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The most important Android phones and tablets of the 2010s
Nexus Devices
One (M7, 2013)
Thunderbolt (Mecha)
The second decade of the 21st century is coming to a close, and there's a lot to look back on. The Rosetta spacecraft made the first successful landing on a comet, the United States had two presidents, a whole lot of Marvel movies came out, and we got the first close-up photos of Pluto.
The 2010s also saw the rise of the smartphone as a product category. While there were plenty of smartphones in the 2000s, they didn't become widespread consumer-level devices until the introduction of the iPhone in 2008 and subsequent release of the first Android devices in 2009.
I used a Galaxy Nexus for a week, in 2018 - it didn't go well
In what is partly an experiment and partly a series, I've been using the Galaxy Nexus as my personal phone exclusively for the last week. It has been a nostalgic experience, as the Galaxy Nexus was the first (good) Android device that I used full-time. And while the sentimental tech-romantic in me would love to tell you all that it's been mostly fine — like my week using the Nexus 5 — I can't. It's actually been pretty rough.
Video: Six years of Nexus - A Google phone history
David Ruddock
Nexus One (Passion)
Nexus S (Crespo/Soju)
Nexus S 4G (Crespo4g)
As the Pixel phone announcement draws near, it seems that, if not going away entirely, Google's Nexus brand will at the very least be undergoing some major changes. Google intends to heavily market its Pixel phones if the last week is any indicator, meaning there really won't be much room for the Nexus phone program to exist in the same way it has in the last few years. Nexus may live on, but it will undoubtedly be in a capacity different from the more aspirational efforts we've seen Google make with it in devices like the Nexus 6, 5X, and 6P.
The Galaxy Nexus, Long Abandoned By Google, Now Enjoys A Taste Of Lollipop In CyanogenMod 12.1 Nightly
ROMs & Modding
The Galaxy Nexus is nearly as old as the Nook Tablet that CyanogenMod resurrected a couple of days ago with CM13, but it won't be getting that fresh of a software update. It'll have to do with a slightly older version of Android, but any third-party development on this forgotten Nexus is a welcome change from the state that Google left it in.
Officially, the Galaxy Nexus was abandoned at Android Jelly Bean 4.3. When KitKat was released in September 2013, two years into the Galaxy Nexus' lifespan, the phone wasn't deemed worthy of the new dessert flavor (allegedly due to the TI chip), but CyanogenMod's team of zealous and reckless developers braved the elements and kept supporting it with CM11 nightlies and snapshots.
Unlocking the bootloader on the T-Mobile OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren breaks your ability to install updates
Galaxy Nexus Gets A New Lease On Life Thanks To Updated GPU Drivers
Ryan Whitwam
2014/10/09 7:53am PDT Oct 9, 2014
Google announced last year that the venerable Galaxy Nexus would not be getting any of that sweet, sweet KitKat action. Well, not officially anyway. Owners were not pleased, but they couldn't properly flood the internet with complaints because their phones were already dead. There have been a few KitKat ROMs that work well enough, but now some developers have created a kernel and GPU driver combo that could keep this device chugging along through the L release.
CyanogenMod 11 M10 Adds Support For The Sprint Galaxy S5 And New Bug Tracker App, Drops Verizon And Sprint Galaxy Nexus
It's that time of the month again, CyanogenMod ROM fans. In fact it's a bit past that time of the month, reportedly thanks to a heavy workload and the Labor Day weekend, but now that the CM11 monthly update is up to the M10 release, we won't hold it against the CyanogenMod Team. The biggest change to the M build is a brand new bug tracker app, which makes it easy for users to submit anonymized bug reports to CM along with a stacktrace whenever a system app crashes.
There's also a new option to send a scrubbed bug report in the Developer Settings menu.
BootUnlocker v1.4 Adds Support For Nexus 5, Lets You Relock And Unlock Bootloader Without Data Wipes (Root Required)
Did you know it's possible to unlock your Nexus 5 bootloader without wiping user data? If your device has already been rooted and relocked for optimal security, then unlocking is just a button tap away thanks to the latest update to BootUnlocker. Support for Google's latest flagship phone was just added with an update to version 1.4 of the app from XDA member segv11. Sadly, both generations of the Nexus 7 from ASUS remain unsupported.
If you haven't heard about BootUnlocker, it's a simple utility app with a single purpose: toggling the locked state of the bootloader on supported Nexus devices.
Sprint Galaxy Nexus Gets Android 4.3 Via Staged OTA Rollout To Software Version GJ04
2013/10/31 8:56am PDT Oct 31, 2013
Sprint Galaxy Nexus owners, you can put down those pitchforks. Your Android 4.3 update is finally coming. Sure, it's arriving just in time for Android 4.4, but hey, it's not like anyone promised that your updates would be timely. Oh, they did? Well, it gets worse. The update is rolling out in stages over a 10 - 21 day period, and device selection is random. Some of you may still have close to a month to go.
Software Update GJ04 moves the Galaxy Nexus up to Android 4.3, and that's it. There's nothing else on the changelog to share.
At the end of the day, if this weren't a Nexus device, a three month delay wouldn't be all that bad.
Galaxy Nexus Also Gets JWR66Y Firmware Update, Here's The Direct Download
Yesterday T-Mobile rolled out a relatively small OTA for the Nexus 4 bringing about a set of security improvements. As it turns out, the latest Nexus handset isn't the only one receiving the update. The Galaxy Nexus is also getting the JWR66Y firmware, and there's a manual update available for those of you who just can't bear the wait. This one is for the yakju variant of the phone, those sold through retail channels other than Google Play.
The entire firmware update is less than 2MB in size, so this is one patch you won't need to snag WiFi for. This is an incremental bump from the previous build that is probably geared at fixing a relatively new exploit or two, not something that will have all that much effect on your user experience.
[Bug Watch] Android 4.3 May Be Having Trouble Automatically Reconnecting To Wi-Fi Networks
Bug Watch
If there is one thing we all eventually rely on with mobile devices, it's having a sturdy Wi-Fi connection. Whether it's because of a low data cap, you live or work somewhere with a weak cell signal, or like me, the local cellular technology is stuck in the stone age, you probably have a few wireless networks saved on your phone or tablet. While you probably take it for granted that your devices will automatically connect to these networks when they are in range, some people are finding that feature hasn't been working as expected since upgrading to Android 4.3.
The common thread among the complaints is that taking your device beyond the range of an access point for more than a few minutes can leave it unable to automatically reconnect when a signal is found later.
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Freebies, Places to Visit
Free Entry Voucher For National Trust Properties
Home > Tyne & Wear
There are several National Trust properties in the North East and the voucher below entitles a family of four – one adult and three children under 18 free entry to a National Trust property (excludes bank holiday weekends).
Several National Trust properties in the North East are excluded from the offer, namely Dunstanburgh Castle, Dunstanburgh Road, Craster, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 3TT; Housesteads Roman Fort, Haydon Bridge, Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 6NN and the Farne Islands.
The voucher is valid nationally but if you are visiting our guest house the National Trust properties near to us are…
Cherryburn, Station Bank, Stocksfield, NE43 7DD.
Cottage and farmhouse, the birthplace of Thomas Bewick. Thomas Bewick is perhaps Northumberland’s greatest artist: a wood engraver and naturalist who revolutionised print art in Georgian England. Discover his tiny birthplace cottage and farmyard with glorious views over the Tyne Valley, plus a traditional 19th-century farmhouse, the later home of the Bewick family, with an unrivalled collection of his work and an exhibition about his life. Follow Bewick’s wood blocks on their journey to the print room, where regular Sunday afternoon demonstrations bring alive this intricate craft, or explore the delightful cottage gardens, farmyard and paddock walk, perfect for picnicking or playing with the kids. Full property information: Cherryburn, Stocksfield, NE43 7DD.
Cragside, Rothbury, Morpeth, NE65 7PX.
Extraordinary Victorian house, gardens and woodland – the wonder of its age. Enter the world of Lord Armstrong – Victorian inventor, innovator and landscape genius. Cragside house was truly a wonder of its age. Discover the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. It is crammed full of ingenious gadgets – most of them still working. The gardens are incredible. One of the largest rock gardens in Europe leads down to the Iron Bridge, which in turn leads to the formal garden. Children will love our adventure play area and exploring Nelly’s Labyrinth, a network of paths and tunnels cut out of a vast area of rhododendron forest. Full property information: Cragside, Rothbury, Morpeth, NE65 7PX.
George Stephensons Birthplace, Wylam, NE41 8BP.
Birthplace of the world-famous railway engineer. Discover the humble birthplace of great railway pioneer, George Stephenson, whose entire family lived in just one room. Our costumed guide tells the story of how challenging life was for mining families, like George’s, that once crammed into this now charming little stone cottage, nestled in a pretty garden near the river Tyne. Full property information: George Stephensons Birthplace, Wylam, NE41 8BP.
Gibside, Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, NE16 6BG.
Stunning 18th-century landscape garden and haven for nature. A taste of the country on the edge of the city. Discover fine Derwent Valley views, winding paths and refreshing open spaces while exploring our elegant buildings and ruins. Gibside is a Georgian ‘grand design’ on a spectacular scale. The vision of coal baron George Bowes, the Palladian chapel is an architectural masterpiece, the stable block is a vibrant learning and discovery centre, and the once grand hall is now a dramatic shell. Gibside is also a haven for wildlife with red kites often circling in the skies above. After centuries of decline, we’re restoring Gibside for people and nature. Come for events every weekend, escape along the avenue for miles of tranquil walks and picnic spots or enjoy family fun at our adventure play area and woodland play trail. Food also runs through Gibside’s veins, whether in our bustling walled garden, cafe, local farm shop or twice monthly farmers’ market. Full property information: Gibside, Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, NE16 6BG.
Holy Jesus Hospital, City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2AS.
An extraordinary mix of architecture from over seven centuries. The Holy Jesus Hospital survives amid 1960s city-centre developments, displaying features from all periods of its 700-year existence. The National Trust’s Inner City Project is now based here, working to provide opportunities for inner-city dwellers to gain access to and enjoy the countryside on their doorstep. Full property information: Holy Jesus Hospital, City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2AS.
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 2SH.
Romantic 16th-century castle with spectacular views. Location has always been the main attraction for the owners and occupiers of Lindisfarne Castle. From a former fort to the holiday home of a wealthy Edwardian bachelor seeking a quiet retreat from London, the idyllic location of the Castle has intrigued and inspired for centuries. The renovation by Arts and Crafts architect Edwin Lutyens both hides and emphasises the old fort, all the while overlooking Gertrude Jekyll’s enchanting walled garden and the unexpected grandeur of the Lime Kilns, an imposing and striking reminder of Lindisfarne’s industrial past. Full property information: Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 2SH.
Ormesby Hall, Ladgate Lane, near Middlesbrough, TS3 0SR.
The Pennyman family’s intimate 18th-century mansion. Home of the Pennyman family for nearly 400 years, this classic Georgian mansion, with its Victorian kitchen and laundry, attractive gardens and estate walks, provides lively resources for local schools and community groups, and a unique venue for wedding ceremonies and corporate events. Experience the spirit of the intimate home of Colonel Jim Pennyman, the last of the Pennyman line, and his arts-loving wife Ruth, as well as the stylish legacy of the 18th-century character ‘Wicked’ Sir James Pennyman – so named because of his extravagant lifestyle and his gambling with the family fortune. Full property information: Ormesby Hall, Ladgate Lane, near Middlesbrough, TS3 0SR.
Souter Lighthouse and The Leas, Coast Road, Sunderland, SR6 7NH.
A marvel of its age. Souter is a special place all year round and was the first lighthouse in the world designed and built to be powered by electricity. Opened in 1871, decommissioned in 1988, the National Trust acquired it and opened it to the public in 1990. Souter remains an iconic beacon, hooped in red and white and standing proud on the coastline midway between the Tyne and the Wear. The Leas is a two and a half mile stretch of magnesian limestone cliffs, wave-cut foreshore and coastal grassland. The cliffs and rock stacks of Marsden Bay are home to nesting Kittiwakes, Fulmar, Cormorants, Shags and Guillemots. Full property information: Souter Lighthouse and The Leas, Coast Road, Sunderland, SR6 7NH.
Wallington, Cambo, near Morpeth, NE61 4AR.
Magnificent estate where politics and play came together in the heart of Northumberland. Discover Wallington, much-loved home to generations of the unconventional Trevelyan family. Visit the impressive, yet friendly house, and explore the history of Northumberland in the huge pre-Raphaelite paintings around the remarkable Central Hall. Be inspired by the beautiful furniture, family paintings and treasured collections. The Trevelyans loved being outdoors and close to nature and the house is surrounded by an informal landscape of lawns, lakes, woodland, parkland and farmland, just waiting to be explored. There is even a beautiful walled garden hidden in the woods, a colourful haven of tranquillity in all seasons. Full property information: Wallington, Cambo, near Morpeth, NE61 4AR.
Washington Old Hall, The Avenue, Washington, NE38 7LE.
Manor house associated with the family of George Washington, first president of the USA. At the heart of historic Washington village this picturesque stone manor house and its gardens provide a tranquil oasis, reflecting gentry life following the turbulence of the English Civil War. The building incorporates parts of the original medieval home of George Washington’s direct ancestors, and it is from here that the family took their surname of ‘Washington’. Much used and loved by local schools and community groups, including a hugely supportive Friends organisation, the Old Hall is also popular with couples wanting intimate wedding ceremonies and companies organising corporate events. Full property information: Washington Old Hall, The Avenue, Washington, NE38 7LE.
Seaton Delaval Hall, The Avenue, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4QR.
More than a great house, it is a truly amazing place. Seaton Delaval Hall is a great house set in its own estate with lovely gardens and a fine collection; yet it is also much more. It is a signpost pointing to the diverse history of a family which acquired land here in the late 11th century. The house occupies the site of a Norman settlement, and its original Norman chapel remains in use today. Built between 1719 and 1730 for Admiral George Delaval, it is not only the finest house in the north east of England, but also among the finest works of its architect, Sir John Vanbrugh, one of the masters of English Baroque. For 900 years, the estate has been a stage for drama, intrigue and romance while the surrounding landscape has fuelled industrial revolution. The house has survived terrible fires, military occupation and potential ruin. Now it provides an amazing space for arts, heritage and the community to come together. Full property information: Seaton Delaval Hall, The Avenue, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4QR.
The voucher you need to print and take with you is below…
Download Free Family National Trust Voucher (2.7 MB)
For more National Trust related posts on our blog click here: National Trust.
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For more freebies on our blog click here: local discounts and special offers. For other local discounts and special offers on our blog click here: discounts and special offers.
More ideas of places to visit while staying with us can be found here: Places To Visit.
If you are looking for hotel accommodation near any of these National Trust properties in the North East our bed and breakfast availability is here: online booking. Room information including photographs can be found on the bedrooms page of our website.
Berwick upon Tweed, Cherryburn, City Road, Coast Road, Cragside, Dunstanburgh Castle, Farne Islands, Gateshead, Gibside, Haydon Bridge, Hexham, Holy Jesus Hospital, Housesteads Roman Fort, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Castle, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, National Trust, NE1, NE16, NE26, NE38, NE41, NE43, NE47, NE61, NE65, NE66, NE68, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Ormesby Hall, Rothbury, Rowlands Gill, Seaton Delaval Hall, Seaton Sluice, Souter Lighthouse, SR6, Stocksfield, Sunderland, TD15, The Leas, TS3, Wallington, Washington, Washington Old Hall, Wylam
Free Entry To National Trust
Next weekend several north east National Trust properties can be visited for free upon production of the voucher below. The free weekend offer is national but not all National Trust properties are participating in the free weekend offer. The properties near to us where the voucher is accepted are…
Download Free Entry To National Trust Voucher (117 KB)
Berwick upon Tweed, Cherryburn, City Road, Coast Road, Cragside, Gateshead, Gibside, Holy Jesus Hospital, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Castle, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, National Trust, NE1, NE16, NE26, NE38, NE41, NE43, NE61, NE65, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Ormesby Hall, Rothbury, Rowlands Gill, Seaton Delaval Hall, Seaton Sluice, Souter Lighthouse, SR6, Stocksfield, Sunderland, TD15, The Leas, TS3, Wallington, Washington, Washington Old Hall, Wylam
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Snake cyberespionage malware is ready to bite Mac users
One of the most sophisticated cyberespionage groups have ported its malware framework to macOS
Lucian Constantin (IDG News Service) 05 May, 2017 09:09
Orca Tech
A sophisticated Russian cyberespionage group is readying attacks against Mac users and has recently ported its Windows backdoor program to macOS.
The group, known in the security industry as Snake, Turla or Uroburos, has been active since at least 2007 and has been responsible for some of the most complex cyberespionage attacks. It targets government entities, intelligence agencies, embassies, military organizations, research and academic institutions and large corporations.
"Compared to other prolific attackers with alleged ties to Russia, such as APT28 (Fancy Bear) and APT29 (Cozy Bear), Snakeâs code is significantly more sophisticated, itâs infrastructure more complex and targets more carefully selected," researchers from Dutch cybsersecurity firm Fox-IT said in a blog post Wednesday.
Snake's attacks have traditionally focused on Windows and it's malware framework was originally designed for that platform. However, in 2014, researchers from Kaspersky Lab found a Linux component linked to the Snake toolkit, suggesting that the group was expanding its activities to other platforms as well.
It seems that Snake has now taken an interest in Mac users: The Fox-IT researchers recently found a macOS variant of the group's malware tool that appears to be a direct port of its Windows version, because it still has artefacts referencing Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the code.
Fox-IT has not seen the macOS sample being distributed in the wild and believes that it's still in the development or testing stages. However, it clearly indicates that Snake is preparing attacks against Apple users, which is not very surprising since MacBooks are popular among high-level executives who are valuable targets for cyberespionage.
The Snake macOS sample found by Fox-IT masquerades as a Flash Player installer and is signed with an Apple-approved developer certificate that was most likely stolen. Such code-signing certificates are issued by Apple to members of its developer program and are needed to publish applications in the official Mac App Store.
More importantly, applications signed with valid Apple developer certificates don't trigger security alerts during installation and are not blocked by the macOS Gatekeeper security feature. Last week, researchers from Check Point Software Technologies found a different malware program for macOS that was signed with a stolen certificate.
Fox-IT has informed Appleâs security team about the Snake macOS variant and the certificate used to sign it will likely be revoked. However, given its resources, the cyberespionage group will probably have little trouble finding another certificate to abuse.
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Cellphone-related injuries on the rise
Life, Health
Phone-in-cheek: Spike seen in cellphone-linked face injuries.
Some injuries were caused by phones themselves, including people getting hit by a thrown phone. (Photo: AP)
Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them.
That’s according to a study published Thursday that found a spike in US emergency room treatment for these mostly minor injuries.
The research was led by a facial plastic surgeon whose patients include a woman who broke her nose when she dropped her phone on her face. Dr. Boris Paskhover of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School said his experience treating patients with cellphone injuries prompted him to look into the problem.
Paskhover and others analyzed 20 years of emergency room data and found an increase in cellphone injuries starting after 2006, around the time when the first smartphones were introduced.
Some injuries were caused by phones themselves, including people getting hit by a thrown phone. But Paskhover said many were caused by distracted use including texting while walking, tripping and landing face-down on the sidewalk.
Most patients in the study weren’t hospitalized, but the researchers said the problem should be taken seriously.
The study involved cases in a US Consumer Product Safety Commission database that collects emergency room visit information from about 100 hospitals. The researchers tallied 2,500 patients with cellphone-related head and neck injuries from 1998 through 2017.
The study was published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology.
Nationwide, they estimated there were about 76,000 people injured during that time. Annual cases totaled fewer than 2,000 until 2006, but increased steeply after that. About 40 per cent of those injured were ages 13 to 29, and many were hurt while walking, texting or driving.
Cellphone use also has been linked with repetitive strain injuries in the hands and neck, and injuries to other parts of the body caused by distracted use.
“I love my smartphone,” Paskhover said, but he added that it’s easy to get too absorbed and avoiding injury requires common sense. “People wouldn’t walk around reading a magazine,” he said. “Be careful.”
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No, that’s not a roller coaster! It’s a bridge in Japan
If you’ve ever wanted to experience what it’s like to ride a roller coaster sitting in your own car, then the Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan might be your chance. Although the bridge doesn’t have any spins or loops, it can make even the most confident drivers fearful of driving on it.
The Eshima Ohashi bridge, which connects the cities of Matsue and Sakaiminato, is about 1.7km long and 11.3m wide.
It is the third largest rigid frame bridge in the world.
It seems like cars would just slip and slide right back down. The amazing height allows large ships to pass underneath.
Despite looking terrifying, the Eshima Ohashi bridge is actually quite safe. In fact, it’s all about perspective — the pictures above are quite scary, but when seen from a different angle it looks more like an ordinary bridge with a relatively steep incline. But still, would you be brave enough to drive on it?
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Internet has a huge collection of funny photos of all kinds: cats, trolls, memes, funny quotes, epic fails, crazy songs, funky e-cards and more cool stuff to make you laugh out loud. Mind-blowing and some seriously funny moments, you can’t stop your laughter after watching. This list of most funny images chooses from the verity of images, for refreshment after sad mood. Checkout these and make your mood pleasant and enjoy .
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It goes without saying that Snapchat allows you easily interact with your friends, watch out live stories while sitting in any corner of the world and explore much more things. Undoubtedly, it is our guilty pleasure. Most of the times people tend to hide things when they are interacting with someone over chat while being in public place, but unluckily, the 14 people couldn’t do that and were busted amid of snapchat conversation.
1.Oh man! What the hell she is trying to do or prove? Can you see that people in the background of the image?
2.My goodness, people do such kind of things unbelievable.
3.This one was way too much, don’t you think so?
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The World’s Hottest Doctor! All Guys Would Want To Get Treatment From Her Now..!!
Stacey Naito ,Since few years, some male physicians have been gaining a lot of media attention owing to their good looks and handsome personality. These doctors have a huge fan following as a result of their hotness. However, do you know that just like male doctors, there are hot & sexy female doctors too…?
Meet Stacey Naito, a board certified Physician, a model and a fitness freak from Los Angeles. She is proud of her well-toned physique & wants to inspire many. She is rightly termed as “Hot doctor”.
She has modeled throughout her life and doesn’t plan to stop it anytime soon; this is the reason why she has a bikini body! She receives a lot of criticism on social media, for showing off her body, but these negative things don’t affect her.
Workout freak!
Everyone would love to get treatment from her!
Stacey says that even though she is a doctor, it doesn’t stop her from flaunting her physique outside the clinic. This hot doctor further says that her life is very exciting and varied, due to which she can easily escape the depression associated with the medicine world. Won’t you like to see this gorgeous? View her pictures…
She is soo hot and pretty !!!
Everybody like to get an appointment with her due to her hotness and pretty look…!!
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ROCK OF AGES Extends To Rock The West End Until September 2012
** Shayne Ward And Justin Lee Collins sign up for another 6 months **
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** RoA nominated for five What’s On Stage theatre awards **
ROCK OF AGES THE MUSICAL, the smash hit musical that has taken the UK by storm is proud to announce that the full cast line up including Justin Lee Collins, Shayne Ward, Oliver Tompsett, Amy Pemberton and Simon Lipkin will continue in the show for at least another 6 months. This will take the original London cast through to the end of September 2012.
Fans who have already seen the show will be thrilled that they will have even more chances to see Justin and Shayne again throughout 2012. The London production of ROCK OF AGES has already started to attract somewhat of a cult appeal with audiences returning on numerous occasions to sing along with the hits of the 80s.
Since the show opened at the end of September, almost 100,000 people have had their worlds rocked by the tale of love, lust, laughter and lycra! Worldwide, the show has toured the US, been a huge hit on Broadway, in Toronto and in Melbourne and 2012 will see ROCK OF AGES get the Hollywood makeover as the movie version hits the screens next summer.
As Shayne says: “From when I first read the script through to the rehearsals and the fantastic gala night performance, we all knew that ROCK OF AGES was going to be a huge success. It’s a real testament to the hard work of everyone involved that the show is doing so well and that we as a cast are having so much fun rocking out for 8 shows a week and will be going on throughout 2012.”
Justin adds: "It's been such an honour to take to the Shaftesbury Theatre stage every night alongside such a great cast and crew. Going to work at ROCK OF AGES is such great fun and we think that reflects in the audience’s reactions. We've started to see people coming back to see the show again and again and hopefully myself and Shayne signing up for another six months means we can encourage more music and theatre fans to see the show. "
Rock of Ages is delighted to announce they have picked up two 2011 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Musical and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Jodie Jacobs for her role as spirited protester Regina.
Further to their first awards triumph, Rock of Ages is also very proud to announce that they have been nominated FIVE times in the prestigious www.whatsonstage.com Awards. More than 10,000 theatregoers have taken part in the nominations. Voting takes place from now until the end of January.
• Best Actor in a Musical Oliver Tompsett
• Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Simon Lipkin
• Best New Musical Rock of Ages
• Best Choreographer Kelly Devine
• London Newcomer of the Year Shayne Ward
In addition, the cast of ROCK OF AGES THE MUSICAL is thrilled to have performed on the BBC’s flagship Children in Need show on Friday 18th November. As well as donating all takings from, and raising money at the BBC London 94.9fm Rocks for Children in Need Gala Performance (at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Wednesday 16th November), the cast took to the stage at BBC TV Centre on the big night and well and truly ROCKED THE NATION! The cast and Shaftesbury Theatre raised a staggering £52,000 for the charity and presented a cheque, alongside Pudsey, on the night.
ROCK OF AGES THE MUSICAL has become an instant smash in the West End with critics and celebrities alike dusting down their leather, back-combing their hair and waving their lighters in the air to ‘London’s Greatest Guilty Pleasure”.
“If you’ve forgotten what it feels like to play air guitar in public,
then this is the place for you” (Dylan Jones, Editor, GQ)
Leading cast:
Dennis Dupree – Justin Lee Collins Stacee Jaxx/Father – Shayne Ward
Drew – Oliver Tompsett Sherrie – Amy Pemberton
Lonny – Simon Lipkin Hertz – Rohan Tickell
Justice/Mother – Rachel McFarlane Regina/Candi – Jodie Jacobs
Franz – Sandy Moffat
(remaining cast are alphabetical)
Mayor/Ja’Keith Gill - Nathan Amzi Ensemble – Natalie Andreou
Ensemble - Grant Anthony Ensemble – Carly Mercedes Dyer
Ensemble – Cordelia Farnworth Ensemble – Ian McIntosh
Waitress #1 – Twinnie-Lee Moore Ensemble – Jamie Muscato
Ensemble – Andrew Spillett Reporter – Zizi Strallen
Young Groupie – Amy Thornton Joey Primo/Sleazy Producer – Dylan Turner
ROCK OF AGES is the ultimate ‘80’s rock mix-tape musical’, a rip-roaring, hilarious story of hedonism, dreams, love and of course ROCK! So popular has it been in New York, Toronto and Melbourne that the show is currently being made into a star-studded movie. The movie that is set to be 2012’s blockbuster musical stars, amongst others, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin and Catherine Zeta Jones. Tom Cruise will be playing the role of Stacee Jaxx.
For more information and to book tickets please visit: www.rockofagesmusical.co.uk
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Nov 25, 2019 | 12:39 PM
In a memorable Chesapeake moment from August, the morning sun burned through smoky clouds over Eastern Bay south of Kent Island. (Dan Rodricks / Baltimore Sun)
On this Thanksgiving, I express gratitude to the forces that created, on the morning of Aug. 15, over Eastern Bay south-southeast of Kent Island, clouds that seemed to come from some mystical fire in the Chesapeake horizon. Smoky forms gave way slowly to blue and white and sun. The transformation only lasted a few minutes, but I am grateful for each.
Let’s be thankful for our many local treasures. They are too numerous to mention in full, but let me offer a partial list: The Enoch Pratt Free Library, and all the county libraries, for that matter; the Walters and the BMA; Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson; Oriole Park and the B&O warehouse; the NCR Trail; the Preakness; Patterson Park and the annual Halloween lantern parade; Artscape; the Senator Theatre; breakfast at Pete’s Grille in Waverly and Duesenberg’s in Catonsville. Did I mention Lamar Jackson?
I could go on, so I will: The Museum of Industry; our farmer’s markets; Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Cromwell Valley Park; John Waters; music at the Caton Castle Lounge; karaoke at 3 Miles House in Remington, the chocolate crabs at the Sweet Shoppe in Cross Street Market, and don’t let me forget Lamar Jackson.
American taxpayers should be thankful that people who care about the rule of law work for the federal government — and I mean those in the State Department, the law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and the military. They apparently care more about upholding the Constitution than the current president and every Republican member of Congress.
Baltimoreans should be thankful to their former mayor, Catherine Pugh, for at least one thing — pleading guilty to federal charges and sparing us a long trial.
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We send special thanks to Jennifer Boone, special agent in charge of the Baltimore office of the FBI, for offering these words with regard to Pugh and anyone who holds elected office: “The [Pugh case] is an example of what happens when a public servant engages in corrupt behavior, seeking personal gain through fraud while occupying a position of public trust. Ms. Pugh blurred the lines between her public duties and private business. … [Her] actions erode public confidence and undermine the strength of our democracy. No one is above the law. … There is a growing intolerance by the American people of public corruption. … We are always grateful for those who come forward to report such corruption.”
Be thankful for the Whistleblower.
Let’s give thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union, Maryland attorney general Brian Frosh and attorneys general throughout the country who, through the courts, fight President Trump as he tries to dismantle environmental protections, treat immigrants as a criminal class and use his office to reap profits for his family business.
Be thankful if you are not a refugee who turned to the United States for help this year, during the worst refugee crisis since World War II. You were not only terrorized by war or unsettled by natural disaster, you were devastated to learn that a country long considered a beacon of hope had shut the door to you and thousands of others.
Give thanks and praise to Atwater’s for hiring refugees to prepare the food in their fine restaurants.
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Be thankful you’re not Baltimore Mayor Jack Young. Heading into the 2020 campaign, he will hear opponents (and pundits) remind voters of his “I’m not committing the murders/How can you fault leadership?” statement every time the city’s crime rate comes up, which will be often.
Be thankful for forests, and the efforts being made by county executives in Anne Arundel, Frederick and Howard to preserve and expand them.
Let’s give thanks to the people behind Baltimore’s Flowering Tree Trails. They want to create and connect nearly 40 miles of magnolias, ornamental cherry and Eastern redbud trees through city parks and neighborhoods. Recently, more than 100 volunteers turned out to plant three dozen trees along Parkside Drive in Herring Run Park. It’s a great project that could be a tourist attraction every spring.
Give a nod of thanks if you have a job with an employer who respects your work, pays a decent wage, throws you an annual bonus, remembers your birthday and treats you and your coworkers to a sandwich or pizza once in a while.
Remember, with gratitude, the older people — teachers, coaches, coworkers — who encouraged you when you were first getting started, people who cared as much about your soul as your talents, who challenged you to be better than you thought you could be.
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Give a sigh of thanks that you’re not a military commander in the time of Trump. It’s a tough enough job without having a president sabotage your efforts to maintain discipline and high standards of conduct necessary in the ranks for honorable service to the country.
I give thanks for the amazing ride I took through Savage River State Forest in October, just as the trees exploded in gold and red; for the full-length, near-cashmere coat I bought at the Goodwill store for 10 bucks; for the fresh sardines I purchased from Hazlo of Highlandtown and grilled last Christmas Eve; for the life-affirming cup of coffee I had at Cafe Poupon on Aug. 27.
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I give eternal thanks for having known these departed: Turkey Joe Trabert, connoisseur of Baltimore, baseball, beer and bawdy humor; colleagues from the bygone Evening Sun, editorial page editor Ray Jenkins and editorial cartoonist Mike Lane, and the righteous Rep. Elijah Cummings.
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As part of the Mondomarine group, the Cantieri di Pisa had failed in 2017, leaving home the 22 workers who were working at the time of closure. This piece of the history of Italian boating is now saved thanks to the acquisition by the Genoese Sea Finance srl, part of the Monegasque Yotha, a company active in the chartering and storage of luxury yachts.
Cantieri di Pisa, un pezzo di storia della nautica
The birth of this shipyard dates back to 1945, in Limite sull’Arno which lies on the banks of one of the main rivers of Tuscany and is also known for the great tradition of master carpenters,. One of the turning points is the collaboration with Pierluigi Spadolini, father of Tommaso Spadolini, who has been collaborating with the Cantieri di Pisa since the early 1960s, also designing the immortal Akhir line that since the early ’70s is a brand of unmistakable charm in the nautical world and that has been updated over the years, embracing new trends without ever losing his identity.
In 2015, following a moment of serious crisis, the first rescue had arrived with the entry into the Mondomarine group, a Ligurian company that had its core business in superyachts. In 2017, just two years later, the failure of the Savona company, had rejected this historical brand in the abyss. Up to the last few days when was paid 2.6 million euros to the liquidator. After the change of ownership, the first objectives of the shipyard, once the operations have been resumed at full capacity, will be the delivery of the boats that are still waiting to be completed under the warehouses. The 22 workers who were working on the site before the 2017 bankruptcy also return to work.
Motor boats: Cantieri di Pisa and Akhir 42s
One of the last projects presented by the shipyard in 2015 was Akhir 42 S, out of pencil by Luca Dini. And this boat is the trait d’union between the first boats designed by Pierluigi Spadolini and the most modern idea that the evolution of design and taste requires. From the working point of view, Dini grew up in the Spadolini design studio immersing himself in the project vision that led to the creation of the Akhir line. This is why the Akhir 42s takes up the essence of this line that has its roots in another era, thus further reinforcing the identity of the range and the yard.
Scheda tecnica Akhir 42s
LOA: 42,00 m – 137,76 ft
Beam: 7,90 m – 25,91 ft
Draft: 1,90 m – 6,23 ft
Speed max: 23 knots
Cruise: 21 knots
Engine: 2 x MTU 16V 2000 M94
Max power: 2 X 1.939 kW at 2.450 RPM
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Gregory Lee, PhD
Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Disorders
Stroke / Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs)
222 West Thomas Road, Suite 315
Neuropsychologist (602) 406-3671
Gregory Lee, PhD, is a professor of neuropsychology and director of training in neuropsychology at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified in clinical neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Lee’s expertise includes the assessment of cognitive and psychological consequences of a variety of neurological conditions, such as epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions, traumatic brain injuries, brain tumors, and cerebrovascular disease. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.
Dr. Lee received his master’s degree in clinical psychology from Lone Mountain College and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
Dr. Lee’s research interests include human cerebral hemispheric specialization for memory, language, emotion, and other cognitive functions primarily using functional neuroimaging and epilepsy surgery models.
For more information or to request an appointment, please call (602) 406-3671.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Neuropsychology, 1984-1986
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine, Neuropsychology, 1983-1984
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MA, Lone Mountain College, Clinical Psychology, 1975
BA, University of Northern Colorado, Psychology, 1975
National Academy of Neuropsychology
International Neuropsychological Society
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Distinguished Service to Clinical Neuropsychology Award, National Academy of Neuropsychology, 2014
Distinguished Practitioner, National Academies of Practice in Psychology
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Johnson-Markve BL, Lee GP, Loring DW, Viner KM. Usefulness of verbal selective reminding in distinguishing frontal lobe memory disorders in epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2011;22(2):313-317.
Lee GP, Westerveld M, Blackburn LB, Park YD, Loring DW. Prediction of verbal memory decline after epilepsy surgery in children: effectiveness of Wada memory asymmetries. Epilepsia. 2005;46(1):97-103.
Lee GP, Meador KJ, Loring DW, Allison JD, Brown WS, Paul LK, Pillai JJ, Lavin TB. Neural substrates of emotion as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2004;17(1):9-17.
Lee GP, Park YD, Westerveld M, Hempel A, Blackburn LB, Loring DW. Wada memory performance predicts seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in children. Epilepsia. 2003;44(7):936-943.
Lee GP, Loring DW, Smith JR, Lee MR. Predictors of Patient Inability to Cooperate during Intraoperative Language Mapping. Epilepsy Behav. 2000;1(5):327-332.
Lee GP, Bechara A, Adolphs R, Arena J, Meador KJ, Loring DW, Smith JR. Clinical and physiological effects of stereotaxic bilateral amygdalotomy for intractable aggression. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1998;10(4):413-420.
Lee GP, Smith JR, Loring DW, Flanigin HF. Intraoperative thermal inactivation of the hippocampus in an effort to prevent global amnesia after temporal lobectomy. Epilepsia. 1995;36(9):892-898.
Lee GP, Loring DW, Smith JR, Flanigin HF. Intraoperative hippocampal cooling and Wada memory testing in the evaluation of amnesia risk following anterior temporal lobectomy. Arch Neurol. 1995;52(9):857-861.
Lee GP, Loring DW, Smith JR, Flanigin HF. Material specific learning during electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus. Cortex. 1990;26(3):433-442.
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Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Centre (MHMC) is a growing community hospital with 300 beds located in the suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Its mission is to provide modern patient care, while preserving the value and sanctity of life, underpinned by Jewish law.
MHMC is proud of its: 13,000 births per year, 6,000 operations per year, 50 outpatient clinics and 15 medical departments and its Community Health Promotion program.
MHMC has tripled the scope of its activities in the last five years. this is totally unprecedented amongst hospitals in Israel.
This rapid growth and expansion has motivated the building of several new facilities including the recently inaugurated Mental Health Wing, the first and only culturally sensitive unit in the country with an holistic approach to treating both adults and children. The Cardiology and Geriatric Centres are currently under construction.
We invite you to visit us and witness first-hand what makes this Hospital so special. You will see the professional and devoted care provided by the staff and the way in which they support the patients and their families. Please contact Chaim Fachler, Director of International Resource Development, email chaimf@mhmc.co.il, or telephone +972 54984 6263, who will be delighted to give you a tour of the hospital.
Mayanei Hayeshua’s Professor Rael Strous takes London by Storm
In the last week of November 2019, Professor Rael Strous, the South African-born medical director of Mayanei Hayeshua’s Mental Health Centre, and professor of psychiatry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine, was in London for a busy round of meetings and events organised by the British Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua.
Mayanei Hayeshua Awareness Event on Mental Health issues in the community
A capacity audience filled the Harvey Morse Auditorium at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, on Monday 13 May 2019, for an inspiring and powerful panel event, “Addressing Mental Health Issues in the Community.”
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Wins for Lesley Manville and Stefan Golaszewski for Mum at the RTS Programme Awards 2019
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Profile: Evan Schwartz of Interledger
Interledger: Because The World Will Never Agree on One Blockchain
Ripple was one of the first blockchains to offer its users the ability to transact in different currencies, so it should be no surprise that they have introduced a solution to the problem of interoperability between blockchains themselves. Observing that the world will never agree on one blockchain, they came up with the Interledger Protocol, which is simply a communications standard, not another network or another blockchain. Interledger offers a common language for financial networks to interconnect with a philosophy that recalls many of today’s Internet standards.
Evan Schwartz is a co-inventor of the Interledger Protocol (ILP) and the Managing Director of Ripple’s European Research and Development division based in Luxembourg. During Bitcoin Wednesday on 1 March, 2017, Evan will explain how Interledger uses an open architecture to enable payments and micropayments across different types of blockchains and other ledgers. He will be joined by his colleagues Ben Sharafian and Michiel de Jong.
Evan, Ben and Michiel will give a demo of multi-currency micropayments using the “ILP Kit” and the first public demo of cross-blockchain payments using Interledger. The Interledger whitepaper, code and further documentation can be found at Interledger.org. Evan previously worked as a developer on Ripple’s smart contract platform, Codius. He studied political economy and education at Brown University before coming to Ripple. Michiel previously worked on LedgerLoops.com, Firefox OS, IndieWeb, Redecentralize.org and multi-objective reinforcement learning. Ben is an Interledger “plugin” expert and has implemented support for decentralized ledgers, centralized ledgers, and even “virtual ledgers”.
Often hailed as one of the most innovative startups in fintech, blockchain pioneer Ripple has a long and controversial history in the sector. One of Ripple’s founders, Jed McCaleb, was also the creator of MTGox, one of the world’s first, and initially largest, Bitcoin exchanges. In 2011 Jed reportedly sold 88% of MTGox to Karpeles under unusual terms that completely released McCaleb from any liability after the sale. Soon after MTGox changed hands, 80,000 bitcoins were discovered missing, an amount that would be worth more than $89 million at today’s rates.
Once freed from managing MTGox, however, Jed founded Ripple with colleagues Arthur Britto, David Schwartz and Chris Larsen. The company developed its own distributed ledger, a blockchain without a mining process, that was designed to be a universal settlement network for transactions in any currency. With this idea they succeeded in becoming the first venture-backed company in the industry with Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures among their early investors.
Somewhat controversially, at its launch the Ripple blockchain simply created 100 billion Ripple credits, called XRP, in its genesis block in order to allow the company to distribute tokens through business development deals. At the start of 2017 Ripple reported that it held 63 billion XRP with the rest of the tokens distributed to others, including early founders and investors. As a result, only a small percentage of XRP are actively available, and the currency appears at the top of many market cap rankings for the sector albeit with widely disputed numbers.
The company has continued to develop into a global real-time settlement network, a strategy that consistently puts it into the conversation about enterprise blockchain solutions. It counts Bank of America, UBS and Santander among its clients.
Michiel de Jong Interledger
Ben Sharafian Interledger
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Braemar Road, Ballater, AB35 5XA
In the Cairngorms National Park, this luxurious country house is 8 miles from Balmoral Castle and has a swimming pool, a beauty spa, gym and tennis court. All rooms feature a 40-inch flat-screen TV, t ...more
In the Cairngorms National Park, this luxurious country house is 8 miles from Balmoral Castle and has a swimming pool, a beauty spa, gym and tennis court. All rooms feature a 40-inch flat-screen TV, tea/coffee making facilities and a safe. Hilton Grand Vacations Club at Craigendaroch Suites also has a squash court, sauna and steam room. In the Keiller Brasserie Restaurant, hearty breakfasts or light snacks are served. Each dish is prepared using the freshest ingredients. The Lecht ski area is 25 miles away, and there are local walks nearby. Stylish and comfortable rooms have 32-inch flat-screen TVs. Some rooms at Hilton Grand Vacations Club at Craigendaroch Suites have mountain views.
45 Braemar Road, Ballater, AB35 5RQ
No 45 is a 4 star guest house situated in the village of Ballater within the Cairngorm National Park. Guests can enjoy a comfortable bed and quality breakfast with a focus on homemade and local produ ...more
No 45 is a 4 star guest house situated in the village of Ballater within the Cairngorm National Park. Guests can enjoy a comfortable bed and quality breakfast with a focus on homemade and local produce.
8 Strathdee cottages 52 Deebank Road, Ballater, AB35 5QT
Hillview is a semi-detached holiday home with a barbecue, situated in Ballater in the Grampian Region. The unit is 11 km from Balmoral Castle. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property. The accomm ...more
Hillview is a semi-detached holiday home with a barbecue, situated in Ballater in the Grampian Region. The unit is 11 km from Balmoral Castle. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property. The accommodation is equipped with a kitchen with built in fridge/freezer, microwave, oven, dishwasher and washing machine. Towels and bed linen are featured at Hillview. The holiday home offers free private parking on-site Bike hire is available at the property and the area is popular for skiing and golfing. Royal Lochnagar Distillery is 11 km from Hillview, while Lecht ski & Multi activity centre is 18 km away. Guests can enjoy various activities in the surroundings, including horse riding and cycling. Aberdeen Airport is 53 km from the property.
13-15 Victoria Road, Ballater, AB35 5RA
The Deeside Inn is situated in the picturesque village of Ballater, in the heart of Royal Deeside. The property maintains many period features and offers open log fires and tweed sofas with a cosy atm ...more
The Deeside Inn is situated in the picturesque village of Ballater, in the heart of Royal Deeside. The property maintains many period features and offers open log fires and tweed sofas with a cosy atmosphere. Each spacious room at The Deeside Inn has free WiFi, a flat-screen TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The building boasts beamed ceilings and bare wood floors. Deeside Inn offers hearty meals in the bar and an a la carte and grill menu in the restaurant. The property is also a venue for live music. Ballater is situated on the River Dee, and is surrounded by scenic walks and the beautiful views of The Cairngorms National Park. It is a 15-minute drive from Balmoral Castle, the holiday home of the British Royal Family.
Ballater Road, Dinnet, AB34 5JY
In the rustic village of Dinnet in the heart of Royal Deeside, this family-run hotel is ideal for exploring the Highlands and tourist and sporting activities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. On the edge ...more
In the rustic village of Dinnet in the heart of Royal Deeside, this family-run hotel is ideal for exploring the Highlands and tourist and sporting activities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. On the edge of the Scottish Highlands, this Victorian hotel is the perfect base from which to explore the natural beauty of Scotland. There are many activities close by, including golf, skiing, fishing and stalking. Glenshee and the Lecht, 2 of the 5 Scottish ski resorts, are both approximately 30 miles from the hotel, with the necessary instruction and ski equipment available for hire.
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Set in Millton of Clova, Glen Clova Hotel offers 3-star accommodation with a terrace and a bar. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. The restaurant serves British dishes. At the hotel, each room has a ...more
Set in Millton of Clova, Glen Clova Hotel offers 3-star accommodation with a terrace and a bar. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. The restaurant serves British dishes. At the hotel, each room has a wardrobe, a TV and a private bathroom. Glen Clova Hotel features certain units with mountain views, and every room is fitted with a kettle. A Full English/Irish breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Guests at the accommodation will be able to enjoy activities in and around Millton of Clova, like cycling. Blairgowrie is 46 km from Glen Clova Hotel. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 115 km from the property.
31 The Square, Tarland,, Tarland, AB34 4TX
Aberdeen Arms Hotel Tarland provides rooms in Tarland. Among the various facilities are a shared lounge and ski storage space. Scottish and British dishes are served at the on-site restaurant. The hot ...more
Aberdeen Arms Hotel Tarland provides rooms in Tarland. Among the various facilities are a shared lounge and ski storage space. Scottish and British dishes are served at the on-site restaurant. The hotel will provide guests with a microwave, a kettle, a shower, a hair dryer, a flat-screen TV with cable channels and DVD Player. Selected rooms here will provide you with a kitchenette with a toaster and a fridge. The units have a wardrobe. An array of activities can be enjoyed in the surroundings, including skiing, cycling and hiking. Braemar is 43 km from Aberdeen Arms Hotel Tarland, while Inverurie is 45 km away. Aberdeen Airport is 50 km from the property.
