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UMaine women’s basketball team prepares for season with high expectations
The Black Bears are coming off a season with 23 wins and an NCAA tournament appearance.
By Mike LoweStaff Writer
Amy Vachon instructs her University of Maine basketball players during a practice session Wednesday. The Black Bears are coming off a 23-win season in which they won the America East title and reached the NCAA tournament. Photo by Kevin Bennett
ORONO — Amy Vachon stood near midcourt and watched as her University of Maine women’s basketball players went through a defensive drill last week. After one repetition, she stopped them and pointed out what she was looking for – the positioning of their feet and bodies and what happens if they’re off.
It was just a little thing, but as senior forward Tanesha Sutton said, “Day in and day out, we need to pay attention to the little things so we can do great things.”
And great things are expected of the Black Bears this season.
Unlike 2017-18, when uncertainty shrouded a Maine women’s team that had only seven returning players and a head coach on medical leave, this is a team with high expectations.
That tends to happen when you win 23 games and the America East championship and advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 14 years.
“Having the year we had last year increases those (expectations) for us,” said Vachon, who served as interim head coach last season and officially became the head coach in March. “Of course, you get a taste of that and you want to go back. That’s just kind of how it is. But as far as what we do every day, we can’t change that. We have to work to get better every day. We have to focus on the little things.”
Maine lost only two players from that 23-10 team and has five of its top six scorers back. Junior forward Blanca Millan led Maine with 17.5 points and 99 steals while averaging 5.1 rebounds. Sutton averaged 12.1 points and a team-high 6.9 rebounds, and had 94 assists. Junior forward Fanny Wadling averaged 6.4 points and 5.6 rebounds. Sophomore point guard Dor Saar averaged 5.6 points and had 93 assists.
That experience is important.
“It’s different then what we’ve had the past couple of years,” said Vachon, who was inducted Friday night into the UMaine Hall of Fame. “It’s nice. You enter practice with the same terminology we’ve used the last two years, and the kids know. It makes things go more smoothly. And they know each other, they’ve played with each other, they hold each other accountable.”
Wadling said there is a much better comfort level among the players and coaches.
“We do know each other,” she said. “Now, in the beginning, it’s like finding each other again, finding the timing in each other, how we play with each other.”
Senior guard Parise Rossignol, who returned last year after taking a year off and earned a big role off the bench, added, “We’re kind of building off what we did last year. We’re focusing on the little things that we can get better at and that can bring us to the next level.”
Vachon saw that work ethic even before official practices began last week. She said she met with each player in the spring and told them what they needed to work on in the summer. “Each one has come back having improved in those areas and wanting to get better,” said Vachon. “When you have kids like that, it’s fun. They’re coachable. They listen.”
That’s what the Black Bears have to do in order to be successful again.
“For us, it’s going to be hard to make the leap from 23 wins to 26 (or) 27 wins or something like that,” said Vachon. “In order for us to beat the teams we lost to last year, we have to be better at all the little things, the fundamentals that we harp on every day. And you have to continue to do that.
“We can’t just look at the big picture in March. That’s not going to work. We play too many really good teams along the way. So every day in practice, we have to focus on us and what we have to do to get better.”
Maine opens Nov. 10 at home against Toledo. Its nonconference schedule includes games with Duke (and former Maine head coach Joanne P. McCallie), North Carolina A&T, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and North Carolina State.
“We learn a lot from playing a tough nonconference schedule,” said Sutton. “We grow from it and it helps us build on to the (America East) season.”
The Black Bears like having a target on their back.
“You want to be in that position,” said Rossignol. “We’re in that position now. People are going to give you their best shot, and we have to focus on the little things, because the little things make the biggest difference.”
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Front-runners in governor’s race outline differences on drug crisis
Republican Shawn Moody and Democrat Janet Mills, as well as independents Terry Hayes and Alan Caron, also take on abortion and health care as they debate for the second time this week.
By Scott ThistleStaff Writer
Maine's candidates for governor, seen at a debate Oct. 17 in Augusta, were back at it Thursday night, just 12 days before the election. From left are Democrat Janet Mills, independents Alan Caron and Terry Hayes, and Republican Shawn Moody. Associated Press/Robert F. Bukaty
AUGUSTA — The four candidates running to be Maine’s next governor squared off in a debate for the second time this week, maintaining the civil tone that has characterized the contest even as they outlined their differences on key issues at the University of Maine at Augusta on Thursday night.
Just 12 days before Election Day, Democrat Janet Mills and Republican Shawn Moody, the front-runners, differed on how they would address the drug crisis, abortion and health care. The two independents in the race, state Treasurer Terry Hayes and Alan Caron, a Freeport businessman and consultant, mostly sided with Mills, including agreeing that health care was a human right.
When asked what she would do as governor to help Mainers suffering from substance use disorders, and not just opioid addiction, Mills, Maine’s attorney general, pointed to her effort to provide the overdose antidote naloxone, known by its trade name Narcan, to 85 different police departments.
She said 552 lives had been saved with those doses of Narcan and that just this week a 26-year-old woman who is four months pregnant was saved. Mills said her plan to help tackle the crisis is extensive but it would include a “hub and spoke” treatment system as well as increased efforts at prevention and education, as well as law enforcement.
Alan Caron says he’ll decide after Sunday’s debate whether to stay in race for governor
Moody said he would focus on resourcing “law enforcement” adequately to go after drug-trafficking gangs, but also that he supported “sober houses” and “peer-to-peer” counseling programs.
“No one can help somebody to a pathway to recovery like somebody that’s been there,” Moody said. But he also said he would work to rebuild the state’s mental health care system.
Hayes said she believes one of the biggest challenges in the drug addiction crisis is the stigma that comes to those suffering from the disorder. She said breaking down the “shame that comes with this brain disease” would be key.
“People who find themselves addicted have great difficulty reaching out for help because there is shame and judgment and I think we need to change that,” Hayes said.
Caron said the overdose crisis is a symptom of a much deeper problem, the loss of hope in Maine people who lack opportunities. “Nothing has frustrated me more than watching government in gridlock over this issue while people were dying,” Caron said. “We should have found a deal a long time ago.”
ON ABORTION RIGHTS
The candidates also made clear-cut distinctions in their positions on abortion rights. While Moody repeated he would oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion, Mills made it clear she believes a woman has a legal right to an abortion.
“Safe and legal abortion is a medical procedure to be chosen by a woman with consultation from her doctor,” Mills said.
Shawn Moody says he wants Maine to be ‘Staycationland’ instead of ‘Vacationland’
“It’s very interesting that conservatives are always arguing that we have to get government off their backs, out of their lives and there ought to be freedom and liberty,” Caron said. “Unless we are talking about a woman’s choice.”
Hayes said if the question were about men’s health care rights, it probably wouldn’t be asked.
“These are decisions that are tough, made by individuals, and I support women and their right to make that decision,” Hayes said.
EVOLVING STANCES
Asked to name one thing they’ve changed their mind on, Moody said he changed his mind on medical marijuana. Moody said he was opposed to it until his grandmother, “Nana Moody” needed it while battling breast cancer and that he voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2010.
Mills said she changed her mind on gay marriage and fully supported gay couples’ rights to marry when she previously had supported creating a law that would have allowed for domestic partnerships.
Hayes said she changed her mind on allowing unions to automatically collect dues from workers even if they didn’t want to join the union and reversed her vote on the issue while serving in the Legislature.
Caron quipped he didn’t have any regrets about marijuana. “Because I grew up in the ’60s,” he said, drawing laughter from the audience.
But he said he had changed his view on taxing rich Mainers at much higher rates.
“I still believe that at the national level,” Caron said. “But I figured out when you do that, one state at a time, a whole bunch of people move and they go to another state.”
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Deathrow Gameshow (1987, USA)
The premise sounded promising, if a little in poor taste: a game show involving Death Row inmates competing for stays of execution and prizes for their grieving relatives. The odds are stacked rather heavily against them (which means that they will almost certainly be killed ‘live’ on TV), yet “these people are already on Death Row,” the host reminds us. “Their lives are basically over. We give them a chance, a way to be somebody… a way to be entertaining before they go.”The game show, ‘Live or Die’, is the brainchild of host Chuck Toedan (John McCafferty), and it has plenty of fans. It also attracts its fair share of hate mail – from bleeding hearts who are outraged by its exploitation of the inmates for entertainment and its on-screen executions, and from those whose family members have died on the show with less dignity than a traditional execution might have ordinarily allowed.
In the former category is Gloria Sternvirgin (Robyn Blythe), a name presumably designed to bring Gloria Steinem to mind as a notorious opponent of people having a good time – a single gag that depressingly sums up the humour overall. In the latter category are the ‘family’ of condemned Mafia boss Mr Spumone (Mark Lasky), who had died strapped to a chair and wired up to an instrument designed to detect any stirring in his genitals while a stripper disrobed before him. Mr Spumone had successfully negotiated the stripper, but when Chuck placed a congratulatory hand on his shoulder the movement sensor instantly registered and triggered the crime boss’s electrocution. Maybe that better sums up the humour overall.
One of the Mafiosi who believes that Mr Spumone didn’t deserve such humiliation in his final moments is Luigi Pappalardo (Beano Agundez). After several other would-be-assassins have somehow failed to kill Chuck, hit-man Pappalardo takes it upon himself to confront the game show host at his studio office, taking along his elderly mother (also played by Mark Lasky) who is keen to see a completely different game show which is taping in another studio. Gloria also happens to be in Chuck’s office, complaining about a death threat in which she was linked to him. Luigi takes a liking to Gloria and temporarily sets aside his plan to kill Chuck in order to take her to lunch, more or less at gunpoint, while his mother heads off to ‘Make a Big Deal’.
Sadly, Mama Pappalardo, who is wearing a costume which bears a striking resemblance to an Arizona Death Row uniform, strays onto Chuck’s set by mistake and ends up being bumped off in the manner of most ‘contestants’. Chuck and Gloria have to work hard to ensure that the grief-stricken Pappalardo is not able to immediately avenge the death of his mom. In doing so, of course, they overcome their distaste for each other and, in traditional rom com fashion, finish up tasting each other instead.
This is the sort of film that might be a cult film if it were either marginally better, or even more awful. Its only connection to prison is a number of loosely connected sketches about ways in which you might entertainingly kill a person dressed in a prison uniform, and the creative uses to which you might then put the body of an executed felon.
Could it do harm by suggesting that people on Death Row are nothing more than disposable commodities with no personalities? Not much, one suspects; my guess is that the film has had the size audience that it has deserved.
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Porridge (1979, UK)
I grew up with Porridge (the TV series), and when I started working in prisons I thought it more accurately portrayed what life inside the walls was really like than the more dramatic images of prison on TV – which usually concentrated on the violence and brutality. It showed humour, it showed some mutual regard (and some mutual contempt) between prison officers and prisoners, and it showed good-hearted, bumbling staff working alongside officious, cynical ones. Not so many good officers, now that I come to think of it.
