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Fanfiction, The Claw Saga
Claw Saga Invasions
During the storyline of the Claw Saga, there was Main 5 Invasions that make up the Storyline.
Invasions
The Legend of Claw
the Legend of Claw was the first in the Claw Saga Invasions, it talks about Claw's past. at the end of it, the Planet Delphonus can be seen in the background, as the First Invasion is about to begin.........
Invasion I
The first part of the Delphonus Trilology. Claw has arrived to Delphonus, blocking out the sun, and turning Molterma into Metallerma. This is the First appearance of the Five heroes who eventually form Team Nightfall. It is estimated that the First Invasion lasted about 10 months. Claw is presumed defeated when the Magma in his lair rises, covering him, however,some time later, an arm rises from the Magma, as this is not the end, merely, the Beginning........
Invasion II
The second part of the Delphonus Trilology. a new Island has appeared within the Grand Sea, it was called Metallica (please note I never knew about the band until about 7 years after I created the continent, so to me, it was an original name). It is estimate the Second Invasion lasted about 3 weeks. Team Nightfall are sent to Metallica, and discover a member of the DragoonSquad, however they are sealed in an underground tunnel from an Avalanche, and they jorney to the end of the tunnel. Eventually, they reach the core, and meet a familiar face, however from an Incident, the left side of his body was of Metal, named Mecha-Claw. Mecha-Claw obtains The Star Crystal, one of five Universal Crystals from the Core, and with it, becomes Claw Omega. he is eventually defeated, and frozen within the Ice half of the core, stranded in an Icy prison for years to come.......
Invasion III
The Third and Final part of the Delphonus Trilology. Claw has been freed by his loyal minions, and has been secretly building the C.L.A.W. Satellite, from stealing parts from the four main Satellites that circled Delphonus (again, several years before I even knew about the Space Colony A.R.K., I created the C.L.A.W. Satellite, so to me it was an original), and had equipped it, with a laser, it would fire into the Tunnel in Metallica, hit the core, and melt the half made of Ice, The Volcano on Molterma would Erupt with far greater power, enough to overheat the atmosphere, causing Icandra to "melt", and flood the world as the sun would be blocked. Claw gave Team Nightfall two years before he would unleash the cannon's power. Nightfall eventually defeat Claw, for the last time on Delphonus, sd e leaves the planet, for good......
Invasion IV
as Claw promised, he left Delphonus, however, the next planet he would invade had been decided. this Planet Starikalo, was home to the Five Knights of the Dragon: Pyronex, Dragon of Fire, Aquina, Dragon of Water, Metallica, Dragon of Metal, Holik, Dragon of Light, and Drax, Dragon of Darkness. however, Team Nightfall followed Claw to the planet, in this and the next Invasion, they are considered Anti-Heroes instead, since they appear at certain times, and the main Heroes are the five knights. The Fourth Invasion was the same as the First Invasion, in terms of the Plan to invade. at the end of the Invasion, the five knights have defeated Claw at the Draxun Primo, and look at the sunset on a cliff. when Pyronex asks Drax what is the matter, Drax turns to face the four other knights with an evil smile and activates a smoke bomb, when it clears, he is gone.......
Invasion V
as Drax has disappeared, Claw reutrns, with the C.L.A.W. Satellite, it appears as Drax has been a commander for the Dark Star Army, for several years, as he has betrayed the Knights. this is the same as the third Invasion, however while aboard the C.L.A.W. Satellite, they run into Drax, at the Core, here he is accompanied by Claw. as The Knights are surrounded by Raptoroids and Clawbots, up against Rawnuk, Rasmex, Raptrin, Racler, Magicia, Deltor, Bashro, and Epeé, all seems hopeless, until Team Nightfall breaks in, and Drax turns against Claw, saying that he faked being a Commander. with the odds almost Even (10 against 10,000 is what they considered "Even"), The Heroes set out for their final attack, as the fate of the planet, rests in their hands, eventually the battle moves outside into space, where thousands of different Star ships have united to fight the Dark Star Army, the DragoonSquad is defeated by Pyronex, Aquina, Iroko, and Holik; Drax heads off to fight Claw. It is unknown if Drax actually defeated Claw, as the series ends with the phrase,"He looked back once before he raced off into the stars........"
Originally, there was only two Invasions, IV and V, the heroes were The Five Knights, an Anti-Hero Group Called Team Nightfall was also in the story, as it took place on Delphonus, but over time, the Saga was made into Five Invasions
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The Claw Saga
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/ AntiPatterns / Software Development AntiPatterns
AntiPattern Name: The Blob
Also Known As: Winnebago and The God Class
Most Frequent Scale: Application
Refactored Solution Name: Refactoring of Responsibilities
Refactored Solution Type: Software
Root Causes: Sloth, Haste
Unbalanced Forces: Management of Functionality, Performance, Complexity
Anecdotal Evidence: "This is the class that is really the heart of our architecture."
Do you remember the original black-and-white movie The Blob? Perhaps you saw only the recent remake. In either case, the story line was almost the same: A drip-sized, jellylike alien life form from outer space somehow makes it to Earth.
Whenever the jelly thing eats (usually unsuspecting earthlings), it grows. Meanwhile, incredulous earthlings panic and ignore the one crazy scientist who knows what's happening. Many more people are eaten before they come to their senses. Eventually, the Blob grows so large that it threatens to wipe out the entire planet.
The movie is a good analogy for the Blob AntiPattern, which has been known to consume entire object-oriented architectures.
General Form
The Blob is found in designs where one class monopolizes the processing, and other classes primarily encapsulate data. This AntiPattern is characterized by a class diagram composed of a single complex controller class surrounded by simple data classes. The key problem here is that the majority of the responsibilities are allocated to a single class.
In general, the Blob is a procedural design even though it may be represented using object notations and implemented in object-oriented languages. A procedural design separates process from data, whereas an object-oriented design merges process and data models, along with partitions.
The Blob contains the majority of the process, and the other objects contain the data. Architectures with the Blob have separated process from data; in other words, they are procedural-style rather than object-oriented architectures.
The Blob can be the result of inappropriate requirements allocation. For example, the Blob may be a software module that is given responsibilities that overlap most other parts of the system for system control or system management.
The Blob is also frequently a result of iterative development where proof-of-concept code evolves over time into a prototype, and eventually, a production system. This is often exacerbated by the use of primarily GUI-centric programming languages, such as Visual Basic, that allow a simple form to evolve its functionality, and therefore purpose, during incremental development or prototyping.
The allocation of responsibilities is not repartitioned during system evolution, so that one module becomes predominant. The Blob is often accompanied by unnecessary code, making it hard to differentiate between the useful functionality of the Blob Class and no-longer-used code (see the Lava Flow AntiPattern).
Symptoms And Consequences
Single class with a large number of attributes, operations, or both. A class with 60 or more attributes and operations usually indicates the presence of the Blob
A disparate collection of unrelated attributes and operations encapsulated in a single class. An overall lack of cohesiveness of the attributes and operations is typical of the Blob.
A single controller class with associated simple, data-object classes.
An absence of object-oriented design. A program main loop inside the Blob class associated with relatively passive data objects. The single controller class often nearly encapsulates the applications entire functionality, much like a procedural main program.
A migrated legacy design that has not been properly refactored into an object-oriented architecture.
The Blob compromises the inherent advantages of an object-oriented design. For example, The Blob limits the ability to modify the system without affecting the functionality of other encapsulated objects. Modifications to the Blob affect the extensive software within the Blob's encapsulation. Modifications to other objects in the system are also likely to have impact on the Blob's software.
The Blob Class is typically too complex for reuse and testing. It may be inefficient, or introduce excessive complexity to reuse the Blob for subsets of its functionality.
The Blob Class may be expensive to load into memory, using excessive resources, even for simple operations.
Typical Causes
Lack of an object-oriented architecture. The designers may not have an adequate understanding of object-oriented principles. Alternatively, the team may lack appropriate abstraction skills.
Lack of (any) architecture. The absence of definition of the system components, their interactions, and the specific use of the selected programming languages. This allows programs to evolve in an ad hoc fashion because the programming languages are used for other than their intended purposes.
Lack of architecture enforcement. Sometimes this AntiPattern grows accidentally, even after a reasonable architecture was planned. This may be the result of inadequate architectural review as development takes place. This is especially prevalent with development teams new to object orientation.
Too limited intervention. In iterative projects, developers tend to add little pieces of functionality to existing working classes, rather than add new classes, or revise the class hierarchy for more effective allocation of responsibilities.
Specified disaster. Sometimes the Blob results from the way requirements are specified. If the requirements dictate a procedural solution, then architectural commitments may be made during requirements analysis that are difficult to change. Defining system architecture as part of requirements analysis is usually inappropriate, and often leads to the Blob AntiPattern, or worse.
Known Exceptions
The Blob AntiPattern is acceptable when wrapping legacy systems. There is no software partitioning required, just a final layer of code to make the legacy system more accessible.
As with most of the AntiPatterns in this section, the solution involves a form of refactoring. The key is to move behavior away from the Blob. It may be appropriate to reallocate behavior to some of the encapsulated data objects in a way that makes these objects more capable and the Blob less complex. The method for refactoring responsibilities is described as follows:
Identify or categorize related attributes and operations according to contracts. These contracts should be cohesive in that they all directly relate to a common focus, behavior, or function within the overall system. For example, a library system architecture diagram is represented with a potential Blob class called LIBRARY.
In the example shown in figure 1, the LIBRARY class encapsulates the sum total of all the system's functionality. Therefore, the first step is to identify cohesive sets of operations and attributes that represent contracts. In this case, we could gather operations related to catalog management, like Sort_Catalog and Search_Catalog.
We could also identify all operations and attributes related to individual items, such as Print_Item, Delete_Item, and so on.
The second step is to look for "natural homes" for these contract-based collections of functionality and then migrate them there. In this example, we gather operations related to catalogs and migrate them from the LIBRARY class and move them to the CATALOG class.
We do the same with operations and attributes related to items, moving them to the ITEM class. This both simplifies the LIBRARY class and makes the ITEM and CATALOG classes more than simple encapsulated data tables. The result is a better object-oriented design.
The third step is to remove all "far-coupled," or redundant, indirect associations. In the example, the ITEM class is initially far-coupled to the LIBRARY class in that each item really belongs to a CATALOG, which in turn belongs to a LIBRARY.
Next, where appropriate, we migrate associates to derived classes to a common base class. In the example, once the far-coupling has been removed between the LIBRARY and ITEM classes, we need to migrate ITEMs to CATALOGs, as shown in figure 4.
Finally, we remove all transient associations, replacing them as appropriate with type specifiers to attributes and operations arguments.
In our example, a Check_Out_Item or a Search_For_Item would be a transient process, and could be moved into a separate transient class with local attributes that establish the specific location or search criteria for a specific instance of a check-out or search.
Sometimes, with a system composed of the Blob class and its supporting data objects, too much work has been invested to enable a refactoring of the class architecture. An alternative approach may be available that provides an "80%" solution.
Instead of a bottom-up refactoring of the entire class hierarchy, it may be possible to reduce the Blob class from a controller to a coordinator class. The original Blob class manages the system's functionality; the data classes are extended with some of their own processing.
The data classes operate at the direction of the modified coordinator class. This process may allow the retention of the original class hierarchy, except for the migrations of processing functionality from the Blob class to some of the encapsulated data classes.
Riel identifies two major forms of the Blob AntiPattern. He calls these two forms God Classes: Behavioral Form and Data Form
The Behavioral Form is an object that contains a centralized process that interacts with most other parts of the system. The Data Form is an object that contains shared data used by most other objects in the system. Riel introduces a number of object-oriented heuristics for detect ing and refactoring God Class designs.
Applicability To Other Viewpoints And Scales
Both architectural and managerial viewpoints play key roles in the initial prevention of the Blob AntiPattern. Avoidance of the Blob may require ongoing policing of the architecture to assure adequate distribution of responsibilities.
It is through an architectural viewpoint that an emerging Blob is recognized. With a mature object-oriented analysis and design process, and an alert manager who understands the design, developers can prevent the cultivation of a Blob.
The most important factor is that, in most cases, it's much less expensive to create appropriate design than to rework design after implementation. Up-front investment in good architecture and team education can ensure a project against the Blob and most other AntiPatterns.
Ask any insurance salesperson, and he or she may tell you that most insurance is purchased after it was needed by people who are poorer but wiser.
A GUI module that is intended to interface to a processing module gradually takes on the processing functionality of background-processing modules. An example of this is a PowerBuilder screen for customer data entry/retrieval. The screen can:
Display data.
Edit data.
Perform simple type validation. The developer then adds functionality to what was intended to be the decision engine:
Complex validation.
Algorithms that use the validated data to assess next actions.
The developer then gets new requirements to:
Extend the GUI to three forms.
Make it script-driven (including the development of a script engine).
Add new algorithms to the decision engine.
The developer extends the current module to incorporate all of this functionality. So instead of developing several modules, a single module is developed. If the intended application is architected and designed, it is easier to maintain and extend.
Continuous Obsolescence
Ambiguous Viewpoint
Functional Decomposition
Poltergeists
Boat Anchor
Golden Hammer
Spaghetti Code
Input Kludge
Walking through a Minefield
Cut-And-Paste Programming
Mushroom Management
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Melissa’s Aldea Wedding with a Very Special Cake
Melissa and Jerry married at the beautiful Aldea at Tlaquepaque in Phoenix earlier this spring. It's a stunning location, just perfect for outdoor ceremonies (think Spanish-looking arches, fountains and dramatic stairs) and indoor receptions (with lots of rooms and even a patio with fireplace). Melissa sent us photos with some stories from their special and uniquely memorable day.
(Editor's note: these are scans of hard copy photos.)
Melissa's hair and makeup was done by Heather Peterson. You can see her stunning eye makeup. Although false eyelashes may feel strange on and look unnatural to you, we always recommend them because they really help your eyes pop in photos.
Because Melissa had a big staircase to navigate, she decided to be escorted by her best friend. He carried her shoes down the stairs, helped her into them, and then handed her off. What a clever way to get around the quandary of "how do I get down stairs in a wedding dress with train and heels?!"
Melissa chose a satin wedding gown. It featured a highly beaded bodice with ruching through the waist and hips, and pickups on the skirt. The pickups were beaded, and her wedding dress had a bubble hem. Melissa customized her gown by adding a large satin flower to her hip (she loved it on another dress, and we were able to order it as a separate piece for her). She also made the neckline more sweetheart. Melissa's flowers were by Petals By Lucy.
One of the coolest things Melissa designed was her cake–it is a replica of her dress. Check out the "beaded" top layer, the "ruched" middle layer, and the pickups on the bottom cake tier. Her cake even has the big flower. We love it! Her cake was by Tiffany's Cakes.
Melissa spent hours making programs and such for her outdoor wedding. And remember the day it hailed in the valley? Yep. That was Melissa's wedding day. There's a video of her wedding and, when we saw it, we were surprised that she was laughing through most of the ceremony. "I had to laugh," she said, "because if I didn't, I would have cried." In the end, though, the skies cleared and Melissa's and Jerry's marriage was blessed with this beautiful double rainbow:
Congrats to you both. We hope Jerry's newly broken leg heals quickly!
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Is it OK to cut a player from a rec level football (soccer) team?
I coach a U10 boys recreational soccer team. In my area, we generally have more players wanting to play than coaches available to field teams. That said, some degree of turnover on a team seems to be normal but I have noticed lower turnover with each season.
I have a looming problem for this next season. My current roster is full (it's capped by the league) and all of the players have tentatively indicated they want to return next season. The parents of a former player recently contacted me and asked if their son could play on my team again next season instead of the competitive team he currently plays on.
So the problem is having a past player who wants to play but possibly not having a slot in the roster for him.
In the past, I have guaranteed slots on the next season's team to returning players. That has seemed the most "fair", but I'll acknowledge that has created logistical friction when the club has new players needing a team and I can't get the parents of the returning player to provide an answer. And by "fair", maybe I really just mean easy.
The player wanting to play is a good player, and having him on the team would help pull up the skills for the rest of the team.
Of the players I would consider cutting, their minds simply aren't focused on soccer. Specifically, they make most of the practices and games, but not all due to other commitments. And even when they are at a practice or game, they're frequently distracted by something else like the clouds or the grass or ...
On the one hand, that's completely developmentally appropriate. On the other hand, their absences and lack of focus pull down the rest of the team. For example, they'll miss plays during a game because they weren't paying attention or they'll interfere with practice because they're aren't following instructions.
Given my looming problem, I'm trying to figure out if my current guaranteed slot policy is the best approach and if that's truly fair to all of the players involved.
On a competitive or premier team, the answer is easy as there is a stated focus on building the best team and the coach is expected to replace under-performing players with stronger ones when possible.
On a recreational team, the focus is on fair play; skills development; and developing a passion for the sport. The crux of the question is how to balance between what's fair for an individual player versus what's fair or beneficial for the rest of the team.
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Seems to me this is pretty similar to how our park district does things for sports/gymnastics classes/teams. They have a slightly different approach.
What they do is have an early signup period, during which the only option is to confirm your enrollment for the next season/year/whatever of the exact class/sport you're in: same exact schedule, etc. So if you're in Thursday Nights Soccer, you can re-register for Thursday Nights Soccer, but can't change to Tuesday Afternoons or whatever.
Then, a week later, regular signup begins. This gives parents a week to make up their mind. After regular signup begins, it's up to first come first serve. You still can reregister - if there's a spot open, but you could lose your spot if enough new people already applied before you got around to registering.
You could easily do something similar. Decide on a date. Tell everyone they have until that date to officially register (pay, confirm explicitly they'll be playing, etc., with an understanding that they will only do this if they absolutely will be playing next year). Then, if there are some slots open after this period, your returning player is welcome to the slot (as long as he/she pays/commits). Set that date fairly early - before your current season is done, typically, so you have more leverage.
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Top 10 Longest Sixes in Cricket – Biggest Sixes till 2019
December 1, 2019 By Sourav Das
We often get the data about the Longest Sixes (Biggest Sixes) in a particular match or rather in a specific tournament. But are we aware of the Longest Sixes in international cricket (T20, ODI’s and Test Cricket)? Well, no need to raise your brows! In this very article, we are going to summarise the longest sixes.
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Let’s Begin With the List of Top 10 Biggest Sixes in Cricket History.
10. MS Dhoni -- 112m Six vs Australia
MS Dhoni Power! The best biggest powerful sixes!
Let’s begin with “ Mr cool” MS Dhoni. MS Dhoni is the most successful captain of the Indian Team. One of MSD’s sixes that is memorable and impressive is when he cleared the longest Adelaide Oval boundary while under immense pressure during the 2011-12 Commonwealth Bank Series. It was a breath-taking hit by MSD, with the ball sailing out the boundary for 112 meters Six.
It was the first time Australia had hosted a tri-series since 2007-08, with India, Australia, and Sri Lanka competing. The host nation won the competition, but Dhoni’s six was one of the most amazing moments of that tour. without any doubt, MSD is one of the most Destructive Six Hitter in the history of Cricket.
9. Ijaz Ahmed Longest Six -- 115m Six vs England
Ijaz Ahmed MONSTER SIX
Ahmed, former Pakistani Cricketer who played in test matches and ODIs for Pakistan between 1986 to 2001. Ijaz Ahmed was Right-handed middle-order batsmen. he was a sweet timer of the cricket ball as well as a dangerous hard hitter.
Ijaz Ahmed smashed his career’s biggest hit against England when he smacked the ball out of the ground for 115 meters six. His six is 9th in the list of Longest Sixes in cricket history.
8. Daniel Christian Longest Six in Big Bash
117 meter six!!! Daniel christian
1983 born Australian cricketer Daniel Christian is an all-rounder. He represented Australia in 19 one day internationals and 15 T20 Internationals. Daniel Christian is playing for Hobart Hurricanes in Big Bash League. His monster six came out in Big Bash League 2015 when he smashed the ball out of the park.
7. Corey Anderson Biggest Six -- 122m Six vs India
Corey Anderson : 2 Monster Sixes!
Corey Anderson has introduced himself by breaking Shahid Afridi’s 18-year-old world record of Fastest ODI Century of All Time when he smashed his maiden 100 against west indies in just 36 balls. He hit a ball on the roof of Napier cricket ground for New Zealand against India for 120 meters six. The unlucky bowler was Mohammed Shami.
6. Chris Gayle Longest Six
Chris Gayle Longest Sixes Ever in Cricket History HD
One of all-time dangerous hard hitter in cricket history, big man Chris Gayle. it’s so understandable that Chris Gayle is in the list of batsmen who smashed Longest Sixes in Cricket history. Chris Gayle has no need for an introduction. we all know his ability to hit the ball out of the ground at any venue. let’s watch the video.
5. Shahid Afridi Monster Six vs Andrew Simonds
Afridi Six-its Twelve
Boom Boom, LaLa and Sixer King. no one in the cricket world is unaware of this master of hitting. he started his career with Fastest Century in ODI cricket, which remained as the world record for the next 18 years. now he has retired from One Day cricket but he played some memorable innings and smashed many breathtaking sixes. Shahid Afridi’s hit on the bowling of Andrew Simonds is the 5th Longest six of all time.
4. MS Dhoni Long Six vs New Zealand
Dhoni Six, Doesnt bother looking, with commentary!!!!
MS Dhoni knew as one of the best finishers in cricket history, and also one of the greatest captains in cricket. In the meantime, he is a power hitter also. MS Dhoni hit a breathtaking six vs New Zealand, he didn’t even look at the ball once it left his magical bat. This truly added to the drama and made his six even more special. India won the match and the series after having won the Test series earlier.
3. Mark Waugh Longest Six in Test Cricket
Mark Waugh Longest Six ever off Vettori Perth, 1997
Stylish and elegant Australian Opening batsmen Mark Waugh definitely deserves his place in this list. This is the only six in this longest sixes list which was made in test cricket. Mark Waugh hits a breathtaking six on the bowling of Daniel Vettori in Perth in 1997.
2. Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh 6 Sixes In 6 Balls HD 1080p
The sixer king, who has the record of fastest T20 International Fifty (12 Balls) and also has the record for 6 consecutive sixes in T20i, Yuvraj is known for his big sixes. When he struck cricket ball with his high back-lift, that is a treat to watch for every cricket fan from all around the globe. Yuvraj is the most stylish hard hitter in cricket history. He only flicks that ball from Brett Lee and it went long way from the boundary line.
1. Shahid Afridi -- 158m Six
SHAHID AFRIDI LONGEST SIX 158 METER OUT OF GROUND
One of the hard-hitters in cricket, Afridi, has many world records related to big-hitting or scoring with a fast strike rate. He has the world record for most sixes in One Day Internationals. He also has the record for most sixes in the International cricket (test, ODI’s and t20 combined). But, that sixer was above all. That was truly a monster. 158 meter? Yes, it was 158 meters long six.
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I-League clubs to take legal recourse if FIFA does not intervene, says Minerva Punjab owner Ranjit Bajaj
Ranjit Bajaj's reaction comes after FIFA backed AIFF president Praful Patel's short-term roadmap for Indian football and urged the I-League clubs to work in tandem with the national federation.
07 August, 2019 22:47 IST
Rajit Bajaj expressed his surprise at FIFA taking a completely different line of thought than the earlier letter sent to AIFF. - Sahil Nanda
Responding to world football governing body FIFA's advice to work closely with AIFF to find a solution, Minerva Punjab owner Ranjit Bajaj said on Wednesday that the I-League clubs will take legal recourse if it does not intervene in the Indian football crisis.
Led by former champion Minerva, six I-League clubs questioned the All India Football Federation’s move to award the top league status to the Indian Super League (ISL) and wrote to FIFA asking for his help in their fight for survival in Indian football.
The FIFA initially asked the AIFF to submit an update on the Indian football scenario, but in the latest latter sent to Bajaj, the world body urged the agitating I-League clubs to work closely with the national federation, while acknowledging that “complex issues” facing the sport require a “prudent and measured approach.”
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Reacting to the FIFA letter, Bajaj said if the world body does not intervene, the I-League clubs will approach the Indian courts as well as the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Switzerland.
In a letter addressed to FIFA Acting Deputy Secretary General (Football) Mattias Grafstrom, he wrote, “If you do not intervene in the situation, the I-League clubs will have to approach the Indian courts for any legal recourse available to us and shall also consider moving to the CAS for relief.”
“I am surprised to find FIFA turning a blind eye to the clear and obvious violation of FIFA statutes and principles by the AIFF which would not be acceptable anywhere in the world.”
“We strongly believe that the AIFF is totally incompetent in handling the crisis which is being faced by the Indian football. By signing the illegal Master Rights Agreement with the IMG-Reliance (FSDL), the AIFF has become nothing but a puppet of its commercial partner who is ravaging Indian football for its own private profit.”
Bajaj also said that he was surprised to find FIFA taking a completely different line of thought than the earlier letter sent to AIFF, asking the national federation to update on the current Indian football scenario.
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“The I-League clubs wrote to FIFA as a last resort, hoping for your intervention against the atrocities committed by AIFF,” he said.
“The forceful relegation of I-League clubs and the out sourcing of its own essential functions to a private body (FSDL-Reliance) for the commercial exploitation of the sport to profit and benefit the private body is something which is against the very core principles of FIFA and sport of football.”
“By asking us to trust in the plan and the words of AIFF president, you are asking us to trust someone who has been dishonest about the intentions of AIFF from the start,” the Minerva owner said in the letter.”
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Cleveland, TV Documentaries, Films
Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths
The headline summed it up: “Is this the film that should never have been made ?”.
Just as telling was that the article under it – in the TV Times – was the only national press coverage of the film. Ten years after the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis not a single newspaper reported on a documentary which told – for the first time – the truth about what had happened to the children at the heart of a “scandal” which had gripped and divided the entire country. Not for nothing was the film called “Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths”.
For those too young to recall it – and for those who still do – it’s worth recalling the events as they unfolded.
In the spring of 1987, 121 children from the (then) county of Cleveland – an area of some 583 square km and including the economically depressed towns of Hartlepool, Redcar and Middlesbrough – were taken into temporary local authority care on suspicion of having been sexually abused. Many – in fact the majority – of the children were very young: most were pre-pubescent and in some cases so young (or developmentally delayed) as to be pre-verbal.
This was not just the biggest sexual abuse case Britain had then encountered but the very first involving multiple victims and multiple perpetrators. Others – Rochdale, Orkney, Broxtowe – would follow on in quick succession, but Cleveland was the first and it set the template.
Newspaper coverage that spring led readers to believe that the children had been “snatched” from their parents as the result of a new and untested physical diagnosis – Reflex Anal Dilatation. The press – led by the Daily Mail – reported that two paediatricians, Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, who had recently arrived at Middlesbrough General Hospital had begun using RAD to diagnose sexual abuse on children who had been brought to the hospital for petty and unrelated problems – “a child with a sore finger” became the familiar trope of these stories.
Worse, or so the papers claimed, RAD involved looking up inside children’s bottoms and was a new and “experimental” technique. Cleveland’s senior police surgeon – a local GP called Alistair Irvine, made a series of statements to the media in which he damned both RAD and Drs Higgs and Wyatt. He was backed by local MP Stuart Bell who gave a succession of highly inflammatory interviews to local television stations.
The media response was swift and overwhelming. Reporters from national newspapers, radio and television descended on Middlesbrough. The Daily Mail alone sent seven. And what were these journalists looking for ? One thing and one thing only – “innocent parents” wrongly parted from their children. And these parents – aided by Stuart Bell who had become their self-appointed champion – quickly told (and frequently sold) their stories. In a matter of weeks Cleveland went from being a small local story to a national “scandal”. All the papers and broadcasters repeated the parents claims and Stuart Bell’s allegations, and viciously attacked the paediatricians. They, along with Cleveland Council’s most senior child abuse advisor Sue Richardson, were ordered by their employers not to give any interviews or make any comment to the media.
The Tory government set up a judicial enquiry under Lord Justice (Elizabeth) Butler Sloss. The enquiry sat for a year, heard evidence from parents, social services, police, doctors, nurses and – without any apparent unease – from a champion of paedophile rights, Ralph Underwager. It cost £5 million.
But there was one very odd aspect to the enquiry. Its remit from Whitehall prohibited it from asking – let alone answering – the most important question of all: how many of the 121 children at the centre of the crisis had been abused ?
By the time the enquiry report was close to publication I had made a high-profile documentary (and written a book) about child pornography. I approached Marietta Higgs to ask if she would, on the day of publication, be interviewed by me for ITN News. After a week of negotiation it was agreed that she would do one television interview (with me), one radio interview for Woman’s Hour and speak to one newspaper (The Guardian).
I was freelance and arranged to do the interview at the studios of Tyne Tees, ITV’s franchise in the north-east. It would be quicker to feed the piece down to ITN from Newcastle than to film it and bike the tape down to London.
I read the Butler Sloss report from cover to cover. I was – given the prevailing public story – surprised to see that it did not suggest anywhere that Drs Higgs and Wyatt had wrongly diagnosed the 121 children, nor that RAD had been the sole medical evidence in most cases. The report also made clear that no child was recorded as a suspected victim of sexual abuse on medical evidence alone: Butler-Sloss had heard a wealth of testimony from social services indicating that in the vast majority of cases, there were serious concerns about the children’s welfare long before they were seen at Middlesbrough General Hospital.
The report did criticise the doctors for the problems their diagnoses caused at the hospital which had been overwhelmed. It placed restrictions on them working on child abuse cases. But it reserved its most serious and stinging criticism for Stuart Bell MP, who it found had made false ad inflammatory statements about the parents, the children and the doctors – and refused to correct them even when presented with the evidence. It also strongly criticised Alastair Irvine, the police surgeon who had been instrumental in sparking the crisis.
The headlines that afternoon (and the next morning) were extraordinary: they bore no resemblance to the findings of the report. “Sack Her” [Marietta Higgs] was one of the more moderate. I interviewed Dr Higgs – calmly and politely for half an hour. I put to her all the criticism in the report and the complaints made by the parents. She answered honestly and frankly.
While the tape was being fed to London, I was approached by Tyne Tees news journalists and by the news anchor. The former screamed at me that I had “let Higgs off the hook”; the anchor threatened to beat me up. ITN ran the interview that evening.
Eight years later I was working at Yorkshire Television’s documentaries department – the best place in the world to make serious and important films. I had produced one such film two years earlier about a major child sexual abuse network in the United States [Conspiracy of Silence – there are references on this site to this] which had been pulled by its funder, The Discovery Channel. Perhaps that should have warned me.
I happened to meet Sue Richardson at a child abuse conference during the summer of 1996. In passing she mentioned that she was very concerned about what had happened to the Cleveland children. For the next six months I quietly spoke to as many people involved in the crisis as I could. A picture quickly emerged: many – probably most – of the 121 children had been returned to their parents, even where there was clear evidence of sexual abuse. In an alarming number of cases there was a convicted sex offender living in the house – one of the trigger factors for Sue Richardson’s initial concerns. The court system had broken down under the weight of hostile news reporting: one judge refused to allow evidence “relating to children’s bottoms” in his court room. Children had been sent back to parents about whom there was a lengthy history of concern. And then there was RAD itself.
It turned out that this was not some new and experimental technique, as alleged by the police surgeon and Stuart Bell, but was more than 100 years old and was formally included in the Association of Police Surgeons’ own manual as a diagnostic tool raising suspicions of sexual abuse and requiring further enquiries if it was observed.
Late in 1997, with the wholehearted agreement of Yorkshire Television’s Head of Documentaries, I pitched the idea for a documentary about Cleveland to Channel 4. It agreed to commission the film and we went into production: Channel 4 was to pay to Yorkshire TV the sum of £150,00 to produce it and a first instalment was transferred to the company’s coffers.
My colleagues and I spent nearly three months researching and investigating. We met and informally interviewed everyone who would speak to us. Stuart Bell MP and Alastair Irvine refused point blank.
We also advertised for parents who had been caught up in the crisis. Only two came forward: a mother whose children had been sexually abused by their father (he was convicted of the abuse) and ho had tried – in vain – to get her story heard by reporters back in 1987, and a couple whose children had been among the first to be taken into care. We were also contacted by a young woman from the area who had been sexually abused by her father at the time but who was not part of the 121 taken into care.
At some point a large brown parcel arrived for us at Yorkshire TV’s studios. Anonymously-sent, it contained all the social service evidence relating to the 121 children which had been presented in camera to Butler-Sloss. This posed a dilemma: although the children’s identities had been hidden by code letters in these documents, simply by receiving them – let alone broadcasting their contents -we were committing a serious offence. Yet the evidence in the documents clearly answered the question Butler-Sloss had been forced to duck: had these children been abused ? The papers showed that the children had long histories of involvement with social services and painstakingly documented injuries. In many cases a convicted paedophile was living in their houses, and many had made very convincing disclosures of sexual activity with adults. In the end, and with Yorkshire TV’s backing, we decided they were too important to throw away.
We drove to Northallerton on a Wednesday evening, ready to begin filming the following day. At 6pm I was phoned by Yorkshire Television’s Head of Documentaries: the company’s Director of Programmes – essentially his direct boss – had issued an instruction that we were to abandon all filming and that I was to tell Channel 4 that Yorkshire TV would not make the documentary. It turned out that Stuart Bell MP had leaned on the Director of Programmes. It was a surreal – and deeply disturbing – moment. When I spoke to Channel 4 its commissioning editor couldn’t believe his ears.
Happily, Chanel 4 was then a far more serious broadcaster than it is now. Within days it had brokered a deal whereby my own production company would make the film; I would take leave of absence from Yorkshire TV to do so, and – under pain of having its lucrative daytime Countdown quiz-programme terminated by Channel 4 – Yorkshire TV would then take me back on a longer contract. The row even made the front page of the industry’s trade magazine.
But our troubles were nothing compared to those of Drs Higgs and Wyatt or Sue Richardson. The health authorities for whom the paediatricians worked refused them permission to be interviewed, and Sue Richardson was informed by her then employer – a child welfare charity – that if she appeared in it she would be dismissed. She resigned instead – and her interview was vital in conveying the truth about Cleveland.
Two telling sections of the film summed up the entire crisis. The first was a section which showed file footage of one of the Cleveland parents making an emotional appeal on a breakfast television programme: in it – and egged on by host Anne Diamond – he said he had never abused his children and demanded they be allowed home. Yet the truth was that he had been convicted of buggering his children – sometimes in front of his wife: apparently that truth was ignored by Ms Diamond and her team.
The second was the discovery that in the wake of the Butler-Sloss enquiry, the Department of Health ordered all records of all the children as a group to be destroyed. When we asked for an explanation, the Department refused to comment.
Just what was Cleveland really about ? For me it was clear: it was about the plight of children – some just toddlers – who were abused and – briefly – rescued; then re-abused by a child protection system which could not bear the pressure from politicians and press. The truth of what happened to those children was too difficult to hear. Which is why we called the film Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths.
by Tim Tate – Producer/Director of Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths
bobchewie said: May 30, 20138:52 pm
@Tim extraordinary and shocking and the scale yet again even more shocking….
bobchewie said: May 31, 20133:51 am
@Tim Tate @murun i watched this video. There is a glitch in It where a section repears But no matter. An extraodinary document imust say. Straight After watching i googled marietta higgs to see anything written about then and Now eg wikipedia and the. Daily hate. as its known as. I came across a blogsite called spiked or something and It had ‘cleveland -dont let them rewrite this case. However for some reason three mobile have blocked this. I am using my handset as my laptop not workinh. I am.aware some blosites are being blocked by some providers. Ok so murun and Tim what is response here?
murunbuch said: May 31, 20135:42 am
Aware of glitch – thanks. Trying to fix it
gojam said: May 31, 20139:41 am
Reblogged this on theneedleblog.
Very informative article. Thank you.
Len said: May 31, 20139:58 am
This is a shocking watch, the children became invisible. Be interested to read the book Stuart Bell MP wrote about this saga, will be a good guide on obfuscation and mis-information.
TIM TATE said: May 31, 201310:41 am
Bell’s book was called “When Salem Came to The Borough”. It is a shockingly inaccurate and misleading book.
Bishop Brightly said: May 31, 201310:36 am
Tim, what happened to the files you were given. Were they passed to the police?
The police already had these files. Unfortunately, and largely because of the hostility of the police surgeon, the police essentially withdrew from joint investigations involving Cleveland Social Services.
rainbowsophie said: May 31, 201312:02 pm
Once again a horrific catalogue of the way, ‘the authorities’ end up completely subjugating the original intent of what should have been a straightforward Child Social Services issue. I have read a reasonable amount on the Cleveland Case (not Bell’s book though) and if I remember rightly it was one of the first major cases where SRA was also a key component in some of the testimonies, and this served to further ‘muddy the waters’ of the whole affair. On May 21, 2007 Higgs said in an interview with BBC Look North that she would do the same again based on the facts and also said that she suspected the numbers being abused were even greater than the 121 named. What is a major fact now is that the children who were at the heart of the case, are now adults and well able to talk candidly and truthfully about the actual facts of the individual cases, should they so wish. I think that there is a definite case to hold another Inquiry into Cleveland, based on these adult’s views. But ONLY if the majority so wish. Their lives were destroyed enough at the time, they may just want to put the whole business behind them.
TIM TATE said: May 31, 201312:33 pm
The suggestion that SRA was involved in Cleveland came largely from those who denied the existence of it (including Prof. Jean LaFontaine). I never came across any evidence that children caught up in the Cleveland Crisis had made any disclosures of any ritual element.
TIM TATE
33hertz said: May 31, 20136:21 pm
Once again murun and Tim, thanks for telling this side of the story about the Cleveland abuse. I too come from a family in this area, having had an abusive father (although we lived in the USA when it occurred).
Also huge respect for producing Conspiracy of Silence, bravo sir!
TIM TATE said: June 8, 20134:02 pm
That’s very kind of you. But honestly, the respect and credit is entirely due to those who lived through all these events and had the bravery to stand up and tell someone.
Len said: June 1, 20132:40 pm
Hmmmm, I am behind the curve here but this is the same Stuart Bell that appeared on the MM list isn’t it.
murunbuch said: June 1, 20136:19 pm
You’re right – there is a Stuart Bell on the list but I’m not sure if it’s the same person
Stephen Brown said: June 4, 20131:03 pm
Tim, can you tell me when the film was made and shown. I remember the title but can’t remember the year.
It was made and shown in 1998 on Channel 4.
Chris Jones said: July 11, 20135:23 pm
According to the following website Stuart Bell was a visitor to Elm Guest House.
http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-power-of-paedophiles-connections-in.html
It makes you wonder.
bobchewie said: July 11, 20137:49 pm
[PDF]Bibilography – Policy Studies Institute
http://www.psi.org.uk/…/DEMBIB.pdf
Sembin said: February 19, 20145:37 pm
Maybe you should have asked some of the children involved about what happened, before writing this article. Some of us were old enough to be able to tell you exactly what happened!
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Charles Frith said: July 11, 20145:12 am
Thank you for your unstinting documentation of the child abuse network that runs the UK. The bad news is that it is closely attached to the Royal family and protected by MI5 and Mi6 internationally as child abuse is the best blackmail game in town. Sometimes they blackmail each other and the israelis are the champs.
JM said: July 11, 20148:51 pm
impossible to know what to believe. i certainly don’t have any ;evel of ‘trust’ in anything anymore, ‘cept for the obvious that those with power will conue abusing that power…from the lowly SS and the standard level pigyobs to the two faced shits that steal our money whilst lounging about in parliament.
but FFS…..RAD is sexually abusing a child….i remember reading dat she bitch used to practice it on her own children before inflciting it on others, and the husband just sat and watched. neither never prosecuted obviously. the pair of them deserve to burn in hell for eternity.
Angela said: July 30, 20142:08 pm
It never ceases to amaze me how people who know so little about somthing nevertheless express the most extreme views on it. RAD does not constitute sexual abuse. It is an observation made by a doctor of a physiical finding during visual examination. There was, therfore, nothing for Dr Higgs to “practice” on anyone, her own children or otherwise.
You seem to have missed the point of this whole article – that the press reports at the time were sensationalised nonsense, and amounted to character assasination of the doctors and social workers involved for raising the suspicion of sexual abuse, and removing these children to a place of safety (the hospital) while police inquiries were supposed to be carried out (but weren’t, as a result of Dr Irvine’s views).
I am a solicitor who represented Dr Higgs at the Cleveland Inquiry, and dealt with the subsequent damages claims made by the children’s parents agaisnt the Health Authority which employed Dr Higgs and Wyatt. The doctors had to watch that Authority pay damages to those parents, just because the press response to the “scandal” had brought about a situation where the courts decided they should all be returned home, and the Authority felt the claims could not be successfully defended.
Thank you Tim for an excellent article, and for having the courage and perseverance to pursue the untold truths behind this issue.
I would hope that, with the benefit of knowledge of the events which followed (Rochdale,Orkney, Saville etc), and the greater public awareness of child sexual abuse that exists now, the public (and possibly even the press) response to the Cleveland “crisis” would be very different today. But there is always a difficulty when MPs, Clergy and the great and the good mobilise to take a stand on one side or the other, before the inquiry into the facts has even begun.
I challenged several of the reporters who sat throught the Cleveland inquiry as to why they never reported any of the evidence that pointed to the fact that the doctors were right (even though such evidence was overwhelming) and why they only reported things which suggested the contrary. I never got a satisfactory answer. This entirely biased slant persisted even after the Butler Sloss report was published. I don’t remember reading a single report which said that the doctors were not criticised for the diagnoses they reached, only for being insufficiently sympathetic in dealing with the parents when they communicated thier concerns about the children having been abused. But that would have involved the press accepting that they had villified the doctors inappropriately.
Sembin said: July 30, 20149:54 pm
Know this! I was one of those children, i was never abused in anyway by my family! That women destroyed my childhood and ripped my family apart. The doctors and social workers involved should feel grateful they got of so lightly!
JM said: July 31, 20144:15 am
it never ceases to amaze me either how people like you can persist with such nonsense either! highly educated morons who get a thing stuck in their heads and even when shown the truth they just keep pouring flammable liquids on to the flames….
looking at a child’s anus/ sticking a finger up doesn’t constitute sexual abuse? what the f*** is wrong with you?
there really is no point trying to reason with people of this mentality Sembin.
and i was actually abused as a child and still am far more as an adult. the child stuff was relatively minor, nevertheless it really does screw you up for rest of life
Lindsey said: August 24, 20157:26 am
You should listen to the children not the doctors ! Being one of the innocent children that was caught up in this massive disgusting scandal we now as adults should be able to confront why the doctors repeatedly examined us if there evidence was so strong !
People will always make there own decisions and assumptions of what happened but the truth is that innocent parents and children still got caught up in doctors studying and the doctors themselves were the ones abusing children ! They shouldn’t of been able to be around children again !!!
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'Virginity Test' for Women Applicants to Indonesian Police Humiliating: HRW
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https://sputniknews.com/asia/201411181014861979/
The Human Rights Watch called the virginity tests for female applicants for the Indonesian National Police discriminatory, humiliating and painful, basing on the female police officers and applicants' interviews.
MOSCOW, November 18 (Sputnik) — Virginity tests for female applicants for the Indonesian National Police are discriminatory, humiliating and painful, Human Rights Watch stated Tuesday.
“The Indonesian National Police’s use of "virginity tests" is a discriminatory practice that harms and humiliates women. Police authorities in Jakarta need to immediately and unequivocally abolish the test, and then make certain that all police recruiting stations nationwide stop administering it,” Nisha Varia, associate women’s rights director at HRW, was quoted by the organization's official website as saying.
“So-called virginity tests are discriminatory and a form of gender-based violence – not a measure of women’s eligibility for a career in the police,” Varia said.
According to female police officers and applicants interviewed by HRW, the procedure was painful and humiliating. And although they tried to discuss this issue with senior officials, the problem was not resolved, the organization noted.
“These policewomen experience trauma and stress while doing the virginity tests, yet [the National Police make] no clear attempt to help them recover. No effort is made to help them out of their stress and trauma. Consequently, it will affect their lives in the long term. Many of them blame themselves for taking the test,” HRW quoted Yefri Heriyani, director of the women’s rights group Nurani Perempuan in Padang, West Sumatra, as saying.
Virginity tests are legal under the Chief Police Regulation No. 5/2009 on Health Inspection Guidelines for Police Candidates, HRW noted, adding that there is still no evidence the Indonesian National Police has taken any steps to end the discrimination, despite scores of complaints against the regulation and practice.
Human Rights Watch previously detected virginity tests being conducted by police in a number of other countries, including Egypt, India and Afghanistan.
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Syrian Army, Opposition Militants Agree on Truce in Barada Valley Near Damascus
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201701131049572439-syrian-army-militants-truce-barada/
The government troops and armed opposition concluded a truce in Barada Valley near the Syrian capital.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Syrian army and militants of the armed opposition have agreed on a truce in Barada Valley, the agreement was reached without the UN participation, Syrian state media reported.
"The agreement will cover 10 villages and was signed with 1,200 people [militants]. The situation was settled by the Syrian government and interested sides without UN interference or presence," the Al-Ikhbariya television channel reported.
In late December, terrorists blew up a water pipeline in the Wadi Barada area, which was used to supply the Syrian capital with drinking water. Al-Nusra Front militants also seized the Ain al-Fija water pumping station. On Wednesday, January 11, the Damascus province governor said agreements had been reached with militants for engineers to access the Ain al-Fija facilities and on repair of the water pipeline in Barada Valley. A few hours later, militants denied that any deals had been reached with the Syrian leadership.
© AFP 2019 / Ammar al-Arbini
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Al-Ikhbariya reported Friday citing the Damascus governor that engineers had been allowed to enter the facilities in Ain al-Fija, and water supply would be restored in full soon.
A source told Sputnik Thursday that the Syrian army would continue the military operation in Barada Valley until militants started honoring the reached agreements.
Since 2011, Syria has been engulfed in a civil war, with government forces fighting against numerous opposition and terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front and Daesh, which is banned in a range of countries, including Russia.
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Pussy Riot Members Arrested in Sochi
© Sputnik / Alexey Eremenko
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20140218187652422-Pussy-Riot-Members-Arrested-in-Sochi/
Police in the Russian Olympic host city of Sochi detained three members of the anti-Kremlin feminist punk group Pussy Riot and several journalists for questioning Tuesday about a theft in a local hotel.
MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti) – Police in the Russian Olympic host city of Sochi detained three members of the anti-Kremlin feminist punk group Pussy Riot and several journalists for questioning Tuesday about a theft in a local hotel.
Human rights organizations said at least 10 people, including Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were detained Tuesday afternoon.
Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter that she and Alyokhina were released about four hours later.
Sochi rights activists Semyon Simonov and David Khakim and photojournalist Yevgeny Feldman were also detained, SochiWatch said.
Police confirmed in a statement that they had taken a group of people to a police station in the nearby mountain resort town of Adler and were “interviewing everyone staying at this hotel” in connection with the theft.
“The questioning about the theft in the Adler hotel is now over, those questioned are not facing charges,” police said.
Tolokonnikova said she, Alyokhina and another female Pussy Riot activist were arrested while walking around Sochi after arriving in the city to record a protest video.
“We’re in Sochi to carry out a Pussy Riot protest. The song is called ‘Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland,’” she wrote.
She said officers had used force to detain them and that they had been forced to give statements without a lawyer.
Tolokonnikova also complained that Pussy Riot members and cameramen had been subjected to violence while in detention, and said she would complain to the Investigative Committee about the matter.
Police said they had received no complaint from her so far.
“Tolokonnikova has voiced no objections about police officers’ actions so far, and filed no formal complaints or demands,” the Sochi police department said.
Alexander Popkov, a lawyer who said he would be representing the group, confirmed to RIA Novosti that Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina had been arrested on suspicion of stealing from the hotel where they were staying, and said that about 30-40 officers had been involved in the arrest.
Tolokonnikova also said police had detained her and Alyokhina for a total of 17 hours on Sunday and Monday, though she did not specify why.
Tolokonnikova, 24, and Alyokhina, 25, were released early from prison two months ago under an amnesty granted by President Vladimir Putin in December.
The women had been serving two-year prison sentences on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for taking part in an anti-Kremlin protest staged by Pussy Riot in Moscow’s main cathedral in 2012.
Both women accused Putin of using the amnesty as a political tool to clean up Russia's human rights image ahead of the Olympic Games, currently taking place in Sochi.
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina embarked on an international tour following their release from prison, saying they planned to distance themselves from radical political activism and focus on a new project, called Zona Prava, to campaign for prisoners’ rights in Russia.
Their appearances on TV shows and at an Amnesty International concert along with Madonna in New York angered other members of Pussy Riot, however, who published an open letter in February saying the pair were no longer part of the group.
Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter that Pussy Riot’s new song was about activists jailed after an anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow in 2012, corruption surrounding the Olympics, the jailing of a local environmental activist and the suppression of freedom in Russia.
Updated with details, police statement, background.
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Use of parental leave unequal, despite policy objectives
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How can governments encourage equal use of parental benefits?
Some governments provide parental benefit which offer financial support for parents to temporarily stay home with new children. During this time, parents and infants form critical bonds, and having this time improves both parent and child outcomes.
But, not everyone has equal ability to access these benefits or chooses to use them, and policy changes often affect some subgroups more than others.
Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, along with her colleagues Michael Haan and Anders Holm, also from the department, and Feng Hou, from Statistics Canada, investigated how policy changes that extended benefits and offered new options impacted patterns of use and sharing parental leave in Canada, in their paper "Use of Parental Benefits by Family Income in Canada: Two Policy Changes."
Since 2000, two major changes in parental benefits were implemented in Canada.
In 2001, federal parental benefits to be shared between the two parents were extended from 10 to 35 weeks, which, combined with already existing maternity benefits (15 weeks), provided a total of 50 weeks paid time off in the first year of a child’s life. The hours worked required to qualify for benefits were also reduced.
In 2006, the province of Quebec introduced a new, 5‐week, non-transferable benefits period for fathers. It also increased the benefits rate and introduced flexibility in how benefits could be taken.
Both sets of changes were made, in part, to encourage fathers to use benefits. They were also designed to increase benefits eligibility for people in lower income brackets. The 2006 changes were more effective in this regard, by specifying time reserved for fathers.
“When time to be shared is introduced, women tend to take more of it, and nursing generally plays an important role in this decision-making,” said Margolis. “The changes in Quebec gave Dads who wanted to take leave the ok to do so, both from their partners, and from their work.”
Margolis said that high-income families are more likely to use parental leave in general, as they are more likely to qualify for leave through work requirements. Both the 2001 and 2006 policies were successful in encouraging greater use of benefits among lower-income families, but the policies encouraged fathers’ use of benefits much more in middle and high income families. Quebec's reform led to more sharing across all income groups, but three times as much for middle‐ and high‐income families than low‐income families.
