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Navy Divers Will Soon Have One Of The Most Futuristic Views On The Planet
A new helmet provides sonar, texts, and 3D overlays underwater using augmented reality
By Kate Baggaley
Murky, turgid waters are about to become much easier for divers to navigate. Helmets used by the US Navy will soon come equipped with smart eyewear to let divers view real-time sonar, text messages, schematics, photographs, and videos. This is possible through a burgeoning technology known as "augmented reality," which projects digital information onto real-world objects.
Called Diver Augmented Vision Display (DAVD), the new prototype is the result of a partnership between the Navy and Lumus, an Israel-based company that has previously developed heads-up displays for the Air Force. The DAVD display will help with ship repair, underwater construction, and search or salvage missions.
The prototype sits inside a 3D-printed plastic frame, with tiny projectors to reflect virtual images into the lens, where they are reflected into the eye. “On the inside there’s essentially a mirror that’s been sliced into about four or five different reflectors,” says David Goldman, VP of Marketing for Lumus. “Those are angled in such away that the wearer of the glasses doesn’t actually see them, so it’s completely transparent.”
If voice communications become garbled or lost, a diver can rely on text messages.
The DAVD prototype
The DAVD prototype fits inside a Kirby Morgan dive helmet.U.S. Navy Photo by Richard Manley
Divers frequently work in areas with poor visibility. Currently, above-water colleagues can drop a sonar system near a dive site and use it to come up with instructions to divers.
“When the divers go down there, visibility might be six inches in front of their diving helmet[s],” says Dennis Gallagher, DAVD Project Manager for the U.S. Navy. “So they have to listen to the people topside saying, 'alright move more to your right. No, your other right! No, quit turning around in a circle!'— because there’s no reference point in there.”
Divers can also navigate with help from handheld sonar systems paired with a display that fits on top of their current helmets. “They can see the sonar image but it blocks everything else, and they have to take it off or flip it up to do any other work,” Gallagher says. “As far as getting up close…they have to memorize what they’re doing, they have to just go by feel.”
But with DAVD, divers can see their position on a sector sonar screen for themselves. An Ethernet cable connected to the helmet brings communications down from the surface. A diver can describe to his topside colleagues what he needs to see, or ask them to move information to different locations on the display. And if the images block her field of view, a diver can turn the display off with a button clipped to her harness.
Another advantage of DAVD is that, if voice communications become garbled or lost, a diver can rely on text messages. And augmented reality can help divers searching for an object in a wreck or performing maintenance. The helmet can show a 3D overlay of the part a diver is supposed to disassemble or replace, which could cut training time, or prevent a diver from retrieving the wrong object. Altogether, the technology could make diving missions both safer and more efficient.
The display’s position within the helmet accommodates nearly 80 percent of divers without needing any adjustments. In October, the Navy will begin testing DAVD in the water, sending divers on simulated exercises. DAVD will initially be manufactured for military divers, but will eventually become available to commercial or scientific divers and first responders.
So even though augmented reality has lately been associated with more consumer-focused companies like Microsoft (with its HoloLens), and Google (which is backing the secretive startup Magic Leap), it may be that the 241-year-old US Navy is among the first to find a truly practical use for the technology.
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I/my organization needs financial support.
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We generally only investigate the possibility of a new field project following the direct request of local human rights defenders.
If you are a human rights defender at risk in a country where we do not already have a field project please read the information about PBI on our website.
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If you want to pursue your interest in PBI's work further, consider the possibility of applying to volunteer with one of the projects. See the following questions and answers.
Check this list to see if you live in a country which has a Country or Associate group. Click on the country links and scroll to find the country group address.
If you have a country group, you should contact them to find out how you can get involved in the group and what the procedures are for joining a PBI project. Many groups organise introductory trainings on the philosophy, mandate and principles and the work of PBI. If you are considering joining a team or getting involved in PBI in any other way it is essential that you attend one of these trainings.
You should study the pages for volunteers online, both in general and for the project you are interested in.
If you live in a place where there is no PBI country group, contact the office of the project you would like to join directly.
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I would like to volunteer as a translator
PBI functions internally in two languages: Spanish and English. So we regularly need volunteers to translate internal PBI documents and information for our website from English to Spanish and vice versa.
Consensus decision-making is a basic principle of PBI's ethos, so all decisions that have an impact on the whole organisation are taken by PBI's International Council after a full consultation with all PBI constituencies. Making sure that all documents relating to these decisions are available in both Spanish and English is therefore vital to PBI's functioning. By volunteering to help with translation you will play a very important role in the organization, while at the same time learning about our work.
We try not to send more than 1,500 words with each job, although sometimes we are short of volunteers and we might ask whether you could handle more. The flow of translations is difficult to predict, so there is sometimes a lot of work, sometimes very little. Although we set deadlines, we understand that these sometimes need to be flexible depending on what other commitments you have. If you are a translator of English and Spanish please contact the International Office.
I/my organisation need financial help
We empathise with every individual and organisation that works for the peace and the respect of human rights, but unfortunately all the funds that we raise must be used to support our own projects and infrastructure. We were not set up to provide grants to other organisations. Nevertheless we can suggest an informal relationship, based on exchanging information; please look over our most recent Annual Review.
I/my organisation would like to partner with PBI
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Blast Off! Perot Museum’s Journey To Space Traveling Exhibition Is As Close To Space As One Can Get Without Leaving Earth
Opening Oct. 21, traveling exhibition Journey to Space features a full-size simulated International Space Station, robotics, water rockets, Neil Armstrong’s helmet and gloves, plus a space-inspired play space for young cadets. Presented in English and S
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IS AS CLOSE TO SPACE AS ONE CAN GET WITHOUT LEAVING EARTH
Opening Oct. 21, Journey to Space features a full-size simulated International Space Station, robotics, water rockets, Neil Armstrong’s helmet and gloves, plus a space-inspired playspace for young cadets
DALLAS (Sept. 19, 2017) – All systems go! What’s it like to live and work in space? How do astronauts sleep in a weightless environment, go to the bathroom in orbit, and what effect does space travel have on their bodies?
Visitors will get a glimpse at these cosmic curiosities – and learn about the extraordinary conditions, dangers and rewards of human space travel – when the Perot Museum of Nature and Science presents its latest traveling exhibition, Journey to Space (Oct. 21, 2017-May 6, 2018). Featuring two walk-through, rotating labs that let visitors “climb aboard” the International Space Station (ISS) Destiny module, Journey to Space is a hands-on adventure for all ages that demonstrates the advancements in spacecraft and spacesuit technology that allow people to exist for longer periods of time in a hostile environment. Member preview days are Oct. 19-20. The exhibition is presented locally by Highland Capital Management and requires a surcharge.
“For anyone who has ever dreamed of being an astronaut, or is just curious about our final frontier, this fascinating exhibition is about as close to space as one can get from Earth,” said Dr. Linda Abraham-Silver, Eugene McDermott Chief Executive Officer of the Perot Museum. “Visitors can actually experience the sensation that they’re floating in space on the exhibition’s rotating mock-up Destiny Lab, which is the primary research facility on the International Space Station.”
Presented in English and Spanish, Journey to Space explores the astonishing yet forbidding environment of space. From the vacuum of space and radiation to meteoroids and temperature extremes, guests of all ages will learn about the perils that astronauts face during their missions and the adaptations that engineers have developed to help them survive while in space. With 10,000 square feet of interactives, whole-body experiences and authentic artifacts, visitors can launch a rocket, test gravity in a drop tower, control a robotic arm, and experience the sights and sounds (and even smells!) on board an orbiting space station. Even tykes and tots will have a blast at the space station activity area and construction center, complete with dollhouses and space station figurines.
Nearby, guests can marvel at Neil Armstrong’s actual helmet and gloves from his Apollo 11 mission along with numerous authentic space travel and exploration relics. Via games, multimedia components and interactive exhibits, visitors can feed their curiosity by listening to current and retired astronauts describe the quirks, obstacles and exhilaration of journeying through space. Routine things such as eating, sleeping, washing hair and exercising are a lot different than on Earth!
“For so many, the fascination with space begins at an early age and continues for a lifetime,” said Thomas Surgent, Partner at Highland Capital Management. “Journey to Space provides an exciting, hands-on introduction to not only our universe, but the science and math underlying it. We at Highland Capital Management are thrilled to know that this exhibition will inspire our next generation of scientists.”
The ultimate space experience continues with Journey to Space 3D (Oct. 19, 2017-May 6, 2018) in The Hoglund Foundation Theater, a National Geographic Experience. Narrated by Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Patrick Stewart, the 20-minute film explains how space exploration didn’t die with the end of the Space Shuttle program. Rather, some of the most exciting missions of our time are ahead – from capturing asteroids to landing astronauts on Mars.
Journey to Space was designed and developed by the Science Museum of Minnesota in partnership with the International Space Station Office of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the California Science Center and partner museums.
PROGRAM EXTENSIONS. Can’t get enough space? Cool your jets with the Perot Museum’s space-themed programs that will keep space cadets of all ages engaged. These include the adults-only Social Science: Cosmic (Oct. 20), a space-themed Sleepover (Nov. 3), the family-fun Discovery Days (Dec. 9), and the National Geographic Live! Speaker Series featuring celebrated astronaut, space shuttle pilot and International Space Station commander Terry Virts (March 21). Virts helped to install the 360-degree observation module on the ISS, and made good use of it, taking more photographs than any astronaut who came before him.
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Williams: Oh baby what a win
Sam EdmundNews Corp Australia
September 7, 2007 10:00PM
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FINALS wins don't come much sweeter than this.
Seconds after his side won a thrilling qualifying final over West Coast last night, Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams was told his wife Pauline had gone into labour with their fifth child.
As his players celebrated their three-point win, he sprinted to the stadium's underground car park and was whisked away in a black 4WD to Ashford Hospital.
Ms Williams was at the game, and the couple's obstetrician, a Power supporter, was not far away.
The baby wasn't due until Monday, but the nail-biting excitement proved too much.
Ms Williams was quickly escorted from AAMI Stadium at the end of the third quarter.
Williams had said this week that if he had to choose between coaching Port or taking Pauline to hospital, football would take precedence.
"Our obstetrician's a Power supporter and he'll be at the game. He's said just read his name out over the loudspeaker and he'll see what he can do," he said.
Williams and his wife refused to consider inducing the birth to remove the timing dilemmas during the final.
Williams said his wife understood his need to put football before family.
"I had a good discussion (with Pauline)," he said. "For a start, we have four kids (already).
"My wife is very much a football lady. She's followed them and barracked and gone to the football all her life, gone to all the games that she can.
"She very much understands where football stands in my life, in our life."
The baby is a sibling for Marcus, 16, Georgie, 14, Isaac, 11, and Louis, eight.
It is the first time a Williams pregnancy has coincided with the footy season.
Port had already removed one baby dilemma from its preparation when captain Warren Tredrea became a father for the first time last Monday.
Tredrea's wife, Rachael, delivered a baby girl, Halle Neve, at a North Adelaide hospital.
Tredrea had earlier declared he would put his wife before a football game.
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Revised Common Lectionary Readings for Sunday, June 14, 2020, the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
First Reading Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7
Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
Second Reading Romans 5:1-8
Gospel Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)
1The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.2He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground.3He said, "My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant.4Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.5Let me bring a little bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on-since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."6And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of choice flour, knead it, and make cakes."7Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.8Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
9They said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he said, "There, in the tent."10Then one said, "I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.12So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"13The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'14Is anything too wonderful for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son."15But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "Oh yes, you did laugh."
1The LORD dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as he had promised.2Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.3Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.5Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.6Now Sarah said, "God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."7And she said, "Who would ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
1I love the LORD, because he has heard
my voice and my supplications.
2Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
12What shall I return to the LORD
for all his bounty to me?
13I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the LORD,
14I will pay my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people.
15Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
16O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
17I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice
in the presence of all his people,
19in the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
1Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,2through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.3And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,5and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.7Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.8But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
35Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness.36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.37Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;38therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
10:1Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness.2These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;4Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.
5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,6but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.7As you go, proclaim the good news, 'The kingdom of heaven has come near.'8Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.9Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts,10no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for labourers deserve their food.11Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave.12As you enter the house, greet it.13If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.15Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for that town.
16"See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.17Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues;18and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles.19When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time;20for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;22and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
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In our Software Reviews area, you'll find up-to-date information on the latest versions of software you use and software you might want to use. We have searched the internet and brought together what we think are the best, most informative reviews on new and popular software. So before you decide on that next software purchase, be sure to check here first.
Adobe Creative® Suite 3 (ZDNet.com)
"If one Adobe design application, such as Photoshop, is equivalent to, say, a box of crayons, then Adobe CS3 Master Collection suite would be like a drawer packed with crayons, markers, paints, and pencils in hundreds of hues."
Adobe Illustrator® CS3 (pcmag.com)
"Perhaps the greatest improvements in Illustrator CS3, however, are a number of smaller enhancements that will make you wonder why they hadn't been there all along."
Adobe InDesign® CS3 (macworld.com)
"But don't let that first impression fool you. InDesign CS3 will grow on you as its improved utility becomes more obvious in day-to-day work."
Adobe Photoshop® CS3 (ArsTechnica.com)
"Photoshop CS3 is a tricky one to rate since what it does, it does very well. Not all of the Extended features will appeal to everyone, but things like the Black and White adjustment, curves with histogram, layer auto-align and auto-blend, Camera RAW 4, Smart Filters and interactive art placement in Vanishing Point are all part of the CS3 Standard package and they are valuable on their own."
Adobe® Acrobat® 8.0 Professional (softpedia.com)
"Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 carries on the dream and takes it higher, faster and better than ever before!"
CorelDraw® Graphics Suite X3 (pcmag.com)
"All in all, this package is an excellent choice for budget-minded professionals and business users who need access to powerful graphics tools at an affordable price."
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2 (softpedia.com)
"... (GIMP) is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The Gimp works on many operating systems, in many languages."
QuarkXPress® 7 (macworld.com)
"Quark has added some good features to XPress 7 ... And users who stick with Quark XPress will be happy that the company is adopting some of the InDesign features that began turning heads four years ago."
Corel WordPerfect® Office X3 (cnet.com)
"Corel has a winner in WordPerfect Office X3, a feature-packed productivity suite ... (it) is a solid upgrade for longtime users, particularly those who manage a lot of PDFs."
Microsoft Office® 2007 (techweb.com)
"With this version, Microsoft has completely revamped the familiar Office interface. Gone are the toolbars, the drop-down menus, and the side-of-the-window Task Panes."
OpenOffice® 2 (cnet.com)
"OpenOffice 2 is the open-source version of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice ... (and) is an undeniable bargain. This robust, free productivity suite offers full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation apps--and it won't cost you or your business a dime."
StarOffice® 8 (eweek.com)
"StarOffice 8--the latest version of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s inexpensive, cross-platform office productivity suite--stands up better than ever next to Microsoft Corp.'s market-leading Office in terms of features, extensibility and compatibility."
Mac OS X® Leopard (cnet.com)
A sneak peek at Apple's next operating system.
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ (pcmag.com)
A compendium of all things Vista.
SuSE® Linux 10 (techgage.com)
"... SuSE is a great choice for a distro, especially if you are a Linux newbie looking to get into it."
Firefox® 2 (cnet.com)
"There are many enhancements within Firefox 2, making it a worthy upgrade for existing users and a fine introduction for new users. Firefox is truly innovative, yet it's also very practical for everyday use."
Internet Explorer® 7 (computerworld.com)
"IE7 is a clear and dramatic improvement over IE6; with tabbed browsing, increased security, excellent RSS support, better printing and a cleaner interface, it's a no-brainer to upgrade from IE6."
Opera® 9 (softpedia.com)
"I really don't know what's bad in Opera 9. Could it be that it has too many features? Not for me!"
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The UNESCO-Pearson Initiative for Literacy: Improved Livelihoods in a Digital World was launched in 2016 as a research and advocacy partnership for digital solutions to advance inclusion within the context of lifelong learning and the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, at Mobile Learning Week, the third batch of case studies from the Initiative will be launched, featuring stories from MOPA, Hello Hope, Farmer Training App and ABALOB. A further two case studies to be released later this month.
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When dealing with the pension assets of a divorcing couple received wisdom has always been that where Final Salary (Defined Benefit) pensions were up for grabs, these were the most sought after by both sides since – as the title infers – the benefits were pre-defined and therefore guaranteed to be paid at the level calculated at the time of divorce with inflation proofing thrown in! Lowly Money Purchase (Defined Contribution) pension benefits, however, carried no such guarantees and income was dependent on the performance of the underlying funds and/or the annuity rates prevailing at the time the recipient retires.
The last ten years of credit crunches and unprecedented central bank economic meddling in the form of QE and suppressed interest rates have done nothing to counter this logic – a “no brainer” then!
Well, yes, maybe!
The “Pension Freedom” changes introduced by George Osborne in April 2015 have added a few options into the mix that make the decision a little less straightforward than it might have been before.
To re-cap, the changes were widespread but the ones that are perhaps most pertinent for the purposes of this discussion are as follows
Income of any level could be withdrawn from the pension fund from age 55 with tax payable at the recipient’s marginal rate of income tax.
Lump sum death benefits in the form of 100% of the value of the fund could be paid to ANY chosen beneficiary free of all taxes if death occurred prior to age 75. If death occurred after age 75 the benefits would still be free of Inheritance Tax but the recipient would be liable to tax at their marginal rate.
Provided the funds remained within a pension contract in the hands of the beneficiary then the remaining value could be passed on to their chosen beneficiaries under the same terms as set out above.
So, armed with this knowledge we should perhaps look more closely at the merits of Final Salary over Money Purchase. Let’s assume the following scenario:
Wife 58, husband 60 and children 30 & 32 who are no longer financially dependent
Wife has no pension benefits, husband has pension benefits as follows
£45,000 per annum Final Salary pension payable from age 65 (Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) £900,000) Tax free cash is available through commutation leading to a reduced initial pension.
Money Purchase benefit in a Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) value £900,000. Benefits are available from age 55 and Tax free cash of 25% of the fund value can be withdrawn (£225,000)
Whilst on the face of it the £900,000 SIPP fund could not initially purchase an equivalent income to the Final Salary scheme via an annuity purchase the Pension Freedom changes throw up some interesting alternatives to the traditional analysis.
Final Salary death benefits in the form of 50% spouses benefits would only be payable to a financially dependent spouse. If the wife takes a pension share but does not remarry or lives with/marries someone independently wealthy then the pension will likely cease on her death. As her children are not financially dependent they would receive nothing. (NB If death occurs within five years of retirement there may be a lump sum in the form of the balance outstanding of 5 years’ worth of pension payments.)
Money Purchase death benefits of the full value of the SIPP fund can be left to any beneficiary regardless of financial dependency. In this case then, assuming wife dies after one year and no income taken or growth on the fund, her two children could each receive £450,000 totally tax free.
Income Flexibility
Final Salary pension payments are subject to income tax at the recipient’s marginal rate. Once in payment they cannot be stopped or varied. Tax free cash must be drawn at retirement and in one lump sum.
Money Purchase pension payments are also taxable. However, it is possible to withdraw the tax free cash entitlement in stages which could provide a tax efficient income stream.
If we assume inflation at 2% per annum and net investment returns of 5% per annum then, using this strategy, the SIPP could match the Final Salary income net of tax until the wife reached age 99.
Of course should she not reach age 99 then any remaining funds would be available – free of IHT – to her chosen beneficiaries.
Instead of providing an income, the Money Purchase funds could be used to provide the wife with capital. Obviously a tax-free lump sum of £225,000 could be withdrawn at outset. However, pension freedom rules allow further taxable lump sums to be withdrawn up to the full value of the fund. Whilst this will impact the level of ongoing income available, it introduces an element of flexibility unavailable through Defined Benefit schemes.
Indeed, if other capital is tied up in illiquid assets then the SIPP could provide a non-taxpaying wife with capital of over £610,000 after the deduction of all tax.
In summary then, where flexibility, access to capital and death benefits are a priority, Money Purchase benefits might just have the edge.
Andrew 2016-09-15T09:46:12+00:00
Have Gold Plated pensions lost their lustre?
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Slapfish Signs Mult-Unit Deal in Northern Virginia
Industry News July 25, 2017
Slapfish announced a new multi-unit franchise deal that has been signed for the Northern Virginia market. Customers will be able to land the restaurant's already Instagram-famous Clobster Grilled Cheese, Lobster Rolls, and Chowder Fries, in Ashburn, Tysons, Reston, Fairfax, and Merrifield in the coming years. This is the California-based fast casual's first franchise deal on the East Coast.
Slapfish has quickly captured the hearts of seafood lovers with their impressive celebrity chef-driven fine dining menu at fast casual prices. Founder and celebrity chef Andrew Gruel originally opened the concept as a food truck in Orange County, but the restaurant's popularity soon saw expansion into bricks and mortar locations throughout California and in Utah. The franchise expansion plan includes opening restaurants in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Idaho and Nevada with a location in Albuquerque opening this summer.
“It’s a very exciting time for Slapfish to expand to the East Coast,” says Chef Andrew Gruel. “We’re looking forward to our first opening in Virginia and meeting new seafood lovers. We’re hopeful we’ll continue expanding up and down the coast.”
Slapfish was founded on responsible sourcing practices and giving customers access to chef-driven, fine dining menu items at fast casual prices in a hip modern setting. Gruel and Slapfish have appeared on Food Network, FYI, NBC’s Today Show, The New York Times, Forbes, and The Cooking Channel, to name a few.
Fransmart serves as Slapfish’s exclusive franchise development partner and is the franchise development company behind explosive growths of brands like Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Qdoba Mexican Grill.
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Steam trains in the Harz
4-Day tour Germany
4-Day rail tour Germany
140km narrow gauge steam railway network, Europe’s largest network of its kind
Scenic routes & Hochharz National Park
€ 299 1st class
€ 299 2nd class
Rail Tour Steam trains in the Harz
Discover the Harz by (steam) train, with a charming hotel in a small village in the forests as your base. Visit historic towns with traditional timbered houses and enjoy the peaceful nature on a long walk.
Harz Railway
Brocken Railway
Discounts / Surcharges
The rail tour starts from the town of Wernigerode in the Harz. Travel by train (with either a steam or diesel locomotive) to the village of Drei Annen Hohne.
Overnight stay in Drei Annen Hohne.
It is possible to add train tickets to Wernigerode to your booking. Additional fees applicable.
Take the Brocken Railway to the highest mountain of the Harz (1142m). The afternoon you can spend as you wish. For instance, visit picturesque Wernigerode with its authentic timbered houses.
Take the Harz Railway to Nordhausen (trains sometimes have a diesel locomotive). Return via Eisfelder Talmühle.
Return to Wernigerode or extension of the trip.
It is possible to add train tickets to your booking. For instance, there are trains from Wernigerode to Hamburg (3h15m), Berlin (3h10m), Düsseldorf (4h45m), Leipzig (2h) and Munich (5h30min). Please note that since Wernigerode is a small town, you most likely have to change trains in larger towns to reach your final destination. Additional fees applicable.
Would you like to receive more information and details of this rail tour? Please send us an email: info@railtravelshop.com.
All train journeys in the Harz region (from Wernigerode), using the 3-day HSB train pass. The pass is valid on the entire HSB (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen) railway network including a return trip to the Brocken, the highest mountain of the Harz. The HSB pass is valid from the day of arrival in the region, for the journey back to Wernigerode (on travel day 4) an additional ticket is provided and included in the price.
Harz-Guestcard, issued at the hotel on the day of arrival. With the card, certain attractions in the Harz can be visited for a discounted rate. In addition, with the card HATIX buses can be used for free. There is a bus stop in front of the hotel.
3 Nights: 2 person room or single room with shower + toilet, breakfast and dinner included (half board). Hotel is located opposite to the train station.
Additional nights in both a 2 persons room (€66 p.p.) or single room (€86 p.p.) can be added to the booking. Breakfast and dinner included.
Overnight stays in other cities (also outside Germany) before or after rail tour can be added as well.
If arriving on a Sunday (except holidays) 5=4; book a 4th night and get an additional 5th night free.
5=4 for arrivals on Sunday (except bank holidays). Book a 4th night and receive an additional 5th night for free.
Tourist tax €2.50 p.p.p.d. to be paid in the hotel
5-day HSB train pass (for 5 continuous travel days including a return trip to the Brocken) instead of the 3-day pass, surcharge €43 p.p.
Daily departure
Travelling around Christmas and New Years on request due to limited availability
Additional nights
Book additional nights in the next step of the booking process.
Romantic Germany
4-day tour of Germany
The Iron Curtain Tour
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From Allgäu to Engadin
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Friday Five — September 30, 2016
September 30, 2016Red Hat Corporate Communications Team
Tags:Awards, Corporate, Customer success, Friday Five, Mobile, Storage
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about
Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
Red Hat Announces Ansible Tower App for Splunk, Enabling Intelligence and Automation Enhancements
Red Hat announced the availability of the Ansible Tower App for Splunk, an application that integrates Ansible Tower by Red Hat with Splunk® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. The application brings the power and variety of Splunk analytics queries to Ansible Tower automation, and enables Ansible Tower and Splunk customers to view rich Ansible automation data in Splunk solutions where it can be correlated with other data sources throughout the application delivery lifecycle, providing new levels of operational intelligence. The Ansible Tower App for Splunk enables customers to more deeply analyze the data generated by Ansible Tower automations and generate customized reports. These reports can then be shared between teams to facilitate operational decisions and activities.
Computer Weekly - Open source storage hits the mainstream
The factor that previously slowed the acceptance of open source storage was that it involved so much more DIY. ... Open-source storage isn't so easy. For a start, most users will already have storage that they know and trust and, more importantly, which already has their data on it. Switching storage platforms isn't quite as simple as moving applications or virtual machines to a new server. ... That is changing though, and fast. More freely downloadable packages have appeared, albeit mainly aimed at trial users. And more companies offer services to help with hardware/software integration and tuning, and then to provide the sort of enterprise-grade support that we have come to expect from the one-stop-shop storage vendors. One example is Red Hat, which sells services for Ceph and GlusterFS, branding the latter as Red Hat [Gluster] Storage. ... However, as the DIY challenge diminishes and the availability of commercial-quality support grows, the deliberate use of open source software for storage is moving beyond the tech-savvy hinterlands at the far ends of the storage scale. ... Add the almost accidental use of open source storage software, packaged within appliances or other open source platforms, and newer open source storage projects such as Ceph and OpenStack Swift, both of which are object storage platforms and are squarely aimed at the enterprise, and all the indications are that open source storage is not just ready for the mainstream – it is already there.
GOOD READ:
ZDNet - Why Red Hat is misunderstood amid public cloud worries
It's not too often that a flourishing enterprise technology company grows 18 percent to 22 percent for the last six quarters and is treated like it's about to roll over. Welcome to Red Hat's conundrum. The company delivered a strong second quarter and landed 55 deals worth more than $1 million. Yet Red Hat is continually having to hurdle the proverbial wall of worry about the public cloud and how it will ultimately lose revenue as enterprises move away from running their own datacenters. ... Red Hat habitually describes its software as key to the hybrid cloud. As a term, hybrid cloud typically refers to a legacy vendor trying to sell you more datacenter gear and software. The catch is that Red Hat's hybrid cloud is different relative to the crowd. ... Public cloud deployments don't necessarily hurt Red Hat, which runs on most public clouds including Microsoft's Azure. ... Worrywarts about Red Hat will argue that a move to the public cloud means that AWS will get the Linux business. Not necessarily. "As more goes to the public cloud the more relevant we get," Whitehurst [CEO of
Red Hat] argued. "If you are moving to Amazon you have to architect it so you're not locked in. Large enterprises feel burned out about being locked in." In other words, Red Hat is that anti-lock-in abstraction layer.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS:
Systemlink builds IoT energy conservation app with Red Hat
Systemlink, a Dublin-based manufacturer of heating systems, provides smart heating systems that save energy and water. To help consumers make more informed decisions and save energy and money, the company wanted to develop a way for consumers to monitor and track their utility usage. Using Red Hat Mobile Application Platform, Systemlink developed an Internet of Things (IoT)-ready mobile application that lets customers track their utility use using their smartphones and reduce utility costs.
Nominations open for 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards
Red Hat is accepting nominations for the 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards. The Red Hat Innovation Awards have recognized Red Hat's global customers and partners for the transformative projects and outstanding results they have experienced with Red Hat's open source solutions. Organizations can submit nominations in five categories, and winners will be selected based on the uniqueness, complexity, and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations. Submissions will be accepted until Nov. 9, 2016, and will be evaluated by a panel of business and open source technology experts. One winner will be chosen in each category. From those winners, the 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through online voting, and will be announced during an awards ceremony at the 2017 Red Hat Summit in Boston.
Expanded Red Hat availability on Microsoft Azure
Red Hat recognized as one of Raleigh’s Best Places to Work and for its design and marketing programs
Red Hat at Microsoft Ignite The Tour 2020 Seoul
Open Demo: Red Hat Ansible Automation
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Clever comedy from CAT
You know you’re in Canada when a crazed U.S. zealot storms Parliament Hill, shoots up the prime minister’s office, and the first thing he hears is, “Is that gun registered?”
Central Alberta Theatre continues its winning streak of plays this season with the cute and clever political comedy Booster McCrane P.M.
The David S. Craig vehicle, which opened Friday at City Centre Stage, is about a lawyer from Veteran, Alta., who rides a series of electoral flukes into the country’s highest office.
To the surprise of everyone this political novice, who writes radio jingles and auctioneers on the side because there’s so little crime in Veteran, becomes Canada’s first-ever non-Liberal, non-Progressive Conservative prime minister.
As the leader of a very minority government (he has a cabinet of one), McCrane, played by Robert Van Der Linden, is smart enough to realize his stint at the top will be brief. But he figures he only needs about three days “to set this country straight” and that’s what he proceeds to do, leaving a turbulent trail in his wake.
Like a longer, gentler version of CBC-TV’s This Hour has 22 Minutes, this comedy, directed by Carole Forhan, pokes fun at Ottawa in general and politicians in particular (including Quebec’s premier, played by Tim Newcomb).
There’s even some self-deprecating humour directed at Canadians. At one point, this nation is referred to as “a country united by doughnut shops,” by the pushy U.S. ambassador (Dennis Moffat), who wants to reroute the Fraser River to California.
McCrane reacts by declaring war on the U.S. to curtail American control of our economy.
The new prime minister also auctions off government securities in a televised telethon to help rebuild the national economy, and pay off the debt.
McCrane’s tactics may seem loopy, but he’s played pretty straight as an unassuming, likable idealist by Van Der Linden. This gives every bizarre thing he does an intriguing air of possibility, as in — what would happen if somebody in Ottawa actually did that?
Forhan has assembled a great cast for this production, including Linden and Albert Azzara, who has the unenviable task of portraying aboriginal chief Joe White Eagle, the minister of everything in McCrane’s one-man cabinet. His chief turns stereotypes that could be offensive on their heads, making White Eagle one of the funniest and most technically savvy characters in the play.
Vicki Dykes is great as Margery Fullbrow, the exasperated clerk of the privy council, who watches in disbelief as McCrane upends every parliamentary rule. (McCrane points out, he doesn’t break rules because that would be un-Canadian).
Nicole Orr is genuine as McCrane’s nicey-nice sweetheart, Crystal Wildrose, who offers the U.S. renegade who storms Parliament Hill a cup of coffee — which seems like a sensible thing to do.
Both Moffat and Newcomb also shine in their roles, but the hilarious Curtis Closson almost steals the show as U.S. Army soldier Frank Crawford. His character’s entrance picks up the play’s pacing considerably by introducing some badly needed dramatic tension and conflict. (You can only laugh so much at monetary fund jokes — give us some action!)
On the technical side of things, staging Booster McCrane, P.M., required a lot of innovations, and the crew surpassed expectations.
Set designer Stuart Reid delivered a spectacular replica of the real wood-panelled P.M.’s office, and technical director William Ladic pulled off professional looking newscasts that are shown on giant TV sets. (That reminds me, kudos also to Robert Beeston for so aptly standing in as the play’s proxy Peter Mansbridge).
Now, if only our country’s real problems could be solved in three days . . .
lmichelin@bprda.wpengine.com
Armstrong scored 29 for Carstar
Fourth ‘Transformers’ takes shape; due out in June 2014
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Nestled in the sand along the famous Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa is a tropical paradise with easy access to all of Grand Cayman's attractions. Enjoy the year-round sunshine at the swim-up pool bar or on the nearby 18-hole golf course, and explore some of the world's best scuba diving spots with the on-site dive shop. Spacious guest rooms and suites are designed to bring the outdoors in, and a full-service spa will help you feel pampered. Where endless sunny days and cool, island breezes form the perfect backdrop for relaxation, this inviting island resort creates splendid vacation experiences for each and every guest.
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Room Service*, Private Cabanas*, Internet Access*, Laundry/Dry Cleaning Services*, Concierge Desk, Shop*, Water Activities Stand*, Children's Activities*, Business Center*, Fax/Photocopy Services*, Currency Exchange*, Multilingual Staff, Mail Service*, Medical Services*, Safety Deposit Boxes (Front Desk), Meeting Facilities*, Wedding Services*.
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Room amenities include air conditioning, cable television, telephone, internet access, minibar, safety deposit box, iron/ironing board, alarm clock, coffee/tea maker, and hairdryer.
Requests for a specific bedding arrangement or room location are fulfilled by the hotel based on availability.
[1] Standard
One king bed or two double beds.
[2] Island View
One king bed or two double beds. An arched floor-to-ceiling window allows for island views and some rooms feature a patio or balcony. 380 sq ft / 35 sq m.
[3] Partial Pool View
One king bed or two double beds. An arched floor-to-ceiling window allows for pool views and some rooms feature a patio or balcony. 380 sq ft / 35 sq m.
[4] Partial Ocean View
One king bed or two double beds. Partial Ocean View rooms boast floor-to-ceiling glass doors that lead out to a balcony or patio and offer glimpses of the Caribbean Sea and the golden beach. 380 sq ft / 35 sq m.
[5] Ocean / Pool View
One king bed or two double beds. Pool-Ocean View rooms boast floor-to-ceiling glass doors that lead out to a balcony or patio and offer views of the sea as well as our lush pool area. 380 sq ft / 35 sq m.
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Casa Havana - Located right on the water and overlooking Seven Mile Beach, Casa Havana serves up contemporary island cuisine, with enticing local ingredients such a wahoo, tuna, prepared to exquisite standards.
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New book by Somaiyeh Falahat
Apr 30, 2018 Louise Kay
Friend of the project, Dr Somaiyeh Falahat has a new book out introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed.
In the context of ‘Islamic city’ studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban space into a generic scientific framework. Phenomenological characteristics have consequently been ignored rather than integrated into theoretical components. The book argues that this results from a lack of appropriate conceptual vocabulary in our global body of scholarly literature. It challenges existing theories, introduces and applies the concept of Hezar-tu (‘a thousand insides’) to rethink the spaces in historic cores of Fez, Isfahan and Tunis. This tool constructs a staging post towards a different articulation of urban space based on spatial, physical, virtual, symbolic and social edges and thresholds; nodes of sociospatial relationships; zones of containment; state of intermediacy; and, thus, a logic of ambiguity rather than determinacy. Presenting alternative narrations of paths through sequential discovery of spaces, this book brings the sensual features of urban space into the focus.
The book finally shows that concepts derived from local contexts enable us to tailor our methods and theoretical structures to the idiosyncrasies of each city while retaining the global commonalities of all. Hence, in broader terms, it contributes to a growing awareness that urban studies should be more inclusive by bringing the diverse global contexts of cities into the body of our urban knowledge.
Somaiyeh Falahat is currently a research fellow at Department of Geography and a research associate at Trinity Hall college, University of Cambridge. Her recent research explores milieus of urban modernity in the early 20th century Tehran. She was previously an academic staff member at Berlin University of Technology where she was awarded numerous research and seed grants from the Federal Foreign Office, German Academic Exchange Service, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Berlin University of Technology and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Somaiyeh led the international programme of Participatory Urban Regeneration: Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Tehran between 2013-2016. She also authored Cities and Metaphors: Beyond Imaginaries of Islamic Urban Space (Routledge, 2018), Re-imaging the City (Springer, 2014) and multiple papers on themes around urban theory, culture and history in international journals including Urban History, Cities, Planning Perspectives, International Journal of Architectural Research and International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. Somaiyeh has also been a postdoctoral and visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley, Oxford Brookes University and University of Newcastle.
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September 6, 2018 / 12:12 PM / a year ago
Ford recalls two million trucks over seat belt fire risk
David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Thursday it would recall 2 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America because of a seat belt problem that could generate excessive sparks and cause fires.
The second-largest U.S. automaker said it received 17 reports of smoke or fire in the United States and six in Canada but was not aware of any injuries.
During a crash, a device called a pretensioner uses an explosive charge to lock the seat belt in place. The company said the device may generate excessive sparks.
Ford will fix the problem for free and said in a securities filing the recall would cost about $140 million. The company said the cost would be reflected in third-quarter earnings but Ford left unchanged its guidance for full-year 2018 adjusted earnings.
The recall covers 2015-2018 Ford F-150 Regular Cab and SuperCrew Cab vehicles in North America for driver and front passenger seat-belt pretensioners.
Ford said the recall included 1.62 million U.S. vehicles, 340,000 in Canada and 37,000 in Mexico.
Shares of the company closed down 0.5 percent at $9.45.
To resolve the issue, dealers will remove some insulation material and remnants of wiring harness tape from the vehicle’s B pillar area, and apply heat-resistant tape to the carpet and its insulation. They will also modify the back interior panels of Regular Cab vehicles. The B pillar is the vertical support behind a vehicle’s front seat windows.
The recall came just weeks after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a preliminary investigation in August after five complaints of fires in the seat belt component, including three vehicles destroyed by fires. The agency had asked Ford about fire reports earlier this year.
A Ford spokeswoman said the company “identified this issue through its normal quality processes.”
Transport Canada, the Canadian auto regulatory agency, contacted Ford in November 2017, regarding a B-pillar area fire on a 2015 vehicle. That prompted a joint vehicle inspection by Ford and the agency, but the cause could not be determined.
FILE PHOTO: An airplane flies above a Ford logo in Colma, California, U.S., October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo
Ford also reviewed four reports of post-crash interior fires earlier in 2017 in the B-pillar area of trucks, but did not find any issues.
Ford said the components in the older 2015-2017 models were built by Takata, which was acquired by Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corp (600699.SS), while ZF Friedrichshafen AG [ZFF.UL] built the parts starting with the 2018 model year.
German auto supplier ZF said it was working with Ford on the recall and Ningbo Joyson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Lisa Shumaker
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BATT G. W. J.
This page is dedicated to the memory of:
Gordon Walter James Batt, DSC
800 Squadron Fleet Air Arm
Gordon (‘Gordy’) was born in 1945 at Bircoats in Yorkshire, the only child of Rose and James Batt. His father, now deceased, was serving in the Royal Air Force at the time. Gordy was educated at Andover Grammar School and, as a member of the local Air Training Corps, took an early interest in aviation. He joined the Royal Navy at HMS Fisgard in Cornwall as an Artificer Apprentice but was then selected in 1964 for Officer Training. At the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as an ‘Upper Yardman’ Cadet, he became interested in diving and sailing. Midshipman Batt then saw service in the Far and Middle East, returning to Dartmouth to continue his studies in 1967. After being commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant, he became the First Lieutenant of HMS BRAVE SWORDSMAN, a fast patrol boat. He married in 1970, and in the same year started pilot training. July 1971 saw the award of his Fleet Air Arm ‘wings’ as well the Ground School Training Prize.
After completing Advanced Flying Training and Operational Training on Sea King helicopters, Gordy joined 824 Squadron, where he served in HMS ARK ROYAL until Easter 1973. At that time, it became clear that despite the rundown of its ‘big carrier’ expertise, the Royal Navy would need to maintain a nucleus of fixed-wing pilots to crew the forthcoming Sea Harrier; Gordy Batt was among the first of a small number of helicopter pilots selected to train on fast jets.
Thus began what was to be five-year secondment to the Royal Air Force, initially for training on Jet Provost, then the Gnat and Hunter, before qualifying on the F-4M Phantom. Gordon was then operational with 43 Squadron – the Fighting Cocks – at RAF Leuchars, where he lived with his family from December 1974 to August 1977.
Gordy then returned to the Royal Navy as a student at the Naval Staff College, Greenwich until February 1978. A resumption of flying duties led to a two-year exchange appointment with the United States Navy, in the highly esteemed VX4 Squadron at the Pacific Missile Test Centre, Point Mugu, California. He is still remembered there for his great skill in saving an F14 Tomcat after a dramatic low-level engine failure. For this he was awarded the US Secretary of State’s Commendation for Meritorious Services in the Air. On return from the United States in 1980 he began his Sea Harrier conversion with 899 Squadron Naval Air Command, and moved to the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton, in Somerset. He was due to become Senior Pilot of 800 Sqn in late 1982.
Events in the South Atlantic intervened, and Lt Cdr Batt deployed south in HMS HERMES, with the integrated 800/809/899 Sea Harrier component of that carrier’s Air Group. He flew several important missions as strike leader, including the bombing attacks on Stanley airfield, Goose Green, and several Argentine shipping assets. For these services and his outstanding leadership, Gordy was nominated ‘in theatre’ for the award of a Distinguished Service Cross. Then, on 23rd May 1982, about an hour before midnight, he launched from HERMES with three other Sea Harriers, to attack Stanley airfield once more. His aircraft was last off the deck but was then seen to explode ahead of the carrier. The cause of this accident, which occurred about 90 miles NE of Port Stanley, was never established. His DSC was gazetted posthumously.
Gordy Batt was a hugely respected, highly experienced, and much-admired figure in the demanding world of Naval aviation. A loving family man, he left behind Diana, and their three children – Christopher (1971), Andrew (1974) and Joanna (1976). He is still very much missed by all who knew him.
NAVY DEPARTMENT
The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to approve the Posthumous award of the Distinguished Service Cross to the undermentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished service during operations in the South Atlantic:
Lieutenant Commander Gordon Walter James BATT, Royal Navy.
Lieutenant Commander Batt, HMS HERMES, played a key role in the air battle and operations over the Falklands. On 4th May 1982, he led a daring and aggressive attack on the airstrip at the Goose Green settlement during which his number two was shot down and the pilot killed. He participated in five other low level attacks against defending targets, notable, on two occasions, against Port Stanley airfield. He also flew up to four air defence sorties per day, sometimes combining further ground attacks with these sorties. He was killed on a night mission prior to another low level attack on the airfield.
Lieutenant Commander Batt faced the danger and very high stress with characteristic cheerfulness which was a fine example to the other aircrew. He knew the odds against him but his courage never failed and his aggressive flying on 29 operational missions was in the highest traditions of the Service.
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Indian footballer dies in tragic magic incident in Mizoram Premier League
The standing backflip is a type of advanced, backward somersault. The body rolls/flips end-over-end, making a complete 360 degree revolution and landing back on the feet, without contacting the floor with hands, head or shoulders, requiring practice and care to execute. Bethlehem Vengthlang FC started the campaign better than most expected and after four rounds they have six points and third on the table. On October 14, they faced Chanmari West FC and ________ scored his first goal in the league at 62 minutes which was also the equalizer. He was delighted to score an important goal …… I for sure would not have read this but for the incident, perhaps most of others too …..
A leading newspaper wrote – he will not score a goal again – and that had been decided by himself (meaning his chosen retirement). Miroslav Josef Klose is a famous footballer from Germany who plays as a striker for Lazio in the Italian Serie A. Klose is best known for his performances with the German national team, for which he is the all-time top scorer with 71 goals. He has excelled at the FIFA World Cup, where he is the overall top scorer in its history with 16 goals. He was part of the 2014 World Cup winning German squad too. Klose scored five goals in his debut World Cup in 2002 and won the Golden Boot at the 2006 World Cup in Germany by again scoring five times. He retired recently in Aug 2014.