Watching this film 30-odd years later is like slipping back into a pair of comfortable shoes. For a start, it was filmed on location at the reassuringly old-school (1830s) HM Prison Chelmsford. The key to both the TV series and the film’s success are wisecracking career criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), whose take on life is informed by years in the nick, and Fulton Mackay’s Senior Prison Officer Mackay (“Each man in here is as despicable as the next one,” he says. “That’s very fair minded of you, Sir.” “I like to think so.”). They are supported, of course, by a terrific ensemble cast of Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale, just before his death), the sad PO Barrowclough, the immaculately-dressed Mr Grout, who runs the prison from his cell… and a freshly-recruited, overly-sure-of-himself officer, Beal, who is introduced as a new target of familiar banter. The plot is a bit incidental, really. It has Fletch being ’asked’ by Grout to generate some official support for a football match of prisoners against some low-level celebrities – only to find that the game is simply a diversion for the escape of new reception Oates. When the escape occurs, Fletch and Lennie find themselves dragged along as hostages… and then have to try to break back into the prison to avoid getting into more trouble.
The comedy loses its way somewhat once the action is taken outdoors and the focus shifts away from the exchanges between Mackay and the prisoners. Mind you, this was (mostly) pre-drugs, and the gaol is full of professional criminals who view prison as an occupational hazard – a place where both villains and their keepers act as though being in the nick is a game in which both groups are constantly trying to win a small advantage over the other. Ah, nostalgia.
Posted on May 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pm. Updated on August 21st, 2009 at 6:45 pm.
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HomenewsTerm paper writingEssay on Footbinding
Essay on Footbinding
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The tradition of footbinding existed in China for centuries. In this regard, the 17th century became an important point in the development of the footbidning tradition because the footbidning has reached the high level of its development turning in a sort of art. At the same time, the physical impact of footbinding on female health remained unquestionable at the time. Nevertheless, footbinding progressed and became an integral part of Chinese culture. Moreover, footbinding opened larger opportunities for women to successful marriage, although this tradition was not just extremely painful and dangerous to female health but also manifested the full subordination of women to men in Chinese society. In this respect, it is possible to refer to the article �The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China�� by Dorothy Ko, where the author explores the tradition of footbinding and attempts to provide plausible explanations for this tradition. In fact, the author points out that the tradition of footbinding was the ultimate manifestation of male domination in Chinese society and inferiority of women, while aesthetic beauty and female beauty was apparently secondary, although they were often position as primary reasons for footbinding.
In fact, the tradition of footbinding seems to be absolutely incomprehensible to the contemporary western society. Moreover, this tradition may look bizarre even for Chinese people living in contemporary China. In this regard, the primary concern in regard to the footbinding tradition that arises is the health concern since footbinding has a destructive impact on female health. Nevertheless, many women underwent this ritual and suffered footbinding willingly. On the other hand, footbinding started in the early age and girls had little options to choose but they had to obey to their parents. However, the paradox of footbinding was obvious. On the one hand, the footbinding was extremely painful and dangerous for health of women, who underwent this procedure, while, on the other hand, footbinding was widely-practiced in China in the 17th century for instance. In such context, Dorothy Ko attempts to find plausible answers to the question concerning reasons why Chinese women underwent this tradition and suffered fotbinding and related health problems.
One of the major reasons that encouraged the wide-spread of footbinding among Chinese women in the 17th century was the dominating concept of sexual attractiveness of women with footbinding (Ko, 1997). Ko (1997) argues that Chinese men viewed women, whose feet were bound sexually attractive. At the same time, women, who undergone footbinding, had never shown their feet to men and it was a well-known fact that their feet were not worth uncovering. In fact, bound feet were a subject to the admiration and sexual appeal for men but men were discouraged to see bound feet uncovered. Their admiration should be in secret expectation of seeing those feet as well as in the walk of women with bound feet. Therefore, Chinese people were aware of consequences of footbinding and its impact on health of women. This is why men were discouraged from seeing bound feet.
In such a situation, there should be some other reasons for footbinding in China. In this regard, Ko (1997) argues that women with footbinding have better marriage prospects. In fact, such women were considered to be exceptional and their beauty and difference from other women put them into a superior position and representatives of the upper-class were willing to marry foot bound women. Taking a better social standing and successful marriage could be strong motivators for women in China to undergo the procedure of footbinding. However, Ko (1997) probably underestimates pragmatism of Chinese women of the 17th century since footbinding started at the early age, when women could hardly think of their marriage prospects. Moreover, girls, who undergo the procedure of footbinding, were entirely dependent on their families, especially fathers. This is why they could not make a conscious choice in favor of footbinding for the sake of a successful marriage.
On the other hand, footbinding was the ultimate manifestation of the male domination in Chinese society since women with bound feet could not lead active social, political or economic life and were entirely dependent on men. Therefore, the inferior position of women and the male superiority in Chinese society could have been the major reason for footbinding. In fact, male dominated society could naturally accepted any tradition that men believed to be good. In addition, girls could not challenge the decision of their parents, while footbidning was normally the decision taken by parents. In this regard, both men and women could support this decision but this decision was taken for the sake of men rather than women. Girls, who underwent the footbinding procedure, had no other prospects but a successful marriage which was the ultimate goal of their life. They could not make a successful professional or political career. Their gender turned out to be a secondary factor in their inability to become successful in any field but family life. Instead, their physical inability was the primary reason why they could not work and, thus, they could not make a career in any field. Instead, women, who underwent footbinding, were viewed as beautiful and special and could count on a successful marriage with representatives of the upper-class.
In such a context, the male dominated society promoted the idea of footbinding because footbinding clearly indicated women to their place in Chinese society of the 17th century. Ko (1997) traces the evolution of footbinding from a mere ritual that aimed at making women more beautiful to a socially significant act of the transformation of women’s physical appearance to demonstrate their inferiority and full subordination to men. Women could not challenge dominating social norms and standards. This is why they accepted footbinding forcing girls to bind their feet from the early age, while the main concern of women, in such a situation, was the successful marriage as the main goal of any woman’s life in the 17th century China.
Thus, the footbinding tradition was extremely dangerous for health of women. Nevertheless, they underwent this procedure to increase their sexual appeal and to become more beautiful and attractive for men. However, the beauty was not the main reason for the promotion of footbinding. In fact, the main reason was the male domination in Chinese society since footbinding was made for the sake of men above all. The idea of exceptional beauty of women, who underwent footbinding, was a mere justification of the male tyranny in Chinese society.
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FirstService Residential Selected to Manage Historic Villa Riviera Condominium Association
Villa Riviera Condominium Association in Long Beach, CA selects FirstService Residential to provide full-service management services. Full-service management services include day-to-day operational support, cost-containment measures and efficiencies, oversight and development of on-site staff, an enhanced resident experience, IT support as well as finance and accounting expertise.
“The Villa Riviera is iconic not only in Long Beach but in the West, and we are excited to add this premier building to our ever-growing high-rise portfolio of distinguished clients,” said Gary Hamblin, business development manager for FirstService Residential.
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) October 30, 2018
FirstService Residential, California’s leading high-rise management firm, was awarded the management contract for Villa Riviera Condominium Association in Long Beach. FirstService Residential’s High-Rise Management Division is providing day-to-day operational support, cost-containment measures and efficiencies, oversight and development of on-site staff, an enhanced resident experience, IT support as well as finance and accounting expertise.
The Villa Riviera, built in 1928, is on the National Register of Historic Places and recognized for its Gothic revivalism architecture. The 16-floor high-rise contains 134 residential units and numerous amenities, including a grand common area entry, a ballroom sundeck and access to the beach.
“The Villa Riviera is iconic not only in Long Beach but in the West, and we are excited to add this premier building to our ever-growing high-rise portfolio of distinguished clients,” said Gary Hamblin, business development manager for FirstService Residential. “The board was seeking a highly committed business partner with the depth of resources to provide hands-on professional guidance, strong financial acumen and transparency, efficiencies in operations and staffing as well as expertise in local legislation impacting the association.” Hamblin continued, “Our dedicated high-rise team has a proven track record for delivering exceptional value to our clients, and we look forward to exceeding the expectations of Villa Riviera.”
About FirstService Residential
FirstService Residential is recognized as California’s leading and most experienced full-service association management firm. For more than 35 years, FirstService Residential has continued to provide the best-in-class association management solutions and genuinely helpful service to its over 950 commercial and residential associations encompassing more than 235,000 homes and commercial units throughout California.
FirstService Residential is North America's largest manager of residential communities and the preferred partner of HOAs, community associations and strata corporations in the U.S. and Canada. FirstService Residential's managed communities include low-, mid- and high-rise condominiums and cooperatives, single-family homes, master-planned, lifestyle and active adult communities, and rental and commercial properties.
With an unmatched combination of deep industry experience, local market expertise and personalized attention, FirstService Residential delivers proven solutions and exceptional service that add value, enhance lifestyles and make a difference, every day, for every resident and community it manages. FirstService Residential is a subsidiary of FirstService Corporation, a North American leader in the property services sector. For more information, visit http://www.fsresidential.com.
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FirstService Residential
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Grey's Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21
Grey's Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 (How Insensitive) - You can watch Grey's Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 online here at putlocker-hd.is. Tv Show Grey's Anatomy s6e21 (How Insensitive). Grey's Anatomy episodes can be found on our website including the new Grey's Anatomy episodes. Grey's Anatomy 6x21 (How Insensitive) online streaming. Watch Grey's Anatomy Online. You'll be able to watch and stream tv Grey's Anatomy with us here at putlocker-hd.is anytime without any restrictions or limitations. Just remember Grey's Anatomy videos are available at our site putlocker-hd.is.
Bailey preps the team with mandatory sensitivity training prior to admitting a 700-pound patient with compounded medical issues, and the case proves to be challenging in every sense of the word. Meanwhile Derek has to come face to face with a former patient’s husband in a wrongful death deposition, and spending time with a heart patient’s daughter opens up some old wounds for Cristina.
Air Date: May. 06, 2010 .
Grey's Anatomy season 6
Death and All His Friends May. 20, 2010
Sanctuary May. 20, 2010
Shiny Happy People May. 13, 2010
How Insensitive May. 06, 2010
Hook, Line and Sinner Apr. 29, 2010
Sympathy for the Parents Apr. 01, 2010
Suicide is Painless Mar. 25, 2010
Push Mar. 11, 2010
Perfect Little Accident Mar. 04, 2010
The Time Warp Feb. 18, 2010
Valentine's Day Massacre Feb. 11, 2010
State of Love and Trust Feb. 04, 2010
I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked Jan. 21, 2010
Blink Jan. 14, 2010
Holidaze Nov. 19, 2009
New History Nov. 12, 2009
Invest In Love Nov. 05, 2009
Give Peace a Chance Oct. 29, 2009
I Saw What I Saw Oct. 22, 2009
Invasion Oct. 15, 2009
Tainted Obligation Oct. 08, 2009
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me Oct. 01, 2009
Goodbye (2) Sep. 24, 2009
Good Mourning (1) Sep. 24, 2009
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That ain't Edward Sharpe gaily singing about dreams, home and falling in love, that's frontman Alex Ebert. Fresh off a breakup and a stint in rehab, Ebert (who also fronts the punky synth-pop outfit Ima Robot) created the mystical figure of Edward Sharpe, a messiah who has one weakness: girls. After Ebert met singer Jade Castrinos, the Magnetic Zeros began to form and the collective eventually swelled to over 10 members. Their music shares the psychedelic, Baroque-pop sensibilities of a flower-power band like The Polyphonic Spree, but on a slightly more down-to-earth level. The group recorded its debut album in an apt location: the L.A. 'hood of Laurel Canyon, a counterculture hub during the 1960s. Released in 2009, Up from Below gradually gathered momentum as the band toured the country. Advertisers eventually caught on to the hype, and the band's catchy, fun-loving pop started showing up on commercials for phones, cars and films.