When thinking about future potential federal policy changes, Margolis said that if the goal of governments is to create more gender equality, policies should provide time reserved for each parent separately, including reserved weeks for both parents, and higher top-ups.
More equal sharing has a big effect on how parents split household duties, and how they interact with their children, Margolis said.
These results are timely, and since 2015 the federal Liberal government has announced two other changes to parental benefits.
The first is an extension for federally-regulated employees, allowing them to spread 12-months of parental benefits over 18-months, at a lower pay-out per month.
Margolis said this is not likely to have the desired effect of having more fathers take time, as it does not actually make it easier for men to take time off and may even result in less women going back to work after the birth of a child.
“Eighteen months is thought to be too long if the goal is to get women back to work,” said Margolis. “The optimal time off is around six months off.”
In March 2018, there will be increased benefits of five additional weeks off, if both parents opt to take time. Margolis said this is likely to be more effective for increasing benefits use among fathers.
“I don’t think it will increase use as much in the rest of Canada, as it did in Quebec,” said Margolis. “It will likely have more uptake in gender-equal couples and have more impact among middle-income families. In those household with more traditional gender roles, the 5-week change likely won’t have as great an impact on parental leave for Dads.”
Margolis and her colleagues are continuing their research on parental benefits, with an examination of how benefits use impacts wage growth, both within couples and as a family unit.
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Q. Did McNeil write this on his own? See also: http://fayobserver.com/fayobserver.com/files/f6/f66e5ffb-7e6e-411e-abe6-33c7f2b12abe.pdf
Do you believe he would say these sentences in the Free Editing Process? Please put your thoughts in the comments section. We have previously covered this case and will cover the trial.
Mario Andrette McNeill denies raping and killing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis in handwritten letters sent to The Fayetteville Observer.
McNeill, 32, is scheduled to stand trial April 8 in Cumberland County Superior Court. He faces the death penalty if convicted of the November 2009 killing.
He claims innocence in two letters postmarked Feb. 15 and addressed from the Cumberland County Detention Center. The Observer received the letters Wednesday.
In one, McNeill writes: "I did not take or kidnap Shaniya Davis. I did not purchase, buy, trade, sell or exchange Shaniya Davis. I did not molest, sexually assault, rape or ravish Shaniya Davis. I did not kill, murder, or take Shaniya Davis's life, nor did I have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur."
In the second letter, he disputes two recent charges of sexual exploitation, which he says are related to images found on his cellphone.
McNeill's lawyers could not be reached for comment about his statements.
Authorities accuse Shaniya's mother of selling her child to McNeill to settle a drug debt, then falsely reporting her child as missing. Police say McNeill assaulted the child in a Sanford hotel before killing her and leaving her body along N.C. 87 in Harnett County. Shaniya' s body was found six days later.
The case captured national attention almost immediately after the girl's mother, Antoniette Nicole Davis, reported her missing from their home off Murchison Road. McNeill became a suspect soon after when surveillance cameras at the Sanford hotel captured images of him with the missing child on the morning she allegedly disappeared.
Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West could not be reached Wednesday to comment on McNeill's letters. He has previously declined to discuss specifics of the case.
West plans to try McNeill before trying Davis. His trial had been scheduled to begin this week but was pushed back to April. He faces multiple charges including child rape, kidnapping, child abuse and human trafficking.
Davis, 28, is charged with murder, child abuse, sexual servitude, human trafficking, child rape and other offenses.
Last week, prosecutors charged McNeill with second- and third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. An indictment Feb. 11 accuses him of possessing a photograph of a female child engaged in sexual activity.
McNeill, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, wrote in his letter that the pictures were found on his phone. He said the female is a 23-year-old who looks like a teenager. He took the pictures when she was 20, he wrote.
In one, McNeill writes:
"I did not take or kidnap Shaniya Davis. I did not purchase, buy, trade, sell or exchange Shaniya Davis. I did not molest, sexually assault, rape or ravish Shaniya Davis. I did not kill, murder, or take Shaniya Davis's life, nor did I have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur."
I have to admit this is a tough one for me.
He issues a reliable denial's for what has been alledged,and yet he adds all the denial's together.Should all his denials be separate.
IE:"I did not take Shaniya Davis"
"I did not kidnap Shaniya Davis".
"I did not purchase,Shaniya Davis"
"I did not buy Shaniya Davis"
The word RAVISH is disturbing,i would like to know what his definition of Ravish is?
Four-Year-Old 'Sexually Assaulted': Teen Held
9:59am UK, Thursday 21 February 2013
The alleged assault took place in a play centre in Dalton Square
Police have appealed for information
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl at a children's play centre in Lancaster.
The girl told her parents the assault happened whilst she was playing at The Zone on Dalton Square between 12.30pm and 1.30pm on February 16, police said.
The boy has been released on bail while detectives continue their investigation.
Lancashire Police have appealed for information.
Detective Inspector Phil Jones, who is leading the investigation, said: "This is a very sensitive investigation and we are seeking the help of the public.
"I would ask the parents or relatives of any children who were at The Zone on Saturday between 12.30pm and 2pm to contact the police."
DI Jones said there was no suggestion that any other children had been victims or were potentially at risk.
"We do believe this to have been an isolated incident. However, we are seeking any witnesses that may have seen something suspicious or out of the ordinary.
"The young girl and her parents are currently being supported by specially trained officers and The Zone is fully cooperating with our investigation."
http://news.sky.com/story/1054916/four-year-old-sexually-assaulted-teen-held
dadgum said...
John..
I thought people were using 'ravish' when they meant 'ravage'..but when I looked it up years ago, I found ravish means more than 'you look ravishing', meaning 'stunning', or 'beautiful'. It also means to 'carry off by force', and 'to rape'.
However, I live here in NC. I don't think he used this word on his own.
McNeill issued a strong but carefully worded denial. Maybe McNeill delivered Shaniya Davis to someone who he is afraid to implicate? They have shown the photos of McNeill carrying the child towards a hotel room but nothing of either's departure. There should be photos of him leaving with her or a large bundle containing her body.
sidewalk super said...
McNeil has way way too many elements in his (?) written denial. Uses terms lifted from so-called romance novels in prison library?
And then they (he had help) turn around and write another letter denying a charge they didn't cover in the first letter?
Shaniya's mother is where?
emerald said...
Maybe his attorney fed him these lines in attempt to impact potential jurors? I live here and this letter does not sound genuine to me.
Oscar Pistorius: 'No Forensic Evidence For Murder'
The quality of evidence against Pistorius exposes "disastrous shortcomings" in the case against the athlete, his lawyer says.12:52pm UK, Thursday 21 February 2013
There is no forensic evidence to prove that Oscar Pistorius murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the Olympian's lawyer has told the court.
Barry Roux, acting for Pistorius, today attempted to pick apart the prosecution's claims arguing that the athlete better known as Blade Runner should be granted bail.
He said that the quality of the police evidence against the 26-year-old was poor and exposed "disastrous shortcomings" in the case.
Mr Roux outlined his case on the third day of Pistorius' bail hearing as the sporting hero sobbed in the dock.
Speaking from the court in Pretoria, Sky's Alex Crawford said: "He (Mr Roux) has started going point-by-point through each of the charges, or points, that the state has made as to why he (Pistorius) should not get bail.
Oscar Pistorius clutches at a tissue as the defence outlines its case
"He has basically tried to steer the magistrate towards thinking that Oscar Pistorius has exceptional circumstances why he should be granted bail.
"The defence appears to be saying: this is not premeditated murder, there is no evidence of premeditated murder, there is no evidence of murder; the state cannot prove that Oscar Pistorius knew that his lover, Reeva Steenkamp, was in that toilet; that the state has produced an investigating officer, who has carried out a number of bungles, and not collated evidence properly; and that Oscar Pistorius is no flight risk."
Sky's Alex Crawford says lawyers claim Pistorius is "no flight risk"
The defence also pointed out that:
* Pistorius tried to save Miss Steenkamp's life by carrying her downstairs and calling Netcare.
* Pistorius didn't know the toilet door was locked when he shot - addressing the prosecution question over why a burglar would lock themselves in the bathroom.
* Lead investigating officer Hilton Botha "did not show honesty" when giving evidence.
* Botha tailored his evidence to incriminate Pistorius as much as possible.
* Pistorius and Miss Steenkamp had a loving relationship and the prosecution had not proved otherwise.
Cont..
* If Pistorius had waited for police to arrive after Miss Steenkamp's death, why would he abscond now?
Magistrate Desmond Nair asked Mr Roux: "Do you think there will be shock if the accused is released?"
Mr Roux replied: "No, after hearing his defence I think there will be shock if he's not."
The defence laid out its case amid scenes of high drama as proceedings were halted because of a "threat outside the court". However, no threat emerged and the court reconvened with no explanation from the magistrate over the adjournment.
The family of Pistorius watch intently
Earlier in the morning it had emerged that Botha is himself facing seven charges of attempted murder.
He is alleged to have shot at seven passengers as he attempted to stop a minibus in October 2011 while drunk on duty.
The charges were initially dropped but the state prosecutor reinstated them in the days before Miss Steenkamp was killed.
Police said that they were only informed of the reinstated charges yesterday and had subsequently bolstered the team investigating the killing of Miss Steenkamp.
Botha, who will himself appear in court in May, denies that he had been drinking and said that the people he was shooting at were suspects in an investigation.
Nike has suspended its endorsement of Pistorius
The officer was summoned to the court by the magistrate this morning, however, the attempted murder charges were not addressed.
Instead Botha was asked about mobile phone records for Miss Steenkamp and Pistorius around the hours of the shooting.
Under cross-examination on Wednesday, Botha was accused of contaminating the crime scene in the Paralympic star's home and backtracked on key details, including the distance of witnesses from the house.
In his often confused testimony, Botha, who was described as a 24-year police veteran with 16 years experience as a detective, conceded that police had left a 9 mm slug from the shots that killed Miss Steenkamp inside a toilet at the scene.
Police also lost track of illegal ammunition found inside the house, Botha said, and the detective himself walked through the crime scene without wearing protective shoe covers, potentially contaminating the area.
He also claimed in court that police found boxes of testosterone and needles in Pistorius' bedroom following the Valentine's Day shooting last week, but then said later he wasn't sure what the exact name of the substance was.
Miss Steenkamp, 29, was hit by three bullets - one in the head, the hip and arm, Pretoria Magistrates Court heard.
Pistorius has admitted shooting the model with a 9mm pistol pulled from under his bed, but claims he did so thinking she was a burglar who was in the bathroom.
After realising his mistake, he said he broke down the door with a cricket bat and carried her downstairs.
As today's hearing started, Nike confirmed that it had suspended its endorsement contract with Pistorius.
A spokesman said: "We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely."
*The family of the athlete have devoted his official website to updates about the bail hearing and messages of support.
"We will issue at least two statements a day, in order to provide the media with the freshest news, taking into account the time differences," said Janine Hills, the chief executive of Vuma corporate reputation management.
http://news.sky.com/story/1054862/oscar-pistorius-no-forensic-evidence-for-murder
OP hit the jackpot with having Botha be the responding detective to his case! So many errors were made defense will be Ae to drive trucks through the holes in the prosecutions case. That is if their judicial system is similar to ours though. I know there is no jury, only a judge, so perhaps not so easy to sway. Hmmm, time to check out the trial system of South Africa.
I hope justice is still served.
She was executed.
John, it should all be taken together, as written, and puts him in to the rarest of rare liars.
I think he is someone we should follow closely.
He is the type of liar who is brought to the point of being asked,
"You have denied killing her. Please give us one reason why?"
Recall that humans appear to be unable to lie about a lie; that is, they cannot lie against reality and then affirm, "I told the truth."
This was written by a lawyer to deny specific charges. It is not at all unusual for lawyers to "draft" affidavits/delclarations (for and with clients) that are then reviewed and signed by clients. All such documents are at the very least reviewed by lawyers to make sure they don't include any problematic statements, but I think a lot of the time they are written by lawyers too. Not usually this badly, and blandly though. This is not a very helpful document -- it almost serves the same purpose as a "not guilty" plea. Usually affidavits/declarations provide factual information/details that support a denial whereas this denial while also "fact based" (saying I did not rape someone, or murder someone is a fact even if it can also be a not guilty plea or a legal conclusion) provides almost no information at all.
Oops! I forgot what thread I was in! Re: McNeil's letter, if he is the true author and not parroting lawyer fed lines, I think it would be easier to lie in writing than verbally (except for sociopaths). How would this work investigating a person who knew SA, if you took a written statement they would be sure to alter it to make themselves appear uninvolved in whatever the investigation was about?
Looking back on MN's statement I see that in all his denial he does not say he wasn't "given" Shania and while he denies prior knowledge as to what was and/or did occur, he doesn't deny at the moment of occurrence or post knowledge. Hope that made sense.
He and the mother will be found guilty- there are pictures clear as day and forensic/behavioral evidence. Sadly, she was just a little girl failed by people who should have loved her...
QChick said...
I did not take or kidnap Shaniya Davis. I did not purchase, buy, trade, sell or exchange Shaniya Davis.
Shaniya was given to him by mom, or in his mind, she went with him willingly
"I did not molest, sexually assault, rape or ravish Shaniya Davis."
If he is a true pedophile, these terms do not exist for him in regards to what happened with Shaniya.
"I did not kill, murder, or take Shaniya Davis's life, nor did I have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur."
Accidental death, I would think by suffocation? I cant rememebr if cause of death was released, sorry.
Ravish!? Who would say that!? Who would choose that word in their defense!? He might as well have said, "I ravished her!"
That's like saying, "I did not salivate, savor, and luxuriate over all the missing cookies."
PLEASE GIVE US ONE REASON WHY?
Given that its very rare for liars to lie twice and he gave the answer BECAUSE I TOLD THE TRUTH to the above question, are we dealing with a very serious liar.?
I have never heard a liar say "I told the truth" and when I say "never", I mean:
in person,
in writing,
or even someone telling me that they heard it.
This is why LSI teaches "no one can lie twice" meaning that if they lie about reality, they won't lie about their lie.
It is strange and I have zip experience with it!
Do many of you recall that horrifying video of him carrying in the still living child, up to be raped and killed?
It is very strange one Peter,are there any examples by Avinoam Sapir that you are aware of?
I recall the video. I wish I didn't.
No, I just saw it on Youtube. It's awful.
I think he wrote it and he is not lying...to himself.
In his mind, he did not take, purchase, etc. He was given Shaniya, and maybe even went with him willingly because her mother said to.
He is a pedophile. He sees himself as having a relationship with Shaniya. He "courted" her, thus he could not have raped or sexually assaulted her. John Ramos, long thought to be Etan Patz killer, thought the same way.
He doesn't see it as his problem or fault that Shaniya died. She wanted to be with him.
Doesn't the last sentence mean her death "did occur " but he had no idea beforehand it would?
If he didn't do any of those things, then what was he doing in the motel picture? Was he identified as the man that was holding her? Does he claim to have taken her to someone else? If so, he could have assumed nothing good was going to happen. So then he did have knowledge of SOMETHING proir. I think I could shoot him myself!
shmi said...
I would love an example of a liar not able to lie about lieing. My brain cannot grasp this!
reading the letter i see it has him being coached, these are not his words, these are the words of a lawyer.
Every base and option is covered, something guilty people never do, they always miss something out.
Ravish is not a common usage word, it is seen in b movies and romance novels, where is he likely to have come across the word ravish and would he be able to tell us what it meant?
This is the process of free editing in his handwriting, it is however not his free editing.
The language is formal and screams education, how far did he go through school, could he tells us what any of the word he used meant and thus what he is admitting to or denying.
I tried to post my comment but I got an error and lost my comment, so I'm trying again. I hope it doesn't double post.
Peter, I remember that video well, it is horrifying.
This seems to be a complete list covering everything but there can easily be some term not included which is how he defines what happened. I.e., was he *given* Shaniya? Did he *give* her to someone else? Or does he imagine she *chose* to go with him or someone else? Is there some other term that he would use to explain what happened?
These read as legal definitions to me, and he is listing out all the legal acts he could be charged with.
Saying he did not "have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur" implies that there was something that was planned to occur and did occur but that he didn't have knowledge of it beforehand. "Was to and/or did occur" is a strange wording.
Maybe he is going to claim someone else is responsible and he was just a patsy who didn't know what was going to happen ahead of time.
shmi, I remember having the same question about that. I jotted down the following regarding "lying about a lie"
Why should I believe you?
Correct answer from truthful person would be:
Because I told the truth.
A person who lied, cannot lie again about their lie so instead will say something like:
Because there is no proof.
Believe what you want.
Because there is no evidence.
Because I don't lie.
Because I said so.
I don't care if you believe me or not.
They will use the word lie again but not the word truth.
"I did not take or kidnap Shaniya Davis. (take or kidnap would imply without the parent's knowledge or consent, so he can make this statement without it being a lie) I did not purchase, buy, trade, sell or exchange Shaniya Davis. (Shaniya was given in payment for a past debt, so he did not technically purchase her, trade her or exchange her) I did not molest, sexually assault, rape or ravish Shaniya Davis. (his definition of what he did with Shaniya may be very different than rape or sexual assault - legally it was, but his personal definition may be very different) I did not kill, murder, or take Shaniya Davis's life, nor did I have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur." (he did not know the debt would be settled as it was beforehand. He also may not have had prior knowledge that Shaniya would die or be killed. He does not say he does not have knowledge of her killing, just that he did not know about it beforehand. I do not have knowledge of what my drive to work will be like before I actually drive the route but I know I will be making the drive, I am aware of the drive at the time I am doing it and I have knowledge of what happened as it happens and after. So I could safely say "I had no prior knowledge of my drive to work this morning" that doesn't mean it didn't happen or that I didn't have knowledge of it during or after.)
Thanks, Jo, I can understand it now. Your analysis of his statement makes perdect sence.
nor did I have any prior or beforehand knowledge as to what was to and/or did occur."
sounds like to me he took her there but he didn't know why he was taking her there. he may have been mislead as to the reason for taking her there.
but i thought when they caught him, he said he heard on the radio or somehow found out that LE was looking for him and the girl and he got scared and pulled off the road and choked her to death and dumped her body. i remember thinking that if they would have just waited for him to get back, or if the mother hadn't filed the false report, he would have taken her home and she would have been just fine.
imo, it was the mother who caused all this and she should be strung up in the worst way.
We know Jodi Arias murdered Travis Alexander. But should she be put to death? Life in prison, ok. But death! Come on!
This scumbag molested and murdered a CHILD! HE should get the death penalty. Is the death penalty even on the table here? Probably not. This trial will be done quietly cuz it's horrific and disgusting.
So much easier to discuss Jodi Arias and not these ugly-ass pedophiles, child abusers and child killers. It was a sad day when She Who Should Not Be Named walked scot free. She murdered a child!
Jodi Arias and Anthony are not one in the same.
You didn't do it? OK, start talking. Who did? Where? Why did you give her to someone else?
If he had a story to tell, he would have been crying the first nite he was arrested.
The video hangs him.
Periwinkle Paisley said...
I would have to hear how he speaks in his everyday life. I shouldn't assume because he's a drug dealing, murdering, filthy pedophile that he isn't articulate. Seeing the word RAVISH is unusual. You usually only see that word in romance novels. Not a word that I'd expect to hear from a 26 year old man even if he is well spoken. If he doesn't speak like this in his everyday speech I'd say someone else (his lawyer?) wrote it for him.
I just cry...I just cry..i don't understand this world. this saddens me so much that I had to stop watching news.
this was one of the most horrific crimes we have covered. The video was heart wrenching.
Habundia said...
"https://www.wral.com/man-dies-after-shooting-in-raeford-no-arrests-made/16723612/"
Tragic doesn't come in a vacuum!
It's like an addiction......it's almost impossible to get rid of if once affected by it.
https://www.wral.com/news/video/16683234/
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The 2020 Dodge Ram is going to be released later this year. With All the Ford F150 and Chevrolet in the Current Market, how do the new Dodgeram compete? The solution is by having a better look, bigger-sized and more competent truck, obviously. If you are interested in the coming Dodge Ram, then you desire to learn on. Below, we have 7 reasons why you need to think about this truck.
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Name: Raashi Khanna
Other Name: Rashi
D.O.B (Date of Birth): 30 November 1990
Mother Tongue: Hindi
Home Town: New Delhi, India
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'In every uniform is a human being' — an Air Force vet is on a mission to take portraits of 7,500 veterans in all 50 states
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He's the complete package! - former intern Stephen joins Wasdell in senior IT role
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On the Underground London/Berlin (Saturday Review)
Oliver Kinne 11 Jan 2020 16 Jan 2020 Podcasts, Reviews
Release Date: 2019 Players: 2-5
Designer: Sebastian Bleasdale Length: 45-60 minutes
Artist: Viktor Csete Age: 12+
Publisher: LudiCreations Complexity: 2.0 / 5
After a short journey by train, you arrive in Berlin at Friedrichstraße central station. Wasting no time, you immediately take the stairs down to the U-Bahn platforms. You want to see as much of this metropole as possible, not just the usual tourist sites, but also the more regular stations that locals would travel to. Your first destination is Zitadelle in Spandau, after which you want to see the famous Potsdamer Platz. However, as you arrive on the platform, you notice there are no trains running. It turns out that you have to take a taxi to Jungfernheide, after which you can take the yellow line to Zitadelle, then back to Jungfernheide and another taxi to Zoologischer Garten, where you can catch the white line. It seems weird, but this is On the Underground London/Berlin by LudiCreations.
Yes, the idea that in the game you’re competitively building the local public transport network of either Berlin or London, but you’re restricted to laying tracks only on given routes, which match the real-life underground train network, is a bit strange. It seems to imply that the tunnels have already been dug by local authority contractors, but the tracks are for you and the other players to sort out, probably including the supply and running of the rolling stock.
However, as you play the game, you quickly forget about this bizarre premise. All you focus on is deciding where best to place your coloured wooden sticks, which represent your track, so that the customer will choose your lines over your competitors’. At the beginning of the game this is quite easy, as there are no lines present. However, you do want to leave yourself some room for expansion later, so a little thought at the start of the game can be helpful later.
Depending on player count, you may commandeer two, three or four different track colours, which changes the feel of the game quite a bit when you play two versus four players. I have played it at both player counts, and while you have plenty of choice in a two-player game, where you have four different track colours, in a four or five-player game you have to really work hard with the two colours you have at your disposal.
However, even when you only have two colours to choose from, the game never gets so hard that it’s impossible to make points. There are always opportunities to increase your score, other than enticing the customer to travel on your lines. In fact, as the game progresses and the map fills up, reducing the possibilities of where you can lay your track, you will still be able to extend your routes to bypass other players’ lines, if not completely, then enough to give yourself some points as well as conceding points to another player.
So I’d argue this game is actually relatively friendly. There are plenty of opportunities to make points, even if your competitors have cut you off and blocked your path completely. It means On the Underground London/Berlin is a relatively light game, in particular because you can’t plan ahead at all, but you’re guided on your turn what you should do by the destinations available to the customer.
I know a lot of people have complained that it is hard to work our what route the customer will take, especially after a few rounds, and it slows the game down, but I’ve never found that a problem myself. Maybe it’s because I’m quite a visual person, so it’s possible I just see the route with the least walks and least changes required.
I really like On the Underground London/Berlin and am grateful that LudiCreations have added the Berlin map, which is the main reason I bought the game in the first place. I was born and grew up in this amazing city, so there is a bit of nostalgia for me when I play the game, and maybe that’s skewed my opinion of it.
However, my wife also loves the game and we have played it many times. In fact, she was the one teaching it to the in-laws over the holidays and got them to play it with us a few times. I think that shows that it’s a lovely game, that’s not too hard to teach and can be enjoyed by people for various reasons.
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Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift v5
A Tour of Xcode
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Xcode has a lot of moving parts so let’s take a brief tour of the different sections of Xcode to familiarize ourselves. By the end of this video, we'll have covered the basics we need to know to get started on our application.
All right, welcome to Xcode.
As an iOS developer, you'll be spending a ton of time working within this program.
It's important to know your way around.
But just like with any other program,
you don't have to know everything about it up front to use it.
Let's get a feel for just the basics so we can get started on our app.
On the left here we can see the navigator area.
This is where we can see all of our project files.
And as you can see, Xcode has gone ahead and generated some files for us.
We'll take a look at all of them when we need to as we go along.
And right in the middle here is our editor.
This is the heart of Xcode, and where we'll spend most of our time working.
The editor area is super dynamic and
changes depending on what file we have selected in the navigator area.
Right now our editor is showing the project settings for
our app because the project file is selected by default for us up here.
You might recognize some settings that we just set up earlier
like our Bundle Identifier.
Just a quick note, if you see this error here,
it's just telling us that we can't deploy our app to the app store or
run it on a real device until we've selected a team.
This doesn't stop us from creating our app or running it on a simulator.
So let's just come back to this later.
Like I said, the editor area changes based on what's selected.
So if we come over to the navigator area, and select Main.storyboard,
we can see the editor turns into what's called the Interface Builder.
Here's where we can visually layout our user interface for our app.
If we select this ViewController.swift file,
we can see our editor has changed into a code editor.
We'll take a look at all these files later.
Next up, we've got the utilities area over here on the right.
Just like the editor,
it dynamically changes based on what file we have selected.
In general it shows additional information about what file we're working on and
it's super helpful when we're building out user interface.
Up top we've got the toolbar.
Xcode lets us run our application on simulators that come with Xcode, or
real device if it's connected to your Mac.
These two buttons here let us start and stop our app.
And here, if we click on this iPhone XR button,
we'll get a drop down of all the different simulators we have to choose from.
And way up at the top, we could select our device if it was plugged in.
Whatever is selected here is the simulator or
device that Apple get run on when you hit this play button.
If you're watching this video sometime in the future when the iPhone
XR isn't the one that's here by default, don't worry about it.
As long as you click here, your device list will show up.
Finally, we've got some options to change how our Xcode screen is laid out.
If we take a look on the right we can see a bunch of buttons up here.
We'll take a look at these first three buttons later, but
over here, we have some buttons that let us toggle arrays of Xcode on and off.
We can toggle off the navigating area, the utilities area, and
this middle one pops up a hidden area called the Debug console.
And this is where we'll see any print messages, errors, and
a whole bunch of other useful information when we're running our app.
For now, let's close down our console, bring back the navigator area, and
the utilities area.
And that's it, that's all you need to know to get started with Xcode.
As we go along we'll take a closer look into each area of the program.
And in no time, you'll know Xcode like the back of your hand.
All right, we've set up our project and
have a general understanding of the basics of Xcode.
We've got everything we need to get started on our app.
Next, let's begin building our apps user interface.
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Introduction to Algorithms
Quasilinear Time
2:35 with Pasan Premaratne
In this video we're going to explore an example of a quasilinear runtime
Quasilinear Time - O(n log n): Given a data set of size n, the algorithm executes an n number of operations where each operation runs in log n (logarithmic) time
Merge Sort Algorithm
The next worst case runtime we're going to look at is one that's called quasilinear.
And it's sort of easier to understand, for lack of a better word,
by starting with the big O notation.
Quasilinear runtimes are written out as big O(n log n).
We learned what (log n) was, right?
A logarithmic runtime where as n grew the number of
operations only increased by a small factor.
With a quasilinear runtime what we're saying is that for
every value of n we're going to execute a log n number of operations.
Hence the runtime of n times log n.
So you saw earlier with a quadratic run time, that for each value of n,
we conducted n operations.
It's sort of the same in that as we go through the range of values in n,
we're executing log n operations.
In comparison to other runtimes, a quasilinear algorithm has a runtime that
lies somewhere between a linear runtime and a quadratic runtime.
So where would we expect to see this kind of runtime in practical use?
Well, sorting algorithms is one place you will definitely see it.
Merge Sort, for example,
is a sorting algorithm that has a worst case run time time of big O(n log n).
Let's take a look at a quick example.
Let's say we start off with a list of numbers that looks like this, and
we need to sort it.
Merge Sort starts by splitting this list into two lists down the middle.
It then takes each sublist and splits that in half down the middle again.
It keeps doing this until we end up with a list of just a single number.
When we're down to single numbers we can do one sort operation and
merge these sublists back in the opposite direction.
The first part of Merge Sort cuts those lists into sublists with half the numbers.
This is similar to binary search,
where each comparison operation cuts down the range to half the values.
You know the worst case run time in binary search is log n.
So the splitting operations have the same runtime, big O(log n)or log arethmic.
But splitting into half isn't the only thing we need to do with Merge Sort.
We also need to carry out comparison operations so we can sort those values.
And if you look at each set of this algorithm,
we carry out in n number of comparison operations.
And that brings the worst case run time of this algorithm to n times log n,
also known as quasilinear.
Don't worry if you didn't understand how Merge Sort works.
That wasn't the point of this demonstration.
We will be covering Merge Sort soon, in a future course.
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PM offers assistance to Indonesia's tsunami recovery
11:37am, Monday 24 December 2018. By Jessica Tyson
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offered New Zealand’s assistance with the relief and recovery following yesterday’s tsunami which hit the Sunda Strait near Indonesia.
“This disaster falls in the wake of the significant earthquakes in Bali and Lombok, and an earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi experienced by Indonesia in the last five months,” Ardern said in a statement.
“As with those earlier disasters, New Zealand stands ready to assist the Government of Indonesia with relief and recovery efforts if requested.”
According to Indonesia's disaster management agency the death toll from the tsunami, believed to be triggered by a volcanic eruption, has climbed to 222, with 843 others injured and 28 missing.
“My thoughts are with the loved ones of the victims and everyone affected by this tragedy, Ardern says.
"On the behalf of the New Zealand Government and people, I express our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Indonesia."
Road closures following West Coast deluge
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Ebay Enterprise merges with Innotrac to become Radial
Frederic Lardinois @fredericl / 4 years
Ebay sold off its enterprise unit to a consortium of companies led by private equity firm Permira last year. That consortium included Sterling Partners, Longview Asset Management and Innotrac. Today, eBay Enterprise and Innotrac, a global e-commerce fulfillment firm, are essentially merging to become Radial, which calls itself “the largest omnichannel commerce technology and operations provider.”
“Retailers are seeing a tremendous strain on their businesses because execution of omnichannel is insanely hard,” said Stefan Weitz, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Radial . “Radial is all about building the tools retailers need to compete — and win — in the increasingly complex and competitive ecommerce space. Only Radial has industry-leading tech and expansive operational expertise that offers retailers the most efficient — and profitable — path to get products in consumers’ hands.”
Now if the name Stefan Weitz ring a bell, that’s probably because you’ve heard it while Weitz was the director of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, and basically the face of Bing. Weitz quietly left Microsoft, where he became senior director with a focus on strategy and partnerships around education in 2015, to take this new position.
Omnichannel is obviously something of a buzzword in the retail industry. Radial argues that the combination of eBay Enterprise’s experience in helping retailers understand how their customers shop online and offline with Innotrac’s fulfillment capabilities will give it an edge over its competition. The idea here is to provide retailers with a single platform that allows them to manage the order life cycle from purchase to delivery (or the checkout aisle). Radial will handle everything from order management and payments to fulfillment and customer care.
The combined company will be headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, though it operates two dozen distribution centers and six call centers in the U.S., Canada and Europe with the help of its 7,000 employees. Its customers include the likes of DSW, GameStop, Shoe Carnival and Destination XL.
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Early Updates
What are Early Updates?
Early Updates provides the opportunity to receive pre-release firmware for your Network Music Player. This firmware version may provide more bugs as it is a constant work in progress until the next release, but you will be actively helping us to develop and improve the product.
To opt-in for early updates, navigate to the web setup page of your player, by typing it’s IP address into a web browser on the same network. The unit's IP address can be found in the menu of your product.
Once you have reached this page, simply check the box and accept the terms and conditions in the firmware section to enable upgrading to early releases.
Once this is checked, your player will automatically receive firmware updates before they are available to the public. This will allow you to test the latest firmware release and give your feedback on upcoming features and fixes.
Please note: As per the terms and conditions, once this box is checked, feedback sent via the app is not submitted to the Cambridge customer support team. Feedback is sent directly to the engineering team and it is highly likely that only in exceptional or unusual circumstances will you be contacted. If you have an issue pertaining to the general public firmware release, you should un-check the early updates option and allow your player to update to the general release firmware in order to request help via the app.
What if I no longer want to receive early updates? If you do not wish to receive early updates, simply un-check the box on the web setup page. You can opt in and out as you please. If you’ve previously updated to an early update, but no longer wish to continue, un-checking the box will enable you to revert back to the latest public firmware release for your network player.
What is in Early Updates?
Azur 851N - Information about the latest firmware update
USB Driver v4.47 - download
CXUHD - Information about previous firmware updates
CXR 120/200 - Information about the latest firmware update
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MUmbai port
airline industry
Expect Wi-Fi on Indian planes by 2019: Study
By 2019, quite a number of Indian carriers would have taken delivery of connected aircraft, said a study by a travel IT solutions provider.TNN | December 23, 2016, 09:18 IST
MUMBAI: It's called the "connected aircraft" and essentially it means an aircraft that allows internet access so passengers can check their mails, update their profile or do whatever it is that they do on ground, while in the air. By 2019, quite a number of Indian carriers would have taken delivery of connected aircraft, said a study by a travel IT solutions provider .
One of the long-term goals for the airline industry is ensuring that passengers can have a truly connected journey from departure to arrival. "The so called 'connected aircraft' are starting to enter the global fleet and this will really pick up over the next 10-20 years as older aircraft are replaced with new generation ones," said the survey. "Our survey shows no airlines in India are yet operating connected aircraft. However, they recognise the potential for enhancing passenger services and by 2019, around half will have taken delivery of some connected aircraft, although still somewhat below the global level of 66% of airlines," said the SITA passenger IT trends survey. In India, the authorities have not yet granted permission to airlines to allow Wi-Fi connectivity onboard.
New generation aircraft open the door to providing passengers with a multitude of new connected services.
Tags : 3G/4G, MUmbai port, internet access, Free Wi-Fi, airline industry, Air passengers
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YRKKH Akshara to turn into Naira’s guide
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YRKKH Akshara becomes Naira’s moral support: Naira connects to Akshara after a long time to get answers to her problems. She feels that she could be pregnant, and maybe the test kit wasn’t accurate. She gains courage from Akshara’s diary. She reads Akshara and her thoughts to receive some guidance. She tries to know what has Akshara done being in her place. She finds solace knowing more about her mother. She hides the diary from Kartik. She wishes that Kartik realized her feelings. Akshara becomes Naira’s guide in such a phase where Naira isn’t able to share her feelings with anyone. Kartik wants her to understand his feelings of love, care and worry.
Naksh gets worried for Kirti. He gets pampering her. Samarth bids adieu to Goenka family. It gets emotional moment for everyone. Naira weeps for Samarth’s leaving. Kirti gets to spend good time with the family elders. Naksh likes to stay happy. He wants them to be happy all the time. He records the special moments in his phone.
Naira finds a way to relieve her stress. She dances and expresses her feelings. Kartik visits the hospital to collect the reports. He meets his old friend, while the doctor waits to talk to him regarding Naira. Doctor finds Kartik busy. He is sure Kartik and Naira will come to him to talk about the pregnancy. He wants to tell Kartik to take extra care of Naira. Naira feels dizzy. She goes to the hospital for a pregnancy check up. Naira gets stressed to know the result. Doctor congratulates her for the good news.
She tells Naira that she is pregnant. Kartik checks the medical reports and learns that Naira is really pregnant. Naira turns overjoyed with this news. She finds positivity around. She imagines herself with a little newborn. Naira then fears for Kartik’s reaction. Naira goes to break the good news to Kartik, unaware that he already knows the truth. Kartik tells her that he knows that she is pregnant.
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Statement on Government moves to apply for EU Emergency Funding
Sir Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West, has issued the following statement below after government sources announce that they are considering an application for EU emergency funding.
Watson first called for the government to apply for funding under the EU Solidarity Fund on 9th January and has received over 1,000 signatures to his online petition as well as support from the Passion for Somerset business group. He has also met with the European Commissioner in charge of the fund who would welcome an application from the UK.
Commenting, Sir Graham said:
"I am very pleased to see that the government are now actively seeking this funding which can only enhance the money already committed by the government to deal with the flooding. I have been actively lobbying ministers on behalf of residents and businesses not only on the Somerset levels but right across the South West and I am pleased that our pressure is now working.
"British taxpayers pay into this fund. We should be able to draw down from that - Germany and the Czech Republic did last year when they had terrible flooding on the River Elbe.
"As the waters recede, we must also come together and find a solution to ensure the tragic scenes we see on the Somerset levels and in Gloucestershire do not happen again. We need a long term water management strategy. Funding can be sought from the European Investment Bank who offer low interest, long term loans to councils and organisations. With this money we could reduce the risk of flooding for the future."
"This isn't just about flood defences. All the science tells us that this is the beginning of a new era of ever more extreme weather, which includes heavy rainfall. In the long-term, the only way we can protect my constituents in the South West and others from worse weather to come is by getting the world off fossil fuels and switching to greener sources of energy. That's part of why I devote so much time to promoting the transition to renewable energy around the world. Frankly, those politicians who continue to claim that climate change isn't happening are looking a little silly right now. These never-ending storms and floods are not normal."
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Spy Review
by Noah R. Taylor | June 5, 2015, 9:26 am
2015 is shaping up to be a pretty good year for spy films. Some of these are franchise entries that haven’t been released yet but look promising, such as Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Spectre (Bond 24), I would also argue that after seven movies, the Fast and Furious team have graduated from street racers to international spies by this point. We also got an adaptation of Mark Millar’s spy comic Kingsman: The Secret Service and in August we’ll get to see Guy Ritchie’s take on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. These films all have their own interpretation of the spy genre, so it’s only appropriate that we also get good old fashioned spoof to round things out.
Spy is the perfect vehicle for the talents of Melissa McCarthy who is finally the uncontested lead in a film. This is her third collaboration with writer/ director Paul Feig, but in Bridesmaids and The Heat, she was mostly relegated to second (or third) banana. When we meet her at the beginning of Spy, she is doing just that, being a supporting character to Jude Law’s suave Bond-esque secret agent. While he goes on missions saving the world, she sits at a desk and assists him through an ear piece. When he’s killed and all of their best agents have their identities compromised, desk jockey Susan Cooper (McCarthy) must infiltrate an international arms ring to prevent a global catastrophe. It’s basically The Other Guys of espionage films.
The film is perfectly cast all around. At first it’s a little depressing to see McCarthy’s character play the doormat for humour, but the payoff is when she’s finally in the field, kicking ass and forgetting to take names. Her character really shines once she saddles up to the prissy villain played by Rose Byrne and turns total alpha on her. The two develop an indescribable chemistry. Jude Law and Jason Statham are great at lampooning characters we could easily see them playing in a straight spy film, particularly Statham as the testosterone driven rogue agent constantly reminding people just how badass he really is.
As the film progresses, it does begin to loose the spoof aspect with the concentration shifting more towards the action and plot twists (don’t worry, McCarthy is hilarious throughout). Despite some of the action actually being pretty decent, this isn’t what we go to this kind of movie to see and it ends up dragging things out a little. We don’t really care who is double crossing who, and since this is essentially a send-up it’s all pretty predictable anyway. This seems to be a recent trend in movies, where filmmakers or studios feel that they can’t be just one thing and have to hedge their bets by trying to please everyone, but at least we’re spared any romantic subplot.
When it comes to the jokes, there’s nothing really that new here, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing (except when it comes to all the ‘you look like…’ one liners, can we please retire those?). It’s at its best when pushing the envelope of good taste, like vomiting on a corpse in slow motion. It’s kind of sad to say that everything is a little funnier because it’s a female-heavy cast in a normally male dominated genre, but this is becoming Feig’s modus operandi which he’ll be continuing with the Ghostbusters reboot. I don’t mean to imply that we’re laughing at these women like “haha she punches like a girl”, but it just makes everything feel a little fresher. In addition to McCarthy and Byrne, Miranda Hart and Alison Janney get their fair share of laughs, while the men play clueless archetypes to a T (think Jon Hamm in Bridesmaids).
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Shelf Stuff: Where we open up the new @VinylMePlease @StaxRecords anthology and completely spoil the surprise, talking about loads of amazing records contained within along the way
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A controversial police informant could be taking the stand today at a murder trial in Saskatoon.
He was only recently added as a witness, in a development one defence lawyer called a “blindside.” It’s possible his testimony could be delayed to another date, but here’s a look at how things got to this point.
Who’s on trial? Kennith “T.J.” Tingle, 34, Jon Dombowsky, 33, and Long Nam Luu, 37. They are charged with first-degree murder.
Who was killed? Isho Abrim Hana, a 34-year-old married father of two who was facing cocaine trafficking charges when he died. He was chased down and shot on Preston Avenue on April 15, 2004.
That’s almost 11 years ago. Why so long to get to trial? The case went cold, until Calgary police caught a big break during an undercover sting in 2011. Neil Lee Yakimchuk, who killed his sister-in-law’s fiancé in Calgary in 2008, told undercover officers he also killed Hana.
Why are three other guys on trial, if Yakimchuk did it? Yakimchuk said he was paid by Hana’s drug-trade rivals, and that a buddy went with him to kill Hana. The Crown’s theory is that Hana was in a drug turf war with Dombowsky and Luu, and that Tingle and Yakimchuk both tried to kill Hana.
Who’s the new witness? The witness is Noel Harder, who was a high-level cocaine trafficker in Saskatoon when he was arrested in March 2004 (a month before Hana’s murder). He served a six-year sentence for trafficking and then tried to turn his life around and make an honest living, according to interviews he gave The StarPhoenix in 2010 and earlier this year.
Why was he just added as a witness? Up until January, Harder was working for the police as an informant. He said he helped them gather evidence of alleged crimes by Hells Angels and Fallen Saints motorcycle club members in an operation called Project Forseti. Any information he had about Hana’s murder wasn’t shared with the Crown.
What changed? Police moved in on the Project Forseti targets on Jan. 14, conducting massive raids and seizing guns, cash and about $8 million worth of drugs. More than a dozen men were arrested and Harder went into witness protection. He also gave a statement about the Hana murder case to police that was shared with the Crown.
What’s in the statement? We won’t know until Harder testifies.
Have there been any clues? Last week, defence lawyers said a lot of interesting things in court about the disclosure they’ve received so far — including allegations that Harder was implicated in a conspiracy to kill Hana, all the way back to March 2004. It’s possible Harder will identify the others involved.
Don’t we already know that? No. For one thing, the defence lawyers have been working hard to poke holes in Yakimchuk’s story. For another, even if you believe Yakimchuk, he only identified the man who paid him to kill Hana as an Asian man called “Jesse.” The Crown believes that’s Luu — events that happened to Luu’s family match up with things Yakimchuk said he heard about the drug turf war — but court hasn’t heard testimony yet that identifies Luu as Jesse.
What about the other two accused? Court hasn’t heard evidence of links between Tingle and a murder plan, other than through Yakimchuk (and Tingle has denied knowing anything about the murder at all, until after the fact). It’s unlikely Harder will have anything to say about Tingle. Regarding Dombowsky, one of the things Yakimchuk said was that his friend “Jon” asked him to take care of things for him after Jon was beaten up. Dombowsky’s lawyer could argue that’s not a murder contract. If Harder has knowledge of a conspiracy, his testimony could be important.
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For Jewish Chaplain, 54 Years And Counting on Police Force
By Emily Drooby
WINDSOR TERRACE — With a handshake and a smile, Rabbi Alvin Kass focuses on what he does best: serving the NYPD and God.
The chaplain is the longest-serving member in uniform on the New York City Police Department. It was a job he never expected to have.
“I had never been in a police station in my life,” Rabbi Kass told Currents News last month. “I never knew any policemen.”
And yet when he had an interview with the NYPD in 1966, he set himself apart from the other applicants because he had a gym bag filled with handball equipment. He was on his way to the local YMCA for a handball match and thought the interview would be brief.
The gym bag with handballs prompted the chief of detectives to pick Rabbi Kass for the chaplain job.
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On Dec. 16, the chaplain marked 54 years on the force.
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Rabbi Kass helps to heal and protect those who keep New York City safe, dealing with the good times and with the tragic times, like on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists struck the Twin Towers.
Serving alongside officers who risked their lives on that day, Rabbi Kass pushed through his own grief to care for them.
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Rabbi Kass is the first-ever three-star chaplain in the NYPD, and when he joined the force, he was the third Jewish chaplain in its history. He has served under seven mayors and 16 police commissioners.
He was the head of the Conservative congregation at the East Midwood Jewish Center for 36 years before he retired in 2014. But, for now, he will continue on with the NYPD.
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The 10 Best Watches For Teenagers (Boys & Girls)
By Tim August 2, 2019 November 25, 2019 Watches For Teenagers
Before the life-changing revolution of smartphones, wrist watches were a necessity in one’s life regardless of their lifestyle and daily schedule. Whether you were a senior businessman who needed to keep time and know when to open and close the shop. Or a junior worker who needed to know when to clock in and out, watches were an indispensable tool.
And while the introduction of smartphones eliminated this responsibility, owning a wristwatch comes with a newfound responsibility of not taking things for granted. Having a watch on your wrist, regardless of the price, comes with a sentimental heft and acts as an addition to your class. Owning a sleek wristwatch teaches you about essential aspects in life like the value of money, the importance of quality. And most importantly, your taste and preference.
As a teenager, I always wanted the coolest gadgets on the market for the sole purpose of looking trendy and standing out from the crowd. The essential need to remain cool and flashy makes finding a great watch for teenagers a challenge. And just like everyone else, teenagers have different taste and preference, which makes the process more elaborate.
Teenagers have a limited budget, which means you’ll have to match style and affordability to appeal to them. And with the vast improvements in technology, the watch industry has metamorphosed to include new design upgrades that resonate to the young generation. Whether it’s a boy’s, girl’s or unisex watch for teenagers, the focus remains on precision, design, features, and affordability.
Remember, having a wrist watch is a form of ‘initiation’ into adulthood. And if you’re a timepiece enthusiast, you’ll love the selection I have for you.
Table: My Best Watches For Teenagers (Boys & Girls)
My Picks of Teenage Watches For Boys & Girls
My Pick As Best Watch for Teen Boys: Seiko 5 Automatic
My Luxury Watch for Teenage Boys: Hugo Boss Classic
My Budget Watch for Teenage Boys: Timex Ironman 100
My Smartwatch Watch for Teen Boys: Apple Watch Series 3
Another Good Watch for Teen Boys: Casio Men’s G-Shock Solar
My Pick As Best Watch for Teenage Girls: Swatch Silver Glistar
My Luxury Watch for Teenage Girls: Michael Kors Runway Gold
My Budget Watch for Teenage Girls: Fossil Virginia
My Smartwatch Watch for Teenage Girls: Garmin vívomove HR
Another Good Watch for Teenage Girls: G-Shock BGA-220-7A Silver Bezel
Popular Watches for Teenagers Brands
Best Watches For Teenagers: Conclusions
Note: If you use a small screen you may have to scroll right in order to see all the columns.
(My #1 Pick For Boys)
Seiko 5 Automatic Boy Watch
(My #1 Pick For Girls)
Swatch Silver Glistar Girl Watch
Hugo Boss Classic Boy Watch
Timex Ironman Classic 100 Boy Watch
Apple Watch Series 3 Unisex Watch
Michael Kors Runway Gold Girl Watch
Let’s now shed light on some of the best watches for teenagers. I have done my best to be thorough and unbiased with the reviews to give you a first-hand experience of what it feels to have one of these gems on your wrist. And considering I had to give you only the best in this guide, here are some cool watches for teenagers I think you should check out;
Seiko 5 Automatic is one of the best watches for teenagers
Simple, Elegant Design. The Seiko 5 Automatic features an elegant, minimalist design that not only looks great on the wrist. But also adds a touch of class to your style regardless of the outfit you pair it with. It has a blue dial with day/date windows, luminous sword-shaped hands, and textured off-center crown.
Automatic Self-Winding Movements. Also known as automatic movements, the watch harnesses energy from the natural movement of the wearer’s wrist. This makes it a favorite timepiece for many watch enthusiasts as it eliminates the need for constant manual winding. Just wear your watch regularly and it will keep running on its own. Furthermore, the watch uses the installed rotors which are connected to the movements. And can rotate freely to harness the energy. With each movement of the wrist, the rotors spin and transfer the energy to the mainspring for automatic winding.
Quality Materials Used. The Seiko 5 Automatic features a stainless steel body and a resilient canvas band. The 37mm stainless steel case is sturdy enough to tackle external aggressors while the patented hardlex dial window allows for easy time telling. Seiko’s use of carefully selected materials goes a long way in promoting longevity and enhancing low maintenance.
Adjustable Straps. This cutting edge timepiece features canvas straps with buckle closure to allow for the necessary adjustments. It feels comfortable on the wrist and can accommodate different wrist sizes. Also, the Seiko 5 Automatic is water resistant up to 30m (100 feet), which makes it suitable for short periods of recreational swimming and showering.
Why the Seiko 5 Automatic my picks as the best watches for teens boys…?
This stunning watch is the best timepiece you’ll get with such a great combination of features and an affordable price. The watch features a minimalist design with a blue dial, luminous hands. And a sleek stainless steel case. It boasts of self-winding movements that eliminate the need for daily winding for it to run. And it’s water resistant up to 30 meters. The hardlex dial window is resilient and makes time telling blissful. And the canvas straps feel comfortable on the skin featuring a buckle closure to safely secure the watch on your wrist.
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Hugo Boss Men’s Classic is one of the best watches for teenagers
Resilient, Durable Watch. The Hugo Boss Men’s Classic is the perfect catch for teenage boys looking to fork a few more dollars for extra class and finesse. It has a modern and clean look which is complemented by the black plated case, a white dial, and an adjustable bracelet. It also has a durable mineral crystal which protects the watch from scratches.
Impressive Design. Just like other Hugo Boss youths watches, the Men’s Classic features a minimalist design which harmonizes functionality and precision flawlessly. This reliable timepiece features a 44mm black plated case, a black dial window, and white hands which blend well to give you a casual yet classy look. Furthermore, the mineral crystal dial window allows for easy time-telling without importuning too much attention. Additionally, the immaculate analog display watch looks and feels great on the wrist.
Adjustable Link Bracelet. This boys dress watch has an adjustable black plated bracelet which can accommodate different wrist sizes. The sturdy link band feels comfortable on the skin, allowing for comfortable, extended wearing periods. It also has the conventional buckle clasp to secure it on the wrist.
