business success. Hundreds of people attended the events titled "Evolution or Revolution: The Road to Rock Stardom" to hear from industry leaders, analysts, and Confirmit experts. The roadshow was part of Confirmit's commitment to be a partner and enabler of insight-driven success.
Confirmit continues to be recognized as an industry leader through the following achievements, and sets the tone and standard for success through recognition of its customers and executives:
Confirmit won the Gold Stevie® Award in the Business Intelligence Solution category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
Confirmit Horizons was named as a 2019 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award winner by TMC.
The company won the Tech Culture award from TMC, which recognizes the best-of-the-best work cultures within the technology sector.
Confirmit's Director of CX Consulting Phil Durand and Confirmit customer Zancesca Spagnoletti, AVP of Customer Experience at Philadelphia Insurance Companies were named finalists of the 2019 CX Impact Awards by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA).
Quirk's named Confirmit a finalist for the Market Research (MR) Supplier Award, part of the larger Marketing Research and Insight Excellence Awards.
About Confirmit:
Confirmit is the world's leading SaaS vendor for multi-channel Customer Experience, Employee Engagement, and Market Research solutions. The company has offices in Oslo (headquarters), Grimstad, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Vancouver, and Yaroslavl. Confirmit's software is also distributed through partner resellers in Madrid, Milan, and Tokyo.
Confirmit powers Global 5000 companies and Market Research agencies worldwide with a wide range of software products for feedback / data collection, panel management, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Customers include Aurora, British Standards Institution, Cross-Tab, Dow Chemical, GfK, GlaxoSmithKline, GMO Research, Nielsen, RS Components, QRS, and Swisscom. Visit www.confirmit.com for more information.
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Jason Brindley Looks Back On The TNS Academy Year
By Stewart Bloor | 27th December 2017
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Happy New Year to all involved with The New Saints FC Academy, from players and families to staff and supporters. Each person pulling together to assist the development and nurturing the love of the beautiful game.
Before we look ahead to 2018, it now makes more sense then ever to look at where we have come from and what we have achieved in these past 12 months, both individually as players and collectively as an Academy for the Welsh champions.
2017 has been an incredible year for our Academy, filled with experiences and memories that will last a life time. We have taken numerous age groups to play in Tournaments throughout the year. In July our 2006 born travelled to Calamocha in Spain to participate in the Jamon Cup.
The tournament contained teams such as Real Betis, Villarreal, Valencia and Real Madrid, among others. TNS actually finished a respectable 16th, ahead of huge teams including Athltic Club Bilbao. It was a brilliant experience for our youngsters and we were proud of the way they conducted themselves and the friends and supporters they made in the tournament. We seemed to have more and more people cheering and supporting us each game.
Our U13s travelled to France to compete in the Bourbourg tournament for the second year running over August bank holiday. The tournament is another huge one containing top teams from throughout Europe. Our players again did the club very proud and we have been invited to two further tournaments on the back of their performances.
The squad that travelled to France
Closer to home we entered into different tournaments around the UK over the course of 2017. Our U15s entered into the Youdan tournament in Sheffield, a tournament that contained both Sheffield heavyweights. Our 15s did fantastic, particularly goalkeeper George Scott who won player of the tournament.
George Scott – Player of the Youdan Tournament
In August all age groups entered the Manchester International Super Cup. This year for the first time we challenged our players further by each team playing one year up. It was really positive to see players have to adapt their game and really battle at times against older players.
Penalty time at the Manchester Cup
Our U11s actually won the Randlay Colts summer tournament when they were playing in the U12 tournament, although it was very difficult for them. They all played amazingly and battled as a team.
The Randlay Tournament
Our U14s from last season also won the National Futsal tournament down in Cardiff , a great achievement by a strong group.
Futsal winners – another TNS Academy highlight
Our U16s came second in a summer tournament at Leicester City, losing narrowly to West Brom in the final.
The Leicester Tournament
We held our own International Football Festival at Park Hall Stadium earlier this year too, welcoming Liverpool, Stoke, Shrewsbury, Mansfield, Wrexham and HFC Haarlem. This was the first time that we have done something to that scale and it went really well. Great to be attracting that level of opposition to The Venue also.
The International Football Festival at Park Hall
On the subject of international, four of our U15s represented Wales earlier this season also, in the Cymru Cup. A great achievement for the players and we are very proud.
Our U15s had a great time in the Cymru Cup
In terms of fixtures and opportunities, we have faced off against all the top teams from around the UK. We welcomed Southampton to Park Hall Stadium as well as travelling to the South Coast. Other opposition include Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton, Manchester City, amongst many others.
Proudly posing at Manchester United
We even welcomed the Thailand National team to face our Academy, a landmark fixture and a great event. It shows how far we have come that we regularly attract these fixtures and do so well against them.
We welcomed the Thailand U15 national side to Park Hall
It’s not just about the opportunities and experiences but more important it’s the development of all our Academy players. Such is the amount of contact they experience now it is important that we coach to make people over players, and that the skills taught can be taken through any walk of life. Obviously our aim to give players the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams but it’s important that when they do leave the Academy one way or another that they leave as a better person as well as player.
A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to create the ‘TNS Way’ this past 12 months. It’s our ‘DNA’, which consists of the three elements which create that. It’s the ‘Culture’ to create that professional environment, it’s the ‘Mentality’ of all our players that hard work will beat talent when talent doesn’t work hard and also the ‘Identity’ of what we feel a TNS Player should look like, on and off the field. We are getting that now and setting the standards, even from our youngest Academy age groups.