Biography Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Concert Films Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Top Tracks Top Tracks on Qello
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Concert Films
Live At World Cafe
We haven't ever met a band quite like Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. Their self-professed embrace of child-like wonder is the piston that powers their music, their sunny disposition, and their recognition that every moment is a once in a life time opportunity to create and connect...with themselves, with their wildly enthusiastic followers, or something universally bigger. That shows sell out in their wake everywhere the eleven piece band play is no big surprise. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros are special, getting more than just a kick out of playing the peppy, folk creations of their debut Up From Below and their recent follow-up Here.
Recently we had the privilege to spend a bit of time with the band during a concert stop for the fine folks of WXPN in Philadelphia. We spoke at length with Edward's bandleader Alexander Ebert and are posting a series of videos all month long. But we also had the opportunity to aim our cameras at the band's performance. Piling all eleven members of the band on stage, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros showcased a handful of their new, more meditative song fare from Here, as well as made sure to pepper in a few crowd favorites from Up From Below (for old time's sake...). It was a special opportunity. Today we're thrilled to be releasing the full, uninterrupted edit of the band's acoustic-ish performance in Philadelphia. We think you'll find there's nothing else quite like this out there.
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros / 29 min
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Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Top Tracks
Live At World Cafe / Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros / 05:21
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40 Day Dream
Simplest Love
I Don't Want to Pray
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U2 - Gimme Shelter (featuring Mick Jagger, Fergie & will.i.am)
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts / Various Artists / 04:59
Maria, Maria
Greatest Hits: Live at Montreux 2011 / Carlos Santana / 05:42
Rock Montreal / Queen / 03:41
History Of The Eagles / Eagles / 06:39
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Midnight in Harlem
Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival / Various Artists / 06:40
Joe Bonamassa & Pino Daniele with Robert Randolph - Going Down
Live in Japan 1990 / Earth Wind And Fire / 03:44
Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Farm Aid 2003: Part 2 / Various Artists / 05:57
Live in Amsterdam / Toto / 07:08
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Rambaud-Measson quits Wabtec
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
Stéphane Rambaud-Measson
Wabtec Corp. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Stéphane Rambaud-Measson has resigned from his position and as a Director of the company “to pursue other interests,” Wabtec announced on Feb. 12.
Rambaud-Measson was President and CEO of Faiveley Transport S.A. and joined Wabtec when it acquired Faiveley in 2016. During his years at Faiveley Transport, Rambaud-Measson “had developed Faiveley Transport into a global transit technology and market leader,” Wabtec said.
Rambaud-Measson was appointed Wabtec COO in May 2017 and had been Corporate Executive Vice President and a Director since Nov. 30, 2016. He served as CEO and President of Wabtec’s Transit Group until his appointment as COO. He was Management Board Chairman and CEO of Faiveley Transport S.A. from April 2014 until November 2016. Prior to Faiveley, he was CEO of Veolia Verkehr, Germany, and President of Bombardier Transportation’s Passenger Division.
According to Salary.com, as Wabtec Executive Vice President and COO, Rambaud-Measson received $3.1 million in total compensation. Of this total $851,929 was salary, $81,988 was bonus, $2.1 million was awarded as stock and $62,314 came from other compensation. He received no stock options. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2017 fiscal year.
“Since our acquisition of Faiveley, Stéphane has played an important role in the successful integration and growth of our transit business,” said Wabtec Executive Chairman Albert J. Neupave. “We thank him for his valuable contributions to Wabtec and wish him well in his future endeavors.”
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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU’s headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 km², and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers, mostly Flemish (about 60%), and the French-speakers, mostly Walloons (about 40%), plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium’s two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium’s linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.
Historically, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were known as the Low Countries, which used to cover a somewhat larger area than the current Benelux group of states. The region was called Belgica in Latin because of the Roman province Gallia Belgica which covered more or less the same area. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. From the 16th century until the Belgian Revolution in 1830, when Belgium seceded from the Netherlands, many battles between European powers were fought in the area of Belgium, causing it to be dubbed the battleground of Europe, a reputation strengthened by both World Wars.
Upon its independence, Belgium participated in the Industrial Revolution and, during the course of the 20th century, possessed a number of colonies in Africa. The second half of the 20th century was marked by the rise of contrasts between the Flemish and the Francophones fuelled by differences of language and the unequal economic development of Flanders and Wallonia. This ongoing antagonism has caused far-reaching reforms, changing the formerly unitary Belgian state into a federal state, and a long period of political instability.
Bruges is the capital of the province of West Flanders. It has most of its medieval architecture intact. The historic centre of Bruges has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. Many of its medieval buildings are notable, including the… [Per saperne di più]
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Photos from all years
Team Leader’s Report
The team for this year consisted of a very balanced group in almost every respect. There were 8 men and 8 ladies, ranging from 16 to 73, and coming from 6 Western Cape CESA churches. Our two training days went off very well and the team was well prepared. All too quickly it was time to leave, which took place from an Engen service station in Bothasig at about 22h00 on 22 June in 3 vehicles. We met up with the fourth vehicle just past Malmesbury.
The trip to Ondangwa is a long 2200 km which we took two days to complete with a stopover at Hodygos in Okanhandja. One never really gets used to the distance and it always seems like we just cannot get there but eventually we all did and got ourselves unpacked and set up in the Nakambale Rest Camp, welcomed by Maggie as usual.
Sphelo Mlungu, Doniwen Pietersen, Karin Pretorius, Kathy Noland, Sue Border, Grace Mortemore, Nic Border, Alistair Border, Marion Edmonds-Smith, Jenna Border, Morné Valentyn, Lauren Douglass, Muriel Bartholomew, Ross Bartholomew, Jan Vat, Mike Sessions.
From the start the team worked very well together and this improved as time went by. The unifying factor is always that we are all together for a common purpose and this means that whatever we are doing it always has that purpose in mind – to evangelise and assist the churches of the Church of England in Namibia – five churches at present.
The first week is always a “getting to know the ropes” week and much is learnt by the team in terms of what the daily routine is, how to find the churches and just settling into ministry in a difference country, culture and language, as well as with people that one doesn’t always know. It was good to connect up with old friends and also make some new ones.
Our hearts were saddened by the death of Denys Nandi’s mother and the team attended her Memorial service on Friday 5 July. This event is very different from anything we were accustomed to and we were pleased to be able to attend. Some of the team also "popped in" on the wedding of the local king’s daughter the following day which was a very grand affair with many dignitaries in attendance.
It was an absolute privilege to be part of this team and therefore part of all that took place while in Ovamboland. One of the things that really came home to most of us was the very different concept of time. There is just no absolute start or end time. Events are scheduled to start at a particular time but that should more be seen as a guideline than anything rigid. The end of the event is only when everything had been done, so things can literally carry on for many hours. When one takes into account that many people walk for hours to get to the event one starts understanding why it starts when they are there and doesn't end until all is done – then the hours of walking to get back home.
Our maintenance team accomplished a huge amount and in two weeks almost completely renovated three of the churches. This was only possible by significant donations in the region of R60 000! A very big thank you to all who made this possible. St Peter's completely painted inside and out as well as many new benches made and woodwork varnished, St John's received a new roof as well as being painted inside and out, and St Paul's received some external plastering, new front doors and also got a fresh coat of paint. All five churches also got burglar proofing and security gates fitted.
All in all I am very proud of the team and all that was done and look forward to our Lord at work in their lives as well as those we ministered to - particularly those who made professions of faith while we were ministering to them.
Ross Bartholomew
Maintenance Report
The brief given to us this year was to improve the security of the church buildings by adding burglar bars and security gates.
On the first day after arrival at Ondangwa we did a survey of all the churches and at first we wondered why they needed their security improved as there was nothing in the churches of any value. Then we realized that it was precisely because the security was a concern that nothing of value was left in the churches! This may sound a bit obvious when it is explained like that but how often do we fail to look beyond the apparent and see what the real situation is.
During the survey we could not help but see the general state of disrepair of the buildings – with large cracks in the walls and the plaster falling off, little evidence of paint inside or out, and at St Johns the roof was in great danger of falling down.
This year’s team was made up of Nic Border (Architect) and Mike Sessions (Engineer). This was Nic’s first visit and he had to come to terms with the different building standards in Cape Town and in Ondangwa. Rafter spans of 1m in SA become spans of 5m in Namibia and this explains why building costs are so high down south and the roofs collapse to the north!
By the end of two weeks much had been achieved – both by the maintenance team who were assisted by the youth whenever they could be spared from their own ministry – and by local men employed to assist.
St Peter’s – new security gate, burglar bars, paint inside and out, 12 new pews
St Luke’s – 2 new security gates, varnish doors
St Paul’s – new wooden doors and security gates, fit burglar bars, repair plaster, paint inside and out
St John’s – new roof (3 extra rafters, new purlins and sheeting), new security gate and burglar bars, plaster and paint
Christ Church – security gate, book cupboard with lockable doors
Mike Sessions
Childrens Team
Every year you go to Namibia you will experience it in a different way. There are a number of reasons for this, one being the team dynamic. This year we had a wonderful compliment of ladies on the children’s team. It consisted of Kathy Noland, Grace Mortimore, Jenna Border and me – Lauren Douglass. We had a number of areas in which we served this year. They are as follows:
Looking after the babies during the ladies bible studies run in the mornings
Running kids programs in the afternoons at various churches
Teaching in numerous ways at a private school called Proffies
Training with Sunday school teachers
Sunday school on the Sunday’s
When planning a mission and your part of it one always has a picture of what it will look like when applying the work you have prepared to do, but once you get on the mission field it always works out differently. The team really got stuck into serving and helping where ever needed. From looking after the kids during the morning ladies bible studies to teaching Sunday school. One of the high lights about the team this year is that everyone was willing to help where help was needed. The kids’ team worked in the maintenance team painting and sanding and plastering. The ladies helped out with the Sunday school on Sundays. Where ever there was a gap people just got stuck in and worked.
The kids ministries at the various churches in Namibia are growing and growing. St Peter’s reaching kids up to 100. These kids are there and they are willing and eager to learn about God and the gospel. The problem faced up there is that the work is plentiful but the workers are few. One of the key elements that Tish wanted to focus on was training key Sunday school teachers. This was done with two volunteers on one Saturday morning. Kathy Noland presented a brilliant and very helpful understanding to them about why taking the gospel to kids is so important. This was received very well and both volunteers found it helpful to understand the reality that kids are just as lost as adults and in need of the gospel. We brought with us from South Africa material that has been written for the African context. The mission bought 3 copies, as part of our training we taught them how to use the material and gave them some tips on how to prepare Sunday school lesson’s and then passed on the material to them. The idea behind that training is that they now will pass on what they have learned to others who were not able to attend the training. Please continue to keep the children’s ministry in Namibia in your prayers.
All in all the team worked well together serving the gospel and each other. Now we need to pray together for the work that will continued there.