Renowned Quartz watch movements. Introduced in 1969, the Japanese Quartz movements came to wade off the conventional mechanical watch movements that were not only outdated but also hectic to use. These movements render the Hugo Boss Men’s Classic watch durable, easy to use, and more accurate. Unlike the previous movements, the Quartz system is a low maintenance option. And very resilient because there are few moving parts involved. It’s also water resistant up to 50m (165 feet), which makes it suitable for short periods of recreational swimming and showering.
Timex Ironman Classic 100 is one of the best watches for teenagers
Quality, Sports Watch. The Timex Ironman Classic 100 is the perfect addition to your workout adventure. Whether you’re a cyclist, runner, or just trying to get in shape, this lightweight and easy-to-read watch comes with a host of functions that will keep you up to date on your pace and exercise progress. It features 100-lap memory recall and allows you to store your workouts with the chronograph training log
Renowned Quartz Watch Movements. Just like most other Timex watches, the Ironman Classic 100 employs the renowned Quartz watch movements which are known for precision and accuracy. This Japanese system renders the watch very durable and low maintenance because there are few moving parts. Unlike the conventional mechanical system, this one doesn’t need human intervention to run, which further enhances its accuracy.
Indiglo Light-up Watch Dial. The Watch features the patented Timex Indiglo light-up dial which coupled with the large mineral crystal window make it extra easy to tell time. The watch also has a customizable alarm and interval training timer which make it an ideal training partner.
Water Resistant Teenage Watch. The Timex Ironman Classic 100 is water resistant up to 100m (330 feet), which makes it ideal for swimming and snorkeling. It has a resin bracelet which feels comfortable on the skin. And a buckle clasp to secure the watch.
Apple Watch Series 3 is one of the best watches for teenagers boys
High-Quality Apple Watch. Just as you’d expect with Apple products, the Apple Watch Series 3 features a sleek yet sturdy design. It has a strong aluminum case and Ion-X strengthened glass that not only looks amazing but also protects the watch from scratches. The minimalist look harmonizes high-quality materials and patented technology to provide you with a glorious timepiece.
The Perfect Workout Partner. The Apple Watch Series 3 features important design tweaks and features meant to help you track your pace and exercise progress seamlessly. The built-in GPS, optical heart sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope work together to track your steps and exercise routine, and can be customized to give you specific results based on your exercise targets.
Water-Resistant Watch for Teenager. Just like any other training watch, the Apple Watch series 3 is water-resistant up to 50m (165 feet) which makes it a master on land and in the water. It also boasts of a long-lasting battery (up to 18 hours), 8GB capacity, and very useful Barometric altimeter.
Other features include;
Powerful dual-core processor
Composite back
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz)
Watch OS 5
Casio Men’s G-Shock Solar is one of the best watches for teenagers boys
Resilient, Durable Watch. The Casio G-Shock Solar watch is a solar-powered multifunction timepiece with full auto EL backlight and a total of 31 different world time zones. Born from a dream of creating a watch that never breaks, the solar G-Shock watch is built to resist centrifugal and impact forces, as well as high water pressure. This sporty watch is built to push the capabilities of the wrist watch to the limit and has won approval from the military, surfers, and active-outdoor enthusiasts.
Renowned Quartz Movement with Digital Display. Ever since the introduction of the legendary Japanese watch movements in 1969, Casio has used this low maintenance system to enhance precision and accuracy. Unlike the preceding mechanical system, Quartz doesn’t require human intervention which makes it less vulnerable to breakdown and very durable. The Japanese system enhances easy time telling and renders the watch easy to operate.
Adjustable Resin Band with Buckle Closure. The watch has a pair of comfortable resin bands that feel comfortable on the skin, making it ideal for extended wearing periods. It also has a sturdy buckle closure that secures it on the wrist.
Minimalist, Sleek Design. The Casio Men’s G-shock is one of the best young mens watches for teen and features a sleek, simple design that does not feel overwhelming on the wrist. The 46.4 mm resin case with mineral dial window blend well and add a sporty feel to your look. It’s water resistant up to 200m (660 feet), which makes it ideal for professional marine activity and surface water sports. Additional functions include 1/100 sec stopwatch and countdown timer.
Swatch Silver Glistar is the best watch for teenage girl
Immaculate Design. The Swatch Silver Glistar features a simple, flawless design that harmonizes excellence and style. The round watch with a metallic-tone dial has luminescent hands, a plastic dial window that makes it easy to read the time and a silicone band that feels comfortable on the wrist.
Renowned Quartz Watch Movements. The watch boasts of the legendary Japanese Quartz movements that render it easy to use and very durable. The system was introduced to replace the archaic mechanical movements that required human intervention to run. The battery-powered Quartz model has fewer moving parts which makes the watch low maintenance and very precise in time telling.
High-Quality Build. The Swatch Pink Glistar features a 42.7 mm plastic case with a resilient plastic window that protects the watch from scratches. It also has flexible and sparkling silicone bands which are not only easy to clean and maintain but also very comfortable on your skin. The watch is water resistant up to 30m (100 feet), which makes it suitable for short periods of recreational swimming and showering.
Adjustable Silicone Band. This incredible watch features a sparkling silicone band with buckle closure. The band can be adjusted to fit different wrist sizes and the buckle closure holds the watch securely on your wrist.
Why the Swatch Pink Glistar is the best watches for teenagers girls…?
Powered by the renowned Quartz watch movements, this timepiece goes beyond just telling time. It features a round flawless design with a metallic-tone dial that solidifies Swatch’s goal of providing unique, colorful, and innovative timepieces, affordably. The sparkling pink silicone band adds a dash of class to your look regardless of the outfit you pick. The watch also has a scratch resistant acrylic crystal and is water resistant up to 30m.
Michael Kors Runway Gold is one of the best watches for teenagers
Feminine, Sophisticated Design. The Michael Kors Runway Gold watch is the perfect option for ladies who want to make a fashion statement without overspending. It features an attractive stainless steel case with a glowing mineral dial window that renders it easy to read. The gold-tone, minimalist look with tonal dial brings chronograph functions on board and date window between four and five o’clock.
Japanese Quartz Movements with Analog Display. This luxurious timepiece uses the easy-to-use Quartz watch movements that date back to the famous 1969 crisis. The battery-powered movements don’t require human intervention which means make the watch low maintenance and very durable. This watch movement model also does away with the daily manual winding to keep it running.
High-quality Materials. The watch has a sturdy and glossy gold-tone, stainless steel case with a mineral dial window and an adjustable band with jewelry-clasp closure. The flawless harmonization of the high-quality facets into one masterpiece makes the watch not only appealing to the eye but also very durable. The watch is also water resistant up to 50m (165 feet) which makes it a beast both on land and in water.
Fully Adjustable Stainless Steel Bracelet. The watch has a sturdy stainless steel bracelet that’s fully adjustable to accommodate different wrist sizes. The bracelet also has a jewelry-clasp closure to hold the watch securely on your wrist. It feels comfortable on the skin, which is a plus when buying a watch that you intend to be wearing for extended periods.
Fossil Virginia is one of the best watches for teenagers
Minimalist, Sleek Design. The Fossil Virginia is a unique timepiece from this long-standing watchmaker that seeks to get the best out of the wrist watch. This magnificent watch boasts of a simple yet sleek look with the signature round stainless steel case with crystal detail at bezel. It also has a stainless steel bracelet with crystal detail and jewelry clasp closure, interchangeable with all Fossil 7mm watch straps. The simple, modernized look blends well with your outfit giving you the much needed edge.
Japanese Quartz Movements. The watch uses the effective and easy-to-use quartz watch movements which have been in use since the ‘70s. The battery-powered watch movements model, eliminates the tiring manual winding to keep the watch running. Also, the system has few moving parts which renders it low maintenance and very durable.
Fully Adjustable Stainless Steel Bracelet. Furthermore, the watch has a sturdy stainless steel bracelet with crystal detail and jewelry clasp closure. This fully adjustable bracelet comfortably accommodates different wrist sizes and feels comfortable on the skin. Which is a plus when buying a watch.
The watch is also water resistant up to 50m (165 feet), which makes it ideal for short periods of recreational swimming and showering.
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Garmin vívomove HR is one of the best watches for teenagers girls
Sleek, Attractive Design- The Vivomove HR blends the physical and digital aspects perfectly. The lightweight timepiece allows you to easily check your heart rate, calories burnt, and start an activity timer anytime you wish. This amazing smartwatch can also estimate your stress levels, send notifications, act as a music remote, and show local weather. The Vivomove HR has a steel bezel finish on the upper side and a plastic backside. The LED display comes to life when you double tap the watch or raise your hand.
Swim ready, with a 5-day battery. Furthermore, it’s water resistant up to 50 meters, making it both shower and swim ready. The watch is charged using a simple clip-on dongle on the side, and a full charge will last up to six and a half days. Once the power is depleted, the analog watch elements will still work, but you won’t be able to record and track your fitness.
Activity Tracking and Monitoring- Vivomove HR is designed to complement your look and help you feel good. It features fitness monitoring tools that are displayed on the sleek LED screen giving you an insight on your fitness levels. Through the wrist heart rate monitor, you can get a VO2 max estimate.
The smartwatch also helps you to track your stress patterns throughout the day, making it possible to identify the activities or situations that trigger different emotions. Thanks to all-day stress tracking, you can be able to manage your stress and work your way through it.
G-Shock Silver Bezel is one of the best watches for teenagers girls
Resilient, Durable Watch. The G-Shock BGA-220-7A Silver Bezel features a resin band and case that not only look impressive on the wrist but also feel comfortable on the skin. The watch also has a resilient stainless steel bezel that harmonizes its different components for a modernized sturdy look.
Renowned Quartz Movements with Analog & Digital Display. As an innovation meant to demystify the process of watch making and enhance the ease of use, the Quartz watch movements enhance precision and accuracy. The BGA-22-7A, in particular has stayed true to the company’s mission of harmonizing product innovation and modernizing the design to produce affordable timepieces.
Unlike the preceding mechanical system, Quartz doesn’t require human intervention which makes it less vulnerable to breakdown and thus very durable. The Japanese system enhances easy time telling and renders the watch easy to operate.
Adjustable Resin Band with Buckle Closure. Furthermore, the watch has a pair of comfortable resin bands that feel comfortable on the skin. Making it ideal for extended wearing periods. It also has a sturdy buckle closure that secures it on the wrist.
Additionally, the G-Shock BGA-220-7A Silver Bezel has an LED light with Afterglow, 31 time zones, 5 daily alarms (4 one-time alarms and 1 snooze alarm), Hourly Time Signal, 1 second stopwatch Countdown Timer. And a Full Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099).
The watch is water resistant up to 200m (660 feet), which makes it ideal for professional marine activity and surface water sports.
Regardless of your budget, there’s always something for everyone. This guide will delve into some of the best timepieces that harmonize all the traits of teenagers into a classic masterpiece. Here are some of the popular watches for teenagers boys and girls brands;
SEIKO is a world-renowned watchmaker from Japan with a long-standing history in the watchmaking industry. Having opened its operations in 1881, the brand started as Kintaro Hattori’s watch and clock repair shop which later transitioned into Seikosha factory for wall clocks. The company later created the first Japanese wristwatch, Laurel in 1910 in what would turn out to be one of the largest watchmaking brands. And what is now known as Seiko, a Japanese word for exquisite or success.
The Laurel wristwatch came at a time when pocket watches were still popular, in what was a bold move by the watch for teens brand to introduce change. And play the role of a pacesetter in the diverse timepiece world. During this time, the Swiss watchmakers were dominating the timepiece market. And Seiko really had to fold its sleeves to take a piece of the action and get the recognition as a world-class watchmaking entity.
Around the 1960s, the Seiko brand took notice of the fine craftsmanship involved in the production of Swiss watches, in a move meant to bridge the gap and learn a thing or two. And having made a name as a utility-focused brand, introducing the fine case and display designs would be a great move towards delivering an all-round timepiece.
This came to reality with the launch of the Grand Seiko line with strict specifications and improvements made to get the new name. The refurbished brand was created to make a mark in the ever-changing watchmaking world and position Seiko as a serious contender. Not long after the launch, the company received recognition in the Neuchatel Observatory Competition in 1967. Since then, Seiko has maintained strict quality control measures. And constantly pushed boundaries to become one of the elite timepiece houses ever.
Timex is a long-standing American watchmaking firm recognized around the world as an affordable watch option across different age groups. The company started as a US defense system bomb fuse maker. And later transitioned to produce affordable and durable timepieces for mass consumption. The watchmaker is also known for the use of patented Indiglo technology, a night-light innovation built to enhance night readability. The flexibility of enhancing the wearer’s night readability. And being discreet when necessary makes the technology a priority for Timex.
The main goal of Timex was to harmonize two factors of production that didn’t look like they could ever exist together in the timepiece industry- affordability and durability. The brand collaborated with the Ironman competition, a brutal triathlon that pushes athletes beyond their limits, to develop a brand focused on getting the best out of your wrist watch. The famed partnership worked towards developing a wrist watch that can survive water and shock while providing the athlete with the necessary tools like chronograph and stopwatch.
Today, Timex has been involved in numerous partnerships with renowned designer labels like Versace and Salvatore Ferragamo, which makes it a key player in the diverse world of watch making.
Swatch is a worldwide renowned watchmaker. Based in Bienne (Biel) Switzerland, a country known for its precision and finesse in the production of timepieces. The unique, colorful, and innovative watch designs have helped the brand position itself at the pinnacle of the world of watch for teen.
The firm was founded in 1983 by Dr. Nicholas G. Hayek (1928-2010) who together with a team of designers set out to produce a watch with fewer components than the traditional mechanical watches. The new design which was baptized Swatch (coined from the words second watch) took the world by storm in what would later be one of the best timepieces on the market. Hayek also spearheaded the design of the world’s thinnest wrist watch at the time, the Concord Delirium.
And coming after the famed 1970’s quartz crisis, Swatch set out to produce affordable wrist watches for young adults that harmonized style and functionality. The history and metamorphosis of this brand is one that teaches perseverance, ingenuity. And overcoming hurdles in the quest to produce affordable, yet quality timepieces. The success of the company restored Switzerland’s position as a major player in the timepiece world. And helped to place the brand in a position where it’s a one-stop-shop for fun and colorful watches teenager across different age groups.
Founded in 1853, Tissot is a family-owned watchmaking firm started by Charles Félicien Tissot and his son Charles Émile Tissot in Le Locle, Switzerland. The son left for Russia in 1858 and succeeded in selling the Savonnette pocket watches across the Russian empire. The firm later merged with Omega to form the prestigious Tissot-Omega partnership which went on to produce some of the most sought-after timepieces.
Tissot was used as the official timekeeper in famous tournaments like the 1938 downhill skiing in Switzerland, Villars-sur-Ollon Ski races in 1938, and the Davis Cup in 1957. The firm became a subsidiary of the Swiss Swatch Group in 1983, the largest watch distributor in the world. Today, it’s still headquartered in Le Locle, Switzerland. And has a market reach of 160+ countries around the world.
Ever since its inception, Swatch has been involved in major sports around the world including motorcycling, cycling, fencing, ice hockey, among others. The firm was also a major sponsor of Formula One teams Sauber, Renault, and Lotus. The brand works with various sporting bodies to provide customized systems that generate accurate timings and performance data. And with the recently unveiled ‘Tissot, This is Your Time’ campaign; the company seeks to continue producing cool watches for teenage guys that relate to your every day’s life.
While Casio was founded in 1946, the manufacture of wrist watches didn’t start until 1974 during the heat of the famed Quartz crisis. The firm which is headquartered in Japan boasts of producing the world’s first watch with an automatic digital calendar, the Casiotron digital watch. One of the best digital watches for teens. And though the company has enjoyed success in the electronics world, nothing beats the iconic launch of the most famous Casio watch, the G-Shock.
Furthermore, Casio G-Shock watches are one of the most popular timepieces on the market. Achieving collectible status and worn by A-list celebrities. This line has grown to include different styles and sizes. And even several limited editions. The DW-500C was the first G-Shock watch debuted in 1983, a time where the shift was on thin compact designs. The tough, utilitarian, and sporty design appealed to the US market. Especially because it also came with an affordable price point.
Today, the watches for teens boys has positioned itself at the helm of the pecking order. And boasts of a wide range of affordable and quality watches that appeal to the different age groups.
Fossil was founded by Tom Kartsotis, a former Texas A&M University student living in Dallas, Texas as Overseas Products International. The idea which was suggested by Kosta Kartsotis, an older brother, involved in importing retail goods from the Far East, specifically moderately-priced fashion watches. In an attempt to establish a Swiss presence, Fossil purchased and reinvigorated the Zodiac watches teen brand from Genender International in 2001 for $4.7 million. Later in 2004, the firm purchased Michele Watch company to complete a cycle meant to offer high-end Swiss watches with a designer flair.
Furthermore, Fossil has design studios in Biel, Switzerland, manufacturing companies in China. And distribution centers in Germany, Dallas, and Asia. The company purchased Skagen Designs Limited in 2012 for approximately $236.8 million and Misfit in 2013 for $260 million. This was a move meant to introduce the Misfit technology to the traditionally-designed timepieces.
Founded in 1997, Nixon is an American watch brand stationed in Encinitas, California. And whose target market is the youth lifestyle. The firm started off by selling their watches teenage via independent retailers. But now maintains stand-alone retail stores in California, Melbourne, Kuta, Bondi, Australia, and Bali.
Furthermore, the company started as a partnership between Laats and DiNenna. A former snowboard product manager at Burton and publisher at TransWorld Media respectively. The duo raised close to $1 million from venture capitalists to start the firm, which kicked off with 7 models that were sold through 200 retailers. Nixon opened a subsidiary in France in 2000 and had 90+ models by 2005 with an annual sale growth of 55%.
Today, Nixon is a household name with numerous watches for teenagers boys and girls that are affordable and very durable.
In conclusion, teenagers want to look trendy and sporty more than other age groups. The need to stand out and look cool makes the process of finding the ideal watch for a teenager more elaborate and extensive. However, the secret lies in successfully harmonizing quality, physical appeal. And affordability.
Just like they do with other products like clothing, young people have watch teens brands they trust and envy. And with more watch companies producing pieces that appeal to the youth lifestyle, there’s a wide selection to choose from. In this article, I’ve looked into some of the popular brands as well as a few timepieces that meet the dynamic needs of teenagers. And while the pricing and functions may vary, all the watches in the guide are top-quality pieces that will induce the missing edge in your lifestyle.
In closing, I hope that the information helps you to make an informed decision.
PS:, I hope my watches for teenagers review was helpful when making your choice. But let me tell you there are plenty of other things to consider when you’re buying your first watch. I recommend that you look around my site to learn about some frequent mistakes to avoid when buying your timepiece. If you have any further questions about my watches for teenagers review, don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail using the contact form.
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The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism
Fairy tale or American horror story: Could be either, who can say?
Jessica M. Goldstein Twitter Aug 2, 2018, 8:00 am
Art by Diana Ofosu.
Have you heard the one about this guy in California? He’s unemployed right now, and he’s currently homeless. But instead of asking people for money, he’s out there on the street handing out copies of his resume. The takeaway from this story, according to Channel 7 News: #NeverGiveUp.
This California man is unemployed and homeless, but instead of asking for money he asked people driving by to take his resume! He’s now received more than 200 job offers in just three days! #Hungry4Success #NeverGiveUp #7News pic.twitter.com/qRZticZqHz
— Kris Anderson (@KrisAndersonTV) July 30, 2018
How about this one, from Good Morning America: “The new trend is to give a pregnant coworker some of your own vacation time to add days to her maternity leave.”
We don’t have federally-mandated maternity leave in the United States, making us one of the only nations on the face of the Earth to deny our citizens this basic and vital thing.
But that is not the focus here.
The point is not the broken system that created the need for this collective, self-sacrificing workaround. The point is that a woman’s colleagues are so, so generous. The point is that Kansas City’s Angela Hughes did not take off a single day of her entire pregnancy just to save her own vacation time for after her baby was born. Then her boss was like, “…what the hell are we making this woman do?” (paraphrasing here) and donated 80 hours of her vacation time, and then Hughes’ coworkers followed suit, until Hughes amassed a grand total of eight weeks of paid leave.
“It really, really meant a lot to me… I was extremely appreciative and very humbled.”
Donating vacation time to new moms is a trendy – and generous – co-worker baby shower gift: https://t.co/EeaQMNX425 pic.twitter.com/FWwyl6kPb6
— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 18, 2018
Stories like this keep popping up on Twitter like zits on a prepubescent forehead: The sunshiney announcement about the GoFundMe for the guy with leukemia who can’t pay for his own medical costs. (He is employed by an organization whose owner has a net worth of $5.2 billion.) The dad who works three jobs to support his family saving up to buy his 14-year-old daughter a dress for an eighth grade dance. The college student who ran 20 miles to work after his car broke down and whose boss rewarded him for this effort by giving him his own car.
Do you get a sinking feeling when you read these stories? This feeling like, while of course you are impressed by the tenacity and generosity on display, you still want to vomit?
Behold, the rise of the feel-good feel-bad story.
Feel-good stories are a fine part of any media diet; nothing inherently wrong with elevating what is decent in this increasingly indecent world. The feel-good story tells you about the hyperactive puppy that knows to gently nuzzle a boy with disabilities, or the puppy who saves a woman from a rattlesnake. (Approximately 98 percent of feel-good stories involve dogs.)
But the feel-good feel-bad story is different. It is a sneaky, insidious thing. It is a news item spun to you, the reader, by some ostensibly authoritative source — a serious publication, an official spokesperson — as an inspirational tale, but that, when you think about it for even like .02 seconds, you realize is depressing at its core.
These are dispatches from the darkest, dankest cesspools of late-stage capitalism, where a person enduring a financial hardship through no fault of their own — like, say, you have leukemia — must be wholly dependent on the charity of others, and the spotlight is thrust on the charity, not the circumstances that caused the dependence.
These stories provide cover for the powerful by masquerading as three cheers for the underdog. They’re gross, is what I’m saying, made all the more disgusting by efforts to spin them as anything other than gross.
All feel-good feel-bad stories share a few key components. First, they describe how hardworking and humble the subject-slash-martyr is in near-pornographic detail, with emphasis on how they never complained, never asked for anything, never made any demands of anyone or anything ever in their lives, et cetera.
Usually there is some tidbit about their scrappy, bootstrapping spirit, how they refused to be dissuaded by the obstacles in their way. Take these lines from the piece on Walter Carr, who planned to run 20 miles to get to a new job as a mover after his car gave out:
He searched the route from his apartment in Homewood to the house in Pelham, and according to Google Maps, it would take eight hours on foot. As a former high school cross-country runner, he knew he could do it in less…
“I’ve always been that person who figured things out on my own,” Carr said. “I went out walking.”
Upon arrival, Jenny Lamey, the homeowner who needed Carr’s moving services, offered him a nap and food. He declined: “No, I’d rather get started.”
“He’s such a humble, kindhearted person,” she said. “He’s really incredible. He said it was the way he was raised. Nothing is impossible unless you say it’s impossible.”
Lamey called Carr’s supervisor, then started a GoFundMe to raise money to help him with his car troubles. The next day, Carr’s highest-up boss, Bellhops chief executive Luke Marklin, gave Carr his own 2014 Ford Escape. “We set a really high bar for heart and grit and … you just blew it away,” Marklin said as he handed over the keys.
Which brings us to what might be the most unsettling element of the feel-good feel-bad story: The implicit moral tends to be that, rather than fight for a society that is more empathetic and humane, everyone just needs to be more self-sacrificing, and then all our problems will be solved.
We don’t need higher wages; just have an amazing CEO give you his car! Who cares if you can’t support a family on one job? The fix is simple: Get two more jobs! Are you a college-educated person who is experiencing homelessness? Pick yourself up, dust your resume off, and grovel for employment on the side of a highway! Why fight for paid maternity leave when you can have colleagues who are willing to go without vacation — especially in a country where the average worker takes less vacation time than a Medieval peasant?
In the feel-good feel-bad story, irrefutable proof of an institutional failure is sold as a celebration of individual triumph. And it’s the desperate, cloying attempts to trumpet the latter as a means of obscuring the former that gives these pieces their distinct, acrid aftertaste. These headlines, and the stories beneath them, attempt to distract you by shouting, “Look over here at this shiny act of kindness, bravery, and fortitude!” so that you do not turn to your left to notice and question the structures that made such kindness, bravery, and fortitude necessary in the first place.
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Trump, NATO chief to meet at White House
By Tal Axelrod - 11/09/19 01:36 PM EST
President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump rails against impeachment in speech to Texas farmers Trump administration planning to crack down on 'birth tourism': report George Conway on Trump adding Dershowitz, Starr to legal team: 'Hard to see how either could help' MORE will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Washington next week, the White House announced Saturday.
“The two leaders will discuss the NATO allies’ progress on increasing defense spending and ensuring more equitable burden-sharing,” the White House said in a statement.
“The President will also stress the importance of strengthening the NATO Alliance’s defense and deterrence against external threats, maintaining the focus on counterterrorism, raising Allies’ awareness on protecting 5G networks and critical infrastructure, and building resilience against cyber-attacks,” the White House added.
Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO, arguing that the U.S. contributes a disproportionate amount to help the alliance compared to the 28 other member nations. Members do not pay into NATO but contribute toward defense spending in their respective budgets.
While Trump’s abrasive tone toward NATO has been met with pushback by some lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Stoltenberg said in January that Trump's criticism of other NATO members was "having an impact."
"NATO allies have heard the president loud and clear, and now NATO allies are stepping up," he said.
The rhetoric from Trump has irked some allies, with French President Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Jean-Michel MacronCountries reach agreement in Berlin on Libya cease-fire push, arms embargo 5 reasons why US-Europe tensions will grow in the 2020s — and how to stop it Judd Gregg: The Iranian lessons MORE this week saying the alliance is undergoing a "brain death" due to a lack of commitment from the U.S.
"I don't know [whether Article Five remains in effect]," Macron said, referring to the collective defense agreement. "But what will Article Five mean tomorrow?”
NATO "only works if the guarantor of last resort functions as such," he added. "I'd argue that we should reassess the reality of what NATO is in the light of the commitment of the United States."
Trump, a longtime NATO critic, raised eyebrows in 2017 when he declined to specifically commit to honor the collective defense agreement.
Member nations agreed in 2014 to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic products on defense by 2024, but only a handful of them have already hit that target.
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The Accidental Prime Minister
The Accidental Prime Minister is a different film and one must laud the courage to pick up something so controversial. However, it needed better execution to make a real impact. It is a definite one time watch with its breezy narrative, superb casting and of course Akshaye Khanna who shines like a diamond. Does it redeem the image of Dr Manmohan Singh? Not as well as it was expected to…
If you loved watching movies like Border and L.O.C: Kargil, Uri: The Surgical Attack is a film for you. It will make you laugh and cry, and you’ll walk out of the theatre feeling proud of the soldiers, both on and off the screen.
Anyone who has watched The Lion King, would first think of the cute little lion cub from the film when thinking of Simmba. Not anymore. Ranveer Singh is here to steal the name and also the roar. Simmba provides complete bang for your buck. But it will also make you rue all the years Rohit Shetty and Ranveer Singh have wasted without collaborating. And it will make you wish they come together again and soon. Simmba will ensure you end the year on a high. Watch it with your family and ideally in a single-screen theatre for the complete experience.
Kedarnath is a visual spectacle but could have been a better love story. However, Sara couldn’t have asked for a better launch pad or a better co-star. Sushant’s shy demeanor complements her over-the-top antics perfectly. Watch it for the chilling climax scene to which the whole film leads and also for Sara’s spunk that is a clear indication that she is here to stay!
Thugs of Hindostan
Aamir Khan and his team thugs you of your peace of mind in this senseless spectacle that crumbles under its own weight
Vishwaroopam 2
For someone who does not know how espionage actually operates, Vishwaroopam 2 is fairly engaging stuff. The London portion has a bit of history infused in it, which is genuinely interesting. However, the film is flat and fails to excite as much as we hoped it would.
Diljit Dosanjh’s Soorma has it’s moments and the actor-singer puts in an earnest performance. You will fall in love with his extremely supportive uncle and parents. However, given the fact that Sandeep is not as widely known as some other Indian sportsmen (read cricketers), a more fleshed out story would have been far more engrossing.
If you are a Deadpool fan, you won’t let our review be the deciding factor. And if you are not, you should book your tickets ASAP. It’s a must watch and you won’t be disappointed. For Ryan’s sake and a cameo that would stun you, the movie should be definitely on your bucket list this weekend.
Omerta is not a film for the faint-hearted. The jodi of Rajkummar Rao and Hansal Mehta has again proved that they have an hunger for brave and insightful cinema.
Missing keeps you hooked but it is largely due to the camerawork, crisp editing and Tabu and Annu Kapoor’s performance. The film is let down by bad dialogues. While Mukul has succeeded in building some truly suspenseful scenes, the film loses steam in the last 15 minutes. At the climax, you know what to expect but the treatment isn’t bad. It leaves you unsatisfied thinking it could be have been a lot better.
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Fake News or Pure BS? Why You Should Be Skeptical of Generation-Bashing Surveys
By John Hollon in 21st Century Sideshow, Sidebars on November 3, 2017 December 31, 2017
WHY ARE SO MANY people today so into generation bashing?
For years, I’ve heard people gripe about the shortcomings of the Millennial generation, as if Gen X and the Baby Boomers (of which I am one) are somehow perfect and didn’t have their own challenges.
I’ve written this before, but I’m sick and tired of the non-stop drumbeat that Millennials are somehow the scourge of the modern workplace. I know that may seem like a bit of hyperbole, but not by much.
If we took the time spent bashing young employees and used it to focus on how the better engage them in the modern workforce, I think we’d all be a lot better off.
Bashing generations for their differences is nonsense
I wrote this back when I was Editor at TLNT, but you may have missed it so here it is again:
“In my personal experience with the Millennial generation — I hate the nonsensical and meaningless Generation Y tag that some use to describe them — I have found that there is no one way to characterize or manage them. The three Millennials that I am closely related to are as different as any three people you would find on a street corner. And the classroom of Millennials that I teach writing to each semester at a local university follows this same pattern…
The notion that the Millennial generation is so unique and different from generations before them is nonsense. They are different, yes, but so is every other generation…”
Wonder why I’m getting into this again? It’s because the public bashing now seems to be moving from Millennials to another generation — Gen Z, those born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s.
What got me going was this post on HR Dive, a website that takes content and articles from other media and then re-writes (some might say pilfers or plagiarizes) them into the HR Dive style. The headline they put on the story says it all — Managers fear Gen Z will be harder to manage than other generations.
How can today’s managers possibly analyze Gen Z?
Really? They already know how Gen Z will act on the job? As a journalist and all-around skeptical guy, I find that hard to believe.
Here’s how HR Dive summarized it:
“A new survey from APPrise Mobile, a mobile employee communications solution, reveals that a third of managers believe Gen Z will be more difficult to manage than older generations. Gen Z, born between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, is the latest generation to enter the workforce.”
When I read that, the first thing to come to mind was this — how the hell can managers of today possibly know that people who were born no earlier than around 1994-95 (or later) are going to be difficult to manage on the job? These young people are no older than their early 20s, and many are much younger than that.
Even Nostradamus wasn’t that good with predictions.
The HR Dive story then added this:
“The survey results showed that 26 percent of respondents think communicating with Gen Z will be difficult compared to older generations; 29 percent of respondents expect to have problems training them; and 16 percent also think Gen Z will negatively affect their company culture. Survey respondents said they have no plans to cater to Gen Z.”
Again, how could the respondents — managers of today — know this about the workers of tomorrow?
Any further questions you might have about any of this won’t be answered by HR Dive, because their style is to parrot what they have found elsewhere without much questioning about it at all. As a longtime editor who has dealt with a great many journalists and stories both good and bad, this story is as thin, poorly reported, and unfair to Gen Z as it gets.
Yes, this IS a BS survey and what I would call “fake news”
I tried to track down the APPrise Mobile survey, or at least a press release about it, but it’s nowhere to be found on the APPrise Mobile website. This is curious, especially for research like this, which you would expect an organization that commissioned it to be touting to the heavens.
What I did find on the APPrise Mobile website was a section called APPrise Mobile In the News that links to a story about the Gen Z survey on HR Daily Advisor, but that story seems to be the source of the HR Dive story because it has the same information but no more depth to any of it — or any link to the original survey or a press release about the survey.
This is a long way of saying what you probably already know: The HR Dive/HR Daily Advisor stories on this “survey” by APPrise Mobile, about the predicted working habits of Gen Z, are nothing but pure BS. Or, as someone we hear on the news all the time might say, it’s simply “fake news.”
Yes, there IS fake news out there, and this seems to be it.
I generally won’t write about surveys unless I also get the boilerplate about how the survey was done. You know — who the pollsters talked to, when they talked to them, the margin of error, and other dull but important stuff like that.
Reputable surveys have data like that; BS surveys don’t.
If there’s a real survey on this topic out there, I want to see it
Perhaps there is a legitimate survey on Gen Z that APPrise Mobile did out there somewhere, but if there is, I can’t for the life of me understand why they aren’t touting it on their website. If I were the CEO of APPrise Mobile and knew my organization had research like that, I’d be touting it six ways to Sunday.
However, the lack of any real media outside HR Dive and HR Daily Advisor writing about it, the sketchiness of the information, and the lack of any real details tells me that yes, this so-called “survey” regarding attitudes about Gen Z from today’s managers is total bullshit, pure and simple.
That’s MY professional opinion until somebody can prove to me otherwise.
HR Dive and HR Daily Advisor should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this drivel, giving undue credence to a BS survey, and continuing to foster the single worst quality of the media — pitting people against each other.
That’s what the drumbeat about the shortcomings of Millennials is all about. Now, some in the media are moving the target to a new generation that they can demean and disparage. It’s simply stupid and plain wrong.
Some REAL advice on generations in the workforce
Want to read some real wisdom and insight about the generations in today’s workplace? Well, check out this post from my good friend, compensation guru Ann Bares. She brings a big dose of common sense to this argument, and even though this was written for me over at TLNT back in 2012, what she had to say back then still resonates today:
“I continue to be amazed at the pervasiveness and sheer staying power of the generational framework.
We are urged to look at everything, EVERYTHING – from management techniques to employee engagement efforts to reward programs – through the lens of generational differences and needs. And to buy in to the notion that the entire work experience must be re-invented to accommodate each consecutive generation.
And so, I had to smile at Bob Sutton’s assertion that, au contraire, things like the hallmarks of great leaders – and the needs of younger workers – are timeless…
The key point, as Bob notes, is that we are ignoring a critical distinction between someone’s generational group, which will stay constant over time, and someone’s age, which changes. Younger workers have always wanted different things than older workers, be they Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y – or whatever.”
There’s a lot more to Ann’s post if you want to go over to TLNT and take a look, but just remember:
Tags: 21st Century, corporate culture, culture, Gen Z, generational issues, John Hollon, Millennials, surveys, workplace
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John Hollon is currently Contributing Editor for ERE Media, and the former VP of Editorial and founding editor for TLNT.com. He's also an award-winning blogger and columnist, longtime newspaper and magazine editor, and an adjunct professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton. View all posts by John Hollon
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Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter’s funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster
human rights, open government, policing
(not satire – it’s the UK gutter press!)
The Mark Duggan photograph used by most of the tabloid newspapers – which supposedly shows him as a hard-faced gangster – was actually cropped from a photograph taken of him mourning his dead daughter.
The following photograph was used regularly by tabloids like the Daily Express and the Daily Mail to accompany their articles painting Mark Duggan as a tough gangster:
But what the tabloids didn’t tell you is that Mark’s grim expression in the photograph is because at the time it was taken he was at his daughter’s funeral.
Here’s the uncropped version:
That’s not a ‘tough-guy’ expression on his face.
It’s grief.
Thanks to Richard Donnelly for the heads up on this.
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203 thoughts on “Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter’s funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster”
Anyone notice the media obsession over the past few days on child sexual exploitation? Every newspaper, TV news & Radio has mentioned each case in great detail.
The Press & Media have no credentials for delivering the moral beacon of light.
Its a pity they forget the feelings of its victims when they sensationalize and spin, distort and destroy what’s left of truth & compassion for cynical aims.
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Ginger Ninja said:
Wow even I got a little suckered by this one; what a shameful way to represent someone just for the sake of controlling dialogue and legitimising police violence.
Guy Ropes said:
Who supplied the rags with the photo. Surely the supplier maintains copyright and can demand how the photo is used. Or was it taken by the paparazzi?
does paul dacra need his head kicked in or what.
The ‘gangster’ impression given or not given by this photo is highly subjective and so is irrelevant. Isn’t the more serious problem that the Mail and other media use words like “gangster” when they have absolutely no evidence? Duggan was never convicted of anything other than possession of cannabis and handling stolen goods. Millions of people did exactly the same in their youth, probably including most Daily Mail journalists, and perhaps you too…
yes i thought that as well
thom said:
Yeah – who of us hasn’t been arrested on murder charges twice?
arrested is not the same thing as convicted those charges were dropped.
Yeah – The police know what they’re doing, we should let them alone and trust them to do whatever is necessary. What about those Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six too? I bet they were up to no good!
BOGMAN PALMJAGUAR said:
any attempt to misrepresent the unfortunate Mr Duggan in this way is quite sickening–in the whole the grief in him is clearly visible and understood. Those in the hidden world of the persecuted like myself understand.
Boz said:
it’s just more of the ‘distraction therapy’ that they are indulging in – to say nothing of leon brittan – helps us sleep at night
what an evil thing to do.
tldk said:
Nice jacket to wear to your daughters funeral…
fuugu said:
This is incredibly sad
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cjmccormack said:
He looks no less threatening at all in the uncropped version. The truth is this photo, cropped or not, doesn’t prove what this man was like as a person, no photo proves that. Even if you could somehow prove that Duggan was a nasty piece of work with a photo, does that mean it was wrong to shoot him? Does it mean it was right to shoot him? Of course not. What’s the paint being made here? that the Media manipulates? Well of course they do, that’s their job!
If you want to raise a debate about Mark Duggan maybe it should be about the way in which armed Police are trained to read situations and how they make decisions about when to shoot someone and when not to? The enquiry returned a verdict of lawful killing. The system we have put in place to regulate this kind of activity has run it’s course, if people have an issue with the way that Police act they should look at themselves, who they vote for and how much interest they take in these mechanisms BEFORE something goes wrong. WE put politicians in office, WE put them in charge of training the Police and setting the rules of how they work, WE choose to take little or no interest in how this is done and then start bleating that it’s all unfair and horrible when it all goes horribly wrong.
yes put a rather different context on why he looks like that.
but it does put a rather different context on why he looks like that.
Martin S said:
There are non-sinister reasons for cropping photos. Most of the time it’s about what works best on the page – a landscape picture often fits better than a portrait one. Especially on a web page. There probably aren’t that many pictures of Duggan to choose from – that’s the reason this is so ubiquitous. I don’t think he looks particularly hard-faced here, either. Some sub or picture researcher will have looked him up on a database – and this image will be among a handful. The Guardian have also used it cropped. See here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/10/mark-duggan-inquest-jury-counselling
Go search for “Mark Duggan” on the Guardian website and see how often this cropped image turns up. This is just how newspapers work. The Guardian does have an agenda in relation to Duggan – except it’s the opposite of that of the Mail/Express.
guy fawkes said:
Since when was the job of the media to manipulate, I always thought it was there to report factual news and the truth, silly me.
m said:
I walk around with my gun every day…like old Dug did
Cropping the photo is a right thing to do.. It looks like a mugshot, or a normal passport photo… much better without context, then putting him in the context of his daughter funeral…
The fact someone loves his daughter does not justify him from breaking the law
i cant see that he was breaking the law.
So whats the point here?
1. Duggan did not have a gun?
2. The media manipulates things to sell papers?
Only one of those two things would shock me.
the the propaganda unit for the met most of the time.
he dident have any drugs on him ether so i cant see why people keep saying he was breaking the law.
The only people breaking the law were the armed police and they did so according to their own reporting, because they were passed the wrong information about Duggan having a gun.
What law did they break, and what is your evidence that they did so?
So it is lawful to shoot someone on flawed information?
… and no doubt you can also manage to leave no DNA on it, and throw it 20 feet away over a fence whilst being shot in the chest, whilst holding a phone in the same hand, and without anybody seeing you do it!
You said the police broke the law… What law did they break? Alternatively, you could just admit that you’re talking out of your backside, yet again!
This is not the first time the police have killed innocent people on flawed information, I could name more than one occasion, but the one that sticks in my mind is the one where the police said they had an anonymous tip off that a certain person was in a pub and he had a gun in his bag, the police shot dead a man who came out of the pub carrying a suspicious package, which turned out to be a chair or table leg.
they also lied about duggan shooting at them. and have refused to cooperate with inquiry.
I am sure you do not follow any moral code of law yourself so I would not expect you to consider it illegal to kill someone on flawed evidence, not only on the flawed evidince in the run up to the shooting, but the evidence and legal system that found that killing an innocent person was a legal act.
Perhaps you could change your moniker to fink offensively, then we can all reply to you with the acronym.
the fact officers lied in there statements makes them guilty of crime
I have a moral code, and one aspect of it is that I don’t accuse somebody without evidence. So I will ask you again – What law did the police break, and what is your evidence that they did so?
P.S. “moral code of law” is meaningless twaddle. You’re conflating two completely different things – morality and legality – but I doubt that you can understand that.
Callum said:
Past few days?! Try the past few years. 2013 was the official “Year of the Pedophile” in the news. The pedophile is new scape goat. Gotta rally the rabble around a common enemy. It’s the first rule in the book.
…perhaps they did, but unless it can be proved in a court of law then they are innocent. Don’t you agree that everybody is innocent until proven guilty?
Actually you’re wrong, it wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was others who made public statements. And as far as I know, no officers refused to cooperate with the inquest. If they had then they would have committed a criminal offence.
the claim an unarmed fired at them.
that to means they lied in there statement.
sorry that should read the claim an unarmed man fired at them.
Nuggy you are correct, there is evidence to prove the police wrong .
“everybody is innocent until PROVEN guilty”, who proved Mark Duggan was guilty enough to be shot?
Who from the legal profession will criticize the police and provide the evidence that proves them wrong?
See my answer above – It wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was other officers who made public statements to the media. They later retracted the statements. That isn’t illegal. If giving a false story to the media was illegal then the House of Commons would be empty!
i always get what you mean….
You can’t convict ‘the police’ of a crime. You have to prove that a certain person committed a crime. You lot are so ignorant of the law it astonishes me!
fair enough, but why don’t you correct the argument by offering solutions, instead of digressing….
P.S. In case you hadn’t noticed, in the UK NOBODY can be guilty enough to be shot. Maybe it was murder, maybe it was manslaughter, maybe it was a genuine mistake. You don’t know. I don’t know. You are all missing the point!
I thought I just did! You have to follow the law. If you think the law should be changed then fair enough, make your argument. In this case I don’t think it should.
Pat F said:
Well obviously yes? If you have reasonable reason to believe something, even if it’s in fact false, then you can and should lawfully act on it. i.e. if I have a gun and start shooting innocent people in front of everyone, then disappear behind a pillar, throw my gun down the sewers, then take out a replica… well, at that point I’m no longer actually a threat. But if the police turn up they won’t know that, and will have reasonable reason to believe I still am a threat, and they’ll shoot me, and that will be lawful. It would obviously be moronic to prosecute officers involved in shooting me in that case as acting unlawfully.
Now obviously for the Duggan situation the reasons the police had false beliefs, flawed information, aren’t as clear cut as that. But you see how it’s entirely possible, and actually happens all the time, for the police to act on false beliefs but still be acting lawfully?
Mrs Fawkes – Actually you are on the right track with “Who from the legal profession will criticize the police and provide the evidence that proves them wrong?” Obviously it’s not the legal profession which usually collects evidence – so who is it?
You are the one that is missing the point and that is that it was proved to be a legal killing, even though as you have just said NOBODY can be guilty enough to be shot.
I think we all know the law is an ass or the truth that could be presented to prove a person’s innocence as in the case of the Guilford 4.
In this case and many like it I do think the law should be changed, unlike the immoral finkfurst.
Your point? said:
While it is obviously highly inappropriate for the press to misuse the image – it’s his daughters funeral, do journalists have no common decency?! – that doesn’t change the fact that he had a gun. A photo doesn’t make someone a ‘gangster’, having a gun does. Throwing the gun out the window when you see the police changes nothing.
So which law do you think should be changed, and what do you think it should it be changed to? I bet you can’t answer!
In the case of the Guilford 4 was hidden. ( error.)
In fact all that was proved was that a gun was found near the scene, not how it got there. There was no proof that he had it in his possession, or that he threw it anywhere, let alone through the window (which in fact was never even mentioned).
Get your facts right!
In fact the Guildford Four were never ‘proven innocent’ (if that is even conceptually possible) only that the guilty verdict was unreliable.
the above ps clarified your position, to me…nobody can be guilty enough to be shot…..so lets work from that premise….there is no instant solution to this, but one must be found…
Pat F – Spot on. Rational opinions are scarcer than hens teeth on here!
Obviously whichever law that made it legal for the police to kill an innocent man or even a guilty one for that matter, or would you and the likes of Mccormack who says people shouldn’t bleat about the police and laws unless they clue themselves up on every legal entity before they have a right to an opinion.
Why should we clue ourselves up on the legal system. there is supposed to be prosecution and defence, claims and counterclaims, the only problem is there is probably a law that could have been used against the police in this instance, but the legal profession would not put themselves out to find it, or have probably changed it by now anyway if there was such legal powers to prosecute.
That is just practicing the art of deception in terminology, something you are well familiar with.
something we can agree on.
cps i believe.
do we know for it was even his gun.
“moral code of law” is meaningless twaddle and you call yourself moral.
We would not have a need for the legal profession if we were all experts in this field, pull your claws in.
“Why should we clue ourselves up on the legal system”
Because if you can’t be bothered to find out the facts (in this case about UK laws) then you don’t have a valid opinion, as you have so perfectly proved time after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time!
Wow!!!!! You are so amazingly ignorant! No, that’s totally wrong. It’s the police who collect evidence.
We do not have to know the law, to have the opinion that to shoot a man dead is wrong, all we need is a conscience, something you lack.
My moniker is guy Fawkes not mrs Fawkes, that could be misconstrued that I may possibly be connected with Guido Fawkes and his rantings, funnily enough a lot like yours.
“Since when was the job of the media to manipulate”
…since the invention of writing!
Yes I do. “moral code” and “law” are two completely different things. People have moral codes, societies have laws.
So Mrs Guy ‘what gender problem’ Fawkes – Would you say it’s wrong to shoot a man dead under ANY circumstances?
What is it with you that you refer to me as having a gender problem, Tom Pride took the name of an historical figure so have I, does he/she have a gender problem,
I’m sure there are many people that choose the names of those of the opposite sex or even idiotic names like yours.
Until you refer to me by my correct nom de plume, I refuse to answer your question.
Mrs Fawkes – I’m sorry, I was wrong to say that you are ignorant. That isn’t the point. EVERYBODY is born ignorant, but it’s what we do about our ignorance during our lives which marks us out. You could have taken a couple minutes to find out the answer to the question, but apparently you couldn’t be bothered.
You specifically asked me in a previous thread to call you by your correct title of “Mrs”!
Is Mrs Fawkes OK? Or do you prefer Mrs Guy? I don’t have anything else to go on!
I did not ask you to call me mrs, I said I did not like the name ms, I am a mrs, I did not even disclose what my gender was to you nor would I of, but bear no grudge against the person that did, only you for using it as some kind of verbal ammunition by implying I have a gender problem.
If you do not have anything else to go by try reading what is printed alongside my gravatar/avatar, or are you blind as well as thick.
Charmania said:
It is immoral to kill – thou shalt not kill.
It is right to give the benefit of the doubt.
It is right to be innocent until proven guilty.
Mark Duggan was found to be innocent at the time he was shot – he was not holding a gun.
The police officer is guilty of breaking a moral code. He shot a man dead. We allow it if there is a reason.
The reason he gave was that Mark Duggan held a gun.
The police officer did not pause long enough to see there was no gun.
In his mind he was certain there was a gun, he did not allow Mark Duggan the benefit of the doubt.
His own discriminations and beliefs caused his judgement to be wrong.
He judged Mark Duggan to be guilty of holding a gun before allowing for the fact that there was no gun.
His belief was proven to be wrong.
Therefore he had no reason to kill.
Therefore he is guilty of a crime.
If we believe he is not a liar, then we must accept he has poor judgement.
He sees what is not there.
He is deluded and needs to seek psychiatric help.
It was proven that the police officers reason was incorrect. Therefore the killing was unlawful.
Only by twisting the law and allowing the jury to discriminate towards the police officer did he go free.
Our justice system is therefore corrupt and without reason.
CJJodes said:
Legitimising police violence? Regardless of this, or any photograph taken, the fact remains that he was carrying a gun that night and was therefore a public threat. If events had transpired any differently police would have been criticised for their lack of action on or against an unlawfully armed member of the public.
which role models would you have us learn from?
It’s now a bit of a cliché to say Nelson Mandela, but it’s still true. Of those who you can read about, I would also add Fred Sanger.
…and before you ask – No, I think I’m not a good role model.
It doesn’t help if you keep moving the goalposts! Do you prefer to be called “Mrs.” or not?
You really think you have found my Achilles heel don’t you? I’m sorry to disappoint you but all it shows is that the “genius is out of the bottle” and that a woman is more than a match for you.
he was not carrying a gun that night the inquest proved it.
as we are all born ignorant as you say, why should we bother to try to remedy this?
I’m only asking what you prefer to be called! Why is that so difficult? I thought you said you preferred “Mrs.” but apparently now you don’t. Please just say simply and clearly what you prefer, and that is what I will use from now on…
No reply from you to me is necessary, so you do not have to address me at all.
Happy 🙂
If you don’t tell me your preference then I’ll call you whatever I feel like.
So Mrs Guy ‘I really don’t have gender problem’ Fawkes – Would you say it’s wrong to shoot a man dead under ANY circumstances?
Only if it’s you!
JM said:
Hmm, article looks very similar to this! Good work for sharing though! Not sure who got there first… http://marchthefury.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/that-mark-duggan-photo-theres-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye/
OBD – If you want to remain as ignorant as the day you were born then that’s up to you. I do not. I want to continue to learn until the day I die.
There’s no smoke without fire! He shouldn’t have had a gun! His a thug!
Mrs Fawkes – You really are a nasty little piece of work, aren’t you? I have never before seen anyone say they wish another contributor would be shot dead. You have gone beyond a point of acceptability and decency and I will not forget it.
that is not what i was asking, if we are born ignorant, why bother to remedy this….?