Ballater Road, Aboyne, AB34 5HY
Quietly situated in the village of Aboyne, the family-run Struan Hall boasts free Wi-Fi and free private parking. It is in the heart of Royal Deeside, just 10 minutes' walk from the historic Aboyne Ca ...more
Quietly situated in the village of Aboyne, the family-run Struan Hall boasts free Wi-Fi and free private parking. It is in the heart of Royal Deeside, just 10 minutes' walk from the historic Aboyne Castle. The rooms feature a flat-screen TV, iPod docking station, and tea and coffee making facilities with homemade baked goods. The en suite shower rooms offer bathrobes and complimentary toiletries. In the mornings, Struan Hall serves full Scottish breakfast with black pudding. Lighter options including smoked salmon are also available. Dishes are freshly prepared using locally sourced produce where possible. Packed lunches can be provided with prior request. Aboyne is home to a supermarket, banks, and a restaurant. The area surrounding the village offers many outdoor pursuits, including walking, cycling, and most notably, gliding at Aboyne Airfield just 2 miles away. Guests are also free to relax in Struan Hall's spacious guest lounge, which overlooks the gardens.
Charleston Road, Aboyne, AB34 5EL
On the banks of the River Dee, The Boat Inn in Aboyne offers well-appointed accommodation, a cosy bar and restaurant. This Aberdeenshire inn lies around 4 miles east of the Cairngorms National Park, a ...more
On the banks of the River Dee, The Boat Inn in Aboyne offers well-appointed accommodation, a cosy bar and restaurant. This Aberdeenshire inn lies around 4 miles east of the Cairngorms National Park, and provides free parking and Wi-Fi in public areas. A full Scottish breakfast is served at The Boat Inn, with bacon, sausage, black pudding, eggs, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast. Pancakes, French toast, and smoked salmon with scrambled eggs is also available, along with a buffet selection of cereal, yoghurts, fresh fruit and juices. Each guest room has an en suite bathroom with shower or bath. All have a TV, hairdryer and tea and coffee facilities. The restaurant serves a high-quality menu using fine Scottish ingredients. Aberdeen Angus steaks, North Sea fish and seafood and Highland cheeses are among the offerings. Aboyne is around 30 miles west of Aberdeen. The city's vibrant Union Street shopping district features well-known stores and boutique shops and is less than 1 hour's drive.
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Aboyne Loch Golf Centre, Aboyne, AB34 5BR
You can glimpse majestic ospreys plunging into the loch, relax in the sumptuous spa, or take on two 9-hole golf courses amidst idyllic scenery at The Lodge. With bright and fresh décor, every room at ...more
You can glimpse majestic ospreys plunging into the loch, relax in the sumptuous spa, or take on two 9-hole golf courses amidst idyllic scenery at The Lodge. With bright and fresh décor, every room at The Lodge on the Loch provides a 32-inch flat-screen TV, along with a sleek and modern en suite bathroom. In Superior Bedrooms, a Juliette balcony gives a scenic view of Loch Aboyne and the mountains. An indulgent Japanese deep soak tub, a monsoon shower, and a steam bath are on offer in The Reflect Health Spa. There is a luxurious lochside hot tub, an indoor pool with cold plunge pool, and treatment rooms providing a range of relaxing treatments such as hot stone treatments and aromatherapy. The Osprey Restaurant and Bistro boasts fine dining with fantastic, panoramic views over the Cairngorm Mountains and its rugged landscape. Mediterranean cuisine with a Scottish twist is served each day, and made with the finest local ingredients.
7 Main Street, Tomintoul, AB37 9EX
Argyle Guest House offers rooms in Tomintoul. This 3-star guest house offers free WiFi. Every room is fitted with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The rooms in the guest house are fitted with ...more
Argyle Guest House offers rooms in Tomintoul. This 3-star guest house offers free WiFi. Every room is fitted with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The rooms in the guest house are fitted with a kettle. A continental breakfast is available daily at the property. A variety of popular activities are available in the area around Argyle Guest House, including skiing, cycling and hiking. Aviemore is 39 km from the accommodation, while Grantown on Spey is 22 km from the property. The nearest airport is Inverness Airport, 71 km from Argyle Guest House.
The Square, Tomintoul, AB37 9ET
Including a restaurant and 2 bars serving many local whiskies, the Richmond Arms Hotel is located in the attractive village of Tomintoul in the Cairngorms National Park. Around 57 miles from Aberdeen ...more
Including a restaurant and 2 bars serving many local whiskies, the Richmond Arms Hotel is located in the attractive village of Tomintoul in the Cairngorms National Park. Around 57 miles from Aberdeen Airport, this hotel provides free parking and WiFi. Each guest room has a TV and tea and coffee facilities. All rooms have an en suite shower or bath with toiletries provided. The Richmond Arms restaurant offers a full menu including pastas, burgers, pies and vegetarian dishes. There are also desserts and a children's selection. The 2 hotel bars stock around 150 single malt whiskies, including many from the Speyside region. Tomintoul is around 27 miles from Aviemore, north of beautiful Loch an Eilein, and 14 miles from Grantown-on-Spey. The town is home to the Speyside Centre, including a whisky shop, restaurant, art gallery and garden centre.
Situated in Tomintoul, 39 km from Aviemore, Gordon House features a shared lounge and free WiFi. A fridge and kettle are also available. A ski storage space is available on site and skiing can be enjo ...more
Situated in Tomintoul, 39 km from Aviemore, Gordon House features a shared lounge and free WiFi. A fridge and kettle are also available. A ski storage space is available on site and skiing can be enjoyed within close proximity of the property. Grantown on Spey is 22 km from the bed and breakfast, while Ballater is 39 km from the property. The nearest airport is Inverness Airport, 71 km from Gordon House.
Around 27 miles east of Aviemore, the Glenavon Hotel provides bed and breakfast in the Cairngorms National Park. This hotel offers a bar, a restaurant and free WiFi. Free public and private parking is ...more
Around 27 miles east of Aviemore, the Glenavon Hotel provides bed and breakfast in the Cairngorms National Park. This hotel offers a bar, a restaurant and free WiFi. Free public and private parking is available on site. Each room has a flat-screen TV, en-suite bathroom and tea and coffee facilities. The bar serves a range of beers made locally at the Cairngorm Brewery and a range of local Scottish whiskies. Lunch and dinner is served in the restaurant. Guests can also enjoy the beer garden. A variety of outdoor activities are available in the area including walking, cycling, fishing and skiing. Tomintoul is around 1 hour's drive from the city of Inverness. The town of Grantown-on-Spey is 14 miles away, and offers attractions including an 18-hole golf course and the Grantown Heritage Museum. The nearest airport is in Inverness, 31.7 miles from the hotel.
Glassel Road, Inchmarlo, AB31 4BQ
Set in tranquil woodlands, Inchmarlo Resort & Golf Club offer contemporary apartments in the heart of Royal Deeside. Aberdeen City Centre and Airport are just a 30-minute drive away. Inchmarlo Resort ...more
Set in tranquil woodlands, Inchmarlo Resort & Golf Club offer contemporary apartments in the heart of Royal Deeside. Aberdeen City Centre and Airport are just a 30-minute drive away. Inchmarlo Resort provides modern two and three bedroom self-catering apartments, with a stylish open plan living and dining area. Features include Freeview TV and a DVD player. There are comfortable, well furnished rooms, with modern en suite facilities. Apartments feature a patio or balcony. Each fully equipped kitchen features a washing machine, oven, fridge and microwave. Free parking and free Wi-Fi internet access are available in most units.
52 High Street, Edzell, DD9 7TA
Located in the beautiful small village of Edzell, The Panmure Arms Hotel offers bed and breakfast accommodation, a restaurant and free WiFi. The hotel is 40 miles away from Aberdeen and Dundee, and 10 ...more
Located in the beautiful small village of Edzell, The Panmure Arms Hotel offers bed and breakfast accommodation, a restaurant and free WiFi. The hotel is 40 miles away from Aberdeen and Dundee, and 10 miles from Montrose and the rail station. Each of the rooms at The Panmure Arms Hotel features en suite bathroom facilities, a desk, a flat-screen TV and a DVD player. Other features include tea/coffee making facilities and free toiletries. Guests can enjoy a varied menu in the onsite restaurant, where dishes are freshly prepared with local produce. The property is 7 minutes' drive off the A90 road. Aberdeen Airport is 1 hour drive.
Inchmarlo Road, Banchory, AB31 4AB
Set in acres of gardens, Tor-na-Coille Hotel offers free Wi-Fi, free parking and a restaurant serving local Scottish produce. All rooms are en suite and offer tea and coffee making facilities. Some be ...more
Set in acres of gardens, Tor-na-Coille Hotel offers free Wi-Fi, free parking and a restaurant serving local Scottish produce. All rooms are en suite and offer tea and coffee making facilities. Some bedrooms have authentic open fireplaces and views towards Scolty Hill. In the modern lounge bar, meals are served next to the open fire. Seasonal menus feature locally sourced produce, and in-room dining is available. A full Scottish breakfast and Continental options are available each morning. Tor-na-Coille is an elegant country house, just 16 miles from Aberdeen, opposite the Banchory Golf Course.
High Street, Edzell, DD9 7TF
In the beautiful Scottish village of Edzell, boasting a sauna, a gym and a swimming pool, this hotel is situated at the foot of the Angus Glens. Guests at Glenesk Hotel can enjoy free WiFi and free pa ...more
In the beautiful Scottish village of Edzell, boasting a sauna, a gym and a swimming pool, this hotel is situated at the foot of the Angus Glens. Guests at Glenesk Hotel can enjoy free WiFi and free parking on site. The hotel offers a transfer service to and from many destinations including Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports. Rooms at Glenesk are traditionally furnished, and each has pretty views and an en suite bathroom with free toiletries. Features include a flat-screen TV and tea and coffee making facilities. Fairways Restaurant and Golf View Cafe Bar has been awarded the Visit Scotland “Taste our Best†and offers Scottish Menu. All produce is locally sourced. A full Scottish breakfast and buffet are available. 360 Degree Bar in the Glenesk Hotel, the Guinness World Record holder for ‘The most varieties of whisky commercially available', offers over 1000 malts, 200 gins, 80 rums, 70 vodkas and selection of local ales. Guests can enjoy discounts at the adjoining Edzell Golf Club which has two 18 and 9 hole courses. The first tee less than a minute's walk from the garden through the hotel's own private entrance. Surrounding the property there are opportunities for fishing, shooting and there are also a number of whiskey distilleries.
22 High Street, Banchory, AB31 5SR
Situated 5 km from Crathes Castle, Douglas Arms Hotel in Banchory offers free bikes and bar. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. Guests can sample Scottish and British dishes at the in-house restauran ...more
Situated 5 km from Crathes Castle, Douglas Arms Hotel in Banchory offers free bikes and bar. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. Guests can sample Scottish and British dishes at the in-house restaurant. All units in the hotel are fitted with a flat-screen TV. The private bathroom is equipped with a shower. Guest rooms include a wardrobe. Douglas Arms Hotel offers a sun terrace. You can play darts at the accommodation. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 32 km from Douglas Arms Hotel.
25 High Street, Banchory, AB31 5TD
Located within 5 km of Crathes Castle, The Burnett Arms Hotel in Banchory features a terrace, as well as free WiFi. This 3-star hotel offers a shared lounge. Guests can have a drink at the bar. At the ...more
Located within 5 km of Crathes Castle, The Burnett Arms Hotel in Banchory features a terrace, as well as free WiFi. This 3-star hotel offers a shared lounge. Guests can have a drink at the bar. At the hotel, rooms are equipped with a desk and a flat-screen TV. All rooms include a private bathroom with free toiletries and a hair dryer. The units have a wardrobe. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 32 km from the property.
Kirkmichael, Kirkmichael, Kirkmichael, PH10 7NS
The Strathardle Inn is a beautiful little hotel set in glorious Perthshire landscape. Good home-cooked food sourced locally, fine ales and a roaring fire, what more could you want? Strathardle Inn, a ...more
The Strathardle Inn is a beautiful little hotel set in glorious Perthshire landscape. Good home-cooked food sourced locally, fine ales and a roaring fire, what more could you want? Strathardle Inn, a magical little country hotel nestling in the wonderful Perthshire Highlands, offering a comfortable, peaceful and informal environment. Traditional cuisine is offered alongside real ales and a collection of single malts. The Inn represents an excellent base from which to explore central Scotland with easy access to Perth, Pitlochry, Dundee, St Andrews and Royal Deeside. Activities in the immediate area include golf, fishing, shooting, skiing, walking, cycling as well as sightseeing.
Airlie Arms Hotel, 4 St. Malcolms Wynd, Kirriemuir, DD8 4HB
Located in Kirriemuir, Airlie Arms Hotel provides a bar and free WiFi. There is a restaurant. All guest rooms in the hotel are fitted with a kettle. The private bathroom is equipped with a hair dryer. ...more
Located in Kirriemuir, Airlie Arms Hotel provides a bar and free WiFi. There is a restaurant. All guest rooms in the hotel are fitted with a kettle. The private bathroom is equipped with a hair dryer. Breakfast is available each morning, and includes continental and Full English/Irish options. You can play darts at Airlie Arms Hotel, and car hire is available. Perth is 48 km from the accommodation, while Dundee is 31 km from the property. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 99 km from Airlie Arms Hotel.
Station Square, Ballater, AB35 5QB
Gordon Guesthouse is located in Ballater, within Cairngorns National Park. Free WiFi access is available. Each room here will provide you with a TV. All rooms have their own private bathroom with eith ...more
Gordon Guesthouse is located in Ballater, within Cairngorns National Park. Free WiFi access is available. Each room here will provide you with a TV. All rooms have their own private bathroom with either a bath or shower. The property offers free parking. Balmoral Castle is 7 miles from Gordon Guesthouse, whilst Royal Lochnagar Distillery is a 15-minute drive away. Aberdeen Airport is 40 miles from the property.
£90.00 £90.00 £90.00 £90.00 £90.00 FULL £100.00
Kingoldrum, Angus, DD8 5HD
Located in Angus, Druminoch features accommodation with free WiFi and TV. A fridge and kettle are also featured. Guests can also relax in the garden or on the shared lounge area. Perth is 50 km from t ...more
Located in Angus, Druminoch features accommodation with free WiFi and TV. A fridge and kettle are also featured. Guests can also relax in the garden or on the shared lounge area. Perth is 50 km from the bed and breakfast. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 106 km from Druminoch.
Dee Street, Banchory, AB31 5HS
Situated on the outskirts of Banchory and set in a scenic location between Feugh River and King George V Park and Pavilion. Banchory Lodge Hotel is a Georgian mansion free private parking. Rooms at Ba ...more
Situated on the outskirts of Banchory and set in a scenic location between Feugh River and King George V Park and Pavilion. Banchory Lodge Hotel is a Georgian mansion free private parking. Rooms at Banchory Lodge are individually decorated and some come with four-poster beds. Each room has views of the large gardens and features a TV and an elegant en suite bathroom. The bridge over the River Feugh is just half-a-mile away and is famous for witnessing majestic leaping salmon. Salmon fishing can also be done from the end of the hotels garden. The city of Aberdeen is just a 45-minute drive from the hotel and Aberdeen Airport is within 20 miles.
Ballater Hostel, Bridge Square, Ballater, AB35 5QJ
Located within 14 km of Balmoral Castle, Ballater Hostel in Ballater features a number of amenities including a shared lounge. Built in 2009, the property is within 14 km of Royal Lochnagar Distillery ...more
Located within 14 km of Balmoral Castle, Ballater Hostel in Ballater features a number of amenities including a shared lounge. Built in 2009, the property is within 14 km of Royal Lochnagar Distillery. The property is set 25 km from Lecht 2090 ski & Multi activity centre. A number of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including skiing, cycling and hiking. Corgarff Castle is 25 km from the hostel. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 65 km from Ballater Hostel.
£72.00 £72.00 £72.00 £72.00 FULL FULL £72.00
Dinnet, Ordie, AB34 5LU
Overlooking Loch Davan, within the Cairngorms National Park, Glendavan House offers luxurious 5-star bed and breakfast accommodation Built in 1886 as a shooting lodge, Glendavan House has been updated ...more
Overlooking Loch Davan, within the Cairngorms National Park, Glendavan House offers luxurious 5-star bed and breakfast accommodation Built in 1886 as a shooting lodge, Glendavan House has been updated so that each room combines original Victorian features, with state-of-the-art modern facilities. Each room has bespoke or antique furniture, a digital TV, DVD and CD players, and free Wi-Fi and many rooms have views of the park. A full Scottish breakfast made using fresh local produce is available and a continental breakfast can be served in the room. Aberdeen Airport and city centre are an hour's drive away. Balmoral Castle and Royal Lochnagar Distillery are both 12 miles away.
£150.00 £150.00 £150.00 £150.00 FULL FULL £150.00
Pine Marten Bar Glenmore, Aviemore, PH22 1QU
Glenmore Glamping Pod 1 in Aviemore provides accommodation with a garden and a bar. The cabins have a ski pass sales point. The glamping pods have access to a shared sauna and shared bathroom faciliti ...more
Glenmore Glamping Pod 1 in Aviemore provides accommodation with a garden and a bar. The cabins have a ski pass sales point. The glamping pods have access to a shared sauna and shared bathroom facilities. Guests at Glenmore Glamping Pod 1 will be able to enjoy activities in and around Aviemore, like skiing and cycling. Inverness is 47 km from the accommodation, while Nairn is 48 km from the property. The nearest airport is Inverness Airport, 69 km from the property.
Badaguish Outdoor Centre Glenmore, Aviemore, PH22 1AD
Badaguish lodges, wigwams and camping is situated 13 km from Aviemore, within the CairnGorm National Park. Badaguish is an outdoor centre in a remote forest location and access is via a 2-mile single ...more
Badaguish lodges, wigwams and camping is situated 13 km from Aviemore, within the CairnGorm National Park. Badaguish is an outdoor centre in a remote forest location and access is via a 2-mile single track road through the forest. Expect snow and ice from November to February. All chalets include a seating/dining area with a fully equipped kitchen. Each wigwam is equipped with a fridge and kettle and a shared kitchen and toilet/shower facilities are located in a separate building. The basic kitchen facilities for wigwam guests have very limited utensils and crockery, two small hobs, a microwave and a large seating area. The further Wigwams (No. 18 - No. 22) are located 250 metres to the closest toilet/shower and communal kitchen building, and 400 metres to the main toilet/shower facilities Please note that bedding is not provided for wigwams. Guests need to bring own sleeping bags or contact the property prior to arrival to hire bedding The area is popular for skiing and horse riding. A number of activities are offered in the area, such as cannoning and cycling. Inverness Airport is 44 km away.
Glenesk, Tarfside, DD9 7YZ
This charming house has stunning views of the Cairngorms National Park, set within 2 acres of private grounds. There is free Wi-Fi throughout and free private parking on site. Guests can enjoy fantast ...more
This charming house has stunning views of the Cairngorms National Park, set within 2 acres of private grounds. There is free Wi-Fi throughout and free private parking on site. Guests can enjoy fantastic walks from the doorstep of House of Mark; fly fishing for salmon and sea trout can be arranged in the North Esk river. Golden eagles and buzzards can be spotted circling high above the hills. Rooms at House of Mark are traditionally furnished, and each features picturesque views, and an en suite shower room or private bathroom. The restaurant serves delicious roast lunches, haggis, and tasty puddings. Continental breakfasts are available in the mornings, along with full cooked breakfast and packed lunches can also be arranged.
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Chapter 39 : Patron, Please Keep Me (19)
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Filming was already over for the day so the crew members were having dinner. Seeing the man who walked in through the hotel door, a few young ladies couldn’t help but give low gasps.
“Ah Mo.” Xia Xuan looked back upon hearing the voice as a look of pleasant surprise made its way to her face. She got up to welcome him. “How come you’re here?”
“I came here to discuss something and heard you were here so I popped by to check on you.” Xi Mo answered in a neutral tone, his gaze landing on Shi Sheng. That cowardly and timid girl in his memories seemed to have undergone a complete metamorphosis.
She wasn’t wearing any fancy clothing, exquisite makeup, or any expensive accessories. All she wore was a normal workout outfit. However, all she had to do was sit there and a noble aura could be felt.
But in that nobility was a trace of roguishness…
Shi Sheng didn’t like looking at Xi Mo and got up to leave. However, to leave, she would have to bypass these two. After a moment’s pondering, Shi Sheng sat back down. Xi Mo’s gaze hardened before speaking a bit with Xia Xuan and leaving. Xia Xuan returned to Shi Sheng’s tableside and spoke in a suppressed voice, “Jiang Wan, I’ll make sure you’re chased out of the entertainment circle.”
“What a coincidence, as it just so happens, my goal is quite similar.” Shi Sheng leaned backwards. “Why don’t we see who’s the one chasing out whom first?”
Xia Xuan gave a light snort in disdain. “Chase me out of the entertainment circle? Jiang Wan, do you really think that just because you and Xia Man founded a company, you can match up to me? You’re just a 3rd ranked celebrity right now. You haven’t even reached the 1st rank so how are you going to get me to scram?”
Shi Sheng propped up her jaw as she spoke with a smile, “But I have a backer now!”
‘I’ve got Youjian Entertainment as my backing. Youjian Entertainment has more status in the capital than Dongfang Entertainment.’
She heard that Dongfang Entertainment had recently been planning on an expansion into the capital. Xi Mo was probably here for this reason.
“Backing?” Xia Xuan furrowed her brows for a bit before they evened out and disdain appeared in her eyes. “Ha, Jiang Wan do you think men would offend a Top Actress and two influential families for the sake of a 3rd ranked celebrity?”
She was just a tiny 3rd ranked celebrity. How big of a backing could she get by selling that body of hers?
“Won’t we know once we test it out?”
“You asked for this.”
“Today’s quest has already been sent to your phones. Now we’ll decide on the pairings. Those who draw the same colour will be partners.” The director raised his voice and shouted. A crew member brought a sealed box over.
Shi Sheng and Fang Liqiu were standing next to each other. Fang Liqiu drew a blue lot while Shi Sheng drew a green one.
“Ah, we’re not in a team!” Fang Liqiu’s expression collapsed. “Little Meatball, why aren’t we in a team ah!!!”
‘There’s plenty of meat to eat and soup to drink1 whenever I follow Little Meatball. My life was so much better when following her…
But now we’re not on the same team. *sobs* I’m so heartbroken…’
“Because you’re too noisy.”
“Am I? I’m not ah! Little Meatball, how can you say that about me? I’m heartbroken, you’ve injured my fragile heart.”
The director got those who drew the same coloured lots to stand together. No matter how much Fang Liqiu cried, it wouldn’t change anything and she could only reluctantly go stand next to a male artist.
Shi Sheng was currently looking at the small, green ball in Xia Xuan’s hand. Her lips twitched. ‘This was on purpose, right? It’s definitely on purpose!’
The theme for this episode was ‘Elf Kingdom’. And today’s quest was to find the ‘Water Elves’ and retrieve some ‘Water of Life’.
The eight were grouped up into four pairs. Every pair got a hint and they were to use that hint to search for the next clue. The team that found the Water Elves first could obtain a ‘Water Elf Pearl’ which was a tool for later.
And the hint Shi Sheng got pointed her in the direction of a viewing platform in the mountain village. The two walked one in front of the other, neither speaking a word. The cameraman was already feeling awkward on their behalves.
He was more willing to see Shi Sheng cause some trouble. At least that way, they’d get ratings! While the cameraman was distracted by awkwardness, the situation changed drastically. By the time he reacted, all he saw was Xia Xuan rolling down the slope.
Xia Xuan had been sent to the hospital. The reporters caught onto this and they rushed to report this.
“Big Miss2 Jiang! Can you tell me what you’ve done this time?!” Tang Yin suppressed his anger as he roared in a low voice.
“I didn’t do anything.” Shi Sheng spoke innocently. “She fell down by herself. I didn’t even touch her with a single pinky.”
Back then, she had been standing slightly behind Xia Xuan. She hadn’t expected Xia Xuan to suddenly reach out to pull on her. As they were enemies, she naturally flung her hand off as fast as she could.
However, who had expected that Xia Xuan wasn’t afraid of death? She fell downhill all on her own. ‘Tsk, why didn’t she die from that fall?’
“Right now Xia Xuan is saying you’re the one who pushed her! Public opinion on the internet is against you and the matter from back then has been brought up again…” Tang Yin was roaring irritably on the other side.
Shi Sheng finally managed to hang up after a long lecture. ‘How annoying! Since you’re so anxious in courting death then I shan’t hold back anymore.’
The second day of Xia Xuan’s stay in the hospital, a few scandalous pictures appeared on the internet. The girl in the picture was rather young. Though there weren’t any full-blown bed-scenes, there were still kissing scenes.
These pictures featured a young woman and as one moved further along, one would notice, the woman in the picture getting older and more mature.
Towards the end, the scenes got more and more censor worthy. The final few pictures actually looked like a group of people inhaling drugs together. At first, people didn’t notice. But as more and more were released, people who still couldn’t see it would be blind.
In the VIP room of a hospital, Xia Xuan wildly flipped through these photos while muttering, “Why is it like this, how can it be like this… Weren’t these destroyed long ago? Why did they still appear? Impossible…”
“Someone has clearly planned this in advance.” Xia Xuan’s agent furrowed her brow and looked at her before exhorting, “Don’t panic. As long as we don’t admit it and say these pictures are fake, it’ll be fine. This matter is already so old. To investigate would require time and by that time, most of the heat would have faded.”
“It must be Jiang Wan! It’s definitely Jiang Wan!” Xia Xuan ferociously smashed the computer to the floor. “It’s that slut! She wants to destroy me!”
‘It had to be her, she told me she’d chase me out of the entertainment circle. But where did she get those pictures? Those people back then had clearly already been…’
Xia Xuan fought a cold shiver as she turned around to press her agent’s shoulders and spoke with a ferocious face, “I want Jiang Wan’s reputation destroyed! Straight away, immediately, right now!!!”
“Calm down!” ‘It was only a few pictures.’ Xia Xuan’s agent didn’t understand why it frightened her so much.
There wasn’t even a bed scene anywhere so it wasn’t that big of a deal. Just a little bit of work and this matter would be resolved.
“How can I calm down? Just how am I supposed to calm down?! Ahhhh-” Xia Xuan hugged her head and shrieked. ‘Why does Jiang Wan have those pictures?! How did she know about that matter?!
No! I can’t let her reveal it, otherwise I’m done for!
Calm down, calm down, there’s got to be a way to deal with her.’
Let the torture of Xia Xuan begin~
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Translator’s Corner:
Every time I read the last bit of Chapter 38, I kept thinking it’d be Lu Qingyun but every time I go to Chapter 39, my hopes are dashed…
What I learned from this chapter: Following little meatballs gives you meat to eat *nods sagely*
This is an idiom for doing well/having rewards/etc. I left it because I thought it sounded hilarious with her nickname.
Used in this context, he’s pretty much saying this through gritted teeth by now. See also: Footnote 2 of Chapter 35.
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lemme watch this stuff unfold *laughs sinisterly*
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Hudson Automobiles – A History of Performance
The Hudson Motor Car Company is an American manufacturer which operated in Detroit Michigan from 1909 until the 1954. The company was one of the automobile pioneers with a mass production vision. Hudson Motor Car company was created by eight business men who wished to create a car that would sell for less than $1000. The first Hudson automobile was called Twenty and it was one of the first low priced American cars. The model was very successful and the company managed to make 4000 sales within the first year putting Hudson on the 17th place in the worldwide production industry. This was quite an accomplishment for the new manufactures which soon started to revolutionize the automobile industry.
Hudson Motor Car company is a testament to the Americans’ passion for cars. The company delivered a lot of revolutionary technologies such as the first dual brakes, the first generator warning lights, the use of dashboard oil pressure as well as the first balanced crankshaft. The balanced crankshaft allowed the straight-six engine of the Hudson automobile to work at high rotational speed thus creating more power than lower speed engines.
Essex was a brand of automobiles introduced by Hudson in 1919 as a low budget line similar to the competitive Ford and Chevrolet cars. Essex developed one pf the first affordable sedans which was very well received by the automobile market. By 1932 Hudson had created a new line of automobiles called Terraplane. The cars were originally promoted under the Essex Terraplane name but Hudson slowly phased out the Essex part.
In order to improve their products the American manufactured started to show an interest in safety measures. In 1936 the Hudson industry featured longer and softer leaf springs and was able to prevent the bumps and braking from changing the car’s course. These features were supported by the radial safety control and the rhythmic ride suspension. The 1936 performances ranged from 93 to 124 hp. The production started to drop in 1938 due to the slow economy. Almost half of the production was ensured by the 112 model. This Hudson automobile had a 175 cubic inch L-head six, a forward-hinged alligator hood and shorter wheelbase than the Terraplane. However the car was $25-45 more expensive than the Chevrolet and Ford models. In 1941 Hudson introduced the Commodore but the production was disrupted by the war. In 1946 Hudson resumed production of the Commodore. In the same year they released the Hudson Super which featured 103 hp and a 212 cubic inch six or a 126 hp with a 254 cubic inch eight.
In 1954 Hudson and Nash joined forces in order to create the American Motors Corporation. Despite the fact that AMC released some valuable cars, they struggled to survive in the new competitive market. In 1989 AMC was bough by Chrysler. The legacy left behind by Hudson, Nash and Willys served as a foundation for Chrysler’s golden age.
Category: CarsBy Brady Foster September 17, 2013
Tags: hudson automobilehudson commodorehudson essexhudson historyhudson motor carshudson terraplane
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2 Peter 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)
Destructive Doctrines
False Teaching and False Teachers
2Pe 2:1
2Pe 2:1 - But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
2Pe 2:2 - And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
2Pe 2:3 - By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does[fn] not slumber.
Doom of False Teachers
2Pe 2:4 - For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
2Pe 2:5 - and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
2Pe 2:6 - and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 - and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
2Pe 2:8 - (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—
2Pe 2:9 - then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
2Pe 2:10
2Pe 2:10 - and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
2Pe 2:11 - whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.
Depravity of False Teachers
2Pe 2:12 - But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
2Pe 2:13 - and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
2Pe 2:14 - having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
2Pe 2:15 - They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16 - but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 - These are wells without water, clouds[fn] carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.[fn]
Deceptions of False Teachers
2Pe 2:18 - For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped[fn] from those who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 - While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
2Pe 2:20 - For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 - For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2Pe 2:22 - But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,”[fn] and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
NKJV Footnotes
M-Text reads will not.
NU-Text reads and mists.
NU-Text omits forever.
NU-Text reads are barely escaping.
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2018 Four Elements Release Thread (3/1-3/31)
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solittletime 1 yr ago
Question re Four Elements Release
Since you allow wood and forest, how about orchard? Thanks.
Firegirl 1 yr ago
(I'm posting this early because I'm quite busy the next few days and want to make sure this is up and ready to go.)
Here's the info/rules:
This challenge will run from 00:00 (your time) on March 1st through 23:59 (your time) on March 31st.
1) Qualifying books must include a word relating to one of the four elements. Author's names as well as titles will count. If in doubt, please post here with word questions, but check the word list first!
***Earth (includes words like rock, ground, gravel, mud, etc.)
***Air (includes words like breeze, wind, gust, storm, etc.)
***Fire (includes words like flame, ashes, lava, smoke, etc.)
***Water (includes words like ocean, wave, rain, lake, etc.)
--Partial word list: http://azfiregirl.livejournal.com/351484.html
2) Embedded words are fine (ie. DIRTy).
3) I will also accept proper names of rivers, oceans, volcanoes, mountains, forests, etc. (Ex. "Nile, Mt. Everest, Atlantic") However proper names of continents, countries, states, islands, providences, and so forth will NOT be accepted. **For those, check out Secretariat's Oh, the Places We Can Go challenge, also running in March.
4) Please include the name of the challenge in the release notes, in combination with other challenges is fine. Wild releases and controlled releases count.
5) Standard release challenge posting rules apply. (Please post all releases in a new post -- do not edit posts to include new releases!! Once I've read your post, I won't read it again. Please include number of releases in the title as well as a numbered list in the post itself. Also, please capitalize any embedded words to make it a little easier on me!)
6) Please post any catches, also in numbred order, they are great for encouragement!
7) International participants are more than welcome!! Foreign language books are totally acceptable. I just ask that the applicable part of the title be translated into English. (Typical American that I am, I can't read anything but English.)
GoryDetails 1 yr ago
2018 Four Elements Releases #1-8 (and 2 catches!):
1. Narrow Dog to Indian RIVER ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14872137/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
2. Olympians: Poseidon: EARTH Shaker ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14871006/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
3. FIREships ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14709892/ ), wild release, photo.
4. To Build a FIRE and Other Stories ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14717126/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo. [Update: caught!]
5. The Big WAVE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14720763/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
6. Catching FIRE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14721247/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo. [Update: caught.]
7. It Was on FIRE When I Lay Down on It ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14731747/ ), wild release, photo.
8. From the Ngong HILLs ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14872124/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
SqueakyChu 1 yr ago
What about the word "bog"?
Bog is good!
2018 Four Elements Challenge - Releases #1-5
1. Curious George and the Hot [AIR] Balloon
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14756661
2. [SNOW] [FLOWER] and the Secret Fan
3. Dead [WATER]
4. The Perks of Being a Wall[FLOWER]
5. Dead Simple by Jon [LAND]
awaywithfairies 1 yr ago
Word Question
How about "bush"? In Australia, it's a commonly used term for wilderness.
RE: Word Question
Yes on bush!
tabby-cat-owner 1 yr ago
2018 Four Elements release #1
1. Wild Weather--Hurricanes!, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935901/
Releases 1-10
1 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939006/ RemEMBERing Melbourne
2 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939046/ The WORLD From Italy
3 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939055/ Tenzing and the Sherpas of EVEREST
4 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939093/ Stealing WATER
5 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939111/ Wild LANDs
6 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939123/ The SMOKE Jumper
7 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939140/ Home LAND
8 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939155/ Hurry Down SUNshine
9 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939163/ Under the Tuscan SUN
10 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939177/ Vroom by the SEA
6. The Search for the Great [VALLEY]
7. [WIND] in the Willows
8. The Cat Who Moved A [MOUNTAIN]
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/8087613
9. Mending Fences by Sherryl [WOOD]s
BOOKWORMINUSALL 1 yr ago
RE: 2018 Four Elements Release Thread (3/1-3/31)...Release #1 for multiple challenges. ; )
I almost forgot this one, Firegirl...THANKS for HOSTING!!! : ) I sent some DIRT to a fellow BCer as a surprise RABCK that I think counts as a controlled release!!! ; )
1. Talking DIRTy Laundry with the Queen of Clean by Linda Cobb https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14940993
2018 Four Elements Release #9:
9. Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the WORLD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14913059/ ), wild release, multiple challenges.
2018 Four Elements Challenge - Releases #10-14
10. Coun[TIN]g
11. The Sorcerer's Apprent[ICE]
12. Motherless [BROOK]lyn
13. The [STONE]s Cry Out
14. The Dark [WIND]
Question #2:
What about the word "steppe'?
booklady331 1 yr ago
Release #1
1. The bRAIN
Question #3
How about the word "outback"?
Yes on steppe and outback.
How about "grit"?
Google defines it as "small loose particles of stone or sand". And both stone and sand are already accepted...
Yes on grit!
Releases 11-12
11 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939028/ Boyfriends, Burritos & an OCEAN of Trouble
12 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14941950/ COASTing
15. Enter a Murderer by Ngaio [MARSH]*
16. The Leprechaun's [GOLD]
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14770245/
17. Best Friends [ROCK]
18. The Art of Racing in the [RAIN]
19. [ROCK]ville Pike*
*Caught by BookCrosser merope33
2. LIGHTNING, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935893/
AlterEgoZoe 1 yr ago
Would Everglades count?
For this book specifically: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14604797?...
RE: Would Everglades count?
Hmmmmm. I would say that's similar to a proper name of an ocean so, yeah, go for it!
2018 Four Elements Releases #10-11:
10. The ELEMENTals ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14231795/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
11. Faery LANDs Forlorn ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14919058/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
1. Hidden in the EVERGLADES
20. The Wes[TIN]g Game
21. The Girl on the T[RAIN]
22. Perish Twice by Robert B. [PARK]er
23. The [DIAMOND] Princes[S AND] the Magic Ball
24. The Berenstain Bears on the [MOON]
2018 Four Elements Releases #12-13 (and a catch!):
My area's under a winter storm warning for an upcoming heavy snow, so I nipped out today ahead of the real elements to release a few books!
12. Arctic SUN on My Path ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14930176/ ), wild release, multiple challenges. [Update: caught!]
13. ICEbreaker ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14709741/ ), wild release, photo.
3. Awesome OCEAN Science, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935887/
25. The [ICE] Princess by Camilla Läck[BERG]*
26. [OCEAN] Tales
27. Catching [FIRE] **
28. The Forget[TIN]g
29. Secrets of the Natural [WORLD]
30. Man and Materials: [MINERAL]s
*Berg = mountain in German
**Caught by BookCrosser merope33
4. DIRT & Grime, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935897/
31. [PEARL] [MOON] by Katherine [STONE]
32. Grand Avenue by Joy [FIELD]ing
33. The Hermit Of Eyton [FOREST]
34. Two Dollar Bill by Stuart [WOOD]s
35. A Walk in the [WOOD]s
36. Clover by Dori [SAND]ers
13 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14945860/ RyanLAND
14 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14945862/ The ICE Museum
15 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14945865/ Dry WATER
16 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14945869/ Like WATER For Chocolate
17 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14945891/ BUSH Cooking in Style
BruceAlexander 1 yr ago
Just love this challenge! Thank you for hosting it once more! Releases 1 - 10
1 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/12754180/ Growing Spiritual REDWOODS
2 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14864245/ Crimson SHORE
3 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14926770/ DESERT Solitaire: A Season in the WILDERNESS
4 -http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14927850/ Riders of the Purple SAGE
5 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14927895/ Over the Edge: Death in the Grand CANYON
6 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14685777/ RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History
7 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14931065/ Edge of Taos DESERT: An Escape to Reality
8 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14931166/ MOUNTAIN Biker's Guide to New Mexico
9 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14931080/ The ROCKhound's Guide to New Mexico
10-http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14930142/ Great RIVER: The RIO GRANDE in North American History. Volume 1, Indians and Spain. Volume 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 volumes in 1
5. The Violent EARTH, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935890
2018 Four Elements Release #14:
14. MARSH Madness ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14717079 ), wild release.
37. The [WORLD] of Tennis
38. In the [COUNTRY] of Men
39. The Great Failure by Natalie [GOLD][BERG]*
40. [STORM] of the Century
41. King[S AND] Queens of Eng[LAND]
Releases 11 - 20
11 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14808296/ My Sister the Vampire #3: Re-Vamped! by SIENNA Mercer
12 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14931089/ ADOBE Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for ADOBE Homes
13 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14184110/ The Mystery of STONE Circles
14 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14932910/ The Santa Fe House: Historic Residences, Enchanting ADOBEs and Romantic Revivals
15 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14932906/ El Rancho de las Golondrias: Living History in New Mexico's La Cienega VALLEY
16 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14932869/ Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy through the Grand CANYON
17 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14928744/ Wild PLANTS of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses
18 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14928756/ The Small ADOBE House
19 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14400691/ The Girl on the tRAIN
20 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14623514/ Song of the RIVER
Question, Please
What about "rust?"
15. Tales of the GOLD Monkey ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14874845/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
16. WATER Spirits ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14655889/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
17. Deadly QUICKSILVER Lies ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14617854/ ), wild release, photo.
18. AIRship Andy, or The Luck of a Brave Boy ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14709501/ ), wild release, photo.
42. Education as an Art: The Rudolf [STEIN]er Method*
43. The [ROCK] Hunters
44. Dr. Dolittle's Caravan by Hugh Lof[TIN]g
45. [SUN]set Express
* Stein = stone in German
NancyNova 1 yr ago
release 1 - 2
1. whiskey ISLAND http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/6067003/
2. sugar CREEK http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10440898/
Release # 2
2. SEAgull One http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14950287
19. SILVER Spoon ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14948392/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
20. ICE Island: The Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Island ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14813398/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
21. How To Make an Apple Pie and See the WORLD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14709821/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
22. Echoes of the SEA: Scotland and the Sea ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14774107/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
23. The NITROGEN Murder ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14730129/ ), wild release, photo.
24. Death in the Truffle WOOD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14610205/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
25. Vanity fAIR ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939837/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
18 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/11709009/ The WORLD's Weirdest Sports
19 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14950418/ STORMs Over Africa
20 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14950419/ When I Fell From the SKY
21 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14950420/ The SANDs of Sakkara
3. heat LIGHTNING http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7170101/
4. STAR witness
46. [WIND]s of Change
47. Praying for Sheet[ROCK]
48. [STONE] Cold by Robert B. [PARK]er
49. The Wedding by Nicholas [SPARK]s (also: PARK)
50. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur [GOLD]en
51. [WATER] for Elephants
52. The Addict by Michael [STEIN]*
53. Cold [FIRE]
54. Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the [WORLD]
*Stein = stone in German
21 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/13703454/ Master of the WORLD
22 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14636992/ FrankenSTORM
23 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14685779/ The Hummingbird GARDEN
24 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14949382/ Junie B. Jones is a Graduation Girl by Barbara PARK
25 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14847807/ DOGWOOD HILL
26 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14659804/ Still WATERs
27 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14682752/ Treason at White SANDs
28 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10328062/ STORM Runner
29 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10191338/ STORM Cycle
30 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/13085924/ EARTH's Desserts
These are all controlled releases, to an "Indigenous Peoples" bookbox ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/546986 ):
26. EVERGLADES: Buffalo Tiger and the RIVER of GRASS ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14717135/ ), multiple challenges.
27. Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle ISLAND to the Blood of Wounded Knee ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14813447/ ), multiple challenges.
28. Buffalo Bird Woman's GARDEN: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14894760/ ), multiple challenges.
29. Forty Days Without SHADOW ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14929315/ ), multiple challenges.
55. [STONE] Angel
56. The [WORLD] of Winslow Homer, 1836-1910
57. The Midwife's Apprent[ICE]
58. Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone
by Al[ICE] [WATER]s
59. The [BOG]gart
60. Overture to Death by Ngaio [MARSH]*
*caught immediately by a neighborhood BookCrosser who seems to especially look for books by this author! :D
61. Visit [SUN]ny Chernobyl
62. The Eyre Aff[AIR]
63. After The [FIRE]
64. Baby Kangaroo: At Home in the [OUTBACK]
65. The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio [MARSH]
66. Walk Two [MOON]s
2018 Four Elements Release # 1 - 12
1 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14756040/ Kit's WILDERNESS
2 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14755989/ Daughter of EARTH
3 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14851168/ The Hungry OCEAN: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
4 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/13469528/ Mary Queen of ScotLAND and the ISLES: A Novel
5 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14779643/ The LAND of Mango SUNsets
6 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14917816/ The Pumpkin Muffin Murder: A Fresh-Baked Mystery by Livia J. WashBURN
7 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14764498/ Strawberry FIELDS: A Novel
8 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14910679/ Town in a Blueberry Jam: A Candy Holliday Murder Mystery by B. B. HayWOOD
9 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14811282/ Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake by Barbara PARK
10 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14901338/ GarFIELD Hams It Up
11 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14834724/ Kit's WILDERNESS
12 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14788579/ CSI: New York: Blood on the SUN
Orchard - yes!
Word questions.
Orchard and rust are both good!
I will be updating the release chart tomorrow, when I have the night off from work. You all are doing great! Keep it up!
30. In the WOODs ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14952606/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
31. Build Your Own EARTH Oven ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14709919 ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
32. Death Warmed Over: Funeral Food, Rituals from Around the WORLD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14917808/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
33. The WOODs ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14617856/ ), wild release, photo.
67. By the [SHORE]s of [SILVER] [LAKE]
68. Buried In a [BOG]
69. The Busy [WORLD] of Richard Scarry: The Treasure Hunt
70. Something Upst[AIR]s
71. The [GOLD]en Compass
72. The Lonely [PLANET] Bluelist 2006
What about the word...
dell?
eponine38 1 yr ago
2018 Four Elements Releases # 1 & 2
1. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/8297588/ Mango Elephants in the Sun (multiple challenges)
2. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14375421/ Rosemary and Crime (multiple challenges)
34. Clockwork Universe: STEAMpunk vs. Aliens ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14671864/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
35. Ketchup CLOUDs ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14564459/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
36. While the WAVES Roar ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14702155/ ), wild release, photo.
37. Patterns in the SAND ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14610086/ ), wild release.
2018 Four Elements releases #6 and #7
6. WATER, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935905/
7. CLOUDS of Witness, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/12483555/
SqnutZips 1 yr ago
2018 Four Elements release challenge release #1
1. Amulet book one: The STONEkeeper, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14040231?...
2018 Four Elements Release # 13 - 22
13 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14762600/ CLOUDy With a Chance of Meatballs
14 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14785200/ The Biggest SNOWman Ever
15 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14878085/ Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the WORLD: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule
16 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14754064/ On Foot: Guided Walks in EngLAND, France and the United States
17 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14887333/ Return to Hawk's HILL
18 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14920321/ Dinners for Two, Menus and Music Vol IV: Recipes from Romantic COUNTRY Inns
20 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14897845/ STARbucks Passion for Coffee: A STARbucks Coffee Cookbook
21 - http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14840322/ At the Apple ORCHARD
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14958191 The MOOR
How about the word...
terra?
73. The [WORLD]'s Greatest Toe Show
74. The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion
by Barbara [DIAMOND] [GOLD]in
75. [SMOKE] Screen
76. T[RAIN]s
77. [EARTH]'s [SOLAR] System
motherof11 1 yr ago
releases # 1-2
1. Schindlers LIJSt: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14419695/ (ijs=ice in Dutch)
2. Ik heb je nooit een rozenTUIN beloofd: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14684102 (tuin=garden in Dutch)
38. The COAL Black ASPHALT Tomb ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14617885/ ), wild release, photo.
39. The GOLDen Lane ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14785061/ ), wild release, photo.
40. OCEAN of Secrets ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14707180/ ), wild release, photo.
41. Homesick for Another WORLD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14891355/ ), wild release, photo.
42. AIR Gear ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14712717/ ), wild release, photo.
43. This LAND That I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14441092/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
44. Weight of WATER ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935773/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
Dell & terra - both good!
Release table updated!!
https://azfiregirl.livejournal.com/497972.html
22 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957684/ Turn Right at Istanbul: A Walk on the Gallipoli PENINSULA
23 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957692/ Too Much Tuscan SUN
24 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957698/ tRAINspotting
25 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957707/ Spy on the Roof of the WORLD
26 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957724/ Green VALLEY
27 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957731/ Life on PLANET ROCK
28 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957735/ The DIRT
3. En uit de BERGEN kwam de echo: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14833256/ (bergen=mountains in Dutch)
78. Born in [ICE]*
79. Jame[S AND] the Giant Peach
80. Carousel Animals: [IRON]-on Transfer Patterns
81. Mole by [TIN]g Morris
82. Say "Ahhh!": Dora Goes to the Doctor by Phoebe Bein[STEIN]**
*This book went out for its second annual Four Elements challenge. Whee!