Kathy teaching at St Pauls Grace at St Peters
Much fun being had Children at Proffies
Lauren Douglass
I really enjoyed this mission trip. Presented with the opportunity to joyfully serve as the leader of the Youth Ministry team, came as a delight. With the help of five awesome team members (Morné, Sphelo, Alistair and Jenna Border) this was quite exciting! And what an adventure it was! Our favourite time was to visit various churches and schools in and around the Ondangwa area particularly in the vicinity of the Churches in Namibia. And sometimes this meant travelling long distances, as far as 60 km away from where we stayed. This meant we couldn't get to all the churches as we would've liked because it would've made travelling back during the night too dangerous. Nonetheless, we tried covering a wide area and where we could get too, in-order to reach youngsters with the Gospel. Our mission was get to know kids, teach them the Bible and just have fun with them, and I believe we achieved it. This included activities such as story times, Bible skits and other fun games like soccer tournaments etc. I was greatly blessed and encouraged in a special way.
To see youngsters and teenagers walking miles to where we were, to listen to God’s Word, presented in a way that they can relate too, was wonderful. My biggest highlight was when we got to interact with them; they got comfortable enough to teach us a song called "My life is too complete". And this struck me, to see youngsters coming from a rural situation singing "My life is too complete" with such passion. Almost to say that even in the most basic, and struggling live, God is big enough to complete their lives that the worries of this world is for God to take care of. And for us to be content in that faith and trust in surrendering our every area of life to Him. This was quite a stark reminder to me of how much Christians in general but we as youth in particular, get lost in our socially cluttered myspace, and we forget that life is really as simple as trusting in God to keep you and sustain you throughout our daily lives. This spoke volumes to me!
We were also involved with helping the maintenance team and with great joy we can say we were part of a wonderful and much appreciative congregation, that now meet in a beautifully painted church. I have grown and learned a lot in my experience of Namibia and its people from a foreign culture. And this sentiment was shared by the youth-team in general. I would love to go back, and I don’t think I will ever forget this trip.
Doniwen Pietersen
It was with much trepidation that I set off for Namibia as it would be the first time I was going as a team leader. The ladies of Ovamboland had requested teaching on marriage so much research was done to decide where to get my material. God in his wonderful provision showed me what to use in a course I had just done on creation and the fall. A whole section was also on marriage showing God’s original plan for marriage in Genesis 2. Following that was teaching the ladies how to be women after God’s own heart, as God sought Daniel, a man after his own heart, towards their husbands and in the home.
It was difficult to teach on the subject of marriage as most of the ladies are unmarried with various children from different fathers. It was even more heart sore to see young girls in their late teens and early twenties with baby’s on their arms.
I was blessed to have two wonderful ladies, Sue Border and Karen Pretorious as part of the ladies team. It was the first time for both of them in Namibia. They were a great support and “gelled” with the ladies at each of the sessions at the five churches where we ministered.
God, in his graciousness, touched the heart of 11 ladies as we taught. Please pray for their growth in their faith. Tish has been given the names of all the ladies so will follow up with them.
I look forward to visiting all the ladies in 2014 and pray that the Lord will allow me to return.
Victoria of St Lukes & Amalia our faithful translator The ladies of St John’s
Ladies of Christ Church Ondangwa Not enough space to watch Jesus film at St Peter’s
Marion Edmonds-Smith
Men's Ministry plus...
My family and I were in Namibia during March 2013 to investigate whether we can be useful to the Lord’s work in Namibia on a permanent basis. In this regard we taught the Bible at the five churches of REACH Namibia, which served to confirm that this denomination has a serious leadership crisis. Two of the churches are pastored by women and the other churches by men beyond retirement age without obvious successors. The churches are mostly attended by women and, on the face of it (as far as a person can judge this), few of the men that do attend are born-again Christians.
Not speaking the local language, it seems folly to take on the pastoral role for one or more of these churches. At this point in time, only two men from this denomination are suitable for training, which is not a sufficient number for a full-time teaching role. As it so happens, there is a Pentecostal theological training college in Ondangwa which currently has 22 students mostly from Namibia. It is a possibility that this college may become a feeding place for REACH Namibia. I was able to establish a relationship with the leaders of this college and was even allowed to teach. Here I was informed that there was a leadership problem in many of the churches in the region, with many people being pastors of churches without any formal training.
Hence, my purpose for going on the mission was, primarily, to meet with pastors from the area across denominations to establish whether there is a general need for pastoral and lay-leadership training. This would fit my profile as I have taught in the Bible Institute’s Church Leadership Program (CLP) for many years.
From a personal perspective, the mission was successful beyond expectation as it created the opportunity for Kathy Noland and I to introduce CLP to a regional pastor’s fraternal. This meeting was attended by 34 church leaders from the four regions of Northern Namibia. The pastors showed great interest in the program and one of the leaders asked me to attend a meeting in the first week of October which will be convened with the special purpose to discuss CLP further.
The mission also gave me the opportunity to teach at the college and to further cement relationships with its leaders to the extent that they would love me to come back. One young teacher at the college enquired about opportunities in South Africa for higher theological education and it is a distinct possibility that I may be able to arrange a bursary for him to study at GWC next year.
Also, on my first visit, I was repeatedly informed about the frequency of abandoned babies being found dead in the bush. I was able to follow this up during the mission and discovered that there is only one orphanage in Ondangwa. International adoption is not permitted by law and, as I was given to understand, the concept of adoption is foreign to most Namibians. Hence, the only way to address this problem is to establish more orphanages with facilities to drop off babies without the threat of prosecution. In this regard, I was able to meet with social workers from the Department of Childwelfare who confirmed that there was a great need for this. They helpfully gave me the right person to contact so that I can begin to make moves in that direction.
Lastly, I was able to meet with three estate agents, one in Ondangwa (the only one) and two in Ongwediva. Nothing suitable came up in Ondangwa at this point, but there was one suitable property for rental in Ongwediva. In discussing this with the team, it was suggested that I should investigate the possibility to build a house on the property of Christ Church Ondangwa.
Thus far the Lord has opened all the doors for my family and I to settle in Ovamboland to train Christian leaders and to, perhaps, establish an orphanage. We are aiming to move in January and we are praying for the Lord to bring us the required finances for this venture.
Concerning the mission team, it was nothing but a delight to be with them. Male and female, young and old, all were equally enthusiastic and committed to do whatever was needed to make the mission a success. We all became friends notwithstanding some of the challenges we faced. There were no moaners and groaners among us, which made the work easy. Much was accomplished as may be read in the accounts of others. Both men and women made commitments to Christ. Follow up of the women will be done by Tish Hanekom but, sadly, there is no-one to follow up the men. Another reason why a man is desperately needed. It was comforting to hear the team members confirm that the greatest need of this region is for Christian men to be trained in ministry.
I would like to suggest that future short-term mission teams consider the opportunity to be of value to the broader Christian community in northern Namibia. Kathy Noland gave a short presentation to the pastors fraternal about the need for children’s ministry which created great excitement. They all wanted to know when Kathy could come back to train their Sunday School teachers. The same would apply to other areas of ministry and I envisage organising training venues where people from different denomination would come to receive training by members of the mission teams. In this way the team would have many more people to teach and train without having to travel to remote areas.
Consideration should also be given for pastors on the team to teach theology at the Bible College in Ondangwa and mission teams could also assist the college by providing it with more teaching material.
In closing, we have made application with SIM to be accepted as missionaries. This does not obviate us having to raise our own support, but it has other benefits.
Jan Vat
Due to circumstances I was unable to be together with you for your whole stay this.
My colleagues have reported to me all that that happened during your stay. You have had a busy schedule in carrying out your activities - that is teaching and assisting the congregations with renovations, repairs and installations of the necessary things that all along had been lacking at our churches.
May I use this opportunity to express the gratitude of all our members for the good work you have done during your stay with us.
I heard that there were some unpleasant incidences where unreliable people were used to do some of the jobs. It is unfortunate that some of these things happen in life, but on the other hand these could be challenges to test our faith and to point out to us that we need to work more in making our people understand that to work for a church is not a profit making business but service to the glory of our Creator.
We pray that the Lord gives you all the strength, willingness and provision to visit us again next year.
Yours in Christ
Rev D.K. Nandi
For all the CEN congregations.
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Home Destinations Asia & South Pacific Luxurious India by Rail, Plane and Boat
Luxurious India by Rail, Plane and Boat
Rick Shively
Centuries of history, myriad cultures, exotic adventures, wildlife and an eclectic selection of transportation options await your high-end clients in India, where they can step back in history via modern-day deluxe train travel, private plane excursions and houseboat-style tours through a laid-back wonderland of Indian subculture.
Start off with the Maharajas’ Express—India’s newest rail product—on a 7-day rail sojourn through Rajasthan where your clients will experience all of the major cities, forts, wildlife parks and more—all in a kind of high-tech European river boat environment where you unpack on day one and don’t bother packing again until it’s time to get off at the end of the week.
We’re talking suite-style cabins here, with TV, WiFi, DVD players, hand-painted ceilings and more. But they don’t try to compete with the period-style rail properties like the venerable Palace on Wheels, or the Deccan Odyssey, which covers the state of Maharashtra; the Golden Chariot, which traverses the southern state of Karnataka, taking in the World Heritage site of Hampi; or the Indian Maharaja, which operates between Bombay and Delhi.
“The Maharajas’ Express has been very well received and we’re receiving quite a few inquiries. In fact, recently, over the past week-and-half or two weeks, we’ve been getting about three inquiries daily for the train,” explains Chris Grabar, marketing and public relations specialist for Greaves Tours. “So it’s very much coming to the forefront.”
Grabar points out that, “Train travel in general in India has always been at much more of a deluxe level, whereas the Maharajas’ Express—because of the facilities on board—it’s really brought general train travel to the brink of being luxurious, I would say, though, India trains in general are not very luxurious. But it is definitely a very comfortable mode of travel. But the advantage of the Maharajas’ Express is that it’s the newest train—it was newly built—and it does have the finest features and amenities on board. It’s very high-tech. It’s definitely a great way to travel and kind of maximize your time in India within a week without having to pack and unpack your suitcase.”
At the same time, she adds, at the end, or even preceding the 7-night trip, “We can add a little bit of pre and a little bit of post and because you’re coming back into Delhi, it’s a great gateway to the south or anywhere else in India, for that matter. There’s a great opportunity to see a lot of Rajastan on the Maharajas’ Express and then fly into another area.”
Which is one of the more unique things about booking with Greaves Tours in India—the availability of the company’s private plane means you can book more open itineraries that allows your clients to see more of India and enjoy more of its diverse attractions without wasting time in airports, trains or long overland trips by vehicle.
Prices for the Maharajas’ Express train are from $5,600 pp dbl, but since customization is at the core of the Greaves experience, Greaves can suggest pre- and post-train itineraries to enrich a traveler’s overall experience in India.
The company has another program called A Jungle Journey that showcases India’s selection of wildlife national parks. “The Jungle Journey is a fantastic trip,” Grabar effuses. “It’s a really great selection of parks up in Northern India,” and she adds, because it’s a Greaves Tour product, it’s easy to customize it to the client’s tastes and interests. “If a client or a traveler was looking to shorten up their trip but still wants to visit national parks, we do have that private plane and they can easily fly from park to park in essentially 25 to 35 minutes, depending on where they’re going. So that could be a very quick way to get from place to place without missing a beat because you can pretty much be on a game drive at one park in the morning, get on the plane, fly to another game park and be on another game drive in the afternoon. So it’s really a great way to kind of park hop, if you will.”
