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Zomato revenues up 3x, gold plan sees growth
Zomato, which is in middle of raising $400-500 million from new and existing investors, clocked 214 million orders worth $821 million during the period ending in September 2019. TNN | October 02, 2019, 08:25 IST
Bengaluru: Online food delivery and restaurant discovery platform Zomato said its revenue grew by 225% to $205 million (Rs 1,459 crore), while managing to reduce its burn rate by about 40% in the first six months of the current financial year, compared to the same period last year.
Zomato, which is in middle of raising $400-500 million from new and existing investors, clocked 214 million orders worth $821 million during the period ending in September 2019.
The 11-year-old startup did not disclose absolute numbers on its profit or losses in this report. At the end of March 2019, the company had said it cut its losses for each delivery by over 40% at Rs 25.
“We achieved tremendous results in optimising our costs, without affecting new product launches or innovation,” Zomato said in the half-yearly report. So far in 2019, Zomato has fired 600 from its customer support team. To go back to the financial year ending March 2019, Zomato’s overall cost had swelled by over six times to $500 million, largely attributed to the food delivery business.
While the company faced several weeks of protests from restaurant partners over its Gold programme — which now has been extended for delivery orders — the Gurgaon-based company said active restaurants on Gold has increased to 6,300 compared to 6,100 when the #logout campaign was started by National Restaurants Association of India (NRAI) in August.
Zomato Gold’s subscriber base has increased by 180% to 1.4 million globally. While Gold for delivery was launched here on September 21, Zomato has added 10,000 restaurants under the delivery vertical. Following the protests, Zomato tweaked the Gold programme, for example limiting the usage to once per day.
Interestingly, Zomato’s average monthly transacting users grew by over 200% at 11.2 million users with an average monthly frequency of 3.6 orders a month. This is of significance, given it is facing a fierce fight from Bengaluru-based rival Swiggy. In the last six months, the company has increased its reach to 500 cities compared to 200 cities in April this year.
Zomato’s volumes in the top 15 cities have doubled in the last 12 months, while the remaining cities already contribute 35% to the total order volumes. It has over 2 lakh (jump of 308%) active monthly delivery partners along with 1.19 lakh (jump of 177%) active restaurants on its platform in the period under review. It cut incentives per delivery last month resulting in protests by delivery executives in Mumbai and Bengaluru.
“The number of restaurant listings globally on Zomato has grown from 1.2 million in September 2018 to 1.5 million in September 2019. Half of this increase comes from India alone,” the company added.
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Posted on June 1, 2019 by Margaret R.
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The shooter who opened fire indiscriminately in a Virginia Beach city building Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and sending at least four others to the hospital, was a disgruntled employee, a Virginia government source briefed on the investigation told CNN.
The shooter, a public utilities worker, died after a long, moving gunfight with officers, Police Chief James Cervera told reporters.
Four people were in surgery Friday night, the chief said. Hospital officials said three people are in critical condition and one is in fair condition.
“This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach,” said Mayor Bobby Dyer. “The people involved are our friends, coworkers, neighbor, colleagues.”
Cervera said one person was shot in a car and the gunman fired indiscriminately as he went through all three floors of Building 2 at the city’s municipal center.
An officer involved in the gunfight was shot. The officer survived, thanks to a ballistic vest, the police chief said.
The shooting suspect was identified as DeWayne Craddock, according to a law enforcement official and a Virginia government source.
Craddock, 40, worked as a certified professional engineer for the city of Virginia Beach in the Public Utilities Department. He is listed on department news releases as a point of contact for information on local road projects over the past several years.
Authorities are investigating a possible motive.
The guy’s got a gun’
Edward Weeden, who works in the building, told CNN affiliate WAVY that people heard someone falling in a stairwell and went to investigate. He and his coworkers saw a woman who was down, blood all over her face.
One of Weeden’s coworkers went up to the next floor and came right back. “Get out of the building. The guy’s got a gun,” the woman said.
Weeden said he was unsure at first how to react.
“In a way you want to stay, in a way you don’t want to stay,” he said.
Gordon Rago, a reporter at The Virginian-Pilot, said witnesses described the scene as “frantic.”
He said the shooting occurred when people were still visiting the municipal center to conduct business.
Witnesses told him that SWAT officers were running down the street, directing them to get inside.
“I’ve talked to people who said that they were hiding under their desks,” Rago said.
Police found a pistol and a rifle at the scene that investigators believe were used in the shooting, according to a law enforcement official.
The suspect is thought to have purchased the firearms legally, according to initial information that investigators have, the source says.
The chief confirmed that a .45 caliber pistol, a supressor and several empty, higher-capacity magazines were found near the gunman but wouldn’t comment on the presence of a rifle.
Vice Mayor James Wood said people can take guns into public buildings, but not schools or courts.
The mass shooting took place in Building 2 of the municipal center, according to police.
Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center houses the operations building for the city, which include multiple departments.
The FBI is also responding to the incident to aid local authorities, an FBI spokeswoman told CNN. The chief said state police had sent a forensics team.
The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in the US since November.
In that shooting, 12 people were killed at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. Officials said that gunman, Ian David Long, shot an unarmed security guard outside the bar, went in and continued shooting, injuring other security workers, employees and patrons. Long died by suicide.
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine tweeted that he was devastated by the news.
“My heart is with everyone who lost a loved one, and I’m praying for a swift recovery for all those who have been injured,” he said.
Sen. Mark Warner wrote: “Praying for all involved as we learn more.”
“We are praying for our city, the lives that were lost, their families and everyone affected,” singer Pharrell Williams, who grew up in Virginia Beach, tweeted. “We are resilient. We will not only get through this but we’ll come out of this stronger than before we always do.”
President Trump has been briefed on the shooting, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said.
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Titans Return. Or How My Wallet Learned to Hate Hasbro
So, a big part of my general Geekery remains Transformer collecting. However, it was a hobby that had largely fallen by the wayside over the last decade aside from displaying the figures I already had. The arrival of the movies led to a style in the toys I ended up not really caring for.
If nothing else it saved a fair bit of cash.
That all started to change with the introduction of the Generations line ahead of the 30th anniversary. New toys being released that directly homage the original line of G1 Transformers. Over the years the Generations line started to grow, and I have to wonder if this was partly a reaction to the growing trend of third party companies producing their own versions of popular characters and targeting the adult collector market. Certainly some of the third party toys look very impressive. And some have reacted by targeting the IDW comics versions of characters, giving us their takes on fan favourites like Tarn. I picked up the occasional figure, but it was still just something I picked up from time to time.
At some point however, Hasbro obviously realised there was more money to be made in the nostalgia-fuelled adult collector market. Following the Generations releases, the next line to really capitalise on this was Combiner Wars. A full sub-line providing new versions of the classic Combiner toys. A larger voyager class toy that can also form a torso, and four deluxe class toys that form limbs, each one a Transformer in their own right. As an update of the old “Scramble City” teams I think it was fair to say it was a big success, nicely walking the line between appealing to old school fans, while still very much being a toy kids could play with (unlike some other lines of collectable action figures). They kept catching my eye but at the time I’d still lost the collecting bug. To be honest I’m still kicking myself for not getting a Superion, although I have since picked up the boxsets for G2 Menasor and Computron, both of which are excellent. And the line was certainly a massive hit with fans, providing great new versions of classic toys, with many striving to complete their combiner teams (admittedly, another plus of the later box sets).
Clearly keen to build on this success Hasbro quickly announced a new line to follow on from Combiner Wars. This time called Titans Return and inspired by the Head Masters gimmick from 1986 or thereabouts. The accidental appearance of a banner (then under the name “Titan Wars”) ruined the surprise a bit.
A lot of my major G1 memories come in from the point of the 1985 movie and the subsequent toys and comics. As a result the later “master” gimmicks and characters are pretty close to my heart. Combine new versions of the classic Headmasters (most of which I’d eyed on eBay from time to time), with additions such as Powermaster Optimus Prime (probably my all time favourite Optimus, despite its limitations) and Blaster (who I’d never owned), then there was a lot of fun to be had.
The line itself quickly branched out to characters that weren’t originally Headmasters, with characters like Hot Rod making an appearance. The various Decepticon Target Masters have also seen a revamp, with Triggerhappy a fan favourite of the line, thanks to looking great in both modes, but also having a really interesting and fun transformation.
The line has also given us some other new things to discuss. “Pre-tooling” has now become a thing. Re-tools are common in toy land, where an existing toy gets a new colour scheme and some of their details remoulded to form a new character. In this case, triple changers of Optimus and Megatron were released, and both their modes and triple changing gimmick clearly marked them out as pre-cursors of original G1 triple changers Octane and Blitzwing (Astrotrain having previously been released – although even he was preceded by a “Sentinel Prime” use of the mould). I guess in this case, they were using the toys who were the bigger “names” to boost sales and justify creating the new triple changers (although this is certainly arguable with Sentinel Prime / Astrotrain – unless Sentinel Prime is close enough to Optimus, or still enjoying some post-Dark of the Moon popularity).
There was also a minor controversy over readily available Legends figures, including Brawn, Roadburn and Seaspray, from China via eBay. These frequently showed mould differences to their shop-bought counterparts, and fairly often might be missing pieces. Its still anyone’s guess as to their origin, as in many ways they were far too good to be considered knock offs. Not to mention they were from the current line, and included apparently legit packaging and instructions. Some sort of factory cast offs perhaps? Who knows, but it provided an interesting discussion point in the community.
Of course, the headline piece of the line was a new Fortress Maximus. Heavily re-tooled from the previous 30th anniversary Metroplex this is a figure that called to me. As one of the biggest Transformers ever, and leader of the Autobot Headmasters, Fort Max has always been a fan favourite. Occasionally available via reissues of the original mould via new colour schemes to reuse the character in Japan, there was disappointment when a planned western re-release was scrapped due to the toy failing modern safety standards.
The idea that Hasbro might do a whole new Fortress Maximus, cashing in on his mystique as the largest G1 toy (and only recently surpassed by the 30th anniversary Metroplex), and including his old double Headmaster gimmick seemed too good to be true. Needless to say there was some excitement when he was finally unveiled.
I previous skipped the Metroplex. While it looked really good, I didn’t really have that much attachment to it. Reports of some issues due to his size didn’t help, and to be honest it’s still rather his G1 toy I’d like to pick up one day. That said, the Fortress Maximus use of the mould just looks nicer to me. The remould giving him a bit more bulk and improving the look of the toy. Various versions were soon spotted, with an SDCC exclusive version becoming widely available featuring a slightly altered colour scheme and the Master Sword missing from the general retail version.
For myself, I eventually cracked and bought the Japanese version when I found it at a decent price in a sale (no doubt thanks to the wide availability of the SDCC version, allowing people to get a version with the sword without paying the initially steeper price for the Japanese version). The included three piece Master Sword, grey borders on the legs and red paint apps on the hips evoking the cannons of the original toy really drew me to it. As well as the Japanese voice chip. Being honest I also preferred the Japanese “Fortress” version of the Headmaster to the western “Cerebros” (both being very different characters when you compare Japanese Headmasters to their US cousins). While there’s a debate to have over which is superior, the original or the Titans Return version, there’s no denying that Fortress Maximus is an impressive chunk of plastic. The height of the Titan class clearly marking him out compared to the other available toys, and while the original probably has the better city mode, there’s still a lot of value in this new version, especially when combined with the Titan Masters (the new name for the Head Masters) themselves.
Of course, there’s also been countless other great toys. The previously mentioned Megatron triple changer actually makes for a great G1 Megatron. Hardhead was one of the G1 Headmasters I always wanted, and his Titans Return update is great. Fortress Maximus has now been joined by another Titan-class toy in the form of Trypticon, something I hadn’t originally been fussed about, but the more I see him, the more the giant Transforming Dinosaur really grabs me. It helps that leaks point to the next Titan Class toy likely to be a new version of Predaking. Something much of the fanbase will be excited over, but he’s never been a combiner that’s called to me. That said, I will be interested to see how he turns out, given what Combiner Wars produced, but at the larger size class.
There’s also the true superstars of the line, in the form of the Titan Masters themselves. Its a real shame the standalone Titan Masters haven’t had better distribution in the UK (at time of writing, only the first two waves ever made an appearance). They’re great little toys and provide a great load of options for fidgeting with. The Titan Masters themselves are able to sit in the cockpits of the larger toys, ride the vehicle they come with, transform into alternate heads for the larger toys or combine with their vehicles for another mode. The vehicle also turns into a weapon the larger toys can hold. The ability to mix and match is a great part of the line, and its a real shame Hasbro UK hasn’t been able to release the later toys, as there’s a great play pattern here that they really could’ve pushed more. The ability to take a single deluxe class (Hardhead), but then combine him with other Titan Masters (personally I find Brawn and Clobber work well) to give you other characters is a great option, and from a display point of view (that being mostly what I get them for), its great for freshening up the look of things without using up even more desk/shelf space.
I won’t deny I’ve spent a fair amount on Titans Return. I’ve by no means been the completest I was in the past, but even then so much of what was released appealed. It’ll be interesting to see what the next line brings. From what’s been revealed so far, there’s already an interesting mix of “must buy” and “probably skip”. That new Rodimus Prime will easily be a pre-order for me, although I’m not sure if I quite like the little Prime Masters (or whatever they’re called), as much as the Titan Masters. Its quite cool that they’re digging into the mythology of the different Primes though, and its a fun way to integrate the old Pretender toys into a more modern line.
There’s no denying that Hasbro are hitting a lot of the right buttons for the collector market at the moment. The third party vendors are still doing their thing, offering some more complex variations, or upgrade kits for the Hasbro toys, but I’m really enjoying the fact there’s a mass market option that appeals to me again.
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Home Concentration Camps A Tale of Terezin: A Preface to “Legacies, Lies and Lullabies...
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A Tale of Terezin: A Preface to “Legacies, Lies and Lullabies – The World of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor” by Esther Vivien Levy.
Update: Originally published April 2013, with larger photos included.
A Tale of Terezin is a tale of my mother’s most tragic and challenging time of her life, a story recited to me many times throughout my early years and frequently embellished by the detailed accounts of her parents’ memories. These beloved relatives are all gone now, but this is my legacy. I feel I possess more character traits of my mother and grandmother than do my siblings and have always felt that the story of my Czech side of the family was part of my soul, my waking life, my subconscious.
My mother, Miryam Sapsovic Levy once mentioned the children’s opera “Brundibar” as written by someone who perished at Auschwitz, and this later was part of a Nazi propaganda film. She never mentioned if her sister was part of the cast, only that she lived in a girls’ barrack (group home L410 or elsewhere?) and toiled in the German vegetable gardens.
I viewed a bit of “Brundibar” in the videotape “The Journey of Butterfly” and sitting in the theater at Terezin, and on my first of two tours (so far) I watched the propaganda film, “The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a Town.” My aunt Zora, who perished at Terezin at age 14, was supposed to have starred in a propaganda film but when she was asked to undress (to swim in the officers’ pool?), she protested bitterly and a Nazi officer said that it was okay, she didn’t have to.
Yet my mother always insisted that she acted in a propaganda film. But perhaps her childhood memories aren’t entirely accurate. I keep searching for Zora’s face in documentaries and the film, but then I remember that Zorinka died of typhus on February 11, 1943.
I was on a bus tour of the Small Fortress several years ago and on a later trip I was very fortunate to have a private tour of the Ghetto with the remarkable Pavel Stransky—who just turned 90—a survivor of Terezin, Auschwitz (where he, along with Fredy Hirsch, taught the children in the Czech Family Camp B2B before they were sent to the gas chambers) and Schwarzeheide labor camp—where he survived the death march back to Theresienstadt. I have read his biography, “As Messengers For the Victims.” I hope to return to Prague and to the Terezin Ghetto. Terezin seems like a ghost town, there are only 1000 residents left, all Christians.
Pavel Stransky
I have read all the Terezin journals and biographies I could find, including “The Cat with the Yellow Star,” “The Girls of Room 28,” “Fortress of My Youth,” “The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich,” “Nesarim,” etc. I am infused with the desire to claim this part of the Bohemian land as my own. I hope to one day visit “Beit Theresienstadt” in Jerusalem.
I deeply mourn the untimely loss of my mother on May 22, 2006 at age 74. She is in my soul, I think of her every day, I still wear her hats, scarves, dresses and jewelry. I very much regret not acquiring my grandmother’s poignant tales in writing or on tape before it would have risked her fragile health. These vivid accounts would have become the cornerstone of my book manuscript, “Memoirs of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor.” Emotional, passionate and animated, my grandmother Fanny Sapsovic, who died at 81, was the family historian—and so I feel the need to take over. Grandfather Ludvik passed away in April 2005, just 3 weeks shy of his hundredth birthday, also could have embellished upon what I already knew of his tale of Terezin.
Grandfather Ludvik and family
After my mother passed away I found treasures of hers in a plastic Ziploc bag in storage, items she never shared with me, like German documents, deportation papers, visa papers, her yellow star of David patch, so many things. She was a sunny optimist till her later years, didn’t want to talk about the past and wanted to leave it behind, like a typical child.
I was disappointed there was very little on Theresienstadt at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,D.C., where I recently visited.
With laughter and tears, I leave to my daughters and the public at large this tale, which I acquired by holding my poor mother captive with my tape recorder as she drove to a doctor’s appointment in New York City.
Esther Levy
Postscript May 2, 2011
I have miraculously made the acquaintance of two Terezin survivors yesterday, Marta Fried and Ela Stein Weissberger (Ela played the Cat in the “Brundibar” children’s opera for 55 performances in Theresienstadt). Bless them, I think they will become my two honorary aunties. I have learned that Zorinka was the first to die from her barrack, in Room 27 at building L410, where Marta was also residing. Ela was next door in Room 28. I now understand that my grandmother was incorrect in telling me that Zorinka’s whole barrack was poisoned (contaminated water) and all the girls also died of typhus. This was probably what my grandparents were told, in an attempt to soften their grief perhaps (which didn’t help, obviously).
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Comment: history makers and record breakers at the Rio 2016 Velodrome
Just as the rest of the world thinks it has caught up, the Brits take another step forward
by Colin Henrys
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History makers and record breakers… Great Britain’s cyclists proved once again they are unparalleled when it comes to the Olympic Games.
Poor performances in the build-up to the Games and an institution in ‘crisis’ following Shane Sutton’s resignation as coach in the wake of discrimination allegations – this was supposed to be the rest of the world’s chance to hit back.
But Team GB’s track cyclists know how to peak for an Olympic Games better than anybody – storming to the top of the cycling medal table for the third consecutive Games.
Beijing in 2008 set the tone, London 2012 continued the theme and Rio 2016 cemented the place of some of Britain’s best ever cyclists in Olympic history.
British Cycling’s pursuit of excellence – and its talented team of backroom staff – has paid dividends at the Olympic Games once again (Pic: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
The build-up to the Games certainly didn’t instill confidence in Britain’s chances of replicating their recent hauls, especially with both sprint teams regularly out of the medals and seemingly out of form in the intervening period between London and Rio.
But as soon as the men’s team sprint trio laid down the marker with an Olympic record and victory on the first night in Brazil, gold medals just kept on coming. Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner set the bar, and others continued to raise it from then on.
The results of the review into British Cycling, and Shane Sutton’s behaviour, remains to be seen but one thing the Australian can’t be faulted on is his ability to develop a winning team.
“As soon as the men’s team sprint trio laid down the marker with an Olympic record and victory on the first night, gold medals just kept on coming”
Controversial selection decisions had to be made along the way – Jess Varnish’s omission among them, but also Matt Crampton being dropped from the men’s sprint squad and Mark Cavendish being picked for the men’s endurance team ahead of Andy Tennant and Jon Dibben.
But on every single decision, British Cycling has been vindicated in Rio. Sutton told RCUK, in an interview shortly before his suspension and resignation, that he was a numbers man, a dealer in facts.
Well the numbers put out by the British team were clearly better than their rivals and the fact, as it was at the end of London 2012, is that Team GB is still the team to beat on the boards.
The list of Great Britain’s greatest Olympians is now dominated by cyclists – Sir Chris Hoy and Kenny sitting top of the all-time medal list with six golds and one silver apiece.
Sir Bradley Wiggins is next, with five gold medals and eight in all – his return to the velodrome capping a remarkable cycling career.
Laura Trott is the nation’s most successful female British Olympian, following up her double gold from London four years ago with another team pursuit and omnium brace.
Ed Clancy, meanwhile, has achieved what no other cyclist – male or female – has done before, with three back-to-back Olympic team pursuit gold medals. Surely now Trott has eyes on matching that in Tokyo in four years time.
Having such a talented group of riders has undoubtedly helped British Cycling’s cause, but creating the environment to nurture that talent is what has really set them apart from the (distant) chasing pack.
Clancy and Cavendish were part of the first intake of Academy riders under the stewardship of coach Rod Ellingworth, and both have blazed a trail for others to follow. Geraint Thomas was another of that intake, himself a double Olympic gold medallist from 2008 and 2012 before focusing on the road.
Ed Clancy has gone from the British Cycling Academy to the Olympic history books, and has blazed a trail for those who have followed (pic: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
It is the attention to detail which shines through more than anything. As part of his excellent co-commentary role on BBC Sport, Chris Boardman gave an insight into how marginal gains have constantly been sought.
Everything from kit to bike position, diet to daily life, have been looked at to see what gains can be made in the pursuit of faster times and more medals.
Head physio Phil Burt, a bike fit specialist, did a recent interview with The Guardian in which he said research had been done into the effects of waxing and epilating on the women in the team, and comfort in the saddle – with changes made as a result.
Quite literally, no stone has been left unturned, meaning just as the rest of the world thinks it has caught up, the Brits take another step (or should that be pedal-stroke?) forward.
I was asked to predict how many medals the Brits would get on the track at these Games and – based on their recent performances – settled on three golds, two silvers and a bronze.
Instead, Britain will be returning from the Games with six golds, four silvers and a bronze – with every single one of the riders to have raced on the track in Rio having won a medal (only reserves such as Ciara Horne, who didn’t get a ride in the women’s team pursuit, missed out).
Even based on their past Olympic Games performances we didn’t see this one coming. For Tokyo, perhaps a safer prediction would be golds across the board.
And yet, as British Cycling continues the pursuit of excellence, such a prediction might not actually be far off.
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Misconception: The requirements of a report under the RO Act are the same as for Corporations
Requirement: The Reporting Guidelines add substantial mandatory requirements to an organisation or branch’s financial report. These matters must be included and an auditor must state whether they believe the report presents fairly in accordance with the Reporting Guidelines.
Misconception: The Model Statements cannot be changed
Requirement: A reporting unit should make changes to the Model Statements to ensure that accounting policies and material events are represented, however asterisked items cannot be removed. These items are mandated by the reporting guidelines.
Misconception: The Committee of Management Statement is completely separate
Requirement: The audit of the full report must include the Committee of Management statement within its scope (and therefore the auditor’s report must be dated after the resolution of the Committee of Management and the signing of the statement). Consequently meetings and compliance with the RO Act and rules are within the scope of the audit.
Misconception: The auditor’s report has exactly the same content as for Corporations
Requirement: The Reporting Guidelines introduce a number of requirements that affect the content of the Auditor’s Report including the declaration regarding going concern.
Misconception: State associations and state branches of federal organisations can be reported together
Requirement: Generally, the State Association will be a separate legal entity to the federal state branch. These entities have separate officers, property, accounts and financial reports. If a branch is encompassed by the state association it may be able to obtain an exemption from reporting (s. 269).
Misconception: Financial reports can contain cash accounting
Requirement: While the RO Act allows organisations to keep their records on a cash basis, they must report on an accruals basis, including capitations and subscriptions, but excluding the Cashflow Statement.
Misconception: Loans, grants and donations only appear in the Financial Report
Requirement: Organisations and branches report their loans, grants and donations separately within 90 days of the end of the financial year. These figures are able to be compared to the ones that appear in the financial report (s. 237).
Misconception: Previous assessments have no impact on this year’s assessment
Requirement: Items that have been raised in correspondence the previous year will be checked to ensure that they have been corrected in the next report. A report will not be filed unless these items have been addressed.
Informing the Commissioner of changes
A registered auditor must inform the Commissioner of any changes in their circumstances that may materially affect their registration within 14 days. A failure to do so is subject to a penalty.
Further, in order to maintain the accuracy of the register, auditors need to advise the ROC of any changes to their details by declaration as soon as practicable. A change of details form (DOCX 118.1KB) is available on the ROC website.
Who can hold the position of an auditor
The position of auditor of a reporting unit must be held by:
an individual who is a registered auditor and who is not an excluded auditor
a firm, at least one of whose members is a registered auditor and where no member is an excluded auditor
a company, at least one of whose directors, officers or employees is a registered auditor and has no director, officer or employee who is an excluded auditor.
If the above description no longer applies (for instance, a relevant person becomes an excluded auditor or is no longer registered) the individual, firm or company must resign the position of auditor.
For information on becoming a registered auditor see our fact sheet: Registration of Auditors (PDF 205KB).
Excluded Auditors
An auditor can be excluded in relation to a specific organisation or reporting unit.
Excluded auditor means:
an officer, former officer, employee or former employee of the organisation or reporting unit
a partner, employer or employee of a person in the first dot point
a relative of a person in the first dot point
a liquidator in respect of property of the reporting unit or the organisation;
a person who owes more than $5,000 to the reporting unit or organisation, or
a person who would not be, or whom a reasonable person would consider would not be, capable of exercising objection and impartial judgment in relation to audits relating to the reporting unit having regard to all the circumstances.
Powers and duties of auditors
The auditor is entitled:
to full and free access to all records and other documents of the reporting unit relating directly or indirectly to the receipt or payment of money, or to the acquisition, receipt, custody or disposal of assets, by the reporting unit
to seek from any designated officer, or employee of the reporting unit, such information and explanations as the auditor or authorised person wants for the purposes of the audit.
There are penalties for obstructing auditors.
Suspected Breach
If an auditor suspects, on reasonable grounds, that there has been a breach of the RO Act or the Reporting Guidelines, and the auditor is of the opinion that the matter cannot be adequately dealt with by comment in a report or by reporting the matter to the committee of management of the reporting unit, the auditor must report the matter, in writing, to the Commissioner.
The auditor:
must be forwarded notices relating to the meetings at which the report is presented
has a right to attend and speak at the part of a meeting that concerns the report or their appointment
enjoys qualified privilege against defamation
must have their reasonable fees and expenses paid by the reporting unit
can only be removed in accordance with section 263, which specifies decision making bodies and majorities.
The RO Act contains penalties concerning the auditor, their appointment and the audit of financial reports. The Commissioner is able to pursue financial penalties if the provisions relating to the audit of financial reports are not complied with.
How do I register as a registered auditor?
Please see our Registration of auditors page for more details as to why and how you register.
Why am I not on the register?
Only people who have been approved by the Commissioner are on the register. A person who has previously held, or was a member of a firm that held the position of auditor of a registered organisation or branch and was an approved auditor and who wish to continue to hold that position of auditor must apply to be registered.
How do I know if my auditor is registered?
All registered auditors are listed in the register. If your auditor does not appear in that list, they are not currently registered. From 2 May 2017, financial reports must be audited by a registered auditor. There was a transitional period of three months for auditors appointed by the organisation or branch prior to 2 May 2017. This transitional recognition ceased on 2 August 2017.
When does the 5 consecutive financial years for rotating auditors start?
The requirement began on 2 May 2017 and the five financial years do not include audits that were undertaken before this date. Only audits after 2 May 2017 will be counted towards the five consecutive financial years.
Do I need to renew my registration?
Once registration is granted, you are registered until it is cancelled or suspended (by the ROC or at your request) or you die. There is no renewal requirement.
How can I suspend or cancel my registration?
You complete the form requesting the suspension or cancellation requesting the suspension or cancellation and the Commissioner will determine whether to do so.
My details in the register are incorrect, can I fix them?
Yes, please do. The register is used by reporting units to locate registered auditors and by the ROC to contact you with changes in the legislation.
Please complete the form notifying us of the changes.
Something has happened that may affect my registration, what do I do?
You must inform us of changes to your circumstances that may materially affect your registration. There are penalties for failing to inform.
I have concerns about an auditor, what do I do?
If you have concerns about your registered auditor, please contact us at regorgs@roc.gov.au.
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World Cup Draws : 2021
The draw was made by Prince Harry, the patron of the Rugby Football League. It took place at Buckingham Palace with the Prince along with alongside Dame Katherine Grainger DBE (former Olympic rowing champion) and Jason Robinson OBE (former Rugby League player). It covers men's, women's and wheelchair competitions.
Group A England Samoa France Greece
Group B Australia Fiji Scotland Italy
Group C NZ Lebanon Jamaica Ireland
Group D Tonga PNG Wales Cook Is
Group A England Brazil PNG Canada
Group B Australia NZ France Cook Is
Wheelchair World Cup (Men)
Group A England Australia Spain Norway
Group B France Wales Scotland USA
In the men's draw, Jamaica is a surprise package, qualifying ahead of the USA and Canada. So too is Greece, where the game is severely hampered at home by authorities. Hopefully, qualifying will help the situation there.
For the women, Brazil is new to the game and the dark horse for that tournament. As for the Wheelchair games, it's nice to see three non traditional sides there in Norway, Spain and USA.
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Labels: World Cup - 2021
Queensland State Championship : 2019
The season has concluded and the 23 round regular season was followed by an eight team finals series. In all seasons previously the maximum number of finalists had been six.
The Sunshine Coast side won the competition easily enough with 43 points. That was quite a jump from 10th in 2018. Wynnum went from 12th to second, an equally impressive gain on the previous season. Burleigh was more consistent, dropping from 2nd to 3rd. The Central Capras were also similarly placed from the prior season, slipping from 13th to 14th. They are doing it tough.
Rk Team Pts
1 Sunshine Coast 43
2 Wynnum Manly 36
3 Burleigh Bears 34
4 Townsville 34
5 Norths Devils 30
6 Tweed Heads 28
7 Redcliffe Dolphins 26
8 Easts Tigers 21
9 Ipswich Jets 19
10 Souths Logan 15
11 Mackay Cutters 14
12 Northern Pride 10
13 PNG Hunters 9
14 Central Capras 3
In the sudden death games, Tweed narrowly fell to Redcliffe 24-25 and Norths bowed out with a 20-24 defeat at the hands of the Easts Tigers. The other games had the Sunshine Coast lose to Townsville 12-20 and Wynnum going down to Burleigh 32-34.
In the next round, Townsville and Burleigh earned byes with their victories. Wynnum ended Recliffe's season with a 20-16 win and the Sunshine Coast did likewise to Easts 22-14.
In the semi-finals Townsville week off didn't help them when they lost to Wynnum 14-26. Burleigh were happy with their rest when accounting for the Sunshine Coast 24-6. They carried that form into the grand final in taking the crown with a 28-10 triumph over Wynnum.
Season summary:
The list below has points allocated for the league and finals, combined in the total column. On that basis Burleigh down on the Gold Coast was the most successful, ahead of the Brisbane outfit Wynnum. The team from the Sunshine Coast came in third.
Rk Team Lge F Tot
1 Burleigh Bears 16 20 36
2 Wynnum Manly 18 16 34
3 Sunshine Coast 20 12 32
4 Townsville 14 12 26
5 Redcliffe Dolphins 10 8 18
6 Easts Tigers 9 8 17
6 Norths Devils 12 4 16
8 Tweed Heads 11 4 15
9 Ipswich Jets 8
10 Souths Logan 7
11 Mackay Cutters 6
12 Northern Pride 5
Picture source: Qld RL.
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2013-19 World Rankings - Men
Looking back over these years gives an insight into the growth of the sport numerically. It also shows the challenge of creating depth in quality. Otherwise the list will be of a few successes and the rest stragglers. It's not an issue unique to RL and it takes money plus commitment to have any hope of lifting lower ranked countries to a stronger level.
Recently, quite a few countries have been dropped from the list. I don't see anything said about that as to what is the reason for that, although I'm sure there is a process that is gone through in determining who is eligible either way.
Because the number of games played is important on where a team sits on the ladder, it doesn't always reflect the level a nation is playing at. Looking over several years does give an idea of how a country is progressing or regressing.
Nation 19 18 17 16 15 14 13
New Zealand 1 3 2 2 1 2 2
Australia 2 1 1 1 2 1 1
England 3 2 3 3 3 3 3
Tonga 4 4 4 14 16 16 13
Fiji 5 5 5 7 7 6 5
PNG 6 10 10 15 14 11 7
Samoa 7 7 6 5 4 4 8
France 8 6 8 6 5 5 4
Scotland 9 8 7 4 9 8 11
Lebanon 10 9 9 21 20 23 20
Greece 11 19 23 28 24 22 28
Ireland 12 12 11 8 6 7 9
Wales 14 11 12 9 8 9 6
Serbia 15 17 16 11 11 13 17
Malta 16 16 18 20 18 24 22
Norway 17 20 22 26 26 19 19
USA 18 15 14 10 10 10 10
Poland 19 23
Jamaica 20 14 15 17 27 27 23
Hungary 21 18 29 38 33 32 32
Czech Rep 22 25 26 24 30 29 26
Cook Is 23 43 30 25 22 17 14
Turkey 24 31
Netherlands 25 26 27 30 28 25 24
Spain 26 28 21 19 21 28
Canada 27 21 17 12 13 14 16
Solomon Is 29 27 42 37
Sweden 30 38 31 29 29 30 31
Chile 32 32 32 34
Vanuatu 35 33 36 35
South Africa 36 37 35 31 31 31 25
Russia 37 29 19 16 15 15 15
Cameroon 38
Ukraine 39 35 25 22 23 20 21
Colombia 40 41 40
Brazil 41 45 43
Belgium 42 39 20 18 17 21 29
Denmark 43 44 34 27 25 26 27
Bulgaria 44 47 46
Latvia 45 48 47 36 34 33 30
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Latino Protestants in America
Growing and Diverse
Mark T. Mulder; Aida I. Ramos and Gerardo Martí
Latino Protestantism is growing rapidly in the United States. Researchers estimate that by 2030 half of all Latinos in America will be Protestant. This remarkable growth is not just about numbers. The rise of Latino Protestants will impact the changing nature of American politics, economics, and religion. Latino Protestants in America takes readers inside the numbers to highlight the many reasons Latino Protestants are growing as well as the diversity of this group.
The book brings together the best existing scholarship on this group with original research to offer a nuanced picture of Latino Protestants in America, from worship practices to political engagement. The narrative helps readers move beyond misconceptions about Latino religion and offers a window into the diverse ways that religion plays out in real life. Latino Protestants in America is an essential resource for anyone interested in the beliefs and practices of this group, as well as the implications for its growth and areas for further study.
Pages: 218 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-5654-5 • Hardback • March 2017 • $40.00 • (£24.95)
978-1-4422-5655-2 • eBook • March 2017 • $38.00 • (£24.95)
Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Protestant, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Social Science / Sociology of Religion
Mark T. Mulder is professor of sociology at Calvin College and co-director of the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. He is author of Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure and numerous articles. His writing has won awards from the Evangelical Press Association and the Associated Church Press.
Aida I. Ramos is assistant professor of sociology at George Fox University and research fellow with the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. She has published articles in a range of journals, including the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Gerardo Martí is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College and co-director of the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. He is the author of several articles and books, including Worship Across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation. He is currently editor in chief of the journal Sociology of Religion.
1 Latino Protestants Are More Than “Not Catholic”
2 The Early History of Indigenous and Immigrant Latino Protestants
3 The Latino Reformation Today
4 Ethnic Identity and Varieties of Latino Protestant Churches
5 The Centrality of “Doing Church” among Latino Protestants
6 Latino Protestants and Their Political and Social Engagement
7 Latino Protestants and the Future of American Christianity
Appendix: Qualitative Sources and Research Methodology
Mulder, professor of sociology at Calvin College; Ramos, assistant professor of sociology at George Fox University; and Marti, professor of sociology at Davidson College, have teamed up as part of the Latino Protestant Congregation Project, a joint endeavor of Davidson College and Calvin College, to create this cooperative study. By 2030, they write, it is estimated that half of all Latinos in the United States—who currently make up 17% of the population—will be Protestant. The 'Latino Reformation,' as Time named it, has remained largely invisible to the general public, fellow Protestants, and social scientists, in part because few dedicated researchers speak Spanish. But now the Latino Protestant Congregation Project has released its initial substantive and complex findings, examining styles of worship, values, congregation demographics, leadership structures, and sociopolitical perspectives. The fine mix of fresh quantitative data and engaging qualitative case studies gives a rich feel for the diversity of Latino Protestant communities, from a Dutch-Latino Reformed church in Iowa to the non-denominational church in Los Angeles that encourages members to 'transcend' ethnicity. Additionally, the chapter on Latino Protestants’ political and social engagement is required reading for anyone interested in likely Latino voting patterns in 2018 and beyond.
Mulder, Aida I. Ramos, and Gerardo Martí present a revealing and surprising glimpse into Latino religious subcultures in the United States. The authors contend that Latino Protestantism is an important yet neglected area of study. Not only is the Latino demographic growing, but Latino Protestants are running against the trend of a general decline of affiliation in organized religion. Based on information from the qualitative study the Latino Protestant Congregation (LPC) Project as well as other critical investigations that considered a number of U.S. congregations, the authors present these groups as dynamic, diverse, and as conflicted as other religious denominations, highlighting their distinctive features. The authors state that their goal here is to offer a road map for future study. Indeed, this provides fascinating detail that gives way to further research. VERDICT General sociologists and sociologists of religion will find this study beneficial, and even nonexperts will discover something new in this informative read.
— Library Journal
In this welcome study, sociologists Mulder (Calvin College), Ramos (George Fox University), and Marti (Davidson College) summarize recent survey research on Latinos in the US with special attention to ethnographic findings from the Latino Protestant Congregation (LPC) Project funded by the Lilly Foundation. It is estimated that by 2030, one-third of the US population will be Latino and that half of all Latinos in the US will be Protestants. Chapter 1 documents the growth and dispersion of Latinos in the US, and chapter 2 examines the decline of foreign-born Latinos and the rise of US-born Latinos. Chapter 2 also provides valuable information on Latino living arrangements, language, socioeconomic status, and health care. Chapters 4 and 5 address religious conversion. Though a majority of Latinos in the US are Catholics, the longer Latino families reside in the US, the more likely they are to become Protestant. Chapter 4 focuses on issues of identity among Protestant Latinos. What does being a non-Catholic Latino mean? Chapter 6 addresses social issues. The authors found that Protestant Latinos are overwhelmingly conservative and opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage. This well-researched book contributes greatly to the understanding of the changing face of Latino Protestantism in the US.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.
With Latinos being among the fastest growing racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., the study of Latino Protestants will only increase in importance. Latino Protestants in America is on the cutting edge of this trend, and offers one of the first social scientific introductions to the topic. Full of rich analyses and careful to emphasize the complexity and nuances of these religious groups, this book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in understanding the shifting demographics of American religion and the future of U.S. religion and politics.
— Politics and Religion
This volume takes readers inside the numbers to highlight the many reasons Latino Protestants are growing as well as the diversity of this group. It offers a nuanced picture of Latino Protestants in America, from worship practices to political engagement. The narrative helps readers move beyond misconceptions about Latino religion and offers a window into the diverse ways that religion plays out in real life.
— Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Masterfully interweaving threads of ethnographic accounts, survey data, journalistic work, historical scholarship, and occasional theological references, three sociologists—Mark T. Mulder, Aida I. Ramos, and Gerardo Martí—depict the colorful tapestry that is Latino Protestantism in the US. . . . The book’s treatment of ethnic identities within Latino Protestant congregations is among its greatest theoretical contributions. . . . there is no current text that engages with the wide array of scholarly voices on Latino Protestantism brought forth in this volume. The authors’s engagement in the field makes the book current and timely. . . the book makes clear directions worthy of continued and concerted attention in the study of Latino Protestantism. As such, this work is valuable to anyone wading through the numerous opinions on Latino Protestantism and seeking an empirically based, socio-scientific presentation of current research.
— Reading Religion
An ambitious, comprehensive, and nuanced exploration of Latino Protestantism in the United States, this book draws on survey data and extensive qualitative fieldwork to demonstrate the variety of Latino Protestant identities and communities. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this fast-growing portion of the American religious landscape and how it is reconfiguring the American Latino community.
— Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota
Weaving together a rich array of sources, these authors demonstrate that Protestant churches in the United States function as increasingly important sites for the production of Latino identity, even as they show that this identity cannot be reduced to any singular definition. In its extensive reach across the country and through its interdisciplinary approach, Latino Protestants in America captures the nuances of religious faith as an everyday practice that also has the power to redefine the political and economic forces that shape our lives.
— Jane Juffer, Cornell University
Growing, diverse, and little understood—Latino Protestants receive here a thorough and much-needed examination. Drawing together existing historical, survey, and ethnographic data, the authors add systematic new observations from a team of research fellows. The result is a book that will be the go-to reference in the years ahead.
— Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
In this landmark study, the authors unpack the complexity of Latino Protestants, drawing on a variety of empirical studies, including surveys and ethnographic description. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the changing face of Protestantism, the conversion of Latinos from Catholicism, and the demographics of immigrants from Latin America.
— Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
Examines the many reasons Latino Protestantism is growing so quickly—from conversion to immigration and more
Explores why many Latino Catholics are converting to Protestantism
Highlights the diversity of national origin within Latino Protestantism
Highlights the diversity of Latino Protestant beliefs and practices
Discusses how the rise of Latino Protestantism will shape American life, from politics to economics
Includes the voices of Latino Protestants discussing the influence of faith on the rest of their lives
Addresses the varied histories that have seen Latinos in the U.S. for centuries
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What Consensus? Ideology, Politics and Elections Still Matter
Steven C. Salop, Georgetown University Law CenterFollow
This article, which was prepared for an ABA Antitrust Section Panel, discusses the role of ideology and politics in antitrust enforcement and the impact of elections in the last twenty year on enforcement and policy at the federal antitrust agencies. The article explains the differences in antitrust ideologies and their impact on policy preferences. The article then uses a database of civil non-merger complaints by the DOJ and FTC over the last three Presidential administrations to analyze changes in the number, type and other characteristics of antitrust enforcement. It also discusses change in vertical merger enforcement and other antirust policies such as amicus briefs, reports and guidelines. The article concludes that elections do matter and that the impact of elections on the DOJ and FTC has differed significantly.
Salop, Steven C., "What Consensus? Ideology, Politics and Elections Still Matter" (2013). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1207.
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Politics Commons
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Whisky Works reveals new ‘innovations’
27 September 2019 by Becky Paskin
Whisky Works, an ‘innovation arm’ of Whyte & Mackay, has added two new expressions to its range, Quartermaster and a 20-year-old Speyside malt finished in Cognac casks.
‘Experimental approach’: Whisky Works introduces the new Quartermaster and Speyside 20 Year Old
Whisky maker Gregg Glass created Quartermaster as a ‘modern whisky experiment’, an 11-year-old blended whisky combining grain and malt whiskies matured in four different casks.
Glass used Highland grain whisky matured in ex-rum barrels, further maturing a portion in PX Sherry casks for ‘more rich flavours’.
He then combined the whisky with two Speyside malts, one matured in American white oak, the other in Sherry butts.
The resulting whisky has been bottled at 46.4% abv, and is described as having a ‘fresh, vibrant character with notes of almonds, rum-steeped peaches, ginger, coffee and dried fruit’.
Just 2,134 bottles will be made available, priced at £75 per 70cl bottle.
Meanwhile, the 20-year-old Speyside edition is a single malt from an unnamed silent distillery, matured for 20 years in American white oak casks before being finished for seven monts in Cognac barriques from the Bourgoin Estate.
Bottled at 47.1% abv, the whisky is described as having ‘sweet herbal notes’ with ‘aromas of milk chocolate, violet florals, brandy snaps, rose, and strawberries and cream’.
Only 1,593 bottles have been created, priced at £150 each.
Glass said: ‘At the Whisky Works, we’ve worked hard to cultivate strong relationships with world-class producers to bring us closer to every part of the whisky making process.
‘The collaboration and experimentation involved in the making of these two whiskies really demonstrates the core values of what the Whisky Works is all about.’
The Whisky Works range launched earlier this year and also includes the Glaswegian, a 29-year-old single grain, and King of Trees, a 10-year-old Highland blended malt part-finished in native Scottish oak.
The two new editions will be unveiled at the Whisky Show London this weekend (28-29 September), with Glass running a series of free masterclasses featuring the whole Whisky Works range as part of Scotchwhisky.com’s Evolution of the Cask experience.
Registration for the classes will be offered at the Evolution of the Class experience on the first floor of the show at Old Billingsgate, and accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
Latest news 09 December 2016
Distillery go-ahead for Dunrobin Castle
The Sutherland castle’s out buildings will be transformed into a Scotch whisky distillery.
Latest news 14 October 2019
Scotchwhisky.com to close
A goodbye message from Scotchwhisky.com.
Whyte & Mackay to give away 50 Year Old
The £5,000 bottles of blended Scotch whisky will be given away as part of a competition.
Royal Brackla to revamp whisky range
The Highland distillery will launch new 12-, 18- and 21-year-old whiskies in 2020.
Kininvie Works unveils experimental whiskies
Kininvie’s first experimental whiskies include a rye, triple-distilled malt and single blend.
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Topic HR analytics
SubTopic People analytics
Business intelligence and data visualization for HR
Workday Rising previews AI tech that draws from customer data sets
Workday is developing algorithms to automate certain tasks, such as anomaly detection. This technology was previewed at Workday Rising, with the tech planned to arrive in 2019.
LAS VEGAS -- Workday is making machine learning and pattern recognition key capabilities in its platform. The algorithms...
will be trained using customer data to spot changes, such as anomalies in key metrics, and alert users to problems. This technology was a major theme at the vendor's Workday Rising conference last week.
Business analysts today run reports on many of the same things that the forthcoming algorithmic systems can accomplish. The difference is this AI-related technology will run the queries automatically and bring changes to a company's attention that deserve a closer look.
The technology will become available gradually to Workday customers. One announced product, Workday People Analytics, may not be available until 2019. Workday will begin testing it with early adopters this spring.
Not revolutionary, but a good step
This technology represents a potential shift in how HR and finance users work, but how much of a shift remains to be seen.
"It's not going to revolutionize finance, but it will certainly be a good step in the direction," said Daniel Berringer, controller at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C., after one Workday Rising session devoted to the finance platform and the recent Adaptive Insights acquisition.
Berringer said the tech may be able to pinpoint certain irregular transactions before a financial close, and that alert could be helpful.
At the conference, Workday also announced it is coupling finance and HR data analysis as a result of acquiring Adaptive Insights, a vendor of corporate performance management software.
To get to this point, Workday isn't advancing AI-related technology. Instead, it is taking advanced technology available in the industry and training the algorithms to do specific jobs. This data is its advantage, Workday officials said. It has more than 2,300 customers working on standardized data models, and that gives Workday access to what it needs to train machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms.
"We're not inventing fundamentally new techniques in machine learning or AI," David Clarke, senior vice president of technology and infrastructure at Workday, based in Pleasanton, Calif., told reporters at Workday Rising. "What we have that's unique are the data sets that we have access to," he said.
Workday Rising attendee likes potential of tech
What we have that's unique are the data sets.
David Clarkesenior vice president of technology and infrastructure, Workday
Workday users will get a dashboard that has reports on any number of metrics. Take, for instance, this HR category: regrettable attrition of new hires. This term refers to new employees a firm wants to retain, but who leave after a short period.
If regrettable attrition data changes in ways that raise flags, the Workday platform will bring it to the attention of users. It will do detective work, as well. The system will have numerous other data points, including geography, gender, the supervisory organization and other categories, that may help explain why new hires are quitting. The same type of approach works in finance.
The intent of the system is to produce details "that people can act on right away," said Pete Schlampp, vice president of Workday Analytics, in an interview.
Along with pattern recognition and machine learning, Workday is using graph processing technology, which creates a massive graph showing how all the data points connect. A data point might be that an employee didn't like the manager or the compensation -- these are nodes on a graph, Schlampp said. The system uses natural language processing to turn these discoveries into plain-language explanations.
One user at the conference, Brent Park, director of finance operations at United Allergy Services, based in San Antonio, said the technology may be "incredibly useful." He cited potential uses, such as identifying changes in the cadence of customer payments, and he said this tech is "taking anomalies to a trend."
Workday People Analytics will be sold as a stand-alone product to HR customers, but it will be bundled with Workday Prism Analytics, an existing platform. There will be limited availability next fall, with general availability to follow, Workday officials said.
Dig Deeper on People analytics software
Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud
By: Aaron Tan
With Scout, Workday acquisition strategy takes shape
What will you need to trust algorithmic systems in HR and finance?
Workday previews predictive analytics apps for HR, ... – SearchERP
Inside the data science behind Workday Insight ... – SearchERP
Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud – ComputerWeekly.com
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Sedona Westerners in the Red Rock News
Mayan Maid
by George Witteman
The sky broke bright and blue on a recent January day as the beautiful winter of 2014 continued to offer 'perfect' hiking conditions. The Thursday Westerner hike group, called the Mustangs, mustered up at 9am in the Village Outlet Mall parking lot to prepare for the day's new hike, called 'The Mayan Maid Loop'. The hike leaders for the day were George Witteman, and Tom Pallas, who discussed the day's hike.
Their interest in the area was renewed after reading passages from the Sedona Westerner 1979 publication ' A Sampler of 108 Sedona Westerner Trail Walks', a collection of accounts about Westerner hikes in the late 1970's, including the Mayan Maid.
Particularly impressive was the beauty of some of the slot canyons just west of the rock ridge called 'The Seven Sisters'. Today’s hike itinerary included game and livestock trails, extensive use of canyons and washes, and a few 'social trails' used by local residents. The plan included about 5 1/2 miles of hiking with a total elevation gain of about 1500 feet, an itinerary well within the guidelines for the Mustangs.
The group began by hiking around and over a few of the smaller buttes in the Little Park area which transitioned into a forest of pinion pine and juniper. Soon, the hikers turned into the first of three beautiful, hidden, slot canyons named 'Silver Canyon'. Everyone was amazed with the striking, orange and peach colored, slick rock canyon walls and pour offs, along with the dark green hues of shrubbery silhouetted against the azure blue sky. The canyon air was refreshingly cool, quiet and pure. After appropriate pauses for beauty appreciation, photo ops, varied songs of a western meadowlark, and refreshments, the group continued up and over to another canyon called 'Gold Canyon'. Next they climbed a steep ridge line to a beautiful, slick rock overlook for lunch from which one could see westward towards Sycamore Canyon, and even Chino Valley on the horizon.
After lunch everyone started back in a loop return to the last of the slot canyons called 'Flag Canyon'. Here the trail narrowed to a tight fit between canyon walls and rock dips in the canyon floor. Along the way the leaders pointed out prehistoric check dams, stone basalt grinding stones called manos, and pottery sherds , all of which were artifacts from a prehistoric, ancestral, Puebloan culture we call the 'Sinagua' that flourished in the Verde Valley from around 650 AD to 1350 AD.
Toward the end of the hike Witteman read from the book on 108 Westerner Walks as the author described a "steep, rocky, descent to a sharp, left turn immediately below a rock formation called The Mayan Maid''. Not far from the Mayan Maid was an old, historic, masonry dam about 10 feet high and 60 feet wide blocking a hidden, box canyon. This is where about 20 families tried to homestead in Big Park in the 1920s; only two families remained after World War II because of the lack of water. Ironically, a retired Las Vegas bordello madam by the name of Fannie Bell Gulick purchased 1000 acres in Grasshopper Flats (aka. West Sedona) and 1000 acres in Big Park (aka. Village of Oak Creek). She hired a well digger from Phoenix who discovered excellent well water at 450 feet in both locations! A group of Phoenix investors purchased her land in Big Park in the late 1960s and developed the Village of Oak Creek Association as a planned residential/golf community.
If you are interested in joining the club, please go to our website at http://sedonawesterners.org or just come to one of our monthly meetings. The next one will be Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 7 pm at the Sedona Elks Club, 110 Airport Road.
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Osun govt. explains how it will spend N16.8bn Paris Club refund
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The Osun State government on Thursday cleared the air on the usage and disbursement of N16.6bn Paris Club refund recently released to the state, amid allegation of illegal diversion.
The Commissioner of Finance, Bola Oyebamiji at a press conference in Osogbo, the Osun State capital explained that the refund, with additional N3.2bn have been earmarked to settle salaries and other emoluments of workers in the state.
According to him, the amount, totalling N19.8bn will cover the full salaries of workers for the month of August 2018, the arrears of the salaries and pensions for September, October, November and December of 2015 and leave bonuses.
“Governor Rauf Aregbesola gave this directive after consultation with labour unions and other stakeholders in the state.
“This is not the first time that the State Government will commit a lump sum receipt to payment of salaries and workers emoluments. You will recall that in November, 2016, the state government received N11.74 billion as refunds from the Paris Club. The following month, N13.6 billion was paid to active and passive workers as salaries, pensions, leave bonuses and other emoluments.
“These include N8.5 billion to cover the salaries of September, October, November and December of 2016.
Also, N924 million was paid to cover the leave bonuses of September, October, November and December of the same year.
“From the same amount, N2.5 billion was paid to cover the pensions of September, October, November and December of 2016. Lastly, N1.7 billion was transferred to the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to cover salaries and pensions.
“Again, in July 2017, the government received N6.3 billion as the second tranche of Paris Club refund and paid N6 billion as salaries, pensions and leave bonuses. They are: N3.76 billion as workers salaries, N504 million as leave bonuses, N791 million as pension and N935 million as salaries in the Local Governments.
“Since the commencement of the Aregbesola administration in November 2010, salaries, pensions and workers emoluments had taken not less than 80 per cent of the total revenue of the state.
“Indeed, a sizeable portion of the state’s debt was incurred on salaries. When the administration came, monthly workers salaries was N1.4 billion while pensions were N200 million. However, with the increase of minimum wage from N9,000 to N19,000 and hiking of monthly pensions to N500 million, monthly salaries and pensions rose to N3.6 billion.
“Though there was a steady increase in revenue till late 2013, however, by 2014, oil price commenced a steady decline, dropping to as low as $22 in 2015 from the height of $100 in 2013. The bottom line is that while revenue nosedived, expenditure, especially on salaries and pensions, has been on a steady climb.
“The option we had then was to right-size the workforce, that is, cut out coat according to our cloth, so to speak. However, in consultation with labour leaders and stakeholders, under the leadership of the veteran but respectable Comrade Hassan Sunmonu, we came up with an ingenious arrangement of modulated salaries whereby workers on grade level 1-7 were paid full salaries, level 8-12 were put on 75 per cent while level 12 and above were pegged on 50 per cent.