* *Stein = stone in German
45. YELLOWCAKE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14755554/ ), a kind of uranium ore; wild release, photo. [Update: caught!]
46. FIRE Punch ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14948397/ ), wild release.
47. EARTH Poems ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14785174/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
48. EARTHian ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14712787/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
49. The Great FIRE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14939831/ ), wild release.
29 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959480/ The Truth About DIAMONDs
83. The [COPPER] Beech
84. The Napping House by Audrey [WOOD]
85. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence [HILL]
86. House of [SAND] and [FOG]
87. The [SUN]day Philosophy Club
3. Q is for QUARRY http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14834454
50. Houses of STONE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14721272/ ), wild release, photo.
51. The Last Town on EARTH ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14722295/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
52. Beneath the Dark ICE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14561267/ ), wild release photo.
53. Ancient Egypt: Thebes and the NILE VALLEY in the year 1200 BCE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14546760/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
54. TIDELAND ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14794841/ ), multiple challenges, photo.
88. The Revelation of Father Hankey by Robert [WOOD]
89. Daughter of [SMOKE] & Bone
90. Updated Realistic [ROCK] Drum Method
91. King[S AND] Queens Of Eng[LAND]: Book 2
92. Brother Eagle, Sister [SKY]
2018 Four Elements Challenge releases #4-7
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/13901381 The Good EARTH
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959948 Native Shrubs and WOODy VINES of the Southeast:LANDscaping Uses and Identification
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959969 The Tulip: Symbol of SUN and spring
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959951 Exotic Orchids : (Successful IndoorGARDENing)
8. Tornadoes!, http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14935903/
55. In the Company of STONE: the Art of the STONE Wall ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14561279/ ), wild release, photo.
56. Death Where the Bad ROCKs Live ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14789303/ ), wild release, photo.
57. GOLD Diggers of 1933 ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14844088/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
58. From STONEhenge to Las Vegas ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14829875/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
59. EARTH Colors ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14794818/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
60. The RAINS ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14833741/ ), wild release, photo.
61. Black CREEK ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14524881/ ), wild release, photo.
30 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14961458/ The Great FIRE of London
31 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14961460/ Under the Tuscan SUN
32 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14961461/ Cassocks in the WILDERNESS
93. [HEAT] and Light
94. The [MOOR]*
95. The Notebook by Nicholas [SPARK]s (also: PARK)
96. Rising of the [WIND]
97. Circus by Alist[AIR] MacLean
*SqnutZips and I both released this same book for this year's challenge! :D
4. Key of LIGHT: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/4676846/
5. South Carolina: After the STORM: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14794729/ and Sometimes a RAINbow.
Release # 3- 4
3. FreshWATER Road
4. Amber BEACH
5. Under the Tuscan Sun
2018 Four Elements Challenge - Releases #98-102
98. Vacation Under the [VOLCANO]
99. Red Hat Society's Domestic Goddess by Regina Hale Suther[LAND]*
100. The Tale of Jemima [PUDDLE]-Duck**
101. The Perks of Being a Wall[FLOWER]
102. The Wordwatcher's Guide to Good Wri[TIN]g and Grammar
*This book has been journaled by four different BookCrossers!
**This book is going out for its second annual Four Elements Release Challenge!
2018 Four Elements Challenge - Releases #103-107
103. The Upst[AIR]s Room
104. The [SILVER] Slippers
105. Corduroy'[S EA]ster Party
106. The Monster in the Box by Ruth Ren[DELL]
107. Doctor Dolittle's [PUDDLE]by Adventures
by Hugh Lof[TIN]g
62. Los Angeles' Bunker HILL: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero! ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14502629/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
63. The Promised neverLAND ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14837324/ ), wild release, photo.
64. Elegy BEACH ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14964393/ ), wild release.
108. C[RIME]s of the Sarahs
109. Pe[TER RA]bbit's Happy Easter
110. Cabin John: Legend[S AND] Life of an Uncommon Place
111. No [COUNTRY] for Old Men
112. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. [MAR][TIN]*
113. Let's Plant a [GARDEN]!
114. [POINT] of Impact
115. The Journal of Judith Beck [STEIN] by Judith Beck [STEIN]**
*mar = sea in Spanish
**Stein = stone in German
65. DESERT Run ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14964401/ ), wild release, photo.
66. With the LIGHT ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14966224/ ), wild release, photo.
67. The Lost LAKE ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14964144/ ), wild release, photo.
2018 Four Elements Releases # 3 - 10
3. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/11042369/ Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars
4. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959783/ Ballyhoo Bay
5. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959785/ Everybody Needs a Rock
6. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959780/ River Notes: The Dance of the Herons
7. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959778/ Night Train to the Stars and Other Stories
8. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959761/ St. Patrick’s Day From the Black Lagoon (multiple challenges)\
9. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959773/ A Friend in the Moon
10. https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14959775/ Reach for the Stars
2018 Four Elements Release #11
11.http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/12870748/ The Earth Hums in B Flat (multiple challenges)
116. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson [BURN]ett
117. The [WORLD] of Leonardo: 1452-1519
118. Easy Prey by John [SAND]ford
119. [FIRE] & [SMOKE]
68. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the WORLD ( https://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14665198/ ), wild release, multiple challenges, photo.
Releases 33-39 & Catch 1
34 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968097/ WAVE Man
35 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968108/ A Great Feast of LIGHT
36 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968111/ True GRIT
37 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968117/ Colours of the MOUNTAIN
38 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968124/ Bend of the RIVER
39 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14968618/ On Chesil BEACH
1 http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/14957731/ Life on Planet Rock
120. The Dovekeepers by Al[ICE] Hoffman
121. [STONE]s into Schools
122. Amazing Horse Fact[S AND] Trivia
123. The Endless [STEPPE]
124. [MAR]gret & H.A. Rey's Curious George Goes Camping by [MAR]get & H. A. Rey*
*mar= sea in Spanish
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
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Shadow Tales (MM)
by L.J. Hamlin
JMS Books LLC
Heat Rating: Sizzling
Anthology Paranormal Alternative (M/M, Gay)
A collection of tales from L.J. Hamlin that go bump in the night. Contains the stories:
Adventures of a Yeti Hunter: Joel is hunting for yetis when a snowstorm separates him from his team. He stumbles across a cabin occupied by Tommy, a wildlife photographer. But inclement weather and an attractive rescuer aren't the only surprises in the woods.
Cat Scratch Fever: All bear shifter Travis wants is to get laid, to ease the hunger and ache that always comes with the Harvest moon. But his night takes an unexpected turn whena sorely-missed figure from his past appears in the last place Travis expected to see him.
I'm a Ferocious Mouse: All Quin wants to do is enjoy a few beers and flirt with the cute server for a couple of hours. His evening plans are quickly ruined, however, by some homophobic lion shifters who don't approve of one of their own being gay.
Paw Print on My Skin: Zack is a werewolf and a tattoo artist at an exclusive tattoo parlour that caters to shapeshifters. He works with lots of interesting people, but no one quite takes his interest like new customer Tobias.
Spirit Wolf: When famous mystery writer and panther shifter, Dawson, suffers from writer's block, his agent thinks getting back to nature will help. The moment he enters the cabin in the forest though, Dawson feels watched.
Cover Art by Written Ink Designs
EXCERPT FROM "Adventures of a Yeti Hunter"
Snow is thick on the ground, a great white blanket making everything look the same. It crunches underfoot, makes it hard to walk. But it should make tracking things easier, as they'll leave traces in the snow.
And that's why Joel is in this forest in Maine: to track an animal no one has ever truly seen. He's searching for a yeti with a team from the college he teaches at. He's thrilled there was a sighting in his state. For once, he hasn't had to travel far from home.
It's early December, though, and it's been snowing on and off all week. Joel has gone for a piss behind a tree, being quick about it because of the cold. He's zipping up when he spots something on the ground. It looks like a footprint, human like, but bigger, like a large ape.
Joel pulls out his camera and a marker to measure it. They'll get plenty of false leads. For example, a fox's print in the snow, when warmed by sunlight, will expand to look like that of some strange creature. The sun often warps the tracks of known animals to make them look like something else, so Joel isn't about to cry success quite yet.
He takes a picture, with the marker down for size, and then leaves a bright pink piece of tape on a nearby tree to mark the location. He also takes out a can of spray paint, equally pink, and sprays a dot on the snow by the fox's print.
Finished, he puts all his things away and heads back in the direction of his team. When he reaches where they should be, however, he doesn't see them. They must have spotted something. Joel is good at tracking, though, so he starts looking for signs showing what direction they've gone.
But someone must be against Joel because it starts snowing. Joel curses as any fresh marks start to disappear. He adjusts his backpack, looks around, and starts walking. He'll freeze his ass off if he just stands in one place. His plan is to walk a little farther into the forest, and if he doesn't find his team, he'll head back to where they left the cars.
He's walking when he hears a noise. At first he thinks it could be his team, but then he hears another sound: an animal roar kind of like a bear, but not quite. Joel thinks about calling out, but then wants to kick himself. If it is an animal, it won't exactly be able to answer. Joel isn't one of those people who think yetis can talk. He doesn't think of it as a werewolf or vampire, something mythical. He thinks of it as a very rare, extremely intelligent animal.
Joel heads in the direction of the sound -- because he's here to find a yeti, after all -- but when he passes through a row of trees, he can't see any animals. He does, however, see some broken branches low to the ground, so he heads that way. The wind is picking up, and the snow is coming down heavier. Joel pulls his scarf tighter around his head, further warding against the sting of cold snow and wind hitting his face. It's becoming increasingly difficult to see, even with the ski goggles he's wearing.
He isn't ready to give up, so he keeps walking, following any signs of life he can find. Finally, he sees something in the distance. It looks like a cabin, and given how bad the snow is getting, Joel wonders if his team may have taken shelter in the cabin, so he heads toward it.
The cabin is large and in great condition. It's clear someone is living there, so Joel knocks on the front door. It takes a little while before he hears someone coming to the door, and when it opens, Joel finds himself face to chest with a tall man. Joel is tall, lanky even, but this man is taller, and broad as well, like some kind of huge lumberjack.
"Hello?" The man sounds surprised. He has a long mane of chestnut-brown hair and bright blue eyes. He has a full beard that puts Joel's goatee to shame.
"Hi, I'm looking for a group of people who may have passed this way. I'm Joel Wilde. I'm doing a study in the area," Joel explains, just as a huge gust of wind almost knocks him off his feet.
"'You're the only person I've seen. I didn't think anyone would be out in this weather, to be honest. I think maybe you should come in and call your friends," the man replies.
"Do you mind?" Joel asks, not wanting to admit that he hadn't thought of calling his team.
"Not at all. You're shivering." The man steps back to let Joel inside.
Joel shuts the door behind him, glad to be in the welcoming heat of the cabin for a while. He can see a roaring fire, and its heat fills the room.
"My name's Tommy Claire, by the way, and I live here. You said you were studying something. Can I ask what?" Tommy asks.
"Well, you're going to laugh, and I'm used to it, but I'm here to look for yetis." Joel is used to being mocked. Some people don't like that he's allowed to teach in a real college, given his views on yetis, but he's far from the only believer.
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News › August 2018 › Borates in Detergents: The Next Step in Laundry Technology
Mechanization came early to wash day when, many centuries ago, someone had the bright idea that it would be more efficient (and kinder on the hands) to stir the clothes around the tub with a stick or paddle. Today's high-tech, silicon-chip-controlled, wi-fi-enabled washing machines are really only a continuation of that early idea, using more complex machinery and control systems to swish the clothes around in the suds.
The chemical evolution of laundry detergents has kept pace with the mechanical evolution of the machinery. From early hand-chopped soap to the launch of Persil, which utilized the stain-removing properties of borates and other chemicals, laundry detergents continue to change.
Machines to Make Life Better
Two mechanical developments stand out in the evolution of the domestic washing machine. The first, electricity and the motors it could drive, took away a lot of the drudgery—but at the risk of regular water-slosh-induced short circuits, not to mention the occasional washer-person electrocution. The other, revolutionary in the 90-degree sense, took the traditional wash tub and turned it on its side.
Electricity made its wash-day debut in 1906, when Chicago's Alva J. Fisher filed a patent for an electric-powered machine. The Thor washing machine was manufactured and marketed by the Hurley Corporation in 1910. It had a wooden vessel, with a paddle arrangement driven by an unprotected electric motor mounted below the tub. Electric machines were slow to gain popularity, most likely because until World War I, households without servants rarely had electricity and those with electricity usually had servants—and therefore had no need for mechanized washing machines.
For another 30 years, the basic washing machine was modeled on the traditional tub: Dump dirty clothes in at the top, and they were washed by rotating or reciprocating paddles. But in 1937, the Bendix Aviation Company of Indiana produced a machine that rotated in the horizontal plane—washing went in through a watertight door at the front.
Why were front-loaders so revolutionary?
Space-saving: They can be installed under a work surface, or items can be placed on top of them.
Unloading: Clean wash can be pulled out straight into a basket rather than requiring the user lift heavy, damp articles up and over the side.
Gentler on fabrics: A tumble-squelch action, rather than a violent round-and-round, back-and-forth battering is easier on clothing.
More environmentally friendly: They use far less water, and hence less energy is needed to pump, agitate, and heat the water.
Washing machines of all types have increasingly focused on water and energy efficiency, simultaneously favoring the adoption of more sophisticated, efficient detergents. These usually contain perborate, a borate-based oxygen bleach that is less aggressive than hypochlorite bleach and is capable of safely removing stains from both white and colored garments. Borates in the wash water have other benefits too:
Buffering the alkalinity needed by the other wash ingredients
Dissolving and leaching stains from fabrics
Stabilizing stain-digesting enzymes and some of the newer additions to wash formulations that derive from renewable sources, such as complex sugars
Hypochlorites do not provide any of these additional benefits and are incompatible with most of the enzymes used in modern detergents. Lower water volume means that the concentration of the detergent is also higher, an environment that favors the stain removing of perborate activity over hypochlorite, especially as hypochlorite in greater concentrations is known to damage cotton fabrics over time and also has an unpleasant odor. Many enzymes are stabilized too, rather than destroyed.
The Timeline of Wash Days
Washing happens in a river, lake, pond, or tub and a pair of arms, a wooden paddle, or “dolly” is used to agitate laundry.
2,500 BCE
Sumerian tablet records washing of woolens with soap.
The first patent for a machine to “wash, press out water, and to press linen and wearing apparel” is filed by Mr. Rogerson of Lancashire, UK. Whether the machine was made is not recorded.
In the United States, Joel Houghton and Hamilton E. Smith separately invent hand-operated, cylindrical machines with agitated water and revolving paddles.
London's International Exhibition displays several domestic and American washing machines. 1884 Thomas Bradford of Manchester, England, makes a combined washing and wringing machine. 1890 A ratchet-slat machine is invented and produced in Newton, Iowa.
Thor, the first electric washing machine, is patented by Alva J. Fisher of Chicago; produced and marketed in 1910.
Hamilton Smith develops a “reversible” machine to prevent tangling.
Introduction of Persil, the earliest washing powder to contain a perborate bleaching agent.
An electric machine that would “revolutionize the industry” is invented, made in Newton, Iowa, and marketed by Frederik L. Maytag.
Modern detergents are developed in Germany.
Bendix of Indiana begins production of the first front-loading (horizontal axis) machine.
1968 - 1970s
Biological washing powders are developed; application of electronics and microprocessors begins.
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Since its founding in 1829, Burr and Burton has been an independent Vermont high school with a public mission. It serves as the local high school for area students, while also attracting students from overseas. Situated at the foot of Mt. Equinox and overlooking picturesque Manchester Village, Burr and Burton is a school with a proud tradition of educating students of diverse backgrounds and talents in a supportive and caring environment. See a video about the school HERE.
Burr and Burton is an independent high school with a public mission and a global reach. Through a unique system, which has been in place for over a hundred years, a Burr and Burton education is available free of charge to high-school students who reside in the following sending towns: Manchester, Dorset, Danby, Dover, Londonderry, Landgrove, Mt. Tabor, Peru, Stratton, Sunderland, Wardsboro, Weston and Winhall. Admission is also open on an annual basis to interested students from other towns.
Burr and Burton seeks international students who are highly motivated to live and learn in the United States. The international program is intentionally small, so admission to the program is very competitive. The small size of Burr and Burton's international program, about 70 students annually, allows teachers and staff to give a great deal of personal attention to international students, and allows international students ample opportunity to improve their English and integrate into the school and community culture. Countries represented by international students at Burr and Burton typically include China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Switzerland, Spain, Vietnam, Germany, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, and Mexico.
Students at Burr and Burton have a great deal of freedom and choice in their education. With over 170 courses to choose from, the academic program provides students with a wide range of vigorous educational experiences in academics, athletics, and the arts. Burr and Burton ultimately equips students with the skills and understanding necessary for engaged citizenship and lifelong learning.
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BBA seniors Leah Mowry and Itembe Matiku nominated as Presidential Scholars
The Vermont Agency of Education will celebrate the state’s 2019 Presidential Scholar nominees in a ceremony at the Vermont Statehouse on January 13, 2020. Two of those nominees are BBA seniors Leah Mowry and Itembe Matiku.
The Vermont Presidential Scholars Program recognizes graduating high school seniors who show outstanding scholarship, leadership and service to their communities. Only twenty (10 male and 10 female) scholars are nominated.
All Vermont scholars will be invited to apply to the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, which will announce its winners in May. Each year, up to 161 students are named as national Presidential Scholars, one of the highest honors for high school students.
BBA star quarterback Joey McCoy has been selected the Vermont high school football player of the year
This story by ALEX ABRAMI as it appeared in the Burlington Free Press:
The senior is the third Bulldog to receive the honor, which recognizes outstanding athletic excellence as well as high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, according to a news release.
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound McCoy powered BBA to a 10-1 record and the Division I state championship in the program's first season in the state's top division.
McCoy threw for 3,086 yards and 42 touchdowns while adding 844 yards and 14 more scores on the ground in BBA's high-scoring offense. He threw for 16 TD passes in three playoff games as BBA captured the second of back-to-back state crowns (the Manchester school won the D-II title in 2018).
More: Burr and Burton conquers St. Johnsbury, Division I for back-to-back football crowns
McCoy was also a standout on defense, racking up 100 tackles and picking off four passes from the safety position.
“Joey is a dual threat, and can run and throw with the best, which made him almost impossible to defend,” Mount Anthony coach Chad Gordon said in a statement “What makes him even better is he doesn’t make mistakes. He is accurate, makes the right reads and elevates the play of the team around him.”
McCoy has maintained a weighted grade-point average of 4.74. He also launched BBA's Unified Partners program, supporting athletes with intellectual challenges, and serves as a coach for BBA’s Unified basketball team. He has volunteered locally as part of a fundraising campaign to benefit cancer research, and has donated his time at a homeless shelter and food bank.
McCoy remains undecided upon a collegiate destination.
As a part of Gatorade’s cause marketing platform “Play it Forward,” McCoy has the opportunity to award a $1,000 grant to a local or national youth sports organization of his choosing, the news release said.
BBA's Grace Pinkus named to the All America team for soccer
See the story HERE.
Founders Hall Design Update
The 2019-2020 school year will be historic as we will break ground on The Rowland Project, a $20 million transformation of our campus.
The centerpiece of this project is Founders Hall, a 25,000 ft.² center for integrative studies that will bring together English, social studies, a STEAM lab/maker space, and an extraordinary central gathering space and library. It will be located behind the Seminary building, where the maintenance facility currently sits, and the parking lot will become a courtyard that provides a place to relax, connect and appreciate the beauty of our setting at the foot of Equinox Mountain.
Along with a central gathering area and an innovative “neighborhood“ approach to grouping learning spaces, the building will feature a third story space, the Belltower Room, that will feature a view over the Seminary belltower into the valley. The experience inside and outside the building will be extraordinary.
Groundbreaking will be in April 2020 with building completion planned for June 2021.The design process has been deeply collaborative, with input from students, faculty members, and others, and led by Kyle Murphy, BBA class of 2007, and ZGF Architects, an international design firm. A link HERE to a full set of plans.
BBA students from Alex Vincent’s Photography classes took time to go experience the creation of a sand mandala that is being created at the Congregational church this week by Tibetan Buddhist Monks of Drepung Gomgang Monastery from India.
BBA Community Recognizes Faculty and Staff for Years of Service
Durring Monday morning assembly the Burr and Burton community recognized staff and faculty for significant milestones in their years at BBA. Pictured bottom row left to right: Cristin Rose (15 years), Mary Diaz (20 years), Barb Miceli (25 years), Julie Fifield (20 years), Julie Freebern (15 years), top row left to right: Erica Dunlap (15 years), Alex Vincent (10 years), Cory Herrington (15 years), Jim Young (15 years), Michelle Emery (10 years), Julia Crosier (10 years), and Jillian Joyce (10 years).
2019 Rowland Chairs Named
Director of the Target Program Kathi Bierwirth and Library Media Specialist Margi Putney were named the Rowland Chair recipients for 2019. Honorees receive “The Rowland Chair” to hold in their classroom or office for the year and receive a $7,000 stipend to be used for the collective benefit of their department or for professional development with the intent of improving the process and product.
The Rowland Fund first and foremost, supports the academics of the school and supports initiatives that make Burr and Burton Academy a superlative place for faculty and students to work, learn and achieve.
More than any other factor, BBA's faculty influences the quality of education at Burr and Burton. Two faculty chairs are awarded on an annual basis to acknowledge and honor teachers who are innovative, inspire and lead students and their peers, and who clearly have committed their hearts and souls to meeting the mission and vision of our school.
Pictured are Kathi Bierwirth on the left, Margi Putney on the right and long time BBA benifactor Wendy Rowland in the middle.
BBA's Model UN Team named to top 25 in the nation for 2018
BBA's Model UN Team was named to the top 25 in the nation for 2018. The team is led by teachers Kendra LaRoche and Tom Von Allmen. An estimated 250,000+ students in every state take part in some sort of MUN simulation throughout the academic year, with over 250 conferences working to provide unique and insightful experiences.
Model United Nations (MUN) is a student simulation of the proceedings of the United Nations. Students, referred to as Delegates, are assigned a country to represent in one of the UN’s numerous committees with pre-set topics to debate. They research the background of their country, their country's position on the topics at hand, and prepare notes on possible solutions to the problems faced. Students then convene at Model UN conferences, to debate their assigned topics with students representing the other UN member states. Much like the real UN, the goal is to identify solutions, by negotiation and consensus, on which many countries can agree.
An Interview With Kendra LaRoche, MUN Coach at Burr and Burton Academy HERE.
Unified Basketball at Burr and Burton
We are very excited to announce the inaugural season of Unified Basketball at Burr and Burton. The purpose of Unified Sports is to create unique teammate bonds through authentic competitive experiences tailored to the appropriate skill development and ability level of participants. In Unified Sports, individuals with intellectual disabilities (athletes) are paired with individuals without intellectual disabilities (partners) to promote growth in sport-specific skills (shooting, passing, dribbling, rebounding, etc.). Additionally, Unified Sports experiences create a culture of inclusion and foster understanding in schools and communities. Participation in Unified Sports leads to new friendships, improved self-esteem and positive changes in attitude and behavior.
BBA's Aiden Francomb and Rachel Hemmer selected as 2019 Vermont Presidential Scholars
Burr and Burton Academy Inducts 59 into National Honor Society
Fifty-nine Burr and Burton Academy students were inducted into the BBA Chapter of the National Honor Society in a ceremony held November 13 in the school's Riley Center for the Arts.
The National Honor Society honors students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character. The hour-long program, created and led by current NHS members, was a chance for the BBA students, staff, administration and guests to celebrate the hard work and dedication of the 59 students inducted into the society.
National Honor Society members Alexia Smith, Jasmine Rachele, Jessica Grabher and Olivia Watanabe spoke on Scholarship, Service, Leadership and Character. After receiving their NHS pins and certificates a short reception followed and gave everyone an opportunity to offer congratulations to the newest members: Leah Allen, Philip Allen, Ian Anglum, Elizabeth Bardin, Osha Bensen Langstaff-French, Lauren Carter, Jasmine Chartier, Madison Chase, Katherine Christy, Charles Citron, Lily Craig, Carina Crane, Meghan Curran, Giana Delossantos, Abigail Dryden, Jordan Eisenman, Yu Fang, Vivian Finck, William Fox, Aiden Francomb, Olivia Garvin, Xiaofan Ge, Jacob Giering, Avery Gilgallon, Rachel Hale, Brennan Harris, Ashley Heaton, Ariah Holliman, Parker Kulis, Ethan Lareau, Alexandra LeGrys, Sarina LoPresti, Danielle MacKenzie, Casey Mara, Stephen Mathyas, Itembe Matiku, Brianna Mayne, Joseph McCoy, John Miceli, Eva Morrow, Leah Mowry, Annmarie Mulkey, Jiayi Ren, Evelyn Seidner, Grace Sherwood, Shepard Siegel, Jordan Smith, Shaye Squillante, Adam Sribney, Justin Sweeney, Wenru Tang, Emma Tobin, Isabel Townsend, Aedan Walsh, Xiyuan Wang, Caleb Weinstein, Heming Xi, Sean Young and Zane Zupan.
The Northshire Seen Through the Eyes of BBA Students
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A show of digital photographs made by students at Burr and Burton Academy was on exhibit at stART Space Gallery in Manchester.
See the GNAT video of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=162&v=0kxTbdLMJtE.
Burr and Burton Ceramics with Devin Deets
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BBA's Target Career Development Center Students Maintain a beautiful garden
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BBA Conquers St. J, D-I for back to back football crowns
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Burlington Free Press - Burr and Burton conquers St. Johnsbury, Division I for back-to-back football crowns
RUTLAND - Backed up to the 14-yard line for its first possession of the game, Burr and Burton went over the top for a breathtaking, 86-yard touchdown connection.
Ahead by 13 points in the third quarter but facing a fourth-and-10, BBA pulled off a fake punt to set up another score.
The Bulldogs didn't just crash the Division I party. They turned up the volume and danced to their own beat.
A year after shredding Division II, No. 3 Burr and Burton did the same to the state's biggest programs, clinching back-to-back crowns with an emphatic 47-20 triumph over top-seeded and previously undefeated St. Johnsbury in the D-I high school football championship game on Saturday night.
"It’s truly a statement. I think this means we can compete," BBA star quarterback Joey McCoy said. "We are going to be good for years to come."
Beating Hartford twice this season, routing Middlebury on the road in the semifinals and then exacting revenge on St. Johnsbury, BBA (10-1) toured through D-I with nearly the same precision it had in the past decade as a D-II juggernaut. Saturday was the program's fourth state final in five seasons.
“It’s really a dream come true for the kids, for the program, for everybody that was a part of bringing football back to BBA 20 years ago,” said first-year BBA coach Tom McCoy, in his sixth year with the program.
And not even high-powered SJA, the 2017 D-I champ, could match BBA on this night. The Bulldogs outscored the Hilltoppers 34-13 in the second half.
"We came here to win, but they had a better plan than we did and they executed their plan better than we executed ours," SJA coach Rich Alercio said. "We couldn't stop them. They are that good."
Joey McCoy, a senior, went 22 of 32 for 531 yards and five touchdowns — capping a three-game playoff run of 1,091 passing yards and 16 TDs — and hung in there against SJA's blitzes and pressure to deliver strike after strike.
"He stood there, got rid of the ball on time and put it in great locations and his receivers got underneath the ball and made big plays," Alercio said.
McCoy's biggest target Saturday was Logan Morgan, who notched a pair of 86-yard scores in an 8-catch, 343-yard, three-TD performance. Morgan, who battled a shoulder injury this season, put a bow on his outburst with a 19-yard rushing TD in the fourth.
"He was on fire. To have him step up like this, it’s truly special," Joey McCoy said of Morgan.
John Morgantini piled up 12 catches for 156 yards and one TD for BBA, which amassed 609 yards from scrimmage.
Trey Alercio threw for 311 yards, Nick Guckin hauled in eight catches for 93 yards to go with 47 rushing yards and Wilder Hudson caught five balls for 124 yards to pace SJA, playing in its fourth title game in six years. Hunter Palmieri added five catches for 55 yards.
BBA opened the scoring on its first play from scrimmage. McCoy stepped into his throw from the shadow of his own end zone and aired out a perfect ball to Morgan, who caught in stride and coasted untouched to complete the 86-yard hookup.
After a punt and turnover — Hudson picked off McCoy at the goal line — BBA found the end zone on its fourth possession to push to a 13-0 margin with 9:28 to go in the half. McCoy moved up in the pocket and heaved a 45-yarder to Morgantini for the score.
“I think it was an advantage, for sure, to get up a couple touchdowns against them and I think they probably knew that because they won the toss and elected to receive the football,” Tom McCoy said. “It’s exactly what we would’ve done if we won the toss, because we wanted to get ahead and try to stay ahead.”
The Hilltoppers (10-1) answered swiftly. Trey Alercio connected with Austin Fenoff and Hudson for 28-yard passing plays, the latter for the TD and a 13-7 halftime deficit.
Out of the break, BBA went 92 yards in six plays, capped by Joey McCoy finding Jack Morrison, who spun out of an arm tackle for a 23-yard TD.
In control and with momentum, BBA opened its playbook.
A Morgan interception on SJA's next play set up the Bulldogs inside the SJA 40.
The Hilltoppers nearly held, too, but McCoy converted a fake punt on fourth-and-10 by hitting Morgan on a 20-yard rollout to extend the drive. “We noticed it was open and Joey’s the punter, he’s the quarterback, and Logan’s the up-back, he’s the receiver — we thought it was a good time and it just so happens it worked out pretty well for us,” Tom McCoy said. “There was a lot of reasons things went well today but I think that was a good boost for us, to convert on that punt fake, for sure.”
One play later, Joey McCoy took it himself, powering in from 25 yards out for a 27-7 margin 1:06 into the third.
"To gain that right back, that’s the key to winning and in tough games, you have to take those chances, you have to take those risks and that paid off when we scored a touchdown right after that," the BBA quarterback said.
SJA drew to 27-14 when Alercio threw into the flat for Nick Guckin, who broke several tackles for a 39-yard score. But BBA answered on its ensuing play on Morgan's second 86-yarder.
Morgan broke four tackles as he slalomed into the end zone, nearly out of breath.
"I was gassed at the 10-yard line, but I knew I had to get it and just kept going and going," Morgan said.
Morgan also turned another McCoy bomb into 51-yard TD reception for a 40-20 lead at 7:48 of the fourth — after Alercio had rushed for a 1-yard score just 13 seconds prior — and then completed the night's scoring on his 19-yard scoring scramble.
As BBA's offense hit another gear, the defense stymied SJA's own uptempo attack. The Bulldogs recorded five sacks and limited SJA to just 53 rushing yards (364 total), a complete turnaround from the 50-38 Hilltoppers' triumph in the Week 6 showdown in Manchester.
SJA's David Hutchison, who had six TDs in the first matchup, was held in check.
"I would say they did a good job of stacking the box when Hutchison was in the backfield and they did good job of putting (Joey) McCoy on him in coverage. They did a good job of taking away the one guy that beat them," Rich Alercio said. "We had some favorable matchups in the first game that we just didn’t have in this game."
BBA's path to Saturday was a new one for the program. But the journey made believers out of Morgan and McCoy.
"In August when we first started practicing, I didn’t know what was going to happen," Morgan said. "I knew we were a good team, but I didn’t think we were this good. I really didn’t."
McCoy: "Through all the ups and downs and all the obstacles ... to come out and finish it like this, it’s truly amazing. It’s something I’ll never forget."
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'The Tomorrow People' Recap: John Kills Stephen (Temporarily) in "Death's Door"
By Kayleigh Roberts
This week's episode of The Tomorrow People is called "Death's Door," and, no, the episode title doesn't refer to the series' fate. It might though, if TTP doesn't find its direction soon. The plot has been driven, of late, by one bad decision after another. At one point in the season, I had some firm ideas about how to fix things. Now, I'd settle for some things I'd like to never see in the show again.
The fall finale centered on Stephen's quest to get back to limbo to see his father and unlock the secrets he holds for the tomorrow people. Jedikiah's allegiances seemed to shift, thanks to his feelings for Morgan, his TP lover, and the truth about John's killer instinct came out. (He killed Stephen's father six years ago and has been leading the Tomorrow People ever since to try to cover it up.) The episode ended on John using his killing powers to put Stephen under and send him back to limbo and Stephen waking up in dramatic fashion to reveal the quest for the spring season: They have to find his father's body.
But back to those things I'd like to never see again in this show. With half a season under my belt, I feel confident in these seven options.
1. Stephen could stop playing a double agent. He's atrociously bad at it and I've been complaining about this plot point since the pilot. Now, as Ultra reveals more and more powerful players, Stephen's ability to deceive becomes less and less believable. Also, with Uncle Jed starting to play both sides, the TP now have a believable mole in the system, if Morgan can keep him on the side of good.
2. Cara and Stephen can stop being a secret. I'm done being Team John if the winning team gets Cara. She and Stephen might just be the most boring super people ever to grace the small screen. There was a sly smile shared between John and Astrid tonight. Let's get them together; it's a far more interesting pairing than either of them with their respective triangle options.
3. Jed can stop being evil. Jedikiah was kind of cartoonishly evil for a while. Now that Morgan is in the picture, we're seeing a more complex side of Uncle Jed. He's a complicated dude. His brother was the Chosen One of the Tomorrow People. Now his nephew is filling that space. His girlfriend is a TP. He's just an Average Joe. Let's delve into that a little more in the spring and drop him as the arch nemesis, please.
4. John can dump Cara. Even if he doesn't hook up with Astrid (which is totally illegal, but Cara and Stephen already proved the show has no regard for that aspect of reality), John needs to stop with the pining over Cara. She's in love with Stephen. She slept with Stephen. They have nothing in common and he can do a million percent better.
5. Cara and Stephen can develop a new super power: Personality generation. It will transform them instantly from the walking cardboard cutouts they currently are to well-rounded, interesting people with senses of humor and purpose in the world.
6. Ultra can step up its game. I know Ultra can't be too good at what it does (if it were, there series would be over already), but they could be a little better, too. Ultra has basically stopped posing a real threat to the Tomorrow People. Let's instill them with a new sense of urgency in the spring. Put Ultra under new co-management and make it count, CW.
7. Russell can stop being an idiot. Russell is suffering from a bad case of Eric Matthews Syndrome; with each episode, he seems to become dumber and dumber. If left untreated, he'll be reduced to almost mentally handicapped by Season 2.
So, what do you say Tomorrow People? Think we can avoid some of this nonsense in the spring? Probably not, but it's worth a try.
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The First Date Conversation Topics That Work — And The Ones That Don't
You're en route to a first date, and you're feeling confident. But what, pray tell, should you discuss — what are the best first date conversation topics? And what, by all means, should you avoid? Probably most of us have embarked upon a first date with great potential, only to accidentally discover that our conversation partner is a huge cat person — and we just professed our allergy-borne hatred for cats. Or they have a deep-seated fear of flying because of a bad flight they once had, and we just told them a total horror story about our last trip to the West Coast. Whatever the case may be, it's all too easy to say the "wrong thing" on a first date, because you're speaking with a virtual stranger and there is practically no way of knowing what is going to set them off.
Match just released a survey of 5,504 daters of all stripes, and its incredibly comprehensive topics include — you guessed it — what counts as off-limits first-date fodder, and what conversation subjects get the green light. Before you dash off to your next Tinder date, have a peek at these suggestions, and keep them in mind when tricky topics arise.
1. Talk About Politics
Are you jumping with joy that Hillary Clinton is declared the victor of the Iowa caucuses? Would you vote for Trump if you had the chance? Don't hold back — 80 percent of respondents said that talking about politics is A-OK.
2. Bring Up The Bank
An equally breezy subject of conversation is money, so don't worry if you let it slip that you just got a promotion. Gone are the days that everyone was advised to be tight-lipped about money; an equal 80 percent of those surveyed said the discussion of money on a date is totally fine.
3. Have A Religious Experience
Or at least talk about one. Of those who answered the survey, 80 percent said that religion is an acceptable topic on a first date. Articles like this one have been rendered all but extinct by our reality-hungry, openness-happy current culture.
4. Political Knowledge Is Sexy
Not only are politics, money and religion satisfactory talking points, politics in particular are considered hot: If you discuss politics, your chances with your date increase by 91 percent. That is epic, so definitely talk about politics all day.
5. Sports Are A Bore
You know what people don't care about, though? Sports. Across the board, less than 25 percent of men and women want to hear what your favorite football team is. If you're at the edge of your seat re: some game happening later, keep it to yourself on a first date.
6. Women Care About The Economy
If you're on a date with a woman, and you feel the inclination to discuss the current state of affairs in regard to the economy, by all means — go for it. Women want you to know about the economy — 41 percent of women, to be exact. So talk about that fascinating piece you read this morning on your coffee date this afternoon.
7. Exes Are Not Up For Discussion
You know what is even less appealing than talking about sports? Talking about exes. Only 14 percent of singles are game for ex talk on a first date. Why talk about the past with someone who has the potential to become part of your present?
8. Controversial Topics Really Are NBD
Quite a few singles feel as though it's fine to discuss abortion on the first date — 75 percent of singles, in fact. This year's Match survey really underlined the fact that there are few topics that feel too taboo or controversial to talk about right away.
9. It's Not Necessary To Know About Pop Culture
Don't worry about your spotty knowledge of YouTube clips — just 10 percent of women and 11 percent of men care if a date follows celebrity and pop culture. If you have no idea what Gwyneth Paltrow named her kids, you're in the clear.
10. Go Ahead: Talk About Guns, Immigration, And Marriage
Gun control, immigration and marriage equality are all also perfectly good first date topics — like money, religion and politics, 80 percent of singles wouldn't bat an eye if such topics came up. It seems as though in 2016, singles are forward when it comes to voicing their opinions and stances — which is incredibly sexy.
Want more of Bustle's Sex and Relationships coverage? Check out our new podcast, I Want It That Way, which delves into the difficult and downright dirty parts of a relationship, and find more on our Soundcloud page.
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GoldenTree Asset Management Expands With Paladyne Data Management Warehouse
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 14, 2013 – Paladyne Systems®, Inc., a Broadridge Financial Solutions, company (NYSE:BR) and leading provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with long-term client GoldenTree Asset Management, with the firm implementing new products as its data warehouse solution throughout the organization.
US-based GoldenTree Asset Management has $17.9 billion AUM and is one of the largest independent asset managers focused on credit, managing a variety of absolute return and long-only strategies. GoldenTree was the first hedge fund to implement Paladyne Analytics Master in 2006 as part of its continued commitment to providing industry-leading reporting and transparency to their investors. During this time, the concept of “Snap-Shot” portfolio data was conceived and has since become an industry standard. The firm has now implemented Paladyne Analytics Master 8.0, which was released last year, as a locally installed data warehouse solution and real-time conduit to SunGard VPM, as well as many other of its proprietary and vendor applications. The firm smoothly integrated 12 years of data onto the Paladyne platform and is functional across all of their global funds, strategies and multi-asset classes.
“We are extremely pleased to expand our partnership with Paladyne, and provide additional value to our business and clients. We were able to implement a robust data warehouse management solution with which we have rapidly introduced new functionality and reporting, at less expense than what other vendors said would take years to actually build. Our respective teams worked together to create a business vision and a world class solution to solve a fairly simple, yet complex business reporting requirement,” said Bill Christian, Chief Operating Officer, GoldenTree Asset Management.
“Paladyne Analytics Master 8.0 has provided GoldenTree with the underlying foundation to build proprietary data aggregation and reporting tools, representing a major improvement in our data management and archiving. Centralizing the data in Paladyne’s platform has allowed our firm to provide more flexible, dynamic reporting and increased data and reporting consistency across the board. Ultimately it allows us to be far more efficient, effective, and consistent across our clients’ reporting and our in-house analysis and decision making capability while also reducing manually intensive processes. We’ve since been seeing firm-wide operating efficiencies across all departments,” said Steven Lamm, Head of Application Support and Data Management, GoldenTree Asset Management.
“Asset managers today face the challenge of managing and accessing real-time and historical data in a ‘Golden Copy’ solution that can integrate with their other systems and is cost effective and easy to implement. We are delighted to have provided GoldenTree with our Paladyne Analytics Master solution for their data warehouse and to continue to grow with one of our foundation clients,” said Sameer Shalaby, President, Paladyne Systems. “We designed Paladyne Analytics Master to seamlessly integrate with other vendor products to aggregate firm-wide data including portfolio accounting, risk management, reference data, pricing and other critical data sets to meet data warehousing, management, regulatory reporting needs, analysis and decision making.”
About Paladyne Systems
Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company (NYSE:BR), is the leading provider of next generation investment management solutions. Paladyne offers its integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform, known as the Paladyne Suite, to hedge funds, asset managers, fund administrators and prime brokers. The modular Paladyne Suite includes order management, portfolio management, reference data management, data warehouse and custom reporting and reconciliation, and is complemented by the Paladyne Network, an integrated network of leading 3rd-party software and market data firms. The solution can be delivered onsite or via Paladyne's industry-leading application service provider solution, - SSAE 16-certified Paladyne ASP. Paladyne was established in 2005 and acquired by Broadridge in 2011 and now serves over 225 clients worldwide. The firm has approximately 180 employees and is headquartered in New York, with regional offices in New Jersey, London, Russia and Hong Kong.
For more information, please visit paladyne.com.
About GoldenTree Asset Management
GoldenTree was established on March 1, 2000 by Steven Tananbaum, the firm’s Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer. Today the firm is one of the largest independent asset managers focused on credit, managing a variety of absolute return and long-only strategies. In 2000, Mr. Tananbaum launched the firm’s flagship hedge fund, GoldenTree Master Fund. In 2001, GoldenTree launched its long only fund, GoldenTree High Yield Value Fund, which is ranked in the 1st percentile by eVestment Alliance for its five year, seven year and inception to date track record. Today GoldenTree manages a variety of absolute return, long-only and CLO strategies that leverage the firm’s unique investment process and core competencies.
The firm is a Partnership that is 100% employee owned. As assets under management have grown, the firm has been able to leverage its partnership culture to attract and retain key investment personnel and business executives. Currently, GoldenTree has 24 partners and over 180 employees, including a 42 member investment team that operates out of offices in New York and London and sources investments throughout developed markets.
To contact media relations, please email us at mediarelations@broadridge.com.
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Writer-director-actor Tyler Perry attends the premiere of Tyler Perry's "A Fall from Grace," at Metrograph, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in New York.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The lack of diversity and notable snubs in this year's Oscar nominations left Tyler Perry annoyed, but he says it’s not worth getting upset because it’s a system that is not going to change.
“There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,” Perry told The Associated Press on Monday hours after the nominations were announced.
Not only were there no female nominees in directing for the 87th time in Oscar history — a direct snub to Greta Gerwig, director of “Little Women,” as well as several other worthy candidates. There was also only one person of color, Cynthia Erivo, among the 20 acting nominees. Golden Globe winner Awkwafina ("The Farewell") was denied a chance at an Oscar. Globe nominees Jennifer Lopez, for her role in “Hustlers,'' and Beyoncé, for original song ”Spirit" from "The Lion King,'' were also overlooked.
“I feel like Jennifer Lopez should have been nominated. She did a great job. I feel like Awkwafina did a great job,” Perry said. “Beyoncé should have been nominated. But it is what it is.”
He added that he didn't “know what all of the hoopla is about.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with what I’m doing as much as it is — I’m just gonna do what I do and just see what happens,” Perry said.
The actor-writer-director created Tyler Perry Studios as a production facility, not only for his television series and film projects but also to provide an alternative to Hollywood. At 330 acres (133 hectares), it’s one of the largest production facilities in the country. Production on such films as “Black Panther” and the upcoming “Bad Boys for Life" has been done there. It has also recently hosted a Democratic presidential debate and the Miss Universe pageant.
Perry's newest film, "A Fall from Grace,'' tells the story of a divorced woman looking for love. She finds it and marries, but her short-lived joy turns violent, and she finds herself fighting the legal system for her freedom.
“I don’t know if it’s a departure as much as ... people think it is. People in Hollywood always want you to stick to a certain genre or a certain thing, and there are a lot of different things that I like to do. So, this is a thriller that I was just excited about doing something different.”
He says he wanted to tell a story about a man meeting a woman, "ratcheting that up, and mixing my version of a thriller with that,” Perry said.
The movie stars Phylicia Rashad, Cicely Tyson and Crystal Fox, who stars on Perry's OWN series “The Haves and the Have Nots.”
"A Fall from Grace'' premieres Friday on Netflix.
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Bowhunting: Stories
A Bowhunter Editorial
by Jeff Waring, Publisher
Jeff Waring, Publisher
THE LAST THING Editor Dwight Schuh said to me was, "If you've got something burning in your belly that you want to talk about, write the editorial."
In a matter of hours, Dwight would be on a flight to the Northwest Territories where he'd be hunting mountain caribou for Bowhunter Magazine TV. And I think he still had to finish packing.
Whenever one of the Bowhunter team is on the road, the rest of us know that we must take up the slack. That's especially so now.
In the last year and a half, TV has greatly changed our lives. Now we not only have to publish a successful magazine; we have to produce a hit TV show, too. This has brought many new challenges to our small staff.
It's mid-August now, but by the time you read this, our magazine team will be well on the way to finishing up our '05 magazines and publishing over 1,000 pages. Additionally, we will have completed the 13 original episodes for the first season of TV and will be working on video for our second season on The Outdoor Channel.
Most readers probably look at the column-long masthead on page two and think that all of those folks are involved. True. But the staffers who actually put the magazine and the TV show together can be counted on two hands.
As we wrap up this landmark year and look toward the magazine's 35th anniversary next year, I feel compelled to salute the Bowhunter crew's work and give you a run-down of who these hard-working people are and a sense of their valuable contributions:
Founder/Editor Emeritus M.R. James' historic role has been well documented. No longer involved in the daily business of the magazine -- and looking forward to "retirement" -- M.R. remains the inspiration for what we do here. Just look at what he started.
Editor Dwight Schuh loves bowhunting so much that in recent years he's overcome ailing shoulders by shooting left-handed, right-handed, and even drawing with a mouth tab. He's the visionary for both magazine and TV content. If he's not combing over manuscripts, writing, editing, or proofing text for print, he's busy consulting with our TV staff, reviewing video online, or writing narration. As someone who is ready and willing to meet every challenge, this admitted "grumpy old man" sets the tone for all of us.
Assistant Editor Brian Fortenbaugh celebrated four years with the magazine this year. Toting degrees from Gettysburg and Marshall, including a Master's in Journalism, this talented young editor is a hard-core bowhunter with a sharp eye for both game and grammar. But come bow season he has to be restrained to get any work out of him.