This is also a program where your clients might have the opportunity to spot an elusive Bengal tiger, but there’s no guarantees. Indeed, Grabar says, “Clients are always asking when’s the best time to see the wildlife. There really isn’t a best time, but I can tell you in the winter months—November, December and January—when it’s colder, the tigers will be out but they’ll often go in early to get comfortable for the night. When you travel in May, that seems to be the best time to see the tigers. The monsoons haven’t hit yet and the tigers are out on the prowl looking for water and food.” The Jungle Journey starts at $4,618 pp dbl and includes the train tickets but not domestic India air (or international air).
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By Fang Yiyang|2019-06-23T21:49:16+08:00June 23rd, 2019|Nation in Motion, swimming, Youth in Motion|0 Comments
Story by REDintern Fang Yiyang. Photos by Iman Hashim/Red Sports.
Quah Ting Wen catches her breath after winning the Women’s 50m Freestyle A-final with a time of 25.26 seconds. She had earlier clocked 25.15s in the heats to set a new meet record and be within touching distance of her 25.07s national record. (Photo 1 © Iman Hashim/Red Sports)
OCBC Aquatic Centre, Saturday, June 22, 2019 — The 15th Singapore National Swimming Championships (SNSC) came to a close with two individual and one relay meet record broken on the fourth and final day of competition.
In the preliminary round of the Women’s 50-metre Freestyle, Swimfast Aquatic Club’s Quah Ting Wen clocked 25.15 seconds to break Amanda Lim’s 2018 meet record of 25.38s.
In the final held later in the afternoon, however, Ting Wen’s winning time of 25.26s failed to meet her goal of breaking the 25-second barrier during the meet.
“In the morning, I might have gotten too focused on my dive, which was a bit bad in the 100m Freestlye a few days ago, and my form broke down a lot in the last 15m. For the finals, I was hoping to maintain the high stroke rate for the whole race but the moment I dived in, I could instinctively tell that it was not going to be one of my better races,” said Ting Wen.
Ting Wen’s personal best stands at 25.07s, also the national record, set in March this year at the Singapore Age Group Championships.
“I really hoped to see a 24 on the board, so maybe I am more upset than usual over the result. For the 50m, it is only about 25 seconds. It is the most frustrating part because in the 100m or 200m, you still have time to change things be it your stroke or your mindset, but in the 50m it’s just all-out from the beginning,” she added.
In the Men’s 1500m Freestyle, 17-year-old Glen Lim lowered his own meet record of 15 minutes 56.75 seconds by over 10 seconds; however his 15:45.72 performance was only good enough for bronze as Thai swimmers Advait Page and Aryan Nehra clinched the top two spots. Foreigners are excluded from the SNSC’s meet records.
In the final event of the day, Glen’s teammates from AquaTech Swimming — Pang Sheng Jun, Lionel Khoo, Jonathan Tan and Darren Chua — clocked 3:46.42 to break Swimfast Aquatic Club’s 2012 meet record of 3:47.05 in the 400m Medley Relay.
See the full results of the final day of the 15th SNSC here.
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Spelunky •
Bats, Man! On Spelunky's Killing Joke
11th October 2014 / 10:30AM
Spelunky is, I think, better designed than any other roguelike, platformer, or roguelike platformer. It’s not because it’s a work of genre revivalism. It’s not the procedural generation, which jumbles level geometry upon every funny, frequent, fist-shaking demise.
It’s the bats. The bat, found in its opening world, is a dimly flapping lense through which the entire game can be better appreciated.
Every journey into Spelunky’s random levels contains the same set of deadly obstacles. Spikes, dart traps, snakes, spiders, giant spiders, those bats and so on.
Unlike the level geometry, enemy behaviour is consistent: dart traps always fire from the same range and do the same amount of damage, spiders always jump the same distance, and the bats – those bats! – always flap towards you at the same predictable angle, blindly bumping into anything in their way.
Every game has defined rules, which help give the player a sense of progress as they learn and master them, but I think it’s rare for simple rules to complement one another as well as they do in Spelunky, and for them to do such a good job of directing and rewarding the player’s actions.
Here is what happens: you’re moving around the floor of a layer of a level and you don’t notice the bat on the ceiling. It wakes up and starts to flap down towards you. It comes at you slowly at a sharp angle, moving for the top of your head.
Your basic weapon in Spelunky is the whip. It – like most of the other weapons – is designed to fire horizontally. You can’t use it to attack upwards, to where the bat is slowly drifting towards your hat.
So what are you going to do? This is what you’re going to do the first time (and what I did the first hundred times, because I’m a slow learner): you’re going to run away, as fast as you can, in a panic. And then you’re going to die, not because the bat reached you, but because in your panic you didn’t notice the that dart trap or that spike pit or some other enemy that was waiting for you.
Eventually you’ll gain experience and learn not to panic, but you’ll still do much the same thing. To kill the bat, you need to either get to higher ground where you can jump on it or you need to put distance between you and it so as to make its angle of descent shallow enough that when it reaches you, it’s in front of you and you can whip it.
The bat is slow, unable to pathfind except by flying in a straight line, and only does a single point of damage, but it’s a tool for steering player behaviour and pushing you towards engaging with the rest of the game’s dangerous terrain.
Every other enemy or trap in the game does something similar.
Dart traps, for example, fire almost as soon as they’re visible and if you’re sprinting it’s unlikely you’ll have time to react, dodge, or whip it out of the air. You’d be forgiven for deciding to walk everywhere.
Spiders, too, push and pull you. They leap a fixed distance every few seconds. You can run out of their range, but you want to get close enough to whip or jump on them. There is a safe zone directly beside them, where they will jump over you without touching and you can turn and kill them as they land, but the risk lies in whether you can reach that precise safe zone in time.
Taken as a set, it’s obvious that what Spelunky is doing is creating systems of tension. The bat makes you want to run, but the dart traps make you want to walk. The spiders make you want to get far away and close at the same time. Put them all in the same area and now the player has decisions to make, each one meaningful because choosing incorrectly means death.
That these systems are all rule-based means that every scenario can be predicted. You can plan, using your mental map of the game’s rules to decide what you’re going to do, and then try to execute that plan. There’s tension here too, between plan and execution.
I’ve played Spelunky so much, and its rules are so readable, that I can now close my eyes and continue to play it in my own mind. Not just imagine it, but play it, and simulate all the outcomes exactly as the computer would. I can claim the same of only a handful of other games. Tetris is one.
I see in Spelunky the nexus between the Miyamoto school of game design which is about simple, clean, hard rules, and the simulation-ist school which is about complexity, choice, emergent scenarios.
I see in Spelunky a game whose design is based around such perfect, platonic ideals that it can be used as a way of identifying the design of every other game around it. It’s a teaching aid, wearing its design so clearly on its sleeve that you come out the other side with a better set of critical tools with which to think about behaviour-shaping elements in every other videogame.
Mostly, in Spelunky, I see the bats.
[The header image of this post is of the Spelunky Blue Frog mod, which does a good job of conveying the purity and brilliance of Spelunky’s rules. Even when everything looks like a frog, you know when it’s a bat.]
This article was originally published as part of, and thanks to, the RPS Supporter program.
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Jeremy Irons acquits himself well with stretch to von Bulow
by Roger Ebert | October 14, 1990 |
It is one of the oddest performances of recent years, an exercise in mannered behavior that has the audience snickering with disbelief before they realize it's all right to laugh because, in a way, it's supposed to be funny. The performance is by Jeremy Irons in "Reversal of Fortune," where he plays Claus von Bulow, a man accused of attempting to murder his wife.
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Learning languages improves children’s career prospects
Peter Kotrc, CEO of Berlin Brandenburg International School, exhorts us to embrace the language opportunities that relocating to a new country brings and explains how to choose a school that develops them.
Berlin Brandenburg
Statistics have shown that the more languages we speak, the better the career options available to us. Language is a tool to unlock the world; through it we construct meaning and find our place in society says Peter Kotrc, director and ceo of Berlin Brandenburg International School (BBIS).
Language is a huge part of identity and embodies cultural heritage. Of over 6900 languages in the world, 30 per cent are in some form endangered according to UNESCO, with nearly five per cent having disappeared altogether since 1950. Preserving your native tongue is therefore of paramount importance.Understandably, many parents are worried when they move to a country that speaks a different language. The fear is that their child’s native language development will suffer when they are exposed to a new language. Often they are unaware that ‘monolinguals’ (individuals speaking just one language as oppose to ‘bilinguals’, those speaking two) are a global minority. According to ilanguages.org, only 40 per cent of the world’s population is limited to one language – speaking two or more languages is the norm.
Bilingualism staves off dementia
In addition to the prevalence of multilingualism, research has actually shown that the bilingual brain is more agile, and according to the Alzheimers Society, bilingual brains are more resilient to developing dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease by, on average, five years. Canadian research has also revealed that bilinguals earn up to seven per cent more than those who are limited to only one language and – according to the World Economic Forum – in the US, demand for bilinguals nearly tripled in the labour market between 2010 and 2015.
Tips on passing on languages in the home
For children learning two languages from their parents, it is a tough stage from birth but the reward is a child who by the age of three or four has already acquired – without effort – the basics of two languages.In order to safeguard this development, each parent needs to ensure that they only speak their own language with the child, as consistency is key. Even if the family language is a minority in this world, it mustn't be neglected. Books, songs and stories are key for mobile families to ground their children in culture. Moving around, this family culture will stay with them. An apartment can be rented, but not cultural heritage.
International schools: language expertise
If you move abroad to a country with a different language, do not be concerned. If you choose an international school you will not only find the specialists for language acquisition and language learning, you will also discover that in quality schools, all teachers consider themselves teachers of the language of instruction (usually English).In addition, most good schools offer instruction in the host country language from an early age; this helps with integration outside the school. From Primary level onwards, good schools will pay attention to the development (and structured learning) of an academic language therefore, as the child progresses, they will be able to produce essays at an appropriate level.
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Homesick for My Home Away from Home: Colombia
I took the red-eye flight from LA and arrived in Cali early in the morning feeling rather exhausted and grumpy, as one would expect. My deliriousness instantly evaporated when I was greeted at the airport by an old friend bearing buñuelos (basically fried, doughy, cheesy corn balls––amazing, I know). He drove me to set every morning 5 years ago and still remembered my favorite Colombian treat! I couldn’t find the words to adequately express how touched I was. “Bienvenida de regreso a Colombia Nathalia. ¿Qué tal su vuelo? ¿Se siente cansada?” This is a formal way of saying, “Welcome back to Colombia. How was your flight? Are you tired?”
I first traveled to Colombia in 2013 to film a movie that shot in Bogotá. Always up for an adventure, I was thrilled at the opportunity to work and live somewhere new. Within days of arriving I had fallen in love with all Colombia had to offer––the lifestyle, the food, the music, but most of all, the people. Since then I have been back to Colombia many times and I feel a part of me is Colombian now––even my family in Spain tells me I speak Spanish with a Colombian accent! I’ve made many great friends over the years and a few weeks ago got to go back to celebrate the wedding of one of my dearest friends. It was another unforgettable experience in my home away from home.