“This has sustained us till July of this year when the rise in oil price led to an increase in revenue and we have resumed the payment of full salaries again. For the second month, we have now paid full salaries to all our workers. It is my hope and prayers that this will be sustained, and we will never have cause to modulate workers salaries in Osun again.
“However, the latest Paris refund released to the State by the Federal Government is Sixteen Billion, Six Hundred and Twenty-Three Million, Two Hundred and Ninety-Six Thousand, Four Hundred and Two Naira, Eighty-Two Kobo (N16, 623,296,402.82).
“Mr Governor has approved the disbursement of Nineteen Billion, Eight Hundred and One Million, Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy-One Naira, Twenty-Two Kobo
(N19, 801, 328,271.22) to clear four months (4) of salary arrears, pension arrears and leave bonus with adequate provision for full salaries going forward.
“Therefore, on behalf of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, I will like to commend and thank all the workers in Osun for their sacrifice, resilience and unflinching support to the government and dedication to duty, even in the midst of daunting challenges. I have no doubt that workers, in their demonstrable good nature and Omoluabi spirit, will reciprocate this good gesture from the government”, Oyebamiji said.
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Silvertails Memorials
Earnie the Eagle
Allan, known to us as "Earnie the Eagle" joined Silvertails in 2009 and quickly became part of the Silvertails family when he posted this request for help to re-unite him with his fathers badge that he lost at a game. In true Silvertails spirit the community pulled together to see if we could find his valued item. The story eventually had a happy ending, with Eagles Nest 08 eventually donating a badge he owned to Earnie. From then on, Earnie was hooked and he became a massive and respected figure of our community
Just who was Earnie? well he didn't give too much away in public, but such was his popularity that many of us held rich private conversations with a man rich on values and character.
He had seen every one of Manly's 8 premiership victories live. No mean feat. Not many people around with that claim to fame, especially those with the ability to remember them all and still have the 90c entry ticket to prove it. More to the point, to have the ability to engage with the current generation over the internet and via a forum that unites those with his shared passion, something that must have seemed almost beyond comprehension back in 72.
We were all shocked to learn in March of 2013 to be informed of his passing, by his son Anthony, who logged into Earnie the Eagle's account to give us the sad news. He also shared some great stories of this passionate Manly supporter.
He once went to buy a new car from a dealer in Goulburn where he lived, he was wearing his manly shirt. The owner happened to come out just before he signed all the paperwork and made the mistake of putting s**t on Manly, well Dad got the papers in his hand and ripped them into pieces and told them in no uncertain terms where they could stick the place and went to Canberra to buy his new car.
He used to take my brother, sister and I to see Manly as often as he could, but he only brainwashed my younger brother and some of his grandchildren.
Mum did say to him last year "where are you going to put the next wall up in the house for all your Manly things" He told her " There are priorities in life, Manly comes first, we will simply have to move to another larger house"
Mum did however did draw the line with him when he wanted to paint the house maroon and white. He didn't speak to her for a week after she told him that
Earnie was remembered in this thread and it's worth reading and remembering.
Vale Allan aka Earnie the Eagle
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At issue is a fan-created mod that supposedly "reveals" or "unlocks" art showing topless nudity on some of the female characters. The board also claims that Bethesda and Take-Two under-represented the amount of violence and gore contained in the game.
Bethesda has responded to the rating change with a statement that the nudity was created by modders and was not available on the release discs, and that they accurately conveyed the level of violence portrayed in the game, down to a 60-page document provided to the ESRB "listing the explicit language, acts, and scenes." They also point out that the game's packaging already has warnings about violence and gore.
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Does immutability reduce the scope of unit testing?
Recently, I worked on an Android project with Kotlin. As an architecture, there were immutable data classes and functions (not methods which are members of a class), where the functions generate new immutable data objects from other immutable data objects. And it felt like the scope of unit tests was reduced to those functions only.
So, is my assumption right that immutability reduces the scope of unit testing?
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what were you testing before? – Ewan Nov 25 '17 at 10:29
How do you measure "scope for unit testing"? – Doc Brown Nov 25 '17 at 10:55
One scope is all the business rules. As mentioned in the answers, any mutation can invalidate a business and has to be checked. But guaranteed immutability allow to check only once, at the time of object creation. – Gulshan Nov 25 '17 at 11:51
Tests check that things that can go wrong don't go wrong. The more flexible a software system is, the more ways there are for things to go wrong. Conversely, removing flexibility from a system means that less things can go wrong, and as a consequence fewer things have to be tested to achieve a similar level of confidence.
For example, static type systems. A typesystem is an automated proof of correctness. The level of proven correctness depends on the language, e.g. Haskell can prove more properties than Java, which can often prove more properties than C. The properties of the program that are guaranteed by a type system do not have to be unit-tested, for example that a function returns a result of a particular type.
Immutability is another approach that decreases the flexibility of a system, but also makes it easier to reason about and therefore requires fewer tests. In particular, the state of a mutable object may change after it was constructed. These state changes may move that object into an invalid state. So a thorough test will have to check these state transitions and ensure that no illegal states can be reached. Consumers of this object will have to be tested that they can work with the object in any of its states. In contrast, the state of an immutable object cannot change once constructed. Therefore, there are no state transitions to test. If a consumer receives an instance, they always know it is in the single valid state for that class.
When testing a function, we want to assert that it has some desired effect. So we arrange a particular state, act out the test case by invoking the function, and assert that the state after the call has some expected properties. This is most easy when the function does not have any effect except for returning a value: when we have a pure function. Immutability is not a precondition for a pure function. But if that function is passed immutable parameters, we know that the function cannot change those parameters – one less thing that could go wrong. Note that for a method, the implicit this parameter is also an input parameter that may or may not be changed.
In practice, immutability is not always possible and not always desirable. In particular, the Java ecosystem does not have a mechanism to track whether values are immutable and whether a parameter may be changed (compare const in C++). So in Java, immutability and pure functions are more a convention than a type-system provable correctness property. Also, some functions may be effectively pure but not pure in the most literal sense, e.g. if they perform logging as a side effect. But that is entirely OK, as such functions are still effectively pure from a perspective of a caller.
In my experience, preferring immutable designs and mixing OOP with functional programming techniques leads to simpler, more reasonable systems. That we need fewer tests for such systems is not the main value, but just a consequence of a generally simpler system where fewer things can go wrong.
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New World flutist brings élan to American music
By Lawrence Budmen
New World Symphony member Masha Popova performed a program of American flute music Monday night.
New World Symphony fellow Masha Popova presented an enterprising evening of works for flute by American composers Monday night at New World Center’s intimate Sun Trust Pavilion. She was joined by her mother Svetlana Krasnova at the keyboard as well as three New World wind players (in a quirky chamber score by the king of American modernists Elliot Carter).
Popova’s diverting hour-long program opened with Samuel Barber’s Canzone. Barber was noted for the lyricism of his slow movements, the famous Adagio from his string quartet being the most famous example. The second movement of his piano concerto featured a typically haunting melody that Barber reset for flute and piano. Popova spun the mesmeric line in long phrases, her ease of projection well displayed.
Aaron Copland’s Duo for flute and piano was commissioned by a group of students of legendary flutist William Kincaid. Kincaid was principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught for four decades at the Curtis Institute where Popova studied with his grandson.
The three-movement score is one of Copland’s late works dating from 1971. The Duo begins in the composer’s trademark Americana style, the open intervals suggesting the Shaker aura of Appalachian Spring. The second movement is a nocturnal pastorale with touches of astringency. Popva’s glistening tone embraced the affecting melodic writing but she really came into her own with the jazzy final movement, tossing off the triple-tongued passages with spirit and accuracy. With Krasnova’s nimble support, Popova captured Copland’s mix of verve and elegant craftsmanship.
Carter’s Eight Etudes for woodwind quartet explore the differing timbres of the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon while presenting the players with a plethora of technical challenges that exploit the ranges of each instrument. For all of Carter’s later thorny atonality, this 1950 work is rich with flights of whimsy and wit. The Vivace movement is a vastly entertaining neo-Stravinsky romp while the Andante actually features a languid (even tonal) melodic thread, beautifully articulated by oboist Max Blair.
In the Allegretto leggero, Carter makes every instrument play at its extremes in a burble of snarling sounds. Sean Maree was the outstanding bassoonist, projecting a large tone and firm low notes. The final Presto is lively and impulsive. Ran Kampel’s agile clarinet and Popova’s ease in the flute’s whirling figures probed and conquered Carter’s minefield of wind intricacies.
Popova provided charming commentary throughout the program. In introducing Lowell Lieberman’s Flute Sonata (1988), she said the score reminds her of Prokofiev’s music. The long, austere Lento that opens Lieberman’s lovely score could just as easily be compared to one of Bartok’s night music movements in its darkness. Popova exhibited exquisite control and even tone and sped through the score’s Presto energico finale with élan.
The New World’s cozy chamber music hall is a wonderful space. With Frank Gehry’s angular designs around the performance platform and acoustical baffles on the walls, the room is inviting and the sound is clear and immediate. Even the most high-pitched flute writing never sounded harsh or grating.
The New World Symphony’s Solo Spotlight series continues 7 p.m. March 21 at the New World Center Sun Trust Pavilion with flutist Emma Gerstein and harpist Julia Coronelli playing works by Bozza, Debussy, Grandjany and Ravel. The concert is free but reservations are required. nws.edu; 305-673-3331.
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TMBS Summer Half Term Newsletter
We'd like to begin this newsletter by addressing our year 11 cohort and their families. The effort and time you are all putting into preparing for the forthcoming exams is fantastic. It is so rewarding to see your commitment to achieving your potential. We still have a few weeks of exams to come after half term, and while revising should be a part of your half term we hope that you will all find the time for some well earned relaxation. Thank you all for your hard work and effort, we are confident that it will be rewarded.
Year 11 students have already had the opportunity to arrange time in school over the half term for additional mentoring and revision sessions. Your individual subject teachers will be able to advise you of specific times they are available.
Year 10 students took a once in a lifetime trip to Iceland this Easter to get up close to some 'real life Geography'.
Students witnessed the effects of geothermal activity as they swam in the Blue Lagoon, visited a geothermal power station and got splashed by the most active geyser in Iceland. They stood between two tectonic plates as we visited the only place in the world where the Mid Atlantic Ridge can be seen above sea level. We visited contrasting waterfalls and the dramatic black volcanic beaches along the Icelandic coast where we studied the formation of the spectacular natural features. We also witnessed glacial processes when we visited a glacier tongue.
On the final morning students took the opportunity to wonder around Reykjavík; the world's northernmost Capital City.
Year 11 Prom
Year 11 Prom tickets are still on sale from the main office. Tickets are £25 and include a BBQ buffet, a drink on arrival and a chocolate fountain.
The Prom will take place at The Royal Arms at Sutton Cheney on Tuesday 4th July, from 6.30-11.30pm, it will be a fantastic opportunity for year 11 students to celebrate what has been a fantastic five years for them at TMBS. We hope that all of year 11 can join us to celebrate.
There will be a professional photographer in attendance all evening from Photo Lux, you can pre-order prints online which will save you 20% on the prices available on the evening. To do this visit www.photolux.co.uk and use the code PM5N. All photos are printed and mounted on the night. For more information, please see Mrs Durrands.
Click this link to go to the photolux page, the event code is PM5N
The Way of the Horse
By Chelsea Hextall
I was lucky enough to be offered the opportunity to take part in The Way of the Horse this year. Six year 8 students attended six sessions of Equine Facilitated Learning with Mrs Holmes, Student Support Manager.
The first week we learnt all about the horses and met the staff there. We went into two groups and took part in some herd watching where we observed the horses, taking note of their body language and personalities. The horse’s names were: Cantora, Smokie, May-Dew, Big Harry, Little Harry and Yorrick. Yorrick is the leader of the herd, we could tell that by his behaviours and that of the other horses.
The following week, we discussed boundaries and the importance of setting them and them being listened to by others. We spoke about our own boundaries and why we wanted them and also boundaries that we think we should put in place to help us feel more comfortable or to help how we feel. We went into the arena with 2 horses and looked at how they set boundaries with us. By noticing body language you are able to see when a person or animal feels comfortable with the situation or not. When these are ignored it makes us and them feel vulnerable and nervous.
The week after, we did horseplay. We put 3 horses into the arena (one at a time) with some objects they wouldn’t have seen. For example: a pram. If they touched it and put their head in it, they would find treats. The purpose of this was to look at how they are feeling and behaving in situations they are not familiar or comfortable with, to think about how we would respond when feeling this way and how it can make you feel when you have stepped out of your comfort zone and succeed or been rewarded.
This week we looked at emotions and discussed situations and thoughts that create different feelings within us. Different people feel different emotions and display them differently. We learnt there are no right or wrong emotions and it is important to understand how you feel and why. The emotion scale helped us to identify when we were becoming anxious, scared or angry. It went from 1(calm and relaxed) to 10 (disassociation). Disassociation is when your brain tries to protect you from what you fear and shuts your body down. It is important to notice when you are starting to feel anxious, scared or angry, number 7-8 on the scale, as you are in control and able to adjust the situation to allow your emotions to reduce rather than ignoring them and they continue to rise. We also did our own mandalas in the sensory room. A mandala is a creative drawing that is an expression of our own emotions.
On week 5, we learnt about our authentic self and our false self. Our authentic self says things like: I can, I will, I am etc. Our false self says things like: I won’t, I can’t, I’m not etc. Authentic self is the real you and false self is the fake you we display to others. When we had completed some activities enabling us to see how we use our authentic and false selves we had an Easter egg hunt. We worked in two groups to solve clues and fine the chocolate eggs.
For our last week at The Way of the Horse we were invited to paint a horse. At first we thought we were going to be watching the horses and painting them on paper from a distance, but we actually painted a horse! This was creative independent time to work in silence with our thoughts. I painted Cantora and chose things that made me happy like a rainbow and hearts. It was really fun.
GCSE Showcase
On Tuesday 9th May GCSE Dance & Drama students performed their dress rehearsal showcase, prior to their final practical assessments, later in the week.
Students were an absolute credit to themselves and the school and this prepared them for fantastic moderation days. Well done and thank you to all involved.
Author visit - Alex Wheatle
10 of our students were invited to attend an author visit and talk, organised by the Creative Learning Services and hosted at the St. Paul’s Catholic School in Leicester. The students found the author very engaging and funny. They had a chance to listen to him talk about his childhood and how he got into writing; but they also had a chance to ask him questions, have books/posters signed by him and have a photo taken. The trip was well worth it!
The author, Alex Wheatle, is an award-winning black British novelist of Jamaican heritage. He spent much of his childhood in a Shirley Oaks children's home and at 16 was a founder member of the Crucial Rocker sound system; his DJ name was Yardman Irie. By 1980 Alex was living in a social services hostel in Brixton, South London, and he participated in the 1981 Brixton riots and aftermath. While serving his resulting sentence he read authors such as Chester Himes, Richard Wright, C. L. R. James and John Steinbeck. He claims that a Rastafarian was his cellmate, and he was the one who encouraged Alex to start reading books and care about his education. He has written a number of adult books and was awarded the MBE for services to literature in 2008.
His first Young-adult novel, Liccle Bit, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2016 and the second, Crongton Knights, won the 50th Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. S F said, one of the judging panel, said of the book: "Wheatle’s writing is poetic, rhythmic and unique, remaking the English language with tremendous verve. Though Crongton is his invention, it resonates with many urban situations, not only in Britain but around the world. Crongton Knights is a major novel from a major voice in British children’s literature."
We'd like to say a huge thank you to this year's peer mentors who have done a fantastic job. We are all so proud of you, you're a credit to TMBS. Thank you.
Interviews are currently taking place for new Year 9 Peer mentors and all the current Year 9 mentors have agreed to continue their work into year 10.
Solo Service the agency who provide cleaning services to TMBS are looking to acquire new team members for their cleaning staff. For information on the specific roles available you can contact manager Keith Laight at the Oldbury regional office on 0121 5111 554. Or you can contact the Solo Service head office help desk by calling 08702 421 420.
Le Touquet & Normandy
Final preparations are well underway for the forthcoming Le Touquet and Normandy trips. Both are taking place in the week commencing the 26th June. Year 7 students and parents keen for a sneak peek at what they can expect from the trip can click on the link below to see what last year's Year 7s got up to on their trip to Le Touquet.
Le Touquet 2016
The latest Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Click on the link below to browse the latest book offers and order online, if you wish. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.
In our TMBS STEM club, we're working towards our Discovery award, and getting close to completion soon. We've also made a short video entry to a competition run by BT to win funding for dataloggers, watch this space and hope we're successful!
Click here for more information on the Discovery awards
Sporting Highlights
Congratulations to the Year 9 girls' rounders team who were undefeated in a recent Hinckley and Bosworth Schools' tournament. The tournament saw a fantastic team effort from TMBS' young ladies, congratulations on a well earned victory.
We're delighted to have so many TMBS students who recently qualified for the county athletics championships. These will be held on June 10th at Saffron Lane, click on the link below for more information about the venue.
Alice Walker- 100m
Fred Milner- 100m
Mia Wood- 100m
Oliver Jones- 100m
Ruby Leary- 200m
Amelia Bowlay-Williams- 200m
Seth Howell- 200m
Shonia Appiah-200m
Jake Botterill- 300m
Joe Glover- 300m
Sophie Perry- 800m
Charlotte Perry- 1500m
Jake Webster- Triple Jump
Zach Michalowski- High Jump
Kirsty Collins- High Jump
Luca Michalowski-- High Jump
Peter Lancaster- High Jump
Charlotte Gudegeon- High Jump
Tom Judges- Shot Putt
Paddy Hanford- Shot Putt
Aaron Broadhurst- Discus
Dillion Tomlin- Discus
Alice Walker, Ruby Leary, Kirsty Collins,Jess Clarke- Relay
Oliver Jones, Seth Howell,Brandon Pye, Will Finch- Relay
For More Information About Saffron Lane Athletics Click Here
We'd like to say a huge thank you to all the students and parents who attended one of our uniform events near the end of April. It was great to see so many parents supporting the school and taking the time to help get student uniforms ready for next year. Thank you all.
We are expecting the first orders of new uniforms to start arriving in school on Saturday 1st of July. The last days for uniform collection before term starts will be Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of August.
For more information on the new school uniform click here
We are delighted to announce that work on the new TMBS website is almost complete. The site will return with a fresh new look, and a more streamlined interface. We hope this will allow you all to access the information you are looking for more easily and quickly.
TMBS will be running a 'mop-up' vaccination day on the 4th July. All Year 8 and 9 students who missed the previous vaccination day will be given their HPV and Meningitis vaccinations (as appropriate).
Why Meningitis vaccinations are important
Why the HPV vaccine is important?
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West Indies vs India 2019
Coach Ravi Shastri's Picture With "Divine" Punch Inspires Hilarious Memes
Bumrah's Hat-trick Against West Indies Won't Be His Last: Irfan Pathan
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KS Bharat Came Very Close On Earning Test Spot, Says Chief Selector MSK Prasad
हिंदी में पढ़ें தமிழில் படிக்க বাংলায় পড়ুন
Chief selector MSK Prasad also named three wicket-keeper batsmen India will be looking at in Test cricket for sometime.
Samrat Chakraborty
KS Bharat had notched up a century recently for India A. © Twitter
Chief selector MSK Prasad on Sunday named the squads for the West Indies tour, with many youngsters making a cut in the team, on the back of their prolific India A performances. But 25-year-old KS Bharat, who was in the fray on earning a Test call-up, missed out on the flight. However, chief selector MSK Prasad, impressed with KS Bharat's performances said he might be considered for some other series later in the year. Prasad also clarified Rishabh Pant, Wriddhiman Saha and KS Bharat are three wicket-keeper batsmen India will be looking at in Test cricket for sometime.
"We have taken the India A performances into consideration, the performances of Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer has been phenomenal and so is Navdeep Saini and also in the longer format it was KS Bharat, was very very close to getting selected," Prasad told reporters.
"We have an unwritten norm, that somebody, the established cricketer, when he gets injured, when he comes back, I think an opportunity should be given to him, so that's how we have given an opportunity to Wriddhiman Saha
"But I can tell that with the stellar performances that KS Bharat is doing, in India A, last three series he has got three centuries and he picked up about 50 dismissals, which is a fantastic thing and he was very, very close and these are Rishabh, KS and Wrdiddhiman Saha are three guys we will be looking at Test cricket for sometime," he added.
Bharat, has been in phenomenal form, scoring centuries for India A against Australia A, England Lions and Sri Lanka A, with the high score of 142 runs. He has also been effective with stumpings and catches from behind the stumps.
In the first-class cricket, he holds an average of 38.75 and has a triple century to his name. He has also scored eight centuries and twenty half-centuries in this format.
Topics mentioned in this article West Indies Cricket Team India Cricket Team West Indies vs India 2019 Rishabh Pant Wriddhiman Saha Cricket
Prasad also named three wicket-keeper batsmen India will be looking at
KS Bharat had notched up a century recently for India A
He has also been effective with stumpings
New Zealand vs India: India "Have The Ammunition" To Compete In New Zealand, Says Sachin Tendulkar
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Bruner scores 23 as SC Upstate defeats Bob Jones 92-74
December 21, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Freshman guard Tommy Bruner scored a season-high 23 points as South Carolina Upstate defeated Bob Jones University 92-74 on Saturday. Bruner, an 11 points per game scorer, made 4 of 8 3-pointers and shot 9 of 16 overall. Everette Hammond had 11 points and seven assists for the Spartans (4-8). Nevin Zink added 10 points. Josh Aldrich had seven rebounds for S.C. Upstate. Kendall Norrington had 15 points for Bob Jones, a Division II member. Nate Ellenwood added 15 points and six rebounds. Daniel Fuller had 11 points for the Bruins.
South Carolina Upstate plays VMI at home on Dec. 29.
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Global Warming is the New Religion
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Trace: • Wavrian
character:wavrian
Wavrian in Roleplay
Psychological Characteristics
Family (or Creators)
Pre-RP
Technology Operation
Maintainance and Repair
Uniforms and Clothing
Wavrian
Azorean
Zodiac Sign:
United Outer Colonies Peacekeeping Forces
Peacekeeper 3rd Class
Current Placement:
UCS Zenpyou
Wavrian is a player character played by Kassidy and is currently involved in the UCS Zenpyou plot.
Height: 5'7” Mass: 143 lbs
Build and Skin Color: Slim and athletic, shaped by years of swimming in Azorean waters. Dark blue skin with some gray accentuating the collar bone.
Facial Features and Eye Color: Thin, young and smooth. Veins follow the patterns of very pure ancestry from Henatu, stretching back through generations of careful breeding. His eyes are a smoky gray color.
Hair Color and Style: Wavrian's hair is kelp-green, left to grow naturally to shoulder length.
Distinguishing Features: Wavrian's body carries reminders of the chaos caused by the destruction of a Nepleslian ship by Hanako over the citystate that he was in at the time of first contact. His right arm has a thick, jagged scar on top of the lower bicep where it was trapped under debris, and all of the retractable finger-webbing of his right hand has been damaged beyond repair.
Personality: Wavrian is excitable, loyal, and looking to learn as much as he can about the vast new world that's been revealed to him. His upbringing in the serious and straightforward culture of the Azoreans has prepared him well for a military life, and he follows orders to the best of his capabilities while also trying to get as close as he can to new information. He is a fairly open and blunt person, which has earned him mixed results from those that he's interacted with. Although he keeps a level head about it, his damaged right arm has left him with a bitter grudge against Yuki Toshiro, who he mistakenly believes to have been the cause of the first contact explosion.
Likes: Working and learning. Dislikes: Inactivity/stasis and the feeling that others are hiding things from him. Goals: Go where no Azorean has gone before; prove the worth of the Azorean race to the galaxy.
Henatu Spawning Grounds
Wavrian never quite fit in with the other Azoreans of Henatu. While he did show signs from the very start that he had a good mind for tinkering and exceptional fine motor skills, he was always restless. He seemed to be constantly distracted, spending much of his early life daydreaming or exploring the oceans of Sudran. When he was absolutely unable to get away from his education, he proved himself to be an acceptable student, but it was always obvious that he'd much rather be somewhere else. Nearly every night that he spent sleeping brought dreams of escape, reaching for the sky. He couldn't dream of spending his entire life confined to this ball of water.
Reaching pre-adulthood didn't do a thing to change Wavrian's thoughts. The monotony of life on Sudran simply wasn't working for him. Almost all of his free time was spent windsurfing, aiming to fly higher and higher away from the wet, dismal existence that he faced underwater. Back below the surface, Wavrian was receiving training as a technician to work on the Rill and other mining technology. While he felt good about helping his species by doing maintenance, he still felt that there was something better that he could do. This, of course, led to many conflicts with his master, who had been working as an engineer for all of his life.
The chance finally came for Wavrian to make his dreams came true. When first contact was made with other alien species, Wavrian stayed on top of events. When Nepleslian freelancers came to Azorea for trade, Wavrian did the best that he could to gain their acceptance, even with the extreme language barrier. He finally got them to take him off-world, and from there, his travels began. Over time, he became conversationally fluent in Nepleslian, and his studies were started in earnest. He learned of the other factions and species of the galaxy. From there, the next logical step was to join a group that not only had noble goals, but also presented an opportunity for Wavrian to explore and meet other races. Wavrian worked his way into UOC space, swore allegiance to the UOC and took up Peacekeeper training.
Like Wavrian's elders on Sudran, the Peacekeepers quickly recognized the Azorean's affinity for machines. Alongside his standard training, he was given specialized courses to help him understand UOC technology and keep it in working order. The jump from sonic technology to lasers was a strange one, but Wavrian's knowledge of the Rill has helped him when dealing with Power Armor. His knack for wiring and system maintenance earned him the respect of other engineers, and he was all too happy to learn every new scrap of information that was thrown his way. When the UOC was satisfied with his skills, Wavrian was proud to be accepted as the first Azorean Peacekeeper.
Before first contact was made, Wavrian was expecting to join the forces of the Azorean Commonwealth as an engineer, helping to keep droids and equipment flowing through production. Over time, this has grown into a more general knowledge of how things work, fueled by a curiosity to keep learning more.
After he was done traveling through space with the Nepleslians, Wavrian was happy to undergo training and education in the UOC. He gladly took to studying the Peacekeeper Charter of YE 30, committing the lessons that he learned to heart and memory.
Wavrian was less enthusiastic about learning how to fight. It came as a relief to him to learn that the UOC promoted nonlethal combat styles focusing on incapacitation rather than termination, and his lithe build complemented the techniques well. Although he will take on an opponent in honorable unarmed combat if need be, he is very reluctant to use firearms or bladed weapons, namely because of his natural distrust of sharp objects as an Azorean.
Medical training was far more interesting to the Azorean. Learning how to heal, rather than to wound, was exciting and satisfying. Wavrian feels confident that if first aid training like his were to be made more available, disasters such as the one during the Azorean first contact could be dealt with more competently.
Wavrian is now fully fluent in Nepleslian and his native Azorean, and conversationally fluent in Yamataian, making him a valuable asset for negotiations. He took to comms systems and language training with vigor, exploring the languages taught to him by the UOC teachers as if language itself were a new land.
One of the strangest leaps in education that Wavrian has made came when it was time to bridge the gap between engineering and operation. Knowing how to build something and knowing how to use it properly are, surprisingly, two very different things. Wavrian's UOC trainers had to take a bit of extra time to get the Azorean used to the standard control layouts that a Peacekeeper needs to be made familiar with. After all of his training, Wavrian is quite comfortable operating computers, and has found them to be valuable tools in his quest for knowledge. His use of remotely operated devices, however, is still a little shaky. He's not quite used to the lack of sensory input.
A good engineer can make whatever you need and hope that it won't fail you. A great engineer will be right beside you when it does fail, and be prepared to patch it right back up. Wavrian follows this motto with gusto. His UOC trainers have familiarized him with a variety of ways in which equipment can fail, and consequently, how to fix it when it does. He has become excellent at keeping equipment in peak condition. Combined with his other engineering skills, he's equally at home fixing things up on the battlefield or in a scrap heap.
UOCPF Standard Issue Kit
(1) – Ikonmoud.
(1) – Attachable External Humidifying Respirator.
(2) – Peacekeeper Uniforms.
(5) – dark purple cotton undershirts, UOC logo printed on the back.
(5) – dark-purple cotton boxer shorts
(10) – pairs of water-proof socks.
(2) – extra uniform pants: synthetic leather pants with reinforced and padded knees and seat with cargo style pockets.
(1) – black swim trunks with the UOC logo.
(1) – black rain poncho with the UOC logo printed on the the front left chest.
(1) – extreme cold-weather jacket, with gloves and headband/hat.
(1) – pair of leather boat shoes.
(2) – pairs of sandals.
(1) – pair of insulated winter boots.
(1) – pair of dress shoes.
(1) – khaki-colored outdoor hat.
(1) Mugen Armories E1 Energy Pistol
(4) BR-E1a battery magazine
(1) black leather leg drop holster
(1) – container of Cleansing Ointment.
(1) – bottle of shampoo
(1) – bottle liquid body soap
(1) – stick of deodorant
(1) – toothbrush
(1) – tube of toothpaste
(2) – washcloths, black
(2) – towels, black
(1) – 4oz Container of moisture absorbing powder
(1) – make-up kit
(1) – manicure kit
(1) – hair brush
(2) – UOCPF Standard Issue Flashlights with replacement batteries (2) and tubes (1).
(1) – Printed copy of the Peacekeeper Charter of YE 30 on waterproof paper.
(1) – Peacekeeper Pocket Medikit
(1) – Peacekeeper Personal Communicator
(1) -- Peacekeeper Card
preloaded with 2,000 HS – Hiewa Credits.
Wavrian is currently a Peacekeeper 3rd Class in the United Outer Colonies Peacekeeping Organization. He receives a weekly salary of -salary- per week.
2000 HS Starting Funds
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Interview with Carl [J.?] Douglas Fuchs
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Knocked out: Sleep disturbances after traumatic brain injury
Daniel K. Nishijima
Department of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. E-mail: daniel.nishijima{at}ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Science Translational Medicine 18 Mar 2015:
Vol. 7, Issue 279, pp. 279ec45
Department of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. E-mail: daniel.nishijima@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
For correspondence: daniel.nishijima@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
According to Leonardo da Vinci, “a well-spent day brings happy sleep,” but both can elude a person who has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Trauma patients often experience sleep-wake disturbances, but the documented prevalence rates vary widely, likely because they are based on retrospective or self-reported data that have not been compared with control groups. To better characterize TBI-associated sleep-wake disturbances, Imbach and colleagues prospectively compared the prevalence of sleep-need and excessive daytime sleepiness after TBI with a matched control group. The investigators also evaluated clinical and laboratory findings that predict poor sleep-wake outcome after TBI.
Patients were evaluated in the acute period after TBI to assess injury severity and potential predictors for sleep-wake disturbances and again at 6 months to assess objective (actigraphy) and subjective sleep data. After 6 months, the average sleep need per 24 hours increased by a mean difference of 1.2 hours (P<0.0001) in patients with first-ever TBI compared to a control group. Objective daytime sleepiness was also increased in the TBI group (57% versus 19% in the control group). Interestingly, TBI patients, but not controls, significantly underestimated sleep-wake disturbances compared with the objective data. Furthermore, the severity of TBI and presence of intracranial hemorrhage were found to predict sleep-wake disturbances. The direct relationship between sleep-wake disturbances and TBI demonstrated by this prospective, controlled study paves the way for future in-depth examinations of TBI patients in sleep laboratories.
L. L. Imbach et al., Increased sleep need and daytime sleepiness 6 months after traumatic brain injury: A prospective controlled clinical trial. Brain 138, 726–735 (2015). [Full Text]
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By Daniel K. Nishijima
Science Translational Medicine 18 Mar 2015 : 279ec45
Traumatic brain injury patients have increased sleep need and daytime sleepiness relative to controls.
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Keidel: Surging Steelers Still Lucky To Not Face Rodgers
Filed Under:Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger, Green Bay Packers, Jason Keidel, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers
By Jason Keidel
In pro football, when Team A learns that Team B is without its best player, Team A neither grins nor gloats, and always professes a profound desire to face their foes at full strength.
But we’d be delusional to think the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense, or at least their coaching staff, didn’t exchange a few high-fives over film study this week, knowing that Aaron Rodgers was not suiting up for the Green Bay Packers when they play at Heinz Field this Sunday.
It’s inelegant to say this, but the difference between Green Bay with or without Rodgers is almost like playing a pro team versus a college team.
Not to pile on Brett Hundley, who’s giving it the old college try, or the rest of his team, which is doing the same. But even in the new-age NFL, which is now built by and for the quarterback, the Packers’ potency is alarmingly reduced since Rodgers broke his right clavicle.
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In the five games he’s played since Rodgers was injured, Hundley has thrown two touchdowns and seven interceptions. Aaron Rodgers threw seven interceptions over the entire 2009 season. He threw six in 2011 and 2013, and just five in 2014.
Green Bay (5-5) was 4-1 in the games Rodgers started and finished, and are 1-4 since. They averaged 27.4 points over their first five games, and 13.4 points in the following five. It’s unfair to compare anyone to Aaron Rodgers, much less his backup. But sometimes a player proves his worth equally if not more when he misses playing time. Rodgers is not their only issue, of course. The Packers are close to signing truckers and bartenders to replace all their injured offensive linemen. They’re a mess at running back. And it seems Hundley couldn’t spot Jordy Nelson if you handed him a life-size poster of the Pro Bowl WR.
Not that the Steelers (8-2) will complain. They are already on a roll, winning five straight, and enjoy a three-game bulge over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC North. No one doubted the Steelers’ firepower on offense, with perhaps the most talented triumvirate in the NFL — QB Ben Roethisberger, WR Antonio Brown, and RB Le’Veon Bell — but it’s been their defense that has failed them the last few years.
Not so far this year. Opponents have averaged just 15.2 points against Pittsburgh over their last five games, with none scoring more than 17 in any one of them. It’s an unlikely eruption of victories, for sure. Just six weeks ago, the Steelers were humiliated at home, 30-9, by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Likely the worst game of Roethlisberger’s career, he threw five interceptions, and waved a caustic tongue at reporters after the game. As he spoke in doomsday cliches about not having what it takes anymore, the media feasted on Big Ben’s march toward mortality, questioning his talent and his temerity.
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There were sideline tantrums from Brown, more disciplinary issues with the wildly gifted but wholly troubled WR Martavis Bryant, and it felt the entire team was on the edge of mutiny. Until it wasn’t. It seems that, beyond their defensive revival, the Steelers recognized one vital item. Antonio Brown may be the best wideout in the NFL; Big Ben may be the leader of the team; but Le’Veon Bell is the most important player on the team. Once the Steelers made a point of feeding Bell the ball, the entire offense — and the entire team — came together.
The critics have been way more muted over the last month, as Big Ben and the Steelers have plowed through their schedule, heading toward what should have been an epic matchup with the most gifted quarterback of his (or any, really) generation. But Vikings LB Anthony Barr put a stop to that showdown, when he drilled Rodgers and then drove him into the granite turf after Rodgers had released the ball.
More than a few people, including Rodgers (and yours truly), question the fairness of that hit. A few videos have pinballed around social media showing Rodgers getting more nimble by the day, jogging, jumping, and doing all kinds of calisthenics. Some say he will return sometime in December. But for at least one Sunday, the Steelers and their fans won’t cry over Rodgers missing one more game.
Jason writes a weekly column for CBS Local Sports. He is a native New Yorker, sans the elitist sensibilities, and believes there’s a world west of the Hudson River. A Yankees devotee and Steelers groupie, he has been scouring the forest of fertile NYC sports sections since the 1970s. He has written over 500 columns for WFAN/CBS NY, and also worked as a freelance writer for Sports Illustrated and Newsday subsidiary amNew York. He made his bones as a boxing writer, occasionally covering fights in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, but mostly inside Madison Square Garden. Follow him on Twitter @JasonKeidel.
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HomeAudio and VideoConference TalksChristendom and Its Enemies
Christendom and Its Enemies
By Mr. C. Joseph Doyle
Not only has this speaker an encyclopedic amount of historical knowledge, he knows how to evaluate history such that its lessons can be utilized in the present. In this timely talk, defender of the Faith, C.J. Doyle, surveys the trail of Mohammedan relations and confrontations with Christendom, from the former's rise to power in the seventh century until today. This historian and Catholic lay activist not only presents the facts about the principal assaults upon Christendom by its most visible enemy but the reasons that produced the facts. How, for example, did an ignorant Bedouin convince anyone, never mind millions in his own time, that he was a prophet, and the last of the prophets? How did the pretension endure after his death, assuming that he had some charisma for persuasion? How did it take over eastern Christendom? What condition was eastern Christendom in when the religion of the sword overran huge chunks of its territories, whole Christian nations in fact? How did they take over North Africa, most of Spain, and even southern France before Mohammed was a hundred years dead? Mr. Doyle answers these questions and many more, while recounting the great military victories that saved the West from infidel invasions on two fronts. In doing so he dispels many assumed fallacies, such as that there were Moslem majorities in all Arab countries. Few westerners realize that when the Crusades were first called in 1095, many Arab nations had Christian majorities living under Mohammedan rule. Another mistaken notion is that the Church lost more of its members to the Protestant rebellion than to Islam. Almost fifty percent of Christendom fell to the Mohammedans as compared to less than thirty percent to the Protestants. Our speaker doesn't leave his audience in the past, he takes them into the present with the ongoing jihad to Islamicize Europe, if not by the sword, through procreation. Next time you hear someone bring up the crusades in criticism of the Church give them the facts, or give them a recording of this talk. For our ignorance here we are accountable.
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Artisan Crafted 950 Silver Filigree Band Ring from Peru, 'Three Waves'
Elegant filigree work creates intricate motifs along the band of this ring from Peru, handcrafted from silver in a fusion between pre-Colombian and Moorish styles of design. Peruvian artisan Alfredo Inga creates this striking band ring expressing his history in jewelry crafting traditions.
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After winning a prize, Sr. Inga was awarded a scholarship… "They offered me the chance to teach the art of filigree in Israel. But I love Peru too much to leave."
Alfredo Inga was born on July 18, 1960, in Catacaos in northern Peru, considered the "City of Filigree." At the age of eleven, he began to learn the art with friends who taught him little by little.
"I enjoyed it because a jeweler's work is a delicate art, and I was able to create beautiful pieces for women," the artist recalls. "My inspiration comes from nature, especially from flowers. First I design a piece, then I carefully craft it."
After winning a prize for his jewelry, Sr. Inga was awarded a scholarship to study with a professor from Israel.
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Osman Kavala v. Turkey: unravelling the Matryoshka dolls
December 12, 2019 December 13, 2019 Guest Blogger Limitation on use of restrictions on rights, Osman Kavala v. Turkey, Right to Liberty and Security
By Emre Turkut (PhD Researcher at Ghent University and DAAD Visiting Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin)
On 10 December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) delivered its much-awaited decision in the case of Osman Kavala v. Turkey, an application lodged by a human rights defender and philanthropist to challenge his arbitrary arrest and subsequent placement in pre-trial detention in relation to the Gezi Park events and the 15 July 2016 attempted coup. The application had been pending before Strasbourg since 8 June 2018. In line with its priority policy that has been previously implemented in the group of cases concerning detained journalists and academics in Turkey, the Court decided to grant priority to Osman Kavala’s case on 23 August 2018 and it was hence communicated to Turkey on 30 August 2018. In its judgment, the ECtHR found several violations (see below). Arguably, the finding of an Article 18 violation in conjunction with Article 5(1) (c), among other violations, is the most significant part of the judgment and yet comes as no surprise. Following the Court’s earlier ruling in Selahattin Demirtas v. Turkey, this makes it the second Article 18 case decided against Turkey, which adds to the steady evolution of the burgeoning case law (see, inter alia, the Grand Chamber’s Merabishvili v. Georgia).
The Osman Kavala case is emblematic of many existing problems in Turkey. While each issue deserves close attention in its own right, they are also inextricably intertwined. Each issue is either a result or a cause of one another – factors that cumulatively contributed to the judicial farce and injustice that Kavala faced domestically. So one cannot help but think about the Matryoshka dolls when looking at the oddities of the particular case. This blog post focuses in on the ECtHR’s substantive findings in the judgment and see whether the Court went further into the unraveling of the Matryoshka dolls in Turkey. Some background information and details of the ECtHR’s judgment will first be presented.
Factual Background
Osman Kavala is a businessman and a prominent civil society activist in Turkey. He was arrested on 18 October 2017 on suspicion of attempting to overthrow the Government and the constitutional order through force and violence (proscribed by Articles 309 and 312 of the Turkish Criminal Code) – charges linked to the Gezi Park events and to the attempted coup d’état of 15 July 2016 respectively. In response to the ruling party’s (“AKP”) urban development project that would have destroyed the Gezi Park to build a shopping center, a peaceful environmental sit-in was organised in May 2013. The police responded with violence and raided the park with tear gas and pressurised water in order to disperse the protesters. The protest escalated over the following months and spread to several cities across Turkey, over the course of which four civilians and two police officers were killed and thousand of people injured.
In justifying Kavala’s pre-trial detention on 1 November 2017, the Turkish magistrate court found that there existed concrete evidence indicating that he had led, organised and financially supported the Gezi Park events, an insurrection orchestrated with the involvement of terrorist organisations aimed at overthrowing the Government. As regards the charge concerning the 15 July attempted coup, the magistrate alleged that Kavala had been in contact with H.J.B. (Professor Henri J. Barkey, allegedly one of the instigators of the attempted coup), on 18 July 2016 (on the basis of reports from base transceiver stations that their mobiles emitted signals from the same station).
In the period between 1 November 2017 and 15 February 2019, Kavala submitted several applications for his release, all of which has been dismissed. Eventually, on 19 February 2019, the Istanbul public prosecutor filed a bill of indictment in respect of Kavala and 15 other suspects, including actors, NGO leaders and journalists, accusing them of having attempted to overthrow the Government by force and violence within the meaning of Article 312 of the Criminal Code (-thus disjoining the criminal investigation into the accusation under Article 309 of having attempted to overthrow of the constitutional order). The prosecutor mainly relied on the following evidence: the statements of an anonymous witness (M.P) accusing Kavala of acting for G.S. (George Soros) and of organizing and financing ‘the Gezi insurrection’; transcripts of numerous telephone conversations, surveillance reports of his several meetings and exchanges of messages that Kavala had during and after the Gezi events with journalist and leaders of several NGOs, and representatives of foreign countries; and his relationship with Professor Barkey.
In the meantime, on 29 December 2017 Kavala submitted an individual application before the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC). On 28 June 2019, the TCC found no violation of Article 19 of the Turkish Constitution (counterpart to Article 5 ECHR) holding that there existed factual evidence giving rise to a strong suspicion that Kavala had committed the alleged offence during the Gezi events, the ultimate aim of which was the overthrow of the Government; his detention was thus neither arbitrary nor unjustified.
The Court’s judgment
In examining the alleged lack of reasonable suspicion grounding Kavala’s detention, the Court first noted that its task is to verify whether there existed sufficient objective elements that could lead an objective observer to reasonably believe that the applicant might have committed the offences with which he has been charged (para.136). It then turned the evidence produced to justify the suspicions in respect of the two alleged offences. The Court noted that neither the Turkish magistrate’s detention order of 1 November 2017 nor the subsequent detention orders contained any material evidence indicating that he had used force or violence, had instigated or led the violent acts during the Gezi Park events or had provided support for such criminal conduct (para.143). According to the Court, the evidence in the bill of indictment was also inconclusive as it shed no light on which of Kavala’s actions amounted to criminal conduct; nor does it provide justification for the suspicions against him (para.148). Accordingly, the Court concluded in the absence of facts, information or evidence showing that he had been involved in criminal activity, the deprivation of his liberty was not based on a reasonable suspicion. (para.156). The Court furthermore held that the detention order based on a mere suspicion and insufficient evidence cannot be said to have been strictly required by the exigencies of the situation in light of Turkey’s derogation pursuant to Article 15 ECHR in the aftermath of the 15 July attempted coup. (para. 158)
With regard to the speediness requirement under Article 5(4) ECHR, the Court noted that around 18 months had elapsed between the date on which Kavala lodged an application before the TCC (29 December 2017) and the date on which that TCC published its final judgment (28 June 2019) (para.185). The Court had already accepted that the TCC’s review might take longer against the backlog in its workload following the declaration of a state of emergency in the Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay cases. In those cases, the Court found that the speediness requirement had been complied with notwithstanding the length of proceedings (more than 14 and 16 months respectively). However, as the length of proceedings in the Kavala case exceeds these two time periods, the Court concluded that the time-period in question was unduly long and could not be described as “speedy” within the meaning of Article 5(4) ECHR (para.196).
As regards Kavala’s contention that there was an ulterior purpose behind his pre-trial detention, namely to reduce him to silence as a human-rights defender, the Court reiterated that a restriction on rights may serve more than one purpose and an Article 18 claim will only succeed if the predominant purpose is not prescribed by the ECHR (para.219). To the Court, it appeared from the outset that “the investigating authorities were not primarily interested in the applicant’s presumed involvement in the public disorder which occurred in the course of the Gezi events and the attempted coup” (para.222) This was due to the fact that Kavala, during his police interview, was asked many questions which seemed to have no connection with these events, mostly relating to his ordinary and legitimate activities as a human rights defender and civil society activist. Similarly, the bill of indictment did not contain even a succinct statement of the facts and criminal actions on which Kavala’s criminal liability in the Gezi events is based (para.223). The Court then underlined the fact that Kavala was arrested on 18 October 2017, that is, more than four years after the Gezi events and more than a year after the attempted coup, on charges related to these events (para. 226). No plausible explanation, however, had been advanced by the Government to explain this considerable lapse of time.
What the Court also considered crucial in its assessment under Article 18 is that the long-standing investigation in relation to Kavala (during which he’d been in pre-trial detention for more than a year) accelerated after President Erdogan openly targeted him in two speeches on 21 November and 3 December 2018. In both speeches, Erdogan accused George Soros and Osman Kavala of financing the terrorists during the Gezi events, of encouraging people to divide and to shatter nations and of being the external and internal pillars behind Gezi (para.229). To the Court, there is a correlation between the accusations made openly against the applicant in these two public speeches by the Head of State and the wording of the charges in the bill of indictment filed about three months after the speeches in question on 19 February 2019 (para.229). Referring to the concerns expressed by the Commissioner for Human Rights and the third party interveners who considered Kavala’s detention to be part of a wider campaign of repression of human rights defenders in Turkey (para.230), the Court eventually found a violation of Article 18 in conjunction with Article 5(1)(c) and concluded:
“In the light of above-mentioned elements, taken as a whole, the Court considers it to have been established beyond reasonable doubt that the measures complained of in the present case pursued an ulterior purpose, contrary to Article 18 of the Convention, namely that of reducing the applicant to silence.” (para. 232)
The Court, having regard to its findings of several violations, and in accordance with Article 46(1) ECHR, held that the Government must take every measure to put an end to Kavala’s detention and to secure his immediate release (para. 240)
As alluded to above, the comment section focuses on the language used by the Court and the reach of its findings. At the most fundamental level – say this is the smallest Matryoshka doll– there is the individual complaint brought by a Turkish national, Osman Kavala. He was arrested on 18 October 2017 based on a mere suspicion and kept detained for over two years with no credible evidence. The Court’s unanimous decision that there was no reasonable suspicion is indeed quite telling in showing that the case is a clear example of arbitrariness.
Unstacking the second doll, there emerges Kavala’s profile as a human rights defender and a civil society leader. So the case at hand brings to the fore some major issues concerning the dire situation of human rights defenders in Turkey. Severe restrictions, smear campaigns, judicial harassment and arbitrary criminal prosecution have become part of their lives in recent years and the Kavala case should be seen against the backdrop of this continuously increasing pressure. As the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights clearly noted in her third party intervention, this case contributed significantly to an already existing chilling effect on civil society, including human rights defenders in the country. In its judgment, the Court provided a fully convincing and plausible reasoning in that regard by highlighting that the case marks a further criminalisation of peaceful association and expression (such was the Gezi park events) in Turkey, by ringing a clear warning bell for Turkey and by using Article 18 for its intended aims.
The Kavala case then highlights a structural issue (let’s not forget that each doll is another problem!) of the excessive and unrestricted use of pre-trial detention in Turkey especially in the post-coup period. Since the 15 July 2016 failed coup, Turkey has seen mass detention and arrests of thousands of people not involved in any violent act. More than 250,000 people, including judges and prosecutors, military personnel, police officers, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and opposition politicians were deprived of their liberty on an array of terrorism related offences. In the vast majority of cases, they were arrested and detained on a mere suspicion (like Kavala!) with almost no evidence corroborating their involvement in terrorist activities, and ultimately became victims of political and legal injustice left without any recourse to an effective remedy that they could use to meaningfully challenge their detention. In turn, the Court has so far condemned Turkey’s post-coup pre-trial detention practices in three important decisions in Mehmet Altan, Sahin Alpay and Alparslan Altan and now in Kavala. In all four decisions (or at every turn), the ECtHR was unconvinced that the pre-trial detention of the applicants satisfied its reasonable suspicion standard by holding that the difficulties facing Turkey during the post-coup period could not provide a carte blanche under Article 5 ECHR to detain anyone without any verifiable evidence or information or without a sufficient factual basis. These decisions indeed seem to presage a strong judicial boldness regarding Turkey’s detention practices.
Continuing to go further along the unpacking of Matryoshka dolls, the case also underscores the systematic failure of domestic remedies in today’s Turkey including the individual application mechanism before the TCC. It is evident from the domestic proceedings that the elements adduced grounding the initial detention order as well subsequent extension orders lack any meaningful evidentiary basis linking Kavala to any of the alleged offences. Moreover, when deciding Kavala’s individual application, the TCC uncritically rode on the coattails of the Turkish magistrate court that ordered his initial detention and the Istanbul public prosecutor’s –imaginary- evidence listed in the bill of indictment. So the ECtHR findings in the Kavala case reveals another stark contrast with what the TCC found in his individual application. Nevertheless, the ECtHR once again found that none of the material in its possession suggested that an individual application to the TCC was not capable of affording appropriate redress for the applicant’s complaint under Article 5 of the Convention, or that it did not offer reasonable prospects of success (para. 100). I believe the reasoning of the Court under this part is not convincing. As I have previously argued, the total abdication of their purpose by the Turkish courts show that the problem might and should be regarded as more wide ranging and fundamental than a failure to obtain relief at the national level, including before the TCC.
Perhaps, the biggest doll (aka the most fundamental problem) relates to Turkey’s present lack of an independent judiciary. In its assessment under Article 18, the Court rightly remarked that the restriction in question affected not merely Kavala alone, or human rights defenders and NGO activists more widely, but the very essence of democracy as a means of organising society and thus the ulterior purpose attained significant gravity (para. 231). However, the Court stopped short of finding that the judicial authorities had also acted in bad faith from the beginning. This strongly contrasts with the Court’s finding that Kavala’s investigation accelerated after the above-mentioned speeches given by President Erdogan. But in my reading of the case, this aspect was one of the most crucial aspects leading the Court to find a violation of Article 18. It must also be noted that numerous reports of international and human rights bodies are replete with concerns over the executive’s grip on the whole judiciary in Turkey (Venice Commission, the CoE’s Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, to give a few examples.)
Ultimately, then, it could be concluded that in Kavala, the Court built on its existing Article 18 case law in a coherent and principled way. In doing so, the Court managed to take into account the domestic legal and political developments underpinning Kavala’s detention and thus was able to unravel –at least a good number of- the Matryoshka dolls in Turkey (this is mostly linked to its findings under Article 18). The same cannot be said, however, when it comes to its consistent failure (and inability) to examine the broader context and pattern in which the alleged violations took place and the disintegration of the rule of law, the judiciary and domestic remedies in Turkey.
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3 thoughts on “Osman Kavala v. Turkey: unravelling the Matryoshka dolls”
El roam says:
Very interesting post and issue obviously. We have here hell of complicated issues. Just worth to mention, the dissenting opinion ( partly dissenting) opposing the idea of having clearly established findings of ulterior motives or purpose in that detention. Just very shortly the essence:
Having no legal proofs for it. And :
The wider analysis is compatible with it, since, even if he is indeed a human rights activist, notwithstanding, I quote:
” As noted by the majority, given the serious disruption and considerable loss of life resulting from these events, it was perfectly legitimate to carry out investigations into these events”
So, according to him, being human rights activist, doesn’t shield him, from criminal proceedings of course.
And, other suspects, were already tried and some released pending trial. And finally:
The domestic courts, and the constitutional courts, have examined the case over and over, and what he founds insufficient, was the reasoning only, but, it doesn’t support necessarily, the lack of legitimate aim in that prolonged detention.
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Visiting the Snow of Quebec
[Maryanne]While much of the USA and UK are suffering from unusual snow and cold levels, we've been in Arizona and enjoying sunny skies and pretty comfortable temperatures. Enough of that, we needed to share the pain, and visit a snowier climate.
[Kyle]When I went to work after our weekend in Sedona, Maryanne joined me for a long layover in Quebec City.
Even though it was around 10°F (About -12°C) when we were there, Québécois were out with us in large numbers for the sunny day. We walked into the old city and marveled at both the beautiful architecture and the long views of the frozen St. Lawrence Seaway. Quebec is a real jewel of a city. It successfully pulls off being both majestic and intimate at the same time. It feels like an old-world European city with its meandering avenues of stone and its tiny shop fronts set between massive cathedrals, grand hotels and government buildings.
We saw people leaving a hotel with cross country skis slung over their shoulders who were headed to a nearby park. Others ice skated around a rink in front of one of the massive gates in the city wall. At another, a lunchtime ice hockey game was being played. We eventually made our way to the toboggan hill, where $2.50 got us each a trip down after dragging the toboggan up to the top. Boy, that was fun! The wind chill on the way down was a bit much for my bare fingers, but it was worth it.
Toboggan Ride - fast and fun (and cold)
Shortly after that, our poor camera decided it was way too cold to work as well, which was pretty good timing as we needed to get back to the hotel anyway for the trip back to the airport.
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Out and About in Arizona
[Kyle]Maryanne and I decided to spend a long weekend exploring a little further afield in Arizona, so we rented a car and drove up to Sedona.