Santosh Trophy is the annual Indian football tournament which is contested by states and government institutions. The first winners were Bengal, who also lead the all-time winners list with 31 titles till date. The tournament first began in 1941, and was the premier football competition in the country before the National Football League started in the year 1996. The trophy as named after the late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh, which is now in Bangladesh, who had been the President of the Indian Football Association, the football organisation of Bengal and the donators of the trophy. A bunch of unheralded diminutive footballers took the Santosh Trophy by storm and maintained their rich brand of fast-paced attacking football in the Final to deservingly win their maiden Nationals crown sweeping aside Railways 3-0 in the Title clash of the 68th National Championships for the Santosh Trophy held in March 2014.
In line with the super IPL and Indian Kabbadi league, Hockey league, Badminton league … there is Indian Super league in which Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni too own teams. The 2014 ISL Inaugural Domestic Draft was the first ever draft from the Indian Super League, the new franchise domestic football league in India. ~ and alongside is happening the “Mizoram Premier League” - the highest state-level association football league in Mizoram, India.
It was in this - Bethlehem Vengthlang FC started the campaign better than most expected and after four rounds they have six points and third on the table. On October 14, they faced Chanmari West FC and Peter Biaksangzuala scored his first goal in the league at 62 minutes which was also the equalizer. He was delighted to score an important goal and celebrated his goal by flipping but unfortunately made an awkward land. He was rushed to Aizawl Civil Hospital ~ and the sad news is that he died of spinal injuries sustained in that somersault goal celebration.
Biaksangzuala spent five days in hospital before passing away on Sunday; the 23-year-old midfielder scored a 62nd-minute equaliser against Chanmari West FC in Tuesday's league encounter and celebrated acrobatically - in a manner similar to record World Cup goalscorer Miroslav Klose. Unfortunately, Biaksangzuala mistimed his landing and his head took the brunt of the fall. The FB page of Mizoram football (photo credit to FB of Mizoram premier league) states that his eyes were donated. In memory of the midfielder, Bethlehem Vengthlang FC have retired his shirt No 21 with the Mizoram Football Association. The statement reads “'It has been a sad day for Mizoram football and the demise of the footballer shook his team-mates, footballers and fans alike all over Mizoram.
20th Oct 2014.
Posted by Srinivasan Sampathkumar at Monday, October 20, 2014
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GRANT HELPS EXPAND PLACEMENT SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES
“MY ULTIMATE DREAM JOB would be working for a sports organization doing data entry or communications,” said Mike Sack, who currently works as a data entry clerk for Rise’s Data Ability program in Bloomington.
Mike is one of several job-seekers receiving customized career planning and competitive job placement services made possible through a special grant from the Greater Twin Cities United Way. This funding is specifically for people served in Rise’s day training and habilitation (DT&H) programs.
“The people served through this grant each have significant challenges to getting a position in the competitive job market,” Dan Meyers, Rise’s manager of V0cational Evaluation & Transitional Services explained.
“This funding enables Rise to assist about 30 people who might not otherwise receive job placement services. We are working hard to ensure that people receive the support they need to find a good job in the community.”
“I feel like a job dealing with a sports team like handling their social media sites or writing for their website would be perfect for me because I follow every major Minnesota sports team,” Mike, who is 27, added. “I also have a ton of writing experience as I co-write the ‘Two Men On’ blog, which now has more than 94,300 views.”
Rise’s Placement Specialist Sandra Pelava is working with Mike in his job search. The two meet weekly to talk about employment and internship opportunities. Mike noted that the major obstacles they are currently tackling to find just the right job are identfying companies who are hiring and willing to talk, and then securing PCA (personal care attendant) assistance for him on the job.
“If Sandy or I find a job that looks promising, we chat about what is next, and sometimes call the company to learn more. This past summer, Sandy helped me secure a press pass to attend the St. Paul Saints to cover however many games I wanted for my blog. So that could be a great start to a potential job opportunity.
“I also had an informational interview with the Minnesota Twins last spring to see what kind of jobs were available and to learn how the job application process works.”
Lane Mooney, who is 52, has worked through Rise’s Day Training and Habilitation Sensory Support Unit for close to 20 years. He currently works on a wide range of subcontracts in Rise’s Spring Lake Park production facility.
He has also worked in area businesses, including HOM Furniture in Coon Rapids where he prepped furniture for home delivery and showroom display, putting knobs on dressers, legs on sofas, etc. In addition, Lane worked at the Grassroots Coop in Anoka where he helped unload shipments, stock shelves, and clean until the store closed in November 2016.
Through this grant, Lane is working with Angela Mannila, an occupational communication specialist/placement specialist, to find a job in the community for which his skills and interests are well-suited. Lane will also be working with State Services for the Blind to fund job tryouts during his job search.
As a young student, Lane received some vocational training when he attended the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf in Faribault where his interest in all things electrical was likely “sparked.”
Lane enjoys constructing electrical creations and will spend hours at his own work bench taking things apart and putting them back together or fixing them — especially if they have a lighted screen like a laptop computer or cell phone.
Mary Richards has been a data entry clerk with Rise’s Data Ability program in Crystal for about five years. She is self-taught in her computer skills and has had other receptionist and clerical positions before coming to Rise at age 60.
Mary is working with Rise Placement Specialist Sarah Gustafson to develop an updated career plan.
“My dream job would be to be a peer mentor or job coach and work one-on-one with people helping them on the job,” Mary explained. “I think that my willingness to use my own life experiences of living with a brain injury, plus my own survival skills, could really help others to succeed.”
“This United Way grant will enable my team and I to open doors to new employment opportunities,” Dan added. “We are excited about the possibilities and offer our sincere thanks to the United Way for their generous funding.”
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GRATEFUL RECIPIENTS OF RISE’S NEW ADVANCING LIVES FUND USE GIFTS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF NEEDS
Guests at the 2014 Celebrate Rise Fundraising Gala held last October not only enjoyed a fun and festive evening, they also seemed to enjoy generously donating to Rise’s new Advancing Lives Fund. They helped raise more than $20,000.
In its first few months, more than a dozen people served by Rise have benefited from these special gifts which are to be used to meet needs that aren’t covered by other funding sources.
Individual gifts so far have ranged from $75 to $500 for a wide range of items, such as:
* Wheelchair ramp for home
* Communication software
* Car repairs
* Tools for use at school for automotive repair training
* Computer and internet access
* DynaVox communication equipment for work
* Lock box for medication
* First month’s rent and security deposit for new housing
* One-month bus pass
* College textbook
* Haircut and job interview clothes
One of the first recipients of Advancing Lives Funds is Miranda Siedschlag who started at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in January. Her goal is to complete general studies and then transfer to a four-year college to major in marine biology because she wants to help rescue dolphins.
Rise’s Mental Health & Housing Practitioner Holly Brabeck works with Miranda and helped her apply for Advancing Lives Fund monies to purchase textbooks for her college courses as well as a bus pass.
Miranda is excited to be back in school and says she believes a college degree is the ticket to a better life.
Martin Tipton received $500 to help purchase tools for his automotive technician courses at St. Cloud Technical and Community College. He plans to graduate in May 2016 with an associate of applied science degree and then earn his master’s certification. Martin hopes to work in a car dealership or on his own. Housing Support Specialist Paul Kuhlmann assisted him in applying for Advancing Lives Funds.
“It means everything to me to get these funds because these tools are the key to my future and I simply couldn’t afford them,” said Martin. “School is my Number 1 priority now and I’m getting this degree for my kids and to be able to move forward. I can’t emphasize enough how important this is to me. Thank you.”
Advancing Lives Funds are:
* Available for a one-time need that help move a person toward greater self-sufficiency (not ongoing bills)
* Limited to a maximum $500 per person per year
* Issued on a first-come, first-served basis
* Paid directly to the vendor, not the individual
To be eligible to apply for Rise’s Advancing Lives Funds, you need to:
* Be served in a Rise program
* Have explored other funding options without success
* Work with your Rise program manager to apply for funds
If you would like to contribute to the Advancing Lives Fund, please:
* Visit our website at http://rise.org/46/give.html, or
* Contact Advancement Director Noel McCormick at 763-783-2832; email: nmccormick@rise.org
Photo: Miranda Siedschlag is using her Advancing Lives Fund monies to purchase college textbooks and a bus pass.
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Hannah's Maze of Mirrors
According to this attraction's airlock introductory video, Hannah is a vain princess so in love with her own reflection that she's been imprisoned by a witch in a maze of mirrors. Are you The Chosen One who can find her and set her free?
Every visitor is given a set of plastic gloves to wear before they enter, so they don't smudge the mirrors -- which is smart, since you'll spend a large part of your time with your hands outstretched, bumping into glass.
The maze, fiendishly designed by labyrinth-maker Adrian Fisher, configures hundreds of identical mirrored archways and continually color-shifting LED lights to add to its confusion. You will, at some point, have the sinking feeling that you may not ever make it out.
This is not an attraction for the claustrophobic or those prone to panic attacks.
Tej Sundher, one of the maze's owners, told us that Hannah's has proved surprisingly popular with the young, who embrace its low-tech interactivity. It succeeds in contrast to the 5-D "Castle of Chaos" next door, which supposedly eats up more processing power than any other attraction on the planet -- and yet has been down for repairs both times when we've visited.
Simple-yet-effective Hannah's is the clear winner of this duo; our advice if you go is to grope your way in until you can follow someone who seems to know where they're going.
110 Showplace Blvd, Pigeon Forge, TN
North edge of town, on the northbound side of US Hwy 441. Heading north, it's just north of the Cracker Barrel. Heading south, it's a quarter-miles south of the Titanic. Very easy to spot heading south; just look for the big heads and King Kong of the Hollywood Wax Museum. The Castle that hosts Hannah's is right next to the Museum, in the same parking lot.
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Home > Financial Aid > College Scholarships > Scholarships by Grade Level > Graduate Scholarships > Career-Specific Scholarships > National Press Club Scholarship for Journalism Diversity
National Press Club Scholarship for Journalism Diversity
The National Press Club Diversity Scholarship for Studies in Journalism encourages further diversity in journalism and includes a one-time $500 book stipend in the memory of the late Ellen Masin Persina, a club member. The National Press Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious journalism organizations in the country, wants to recruit promising future journalists who will bring diversity to American journalism. The scholarship consists of a $2,000 one-year scholarship, which can be renewed for up to three years at $2,500 per year. For more information, or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider's website.
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Home > Financial Aid > College Scholarships > Scholarships by Type > College Scholarships and Grants for Single Mothers
College Scholarships and Grants for Single Mothers
In addition to childrearing, household responsibilities, and providing for the family, single mothers who want to go to college have a whole new list of responsibilities. For most of us, this is an impossible feat, but single moms always find a way to make it work. According to Raise the Nation, an organization dedicated to helping single mothers who want to continue their education, nearly 38% of single mothers live at or below the poverty level. Single moms with at least a bachelor’s degree are five times less likely to find themselves in dire financial states, which is why it is important for returning students who are single parents to find money for college and get that degree.
Considering how much it costs to raise a family, single mothers looking to go to college need financial aid. Luckily, countless organizations recognize that single parents need help paying for school. That is why a lot of college scholarships and grants were created specifically for single mothers. These scholarships help single moms afford the education they need to create a secure financial future for themselves and their children.
Take a look at the scholarship opportunities for single mothers. For more scholarship information about single-parent scholarship programs, as well as other programs, conduct a free college scholarship search at Scholarships.com.
Bernice Murray Scholarship
Application Deadline: 3/16/2020
The Bernice Murray Scholarship Foundation was established to honor Bernice Murray's unselfish contributions to improving the lives of Vermonters. The aim of the foundation is to make a difference in the lives of Vermont families, as Bernice Murray helped make a positive difference in the lives of so many human beings during her short life. In order to apply, you must attend an accredited school [...] More
Ellen M. Cherry-Delawder Memorial Scholarship
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This scholarship will be awarded to a student who has attained a minimum 2.0 GPA and is pursuing a program of study in a business-related field. Preference will be given to female students with dependent children. Students must show financial need. Along with the application, students must write a 500-word essay defining career and educational goals, and the benefits of a college education. For [...] More
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Application Deadline: Varies
A scholarship with a minimum award of $500 per year. Funded by the children of Frances Dunn. Professors Antonen, Lee and Shirley have generously agreed to act as a screening committee to evaluate candidates for the scholarship. Awarded to a deserving non-trad single mother in the IS program (must be a sophomore, junior, or senior). Students who have earned at least a 2.5 GPA and who wish to [...] More
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Amount: $750
The LouEllen Dabbs Scholarship is for a student who is a single parent and interested in pursuing a career in business, banking, or finance. To qualify, students must be enrolled in business administration or banking, be a single parent, be registered for a minimum of nine credits, and have at least a 2.35 GPA. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider's website. [...] More
Michael S. and Jeffrey C. Hagler Scholarship Fund
The Michael S. and Jeffrey C. Hagler Scholarship Fund is for nontraditional students who are single mothers enrolling in at least 9 credits in a degree-seeking or certification program at Boise State University or College of Western Idaho. Must be enrolling in at least 9 credits per semester as an undergraduate student or 6 credits per semester as a graduate student. Preference may be given to [...] More
Roadway Worker Memorial Scholarship
Eligible applicants for the Roadway Worker Memorial Scholarship must be dependents of roadway workers killed or permanently disabled in work zone construction or maintenance activities within the work zone, including mobile operations and the installation of roadside safety features. Spouses of fallen workers and parents with custody or legal guardianship of surviving children are also eligible. [...] More
Soroptimist's Live Your Dream Award
Application Deadline: 11/15/2020
The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards (formerly known as the Women's Opportunity Awards) assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills, and employment prospects. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider's [...] More
The Silver Shield Foundation
The Silver Shield Foundation has been helping children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty with the cost of their education. We set aside an education fund for each surviving child to assist with tuition payments for prep school, college and university undergraduate and graduate school, vocational and technical school, and tutoring services. The tuition assistance [...] More
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MilliporeSigma wins R&D 100 Award
November 19, 2019 -- MilliporeSigma announced that it is receiving a prestigious R&D 100 Award for its Eshumo CP-FT Resin product, a first-to-market product used in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
The R&D 100 Awards honor the 100 most innovative and significant technologies introduced in the past year. MilliporeSigma has received 10 R&D 100 Awards in the past seven years. MilliporeSigma representatives will accept the award at the 57th Annual R&D 100 Awards gala in San Francisco, California on December 5.
The cation exchange resin was developed for flow-through removal of aggregates using frontal chromatography. Aggregates are impurities in monoclonal antibody drugs that can reduce efficacy and therefore pose significant risk to patients. They are often difficult to remove in the purification process of drug manufacturing. Eshumo CP-FT resin delivers capacities 10 times higher than traditional bind/elute chromatography. The significant reduction in resin and buffer volume results in a smaller manufacturing footprint as well as lower costs. The resin is part of MilliporeSigma's BioContinuum Polishing Platform.
"This award recognizes our innovation in research and development for a product that helps biomanufacturers bring new therapies to patients faster and more cost effectively," said Udit Batra, CEO, MilliporeSigma. "Congratulations to our extended teams, who live our purpose every day by solving the toughest problems in life science in collaboration with the global scientific community."
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Palestinians of Israeli Citizenship and the Contradictions of Israeli Democracy
John McCarthy (Author of You Can’t Hide the Sun: A Journey Through Israel and Palestine (2012))
62 Woodstock Road, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The Moral Universe of the Dars-e Nizami: Elite Culture and the Study of Philosophy in (Post-)Mughal North India
Dr Sajjad Rizvi (Exeter University)
Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region
Ziba Mir-Hosseini (SOAS)
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On the Methodology of Deriving Ethics from the Qur’anic Worldview
Dr Ahmed Abaddi (Secretary-General, Rabita Mohammadia des Oulémas, Morocco)
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Tariq Ramadan, (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies)
You are cordially invited to the book launch for ‘The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East” by Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies Lecture followed by reception in The... Read more
Reflections on Friendship in Islamic and Western Thought
Professor Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh University)
The Development of Ethics and Spirituality through Islamic Law
Dr Musharraf Hussain (Karimia Institute, Nottingham)
Borders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon
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The Best Homeware Stores In Hong Kong
We’re big fans of homegrown brands, and love that TREE’s roots are firmly planted in Hong Kong. The go-to for all things sustainably stylish, deck out your entire home with unique, timeless pieces that have been lovingly crafted using reclaimed or recycled solid teak, oak or walnut, along with handpicked finishing touches sourced from all over the world!
From dining and coffee tables to beds, desks and accessories (you can never have too many throws and cushions), check out TREE’s Simply City Collection, which is inspired by sleek and chic structures perfect for maximising vertical spaces. Hong Kong homes are notoriously tiny, so we’re all about finding cool, statement pieces that make a big impact in such a small space! Featuring classic designs with a sophisticated edge, browse its eco-wood options in various shapes and sizes (or personalise your own!) to fit those nooks and crannies.
TREE, various locations around Hong Kong, www.tree.com.hk
The Roaming Chair
Look no further than The Roaming Chair for uniquely beautiful pieces for your home. A one-stop shop for furniture, lighting, tableware, décor and textiles, this online marketplace is the place to go for one-of-a-kind pieces. Celebrating unique craftsmanship, all items are handmade by skilled craftsmen and built to last. With rare, vintage and eye-catching finds easily accessible online (and purchased with just the click of a mouse!), it doesn’t get any better than that!
The Roaming Chair, available online, www.theroamingchair.com
Established in 1976, we love the fabulously British array of furniture, homewares and accessories that Timothy Outlon offers. The brand’s collection of eclectic décor and timeless pieces never fail to draw us in, stocking everything from comfy and stylish sofas to unique light fittings, office furniture, wall art and much more. Pop into its store on Gough Street to view the latest pieces, or head to the showroom in Horizon Plaza for a bigger selection.
Timothy Oulton, 17 Gough Street, Central, Hong Kong
Timothy Oulton, 2/F, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, www.timothyoulton.com
JG Casa
From sofas and armchairs to beds and nightstands, JG Casa easily ticks all the boxes on your household essentials checklist. With excellent craftsmanship and tasteful designs, this family-run business offers a vast collection of fashionable and contemporary pieces at reasonable prices, to help furnish the home of your dreams. Shop online and get delivered right to your door, or check out the mobile showroom to eye up the size and fabric samples of all the products.
JG Casa, available online, 6119 1895, www.jgcasa.com
Read more: Our Go-To Handymen In Hong Kong
Lantau Ren
Live out your island chic dreams with Lantau Ren, a brand of lifestyle and homeware products created by a stay-at-home mum who, you guessed it, lives on the island. Heavily instilled with doses of humour, style and love, you are sure to find something perfect for your house from its wide and quirky range of Hong Kong inspired gear. Look through the signature “Cuddle Me” clankets, bath towels, t-shirts, tote bags, tea towels, or take it up a notch with its “Spoil Me” jewellery collection.
Lantau Ren, available online, www.lantauren.com
Apartment49
If you’re looking for pieces to spruce up your flat, Apartment 49 is bursting with bright colours and on-trend fashionable home items. Its Laguiole cutlery sets come in different colours (to match your decor) or the Apatite Serving Sets make the perfect splurge gift or (just for yourself!). Apartment49 is available online and also hosts regular pop-ups across the city.
Apartment49, [email protected], www.apartment49.com
Dive into what Decor8 has to offer for quality home decor at a decent price. Expect a wide range of contemporary and chic furniture, from customisable wooden tables to mid-century inspired chairs. The website is updated on a weekly basis so you’ll be covered in case you’re too busy to check out its showrooms.
Decor8, 9/F, Unit B, Fuk Chiu Factory Building, 20 Bute Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, 2254 8878
Decor8, 8/F Shun Pont Commercial Building, 5-11 Thomson Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, 5981 1636, www.decor8.com.hk
Having been in the furniture game for over 50 years, Habitat knows a thing or two about home decor. Conveniently located across from IKEA in Causeway Bay, and with a very large showroom, you’ll surely find what you need quickly and easily. At Habitat, you can literally shop for anything home-related (even garden furniture for the lucky few that have their own balcony or terrace).
Habitat Hong Kong, G/F, 118 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong, 2322 1028, www.habitat.eu
For cheap and cheerful decor, H&M Home is the answer. Here you’ll find trendy and stylish home accessories like cushions, rugs, table linen and bed linen (to name but a few!) that will give an instant update to your interior. And did we mention that it’s incredibly affordable?
H&M Home, G/F-3/F Hang Lung Centre, 2-20 Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, www.hm.com
iDecorate
Who says luxury has to be expensive? At iDecorate, you can expect premium quality and on trend home decor at a reasonable price. Inspired by art, culture and beauty from all over the globe, it’s the perfect way to spruce up your home. Online shopping is also available and free worldwide delivery is offered on orders over $300.
iDecorate, Level 9, Shop 926, 1 Matheson Street, Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 3421 1279, www.idecorateshop.com
White Contemporary Homewares
For those who think that neutrals are boring, think again! Here you’ll find a universally appealing collection of beautiful and stylish home accessories in various neutral hues, carefully crafted by a variety of artisans and product design houses from around the world.
White Contemporary Homewares, Shop 245 Prince’s Building, 10 Chater Road Central, Hong Kong, www.whitehk.com
Inside carefully curates its collection of vintage and contemporary pieces with an emphasis on craftsmanship. Inside houses delicate and beautiful furniture, lighting, home accessories, gifts and fashion accessories. At Christmas, its store transforms into a winter wonderland as it has a great selection of baubles and wreaths, but this store is definitely worth visiting all year round.
Inside, G104, The Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, 2812 6685
Inside, 11/F, Unit A, Victory Factory Building, 16 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong (by appointment only), 2873 1795, www.inside.com.hk
Mirth is situated in Wong Chuk Hang, the ever popular former industrial part of Hong Kong. It’s also housed in a 1960s building where (rather appropriately) a stool factory used to be. It’s home to an impressive global collection of furnishings, accessories, artwork and more, plus some Hong Kong-themed treasures.
Mirth, 3/F, Yally Industrial Centre, 6 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, 2553 9811, www.mirthhome.com
Read more: Your Neighbourhood Guide To Wong Chuk Hang
Thorn & Burrow
Located right in the heart of Sai Ying Pun (with ample opportunities for coffee and lunch in the area!) is Thorn & Burrow. Here, you’ll find boho-chic and travel-inspired decor (and quirky), art, furniture even totes and purses. It stocks some signature and themed stationery as well as Louise Hill Hong Kong artwork, perfect for gifting friends and family, or yourself!
Thorn & Burrow, 1/F, 30 High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, 2559 9338, www.thornandburrow.com
Of course, this list wouldn’t be complete without the Swedish homeware staple, IKEA. Famous for its well-made and reasonably-priced items, unsurprisingly it’s become the answer to all your home decor problems from the bedroom to the balcony.
IKEA, various locations across Hong Kong, 3125 0888, www.ikea.com/hk/en
Teresa’s Turkish Towels
At Teresa’s Turkish Towels, you can find over 100 different types of tightly-weaved towels that will add a pop of colour to your summertime adventures. They’re portable and easy to pack, making them ideal for all kinds of outdoor activities. Thin, 100% cotton, highly absorbent and quick drying, with the option to customise with special embroidery services? Sounds good to us.
Teresa’s Turkish Towels, 3F Xiu Hua Commercial Building, 211 – 213 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, 6102 4220, www.hkturkish.com
FlowPlusLiving
Spice up your kitchen with ceramics goodies from FlowPlusLiving, which are all exquisitely handcrafted with a refreshingly modern touch. Discreetly tucked away in the creative hub of PMQ, this colourful ceramic heaven offers a wide range of products such as delicate vases, unique plates, modern cups and more! If the ceramic style doesn’t complement your current theme, these quirky gems make great gifts for your family and friends.
FlowPlusLiving, H207, 2/F, Hollywood Block B, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong, www.pmq.org.hk/shop/flow-plus-living
Calling all ceramics lovers! Loveramics brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional ceramics industry. This award-winning brand has taken the world by storm with innovative, yet practical, urban tableware. Designed in the UK, with ethically-sourced materials from all over the world, head over to its Causeway Bay or Repulse Bay location to shop timeless pieces. From chef’s tableware, kitchen prep tools, artist-inspired mugs and more!
Loveramics, various locations across Hong Kong, 2994 1289, www.loveramics.com
KBEN & HOL
Prepare to be blown away by the ample choices available here at KBEN & HOL. Contemporarily designed and traditionally handwoven with the art of Cambodian silk weaving, this family company offers a broad range of artisanal home furnishings and luxury textiles. Choose your favourite from the gorgeous, delicately patterned pillows, blankets and tableware. After all, every house needs a statement piece.
KBEN & HOL, available online, 5808 7685, www.kbenhol.com
GLC Green
With fresh, fun and functional pieces that are sustainably sourced from all over the world, GLC Green is a treasure trove for artisanal homeware items. Its simple style ticks all the boxes, but the number one selling point still remains: everything is ethically produced. By creating carefully-crafted, small-scale products with natural materials, GLC Green supports Filipino artisans and their craft.
GLC Green, available online, www.glcgreen.net
Keep things trendy with Zara home, another fun and affordable homeware option! You can expect current, contemporary and chic pieces, from linens to picture frames, all at a reasonable price. With frequent new releases and collections, there’s always something to look forward to when browsing online or in store.
Zara Home, 80 Tat Chee Avenue, Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, www.zarahome.com/hk
G.O.D Goods of Desire
For quintessentially Hong Kong home decor, Goods of Desire is the place to be with designs that embody the city’s rich history and culture. You can expect extraordinary and well-thought out items perfect for any Hong Kong household (or even outside the city). It also houses local token items perfect for quirky yet quality gifts.
G.O.D Goods of Desire, various locations across Hong Kong, www.god.com.hk
Bowerbird Home *now closed*
You can expect nothing less than perfection at Bowerbird. It aims to provide classic and elegant homeware with an added touch of Chinoiserie (Chinese-inspired Western decor) from suppliers across Europe and Asia. With the variety of porcelain and a great selection of bedside tables, expect to spend a long time browsing.
Bowerbird Home, 8/F Horizon Plaza, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, 2552 2727, www.bowerbird-home.com
Infurniti Homes
Inspired by unique cultures, this Hong Kong brand houses a wide array of furniture and home decor from all over the globe with everything from classic-chic, to vintage and contemporary.
Infurniti Homes, 12/F, Units 1-4 & 19-20, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, 2552 3890, [email protected], www.infurniti.com.hk
Organic Modernism
Make all your mid-century interior dreams come true at Organic Modernism. A Brooklyn export, Organic Modernism offers organic, natural and sleek furnishing made of white oak and marble. It aims to provide aesthetic and affordable home decor without sacrificing quality. Check out the Bronze & Bass Collection for the perfect statement piece.
Organic Modernism, 8/F, Unit 3-4, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, 2556 9499, [email protected], www.organicmodernism.com
Tequila Kola
To add a real sense of character to your home, check out what Tequila Kola has to offer. With its unique selection of vintage trunks and vibrant cushions and fabrics, you’ll be able to make any place your own. Head over to the main showroom on the 1st floor of Horizon Plaza to enjoy discounts on bulk purchases and EPS payments.
Tequila Kola, 1/F, Unit 1-7, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, 2877 3295, [email protected], www.tequilakola.com
Investing in your own home is always money well-spent, and there are few better places to do it than Indigo Living, the go-to spot for finding big classical or modern pieces. Prices can be on the higher side, but discounts can be found at its outlet in Horizon Plaza, where you’ll find amazing furniture at a fraction of the cost. Indigo Living also offers furniture rental and interior design services as well, along with online shopping… so get browsing!
Indigo Living, various locations across Hong Kong, www.indigo-living.com
Dovetail Living
At Dovetail Living, you’re promised nothing but the best when it comes to fulfilling your interior design and home decor dreams. It houses a wide range of only the newest and latest European brands and designers, giving you endless choices in designing and creating your dream house.
Dovetail Living, available online, www.dovetail-living.com
Editor’s Note: This post was originally written by Laurian, published on 27 June 2016, and was updated by Abegaile Legaspi on 7 May, 2019.
Looking for some new pieces to upgrade your home? Check out our favourite spots to pick up chic, functional and quality home decor!
Hong Kong’s furniture industry has definitely grown over the past couple of years and home decor shopping has never been easier. From physical stores to online shopping sites, the sky’s the limit when it comes to options. So, if you’re looking to re-decorate, browse through our roundup of some of the best stores for beautiful and unique homeware items.
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Featured image courtesy of Alexandra Gorn on Unsplash, image 1 courtesy of TREE via Instagram, image 2 courtesy of The Roaming Chair via Instagram, image 3 courtesy Timothy Oulton via Facebook, image 4 courtesyof JG Casa via Instagram, image 5 courtesy of Lantau Ren via Facebook, image 6 courtesy of Apartment 49 via Instagram, image 7 courtesy of Decor8 via Instagram, image 8 courtesy of Habitat via Instagram, image 9 courtesy of H&M Home via Instagram, image 10 courtesy of iDecorate via Instagram, image 11 courtesy of White Contemporary Homewares via Instagram, image 12 courtesy of Inside via Instagram, image 13 courtesy of Mirth via Instagram, image 14 courtesy of Thorn and Burrow via Instagram, image 15 courtesy of IKEA Hong Kong via Instagram, image 16 courtesy of Teresa’s Turkish Towels via Instagram, image 17 courtesy of Flow Plus Living via Facebook, image 18 courtesy of Loveramics via Instagram, image 19 courtesy of KBEN & HOL via Instagram, image 20 courtesy of GLC Green via Instagram, image 21 courtesy of Zara Home via Instagram, image 22 courtesy of G.O.D via Instagram, image 23 courtesy of Bowerbird Home via Instagram, image 24 courtesy of Infurniti Homes, image 25 courtesy of Organic Modernism via Instagram, image 26 courtesy of Tequila Kola, image 27 courtesy of Indigo Living via Instagram, image 28 courtesy of Dovetail Living via Instagram
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Gaming preferences?
Author Topic: Gaming preferences? (Read 5659 times)
InfamousKnight
What are your gaming preferences?
Mine are:
1: Good character design(that is like a must in my world)
2: Turn-Based Battle system(so I can compete with it easier and I'm not really good at action games)
3: Fitting music(as in it fits whats going on)
4: Good game design so that you don't get lost
5: Non-linear gameplay(as in getting clues from villagers on what to do)
So yeah, thats pretty much it. I don't really care about "realistic" graphics or 3D graphics. I also like a long journey in the game.
Here's what I don't like:
1: Mini games that slow me down
2: Puzzles(any puzzle really)
3: Searching for an item just to advance through the plot
4: Graphics that are so bad, it doesn't even have art to it.
5: Cryptic game controls(most commonly when you press select to do something you have to do as seen in some of the AVGN episodes)
Things that I don't really care about as in it doesn't bother me:
1: When they rip ideas on from other games
2: A story line
3: Weird shit that happens(I honestly don't even notice)
4: When the game is too easy
5: Minor flaws(such as bugs that break the game as in making it even more easy)
So yeah, thats the format I want you guys to use. Just five things or less.
On a side note: Has anyone already done this recently? I haven't found anything yet. I just skimmed through the topics.
FallenAngel2387
Re: Gaming preferences?
Quote from: InfamousKnight on October 26, 2013, 02:35:37 pm
Can you elaborate on that?
It's usually in the games manual, and if you don't have access to a manual, guides at GameFAQs can help you figure out controls.
My only preference would be fun/enjoyment. If I did have a list, it would probably differ quite a bit from yours. I feel like I'm getting into adventure games and RPG's less and less over time.
FAST6191
4 and 5 from the first list might well conflict with each other.
I am also quite curious about 4 on the second list.
Fitting music. A potentially long debate there, I am not sure I have ever encountered music that I would consider unfitting rather than just bad.
By puzzles I assume you mean overt puzzles as "getting clues from villagers on what to do" would probably be coded in a remarkably similar way to a conventional puzzle.
On minigames. Does this mean you can stand some and it is more those that are awkwardly crowbarred into a game that cause you trouble?
Preferences. Traditional* gameplay styles have been pushed far enough that I am struggling to see the differences these days and can not see where there really is to go from here give or take a bit more lighting effects and maybe someone will get properly into deformation. To that end the really interesting things, much like science and arts in general, come from smashing two traditionally separate things together and seeing what results.
*I have some reservation about using the term as many older games do not exactly belong a given gameplay style beyond pointlessly broad things like "arcade" or "puzzle".
Bregalad
Quote from: FAST6191 on October 26, 2013, 05:05:30 pm
I am not sure I have ever encountered music that I would consider unfitting rather than just bad.
Unfitting music can really make you think "WTF ?!?". I could cite a few exemples I have experienced :
- When you go to the moon on FF8 a festive waltz plays but you're going in space and in danger of death
- During the last fight in Star Ocean a 1284753901945th remix of the main theme plays, very calm song that doesn't sound like a battle song at all, let alone a final battle song.
- The music in the last dungeon of FF10, which is just a series of dissonant strings chords, feels like an horror music instead of a last dungeon music
I don't have so many examples but I think this is enough to proof you my concept of unfitting music.
I feel like I'm getting into adventure games and RPG's less and less over time.
I feel like I'm getting in games less and less over time. I hardly play a game once a month anymore.
@FallenAngel I mean when its so "pixelated" that theres really not a lot you can do other than make things really big to actually make anything with. For example: On the atari 2600, most of the time it was just small sprites because they didn't have a lot of options other than to make it really big to make anything interesting.
@Fast What I mean by "puzzles" I mean like block, make all lights turn the same, stuff like that. I also wasn't aware that getting clues from villages was considered a puzzle. And about the mini games, I mean like sneaking section(oh boy do I hate that), games that take time and focus to do(like that time in FF7 where you have to press all the buttons at once). Seriously, someone that played that game 50 times still can't pull it off on their first attempt. And like that rope mini game where you need the right time to get on it.
Some of those factors keep my hands off FF7. Theres just things in that game I don't like. Its a good game after all.
Are there any other examples aside from the industries beginnings? Of course that's going to look "bad" by comparison.
Quote from: Bregalad on October 26, 2013, 05:54:18 pm
I'm probably getting there too, but you'll get the urge when it's been long enough.
Talbain
Moo.
Chrono Trigger / Dark Souls / Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen / Cho Ren Sha 68K
Basically games that are like these games are probably my favorite styles thus far.
Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is another style I want to get into more, but the problem is that even Arcanum (which I currently consider the pinnacle of the style) doesn't implement its own mechanics well.
Skullgirls is my competitive game of choice.
et tu, Gamer?
Add another into the "not really playing games" group. I had a bit of a regression when I got a few interesting games and some humble bundles these last few months, however I am not really inclined to ignore either the tech, the business or the less than well considered academic side of games at this point.
On the unfitting music bit. I have not played some of the things mentioned and seen as I am not exactly music trained I probably lack the "language of music" bit to call properly fitting or not. Similarly I am also a fan of having music that runs quite contrary to the matter at hand (to put it very crudely and oversimplify loads then something along the lines of slow bpm in fast action works well enough for me).
Still I went and looked up your examples... I can possibly see the FF10 thing but the other two did not seem so bad though I would have preferred the star ocean one to not be quite so drowned out.
The story is paramount above anything else for me, that's why I tend to prefer games like Heavy Rain, or cutscene heavy games like MGS4.
Next Gen Cowboy
"People are like dice"
Quote from: Talbain on October 26, 2013, 08:53:04 pm
You'd go there instead of something like BGII, or Neverwinter Nights, or even Planescape: Torment? Is it just not liking the overdone fantasy setting, or do you actually prefer Arcanum? I think Arcanum is a great game, but there's a lot wrong with it, and I'd say the same thing about Fallout 2.
I happen to enjoy well-implemented mini games (Yakuza) and I don't mind puzzles if they're more interesting push a block here, or insert the only object you can interact with into this conspicuous hollow. I prefer action rpgs to turned based battle systems (although I'm not opposed to turn based systems) although I really like smooth, quick turn based gameplay (FFX).
Graphically I'm O.K. with anything past the early-NES era, although I'm admittedly more of a graphics-whore than most people on here.
I don't understand your cryptic game controls comment. Although what's cryptic to some people isn't to others. I like complex control schemes in games, especially when they offer some advantage (fighting games/Devil May Cry) where a basic move set can see you to victory, but you're rewarded for longer strings of button presses, and more precise combos.
As for the story aspect. That's one reason I enjoy RPGs, and a game stealing ideas from something else doesn't bother me too much, as long as it's not blatant, and well-implemented (two very big IFs). There are very original ideas in some games, and there are many games that I enjoy that don't do anything original, but instead polish basic concepts.
As for ease in games. It depends on what I'm playing. Certain games, and game companies put out games that I expect to be difficult, and that's one of the reasons that I play games by these companies. But sometimes I just want to kick back and play something simple, and there's more than enough of that out there.
Generally speaking I turn difficulty up on games, because I enjoy a challenge, but there's a lot of genres that I'm not very good at: puzzle games, platformers, side-scrolling shooters, and shoot-em-ups have always given my trouble (with some exceptions).
"Remember when we were in Japan? You said you were my gun, if you're the gun then that means I'm the bullet."
"All my life I've been waiting for the gunpowder to go off, you know what you need to ignite gunpowder? You need a gun."
Quote from: Next gen Cowboy on October 26, 2013, 09:35:57 pm
Sure, there's a lot wrong with it, but it's my opinion that there is just as much, if not more wrong with all the other games you've mentioned. My primary reason for picking Arcanum is because of how its systems mechanics implement themselves into the game world, and none of the other games aren't relying on preconceived story/mechanical notions of a game.
To me, Arcanum is convinced of its game world, and all the other isometric RPGs I've played are clearly not and thus spend their time uncomfortably between their universe and the universe they're drawing inspiration from. The split between Arcanum and these other isometric games comes, I think, when you consider the design itself, and as a player that likes the "solo" experience if it's one given to me (playing with one character rather than a party of characters), I feel that Arcanum offers a richer experience in such an instance. Arcanum is an extraordinarily rich world, and part of the reason it's such a cult classic is because the people who made it clearly immersed themselves in the world they created.
I would say the Planescape game also illustrates a similar loving connection to a world, but it's a world that is derivative by definition. It would feel unnatural, to me, to see Tolkien writing a story inside a D&D universe, and I think that's my primary objection to most of the other games that came out of isometric RPGs. I find myself constantly wondering how much of any given universe is unique if it's already based on an existing universe. The result is that I see these universes in universes as always being a reflection of a reflection, making it difficult to see genuine inspiration as it's mirrored through many minds. I think it's also why games with huge teams also frequently seem so soulless.
ChronoMoogle
Super Famicom all the way.
Things which I love:
1: good learning curve (easy to learn, hard to master)
2: puzzles and/or tactic (which fusion well with the basic gameplay)
3: semi-non linear gameplay (you've got a clear goal and mostly fixed storyline but exploring/backtracking and sidequesting rewards you)
4: good athmosphere with fitting presentation
5: some kind of highscore system for competition which does't allow milking at any point (for arcade-style games)
6: good level design with love for detail
Things which put me off: the opposites of those 6 points.
JirinPanthosa
My favorite games tend to be action, adventure or RPGs.
My preferences really depend on the sort of game I'm playing.
For action games I like quick movement with simple controls rather than complicated combo systems. That way the complexity of gameplay comes from clever level design instead of deciding whether to press X-Y-X or X-Y-Y to produce the exact movement you need for a particular enemy time.
Also I like a pulled back camera way more than first person perspective, because constantly worrying about getting killed from an enemy you can't see behind you is a huge annoyance.
For story I like the 'Less is more' style of storytelling. If you've ever heard the expression 'Don't tell me, show me' applied to movies, I feel the same way about games. I like games that show you the story through the world design and a minimal amount of dialog rather than through long indulgent cutscenes. For example, I like Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne's approach to story more than Final Fantasy XIII's. And I love it in games like Super Metroid and Zelda: LTTP how they express the story elegantly by the visual design of the areas.
For RPG combat, I don't care if it's turn based or action oriented, but what I can't stand is not being in control of your full party. It's one thing if it's a game like Tales or Star Ocean where you have such good control over your control character that you can pretty much handle the battle yourself + healing support. But if it's a game like Xenoblade where you don't have much physical control over your character and you also have zero control over your allies, that's just ridiculous. Any strategic options you have in battle, the player should have full control over their behavior.
Also, hidden items. Hiding things in cool places that can be logically figured out, like the SNES DKC games, good. Hiding things in random places you could only ever find by checking every little random corner in the level and forcing you to get 100% of them to get to the hardest levels, like the newer Mario games, very, very bad.
Difficulty, hard enough to force you to be skilled at the game in order to win, but not so hard that it's cheap and can only be beaten through grinding, brute force repetition and/or save states.
Handholding is right out and can ruin a game for me completely. Teach me new aspects of the game by presenting them in a context where I'm forced to use them naturally, don't set me aside in a 45 minute segment and give me hints for how to do things I should have to figure out myself.
And I love block puzzles and switch puzzles. Lufia 2 is one of my favorite games.
« Last Edit: October 27, 2013, 02:42:10 pm by JirinPanthosa »
PresidentLeever
Uniform and appealing aesthetics. Technical trickery is plus too if its a retro game.
Innovative mechanics with some depth to them.
Smooth pacing and (if it's action based) intense gameplay.
Fair challenge (some amount of memorization is OK though).
Intuitive design and subtle pushes in the right direction (no slow text tutorials or obvious signs showing what to do or where to go)
As short length/condensed an experience as possible ie. no repetition or dead space unless there's a narrative purpose.
Exploration - this should be mostly optional, more rewarding than finding generic items (points/1-ups) and not bog down the pacing too much. I like finding new gear or abilites to try out, or new alternate challenges.
Edit: One neat touch from recent memory is the hidden room with a few candles and a man and his dog in Castlevania IV. If you take out the dog first, the man starts crying. Unexpected stuff like that is great to see.
Some sort of unbalanced element which is optional, like a smart bomb, shield or invincibility mode. Just to throw things off a bit here and there.
Quote from: JirinPanthosa on October 27, 2013, 02:27:53 pm
Strongly agree with these
Something I dislike which is kind of common in old RPGs and Adventure games is inconsistency in or plain lack of interaction with the environment. If there are interesting looking objects, let me interact with them as with everything else, if only to 'check' them to get a comment from the player. Sometimes there are puzzle situations that could've been solved with more consistent or freer interaction as well. Let me be creative and find different solutions, please.
« Last Edit: November 01, 2013, 02:33:55 pm by PresidentLeever »
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New Veterans’ card, covenant herald a new era: MP
by RSLWA on 4th Nov 2019
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By VINCE CONNELLY MP
I predict that many Veterans will be questioning why the Federal Government has this week launched the Australian Defence Veterans’ Covenant. There will be some who feel uncomfortable about wearing the associated lapel pin or using the Veterans’ card. Australians – especially Veterans – tend to downplay, rather than signal their significant achievements. But let me share some personal insights about this initiative.
Having been an Army officer for nearly a decade, then an Army Reservist for another 10 years, I understand both the challenges and the opportunities facing Veterans.
There will be some who feel uncomfortable wearing the associated lapel pin or using the Veterans’ card. Photo: Ross Swanborough
My wife, Peta, also served as an Intelligence Officer and since leaving Defence, our journey hasn’t always been smooth sailing. We’ve faced difficulties – as have so many others – accessing medical treatment via the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and finding new employment.
But a new wave of Veterans in Parliament is helping to shift the narrative.
Members like Braddon MP Gavin Pearce and Herbert MP Phil Thompson have joined the ranks of Defence Minister Senator Linda Reynolds, Canning MP Andrew Hastie and others in the Coalition, as well as Veterans from other political parties.
With unwavering commitment from the Prime Minister and Veterans and Defence Personnel Minister Darren Chester, this critical mass of Veterans is helping to deliver historic reform.
Some will say that a lapel pin is symbolic; that a covenant is symbolic. And they’re right. But symbols matter. When a Veteran chooses to wear the lapel pin or present their Veterans’ card, it’s not about symbolising just their own service, but about helping our community recognise and acknowledge the service and sacrifice of all Veterans and their families – past, present and future.
Practical action is also being taken, with record funding in mental health and major investments in suicide prevention.
We’ve introduced free, lifetime mental health care for anyone with a single day of service, which is accessed through the new Veteran Card.