In most other Spanish dialects, the tense of tú is used in conversation with most people, so it would sound like “¿Qué tal tu vuelo? ¿Estás cansada?” But Colombians generally are the most formal of the Spanish speakers and use usted for speaking to almost anyone, even a close friend or family member. Therefore, in Colombia you will find that most of the verbs are conjugated for usted. Conjugations can be one of the trickiest aspects of learning Spanish. In English we typically only conjugate verbs to identify singular vs. plural nouns (e.g. I sing, he sings, they sing). And these verbs remain the same regardless of the formality (i.e. We would address our best friend or our teacher in the form of “you”). To conjugate for usted in regular verbs, you drop the ending and add -a or -e, verus for tú you add -as or -es.
Usted habla/tú hablas.
Usted come/tú comes.
As well as being very formal, Colombians tend to use less slang and fewer colloquialisms than spoken in other Spanish dialects, so I find them to be the easiest to understand. That’s not to say they don’t add their own uniquely Colombian touches––words like listo (used to imply something is understood, whereas in Spain I use it to mean ‘I am ready’) and chévere (when something is ‘cool’ or ‘good’) are as Colombian as buñuelos!
Finally got my hands on some buñuelos. Yum!
Why is Colombian Spanish so formal?
I wanted to learn more about why Colombian Spanish is so formal, so I started to dig deeper. It is difficult to pin down the exact origins of the different Spanish dialects across the Americas, but the history can offer us clues. As I learned while writing my Mexico City blog, it is likely that the first colonizers of Mexico came from Andalusia, not Castile. The first conquistador to arrive, Hernán Cortés, was a rebel who led his own expedition and only sought support from the Spanish Empire after his colonization of the Aztecs. Colombia, on the other hand, was discovered by Alonso de Ojeda while on an official voyage commissioned by the Spanish Crown. These closer political and financial ties could explain why Colombian Spanish evolved to resemble its mother tongue more closely. Another likely explanation could be that the natives living in Colombia at the time of the Spanish conquest, most notably the Muiscas and the Taironas, did not utilize a writing system nor were they politically unified, unlike the Aztecs. The inextricable link between speaking and writing seems to be a clear indicator as to why the Aztecs’ Nahuatl language is so predominant in Mexican Spanish today, whereas Colombian Spanish is far less influenced by its native languages.
Shortly after freshening up at the hotel I went to meet the rest of the group also in town for the wedding at a local restaurant nearby. Having come from all around the world, we were all meeting for the first time. Of the 10 in our crew, there were people from Colombia, Venezuela, LA, New York, and England. Everyone had spent time living and studying abroad in countries spanning every continent. Amongst the 10 of us there were 9 languages spoken––some from birth and others learned later in life. We had an interesting conversation on the origins of language and names. For one, why was Colombia named after Columbus when he never actually stepped foot there? (I looked it up afterwards and there is not a specific reason as to why.) Someone else mentioned that he finds it funny how Americans from the USA refer to themselves as “American” when in fact Americans are people across all the Americas (named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci). It was a very international crew to say the least and we enjoyed sharing stories of our experiences and travels. Through our diversity we found commonality.
Another highlight of my trip was going to eat lunch at Crepes and Waffles with my new Colombian friend. Crepes and Waffles is a popular chain all across Colombia and in other countries in South America and Mexico. When I lived in Bogotá I would eat there often. What I didn’t know was that this massive chain (84 restaurants in Colombia alone) remains privately owned and was just recently granted B-Corp status, officially making it a social impact business. Their restaurants only hire women, predominantly single mothers, giving women in a male- dominated and religious society employment opportunities. They also make sustainability a priority, sending employees to rural areas and small-time farms who often don’t have access to larger markets and incorporating the ingredients they find there into their menu, rather than the other way around. It is incredibly inspiring to see that you can have a successful and profitable business that still does good for the world and it is no surprise that the birthplace of a restaurant like Crepes and Waffles would be in Colombia. The horror and brutality the country has experienced over the last few decades––its internal conflict has been one of the longest lasting in history and only recently came to a historic end––could explain why Colombians are some of the most politically aware and socially conscious people I have ever met.
Women entrepreneurs are on the rise in Colombia.
All across Colombia you will meet people from all walks of life who will share personal stories of their experiences during the conflict, are prepared to answer even the most uninformed or cliché questions thoughtfully, never condescendingly, and are eager to show off their beautiful country and all it has to offer. They care deeply about their land, fighting to protect their small piece of the Amazon from big business and supporting campesinos (farmers) and minority communities. I had conversations with Colombians who were very concerned that one of the unintended impacts of the recent peace deal was that it now opens a path for special interests, generally illegal logging and large-scale cattle farmers, to take over path into jungle land that was previously FARC territory. For them, the well-being of their country and their land trumps ideology.
On my last day in Cali, once the festivities had passed and we all started to go our separate ways, I took a moment to myself. Sitting out on the balcony of my hotel room, I looked out at the view of this tropical paradise and wondered what it was that kept me coming back to this magical country. I thought about my friends, both old and new, and the beautiful memories I have had over the years. I realized that buñuelos and salsa music aside, what I love most about Colombia is Colombians themselves. They make me want to be a better person, give back to my community, and treat everyone with kindness and love. Colombians have figured out the magic recipe for making the most out of life––they live large, eat well, and dance all night, then wake up the following day greeting everyone they pass with a smile, thinking about the next problem to solve. They are eager to learn and share knowledge and always do whatever they can to leave their treasured little spot on Earth better than it was when they got there. We should all be a little more like Colombians.
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CRAG PROFILE: STONEY POINT PARK (LA)
by Max Stewart
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Crag Profile: Stoney Point Park (LA)Los Angeles gets criticism for its sprawl and smog and movie stars, but one thing that’s important to remember if you aren’t from the area is that LA embodies the West. If you look past the smog, you’ll see a 10,000 foot mountain off in the distance. The nearby ocean, canyons, mountains, chaparral, and forests are as grand as anything the Golden State has to offer; it’s pure California.
If you climb in LA, chances are you’ve been to the secluded island of rock northeast of the city proper called Stoney Point. Any weekend of the year, you will see climbers, hikers, tall can drinkers, graffiti-ers, and sometimes even litter picker-uppers winding their way through the massive boulders. On the weekends it’s wise to arrive early and always remove valuables from view in your vehicle.
The City of Los Angeles purchased Stoney Point’s initial 22 acres from a private owner for $250,000 in 1981. There was a relatively significant political skirmish leading up to this in which the Sierra Club and other activists encouraged City Council to overturn then-Mayor Tom Bradley’s veto of the purchase. That year it became a Los Angeles City park, and more than a decade later another 54 acres were added to the property.
One reason for the success of this venture was Stoney Point’s classification in 1974 as a Los Angeles Historic and Cultural Monument, in part because of the history of climbing in the area. Dating back to the 1930s, Stoney Point has been a haven for outdoor adventurers, starting with the Sierra Club mountaineers. Later in the 1950s, it was the home crag for Bob Kamps, Royal Robbins, and Yvon Chouinard, to name a few, who practiced climbing and protection techniques prior to tackling more ambitious exploits in Taquitz and Yosemite.
For those looking to explore the area for the first time, keep in mind that the rock at Stoney Point is sandstone (formed in the Pacific Ocean during the Cretaceous period), which, in a nutshell, means that it’s soft rock, especially after a rainstorm. Bouldering and toproping are the main attractions here for this reason and climbers should be cautious when grabbing for flakes.
And while you’re climbing, keep an eye out for pin scars and pitons and think back to the original diehards who made the sport what it is today.
By Brian Gruters
Brian writes about science, conservation, and ways that people interact with nature for various publications, as well as his blog, briangruters.com. He is an aspiring surfer, member of the Southern California Mountaineers Association, and likes to explore mountains and canyons.
Quote of the week:
Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing
"I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me."
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Del Oro, which lost 52-0 to De La Salle last season in Loomis, has a tradition of playing a high-powered schedule. The Golden Eagles lost earlier this season to Hawaiian power Punahou of Honolulu 22-15 at Cal and 34-31 to state No. 18 Bellarmine of San Jose in Loomis. Del Oro also has lost to Folsom, Rocklin and Oak Ridge in Sierra Foothill League play.
De La Salle, one of the nation’s most famed prep programs, is ranked No. 8 nationally, No. 3 in California and No. 1 in Northern California by MaxPreps.com. The Spartans’ only loss was 26-21 to USA Today No. 10 Trinity of Euless, Texas, in the season opener Aug. 29.
Should the Spartans win their 25th consecutive North Coast Section championship, they will earn a sixth CIF Sate Open Division Bowl bid, which is being held this year at Sacramento State.
In other games:
No. 1 Folsom 28, No. 8 Rocklin 14 in Folsom – Jake Jeffrey passed for two touchdowns and ran for one as the Bulldogs (8-0, 5-0) defeated the Thunder (5-3, 2-3) in the Sierra Foothill League game on Thursday to extend two streaks. Folsom has won a state-leading 24 consecutive games and 39 in a row in regular-season play, dating to 2011. Drake Stallworth had a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown to open the scoring, and Jeffrey hit Tre Green for a 29-yard touchdown and Keoni Zagata-Vera from 10 yards. Stallworth had two interceptions. Evyn Holz had touchdown runs of 22 and four yards for Rocklin.
No. 2 Elk Grove 31, Monterey Trail 20 at Monterey Trail – Ryan Robards rushed for 221 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries, and caught a 55-yard scoring pass from Jayden Machado as the Thundering Herd (8-0, 5-0) beat the Mustangs (3-5, 1-4) in Delta League play to inch closer to the championship. Robards also boomed a 47-yard field goal at the end of the first half. The multi-talented Robards came into the came as the state’s No. 2 scorer with 179 points on 28 touchdowns and three field goals.
No. 3 Oak Ridge 38, Nevada Union 7 in Grass Valley – Ian Book threw touchdown passes of 53, 38 and 34 yards – all to Kevin Kassis – and Rhys Kennedy rushed for two touchdowns, including a 53-yarder, to lead the Trojans (8-1, 5-0) over the Miners (1-8, 0-5) in the Sierra Foothill League contest. The Trojans’ win sets up next Friday’s battle at Folsom for the league championship.
No. 4 Grant 21, Sheldon 20 in Del Paso Heights – On a night that the Rutherford Stadium field was named after famed, long-time coach Mike Alberghini, it took a blocked attempt of a 35-yard field goal with 13 seconds left for the Pacers (7-1, 4-1) to survive the upset-minded Huskies (2-6, 0-5) in Delta League play. David Moala, a standout linebacker, blocked the kick, sending the Pacers into celebration mode. Deshawn Collins rushed for 203 yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries and Mike Green had 160 yards on 17 carries. Grant’s only loss is to Elk Grove.
No. 7 Granite Bay 28, Woodcreek 21 in Granite Bay – Christian Fisher scored on an eight-yard run with five minutes to play and the Grizzlies (5-3, 2-2) held the Timberwolves (5-3, 1-3) on downs on the Granite Bay 23 to prevail in the Sierra Foothill League contest. Fisher also scored on a five-yard run and Kyle Kraft threw a pair of touchdown passes to Scott Henrichs.
No. 14 Whitney 24, Roseville 14 in Rocklin – Josh Daniels, subbing for injured starting quarterback Hunter Rodrigues, threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Brandon McCarter and rushed for an eight-yard score to lead the Wildcats (6-2, 4-1) over the Tigers (3-5, 1-4). Nick Enriguez had a 99-yard kickoff return for Roseville.