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Long-time Art Director Mark Olszewski grew up hunting the deer woods of northwestern Pennsylvania, but more often than not he's caught behind his computer designing the article layouts that bring other hunters' great adventures to life. Still, this gifted artist puts his heart and soul into every page. By the time you read this, I hope that Mark has taken a trophy Wyoming antelope for our TV show. Watch for him on "the small screen."
Sales Manager Jeff Millar has been with the magazine for 16 years. Charged with overseeing the vast majority of advertisements that grace the pages of this book, Jeff carefully walks the tightrope between his bowhunting passion and his work responsibilities. If there's a way to squeeze hunting time into a packed schedule, Jeff will find it. More than once he's brought the results of his morning hunt to work, where we've gathered to stare into the back of his truck. Bowhunting is in his blood.
TV Producer Larry D. Jones is no stranger to readers of this magazine. For years he wrote the popular "Jones Hunting Tip," and he also produced a number of our Video Journals. Since coming on board last May, Larry has worked literally night and day to get Bowhunter Magazine TV on the air. A skilled storyteller, cameraman, and video editor, Larry is feverish with enthusiasm for bowhunting. His is the voice of experience to our cadre of freelance cameramen and energetic, young TV team.
If you've been impressed with the look of our TV show, then you'll want to meet our "new" video Shooter/Editor Josh Viste. This creative cameraman grew up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Josh and another Upper Midwest product, Floating Shooter Sean Hagen (whose services we share with some of Primedia Outdoors other TV shows), have truly weathered the TV storm with us this year. Based out of our TV office at In-Fisherman in Brainerd, Minnesota, these guys can't wait to start shooting for '06.
Of course, many other folks contributed to the success of Bowhunter Magazine TV this year. There's VP Group Publisher Mike Carney, who has been in front of the camera as co-host, as well as behind the scenes throughout. In-Fisherman Publisher Steve Hoffman, who is now stuck on stickbows. Hunting TV Director Darin Narlock, who oversees our TV team in Minnesota and played a pivotal role in the studio. Then there's In-Fisherman Jedi editors Brian Webber and Jeremy Doyle. Plus a long list of administrative angels like Accountant Mindy Elliot and TV Coordinator Michelle Swenson, just to name a couple.
We've got them on the magazine side, too. Editorial Secretary Anna Allen, Production Manager Meredith Sterner, and Planner Amy Meadows, work tirelessly to keep the Bowhunter boys out of trouble. (Trust me, that's a full-time job!)
THE LAST PERSON I want to thank is you. Thanks for sharing our passion for bowhunting and entrusting us with your magazine -- and now with your TV show. We're only going to get better. See you in 2006!
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FiftyForward Martin Center enriches the lives of adults 50+ by providing pathways to health, well-being and life-long learning. The center is located at 960 Heritage Way. For more information call 615-376-0102.
Contact Water and Sewer Department at 615-371-0080, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or 615-371-0160 after 5:00 p.m. and on weekends. Grinder pump maintenance calls on city approved pumps are subject to a flat repair fee of $35 or $60 depending on the time of the call.
For questions concerning sidewalks, contact the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080.
The placement and size of signs are strictly regulated in Brentwood. To report illegally posted signs, call the Planning Department at 615-371-2204. To report a damaged or missing street or traffic sign, call the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080 or use our online form at Report a Problem.
Smart911 allows residents to enter critical information into a secure online database that is automatically displayed to 911 operators during an emergency call. The information can include details on each person in the household along with medical conditions, photos, disabilities and other important information. When a 911 call is received from a subscriber line the data is immediately available to Public Safety dispatchers who relay it to responding units. This service is provided at no cost to the public. For more information visit the Police Department website at www.brentwoodtn.gov/police or www.smart911.com.
The Public Works Department is responsible for the removal of snow and ice on public roadways. Because of limited equipment and staff to handle snow and ice, arterial and collector roads receive the highest priority.
Facebook - The City has four Facebook pages – City of Brentwood, Brentwood Police Department, Brentwood Fire and Rescue Department and Brentwood Library.
Twitter – Follow all four of the City of Brentwood Twitter accounts. @CityofBrentwood – general city news and information, @BTNPD – Brentwood Police, @BrentwoodParks – park information and @BrentwoodReads – Brentwood Library.
YouTube Channel - Subscribe to our City of Brentwood channel to see live events and learn more about city services.
Instagram – Follow us for all the beautiful things Brentwood has to offer. #nofilter
A solicitor's permit is required for both profit and non-profit organizations to solicit door-to-door. Contact the Business Tax Clerk at 615-371-0060 or via E-mail. A permit holder who fails to promptly leave upon request of a property owner may be cited for trespassing.
The City of Brentwood sponsored special events are planned throughout the year. For additional information contact the Community Relations Director, at 615-371-0060 or via E-mail.
Morning with Santa
Brentwood Luminaries
Concerts at Eddy Arnold Amphitheater
Day at Boiling Spring Academy
For information regarding the rules and regulations associated with the installation of speed humps (traffic control devices on public streets), contact the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080.
For questions concerning city policy on the installation of multi-way stop signs, damaged or missing signs, contact the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080.
See Public Works Department.
The city manages a storm water program under a permit issued by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). Under this permit the city implements rules and regulations designed to protect the waters of the state within our jurisdiction. For questions about the program or witness activites that may be harmful to the environment, contact the Engineering Department at 615-371-0080.
A permit must be obtained for any excavation in a city street or right of way. The permit fee is based on the size and location of the excavation and a deposit is required. For more information, contact the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080.
Street lights are maintained for the city by the electric companies serving Brentwood. However, broken or burned out street lights should be reported directly to the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080 or access the city's Report a Problem webpage.
All city streets (except for designated state routes) are maintained by the Public Works Department. To report a pothole or other street problems call the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080 or access the city's Report a Problem webpage.
Report damaged or missing street name signs to the Public Works Department at 615-371-0080 or online at Report a Problem.
Copies of the subdivision reCopies of the subdivision regulations are available for a fee at the Planning and Codes Department office. An electronic version is available on the city’s website at www.brentwoodtn.gov. For more information call 615-371-2204 or www.brentwoodtn.gov/planning. See Planning Commission.gulations are available for a fee at the Planning and Codes Department office. An electronic version is available on the city’s website at www.brentwoodtn.gov. For more information call 615-371-2204 or www.brentwoodtn.gov/planning. See Planning Commission.
Before installing a swimming pool contact the Planning and Codes Department for a permit at 615-371-2204. All swimming pools must be fenced. Before filling a swimming pool contact the Water and Sewer Billing Office at 615-371-0060.
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About BC CAHS
ATPase / Smoltification
Bioassay
Plankton Analysis
Sea Lice Identification
Molecular and Genomic Research and Development
Discovery Passage Plankton Monitoring Program
Shellfish (Vibrio and Norovirus)
Kudoa Mitigation Initiative Project
Salt Water Fish Health Workshop
Fresh Water Fish Health Workshop
Sea Lice Identification Workshop
Pint of Salmon
Qualified ASC Fish Health Audits
Kudoa thyrsites is a microscopic, multicellular parasite belonging to the Myxozoa. Myxozoans are mainly known as parasites of cold blooded invertebrates such as fishes and amphibians. They also have obligate, and lesser known, developmental stages within invertebrate hosts.
Waterborne spores act as infective stages between invertebrate and vertebrate hosts. Most myxozoan life stages are only visible via microscopy and they were considered to be protists until the 1990’s.
Phylogenetic analyses suggest that Myxozoans share a common ancestor with Cnidarians (e.g. jellyfish and corals) and are actually metazoans (animals) with reduced body plans.
The genus Kudoa is composed of over 90 species parasitic on marine and estuarine fishes. Species of Kudoa that infect skeletal muscle are recognized for their impacts on the marketability of commercially important fish hosts, as opposed to causing mortality. These effects usually present as visible cysts or flesh deterioration. No invertebrate hosts have been determined for any member of the genus, although related genera are found in polychaete worms.
K. thyrsites has a broad host range and is known to infect the muscle of over 30 different marine fish from several families around the world. Species familiar to people in BC include sea trout, herring, hake, wild and farmed salmon— both Atlantic and Pacific species – North Pacific arrow tooth flounder, and mahi mahi. Other fish species found to be susceptible are Dover sole and Pacific halibut.
K. thyrsites has no visible pathology but parasite derived enzymes degrade the flesh post mortem. Low levels of infection can go unnoticed in commercially sold fish, but at higher levels of infection the proteolytic activity of the parasite produces extensive myoliquefaction (dissolution or liquefaction of muscular tissue) and the fish meat is no longer commercially viable. K. thyrsites infections can result in substantial economic losses to the finfish aquaculture industry as infected fish have no signs of disease.
Husbandry methods that prevent or minimize exposure to K. thyrsites are unavailable due to limited life-history knowledge of the parasite. K. thyrsites requires an unknown alternate host, and until this host is discovered, empirical trials to understand infection dynamics and to evaluate husbandry methods using controlled exposures are precluded.
The BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences Society (BC CAHS) has been retained by Mowi Canada West to develop strategies to understand and mitigate the effects related to Kudoa thyrsites infection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
Kent, M.L., L. Margolis, D.J.Whitaker, G.E. Hoskins and T.E. McDonald. 1994. Review of Myxosporea of importance to salmonid fisheries and aquaculture in British Columbia. Folia Parasitologica 41: 27–37.
Marshall, W.L., MacWilliam, T. Brown, H., Lamson, H., Morrison, D., Afonso, LOB. 2016. Epidemiology of K. thyrsites (Myxozoa) infections in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) farmed in heavily and lightly impacted regions of British Columbia. Journal of Fish Diseases 39:929-946.
Moran, J.D.W., D.J. Whitaker, M.L. Kent. 1999. A review of myxosporean genus Kudoa Meglistch, 1947, and its impact on the international aquaculture industry commercial fisheries. Aquaculture 172:163-196.
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March Royal British Legion staging 24 hour pool marathon and fun day in aid of club and FACET
Facet March
Players are preparing themselves for the long haul as the March Royal British Legion gets ready to put on a 24 hour pool marathon.
The game will start at 1pm next Saturday at the March Royal British Legion Club and about 20 players will keep rotating until they call it a day at 1pm next Sunday.
As well as the pool marathon, the club is also staging a children’s fun day with a bouncy castle, assault course, pirate ship, barbecue, cream teas and stalls.
The club is hoping to match the more than £1,000 they raised at last year’s event. Monies raised this year will be split between the club and FACET, a charity which supports people with disabilities in the Fenland area.
March Royal British Legion treasurer Pat Case said: “Any charity is welcome to join us with a stall if they so wish. The support of March would be much appreciated.”
For more information call Pat at 01354 660742 or the RBL at 01354 652233
Driver flees crash scene after crashing car through a fence in Wisbech
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Over the past two decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have experienced fighting that has killed more than five million people. As the eastern Congo struggles to ove…
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Fatal Multi-Vehicle Accident On I-55
Published on: July 24, 2013 | by Elman Law Group LLC
There was a fatal vehicle accident Wednesday, July 24, 2013 on Interstate 55 (I-55) near Channahon, Illinois.
The accident involved four vehicles.
An excerpt from the CBS Chicago article of July 24 titled “Arlington Heights Man Killed In I-55 Crash Near Channahon” :
John R. Hoeppel, 61, was driving an Audi TT Coupe south on Interstate 55 just south of the Interstate 80 interchange when a Nissan Xterra rear-ended the Audi about 6:30 a.m., Illinois State Police Joliet District Master Sgt. Fred Rivera said.
The driver of the Nissan had just crested a hill and could not swerve in time to avoid the slow traffic ahead, Rivera said.
Two other vehicles – a semi truck and car – were involved in the accident.
Hoeppel was taken to a local hospital, underwent surgery, and was pronounced dead sometime shortly after 4:00 p.m.
The driver of the Nissan suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Additional details and possible updates can be seen in a variety of media sources including the CBS Chicago article mentioned above, as well as the July 24 Chicago Sun-Times article titled “Arlington Heights man dies after 4-vehicle crash on I-55.”
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Ex-inmate settles suit alleging he was raped, then punished by staff
By Christy Gutowski
A DuPage County man has agreed to a $450,000 settlement with state prison officials to end his claim that staff unjustly punished him five years ago after he reported his cellmate had repeatedly raped him, lawyers announced Friday.
James Fontano was days away from turning 21 in August 2011 when he said his cellmate beat and raped him over two nights at Logan Correctional Center in downstate Lincoln, Ill. Fontano was serving an eight-month sentence at the time after he failed to comply with terms of his probation for a cocaine-related conviction.
But instead of a proper investigation, prison staff accused Fontano of lying and disciplined him, his lawsuit said. Staff at the prison allegedly threatened him with more prison time if he didn't withdraw his complaint and also placed him in segregation, the suit said. His attack later was corroborated through DNA evidence.
His lawyers at the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center said the settlement is believed to be among the largest in a prison retaliation claim. The case should serve as a textbook example of what not to do in the correctional system when an inmate reports being victimized, said Locke Bowman, one of Fontano's attorneys.
"Instead of concern, James was met with derision and disbelief," said Bowman, executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center. "The investigation was designed to cover up the rape, not to hold the perpetrator accountable. We need to ask: Just how prevalent is rape within Illinois' prisons?"
He said the two Illinois Department of Corrections employees named in the lawsuit were never disciplined for their role in the rape investigation that prompted the 2012 federal lawsuit. The cellmate, an older man serving a lengthy sentence for armed robbery, never faced criminal charges related to the sexual assault.
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In a statement Friday, an IDOC spokeswoman said both men named in the lawsuit are former employees. She said the state's prisons under the new director's leadership have been audited and deemed compliant with national Prison Rape Elimination Act standards.
"The department takes all sexual abuse allegations seriously," said Nicole Wilson, an IDOC spokeswoman. "The department has created and implemented new policies, conducted specialized PREA training sessions for all medical, mental health and investigative units, and has identified a PREA coordinator at each facility to ensure that all standards and guidelines are followed."
Fontano went to prison for a 2009 arrest in Elmhurst in which he had a small amount of cocaine, court records showed. He received probation, but a DuPage County judge in 2011 resentenced him to serve up to a year in prison after Fontano tested positive for further drug use and failed to comply with other terms of his probation.
Fontano, 26, also was convicted of drug possession for a 2013 arrest. He is on parole.
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Ford Unleashes First-Ever Ranger Raptor
Off-Road Pickup Loaded with Ford Performance DNA
Setting a new benchmark in off-road pickup capability, the new Ranger Raptor has been designed to combine Ford Performance DNA with Ranger’s renowned toughness and engineering capability.
Ranger Raptor includes standard front and rear Fox Racing Shox shock absorbers to help travel at high speeds off-road and includes increased ride height, wider track and improved approach and departure angles that ensure extreme off-road capability and stability
Innovative all-new Watt’s linkage rear suspension with coilover rear springs helps ensure rear axle lateral stability off-road while also improving ride and handling
New powertrain combination of a 2.0-litre Bi-Turbo diesel engine and 10-speed transmission has proven durability through extensive testing, offering smooth torque and power through independent turbos and closer gear ratios over a wider overall span
Ranger Raptor has been tested in the world’s toughest conditions to ensure an unrivalled off-road package is offered to astonish and excite drivers
BANGKOK, February 7, 2018 – The first-ever Ranger Raptor, Ford’s new off road,performance pick-up truck, blasted out from behind its camouflage during an reveal event in Thailand today.
The ultimate Ranger is purposefully designed, built and tested to set a benchmark as the only factory-built performance truck across Asia Pacific. Designed by Ford Performance team for the true enthusiast off-roader, Ford Ranger Raptor strengthens Ford’s commitment to deliver “Built Ford Tough” pickup trucks to customers in Asia Pacific.
“We are so excited and proud to unleash this vehicle to the public, driving it really makes you feel like a hero,” said Jamal Hameedi, chief engineer, Ford Performance. “The Ford Performance team is excited to extend the Raptor name from our flagship off-road performance F-150 to Ranger. Just like the F-150 Raptor, the Ranger Raptor builds upon the core capability of the range of vehicles it comes from and carries the unmistakable Ford Performance DNA appearance.”
The Ranger Raptor features distinctive design cues inside and out that are functionally driven.
At the front, a stunning new grille takes styling cues from the world’s first factory-built high performance off road truck, the F-150 Raptor. The iconic block FORD lettering proudly positioned within the grille design is unmistakable when emerging from a dust cloud.
A frame mounted front-bumper system is designed to offer desert durability performance and a distinctive presence. The front bumper also includes new LED fog lamps with functional air curtain ducts, which help to reduce air resistance of the body.
Using composite materials, the front fenders not only look tough, but resist dents and dings often associated with off-road usage. The flared shape of the fenders are required for the long travel suspension and oversized tires. The exterior colour palate offerings include Lightning Blue, Race Red, Shadow Black, Frozen White, as well as a unique Hero colour for the Ranger Raptor, Conquer Grey. Contrasting Dyno Grey accents helps to accentuate the vehicle’s look even further.
Vehicle stance is noticeably bigger from every angle, standing at an impressive 1873mm tall, 2180mm wide and 5398mm long, with wider front and rear tracks at 1710mm. Ground clearance is increased to 283mm, while the approach angle of 32.5°, ramp over angle of 24°, and departure angle of 24° as a package are superior to anything seen before.
Starting from the ground up, the side steps are a cut above the rest. The step boards were designed specifically to prevent rock spray from hitting the rear of the truck and the holes have been designed to drain sand, mud and snow. The tough high-strength aluminium alloy die-cast main step board is designed for durability, undergoing testing which includes a load of 100kg being applied 84,000 times to simulate over 10 years in the field. A two-stage coating process involves the main step board firstly being powder-coated, before then having a robust grit-paint applied which results in a tough appearance that is also highly durable – scuff, scratch, stain resistant with superior resistance to environmental weathering.
At the rear, a modified rear bumper comes with an integrated tow bar and two recovery hooks rated at 3.8 tonnes. Updated styling to the rear includes flush sensor bezels and specially packaged and styled tow connectors. Providing an abundance of space, the 1560mm x1743mm tray has been designed with the weekend explorer in mind, while the 2500kg towing capacity also accounts for dirt bikes or jet-skis, as well as traditional work needs during the week.
Inside, Ranger Raptor offers a tailored Ford Performance DNA interior design with a high level of craftsmanship, harmonious colours and durable materials suitable for both off-road driving and everyday use. The seats are specially designed for off-road high speed performance support, allowing the driver to engage in enthusiastic handling, while also providing superior on-road comfort. The use of technical suede on the seats for additional occupant grip shows the practicality behind the material choice.
Multiple long-distance drive events were staged to gauge just how the seats perform over an extended period of time, both on highways and off-road tracks to simulate customer usage. The dual hardness cushion ticked all the boxes, providing superior lateral support and reduced feel of any chassis vibration. This is achieved by a modified structure, using bolsters on the seat back for greater support.
When getting behind the wheel, Ranger Raptor drivers will notice the detailed cockpit differences everywhere they look, including the blue stitching and leather accents. The cluster has aggressive styling, encompassing a host of Driver Assist features. The steering wheel is distinctively different; new Raptor DNA lightweight magnesium paddle shifters for crisp gear changing are easily accessible near the perforated leather hand grip sections on the rim for precision off-road shifting when you really need it.
Ford Performance DNA has played a significant role in the purposeful styling, including the ‘Oncentre’ marker – a red stripe at the top-middle of the wheel to let you know where the centre is when operating the vehicle at high speed. The steering wheel is finished off with the Raptor logo debossed into the spoke bezel.
Chassis, Brakes and Suspension
The Ranger Raptor’s chassis frame is a new unique frame that is specifically designed for the vehicle to travel at high speeds off road and endure the punishment that off road racing provides.
Ranger Raptor’s innovative new coilover rear suspension uses a Watt’s link setup with solid rear axle to provide superior lateral control off-road while also helping improve ride and handling.
The frame design incorporates new geometry for the large suspension, providing the Raptor DNA increased track and wheel travel. Built to withstand high-impact off-road events, Ranger Raptor’s frame consists of various grades of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel. The stiffened side-rails are made from increased HSLA grade steel to absorb off-road high speed impacts.
The front accommodates strengthened protruding shock absorber towers, while a new bespoke coilover rear suspension with an integrated Watt’s linkage allows the axle to move up and down with very little lateral movement. Two recovery hooks rated at 4.5 tonnes can be found at the front, plus reinforced spare tyre mounting cross-members for the larger 17-inch Raptor rims.
The braking system on the Ranger Raptor offers extreme stopping power through new and bespoke components. At the front, twin-piston calipers have been increased by 9.5mm in diameter, while the ventilated rotors are an impressive 332 x 32mm in size. At the rear, Ranger Raptor comes with disc brakes with a brake actuation master cylinder and booster to increase braking performance. The 332 x 24mm rear rotor is ventilated and coupled with a new 54mm caliper.
“The standout experience of the Ranger Raptor, hands down, is how far you can push it off-road versus any other available production road vehicle in our markets, and still ride like a millionaire on-road,” said Damien Ross, Chief Program Engineer, Ranger Raptor, Ford Motor Company.
“Everything about the Ranger Raptor builds on the already outstanding sophisticated feel and functional capability of the Ranger, and then goes futher. From a driving dynamic fun standpoint, it is really an exceptionally special vehicle.”
Raptor’s race-bred suspension has been specifically crafted to tackle undulating terrain at highspeed while remaining in complete control and comfort. The Position Sensitive Damping (PSD) shock absorbers (dampers) provide higher damping forces at full jounce and rebound to enable better off-road capabilities, and lower damping forces in the mid-travel zone for a class leading plush ride during on-road trips. These settings are truly calibrated for the best of both worlds.
The dampers are exclusively manufactured by Fox Racing Shox with 46.6mm piston for front and rear. Designed for off-road endurance terrain, the dampers, coupled with the long travel suspension, allow for an unsurpassed damping performance off-road and a plushest of rides on road thanks to Internal Bypass technology.
Holding them in place are the forged aluminium upper arms and cast aluminium lower arms to facilitate greater suspension travel and optimized for performance and extreme off-road durability.
Hit the Beaten Track
Given the unforgiving terrain Ranger Raptor has been developed for, it needed an aggressive set of tyres to keep it stable on and off-road. All-terrain BF Goodrich 285/70 R17 tyres have been specially developed for the Ranger Raptor. Holding a strong presence, each tyre measures 838mm in diameter and 285mm in width. The design offers a tough sidewall to take on all environments with confidence, a super grippy tread to extend owners’ adventure time on and off-road and an aggressive off-road tread pattern which provides grip in wet, mud, sand and snow conditions.
Ranger Raptor also comes with unique underbody protection to deflect off-road obstacles. The new bash plate is made from 2.3mm thick high-strength steel and meets enhanced capabilities for strength in line with Ford Performance requirements. The silver finished guard allows clearance to the dual front recovery hooks. Working together with the existing engine and transfer case undershields, the three elements provide protection to components such as the radiator, Electric Power Assisted Steering (EPAS), Front End Accessory Drive (FEAD), front cross-member, engine sump and front differential.
Tuned for all Terrains
Ranger Raptor comes with a Terrain Management System (TMS) offering six modes for various driving experiences, which can be selected via a dedicated five-button switch located on the steering wheel. Each mode has been calibrated to offer the best possible combination of technologies working in unison to tackle the chosen terrain or driving style with aplomb. These include:
On-road modes
- Normal mode – Emphasising comfort, fuel economy and driveability
- Sport mode – Responsive for spirited on-road driving. This means fast, crisp gear shifts at higher engine speeds to aid throttle response. The mapping reacts to increased demand inputs from the driver by holding gears longer and downshifting more aggressively.
Off-road modes
- Grass/Gravel/Snow mode – Designed to inspire safe and confident driving on off-road slippery and uneven surfaces. This is done through smoother gear shifts and secondgear starts, minimizing the probability of wheel slip.
- Mud/Sand mode – Vehicle responsiveness is tuned for optimum traction and momentum in deep, deformable surfaces like loose sand and mud. This is achieved by maintaining lower gears with high torque.
- Rock mode – Used specifically for low-speed rocky terrain where smooth controllability is key.
- Baja mode – Vehicle responsiveness is tuned for high-speed off-road performance, just like drivers need in the famous Baja Desert Rally. In this mode, vehicle systems like
Traction Control are pared back in terms of intervention to allow spirited off-road driving without fighting the vehicle’s on-board systems. Gear selection is optimized for maximum performance, and the mapping will hold gears longer and downshift more aggressively.
Power to Move You
The Ranger Raptor powertrain features cutting edge technology to offer more power and torque, better fuel economy, less weight and with off-road specific calibrations for engine, transmission, driveline, steering, brakes and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system.
In a revolutionary move to deliver incredible performance and responsiveness, a 10-Speed transmission is combined with a new 2.0-liter Bi-Turbo diesel engine in the Ranger Raptor to deliver a maximum of 213PS (157kW) of power and 500Nm of torque.
Ford engineers have tested the new powertrain extensively in order to prove out durability.
This testing includes running a ‘thermo cycle’ on the engine, heating both turbos to the point of glowing red for 200 hundred hours non-stop. It can withstand this torture thanks to the turbo bearings and low-pressure (LP) turbo being water cooled to reduce temperature, avoid overheating and protect the air induction components.
Working as a team, the smaller, high-pressure (HP) turbo is connected in a sequence to the larger, LP turbo and is controlled with by-pass valves that determine the operating mode depending on engine speed. At lower engine speeds, the two turbos work in series, enhancing torque and responsiveness, while at higher engine speeds, the small HP turbo is bypassed, and the higher LP turbo provides boost to deliver more power.
The Ford-designed and Ford-built 10-speed automatic transmission is shared with the F-150 Raptor and has been created with high-strength steel, aluminium alloys and composites to optimize durability and weight. Having 10 gears means a wider ratio-span resulting in better acceleration and responsiveness. With more room to optimize gear spacing, engineers could customize gear progression far more efficiently than before, providing more accurate – and quicker – upshift and downshift capability.
The all-new electronic system features real-time adaptive shift-scheduling algorithmsengineered to help ensure the right gear is selected at the right time. A unique transmission calibration also includes a ‘Live in Drive’ function, meaning that the paddle shifters are always available for manual gear selection override.
Practical Technology at Hand
Ranger Raptor comes with a host of advanced Driver Assist Technologies (DATs) at the push of a button which are not just cutting edge, but genuinely practical for everyday use.
Leading the way in connectivity, SYNCÒ 3 is a fully integrated, voice activation system that lets the driver use their favourite devices while their hands stay on the wheel and eyes on the road.
The Satellite Navigation System comes into its own when off-roading in remote areas, even offering a ‘breadcrumb’ feature to leave a trail when entering unchartered areas – perfect for the serious off-roader.
High levels of active and passive safety have been designed-in from the outset, including the improved Ford Stability Control incorporating Roll Mitigation Function.
Ford’s comprehensive Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system is also there to help in difficult cornering and braking situations. The impressive technology suite includes Trailer Sway Control (TSC), Hill Start Assist (HSA), Hill Descent Control (HDC) and Load Adaptive Control (LAC).
The rear view camera displayed on the eight-inch colour LCD screen matched with the rear parking sensors gives drivers the utmost confidence when parking anywhere.
For convenient access, an EZ Lift Tailgate uses a new rod assembly to give the owner a 66 percent reduction in initial lift force. Intelligent Access, also known as passive entry, allows the owner to unlock, lock and start the vehicle without having to reach for their keys. Using a radio frequency signal, the key fob allows the owner to start the vehicle with a press of a button, and is able to activate central locking for the doors and the tailgate. In the case of a depleted battery,a mechanical key blade is incorporated into the fob design.
An Exhilarating Driving Experience
Inheriting vital capability from the truly successful Ranger and complementing that with DNA from the F-150 Raptor, the new Ranger Raptor is set to turn heads throughout Asia Pacific and around the world.
“It is amazing to enable this level of performance and create a vehicle that can provide off-road enthusiasts such an adrenaline rush,” said Hameedi.
“It really is like a motocross bike, snowmobile and an ATV rolled up into a pickup truck – it’s an incredible, awesome experience!”
The Ford Ranger Raptor will be produced in Ford Thailand Manufacturing (FTM) using Ford’s latest state of the art manufacturing techniques and facilities.
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Habitat program brings teen volunteers to Asheville
16 teenagers from around US work on projects in Shiloh community
Habitat program brings teen volunteers to Asheville 16 teenagers from around US work on projects in Shiloh community Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://avlne.ws/1mgNHqQ
Published 7:05 p.m. ET July 15, 2014 | Updated 7:31 a.m. ET July 16, 2014
Habitat's Learn and Build program in action
Michael Kaushansky, LaShawn Meadows, Libby Garrison and Kennedy Beal paint Monday. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Jason Adamovich-Zeitlin of New York disposes of brush from near a Habitat home. He and others wear suits to prevent poison ivy exposure. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Habitat home owner and volunteer LaShawn Meadows jokes with Learn & Build volunteer Libby Garrison, 16, of Annapolis, MD. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Jason Adamovich-Zeitlin of New York disposes of brush from near the Habitat home. He and others wear suits to prevent poison ivy exposure. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Michael Kaushansky of Buffalo Grove, IL, paints paneling. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows Monday morning. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Libby Garrison, 16, and Kennedy Beal, 17, paint together Monday morning. Habitat for Humanity's Learn & Build team worked on the Pope Francis House for LaShawn Meadows. 16 students from across the U.S. were selected to work together on this house. 7/14/14- Erin Brethauer (ebrethau@citizen-times.com) Erin Brethauer
Libby Garrison, 16, left, and Kennedy Beal, 17, paint together Monday morning as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Learn and Build team. See more from the project in a photo gallery at CITIZEN-TIMES.com. (Photo: Erin Brethauer , ebrethau@citizen-times.com )
ASHEVILLE – Michael Kaushanasky, 17, was a volunteer in his Chicago community, when he discovered Habitat for Humanity's Learn and Build Experience. The program brings together high school students from across the nation and sends them to Habitat sites to participate in service learning.
"I wanted to do something out side of the community, more hands on," Kaushanasky said.
After being accepted in the program, he found himself working in Asheville alongside 15 other teens to help build a home and more.
"The goal is to invest in youth who are interested in Habitat and instill in them the importance of volunteer service," said Ariane Kjellquist, communications director for Asheville Habitat.
Habitat International asked Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity to apply to be a host site for the Learn and Build program. It was chosen, along with three other U.S. sites and one international site. Teens in the program worked in Asheville from July 7-15.
"High school is a great age to encourage volunteerism and develop active citizens," Kjellquist said.
"We feel we have an obligation to educate future volunteers about the issue of affordable housing, and hosting Learn and Build is one great way to do that," she added.
Overall, 80 students ages 16-18 were selected to participate in Learn and Build through an application process. Along with Asheville, they were sent to sites in Wisconsin, Louisiana, Hawaii and Macedonia.
During their nine days in WNC, students worked on the Pope Francis House construction site in Shiloh; helped in the ReStore; and participated in a Shiloh community service day. Students got their hands dirty, aided in the community garden, helped with a river cleanup and more.
The Pope Francis House, being built in honor of the Roman Catholic leader, will be owned by Lashawn Meadows.
"Habitat houses don't build themselves," Kjellquist said, noting Asheville Habitat receives a financial donation through participants' program fees.
"I fulfilled my expectations beyond (what) I could have ever imagined. We've been doing some amazing work with the foundation in one neighborhood, laying sod in another, now we're painting," Kaushanasky said. "It's just been one of the best experiences I could ever had."
Kennedy Beal, of Texas, was inspired to apply for the program through her exposure to Habitat.
"I lived in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, and saw the good Habitat did. When I turned 17, I realized I wanted to apply, and I got into Asheville," Beal said.
Nicole Mejia, a 17-year-old from Delaware, learned of the program from her mom and liked the travel and volunteer aspects.
"I love that we're helping the community, and even though we're all from different places in the country, we're all here to make a difference, in one area for people who really need it." Mejia said.
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Scotch Corner – Racing a World Champion
Stuart Cullen | October 20, 2019 | Posted in Scotch Corner | No comments
Read Stuart’s column every week in The Scottish Sun, where he shares his reviews, news and podcasts with the 99.3% of the World’s population not fortunate enough to be able to buy a physical copy of the paper. The following appeared originally in The Scottish Sun on Sunday 20th October.
RACING legend Fernando Alonso reckons Grid can make you a proper driver. The two-time F1 world champ has been very hands-on with the new game and has pushed for the “real” experience. But we have found that Fernando telling you how it is done and you doing it with any great success are two different things. Even more so when Fernando does and you are happy just to watch. There is a reason why Fernando is one of the best. He is quick in anything that he drives and has the confidence of a world champion when he walks into the room. We got to experience the full Alonso aura in Madrid, where he revealed how Codemasters pulled off such a coup. The Spaniard has fully embraced gaming — even setting up his own eSports team. He said:
“It was a decision that was straightforward for me as I’ve been a big fan of the series for many years and it’s probably the only game on the market where you can combine the feel of arcade racing with pro sim racing. That access to different people and gamers was very attractive to me and was the main reason I joined the project.”
Codemasters made sure they got as much from the partnership as they could, but, typically, he reckons he was the winner. He said:
“I think I put most pressure on the level of difficulty of the other racers you’ll face in the game. “Even if you start last you’ll need to find a way to use a different style of driving and approach — which is what we find when we drive the real thing. Normally, in the games, you have a group of cars in a line and braking at the same points. After a few races with the game you learn that, on that corner, they will brake there so you start to overtake them all at the same point. That’s something we wanted to avoid in Grid so there are over 400 different named drivers and all 400 have their own skill levels and different levels when it comes to overtaking and overall factors when it comes to driving. Some will be good on high-speed corners or good on braking. That was probably the main input I had. I gave the team examples of how real racers would race.”
The development team responded by building a digital Fernando for the ultimate test. Fernando admitted:
“I have raced against myself and digital me does some things that I would never do on track, but we have tried to up the difficulty to a level where when you challenge me in the game it will be a real challenge for the player.”
He also wants to use the game to boost his eSports plans with FA Racing Esports alongside his karting school — combining real-life experiences with gaming. He said:
“eSports is very interesting at the moment and the possibilities are still unknown. Every year it’s growing. I think it really needs to keep growing and, in a few more years, establish in a place it hasn’t really found just yet. But to be part of it and to be able to draw on the experience of different drivers and compete across a number of games is really my target just now. Together with my karting school and other things I do in racing, my intentions in the near future are to combine everything and maybe some drivers can compete for FA across all the disciplines.”
That multi-discipline attitude mirrors Fernando’s own career as he’s also won the Le Mans 24 Hours, is a World Endurance Champion and is after the treble crown of Le Mans, the Monaco F1 Grand Prix and the Indy 500. He admitted:
“The Triple Crown is definitely still one of my main focuses right now but this year I was at the 24hr race in Daytona and the Endurance World Championship so there are things that are not part of the treble crown but they are very beneficial to my career and I’m very proud of.”
The brutal Dakar Rally may also be on the horizon. He added:
“It may be a one-off goal and all those different disciplines can have value to my overall career but the Treble Crown is the ultimate goal for me as they are the three most-important races in motorsport.”
However, the Spaniard admits his cojones may not be big enough for one motorsport discipline — MotoGP. He laughed:
“I did try once in Motegi when I was with Honda and I got to ride Dani Pedrosa’s Honda along with Marc Marquez. I did about four laps and after that I understood I wasn’t good at bikes. It is truly scary. You need the special talents you only get by growing up in that environment. For me to start now, at the age I am, there is no way. I am crazy but not that crazy.”
Racing In Your Dreams
SENIOR designer Mike Moreton was one of the driving forces in bringing Grid back to the . . . err . . . grid. The Codemasters ace admits he was a mega fan right back to the early TOCA days on the PS1. And he couldn’t wait to get started once the lights went out on the comeback after a five-year gap from Grid Autosport. He said:
“We think it was the right time as Grid has been away for quite a long period of time now. It’s a series we are all very passionate about at Codemasters as we all love motorsport and we love the variety that Grid can offer. We just felt now is the right time to bring it back because we have the ability to give it the kick-start that we really want to.”
Codemasters are known for being the racing game kings, and Mike reckons Grid is the perfect tribute to the sport. He added:
“For us Grid is really a love letter to motorsport. Each member of the team has a favourite but they are broadly categorised into areas like Stock, Tuner and Tourer. Then we also have Fernando Alonso involved so we have taken his multi-discipline career and keep that in the game. It takes strands of the career and works them together and we have the real esoterica — or specialised — events that we have kept as invitational events. They are races that don’t quite fit into the categories and are more standalone.”
Mike revealed the whole process was like letting a kid loose in a sweet shop — especially when it came to nailing down the cars. He said:
“I think we have done really well with the spread of manufacturers as we have Ferrari, Porsche and Ford. We also have more purpose-built race cars like the Formula Jedi and the prototype cars. Instead of going down the Le Mans prototype route, we went for Daytona Prototypes with Acura and Cadillac. Everyone has a favourite car so we have tried to represent as many as we can.”
Now that the main development work is done, Mike reckons the biggest role is to support a community that will decide the game’s legacy.
He is proud of the efforts the team has put into Grid’s post-launch support. He said:
“Something really important to me is that I don’t want split multiplayer communities because it’s not good for me to play something my friend doesn’t have. So all the tracks that will be added to the game will be free. We want to give players content so they will add car packs and careers to the game. By the end of the planned DLC the career will have doubled in size. We have based it on actual things we want players to do instead of separate items.”
The online side could also be key to growing numbers getting behind the wheel. Mike added:
“The race craft system is a key feature online. We wanted you to earn XP whether you play on or offline and didn’t want to lock anything that was important to use behind just one aspect of the game. We also have an anti-grief system because we understand that not everyone is a clean racer. We have introduced ghosting methods that should hopefully catch the worst offenders online.”
Given the explosion in eSports, it is perhaps surprising that Codemasters didn’t think that was a priority during development. They preferred to concentrate on getting the core game right. Mike said:
“It’s something that we are really looking now and working out how we want to progress with eSports. We are really keen on it and want to be part of the eSports landscape, but we wanted to focus on the core racing side of things and get that nailed down before we started growing other areas. Now we are pretty proud of the racing we are starting to look at the other areas for the future.”
But race fan Mike is also keen to get back to his TOCA roots in a move that could delight touring car fans. He admitted:
“TOCA is the game that got me into Codemasters as a kid, so getting to work there it was a dream come true. We have some classic TOCA cars in Grid like the 155 and that sort of car. Again never say never as, at Codemasters, we all love our heritage in games. I think the TOCA series holds a special place in a lot of people’s hearts.”
GRID (Xbox One, PS4 & PC, £49.99)
CODEMASTERS have been living life in the fast lane in 2019 — with the brutally hard DiRT 2.0 and the rock-solid F1 2019 revving up hearts across the globe. Now the Brits are back with an eagerly-awaited return for GRID. The original announcement was greeted with a sense of foreboding that another tough cookie was on the way. But Codemasters have gone down a more arcade route and provided a really welcome change of pace. If you’re a series fan then you’ll welcome the first instalment for five years. No doubt you also tried your hand at it when it started life as the TOCA series on the PS1 before a few name changes stopped at GRID. But Codemasters aren’t known as the masters of racers for nothing.
The firm have given this reboot their full attention as they have created a fast and frantic racer that will hook you in and keep hold of you. Right out the box Grid has a simple philosophy — you have career mode and online. That’s it. Well, it is unless you unleash the free play where you can just race your own custom racers for fun. Career mode has a tale that is wafer thin — and that’s being nice. If you are expecting an automotive drama between racers — a la F1 2019 — then you will be disappointed. The tale sees you trying to break into the World Series and then win it. But, beyond a bit of pre-race chat between the commentators that you can skip and a cut scene at the beginning and the end, that’s your story, folks.
However, what the career does is throw you the keys to a true selection box of horsepower-fuelled racing machines broken up into classes such as Tuner, Tourer and Stock and each offers different types of racing. One minute you can be rubbing the wall in a stock car and the next you are hitting the apex in an open-top pocket rocket. It’s that variety that brings Grid to life. You’re never bogged down by having to grind races in a set class to move forward. And when it comes to the cars there is a beefy garage on show — from the likes of the Ford Focus and VW GTI to Chevrolet Camaros and Ford Mustangs all the way up to prototype racers. So, race fans, there will be something to float your boat. But while the options for races and cars are healthy and plentiful, the track choices are a bit of a missed opportunity. There is only a handful of locations — 13 that are then cut into 80 layouts. You’ll burn them through in no time and soon know them like the back of your hand. Codemasters insist more are on the way and that they will be FREE.
Another big element is the racing craft system. Put simply, the way you drive affects the racers around you. If you race dirty then you’ll make a nemesis. You can have up to five gunning for you in one race if the red mist descends and they are pretty ruthless. They’ll nudge, barge and ram you every chance they get. That is a great idea because it does encourage you to race clean, but it is unfortunate that the nemesis resets after each event. It would have been fun for a rival to be hounding you for a whole championship — especially if that rivalry was created by you. But you’re not alone. You have an AI teammate who tries his best but never really has much impact. You might want to hire a new one to freshen things up.
The online side is well-handled and is mostly a smooth affair as you can race your mates or the world’s best. Codemasters have served up a visual treat, especially when you are going full-blast through a rain-soaked Shanghai bathed in a neon glow from the buildings as the night sky bursts into colour with fireworks. But a dull, dreich day at Silverstone is just dull. We loved the change of pace in Grid. It is fun and carries the arcade vibe. Strap yourself in, it’s a hell of a drive.
Score: 4.5/5
I’ll be back next week with more from North of the Border. Catch ye’s…
Stuart Cullen
Scotland’s very own thorn in the side of the London gaming scene bringing all the hottest action straight from The Sun… well… The Scottish Sun at least, every week!
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by Debbie Boon
Format: Block Mounted Print - £145.00 Framed Print (Premium) - £310.00 Framed Print (Contemporary) - £260.00
Limited to 250 fine art limited edition prints + 25 artist proofs, 'Inquisitive' is available either block mounted, or block mounted and framed. Please make sure you select the format you require using the drop down list above.
The main edition of 250 prints is printed on 450gsm fine art canvas. This is then bonded to 3.5mm board and varnished to replicate the look and feel of the original painting. This is called block mounting. Each print is individually signed and numbered by Debbie and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.
There are two frames available, the 'Contemporary' frame and the 'Premium' frame. Both options compliment the print perfectly - which to choose depends on the type of look you prefer.
The Contemporary framed print is framed in a 3cm wide soft distressed warm silver moulding with a flat white painted slip. Supplied strung and ready to hang.
The Premium framed print has a 6.5cm wide distressed bronze/warm silver frame which is slipped with a painted off-white moulding. The off-white section in between the the frame and the image is the slip. This is in effect a second narrower frame fixed into the main frame to give an additional line of definition to the print.
As the canvas is varnished, this print is not glazed. Supplied strung and ready to hang.
WHAT IS HAND FINISHED FRAMING?
Hand finished frames give a unique character to a print as an almost infinite combination of profiles, finishes and colours are possible.
Standard framing involves cutting and joining pre-finished mouldings to make the frame.
Hand finished framing requires a skilled craftsman who will first select a suitable frame profile which is cut and joined to make a bare wood frame. The frame is then finished using a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques and materials. Depending on the finish chosen a frame may take many days to complete as component layers are built up to achieve the desired result.
The result is a completely bespoke frame made to uniquely complement the original painting. To this end, no two hand finished frames are ever exactly the same.
For Debbie's work we have chosen a 2.5cm wide stained black finish over which a wax is applied. The frame style is called a 'tray' frame. This is because the canvas sits inside the frame with a small gap between the edge of the canvas and the frame. The front of the frame is level with the surface of the print rather than the frame covering the front edge of the print as is more typical. This allows the frame to provide a border for the image without encroaching or dominating it.
Block Mounted Print 40.0 x 33.0cm 40.0 x 33.0cm
Contemporary Framed Print 47.0 x 40.0cm
Premium Framed Print 55.0 x 48.0cm
Debbie Boon was born in 1960 and graduated from Loughborough College of Art in 1980 to begin her creative professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator.
Throughout the nineties and into the new millennium she became well known as a children’s book illustrator, whilst also establishing herself as a painter in commercial and private spheres.
Whether painting animals, flora & fauna, or portraits, Debbie aims to capture and convey her personal experience of the subject through colour, light and texture.
Working on canvas, she uses heavy bodied acrylics and glazes, working quickly at the initial stage to block in the main elements of the composition and then applying layers of paint to create texture. In this way she is able to create original artworks, that have an energy and vibrancy which reflects the ‘joie de vivre’ she feels when faced with a subject that captures her imagination.
Debbie Boon’s work has the ability to sit comfortably in both traditional and contemporary settings and graces the walls of numerous boutique hotels, including Michael Caine's signature restaurant in the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter.
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Touchstone Pictures and Lucasfilm have released a new behind-the-scenes featurette that explores both the voice cast and the characters themselves behind the upcoming animated film Strange Magic. Check it out in the player below!
Strange Magic is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion. Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic, which created the CGI animation for 2011?s Academy Award-winning film Rango, bring to life the fanciful forest turned upside down.
With a story by George Lucas, Strange Magic is directed by Gary Rydstrom (“Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation,” “Lifted”), produced by Mark S. Miller (associate producer on Mars Attacks!) and executive produced by Lucas, with a screenplay by David Berenbaum (Elf), Irene Mecchi (Brave, The Lion King) and Rydstrom.
The voice cast includes Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, newcomer Meredith Anne Bull, Alfred Molina, Elijah Kelley, Bob Einstein and Peter Stormare.
Strange Magic will open in theaters on January 23, 2015. If you missed the film’s trailer, check it out right here.
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Deputy puts video skills to good use in new video
DeSoto County Sheriff's Department produces video in conjunction with Labor Day and the annual rise in DUI's during that period.
Deputy puts video skills to good use in new video DeSoto County Sheriff's Department produces video in conjunction with Labor Day and the annual rise in DUI's during that period. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: http://memne.ws/2w7zgWM
Ron Maxey, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 2:51 p.m. CT Aug. 15, 2017 | Updated 3:32 p.m. CT Aug. 15, 2017
New video warns against DUI in DeSoto County(Photo: File)
Deputy puts video skills to use to warn against DUI
Heightened enforcement planned Aug. 18-Sept. 4
DeSoto County issued 27 DUI citations last Labor Day period
A slick new video is part of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department arsenal this year to battle drunken driving during the upcoming Labor Day holiday period.
Deputy Alex Coker put together the video, which runs 1:49 and is being distributed on YouTube and Facebook. Like similar videos, this one warns the public to drink responsibly or risk arrest. But it steps it up a notch from the typical locally produced law enforcement video.
It helps that Coker, who has been with the sheriff's department since 2010, has an impressive background in video. Coker, from Memphis, is co-host of the "Remote Survival" series on the National Geographic channel. He has appeared in various other TV roles, was a stunt actor in the movie "The Butler" and has a small part in the DreamWorks Pictures production "Thank You For Your Service" due out this fall.