Even if you don’t need help now, it’s comforting to know it is there if needed.
The Morrison Government is also highlighting the benefits of Defence service – for Veterans and for our community. We’re helping employers realise that hiring Veterans is good for the bottom line. Leadership, discipline and teamwork are skills perennially on the wish list of employers everywhere.
Veterans themselves are standing up and innovating too, especially here in WA.
Working Spirit, run by veteran Karyn Hinder, is making massive headway in getting veterans into jobs by matching them with businesses at meet and greets and sundowners.
The Veterans’ Transition Centre in Jarrahdale has also stepped up. They’ve bought a camp site and renovated log cabins, from which services for veterans and their families are now being delivered – helping proactively smooth the path to transition.
Works on RSLWA’s ANZAC House Veteran Central, a one-stop shop in the city for Veteran wellness, are also well underway.
With Australia’s significant and ongoing global military commitments, Veterans and their families across Australia can rest assured that a new era of support is here.
Vince Connelly MP is the Federal Member for Stirling. Veterans can visit DVA’s MyService website to apply for the Covenant.
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Euro crisis affecting NR projections
KUALA LUMPUR (June 7, 2012)—Natural rubber-growing countries are becoming increasingly anxious over the Eurozone debt crisis and what it will do to NR demand, according to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries.
ANRPC members are curtailing their growth projections after an optimistic first quarter of 2012, according to a letter from ANRPC Secretary-General Kamarul Baharain Basir in the May 2012 edition of the ANRPC publication, Natural Rubber Trends and Statistics.
“The current year is now anticipated to end with a 3.4-percent growth in demand, slower than the 4.5-percent rate anticipated a month ago,” Kamarul wrote.
The ANRPC has made a marginal increase in its projections on total NR production in 2012, to 10.5 million metric tons from the 10.3 million tons anticipated last month, according to Kamarul. NR supply rose 1 percent year-to-year in 2012's first quarter, and the association anticipates year-to-year growth of 3.2 percent in the second quarter, he said.
“These slow rates of output growth can offset the slackness in demand,” Kamarul said. “Although the demand and supply may more or less match each other during the year, this market is likely to continue its bearish mode on account of the continuing unfavorable trends in currency rates and crude oil.”
The euro crisis has already affected Asian economies through weak trade, volatile commodity markets and cautious investors, according to the ANRPC. U.S. crude oil futures dropped 17.5 percent in May alone, the association said. The U.S. dollar's recent gain in strength seems to be fading, and investors are turning increasingly toward the safe haven of the yen, it said.
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NATE REVIEWS 01: PhaseOne Transcendancy
A firm but fair album review, written by Eliminate
I'm a bit of an EDM connoisseur. I've been around since the days of Bangarang and Gem Shards. I won't go on for too long but just know that I'm seasoned in my tastes for good dubstep, so naturally I was looking forward to the new PhaseOne album. After listening thoroughly I can sum it up in one word: disappointment.
Titled 'Transcendency', the word has a meaning of existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level. Well it's safe to say that this is anywhere but beyond, in fact I would say it's far below. The album opens with the title song being the intro, which basically sounds like the menu theme music for some shitty WWE wrestling game that came out on Sega genesis in 1996. The second track 'Mayday' manages to set the bar even lower. Whoever told Josh from Modestep he should pursue a singing career needs to reevaluate their life choices. I imagine they must have had a bad childhood.
The next four songs I won't even bother mentioning, aside from the fact that they feature bands or acts that nobody has ever heard of (bone thugs and who???)
Track 7, titled 'Insanity', has probably the most fitting name in the whole album. I say this because rating this album anything higher than a 2.5/10 would be (for the sake of relevance) insanity. There's also an interlude right after, which is basically a 2 minute long emotionless keyboard riff with no drop, I nearly fell asleep.
At last, we arrive at the long awaited Subtronics collab. Demon Hunter is the pinnacle of basic riddim dubstep. The sound design sounds like that annoying bullshit you would hear in a 2013 Microsoft surface commercial airing in between daytime soap operas on CBS. We can do this the easy way or the hard way? Clearly you guys chose the easy way *yawn*.
There's not much else I can say about this album. I'm actually upset I listened all the way through. I guess if you need something to leave playing in your house while you're at work so your pets don't get lonely then Transcendency will do just fine.
Check out PhaseOne's debut album below and tweet us (@DiscipleRecs) your thoughts.
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Tech Investor: Google And Amazon Use Smart Speakers For MASS SURVEILLANCE
Tech investor John Borthwick says that smart speakers from the like of Amazon and Google are being used for mass surveillance. Borthwick is forthcoming with his assertion that the information gathering performed by such devices is the same thing as surveillance.
Borthwick is the founder of venture capital firm Betaworks and former Time Warner and AOL executive. “I would say that there’s two or three layers sort of problematic layers with these new smart speakers, smart earphones that are in the market now,” Borthwick told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer during an interview for his series Influencers. “And so the first is, from a consumer standpoint, user standpoint, is that these, these devices are being used for what’s — it’s hard to call it anything but surveillance,” Borthwick said.
“I personally believe that you, as a user and as somebody who likes technology, who wants to use technology, that you should have far more rights about your data usage than we have today,” Borthwick said of companies’ inability to protect private information. And the privacy concerns and human rights violations warnings are warranted. Borthwick’s comments come on the heels of several controversies surrounding smart assistants including Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple’s Siri, in which each company admitted that human workers listen to users’ queries as a means of improving their digital assistants’ voice recognition capabilities.
Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
“They’ve gone to those devices and they’ve said, ‘Give us data when people passively act upon the device.’ So in other words, I walk over to that light switch,” Borthwick said. “I turn it off, turn it on, it’s now giving data back to the smart speaker.”
The uproar surrounding smart speakers and their assistants began when Bloomberg reported in April that Amazon used a global team of employees and contractors to listen to users’ voice commands to Alexa to improve its speech recognition.
That was followed by a similar report by Belgian-based VRT News about Google employees listening to users’ voice commands for Google Assistant. The Guardian then published a third piece about Apple employees listening to users’ Siri commands. Facebook was also pulled into the controversy when Bloomberg reported it had employees listen to users’ voice commands made through its Messenger app.
Google and Apple have since apologized, with Google halting the practice, and Apple announcing that it will automatically opt users out of voice sample collection. Users instead will have to opt in if they want to provide voice samples to improve Siri’s voice recognition. -Yahoo Finance
The controversy surrounding “smart” technology, or artificial intelligence is far from over. As technology advances, the surveillance will increase and so will the secrecy, as companies get better at hiding their indiscretions.
Date: September 2nd, 2019
You have the right to remain silent. Americans are too dumb to see the threat that their words carry, I include myself in that catagory. Free speech is a basic fundamental right. Expecting everyone to trash their overseers spying is too much to ask for. Gotcha by the privates.
Mike Mike Whisky says:
I have told you this Fact before. You are warned:
The True/Real purpose of ALL Technology is to Snitch-Snoop-Surveil-Track-Trace-Watch You-CONTROL you.
They give you at least a dubious “feature” so you will allow the over priced china made junk into your life.
My team told the DOD/Military many Years ago, ALL technology out of China is compromised and a National Security Threat. No one and I mean NO ONE would listen, or heed the warning.
Now they act like it is a “new” revelation that Huwai is compromised. Idiots. ALL Tech manufactured in china is compromised. Everything electronic out of China is compromised, EVERYTHING electronic. All of it is a National Security Threat to the USA.
There are China intel operatives running around ALL over north Texas. They can be found in book stores taking pictures of patrons, and scanning books/magazines with phone app.
They hang aroud Raytheon, TI, Bell Textron, etc. Stealing intellectual property on a wide scale. China steals the technology of EVERYTHING made over there. No one will do a damn thing to stop this. WHY?
Corporations making anything in china are assisting a dangerous enemy, with nuclear capability, that wants the USA destroyed. It is TREASON to equip an enemy with the technological advantage to ultimatly destroy your country. No one will listen.
You are to be silent docile sheep, unarmed and in the dark.
The government will continue false flags to get your guns.
Politician wolves will NOT allow armed sheep. You are whats for dinner.
I believe rounds FROM police in some of the recent events are the rounds that actually hit the innocent. COVERUP. I don’t believe the nutjob psycho perps are that proficient as marksman. What do you think?
They will use ANY excuse to disarm you.
England banned guns. Now the criminals use knives.
Nutjobs and criminals will do evil no matter “law”.
Just like politicians and police. No accountability for Treason or their murders/crimes.
Politicians, Police, judges, paid off with Drug cartel money.
Critical thinking no longer allowed.Free speech not allowed
my comments censored here most times
rss feeds and a newish, magic-mirror toy.
There is a phenomenon, in which eye movement is tracked, in s tores. You look at the same (random subject matter) for several seconds, or position your body toward it. This appears in nearby monitors, showing you a ds, in the s tore.
Several people report t argeted a dvertising, that looks like their daily travels, on the cellphone.
I have personally used an uncommon figure of speech, several times in a row, and heard it appear in their media — ineptly. Some of them are just stringing words together.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_editor
Costing me nothing, to make myself heard.
My question is this —
Is it leveraging you, or are you leveraging it.
Like messing with the mocking birds. Make the same 3-4 notes about 10 times. You might just hear that same tune, a week from now.
Does it matter if humans stop monitoring these devices? No, they are constantly listening to every word as long as they are on. How else would they know to respond unless they were listening? Every word you utter in the presence of one of these devices is stored in an NSA server somewhere waiting for an occasion to blackmail or prosecute you for a thought crime in the future. It’s all part of the metadata they freely admit to collecting on anyone that use any electronic communication. Stored for future examination should you trigger any number of key words the algorithms are searching for. You are then red flagged for closer examination/take down operation. I know many on here are already in a red flag file for anti-statist remarks and lack of OPSEC.
It’s okay to be paranoid. They ARE out to get you. Blab about violence, firearms, and threats at your own peril.
*Another thing they do is hack your camera. They recorded me doing things while watching risky porn, they told me. Luckily, I only had to pay $500 to them and they agreed to destroy the recording and not send it to everyone in my address book. I now only watch riskless porn…
*I stole this story from someone else…believe me…I did.
George C says:
Just use the free TOR Browser…your location cannot be determined, all data encrypted in both directions and cannot be read even if recorded. No history left behind. No one can see who you are, where you are or what data you are looking at or where it’s coming from, even porn.
Mr_Yesterday says:
Dude, that’s a well known scam.
If you paid that ransom, you should expect more attempts soon because they know you pay.
Most of those we caught you and will distribute the image to your address books are just address spoofing hacks. You have to look into the email metadata and call your provider, but 99% of the time they did not actually get access and they just merely trick the user into thinking they did with header and address from text spoofing.
There is a succer born every minute. Why people purchase televisions and personal computer screens, even labtops with cameras included is one of the stupidest actions possible. Put a piece of tape on it, god it’s not rocket science.
Get a paid subscription to MalwareBytes. It’s a stand alone program so it does not force you to swap anything other than virus, and does not interfere with other programs. But it does always seem to stop hijacking, ransomware, trojans, and basically acts like an all in 1 firewall virus and scanner. Surf with confidence, turn off all bluetooth at the administrative level, as well as desktop and remote assistance, at the administrative level.
Control panel. Administrative tools. Component services. Services Local. Get on in there and just turn a lot of items off. Take careful notes of every change on paper so you can revert in safe mode if you cause conflicts. You should be safe to turn off all bluetooth, remote desktop, remote registry. Also apply redundant controls under system properties. Upgrade your modem and router already, geesh. Choose wired, not wireless.
Technology is your friend. Used properly it can make life much easier. But you have to keep in mind that it can also be used against you. Anything you send out over the internet, you should consider is something the whole world can know.
Even though this site is HTTPS and the internet data exchanges are encrypted so they can’t be easily “snooped” or intercepted, you have to worry about the endpoints,
as the post writes about. Do you trust the entity you are contacting such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple, shtfplan, et al?
Consider also that every website is operated for the benefit of the site owner and anything you send or receive, has some profit for the site owner. Consider that the next time you make a comment somewhere. It costs the site owner money to operate. How they make their money to operate is their business. The internet is not “free”.
The VPN game is beyond sellmy*** compromised. I’ve never used a VPN, because, who to trust? TOR is not a solution either, people whom are all about it actually hotglue wireless ports shut on their items and such, run everything through detailed encryption. There is nothing private on the internet. Run with the big company hardline coaxil broadband products and you’ll be much better protected through proxy, and volume.
These days an overwhelming volume of people use gmail, yahoo, google, and similar non secure emails. That’s because they use mobile devices to set up cloud accounts. There is no help for them. The only security is on a personal computer or labtop, you simply don’t get security on mobiles and cellular, any mention of security is merely an illusion.
Peeping Toms.
The Deplorable Renegade says:
I don’t trust any of those ‘smart’ products. I play it smart by not buying shit like that.
Montana Guy says:
‘Smart’ devices will be the greatest Trojan horse in history. Parents are carrying them right through the front door. Every minute of their children’s lives will be subject to tracking, recording and surveillance. American parents are truly the useful idiots of today.
Neil Postman was absolutely correct, we are ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. This is an awesome short read.
Tip number one:
These spy cams are being put on rental properties, to watch ‘ghetto’ tenants, who, in my experience, will try to provoke you into fights on the camera. Embedded culture jihadists will weaponize anything, including the plot line from ‘Fight Club’. If you’re in one of these Special Ed, ‘Opportunity Zone’ neighborhoods, you are more likely to see it.
(If you don’t like this comment, you were an albatross put around the neck of a higher order of life.)
Tip number two:
I am not saying to bet your legal standing on just these two tips, alone, but recent models emit a blue light, when in use. There are backlights and LED’s on many of these cams, displayed prominently-enough for everyone to see it and self-censor, if you have any kind of emotional filter.
(Prison-like people do prison-like atrocities, knowing full well they are on the camera. Watch it, for free, online. It is not a magical forcefield to keep you safe from conniving monkeyshines who may just as well use the cam to publish their conquests as to lure the innocent into legal troubles.)
Chinese rioters have successfully blinded photosensors with laser pointers.
Also, any noise, loud enough, and at the correct frequency, would be jamming. They emit rf bands, easily detected by the general public, with no serious investment of time or money.
However, grammar school level robotics projects from 30ish yrs ago would have been able to track the source of a noise, if you are feeling creative, playful, and the money was burning a hole in your pocket.
I don’t personally have a problem with slavery, a mudsill class, or sumptuary laws, assuming that they are not in favor of a khakistocracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat. Usually, though, you have protected some kind of hominid who should not be seen in public without a minder.
Genius commentary, over so many peoples heads.
Oh give it a rest though, savages will do, what savages do.
I continue to ask exactly where people can buy a laser which will permanently destroy the optics within street cameras popping up everywhere.
Hong Kongers are actively pulling down surveillance camera’s over there. Damn, we need more of those guys over here! DOWN WITH PUBLIC SPACES CAMERAS! If tyranny comes here, people will have to do innovative things like fill paintball pellets with caustic glass etcher and shoot them at the camer’as. That or get really long clippers to clip those wires. So sick of traffic cameras, absolutely disgusting abuse of city and municipal authority.
If 5g towers pop up in our residential suburbia environment, we’re vacating to a more mountainous area where that can’t happen. Got to feel bad for the flatlanders, they need to mobilize against 5g now, they will have no escape for miles and miles and miles.
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Our next event takes place Friday, December 0, . Please join us! The fun gets underway at 12: a.m. in the upstairs lounge at , , , .
Meet Our Readers: Hallie Palladino
By Sara Ross Witt on February 28, 2012 5:05 PM
Hallie Palladino is a Chicago writer and writing instructor. Her current focus is cultural trends in parenting. She is a contributor to the forthcoming books Stay-at-Home Mothers: An International Perspective and Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood (both from Demeter Press). She is also an occasional contributor to the natural parenting blog Birthing Shifrah. She lives in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago with her husband and their two young children. Hallie was also one of the original organizers of Tuesday Funk.
Join Tuesday Funk on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear Hallie and the rest of our remarkable lineup read!
Participants,
PALLADINO Hallie Gordon
Meet Our Readers: John Everson
By Sara Ross Witt on February 22, 2012 8:24 AM
John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant, as well as the novels Sacrifice, The 13th, Siren and The Pumpkin Man, all released in paperback from Dorchester/Leisure Books. His sixth novel, an erotic horror descent into dark desire centered around a mysterious adult club called NightWhere will be released by Samhain in the summer of 2012. He has had several short fiction collections issued by independent presses, including Creeptych, Deadly Nightlusts, Needles & Sins, Vigilantes of Love and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions. Over the past 20 years, his short stories have appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies. His work has been translated into Polish, Italian, Turkish and French, and optioned for potential film production. He is also the founder and publisher of the independent press Dark Arts Books.
John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle.
Join Tuesday Funk on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear John and the rest of our remarkable lineup read!
EVERSON John
Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast
Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family. She has published fiction in The Sun, Nimrod, Rosebud, and others, and her essays have appeared in America, Image, Writer's Chronicle and others. She has received two Pushcart nominations and a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council and is currently working on a novel.
Join Tuesday Funk on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear Maggie and the rest of our remarkable lineup read!
KAST Maggie
Meet Our Readers: Joe Weintraub
For the past thirty-five years Joe Weintraub has been publishing a variety of fiction, essays, poetry, and translations in all sorts of literary reviews and periodicals, from The Massachusetts Review to the Chicago Reader, from Gastronomica to Modern Philology. Many of his pieces have been anthologized, and he is a recipient of Illinois Arts Council Awards for fiction and creative nonfiction.
He's been an Around-the-Coyote poet, a StoneSong poet, and has had one-act plays produced by the Theatre-Studio in New York City, Theatre One in Middleboro, Massachusetts. and the Summer Place Theatre in Naperville, Illinois. He's also been a featured author at the Twilight Tales reading series, at "March Madness, Murder & Mayhem" for the Uptown Writers Space as well as with the TallGrass Writers Guild at the Bourgeois Pig, and he's as pleased as punch to be returning to read for Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf, where Belgian beer is available on tap.
Join Tuesday Funk on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear Joe and the rest of our remarkable lineup read!
WEINTRAUB Joe
Video: Jody Lynn Nye lets out a "Howl!"
By William Shunn on February 13, 2012 8:50 AM
Way back at our December reading, speculative fiction writer extraordinaire Jody Lynn Nye joined us at the mike to read her short story "Howl!" (from the Esther Friesner anthology Strip Mauled), and it went a little like this...
And if you enjoyed that, then by no means should you miss our next event, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, which features readings from John Everson, Robyn Pennacchia, Maggie Kast, Joe Weintraub, and Hallie Palladino!
Fiction,
Reading # 40,
NYE Jody Lynn
Tuesday Funk #43: March 6th
Find balance at our 43rd prime edition of Tuesday Funk, where we'll feature readings from John Everson, Robyn Pennacchia, Maggie Kast, Joe Weintraub, and our former Funk host Hallie Gordon Palladino! You'll also get a new Poem By Bill, not to mention your pick of dozens of varieties of cold beer at the bar.
The evening gets underway Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:30 pm, in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St., Chicago. Arrive early for a seat, and grab a beer from Johnny at the cash-only bar. We start seating at 7:00 pm and no earlier. Admission is always free, but you must be 21 or older. And come early or stay afterward for some great Belgian-style food downstairs.
Please bring plenty of friends, and become a fan of Tuesday Funk on Facebook so you never miss an invitation to one of our readings. See you there!
Hopleaf,
EVERSON John,
KAST Maggie,
PALLADINO Hallie Gordon,
PENNACCHIA Robyn,
Video: Dustin Monk relates a little "Anecdote"
By William Shunn on February 9, 2012 9:50 AM
This past Tuesday night, science fiction writer Dustin Monk dropped by our microphone to share his whimsical, Wallace Stevens–inspired excursion through our unknowable technological future, "Anecdote of the Singularity." It sounded a little bit like this...
And if you enjoyed that, then by no means should you miss our next event, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, which features readings from John Everson, Robyn Pennacchia, Maggie Kast, Joe Weintraub, and former Funk host Hallie Palladino. Be there!
MONK Dustin
February debriefing
By William Shunn on February 8, 2012 2:57 PM | 1 TrackBack
Everyone's talking about Tuesday Funk—at least everyone who was there at Hopleaf last night to see our terrific 42nd episode. We do not exaggerate when we say the rapt audience were crammed in shoulder to shoulder to see our accomplished readers. Even Johnny the Bartender commented on the huge, thirsty crowd—and on what a contrast it was from our February 2011 reading, with its blizzard raging outside and its grand total of ten attendees. What a difference a year makes.
The program kicked off with Dustin Monk, who offered us a personalized guided tour of the world of the Singularity. Lillian Huang Cummins followed that up with two short excursions through lives we were all too painfully able to relate to. And Julia Borcherts delighted the crowd with her tale of a Miami meeting between a pregnant punk and the King of Reggae.
After a halftime break for beer and a Poem by Bill too ephemeral to have been captured by our primitive recording equipment, Lauryn Allison Lewis related a shocking tale of attempted sororicide—in the womb. And Margie Skelly brought us chugging back into the station with a series of poems about planes, trains, and destinations.
But if you weren't there, don't beat yourself up! We'll be posting video from the evening's performances over the coming days and weeks so you can catch up on (almost) everything you missed. And of course Tuesday Funk will be back March 6th with our guests John Everson, Robyn Pennacchia, Maggie Kast, Joe Weintraub, and former Tuesday Funk host Hallie Palladino! Be sure to join us so you too can be one of the ones talking about it.
A whole lot more video from last night's event is coming soon, so stay tuned!
SHUNN William
Reminder: Tuesday Funk #42 is tonight!
We know our audience, and we know that nothing can hold you back from great writing or from great beer. Tuesday Funk has both on tap for you tonight in our 42nd big episode, so bring a friend and bust on in. No bolt-cutters necessary.
Our insanely gifted lineup tonight includes Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins, not to mention one of our patented Poems By Bill. So "like" us today on Facebook, arrive early, grab one of dozens of varieties of beer from the bar, and get set for a evening of no-holds-barred entertainment.
Hopleaf Bar is at 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago. The reading begins at 7:30 pm in the upstairs lounge. The lounge opens at 7:00 pm. Arrive early if you want a seat.
As always, the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf is cash-only and 21 and over. Remember also that no food can be brought in from the restaurant.
BOGMONSTER
Don't get stuck in the parking lot
Happy Monday, Funk buddies! Can you spot one of our elusive co-hosts, approximately nine years younger, in this recently unearthed 2004 segment from the Trio network television series Parking Lot? We'll give you one small hint: not in costume!
But whether or not you can, you can find both our co-hosts plus a bulging roster of great readers tomorrow night, Tuesday, February 7, 2012, at 7:30 pm in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf, when we'll bring you great readings from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins.
Don't get stuck in the parking lot! Be there early to be sure of a seat.
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Tuesday Funk #136: Feb. 4, 2020
January 2020 Debrief
Tuesday Funk #135 is tonight!
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Tuesday Funk #135: January 7, 2020
December 2019 Debrief
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Thyroid Pediatric Reference Ranges
Pediatric Reference Ranges
Thyroid disease in children is associated with impaired physical and cognitive development. While there are many well-established reference intervals for the results of tests performed on adults, this is not the case for children. Age-specific reference intervals are critical for proper clinical interpretation of test results; however, a variety of testing challenges make it difficult for laboratories to establish accurate reference intervals for children.
Siemens Healthineers understands the complexity of collecting blood from infants and children for the establishment of reference intervals and the extensive time required for your lab to collect, run, and analyze samples. We can help your laboratory meet the challenges involved in establishing reference intervals for tests performed in the pediatric setting.
Siemens conducted extensive studies to establish pediatric reference intervals, with data from three separate age groups. The data represented in the following tables includes age groups from 30 days of life to 20 years, with relevant subsets from this pediatric population.
Download Pediatric Reference Intervals in Thyroid Function Testing data sheet 0.2 MB
The pediatric samples were collected prospectively from apparently healthy pediatric subjects under consent/assent. Eight collection sites located across the U.S. collected the samples and shipped them frozen to a single laboratory for testing. Three age subgroups were included:
Infants: subjects 1 month to 23 months of age
Children: subjects 2 to 12 years of age
Adolescents: subjects 13 to 20 years of age
Reference intervals were established across genders, and approximately equal numbers of males and females were included. Reference intervals for infants (1 month–23 months), children (2–12 years), and adolescents (13–20 years) for the thyroid hormones were established according to CLSI guideline C28-A3c.1
Samples from healthy euthyroid individuals were considered normal if they met the strict inclusion criteria. All patients were screened for the presence of thyroid autoantibodies and risk factors for thyroid disorders. For each assay tested, the lower and upper reference limits were estimated as the 2.5 and the 97.5 percentiles of the distribution of test results for each of the two older subgroups. For the infant subgroup, a robust measure of location and spread, as developed by Horn and Pesce, was used for obtaining reference intervals.2 Close to 400 pediatric subjects were included in the final analysis of the combined study.** As a result of the stringent study design, you can be assured of the accuracy and robustness of these reference intervals.
1CLSI. Defining, Establishing and Verifying Reference Intervals in the Clinical Laboratory; Approved Guideline—Third Edition. Volume 28, Number 30, Guideline C28-A3c, 2010.
2Horn PS, Pesce AJ. Reference Intervals: A User’s Guide, Washington, DC: AACC Press; 2005.
* Does not apply to ADVIA Centaur TSH3-UL, which was tested in a previous study.
The products/features (mentioned herein) are not commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons their future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens representative for additional information.
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Phil Brown: It was uncharacteristic from us - we were far too open against Walsall
Boss says he has no excuses following defeat at home to Dean Smith's men.
Southend United manager Phil Brown made no excuses after witnessing his side beaten by Walsall in Sky Bet League 1 on Saturday.
The boss admitted he got his team selection wrong against the Saddlers, but is backing his side to bounce back following the defeat.
Goals from Tom Bradshaw and Sam Mantom proved the difference at a sun-soaked Roots Hall, with Brown unhappy at how open his side were, calling it 'uncharacteristic' of Blues.
“We were so open and it was uncharacteristic of us,” the boss began.
“The mentality wasn't right, I got the team selection wrong and take full responsibility for that.
“We took risks and Walsall could have scored more than the two goals. They're a decent side. When you go a second goal behind you do think about who can make the difference.
“We decided to take David Mooney off at half time to change the game up and try and come in level at half time. We were far too open and that won't happen again.
“Jack Payne showed heart, David Worrall did well when he came on. It's a case of getting a foothold in the league now.”
Brown takes his side north to take on Doncaster Rovers on Wednesday evening, but isn't panicking or worried regarding his search for a first league win.
“We're not getting desperate. We're going to take each game as they come, and Doncaster on Wednesday night will be another tough game.
“However, I guarantee we'll make It a tough game for Doncaster Rovers as well.”
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Embedded luminous light
Embedded luminous light in the different surfaces
A discussion on embedded luminous light in the different surfaces
A collaboration between the Lighting University and Luminous magazine.
Click on the image below to watch the interview.
Instead of watching the entire interview, you can now look at each separate interview question by clicking on one of the links below. Check which question is most interesting for you and click on the link to watch the answer.
Photos: © Manuel Illera
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Interior designers: AECOM
Sander Cornelius Laudy
Architect and Moderator
B01 architectes, Spain
Sarah Chiappi
SMC, UK
Head of Department, Interior Designer, Lead Show Set Designer
ThinkWell, US
Carlos Temprano
Director of Architecture,
AECOM, Spain
Jonathan Groswasser
Yashar Architects, Israel
Bart Wigman
Gielissen, The Netherlands
Embedded lighting in interior spaces...
Suzanne, the atmospheres that you have to create in an environment like LA and surroundings are intense…
Sarah, the interior spaces where you design on are also experience-driven?
You also said a house for an autistic child, that's a sensitive project, I can imagine.
Bart, you export these technologies, these ideas, these designs, these projects all over the world and then you have to adapt to cultural differences. Is lighting very differently conceived in one culture than in other?
Jonathan, the projects that you do in Israel, residential, offices a lot... always have their lights on, that should not be like this, no?
Carlos, this flexible flexibility that is demanded in the functional aspects of buildings... if you have to design or take into account and manage the lighting of an airport like you did in several projects, no? It’s key.
Do you notice that your clients are becoming more and more demanding and always want their project to be in the latest? As far as innovation is concerned.
Which has to be flexible, okay
Architects, we design and we think of materials and think of space and everything. And the “wow” effect a lot of times you can conceive it through materials in space, but then the lighting...it’s the third...
I want to get back to the high-tech part of it, which some of the buildings that you are doing are really demanding. Um...now it's more and more possible to be very subtle in the difference between one effect and the other, or…?
Suzanne, you’ve been working on museums? A lot of interactivity, which is more and more leading feature in how people expose and how museums show their collections, is being realized through lighting: lighting the panels, the textiles...
Sarah, told me before that the founder of SMC was doing domotica even before the word almost existed. So you have been on the front in this respect...so I ask you what will happen in the next five years?
Maybe before we needed artefacts to indicate things, now the intangible... there's more and more substituting our indications, maybe a “less is more” approach, a classical one.
And the lamp as an object does it still have a future or is it also going to disappear?
But what would you like to have in five years then?
So we will go to a personal lighting profile and I will take that with me…
That's the perception of a building from the streets, and on a smart city level do you think maybe that embedded lighting will also have a bigger and bigger role?
The perception of how I walk through a city would change completely with technologies.
We have these completely different perceptions of light when we're talking about a floor, about a wall, about a ceiling... Sarah, within one of your projects how do you elaborate on these differences?
Do you think that architects are aware enough of the possibilities, and maybe a little afraid to ask the…?
Providers are more and more able to give that vision combined with the demand of flexibility that is also required…? And the clients come back to the architects if we don't...
This part of a series of interviews
Last year, the Lighting University partnered with Luminous magazine to set up an innovative series of discussion webinars that considered lighting design’s future, starting with:
A webinar, ‘The future of lighting design and technology’, on the Lighting University website and Youtube.
An article in Luminous 17 magazine Lighting design’s future role (an extract of the interview in print and flipbook format).
In continuation, we will feature more interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners in the world of lighting.
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Symphony on the Bay | The Silk Road
Guest conductor Michael Berec leads the orchestra in a program that evokes the richness and beauty of Asia.
Featuring Chinese-Canadian virtuoso Angel Wang, violin, performing the Butterfly Lovers Concerto, Mayila, and Spring of Xinjiang.
Also featuring "Five Tableaux from Khosro and Shirin" by the Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto (ICOT).
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Antique Appraisal EventMuseum After Hours | Discover the Myths & Mysteries of the Great LakesFamily Day Fun at Joseph Brant Museum
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Antique Appraisal Event
Where: Joseph Brant Museum When: Saturday, February 29 | 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm | By appointment only Cost: $10/item Reserve a spot here >> http://bit.do/antique-clinic Register online today for our Antique Appraisal Event at the Joseph Brant Museum on February 29th from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. We have partnered with Treasure Antiques to appraise your items at a cost of $10 per item. Pre-payment of your items is required, and you will be contacted by a Museum representative with your assigned time slot before the event. Please note that military items and books will not be appraised, and admission to the museum is not included.
Museum After Hours | Discover the Myths & Mysteries of the Great Lakes
Where: Joseph Brant Museum When: Thursday, February 27, 2020 | 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Cost: $25/person ($22 for members) Ticket link: http://bit.do/myths-and-legends Join us for an evening of learning. Your ticket includes admission to all galleries at the Museum including the special visiting exhibition, Giants, Dragons and Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures (organized by the American Museum of Natural History). You’ll enjoy a unique presentation from Swim Drink Fish Canada about the local myths and mysteries of our very own Great Lakes! Light snacks and refreshments are included. This presentation is geared for audiences aged 16+. Reserve your spot for this special evening at museumsofburlington.ca. Taxes + fees are included in the ticket price. Presenter info: https://greatlakes.guide/ideas/myths-and-mysteries-of-the-great-lakes
Family Day Fun at Joseph Brant Museum
Where: Joseph Brant Museum When: Monday, February 17 | 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm Admission: $30 per family (2 adults and up to 4 children) More info: museumsofburlington.ca Visit Joseph Brant Museum on February 17th from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm to celebrate Family Day! We will be highlighting our new exhibition: Giants, Dragons and Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures (organized by the American Museum of Natural History). Enjoy making a family keepsake craft, and snack on some unicorn popcorn.
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Sinn Fein MEPs vote in election for EU Parliament President
Sinn Fein MEPs Bairbre de Brun (6 counties) and Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin) attended the inaugural session of the EU Parliament this morning, to vote in the election for the President of the EU Parliament. Both Ms de Brun and Ms McDonald described their attendance at the inaugural session of the EU Parliament as a 'significant occasion for Sinn Fein, and an opportunity to bring our vision for positive change in Ireland and throughout Europe to this political institution'.
Speaking after the voting at this mornings session, both MEPs said:
"We are both pleased to be here at the inaugural session of the European Parliament. This is a significant occasion for Sinn Fein, and an opportunity to bring our vision for positive change in Ireland and throughout Europe to this political institution.
"Yesterday morning we made a positive contribution to the first session of the EU Parliament when we voted for the GUE/NGL group leader Francis Wurtz for the position of President of the EU Parliament.
"Josep Borrell, the nominee from the Socialist grouping was elected on the first count . We wish Mr Borrell success as the new EU Parliament President. Sinn Fein MEPs are commited to working across groupings and building alliances with those who share our vision for an alternative EU built upon equality, social justice and the protection of workers rights.
"We are committed to bringing about real social and political change within the EU Parliament and will work right across the political spectrum in the coming weeks and months ahead to achieve these objectives. ENDS
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Shanahan bets on fresh faces in Leafs’ quest for Stanley Cup
HC at Noon discussion on what front office holes the Maple Leafs organization is still lacking after filling some vacancies with Brandon Pridham and Laurence Gilman.
Damien Cox | @damospin May 24, 2018, 12:22 PM
Damien Cox @damospin May 24, 2018, 12:22 PM
Until this week, there were five key people in the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey operation.
They still have the two most important ones, namely president Brendan Shanahan and head coach Mike Babcock. The authority held by those two men remains clear and unchanged by the personnel moves this week.
Shanahan has demonstrated that, more than ever, he is totally in charge and unchallenged, ready and willing to make the most difficult decisions. These are not like the days when Ken Dryden was president and Pat Quinn was GM/head coach and the two were such rivals they barely communicated. The story of a candidate for the GM position – John Ferguson Jr. ultimately got the job – having to wander the halls of the Air Canada Centre searching for Quinn’s office after meeting with Dryden because Dryden didn’t want to provide an escort remains a classic.
These days, Shanahan runs the show with the Leafs. Period. End of conversation.
Babcock, meanwhile, is unquestioned as head coach, although theoretically, the influence of star centre Auston Matthews is growing, something Babcock seemed to recognize by his decision to head to Arizona after the season to visit with Matthews and try to smooth out and differences the two may have had in the post-season.
One day, if Matthews no longer wants Babcock to be the coach, he may have gained the power to push for that kind of change. But not now, not with Babcock still with five years left on his eight-year contract as the highest paid coach in hockey.
Shanahan and Babcock were the two people the Leafs could least afford to lose. Shanahan is the architect of the master plan that has lifted this club out of the doldrums. Babcock is the person most responsible for executing that plan on a daily basis, and the person most responsible for moving this team to sixth place overall from 30th in just two years.
So in that light, the Leafs haven’t been weakened one iota this week. They kept their most important people.
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It is in that next level, middle management, where the team has suffered losses, or at least, experienced change. Shanahan always knew he was going to lose two of Lou Lamoriello, Mark Hunter and Kyle Dubas no matter what decision he made on which of them should fill the GM’s office going forward.
That Dubas emerged as the winner in this power struggle should be no surprise to anyone. Heck, Lamoriello himself prophesied that Dubas would succeed him when he was hired three years ago, and Dubas has done nothing that would negatively impact that plan. Given responsibility to run the AHL Marlies, he showed great insight by believing Sheldon Keefe could coach at the minor pro level, and the Marlies have done a very good job supplying the parent club with useful talent.
Lamoriello was scheduled to step down at this time. Hunter, meanwhile, couldn’t dislodge Dubas from the inside lane in the race to succeed Lamoriello. It’s tough for a scout to do that simply because the results of their work require so many years to be fully understood, appreciated and critiqued.
Shanahan was the one who pushed for William Nylander. Hunter gets credit for believing that Mitch Marner was the right pick. Matthews was an obvious choice. Beyond that, players like Morgan Rielly, Connor Brown and Andreas Johnsson preceded Hunter, while we’ll have to wait and see how Hunter picks like Travis Dermott, Joseph Woll, Carl Brunstrom, Yegor Korshkov and Timothy Liljegren turn out.
Hunter has an excellent reputation in hockey. But it was nearly impossible for him to show results in the same way Dubas could with the high-flying Marlies, who are on the verge of qualifying for the Calder Cup final. They could become the first Toronto-based hockey team to win a championship since the Leafs in ’67.
Shanahan on why he chose Dubas over Hunter, Lamoriello as Leafs' GM
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Marlies leaning on strength in numbers to win Calder Cup
In terms of long-term planning, it had to be either Hunter or Dubas that would stay, not the 75-year-old Lamoriello, and Dubas always had the inside track.
You could argue of the five people who sat atop the Leafs organization last week, this week the three top ones are still in place. Dubas has clear authority over the entire hockey operation. He reports to Shanahan and no longer has any rival inside the organization. He promoted Brandon Pridham to assistant GM, and on Thursday hired former Vancouver executive Laurence Gilman to replace himself in the Leaf front office.
Things are actually a lot clearer for the Leafs. Traditionalists won’t be impressed since none of Dubas, Pridham, Gilman or even Babcock, for that matter, ever played an NHL game. Babcock is the only one who has been part of a Stanley Cup-winning organization. That was part of the reason there was a groundswell of anonymous support in the hockey world for Hunter in his bid to become the next GM. Many former players are simply more comfortable with other ex-players, and less impressed with the so-called “geeks” who have infiltrated the sport in the past decade.
It’s worth mentioning that the closest the Leafs have themselves come to returning to the Stanley Cup Final was back in 1993 when the team was run by GM Cliff Fletcher, assistant GM Bill Watters, head coach Pat Burns and chief scout Pierre Dorion, none of whom played a single game in the NHL. So being different can work.
More than ever now, the Leafs are a franchise on the cutting edge of the game, with Shanahan eschewing conventional wisdom to build a hockey office filled with young, bright talent and a different way of looking at the industry than those who played at the highest levels.
They lost a lot of institutional knowledge in Lamoriello and Hunter this week that won’t be easy to replace. But Shanahan has managed to put a fresh face on his hockey department, and both Dubas and Pridham are regarded as two of the up-and-comers in the NHL’s executive corner.
Something has been lost, and something has been gained. As the Leafs surge into a new era of massively heightened expectations, they’re certainly not doing it on the backs of the old boys network.
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Christmas at the Mission: Photos of faith, hope and love
by Cameron Moix | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog | 0 comments
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On Christmas Eve, nearly 500 hungry guests arrived at City Auditorium between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the Mission’s annual “Christmas For All” holiday banquet. As crowds of families, shelter guests and members of the community poured in, nearly 200 volunteers waited to seat them and bring them a plate of delicious food. The dishes included baked ham, green beans, mashed sweet potatoes, hot rolls and (of course) pumpkin pie. During the event, strangers became friends — they broke bread as they shared with each other shared hope and thanksgiving.
“I finally got an apartment last week. That’s the best Christmas present ever. I was homeless for four years, and now I’m not!” – Kat
On Thursday, Dec. 12, dozens of participants in the Mission’s “work engagement” program gathered in the Resource Center to celebrate Christmas together. The crew — mostly shelter guests working hard to overcome homelessness — ate lunch, exchanged and opened gifts and played games (and laughed a lot) during the event.
“It’s good to be with friends and have a good time. I’m grateful for that, and for having a place to stay on Christmas.” – Matt
Shortly before Christmas, residents of Greenway Flats gathered in the lobby to decorate a fresh-cut Christmas tree. Both the tree and the beautiful ornaments that adorned it were provided by generous donors of the Mission. For many residents — some who have not had a home for the holidays in years — it was a special opportunity to celebrate the holiday season in a classic way.
“It’s just nice to be indoors. I haven’t always spent Christmas inside — away from the cold. A lot of people still don’t.” – Ray
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About the Author - Cameron Moix
Cameron Moix is the Content Marketing Coordinator for Springs Rescue Mission. Originally from central Arkansas, he holds a BA in mass communications (print journalism emphasis) from the University of Arkansas - Little Rock. Most of his career has been spent in print journalism, including four years as a reporter for the Colorado Springs Business Journal.
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Consumer trust in energy suppliers to be open and transparent in the UK in 2014
Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 20, 2018
This statistic shows how consumers trust energy suppliers to be open and transparent in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014. 48 percent of consumers trusted their supplier to be so, while 15 percent did not. According to the report, those responding with "trust" to the survey question gave a score of 7 to 10, with "neither trust nor distrust" a score of 4 to 6 and with "distrust" a score of 0 to 3. The mean score among respondents amounted to 6.13, which shows the overall trust for energy suppliers in the UK to be open and transparent is between the "neither trust nor distrust" and "trust" range for consumers.
Do you trust your energy supplier to be open and transparent?*
Share of consumers
February 21 to March 3 2014
1,427 respondents
15 years and older
Method of interview
Computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI)
* The original survey question was worded as follows: "On a scale of 0-10 where 0 means you don't trust them at all and 10 means you trust them completely, how much, if at all, do you trust [named energy supplier] to...?(%)"
Base included all those responsible for paying energy bills who had mains electricity, knew their electricity supplier or, in the case of absense of an electricity supplier or if they did not know who their electricity supplier was, those who had mains gas and knew who their gas supplier was.
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Trust in main energy suppliers in Great Britain (UK) in 2014, by region
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Household energy bill forecast in the United Kingdom (UK) 2020
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Popularity of electricity providers in Great Britain (UK) 2014
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Ease of resolving an energy supplier complaint in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014
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Consumer trust in energy suppliers compared with other companies in the UK in 2014
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Ease of providing energy meter readings in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014
Ease of finding information about energy accounts in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014
Changing energy supplier tariffs in Great Britain 2012/2013, by age
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Italy: electricity price for average household consumers Q1 2017-Q4 2018
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Review: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Though visually sumptuous, the game doesn’t do much to strike a bolder, more mature path within a tired series.
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Familiarity breeds contentment. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age hits all the notes that fans of the Dragon Quest series have come to expect, from the retro sound effects that signal your victory in battle or your transition into a new area, to the relatively straightforward turn-based combat, to that distinctly optimistic tone that never dissipates even in the darkest of moments. But even those who find appeal in the series’s more traditional approaches may find it hard to ignore how this game’s weaknesses become as magnified as its strengths throughout the lengthy main quest.
Dragon Quest XI’s protagonist is—wait for it—destined to save the world from a mysterious evil force. After being thrown in prison by a corrupt ruler, the hero pairs up with the thief, Erik, who helps him escape. The two then gain a handful of allies and learn that they must collect six orbs to have a chance of bringing peace to the planet. The game attempts to lessen the predictability of this plot with various characters who seem good-natured, until they’re revealed to be corrupt or malevolent. Dragon Quest XI, though, handles its theme of people not being what they appear to be with varying degrees of success. At times, the storytelling is intriguing, as in the tale of a martial arts champion who turns out to be an anti-villain cheating the system in order to support orphaned children. But more times than not you can see the revelation of a person’s true colors from a mile away, as with a king who gives off a cartoonishly conniving vibe from the very moment you meet him.