How do you know he had a gun? Because the police said so? Do you remember the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, and the many other miscarriages of justice before and since?
with all the police and press smears it surprising the jury reached the verdict they did.
… then I don’t understand. Are you asking why we should bother to remedy our ignorance? If so, the answer is so we can improve our own lives and the lives of others.
Nuggy – Have you ever served on a jury?
finally! some one talking some sense!
we simply are not born ignorant, but with a hunger for knowledge for our new surroundings, the same hunger for knowledge that we had in the womb…our brains are preprogrammed with the knowledge of who we are…when we see the light of day our hunger to learn accelerates…. “If you want to remain as ignorant as the day you were born then that’s up to you.”…that supposes that i am ignorant, and you are not…i find you very difficult to communicate with….the corpus callosum rapidly hard wires to accommodate our new environment, caused by instinctive learning…..
I have served on three juries. In each case there were only 2 or 3 of the jurors who gave a sh*t about reaching a fair verdict. The rest had already decided on a verdict for no rational reason at all, or they were just bored and wanted to go home or to the pub. The fact that a man might go to jail based on their decision was completely unimportant to them.
to then i don’t understand….
why would we bother to remedy our ignorance, coz we don’t know that it will make any difference, we would simply be ignorant to that fact, we would not know it….where does the thought or concept that we can help improve our own lives, or the lives of others, come from within us and our natural expectations of the world, that we are preprogrammed to know…the answer is that we are born lovable, cooperative, sociable, and non-violent….
If you read what you wrote and what I wrote you will see that you asked if it was WRONG shoot a man dead under any circumstances, and I replied only if it’s you, because I would not want to see you shot it would be too quick I would choose something a lot slower and more painful for you.
I think I misunderstood what you meant, and to be honest I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say. We ARE all born ignorant, but I agree with you that we are born with an instinct to learn… though some more than others!
It takes a woman to talk common sense. Nobody should be allowed to shoot anybody else and that includes the police, there is enough of them and plenty of other ways to apprehend and restrain a gunman with resorting to shooting them dead. They are supposed to be marksmen anyway so surely a rubber bullet in an area that would bring down an assailant should be sufficient if absolutely necessary.
f f though some more than others!
ok now if someone is ignorant is it their fault that they are, and does calling them ignorant, remedy their ignorance, clearly not, so then what is the remedy?
the remedy is to help others find themselves 1st, then people learn easily what they want to know…….
ps I hope charmania is a woman? If not this one holds the same point of view, despite my ribbing of ff who would be an exception to the rule.
Joking aside this is a serious situation that has been repeated my times previously and laws need to be brought in to curb armed police.
my should read many.
the whole approach needs to be seriously reconsidered….when i was young, several hundred yrs ago, it was a widely held consensus that armed police, just made the whole gun problem worse, a view i still hold…
yes i have
mac said:
yea, me too, suckered by scum sector of the media. whatever and whoever the man was, and I don’t know, the scum media set out to make us hate him, and they succeeded, bastards, we just cannot trust them.
Midnight said:
First off lets start with some common sense… The guy wouldn’t be stupid enough to be carrying a gun in the car in the first place… Yeah he had a reputation as a ‘Gangsta’ but he was more like a bully to the area.. he wasn’t a nice person and i’m sure if you asked around the area or surrounding areas you would hear stories. But this is a guy that was killed because of itchy trigger finger police.. simple as that.. his reputation preceded him hence the shooting.
The worst part of this is the press have and are continually trying to make him the fall guy for all of this.. The riots were more to do with greed than anything else, I would throw the 90% range for people who were in on the riots for reasons other than the death of Mark Duggan.
CJRhodes there is no ‘fact’ that he was carrying a gun.. unless YOU were there then there are no facts just rumours and whatever you can make the public as a whole believe through your stories.
OBD – Yes, in most cases if somebody is ignorant about something then it IS their fault, though of course they may not be interested in whatever it is, in which case they they shouldn’t shoot their mouth off about it.
It’s only by recognising one’s own ignorance that one can learn. You’re right that simply calling somebody ignorant seldom helps, but pointing out somebody’s ignorance specifically and with reasoning can help… but then again for some people it doesn’t! (…and I don’t mean you).
And did you find the same lack of interest and responsibility that I did?
Mrs Fawkes – “It takes a woman to talk common sense” …and you accuse other people of being sexist!!! YOU HYPOCRITE!
Have you forgotten what I actually did write in other posts i.e.” there are not many ism taboo’s I have not broken” or been accused of breaking in the name of satire – reel your neck in.
Your view as far as I am concerned is correct.
yes i did from some members but not all.
So you think it’s OK for you to be a sexist, provided you admit it? Do you think the same about racism?
That’s why I’m seldom surprised by a ridiculous jury verdict. They happen all the time.
That’s also why a person who is guilty is well advised to seek a jury trial, because it becomes more of a lottery. If you are innocent however, avoid a jury trial like the plague!
OBD – Also you are absolutely right when you said – “then people learn easily what they want to know”. Exactly!… WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW
It was also used by The Voice, The Guardian, the BBC, 4Ward4Ever “Deaths in Custody” campaign charity, and United Families and Friends “Deaths in Custody” charity. What’s your conspiracy theory about them?
Anthony said:
If he’s mourning at his daughter’s funeral, why is he wearing a tracksuit????
Is everyone missing the fact that he had a gun, and why did he have a gun in the first place? Clearly to kill someone in the future.
Anthony – Where did you get that ‘fact’ from? Was it from the same police who shot him?
I’m sure it does not matter what he wears to his daughter’s funeral, for all you know it may be his best and only outfit or perhaps his favourite.
i wrote…the remedy is to help others find themselves 1st, then people learn easily what they want to know…….finding themselves 1st is the need to know…..
I am sure if your judgements during jury service were anything like most of the ones you have expressed on this blogg, you were probably the one that jailed the innocent.
OBD – I know what you wrote. I think ‘finding yourself’ is meaningless cr@p. It’s not difficult, just look in the mirror and there you are! How is ‘finding yourself’ a remedy for anything? Recognising your own deficiencies, ignorance and lack of understanding is a different matter, and if you can do that then becomes perfectly clear what you should do next… START TO LEARN!
Cathy Butler said:
He should obviously have asked you first.
Then you would be wrong, as is obvious because you don’t have a clue about any of the cases! Why do you continually give silly opinions about things which you know absolutely NOTHING about? It only shows you for the mindless bigot that you are.
I think it does matter what people wear on certain occasions such as funerals, but I can see nothing wrong with what he was wearing. Maybe also it was his daughter’s favourite?
because you, i, we, all want answers….and we intuitively/instinctively know that our culture is crap….so look in other places….see this vid clip does this man have a point? http://www.selfishcapitalist.com/
servedup said:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/07/article-2023254-0D55639E00000578-342_472x619.jpg doesn’t look like a gangster in this picture either
OBD – I assume you mean Oliver James? If so yes, he has many good points. Is he right about everything? No. I’m not sure what point you’re making…
I strongly disagree with you that we ALL want answers. Many people (perhaps even most people?) do NOT want answers, except when they fit with their own bigoted ideas, and Mrs Fawkes is one of them
It only matters what people wear on certain occasions if you subscribe to institutionalized cultural bigotry.
response to..”No. I’m not sure what point you’re making”…
ok, sorry, i could not be clearer, i’ll work on being clearer….
No – Once again you are totally wrong. It is a matter of considering the feelings of the other people attending that occasion.
OBD – Thanks, that would be helpful. By the way, the “No.” referred to the previous sentence.
You mean the snobbish bigots who would be discerning about someone’s dress?
My mother would be upset if I didn’t go to my father’s funeral in sombre clothing. Are you calling my mother a snobbish bigot?
Given your replies on here she should be more concerned about how you conduct yourself on public forums than how you dress to a funeral, but hey if the cap fits she can wear it too.
Not only have you deliberately insulted my mother, you said “I would not want to see you shot it would be too quick I would choose something a lot slower and more painful for you” and then you criticise MY conduct on a public forum?????? I think you are the nastiest person I have ever seen on such a forum.
Oh Shucks, you’re too easily offended by those who offend you in defence of your offensive behaviour, but I will take your criticism on board before jettisoning it.
I doubt you even have a mother.
Can you tell me just one offensive thing I have said about you without justification, and one offensive thing you have said about me with justification?
If we were in a court of law YES, but at the moment I am concentrating on helping Columbo solve his mysteries on the off chance I may be called for jury service.
Well Mrs Guy ‘What gender problem?’ Fawkes… What a picture of your sad life you paint!
servedup
No he looks like your average rapper fan, emulating their dress.
OBD – I meant which one of the points Oliver James was talking about. Can you explain sometime?
Do you agree with me that some people in this world are not interested in finding real answers?
They don’t come much sadder but I relish every minute of it.
Do you relish saying that somebody deserves die slowly and painfully purely for something they said with honesty and justification?
P.S. If you get called for jury service, please don’t go – no defendant deserves to get you on their jury.
servedup – Please tell us all, exactly how can you tell who is a gangster and who isn’t from one photograph?
Well Mrs Fawkes, you didn’t answer – Do you think the same about racism?
On the contrary, I think they would love having me on their jury.
i’ll simply answer yes…to cover both points for now….
No, you are wrong. You are not a moral person. No moral person would say that somebody deserves die slowly and painfully.
Go on then I would grant you a quick death, lethal injection!
Are you trying to say that you didn’t mean it? Go on, try opening up a little, you might be surprised at the results. If so, there is a possibility of communication, and that is the only valid reason for being on this site.
personally I think we have over communicated with inane banter on what is in effect a sombre subject that Tom presented us with and which should be given more respect, so I will sign off on this one – catch you later.
Mrs Guy ‘Moron or monster’ Fawkes
YOU have communicated with inane banter, but I have not. I don’t know whether you are a fundamentally immoral person or just so shallow and stupid that you say anything which comes into your head. The outcome is the same. You may think that what you have written on this site is transient, but you will find out that it is not.
OBD – I’m glad you agree that some people in this world are not interested in finding real answers, and I hope we might agree about which ones! I think Mrs Guy Fawkes is clearly one such, do you?
I look forward to what you will say about Oliver James’ points. Will you do that on this thread or a different one?
no, guy fawkes is not one of those….a different thread when the post is relevant and my yes is a grey area yes, of real answers, to me real answers can only mean universal truth, so as i said i need to reflect on being clearer….and i do need a break atm…remind me at some point in the future, meanwhile i’m sure that you will continue to explore….
Since I have friends of many nationalities and sexual persuasions I will ignore your last remark, but I would add they are not as politically correct as you appear to be, they have a sense of humour.
he dosent look like a ganster to me from those photos.
Do you think I will not stand by my words serious or not, I thought you had realised by now how intransigent I can be, so am not in the least bothered that my posts are intransient.
You know when you grow up you might not take yourself so seriously.
Mrs Fawkes – You’ve changed your mind often enough, so it’s very plain that you do NOT stand by your words. On the other hand, I do. You have failed to get a single shot on target, and in every case where you think you have, I led you there! If you think I’m taking this exchange seriously then you haven’t been reading very carefully. Look again……
OBD – I have to disagree with you about Mrs Fawkes. Read what she says – can you can find a single open question that she’s asked? She seldom asks any questions at all, and those few are only to seek confirmation of what she already thinks. Her behaviour is not that of somebody who is looking for real answers.
Mrs Fawkes – I used to work with somebody who had exactly that same attitude. She thought that if people didn’t appear to take her sexist and racist jokes and comments seriously then they didn’t matter. She was wrong, and so are you.
… and “sexual persuasions”??? It’s a long time since I heard that phrase! It really gives your thinking away.
It was actually his mobile phone. And yes their was a gun found on the crime scene, But it was found no where near mark it was found behind a wall on the grass, which funny enough didn’t even have marks finger prints on. And also the police statements didnt actual add up, because the officers claimed he chucked the gun infront of them, which the medical report stated that was inpossible because the police officer shot mark in the arm, and again like i stated no finger prints was found on the gun for that to be true. So before you make silly remarks at least no details of the facts.
Who gives a shit about him anyway! One less thug on the street to be mugged by!
Are you some narrow minded repressed gay man, because you protesteth too much about issues that are not relevant to the headline topic?
So now you think I’m a repressed gay man, do you? Are there any more labels you want to attach to me from your bigoted little mind?
I bet like the homophobics of yesteryear you still actually think sexuality is a ‘persuasion’. You really do, don’t you?????
…and if I was gay, why the hell would you think I should protest about it????? It’s not a crime any more! You clearly ARE homophobic.
I have obviously hit a sore point, too near to the truth,perhaps you need a dummy to calm you.
Definition of persuasion in English:
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Pronunciation: /pəˈsweɪʒ(ə)n
1 [mass noun] the action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something: Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually left
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2a belief or set of beliefs, especially religious or political ones: writers of all political persuasions
2.1a group or sect holding a particular religious belief: the village had two chapels for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion
2.2 • humorous sort, kind, or nature: half a dozen gents of British persuasion
Unless you missed it, it was the last listing for the definition of persuasion, you really do have a one track mind and are doing a lot of protesting for someone who has nothing to protest about.
Randall said:
“It wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was other officers who made public statements to the media.”
They work for the same organisation! The whole police handling (rather like the panic shooting of a man without a gun) was a shambles.
Should we trust an organisation that handle the public like this, like idiots?
Plus FF, you seem to desperately arguing for a futile cause:
I don’t think anyone is asking for law to be changed. Just for the police to tell the truth. Or you will be asking for FURTHER RIOTS. Bigger picture. WHo would be interested in “taking police to court” haha, the masses won’t be that patient/naive!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
How old are you both, by the way? Forget gender issues, you seem to have maturity problems.. Even if I do agree with Fawkes’ views over FF’s views.
The police would basically garner far more respect fro the general public (of ALL ethnic groups, geo locations, classes) if they just
…..told the truth….
For the record I do not think the law is robust enough to deal with police issues such as this one. The first crime was possession of a firearm, correct? Unless the gun was planted, which I don’t think was proven. So going off that, MD had a firearm illegally. He didn’t deserve to die for that, however, having arrested the man the police should then not end up shooting anybody. Correct? So both parties are at a wrong for different crimes.
Dan said:
Proven or not, lets be fair the guy tossed a gun which was found about 100 yrds from the cab he was in.there’s a pretty good chance he was a gangster convicted or not. And there’s a good chance he’d of ended up shooting someone. At the same time u don’t want to condem a man not proven to be guilty, don’t automatically jump to his defense.
So Ms Fawkes, you’ve decided you were using the humorous definition, do you? That means you were laughing at different sexualities. Exactly like the person I described earlier as being like you!
…and if I were gay, why do you think that would be “a sore point, too near to the truth”? Do you think there’s something wrong with being gay? Your every post stinks of homophobia.
Randall – I agree with most of what you said, especially your second paragraph. Which of my views do you disagree with? Perhaps you would like to discuss them…?
Randall – You’re missing the point. Obviously they work for the same organisation, but you can’t prosecute an organisation, you can only prosecute the individual(s) and you must have evidence to do so. I agree that huge numbers of people (including me) do not trust the police. But it’s no good just complaining that they don’t tell the truth… what should we do to ensure that they DO tell the truth more often? I subscribe to some ideas, but I would like to hear yours.
The only person that thinks there is something wrong with being a homosexual is so obviously you, the way you have ranted about it, not being able to tie me to being a homophobe in a serious sense you thought a humourous sense would do, well you have certainly got me laughing.
Now take those fidgetting fingers to a more appropriate and relevant post Mr rain man and we will continue the argument there. OK.
Just to start you off those Bi-sexuals are another kettle of fish altogether, they cross boundaries and muddy the water so so speak.
Ms Fawkes – I happen to think that old homophobes such as you are disgusting. Some people might say it’s not your fault, because you were raised at a time when it was mainstream opinion. I strongly disagree with that. It’s about morality, and anyone CAN question their own morals if they want to.
If you want to dismiss defending the rights of LGBT people as a rant then that’s up to you and your sense of morality. To then also try to imply that such opinions are a result of autism just reinforces the breadth of your bigotry.
If you kept up with what is going on on the rest of the site, you will find I was referring to you as rain man as in the sense that Gay men have supposedly brought the floods. That UKip fella could be right with the gay’s floods of crocodile tears. I’m switching channels as I said go elsewhere and I will continue to argue TTFN.
Ms Fawkes. Your statement – “That UKip fella could be right with the gay’s floods of crocodile tears” pretty much sums up your morality!!!
Fink(rampant homosexual and hetrosexual basher)furst
You mean the generation your parents came from ?- the rest of my answer is further down.
P.S. Nobody on this site (or any other that I’ve seen) has referred to him as “rain man” – it’s only you. And if this site is where you get your news from, then no wonder your perception of morality and reality world is so warped!
Oh dear – what a sad spectacle! All I have to do is quote what you ACTUALLY said, whilst you have to make things up!
Guy said:
Rexfeatures.com has it, already cropped. I’ve always presumed photos can be cropped as they have to fit the page layout.
someone give this man a medal, most public services investigate themselves miserably,but you can then go to the cps if you think you have a good enough case against them.
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The trickery of the media in the case of Mark Duggan
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Solidarity : Striking Spanish Taxi Drivers Sleep Out As Blockade Reaches Sixth Day #HuelgaTaxis
Thousands of Licensed Taxi drivers across Spain have joined a strike against ride-hailing companies like Uber, demanding the government restrict their numbers.
The striking taxi drivers, some of whom have been camping out for many days, say the services threaten their livelihood and are putting thousands of jobs at risk.
As a result, they have blocked main roads in the capital, Madrid, and in Barcelona with their parked cars.
A meeting on Monday to attempt to end the strike failed to reach a deal.
Taxi unions want the government to enforce a law which requires just one ride-hailing licence for every 30 taxi licences.
According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, the government offered to give licensing powers to each of the regions during a four-hour meeting. This was rejected by taxi representatives, who say it would not fix the issue, but just pass it along.
The meeting is due to resume later on Monday in the hope of finding a resolution.
Union representatives said in a statement that "Uber and Cabify are putting the viability of the taxi sector and 130,000 jobs at risk", adding it "considers this unfair competition intolerable".
The strike began in Barcelona last Wednesday, after the Spanish government appealed against a ruling by the Barcelona authorities that limited the number of licences for taxi services booked by smartphone apps.
Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao and Seville are all following in Barcelona's footsteps and are calling their own stoppages, causing widespread disruption.
The strike is now trending on Twitter, with the hashtag "HuelgaTaxis" generating thousands of tweets, with people sharing pictures of the strikes in their areas
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Best times to visit Padar Island
By Nick Mercy On Feb 25, 2019
Like all the places on earth, there is always a good and a bad time to visit Padar Island as well. Though it is open to tourists all year round, it is advisable to avoid the monsoon months between mid January to mid March. Tours are known to have last minute cancellations based on the weather conditions, and camping is completely out of question during these months.
On the other hand April to June and September to November are the best months to travel. Not only will one find wildlife and marine life in abundance, the trees and grasslands are also fresh and green at the end of the monsoons. The sea barring full moon days tends to be calm and serene, making the whole experience out of this world.
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With 54 mountains reaching 14,000 feet or higher and a state capitol building a mile above sea level, Colorado lives up to its state song of "Rocky Mountain High," according to Colorado Tourism's website. Outdoor activities abound in Colorado, from skiing and snowboarding at more than 75 resorts and ski areas to rock climbing to mountain biking on 435 miles of trails. See Colorado's natural beauty from one of 25 scenic and historic byways or board a train to sit back and enjoy the ride.
With more than 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area, according to Colorado Tourism, Denver is the state's capital and headquarters for commerce and cultural activities. Tour the mile-high capitol building (colorado.gov) for free to see the rare red marble used in its construction and climb the 94 steps to the dome's observation deck. The Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater (redrocksonline.com) is located 15 miles west of Denver and welcomes visitors to see the two 300-foot monolith formations that provide a backdrop for live entertainment. Hike or bike on a 1.4-mile or six-mile trail through the park's rock formations and meadows at 6,280 feet above sea level.
Experience Colorado's history by touring one of several museums located across the state. The Byers-Evans House (historycolorado.org) in Denver was built in 1883 and features an art gallery and guided tours. In Fort Garland, the Fort Garland Museum and Pike Stockade (historycolorado.org) has exhibits on Buffalo soldiers and former fort commander Kit Carson and a gift shop. In the two-mile high town of Leadville, visit the Healy House Museum and Dexter Cabin (historycolorado.org) to tour home built in 1878 and cabin built in 1879 and learn about the town's mining history and tour the property's Victorian gardens.
Railroad Tours
Ride on railroad tracks completed in 1878 behind a 100-year-old steam engine on the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad (riograndescenicrailroad.com) departing from Alamosa or LaVeta, Colorado. Choose from a club car with live music or a dinner train serving a three-course meal and observe wildlife such as eagles and black bears while traveling through the Spanish Peaks and the San Isabel National Forest. More than 100,000 passengers board the Royal Gorge Route Railroad (royalgorgeroute.com) each year in Canon City for a 24-mile journey through the Rocky Mountains. Choose from a coach seat or a vista seat in a glass-topped dome car to see the scenery while enjoying a meal or beverage.
Scenic and Historic Byways
Drive the 55-mile Peak To Peak scenic and historic byway (coloradodot.info) to cross the Continental Divide and pass by ghost towns Apex and Hesse, Rocky Mountain National Park, Eldora Ski Resort and Golden Gate Canyon State Park. Peak To Peak is the oldest of Colorado's 25 scenic byways, having been established in 1918. Dinosaur enthusiasts may spend two to three days traveling on the Dinosaur Diamond byway (coloradodot.info) through a maze of rocks and mountains to see dinosaur fossil quarries and museums. In southwest Colorado, the 236-mile San Juan Skyway (coloradodot.info) is designated as an All-American Road and starts in Durango and Telluride before winding through 5 million acres of national forest and 14,000-foot mountain peaks.
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VibeRide: Mix One Reboot [ Anniversary Special ]
In celebration of 10 years of VibeRide, this mix is a rebooted and improved version of my very first show released back in the summer of 2009, which featured genuine foot-stomping classics from Cameo, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores, Con Funk Shun, Luther Vandross, Roy Ayers, Prince, The Gap Band and Maceo Parker. It all began with these tracks and here we are a decade later still riding that funk vibe! Big thanks to everyone who's listened to VibeRide over the years, I certainly hope you've...
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What better way to celebrate 10 years of VibeRide than a guest mix from the great Professor Eddy! His funky selection features Klaps, Rihanna, Dana Jean Phoenix, Change, Pauli Carman Soulpersona & Princess Freesia, Club House, Peter Jacques Band, Five Letters, Benelux, The Limit feat. Gwen Guthrie, Le Flex and Tuxedo. Big thanks to all our listeners and special thanks to Professor Eddy for putting together a top mix. Enjoy!
Mix 121 spins up classics from Curtis Mayfield, Donald Byrd, The Brothers Johnson, D Train and Wardell Piper alongside contemporary cuts from Kraak & Smaak, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Gloria Tells, Disclosure, Uptown Funk Empire, Escort and Wayne Snow.
Mix 120 brings funky stuff a plenty. Featuring Alphonse Mouzon, Honey Dijon, Izo Fitzroy, Tortured Soul, Reel People, Amadou & Mariam, Ibibio Sound Machine, Cappa and Daniel-San, France Joli, and new music from Brand New Heavies and Tony Momrelle.
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It's been a while since I put out a special mix, so here's one that's long overdue - a Commodores special. The band that launched the career of legendary singer/song writer Lionel Richie were, first and foremost, a great funk outfit and so for me deserve to be considered funk royalty. This mix features 16 of the Commodores' funkiest cuts mixed for your listening pleasure.
Mix 118 brings debuts for Lizzo, Dona Laka, Joe Bataan, Rare Cuts, and spins up grooves from Bosq, The Kay-Gees, The Fatback Band, Chaka Khan, Commodores, Brass Construction, Rare Cuts and Brooklyn Funk Essentials.
VibeRide's back baby! After a summer hiatus we return with Mix 117, which features a delicious mix of classic and new funky grooves from Bosq, Tony Momrelle, Joan Bibiloni, Sister Sledge, Mutiny, Sheila E., Frazelle, KC & The Sunshine Band, Bill Withers, Gil Scott-Heron, Lenny Kravitz, Herbie Hancock, and ends with our own belated tribute to Aretha Franklin who passed away in the summer.
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This is an extended mix of 23 tracks which make great use of horns or else feature masters of brass such as Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Grover Washington Jr, Candy Dulfer, Trombone Shorty and MIles Davis. If you love funky horns, then you'll love this mix. And there's even a little something special at the very end.
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Our first mix of 2018 brings a whole host of solid gold legends of funk and soul, including the Temptations featuring Rick James, Teddy Pendergrass, Aretha Franklin, The Commodores, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pleasure, Maceo Parker and Marvin Gaye. Rounding off the mix are some serious grooves from Jean Tonique, Sun, Orgone and Ted Taylor.
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Mix 111 debuts D Train, Sparque, Down To The Bone, Cool Million, Lucy Pearl and Ida Nielsen, and spins up more classics from Sister Sledge, Cerrone, Change, Chic and Philip Bailey.
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Protesters calling for Joseph Muscat’s immediate resignation started early on Tuesday with a handful chanting “murderers” as the Prime Minister was entering the Auberge de Castille for a meeting scheduled with an MEP delegation.
Photo: Jonathan Borg
There was heavy police presence in both the area surrounding Castille, as well as Parliament, and police officers would not let journalists get anywhere near the Prime Minister.
The protesters included Daphne Caruana Galizia's two sisters Helene and Mandy. A standoff ensued between them and the police who refused to let them go behind the barriers.
Video: Jacob Borg
Later, the police tried to move the media into a pen near The Knot statue. But all journalists walked to the barriers outside Castille and refused to move.
Dr Muscat is meeting with a delegation of MEPs dispatched to Malta for an urgent mission following a political crisis sparked by developments in the Caruana Galizia murder investigation.
Protesters are currently holding daily demonstrations demanding the Prime Minister to take responsibility for the murder of Ms Caruana Galizia.
On Monday they blocked MPs from leaving parliament trapping MPs for about two hours behind the barricades between Freedom Square and Ordnance Street.
They will be gathering again on Tuesday evening, with plans to meet outside police headquarters in Floriana at 7pm. The protests are being jointly organised by civil society groups Repubblika and Occupy Justice as well as blogger Manuel Delia.
Dr Muscat on Sunday announced he would be resiging in January.
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Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales
Scott Yi Heng Lin, Cheng Wei Cheng, Emily Chia Yu Su
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics
Background: Development of computational tools that can accurately predict presence and location of B-cell epitopes on pathogenic proteins has a valuable application to the field of vaccinology. Because of the highly variable yet enigmatic nature of B-cell epitopes, their prediction presents a great challenge to computational immunologists. Methods: We propose a method, BEEPro (B-cell epitope prediction by evolutionary information and propensity scales), which adapts a linear averaging scheme on 16 properties using a support vector machine model to predict both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes. These 16 properties include position specific scoring matrix (PSSM), an amino acid ratio scale, and a set of 14 physicochemical scales obtained via a feature selection process. Finally, a three-way data split procedure is used during the validation process to prevent over-estimation of prediction performance and avoid bias in our experiment results. Results: In our experiment, first we use a non-redundant linear B-cell epitope dataset curated by Sollner et al. for feature selection and parameter optimization. Evaluated by a three-way data split procedure, BEEPro achieves significant improvement with the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) = 0.9987, accuracy = 99.29%, mathew's correlation coefficient (MCC) = 0.9281, sensitivity = 0.9604, specificity = 0.9946, positive predictive value (PPV) = 0.9042 for the Sollner dataset. In addition, the same parameters are used to evaluate performance on other independent linear B-cell epitope test datasets, BEEPro attains an AUC which ranges from 0.9874 to 0.9950 and an accuracy which ranges from 93.73% to 97.31%. Moreover, five-fold cross-validation on one benchmark conformational B-cell epitope dataset yields an accuracy of 92.14% and AUC of 0.9066. Conclusions: Compared with other current models, our method achieves a significant improvement with respect to AUC, accuracy, MCC, sensitivity, specificity, and PPV. Thus, we have shown that an appropriate combination of evolutionary information and propensity scales with a support vector machine model can significantly enhance the prediction performance of both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes.
BMC Bioinformatics
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
B-Lymphocyte Epitopes
B Cells
Three-way Data
Performance Prediction
Support Vector Machine
Position-Specific Scoring Matrices
Parameter Optimization
Lin, S. Y. H., Cheng, C. W., & Su, E. C. Y. (2013). Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales. BMC Bioinformatics, 14, [S10]. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales. / Lin, Scott Yi Heng; Cheng, Cheng Wei; Su, Emily Chia Yu.
In: BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 14, S10, 21.01.2013.
Lin, SYH, Cheng, CW & Su, ECY 2013, 'Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales', BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 14, S10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
Lin SYH, Cheng CW, Su ECY. Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013 Jan 21;14. S10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
Lin, Scott Yi Heng ; Cheng, Cheng Wei ; Su, Emily Chia Yu. / Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales. In: BMC Bioinformatics. 2013 ; Vol. 14.
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abstract = "Background: Development of computational tools that can accurately predict presence and location of B-cell epitopes on pathogenic proteins has a valuable application to the field of vaccinology. Because of the highly variable yet enigmatic nature of B-cell epitopes, their prediction presents a great challenge to computational immunologists. Methods: We propose a method, BEEPro (B-cell epitope prediction by evolutionary information and propensity scales), which adapts a linear averaging scheme on 16 properties using a support vector machine model to predict both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes. These 16 properties include position specific scoring matrix (PSSM), an amino acid ratio scale, and a set of 14 physicochemical scales obtained via a feature selection process. Finally, a three-way data split procedure is used during the validation process to prevent over-estimation of prediction performance and avoid bias in our experiment results. Results: In our experiment, first we use a non-redundant linear B-cell epitope dataset curated by Sollner et al. for feature selection and parameter optimization. Evaluated by a three-way data split procedure, BEEPro achieves significant improvement with the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) = 0.9987, accuracy = 99.29{\%}, mathew's correlation coefficient (MCC) = 0.9281, sensitivity = 0.9604, specificity = 0.9946, positive predictive value (PPV) = 0.9042 for the Sollner dataset. In addition, the same parameters are used to evaluate performance on other independent linear B-cell epitope test datasets, BEEPro attains an AUC which ranges from 0.9874 to 0.9950 and an accuracy which ranges from 93.73{\%} to 97.31{\%}. Moreover, five-fold cross-validation on one benchmark conformational B-cell epitope dataset yields an accuracy of 92.14{\%} and AUC of 0.9066. Conclusions: Compared with other current models, our method achieves a significant improvement with respect to AUC, accuracy, MCC, sensitivity, specificity, and PPV. Thus, we have shown that an appropriate combination of evolutionary information and propensity scales with a support vector machine model can significantly enhance the prediction performance of both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes.",
author = "Lin, {Scott Yi Heng} and Cheng, {Cheng Wei} and Su, {Emily Chia Yu}",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10",
journal = "BMC Bioinformatics",
T1 - Prediction of B-cell epitopes using evolutionary information and propensity scales
AU - Lin, Scott Yi Heng
AU - Cheng, Cheng Wei
AU - Su, Emily Chia Yu
N2 - Background: Development of computational tools that can accurately predict presence and location of B-cell epitopes on pathogenic proteins has a valuable application to the field of vaccinology. Because of the highly variable yet enigmatic nature of B-cell epitopes, their prediction presents a great challenge to computational immunologists. Methods: We propose a method, BEEPro (B-cell epitope prediction by evolutionary information and propensity scales), which adapts a linear averaging scheme on 16 properties using a support vector machine model to predict both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes. These 16 properties include position specific scoring matrix (PSSM), an amino acid ratio scale, and a set of 14 physicochemical scales obtained via a feature selection process. Finally, a three-way data split procedure is used during the validation process to prevent over-estimation of prediction performance and avoid bias in our experiment results. Results: In our experiment, first we use a non-redundant linear B-cell epitope dataset curated by Sollner et al. for feature selection and parameter optimization. Evaluated by a three-way data split procedure, BEEPro achieves significant improvement with the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) = 0.9987, accuracy = 99.29%, mathew's correlation coefficient (MCC) = 0.9281, sensitivity = 0.9604, specificity = 0.9946, positive predictive value (PPV) = 0.9042 for the Sollner dataset. In addition, the same parameters are used to evaluate performance on other independent linear B-cell epitope test datasets, BEEPro attains an AUC which ranges from 0.9874 to 0.9950 and an accuracy which ranges from 93.73% to 97.31%. Moreover, five-fold cross-validation on one benchmark conformational B-cell epitope dataset yields an accuracy of 92.14% and AUC of 0.9066. Conclusions: Compared with other current models, our method achieves a significant improvement with respect to AUC, accuracy, MCC, sensitivity, specificity, and PPV. Thus, we have shown that an appropriate combination of evolutionary information and propensity scales with a support vector machine model can significantly enhance the prediction performance of both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes.
AB - Background: Development of computational tools that can accurately predict presence and location of B-cell epitopes on pathogenic proteins has a valuable application to the field of vaccinology. Because of the highly variable yet enigmatic nature of B-cell epitopes, their prediction presents a great challenge to computational immunologists. Methods: We propose a method, BEEPro (B-cell epitope prediction by evolutionary information and propensity scales), which adapts a linear averaging scheme on 16 properties using a support vector machine model to predict both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes. These 16 properties include position specific scoring matrix (PSSM), an amino acid ratio scale, and a set of 14 physicochemical scales obtained via a feature selection process. Finally, a three-way data split procedure is used during the validation process to prevent over-estimation of prediction performance and avoid bias in our experiment results. Results: In our experiment, first we use a non-redundant linear B-cell epitope dataset curated by Sollner et al. for feature selection and parameter optimization. Evaluated by a three-way data split procedure, BEEPro achieves significant improvement with the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) = 0.9987, accuracy = 99.29%, mathew's correlation coefficient (MCC) = 0.9281, sensitivity = 0.9604, specificity = 0.9946, positive predictive value (PPV) = 0.9042 for the Sollner dataset. In addition, the same parameters are used to evaluate performance on other independent linear B-cell epitope test datasets, BEEPro attains an AUC which ranges from 0.9874 to 0.9950 and an accuracy which ranges from 93.73% to 97.31%. Moreover, five-fold cross-validation on one benchmark conformational B-cell epitope dataset yields an accuracy of 92.14% and AUC of 0.9066. Conclusions: Compared with other current models, our method achieves a significant improvement with respect to AUC, accuracy, MCC, sensitivity, specificity, and PPV. Thus, we have shown that an appropriate combination of evolutionary information and propensity scales with a support vector machine model can significantly enhance the prediction performance of both linear and conformational B-cell epitopes.
U2 - 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S10
JO - BMC Bioinformatics
JF - BMC Bioinformatics
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TSX Venture Exchange Announces the 2015 TSX Venture 50®
February 11, 2015 (TORONTO) – TSX Venture Exchange today announced the 2015 TSX Venture 50.
The TSX Venture 50 is an annual ranking of strong performing companies from five sectors: Clean Technology, Diversified Industries, Mining, Oil & Gas, and Technology & Life Sciences.
"TSX Venture Exchange is a unique, world-class venue for small-cap and early-stage companies to access public venture capital to help fuel their business strategies," said John McCoach, President, TSX Venture Exchange. "We are delighted to recognize the success of this year's TSX Venture 50 companies, which are all important contributors to Canada's economy and entrepreneurial success."
The 2015 TSX Venture 50 was determined based on equal weighting of the following measures: market capitalization growth, share price appreciation, trading volume and analyst coverage.
The top ranked company across all sectors is Ikkuma Resources Corp. (IKM), a Calgary-based oil and gas company that listed on TSXV in 2004.
The top performing companies from each industry sector are:
Clean Technology Legend Power Systems Inc. (LPS)
Diversified Industries theScore, Inc. (SCR)
Mining Niocorp Developments Ltd. (NB)
Oil & Gas Ikkuma Resources Corp. (IKM)
Technology & Life Sciences Patient Home Monitoring Corp. (PHM)
The 2015 TSX Venture 50 are:
Clean Technology:
Legend Power Systems Inc. (LPS)
Questor Technology Inc. (QST)
Titanium Corporation Inc. (TIC)
Epicore BioNetworks Inc. (EBN)
Bevo Agro Inc. (BVO)
Clean Seed Capital Group Ltd. (CSX)
H2O Innovation Inc. (HEO)
PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PYR)
Eguana Technologies Inc. (EGT)
EnWave Corporation (ENW)
Diversified Industries:
theScore, Inc. (SCR)
Jemi Fibre Corp. (JFI)
Parkit Enterprise Inc. (PKT)
Terra Firma Capital Corporation (TII)
People Corporation (PEO)
The Westaim Corporation (WED)
Input Capital Corp. (INP)
XPEL Technologies Corp. (DAP)
International Barrier Technology Inc. (IBH)
Iplayco Corporation Ltd. (IPC)
Mining:
Niocorp Developments Ltd. (NB)
Excelsior Mining Corp. (MIN)
Nevada Sunrise Gold Corporation (NEV)
NexGen Energy Ltd. (NXE)
Roxgold Inc. (ROG)
Ascot Resources Ltd. (AOT)
Bacanora Minerals Ltd. (BCN)
Kaminak Gold Corporation (KAM)
Red Eagle Mining Corporation (RD)
Columbus Gold Corporation (CGT)
Ikkuma Resources Corp. (IKM)
Mapan Energy Ltd. (MPG)
ArPetrol Ltd. (RPT)
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. (PNE)
Stonehaven Exploration Ltd. (SE)
Quattro Exploration and Production Ltd. (QXP)
Tuscany Energy Ltd. (TUS)
Toro Oil & Gas Ltd. (TOO)
Kicking Horse Energy Inc. (KCK)
Taipan Resources Inc. (TPN)
Technology & Life Sciences:
Patient Home Monitoring Corp. (PHM)
POET Technologies Inc. (PTK)
Snipp Interactive Inc. (SPN)
EXO U Inc. (EXO)
Photon Control Inc. (PHO)
Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. (SEV)
Engagement Labs Inc. (EL)
Theralase Technologies Inc. (TLT)
Imperus Technologies Corp. (LAB)
ProntoForms Corporation (PFM)
The 1,971 companies listed on TSX Venture Exchange as of December 31, 2014 were screened through the following filters to determine which companies would qualify as potential 2015 TSX Venture 50 candidates:
listed on TSX Venture Exchange more than one year as of December 31, 2014
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market capitalization greater than C$5 million on December 31, 2014
closing share price greater than C$0.25 on December 31, 2014
share price of at least C$0.10 on December 31, 2013
This is not an invitation to purchase securities listed on TSX Venture Exchange. TMX Group and its affiliates do not endorse or recommend any of the referenced securities or investment advisors. Please seek professional advice to evaluate specific securities.
TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, NGX, BOX Options Exchange, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver), in key U.S. markets (New York, Houston, Boston and Chicago) as well as in London, Beijing and Sydney. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at http://www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tmxgroup.
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China's Extensive Cotton Supports Dominate World Market; Makes U.S. Farm Supports Vital
Farms.com - Darren Hudson, the director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas Tech University, said in an interview with Farm Policy Facts that if China “abandons its reserve policy in favor of paying its producers, that could result in significant price declines leaving U.S. (cotton) producers vulnerable to low prices for no other reason than China dumping its stocks.”
China´s extensive cotton supports dominate world market; makes U.S. farm supports vital
Farm Policy Facts -Darren Hudson, the director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas Tech University, said in an interview with Farm Policy Facts that if China “abandons its reserve policy in favor of paying its producers, that could result in significant price declines leaving U.S. (cotton) producers vulnerable to low prices for no other reason than China dumping its stocks.”
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Galaxy Note 10: Samsung’s Gateway to The Future
by nayandev October 10, 2019 Technology
Here it is. The much hyped and eagerly awaited successor to the Note 9 and it does not disappoint. The Galaxy Note 10 Plus is the ultimate performance phone. Let nobody tell you otherwise. Samsung promised a lot of things with the Note 10 Plus, Next level power laptop, class storage and a display that will make you forget your TV and fortunately for us, they have delivered on their promise.
The Note 10 is a true successor to the Note 9 in every sense. They started out on the next generation of galaxy last year with a revamped focus on hardware and software and the effort shows in the new device. The hardware is as good as it gets and the software side of things has improved so much, it hardly feels like a glitchy Samsung anymore.
Power Packed Performance
As I said earlier, it is the ultimate performance phone and the specs back it up. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 855 processor and clocks, frankly, a mad 2.13 GHz. Its world wide alternative, the home grown Axinos processor is no slouch either, delivering equivalent power and performance in the phone.
The phone features a Ram of 12GB which, to be honest, is enough for a fairly powerful laptop. But they simply had to go overboard and stuff 12 GB of RAM into the device. The 7nm architecture coupled with the RAM that is offered results in the ultimate performance machine in your hand.
The battery is no laughing matter as well. For a phone that reeks of performance, the battery has to be of a decent size and Samsung is offering more than a decent size with a 4300 MaH battery. It is charged by a fast charging C-Type port with wireless and reverse wireless charging capabilities that the company debuted with the S10.
The Screen Stands Out
The screen is easily the biggest selling point of the phone. We all know Samsung makes the best OLED screens in the market but they seemed to have one upped themselves. The Note 10’s screen is simply the most gorgeous screen you will see in the market. 6.8 inches in size, it has a bonkers 94.7 screen to body ratio. And when you look at it, it looks better than any TV out there in the market.
The camera has to be mentioned as well. Samsung is in the game to make some of the best camera hardware in the smartphone market and the trend continues with the Note 10 Plus. While the software included could use a bit of help, the camera itself does not disappoint. It features a 12 MP wide angle camera, a 12 MP telephoto lens and 16 MP ultrawide angle camera lens.
The S pen got some really cool upgrades to. It has an 8-way gyro sensor that makes gesture control possible. Although the gestures still need to worked on, it is a brilliant addition to the Note 10. Samsung is literally redefining what you can do with a stylus.
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Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California
Michele R. Decker, Elizabeth Miller, Heather L. McCauley, Daniel J Tancredi, Rebecca R. Levenson, Jeffrey Waldman, Phyllis Schoenwald, Jay G. Silverman
Objective: To describe the prevalence and nature of sex trade in a clinic-based sample of young women and to evaluate associations with sexual and reproductive health. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with women aged 16-29 years (n = 1277) presenting to family-planning clinics in Northern California, USA. Results: Overall, 8.1% of respondents indicated a lifetime history of trading sex for money or other resources. Sex trade was associated with unintended pregnancy (adjusted risk ratio [ARR] 1.27; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.09-1.48), multiple abortions (ARR 1.63; 95% CI, 1.19-2.23), STI diagnosis (ARR 1.46; 95% CI, 1.27-1.68), and unwanted sex (vaginal ARR 3.64; 95% CI, 2.39-5.56; anal ARR 4.99; 95% CI, 2.17-11.50). Of the women ever involved in sex trade, 12 (37.3%) reported that their first such experience was before they were 18 years of age. Conclusion: Approximately 1 in 12 participants had been involved in sex trade, illustrating the presence of patients with this history within the family-planning clinical setting. Sex trade was associated with multiple indicators of poor sexual and reproductive health. Family-planning clinics may represent an underused mechanism for engaging this high-risk population.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.019
Sexual risk
STI/HIV
Unintended pregnancy
Decker, M. R., Miller, E., McCauley, H. L., Tancredi, D. J., Levenson, R. R., Waldman, J., ... Silverman, J. G. (2012). Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 117(2), 173-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.019
Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California. / Decker, Michele R.; Miller, Elizabeth; McCauley, Heather L.; Tancredi, Daniel J; Levenson, Rebecca R.; Waldman, Jeffrey; Schoenwald, Phyllis; Silverman, Jay G.
In: International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vol. 117, No. 2, 05.2012, p. 173-177.
Decker, MR, Miller, E, McCauley, HL, Tancredi, DJ, Levenson, RR, Waldman, J, Schoenwald, P & Silverman, JG 2012, 'Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 173-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.019
Decker MR, Miller E, McCauley HL, Tancredi DJ, Levenson RR, Waldman J et al. Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2012 May;117(2):173-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.019
Decker, Michele R. ; Miller, Elizabeth ; McCauley, Heather L. ; Tancredi, Daniel J ; Levenson, Rebecca R. ; Waldman, Jeffrey ; Schoenwald, Phyllis ; Silverman, Jay G. / Sex trade among young women attending family-planning clinics in Northern California. In: International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2012 ; Vol. 117, No. 2. pp. 173-177.
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The definition of torture is ‘the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something’. That being said how can anyone have the right to carry out such an act, on another human, for whatever reason? The scars of torture are left imprinted on the victims not just physically but also mentally as well. Torture was abolished in England in 1772 and the UN’s article 15 states that ‘no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’. These national and international laws and legislations against torture were obviously introduced after lengthy research into the dire effects of it. Hence, it is quite outrageous, after recent events especially regarding the ‘war on terror’ people still deem torture necessary.
Those that defend torture say it is important for extracting information from an individual or a group that may eventually lead to crucial findings related to national security. However, it is necessary to note that one cannot be sure the information extracted through such intense means will be correct or even accurate. This is because it is scientifically proven that a person under intense pain will eventually say, what the pain inflictor would want him to. Hence, one would even admit to something that they have not done. Such was the case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who was detained in Guantanamo bay for 14 years and then released, as there was no evidence against him. But, he still found himself admitting to things he had no idea about, just to convince the people torturing him to leave him alone. In his memoir Mr. Slahi describes being starved, shackled, stripped naked, tied, sleep deprived, and forced to drink sea water amongst other horrendous forms of cruelty. All this just because his conscience made him come forward with some information about the Al-Qaeda terrorist group in regard to the 9/11 attacks, which he thought might be useful to help capture the perpetrators. This innocent act lead to his horrible misfortune.
We are living in the 21st century and this means there are so many other ways that can be used to track the acts of a potential threats rather than extract information out of people in a way that leaves the victim scarred for life and humiliated, especially if they are innocent. Our technology is so advanced and it is undeniable that officials do use it to track the information about the actions of different people. Hence, why not use this technology to obtain useful information rather than using the animalistic ways of torture?
The most prominent and common argument in support of torture is the ‘ticking bomb metaphor which essentially involves a terrorist in custody, that happens to be withholding information regarding a weapon that could endanger the lives of many. However, one needs to realise that this scenario is rather unrealistic, and in fact, till today has never occurred despite various military officials around the world claiming it to have, but always failing to provide concrete evidence. The ‘ticking bomb’ metaphor was first actually seen in a novel published in 1960 and ever since people have used this false scenario to defend the belief that torture is necessary. I think it is safe to say that that the ‘ticking bomb’ scenario is one that is fictitious and cannot be used to justify the inhumane acts involved in torture.
It is also essential to note that those who carry out the torturous acts are not dehumanising the victim but also themselves; as eventually they end up lacking the emotions to feel sympathy towards their victim, and this can later be generalised to other people around them. This makes one wonder whether the torturer is any better than their victim, if the victim is even at all guilty. As it is quite often said ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ meaning that the one inflicting the pain is in no way better, than the person they believe to be guilty. Anyone before defending the acts of torture should try and put themselves in the shoes of the likes of Mohamedou Ould Slahi and others who have been through the terrors of it.
To defend the acts of torture or to say that is should be used in certain circumstance would be saying that you agree to sentencing someone to a lifetime of punishment, due to the lifelong effects of it. It would mean that you are supporting the pain that comes along with it just based on possibilities. Because to say it would be okay to torture someone would mean that you think that person held captive is responsible, you think that this person does have information that can be essential and most importantly you think that this person guilty. And even if they are guilty and the torture is to get revenge, what gives the right to one human being to inflict such cruel and intense pain on another. Because at the end of the day it begs the question are you any better than the person who is apparently in the wrong or guilt? Are your morals any better than theirs?
Sonaili Vasta
There is a thermo-nuclear device somewhere in London. It has the capacity to raze the city its foundations and murder every one of its inhabitants. It is ticking. The person who planted it is in custody, and longs for death. This is the scenario you will be familiar with, as it is often used in the argument for torture. In this hypothetical situation, the imagined agent has no option but to use force to save the lives of millions. Torture is obviously justifiable in this hypothetical situation which is why it is so often used.
Hypothetical cases, however, make bad ethics. Jess Wolfendale, professor of philosophy at West Virginia University, criticises the use of the ‘ticking bomb’ argument, as it creates what she calls the “myth of the noble torturer”. If a scenario such as the ‘ticking bomb’ can be concocted to justify the use of torture, surely it would be just as easy to create a hypothetical scenario in which rape and genocide were equally justifiable as last resorts. Surely there must be room here for a little moral absolutism; namely that torture (the explicit removal of dignity and introduction of suffering) can never be justified, even theoretically. For what dark door do we open when we intentionally leave cracks in our morality?
In 1772, torture was outlawed in this country. It was a very sensible decision, as it brought Britain forward from the dark ages and limited the rampant cruelty imposed by the state on its citizens. However, in 1772 the most destructive thing (and thing most like the ‘ticking bomb’ scenario) that had ever happened was the gunpowder plot. If you had mentioned to people that one day a split atom could leave an entire city in ruins, they would have locked you in an asylum. This is unfortunately a reality today, and we must face the fact that a dirty bomb could be in the possession of a UK-based terror cell as I write this. We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto.
If a murderer can be noble if he is wearing army fatigues on his way to Berlin, can a torturer not be noble also, if their work saves thousands of lives? I do not believe that the British and American security services are full of people who obtain pleasure from causing suffering. This brings us to what type of torture I am defending. There are 6 basic types, according to Shunzo Majima, a researcher at the Universities of Hokkaido and Hiroshima, of torture. They include judicial torture (used to obtain a confession), interrogational torture (used to obtain information), penal torture (used to punish), deterrent torture (used to intimidate), disabling torture (used to cripple and destroy), and recreational torture (used to obtain pleasure for the torturer or for witnesses). All 6 of those types are morally reprehensible. Only 5, however, should be unconditionally banned. Interrogation torture can be used so long as it adheres to a few basic rules.
Firstly, there must be a just cause. In the case of torture, the just cause is always the protection of the innocent. This, by definition, prohibits the torture of innocent civilians, no matter their relationship to the criminal. This cannot be the case because it is morally impossible to protect innocents by harming other innocents: only proved perpetrators and, in very rare cases, likely suspects can ever be subjected to torture. Furthermore, it must be a last resort. All other means, no matter how difficult, must have been tried before torture is used. Thirdly, there must be a proportionality between the ends and the means. Only the most severe harm to innocent people can justify severe torture. If these principles are adhered to, then the argument becomes the same as the argument for just war. War to prevent genocide or intense cruelty can be justified in my opinion, if all possible measures are taken to avoid civilian deaths.