If you look closer at the achievements of individuals and age groups in terms of development this past year then you can see what we are doing is working. From last season’s U16s, Ben Clark has signed a professional contract for our first team.
With the Real Madrid youngsters in Spain
Back in July eight of them also represented our first team in the Shropshire Senior Cup. As an Academy we want to develop players to be at the level to represent our first team or even better. Former Academy player Jack Vale signed a pro contract for Blackburn Rovers and has already represented their U23s, at 16 years old.
We currently have numerous players trialling at some of the biggest teams in the UK, including United, City (Manchester clubs) and Everton. It’s great that we are developing players to that level and giving them the platform to showcase their talent.
There is hardly a moment to catch your breath on what we have achieved these past 12 months. But we can’t stand still and look at what was but always look forward and think what can be and how we can improve. We have a great team of staff that I am very proud to work with, extremely hard working and a credit to themselves and the club.
We have the parents, so committed and dedicated to being the ‘taxi’ and getting their son to every contact. And then finally, the most important aspect, we have the players. My position has changed this season from head of ‘Foundation Phase’ of the club to ‘Head of Academy’ so I have made it my personal target to get to know every one of our 150+ players, both as a player and as a person.
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I think that some of the players we have in the club are incredible and I feel privileged to be able to work with them and assist their development. All the age groups have that clear identity that is unique to our club and the players show a great understanding of that. I feel very proud of the improvements made throughout the Academy in 2017 and am relishing the challenge of bettering that in 2018….
For more information on our Academy, contact jason.brindley@tnsfc.co.uk
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stewart Bloor
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Cricket news - Focus on Mithali Raj's role ahead of New Zealand T20Is
India had a good time in the ODI series versus New Zealand, winning the series 2-1
When they last played a T20I, there was disappointment followed by a controversy that rocked Indian women's cricket. A semifinal exit against England gave rise to plenty of questions, the chief of which was the role of Mithali Raj in India's T20 team. A batter who likes to take her time at the crease wasn't a preferred option for India at the top of the order and that led to ego clashes between Raj and former coach Ramesh Powar, with T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice captain Smriti Mandhana siding with the former India spinner.
While that topic had taken a backseat in recent weeks, it's back in focus with India set to take on New Zealand in three T20Is. With WV Raman handed the responsibility, how will he define Raj's role - especially with the T20 WC a year away?
While the focus will be on how the team gels together in the shortest format after the public fallout between two of its senior players, Raj has insisted several times that being in a professional setup, the players understand the larger goal of the team and are over their personal differences. They did manage to showcase that professionalism during the 2-1 ODI series victory against New Zealand and will be hoping to continue in the same vein during the T20I series.
The Indian batters were all in good form in the ODIs, with Mandhana leading the way, but the last game served as a reality check after they were skittled out for a sub-par total and went on to lose the game by a big margin. While the Indians will be keen to prove that their performance in the final ODI was an aberration, New Zealand will be buoyed by the victory and will be looking to extend that momentum in the T20Is which are all double-headers with the men's teams playing soon after them.
When: Wednesday, February 6 at 4:00 PM Local time (8:30 AM IST)
Where: Westpac Stadium, Wellington
What to expect:In the previous ODI between the New Zealand and Indian men's sides played at this venue, the hosts failed to reach a target of 253 on a two-paced wicket. Partly cloudy and windy conditions will welcome the teams at the Westpac stadium.
New Zealand: The hosts recalled Frances Mackay after a five-year absence while also including uncapped players Caitlin Gurrey and Rosemary Mair in the 13-member squad. "We've had to draw a line in the sand after our performance at the T20 WC. We need to reward and give opportunities to players in form," New Zealand coach Haidie Tiffen had said, hinting at debut opportunities during the series.
India: Shikha Pandey, who was missing from the T20 WC squad, has been recalled to the Indian team. The visitors also have the uncapped Priya Puniya - a 22-year-old opener from Delhi - in their squad of 15. It remains to be seen if she debuts straightaway.
- Suzie Bates and Harmanpreet Kaur scored 670 and 663 runs respectively in T20Is in 2018 - the most scored by anyone in a calendar year in Women's T20Is.
- Harmanpreet is 114 runs short of the 2000 milestone in T20Is. Only Mithali Raj has scored more than 2000 runs in T20Is for India.
- Suzie Bates has been dismissed without scoring 10 times in her T20I career. Another duck will put her jointly on top with Deandra Dottin for most ducks in T20Is.
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New Zealand: Amy Satterthwaite (c), Suzie Bates, Bernadine Bezuidenhout (wk), Sophie Devine, Hayley Jensen, Caitlin Gurrey, Leigh Kasperek, Amelia Kerr, Frances Mackay, Katey Martin, Rosemary Mair, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu.
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Mithali Raj, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Anuja Patil, Ekta Bisht, Dayalan Hemalatha, Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy, Shikha Pandey, Priya Punia.
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Comedian Vilaska Nguyen's "Closing Argument" is inspired by his experiences as a public defender, son of Vietnam War refugees, and more.
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About Closing Argument
Vilaska Nguyen is a public defender by day and comedian by night. "The Closing Argument Comedy Show" touches upon Vilaska's experiences in the criminal justice system, being the son of Vietnam War refugees, and the impossible task of being a competent parent in San Francisco. Join Vilaska and friends for a night of laughter and unbridled celebration until it's time to meet the babysitter.