Your party members are largely uninteresting, and sometimes downright intolerable, in no small part due to some silly writing. Outside of a moment where he alludes to the importance of faith, Erik says little that carries emotional significance. Jade’s toughness is one-note, while sisters Veronica and Serena are often insufferable. Veronica, trapped in a child’s body, shows aggression toward those who perceive her as a kid—what does she expect?—and is always looking for a fight, while Serena speaks with an unbelievable level of cluelessness, as when she, a spellcaster in a world full of magic, expresses surprise about the existence of a witch: “My goodness! That sounds like something from a fairy tale!” Sylvando, the flamboyant showman, isn’t unlikable, though the game leans hard, and risibly so, on his effeminate demeanor, like his usage of the term “darling,” for comic relief. Only Rab, the elderly mage, feels three-dimensional, but one scene in which he drops a dirty magazine reduces him to a caricature out of a low-rate anime.
These characters are more satisfying to take in when they’re in the midst of battle, thanks to the game’s exquisite animation and Akira Toriyama’s highly refined design work. But it’s your enemies that prove even more entertaining to behold. Although many of the foes here have appeared in previous Dragon Quest games, Dragon Quest XI’s smooth visuals bring new life to their quirky features: the pigs with oversized wizard hats, the rabbits with unicorn horns, the rabid sorcerers who look as if they’re about to commit indecent exposure, and so on. Half the fun of winning is relishing the kinetic brilliance of enemies falling, dissipating, crumbling, or losing their equipment upon defeat.
The actual decision-making in the turn-based skirmishes will make you feel as if you’re back in the ‘90s, though many two-decades-old RPGs boast combat options that are more innovative than the ones offered up in Dragon Quest XI. The most original idea here is the Pep system, a mix of Final Fantasy VII’s Limit Break system and Chrono Trigger’s combo techs. Pep allows characters to gain stat bonuses and perform combos after they’ve taken enough damage. The problem is that there’s no Pep gauge that would enable the player to methodically avoid or absorb enemy hits in order to set up stronger attacks for tougher adversaries, so the system is more random than useful until you get the ability to instantly “pep up” a character later in the game.
One of the game’s surprisingly strong aspects is its item-crafting system. Unlike most such systems in gaming, Dragon Quest XI’s blacksmithing feature, which originally appeared in Dragon Quest X, requires skill outside of gathering materials and makes for fun experimentation as you adjust the temperature and the placement and strength of hammer strikes. Indeed, the more care you take with the process, the better the items turn out. You can also use this crafting system to improve your existing weapons and armor.
The one thing that irrevocably sets the Dragon Quest series apart from similar works is its undying positivity, and Dragon Quest XI is no exception. Composer Koichi Sugiyama’s soundtrack is as touching and life-affirming as his prior work. Throughout the game, the townspeople you encounter will speak and behave with an enthusiasm that’s nothing short of infectious. Elsewhere, the numerous churches throughout the journey continually reinforce the notion that faith is essential to inner peace. These elements, while familiar, make it easier to swallow the more trite RPG conventions that the game leans on, as well as its hackneyed sense of comedy. Still, it’s a shame that Dragon Quest XI, despite being the most visually sumptuous Dragon Quest title to date, doesn’t do more to strike a bolder, more mature path within a tired series.
Developer: Square Enix Publisher: Square Enix Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: September 04, 2018 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Simulated Gambling, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol Buy: Game
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SELF rejects the power-building, level-gaining escapism that typifies the majority of pop games.
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Developer doBell’s SELF employs a storytelling mode that defies easy categorization. For one, you must play the game and see multiple endings in order to truly understand the nature of a young boy’s search for his missing dad in a world that scarcely comprehends him. The text-based narrative is, for no immediately apparent reason, presented as subtitles on a monitor that will often be overwhelmed by static at certain points. The game’s terse writing places your playable character in a dream of sorts, where the people closest to him avoid answering his questions and where everyone in the city he calls home can disappear in the blink of an eye. The effect is nothing short of nerve-wracking.
By repeatedly showing an image of cracked glass, where the diverging lines of the crack are explicitly characterized by the narrative as different pathways and destinations in the story, SELF encourages the player to restart the game after arriving at one of many endings. The proceedings concern a child named John who wakes up from sleep only to enter an obfuscating nightmare of an existence in which he cannot find his father. The fractured narrative is consistently fascinating to put together as a puzzle, even if does occasionally lead to tedium. Even though a helpful checkpoint system allows the player to skip parts of the story, you may still have to retread sections of SELF’s narrative that you recently finished reading, depending on which ending you’re trying to discover on a subsequent playthrough.
A bigger drawback of SELF, though, is its occasional reliance on the “bullet avoidance” of Toby Fox’s acclaimed indie Undertale. This type of gameplay is one-dimensional by design, as the player simply controls a powerless icon within a box and attempts to avoid contact with objects that move into the space. The largely mindless routine of moving a bland avatar—a heart in Undertale, a crudely drawn face within a square in SELF—away from easy-to-dodge projectiles becomes stale, and the action is even more unsatisfying in SELF, as objects entering the box have even more predictable trajectories than those in Undertale.
Luckily, everything else about SELF largely works and adds up to an unsettling and revelatory experience. John’s mother absurdly evades the child’s questions about the new status quo. Eventually, he’s able to leave the house for answers, but visits to an arcade, school, hospital, and bus bring more confusion before the player is able to discern exactly what has happened to John’s family. And along the way, any sense of calm in the story is challenged by a variety of sharp sound effects, from balloons popping to the high-pitched dinging of bells.
The game goes in different directions based on whether John wishes to “face” the truth during crucial moments in the story, and the various endings often transpire out of nowhere and vary in their emotional impact. In an unexpectedly comic turn, one ending brilliantly comments on the tale’s general sense of fatalism: At the very start of SELF, the player can choose to keep going back to sleep rather than get out of bed—one of gaming’s oldest clichés—and this decision brings you to “The Happiest Ending,” in which John never has to wake up to the disturbing dreamscape that awaits him otherwise.
Other choices reveal curious reversals of seemingly established facts. If you’re able to trigger particular memories within the dreamlike narrative, the text will sometimes read as if it’s written more from the perspective of John’s father. And deeper into SELF, the script implies that perhaps you’re actually playing as the father who imagines himself as the son.
Although the story certainly suggests that dreams contain hard-to-define approximations of reality, the ultimate theme of SELF is that you are whom you love. In a mind-blowing twist on the game’s primary visual conceit of a monitor displaying text, SELF redefines the screen as a mirror with nails in its corners. If you remove the nails and then the mirror, another mirror appears with a silhouette of a kid. From there, one by one, mirrors can be pulled away to reveal a larger shadow of a person. The tragedy of life, as SELF sees it, is the older we get, the more we grow, but this growth is offset by a loss of self via the deaths of loved ones. Far from an orthodox release, SELF rejects the power-building, level-gaining escapism that typifies the majority of pop games that audiences so casually, unassumingly embrace.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by indienova.
Developer: doBell Publisher: indienova Platform: Switch Release Date: January 16, 2020 ESRB: E10+ ESRB Descriptions: Fantasy Violence, Mild Language Buy: Game
It can’t step out of the silhouette of its most brilliant predecessor, Portal.
Aaron Riccio
Photo: Aspyr
At the start of the first-person puzzler Lightmatter, within the mined-out heart of a mountain, an arrogant scientist, Virgil, is experimenting with ways in which to efficiently turn light into an energy source. Things inevitably go wrong, and soon your blank slate of a protagonist is stranded in the depths of the mountain, trying to follow Virgil’s caustic directions in order to safely evacuate a facility overrun with killer shadows. It’s a concept that turns everyday objects, from an overhead ceiling fan to a conveyor belt, into deadly platforming challenges, as the shadows they cast must be avoided at all costs.
At one point, Virgil directly compares this situation to the classic childhood game “The Floor Is Lava.” It’s a too-winking nod that calls attention to the carefully constructed nature of Lightmatter’s puzzles, which are better encountered as a naturally occurring part of a given area’s background, like the way in which a cubicle farm’s haphazard arrangement of desks and chairs damningly form a river of shadows that must somehow be forded. In such moments, the game hews closer to The Witness than Portal, in that the puzzles feel like natural extensions of the environment as opposed to artificially engineered test chambers.
The correct paths through Lightmatter’s once-generic office and cavern areas are deliberately engineered to have a single, tricky solution. But the game generally does well to distract the player from this contrived construction, wherein the path to the exit is always blocked by a broken light source but the moveable klieg lights and beam-reflecting photon connectors you’ll use to literally shine some light on the problem are always conveniently within reach.
It’s not until the last third of the game that the puzzles become jarringly conspicuous in their design. Until this point, the various contraptions found within the facility—like conveyors and light-activated switches—have a practical purpose, whether that’s for transporting quarried rocks or for testing and containing the lightmatter. Only a few of these machines felt like they served no purpose other than creating a puzzle, like an elevator that doesn’t normally travel between floors, requiring instead that you send it back to the first floor so that you can ride atop it to the third. In these final experimental labs, though, the rooms give themselves over to needless brain-teaser padding, as they serve no purpose beyond stymying players.
On a visual level, the developers at Tunnel Vision Games have done a fine job of translating the complexities of lighting into a puzzle mechanism. Going with a clean, cel-shaded look, as opposed to a more photorealistic aesthetic, ensures that the spotlight effects operate predictably in each environment, just as the game’s muted palette makes it easier to distinguish between objects. Perhaps taking a cue from Mirror’s Edge, the rare splashes of color—green plants, orange machinery sparks, red warning lights—help make even clearer what can be interacted with. And, incidentally, this streamlined aesthetic doesn’t lead to dumbed-down puzzles, as the complexity of each area stems from clever design as opposed to an excessive number of obstacles or a misleading series of visual cues.
Would that the game’s mad-scientist-run-amok storyline weren’t so derivative. There’s not a single transmission from Virgil that doesn’t bring the comically sociopathic ribbing of Portal’s GLaDOS to mind. (There’s even a reference to Aperture Laboratory and its cake.) Those lines can do little else, because Virgil is ultimately as much of a cypher as your own “persistent, replaceable, and silent” player character, whom Virgil identifies as a tourist, a safety inspector, a journalist, and, finally, a spy, as if trying to establish what the developers won’t.
This is a game that tasks you with trying to escape the facility in one moment, then with helping to shut it down in the next. And because your motivations are so ill-defined, it’s impossible not to see your character as anything but a vehicle for solving puzzles, ensuring that Lightmatter is unable to step out of the silhouette of its most brilliant predecessor. And that’s a damning thing for a game that’s all about deadly shadows.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Zebra Partners.
Developer: Tunnel Vision Games Publisher: Aspyr Platform: PC Release Date: January 15, 2020 Buy: Game
Wherever the medium goes from here, these are the games that point the way forward.
Photo: Cardboard Computer
Comedian Kumail Nanjiani claimed some years back that video games are the only art form that got better solely because of technology. While that’s arguably been true for much of the medium’s history, it ceased to be the case in the 2010s. The decade in gaming didn’t lack for astounding technical achievements, but its arc was defined less by powerful technology than powerful ideas.
This was the decade that saw tiny studios, lone creators, and crazy concepts reign supreme. This was the decade that saw every platform become a viable place for ideas to sprout and bloom. The limits of the medium are seemingly bound only by the human imagination, and at every level, regardless of the horsepower needed, it now feels like anything is possible.
The decade’s best games took full advantage of that new freedom by pushing the envelope in every direction. Wherever the medium goes from here, these are the games that point the way forward. Justin Clark
100. BioShock Infinite
BioShock Infinite is a visceral experience about an irredeemable psychopath murdering a city of despicable fundamentalists. Booker Dewitt is tasked with saving a reality-tearing woman from a floating white-supremacist paradise, leading to the interactive slaughter of its inhabitants; so much was made of the game’s violence that many overlooked that the repugnant brutality was exactly the point. While most shooters shy away from grue or any consequences to the player’s actions, BioShock Infinite vividly depicts these rippling across universes, where a single choice can carry disastrous results. This is an astonishing game that philosophizes on the human condition—consider that the opponents of Columbia’s segregation aren’t interested in equality, only in suppressing their suppressors—while critiquing its entire genre, concluding that the protagonist of a first-person shooter shouldn’t be allowed to live in any universe. Ryan Aston
99. The Norwood Suite
The public is more aware than ever of the infallibilities of well-known artists, and Cosmo D’s The Norwood Suite evokes the discomfort that many of us often feel when the dirty secrets of an icon are put on display. The setting here is a hotel that houses the legacy of a bandleader named Peter Norwood, whose exploitative relationships with other musicians come to the player’s attention via surreal trips down hidden passageways. Yet this building also bears numerous odd pleasures to behold, not least of which is a soundtrack that seamlessly morphs as you move from room to room. The characters are literally riffs in Cosmo D’s stupendous orchestration; different instruments and notes accompany different lines of dialogue as they appear on screen. The more you explore this strange location, the more you see the threat of commercialization in the form of corporate employees aiming to turn the hotel into a greater moneymaking scheme. Cosmo D gives no easy answers on how capitalistic culture can reconcile the sins of artistic giants, and that ambiguity makes The Norwood Suite a complicated and essential illustration of contemporary concerns. Jed Pressgrove
98. Overcooked
To make it absolutely clear that Overcooked isn’t your traditional cooking game, developer Ghost Town Games opens mid-apocalypse. A giant, ravenous beast—imagine the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man made of spaghetti and meatballs—threatens to consume your rooftop kitchen. The Onion King, cheering from the sidelines, implores you to fend him off by hastily preparing a soothing selection of salads; after you’ve failed, he transports you back through time, so that you can be a more seasoned chef next time. The subsequent missions, then, are less about tapping out increasingly complex orders, as with Cooking Dash and its ilk, or the exquisite, Zen-like Cook, Serve, Delicious. Instead, Overcooked keeps the recipes simple and the kitchens about as unconventionally chaotic as they come. At times, the difficulty can make this party game feel like a lot of work, although in fairness, the same can be said for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, another demandingly chaotic, but ultimately enjoyable, couch co-op title. The meat of the title—cooperative, chaotic cooking—is almost perfectly handled, as are the garnishes, from the catchy musical score to the delightful crew of unlockable animal chefs. By keeping the kitchens varied and the action constant, Ghost Town Games avoids the flavorless death known as repetition, and doesn’t overcook its premise. Aaron Riccio
97. Downwell
Downwell is a quarter-eater without the quarters, an arcade game from out of time. As your character tumbles down an enclosed space, collecting gems and shooting bullets from his feet, the game feels like something you play as much as you give yourself over to. Each run demands split-second decisions. Do you go back for more gems, as a cabal of monsters closes in behind you? Do you risk a stomp attack that demands more precision but will reward you with a badly needed reload? Do you break the block for gems at risk of losing space to maneuver? Each run showers you in game-changing upgrades that introduce still-more variables to consider at a moment’s notice, while you continue blasting your way into the abyss. Like the very best action games, Downwell becomes its own trance state. Steven Scaife
96. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Prepare to die a lot. The modern gaming landscape is one littered with checkpoints, save states, and wonky AI. 2K Games’s reimagining of the XCOM strategy series harkens back to the cult classic’s unsettling gameplay and punishing difficulty. The rewarding sensation one receives after successfully commanding a squad out of a heated skirmish with strange intergalactic warriors is unparalleled in modern games. These tense battles eventually lead the player to actually form an emotional bond with your team members, which makes their inevitable demise that much more crushing. These interactive elements lend XCOM’s tense action an atmosphere that’s engrossing and wholly addictive. It’s easy to treasure an old-school counter-offensive game that understands the motivating power of fear. Kyle Lemmon
95. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
In the not-so-distant future, large corporations and multinational firms have developed their operations beyond the control of national governments, and human biomechanical augmentation is simultaneously rising in popularity across the world and being demonized for its role in changing humanity. Like the very best sci-fi, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is about ethics and consequences; this is a game that asks what it is to be human. The game presents both the rise of biotechnology as a means to advance human ability and the human experience, and the subsequent consequences on the world. Its layered narrative matches its deep multifaceted gameplay, set in a rich and atmospheric universe that feels not too far away from our own. Despite a slow start and occasional missteps (the much maligned boss fights were “fixed” for DLC), Eidos Montreal has created an engaging, compelling experience that does justice to the critically acclaimed Deus Ex series. Aston
94. Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima’s first game away from Konami, Death Stranding, finds him tearing down the familiar structure of the open-world game and building it back up again as something weirder, more deliberate, and more honest about what it is. It transforms basic traversal into the entire conceit rather than more or less a time sink between story missions and side activities. It peels away the artifice of open-world structure, revealing the dressed-up delivery missions underneath while declaring that they’re a worthwhile pursuit in their own right. And once you’ve totally internalized that idea, the tools the game provides become enthralling revelations: You eventually build sprawling highways and ziplines that propel you across arduous terrain. You’ve worked for them. You’ve earned them. Death Stranding is an admirable experiment for big-budget game design, playing like one long, bizarre, and startlingly persuasive argument that the journey is fulfilling in its own right. Scaife
93. Iconoclasts
While Iconoclasts’s bright and imaginative 2D pixelated graphics would look right at home on a 16-bit console of yore, its themes and ideas are very much that of the modern day. The game’s silent protagonist, Robin, is trapped in a fascistic society ruled by fundamentalist dogma, where her skills as a mechanic are outlawed, positioning her as a criminal and counterforce in a setting that opposes scientific advancement and free-thinking. Robin’s journey to escape execution and expose the truth of her society’s dominating political organization aligns her with other well-crafted characters who oppose the tyrannical theocracy both in ideology and ability, and it’s through its characters’ unique facilities that Iconoclasts demonstrates a kind of Ludonarrative harmony, as the gameplay and themes are in lockstep, crafting an experience that tackles important issues of faith, religion, and totalitarianism. Throughout, Iconoclasts’s varied gameplay mechanics directly serve the narrative. Consider Robin’s special tool, an illegal wrench, and how it not only symbolizes suppression of science and personal freedoms, but is used as a weapon against enemies and a means of controlling technology and traversing obstacles, often directly modifying and rearranging objects in the world. It also pushes Robin toward her ultimate goal of fixing the broken world for good. Aston
92. Yakuza 0
This prequel faced the unenviable task of taking a decades-old abstruse Japanese series and making it accessible for the masses. Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, important underworld figures later in the series, are introduced to us as a low-level recruit and disgraced outcast, respectively, from different organized crime syndicates. They’re pulled into a conspiracy after Kazuma is framed for murder and Goro rejects an assassination job after finding out that the target is a defenseless blind girl. Their captivating narratives come together in a larger plot brimming with sociopolitical intrigue about property development and clan territory. Think of Yakuza 0 as noir through the lens of ‘80s Japan. Its gameplay simplifies the series’s complicated mechanics without limiting the player or compromising the variety in the details. One can take part in any manner of activities throughout the Tokyo and Osaka settings while progressing through the campaign, allowing the game to prove itself both as a compelling prequel to an ongoing series and as its own self-contained story. Aston
91. Dishonored
Arkane Studios’s Dishonored combines elements of other immersive sims, like BioShock and Thief, to create a mechanically enjoyable first-person stealth game that challenges your awareness and resourcefulness. While its narrative about betrayal and revenge is familiar, the game is enticing for the autonomy it offers players. Dishonored is very much a gamer’s game: It hands you a target—kill High Overseer Campbell, for example—before then turning you lose, giving you the freedom of the world and Corvo’s powers to deal with your target however you see fit. Though the end of every mission may resort to a binary lethal/non-lethal choice, the ways you can approach any mission are bountiful, making each run different enough to warrant multiple playthroughs. Jeremy Winslow
Living in America as a kid with brown skin has never been harder, or more frightening, and the game is a harsh primer in that fact.
Just as it looms heavy over every other aspect of America in real life, the 2016 election wreaks havoc in Life Is Strange 2. When we meet this sequel’s protagonist, a Latinx high schooler named Sean Diaz, it’s late 2015. The first presidential debates have already happened and those blowing up his social media feed and text messages are angry and fearful. Trump’s threats to everybody who looks like him and his nine-year-old brother, Daniel, feel like an approaching storm. Ten minutes into the game, that anger and fear is palpable.
But the storm hits Sean a lot earlier than the rest of us. An altercation with the school bully living next door turns violent, the cops are called, and when Sean’s father tries to calm the situation down, he’s shot when he doesn’t get on the ground fast enough. Naturally, you can guess where this could be going from here. But this is the world of Life Is Strange, and the cycle of grief turning to anger turning to acquittals turning to fury turning to resignation is stopped dead when Daniel starts to manifest a particularly powerful, albeit unfocused, form of telekinesis which saves him and Sean from a jail cell, but at the expense of a few dead cops.
The realities of classism were mostly color and texture to the first Life Is Strange’s central missing-girl mystery, but they’re the bold-faced text of the sequel. Sean and Daniel leave their hometown of Seattle to go on the run after the incident—rather pointedly, the plan is to cross the border wall into Mexico—and it’s all the more frightening and distressing that they’re two Latinx kids now at the mercy of America at its best and worst. For every woke travel-blogging road-tripper willing to give these kids new bags and a hotel room for the night, for every aging yuppie trying their damndest to make up for their conservative, authoritarian past by helping the brothers keep tabs on the nearby police presence, there are legions of townsfolk with nothing to give these kids except for the side-eye. It’s as if Sean and Daniel’s mere existence has an ulterior motive. And Life Is Strange 2 doesn’t relent on portraying how suffocating such a life can be. You’re never not fully aware of who might be looking, who’s asking questions, who’s tensed up just by these brown kids walking into a white space, and if that sounds more like a horror game than a languid, delicate, sun-bathed point-and-click adventure, imagine living it in a world where there are no super powers to get you out of such a situation.
The living is the key here. It almost feels like a bit of a cop-out, pun unintended, when the game goes for tense Stranger Things-style action set pieces involving the police and the F.B.I. or America First xenophobes, because the situation is tense enough in the disquieting scenes of Sean and Daniel simply attempting to live in America without any of its social safety nets. Much of the gameplay, just as in the first Life Is Strange, is spent in dialogue trees. At any given moment, the brothers are trying to hide Daniel’s powers and their status as fugitives, or just plain hiding. This sequel is still a bit more kinetic and proactive than this style of adventure title typically is, but the puzzle-solving smartly takes a backseat to the building and maintaining of relationships. Creating a bond with anyone in the game while in a pressure-cooker situation is a risk, and the payoff isn’t always worth it, especially because of what it could teach young Daniel, who’s also affected by Sean’s choices, and whose morality can shift fluidly during gameplay. He could become this universe’s Eleven, or he could become its Tetsuo, and it all hinges on what he sees and hears from his big brother at any time.
That bond is the most crucial one in Life Is Strange 2, and ultimately the most powerful thing about the game. This is, above all things, a story of brotherhood, and it’s just as emotionally honest about two kids at different pivotal stages of their lives making the decisions that will define them as men as it is about the reality of living in America as an “other.” The choices aren’t limited to some clearly-defined “good” option in the dialogue tree either, with many of the things that shape Sean and Daniel’s relationship coming down to a simple choice between scolding Daniel, deciding to tuck the kid in bed as opposed to hanging out with new friends, or teaching him what faith and forgiveness and grace actually mean.
Yes, the bigger choices in Life Is Strange 2—whether to lie to Daniel about what happened to their father, whether to tell the kid to kill a wild animal threatening them at their hideout, whether to plow through a police barricade—make the expected huge shifts in the narrative, but it’s the cumulative choices that are most impressive. In the middle episode, “Wastelands,” Daniel will choose to help a new friend carry out a major crime whether you think it’s a good idea or not. And how that mistake plays out when it goes wrong is dependent on every way that Sean has previously interacted with Daniel—whether he’s shown Daniel that mercy is a virtue, that Sean’s word is his bond when he promises never to lie to him, and whether he’s shown Daniel that he trusts his judgment. Neither Sean nor Daniel have all the answers, but what few answers Sean does provide his brother significantly matter.
It’s still a long, excruciating march toward the Mexican border, but what keeps Sean and Daniel going—and the player by proxy—are the grace notes of interpersonal kindness, those moments where the two brothers stop to appreciate the beauty of the country they’ll probably never get to see again, and the warmth of the places they call home along the way, temporary though they may be. Living in America as a kid with brown skin has never been harder, or more frightening, and Life Is Strange 2 is a harsh primer in that fact. Nevertheless, there’s light and beauty in this journey, as this is a game that values the boundless hope of the two young men at its center, and without invalidating America’s darkness.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Square Enix.
Developer: DONTNOD Entertainment Publisher: Square Enix Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: December 4, 2019 ESRB: M ESRB Descriptions: Blood, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol, Violence Buy: Game
Wattam communicates a poignant, refreshing, and all-too-necessary joy in the face of adversity.
Steven Scaife
Photo: Annapurna Interactive
One of the characters you play in Wattam is the Mayor, a green cube with a little mustache. He wears a black bowler hat, and beneath it is some kind of regenerating bomb that sends him and anyone in his vicinity rocketing through the air with colored smoke trailing behind them. But this bomb isn’t a malicious weapon, as it acts as a sort of activity that the Wattam world’s denizens, an assortment of inanimate objects with faces and limbs, all crave, begging the Mayor to “kaboom” them into the air. Sometimes, after a particularly twisty kaboom, they’ll vomit little rainbows into the grass.
If everything I’ve described thus far sounds hopelessly weird and discombobulated, it gets even more so. But it also makes some measure of sense within the colorful, anarchic, kindergarten-evoking aesthetic of Keita Takahashi, who’s best known for creating the equally peculiar Katamari series. Wattam, though, is more free-form than those games, functioning like a playground for the various objects that the Mayor befriends through activities like kaboom-ing, climbing on top of characters to form a big precarious stack, or locking hands so their individual soundtrack themes layer on top of one another.
There’s almost a method to Wattam’s dream-logic madness, as the world has ended, and everything in it has been scattered to the void. The Mayor starts out alone on a grassy expanse, and across the game’s few hours you’ll rediscover that which was lost in a mysterious apocalypse. Sometimes the characters, like a tiny stone, simply appear as though they were there all along, but mainly groups of characters arrive through holes in the sky while riding on the backs of giant floating tables, chairs, and other things that latch onto the environment with their massive hands. A big table, for example, will drop off some sentient utensils, while a large toilet might arrive carrying another, smaller toilet. Everything is greeted with a “welcome back” message, in a little pop-up window for smaller objects (“Welcome back, fork”) and in huge, screen-filling font for big, flying transport entities (“Welcome back, table”).
With its themes of cooperation and putting the world back together, the game oddly treads similar thematic territory to Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, while its sprawling portrait of a universe at multiple sizes recalls David OReilly’s Everything. But as with Katamari, Takahashi’s gentle and simplistic style approaches these ideas in ways that are at once pleasantly straightforward and hilariously unexpected, providing missions that require you to harness the surprising abilities of the growing horde of people-objects who all have individual, mundane names like Charlie and Eric. Completing these missions prompts the arrival of more characters, who are attracted by the presence of the friends you’ve helped.
The missions divide Wattam into essentially a series of comedic vignettes, an assembly line of wildly differing abilities up through the end of the game. Though you’re free to, say, turn on the fan that blows away characters at any time after it’s introduced, many of the abilities are used once or twice before something new appears and the lovely, offbeat soundtrack changes according to the task. The whole experience is wildly unpredictable, with the occasional bits of repetition lulling you into a false sense that you’ve seen all of what Wattam has to offer. Every time the game seems close to running out of creative steam, it adds some ridiculous new wrinkle seemingly for the hell of it, like a bizarre cooperative boss battle or the disembodied mouth that transforms everything into sentient cartoon poop.
Though a lot of the comedy here is born out of how totally inscrutable the game is, with objects arriving according to no apparent hierarchy whatsoever (a camera, for one, might appear before an ice cream cone does), the themes of Wattam come through clearly. The game muses about how sad it is that we need some kind of catastrophe to appreciate what’s in front of us, asking the player to revel in the small pleasures of things that seem, at first, totally insignificant. Through deceptively simple mechanics, music, and art, Wattam communicates a poignant, refreshing, and all-too-necessary joy in the face of adversity.
Developer: Funomena Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: December 17, 2019 ESRB: E10+ ESRB Descriptions: Crude Humor, Mild Cartoon Violence Buy: Game
The 25 Best Video Games of 2019
In 2019, the best games took the industry’s standard operating procedure and punted it out the window.
Photo: Hempuli
Although it was released in the doldrums of March, one title on our list of the 25 Best Games of 2019 could serve as the anarchic manifesto of the entire year in gaming. The brainchild of Finnish indie developer Arvi Teikarti, a.k.a. Hempuli, Baba Is You is, ostensibly, a very simple pixel-art puzzle platformer. But it’s also one that doesn’t give players the rules to beat it, telling them that every single one of those rules aren’t just made to be broken, but must be broken in order to persevere.
The spirit of 2019 in gaming was one of disruption, one that took the industry’s standard operating procedure and punted it out the window. Logic says that only a certain level of production can make the games people love, that only by following the rules of what sells can a game find an audience, that only one company can own the ideas behind an IP, and that only by squeezing players dry through additional purchases can a game be made that people will keep coming back to. But that logic was always faulty, and this year, it failed.
This was a year where the best Castlevania game in a decade didn’t have Konami’s name on it, where Bethesda had nothing to do with the best Fallout title to come out in twice as many years, and where the best Star Wars game does the exact opposite of everything its publisher had been doing with the license for five years. And that’s just what was happening in the AAA arena. Indeed, those who ventured into the realm of indie games glimpsed developers taking wild, bold leaps of faith, subverting every genre imaginable, and doing so with great success. This was a year where the fearless side of the industry showed itself, and these 25 games are the greatest victors, the ones that dared the most, and won big. Justin Clark
25. Slay the Spire
Slay the Spire’s deck-building mechanic guarantees that every run will be an entirely new experience. You’re bound not only by the types of cards you gain in each run, but the literal luck of the draw in which you pull them in combat. As a result, even the simplest encounter is bespoke, and every decision is a finely tuned risk-reward gamble. The spire’s branching paths lead to events with their own branching decisions, the results of which determine whether you can, say, afford the merchant or if you can forgo a healing snooze in order to upgrade a card. Slay the Spire, the brainchild of Mega Crit Games, guarantees nothing other than your character’s starting set of attack and defense cards (and perhaps a modicum of fun), so each new run forces you to be maximally clever in wringing bloody synergies out of otherwise rocky randomness. But as brutal as Slay the Spire may be, these runs ultimately come down to smart luck. The game gleefully telegraphs what each foe is going to do in combat, so if you die, it’s because you haven’t prepared enough. Shuffle up and deal with it, because there’s always another—and another, and another—try. Aaron Riccio
24. Sunless Skies
Sunless Sea, from 2015, had players chart a vast and perilous ocean into which London fell. That game’s follow-up, Sunless Skies, delivers yet another intimidating journey into the unknown, only this time with the player slowly combing an airspace littered by the remains of destroyed ships. The sounds of this game vivify the “Britain of the heavens” setting, with the hissing of steam, the ever-creaking machinery, and the distant noise of cannons serving as constant reminders of a dangerous and overindustrialized world. As in Sunless Sea, greed and a thirst for exploration function as a double-edged sword, leading players to the darkest corners of the map or simply death. Developer Failbetter Games has proven itself again a skilled purveyor of Lovecraftian suspense, where our curiosities get the better of us in gradual fashion, as underlined by blunt and wry writing that’s deliciously typical of a traditional British mindset. Jed Pressgrove
23. Void Bastards
A transport spaceship bearing an assortment of freeze-dried prisoners is stranded in a nasty nebula. There, pirates roam, monsters devour ships, and all the unfortunate citizens have been bizarrely mutated into murderous, foul-mouthed horrors. Once rehydrated, prisoners are shooed out into this unforgiving corner of space to scavenge derelict ships for parts until their probable death, after which the next unfortunate soul indicted for a comedically pedantic crime continues the work. And so on. The gears of capitalism turn even in these ruins of bureaucratic failure. As setups go, it’s a cheeky, immaculate framing device for a roguelike, and the amount of forethought that Void Bastards affords you is rare for this genre of game. It imbues the experience with a greater sense of consequence since you’re not at the mercy of randomization so much as your ability to plan and execute, as well as knowing when to retreat or when to avoid a ship entirely. An ideal run of Void Bastards is about planning, going on a run, and then having your plans upended by any of the different variables at work, requiring you to quickly adapt while coming up with a new plan. Steven Scaife
22. Untitled Goose Game
There’s an old Steve Martin quote about how comedy can be art, but anyone who deliberately sets out to make art through comedy has already failed. To that same point, developers House House didn’t set out to make a game with near-universal appeal with Untitled Goose Game—famously, the premise alone was a private joke shared on a Slack channel at work—but they stumbled upon it nonetheless. Untitled Goose Game is one of those rare experiences where it’s hilarious just existing in the world of the game, and in no small part for the way it plays it 100% straight, aside from a playful context-sensitive piano underscoring the player’s chaos. Just giving players the ability to waddle around a neighborhood and honk in people’s faces could’ve been the game by itself, but instead, it’s all about finding new, innovative ways to pull of various annoyance crimes within very basic but innately understood mechanics, and the payoff is almost always worth the effort. This is a game about true banal evil. So many so-called mature artists have attempted to edgelord their way into relevancy and found only a niche audience waiting for them, while House House’s Goose has managed to become the purest agent of chaos of our time, and managed to win the hearts and minds of the world. Clark
21. The Outer Worlds
Obsidian doesn’t stray too far from their roots with The Outer Worlds, an open-world first-person RPG reminiscent of Fallout: New Vegas. The socio-political commentary isn’t subtle, as the player character awakens from cryosleep to a futuristic world on the edge of the galaxy run by megacorporations that own workers as property and will happily let colonies of people die if it benefits their bottom line. But The Outer Worlds deviates from the modern Fallout formula by including a Normandy-style ship that allows you to travel to different planets instead of just one large open area, with a crew who can be taken on missions. Helping the rebellious mercenary Ellie recover from a disastrous attempt to reunite with her disapproving upper-class parents lets the player embrace their humanity by offering her support—or take to darker instincts and just gleefully murder the elitist pricks. As for helping shy mechanic Pavarti, an asexual queer woman of a color, prepare for a date she’s nervous about, the whole enterprise is delightful in no small part for how it taps into our sense of belonging. The Outer Worlds might take players to far-away planets to fight battles that reshape societies, but it’s heart ultimately lies in its more interpersonal moments. Ryan Aston
Review: Mosaic Gets the Feel of Monotony, for Better and for Worse
Did you know that corporations are bad? That the drudgeries of adult life are soul-crushing?
Photo: Raw Fury
Did you know that corporations are bad? That the drudgeries of adult life are soul-crushing? That doing the same thing at work with little variation can make you feel like a cog in a machine, and that there’s nothing you can do about it because the numbing routine of work and sleep is simply what you must do to survive? If you’ve somehow made it this far in life without learning such basic truths—and without having seen them literalized as some sort of gray corporate haze in a commercial for toothpaste or erectile dysfunction pills or something—Mosaic may prove enlightening. For everyone else, though, the aesthetics of this brief game from Krillbite Studios will seem mighty familiar.
You play here as an anonymous corporate worker whose apartment, clothes, and every existence have a sort of drab, DMV-esque color palette. You drag him around the screen and click on things to complete basic tasks like brushing his teeth, grabbing an umbrella before heading out the door, or pulling out his smartphone so he can stare at in an elevator. Much of Mosaic consists of intermittent snapshots of his work commute, where there’s a sense that something is wrong with the all-consuming corporate career and a passive society. Everyone seems to be fueling some mysterious machine here. At work, he sits at a computer clicking around some obscure, infernal contraption until he wakes up the next morning to begin again.
Bright colors mark the things outside this malaise: a butterfly, a bit of grass, a street performer, a goldfish that speaks and tags along in the breast pocket of the rumpled shirt draped over your bloated, TV dinner-fed body. The monotony, see, causes the protagonist’s mind to wander. He’ll imagine himself perpetually drowning, shrunken down to be crushed by the shoes of his co-workers, and fed into a machine to be squashed into a cube. With a striking low-detail look and fixed camera angles that create a backdrop of vast societal routine, where people on escalators crisscross in the background like spiderwebs, Mosaic’s imagery is often evocative. But it’s too often in service of such ludicrously trite material.
To some degree, what the game gets right is the feel of monotony. It presents the same apartment day after day, intentionally filled with the same tasks to perform. Eventually, perhaps, you just stop doing them. There’s no reason to tidy your hair when there’s no one around to impress, no reason to check the mail because the only people who care about you are the companies sending “overdue” notices, and no reason to even turn on the lights because you can see what you need to see just fine in the dark. So you stop, acclimating to a routine and streamlining wherever possible. It’s even a little sad.
Mosaic was originally released as an Apple Arcade game, and it feels strange outside that context, where it would otherwise be a functional, fleeting experience among so many others, a small diversion. The game seems tailor-made for that environment, not just because the PC controls are a little clumsy, but because its sleek aesthetics and simulation of banal, interconnected smartphone activities—a vapid clicker game, a Bitcoin-esque tracker, a heteronormative dating app where everyone looks the same—seem to directly critique the overpowering Apple ecosystem. But to consider Mosaic’s original context only makes it seem more toothless, as the game is a pretty, polite, and ultimately limp act of protest you can conveniently prod at between bouts of scrolling through social media feeds.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Raw Fury.
Developer: Krillbite Studios Publisher: Raw Fury Platform: PC Release Date: December 5, 2019 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Blood, violence Buy: Game
Review: Shenmue 3 Brings Philosophical Depth to Video Game Action
The game fulfills a vision of steadfast humanity within the framework of a martial arts revenge tale.
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Today’s most popular video games don’t lack for comprehensive in-game instructions, waypoint-ridden maps, and streamlined actions, all of which can make players feel at ease and in control. Ignoring such conventions, Shenmue 3 often avoids explicit detail about its functions—one amusing line of combat tutorial text simply reads, “Just hit the [face] buttons”—and encourages the player to talk to individuals to get directions. This stripped-down approach recalls, to some extent, the way video games used to be made in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the time period when the first two Shenmue entries graced the Sega Dreamcast. But it’s also representative of the artistic conviction of series creator Yu Suzuki, who uses deliberate pacing, down-to-earth character interactions, and mundane activities to fulfill a vision of steadfast humanity within the framework of a martial arts revenge tale.
Shenmue 3, which went through well more than a decade of planning and development, picks up where Shenmue 2 left off, with Ryo Hazuki, a young Japanese man hunting his father’s killer, joining forces with a Chinese woman named Shenhua Ling, whose own father is missing. In a departure from its predecessors, a large part of the game takes place in a rural area, specifically a Chinese village called Bailu. It’s there that Ryo and Shenhua learn how their fates are intertwined as they track down criminals responsible for attacks on the village.
It’s a straightforward setup, but it’s one that’s enriched by Suzuki’s unhurried style. As Ryo, the player very gradually visits every part of Bailu. A new section can only be accessed when the plot calls for it. In other games, this type of restraint on freedom of movement can be frustrating, but Suzuki’s laser-like focus on characterization and theme make the slow journey beautiful to undertake. Every aspect of the village is distinguished, from the settlement near a grove of sunflowers to the marketplace, and full of the most compellingly human-like NPCs since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The villagers vary significantly by age, appearance, and personality, and the most notable include Mao Yuefang, a middle-aged woman who can be generally helpful but makes inappropriate suggestions about and to Ryo and Shenhua; Jiang Ming, an old man who sits on a bench and comically misinterprets what Ryo says; and Shen Wei, a driven young woman who pours out thanks to anyone who will spar with her.
Like prior entries in the series, as well as the open-world games they’ve inspired, Shenmue 3 utilizes a day-night cycle. But whereas some developers seem to include this feature in their games just to fit under a particular umbrella of realism, Suzuki also sees the passage of time as the key ingredient for deeper relationships. Every night before Ryo sleeps, the player may initiate revealing conversations with Shenhua. The two can trade histories, remarking about the disciplinary styles of their fathers, their different childhood games, and the absence of their mothers. A flute melody, both wistful and utterly sincere, accompanies these talks, reflecting the scenes’ (and Suzuki’s) emotional maturity and unassuming B-movie sensibility.
Thematically, Shenmue 3 is fixated on the significance of patience and dignity, both in its mechanics and its story. Fighting as Ryo isn’t easy and can be quite awkward, so the game nudges the player to keep going to the dojo to build strength and technique through stances, timed attacks, and sparring. There’s a marked sense that Ryo feels shame when he loses a battle, as the people around him, including his opponents, will bluntly suggest he needs more discipline. In a rejection of popular video-game norms, Shenmue 3 doesn’t allow Ryo to barge into homes with closed front doors. It’s telling that Ryo refuses to even walk into Shenhua’s open room, and the game’s emphasis on respect is so great that when Ryo, in a moment of frustration, uses the mild profanity “hell,” you may find the moment genuinely surprising.
Just as Ryo is rewarded in the story for applying himself, your commitment to Shenmue 3’s mechanics over a period of time can bring greater appreciation for their design, as well as the philosophical relevance of those mechanics to the game’s narrative. In an understated masterstroke that prevents you from rushing through the game, Suzuki combines the protagonist’s health and stamina into one bar that can be refilled if Ryo eats. But food requires money, which means Ryo has to take work to get cash. One might sneer at the idea of having to split wood to subsist, but Suzuki turns the activity into its own spectacle of timing and judgment, with an upward-facing camera on the ground to emphasize Ryo’s crushing swings of the axe. An ode to the idea of careful diligence, this mini-game demands one to closely observe Ryo’s eyes so that the wood can be perfectly halved.
Anything Ryo does in Shenmue 3 entails hardship of a sort. In most 3D games of this vein, items can be grabbed with a quick touch of a button. In Shenmue 3, picking a plant requires a conscious change to first-person perspective before Ryo can be commanded to gather the resource. Clunky, perhaps, but in Suzuki’s hands, this layered action more effectively simulates the minor toil of having to bend down in real life in order to pick something up, further amplifying our perception of Ryo as a human being. Like the monks who urge Ryo to take his time developing his talents as a martial artist, Shenmue 3 asks a modern audience accustomed to instant gratification to contemplate the virtues of humbleness and persistence, regardless of whether Ryo’s task at hand is crucial or incidental to his ultimate quest for justice.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Tinsley PR.
Developer: Ys Net Publisher: Deep Silver Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: November 19, 2019 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
Review: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Successfully Channels Dark Souls
Fallen Order is powerful in ways that Star Wars hasn’t been in video game form in over a decade.
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Just by virtue of being a single-player game, with no multiplayer, no online component, no microtransactions, and no planned DLC, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order feels like a relic from a more civilized age. The game hearkens back to the weird old days when former publisher LucasArts would just throw wild game concepts to the wall to see what sticks, often ending up with “It’s [blank] but with Star Wars” mash-ups of wildly varying quality.
In this case, the reductive elevator pitch is “Dark Souls but Star Wars.” And like most blatant Souls-likes, it’s fairly successful at aping the mechanics of FromSoftware’s titles. Death has consequences, and unless you can land a single strike against the enemy that kills you, your experience points are gone forever. Combat requires patience, and players must be smarter about how and when to strike at all times. Yet none of that is a surprise here. The surprise is that the game is often able to match up tonally with FromSoftware’s strongest efforts.
On the surface, Fallen Order is a glorified MacGuffin chase. The game takes place a few years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and our hero, Cal Kestis (Gotham and Shameless’s Cameron Monaghan) is a former Padawan who managed to escape the Empire during the Jedi Purge, cut off his connection to the Force, and now makes a quiet living stripping downed spaceships for parts. When Cal pops back on the Empire’s radar after using his powers to save a friend during a site accident, he’s picked up by Cere Junda (Debra Wilson), a former Jedi Master who’s also suppressed her connection to the Force for much more dire reasons, and Greez, an ornery pilot mostly looking to avoid some serious gambling debts by staying on the run. Cere tells Cal her plan to rebuild the Jedi Order with the help of an old artifact, called a holocron, which can locate Force-sensitive children across the galaxy.
It’s a relatively straightforward experience early on, with Cal slowly regaining basic Force proficiency, sneaking his way into grandiose temples across beautifully rendered, Empire-occupied alien planetscapes using feats of acrobatics, and solving large-scale physics puzzles akin to those in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series. There’s more platforming involved, and developer Respawn’s endless, albeit welcome, obsession with wall-running has managed to wedge its way in here, but this is a game that has far more in common with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice than Titanfall. Landing blows requires a deliberate balance of parrying, relentless attacks at every opening, and careful utilizing the limited pool of Force powers.