First, the car. Those who have been following the blog for a while know that we have a preference for small, super fuel efficient cars. Rental car companies, particularly in the U.S., seem confused when we don’t leap at an offer for a free “upgrade” to a bigger car. After all, we live on a boat that has something like a mere 150 square feet of living space. Neither of us sees the point in dragging around more car than we absolutely need to get the job done. Well, you could imagine my glee when, at the Phoenix airport, the rent-a-car guy offered me an even smaller car than the one I had reserved for the same price. Based on his reaction, I surmised that most people took one look at the car and laughed at him. He seemed shocked when I jumped on his offer to take a Smart car for the weekend.
Up until now, the smallest car that we have been able to get our hands on was the Ford Ka in Oban. As far as we were concerned, the Ka was still too much car. After all, it still had a tiny, vestibular back seat on which the four unnecessary cubic feet of air we carried everywhere had to sit. The Smart car has no such wasted space. The cargo area sits on top of the engine in a two and a half foot extension behind the two seats.
Kyle was very proud of our rental - a Smart Car that amazingly managed to fit in all our gear.
I admit that, from the outside, the Smart car is hilariously tiny. It looks like the front half of a regular car with the hood chopped off then lowered onto four tiny go-cart wheels. From inside, though, the car is totally cool. We kept forgetting we were not in a normal sized car. There was plenty of leg and head room and the car had lots of cool features that we didn’t expect like power windows and mirrors, air conditioning, paddle shift or automatic transmission and, my favorite, a button on the dash that will fix a flat tire with a built in air pump. In fact, every time the car is started, the pump automatically inflates the tires to the correct pressure. Ours even had an electric cabriolet top and it could be parked in the shade of any nearby mail box. The car didn’t have any problem with the 75mph speed limit on the freeway, even climbing over the passes on the way. It also has a five star crash rating. I loved that little car. I hated to return it. My only real disappointment was that our quest to rent ever smaller and smaller cars has likely reached its limit. The only car I can think of that is smaller is the diminutive Corbin Sparrow electric car. The problem is that particular car only has one seat, defeating the whole idea of spending time together. Plus, I don’t think anybody is renting them.
On to Sedona.
Montezuma's Castle - prehistoric cliff dwellings
On the way, we stopped at Montezuma’s Castle, the name given to a village of cliff dwellings carved high in a cliff. The trail in the park did not go up to the dwellings, but we were able to get up close for a look at a village that was occupied until about 800 years ago.
Once in Sedona, we spent very little time in our hotel. Since the gorgeous scenery beckoned so irresistibly, we spent every daylight hour hiking some of the trails in the area. Our main hike was an all-day walk up the long trail up to the top of Bear Mountain. From the car, which was parked in the back half of a space at the trailhead, we could see the trail as it headed across a short plain before zigzagging up a steep, red mesa to the top. Once on the trail ourselves, it didn’t take long before the flat plain gave way to a steep climb up rocks that were of such a size and spacing that the climb became like taking stairs two at a time. Every now and then, when we needed a rest, we would turn away from the mountain and take in magnificent views of the surrounding mountains that became more and more impressive the higher we climbed.
After a final push up the steepest part, we crested the top of the mesa and had a nice walk along the flat trail to the other side through cactus and Joshua trees. On the other side, expecting the trail to end at a viewpoint, we instead found the trail continuing up the next steep hill, which had not been visible behind the mesa when we started. We were pretty tired, but we figured we’d come this far, we couldn’t quit now. At the top of that hill, the trail still did not end but instead continued steeply up yet a third hill over loose rock. Alright, Fine! We’ll climb that one too!
We were rewarded with the most stunning views of the entire valley. We sat on a cliff edge and enjoyed the view while eating our hard-earned pack lunch. Then it was time for the much easier descent back down to the car, picking our footfalls carefully as we made our way back down the mountains, happy with our day of stunning beauty and feeling the satisfaction that comes from a day of straining muscles and fresh air.
On the day we left, we hiked the much more moderate loop around Bell Rock, capped with a climb up the rock itself. That climb started off normally enough but, higher up, became quite treacherous. There is a band of Bell Rock where there are no real trails and it was necessary to climb the face of the bare, steeply sloped rock. At this point, the only thing protecting against a long fall is pure shoe traction right at its limit. It was necessary to carefully scan the rock face for those pockets that were slightly less steep and then figure out how to link enough of them together to get to the top, all the while knowing that if I got it wrong, there was nothing to stop me until the bottom. I don’t recommend it without good shoes, plenty of time to take it slowly and nerves of steel. Maryanne sensibly opted out before the insane part.
I eventually made it as high as I could before I would have wanted proper climbing equipment to continue. Other people had apparently been able to get higher while free climbing, but I thought the risk was excessive. From my perch just over halfway up, I was rewarded with an incredible view. Oh, what I’ll do for a view!
Random views of beautiful Sedona and it's stunning Red rocks
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Open letter to Mayor Joseph Hogsett and Councilman Blake Johnson concerning Bird and Lime scooter legislation
Lime scooters charge and stand ready at Lime's 44th street Indianapolis HQ
Date: June 27, 2018Author: Chris Meadows 0 Comments
I attempted to send this letter to these worthies, via Mayor Hogsett’s Facebook message page, and Blake Johnson’s IndyGov email. I’m not sure whether it actually got through to them, so I’m posting it here as well.
Dear Mayor Joseph Hogsett and Councilman Blake Johnson:
I am writing regarding the Bird and Lime scooters that have come to Indianapolis over the last couple of weeks, and the legislation you have proposed to deal with them. I believe that these scooters can be good for Indianapolis, and would ask that you keep these points in mind when considering the legislation.
First and foremost, these scooters are a great complement to the other available transportation options in Indianapolis. One of the best things about Indianapolis is that we’re a forward-thinking city when it comes to public transportation. Not only do we have a decent bus line (and soon, high-speed transit options), we’ve also got a docked bike sharing system and an electric car rental program like few other places in the world. These scooters help to fill in the gaps, providing an economical, fast, and fun way for people to get from place to place that will be very helpful to attendees of Gen Con, NCAA, the Indianapolis 500, and the myriad other conventions and events Indianapolis hosts every year.
Second, these scooters are bringing money into Indianapolis. Since the scooter companies pay people $5 to $7 or more per scooter to charge them overnight and release them into the community, they’re providing a source of additional revenue that will flow into the local economy. I’m a Lime “Juicer” myself, and have made $82 (minus transportation expenses) charging their scooters so far. (I was even featured on the local news for it.) Allowing these companies to continue operating allows people like me to keep earning a little extra money.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen many people enjoying our city on these scooters, and I’ve taken several fun rides on them myself. I think that banning them outright would be a mistake, but I think it might also be a mistake to impose a cap on the number of scooters permitted in town. I’m in favor of letting market forces decide that. Scooters that go unused will cost the companies more in upkeep than they take in, and so will be eliminated.
Limiting the number of scooters also limits the opportunities for chargers and juicers to earn money. I’m afraid that it will also encourage the scooter companies to concentrate their limited number of scooters in densely populated areas like Mile Square and Broadripple, where they can earn the most per capita—and keep them out of less dense areas like Irvington where I live, where people might actually find them more useful because everything’s so much farther apart out here.
If you do decide to cap the numbers, I would ask that you impose caps on a per-neighborhood or per-district basis, so that the companies would have greater incentive to place scooter “nests” or “hubs” all over the city, not just in densely populated areas.
Now, I would support legislation aimed at defining where these scooters are allowed to be parked, and requiring the dockless rideshare companies to impose punitive measures on users who park carelessly. (The companies are able to tell which users are following these guidelines, since both of them require users to snap a photo detailing where they left the scooter to close out their ride.) I believe that would go a long way toward solving the “street litter” problem that other communities have dealt with.
Then there’s the matter of where riders are permitted to operate the scooters. I note that Sec. 431-603 of the city code permits cyclists to ride on sidewalks and greenways, provided that “The bicycle shall not be operated at a speed, or in any manner, which constitutes a threat to the safety of either the bicycle operator or other persons, or diminishes or impairs the free use of the sidewalk or greenway by other persons.” This is a considerably more permissive law than most places have, as riding on the sidewalk is illegal in most areas.
As it now stands, it is not legal to operate these electric scooters on sidewalks; however, a bicycle could cause considerably more harm in a pedestrian collision because any reasonably fit person could get a bicycle going much faster than these scooters, which are capped at 15 to 20 miles per hour at most. So why not amend the law to permit scooters to ride on the sidewalk, as long as they follow the same rules bicyclists have to operate under? This would give scooter operators the ability to ride legally on sidewalks and greenways, rather than putting themselves and motor vehicle operators at risk of collision riding on the streets.
I strongly encourage you to find a middle ground that permits these dockless rideshare companies to continue operating, and gives them incentives to expand to less populated areas such as Irvington. If you have any questions about the opinions I’ve expressed here, please contact me.
Christopher E. Meadows
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NSPCC Wear Green Day
On Monday 18th November, School Council invited everyone to come to school wearing green in support of the NSPCC. They also designed an obstacle course that the whole school completed as part of Buddy's Big Workout. School Council were fantastic helpers throughout the day. Thank you for everyone who supported this event and we raised a fantastic £574 for the NSPCC.
The Big Red Bus
The award-winning catering service at TCP offered our children a unique dining experience. Mellors Big Red Bus arrived on our playground to make our dining experience even more fun. Whilst munching lunch on the bus, children enjoyed learning about healthy eating and nutrition.
Our Science Day was launched with an assembly by Steve Rossington, a Bio-Medical Scientist. We were spell-bound by his imaginative experiments using solids, liquids and gases.Throughout the day, children experienced many fantastic activities which helped to develop enquiry skills and promote a love of Science.
Performance Poetry Workshop with Ian Bland
We welcomed Ian Bland, a professional performance poet to an assembly. He entertained us with a variety of poems and we really enjoyed joining in. Highlights included, ‘The dinner lady dance’ and ‘All the teachers are asleep!’ Following the assembly, Ian worked with year 3 & 4 to help them develop their skills to effectively perform poems themselves. What a fantastic afternoon! Over the coming weeks, Year 3 & 4 will be taking part in a performance poetry competition where our school winners will compete against finalists from other local schools. Watch this space to find out how we get on....
Year 4 Borwick Hall Residential
Year 4 had a really busy time at Borwick Hall! They've been canoeing, walking, pond crossing, caving and climbing. They also had a tour of the hall and sat around the campfire.
Thursday 7th March is the day when we all get to dress up as our favourite book character. To celebrate the event this year, we are asking children to donate a book they have enjoyed to our TCP library. A sponsored ‘Read for Good ‘scheme will also be launched to raise money for books for children in hospital and parents and carers are invited to come in to school and read with children at 3pm.
Narnia Trail
What an amazing experience our children had at Hesketh Bank Christian Centre's Narnia Trail. We had tea with Mr. Tumnus, visited Beaver Lodge and even managed to avoid the White Witch.
It's amazing what's hidden inside a wardrobe!
Enterprise Week 2018
The Dragons are back!
The launch of TCP Enterprise week was a huge success! Children had the opportunity to work with individuals from different business sectors - our very own local Dragons.
Each class bid for a budget to advertise and make a product that can be marketed for sale at our Christmas Fair on Thursday 13th December.
Special thanks to Mellors, GBA and Fluent Money who have given up their time to inspire and work alongside our children.
We are celebrating achieving Eco-Schools Green Flag Status
Following our recent Green Flag award assessment, we received the news that our application has been successful! The assessor recognised how much time and effort our school invests into environmental education. We are delighted and can't wait to build on this further. We have lots of projects in the pipeline...!!
Open Morning - Wednesday 14th November 2018
Thank you to all who attended our Open Morning, it was wonderful to welcome so many of you. Children and families were treated to 'Stay and Play' with Reception, guided tours of the school with our brilliant School Council and tasty refreshments in the hall whilst listening to Mr. Upton's address. It was a huge success and our visitors received a full flavour of life at TCP!
Remembrance Week 2018
Four of our Year 6 were invited to the Royal British Legion to exhibit some of our work, alongside other local schools, for Remembrance Day.
We were privileged to meet the mayor and tell him about all the work we do in Remembrance week and our trips to France.
We learnt so much, had our picture taken for the newspaper and were invited to sit with the mayor for tea and ate the most incredible biscuits!
X Factor Live at TCP!
2018 X Factor contestant Georgia Burgess visited us on Tuesday 23rd October.
Georgia has showcased her skills as the support act for a series of internationally renowned artists, from Little Mix and Clean Bandit to Dua Lipa.
Children and Staff were treated to a live performance, an opportunity to meet Georgia and purchase signed A3 posters.
Visit http://www.itv.com/xfactor/news/georgia-burgess-bring-the-house-down
Bee in the City
Our Year 5 bees created a big buzz in the City of Manchester on Wednesday 4th July. We found our very own 'Little Superstar' bee in Manchester Cathedral. What a lovely way to celebrate our beautiful Saffie's birthday.
Monday 2nd July is the launch of another amazing TCP Science Week!
Lots of exciting activities and events are planned including Relax Kids workshops, Sleep Science sessions and Science themed fancy dress on Friday 6th July. Our 'Great Science Draw' will be on Thursday 5th July which will take place on the playground straight after school. Also, each class will be embarking on an investigation to find out how many children are Supertasters!
It's time to dust down your summer frocks and dig out your best suit to join us at the TCP Summer Ball on Friday 29th June. If you haven't already signed up it's at the Ramada Hotel, Southport and is a celebration of all things TCP. Everyone is invited - there are spaces for individuals, couples and groups of friends on our tables of 10.
Bucks Fizz, 3 course meal, auction, raffle and dancing can be all yours for £30 pp.
If you would like to book please give the school office a ring.
- Celebration of childhood -
What a truly wonderful way to mark such a difficult anniversary. We painted pebbles, baked, sang, celebrated and ate ice-cream. The children were amazed to greet a large group of bikers led by Andrew and Lisa Roussos (with Chesney from Corrie), who pulled up at the front of school and joined us for a minutes silence. Click to view 'Harley bikers ride to remember Saffie.'
Saffie-Rose, you are forever in our hearts.
Celebration of Life - Saffie-Rose Roussos
Thank you to our wonderful school community for joining us to celebrate the life of Saffie. Your love and support this year has been very much appreciated. Our thoughts are with the Roussos family at this impossible time.
Planting for wildlife
The Eco Team, with Mrs Rhodes, have been working really hard to clear a raised bed in our school garden so that we can sow some wild flower seeds. The bed was full of long grass and gravel which made the job very difficult...but we persevered and managed to clear most of it! Watch this space for developments...
Manchester Resilience Hub
On Tuesday 8th May, we hosted a parent session with the Manchester Resilience Hub to work together to support our children and help us to identify reactions to trauma and grief. For more information click here.
We are offering a Yoga after school club for our Year 6 pupils. As well as being a good form of exercise, it is a great way to relax and has proven health benefits. We are hoping to equip our children with strategies to help them to relax fully and feel calmer in difficult or stressful situations. We hope Yoga will prove beneficial to children in the run up to SATs. The club is for beginners so no prior experience of Yoga is needed. The children have a very positive attitude and willingness to learn something new.
Sport Relief - Thursday 22nd March 2018
Throughout the day, Team TCP took part in fun House Team Competitions. The winning House Team were presented with the House Team Cup during our Celebration Assembly.
World Maths Day - Thursday 15th March 2018
World Maths Day kicked off with a whole school Assembly about the golden ratio and 'how perfect a person can be!' then the following problems were given out to each class for them to solve:
Y6 The Largest organ in your body
Y5 & 6 Paper, paper everywhere
Y5 My Legs Hurt
Y4 The Broken Calculator
Y3 & 4 Big Foot
Y3 A 24 leg potion
Y2 Card Sharp
Y1 & 2 Snakes and ladders
Y1 Bean bag Buckets
REC Four pin bowling
N Number or shape hunt
During the afternoon, we enjoyed Maths games and solving a mystery. Parents joined us to complete Maths trails and each class shared their activities in our celebration assembly on Friday.
World Book Day - David Walliams Theme
On Thursday 1st March, all children (and staff) came dressed as a character from a book written by our friend David Walliams.
What a fantastic day we had! It began with a whole school assembly led by Mrs Gaskell. During the assembly, Mr Upton (aka Grandpa) climbed up to the top of the highest climbing frame and read us an extract from 'Grandpa's Great Escape! It was lovely to see parents or grandparents popping into to school to share stories with our amazing children. Thank you to everyone involved - we've had a great time!
Charles Darwin Day - February 9th
During Darwin Day, we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (12 February 1809). Throughout the day, we highlight Darwin's contribution to science and promote science.
A very warm welcome to our Tiny Treasures who have joined our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). For more information about our Nursery Provision, click the image below.
A small shoebox can have a big impact. What goes into the box is fun, but what comes out of it is eternal. Be a part of changing children's lives all over the world through the power of a simple gift with Operation Christmas Child.
Enterprise Week 4th - 8th December 2017
TCP Enterprise week was a huge success! Children had the opportunity to work with individuals from different business sectors - our very own local Dragons.
Each class bid for a budget to advertise and make a product that can be marketed for sale at our Christmas Fayre on Thursday 14th December.
Special thanks to Sara Brookes (Manager of Jollie's Barn) and Jollie, Jenny Bird (Owner of Jenny Bird Holistic Beauty Therapy) and Kevin Hindley (CEO Fluent for Advisers) who have given up their time to inspire and work alongside our children.
Hollins Homes Health & Safety Visit - 24th November 2017
What a brilliant morning French Horns had! With the sun shining, we set off to Tarleton Green (Hollins Homes) with our home-made Christmas decorations in hand. As we arrived, we were greeted by our lovely friends Anita (Sales Consultant) and Paul (Senior Project Manager) who invited us into the Show Home to share delicious treats. Armed with our very own Hard Hats and Hi Vis Jackets, we were ready to set foot on the construction site!
During the walk around the house under construction, Paul told us how much water is in a house when building it, what you call a person who draws the house plans, how long it takes to build and even how to get Santa's sleigh marks off your drive!
We returned to the Show Home to finish off the yummy treats and the Winner of the Christmas Decoration competition was announced: Well done Isaac! Hollins Homes are so impressed with all of our decorations and, from the 1st December, children and families will be able to visit any day of the week between 10am and 5pm to see their decoration on the tree.
Well done French Horns, your behaviour was outstanding and a huge 'Thank you' to Hollins Homes for making us feel so welcome.
Open Morning - Tuesday 21st November
Bad Dad Event
Our amazing friend David Walliams has given us 5 sets of family tickets for an event at Manchester Palace Theatre. Your child will receive a letter with more details of how you and your family could win a set.
13th - 17th November 2017
Click the image below to visit our fabulous class pages and find out more details about this week.
Remembrance Week
6th - 10th November 2017
During the week EYFS heard the story of the poppy and produced a poppy wreath, KS1 imagined they were an Evacuee and even dressed up, LKS2 went back in time to the Summer of 1914 and created a living picture of Archie Dobson's war and UKS2 investigated what life was like in the trenches. We all came together, with Parents and Carers, for an emotional Remembrance Assembly on Friday 10th November led by Year 2 and 3 pupils.
Halloween Meal
On Thursday 26th October, children and family members enjoyed a special Halloween meal together. Over 100 Parents, Carers, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles sampled our delicious school meals washed down with 'Ghouls Gloop' from a pedal powered smoothie bar! A huge thank you to all who attended and to our fabulous kitchen staff for making it possible.
How do fireworks and bonfires affect pets and wildlife?
The Eco Team delivered a fantastic assembly today, during which they explored how fireworks and bonfires can frighten pets and wildlife. They shared some top tips for helping animals to feel safe on bonfire night.
France Residential
A 59 strong group of Team TCP has spent an action packed four days in France,staying at the fabulous Chateau d'Ebblinghem.
We visited the Passchendaele Museum to find out all about World War One, particularly the conditions the soldiers experienced. We explored trenches and dugouts and saw many artifacts. Next we traveled to the town of Ypres and visited the Menin Gate to pay our respects. We even sampled some Belgium delicacies - chocolate and ice-cream. Yum! Later on we visited the Essex Road cemetery and the Dressing Station where the famous poet of 'In Flander's Fields' worked as a surgeon.
Food and Language
First we visited l'Escargotiere du Choquel, a snail farm. We learnt some interesting facts about snails and snail farming; got up close to some of the snails; and even tasted them! We traveled onto Boulogne to visit the hypermarket to try out our language and maths skills before finishing our day at a boulangerie. We met Bruno the Baker and learnt how to make croissants and baguettes. Back at the Chateau we then made and devoured some crepes!
Take a look at our photographs to see all the fun and learning we have done!
Speak out Stay safe...
With the help of the NSPCC and their mascot Buddy, we have been learning about safeguarding in a lively, interactive and memorable way.
We've identified trusted adults who we can speak to if we are worried about ourselves or a friend. We also learnt about Childline and how the service can support us.
During our Year 5 & 6 workshops, we explored the definitions of abuse in greater depth. We took part in engaging exercises, including looking at different scenarios and deciding whether they are OK or not OK.
The Interactive Planetarium landed...
Our learning about Space was hugely enriched through the 360° immersive experiences in the Planetarium.
Reception and KS1 enjoyed the show 'The Little Star That Could' - a story of Little Star, an average yellow star searching for planets of his own to warm and protect.
LKS2 were fascinated by the 'Astronaut' show in which they discovered that the exploration of Space is the greatest endeavour that humankind has ever undertaken. They considered what it takes to be part of the incredible journey in becoming an astronaut.
UKS2 questioned 'Are we alone?' and joined Scientists in the hunt for real aliens. They considered how we know which planets could harbour life and reinforced the understanding of what is essential for life. They discovered how robots are programmed to fly to alien worlds, land on their own and then are driven by remote control from Earth. Will we ever encounter intelligent life in our galaxy or are we alone?
David Walliams LIVE at TCP!
On Wednesday 28th June, our lovely friend David Walliams popped in to TCP to cheer us up. We asked him to read an extract from Windy Mindy using incredibly funny voices. He even demonstrated the 'naked yoga' pose from Gangsta Granny! David has generously donated a gift for each child in school: copies of 'The World's Worst Children 1 & 2.'
Thank you David for making us all giggle and for the kind gifts you donated.
David Walliams Visit
Is the Moon made of cheese...?
Following our 'Wow' Science Assembly yesterday, we held another assembly to think about the Moon. We agreed it wasn't made of cheese but rock! To prove this, our very special delivery was unveiled...
Pupils had the opportunity to hold the oldest thing they will ever hold in their lives... lunar rock and meteorites. Frankie was the first to hold a piece of the moon - she didn't fancy tasting it unlike Wallace and Gromit. Freya was intrigued to hold a piece of Mars!
If you would like the opportunity to view these very amazing lunar rock and soil samples then come along to our 'Night with the Stars' event on Thursday evening (7 p.m. start) during which we look forward to welcoming Solar System experts who are giving a presentation.
Science Week Launches...
What a fantastic start to Science Week! The children did us proud wearing Science themed fancy dress! They enjoyed an assembly first thing, before all the class activities began, in which we defied gravity with Mr Upton's favourite mug (phew - it's still in one piece) and knocking cups of heads with a vortex cannon! Brilliant! Watch this space for news of many other exciting events we are undertaking this week and see the class pages too...!!
Monday 26th June is the launch of our spectacular TCP Science Week. Children are invited to join us in Science themed fancy dress and we are looking forward to a top secret delivery!
Lots of exciting activities and events are planned including an experience into an amazing, interactive Planetarium Dome.
Year 5 are looking forward to attending the UCLAN Science Festival and there'll be a Rocket Competition for all classes.
Join us on Thursday 29th June at 7pm for 'An Evening with the Stars' at which special guest speakers will be presenting.
A Musical Inspiration
Many thanks to Chris Bannister (a parent of TCP) who offered to come and entertain the children in assembly last week. A fantastic performance providing inspiration and motivation. The children received great tips on dealing with nerves and preparing for a performance which will be helpful as we near our Summer Concert. Thanks Chris, we loved it.
Story Festival
On Thursday 25th and Friday 26th May, Year 1 to Year 6 children took part in a story festival in partnership with Tarleton Library and the TARDis Cluster (local primary schools).
Children wrote stories about a giant. We look forward to hearing who will win prizes and attend a special celebration event in July.
TCP Election 2017
As part of our work on British Values, our fabulous Trombones class held an election on Wednesday 24th May where every child in school had the opportunity to visit the TCP Ballot Box and vote for the political party of choice. To support this, Trombones split into political parties and presented their parties' manifesto in whole school assembly on Tuesday 23rd May.
The results were counted and announced on Friday 26th May. The winning party, with 48% of the votes, was Labour.
Silly Hair Day
On Friday 19th May, TCP held a 'Silly Hair Day' to raise funds for children in Syria. This was due to the efforts of one of our children who was moved by the plight of the children and, with the support of Mr. Upton, she planned the day. We raised £190.00!
Rainbow Ramble
Team TCP at the Rainbow Ramble raising money for Legacy Rainbow House
http://thelegacy-rainbowhouse.com/
Hollins Homes Health & Safety Poster Competition
Health & Safety Competition
Congratulations to Alfie - Winner of Hollins Homes Health & Safety Poster competition. Look out for the winning poster which will be displayed at Tarleton Green Sales Site (Hesketh Lane). Many thanks to Hollins Homes for their inspiration and to Splash World for donating the prizes.
For more information visit Hollins Homes.
Rainbow House
On Tuesday 28th February, Sonia from Rainbow House visited us to lead our whole school assembly. She shared some of the work that the charity does, the difficulties they face and their success stories. We're looking forward to working in partnership with Rainbow House and joining in with some of their fundraising events. For more information, please click here.
We celebrated our favourite stories once again on World Book Day (Thursday 2nd March).
There was a fabulous assembly at the start of the day, during which we experienced class catwalks
(a boy and girl from each class were awarded prizes).
After lunch, teachers enjoyed visiting another class to read with them.
Charles Darwin Day
We celebrated International Charles Darwin Day on Friday 10th February. Year 6 led our whole school assembly with the story of Charles Darwin's life and how his theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world. Click the link below to find out more...
Charles Darwin: Evolution and the story of our species
E-Safety Day
Safer Internet Day took place worldwide on Tuesday 7th February 2017. The theme this year was:
'Be the Change: Unite for a better Internet'
Click the image below for tips & resources to support your child.
Many thanks to all who donated a shoebox, TCP collected a fantastic 114 boxes this year!
A small shoebox can have a big impact. What goes into the box is fun, but what comes out of it is eternal. If you would like to find out more about Operation Christmas Child then click the link below.
Enterprise Week
Enterprise Week: 5th - 9th December.
Our aims were to develop children’s knowledge and understanding of different types of jobs, how money is spent in designing and making products and primarily how they can contribute to a range of activities that help them to become more enterprising.
In preparation for the week, each class was allocated a budget of £20.00 with a remit of designing, advertising and making a product that can be marketed for sale to members of the school community at our Christmas Fayre (Friday 15th December). Each class was challenged to make a profit on their original £20.00 budget.
To support them in their challenge, throughout the week the children had the opportunity to work with individuals from different business sectors. These included project management and marketing, local small business owners and solicitors.
Just Giving...
One of our Year 4 pupils, Angus Turner, volunteered to have his long, blonde locks chopped off to raise money for the Little Princess Trust Charity. This is a charity that provides real hair wigs to children throughout the UK and Ireland who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or through other hair loss conditions such as alopecia.
Angus' hair was chopped off last Tuesday in the playground after school. Thank you for attending and supporting the event and for your generous donations. We are excited to announce that a total of £800 was raised which Vodafone has agreed to MATCH! So a total of £1600, well done Angus we are very proud of you.
Proud New Headteacher!
News of our new Headteacher's aspirations for all pupils appeared in the Champion Newspaper.
To view this issue online please click here.
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Gamers risk health in bid to be eSports millionaires
Agence France-Presse / 04:03 PM August 20, 2019
This photo taken on August 19, 2019 shows Dota 2 player Ryan “Raging Potato” Jay Qui of team Mineski speaking to media during the media day of the International Dota 2 Championships in Shanghai. – A record 33.5 million USD is up for grabs but professional eSports players like those competing in The International in mid August, pay a physical price with deteriorating eyesight, digestive problems and wrist and hand damage. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
SHANGHAI — A record $33.5 million is up for grabs but professional eSports players like those competing in The International in Shanghai this week pay a physical price with deteriorating eyesight, digestive problems and wrist and hand damage.
At first, Evgenii “Blizzy” Ri looks perplexed at the notion: “It’s impossible, how can you get injuries when you play games?”
Then the 24-year-old from Kyrgyzstan discloses that a doctor urged him to take six months off to give his failing vision a badly needed rest.
Ri plays for Natus Vincere, or NAVI, and this week is competing in The International, a world championship said to have the biggest prize pool in the history of eSports.
NAVI and 17 other teams will play the multiplayer battle game Dota 2 in front of thousands of fans at a major indoor stadium while hundreds of thousands more will watch online.
If NAVI triumphs on Sunday, Ri and his team-mates will become instant millionaires — but success could come at a price.
“I didn’t worry before but now I feel like my eyes are really… I can’t see so much,” said Ri, who practices up to 12 hours a day.
“Ten years I’ve been playing computers so they are a bit… I’ve just got bad vision.
Ri has been told to wear glasses but he does not find them comfortable and said that his deteriorating eyesight does not hinder his performance because the screen is up close.
A doctor recommended simple eye exercises — moving them up and down, left and right — but he admits that he does not do them.
“Actually he also told me not to play the computer for six months to get back my vision, but I didn’t listen.
“I need to play.”
My body is so sore
According to several players in Shanghai, the most common health complaint for pro gamers is Carpal Tunnel syndrome.
Not unique to gamers, it happens through repetitive hand and wrist motions and is characterized by numbness, burning and tingling of the thumb, index, middle and ring fingers.
In severe cases surgery is required.
Some gamers talked about wrist injuries so severe they had to quit and lower back problems related to sitting for too
long, day after day.
“I used to play and I had some arm and wrist problems so now I coach instead of playing because I can’t take the strain,” said Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling, of the Newbee team.
Another hazard of eSports, a fast-growing but little-understood sport, is the mental toll, particularly with life-changing sums of money on the table.
With many players so young — most are in their 20s but there is a 17 year old at The International — some struggle in the hyper-competitive environment.
“I just sometimes feel that my body is so sore,” said Ryan “Raging Potato” Jay Qui of the Mineski team, who nevertheless says that his vision is still “20/20”.
“Most of the obstacles in this kind of environment is the mentality,” said the Filipino, adding that Mineski has a “psych adviser” who helps prop up the players.
While the money at the top of eSports is soaring, in other respects gaming remains well behind many other professional sports.
Newbee coach Ling said that eSports is only now starting to appreciate the need for physiotherapists and other staff specializing in physical and mental well-being, though most teams have no such back-up. Cost is the major reason.
Roman Dvoryankin, general manager of Virtus.pro, said many gamers have scant appreciation of how important it is to eat well, exercise and sit properly when playing.
“All the pro teams are trying to educate the players to take breaks, do some exercise, stretch properly,” he said.
“It’s changing now, but what we face is that we get a player and realize that his digestive system is just not working properly and they have stomach problems,” added Dvoryankin.
“We do it, but it can be hard to change their daily habits.” /muf
TOPICS: China, eSports, Gaming, Health, Internet
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Updated: Apr 5, 2018 11:25 am
Facebook says 5.6 lakh people in India may be affected with Cambridge Analytica data scandal
As many as 87 million users including half-a-million in India may had their data improperly collected and used by UK-based data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, said Facebook.
Apr 5, 2018 10:39 am
As many as 87 million users including half-a-million in India may had their data improperly collected and used by UK-based data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, said Facebook. This is 37 million more than the previous estimates by New York Times and The Guardian. According to reports, data was scraped by Cambridge psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan’s survey app via Facebook Login and used for various purposes including election ad targeting for politicians and political parties.
Multiple reports had said that in US it was contracted by the Trump campaign to help with election ad targeting. Similarly, whistle-blower Christopher Wylie had alleged that Indian politicians and political parties had hired its subsidiary in India. Facebook said, “This Is Your Digital Life quiz” App from Cambridge Analytica was installed by about 305,000 people and with that they harvested 87 million user’s data. The figure previously suggested was 270,000 downloads.
Facebook estimates says that about 97% of the installations occurred within the US, though over 16 million of the total users affected are from other countries. The data of 70,632,350 users totalling 81.6% from US, 1,079,031 (1.2%) of UK, 562,455 (0.6%) of Indian citizens may have been improperly shared by Cambridge Analytica, revealed in a blogpost by Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, who is third highest ranking executives at the company behind CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
To assuage the mounting pressure from users, politicians and giants of tech industry, in past two weeks Facebook had taken multiple steps and now it is making sweeping changes in its API management. The Schroepfer post outlines plans to restrict the use of its many application programming interfaces, or APIs, that allow developers to plug into the service and extract user data from it. As part of the changes, Facebook says it will notify people if their information was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, as well as allow users to see what info they’ve shared with any and all third-party apps from a link at the top of the News Feed starting on April 9th.
The blog post also mentioned about its privacy changes, which include restricting third-party app access and deleting phone call and text information that’s over a year old. Besides this, Facebook said that it is ending a feature that lets users search for a profile using a phone number or personal email. Also, now the third-party apps will no longer be able to access the member list of a group and the apps can no longer access personal information, such as names and profile photos etc.
Facebook is also limiting the use of the Pages API by requiring all future access to the entire access layer be approved by the company. No personal data like religious views, political affiliation, relationship status, custom friends list, education and work history, and activity on fitness, book reading, music listening will be shared with third party apps. Facebook is also changing its opt-in call and text history feature on Messenger and Facebook Lite on Android. Facebook will no longer let anyone input a user’s phone number or email address to find them on the social network.
Refuting the suggestion that it was in the possession of data on 87 million Facebook users, Cambridge Analytica said in a statement “Cambridge Analytica licensed data for no more than 30 million people from GSR, as is clearly stated in our contract with the research company. We did not receive more data than this.” “We did not use any GSR data in the work we did in the 2016 US presidential election. Our contract with GSR stated that all data must be obtained legally, and this contract is now a matter of public record. We took legal action against GSR when we found out they had breached this contract.”
Here’s the full blogpost of Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer
Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices. Today, we want to update you on the changes we’re making to better protect your Facebook information. We expect to make more changes over the coming months — and will keep you updated on our progress. Here are the details of the nine most important changes we are making.
Events API: Until today, people could grant an app permission to get information about events they host or attend, including private events. This made it easy to add Facebook Events to calendar, ticketing or other apps. But Facebook Events have information about other people’s attendance as well as posts on the event wall, so it’s important that we ensure apps use their access appropriately. Starting today, apps using the API will no longer be able to access the guest list or posts on the event wall. And in the future, only apps we approve that agree to strict requirements will be allowed to use the Events API.
Groups API: Currently apps need the permission of a group admin or member to access group content for closed groups, and the permission of an admin for secret groups. These apps help admins do things like easily post and respond to content in their groups. However, there is information about people and conversations in groups that we want to make sure is better protected. Going forward, all third-party apps using the Groups API will need approval from Facebook and an admin to ensure they benefit the group. Apps will no longer be able to access the member list of a group. And we’re also removing personal information, such as names and profile photos, attached to posts or comments that approved apps can access.
Pages API: Until today, any app could use the Pages API to read posts or comments from any Page. This let developers create tools for Page owners to help them do things like schedule posts and reply to comments or messages. But it also let apps access more data than necessary. We want to make sure Page information is only available to apps providing useful services to our community. So starting today, all future access to the Pages API will need to be approved by Facebook.
Facebook Login: Two weeks ago we announced important changes to Facebook Login. Starting today, Facebook will need to approve all apps that request access to information such as check-ins, likes, photos, posts, videos, events and groups. We started approving these permissions in 2014, but now we’re tightening our review process — requiring these apps to agree to strict requirements before they can access this data. We will also no longer allow apps to ask for access to personal information such as religious or political views, relationship status and details, custom friends lists, education and work history, fitness activity, book reading activity, music listening activity, news reading, video watch activity, and games activity. In the next week, we will remove a developer’s ability to request data people shared with them if it appears they have not used the app in the last 3 months.
Instagram Platform API: We’re making the recently announced deprecation of the Instagram Platform API effective today. You can find more information here.
Search and Account Recovery: Until today, people could enter another person’s phone number or email address into Facebook search to help find them. This has been especially useful for finding your friends in languages which take more effort to type out a full name, or where many people have the same name. In Bangladesh, for example, this feature makes up 7% of all searches. However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery. Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way. So we have now disabled this feature. We’re also making changes to account recovery to reduce the risk of scraping as well.
Call and Text History: Call and text history is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This means we can surface the people you most frequently connect with at the top of your contact list. We’ve reviewed this feature to confirm that Facebook does not collect the content of messages — and will delete all logs older than one year. In the future, the client will only upload to our servers the information needed to offer this feature — not broader data such as the time of calls.
Data Providers and Partner Categories: Last week we announced our plans to shut down Partner Categories, a product that lets third-party data providers offer their targeting directly on Facebook.
App Controls: Finally, starting on Monday, April 9, we’ll show people a link at the top of their News Feed so they can see what apps they use — and the information they have shared with those apps. People will also be able to remove apps that they no longer want. As part of this process we will also tell people if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
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In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
Overall, we believe these changes will better protect people’s information while still enabling developers to create useful experiences. We know we have more work to do — and we’ll keep you updated as we make more changes.
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Transparency and Inclusion, the driving concepts of Americas CEOs Summit in Peru
Silvina Moschini
That’s a wrap! Every three years, the most influential business forum of the America, brings together top CEOs, Heads of State, and over a thousand business executives for strategic discussions of issues related to economic growth and development; and the VIII Summit of the Americas (Lima, Peru, April 2018) did not disappoint. Opening remarks were delivered by Martin Vizcarra, President of Peru; followed by Luis Alberto Moreno, President of Inter-American Development Bank (IBD). Also in attendance the heads of state of Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama. A remarkable group of CEOs of leading companies participated as panelists and speakers at the event and, refreshingly, 45% of the panelists were women.
It was very exciting for me not only to represent women entrepreneurs, but to have the opportunity to lead a discussion about “Exponential Disruption of the Digital Economy” with a star panel of global leaders representing the most innovative companies including Ana Paula Assis, CEO for Latin America, IBM, Adriana Norena, Vice President for Spanish speaking LAC, Google, Cesar Cernuda, President for Latin America, Microsoft, Diego Dzodan, Vice President for Latin America, Facebook, Sean Summers, Vice President, Mercado Libre, Enrique Ortegon, COO and Senior Vice President, Latin America Salesforce and Brian Huseman, Vice President, Public Policy, Amazon.
Our panel focused on the leadership and driving forces behind the digital transformation, but most importantly the acceleration of problem-solving to strengthen global transparency.In our discussions, we talked how both public and private sectors are accountable for their roles in building a strong economy, as past evidence shows that a lack of transparency can negatively affect the capacity for sustainable growth. In this digital era, there are new technologies and platforms available that implement highly sophisticated monitoring measures, to build trust among businesses and prevent acts of corruption. As Co-Founder and Chairwoman of TransparentBusiness I could not be more proud that the private-sector and government are committed to embracing transformative technology and innovative solutions to represent the integrity of their business. In case you missed our panel on live stream; you can view it here.
I have so much admiration for all of the panelists and my fellow entrepreneurs who attended; their dedication to bring diversity and inclusion in to the future of work is unparalleled. Their encouragement, strategies, and resources are empowering the next generation with the skills and knowledge they need to deliver results for the future success of the not only the people of the Americas, but the world. It was an honour to be amongst these leaders, and was truly inspired by their authenticity and energy they bring to the table.
“Women at the Forefront of Economic Prosperity in the 21st Century”, was another key theme to the event to bring awareness to the on-going gender gap; outlining what opportunities there are for women in an inclusive working environment and career balance. It was noted by Julie Katzman, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at IDB that “GDP in Latin American would rise by $2.5 trillion USD if the gender gap were fully closed” a higher participation of women in the workforce only produces more economic opportunities and fosters global sustainable growth.
The Americas Business Dialogue (ABD) presented their report “Action for Growth” at the closing planel of the event where 42 measurable recommendations were published for 2018-2021 in five key themes: strengthening transparency and integrity, digitizing growth, trading for tomorrow, powering development, and upskilling for the future. These themes represent the shared goals and future development of the Americas; link to download full report and support ABD’s “Commitment to Partnering for Transparent Development and Growth in the Americas”.
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Ask Alyssa Anything
2016-05-28 2019-07-12 Alyssa Gonzalezanabelle, covergirl, fashion, fury road, hispanic, horse sized duck, leftist, mad max, makeup, maybelline, pet peeves, postmodernism, science2 Comments
This week, I expanded my blogging horizons by giving my readers the option to ask me questions they’ve been curious about. The result was a mix of questions about me and things they hope I write about at greater length in the future, and it’s been fun to read and to contemplate.
Continue reading “Ask Alyssa Anything” →
Rude Sustenance
2013-07-16 2019-07-11 Alyssa Gonzalezcuba, cuban, leftist, narcissism, narcissistic parents, parents, PoliticsLeave a comment
Every family’s path is a story. One does not have to reach far into the generations to find that their history and the world’s are deeply intertwined. We are all children of history.
And my ancestors are the Cold War.
My father’s Cuba was less than a century removed from the pivot point where it decided not to become part of the United States. The freshly independent colony styled its flag after the American flag and built undreamed-of wealth through its rich, mountainous soil and glorious climate. It did so with a permissive business environment that let a whole new upper class grow itself out of the island’s natural resources while subjecting yet larger numbers of people to the kind of privation that only laissez-faire, libertarian economics can create. My father’s family ascended through the social ranks in this developing society, as they tell it, through business acumen, quintessentially Cuban inventiveness, and a sprinkling of luck, beginning a story that could not have been more American if José Martí had failed to convince Cubans of their island’s distinctiveness.
My father was born in 1957, 59 years after Cuba’s independence from Spain was realized and with Fidel Castro’s revolutionary warpath through the island already beginning. By the time he escaped the island eleven years later, the Gonzalez family’s holdings had been expropriated, Cuba was a Soviet satellite, and my grandfather had already been imprisoned for taking out that insult on the Communists during the 1961 American attack.
Dad got his American start as a child refugee fleeing a Communist government that stole everything his family had built. He spoke no English, was accompanied only by his ailing mother, and would not see his father again until years later, in a story I do not yet fully understand. He landed in New Jersey, long one of the United States’s receiving grounds for those who could no longer live in their original homelands and one of the country’s most vibrantly multicultural regions.
I will never fault him for the irrepressible, fiery drive that propelled him through school, taught him English, kept him working multiple jobs to help support his sick family, and got him into college-preparatory programs without a great deal of the aid that a modern student in similar straits would have received. I will never fault him for the well-honed social intuition and work ethic that helped him rise, against his own desires, through the ranks of grocery-store management when his mother’s medical needs prevented him from continuing with school. I will never fault him for the financial genius that got him into flipping houses in the 1970s and 1980s. I will never fault him for the sheer willpower that kept him working full-time and renovating houses for sale the rest of the time, while Mom was doing the same, for over 15 years. I will never fault him for the accumulated, experiential wisdom that enabled him to sell most of his investment properties and enter a loan-sharking semi-retirement at age 50 while putting three kids through university with no student loan debt.
I would not be an American if I did any less than beam with pride at my parent’s story. It’s something that Horatio Alger might have written—the classic American tale of starting with nothing and ending with everything.
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Do you know why it was important for America’s Founders to establish Christianity as the official religion of America
in the State Constitutions of the 13 Original Colonies?
Because Wisdom is superior to strength and weapons.
King Solomon said, “A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the trusted strongholds”
(Proverbs 21:22). Also, “Wisdom is better than strength; Wisdom is better than weapons of war”
(Ecclesiastes 9:16, 18).I find it interesting to note that once religious liberty was established in America,
freedom and tolerance were also extended to atheists and secularists. Solomon spent time thinking through
the education of the next generation, the pedagogy for posterity. In Proverbs 2:1-7, he lectured the young man
on the value of Wisdom; and how to obtain it: “
1) My son, if you take my words [to heart] and treasure my commands within you,
2) if you pay close attention to wisdom, and let your mind reach for understanding,
3) if indeed you call out for insight, if you ask aloud for understanding,
4) if you search for wisdom as if it were money and hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure,
5) then you will understand the fear of the LORD and you will find the knowledge of God.
6) The LORD gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7) He has res erved priceless wisdom for decent people. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity.”
The exercise of the first four verses produces the results of verse five: “Then you will understand the fear
of the LORD and you will find the knowledge of God.” But you’ve got to dig. A.W. Pink has said, “The Bible
is no lazy man’s book: much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only
yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.”
“God’s protection is not a reward extraneous to the knowledge,” Dr. Michael V. Fox commented,
“but rather a consequence intrinsic to it.”
Later, Solomon expanded on the value of Wisdom: “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
and with all your getting get understanding.
8) Cherish her, and she will exalt you; she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.
9) She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a splendid crown she will give you” (Proverbs 4:7-9).
Dr. Bruce K. Waltke analyzed verse
8, “‘and she will exalt you’ connotes to come to a high position in society, to elevate a person in his status and
authority, with all its benefits. In sum, her [Wisdom’s] lover will become an influential leader.” The by-product
of exalting Wisdom is that she gives one a leg up, and elevates rank in society. Men and women of faith with
Wisdom must bring biblical values to the public square if America is to survive, for virtue is a key component of
Consider the words of historian Benjamin Franklin Morris (1810-1867): “The state must rest upon the basis
of religion, and it must preserve this basis, or itself must fall. But the support which religion gives to the state will
obviously cease the moment religion loses its hold upon the popular mind.”
“This is a Christian nation, first in name, and second because of the many and mighty elements of a pure
Christianity which have given it character and shaped its destiny from the beginning. It is preeminently the land of
the Bible, of the Christian Church, and of the Christian Sabbath…The chief security and the glory of the United
States of America has been, is now, and will be forever, the prevalence and domination of the Christian faith.“
Issachar Training: the men and women of Issachar update.
A year ago, we sent out a column titled, “WILL YOU RUN?” My pastor Rob McCoy ran for the California State
Assembly in 2014. It was an extremely close race, even though $6.3 million had been spent against McCoy by
the opposition. A week after election night, the election was called for his opponent. I wrote,
“During the spirited campaign, Rob ignited a grassroots, precinct-level army of 650 volunteers.
The flock of God hungers for leadership in the battle for restoring America’s Judeo-Christian
heritage and reestablishing a Christian culture.“
In June, Pastor Rob was elected to the Thousand Oaks City Council.
When Rob ran for CA Assembly in 2014 many experts cautioned him that the church he pastors would suffer, giving
would decrease and members exit. The opposite occurred:
Rob spoke all across the district at Forums
He held “coffee’s” in 150 living rooms across the district
His campaign manager sent from Sacramento to “babysit the Evangelical Pastor” came to Christ
The church grew and Rob touched the lives of individuals across the 460,000 citizen district;
most of whom would never have darkened the door of a church
Pastor Rob’s aggressive outreach resulted in 650 volunteers being inspired to join the cause of bringing our
values – Christian values – to the public square. The experience of these volunteers, mainly first time activists from
different denominations, was so profound that many non-believing volunteers came to Christ.
Politics is a contact sport, but if America is to be saved:
1) men and women of faith must return to the public square, and
2) pastors must reestablish prayer in the churches of America.
So far in 2015, 2,000 or so pastors and a few spouses have attended Issachar Training. To date it appears
300-350 pastors are running for city council, county commissioner, school board, mayor or congress in 2016.
We simply need a Gideon or Rahab to stand.
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Binge Central
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Carrie Mathison
Homeland S4E6 Recap: From A to Z and Back Again
By Josh Logue
Surprise! “Homeland” has a trick or two up its sleeve. In the form of a one legitimately surprising and significant development, yes, but also an all-around solid, enjoyable episode of television marred mostly by damage the show has already done to itself this season rather than any specific transgression in this week’s episode.
Date November 4, 2014
Author anamikaroy
Tags Aayan, Carrie Mathison, CIA, episode 6, Farah, Haqqani, Homeland, John Redmond, Saul Barrinson, season 4
HOMELAND S4E2: Trylon and Perisphere
So far it’s difficult to tell if “Homeland” is a show you watch because it’s actually good or because it has the potential to be good. There were some wonderful moments this week and a marked capacity to build and release tension, but there were some dud scenes too and a sort of generalized feeling of directionlessness. So I just don’t know.
Tags Carrie Mathison, CIA, Corey Stoll, Homeland, Peter Quinn, Saul Barrinson, season 4 episode 2, spy
HOMELAND PREMIERE: ‘There’s not even a diagnosis for what’s wrong with you’
Do you play that game where you listen for the quote in an episode that encapsulates the show that week? I play that game sometimes.
Near the end of tonight’s second episode of “Homeland,” Carrie’s sister says, “There’s not even a diagnosis for what’s wrong with you.”
Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), “Homeland,” photo courtesy http://www.nydailynews.com
Author doliver8
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Environmentalism In India
I'm on record as saying I believe India will become an environmental leader in the 21st century. I try to keep a close eye on what's happening there. I've noticed that a great deal of what you can learn about India as an outsider seems to depend on the phrasing of your search. What you're looking for, and the source of your info.
If you search "India environmental issues" you tend to find a lot of western news sources talking about "India is the fourth worst country in environmental policy." You'll see that India has made statements in international climate discussions such as "India's right to development is non negotiable."
However searching "composting in India" or "vermicomposting in India" the results are MUCH different. Stories of a grassroots movement to clean their environment. Photos of large composting facilities. Stories and studies on the positive effects of vermicompost on farming and the environment. Even stories of failed government composting projects.
After researching for a while it's easy to feel like India has a split personality. I almost picture the little devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other; like we have all seen in cartoons.
So what is the reality? I contemplated the reasons why there is such a differing message on the state of India's environmental solutions. What follows is my assessment as an outsider based only on the information I've been able to find.
Western media paints a very negative picture of India's environmental policies. India's leadership refuse to sacrifice their economy to appease the international community. The same negativity slammed President Trump when he announced dissatisfaction with the Paris accord. Does western media have an internationalist agenda? If so is that agenda responsible for the reporting? I just can't know, but I have to question the objectivity of the reports.
I do tend to believe that India has some fairly serious issues regarding environmental practices. Previously weak policies have led to a crisis or near crisis situation in regard to pollution and sanitation.
With all of these things going against India why do I predict they'll be an innovator in composting, vermicomposting and eventually environmental cleanup?
The university in my home city specializes in environmental studies and sciences. Over the last decade I've witnessed an ever increasing number of students from India, visas and passports in hand. They're enrolled in our university and eagerly studying in the library. Indians are taking education very seriously.
A recent article in The Asian Age details some regulation that appears to be more strict and more fiercely enforced than most I've seen elsewhere. Housing developments over 20,000 square meters must earmark a composting space for all trash that can be composted. Bulk solid waste generators are being legislated to deal with waste at its source rather than placing it in landfills or hauling it offsite. Failure to comply can lead to imprisonment and hefty fines. If Canada's Ministry Of The Environment and/or the USA's Environmental Protection Agency are threatening prison for failing to compost; I've not heard of it.
Another observation I've made is a tidal wave of interest in composting and vermicomposting technologies from India's residents.Are the interests are fed by fear of penalty? Or profit seeking based on the requirements of law? Or a genuine desire for improvement? I don't know for sure. It appears a grassroots movement is sweeping across India to reduce solid waste pollution.
It appears as an onlooker that India wants to solve her own problems. Yet not be forced into arbitrary quotas or purchasing carbon credits that would negatively effect their GDP.
My feelings on India are that there's a unique mixture of desperation, desire, education, and stubbornness that is fueling changes in environmental policy that will lead to a cleaner tomorrow as well as profit for a few Indian innovators and entrepreneurs.
Larry Shier
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Jack in the Green is nearly here!
Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green 2018 © Bob Barton
Tomorrow is May Day and the eternal struggle between Winter and Summer will be fought once again across the land when Jack in the Green is awoken at dawn. At the end of the day Jack will give his life so that Summer may be released.*
Below are listed all of the events that take place tomorrow. Some of them start at dawn so make sure that you wrap up warm and wear something green.
You can keep up to date with all this years events that feature The traditional Jack-in-the-Green or The Green Man throughout the UK by going to our Annual Events Page.
I would be extremely grateful if anyone who attends any of these events would send us pictures, videos or written accounts for the archive. You can send them directly using our contact tab above, through our Facebook Page or via our Twitter Pages. If you add them to Twitter please mention @companygreenman or #jackinthegreen in your tweet and I’ll find it.
If anyone knows of any events that are not listed here or if there are any corrections/amendments required please don’t hesitate to contact me.
If you are new to these pages and are wondering just what on earth a Jack in the Green is. Or if you have just walked out your front door early on May Morning and been confronted by what you believe to be a seven foot tall dancing bush surrounded by people dressed in green, then your whistle stop tour of the history of the Traditional Jack-in-the-Green can be found right HERE.
Deptford (Fowlers Troop) Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Fowlers Troop Jack was revived in the early 1980’s by members of the Blackheath Morris Men and friends. It is a revival of a Jack in the Green from about 1900 which was paraded by the original Fowlers Troop. In 1983 Mo Johnson made a Jack-in-the-Green in the back garden of the ‘Dog and Bell’ and Blackheath Morris (a side morphed from the Blackheath Foot’n’Death Men who used to dance at events featuring bands like Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies) revived the Deptford (Fowlers Troop) Jack. Mo was inspired by one of Thankful Sturdee’s photographs c.1900 of the original troop and Jack.
Deptford Jack in the Green
Blue Bell Hill (Rochester Sweeps) Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Rochester Jack was revived in 1981 by Gordon Newton and Boughton Monchelsea Morris who were inspired from accounts by Charles Dickens. Custodianship of Jack was passed to Motley Morris in 1984 who now wake Jack with various other Morris sides at dawn on May Morning (approximately 5:32am) at the Bluebell Hill picnic area, surrounded by twelve bonfires. Jack is paraded through the streets of Rochester usually on the bank holiday Monday as part of the Sweeps Festival.
Motley Morris
Oxford Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Oxford Jack is usually first seen near Magdalen Tower just before 6am and leads an informal procession up ‘The High’ to Radcliffe Square, where the first dance of the day: “Bonny Green” from Bucknell, starts at about 6.25am. OUMM (Oxford University Morris Men) introduced Jack-in-the-Green to their May Morning festivities in 1951. At that time they were unaware that a Jack-in-the-Green was a common sight in and around Oxford in the 19th century.