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Tentacle-Free Anime: "Blood: The Last Vampire" (2000) Review
- by Kazekun & Ninja Ross, 14 October 2013
In honor of horror month, I have teamed up with one of my amazing fellow Trash Mutants, Ninja Ross, for a double review of a movie that I have enjoyed several times over my lifespan as a human organism. This feature dabbles in my favorite kind of monster from the horror genre: vampires!
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000); Episodes: 1 movie;
Studio: Production I.G.; Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo;
Chiropterans are evil beasts which pose as humans and live only to drink human blood. Fortunately for the human world there are groups dedicated to destroying them. A brooding and mysterious girl named Saya is the best Chiropteran slayer there is, and now, in 1960's Japan, she is sent to a U. S. army base which may be infested... [AnimeNewsNetwork.com]
Kazekun: This was a fun movie, I've seen it several times and it never gets old. It's one of those "Day in the life" type of movies 'cause if you think about it this was just a few days in Saya's life and not a very "big" adventure. But I enjoyed the dark atmosphere and the superb animation. The chiropteran beasts looked terrifying.
Ninja Ross: I wouldn't say they look terrifying but they were certainly effective. The elongated mouths were pretty creepy and gave them kind of a decomposed look that made them nice and creepy. And I agree, the short time span in which the film was great; it made Saya look pretty professional, since she just pops in, kills some vamps and leaves. The plot was pretty simple; weird girl goes undercover in a school on an American military based in order to smoke out a couple of vampires. Simple as it may be, it was well executed great pacing.
Kazekun: I thought the same thing. The plot of an undercover operative to take out a monster is nothing new and was used to its very minimum here but I think it was still fun and entertaining. It didn't change your life but gave you an hour to kill while you watched Saya kill. Have you ever seen this movie before, Ross? I know you're not a huge anime fan, but you like a good story every once in a while.
Ninja Ross: I have indeed seen it before, a few years ago. I barely remember it, but there are some images that stick in the mind, since they were pretty well done. As you mentioned, I don't watch a lot of anime but one thing I have noticed, is... There are a lot of schoolgirls in anime, including this one; What's with that?
Kazekun: School girls are, for lack of a better term, a fetish in this anime otaku culture. Manga comics (which in turn become anime) have always been considered more for boys and what do boys like better than young schoolgirls around their age to fawn over? Though in recent years other animators have begun to turn schoolgirls in anime into the symbol for shows regulated more towards girls. Here in Blood we see the creator showing an empowered girl who is both sexy and badass in what she does. Something for the girls and the guys.
Chiropteran attacking a soldier
Ninja Ross: I did notice that Saya wasn't as exploited as some anime I've seen. That was certainly nice! Thanks for clearing that up, I've always wondered about it! I thought the horror in this was excellent, thanks to Hiroyuki Kitakubo's directing. The way he created tension using close ups and sound was very effective in creating atmosphere. The opening scene especially, with the way he used the credits to break up the action, was very well done.
Kazekun: I completely agree! This was an original concept story where he got to be really experimental, it came out in a time when anime was sort of seeing a boom in more original stories an experimental work than you can see today. I loved every close-up of the chiropterans (which, if you didn't know, chiroptera literally means bat) their red eyes shining in the darkness was creepy. And there were a few moments that put you right on edge, most those scenes dealing with the nurse, experiencing all this carnage through her eyes. That being said though, and going back to your original comment on Saya's professionalism, I did notice that you really can't relate to Saya and she remains a sort of enigma throughout the whole thing. You get in and out so she comes across as a little too one dimensional.
Ninja Ross: Saya and David were pretty much the only characters I liked. I enjoyed how cold Saya was and how she was clearly there just to do a job. Her lack of emotion made the scene with the final vampire, on the airstrip, more effective. I liked David simply because I like grumpy characters. But the nurse... She drove me nuts. I'll admit, I really wanted a vampire to eat her. All she did was scream and sob. I know I know; she was frightened for her life. But still! Saya could have taken the time to at least find some duct tape.
Kazekun: Hahaha, I do like Saya and I agree with you on that, I wasn't a big fan of David but all I could think of was poor nurse. She was trying to hard to stay alive and just wanted this all to be a dream. But I was expecting her to die and was kind of glad she didn't. Maybe I was able to put myself in her shoes easier. What did you think of the setting? I thought it was quite original, a 1966 U.S. military base on Japanese soil. And everything looked real and authentic as well. I just realized this movie takes place during the Vietnam War, which went from 1955-1975.
Ninja Ross: I don't think she was trying that hard to stay alive. People who try to stay alive don't act as dumb as she did, surely! I liked the setting, sure. It was certainly unusual but it helped the atmosphere, I think. A violent war, unwanted by the people, seems to add to the tension a little.
Nurse Makiho
Kazekun: She's an older, motherly figure, probably single and doesn't think much of herself and has never really been in trouble. At least that is what I think of when I see her all panicked about instead of having the survival mind. I really like when characters and settings are realistic (even in fantasy you feel like it still could exist in some way) I especially love when characters look like real people like we had here in Blood. Though I have to say... Saya's lips. What was going on there? Haha
Ninja Ross: You've probably got the nurse spot on, there; but that doesn't make her any more tolerable to me. I appreciate why she was there; she was there to, essentially, be the audience. To voice our concerns. "What was that? Why did that happen?" and so on. So, in that sense, she served a purpose and did it well. Something I didn't like about the movie, though, is the animation. I know it's not exactly a new movie and that anime tends to have a pretty tight budget but a lot of scenes were very clunky.