That’s all rather tense and exciting when you’re fighting people and droids, less so against the various creatures of each planet, who excel at cheap hits and tend to attack in numbers. For much of its first third, it seems that Fallen Order might fall into an appreciable but basic rut of plotting and gameplay, and it’s right around that moment that the game narratively lowers the boom. The search for the holocron is, in fact, the weakest element in a much more intimate and melancholic tale of loss, and all the varying traumas that stem from it.
The Jedi Purge, which officially began with Order 66, has always been, essentially, the Star Wars universe’s thinly veiled Kristallnacht allegory, but no other piece of work in the franchise, not even the grim Revenge of the Sith, has ever delved as intensely as Fallen Order does into what living through such a thing does to a person. Exemplified by an outright bravado sequence where a frightened Cal and his Jedi master must escape execution when Order 66 is called in, it’s made obvious that all of Cal’s early swagger and Cere’s stiff-upper-lip determination reveal themselves to be Band-Aids over still-bleeding emotional wounds.
Survivor’s guilt plays a major factor in how this story plays out over time, with the plot holes inherent to the search for the holocron being addressed as both characters over-rely on the Force for protection, and have no choice but to confront their memories, their failures, and the consequences of their actions. The main villains—all former Jedi turned Sith Inquisitors through torture and intimidation—represent a true Dark Side, the anger and guilt turned outward. No one still alive to witness the Empire’s rise to power is drawn without a level of emotional damage, and it’s fascinating to watch that aspect of the narrative live side by side with gameplay that asks players to wield their power so carefully going forward.
All of those character elements are, however, dissonant with gameplay that does still rely on rewarding the death of one’s enemies. And unlike Dark Souls or Bloodborne, the world of this game doesn’t necessarily stand in judgment of the protagonists for their failures in that regard. But there’s still immense emotional gratification in watching each character rise above their failures, to come together with other broken people, to heal properly, to face the varied atrocities of the world and find a chosen family at the end of it all.
Fallen Order tries to have its cake and eat it too, giving players the power trip of the best lightsaber combat of this generation of games, while still delivering a deeply introspective journey of forgiveness and recovery along the way, and the twain don’t always meet. Still, that the game is even attempting to thematically go where it does is nigh commendable, and powerful in ways that Star Wars hasn’t been in video game form in over a decade.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by fortyseven communications.
Developer: Respawn Entertainment Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: Xbox One Release Date: November 15, 2019 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Mild Language, Violence Buy: Game
Review: Death Stranding Is a Surreal Elegy to the Work that Binds a Broken America
The most powerful statement the game winds up making is that work is worthwhile, even at the bitter end.
Photo: Sony Interactive Entertainment
“What does America mean to you?” It’s a question that comes somewhat late into Death Stranding, which spends its opening hours repeating that America is a fine place and worth fighting for. In context, it’s a question that emanates from a rather odd place, spoken as it is by a character, Fragile, who’s voiced by Léa Seydoux with her distinctive French lilt. And it’s asked of a man, Sam (Norman Reedus), who’s worshipped in much of the quote-unquote “real” America for his role in its most popular and unsubtly xenophobic television show on basic cable. Finally, it’s being asked in a game spearheaded by Hideo Kojima, that preeminent auteur game designer who will always come at such queries as an outsider. It’s a small, strange, and dissonant moment that would be off-putting and too on the nose if Death Stranding wasn’t a game that revels in strangeness and dissonance like absolutely nothing else in recent memory.
For this writer’s part, as a black man living in the America of the present, of all the complex thoughts I have about my country—good, bad, and indifferent—there’s one obvious and urgent image that instantly came to mind while playing Death Stranding: the moment, precisely three years before the day I loaded up the game, that Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. It isn’t all the nauseating factors, psychosocial and otherwise, that played into the country’s decision that most sticks in my mind. It’s not even my wife’s midnight anxiety attack at the idea of what was to come. It’s the map, specifically CNN’s map of election results by district. It’s about how every major metropolitan area showed up as a deep vein of blue pockmarking a vast, sparse, but undeniable ocean of red. Especially for a black man raised in urban areas, whose blood pressure rises when he’s the only brown face in a room, let alone a town or state, that map was a manifestation of my deepest racial fears. When Fragile asks what America means, my recollection felt inevitable.
It’s with all that in mind that Death Stranding’s version of that map—all in futuristic, neon blue, dotted by white sparkles representing the last remnants of America—is the most frightening thing in the game. But the connective tissue of Death Stranding’s America was devastated by something much more bloodcurdling and coldly efficient than Trump. A dimensional cataclysm—the eponymous Death Stranding—has collided the land of the dead with the land of the living, demolishing the very physics of the world we know. The soil is rotten, the ground has gone black, the sun no longer provides warmth, and the rain ages and kills anything it touches.
Most chilling of all, the dead no longer move on, but become desperate, clawing ghouls whose attempts to reclaim their own flesh can cause atomic explosions called voidouts. Peoples’ main line of defense against them comes from stillborn and premature babies kept alive in pods only because they get fussy when an attack is imminent. Those people who remain alive have huddled into underground cities called Knots, with a few stray doomsday preppers and weird loners still trying to make it out there in the wasteland all on their own, across an American landscape that more closely resembles the alien marshes in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus than amber waves of grain. And it’s all brought to life with a photorealism unparalleled in the medium of games.
Death Stranding represents a rather powerful and unique display of apocalyptic world-building. And yet it’s hard not to get the vague sense of it as a convenient excuse for Kojima to not have to truly build or recognize an America resembling what it currently is, at least not in the way that a game like The Last of Us uses American iconography as its backdrop. But then, unlike most stories of its sort, Death Stranding isn’t really interested in the shorthand verisimilitude of America Without People than the damaged soul beneath. The cursed Earth between cities is truly cursed in this game, and Kojima and his band of developers have evoked rural America as a very real visual nightmare. This is a half-crazed tone poem about an isolated and hostile nation, clinging to concepts of what life means that should no longer matter in the wake of disaster.
To wit, it’s an appropriate, yet still bewildering, choice in the current gaming landscape that Death Stranding is, with all the subtextual flesh boiled off, a postal-service hiking simulator. You play as Sam, a taciturn delivery man, or porter, whose job it is to brave the wasteland on foot, carting supplies, communications, and creature comforts to and from cities and settlements. This is no Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture or Gone Home, though, and as breathtakingly detailed as everything in this game is, that detail is actively the enemy when it comes to the core gameplay. This is a game of constant, real-world concerns: How much can you carry while still being functional enough to walk miles across uneven, ragged terrain? How should you balance yourself? What supplies can you strap on? Will you be able to climb a steep cliff, or should you risk carrying a ladder?
All of those problems are just what players have to deal with in the best of conditions. When it’s less than ideal, the aforementioned rain problem can cause the packages you carry to rust and decay. The dead still float around waiting to take Sam under in chiral matter-heavy areas, and the game’s pedigree as the product of the Metal Gear Solid studio shows here in tense, effective little stretches where players must stealthily maneuver the territory of the dead, while overloaded with cargo, and avoiding the ghosts that scream for your flesh.
Death Stranding is built on complex systems designed to do the sort of simple things that are taken for granted in other games. Unlike something like Red Dead Redemption 2, however, those systems aren’t getting in the way of the action; they are the action. Death Stranding is less about creating a fun experience so much as a gratifying one, a meditative and repetitive proceeding where the satisfaction comes from finding ways to make the process more efficient. The game is never harder than in its first few hours, where Sam is essentially defenseless, and players have no idea how their next steps might affect their cargo.
The more Sam travels, the more he connects and opens up supply lines around the country, and the more comfortable the journey becomes. Scientists and engineers constantly work on ways to help Sam carry more, move faster, and defend himself against the dead. Death Stranding is also a game with a social contract. Taking it online allows players to build structures, leave helpful items, and pour collective resources into infrastructure allowing people to move safely and rapidly around the country. Even more than your average Civilization title, it’s easier here to notice and appreciate how many hands make for light work in America.
Still, if Sam being, essentially, a one-man FedEx wasn’t so deeply tied into the thematic structure of Death Stranding, the man who made his career on military stealth games making his magnum opus based around one-day delivery would feel like the ultimate troll, and it’s a known fact by now that Kojima isn’t above such a thing. But Death Stranding is also forcing players to truly think about the sheer logistical effort involved in a real-world task so commonplace and ubiquitous, something first-world people don’t do nearly often enough. Probably the closest Kojima truly gets to straight-up commentary is a tribe of NPCs made up of former postmen, put out of a job by automation, driven hostile and bitter as the human element of their jobs become suddenly relevant again and the government comes asking for their help. There are big deliveries that advance the story, of course: One city may need medicine and vaccines, while another may need experimental data about the dead things to maybe synthesize weapons. One of the biggest deliveries early on has you secretly delivering an extremely important corpse to an incinerator before it can cause a voidout.
It’s the smaller tasks that give Death Stranding its poignancy. The Stranding resets the hierarchy of needs for America in a hurry, and every delivery has a story—a history, a future, or an immediate deep-seated need. Sam’s journey brings him into contact with an America boiled down to its most basic desires, and they’re quite often heartbreakingly simplistic. It’s simultaneously depressing to posit that we’d need this enormous scale of loss to reach these moments of clarity, but there’s power in the simple human beauty of them.
But, of course, this is a Hideo Kojima game, as the credits are none too shy about reminding us. Dotted across Death Stranding’s every minute are the hallmarks of a director, writer, and designer who hasn’t met a wild urge he hasn’t moved heaven and Earth to indulge. This is, in execution, a game of dissociative identity, one that has a bleak, mournful, and spiritual allegory to tell, but also has a main character named Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins) who wears a skull mask. Sam must drink branded Monster Energy to keep his stamina up. The entire story of Death Stranding is represented in his private room by a tiny diorama of army men. And every big-name director that Kojima admires has a role in the game. It’s absolutely corpulent with explanations, backstories, overlong cutscenes, and granular deep-dives into the science of it all. It’s hard not to stand in awe of the bravado involved in including all that ancillary material, but the game works perfectly fine without it.
As per usual, much of the optional reading material and winking references come across as endearingly nerdy, a sign of sheer passion and enthusiasm for these things than anything else. Much like Quentin Tarantino’s love of anachronistic film music and casting actors long past their heyday in major roles, Kojima has no interest in fully removing players from the mindset that Death Stranding is still a video game, despite couching its presentation in the entirety of cinema’s toolkit, including an impressive and singular collection of Hollywood faces from both sides of the camera in the cast. It’s a game that still includes space for fun and joy within that framework—there are several low-stakes tasks to take on, like delivering beer brewed by hops aged by the rain, and trips to meet comic-relief NPCs, among them Conan O’Brien’s otter cosplayer—and also like Tarantino, Kojima knows when it’s time to put away childish things to lampshade the mood.
But perhaps the most important question that ultimately matters here is what exactly does America mean to Kojima? Death Stranding has no interest in trying to replicate an American viewpoint on the end of America. His is inescapably a Japanese perspective on the matter, a point that becomes more and more blatant as the game’s true plot starts to resemble End of Evangelion more than a Cormac McCarthy novel. The America that Sam treks across is more of an abstract watercolor painting than a photograph, and throughout, Kojima draws on America’s fury. He has minor characters voice the idea that the government screwed it all up, that men need to provide for their families, the foreigners and the robots took our jobs, we lost it all because we lost Jesus, and so on and so forth. He draws on its infinite need for progress, that science is necessary, that marginalized populations matter, and may yet save us, as long as we empower everyone to succeed, without exception.
There are tiny, impactful allegories strewn all over the place in the game, particularly in a running plotline involving a former soldier, Cliff (Mads Mikkelsen), who’s forced to relive every American war in the afterlife. But Kojima’s interest in the minutiae of these things is small, something most egregious in his continued inability to write women outside of staid archetypes. But to his credit, the main female characters here are more nuanced and fascinating than usual for him—something no doubt hammered home by featuring massive talents like Lindsay Wagner, Léa Seydoux, and Margaret Qualley so prominently. But it’s still apparently difficult for Kojima to conceive of women having the same range of involvement in the fabric of America as men, and that weakness is more and more noticeable as the game starts to circle in on its ultimate thesis.
That thesis, as one might expect, is the idea that Americans have more that connects than divides them, which might ring alarm bells about the game possibly being a “both sides” narrative at the worst time in history for that mindset to be valid. But this isn’t a story willing to let everyone off that easily. Despite its problems, Death Stranding is ultimately a game about toil. (There’s a famous Scottish quote about working as if you live in the early days of a better nation that comes to mind here.) This is a game that values your work. It respects the people that each tiny sparkling dot on that cursed map represents, the need of those people to connect with others to survive, and the fact that that space between matters as well. It posits life as crucial and ultimately in service to other life, whether we want to be indebted to others or not. For all of Death Stranding’s surrealness, the most powerful statement it winds up making is that this work is worthwhile, even at the bitter end.
This game was reviewed using a retail PlayStation 4 copy purchased by the reviewer.
Developer: Kojima Productions Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: November 8, 2019 ESRB: M ESRB Descriptions: Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language Buy: Game
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Your trip : LJUBLJANA, POSTOJNA CAVE and PREDJAMA CASTLE
The famous capital city, a stroll through the cave tunnels and the medieval castle are wonders that will not leave you indifferent.
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The picturesque capital city of Slovenia is unique due to the river Ljubljanica, which flows through this medieval city. It is possible to admire the river from many bridges, among which the Triple Bridge is the most popular and striking. We will walk across the Prešeren Square, which is the heart of the city of Ljubljana. Here, stands the statue of the greatest Slovenian poet France Prešeren with his muses. A staircase-like path leads to the Ljubljana castle, which rises above the city and boasts views of Ljubljana and its wider surroundings. Next, there will be a tour of one of the longest Slovenian caves that will impress you with its numerous tunnels, karst stalactites and stalagmites, which you will be able to admire from the tourist train. You will get to know the human fish, which is the most popular animal of the most visited Slovenian cave. In the vicinity of the Postojna Cave we will visit the largest cave castle in the world, which will amaze you with its Renaissance appearance and its museum collection of various preserved items.
Admission to Predjama castle
Admission to Postojna cave
Postojna cave
A journey into the 2 milion old cave with a spectacular interior
Postojna Cave is an impressive cave with global recognisability that has already reached 38 milion visitors in 200 years since it was opened to the public. A wonder happend when the Pivka river threaded its way in underground world and create firstly a cave and later a breathtaking interior with a fantastic web of tunnels, galleries, halls and passages. A picturesque karst phenomena created also an unique natural creations as stalactite, stalagmite, curtains, petrified waterfalls and cave pearls. One of the endless wonders in the cave is also so called »human fish« or »proteus« - a blind animal most notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground habitat.
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A magnificent world-famous castle that cause a fantasy and mysterious feelings
Predjama castle, one of the most picturesque Renaissance castles from 16th century is build on a 123-meter high cliff and has a connection with a mysterious cave system underneath the castle. The dramtic, unconquerable, majestic and mysterious castle is also written in Guinness Book of World Records as the largest cave castle in the world. The interior of castle is today changed into a interesting museum where you can see objects that were found in the castle -chalice, three goblets, cup with a cover, cup, windmill cup, salt cellar and two candlesticks.
Start: Bled end: Ljubljana
Postojna cave 120 min
Predjama Castle 150 min
Ljubljana 19:00
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Governments' carbon tax progress 'slow and piecemeal': OECD
By Cole Latimer
February 16, 2018 — 1.19pm
Carbon taxes are effective at cutting emissions but are not being set high enough to benefit the environment, a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report has found.
The report examined specific taxes on energy use from 2012 to 2015 across 42 OECD countries and six sectors, which represented about 80 per cent of global energy use and carbon emissions. It found current taxation schemes were ineffective.
The OECD has called for more effective carbon taxes and emission pricing schemes. Credit:Wayne Taylor
The Taxing Energy Use report said almost all carbon-focused taxes were too low from an environmental point of view, taxes on coal were close to non-existent, and while road transport energy taxes were higher than other sectors, it was not enough to cover costs.
"Energy taxes continue falling well short of their potential to improve environmental and climate outcomes," the report said.
"Taxes continue to be poorly aligned with environmental and climate costs of energy use, across all countries."
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said the findings were disconcerting.
"Efforts have been made, or are under way, in several jurisdictions to apply the 'polluter-pays' principle, but on the whole progress towards the more effective use of taxes to cut harmful emissions is slow and piecemeal," Mr Gurría said.
"Governments should do more and better."
Federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has previously said the proposed national energy guarantee (NEG) will help reduce emissions from the energy sector.
"The national energy guarantee, recommended by the independent and expert Energy Security Board, is designed to lower electricity prices, make the system more reliable, encourage the right investment and reduce emissions," Mr Frydenberg told Fairfax Media.
"The emissions requirement of the guarantee will contribute to our commitment to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030. It will do so without taxes, subsidies or trading schemes."
While the Australian government ruled out a carbon tax under the NEG, it has used modelling similar to the emissions intensity scheme it rejected. The main difference is it will be electricity retailers and not the generators who will be obligated to account for emissions, shifting the "polluter-pays" responsibility.
The government has also backed international carbon credit trading, allowing the manufacturing, smelting and energy sectors – some of the highest carbon-emitting industries in Australia – to buy carbon credits overseas to reduce their comparative emission levels without investing in higher-priced domestic carbon credits or lower-emissions technology.
The OECD’s Effective Carbon Rates report also found that emissions trading schemes were having little impact on cutting emission levels.
The Productivity Commission has previously called for a "single effective price on carbon" in Australia, stating it is the "proper vehicle" to reduce carbon emissions.
It said a clear carbon price would provide certainty for investment in new energy sources, ensuring future electricity reliability.
Last year, the nation’s greenhouse gas levels rose by 0.7 per cent in the year to June 2017 to 550 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, marking the fourth year in a row of continual emission increases.
States and the federal government are currently at loggerheads over the design of the NEG, which was this week opened up for a first round of public consultation.
Cole Latimer
Covering energy and policy at Fairfax Media.
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Home A Writer's Life You Should Preorder Rhonda Parrish’s Sirens Anthology Now!
You Should Preorder Rhonda Parrish’s Sirens Anthology Now!
Stephanie June 21, 2016 July 11, 2016 A Writer's Life, Book Reviews
Sirens is yet another strong entry into the Rhonda Parrish’s Magical Menagerie series from World Weaver Press. As I’ve said before, I’m not usually one to read anthologies, but I’ve gotten hooked on Parrish’s carefully shaped anthologies. I’ll try not to spoil any of the stories too much for you as I review this latest installment. As a caveat: I was given a free e-ARC of this book for the purpose of writing this review; all opinions are entirely honest and entirely my own.
“Siren Seeking” by Kelly Sandoval plunges us into the world of sirens by asking what a demigod does when she’s done sinking ships. From the clever demigod dating service Elsewhen to the various dates Thelia subjects herself to, it’s a light-hearted story with dark undertones and lovely callbacks to the mythology of the sirens.
“The Fisherman and the Golem” by Amanda Kespohl is a touching story of a lonely young fisherman who impulsively buys a golem at the market. The mystery of the golem kept me intrigued, and Ged’s affection for her despite himself is endearing. This is a great addition to the anthology.
“We Are Sirens” by L.S. Johnson is written in a seductive, breathless, breath-taking first-person-plural point of view, not the royal we, but the we of five souls that sing in harmony. It tells a story of lust and violence and music, hearkening back to age-old myths as it hurtles forward in the present day.
“Moth to an Old Flame” by Pat Flewwelling takes us into London during the Blitz, where one lone siren exists in the maelstrom of world war. Her love for a kind–and deaf–veterinarian inspires Serena to take desperate measures to thwart a god.
“The Bounty” by Gabriel F. Cuellar imagines a new place in the modern world for a supernatural being still angry over Odysseus’ escape. Drawing on the mythology of two traditions, the story weaves a tale of hunger and justice.
“The Dolphin Riders” by Randall G. Arnold is a fascinating glimpse into an Earth struck by natural disaster, seen through the eyes of Roberto. Only Roberto, of all the school-aged survivors, is willing to venture out onto the sea that so recently ravaged their homes. Only Roberto sees the dolphin riders. A story of two cultures with a long and painful history, it asks what future humans will strive for.
“Is This Seat Taken” by Michael Leonberger grabs the reader and drags you deeper and deeper into the mind of a bored, frustrated Washington, D.C., military contract analyst. When he sees a beautiful woman on the Metro, it’s only the beginning of a suffocating journey into nightmarish obsession.
The placement of “Nautilus” by V.F. LeSann proves once again Parrish’s skills as an anthologist. Following the subterranean “Is This Seat Taken,” LeSann hurtles us into outer space on a rescue mission. Nautilus is a self-aware, emotionally intelligent research vessel with a human-shaped avatar. Carrying a tiny crew of humans who don’t fully understand Nautilus, the ship ventures through space storms into a nebula in search of a missing fellow research ship. A beautiful look at desire, longing, and artificial intelligence, “Nautilus” ended up being one of my favorite stories in the anthology.
Another anthology favorite is “Siren’s Odyssey” by Tamsin Showbrook. Told in alternating points of view, the story is a poignant and gritty look at a life-changing encounter between Aahleis, a siren, and Hannah, a human drug-addict living on the streets. When Aahleis chooses Hannah to feed on, she’s in for a big surprise. There are hints of a well-developed world outside this short story, and I look forward to reading more stories about these characters. (Note: Come back in a couple of weeks for a great guest post by Tamsin!)
Simon Kewin takes us back to space, where a woman seeks healing from a failed relationship in “Safe Waters.” At Atlantis Resort, humans can have their consciousness implanted in artificial bodies–whales, seahorses, even mermaids. But are the waters really as safe as the resort promises?
I must admit, “Notefisher” by Cat McDonald is not my usual kind of fare. There’s an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to the story, blurring the lines between illusion and reality as the narrator attends a music and art festival, aimlessly wandering through his days and spending the nights with drug-induced hallucinations. The themes of creativity and hope carry the reader through the story, juxtaposed beautifully with fear and depression.
“Experience” by Sandra Wickham takes us to a modern-day siren who has chosen a life as house entertainment on a cruise ship. But when old responsibilities come knocking and deliver an ultimatum–serve the Goddess or lose your powers–she must find a way to balance her past with her future.
“Threshold” by K.T. Ivanrest takes the concept of deadly sirens luring men to their death and turns it neatly on its head. The terrifying Between, creatures whose attacks are preceded by alluring songs of courage and battle, are a threat to humankind. Navrin is about to make his first Between kill, which will mark him as a man. But the kill goes terribly wrong, and his five-year-old sister is lost across the threshold of their realm and another. Navrin and his step-brother must journey across the border, and they will face tests and learn secrets that might just repair their broken relationship.
“The Fisherman’s Catch” by Adam L. Bealby takes us into a gruesome game of oneupsmanship, as two fishermen constantly try to outdo each other. Written in an engaging first-person voice, it made me shudder.
“One More Song” by Eliza Chan is a gorgeous fantasy/noir story about Mira, a siren PI in a semi-submerged alternate world where sea people are “out” to humanity. It has such a great blend of complex world-building and subtle social commentary that I found myself hoping there are more stories set in this world. From kappas to water dragons, from sirens to sleazy businessmen, this story is full of three-dimensional characters, so I’m sure there are more stories just waiting to be told.
And as a fitting ending to the collection, “Homecoming” by Tabitha Lord takes us back to the mythical days of Penelope and Odysseus and Kalypso, giving the old story of the faithful wife a delicious new twist.
This is the fifth of Rhonda Parrish’s anthologies I’ve reviewed, and the fourth in her Magical Menageries stories. If all anthologies were so well-curated and themed, I would read a lot more short fiction. As it is, I’ve reached the point where I will happily plunk down my money for anything Parrish edits.
In short, go out right now and pre-order Sirens!
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My Girlfriend is a Villain
Nito no Taidana Isekai Shoukougun: Saijaku Shoku "Healer" nano ni Saikyou wa Cheat desu ka?
I Have a Dragon in my Body
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n the big city, drug crimes run rampant. Eto Kai and Kurabayashi Haru are two newcomer investigators who fight against them. In order to save the people from modern society, poisoned with drugs, the two turn to face an invisible enemy... (manganews.net) Volume 2 also contains Bonus Manga Volume 6 also contains two extra stories: Early Days (about Kajiyama, Hiki and Narita, 10 years earlier) Bonus Feature (It's Valentine's Day at the NCD!)
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Multi-pronged ‘Intelligence’ harassment on CBOs, local NGOs in Batticaloa
[TamilNet, Monday, 26 June 2017, 21:41 GMT]
Officers of the occupying Sinhala military intelligence are again harassing the Community Based Organisations and local Non Governmental Organisations that have been assisting the war-affected and poverty-stricken families in the rural areas of Batticaloa district. On Friday an event organised by a local NGO, Akam, was suspended at Thannaamunai village located 5 km north of Batticaloa city, NGO circles in Batticaloa said. The District Coordinator of Akam was almost interrogated by the visiting Ea'raavoor Police and Military Intelligence officers of occupying Colombo. The event scheduled to distribute assistance to beneficiaries from Thannaamunai village was cancelled at the last minute due to repeated harassment from the ‘interrogators’ on Friday.
The organisation Akam has been involved in providing humanitarian assistance to residents of Thannaa-munai since 2012.
Some time back, Special Task Force (STF) commandos were ‘visiting’ the coordinating body of the NGOs in Batticaloa, I'naiyam. The STF personnel were asking for the details of those employed in various NGOs and CBOs in the district. The NGO coordinators at the office demanded a request in writing in order to supply the details being sought by the STF.
Apart from Police and Military intelligence and the STF, National Intelligence Bureau investigators, calling themselves as ‘civil intelligence officers’ were also harassing the NGOs and CBOs in the district.
While there is a Government Agent and other civil mechanisms to look after the affairs of the CBOs and NGOs, why military intelligence is interfering in all the activities, ask Tamil relief workers in the district.
The SL Police is also harassing the participants of the NGO activities. The freedom of organisation is heavily restricted in the Tamil areas, they say.
The latest reports of military harassments against independent mobilisation of assistance and relief work also comes as a ministry led by Mano Ganesan from Western Province was attempting to control the coordination of NGOs and CBOs in the district.
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Sky Sports pundit tips Leeds star to ‘make it at the very top’
Date published: Tuesday 17th December 2019 3:03
Sky Sports pundit Jobi McAnuff expects Leeds defender Ben White to ‘make it at the very top’ after his incredible loan spell at Elland Road.
The 22-year-old has become a fan favourite at Leeds, quickly establishing himself in the first team after his loan move from Brighton and Hove Albion.
White has been pivotal in Leeds’ excellent start to the season, reportedly turning the head’s of some of the Premier League’s big-boys including Chelsea and Liverpool.
Untied have the best defensive record in the Championship, only conceding 13 goals in 22 outings.
McAnuff puts a lot of Leeds’ defensive success down to the formidable partnership of White and Liam Cooper.
Speaking on the Sky Sports EFL Podcast, McAnuff said: “I’m going for Ben White [as the best young player in the Championship].
“He’s another young, really exciting talent.
“He’s got all aspects to his game. He doesn’t mind a tackle, he reads it really well and has the composure to find that pass and really get Leeds on the go.”
Jobi went on to say White had the potential to play at the very top level but he must keep his feet on the ground.
“Well you look at John Stones, for example, for me that’s the next step for him; getting a move or going back to Brighton and possibly playing there, proving himself at the top level.
“He’s got all the ingredients to go and do it, that’s for sure.”
White has been part of a defence that has kept 12 clean sheets, four more than any other team in the Championship this year.
United fans were delighted to hear that Brighton manager Graham Potter was not thinking of re-calling the defender in the January window despite his fantastic league form.
Leeds come up against Fulham on Saturday as they look to bounce back from their second-half collapse against Cardiff at the weekend.
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— James Marshment (@marshyleeds) December 15, 2019
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“Conductor” Gene Discovered in Plant Root Stem Cell “Orchestra”
News Dec 09, 2019 | Original story from North Carolina State University
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have lifted the veil on the “conductor” plant root stem cell gene that helps orchestrate and coordinate stem cell division of different root stem cell types, ensuring the harmonic communication necessary for plant growth and maintenance.
Ross Sozzani, an NC State associate professor of plant and microbial biology and corresponding author of the paper, says that the conductor behind this communication – which is critical to key aspects of plant development, including plant cell division, proliferation and differentiation – is a gene called TCX2, which is present in all the different plant root stem cells.
Like an orchestra with its various component instruments working together to create beautiful music, plant root stem cells work within various networks to perform various functions. TCX2 ensures that these local networks communicate with each other, similar to an orchestra conductor making sure that horns, for example, don’t drown out the violins.
The interdisciplinary research included molecular biology experiments in Arabadopsis thaliana, or mustard weed, as well as mathematical modeling and machine learning approaches to narrow down some 3,000 candidate genes to learn about the causal relationships between different root stem cell networks.
“We saw that TCX2 was able to target different stem cell genes in different stem cell networks and regulate their functional timing,” Sozzani said.
To validate the network prediction and mathematical modeling, the researchers took an experimental approach. They both overexpressed and knocked out the TCX2 gene and found that the timing of plant root stem cell division suffered. Sozzani and Natalie Clark, the paper’s first author and a former NC State biomathematics graduate student, likened this to the principle behind the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – the porridge was acceptable only when its temperature was “just right.”
Sozzani said that future work will use these findings and 3D bioprinting to learn more about building better plants.
“We can physically change the position or number of these root stem cells and see how those changes help or harm this harmonic system,” she said. “If you wanted to help a plant become more drought tolerant, for example, how do you build more vascular tissue which is important for that function? 3D bioprinting allows us to test this by positioning stem cells in desired spatial arrangements.”
Clark et al. (2019) Stem-cell-ubiquitous genes spatiotemporally coordinate division through regulation of stem-cell-specific gene networks. Nature Communications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13132-2
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A Conversation with Andreas Wuerfel
Posted by Brian Daly September 15, 2017 in Accelerators, METRO
This week, we welcomed 10 new teams into the METRO Accelerator for Hospitality, Powered by Techstars family. As per usual, the METRO events team found a uniquely fitting venue to cater the occasion.
We were hosted in B.HORN, a cool little restaurant bar in Neukölln, an up and coming and exciting part of Berlin.
I caught up with Andreas Wuerfel, the CEO of HoReCa Digital Inc to chat about what HoReCa Digital and METRO are doing in the world of startups. Andreas is the guy who is responsible for building the alumni support community around the METRO Accelerator programs.
These 10 new Hospitality focused startups are joining the fourth class of the METRO Accelerator and Techstars partnership.
We now have two separate programs together with METRO in Berlin. One for retail, which just finished its first class last week and a program for hospitality, which just kicked off.
METRO and Techstars have made investments in over 40 companies in the HoReCa (Hotel/Restaurant/Catering) space. For them, it’s “the ability to have conversations early on” with their customers to find out what technologies they need to succeed and to really help build out the next wave of platforms that will manage the world of hotels, restaurants and catering.
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After months of collecting, comparing and making sense of investor data in Europe, we are shipping the latest version of our Investors in Europe map, but this time with a twist….
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With thanks to our friends at DHL Innovation Center, we’re mailing this map to 1,000 companies throughout Europe, including all the VCs featured and to as many incubators, accelerators and Startup Hubs we can find.
This map represents the VC landscape of European investors investing in European companies from Seed stage to Series B. The list of investors has been stored in a very simple Google spreadsheet which can be seen, used and shared here.
How to Use the Map
The size of the circles on the map represents the number of VCs in a particular location and the colour of the circles represent the amount of capital raised by startups who are based in these locations and ecosystems.
What does the data tell us?
“The only places that a startup can go on a fundraising road trip in Europe is in London and Berlin” – Pawel Chudzinski, Point Nine Capital
Pawel said this on a panel he was speaking on at FounderCon (Techstars alumni event) in June. I believe he was referring to startups raising larger Seed and Series A rounds and were looking to travel to meet investors with deeper pockets!
We’ve counted 321 VCs in Europe investing at Seed Stage with 59 located in London, 32 in Berlin, 19 in Paris, 16 in Barcelona and 13 in Stockholm.
When it comes to Series A, we’ve got 256 VCs in Europe writing cheques. Again, London is coming out on top with 62 VCs followed by Berlin with 24, Paris with 18, Amsterdam with 17 and Munich with 15.
For later stage growth capital, we’ve identified 111 Series B investors fueling the next generation of great internet companies. Where do you think they are based? You guessed it; again, London comes out on top with 36 Series B VCs, Berlin next with 13, followed by Paris with 12, Munich with 10 and Stockholm with five.
The Legacy of London and the Rise of Paris and Berlin
Just looking at the map, the first thing you’ll notice is how big the investor and startup ecosystem is in London. It’s hands down bigger than anywhere else, with the most amount of activity in previous years. It will be interesting to monitor this over the next couple of years to see if there are any major changes in how/where startups are raising capital, and whether or not London remains the capital in the European startup ecosystem.
We’ve seen a huge rise of activity in Berlin and Paris and the ever growing strength of the Nordics. And on top of that, throwing in the knock on effects to come from Brexit into the mix.
What do you think is going to change? Leave comments in the comment section below, we would love to hear your thoughts!
Note: European startups continue to raise capital from the U.S. The following infographic from Dealroom shows the source of VC funding by rounds size and the percentage contribution from each country.
With the help of Dealroom’s data, we’ve identified €23.8B that has been invested in European startups since 2014 from early stage investments to later stage, growth rounds.
For early stage startups, it’s definitely possible to raise angel / seed money from local investors, in most places in Europe. Use the map and the Google Sheet to find out who’s in your neighbourhood and who’s investing at your stage and in your sector. For larger Seed rounds and Series A – you might need to jump on a plane and go visit VCs in London or Berlin, or if you’re from the Nordics, take a trip to Stockholm or Helsinki.
All throughout Europe you can find money and VCs, but in terms of writing cheques, VCs in London, Berlin and Paris are standing out.
Perhaps this comes down to fewer successful founders in these other areas, which usually means less investment money in the ecosystem. Perhaps we’re still suffering from a more conservative approach to investment in Europe, but I’m sure mindsets are going to change over the next five years or so as a new generation of investors emerge and as companies successfully return money to their investors.
A big thanks again to Dealroom and Tech.eu who’ve been incredibly helpful when it comes to putting more data behind our research project. They really helped us bring this map to the next level, showing trends in the European tech scene over the last couple of years.
A very special thank you to Scurri whose platform made it very simple to organise and manage the fleet of 1,000 shipments across Europe. And finally, last but certainly not least, a very big thank you to the DHL Innovation Center and the DHL Trend Research team who got excited about shipping this map all over Europe and wanted to be part of it.
They’re based near DHL HQ in Bonn, Germany, dealing with topics such as AR, Robots, and Self-Driving Vehicles, and if you’re in that part of the world, reach out to them and go visit their super cool facility.
If you’re a VC and we’ve missed you on the map and sheet, please feel free to leave comments on the Google Sheet here. We’ll look into your company and will add you as soon as possible.
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Techstars’ Digital ‘Investors in Europe’ Map
Posted by Brian Daly June 30, 2016 in Accelerators, Berlin, Europe, Funding, Resources
Today we invite you to check out the digital version of our ‘Investors in Europe’ map, helping you find VCs who invest in European startups. A big thanks to Dealroom for helping us digitize the work we started last year, making useful European Investor information even more accessible to entrepreneurs and investors all over the world.
You can check out the digital map here.
Note that it also includes some U.S. and other investors located in different parts of the world who also invest in the European startups.
At the end of last year we published a large amount of data on the VC scene in Europe. At the time we had up to date information on just over 300 VCs investing in European companies. We got this data from our own networks, demo days and events that we’ve run. We stored it in this public Google Sheet and gave everyone comment rights. We launched it alongside a rich infographic map that visually represented where these VCs in Europe are located.
Version 1 of our Investors in Europe Map. Version 2 coming soon.
VCs all over the world responded incredibly well and were super eager to update their information. Those who we missed, got in touch to get on the Google sheet and map and the whole community got behind us and pushed it out into their networks.
This was our first step to liberating useful data for startups and investors in the European tech ecosystem. We want to Give First and help startups and investors save time by doing some of that research for them. Right now you can go to the Google sheet, make a copy and filter the sheet to find relevant investors for your needs.
With the outreach from the community and from doing some deeper research, we’ve now identified over 501+ Investors investing in European startups.
Digital Version of our Investors in Europe Map
According to Dealroom, since 2014 startups in Europe have raised €23B+ with a whopping €17B+ raised in London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Tel Aviv. This really goes to show where the money is and where deals are being done.
The top five cities in which investors have offices in Europe according to our research are as follows:
You can find the Google sheet of included investors here. We’re always looking for VCs we’ve missed, so if you spot one missing, please let us know.
We’re very thankful to Dealroom who’ve produced a digital version of this map and have hosted it on the Techstars domain. You can find it over at https://map.techstars.com/map.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you as a startup to identify potential investors in specific regions with certain sector focuses and for you as an investor to identify other investors for potential collaborations or to do a competitor analysis.
Version 2 is Coming
Version 2 of the investor map will be a landscape map focusing on Europe and Israel and will show the number of VCs (size of the circles) in each city and how much funding startups in each city have raised (color of the circles) since 2014.
We are printing it and sending it to the 501+ investors who are on the map and to every coworking space, incubator, accelerator and hubs that host startups in Europe.
If you fall into one of these subsets and would like a printed map sent to you, let us know over here.
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Analysts expect that First Business Financial Services Inc (NASDAQ:FBIZ) will report $22.79 million in sales for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for First Business Financial Services’ earnings. The lowest sales estimate is $22.70 million and the highest is $22.87 million. First Business Financial Services reported sales of $21.76 million during the same quarter last year, which indicates a positive year over year growth rate of 4.7%. The company is expected to issue its next quarterly earnings report on Thursday, January 23rd.
On average, analysts expect that First Business Financial Services will report full-year sales of $90.25 million for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $90.00 million to $90.49 million. For the next year, analysts anticipate that the company will report sales of $94.97 million, with estimates ranging from $94.93 million to $95.00 million. Zacks’ sales calculations are an average based on a survey of research firms that that provide coverage for First Business Financial Services.
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First Business Financial Services (NASDAQ:FBIZ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 24th. The financial services provider reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.52 by $0.07. First Business Financial Services had a return on equity of 11.60% and a net margin of 17.75%. The business had revenue of $22.57 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $22.80 million.
FBIZ has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. DA Davidson reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of First Business Financial Services in a report on Monday, November 18th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of First Business Financial Services from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, November 21st. Finally, ValuEngine downgraded shares of First Business Financial Services from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, August 8th.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC raised its position in shares of First Business Financial Services by 1,849.0% during the 3rd quarter. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC now owns 1,949 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $47,000 after purchasing an additional 1,849 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in shares of First Business Financial Services during the 2nd quarter valued at about $118,000. Rhumbline Advisers boosted its position in shares of First Business Financial Services by 9.7% during the 3rd quarter. Rhumbline Advisers now owns 12,656 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $305,000 after purchasing an additional 1,122 shares in the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can grew its stake in shares of First Business Financial Services by 6.8% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 13,636 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $320,000 after purchasing an additional 867 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Millennium Management LLC grew its stake in shares of First Business Financial Services by 48.0% in the 3rd quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 15,142 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $364,000 after purchasing an additional 4,912 shares during the last quarter. 64.77% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
FBIZ stock traded down $0.44 on Friday, reaching $24.54. 7,879 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 12,248. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $24.61 and a 200-day moving average of $23.77. The firm has a market cap of $214.56 million, a PE ratio of 13.19 and a beta of 0.84. The company has a quick ratio of 1.17, a current ratio of 1.18 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.80. First Business Financial Services has a twelve month low of $18.76 and a twelve month high of $25.92.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, November 14th. Investors of record on Monday, November 4th were issued a $0.15 dividend. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.44%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, November 1st. First Business Financial Services’s dividend payout ratio is currently 32.26%.
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Dishonored 2 Builds a Compelling World Where Lots of Cool Women Live, Which Somehow Still Isn’t the Norm
By Anita SarkeesianNov 21st, 2016, 1:16 pm
Editor’s note: This review originally appeared on Feminist Frequency and is reposted here with permission.
For all of its immensely enjoyable stealth and combat mechanics and its terrific assortment of powers and abilities, the original Dishonored failed its female characters in a big way. With Dishonored 2, it’s clear that the developers heard these criticisms, crafting a game in which women populate all walks of life, while also improving on the original’s core gameplay, with an even richer variety of abilities to employ and situations to tackle.
It’s been 15 years since the events of Dishonored, and the young Emily Kaldwin, daughter of the murdered Empress, is now a reluctant Empress herself, doubtful of her own abilities as leader and weary of the superficial traditions of courtly life. She has little time to lament her plight, though, as the witch Delilah organizes a new plot to usurp the throne, launching a coup that casts Emily from power. At this point, you can choose to play either as Emily or as her father and protector Corvo, and your choice has a significant impact both on the abilities you have at your disposal and on the way the story plays out.
In fact, Dishonored 2’s greatest strength may be the versatility it offers you as a player, and the way the world adapts in response to your actions. I opted to play as Emily, of course, and embraced a high-chaos approach, getting plenty of blood on my hands as I cut down the many guards who got in my way. However you approach the game, the action is tight, precise, and satisfying, though if you do take the lethal approach, the violence is disturbingly, often unnecessarily graphic. Still, I appreciated that people view you and treat you differently depending on your actions; if you’re ruthless, people are less inclined to trust you, and some feel betrayed to see you using the very methods of violence and brutality that your mother refused to employ when she was empress.
More enticing than the game’s narrative flexibility is its gameplay flexibility. Because each mission can be tackled in such a diverse assortment of ways and the level design encourages experimentation, this is the rare game that actually left me feeling eager to play through it again, wanting to try different paths and approaches to each mission, going for non-lethal solutions instead of brutal ones.
While the original Dishonored allowed you to take a nonlethal approach as well, the powers at your disposal were heavily skewed toward the murderous. Dishonored 2 improves on its predecessor in this regard, letting you choose from a wider assortment of abilities tailored to a nonlethal approach. And as you progress from mission to mission, new wrinkles are introduced that change up the gameplay. In one area, for instance, you can shift between the past and the present, using this to find new pathways and to get the drop on unsuspecting enemies. Concepts like this are hardly new to video games, but the way they’re implemented here keeps you on your toes and prevents missions from feeling standard or predictable.
You’ll also want to return to Dishonored 2’s world because the wonderful richness and diversity of its environments makes them a joy to explore. From the storm-ridden dilapidation of the Dust District to the mechanical elegance of the Clockwork Mansion, this is a world that feels dense with history, and I actually found myself wanting to examine every painting and rummage in every drawer to uncover its secrets.
So Dishonored 2 excels at worldbuilding, incredibly so, but unfortunately, it’s considerably less successful at crafting a compelling story. There are some great moments in Emily’s character arc as the story progresses, and she recognizes that, by ruling as an empress who was detached from the real concerns of her people, she sometimes unwittingly perpetuated oppression by allowing unjust rulers to remain in power. But the quality of the dialogue and voice acting are inconsistent, and at times become bad enough to pull you out of the world. Meanwhile, the overarching plot is entirely the stuff of typically mediocre video game storytelling, populated with cliche character types we’ve encountered a dozen times before. But letters and other scraps of writing scattered throughout the world can enrich your understanding of your allies and your enemies, lending them a bit of humanity and complexity that the game’s story otherwise fails to convey.
The world of Dishonored 2 is also far better for women than that of the original game, and not just because you can play as Emily. In the first game, women existed largely as victims, servants, and sex workers, who communicated to the player that the misogyny and patriarchy they lived under was bad, but by failing to resist or challenge it, they also reinforced the idea that it was inevitable. Dishonored 2 is filled with women as both allies and enemy combatants, as well as women in positions of leadership and political power.