In his primary job, doing public relations as a sheriff's deputy, Coker brought to bear the skills he taught himself through his involvement with those video-related media to produce a spot that drives home an important message in a high-quality package.
Coker narrates the video, which warns viewers with compelling images that the sheriff's department DUI Enforcement Unit will be on high alert from Friday through Labor Day on Sept. 4. The department, like most law enforcement agencies, has stepped-up enforcement during holiday periods including Labor Day, which Coker said one of the most active times for DUI offenses.
"It's the end of the summer, and people tend to push limits," Coker said.
The Desoto County Sheriff's Department's campaign this year is called "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over."
Alex Coker (Photo: IMBD)
Last year during the Labor Day period, the sheriff's department issued 27 DUI citations, including three that resulted in wrecks. The department made a total of 487 DUI arrests all of last year, compared to 470 so far this year.
The department's DUI unit includes Deputies Tyler Brown, Jessica Palmer and Johnathon Bigham. Deputy Chip Logan was formerly on the DUI unit.
Coker said in producing the video, he wanted something with a more "spectacular" feel than some others he had seen.
"They didn't have a personal impact," he said. "I wanted to do something a little different."
Coker did the filming in one evening and used about half of another day to edit the video himself, using free video editing software.
He hopes the finished product will leave a lasting message in the minds of those who see it, both DeSoto County residents and anyone else who might be passing through. And he hopes to produce more videos, each with more impact than the last.
"I taught myself," he said, "and I've gotten a little better each time.
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Patients to access full GP medical records online by 2016
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised full online access to medical records, a review of data security standards and a new opt-out model for Care.data
All patients will be able to access their full GP medical records online within a year, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
Speaking at the NHS Innovation Expo, he said: "By 2016 every patient can access their whole medical record online."
Hunt added that by 2018 the record will include all information from across all health and care providers, and will include read and write access.
While 54% of people in England use smartphones, only 2% currently interact digitally with the NHS – but Hunt promised that within the next financial year, a quarter of smartphone users will be able to access NHS services and medical records, book appointments, and arrange repeat prescriptions using a suite of health apps.
"It goes back to this relationship between doctors and patients. When patients start accessing their medical records, they start thinking about their healthcare in a different way," he said.
"I also want patients not just to be able to read their medical record on their smartphone but to add to it, whether by recording their own comments or by plugging in their own wearable devices to it."
Alluding to the controversial Care.data programme, which caused uproar after concerns around the sharing of patient data by extracting it from GP records and putting it onto a central database held by the Health & Social Care Information Centre, Hunt said the NHS needs to regain the public's trust around the security of their medical data.
To ensure that personal data is protected, Fiona Caldicott's position as national data guardian for health and care will be strengthened by putting her role in a statutory footing of the same calibre as the chief inspector of hospitals.
Hunt has also asked the Care Quality Commission to undertake a review of the standards of data security across the NHS by January 2016.
Caldicott will be contributing to the review through developing new guidelines for the protection of personal data against which every NHS organisation will be held to account. The implementation of the recommendations from the review will begin in April 2016. She will also provide guidance on how to word a new model of consent and opt-outs to be used by Care.data.
"Nothing matters more to us than our health, and people rightly say we must be able to assure the security of confidential medical information. We have to win the public's trust," Hunt said.
Patients will get access to NHS services via app by end of 2018
NHS Choices to be relaunched as NHS.UK
Hunt promises £4bn investment in NHS IT
Hunt announces NHS technology review
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ExtremeNetworks - 4 Sep 2015 9:47 AM
It’s exciting to see that the UK government is dedicated to driving digital uptake in the NHS with these latest announcements. Making it possible for patients to access their medical records online and via mobile devices, using wearable technology to capture data and doctors making more accurate assessments based on this information are just a few examples of how innovation is making a positive impact in the healthcare sector.
However, it will be important to remember that at the core of this will be data, passing across both external and internal channels between patients and doctors. Given the nature of this information, healthcare organisations need to make sure that the data collected stays confidential and access is managed properly. Healthcare firms should look to a Network Access Control (NAC) solution and Role Based Provisioning (RBP) to manage the flow of data on their internal networks and ensure that users only get access to the data they need.
Network bandwidth is another important consideration. With thousands of users trying to access the internal network at any one time to view patients’ information it will be important to prepare for a far larger traffic load. - Bob Zemke, Extreme Networks
ToddN2000 - 25 Jan 2016 8:08 AM
In my opinion the opt out should be the default. Don't open my records unless I ask for them. I can see insurance companies possibly looking to get their hands on this data to find high risk people that they may be providing life insurance for..
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{{Infobox officeholder | name=Bruce Newton Lynn, Sr. |office= [[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br/> District 1 (northern Caddo<br> and Bossier parishes) |term_start=1976 |term_end=1988 |preceded=[[Jimmy Wilson]] |succeeded=[[Roy M. Hopkins]] |birth_date=March 25, 1925 |birth_place=Gilliam, Caddo Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], USA |death_date=September 28, 2016 (aged 91) |party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] |religion=[[Presbyterian]] |occupation=[[Cotton]] [[farmer]], businessman; banker<br> [[United States Marine Corps]] in [[World War II]] |alma_mater=Belcher High School [[Texas A&M University]]<br> [[Louisiana State University]] |spouse=Margaret Eugenia Johnson (married 1949-2014, her death) |children=Bruce Newton Lynn, Jr. Pamela Lynn Broesamle |'''Parents''':<br> James Wiley and Irene Bruce Lynn}} '''Bruce Newton Lynn, Sr.''' (March 25, 1925 – September 28, 2016), was an [[United States|American]] [[cotton]] [[farmer]], [[business]]man, and [[banker]] from his native Gilliam (pronounced GILL AM) in northern Caddo Parish, [[Louisiana]], who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative from 1976 to 1988. Three generations of his family operated the J. W. Lynn plantation. ==Background== Lynn was born to James Wiley Lynn, an [[Arkansas]] native, and the former Irene Bruce (1895-1982), originally from Kansas City, [[Kansas]]. He graduated in 1942 from the former Belcher High School. He attended [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], [[Texas]], and later [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], but he did not graduate from either institution. Instead he completed banking school.<ref name=lynnobit/> Enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps]], Lynn was stationed in the Pacific Theater of Operations during [[World War II]].<ref name=lynnobit/> In 1949, he married the former Margaret Eugenia Johnson (1926-2014), who was born in [[Shreveport]] and reared in Doyline in south Webster Parish. She graduated from Doyline High School, attended business school, and worked at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant west of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] during World War II. It was while she was later employed at Continental Bank that she first met Bruce Lynn.<ref name=mrslynnobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-lynn&pid=172688600&fhid=10218#sthash.Q5qGNiY3.dpuf|title=Margaret Lynn obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 5, 2014|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> The two Lynn children are Bruce Lynn, Jr., who operates the family farm and is divorced from the former Jane Downs, a sister of former state Representative [[Hollis Downs]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=juel-chappell&pid=172688581&fhid=6320|title=Juel Chappell obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=October 5, 2014|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> and Pamela Lynn Broesamle of Scotts Valley near [[San Jose]], [[California]]. The Lynnes had five grandchildren. A grandson, Ross Alexander Lynn (1979–2013), a photographer and mountain climber, was killed at the age of thirty-three in a farming accident on the Lynn plantation.<ref name=mrslynnobit/> The Ross Alexander Lynn Foundation was established in his honor in Ruston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bozemandailychronicle/obituary.aspx?pid=166685752|title=Ross Alexander Lynn|publisher=''The Bozeman Daily Chronicle''|location=Bozeman, Montana|date=August 30, 2013|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> Coincidentally, Bruce Lynn, Jr., lost is mother and his former mother-in-law on the same day. With his background in cotton production, Lynn was in 1970 the president of the National Cotton Council of America, a trade association based in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]], and [[Washington, D.C.]] He remained thereafter an advisor to the council board. Because he was in Washington with the cotton council late in 1980, he became a member of the transition team for President-elect [[Ronald W. Reagan]]. Lynn once told an interviewer that the election of Reagan remains the highlight of his personal political interest. From 1970 to 1987, Lynn was affiliated with the former Louisiana Bank and Trust Company in Shreveport.<ref name=lynnobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=181679727|title=Bruce Lynn-obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 1, 2016|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> ==Legislative elections== Lynn first filed to run in 1971 as a Republican for the District 1 seat (parts of Caddo and Bossier parishes) in the state legislature, but he withdrew after [[Jimmy Wilson]] won the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nomination for that seat. Wilson was a former mayor of Vivian in Caddo Parish, where he and Lynn had served together on the North Caddo Hospital Board. In 1975, Wilson relinquished the state House seat to run unsuccessfully for the Louisiana State Senate. He lost to his then fellow Democrat [[Don Williamson]]. Both Wilson and Williamson later became Republicans. Lynn narrowly won the general election to succeed Wilson. He defeated Democrat Powell A. Layton, the principal of Northwood High School in Shreveport, by only 40 votes: 2,894 (50.3 percent) to Layton's 2,854 (49.7 percent). Lynn's House terms coincided with six other Republicans, including Benjamin Franklin "B. F." O'Neal, Jr. (1922-2004), Arthur William Sour (1924-2000), and [[E. Clark Gaudin]]. Three other members, Abel John "Buddy" McNamara (1936-204), Lane Anderson Carson, and [[Michael F. Thompson]], had been elected as Democrats but switched their affiliations. Thereafter, Jimmy Wilson joined the Republican Party and waged two unsuccessful campaigns for Louisiana's 4th congressional district after the seat was vacated in January 1979 by popular long-term Democrat [[Joe Waggonner]]. Wilson lost the first time to Claude Anthony "Buddy" Leach, and then to [[Buddy Roemer]] Lynn was narrowly reelected in the 1979 general election, 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent for the late Democrat Jack Miller, a businessman from Blanchard, also in Caddo Parish. He defeated Miller again in 1983. When Lynn declined to run in 1987, the seat went Democratic with the election of Caddo Parish Commission president [[Roy M. Hopkins|Roy M. "Hoppy" Hopkins]] of Oil City in Caddo Parish, who subsequently died in office during the last year of his fifth term. Hopkins' commission seat was filled for a term by [[James Whitfield Williamson]], a businessman who served as the mayor of Vivian from 1972 to 1986 and was an older brother of Don Williamson. Lynn's House seat returned to Republican representation in the [[special election]] of 2007, when [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|James H. "Jim" Morris]] of Oil City was elected to succeed "Hoppy" Hopkins.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 24, 2007.</ref> Then Morris switched to [[Independent]] registration. ==Corrections secretary, 1988-1992== After his legislative service, Lynn was the director of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections from 1988 to 1992, under appointment from then Governor Buddy Roemer, a Democrat-later-Republican. In his capacity as corrections secretary, Lynn was sued by an inmate who claimed invasion of privacy during a body search carried out on all convicts at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish. Under orders from Lynn, David Keith Elliott submitted to a visual body cavity search. The searches were conducted in the general presence of other inmates, guards, and three bystanders. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana granted Lynn's motion for summary judgment and dismissed Elliott's suit. Elliott then filed suit before the [[New Orleans]]-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case ''Elliott v. Lynn.'' Elliott claimed that the search violated his [[Fourth Amendment|Fourth]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment]] rights under the [[United States Constitution]]. The three-judge appeals court panel held that, while the Constitution protects against "unreasonable search and seizure," Elliott was not deprived of a "state created liberty interest without due process of law." Elliott had also claimed that Lynn was not entitled to the protection provided by qualified immunity.The court found that during the period "preceding June 9, 1989, an extraordinary number of [[murder]]s, [[suicide]]s, stabbings, and cuttings occurred within the Louisiana State Penitentiary. These circumstances created an emergency situation, and the defendant Lynn ordered an institution-wide shakedown … All 3,164 prisoners, including Elliott, were subjected to a visual body cavity search over a period of two and one-half days. To facilitate this massive search effort, Lynn brought in additional correctional officers." The court hence found in Lynn's favor. ==Death and legacy== Upon Lynn's death in 2016 at the age of ninety-one, memorial services were held at the First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport.<ref name=lynnobit/> Jack Dillard, the long-term farm correspondent for KWKH radio and ''The Shreveport Times'' recalled the former legislator, accordingly:<blockquote> With the passing of Bruce Lynn of Belcher on September 28, farmer, family man, politician and a tremendous voice for agriculture, we will always have a void to fill as Bruce represented our part of Louisiana and agriculture in his positive and honest way. When I came to KWKH Radio and ''The Shreveport Times'' in the fall of 1959, KWKH’s Jack Timmons took me to meet Mr. Lynn and advised [that I] get to know him and follow his leadership. That I have done. He led in many ways with many phases of life and was always a person available to counsel with. In recent years as both of us backed away from present tasks, I had not shared time with him. When it was appropriate he always had a positive word that benefited. As president of the National Cotton Council of America, when cotton was king, he was at his best. We extend our sympathies to the family and as he has now moved to a "much higher" area of service. Bruce Lynn will be a leader.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2016/10/09/jack-dillard-passing-lynn-leaves-void-louisiana-agriculture/91727534/|title=Passing of Lynn leaves void in Louisiana agriculture|author=Jack Dillard|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 9, 2016|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref></blockquote> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lynn, Bruce}} [[Category:Louisiana People]] [[Category:Business People]] [[Category:Farmers]] [[Category:Politicians]] [[Category:Presbyterians]] [[Category:World War II]] [[Category:United States Marine Corps]]
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Debate:Is Scientology a false religion?
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Scientology has recently become a hot spot of debate at this site, its one of the more popular articles and has been getting a lot of attention on the talk page and subject to revert wars. So I was curious what the community actually thinks. Is scientology a false religion? Is it a threat to Christianity?
2 Yes, but..
3 Definite YES.
4 I generally define a cult as
5 But Xenu is comming to Kill Us All!!
Not false as its own religion. False as a Christian religion. It's not a threat to Christians. Christians already have their Bible of Old and New Testaments. Maybe this is why some consider themselves Christians and yet aren't following anything taught by Christ's original Disciples. But I wouldn't count that as a threat.--Roopilots6 18:08, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Apart from a litigious attitude toward public criticism of Scientology, I'm not personally aware of Scientologists as having done anything terrible. Dpbsmith 18:58, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
Really? Operation Snow White? Lisa McPherson? There are many others. Scientology kills. Tmtoulouse 19:21, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
Huh? I've never heard of these ... could you explain what these are? Jrssr5 14:42, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Operation Freakout: Paullet Cooper wrote a critical book on Scientology, the church attempts to plant false evidence to get her convicted of federal crimes. Operation Snowhite: Scientologist infiltrate the IRS to destroy documents about the church and find information on critics, Hubbards wife and 17 others are convicted and sent to jail. Hubbard himself has been convicted of fraud at a Federal level. The Lisa McPherson story is complicated and told elsewhere if you google it, essentially the church was at the VERY least complicit in her death, if not the out and out cause of it. There are MANY more examples. Tmtoulouse 14:49, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Check out their fair game policy. Tmtoulouse 14:51, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
It's no more preposterous than any other religion. [stubbstarbuck]] 18:59, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
Whaddya mean, religion? Try, "is Scientology a thriving cult of greed and power that gives all religious movements a bad name, and I'll say yes. The premises of the question are false. User:Cthx
Scientology is no more of a threat to Christianity than Christianity is to Scientology. I'm sure the Scientologists view Christians as blasphemous and ridiculously ignorant, just as you do them. You can't just assume that you're right and everyone else is wrong. [User:Tegan]
No religion is false. It is not possible to prove the existance of a higher power, nor is it possible to disprove. Just because a religion is not of Christian beliefs doesn't mean its false. If this were the case, that would make Judaism a false religion, because it doesn't believe Jesus was the son of God. I believe in God, and am a Christian. I say that to avoid being called an aethist, which I am not. Anyway, people are aloud to believe what they want (if it is within the legal boundaries of the nations law, i.e. human sacrifice religions are illegal) even if it is really crazy in others opinions. And how are they a threat to Christianity? Could someone explain that? --Unforgiven 19:58, 17 February 2008 (EST)
"No religion is false. It is not possible to prove the existance of a higher power." -- But Scientologists don't belive in any higher power. There is no god or supernatural entity. There is no figure of moral authority or any entity responsible for creation. Xenu, the most prominent figure of evil, is a physically-existing non-supernatural being, an alien emperor. Thetans are not supernatural either, as Scientologists themselves claim their e-meters physically detect them. So "it can't be proven" doesn't apply here. MrGrieves 15:12, 28 April 2008 (EDT)
Yes, but..
I certainly believe their beliefs to be false, but what is important is that others see the facts and decide for themselves. As the Scientologists say, we should chose to believe or not. Why do they feel a need to obscure their beliefs with law suits?--JoyousOne 19:05, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
Yes, but all religions are false in that they attempt to have you believe in something that does not exist. Scientology does have a sinister element that other religions lack. Other faiths have their elements (TV preachers for example) that seek to bilk the faithful out of their money. Scientology does this, and they do target their enemies--1048247 14:58, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
The misdeeds of a few should not condemn the faith of the many. In Scientology, it seems the whole idea is corrupt, unlike Christianity.--JoyousOne 15:15, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Christianity teaches that all animals that weren't in a big boat died when it rained a lot. People take this literally. Can you really say this indicates a lack of corruption? --JeffersonDarcy 15:17, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
The fact that some Christians take the story of the flood literally does not indicate that they are corrupt. It does indicate an appaling lack of intellect.--1048247 15:23, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Just because you can't see doesn't mean there is no God. Atheists are fools with their own holiday, fools day. Do you believe that we live in a world that has wind? Where is it, I can't see it, must not be there, it is false. Nothing brings itself from non-being into being. --jp 18:00, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
Yes, scientology is a false religion because it was just a religion created by a sci-fi writer to make money. I think that scientology is harmful to Christianity because it can confuse would be Christians into believing the teachings of scientology. AdrianP 00:55, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
How can one religion ever be a threat to another religion short of physically forcing conversion? If the teachings of your religion are sound, and they bring hope and peace to the followers another religion won't tempt them. Its like a man thinking that every other man out there constitutes a threat to his marriage because he might lure his wife away. If the marriage is strong, she won't leave. -gasmonkey
Yes, no buts.. Scientology is a bunch of rubbish unless you believe in outerspace aliens, that live in our bodies and control our minds. The tyranny of the galactic God Xenu and his evil body thetans.--jp 17:41, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
How is that no buts? You just said that if you believe in that stuff then it's not rubbish. Just because you find it silly, doesn't mean that your neighbor does too. Jrssr5 10:48, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
Yes, Scientology is a false religion, no buts about it. Unless of course, your neighbor believes in it, then it is an actual religion, praise Xenu. Just playing with words, do you not find it cute?--jp 15:39, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
Any religion appears weird if you weren't raised with it. - MiddleMan
Uh... then how do you explain conversions (Muslim to Christian, for example)? - User:JCasto
Or the other way round for that matter, I think that more Christians convert to Muslims than vice versa. No data, just the impression from certain high profile conversions like Muhammed Ali or Yusuf Islam. The problem is that religion is not based on logic but on emotion. If someone is brought up in a certain faith and they are not getting what they need from it then they will look for something else. Sometimes it is a wholesale conversion, othertimes it is supplementing with other beliefs; such as Nancy Reagan with astrology. Being a psychological thing it is very difficult to explain any of it. How does one explain the Mormon church or Islam? They only exist through the word an individual (no offence intended). Sufficiently charismatic people can persuade others to do things, or believe things that they might not otherwise do. Some of it can be explained but charlatans prefer that it is not so they can dupe the gullible. Anyone want to buy a bridge in London? Ian St John 19:26, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
That's different, Islam and Christianity have the same roots and share a number of basic beliefs, furthermore their followers are aware of each other's existence from a very young age, while many people only hear about scientology in their teens.
There is a verified quote by Hubbard who said "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."
As the story goes, Heinlein and Hubbard were sitting in a bar one night with a bunch of other SF authors. The bet theory goes that RAH and LRH made a bet as to who could start a religion. According to this theory Stranger in a Strange Land was Heinlein's entry to the bet, and Dianetics was Hubbard's. One of those authors was Harlan Ellison - a transcript of his interview in the '70s adds some background to the bet theory Harlan Ellison website (warning, contains foul language). This may well be urban legend, but I'm inclined to believe it to have more truth than fiction.
That said, the idea behind Scientology is one that closely mirrors Gnostic beliefs - Hubbard drew from history for his material. An interesting book to read on the subject is The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew[1] which goes into some of the gnostic beliefs of some sects of early Christianity. The parallels between Scientology and early gnostic Christianity are very strong.
Within Scientology, you have the full range of people who practice - as you do in any religion. You have those who are trying to find meaning in their life. You have those trying to make money. You have those who are trying to convert/save others.
While the origins of Scientology are debateably monetarily inclined, there are people for whom it gives a direction in life. To that extent, Scientology is an institutionalized system of attitudes, beliefs, and practices and it is an honest religion for some people. I don't believe it was conceived as such originally. --Mtur 19:31, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
What ever you say Mtur, I love your parallels connection, says much about you. Maybe you can start some Conservapedia entries then. You know what else is an honest religion? Waking up at the same time everyday. Taking a whiz and a shower. Getting dressed for the day ahead. I believe it will start this way. I adjust my attitude and put into practice. Scientology, A religion? Cult --jp 21:55, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
Let see... claims to be a religion. Demands money from its followers. Viciously attacks all who speak negatively of it, including some high-profile journalists. Absolutly rediculous core doctrine (Xenu the galactic ruler?). Shadey origins. Clearly for-profit. Secretive internal workings. Frequent accusations of illegal activities, some of which have resulted in convictions. Sounds like a cult to me. And a quite dangerous one, by some accounts - remember, Scientologists are required to reject the use of conventional medications. There was even one case where an epileptic joined the church and was told he didn't really need his anti-seisure medication. He died not long after, as a direct result of his refusal to take said medication. - BornAgainBrit
BornAgainBrit all your accusations against scientologist also are mirrored in christianity especially in the south. Clearly for profit-pick a TV preacher Secretive Internal workings-come on do i really even have to address this matter? Frequent accusations of illegal activities- priests. Many christian sects are required to reject modern medicine. If scientology is a cult that so is every religion on the face of the earth.
When a religous profite is a fiction writer that never intended to create a religion, thats a sign of a fake religion.
Yes, clearly scientology is a false religion. #1 it is not a religion, it is more of a cult. What god do scientologists believe in? To my knowledge they do not believe in a god but more in a supernatural power, but not specifically a "god". Without a god it cannot be a religon.
Isn't god nothing more than a supernatural power beyond our full understanding? You don't need the traditional view of God for it to be a religion, just a shared set of spiritual and moral values. Anything negative that can be said about the basic belief structure of Scientology can really be applied to almost any religion today.
Ok, so Scientologies a cult based on these things apparently: They demand money from followers, they viciously attack people who speak negagtivley about their religion, are not allowed to take conventional meds, and are accused of illegal activties with accasionall convictions. How many evangelical pastors Italic textdon't demand money from people, and just from looking at this website its obvious that Christians attack anyone who is critical of theyre religion. And how many times have I heard about "the healing power of faith" on tv. And lets not forget the boy touching priests. Here's the definition of a cult: A minority group of people who share a set of beliefs.--Unforgiven 20:14, 17 February 2008 (EST)
Definite YES.
Basically, all their babbling about Xenu and similar, utter nonsense makes my head hurt. The founder had a great idea about how to make money: he realized this idea, made a huge load of money, and died a rich man. Is there a lot more to say? Oh, yes, he DID leave a huge mess of a cult behind to trouble our already-more-than-troubled world some more. Gee, thanks. So, I´ll just say YES, with no "But" attached.
It's not true creation because dinosaurs are myths, our earth is flat, and heaven is the clouds.--Edtropolis 16:21, 22 June 2007 (EDT)
Exactly. Our story is right because the Bible says it's right, and their story is wrong because they don't have the Bible. Why would you ever want to look deeper than that? Kristkrispies 12:17, 4 July 2007 (EDT)
Yes. It is just as false and liberal as such devious religions as Satanism, Atheism, Arabism, and pro-choicism. Is it simply a coincedence that "science" (which is known to be false, because it opposes The Bible) appears in the word "Scientology"? All Scientologists must be converted to Christianity NOW. --Cranky Joe 14:36, 23 July 2007 (EDT)
Seriously, man we could use some more bigotry to get the point across. The Bible could never be wrong, especially with all of our non-malevolent, non-manipulative human translators and monarchs who have had the good book warped into an evil artifact from a corrupt regime. I dare say Bush might be releasing a similar copy under the title, "Bush Universal Translation: With new words 'n evrytheeng!".Walkebb
It is all summed up in this one quote. "The best way to make money is to create your own religion" - L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. Look, there is a difference between a religion (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, etc.), and a MONEYMAKING SCAM. PSMax8956 13:20, 3 August 2007 (EDT)
I agree totally with the above. It is a cult and not a true religion. They are basically taking people away from the Gospel.
I generally define a cult as
1. They lie about their religious beliefs because they directors themselves know how nutty their beliefs are and that they will dissuade prospective converts. Hence, cults like Scientology lie about their beliefs. Only after a convert joins are they inducted into the real cult.
2. Salvation at a price. If I didn’t put money in that plate on Sunday the priest would still serve me communion. Yet cults like Scientology charge a heavy price for their “therapy” treatments.
Religions proudly profess their message over the hilltops and want to help people because virtue is its own reward not money.
Scientology is generally considered a cult simply because there are so few members. However by my standards a few “mainstream” religions are cults.
Can any religion or cult really be debunked?
To the believer no. To a Scientologist it all makes perfect sense. There would be no evidence proving or disproving their religious/cult beliefs.
To the non-believer yes. Scientology knows just how nutty it is and so it lies about its beliefs. The best course of action is to let the public know what Scientology is really about and let them decide.
But Xenu is comming to Kill Us All!!
Beware All! Xenu, in his DC-10 spaceships shall come to end all Human Life, by taking us up in his spaceship, and dumping us in volcanoes. BEWARE!! --User:Capercorn Talk contribs 09:36, 11 November 2007 (EST)
It is only as false as Christianity. --MrSmiley 15:01, 13 April 2008 (EDT)
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In the workplace, still a man’s world
By LISA MAATZ | GUEST COLUMNIST
Jun 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM Jun 16, 2013 at 2:00 AM
June 10 marked the 50th anniversary of the federal legislation that required employers to give women and men equal pay for equal work. News flash: It�s not working. This golden anniversary is more call for action than cause for celebration because women are still waiting for the Equal Pay Act�s promise to come true.
But don�t think we�re waiting patiently � or silently. And don�t think you are immune from this pernicious problem. The gender pay gap exists for women in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
It exists regardless of whether states have pay equity laws in place that supplement the Equal Pay Act, although several states do not have any specific pay equity law whatsoever. Unbelievably, Wisconsin actually just repealed its equal pay law.
And the pay gap exists in states where governors are doing excellent work on equal pay: Gov. Peter Shumlin in Vermont recently signed stronger equal pay legislation into law, and Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii and Gov. Mark Dayton of Minnesota issued Equal Pay Day proclamations this year.
But until the pay gap goes the way of the dodo bird, every state has more to do. That means your governor owes women and families an Equal Pay Act anniversary �present.� And the American Association of University Women has the perfect idea for a gift.
President Barack Obama recently ordered federal agencies to develop plans to address pay discrepancies among employees in the federal workforce, including evaluating policies for setting starting salaries and looking at how to promote greater transparency in starting salaries. Your governor could � and should � order state agencies to evaluate and take action on their pay practices as well.
Your governor should do this because equal pay is everyone�s business. Families and communities are economically stronger when there is fair pay. Every day women nationwide work just as hard only to receive less.
On average, women make 77 cents to a man�s dollar, and that number is much worse for moms and women of color. The gender pay gap starts right after college and compounds over a woman�s career.
Even after accounting for all the factors that affect earnings, AAUW found that women just one year out of college are still paid almost 7 percent less than their male counterparts are paid. That�s nearly a year�s worth of groceries and 1,400 tall Starbucks coffees. Plus, women vote � and we deserve serious action on the issues we care about.
Statistics tell us that every action available needs to be taken, and the Obama administration has provided a step that governors can take immediately. I�ll leave it up to you as to how you ask your governor for your �present� � Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, letter. But no matter how you decide to do it, I�ll guarantee you one thing. Unlike the Equal Pay Act, the technology you�ll use � even if it�s just a pen and paper � was updated in the last 50 years.
Technology has changed. The workforce has changed. But the federal legislation designed to ensure women are paid equally to men hasn�t changed � and it isn�t working.
Someday, women will celebrate the Equal Pay Act anniversary. But we�ll do so when we get what we were promised: equal pay for equal work.
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Giants in the Nursery: A Biographical History of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (drop-ship)
by David Elkind, PhD
Examine the evolution of developmentally appropriate practice with this biographical history of early childhood education. This book explores the theory's progression—from its beginnings in writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophers, its experimental implementation by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practitioners, and its scientific grounding in contemporary theory and research—and includes biographical sketches and perspectives of eleven philosophical, pedagogical, and theoretical figures—the giants—in this evolution.
Chapter 1: A Prehistory of Early Childhood Education
Chapter 2: John Amos Comenius
Chapter 3: John Locke
Chapter 4: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter 5: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Chapter 6: Friedrich Froebel
Chapter 7: Rudolf Steiner
Chapter 8: Maria Montessori
Chapter 9: Sigmund Freud
Chapter 10: Jean Piaget
Chapter 11: Erik Erikson
Chapter 12: Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
Chapter 13: The Evolution of Developmentally Appropriate Practice
David Elkind is professor emeritus of child development at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He was formerly professor of psychology, psychiatry, and education at the University of Rochester. Professor Elkind obtained his doctorate at UCLA and then spent a year as David Rapaport's research assistant at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. From 1964-65 he was a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Piaget's Institut d' Epistemologie Genetique in Geneva. His research has been in the areas of perceptual, cognitive, and social development where he has attempted to build upon the research and theory of Jean Piaget.
Professor Elkind's bibliography now numbers over five hundred items and includes research, theoretical articles, book chapters, and twenty-two books. He has also appeared on the Today Show, CBS Morning News, 20/20, Dateline, Donahue, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He's been profiled in People and Boston magazines, was contributing editor for Parents magazine, and co-hosted the Lifetime Television series Kids These Days. He is past president for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a member of many professional organizations, a consultant to state education departments and government agencies, and lectures extensively across the United States, Canada, and abroad. He is also the scientific adviser to Marco Polo Learning, Inc., an education app company.
"It is fitting that David Elkind, himself a symbol of Developmentally Appropriate Practice, should write the history of DAP. Doing so deepens our appreciation for how this concept and approach has enriched the lives of young children and made early childhood education into the field it is today. Elkind's history focuses on the heroes or "giants" whose work and writings helped to develop the concept and make it eventually become the cornerstone of early childhood education. In doing so, he makes clear that each "giant" provides some complementary notion or emphasis, so that what we today refer to as developmentally appropriate practice is actually a combination of considerations for what it means to provide young children with the conditions they need in order to learn and develop." -- W. George Scarlett, Tufts University
"With politically driven, evidence-lite 'schoolifying' ideologies besieging Western childhoods and relentlessly eroding early childhood experience, progressive-holistic early childhood educators will be delighted that an outstanding Giant and elder of Developmental Psychology and child-centered learning - Professor David Elkind - has devoted his panoramic erudition and wisdom to distilling the essence of 'developmentally appropriate practice' bequeathed to us by eleven of history's Giants of early child development. An indispensable contribution that should be compulsory reading for all practitioners, students, campaigners and policy-makers across the Western world, this is the most important book on early development of my generation." -- Richard House, Founder of Early Childhood Action
"The eleven "giants" whose histories, experiences and ideas are well summarized here help us to appreciate how far we have come over the last dozen centuries in helping young children to grow, develop and learn in fruitful ways. Each of the leaders' work described here alert us to a wide range of benefits the nursery experience can offer. Giants in the Nursery offers us the opportunity to share others' ways of thinking and practicing and can stimulate us to continue to deepen our understanding of the complexities of human growth. Let's continue to share our experiences and insights as we address the enormous diversity within and among our countries as much as possible." --Lilian Katz, University of Illinois
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Adena senior Zach Fout helping Warriors take opponents to school during big season
The Adena Warriors are on their way to their first district title game since 2006 and senior Zach Fout has been a big reason for their success.
Adena senior Zach Fout helping Warriors take opponents to school during big season The Adena Warriors are on their way to their first district title game since 2006 and senior Zach Fout has been a big reason for their success. Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: https://www.chillicothegazette.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2019/03/06/adenas-zach-fout-leading-warriors-during-big-season-deep-tourney-run-ohio-high-school-boys-basketbal/3078567002/
David Wysong, Chillicothe Gazette | Chillicothe | The Chillicothe Gazette Published 2:50 p.m. ET March 6, 2019
Adena senior and basketball player Zach Fout has been the Warriors' leading scorer for the 2018-2019 basketball season. (Photo: Robert McGraw/Gazette)
FRANKFORT – The Adena Warriors came out of halftime in their Division III District Semifinal game with an eight-point lead over Ironton in what had so far been a defensive-heavy game as the teams combined for only 24 first-half points. Much more offense came in the second half, though, and Adena senior Zach Fout was a big reason why.
Fout scored Adena’s first 10 points in the second half as he ultimately finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds, leading the Warriors to a 43-36 district semifinal win.
“I just knew coming out of the locker room, I said, ‘I don’t want to lose. I want to keep going, I want to win a district title,’” Fout said. “I just knew that in order for us to win I wanted to play solid defense and do my job … score and come out with a win.”
Adena head coach Kyle Bradley said it was one of Fout’s best games of his careers as he had patience on the offensive end and had a big night on the boards.
“I thought he let the game come to him,” Bradley said. “I thought he hit the glass on the offensive end pretty well. So, that helped out. A big momentum play in the game for me is he got to the rim and missed an opportunity and then missed a second opportunity and then got a third one and finished and got fouled. So, I thought that kind of showed the kind of game he had. He was relentless on the glass.”
Fout’s play leads Adena to big season
Fout’s solid play was not just limited to Saturday’s district semi as he was one of the leading scorers in the SVC and the Warriors’ top scorer on the season with 15.3 points per game.
His play, along with the help of teammates like Logan Bennett, Jarrett Garrison, Preston Sykes, Caleb Foglesong and more, has led the Warriors to a successful year so far as they are 18-6 and have taken a lot of their opponents to school.
The Warriors are looking to start a new chapter in Adena history as they are aiming to defeat Chesapeake at Ohio University’s Convo on Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Athens Ohio. Saturday’s game will be the first time since 2006 the Warriors have competed in a district final and would be the first time since 1980 if they win. 2018-2019 Adena varsity team: Nate Throckmorton, Zach Fout, Jarrett Garrison, Ethan Kunkel, Dylan Gallaugher, Logan Bennett, Preston Sykes, Dylan McDonald, Caleb Foglesong, Brandon Smith, Clay Wilt, Jacob Shipley, and Cody Rawlings. Photo taken inside the Adena library. (Photo: Robert McGraw/Gazette)
“He’s going to do everything he can to help the team be successful as well as himself be successful,” Bradley said. “This year, he’s seen everything that a defense can throw at you … I thought his coming out party for us this year was the Washington Court House game, I know that was in a loss. He personally played one of his best games that night … I think he put the ball on the floor like four or five times, so I think he figured out how to play the game without the ball.”
Stellar play on the offensive end from Fout has not always led to wins for Adena, however, as he was a top-five scorer in the Scioto Valley Conference last season as a junior, but the Warriors were only 6-16 with the rest of their squad being filled with young players. This year, though, he has been a part of the maturation process for the Warriors as the rest of their pieces have grown up before everyone's eyes.
“Our sophomore class really matured over the summer,” Fout said. “They’re just very mature for sophomores and they stepped up and played a big role this year.”
Playing basketball since he can remember
Like this year’s sophomore class, Fout also went through the maturation process to become the player he is today and it all started when he was young.
“My dad got me into the game,” Fout said. “We’d go out every day and we’d pass, and we’d work more on just basic drills, shooting and ball-handling, and then as I got older I started playing school ball … and improved from there.”
Once he started playing high school ball, Fout saw a little bit of time on the court as a sophomore but really blossomed his junior year, offensively and defensively, averaging 15.5 points per game and 1.9 steals.
The Adena Warriors defeated the Ironton Fighting Tigers Saturday night in a Division III district semifinal game at Ohio University’s Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio, on March 2, 2019. The Warriors will go on to play in a district final on Saturday, March 9, 2019. (Photo: Robert McGraw/Gazette)
“My freshman year we were just really good,” Fout said. “I was sitting on varsity and I got to experience how the game was going and see what I need to improve on. Then sophomore year I got in a few times the second half of the season, kind of got used to how the game went.”
Now as Fout has progressed into a second team all-SVC recipient last season and a first team recipient this year, he gives a lot of credit to his parents, Chris and Laurie Fout.
“My dad, we would wake up … go out and shoot and he would just push me to the best I can, even when I’m tired,” Fout said. “We’d go watch older guys play and talk about, ‘This will be you when you grow up.’ … My mom was always there to push me, and she would always play Cow with me and she would say, ‘You have my athletic ability more than your father’s,' and she pushed me throughout my career.”
Looking to win first district title in nearly 40 years
If Adena, a one seed in the Southeast District, can win their Division III District Final game against seven-seeded Chesapeake, it will be their first district title since 1980.
“It would just feel great leaving Adena thinking, ‘Man, I was a part of this district title win,’ – it’d feel awesome, and then leave something good for the younger guys, be a foundation for them,” Fout said.
If the Warriors want to win the title, the senior leadership of Fout and his fellow senior Caleb Foglesong will be crucial.
“Most people think of a vocal guy, someone that’s going to yell and shout,” Bradley said. “There’s a couple different ways you can lead, and I think Caleb Foglesong is a vocal leader for us, especially on the defensive end he does a great job of communicating and making sure guys are in the rights spots, but then you have got to have guys that lead by example. Zach’s one of those guys in games that he’s going to do the right things for you, he’s going to execute the game plan and try to get the ball in the right spots.”
Adena takes on Chesapeake in the D-III district final at Ohio University’s Convocation Center at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
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Black churches struggle to survive in downtown: "In it for the long haul"
A fading sign at the corner of Cleveland’s East 79th Street and Golden Avenue announces the Last Stop Bonanza Inc. as “the stop that has your everyday needs”—even though the gate is locked and the space is filled with trash.
Farther down East 79th, Pastor David Cobb Jr. presides over a block party where smiling children ride ponies, Christian rappers perform and young men play basketball near older adults in conversation at shaded picnic tables.
Nov 18, 2008 issue
“This has the potential to be a safe haven for the community, for the city and for those who want to serve God,” says Cobb, the 35-year-old pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church. “God is going to do it. God is going to use us.”
So many in the inner city have given up: businesses, the middle class, many of the predominantly white churches that filled this once-thriving neighborhood. But black churches—Emmanuel and more than 30 other congregations within a ten-block radius—have stayed.
The question is, for how much longer?
Here in what has been described as the nation’s poorest big city, the black church is at a crossroads. Longtime congregations like Emmanuel are critical to struggling neighborhoods, providing safety, social services and an anchor for revitalization plans.
In a time of unprecedented black geographic mobility, the churches face the same social and economic forces—including people moving to the suburbs and the high cost of maintaining older buildings—that caused many predominantly white Protestant churches and Jewish synagogues to flee downtown decades ago.
Even the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, which maintained its urban presence long after dioceses elsewhere closed large numbers of churches, is looking at ways to close or merge more than 25 churches in the city.
Now the black churches are facing their defining moment, trying to hold on to a centuries-old mission that expects men and women who have moved up the economic ladder not to abandon those left behind.
“There is a definite trend toward black churches moving to the suburbs,” says Lawrence Mamiya, chair of the religion department at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
That leaves congregations like Emmanuel, which has stood at the same street corner for 90 years, at the center of the struggle throughout the inner city. Without such churches, says City Council member Mamie Mitchell, the neighborhood “would be desolate. It would be without faith, without hope.”
Emmanuel was started by blacks in 1916 in what was then a mostly white neighborhood. When fire destroyed the wooden structure in 1939, the congregation rebuilt it. By the mid-1950s the sanctuary was so crowded that ushers had to set up chairs in the aisles.
But in the 1960s, those who could afford a move took off for safer neighborhoods. The Sunday crowd at Emmanuel dwindled from 600 to around 200. Like other area congregations, Emmanuel has become almost a suburban church in an urban setting.
Yet those who still attend Emmanuel, a faithful remnant of auto mechanics, teachers, salespeople, small business owners, factory workers and retirees, are committed to this corner.
So is Cobb. He looks out of his office to the empty lot across the way and envisions a family life center and a Christian school.
To start this revival, however, Cobb is aggressively trying to persuade members to reach out to the neighborhoods many of them fled years ago.
The pastor plans to station a church bus at a nearby public housing complex every Sunday morning to let residents know they are welcome at Emmanuel. He also is starting a group called GANG, or God’s Anointed New Generation, to show his commitment to teen ministry.
Bringing in new people is only the first step; the harder part is keeping them, Cobb acknowledges. “You almost have to think of this the same way as if you are going to another country,” said parishioner Rochelle Smith, who knocked on doors at the housing complex to invite residents to a church-run block party.
Black churches struggle to find money for expenses such as roof repairs and filling a hole in the parking lot. Those challenges would be enough for Emmanuel, yet a medical obstacle looms over Cobb and his church. On Saturday nights, a church deacon hooks up Cobb to a kidney dialysis machine in the pastor’s home and waits six hours as he undergoes treatment. On Sunday afternoon, the deacon’s brother, also an Emmanuel deacon, does the same.
Cobb learned he had a kidney disease six years ago. He has been on dialysis and awaiting a transplant since May 2007.
The illness has cemented the relationship between Cobb and Emmanuel. Several members say Cobb’s honesty about his disease and sincerity about his faith won them over right away. Still, church members have doubts: Is the pastor asking too much of himself and them? Even Cobb admits to his own dark nights of the soul. “A lot of times I ask God for strength,” he said.
It is then, the pastor says, that he hears the Holy Spirit responding that Emmanuel Baptist is where he is meant to be. Sometimes, he says, the confirmation can be as simple as a phone call or a letter from a church member thanking him.
“God, I guess, knows how much I can bear. He knows it is rough for me,” Cobb says. “He also knows I’m not going to quit and run from the challenge. Because I’m in it for the long haul.” –David Briggs, Religion News Service
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Winning an empty game
by Peter W. Marty
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Vince Lombardi remains etched in the American psyche for one comment: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” He later regretted the way his remark seemed to spin out of control, much like a viral tweet in today’s virtual world. “I wish I’d never said the damned thing,” he said shortly before his death. “I meant the effort . . . I meant having a goal . . . I sure as hell didn’t mean to crush human values.”
Even if Lombardi had never made that comment, the idea that winning is the only worthy outcome of effort would still run deep in the human soul. We adore success. Accomplishments determine much of our sense of worth. “Climbing ladders” is a phrase we assign to other people—never ourselves, thank God!—who don’t like to admit that ambition has gotten the best of them.
In an old New Yorker magazine cartoon, a wealthy husband and wife with self-satisfied grins sit down to dine, and the waiter introduces them to the menu. “For your convenience, the items starred are dishes associated with success, riches, power, and the like.”
Peter W. Marty
@PeterMarty
Peter W. Marty is publisher of the Century and senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa.
Aug 03, 2016 issue
It would be one thing if only unbelievers were enthralled with success. But as Mark Yaconelli points out in this issue, Christians frequently fuel their lives with the pursuit of worldly success. “Some voice inside of us tells us that faithful people are successful.” In other words, keep a pious spirit central and God will grant you a successful life.
But failure and disappointment are at the heart of Christianity, just as they are basic to Christian experience. Reinhold Niebuhr condemned those who tried to make a success story out of the cross. The tree on which a man of love was despised, abandoned, and left to die is anything but a success story. The influence of that cross on the apostle Paul’s life caused him to speak of “finishing the race,” rather than winning the race. In the church, we sing: “Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o’er the grave.” No one has yet been bold enough to suggest a rewrite: “Crown him the big success . . .”
In Susan Howatch’s novel Ultimate Prizes, the sister of Archdeacon Neville Aysgarth scolds him for his empty chase of worldly success. “You and your prizes! The only prize worth winning is love—and just you remember that when you’re a lonely old man trying to comfort yourself with your bank balance and your fading memories!” Aysgarth later reflects on the sadness of sitting alone in his grand house. “I look around at all the mementos of my past, all my prizes, and I think: What a success I was! . . . But after a while I begin to hear that silence, that long, long silence . . . and I know with a terrible certainty that the only prize worth chasing is the prize I’ve managed to lose.”
Chasing worldly success is an empty game. It leaves the best of us devoid of the one prize worth knowing. But in contemplating that long silence created by our empty pursuits, we become more available to living the life of love God intends. What else is the Christian life but practicing how to live that life of love, or what Yaconelli calls “God’s hidden, humble work”?
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Our Complaints Mechanism
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“To be accountable, we need the people we serve to tell us what works and what doesn’t” – Coffee with Mai Muhsen, Accountability Coordinator, NRC Jordan
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Jordan seeks to regularly engage with affected communities and ensure all feedback and complaints are received, addressed, followed up, and utilised to enhance the office’s understanding of the consequences of its programming. In order to increase impact, NRC launched in 2016 a centralised, transparent and widely communicated complaints, response and feedback mechanism (CRFM). This mechanism is operational across all NRC core competencies and in all locations where NRC works in Jordan. We had a virtual coffee with Mai Muhsen, Accountability Coordinator with NRC Jordan, to find out more.
What is the Complaints, Response and Feedback Mechanism?
CRFM is a channel for the people we serve to complain, give feedback (positive or negative), and provide suggestions. This mechanism provides a safe, accessible, and confidential channel for them to communicate their feedback or complaints. It’s important to have an independent system where the people we serve can complain and report any grievance related to NRC’s services or staff. This helps NRC identify gaps in service delivery and address them in order to best serve our beneficiaries. This way, we ensure that we remain accountable to them.
How can people contact NRC?
In 2015, and as part of the preparation for the launch of this mechanism, NRC consulted beneficiaries on the modalities they believe are safe and accessible for them to use. They chose four modalities and NRC invested in ensuring that all four are operational. We provided complaints and suggestions boxes that are placed in all of NRC’s locations in camps and urban settings. Another modality is face-to-face communication; we have a focal point in each distribution centre or drop-in centre where NRC runs its operations. A third is the CRFM email, and the fourth is the complaints and feedback phone line.
How does this mechanism work?
It depends on the case. If it’s a complaint – and this includes NRC’s services and staff – we have specific procedures and timeframes, and each complaint is handled individually.