Kazekun: I agree with you on that, it's that middle ground between CGI and 2-d animation but I thought it was gorgeous in a lot of scenes. What was clunky?
Ninja Ross: Mostly the more subtle scenes. The action scenes seem to have eaten the majority of the budget, leaving others looking slow and poorly done at times. Although, the action scenes were pretty great. So, maybe it was worth it. You have a good point. This wasn't a very long movie so they spent every dime on the action. There really wasn’t a lot of subtle scenes anyways.
Saya being badass with a katana
Kazekun: I know there is a related anime called Blood+ that really expands Saya's character. I don't know if you've seen it but it's pretty great. So overall what did you think of Blood: The Last Vampire?
Ninja Ross: It's something I may check out in the future, actually. Over all, it was a well-directed horror with one annoying character and some animation problems.
Kazekun: Characterization wan't perfect all around, I would've liked to have known Saya a bit better, but I understand why they gave her such professionalism. Actually in a way she was like Hellboy, but without the snark and cigar.
Ninja Ross: 4 Whiny Nurses out of 5
Kazekun: 4 Red-Eyed Chiropterans out of 5
Have you seen "Blood: The Last Vampire"? Enjoyed the review? Let us know in the comments!
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Say hello to our new branding work for Wade Institute
Inspiring audacious entrepreneurship for the next generation of business leaders
The Wade Institute for Entrepreneurship is a new Institute that offers a Masters of Entrepreneurship course at Ormond College, Melbourne University, named after successful Australian entrepreneur, Peter Wade.
‘We are a smart nation but still too few of our great ideas are generating the future of our economy.’ – Peter Wade.
Peter sees entrepreneurs as important drivers of economic growth and feels a great urgency to fast track new, high impact businesses in Australia. The Wade Institute was established to nurture these aspiring entrepreneurs into the business leaders of tomorrow, to bring their ideas to fruition in a learning environment that encourages creativity and outside the box thinking, but through a rigorous, evidence based method of learning.
We needed to create a proposition and identity system to attract the next generation of business leaders to undertake the masters course at Wade. Research has found that the quality of students who enroll in a new course in it’s inaugural year often prove to be the highest caliber of students, those willing to take a risk on a new venture, who have a hunch and belief to follow through. Therefore we needed to build a bold and inspiring brand to attract this caliber of entrepreneurs.
A common theme that was born from the strategic process was a central thought of audacious entrepreneurship, which speaks directly to the level of ambition that Wade Institute shares, declaring to the world the wish to drive Australia’s entrepreneurial capability on a bold scale. It proclaims the vision to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem capable of giving birth to companies that matter – purpose inspired organisations capable of underpinning core elements of Australia’s future nation building endeavours. Innovative ideas that disrupt industries and dramatically change the landscape of industry sectors are inevitably audacious and daring.
Design Solution
We constructed a dynamic new way to showcase the diversity of opportunity at Wade Institute. The identity needed to reflect the personality crafted for Wade of Cutting Edge, Spirited, Expert and Generous.
A cutting edge identity has been developed to play on the name of the brand, creating “WADE IN”, a call out to inspire and excite applicants to get on board and “take the plunge”. This is supported by an ever evolving, dynamic graphic with evocative imagery that’s an abstract representation of imaginative, outside the box thinking.
The vibrant colours and abstract imagery are a call to arms for leaders of tomorrow to Wade In, on the conversation about a smarter Australia and contribute to the country’s prosperity.
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In the creation of a brand identity we typically explore a number of conceptual avenues. The robust conversation around which is the best option is often one of the most enjoyable parts of the process. We work with the client to refine the preferred option based on the response of the project team. The result is what launches the brand to market, but often there is a whole host of creative richness that for one reason or another never sees the light of day.
Here’s a snapshot of some of the other creative directions developed as part of the branding process for Wade of which we are equally proud.
*Indicative imagery used on brochure cover found on Behance.
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Logitech Squeezebox Boom
Logitech Squeezebox Boom Review - Logitech Squeezebox Boom Review
Edward Chester | May 26, 2011 2:04 pm BST
Page 1 Logitech Squeezebox Boom Review
If you’ve set up your digital home sensibly you’ll have either a low-power server, like the Windows Home Server based Tranquil T7-HAS, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device of some sort, like the Cube Station CS 406, that stores all your shared media. Although many of these sorts of devices do allow you to install extra programs on them, a fair number don’t. Even on those that do, the process can be overwhelmingly complicated.
If you can’t get SqueezeCenter installed on these devices, to access your music you have to install the SqueezeCenter software on another PC, which has access to the shared folders. You must then keep both the PC and the server/NAS box on at all times – far from ideal. The one saving grace here is that SqueezeCenter is open source and available for any platform that supports Perl so you’re more likely than not to stand a chance of getting it working.
Once you’ve signed up to the myriad accounts for your online services and to the SqueezeNetwork, and you’ve got SqueezeCenter installed and ready, you can finally get down to some listening and it’s here that the Squeezebox Boom really excels. Despite its compact frame, the Boom delivers a powerful, detailed, and rich soundstage that can be pushed to impressive levels of volume. As is always the case with small devices, the sound is a little narrow (and the inbuilt stereo-effect enhancer does little to help this) but it’s perfectly good for casual listening. Moreover, with the Squeezebox range supporting just about every file format you can think of, including lossless formats like FLAC, you don’t have to re-encode all your music into different formats for all your different players.