For the most part, this is great. But unfortunately, the villain Delilah is the weakest aspect of the game, embodying the trope of the sinister seductress to a T, with her sultry speech and her sexualized clothing and animations. However, Dishonored 2 manages to be excellent in spite of its disappointing antagonist and a narrative that often falls back on video game storytelling conventions. It’s easier to forgive these flaws when you consider just how captivating a world this game creates, a world that allows for so much freedom and versatility, a world with such a rich sense of history, a world filled with women virtuous and evil, kind and cunning, poor and powerful.
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Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact
Trump and Russia
From accusations of Trump campaign collusion to Russian Facebook ad buys, the media has substituted hype for evidence.
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In her new campaign memoir, What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she has followed “every twist and turn of the story,” and “read everything I could get my hands on,” concerning Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election. “I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack,” she writes.
Clinton has had a lot to take in. Since Election Day, the controversy over alleged Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion has consumed Washington and the national media. Yet nearly one year later there is still no concrete evidence of its central allegations. There are claims by US intelligence officials that the Russian government hacked e-mails and used social media to help elect Donald Trump, but there has yet to be any corroboration. Although the oft-cited January intelligence report “uses the strongest language and offers the most detailed assessment yet,” The Atlantic observed that “it does not or cannot provide evidence for its assertions.” Noting the “absence of any proof” and “hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack,” The New York Times concluded that the intelligence community’s message “essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’” That remains the case today.
The same holds for the question of collusion. Officials acknowledged to Reuters in May that “they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia in the communications reviewed so far.” Well-placed critics of Trump—including former DNI chief James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Morrell, Representative Maxine Waters, and Senator Dianne Feinstein—concur to date.
Recognizing this absence of evidence helps examine what has been substituted in its place. Shattered, the insider account of the Clinton campaign, reports that “in the days after the election, Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss.” Instead, one source recounted, aides were ordered “to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way.” Within 24 hours of Clinton’s concession speech, top officials gathered “to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up.… Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
But the focus on Russia has utility far beyond the Clinton camp. It dovetails with elements of state power that oppose Trump’s call for improved relations with Moscow and who are willing to deploy a familiar playbook of Cold War fearmongering to block any developments on that front. The multiple investigations and anonymous leaks are also a tool to pacify an erratic president whose anti-interventionist rhetoric—by all indications, a ruse—alarmed foreign-policy elites during the campaign. Corporate media outlets driven by clicks and ratings are inexorably drawn to the scandal. The public is presented with a real-life spy thriller, which for some carries the added appeal of possibly undoing a reviled president and his improbable victory.
These imperatives have incentivized a compromised set of journalistic and evidentiary standards. In Russiagate, unverified claims are reported with little to no skepticism. Comporting developments are cherry-picked and overhyped, while countervailing ones are minimized or ignored. Front-page headlines advertise explosive and incriminating developments, only to often be undermined by the article’s content, or retracted entirely. Qualified language—likely, suspected, apparent—appears next to “Russians” to account for the absence of concrete links. As a result, Russiagate has enlarged into a storm of innuendo that engulfs issues far beyond its original scope.
The latest two stories about alleged Trump campaign collusion were initially received as smoking guns. But upon further examination, they may actually undermine that narrative. One was news that Trump had signed a non-binding letter of intent to license his name for a proposed building in Moscow as he ran for the White House. Russian-born developer Felix Sater predicted to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that the deal would help Trump win the presidency. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater wrote, believing that voters would be impressed that Trump could make a real-estate deal with the United States’ “most difficult adversary.” The New York Times describes the outcome:
There is no evidence in the emails that Mr. Sater delivered on his promises, and one email suggests that Mr. Sater overstated his Russian ties. In January 2016, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had stalled. But Mr. Cohen did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries.
The project never got government permits or financing, and died weeks later.
Peskov has confirmed he ended up seeing the e-mail from Cohen, but did not bother to respond. The story does raise a potential conflict of interest: Trump pursued a Moscow deal as he praised Putin on the campaign trial. But it is hard to see how a deal that never got off the ground is of more importance than actual deals Trump made in places like Turkey, the Philippines, and the Persian Gulf. If anything, the story should introduce skepticism into whether any collusion took place: The deal failed, and Trump’s lawyer did not even have an e-mail address for his Russian counterparts.
The revelation of Sater’s e-mails to Cohen followed the earlier controversy of Rob Goldstone offering Donald Trump Jr. incriminating information on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” Goldstone’s e-mail was more fruitful than Sater’s in that it yielded a meeting, albeit one that Trump Jr. claims he abandoned after 20 minutes. Those who deem the Sater-Goldstone e-mail chains incriminating or even treasonous should be reminded of their provenance: Sater is known as “a canny operator and a colorful bullshitter” who has “launched a host of crudely named websites—including IAmAFaggot.com and VaginaBoy.com… to attack a former business partner.” Meanwhile, Goldstone is a British tabloid journalist turned music publicist. One does not have to be an intelligence expert to doubt that they are Kremlin cut-outs.
Then there is Facebook’s disclosure that fake accounts “likely operated out of Russia” paid $100,000 for 3,000 ads starting in June 2015. The New York Times editorial board described it as “further evidence of what amounted to unprecedented foreign invasion of American democracy.” A $100,000 Facebook ad buy seems unlikely to have had much impact in a $6.8 billion election. According to Facebook, “the vast majority of ads…didn’t specifically reference the US presidential election, voting or a particular candidate” but rather focused “on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum—touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.” Facebook also says the majority of ads, 56 percent, were seen “after the election.” The ads have not been released publicly. But by all indications, if they were used to try to elect Trump, their sponsors took a very curious route.
The ads are commonly described as “Russian disinformation,” but in the most extensive reporting on the story to date, The Washington Post adds multiple qualifiers in noting that the ads “appear to have come from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency,” itself a Kremlin-linked firm (emphasis added).
The Post also reveals that an initial Facebook review of the suspected Russian accounts found that they “had clear financial motives, which suggested that they weren’t working for a foreign government.” Furthermore, “the security team did not find clear evidence of Russian disinformation or ad purchases by Russian-linked accounts.” But Russiagate logic requires a unique response to absent evidence: “The sophistication of the Russian tactics caught Facebook off-guard.”
The Post adds how Russian “sophistication” was overcome:
As Facebook struggled to find clear evidence of Russian manipulation, the idea was gaining credence in other influential quarters.
In the electrified aftermath of the election, aides to Hillary Clinton and Obama pored over polling numbers and turnout data, looking for clues to explain what they saw as an unnatural turn of events.
One of the theories to emerge from their post-mortem was that Russian operatives who were directed by the Kremlin to support Trump may have taken advantage of Facebook and other social media platforms to direct their messages to American voters in key demographic areas in order to increase enthusiasm for Trump and suppress support for Clinton.
These former advisers didn’t have hard evidence that Russian trolls were using Facebook to micro-target voters in swing districts—at least not yet—but they shared their theories with the House and Senate intelligence committees, which launched parallel investigations into Russia’s role in the presidential campaign in January.
The theories paid off. A personal visit in May by Democratic Senator Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, “spurred the company to make some changes in how it conducted its internal investigation.” Facebook’s announcement in August of finding 3,000 “likely” Russian ads is now an ongoing “scandal” that has dragged the company before Congressional committees.
Other election threats loom. A recent front-page New York Times article linking Russian cyber operations to voting irregularities across the United States is headlined, “Russian Election Hacking Efforts, Wider Than Previously Known, Draw Little Scrutiny.” But read on and you’ll discover that there is no evidence of “Russian election hacking,” only evidence-free accusations of it. Voting problems in Durham, North Carolina, “felt like tampering, or some kind of cyberattack,” election monitor Susan Greenhalgh says, and “months later…questions still linger about what happened that day in Durham as well as other counties in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Arizona.” There is one caveat: “There are plenty of other reasons for such breakdowns—local officials blamed human error and software malfunctions—and no clear-cut evidence of digital sabotage has emerged, much less a Russian role in it.”
The evidence-free concern over Russian hacking expanded in late September when the Department of Homeland Security informed 21 states that they had been targeted by Russian cyber-operations during the 2016 election. But three states have already dismissed the DHS claims, including California, which announced that after seeking “further information, it became clear that DHS’s conclusions were wrong.”
Recent elections in France and Germany saw similar fears of Russian hacking and disinformation—and similar results. In France, a hack targeting the campaign of election winner Emmanuel Macron ended up having “no trace,” of Russian involvement, and “was so generic and simple that it could have been practically anyone,” the head of French cyber-security quietly explained after the vote. Germany faced an even more puzzling outcome: Nothing happened. “The apparent absence of a robust Russian campaign to sabotage the German vote has become a mystery among officials and experts who had warned of a likely onslaught,” the Post reported in an article headlined “As Germans prepare to vote, a mystery grows: Where are the Russians?” The mystery was so profound that The New York Times also explored it days later: “German Election Mystery: Why No Russian Meddling?”
Following this evidentiary praxis, Russia can be blamed for matters far beyond Western elections. After the recent white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, foreign-policy consultant Molly McKew issued a widely circulated appeal on Twitter: “We need to have a conversation about what is happening today in Charlottesville & Russian influence, and operations, in the United States.” (McKew recently testified at a US government hearing on “The Scourge of Russian Disinformation.”)
Writing for CNN, Yale Law School’s Asha Rangappa asserted that Charlottesville “highlighted again the problem of Russia.” Sure, Rangappa concedes, “there is no evidence to date that Russia is directly supporting extreme right groups in the United States.” But Russian government ties to the European far-right “when viewed through the lens of Trump’s response to Charlottesville, suggests an opening for Russian intelligence to use domestic hate groups as a vehicle for escalating their active measures inside the United States.”
Linking Russia to right-wing American racists contrasts with just a few months prior, when it was fashionable to tie Russia to the polar opposites. In March, intelligence-community witnesses soberly testified to Congress that Russia’s “21st-century cyber invasion” has “tried to sow unrest in the U.S. by inflaming protests such as Occupy Wall Street and the Black Lives Matter movement.” The evidence presented for this claim was that both movements were covered by the Russian state-owned television network RT.
Russian-linked tweets about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice show the Russians “trying to push divisiveness in this country,” says Republican Senator James Lankford. A Russian-linked ad about Black Lives Matter aimed at audiences in Ferguson and Baltimore “tells us…that the Russians who bought these ads were sophisticated enough to understand that targeting a Black Lives Matter ad to the communities…would help sow political discord.… the goal here was really about creating chaos,” says CNN reporter Dylan Byers.
But this story might actually tell us a lot more about the attitudes of pundits and lawmakers towards their audiences. On top of the 3,000 ads identified by Facebook, Twitter has now informed Congress of around 200 accounts “linked to Russian interference in the 2016 election.” Twitter has 328 million users. To suggest 200 accounts out of 328 million could have had an impact is as much an insult to common sense as it is to basic math. It also suggests Black Lives Matter protesters in places like Ferguson and Baltimore were unwitting foreign agents who needed Russian social-media prodding to march in the streets. To protest racism is not to sow “chaos” and “political discord,” but to protest racism.
Because the ads may have originated in Russia, it is widely taken for granted that they were part of an alleged Russian government plot. Few have considered a different scenario, pointed out by the journalist Max Blumenthal, that the ads could have been like those from any other troll farm: clickbait to attract page views.
Some who focus on Russiagate may be acting from the real fear and disorientation that follows from the victory of the most unqualified and unpredictable president in history. But those who partake, particularly those in positions of privilege, should consider that Russiagate offers them a safe and anodyne way to “Resist.” For privileged Americans to challenge Trump mainly over Russia is to do so in a way that avoids confronting their own relationship to the economic and political system that many of his voters rebelled against. “If the presidency is effectively a Russian op, if the American presidency right now is the product of collusion between the Russian intelligence services and an American campaign,” to borrow a scenario posed by Rachel Maddow, then there is nothing else to confront.
But economic discontent, along with voter suppression, the Democratic Party’s failures to reach voters, and corporate media that gave endless attention to Trump’s empty promises and racial animus, are among the issues cast aside by the incessant focus on Russigate, as are the very real US-Russia tensions that do not fit the narrative. Amid widespread talk of Putin pulling the strings, Trump has quietly appointed anti-Russia hawks to key posts and admitted a new NATO member over Russian objections. Trump’s top military commander, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is backing an effort by the Pentagon and Congress to arm Ukraine with new weapons. President Obama had rejected a similar proposal out of fear it would inflame the country’s deadly conflict. Just before Russia’s recent war games with allied Belarus, the United States and NATO allies carried out their “biggest military exercise in eastern Europe since the Cold War” right next door.
These tensions only stand to worsen in a political climate in which diplomacy with Russia is seen as a weakness, and in which challenging it through sanctions and militarism is one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement. Conflict with a nuclear power may threaten the future annihilation of many, but it offers immediate benefits for some. “NATO concerns about Russia are seen as a positive for the defense industry,” the business press notes in reporting that military stocks have reached “all-time highs.” As have the ratings of MSNBC, the cable network that has pushed Russiagate more than any other.
Those unbound by Russiagate’s offerings need not succumb to them. Trump didn’t get to the White House via Russia, but by falsely portraying himself as a populist champion. The only con he will be undone by is his own.
Aaron MatéTwitterAaron Maté is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the host of the new show Pushback, airing on The Grayzone.
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Get off Facebook if you value your privacy, EU commish tells court
Irish data protection shenanigans pop up again
By Jennifer Baker in Brussels 26 Mar 2015 at 09:01
If you don’t want your personal info pored over by the US authorities, close your Facebook account – such is the reassuring advice given by the European Commission to the European Court of Justice.
Judges yesterday grilled the Commish legal service in a case that could topple the 15-year-old EU-US data-sharing agreement known as “Safe Harbour”, a streamlined process developed by the US Department of Commerce and the EU, designed to prevent accidental information disclosure or loss.
Because the US in general does not meet EU standards for data privacy, the Safe Harbour workaround was dreamed up by the Commish in 2000, with the deal creating a voluntary framework whereby companies promise to protect European citizens’ data.
In the current case, a group called Europe v Facebook, led by privacy activist and “Angry AustrianTM” Max Schrems, alleges that Facebook violated European citizens' “fundamental rights” (defined in the European Convention on Human Rights) by transferring their personal data to the US National Security Agency (NSA).
After the Irish data protection commissioner refused to investigate, citing Safe Harbour rules, the case was referred first to the Irish High Court and now the ECJ.
The focus of Tuesday’s questioning was whether national data protection authorities should be able to suspend data transfers if needed. The Commish says no, and national regulators “are in principle not empowered” to suspend data transfers to the US.
However, Schrems was backed in his call for more independence for DPAs (data protection authorities) by national representatives from Austria, Belgium and Poland. Ireland, which is at the heart of the investigation, said it would welcome guidance on the matter.
The court also wanted to know if the European Commission could “ensure” privacy for EU citizens’ data in the US. The Commish said it was talking to the US authorities, but admitted it couldn't fully guarantee data protection.
Schrems told El Reg that he was pleased with the hearing overall: “The judges really trashed the Commission, and really attacked its position. Austria was very outspoken in saying that there was no real Safe Harbour, as was the European Parliament.”
The judges also heard from the UK and Slovenia, as well as the European Data Protection Supervisor’s office. According to the EDPS, the US needs to improve its privacy protection regime.
The EU parliament went further and again called for the Safe Harbour agreement to be suspended.
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice will give his opinion on 24 June. ®
UK watchdog reveals naughty list of which companies haven't paid data protection fees
NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse
Er, we have 670 staff to feed now: UK's ICO fines 100 firms that failed to pay data protection fee
Enforcing GDPR is expensive work, says watchdog
UK's data protection watchdog preps to 'get its hands dirty' with beta of regulatory sandbox
Scheme to test compliance of innovative products accepting applications until 24 May
Italian data protector makes Facebook an offer it might want to refuse: A €1m fine for Cambridge Analytica data leak
Claims more than 200k Italians had data harvested after just 57 downloaded app
Campaigners call for immigration exemption in UK's Data Protection Act to be scrapped
Judicial review into law launched
Cambridge Analytica seeks data protection assistant
Jobseeker? You may have heard of it...
Reel talk: You know what's safely offline? Tape. Data protection outfit Veeam inks deal with Quantum
Magnetic strips barrier to ransomware, burble box-flingers
Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices
Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in
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At A Glance HighlightsOverviewItineraryNeed To Know!
California, North America -
middle school adventure and community service trip
June 28 - July 12, 2020 // Limited Availability
July 15 - July 29, 2020 // Limited Availability
Length: 15 Days
Completing Grades: 6-8
Service Hours: 10 - 15
Arrive/Depart: San Francisco: SFO
Tuition: $3,995
Inspiring a love for new environments and the outdoors, our middle school adventure and community service trip in California combines introductory travel and environmental service work for students who have completed grades 6 through 8.
We begin our adventure by exploring San Francisco. We see all the beauty this city has to offer and take in the Marin Headlands, Muir Woods, and Fisherman’s Wharf, to name a few highlights.
He enjoyed the independence and the camaraderie and appeared rather emotional about having to say goodbye. As a parent, I love the fact the he got to experience these things under the guidance of a program that I felt that I could trust.” - Carla R., Parent of a California: Pacific Sun Alum
We grab a paddle, hop into a big yellow raft, and have some fun on the American River. Then it’s on to Yosemite National Park, where we explore the valley in the shadows of Half Dome and El Capitan. While in the Eastern Sierras, we volunteer with Friends of the INYO to preserve mountain trails and tackle meaningful, science-based and collaborative conservation projects.
Lake Tahoe is next, where we soar on an aerial course and paddle board or sea kayak. We then travel to Half Moon Bay, a safe environment for the beginning surfer, where we walk through the basics. After all that, feeling pretty spectacular, we head back to San Francisco to close our adventure.
Keep scrolling to learn more about our middle school adventure and community service trip!
Questions about this trip?
Call Ashley at 773-342-5200
or just drop us a line!
California // You Don't Want to Miss...
#1 San Francisco
America's favorite city is so beautiful, exciting, diverse, and cosmopolitan that you can always find something new to see and do. The list is endless, and includes major attractions like Lombard Street, the most crooked street in the world.
#2 Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Golden Gate National Recreation Area begins where the Pacific Ocean meets the San Francisco Bay. All in all, it is the largest urban national park in the world, a whopping 76,500 acres of land and water that includes 28 miles of wild coastline.
#3 Muir Woods National Forest and Mt. Tamalpais State Park
In this cathedral of redwoods, the residents are as high as skyscrapers. Mt. Tamalpais State Park surrounds the woods and offers hikes with breathtaking mountain, ocean, and San Francisco views.
#4 Raft the American River
Time to grab a paddle, hop into a raft, and enjoy some wet, wild, and adventurous fun on the South Fork of the American River. Don’t let names like Meatgrinder, Troublemaker, Satan’s Cesspool, and Dead Man’s Drop scare you!
#5 SUP in Lake Tahoe
Stand up paddle boarding (SUP) has gained popularity as one of the best human-powered activities and fits any skill level. There’s no better way to get on the water and experience the sweeping mountain views and clear blue lake.
#6 Yosemite National Park
Enclosed by near-vertical, mile-high cliffs covering 761,000 acres and laced with waterfalls, granite cliffs, hiking trails, crystal clear streams, and climbing routes, the dramatic geology of Yosemite Valley is among the country’s finest scenery.
#7 Half Moon Bay
Nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains and some of the most striking coastlines of the Pacific Ocean, Half Moon Bay offers some great surfing and is a stone’s throw from San Francisco.
#8 Pier 39 Fisherman's Wharf
A few California sea lions began hanging out on Pier 39′s K dock after the earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. By January 1990, the boisterous barking pinnipeds came in droves and completely took over, much to the exasperation of Pier 39′s marina tenants.
#9 High and Low Ropes Course
Navigate rope swings, cross wobbly bridges, traverse tightropes, zip to the next platform, and land delicately (and safely) on a cargo net, all the while surrounded by nature.
Hold your spot now. Click here to enroll!
10 - 15 Community Service Hours
Environmental Community Service with Friends of the INYO. Projects consist of trail maintenance, trash removal, cutting logs, and other needs in the area.
A Certificate of Community Service indicating the total hours worked and a Presidential Volunteer Service Award will be issued upon successful completion of the program.
Explore: San Francisco, Pier 39 Seals, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Forest, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, Marin Headlands
Whitewater Raft: American River
Ropes Course: Lake Tahoe
Sea Kayak or Paddle Board: Lake Tahoe
Bike: Yosemite National Park, Sierra National Forest
Hike: Glacier Point
Surf: Half Moon Bay
Completing Grades
Tuition (Airfare and baggage fees not included)
While in the Bay area, we sleep in bunkbeds in a hostel. The remainder of the program is spent camping in tents. Showers are available; however, we shower every three to four days to conserve resources and support sustainability. Bathrooms are flush toilets at the hostel and a mix of flush and latrine while camping.
Arrive/Depart
San Francisco, CA (SFO)
Join in on the fun! Check out #PacsunRLT for a behind-the-scenes look at photos from past participants and leaders.
Hold your spot now. Click here to sign up
Arrival (Day 1):
All arrive in San Francisco, CA.
The City by the Bay (Day 2):
Explore the best of San Francisco. Visit Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square, ride the cable car, and see the Golden Gate Bridge.
Muir Woods (Day 3):
Head across the Golden Gate Bridge to Muir Woods, home to some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world. Hike in Mount Tamalpais State Park and gaze down at the city, east toward the Sierra Nevada and west over the Pacific.
Raft the American River (Day 4):
Raft on the Class III American River, a California classic.
Explore Yosemite and Environmental Conservation (Days 5-8):
Explore the famous Yosemite Valley on bikes, spotting climbers high on El Capitan and Half Dome. Partner with Friends of the INYO to restore Eastern Sierra trails and take part in meaningful, science-based and collaborative conservation projects.
Lake Tahoe (Days 9-12)
Kayak or paddleboard the crystalline waters of the nation’s largest alpine lake, hike in the Sierras, and test your limits on a high and low ropes course.
Half Moon Bay: (Days 13-14):
We catch the basics from some of the best instructors in the country, then test our skills on California waves. We celebrate our adventure with a memorable final banquet.
Homeward Bound (Day 15):
Head back to San Francisco and say goodbye before catching flights home.
Need To Know!
The Road Less Traveled does not require any vaccinations or immunizations to travel with us, other than an up-to-date tetanus shot or booster (within the last nine years).
Day-To-Day Calendar
If you’d like to receive an emailed copy of this program’s day-to-day calendar, please give our office a call anytime between 9am and 5pm CST at 773-342-5200, and we’ll happily send you one!
General Travel Info
It is imperative that no one make any travel arrangements until RLT provides instructions for specific arrival and departure time windows. Those details are typically released in mid-spring.
Families are individually responsible for booking their own airfare to get their student from home to the starting destination on the first day of the trip, and from the ending destination back home on the last day of the trip.
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Middle school students can travel from sea to sky on an ultimate adventure through British Columbia. Kayak across pristine alpine lakes, learn to climb on beautiful granite rocks, traverse through ponderosa pine forests, and experience three of the worlds most beautiful National Parks.
Wyoming and Colorado, North America - Tails of Kindness ›
Middle school summer community service and adventure program in Wyoming. Volunteer work at a no-kill animal sanctuary for homeless animals. Explore Rocky Mountain National Park; Raft the Arkansas river. Hike in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.
Michigan, North America - Seeds of Change ›
Middle school summer community service and adventure program. Explore orchards, farms, wildlife, bees, and markets, and engage with local artists, entrepreneurs, and educators in this inviting community learning how our "chow" makes its way from field to market. Experience sunset sailing on Lake Michigan, Kayak the Kalamazoo River, bike the Kal-Haven trail, and take a ride on the Saugatuck dunes.
Costa Rica, Central America - Pura Vida ›
Middle school community service and adventure program in Costa Rica. Cultural exchange with an indigenous community; service work at a Permaculture Environmental Sanctuary; zip-line the rainforest canopy; help at a local Costa Rican school on improvement projects; butterfly Farm and wildlife spotting; snorkel exploration of warm Southern Pacific waters.
Colorado, North America - 5280' ›
Middle school summer community service and adventure program in Colorado. Volunteer at a wolf conservation center; feed and care for wolves at Mission:Wolf; volunteer at a goat farm; whitewater raft the Arkansas River; aerial course in the river canyon; rock climb in San Isabel National Forest.
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Sea Kayak Lake Tahoe, day hikes and a low ropes course.
Surfing Lessons at Half Moon Bay
Leader Profile: David Erbach
Education: University of Michigan in History
Working: Teacher at the Modern English School in Cairo, Egypt
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Celebrating a Hollywood heroine4 months, 1 week ago
Melinda Schneider celebrates Doris Day with national tour
BEAUTIFUL DAY: Melinda Schneider is touring to celebrate the life and career of Doris Day following her death earlier this year.
Country music icon Melinda Schneider pays tribute to superstar Doris Day.
POPULAR country music artist Melinda Schneider is returning to the stage with a national tour to pay tribute to screen superstar Doris Day.
The tour, which kicks off this month, follows the Hollywood star's death earlier this year at the age of 97.
A Farewell to Doris will be a nostalgic concert celebration featuring The Young At Heart Orchestra and including hits such as Que Sera, Sera, Sentimental Journey, Everybody Loves a Lover and Secret Lover.
It will also feature classics from movies including Calamity Jane, Love Me or Leave Me and The Pajama Game.
Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk in 1959. Photo: Universal/Alamy
Melinda's love of Doris Day started when she was introduced to her work at just eight years of age.
"I thought she was the best of everything a woman can be and when I grew up I wanted to be just like her," she said.
"I was so saddened to hear the news of the passing of the amazing Doris Day."
Melinda also recently re-released her two acclaimed tribute albums Melinda Does Doris - A Tribute To Doris Day and Melinda Does Doris...Again - The MovieSongs in a double CD package.
She also starred in a hugely successful theatre show DORIS, Dorisa Day - So Much More Than the Girl Next Door, which she wrote with David Mitchell in 2011 and 2012, playing to packed audiences around the country.
Melinda sent Doris the script before the show was staged.
"I wanted to make sure she was happy with the way we had portrayed her and she came back giving me the thumbs up, which made me very happy," she said.
The tour of capital cities will conclude with a performance at QPAC in Brisbane on September 15.
Melinda will then embark on an extensive regional tour, starting at Wests, New Lambton on September 20.
Over 20 dates have already been announced for the regional tour with more to be added soon.
For tour dates or to order a CD, click here and scroll down.
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30,000 cormorants destroying lakeside park
By Leslie ScrivenerStaff Reporter
Wed., May 20, 2009timer5 min. read
Dark and swift, flocks of cormorants soar above Lake Ontario before hundreds of them finally dip down to the diamond-flecked water. It's a stirring sight on a bright spring day.
But cormorants are less beautiful on land.
One arm of the Leslie Street Spit, home to Tommy Thompson Park and the Great Lakes' largest colony of cormorants, looks like a wintry apocalypse. There are no trees now, just a few guano-spattered snags. This is where cormorants first settled in the park in 1990. They now number about 30,000.
In some Ontario parks, Parks Canada officials shoot cormorants to stem the loss of trees. Wildlife defence groups argue about a hierarchy of values in nature: Are trees and the forest canopy more worthy than a colony of cormorants?
These widely unloved, fish-eating migratory birds are ruthless nest builders. With their hook-tipped bills, they strip tree branches; their guano becomes a hyper fertilizer, wrecking the chemistry of the soil. Trees die three to 10 years after the birds build their nests.
On Lake Erie's tiny Middle Island, in Point Pelee National Park, 20,000 cormorants have stripped away 41 per cent of the tree canopy. To reduce the impact on the island's nature life, Parks Canada officials went out with small-gauge rifles for six days in April and May and shot 1,600 birds.
A cull is not proposed on Toronto's spit. "We don't feel lethal control is appropriate or needed," says park manager Ralph Toninger.
But the rate of deforestation there is accelerating and it's a shocking sight. Four arms, or peninsulas, radiate from the spit. Peninsula A is treeless; Peninsula B, with its pungent odour of guano, has lost half its trees; and in Peninsula C, thousands of black birds perch in the trees like eerie ornaments. That area is losing trees 10 times faster than in the past.
"It's increasing exponentially," says Toninger. He notes the tree loss occurred when the cormorant population was one-quarter what it is today. Peninsula D is untouched.
Staff at Toronto and Region Conservation Authority try to encourage cormorants to build nests on the ground. They set up speakers playing recordings of cormorant calls (which sound like snoring), put out decoys, hay bales and tires. Now, 1,000 of the 7,000 nests on the spit are on the ground.
Still that's not reducing the numbers and that concerns people like Cathryn MacFarlane, who say cormorants should be controlled with humane methods, such as oiling their eggs. (Deprived of oxygen, the eggs don't hatch.)
"We have been supporting the conservation authority, but we're getting frustrated," says MacFarlane, on the board of the Aquatic Park Sailing Club at the east end of the spit. "Will someone please stand up and ask, why don't trees count? What about the songbirds?"
In other places, conservationists have tried to reduce cormorant numbers by poking at nests and introducing birds of prey. One of the most creative efforts is in Hamilton harbour, where cormorants were pushing herring gulls out of their nests, says Jim Quinn, behavioural ecologist at McMaster University.
Quinn employed a fleet of dancing, battery-operated Santas, sheathed them in raincoats and put them on the wildlife islands, in the harbour near gulls' nests. "The cormorants are declining a little in the harbour," says Quinn.
On Middle Island at Point Pelee, nine species are threatened or endangered. The ecosystem is considered so delicate that visitors are banned from May to September. The islands are critical for migratory Monarch butterflies as a refuge on their flight across the Great Lakes, says park superintendent Marian Stranak, adding that Parks Canada has a mandate to protect species at risk.
Their methods of killing cormorants were "controlled, humane and safe," she says.
A group called Cormorant Defenders International insists this is a matter of humans trying to manage nature. "We've come to the notion that trees are good and lack of trees is bad," says spokeswoman Julie Woodyer. "Why can't we see the beauty of a non-treed island if it happens to be a beautiful bird colony?"
"This is supposed to be a protected bird area, where people are prevented from going. If birds can't exist there in typical numbers, there is no place they will be tolerated. The exception is the Leslie Street Spit."
There, she says, Cormorant Defenders "pushed really hard" with the conservation authority on the need for cormorant management.
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Should nature be allowed to take its course? Is intervention necessary to ensure a balance? Is shooting cormorants – once threatened themselves – the most civilized way to protect plant and animal life?
Ed Reid, wildlife biologist for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, says cormorants, which eat about a pound of fish a day, should "absolutely" be culled.
The federation maintains that their numbers are an "ecological disaster in the making," media releases say.
"If human enterprise did to water quality what cormorants do, it would not be tolerated," says Reid.
At Tommy Thompson Park, declared an Important Bird Area by Nature Canada and Bird Studies Canada, 25 per cent of the trees have been destroyed and some birds, like the black-crowned night heron, are being pushed out. The number of herons has dropped from 1,200 pairs in 2001 to 500 today.
Leslie Street Spit, which receives 250,000 visitors a year, is man-made, built on the foundation of construction rubble. The trees cling to life on thin soil. Toninger looks at Peninsula C across a bucolic scene of red osier dogwood, giant bur reeds and sparkling water. If the trees weren't there, the birds wouldn't have nested.
Cormorants were once rare, too. Pesticides such as DDT thinned their eggshells and their numbers plunged.
But when DDT was banned, reducing lake contaminants, fish populations such as alewife increased, and the birds, able to feast in the fish farms in the southern U.S. where they overwinter, began to thrive.
In 1990, the first 11 pairs of cormorants nested on the spit. "It's amazing we see this," says Toninger. "Cormorants were pushed to (near) extinction in the '60s and '70s." Then he points to the city.
"There's the CN Tower and there's a bird colony. Where else can you see a nesting colony (not far from) a TTC ride?"
Julie Woodyer of Cormorant Defenders International witnessed this year's Middle Island cull from a boat. She wept at what she saw. Most carcasses were left where they fell.
"They are a part of a natural ecosystem, not a threat to it," she says. "They are being targeted because people find them unattractive and undesirable. People say they like to live with nature, but they like to look at nature not live with it."
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Kandi Technologies (KNDI) Stock Is Up Today After Earnings Report
Kandi Technologies (KNDI) is gaining Monday after reporting its result for full year 2014.
Lindsay Ingram
Mar 16, 2015 10:41 AM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Kandi Technologies(KNDI) - Get Report were gaining 8.7% to $14.38 with heavy trading volume Monday after the Chinese electric vehicle maker reported record results for full year 2014.
Kandi Technologies reported earnings of 29 cents a share for 2014, up from a loss of 61 cents a share in 2013. Revenue grew to $170.2 million for the year, an 80.1% increase from the company's 2013 revenue of $94.5 million.
Analyst estimates were not available for the auto maker.
Kandi Technologies said that its Kandi Electric Vehicles Group joint venture company sold 10,935 electric vehicles in full year 2014 and 3,656 EVs in the fourth quarter. The joint venture company reported sales of $215.5 million for 2014.
"Our robust financial results were driven by the growing market demand for electric vehicles," Chairman and CEO Xiaoming Hu said in a statement. "In 2014, we invested a tremendous amount of time and resources on building our EV business. Kandi's electric vehicle model has been highly appraised by China's Science and Technology Minister and other senior government officials."
About 2.1 million shares of Kandi Technologies were traded by 10:37 a.m. Monday, above the company's average trading volume of about 783,000 shares a day.
TheStreet Ratings team rates KANDI TECHNOLOGIES GROUP as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate KANDI TECHNOLOGIES GROUP (KNDI) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed -- some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including weak operating cash flow, poor profit margins and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: KNDI Ratings Report
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Armed Teachers Can Save Lives: Guns Save Life’s Free Teacher CCW Class
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Armed teachers can save lives. While The People of the Gun know this, others who are less familiar with firearms don’t always recognize this simple truth. Forty open-minded Illinois school teachers and staff members participated in a free concealed carry course this past weekend to learn more about guns and gun safety. And, of course, how guns save life.
The Land of Lincoln’s gun rights group Guns Save Life sponsored the free opportunity for school staff, along with the DeWitt County Sportsman’s Club which donated the facilities. GSL Defense Training organized the class in the weeks following the Parkland, Florida school massacre.
The timing seemed right in light of increased discussions both locally and nationally of adding more good guys with guns to protect America’s children in schools. We thought of it as a whole new sort of professional development for education professionals, just in time for back-to-school.
Sixteen GSL Defense Training instructors, including myself, along with five other Illinois State Police-approved guest instructors volunteered to instruct and coach. Forty teachers showed up and thirty-nine graduated (we lost one student due to illness on the second day).
During introductions, we learned that the participants ranged from a school bus driver to an administrator. Elementary school, middle school and high school teachers made up the bulk of those present. One private school alone sent almost a dozen teachers, but most came from public schools. A few other school districts sent more than one. The vast majority of participants didn’t own a firearm. About a third of them had never fired a gun.
Even though few had familiarity with any sort of firearms, experienced red-shirted instructors remained no more than an arm’s length away to coach, assist and encourage safe learning.
Most notably — and much to Michael Bloomberg’s chagrin — those educators now no longer belong to the “never fired a gun” fraternity. In fact, they all gained the experience of firing 250 rounds over two days.
After introductions, these rookies learned basic gun safety, how handguns work, gun and ammo selection and a whole lot more. From there, we took them out to dry fire and discussed some entry-level tactics.
Later, GSL Defense Training attorney-instructors educated them about gun laws, self-defense law and Illinois’ complicated concealed carry act. Other lectures covered home and personal defense strategies, situational awareness and post-shooting interventions. Oh yes, and gun cleaning, too.
Attendees went from the classroom to the range and back, keeping them awake, alert, and drinking from a firehose of knowledge at every stop.
Instructors patiently worked with the new shooters, and refined the skill sets of those who had brought their own guns.
By the second day, participants and instructors alike witnessed a huge change from just a day before. The transformation proved obvious to all.
Not only did students lose their fear of an inanimate object, they gained a sense of empowerment.
We even brought in local Circuit Court Judge Randy Rosenbaum to discuss the real-world application of the law and to take questions. From there, they headed back outside to engage discrimination targets, employing their new skill sets.
Of course, the dreaded qualification came late Sunday.
All passed with flying colors. In fact, a majority scored a perfect 30 out of 30. Even the English teacher who had never pulled a trigger before.
Danielle, another first-time shooter pictured above, aced the qualification.
So what did these mostly non-gun owners think of their experience shooting? As class wound down, a teacher stood up to say, “I’ve taught for 26 years now and this is easily, by far the best teacher appreciation gift I’ve ever received!” The others applauded in agreement.
From a few of the evaluations:
Please tell us something we did well: “Wow! Everything! …All off the instructors are fantastic teachers. I have acquired new skills and confidence. I now know that I can protect myself and my family!”
“This was an outstanding class with knowledgeable and patient instructors and staff. Thanks for the teacher training.”
“The number of trainers out on the range shooting portions was very helpful and reassuring for inexperienced shooters. The class was also enjoyable and engaging. Great course! Very helpful and I really appreciate all of you volunteering to host us!”
Please tell us something we did well: “You took away the intimidation factor! Friendly, relaxed atmosphere yet stressed the importance of safety and proper handling techniques. Overall awesome experience. Thank you!”
“Best weekend I’ve had in a long time.”
Please tell us something we did well: “Making me feel comfortable with my mistakes, but also making it safe. The one-on. -one attention and critique was helpful in correcting my errors. Also, the fun atmosphere was AWESOME!”
“Instructors were excellent! Always friendly and helpful. I wish my bootcamp was so helpful and professional! Great learning environment. …Explanation and demonstration was awesome.”
How do you feel this course could be improved: “I wish we could have had more range time, especially the simulated pressure (yelling at us, etc.)”
We only fired 250 rounds…
“…Seriously – the BEST instructors that put you at ease. Fantastic course!”
“After this weekend, I feel much more comfortable with handguns and the laws about them.”
“Good balance between times of educational and experiential learning. It might be improved by taking another day or two to cover the material… Great instructors and a great overall experience.”
Shannon Watts, Gabby Giffords and the like depend on people who are unfamiliar with and afraid of guns. Gun control in general depends on fear and misinformation.
This weekend, we took the mystery out of guns for these roughly three dozen teachers. What’s more, we expect they will share their positive experience with their friends, family and fellow school staff members. And they’re now better equipped to protect their students.
All of which stands as more bad news for those who would like nothing more than to strip Americans of their gun rights.
John Boch is executive director of Guns Save Life.
Yes, knowledge prevents doubt, and doubt kills more good guys than any bad Joes’ knife or firearm ever did. Bravo & welcome to all of you.
Chris T in KY says:
A teacher has fired his firearm in the classroom to save his students. He and another student with a gun held off attackers long enough for the students to escape to safety.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/01/robert-farago/gun-hero-of-the-day-asst-chemistry-professor-syed-hamid-hussain/
Professor Hamid Hussain dies trying to save students
Marching for our Lies says:
But what if a teacher is a liberal and ze just snaps?
Bloving says:
Funny thing about “truth”, it tends to convert liberals into independent thinkers.
Liberals into thinkers. I’ve never seen it in my 65 years, but miracles do sometime happen.
Tom in Oregon says:
Looks like a great instructor-to-student ratio.
David Deplorable says:
This deplorable approves! Wow, nice job.
You know, I don’t see those smiles or that sort of empowered determination at Shannon Watts events!
Guns Save Life: Gun Rights heroes everyday.
I’ve done a lot of firearms instruction for both LEO’ and civilians. Never have I seen the almost one on one ratio before. I love it. We need to see a lot more of this type of instruction in the near future all across the country.
SurfGW says:
A more practical solution is to teach teachers that quick aggressive actions win the day whether armed or not.
Exhibit 1:
Indiana school teacher who tackled gunman:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jason-seaman-indiana-science-teacher-tackles-gunman-noblesville-west-middle-school-shooting-today-2018-05-25/
Anyone who has done Simunitions training knows that a concerted attack where people throw things at the shooter breaks the shooters focus and gives someone time to tackle the shooter.
Mindset wins every time!
Kendahl says:
According to the news story, the teacher was a defensive end on the football team while he was in college. Size and strength matter when you don’t have a gun. I doubt that a 5 foot, 100 pound defender would have been as successful.
TheUnspoken says:
Teachers should be able to be armed, just as all of us should be able to be armed, to defend ourselves, just in case. Or because we want to. But good training is a great thing, especially if it teaches good practices, confidence, etc.
Many of the spree killers in recent scenarios weren’t looking for a fight, preferring to execute their cowering or fleeing victims, so any kind of confrontation or resistance will slow them down, or cause them to off themselves, or surrender. And a gun would be the most effective tool to fight back.
Craig in IA says:
It’s a good start in a state that really needs to work its way out of the anti-liberty gutter. Congrats to GSL and the teachers who participated. I taught for 40 years and would’ve had no problem carrying on campus…
Jeff Schwarm says:
I had the honor of being one of the instructors for this event.
It was an absolute joy to work with these students, to bring many of them from zero to a real skill set in 16 hours. If they never carry a gun in school or out, they are far more competent and informed about firearms as defense tools.
As for GSL Defense Training, all our classes are staffed that deep, and all that fun. Consider yourself invited!
I’ve never heard of GSL. Are you located anywhere else in the country? I’d love to volunteer with such a group.
John Boch says:
Marty,
We are located in Illinois, for now.
Thanks John. It’s a great way to teach.
I was also one of the instructors at this class. The teachers and school staff members were a great group to work with. All were open to suggestions and eager to learn. Very rewarding to work with such a group.
Gun Owning American says:
frank speak says:
lots of eager “students” there…who says teachers aren’t interested in doing this…suspect there are a lot more out there across the country…
You really have to pin the politicians down with hypotheticals, which they hate and will avoid at all costs, but if you can, they always….ALWAYS… recognize that armed teachers with guns is better than unarmed teachers with erasers and sharpees.
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Man raped as a child encourages fellow victims to report abuse
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A man who was raped at the age of 10 is encouraging children to speak up about abuse, after worrying figures show a 70 per cent rise in sexual offences against children in Avon and Somerset.
Josh Tuck, who has waived his anonymity to urge victims to come forward, was raped during a sleepover.
It took him two years to tell his family, but after speaking out he received counselling and took his abuser to court.
He is now urging others to speak up so they can get the help they need.
Josh said: “I want other people to feel they can come forward – you have already been through probably what is the worst thing that is ever going to happen to you, and everything from there on isn’t going to be as difficult.”
Josh received counselling, but his mental health deteriorated and he suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts.
He said: “There was a lot of strain on every relationship.
“I lost friends because they didn’t understand why I was so angry and shutting myself off.
“My confidence just died. I developed agoraphobia whereby I could not even go outside in our back garden.”
Josh has spoken out about his experiences after figures show 173 sexual offences were recorded against children aged four to eight in the area last year, compared to 102 in 2015-16.
Chris Cloke, head of safeguarding for the NSPCC, said the figures are ‘shocking’ but stressed they are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’.
He said: “There’s a significant increase in Avon and Somerset which is a cause for concern.
“The younger you can talk to your children about it the better.
“We also know it’s the tip of the iceberg.
“We know from experience more sexual abuse happens than gets reported.”
Josh has spoken out to support the NSPCC’s Talk PANTS campaign which encourages parents to talk to their children about abuse.
The PANTS acronym provides key rules to help children, such as – privates are private, their body belongs to them, they have a right to say no, and they should tell an adult they trust if they are worried.
The NSPCC is also visiting schools in North Somerset to teach children how to recognise signs of abuse.
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How sagebrush steppe should look Nevada a bad neighbor state: Closing Jerritt Canyon gold mine said to be part of bigger battle
Interesting weekend and bad reporting.
By Ken Cole On June 7, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Bighorn Sheep
Domestic sheep DO transmit deadly disease to bighorn sheep.
Bighorn sheep lamb © Ken Cole
This weekend has turned out to be an interesting one in the world of the domestic sheep/bighorn sheep controversy. Rocky Barker reported on his blog that he had the infamous “study” that Marie Bulgin “missed” but it’s not the one at issue in the big story published on Friday. He links to a Colorado study in today’s story where he glosses over the conflict of interest and says:
“And just this weekend, it came out that Bulgin’s own center had conducted tests that indicated the disease could be transmitted from domestic to wild sheep – though she said the study happened before she took the job in 2003 and she didn’t know about it until this year.”