Taking the moral absolutist’s position in this case (as in the case of war), and prohibiting torture in every possible circumstance, is in my opinion dangerous. It limits our ability to defend ourselves against an enemy which has no such limitations. Torture is the worst part of the legacy of humanity, and a black spot on the record of our species. To prohibit it, though, is to tie our hands before heading to battle, and a codified set of principles relating to torture should be adopted to allow the world to protect itself in the most extreme cases.
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Baltimore Six Trial Update – Maryland Appeals Court Steps In, Postpones Trial of Officer Goodson…
Posted on January 12, 2016 by sundance
The Maryland Appeals Court has stepped in to halt the trial against Officer Caesar Goodson on the day jury selection was scheduled to begin. In an earlier appellate court ruling the forced testimony of accused police officer William Porter was blocked. The State’s cases are falling apart due to inept legal application and ideological motives to prosecute.
Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby is now claiming without Porter’s testimony her cases against both Caesar Goodson and Alicia White will not stand:
[…] not being able to call Porter as a witness would “result in irreparable harm to the People of Maryland by effectively gutting their government’s prosecution” of two of the officers. (link)
On its face this is an absolutely absurd position.
The case against William Porter ended in a mistrial, but even if the case against Porter had resulted in a successful conviction – Porter would still have the ability to evoke his fifth amendment right not to testify while his appeal was outstanding. Mosby should have never even contemplated the ability to use Porter as a witness against any officer.
Marilyn Mosby and the Baltimore prosecutors office are so blinded by politics they are showing a complete disconnect from law and/or the ability to legally prosecute their case.
Readers might remember the trial of George Zimmerman, a case with significant legal parallels to the malicious Baltimore Six prosecution in Baltimore. Zimmerman’s defense team won three easy appeals court decisions against rulings of Orlando Judge Debra Nelson during trial. In addition there were at least two more easy-to-win appeals the defense never even filed because the prosecution case simply collapsed.
In the 2013 Zimmerman trial, similar to Baltimore Judge Barry Williams, Judge Nelson became ideologically disconnected from legal forethought. Nelson even demanded in open court, during the trial -before the prosecution team had finished their presentation- that George Zimmerman go on record publicly stating if he was going to take the stand in his own defense. Any appeals court in the country would have thrown out any subsequent negative outcome and allowed a retrial, on that basis alone.
This is what happens when severely malicious political prosecutions need to be propped up by sympathetic (to the prosecution) and activist judges.
Back to Baltimore – Last week Judge Barry Williams mandated that Officer William Porter, who has a re-trail date pending in July, forcibly testify against the other officers. Essentially denying Porter his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. This outlandish judicial ruling is what the Maryland appellate court immediately blocked.
Judge Williams was conducting his court in a similar fashion to Judge Nelson in Florida. Both activist judges trying to save the fraudulent prosecutorial cases against the accused, and bail out the states’ weak case and lack of legal reasoning.
Yesterday, just before jury selection was set to begin, the Maryland appeals court, obviously understanding the snowball effect of what was happening, blocked the trial of Goodson from continuing.
By the time Mosby presented her own request to delay the trial, because she now views the case as impossible to continue without Porter’s testimony, the entire issue became moot; recognized as such by Judge Barry Williams.
This halt effectively stops all prosecutions from going forward until the underlying legal issues surrounding Porter’s constitutional rights are clarified. This process will likely take several months; and as Mosby has now admitted – if the state loses their appeal, they will simultaneously lose the case(s) against Officer Goodson and Officer White.
In short, without Porter, the state is claiming the entire construct of their prosecution map collapses. Millions spent, tens of thousands of legal hours wasted, multiple court dockets for other cases delayed, and for what? Nothing.
This is exactly what happens when political cases run into the rules of the judiciary.
[…] Prosecutors and the officers’ defense attorneys are forbidden from discussing the case because of a gag order imposed by Williams.
Williams — who is presiding over the trials of all six officers — briefly took the bench Monday morning to note the stay by the appeals court and to place Goodson’s trial in recess.
Williams noted the prosecution’s request for a continuance but said that the request was “moot,” given the stay ordered by the appeals court. Goodson’s attorneys had objected to a continuance, asking for his trial to go forward this week, Williams said. (link)
*Note* The cases against officers’ Rice, Nero and Miller are even weaker.
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145 Responses to Baltimore Six Trial Update – Maryland Appeals Court Steps In, Postpones Trial of Officer Goodson…
qcbombora says:
The term Baltimoron comes to mind.
Mosby is pictured in the dictionary as THE definition of Baltimoron. No words necessary.
Him too.
Mentalist says:
Martin O’Malley, aka the “Teflon Leprechaun”
“Teflon Leprechaun Ding-Dong”
I have not heard that since the time I was building a Building at Hopkins….It is much truer than you might think.
flawesttexas says:
Again…great coverage of the Bal’mer Six case Sundance. So called “Conservative Media” seems to not want to cover this case
Mos of the so call conservative media are multicultural marxists.
tyrannocankles says:
Multicultural Marxists!!! LOOOOOL!
STEALING!!! 😀
TheFightingMan says:
I dunno. With the visibly unjust prosecutions used to appease their followers, maybe Satanic Stalinist would be more descriptive, what with all of the ‘show trials’ and gulags.
I forgot who just pointed it out (believe it was a Treeper, or a citation by one of us), but it was a FANTASTIC point:
Stalin himself, as a Georgian put in charge of all Russia, is a brilliant negative example of the wisdom of the “native born leader” concept. It would be fundamentally the same as putting a Chechnyan in charge of Russia now.
The founders were brilliant people. They truly reduced wise government to key abstractions.
non agenda says:
No reason stated for the postponement? It all looks like an orchestration of political cover so Mosby, & Williams are off the hook. Probably what Williams had in mind when he issued that ridiculous order on the eve of trial. (“We tried to get you justice but Whitey won’t allow it”).
I want to say they should have let the trial proceed so Mosby’s face plant would be played out, but the lives of innocent cops are more important.
Bravo to Porter, who was The Man.
Activist judges don’t need grand plans. They just need to have a point of view which conflicts with the justice system. We’ve seen countless cases where judges exceed the law and their own powers without challenge or correction. I have seen worse. In a case which was surrounded by many, including divorce and property/ownership disputes, an old friend was charged with a crime the “victim” heartily denied ever occurred. But the state continued its prosecution. The state had no case while the claimed victim denied anything bad had happened.
At the end of the trial, the judge decided that the circumstantial case against the accused, regardless of lacking proof, warranted a conviction and so he was.
As this case involved a minor, no one was willing to stand up against the obvious problem in that case. “By any and all means necessary…” It isn’t a racial agenda. It’s an agenda conflict between the impartial system intended to represent due process and equality under the law and the desire to “seek justice” in support of a cause.
Even “good causes” can be subverted and used against the public. Family courts activists (note the link to the current BLM situation where the prosecutor had some family court type of involvements with the same family?) seem more interested in destroying families than helping them to be families.
The worst thing a judge or a prosecutor can be is an activist. And that we let that pass is a real problem. But it’s a definition which activists themselves can and will use to further dismantle our justice systems rendering them further as political systems.
While I cannot yet imagine a better system, the current process of using political leaders as the means of selecting the judiciary and law enforcement is a problem. A judge, a prosecutor, a sheriff or any of them shouldn’t have (R) or (D) or any such political affiliation associated with them. The last thing we need is political ideology in the justice system.
Michael Lebinowitz says:
When you and everyone you associate with live in your own affirmative action bubble…….
It would be a great topic for a book:
Affirmative Action Lawyers and the Destruction of the USA
What’s so remarkable is how the prosecution is so swept up in its delusion that there’s some piece of “smoking gun” testimony they can coerce out of Potter that’ll make their case. He’s been on the stand, he testified truthfully, and they got nothing.
rumpole2 says:
The Mosby motion (rued as Moot by Judge Williams) is clearly grasping at straws. An about face, begging the Judge to NOW grant a retrial for Porter before Goodson and White.
As Sundance pointed out… even IF that happened and IF Porter found was guilty, it still DOES NOT fix Mosby’s problem. Porter would still need to invoke his 5th amendment rights while appeals pending, let alone the (now standard for a black “victim”) threat on Federal investigation and charges.
Mosby’s Motion
http://www.baltocts.state.md.us/highlighted_trials/goodsonetal/goodson/docs/goodsonstatesmotionforcontinuancependingresolutionbycosa010816.pdf
..and that Fed threat would still be there if he’s found not guilty.
The whole thing’s futile anyway, he doesn’t have anything to give them that’ll turn driving the van in which someone (accidentally) commits suicide into a murder. They’re completely incapable of understanding that the reason he doesn’t have it is because it isn’t there!
But admitting that is admitting they have no case and never did, so the play goes on.
Imagine the impossibility of convincing all 12 fair minded individuals that there was no possibility that Freddie died accidentally as a result of standing up and that a half dozen cops conspired to kill a low level street scum in the back of a paddy wagon.
What exactly was their motive?
Good grief, they didn’t even get the year right in the motion. (Repeatedly)
treepersrock says:
rumpole ~ Goodson was the only Officier that didn’t give a statement when the other 5 Officier’s did. At the time, I thought, what was he hiding? As it turned out, it appears his Attorney’s were pretty smart imo because even if Porter was made to testify, I pray he isn’t, it would be Goodson’s word against Porter’s. Who would a Jury believe in Goodson’s trial? Goodson isn’t on record like the other 5 where their statements are used against them, we will hear from Goodson for the first time.
Why would Mosby/grunts think an Appellate Court would sympathize with them if they were ruled against & gutting their case? Gutting their case is a bull chit statement, it’s Porter’s rights that are most important.
This thought crossed my mind this morning. I agree, in hindsight it was smart of Goodson not to give a statement when initially questioned. Now he’s not on the “record” and with the prosecutors basically impeaching their “star witness” by inferring that Porter is a liar multiple times during his trial (yes, they actually did this), it becomes a case for the jury of “who you’re going to believe”.
Mentalist ~ yes, reasonable doubt at the least.
R-C says:
The people of Maryland–I used to be one of them–are being poorly served by this rogue prosecutor, whose name I will not glorify by speaking it.
I love the police. My father was a policeman. I hold them all in very high regard and am spring-loaded to come to their defense first, because I know they carry a heavy burden on our behalf, and at our behest. We place our police officers in harm’s way regularly, and expect them to make the right decision, every time, when split-second decisions could mean the difference between life and death (theirs, or some citizen’s). My first instinct is to support the police without question.
That said, I would rain destruction upon the officers I found who were willfully corrupt; those who were ‘on the take’ or engaged in abject crime while using their badges and authority as a cloak. Those cops would get no quarter from me. Either do the job right, every minute of every day, or go become a mall cop.
And, I hold this particular prosecutor in the same contempt as I would the ‘bad cop’. She is not only demonstrably incompetent, but there she sits, wrapped in the respectability of her position (granted her by The People), irresponsibly wielding the authority of her office to advance her extremist agenda. She is cut in the same mold as Eric Holder, another gross abuser of official authority. I have ZERO tolerance for that.
With luck, the appellate court’s actions will be followed up with sanctions from the Maryland Bar. With even more luck, this rogue, incompetent ideologue will be FIRED, after which these six officers will be reinstated with back-pay and totally expunged records.
I hope so, but nothing can ever make up for what they have been through.
I’m looking forward to that day when all six file their lawsuits against the City of Baltimore over this egregious act. A billion dollars each, that would get everyone’s attention.
Simply put – if your case(s) hinge on the testimony of one officer testifying against his colleagues and not forensic evidence, eyewitness testimony, etc., then you don’t have much of a case to begin with.
I don’t think Mosby has even formulated a personal opinion of how Freddie Gray sustained the injury(ies) that led to his death. She’s operating on the legal theory of “somebody must have done something” and “throw it at the wall and see what sticks”.
I would argue this is usually the case for prosecutors that (a) lack substantive legal experience and (b) lack understanding of the constitution and state and local laws and ordinances. A prosecutor has the ethical duty and obligation to proceed with charges against a defendant based on admissible evidence to support a conviction.
Just look at how her office has pursued these cases. First, she failed to conduct a thorough investigation (although she has argued otherwise). This means reviewing all the facts and evidence (including affidavits from eyewitness and forensic evidence), issuing subpoenas, etc. – something that usually takes weeks if not months. There’s no way she could have given that the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office had concluded its investigation before it received a report from the Baltimore Police Department.
Second, she chose to bring these absurd charges against the 6 officers against the advice of her own senior staff (this according to what been reported) – who have a vast amount of experience prosecuting criminal cases than she has.
Third, her own staff leaked information about the case (while asking for a gag order on the defense). Her own deputy, Janice Bledsoe (who at one time represented Freddie Gray in a criminal case years ago) leaked information regarding the other person in the van to her lover, Jayne Miller who happens to be a reporter.
And lastly, the Baltimore SAO been caught in several discovery violations. This includes not disclosing information to the defense (which came out during the Porter trial) about Gray’s alleged back problems (which was noted in a report by a detective who was questioning him during an arrest) and attempting to kick out the window of a police car weeks earlier.
Remember, this woman (Mosby) argued that Gray was illegally arrested because the spring-action knife on him was legal under Maryland law, although the arresting officer cited in his report that the knife was illegal under a city ordinance (with reference to it).
Like others have said, she’s in over her head.
hinges on imagined testimony
Chewbarkah says:
Which is why Mosby’s strategy is to convict Porter, then coerce him to testify “as instructed” against others while Porter awaits sentencing. Mosby is too stupid to realize that a defense attorney would walk Porter through these circumstances during cross-examination, and ask whether, with a life-ruining prison sentence hanging over his head, he had any motive to say whatever the prosecutor wanted him to say. If he answers no, he’s an obvious liar. If he answers yes, he’s impeached his own testimony. Oops. Mosby’s got no case and no brain.
Worse yet is that Mosby’s case hinges on the testimony of an officer, which the prosecution called a liar.
Hence, based on Mosby’s logic, the case rests on a liar’s testimony.
I wish Darwin’s law was in full force like 50-100 years ago.
Mosby is out in the weeds to confuse the issues. She has no case, never did, and this is all about her crooked husband running for mayor and her own incompetent attention seeking behavior. This is a non-crime. It never was a crime. It was an accidental death of a very dumb person in a dumb city prosecuted by an exceptionally dumb state attorney enabled by a dumb judge. It will completely fizzle out in 2017 when Obama’s DOJ is no longer stirring the pot. The name of the game in 2016 is run out the clock until the adults and sane people can start put things in order again.
“The name of the game in 2016 is run out the clock until the adults and sane people can start [to] put things in order again.”
True, but I don’t think any of us will be pleased to see this strategy play out:
Loretta Lynch: We’ll Position DOJ to Do Obama’s Work ‘Long After’ We’re Gone
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/11/lynch-well-position-doj-to-do-obamas-work-long-after-were-gone/
Dream on lady. After the fall of oppressive governments, persistent or rogue sleeper agents sometimes find the need for a dirt nap… And sometimes it’s personal, with so many angry survivor families that the list of suspects is literally thousands long.
Rebel Mope says:
Nimrodman, I just read that BB piece.Let me point something out about what Lynch is doing. Quoting The New Yorker Magazine Lynch says:
…“that people, out of understandable fear and concern, are falling into this trap, are falling into a rhetoric and a dynamic that our enemies want us to have.”
You see, she never really says who those enemies are. Your mind fills in the gap with Al Quaeda, ISIS, or whomever. But she retains the deny-ablity. She never said that. I submit “those enemies” have much more of an affinity towards guns and Bibles than to guns and Korans.
aconcernedcitizen1138 says:
I don’t see how their strategy will work out. After Lynch’s statement about Zero’s “work”, the article states, “She was responding specifically to questions about how she planned to prosecute gun sellers under Obama’s new executive actions.” If Trump is elected, he can throw that out on day one.
I think that is a reference to placing a strategically located piece of policy in the Regulations and not enforcing it. Think of it like the Seat Belt Law that was never going to be a stoppable offense. Several years down the road, that was all washed aside “For the children”. Here, we will have the same thing- she is putting in place people or policy that can be activated the next time we have a Democrat/ Socialist administration. Then we will hear: “I was there all the time, it just wasn’t enforced. Republicans are constantly saying ‘enforce the laws we already have’, so now we will.” It’s all disingenuous flim-flam from the merry Marxists in government. Remember: “A communist is just a socialist that really means it.” -TOB
Thanks to All for the good comments.
What I thought Lynch might be referring to is having had 8 years to stuff all the staff positions at DOJ, including attorneys, with lefty Jarrett / Obama idealogues.
Political appointees in SES (Senior Executive Service) change with the change in administration, but the lower-level employees have civil service and union protections that make it hard to replace them. I think you’d have to give them assignments and if they failed to carry them out, then you have to document poor performance or insubordination, THEN you have to give them a performance plan and time period for improvement, THEN there has to be a couple iterations of that, and only THEN might you be able to fire and replace them. All the while being fought by the union and their attorneys. Meanwhile, they’re throwing spanners in the gears the entire time.
sevenwheel says:
There’s ways around that. First thing I would do would be to take the entire civil rights division and any other suspect hires and reassign them to do deportation paperwork for the INS. Put them to work deporting the flood of illegal aliens. And give them quotas. Make them spend their days doing something the opposite of what they want to do. Either they resign, in which case they’re gone, they won’t do the job, in which case you go through the process of getting them fired, or they just do the work, in which case they’re neutralized.
Ahhh, thanks sevenwheel, exactly the kind of response I was hoping to elicit from someone who knows the processes and has a sharper mind than I.
The next nut to crack would be HUD and that affirmatively furthering fair housing monstrosity. As well as any targeting of section 8 tenants outside their own “current enclaves”.
Supermarket Fool says:
zero’s DOJ, Balto’s prosecutors and judges, I thought Kangaroos were from Australia not diluted African descent.
“Our country is being run by stupid, stupid people” . Donald Trump
amjean says:
Our country is being run by evil people.
rayzorback says:
I agree with the Donald…..
These people are not “dumb”….
They are STUPID!
To bad the Left Wing wasn’t this determined when it came to Lois Lerner
1american1st says:
or Hillary for letting 4 people die in Benghazi.
Fast & Furious.
djb914 says:
Hopefully Trump or Cruz wins and picks Rudy Guliani or Sherriff David Clarke for Attorney General, men who would not railroad cops, and there will be no federal charges.
No to Julie Annie….
YES to Sherriff Clarke
Cruz… Pshhh…
Sheriff David Clarke is a Democrat. NEVER gonna’ happen! Neither is Cruz.
Btw, I mentioned several months ago that I didn’t think that there were enough potentially eligible jurors in Baltimore City to handle these six cases (excluding hung juries). Well the other day, a relative of mine received a jury summons. The problem is that they should not have received it since they were supposed to be permanently exempt from jury duty (under Maryland law those over 70 can request and receive an exemption from jury duty). This has me wondering who else is being called for jury duty that under the law should not be – i.e. felons, illegals, non-residents, etc.
Awesome catch. That tactic is extremely believable, likely to be right, and PURE Obama / Jarrett. Please blog this somewhere for permanence, and spread the word. Prosecutable under a Trump DOJ, although defense will be “dindu nuffins – it was an accident”. This stuff has to be beaten back as rule of law reasserts itself.
peachteachr says:
It is my understanding that you have to request to be removed from the jury lists @ 70 or whatever your state’s age is to be delisted. My distant relative is the judge for my little rural county and at our last family reunion he told me I could request to be removed from jury duty (I’m disabled and 66). I told him what I truly believe, “If I expect to be judged by a jury of my peers, then I must be willing to be a peer.” That said, do you know how low the chances are that a lawyer would select me, a college educated, older, white woman? Zero to none.
peachteachr,
My relative did request an exemption. In fact, I contacted the office of the court clerk on their behalf who told me that she was noting this in the system as we spoke.
tz says:
Maybe we can bring in the BLM so the Baltimore six can be judged like the Hammonds. Isn’t failure to apply a seat belt terrorism?
Here’s a little Mosby history that might explain her animosity toward cops:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/12/marilyn-mosbys-father-was-a-crooked-cop-police-officer-grandfather-sued-for-racial-discrimination/
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/05/08/prosecutor-mosbys-police-family-background-is-impressive-and-complex/
Most important is that she is AAAA. Affirmative
Lack of respect for the rule of law runs deep in her family.
amwick says:
This really is admittedly paranoid thinking… The “cases” against the black LEOs are being sabotaged, so MOSBY can try for even the tiniest conviction against the white LEOs. It’s all BS, but I still believe that justice will prevail, even when it has been so blatantly kicked in the groin.
Thats what I was thinking too, probably always the end goal,convict the three white cops, whatever it takes.
These trials are going to take forever. I expect key Mosby assistants will start leaving when they have enough to write a book or find a better job.
ctdar says:
may explain reason for pushing the trials of the 3 black cops first, try to turn them (or give immunity) to assure the whites get the brunt of the charges.
dmi60ex says:
JC they are already leaving in droves . A recent article stated that 38 out of 124 have left or were fired , replacements are not forthcoming . Apparently when she fires them , she does it by going in their office and giving a throat cut motion . One was fired in the middle of a robbery trial that was lost by the substitute
If you think the cases against the three black officers is weak, the cases against the three white officers (who did nothing but arrest Gray)is even weaker.
Mentalist. The case against the first three got even weaker when Schatzow conceded Freddie was up rocking the van at stop two and that is why he was shackled. Obviously they never hurt him. The case against the first three will also fail on the illegal arrest . My prediction, the knife will never ever be presented. That will be one of those enduring mysteries that bloggers will argue over for years.
The other conspiracy theory that was floated is Freddie was an informant on another case, now confirmed. Perhaps the arrest was bogus and was a cover to bring him down to speak with investigators .Freddie puts on a show with the crowd and ends up hurting himself.There was an officer who talked on one of the news shows incognito last year who said Freddie was an informant.
He over acted, maybe he should get a postmortum academy award
Char Char Binks says:
They’re all informants. Any perp who gives any info to a cop is an informant. Donta Allen, who wouldn’t talk to the police (only homicide, LOL) was an informant, just a confused, lying, and not very reliable informant.
As the old saying goes, “stupid games win stupid prizes”. He decided to play a stupid game that day, and he won a stupid prize – a one way trip to you know where.
Yes Mentalist, I agree totally. But this is all absurd, so that the weakest cases may be given the most attention, bass ackward so to speak. When justice is on the wrong track, anything goes. As I said, I believe in the justice system, I believe that the jurors will do their jobs faithfully, I don’t trust Mosby.
There is no case at all against any of them. It is a criminal as prosecutor and a biased judge. Simple. A show trial with no legal foundation for the charges.
Yes, and yes again. Unfortunately the charges are real, the trials are real, the the repercussions are horrific. All because somebody helped an unqualified person get a law degree. Kind of a real world Butterfly effect.
Charges are easy to inflate, and if you cherry pick your jury, you could convict a turnip.
El Torito says:
The hate in Mosby’s eyes is exactly like any radical muslims’ hate filled eyes. The black grievance industry is Jihad, apparently against cops and whites.
This is not a trial it is a lynching. Social Justice is based on communist dogma not law. It fails when the rules of evidence and criminal procedure are applied by higher courts.. As usual in these lynchings the states own evidence will exonerate the defendant.
S’okay, because it’s a black lynch mob… /sarc
RoyBaty says:
So now only the 3 white bicycle riding police officers who apprehended drug dealer Freddie Gray and placed him in custody, can be tried and convicted? Was that the original plan when Mosby heard the call for “no justice, no peace”?
The whites cops are the goal. The black cops are only collateral damage.
the goal has already been achieved IMO, DOJ invited in and federalization of the LEO will be graciously accepted by Mayor “space to destroy” just before she leaves office.
Media successfully pushed the narrative that as many as 6.. SIX, officers assisted in ‘killing’ Freddie. Payoff for like-minded parties already approved (although I did see the payout was being held up due to it being tied to a 2 million payoff to a local firm to do the DOJ’s ‘investigation’ for them).
At this point it doesn’t really matter. Mosby is hoping to score some activist points if she can manage to convince a jury to hang at least one of these cops. Worst case scenario… all SIX get off and the BLM gets to push “no justice, no peace”. Amazing how nearly every single BLM case is so horribly flawed from the outset…
That would be my defense if I was Goodson. “I dunno wut dem honkeys dun to poor Freddie. I dun efen knowd why dey hassle Freddie from da jump. I wuz jes trying to get poor Freddie to da medics, but dem crackas kilt him.”
Mosby will do whatever she can to delay these trials until after the April elections. Her goal has been twofold , get a big settlement for her buddy Billy Murphy and her husband elected mayor. The officers are just cogs in a social justice prosecution. I am not even sure if convictions will even matter, it will be spun as Mosby the hero. I am amazed at the number of commenters on other sites who comment that Porter only got a stay because he was LEO. They did not understand this ruling was unprecedented for anyone.
Hubs as mayor. THAT is the money.
Right. And the current mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is presently the Secretary of the Democrat Party with little Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
I also think they believed these trials would be good for the “get out the vote” for Hillary in November. She knows that the black vote will not be as high as it was for Obama.
mnlakes says:
I just hope it all works out for these Officers. Like Doodahdaze mentioned, this was a Lynching and if the two officers in the most trouble were white they would be sacrificed in a heartbeat to appease the BLM crowd.
archer52 says:
I was talking to an ex officer who lives up in that neck of the woods. I asked him if this was Russia or something. He said, “In parts of Maryland, yes.”
don welch says:
the worst scenario for a white male is to be in the box in a court room with a female or black judge. it’s not even good situation for a black or latino male.
Exception, Casey Anthony? Here, a black judge followed the law.
beaujest says:
It is what you get when “Witch Doctors” are put in positions of authority !
True Colors says:
So Mosby was counting on one of the police officers to be her star witness to help her nail all the other police officers?
Evidently Mosby made it through law school without even learning about the 5th amendment. What a moron.
My bet is that she could not excuse all white jurors and they hung the verdict to the dismay of the blacks jurors.
Rumor was it was 11-1 to acquit, so at least 7 of the 8 black jurors voted not guilty.
Rumors are simply rumors.
If it was 11 to 1 to acquit, then Mosby has gone full retard.
What we need is an “investigative journalist” to find out what the Jury split was. It can’t be that hard to find that out. Mosby is STILL talking about trying Porter again.. back to square one, try him first, so surely the public need to know how she did with her first attempt?
youwantthattoo says:
Rumor, yes, but had it been 11-1 to convict, you can bet that would have come out.
@justin_fenton Can you confirm or deny this jury vote in the Officer William Porter (Freddie Gray) case? https://t.co/vFXIuB70tV
— doug (@d116a) December 19, 2015
MouseTheLuckyDog says:
$21.60 per day? Boy jurors in Baltimore have it made compared to jurors in Chicago.
Well maybe we get better catering to make up…
The right to a speedy trial and statute of limitations don’t apply in Baltimore?
By the way, do you know what these cops are actually on trial for? It is not about seat belts, or rough rides, or any of those other BS smoke screens.
The real truth is that the police officers are being persecuted because they had the audacity to treat a black person like a criminal. That is what this is really all about.
Even if someone like Freddie Gray is, in fact, a criminal, that doesnt matter. They should not be treated as such. So these police officers must be forced to pay. And Marilyn Mosby wanted to send a message to all of the other cops that they damn well better keep their hands off of black people as well.
larry wolfe says:
I still think the city is culpable for making LEOs use badly designed vans in which it’s dangerous to try to put seat belts on resisting arrestees.
And that makes all of this a CIVIL suit! Sue the city! Don’t turn an accident, even a preventable one, into a criminal murder trial- so you can get you baby daddy elected and keep the ghetto critters happy.
BTW- black thugs killing black thugs does not upset the police. We call that a “two-fer.”
If I were a police officer in Baltimore, applying right after a metal rod penetrated my skull and taking out half my brain!, I would be standing back, protecting myself and my friends and family and watching the whole city kill itself.
Before the riots the clearance rate was horrible. Like I mentioned before, I knew a veteran homicide cop from there. His description of their typical day was horrifying for any cop from a normal jurisdiction. I think their rate was something like 18% clearance. Normally it is the high 80’s or even 90’s in other places.
Nobody cared, nobody talked, nobody liked 5-0 even coming into the neighborhood.
It was like Mogadishu with Jeri Curls, Nike sneakers and gold grills in everybody’s teeth!
There is no viable solution for this problem, just an open, oozing wound, duplicated across the nation usually located in historically democratically controlled cities.
You can not litigate social justice in a criminal court….yet. You can try but any good criminal defense lawyer will beat you like a rug, on appeals.
The Mindset of Judge Williams, and the Hypocrisy of Doug Colbert
Judge Barry Williams has revealed once and for all his mindset: that he will allow prosecutors to do anything they want in their zeal to criminally convict the police officers they have accused of killing Freddie Gray.
At this point, having listened to all of the evidence, Judge Williams knows full well that they are not criminally culpable. Any fair-minded person who understands the law and knows the facts understands this. Yet Judge Williams refuses to step in to protect their legal rights. Instead he is handing prosecutors every possible tool to convict them.
http://pagecroyder.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2016-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2017-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=1
If they want to stop crime in cities, they should make this mandatory viewing by everyone from first grade on.
Hilarious. When it first came out, it went viral in the police world. True story, we’d catch someone with weed and announce out loud “He got weed! He got weed!” You would be surprised how many bad guys with dope would break out laughing- even though it was THEIR weed- because they saw it too!
I didn’t think I was going to find that funny, but I did! It’s great. I like the summary at the end. 🙂
Bob Oh Mighty (@xandue386) says:
It’s time for this farce to end.
joecollins says:
I remain grateful for honest judges, elected in free, fair elections . . . or appointed by those we elect in free, fair elections. The judiciary is a consequence of elections. This is a safeguard preserved for us by wise people centuries ago.
Steve Richter says:
putting aside that the officers did nothing wrong, I do not see the need to protect individuals from testifying in court. That is, what is the point of the 5th amendment protection when you testify in public, before a judge, with a lawyer on your side?
skelly says:
Me thinks their is more to this than what appears clear. So basically the cases against the non white officers are damaged, but she doesnt mention the 3 whites cases? The problem is the.narrative is white.officers killing blacks. These “rulings” basically make it impossible to try the non white officers. Maybe that was from the the goal from the begining.
conservativeinny says:
Thank you. There is no word on what happens to Miller, Nero and Rice. Theirs go on as scheduled?
She only mentions the 3 non white officers cases being damaged. Remember that non whites killing a black criminal doesn’t fit the narrative. Now they can go hard after the 3 white officers and say see the non whites were innocent. The white officers are the killers. just too convenient
freepetta says:
NOT ONLY ARE THESE IMBECILES (MOSBY, WILLIAMS AND THAT SCREWY MAYOR) A LYNCH MOB, BUT THEY ARE TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED TO PROSECUTE ANYTHING, MUCH LESS TRUMPED UP AND FALSIFIED CHARGES AGAINST COPS DOING THEIR JOB.
BUT I CONGRATULATE BALTIMORE FOR HAVING THE HIGHEST HOMICIDE RATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK U MORONIC IDIOTS.
BREAKING: Arguments on whether Porter has to testify in #GoodsonTrial scheduled for March 4 in Court of Special Appeals #Baltimore @npr
— P. Kenneth Burns (@PKBNews) January 12, 2016
St. Patrick’s Day 2016: space to destroy?
#MickLivesMatter
Yes Mosby figured out how to stretch this past the Mayor election in April , maybe their is a method to the madness ! I posted back when Porter was tried , I ‘m surprised she did get it delayed . Yes she hates That “pesky” speedy trial thing that was put in the Constitution
MC227 says:
Marilyn Mosby like every black I have ever seen in a high level job is incompetent. Look where she comes from. She claimed to come from a family of police officers in Boston. Since she opened that can of worms it came out that her mother was bounced off the force for several unlawful transgressions including cocaine use, not showing up for work often, stealing etc. Her uncle was caught robbing drug dealers, her father got kicked off the force as well. Obviously if she had not said she was from a family of cops nobody would have looked into it. She is not very intelligent and has no business in that position. If you are white in Baltimore and you are tried in front of a black judge you lose. Facts they do not care about stinkin facts!
Mosby has stated that she comes from “5 generations of police officers.”
Based on everything that I have seen, Mosby actually comes from 2 generations of cops — not 5.
Her mom, dad and uncles are one generation. Then her grandfather would make a second generation.
I have yet to see anyone else explain where the other 3 generations supposedly come from.
“Marilyn Mosby like every black I have ever seen in a high level job is incompetent.”
When I graduated from college, I was hired by a black guy holding a high level federal job in the DC area. I literally couldn’t understand the ebonics dialect that he was speaking. Finally I asked, very slowly and distinctly “How much money do you make?” He named a figure that sounded astronomical to me at the time, so I accepted the job thinking that the sky would be the limit for somebody who actually spoke English.
Jo McIntyre says:
Changing login details.
Hard to keep track of a 6 (or 7) ring Circus.. guess that’s why Barnum and Bailey never tried more than 3 rings?
Trial Dates set
Officer William Porter – Nov 30 —-> Retrial June 13
Officer Caesar Goodson – Jan 6 Jan 11 —–> TBA (Appeal Decision March 4)
Sgt. Alicia White – Jan 25 February 7th
Officer Garrett Miller – Feb 9 March 7th
Officer Edward Nero – Feb 22
Lt. Brian Rice – March 9
March 4th is appeal HEARING… not a decision date 🙂
If there was any chance of a conviction, it seems to me that they would just go ahead and try Porter again immediately.
letjusticeprevail2014 says:
Patience. It takes TIME to manufacture evidence and extort false testimony from “Co-Defendants”
Mosby’s motion yesterday (declared Moot by Judge Williams) sought to do that. I assume she has stuffed up that option with the Goodson FAIL: and the appeal Court involvement.
I would love to see the jury vote
Ruckweiler says:
The morons in the legal system in Baltimore, all of them, obviously were the anchor students of their law classes.
I suggest a Plea deal.
Drop current charges and all plead guilty to “Littering”
Heck, just cite the driver for failure to use a seat belt and fine him $50 like anybody else would be.
That’s been the main problem with Mosby’s case all along, she’s trying to turn what would be a ticketable offense at best into a manslaughter/murder case simply because it involved police officers.
Granted, even then she’d be overcharging because there is and was no legal requirement that passengers over the age of 16 be seat belted in rear seats.
moray watson says:
The United States has a legal justice system not a social justice system. Didn’t Mosby learn that when she was in law school?
Test… I am being ignored by WP
Az native says:
The case that should actually be happening.
The mayor must be charged for inciting criminal behavior. The police dept and Baltimore businesses need to sue her personally for her order to space to destroy. And yes she did say it. She is liable for the arson, looting, theft and injuries to the cops.
She is not above the law. She incited danger to this city and the police officers. A city burned because this lady was trying to make a name for herself.
She not only incited a crime she was a co-conspirators in the acts by telling cops to stand down risking their lives but also not putting a curfew into effect immediately.
She basically lit the candle that burned the town down. The price tag will be huge and she should foot the entire bill not the American taxpayer ever again.
http://www.constitution.org/mil/law_attn.htm
Under federal law, 18 USC 242, it is illegal for anyone under the color of law to deprive any person of the rights, privileges or immunities secured by the U.S. Constitution, and under 18 USC 241 it is illegal to conspire to violate such rights. It is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. This could be applied to local, state, or federal law enforcement or military personnel who abuse the rights of citizens. Every state has a similar law.
The key point is this: You not only have the right to disobey an illegal order, but you may also have the duty to apprehend the parties issuing such an order if such issuance is part of the commission of a crime.
http://universalfreepress.com/baltimore-mayor-balances-protesters-right-to-destroy-property-and-freedom-to-hurl-bricks/
SO what happens to Rice, Nero, and Miller? There is no mention of their trials. Do they go on as scheduled? or are they set to fall apart? I’m a newby on the law.
Rice and Nero not mentioned, but there was a delay announced for Miller trial (along with White trial), so white case too seen as dependent on Porter evidence it seems. (See my list of trial dates above)
The way I read it all:
Officer Edward Nero – Trial starts Feb 22
Lt. Brian Rice – Trial starts March 9
Mosby NOW wants to try Porter again before all remaining 3 other defendants, but Porter date scheduled at the moment is:
Officer William Porter – Retrial stars June 13
I can only assume that she will try and bring that Porter date forward.. to some time in March?
Best I can do… else it’s all custard and Nobody will get tried at all. ???
To add.. again “as things stand” for all 6 defendants, chronologically:..
Sgt. Alicia White – Trial starts February 7th
Officer Edward Nero – Trial starts Feb 22nd
Officer Caesar Goodson – Trial date TBA ( after appeal hearing March 4th)
Officer Garrett Miller – Trial March 7th
Lt. Brian Rice – Trial starts March 9th
Officer William Porter – Retrial stars June 13th
Brian Kuebler (Verified account)
Once ruling is made in Court of Spec. Appeals, takes 30 more days for the ‘mandate,’ which is official evidence of the ruling. #GoodsonTrial
Once Mandate from Court of Spec. Appeals is published, only then can losing party appeal 2 highest state court within 15 days. #GoodsonTrial
It sure dont look like they are going to get this done in a hurry?
Mosby should Welease Porter, Goodson, White, Miller, Nero, Rice!
So without Porter, the Goodson and White cases go away. If this is also the case for the other three, Baltimore burns (again). If the first three cases go away, the impetus to toss the last three into the prison system increases. And where is the jury pool from? There appears to be a bit of an issue here. Are they letting the black defendants go free and getting an incited jury pool to convict the white defendants? Or is it about federal dollars to rebuild Baltimore after a couple more “injustice” inspired fire riots?
An angry lynch Mob.. need to be appeased…
Welease Woger & Welease Bwian
Rodney Plonker says:
Ha !
Jury in Officer Porter trial was one vote from acquittal on most serious charge
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-porter-jury-split-20160115-story.html
disgustedwithjulison says:
Outside of the obvious political motives….why in God’s name would you try to retry your “best shot” case when it is pretty clear that there was one person who refused to look at the facts and hung the jury? What do they think is going to happen at the retrial??? Stupid is as stupid does.
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We are proud to be supporting new projects this year, which strengthen the UK Jewish community and help our young people to be inspired by Israel and Judaism.
Centre for Israel Engagement – UK
This new initiative will address the growing challenges of engaging young Jews with Israel. It will work with young people, leaders, practitioners and organisations to confront these challenges and plan for the future.
Reshet – UK
Together with the JLC, UJIA is supporting this newly launched network for informal Jewish youth provision. This initiative is working across the community to strengthen professional and lay leadership in this field.
Shlichut – UK
We are strengthening our partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel, via extra funding to support 24 full-time Israelis in the UK working in the field of Israel education. This includes Shinshinim – Israeli 18 year-olds doing a Gap Year in the UK and having a major positive impact on our community.
“We are addressing the growing challenges of engaging young Jews with Israel."
Decline in size of UK Jewish population since its post-war peak
Proportion of students at the UJIA-supported Western Galilee college who are women
YOUNG PEOPLE REACHED BY UJIA IN THE GALIL DIRECTLY EVERY YEAR.
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Almost 200 troops sent to Salisbury to help police after poisoning of Russian spy
David Harding
Yahoo News UK 9 March 2018
Some 180 troops are being sent to Salisbury to help police investigating the nerve agent poisoning of former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Counter-terrorism police asked for military assistance to remove vehicles and objects from the scene in the city centre, much of which has been cordoned off over contamination fears.
The troops include Royal Marines, RAF and chemical specialists, are understood to have been deployed.
The Metropolitan Police said the units were called in because they had ‘the necessary capability and expertise’.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia (Rex)
A spokesman said: ‘The public should not be alarmed and the public health advice remains the same.
‘Military assistance will continue as necessary during this investigation.’
Home Secretary Amber Rudd visited the city centre Friday and the hospital where Mr Skripal, 66, and Yulia, 33, remain after they were targeted in an ‘outrageous’ chemical attack.
Ms Rudd said the pair are in a ‘very serious’ condition five days after they were discovered slumped on a bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd visited Salisbury on Friday (Rex)
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Counter-terrorism police launched an attempted murder inquiry after Mr Skripal and his daughter were exposed to a nerve agent.
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who was part of the initial response by authorities, is also in hospital, and has been named by authorities.
Speaking after meeting Wiltshire Police Temporary Chief Constable Kier Pritchard in Salisbury, Ms Rudd said: ‘Still very serious for the two people who were indeed the subject of this outrageous attack and for the police officer, I understand it’s still serious, although he’s still conversing and engaging.’
The army have been called in to help police (PA)
The nerve agent used in the attack was identified in scientific tests by Government experts earlier this week but it has yet to be named publicly.
Ms Rudd declined to reveal any further details about the substance, how it was deployed, or who is suspected of carrying out the poisoning.
She said: ‘I understand people’s curiosity about all those questions, wanting to have answers, and there will be a time to have those answers.
‘But the best way to get to them is to give the police the space they need to really go through the area carefully, to do their investigation and to make sure that they have all the support that they need.’
Police have revealed that 21 people have been treated for exposure to the nerve agent (Rex)
The circumstances of the attack, and its echoes of the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, have prompted questions over the Government’s response if the evidence points to a state-sponsored assassination plot.
The minister added: ‘At the moment our priority is going to be the incident, which is why I’m here in Salisbury today, making sure that everybody’s protected around the incident, making sure the emergency services have had the support that they need and will continue to get it.’
Police said 21 people had been seen for medical treatment since the incident.
How the incident unfolded (Rex)
Russia has denied responsibility for the attack, which comes seven years after Mr Skripal was released from the country as part of a spy swap with the US.
He was convicted in his home country in 2006 for passing state secrets to MI6.
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Adevinta's Leboncoin unit to buy Argus to boost French car market
OSLO (Reuters) - Adevinta’s ADEA.OL French unit Leboncoin has agreed to buy Argus Group for an undisclosed amount, boosting its position as an online market place for second-hand cars in France, the Norwegian company said on Monday.
The deal gives Leboncoin access to Argus’ auto pricing and valuation tools, complementing its own website for buying and selling cars, online markets operator Adevinta added.
“We have said we will engage in M&A activity to strengthen our positions in markets where we are already leading, and we are following through on that commitment,” Adevinta Chief Executive Rolv Erik Ryssdal said in a statement.
“We have also seen strong growth in our key sectors in cars, jobs and property, and acquiring the Argus Group enhances our strong position in the French car market segment,” he added.
In 2018, Argus, which has 270 employees, had a revenue of 39.1 million euros ($43.11 million) and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of 5.4 million euros.
Fast-growing Adevinta, which owns online market sites in 16 countries in three continents, was spun-off from Norwegian media company Schibsted (SBSTA.OL) in April to become Norway’s most valuable initial public offering in 13 years.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of October, Adevinta said.
Reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Gwladys Fouche and Sherry Jacob-Phillips
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New Jersey's Tru Trilla to release new EP & album in 2020 through hip hop label New Dawn Records
By urbanelitepr | January 10, 2020
Relaunched last year after a 15 year hiatus, hip hop label New Dawn Records have confirmed today that they will be releasing a new EP and album by New Jersey’s lyrical marksman Tru Trilla over the next few months.
In an official statement published this morning, the label commented
“We relish the prospect of working with an artist of Tru’s caliber and style which represents perfectly our direction of travel as we enter an exciting new phase since re-launching last year.”
We at UrbanElite PR have of course worked with Tru Trilla previously in 2015, then as a member of the 050 Boyz group as they released the classic album “Everything 050”
The worldwide media coverage and radio airplay reflected the appreciation and quality of the rhymes skills, lyricism and dope production, and ultimately led to both DJ Eclipse & DJ Premier inviting them as guests on their Sirius XM shows.
Tru’s new releases feature his 050 Boyz sparring partners Prince Ak and RIQ, and also include many of his long term Brick City affiliates on vocal and production duties, beginning with the new EP “The Seymour Chronicles” which releases on March 17th, the precursor to “God of Barz” which drops May 29th
Produced entirely by another New Jersey native Joey Loax, the EP represents the classic east coast sound while Tru, Prince Ak, RIQ and Fly Kwa all deliver their trademark fierce rhymes, hooks, hard bars and lyricism. An already heavyweight under card before the main event later in the year, the label have just launched a video trailer for the EP on Youtube
Taken from the EP, the singles “Warzone” and “20 to Life” will be released during February
Connect with Tru Trilla on social media via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Keep up to date with all of New Dawn Records’ news via their Official Website or on social media via Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.
All media and DJ (club & radio) inquiries regarding the upcoming releases can be sent to us at UrbanElite PR. All our contact information is available HERE
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New Hip Hop EP Release from New Dawn Records – Krash Slaughta vs B.I.M. " '18 Showdown "
By urbanelitepr | December 6, 2019
New EP out today through the recently re-launched label New Dawn Records.
’18 Showdown’ includes all the remixes produced by the legendary turntablist Krash Slaughta (DMC Finals / II Tone Committee) for the Belles in Monica crew which were originally released on 12″ vinyl with the addition of new cut “Venom”. All are now available to stream and download for the first time.
The DJ’s renowned production style fusing imaginative soundscapes, driving beats and immense scratch skills combine with storytelling rhymes and hard bars. From the fuel injected funk and cutting frenzy of “Meltdown”, to the sinister tension of “What D’Ya Need” and the sonic chaos of “Resistance is Futile”, the EP is a rare collection of artistically expressive and powerful hip hop immersed in a golden era just as a new decade comes in to view.
Krash Slaughta continues to release new material and perform live regularly. New Dawn Records will announce a new release schedule for 2020 by artists from the USA and UK shortly.
Available to stream and download from APPLE, AMAZON, NAPSTER, BEATPORT, DEEZER, and of course Soundcloud & Spotify
Keep up to date with Krash Slaughta on Facebook and New Dawn Records via their official website and on their official social media platforms Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
All press and DJ inquiries regarding New Dawn Records’ releases can be sent to us at UrbanElite PR. Our contact details are HERE
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New Single Released by Hip Hop Label New Dawn Records – Belles in Monica “What D’Ya Need (Mr Krash Slaughta H.A.R.D. Rmx”)
By urbanelitepr | November 19, 2019
Out today on the re-launched hip hop label New Dawn Records and taken from the Krash Slaughta vs B.I.M. ” ’18 Showdown ” EP which releases on December 6th and contains all the remixes produced by the legendary turntablist DJ Krash Slaughta (DMC / II Tone Committee) for the Belles in Monica crew.
Originally and still available on 12″ vinyl from the label direct, “What D’Ya Need (H.A.R.D. Rmx) has been digitally re-mastered and made available to stream and download for the first time
Take your pick from Amazon, Beatport, Apple, Napster, Deezer, Spotify, & more, including Soundcloud
“18 Showdown” is the final of an initial series of EP’s marking the label’s return after a 15 year hiatus, with new signings from the USA & UK due to be announced shortly as the label prepares EP and album schedules for 2020.
We are currently servicing DJ’s worldwide with the single. If we have not as yet been in touch but you would like a full quality mp3 for your show, get in touch with us via our Contact Page with your details.
Keep up to date with all of New Dawn Records’ news via their official website www.newdawnrecs.com or on social media Instagram, Facebook & Twitter
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New Upcoming Hip Hop Release from New Dawn Records – Krash Slaughta vs B.I.M. ” ’18 Showdown EP “
By urbanelitepr | October 9, 2019
After a 15 year sabbatical, hip hop label New Dawn Records returned to the fold this year, and are wrapping up 2019 with the release of the fourth & final EP in their initial relaunch series while also preparing to announce a release schedule for 2020 by new signings from the USA and UK.
Earlier this year, the initial relaunch series included Underground Cartel’s “Sapientia EP”, an international collaboration featuring artists from the USA, UK, Europe and Africa, and hip hop crew Belles in Monica’s “Y’All in Meltdown” and “Natsukashii” EP’s.
Out on December 6th 2019, Krash Slaughta vs B.I.M. ” ’18 Showdown ” is a collection of remixes produced by the legendary turntablist, DMC finalist and II Tone Committee member for Belles in Monica. Included are joints only ever previously available on vinyl together with some newly unearthed gems, all of which will be available to stream and download for the first time.
During the summer, the label re-released a limited number of their classic 12″ vinyl releases available direct from their STORE and from the new EP, the single “What D’Ya Need” drops digitally on November 19th.
Visual and audio teasers of the new EP have just been published on NDR’s Youtube channel and Soundcloud page, both of which contains more accompanying information about the EP
All media, press and DJ enquiries about this release and New Dawn Records generally can be sent to us at UrbanElite PR. All our contact information is available HERE
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HipHop Label New Dawn Records Now Shipping 12″ Vinyl Worldwide
By urbanelitepr | August 7, 2019
Barely 5 months since relaunching after a 15 year hiatus, hip hop label New Dawn Records have been busy expanding their operation.
In the Spring they released a number of digital singles and EP’s by Belles in Monica and Underground Cartel having signed a distribution agreement with US company Ingrooves for that format.
However with a history of releasing vinyl and also with an eye to the future in relation to upcoming signing news, NDR have developed the facility to take orders from the public and retail directly from any location worldwide and are now shipping to several destinations.
They have begun with the limited remaining stock from their back catalogue, the original rare & classic Belles in Monica 12″ singles “Y’All Under Surveillance”, “Meltdown”, “What D’Ya Need” & “Smoke Filled Rooms b/w Skitzophonetic” all in mint condition, 200 gram. The short video on Youtube has just been made to demonstrate the prime condition of their stock and includes track listings and audio snippets of each single .
The singles include remixes by Phi Life Cypher producer DJ Nappa, legendary turntablist & II Tone Committee producer Krash Slaughta, renowned London duo Unsung Heroes, DMC finalst DJ Mr Thing and more.
Many of the tracks were included in the group’s specially formatted digital releases “Y’All in Meltdown” and “Natsukashii” and can be heard on Soundcloud & Spotify.
The label have launched a store on their official website. Easy to use, various standard offers and discounts are quoted although they can be contacted regarding availability for any quantity. Currency exchange rate information is also provided and payments are secured via Paypal.
VISIT THE STORE HERE
Expect some announcements from New Dawn Records regarding new releases shortly and meantime you can also connect with them on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook
All media enquiries regarding New Dawn Records can be addressed to us at UrbanElite PR, our contact details are HERE
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Hip Hop Label New Dawn Records Launch New Vinyl & CD Store
By urbanelitepr | July 5, 2019
Having just relaunched earlier this year with a series of digital only releases, hiphop label New Dawn Records have gone back to their roots of operating in the “physical era” by opening their new vinyl & CD store.