Overall then, if you already have a Squeezebox hooked up to your main Hi-Fi and you just want something small and simple to extend that functionality to another room, then the Squeezebox Boom will be right up your street. However, we feel that as a standalone device it’s a bit lacking. For a start, while you can receive conventional local radio broadcasts via (yet another) online service, the quality is very poor and we’d much rather the Boom just had normal DAB or even just FM tuners. On top of this, we’d also like to see CD playback, though we do appreciate why this isn’t included.
Finally, because the Boom is so packed to the rafters with functionality it just feels a bit complicated for its apparently casual use and most people would be better off with a decent quality DAB radio that they can just plug their mp3 player into the back of when needed.
The Logitech Squeezebox Boom is undoubtedly an impressive device that would make for the perfect accompaniment to an existing Squeezebox setup. On its own, though, it doesn’t quite master everything and some might find its initial setup and controls a little convoluted. That said, once set up, it does work and for its diminutive size the sound quality is excellent.
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth separate, People reports
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have split less than a year after they married, according to a report by People .
"Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time," a rep for Cyrus told the publication in a statement. "Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what's best while they both focus on themselves and careers. They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart. Please respect their process and privacy."
CNN has reached out to representatives for the couple.
On Saturday, Miley posted photos of herself on Instagram in which she was not wearing her wedding ring.
"Mute me if you don't want SPAMMED," she captioned one post.
The singer has been traveling in Italy in recent days.
It had seemed things were going well for the couple. Cyrus recently told Howard Stern on his SIRIUSXM Satellite show that she loved Hemsworth even more after he saved their animals from a wildfire in Malibu, California last November.
Cyrus lost the home in the fire.
She told Elle for it's August cover story that she was happy not fitting "into a stereotypical wife role."
"I think it's very confusing to people that I'm married. But my relationship is unique," Cyrus said.
"I don't know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it's so complex, and modern, and new that I don't think we're in a place where people would get it," she said. "I mean, do people really think that I'm at home in a f***ing apron cooking dinner? I'm in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women. People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f***ing good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most. I definitely don't fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don't even like that word."
Cyrus and Hemsworth met in 2009 on the set of "The Last Song," and were on-again, off-again for years before he proposed in 2012. They then split and got back together in 2015.
In December 2018, Cyrus surprised followers when she posted Instagram shots of their wedding ceremony at her home in Franklin, Tennessee.
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High water signs being stolen, vandalized
HENDERSON - State officials say high water signs are being stolen or thrown in ditches, causing confusion and serious hazards for drivers.
High water signs being stolen, vandalized HENDERSON - State officials say high water signs are being stolen or thrown in ditches, causing confusion and serious hazards for drivers. Check out this story on thegleaner.com: https://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/2018/02/28/high-water-signs-being-stolen-vandalized/383239002/
Douglas White, The Gleaner Published 4:40 p.m. CT Feb. 28, 2018
A high water sign is posted on Roberts Station Road in Madison County signifying water from the Forked Deer River to flow across, Monday, Feb. 26. A river flood warning is still in effect until Thursday. (Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)
HENDERSON - The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is asking for law enforcement assistance to stop the theft and vandalisim of Water Over Road, Highway, and Road Closed signage marking sections of flooded highways across the region.
Just this week, according to a news release, highway personnel have had to replace signs at several locations multiple times.
The Webster County Highway Maintenace Crew has replaced Road Closed signs along KY 109 near the Wheatcroft community on two occasions. During flagging operations while KY 109 was restricted to one lane at the site, a driver stopped and threw several signs into a nearby ditch. Another motorists tried to drive around other vehicles and KYTC personnel into oncoming traffic.
The McCracken County Highway Maintencance Crew has replaced Road Closed signs 3 times along a flooded section of KY 131/Said Road in the Clarks River bottoms at the McCracken-Graves County Line.
The problem has prompted calls from the public complaining that flooded roadways are not marked. However, in most instances crews find signs have been removed or tossed into the ditch.
KYTC spokespeson Keith Todd said removing signage marking flooded areas creates a danger for other motorists and can result in a citation.
“We’ve had calls from the public reporting they’ve seen other motorists stop and throw barricades and signs out of the roadway. We’ve also had reports of motorits driving over signs, barricades, and traffic barrels at some locations,” Todd said. “If you see someone removing or damaging signs placed along flooded sections, please get a licence number of the vehicle, take note of the specific location, and report it immediately to your local 911 call center.”
Todd noted that motorists caught damaging or removing signs can be cited for up to a $250 fine, with an additional $50 fine for each sign or traffic control device that is moved.
“Water is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t care if you are old, young, or middle-aged. It doesn’t care if you drive a new car or a well-worn vehicle. If you drive into floodwaters you can very quickly end up in a life-threatening situation. I find it hard to believe some people have so little concern for their neighbors that they would remove critcial signage marking flooded sections of our highways,” Todd said.
Some area counties indicated that they’ve had similar issues with people removing and damaging emergency signage on county roads.
Todd said it is discouraging for highway crews to spend hours checking the status of highways and marking flooded roadways to help keep the public safe, only to get a call an hour later saying that someone has removed or destroyed signs and barricades.