This also misrepresented what the Caine Vet Lab study, which he apparently does not have, actually demonstrates, it apparently shows that a domestic sheep transmitted disease to bighorns in the wild not just that it’s possible.
Marie Bulgin, according to http://www.idahowool.org/AboutUs.html, is the president of the Idaho Woolgrowers Association. At the same time she is the Caine Veterinary Teaching Center Teaching Program Coordinator and has been employed there since 1977 making her claim that “the [1994] study happened before she took the job in 2003 and she didn’t know about it until this year” rather dubious. I’m not saying that she knew about the studies but it seems that someone who knew about the Caine Vet study should have told her.
Marie Bulgin not only claimed there was no evidence for transmission in the wild to the Idaho Legislature, she said it in Federal Court as well. Rocky has been repeating her claims in every story he has written about the issue and has never done adequate investigation into them, he has also never done any investigation into the “1997 deal” which is just as bogus.
Can Idaho manage wild and domestic sheep together?
The travels of one sick wild bighorn show how hard it will be to enforce a new state law to protect sheep herders.
Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman
Tagged with: domestic and bighorn sheep • Politics
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Ken Cole is a 5th generation Idahoan, an avid fly fisherman, wildlife enthusiast, and photographer. He was formerly the Idaho Director for Western Watersheds Project and former Executive Director for Buffalo Field Campaign.
8 Responses to Interesting weekend and bad reporting.
Debra K says:
Junk science, junk reporting and junk politics. That’s the Idaho way these days.
The Salmon River bighorn are in big trouble–numbers down to a 100 or so? We cannot let this native population die out on our watch.
One of Carlson’s domestic sheep allotments, the Allison-Berg allotment on the Nez Perce NF, is undergoing NEPA review on the domestic sheep/bighorn sheep conflict.
See http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/nezperce/projects/allison-berg/noi.pdf.
Comments are due, by my calculation, on or before June 15, 2009. As many comments as possible should tell the Nez Perce NF to protect bighorn sheep and other resources on the Allison Berg allotment, and not allow ANY domestic sheep to graze because of the possibility of disease transmission.
Can someone give us a website to write to in order to comment on this important issue or must they be written comments?
Are the numbers really that low? That is awful.
I wouldn’t even call what the statesman has been doing on this issue for the past few years reporting. Today’s pablum piece is the same formulaic unquestioning regurgitation of livestock industry propaganda. A seven year old who knows how to use Google could write a more factual piece. The only thing from the reporter’s basic formula that was missing was a churlish rancher remark about wolves.
Drivel. Tripe. The sooner the Statesman goes under, the better.
Brian Ertz says:
From what I gather, for a local paper to be as critical of industry as of what we do, we must hold to a remarkably high standard, & even then, it probably won’t get published – they’ll take a quote from someone in the conservation community committed to not rocking the boat, and then grant the industry itself carte blanke space to leverage its criticism against those that are willing to rock the boat.
This is sad, and whether it’s the reporter’s hesitation, the editorial board’s double standard, or an organizational culture that has learned to do so in response to the political reality in the state ~ it is the same coersive phenominon that suppressed the ’94 study for so long in the first place.
This state’s local media is impotent – having to hide behind the AP and smooth over the impact. This is why local papers are dying all over the place.
Virginia, if you read the notice at the link I provided, it specifies “written comments.” However, there is a contact provided for further info whom you could call and find out if electronic submissions will be accepted.
The Salmon River RD accepting these comments operates out of a rustic office near Whitebird; while I’m sure they have modern niceties like e-mail, I am going to play it safe and send a hard copy by snail mail.
Just a test.
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Launch Multimedia Company Westbrook Inc
New venture will encompass the couple’s Overbrook Entertainment and Red Table Talk Enterprises
Brian Welk | July 10, 2019 @ 9:01 AM Last Updated: July 10, 2019 @ 9:22 AM
Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have launched Westbrook Inc., a multimedia venture that will encompass the subsidiary companies already owned by the Smiths, including Overbrook Entertainment and Red Table Talk Enterprises, the couple announced Wednesday.
Westbrook Inc. will also comprise the newly formed Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media and the merchandising business Good Goods.
Kosaku Yada will lead the new venture as CEO. He is joined by CAA’s former head of global client strategy, Tera Hanks, who will serve as Westbrook Inc.’s president. The team is rounded out by COO Gila Jones, CFO Kevin McDonald and VP of Business Development Jesse Uram.
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Westbrook Inc. will create short and mid-form digital content as well as more traditional TV series and films. The company will begin launching content under the new banner starting later this month.
“We are so excited to announce this new venture and fully immerse ourselves in all areas of the media and entertainment space,” Westbrook Inc. co-founders Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith said in a statement. “With our incredible team of family, chosen family, and longtime business partners, Westbrook Inc.’s mission is to spread positive ideas, art, and products that entertain and empower the greatest number of lives, inspiring the next generation of artists to do good in the world.”
Westbrook Studios will be the studio home for any of the company’s film and TV projects such as Jada Pinkett’s Smith’s Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk,” as well as projects from Westbrook Media and Overbrook Entertainment. The company will also develop starring vehicles for Will Smith. Steve Bender has joined the studio in the role of development finance.
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Westbrook Media is led by CEO Brad Haugen and is a digital content studio that works with talent and brands to develop short and mid-form content and social media management. Lukas Kaiser and Sadao Turner lead creative and strategic direction of the company. The company has worked on Will Smith’s social media, the social channels for “Red Table Talk,” “Aladdin” and Jaden Smith’s water brand JUST Water.
The Good Goods company recently put out new “Fresh Prince” apparel and accessories and will also develop new products and licensing based on Westbrook Inc.’s existing library.
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Drug trials success for Cantab
Updated: 19:00 EST, 22 September 1999
Bad news for the herpes simplex virus was good news for shareholders in Cantab Pharmaceuticals as the biotech company reported successful results from phase one trials of a new treatment against the disease.
The shares rose 1 1/2p to 149p after Cantab said tests on 110 adults indicated its Disabled Infectious Single Cycle product was safe and stimulated antibody responses to the virus in a majority of cases.
Minor shareholder Glaxo Wellcome is paying Cantab to develop the treatment, and the Cambridge-based firm receives a share of royalties from sales if and when it comes to market. Cantab says the annual market is potentially worth more than $500 million (£312 million).
The company said the results had secured a 'healthy' payment from Glaxo. Phase two trials should start in the next two months.
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Danfoss selects Thomson Reuters and EY to implement Trade Automation System
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Global Trade to improve trade operations for Danfoss’ Mexico-based supply chain hub
CARROLTON, Texas – Thomson Reuters and EY have been selected by Danfoss – a Danish global engineering corporation focusing on infrastructure, food, energy and climate solutions – to implement a trade automation and management system for its Mexico-based operations.
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Global Trade™ software solution will improve the efficiency of Danfoss’ trade operations and better manage its trade compliance operations.
The system will also allow Danfoss to more efficiently deliver and exchange accurate information with Mexican customs and trade authorities – including the declared values of goods imported and exported from Mexico. It will also improve Danfoss’ operating environment by more efficiently calculating associated fees for goods moving across borders, such as brokerage fees, taxes and tariffs.
Danfoss trade management team had relied on disparate information sources and systems to manage compliance and reporting requirements. Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Global Trade™ will provide a singular performance management operating environment to closely track all associated trade costs.
Danfoss participates in the Mexican IMMEX Program (Manufacturing, Maquila, and Export Service Industry) – a trade and investment incentive program of the Mexican government. As such, Danfoss requires a singular information source to access all compliance information related to Mexican customs and trade – to be integrated as information feeds into its ONESOURCE Global Trade™ application.
In 2014, EY joined the Thomson Reuters Certified Implementer Program to help companies better automate trade operations by using the ONESOURCE Global Trade product. EY will support integration of Danfoss’ SAP enterprise resource management system with the ONESOURCE product.
As Danfoss is managing an extensive supply chain extending across the Americas, EY and Thomson Reuters will provide trade specialists to help Danfoss analyze the composition of goods being traded to and from Mexico. Highly specialized trade compliance information, workflow tools, and calculation engines specific to Danfoss operations will be generated from this analysis and incorporated into the company’s new trade system.
“Mexico is a hub for multi-country manufacturing activity where effective global trade management is essential to business success,” said William M. Methenitis, EY Global Trade Director. “The ONESOURCE Global Trade is a unique and innovative offering in the Mexican market and we are very excited to be able to work jointly with Thomson Reuters to add value to our clients’ supply chain operations.”
“We are very enthusiastic about the collaboration between EY and Thomson Reuters as it will result in high quality Global Trade Management solutions for clients such as Danfoss in Mexico,” said Taneli Ruda, senior vice president and managing director for Thomson Reuters Global Trade Management business. “With this new Global Trade Management system, Danfoss is expected to reduce trade brokerage fees, improve supply chain efficiency, save time and energy and have greater assurance they are compliant with all Mexican trade regulations and fees schedules.”
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Thomson Reuters Announces Winners of 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards – Iberia
BBVA recognized as the top brokerage firm; Javier Pinedo, of BBVA and Aránzazu Bueno, of Santander GBM take top individual awards
London – Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards for Iberia. This is the eighth year that StarMine has presented its awards to the top stock analysts and brokerage firms across Spain and Portugal.
StarMine, a leading provider of objective ratings of sell-side securities analysts, measures the performance of analysts based on the industry excess returns of their buy/sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates. The 2015 awards recognise the sell-side analysts who have shown outstanding performance either as stock pickers based on the calendar year of 2014, and/or earnings estimators on the fiscal period that reported between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015.
Raj Shah, head of StarMine sell-side research at Thomson Reuters, added, “With a changing sell-side research landscape, real rigour was required in the research as analysts formulated their forecasts and recommendations. Analysts had to react to the changing demands of the buy-side while at the same time continuing to help them interpret emerging signals. Winning analysts were those who were not afraid to make a sell recommendation, and issued estimates that were more timely and accurate than their peers. Congratulations to all of this year’s ranked analysts.”
Analysts are awarded prizes in three main categories: stock recommendation performance relative to specific industry benchmarks (“Stock Pickers”), accuracy in forecasting earnings as compared with peers (“Earnings Estimators”) and brokerage firms whose analysts win the most awards (“Most Award-Winning Brokers”).
The winners of the Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards 2015 Iberia are:
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Análisis Banco Sabadell
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Javier Pinedo
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David Vaamonde
MainFirst Bank
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Antonio Castell
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Antonella Bianchessi
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Natalia Bobo
Kepler Cheuvreux
Flora Trindade; Filipe Leite
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Nuno Estácio
Espirito Santo Investment Bank
Technology Equipment & Services
Ivón Leal
Industry Earnings Estimators:
Javier Bernat
BEKA Finance (ESN Partnership)
Ignacio Romero
Borja Pagoaga
Ana Isabel Gonzalez Garcia
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The Ultimate Tailgating Soundtrack: Music by football players, for football fans
Finding football players who actually try to make a go of it as musicians is tougher than scoring on the '85 Bears, or not-scoring on the 2011 Panthers. Sure, there's no shortage of “Super Bowl Shuffle” knockoffs, but while anyone who calls those “bad” is kind of a jerk, focusing on players who're just having fun takes away from dudes who can play. This soundtrack -- keyed to crucial moments in every tailgater's day -- features music from those dudes. Some of it is great, some it just gets an A for effort, but it's definitely all better than Deion Sanders' “Must Be The Money,” which really was bad, and you shouldn't feel like a jerk for saying so. All times Central
8am: Rosey Grier “Beautiful People”
It doesn't matter whether you're spending Sunday laying in bed or defending your International Bear-baiting Federation title in a pit filled with bones, it's always nice to wake up to some smooth soul music. Rosey Grier -- lynchpin of the Rams' “Fearsome Foursome,” bodyguard who helped wrestle Bobby Kennedy's assassin to the ground, somewhat awkward minister to OJ Simpson -- made exactly that. Have a nice morning
9am: Kyle Turley, “We Ride”
As you drive into the parking lot, the former Saints and Rams All Pro's southern rock anthem fuels the intensity you'll need to transition from “I can't believe I woke up this early on a weekend” to “It's time to get down to business.
9:30am: Brandon Lloyd, “Heavy”
When not providing Tom Brady his first non-munchkin wide-receiver target since Randy Moss, “B. Lloyd” is pushing hip hop, like this tune that appeared on Spike TV's Blue Mountain State, hopefully during a scene involving gratuitous naughtiness. “Y'all playing with it, get up on my level/ You a lightweight, this is heavy metal” is not a bad message to send to friends taking too long to shake off Saturday night. Also, pickup trucks filled with kielbasas and the means to rid those kielbasas of their trichinosis are heavy
9:45am: Reggie Stephens, A.K.A. Famouz, A.K.A. FMZ, “Wiggle”
The 5yr Giants corner ('99-'03) got his musical break with the Arena League's Nashville Kats, whose minority owner, hip hop mogul Tim McGraw, helped him land the record deal that turned into Ghetto Passport. In a sort of amazing business move, Stephens has also been doing songs for MotoCross teams, but for your parking-lot pleasure, “Wiggle” will make even the fattest sloth in your group start dancing like an idiot -- and isn't spontaneous idiot-dancing the best part of modern tailgating
10:15am: Steve McLaughlin, “Clif Norrell”
The Arizona All-American kicker never really caught on in the NFL (one year with the Rams, a few more on various practice squads, followed by an AFL career that also included the Nashville Kats), but his indie cred is solid. This tune's an ode to a Cali producer/engineer who's worked with everyone from R.E.M. to the Beastie Boys; “Clif Norell, how do you mix so well?” is the perfect line to hear when you've been mixing awesome game-day cocktails and nobody seems to appreciate your fine work
11:30am: Mike Reid, “Keep On Walkin'”
Injuries caused the Outland winner to bolt the Bengals after a few Pro Bowl seasons, but he didn't do too bad for himself afterwards, writing or co-writing 12 #1 country hits (including the crossover monster “I Can't Make You Love Me”). “Keep On Walkin'” is ideal for a few hours in, when marauders from other tailgates start trying to casually infiltrate and steal your supplies
11:50am: Vikings of the North Atlantic, “Burn New Life In Me”
Besides being able to crank out 45 reps with 225lbs, 315lb Giants guard Mitch Petrus can also rock out on guitar and bass, the instrument he wields like the Hammer of Thor in his metal band, VONA. Recharge with this when you realize that, after three hours of tailgating, you actually have a three-hour football game to sit through too
12:15pm: Terry Bradshaw, “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry”
From yukking it up with Mel Tillis in The Cannonball Run to yukking it up with McConaughey in Failure to Launch, Terry Bradshaw's made a second career out of having people laugh at him -- but believe it or not, underneath the aw-shucks lies a golden set of pipes. If your friends have tickets but you don't have tickets and you're just gonna watch the game on a TV hooked up to a generator, this 1976 performance should be your sad little theme song
3:30pm: The Legendary Singing Stars, “Anyhow”
Injuries have plagued Tampa's Da'Quan Bowers since a knee injury caused the Top 10 talent to slide to the 51st pick, but the guy's got a future in music if he wants it: he plays his dad's 64 Fender Strat, “Denise” -- and plays it really well -- in the gospel band Dennis Bowers led for 30 years before passing in 2010. Da'Quan was still at Clemson when this video was shot; the song strikes just the right note for when you emerge from the stadium, and the cars are starting to pull out, and there's trash everywhere, and you have no idea where you parked, and you're thinking, man, this is beautiful
3:35pm: Craig Terrill, “Stood Up By The Stones”
The former Seattle DT does one hell of a Bruce Springsteen, actually fitting, as E Street sax-man Clarence Clemons was a standout college lineman who'd lined up Browns and Cowboys tryouts before a car crash messed up his shot. Terrill wrote this folk tune after Super Bowl XL, when security denied him his chance to meet his boyhood idols before their halftime performance. If your attempt to get a team-entrance autograph gets stymied, queue this up, and know that at least one player feels your pain
4pm: Don Meredith, “Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over”
Don Meredith never claimed to be a musician. He just liked to sing in the Monday Night broadcast booth while Howard Cosell laughed and didn't sing. There's no better way to officially close out one football day and start looking forward to the next one.
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Louisiana power outages: Hurricane Barry affects thousands. See the outage map here
Thirty thousand people have lost power in Louisiana hours before Hurricane Barry is expected to make landfall as a hurricane.
Louisiana power outages: Hurricane Barry affects thousands. See the outage map here Thirty thousand people have lost power in Louisiana hours before Hurricane Barry is expected to make landfall as a hurricane. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2019/07/13/tropical-storm-hurricane-barry-power-outage-map-entergy-cleco-louisiana/1722402001/
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Lee Morvant clears the area underneath his fish camp in Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Isle de Jean Charles is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Island Road looking out of Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. There is only one way in and out of Isle de Jean Charles which is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Anthony Verdun walks down from his porch where he will ride out Tropical Storm Barry in Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Isle de Jean Charles is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Edison Dardar looks out from his porch where he will ride out Tropical Storm Barry in Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Dardar was born and raised in the community. Isle de Jean Charles is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Anthony Verdun talks from his porch where he will ride out Tropical Storm Barry in Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Isle de Jean Charles is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Linda, left, and Lee Morvant talk about the water level at their fish camp in Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Isle de Jean Charles is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
A boat with a familiar name as Tropical Storm Barry nears the coast in Montegut, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
Island Road looking into Isle de Jean Charles, La., on Friday, July 12, 2019. There is only one way in and out of Isle de Jean Charles, which is slowly shrinking due to rising sea levels. Jake Crandall/Special to the Advertiser
More than 30,000 people have lost power in Louisiana as Tropical Storm Barry moves closer to the Louisiana shore, according to outage maps from Entergy Louisiana and Cleco Power.
Entergy Louisiana reported outages in Assumption, Jefferson, Terrebone and Lafourche parishes.
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Cleco Power, serving Morgan City, reported more than 3,000 affected customers. Morgan City is projected to be the location Barry makes landfall as a hurricane Saturday morning.
According to the Associated Press, the outages coincided with National Weather Service-issued tornado warnings for three parishes bordering Jefferson Parish to the west, near New Orleans.
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Murray in no hurry to rest
REST-ASSURED: Andy Murray plays a backhand in his Hopman Cup singles match against France’s Kenny De Schepper at Perth Arena on Monday. Paul Kanegetty Images
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6th Jan 2016 6:00 AM
Most of the world's leading players have returned to competition this week following an end-of-year break.
But for Andy Murray the end of his 2015 season has rolled almost seamlessly into his 2016 campaign.
Murray will take on Nick Kyrgios in a much-anticipated clash at the Hopman Cup in Perth tonight as Great Britain looks to build on its first-up 2-1 round-robin win over France on Monday.
The Scot carried on where he left off just 36 days after securing Britain's historic Davis Cup victory with a win over world No.148, Kenny de Schepper, 6-2, 6-2, before returning for a deciding mixed doubles alongside Heather Watson.
Watson had lost her opening singles to Caroline Garcia 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Murray and Watson beat De Schepper and Garcia 6-2, 5-7, 10-6 to give Britain victory.
Kyrgios will face Murray when Australia Green, one of two teams representing the host nation in the event, plays Britain - a match the Australian said he was keenly anticipating.
"I have been looking forward to facing Murray for a long time now, so I'm going to go and do everything I can to physically prepare for that battle," he said.
Murray has won all four of their previous encounters, most recently in the 2015 US Open, with Kyrgios taking just one set off the Scot in their professional career history.
But Kyrgios looked good in defeating Germany's Alexander Zverev 4-6 6-1 6-4 on Sunday, before helping new Aussie Daria Gavrilova to a doubles win which sealed the pair a 3-0 whitewash of the German team.
Murray has been practising here in Australia for more than a week.
"February will really be my off-season," Murray, whose wife Kim Sears is expecting the couple's first child next month, said.
"That's how I planned it after the Davis Cup because of the way the year finished for me and with everything coming up."
There were times in his opening match when Murray appeared in some physical discomfort, but it was just a legacy of his recent hard work.
"The first week of the year people think you come in well rested, but in fact it's a little bit the opposite," he said.
"You train very hard in the off-season and then when you come to the match court you are moving that little bit quicker, the intensity is that little bit higher and things are a bit stiff and sore. Often I think the first match back after a little break is the toughest one, physically."
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Arab billionaire says he has agreed terms to buy Newcastle: report
(Reuters) - Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed Al Nehayan says he has agreed terms with Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley to buy the Premier League club, the Newcastle Chronicle reported on Monday.
The Chronicle said they had been contacted by the Sheikh's representatives, who sent them a statement regarding reports of a possible sale.
"We can confirm that representatives of His Highness Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nahyan are in discussions with Mike Ashley and his team, about the proposed acquisition of Newcastle United Football Club," read the statement.
"We view it as an honor to have the opportunity to build on the strong support, history and tradition of the club.
"We have agreed terms and are working hard to complete the transaction at the earliest opportunity."
The newspaper said that Newcastle had confirmed to them that the discussions were genuine.
British media reports have said the sale price could be around 350 million pounds ($443.66 million).
Newcastle United and Sheikh Khaled did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.
Ashley, who bought a controlling stake in the Premier League club in 2007, has in the past tried to sell the club.
The owner of British sportswear retailer Sports Direct International Plc said last October that he had not received any acceptable offers for Newcastle, a year after he officially put the club up for sale, but told Sky News in December that talks on a deal had made promising progress.
Any potential buyer of the club must be able to provide transfer funds, he had said at the time.
Sheikh Khaled, the cousin of Manchester City owner and Arab billionaire Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, previously failed in his bid to buy Liverpool Football Club for 2 billion pounds last year, the Daily Mail has previously reported.
Sheikh Khaled is also the founder of Bin Zayed Group, a leading conglomerate with diverse business interests in the local and international markets.
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Netflix Film: Mute
It is always fun to watch a movie that is set in the future and when it is a Netflix Original you expect a better glimpse into the future not just in terms of graphics, but also in how the future is made believable.
Netflix’s newest offering Mute is set in Berlin, 40 years from the present. Leo Beiler, a mute man with a violent past and is now working as a bartender. His solace in life is his girlfriend, Naadirah who also works at the same bar. Life seems hunky dory for the couple, except a few flashes of ‘you do not know my past’ that Naadirah keeps throwing at Leo.
One final day, she is taken away from bed, while Leo is still unconscious. Hell bent on finding the love of his life, Leo tries everything that he can, even resorting to violence and messing around with a gangster Maksim who is also the owner of the club. Parallel to Leo’s story is the story of two American surgeons, Cactus Bill and Duck Teddington, who patch up gunshot wounds for the Russian mob. While Duck is happy to be in Berlin, Cactus wants to go back to USA, and hopes the Russian mob will provide the requisite papers for him and his daughter to go back.
How the two stories intertwine is the crux of this Netflix Original.
What’s WOW? The sheer thought of how our future will be is exasperating and exciting. And Mute has kept that intact throughout. You can be so excited to see how the basic experiences of our present, will completely change in the future – things like ordering food, or playing games will be more interactive they are today.
Alexander Skarsgård as Leo is lovable, it is after all, a difficult task to not speak but still emote. He has done a fabulous job.
What’s Blah? There are a lot of missing threads in this Netflix film. You may end up thinking that the film spend a lot of time on the editing table, which it shouldn’t have. Coming from Duncan Jones, Mute is riding on a lot of expectations and that doesn’t work in its favor.
Parting Shot: If you have loved Duncan Jones’ previous work, you will love Mute too. It is a classic case of sci-fi meets romance.
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We Need (Religious Freedom) Reinforcements
August 26, 2016 | John Inazu
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There’s an unforgettable scene in We Were Soldiers, the 2002 movie based on the first major battle between the United States and the North Vietnamese. American ground troops under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson) are losing ground to enemy forces. In a last and desperate act, Moore hails the radio and calls for “Broken Arrow”—the Hail Mary play that brings in planes for close air support. There’s no guarantee the planes will succeed, but one thing is certain: Without those reinforcements, Moore’s troops don’t stand a chance.
I thought of the Broken Arrow scene as I read Mary Eberstadt’s new book, It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies. I realize it’s a risky analogy, especially from someone who would like to see us move away from the “culture wars” rhetoric and look for opportunities to find common ground through “confident pluralism.” But the battle imagery fits well with Eberstadt’s framing; indeed, one shortcoming of the book is its sometimes combative tone, which hinders the author’s stated goal of reaching “people of goodwill.”
Battle at Hand
Eberstadt—an essayist associated with several think tanks, including the Hoover Institution and the Ethics and Public Policy Center—situates the battle as between religious traditionalists and secular progressives. Although that framing misses the role religious progressives have played in the push against religious traditionalists, she’s right that some secular progressives would like to see an end to traditionalist beliefs.
She also correctly observes that religious traditionalists often assume a defensive posture. Many religious schools, campus ministries, and social service organizations aren’t interested in picking fights—they simply end up in litigation, policy fights, and media battles from those who increasingly demand conformity with progressive sexual ethics.
To her credit, Eberstadt avoids some of the hyperbole that often accompanies culture war narratives. For example, she’s careful not to claim American Christians are being “persecuted,” though at times she invokes the phrase “soft persecution.” She’s also clear-eyed about the costs of this culture war.
In one of the most important sections of the book, Eberstadt explains how our charitable infrastructure depends on traditionalist religious institutions; she rightly observes that government workers and well-meaning secularists are unlikely to fill the void.
It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies
Mary Eberstadt
Harper. 192 pages.
Guys on the Ground
There’s much Eberstadt gets right, but the book falls short in some important ways. That Broken Arrow scene from We Were Soldiers came to mind not from Eberstadt’s culture-wars framing, but because her narrow conception of religious traditionalists (the ground troops in this analogy) blinds her to the reinforcements that might actually save them.
My hunch is that when Eberstadt refers to “religious traditionalists” she means “white Catholics and evangelicals.” Almost all her examples involve white Christian individuals or institutions, and apart from a few isolated examples, she shows little awareness of the millions of other religious traditionalists in this country. If the ground troops in this story are all white Christians, they’re unlikely to prevail without the guys in the planes. Yet Eberstadt’s religious traditionalists aren’t simply failing to call in these reinforcements; they’re often undercutting the very possibility.
Guys in the Planes
Consider first American Muslims. Traditionalist Christians and traditionalist Muslims harbor many theological disagreements, but they share a common unease with many aspects of progressive sexuality. Yet at a time when these two groups ought to be building bridges toward one another, many traditionalist Christians are doing just the opposite. Instead of coming to the aid of their would-be reinforcements, many have lobbied for fear-induced “anti-Sharia” laws and joined conservative politicians who castigate Muslims as disloyal second-class citizens.
Black Christians are another potential reinforcement for the ground troops. Many black Christians (and other non-white Christians) share the biblical values of white religious traditionalists. Yet they’re virtually absent from Eberstadt’s account. Eberstadt also fails to address the argument that traditionalist religious views about sexuality are analogous to views about segregation a generation ago. Although that argument has significant legal and cultural flaws, it poses a powerful rhetorical challenge for white religious traditionalists whose predecessors impeded efforts toward racial equality and whose institutions, buildings, and bank accounts still benefit from that moral failure.
Those who bear the scars of “the old civil rights” are far better positioned to resist rhetorical challenges from advocates of “the new civil rights.” But instead of recognizing their need for black Christians, white religious traditionalists have largely ignored them, and many remain indifferent to the challenges of personal and structural racism that persist in this country.
More than Strategy
Hal Moore could only call for Broken Arrow because the guys in the planes believed the guys on the ground were worth dying for. That doesn’t just happen out of the blue. It requires a shared understanding of common interests and a willingness to stand with one another in difficult times. If I were in the planes looking down, I’d be concerned about the friendly fire coming my way. And I’d be even more worried in light of some of the claims coming from white religious traditionalists in the current political season.
Of course, white religious traditionalists ought to be motivated by more than strategic alliances. They should defend the religious liberty of Muslim Americans not because they’re looking for reinforcements, but because religious freedom for all is a gospel imperative. They should stand with black Christians not because they’re in search of a rhetorically useful alignment, but because the gospel transcends race and calls us to bear each other’s burdens.
My worry is the ground troops in Eberstadt’s story don’t realize they won’t make it without the guys in the planes. And they don’t realize how little they’ve done to build trust with those potential reinforcements. That doesn’t bode well for Broken Arrow—a long shot under any circumstance.
John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth distinguished professor of law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Chibs: I have no idea how Bobby handled this shit.
Tig: Yeah, we need to patch in another Jew.
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I like you. The sex is great and when you're not tearing apart every single moment that we have together, you're actually a lot of fun.
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Chibs: All this shit, it triggers my Catholic superstitions.
Jax: Trust me, this guy's got a ghost who's looking for a bus full of dead school boys.
Chibs: That's comforting.
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Bobby knows the risk. We all do but we're all still here.
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CBS's 'Training Day' Picks up 15 Years After the Movie
Lori Acken January 31, 2017 10:13 am
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"Faultlines" -- OSC of the CBS series TRAINING DAY, scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Paul Sarkis/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2016 WBEI. All rights reserved.
Training Day, the hit 2001 crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke that won Washington his second Academy Award, is getting the small-screen treatment.
The CBS series picks up 15 years after Washington’s dirty LAPD detective Alonzo Harris went down in a hail of Mafia bullets, but the fallout from his corruption still reverberates across L.A. and within the force. Big Love’s Bill Paxton plays Special Investigations Section Detective Frank Rourke, who, like Harris, carries out his work via a very questionable brand of policing. He’s caught the attention of Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart (Blindspot’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who assigns idealistic Kyle Craig (Justin Cornwell, right, with Paxton) to go undercover as Rourke’s trainee in hopes of finding out if the LAPD vet has gone rogue. Complicating their mentor-mentee relationship: Kyle’s father used to be Rourke’s partner until he died under mysterious circumstances. “There’s a lot of ulterior motives in terms of Rourke’s past with Kyle,” hints Paxton. “And Rourke is not someone you want to poke with a stick, because he’ll come at you like a rattlesnake.”
RELATED: Training Day: How the CBS Series and the 2001 Film Are Tied Together
Both will battle their memories of the elder Craig—and try to figure each other out in the process—and Paxton teases that familiar faces from the original film will resurface. “As we get toward the last couple of episodes, the mythology goes directly back into the movie,” he says. “Characters return.”
Would it be possible to get Ethan Hawke as a special guest star, please?
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Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 10th August 2017 Written Update
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 10th August 2017 Written Update, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 10th August 2017 Written Episode Update.
The episode starts with Chandani getting angry with Advay and reacting to his words even. She tells him not to touch her even. He presents her with their wedding card and she is shocked to see it. But Advay challenges her that she herself will tell him to touch her.
Meanwhile Pratham eats something and dances like a mad person. He even misbehaves with Indrani and other family members. He ultimately falls down and his mother takes him from the main venue. Indrani asks as to who did this and everyone is quiet and still. Finally Advay admits that he made him eat ladoo but didn’t realize that it had bhaang mixed in it. Indrani again asks as to who had mixed bhaang in it and Kajal says it was Shikha.
Indrani questions her and Veer comes to rescue for her. He admits that it is his mistake. Finally the matter solves and Advay and Veer come face to face realising that both are trying to impress some or the other person.
The same day the ritual has to start between PP and Chandani but he’s not even in a condition to stand. Shikha goes to Veer and apologize that she had put the bhaang but he took the blame. He eases her but Shikha says at the back that no one can make a fool of her.
PP comes for the ritual which starts with Ganesha aarti but ultimately PP falls down in front of everyone. Chandani and others are shocked. Indrani is tensed about the incomplete ritual but Advay puts forward a proposal that if he could finish the ritual. Chandani recollects her conversation with him and us stunned with his attitude. But Chandani’s dad comes and says that Advay should do this ritual along with her as then it would kill the bad omen effect. Advay and Chandani are stunned.
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Is Plant-Based Fish the New Vegan Burger?
Words by Sarah Hutcherson
Nov 27, 51589
As much as 55 percent of our oceans are fished industrially, which is equivalent to four times the total land mass used for agriculture. Meanwhile, warmer waters due to climate change are causing sharp declines in fishery populations, National Geographic reports.
These facts, coupled with recent findings that climate change and overfishing could increase the mercury levels in fish, make for a guilt-ridden pescatarian experience. These bleak environmental factors pose stark economic implications because the global fishing industry accounted for $362 billion of economic output as of 2016, according to a State of World Fisheries report.
The poor state of industrial fishing, our oceans, and the associated health risks together are sobering. Plus, deciphering whether to eat wild-caught fish versus farmed fish adds another level of complexity as this dilemma brings up questions around ecosystem impact, carbon footprints and plastics.
The silver lining, however, is that more companies are seeking less extractive solutions that rely on a different supply chain to bring a whole new kind of fish—made from plant-based ingredients—to the earth’s growing population.
The latest in food tech: Plant-based fish
Companies working to create the ultimate plant-based fish include New Wave Foods, a plant-based shrimp company; Good Catch Foods, a company that produces a plant-based tuna; and, of course, Impossible Foods, the company known for its vegan bloody burger.
Impossible Foods in particular is on a rapid growth trajectory; note its recent announcement that the company will expand its production. This is a timely decision as during 2018, the nascent plant based food category is projected to grow at a rate of almost 25 percent over the next several years. And the company hopes to have enough plant-based options to make animal protein unnecessary by 2035.
Currently, Good Catch Foods’ products are available in some New York City Whole Foods locations. New Wave Foods’ shrimp are available at select restaurants in San Francisco and New York City. Impossible Foods has yet to release a plant-based fish option.
If the plant-based fish segment is to grow as quickly and with the level of impact that the plant-based meat sector has, plant-based fish companies need to win the hearts of non-environmentalists and non-vegans, i.e., everyday consumers.
Mastering taste and texture key to acceptance of plant-based fish alternatives
Companies focused on developing plant-based fish alternatives realize they have to research and innovate quickly if they are to offer products that can sway consumers with flavor and texture.
“The only way we can succeed,” Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown told The New York Times, “is to make fish from plants that is more delicious than the fish that’s strip-mined from the ocean.”
Impossible Foods is ramping up research and even recently announced that it created a plant-based broth with a similar taste to one made from anchovies, Food & Wine reported. Plus, the FDA’s approval of the Impossible Burger’s “plant blood” is an exciting step for the company if it can get closer to achieving a plant-based fish formula that has the mouthfeel of a fish. The trick is heme, the molecule that creates a taste and texture that makes our brain experience the animalistic aspect of the meatless burger, and hopefully soon, fishless fish.
Texture and flavor have been important to Good Catch as well. It spent two years launching its canned tuna product line, according to VegWorld Magazine. The company’s plant-based tuna is comprised of algae, beans and legumes to achieve a fish texture similar to canned tuna.
“In terms of texture, that was probably the biggest feat. Diversifying the proteins enabled us to create the texture with six different beans,” Chad Sarno, the co-founder of Good Catch, told Marketwatch.
Communicating the benefits present challenges in growing the plant-based fish market
Consumers see fish as a healthy source of Omega 3s, vitamin D and minerals. Hence their motivation to switch from fish to a plant-based alternative for health reasons isn’t as obvious as switching from cattle-based beef to plant-based burgers.
“A lot of people will simply say if you eat meat, you’re increasing your risk of cancer,” Tom Rees, who studies the packaged food industry for the market research firm Euromonitor International, told The New York Times. “There isn’t an equivalent of that for fish.”
Even though fish is known as a healthy animal protein and there is a debate about the functional benefits of plant-based Omega 3s versus Omega 3s from fish, plant-based fish companies do have valid functional benefits to tout. They include foods rich in protein, as well as the absence of mercury and other toxins which in the end, are an improvement for everyday health.
Interest in a plant-based lifestyle bodes well for plant-based fish
The nascent plant-based fish segment, which currently makes up less than one percent of the total plant-based meat market, is poised for growth. Sales of plant-based food are expected to surpass $13 trillion by 2025. Plus, millennials with children are more likely to adopt plant-based diets, which could lead to a new generation that is more mindful and willing to adopt a plant-based lifestyle, Forbes reports.
Investors’ interest in plant-based fish companies also signals a new tide in plant-based fish’s status. Good Catch secured $8.7 million in 2018, while Chipotle invested in Sophie’s Kitchen, a vegan fish company, at the beginning of 2019.
Since four out of 10 pounds of animal products consumed globally are fish, the business opportunity to reinvent the fish industry cannot be overlooked. The race is on as companies vie for the ultimate product to make Fishless Friday the new Meatless Monday.
Image credit: Good Catch Foods
Sarah Hutcherson
As a recent Bard MBA Sustainability graduate, Sarah is excited to be a contributing writer to TriplePundit to demonstrate how environmentally and socially responsible business is synonymous with stronger returns and a more sustainable world. She is most intrigued with how to foster regenerative food systems, develop inclusive and democratic workplaces and inspire responsible consumption.
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The Mysterious Sailing Stones
Tripzibit September 18, 2012 Death Valley, Geology, Mystical Places / Earthly Energies, Racetrack, Sailing Stones
In the northwest section of Death Valley there is a place of greatest mysteries on earth called the Racetrack, where rocks ranging in size from mere pebbles to half ton boulders that regularly move without human or animal intervention in long tracks along a smooth valley floor. This Sailing stones phenomenon is documented by scientists since the 1940s, early studies of the Sailing Stones began when geologists Allen Agnew and Jim McAllister mapped the area and noted the tracks left by the boulders in 1948 however the force behind their movement is not confirmed and until now is still the subject of research.
The Racetrack is a mere two inches higher on the north end than the south. Flat as a pool table. The surface is sun-baked mud, hard as rock, and patterned in polygons the size of doughnuts, about about three miles long (4.5 kilometers) and a mile wide (2 kilometers).
Some Sailing stones made straight paths, some curved. Some traveled a hundred yards (90 meters) in one direction, stopped in a muddy muddle, apparently thought better of their direction, and made a 180-degree turn to ramble off in another direction. Some trails were wide for a while, narrow, then wide again. Occasionally, half a dozen rocks took off at once from the base of the mountain and seemed to race straight toward the Grandstand like horses at the derby. The tracks often crossed one another.
In 1968, two scientists from the Institute of Technology in California, Robert Sharp and Dwight Carrey conducted an ambitious study tracking the stones that involved painstakingly mapping their movements by noting their positions at regular intervals.
In 1972 they explain the process. The playa receives three to four inches (eight to ten centimeters) of rain a year during winter storms and summer cloudbursts. Parts of the Racetrack flood. Intensely slippery clay settles, and the winds, which may reach 90 miles an hour (40 meters per second), must overcome the forces of friction for the rocks to break free. Once that happens, it takes only about half the wind power to keep the rocks moving.
Their theory was widely accepted until 1991, when another geologist studied the enigmatic stones and brought his students to test the validity of the earlier researches. This time, John Reid from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a group of students converged on the stones en masse, during a time where the weather conditions matched those stated in the 1968 study. Reid and his students attempted as a group to push, shove and/or pull the rocks with ropes. Yet nothing could budge them and despite their valiant efforts, the rocks remained stubbornly immobile.
One of the factor that the previous explanations could not account for is that footprints made on the surface of the wet, muddy plain would typically be visible for years, and no tracks except for the ones made by the rocks have ever been found on the playa. Another theory, that earthquakes might move the rocks, has also been dismissed, since all quakes in the area are recorded, and none has coincided with new tracks being made by the rocks.
To date, there’s no film of the sailing stones, though several scientists have tried to capture their movement. The rocks don’t move every year, which complicates the effort, but nevertheless, several teams of scientists plan to set up camera equipment on the plain.
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Antidote to Hooverism
The New Masses, December 3, 1946, pp. 15-16
The Auto Workers Face 1935
The New Masses, January 8, 1935, pp. 16-18
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The New Masses, December 30, 1941, pp. 3-4
Background of the Anti-Soviet War
The New Masses, January 2, 1940, pp. 9-10
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Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels by Charles A. Beard
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Behind the (N.Y.) Times
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Box Score on the Primaries
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Browder: Renegade's Read
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A.B. Magil and Max Lerner
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Can Dewey Win?
The New Masses, October 10, 1944, p. 6
Can Father Coughlin Come Back?
The New Republic, June 24, 1936, pp. 196-197
The "Case" Against New Masses
Joseph North and A.B. Magil
The New Masses, March 5, 1940, pp. 15-16
A Challenge to a Misleader
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The Populist Movement in the United States, by Anna Rochester
The Populist Movement in the United States by Anna Rochester
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The Coming Triumph
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Communism and Democracy
The Communists Nominate...
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Cornerstone for Coalition
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The Crucible of Democracy
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Cube under Construction
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The Collected Works of V.I. Lenin, by V.I. Lenin
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Democracy and Social Change, by Harry F. Ward
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Helsinki Blackmail
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The Hiss/Weinstein File
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Hurry Up Please This Time, by Elizabeth Hawes
Hurry Up Please This Time by Elizabeth Hawes
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Views on Browder's Speech
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Virtuosi of Confusion
The Voice of Essau
Wall Street's Ambassador-at-Large
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What About Cartels? II
What About Postwar Planning?
What About Roosevelt?
"What About the Colonial Peoples?"
What Happens Then To America?
The New Masses, April 22, 1947, p. 13
What He Meant to Us
What Hitler Didn't Say
What the Ballots Revealed
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What the Primaries Revealed
The New Masses, October 6, 1942, pp. 11-12
Who Is the Little Business Man?
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Who's Afraid of Peace?
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Why Do They Confess?
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Home Restaurants Viva l’Italia: 18 Insanely Good Italian Restaurants
Viva l’Italia: 18 Insanely Good Italian Restaurants
by URBAN JOURNEY June 21, 2016
Singapore has no shortage of Italian eateries, but if you’re anything like us, you’re probably after something a bit more authentic than a run-of-the-mill pizza and pasta chain. Over the years we’ve sampled Italian restaurants all over the city, and there are a few we keep going back to time and again for their buzzy vibes and belissimo food. If you’re looking for a solid Italian spread, here’re some of our favourite spots serving up delicious antipasti, handmade pasta, wood-fired pizzas, succulent seafood, and grilled meats, plus hard-to-find Italian aperitifs and wines.
Amò
Located in a historic shophouse on Hong Kong Street, Amò is a cool Italian concept brought to us by Beppe De Vito and the ilLido Group. Grab a seat at the bar for a chilled cocktail, then move to one of the tables facing the open kitchen or head to the outdoor courtyard for a family-style feast of shared plates. We love the crispy calamari with sumac and sundried tomato aioli, the butter roasted spring chicken, and the signature pizza topped with friarielli, pancetta, pumpkin, and smoked mozzarella.
Amò, 33 Hong Kong Street, Singapore 059672. p. +65 6723 7733. Open daily 12pm – 2:30pm, 6:30pm – 10:30pm
Bar Cicheti
Bar Cicheti is the little sister to Cicheti, but while the original locale is dedicated to Italian small plates, Bar Cicheti is all about handmade pastas made with fresh, seasonal ingredients and artisanal Italian products. Settle into the cosy shophouse done up like a modern trattoria and dig into plates piled with silky spaghetti in a jalapeno pesto, agnolotti with braised beef cheek, or squid ink fusilli with uni and crab. The boutique wines are also a big draw.
Bar Cicheti, 10 Jiak Chuan Road, Singapore 089264. p. +65 6789 9801. Open Tues – Fri 12pm – 2:30pm, 6pm – 10pm, Sat 11am – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm, Sun 11am – 3pm
For spectacular views along with elegant sips and snacks, you can’t go wrong with Michelin-starred Braci. Book out the entire 20-seater dining room or the 30-seater rooftop bar and soak up vistas of the Singapore River and bustling Boat Quay below as you dig into Chef Beppe De Vito’s modern Italian dishes like beef tartare with smoked marrow, tagliolini with Japanese sea urchin, and Sardinian sea bass roasted over a charcoal grill.