We follow a strict procedure from the moment we receive the complaint until it’s closed. We ensure there is a “complete feedback loop”. This means we send an acknowledgement message containing the complaint’s unique reference number, we then refer it to the relevant department with a set timeframe within which to provide an adequate response. They address the complaint and provide us with a response in order for us to close the complaint. The quality of each response is verified internally as well as with the complainant. This is very important to ensure quality responses that adequately address the complaints.
For example, for service complaints, the timeframe – i.e. the complete feedback loop – to close them is 14 working days, for other serious complaints such as a breach of code of conduct including sexual exploitation and abuse, the timeframe for the initial acknowledgement of a complaint and addressing it is much shorter, but, of course, these investigations can be very lengthy.
What about feedback and suggestions?
There’s positive and negative feedback, and the same applies to suggestions. Those also go through a complete feedback loop, but it does not follow the same one as for complaints. We ensure that, where applicable and possible, suggestions and feedback are taken into consideration in our programming. For example, NRC designated a smoking area and put in place a no-smoking policy in the distribution centre in Zaatari refugee camp, as some refugees asked that smoking be not allowed in the main waiting area. Another example, also from Zaatari refugee camp, is a suggestion from a refugee to send SMS messages to announce distributions. NRC implemented this one and the refugee called to thank us for implementing his suggestion. What we are preparing for in 2018 is to feed back our learning to the people we serve through creative methods.
How does NRC learn from this mechanism?
Each quarter, I prepare reports containing analysis of findings as well as recommendations for programmes based on the contacts. Programmes review the recommendations and respond to them by improving their processes, adopting suggestions etc.
Tell me a story of an important call you received from a beneficiary.
I believe that everything we receive is important because, in practice, we have learned something from each contact we have received over the past two years. Sometimes a simple complaint, such as a delayed stipend payment, sheds light on several gaps in implementation and leads to small but significant learning about our processes… We learnt through looking into complaints and feedback that our ways of working can always improve. We know, now more than ever, that to be able to learn and be accountable, we need the people we serve to pick up the phone and tell us what works and what doesn’t. Their feedback helps us identify how we can be better and motivates us to constantly aim for, and work towards relevant, high quality, and accountable service delivery.
In the near future Mai, together with Francesca Lubrano di Giunno, the shelter manager of Zaatari camp, will tell us more about the full CRFM cycle from their respective perspectives. In this blog you will also read more about the creative methods that they are planning to implement in order to inform affected people and communities about the impact of their feedback and complaints.
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New York Court Orders Telegram to Reveal Bank Records Related to Its ICO
On Monday, federal judge Kevin Kastel from New York ordered messaging app Telegram to produce bank records related to their ICO. The company has been given time till February 26 to fulfill the orders.
Interesting moves by the judge
Judge Kevin Kastel told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a few days ago that it will not be provided full access to the financial and banking details of the Telegram ICO. Telegram will now have to work quickly to produce the required documents by the due date because the court isn’t planning to extend the February 26 deadline.
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“The bank records may be produced under a Confidentiality Order. Only redactions necessitated by foreign privacy laws shall be permitted, and a log stating the basis for any redaction shall be produced at the time the redacted documents are produced.”
The ups and downs of the Telegram case
The SEC requested the Southern District New York Court to pass a motion that would force the messaging app to give a stockpile of documents related to the company’s ICO. Note that Telegram conducted a private ICO with a handful of investors for its Gram token and raised $1.7 billion. Several of the investors were US citizens.
The SEC said that the documents it requested were principal in the investigation of the ICO, but the judge significantly limited the scope of the documents. Telegram’s lawyers called the SEC’s required “unfounded fishing expedition” and wanted the request to be thwarted completely. Now, the messaging app’s lawyers argue that its bank records are fully compliant with foreign data privacy laws. The regulator suggests that the company doesn’t mention the names of countries whose laws may apply to their offering. It also does not talk about specific laws related to data privacy.
The back and forth between the two parties have been ongoing for a long time. The SEC suggests that it has evidence of post-ICO sales by the company, which trashes the arguments that it was exempt from registration. It added that Telegram sold Gram tokens after the ICO finished. It referenced two companies that invoiced Telegram for commissions related to Grams token sales, several months after the company concluded its ICO.
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Preview of the big races on Arc Trials Day at Chantilly
Published September 10, 2016 | Posted by Andrew Pelis
On Sunday, Chantilly hosts an important afternoon of racing as the Arc Trials Day switches from its traditional home of Longchamp.
The big race action gets underway with the Group 2 Prix Niel for three year old colts, over 1 ½ miles.
Midterm wins at Sandown Park
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Midterm heads the field and is a fascinating runner, having looked a nice Derby prospect until injury intervened. There was plenty of interest in Midterm before he ever saw a racecourse, on account of the fact his parents are the superstars Galileo and Midday. The Sir Michael Stoute colt made a winning debut at Newbury last October when showing good resolve to beat Magnum by a length in good to soft ground. Hewas talked of as a Derby horse thereafter and went some way to justifying the talk when he beat Algometer by 1 ½ lengths after a protracted fight up the Sandown Park straight in the Group 3 bet365 Classic Trial. However, the Group 2 Dante Stakes at York proved a disaster as he suffered injury, finishing 7 ¾ lengths fifth of 12 behind Wings Of Desire. He now makes his long-awaited return.
Darabad comes here in winning form but overall, does not look strong enough. The Alain De Royer-Dupre trained son of Dansili has won just once from six career starts, when beating Tamelly by a neck in a Listed race at Clairefontaine in late August. This is a huge step up in class.
After running down the field on his juvenile debut, Doha Dream shaped well next time out to finish 3 lengths second to the smart filly Qemah. This year, the Andre Fabre trained son of Shamardal has really blossomed, with four victories, but he now takes a big leap in class. He won at Fontainebleau and Saint-Cloud in the spring before finishing ½ a length second of 6 to Tres Rock Glory in a Listed contest in early May. In early July he landed a Listed race at Nantes by 4 lengths from Dandy D’Arcis and he added a second win at that level when defeating Kidmenever by 3 ½ lengths at Vichy in late July. This is much tougher.
Carzoff is another who looks completely exposed here. The Alain Couetil trained son of Zoffany won a minor contest in late April but has been well beaten since. Last time out he was 1 ¼ lengths fourth of 8 to Qatari Gold in a minor contest at Deauville in mid-August.
Makahiki aims to book his place in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe line-up and represents Japan. The Yasuo Tomomichi trained son of Deep Impact won the Grade 1 Japanese Derby by a nose from Satono Diamond in Tokyo in late May.
Next up comes the Group 1 Qatar Prix Vermeille over 1 ½ miles for fillies and mares.
The filly Candarliya proved hugely talented last year, winning four on the trot before finishing 6 lengths second of 9 to a very in-form Treve in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp last September. The 4 year old daughter of Dalakhani then won the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu by 1 ½ lengths from Lady Of Kyushu. She returned to action by running ¼ of a length second of 12 to Fly With Me in a Chantilly Group 3 in April, on her first attempt at 15 furlongs. A month later she was a little disappointing as she dropped in trip, finishing 3 lengths third of 11 to Speedy Boarding in the Group 2 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud. She returned to that track in mid-July to land the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil by 2 lengths from Launched. However, she was a big disappointment in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay at Deauville in late August, finishing 3 ½ lengths second of 8 to Nearly Caught. She now takes a sharp drop in trip.
Endless Time looked useful earlier in the year but disappointed at York last time out. The Charlie Appleby trained 4 year old daughter of Sea The Stars ran fifth on her juvenile debut in 2014, but later that month narrowly won a Kempton Park maiden. She made her 2015 debut a winning one when slamming Justice Belle by 8 lengths in a Salisbury handicap in mid-May and just over a week later she completed her hat-trick of victories when defeating Simple Verse by ¾ of a length in a Goodwood handicap, a performance that took on greater relevance as the season progressed. After a break she flopped badly when only 9th to Gretchen in the Listed Chalice Stakes at Newmarket, but two months later she recorded back to back victories, firstly on the Rowley Mile, landing a handicap in early October by 1 ¾ lengths from Twitch and following-up just over two weeks later with a 4 ½ lengths defeat of Almela in a Listed race at Naas. She was not seen out again until making a winning return in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock Park in early July, beating Furia Cruzada by ½ a length. She then had a few weeks off before returning in the Group 1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks in late August, but was a disappointing tailed off 9th of 12 behind Seventh Heaven.
Golden Valentine comes into this race with a very progressive profile and looks a danger to all. The Freddy Head trained daughter of Dalakhani won her only start at two, but was last of five on her return in a minor contest at Compiegne in late April. That was not her true form and she got back to winning ways with a win at Chantilly in late May, running well at that track in a Group 3 contest in June, when beaten by Spring Master by a short head. She landed a Listed race at Saint-Cloud in mid-July by a neck from Last Tangoinparis, before recording her biggest success to date as she won the Group 3 Prix Minerve at Deauville by 1 ½ lengths from The Juliet Rose in mid-August.
The Juliet Rose comes into this contest having run well this year and now taking on the colts. The Nicolas Clement trained daughter of Monsun was impressive in her only race at two, in heavy ground at Saint-Cloud, last November. She returned in the Group 3 Prix Penelope at the same track in April, finishing 1 ¾ lengths second of 9 to Camprock. The following month she landed a Listed race at Chantilly when beating Olala by a length. She returned there on French Derby Day in early June, landing the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont by 1 ½ lengths from Al Wathna. She was a bitter disappointment in the Group 1 Prix de Diane at Chantilly in mid-June, finishing 13th of 16 behind La Cressonniere in a very rough race. After a break she ran well in the Group 3 Prix Minerve at Deauville in mid-August when 1 ½ lengths second of 9 to Golden Valentine.
Highlands Queen was unraced at two, but after running a promising second on debut in March, has made a steep climb in progression. The daughter of Mount Nelson won both her subsequent starts, beating Mango Tango on each occasion, most recently when landing the Group 3 Prix Cleopatre by 5 lengths at Saint-Cloud in late May, before she was disqualified in the Group 1 Prix de Diane in a rough house race. She returned to action as good as ever in the Group 2 Prix de Pomone at Deauville in mid-August, beating Mango Tango again, this time by 2 ½ lengths.
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Left Hand landed a Longchamp maiden in early September and was far from disgraced when running 2 ½ lengths fourth of 8 to Ballydoyle in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at the same track, a month later. The Carlos Laffon-Parias trained daughter of Dubawi was disappointing on her return however, finishing 5 ¾ lengths 6th of 7 to Come Alive in a Maisons-Laffitte conditions race in April. She showed improvement the following month when coming home 2 lengths fourth of 9 to Jemayel in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary at Deauville. In June she ran an absolute screamer in the Group 1 Prix de Diane when finishing ½ a length second of 16 behind La Cressonniere at Chantilly. Towards the end of July she confirmed that form to be no flash in the pan as she won a Group 3 contest at Deauville by a neck from Lakalas.
The Group 1 action continues with the Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp over a mile.
Dutch Connection
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Dutch Connection proved a very classy individual last season has run well in his last two starts. The Charlie Hills trained 4 year old colt made his comeback in the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas last May and ran a reasonable, if unspectacular race when 7 ¾ lengths seventh to Gleneagles at a time when his stable was quieter than now. He then dropped down to 7 furlongs for the Group 3 Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot and came back to his best form to beat Fadhayyil by ½ a length. In July Dutch Connection was sent to Chantilly for the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat over a mile, putting up a fine performance to finish ½ a length second of 8 to Territories. Later that month he was second again, beaten ½ a length by Toormore in the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. He had just one more race, when contesting the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile in Keeneland in early October, finishing 3 ½ lengths fifth of 12 to Grand Arch. He made a fine return to action when a battling ¼ of a length second of 7 to old rival Toormore in the Group 2 bet365 Mile at Sandown Park in late April. The following month he took his chance in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury, but was a disappointing 21 lengths 9th of 12 to Belardo. In early July he ran much better in the Group 2 Summer Mile at Ascot, finishing 2 ¼ lengths second of 10 to Mutakayyef and at the end of that month he confirmed his improvement when beating Home Of The Brave by 1 ¾ lengths in the 7 furlong, Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. Less than a fortnight later he dropped in trip for the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville, finishing well to come home 2 lengths fifth of 15 to Signs Of Blessing.
Ribchester beats Vadamos (left) and Ervedya in the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville
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Vadamos began this year with a fine effort at Chantilly in March, when he finished 1 ½ lengths second to the mighty Solow. He then flopped badly in the Dubai World Cup towards the end of that month, finishing a tailed off 11th of 12 to California Chrome. Just over a month later, the Andre Fabre trained 5 year old was back to winning ways, beating Ervedya by 3 ½ lengths in the Group 2 Prix du Muguet at Saint-Cloud over a mile. Back up to 10 furlongs, he was a well beaten 12 ½ lengths fourth of 9 behind A Shin Hikari in heavy ground in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan at Chantilly in late May. Vadamos again came back to form over a mile when beating Mr Owen by 3 lengths in the Group 3 Prix Messidor at Maisons-Laffitte in mid-July. A month later he ran a cracker in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville, finishing ½ a length second of 11 behind Ribchester.
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Zarak has been in the public eye pretty much since he was born. The Alain De Royer-Dupre colt is a son of Dubawi, out of the outstanding Zarkava – and as such he has mighty shoes to fill on the racecourse. He is unbeaten in two starts to date, having won his only juvenile start by 1 ¼ lengths from Qatar Dream at Deauville last October. He made a winning return at Maisons-Laffite in April, doing it from the front, he held off the challenge of George Patton to win by a neck. Like the rest of the field, he had no answer to the turn of foot shown by The Gurkha in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas), finishing 6 ½ lengths fifth of 13 at Deauville in mid-May. The following month he ran well in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly, finishing 1 ½ lengths second of 16 to Almanzor. He again gave best to that rival in a Deauville Group 2 in mid-August, coming home a length second of 9. He now drops back down to a mile.
Zelzal lands the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat
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Zelzal comes into this race with only one blemish to his career and having looked a superstar last time out. The Jean-Claude Rouget trained son of Sea The Stars won a Deauville maiden in early March, beating Qassem by 6 lengths. A month later he was successful in a Chantilly conditions race, defeating King Malpic by 4 lengths. He then made his turf debut in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) at Deauville in mid-May, finishing a disappointing 12 lengths 11th of 13 to The Gurkha. The following month he restored some of his reputation when landing the Group 3 Prix Paul De Moussac at Chantilly by a clear cut 2 ½ lengths from Moon Trouble. In July he showed an excellent turn of foot as he landed the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly by 2 lengths from Stormy Antarctic.
The German trained filly Spectre has already made her mark this spring. The Markus Munch trained daughter of Siyouni was fourth on debut last year, before landing a minor contest at Strasbourg in September. Her juvenile campaign rounded off when she finished a length second of 6 to Magnolea in a conditions race at Saint-Cloud in October. However, she sprang a real surprise when landing the Group 3 Prix Imprudence on heavy ground at Maisons-Laffitte in early April, beating Midweek by ¾ of a length. She then headed to the Group 1 Poule d’Esai des Pouliches at Deauville in mid-May, coming home a respectable 2 lengths fifth of 14 to La Cressonniere. She then took on the colts in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly in early July, running 2 ¼ lengths third of 9 to Zelzal. The following month she put up another solid effort in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville, coming home 2 ¼ lengths fourth of 11 to Ribchester.
Having won all four of her starts as a juvenile, Trixia has had a light campaign in 2016 to date. The Alain De Royer-Dupre trained daughter of Siyouni lost her unbeaten record when 3 ¾ lengths fourth of 9 behind Qemah in a Chantilly Group 3 in April. That form has taken on a different look given the winner’s subsequent efforts. Trixia was not seen out again until winning the Group 3 Prix de Lieurey at Deauville in mid-August, beating Chartreuse by a nose.
The other big race on the card is the Group 2 Qatar Prix Foy for older horses, over 1 ½ miles.
Unraced at two, One Foot In Heaven did not even make the racecourse until October of last year, winning the second of two starts in 2015, when landing a minor contest at Deauville in December. The Alain de Royer-Dupre trained 4 year old son of Fastnet Rock has proved a sensational improver this spring and comes here having completed a hat-trick last time out. After winning a Listed race at Maisons-Laffitte in April, he beat Harlem by a length in a Saint-Cloud Group 3 in early May and a month later defeated Garlingari by ¾ of a length to add the Group 2 Grand Prix de-Chantilly. His tun of victories came to an end in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in early July, when he could only manage 2 ¼ lengths 6th of 11 to Silverwave and he has not raced since.
Elliptique comes into this contest on a career high, having won a German Group 1 contest on his latest start. The bulk of the 5 year old Andre Fabre trained horse’s form suggests he has something to find here, but he won a minor contest at Chantilly in early March by a length from the useful Manatee. After a break he ran in the Group 2 La Coupe at Chantilly in late June, finishing 2 lengths second of 7 to Air Pilot. After another break, he won the Group 1 Grosser Dalmayr Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen in Munich by ½ a length from Royal Solitaire.
Ito has been added to this field but does not come here in the same form as last year. The Jean-Pierre Carvalho trained 5 year old landed the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern last November and made a winning return when beating Sirius by ¾ of a length in a Group 2 at Cologne in early May. Later that month he was a little disappointing when 4 ¼ lengths third of 8 behind Iquitos in a Baden Baden Group 2. He was not seen out again until running poorly in the Group 1 Grosser Dalmayr Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen in Munich in late July, finishing 5 ¾ lengths 8th of 12 behind Elliptique.
After winning his first four career starts, including the Group 3 Prix La Force, Silverwave flopped in the Prix du Jockey Club last year and has not won since. The Pascal Bary trained 4 year old was 3 ¼ lengths 4th of 9 to Erupt in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris and later finished 2 ½ lengths second of 7 to New Bay in the Group 2 Prix Niel, before coming home 5 ¼ lengths 10th of 17 to Golden Horn in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. He was a disappointing 7th of 12 to Garlingari on his return, in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt at Chantilly in April. However, the following month he ran well when 1 ¼ lengths second of 10 to Dariyan in the Group 1 Prix Ganay. He was not entirely disgraced in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan at Chantilly in late May, finishing 12 lengths third of 9 to A Shin Hikari. He then came back to form in early July when landing the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud by 1 ¼ lengths from Erupt.
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Carine Roitfeld Parfums Bows at Le Bon Marché
The Parisian pop-up shop will include a number of exciting events—and the chance to meet Carine
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After fêting her first-ever fragrance collection via a sleek pop-up shop and star-studded launch party in New York City this past spring, Carine Roitfeld is taking her intoxicatingly aromatic seven lovers home.
From now until January 5, 2020, a special Carine Roitfeld Parfums store will be open at iconic Parisian department store Le Bon Marché.
The pop-up features a bevy of exciting and immersive events and contests—seven, in fact, as it's Carine's favorite number—designed to mirror the pivotal moments of a traditional love story. The fun kicks off with a launch event (dubbed "The First Meeting") on November 14, for which Carine will be in attendance to sign product. Other roll-outs include one-on-one meetings with Carine and Le Bon Marché VIP shoppers in early December and a conversation between Carine and perfumer Aurélien Guichard surrounding the scents.
For more information on the fragrance collection and the pop-up shop, visit www.carineroitfeldparis.com and @carineroitfeldparis on Instagram.
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Cricket World Cup 2019: Latest points table updated after England-Sri Lanka match
India occupy the fourth spot with 7 points from four games.
By CricketCountry Staff
| Updated : June 22, 2019 12:45 AM IST
Malinga pocketed four wickets and became only the second Sri Lankan to pick 50 World Cup wickets. @ AFP
Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews played key roles in Sri Lanka‘s stunning 20-run ICC World Cup 2019 win over England that revived the race for semi-final berths at Headingley on Friday.
England were all but out of the match after slumping to 186-9 as they chased 233 for victory.
Ben Stokes’ blistering 82 not out off 89 balls, including seven fours and fours sixes, got them to within sight of their target. But Stokes’ gamble on giving Durham team-mate Mark Wood a ball to face at the end of a Nuwan Pradeep over backfired when the No.11 was caught behind as Sri Lanka won with three overs to spare.
Victory would have seen hosts England, bidding to win the World Cup for the first time, go top of the 10-team table. But instead their second surprise loss of the round-robin group stage after a 14-run defeat by Pakistan, left them in third place, with Sri Lanka now just two points adrift of the pre-tournament favourites. (FULL POINTS TABLE)
The top four at the end of the first phase qualify for the semi-finals, with England’s next match against arch rivals Australia – the table-toppers and reigning champions – at Lord’s on Tuesday now even more important to their hopes of a last four place.
India occupy the fourth spot with 7 points from four games. Virat Kohli and Co. next face bottom dwellers Afghanistan in a bid to seal the semi-final spot.
Pakistan and South Africa occupy the penultimate and eighth position respectively.
Editorial team of CricketCountry.
First Published on June 22, 2019 12:45 AM IST
Last updated on June 22, 2019 12:45 AM IST
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Not under pressure with Pandya comparison, says Vijay Shankar
by Athar Ansari Feb 28, 2018 • 15:17 PM
Kolkata, Feb 28 (CRICKETNMORE) - Tamil Nadu all-rounder Vijay Shankar, in the 15-member India squad for the upcoming Twenty20 cricket tri-series to be held in Sri Lanka, says he is under no pressure to fill in the shoes of Hardik Pandya who has been rested for the tour.
Shankar says he knows he has been picked as a second option to Pandya with skipper Virat Kohli stating that the team management wants to groom the 27-year-old as back-up for the wiry Baroda cricketer.
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But the middle-order batsman, who can also bowl medium-pace, is not willing to attach much importance to that.
"I don't give much importance to that (laughs). Pressure is something that is going to be there all the time when you step on to the ground. You have to be calm and play the same way you play everywhere," Shankar told IANS.
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One nation, one dream: New Zealand holds its breath as All Blacks bid to end their 24 years of hurt
By Patrick Collins Updated: 13:22 EST, 11 January 2012
The scene is the check-in counter at Auckland Airport a few days ago. It is early morning, and a queue is forming for the flight to Sydney.
In the queue are several gold-shirted Australia supporters, licking their wounds after losing the semi-final to New Zealand.
The man on the public address system is breezily brutal.
'Hope you enjoyed your stay with us, laydeez 'n' gennelmen,' he babbles. 'And I hope you'll all come back on Sunday, to see the All Blacks win the World Cup. Heh, heh, heh!'
Nearly there: The All Blacks perform the haka before their semi-final against Australia
Near the front of the line, a lady of mature years snorts her disapproval. Moments later, she wags her finger in the face of the announcer.
'That's not clever,' she scolds. 'We haven't won anything yet. We're only in the final. The French can be very good and that cocky attitude doesn't help.'
The man apologises. He takes her point. Mustn't count chickens. Mustn't do anything that could make the unthinkable come to pass. It's just too important.
Captain marvel: Richie McCaw will have a chance to lift the Webb Ellis trophy
A host of similar scenes have been played out this past week, as New Zealand crosses its fingers, holds its breath and mutters its prayers.
Twenty four years have passed since the peak was last conquered; 24 years since the men in black commanded the heights of a game which absorbs and entrances and practically defines the nation. And at Eden Park, Auckland, that glittering prize is there for the taking.
It is impossible adequately to convey the desperate longing which grips this land of scarcely four and a half million souls.
New Zealanders are among the most civilised people on Earth. They are overwhelmingly generous, charming and hospitable.
Good old days: Captain David Kirk celebrates New Zealand's 1987 victory
Yet they will endure 80 remorselessly stressful minutes until, they hope, Richie McCaw enfolds the Webb Ellis Cup in the twin buckets of his hands.
The closest sporting comparison is with Argentina in 1978, when a gifted football team briefly diverted the country's attention from the vile excesses of a cabal of Ruritanian generals.
New Zealand has no such problems, being governed by a vaguely uninspiring centre-right party who hope that success at Eden Park today will help deliver them General Election victory next month. But the desire to finish on top of the world has little to do with politics and everything to do with the game they adore.
Many countries are said to treat sport as if it were religion but at Sunday Mass in St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral in Auckland, a kindly priest encourages his congregation to ask the Almighty for a successful conclusion to the tournament, while outside St Andrew's First Presbyterian Church at the top of Constitution Hill, a poster blares: 'Pray like it's 1987.'
No precaution, spiritual or temporal, is overlooked.
This helps explain why England's performances, inside and outside the arena, were so odiously offensive. The drunken oafishness of Mike Tindall, the depressing idiocy of Manu Tuilagi, the witless attempts of Ben Youngs, Mark Cueto and others to blame the wicked media for exposing the unacceptable, they all represented a protracted insult to their hosts and to the game which those hosts love so dearly. Their departure was long overdue and welcomed warmly.
Hard lines: Wales players look on as France celebrate their semi-final victory
Wales were quite different. Indeed, they would have offered the ideal opposition in the final, as the only nation which properly comprehends the passions which govern New Zealand rugby.
For the Welsh game was hewn from the pit and sanctified in the chapel, it was a game which celebrated its heroes in song and in story.
New Zealand v Wales would have been just perfect but young Sam Warburton's indiscreet tackle on a French wing was severely yet properly punished, plausible kicks were casually squandered and an undeserving France team were allowed unworthy progression.
Tough at the top: Sam Warburton of Wales tackles France's Vincent Clerc
Their presence in Eden Park is truly a mystery. Somehow, they have wheedled themselves into this final with a team wholly at odds with their rugby traditions.
Think of a France side and you think of the cavaliers; Blanco, Sella, Rives and the entire, glittering ensemble. This lot are, frankly, stodgy.
They are the mirror-image of their dreary coach. Marc Lievremont was once a prince of a player but he presides over a cautious, dysfunctional, frequently unwatchable team.
They have played like the France teams of old for just half a match in this tournament, and that against England.
In the course of that extended spasm, they showed us their capabilities. But then they scuttled back into their shell, as if embarrassed by their creative excesses.
Of course, they possess outstanding players; the captain and scavenging flanker Thierry Dusautoir, the assertive scrum-half Dimitri Yachvili, the imposing centre Aurelien Rougerie. But they are hampered by the suffocating negativity, the cheeseparing mind-set, the philosophy which prizes a stolen result above an extravagant performance.
It is an attitude which mocks the historic glories of the French game. By contrast, New Zealand have improved, match upon match.
All smiles: France captain Thierry Dusautoir and coach Marc Lievremont face the press
Wretchedly denied the services of their incomparable playmaker, Dan Carter, through injury, they have steadied, adjusted and moved on to a level which no other side can think of matching.
The scrum is solid, the line-out efficient, the back row composed of muscular marauders. Aaron Cruden has made an impressive effort to fill the void left by Carter, Conrad Smith organises the midfield effort with stealth and cunning, while the full-back, Israel Dagg, has been one of the towering figures of the entire competition.
McCaw himself is urgently aware of the historical implications of the occasion.
'This is the biggest game I've played in,' he says. 'If you're going to pick one game to play in, it would be a World Cup final. I won't be around forever but hopefully when I leave one day people will say that all the history has gone before, all the standards that have been set have been upheld if not raised'.
Settling in: Aaron Cruden (right) congratulates team mate Ma'a Nonu
He and his team have no reason to fear. Their strength is palpable, their fitness admirable and, with a total of 708 caps in the starting XV, their experience is awesome.
As they showed against Australia, they can play at a pace and with an intensity which only a staggeringly accomplished team could hope to combat. France are not such a team, nor do they possess the ambition to attain that level of excellence.
For the sake of the game and its future, it is important that their methods do not prevail. Fortunately, that prospect is decently remote.
The French are up against a serious team and all the signs insist that the All Blacks will give an anxious nation reason for celebration.
'We haven't won anything yet,' cried that apprehensive grandmother.
Not yet, but soon. Hopefully, very soon.
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Donald Trump arrives in Switzerland for Davos on same day his Senate impeachment trial begins - as teen climate activist Greta Thunberg shames world leaders saying 'basically nothing has been done' to combat global warming
'I did it! I'm on the show!': Matt Damon dresses as Tom Brady to get on Jimmy Kimmel Live as he continues running gag
By Justin Enriquez For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:53 EST, 7 February 2017 | Updated: 13:46 EST, 7 February 2017
He has been trying to get on the chat show for years.
And Matt Damon was finally successful after performing a quarterback sneak.
The 46-year-old actor channeled Tom Brady as he made a surprise appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night.
Quarterback sneak: Matt Damon channeled Tom Brady as he made a surprise appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night
GOAT: The 39-year-old the actor was mimicking led the New England Patriots to a miraculous victory at Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas on Sunday night
Matt was dressed up in complete New England Patriots uniform - including helmet and pads - just after their miraculous Super Bowl LI win for the gag.
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The 49-year-old host made the introduction by saying: 'This is very exciting we have a surprise guest with us. Probably the most beloved Patriot of all of them. We are very, very honoured that he is here tonight.
'He could have gone anywhere but I got a call late last night. He flew all the way out here from Houston.
Big get: The 49-year-old host prefaced the segment by saying that he 'got a call late last night' that the star quarterback wanted to make a surprise appearance
Is that you Touchdown Tom? The 46-year-old came out in complete uniform including helmet and pads
Incognito: During the entire interview The Martian star turns his face away from Kimmel to make sure he doesn't recognize him
'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the man who engineered the greatest comeback in football history. Five time Super Bowl Champion and last night's MVP: Number 12 Tom Brady everyone!''
During the entire interview The Martian star turns his face away from Kimmel to make sure he doesn't recognize him as he answers questions in the most general way possible.
The host begins to question why he is in fill regalia to which Damon replies: 'I just haven’t had time to change.
Oh no: Finally Kimmel becomes impatient and takes the protective headwear off
Big reveal: It was indeed the host's nemesis Damon
Winning: The Martian actor declared it a victory as he said: 'I did it! Yes. If I’m not on the show right now, where am I? I’m on the show'
'I kinda don’t want to ever take it off… It’s my lucky helmet.'
Finally Kimmel becomes impatient and takes the protective headwear off to reveal that it is indeed his nemesis.
Despite being found out Damon saw this as a victory as he finally was on the show as he declared: 'I did it! Yes. If I’m not on the show right now, where am I? I’m on the show.'
Moving on: He was then escorted off stage by show sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez and another security guard
Not without a fight: The A-lister was resistant to being pulled off-stage
He was then escorted off stage by show sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez and another security guard.
However it did not end there as NFL Network host Rich Eisen interviewed an elated Damon backstage as the star sprayed champagne everywhere in celebration.
Matt said: 'I've worked so hard for this and, you know, all the years of — I think it’s 14 years of being in the dressing room and thinking, "I'm gonna get out," and we never gave up.
Post-game: However it did not end there as NFL Network host Rich Eisen interviewed an elated Damon backstage
To the victor go the spoils: The actor began spraying champagne everywhere
Classic: Damon said: 'First of all, I want to thank God because he hates Jimmy so much that he just made all of this happen'
'First of all, I want to thank God because he hates Jimmy so much that he just made all of this happen.'
The running gag began in the third season of the programme as Kimmel ended each show by saying: 'Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time.'
Then in September 2006, Damon appeared on the show and had a much talked about staged blow-up and the two have been going back and forth since.
Long-winded joke: The running gag began in the third season of the programme as Kimmel ended each show by saying: 'Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time'
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Auction! The Music of Competitive Markets
Return to "Auction! The Music of Competitive Markets"
How do you get people to pay $1000 for a watermelon? With a good auctioneer. Danny Maas of Elgin, TX, inspired the bidders at the 2007 McDade Watermelon Festival as event organizer Melvin Dubie, of McDade, scanned the crowd.
Photo: Bill Bishop
I hate, HATE to shop. With one exception when there’s theatre seating, a guy scatting into a microphone and the smell of cow patties in the air.
An auction brings out the buyer in everyone, even a tightwad like me. That competitive streak turns hi ho silver, and the nervous energy that a good auctioneer can channel works like a fuse. Suddenly your hand’s in the air: you’re going home with a crocheted baby blanket or a hog.
The livestock auction is farming and ranching’s opera, though Pavarotti (may he rest in peace) never sang straight through from 11:30 in the morning till past 3 pm, like these cowboy divas do. Keith Bexley, presiding at last Thursday’s auction in Lockhart, Texas, took just a minute’s break for the buyers to crack a few Viagra jokes, and then he was back bubbling numbers. Four hours of non stop chanting. FOUR HOURS!! Near enough to reach Krishna consciousness.
If you’ve never been to an auction, you’re missing one of the great popular arts of rural America. But thanks to the Livestock Marketing Association, based in Kansas City, you can at least get an earful. The LMA holds a world championship competition for auctioneers each year, and they’ve posted soundclips of past winners all the way the back to 1963.
(Warning: If you are over caffeinated or prone to heart arrhythmia do NOT touch these links. The Daily Yonder takes no responsibility for accidents.)
If you do dare listen, you’ll hear a range of styles: Canadian tenors and spooky toned types from the Upper Midwest. (The fellows from South Dakota seem especially good at shuddering vocals: Vincent Price in a Stetson.) Ed Buckner of Mexico, Missouri, the earliest champ, takes a shoutin’ preacher approach, effective, no doubt, with Pentacostal buyers. In contrast, Trent Stewart, the 2006 winner from Redmond, Oregon, clicks and boings like a jew’s harp.
There are speed demons (the aptly named Jim Strain) and a few excellent gaspers: Mike Baxter of Ainsworth, Nebraska, borders on hyperventilation. Bid quick, boys, before this guy passes out!
Auctioneer Keith Bexley, top left, serves as ringmaster of the Lockhart Livestock Auction, each Thursday. With plenty of grass, cattle prices are high this summer.
Photo: Julie Ardery
We spoke with 2005 World Champion Ron Kreis about how he began chanting for a living. “My dad’s an auctioneer,�? says Kreis, of Adamsville, Ohio. “I’ve been around auctions all my life, holding stuff for dad at auction sales and chasing stuff around here.�? Kreis and his father both hold forth at the Muskingum Livestock Sale in Zanesville, 15 miles from home. The auction there “runs about 1200 head a week�? cattle, hogs and sheep— each Wednesday. Kreis says that an auctioneer can make "six figures," by selling not just livestock but real estate, antiques, and cars, too. He also teaches at Missouri Auction School (one of about twenty programs in the US).
Ron’s chant is distinctive. If he ever tires of auctioneering he’d make a terrific racetrack announcer. “Make sure you’re easy to understand, ” he advises. “Then throw some speed to it. Use whatever ever comes off your tongue for your filler words.�? He calls his style, “an eastern thing. You get your guys from Texas and Oklahoma; they’re a lot faster, more a machine gun type auctioneering. I still have my eastern sound. It’s not quite as twangy.�?
As gates clank and cattle groan, the bidding itself is silent, subtle. Who's actually participating? That can get tricky for the auctioneer, Kreis says, “especially if you’re at a farm and there are flies out or they’re swatting bees.�? Whatever the circumstances, his job is “to get every body excited,�? Kreis says. “That’s how you discover what things are worth.�?
Behind the auction's theatrics, though, there’s a much bigger drama unfolding in the livestock industry the move from competitive markets like the Muskingum and Lockhart sales to a system of “captive supplies.�? Unlike former times, now nearly half of the cattle sold in the U.S. sells directly, under contracts with the packing companies, bypassing the auction barn altogether. So what? you may ask.
Well, according to one source, “captive supplies for cattle alone cost family farmers and ranchers more than $1 billion in 2003.�? It’s a matter of prices, and more fundamentally it’s a matter of control. While American consumers weren’t looking, a handful of huge companies have come to dominate the nation’s food supply. The beef industry especially has become a near monopoly.
“Things have changed an awful lot from the days in the past when the cattle of all categories were sold under an auctioneers gavel,�? says Fred Stokes of Porterville, Mississippi. “Now the sale barn deals primarily in calves and feeder cattle,�? he says, but fat cattle (livestock ready for “harvesting�?) increasingly sell directly to big meat producers like Tyson (IBP). Stokes was raised on a family farm and, after retiring from the military, got into farming himself, "with the intention of getting rich. I didn’t quite surmise that the game was rigged. And I’ve been on a tear to unrig it." To that end, Stokes directs the Organization for Competitive Markets.
When the market is increasingly dominated by only a few meat packers, livestock producers have fewer choices about sales: when, to whom, for how much. The Packers and Stockyard Act (PSA) of 1921 was created to break up monopolies, maintain competition, and prevent price manipulation. But “unfortunately, the PSA is a model case of a good law that is not enforced. Complaints and petitions to the federal Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) are not acted upon, and the agency remains understaffed. A recent GAO report chastised GIPSA for not using its authority to protect farmers.�?
Nick Voudouris and his blue heeler Queenie check out the merchandise ringside at the Lockhart Livestock Auction, August 23, 2007.
John McBride of the Livestock Marketing Association says, “There’s a phrase in our industry: “˜They never go into the country to give you more for their livestock.'”¦ Selling direct to a packer, you get whatever he decides to pay you that day. He’s eliminated competition. You’re really crippling yourself if you decide to go direct.�? But when there’s only one cattle buyer left in the region, who else are producers supposed to sell to? (For an overview of the current problems that monopolies are causing U.S. farmers and consumers, see this essay by William Greider.)
McBride estimates that there are currently 1000 to 1100 livestock auctions in operation across the U.S. Some are struggling, but all are strongholds of competitive marketing. And each one is a rural opera house, too.
Keith Bexley chants for four hours straight each Thursday in Lockhart, Texas (listen below)
Speaking of competition, it’s time to register for the LMA 2008 World Championship. If you work in the Southwest or West, actually, you've missed the deadline. But auctioneers from the East and Midwest can still sign up, until October 26. And don’t worry about out pacing Ron Kreis or out twanging Trent Stewart. So that no cowboy diva can monopolize the event, past champions can’t compete. For more information, contact the Livestock Marketing Association.
And for more on “captive supplies�? and related issues in agriculture, meet the un riggers at the Organization for Competitive Markets<
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GlobeSt: How to Integrate Acquisitions into a Much Bigger “Master Plan”
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GlobeSt.com’s visited the Cayman Islands last week to catch up with Dart Real Estate and discuss all of the many developments and innovations currently happening on the Island. While there, it became apparent that opportunities are abound. But one of the most interesting things to point out is how the company is continuing to integrate both its acquisitions and the development of the land it already owns in a way that just makes sense and is part of a much bigger master plan.
As an example, Dart Real Estate recently purchased property on Seven Mile Beach adjacent to its mixed-use Camana Bay development. The Royal Palms Beach Club is currently operated on the newly acquired property on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
The company is currently in the planning stages of a new five-star resort to be built on the world-famous Seven Mile Beach—said to be a Four Seasons property. But while specifics of the new development aren’t finalized at this time, what is apparent is that this acquisition was logical and is part of a much larger plan.
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Classes to start in Mamad Ghat Cadet College next year
Bureau ReportDecember 06, 2019
PESHAWAR: Academic session at newly established Mamad Ghat Cadet College in Mohmand tribal district would be started from April 2020, said an official statement here on Thursday.
Presiding over a meeting of the board of governors, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan directed the finance department to release the allocated funds of Rs111 million to start academic activities in the college from next year.
He also directed that 20 seats per class for Mohmand and Bajaur tribal districts each should be allocated in the college while 10 seats per class for Khyber tribal district, 10 seats for the wards of martyrs and 20 seats per class for open merit all over the country should be allocated.
The chief minister said that two special seats for the wards of martyrs should be allotted on open merit instead of self-finance to facilitate their families. He said that all cadet colleges would convene meetings of the board of governors every year, so as their problems and requirements could be addressed timely.
The meeting was briefed in details about the facilities available at Mamad Ghat Cadet College, proposed timeline for commissioning of the college and related issues. The meeting was informed that grade 8th and 11th were planned to be launched in April 2020 and phase wise increase in the number of cadets had also been proposed.
It was informed that 80 cadets would be enrolled in grade 8th and 80 in 11th for academic year 2020-21. Similarly, 80 cadets will be given admission in grade 9th for the year 2021-22 and grade 10th will be started in the year 2022-23, for which 80 seats will be allocated, thus the total strength of cadets in the college would reach 400.
Mr Khan agreed with the proposed planned and directed the college administration to start educational activities from April. The meeting was informed about the proposed fee structure for the first nine years of the college, under which cadets from tribal districts Mohmand and Bajaur would be provided education free of cost for the first three years, and then only 25 per cent of the total fee for the next two years would be charged.
Similarly, it was proposed that 50 per cent of total fee would be charged during the 6th and 7th years and 75 per cent during the 8th and 9th years, while 100 per cent fee would be charged in 10th year and onward. The cadets on open merit would have to pay 100 per cent fee, however, the wards of martyrs would get the facility of education free of cost.
Meanwhile, the chief minister chaired a meeting of board of governors of Swat Cadet College. He was briefed about the academic profile 2018-19, capacity enhancement and redistribution of additional seats, budget and other allied matters of the Swat Cadet College. The meeting approved increase in strength of students from 100 to 120 cadets in a phased programme of three years.
The meeting was informed that for the next three years Swat Cadet College would require an academic grant of Rs20 million to meet the requirements. Proposal of 10 per cent increase in basic pay for the employees of the college with subject to financial viability of the college was approved.
Published in Dawn, December 6th, 2019
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**The City of Dawson has been awarded Bronze Designation!**
Getting Started with Solar – Dawson
This webpage contains information about solar energy in Dawson. Dawson is part of the SolSmart program, a national designation program through the Department of Energy. SolSmart is a national recognition program which encourages cities to make it faster, easier, and more affordable to grow solar energy.
About Solar Energy
Solar energy can be used to generate electricity, to provide hot water, and to heat, cool, and light buildings.
Minnesota is a great place for solar energy. Believe it or not, much of the Midwest has the same solar potential as Tallahassee, FL and Houston, TX! Through a combination of utility rebates and new technology, solar electricity continues to become more affordable and a more common part of our energy system.
Permitting Process
For solar systems in Dawson, the following permit process is required:
The City of Dawson does not enforce the State of Minnesota Building Code.
Electrical permits are granted through the State of Minnesota. To apply for an electrical permit online, click here.
Inspections occur through a State of Minnesota Inspector, more information can be found on the state webpage
Solar PV Inspection Checklist for Minnesota can be found at this link
For more information on electrical permitting, contact our state inspector:
Follow this link for great resources to learn more about if community solar is right for you.
How can I find a community solar garden?
Community Solar Gardens are centrally-located solar photovoltaic (PV) systems that provide electricity to participating subscribers.
Xcel Energy customers can participate in projects offered by private developers. Members of other utilities in Minnesota can subscribe to a community solar garden if one is offered by their electric utility.
Wondering what questions to ask? Check out The State of Minnesota’s list of questions to ask potential renewable energy installers
How can I find a solar developer?
Minnesota is home to many solar companies. The Clean Energy Project Builder is a great place to find an assortment of clean energy businesses including solar installers, community solar garden developers, energy auditors and more.
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What is Dawson doing around solar energy?
Dawson is participating in SolSmart, a national program that provides free technical assistance with addressing local barriers to solar energy. Through this program, Dawson is working to make it easier for residents and businesses choose solar energy.
Is Financing Available for Solar Energy Projects?
Residents interested in installing photovoltaic solar panels (the kind that produce electricity) on their property can access financing through the Center for Energy and Environment. Click here for more information.
Businesses can finance solar energy projects through a tool called “Property-Assessed Clean Energy”, or PACE, in which energy-saving measures are paid for through property taxes. This can work well even for businesses that rent their space. More information on PACE financing is available here.
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'We dodged another bullet': Air Force station, NASA center remain closed after Hurricane Irma
By: Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press September 13, 2017
The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Alex Sanz/AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida remained closed Tuesday but appeared to have weathered Hurricane Irma well.
The same holds true at adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Power was restored to NASA and U.S. Air Force facilities, but water service was still out Tuesday. Until that’s restored, officials said Kennedy would stay closed to nonessential personnel. Inspection crews were out in full force.
At Kennedy’s tourist area, life-size replicas of the space shuttle fuel tank and booster rockets were still standing outside the home of shuttle Atlantis. No major damage was reported at the visitor complex, which remains closed through Wednesday, and Atlantis and all other space artifacts were safe and in good shape, said spokeswoman Rebecca Shireman.
“We dodged another bullet,” said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, who’s in charge of Air Force operations.
Last October, Hurricane Matthew stayed safely off shore. On Monday, Hurricane Irma’s path remained well to the west of Cape Canaveral, which got hit with high winds and heavy rain.
About 9,000 people work at Kennedy, most of them contractors.
Several private companies, including Boeing and SpaceX, have operations at Kennedy and reported minimal damage. In addition, the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space planes — one rocketed into orbit just last week — use a couple of former shuttle hangars. At the Air Force station, rocket-maker United Launch Alliance reported only minor damage to its buildings.
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Westgarth wins another offshore SWRO contract
VWS Westgarth has been awarded a contract by SBM Inc for the design, procurement and supply of equipment and provision of construction technical assistance for a single lift module seawater sulphate reduction package (SRP) system for SBM's existing installation, FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading vessel) Xikomba off Angola.
VWS Westgarth bags Angolan offshore UF/SRP contract
A multimillion dollar contract for design, supply and delivery of an ultrafiltration (UF) system and a sulphate-removal package (SRP) for offshore oilfield exploration in Angola has been won by UK-based VWS Westgarth, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.
Offshore desalination prototype wins funding
Renewable sector engineering company 4NRg has won funding for its development of a prototype mechanical offshore desalination unit.
Go-ahead for 113,500 m³/d Orange County GWRS expansion
Orange County's world-renowned membrane-based Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) in California is to be expanded by another 30 MGD (113,500 m³/d) following approval by the board of the Orange County Water District (OCWD) on 30 March 2011.
Desalination units in Degrémont offshore contract in Brazil
Desalination and sulphate-removal systems are to be supplied by Degrémont to two Brazilian floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels under an order placed by Tupi BV, a subsidiary of Petrobras.
Prosep win Australian offshore contracts
Montreal-based ProSep Inc announced in early November that its majority owned South Korean joint venture ProSep Kolon Co Ltd had been awarded two contracts for seawater filtration and mercury removal for liquid natural gas platforms off the coast of Australia.
Israel planning offshore desalination plants - report
Israel's Water Authority is planning a series of desalination plants on offshore islands because of difficulties in finding suitable onshore sites, says a report on Haaretz.com.
Brazilian offshore SRP system awarded to VWS Westgarth
VWS Westgarth has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by SBM Atlantia for of a seawater sulphate-reduction package (SRP), using Dow FilmTec membranes, in a Brazilian offshore oil and gas field.
Coquina Coast plumps for land-based desalination
An interesting comparison between land- and ship-based desalination systems has been revealed in the Final Recommended Project Report submitted by consultants Malcolm Pirnie for the Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Alternative Water Supply Project.