Many of the roadways closed by floodwaters are in rural areas where there are few people around, so vandals may feel free to steal, move, or destroy signs. Todd urged anyone who sees signs being stolen or damaged to immediately report the activity to police.
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Arsenal have edge as they and Manchester United try to regain old glory
This fixture used to revolve around the likes of Vieira, Keane and Keown as both sides have work to do to be title contenders
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Chris Smalling jumps on top of Sead Kolasinac but Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 in this fixture at the Emirates in March 2019. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
It caused a flutter of interest last week when Arsène Wenger was quoted referring to the manager’s position at Manchester United as a “dream job”. He had apparently outlined his old foes’ failings in some detail while admitting “I have ideas” when it comes to any potential vacancy at Old Trafford. As it happened, Wenger had made no such comments during a broadcast interview in which his actual observations were considerably more moderate. Somebody had completely made them up and, in a parable for these times, undue haste in places that should know better ensured the nonsense quickly spread.
The rush to inform the world that the former Arsenal manager had dangled vaguely provocative remarks in relation to United told of something else, too. Where there would once have been a queue of protagonists capable of fanning the flames before this fixture, the most expedient way to set pulses racing before Monday night’s meeting was to stir controversy through voices from the past.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær accepts Manchester United need more strikers
“On Monday at eight o’clock, in all the world, if someone wants to watch a game of football it’s this one,” said a current participant, Unai Emery, last week. He was right in one way, because it does not clash with any other game in a major league. But anyone still tuning in for the spit and snarl of the 1990s and 2000s – the bust-ups involving Schmeichel, Wright, Keane, Vieira, Keown, Van Nistelrooy, Fàbregas, a pizza buffet, Wenger and Ferguson – will be short-changed. This used to be the perfect Premier League rivalry: a showdown between high achievers from London and the north-west who, deep down, knew they had more in common than anyone would admit. Nowadays, viewers coming in from the cold would require a history lesson to ascribe any real gravitas to what they are watching.
There are, at least, plenty of similarities this time; just nothing anyone would crow to their established rivals about. Both clubs finished outside the top four last season, the second time that has happened in three years; there are question marks over both managers, still trying to rebuild after being dealt questionable legacies by their famous predecessors; both must grub around in the Europa League for their continental gratification and neither has yet made a compelling case for a return to the top level next season.
Thirteen years have passed since Arsenal last won a league game at United’s home and they have tended to let them off the hook there of late. Last season the hosts were deep into the end times of José Mourinho’s reign but the London side, despite going ahead twice, failed to see out a game riddled with mishaps. Most of their visits since the 8-2 capitulation in 2011 have at least been hard-fought but Arsenal’s arrival has broadly become a pick-me-up: an occasion on which United can persuade themselves they have the number of a fellow pretender to the elite.
It means United’s distressing injury list may yet prove less of a hindrance than any mental block Arsenal have developed. But it is doubtful that, under Wenger or Emery, the away side have come up against a weaker Old Trafford adversary than the one Ole Gunnar Solskjær will send out. They have a clear opportunity to shake off their hoodoo and, in the process, distance themselves from those comparisons of mediocrity. Even if Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial were fit, there is plenty to suggest Arsenal have better players – or players of greater potential – than United in most areas. Mason Greenwood is an exception to the latter but it would be a tall order for him to repeat the impact Rashford had when Arsenal visited in February 2016, scoring twice on his Premier League debut.
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A callow Rashford’s fortunes that day added to the lore of Arsenal being an obliging visitor. This season Emery’s team have been fun, their frailties compensated for by the clinical brilliance of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and – in recent weeks – the wild-eyed tenacity of Mattéo Guendouzi. But the head coach’s strategy is hardly obvious and there is a sense that a weekly white knuckle ride is not exactly the way he would rather have it. Whatever plan Solskjær has for United is little clearer: the Norwegian’s appointment was largely predicated on the fanbase’s vast reserves of goodwill for their old hero, an advantage Emery has not been able to enjoy in struggling to establish a rapport at the Emirates, but his reign’s early exuberance was soon weighed down by question marks.
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It was Arsenal who warned, four days after United’s spirited but streaky win at Paris Saint-Germain in March, that Solskjær’s magic might have limits when they won 2-0 at home. Granit Xhaka was one of the scorers and the debate over his selection as Arsenal captain seems light years from the era when Solskjær and Freddie Ljungberg – an increasingly visible presence alongside Emery in Arsenal’s technical area – would take their lead from Keane and Vieira. Neither set of fans would have dreamed of jeering their own skipper from the field, as happened to Xhaka last weekend against Aston Villa, back then, but the context and personalities surrounding this fixture have changed beyond recognition.
“Will they emulate what Giggs, Scholes, Beckham did over the years? Personally I’m not convinced,” Wenger said of United’s current crop in quotes that, this time, were incontrovertibly his. Even the most one-eyed regular at Old Trafford might agree. Anyone seeking to set fires raging around this year’s encounter with Arsenal is left flailing for ways to get the old feeling back.
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We Are Watching More TV Than Ever
By The Hairpin January 3, 2011
by Liz Colville
We’re watching more TV than ever before: an average of 34 hours per week, according to new data from Nielsen Company, which would suggest people are lugging their TVs into the shower and other places TV shouldn’t go, like brains, JK, or just aren’t showering. The other day I saw a woman watching a TV show on an iPhone while driving across a bridge during rush hour! So this is how people fit it all in.