Oxford Jack in the Green
Hammersmith Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Hammersmith Jack, is a wonderful urban Jack, largely covered with artificial foliage, although it does have a crown of fresh flowers on May 1st. The leaves are made in a variety of materials, some created by children at local schools that the Jack visits as part of its May Day perambulations. As well as leaves made of paper, fabric and plastic, the Jack has other items attached that have some significance to either Hammersmith, the team, or the person who attached it. The Hammersmith Jack is paraded through Hammersmith on May 1st, regardless of which day of the week this falls, and wherever else the Jack visits on this day. The rest of the year the Hammersmith Jack is stored at Cecil Sharp House the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society where he sometimes takes part in events.
Hammersmith Morris Jack-in-the-Green
Winchcombe Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Winchcombe (Gloucestershire) Jack was revived on August 31st 2009 as part of “Marking the Year.” A Jack was recorded as visiting a local school by Emma Dent of Sudeley Castle in the 1890’s. The Jack was then resurrected for May Day 2010 and a local May bank holiday village fete and is now awoken every year at dawn (5:20am) on May Day up on Cleeve Hill by Happenstance Border Morris. The Winchcombe Jack appears at various events over the following days.
Happenstance Morris
Dead Horse Morris Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
Dead Horse Morris have a Jack-in-the-Green clad entirely in Ivy who takes part in the Dawn Rising celebrations on Beacon Hill, Whitstable at 5am on May 1st. The Dead Horse Morris Jack-in-the-Green also usually puts in an appearance at the Whitstable May Day Parade.
Dead Horse Morris
Bovey Tracey Jack-in-the-Green (1st May)
The Bovey Tracey Jack-in-the-Green goes out with Grimspound Border Morris. He can be seen greeting the Mayday dawn up on Haytor and then afterwards puts in an appearance in Bovey Tracey.
Bovey Tracey Jack-in-the-Green
*He does this so that we can eat ice cream, wear innapropriate clothing and complain about it being either a) too hot or b) not as hot as it was in the summers when we were kids and trees melted and you could cook an egg on the cat!
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Judge Warriner’s Last Day – Russell Winnock
Justice – Written by Olly Jarvis and narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith
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Thomas Grant QC is a practising barrister and author non-fiction books about the world of criminal law. His first book, Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories was a Sunday Times bestseller. The Crime Hub has reviewed his latest book, Court Number One.
Heroes and villains, wretches and schemers, reversals of fortune and life or death decisions: courtroom dramas have all the elements of a perfect narrative. No wonder they have such enduring appeal. Especially when, as in Thomas Grant QC’s latest book, the dramas in question arise out of the public examination of very real frailties and some of the darkest deeds our country has had the misfortune to witness.
All the dramas here take place in Court Number One at the Central Criminal Court – better known as the Old Bailey – in London between 1907 and 2003.
Grant, himself a practising barrister, has chosen 11 trials heard in Court Number One – more or less one per decade – which he considers significant in what they reveal about our society as it was at the time the trial took place, its morals and sensitivities, preoccupations and prejudices.
It is a riveting read.
Of the 11 trials he has chosen to explore, 7 involved allegations of murder, actual or planned. Some will be familiar – they have passed into modern folklore and been the subject of on-screen dramas: the by now very well-known trial of Jeremy Thorpe, for example, recently so superbly dramatised on television in A Very British Scandal, with Hugh Grant pitch perfect as Thorpe and that of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, glitteringly portrayed on screen by Miranda Richardson the 1985 film Dance with a Stranger.
Others are less well-known: the trial for murder of Marguerite Fahmy, the French wife of an Egyptian aristocrat who shot her husband dead in 1923 and the trial of Robert Wood for the “Camden Town Murder” in 1907.
Whether familiar or not, however, each chapter gives us a mini drama, complete with social and historical context, dramatis personae, extracts from courtroom exchanges and photographs.
There are notable omissions, inevitable when the list of those tried in this courtroom would form a rogues’ gallery a mile long: the Kray twins, poor Stephen Ward of Profumo-scandal fame, George “Brides in the Bath” Smith, Dr Crippen, the Rev (as he is these days) Jonathan Aitken, Dennis Nilsen and the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe are but some of those whose trials are not included.
The absence of ghoulish prurience in Grant’s choices serve the book well. No hammer house of horror, this.
Instead, a narrative where historic and dramatic detail marry to pull us into the courtroom and cause us to hold our breath as the events unfold, just as the jury and the public must have done at the time. Even when we know the end of the story.
The scene for each of the dramas, Court Number One itself, has become symbolic of the justice system in this country to the extent that not only did Jeffrey Archer, no stranger to the Central Court building himself, set The Accused in Court Number One but the film director Billy Wilder had an exact replica of Court Number One constructed in Hollywood, at great cost, when he filmed Witness for the Prosecution in 1957.
Grant gives us a glimpse of how it must have been seen by those who have enjoyed – or rather endured -its welcome. Some were overwhelmed by its intimidating atmosphere: John Vassall, the Soviet spy, facing trial in 1962 described himself feeling “absolutely insignificant” within the confines of the courtroom. Some, it seems, were rather less so: Jonathan Aitken recalled thinking “it looked and felt like a rather run-down municipal swimming-baths”.
There is a brief history of the building at the end of the book for those who want more factual detail, but the interesting question for Grant is how the courtroom itself may affect the course of a trial as much as the prevailing mores of the outside world. Would juries react differently to some witnesses if they could see them face-on, rather than – owing to Court Number One’s peculiar lay-out – in profile only? Are witnesses’ testimonies affected by the witness box being so uncomfortable?
There are, as always, in courtroom dramas, real or imagined, barristers and judges of varying ability and levels of charisma. Grant brings them to life deftly, letting their own words speak for them. Titans of the Bar such as Marshall Hall and Carmen rise up off the page, thrilling in their brilliance, though neither comes out completely unscathed from Grant’s descriptions of their methods and/ or personal foibles. The frankly racist defence of Marguerite Fahmy by Marshall Hall is perhaps the clearest illustration of an advocate playing to the public prejudices of the time.
It was 1923 and the defendant had shot dead her Egyptian husband, “Prince” Ali Fahmy Bey, while they stayed at the Savoy. Eye-witnesses had seen the fatal act. The trial attracted the prurient: it had all the hallmarks of a bodice-ripper, particularly as Marshall Hall asserted that Ali went in for “unnatural practices” and that Mrs Fahmy was nothing more than an innocent white woman seduced and abused by her sodomite Middle-Eastern husband. Grant calls the defence’s case “an amalgam of the Marquis de Sade and the Bluebeard story”. Mrs Fahmy’s acquittal was inevitable, despite the evidence against her, the case having provided titillation and scandal aplenty for the public gallery, which was full to bursting with those enjoying the soap-opera unfolding before them. Such were the mores of the 1920s in Britain.
Similarly Jeremey Thorpe’s acquittal was to some extent down to Carmen painting him as a victim of the homophobia of his era. Grant describes him as a man who, “whatever his persona failings, was a victim of his times”. But it was perhaps as much if not more down to what was then and remains to this day deference to authority figures and an unwillingness on the part of the public – of whom juries were and are (in theory at least) a representative selection- to condemn someone who has been a public figure of repute, no matter what the evidence against them.
The scandalously prejudicial – and now notorious – summing up in that case by Mr Justice Cantley, which was unforgettably parodied by Peter Cook at The Secret Policeman’s Ball, just days after the verdict, whilst hilarious in hindsight, illustrated just how deep that reverence for authority ran. For a High Court judge to describe a prosecution witness as “a hysterical, warped personality, accomplished sponger…a crook…a fraud…a sponger… a whiner…a parasite” was jaw-dropping then as it would be now.
Grant is clear that the morals of the times were reflected in the verdicts of these selected trials in Court No 1. There were those who escaped the noose on that basis but those same morals saw others wrongly sent to their deaths. Timothy Evans, perhaps the most tragic of the figures in these pages, was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife. John Christie, his neighbour and so-called friend, was the real culprit, as the authorities were later to find out, although not until he had killed other women. The convenience of Evans’ confession, his changes in account and his inability to withstand cross-examination allowed the jury to reach their dreadful conclusion. Evans kept insisting “Christie done it” but his inept or uncaring barrister failed properly to present his defence and the judge, in the worst tradition of vicious old beaks, showed equal disdain for the truth and described Evans’s evidence as a “ performance”.
Convenience won out over justice on that occasion, as it had before and doubtless has done since. But for Evans, that victory meant execution. The death penalty had been vigorously debated in the House of Commons only 2 years before his death, and a motion to suspend it for a period of 5 years had been carried, only to be reversed almost immediately by the House of Lords.
Ruth Ellis suffered the same fate in 1955, having shot her lover, David Blakely in the street. She had been the victim of repeated violence at his hands – efforts were made as recently as the 1990s by family members to overturn the conviction on the basis that she was a victim of “battered woman syndrome” and should have had the defence of provocation left open to her at her trial.
Those efforts fell on deaf ears but the debate over the death penalty raged on until its abolition just over a decade later
Grant treats these subjects respectfully, regretfully even. Politics are never far away and we are given just enough context for these verdicts in particular to make their impact all the more dreadful.
By contrast the account of what seems, on the face of it, the least exciting case in the book, that of William Joyce or “Lord Haw-Haw” shows the law working quietly and unsensationally inside the courtroom. His 1945 trial was concerned with whether he could be found guilty of treason but turned on his nationality rather than what he had actually done. In the face of huge public feeling the court carried out its role perfectly, fairness rather than playing to the public gallery being demonstrated at each turn.
The final chapter of the book deals with the so-called “Soham murders”, the only trial in this book of which I have any clear recollection. It makes for chilling reading. That police information sharing and more stringent checks of those seeking employment were put into place as a result of this case still seems like too little, too late.
Grant’s skill is balancing the meditative with the dramatic, the poignant with the hilarious. There is, despite the subject matter, plenty of humour throughout, not least from judges bewildered by “that Greek chap, clitoris”, but this is ultimately a study of how the law, operating within the microcosm of Court Number One, reflects the society within which it operates, for better and for worse.
Review by Alison Heyworth
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Santorini Island
10 Magical Greek Islands You Should Visit Instead of Santorini
Karpathos, Apella beach | © ufoncz/Flickr
Don’t get us wrong, we love Santorini. The island is truly unique and mesmerizing. But there is something magical about getting off the beaten track and discovering a new location without the crowds of tourists. Discover 10 underrated islands you should visit on your next vacation.
Part of the Dodecanese island group, Karpathos lies east of Crete. As one of Greece’s best-kept secrets, it boasts an unspoiled nature, with a mountainous inland, fresh water springs, vineyards and lush pine-tree forests. This is also where you may catch sight of the Mediterranean monk seals, an endangered species. Perfect for nature lovers, hiking enthusiasts and those looking for relaxation.
Apella beach, Karpathos, Greece © Kostas Limitsios/Flickr
Paxi is a tiny island off the coast of Corfu. This little paradise in Ionian Sea is blessed with awestrucking beauty, secluded beaches, underwater caves and verdant hills. Mythology has it that the island was part of Corfu but Poseidon, god of the sea, broke it off with his trident so that he and his wife Amphitrite could have some peace. An ideal destination for a restful and peaceful holiday, Paxi has three small seaside villages tucked away in pine forests and olive tree groves. Scuba diving aficionados and sun-soaking enthusiasts will have blast in the numerous island’s beaches and little coves, where underwater caves and shipwrecks await. And if that’s not enough to convince you, there are plenty of islets to discover as well.
A hidden island between Crete and Karpathos, Kasos may look rugged and barren at first sight, but once you’ve set foot on its soil, the warmth of its residents will make up for its unique landscape. Explore small villages with traditional flair just like Poli or Emporios or settle on the beaches with deep crystal clear waters. The island’s vestiges of the past, with a plethora of churches, monuments and monasteries dotting the land, are true witness of a rich history.
Othoni
Just north of Corfu lies one of Greece’s less visited islands, Othoni (sometimes spelled Othonoi). With cobbled streets, stunning beaches, hidden coves and luxuriant vegetation, Othoni is a little Eden where you can swim in turquoise waters, enjoy paradisiac landscapes and enjoy the beauty of nature. Make sure to visit Calypso’s Cave, located near Ammos beach. Legend has it that it was there that Calypso kept Ulysses captive for 7 years.
Aspri Ammos beach in Othonoi © Katechis303/WikiCommons
This small island unknown island to the vast majority of tourists is located in the Cyclades. With less than 300 permanent residents, the island is a wonderland for lovers of nature and beauty. Located between Ios and Folegandros, Sikinos hardly gets crowded during the summer and has a plethora of beaches in its southern side, where you can truly enjoy a relaxing day in the sun. Add to this tasty tavernas and historical sightseeing and you will understand why Sikinos is the best destination if you want to avoid the crowds.
Lemnos, or Limnos, in the north of the Aegean Sea, is a hidden paradise which has escaped massive tourism. With its extensive sandy beaches, picturesque villages, quiet inland lakes, powerful waterfalls and unspoiled landscapes, Hephaestus’ homeland welcomes visitors with open arms. Home of the ancient city of Poliochni, thought to be the oldest Neolithic city in Europe, Lemnos is definitely a destination you should discover soon.
Lemnos fort © michael clarke stuff/Flickr
Often overlooked as a holiday destination, the Dodecanese archipelago has a plethora of undiscovered islands waiting to be explored. Take for example Leros, nestled between Kos and Samos. It may be one of the few islands where you can still experience traditional Greek island living without the touristy activities. A familiar destination for discerning adventurers, Leros is thought to be the homeland of goddess Artemis.
Leros © Pug Girl/Flickr
Located near Naxos, Iraklia is a little underrated paradise where you can enjoy daily beach days, tour boats, and breathtaking beauty. Feast in the local tavernas, enjoy swims in crystal waters and explore the inland. You can also decide to visit the neighboring islands of Amorgos, Schinoussa or Koufonisia, all deserving a visit.
Also in the Dodecanese, Kalymnos is mostly known among divers and climbers. Wild and beautiful, known for its rocky landscapes, its clear waters ideal for snorkeling and scuba diving, and for its honey, Kalymnos where you can enjoy your favorite outdoor activities in an unaltered environment. It is also the perfect base point to explore nearby islands.
Kalymnos © Yilmaz Oevuenc / Flickr
Lihadonisia
Last but not least, Lihadonisia form a beautiful archipelago which is sometimes dubbed the Seychelles of Greece. These littles islands are located in the northern Gulf of Evia, between Kamena Vourla and Evia. Including the inhabited islands of Monolia where you can find an organized beach, Megalo Strongili, Mikri Strongili, Vagia, Voria and Limani, this unique archipelago was created by a huge earthquake long ago and is a paradise for scuba divers. It is also an excellent spot to observe a few seals, who have settled on one of the little islands of the cluster.
Lihadonisia © Agnee/Flickr
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Engineering at Earnin
Engineering team and processes
Our engineering team is organized into various engineering and product focused teams of about 7 - 8 teams with about 2 - 4 engineers per team. Each team designs, implements, tests, deploys and operates the components and features they own.
Hiring for both Palo Alto, CA and Cincinnati, OH offices.
We follow a continuous integration process. We use GitHub pull requests and require full test suites to pass before code is reviewed and merged. We deploy daily and aspire to improve our tests to the point that continuous deployment is a real possibility.
We have fast growth and need to build systems that scale
We have high bandwidth data coming into our system that require both scalable data stores as well as pipelines that allow for full processing and analysis by multiple subsystems.
We are refactoring our monolithic deployables into a micro-services architecture using kubernetes and linkerd.
We are starting to build out a data infrastructure leverage a data lake approach
linkerd
AWS Aurora
Elastic Search
Working at Earnin
Earnin helps people overcome this unfairness by giving them real-time access to their money as soon as they have worked — without fees or interest.
Our company values are:
Community First: The things we do are good for the community. We put people first. We are humble, approachable, and empathetic. We Not Me: We are strongest when we collaborate and support each other. We are built on participation from all. Our customers are our equals. We have a mentality of “we” - not “me,” “us” or “them.”
Explorer Mindset : We are curious. Challenges help us grow. We are not afraid to step into uncertainty. We can build on people’s ideas. We take measured risks, learn fast from mistakes and are persistent.
Motivation Matters: We inspire goodness. We’re designing a system based on generosity and goodwill, not on greed. Our service is not conditional on customers doing something for the company. Radical Thinking: We rethink what’s possible. We dream bigger to make an impact. We’re not afraid to flip systems upside down and reimagine the world to make things more fair.
Get It Done: People rely on us. We work with urgency and act with ownership.
What does it look like to work at Earnin: We have a flexible work environment and recognize that people have lives outside of work. Occasionally we WFH, come in late/leave early because we understand that you have things to take care of. We treat you like an adult and enable you to manage your own projects/work schedule.
There are times where all hands on deck are needed, but for the most part, people are managing their own work/life balance.
We celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, participate in donut sessions (get to know your fellow colleague over coffee, lunch, or friendly walks around the neighborhood). and people sometimes bring their furry friends to interact with here in our Palo Alto office.
We celebrate accomplishments, learn from sharing experiences on what went wrong, and we're looking for people who relish the startup environment where we're building out new, additional features and we're constantly pushing the envelope on financial systems that work for people and not corporations.
Our Investors: We are a Series C funding from top-tier investors including DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, March Capital Partners, Coatue Management and Ribbit Capital. We have raised 185MM. As per NY Times and Entrepreneur magazine, we are the next Unicors.
How this started = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ItO61Fgm4
What is Earnin = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMtEnhnkHE
Earnin: How it Works = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgHzz1vpp-I
Generous Vacation
Take the time off when you need it!
Bring Fido, Nemo, or Fluffy to work with you!
Beautiful Office
Our previous office headquarters was next to a 7-11 in Palo Alto. And our current office where we've been for the past year is much, much larger, has free parking, and is within a 5 minute walk from the California Avenue Caltrain station.
We don't micro manage - we treat you like an adult. No one is watching you punch in and out and we use Slack to communicate internally.
PPO and Kaiser Health plans, along with dental, vision, and flex spending accounts!
Not everyday - but some days are definitely okay with us.
We typically offer a sign on bonus to help out with relocation expenses (or whatever you choose) or we can get creative with covering an Airbnb while you look for a place to live. We're very flexible and will do what we can to help you out while you relocate in order to work closer to us.
We are two blocks from Cal Avenue train station. We offer CalTrain annual GoPass free to our employees.
Maternal/Paternal Leave
We're working on this through our new Director of HR and People Operations.
Enjoyed our kitchen! We pretty much have it all. Fresh Coffee, beverages, healthy snacks, and icecream!
https://a16z.com/2017/09/21/activehours/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/activehours-raises-39-million-for-its-new-take-on-cash-advances/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMtEnhnkHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgHzz1vpp-I
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/01/18/activehours/#dafd60a1b1b1
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earnin-get-paid-today/id723815926?mt=8
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Home Opinion Akintokunbo A ADEJUMO Kudos to the Nigerian Police Force!
Do bad things really happen to bad people?
A people’s aversion to the truth is their undoing
Kudos to the Nigerian Police Force!
by Akintokunbo A Adejumo
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This might prove to be the foundation for a new, effective and efficient policing system in Nigeria. We will get there one day. It is certainly an improvement, forward-looking action and assures the public that it is doing its best to move with the fast-changing world of both environmental and technological changes. Whoever are the new breed of police officers in today’s Nigeria Police Force who are driving this change and movement into 21st Century policing need to be commended, but should also be reminded that the Nigerian police still remains in the Dark Ages (due to many factors, of course) and they have a lot of work and improvement to undertake to truly catapult this primordial police force into engaging with the international police community and regain the trust, loyalty, cooperation and assurances of the people they are employed and entrusted to police, in terms of service, security and safety of lives and property.
This is the current Nigeria Police official WhatsApp number: 0805 700 0003 for reporting and addressing infractions, complaints, concerns and queries regarding activities of officers and men/women of the NPF
They say it is fast and effective to deal with distress calls or when your rights are legitimately wronged by law enforcement officers. It is discrete and safe.
I have tried the Nigeria Police Force WhatsApp No for reporting and addressing infractions, complaints, concerns and queries regarding activities of officers and men/women of the NPF, and BRAVO, it is TRUE and it WORKS. I got instant response within a minute, chatted with an unseen officer, who seems to know his/her onions and is very respectful and polite, and I congratulated them on this initiative and idea.
To cap this good initiative, the officer I chatted with gave me TWO other numbers for the purpose of reporting Crime:
They are: 0805 700 0001 and 0805 700 0002 (these numbers are not for WhatsApp, but voice calls) which he/she explained are dedicated for expressly reporting criminal behaviours, crimes, felonies, etc. It is also discreet and safe.
Yet another good foundation, even if only three numbers for 160 million people, for now, so bear with them.
Just like a friend wrote to me, since they came up with the 999 in the UK or 911 in the US, those services had evolved through feedback, experiences, monitoring and re-appraisal into a formidable service. So peace-loving Nigerians should welcome the service even if it is not working up to scratch at the moment. We can all help the Nigeria Police to work for the improvement of that service if they are serious about it.
First we want a memorable and more user friendly phone number like 222 or 777. The service needs to be manned 24/7. There is technology in place to route calls to hundreds or thousands of call operators who are monitored. The members of the public must be able to register their displeasure or satisfaction with the service through customer satisfaction surveys and complaints. In addition to the service phone number, there is a need for a dedicated internet website where members of the public could register their encounter with corrupt, brutal and unruly police officers.
Even video evidence could be posted on such a website. I urge all contributors to use this opportunity to offer their advice on how the police live up to modern expectation. The Nigeria Police, Customs, Immigration and the civil services are currently a disgrace. We need the input of everyone to make those services be those the public could rely upon.
I am a happy and proud Nigerian. However, we should plead with the Nigerian public not to abuse this service, and to the Nigeria Police Force (why don’t we change the “Force” to “Service”) to sustain and improve on the service and strive to make it more effective, efficient, user-friendly and not to relent on their efforts to make our society better.
Please share and broadcast.
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HBO Max Programming Highlights Unveiled at WarnerMedia Day
HBO MAX, WarnerMedia’s new streaming platform launching in May of 2020, will offer an impressive direct-to-consumer experience with 10,000 hours of premium content for everyone, ranging from families with young children to adults of all ages. Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of HBO’s excellence, unparalleled quality and innovative, award-winning storytelling, the new offering will bundle all of HBO together with an extensive collection of new original programming produced exclusively for HBO Max (Max Originals), select favorites from WarnerMedia’s enormous portfolio of beloved brands and libraries, and key third-party acquisitions.
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MAX ORIGINALS
*Announced Today, October 29, 2019
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
These four new specials will continue the Adventure Time stories that captured imaginations and introduced unlikely heroes Finn and Jake, best buds who traversed the mystical Land of Ooo and encountered its colorful inhabitants.
BMO follows the lovable little robot from Adventure Time. When there's a deadly space emergency in the farthest reaches of the galaxy, there's only one hero to call, and it's probably not BMO. Except that this time it is!
Obsidian features Marceline & Princess Bubblegum as they journey to the imposing, beautiful Glass Kingdom—and deep into their tumultuous past—to prevent an earthshaking catastrophe.
Wizard City follows Peppermint Butler, starting over at the beginning, as just another inexperienced Wizard School student. When mysterious events at the campus cast suspicion on Pep, and his checkered past, can he master the mystic arts in time to prove his innocence?
Together Again brings Finn and Jake together again, to rediscover their brotherly bond and embark on the most important adventure of their lives.
Creator: Pendleton Ward
Executive Producer: Adam Muto
Produced by: Cartoon Network Studios
Craftopia is an epic kids crafting competition show hosted by YouTube influencer Lauren Riihimaki (aka LaurDIY). Contestants, nine to fifteen years old, put their imaginations to the test and make their crafting dreams come true in a magical studio. After racing to fill their carts with inspiring materials, crafters meet larger-than-life challenges, making the most amazing creations the world has ever seen.
Host: Lauren Riihimaki
Executive Producers: Lauren Riihimaki, Rhett Bachner, Brien Meagher
Produced by: B17 Entertainment
Esme & Roy
Esme & Roy follows a young girl, Esme, and her best monster friend, Roy, on their adventures as the best monstersitters in Monsterdale. Aimed at children ages four to six, it offers a creative new approach to teaching “learning through play” and mindfulness strategies. The series invites children into a colorful world where even the littlest monsters can overcome big challenges together.
Produced by: Sesame Workshop
*The Fungies!
A prehistoric comedy, The Fungies! explores Fungietown through the whimsical quests of Seth, a young student at Fungietown Elementary. Seth loves science and sharing his exciting discoveries with all his Fungie friends. But in his search for the ultimate scientific adventure, Seth often stirs up trouble for Fungietown’s colorful inhabitants leading to hilarious and heartwarming surprises.
Creator: Stephen Neary
Executive Producer: Rob Sorcher
Gremlins: Secrets of The Mogwai
Set in 1920s Shanghai, this animated series is an epic adventure comedy for the whole family that traces the origins of the Mogwai to the lush and perilous Jade Valley, in the Western Chinese countryside.
Writer: Tze Chun
Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Sam Register
Co-Executive Producers: Tze Chun, Brendan Hay
Supervising Producer: Dan Krall
Produced by: Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation
*Jellystone
Welcome to the town of Jellystone – a charming place where your favorite Hanna-Barbera characters live, work and play together…but, at the same time, can’t help but stir up trouble for one another. The animated series includes classic characters such as Yogi, Boo Boo, Snagglepuss, Adam Ant, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw, Magilla Gorilla and more.
Executive Producers: Carl Greenblatt, Sam Register
Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation
Sixteen contestants, ranging in age from 12 to 15, go off the grid to overcome physical challenges, with the laws of karma setting the rules. This adventure competition series, hosted by YouTube sensation Michelle Khare, tests mental and physical stamina as the kids unravel how their social actions impact their success in the game. Focus, giving, humility, growth, connection, change and patience are the path to becoming the “Karma Champion.”
Host: Michelle Khare
Showrunner: Fred Pichel
Executive Producers: JD Roth, Adam Greener, Sara Hansemenn
Produced by: GoodStory Entertainment
Little Ellen
This animated children’s show explores the world through the eyes of a hilarious and unpredictable seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres, on her adventures in her musical hometown of New Orleans. Little Ellen takes big risks and makes big mistakes, but she’s always able to laugh at herself and bounce back when things don’t go as planned.
Executive Producers: Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin A. Leman II, Sam Register
Co-Executive Producer: Jennifer Skelly
Producer: Jason Blackman
Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation and Ellen Digital Ventures
*Looney Tunes Cartoons
An all-new Looney Tunes Cartoons series featuring the marquee characters in their classic pairings in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories. HBO Max has ordered 80 eleven-minute episodes, each comprised of animated shorts that include adapted storylines for today’s audience. Fans can also look forward to holiday-themed specials.
Voice Cast Members: Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman, Bob Bergen
Executive Producers: Pete Browngardt, Sam Register
Mecha Builders
A spin-off of Sesame Street, Mecha Builders features favorite Sesame Street characters as heroes in a robot-animation style.
The Monster at the End of This Story
Starring lovable, furry Grover from Sesame Street, The Monster at the End of This Story is a new animated version based on the acclaimed children's picture book, The Monster at the End of This Book.
Genre: Animation Special
The Not Too Late Show with Elmo
A family-centric live-action take on a late night talk show, hosted by Elmo and featuring Sesame Street’s many celebrity friends.
Genre: Talk Show
For 50 years, Sesame Street has helped children grow smarter, stronger, and kinder by providing preschoolers with the gold standard in educational programming. Five new 35-episode seasons of this legendary series come to HBO Max.
Genre: Puppets/Live Action
*Tig N’ Seek
Tig N’ Seek is about eight-year-old Tiggy and his gadget-building cat, Gweeseek, as they search for the lost items of Wee Gee City. With Tiggy’s cheerful attitude and Gweeseek’s exceptional inventing capabilities, the duo humorously navigate day-to-day dilemmas at the Department of Lost and Found.
Creator: Myke Chilian
15 Minutes of Shame
Monica Lewinsky and Catfish’s Max Joseph’s documentary takes an in-depth look at the public shaming epidemic in our culture and explores our collective need to destroy one another. The film will feature individuals from around the globe who have been publicly shamed – while exploring the bullies, the bystanders, the media, psychologists, politicians and experts in between.
Genre: Documentary Film
Executive Producers: Monica Lewinsky, Max Joseph, Steve Ascher, Kristy Sabat
Produced by: Six West
Brad & Gary Go To…
The six-episode series will follow Hollywood power couple, Brad Goreski and Gary Janetti, as they go on a jet-setting culinary adventure around the globe, inspired by their Instagram stories that went viral this summer.
Cast: Brad Goreski, Gary Janetti
Executive Producers: Brad Goreski, Gary Janetti, Matt Anderson, Nate Green, Cooper Green, Tara Long
Produced by: Purveyors of Pop and Entertainment One (eOne)
*College Girls (wt)
From Mindy Kaling, this comedy follows three 18-year-old freshman roommates at Evermore College in Vermont. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating.
Writer/Showrunner: Mindy Kaling
Executive Producers: Mindy Kaling, Howard Klein
Produced by: Kaling International in association with Warner Bros. Television
*DC Super Hero High
This half-hour comedy executive produced by Elizabeth Banks follows a group of students experiencing the fun and drama of adolescence at a boarding school for gifted kids. These teens are just trying to navigate the pressures of high school, but none of them realize that someday they will become legendary DC super heroes.
Writer: Scott Weinger
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Scott Weinger, John D. Beck, Ron Hart
Co-executive Producer: Dannah Shinder
Produced by: Brownstone Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television
Generation Hustle (wt)
From award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, Generation Hustle (wt) is a 10-part HBO Max original from CNN Original Series about the lengths young people will go to for fame, fortune, and power.
Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Yon Motskin, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello
Produced by: Jigsaw Productions and CNN Original Series
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years.
Executive Producers: Joshua Safran, Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz; Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment
Co-executive producer: Lis Rowinski of Fake Empire
Produced by: Warner Bros. Studio
A joyous musical series set in and around the world of Rydell High, the show reimagines the global smash hit movie with characters old and new. It’s still the 1950s, a world that rocks with big musical numbers and new original songs. It’s the peer pressures of high school, the horrors of puberty, and the rollercoaster of life in middle America with a modern sensibility that will bring it to life for today’s musical lovers.
Genre: Musical
Executive Producers: Picturestart and Temple Hill
Produced by: Paramount Television and Picturestart
*Green Lantern
Inspired by DC Comic’s Green Lantern and introducing characters from this iconic comic, this will be one of the biggest shows Berlanti Productions has ever done.
Genre: Action Drama
Executive Producers: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schecter
Produced by: Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television
*Strange Adventures
A superhero anthology executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Strange Adventures will feature characters from across the DC canon. The drama will explore close-ended morality tales about the intersecting lives of mortals and superhumans.
Writer/Showrunner: John Stephens
Executive Producers: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, John Stephens
*Tooned Out
Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis, Tooned Out is a half-hour, hybrid live-action and animated comedy in development for HBO Max. Things get a little cartoony for Mac when he starts seeing iconic cartoon characters, but they’re not just there for laughs, they’re helping him get through a very rough patch in his life.
Creator/Writer: Jared Stern
Executive Producers: Robert Zemeckis, Jared Stern, Jack Rapke, Jackie Levine
Produced by: A Stern Talking To Productions and Compari Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Television
UNpregnant
Adapted from the young adult HarperCollins novel of the same name that tells the story of 17-year-old Veronica, who never thought she’d want to fail a test—that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she’d have to make, embarking on a three-day, 900+ mile road trip to New Mexico with her ex-best friend Bailey. The film offers a mix of humor and grounded human emotion as it tackles complicated friendships and the difficult road to adulthood…all while in a stolen car.
Genre: Feature Film
Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Barbie Ferreira
Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Writers: Jenni Hendriks, Ted Caplan
Executive Producers: Michael McGrath, Lucy Kitada, Jessica Switch
Producers: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Erik Feig
Produced by: Picturestart and Berlanti Productions
Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel of the same name, Americanah is an epic love story of a woman born in Nigeria who leaves for America and her extraordinary experiences with love, heartache, adversity and self-discovery.
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o
Executive Producers: Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o for Eba Productions; Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardener for Plan B Entertainment; Andrea Calderwood for Potboiler Television; Didi Rea and Danielle Del for D2 Productions; and Nancy Won
Birth, Wedding, Funeral
In each episode, Lisa Ling will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals—births, weddings, and funerals. In a quest to understand what connects us and celebrate the diversity of deeply-rooted customs around the world, the series is a riveting investigation of the human experience.
Genre: Documentary Series
Host: Lisa Ling
Executive Producers: Lisa Ling, Dan Rather and Philip Kim for News and Guts, and David Shadrack Smith
Produced by: Part2 Pictures
*Bobbie Sue
After being raised among four rowdy brothers in a blue-collar neighborhood, Bobbie Sue, a headstrong young lawyer lands a career-making case with an upper crust law firm, only to realize she’s been hired for optics and not her expertise. But after discovering her powerful client, a lifelong idol of hers, is trying to cover up exploiting workers within her company, Bobbie decides to take both her and the law firm on, caution and etiquette be damned.
Cast: Gina Rodriguez
Executive Producers: Gina Rodriguez, Emily Gipson
Producer: Donald De Line
Based on the comic strip created by Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks both depicted and presaged the nation’s most roiling cultural issues. HBO Max has two new reimagined seasons and a 50-minute special.
Showrunner: Aaron McGruder
Executive Producers: Aaron McGruder, Norm Aladjem for Mainstay Entertainment, Seung Kim, Meghann Collins Robertson.
Produced by: Sony Pictures Animation in partnership with Sony Pictures Television
A documentary film about the uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer and chef, Anthony Bourdain.
Director/Producer: Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville
Consulting Producers: Zero Point Zero Production
Executive produced by: CNN Films and HBOMax
Produced by: Morgan Neville’s Tremolo Productions
Theatrical Distributor: Focus
An adaptation of Madeline Miller’s International bestseller of the same name, Circe is a modern take on the world of Greek mythology told from the powerful feminist perspective of the goddess Circe, who transforms from an awkward nymph to a formidable witch, able to challenge gods, titans and monsters alike.
Writers/Executive Producers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Produced by: Chernin Entertainment in partnership with Endeavor Content
Crime Farm is a psychosexual love story that follows Selma and Richard Eikelenboom, forensic homicide experts whose marriage thrives on their all-consuming investigations into the depravity of the world’s most notorious criminals. As a seminal case upends the paradigm of their relationship, their unique, unconventional and sometimes dangerous arrangement stretches the boundaries of marriage and science.
Showrunner: Janine Sherman Barrois
Executive Producers: Nicole Kidman and Per Saari from Blossom Films; Janine Sherman Barrois
Consulting Producers: Selma and Richard Eikelenboom
Produced by: Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films and Warner Horizon Scripted Television
With all-new original episodes, the critically acclaimed series features a band of superpowered freaks, part support group, part superhero team, who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them.
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser, Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby
Executive Producers: Greg Berlanti, Jeremy Carver
Produced by: Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Studio
An adaptation of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson’s book based in the world created by Frank Herbert’s Dune, Dune: The Sisterhood explores this universe through the eyes of a mysterious order of women, the Bene Gesserit, whose extraordinary mastery of body and mind allow them to expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Executive Producers: Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Dana Calvo; and Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert for the Frank Herbert estate
Co-Producer: Kevin J Anderson
Ellen’s Home Design Challenge
Design aficionado Ellen DeGeneres is giving forward-thinking designers the chance to push their creativity to the limit. DeGeneres will be on hand to weigh in on each challenge and provide humorous, colorful commentary.
Executive Producers: Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Kleeman, Arthur Smith
Produced by: Warner Bros. Unscripted & Alternative Television and A. Smith & Co. Productions in association with Telepictures and A Very Good Production
EQUAL pays tribute to the epic origin stories of the LGBTQ+ movement. A masterful four-part docuseries that captures the gripping and true backstories of the leaders and unsung heroes, pre-Stonewall, who changed the course of American history through their tireless activism. These warriors gave voice, often in a life-or-death battle, to millions of people yearning for equality and the desire to be themselves.
Genre: Limited Documentary Series
Executive Producers: David Collins, Michael Williams, Rob Eric and Joel Chiodi from Scout Productions; Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter from Berlanti Productions; Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak from That’s Wonderful Productions; Jon Jashni from Raintree Ventures; Mike Darnell and Brooke Karzen from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.
Expecting Amy (wt)
An unfiltered documentary taking viewers behind-the-scenes as Amy Schumer goes through a difficult pregnancy while on tour. From hospitalizations to going out in front of a crowd of thousands, to quiet moments at home with her family, Schumer shares it all.
Cast: Amy Schumer
Producer: Amy Schumer
Editor: Alexander Hammer
Based on the hit UK format, this charming dating series set at an affluent boutique hotel will find single people from multiple generations gathering for an intensive and tailor-made romantic experience. After fun, amusing and potentially disastrous dates, if the potential lovers like each other, they can choose to stay on for a second date in the hopes of finding out if they’re ultimately a match.
Executive Producers: Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Kleeman, Pam Healey, Dan Peirson
Produced by: Warner Bros. Unscripted & Alternative Television in association with Shed Media, A Very Good Production and Twenty Twenty Productions Limited
A one-hour thriller series based on the novel by New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalia of how an entire life can change in one night. A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no idea what happened.
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Rosie Perez, T.R. Knight, Michiel Huisman, Sonoya Mizuno, Rosie Perez, Colin Woodell, Zosia Mamet
Adapted and written by: Steve Yockey
Director: Susanna Fogel
Executive Producer: Steve Yockey, Meredith Lavender, Marcie Ulin, Susanna Fogel, Greg Berlanti, Kaley Cuoco, Sarah Schechter
Co-Executive Producer: Suzanne McCormack
Produced by: Yes, Norman Productions and Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television
An eight-episode, hour-long competition series hosted by celebrity florist Simon Lycett and featuring America’s budding florists vying to be crowned America’s best. With incredible artistic creations and floristry face-offs, Full Bloom allows audiences to escape into a surreal world, as contestants design and execute some of the most wondrous, Wonka-esque floral creations ever seen.
Host: Simon Lycett
Judges: Legendary floristry artists Elizabeth Cronin and Maurice Harris
Created and produced by: Eureka Productions
Executive Producers: Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening
The half-hour animated series focuses on a near-future dystopia undergoing a new, technologically driven world war. Fifty years in the future, an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, Maisie Williams, Golshifteh Farahani, David Tennant
Executive Producers: Michael B. Jordan and Alana Mayo of Outlier Society; Matt Hullum and Ryan P. Hall of Rooster Teeth
The Greatest Space
A 10-episode epic design competition show features interior designers traveling around the world to transform an eclectic mix of empty rooms into spectacular spaces.
Executive Producers: Bertram van Munster, Elise Doganieri, Mark Dziak, David Collins, Michael Williams, Rob Eric
Produced by: New Media Collective (NMC), Scout Productions
An intimate, four-part series that explores the infamous religious movement and the stranger-than-fiction circumstances that culminated in the biggest mass suicide to ever take place in the U.S.
Director: Clay Tweel
Executive Producer: Clay Tweel
Producers: Ross Dinerstein, Chris Bannon, Eric Spiegelman, Peter Clowney, and Erik Diehn for the digital media company Stitcher
Produced by: Campfire and CNN Original Series
The Hos (wt)
Led by patriarch Binh Ho and his wife, Hue Ho, the power couple immigrated from Vietnam to the United States with little money, relying on hard work to establish the ultimate American dream. They have built a multi-million dollar bank, a real estate development company and a new generation of American Hos. The series pulls back the curtain of their lavish Houston lifestyle and showcases the tight family connections that unite them as well as the multi-generational outrageous drama that ensues.
Cast: Binh Ho, Hue Ho, Judy Ho, Washington Ho, Lesley Ho, Aunt Tina, Cousin Sammy
Executive Producers: Katy Wallin, Stephanie Bloch Chambers
Co-Executive Producers: Amanda Ly, Rosalina Lydster
Produced by: Wallin Chambers Entertainment in association with Lionsgate Television
Competition has never been this ballsy. Legendary will feature voguing “houses,” each comprised of five performers and a leader – the house “parent.” The teams rotate in a round-robin format, and each episode documents a themed ball from start to finish. The winner ultimately achieves “legendary” status in fashion and dance challenges.
Executive Producers: David Collins, Michael Williams, Rob Eric, Renata Lombardo, Shant Tutunjian
Produced by: Scout Productions
Let Them All Talk (wt)
The story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges, Gemma Chan
Writer: Deborah Eisenberg
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Executive Producers: Ken Meyer, Joseph Malloch
Producer: Gregory Jacobs
A 10-episode half-hour romantic comedy anthology series about the journey from first love to last love, and how the people we're with along the way make us into who we are when we finally end up with someone forever. The series will follow a different protagonist’s quest for love each season, with each episode telling the story of one of their relationships.
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Zoe Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compere, Scoot McNairy, Hope Davis, James LeGros
Executive Producer: Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick
A 10-episode, half-hour, series adaptation based on the tragicomic novel of the same name. Made for Love is a dark, absurd and cynically poignant story of divorce and revenge. The series shows how far some will go for love – and how much further others will go to destroy it.
Cast: Cristin Milioti, Ray Romano, Noma Dumezweni
Adapted by: Patrick Somerville
Director/Executive Producer: S.J. Clarkson
Persona (wt)
A documentary feature produced by CNN Films that explores the riveting and unexpected origin story of America’s obsession with personality testing. Embedded in everything from dating sites to job applications, Persona reveals the profound ways personality testing has formed and influenced the world around us.
Produced by: CNN Films
*Raised by Wolves
An epic serialized sci-fi series executive produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The series centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.
Writer/Showrunner: Aaron Guzikowski
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath, Niamh Algar, Matias Varela, Felix Jamieson, Ethan Hazzard, Jordan Loughran, Aasiya Shah, Ivy Wong
Executive Producers: Ridley Scott, Aaron Guzikowski, David W. Zucker, Jordan Sheehan, Adam Kolbrenner, Mark Huffam
Produced by: Scott Free Productions
*Rap Sh*t (wt)
From Issa Rae, Rap Sh*t (wt) is a half-hour comedy series that follows three women – a hip-hop duo and their hustler manager – trying to make it in Miami’s music industry.
Produced by: Issa Rae and Montrel McKay for Issa Rae Productions and Jonathan Barry and Dave Becky for 3 Arts Entertainment
The Scoop (wt)
Produced by CNN Films, this documentary feature will follow the exhilarating and exhausting lives of CNN’s fearless female political reporters as they cover the most unpredictable presidential campaign in American history. This behind-the-scenes documentary draws from unprecedented access to the campaign press corps and reveals how these powerhouse political reporters deal with the candidates as well as with the challenges of life on the road.
Two more seasons of the critically-beloved comedy Search Party comes to HBO Max. Season three finds the gang swept up in the trial of the century after Dory and Drew are charged for the semi-accidental murder of a private investigator. As Elliott and Portia grapple with whether or not to testify as witnesses, the friends are pitted against each other and thrust into the national spotlight as notorious public figures. As Dory’s sanity begins to fracture, it becomes increasingly clear that they may not have brunch together for quite some time.
Cast: Alia Shawkat, Meredith Hagner, John Early and John Reynolds
Executive Producers: Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, Jax Media’s Lilly Burns, Tony Hernandez
*Stand-up Specials Presented by Conan O’Brien
Five new comedy specials that include two hosted by Conan O’Brien showcasing short sets from multiple up-and-coming comics, as well as curated one-hour-long sets from three additional comedians.
Executive Producers: Conan O’Brien, Jeff Ross, JP Buck, Adam Sachs
Produced by: Team Coco
Starstruck follows 20-something Rose, a millennial in London, juggling two dead-end jobs and navigating the awkward morning-after when she discovers the complications of accidentally sleeping with a movie star.
Cast: Rose Matafeo
Executive Producers: Rose Matafeo, Jon Thoday, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett
A limited series based on Emily St. John Mandel’s international bestseller, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic saga that follows survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
Cast: Himesh Patel, Mackenzie Davis
Director: Hiro Murai
Superintelligence
Superintelligence tells the story of Carol Peters, to whom nothing extraordinary ever happens. But when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone and microwave, she thinks she’s being punked. The world’s first superintelligence has selected her for observation, taking over her life…with a more ominous plan to take over everything. Now Carol is humanity’s last chance before this artificial intelligence-with-an-attitude decides to pull the plug.
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree Henry, Jean Smart, James Corden
Director: Ben Falcone
Producers: Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Rob Cowan
Produced by: New Line Cinema
Tokyo Vice
Based on Jake Adelstein’s Non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat starring Ansel Elgort. The drama captures Adelstein’s daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe
Writer: J.T. Rogers
Pilot Director: Michael Mann
Executive Producers: Michael Mann, J.T. Rogers, John Lesher, Alan Poul, Emily Gerson Saines, Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Destin Daniel Cretton
Produced by: Endeavor Content
HBO ORIGINALS
Previously announced series coming to HBO:
Avenue 5 is a space tourism comedy set 40 years in the future when the solar system is everyone’s oyster. Hugh Laurie will star as the Captain, and with him in charge, nothing can go wrong.
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Ethan Phillips, Lenora Crichlow
Creator: Veep creator Armando Iannucci (also directs the pilot)
Executive Producers: Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche, Will Smith
Bad Education
Long Island school superintendent Frank Tassone and his assistant superintendent for business, Pam Gluckin, are credited with bringing Roslyn School District unprecedented prestige, pleasing the board and raising property values in the town. Frank, always immaculately groomed and tailored, is a master of positive messaging, whether before an audience of community leaders or in an office with a concerned student or parent. Frank can do no wrong, until the Roslyn High School newspaper decides to dig deep into some expense reports uncovering an embezzlement scheme of epic proportions, revealing secrets about Frank and forcing the community to question their values and ambitions. Inspired by a true story, Bad Education is a potent dark comedy and commentary on the cost of the pursuit of educational excellence.
Genre: Film
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Ray Romano
Director: Cory Finley
Writer: Mike Makowsky
Executive Producers: Leonid Lebedev, Caroline Jaczko
Producers: Fred Berger, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Oren Moverman, Mike Makowsky
Produced by: Automatik, Sight Unseen
Inspired by the critically acclaimed film Skate Kitchen, the series, set against the backdrop of New York City, will follow a diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male-oriented world of skateboarding.
Cast: Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Moonbear, Dede Lovelace, Ajani Russell
Executive Producer/Writer/Director: Crystal Moselle
Executive Producer/Writer: Lesley Arfin
Executive Producer: Igor Srubshchik, Jason Weinberg
Co-Executive Producers: Michael Sherman and Matthew Perniciaro of Bow & Arrow Entertainment
Co-Executive Producer: Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Features
Producer: Izabella Tzenkova of Kotva Films
Producer: Lizzie Nastro
Produced by: Arfin Material, Untitled Entertainment
The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. Against this backdrop of change, the story begins in 1882 - introducing young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a Southern general, who moves into the home of her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. Accompanied by the mysterious Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her stupendously rich neighbors, led by a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife struggling for acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set. Will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path in this exciting new world that is on the brink of transformation into the modern age?
Cast: Christine Baranski, Amanda Peet, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector
Creator/Writer/Executive Producer: Julian Fellowes
Director: Michael Engler
Executive Producers: Gareth Neame, Michael Engler, David Crockett
Produced by: An HBO co-production with NBCU
Adapting Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy of the same name, which is considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, this series follows Lyra, a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.
Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda, James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, Dafne Keen, Anne-Marie Duff, Clarke Peters, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ian Gelder, Georgina Campbell, Lewin Lloyd, Lucian Msamati, James Cosmo, Daniel Frogson, Tyler Howitt, Ruta Gedmintas, Mat Fraser, Geoff Bell, Simon Manyonda
Executive Producers: Dan McCulloch, Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner, Philip Pullman, Jack Thorne, Tom Hooper, Deborah Forte, Toby Emmerich, Carolyn Blackwood, Ben Irving, Piers Wenger
Directors: Tom Hooper, Dawn Shadforth, Otto Bathhurst, Euros Lyn, Jamie Childs
*House Of The Dragon
A Game of Thrones prequel co-created by George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal, with Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal to partner as showrunners. Based on Martin’s Fire & Blood, the series, which is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen.
Creators: George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal
Showrunners: Ryan Condal, Miguel Sapochnik
Director: Miguel Sapochnik (pilot and additional episodes)
Writer: Ryan Condal
Executive Producers: Ryan Condal, George R.R. Martin, Miguel Sapochnik, Vince Gerardis
How To…With John Wilson
How To…With John Wilson is a first person documentary series hosted by an anxious New Yorker who attempts to give everyday advice while dealing with his own personal issues. Acting as both cameraman and narrator, John covertly documents the lives of fellow New Yorkers in a comic odyssey of self-discovery, inevitably making the audience comfortable with the awkward contradictions of modern life.
Cast: John Wilson
Executive Producer/Writer/Director/Narrator: John Wilson
Executive Producers: Nathan Fielder, Clark Reinking
A family saga that follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb’s New York Times bestseller and award-winning book I Know This Much Is True.
Genre: Limited Series
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Leo, Rosie O'Donnell, Archie Panjabi, Imogen Poots, Juliette Lewis, Kathryn Hahn, John Proccacino
Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Derek Cianfrance
Star/Executive Producers: Mark Ruffalo
Executive Producers: Ben Browning & Glen Basner for FilmNation Entertainment
Executive Producers: Wally Lamb, Gregg Fienberg, Anya Epstein, Lynette Howell Taylor
Co-Executive Producers: Jamie Patricof
Industry is an exhilarating dive into the world of international finance, as seen through the eyes of ambitious 20-somethings struggling to secure their futures. The series follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London – but the boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs, and ego as it is by deals and dividends. As members of the group rise and fall, they must decide whether life is about more than the bottom line.
Executive Producer/Writer: Mickey Down
Executive Producer/Writer: Konrad Kay
Executive Producers: Jane Tranter, Lachlan MacKinnon, Ryan Rasmussen
Executive Producer/Pilot Director: Lena Dunham
Produced for HBO and BBC by Bad Wolf
January 22nd
A fearless, frank and provocative drama series exploring the question of sexual consent and where, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, the distinction between liberation and exploitation lies. Set in London, where gratification is only an app away, the story centers on Arabella, a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when she is spiked with a date-rape drug, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.
Cast: Michaela Coel, Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu, Aml Ameen, Adam James, Sarah Niles, Ann Akin, Harriet Webb, Ellie James, Franc Ashman, Karan Gill, Natalie Walter, Samson Ajewole
Executive Producers: Phil Clarke & Roberto Troni for Various Artists Ltd
Executive Producer / Writer / Director / Cast: Michaela Coel for FALKNA Productions
Producers: Simon Maloney, Simon Meyers
Director: Sam Miller
Produced by: Various Artists Ltd and FALKNA Productions
The one-hour drama series based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, follows Atticus Freeman as he joins his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. What follows is a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Cast: Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Courtney B. Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis, Jamie Harris, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jordan Patrick Smith
Executive Producers: Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, Misha Green, Yann Demange, Daniel Sackheim, Ben Stephenson, Bill Carraro
Showrunner: Misha Green
Produced by: Bad Robot Productions and Monkeypaw Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television
Kate Winslet stars in this limited series as a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as her life crumbles around her.
Cast: Kate Winslet, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice, Evan Peters, Cailee Spaeny, David Denman, John Douglas Thompson, Patrick Murney, Ben Miles, James McArdle, Sosie Bacon, Joe Tippett, Neal Huff
Creator/Writer/Showrunner/Executive Producer: Brad Ingelsby
Director/Executive Producer: Gavin O’Connor
Executive Producers: Gordon Gray through Mayhem Pictures; Paul Lee through wiip; Mark Roybal through wiip; Kate Winslet
Produced by: An HBO co-production with wiip
The Nevers is an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women, known as “The Touched,” who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that could change the world.
Cast: Laura Donnelly, Nick Frost, Denis O’Hare, Olivia Williams, Ann Skelly, Zackary Momoh, Tom Riley, James Norton, Amy Manson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ben Chaplin, Pip Torrens
Executive Producer/Showrunner/Writer/Director: Joss Whedon
Executive Producers: Bernie Caulfield, Jane Espenson, Doug Petrie
Created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this drama will mark his second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy, following The Young Pope.
Cast: Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando, Javier Cámara, Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier, Maurizio Lombardi, Henry Goodman, Ulrich Thomsen, Mark Ivanir, Massimo Ghini
Creator/Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Producers: Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani for Wildside
Co-Producers: Haut et Court TV and Mediapro
Writers: Paolo Sorrentino with Umberto Contarello and Stefano Bises
Produced by: Sky, HBO, Canal+
Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same name, this dark mystery follows a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy. The crime, however, leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe to be real, as an insidious supernatural force edges its way into the case.
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vázquez, Jeremy Bobb, Marc Menchaca, Hettienne Park, Michael Esper
Producer: Ben Mendelsohn
Writers: Richard Price, with episodes written by Dennis Lehane and Jessie Nickson-Lopez
Executive Producers: Jason Bateman/Director (first two episodes). Richard Price, Andrew Bernstein (who directs three episodes), Marty Bowen for Temple Hill Entertainment, Jack Bender, Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films, and Dennis Lehane (Episodes 105-110)
Produced by Bateman’s Aggregate Films and Temple Hill Entertainment in association with Civic Center Media.
Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series will focus on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason, based on characters from Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country struggles through the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.
Cast: Matthew Rhys, John Lithgow, Tatiana Maslany, Chris Chalk, Juliet Rylance, Shea Whigham, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Andrew Howard, Jefferson Mays, Robert Patrick, Stephen Root Gayle Rankin, Lili Taylor
Showrunners: Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones
Executive Producers: Amanda Burrell, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Ron Fitzgerald, Joe Horacek, Rolin Jones, Tim Van Patten (also Director of multiple episodes)
Producer: Matthew Rhys
The Plot Against America is set in an alternate American history and centers on a Jewish family in New Jersey who watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator hero and xenophobic populist who becomes president, defeating Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, and turns the country toward fascism.
Cast: Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Anthony Boyle, Azhy Robertson, Caleb Malis, John Turturro
Creators: David Simon and Ed Burns both serve as writers and executive producers on the series, as well as Joe Roth, Nina Noble, Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Susan Goldberg and Jeff Kirschenbaum
Co-Executive Producers: Dennis Stratton, Philip Roth
Run centers on Ruby, a woman living a humdrum existence who one day gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her life to take a journey with her oldest flame.
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Merritt Wever; Guest Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rich Sommer
Writer: Vicky Jones
Executive Producers: Vicky Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge via DryWrite; Emily Leo for Wigwam; and Jenny Robbins. Kate Dennis directed the pilot and executive produces.
Produced by: Entertainment One, DryWrite, Wigwam Films.