First Water Standard vessel will use ERI units
Water Standard plans to use the PX Pressure Exchanger energy-recovery device made by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) in its first Seawater Desalination Vessel (SDV), the two companies announced on 19 May 2009. Florida-based Water Standard builds and operates vessels that deliver desalinated water to clients onshore and to the offshore energy industry.
Gaza desalination plant delayed by goods blockade
Construction of a desalination plant in Gaza City, Palestine, has stalled after Israel halted the passage of goods into the State, reports Relief Web.
Singapore to tender S$5 billion of water and waste works
Singapore's PUB and National Environment Agency (NEA) are to tender more than S$5 billion ($3.7 billion) of works covering civil, mechanical and electrical engineering for Tuas Nexus, an integrated wastewater and waste treatment facility.
SWCC procures three floating desalination units
Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation has procured three desalination units to provide floating capacity of 150,000 m3/d of drinking water over 20 years.
Jebel Ali project is a new direction for DEWA and Besix
The $237 million contract awarded by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) for a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant represents a big step for the client, and for Besix Concessions & Assets, which won the work in partnership with Acciona Agua.
KfW finances Euro 82 million Tunisian desalination project
KfW Development Bank is to loan €82 million ($95 million) to Tunisia for a desalination plant in Zarat, Gabes Governorate, reports Tunis Afrique Presse.
Western Cape food producer adopts desalination
Oceana, a canned fish producer based in Western Cape, South Africa, is installing two desalination plants in readiness for 'day zero,' in April 2018, when the region is expected to run out of water.
Bahrain oil refinery installs GE Water mobile technologies
Bahrain Petroleum Company has installed mobile technology from GE Water at Awali refinery to produce high-purity boiler feedwater.
Abengoa's project in Agadir, Morocco, expands in size and scope
Abengoa is to expand capacity of a desalination plant project in development, and to construct additional capacity for irrigation purposes, in Agadir, Morocco.
The Long Read: How digital is transforming desal and reuse
The digital economy is transforming water utilities and industrial players, and bringing potentially profound changes for desalination and reuse specialists. The common thread is data.
ACWA Emirates delivers MBR reuse plant for Saudi Aramco
ACWA Emirates has completed a water reuse plant at Shaybah Oilfield, Saudi Arabia, for crude and natural gas exporter Saudi Aramco.
Doosan Babcock wins maintenance and support deal at giant Taweelah plant
Energy engineering company, Doosan Babcock, has won a contract with Taweelah Asia Power Company (Tapco) to provide essential maintenance and technical support services for Tapco's desalination plant in Abu Dhabi.
Fort forges ahead with reuse project
The first water reuse project in Oklahoma state is reported to be making headway at the US army's post at Fort Sill.
STW finishes brine concentrator project at Horizon, Texas
Water management firm, STW Resources, has completed a US$ 2.2 million contract for the design, engineering and construction of a reverse osmosis (RO) concentrator for the Texas city, Horizon.
Oman trial plant eases water scarcity
Trial operation of a new desalination plant near the Oman capital, Muscat, is already alleviating water scarcity there according to the Oman's Public Authority for Electricity and Water.
Mitsubishi unit bags sludge system order
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems (MHI-MS), has picked up an order for wastewater treatment facilities using its two-phase, activated sludge system, for installation at sister company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation's Yokkaichi Plant in Mie prefecture.
Japan funds Cape Verde desalination scheme
Japan's International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is to provide US$ 150 million towards the funding of a US$ 200 million desalination plant for the Cape Verde republic off the coast of West Africa.
Innovative Flow Analysis Method for High Loading Rate DAF
Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is a well established method for removing suspended solids from wastewater that is gaining ground in the pretreatment of seawater for desalination. The authors describe a method for analyzing the flow of water in DAF to inform better design of DAF tanks. This article first appeared in the August 2014 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
H2O Innovation lands three water/wastewater contracts
H2O Innovation Inc announced on 14 January 2014 recent contracts totalling Can$ 6.5 million (UA$ 5.93 million) in Western Canada's energy sector.
SWCC deputy governor elected as IDA president 2013-15
Dr Abdullah Al-Alshaikh, deputy governor for planning and development of Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will become president of the International Desalination Association (IDA) on 24 October 2013 serving for the 2013‑15 term.
Ovivo to supply largest US MBR to Canton, Ohio
The City of Canton, Ohio, is to use Ovivo membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology to upgrade its water reclamation facility from 39 MGD (147,600 m³/d) to 88 MGD (333,000 m³/d).
Multi-technology GE upgrade for Russian refinery treatment
Membrane bioreactor (MBR), electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and reverse osmosis (RO) technology will all feature in a major upgrade for the wastewater treatment at one of Russia's biggest oil refineries.
June start for Clearwater RO plant in Florida
Construction is due to start in June 2013 on the second reverse-osmosis water treatment plant for City of Clearwater, Florida, following a groundbreaking ceremony on 6 May 2013.
South Australian town to get new desalination plant
South Australia's water minister, Ian Hunter, announced on 1 May 2013 that a brackish-water desalination plant to deliver improved water quality to the town of Hawker, in the Flinders Ranges 100km north of Port Augusta, had been approved for construction.
New Zealand city commissions MBR wastewater upgrade
The city of Rotorua on New Zealand's North Island has become the first city in the country to use a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for wastewater treatment on a major scale.
Pentair X-Flow wins UF order for Ghallilah desalination
Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes and skids are to be supplied to the 15 MIGD (68,000 m³/d) seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant at Ghallilah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, by Pentair X-Flow.
Australia and NZ ferry RO units to Tuvalu
Australia and New Zealand are leading an urgent response to the drought currently afflicting the South Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau by transporting reverse-osmosis (RO) units to provide a water supply.
BEL hooks up with Strand for RO pressure-vessels in US
Desalination pressure-vessel manufacturer BEL Group Ltd, through BEL Composite America Inc, announced a strategic partnership on 30 July 2011 with Strand Composite Engineering & Construction LLC of Harrison, Arkansas, USA.
Solar panels commissioned at UK desalination plant
Thames Water in the UK at the end of July commissioned a 450 kW array of solar panels at its 150,000 m³/d Beckton brackish-water desalination plant as part of a bid to become Britain's biggest on-site solar power producer and industrial user.
Canada's largest MBR plant will have GE membranes
A 36,000 m³/d expanded membrane bioreactor will be at the heart of an upgraded wastewater treatment plant for the city of Brandon in Manitoba, Canada.
Dow and Veolia system wins ultrafiltration deal for new Total floating oil production unit
Dow Water and Process Solutions and Veolia Water Technologies are to provide ultrafiltration technology for Total's new Moho Nord offshore floating deep water oil production unit off the Republic of the Congo coast.
Protesa wins two Cyprus desalination pipe contracts
Contracts for glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) pipes and fittings for two desalination plants in Cyprus were announced on 21 March 2011 by Spanish manufacturer Protesa.
McLaughlin takes over at CST Industries
Liquid-storage tankmaker CST Industries of Lenexa, USA, has a new president and CEO following the departure of Brian Bauerbach, who is leaving the company to lead another venture.
Parkson breaks new ground with Saudi MBR plant
A 2,000 m³/d wastewater-reuse plant based on membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology has just been commissioned in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, by Florida-based Parkson.
West Basin district dedicates desalination demo facility
California's West Basin Municipal Water District is nearing completion of its new desalination demonstration facility, following formal dedication of the plant on 12 November 2010.
ABS turbocompressors selected for Jurong MBR plant
Aeration for the membrane bioreactor (MBR) and the biological treatment tanks at Jurong Water Reclamation Plant, Singapore's largest MBR plant, is to be provided by ABS Turbocompressors HST.
New Zealand district to install Zeeweed MBR system
Rotorua District Council, New Zealand, is to install advanced bacteria-removing membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for the upgrade to its wastewater treatment plant using GE's Zeeweed 500d ultrafiltration technology.
San Francisco plans wastewater reuse plant in city park
San Francisco's Public Utilities (SFPUC) unveiled plans on 7 September 2010 for its proposed Westside Recycled Water Project, part of its Water System Improvement Program.
New Mexico city seeking 4 MGD desalination plant
The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, is looking to use a 4 MGD (15,000 m³/d) desalination plant to provide a safe dependable supply from brackish water wells.
West Basin demonstrating desalination intake and outfall technologies
One of the first seawater desalination demonstration facilities to employ ocean-protection technology at the source of intake and discharge has begun construction in Southern California, USA.
Modesto water quality project gets Siemens MBR equipment
Equipment for a 12.6 MGD (47,700 m³/d) membrane bioreactor (MBR) system is to be supplied to City of Modesto, California, USA, by Siemens Water Technologies for the Jennings Road Water Quality Control Facility.
Desalination plant's nitrate removal has hidden benefits
A water district in California has found a novel way to remove multiple contaminants from groundwater currently feeding a desalination plant without creating waste that requires costly treatment and disposal.
Construction starts on Durrat Al Bahrain desalination plant
Bahrain-based utility Energy Central Co (ECC)announced on 4 March 2009 that a groundbreaking ceremony has taken place at the Durrat Al Bahrain development, where the company is building a seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant with an ultimate capacity of 32,000 m³/d.
Sydney desalter construction reaches halfway point
Construction of Sydney's 250,000 m³/d Kurnell seawater desalination plant is just over 50% complete, D&WR has been told by Sydney Water. The intake and outlet tunnels were completed in December 2008.
Metito to supply RO plant for UAE oil base
Supply of a 2,700 m³/d reverse osmosis desalination plant and a 360 m³/d demineralization plant for an oil and gas installation on Das Island, UAE, has been awarded to UAE-based Metito by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company.
Tordera SWRO storage tanks built within 16 weeks
The challenge of upgrading and nearly doubling the potable water storage capacity as part of an upgrade of the Tordera seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant in Blanes (Girona) near Barcelona, Spain, within a rigorous timeframe, was awarded to CST Vulcan, a division of CST Industries Inc. Using a specialised jacking system, allowing the tanks to be built from the ground up, construction was completed in August 2009, in less than 16 weeks total, allowing the overall project to continue on time and as planned.
Construction completed on Australia's largest recycled water project
Wastewater reuse is a hot topic in Australia, with the "toilet-to-tap" label being trotted out on many occasions. In the state of Queensland, it has a lot more relevance because, as well as a brand new desalination plant at Gold Coast, the state now has a giant new municipal water reuse scheme. This article discusses completion of the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project, the southern hemisphere's largest recycled water project, and provides a technical overview of the international award-winning Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant. Producing up to 232,000 m /d of water, the WCRWP is the largest in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. It provides purified recycled water, a climate- and rainfall-resilient source of pure water, to three power stations located in South East Queensland. In the future, the project will supply water to industry and potentially agricultural users, and, should the region's drinking water supplies fall below 40%, the Wivenhoe Dam. The project includes a network of more than 200 km of large-diameter underground pipes, three advanced water treatment plants, nine storage tanks and 12 pumping stations. It also provides significant environmental benefits by removing up to 50% of nutrients that would previously have been released to waterways feeding environmentally sensitive Moreton Bay. This article appeared in the May/June issue of D&WR magazine.
GE acquires Dutch membrane maker
Industrial conglomerate, GE, has agreed to acquire Netherlands-based membranes manufacturer IMT Solutions.
Italy's De Nora bags Severn Trent's electrochlorination arm
UK-based electrochlorination firm Severn Trent and Italy's Industrie De Nora have agreed the sale of Severn Trent's Water Purification business to De Nora.
Santa Barbara ponders US$ 2 million subsurface intake test
Californian city, Santa Barbara, may put up to US$ 2 million into a study of a desalination facility seawater intake structure after environmental groups said the existing plant's open water intake pipe could be harmful to marine life.
Norwegian desalination barge venture seeks Israeli expertise
Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants.
Geosyntec picked to lead subsurface intake study
West Basin Municipal Water District has selected a team led by engineering consultancy, Geosyntec, to study options for subsurface seawater intake for the district's proposed 75,700-227,100 m³/d seawater reverse osmosis project.
Scientists to probe outlet brine risks to sealife
Scientists have been commissioned to investigate whether brine waste from two proposed 150 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants could damage or alter the marine environment along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline in South Africa.
Desalia starts works on Egypt reverse osmosis plant
Spain's Desalia has started site works for a new, 24,000 m³/d seawater reverse osmosis plant west of Alexandria, Egypt near the city of Matrouh.
Five Minutes With: Patrick van Eijik, manager, production and project engineering, Hatenboer-Water
Patrick van Eijik, a 'natural go-between for production and engineering', is newly appointed as manager, production and project engineering, at Netherlands-based Hatenboer-Water
Aquarion sets up in Russia
Swizerland-based water systems company, Aquarion Group, has established a Russian operation, Aquarion Russia, to focus on providing water and wastewater treatment to industrial customers in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
WorleyParsons acquires Jacobs' energy, chemicals, and resources division
Australia's WorleyParsons is purchasing the energy, chemicals, and resources (ECR) division of Jacobs in the US for $3.3 billion, comprising $2.6 billion in cash and 58.2 million WorleyParsons shares.
Commission vote halts Huntington Beach application
Poseidon Water withdrew its application for a coastal development permit (CDP) for its proposed Huntington Beach seawater desalination plant after the California Coastal Commission voted on 13 November 2013 to postpone a vote on the application.
Detailed design finished for wave-energy desalination
Australian wave-energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd announced on 31 October 2013 the completion of the detailed design of its wave‑powered desalination pilot plant.
India's NIOT prepares detailed report on offshore desalination
The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) of India has finalised designs and submitted a detailed project report for an offshore desalination plant using low temperature thermal technology, reports New Indian Express.
Texas state office joins seawater desalination study
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) formally agreed on 15 April 2013 to partner the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) on the feasibility study it has launched for a seawater desalination plant on the Gulf of Mexico.
Petrobras signs Suez to supply offshore desalination
Suez has won a €6 million contract to supply desalinated water for 11 offshore oil rigs owned by Petrobras, Brazil's majority state-owned oil company.
Victaulic acquires MTS desalination plug valve
Pipe-jointing specialist Victaulic has acquired the desalination business of Spain's MTS Valves & Technology, which designs and manufactures valves for the global desalination market, including the MTS Plug Valve.
Mitsui acquires minority stake in Water Standard
Houston-based Water Standard Management (US) Inc, which focuses on water treatment for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), announced on 30 May 2012 that Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd has acquired a minority interest in the company.
EDS and SPE host joint oil/gas desalination workshop
The European Desalination Society is joining the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to present a joint workshop on Desalination in the Oil and Gas Industry.
Vapour compression desalination plants for Indian oilfield
Texas-based MECO, which supplies desalination equipment to the offshore, pharmaceutical and military sectors, announced in December 2011 that it would be designing and constructing two vapour compression (VC) desalination plants for an oilfield off the Indian coast.
Koreans devoting R&D cash to gas-hydrate desalination
Korea's Minister of Land, Transport & Maritime Affairs, Kwon Do-youp, unveiled "a new paradigm" in desalination development when he announced on 4 October 2011 that Korea was pursuing gas-hydrate desalination.
Az Zour North desal plant powers down to avoid oil spill
The desalination plant at Az Zour North in Kuwait has escaped damage from a nearby oil spill after temporarily shutting down.
Ministry updates India's low-temperature desalination plans
India's Ministry of Earth Sciences (MES) released an update on 29 August 2011 about its program for development of Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD).
Water Standard's revised strategy paying off
In 2008, Water Standard announced itself as a provider of ship-based desalination and water treatment services, primarily for municipalities and industry. But two agreements announced at the end of June 2011 demonstrate how much the company has reshaped its strategy since those early days. The first signing was for a global frame agreement with Shell to develop technology and innovative water-based approaches in support of Shell's enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects worldwide. The second was for the company to collaborate with Samsung Heavy Industries of Korea to on the design and development of vessels to deliver water treatment solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector. D&WR editor Robin Wiseman asked Water Standard's CEO how these latest developments fit the company's strategy. This article first appeared in the August/September 2011 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
Water Standard finds its shipbuilder in Samsung
Texas-based Water Standard and Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced an agreement on 28 June 2011 to collaborate on the design and development of vessels to deliver water treatment solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector.
Adelaide first water at end of July, says minister
The intake and outfall tunnels for Adelaide's Aus$ 1.83 billion (US$ 2 billion) seawater desalination plant in Australia have been completed and first water is expected at the end of July.
Scottish company wins order for North Sea RO units
Aberdeen-based Monitor Systems Scotland has won a contract to supply six 50 m³/d reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination units for three North Sea offshore platforms operated by TAQA Bratani, owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PSJC.
Minister reassures public about Sydney's desalinated water
The minister for water for the Australian state of New South Wales, Phil Costa, reassured the public on 7 November 2011 that Sydney's drinking water remains completely safe for consumption and poses absolutely no health risk.
GE Water and Halvorsen TEC secure offshore sulphate removal deal
GE Water has secured the first order of its seawater sulphate removal technology for the offshore oil and gas industry from Norway's Statoil.
Floating Saudi desalination barges relaunched
Saudi Arabia's two floating water desalination barges have been moved from Shuquaiq to Yanbu, and the first was relaunched on 7 July 2010 by Fehied F Al-Shareef, governor of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and Engineer Nabil Azmaruli, general manager of the General Directorate of Water in Al-Madina.
'Finalisation' works begin on Gold Coast desalination plant
Queensland's Tugun desalination plant, on Australia's Gold Coast, temporarily stopped producing water on 4 June 2010 to allow improvement works to occur.
OC desalination slant-well testing to start
Testing of Phase 3 of the South Orange Coastal Ocean Desalination Project in Southern California will begin in the next few weeks, according to the Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC), which held a public open day at the test site on Doheny State Beach on 12 May 2010.
CCC to rule on Cambria desalination plant studies
California Coastal Commission (CCC) staff have advised the commission at its meeting this week to agree to a US Army Corps of Engineers proposal to test a beach in the Cambria region, near San Luis Obispo, for use as beach wells for a desalination plant.
MoU signed to advance Camp Pendleton desalination plant
A planning agreement providing a framework for progress on a major regional seawater desalination plant at Camp Pendleton in Southern California was signed in April.
D&WR Editorial Board member awarded doctorate
Marine environmental scientist Sabine Lattemann of the Institute for Marine Chemistry & Biology, University of Oldenburg in Germany, who is a member of the Editorial Board of Desalination & Water Reuse, has been awarded a PhD.
Hatenboer-Water provides RO units to new oil vessel
Hatenboer-Water of the Netherlands has supplied three reverse osmosis (RO) units for a new oil production vessel, the Pioneiro de Libra, reports Marine Link.
Wave-powered desalination plant to produce bottled water
The Texas General Land Office has granted the first-ever state offshore wave-energy lease to Texas-based Renew Blue Inc (RBI), who will use ocean water and waves to produce 3,000 gal/day (11,350 L/d) of bottled desalinated water.
Huntington Beach is 'precedent-setting' for California
When the California State Water Board adopted new regulations on seawater desalination plants in 2015, Poseidon, the developer of a proposed 50 million gallons a day (189,000 m3/d) capacity seawater RO plant in Huntington Beach, California, went back to the drawing board on its water intake technology.
ERI appoints two new directors
Energy Recovery Inc, the California-based desalination energy-recovery technology company, announced on 25 February 2009 the appointment of two new directors: Stanford University professor Dr M Elisabeth Pate-Cornell and Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, former chair of the California Energy Commission (CEC).
Second floating plant for Cyprus comes closer
Three companies are said to be shortlisted for a project to build a floating desalination plant to supply the southern coastal town of Limassol, according to Sofoklis Aletraris, head of Cyprus' Water Development Department, quoted in the Financial Mirror on 11 January 2009.
Gold Coast's twin intake/outfall tunnels save space and environment
A key part of the anti-drought strategy in Queensland, Australia, has been the construction of a 125,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant, located at Tugun on the Gold Coast, due to start producing water in November 2008. This plant will supply up to 20% of the average demand for the Brisbane/Gold Coast Region. The Gold Coast Desalination Project is an excellent example of the delivery of a complex project in a very fast timeframe through the use of innovation and teamwork. The blueprint for this outcome was set very early in the project by the adoption of an alliance-style contract for the project. The plant also features twin segmentally lined intake and outfall tunnels, each 2.8 m internal diameter. The tunnels extend approximately 1.5 km offshore, into 20 m water depth. This article appeared in D&WR magazine's August/September 2008 issue.
Sembcorp reports net profit drop citing "difficult" market conditions
Sembcorp Industries has reported a fall in net profit of 47 per cent to S$193.5 million ($144.2 million) for the first half of 2016. The decrease partly reflects a gain of S$54.7 million ($40.8 million) on selling UK water business Bournemouth Water in the first half of 2015, as well as a "difficult" current market environment.
'Adjustable' desal plant in Brazil financed by project bond
UK water company Hydrology is to build and operate an "adjustable" desalination plant in Cubato in Sao Paulo state, Brazil, to supply industrial conglomerate Unigel.
South African desalination project comes under press fire
Water supplier for South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, Umgeni Water, is considering a proposal to build a seawater desalination plant on the Illovo River within the next five years to cope with growing demand in its Upper South Coast region.
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Keppel unveils designs for Marina East Desalination Plant
Egypt pledges $51 billion for water projects over 20 years
Spanish/Israeli JV awarded Ashdod desalination contract
Oman names preferred bidders for Sohar and Barka projects
Japanese fund three desalination plants for Tuvalu
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Land Rover's Discovery aces ice test
While the compact SUV emphasizes its versatile character, it also displays a stylish, sophisticated design.
Land Rover's Discovery aces ice test While the compact SUV emphasizes its versatile character, it also displays a stylish, sophisticated design. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1A9lgGF
John McCormick, Special to The Detroit News Published 12:14 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2015 | Updated 10:03 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2015
2015 Discovery Sport(Photo: Nick Dimbleby)
In the middle of winter you'd think an automaker planning to launch its latest sport utility vehicle to the world's media might choose somewhere warm, an island in the Caribbean, or the south of France perhaps.
But no, since this was Land Rover the destination was anything but predictable. The plane ticket said Iceland, an island in the north Atlantic whose rugged charm I've experienced before in the summer but not in January.
So it was I found myself driving the 2015 Discovery Sport, Land Rover's latest compact SUV, through some of the most forbidding scenery on the planet. In fact, Iceland's virtually uninhabited interior is so desolate and bleak that it is frequently used by Hollywood directors as a location for movies (such as the recent Interstellar) set on grim, inhospitable alien planets.
The Discovery Sport is the latest in a small flood of compact premium/luxury SUVs or crossovers to hit the market. One of the first and most successful entries has been the Audi Q5, but others include the BMW X3, Mercedes GLK, Volvo XC60 and Lincoln MKC. It's a hot segment because consumers, feeling more confident about their spending power, are drawn by the combination of attributes offered by smaller, upscale crossover vehicles; versatility, comfort and luxury convenience features that normally come only with larger SUVs or sedans.
Such is the case with the Discovery Sport, although per Land Rover's overall philosophy, this model is more true sport utility vehicle than dainty crossover. The Discovery Sport sits between the brand's utilitarian Defender model and the ultra-luxurious Range Rover. While the Discovery emphasizes its versatile character, it also displays a much more stylish, sophisticated design than the boxy Defender.
Based on the steel body structure of the Range Rover Evoque model, the Discovery Sport boasts the use of weight-saving aluminum for its roof and tailgate panels and its suspension components. Versus its competition, the Discovery scores in several areas, notably the convenience of its interior layout. The model can be specified in either five- or seven-passenger versions, the latter offering two child-sized seats that fold out of the cargo floor. The second row seats slide fore and aft for convenience and are set a little higher than the front seats to give passengers a decent view forwards.
If there is a chink in the Discovery's armor it might be the look and feel of the dashboard, which while practical and well equipped, is a little too plain and ordinary in appearance.
Before Indian company Tata Motors bought Land Rover in 2008, the British brand was owned by Ford and the Dearborn automaker still supplies one significant mechanical component, the engine, for the Discovery. The Ford turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder motor is not the most sophisticated powerplant in the class. But coupled with a nine-speed automatic transmission, the 240-hp engine does a decent job, with plenty of thrust when you need it and an ultra-low first gear for crawling around off-road. Speaking of which, the Discovery's 8.3 inches of ground clearance and sophisticated permanent four-wheel drive system, with driver-selectable modes for different conditions, means you will have to try pretty hard to get this Land Rover stuck.
On Iceland's treacherous ice-coated back roads, the Discovery performed ably, due in part to the use of studded tires. On regular tires, these slick roads would have been more of a challenge, but thankfully in the U.S. we rarely have to deal with such conditions.
The Discovery Sport will be hitting U.S. showrooms this spring, starting at a surprisingly affordable price of $37,070. It will make a welcome addition to a practical, capable and upscale class of vehicle.
John McCormick is a columnist for Autos Consumer and can be reached at jmccor@aol.com
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an Undone short story
Eleven years ago, Claude Mableau came to Rappard Hall as a stable worker seeking revenge—and fell in love with the noble family's poor relation, Miss Louisa Finch. Now home after making his fortune abroad, he discovers that his youthful infatuation is as strong as ever, as is his body's craving for the beautiful lady. Claude cannot resist her plea to introduce her to the pleasures of lovemaking before her arranged marriage. Yet despite their intense passion, Louisa will always be forbidden to him as a bride….
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…Claude’s insides wrenched, because he knew she would also soon share her husband’s bed.
He could not form another comment. Instead he stared out at the pristine beauty of the stream tumbling over rocks.
Finally she spoke. “When are the races at Ascot?”
“In a week’s time.”
He ought to have known that his time with her would be achingly brief. They’d always been fated to part from each other.
She released a long sigh and glanced toward the dipping sun. “I suppose I should go back.”
Claude stood and reached out a hand to help her up. As he pulled her to her feet she put her arms around him and held him tight. Her body was flush with his and every curve made his senses flare. He hungered for more of her, a taste of her lips, the feel of his fingers on her warm skin. He held her close, controlling his desires, trying to accept that merely holding her was more than he had a right to expect.
“I am so glad you returned here, Claude. I will have much to remember now.” Finally she loosened her embrace and glanced up at him. Her face was pale, and her warm brown eyes searched his face as if she were memorizing every feature.
They returned to the horses and rode slowly back to Rappard Hall, while his very soul ached with the fear that this would be their final goodbye. They did not speak until reaching the ridge where they would have to part. Dismounting, she embraced Claude once more.
But this time he sensed a change in her, a growing strength, an intensifying determination.
She pulled away abruptly and looked him directly in the eye. “Will you do something for me, Claude?” Her expression was unflinching. “If I ask you, will you do something for me?”
“Of course,” he rasped. “Anything.”
Her voice turned low and resolute. “Give me one last adventure. Take me with you to Ascot.”
Horse Racing in Nineteenth Century Tennessee
You might wonder why I sent Claude to America after he left England at the end of Valiant Soldier, Beautiful Enemy, especially because he’d been so proud of being French. And why to Tennessee, of all places?
Post-Napoleonic war France would have held little appeal to Claude, who clung to his father’s belief in the tenets of the French Revolution, liberté, égalité, fraternité. King Louis XVIII was restored to the throne and again the power in the country went to the wealthy, the landowners. If this were not enough, the depressed economy of France didn’t lend itself to developing a racing industry.
Even more than France, Claude loved horses, so he went to where the horses were. And that was Tennessee. The cocky Americans were bent on breeding a better racehorse than the English, an idea that certainly resonated with Leo.
The first official horse race in Tennessee took place in Gallatin. Andrew Jackson ran his horse, Indian Queen, in those races. Jackson was a leading Tennessee horse breeder and racer, even purchasing an interest in another racetrack at Clover Bottom. By 1807 Clover Bottom, Gallatin, and another course at Nashville each had a Jockey Club. By 1839 there were at least ten race tracks and twenty Jockey Clubs. (Look for the names Gallatin and Clover in Claude’s story.) Tennessee was a hotbed of thoroughbred racing.
It stood to reason there would be stud farms in Tennessee where Claude could find employment. His love of horses led to him gaining extensive experience in horse breeding and training.
But Claude was also attracted to America because America’s Revolution had been successful, when, in his eyes, France’s had not. America was a place where a man could advance on merit alone, he idealistically thought, and his skill with horses would allow him to advance to the very pinnacle of his profession.
The horse-breeding country of Tennessee in the early 1800s was not quite the land of equality that Claude expected, however. He painfully learned there were still class differences, especially between landowner and stable employee. Even worse, slavery gave some men and women no freedom at all, merely due to the color of their skin. Men owning men was appalling to Claude.
So it was a disillusioned Claude who left America and sailed across the ocean to Lancashire, England for a long overdue reconciliation with his mother.
Little did he know he would also find love.
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How to use the new Get Office app in Windows 10 and how to remove it
Tutorial by Codrut Neagu published on 03/31/2017
If you use Windows 10, it's impossible not to have met the Get Office app. Up until recently, Get Office was nothing more than an app designed to get you to try and buy Microsoft's productivity apps from their Office suite. However, things seem to have changed to such an extent that the Get Office app is now something people are starting to call an Office hub. It's no longer an app that promotes other apps. It evolved into a central point from where you can download Office apps, access your Office files, get support, send feedback and perform other actions. Here's what the latest version of the Get Office app is all about:
Where's the Get Office app?
The Get Office app comes pre-installed in all Windows 10 versions and editions. However, if you don't have it, know that you can always download and install it from its Windows Store page, here: Get Office. On your Windows 10 computer or device, you'll find the shortcut of Get Office app displayed in the All apps list from the Start Menu.
Of course, just like almost everything else in Windows 10, you can also use search to find the Get Office app.
Once opened, this is what the Get Office app looks like:
Unless you sign in to your Microsoft account, the app doesn't offer much. You can see its various sections and options, but that's it. That's why you should start by signing in.
Sign in to the Get Office app from Windows 10
On the top-right corner of the Get Office app, you'll see a Sign in link. Click or tap on it and enter your Microsoft account. Then, press Next.
Enter your password and then click or tap on the Sign in button.
If you use a two-factor authentication, also enter your verification code. Then, click or tap on Submit.
Once you've authenticated, the Get Office app will take a few seconds to load your personal profile.
What's there to be found in the Get Office app and how to use it?
The app is split into a few major sections: Home, My account, Programs, Documents, Help and training, Feedback, and About. Let's see what each of these sections has to offer:
Home - is a central dashboard where you can see a slider with recommendations from Microsoft, a list of the Recent documents you've worked on, and a vertical list of shortcuts for Office apps.
My account - shows and lets you manage your Office 365 subscriptions, payments, billing and cancellation options.
Programs - shows you a few lists with Office-related apps. The first one is called Office and has all the Microsoft Office apps that are available to install or open (if you already have them installed) on your Windows 10 computer or device. They are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, OneDrive, and Skype. The second list is called Other programs and has OneNote, Sway, Wunderlist and Office Lens. The third and last list offers a few links for getting Microsoft Office apps on mobile devices that run Windows 10 Mobile, iOS or Android. For each of the apps shown in these three lists, you also get a short description of what it does, on the right of the Get Office app window.
Documents - this section of the Get Office app shows a list of the Recent documents you've worked on. For each of them, you get to see their title, location, and the last time you've worked on them. At the end of the list, there's also an Open button which you can use to open any Office document from your Windows 10 computer or device. Unfortunately, we've found that this list also includes files that you've already deleted or moved from their original location. When we tried opening such documents, we ended up with a "not found" error.
Help and training - offers you a few links that will take you online and give you access to help and training. You can learn more about Office apps by going through the guides Microsoft offers; you can search for help, ask the Office community, or even contact Office support.
Feedback - is a section where the Get Office app tells you that you can "Send a smile," "Send a Frown," or "Send a Suggestion." However, it looks like these aren't working yet - we tried each of them, and all they do is take you to the Help and training section of the app.
About - there's nothing else to see here except the version of the Get Office app that you're using and things like its terms of use, privacy statement, and copyright claims.
How to remove the Get Office app
If you don't like what the Get Office app has to offer, you may want to remove it from your Windows 10 PC. A quick way to do it is to right click or long tap the Get Office shortcut from your Start Menu, and then click or tap Uninstall.
Windows 10 will ask you if you're sure that you want to uninstall the app and all its related information. Click or tap Uninstall.
In a second, the Get Office app will be removed from your PC, without any other further confirmations requested from your part.
The Get Office app may not seem like it's doing too much right now, but we must say it: it does a whole lot more than it used to when it was first launched. That means that Microsoft is investing resources into making it something more than just an advertising app. For now, Get Office only gives links and access to a list of recent documents. However, if we'd take a guess, we'd say that the Get Office as we see it now is only the beginning. This app will probably transform over the next weeks or months and become more useful than it is right now. What do you think: will the new Get Office be useful to users, or will it share the same fate as its previous versions, which most people uninstalled as soon as possible?
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5 ways to open the Google Play Store on Android
Tutorial by Diana Ann Roe published on 01/16/2020
On your Android device, Google's Play Store is the portal to your favorite content, so knowing how to open it can come in handy. You use it to download apps, games, and all kinds of digital content. It also handles updates for your apps. This tutorial teaches you all the ways to open the Google Play Store app on your Android smartphone or tablet:
How to change the icon of any shortcut in Windows 10
In Windows 10, you can change any shortcut icon, whether it's a regular one linking to an app, file, folder, or web page or one of the standard desktop icons. This is useful if you dislike the default icon of an app or if you want to add a personal touch to your Windows 10 computer or device. Changing the icons for certain shortcuts, especially when it comes to the ones with boring, generic icons, such as files, folders, and web pages, can also help you find and access them faster.
4 ways to align text in Microsoft Word
One of the essential things about formatting text in any word processor is the ability to align text. Fortunately, whether you need to align pieces of text to the left, to the right, or center it on the page, Microsoft Word lets you do that easily. To make things even simpler for you, we've created this guide which illustrates four different ways of aligning text in Word, both horizontally and vertically:
ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card review
Review by Codrut Neagu published on 01/13/2020
One of the recent additions to AMD's lineup of video cards is the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU, for which the company didn't release any reference cards. The good news, though, is that other manufacturers, such as ASUS, have already released their own implementations of the Radeon 5500 XT. In this review, we're going to tell you about the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card, what it can do, and what its performance is in games and benchmarks. Should you be curious about it, read on:
Fitbit Versa 2 review: A smartwatch with great fitness tracking!
Review by Ciprian Adrian Rusen published on 01/07/2020
Fitbit makes great fitness trackers that are polished, good looking, and very useful. However, in the smartwatch space, they are not a big player, lagging behind Apple. In the last quarter of 2019, they launched their best smartwatch to date: Fitbit Versa 2. We tested it for about a month, daily, and tracked everything we could with it, from sleep and daily steps to workouts. Here is what the Fitbit Versa 2 has to offer to users interested in buying a new smartwatch:
Fitbit Versa 2: Who is it good for?
This smartwatch is an excellent choice for:
Logitech MX Master 3 review: Possibly the best wireless mouse of 2019
Logitech MX Master 3 is a wireless mouse that promises to offer outstanding performance and features, together with premium build quality and ergonomy. It supports both Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz wireless connections and showcases Logitech's latest MagSpeed Electromagnetic technology, that delivers incredible speed for the scroll wheel. Logitech MX Master 3 has a bold design and some impressive specs. Read this review and see whether this should be your next mouse on the shopping list:
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Property sales in W4 1 postcode area Hounslow
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This is a map and list of properties recently sold in the W4 1 postcode area in the UK covering the areas of Chiswick, Gunnersbury, Turnham Green, Bedford Park, Hounslow, based on the records of the Land Registry
All property sales
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6 Greenend Road, London, W4 1AJ Terraced (freehold) 2019-11-21 £855,500
Parkinging Space 20, The Windmill, 214 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 1PD Other (leasehold) 2019-11-18 £38,000
142 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 1PU Other (leasehold) 2019-11-14 £75,000
Other (leasehold) 2015-09-02 £185,000
59 Brookfield Road, London, W4 1DF Terraced (freehold) 2019-11-06 £1,030,000
Terraced (freehold) 2004-10-22 £490,000
26 St Catherines Court, Bedford Road, London, W4 1UH Flat (leasehold) 2019-11-04 £620,000
Flat (leasehold) 2015-04-23 £628,000
10 Fairfax Road, London, W4 1EW Terraced (freehold) 2019-11-01 £2,754,500
Parking Space 21, The Windmill, 214 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 1PD Other (leasehold) 2019-10-30 £38,000
10 Merton Avenue, London, W4 1TA Terraced (leasehold) 2019-10-25 £478,000
Semi-detached (leasehold) 1997-07-01 £125,000
28 Arnott Close, London, W4 1NY Flat (leasehold) 2019-10-18 £350,000
Flat (leasehold) 1995-08-31 £60,000
22 Thornton Avenue, London, W4 1QG Semi-detached (freehold) 2019-10-16 £2,000,000
Flat 55, Ormsby Lodge, The Avenue, London, W4 1HS Flat (leasehold) 2019-10-07 £425,000
96 Esmond Road, London, W4 1JF Terraced (freehold) 2019-10-04 £1,500,000
Terraced (freehold) 2016-07-29 £1,032,000
6 Hatfield Road, London, W4 1AF Terraced (freehold) 2019-10-02 £1,000,000
147 Rusthall Avenue, London, W4 1BL Terraced (freehold) 2019-09-30 £1,425,000
18 Priory Avenue, London, W4 1TY Flat (leasehold) 2019-09-27 £700,000
Flat 70, Homecross House, 21 Fishers Lane, Chiswick, W4 1YB Flat (leasehold) 2019-09-27 £290,000
15 Fishers Lane, Chiswick, W4 1RX Terraced (freehold) 2019-09-23 £1,160,000
19 Windmill Road, London, W4 1RN Terraced (freehold) 2019-09-19 £1,400,000
84 Woodstock Road, London, W4 1EQ Semi-detached (freehold) 2019-09-16 £1,750,000
Semi-detached (freehold) 1999-03-31 £650,000
Flat 61, Flanders Mansions, Flanders Road, London, W4 1NF Flat (leasehold) 2019-08-28 £680,000
Flat 48, Homecross House, 21 Fishers Lane, Chiswick, W4 1YA Flat (leasehold) 2019-08-27 £285,000
11B Addison Grove, London, W4 1EP Semi-detached (leasehold) 2019-08-23 £835,000
Ground Floor Flat, 11 Addison Grove, London, W4 1EP Flat (leasehold) 2019-08-23 £1,090,000
7 South Parade, London, W4 1JU Terraced (freehold) 2019-08-20 £2,425,000
31 Ravensmede Way, London, W4 1TF Flat (leasehold) 2019-08-16 £347,000
27 Fielding Road, London, W4 1HP Terraced (freehold) 2019-08-14 £1,501,750
80 Thornton Avenue, London, W4 1QQ Flat (leasehold) 2019-08-12 £630,000
7 Queen Annes Gardens, London, W4 1TU Detached (freehold) 2019-08-09 £3,075,000
Detached (freehold) 2000-11-16 £1,542,000
11 Bedford Corner, London, W4 1LZ Other (leasehold) 2019-08-02 £87,000
244 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 1PD Semi-detached (freehold) 2019-08-02 £2,550,000
23A Esmond Road, London, W4 1JG Flat (leasehold) 2019-07-31 £930,000
9 St Catherines Court, Bedford Road, London, W4 1UH Flat (leasehold) 2019-07-26 £535,000
99 Fielding Road, London, W4 1DA Terraced (freehold) 2019-07-22 £1,125,000
127 Fielding Road, London, W4 1DA Terraced (freehold) 2019-07-19 £1,250,000
22 Esmond Road, London, W4 1JQ Other (freehold) 2019-07-18 £1,700,000
60 Fielding Road, London, W4 1HL Terraced (freehold) 2019-07-15 £1,150,000
9 Lonsdale Road, London, W4 1ND Terraced (freehold) 2019-07-15 £2,100,000
16 Queen Annes Grove, London, W4 1HN Detached (freehold) 2019-07-11 £3,400,000
29 Woodstock Road, London, W4 1DS Semi-detached (freehold) 2019-07-11 £3,440,000
Semi-detached (freehold) 2005-09-30 £1,814,250
This data covers the transactions received at Land Registry in the period 1995 to 2020.
Data produced by HM Land Registry © Crown copyright 2020.
The average price shown is the geometric mean which multiplies all sales prices together then takes the square root. This should reduce the impact of sales of very expensive houses.
No adjustments are made for seasonal variations, so average prices will not match the Land Registry's own figures
Sales in the final month are always lower than earlier months, due to that month's data not being complete.
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Douglas Social Credit
CH Douglas
Frances Hutchinson
CLIFFORD HUGH DOUGLAS
Clifford Hugh Douglas was a household name throughout the English-speaking world during the so-called inter-war years of the twentieth century. His work, like that of so many of his contemporaries, has been ignored by mainstream studies of political economy. Here you can read how he influenced his contemporaries and discover what happened in Alberta.
Shortly before his death in 1952 Clifford Hugh Douglas surveyed the landscape near Aberfeldy in Scotland, turned to a close colleague and said:
“You know, T.J., I think the time is approaching when we shall have to challenge this monstrous and fantastic overgrowth of industrial expansion – fundamentally. Really, you know, I personally can see nothing particularly sinful about a small dynamo; but this thing we’ve got is past a joke. If it isn’t a joke, it is Satanic.”
THE CAUSES OF WAR:
IS OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM TO BLAME?
C. H. Douglas text of a BBC broadcast delivered in November 1934,
and reprinted in the 1937 edition of
THE MONOPOLY OF CREDIT
For a transcript of this audio, please click here.
Writing by C.H. Douglas
Douglas' Earliest Articles
The English Review, (December 1918)
The Delusion of Super-Production
C. H. Douglas
'It is hardly necessary to draw attention to the insistence with which we are told that in order to pay for the war we must produce more manufactured goods than ever before...' Read more
The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 49-58
The Pyramid of Power
'At various well-defined epochs in the history of civilisation there has occurred such a clash of apparently irreconcilable ideas as has at this time most definitely come upon us.....[there] is a clear indication that a general re-arrangement is imminent...' Read more
The English Review, XXIX (1919): 166-69
What is Capitalism?
C.H. Douglas
'When two opposing forces of sufficient magnitude push transversely at either end of a plank--or problem--it revolves: there is Revolution...' Read more
The English Review, XXVIII (1919): 368-70
Exchange and Exports
'In the welter of economic propaganda served up to us, like the powder in the jam, with our morning and evening prize-fight , murder and motor-bandit thrills, and labelled the news...a certain group of features recur and are inter-connected...'Read more
The New Age, No. 1373, XXIV, No. 9 (1919)
A Mechanical View of Economics
C. H. Douglas Read more
The New Age, (June 1920) 4305 words
These Present Discontents
The New Age, (22/29 January 1925)
A + B and the Bankers
"Whatever may be the case on other matters, compromise in arithmetic seems singularly out of place." Read more
The Fig Tree Vol 2 (1936):139-147
Money: An Historical Survey
"The Fig Tree" Vol 2 September 1936 pages 139-147 3425 words. (Notes for Major Douglas's speech on July 26 at the Social Credit study course for Conservatives at the Bonar Law College, Ashridge)
Social Credit (1936) 4 pages
Tyranny: Taxation System
C H Douglas Read more
Douglas' Evidence to the Canadian House of Commons Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce, 1923
Click here (Please note that owing to its size, the file may take a few minutes to download.)
Major Douglas Analyzes 'Social Credit' in Alberta: What went wrong
This document includes three articles:
The Social Crediter August-Septmenber 1948
Social Credit in Alberta, C H Douglas
The Social Crediter 8 February 1947
An Act for the Better Management of Alberta, C H Douglas
The Western Producer 4 March 1948
'Rumblings in Alberta'
Books and pamphlets by C.H. Douglas
'Economic Democracy' 5th (Authorised) edition 1974, published by Bloomfield, Epsom, Surrey, England.
'Credit, Power and Democracy'- Part1, Part2, Part3, published in 1920 by the Social Credit Press
'Social Credit' , published in 1924 by Eyre & Spottiswoode
'The Old and the New Economics', 1932.
'The Big Idea', 1942, published by Veritas, Western Australia.
First Interim Report on the Possibilities of the Application of Social Credit to the Province of Alberta, Canada This report, submitted by Major Douglas to His Majesty's Premier and Legislative Council of Alberta in 1935, also includes the correspondence which followed the report, between Douglas and the Premier and also the Attorney General.
Speech by Major Douglas to the Council, 4th October 1933
The Tragedy of Human Effort, (Notes for the address Douglas delivered at the Central Hall, Liverpool, October 30th, 1936)
'The Birmingham Debate', a major debate between Mr. R. G. Hawtrey and Major Douglas on Douglas' Social Credit versus orthodox economics, was published in its entirety in the April edition of "The New Age" of 1933.
Major Douglas before the New Zealand Government Monetary Committee, correspondence and notes of evidence, 1934, 32 pages.
'The Douglas Manual' by Philip Mairet- an introduction to Douglas' new economic principles for the general reader
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Workplace Wellbeing Charter accredited
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DriveTech achieves Workplace Wellbeing Charter accreditation status
As part of DriveTech’s overall approach to staff engagement and strong wellbeing values, the business decided during 2018 to start on the journey to achieve Workplace Wellbeing Charter status.
Des Morrison one of the senior directors took ownership, mobilised a small volunteer action team from across the business, and with the overarching commitment of new lead Director, Charlie Norman, the team created an action plan gathering evidence from different sources across the key subject areas of Leadership, Absence Management, Health & Safety, Mental Health, Smoking (non!), Alcohol and Substance mis-use, Healthy Eating and Physical Activity.
Zoom on a fair few months, and the organisation is delighted to have just been notified that it has achieved Workplace Wellbeing Charter Accreditation after an assessor visit mid-July.
The assessor reported that it was a pleasure to accredit DriveTech with the charter adding that visiting the site at Basingstoke and speaking to the team to learn more about the organisation and all the excellent work was a very positive experience.
Commenting on this achievement Charlie Norman said: “This is a very proud moment for the entire team. We have worked hard to boost morale and positivity across the business, and achieving Workplace Wellbeing Charter accreditation has really helped the mood. It is also reassuring to both existing and new staff we welcome on board that we have a focus on wellbeing and are committed to continually improving many of the areas of focus. It can only help us to deliver enthusiastically and in a great frame of mind to support our customers going forward.”
The DriveTech leadership team will ensure an ongoing commitment to wellbeing in the workplace as part of our core DNA so that when we are reassessed in two years it is evident we have made even more progress and built upon this excellent momentum.
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Consumer Reports Reliability ratings
Every year Consumer Reports tracks reliability from their readers. Consumer Reports is the only company that buys all of its own vehicles and does all its own testing. Everyone knows that American vehicles, in the past, have had a reliability problem, but some domestic cars faired well in the reliability category, and certainly better than the Europeans. For the second year in a row, not one single European automaker had even one entry on Consumer Reports list of models with the best-predicted reliability ratings.