Describing vinyl particularly as “being in their DNA” the label have set up a physical store facility via their official website meaning that all orders placed are handled and processed by them directly to any destination worldwide.
This is just the latest development as the label re-structures after a 15 year hiatus while they plan ahead for the future.
Initially they have made some of their original back catalogue available, some extremely rare 200 gram vinyl and CD releases by hiphop crew Belles in Monica which includes single remixes by turntablist Krash Slaughta, Phi Life Cypher producer DJ Nappa, Unsung Heroes, G-Sharp, The Runaways, Gripper and DJ Mr Thing.
Several of the tracks were included in this year’s digital releases which you can hear on multiple streaming platforms including SOUNDCLOUD & SPOTIFY
Visit New Dawn Records’ OFFICIAL STORE & check out the special discounts offered for combination orders
You can also connect with New Dawn Records on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook
All media enquiries regarding New Dawn Records & their roster can be sent to us at UrbanElite PR, our contact details are available HERE
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Nook Kids ePIB
Kindle, Fixed Layout
ePub, Fixed Layout
On Sale: 09/13/2016
40 Pages, Ages 4-7
A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book that The New York Times calls “both classic and ultracontemporary,” Leave Me Alone! is an epic tale about one grandmother, a giant sack of yarn, and her ultimate quest to finish her knitting.
One day, a grandmother shouts, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and leaves her tiny home and her very big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting. Along the way, she encounters ravenous bears, obnoxious goats, and even hordes of aliens! But nothing stops grandma from accomplishing her goal—knitting sweaters for her many grandchildren to keep them warm and toasty for the coming winter.
Vera Brosgol's slyly clever and unexpectedly funny modern folktale is certain to warm even the coldest of hearts.
A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book
A New York Times Notable Children's Book
A National Public Radio Best Book of 2016
A Horn Book Best Book of 2016
A Huffington Post Best Picture Book of 2016
NPR Best Book of the Year, Caldecott Honor Book, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
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Praise for Leave Me Alone!
“This book reads aloud beautifully to large groups, and should have them rolling in the aisles. Funny is hard; Brosgol makes it look easy.” —NPR, Best Books of 2016
“Brosgol's clever text manages to feel both classic and ultracontemporary, as do her illustrations . . . Colorful and fun, Leave Me Alone! will be a good addition to any bookshelf, especially for children who like to shout along.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Displaying a firm command of the picture book format and a strong sense of comic timing, Leave Me Alone! [is] so well-executed, it feels almost unfair that this is Brosgol’s first foray into picture books.” —The Huffington Post, “Best Picture Books of 2016”
“Anyone who has yearned for peace and quiet—and those who enjoy pestering such a person—will appreciate the plight of the crotchety heroine of Leave Me Alone, a picture book by Vera Brosgol that hilariously mingles elements both folkloric and intergalactic . . . The clean lines and bright colors of Ms. Brosgol's pictures convey good cheer throughout, despite the yelling, in this snugly knitted amusement for 4- to 8-year-olds.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Brosgol is a master . . . This offbeat tale will please readers who appreciate subtle humor, especially those who crave some time alone.” —School Library Journal, starred review
“Brosgol’s cartooning delivers laughs throughout . . . The fizzy collision of old-fashioned fairy tale elements with space-age physics is delightful, a… More…
“Brosgol’s cartooning delivers laughs throughout . . . The fizzy collision of old-fashioned fairy tale elements with space-age physics is delightful, and even the most extroverted readers will recognize that sometimes you just need a little space.” —Publisher's Weekly, starred review
“Brosgol’s folkloric tale is full of humor and repetition, making it a good choice to read aloud . . . Understatedly funny, just like the Eastern European folk tales on whose shoulders it stands.” —Kirkus Reviews
“An impressive picture book debut . . . Repetition and patterned storytelling ground the out-of-this-world elements for a thoroughly entertaining adventure.” —Horn Book
“Brosgol infuses her fairy tale–like story with a hefty dose of humor, thanks to her fantastic page turns and comedic timing . . . As cozy as a new sweater.” —Booklist
“With clever trips to the moon and through worm holes, Vera Brosgol brings a fresh new perspective to the world of children's books.” —Dan Santat, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
“A cranky, funny, skillful, gentle, beautiful beautiful book.” —Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back
Vera Brosgol was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1984 and moved to the United States when she was five. Her first graphic novel, Anya's Ghost, was published in 2011 by First Second. Her picture book Leave Me Alone! was a 2017 Caldecott Honor book. She drew storyboards for the animated films Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and at last count has knit twenty-two sweaters.
copyright 2017 © by George Baier IV
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WASHINGTON - As the Congressional Budget Conference Committee nears its deadline to craft a fiscal plan for the coming years, a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) provides our elected leaders with a solid place to start: over half a trillion dollars’ worth of deficit reduction recommendations with appeal from across the political spectrum in, “Toward Common Ground: Bridging the Political Divide with Deficit Reduction Recommendations for Congress.”
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The risks of using CentOS are split
Recently (for my value of recently) I wound up reading Matt Simmons' entry, CentOS 6 - Great, but for how long?, in which he worries about the delay in CentOS releases compared to RHEL, especially the CentOS 6 release, and what happens if CentOS updates stop being timely. My reaction is that there are two very different risks being conflated here, because major releases like CentOS 6 are not at all like updates to existing releases.
CentOS is strongly based on RHEL, to the point where it tries for binary compatibility, and Red Hat publishes source RPMs for RHEL and RHEL updates (see here). This makes updates for existing CentOS releases a relatively low risk thing; if CentOS flakes out, in theory you can simply take the RHEL source RPMs for the updates, rebuild them, and install them (you may need to update some explicitly declared dependencies if there are slightly different package release numbers). As far as I know, RHEL point releases are simply a rolled up set of current package updates, so building your own CentOS point release and updating machines to it is equally easy.
(We certainly have 'RHEL 5.x' machines that were installed as RHEL 5.0 machines and have been updated ever since then. It is possible that they are slightly different than what we'd get if we reinstalled them from a RHEL 5.x ISO image, but if this is the case I actually consider it a bug in the RHEL 5.x ISO image and I would be just as happy to avoid it.)
The CentOS people themselves have to do somewhat more work than this, but that's because they need to publicly distribute the result of their work and so they need to strip out Red Hat's trademarks and other branding and add their own. If you just use your rebuild RHEL RPMs internally, you're unlikely to care about this issue and so you don't need to do this time consuming work.
(You will have to keep track of Red Hat security updates yourself and so on, though.)
Major version updates (such as creating CentOS 6) are the slow, risky thing. Because they are major version updates you can't just rebuild the RPMs in an existing environment to get the same results if CentOS is too slow, and bootstrapping an entire Linux distribution is somewhat tricky (especially if you're trying to be binary identical to another one). However, these major version 'updates' are exactly the point where it's easiest to migrate to a different base distribution, because as far as I know Red Hat still doesn't support major version to major version updates (and thus neither does CentOS); the official way to move from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 (or CentOS 5 to CentOS 6) is to reinstall your machines, and if you're reinstalling anyways you can (re)install anything that you want to.
(By the way, this bootstrapping difficulty is likely to be one major reason that CentOS is slow with major version updates.)
PS: from my perspective, the important delay to track for a RHEL derived distribution is the delay between Red Hat's release of a security update and when the derived distribution releases its own updated binary RPM. This is the delay that you really care about if you're running the derived distribution. I am not sufficiently energetic and interested to try to generate these numbers for, eg, CentOS or Scientific Linux.
(I care mostly about security updates because while plain bugs matter, they are generally far less a problem if your distribution is slow. And the delay in releasing the RPMs that brand your machine as being a new point release (eg, 5.x for some new x) are the least important updates of all.)
(To answer a potential question: per WhatLinuxDistributions, we use RHEL here because we have a campus-wide site license for it. As a result I have not looked in detail at any RHEL derived distribution.)
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Musicals in Vancouver
A guide to all things musical-theatre in Vancouver
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Some shows are better, bigger (Guest Post)
Today’s post is written by guest blogger, Rebecca Coleman. To view Musicals in Vancouver’s response, check out our guest post at the Art of the Business blog
I love independent theatre. It’s where I live, it’s where my heart is, and it’s where I make my living.
But I also love theatre in general, and, while I tend to hang out in the indie scene, I’ll go see pretty much anything going.
A few months back, I went to see Les Misérables at The Arts Club, and a couple of weeks ago, Rent at Presentation House.
First, you have to understand that these two musicals hold significant sentimental value for me. Les Miz was my favorite musical for a long, long time, and it was only replaced in my heart when Rent came along. I knew all the words in Les Miz, and used to daydream about being Éponine, even learning “On My Own” for auditions. I saw a touring version of it, about 10 years ago at the Q.E., and was blown away by the spectacle.
Then, in 1996, while watching the Tonys, I saw the original Broadway cast of Rent singing “Seasons of Love” and “La Vie Bohème,” and I was instantly smitten. I’ve now seen Rent four times, including once at the Nederlander Theatre in New York, where it ran for 12 years.
The Nederlander Theatre in NYC.
So, I’m pretty familiar with both of those shows. So, seeing them done in a smaller theatre, on a smaller scale, was a very interesting experience.
And I felt like they were missing something. Don’t get me wrong—both productions were excellent—big hearted, beautifully sung, and with strong production values. But because of money and size of venue, some of the big special effects were cut.
It makes a huge visual impact to see the barricade in Les Mis slowly rotating into view, strewn with dead bodies. The Arts Club production did have a barricade, and it did move, but with more of a pulling-out-a-drawer motion. The impression it made was not as strong. Similarly, Javert’s suicide was not as impactful (sorry about that choice of words).
I had a similar experience seeing Rent. I missed Mimi howling “Out Tonight” as she straddles both staircase railings and slides down, and Joanne’s first arrival on a motorcycle.
Maybe it’s just my sentimentality speaking, but maybe some things are better, bigger.
Now, anyone know of a production of Miss Saigon happening? I got a hankering to see a helicopter land on stage…
Rebecca Coleman is a freelance theatre publicist here in Vancouver. Her roster includes Touchstone Theatre, Ruby Slippers, Radix, Leaky Heaven Circus, Presentation House, Capilano University’s Theatre Department, and Itsazoo. In addition, she does social media training, and has published an e-book on the topic titled Getting Started with Social Networking for Artists and Arts Organizations. Her blog is The Art of the Business.
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Posted in Guest Post, Les Misérables, Musical Theatre, Opinion, Rent, Vancouver
Tagged Arts Club, Javert, Joanne, Les Misérables, Mimi, Nederlander Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Rebecca Coleman, Rent, Social Media, The Art of the Business, Theatre Publicist, Tony Awards
Saying goodbye to summer
Over the last month, there’s been so much theatre to see and so little time. And now it all seems to be ending. The cheeky SHINE: A Burlesque Musical finished its two-week run at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island last weekend and we also bade adieu to the toe-tapping Thoroughly Modern Millie and Annie at Theatre Under the Stars.
At the Arts Club, the Altar Boyz are spritzing their hair with product for the last time and at Pacific Theatre, the good folks from Not Another Musical Co-op are singing the last notes of Songs For A New World this weekend. Across the water, at the Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver, comes the final curtain call for the newest object of my affection, Fighting Chance’s Rent.
Fighting Chance Production's cast of Rent; Clockwise from top left, Craig Decarlo, Christine Quintana, Jacqueline Breakwell, Anton Lipovetsky, Nick Fontaine and Cesar Erba.
I have a rather shameful admission to make . . . I’ve never been a giant Rent fan. Nor a Rent fan of any other size, for that matter. It stems from a certain stubbornness that I possess when it comes to being told what to do or what to like. In fact, I have an aversion to jumping on to bandwagons of all kinds. It’s that contrary quality that made me disregard the film version and pooh-pooh the various Rent soundtracks.
But now, I’ve drunk the Kool-aid and have been totally taken in by Rent. I’ve seen it three times and would have seen it again, if it hadn’t kept selling out.
Which brings us back to the end of the summer season and the sudden onset of my musical-theatre withdrawal blues. My current state of despair is somewhat tempered by the knowledge that the fall musical season will soon be upon us. Though, truth be told, I’m not overly enthused by this. I’ve seen all of these latest summer shows twice and sometimes more and they’ve become familiar, like friends. And it’s so hard to say goodbye.
Posted in Altar Boyz, Annie, Arts Club, Fighting Chance, Musical Theatre, Not Another Musical Co-op, Rent, SHINE: A Burlesque Musical, Songs for a New World, Theatre Under the Stars, Thoroughly Modern Mille, Vancouver
Tagged Altar Boyz, Annie, Arts Club, Fighting Chance Productions, Granville Island, Not Another Musical Co-op, Pacific Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, Rent, SHINE: A Burlesque Musical, Songs for a New World, Theatre Under the Stars, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Waterfront Theatre
Rent; Fighting Chance (Review)
Posted on August 9, 2009 | 5 comments
The Rent phenomenon may be thirteen years old, but it shows no signs of slowing down. Fighting Chance Productions’ version proudly continued the tradition with Thursday night’s Canadian regional theatre premiere of Rent. Bohemia is alive and well and has taken up residence in a North Vancouver theatre.
Some theatres seem custom-built for certain shows but many others have limitations which theatre companies must work around. I’d heard some initial concerns about the choice of Presentation House Theatre as the venue for Rent. And to be honest, I wasn’t sure the smallish space would be a good match for the rock opera.
The closeness of the stage did make for a fundamentally different experience, but overall it was a success. It’s readily clear, from the earnest enthusiasm permanently etched into their faces, that most of the cast members are die-hard Rent fans. That kind of passion translates into a high-energy and vibrant production.
Trying to pick the high point of the show is near-impossible, as there are so many from which to choose. Jonathan Larson’s music and lyrics are just as poignant as they were when they debuted off-Broadway in 1996. Based on the Puccini opera La Boheme, Rent is the story of a group of New York starving artists who struggle while dealing with the effects of AIDS.
Jacqueline Breakwell’s Maureen is fiery hot and oozes sex appeal. My theatre companion was completely and utterly enamoured with her. Jenn Suratos as Maureen’s current girlfriend is a great foil to Maureen’s ex-boyfriend Mark in “Tango Maureen.”
Anton Lipovetsky is boyish and likeable as Mark and Kholby Wardell drips attitude as Mark’s yuppified ex-roommate Benny.
Craig DeCarlo as Roger has a voice made for rock and easily powers through his multiple numbers. His chemistry with Christine Quintana’s sultry Mimi is somewhat hit or miss, but ultimately pulls together in the end.
Nick Fontaine’s Tom Collins and Cesar Erba’s Angel are an adorable couple, and their voices are perfectly complementary in “I’ll Cover You.”
Rielle Braid, one of the ensemble swings on the second night I saw the show, was a standout as sleazy television producer Alexi Darling.
Most of the cast’s solo vocals are strong but the show is truly at its best in the full company numbers “La Vie Boheme” and “Seasons of Love.”
There were some issues with the sound. Some actors’ mikes were far too loud and others not loud enough. Several bits of Erba’s dialogue were lost at key moments.
One of Rent’s stronger points is that its gay characters aren’t tokens to the centre stage heterosexual romance between Mimi and Roger. Joanne and Maureen’s onstage pairing is every bit as volatile and crazy as Maureen’s dream-inspired performance art. Collins and Angel’s loving relationship is also given equal billing and held up as the ideal to which the others aspire.
Rent’s positive tone, amidst darker themes of poverty and the AIDS epidemic, chooses to emphasise love and living live to the fullest. It’s that message which continues to strike such a personal chord with actors and audiences alike.
Seating is general admission, so make sure you arrive early to stake out a good seat. Both performances I attended were sold out and by opening night Fighting Chance had already added an extra week to the tail end of their run. It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to say that Rent will be a smash hit here in Vancouver.
Ryan Mooney and Fighting Chance Productions are persistently making a name for themselves as real contenders in local theatre and Rent will only further that cause.
Fighting Chance Productions’ Rent plays through August 23rd at Presentation House Theatre. Tickets are available online.
Posted in Fighting Chance, Musical Theatre, Rent, Reviews, Vancouver
Tagged AIDS, Anton Lipovetsky, Cesar Erba, Christine Quintana, Craig DeCarlo, Fighting Chance Productions, Jacqueline Breakwell, Jenn Suratos, Jonathan Larson, Kholby Wardell, La Boheme, Nick Fontaine, North Vancouver, Presentation House Theatre, Puccini, Rent, Rielle Braid, Ryan Mooney, Vancouver Musicals
Rent: Opening Week Buzz
Posted on August 2, 2009 | 1 comment
Fighting Chance Production's cast of Rent
This week is the opening of Fighting Chance’s production of Rent and the local buzz has been deafening. That’s due in part to the overwhelming popularity of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical and also in part to the marketing savvy of director Ryan Mooney.
Mooney has really embraced social media as it applies to local theatre and potential audiences. At my last count, Mooney and Fighting Chance have used Facebook groups, a Rent In Vancouver blog, a dedicated Rent twitter-feed (as well as many more twittering cast members and production staff), and a YouTube video channel. The Rent cast has also been seen making numerous appearances around town including at the Rosedale on Robson, the Oasis Lounge on Davie, Gayday at Playland, and today at the Vancouver Pride parade.
Most of what theatre people and publicists are currently doing with social media is still untested waters and much of it is a learning process of what works and what doesn’t.
I’d like to take a moment to focus on the Rent In Vancouver blog, which has done a lot of things right. First off, it wasn’t an afterthought, or a mere going through the motions. The blog was created in April before the show had even been cast. Since then there have been regular entries about the audition process and personal posts from much of the cast and production team.
Early bird ticket buyers were entered into a draw to see a Rent rehearsal, and blog commenters were entered for a chance to win tickets to opening night. Fighting Chance has also announced that a limited amount of day-of cheaper tickets will be available by lottery (click here for details).
These types of publicity strategies may very well be the future of theatre in Vancouver, and I’m sure that other local PR types are paying close attention to Fighting Chance (and if they’re not they should be.)
The Canadian regional theatre premiere of Rent starts previews August 4th. Opening night is August 6th and it plays through the 23rd, at Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver, BC.
Posted in Fighting Chance, Musical Theatre, Rent, Upcoming Shows, Vancouver
Tagged Fighting Chance Productions, Jonathan Larson, Presentation House Theatre, Rent, Ryan Mooney, Social Media
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Having performed on Australia’s number 1 breakfast show ‘The Morning Show’ as well as performing for Rugby League team The South Sydney Rabbitohs during half-time, Sydney singer/songwriter is superseding her previous brilliant single ‘Touch the Sky’ with ‘Wildfire’ and Cavo’s remix of ‘Wildfire’.
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Taking the advice given to her personally by Ed Sheeran whilst she was volunteering at an Australian Radio station, Jo has taken a bit longer to release her debut album making sure it felt right to her and we are glad she did! Featuring an incredible house remix produced by Cavo sees the single being pushed to a more dance festival orientated vibe bringing out the already hugely uplifting nature of the track.
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Lists of Digimon List of Digimon (Japanese) List of Digimon by Image List of Dub Names (English) List of Appmon (Japanese) List of Appmon by Image List of Digital Lifeforms (Japanese) List . Apr 17, · I was wondering if anyone shared the following mindset when it comes to digimon. Similar to how Pokemon (the monsters and the franchise) is categorized into generations. Unlike Pokemon however, Digimon does not have this clear distinction in the debuts and releases of aspects of its franchise. Anime: Each season is of it's own generation. So Adventure is gen 1; Tamers is gen 3. Meanwhile, a young boy life is about to change forever when he meets a Digimon. SOMEONE'S HOUSE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES. It was in the morning as an alarm in someone's room was going off loudly. A hand was seen turning off the alarm and then someone emerged from bed. There wasn't much to see except for his back and his white.
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A cross media project taking the franchise in a new direction, Digimon Universe App Monsters is a television animated series featuring Appmon. Several more series were produced after Digimon Adventure ' s success. Retrieved May 7, By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. According to the stories, they are inhabitants of the " Digital World ", a manifestation of Earth's communication network. After resolving conflicts with the Digimon Sovereigns, the Tamers learn that the Digimon are protecting themselves from humans and the Real World after the Digital World is invaded by the D-Reaper, a rogue clean-up program. Retrieved 12 February These original stories only roughly followed the continuity of Adventure Tamers aired in Japan from April 1, to March 31, Associated Press. As wild Digimon began roaming Shinjuku , the Tamers defeat them and defend the city. Main article: Digimon Frontier.
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Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid
The ambiguous title of this user-friendly book by Larry Loucks is cleverly crafted to pull in the widest possible audience, but muckrakers will be disappointed if they think Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid is about VMware making mistakes. As author and veteran virtualization pro Larry Loucks notes, "This book is all about identifying problem configuration situations on ESX server and helping you avoid common oversights and mistakes regarding ESX configuration."
Loucks know whereof he speaks. He has been in the IT business for 27 years, and is a former VMware Senior Consultant who has specialized in virtualization for the past seven years, which pretty well covers the modern history of this game-changing technology. In his words, "I have seen the same mistakes made over and over as companies attempt to virtualize their environments." Lucky for readers.
After an introduction that addresses the general subject of how not to virtualize your environments, Loucks works his way through eight, easy-to-read chapters that start with the most common approaches to virtualization, and goes on to cover virtual architectures, storage, networking, memory, managing processors, proper P2V migrations and odds and ends.
Along the way, he starts with the basics of topics such as thin provisioning, and then elaborates through the use of clearcut screen shots, mini case study examples, and concise conclusions that pull no punches, e.g. "Some say the solution is thin provisioning alerting you to know when a train is coming. I say stay off the tracks and avoid thin provisioning problems altogether by using thick provisioning."
The "How NOT to" theme rings throughout, as Loucks frequently puts on the brakes to break out helpful, summary lists that bring his topics into perspective. For example, in the chapter on virtual networking, he provides six plain-spoken no-nos, such as "tossing NICs in a server, associate them with a virtual switch and start piling on the functionality." He also throws in the occasional "TECH TIP," just to make sure that the reader does not wander off the chosen path.
Throughout, he starts each chapter with a brief introduction that covers the bare-bones basics. This is exemplified at the beginning of chapter 7, which covers proper P2V Migrations. He starts out by defining the topic, even though most readers will already be at least slightly familiar with it, and then moves on to some pretty deep diving. He never leaves the reader behind, and always uses a conversational tone that enhances and expedites the learning environment. After expounding in detail on a complex situation, he takes the pressure off by making folksy comments like "Don't worry about capacity planning...it'll all work out fine," and "Migrate critical apps and databases 'hot' so we can have fun with data loss, corruption and transactional inconsistency," It's like sitting down with a really good teacher on a one-to-one basis.
Loucks says he hopes the book will come out in an expanded second print run during Q3, 2012.
Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid
By Larry Loucks
111 pages, Brio Press
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{{wikilink}} {{afwikilink}} '''Eliezer Yudkowsky''' is a research fellow of the [[Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence]] - which he co-founded in 2001. He is mainly concerned with the obstacles and importance of developing a [[Friendly AI]], such as a reflective decision theory that would lay a foundation for describing fully recursive self modifying agents that retain stable preferences while rewriting their source code. He also co-founded Less Wrong, writing most part of The [[Sequences]], long sequences of posts dealing with epistemology, [[AGI]], [[metaethics]], [[rationality]] and so on. He has published several articles, including: *[http://intelligence.org/files/CognitiveBiases.pdf “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks” (2008)]: A pioneer compilation of [[Bias|Cognitive Biases]] – systematic deviations from rationality – influencing our judgment of Global Catastrophic Risks. These are defined as risks with the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale, threatening more than millions of human lives(e.g.: volcanic eruptions, pandemic infections, nuclear accidents, worldwide tyrannies, out-of-control scientific experiments, climatic changes, cosmic hazards and economic collapse). It is a book chapter from a larger tome analyzing those risks. *[http://intelligence.org/files/AIRisk.pdf “AI as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk. (2008)”]: Chapter of the same book of the previous paper, it analyses possible philosophical and technical failures in the construction of a [[Friendly AI]], which could lead to an [[Unfriendily AI]] posing a enormous global risk. He also discusses how a Friendly AI could help decrease some Global Risks discussed in the book. Finally, because a powerful AI could go from been a Global Risk to help reduce some of them, he argues that researching such topic is extremely important. *[http://intelligence.org/upload/CFAI/index.html "Creating Friendly AI"(2001)]: One of the first articles to address the challenges in designing the features and cognitive architecture required to produce a benevolent - "Friendly" - Artificial Intelligence . It also gives one of the first precise definitions of terms such as Friendly AI and [[Seed AI]]. *[http://intelligence.org/upload/LOGI//LOGI.pdf "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence" (2002)]: Analyses [[AGI]] through its decomposition in five subsystems, successive levels of functional organization: Code, sensory modalities, concepts, thoughts, and deliberation. It also discusses some advantages artificial minds would have, such as the possibility of [[Recursive self-improvement]]. *[http://intelligence.org/upload/CEV.html "Coherent Extrapolated Volition"(2004)]: Presents the difficulties and possible solutions for incorporating friendliness into an AGI. It proposes that making an AGI doing what we tell it to could be dangerous, since we don`t know what we want. Instead we should program the AGI to do what we want, predicting what the vectorial sum of an idealized version of us would want, "if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together”. He calls this the coherent extrapolated volition of humankind, or [[CEV]]. *[http://intelligence.org/upload/TDT-v01o.pdf "Timeless Decision Theory" (2010)]: Describes [[Timeless decision theory]],” an extension of causal decision networks that compactly represents uncertainty about correlated computational processes and represents the decision maker as such a process”. It solves many problems which [[Causal Decision Theory]] doesn`t have a plausible solution: [[Newcomb’s Problem]], Solomon’s Problems and [[Prisoner’s Dilemma]]. *[http://intelligence.org/upload/complex-value-systems.pdf"Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures" (2011)]: Discusses the [[Complexity of values]]: we can’t come up with a simple rule or description that sums up all human values. It analyses how this problem makes it difficult to build a valuable future. ==Links== *[http://lesswrong.com/user/Eliezer_Yudkowsky Eliezer Yudkowsky's user page] at [http://lesswrong.com/ Less Wrong] *[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~andwhay/postlist.html A list of all of Yudkowsky's posts to Overcoming Bias], [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~andwhay/graphlist.html Dependency graphs for them] *[http://lesswrong.com/lw/4g/eliezer_yudkowsky_facts/ Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts] by [[steven0461]] {{stub}} [[Category:People]] [[Category:Authors]]
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This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2014.
Scheduled for Friday, August 8, 10:00 - Barbican Hall
Submission no. 6040
Wikidata - current state and Q&A
Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop)
presentation and panel
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lydia.pintscher wikimedia.de
Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
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Wikimedia Deutschland
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http://lydiapintscher.de
Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
Wikidata is Wikimedia's step into the open data movement. It has made tremendous progress since its beginning less than 2 years ago. It is becoming a central pillar of the open data web.
In this session, we will take a look at what has been achieved so far and what's new in the past year. Since last Wikimania, we have added the quantity and url data types, ranks, and support for ordering statements. Several sister projects have been given access to Wikidata for language links and data access like Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons. We have also been working on simple queries, making JSON dumps available, improved Lua integration, support for merging items and redirects, and more.
We will talk about what is in store for the next months, and what on the development roadmap, including a UI redesign, more complex queries, support for Wikimedia Commons for file metadata, and more.
After that the biggest part of the session will be a Q&A with Wikidata's development team and community members ready to answer all your questions.
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should be scheduled later than my keynote since this should serve as an add-on to it
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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
by Raphael, c. 1515.
Baldassare Castiglione was the author of The Courtier, the second most influential book to be written in the Renaissance after Machiavelli’s The Prince. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V kept three books on his bedside table: the Bible, The Prince, and The Courtier.
Castiglione Chronology
Baldassare Castiglione born at family estate at Casatico outside Mantova. Castiglione is related to the Gonzaga family that ruled Mantova (Mantua).
Castiglione goes to Milan for his education and is residing at the court of Ludovico Sforza and Beatrice D'Este (sister to Isabella D'Este the Duchess of Mantova) when the French invasion occurs.
Castiglione is in Milan to see the invasion of the French under King Louis XII. Castiglione is disgusted with the sight and with the weakness of Italians in the face of foreigners. This concern will be the life-long preoccupation of Castiglione.
Castiglione in Naples fighting at the side of his Duke, Francesco Gonzaga, as Gonzaga fights for the French allies in their battle with the Spaniards for control of the south. Piero de' Medici dies in this battle. Castiglione is invited to come to Urbino by Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino. Guidobaldo has just been welcomed back by the people of Urbino after the fall of the Borgia family empire at the death of Pope Alexander VI in the summer of 1503. Later Castiglione will write his book The Courtier based on the conversations at the court of Urbino in these years of 1503-1506. Among the exalted guests at the court in these years are the two Medici brothers, Giovanni de' Medici and Giuliano de' Medici. They live as honored guests at Urbino during their exile from Florence. An important member of the Urbino circle is the Duchess, Elisabetta Gonzaga, who is the sister of Francesco Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantova. This is an important connection since we should remember that Castiglione's primary source of influence is always his relationship to the ruling family of Mantova – the Gonzagas.
Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino dies. The Duchess is plunged into grief as is the whole court. The death of the duke marks the end of the magical world of Urbino as it is immortalized in Castiglione's book The Courtier. It is a brief moment, 1503-1508, during which Urbino seems to be the most elegant and the most cultured court in all of Europe. It is now in the sad period after the duke's death that Castiglione begins his book. It is a book about a lost world.
War in northern Italy as the Pope leads an anti-French coalition. Ferrara is caught in the middle, since it has always maintained a pro-French foreign policy. This attack on Ferrara draws in the Gonzaga family of Mantova. It is the Duchess Isabella's brother who is ruling Ferrara. All the small states of the north worry over any war since they survive only by choosing the right alliance. Mantova is always exposed out in the middle of the Po plain as is its neighbor Ferrara.
Siege of Mirandola. Pope Julius personally leads the siege of the small state that is a key to his battle against Ferrara. Castiglione is there along with much of the fighting class of northern Italy. In January the Pope leads his troops through the breach of the Castle of Mirandola. Ferrara looks doomed. The Gonzaga in Mantova are doing everything they can to surreptitiously aid their friends in Ferrara without enraging the Pope against Mantova too.May. The French arrive in force and relieve Ferrara and conquer Bologna taking the city from papal forces. Pope Julius withdraws in total defeat. The statue of the Pope that Michelangelo had executed is pulled down from its position and smashed into pieces as the crowd cheers.
April. The Battle of Ravenna. The whole map of northern Italy changes again. A definitive confrontation between a huge French army and huge Italian coalition led by Pope Julius. The French win but their victory is so costly that they begin a total withdrawal from northern Italy. August. Congress of Mantova. After the Battle of Ravenna all Italian forces send representatives to Mantova. For a few days, Castiglione's native state is the center of the international diplomatic world. Everyone is there. The Duchess Isabella presides over this important gathering. One decision made at the congress was that the Medici should have Florence back. Thus Spanish troops march south and aid Giovanni and Giuliano de' Medici to take back Florence on the last day of August 1512. The result is that Machiavelli is soon be out of a job and in prison.
Giovanni de' Medici is elected Pope Leo X. Castiglione is asked to serve as Ambassador to the Vatican from the Court of Urbino. Castiglione has remained close to his friends at Urbino since the death of the Duke. The Duchess Elisabetta remains there giving advice to the new Duke Francescomaria della Rovere (nephew of the former Pope Julius II) and arranging the marriage of her niece to Francescomaria. The security of the state of Urbino is immediately in danger with the election of Giovanni de' Medici to the papacy. He needs a state for his stateless brother Giuliano and even if the court of Urbino had served as his own refuge during his exile, it is a natural target for papal ambition. The previous pope had eyed Urbino for his own relative. But Pope Julius had been able to arrange its acquisition peacefully with a strategic marriage of his nephew to the sister of the reigning duke. The duke died childless so now in 1513, Francescomaria ruled Urbino. But now his protector, Uncle Julius, was gone and the new pope might just grab Urbino for his own family. Thus the choice of Castiglione as ambassador was the best of all possible choices. It is Castiglione's responsibility to cajole the pope into protecting the court of Urbino. We should remember that Castiglione is an old friend of the Medici brothers. They had all been together in Urbino during those magical years of 1503-1506. For most of the years after 1513, Castiglione was in Rome functioning in various diplomatic roles. By 1520 he was one of the most respected and most trusted Italians in the world of international diplomacy. He had known all the popes and soon came to know the new Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V who was also the King of Spain.
Concordat of Bologna. Pope Leo X meets the new king of France Francis I and together they come to an agreement that creates peace between the pope and France.
January. King Ferdinand of Spain dies and his grandson Charles becomes King of Spain. A new generation is taking over European leadership: Charles, Francis I, and Henry VIII.March. Pope Leo's beloved brother Giuliano dies in the Medici villa in Fiesole. Now the last impediment (Giuliano) to papal designs on Urbino is gone. Giuliano had insisted that the Medici should be loyal and grateful to the house of Urbino that had given them respite in their exile. With Giuliano gone, a less sentimental Pope Leo is ready to pounce on his former friends. June. All the efforts of the Urbino network that included the Estensi in Ferrara and the Gonzaga in Mantova and Castiglione working in Rome fail. Pope Leo X sends papal troops to take Urbino to conquer the small state for his nephew Lorenzo (son of the dead Piero de' Medici). This is the man to whom Machiavelli dedicates The Prince. It is my contention that the book is addressed to Lorenzo as advice on how to rule his new state of Urbino (not Florence). The Duke and Duchess of Urbino run for their lives and are given sanctuary in Mantova by their Gonzaga relatives. Duchess Isabella now has her niece and husband on her hands as the pope hounds them for giving aid to his "enemies." With the Duke and Duchess of Urbino out of their state, their ambassador in Rome is out of a job. Castiglione finally comes home to Casatico and Mantova to renew his lifelong friendship with the Gonzaga and especially with Isabella. Now he sits down to write his book, The Courtier, that he had started many years before. While at home he delights his devoted mother by finally marrying. In his thirty-eighth year Castiglione marries Ippolita Torelli. She is fifteen years old. The marriage is a huge success.
Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of Urbino dies. Everyone says that the Medici got what they deserved and Pope Leo is sunken into gloom. Many around him say he is being punished and he concludes they are right. Urbino is once again an open question.
Castiglione is repeatedly in Rome on diplomatic assignments. Raphael dies at the age of 37 and the Pope is destroyed with grief. He and his court believe that the future looks dark.
Giovanni de' Medici, Pope Leo X, dies at the age of 46. Francescomaria della Rovere and his Gonzaga wife return to Urbino as Duke and Duchess and are welcomed with a tumultuous celebration by the Urbinati.
After a brief pontificate of the northerner Adrian VI, Giulio de' Medici is elected Pope Clement VII. For the next seven years, Castiglione will be in Rome almost constantly. This duty is very reluctant. He loves his young wife who has given him two children and he is devastated when she dies in childbirth while he is away. He says he will never forgive himself. He feels that he should have not been at her side. But his presence in Rome is necessary for his Mantovan and Urbino friends. He knows all the players and is especially close to the new pope whom he has known since their days together in the magic circle of the palace of Urbino in 1503-1506. He also knows the emperor and soon the pope will ask him to take on the most important diplomatic task facing anyone in all of Europe: service as the Vatican ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor ruling from Spain.
Battle of Pavia. Imperial forces defeat the French. The King of France is captured and carted off to Spain to languish in the hands of Charles while his mother raises the ransom. Castiglione is there in Spain watching the whole drama.
Pope Clement VII signs a treaty of alliance with the French. The emperor in Spain is enraged and poor Castiglione has to absorb his wrath at the perfidious pope. Catiglione is shocked at the pope's action and warns that it will bring on a disaster: that France will not protect the papacy and that imperial troops will ravage Italy. Machiavelli is saying the same thing as he watches the same drama from Florence. Both men warn that Italy is heading for a disaster.
May 6. The Sack of Rome. Everything that Machiavelli and Castiglione and Guicciardini had predicted now comes to pass. Rome is subjected to the worst sack in more than a thousand years. For weeks Spanish-Imperial troops, many from Lutheran Germany, hold the Christian capital hostage. One month later, Machiavelli dies in Florence, brokenhearted at the sight of such total chaos – exactly what he had been predicting for years. Castiglione in Spain is also devastated and writes one of the most touching commentaries on the event. The Emperor too is shocked at the behavior of his own forces.
April. The Courtier is finally published by the Aldine Press in Venice.
Baldassare Castiglione, worn out from his ceaseless activity trying to save his pope from his own stupidity, dies in Toledo. The Emperor, who adored him, gives him a state funeral attended by all the grandees of Spain. His body is laid to rest among the heroes and saints of Castile. Later his remains are returned to Mantova and interred in the family chapel.The Emperor remarked: "I tell you that one of the best gentlemen in the world is dead." Charles kept three books on his stand next to his bed: The Bible, The Prince, and The Courtier.
Milan conquers Verona. Milan on the march. Look out Florence!
Siena and Pisa join Milan alliance. Florence increasingly isolated.
Siena and Perugia formally turns gov over to Visconti of Milan. Florence being surrounded.
Milan close to conquering all of northern Italy. Flo independence at risk.
Competition for Bronze doors of Baptistery, Florence. Brunelleschi vs Ghiberti. Subject of Sacrifice of Isaac. Ghiberti wins.
(Jun) Milan defeats Florence-Bologna army. All north Italy open for Milan. (Sep) Gian Galleazzo Visconti ruler of Milan dies. Florence independence saved.
Government of Florence orders guilds to get moving. Guilds rush to complete their statues for Orsanmichele.
Donatello's first major work: David (marble) now in Bargello. Birth of Alessandra Macinghi degli Strozzi (d. 1471)
Brunelleschi and Donatello go to Rome, Study the Roman ruins. They make extensive drawings of Pantheon, bring home to use in Duomo.
Donatello's St Mark for Orsanmichele (Flo), one of most influential works of sculpture in whole of Ren.
Nanni di Banco, sculptor: Four Martyrs for Orsanmichele (Flo).
Ghiberti: St John the Baptist for Orsanmichele (Flo).
Donatello: St George for Orsanmichele (Flo).
Alessandra Macinghi marries Matteo degli Strozzi. Matteo a member of one of the most important and powerful families in Florence.
Brunelleschi appointed: architect for dome of Cathedral of Flo.
Brunelleschi: first painting in West using math "perspective." Masaccio: Brancacci Chapel, Santa Carmine, Florence.
Masaccio: "Trinity" painted in Santa Maria Novella (Flo).
Ghiberti: Second set of doors for Baptistry ("Gates of Paradise")
Medici growing domination. After 1435 Medici triumphant in Florence until 1494.
Enemies of Medici become temporarily dominant in the council of gov and send the head of Medici family, Cosimo de' Medici, into exile (he goes to Venice) During this next year, 1433-1434, a furious fight breaks out within Florentine political circles, pro- and anti-Medici. In the fall of 1434, the Medici finally win.(Pope has been helping, Medici Bank very important for the papacy).
Return of Cosimo de' Medici to Florence in triumph. The Medici now have complete control of the gov instruments for the next thirty years. Those who were part of the anti-Medici circle now pay the price and are exiled. Among the exiles are the Strozzi including Matteo Strozzi who is exiled to Pesaro. Wife Alessandra and children join him. Fra Angelico: "Descent from the Cross" (San Marco).
Death of Matteo Strozzi in exile in Pesaro. His widow Alessandra returns to the Strozzi home in Florence with her children. Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting.
International council of church, East-West, Pope-Patriarch, held in Florence under Brunelleschi's recently completed dome. Florence at center of world of religion and culture at this moment. Greeks bring 100s of precious texts with them and all Flo pressed into service copying during the Ecumenical Council.
Build huge new Palazzo Medici (via Cavour) near San Lorenzo, right in the center of old Florence, demolish many other buildings to do it, biggest private palace to that time in Florence.
Pope Nicholas V, Tuscan pal of the Medici elected to St Peter's chair.
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici who will take his family and his city to its highest point of cultural and political influence. The half century of his life is Florence's Golden Age.
Piero della Francesca: "Baptism of Christ" (National Gallery).
Birth of Christopher Columbus (Genoa). (d. 1506)
Birth of Amerigo Vespucci in Florence. (d. 1512)
Death of Cosimo de' Medici on Aug 1. Death of Cosimo throws the whole Medici apparatus into confusion. The political machine had been a very personal affair and now Cosimo's son Piero is faced with a crisis for which he is not prepared. He suffers with terrible gout and is often bedridden. The anti-Medici circles organize to overthrow Medici. Death of Pope Pius II, a great friend of the Medici.
March: Death of Francesco Sforza, another friend of the Medici, Sept: Plot against the Medici collapses. Piero de' Medici prevails over his enemy Luca Pitti who had led the anti-Medici movement.
December: Death of Piero de' Medici. Suddenly the leadership of the Medici machine falls into the hands of Lorenzo de' Medici, age 20. Lorenzo will dominate Florentine politics and culture for the next twenty-three years and will die at age forty-three in 1492 from the same desease that had killed his father: gout.
Death of Alessandra degli Strozzi. (b. 1408)
Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus in Poland. (d. 1543)
Birth of Michelangelo. (d. 1564)
(Apr 26) Pazzi Plot in Florence. Plot to assassinate Medici brothers and bring about revolution in Florence, kill Giuliano de' Medici in Cathedral during High Mass as he kneels at altar, but Lorenzo survives. Begins intense enmity between Florence and Papacy which had been in on the plot.
Botticelli: "La Primavera" "Birth of Venus" (now in Uffizi).
Birth of Raphael in Urbino. (d. 1520)
Death of Lorenzo de' Medici (bad news for Florence). Columbus in Caribbean (cant call it "America"-not named yet, named later after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine).
King Charles VIII of France arrives Italy. Brings largest army into Italy since Roman times. (Nov)Florence: fall of Medici and ascendancy of Savonarola. (Nov)Death of Pico della Mirandola.
(May) Execute Savonarola: Piazza della Signoria (marker still there).
Death of Pope Alexander (Borgia). elect Julius II (patron of Michelangelo-Sistine).
Michelangelo: completion of David, install Piazza della Signoria. Michelangelo goes to Rome (Sistine, Vatican). Raphael soon on way to Rome too (Stanze, Vatican). Leonardo working in Milan. The heroic days of Florentine Renaissance are over. Both Lippi and Botticelli dead by 1510.
Completion of Sistine (Michelangelo) and Stanze (Raphael). Rome new art center of Italy, eclipse of Florence.
Death of Pope Julius. Elect Medici (Giovanni de' Medici, childhood friend of Michelangelo) Pope Leo X, power of Medici now moves to Rome.Florence becomes a puppet of Rome.
Columbus sails on fourth & last voyage to Honduras and Panama. Amerigo Vespucci second voyage to South America, proclaims it is not India but "a new world."
Prince Henry of England marries Princess Catherine of Aragon. Death of Pope Alexander VI (Borgia); Election of Giuliano della Rovere as Pope Julius II. Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
Death of Queen Isabella of Castile, Ferdinand now has difficult situation in the control of Spain since he is not the legal heir to Isabella but instead the heiress is their daughter Juana. Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin (now in Brera, Milan).
Foundation of Christ's College, Cambridge, by Margaret Countess of Richmond, beginning of the great days of Cambridge with generous royal patronage.
Death of Christopher Columbus.(b. 1451)
Ordination to the priesthood of Martin Luther. Map maker Martin Waldseemuller proposes the new world on maps be named "America" after Amerigo Vespucci of Florence.
Michelangelo in Rome: paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Henry VIII becomes King of England. (d. 1547)
Martin Luther in Rome as delegate of his monastic order. Death of Botticelli. Passing of the Florentine artistic Renaissance.
Erasmus nominated professor of Greek at Cambridge.
Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Ceiling and Raphael finishes the frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura (School of Athens) next door to the Sistine.
Death of Pope Julius II. Election of Michelangelo's childhood friend from the Medici palace, Giovanni de'Medici as Pope Leo X. Michelangelo finishes Moses for tomb of Pope Julius II.
Death of the King of France Louis XII. succeeded by his nephew Francis I (to 1547). Now begins life long duel between two young kings: Hen VIII and Francis I.
Death of Ferdinand of Spain, his grandson Charles age 16 succeeds to throne of Spain. (His mother Junana supposedly insane is locked up in a monastery for decades to keep her off the throne.)
(Oct 31) Martin Luther, 95 Theses, Begin of Reformation. Luther protests the sale of Indulgences by the church.Coffee arrives in Europe for the first time.
Diet of Augsburg. Luther called before Diet by Cardinal Cajetan. Luther refuses to recant. Raphael paints portrait of Pope Leo with Cardinals (Uffizi). Foundation of the Royal College of Physicians in London. The beginning of modern scientific medicine.
Charles, King of Spain, also elected Holy Roman Emperor at the death of his grandfather Maximilian. Now unites all of Spain, the Low Countries, Ger. and all of new lands of America in one empire. Martin Luther, in Leipzig Disputation: questions infallibility of the Pope. Death of Leonardo da Vinci.Cortes enters Tenochtitlan, capital of Aztec empire, meets Montezuma.
Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther and declares him a heretic. Luther publicly burns the Papal Bull. Reformation is under way. (April 6)Death of Raphael, Rome mourns passing of an age.Magellan on his circumnavigation of globe passes through the Straits of Magellan heads into the Pacific.
Death of Pope Leo X. Magellan killed in the Philippines but the expedition continues and finally reaches Portugal completing first round the world navigation.
Luther finishes his translation into German of the New Testament, Wittenberg printer Hans Lufft begins to print what will be 100,000 copies over the years. Other vernacular translations follow.
Elect Giulio de' Medici: Pope Clement VII (to 1534).
Zurich: Zwingli abolishes the Roman Catholic Mass.
Battle of Pavia. Disaster for France. King Francis I is captured. Spain now in complete control of Italy.
May 5: Sack of Rome. Imperial troops loyal to King of Spain Charles (and Holy Roman Emperor) go crazy and loot the Holy City and kill more than 4,000 inhabitants and steal all the art treasures. The Pope hides in Castel Sant Angelo. Usually cited as the End of the Renaissance.
King Henry VIII begins his proceedings: Requests "divorce" (annulment) from Catherine of Aragon.
In Germany, write the Confession of Augsburg, to unite all of Protestant Germany. Sign the Schmalkaldic League, alliance of all Prot Ger against the Roman Catholic Emperor Charles. Germany at war.
King Henry VIII recognized: Supreme Head of the church in England.
John Calvin: leading the Reformation in France.
ENGLAND: Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. He proclaims marriage of Hen and Cath void and proclaims marriage of Hen and Anne Boleyn lawful. Pope excommunicates Henry. Anne crowned as Queen of England. Birth of daughter Elizabeth to Henry and Anne. FRANCE: Pope Clement VII (Medici) marries his relative Catherina de' Medici to the future King of France, Henry Valois.
King Henry of England makes a final break with Rome and proclaims himself head of his own English Reformed church (Anglican international church=Episcoal in USA). Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury. Death of Pope Clement VII, elect Alessandro Farnese as Pope Paul III.
First publish versions of Copernicus' heliocentric theory. Establish the new order of the Jesuits as new troops in the Roman Catholic war with the Protestants.
Publish Copernicus' De Revolutionibus: proposes the sun at the center of the universe.
Convene the Council of Trent as the Roman Catholic Church tries to organize to fight the spreading Reformation (this effort to be known as the Counter Reformation).
Death of Martin Luther. Michelangelo designing the dome of Saint Peter's. Titian paints his portrait of Pope Paul III and his nephews.
Death of Henry VIII: succeeded by his son Edward VI (1537-1553). Death of Francis I of France. succeeded by his son Henry II(1519-1559). Birth of Cervantes(1547-1616).
English church publishes the new Book of Common Prayer (much of which is written by Thomas Cranmer).
Publish Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. Marks new attitude to artists: artists are special, almost divine.
Death of King Edward VI of England: succeeded by his Roman Catholic half-sister Mary.
Queen Mary: marries Philip of Spain, future king.
Elect Giovanni Pietro Caraffa: Pope Paul IV.
Charles V abdicates giving Spain to his son Philip and the Empire to his brother Ferdinand I and retires to a monastery. Queen Mary burns the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer at the stake when he refuses to recant his Protestantism.
Mary Queen of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I. Protestant Church of England re-instated. Death of Charles V former King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.
(Feb)Death of Michelangelo.(b. 1575)
(Feb 15) Birth of Galileo. (d. 1642)
(April 23) Birth of William Shakespeare. (d. 1616)
Revolt of the Protestant Netherlands from control of Spain. Birth of new Protestant Republic of Netherlands and birth of new alliance between the two Protestant countries of Eng and Neth.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, Paris: kill thousands of Protestants.
Birth of Caravaggio. (d. 1609)
Shakespeare comes to London.
Unveil the plot to kill Queen Eliz and put Mary Queen of Scots on throne. Mary sentenced to death (executed 1587).
Spanish Armada, Spain's attempt to destroy Protestant England with the cooperation of the Papacy fails. This final blow to idea of reuniting all of Europe under renewed Roman Catholic Papacy. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
Henry of Navarre becomes King of France as Hen IV. Galileo professor of mathematics at University of Pisa.
King Hen IV converts to Rom Catholicism ("Paris is well worth a mass.")
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Birth of Descartes.
Shakespeare: Henry V.
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar.
Burn Giordano Bruno on the Campo de'Fiori in Rome for heresy. King Henry IV of France marries Marie de' Medici. Shakespeare: Hamlet.
Death of Queen Elizabeth of England. She is succeeded by her cousin James (Stuart) in Scotland.
Galileo, The Starry Messenger, published in Venice. One of the most shocking and exciting works of scientific advance ever experienced in modern Europe. Galileo becomes an overnight sensation, a scientific rock star. Letters pour into Padua from all over Europe.
Abelard and Heloise
Géricault
Isabella d’Este
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2 weeks after Hawaii volcano eruption, residents say it’s getting worse
Posted 2:04 PM, May 18, 2018, by CNN Wire
Toxic sulfur dioxide seeps out of the street in Leilani Estates, Hawaii.
Steve Gebbie has to wear a face mask every time he comes close to his home on Hawaii’s Big Island.
When the Kilauea volcano erupted May 3, Gebbie and hundreds of others were forced from their homes in the Leilani Estates subdivision. His home is still standing, but it’s surrounded by toxic gas.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s happened in our neighborhood,” Gebbie said. “And every day has gotten worse.”