The Third Day is a story told over six episodes and in two distinct halves. The first – ‘Summer’, directed by Marc Munden, sees Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost. The second – ‘Winter’, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, follows Helen, a strong-willed outsider who comes to the island seeking answers, but whose arrival precipitates a fractious battle to decide its fate.
Cast: Jude Law, Naomie Harris, Katherine Waterston, Paddy Considine, Emily Watson
Writer/Executive Producer: Dennis Kelly (wrote four episodes)
Executive Producers: Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Plan B Entertainment
Executive Producer: Felix Barrett, Punchdrunk International
Creators: Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly
Director/Executive Producer: Marc Munden
Director/Executive Producer: Philippa Lowthorpe
Producer: Adrian Sturges
Writers: Kit de Waal and Dean O’Loughlin (wrote two episodes)
Produced by: HBO and Sky Studios in partnership with Plan B Entertainment and Punchdrunk International
A limited series based on the book You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Grace Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland, Noah Jupe, Edgar Ramirez, Lily Rabe, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Matilda DeAngelis, Noma Dumezweni
Writer/Executive Producer/Showrunner: David E. Kelley through David E. Kelley Productions
Director/Executive Producer: Susanne Bier
Executive Producers: Nicole Kidman and Per Saari for Blossom Films; Bruna Papandrea for Made Up Stories; Stephen Garrett, Celia Costas
We Are Who We Are
A coming-of-age story about two American teenagers who, along with their military and civilian parents, are living on an American military base in Italy. The series centers on friendship, first-love and all the unknowns of being a teenager, which could happen anywhere, but in this case, happens to be in this little slice of America in Italy.
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga, Jordan Kristine Seamon
Kid Cudi, Faith Alabi, Spence Moore II, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight , Tom Mercier, Sebastiano Pigazzi
Showrunner/Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: Luca Guadagnino, Paolo Giordano, Francesca Manieri
Executive Producers: Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Luca Guadagnino, Nick Hall, Riccardo Neri
Producers: Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Wildside (part of Fremantle)
Produced by: HBO and Sky Studios
International Distributor: Fremantle
HBO LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS
Find all HBO Series: https://www.hbo.com/series/all-series
Available in first year of launch:
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Isn’t It Romantic?
It Chapter 2
Find all HBO Movies: https://www.hbo.com/movies
HBO MAX LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS
In addition to a robust slate of originals, HBO Max will feature a vast selection of titles from Warner Media’s brands including library content from Warner Bros. Film and Television Studios, New Line Cinema, DC, CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, The CW, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Looney Tunes and more, alongside key third party acquisitions.
Here is a selection that will be available in our first year of launch.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
At Home with Amy Sedaris
The Carbonaro Effect
CNN Decade Series (The 2000s, The Nineties, etc.)
Conan Travel Specials
The Honourable Woman
The OC
The Office (British version)
Robot Chicken
This Is Life with Lisa Ling
Top Gear / BBC
United Shades of America with Kamau Bell
DC Films – All live action movies from the past decade
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The Hobbit Trilogy
Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
March of the Penguins
The Matrix Trilogy
Mona Lisa Smile
Spirited Away and the entire Ghibli Film Collection
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2020 Ford Kuga debuts with whole new look, two hybrid choices
2020 Ford Kuga debuts with whole new look, two hybrid choices product 2019-04-02 15:36:53 https://uk.motor1.com/news/316495/2020-ford-kuga-escape-reveal/ Ford Official
By: Chris Bruce
The new Kuga is larger than the current one but sheds 90 kilograms.
The 2020 Ford Kuga debuts a radically new look for the fourth generation of the Blue Oval's compact crossover. There's a new buzz from underneath the skin, too, where the model is now available with hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains, in addition to a pair of turbocharged choices.
Gallery: 2019 Ford Kuga
The 2020 Kuga is over 90 kilograms lighter than the outgoing model. However, the footprint is larger due to a wider track and longer length. The ride height is lower, too. These revised dimensions and the new arching roofline make the latest generation look less rugged. Instead, the aesthetic has more in common with a five-door hatchback to our eyes but with a taller ride.
More Ford debuts:
2019 Ford Tourneo Custom PHEV revealed as efficient people mover
2020 Ford Explorer revealed in Europe for first time
The 2020 Kuga's larger size has more room for occupants by increasing headroom, shoulder space, and hip room for both rows of seats. Combustion-powered models even have sliding second-row seats that allow for as much as 1,062 litres of cargo space. Hybrid models don't have this ability because the battery pack is under the seat.
Occupants have a lot more technology to play with, too. All grades except for the base S trim get an 8-inch infotainment display, and buyers can get an optional 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster. Drivers can select from multiple driving modes like Normal, Eco, Sport, Slippery, Snow, and Sand. A heads-up display projects onto a six-inch screen in front of the windscreen. Evasive Steering Assist can help turn the wheel to avoid slow-moving or stationary vehicles.
The standard powertrain available in two EcoBoost levels for the 2020 Kuga is a turbocharged 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol making 118 bhp and 148 bhp. It has cylinder deactivation that allows the mill to run on just two cylinders for maximising fuel economy. Buyers can also upgrade to a 2.0-liter turbocharged EcoBlue four-cylinder making 187 bhp. All of these mills hook up to an eight-speed automatic and drive the front wheels as standard, although all-wheel drive is an option.
Folks looking for more efficiency can opt for a plug-in hybrid 2.5-litre four-cylinder running on the Atkinson cycle with a total system output of 222 bhp. The powertrain runs through a continuously variable transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard, but all-wheel drive is available. Ford doesn't yet provide many details about the plug-in hybrid powertrain beyond the system output. The company estimates it offers a best-in-class range of at least 31 miles on electric power.
The 2020 Kuga goes on sale in fall 2019, and the plug-in hybrid arrives in spring 2020.
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FORD REVEALS SCULPTED, ELECTRIFIED ALL-NEW KUGA SUV, THE FIRST FORD TO OFFER MILD-, PLUG-IN AND HYBRID POWERTRAINS
Sleek, spacious all-new Ford Kuga unveiled with distinctive design, comprehensive hybrid powertrain line-up and new driver assistance technology for the most efficient, comfortable and rewarding Kuga experience ever
All-new Kuga introduces a more streamlined silhouette for an energetic, nimble and capable appearance with premium proportions that support improved roominess and comfort
Kuga is the most electrified Ford ever, and the first to offer mild-, full- and plug-in hybrid powertrains. Kuga Plug-In Hybrid will offer pure-electric driving range of more than 50 km (31 miles), anticipated 1.2 l/100km (anticipated 235mpg) fuel-efficiency and 29 g/km CO2
Kuga is also the first SUV to be based on Ford’s new global C2 architecture delivering 10 per cent more torsional stiffness and up to 90kg weight reduction versus outgoing Kuga
Advanced convenience tech includes FordPass Connect embedded modem, 12.3-inch digital cluster, wireless charging, SYNC 3 with 8-inch touchscreen, B&O Sound System
Lane-Keeping System with Blind Spot Assist, Pre-Collision Assist Intersection to debut. Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop & Go, Speed Sign Recognition, Lane-Centring introduced
Distinctive all-new Kuga variants including Kuga Titanium, Kuga ST-Line and Kuga Vignale each deliver unique character for growing number of SUV customers in Europe
BRENTWOOD, Essex, April 2, 2019 – Ford today unveiled the stylish and distinctive range of all-new Kuga SUVs, debuting sleek new exterior design with premium proportions that deliver improved roominess and comfort.
Ford’s most electrified vehicle ever, the sophisticated all-new Kuga Titanium, sporty Kuga ST‑Line and upscale Kuga Vignale will offer an advanced range of hybrid powertrains for unprecedented Ford SUV fuel-efficiency.
The comprehensive line-up includes Kuga Plug-In Hybrid, Kuga EcoBlue Hybrid (mild-hybrid) and Kuga Hybrid (full-hybrid) variants, alongside Ford’s 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel, 1.5‑litre EcoBlue diesel and 1.5‑litre EcoBoost petrol engines, and intelligent new eight-speed automatic transmission.
Kuga is Ford’s best-selling SUV in Europe and the No. 3 best-selling Ford vehicle in the region after the Fiesta and Focus. Customers purchased 153,800 Kugas in 2018, contributing to a Ford SUV sales increase of more than more than 19 percent last year.
The all-new Kuga offers even more intuitive comfort and driver assistance features, keeping customers better connected on the move. Sophisticated technologies include a FordPass Connect embedded modem, wireless charging pad technologies, and Ford’s SYNC 3 infotainment system supported by an 8‑inch central touchscreen. A premium B&O Sound System produces a high quality audio experience, and a new industry-first, free-form, 12.3-inch LCD instrument cluster with “true colour” that is more informative, intuitive and easier to read.
New Stop & Go, Speed Sign Recognition and Lane-Centring technologies help drivers negotiate stop-start and highway traffic with greater confidence than ever before, while predictive curve light and sign-based light help drivers see more clearly in the dark. Head-up display technology helps drivers to keep their eyes on the road ahead, and Active Park Assist 2 enables fully automated parking manoeuvres at the push of a button.
“The all-new Kuga is our best example yet of Ford’s human-centric design approach; developed in close collaboration with SUV customers to deliver distinctive style, unprecedented powertrain choice, premium comfort and advanced technologies that make life easier for owners inside and outside of the car,” said Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe.
The all-new Kuga is the third generation of Ford’s mid-size SUV for customers in Europe since the nameplate’s introduction in 2008. Ford has sold more than 1 million Kugas in Europe since 2008.
Designed by our customers
The all-new Kuga is the first SUV to be based on Ford’s new global C2 architecture that supports improved aerodynamics for better fuel-efficiency, and reduces weight versus outgoing models by up to 90kg when comparing equivalent powertrain variants. In addition, the new architecture is designed to enhance crash performance; delivers 10 per cent more torsional stiffness for improved driving dynamics and refinement; and creates more interior space for Ford’s mid-size models while still enabling expressive and dynamic design.
The all-new Kuga introduces distinctive new exterior design that is more sculpted and simplified with premium proportions. A more streamlined silhouette incorporates a longer wheelbase that creates a larger footprint on the road benefitting ride and stability; a longer bonnet; further reclined rear windshield angle; and lower roofline. The result is a more energetic, nimble and capable appearance than ever before.
A tailored spectrum of choice includes differentiating executions for Kuga Vignale, ST-Line and Titanium variants, each with a unique character to reflect customers’ personalities. With contemporary and confident styling, Kuga Titanium is indicative of the high specification and quality that will be offered to customers across Europe. Highlights include a sporty front skid plate and rear diffuser, body-coloured mirrors, side cladding and door handles, LED daytime running lights and standard 17-inch, or optional 19-inch alloy wheels.
The upscale Kuga Vignale conveys exclusive specification and meticulous craftsmanship through bespoke Vignale ornamentation including satin aluminium finishes for the roof rails, bumpers and rocker inserts, as well as unique, elegant front and rear bumper designs. The exterior also features signature Vignale chrome finished front mesh grille and twin tailpipes, alongside standard 18-inch, and optional 19-inch or 20-inch alloy wheels. Windsor leather seats with an exclusive Vignale hexagon design, a leather wrapped heated steering wheel and premium velour floor mats further enhance the interior.
Bold Kuga ST-Line styling inspired by Ford Performance models includes body-coloured bumpers and side skirts; and a grille, front skid plate, rear diffusor and roof rails finished in black. A large rear spoiler, standard 18‑inch or optional 19-inch alloy wheels, and twin sports exhausts add to the sporty character. Inside a dark headliner, exclusive ST-Line seat designs with contrasting red stitching, alloy pedals, flat-bottomed steering wheel, and ST-Line floor mats and scuff plates reflect the performance personality.
“Kuga customers expressed that they were ready for even more emotional design, and our all-new Kuga is a sculpture skilfully articulated. Visually sleeker, lower and wider – it makes you feel excited just by looking at it,” said Amko Leenarts, director, Design, Ford of Europe. “The all-new interior is a sanctuary space, designed to allow everyday life to happen. Harmonious and airy, it fuses premium materials, precise craftsmanship and state-of-the-art technology.”
All-new Kuga is offered in 12 colours, including new metallic Diffused Silver and Sedona Orange. Blue Panther, a new finish offered exclusively on Vignale models, joins premium paint finishes triple coat Lucid Red and Star White pearl.
Unprecedented powertrain diversity
Following Ford’s announcement earlier this year that every Ford nameplate from all-new Focus onwards will include an electrified option, the all-new Kuga will become the first Ford vehicle to be offered with plug-in hybrid, mild-hybrid and full-hybrid powertrain technology.
Kuga Plug-In Hybrid: Available from launch, the all-new Kuga Plug-In Hybrid delivers the driving range and freedom offered by a traditional combustion engine alongside the efficiency and refinement of an electric powertrain.
The power-split architecture combines a 2.5-litre, four-cylinder Atkinson-cycle petrol engine, electric motor and generator, and 14.4 kWh lithium-ion battery to produce 225PS. Ford’s first plug-in hybrid in Europe to deliver a pure-electric driving range in excess of 31 miles, the Kuga Plug-In Hybrid is anticipated to deliver from 1.2 l/100km fuel-efficiency and 29 g/km CO2 emissions.*
The battery can be charged using a front fender-mounted charging port, and is automatically replenished on the move using regenerative charging technology that captures kinetic energy normally lost during braking. It is anticipated that to fully charge the battery from an external 230-volt electricity supply will take around 4 hours.
Drivers can choose when and how to deploy battery power using EV Auto, EV Now, EV Later and EV Charge modes. When the battery reaches its lowest state-of-charge, the Kuga automatically reverts to EV Auto mode – supplementing petrol engine power with electric motor assistance using recaptured energy for optimised fuel-efficiency.
Kuga EcoBlue Hybrid: The all-new Kuga EcoBlue Hybrid enhances Ford’s 150PS 2.0‑litre EcoBlue diesel engine for even greater fuel-efficiency. The mild-hybrid technology employs a belt-driven integrated starter/generator (BISG) that replaces the standard alternator, enabling recovery and storage of energy during vehicle decelerations, and charging a 48-volt lithium-ion air-cooled battery pack. The BISG also acts as a motor, using the stored energy to provide electric torque assistance to the engine under normal driving and acceleration, as well as running the vehicle’s electrical ancillaries.
The 48-volt system also enables the all-new Kuga’s Auto Start-Stop technology to operate in more situations for additional fuel savings, contributing to anticipated CO2 emissions from 132 g/km CO2 and 5.0 l/100km (anticipated 56mpg) fuel-efficiency.
Kuga Hybrid: The Kuga Hybrid uses a self-charging full-hybrid powertrain that enables pure-electric driving capability and combines a 2.5-litre Atkinson cycle petrol engine; electric motor; generator; lithium-ion battery; and a Ford-developed power-split automatic transmission. The Kuga Hybrid will be available later in 2020 with front-wheel drive and Ford Intelligent All-Wheel Drive, delivering from an anticipated 130 g/km CO2 and 5.6 l/100km (anticipated 50mpg).
All-new Kuga customers can also choose from an advanced range of Ford EcoBoost petrol and Ford EcoBlue diesel engines with optimised power and refinement, and meeting the latest stringent Euro 6 emissions standards calculated using the World Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). Powertrains are supported by standard Auto Start-Stop for reduced running costs, and transmissions including a slick-shifting six-speed manual and new eight-speed automatic for effortless cruising.
Kuga EcoBlue: The 190PS 2.0‑litre EcoBlue engine is anticipated to deliver fuel-efficiency from 5.7 l/100km (anticipated 50mpg) and 150 g/km CO2 emissions. Fuel-efficiency is enhanced using an integrated intake system with mirror-image porting for optimised engine breathing and low-inertia turbocharger. A high-pressure fuel injection system is more responsive, quieter and more precise. Standard selective catalytic reduction emissions after-treatment contributes to improved NOX reduction. Further 2.0-litre EcoBlue innovations that reduce friction, include:
A 10 mm offset crank design that minimises piston side-load, reducing rubbing forces against the cylinder walls
Steel pistons for optimised dimensions and less expansion when hot
Minimised crankshaft bearing diameters
A belt-in-oil design for the camshaft and oil pump drive belts
Ford’s 1.5-litre EcoBlue engine is offered with 120PS and is anticipated to deliver from 4.8 l/100km (anticipated 59mpg) fuel-efficiency and 127 g/km CO2 emissions supported by innovative technologies, including:
Low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation combined with water-air charge cooling for more efficient combustion and reduced emissions
An integrated intake manifold for optimised engine breathing
Low-inertia turbocharging for faster, more controllable turbo response, featuring rocket engine materials designed for high temperature applications
A high-pressure fuel injection system that is more responsive, quieter, and more precise
Kuga EcoBoost: The 1.5-litre EcoBoost engine is offered with 120PS and 150PS and is anticipated to deliver from 6.5 l/100km (anticipated 41mpg) fuel-efficiency and 149 g/km CO2 emissions supported by Ford’s industry-first cylinder deactivation system for a three-cylinder engine. The technology can automatically stop one of the engine’s cylinders when full capacity is not needed, such as when coasting or cruising with light demand on the engine. Cylinder deactivation can disengage or re-engage one cylinder in 14 milliseconds – 20 times faster than the blink of an eye – with no compromise in performance or refinement.
Core EcoBoost technologies including advanced turbocharging, high-pressure direct fuel injection and Twin-independent Variable Cam Timing, also feature. Particulate emissions are reduced using standard gas particulate filter technology. Further innovations include:
A new combination of port fuel injection and direct fuel injection that helps achieve high power and responsiveness alongside enhanced fuel-efficiency, with a particular increase in fuel-efficiency under light engine loads
A low-friction three-cylinder architecture that delivers naturally high torque at low rpm
An integrated exhaust manifold that improves fuel-efficiency by helping the engine reach optimal temperatures faster, and produces torque more rapidly by minimising the distance exhaust gasses travel between cylinders and turbocharger
An all-aluminium construction for reduced weight
Ford’s new quick-shifting eight-speed automatic transmission is engineered to further optimise fuel-efficiency and responsive performance. Available with 120PS 1.5-litre EcoBlue and 190PS 2.0-litre EcoBlue engines, using:
Adaptive Shift Scheduling, which assesses individual driving styles to optimise gearshift timings. The system can identify uphill and downhill gradients and hard cornering, and adjust gearshifts accordingly for a more stable, engaging and refined driving experience
Adaptive Shift Quality Control, which assesses vehicle and environmental information to help adjust clutch pressures for consistently smooth gearshifts. The technology can also adjust shift smoothness to suit driving style
The all-new Kuga’s 190PS 2.0-litre EcoBlue engine is combined with Ford Intelligent All-Wheel Drive, and optimises low-end torque and noise, vibration and harshness, while also providing smooth and linear acceleration performance for a more comfortable driving experience.
“One size does not fit all, so we’ve developed a nuanced powertrain strategy for the all-new Kuga that will help customers find the right solution for their lifestyle, and also support SUV drivers by making the transition to an electrified lifestyle easy and enjoyable,” said Joerg Beyer, executive director, Engineering, Ford of Europe. “Kuga is the first Ford vehicle to benefit from the full range of sophisticated Ford Hybrid powertrain solutions.”
Kuga also offers for the first time selectable Drive Mode technology that enables drivers to adjust throttle response, steering weight and traction control, plus gearshift timings for automatic models, to match responses and performance to the driving scenarios.
Alongside Normal, Sport and Eco modes, Slippery mode offers drivers increased confidence on surfaces with reduced grip such as snow and ice. Deep Snow/Sand mode helps maintain vehicle momentum on soft, deformable surfaces.
The all-new Kuga makes it easier than ever to tow anything from to small trailers to large caravans using two innovative towing solutions, and towing capacity up to 2,250kg depending on powertrain configuration. An electrically operated retractable tow bar can be controlled using a conveniently located button in the boot space. Push the button once and the ball neck travels out from its stowage position under the vehicle. With another push of the button it automatically disappears back underneath the car. In addition, a detachable tow bar also is available and can be easily locked into place. When not in use the ball neck is stored in the boot.
Comfort, spaciousness and flexibility
Comfort, spaciousness and flexibility are key to the more refined Kuga occupant experience that delivers class leading second row roominess. The all-new Kuga is 44mm wider and 89mm longer than the outgoing model, while the wheelbase has increased by 20mm. Inside, that translates to 43mm more shoulder room and 5mm more hip room in the front seats than the outgoing model, while rear passengers benefit from 20mm more shoulder room and 36mm more hip room. Despite an overall height that is 20mm lower than the outgoing model, all-new Kuga also has 13mm more headroom for front seat occupants and 35mm more in the rear.
For rear seat passengers, heated outer seats are available for the first time, and the entire second row of seats can be moved backwards for best-in-class 1,035mm rear legroom, or forwards to increase boot space by 67-litres. A remote release function enables the second row to be folded flat with ease.
The boot also has a reversible luggage compartment mat with a high quality velour on one side for a premium look and feel, and a durable and robust rubber surface on the other side to prevent wet or muddy sports equipment from soiling the interior.
Spacious, practical and well connected – all-new Kuga interior introduces innovative engineering and advanced comfort and convenience technologies that help the vehicle seamlessly integrate into customers’ lives.
For the first time, Kuga is offered with FordPass Connect embedded modem technology that turns the vehicle into a mobile WiFi hotspot with connectivity for up to 10 devices. In addition to helping drivers plan faster, less stressful journeys with Live Traffic updates for the navigation system and enabling occupants to stream entertainment on the move, FordPass Connect allows a range of convenient features via the FordPass mobile app, including:
Vehicle Locator, helping owners find their car in sprawling shopping mall car parks
Vehicle Status, for checking fuel levels, alarm status, oil life and more
Door Lock Unlock, to remotely allow access to your Kuga
Remote Start, for Kuga models with eight-speed automatic transmission**
eCall functionality, which automatically dials emergency services in the event of a serious accident, and enables occupants to be directly connected to the emergency services by pushing an SOS button in the overhead console
Also helping drivers stay connected on the move and wave goodbye to a tangle of cables in the centre console, a new wireless charging pad beneath the instrument panel enables occupants to easily charge compatible smartphones. The pad automatically detects compatible devices to initiate charging.
Devices can remain connected via Bluetooth to Ford’s SYNC 3 communications and entertainment system while using wireless charging, which is supported by an 8-inch central touchscreen that can be operated using pinch and swipe gestures. SYNC 3 allows drivers to control audio, navigation and climate functions plus connected smartphones using simple voice commands. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto™ compatibility is included free-of-charge.
A new 12.3-inch LCD instrument cluster is the first in the industry to use free-form technology that allows curved upper edges for seamless interior design. The free-form panel features circuitry embedded across the display, enabling designers to mould it into shapes beyond the traditional rectangular design.
In addition, the 24‑bit “true colour” digital instrument cluster generates detailed, high definition, more intuitive images and icons displayed in the full colour spectrum, making them brighter, less tiring on the eyes and easier to read.
A new B&O Sound System will help occupants get the best from music streamed via FordPass Connect or smartphone devices. The powerful 575-watt, 10-speaker system features an external coupled subwoofer that guarantees smooth bass production, while the position of the tweeters in the dashboard has been optimised to produce a wider sound stage at seating level to for an enveloping listening experience for all occupants. Comprehensive static and dynamic sound tuning ensures that the listening experience is maintained regardless of the driving conditions.
Ford’s hands-free tailgate technology allows access to the boot space even with arms full of groceries, kids or sports equipment, using a simple kicking motion under the rear bumper. Ford engineers have also delivered a solution to the challenge of where to place the cargo shade once removed: it now fits neatly beneath the new flexible load floor, and is easier to remove with a simple pull-strap release.
Enhancing interior refinement, Active Noise Control employs three microphones, strategically placed throughout the cabin, to monitor engine noise in the interior. The system then directs opposing sound waves through the audio system to cancel out unwanted engine and transmission noises. Standard for Kuga Plug-In Hybrid Vignale, Kuga EcoBlue Hybrid and Kuga 2.0-litre EcoBlue Vignale models, the technology contributes to a new level of interior quietness.
Confidence-inspiring technologies
The all-new Kuga further enhances the SUV driving experience with an advanced suite of driver assistance technologies designed to give drivers confidence behind the wheel and help them to stay focused while on the move.
Sophisticated Ford Co-Pilot360 technologies enhance protection, driving and parking, and are designed to make the driving experience more comfortable, less demanding and safer.
Making its Ford debut, new Lane-Keeping System with Blind Spot Assist will combine Ford’s Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) and Lane-Keeping System to monitor the driver’s blind spot for vehicles approaching from behind while travelling on multi-lane carriageways. If a driver either signals a lane change or the control system senses a lane change when a vehicle is approaching in the blind spot that could lead to a potential collision, counter-steering is applied to warn the driver and discourage the lane change manoeuvre.
Also further enhanced, Ford’s Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection technology will feature a new Intersection functionality, which can automatically apply the brakes to avoid or mitigate the effects of accidents if the driver is turning across the path of oncoming traffic and the system determines an imminent collision.
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Stop & Go, Speed Sign Recognition and Lane-Centring helps the vehicle maintain a comfortable driving distance from vehicles ahead. The system also helps reduce stress during long road trips by keeping the vehicle centred in its lane, and can adjust the vehicle speed to within legal limits by monitoring the roadside and overhead gantries for speed signs. This is in addition to using information from the on-board navigation system.
Lane-Centring technology monitors road markings and can apply gentle but discernible torque to the steering system to help drivers stay centred in their lane whenever the ACC system is activated. Designed to support drivers at speeds up to 125mph, the technology will deliver visual and audible warnings if it detects a lack of steering wheel input from the driver.
Kuga is the first Ford SUV in Europe to offer a head-up display (HUD), which helps drivers keep their eyes on the road by projecting useful information into their field of vision. The system maximises effectiveness with one of the largest fields of view of any HUD available in Europe, measuring 6 degrees by 2.5 degrees. The system is also amongst the brightest available, adjustable in 16 increments up to 10,000 candela per metre2.
Special filters for the retractable polycarbonate screen mean that it can be read by users wearing polarised lenses. Depending on vehicle specification, the configurable selection of projected information includes speed – the only content that is always present; Traffic Sign Recognition; ACC; navigation; Shift Indicator; entertainment system; and emergency notifications.
BLIS with Cross Traffic Alert warns drivers reversing out of a parking space of vehicles that may soon be crossing behind them and can apply the brakes to avoid or mitigate the effects of collisions if drivers do not respond to warnings.
Stop & Go enables the ACC system to bring the vehicle to a complete halt in stop-start traffic using up to 50 percent of total braking force, and automatically pull away if the stopping duration is less than 3 seconds. For stopping durations greater than 3 seconds, the driver can push a steering wheel button or gently apply the accelerator pull away.
Active Park Assist 2 makes parking even easier: delivering fully-automated manoeuvres into and out of parallel and perpendicular parking spaces at the push of a button. Enabled by the shift-by-wire capability of Ford’s new eight-speed automatic gearbox, the system identifies suitable parking spaces and the driver can control vehicle motion by simply selecting neutral and holding down a single centre console-mounted button.
The vehicle then fully controls forward and reverse gear selection, throttle and braking, as well as steering – manoeuvring into spaces just 92 centimetres longer than the car and on gradients up to 12 percent at speeds of up to 2.5mph, before engaging park. The technology can also help drivers exit parallel parking spaces using fully automated Park-out Assist.
Additional technologies designed to help Kuga drivers avoid accidents and distraction include:
Evasive Steering Assist, designed to operate at city and motorway speeds, which uses radar and a camera to detect slower-moving and stationary vehicles ahead and provides steering support to enable drivers to manoeuvre around a vehicle if a collision is imminent
Lane-Keeping Aid actively supports the driver to safely guide the vehicle back into the correct lane by “nudging” the steering wheel in the correct direction
Front and rear wide-view cameras, which offers a 180-degree view to the front and rear of the vehicle for improved visibility when reversing, or pulling out of parking spaces or driveways
Wrong Way Alert uses a windscreen mounted camera and information from the car’s navigation system to provide drivers with audible and visual warnings when driving through two “No Entry” signs on a motorway ramp
Ford’s Adaptive Front Lighting System with predictive curve light and sign-based light pre-adjusts headlamp patterns for maximum visibility before reaching a curve, junction or roundabout.
The system uses the forward-facing camera to monitor lane markings up to 65 metres ahead, enabling light from the headlamps to be angled into the corner pre-emptively for improved visibility on approach, rather than relying solely on the driver’s steering wheel inputs. The Ford-patented integration of road sign-reading capability to optimise beam patterns enables the beam to be widened at junctions and roundabouts to better illuminate hazards that are not in the direction of travel.
Glare-free high beam removes the guilt of accidentally dazzling other drivers and helps users see more of the road ahead at night with headlamps that use an innovative adjustable drum configuration for greater flexibility and softer, less distracting transitions.
Should an accident occur, new Post-Collision Braking technology helps to reduce the impact of a potential secondary collision by automatically applying moderate brake pressure when an initial collision event is detected; slowing the vehicle can potentially lessen injury to occupants and further damage to the vehicle.
“We don’t believe in technology for technology’s sake,” Rowley said. “Features like our FordPass Connect on-board modem and new Lane-Keeping System with Blind Spot Assist – combined with our new Ford Hybrid range of powertrains solutions – are designed to reflect the ever-evolving ways that we use our cars, and to help the all-new Kuga slip seamlessly into our customers lives.”
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* Officially homologated fuel-efficiency and CO2 emission figures will be published closer to on-sale date
The declared fuel/energy consumptions, CO2 emissions and electric range are measured according to the technical requirements and specifications of the European Regulations (EC) 715/2007 and (EC) 692/2008 as last amended. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are specified for a vehicle variant and not for a single car. The applied standard test procedure enables comparison between different vehicle types and different manufacturers. In addition to the fuel-efficiency of a car, driving behaviour as well as other non-technical factors play a role in determining a car's fuel/energy consumption, CO2 emissions and electric range. CO2 is the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.
Since 1 September 2017, certain new vehicles are being type-approved using the World Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) according to (EU) 2017/1151 as last amended, which is a new, more realistic test procedure for measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Since 1 September 2018 the WLTP has begun replacing the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC), which is the outgoing test procedure. During NEDC Phase-out, WLTP fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are being correlated back to NEDC. There will be some variance to the previous fuel economy and emissions as some elements of the tests have altered i.e., the same car might have different fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
**In regions where permitted by law
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Ford of Europe is responsible for producing, selling and servicing Ford brand vehicles in 50 individual markets and employs approximately 53,000 employees at its wholly owned facilities and approximately 67,000 people when joint ventures and unconsolidated businesses are included. In addition to Ford Motor Credit Company, Ford Europe operations include Ford Customer Service Division and 24 manufacturing facilities (16 wholly owned or consolidated joint venture facilities and eight unconsolidated joint venture facilities). The first Ford cars were shipped to Europe in 1903 – the same year Ford Motor Company was founded. European production started in 1911.
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Almond growers learn about their ‘largest challenge’
Valley farmers attend seminar to answer questions about water rights, regulations, and restrictions
By Christine Souza
California Farm Bureau
CENTRAL VALLEY– Because trying to understand and comply with a multitude of water regulations takes up a greater proportion of farmers’ time and attention, the Almond Board of California invited farmers and water specialists to a Central Valley seminar intended to help clarify topics including groundwater sustainability, management of salts and nitrates, new flow requirements under the state’s bay-delta plan and the future of water in California.
The session, “Navigating the Waters,” drew a crowd of about 150 farmers to the International Agri-Center in Tulare last week, where attendees heard from water-agency leaders, state water officials, farmers and others on a range of topics with the goal of helping almond growers make informed water decisions.
Almond Board of California President and CEO Richard Waycott said water topics involve “many issues and sub-issues.”
“This may be the largest challenge that we’ve faced in our history, but I do think we have the smarts and wherewithal to get ‘er done,” Waycott said.
With groundwater sustainability plans to be developed by 2020 for critically overdrafted basins and 2022 for other high- and medium-priority basins as required under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, bringing groundwater into balance is a primary concern for growers. Ellen Hanak, water policy center director with the Public Policy Institute of California, described groundwater as “one of the key challenges for the valley,” adding, “there is much at stake for the region’s economy, public health and the environment as to how these challenges are tackled.”
Trying to identify promising solutions to increase flexibility, Hanak said, a recent Public Policy Institute report discussed approaches to increase flexibility and give people opportunities to be creative with the water resource, such as groundwater recharge areas that are also good for habitat, capturing and storing more local storm runoff, building or expanding surface storage and reoperating the system to better coordinate with storage.
Tracking many of the groundwater sustainability agencies in the state, Stacie Ann Silva, resource analyst with Fresno-based New Current Water and Land, discussed water markets related to SGMA. Silva suggested groundwater markets will be “sub-basin, valley and California-wide,” noting that they differ greatly from surface-water markets. Once a groundwater right is quantified, it is monetizable, Silva said.
Regarding how groundwater markets will work within an individual GSA, Silva said, “You need to know if they are going to allow you to trade it and what kinds of water are you going to be allowed to be trading,” adding for the most part, “groundwater markets are shaping up to be one-off, one-time transactions.”
Fresno County farmer Don Cameron described recharge projects on his farm, including in almonds and other crops.
“We’ve spent nearly 30 years trying to find a strategy and find a way to bring floodwater on-farm,” Cameron said. “It’s been an uphill battle and it takes a lot of money.”
Cameron, who chairs the State Board of Food and Agriculture, estimated he spends 70% of his time on water issues.
In discussing nitrates and salinity in groundwater, Daniel Cozad, executive director of the Central Valley Salinity Coalition, said farmers in the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program are working on best management practices for nitrates. Additionally, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a stakeholder-driven Central Valley-wide Salt and Nitrate Management Plan to implement long-term solutions for enhanced water quality and economic sustainability. The plan is to go before the State Water Resources Control Board sometime this year for final adoption.
“The approach is: How can we keep the stakeholders—farmers, communities and industries in the Central Valley—vibrant and working, while we figure out how to solve these other issues, primarily salt and nitrate?” Cozad said.
The group also heard from state water board member Sean Maguire, who described being a regulator as a vast responsibility, because the board “is responsible for protecting and monitoring water quality for all surface water and groundwater throughout the state, drinking water for all Californians, and allocating water for beneficial use, including growing crops.”
California should be working to increase water storage, both surface and groundwater, Maguire said, adding that the state should also capture storm flows, do more on-farm recharge and look at new technologies.
Related to voluntary agreements being developed as potential alternatives to the state board’s unimpaired-flows plan for San Joaquin River tributaries, Maquire said a high-level framework was released last December, and additional details have been added to the agreements during the last four months.
“It’s an exciting opportunity that hopefully will set us on a good path for protecting and managing water in the bay-delta watershed from here on out,” Maquire said. “It is difficult to say what the outcome will be, but because we have so many folks still at the table engaged in robust conversation, I think it is really encouraging.”
Kion Kashefi, managing director/agronomist for Anteris Agronomics of Modesto, a firm that provides farmers with compliance-related services for water regulations, traveled to Tulare to attend the water session.
“It was refreshing to have a member of the state water board at the meeting, who said, ‘We don’t know everything, but we are willing to at least listen so that we can work together,’” Kashefi said.
-Christine Souza is an assistant editor of Ag Alert. She may be contacted at csouza@cfbf.com.
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Hyde Park Institute recent events with Tahera Qutbuddin, Thomas Pavel, and Adam Romeiser
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The seminars offered in this series have a special focus on moral dimensions of human life and the role of good character in navigating these dimensions well. Participants in these seminars will think through these issues by engaging with philosophical, literary, and religious texts.
These extracurricular, faculty-led seminars meet 2-4 times a quarter for around 1 ½ hours each session. They are open to all University of Chicago students, though space is limited. Advanced reading will be assigned for each seminar, but no written work.
On January 27th, Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, led the last of three sessions using works of literature and film to highlight non-cardinal virtues. More specifically, Prof. Pavel drew on the works of Henry James, Simone Weil, Robert Bresson, and Heinrich von Kleist to elicit paradigm instances and failings of incumbency, trust, and attention. After short background remarks that framed the discussion of each virtue, Prof. Pavel guided participants through an analysis and discussion of the text and the virtue it emphasized. The general theme was how an attitude similar to love or care is important for virtue and how self-possession or self-centeredness tend to destroy it.
On February 14th, Tahera Qutbuddin, Professor of Arabic Literature, and scholar with the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life, gave the second of two sessions on the ethical writings of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and brother-in-law of Muhammad. Ali was a larger than life figure who was a learned philosopher, an aesthetic, caliph, and warrior and commander. The sessions consisted of presentations by Prof. Qutbuddin, a period of discussion and inquiry, and each ended with participants analyzing selected texts of Ali’s. Prof. Qutbuddin explained that for Ali faith and ethics went hand-in-hand as piety requires virtue and virtue requires piety.
Emerging Scholars Cohort in Bioethics
The Emerging Scholars Cohort in Bioethics is a yearlong certificate program in which a select group of students will interact with exemplar physician-scholars and consider what it means to be a good health care clinician, understood to involve more than mere technical competence. Members of the cohort will participate in a 2-day, intensive seminar and a series of lectures. Discussion of the seminar and lecture topics will continue over arranged dinners with the invited speakers. Throughout this program students will think through questions concerning the legitimate goals of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, and medical professionalism, among others.
On February 21st, Dr. Adam Romeiser delivered an address titled “Rest, Renunciation, and Reconciliation: Three R’s and Their Relation to Health and Freedom in the Age of Addiction,” to the Emerging Scholar Cohort in Bioethics. The talk focused the value these three habits have had for Dr. Romeiser’s practice. More specifically, Dr. Romeiser tied the habits to maintaining health—especially mental health and the avoidance of burnout—and the capacity or freedom to meet all of one’s obligations. The talk was followed by discussion of Dr. Romeiser’s work providing health care to the Lawndale community, and the efforts of Lawndale Christian Center to provide their patients the opportunity for lifestyle changes.
For more information about the Hyde Park Institute and their programs, visit https://hydeparkinstitute.org.
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Hyde Park Institute Sponsoring Two Spring Courses at the University of Chicago
Our partner the Hyde Park Institute is sponsoring two courses at the University of Chicago. Registration opens Monday, February 19.
Read more about the Hyde Park Institute here.
Anselm Mueller, Candace Vogler, and John Yoon are the faculty members of the Hyde Park Institute. Read more about them here.
PHIL 21504/31504. The Nature of Practical Reason. Practical reason can be distinguished from theoretical or speculative reason in many ways. Traditionally, some philosophers have distinguished the two by urging that speculative or theoretical reason aims at truth, whereas practical aims at good. More recently, some have urged that the two are best known by their fruits. The theoretical exercise of reason yields beliefs, or knowledge, or understanding whereas the practical exercise of reason yields action, or an intention to do something, or a decision about which action to choose or which policy to adopt. In this course, we will focus on practical reason, looking at dominant accounts of practical reason, discussions of the distinction between practical and theoretical reasons, accounts of rationality in general and with respect to practical reason, and related topics. Prerequisite: At least one course in philosophy. Anselm Mueller; Candace Vogler. DOWNLOAD PDF OF FULL DESCRIPTION HERE
CCTS 21005 / MED XXXXX . The Challenges of the Good Physician: Virtue Ethics, Clinical Wisdom, and Character Resilience in Medicine. This multi-disciplinary course draws insights from medicine, sociology, moral psychology, philosophy, ethics and theology to explore answers to the unique challenges that medicine faces in the context of late modernity: How does one become a “good physician” in an era of growing moral pluralism and health care complexity? John Yoon, MD and Michael Hawking, MD. DOWNLOAD PDF OF FULL DESCRIPTION HERE
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Photos and tweets from “Speaking of Character” with David Brooks, Anne Snyder, and Candace Vogler
Twenty-seven undergraduates attended the day-long workshop “Speaking of Character” with David Brooks, Anne Snyder, and Candace Vogler on May 27, 2017, which was sponsored by the Hyde Park Institute and co-sponsored by Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life.
The session was closed to the public but we captured a bit on Twitter and some photos.
Check more photos here on our Flickr page.
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CFA from UChicago Undergraduates: “Speaking of Character” with David Brooks, Anne Snyder, and Candace Vogler
Speaking of Character
May 27th, 11-3:30 (coffee and pastries at 10)
Open to University of Chicago undergraduates, by application.
Many different cultures treat developing good character as one of the central challenges in human life. Your character draws together strengths that help you to pursue and promote good reasonably, avoid bad responsibly, and participate in the collective movements toward common good that shape the social world in which you find yourself. Good character is, as one says, a proof against rewards–a good person does not, for instance, betray her friends or her firm for the sake of personal advantage. Good character is supposed to help people set their priorities, to think well about good courses of action they might pursue here and now, experience sorrow over genuine losses, joy over real triumphs, and more generally to live wisely and well. With background reading by two philosophers, we will gather to think and talk about character in a one-day seminar.
David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He is currently a commentator on “The PBS Newshour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He is the author of “Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.” In April of 2015 he came out with his fourth book, The Road to Character, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Mr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Anne Snyder is the Director of The Character Initiative at The Philanthropy Roundtable, a pilot program that seeks to help foundations and wealth creators around the country advance character formation through their giving. She is also a Fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, a Houston-based think tank that explores how cities can drive opportunity and social mobility for the bulk of their citizens. Prior to jumping to the Lonestar state she worked at The New York Times in Washington, as well as World Affairs Journal and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Georgetown University and a B.A. in philosophy and international relations from Wheaton College (IL). Anne has published in National Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Philanthropy Magazine, Orange County Register, Center for Opportunity Urbanism, The Institute for Family Studies, FaithStreet, Comment Magazine, Verily, Humane Pursuits, and FareForward.
Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life,” a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill’s Deliberative Landscape: An essay in moral psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particularly the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant’s ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism.
Who is invited: UChicago undergraduates, by application only. Visit hydeparkinstitute.org/speaking-of-character for more information and to apply.
Contact person: zloveless@hydeparkinstitute.org
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Things To Do In Barcelona / Get Creative In A Coworking Space
Get Creative In A Coworking Space
Barcelona is fast becoming one of the most creative cities in Europe – and maybe even the world – which means thousands of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers set up camp there every year. With the huge influx of creative-minds descending on the city, a number of co-working spaces have popped up to provide a place to work from, make friends, and feel inspired. Here are some of the best in the city.
Makers of Barcelona
Makers of Barcelona/Mob-Barcelona.com
With two locations (one in Sant Antoni and one near Arc de Triomf), MOB is Barcelona’s biggest coworking space. Both locations are hotspots for entrepreneurs, creative freelancers, and the city’s ever-growing community of digital nomads. MOB is a great place to work, but also home to a real community where people support and help each other and collaborate on all sorts of projects.
Felisa CoWork
Felisa Cowork/Felisacowork.com
Set in the centre of Barcelona in the upmarket Eixample barrio, Felisa CoWork is a charming space that emphasizes professionalism and developing skills. Workers are encouraged to boost their productivity through coaching, mentoring, and personalized plans, whilst organic fruits and massages show a dedication to health and wellbeing.
ATTA Coworking/Atta33.com
With a backdrop made for those with an eye for design, ATTA provides a collaborative space where workers can research and create amongst other like-minded people. The loft area is filled with desks and, elsewhere, there are workshop spaces and a number of digital manufacturing machines.
Espai Born
Espai Born/Espaiborn.com
Located in the trendy El Born barrio, Espai is a stylish affair with map-covered walls and vintage bookcases bursting with old scripture and modern-day masterpieces. It encourages professionals to exchange their skills, and is a hub for artists, photographers, graphic designers, and web developers.
Betahaus
Betahaus/Betahaus.es
The largest co-working space in the city sprawls out over six elegantly designed floors. More than 150 people use the space, where community is nurtured through workshops, open-plan studio spaces, a rustic lounge area, and two terraces, including a panoramic rooftop terrace that boasts stunning views of the city. What’s more, it’s open 24 hours a day, so it’s perfect for creatives who like to burn the midnight oil.
CREC Coworking/Crec.cc
Found in the up-and-coming Poble Sec area, Crec is a spacious co-working hotspot located in a converted warehouse. As well as desk spaces and meeting rooms, there is a therapy room and a photography studio that can be hired out by anyone. Regular courses and monthly activities ensure that workers integrate with like-minded people.
Ricardo Leal/Pipoca.es
Tucked in the heart of the Gothic Quarter, Pipoca feels like a home away from home thanks to the cosy décor and fun additions, like the ping pong table, the popcorn maker, and the hammocks for lounging around in or holding an informal meeting on.
¡Hola! We’re Annebeth, Carola and Carlijn. We live and work in Barcelona as journalists and tour guides, and we want to share the best this wonderful city has to offer.
Made with ♥ in Barcelona
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Aside from writing, Barbara has renovated four houses, enjoyed Argentine tango, fallen in love with tai chi, helped can the West’s finest plum jam, adored conifers, and planted thousands of trees and shrubs for others. Barbara is also an avid environmentalist. She now writes and designs landscapes in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Barbara took some time to answer questions about herself, her book, and her love for the West.
Q: What personal events or people inspired you to write Tributary?
A: I joined the Mormon church when I was ten. It was the religion of my ancestors, and when my parents retired from the military and moved to Utah, my mother said, “There’s a church I’d like you to look into.” That statement resulted in conversion, nine years of faithful adherence, and taking on the mantle of my ancestors. I left the church at age 18.
Growing up Mormon, I wondered whatever happened to the ones who got away? In such a devout, closed community, folks who strayed from the path tended to fall off the rim of history. I could see the necessity for this—the need to close ranks and only tell the devout version of history, to keep the faithful faithful—but I still felt deep curiosity about what did indeed happen to those who dared leave the fold. That gap, that gulf, that abyss triggered the need to write a novel.
Q: Did you have any contemporary issues in mind while writing this historical novel?
A: Women finding their own way through life. The conditioning to be a man’s helpmate is very strong in our culture. Or it was when I grew up. Clair’s story shows one woman’s struggle to move past societal expectations. Not that motherhood can’t be a genuine calling. It’s just that Clair’s path is a different path than the one outlined for her. The truer each person lives, the better for this planet. I find contemporary obsessions with appearance and ownership as tragic and limiting as the religious conformity demanded of Clair in the 1870s.
Q: Would you share some experiences about how you came to write this book—any interesting experiences on researching it, writing it, getting it published?
A: Well, Tributary took twenty years to complete. For six of those years, it sat in a closet forgotten.
I wrote and researched Tributary for twelve long years, and no one was interested in publishing it. I then wrote a contemporary novel, Guest House, which did find a publisher. Just as I was choosing a cover design for Guest House, my college sweetheart found me on Facebook. Having spent the thirty years since he’d seen me as a graphic designer, he offered a lovely heart red cover design. I cried when I saw that cover, a big open-hearted valentine of a farm house with a lichen-covered apple tree, and I said YES. I said yes to him, too.
We dated long-distance for a year and a half, with monthly in-person visits. At the end of a hike one Saturday, he asked me about my earlier novel. I said, “Oh, that’s lost in a closet somewhere.” He said, “Tell me about it.” We stood in the parking lot for half an hour as I spun the beginning of the Tributary tale. He said he’d love to read it. The history was fascinating. Was that really part of America’s past?
His interest, coming just after two dear women friends had also expressed interest in reading the manuscript, resurrected the entire project. The stars aligned in so many ways: I had the life experience needed to draw out the spiritual message of the last hundred pages, Torrey House Press editor Kirsten Allen knew exactly how to draw Clair forward into the story, and national interest in Mormonism had awakened, at last. The cover of Tributary—also designed by my beloved.
This book is not the solitary work of one writer. It is the Shoshones speaking, and the Mormon settlers listening, historians giving us their remarkable gifts, and the birds and streams and sunsets of Utah saying, “It’s all here, it is all one.”
Q: How does your book express the Torrey House Press mission?
A: My main character, Clair Martin, sees clearly that human accomplishments pale next to the grandeur and bounty of the Wasatch Mountains. Her true ties are with the land, not with her associates whose ambition is to claim and tame the desert. Clair’s ultimate freedom from sorrow and societal constraint comes in nature. She experiences vast connectedness at the City of Rocks in a vision of the untorn fabric of consciousness. Clair Martin, a realist, herein launches the “real magicalism” school of literature. Magic is real. Nature dishes it up continuously. If we are starving (for meaning and connection), it ain’t nature’s fault.
Q: How does the West shape your characters?
A: Mormons were admirably tough and determined. “Men to match our mountains,” as the saying goes. Of course, to me, Mormon women pioneers’ strength almost outdid the men’s. Together, they all wrenched joy and faith and a livelihood out of a salty dusty desert valley. Unfortunately, they displaced the Shoshone and Goshute (and so many other tribes) to do so. Because resources were sparse, a very Western reality, white settlers chose to dominate and subdue the land. Native people who had lived with the land, following the currents of harvest over a thousand mile annual route, left a very light footprint. Their bounty relied on balance and moving with the seasons. Which Western traits do we remember and admire and emulate? The stubborn invasion tactics of the Eastern settlers! The so-called “rugged individualism” of the West and the “rugged communalism” of Mormon pioneers.
Clair Martin literally draws daily sustenance from the Western landscape she inhabits. That’s why she relates so naturally to Kashess, Tierre’s Shoshone wife. When sheep and guns and grazing disputes complicate her livelihood at the ranch, she dumps them for a simpler and more sustainable way.
Q: Are any characters based on real people?
A: Yes. My Swedish, Danish, English and Scottish ancestors settled Brigham City, Utah. To me, Brigham is the geographical center of the universe. In part, I wrote this novel to claim my stake in that settlement. To work out my love for that place. I also have a really deep appreciation for my ancestors, whose stories show great humanity, insight and courage. I don’t believe any of them were polygamists . . . that takes courage, to be non-polygamists in a highly-polygamous society. I may be mistaken, but I don’t recall reading of any polygamous households.
Clair and her friend Florrie are my two grandmothers. Harlan’s past is based on one of my ancestors who converted the first Mormons in Sweden. Daniel Dees and his wife Evelyn are based on Scottish ancestors who were professional weavers and calico printers. They made their living weaving in Brigham City. This explains my delight in fabrics. It’s a genetic predisposition!
I had a mentor similar to Audwin, Clair’s friend in New Orleans. He was British, poor, artistic, an atheist and a very bright spirit, who lived and taught art to children at Baruch Place, New York City’s poorest tenement/housing project. He opened my eyes to the great big sloppy happy human family. I met him right after I graduated from high school. Like Clair, I was ready for mentoring.
I taught a young black boy named Tierre, a first grader with a magnanimous smile. He often cried, “That ain’t fair!” when he did not get his way. He had a smashing strong spirit and yet, too, a somewhat broken heart. His father was not in the family picture. His mother was a single mom, struggling to make ends meet. Tierre came to our upper-class independent school and claimed a permanent place in my psyche.
Ada seems like a candidate for a composite of all the strong women I’ve known, but really she just popped out her very own self. She just started talking. The first inkling of this novel, which came in a dream, was “The Ballad of Clair and Ada.”
Q: Your protagonist, Clair Martin, leaves Utah as a very young woman to learn more about her past. Why did you choose New Orleans as the place for Clair to search for her roots?
A: I taught grade school with a Southern woman, whose fair complexion and flashing red hair and high spirits and sheer daintiness made me think—what a mother. What would it be to have a mother like that? She became Clair’s absent mother in my heart. Perhaps because the loss of such a profoundly feminine influence seemed a perfect metaphor for the Saints’ hard dry experiment in the desert. The Mormon pioneers did not land in the loving arms of a verdant valley. They orphaned themselves into hardship in the Utah Territory. For them, the answer was to bond together in community. For Clair, it was to seek her own truth.
Also, I moved to coastal Mississippi while writing a draft of this novel. I had access to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, so I soaked up all the history I could and in time, fell in love with the locale. Love is a powerful part of writing any novel. The settings have to be more than intellectually important to you—they need to resonate inside of your body.
And lastly, nothing could be farther from the land Clair loved—austere arid Utah—than the busy worldly feverish green South. It seemed a perfect counterpoint, a falling off place. Clair had to be dunked in the Deep South in order to return to Utah. That is the “Gulf” she enters, in order to finally bridge the gulf “designed by God.”
Q: Do you have polygamists in your family tree? If so, what family stories about it have intrigued you? Did any of your relatives reject polygamy?
A: I wish I knew more, here. I know my ancestors were devout, but I have no stories of polygamous households. I do have one ancestor, the basis for Harlan, who later in life rejected Mormonism and the overpowering rule of the Prophet to form his own religion, based on Christ’s teachings of love. He had a small following and was allowed to preach and have his own spiritual flock. His family, to their credit, did not toss him out on his ear. At least, I’ve read how lovingly they cared for him in his advanced old age. I relied on their record keeping and story keeping to learn about him.
In the same vein, one of my great grandmothers loved studying world religions, and she invited many speakers to Salt Lake City, including a Hindu holy man. She read the Bhagavad Ghita eight times. So independence of thought and belief runs in my family.
Q: What did you learn from your research into the American Indian tribes mentioned in Tributary?
A: Profound respect. Their thousand mile annual round just makes me envious. The Northwestern Shoshone followed a seasonal route from Brigham City, Utah to the Camas Prairie in central Idaho to the City of Rocks in Southern Idaho to the hot springs in Honeyville, Utah and then off to Montana to winter there. They harvested the riches at each location, with meet-ups to celebrate with larger groups of Shoshone. It was an annual route of about a thousand miles. They harvested grains and fish, camas root, pinon nuts, and hunted large game in Montana. ‘Let’s follow the riches of each season and love every place we go.’ I don’t think that is too far from the reality of it. There were no doubt years of struggle and lack, but to have such a vast homeland and to know and love all of the plants and animals and creeks and weather patterns. That makes for a very rich tribal life, a rich personal life, too. Better than zipping around in an SUV taking in almost nothing.
I had not heard of the Bear River Massacre until I researched Tributary. I was struck by the patterns of history that clobbered many tribes. In Colorado, the stories match those from Utah. The treaty already signed, the agreement for peace already reached, and then a bored angry troop of white soldiers rides out to ambush a sleeping community of Indians in an isolated valley, far from white settlements, and slaughter them without mercy. Just to put an exclamation point on white domination.
I believe that the natural world offers continuous messages/wisdom/advice for right living. Shoshones and Bannocks believe that, too.
Q: Who were your women role models, literary and otherwise, and how did they shape you as a person and a writer?
A: Authors and books I loved as a child: Margeurite Henry’s King of the Wind, Anne H. White’s Junket, Lenora K. Madsen’s Green-Eyed Phantoms. Mrs. Madsen was my fifth grade teacher. She read her own book aloud to us. She had a magnificent heart, and I had an author right in front of me holding twenty-five kids spellbound.