According to Doug Love of Consumer Reports, the survey results are carefully monitored by the in-house accountants. “First, there has to be at least over 100 respondents for a vehicle to qualify. The mileage is taken into account for clean data; if the miles are too low or too high the survey is thrown out. If all problem areas are checked off the survey is thrown out. There were over 1,000,000 survey results after the clean data test. Subscribers readout magazine and see the survey and buy the best products they feel they can because of the survey. We don’t pay them to take the survey, they feel like they have been helped by previous surveys and they are doing a favor to their neighbor by filling out the survey”
The actual survey, according to Love, rates reliability from 1998-2005. Howe’ver, the 2006 reliability projection is based on the ratings from 2003-2005. If you see an asterisk beside the name it could mean that there was only one year’s data (in the case of the Range Rover) or that there will be significant changes in 2006 so the data may not be as applicable.
The interesting aspect of this study is that not all vehicles in each name brand are rated as reliable. The message to consumers is clear, “You can’t gauge reliability-based only on a nameplate. Some automakers do have a better track record but individual models especially newer ones can have problems, said David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports Auto Test Center in Connecticut.”
There were 31 most reliable vehicles and 48 least reliable vehicles from the survey. Nissan took the biggest dive in Consumer Reports reliability ratings. Four out of five of the vehicles produced in the automakers Canton, Miss plant and they were all given poor marks. They were the only Japanese cars, of the 48, on the least reliable list. The Infiniti M35 sedan, built-in Tochigi, Japan, did quite well and made it to second in the heap of luxury cars. According to Nissan spokesperson Fred Standish, “We are disappointed. Our J.D. Powers numbers have gone up in quality. We have brought over 200 engineers from Japan to define the issues and solve countermeasures for those issues.”
While the Nissan Armada and Infiniti QX56 had abysmal ratings (151% and 297% below average, respectively) there were only three (Toyota and Lexus products) Large SUVs that were above average. Even though Love could site what people said were the problems, neither Standish nor Love could say whether the ratings were low because of the current perception of large SUVs being the epitome of everything that is wrong in our society.
Of the 31 most reliable vehicles, 15 were from Toyota and Lexus, howe’ver the Scion tC and Toyota Avalon made the least reliable list. The Ford 500 made the best list while the Ford Freestyle, built on the same platform, made the least reliable.
Hybrids from both domestic and Japanese manufacturers were in the above-average rating.
Along with cars that are recommended there are cars that are “now recommended” by Consumer Reports, due to improved reliability.
Cars now recommended are;
BMW 5-Series (6 cylinders)
BMW X5 (6 cylinders)
Chevy Malibu Maxx
Mazda6 sedan (4 cylinders)
Mazda6 wagon
Volvo S80 – A company that is thought to be pulling itself out of the doldrums
Daimler Chrysler – dominated the “not recommended” list
Nissan Titan – If you’re thinking of buying a car, spend the six bucks for Consumer Reports 2006 New Car Preview.
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Disney Avenue Podcast
Darth Vader's Very First Visit to Walt Disney World - 1977
By Keith Mahne
Long before the Walt Disney Company owned Star Wars or there were Star Wars weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios, the Dark Lord of the Sith was visiting Disney property. In October of 1977, Darth Vader took time out from his busy schedule to visit the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village (Downtown Disney today) during the height of the original Star Wars mania. Continue after the page break for a rare look into Darth Vader's first appearance at the Walt Disney World Resort in 1977...
The day Darth Vader first visited the Walt Disney World Resort, a guest was lucky enough to be there and recalls that autographed posters were given out, which you can see in the background of the pictures above. Similar posters were once shown on the Antiques Roadshow in 2009 and are valued at over $2,000(!) today. The lines were very long at the signing and other stars from the movie were present, although everyone wanted to meet Darth Vader of course. Mark Hamill was also in attendance, but reports indicate his line was very small and that he left shortly after the event began. The signing took place at a location called the Captain's Tower at the time and went on into the evening hours.
The structure pictured above on the right is the Captain's Tower, an open air pavilion with a tall central spire that served as the central landmark of the Shopping Village. The tower use to host special events such as art displays, celebrity appearances, craft fairs and so on and is where the 1977 Darth Vader, Mark Hamill appearance took place. The pavilion has since been enclosed to become Disney's Pin Traders in 2000 and much of the original structure actually still survives.
I guess we could say that this was the first "unofficial" start to Disney's Star Wars weekends, don't you think?!?
Keith Michael Mahne is the owner and editor of Disney Avenue and the host of the Disney Avenue Podcast. He has made countless trips to the Walt Disney World resort since his first trip in 1989 at the age of four.
Keith has a strong passion and respect for Walt Disney, the parks and resorts, and the men and women who help create them. He started Disney Avenue as a way to inform and entertain readers and to repay all those who make dreams come true every day.
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You can find all of Keith's articles here.
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RunDisney Paris medals 2019 – revealed!
The Disneyland Paris Run Weekend will return from 19-22 September 2019; with the theme for the weekend being Adventure, Disneyland Paris have created a range of medals that really work with the theme.
The 5km race takes place on Friday 20th September 2019, the course will be lined with your favourite Disney animals and a Lion King themed medal has been created for the race.
The following day, Saturday 21st September 2019, a 10km course through the two Disney Parks focuses on the adventures of the Disney Princesses who follow their dreams. At the finish, runners will receive a medal with the adventurer princess herself: Rapunzel!
On Sunday 22nd September 2019, the Disneyland Paris-Val d’Europe Half Marathon will take runners through the two Disney Parks and the surrounding districts; the theme for characters along this course will be famous Disney couples and who better to be on the medal than the most famous of all the Disney couples: Mickey and Minnie.
There are also two unique challenge medals. The 31km challenge is for guests completing both the 10km race and the half marathon. This is perhaps the most beautiful medal of the collection featuring Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders with Abu and the magic carpet; the medal ribbon is the design of the magic carpet.
The 36km challenge medal is a bit more plain featuring just the Genie. This medal is for participants of the 5km, 10km and Half-Marathon races.
The final medal is the Castle to Chateau challenge medal, this one has not changed through the years and is awarded to runners who complete the Disneyland Paris-Val d’Europe Half Marathon and either a Half-Marathon or Marathon at Walt Disney World in Florida during the same calendar year.
On Saturday 21st September, the Disneyland Paris kids race will also take place; in the theme of adventure this year the medal features Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.
Disneyland Paris have also released a short video (French only, no subtitles) describing the production process of the creation of the medals.
The Disneyland Paris Run Weekend is always a highlight of the Disneyland Paris calendar – good luck to all running!
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Disney FanDaze: A unique event for fans in 2018
On Saturday 30th September 2017 I, alongside a number of other fansites, was invited to attend a sneak peak of Disney FanDaze a day before the official announcement. The event itself was fantastic and Disney FanDaze itself is going to be a big hit for many fans. We came into the presentation with many questions and knowing that we wouldn’t find out everything. With this in mind, what do we now know about Disney FanDaze.
The ultimate Disneyland Paris fan event
Disney FanDaze: The Inaugural Party is being billed as the ultimate fan event, and for good reason as there are many different elements to the event and should have something to please most fans. On offer will be exclusive shows and parades, private ride time, character encounters, limited edition merchandise, special food and the opportunity to wear costume! The exciting thing is that this is just the inaugural event and that there’s the promise of more to come in the months and years ahead! The full press release with all the information can be found here.
The blogger event
To announce the plans for the first Disney FanDaze events, Disneyland Paris invited a whole host of fansites from across Europe. The aim? Give out the information of what is to come but also to give fans a small snapshot of what the events will actually be like – and if they manage to recreate the atmosphere of the bloggers event it will be something very special indeed, the emphasis was clearly on the fun.
The cocktail reception
As we arrived in the Walt Disney Studios park we were escorted to the Art of Disney Animation where we were greeted by Mickey and his friends – the official line up of the core characters of Disney FanDaze. The characters initially posed for photographs before coming out to greet the guests. Once this was done we made our way to the bar to try the ‘Crazy Blue’ cocktail. It was after this initial drink that we were escorted to Studio 1 for the main event: dinner and the Disney FanDaze presentation.
The Disney FanDaze presentation
The presentation itself was expertly handled and took place on the main walkway through Disney’s Studio 1 – it was a pure delight to eat in this intimate environment and a unique experience in itself, and something I hope FanDaze gives us more of; we fans love our unique and unusual experiences. The presentation was hosted by Emmanuel Lenormand and Marilyn Magness and the passion that was being exuded from the two of them was so warming to see and equally infectious, the passion was genuine and really allowed for me to feel that a lot of heart is being put into this event. They started off by defining what makes a Disney fan (Hint: It’s a transformation of the heart and somebody who credits that transformation to Walt Disney) before launching into all the details of the events.
The Dance your DuckTales parade
I must admit, when the introduction to the DuckTales parade began with that theme song, a big grin came on my face and, yes, I started singing along (it’s DuckTales, how can you not?). Scrooge came onto the stage with Marilyn and Emmanuel and the Dance your DuckTales parade was announced, I’m a big DuckTales fan and so immediately this appealed to me and it was immediately clear that the same could be said for many in the room who grew up with the Disney Afternoon cartoons. I think this is easily going to be one of the FanDaze highlights.
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Character fans – this one is for you!
Over 50 characters were announced to be present at the Disney FanDaze inaugural party and just some that we already know of are: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, Duffy, Shellie-May, Roger Rabbit, Tale Spin, Joy, Sadness, Bolt, Mittens, Hiro, Youkai, Nick and Judy. There’s a lot more to be announced making this a character lover’s dream.
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One of those exciting announcements is that there will be new limited edition Disney memorabilia on offer; at the moment we have no idea what this could be, but I am willing to bet that it will be something extremely exciting. Limited edition food was heavily mentioned during the event leading me to believe that the offerings will be very special indeed, but again we will have to wait a little bit longer to find out exactly what this entails.
The special surprise!
At the end of the evening we were treated to a very special surprise of many of the Disney characters that will be at Disney FanDaze coming out to meet all of us. The idea was to give us a real feeling as to what the Disney FanDaze inaugural party might be like, and if it is anything like the finale to this event it is clear that it will be both spectacular and memorable.
So… my opinions on Disney FanDaze
The most striking thing about the whole blogger event is how much passion both Emmanuel and Marilyn had for the event, and even better that it was genuine. For a while now Disneyland Paris fans have been asking to be able to meet their favourite rare characters and whilst seeing them on parades and events has been fantastic, there’s never really been a way to interact with them. It looks like Disney FanDaze will be changing all that and that they will be listening intently to the fans. The fans are at the centre of this event, this is an event made for fans, by fans.
And the best news? This is only the first event,there are clearly lots of ideas still being created for future events (and even for this event!) meaning we have a lot to look forward to in the years ahead. I’m also very pleased to see merchandise and food getting a high billing and being a key marketing point for the event – as a Disney Parks fan we are all interested in good merchandise but also unique foods and we really are getting that here.
We still don’t know pricing, a precise date (other than the first weekend of June) and what exactly will be happening – but all this will come in time and you’ll read it first on fan websites such as this one!
This is a promising move for fan events at Disneyland Paris – let’s hope this is a success. I think it’s clear from fan reaction that this inaugural party has a lot of intrigue and we will be hearing a lot more about it in the weeks and months ahead. It truly is fun to be a fan at Disneyland Paris!
To be the first to find out all the news on Disney FanDaze, make sure to keep following this website, or sign up to the official website to get the news straight to your inbox!
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Tomorrow’s Pokemon Direct Will Seemingly Focus Mostly on Sword and Shield
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Based on a new press release, it seems as though the upcoming Pokemon Direct will largely center on revealing new features associated with Sword and Shield.
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are set to have a new Pokemon Direct live stream tomorrow morning that will seemingly divulge future plans for the ever-popular monster-catching series. While specifics of what will be discussed during the event weren’t divulged initially, it seems we now have a better idea of what could be the focus of the showing.
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One of the most anticipated cars of this decade has been the Ferrari 488 for sale. The suffix is a reference to the body style in Italian. Designed without influences from Pininfarina, the sensuous lines are just as functional as they are beautiful. The factory in Maranello is trying to keep pace with demand, which means your chance at a used Ferrari 488 GTB might become a reality in the near future. Being one of the fastest production cars of all time, it is simply too much for drivers unaccustomed with serious performance. Our dealers have a few used examples available for lease or purchase. Included are seven years of maintenance with each new car, which adds to the value and ease of owning this prancing pony.
Capable of reaching 0-60 mph in only 3 seconds, the vehicle has a top speed over 205 mph. The quarter-mile is achieved in only 10.45 seconds thanks to a relatively light curb weight of 3,400 lbs. The flat-plane crankshaft offers a 3.4” bore and 3.3” stroke for quick revs. It uses the latest instability systems is known as SSC or Side Slip Control. It makes use of several accelerometers to keep you on the track. A gentle guiding hand, it is not as intrusive or abrupt as its competitors.
The engine is mid-mounted, just ahead of the rear wheels to provide the best in traction. In a bold move, the price was set at $245,000, which makes it more affordable than other cars in its class. Built as a compact two-seat GT car, it features a twin-turbo 3.9L V8 which produces 670 hp and 561 lb-ft of torque. With that much power at launch, the tires would evaporate. To combat the wear, the computer uses ignition timing and the wastegates to progressively limit full power until top gear. A seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission is the only gearbox offered. The innovative turbos are mounted close to the exhaust ports and fed by equal length runners. Brembo developed all new brake calipers. Taking their traditional six-piston front and four-piston rear, several cooling holes have been cast between the pistons. This will keep the pads from burning while also saving un-sprung weight.
The new Italian Stallion is an incredible installment to the Italian fleet. The mid-mounted, twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 exhibits fluid acceleration without so much as a hint of turbo lag. Driven on a similar playing field as the 458 Speciale, the car has been touted as a highly acclaimed successor. All components, suspension, and power meshed together in a brilliant balance between a track hungry beast and a smooth sailor. The exterior's exquisite appearance truly speaks for this same balance, with definitive lines that echo Formula racing and softer, more subtle curves that lend themselves toward the open road.
Inside the cockpit is a highly stylized representation of pure sport. Equipped with the standard steering wheel controls, control bridge and ergonomic orientation of all functions the car promotes full collaboration between driver and road. As an update, lighter and redesigned seats have been installed. The engine features 661 releasable horses with 560 lb-ft of torque, which can drive the vehicle upwards of 205 mph with a 0-60 time of 3 seconds, flat. Esteemed and unmatched, even beyond the 458 Speciale, this begins a new chapter of supercar history.
2019 488 GTB
The legendary Italian automaker launches the latest model Ferrari 488 GTB for sale with the performance and extravagance the world has come to know and love. A strapping 3.9-liter V8 engine puts forth an unrivaled 661 horsepower generation with a hearty 561 lb-ft of torque and a mind-blowing 0 to 60 acceleration speed of 3 seconds flat. A fresh and adaptive suspension system acts as a complementary component to the robust engine without taking away any of the control when it comes to handling this ferocious beast. Paired with a 7-speed automatic transmission, this exotic Ferrari supercar is what dreams are made of for car connoisseurs around the globe. The distinctive angular curves of the exterior body with a front-rear weight distribution of 41%-58% play up the dramatic allure of the 488 GTB while the interior remains sophisticated and grand. Featuring fine Italian leather seats with contrasting stitching, an uncomplicated panel and a plenty of safety features, there is no mistaking this cabin as anything other than an authentic Ferrari design. Additional changes first noted in the former model, such as Variable Torque Management, remain in place to ensure a comfortable driving experience whether on the highway, a busy city street or a long and winding country backroad. Although the 488 Ferrari certainly looks like it belongs on an Italian race track and has a top speed of 205 MPH to backup this racecar vibe, the 488 GTB is all about high-performance and functionality off the tracks.
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Westhampton Beach Gets Green Light to Hook Up to Gabreski Sewer Plant
March 19, 2018 March 19, 2018 Beth Young 0 Comments
Westhampton Beach, Downtown.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed legislation this past weekend to authorize an agreement with the Village of Westhampton Beach to connect its business district and two condominium complexes to the county’s wastewater treatment plant at Gabreski Airport.
The bill would also allow the village to create a sewer district.
“The connection of this business district to a modern wastewater treatment plant is a win-win that will protect water quality and keep Westhampton Beach’s economy moving forward,” said Mr. Bellone in a statement this weekend. “This is perfect example of how local governments can work cooperatively to share services and save taxpayer dollars.”
“We were delighted to hear that the legislature unanimously passed the resolution allowing for the village’s connection to the Gabreski sewer treatment facility,” said Village of Westhampton Beach Mayor Maria Moore. “The installation of sewers in Westhampton Beach will not only revitalize our Main Street, but will eliminate nearly 5,000 pounds of nitrogen annually from our bay.”
Westhampton Beach officials had considered building a new sewage treatment plant in the village, but ultimately decided the project would be too expensive. A village sewer consultant has estimated that the village will save about $7.4 million by contributing towards an expansion of the county’s treatment plant, known as Suffolk County Sewer District 24, which serves Gabreski Airport, the Air National Guard base and the companies located in the Hampton Business District on the airport property.
The county’s treatment plant at Gabreski Airport will require modifications in order to accommodate the additional sewage from Westhampton Beach. The sewage treatment plant will use the connection fee of $1.8 million from the village to offset the cost of the future modifications, which will increase the plant’s capacity by 50 percent.
Westhampton Beach will be expected to pay $80,000 a year to continue utilizing the treatment plant.
“The Town of Southampton is working very hard to restore our waterways and improve our septic systems without placing undue burden on property owners and businesses,” said Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. “The county’s generous offer to help the Westhampton Beach business district connect to the sewage treatment plant at Gabreski Airport is a smart way to ensure we are protecting the environment and helping the Westhampton Beach business district grow.”
“I am pleased that County Executive Bellone and my colleagues on the legislature recognize the importance of this project for Suffolk County’s economic and environmental health,” added Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming. “A thriving downtown Westhampton Beach and mitigation of nitrogen pollution to Moneybogue Creek, Quantuck Bay and Moriches Bay will benefit our entire region.”
The connection has received approval from the Suffolk County Sewer Agency and is subject to approval from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Groundbreaking on the sewer district is expected to begin in late 2021.
The village and the county anticipate this program will be included in matching funds from New York State for savings reached under the county’s shared services initiative.
The Suffolk County Shared Services Plan, SuffolkShare, was unanimously approved in September and is projected to save nearly $37 million over the course of two years among local governments.
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INPEX RECEIVES ‘SLAP ON WRIST’ FOR RELEASING PFAS INTO DARWIN HARBOUR
The Australian arm of global energy giant INPEX was fined $12,600 by the Federal Department of Environment and Energy for breaching its environmental approval by boiling wastewater containing toxic ‘PFAS’ chemicals at its Darwin Harbour plant, new documents reveal.
Documents obtained by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) under the Freedom of Information 1982 show INPEX boiled toxic wastewater containing PFAS at Bladin Point on Darwin Harbour in September 2018, likely releasing PFAS into the air and allowing it to disperse beyond the site.
The Department’s internal advice states that the offence ‘may have placed the immediate environment including Darwin Harbour at risk of heightened PFAS levels.’
The Department issued INPEX with a fine of $12,600 in April. It is not clear whether the community was notified of the offence beyond a brief reference to the infringement on the Department’s website.
“INPEX has been caught releasing highly toxic chemicals into the Darwin Harbour environment, which is home to threatened wildlife, yet the fine it has received is nothing but a slap on the wrist,” said Shar Molloy, Director of the Environment Centre NT (ECNT).
“Darwin Harbour is home to protected marine animals such as dugongs, rare sawfish, sea turtles and several types of dolphin, along with dozens of native bird species.”
PFAS is toxic to human health and is the subject of continuing court cases in Australia and the USA.
The historical release of PFAS from Defence Force bases and airports has raised concern in communities including Katherinein the Northern Territory, where residents have been found with high levels of the substance, eating fish and crustaceans from local rivers has to be restricted, and property values have plummeted.
“The impact of PFAS on the environment is not fully understood, but recent researchfor the Defence Department finds exposure poses a risk to ecosystems,” Ms Molloy said.
“That the only public notification of this incident seems to be a one line statement from the Federal Department of the Environment, shows how deficient the Northern Territory’s environmental laws are.
The NT Government and companies like INPEX that profit from operating here owe it to the NT community to protect us and the environment we love and rely on from toxic industrial pollution.”
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Kauai Island Co-op Turns to Conservation and Renewables to Offset Power Outage
Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative technicians make repairs at the Kapaia Generation Station following a cable failure that led to rolling blackouts on its system. (Photo By: KIUC)
When its largest power plant failed over the summer, Hawaii’s only electric cooperative leaned on its renewable energy resources, distributed generation owned by its members, and voluntary conservation.
A July 21 cable failure at Kapaia Generating Station triggered the island-wide power outage. “It occurred while three units at our Port Allen Generating Station were undergoing scheduled maintenance or were under repair,” said Beth Tokioka, Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative’s communications manager.
With the help of battery storage, normally used to help meet peak afternoon demand, crews were able to restore service in less than three hours to the co-op’s nearly 37,300 meters. But with limited generation available, rolling blackouts were needed to maintain grid stability.
Overcast skies the following day didn’t help matters. “The lack of sun was a real challenge,” said David Bissell, KIUC’s CEO. “We had virtually no production from our large solar facilities.”
Residential demand was also up in the hours after the outage because co-op members and commercial accountholders who had rooftop solar arrays were getting limited production.
“Most members experienced a 30-minute outage every three to four hours during the rolling blackout phase of the event,” Tokioka said. Members heeded the co-op’s calls for voluntary conservation, which helped eliminate the need for rolling blackouts beyond the first 24 hours after the initial outage.
The co-op’s recommended conservation measures included reduced use of large household appliances like stoves, ovens and laundry equipment during peak hours and temporary increases in thermostat settings to reduce air-conditioning demand.
Once crews located the burned cable, arrangements were made to ship necessary repair parts from the U.S. mainland by air, and co-op operations personnel worked to return one of three units at Port Allen to service.
Improving weather allowed for more electricity production from co-op-owned or contracted solar arrays and the full charging of its battery storage systems. The co-op also received full output from its contracted Green Energy Team biomass plant and its Wainiha hydropower plant, making more power available.
“While we continued to caution members about the possibility of more rolling blackouts, particularly during peak demand periods, those proved not to be necessary,” said Tokioka.
A second Port Allen generation unit was placed back into service two days after the initial outage, and repairs to the Kapaia Generating Station were re-energized a week later, allowing members to resume regular use.
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Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, will make observations of exoplanet-hosting stars to measure small changes in their brightness due to the transit of a planet across the star's disc.
The information will enable precise measurements of the sizes of the orbiting planets, in particular in the Earth-to-Neptune mass range: combined with measurements of the planet masses, this will provide an estimate of their mean density – a first step to characterising planets outside our Solar System.
In this view, the science instrument – which includes the telescope, its aperture covered by a copper-coloured lid – is integrated on top of the spacecraft platform, before the installation of the solar panels.
Recently shipped to France, the satellite will later travel to Switzerland and then to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands for further tests. Finally, it will return to Spain, before shipment to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Cheops, which is implemented as a partnership between ESA and Switzerland, is on track to be ready for launch by the end of the year. It is an exciting period for the Cheops team as they scrutinise every detail of the mission with the spacecraft moving from country to country, and from test to test.
More about the testing campaign: From star positions to images – Cheops operations centres pull together
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Natalie Dormer Is A(nother) Woman We Love
Five minutes. That's all it takes for her to redeem a movie like Captain America or remind us that the best characters on Game of Thrones are as charming as they are ruthless. She needs only five minutes, but Natalie Dormer can have as much time as she wants. But first, a short video, in which we convinced Natalie to give us some hints for the next season of Game of Thrones... PLUS: MORE GORGEOUS PHOTOS OF NATALIE DORMER >>
By Mike Nizza
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Published in the November 2013 issue
First, a story: Picture Ron Howard — director, Oscar winner, Opie. He's just offered a role in his new movie, Rush, to a young British actress. She's on the fence. Instead of moving on, finding one of the countless young actresses who would trip over themselves to appear in a Ron Howard movie, Howard flies to London. He sits in the front row of a small play the actress is doing. Then he asks her to reconsider. That actress, as you may have guessed, is Natalie Dormer. Her answer, as you know if you saw Rush in the fall (or just took a stab at it for the sake of helping us through this anecdote), was yes.
Dormer—who appears alongside Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, and Javier Bardem's hair in Ridley Scott's The Counselor (out October 25) — has this effect on people. They're charmed by her, both onscreen and off. She has a knack for humor — mischief even. In her characters, it's amplified by a persistent rosebud smirk that twists into a wink with every wry line, as if she's always stirring something up. You can picture it as, over the phone, she playfully bemoans the usefulness of the word sex: "It's like Eskimos having however many different words for snow," she says. "It is so inadequate as a word, really."
The thirty-one-year-old knows more than a bit about the different meanings of sex and sexiness, having played a clothes-shedding seductress with some frequency. (Her breakout role was as King Henry VIII's consort on Showtime's The Tudors.) But recently she's been pushing for roles with a little more… complexity. And clothing: "I had a little talk with myself," she says. "I said, 'I have to stop taking these roles where I am just the chick that is throwing herself at the leading man. No disrespect to that role, but I have kind of done it." So far, the push is working. Her best-known character, the calculating princess Margaery Tyrell on HBO's cult-followed Game of Thrones, is nuanced and multidimensional. (Dormer counts Pippa Middleton and Hillary Clinton among her character muses.) And she was just cast in next winter's YA-juggernaut The Hunger Games: Mockingjay as a documentarian tasked with recording the revolution. "If there's game in the title," she says, "I'm there! Ready to play!" Which is exactly the way we feel about her and her movies. Even if she does revert to the nudity.
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Getting Extremely High Saved Kevin Smith's Life During A Heart Attack
That's an official medical fact
By Tom Nicholson
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Weed has been a big part of Kevin Smith's life for a good while now, and according to the man himself it might just be responsible for saving his life.
The director of Clerks had been filming his stand-up show Silent But Deadly in late February when he started to feel a bit odd, but he put it down to the hefty amount of weed he'd already smoked that day.
“I honestly thought I was too high," he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. "I’d smoked a bunch of weed that day because I was doing the show, and then I smoked a joint right before the show, and then I got off stage and all of a sudden I had a heart attack.
"They got me to the hospital and they wheel me into the emergency room and the whole time I’m chill. Like, the guy said, the paramedic, he goes, 'You’re being real calm, that’s going to get you through this.
"And there’s a dude behind him goes, 'That’s what’s going to save his life.'
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"I said, 'Doc, honestly, I just smoked too much weed this morning. That’s what this is.
"He goes, ‘No, quite the opposite. That weed saved your life.'
"And I was like, 'Do tell! Like, what do you mean?’ He said, 'You kept calm. They told you that you were having a massive heart attack, and you remained calm the whole time, so that joint saved your life.'"
It's probably not a medical procedure we're likely to see on Grey's Anatomy any time soon ("We're losing him - GET THIS MAN A FAT DOOB, STAT"), but it's good to know weed has Kevin Smith's back.
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Longwood man spent hundreds using card stolen from his girlfriend
A MAN went on a spending spree after stealing his girlfriend’s bank card.
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Derek Newcombe spent hundreds of pounds on clothes and mobile phones, emptying Cherie Wilkinson’s bank account.
Newcombe, of Grove Street, Longwood, had earlier assaulted Miss Wilkinson and damaged her car.
Abdul Shakoor, prosecuting, said that at the time of the offence the couple had been in a relationship for three months.
On April 28 Miss Wilkinson visited a friend at an address in Batley and later that evening Newcombe arrived with his friend.
Mr Shakoor said: “The defendant was in drink and a bad mood.”
In the early hours of the morning Miss Wilkinson needed some cigarettes and went to her car.
Newcombe tried to take the keys off her and when she threatened to call police, he punched the driver’s side window.
He then called his girlfriend a s**g, grabbing her and then pushing her to the floor.
The following day, Miss Wilkinson noticed that her Lloyds TSB bank card was missing from a compartment in the car.
She called her bank, who informed her that it had been used to make a number of purchases.
A total of £975, including £300 in cash had been emptied from her account.
Mr Shakoor said: “She called the defendant and said: ‘You’ve taken all the money out of my account.
“He replied to her: ‘Yes, It’s the best money I’ve ever spent’.”
The prosecutor said that the spending spree in Huddersfield stores included:
Clothes worth £84 from Bank
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By Geoffrey Nathan, Esq.
If a good is an unauthorized reproduction, even if it appears to come from a legitimate source, it is likely that the crime of counterfeiting has been committed. The offense involves both the creation of these goods or documents, altering these goods or documents and purchasing these goods or documents.
Trafficking of counterfeit goods is an additional crime that often spans interstate and international borders. Because of this, the regulation tends to come from federal government. However, a state is allowed to set and enact the laws that criminalize counterfeiting activity, but the punishment is handed down by the U.S. Congress.
Counterfeiting is an old crime that has been present for hundreds of years. It has long been used as a tool to create instability in the economic climate. Counterfeit money, for instance, damages the currency itself as well as the faith people have in the government. This is why our Founding Fathers ensured the Constitution granted the government power to criminalize counterfeiting. The very first laws to this extent were passed in 1790, and these original laws are still frequently updated to keep abreast of new counterfeiting techniques.
At first, counterfeiting was mainly related to currency, and this is still a very big issue. However, it quickly became clear that criminals also focused on other forms of security, as well as tools (including digital technology). Furthermore, counterfeiters often copy a trademark, thereby altering merchandise or goods. This comes under the Counterfeiting Trademarks and Other Intellectual Property.
Finally, there are the laws pertaining to international counterfeiting. It is illegal to counterfeit foreign securities, currencies, tools or goods. This includes those made by foreign corporations or banks, but only if the act of counterfeiting occurs in this country.
All these areas apply to documents, bids, bonds, proposals, contracts, affidavits, public records, import documents, seals of agencies, court documents, stamps, meters and more.
Texas Laws and Penalties
The penalties for counterfeiting are brought down by the federal government. Although the punishment varies depending on the severity of the case, they include:
A fine of up to $250,000 and/or a prison sentence up to 20 years for U.S. obligations and securities and foreign obligations and securities.
A fine of up to $250,000 and/or a prison sentence of up to 25 years for for possessing stones, plates and other items used in the production of counterfeit items.
Up to 10 years imprisonment for putting parts of different bank notes together in order to create a new note.
Up to 15 years imprisonment for counterfeiting coins over 5 cents or gold/silver bars.
Up to 5 years in prison for trying to pass counterfeit precious metal bars.
Texas Counterfeit Penalties
Under certain circumstances, the penalties delivered may be much harsher. If, for instance, there has been a financial loss or gain for someone other than the defendant, a fine may be included that doubles the amount that was lost or gained by the third party.
Texas Statute of Limitations
The statue of limitation for counterfeiting charges in Texas is 10 years. If the federal government has not brought charges within that time period, they are no longer able to prosecute at all. However, the statue of limitation can be suspended or tolled depending on circumstances, which means that the period could actually be longer. However, an official note of this has to be made.
Key Texas Counterfeiting Cases
– 7 indicted in Texas counterfeit DVD, CD cases – Seven residents of South Texas have recently been indicted in a counterfeit DVD and CD case, which lead to over 58,000 fake items being seized. Six people in Corpus Christi have been arrested and now face copyright infringement charges. The seventh suspect has not been found yet. The group distributed their wares on flea markets and through at least one registered company.
– Central Texas Couple Sentenced In Counterfeit Money Case – Couple Christina Lynn Turner and David Scott Turner have plead guilty to using counterfeit U.S. money in a Hill County convenience store. Mrs Turner received a one year and one day sentence as well as two years supervised release. Additionally, she has to pay a fine of $1,000, restitution of $150 and $100 to the court for a special assessment. Mr Turner received a sentence of 3 years and 10 months, a two year supervised release period and had to pay the same fines as his wife. The charges related to them using a knowingly forged $50 in a Mt. Calm convenience store
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95 percent of survey respondents are likely to sign up for subscription services; groceries and transport rated as top two services they would like to enjoy benefits on from a subscription service
SINGAPORE, 15 January 2018 – Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, NTUC FairPrice (FairPrice) and Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform, Grab, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to embark on a joint initiative to launch a new subscription service. Tapping cross-industry strengths from both organisations, the strategic partnership is designed to complement consumers’ online-to-offline lifestyle, while offering better value, convenience and access on essential goods and services in Singapore.
Mr Seah Kian Peng, CEO, NTUC FairPrice, said, “FairPrice is here to make lives better and our strategic partnership with Grab signifies our ongoing efforts to cater to the evolving needs of the community. Together, we look to create a more rewarding experience for our customers by providing better value and greater convenience through a programme that is tailored to their lifestyle needs.”
Mr Anthony Tan, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Grab, said, “At Grab, we are constantly looking at ways to create value for our customers. We are excited to see the launch of this mutually beneficial partnership, which allows our customers to benefit from additional discounts and perks from FairPrice, the retailer with the largest footprint in Singapore. With both supermarket and transport services as part of this initiative, we are thrilled to provide greater cost-savings and convenience for time-strapped Singaporeans.”
A survey[1] of over 1,000 customers between the ages of 20 to 40 years old revealed that 95 percent are likely to subscribe to such services; 56 percent of the respondents indicated they are not currently subscribed to any existing service. Groceries (69 percent) and Transport (54 percent) also top the list of services[2] they want to enjoy benefits on from a subscription service.
Consumers who opt for this new subscription service by Grab and Fairprice will enjoy exclusive savings, rebates, and access to services on groceries and transport. It is targeted for launch in the first quarter of 2018 where further details will be revealed.
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by Bryce Baschuk
The World Trade Organization is poised to issue another key ruling in the U.S. trade fight over China’s agricultural trade practices.
The WTO said it will make public on Thursday its determination as to whether China imposed illegal restrictions on farm imports and failed to implement its regulations in a transparent and fair manner.
The Obama-era case alleged Beijing violated WTO rules by applying discriminatory agricultural tariff-rate quotas for rice, wheat, and corn that unfairly undermined the ability of U.S. farmers to export their grains. If China is found to have violated WTO policy, Beijing would have to revise its quota programs or face the prospect of trade retaliation from Washington.
A U.S. win could increase Chinese market access for U.S. farmers at a time when they are struggling to compete amid the fallout of President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Resolving the Dispute
As part of China’s WTO accession agreement, Beijing pledged to set specific quota levels for wheat, corn, and rice by applying a lower tariff rate to imports up to a certain quantity and then applying higher duties to imports that exceed the threshold.
But China never reached its agreed-upon threshold for agricultural tariff-rate quotas despite lower global prices that favored the importation of grains into China, the U.S. complaint said.
The U.S. alleged Beijing’s procedures were not clearly specified and prevented exporters from filling the tariff-rate quotas. Had China complied with its WTO obligations, Beijing would have permitted an additional $3.5 billion worth of crops to be imported into China, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told U.S. lawmakers in March that he was talking to his Chinese counterparts about “ resolving” the dispute as well as a separate one within the context of the Trump administration’s broader trade negotiations with Beijing.
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Sia is Writing Music for a Pop Star Drama Starring Rooney Mara
By Sarah Seltzer
Well, this is appropriate. Sia is writing a group of songs to soundtrack a new film about a pop star, who will be played by Rooney Mara. Let the Britney comparisons commence (or Xtina? Or Rihanna?)!
Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Vox Lux will be a 15-year odyssey, taking place from 1999 to present day, and will track the rise of singer Celeste to superstardom while looking at the major cultural evolutions of the 21st century through her eyes.”
The director will be former child actor Brady Corbett, in one of his first helmed projects. As an older millennial who came of age just as the Backstreet Boys, Britney, et. al first came on the scene and replaced “alternative” music, I’m excited. Music movies are either amazing or so amazingly terrible that they spawn the best parodies ever.
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Liverpool have parted ways with Lazar Marković who has joined Fulham on a free but permanent short-term deal, for the rest of the season.
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The Serbian arrived in 2014 as part of an attempt by Brendan Rodgers and the infamous transfer committee to replace quality with quantity. He started well enough, deployed mostly in his favoured position on the right wing, and he was equally good as a wing-back during the brief, and for a while successful, 3-4-3 experiment in at the start of 2015.
However, as Rodgers abandoned it having been found out, Marković was demoted to the bench and acted as a makeshift right-back a few times with the manager reluctant to give Javi Manquillo his 20th appearance – which would have activated the club’s obligation to sign the Spaniard on a permanent deal.
With Raheem Sterling gone to Manchester City that summer, the team that was mostly fielded through the pre-season included Marković in the “number 10” role. It suited him well, and it was to be expected he would be given a more prominent role in 2015/16. However, he was surprisingly loaned out to Fenerbahce prior to the season’s start, and the Serbian media reported that a rift had arisen between him and Rodgers, with the Northern Irishman unwilling to promise not to deploy him at fullback again.
Having completed a season in Turkey, Marković failed to impress Jurgen Klopp the following summer and was shipped of to Sporting Lisbon, which proved a disastrous move. Liverpool had signed him from Benfica, Sporting’s fierce rivals, and his past was never forgiven by the fans. Tensions arose and his form plummeted heavily, and the loan was cancelled halfway through the season.
He was decent enough at Hull City in the spring of 2017 and the Tigers considered a permanent deal afterwards, but they wouldn’t meet Liverpool’s asking price and he stayed put until January last year, with absolutely no chance of featuring for the first team. Then he went to Anderlecht for the rest of the season, and the Belgian side were keen to make it permanent last summer. They had agreed a fee of just under £3 million, only for Marković to refuse the personal terms offered to him.
After so much trouble and toil, both the player and the club will be relieved to finally part ways, and it should be said that Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrović had a helping hand in getting the deal over the line.
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Fonterra’s general manager operations and supply chain, Bruce Donnison, talks about the innovation and development that has lead to Fonterra’s success within the dairy sector, and the industry at large.
Q. What do you think has contributed most to Fonterra’s success this year?
A. On June 1st, 2007, Fonterra formed the ANZ business unit which, bringing together a number of Australian and New Zealand food companies, aims to leverage Fonterra’s global capacity to make certain its customers are delivered safe products that taste great, are convenient and highlight the nutritional benefits of milk.
I believe innovation has been the key to Fonterra’s success.
Having a presence in 140 countries around the world enables us to leverage our experience to ensure we provide customers in Australasia with the right products at the right time.
Fonterra will continue to invest in developing innovative products that allow consumers to have healthier snacking options over the next 24 months.
As part of its $44 million investment in national dairy food production, Fonterra is upgrading the Darnum Park site to extend its production capabilities beyond whole milk powders to nutritional infant milk powders for the South East Asian market in particular.
Q. What products have driven growth at Fonterra and across the dairy sector?
A. Dairy manufacturers have encouraged greater consumption [of milk] by tailoring products to consumer needs, such as value-added products that have strong shelf presence.
Fonterra has introduced many innovative products in the last year that have capitalised on consumers’ increased awareness of, and demand for, healthy and nutritious dairy products.
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The product leverages…attractive packaging, great taste and nutritional benefits that appeal to both children and adults.
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Ebola drugs show ‘90% survival rate’ in breakthrough trial
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Ebola may soon be a “preventable and treatable” disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said.
Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is a major outbreak of the virus.
More than 90% of infected people can survive if treated early with the most effective drugs, the research showed.
The drugs will now be used to treat all patients with the disease in DR Congo, according to health officials.
On Tuesday, two people cured of Ebola using the experimental drugs were released from a treatment centre in Goma, eastern DR Congo, and reunited with their families.
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which co-sponsored the trial, said the results are “very good news” for the fight against Ebola.
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The drugs, named REGN-EB3 and mAb114, work by attacking the Ebola virus with antibodies, neutralising its impact on human cells.
They are the “first drugs that, in a scientifically sound study, have clearly shown a significant diminution in mortality” for Ebola patients, said Dr Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID.
The drug mAb114 was developed using antibodies harvested from survivors of Ebola while REGN-EB3 comes from antibodies generated within mice infected with the disease.
Ebola has killed more than 1,800 people in DR Congo in the past year.
Two other treatments, called ZMapp and Remdesivir, have been dropped from trials as they were found to be less effective.
What were the results of the trial?
The trial, conducted by an international research group co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), began in November last year.
Since then, four experimental drugs have been tested on around 700 patients, with the preliminary results from the first 499 now known.
Image caption Health workers dressed in protective suits disinfect an ambulance at an Ebola treatment centre in DR Congo
Of the patients given the two more effective drugs, 29% on REGN-EB3 and 34% on mAb114 died, NIAID said.
In contrast, 49% on ZMapp and 53% on Remdesivir died in the study, the agency said.
The survival rate among patients with low levels of the virus in their blood was as high as 94% when they were given REGN-EB3, and 89% when on mAb114, the agency said.
The findings mean health authorities can “stress to people that more than 90% of people survive” if they are treated early, said Sabue Mulangu, an infectious-disease researcher who worked on the trial.
What impact could the drugs have?
Hailing the success of the study, Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, said the treatments would “undoubtedly save lives”.
The findings, Mr Farrar said, indicate scientists are getting closer to turning Ebola into a “preventable and treatable” disease.
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“We won’t ever get rid of Ebola but we should be able to stop these outbreaks from turning into major national and regional epidemics,” he added.
A sense that Ebola is incurable, paired with widespread mistrust of medical workers in the DR Congo, has hampered efforts to stop the spread of the disease.
It is hoped that the effectiveness of the drugs, made by US-based pharmaceutical firms, will make patients feel “more comfortable about seeking care early”, said Dr Fauci.
But the best way to end the outbreak, he added, is “with a good vaccine”. A vaccine is a type of medicine that improves immunity to a particular disease, as a preventative measure.
The World Health Organization (WHO) sayvaccines developed to protect against Ebola, which are allowed for “compassionate use” before official licensing, have proven highly effective.
How serious is the DR Congo outbreak?
The current outbreak in eastern DR Congo began in August last year and is the biggest of the 10 to hit the country since 1976, when the virus was first discovered.
In July,the WHO declared the Ebola crisis in the country a “public health emergency of international concern”.
But it is dwarfed by the West African epidemic of 2014-16, which affected 28,616 people, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 11,310 people died in what was the largest outbreak of the virus ever recorded.
Image caption Congolese health workers prepare to administer Ebola vaccinations
However, attempts to contain the latest outbreak are proving difficult. In particular, militia group violence and suspicion towards foreign medical assistance have hindered efforts.
Earlier this month,three Congolese doctors were arrested in DR Congo over the killing of a WHO medic.
About 200 health facilities have been attacked in the country this year, causing disruption to vaccinations and treatments. In one incident, family members assaulted health workers who were overseeing the burial of their relative.
A 2018 study published in the Lancet medical journal says “belief in misinformation was widespread” concerning the Ebola outbreak.
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Ebola is a virus that initially causes sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and a sore throat
It progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea and both internal and external bleeding
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Is Ford Motor Company Falling a Step Behind Rival General Motors?
By Daniel MillerFool.com
Expect the EcoSport to start selling in the U.S. at some point, even if it's late to the game. Image source: Ford Motor Company.
There are a lot of developments that suggest Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has had the drop on rival General Motors (NYSE: GM) for years. You can start with the fact that Ford survived the Great Recession on its own dime. You can note that Ford Credit is generating the kind of business GM Financial hopes to achieve years down the road. You can definitely point out that Ford reinstated its dividend roughly two years before its rival did.
Ford has definitely beaten GM to the punch many times in recent years, but here are two product decisions that show Ford is lagging behind.
Where art thou, subcompact crossover?
Ford management has mentioned many times that it believes there's a double opportunitycoming in terms of demand for its SUVs and crossovers: Millennials are entering their child-rearing years, and many aging empty-nest baby boomers simply prefer this vehicle category. So why is it, then, that Ford has yet to fill its SUV/crossover offering with a subcompact crossover in the U.S., something smaller than the Escape?
Looking at U.S. sales through August, Fiat Chrysler's Jeep Renegade has soared to the top of the segment, with sales topping 70,000, while General Motors owns two of the top five spots with the Buick Encore and Chevrolet Trax, generating 49,187 and 45,598 units, respectively. You can even expect the Trax to jump up in the rankings next year when sales of the refreshed 2017 model hit full speed.
While Ford can't simply snap its fingers and magically produce a subcompact crossover in the States, it's not as if the company doesn't produce one elsewhere. You may have heard of Ford's EcoSport, which is currently offered in Europe, China, India, and Brazil. It's a crossover based on the Fiesta's architecture, and would fit with Ford's global vehicle-lineup ambitions.
Even Ford's luxury Lincoln lineup could use a new SUV offering smaller than the MKC, which could be built on the same architecture if the EcoSport were indeed produced in the States. Moreover, it's not difficult to imagine a small crossover like the EcoSport being turned into a plug-in hybrid as part of Ford's plan to invest $4.5 billion in 13 electrified models by 2020.
A subcompact crossover makes perfect sense for Ford's lineup in the U.S., and it could very likely be introduced here sooner rather than later. But with Jeep's Renegade atop the segment and two of GM's offerings not far behind, Ford has been uncharacteristically slow in making this a reality.
Hate to say "I told you so"...
Ford's Ranger remains globally popular. Image source: Ford Motor Company.
We had some good debates here at The Motley Fool, between a couple of us colleagues, about whether it was a good idea to bring Ford's Ranger backto the U.S. market. Originally (this was before General Motors announced it would bring back the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon), I was wondering why,if Detroit automakers had done so well shutting Japanese autos out of the full-size-truck market, were they giving Japanese rivals entry-level-truck consumers by leaving the midsize-truck market entirely.
We know truck buyers are fiercely loyal, so giving away the entry-level midsize-truck segment seemed to me like a very poor decision.My argument was that it was a mistake that would end up costing Detroit autos loyal truck buyers in the long run, while others argued the midsize trucks would cannibalize sales from the bread-and-butter full-size trucks, which carry higher price tags. Both arguments are likely true to some degree, but one debate that's settled is whether General Motors could bring the midsize trucks back with instant success.
With a full quarter to go in 2016, sales of Chevy's Colorado are only a couple of weeks' worth of sales behind 2015's total of 84,430. Just last month the Colorado set its best monthly sales result since it was reintroduced in the states, and its year-to-date sales are 26% higher than last year's. That puts the Colorado on pace for its best full-year result in a decade.
It's been rumored, and is essentially all but confirmed by Ford, that as the automaker moves production of small cars to Mexico over the next couple of years, it will shift toproducing more higher-margin vehicles -- most likely a new Bronco and Ranger. While you might not agree with the decision to bring back midsize trucks, if we assume the Ranger does end up selling in the U.S. again, it will certainly be a step behind GM's two midsize trucks.
For the folks at the Blue Oval, who have generally been a step ahead of their Detroit competition over the past decade, these two decisions were uncharacteristically a step too slow. Now let's see if Ford can make up lost time.
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