Residents have periodically been allowed to go back and check on their homes.
Fissures, or cracks in the ground, are opening wider and wider by the day. The lush green jungle has become rotten, yellow vegetation. Sections of streets that disappeared under the lava two weeks ago now look like a river of black molten rock.
Summit of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, sending plume of ash and smoke 30,000 feet high
The toxic gas continues spewing from the fissures.
Gebbie, 56, said the windows and doors of his home have turned orange due to the gas. He knows he will likely never be able to live there again.
“We can’t give up,” said Gebbie, who’s lived in Leilani Estates for 12 years.
“This is paradise.”
22nd fissure forms
The 22nd fissure opened on Friday morning, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory and Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency.
In the past week, an eruption from the volcano’s summit shot ash and smoke 30,000 feet into the air, new fissures appeared and some earlier ones reactivated flowing lava.
When Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted in 1959, it shot lava higher than the tallest building in America
Authorities handed out almost 18,000 masks to help residents deal with the fallout after Thursday’s explosive eruption from the Kilauea summit.
The sulfur dioxide was thick afterward near the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, enveloping the area in a thick fog that smelled of rotten eggs. And in Pahoa, the earth sounded like it was cracking wide open as lava spattered and exploded from fissures.
Ku’ulie Becklund has been watching lava spurt from fissures night after night from her Pahoa home. She was startled by how loud it was, but life goes on. She still goes to work at a local grocery store, where an eerie apocalyptic scene plays out as residents meander through the aisles wearing gas masks.
Scientists with the US Geological Survey said they expect the eruptions to continue.
“At any time, activity may again become more explosive, increasing the intensity of ash production and producing ballistic projectiles near the vent,” the USGS said. “Ballistic projectiles may be produced should steam-driven explosions occur. Impacts will be limited to an area around Halemaumau.”
Halemaumau is the crater within Kilauea’s summit caldera.
Dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide prompt health warning in Hawaii
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wherejogoes March 30, 2017 DAYS OUT & ATTRACTIONS
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, WITH CHILDREN
Photo: Lukes Photos
I realised last year that that I had never been to a concert at the world famous iconic concert venue, the Royal Albert Hall. Fate lent a hand when it was announced that, for one night only, Disney’s Broadway Hits would be staged at the Royal Albert Hall in a world premier concert. It doesn’t get more family friendly than Disney, right?! Carpe Diem, we managed to get tickets.
The cast at this stage was unannounced other than that performers would be from London’s West End and New York’s Broadway. I nearly screamed the house down when a few weeks later my favourite Showtunes entertainer, John Barrowman, was announced as the performing compere along with cast members Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins on Broadway), Josh Strickland (Tarzan on Broadway), Alton Fitzgerald White (Mufasa, Lion King) and, as no musical event is complete without one of the Strallen sisters, Scarlett Strallen (Mary Poppins in the UK). The BBC Concert Orchestra and singers from the Royal Academy of Music and the Arts Educational School were to complete the ensemble. This concert was shaping up to be an awesome show with such a pedigree cast and musicians from both sides of the Atlantic.
Dusk fell and excitement rose as we set off to the Albert Hall. The auditorium itself certainly has the wow factor.
The curved nature of the building, built in 1871, means you can see all of the auditorium as well as the stage. We were very high up the steep sides, which gave a panoramic view. The mushroom shaped ceiling discs lend a lot of character and were added in 1969 to improve the acoustics. The auditorium was very effectively lit with coloured lights moving across the Hall during the performance. Whilst our seats were stationary, the seats at the bottom of the auditorium swivel. If you are getting tickets for the top tier, be aware it is standing only.
Entering the auditorium I was expecting kids galore but children made up a very small percentage of the audience, the majority being die hard Disney music aficionados. Clearly I had judged this event all wrong. People had travelled the length and breadth of the nation and from overseas for this one-off event and they were not wasting tickets on the youngsters. I was also expecting people to be dressed up, which they were…in Disney gear! Yes that includes the adults.
The musical programme for the evening included hits from Disney’s Broadway plays including Mary Poppins, Lion King and Beauty and the Beast but also a large number of lesser known songs -anyone heard of Newsies or King David? Me neither, but everyone else in the audience had! The vocals and music were absolutely world class with the international star cast appearing to enjoy every moment of being in this exceptional concert. The audience knew their Disney music and they nearly raised the roof when Alan Menken, eight times Oscar winning composer of many Disney scores including Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, took to the stage to perform ‘Proud of Your Boy’ from Aladdin. Hearing the composer sing and play his own music was a highlight of the evening. Others included the two Mary Poppins singing a competitive duet and the cast of Aladdin joining the stage at the end.
Disney’s Broadway Hits was not what I was expecting, but sometimes that’s a delightful surprise. That is exactly what we got with this exceptional show in a truly breathtaking venue. If you get the opportunity to attend a concert at this amazing concert hall – go for it!
The Disney Broadway Hits show was broadcast on Radio Two’s Friday Night is Music Night and was shown on Sky TV. You can see clips here
FUTURE CHILD FRIENDLY SHOWS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Check age ratings for each show, prices and updated listings here as new shows are frequently announced, for all age groups starting from 0-4 years old!
As well as amazing shows for kids, the line up for adults includes a huge selection of every type of music from classical to country, from Christmas to movie themed.
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I am a huge Disney fan, but like you, I would have brought children to this. The hall is lovely, and huge. It would be fun to see some of your photos of the adults adorned in Disney gear. 🙂
wherejogoes
I should have taken some surreptitiously!
Lyn @ A Hole in my Shoe
Sounds like a wonderful night, glad you finally made it to such a spectacular venue
Sam | Away She Went
What a beautiful place! It was on my list last time we were in London, but sadly we never made it over there. That’s so funny that the audience was mostly adults…and in Disney gear! Although I’d love to see the show and we don’t have kids yet so we’d fit in well with the adult Disney crowd.
It was a really fun evening although not what I expected. The Royal Albert Hall has a real sense of occasion though. Thanks for reading.
How awesome! I have also never been there but you were lucky to get to go for that incredibly show! I’ve always wanted to see Mary Poppins live! #CityTripping
Baby Loves Travel
I didn’t realise that they ran so many kid-friendly events. I am definitely going to check out the storytelling for babies and toddlers. I have never visited the Royal Albert Hall and that sounds like a great way of doing so. #citytripping
Jenny (The Little Adventurer)
Oh what a wonderful experience for your kids – I am sure something they will always remember. And what a great idea to look what is showing there before our next London trip, I am sure my little boy would love to see a show somewhere this grand. #citytripping
Jane @ Raincity Librarian
Oh, what a wonderful event! I would have totally gone to something like that, and I don’t even have children! 🙂 There’s just something about being in that incredible space, so classic and so historic, that would make any event just that much more special.
Yes it was the amazing and iconic building that made it really special. Thanks for reading.
Ting at MTM
The Albert Hall is such a stunning building both inside and out. I haven’t been for many years – but there are definitely a few – Star Wars in particular – that I would love to go to! The Disney concert sounds epic, as my son would say! Thanks for linking up with #CityTripping
Catherine's Cultural Wednesdays
We are hoping to take our two teens to the Proms this year, the Albert Hall is a great venue #CityTripping
That will be a brilliant experience – what fun!
Why does John Barrowman sound so familiar to me? I’m going to have to google him once I’m finished here. I’ve been to the Royal Albert once for a tour and it was amazing. It’s so beautiful in there! I can’t imagine what it would have been like to see a show in there. #citytripping
It would be great to do a tour there, that’s on my list for the future!
Of course, he’s Jack Harkness from Doctor Who!
Yes! And my all time favourite show tunes singer LOL!
What a fun event! We walked by the Royal Albert Hall this past summer, and it’s a lovely building, now I know what it looks like inside too! #citytripping
What a place! The interior is stunning. I have started to attend places like this after I took a tour of the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona. That experienced showed me how stunning performing houses can be. #citytripping
Milly Youngman
I’ve been to the RAH a few times now, it’s such an amazing building. And the shows I’ve seen there have always been top quality! #CityTripping
Suzy McCullough
I love it there. It looks like you were up in the Gods 😀 We saw cirque de soleil there last and I’d love to take Jamie. It sounds like there loads of kid friendly things on though. Thanks for the list #culturedkids
Jonny (daisythebus)
Even growing up in Luxembourg, my kids are familiar with the Royal Albert Hall (clips from the “Last night of the Proms are amongst their YouTube favourites). In fact, Child #1 is slightly in awe of it and has asked on several occasions if we could go there some day. Can’t go far wrong with Disney music either. Thanks for the great post and for educating me about the “mushrooms” (never noticed those before…) #CulturedKids
The proms atmosphere would be wonderful I think they do a kids proms and a Dr Who one!
Can’t wait to take my boys to the Royal Albert Hall. Love the idea of Jaws in concert too, perhaps not with the kids..! #culturedkids
I think you are right! I fancy Harry Potter or Star Wars with the kids!
Sol Solntze
I never did take the kids there when we were in London, which was clearly a mistake. Somehow I never got round to looking up their child-friendly programme – I was waiting until one of them was old enough to drag off to the proms!
Nell (Pigeon Pair and Me)
Wow, the line-up of family events looks brilliant. I’ve been to the Proms here, but never taken the children. I think they’d love it. Great post – and I did chuckle at your descriptions of all the adults in Disney gear! Thanks for linking up with #CulturedKids
tots2travel
Yes, totally, utterly agree, would love to take my kids hear to a Disney ensemble.
#culturedkids
Bumble Bee Mum
Haha.. Anything with ‘Disney’ does sound safe to bring the kids! But I’m totally intrigued by the upcoming Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Concert. What? Like how??? I mean I can totally imagine Disney’s Broadway Hits being performed in a hall like this.. But Harry Potter?? I can’t even imagine. If I lived in London, I would have bought my tickets for that already! #CityTripping
They show the movie but they have a live orchestra playing the music. The music in the movies is fantastic and apparently live it’s a really great experience. I guess it’s like going to a concert of the music but with the movie playing. They are doing Jaws as well!
Trish @ Mum's Gone To
Oh I would have loved this! And you got a Strallen – wow!
I’ve been to the Albert Hall to see a classical concert and to see some indoor tennis – but this would have been fabulous. #culturedkids
Indoor tennis?! I didn’t know they did that there! 🎾😀
The Albert Hall is a stunning venue, I am wondering about taking the junior CWs to a prom this summer #CulturedKids
I’ve never been to a prom but I think kids would enjoy the flag waving and the whole spectacular. I’m interested in the Christmas programme (sorry to mention the C word so early!)
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Blackwell introduces resolution to keep Moffett’s teaching job
There are now four R’s of education: reading (w)riting, (a)rithmetic and resolution. Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell will introduce a resolution today calling for the School District of Philadelphia to keep Hope Moffett in her job.
The resoultion, which the Public School Notebook has a copy of, reviews the history of the tension between Moffett and the district surrounding Audenried High School’s turnover to a charter company.
Part of the resolution reads:
“Whereas, in the midst of large-scale changes within the School District, the professional and personal opinions of all stakeholders are welcomed and encouraged; and
Whereas, it is severe and unwarranted sanction to be fired for an issue involving school tokens where it was done openly and with positive intentions; and
Whereas, it is important that students learn to be involved in educational experiences both inside and outside the classroom”
Moffett faces termination with Superintendent Arlene Ackerman saying the teacher endangered her students by giving them tokens to leave the school.
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The second generation PowerMac series, between the Nubus PowerMacs and the G3s, continue the earlier Apple practice of supporting only SCSI hard drives on the motherboard. The exceptions are such models as the Performa 5400, 5500, 6360 and so on, which allow a 'single' IDE hard drive, but still require a SCSI optical drive.
The second generation [[PowerMac]] series, between the [[Nubus PowerMacs]] and the G3s, continue the earlier Apple practice of supporting only [[SCSI]] hard drives on the motherboard. The exceptions are such models as the [[Performa]]/PowerMac 5400, 5500, 6360 and so on, which allow a ''single'' IDE hard drive, but still require a SCSI optical drive.
This presents a problem when replacing old, small or failed SCSI drives. Unlike the workarounds required for 68k Macs and Nubus PowerMacs, the problem is easily overcome by using a PCI drive controller.
This presents a problem when replacing old, small or failed SCSI drives. Unlike the [[SCSI_hard_disk_replacement_options|workarounds]] required for 68k Macs and Nubus PowerMacs, the problem is easily overcome by using a PCI drive controller.
PCI drive controllers support a variety of drive formats, from IDE/ATA, to ATAPI, SCSI (on HD50 and 68 pin connectors), SATA (including eSATA), Firewire, and USB. Support in OS 9 is variable; for example, USB cards are restricted to USB 1.1 speeds (12Mbit/s). In addition, as per usual with Mac expansion cards, it is necessary to ensure Mac compatibility of the specific card before purchase.
Even later models may have restricted support for modern hard drives, such as limits on the size or speed of ATA drives. The user may also wish to support other drive formats, or create a hardware (card-driven) RAID.
Further information on types of cards, and specific cards, will be added below. In the meantime, search the 68kmla forums for more advice.
A [[Powerbook]] can be expanded to use faster or more modern drives externally by adding a Cardbus (32 bit) drive controller. As PCI and Cardbus share a similar architecture they are included together on this page. PCMCIA (16 bit) drive controllers will covered elsewhere.
PCI and Cardbus drive controllers support a variety of drive formats, from IDE/ATA, to ATAPI, SCSI (on HD50 and 68 pin connectors), SATA (including eSATA), Firewire, and USB.
Support in OS 9 is variable; for example, USB cards are restricted to USB 1.1 speeds (12Mbit/s). In addition, as per usual with Mac expansion cards, it is necessary to ensure Mac and operating system ([[MacOS 9]]/[[OS X]]) compatibility before purchase.
Further information on types of cards, and specific cards, will be added below. In the meantime, search the [http://68kmla.net/forums/| 68kMLA forums] for more advice.
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StormWatch, Union
“Union” Vol. 1 issues 0 – 4
September 15, 2015 bryanjose Leave a comment
this entry covers “Union” issues 0 through 4
Where to start with a book like “Union.” Well, I guess issue 0 falls in continuity first, even though it is just a fast paced explanation of the world that Union and Regent (last seen in “StormWatch” Vol. 1 issue 3) come from, and their particular histories examined. It can kind of be a dry read when you place it in continuity, as you only really know Regent and here’s this book about his past, and for some reason another character named Ohmen. Perhaps reading it after immediately after “Union” Vol. 1 issues 1 through 4 might work better, as you’d have more of a vested interest in both characters. Either way, the book moves fairly swift and straightforward, all the while cramming in a lot of information. This is at a contrast with the rest of the series, which is never as straight forward as this, but to it’s credit, the rest of Vol. 1 certainly has much cooler artwork.
The art for “Union” Vol. 1 (issues 1 through 4) was done by Mark Texeira and it is fantastic! I’m not saying that anyone else that ever drew Union didn’t do a good job, they mostly did, but Texeira killed it so hard, that every other artist was just playing catch up. When I was younger I wondered how WildStorm convinced Texeira to do this comic, because all I knew of his work was the cover of “the Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton that the upperclassmen were carrying around (which, sad to say, I can find no image of now, but I know that it existed, it was ubiquitous!) I always figured him for a big time commercial artist, so to see him on a comic blew my mind. I learned later that he was mostly known for comics, but that still doesn’t stop me from being in awe of the art on this book to this day.
Back to issue 0 we see two young men growing up on opposite sides of a war. One is Rigian, price of the ruling class known as the Directorate, who is practically disowned by his father when his little brother Darnel is born. The other is a baby born the same day, known as Ohmen of the underclass known as the Protectorate. We see both boys grow up and find their places in their home planet of Aegena, though Rigian finds most of his place in his culture while spending time on Earth away from his family. Earth you say? Oh yeah, the Directorate have a way to get back and forth from Aegena to Earth, and the Protectorate has no knowledge of this, and it allows the Directorate to plan their battles in secret, as well as have a hidden place to retreat to. The two boy’s stories start to come together when some Directorate soldiers attack the school where Ohmen’s father teaches, and Ohmen’s father dies. Schools were supposed to be in a safe zone and not to be attacked, so the Directorate kind of feel bad about war going too far, so Rigain, his mother and brother are sent to address the Protectorate and apologize for the actions of the Directorate. Before he can say too much, a few Protectorate at the gathering go crazy and attack the Directorate. Rigain’s mother and brother parish in this attack and Rigain swears off his stance of peace and takes the name Regent and vows revenge against the Protectorate. Ohmen on the other hand is upset by what the Protectorate did at that rally, and is talked back into doing his duty by his kinda girlfriend Eliya. This leads Ohmen into a battle where two Directorate soldiers trick him into flying through the portal to Earth, where he crash lands in Maine and issue 1 begins.
That’s the basics of the plot, but there’s one more thing you should know about, and that’s the justice stones. The justice stones are Aegenan technology that gets implanted on Aegenans when they reach a certain age, and it becomes one with their physiology. It ends up looking like a small done on their chest, and from it they can pull an electric rod to beat people with. It also gives them the power of flight while holding it. The color of the rod, at least for the Protectorate, reflects their rank in their military hierarchy. Pretty fancy ass tech! While we only see the weapon in rod form here, we later see a justice stone user shape his into a sword. The justice stones are also tied into the electromagnetic field of the planet they are on, so it must be recalibrated before moving to a different planet, lest it malfunction and either kill or inhibit the user. So that’s most of the backstory, all that you need really. There’s a bit more of the relationship between Ohmen and Eliya, as well as Rigain and his father, but, meh, whatever, on with the actual content!
We meet Ohmen as he is being rescued from atop a frozen lake after he crash lands on Earth in a remote area of Maine. That rescuer is Jill Monroe, an artist who moved up north from New York to escape the big city and give herself more time to create and take in nature. She doesn’t know she’s rescuing an alien, just a guy she saw try to fly away after crashing. After being saved Ohmen takes up residence on Jill’s couch and proceeds to sleep for a few days to literally recharge his batteries. Ohmen and Jill spend 6 months in seclusion while Ohmen learns everything he can about Earth as well as start to utilize his justice stone. It is during this time that Ohmen takes up the name Union, as the word “union” is basically a simple way to express “cold fusion” which is what is going on in his justice stone. Uh… yeah, sure Ohmen, you’re Union now, whether or not that makes a lick of sence. While at a bar Jill and Union see a report about a few aliens flying around upstate New York and Union immediately recognizes them as Directorate soldiers. Before Jill can ask Union anything about it he’s off and flying to the town of Chichester, NY, secret headquarters of the Directorate on Earth.
Union arrives in Chichester and instantly gets his booty kicked by the Directorate. Union mistakenly believes that the Directorate has sent a few soldiers after him and had no idea of this town belonging to them. The Directorate have no idea the Union accidently found his way to Earth so they are thinking he is some kind of spy for the Protectorate. Oh these Aegenan scamps and their comical misunderstandings! Eventually King Darian (Regents father) shows up during Union’s torture and as he’s smacking the hell out of Union with his justice stone rod, Union goes full nuclear and somehow destroys all of Chicester, NY. Union, feeling mighty horrible about this, you know, accidently taking out an entire city, Directorate soldiers and families or not, decides to commit suicide by jamming Darian’s justice stone rod into his justice stone. Union passes out and somehow survives and as far as justice stones go, he levels up.
When Union awakes he is finds that StormWatch has surrounded Chichester and is trying to save any survivors and find the cause of the disaster. They also notice traces of a familiar energy that they’d like to find out more about. The energy is that of Regent, who just kicked their asses earlier, and this town was full of Directorate tech, so that makes a certain amount of logic. Too bad they’ll never discover anything about the Directorate or Regent here, as Union is going to cover everything up out of further guilt. At the same time he is doing everything he can to buy the trust of Jackson King, even giving his fingerprints so he’s in the police system and has a record on file as a super powered being. In any other story, blowing up a town and tricking the authorities wouldn’t be seen as a positive one, but Union pulls it off due to his down right Duddly Do-Right sense of honor. In fact, “Union” the book pulls it off by dividing the story up so we see Union helping out StormWatch as much as possible before finding out 3 issues later that he was the cause of the destruction in the first place. Very clever writing Mr. Heisler.
Before we are bookended with the full story of what happening Chichester we do get a few issues of Union going to New York City for a little vacation with Jill. He takes down a super powered villain known as the Quickness. In the course of this action he pisses off Jill by stranding her, but also finds the being behind the Quicknesses super-speed, a being known as Mnemo. Mnemo is a crazy looking, highly intelligent, alien or mutant something-or-other. He captures Union and means to figure out what makes him tick. Why is he so interested? Because he’s found a Protectorate soldier before, but this one didn’t survives his trip through the gate, and Mnemo wants to find a way to revive this man, or at least his justice stone. What does Mnemo get out of this? Turns out Mnemo is a weapons contractor for the feared Kaizen Gamorra. What? That name doesn’t strike any fear into your heart yet? Well, it will soon enough! In fact, you’ll get down right sick of that name after a while, but it all evens out in 10 years once “the Authority” starts being published.
Due to Union running off to go fight the Quickness, Jill gets stranded in NYC by herself. When he catches back up to her they get into a fight and she storms off back home to Maine. What a great guy that Union is, save the world, lose the girl! Of course this is when Union is captured by Mnemo. After Union gets free he goes back to Jill’s place to find she isn’t alone. In fact, she’s chilling with Union’s sorta ex-girlfriend Elyia! Elyia means to bring Union back to Aegena, but Union makes a compelling case to stay on Earth. First, he feels guilty about what he did to Chichester. Second, his justice stone is not only calibrated to Earth, but due to its upgrade who knows what’ll happen with it back home. Third, he doesn’t say this, but he digs on Jill and besides it looks like Elyia has herself a new man anyway. Before Elyia leaves, she lets Union know that Regent could not be found back home or in the rubble of Chichester, so odds are he is on Earth someplace and to look out for him. I still call this a bold move for “Union,” to have a big bad set up, and our hero is not even confronting him in its own limited series!
These books are still very entrenched in the then Image Universe. There are several references to Supreme and Youngblood throughout the book. We even get a cameo from Velocity from “Cyber Force.” The StormWatch appearance was great, but this was a WildStorm book, so that carries pretty well. Also, to have had Regent make his debut in “StormWatch” was a pretty bold move. If you only ever read “StormWatch” you see them almost get wiped out by a guy you never see again in that series. Then to find out he’s related to the goings-on in “Union” and to hardly see him in that book kind of infuriated me as a kid! I really wanted to see Regent and Union through down in “Union,” but the powers that be had other plans.
Next : “WildCats Trilogy” issues 1 through 3 by Brandon Choi, Dafydd Wyn and Jae Lee (with a short story from Steve Seagle and Travis Charest)
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Classical music: The fifth FREE citywide annual Make Music Madison – featuring 300 concerts at 100 venues — takes place all day tomorrow
Tomorrow – Thursday, June 21, 2018 — is the Summer Solstice.
That means summer arrives.
That makes it the longest day and shortest night of the year.
And that also makes it the day when the fifth annual Make Music Madison will take place. The FREE citywide festival of outdoor music-making will go on all day.
According to the official website, there will be more than 300 concerts at more than 100 venues.
The website also has a very well-organized listing of concerts, artists and venues. It features a very user-friendly search engine – called a Filter Map — where you can check out the events by genre of music, name of the performers and the venue. It also includes rain accommodations, and given the weather this week, that could come in handy.
Here is a link to the complete listings:
http://www.makemusicmadison.org/listings/2018/locations/
Here is a link to the website, which has a fascinating and impressive overview and also a gallery of photos from last year’s event:
http://www.makemusicmadison.org
Of course the majority of the music that will be played by both amateurs and professionals, both individuals and groups, will be non-classical: jazz, pop, hip-hop, rock and roll, folk, world, musical theater, early music, blues, Celtic, funk, gospel and many more.
But from what The Ear sees there are about 25 noteworthy classical offerings too. They include music for guitar, organ, brass, strings, cello, flute and piano, including a public piano that will be at the UW-Madison’s Alumni Park from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Other venues include churches and libraries, schools and shopping malls, parks and businesses.
Here is a more detailed list of classical offerings with artists as well as venues (you can hear a vocal group from 2015 in the YouTube video at the bottom):
http://www.makemusicmadison.org/listings/2018/artists?artist_name=&genre=Classical
If you go, leave a message about your reaction and how well it went in the COMMENT section.
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Classical music: Today is Earth Day 2018. Listen to a new one-hour symphony commissioned by National Geographic to mark the event in sound and pictures
Today is April 22, 2018 – Earth Day.
A lot of classical music is appropriate to the occasion, from the sound paintings in oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn to the chamber music and songs of Franz Schubert; from the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak and Gustav Mahler to the contemporary award-winning environmental music by John Luther Adams, much of whose work can be found on YouTube.
But of special interest this year is the one-hour “Symphony for Our World.” It is a five-movement symphony that was commissioned from two different composers – Austin Fray (below top) and Andrew Christie (below bottom) — by National Geographic to celebrate the planet.
The presentation premieres TONIGHT at 6 p.m. on the TV channel National Geographic WILD. (In the Madison area, the Spectrum/Charter cable channel is 147, 707 for HD.) Here is a link to a search engine that finds the channel where you live. Just plug in your ZIP code and your television provider:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel_finder/wild/
The performance tonight also marks the beginning of a national orchestra tour with the music. (You can see and hear the first two minutes in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Here is a link to a story with more information, including a trailer, the dates and places of the world tour, and quotes from the composers about the composition and which instruments evoke which natural phenomena:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/symphony-for-our-world-austin-fray-andrew-christie-culture-spd/
What composer or piece of classical music do you think best celebrates Earth Day?
Leave your answer with a YouTube link, if possible, in the COMMENT section.
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Classical music: The Madison Symphony Orchestra opens its 94th season this weekend with the sonic sensuality of music by Wagner, Dvorak, Debussy and Barber
It has been warmer than the usual fall weather, so why not go sultry?
That’s what the Madison Symphony Orchestra (below, in a photo by Peter Rodgers) will do when it opens its 94th season this coming weekend.
The program “Love, Lust and Redemption” will combine the power of the Klais organ (below top) with MSO principal organist and curator of the Overture Concert Organ Greg Zelek who opens the season with Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva.
The all-orchestral program also features the Madison Symphony Orchestra exploring the sonic sensuality of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”Overture, Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.
Performances will are in Overture Hall, 201 State Street, on Friday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $19 to $95. For more information, see below.
MSO music director and conductor John DeMain (below) says of the program:
“Our opening concert is both festive and gorgeously romantic as we present our star organist Greg Zelek (below) in his MSO concerto debut.
“We open with one of the most beautiful overtures ever written, Wagner’s Overture to the opera Tannhäuser and then, after intermission, the great Symphony No. 7 in D Minor by Dvorak.
In between is the little jewel by Debussy, his quintessential impressionistic masterpiece, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. All are favorites of mine, and I look forward to making them favorites of yours, if they aren’t already.”
“Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music” by Richard Wagner (below) is frequently performed as a separate work in orchestral concerts, the first such performance having been given by Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in February 1846.
Wagner began revisions to the opera immediately, which resulted in two more versions: the Paris version in 1861 and the Vienna version in 1875. Members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra Chorus also perform in this piece.
TheToccata Festiva was written by the American composer Samuel Barber (below) as an occasional work for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy. It pairs organ and orchestra, and celebrated the inauguration of a new organ for the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, a gift from longtime patron Mary Curtis Zimbalist who had also commissioned the new piece.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faunby French composer Claude Debussy (below) is a musical evocation of Stephane Mallarmé’s poem “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” in which a faun — a half-man, half-goat creature of ancient Greek legend — awakes to revel in sensuous memories of forest nymphs. Debussy begins the piece with a sinuous and well-known flute melody evocative of a graceful female form.
Symphony No. 7 by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak was greatly influenced by Johannes Brahms. Dvorak decided to compose this symphony after hearing Brahms’s new Symphony No. 3.
The piece is distinguished for its somber and dramatic atmosphere and its lack of Slavic-inspired melodies, a characteristic with which the composer’s style is usually associated. (You can hear the vivacious Scherzo in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
TICKETS AND EVENT DETAILS
The lobby opens 90 minutes prior to each concert. One hour before each performance, Randal Swiggum (below) will lead a 30-minute Prelude Discussion in Overture Hall to enhance concertgoers’ understanding and listening experience. It is free to ticket holders.
Program notes for the concerts are available online: http://bit.ly/msosept19programnotes.
Single Tickets are $19-$95 each and are on sale now at: https://madisonsymphony.org/event/love-lust-redemptionthrough the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street, or by calling the Box Office at (608) 258-4141. Fees apply to online/phone sales.
Flex-ticket booklets of 8-10 vouchers for 19-20 symphony subscription concerts are available. Learn more at: https://madisonsymphony.org/flex
Subscriptionsfor the 2019–2020 season are available now. Learn more at: https://madisonsymphony.org/19-20
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Classical music: As Pride month comes to an end, let us proudly recall LGBTQ classical composers and musicians. Plus, you hear a concert of queer composers and performers
This past weekend, this whole past month, the Rainbow flags (below) have been flying openly and high.
We saw all sorts of major Pride parades for LGBTQ rights as well as the 50th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City that eventually gave birth to a worldwide movement to ensure that queer people receive the human rights they deserve.
Since today is the last day of June, of Pride month, it seems fitting to recall the many LGBTQ composers and performers in classical music.
The gay rights movement has opened the closet doors not only of individual lives today but also of historical figures.
So here are several lists that may teach you something new about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer musicians.
Some of the calls seem iffy, unconvincing or overstated. Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin, for example, lived when homoerotic friendship did not necessarily mean a queer sexual identity. But one way or the other, historical proof and documentation can be hard to come by. And clearly there is much more to know about the past.
But take a look. At least you will see how scholars are undertaking new research and often undermining the heterosexual assumption that has wrapped so many historical and even contemporary figures in wrong or mistaken gender identity.
And if you find someone missing, please leave the name and appropriate information in the comment section.
Freedom, acceptance and respect are not zero-sum games in which one person or group can win only if another one loses. There is enough of each to go around. All can celebrate pride.
So enjoy the information, whether it is new or not, and the respect it should inspire for the central role of LGBTQ people in the arts both past and present.
Here is a pretty extensive and comprehensive list, in alphabetical order, from Wikipedia of LGBT composers, both living and dead. It includes Chester Biscardi (below) who did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Pauline Oliveros who did a residency at the UW-Madison several years ago. You don’t have to click on each name. Just hover the cursor arrow over the name and you will see a photo and biographical blurb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_composers
And here is a list, also in alphabetical order and also from Wikipedia, of LGBT musicians and performers, not all of them classical. It works by clicking on sub-categories that include nationality – though one wonders if musicians from extremely homophobic countries and cultures are included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_musicians
Here is a more selective list from The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, of 18 queer composers — including Corelli — who made history and you should know about:
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/2/08/18-queer-composers-who-made-music-history?pg=full
And here is a similarly selective list from radio station WFMT in Chicago of 15 LGBT composers — including Handel and Lully — you should know about:
https://www.wfmt.com/2015/06/25/15-queer-composers-know/
And in the YouTube video at the bottom is a Pride concert — 1 hour and 43 minutes long — recently held in New York City at the Greene Space, and hosted and recorded by radio stations WQXR and WNYC.
It features music by queer composers and performances by queer artists. Metropolitan Opera star Anthony Roth Constanzo performs. Also playing are pianists Steven Blier and Sara Davis Buechner, who have performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, respectively. The New York Gay Men’s Chorus sings. The Ear found the concert timely and moving.
If you have questions, comments or additional names, please do leave word in the comment section.
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Classical music: Let us now praise — and program — Lou Harrison, the prophetic American composer who pioneered both personal and professional diversity in music
The Ear has heard the name of Lou Harrison.
But he doesn’t recall ever actually hearing any music by Lou Harrison (below).
Maybe that will change, now that the centennial of Harrison’s birth is being marked.
Perhaps the UW-Madison or a smaller local group will do something, since neither the Madison Symphony Orchestra nor the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra has programmed anything by Harrison in their next seasons.
The Ear certainly hopes to hear some of Harrison’s intriguing and prophetic music, which seems to be a harbinger of contemporary globalism and world music, performed live. Harrison’s work seems to presage Yo-Yo Ma‘s crossover and cross-cultural Silk Road Ensemble, but was way ahead of its time and without the commercial success.
In any case, it seems very few composers pioneered and championed both personal and professional diversity through Asian sounds and an openly gay identity. Completely genuine, Harrison seemed creative and imaginative in just about everything he touched and did.
If you, like The Ear, know little about the maverick Lou Harrison, an excellent background piece, recently done by Tom Huizinga of National Public Radio (NPR), is a fine introduction.
Here is a link to the story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/05/13/525919082/lou-harrison-the-maverick-composer-with-asia-in-his-ears
Harrison composed a lot of music, including concertos for piano and violin, that shows Asian influences and combines them with traditional Western classical music. Below is a YouTube recording of his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan from 1981-82.
Have you heard or performed Harrison’s music?
What do you think of it?
Would you like to hear it programmed for live performance more often?
Leave your opinion in the COMMENT section.
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New research shows importance of climate on spruce beetle flight
By Karina Puikkonen
Isaac Dell collected hourly temperature data along with more than 70,000 insects across the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons.
If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could become more frequent, a new multi-year study led by Colorado State University finds.
While insect disturbances naturally cycle through forests, the current spruce beetle epidemic affecting Colorado Engelmann spruce forests has been one of the largest on record. The Colorado State Forest Service estimates that since 1996, over 40 percent of the state’s high-elevation forests, encompassing an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, have already been affected by this latest cycle. According to the research team, this has resulted in a widespread die-off of trees valued for their contributions to clean water, recreation and wood products.
The study, recently published in Environmental Entomology, provides new clues about spruce beetle behavior. Study co-authors Seth Davis, assistant professor in CSU’s Forest and Rangeland Stewardship department, and Isaac Dell, a graduate student at Montana State University, combined new beetle population and environmental data with climate projection models to see what could be in store in the future.
“Unfortunately, what we found suggests there is no best-case scenario,” said Davis, a specialist in plant and insect interactions. “Even if the climate increases by just one degree Celsius, we can expect spruce beetles to reproduce at higher rates than we’ve seen, with more time to invade trees.”
Video: Karina Puikkonen/CSU
Their results indicate slightly warmer conditions could contribute to longer flight periods and more eruptive beetle populations, due to larger populations of fertile females. This combination could equate to more intense insect pressure on spruce forests.
Temperature plays a critical role in this species’ lifecycle by affecting the insect’s development, dispersal and flight patterns. At field sites that spanned the length of Colorado, Dell collected hourly temperature data along with more than 70,000 insects across the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons. With corresponding winter temperature data from the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University, some patterns emerged.
“It became apparent that beetles in 2018 were larger in size, after a warmer and drier winter than in the previous year, and that females were also more numerous,” said Dell, who recently graduated from CSU with a master’s degree in Forest Sciences.
By adding one degree Celsius to the daily temperature data set, climate projections showed a likely increase of 200 growing degree-days, which are used to predict plant and animal development, at these locations. According to the researchers, this could extend the beetle’s potential flight period from a few weeks to multiple months. This projection is based on the assumption that new global greenhouse gas production would be eliminated by 2020.
The study found that the insects’ flights would also become more varied, making coordinated beetle attacks harder to predict.
To monitor these populations and subsequent impacts on Engelmann spruce trees, Dell said management efforts need to consider this expanded time period.
“For monitoring efforts, the best course of action for people is to place traps out earlier in the season,” added Dell. “We also recommend removing infested trees and traps in August, at the end of the beetle flight period.”
Davis said that while this scenario isn’t good news, he remains an optimist. By his estimates and through personal observation, up to 30 percent of beetle-infested, high-elevation forests have survived.
“It’s not always as bad as it looks when you’re driving by,” he said. “These interactions have been happening for thousands of years, and life, whether it’s a beetle, a tree or a forest, seems to find a way.”
Climate ChangeColorado State Forest ServiceDepartment of Forest and Rangeland Stewardshipforest healthWarner College of Natural ResourcesWarner Research
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The old school fixed
The weather in the UK has been pretty dire as of late, freezing rain, ice, snow, you know, basic crappy winter stuff, so to break up the monotony of cranking out miles on the roads, or having to avoid them because they’re just too dangerous I like to take to the trails. Now, that isn’t too unusual is it? Thing is I don’t own a mountain bike, I don’t have a cross bike, an adventure bike or even a gravel bike, so what do I ride? I take my ‘hack’ bike’. My steal frame, odd wheels, 69 inch fixed gear, single front brake, no nonsense ‘hack’ bike.
Back in the late 80’s at my first cycling club, Newark Castle CC, it became apparent that if I was going to join in with the pre Xmas club rides, then owning such a machine was a necessity. In the period between the end of the hill climb season and the start of proper winter training the idea was to just have fun, no structure, no pressure, certainly no goals and a big part of this involved riding a fixed gear, everywhere. Up to this point I’d never owned a track bike or even seen a velodrome, so riding ‘fixed’ was a whole new experience. For generations experienced club men have ridden fixed throughout the winter, just an old heavy steel frame, a single gear and a single brake to keep things simple and to work on their souplesse. It’s great for your pedaling technique, it always keeps you warm as there’s no freewheeling and there was very little to do maintenance wise, so after 5 hours in freezing conditions on crappy roads, all you had to do when you got home was chuck the bike in the shed and get warm. In our club, lead by our mentor Dave Kennedy everyone had a fixed gear and along with crunching the miles on the road, we all took it to the next level, we took them off road. A typical Sunday would involve an hour on tarmac, then, following an abrupt turn into a field, a couple of hours on lanes, tracks, paths, basically anything our machines could handle. It was a riot, getting bogged down, skidding around, it was great for bike handling and just a whole load of fun.
My first hack bike came courtesy of a hand me down from my uncle. For a few months I’d been running it with a single ring up front after the mech broke and gears at the back but now was the time for the transformation. I’d blagged an old track wheel from a club mate, stripped the old Peugeot back to its bare bones and was ready to go. The first time you head out on a fixed wheel can be and often is an unnerving experience. Having spent your whole life instinctively freewheeling when approaching an obstacle, junction, in fact anything, this was now not an option, you MUST NOT stop pedaling. For a couple of days I was doing fine, but then on day three on my way home from school and at some speed, although I can’t quite remember why, I impulsively went to freewheel and BOOM! Instead of my legs stopping they jerked me from the bike and I went flying, catapulted through the air and landing hard. Lesson learned. I NEVER did it again.
What gear we ran depended basically on either what sprocket we could find or what chainrings we had. We weren’t going to spend any money on these bikes unless we actually had to so it was always a case of mend and make do. The track wheel I was given had a 21 sprocket on already, so with a 42 or 52 tooth chainring at my disposal I had little choice other than to run the 52, which gave a gear of 66.9 inches, (which was pretty standard). Other key features of our bikes, we all ran 23mm slick tyres, naturally, perfect for the trails, and this being a more civilised time, we all ran mudguards, they were mandatory. Thing is, mudguards aren’t actually best suited to mud. They are fine at keeping a degree of water off you and your mates but you take a bike fitted with them into mud, well they soon clog up which in turn brings a new meaning to resistance training as you try to force your wheel round the gooey impediment. If you clog up though, you just stop, get a stick, force the mud out and get going, it’s all part of the fun, and yes, great strength training. Forcing a 69 inch gear up a 15% gradient on a muddy track with 23mm tyres is proper training, it’s eye balls out screaming, it’s weight lifting on a bike, and the foot must NEVER go down, no matter how slow you are going, you must fight, fight, FIGHT! My 45 min loop in Epping forest has six climb like this on it that take me deeper than I could ever go on the Turbo because it’s just survival, and I love it.
The hack bike isn’t just for Sundays though, it’s also your every day bike, your commuter, your cafe bike, pub bike, it is in constant use. You can lock it anywhere because it looks like junk and due to the fact that it needs such little maintenance you know it’s always going to be ready when called upon. When I moved to London in the mid 90’s my hack was the only working machine I had so not wanting to be without wheels that’s what I took. When I hit the city streets I found to my surprise that such a machine harbored great kudos because (way before the hipster invasion) the only people riding fixed were the street wise couriers who had also come to love and appreciate their simplicity and the purity of the machines.
For years the fixed wheel was a novelty on London’s streets but of course all this changed when fashion invaded cycling culture and the bearded clones of East London assimilated the fixed wheel scene and called it their own. The urban hack was now tarted up with rare Italian frames and idiots began commuting around the city on twin discs, calling them ‘fixies’. My blood boiled, how dare these impostors steal my identity, my culture and call it their own. The ‘fad’ still exists to some extent although it has faded now, but maybe a few of the fashionista found true joy from the purity of the fixed wheel and have since stuck with it because it makes sense, not just because it looks cool.
For me it’s always been my go anywhere bike. From 100 mile Sunday rides to transporting the kids to and from school to racing down a Belgian motorway because I’d missed a train (that’s another story). But most of all it will always be my messing around in the woods bike, I will never stop hitting the trials in winter on fixed, pushing a big gear up stupid inclines and trying to control it down the other side. It’s just basic simple cycling, it’s Rocky chopping wood and hauling rocks compared to Ivan Drago hooked up in a lab crunching the numbers. It’s primeval verses technology, it’s hassle free and yes, cheap.
Maybe if I had the space and the money then I’d have an adventure bike, a cross bike and a gravel bike but at the moment I have no need for any of them because I have my hack bike and I whole heartedly recommend you invest in one too.
The pictures show various incarnations of the third hack I’ve owned since my first back in ‘89. The first one lasted just four months before a van backed into it at a train station and crushed it. The second one I rode between 1990 and 2002 when it was stolen from our flat, which was devastating as it felt like I’d lost a family member. So now I’m on my third, an old Condor 531 road frame with mudguard eyes brazed on. Over the years components have come and gone, upgrades have been made, brackets for child seats added, wheels swapped. In fact last year I stumbled across some deep section Campag wheels on eBay going for a song so snapped them up, it was proper bling for a while, but then the rear one fell apart so I ditched them. Now I’m back on my trusty Miche track hub with an exquisite Campag Omega V rim at the back and an old Campag Neutron on the front. The seat is a ‘well’ worn Selle Italia Flight, bars and stem Cinelli, levers Tektro, front brake Campag Mirage, pedals Time, tyres 23mm Conti Gatorskins (nothing wider will fit under the mudguards), and that’s about it, oh and stickers, lots and lots of stickers. Oh and I now run a 46/18 gear which works out at 69 inches, that’s just right for Swains lane in London ;-)
I’ll be at Cadence Cycles in Crystal Palace next Month, Wednesday Feb 7th at 8pm if you want to come hear me talk about ‘The Joy of Hills’.
Places can be booked here
Thanks Simon
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Import and Export Procedures in Ethiopia
This page presents information about Ethiopian import and export procedures in Ethiopia.
Import Procedures in Ethiopia
Export Procedures in Ethiopia
1. Import Procedures in Ethiopia
An importer with an import license/investment permit has to follow certain procedures for importing goods. (See the article Import and Export Regulations in Ethiopia to learn about the procedures for obtaining import and export licenses)
Goods imported are not required to be inspected prior to shipment EXCEPT when:
they are imported from China (but goods that will be used as inputs for manufacturing will be exempt from this requirement). The certificate obtained for pre shipment inspections of goods from China is called CIQ certificate.
the goods imported have compulsory Ethiopian standard. In this case, the goods have to be inspected by an internationally recognised inpsection company prior to shipment and certficate issued.
the importer and the supplier have an agreement for pre-shipment inspections.
Arrangement and Mode of Payment
An importer has to fulfill two major requirements to settle payment. The first is that the importer must apply for an approval of foreign currency to a commercial bank which is authorized by the National Bank of Ethiopia. As part of the request, the importer must present his/her valid business and import license or investment permit, and a pro-forma invoice from the supplier. The pro-forma invoice should describe the imported goods, state the unit price, quantity and total price, as well as list additional charges that may be applied on the transaction.
(See the article Foreign Exchange Regulation and Directives in Ethiopia for further information)
After an approval of foreign currency, the importer must obtain a bank permit in order to arrange the mode of payment. The bank permit is obtained from the NBE. However, an importation of exceptional goods is allowed on a franco-vaulta basis. Importation of goods on the basis of franco-valuta means the importer is allowed to use his/her own hard currency for the payment of the goods instead of applying for it and getting it from the government. The goods which may be imported on a franco-vaulta basis include:
imported good by diplomatic personnel for diplomatic purposes;
specific personal goods;
goods imported for investment activities including capital goods and raw materials adequate to commissioning stage and for their personal use by investors having license from the appropriate government office.
(See article 2(9) of the Revised Regulations on the Importation of Goods on Franco-Valuta Basis Regulation No. 88/2003)
Revised Regulations on the Importation of Goods on Franco-Valuta Basis Regulation No. 88/2003 DOWNLOAD
As such, in most circumstances importers should arrange the payment of the imported goods through banks. After the bank permit has been issued by the NBE, the importer then chooses the mode of payment in accordance with his/her agreement with the seller. There are three methods of payment for imports (and also exports) in Ethiopia;
Letter of Credit, in which the bank undertakes to pay the supplier a stated sum of money within a prescribed time limit and against the hand-over of the documents needed for the release of goods from customs. A letter of credit normally includes, a commercial invoice, manufacturer’s invoice, packing list, country of the goods origin, original sets of bill of lading, airway bill, truck way bill, railway Manifest (depending on the mode of transportation), and a certificate of quality.
Cash against Document, where the importer’s bank hands over to the importer the documents needed for the release of goods from customs against full payment.
Advance Payment, i.e. the importer orders the bank to pay the seller via SWIFT transfer prior to shipping or rendering the service.
An application for the above mode of payments is usually accompanied with the following documents;
Import license/investment permit
Tax Identification Number (TIN)
Other documents required for the foreign currency approval;
The foreign currency approval;
Insurance certificate,
Regulatory permit (for products requiring pre-import permit), and ownership certificate from country of purchase (for used vehicles),
An original price confirmation (for used commodities),
A written waiver (in case of shipment by a foreign vessel),
An undertaking letter for the entry of goods (in case of advance payment).
(An application form, used by the Ethiopian Commercial Bank, for a letter of credit is available HERE)
For all methods of payment, the importer is required to have an account with the bank, a TIN and he/she must not be listed on the National Bank of Ethiopia delinquent list which is a register that includes account holders whose cheques have been dishonored repeatedly; and whose accounts are closed by banks.
Once payment has been effected, the importer should be sure to collect his documents from the bank in case of letter of credit or cash against person and from the supplier in case of advance payment.
Customs Proceedings for Imported Goods
(See the article Customs Procedures in Ethiopia for more information)
i. Customs Declaration
An importer should first prepare a customs declaration (goods declaration) and submit such declaration to the Customs Commission (the former ERCA). The custom declaration must include the contract of sale; goods description; tariff classification, valuation and payment of duties and taxes, and other supporting data (such as the name and address of the trade operator and, the mode of transportation to be used).
After the submission, the Customs Commission will examine the declaration by verifying the correctness of data information, tariff classification, valuation and payment of duties and taxes registered and supporting documents attached to declaration. The verification process may also include the fulfillment of legislative requirements administered by other regulatory agencies, such as veterinary, health and/or phytosanitary issues.
ii. Payment of Customs Duty and Taxes
The importer is required to pay duties and taxes on the imported goods which include customs duty at 0-35% based on the type of good imported, VAT at 15%, withholding tax at 3% on the CIF (Cost+Insurance+Freight), Surtax at 10% and excise tax for few selected goods at 10%-100%.
iii. Inspection
There is also a physical examination that will be conducted on the goods in order to ensure that the imported goods are not harmful to the public. Further, the imported goods will be examined so that their origin, country of export, nature, condition, quality, quantity, tariff classification and value of the goods are in accordance with the information furnished in the goods declaration.
iv. Clearance and Goods Release
In addition to the Customs Commission’s (ERCA’s) clearance activities (based on the physical examination conducted above), other regulatory bodies will also be involved in the clearance of certain imported goods. This applies to all goods for which pre-import permits are issued, as well as the ones for which an import permit is issued only at the time of clearance. The importer or his/her agent is responsible for obtaining the necessary permits from the regulatory agencies at the time of clearance. For instance, a person importing medicine is required to obtain a pre-license, before the starting of the import procedure and an import permit at the time of entry in order to obtain clearance.
After the physical examination and obtaining the necessary license, the importer will obtain a goods release charges upon the payment of services charges. The goods will then be released and the importer takes possession of them. In addition, the Customs Commission (ERCA) will issue a final declaration for the importer as a certificate of completing the import procedures and importation of goods.
Any importer who obtained a foreign currency permit should present the final import customs declaration to the NBE. This is a requirement for importing (or exporting) goods in the future.
Note that an importer should keep all records and documents related to the import for five years from the date of Customs Commission (ERCA’s) acceptance of the goods declaration. During this period, Customs Commission (ERCA) may perform a post clearance audit of the import. The purpose of such audits, which may cover traders’ commercial data, business systems, records and books, is to verify the accuracy and authenticity of declarations and information provided by the importer.
2. Export Procedures in Ethiopia
Application to the NBE/Authorized Commercial Bank
An application must be submitted to the NBE that is accompanied with the export contract, seller’s invoice, export license of seller, TIN, export permit application, letter of seller stating that consignment will be settled within 90 days maximum and any other relevant document.
Note that the exporter must notify the Ministry of Trade that a contract deal has been made with a buyer within 15 days of the conclusion of the contract for export.
Further, the buyer must, first, open an irrevocable L/C/documentary credit in favour of the seller. The exporter should go through the text of the L/C opened in their favour and make sure that compliance can be met without doubt.
Customs Proceedings
(Also see the article Customs Procedures in Ethiopia)
The Custom declaration should include the type of export regime, detailed information about the exported goods, and also tariff classification and customs valuation, which is relevant to determine the correct export duties and taxes. The exporter, then, submits the customs declaration to the Customs Commission which may accept or reject the declaration.
Upon acceptance of the customs declaration, the exporter pays the due export duties and taxes which is almost at 0%. The customs duty on exported goods is 0% except for selected hides, skins and leathers. VAT is also calculated at 0% for exported goods. But there is an excise tax imposed on the exportation of selected goods.
ii. Obtain Certificates
After the customs declaration the exporter then must obtain the necessary certificates. When export product is ready, the exporter must obtain certification from the Inspection Centre that the commodity is prepared in accordance with the characteristics of the agro-ecology of its production area and meets the required grade.