No. 16 Cosumnes Oaks 70, Bella Vista 8 in Elk Grove – Maurice Hayden completed 6 of 10 passes for 177 yards and three touchdowns and Dante Davis rushed for 147 yards and three touchdowns on 13 carries as the Wolfpack (5-3, 3-2) crushed the Broncos (4-4, 2-3) in the Capital Valley Conference game.
No. 17 River Valley 31, Yuba City 29 in Yuba City – Kyle Williams hit a 28-yard field goal with 1:26 left as the Falcons (7-2, 4-1) held off the upset-minded Honkers (3-6, 3-2) in the annual Mayors Cup rivalry. Clarence Pierson scored four touchdowns for the Falcons, including a juggling 64-yard touchdown catch from Avery Gould with 8:27 to play. But Yuba City took a 29-28 lead in the Tri-County Conference game when Bailey Elkins threw a 34-yard pass to Maddox Bebout and the Honkers made the two-point conversion with 5:33 to play. Elkins also had a 19-yard touchdown run and Brenndon Schafer-Shalowitz rushed for two touchdowns for the Honkers.
No. 19 Christian Brothers 27, El Camino 7 at Hughes Stadium – Braeden Bourke threw touchdown passes of 17 yards to David Simmons and 12 yards to Drue Goncalves and also rushed for a six-yard score, and Jammari Jackson rushed for a 38-yard score as the Falcons (7-1, 3-0) topped the Eagles (5-3, 2-1) in the Capital Athletic League contest. Antoine Fleming returned a kickoff 81 yards for a score for El Camino.
No. 20 Capital Christian 55, Natomas 6 in Natomas – Tino Hutchins rushed for two touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass; DeMarcus Ross returned an interception 69 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 85 yards for a score, and Julian Leslie returned a kickoff 70 yards for a score to lead the Cougars (8-0, 4-0) past the Nighthawks (4-4, 1-3) in the Golden Empire League contest. Adrian Leyva threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Keyshawn Strickland for Natomas. It was the first points allowed by Capital Christian in four league games in which they now have outscored their opponents 239-6.
Pleasant Grove 34, Davis 29 at Sheldon – Darren Chism scored on a four-yard run with 48 seconds to play, then the Eagles (4-4, 3-2) intercepted a pass by the Blue Devils (3-5, 1-4) with 16 seconds to play to prevail in the Delta League game. The Blue Devils, trailing 28-15, rallied to take a 29-28 lead on John Lagattuta’s 13-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tucker Fisk with 8:41 to play. Lagattuta also ran for a one-yard touchdown and threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Jack Hoal. Bobby Singh returned a kickoff 90 yards for a first-quarter touchdown for Pleasant Grove.
Rosemont 50, Galt 22 in Rosemont – Xavier Mitchell-Cook threw three touchdown passes, including an 85-yarder to Zach Lovato, and Gabriel Pridgen-Daniels had a 70-yard run as the Wolverines (5-3, 2-1) topped the Warriors (3-5, 0-3) in the Sierra Valley Conference game.
Pioneer 20, Rio Linda 16 in Woodland – Elijah Fields threw a 27-yard scoring strike to Danny Byrd with 1:19 left to rally the Patriots (3-5, 2-2) past the Knights (1-7, 1-3) in the Tri-County Conference game. Fields also threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Chris Vidales in the first half and scored on a 13-yard run that cut the Knights’ lead to 16-14 with 9:05 to play.
Woodland 27, River City 14 in West Sacramento – Garrick Smigelski had two interceptions in the final 1:17, returning one for a touchdown; John Treat threw two touchdown passes, including an 82-yard strike to Truman Linney as the Wolves (2-6, 1-3) defeated the Raiders (1-7, 0-4) in the Tri-County Conference game. Christian Trice also scored two touchdowns, one on a 45-yard run.
Vista del Lago 56, Rio Americano 0 in Folsom – Brent Schaeffer threw three touchdown passes and rushed for a score and Adam King returned a blocked punt 30 yards for a score as the Eagles (6-2, 3-0) rolled over the Raiders (0-8, 0-3) in the Capital Athletic League contest.
Liberty Ranch 35, Union Mine 21 in Galt – Rick Van Houten and Devin Hardaway combined for scoring pass plays of 65 and 41 yards; Kamil Jones rushed for touchdowns of 44 and 13 yards; and Saul Lomeli returned a fumble recovery 37 yards for a touchdown to lead the Hawks (4-4, 3-0) over the Dimondbacks (5-3, 2-1) in the Sierra Valley Conference battle for first place. Cameron Cathey had a 63-yard interception return for a touchdown for Union Mine.
Colfax 42, Center 35 in Antelope – Lukas Rineer’s one-yard plunge with 23 seconds left broke a 35-35 tie and Jakob Nored’s sack on the game’s final play lifted the Falcons (3-5, 1-2) over the Cougars (4-4, 0-3) in the Pioneer Valley League game. Rineer also had a 40-yard touchdown run for the Falcons.
Golden Sierra 43, Highlands 34 in North Highlands – Despite another brilliant night by quarterback Isaiah Tennette, the Scots couldn't catch the Grizzlies in the key Sierra Delta League contest. Tennette threw a pair of touchdown passes and also rushed for touchdowns of 60 and 75 yards, the latter cutting Golden Sierra's lead to 36-34 early in the fourth quarter. But the Scots' two-point conversion attempt failed. Chris Mejia had a pair of 40-yard touchdown runs in the second half for Golden Sierra. Tennette came into the game ranked No. 4 in California in total yards (2,656) and No. 5 in scoring (170 points).
Kennedy 28, Laguna Creek 6 in Greenhaven – Seth Patterson rushed for two touchdowns, Terrell Barron Jr. for one and Sean Allison threw a touchdown pass to Xavier Alba as the Cougars (7-1, 4-1) topped the Cardinals (3-5, 2-3) in the Metro Conference game.
Bill Paterson: 916-326-5506, @SacBee_BillP; The Bee’s Joe Davidson contributed to this report.
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Selfie alert: Stanley Cup pays a visit to San…
Selfie alert: Stanley Cup pays a visit to San Jose this week
Trophy will be on display today at City Hall, then at the NHL Fan Fair
SAN JOSE, CA – JANUARY 22: Four-month-old baby Jack Stone sits on the Stanley Cup as his parents, Patrick Stone, center, and Carrie Benjamin, react while posing for a photograph at the Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose Calif., on Jan. 22, 2019. NHL fans lined up to see the Cup which is on display on Tuesday as a part of the festivities for the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
SAN JOSE, CA – JANUARY 22: A San Jose Sharks fan Clarissa Garcia touches the Stanley Cup as she poses for a photograph at the Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose Calif., on Jan. 22, 2019. NHL fans lined up to see the Cup which is on display on Tuesday as a part of the festivities for the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
SAN JOSE, CA – JANUARY 22: A San Jose Sharks fan Paul Roland takes a picture of the Stanley Cup at the Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose Calif., on Jan. 22, 2019. NHL fans lined up to see the Cup which is on display on Tuesday as a part of the festivities for the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
SAN JOSE, CA – JANUARY 22: NHL fans wait in line to get their photo taken with the Stanley Cup at the Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose Calif., on Jan. 22, 2019. NHL fans lined up to see the Cup which is on display on Tuesday as a part of the festivities for the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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PUBLISHED: January 22, 2019 at 12:18 pm | UPDATED: January 22, 2019 at 3:44 pm
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The Stanley Cup will be on public display today, Tuesday, at the San Jose City Hall rotunda to help launch festivities for this weekend’s NHL All-Star Game.
Fans can take pictures of themselves with the NHL’s most prized — and certainly tallest — trophy for free from noon to 4 p.m.
Large crowds are expected so plan to arrive early. But if you miss the chance to see the trophy Tuesday at City Hall, it’ll be on display from Thursday through Sunday at the NHL Fan Fair at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. However, taking a Stanley selfie there will require an admission ticket ($15-$17).
Of course, we’re all hoping the Stanley Cup makes a return visit this summer. And if the Sharks play up to their potential, it should be an extended stay in San Jose.
Sal Pizarro
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May 9 – Celebrate Europe Day 2017 at Osteria with Italian Dinner and Film
May 9, 2017 from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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Celebrate Europe Day 2017 on May 9
with an Italian Dinner and Film:
The Great European Disaster Movie
Location: Osteria d’Assisi, 58 South Federal Place
Cost: $50 includes dinner (provided by Osteria d’Assisi) and film: The Great European Disaster Movie (2015, 87 minutes)
Happy Hour/Cash Bar: 5:00 p.m. Dinner served: 5:30 p.m. Movie Begins: 6:30 p.m. (Film is 87 minutes.) Post-screening discussion led by CIR facilitator extraordinaire Rob Reider
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – Deadline extended to Monday, May 8 at noon.
In honor of Europe Day 2017, and in keeping with the Great Decisions spotlight on the European Union, CIR presents an evening of Italian cuisine accompanied by the film: The Great European Disaster Movie. The Honorary Consul of Italy in Santa Fe happens to be one of Santa Fe’s most beloved chefs, Lino Pertusini of Osteria d’Assisi, who is also our host for the evening. Come join us for a delicious Italian meal and an intriguing imaginary trip to the Europe of the future, where we will be asked to reflect upon the potential consequences of the demise of the European Union.
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Click here to view movie trailer.
Directed by Annalisa Piras, a London-based Italian film director, producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot Productions, an independent production company which specializes in documentaries.
This film addresses the crisis facing Europe. Through case studies of citizens in different countries, it explores a range of factors that have led to the present crisis, economic and identity challenges across Europe. High-level experts analyse how and why things are going so wrong. The film includes fictional scenes, set in a post-EU future, which feature archaeologist Charles Granda (played by Angus Deayton) travelling on a flight through a menacing storm, explaining to a child passenger what the EU was. Sombre, thought-provoking and witty, the film frames Europe through the eyes of those who have most at stake – the Europeans themselves.
The Great European Disaster takes us on two parallels, the present and the future. Up above, we see a plane making its journey in a Europe of the future. On board, an archaeologist (Angus Deayton) talks with his fellow passenger, played by Flavia Piras Trow. He’s going to deliver a talk on a historic artefact. The artefact? The European Union. Our archaeologist talks wistfully about the European Union and what it stood for, and how it drifted into disaster.
35,000 ft, sometime in the not-so-distant future 8 year old Jane Monnetti sits aboard an airplane which is flying through a menacing storm, heading for Berlin. But all is not well at ground-level. The European Union has collapsed, and countries that had collaborated happily at the beginning of the 21st Century are regressing into the fractious collection of competing nation-states that existed before the EU’s formation. Scared by the turbulence, Jane strikes-up a conversation with an English archaeologist sitting next to her. He is about to give a lecture on the EU, an entity she had never heard of. In his suitcase he has 5 artifacts which evoke 5 lost European values. To distract Jane from the increasingly menacing storm he tells her 5 stories about what the EU was, why things went so wrong, and what has been lost since its collapse.