Braci, 52 Boat Quay #05-01 and #06-01, Singapore 049841. p. +65 6866 1933. Open Mon – Sat: 6pm – 10:30pm, Tues – Fri: 12pm – 2pm
Bruno’s Pizzeria & Grill
We rarely head to the East Coast, which is silly because there are so many great spots to get our eat and drink on (and we have a borderline addiction issue with Smokey’s). Our latest foray took us to Tanjong Katong Road where we came across a little hole-in-the-wall eatery offering sublime Italian dishes. At first glance Bruno’s Pizzeria & Grill may seem pretty unremarkable in terms of decor and ambiance, but we’re telling you that these guys are doing some next-level dishes. Don’t expect flabby pizzas and ho-hum pastas. At Bruno’s it’s all about using fresh local and imported ingredients whipped up in imaginative ways.
Bruno’s Pizzeria & Grill, 344 Tanjong Katong Road. p. +65 6440 4525. Open daily 12pm – 2:30pm, 6pm – 10:30pm
Buona Terra
With a seductive setting in a vintage colonial house, a regularly rotating menu that makes use of the very best seasonal ingredients (think sea urchin, truffles, and caviar), and a sommelier on hand to guide you through a wine list of over 200 labels, Buona Terra is the perfect spot for a decadent date night or a sophisticated lunch. Chef Denis Lucchi hails from Lombardy and puts a modern spin on his traditional Italian dishes, which he serves up in your choice of four, five, or six-course menus.
Buona Terra, 29 Scotts Road, Singapore 228224. p. +65 6733 0209. Open Mon – Fri 12pm – 2:30pm, Mon – Sat 6:30pm – 10:30pm
Capri Trattoria & Pizza
The atmosphere at Capri is rustic and cosy and the food is authentically Italian. The menu has a great mix of pastas, seafood and grilled meats, plus pizzas baked in a brick oven. Start with antipasti like the swordfish carpaccio or Caprese salad with mozzarella and fresh tomatoes, then move on to heartier fare like the branzino (salt-baked sea bass), duck ravioli with pumpkin or the mouthwatering cotoletta alla milanese, a bone-in veal chop, breaded and deep-fried.
Capri Trattoria & Pizza, 3 Binjai Park, Bukit Timah, Singapore 589819. p. +65 6468 4886. Open Tues – Sun 12pm – 2:30pm, 6pm – 10:30pm
Cicheti
Tucked away in Kampong Glam, Cicheti is a fun Italian haunt named after the small plates that are served in Venice’s wine bars. This is a great place to gather with a group of friends and indulge in light bites like grilled octopus, panzanella, and salumi along with a bottle or three of good wine. And if you want a full-on meal, it also serves more robust dishes like fresh pasta and insanely good pizza cooked in an authentic Italian wood-fired oven.
Cicheti, 52 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198901. p. +65 6292 5012. Open Mon – Fri 12pm – 2:30pm, 6:30pm – 10:30pm, Sat 6pm – 10:30pm
D.O.P
An entire restaurant dedicated to cheese, wine, and good times? Bring. It. On. Created by Luca Iannone, D.O.P. is a mozzarella bar and restaurant that showcases amazing Italian products like mozzarella di bufala Campana and Parma ham in the delish cheese and meat platters, pizzas, pasta, and risottos. The atmosphere is relaxed, which makes it easy to settle in for a while. They also have an enticing retail section where you can pick up Italian goods to take home.
D.O.P., 60 Robertson Quay #01-04A, The Quayside, Singapore 238252. p. +65 6908 0830. Open Mon – Fri 5pm – 11pm, Sat, Sun & PH 12pm – 11pm
iO Italian Osteria
It may be a little further out of town, but iO Italian Osteria is worth the trek for its wonderfully homey vibe and authentic Italian dishes made entirely from scratch. Pull up a stool at the bar to watch the chefs in action in the open-concept kitchen or settle at one of the whitewashed wooden tables and dig into rustic creations like the Roman style schiacciata flatbread, crispy stuffed and fried olives, and baked risotto bolognese.
iO Italian Osteria, 4 Hillview Rise #02-01, HillV2, Singapore 667979. p. +65 6710 7150. Open daily from 10am – 10pm
Tucked away in Bukit Timah, 40-seater La Braceria has an easy-going ambiance and cosy interior that makes it ideal for a leisurely weekend lunch or a relaxed date early in the week. Their menu is pretty comprehensive with plates to suit all palates including the gorgeous burrata cheese with Parma ham and cherry tomatoes, Neapolitan-style pizzas with simple, yet elegant toppings, and decadent grills like the pan-seared tenderloin with foie gras and fresh black truffles.
La Braceria, 5 Greendale Avenue, Singapore 289501. p. +65 6465 5918. Open daily 12:30pm – 2:30pm, 6:30pm – 10:30pm
Limoncello is one of our favourite spots to dine at the bar because the roomy L-shaped bar sits just steps from their wooden patio overlooking the Singapore River. Even better, chef-owner Fabio Iannone has created a divine menu that draws inspiration from the Amalfi Coast, so you’ll find tons of great seafood dishes like clams steamed in white wine, and pan-fried snapper in lemon butter. Not a fan of fish? It also has stellar salads, thin-crust pizzas, and steaks.
Limoncello, 95 Robertson Quay #01-19/20, Rivergate Condominium, Singapore 238256. p. +65 6634 5117. Open Tues – Sun 12pm – 2:30pm, daily 6pm – 12:30pm
No Menu
Step inside No Menu and you instantly feel like you’re in an Italian home, which is exactly what chef-owner Osvaldo Forlino is going for. Don’t be surprised if he or one of his family members greets you at the door and gives you some menu suggestions, which could include the creamy burrata with parma ham or the homemade pappardelle with Kurobuta pork sauce. And just like the ambiance, the food will leave you feeling all warm and happy inside.
No Menu, 21/23 Boon Tat Street, Singapore 069621. p. +65 6224 0091. Open Mon – Fri 11:30am – 2pm, Mon – Sat 6:30pm – 10pm
OSORistorante
OSO Ristorante has long been a darling of the Singapore dining scene, and now even more so since it moved to its lofty location atop Oasia Hotel Downtown. Situated between the hotel’s two pools, the restaurant boasts plenty of quiet corners for intimate dining, as well as a chill bar that’s perfect for solo or two-person meals. The menu still features many of the classics we know and love, like the tartufo risotto and lobster fettuccine, as well as contemporary creations like the spicy angel hair pasta with crab meat.
OSO Ristorante, 100 Peck Seah Street, Oasia Hotel Downtown, Level 27, Singapore 079333. p. +65 6327 8378. Open daily 12pm – 2:30pm, 6pm – 12am.
OTTO Ristorante
If you’re looking to impress with a high-end Italian meal – whether it’s for a first date or a formal CBD business lunch – OTTO Ristorante is the way to go. This sleek, Michelin-starred spot serves up expertly executed Italian dishes like suckling pig, ossobuco, and handmade pastas that are tossed, topped, or stuffed with premium seasonal ingredients like roasted duck, Boston lobster, and black truffles. The all-Italian wine list is also worth spending some time perusing as they have some excellent vintages on offer.
OTTO Ristorante, 32 Maxwell Road #01-02/03, Maxwell Chambers, Singapore 069115. p. +65 6227 6819. Open Mon – Fri 12pm – 2:30pm, 6:30pm – 10:30pm.
Ristorante Pietrasanta
Ristorante Pietrasanta’s chef-owner brothers, Giuseppe and Loris, have brought a little piece of their Italian hometown of Pietrasanta to Singapore, and Italians and Italian food lovers couldn’t be happier. Everything about Ristorante Pietrasanta is welcoming from the peaceful location on a leafy lane to the rustic wood interiors, the affable and accommodating service, and the comforting Tuscan-style dishes that don’t skimp on portion control nor flavour.
Ristorante Pietrasanta, 5B Portsdown Road #01-03, Singapore 139311. p. +65 6479 9521. Open Mon – Fri 11:45am – 2:30pm, 5:45pm – 10:30pm, Sat – Sun 11:45am – 2:45pm, 5:45pm – 10:30pm
Ristorante Da Valentino
Named after Italian-born chef-owner Valentino, this family-run restaurant has long been a favourite of ours because the food and atmosphere are fabulously authentic. We suggest coming with a group because then you can try a variety of tasty dishes like the prosciutto with melon, clams in white wine sauce, and pizzas with gourmet toppings like Parma ham, porcini mushrooms and zesty rucola. Be sure to save room for the sinfully good chocolate Valentino cake.
Ristorante Da Valentino, 200 Turf Club Rd, #01-19, Singapore 287994. p. +65 6462 0555. Open Mon – Fri 12pm – 2:30pm, 6pm – 10:30pm, Sat – Sun 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 10:30pm
Trattoria Amanda
If you’re craving Italian in the CBD, you can’t go wrong with Trattoria Amanda. The space has an intimate family-run feel, the staff go out of their way to give you a warm welcome, and the menu is made up of rustic Italian comfort food dishes. Defo try the tonnarelli with squid ink sauce and the Parma rucola pizza. They also do great set lunches during the week that include antipasti, a main and a dessert for just $28++, and have happy hours between 5pm and 8pm with specials on aperitifs.
Trattoria Amanda, 14 Stanley Street, Singapore 068733. p. +65 6222 5808. Open Mon – Sat 11:30am – 3pm, 5:30pm – 12am
Trattoria L’Operetta
Trattoria L’Operetta ticks all the right boxes for delicious Italian comfort food in a casual, relaxed setting. The servers are friendly and attentive, and the food is fresh, honest and flavourful. Must-tries include the smoked duck salad with a zippy orange honey dressing, the spaghetti with sea urchin tossed with extra virgin olive oil and garlic, and the grilled lamb rack cutlet in a light, slightly spice wine sauce.
Trattoria L’Operetta, 244 Tanjong Katong Rd, Singapore 437032. p. +65 6440 9322. Open Mon – Fri 5:30pm – 10pm, Sat – Sun & PH 11:30am – 2:30pm, 5:30pm – 10pm
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Verification and Intent-Based Networking: Closing the Control Loop
Intent-based networking (IBN) is an approach to architecting and operating networks that lets engineers focus on intent – that is, the end-to-end business objective – rather than spelling out each detail of the configuration that implements that objective.
The idea of intent has been simmering in the research and open-source SDN communities for several years but has recently gathered steam. In November 2016, Google described how post-mortem incident reports showed that 70% of failures occurred during changes to the network, motivating their intent-based Zero Touch Network infrastructure. In February 2017, Gartner identified four startups, including Veriflow, as innovating in intent-based networking. And at Cisco Live last month, Cisco threw their hat into the ring with the DNA controller.
Amid all this action, the space is beginning to take form with a set of key attributes. One of the keys is network verification: a new technology that assures, in a mathematically rigorous way, that the reality of network state matches the intent, or pinpoints any vulnerabilities. (You can read more about the basics of verification technology in our whitepaper or our introductory blog post.)
Of course, verification is near to our hearts here at Veriflow. In this post, I’ll tackle the question: Where does network verification fit in the IBN world, and why is it so essential?
Here are three key points.
(1) Verification closes the control loop.
Fundamentally, IBN is about automation: connecting a high-level intent with the low-level implementation. That of course includes automating the “translation” or control of the network that maps intent (“I want my network to be resilient”) to implementation (thousands of configuration files).
But what would happen if you stopped there, having automated control without automating understanding? The most obvious risk is that without a verification step, any mistake or bug that does arise can be amplified in scope by network automation – which happened in Amazon’s February outage where a typo impacted many web sites. Another risk is that in many ways, automated control actually makes the network more complex, since multiple control infrastructures have to work together. Networks now include new components like hybrid cloud, virtual overlays and physical underlays (that may be hard to correlate with each other), in addition to traditional infrastructure. With traditional tools, then, it could be even harder than usual to figure out the root cause of an incident.
This suggests a basic principle that our understanding of the network needs to keep pace with control of the network. As control becomes more automated, so must our understanding. One could call that closed-loop control for the network.
As an example, Google’s aforementioned Zero Touch Network can observe the progress of an update to the network and automatically roll back changes which violate intent.
Gartner also describes verification or assurance of intent as a key component of IBN in a framework set out by Andrew Lerner. One could summarize that framework for IBN architecture as including:
Translation of high-level business intent into low-level configurations that realize it network-wide, and automated implementation or deployment of these configurations.
Awareness of the state of multi-vendor devices network wide, and assurance or verification that this state matches the original intent, potentially with automated remediation.
A distilled version of that framework is illustrated above. This is a simplification, of course – for example, an IBN system may additionally perform verification of the translated configurations before deployment.
(2) Verification is more than just monitoring.
What exactly does it mean for understanding to “keep pace with control” in an intent-based network? Don’t we already have plenty of monitoring tools?
Traditionally, enterprises monitor packets flowing through the network and events on network devices. One problem is that this is too low level: individual packets and flows sampled at certain locations are far removed from an intent like “all critical flows are resilient to a single device failure”. In order for our understanding to keep up with automated control in a large network, we need to understand automatically how low-level events relate to high-level intent.
But there’s another limitation of monitoring: it’s fundamentally reactive, only seeing problems after user traffic is experiencing them (or after attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities!). This means that for most intent goals, monitoring can never give a positive assurance that intent is met; it can only say, “I’m not seeing a problem right now, but who knows what’ll happen when the next packet arrives.” Taking a quote that has been attributed to Enrico Fermi:
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
Rather than adversaries and users making these unwanted “discoveries”, we’d like the IBN system and engineers to be empowered with the information proactively.
So, verification should be able to understand intent and give an assurance of whether or not the intent is met by the network’s implementation.
That’s the idea behind continuous network verification, which applies techniques from the field of formal verification to mathematically verify network infrastructure. After arising in the academic research community within the last 5-7 years or so – including early work by Veriflow’s founders – network verification has matured, with Microsoft and Google deploying purpose-built technology for internal use and companies like Veriflow providing more general verification technology suitable for enterprises.
(3) Verification is a stand-alone entry point into IBN.
Beginning with a network where that intent is manually baked into the network and maintained manually during change, how can we move to a design that’s more automated?
One option is to begin with a small part of the network or a greenfield cluster and deploy an IBN system in it. This has the advantage of achieving the full automated control loop, but the disadvantages are that it requires the IBN system to support the complete necessary architecture and requires a change to the network’s operational procedures (and possibly a hardware refresh, for at least one IBN vendor!).
A second option is to begin with verification, in an otherwise traditionally-managed network. Taking a step back, intent itself isn’t new. Every network was built with some intent in mind even if it wasn’t built as an IBN. The network architect designed it knowing that “the PCI-compliant zone should be segmented from the rest of the data center”, or that “critical traffic should achieve low latency”, and so on. Even in a legacy network, that intent can be verified, providing assurance about the state of the network that’s proactive and valuable because it’s connected directly to the end-to-end business goal (i.e., the intent).
Ultimately, I expect IBN deployments will proceed along both avenues independently depending on the enterprise’s needs. With technology in this space advancing quickly but with enterprises needing to focus on their existing infrastructure, deployability will have to be a key goal for all IBN products.
In summary, in intent-based networks, it’s more important than ever to automate understanding of the network, so that our speed of understanding matches the speed and complexity of network control. The emerging field of network verification provides a way to do that, rigorously validating whether intent matches operational reality. In fact, since verification can be deployed in a passive manner network-wide across existing multi-vendor infrastructure, without affecting hardware or operational procedures, it’s a practical and low-risk way to get started in intent-based networking.
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7.11.2019 14:04 / Press Release
Docent, Markus Henriksson, specialist in psychiatry, is to continue as Director General of Valvira, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health. The Prime Minister’s Office made the decision on 7 November to appoint Henriksson to the position for the period of office lasting from 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2024.
Henriksson has headed Valvira since the beginning of May 2017.
Where do you plan to take Valvira, Markus Henriksson?
“Once preparation work on the National Licensing and Supervisory Authority (Luova) came to an end, it was obvious that Valvira would continue to operate as an independent authority at least for the following few years,” Director General Henriksson notes.
“The discontinuation of Luova, however, does not do away with the need for integrated development in supervision of the healthcare and social welfare sector. At Valvira, we want to continue to promote these goals in close cooperation with Regional State Administrative Agencies.”
Valvira is updating its strategy. The new strategy will be published in the first half of 2020.
“I think it’s important to examine strategic choices from a broader perspective than Valvira and to look at things from the aspect of the licensing and supervision activities of the entire healthcare and social welfare sector,” Henriksson explains.
“The most important thing is overall effectiveness. All actors in the healthcare and social welfare sector need to work together if the limited resources of official supervision are to be used efficiently and particularly for the benefit of the most vulnerable.”
Markus Henriksson (b. 1958) worked for Valvira’s predecessor, the National Board of Medicolegal Affairs, as chief medical officer in 2007-2010, since when he has been with Valvira. He was earlier head of the Healthcare Supervision Unit until his appointment as Director General in 2017. Henriksson also earlier served as chief psychiatrist at the Central Military Hospital (1995–2005) and as the hospital’s medical director (2003–2005). He has also served as director of the Centre for Military Medicine (2006). He has earlier been, among other things, a researcher at the National Public Health Institute and been involved in specialist duties in preparedness.
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V.F. critic Richard Lawson makes a case for why all five nominated directors should win.
By Richard Lawson
Clockwise from top left: Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro, and Sally Hawkins; Daniel Day-Lewis and Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson; Get Out director Jordan Peele; Dunkirk director Christopher Nolan (third from left) and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (second from left).Clockwise from top left: © Fox Searchlight Pictures, © Focus Features, © Universal Pictures, and © Warner Bros. All from Photofest.
How poorly this could have gone. Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best-director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors’ race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies. Instead, the Academy voted without bias, recognizing that Get Out and Lady Bird were among the most defining films of 2017, critical and commercial successes guided by two first-time solo directors, now the fifth black director to be nominated and the fifth woman. With a potential controversy avoided, we can look a little more deeply at each director’s work and figure out what makes them tick—and what might earn one of them a trophy on March 4.
In a surprisingly rare occurrence, all five of the nominees for the Academy Award for best director have a writing credit on their film, and three are up for screenwriting Oscars: Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig, who are the sole nominees for their films, and Guillermo del Toro, who shares credit with Vanessa Taylor. So perhaps this is the year of the auteur, when personal, autonomous visions reign supreme.
The biggest surprise among the five nominees is Paul Thomas Anderson. Phantom Thread—a curious and clever 1950s romance with a dark humor at its heart—was beloved by critics but had been fairly non-competitive in the awards hunt until the Oscar nominations were announced. Then, like Daniel Plainview striking oil, it scored big, netting six nominations, including Anderson’s. Maybe the screener system should get credit here. The movie of course benefits from being seen on a big screen, as all movies do, but it’s proportioned well for home viewing too. Phantom Thread in particular had very little time in major markets before voting began, so it may have made for a more tantalizing, exclusive screener. Or it could be that, for all its weirdness, Phantom Thread is Anderson’s most accessible, most easily lovable film in years.
It sounds crazy to say, but there was an entirely plausible version of events in which Christopher Nolan, long an Oscars snub-ee, got shut out. His dazzling film Dunkirk—a whirring, ticking, intricate product of his singular brain—has had a long journey from summertime front-runner to whatever it is now, and there was some concern that all his relatively cold technical acumen might be overshadowed by the more affective filmmaking of these other auteurs, laying their hearts on the line. But, like the beleaguered British Army in 1940, he prevailed in the end. There’s still a dim possibility that Nolan could win the thing, but there’s another lauded, beloved director of genre films who is overdue for a win and is getting in Nolan’s way.
Saoirse Ronan and Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig.
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That person is Guillermo del Toro, whose The Shape of Water has had a steady presence throughout the season. The film, nominated for 13 Oscars, might seem too niche and alienating at first glance: it’s about a mute woman falling in love and, yes, having sex with a sea monster. But its sweet, sentimental-but-not-cloying tribute to the power of love to bridge differences and defy oppressive societal norms seems to be connecting with a broad range of voters. Del Toro, a true cinéaste whose worst filmmaking crime may simply be caring too much, has good standing in the industry and is probably the one to beat.
My pie-in-the-sky hope is that Jordan Peele has a real chance for Get Out, which deftly articulated facets of American life better than any other film of 2017. The Academy is more likely to recognize the screenplay that puts all those ideas to paper, but Peele’s direction should not be discounted. Get Out is artful in a way a lot of studio films aren’t, laden with dread and portent but still leavened by a light, wry touch. Peele manages a tricky balancing act while also coaxing great performances out of a perfectly curated cast. It’s just really good direction—bold and assured, risktaking without being messy.
Gerwig set a subtler, but no less difficult, task for herself with Lady Bird, a nostalgia piece and a coming-of-age tale that avoids all the twee-ness that a film like this could easily tip into. Lady Bird doesn’t get enough credit for how good it looks, Gerwig and cinematographer Sam Levy giving the film sometimes the warm glow of fond memory and other times a crispness to match Lady Bird’s frank disposition. Like Peele, Gerwig assembled a terrific cast and knew exactly how to use them. One look at a widely circulated behind-the-scenes video of Gerwig directing Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges as they frolic and make cute in a garden tells you all you need to know about Gerwig’s approach: it’s warm and easygoing, but always in command.
This is that rare year when every nominee is more than deserving, each having done something with his or her film that no one else could do. Which makes the category both a heartening one and a heartbreaker—I want each of them to win! They all bring so much to their work: Gerwig’s wise specificity, Nolan’s prodigious staging, del Toro’s boundless imagination, Anderson’s graceful texture, Peele’s keen sense of build. As representatives of what was good about movies in 2017, these five do the job pretty thoroughly. Though, if only the Academy could create a sixth slot, so Sean Baker (The Florida Project) could join the party. Or, wait, actually make a seventh slot, so Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) can come, too. Oh, but there’s also James Gray, and Robin Campillo, and Olivier Assayas, and so on and so on. Maybe best to stick with these five. How nice to mean it when I say that I’m rooting for all of them.
Photos: Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig Flip the Script
Photograph by Art Streiber.
Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig, photographed in Los Angeles.
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Bangladesh authorities have shut down mobile Internet across swathes of the country, officials and local media said on Sunday (Aug 5), as the authorities try to quell massive student protests that have spiralled into violence.
Bangladeshi students are protesting poor road safety after two teens were killed by a speeding bus AFP/MUNIR UZ ZAMAN
For the last week students have brought parts of the capital Dhaka to a standstill with a protest against poor road safety after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus.
On Saturday the protests took a violent turn in Dhaka's Jigatala neighborhood with more than 100 people injured.
Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators and that alleged pro-government activists attacked youngsters, including some of those rushing to nearby hospitals for treatment.
The country's highest circulated newspaper Prothom Alo said 3G and 4G internet services have been shut down for 24 hours since late Saturday, shortly after the violence broke out.
Social media has been filled with comments from Bangladeshis unable to access the internet via their phones, although wireless and wired networks appear to be unhindered.
Jahirul Haq, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC), told AFP they received a "decision" from the government. But he did not clarify what was the government order was. He said he would comment further on the situation later Sunday.
A senior telecoms official who asked for anonymity said: "The BTRC has slowed down the internet at the order of the government."
The move may be an attempt to try and limit the ability of students to mobilise or spread growing online outrage over how the government has handled the protests, hours after police and unidentified men wielding sticks and stones clashed with students.
Images and photos of the attacks on students allegedly by the ruling party activists have flooded the social media, prompting renewed outrage.
Police denied they fired rubber bullets or tear gas at the protesters. However hospital staff said dozens of people had been injured, some seriously, sporting injuries consistent with rubber bullets.
The ruling Awami League party has also denied allegations its cadres beat students up.
Bangladesh's transport sector is widely seen as corrupt, unregulated and dangerous, and as news of the teenagers' deaths spread rapidly on social media they became a catalyst for an outpouring of anger against the government.
The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled Bangladesh since 2009, but in recent months it has been shaken by mass protests demanding an end to a decades-old system of discriminatory civil service recruitment.
Several powerful ministers have pleaded with students to return to their classes, amid worries the unprecedented teen outrage could turn into widespread anti-government protests ahead of general elections due later this year.
But their pleas have had little effect.
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Excerpt from joint press conference with David Cameron and Vladimir Putin on the eve of G8 summit
London, 16 June 2013
Question: First of all, to President Putin: the Prime Minister [David Cameron] has said in the past that those supporting President Assad have the blood of Syrian children on their hands. Given that Russia is arming one side in this conflict, is it not hypocritical to criticise those who want to arm the other side?
Vladimir Putin: With regards to the supplies of weapons to the Assad government, and as regards to who has the blood of the children and peaceful citizens of Syria, I believe you will not deny that the blood is on the hands of the both parties, of both of the parties, and there is always a question: who is to be blamed for that, who is to blame? I believe you will not deny the fact that one hardly should back those who kills their enemies and, you know, eats their organs and all that is filmed and shot. Do we want to support these people; do we want to supply arms to these people? So, in this case, it has hardly any relation to the communitarian and cultural values that Europe has been professing for centuries. In Russia, we cannot fancy such things happening.
But if we speak calmly in cold blood, in a business-like fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching anything. Let me emphasise that; we are not breaching any rules and norms, and we call on all our partners to act in same fashion.
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APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (VVNG.com) — A Fire Captain with the Apple Valley Fire Protection District sustained minor injuries after a rock was hurled into a glass door.
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A Quirky Bit Of Theater: How To Woo Cook County Democratic Party Bosses
Kristen Schorsch
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Candidates are lining up to replace Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown in next year’s election. On Thursday, they participated in a quirky bit of political theater.
They tried to woo Cook County Democratic Party leaders in hopes of winning their endorsement. The party’s seal of approval brings with it money and manpower to help get elected.
Brown did not show up, and she did not return a message for comment. But four people who are vying for her job bashed Brown over the old-school way she runs the court system and for a federal corruption probe targeting her office.
“We can’t afford leadership that operates under a permanent cloud of suspicion and distrust,” said Illinois State Sen. Iris Martinez, D-Chicago, who is among those who want Brown’s job.
Inside a giant union hall near McCormick Place, potential candidates not only touted their resumes, but they also emphasized how much they can do for the party bosses — like fundraising. There was talk of special talents, too.
“I’ve earned a black belt in karate,” said Maire Dempsey, who wants to be a Cook County Circuit Court judge, told Democratic Party bosses. “I have a third degree brown belt in modern arnis, which is a Filipino stick fighting art. And I have a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.”
The Party’s so-called pre-slating process continues Friday. They plan to endorse candidates in August.
Kristen Schorsch covers Cook County politics for WBEZ. Follow her @kschorsch.
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Pandemic Rising Tide board game
Storms are brewing and the sea is growing restless. Will your efforts be enough to stem the rising tide?
For centuries, the Dutch have relied upon a series of dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep water from invading their lands. But with a quarter of the Netherlands reclaimed from the sea and the population constantly expanding, a new system is needed to hold back the ever-encroaching waters. In Pandemic: Rising Tide, you and your friends play as a team of Dutch civil officials helping to modernize the water containment system. Your ultimate goal is to construct four hydraulic structures that will ensure the safety of the Dutch people for generations to come. To accomplish this task, however, you must first buy yourself enough time by building dikes to control water flow, ports to facilitate travel, and windmills to pump the water out of flooded lands. But proceed with caution. A single misstep could send water spilling across the countryside. Choose your actions carefully, work as a team, and usher in the Industrial Age!
Combining the addictive cooperative game play of Pandemic with innovative new mechanics, Pandemic: Rising Tide takes players on an exciting journey across the Netherlands. As you sail these water-filled regions, you’ll be faced with a variety of problems caused by flooding and Rising Tide provides a variety of objectives to simulate this. Beyond building the four hydraulic structures, your team might be tasked with expanding the Dutch population into areas threatened by storm waters, constructing water pumps to protect the country’s valuable textile industry, or building ports along the Maas River. Each game features a new combination of Objective cards, creating a unique scenario every time you play. To improve your team’s chances of completing them, every player takes on a specific role with special abilities. Join together, play to your characters’ strengths, and stem the tide!
Contents: 7 Pawns, 7 Role Cards, 78 Player Cards, 56 Dike Failure Cards, 4 Hydraulic Structure Tokens, 1 Sea Level Marker, 1 Reminder Marker, 5 Reference Cards, 1 Population Loss/Setup Summary Card, 50 Dikes, 5 Pumping Stations, 12 Objective Cards, 36 Water Cubes, 36 Population Cubes, 5 Ports, 1 Board
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The 10 Best Breakfasts in Orlando on International Drive
By Rich Weidman
10 Best Breakfasts in Orlando on International Drive
“Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.” – A. A. Gill
Legendary nutritionist Adelle Davis once famously proclaimed, “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” In fact, according to the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, “The general advice from the health experts is to eat a substantial well-balanced breakfast, one that delivers its energy slowly over the course of the morning.” Therefore, why not ditch the stale Pop-Tarts, sugary cereals and lukewarm coffee, and head out to world-famous International Drive (aka I-Drive), where you can simply enjoy one of the best breakfasts in Central Florida during your Orlando vacation getaway. In addition to quality breakfast chains where you can order a predictable hearty meal, International Drive offers a variety of hidden breakfast gems, award-winning brunches, family run diners, quaint coffee shops, trendy juice bars and international breakfast cafes so you can get a great start to the day before you embark on a theme park adventure at Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort or SeaWorld Orlando. Learn more about the 10 best breakfasts in Orlando on International Drive:
on Mar 25, 2019 at 10:06am PDT
1 | Hash House A Go Go | Make sure to bring a hearty appetite to the Hash House A Go Go, which is billed as the “home of twisted farm food” and famous for its immense portions. According to food critic Scott Joseph of the Orlando Restaurant Guide, “The portions here are outsized and designed to impress, if not frighten and intimidate.” In fact, one oversized menu item – Andy’s Sage Fried Chicken Hash House Farm Benedict – even made a celebrated appearance on the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food reality series. One of the best International Drive restaurants for breakfast and brunch, Hash House A Go Go features an award-winning menu with such delicacies as HH Big O’ Pancakes (“steering-wheel-of-a-tractor sized big!”), Sage Fried Chicken & Waffles, Margie’s Famous Crab Cake Benedict and the Sun-Dried Tomato, Basil & Goat Cheese Farm Scramble. Nursing a hangover after hitting the I Drive bars or bumping your way through Central Florida's famous Orlando brewery map? Hash House A Go Go provides the perfect remedy in the form of O’Hare of the Dog – a 24 oz. Budweiser accompanied by five huge slices of bacon.
WHERE: 5350 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819 | WHO: (407) 370-4646
on Jul 18, 2015 at 8:45am PDT
2 | Pao Gostoso Bakery | Less than 0.5 mile away from Hash Hash A Go Go lies Pao Gostoso Bakery, another great choice for an amazing International Drive breakfast. An immensely popular Brazilian bake shop and café, Pao Gostoso Bakery serves delectable pastries, authentic Brazilian-style breakfasts and hot cups of freshly brewed Brazilian coffee. A favorite breakfast choice at bustling Pao Gostoso Bakery is the “pao com ovo e queijo coalho” – delicious toasted bread with egg and cheese. Diners enjoy friendly counter service and a large covered patio with flat-screen TVs often tuned to an international soccer match. Quick and convenient, Pao Gostoso Bakery is the perfect spot for a tasty breakfast on the go!
on Nov 9, 2015 at 5:43am PST
3 | World Café | A friendly family-style café on International Drive, World Café offers both British and American classics for breakfast. The menu at World Café features British breakfast sandwiches such as the British Bacon and Egg on Toast Sandwich; British Sausage and Egg on Toast Sandwich; British Bacon, Sausage and Egg on Toast Sandwich; Heinz Beans with Toast Sandwich; and Heinz Beans, Hash Brown and Toast Sandwich. Other World Café breakfast specialties include pancakes, omelets and American-style breakfast sandwiches and platters, as well as smoothies, and hot and iced caffeinated beverages. World Café lies adjacent to Gator Golf Adventure Park, an 18-hole mini golf course that winds around Gator Lagoon – home to more than 200 alligators!
on Sep 26, 2016 at 9:40pm PDT
4 | iCafe de Paris | Ideally located on International Drive in the heart of ICON Park – which is home to popular I-Drive attractions such as The Wheel at ICON Park (400-foot-tall observation wheel), Sea Life Orlando Aquarium, Orlando StarFlyer and Madame Tussauds Orlando – iCafe de Paris is a fast and efficient French-style bakery and coffee shop. Breakfast menu highlights at iCafe de Paris include crepes, omelets, muffins and a variety of croissants, including Butter, Chocolate, Strawberry & Cheese and Spinach Feta Cheese. In addition, iCafe de Paris serves hot and iced coffees, teas, smoothies and lemonades. Outdoor dining is available with great views of The Wheel, the tallest observation wheel on the East Coast of the United States.
WHERE: ICON Park, 8465 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819 | WHO: (407) 203-3000
on Apr 7, 2019 at 4:40pm PDT
5 | The Golden Pod | Prepare to be totally wowed at this eclectic Australian chocolate bar and café located on International Drive just north of Sand Lake Road that specializes in amazing “choco-dishes”, confectionaries, snacks and baked goods. Breakfast specialties include the All Time Favorite (grilled bacon served with two eggs on sourdough bread), A Superfood Bowl (Brazilian acai, banana, cocoa, almond milk and topped with granola and seasonal fruit), The Red & White (coconut yogurt, granola with pear and rhubarb compote) and Made in Heaven (banana bread, vanilla mascarpone, berries, coconut flakes and pure maple). The breakfast menu at The Golden Pod also features crepes, omelets, waffles and Dutch pancakes. Inspired by the Chocolate Room, a world-famous chocolate dessert café chain in Australia, The Golden Pod is a sure bet for an unforgettable breakfast on International Drive.
WHERE: 7653 International Drive, #100, Orlando, FL 32819 | WHO: (407) 776-9206
on Feb 9, 2019 at 10:55am PST
6 | Amor em Pedacos Bakery | Translated from Portuguese as “Pieces of Love,” Amor em Pedacos Bakery is a colorful Brazilian bakery located on International Drive just east of Kirkman Road. Seeking a breakfast on the go? Amor em Pedacos features quick and easy counter service, freshly brewed Brazilian coffee and traditional breakfast classics such as pancakes, Belgian waffles and omelets, as well as an array of savory Brazilian baked goods, including such specialties as “pao na chapa” (crispy Brazilian buttered bread), “pao de queijo” (Brazilian cheese bread), empadinhas, coxinhas and pasteis. Get there early to avoid the lines!
on Sep 24, 2016 at 9:24am PDT
7 | Panera Bread | An old standby, this reliable fast-casual bakery café (just one of a chain of 2,300 Panera Bread locations throughout the United States and Canada) can be found toward the southern end of International Drive near SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove and Aquatica Orlando. The breakfast menu at Panera Bread features croissants, muffins, scones, bagels and sweet rolls, as well as baked egg souffles (Four Cheese, Spinach & Artichoke, Spinach & Bacon and Ham & Swiss) and breakfast sandwiches (Ham, Egg & Roasted Tomato; Bacon, Egg & Cheese; Sausage, Egg & Cheese; Egg & Cheese; Ham, Egg & Cheese, Steak & Egg; and Avocado, Egg White & Spinach). On the lighter side, Panera diners can choose from Steel Cut Oatmeal with Almonds, Quinoa & Honey; Greek Yogurt with Mixed Berries and Fresh Fruit Cup. Panera Bread lies adjacent to another popular International Drive chain restaurant, Mellow Mushroom, home of “Out of This World Pizza.” Originally founded in 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, Panera Bread was at one time known as Au Bon Pain (meaning “from good bread”).
WHERE: 10739 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32821 | WHO: (407) 985-3390
on Mar 30, 2019 at 12:11pm PDT
8 | First Watch | Conveniently located adjacent to Escapology Escape Room Orlando and less than a mile from Westgate Leisure Resort, First Watch offers award-winning, made-to-order breakfast choices such as omelets, French toast, egg sandwiches, eggs benedict, power wraps, breakfast tacos, pancakes, waffles, avocado toast, steel-cut oatmeal, granola bowls and freshly brewed coffee. Seasonal favorites include such delicacies as Asian Pork Belly Breakfast Bowl, Smoked Salmon Tzatziki Toast and Lemon Blueberry Quinoa Pancakes. By the way, the name “First Watch” is derived from an old nautical term referring “to the very first shift of the day.”
WHERE: 11951 International Drive, Suite A, Orlando, FL 32821 | WHO: (407) 796-7050
on Mar 29, 2019 at 9:25am PDT
9 | @ The Diner | Nestled just off International Drive at the Lake Cay Shopping Center on Universal Boulevard, @ The Diner is a family owned, neighborhood-style breakfast joint with the motto “Tastes Like Home.” The menu here features delicious twists on traditional breakfast fare such as omelets, egg sandwiches, bagels, grilled steak & eggs, chicken & waffle sliders, biscuits & sausage gravy, Belgium waffles, buttermilk pancakes and eggs benedict (try The Bennyffle, which consists of poached eggs, bacon & ham over crispy waffles drizzled in house-made hollandaise sauce). As offerings go, this is a great, go-to breakfast for the value, and probably qualifies as one of the more inexpensive things to do in Orlando Florida when you're pounding the ground for grub at 8 in the morning!
WHERE: 9938 Universal Boulevard, Suite 140, Orlando, FL 32819 | WHO: (407) 237-7687
10 | Friendly’s | Friendly’s has been around since 1935 (the Blake brothers opened their first “Friendly” ice cream shop in Springfield, Massachusetts, that year), so they must be doing something right. If you’re in the mood for huge breakfast platters, you’ve come to the right place. Breakfast “classics” at Friendly’s include the Big-Two-Do Breakfast, Southern Chicken & Waffles, Meat Lover’s Omelette, Philly Steak & Cheese Omelette, SuperMelt Egg & Cheese Sandwiches and, for the heartiest of appetites, the legendary Lumberjack Breakfast (three extra-large, farm-fresh eggs and choices of applewood bacon or sausage plug three buttermilk pancakes or slices of Brioche French toast). Friendly’s is located on International Drive less than 0.5 mile from ICON Park and its famous observation wheel.
BONUS | Bubble & Co | Relax in an artistic atmosphere and find yourself “immersed in the aroma” of fragrant tea, coffee and sweet pastries at Bubble & Co, which is located on International Drive less than 0.5 mile from our hotel near Universal Studios, Westgate Palace Resort. Billed as “an innovative, eco-conscious bubble tea bar,” Bubble & Co features the signature menu items of Bubble Tea and made-to-order Bubble Waffles. Bubble & Co also offers delicious French pastries with all natural and organic ingredients, egg and cheese croissants, organic loose-leaf tea, premium coffee and fruit smoothies.
WHERE: 6400 International Drive, Suite 103, Orlando, FL 32819 | WHO: (407) 751-7340
Bottom line, no matter what type of mood you're in, count on International Drive having some of the best morning fare you can chew on with a diverse collection of craft culinary cafés, heartwarming hole-in-the-walls, dishy diners, and bodacious brand brunches, all of which promise to power up your morning meal for an epic theme park marathon day ahead! Your best I drive breakfast is beckoning! Get up and go,... and while you're at it make sure to check out our handy guide on I Drive Orlando attractions! Whether you're looking for the best bars on I drive in Orlando, a great collection of the best restaurants International Drive has to offer, or an awesome Kissimmee sports bar, we've got your best guide right here on our travel blog! Looking for more International Drive attractions? Check out the coolest escape rooms International Drive has to offer or find out the latest scoop on Universal Studios wait times at these sweet links!
* Westgate Resorts is in no way affiliated with the bars or restaurants featured in this article. Menu items listed are current as of the publishing date of this article. Please call or visit the respective website for each restaurant for the most up-to-date offerings.
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Books Like Artemis Fowl: Heists, Thrilling Missions and Spies!
Have your kids read the Artemis Fowl series? Are they looking forward to the Artemis Fowl movie coming out in August, 2019? If they’ve read and re-read all seven books in Eoin Colfer’s fast paced, high interest story about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who goes after a dangerous group of high-tech fairies they’re probably looking for books like Artemis Fowl that are just as thrilling.
Colfer described Artemis Fowl as “Die Hard with fairies” so I’ve gathered some titles that include heist plots, spies, undercover missions and science fiction and fantasy mysteries. It was harder to find books with anti-heroes in the mold of Artemis, but the protagonists on this book list will soon become favorites. So kids who are looking for books similar to Artemis Fowl have come to the right place! On this list, I’ve also included read alikes that are series so kids can keep reading, reading, reading. (Note: book covers and titles are affiliate links.)
The Apothecary (Series) by Maile Meloy. The action is set in 1952 against the backdrop of the cold war. In London, 14 year old Janie befriends Benjamin, the son of a mysterious apothecary. Benjamin wants to be a spy and enlists Janie in his efforts. When his father disappears, Janie and Benjamin get caught up in a plot involving a magical book called the Pharmacopoeia, spells which allow humans to turn into birds, Russian spies, and unbelievable potions.
The Great Greene Heist (series) by Varian Johnson. There may not be a science fiction or fantasy element to this story, but kids who are looking for a good heist story will love it. Jackson Green assembles a team of friends to take down a bully at school looking to win a student election. This book has it all! School political shenanigans, a diverse group of protagonists and a clever, twisting plot.
The Fog Diver (series) by Joel Ross. Both my son and I tore through this book. In a world where a deadly fog covers most of the earth, the population lives high on the mountains. A boy named Chess, with fog in eyes, has the uncanny ability to survive in the fog. He and his friends scavenge for goods from past worlds by diving off a floating boat. They are determined to save their adoptive mother, who is suffering from fog sickness but Lord Kodoc is on the hunt for Chess, whose abilities he both fears and desires for his own purposes. This may all sound very melodramatic, but it makes for a very exciting story.
Alex Rider (series) by Anthony Horowitz. Are your kids looking for a James Bond type spy novel series? This is it! So far there are twelve Alex Rider books in the series. In the debut novel, Stormbreaker, Alex is recruited to find his uncle’s killers, and the adventure begins! My oldest son loved this series.
I, Q series by Roland Smith is another spy series about a teenage spy that has captivated my older son. While on a music tour with his new, blended family, 13 year old Quest is sucked into a world full of suspicions, bumbling agents, and secret identities. Quest uses his magician and tech skills to find out the truth and foil evil plots.
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier. This is the follow up book to the very popular Peter Nimble and the Fantastic Eyes, and I may have enjoyed it a bit more but then I am partial to a strong heroine. Sophie is a 12-year-old bookmender faced with a government bent on rampant censorship. A mysterious book suggests that Sophie has an important role to play and when Peter and his very odd cat show up she tumbles into a riotous adventure that will keep your kids turning pages well into the wee hours of the night.
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (series) by Phillip Pullman. This is the prequel to Pullman’s His Dark Materials series (The Golden Compass, etc.), but even if your child hasn’t read that series, this one will stand on its own. Malcolm Polstead lives in Oxford and is suspicious of the new order around him. When the baby Lyra (the heroine of The Golden Compass) comes to live in the neighborhood priory, Malcom’s adventures really take off. This book is just as good as the original trilogy!
Time Traveling with a Hamster by Ross Welford. In this, one of the few children’s books with a British Indian protagonist, Al Chaudhury gets a letter and a hamster from his deceased father. The letter tells him to find his father’s time travel machine and go back in time to avert a disaster. A fun and suspenseful read, great for any fan of time-travel adventure books.
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sand (series). There is some dark subject matter in this book but it is an incredibly suspenseful and action-packed read aloud for older kids. (On par with some of the darker imagery in the Harry Potter books). Christopher, an orphaned apprentice in 17th century London must solve a complex puzzle surrounding the murders of apothecaries. Despite the seriousness of the plot, the well-drawn characters provide some humor.
The False Prince (trilogy) by Jennifer A. Nielsen. The Kingdom of Farthenwood is in turmoil and a nobleman is determined to pass off an unknown orphan as the missing prince. He brings three boys to train at his estate, promising that the one who best completes the test will have a new life as the ruler of Farthenwood. As a reader, I was constantly on my toes as to the outcome and a surprise twist will leave kids eager to read the next two books.
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet). This classic series hardly needs an introduction. If your kids have read Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson and other popular fantasy series and they haven’t yet read L’Engle’s books, give them a copy of this timeless book.
And here’s the trailer for the Artemis Fowl movie, do you think it looks good?
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