Barbara Wassom—petite, educated high school speech teacher who dared also to teach us modern dance, and hold recitals in the high school auditorium. Girls wearing flesh-tight leotards in Bountiful, Utah in 1973?! She was fired.
Willa Cather—I read My Antonia in my late twenties. It became my favorite novel for that decade. Cather loves women with a sensibility untethered by traditional views. She also vibrates Nebraska. I love her mind. Reading Cather is like seeing my inner self reflected in a mirror. Not that I could or would ever write like her, but I live and perceive life and its beauty in a similar disinterested passionate way.
George Eliot—I read Middlemarch in my late thirties. She evoked an entire village, displayed an entire epoch. A small village and a quiet epoch, but that made me love her all the more. I simply delight in her values and her sensibility. She makes me glad to be alive and proud to be human.
Molly Gloss—I read Wild Life in my forties. This is a novelist set on fire. A novelist who fears no deconstruction, but takes it up like a quirt to get her horse to run through the fiction flames. I have so much admiration for this blending of all of Gloss’ strengths and interests, with a meta-fiction ending that kicks meta-fiction off the map. Gloss has a beautiful heart.
Spending time with fine women broadens the scope of what a woman believes she can be.
Q: How has the West shaped you?
A: That may be obvious from my other answers. It is my body. I would not be surprised if I was Shoshone before being born as me. I simply belong to this northern Utah landscape.
Q: Which books are you reading now?
A: I am mid-way through The Scholar of Moab, a very zesty Torrey House Press novel. I’ve also begun Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. This novel is very long and very lush and a crash course in great storytelling. I’m smitten. I just finished Jana Richman’s Riding in the Shadows of Saints, her memoir about riding the Mormon Trail on a big shiny motorcycle all alone. I loved it.
Q: What do you hope readers will receive or learn from reading your book?
A: A broader view of Utah settlement. A willingness to listen to the land. Acceptance of their ancestors. Interest in healing the rift between European and Native American worldviews.
4 Responses to A Conversation with Barbara K. Richardson
Sue Ith says:
I was excited to read about your reference to Mrs. Madsen. She was also my 5th grade teacher. She is someone I have always admired.
Cindy Evans says:
Barbara and Sue. You both have made my day,Week,Year!! I love the green-eyed phantom book! I read it several times while I was growing up. I had a copy that I cherished. Years later, In the cover of my very read book Mrs Madsen signed it to my 2 young Sons. Several months later I was devastated when it was stolen from me. I wanted all my Children to grow up knowing the likes of Sicily slats & his Friends just like I did. I have gone to several websites, stores that carry old books and still have not found one. I will not give up! I always wanted to be in Mrs Madsen’s 5th grade class. I begged my Mom to take me to Bountiful every morning so I could be in her class. My Mother Lenora k Madsen Tapp would laugh and say ” I will take you to Grandma Madsen’s house this weekend”. The wait seemed like forever. When we finally got there’ I remember snuggling close to Grandma Madsen as she would tell me for the hundredth time the antics of Sicily slats And the Green-phantoms. Thank you both for bringing up such beautiful memories! May the good Lord bless you and your Families!
Barbara Richardson says:
We were so lucky to have her! Such a bright spirit. She set a great example for us all.
We were so lucky to have her. She had such a bright spirit. And set a great example for so many of us.
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‘Knee Deep’ is an enthralling episodic noir that plays like a theater production
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Narrative games have become quite popular in recent years. Gamers actually enjoying an exciting and immersive story isn’t exactly news to developers. Most narratives take this concept to the next level, enveloping subtle gameplay elements with enchanting story arcs and powerful character interactions. These types of releases still manage to complete the checklist for what constitutes a “game,” but usually end up playing out like a theatrical production or an immersive movie. Telltale Games has perfected this particular formula, bringing us great narrative game versions of The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Borderlands, and even Minecraft. Indie developer Prologue Games is hoping to follow in their footsteps with a powerful new narrative titled Knee Deep. This theatrical film noir packs a powerful parable punch, while still involving you directly in how the story unfolds.
Cypress Knee is a backwater Florida town, shrouded in mystery and intrigue. You’ll take control of three different characters, each with a unique past and a questionable present. Blogger Romana Teague, local reporter Jack Beliet, and private investigator K.C. Gaddis find themselves thrown amidst controversy and ulterior motives when a broken-down actor hangs himself on location. The events that follow unravel an engaging tale about a curious town and its eccentric inhabitants. The people of Cypress Knee are rather unique, and all of the character interactions crafted by the developers are very entertaining. As the player, you’ll get an opportunity to directly influence how each main character reacts and interacts with the townspeople. The dialogue decisions you make will decide whether or not a deeper conversation is unlocked, or if certain NPCs become agitated or evasive. You’ll need to approach things with a very analytical mind if you want to uncover the whole truth surrounding this mystery. There are subtle breaks in the action, and simple mechanics that help to make Knee Deep more of a gaming experience. Puzzles will present themselves at key times, forcing you to take a moment to piece together certain items like QR codes, fingerprints, and past conversational items.
Knee Deep’s visuals are perhaps the most entertaining and unique thing about the release. The title features a lot of eye candy, boasting some very nice graphics that are on par with modern 3D releases. What makes it such a stellar affair is the setup in which each scene is presented. The entire thing moves and breathes like a theater act. Set pieces are seen shifting behind subtle shadows. Clever prop designs help to craft settings and create ambiance for the “actors” to spin their craft. It’s smart, and it works well with the main theme that an actor spurred the mystery itself. Best of all, it offers us a unique way in which to experience a narrative release. This helps to set Knee Deep apart from all of the other story-driven releases we have seen in past years. This is a game that drags you in with its visual beauty, and then keeps you on the edge of your seat with an enthralling storyline.
Knee Deep was released episodically in three parts. All three episodes, featuring the full storyline, are available right now via Steam. The $20 price tag is rather fair considering you’re getting the full package. You can also purchase the release directly from the dedicated website. If you’re interested in getting more information regarding Knee Deep, be sure to check out Prologue Games’ official website. You can also follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
Tags: indie, Knee Deep, Prologue Games, Story
Written by Russ Boswell
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Jeff Porten 17 January 2019 3 comments
CES 2019: Health, Home, and Other Products at the Sands
Word leaked the day after CES about another #MeToo moment from the tech industry, and one that’s salacious enough that it’ll probably be more than a one-day story. There are a number of booths here promoting, shall we say, toys for an adult audience (we’re being vague in part to avoid triggering overzealous spam filters). This happens every year, and it’s no big deal—the products only catch my attention if they’re truly ridiculous (which is frequently), and it’s unlikely any such items would ever see publication in TidBITS. But this year, one of these products won a CES Robotics Innovation award during the judging in September 2018.
But the Consumer Technology Association rescinded the award a month later, although the story didn’t break widely until after the show closed. Apparently, the CTA decided that it’s okay to make millions of dollars renting show space to makers of adult products—and until a decade or so ago, to have CES also be the biggest show of the year for the pornography industry—but no way could any of these products win an award.
Worse, this company wasn’t even allowed to exhibit at CES 2019, raising the point that this gadget is only for women, and many people think that a similar product aimed at men would have passed muster. I’ve seen such products at CES before, and one exhibited at ShowStoppers—which is not affiliated with CTA, but certainly is reported as CES news. It’s doubly a problem because the firm in question is headed by a woman and has a mostly female staff of engineers. At the very least, it’s a tone-deaf move on the part of CTA. The good news is, if the firm has a solid PR staff, they can say “we won a CES Robotics Innovation award for a month,” and have it be just as good for their marketing.
AerBetic Blood Sugar Monitor
I’ve seen several products here to help diabetics monitor their blood sugar, but my award for most innovative goes to AerBetic. Instead of a needle, patch, or implanted device, you wear the AerBetic monitor as a bracelet, pendant, or clip. It detects one part per billion of certain gases indicative of hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes, which means it can determine whether blood sugar is low or high simply from your breath—and no need to breathe on the device. Did you know you walk around in a cloud of your own exhalations? The intent is to embed the sensor in things that children or seniors, who are often resistant to other devices, would be willing to wear regularly. Currently in clinical trials, AerBetic expects a release date in 2020 with pricing in the vicinity of $500. The company is currently seeking beta testers.
AfterShokz Bone Conduction Headset Sunglasses
Bone conduction headsets don’t cover your ears, but instead play audio by vibrating your skull at the right frequencies. Once you get past the weirdness of that, they’re great for some purposes as they don’t obstruct ambient noise around you. But because your ears are open, these headsets make you look like an oddball in public—”why are you wearing that bulky headband?” AfterShokz plans to solve this issue later this year with the OptiShoks sunglasses, which look perfectly normal and conduct audio through the temples. But I have reservations about how good they’ll sound—because it competes with ambient noise, the quality of bone conduction audio is never as good as even that from cheap earbuds, and these will have a lot less contact with your head than other models. (It’s impossible to judge any bone conduction headsets on the show floor; the ambient noise is way too loud.) No word on whether the OptiShoks can be ordered with prescription lenses, but based on the form factor, I’m guessing not. They’ll be available for pre-order on Indiegogo in February 2019 for $99, with retail pricing at $179.
Danby Parcel Guard Smart Mailbox
A buddy of mine got a notification two weeks ago that a delivery guy, misunderstanding the words “signature required,” had left a box containing three iPhones on his front porch. Cue his abandoning work to drive home at top speed. If you’ve had (or fear) the same problem, consider the Parcel Guard (which is easier than building a glitter bomb). It’s a beefy-looking smart mailbox connected to Wi-Fi that sits outside your house—somewhere near an AC outlet because it requires power. It uses a motion sensor and camera to alert you when someone approaches. Leave its empty compartments unlocked, and a weight sensor will tell you if something is dropped off. Or lock the compartments, and use an iPhone app to open one for your friendly postman to use. A loud alarm sounds if someone tries to tamper with the box (and an optional premium service will record the video for the authorities). The Parcel Guard is made of weatherproof industrial-grade plastic, has a 3-hour battery backup in case of power outage, and can be bolted to the ground. It will retail for $399 but has no release date announced. It’ll handle parcels up to 15 x 10 x 8 inches (38 x 25 x 20 cm). The Indiegogo campaign has not started, but signing up for the company’s mailing list gets you a $50 discount.
Energrid Battery for the Visually Impaired
Sometimes an innovation seems simple, but no one else has done it. The Energrid VS150X Power Bank is a $75 battery with 15,000 mAh capacity and a few tricks up its sleeve for the blind or the visually impaired. Press the button to see the usual LED lights telling you how much charge is left—but it also vibrates and optionally plays a sound the same number of times. The two USB-A jacks are reversible, so you can plug in USB-A cables without looking at the jack. Available now.
Logitech Microphone, Keyboard, and Crayon
Logitech is a stalwart for interesting peripherals, and the company has introduced several such products since the last CES. For podcasters, video producers, or those who want high-quality audio on their conference calls, the Blue Yeti Nano provides an affordable USB microphone at $99 from a respected brand (Logitech purchased Blue last year). The Logitech Crayon for iPad is no secret, having been announced by Apple last year (see “Apple Releases Sixth-Generation 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil Support,” 27 March 2018), but at $69 provides a cheaper alternative to the Apple Pencil, and as of September it’s no longer restricted to the educational market. The $69.99 K600 TV Keyboard offers an interesting twist: in addition to working as a Bluetooth Mac or iPhone keyboard, it also talks to selected TVs and has a built-in trackpad for all-in-your-lap control. All these products are available now.
Other World Computing: Cable Stabilizer and TB3 Drives
Other World Computing—known to many folks as OWC or via their macsales.com domain—is also reliable for creative ideas, but a product made partly of foam rubber might be a first. The ClingOn—not the one from Star Trek—is a stub that inserts into a USB-C port and provides a hard plastic sheath into which you plug the cable. It prevents a wiggle or pull that might otherwise disconnect the cable. It’s much cheaper than a bat’leth at $7.99 and available now. Also notable is the company’s Elite Pro mini line of storage, which to my knowledge are the first storage devices that don’t inflict a huge markup for Thunderbolt 3 support: hard drives start at $124.99 and SSDs at $169.99. They’re available now, but don’t be fooled by the word “mini,” as these drives are portable but won’t fit in a pocket (see the photo below). Also on display was the Thunderbolt 3 Dock 🎁 that I have plans to review. It costs $299.99 and has fourteen ports that I won’t list here, but I think it connects to anything more recent than a SCSI drive.
Smartwatches: Matrix, MyKronoz, Withings
Smartwatches have been a CES hobby of mine for years, long before the release of the Apple Watch (see “Four Smartwatches Reviewed: Cookoo, Martian, MetaWatch, i’m Watch,” 31 July 2014). Now that Apple has come out with one that’s generally considered best-in-class, my criterion for interest is “what can this watch do better?”
Matrix PowerWatch 2
The Matrix PowerWatch 2 has an obvious such feature: you’ll never have to charge it. It runs entirely off of your body heat and solar cells. This 47mm watch doesn’t allow custom apps but has a range of functions built in: GPS, heart rate monitoring, notifications, and integration with HealthKit for exercise measurement. It’s “water resistant to 200 meters,” which seems to me to be a contradiction—at that depth, either it’s waterproof or it’s not. For the moment, pre-orders are cheaper than an Apple Watch at $249, but the company intends a retail price of $499—which seems crazy to me. Ships in June 2019.
MyKronoz ZeTime2
The MyKronoz ZeTime2 🎁 makes the cut based on pricing and the hybridization of a smart display and an analog watch. The watch is Swiss-designed—naturally, for a company based in Switzerland—comes in 44mm and 39mm varieties, and can last 3 days on a charge or 30 days as an analog watch with the screen turned off. It’s waterproof to 30 meters. The watch runs a proprietary operating system but is iPhone-compatible. It includes a microphone for voice commands, a heart rate monitor, and NFC for payments (although my materials don’t explicitly mention Apple Pay compatibility, which they should if it works). It’s coming in June 2019 for $199.90. Note that at the moment, the company’s Web site still prominently features last year’s ZeTime model, not the new one.
Withings aims to compete with the Apple Watch Series 4 on cardiac measurement with the Move ECG. It’s a medical-grade electrocardiogram currently under review for FDA clearance. This data, alongside the usual suite of activity monitoring, can be viewed on your phone and sent to your doctor. The Move’s display isn’t smart and you won’t get any information there except the time and your step count. Available in white or black with various color bands, it’s slated to cost $129.95 in Q2 2019.
Lexon Bluetooth Speaker (and Other Products)
I am normally very much a function over form kind of guy—if it does something cool, I don’t care if it’s ugly or makes me look like a Martian. But my head was uncharacteristically turned by the Lexon Design Bluetooth speakers, whose designers are good enough to be snapped up by Jony Ive someday. Apparently, the Museum of Modern Art agrees—Lexon products are in its store. The MINO series 🎁 is a baby Bluetooth speaker that comes in multiple colors and flavors including a version with dual speakers that provides stereo sound, and another that floats. Sound from a single MINO is a tad louder and slightly less distorted than my internal MacBook Pro speakers. The MINO has an internal mic for speakerphone calls. The MINO and Twin MINO cost $29.90 and $49.90, available in Q1 2019; the MINO X is $39.90 and will be available in Q2. Also of note: the Hellonite lamp that attaches to a window with a base that doubles as a solar charger (available Q1 for $39.90), and the Oblio vase (available Q2 for $79.90) that serves as a Qi charging station and UV sanitizer for your iPhone. Because as we all know, unsanitary phones can wipe out civilization.
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Comments About CES 2019: Health, Home, and Other Products at the Sands
Michael Curtis
I have to disagree about bone conducting headphones. I have used Trakz Titanium headphones for years. They’re fantastic. Adam and Tonya tried them when we met during their London trip.
Of course they don’t cut out ambient noise, but they sound more than acceptable. I wear mine at the gym and on my bike. I held off for a long time, but took the plunge and was very pleased I did.
Jeff Porten
A late addendum to my story: a few weeks ago I ran across some information indicating that the OWC Elite mini was not a Thunderbolt drive, and confirmed with their press people that it was. But now I’m in the market for one, and looking at the sales page, it tells me it’s “Thunderbolt 3 compatible” but the USB-C jack is USB 3.1 and the max speed is 540 MB/s.
I’m feeling like I got the runaround, and I am pretty annoyed.
Lori DiCarlo got her CES Innovation Award back, after the CTA acknowledges it didn’t handle the situation properly.
The Verge – 8 May 19
Sex toy creator finally gets the CES award she was denied
Changes to sex toy policies are coming, but they aren’t being detailed now.
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Members Exchange: Twitter - Part 3, May 20th
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Twitter - Part 3
Susan Bearden, Director of Information Technology, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy,
Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, TLT Group and others
Susan Beardon returns! this time to help us explore how to utilize Twitter (searching for hashtags, setting up a profile, using it for the book discussions, etc.)
Susan will also introduce us to the various features of an app she developed called TweechMe. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows mobile. Susan will walk us through the various features of the app so if you download the app before the session you can follow along. She developed the app to teach educators how to leverage twitter to create and enhance their PLN. Learn more about the app here.
Interesting Resource: How to Turn a One-Hour Twitter Chat into One-Week’s worth of Tweets!
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Mathis Cabiallavetta was on the board of directors of Philip Morris International between 2008 and May 2014.[1]
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MONROE HEEDS THE CALL OF THE WILD!
Following their successful UK tour and the release of the acclaimed new album One Man Gang, it’s been announced that MICHAEL MONROE and his band will headline the Saturday night at next year’s Call Of The Wild Festival.
The former HANOI ROCKS legend joins Friday night headliners MASSIVE WAGONS and Sunday night bill-toppers, ex-MOTÖRHEAD man PHIL CAMPBELL & THE BASTARD SONS at the festival, which returns to the Lincolnshire Showground at Grange de Lings near Lincoln over the weekend of 29-31 May for the second year running.
“Life doesn’t get much better than when you confirm Michael Monroe to headline the Festival you’ve spent a life dreaming about building,” says Festival Director Raz White. “I became a huge Hanoi Rocks fan back when I was 14 and started to cross over from punk to rock bands. The image, energy and songs just resonated with me. In my humble opinion, easily the greatest frontman to strut the stage. So, this is a huge honour for me and the whole team. We can guarantee this show will be absolutely spectacular!”
“Can’t wait to see you all at Call Of The Wild and play this great, upcoming festival,” says Michael.
Other bands appearing on the festival’s three stages include WARRIOR SOUL, THE THROBS, GLEN MATLOCK, LAWNMOWER DETH, BLACK RAIN, CRUEL INTENTIONS, DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY, SKARLETT RIOT, NEW DEVICE, MIDNIGHT CITY, EVERY MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE, KICKIN’ VALENTINA, EMPYRE, THE SWEET THINGS, JANUS STARK, CRASHED OUT, MOTOCHRIST and loads more…
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Günter Schmitt - President of the International Corrosion Council (ICC) and Board Member of the World Corrosion Organization (WCO)
Guenter Schmitt graduated from the Cologne University and Aachen University of Technology in Germany with a Diploma and Ph.D. in Chemistry, a Habilitation + venia legendi in "Chemical Engineering/Technical Chemistry" at the Aachen University of Technology. Assistant Professor in the Institute of Technical Chemistry and Petroleum Chemistry (1978). From 1883 to 1985 full Professor for Technical Chemistry at Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. 1986 to 2007 Professor for Corrosion Protection Engineering and Head of the Laboratory for Corrosion Protection at the Iserlohn University of Applied Sciences, Iserlohn, Germany. Additionally, since 2005 CEO and main shareholder of the Institute for Maintenance and Corrosion Protection Technologies (IFINKOR) n.p.Ltd., Iserlohn, Germany.
Guenter Schmitt is actively involved in corrosion technology worldwide as shown below:
Co-Founder, Past President (1995-2004) and Honorary Member (2006) of the German Society for Corrosion Protection (GfKORR); Scientific Chairman of EUROCOR'99; Member of major German associations in the field of Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Corrosion (AGEF, DECHEMA, DGMK, DGO, GDCh, GfKORR, VDI, fkks); Member of international organizations such as ISE, ECS and NACE International (NACE Fellow 2005); Vice Chairman of the International Corrosion Council (2015-2017); Chairman of the International Corrosion Council 2018-2020;
Board Member of the World Corrosion Organization (WCO) since 2018.
Global Needs for Knowledge Dissemination, Research and Development in Materials Deterioration and Corrosion Control
Corrosion has a huge economic and environmental impact on virtually all facets of the world’s infrastructure, from highways, bridges, and buildings to oil and gas, chemical processing, and water and wastewater systems. In addition to causing severe damage and threats to public safety, corrosion disrupts operations and requires extensive repair and replacement of failed assets. The annual cost of corrosion worldwide is estimated to exceed $US 2.2 trillion, which translates to 3 to 4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of industrialized countries. And about 30% of this sum, i.e. $US 660 billion, could be saved by only applying the present day knowledge.
Highly experienced corrosion professionals are prepared to effectively control the effects of corrosion by using innovative and long-proven technologies when given the proper resources. However, many decision-makers in industry and government do not understand the consequences or extent of corrosion and how critical it is to control it. They also do not appreciate the need for ongoing research and development (R&D) to further reduce the effects of corrosion on people, assets, and the environment.
To raise the awareness about corrosion and corrosion protection around the world and what individuals can do to control it, the World Corrosion Organization (WCO), a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the United Nations (UN) in New York, was founded. With its 35 corrosion associations and societies worldwide, including the International Corrosion Council (ICC), the WCO represents more than 300,000 corrosion scientists, engineers, and technicians from all over the world. In its strategy WCO created an internationally recognized Corrosion Awareness Day, the 24th April.
This paper demonstrates the need to educate the public on the importance of corrosion control, including R&D efforts into such areas as materials development and selection, innovative surface protection systems, and condition-based monitoring using sensors and remote data collection methods. Global standards are also needed to ensure compliance with best practices and share knowledge on effective corrosion control methodologies throughout the world.
Online Corrosion Monitoring in Lab and Field with a New Electrochemical Measuring Tool
The CoulCount-method implemented as a software in a new stand-alone hand-held potentiostat/galvanostat with high data storing capacity represents a new versatile, user-friendly electrochemical tool for online corrosion measurements and monitoring not only in the lab but also directly in the field. The CoulCount-method developed in the presenters institute evaluates electrochemical noise (ECN) signals with an algorithm completely different from traditional ECN analysis. The CoulCount-method translates electrochemical current noise, measured between two metal electrodes in a corrosive environment, directly into corrosiveness levels which after calibration can be directly correlated to corrosion rates. The electrodes are made from the materials to be investigated. Both electrodes can be similar or dissimilar, depending on the corrosion system to be investigated. This makes the CoulCount-method so unique and - together with the hand-held measuring device - opens a huge field of applications for corrosion measurements, testing and real-time corrosion monitoring.
As an example, this paper reports on the application of this method to assess the corrosiveness of soils dfor steel pipelines buried without cathodic protection. Noise current densities are calibrated with corrosion rates obtained from mass loss measurements at four different low alloy steels after exposure in twelve different soils. It is shown that the corrosion performance of low alloy steels in contact with soils can be evaluated within measuring times of 10 to 20 minutes. LPR measurements yielded significantly less reliable information on the corrosion system steel/soil. In combination with the newly developed hand-held potentiostat/ galvanostat with rechargeable battery, ECN measurements with CoulCount-current noise diagnosis can now easily be performed in the field. An experimental setup with a special soil sampling device has been developed which allows CoulCount- measurements directly in a pipeline trench.
This method is recommended in the recently issued DVGW worksheet GW19 (DVGW = German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water). This worksheet builds the basis for rehabilitation planning of supply networks for gas and water distribution in Germany. Efficient planning needs a meaningful failure statistics and a status record on the integrity of the supply network, in order to identify critical parts of the network. For non-cathodically protected pipelines the important criterion for critical parts is the corrosiveness of the soil in which the pipelines are buried. A condition based maintenance could be based a land registry of soil corrosiveness which, however, is no existing. The DVGW worksheet GW19 encourages the use of the CoulCount method as an inexpensive and fast way to evaluate soil corrosiveness and, thus, start to establish a land registry for soil corrosiveness.
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Attempts yet again to block Amarnath Yatra
PRESS STATEMENT OF VISHVA HINDU PARISHAD INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY GENERAL DR. PRAVIN BHAI TOGADIYA
The Amarnath Yatra, as every year, would initiate only on Jyeshth
Shukla Purnima, June 15
May 25, 2011,New Delhi – Once again having decided to bar the Amarnath Yatra under signals from the Pakistani separatists ofKashmir, backer of the separatists Mr. Mufti Mohammad Saeed and the central government submissive to the dictates of the separatists, the Jammu & Kashmir Governor Sri Narinder Nath Vohra has humiliated the Dharmic-patriotic sentiments of the Hindus of the country.
For the last several years the Amarnath Yatra has been conducted for two months at a stretch starting from the full-moon day of the bright fortnight of the month of Jyeshtha to the full-moon day of the month of Shraavan. The ice Shivalingam (sign of Shiva – the auspicious one) attains its utmost dimensions on the day of Jyestha Purnima, and after this it gradually starts melting and by Shraavani Purnima it gets melted considerably. On the day of Jyestha Purnima, the macro size ice Shivalingam is there for the devotees to have its Darshan.
The Yatra continues for two months from Jyestha Purnima to Shravani Purnima that attracts about 400,000 pilgrims to Jammu & Kashmir from all over the country and abroad. They gain in spiritual merits by the Darshan, internalize the divine blessings and return with high spirits. The Yatra is very much a spirituo-patriotic pilgrimage and mountain adventure. It strengthens national unity and territorial integrity and there is ample opportunity for much economic activity and income generation for the local populace and the state of Jammu & Kashmir.
For some years now the Pakistani separatists ofKashmirhave been making attempts so that this spirituo-nationalist Yatra discontinues for all times to come for obvious reasons. The terrorists had threatened to jeopardize the Yatra in 1995 and this year also they have issued threats. Once they had even mounted an attack on the Yatra. By mounting a violent movement last year, the separatists of Kashmir had forced the state government to take back the midway Yatra camp land that hosted the pilgrims which the people of Jammu got back for the pilgrims by long-drawn counter movement. Now again under motions from separatists, their supporter Mufti Mohammad Saeed and the central government the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir has opposed the commencement of the Yatra on Jyestha Shukla Purnima, i.e., falling on June 15, 2011 this year, and declared its commencement from June 29, 2011. Paying deaf ears to the suggestions of the Sant fraternity ofJammuand the whole country and the Hindu organizations to start the Yatra on June 15, 2011, he has instead submitted to the pressure tactics of the separatists.
The two-month-long Yatra mobilizes people from all nooks & corners of the country thereby strengthening national unity. It enhances economic development and job opportunities for the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Is the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir against national unity? Is he against enhancement in job opportunities in the state? Is he against economic development of the state? Does he carry a brief for the Pakistani separatists and carry their agenda? The Dharmic and Social organizations of Jammu and the whole country and all commercial organizations ofJammuhave taken a collective decision that like every year the Amarnath Yatra would be commenced from Jyestha Purnima June 15, 2011.
When the prominent citizens of Jammu & Kashmir called on the Chief Minister, he assured them that the Yatra for two months from 15 June would be provided with security cover. On June 15, 2011. the Yatra would be flagged off by Jagadguru Sankaracharya HH Vasudevananda Saraswatiji and former supercop Sardar K.P.S. Gill.
The people of the country are urged upon to assert their Dharmic rights by joining the Yatra from June 15 and have Darshan of Baba Amnarnath. The Jammu & Kashmir Governor is hereby given a clear warning that if he ever tries to bar the two-month long Yatra or create hurdles in its infrastructural arrangements and the streamlining processes, he will have to face with stiff resistance and reaction from the whole country the consequences of which will squarely fall on the Governor who seems to function under pointers received from anti-Hindu elements and separatists.
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The Mayan Calendar
The year 2012 is here. There has been a lot of talk about the world coming to an end on December 21, 2012? As a Christian, I don’t believe this. As far as I know from the Bible, it doesn’t state anywhere that the existence of man is going to end on this date.. If it was, God would of said so. And God did not mention it, so I believe we all are going to be just fine. Or is God using the Mayas to advise us of the end times?
Can I get some feedback on this topic. I think it is an interesting one to discuss. I would appreciate anything you have to say either way, yes or no. Thank all of you for helping the people have a better understanding of this issue.
El Castillo. Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
This Mesoamerican step pyramid’s platform, along with its four stairways of 91 steps, totals 365, or the number of days in a calendar year.
Aztec Calendar.
The Aztec calendar was an adaptation of the Mayan calendar. It consisted of a 365-day agricultural calendar, as well as a 260-day sacred calendar. (This is a digital composite. Color added for visibility.)
Among their other accomplishments, the ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity. At right is the ancient Mayan Pyramid Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá, constructed circa 1050 was built during the late Mayan period, when Toltecs from Tula became politically powerful. The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.
The Maya calendar was adopted by the other Mesoamerican nations, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec, which adopted the mechanics of the calendar unaltered but changed the names of the days of the week and the months. An Aztec calendar stone is shown above right.
The Maya calendar uses three different dating systems in parallel, the Long Count, the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). Of these, only the Haab has a direct relationship to the length of the year.
A typical Mayan date looks like this: 12.18.16.2.6, 3 Cimi 4 Zotz.
12.18.16.2.6 is the Long Count date.
3 Cimi is the Tzolkin date.
4 Zotz is the Haab date.
What is the Long Count?
When did the Long Count Start?
What is the Tzolkin?
When did the Tzolkin Start?
What is the Haab?
When did the Haab Start?
Did the Mayas Think a Year Was 365 Days?
The Long Count is really a mixed base-20/base-18 representation of a number, representing the number of days since the start of the Mayan era. It is thus akin to the Julian Day Number.
The basic unit is the kin (day), which is the last component of the Long Count. Going from right to left the remaining components are:
uinal (1 uinal = 20 kin = 20 days)
tun (1 tun = 18 uinal = 360 days = approx. 1 year)
katun (1 katun = 20 tun = 7,200 days = approx. 20 years)
baktun (1 baktun = 20 katun = 144,000 days = approx. 394 years)
The kin, tun, and katun are numbered from 0 to 19.
The uinal are numbered from 0 to 17.
The baktun are numbered from 1 to 13.
Although they are not part of the Long Count, the Mayas had names for larger time spans. The following names are sometimes quoted, although they are not ancient Maya terms:
1 pictun = 20 baktun = 2,880,000 days = approx. 7885 years
1 calabtun = 20 pictun = 57,600,000 days = approx. 158,000 years
1 kinchiltun = 20 calabtun = 1,152,000,000 days = approx. 3 million years
1 alautun = 20 kinchiltun = 23,040,000,000 days = approx. 63 million years
The alautun is probably the longest named period in any calendar.
Logically, the first date in the Long Count should be 0.0.0.0.0, but as the baktun (the first component) are numbered from 1 to 13 rather than 0 to 12, this first date is actually written 13.0.0.0.0.
The authorities disagree on what 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to in our calendar. I have come across three possible equivalences:
13.0.0.0.0 = 8 Sep 3114 BC (Julian) = 13 Aug 3114 BC (Gregorian)
13.0.0.0.0 = 11 Nov 3374 BC (Julian) = 15 Oct 3374 BC (Gregorian)
Assuming one of the first two equivalences, the Long Count will again reach 13.0.0.0.0 on 21 or 23 December AD 2012 – a not too distant future.
The date 13.0.0.0.0 may have been the Mayas’ idea of the date of the creation of the world.
The Tzolkin date is a combination of two “week” lengths.
While our calendar uses a single week of seven days, the Mayan calendar used two different lengths of week:
a numbered week of 13 days, in which the days were numbered from 1 to 13
a named week of 20 days, in which the names of the days were:
0. Ahau 1. Imix 2. Ik 3. Akbal 4. Kan
5. Chicchan 6. Cimi 7. Manik 8. Lamat 9. Muluc
10. Oc 11. Chuen 12. Eb 13. Ben 14. Ix
15. Men 16. Cib 17. Caban 18. Etznab 19. Caunac
The diagram above shows the day symbols, in the same order as the table above.
As the named week is 20 days and the smallest Long Count digit is 20 days, there is synchrony between the two; if, for example, the last digit of today’s Long Count is 0, today must be Ahau; if it is 6, it must be Cimi. Since the numbered and the named week were both “weeks,” each of their name/number change daily; therefore, the day after 3 Cimi is not 4 Cimi, but 4 Manik, and the day after that, 5 Lamat. The next time Cimi rolls around, 20 days later, it will be 10 Cimi instead of 3 Cimi. The next 3 Cimi will not occur until 260 (or 13 x 20) days have passed. This 260-day cycle also had good-luck or bad-luck associations connected with each day, and for this reason, it became known as the “divinatory year.”
The “years” of the Tzolkin calendar are not counted.
Long Count 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to 4 Ahau. The authorities agree on this.
The Haab was the civil calendar of the Mayas. It consisted of 18 “months” of 20 days each, followed by 5 extra days, known as Uayeb. This gives a year length of 365 days.
The names of the month were:
1. Pop 7. Yaxkin 13. Mac
2. Uo 8. Mol 14. Kankin
3. Zip 9. Chen 15. Muan
4. Zotz 10. Yax 16. Pax
5. Tzec 11. Zac 17. Kayab
6. Xul 12. Ceh 18. Cumku
In contrast to the Tzolkin dates, the Haab month names changed every 20 days instead of daily; so the day after 4 Zotz would be 5 Zotz, followed by 6 Zotz … up to 19 Zotz, which is followed by 0 Tzec.
The days of the month were numbered from 0 to 19. This use of a 0th day of the month in a civil calendar is unique to the Maya system; it is believed that the Mayas discovered the number zero, and the uses to which it could be put, centuries before it was discovered in Europe or Asia.
The Uayeb days acquired a very derogatory reputation for bad luck; known as “days without names” or “days without souls,” and were observed as days of prayer and mourning. Fires were extinguished and the population refrained from eating hot food. Anyone born on those days was “doomed to a miserable life.”
The years of the Haab calendar are not counted.
The length of the Tzolkin year was 260 days and the length of the Haab year was 365 days. The smallest number that can be divided evenly by 260 and 365 is 18,980, or 365×52; this was known as the Calendar Round. If a day is, for example, “4 Ahau 8 Cumku,” the next day falling on “4 Ahau 8 Cumku” would be 18,980 days or about 52 years later. Among the Aztec, the end of a Calendar Round was a time of public panic as it was thought the world might be coming to an end. When the Pleaides crossed the horizon on 4 Ahau 8 Cumku, they knew the world had been granted another 52-year extension.
Long Count 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to 8 Cumku. The authorities agree on this.
Although there were only 365 days in the Haab year, the Mayas were aware that a year is slightly longer than 365 days, and in fact, many of the month-names are associated with the seasons; Yaxkin, for example, means “new or strong sun” and, at the beginning of the Long Count, 1 Yaxkin was the day after the winter solstice, when the sun starts to shine for a longer period of time and higher in the sky. When the Long Count was put into motion, it was started at 7.13.0.0.0, and 0 Yaxkin corresponded with Midwinter Day, as it did at 13.0.0.0.0 back in 3114 B.C.E. The available evidence indicates that the Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 or 1,101,600 days.
We can therefore derive a value for the Mayan estimate of the year by dividing 1,101,600 by 365, subtracting 2, and taking that number and dividing 1,101,600 by the result, which gives us an answer of 365.242036 days, which is slightly more accurate than the 365.2425 days of the Gregorian calendar.
(This apparent accuracy could, however, be a simple coincidence. The Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 days. These numbers are only accurate to 2-3 digits. Suppose the 7.13.0.0.0 days had corresponded to 2.001 cycles rather than 2 cycles of the 365-day year, would the Mayas have noticed?)
In ancient times, the Mayans had a tradition of a 360-day year. But by the 4th century B.C.E. they took a different approach than either Europeans or Asians. They maintained three different calendars at the same time. In one of them, they divided a 365-day year into eighteen 20-day months followed by a five-day period that was part of no month. The five-day period was considered to be unlucky.
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REVIEW: Captain America: The First Avenger
April 23, 2016 CJ Stewart 1 comment
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Produced by: Kevin Feige
Screenplay by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Edited by: Jeffrey Ford, Robert Dalva
Cinematography by: Shelly Johnson
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Starring: Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Kenneth Choi, JJ Field, Toby Jones, Stanley Tucci, Leander Deeny
Based on the Marvel comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Believe it or not, at one time, this was the movie I was most worried about during the first phase of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. The director, Joe Johnston, didn’t have the best track record as a director, and the main star of the movie, Chris Evans, was someone who had already played a superhero in a movie series that was pretty garbage, Fox’s pre-reboot Fantastic Four movies. Rumors of the film also having a random musical number was also cause for concern, and Hugo Weaving was also revealed to be playing yet another intense villain role. Also, this was a film set before all the other films, being set during World War II. Period films were fine, but a period superhero film? C’mon, Marvel! Surely you must be crazy! No way could this live up to Iron Man and Thor, which at least had respected actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh at the helm, right!?
Oh, please. You know I was wrong on this on all accounts. Read more…
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Home News Business & Finance Local coach operator celebrates big win at National Express awards night
Local coach operator celebrates big win at National Express awards night
Walsall’s Travelstar European has won National Express’ top ‘Operator of the Year’ title for the fourth-year running at the organisation’s recent award ceremony.
The company picked up the gong at the UK’s largest coach operator’s annual awards ceremony in Coventry two weeks ago.
Craig Jackson, Operations Manager at Travelstar European, said: “We are extremely proud to receive such great recognition from National Express.
“We have an incredible team of people at Travelstar – the administrators, cleaners, engineers and, in particular, the drivers, who go out there and deliver excellence every day. This award is for them.
“To win Operator of the Year for the fourth consecutive year is a huge honour, and we will continue to deliver a better and safer service for our customers.”
The Operator of the Year category is based on the company’s engineering standards, the number of miles operated and customers carried, as well as praise and complaints.
The company also walked away with ‘Operator of the Year for 6 to 10 vehicles’, a Gold Standard Achievement – meaning over three consecutive ‘Gold’ statuses for three or more consecutive years – and a Golden Spanner award for exceeding expectations in engineering.
Chris Hardy, Managing Director at National Express UK Coach said: “We wouldn’t be National Express without our operators. Travelstar European help to keep us on the roads on a daily basis and I am pleased to have this opportunity to recognise their efforts and celebrate them as a valued partner.”
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Home WORLD NEWS Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates off Nigeria’s coast
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(CNN)Ten Turkish sailors were abducted from their ship by armed men off the coast of Nigeria on Monday, the co-partner of the shipping company, Ahmet Paksoy, told CNN on Tuesday.
The ship, managed by the company Kadioglu Denizcilik, was raided by “pirates” who disrupted the vessel’s electric system and abducted ten of the more senior crew members, including the first captain, Paksoy said.
The remaining 8 members of the crew managed to bring the ship to harbor in Ghana, he said. Once the ship was in Ghanaian waters, Ghana’s military escorted the ship, Paksoy, said.
Paksoy said the attackers have not yet contacted the company for possible ransom.
“The pirates have not contacted us yet. We are waiting for them to contact us. When we look at the previous cases it may take some time, it seems like,” he said.
The company and the crew members who were not abducted are in contact with the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the Turkish National Intelligence Organization and Interpol, Paksoy said.
A report released this month from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), a non-profit devoted to fighting maritime crime, has called the Gulf of Guinea a “world piracy hotspot,” saying that the “seas around West Africa remain the world’s most dangerous for piracy.”
73% of all kidnappings at sea and 92% of hostage-takings took place in the Gulf of Guinea — off the coasts of Nigeria, Guinea, Togo, Benin and Cameroon — from January to June this year, the report said.
Armed pirates in those waters kidnapped 27 crew members in the first half of 2019, compared with 25 in the same period in 2018, it said. Two chemical tankers were also hijacked, as well as a tug that was then used in another attack.
Nine vessels were fire upon worldwide, eight of which were off the coast of Nigeria — Africa’s top oil producer — according to the report.
The IMB said that it has welcomed a “marked decrease” in Gulf of Guinea attacks since April compared to the previous year, however, saying that the Nigerian navy has done well in actively responding to reported incidents by dispatching patrol boats.
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Golf Heaven – Cape Breton
Golf Heaven – Cape Breton by Michael Mastarciyan
Walking through a ghostly ocean mist on the 17th fairway at Cabot Cliffs, bewitched by the breathtaking sunset views of the rocky, wave battered Cape Breton coastline, it’s easy to start believing in spirits.
Jones, Hogan, Nelson, Snead, Ballesteros – the gods of the game – they’re all here making shots and sinking putts on the most heart-stopping new golf course on the planet. It is a little green slice of heaven perched on a magnificent stretch of bluffs high above the Atlantic Ocean on Nova Scotia’s northwest coast. Trust me, if you close your eyes, listen to the crashing waves, and breathe in the fresh sea air after making that perfect golf shot, you’ll see them too!
If you’re a fan of the game, you’ve probably already heard about Cabot Cliffs as it’s been making headlines since its unofficial opening last summer. This is a transcendental spot on the golf map, not unlike the cornfield Kevin Costner transformed into a baseball diamond in Field of Dreams. But this is not Iowa, it’s Cape Breton island, Canada’s little piece of Scotland on the northern tip of the province of Nova Scotia. A visit to this part of the world is more of a spiritual experience than a simple golf trip, especially if you’ve dreamt of playing this ancient game the way it was originally meant to be played on the sandy coastal links of its native homeland Scotland. From the bilingual road signs in English and Gaelic, to the Glenora single malt whisky distillery, to Colaisde na Gàidhlig the only Gaelic college in North America, Cape Breton is the closest you’ll come to an overall golfing experience in Scotland or Ireland without flying across the Atlantic.
Cabot Cliffs first came to my attention last summer when I started to hear chatter about a new golf course that was being compared to Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and Bandon Dunes, the titans of North American links golf. My fascination with this new kid on the block morphed into obsession in January when Golf Digest ranked it No. 19 on its 2016 World’s 100 Greatest list, a remarkable feat given the track wasn’t even officially opened yet. It’s sister course Cabot Links, which opened in 2012, was also on my radar as is it was ranked No. 45 on that same list in 2015 (it’s No. 93 this year). Both courses were now at the top of my bucket list and it was imperative I play them as soon as humanly possible.
Cape Breton Bound
When ski season ended in April, I packed my boards away for their long summer slumber and focused my attention on getting me and my clubs to Cape Breton pronto. I contacted the good folks at GolfCapeBreton.com, and with the help of one of their golf concierges I booked a 4-day getaway for the July 4th weekend which would include two days at Cabot Cliffs and Links as well as golf at a couple of other bucket-list worthy courses. My itinerary would also include a tour of the Glenora Distillery, and an overnight stay at the Keltic Lodge Resort and Spa, one of Canada’s most famous grand hotels located in the heart of Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
My journey began with a short flight from Toronto to Halifax and ended with a painless connector to Sydney, Nova Scotia. After picking up a rental car at Sydney Airport, I hit the road to sample some of the best holes at The Lakes Golf Club at Ben Eoin, one of Cape Breton’s premier tracks. After a pleasant 20-minute drive through the leafy hills and dales of Nova Scotia lake country, I pulled up to one of the most popular and scenic ski resorts on the East Coast – Ben Eoin – which transforms itself into a challenging mountain golf course when the snow melts every spring.
The Lakes Golf Club at Ben Eoin
Sitting just below Ben Eoin’s verdant summer slopes, The Lakes Golf Club is a true mountain track with undulating fairways and a never-ending supply of elevated tee decks offering spectacular views of the shimmering turquoise waters of Bra d’Or Lake, a salt-water inland sea made up of barrier beaches, rocky headlands, and ponds with a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation.
I toured the course with Rob Carmichael who is the resident golf pro in the summer and ski school director during the winter months and played a few of its signature holes. My favourite was No. 6, a towering but driveable Par 4 with panoramic views of Bra d’Or Lake. A downhill drive off an elevated tee deck that doglegs left toward a roomy green protected by a few bunkers. It reminded me of Treasure Island, the Par 5 first hole at Spyglass Hill, one of the Pebble Beach courses, which also happens to be one of my all-time favorite golf holes. The only problem with No. 6 is the pair of extremely inviting wooden Adirondack chairs they’ve set up on the tee box. The choice of playing golf or lounging around with a cold drink in your hand gazing at the million dollar view of sailboats cutting through the blue waters of the Bra d’Or Lake is a tough one.
Hitting the Cabot Trail
After playing a few more holes I thanked Rob for his hospitality and punched Keltic Lodge into my car’s GPS, the luxury hotel I’d be spending the night at. The 2-hour drive to this iconic Canadian hotel would take me along one of the most famous scenic coastal roads in the world; Nova Scotia’s famed Cabot Trail. The 185-mile loop snakes around the island on a series of narrow coastal cliffs, beachside roads, and eventually winds through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park giving drivers and passengers a front row view to some of Canada’s most spectacular oceanfront scenery, and the flora and fauna that go with it.
Keltic Lodge and Highlands Links
My first view of Keltic Lodge’s sprawling, white Tudor style manor house came at a distance as I drove into the sleepy seaside resort community of Ingonish that borders
[the_ad id=”15701″]Cape Breton Highlands National Park’s eastern entrance. Spread out over a narrow peninsula called Middle Head just inside the park’s gates, this majestic hotel sits on a throne of rocky cliffs jutting out over the Atlantic Ocean. The lodge which has just gotten a $5-million facelift, and its next door neighbor Highlands Links golf course (ranked No.79 in the world by Golf Magazine in 2007) are celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. The set-up here is incredible for golfers and non-golfers alike. The hotel has its own Aveda Spa and a large outdoor swimming pool with ocean views, wilderness trails, a nearby beach, whale watching, kayaking and lots of lounge chairs if chilling out is your top priority.
For golf junkies in search of the exotic, Keltic Lodge and Highlands Links are unique. Imagine what it would be like to spend the night at The White House if it was located in a mysterious Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew coastal setting, smack dab next to one of the most impressive oceanside golf courses in North America. That’s the Keltic Lodge/Highlands Links experience in a nutshell. And there’s lots of fresh lobster…. did I mention the lobster?
Lobster, lobster, lobster…
Dinner on my first night in Cape Breton was an orgy of lobster at the Keltic Lodge’s luxurious post-and-beam Purple Thistle Dining Room. My starter was the Purple Thistle’s signature dish Butter Poached Lobster – sous vide butter lobster with conflit of leek, and lobster bisque sauce…yes lobster heaven! My main was Lobster from the Base of Smokey (Cape Smokey is a nearby provincial park and former ski area overlooking the Gulf of the St. Lawrence) straight up locally caught lobster served with butter and a side of vegetables. I would have had lobster for dessert too as I have no shame when it comes to consuming vast amounts of my favorite shell fish, but I was talked into ordering the delicious Passion and Mango Cheesecake, which although lobster-free, was still very tasty.
When my one-man lobster appreciation party finally concluded I made my way into the Keltic Lodge’s roomy bar for a wee dram of Scotch as a nightcap. What I walked into was a full-blown Cape Breton Céilidh put on by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College as part of their Kitchenfest! Féis a’ Chidsin! an annual festival celebrating Cape Breton-based local music and dance. If you like highland dancing, Scotch whisky and vibrant fiddle music, this is your kinda place. I absolutely adored it and when it ended I wandered off to bed with visions of highlanders dancing in my head.
The next morning I woke up to an amazing sight just outside my window – a tiny red, white, and blue lobster boat tugging around the inlet just below the hotel’s swimming pool checking on its traps… pretty cool for a city boy like me. After a quick shower and a massive 5-star buffet breakfast, I checked out of the Keltic Lodge and checked into Highlands Links for my 8:14 am tee time.
“Mountains and Ocean” Golf
Ranked No. 3 by Canadian Golf Magazine in its 2016 list of top Canadian golf courses (Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links are 1 & 2) Highlands Links is a master stroke of course architecture. Designed by Stanley Thompson, the Frank Lloyd Wright of Canadian golf architects, and carved out of a spectacular piece of land tucked between the lush, green, Cape Breton Highlands and the Atlantic Ocean with the Cylburn River running through it, this Par 72, 6161-yard course is like a real life landscape painting you can hit golf balls on. Thompson proudly called Highlands Links his “mountains and ocean course”, and as members of the Stanley Thompson Society say, golfers are “taken back to a time when the game was still pure, and where golfers tested their skills on courses set by the sea, in true Scottish fashion.”
Tim Westhaver, one of the starters at Highlands Links grew up across the street from the course and has been playing it for the last 54 years. A lifelong fan of the game, Westhaver also views Highlands Links as a work of art, and says he’s proud to be one of its curators.
“I’ve played 20 of the top 25 courses in the world, and this one is just a natural wonder that was made to be a golf course. Stanley Thompson was a big student of the game and that’s why his courses have stood the test of time. He really made a link between the old Scottish style links courses, which you can see on some of the holes with the more American parkland looking courses. Even though this course was built 75 years ago, you can still play it on the ground, which is what the Scots and the Irish built their course to do. It’s like a Tom Thomson or Group of Seven (some of Canada’s most famous 20th Century landscape painters) painting, but the canvas here is rock and coastline. It’s rugged, it’s individualistic and it’s definitely a piece of art,” Westhaver said.
With the morning sun beaming on my shoulders and lungs full of fresh sea air, I confidently put my first shot onto the fairway with a gallery of locals on deck cheering me on. As I drove my golf cart up a rippled fairway that mimicked the rolling highlands backdropping the 397-yard Par 4 first hole (a trademark Stanley Thompson design feature, he loved to copy the natural features of the landscape on his tracks) I knew this enchanted place was more than just a golf course.
Variety is expected when you’re playing a track dubbed a “mountains and ocean” course by its creator and that’s exactly what you get at Highlands Links. The front nine is a tourist photo snapper’s Nirvana. There are a million ocean view photo ops to be had as the holes make their way along the Atlantic shoreline, and across the marshland near the mouth of Clyburn River. The back nine is pure mountain golf. Long undulating fairways through a rocky landscape full of elevated tee decks through a lush hardwood forest of towering pines.
Hole No. 4 with its narrow crown shaped elevated green guarded by giant bunkers was a treat. Half the fun was driving my cart on its roller coaster fairway under the watchful eye of highland peak Franey Mountain in the distance. Another memorable hole was No. 15, a great Par 5 that ends on a green across the street from St. Peter’s Catholic Church, a beautiful white, twin steepled country church that is also an excellent backdrop for Instagram photos you can post comparing golf to a religious experience!
Highlands Links may be a religious experience for some, but it took a hellish toll on the golf balls in my bag, as I finished up on 18 with a half dozen less than when I started (missed shots into the woods at Highlands Links are very punishing). I marked 96 on my scorecard and plowed through a tasty burger on the 2nd floor patio of the clubhouse with a view of Mr. Thompson’s beautiful course on one side, and the glassy Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Single Malt Magic at The Glenora Distillery
Back on the road by 1pm, I meandered along the Cabot Trail’s western edge and must have gotten out of the car about 10 times to take pictures of the magnificent Cape Breton coastline. I texted a few pix to my wife and described it as a mini-Big Sur, the famous eye-popping stretch of road along California’s central coast we’ve driven together a kazillion times. I even crossed paths with an old ski buddy named Greg Frechette who works as a coaching instructor for Alpine Quebec. After posing for a few selfies together and meeting his lovely wife Kristina for the first time, I headed southward to the Glenora Inn & Distillery, North America’s first single malt whisky maker, a stone’s throw from the seaside town of Inverness and Cabot Links and Cliffs where I would spend the next two days.
Driving through Glenora’s gates later that afternoon I felt like I was about to go whisky tasting in the Scottish Highlands. Glenora’s main building sits at the bottom of a large green hill at the foot of Cape Breton’s Mabou Highlands. The single malt magic takes place in an impressive large white stone building that looks like it was built 500 years ago. The whisky distilled here is basically Scotch without the appellation, as single malt whisky can only be called “Scotch” if it’s produced on Scottish soil. Tours are available year round and you can also rent rooms at Glenora’s Inn.
My tour began on the banks of the quaint MacLellan Brook that babbles through the property and provides the water Glenora uses for its Uisge Beatha (which means “Water of Life” in Gaelic). Walking past the traditional copper pot stills inside the distillery, my guide gave me a lesson in single malt whisky making and let me taste an assortment of delicious whiskies, each one better than the next. My favorite was Glen Breton Rare, a golden-yellow coloured mixture with hints of butterscotch, honey, almond and earthy peat. After purchasing some “souvenirs” from Glenora’s gift shop I made my way back to Inverness to check into the Cabot Links Lodge.
Is Inverness the Next Hamptons?
The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s largest daily newspapers recently said that Inverness is on the verge of becoming “Canada’s Hamptons” and reported, “tales of deep-pocketed tourists flying in for a round on their private jets (and a quaint main drag that seems poised to fill up with chic boutiques) fuel ongoing speculation that Inverness is on the cusp of becoming a world-class luxury destination, known as much for its high-end shopping, dining and designer villas as its acres of manicured fairways.” Having seen Inverness as well as The Hamptons first hand, I’d say this is a very accurate observation.
The 72-room Cabot Lodge (designed by award-winning Nova Scotia architect, Susan Fitzgerald and talented interior designer Alexandra Angle) is best described as 21st Century “low-key luxury” beach hotel chic. Each room has a mind-blowing view through a giant postcard window that serves as the wall between you, the first fairway, and the deep blue Atlantic Ocean…this is golf-in/golf-out accommodation like you’ve never seen before folks! The cedar and heavy timber Cabot Lodge, as well as the 2 and 4-bedroom Golf Villas at Cabot Links (designed by Omar Gandhi, one of Canada’s architectural rising stars), blend in perfectly with the beach landscape they’re constructed on. The rooms are spacious and the ultra-comfortable beds are perfect for midday naps between rounds of golf (if you are playing 36-holes in one day). The bathrooms are an 11 on 10, with heated floors, L’Occitane bath products, gigantic soaker tubs, separate glassed showers, and lots of elbow room!
When I finished unpacking, I headed over to Cabot’s Panorama Restaurant for dinner. I could go on an on about the exquisite cuisine (Lobster Ravioli as a starter and Butter-Poached Cape Breton Lobster as a main), the first-class service, and the very genuine and sincere down-home hospitality of the staff, but truth be told, it was the jaw-dropping sunset that had all my attention that night. Like the rooms at Cabot Lodge, the only thing between you, the Cabot Links golf course and the Atlantic Ocean is a massive piece of glass. Just as my poached lobster arrived (freshly de-shelled lobster soaking in butter in a little hot-pot) the skies overlooking the 18th green transformed into a shade of vermillion I’d only ever seen in a Crayola crayon box as a child! Orange is my favorite color and vermillion is its most beautiful shade. The sky I saw that night, lit up by the sleepy sun going down over the gulf of the St. Lawrence are sights I won’t soon forget.