Herewith, some highlights from the Great TV Watch of 2010.
-Generally speaking, TV “remains a refuge in the media revolution” (and perhaps a refuge from the media revolution, TV being not all that revolutionary).
-CBS’s Hawaii Five-o, a remake, was the top new show of the year. The network’s Blue Bloods and Mike and Molly also did really well, in the top 20 of new shows.
-ABC basically died after Lost ended.
-A telenovela called I’m Your Owner did really well.
-Fox News is still “#1 With Racists,” while MSNBC beat CNN in all age groups for the first time. But cable news declined overall, because no one cares about oil spills or elections. Anderson Cooper’s charms failed to bring in the big numbers; CNN’s prime time ratings sank 34 percent from 2009.
-The History Channel’s audience grew, but not because of history, unless people pawning things is historic.
-A Discovery channel called Investigation Discovery had some of the biggest gains, because people are obsessed with anything that has the words ‘crime’ or ‘investigation’ or ‘mystery’ or ‘unsolved’ or ‘disappeared’ or ‘torched car abandoned in the desert’ or ‘husband who seemed really nice but then started raping the whole neighborhood’ or ‘forensic evidence suggested 40 years later that they’d nabbed the wrong guy’ or ‘the tree was just too tall to be climbed’ or ‘I never thought much of her obsession with owls until’ or ‘she hid the stolen jewels inside the body’ or ‘she left her husband for her gym instructor and then they decided they would have kill the husband in order to be truly happy and at peace’ or ‘she was the sweetest child, but then’ or ‘chilling text messages’ or ‘we never thought our dog could do something like this’ or ‘while out motor boating on the river he heard a sudden thud’ or ‘while out walking her dog she was overcome by the stench of death, and fell the ground, from where she proceeded to dial 911’ or ‘it turned out not to be her sunglasses, so it would appear the crocodiles ate her, sorry we made you watch this whole episode only to find that the disappeared person for whom the show is named never actually reappeared.’
-Skating With the Stars did a triple salchow into a trash bin by the side of the rink.
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Rangers vs Canadiens turns nasty as Game 4 awaits
Kathy Willens
Published 2:15 pm EDT, Saturday, May 24, 2014
In this May 22, 2014 photo, a staff member examines New York Rangers center Derek Stepan (21) after Stepan took a hit from Montreal Canadiens forward Brandon Prust during the first period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Eastern Conference finals in New York. Stepan has a broken jaw and is undergoing surgery. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault made the surprising announcement Friday, May 23, 2014, on the first of two off days in the series New York leads 2-1. Prust wasn't penalized in the first period of Montreal's 3-2 overtime win Thursday night, but he faces an NHL hearing Friday and a possible suspension. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In this May 22, 2014 photo, a staff member examines New York Rangers center Derek Stepan (21) after Stepan took a hit from Montreal Canadiens forward Brandon Prust during the first period of Game 3 of the NHL
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December 31, 2013 | Feature Article
2014: Ekiti will be liberated from deceitful government - Adeyeye
By Prince Adedayo Adeyeye
Afenifere Chieftain and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has urged Ekiti people not to despair but keep hope alive in the New Year, describing year 2014 as the year God will put in place a government that will liberate the State from “governance by deceit.”
Adeyeye, in his New Year message to the people of the State, said he was committed to serving the people and making life more meaningful for the downtrodden, promising that he would continue to offer selfless services to the State.
The governorship aspirant, who is known as the Prince of Hope said; “I wish to congratulate the entire people of Ekiti State for this brand new year that God has made it possible for us to see.
“I also wish to urge our people, especially supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and our campaign organisation; Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM) to remain calm, focussed and keep hope alive in the New Year, because I am confident that the will of God will prevail on our dear State, Ekiti.
“Our people should remain hopeful because even in the face of pilfering of our collective wealth, plunging of the State into unnecessary debt and tyrannical governance, where supposed opponents of the government are hacked down, harassed, intimidated and attacked, there is assurance that like all the afflictions of the Israelites, this governance by deceit will soon pass away.”
While calling on Nigerians to remain faithful and supportive of the Dr Goodluck Jonathan-led federal government, the governorship aspirant said; “In spite of all our challenges as a nation, there is hope and assurance that our challenges are not insurmountable, and with President Jonathan's Transformation Agenda, it is sure that all those issues that give us concerns as a people will fizzle out this New Year.”
Disclaimer: "The views/contents expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of Prince Adedayo Adeyeye and do not necessarily reflect those of The Nigerian Voice. The Nigerian Voice will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article."
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You sit down with your meal and prepare it with “a little kick” or bring a few chili peppers with you to the table. You take a few bites when all of a sudden, as if someone lit your mouth on fire, the burn and spread of the chili pepper heat becomes all but too unbearable leading to the all too familiar fiery symptoms of the
Beaded Sweats
Scorching of the tongue & mouth
Watering and Tearing of the eyes
Burning and ringing of the ears
Coughing Profusely
Drooling of the mouth
Uncontrollable hiccups
Non-Stop Runny Nose
Firestorm diarrhea
Capsaicinoids are the chemicals which give rise to the heat of chilies. They are present in almost every pepper. Capsaicinoids are the name given to the class of compounds found present in members of the capsicum family of plants.
Capsaicin is the main capsaicinoid in chili peppers, followed by dihydrocapsaicin. Capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue (which holds the seeds), the internal membranes and, to a lesser extent, the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum. The seeds themselves do not produce any capsaicin, although the highest concentration of capsaicin can be found in the white pith of the inner wall, where the seeds are attached.