The exporter also must obtain a certificate of origin from Chambers of Commerce and special movement forms or certificates issued by the Customs Authority.
iii. Obtain export customs clearance and ship goods
The customs commission (ERCA) should physically examine the export goods in particular whether they confirm to the customs declaration and depending on the risk assessment. Further exported goods are subjected to pre-shipment mandatory inspections. For instance coffee, must be examined by the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Development (which is under the Ministry of Agriculture, and Natural Resources), while live animals and meat products, oilseeds and pulses are inspected by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries.
The exporter may also inspect and insures the export cargo.
After the examination, the exporter is granted a release note upon the payment of warehouse fees and any other service charge.
iv. Arrange Payment Issue
An arrangement for payment may be through the franco-valuta basis or bank permit. A bank permit allows for three types of payment modalities; letters of credit, cash against payment, and advance payment. To obtain a permit for any of these, the exporter is required to present a completed bank permit form, which is available from the banks, along with the following documents to his/ her bank.
An original sales contract agreement;
The exporter’s business license;
The exporter’s TIN certificate;
For L/C: Advice and shipping documents (commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading or air way bill, certificate of origin and regulatory permit, if required);
For advance payments: original credit advice, and advance payment receipt advice (incoming telegraphic transfer) or customs declaration along with a bank advice for the sale of the cash notes to the bank.
Commercial invoice including one copy duly certified by the Customs;
Packing List;
Foreign exchange declaration forms;
Customs Declaration Annex form (CDAF) in duplicate;
Certificate of Origin; and
Insurance Policy in duplicate.
For all methods of payment, the exporter needs to have an account with the bank and must not be listed on the NBE delinquent list. Additionally, the exporter should collect his documents from the bank or the buyer when payment has been effected.
In case of a documentary credit, the commercial bank negotiates these documents to the importer’s bank in the manner as specified in the letter of credit. Before negotiating documents, the exporter’s bank scrutinizes them in order to ensure that all formalities have been complied with and all documents are in order. The bank then sends the bank certificate and attested copies commercial invoice of the exporter.
Next, the exporter can get immediate payment from his/her respective bank on the submission of documents by signing a Letter of Indemnity. By signing the Letter of Indemnity the exporter undertakes to indemnity the bank in the event of non receipt of payment from the importer along with accrued interests.
Further, where payment should be effected via a documentary credit (L/C) banks have the obligation to verify documents in a way that the documents strictly conform to the instruction contained in the credit (Article 965 of the commercial code). The bank is, however, not liable where the documents are on their face value in conformity with the instructions received (Article 966 of the commercial code). When the bank refuses the documents, it will notify the presenter with the error’s found for rectification (Article 965 of the Commercial Code).
(See also the article Foreign Exchange Regulation and Directives in Ethiopia on retention and utilization of foreign exchange by exporters)
v. Pay service charges and receive final export customs declaration
This is the last stage of the export procedure. After fulfilling all obligations for customs clearance and the release of goods, ERCA will issue the final declaration to the exporter as a certificate that all customs procedures related to the export of the goods have been accomplished.
Any exporter who obtained an export bank permit is expected to present the final export customs declaration to the NBE. This is a requirement for importing or exporting goods in the future. As in the case of imports, an exporter must keep all records and documents related to the export for five years from the date of ERCA’s acceptance of the goods declaration. During this period, the Customs Commission (ERCA) may perform a post clearance audit of the export.
Last Updated on 16 May 2019
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AFL announces big investment in..
AFL announces big investment in Tasmania
Football Featured
Tasmania will have a team in the TAC Cup from next year.
The state has also been granted a provisional VFL licence for the 2021 season.
The AFL announced a $1.4 million investment in Tasmanian football on Tuesday, which also includes plans for a women’s under-18 side in 2020.
League boss Gillon McLachlan said the passion for footy in Tasmania need to be “harnessed”.
“Now is the time to unite,” he said.
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Melanie Perkins Says Canva Is On Track To Hit 1 Billion Designs
by Robyn Foyster 13/12/2018, 3:26 pm
Leading online design and publishing tool Canva is empowering everyone across the globe to design anything and publish anywhere. Here the inspirational Melanie Perkins from Canva talks about her plans for 2019.
Canva Founder Melanie Perkins told Women Love Tech “It’s been a huge and exciting year for Canva. Our goal has always been to empower the world to design, so in 2017 we launched in 100 languages. This year, we launched in China and set up a great team in Beijing, and we are launching in ‘right-to-left’ languages next week after a year-long effort from the team – so Canva will shortly be able to be used by Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew and Farsi speakers as well!
“We’re already used in 190 countries across the globe, so it’s exciting to ensure that Canva is available in everyone’s native language.
“We’ve also continued to grow incredibly rapidly – last year in November we had 34 million designs created and this year we had 80 million. We’re on track to hit 1 billion designs next week!”
Right-to-left beta
This announcement signifies Canva’s official roll-out of its Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Farsi, Punjabi, Urdu and Uyghur versions, empowering more people to design in the language of their choice. The Canva editor for right-to-left language users is in a mirror image of an equivalent English page, with all components on the page optimized for these languages including text alignment, ordering of functionalities including the editing tool, search, media library, and much more.
Rachel Carruthers, Localization lead at Canva said the roll-out is a logical step in seeing the company’s vision of empowering the world to design. “We’re committed to offering a truly local experience to our design community through our new Canva versions in Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Farsi Punjabi, Urdu and Uyghur. Not only will our community get to choose their preferred language when designing, we’ll also be providing localized design assets and a populated font library that will resonate with the design aesthetics of our right-to-left markets. Canva is the design tool that anyone – from any part of the world – can use out of the box and design intuitively.
Canva founder Melanie Perkins
Canva China
In order to tailor experiences to all markets, Canva has also launched a tailored product specifically for its design community in China. This includes social media enthusiasts, budding entrepreneurs, small-medium businesses, as well as big enterprise. Beike, China’s leading real estate service platform with over 170k agents operating over 95 cities, has recently adopted Canva as their design platform for all marketing collaterals across China.
Na Xiang, Growth Manager at Beike said, “It’s great to see that our growth and operations teams in all cities are able to independently design marketing materials without worrying about IP risks. It not only enables everyone to satisfy their design needs in a timely manner which relieves tremendous pressure off HQ, but also insures on-brand designs which promote brand image.”
Robin Zhang, CEO at Canva China said the team’s priority is to provide a product that is culturally relevant.
“The team focussed on delivering a brand new local product which is supported with a reliable media library of Chinese fonts and assets, and managed by a team based in Beijing. To provide Canva’s Chinese design community with reliable and risk-free design assets, we partnered with local businesses VCG to provide images, and Hanyi to provide a range of free and paid Chinese fonts.
“It was important for us to not simply ‘repurpose’ a product for our users in China; to serve our Chinese user’s unique requirements, we needed to build a specific product heavy with local features. For example, our community in China will require the ability to signup and login using Chinese social media accounts, and the ability to publish to local publish endpoints such as social media posts for WeChat, Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ.”
Robin explained how Canva will give everyone in the country the power to design with ease.
“Different markets have different design aesthetics. Online retailers especially will be able to adapt their design style to any market by removing any cross-border barriers abundant in functional design. With Canva, we are making it super easy to experiment with design by featuring local templates, as well as international styles.”
Canva’s diverse and inclusive Marketplace
Canva’s Marketplace features contributors from over 80 countries, bringing a diverse range of media assets strengthened by unique and local perspectives that will resonate with a global audience. Searches can be conducted in more than 30 languages, providing everyone access to the same pool of high-quality content.
Anna Guerrero, Head of Marketplace at Canva explained, “Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of our values, and aligned with our mission of democratizing design. We know that it’s not only important to have a diverse representation of our design community in our marketplace, but it’s also about providing a meaningful and tailored experience for our users. This is about providing everyone with a design and publishing tool that resonates with everyone regardless of who you are, or where you come from.”
As part of its diverse and inclusive Marketplace offering, Canva has also launched the Natural Women Collection, a completely free stock photo collection that showcases everyday women whose personal stories and experiences challenge both societal standards of beauty and gender norms.
About Canva
Since launch in 2013, over 15M users across 190 countries have created over 850M designs on the intuitive Canva platform, empowering users to design anything and publish anywhere. Today Canva is available in over 100 languages, and accessible on desktop, iOS and Android.
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America’s Favorite National Pastime: Loving Soccer
Morgan Green June 26, 2014 United States, US, US National Team, World Cup, World Cup 2014 19 Comments
The debate about whether soccer has “made it” in America is one that has been going on for decades. Since hosting the World Cup in 1994, the popularity of the sport in this country has steadily risen year after year. Personally I don’t believe it will ever become the most popular sport in this country. I’d be happy with it giving the NFL a run for its money, but the tidal wave of support that soccer has gotten in this country during the 2014 World Cup has been a joy to see. The thing that strikes me as being a big difference from this World Cup compared to others though has been the interest from casual fans outside of Team USA.
Typically, like the Olympics, you’ll get the people that will tune in to just our country’s matches and then be done with it. But things are different this year. People are watching and following these games every single day. It’s obviously helped that this has been hands down one of the most entertaining group stages in years, but it’s still worth mentioning that, for the most part, people have been generally excited by nearly every game of this World Cup.
But it’s not just the viewing numbers, the social media interactions or the packed bars that are leading me to proclaim that soccer is really making an impact in this country this year. If you’ve scrolled through Twitter or various news sites during the World Cup, you’ve probably been unfortunate enough to see something that truly confirms that soccer is making people sit up and take notice. I’m talking about the American political blogospheres all-out assault on soccer that has taken place throughout this World Cup. Now, as a soccer fan, I’m used to the crotchety old sports columnist talking about how soccer is bad because it’s boring, there isn’t enough scoring, you can’t even use your hands, etc. We’re at a point where pretty much everybody knows that those are just cheap column inches used to pander to a now ever dwindling section of the sports world that is vehemently against soccer.
When will the people who sit behind their cushy desks vomit words about how awful our political system is and how our country is going to hell in a hand basket on a regular basis sit up and take notice? Now you’ve made it. After forcing myself to read through several of these pieces, I’ve loosened the noose I had thrown around my ceiling fan for a second and decided that it’s time to hit back. There are a few recurring themes that I’ve noticed through a lot of these articles and I will get to them below, but it should be noted that these people know absolutely nothing about sports. They’re casual fans at best and really only pop up when their target audience has something to say about whatever sport is going on at the moment. When a sport that nobody cares about gets political bloggers to sit up and take notice, that’s when that sport has truly made it to the big time. So let’s go ahead and see how soccer is going to put America on the fast track to becoming big in the USA!
Ivan June 26, 2014
Coulter is the worst thing to happen to mankind since Satan?
World would be such a better place once this creature is dead, no disrespect or anything.
Do you think Satan would want to come anywhere this Monster?
USA, bring on Belgium!
TamaraH71 June 26, 2014
Welcome to America, Football! LOL
She needs to be ‘Suarez’d’.
insert name here June 26, 2014
ahh theyre just scared.. Soccer will become the number one sport in America. Its only a matter of time. Its the Godzilla of sports. Its unstoppable. Its an amazing sport and once the young people get the bug (and theyve got it now) then it will take over. It might take another 10/20+ years but it will eventually take over. I know people will disagree with me about that and thats fine but in my opinion its only a matter of time. I am glad to see this positive reaction to this World Cup and I am also glad to see these fearful reactions to it too. Be afraid, be very afraid.. Its heeeeereeeeeee !!!!(:
ipilesk July 9, 2014
Oh sure it will. People like you were saying this, too, 4 years ago. And 4 years before that. And 4 years before that. And a decade before that. And another decade before that. On and on through the years, you soccer-loving douchebags say that soccer will become the #1 sport in this country! And every year, you end up being pathetically wrong! LOL! And you always will be! ROFL!
Me July 9, 2014
Soccer? Yawn. It’s well placed in fifth position in a 4-sport race (NFL,NBA,MLB,NHL..Soccer). Once the World Cup is finished, it will go back to being an afterthought. It’s widely considered to be a children’s game. It may gain some ground, but the NFL is king, and will remain so.
john marzan June 27, 2014
classy post from world soccer talk.
Mark Williamson June 27, 2014
This makes me very happy. I never tried to shove the game down peoples throats that did not watch it, but got tired of defending myself because I did. That is history, I have had more than a few people come to me the last two weeks, n0n-fans, that have told me, “I get it, I get it!!. It is fun and exciting to watch.” Hallelujah, my favorite sport has arrived.
Bergkamp_10 June 27, 2014
Soccer is a tidal wave in USA and it cannot be stopped. Not by these old school bloggers that can spew all their hatred where the sun don’t shine. I love how soccer fever is taking over USA and young Lionel Messi brewing somewhere. Go USA!
Oh yes. A tidal wave. Why, the total fandom of soccer in the United States probably increased from the 300 people there were before….all the way to 400! LOL! What a tidal wave, eh? Suck it, you soccer-loving loser! Football, basketball, baseball, and hockey OWN YOU.
gillyrosh June 27, 2014
I am just amazed that people still pay attention to Ann Coulter.
Flyvanescence June 27, 2014
Agreed. Or any of the political right or left extremists. Troublemakers the lot of them.
yespage June 27, 2014
Yeah, though you’ll have a hard time finding extremists in the left publishing best sellers or having columns in papers.
Martin J. June 27, 2014
There’s no such thing as bad publicity. The more the anti-soccer crowd roars the better.
The fact that anyone cares to talk about soccer means it is relevant.
Finally, she is a “Faux News” analyst. Enough said.
She is just trying to ruffle feathers. She is a troll just trying to get attention so she can sell her next book. It is pathetic.
Probably should send Suarez after her.
rkujay June 27, 2014
I became a footy fan in 1959. I long ago stopped being an apologist or an evangelist. However, I just had a moment of introspection when I read someone’s remarks concerning diving and feigning injury. I hadn’t thought of it much lately,and it occurred to me that those things might be difficult to explain to a novice. I guess that I have just come to accept that some people dive, others fake injury, and still others endeavor to get opponents carded. I’ve heard and never accepted the ‘cultural differences’ argument. Cheating is cheating. I can’t explain it to those who don’t know the game. I certainly do not accept it myself. Noble causes FIFA has in Respect and Say no to racism. Now LET’S ACT LIKE MEN AND STOP CHEATING.
Football reflects all aspects of society. Its all about getting a edge on your opponent and doing anything you can to survive. A lot of these players come from abject poverty and will do anything to succeed. I hate to say it but cheating is part of the football and will never be totally wiped out. Its part of the drama and the narrative. Also cheating is in every sport, not just football. Even sports like snooker players fix matches, Rugby players have used fake blood, American football players have used steroids & even petroleum jelly, cyclists used whatever they can inject into themselves, cricket people damage the ball, etc and so on and so forth. The list is endless.. Sport is a reflection of life and people are unpredictable and flawed. You wont stop cheating. Its more obvious & regular in football but its in every sport. The best we can hope for is that video technology is brought in to punish those who have clearly cheated. The sooner they do this the better.
Bo June 27, 2014
I have to say, as a “conservative” person myself, everything she’s said is disgusting and totally ignorant. From my years of talking to people, most young “conservative” and “center/moderate” people are the ones that love soccer and play it or at least even if they don’t follow it as closely as I do are very excited and enjoying this world cup. Most of the people that I’ve met that don’t like soccer are older people that don’t understand because they never grew up with it or surprisingly “liberal” type people who push American football and baseball. All she’s after is attention, which is kinda sad. Best thing to do is to not give her or other people against the sport or world cup any attention.
p.s.I kinda like the metric system.haha;D
Mikael July 9, 2014
Not that I get why anyone should really care what this woman is saying. But it is really quite amazing to write an entire article and not get a single thing right. She even has her own unique and equally mistaken interpretation of the term “soccer mom” (English is not my first language, but I guess she has it confused with “helicopter parent”?).
Ann Coulter is usually wrong about every single thing, but I will admit – she is right about one thing: soccer is horrible and un-American. To its core.
Oh, and this drubbing of soccer in the political press that’s happening right now? IT HAPPENS EVERY FOUR YEARS, MORGAN! You total dumbass. Soccer hasn’t made it in this country. It never has and it never will. DEAL WITH IT, you soccer-loving losers! LOL!
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Kelly Ripa responds to backlash over son in ‘extreme poverty’ joke
Posted 8:49 pm, October 23, 2019, by WQAD Digital Team
Turns out even the children of celebrities can be broke. Kelly Ripa appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and talked about about how her son, Michael Consuelos, is living on his own in Brooklyn.
(CNN) — Kelly Ripa is defending a joke she made about her son on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
She appeared on the late-night talk show Tuesday and talked about how her son, Michael Consuelos, is living on his own in Brooklyn.
The 22-year-old, who attends New York University, is learning how to live on his own like many other young people, according to his mom.
“I think he loves the freedom,” Ripa joked. “He hates paying his own rent, and he’s chronically poor. I don’t think he ever really experienced extreme poverty like now.”
The talk show host said her son has been eagerly looking forward to the annual Halloween gift of $20 his grandparents usually send.
“Now that he’s living on his own, he’s called three times,” Ripa said about her son inquiring as to whether the monetary gift has arrived.
Some folks didn’t take kindly to what they saw as a successful celeb making light of poverty.
On Wednesday Ripa responded in the comments section of a photo of her and her son on her official Instagram page writing “Michael goes to college and is a senior and works full time.”
“He is in his first non-parent subsidized apt with roommates. I’m used to getting a lot of slack because people love to have fake outrage over something they didn’t see,” she wrote. “They only read a headline and wag their tired fingers. I didn’t grow up privileged and neither did @instasuelos [her husband Mark’s Consuelos’s Instagram handle].”
“We work and we expect our kids to as well,” she added. “And the fact that a pack of fools want to b***h about that, i say let em.”
Ripa also joked about how she and her husband, Mark Consuelos, can’t seem to get rid of their kids.
The couple came home after lunch years ago from dropping Michael at NYU only to find him in the living room saying he thought he might stay the weekend, she said.
Daughter Lola, 18, started at NYU this fall and apparently got a little homesick, despite insisting her parents probably wouldn’t see her for a while.
Ripa said she and her husband, who also have a 16-year-old son named Joaquin, were enjoying a jaunt to Long Island after leaving Lola at school when they were alerted that their daughter had returned.
“Sunday evening, our alarm trips,” Ripa said. “My daughter’s having a party on the roof of our house. She was gone 12 hours and came home.”
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The associative project that it implemented was born from the desire to safeguard, restore / rehabilitate and enhance the Cistercian Abbey Reigny by making it a multicultural space and encounters of artists from Francophone world with local public and tourists.
This is to enhance and promote the architectural, archaeological, rural, industrial and environmental Reigny Abbey and facilitate the access to culture.
In several aspects, the voluntary project performs structuring functions to the art plan of narrative and music as well as in terms of the Yonne area in the field of heritage. It has functions of radiation and proximity to most events it implements.
It is designed to benefit from the addition of various institutional partners (State, Regional Council, General Council, Community common between Cure and Yonne, Vermenton Commune …).
Founded in July 2005, and recognized the public interest in October of the same year, the Friends of the Abbey of Reigny (AAR), stronger now more than 300 members, brings together all those who want to help the preservation and the fame of this masterpiece of Cistercian architecture is Our Lady of Reigny.
The association, organization totally independent of the owners of the domain of Reigny, has a more effective role multiply donations and memberships. These will be more numerous that the association will be active and will prove its professionalism in the context of cultural activities that will develop and in its participation in the restoration and preservation of architectural and environmental heritage that represents the field abbey.
The associative project :
Multi actors, it combines partnerships with local authorities, civil society and business.
Multi sector (heritage, architecture, reading, performing arts, visual arts, scientific culture …).
Link builder between the fields of culture, education and training to rural economic development through tourism.
Promoter of quality culture in all its diversity.
it allows :
Work on the enhancement and development of local potential.
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Actions towards a wider audience panel and particularly towards young people.
The usual activities of the association are :
Event organization: Volunteer projects to restore and enhance the historical and archaeological site of the Abbey of Reigny, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, study tours, festivals, shows, concerts and other artistic events, cultural, scientific and techniques.
The publication and distribution of books, films and any other documents and works on material and immaterial supports existing or future.
Restoration and enhancement of the built heritage and gardens of the Abbey of Reigny.
Other actions directly or indirectly to the realization of the social and cultural objectives of the Association.
These activities are intended to be carried out in partnership with public or private, national or foreign.
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Acas launches guidance for students planning to work while at university
Workplace expert Acas has published guidance for university students who plan to work part-time after they start university.
Working part-time at university
Fresher's week begins at most UK universities this week but once the festivities finish, many students may consider taking a part-time job to help with their expenses while they study.
Acas Chief Executive, Susan Clews, said:
"Freshers' Week is a brilliant opportunity for students to meet new people, take part in various social activities and get settled into their new university life.
"Once the festivities are over, there will be students who decide to work part-time to help with living expenses. A lot of these jobs are likely to be casual, gig working or zero-hours contracts.
"Whatever type of work it is, Acas can help with free advice and guidance to help students get the most out of work and make sure they know their rights."
Tips for student workers
Acas's guidance gives tips on what to expect from a pay packet, what to wear and what kind of rights you can get - in jobs that involve part-time working, gig working or zero hours contracts.
Top tips include:
As a part-time worker you get holidays based on the hours you've worked, comparable to full-timers. This must be detailed in your employment contract. Check with your manager if you have questions.
Zero-hours workers are entitled to annual leave, the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage like regular workers.
'Gig work' usually means you're paid for the amount of 'gigs' you do. This might be anything from delivering food to handing out marketing samples. But some gig work is self-employed, which means you're not entitled some basic workplace rights such as paid time off work.
If you're asked to wear a uniform, or the workplace has a dress code, this should be in your contract and explained to you before you start.
You should expect an induction when you're welcomed into a new organisation. This should include explaining your duties and introducing you to the rest of your team. If you're not sure how to do something or why you're doing it ask your supervisor or a colleague.
Read the full guidance for student workers at archive.acas.org.uk.
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High Valued Real Estate Destinations in Bangalore – I
The Residential real estate in Bangalore has a slightly different tune to it in comparison with the other cities. Though, Demonetisation of higher valued currency notes did pause the momentum of the residential real estate it has however, not stopped the developers from continuing with their initiated projects. As per some experts, around 40% of the under construction projects will be in the ready-to-move-in stage by the next three to four quarters signalling what can be termed as a very positive outlook for the residential real estate.
Now why is Bangalore not as affected as it should have been?
There are various reasons and the primary among them is that the city is the centre for Information Technology (IT) and ITES parks and is dubbed as the ‘’Silicon Valley’’ of India. Second, there has been a mushrooming growth of start-ups in Bangalore over the last five years also making it the start-up hub of India. Thirdly, Bangalore has been known as the ‘’Pensioners’ Paradise’’, and thankfully is still blessed with abundant green caps and large land parcels and wonderful weather.
There are certain areas that stand above the rest as the most favoured residential destinations. These localities are blessed with abundant Social and Physical infrastructure and are well connected, plus, they also have a regular supply of public utilities such as water and electricity.
Some of the highly valued locales in Bangalore –
Sadashiva Nagar: Located very close to the center of the city (6 KM from M.G Road) on one side and having a direct access to the northern parts of Bangalore on the other, Sadashiva Nagar has been a top real estate destination for quite some years now. The locality lies on the Bellary Road that connects to Hebbal and beyond to the International Airport. Sadashiva Nagar is just around 30 KM from the Airport via the Bellary Road and has great connectivity.
Home to a lot of government officials, politicians, film stars and celebrities Sadashiva Nagar paints the picture of a quaint place that is deliberately calm and composed in a start contrast to other parts of Bangalore that are rather loud and noisy. The locality still holds onto the green cap and retains the charm of the old Bangalore. Sadashiva Nagar was originally built on the palace grounds that belonged to the Kings of Mysore, the Wodeyar Family.
The roads in the locale are characterised by the trees and mansions of different designs. The value per sq. ft in the locale is upwards of INR 16,000 making Sadashiva Nagar one of the highly valued residential destinations in Bangalore.
Shanthala Nagar-Lavelle Road: Just a few minutes away from M.G Road (about 3KM), Shanthala Nagar is another top destination that comprises the trinity – Lavelle Road, Vittal Mallya Road and Kasturba Road. The locale is situated right in the heart of the city surrounded by popular areas such as Richmond Town, MG Road, Cubbon Park making it a destination hotspot. It is also not too far from the transportation hub of Bangalore – The Majestic area.
Lavelle Road – A mix of old and modern buildings adorn the Lavelle Road. It is named after Irish miner Michael Lavelle who was the first to obtain contracts for Gold mining in Kolar Gold Fields. Lavelle Road is abundant with shopping centres, restaurants and pubs making it one of the priciest and preferred social destination. The road is also known for hosting the D’Souza layout, a historical place built by Michael Lavelle. The rates in Lavelle road are upwards of 15,000 / sq. ft with certain pockets demanding as much as INR 19,000 / sq. ft.
Richmond Town: Just about a few stretches away from Shanthala Nagar is Richmond Town. Established during 1883, it was originally part of the Bangalore Cantonment area and later developed into a residential locality. The area is close to the centre of the city and is known for its colonial heritage. The modern-day Richmond Town stands as a representative of multi-cultural ethos and is well laden with shopping centres and restaurants.
Its proximity to central hubs such as M.G Road, Brigade Road, Shanthala Nagar, Lavelle Road is what makes Richmond Town even more valued. It is also very closely located to the Shanthi Nagar Bus hub and lies along the Old Airport-Cantonment Road that connects Richmond Town to other surrounding localities making it a well-connected place. Richmond Town has a land value of upwards of 11,500 per sq. ft and ascertains itself as a top residential spot in Bangalore.
Malleswaram: Situated right on the edge of Sadashiva Nagar towards its west, Malleswaram reminds us of what was once the old Bangalore. Characterised by homes built in traditional designs and by independent homes, Malleswaram is one area that paints the picture of a small town and yet is distinctly different and well placed as self-sufficient locale.
The locale is home to popular retail hubs on the Margosa and Sampige Roads and is home to the popular Mantri Mall. The Bangalore Metro lines move through Malleswaram making it a central hub of connectivity for both north and west Bangalore. If there is one area in Bangalore that blends the traditional and modern construction seamlessly, it is Malleswaram. The value per sq. ft is upwards of INR 11,500. What also makes Malleswaram even more valued is the fact that Malleswaram has almost no land parcels left for further development creating a high demand for homes.
Bangalore, without doubt is among the top five cities in the country for residential real estate. Even after close to two decades of work in setting up multiple tech parks, high levels of infrastructure development and an astounding rate of urbanisation, the city still retains its charm and thankfully sustains its nature-laden look.
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Sylvia S September 06, 2016
Ever find yourself looking out of the office window wondering why you’re at work and not on holiday? You’re not alone, apparently 1 in 3 pe...
Ever find yourself looking out of the office window wondering why you’re at work and not on holiday? You’re not alone, apparently 1 in 3 people spend their holiday in the office, and to make that point Virgin Atlantic and adam&eveDDB created this spoof ad entitled "Get Out Of The Office."
The retro-style 90-second film features the voice-over of Judith Chalmers, veteran host of U.K. travel show, Wish You Were Here.
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Director: The Bobbsey Twins @ Homicide
Tourism & Travel Travel & Tourism UK ADVERTS
AdStasher: Virgin Atlantic Retro-Style Spoof Ad Is So Bad It's Brilliant: "Get Out Of The Office"
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For some time now there have been complaints that Irish people are stockpiling too much money away in savings instead of spending and keeping the economy ticking over. Some ten years ago the story was an entirely different one when the government of the day introduced an unbeatable SSIA savings scheme, offering €1 on every €4 euro saved, up to a maximum contribution of €50 per month on every €250 saved. Despite demands for this 'free money' to be stopped by some public figures who wanted it siphoned off in the direction of social welfare, the scheme ran for five years, generating an attractive €20,000+ lump sum for those fortunates who could avail of the maximum top-up.
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Trends and changing markets – ‘a threat and opportunity’ for food businesses
Food businesses are not built in isolation – they rely on multiple routes to market and are impacted by a range of changing…
66% of Irish food and agri-businesses have ‘no plans to sell online’
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‘Brexit among indicators putting agri-businesses under pressure’ – IFAC
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‘Automation could solve the agri-food industry’s labour shortage problems’
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Ray LaMontagne Event homeCustomer reviews Hotel California An Eagles TributeBela Fleck & Abigail WashburnCody JinksStayin' AliveUmphrey's McGeeABBA ManiaJourney with The Pretenders
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Bill Engvall (Feb 28, 2020)
Blippi (Mar 1, 2020)
Three Dog Night (Mar 5, 2020)
Cirque Ziva (Mar 6, 2020)
Who's Bad - Michael Jackson Tribute Band (Mar 21, 2020)
Hermans Hermits (Mar 22, 2020)
Red Hot Chilli Pipers (Mar 24, 2020)
Brit Floyd (Mar 27, 2020)
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Almost Queen (Apr 11, 2020)
Brian Culbertson (Apr 17, 2020)
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West Side Story (Jun 12 - 13, 2020)
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After leaving high school, he went on to work in a shoe factory in Maine, before being inspired to write music by listening to a record by Stephen Stills, Manassas. His rootsy, bluegrass style has been likened to Otis Redding and Van Morrison, among others, with a gravelly, but velvety folk voice that dances expertly around earthy songs.
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Senate sends oil tax credit overhaul back to the House
Rashah McChesney, Alaska's Energy Desk - Juneau
Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, talks to reporters at a Senate Majority press availability, April 13, 2017. Sens. Peter Micciche, R- Soldotna and Anna Mackinnon, R-Anchorage, seated next to him also participated. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
With the end of session looming, Alaska’s Senate passed its version of an oil tax credit reform bill on Monday.
But the Senate’s version of House Bill 111 doesn’t have much in common with the bill the House passed a month ago.
Both bodies agree that the state needs to stop paying cash for oil credits — it’s a system that will leave the state owing nearly $700 million to oil companies by the end of the year.
Now the bill will head back to the House to see if its members will accept the Senate’s changes.
Technically, the session ends on Wednesday and while lawmakers could vote to extend it by 10 days, it will take two-thirds of the members from both bodies voting to do so.
Gov. Bill Walker could call legislators into a special session to resolve this issue. Walker spokesperson Grace Jang says it’s too soon to say if he will.
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Rashah McChesney is a photojournalist turned radio journalist who has been telling stories in Alaska since 2012. Before joining Alaska's Energy Desk , she worked at Kenai's Peninsula Clarion and the Juneau bureau of the Associated Press. She is a graduate of Iowa State University's Greenlee Journalism School and has worked in public television, newspapers and now radio, all in the quest to become the Swiss Army knife of storytellers.
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Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
I can sit there and stare at it for hours - sometimes watching, not watching others. "There" is a stair case of the 1st floor of a business center, and "it" is a view of the pavement outside through a 100 X 100cm window directly in front. To the open-minded, it is classically picturesque: cars in a myriad of colors passing by; a scantily clad teenager on the heels of the formally dressed businessman. To the idealist, it is a sneak peek of the onset of creation. More than this two dimensional scene, I imagine I see the infinite dimensions of life just the way the creator might see it. I call this place God's View.
I think of this window as a zoomed in picture of the world. I try to capture the central motif of the story we call life in a single pixel; I look for the pattern that connects. For a thinker, patterns are not made with shapes, colors or words, but by questions. How does the Earth's radius and gravitational orientation affect the whereabouts of Waldo? What does "6" think of the letter "c"? What defines a human experience? I try to placate my utterly discordant and ever wondering mind by letting my questions run rampant. I look for the answers within the stream of passersby and then simply stare at the people, too absorbed in their movements. The bedlam in my head merges with the bedlam of a rush hour. Maybe it's because I love chaos. I believe that there is an unconventional beauty in commotion. Isn't all clutter, after all, a higher degree of order? It's in clutter where my imagination resides. It's in the time of confusion when I ask the most important questions.
But some days I just play with numbers. I calculate the frequency with which people appear and disappear, guess their ages or try to construct a sequence out of the numbers. And some days I'm simply human. I laugh at God's cosmic jokes and take time to appreciate the ironies of my life. Take the instance of my name: "Bitya" directly translates to "daughter of God", whose existence I've doubted since I was nine. I am the class math geek who often miscalculates her taxi fare. I'm the hyperactive girl who moves too much; yet the girl seen sitting motionless for hours, lost in thought. I am head of student body and captain of the debate team; and I have the audacity to describe myself as slightly shy and reserved. Sometimes, I cry at misfortunes: a fight with my mother, fear of oblivion or a child I see through the window falling and hurting her knees. I curse my intense empathy, my capacity to feel more than the average person. Then I appreciate the beauty in poignancy. But most times, I simply think.
I've always thought myself an artist. But I don't paint and I'm not a poet: my thoughts are too vague to make a dent on canvas, and too elusive to be done justice by words. My art lies in contemplation. I love to think. Despite having many little piles of "to-do's" lying around, I still find time to experiment with my ideas. God's View is the perfect place - a window looking out that allows me to look in. Half the time, I'm found within the confinements of my head, contemplating and reflecting, and my addictive rumination does have its evils. Too often, I do neglect practical matters, and I've many a time been horribly frustrated at the 'dead-end' of an idea. But thinking gives me the only validation for my existence; "I think therefore I am". But maybe I don't exist, I only think I do. Maybe nothing is the way we think it, or maybe nothing is. But you know what? Subjectivity is proof of God's great kindness. I can still think about it.
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New Series, Cowboy Country, Premiers
From HRTV Equestrian Programming: HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, will add more diversified weekly equestrian programming to its schedule when it premieres a new series, Cowboy Country, beginning this Wednesday, July 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
From HRTV Equestrian Programming:
HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, will add more diversified weekly equestrian programming to its schedule when it premieres a new series, Cowboy Country, beginning this Wednesday, July 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Cowboy Country is a half-hour show that will provide 26 entertaining weeks of programming to HRTV's slate. On a weekly basis, the show journeys into the heartland of the West through profiles on people and places that live the "Cowboy way."
The series celebrates the West through its people and places, giving viewers the true flavor of the West in a personal and intimate way. Cowboy Country reflects a lifestyle and culture that's exciting, interesting and engaging.
Wednesday's initial show entitled, "Cowboy Humour and Notables," will give viewers a glimpse of the wide-ranging subjects that will be highlighted each offering. It will feature the humor of cartoonist Ben Crane, famous cowboy John Ware, and a profile of "Women of the Range."
Upcoming shows will include: "Cowboy Bling and Heritage," "Cowboy Kitchen," "Range Rodeo," "The Dimwood Brothers," the "Remington Carriage Museum," and much more.
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Analogic Corporation Signs Agreement to Acquire Copley Controls Corporation, a Leading Supplier of Gradient Amplifiers for MRI Systems
PEABODY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 6, 2008–Analogic
Corporation (NASDAQ: ALOG) announced today that it has entered into an
agreement to acquire privately held Copley Controls Corporation of
Canton, Massachusetts, a leading supplier of gradient amplifiers for
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and precision motion control
systems. The purchase price is approximately $68.75 million cash and
up to an additional $1.8 million to reimburse Copley shareholders for
the tax consequences of the transaction. Copley will become a wholly
owned subsidiary of Analogic. The transaction is expected to close in
early April 2008, and will be subject to customary closing conditions,
including the expiration or termination of the waiting period under
the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. The purchase price
and additional reimbursement to be paid to Copley shareholders will be
funded out of Analogic’s available cash and the transaction is not
subject to financing conditions.
Analogic is a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
supplier of Radio Frequency (RF) amplifiers for MRI systems. Copley,
founded in 1984, is a leading supplier to OEMs of gradient amplifiers
for MRI systems. In addition to its Canton headquarters, Copley has
offices and local technical support in the United States, Europe, and
Asia, comprising approximately 250 employees worldwide. Copley’s
revenues for the calendar year 2006 were $73.6 million; preliminary
calendar year 2007 revenues are estimated to be $83 million. Analogic
estimates that revenues related to the acquisition in calendar year
2008 will be in excess of $85 million and, excluding one-time purchase
accounting adjustments, accretive to earnings in Analogic’s fiscal
year 2008 and fiscal years thereafter.
Analogic President and CEO Jim Green said, “This is a very
important step forward for Analogic as we augment organic growth with
‘good fit’ acquisitions that complement our core businesses. Our
acquisition of Copley Controls combines two companies with strong
engineering resources focused on high-value precision systems. The
addition of Copley, with its leading-edge technology in high-field
gradient amplifiers and its solid customer base, will enable Analogic
to expand our product offerings to our OEM customers, open up new
opportunities in Asia, and enhance our position as a leading provider
of medical subsystems for MRI scanners.”
“Joining Analogic is a natural fit for us,” noted Matthew Lorber,
President of Copley Controls. “The blending of our companies and
technologies will benefit both our customers and Analogic’s. Copley’s
products complement Analogic’s existing products and customer base.
Our top-of-the-line systems and talented engineering team, combined
with Analogic’s excellent reputation in the industry, its advanced
technology, and well established market presence, will create new
business opportunities.”
Analogic will conduct an investor conference call on Thursday,
March 6, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss the results for the second
quarter, the agreement to acquire Copley Controls, and other recent
developments. To participate in the conference call, dial
1-866-823-6992, or 1-334-323-7225 for international callers,
approximately ten minutes before the conference is scheduled to begin.
Inform the operator that you wish to join the Analogic conference,
Passcode 03391. You will then be asked for your name, organization,
and telephone number and be connected to the conference. Presentation
materials related to quarterly financial information will be posted on
the Company’s website at www.analogic.com. To listen to the live audio
webcast in listen-only mode, visit www.analogic.com approximately ten
minutes before the conference is scheduled to begin.
A telephone digital replay will be available approximately two
hours after the call is completed through midnight (ET) Thursday,
March 27, 2008. To access the digital replay, dial 1-877-919-4059, or
1-334-323-7226 for international callers. The conference ID number is
A replay of the conference call webcast will be archived on the
Company’s website at www.analogic.com approximately three hours after
the call is completed and will be available through midnight (ET)
Thursday, March 27, 2008.
For more information on the conference call, visit
www.analogic.com, call 978-326-4213, or email proberts@analogic.com.
Analogic Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of
advanced health and security systems and subsystems sold primarily to
OEMs. The Company is recognized worldwide for advancing the state of
the art in Automatic Explosives Detection, Computed Tomography (CT),
Digital Radiography (DR), Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
Patient Monitoring, and Advanced Signal Processing. For more
information, visit www.analogic.com.
Any statements in this press release about future expectations,
plans, and prospects for Analogic Corporation (the “Company”),
including statements about orders for the Company’s products,
statements about shipments and installation of the Company’s products,
and other statements containing the words “believes,” “anticipates,”
“plans,” “expects,” and similar expressions, constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ
materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as
a result of various important factors, including risks relating to
technology development and commercialization, risks in product
development, limited demand for the Company’s products, risks
associated with competition, uncertainties associated with regulatory
agency approvals, competitive pricing pressures, downturns in the
economy, the risk of potential intellectual property litigation, and
other factors discussed in our most recent quarterly report filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the
forward-looking statements included in this press release represent
the Company’s views as of March 6, 2008. The Company anticipates that
subsequent events and developments will cause the Company’s views to
change. However, while the Company may elect to update these
forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company
specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking
statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s
views as of any date subsequent to March 6, 2008.
Paul M. Roberts, 978-326-4213
proberts@analogic.com
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Basalt council deadlocked on Skico housing plan 2-2; discussion will resume June 11
Scott Condon
scondon@aspentimes.com
This image shows where Aspen Skiing Co. is proposing an affordable housing project in Willits Town Center. Whole Foods is in the upper center of the photo. Highway 82 is on the upper end. Willits Lane is off the photo on the bottom end.
Courtesy image
Aspen Skiing Co. doubled down on its preferred alternative for an affordable-housing project in Basalt in an effort to coax approval Tuesday night from the Town Council, but the strategy failed, at least temporarily.
Skico submitted a second alternative to the town government late last week after getting feedback from the council at a May 14 meeting. Some council members wanted more parking and a change in the unit mix in Skico’s project.
But Skico representatives opened Tuesday night’s meeting by saying their second alternative wasn’t viable so they wouldn’t discuss it.
David Corbin, Skico senior vice president of planning and development, said updated cost estimates showed alternative two wasn’t economically viable because it cost more than 30% what alternative one was penciled in for last December. Even alternative one is now estimated to cost 17% more now than it did in December, he said.
“I’m sad you brought alternative two when you really didn’t mean it.” — Mayor Jacque Whitsitt
The math is clear — alternative two cannot be pursued, Corbin said.
“We can’t make it viable,” he said.
Philip Jeffreys, Skico’s project manager, took the microphone and tried to sell alternative one.
“I know that sounded a little dire, but I’m really excited about alternative one,” he said.
Jeffreys said he felt Skico’s presentation on its preferred alternative was rushed at the May 14 meeting, so he wanted to take more time to explain it.
Skico’s preferred alternative is for 36 units comprising 148 bedrooms — everything from one to six bedrooms each. The plan would provide eight units of rent-controlled housing for non-Skico employees, with a priority for child care workers.
Skico wanted to address parking obligations by building 34 off-street spaces on its property and buying 33 units on public streets that it would buy from the town for $202,000.
In its alternative plan, Skico reduced the unit numbers a bit and changed the mix. The biggest change was it would build a 77-space underground parking garage rather than rely on spaces on the street.
The majority of members of the public who spoke at the meeting favored alternative two. Carol Hawk, a resident of Willits, said many neighborhood residents didn’t attend the meeting because they thought alternative two would advance and they found it acceptable.
The council was split over the project.
“I’m sad you brought alternative two when you really didn’t mean it,” Mayor Jacque Whitsitt told the Skico officials.
Councilman Ryan Slack expressed reservations about Skico’s preferred alternative.
On the other side of the ledger were Councilmen Gary Tennenbaum and Bill Infante. Tennenbaum said Basalt encourages landowners and developers to propose creative ways to provide affordable housing.
“I look at this as a project that we ought to be encouraging,” Tennenbaum said.
He later added, “I really want to see this project happen. Skico is a partner in Basalt.”
Skico’s proposal failed to advance, at least for the time being. Councilman Auden Schendler is a Skico executive so he recused himself from voting, as required. Councilwomen Katie Schwoerer and Jennifer Riffle missed the meeting because of prior plans. That left only four voting members and they were split 2-2.
The council voted to continue the meeting until June 11 when more members will be in attendance.
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New hires at Snowmass Tourism
Snowmass | May 22, 2019
Snowmass Tourism has appointed two new members to its group sales department. Margot Ellis, a longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident, joins the team as national sales manager, and Lisa Jennings returns to the Roaring Fork Valley after a two-year stint in Texas as the new group sales specialist. Both begin their positions at the end of May.
“We are very excited and pleased to have both Margot and Lisa join the Snowmass Tourism Group Sales Department,” said Mark Scheller, group sales director at Snowmass Tourism, in a statement. “Each brings unique qualities and experiences that will further support our sales efforts, not to mention they both exude professionalism and positivity that will fit well within our department. We are looking forward to having both represent Snowmass within the meeting planning and group planning communities.”
Ellis most recently worked at Blazing Adventures as the assistant director of group sales. She also served the company as a group sales manager and an adventure guide.
Jennings most recently worked for two years in Austin as a project coordinator for Cvent, an event management company. Prior to her move to Texas, Jennings worked as the group and leisure sales manager for The Sky Hotel Aspen, as well as group sales manager for Frias Properties of Aspen.
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Sun 1 Mar 2020
Whitney’s one true legacy was her music which touched most of us at some time in our lives. Share her life and get ready for the greatest love of all in Queen of the Night!
Richmond Theatrechange
1 Little Green, Richmond, TW9 1QH
Sun at 19:30
A stunning celebration of the music and life of one of the greatest singers of our time. This award winning production features a sensational line-up of musicians and artists, and together with a powerhouse and breath-taking performance in the spirit of Whitney, deliver a show that exceeds expectation on every level.
Taking us on a magical roller coaster ride through three decades of classic hits that include, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, One Moment In Time, I’m Every Woman, My Love is Your Love, So Emotional Baby, Run to You, Saving All My Love, I Will Always Love You, and many more, this show beautifully remembers the most highly awarded female artist in the world!
It feels like the ghost of Whitney is right there in the room
- The Stage
A triple threat – bringing the house down… In a word, ‘perfect’
- LondonTheatre1.com
Elesha Paul Moses’s voice echoes the famously rich tone and undeniable strength of the pop icon wonderfully
- West End Wilma
This event is only on for one night!
Richmond (District Line), Overground (SW Trains)
Box Office opens at 12:00 and closes 15 minutes after show start. On non performance days, Box Office closes at 4pm.
Please note, we are unable to take bookings for future shows 1 hour before a performance starts. Hours may vary on bank holidays. On Sundays, the box office opens one hour before show start. The box office closes 15 minutes after show start.
There is a bar on each level of the theatre
Avoid the queues and be our guest in the Ambassador lounge. Add some sparkle to your night out and enjoy a show with bespoke service.
There is no cloakroom available at this venue.
Richmond Theatre is established as one of the most successful theatres in the country, presenting a wide range of quality drama, record breaking musicals, opera, dance and family entertainment each year, Richmond Theatre welcomes a quarter of a million theatre goers to over 40 outstanding productions annually, performing for about 49 weeks every year!
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Android News / All News / Latest Leak Says Xiaomi Will Unveil Three Mi Note 2 Variants
Latest Leak Says Xiaomi Will Unveil Three Mi Note 2 Variants
Xiaomi had released a number of interesting devices last year, including their flagship phablet Mi Note and Mi Note Pro phablet devices. These two devices have arrived back in January last year, and users have been wondering when will Xiaomi introduced their successors. The company had already announced the Mi 5 flagship smartphone this year, as well as a number of other devices, but the Mi Note 2 is still nowhere to be found. Well, a couple of days ago, a report surfaced saying that the Mi Note 2 might arrive in July considering the fact that the company's co-founder said that Xiaomi is preparing a new flagship for July.
Having that in mind, a new Mi Note 2 leak surfaced today, and it seems like we're getting three different Mi Note 2 variants. This information actually comes from Feng Weiwen, the editor of Shenzen Digital Technology. According to Mr. Weiwen, the Mi Note 2 will arrive in three variants, and one of them will ship with a curved display. The base model of Xiaomi's upcoming phablet will ship with a single camera on the back, while quick charging and Hi-Fi audio will also be a part of the package. The second model will also feature Hi-Fi audio, but will come with two camera sensors on the back, and will sport an even faster quick charging tech. Now, the third variant will sport the aforementioned curved display, and a dual camera setup on the back, and quick charging will also be included. Mr. Weiwen did not reveal any more spec info, but if you look at the image above, you'll get to see the leaked Mi Note 2.
The Mi Note 2 will, quite probably, ship with the Snapdragon 820 or the yet-unannounced Snapdragon 821, and you can also expect the phone to ship with plenty of RAM. The Mi Note 2 will probably come with 4GB of RAM, though a 6GB RAM model is also a possibility. Based on the leaked image, the device's design will resemble Mi 5's design, which means you can expect it to be made out of metal and glass, while a metal + ceramic variant is also a possibility. Either way, stay tuned, we'll report back as soon as more info pops up.
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Android News / Special Features / Primetime: Nexus Might Be Gone But Pixel Is A Good Replacement
Primetime: Nexus Might Be Gone But Pixel Is A Good Replacement
By David Steele
Long live the Nexus, at least that's the message that Google tweeted on October 4 shortly after the new Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL devices were launched. In its entirety, Google Nexus tweeted: "As Nexus users, you've played an integral role in this journey for Google. We're excited about Pixel, and want you to know that we'll continue to support Nexus (customer support, software updates, etc.) & @googlenexus will continue to be a place for Nexus convos." The writing is on the wall for the Nexus family after a total of eight smartphones and four tablets and for some audiences at least, Google Nexus' tweet points towards Google abandoning the Nexus line. We can pick the Tweet apart by observing that it says "software updates" rather than "Android 7.1 Nougat" and how the tense suggests that the Nexus devices are being shuffled off the centre stage.
Yes, Nexus devices are being superseded (if not replaced) by the Pixel family. They are, but the same criticism could be leveled at last year's Nexus device(s) when a new model is released. Google keep Nexus devices updated for two years and maintain the software for another year after this. The 2014 Google Nexus 6 may not receive the update to Android 7.1, whereas we expect the 2015 Google Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P models to benefit from the update. There are many potential reasons for this shift at Google, such as how the company will go about naming devices going forwards: did company executives consider a Google Nexus 5X2 or Google Nexus 6PS before deciding to change direction?
The shift from Nexus to Pixel does mix things up because Google appears to be gunning for the iPhone but the biggest casualties are likely to be other flagship Android devices, at least in the short term. Yes, the Pixel is currently expensive but so too was the HTC 10, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, the LG G5 and the Moto Z when launched. Prices will probably drop in time. Google is pitching the Pixel family to pick up where the Nexus stopped, and let's not forget that the Nexus family of smartphones has never been a massive consumer success. The Nexus brand was not about this – even the popular Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, which were successful models in their own right thanks to a blend of power and low cost – but instead the handsets are designed to show the rest of the industry the direction Google wanted to see Android heading. Unfortunately, when only a very small minority of customers picked the Nexus device, even with a device as gifted as the Google Nexus 6P. It's easy for a manufacturer to ignore some or all of Google's Nexus nudges.
The Google Pixel appears to be Google making a push into being a serious handset manufacturer. The device combines a great camera with high end silicon inside, wrapped up in a gorgeous metal chassis with an AMOLED panel and a number of color options. It's competitive and it's expensive compared with some previous Nexus models, but has fewer compromises. Previous Nexus devices have in one way or another been compromised in a way that the average consumer notices. It might have been battery life, storage (that lack of a microSD card), build quality but until the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P it was definitely in the camera department. For the Android fan, this hasn't so much mattered because of the promise of speedy software updates and a clean, fast user interface. However, Android fans only make up a small number of the smartphone-buying population.
The new Pixel family overcomes these limitations, at least on paper. We'll have to see how the device stacks up in the hand. It's going to be offered by market leading carriers across the world and be available via the Google Play Store. It has Google's weight behind it, but it will need to be backed up by lots and lots of advertising if it is to make a dent in the iPhone's heartland, which is exactly where the Google Pixel is priced. Have Google ignored the Android fans in producing the Pixel? No; there's more than enough Google goodness in the Pixel family to keep Android fans happy, but there should also be more than enough appeal for more mainstream customers to take the fight to the Apple iPhone.
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By Justin Diaz · January 16, 2020
I grew up with 8-bit computers and moved into PDAs in my professional life, using a number of devices from early Windows CE clamshells and later. Today, my main devices are a Nexus 5X, a Sony Xperia Z Tablet and a coffee cup.
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