After a deep sleep in my luxurious beachfront golf cocoon, I was lured back to the Panorama Restaurant in the morning for their famed Lobster Benedict…and yes, it was amazing! On my dance card this day was 18-holes at Cabot Links in the morning and another 18 at 4pm at Cabot Cliffs. Both courses, it should be mentioned, are walking only…electric golf carts are only available to those who need them for medical reasons. However, you can rent a pull-cart or reserve a caddy, if lugging your clubs is not part of your preferred golf ritual.
Cabot Links
My caddy for the next two days was Inverness native, Randon “No B” MacKinnon, a 19-year-old freshman university business major who also happens to be a scratch golfer with an encyclopedic knowledge of every fairway, bunker, and green at Cabot Links and Cliffs. I hit the caddy Powerball with Randon as it was like golfing with my own son. This kid was amazing!
“Welcome to the most beautiful golf course on earth,” Randon said to me as he shook my hand on the first tee, a statement backed up by one of the most sensational oceanside opening holes I’ve ever seen in North America.
Designed by Rod Whitman, Cabot Links (Par 70, 6854-yards), is the Spanish Bay (one of the Pebble Beach courses) of the Links/Cliffs duo, a sea-level type golfing experience that makes you feel like you are right on the water. Cabot Cliffs (Par 72, 6764 -yards) on the other hand, the brainchild of course designers Bill Coore and World Golf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw, is more like Pebble which is situated mostly on elevated cliffs overlooking the ocean. If you’ve played the Pebble courses, I’ll let you make your own judgement on how the Cabot courses compare. I’ve played all four, and for me Cabot edges them out. I love Spanish Bay, but it has a number of holes with quirky layouts that I’m not entirely enamoured with…Cabot Links has none, each hole was a dream! Pebble Beach and Cabot Cliffs are on par in terms of spectacular scenery, but every step you take on Cliffs is pure, unadulterated golf. Pebble, on the other hand, is a course with big beautiful mansions all over it…and as beautiful as these homes are, I’m not a big fan of houses on golf courses. That being said, if anyone out there reading this wants to leave me one of the grand Pebble Beach course homes in their will, I am open to changing my opinion…but I digress.
Rounding out the foursome on the tee deck that morning under partly cloudy skies, The Hom family from Manhattan – Ann, Sandy and their son Ryan, a former Division I golfer from Bucknell University – by far one of the best ball-strikers I’ve ever played with. Like my chance meeting with my caddy, Lady Luck showed me love again with The Homs, the most incredibly warm, fun-loving and talented trio of golf junkies a writer could have the good fortune of randomly meeting.
Like most traditional links courses, the fairways at Cabot Links are wide and inviting giving golfers the impression this will translate into less lost balls and hence better scoring. The reality is, that like most oceanside links courses, fairways by the sea are usually also hard and fast. Hard and fast can be a good thing but it can also work against you when your perfect drive finds its way into a big, bruising pot bunker, a links course’s most nasty line of defence. Let’s just say this happened to me a few times and leave it at that. The wind was also a factor on this morning, not gale force, but just enough for me to dip into the Tom Watson golf lexicon, with queries to my caddy about whether or not certain holes were “one or two club winds?” when selecting clubs.
My favourite holes were the Par 4 No. 3, which is set up on one of the windiest spots on the course. A real risk-reward type hole that you can attack in a variety of ways with a very firm green and a daunting water hazard on the right hand side. You can go for the green with a driver or hit a 4-iron and 9-iron in on your second shot. It’s a knee-knocker all the way, but a real beauty if you make par.
Numbers 5 and 6 are also a rare treat as these holes work their way around MacIssac’s Pond, a floating parking lot for brightly colored lobster boats. I truly thought I might get photo-bombed by Gilligan and The Skipper while taking a selfie in front of the boats, but alas it didn’t happen! I also really enjoyed No. 16, a bumpy, long Par 4 that runs right along the beach, with a view from the green that’s even better than off the tees.
As impressive as the oceanside scenery and excellent layout of the course was, I think I was most blown away by the combination of Mama Hom’s golfing skills and physical endurance. The father and son tandem of Sandy and Ryan played a lot of quality golf on this day, but Ann Hom (a former competitive swimmer now in her late 60s) never missed the fairway and walked Cabot Links 18-holes (and later that afternoon another 18 at Cabot Cliffs) with a spring in her step I wish I still – and I’m 20 years her junior!
After handshakes on 18 and marking a big fat 95 on my scorecard, I went back into my room for a 15-minute power-nap. A quarter of an hour later, rejuvenated by my little snooze sesh and changed into fresh golf clothing (I’m a golf dandy, what can I say) I zipped over to the Cabot Bar (the first floor bar/restaurant under the Panorama Restaurant) for a take-out burger I was planning on eating in my room before my 4pm appointment with Cabot Cliffs. But I never made back to my room as I was flagged down by Papa Hom who insisted I dine with Ann and Ryan at their table. The lunch invitation also included a invite to golf Cabot Cliffs with them at 3:45, an offer I could not refuse.
Cabot Cliffs
I met the Hom’s and Randon on the first tee at Cliffs after a 5 minute shuttle ride from Cabot Links. The awe-inspiring scenery of the cliffs, sand dunes and the dreamy oceanscape of this course are like a punch in the stomach right off the bat on the first tee deck. But it’s when you get to No. 2 that you really see the majesty and grandeur of this dazzling golf course. No. 2 at Cabot Cliffs is now one of my favorite holes in the world. It has a stunning view of the beach and the Gulf of The St. Lawrence especially if you’re hitting from the back tees. The tee shot takes you over natural sand dunes and beach grass to a “V” shaped fairway. If you drive through the fairway you are into a pond that guards a bunker and sand dune in front of the green, not the longest hole you’ll play, but a masterpiece of beauty and strategy.
The sun which occasionally made an appearance at Links in the morning was now playing hide-and-seek at Cliffs. The winds were also gustier, and there were a couple of rain drops here and there. Navigating this cliff-top behemoth with its rolling fairways twisting and turning through wispy fescue, sand dunes, and pastoral meadows required more than a couple creative club choices for myself, as well as the Homs. The bulk of the round at Cliffs was spent battling the forces of wind, sea and sand, but we crossed paths with some trees starting at the picturesque 7th hole. Forests are rare on links courses, but it was something I’d seen before at Spyglass Hill, which also dips into a forested area for a few of its inland holes. A nice little taste of green sandwiched between a host of sand and sea links gems.
No. 15 is also an eye-catcher. A very reachable Par 5 with an incredible view that
showcases a mysterious looking island right out of a Jules Verne novel. It’s called
Seawolf Island, but Randon told me locals call it Margaree. If you’ve played at
Scotland’s Turnberry you’ll swear Captain Nemo towed that course’s famed Aisla Craig to Nova Scotia with his submarine when you approach the green.
The most striking and dramatic hole, hands down, at Cabot Cliffs is the Par 3, No. 16. Quickly becoming one of the most photographed holes in the world of golf because of its location on a jagged outcropping of rock high about the crashing waves of the Atlantic, No. 16 is the “dream golf” location on a nationally run Canadian television commercial for a popular lottery, as well as the backdrop for major TV ad campaign for Titleist Velocity golf balls.
Walking towards No. 16, I felt like a small child waiting to open a birthday present. I’d seen it on television but was stoked to see it with my own eyes. Excited, I asked Randon to give me his take on the hole.
“It’s a magical,” Randon told me with a grin. “The view from the tee never gets old. Whether the wind is blowing and the waves are crashing, or it’s a beautiful calm day, it’s something you’ll never forget, hold on a bit longer and you’ll see it for yourself.”
Well the kid wasn’t kidding. No. 16 is pure eye candy…worthy of every “golfporn” hashtag it gets on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Sitting around the Cabot Bar after returning from Cliffs (I shot 90!), No. 16 was all I could hear people talking about. The birdie putts missed, the pars made, the countless balls lost in the ocean, the ominous “danger cliffs” sign on your walk to the green…16, 16, 16!
“I love No. 16 and it was the first hole we identified,” Ben Cowan-Dewar, the Toronto-born businessman who co-owns Cabot Links and Cliffs with American golf entrepreneur Mike Keiser (of Bandon Dunes fame) told me when I quizzed him about the iconic hole.
“Its so spectacular, but what amazes me most is how Bill (Coore) and Ben (Crenshaw) got so much out of the green site. There is a distinct, otherworldly feeling at Cliffs and Links as a whole, especially at sunset or when the course is affected by the mist and fog off the ocean. I felt this even when I was walking around during construction. It’s always been a very special landscape. I’m so glad we now get to share it with so many people,” Cowan-Dewar added.
Cabot Cliffs Head Golf Pro Ryan Hawley, one of the stars of the Titleist TV commercial (which you can see here: https://youtu.be/QG2gUfBoVew) is also a big fan of No. 16.
“It’s a jaw-dropping golf hole,” Hawley told me when I played with him the next morning under sunny skies and zero wind. “Hitting a cliff-to-cliff shot on a 176-yard Par 3 to a two-tiered peninsula green surrounded by sand bunkers perched high above the Atlantic should be enough to get any person excited to hit their shot, golfer or not. It’s understandable why it’s becoming the most talked about hole in golf. It doesn’t matter what tee deck you are playing, it’s always a very intimidating shot.”
I loved the thrills and chill of No. 16, and yes it scared me, but in terms of pure intimidation, Cliffs No. 17 is a soul-crusher. A drivable, Par 4 blind shot, launched off a cliff over a craggy, golf ball guzzling abyss. On my first attempt with the wind at my back and the Homs rooting for me, I crushed a 4-wood and immediately shouted, “D’oh, there goes my ball into the Atlantic!” But Randon, part-caddy/part-psychologist talked me off the cliff figuratively and literally, and convinced me my ball was on the green…primed and ready for an eagle putt. We did find one ball on the green, but it wasn’t mine. I had flown my ball over the green and landed it on the 18th tee box. Despite the predicament I was in, I miraculously made 4, and coined the new golf term “tee box save” that afternoon.
The next day, as my visit to Cabot Links and Cliffs was nearing its end (I would be driving back to Sydney airport and flying home right after my morning round at Cliffs) I had my second encounter with the dreaded No. 17. This time, with zero wind to affect my shot, Randon pulled a 3-hybrid and told me I’d be in prime chipping position in front of the green if I hit the same shot I’d hit the day before.
“What about my trusty 4-wood?” I asked.
“Uhhh, that’s kind of aggressive,” Randon responded with a wince.
I chose the aggressive option that morning, and piped a perfect tee shot about 30-feet pin high to the flag. This time the ball we found on the green primed and ready for an eagle putt was all mine. Well I didn’t make the putt, but I did settle for a birdie. I revisit my eagle at Cabot Cliffs No. 17 often in my dreams, standing high above the Atlantic with the briny sea breeze in my face…and I get chills every time because I see the ghosts of the game smiling and laughing as my putt falls into the cup…and I think I must be in heaven.
WHEN YOU GO: There are direct flights to Halifax, Nova Scotia from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Newark year-round on a variety of different U.S. carriers, and you can fly directly to Sydney, Nova Scotia from Toronto on Air Canada and Westjet.
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Waterbed effects of macroprudential policies
Aerdt Houben, Janko Cizel, Jon Frost, Peter Wierts, 05 November 2019
Macroprudential policies are being implemented around the globe. A key question is whether these policies prompt substitution toward the non-bank financial sector. This column presents compelling evidence of such ‘waterbed effects’ after macroprudential policy action. Substitution towards non-bank credit is stronger when policy measures applied to banks are binding and are implemented in countries with well-developed financial markets. While systemic risks may nonetheless decline, waterbed effects highlight the importance of developing macroprudential policies beyond banking.
Macroprudential policy could have reduced imbalances in the euro area
Marcin Bielecki, Michał Brzoza-Brzezina, Marcin Kolasa, Krzysztof Makarski, 18 September 2019
The boom-bust cycle in the euro area periphery has almost toppled the euro. This column suggests that region-specific macroprudential policy could have substantially smoothed the credit cycle in the periphery and reduced the build-up of external imbalances. In contrast, common monetary policy could have stabilised output in both the periphery and the core slightly better, but it would have been incapable of significantly influencing either housing markets or the periphery’s trade balance. The column also offers policy guidelines in case internal imbalances should arise again in the euro area.
Fourth annual ECB macroprudential policy and research conference
The European Central Bank is organising the fourth annual macroprudential policy and research conference, which will take place in the afternoon on 16 December and all day on 17 December 2019 in Frankfurt am Main.
The aim of the conference is to encourage interaction between research and policy practice in the area of macroprudential regulation.
Programme for the 2018 conference
In 2019 the conference will focus on the interaction between macroprudential policy and monetary policy. It will also cover topics such as the following:
the impact, implementation and evaluation of macroprudential regulation and policy
the coordination of macroprudential policies across countries
the future of banking and financial markets, and their stability, in the context of new macroprudential regulations
liquidity regulations, countercyclical capital buffers and their interaction
Jeremy Stein (Harvard University) will deliver a keynote speech.
Please submit full papers in PDF to [email protected] by 20 September 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 9 October 2019.
The IMF’s new macroprudential database
Adrian Alter, Gaston Gelos, Heedon Kang, Machiko Narita, Erlend Nier, 03 April 2019
The IMF’s new iMaPP database integrates five major existing databases to build a comprehensive picture of macroprudential policies in use globally. This column shows how this rich dataset provides novel insights into the non-linear effects of changes in loan-to-value limits as one example of how better data can help policymakers to use macroprudential tools more precisely and effectively.
Monetary policy, macroprudential policy, and financial stability
David Martinez-Miera, Rafael Repullo, 27 March 2019
Various factors have been advanced as possible causes of the build-up of risks leading to the Global Crisis, and multiple policies have been put forward to address them. This column discusses the effectiveness of monetary policy and macroprudential policy in responding to the build-up of risks in the financial sector. While both policies are useful, macroprudential policy is more effective in terms of financial stability and can lead to higher welfare gains.
Pockets of risk in European housing markets
Jane Kelly, Julia Le Blanc, Reamonn Lydon, 25 November 2018
Loan-to-value limits and other borrower-based macroprudential measures are now used in two-thirds of advanced economies. This column uses survey data to document changes in credit standards in a cross-section of countries in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the financial crisis. There is clear evidence of laxer credit standards in countries that experienced a real estate boom-bust, and a significant tightening after the bust. The results imply that compared to earlier years, younger and lower-income borrowers have to save for longer before buying.
The costs of macroprudential policy
Björn Richter, Moritz Schularick, Ilhyock Shim, 21 September 2018
Central banks have increasingly relied on macroprudential measures to manage the financial cycle, but their effects on the core objectives of monetary policy to stabilise output and inflation are largely unknown. This column shows that the output costs of changes in maximum loan-to-value ratios are rather small, especially in advanced economies. At the same time, such policies successfully reduce household and mortgage credit growth. The results suggest that central banks could be in a position to use macroprudential instruments to manage financial booms without interfering with the core objectives of monetary policy in a major way.
The increasing faith in macroprudential policies
Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens, Luc Laeven, 18 September 2018
The Global Crisis was a catalyst for the adoption of macroprudential policies around the world. Using newly updated data, this column examines the adoption of macroprudential policy instruments from 2000 to 2017. Since 2015, advanced economies have on average been using more instruments than emerging economies and low-income countries. While some instruments seem to be effective, it remains to be seen whether this suite of policies can deliver overall financial stability.
The hierarchy of financial policies
Jon Danielsson, Robert Macrae, 12 September 2018
Financial policy is determined in multiple domains by separate government authorities. This column explores the hierarchical ranking of these domains and authorities. On top is the authority in charge of fiscal policy, followed by those running monetary, microprudential, and finally macroprudential policies. This ranking can cause conflicts in terms of policy effectiveness and legitimacy.
What are risk models good for?
Jon Danielsson, 03 July 2018
Financial globalisation, bank lending and the limits of domestic monetary policy
Jin Cao, Valeriya Dinger, 03 May 2018
The effectiveness of monetary policy in dictating banking activities is one of the keys to understanding how efficient monetary policy is in tuning the real economy. This column uses data on Norwegian banks to show that efficiency may be eroded by international financial flows in a small open economy. This raises several challenges for central banks and financial regulatory agencies in such economies.
Mortgage delinquency rates: A cross-country perspective
Irina Stanga, Razvan Vlahu, Jakob de Haan, 15 March 2018
Mortgage delinquency triggered the liquidity crisis that turned into the Global Crisis. Ten years on, mortgage lending still accounts for a large share of both household debt and banks’ assets. This column examines the incidence of mortgage arrears using a dataset for 26 countries from 2000 to 2014. The results show that higher unemployment is associated with an increase in defaults, while higher house prices have a strong negative association with defaults. The analysis suggests that dealing effectively with mortgage default requires a mix of prudential regulation and institutional design improvements.
A holistic approach to capital requirements under systemic stress
Natalia Tente, Natalja von Westernhagen, Ulf Slopek, 06 December 2017
Regulators are still debating the amount of capital needed to support bank losses in a financial crisis. This column presents a new, pragmatic stress-testing tool that can answer the question under macroeconomic stress scenarios. The method models inter-sector and inter-country dependence structures between banks in a holistic, top-down supervisory framework. A test of 12 major German banks as of 2013 suggests that while there is enough capital in the system as a whole, capital allocation among the banks is not optimal.
New evidence on the effectiveness of macroprudential measures
Yener Altunbaş, Mahir Binici, Leonardo Gambacorta, Andres Murcia, 05 December 2017
The main objective of macroprudential tools is to reduce systemic risks – in particular, the frequency and depth of financial crises. Most studies look at the impact of macroprudential measures on credit growth, focusing on country-wide data or bank-level information. This column presents new evidence using credit registry data at the bank-firm level to evaluate the impact on bank risk measures. Results show that macroprudential tools help stabilise credit cycles and contain bank risk.
Banking on capital
Yener Altunbaş, Simone Manganelli, David Marques-Ibanez, 14 November 2017
Prudential supervision of banks has increasingly relied on capital requirements. But bank capital played a relatively minor role in predicting bank solvency during the Global Crisis, except for scarcely capitalised banks. This column argues that while capital is a helpful tool to support bank financial stability, it is complex for supervisors to calibrate it precisely. Macroprudential authorities should be able to complement capital-based tools with additional, borrower-based prudential instruments.
Regulation of Shadow Banks
This advanced course focuses on financial and prudential aspects of the shadow banking sector, with some attention to its legal underpinnings.
This course will focus on:
- Shadow banking as a financial segment that expands and contracts credit outside the regulatory perimeter.
- Key elements of shadow banking regulation, emerging issues related to macro-prudential policy.
- European (as well as some US) legislation on insurance companies, money mutual funds and central clearing platforms for derivatives.
- Review of typical shadow banking funding and lending strategies.
Course Instructors: Enrico Perotti, Bart Joosen and Roger Laeven (University of Amsterdam); Iman van Lelyveld (Free University of Amsterdam and DNB)
Area: Financial Stability and Regulation
Further information and registration: http://fbf.eui.eu/training/regulation-shadow-banks/
Registration deadline: 9 October 2017
Twenty years on: Is there still a case for Bank of England independence?
Ed Balls, Anna Stansbury, 01 May 2017
Until recently, the independence granted to the Bank of England 20 years ago had gone unchallenged. But the financial crisis has raised questions over whether central bank independence is necessary, feasible, and democratic. This column revisits the relationship between inflation and the operational and political independence of the central bank in advanced economies. The findings support the Bank of England model of monetary policy independence: fully operationally independent, but somewhat politically dependent. To make operational independence work, however, further reforms are needed to the model in both monetary–fiscal coordination and macroprudential policy.
Progress on benchmarking macroprudential policy strategies
Domenico Lombardi, Pierre Siklos, 11 April 2017
Macroprudential policies increasingly lie at the heart of how central banks jointly manage of price and financial stability. However, consensus over best practice has yet to emerge. This column presents an improved indicator to measure individual economies’ macroprudential policy capacity. Improvements include incorporating the shadow banking sector, and distinguishing the types of institutions that wield authority. Results suggest that improvements continue to be made with respect to the development of an international financial system with improved resilience to shocks.
Economic resilience: The growth and economic fragility trade-off
Aida Caldera, Alain de Serres, Filippo Gori, Oliver Röhn, 28 March 2017
Severe recessions have been frequent among OECD countries over the past four decades. This column explores the implications of various broad types of policy to minimise the risk and frequency of such episodes for the trade-off for the growth-fragility nexus. Product and labour market policies improve growth but are essentially neutral with regards to economic risks, while better quality institutions increase both growth and economic stability. Macroprudential and financial market policies, on the other hand, entail a trade-off between growth and risk.
Applications of Behavioural Economics, and Multiple Equilibrium Models to Macroeconomic Policy
The conference will last for a day and a half and we envisage that it will consist of twelve papers with discussants. We are looking for high quality research papers in macroeconomics that may help to guide macroeconomic and/or macroprudential policy. We are particularly interested in models that explore the role of behavioural economics and models of multiple equilibrium. Papers may be theoretical or empirical and preference will be given to papers that are imaginative and in an early stage of development.
Keynote speakers: James Bullard (President, St Louis Federal Reserve), Andy Haldane (Bank of England) and Michael Woodford (Columbia)
The deadline for paper submissions is 31 March 2017
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We will make materials and products from ownerless marine plastic
Furniture manufacturers Ope and Vestre are joining with SINTEF in research and development of materials and products from ownerless marine plastic waste.
Through the project “From Beach to Boardroom”, funded by the Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund, Ope and Vestre are seeking to set up an industrial value chain for marine plastic waste. The Research Council of Norway has now decided to support a project in which SINTEF will carry out research on material from this value chain. The enterprises will develop products and services for a circular business model, using marine plastic waste as the raw material. The objective is to ensure that plastic cleared from coastlines never goes astray or ends as pollution again.
- One of Ope’s major objectives is to restore damaged natural areas through our core activities. Now we have an opportunity to develop products from waste removed from natural areas, and that is fantastic, says the founder and CEO, Lars Urheim.
The furniture manufacturers will not keep the knowledge they gain from the project to themselves. - It is important to us that the content and methods of building a closed cycle of materials and products should be made available to others. We want as many as possible in the production sector and users of products to be able to help remove plastic from the countryside, and ensure that it never ends up there again, says Mr Urheim.
- In the light of the recently concluded climate conference in Madrid, one thing has become crystal clear: industry must take responsibility where politicians are afraid, and do not dare take action. It may seem like a heavy obligation for many companies, but the fact is that besides the obligation there are also business opportunities on a large scale, says Jan Christian Vestre in connection with the award.
Read more about who has received support from the Research Council here
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The COSPAS-SARSAT system
Operational use of the COSPAS-SARSAT system by SAR agencies started with the crash of a light aircraft in Canada on 10 September 1982, from which three people were rescued. Since then, the system has been instrumental in the rescue of over 35,000 lives in over 9600 incidents worldwide.
The basic COSPAS-SARSAT concept is illustrated on page 5.7. The system is composed of:
distress beacons (ELTs, PLBs, EPIRBs)
instruments on board geostationary earth orbit (GEO) and low-altitude earth orbit (LEO) satellites, which detect the signals transmitted by distress beacons
Local Users Terminals (LUT) are ground receiver stations which receive and process the satellite downlink signal to generate distress alerts and
Mission Control Centres (MCC), which receive alerts produced by LUTs and forward them to Rescue Coordination Centres (RCC), Search and Rescue Points of Contact (SPOC) or other MCCs.
The COSPAS-SARSAT system includes two types of satellites:
satellites in LEO which form the LEOSAR System and
satellites in GEO which form the GEOSAR System.
The future COSPAS-SARSAT system will include a number of a new type of satellite in medium-altitude earth orbit (MEO), which will form the MEOSAR System.
COSPAS-SARSAT has demonstrated that the GEOSAR and LEOSAR system capabilities are complementary. For example, the GEOSAR system can provide almost immediate alerting in the footprint of the GEOSAR satellite, whereas the LEOSAR system:
provides coverage of the polar regions (which are beyond the coverage of GEO satellites)
can calculate the location of distress events using doppler processing techniques
is less susceptible to obstructions which may block a beacon signal in a given direction because the satellite is continuously moving with respect to the beacon.
RCC Australia’s usage of the COSPAS-SARSAT system
The COSPAS-SARSAT system only detects and locates distress beacons operating at 406 MHz.
Processing of 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz signals by COSPAS-SARSAT ceased on 1 February 2009.
Consequently, over-flying aircraft are the only means of detecting activated analogue beacons. In some areas within the Australian search and rescue region this could mean it would take days rather than hours before a 121.5 MHz beacon could be heard. In some circumstances, the 121.5 MHz beacon may not be detected at all. Not all aircraft ‘listen’ to the 121.5 MHz frequency and those that do are generally very high flyers. As a consequence, the search area resulting from these detections could be very large and it would take rescue authorities considerable time and resources to localise the distress signal. This would also apply to distress beacons activated directly under a high air-traffic density flight path.
Australian LUTs are controlled by the MCC at RCC-Australia in Canberra. There are three LUTs in the Australian region:
Albany (WA)
Bundaberg (QLD) and
Wellington (NZ).
Alerts from 406 MHz distress beacons can be received and processed by GEO satellites and passed to RCC Australia within minutes. If the beacon has GPS capability a very accurate position transmitted with the alert. Non-GPS beacons require detection by a polar earth orbit (POE) satellite before a position can be obtained.
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Home > Operations > Night VFR > Recent experience requirements Print this page
For night VFR flight CASR 61.965
The holder of a night VFR rating is authorised to exercise the privileges of the rating in an aircraft of a particular category only if the holder has, within the previous six months:
carried out the following in an aircraft of that category while controlling the aircraft:
at least one night take-off and
at least one night landing or
been assessed as competent to fly at night in an aircraft of that category by a flight instructor who holds a night VFR training endorsement.
To carry passengers at night CASR 61.395
The holder of a pilot licence is authorised to pilot, during take-off or landing, an aircraft of a particular category carrying a passenger at night only if the holder has, within the previous 90 days, in an aircraft of that category (or an approved flight simulator for the purpose), carried out, at night, while controlling the aircraft or flight simulator:
at least three take-offs and
at least three landings.
However, the holder is taken to meet the requirement above if:
within the previous 90 days, in an aircraft of that category or an approved flight simulator for the purpose, the holder has achieved the following where at least one take-off, and at least one landing at night was included:
successfully completed a relevant check or review or
passed a flight test for a pilot licence or a rating on a pilot licence.
A ‘relevant check or review’ includes either:
an instrument proficiency check; a night vision imaging system proficiency check; an instructor proficiency check; an operator proficiency check or
a flight review.
Flight review CASR 61.970
The flight review requirements in the paragraph below are applicable to either one of the following categories of aircraft as appropriate:
multi-engine aeroplane;
multi-engine helicopter or
an aircraft other than a multi-engine aeroplane or multi-engine helicopter.
The holder of a night VFR rating is authorised to pilot an aircraft of one of the categories mentioned in the paragraph above at night under VFR only if, within the previous 24 months, the holder:
has successfully completed a flight review for the rating in an aircraft of the same category (or an approved flight simulator) for the flight review
has passed a flight test for the rating in an aircraft of the same category (or an approved flight simulator) for the flight test
has passed a flight test for the grant of a night VFR endorsement in an aircraft of the same category (or an approved flight simulator) for the flight test, but more than six months after passing the flight test for the rating
has successfully completed an operator proficiency check that covers night VFR operations in an aircraft of the same category or
has successfully participated in an operator’s approved cyclic training and proficiency program that covers night VFR operations in an aircraft of the same category.
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Category: 4G Module
Global chip giant fighting Chinese 4G LTE market in MWC
2014 Mobile World Congress (Mobile World Congress, hereinafter referred to as the MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, the world’s leading mobile products manufacturers have come up with special skill. However, in addition to increasing media exposure outside of their major technology, mobile chip giant also did not forget to take the opportunity to compete for Chinese 4G mobile network market.
Because including China Mobile, the Chinese mobile operators are racing to upgrade to 4G LTE mobile network. The smart phones main component manufacturers Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, Marvell and Broadcom, compete for the world’s largest mobile market on the occasion of MWC.
Chinese mobile operator’s evolution of LTE technology allows Intel and other chip makers saw a great opportunity to push top LTE chip maker Qualcomm off the altar. The MWC Conference will undoubtedly become a crucial battleground. There are 70 Chinese companies exhibiting MWC Assembly last year, and this year the figure further increased to 99. Therefore, MWC Assembly provides the perfect stage for the global mobile chip manufacturers to showcase their best products.
Intel and Qualcomm chip manufacturers will show the first new microchip-based LTE technology products in Barcelona, many of these chip consumes less power, but the price is also lower than the previous cutting-edge products. This makes them ideal chip products for low-end smartphones in China and other emerging markets.
Qualcomm even designed for MWC Assembly developed a Chinese version of the smart phone applications, and posted in the booth scene identification with Chinese translation. Cristiano, executive vice president of Qualcomm • Amon (Cristiano Amon) said: “We will show a lot of products designed to attract Chinese enterprises and products on LTE technology Qualcomm LTE technology and aware of emerging market consumers migrate to smart phones. the hidden huge opportunity. ”
LTE chip demand surge
With the advantage of early technology, Qualcomm has been the main producer for LTE smartphone chip market in the past four years. And more and more countries have begun to adopt LTE network technology which also enables LTE chip demand surge.
MediaTek chief marketing officer Johan Lodenius, said: “Qualcomm is very good at developing LTE technology chips, however, almost all of the world’s mobile operators are looking for an alternative vendor of LTE chips in our favor. They don’t want to outsource to individual Qualcomm. ”
Intel, MediaTek, Broadcom and Qualcomm’s other competitors are invariably hyping their new exhibition site in MWC Barcelona, LTE chip products coming soon, however, very few of which can be launched in a variety of smart phones applications this week.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, chip maker Marvell has achieved some success; it has been applied in LTE accessories designed for the Chinese market on the development of several upcoming low-power smart phones.
Adjustment chip strategy
On Monday, Intel announced a new LTE chip, and is working with major mobile operators to start testing the chip. Intel marketing director Julie • Corpus Noel said the new LTE chip will be allocated to in the production of mobile phones in late 2014. She said: “LTE chip on the market on how to apply to the overwhelming rumors on the phone and we’ve effectively launched its own chips for our products that we have made significant improvements …”
Like other chip makers, Intel has also restructured the chip strategy, started paying more for the price below $ 300 smart phone product development, while reducing the degree of concern for the high-end smart phone accessories.
According to the UK technology market research, firm ARM Holdings published statistics show that as of 2018, the global high-end smart phone shipments are expected the annual growth rate of just under 4%; while mid-range and entry-level smartphone shipments are expected to annual growth rate were as high as 14% and 17%.
Qualcomm announced the launch of two mobile chips using LTE technology this week, and consumer markets target at China. A Qualcomm spokeswoman said, the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers will launch 10 or more devices with Qualcomm’s new chip.
Even Microsoft is also expanding its influence in the Chinese mobile phone market. Microsoft announced the launch of new reference design projects, designed to facilitate the rapid introduction of mobile phone manufacturers using Qualcomm chips Windows smartphones.
Posted on 2014-03-11 2018-12-09 Categories 4G Module, 4G TechnologyTags 4G Chip Giant, China Market, lte chip, MWC
Huawei ME909 4G LTE LGA Wireless Module
Huawei ME909 is an LTE radio module for the exchange of high data rates in 4G networks and is one model of Huawei’s LGA product family. All modules of the product family are pin and software compatible.
The radio module Huawei ME909 is ready for use in LTE networks. Huawei has its LGA product family expanded to include the first LTE module: ME909 for M2M applications. The version for the European market supports seven LTE frequency bands. The module also features quad-band HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS and quad-band GPRS/GSM/EDGE, making it usable worldwide. With CDC-ECM offering, Huawei also makes the only LTE module on the market to have a virtual Ethernet port. The design is to simplify the integration into existing software platforms and reduce the load on the processor. Huawei ME909 also supports perspective GPS, A-GPS, Glonass and GPS Extra, as the announcement.
With data rates in LTE network of up to 100 Mbit/s, Huawei ME909 is especially for applications with high data throughput, such as video conferences, home gateway, routers or hotspot devices. It is also available with Mini-PCIE interface. Versions for the Japanese and the U.S. market are planned.
According to Huawei, all modules from the respective LGA product families “industrial grade” or “automotive grade” are pin and software compatible. This enables customers to develop M2M solutions on a single hardware platform. This reduces the effort and creates flexibility and sustainability.
Posted on 2013-12-18 2013-12-18 Categories 4G Module, 4G Technology, HUAWEI 4G LTE Modem, New ProductsTags HUAWEI 4G Module, HUAWEI LGA Module, Huawei LTE module, Huawei ME909
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Origin: Professionals Australia
Tagged: ‘Women’, ‘STEM’
"The 2018 Women in the STEM Professions Survey provides valuable insight into factors affecting women’s participation, progression and pay in the STEM workforce."
Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Baseline and pathways for transformative change by 2030
Origin: Asian Development Bank; UN Women
Tagged: ‘United Nations’, ‘Women’
"[This report] provides the first assessment of the current situation of women and girls in the region (...) [and] establishes a baseline for governments and policy makers to monitor and accelerate progress".
Gender Equality Bill exposure draft: Discussion paper
Origin: Health and Human Services, Victorian Government
Tagged: ‘Gender Quota’, ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Government’
"In Victoria, evidence demonstrates that gender inequality persists across many areas including schools, workplaces, neighbourhoods, the media, and sport. It affects all Victorians in a myriad of ways".
Undermining Women's Rights: Australia's global fossil fuel footprint
Origin: ActionAid Australia
Tagged: ‘Women’, ‘Research Report’
"[This report] examines the impacts of coal, oil and gas extraction on women in low income countries. (...) it is women living in poverty who are the most affected by the adverse consequences of the fossil fuel industry."
Gender Equity in Local Government: Research Companion
Origin: Ruth McGowan Pty Ltd; DELWP, Victoria State Government
Tagged: ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Australian Public Service’, ‘Gender Diversity’, ‘Gender Culture’
"Local government is the level of government closest to the people. Therefore, local councils are uniquely placed to reflect community diversity in the profile of elected representatives and the backgrounds of council officers."
Best Practice Guide for Gender Equity in Local Government
Origin: The State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
"This guide helps local communities achieve gender equality in local government – detailing actions individuals and organisations can take to promote gender equity within councils and communities."
Inequality in 1,100 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT & Disability from 2007 to 2017
Origin: Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative; Annenberg Foundation; USC Annenberg
Tagged: ‘Gender Bias’, ‘Gender Culture’, ‘Media’, ‘Research Report’
"[T]he Annenberg Inclusion Initiative conducts the most comprehensive and intersectional investigation into inequality in popular films."
Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council: 2017
Origin: NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security
Tagged: ‘Women’, ‘Gender Diversity’, ‘Gender Culture’, ‘United Nations’
"The overall aim of the policy brief is to assess the implementation of the women, peace, and security (WPS) policy framework in the work of the Security Council."
Care Work and Care Jobs for The Future of Decent Work
Origin: International Labour Organization
Tagged: ‘Female Workforce’, ‘Research Report’
"Across the world, women and girls are performing more than three-quarters of the total amount of unpaid care work and two-thirds of paid care workers are women."
UN Women Annual Report 2017-2018
Origin: UN Women
Tagged: ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Women’, ‘Gender Diversity’, ‘Empowerment’, ‘United Nations’, ‘VAW’
"UN Women is supporting women politicians, electoral officials, voters, lawmakers, civil society activists and many others to claim their equal right to lead and be heard. The report highlights the experiences of a multitude of formidable women".
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Category Archives: Energy Security
Where’d Wolfe Island Go?
Last week, on December 20th, a moderate ice storm skimmed the Ontario side of Lake Ontario. It was no big deal as these storms go – the 1998 storm that brought the Wolfe Island CKWS tower down was far far worse. Since 1998 there have been maybe 3 similar smaller storms. Apparently it was big enough to shut the 198 MW Wolfe Island Wind Project down. In the early afternoon of December 20, after several hours of “light freezing drizzle”, the Wolfe Island production went to zero. Going to zero is not a big deal – all wind farms spend a fair amount of time at zero. But in this case the winds were still moderate, in the 20 kph range, easily strong enough to produce electricity.
We can all guess what happened. The ice caused the blades to become unbalanced and the computers brought it all to a stop. The only question was, how long would it stay down? The blades are white, unheated, and getting a helicopter to spray de-icer on them would be problematical. How long before a warm spell or some sun? In Ontario in Winter, that could be a long time. As it happens, it was a little over a week. On December 27 at 10 AM the production numbers moved off of zero for the first time since the 20th.
We all know what happens to our standard of living (and in the Winter that could include dying) if we lose electrical service. Luckily there’s enough traditional reliable generation capacity in Ontario that the wind production is entirely superfluous (and most of which is exported at a loss). Ontario’s Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, is fond of saying how wind energy is replacing traditional sources. Thank goodness he’s wrong about that.
Emissions Savings, Energy Security, Grid Integration
Is there an echo in here?
July 11, 2011 wayne Leave a comment
I don’t take a lot of pleasure out of seeing what I’ve written confirmed, having the “I told you so” moment, just as I don’t take a lot of pleasure out of being the bearer of bad news about wind energy. But every now and then some industry insider confirms what I’ve been saying and at least that lets me know I’m not totally divorced from reality – that my wits are at least marginally intact. And I do enjoy having that confirmation.
At the American Public Power Association conference last week in Washington one Kevin Gaden, who is director of a power consortium in Nebraska, made a speech, that from the sounds of it, could have been based on my writings. Except, of course, it was based on his experience in the field.
Link to The Reality of Wind Power [backup link]. Compare that to my Emissions Savings Summary page.
Energy Security Summary
One of the advantages wind energy proponents claim for their industry is “energy security”. Everyone knows we import large amounts of oil, and thus the claim seems plausible. Who wants to be “hostage” to a potentially unfriendly foreign government? But even a cursory look at the energy market shows that there is little connection between wind turbines and oil imports, while there is a big connection between wind turbines and other resources that are controlled almost entirely by China. Continue reading Energy Security Summary →
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2017: Elections in Africa
Niki Wolfe
Africa, African Politics, Angola, ballot, ballot box, democracy, DRC, election map, Elections, elections 2017, expert briefing, government, human rights, incumbent, Kabila, Kenya, Kenyatta, lesotho, liberia, Lucia Kula, map, MPLA, politicians, polls, President, presidential elections, RFP, RPF, Rwanda, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Sierra Leone, Sirleaf, Somaliland, term limits, timeline, UNITA, vote, weah, Zilper Audi
At least 6 sub-Saharan African nations are due to hold presidential or parliamentary elections in 2017. Check out the expert briefings, articles and other material on our interactive elections resource.
Whose Land Is It Anyway? The failure of land law reform in Kenya
Africa, Africa Research Institute, agriculture, allotment, allotments, Ambreena Manji, anti-corruption, ARI, ARI publications, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Cardiff Law School, Cities, Constitutional reform, corruption, corruption in kenya, Counterpoints, Daniel arap Moi, development, development in Africa, East Africa, Eastern Africa, Edward Paice, family law, formal property rights, human rights, inheritance law, inheritance law in Africa, injustice, Jomo Kenyatta, justice, Katiba Institute, Kenya, Kenya constitution, Kenya constitutional reform, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Kenya Land Alliance, Kenya law, Kenyans, Kenyatta, Land Committee, land corruption, land development, land governance, land justice, land law, land law in Africa, land law in East Africa, land law in Eastern Africa, land law reform, land legislation, Land reform, land rights, landgrabs, law, Law in Publications, legal, legislation, Ministry of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlements, Moi, MOL, morthage law, nairobi, National Land Commission, National Land Policy, National Social Security Fund, Ndung'u Commission, Ndung'u report, NLC, NSSF, Politics in Publications, President Jomo Kenyatta, private property, privatisation, property law, property rights, property rights in Africa, public land, rural, rural Africa, TJRC, Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission, urban africa, urbanisation, Urbanisation in Africa, urbanization
Land is a “key fault line” in Kenya. Throughout East Africa land law reform has been pursued at the expense of substantive land reform. New laws have not been redistributive or transformative in a positive way.
How Rwanda judged its genocide
Gacaca, genocide, human rights, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Patriotic Front, transitional justice
Since 2001, the gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda’s justice and reconciliation process. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, but lawyers are banned from any official involvement. Human rights organisations fiercely opposed the use...
Gacaca, genocide, human rights, law, Law in Publications, Phil Clark, Politics in Publications, Rwanda
While the full impact of the process will not be apparent for many years, gacaca community courts have delivered benefits to Rwandans in the spheres of justice, truth and reconciliation.
Voices of disquiet on the Malawian airwaves
economic grievances, human rights, injustice, Malawi, Nkhani Zam’maboma, radio
Human Rights NGOs are considered vanguards in the struggle against injustice and authoritarianism in Africa. But their narrow focus on civil and political rights neglects widely held economic grievances. In Malawi, an audience-driven radio programme – Nkhani Zam’maboma or “News...
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Sonic Foundry explores capital options
Sonic Foundry, the Madison-based producer of the rich media product Mediasite, has filed a shelf registration that will allow it to sell up to 12 million shares of common stock to raise up to $42.6 million. Proceeds could be used for a variety of business...
Make Mine a $Million shoots for May program
The Make Mine a $Million campaign has come to Wisconsin, and soon the state's women entrepreneurs will be competing for valuable business related benefits. The program now has become a movement, according to Inacom Information System's Laurie Benson, and it seeks to take one million...
Early Stage, Step 3: Naming the entity
The nuts and bolts of starting a business include choosing a business entity name, which is more involved than it sounds. Fortunately, the Internet provides a way to find out if you have "naming rights" in Wisconsin, according to Early Stage columnist Joe Boucher, and...
Impact of e-medical records will be felt at home
American society uses technology in virtually every facet of life, which is one reason why Wisconsin has begun to move away from paper records in the healthcare system. As Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton explains in this WTN Visions Column, the real impact of our pending...
Securitas aims to counter virus behavior
Securitas Technologies, a new start-up company based in Madison, is in the early phases of developing anti-malware systems that target the behavior of viruses, spyware, trojans, and other destructive programs. The company hopes to meet opportunities created by an increasingly sophisticated class of cyber criminals....
Securities compliance is part of raising capital
Complying with securities laws is a crucial part of raising capital, notes Private Placements columnist Matthew Storms. In previous articles on raising capital, he provided an overview of the capital-raising process, due diligence, and the use of placement agents. This column describes a few common...
Net neutrality: To control or not control, that is the question
When it comes to stirring technology passions, the subject of "net neutrality" ranks right up there with embryonic stem cell research. But before we entertain ideas to regulate the Internet, guest columnist Jim Rice, president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin, believes...
Epic responds to critics of electronic record installation
Madison's Epic Systems Corp. received its first real public relations black eye in recent weeks, but the company is finally responding to criticism of its $3 billion electronic health record installation at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Following the complaints of a persistent Kaiser Permanente employee,...
New firm to help companies land federal dollars
A new government relations venture seeks to provide an additional anchor to companies that occupy space in Wisconsin's emerging technology and life science sectors, and its more mature manufacturing base. The organization, hamilton.gsp, is a collaboration between Wisconsin's own Hamilton Consulting Group and GSP Consulting....
Wisconsin identity theft law: A cheap plastic sword
Wisconsin's new identity theft law isn't as tough as its authors claim, according to Milwaukee attorney Mark Garsombke. In this WTN guest column, Garsombke points out some fundamental flaws in a law that was enacted earlier this year, and suggests Wisconsin follow the example of...
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IMDB : 7.6 50 min
'The L Word' follows the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles. The main character, Jenny, is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, who moves to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend Tim and begin a professional writing career. Jenny's life is turned upside down when she attends a party hosted by Tim's next-door neighbors, Bette and Tina, a lesbian couple who are about to take the step into parenthood after being together for seven years. A brief encounter at the party with Marina, the owner of the local coffeehouse, suddenly has Jenny thrust into a whole new world that makes her question her own sexual orientation. Other friends of Bette and Tina include Dana, a professional tennis player who is shy but eager to meet the right woman; Alice, a magazine writer who has a brief relationship with a self-identified lesbian man; and Shane, a hairstylist who can't stick to just one woman, and Kit, Bette's half sister who struggles with alcoholism. Written by Anonymous
Genre : Drama, Romance,
Actor : Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman,
Country : Canada | USA,
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Pilot - EPS 01
Bette Porter and Tina Kennard have been a couple for seven years and want to start a family. Their next-door neighbor, Tim Haspel, is about to form a couple when his girlfriend, talented young writer Jenny Schecter, moves in. Soon, mixing with Bette and Tina's circle of lesbian friends, Jenny learns that her mid-west university may not have prepared her for what she will learn about life, lust and love in Los Angeles. Written by Anonymous
Country: Canada | USA
Let's Do It - EPS 02
Bette and Tina wait eagerly to see if Tina will get pregnant via artificial insemination. Dana becomes interested in a woman, named Lara Perkins, who works as the chef at the tennis club she is practicing at. Unable to know if Lara is gay or straight, all of Dana's friend go to the club's restaurant to try out a series of amusing 'tests' to see if Lara 'is or isn't'. Meanwhile, Tim, unaware of her encounter with Jenny, invites Marina to a dinner party at his house which stirs up tension between both women. Bette notices the air of tension and in an angry tone, tells Marina to stay away from Jenny. Kit tries to make amends meet to Bette. While doing research at a women's clinic for a news story, Alice meets a former flame, named Gabby, and considers rekindling the flame despite protests from her friends about the way Gabby treated her in the past. Also, Shane continues to be harassed by Lacey who tries to destroy Shane's reputation. Written by Anonymous
Longing - EPS 03
Bette engages in a battle of wills with the board of directors whom oppose a new set of artwork called 'Provocations' at the California Art Center, and she takes a desperate step by traveling to Santa Barbara to see Peggy Peabody, an eccentric and notorious art collector, to ask for help in funding for setting up the event. Meanwhile, Jenny struggles with her feelings for Marina and finds herself unable to resist the temptation. Alice tries to regain her self-respect by going out with Gabby, but learns that Gabby has not changed her selfish ways. Dana finally asks Lara out on a date. Also, Shane finally makes amends to her stalker Lacey. Written by Anonymous
Lies, Lies, Lies
Lies, Lies, Lies - EPS 04
Bette greets Tina's pregnancy with apparent delight despite her work problems with the gallery in trying to keep her job. Jenny's continuing lustful relationship with Marina endangers her life with Tim when she visits her old college professor, Nick Barashkov, whom she confides about her involvement with Marina, while Tim thinks Jenny's cheating on him with Nick. Dana's insecurity about her romantic involvement with Lara continues. Also, Alice has mother problems when her irresponsible and pompous actress mother, Lenora, is evicted from her hotel suite and asks to stay with her while she fibs a little about her sagging acting career. Written by Anonymous
Lawfully
Lawfully - EPS 05
Alice becomes more neurotic after her mother tells her about a 'tender moment' with Shane at a party the night before. Tim finally finds out about Jenny and Marina when he catches both of them 'in the act.' In a desperate attempt to hold onto him, Jenny tries making up with Tim where he tells her to put their love to the ultimate test by traveling to Lake Tahoe and marring in haste. Meanwhile, Dana is invited to a Subaru dinner party that wants to sponsor her tennis career. But she ends up hurting Lara when Dana takes Harrison, her (male) doubles tennis partner instead. Bette and Tina have dinner with Bette's conservative father where they announce Tina's pregnancy. But Melvin Porter's negative reaction dismays both of them. Hurt that he avoided her, Kit offers Bette a little comfort and then confronts Mr. Porter to accept Bette's lifestyle even if he will always disapproves. Also, Shane runs into Clive, an old friend whom is the personal assistant to Harry Sandchuk, a Hollywood ... Written by Anonymous
Losing It - EPS 06
A rising artist in New York tests Bette's commitment while Tina has an unpleasant run-in with Lei Ling, the sperm donor's girlfriend, who begins to harass her. Alice meets a man named Lisa, who claims to be a 'lesbian in a man's body' whom she asks on a date. Meanwhile, Tim, still distrustful of Jenny after their quickie wedding, returns home alone leaving Jenny on her own. While hitchhiking back to Los Angeles, Jenny gets a ride from two disaffected teenagers, named Malcolm and Marnie, where she confides in them about her troubled life and spends the time writing a long, heartfelt letter to Tim describing her emotional pain. Also, Shane gets a big emotional boost when Harry wants to refer her hairstyling techniques to public celebrities. Written by Anonymous
L'Ennui - EPS 07
After returning home, Jenny is hurt when Tim rejects her and tells her to move out. Jenny then goes to Marina who willingly offers her place and they have a great time together. But it all comes to a sudden head when Marina reveals that she has another lover, named Francesca, living in Italy. Meanwhile, Bette and Tina struggle with their fears of parenthood, especially Tina with her pregnancy. Dana's fears about being outed by her endorsement contract with Subaru wrecks her relationship with Lara. Shane throws a party aboard Harry's boat with all her friends in attendance. Alice, fed up with women, tries a relationship with Lisa, who does not turn out to be as expected. Also, Kit is stung when her estranged son, David Waters, doesn't show up for their meeting after thinking that she's fallen off the wagon again. Written by Anonymous
Listen Up - EPS 08
Jenny tries to explain her situation and her confused sexuality to her one-time college roommate, Annette, who suggests they stalk Marina's girlfriend, Francesca, after she arrives in town. Meanwhile, Bette and Tina attend group therapy in preparation of becoming parents while Bette faces off against a militant writer, named Yolanda, who questions Bette's self-image as a mixed race. With her Subaru endorsement contract in full swing, Dana, with Alice in tow, decides to come out to her right-wing parents during a formal ball for Mrs. Fairbanks despite knowing they will not approve. Kit is offered by an agent to help writing a song for rapper Slim Daddy. Also, Shane throws Clive out of her place after seeing him reverting back to his old criminal self when she catches him pilfering items out of her own apartment to support his drug habit. Written by Anonymous
Country: USA | Canada
Luck, Next Time
Luck, Next Time - EPS 09
Bette faces serious personal and professional problems when the art gallery comes under attack for it's radical art and Tina buys some expensive baby accessories without consulting her. As Dana starts to find herself as she really is, fame (with complications) finds Shane when she does a hairstyle to a has-been actress, named Cherie Jaffe, who makes a pass a her. Alice finds complications with Lisa and turns to another man, named Andrew. Meanwhile, Jenny is in turmoil when she's more confused then ever about being with Tim or Marina after having an unpleasant dinner with Marina and Francesca who defend their open romance. But Tim refuses to take Jenny back when he tells her that he will never forget, nor forgive, her cheating on him. Also, Kit begins to rehearse for Slim Daddy's music video. Written by Anonymous
Liberally
Liberally - EPS 10
Tina's grief from her sudden miscarriage is eased when an unexpected opportunity arrives in the form of Oscar, a member of her and Bette's therapy group, who asks her to volunteer at his social insurance office and they find some dirt on Fay Buckley, the fanatically conservative leader of a religious right group who's bent on shutting down Bette's art gallery which leads to a live television debate. Shane's relationship with Cherie becomes complicated when Cherie's unsuspecting husband, Steve, wants to invest in Shane opening up her own hair salon while he asks her to spend time with his emotionally distant teenage daughter, Clea, who also makes a pass at Shane. Marina and Francesca have an argument over Francesca wanting to leave town again for a job. Jenny tries to help Tim whom begins to date Trish, one of his swim team students. Dana also gets a new liberal hairstyle and tries a fling with Jenny, but it doesn't work. Alice worries that she might be pregnant after her flings with ... Written by Anonymous
Looking Back - EPS 11
Bette prepares for the gallery's 'Provocations' show and hires Candace, an attractive female contractor and the ex-lover of Yolanda, to handle the set-up. Meanwhile, Tina, Jenny, Shane, Alice and Dana share an eventful road trip to Palm Springs to the Diana Shore Golf Classic for women. While there, they tell their 'coming out' stories, and Alice's mother, Lenora, tags along to her home after an acting job. At the hotel, Dana meets her new manager, Tonya, and both hit it off, while Alice suspects that Tonya is just a grifter. Jenny unloads about her tragic life to some of the attendees, and meets a new lady, named Robin, and both hit it off. Written by Anonymous
Locked Up - EPS 12
A near-riot at the art gallery lands Bette, Dana, Shane, and Alice in the L.A. county jail, which puts Bette in dangerous proximity to Candace when they share a cell together. Meanwhile, Kit meets Ivan, an auto mechanic and ultra-butch drag king that she finds herself strangely attracted to. Marina contemplates life without Francesca, and beings to flirt with Robin, knowing that she has a dinner date with Jenny. While attending the local aquarium for working on her new book, Jenny meets an attractive marine biologist named Gene, whom she too asks out. As Tim and Jenny discuss divorce, Shane's relationships spin out of control when Clea refuses to take no for an answer to back away. Also, Dana remains oblivious to Tonya's hidden agenda for her. Written by Anonymous
Limb from Limb
Limb from Limb - EPS 13
The 'Provocations' art show finally premieres at the CAC with mixed reviews, while Bette can no longer resist the temptation and begins a sordid fling with Candace. Meanwhile, Marina continues to flirt with Robin despite knowing she's dating Jenny, who begins to have a lustful fling of her own with Gene. Shane's life turns from bad to worse when her attempts to let down Clea easy turns disastrous, and Cherie abandons Shane when their affair is finally discovered which leads to Steve terminating his business arrangement with Shane. Tina finds out about Bette's fling with Candace. Dana loses a friend when her pet cat dies and gains a fiancée when Tonya proposes marriage. Also, Kit tries to make sense of Ivan's attention and her reaction to it. Written by Anonymous
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ACL backs tax fairness for stay-at-home parents
For release: 7 April 2015
The Australian Christian Lobby today backed calls from federal Nationals backbenchers for fairer tax deal for stay-at-home parents in next month’s budget.
Nationals Senators Matt Canavan, Bridget McKenzie, Barry O’Sullivan and John Williams are calling on the government to allow income splitting for single income families who currently pay $10,000 a year more tax than double income families earning the same amount.
ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton said “the tax system should not penalise parents who wish to work unpaid in the home, particularly when children are young.
”We need to stop favouring dual income families with twice the tax-free threshold compared to single income families.
“Stay-at-home parents also ease the burden on Australia’s child care system by not accessing the $7 Billion available in childcare subsidies.”