What is Capsaicin?
Capsaicin is a fatty alkaline oil and an active component of chili peppers. It is an irritant for mammals, including humans, and produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact. Capsaicin and several related compounds are called capsaicinoids and are produced as secondary metabolites by chili peppers, probably as deterrents against certain mammals and fungi. Pure capsaicin is a volatile, hydrophobic, colorless, odorless, crystalline to waxy compound.
What are the Effects of Capsaicin?
The capsaicinoids in chili bind to a receptor in the lining of the mouth (mucous membranes). This is the same receptor that registers pain from heat, thus the effect is a burning feeling. Capsaicin can also block the production of certain neurotransmitters, preventing nerves from communicating with each other. Similarly, these same sensitive nerve endings are present in the anus which also give rise to the burning sensation experienced when undigested capsaicin exits the body during bowel movements
Capsaicin also takes effect upon skin contact (irritant, sensitizer), eye contact (irritant), ingestion, and inhalation (lung irritant, lung sensitizer). With that being said, capsaicinoids won't actually attack your tissue or cause a chemical burn. The molecules bind to a pain receptor, so you may suffer excruciating agony, but your body isn't being harmed by the chemical.
Repeated exposure to capsaicinoids depletes these receptors, enabling you to eat hotter chilies and feel the same effect. The pain caused by this leads to the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers. These give a feeling of happiness and well-being.
Additionally, when chilies are eaten, the capsaicinoids irritate the trigeminal cells (pain receptors located in the mouth, nose and stomach), which release a chemical known as substance P into the blood which tells the brain you've eaten something hot. The brain responds by sending out the “fire squad” flushing the body with water to try and douse the flames, which is why after consuming a particularly hot chili some people suddenly break into a sweat, their nose runs and their eyes start to stream.
The trigeminal cells are also connected to the production of endorphins, morphine-like natural painkillers that produce a sense of well-being. It is the rush generated from the release of endorphins that is often cited as the reason why some "chiliheads" become addicted to fiery foods. Repeated consumption of chilies is also believed to confuse trigeminal cells, which is also why some of your 'Chili Monster' friends seem to have built up a tolerance to capsaicin and can eat the hottest habanero without even flinching.
What is not Effective Against Capsaicin?
Plain water is ineffective at removing capsaicin or stopping the burning effect due to the fact that oil-based capsaicin won't dissolve in water. On the contrary, water spreads the burning to parts that weren't previously affected. Alcohol such as beer is useless against the heat of a hot pepper. Chasing hot food with alcohol will magnify the burn because capsaicin will dissolve in alcohol however it will not be neutralized by it and, as with water, you'll only spread the burn around to parts that weren't previously affected. The exception here would be if you've had enough alcohol to dull pain reception. Carbonated beverages such as sodas and energy drinks as well as hot drinks including hot tea and coffee will cause the same effects as water, if not heighten the burn, due to their ineffectiveness to break down capsaicin and again, spread the burn to parts that weren't previously affected.
What is Effective Against Capsaicin?
The fat-loving protein called casein found in milk acts as a natural detergent, breaking up and dissolving the capsaicin and therefore, allowing it to wash away. Many dairy products also contain fat which can help to dissolve the capsaicin as well.
Additionally, the heat in the chili peppers is quantified by the amount of sugar needed to neutralize heat (measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU)) using what is known as the Scoville scale. Therefore, sweet, sugary products will also help alleviate and neutralize the chili pepper burning sensation.
For external exposure such as hands or skin, see our Pepper Police™ Coolant Wipes for immediate relief.
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The Pepper Police™ products are the first and only revolutionary products in the world to be specifically designed, developed, and formulated to protect and serve the chili pepper community from the unforgiving wrath of chili pepper flames at entry, exit, and upon contact. Using much of the data outlined above, we have tested and verified that the formulas, solutions, and ingredients used to produce The Pepper Police™ products are of superior quality and effective against neutralizing the effects of capsaicin and extinguishing the flames caused by chili peppers.
Casein is the main ingredient responsible for extinguishing the chili pepper flames due largely to its chemical composition and unique ability to break down capsaicin molecules.
The Pepper Police™ Coolant Wipe products are strategically infused with natural casein and coolant properties in addition to various other active compounds that assist in the process of breaking down and dissolving capsaicin and ultimately, extinguishing the chili pepper flames.
Additionally, our unique Pepper Medic™ products are custom formulated and exclusively manufactured for The Pepper Police™ and are strategically formulated to deliver a higher concentrated, more potent dose of casein and coolant per overall ounce in addition to its various other chili-combating infused ingredients. Using this unique approach, higher levels of concentrated casein and coolant compounds are strategically delivered to the chili affected area; essentially speeding up the breakdown process of binded capsaicin molecules to help extinguish the most excruciating of flames!
When you purchase The Pepper Police™ products, rest assured that you're receiving top quality, uniquely developed and specially formulated products specifically designed to help extinguish the chili pepper flames!
The Pepper Police™ products are the antidote, magic potion, & elixir you have been waiting for. Whether you're a genuine chilihead, a victim of letting your hand slip with the chili bottle, or simply someone who won't back down from a pepper challenge, The Pepper Police™ products are exactly what you need to help extinguish the fiery burn of the chili pepper flames. Yes, it's finally here!
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