Mr Shelton said he was surprised to learn that more than half of the OECD countries allow some form of income splitting or income sharing arrangements for parents.
Senator Matt Canavan is one of the parliamentarians leading the push for a fairer tax system for families and has 720 signatures on a petition online.
“ACL encourages people to support Senator Canavan’s petition,” Mr Shelton said.
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Members of the media can find contact information and areas of expertise below for a wide range of Albion College faculty and staff. In most cases, names link to further information. Questions and interview requests can also be directed to the Office of Marketing and Communications, 517/629-0445, .
The list and accompanying drop-down menu are arranged by academic department or discipline.
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View all CategoriesAnthropology and SociologyArt and Art HistoryBiologyCommunication StudiesChemistryEconomics and ManagementEducationEnglishEnvironment/Nature/SustainabilityGeological SciencesHistoryKinesiologyMathematics and Computer ScienceModern Languages and CulturesMusicPhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychological ScienceReligious StudiesWomen’s and Gender Studies
Brad Chase
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison
517/629-0414,
Areas of expertise: archaeology, urban problems, ancient international relations, ancient technology
Scott Melzer
Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., 2004, University of California, Riverside
Areas of expertise: men and masculinities, intimate partner violence, gun politics/NRA
Bille Wickre
Ph.D., 1993, University of Michigan
Areas of expertise: women artists; art in the Albion College collection, especially prints; modern and contemporary art
E. Dale Kennedy
Professor; Director, Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program
Ph.D., 1989, Rutgers University
Area of expertise: birds
Ola Olapade
Ph.D., 2004, Kent State University
Areas of expertise: microbiology, public health, environmental health
Bradley Rabquer
Ph.D., 2006, University of Toledo
Areas of expertise: physiology, medical research, immunology, molecular and cell biology
Douglas W. White
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment
Areas of expertise: environmental sustainability, ecology, birds, ornithology, conservation
Craig Bieler
Co-Chair and Professor
Ph.D., 1992, University of Pittsburgh
Areas of expertise: chemical analysis (especially spectroscopy, chromatography, and mass spectrometry), instrument repair, van der Waals interactions, gas hydrates, chemical education
Andrew N. French
Ph.D., 1992, University of Illinois
Areas of expertise: organic chemistry, hypervalent iodine chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, sustainability studies, teaching with technology
Lisa B. Lewis
Ph.D., 1994, University of California, Irvine
Areas of expertise: science education, use of mobile devices and apps in teaching and learning, surface chemistry (especially semiconductor surfaces), laser desorption mass spectrometry, gas hydrates
Andy Boyan
Ph.D., 2012, Michigan State University
Areas of expertise: sports media, media process and effects, video games and interactive entertainment, social media
Karen Erlandson
Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2002, University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: nonverbal communication, emotions, interpersonal communication, gendered communication
Gregory M. Saltzman
Ph.D., 1982, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Areas of expertise: union-management relations, health policy and insurance
Kyle Shanton
Ph.D., 1998, University of Arizona
Areas of expertise: teacher education, literacy, bilingual education
Ian F. MacInnes
Chair and Professor
Ph.D., 1995, University of Virginia
Areas of expertise: Elizabethan literature and culture, technology in teaching
Helena Mesa
Ph.D., 2003, University of Houston
Areas of expertise: poetry (contemporary), creative writing
Environment/Nature/Sustainability
Director, Whitehouse Nature Center
B.A., 1989, Bluffton University
Areas of expertise: natural history of Michigan, flora and fauna, green initiatives (rain gardens, rain barrels, LEED), outdoor education, student farm/gardening
Timothy N. Lincoln
Co-Chair and Professor of Geology; Director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment
Ph.D., 1978, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of expertise: hydrology and groundwater, environmental geochemistry and contamination, sustainability and sustainable living
Michael McRivette
Areas of expertise: geology, GIS
Carrie A. Menold
Areas of expertise: Himalayas/Tibet, geology, natural resources
Thomas I. Wilch
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Areas of expertise: climate change, Antarctica, volcanic eruptions, natural disasters, geology
Ph.D., 1999, University of California, Berkeley
Area of expertise: U.S. race relations
Heather H. Betz
Assistant Professor, Exercise Science
Areas of expertise: physical activity, exercise, childhood obesity
Scott D. Michel
Visiting Instructor, Athletic Training
M.A., 2002, Western Michigan University
Areas of expertise: athletic injury and prevention, rehabilitation of injuries, leadership and administration of athletic training
Robert I. Moss
Chair and Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Ph.D., 1988, Southern Illinois University
Areas of expertise: sports injury/muscle skeletal injury, kinesiology of sports injury, biomechanics of sports injury, anatomy and sports injury
Mark E. Bollman
Ph.D., 2001, Central Michigan University
Areas of expertise: mathematical and other aspects of gambling, mathematics education
Karla R. McCavit
Adjunct Instructor; Director, Quantitative Studies Center
M.S., 1995, Michigan State University
Areas of expertise: first-year student issues, transition from high school to college, math learning and teaching issues
David A. Reimann
Ph.D., 1998, Wayne State University
Areas of expertise: symmetry, M.C. Escher, mathematical art, Internet programming
Dianne Guenin-Lelle
Professor of French
Ph.D., 1988, Louisiana State University
Areas of expertise: French/Francophone issues, post-Katrina New Orleans, international partnerships, Sister City developments
Kalen Oswald
Chair and Associate Professor of Spanish
Areas of expertise: literature from Spain, contemporary Spanish culture, urban experience in Barcelona, Spanish detective fiction
David Abbott
D.M.A., 1995, Eastman School of Music
Areas of expertise: classical music, performing arts, piano
James Ball
D.M.A. (orchestral conducting), 1992, Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Areas of expertise: music, arts advocacy, reviews (live performance, CDs, etc.)
Samuel McIlhagga
Ph.D., 2006, University of Minnesota
Areas of expertise: music education, wind band/wind ensemble music, conducting
Jeremy Kirby
Ph.D., 2005, Florida State University
Area of expertise: science and religion (relationship between the two)
Bindu Madhok
Ph.D., 1990, Brown University
Areas of expertise: medical ethics, environmental ethics, ethics and public policy, global development ethics (with a focus on India)
Nicolle Zellner
Ph.D., 2001, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Areas of expertise: women/girls in science, astronomy, NASA, planets, space in general
Carrie Booth Walling
Areas of expertise: human rights, United Nations Security Council, humanitarian intervention, international courts (human rights trials, truth commissions)
Dyron K. Dabney
Areas of expertise: Japanese politics, Japanese elections, U.S. elections, U.S. party politics
William D. Rose
Ph.D., 1999, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of expertise: Constitutional law and the Supreme Court (judicial politics), crime and punishment, politics of higher education
Andrew Christopher
Ph.D., 1999, University of Florida
Areas of expertise: psychology/organizational issues, Albion's business and organizations major, political ideology
Andrea Ploucher Francis
Areas of expertise: reflective learning, educational psychology
W. Jeffrey Wilson
Areas of expertise: neuroscience, biology of sexual preference
Jocelyn McWhirter
Ph.D., 2002, Princeton Theological Seminary
Area of expertise: Bible
Ronney B. Mourad
Ph.D., 2002, University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: philosophy of religion, faith and rationality, French Catholic mysticism
Peter Valdina
Ph.D., 2012, Emory University
Areas of expertise: religions of South Asia, Hinduism, Islam
John W. Woell
Associate Provost
Ph.D., 2002, Claremont Graduate University
Areas of expertise: religion and politics, liberal arts education, issues in higher education
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Trisha Franzen
Ph.D., 1990, University of New Mexico
Areas of expertise: Anna Howard Shaw (biography published March 2014), suffrage, women's issues, gender issues, LGBT, sexuality, same-sex marriage
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Murdered Israeli Yeshiva Student Laid to Rest, as US Jewish Groups Unite in Condemnation of ‘Dastardly Act of Terror’
by Benjamin Kerstein
Friends and relatives mourn during the funeral of Dvir Sorek in the Israeli community of Ofra in the West Bank, Aug. 8, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Corinna Kern.
Major US Jewish groups were united in condemnation on Thursday of the Palestinian terrorist attack in which Israeli student Dvir Sorek was murdered next to Migdal Oz in the West Bank.
“We join the people of Israel in mourning the loss of 19-year-old student Dvir Sorek, from the community of Ofra, who was studying at Yeshivat Migdal Oz,” CoP Chairman Arthur Stark and Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Malcolm Hoenlein said in a statement.
“This was a dastardly act of terror and cold-blooded murder of a student who was found still clutching the books he had just bought in Jerusalem,” they added.
Referring to Sorek’s grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who was killed in a terror attack in 2000, Stark and Hoenlein commented, “We extend our deepest condolences to Dvir’s family which has already suffered grievously from previous terror attacks. We are confident that the IDF will do everything necessary to apprehend the perpetrators and protect the lives and well-being of Israeli civilians.”
“The international community must join in condemning this attack and those who incited, abetted, and supported it, especially the continuing ‘pay-to-slay’ grants of the Palestinian Authority,” they concluded.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) said Sorek was “another victim of senseless terrorism.”
“We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” the WJC tweeted.
Corporal Dvir Sorek was stabbed and killed in a terrorist attack in the West Bank early this morning, close to the Yeshiva where he was studying. Another victim of senseless terrorism. We extend our deep condolences to his family.
Photo courtesy of @IDF pic.twitter.com/tnWaFBQP9y
— WJC (@WorldJewishCong) August 8, 2019
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) tweeted, “We mourn with the family of Dvir Sorek, the 19-year-old Israeli yeshiva student found stabbed to death today. May Dvir’s memory be a blessing and may his family, who lost Dvir’s grandfather to a Palestinian terror attack in 2000, know no further sorrow.”
We mourn with the family of Dvir Sorek, the 19-year-old Israeli yeshiva student found stabbed to death today.
May Dvir’s memory be a blessing and may his family, who lost Dvir’s grandfather to a Palestinian terror attack in 2000, know no further sorrow.https://t.co/w3QxRZQHak
— AJC (@AJCGlobal) August 8, 2019
Sorek’s funeral was held Thursday night in Ofra. The Israeli news site Mako reported that hundreds of mourners attended.
Yoav Sorek, Dvir’s father, eulogized his son, saying, “Our dear and beloved Dvir, in a few days we were supposed to celebrate your 19th birthday, and I can’t think of those 19 years without smiling. I often stood and watched you from the sidelines with wonder. You had a special personality that I felt I couldn’t fathom its secret, just rejoice in it.”
“The Lord gave and the Lord took away,” Yoav said. “Evil spirits of death took you. … We will try to add light and good and strengthen the family despite the pain.”
Mako reported that the ongoing investigation into the murder has revealed new details. Investigators are theorizing that Sorek was targeted by multiple terrorists who spotted him from a passing car.
Whether the terrorists were trying to kidnap or kill him is still unknown, but they emerged from the car and attacked, at which point Sorek fought back and was stabbed to death. The terrorists then escaped in the director of the Palestinian village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem.
Searches for the terrorists are still ongoing in the area.
Meanwhile, in New York, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon stated, “The attack and its glorification are the direct result of the Palestinian leadership’s ongoing policy of educating and incentivizing its youth to kill Jews throughout Israel. I call upon the Security Council to condemn this sickening act of terror immediately, unequivocally and in the strongest terms possible. It is the duty of the council to put an urgent stop to all Palestinian incitement efforts.”
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Cardiac magnetic resonance in patients with mitral valve prolapse: Focus on late gadolinium enhancement and T1 mapping.
Pradella, S.; Grazzini, G.; Brandani, M.; Calistri, L.; Nardi, C.; Mori, F.; Miele, V.; Colagrande, S.
Eur Radiol
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the incidence of late-gadolinium-enhancement (LGE) in mitral valve prolapse (MVP) (in the absence of other heart/valvular diseases), and its association with the degree of mitral regurgitation (MR) and/or with complex ventricular arrhythmia (ComVA), and to analyse the role of T1 mapping in the evaluation of MVP patients.
METHODS: We included all consecutive patients with MVP who underwent during 2015-2016 a comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) examination at 1.5 T. We evaluated the association of LGE with the MR fraction and the presence of ComVA. We compared myocardial T1-native and post-contrast times and extracellular volume (ECV)-values between MVP patients, both with and without LGE, and the control group.
RESULTS: Thirty-four patients with MVP were selected (56 ± 14 years old, 59% male). All patients had MR; LGE and ComVA were present in 15 (44%) and 11 (34%) patients, respectively. Significant associations of LGE with both MR severity and ComVA were not found (p=0.72 and 0.79, respectively). T1 mapping confirmed the presence of LGE in all cases. In one patient a thin signal alteration resulted in more evident T1 mapping than LGE. Patients with MVP had higher native T1-values, lower post-contrast T1-values and increased ECV-values compared with controls (p=0.01, 0.01 and 0.00, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Focal fibrosis with LGE was found in about half the MVP patients and it was independent of the degree of the valve dysfunction and the presence of ComVA. T1 mapping allows diffuse myocardial wall alterations to be identified, but no significant associations between the MR severity and ComVA and T1/ECV values were found.
KEY POINTS: • MVP is a common valvulopathy affecting 2-3% of the general population. • MVP has been associated with an increased risk of arrhythmic complications and sudden cardiac death. • CMR is a non-invasive imaging method that provides a precise and more accurate assessment of patients with MVP.
Pradella S, Grazzini G, Brandani M, Calistri L, Nardi C, Mori F, et al. Cardiac magnetic resonance in patients with mitral valve prolapse: Focus on late gadolinium enhancement and T1 mapping. Eur Radiol. 2019;29(3):1546-1554.
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Sarkozy Voices ‘Support’ for Dutch PM in Anti-Islam Film Row
AFP, March 6, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday voiced his solidarity with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who fears a Muslim backlash over a film criticising Islam made by a far-right Dutch MP.
Sarkozy assured Balkenende of his “support” over lunch at the Elysee Palace, saying he was “highly aware of the question of Islam’s place in European societies, and French society in particular,” a presidential spokesman said.
Wilders, head of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party, said that if he finds a Dutch broadcaster to show the film uncut it could be on the air within a couple of days, and that he will otherwise present it at a press conference later this month and on the Internet.
The film, which lasts around 15 minutes, is called “Fitna”, which in Arabic means war, or division, in the heart of Islam.
[Editor’s Note: Additional information on the Dutch government’s concern over the Wilders film can be found here.]
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In 1954, when he was only 13 years old, on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.
In 1968, by the time he was 27 years old, on January 31st, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War. 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces swarmed into South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese and US troops held off the offensive but it was such fierce fighting that the U.S. public began to turn against the war.
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In 1983, he was 42 years old when physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.
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[Update: Higher-res image] Sprint's LG V50 ThinQ reminds you about its 5G capabilities with an unsightly yellow logo on the back
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2019/02/18 2:04pm PST Feb 18, 2019
Update 1: 2019/02/18 2:04pm PST
Not loving the jaggy, aliased edges on that kinda ugly-looking low-res leak? Evan has apparently decided to throw us a bone and share a much nicer, higher-res version of the
LG's last few V-series phones have been pretty similar to each other, but it looks like the upcoming V50 is going to have something special up its sleeve: 5G. A leaked photo of the Sprint V50 from Evan Blass reveals that the phone will have 5G capabilities, and given the giant yellow logo on the back, it isn't shy about it.
https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/1096639135895470080
For the most part, the V50 looks roughly the same as the V40. Of course, Sprint makes sure that everyone knows the phone is 5G-capable between the status bar, the unsightly yellow logo on the back, and the very over-the-top wallpaper. 5G branding aside, the only immediately noticeable change is to the three rear cameras, which no longer sit on a raised glass module. Instead, they appear to be flush with the back of the phone, which is an interesting design choice.
The V50 ThinQ is likely launching on February 24th. If our speculation that this will be LG's first 5G phone is correct, the V50 will have a Snapdragon 855, a 4,000mAh battery, and a large vapor chamber for cooling.
Update 1: 2019/02/18 2:04pm PST by Stephen Schenck
Not loving the jaggy, aliased edges on that kinda ugly-looking low-res leak? Evan has apparently decided to throw us a bone and share a much nicer, higher-res version of the V50 leak. That overly conspicuous 5G logo up top still isn't looking any prettier, but at least we can see it a bit better — that's something, right?
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By providing large-scale loans and consultancy services, the World Bank exerts enormous influence on international development policy. Switzerland too is now being asked to participate in capital increases.
In recent years the World Bank has lost its monopoly on development lending, with ever more countries turning to private providers and setting up new development banks. The leading one is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which Switzerland joined in 2016. To adapt to the new environment, the World Bank Group (WBG – see below) has introduced a series of reforms. The transformation into a "knowledge bank" is meant to shift the focus away from lending towards increased policy and technical consultancy and direct project funding. Besides, in the years ahead the World Bank is keen to be more active in fragile contexts and has signalled its intention to be a pioneer in climate matters. The overarching goal of the World Bank Group as a whole for the next few years is encapsulated in the designation “Maximizing Finance for Development” (MFD). MFD presupposes better teamwork among all WBG component organizations in pursuit of the overall aim of systematically raising private funds for development financing.
The MFD approach is based on the notion that a rethinking will be needed if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) summed up in the UN 2030 Agenda are to be realized. Because the billions in official development funding are not enough to fund the SDGs, the private sector should step in and provide the trillions needed to achieve the goals.
To understand how this is to work, we must turn to what is known as the cascading approach. To attain development goals, it will always be attempted first of all to raise private funds. In countries and sectors where the private sector is faltering, the second step will be for the World Bank to undertake nationwide or sectoral reforms to improve the investment climate. To minimize the risk to private parties, the third step will be to apply guarantees or risk-sharing instruments, for example in the form of public-private partnerships. Public resources will be tapped into only when sectoral reforms or risk-sharing fail to yield market-based solutions.
World Bank under criticism
The World Bank has come in for repeated criticism since the 1980s despite having helped to reduce poverty in many countries over recent decades especially through IDA mechanisms. Despite numerous reforms and increased dialogue with civil society, the World Bank continues to set a series of conditions that borrowing countries must meet in order to access cheap money. These include one-sided trade opening, financial deregulation, privatization, and the disengagement of the State. These "conditionalities" are influenced by the economic interests of the rich countries, which still control voting rights in the WBG and continue to strive for (even) better access to the markets of poor countries. The new MFD approach further accentuates this practice.
Although private sector investments are undoubtedly meaningful and important under certain conditions, there is room for doubt as to whether the approach being promoted by the World Bank truly serves poverty alleviation or whether it was not developed to ease access to developing country markets for global corporations while minimizing its own risks. Critics stress that the MFD approach goes much further than merely bringing the private sector on board for development funding. The fact is that invariably and in all contexts, the MFD cascading approach favours private development funding over public funding, without prior cost-benefit analysis or ensuring that private funding matches the public interest and will contribute to sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Because the reforms being propagated are imposed on countries by the World Bank from the top down, most of them are not the outcome of a democratic process.
Contrary to their lofty climate goals and despite their social and environmental standards, the IBRD and IFC continue to invest in major projects in developing countries that are environmentally damaging and not consistent with human rights. Among other reasons, this is down to the fact that standards are not applied equally across all fields of World Bank activity. Currently, the standards are applied mainly to direct project funding, but not to development policy consultancy services, which in some years account for as much as 40% of World Bank spending and often concern sensitive sectors such as mining or forestry and agriculture. What is more, in recent years the IFC in particular has been granting ever more loans to banks, equity funds or pension funds (called financial intermediaries), which in turn invest those funds in other projects that sometimes lack transparency. Investment in financial intermediaries operating in high-risk sectors has spiked in recent years.
Hence, at the close of 2018 there were 65 cases of human rights violations and negative environmental impacts pending before the IFC's Independent complaints mechanism. A years-long study by the NGO Inclusive Development International further confirms the existence of negative social and environmental impacts as well as human rights violations in 150 projects funded by financial intermediaries. Over the past 10 years, IBRD-funded projects also elicited 32 complaints filed with the Inspection Panel – the independent complaints mechanism of the IBRD and the IDA – many of which concern large-scale infrastructure projects.
Switzerland's interest
Already a member of MIGA and ICSID, Switzerland joined the IDA, IBRD and IFC in 1992 and has since then participated regularly in their capital increases and in replenishments of IDA funds, which are reserved for the poorest countries. As things stand, not only has Switzerland embraced the World Bank's discourse – that of aligning development work more closely with private sector interests – it is also likely to take part in the upcoming IFC and IBRD capital increases and thereby assist the World Bank implement its MFD strategy in developing countries. Not only will this help preserve its voting right in this influential institution but will also further its own economic interests. The IFC in particular co-funds various multinational firms, banks and medium-size corporations that are domiciled in Switzerland and keen to invest in emerging markets. In 2018 the IFC's portfolio of long-term investments in Swiss firms was worth US$1.4 billion – and is likely to grow even more given the aim of further privatizing development.
The World Bank Group (WBG)
comprises five component organizations:
The International Development Agency (IDA) which provides long-term interest-free loans and grants to least developed countries.
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which lends to middle-income countries.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) which grants loans to private enterprises.
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which guarantees foreign direct investments abroad and advises investors
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which mediates disputes between foreign investors and governments.
The WPG operates like a financial cooperative whose members are the 189 member countries. The latter hold voting rights based on paid-in capital as well as the size of their economy. Given its high level of reserves, the Bank also raises preferential loans on international credit markets, which it can pass on to developing countries. Unlike commercial banks, the WPG supplements its financial services with development policy consultancy and other kinds of support. Lending is often tied to development policy conditions, however. The WPG exerts considerable influence in the setting of common standards and guidelines for various aspects of development cooperation. While IDA funds are regularly replenished, capital increases take place only sporadically when special circumstances so dictate. Another such increase is now imminent for the IFC and the IBRD.
The Alliance Sud position
It is still unclear how Switzerland will finance its participation in the capital increases and when the draft will be tabled in Parliament. What is nonetheless clear to Alliance Sud is that this is tantamount to an equity purchase by Switzerland in an influential global institution that also serves the foreign economic interests of firms and banks located in Switzerland. On the other hand, it is not about development cooperation as defined in Switzerland’s Constitution and legislation – even though contributions to the World Bank may be booked as official development spending under the relevant OECD criteria.
The IBRD and IFC invest for the most part in middle-income countries rather than the poorest ones. Still more alarming is that their invested funds often go to sectors and projects that are even inimical to development and the climate. Against this backdrop, and considering the expected federal budget surplus of Frs 2.8 billion, offsetting the contribution to World Bank capital increases against Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds would be a mockery.
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Submitted by farhan on Sat, 25/04/2015 - 10:08am
THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said in a statement today that it has concluded its investigations into employee, Nisha Padmanabhan, who obtained an unaccredited master's degree from Southern Pacific University. She was accused of misleading her employers when applying for a job with the fake certification.
The IDA says that it is satisfied that applications consultant Nisha Padmanabhan did not deceive the agency by listing the MBA from Web-based Southern Pacific University, an alleged diploma mill, in her resume.
The IDA added that Ms Padmanabhan's employment was not based on her MBA, as her position required only a bachelor's degree, and that it also considered her relevant skills and prior work experience.
Ms Padmanabhan, who has a bachelor's in electronics and telecommunication from the University of Mumbai in India, joined the IDA last year.
"She had genuinely believed her MBA programme to be bona fide, and she had put in effort to obtain the qualification," the IDA said.
Earlier this month, netizens criticised the agency for hiring Ms Padmanabhan despite the "phoney" qualification from Southern Pacific University, which was closed in the United States by a court order.
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I’m Not a Monster – Open Beta
July 25, 2018 July 25, 2018 by Calum Fraser
I’m Not a Monster is an X-Com-esque asymmetric turn based tactical multiplayer game that sees civilians attempting to fight back against monsters that can hide in human form.
I’m Not a Monster is essentially a turn based multiplayer pulp Sci-Fi B-movie styled version of John Carpenter’s The Thing. It’s played via an X-Com-esque turn based movement and combat system and sees the monsters attempting to pick off the other players one by one without getting caught or killed. The monsters can take human form to hide in plain sight, converse with other players to gain their trust and infect them to turn them into monsters, allowing them to respawn if their cover is blown or they are killed.
The civilians meanwhile have strength in numbers, can search for useful weapons/tools, and can craft powerful objects. They’ll need to work together to survive, but must also be aware that one (or two) of them could easily be a monster waiting for the perfect moment to strike. If a civilian does get infected then they only have three turns to heal or they will turn into monsters themselves.
It’s a great premise that looks set to tap into the same sense of unease and paranoia that made The Thing movie so tense, whilst still retaining a lighthearted Sci-Fi B-movie vibe. Trust will be hard to come by in a game where monsters can hide in plain sight. Check out the Beta now to see how you fare!
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Aggregate Knowledge Is A Media Intelligence Platform Says CEO Jakubowski
by John Ebbert // Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 – 12:15 pm
Media intelligence platform Aggregate Knowledge (AK) recently recently partnered with IBM to plug the AK platform into the IBM Digital Data Exchange. See the release.
CEO Dave Jakubowski sees an overarching theme of "interoperability" in the deal as he says IBM marketer clients will be able to unlock what is going on with their website and their media with little need for IT involvement.
Jakubowski adds, “The world where everybody has to revolve around one big company, is over. Everybody needs to have interoperability. This is a huge step. It is one of many that we unlock from an interoperability standpoint.”
AdExchanger discussed AK and industry trends with Jakubowski…
AdExchanger: Do you think of Aggregate Knowledge as a data management platform (DMP)?
DAVE JAKUBOWSKI: A data management platform (DMP) is just pipes and a feature set of a broader thing that we call media intelligence. Media intelligence not only brings together the inner connection of these pipes - which is what this IBM announcement is about - but the ability to pinpoint exactly what to do. In other words, what audiences and what media one should buy to drive new sales and new reach. It's not about the cookie game. It's not about just shifting credit around. It's about how does one sell more goods.
Making big data actionable is the intelligence part and the DMP is just the feature set for interoperability. It might as well be an API.
So beyond the DMP, what are all the features of the media intelligence platform?
I'll answer that in three parts. One is - the classic data management, the pipes of moving stuff around. The second is predictive analytics. Taking petabytes of data and, in real-time, processing them to deliver the five things you should do today to sell more goods, for example. Third is multi‑touch attribution. What's the customer lifetime value? What's the chain on which I want to score these things? How do I want to give credit? How do I think about my funnel? That's the scorecard on which the predictive analytics moves around. Without all three, there is no intelligence.
Who's the AK customer right now? Are you going to the marketer or the agency?
Most of our customers today are direct advertisers. This customer pattern – going direct - follows what happened initially with search, ad servers, video and even mobile. The direct advertisers are the big guys who spend a lot of time researching and thinking about how they're moving their brand initiatives. They tend to adopt products such as ours first. Every one of the categories that I mentioned has experienced a similar phenomenon. A number of big advertisers sign contracts and then give the tools over to the agency. Then, the agency does the execution and begins to see the efficacy of how the tools work, and then they start to adopt it, roll it out agency‑wide. Thereafter, the agency ends up controlling it.
I think that that will happen over time here. Whether it’s the next 12 months or two years, I don't know, but it's likely to happen.
Today, though our customers tend to be direct, if you look at who the fingers on the keyboards are, it tends to be a split of employees at advertisers and agencies.
You've got to remember, we're a technology company. We're in the business of enabling channel partners. We give them the platform and then they run it on their own. We anticipate this area will be our biggest source of new customers in 2013 - agencies and other resellers.
What about the sell-side as a customer? Do you see your media intelligence platform as agnostic between buy and sell side?
Our target market is the marketer. Yet, the publishers are partners in our world too. And, to be clear, we are not arbitraging them. Publishers and the data providers give us data. We don't pay any of these companies for the data. The reason is that the minute I start paying for it, I have an agenda.
So, publishers can dump their audience and inventory data into the system to expose to the advertisers. It gives publishers a direct interface with the person who is buying the media. Aggregate Knowledge makes no money off of the publisher.
We're getting a lot of requests now from publishers who want to use this system and bring it to the marketing community. We're in a few trials right now, but our core market remains the advertiser.
In terms of pricing today, what's that structure look like for Aggregate Knowledge?
The model is a SaaS model. You license the platform, and you pay a monthly licensing fee for use of it, and then you can plug whatever you want into it.
Typically the big driver of the customer’s cost is the volume of ads because all the audiences that get overlaid on top are what drives our cost. So, it's based on size of the media.
Is the media intelligence that you’re providing today mainly around display? Any other channels?
Display is the one that most people talk about, but it's only one among many channels we address. We support display, both bided and sponsored - we're one of only a handful of companies that can do the Yahoo home page, the MSN home page, the AOL home page. We're one of only three that can support Facebook. We're one of a handful of companies with all the necessary Google certification. Search, social, Facebook, obviously, that's a separate channel - and we address it. And the same goes for mobile, mobile web, video and rich media. Basically if it's got an IP address, we support it.
Any traction in the Connected TV world?
We haven't done much there. We have one customer that we're doing a test right now with some TV data, but it's preliminary.
What is the impact of programmatic buying on AK?
It's not so much that it's had an impact on AK. It's an industry‑wide impact. The complexity and the number of different channels that people are buying from and the number of different domains that people are buying from is enormous. We regularly see over 100,000 domains for a single campaign that ads will run on.
The impact that programmatic buying is having is it has made buying and “cookie credit” grabbing more complicated. Showing the impact across these channels has become more important, which has driven value for the customers of AK.
The more complicated the LUMA slide gets, the better our business is.
Can you talk a little bit about AK’s growth plans from a headcount perspective? International plans?
We're at 54 right now. Our headquarters is in San Mateo. That's where most of the core engineering and business operations happen. We have sales and client service offices in Chicago, New York, and Atlanta.
We are making sales and marketing investment right now, too. Until very recently, we had three sales people. So, that's obviously where a lot of the investment is going. The company maintains as a policy a 70/30 ratio of product and engineering to all other groups. We're a product and technology company, and that's where we always want to be skewed.
The most notable things that we've done of late on the hiring front is solidify our senior management organization. We brought in Rob Gatto as our president, and he runs everything that touches the customer. As a result, I get to spend a lot more time thinking about strategy, product, and execution on the backend so that we can begin to guarantee some results for our customers.
You’ve been at Aggregate Knowledge a couple of years now. Overall, what has changed over that time? Any surprises?
I've been doing ad platforms for 15 years and came to AK for a very specific reason: They had the technology that could scale and deal with all these big data problems – and generate real answers to real questions. It just doesn't spit out and create more information that nobody can do anything with. It makes it actionable. That was the whole thesis from day one. And that hasn't changed. We have always been about making media more intelligent.
But, the thing that has surprised me is how blind the ecosystem has been to things like “cross‑channel” and the positive impacts that Facebook and Twitter are having. Also surprising is the volume of dollars thrown at things like retargeting without understanding if it is adding new sales or just taking credit for old ones. You see this with guys like Yahoo and AOL, who are struggling to get into bigger budget lines. Yet, when you put their data and their inventory into the platform, their performance is two or three hundred percent better than a lot of the sexy new channels that are just taking credit away.
Frankly, I'm surprised that the industry got as big as it did without better intelligence to this point. I thought that there would be more companies with the ability to do this. Internally, these are much bigger scale problems than I think anybody imagined. We have peaks where we see 900,000 ads a second. The ability to handle that kind of volume in real‑time and then spit out the five things that you need to do, is a much bigger challenge than I ever dreamed it would be. We took the company dark for 12 months when I first joined, to solve that problem - because it was a huge problem.
What about revenue and profitability for AK? Any future funding requirements?
We had 100% year‑over‑year growth from last year to this year.
Just on the basis of the customers that we signed this year, we already have 100% growth for next year. The customer adoption, particularly in the last four or five months, has exceeded our expectations.
We have one of the top three Fortune 500s in each of the “big money” categories of telecom, CPG, retail, auto and finance at this point. We are live now in Australia. We just completed our testing for APAC and we are in partnership negotiations to take us internationally right now.
You can see that a lot of the foundational work was completed in 2012. 2013 is all about execution and growth.
And profitability? Funding?
Profitability could come as early as the end of Q1. We are in a spot now where that is more of a business decision. Do we want to keep adding engineering and sales and marketing to keep going and grabbing share, investing more in international? Or, do we want to stand pat and make the profit?
As for funding, we don't need any more cash to do any of the things that I have talked about. But, there are lots of discussions about how to accelerate growth. Are there smaller teams that we should go acquire and begin to roll up in the intelligence layers? There are some discussions going on around that. If we want to go put more sales and marketing internationally, that obviously requires capital infusion. Those strategic decisions are happening right now, and we're in dialogs with a number of partners.
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NBC Universal Extends Its Universal Audience Platform; EVP Naylor On New Private Exchange Powered By Admeld
by AdExchanger // Thursday, July 21st, 2011 – 10:52 am
Today, as part of its Universal Audience Platform (UAP), NBC Universal announced the launch of its private exchange for digital, display media.
From the release: "Powered by technology from Admeld, the UAP’s private exchange enables NBC Universal to monetize their ad inventory in a controlled, Real Time Bidding (RTB) environment." Read the release.
Peter Naylor is EVP, Digital Media Sales at NBC Universal. He discussed today's announcement.
AdExchanger.com: What was the tipping point for creating a private exchange strategy?
PN: In January 2009 we launched our first campaign with Vivaki AOD in the first version of the DoubleClick ad exchange. At that point we saw a need for a specialized sales and support team to work with emerging programmatic buying teams. In February 2010 we were given the green light to invest in building the UAP team. We did this not only to evolve with our agency partners but also to take back control of our inventory from the ad networks who were selling against our media brands.
With your Universal Audience Platform (UAP), and looking at the opportunity ahead, are you being proactive or is their significant opportunity today in audience buying for NBCU?
We're capturing demand today and positioning ourselves for the future. Some agencies have clearly invested in people and technology that will help lower the cost of buying digital media. That's a serious pain point for agencies right now. Buying digital is considerably more expensive than buying TV. So we're seeing agencies move more budget into buying audiences at scale through efficient means, in terms of process and technology. These agencies are spending incremental media dollars with us today as a direct result of our private exchange. And by incremental I mean the spending is complimentary (rather than cannibalistic) to the premium programs that drive our business. Establishing programmatic buying relationships with our agency partners is an important step in helping them efficiently scale their businesses in the face of growing digital budgets.
How - or in what ways - is this announcement going to affect your guaranteed strategy?
It doesn't affect our guaranteed strategy at all. Our guaranteed display and video businesses remain best in class and revenues continue to outpace industry growth. Our great content drives results for brand marketers through social, mobile, video and cross-platform sponsorships. That's our core digital strategy. What we're doing with our private exchange is unlocking the considerable value in our non-guaranteed display inventory.
Can you share your expectation in terms of revenues or percentages as it relates to revenue lift you expect with AdMeld's private exchange? Perhaps some sample price floors?
From a starting point in May, the private exchange will scale to a multi-million dollar business through the remainder of the year. Relative to the CPMs we've historically received from third-party ad networks, our private exchange inventory is experiencing 400-500% lift.
Beyond the private exchange, what is your strategy with unsold non-guaranteed media? Any changes here?
The UAP is actually a two-pronged strategy for unlocking display value - exchange and direct. We operate the private exchange for the benefit of agency teams that want to employ RTB. We also have a team that leverages audience targeting at scale in our premium environments through non-RTB. So, for example, if a beverage brand wants to reach men 18-34 at scale through in-banner video, we can use our first and third-party data to deliver that campaign through our primary ad server. This product, sold directly to brand planning teams, competes head on with other "premium" ad network offerings. But our direct product is distinguished in two ways. First, we have unique and valuable data sets to improve ad targeting. These are behavioral data points we collect on our users that are unavailable through third-party data companies. Secondly, we have authentically premium inventory. Lots of ad networks are out there talking about "brand safe" inventory. They tend to define "brand safe" in terms of what it is not - it is not adult content, gambling, etc. We can go much further than "brand safe" and actually deliver premium content.
Finally, why should a marketer care about this announcement?
Marketers care about our private exchange because it provides an opportunity for us to deepen our relationships. We've been working directly with brands and their agencies for many years on the TV front. More recently we've brought valuable digital marketing programs to them as well. But a material slice of our inventory was brought to marketers through ad networks. We're pushing those intermediaries aside to make it easier for marketers to find their audiences in our premium environments.
By John Ebbert
Ben July 21, 2011
Exciting announcement - I wonder what the fill looks like? Also, surprising to hear that channel conflict hasn't been a concern - is that because buyers don't think of the inventory the same way, or because NBC has put certain terms / rules in place to ensure it isn't an issue?
Ed Carey July 21, 2011
Good to see top pubs getting comfortable with RTB. Good work NBC.
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Workforce Productivity
por Kevin Lindsay Director of Product Marketing for Adobe Target
1 Take Your Data Science to the Next Level — Set It Free.
2 Using Machine Learning for Enhanced Marketing Results.
3 7 Design Trends for Your Business 2017.
4 Data sets the stage for amazing retail experiences.
Take Your Data Science to the Next Level — Set It Free.
Data science is a hot-button topic right now — and for good reason. Brands know they’re sitting on mostly untapped data goldmines, and there’s a good chance that means they’re not making the most of key insights about their business. Even if they don’t yet know exactly how to put data science to work to leverage this wealth of information, today’s businesses are becoming increasingly aware of data science, are intrigued by it, and want to know what it can do for them.
It’s a topic that my colleague — analytics guru, Jeff Allen — and I recently explored. First, we wanted to establish early in the conversation that one doesn’t need to be a scientist to act like a scientist — to apply scientific method and rigor to everything we do in marketing.
Where the Average Organization Falls
To start, we wanted to establish a benchmark, so at a recent gathering with fellow marketers, we asked them, “On a scale from 1 (I run the other direction when I hear the words ‘data science’) to 10 (I’m a data-science wizard!), how would you rate yourself or your organization on the data-science front?” More often than not, people tend to rate themselves somewhere in the middle. They’re comfortable and completely on board with data — they know, conceptually, that they need to be data-driven to truly optimize and personalize their brand experiences. But, there’s just something about the word ‘science’ that throws people for a loop.
Realistically, data science and its applications — automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, for instance — are meant to free humans from basic clerical tasks. Once freed from these more mundane duties, they have more time to spend on high-value must-dos that machines, well, can’t handle — at least not as well as humans can (for now, anyway) — including critical thinking, creative problem solving, and strategizing for optimal results and happy customers. A perfect example is the ATM.
When ATMs first hit the scene, tellers thought they were finished. After all, who would wait in line to withdraw cash or deposit checks when a machine could tackle it all — and tackle it all quickly, 24/7, and with zero wait or lag time?
However, in reality, ATMs not only drove more business for banks — meaning more branches and more tellers — but also turned the human money-givers into meaningful marketing extensions. Sure, tellers weren’t mechanical customer-care people anymore. Instead, they became something bigger and better, as they stepped into more strategic roles, driving higher long-term returns and increased customer satisfaction.
The best part is that, now, it has come full circle. Some banks have begun integrating the ATM/teller experience, allowing customers to use the machine while interacting with a live person. Think about that from a data-science perspective. The technology was meant to free humans from doing the very basic, very clerical tasks; and that’s exactly what ATMs did — and are still doing. But, after seeing how people actually interacted with them, banks pushed their companies — as well as the industry as a whole — to assess and act on what customers wanted in that moment. In this case, customers want the human touch paired with the convenience and accessibility of ATMs. It’s human meets machine — and it’s pretty powerful.
How to Achieve Data-Science Success
So, how do brands become living, breathing, activating, data-driven organizations — with data science at the center?
1. Change Customer Culture.
When the right people ask the right questions, really understand qualitative and quantitative measures, follow scientific methods, and perform the marketing alchemy that comes with them, magic — well, okay, data science — happens. Those changes, as with virtually any optimization initiatives you implement, require universal buy-in from the top down. And that means you must garner some small wins and evangelize like a madman to have yourself and your initiatives heard.
To achieve success in the data-science universe, you need it to become a meaningful part of your corporate culture. You can’t simply relegate data science to the data scientists and hope for the best. You must democratize it across different types of marketers and brand advocates and allow their diverse business goals and initiatives to steer the next steps. To do this, many tech companies are turning to business intelligence programs that allow anyone in the organization — with or without degrees in data analysis, statistics, or computer science — to access and analyze their data and create reports reflecting the trends that are impacting their audiences and markets. It’s much like the ATM example — a transitional way of thinking that can move the needle in a big way.
2. Data Is Your Friend — if You Know How to Interpret It Correctly.
There are also the notions of causation, correlation, and confounding variables. A variable in our data may be shared by two elements, which would make some marketers quick to say this or that caused it and point to data that they believe tells the story. But, remember — and this is science 101 here — correlation is NOT causation (nor vice versa). Be sure you’re aware of your variable’s hidden effects on X and Y as well as any sample biases, systematic errors, and not-so-great statistical practices being kicked around. Explore, hypothesize, test, rinse, repeat.
One of the biggest issues I see from organizations with relatively new data-science focuses is that they tend to head into experiments or campaigns with the belief that something is a certain way — that something is right or that X drives Y, for instance. If you already believe it, chances are that you can prove it if you dig through the data long enough — but that’s not good. To be effective and leverage data science properly, you need to A/B test and use the scientific method to make the right decisions and avoid the wrong ones. Again, explore, hypothesize, and test — and take NO shortcuts in between.
3. Leverage the Power of Machine Learning.
Data science accelerates data exploration, allowing us to rapidly derive insight and meaning. So, what’s the next step? How do you exploit these insights, make decisions, and take action? Machine learning plays a big role in exploiting these insights — enabling you to tap into the power of data to optimize and personalize individual visitor interactions. By exploring data for trends, similarities, and probabilities and, at the same time, delivering experiences that take advantage of this exploration, you’ll have personalization power that far exceeds anything you could do manually. Your customers want it — and once you see the potential, your organization will want it too. Machine learning should enable constant and continuous exploration AND exploitation. While I encourage marketers to understand some statistical basics, they shouldn’t have to worry about the statistical rigor of the tools they use.
4. Trust the Auto Pilot.
To really take your data science — and even optimization — efforts to the next level, you need to embrace automated personalization. To do that, you’ll have to trust the machine. Cultural best practices, then, need to align — and that can be a tricky request for some companies. We have the tools, so don’t worry about that. But, you need to come to the table ready to tap into and — more importantly — trust your machine marketing partner. That can be a tall order for some marketers.
Democratizing data science helps, though. Even if you don’t have a data-science team, the work can still happen if you share the love and the actual load that comes with these processes. Tellers trusted ATMs to do the job, and look at everything they achieved — more success, more opportunities, and more elevated roles within their organizations as well as the entire banking industry.
For organizations to take this to the next level and embrace the automation of data science, they need to conjure up a certain level of trust. They need to put a lot of important intel and processes into the hands of their machine autopilots. Both culturally and from a best-practices perspective, these organizations will all have to figure that out. We have the tools and technology, but there’s a certain amount of cultural and organizational shift that many companies will need to think about both before and during their data-science integrations.
Continuing From Here
This is just the beginning of the data-science conversation. For now, think about the ways your company can embrace and integrate data science, whether you bring in an expert or democratize the process across existing resources. There are many opportunities and there’s tremendous potential if you can make the cultural and procedural shifts that data science requires. But, done right, it’s well worth the effort.
This post first published on SmartDataCollective.com.
Data paints each person. So you can write their stories.
The extraordinary possibility.
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‘The Day Henry Met’ Coming to Milkshake! in December
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The Day Henry Met...
Channel 5’s Milkshake! preschool block is set to become the exclusive UK free-to-air home for Irish studio Wiggleywoo’s hit preschool series The Day Henry Met… The animation will premiere later this year on the country’s No. 1 commercial destination for kids 4-6.
In every episode, Henry meets something new — The day Henry met a whale! The day Henry met the moon! The day Henry met a Car! These charming adventures now run to four seasons, each 26 x 5’. The Day Henry Met… originally premiered on RTE in Ireland and then on Nick Jr. in 178 countries, prior to moving to Free TV and SVOD.
Existing Free TV partners include RAI (Italy), ABC (Australia), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland), TVO, TFO and Knowledge Network (Canada), TVP (Poland), Eesti (Estonia), LTV (Latvia) and RUV (Iceland). SVOD rights have sold to Amazon, Svensk (Scandinavia), TF1 (France), Telefonica (Spain), BT (Great Britain), Jetsen Huashi (China), Horng En Culture (Taiwan) and others.
The series has also sold to 20 airlines including Virgin Atlantic, Emirates, Qantas Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Norwegian Air and Cathay Pacific.
Commenting on the UK deal Louise Bucknole, VP of Programming at VIMN Kids said, “We’re delighted to be welcoming The Day Henry Met… to Milkshake!, which showcases the very best in British and Irish preschool content.”
The Day Henry Met… is distributed internationally by Monster Entertainment which has just made its first publishing deals with the O’Brien Press for the UK and Ireland and New Frontier in Australia and New Zealand.
The series continues to enjoy terrific ratings. In Italy, The Day Henry Met… is ranked fifth among the most viewed programs on free children’s channels in the 13:00-18:00 time slot, with a 13.32% share of viewers aged 4-7. The Day Henry Met… is performing similarly to Albero Azzurro and Peppa Pig and has also received a morning timeslot on RAI YoYo.
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IOC makes it clear: Athlete protests not allowed at 2020 Olympics
Henry Bushnell
Before Thursday, the International Olympic Committee’s stance on protest at the Olympics Games was confined to one sentence in the Olympic Charter. It reeked of ambiguity and invited confusion. What, exactly, qualifies as a protest?
On Thursday, in an effort to keep politics far away from Tokyo 2020, the IOC answered that question with more specificity than ever before.
There will be no kneeling during national anthems.
No raising of fists, à la John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Games.
No politically charged signs or armbands.
At least not at any Olympic venue. Not in stadiums or at pools or at a course’s finish line. Not on podiums during medal ceremonies. Not during the opening and closing ceremonies. Not even in the Olympic Village.
And if there is? Discipline of some sort will follow.
The IOC laid out its policy in a three-page document published Thursday, six-and-a-half months before the 2020 Summer Games are set to begin. In what it deemed a “non-exhaustive list” of examples, it specifically mentioned the following as “constitut[ing] a protest, as opposed to expressing views”:
- Displaying any political messaging, including signs or armbands.
- Gestures of a political nature, like a hand gesture or kneeling.
- Refusal to follow the Ceremonies protocol.
The IOC did not specify what the punishment would be for athletes who violate the policy. Instead, it left itself disciplinary leeway. “Each incident will be evaluated by their respective National Olympic Committee, International Federation and the IOC, and disciplinary action will be taken on a case-by-case basis as necessary,” the document reads.
More on the IOC’s Olympic protest policy
The document published Thursday clarifies the notorious Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter. “No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas,” the Charter reads.
This past summer and fall, after three-plus years of protests of all kinds across many sports, Olympic officials realized they needed to address the rule’s ambiguity.
This became especially clear after two U.S. athletes staged podium demonstrations during the 2019 Pan American Games. Fencer Race Imboden dropped to a knee during his gold medal ceremony. Thrower Gwen Berry raised a closed fist during hers.
The USOC, in response, wrote a letter – which was obtained by Yahoo Sports – to the two athletes. USOC CEO Sarah Hirshland formally reprimanded them, and placed them on 12-month probation, but acknowledged that the rules governing protest needed clarification.
"We recognize that we must more clearly define for Team USA athletes what a breach of these rules will mean in the future,” Hirshland wrote. "We are committed to more explicitly defining what the consequences will be for members of Team USA who protest at future Games. ... We also expect to work closely with the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee to engage in a global discussion on these matters.”
Discussions along those lines have happened, and will continue to happen going forward. (The USOC has not yet commented on the IOC’s newly-released guidelines.)
The 2020 Olympics, of course, will not be an entirely politics-free zone. The IOC did clarify that “press conferences and interviews,” and “digital or traditional media,” are acceptable arenas for free expression. Some athletes, however, feel that restricting free expression is unacceptable.
Athletes respond to IOC president Bach
The IOC’s long-standing argument is that the Olympics should be “politically neutral.” That’s how IOC president Thomas Bach put it in a Jan. 1 open letter.
“The Olympic Games are always a global platform for the athletes and their sporting performances,” Bach wrote. “They are not, and must never be, a platform to advance political or any other potentially divisive ends. We stand firmly against the growing politicization of sport because only in this way can we accomplish our mission to unite the world in peaceful competition. As history has shown, such politicization of sport leads to no result and in the end just deepens existing divisions.”
The counterargument is the one Global Athlete, an international “progressive athlete start-up movement,” made in response to Bach. “Let’s be clear, the Olympic Movement has already politicized sport,” the group said in a statement.
It continued: “To mention a few instances; in PyeongChang the IOC promoted a unified South and North Korean team; the IOC has an observer seat around the United Nations Assembly; the IOC President regularly meets with Heads of States; the Olympic Movement notion of sport autonomy is overshowed by Heads of States also fulfilling roles as heads of National Olympic Committees and heads of IOC Commissions hold Ministerial positions.
“This ship has sailed; the IOC has already politicized sport.”
Responding to the IOC’s new protest policy, which restricts athletes’ politicization of their sports but not the IOC’s own politicization of them, Global Athlete tweeted, “Freedom of expression is a right!”
This contentious conversation will continue into and throughout the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. “It is a fundamental principle that sport is neutral and must be separate from political, religious or any other type of interference,” the document released by the IOC on Thursday reads. That will never be entirely true. But the IOC is determined to protect Olympic competitions themselves from anything that might deter or anger viewers.
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Henry Bushnell is a features writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Question? Comment? Email him at henrydbushnell@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter @HenryBushnell, and on Facebook.
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NFL draft: Why a healthy Tua Tagovailoa matters so much to ... the Lions?
Source: Mike Leach leaving Washington State for Mississippi State
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Handling Controversy Seminar Register NOW
Monday, February 8, 2016 (0 Comments)
Posted by: Judith Pineiro
Handling Controversy: Challenges of Difficult Subject Matter and the Use of Social Media in Relation to These Challenges
A seminar for curators organized by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), AAMC Foundation, and the Arts Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC).
Welcome Breakfast: 9:30am- 10am -- Program: 10am – 4:45pm
AAMC members: priority registration until February 26,
Non-AAMC members: registration after February 26, based on availability
This one-day seminar will address the challenges of exhibiting sensitive subject matter and handling potential controversy, as well as the specific considerations that the use and impact of social media present for curators. Combining presentations by colleagues with experience handling these issues, internally and externally, this closed-door seminar aims to offer curators strategic tools with which to safeguard their curatorial vision and negotiate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
Controversies over art exhibitions and cultural programming dealing with race, sexuality, geopolitical conflicts, ethnicity or religion are complicated by exacerbated sensitivities over social inequities and relatively new and growing player: social media. The instantaneous wide reach of social media quickly breaks disciplinary and social boundaries making them porous. As a result, a debate that may have been previously confined to people familiar with the visual arts can easily spread beyond it and involve special interest activist groups and other unexpected participants. How can you control interpretation in a world where de-contextualized components of a show can quickly circulate to fuel activist agendas? How can you succeed in keeping the programming going? How do you encourage real debate about sensitive issues? Should institutions respond to social media criticism and where and how can institutions find the support to do so effectively?
schedule may change, listed in order of appearance
as of February 25, 2016
Carrie Rebora Barratt, Deputy Director for Collections and Administration, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Judith Pineiro, Executive Director, AAMC & AAMC Foundation
Svetlana Mintcheva, Director of Programs, National Coalition Against Censorship
Addressing Curatorial Perspective & Curatorial Practice with difficult subject matter
Maxwell K. (Mike) Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss the exhibition CHINA: Through the Looking Glass, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015). How are a Western art museums’ presentations of Chinese Art understood by Chinese audiences? Are our displays seen as enlightening or as evidence of imperialist booty? Are curatorial interpretations seen as creative innovations or provocative misunderstandings?
Jasmine Hagans, Curator of Lectures, Courses and Concerts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will present an overview of the events around "Kimono Wednesdays” last summer: the protest by Decolonize Our Museums, counter-protests, and the internal and external dialogue. She will discuss the planning for the public dialogue "Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation” on February 7, 2016, as well as how these conversations are continuing.
Grace Stewart, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, Metal Museum, will discuss her experience curating the exhibition A Kind of Confession (2015) at the Metal Museum, the first to exclusively feature black artists. The exhibition celebrated eleven black artists and metalsmiths from across the country whose work deals with issues of personal, racial and cultural identities. The exhibition faced challenges during the planning process and after it opened to the public. Grace will discuss her strategies for navigating these challenges when faced by small museums, framing the exhibition as catalyst for long term change.
Kimberli Gant, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for the Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum will be discussing internal institutional debates about the opening of Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place, in the weeks after the Paris bombing. Though the exhibition had been in the works for over 3 years prior, the timing caused some concern among staff and docents.
Social Media in the Museum Context: Challenges & Opportunities
Taylor Newby, Senior Social Media Manager, The Metropolitan Museum of Art(@TaylorCNewby) will kead a discussion about Social Media Strategy at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kim Drew, Associate Online Community Producer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art(@MuseumMammy) will discuss Social Media and Museums with Taylor Newby and Robin Cembalest.
Robin Cembalest, arts editor and independent social media consultant (@RCembalest) will discuss one of the newer challenges faced by art-museum curators and offer social media strategies for when controversy hits in "Retreat or Retweet? Handling critics on Twitter."
Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@Sree) and Kim Drew will lead a workshop on Social Media 101: Workshop on Personal and Professional Use.
The seminar is open to current AAMC members only until 12pm ET, February 26, after which we will accept applications from non-members as well. Space is limited to 30 participants, only and registration is on a first response basis. Registration is only accepted with a fully completed form and payment of fee in full.
$50 before February 26
$75 for registrations received after February 26 (only through AAMC offices)
Fee includes program, breakfast and lunch
Please complete the registration form in full and submit payment to attend. Kindly note, non-AAMC members will need to contact AAMC offices to receive the registration material, submitting a statement of interest in doing so.
After registration, we will ask you to consider submitting a case study proposal or come prepared with an example of a conflict or controversy you are interested in discussing.
Contact AAMC: aamc@artcurators.org
The program is organized and presented by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), AAMC Foundation, and the Arts Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). We are grateful to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for their support of our joint program.The information presented here is subject to change without notice. The organizers assume no responsibility for any errors that may appear here, and in no event shall the organizers be liable for incidental or consequential damages arising from use of this document or other program-related material. This document and parts thereof must not be reproduced or copied without the organizers providing written permission, and contents thereof must not be imparted to a third party nor be used for any unauthorized purpose.
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