For each story, we rewind to 2014 and examine the identity crisis of current-day Europe and the complex challenges that are mounting against the Union’s survival. Beset by growing nationalism, seven years of economic crisis and an increasing dissatisfaction with its undemocratic political structure will Europe sleepwalk into catastrophe as it did one hundred years ago? The film constructs an epic picture of a Europe that is worth fighting for, but which, if things carry on as they are, looks destined for disintegration. Through 5 different European stories, in Britain, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Croatia the film creates a unique, choral portrait of the “European dream” and how it could be lost forever. The positive achievements of a Union that has created prosperity, stability and the most advanced welfare states in the world, while preventing major wars on the continent, come to life and underpin the case for urgent major EU reform. Subtle, moving, thought-provoking and witty, the film is far more than a political film but instead frames Europe through the eyes of those who are most important to its success: the Europeans themselves.
In this future, nationalism has taken hold, the EU has broken up. Nigel Farage is Prime Minister of Great England. Marine le Pen is the President of France. While they talk, we learn that the plane is on a journey with no certain destination. Germany, is battling an energy crisis alone and suddenly can’t accept passengers. The plane hunts for a new airport but struggles to be accepted by neighboring countries. It signals a return to a pre-Schengen Europe, where passengers must pass strict criteria in order to be let into their destination country.
The idea was part of a nightmare set in the future that people could relate to. It’s been a fact that people have been enjoying freedom of movement in the EU for 20 years. But what if this were taken away? This is something that the younger generation has grown accustomed to but is by no means a given. We hear from the anti-European movement how better off we could be without Europe, but no one really makes a case of what are the things we could lose. The idea is that we could take our minds and stretch them to imagine a future in 20 years. In the present, we hear about the current crisis from commentators as well as stories of ordinary citizens from across Europe. In Barcelona we follow the stories of people feeling the pain of austerity. In the UK we meet a councillor campaigning for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). In Croatia, a photographer talks about nationalism and the conflict in the Balkans two decades ago. Each character paints a picture within the context of the EU crisis of today.
The film has not been without criticism from Eurosceptics. UKIP hailed it as pro-EU propaganda. An article in The Daily Telegraph accused it of scaremongering. But it is a critical portrait. If it’s in favor of the union, then it agrees that major change is needed. There’s analysis of what needs to be reformed in the EU.
Contributors from both inside and outside Brussels talk about issues such as the handling of the banking crisis and a lack of accountability and transparency. A recurring theme is the disconnect between Brussels and Europe’s citizens. Equally there is also a reminder of successes since its post war beginnings, and an analysis of how we could solve the current crisis. And the fiction is accompanied by facts and figures which help to dispel a few myths along the way. For example, on the hot topic of immigration another dimension is added by the statistic that approximately 2.3 million EU citizens live in the UK, in ten years, paying 20 billion more in taxes than they’ve taken in welfare. The timing of the movie’s release is important. Nationalist political parties featured such as Spain’s Podemos and Syriza in Greece have continued to gain in strength. Greece’s economic and political future continues to hang in the balance. And since the film’s release, the UK has passed a referendum to dissolve its membership in the EU.
“Nothing is more satisfying to me than passing on an amazing dining experience to customers, new and old. It all starts with a warm greeting and an invitation to enjoy an amazing meal. Gracious service mixed with great food creates an opportunity to thrill and make for an unforgettable occasion for my customers.” – Lino Pertusini
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World Affairs Discussion Event on History of Portugal
Topic: Rise and Decline of a Global Empire: Portugal’s Remarkable History
Speaker: Dr. John Dobson
Location: Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Time: Doors open and evening refreshments served at 5:00 p.m.; Lecture begins at 5:30 p.m.
Cost: $15 CIR Members; $20 Non-members and Guests
Attendees of this lecture who register for the World Heritage Tour to Portugal will receive a credit equal to the cost of the lecture against the price of the tour.
The talk will discuss Portugal’s long and colorful history, focusing on her rise and fall as an imperial power. In the fifteenth century Portuguese explorers mapped out an all-sea route to the Far East. In succeeding decades, Portugal created a global empire, establishing outposts all around Africa, in India, and beyond as well as controlling a major share of South America. In 1580 Portugal fell under Spanish control, but after reclaiming her independence in 1668, she revived her colonial ambitions. Although economic constraints and Continental turbulence limited her successes, Portugal managed to hold on to her final overseas colonies, Mozambique and Angola, well into the 1970s.
As a professor of history, John Dobson devoted much of his research and writing to analyses of interna-tional relations. After earning a bachelor’s degree with a joint major in physics and history at MIT, he went on to complete a doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at universities in the United States, Ireland, and Scotland, specializing in diplomatic and political history. He also held several university administrative posts including dean of the college of arts and science both at Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University. He has served as president of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations and as a faculty lecturer on MIT alumni tours around the world.
Click here to learn more about the World Heritage Tour to Portugal!
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Mark Redmond, people and property director, Three Ireland. Image: Three Ireland
In HR, the decisions you make can have a significant impact
8 Jun 20171.15k Views
Behind every company is a strong HR backbone supporting its staff. But how can you become a part of that backbone?
Every organisation is different, from small start-ups to multinational giants, from tech companies creating the latest innovation to retail companies promoting their products.
However, every company in the world has one thing in common: people. Every organisation has a number of employees, be it 10 or 10,000. That’s where human resources professionals come in.
Mark Redmond is the people and property director of Three Ireland. With roughly two decades of HR experience behind him, he knows all about what it’s like working with people.
What first stirred your interest in a career in this area?
There’s no one moment that I can point to and say, “That’s when I decided on my career path,” but I became interested in organisational psychology in university and this led to me taking my first role in the area of human resources. I enjoyed it, and have continued to learn from each role as I have progressed through my career. This has kept me interested in the area.
What steps led you to the role you now have?
Following a BA in psychology, I completed a master’s degree in business studies, specialising in human resource management. I worked in a number of human resources roles – several with responsibility for multiple international sites – before joining Three in April 2007.
What were the biggest surprises or challenges you encountered on your career path?
The biggest challenge was integrating two companies at speed, when Three acquired O2 in July 2014. I had the challenge to overhaul structures, policies, and terms and conditions, and create a new company culture while still competing in a dynamic marketplace.
Managing organisational change of this scale required the creation of an extensive plan, management of a great team, a commitment to a set of agreed principles and lots of hard work.
Was there any one person who was particularly influential as your career developed?
There isn’t any one person that has influenced my career decisions, but I have been lucky to work with some amazing teams – including my team at Three – that ensure I’m continually motivated and challenged at work.
What do you enjoy about your job?
I take a lot of satisfaction from the growth I have seen in our business over the last few years as we continue to gain market share.
I also like seeing the confidence people get from delivering something really well. I really enjoy seeing people grow in their jobs by taking on challenges, achieving things they doubted they could accomplish, and developing within the organisation. In fact, more than 50pc of vacancies at Three are filled through internal moves, and I’m delighted that my team can offer many development options for our employees.
What aspects of your personality do you feel make you suited to this job?
Although it’s less of a personality trait and more of a value, being fair is very important in this job. Decisions that I take can have significant impacts, both positive and negative, on our employees. I am very conscious of consistency in the decisions that I take. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me all the time, but decisions will be fair and in line with the values of our organisation.
How did Three support you on your career path, if at all?
My role has grown significantly with Three over the last 10 years. When I joined the business, we had 70 employees and we had about 1pc market share. We now have 1,400 employees, 35pc market share and a clear vision of how to take this business to even greater success. Throughout this journey, I have been trusted to lead and develop the people and property function in line with the ambitions of our business.
What advice would you give to those considering a career in this area, or just starting out in one?
Human resources is a broad field, so the first thing to figure out is whether you want to be a generalist with responsibility for a wide portfolio, or specialise and become an expert in a particular area.
Always be aware of the importance of identifying and articulating the commercial implications of your work; people are both a significant cost and a source of competitive advantage for companies.
Finally, work hard and enjoy what you do!
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June 8 Harley Clarke Update
On June 8, 2015, SEA President, Sheila Sullivan spoke at a City Council meeting during which the final report of the Citizen Advisory Committee was presented. The purpose of the meeting was for the council to vote on whether to accept or reject the report. About 100-150 people filled the council chamber and spilled out to the outer room where the meeting was televised.
About 40 people spoke in support of keeping the building and land public. Most commented on the future of the Harley Clarke mansion as opposed to whether the council should accept or reject the report.
Sullivan’s presentation reiterated SEA’s support of Option 1—renovate the building for public, non-profit use, but that SEA also could support the city leasing the property to a foundation to renovate and repurpose the building as a community educational and cultural center.
Sullivan stated that the Citizen Advisory Committee survey showed that over 67% of respondents want the Harley-Clarke mansion and grounds to remain public and non-commercial. This sentiment, reinforced by oral and e-mail public comments, should be enough to rule out commercial development; however, the final Committee Report states that there is no community consensus on future use of the property.
Sullivan raised the potential for a conflict of interest resulting from the inclusion of two city council members on the seven-member Advisory Committee, since the two members will be voting with the rest of City Council on the final disposition of the property. Sullivan stated that the two council members should recuse themselves from the final City Council vote.
Sullivan also stated that an independent third party, with no stake in the outcome of the Harley Clarke property, should have chaired the Citizen Advisory Committee and should at least be brought in to review the data, information collected, and the Committee’s final report prepared for the City Council.
From 9-10 pm, Committee Chairman, Steven Haggerty presented the final Committee report. After the meeting, the Council voted to accept the report and plans to discuss the future of Harley Clarke in September.
Posted on July 30, 2015 by Preetisha Sen and filed under Development & Zoning, Evanston Community.
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Gary Stead (Getty Images).
Stead: New Zealand ready for 'long night' of CWC final
London - New Zealand coach Gary Stead believes sports fans across the rugby-mad country will be pulling an all-nighter in front of their television sets when his side face tournament hosts England in the Cricket World Cup final.
Neither side have won the World Cup before, although Sunday's showpiece match at Lord's will be New Zealand's second successive appearance in the final after they finished runners-up to Australia four years ago.
In Britain, an agreement between rights-holders Sky and Channel 4 will see the match screened on free to air television in the hope that millions of new followers will tune in to watch an England side captained by Eoin Morgan go one better than their predecessors of 1979, 1987 and 1992 by winning the final.
Stead believes it will be a similar story back home as his team look to emulate New Zealand's All Blacks by being crowned world champions.
That is despite a scheduled start time of 9:30 pm local time (11:30 SA time), which could cause problems for bars and pubs in New Zealand who did not apply for a late liquor licence after failing to anticipate the Black Caps' run to the final.
"My understanding is it's on free to air back home also, which is awesome," Stead told reporters at Lord's on Friday.
"Many people will stay up late and I know a lot of them will be spending some late hours. Monday might be a public holiday back home because most of New Zealand will be staying up watching the game."
"We've had a lot of supportive messages and we're really excited about what's ahead," added Stead.
England thrashed New Zealand by 119 runs in the teams' final group match but the Black Caps put that disappointment behind them with an upset 18-run semi-final win over India.
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Baseball Hall of Fame 2014: Roger Angell wins J. G. Spink Award
Written By Associated Press
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The New Yorker's Roger Angell has won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. He is the first writer to earn the honor who was never a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
The 93-year-old Angell will be honored during the Hall of Fame's induction weekend July 25-28 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The BBWAA said at baseball's winter meetings Tuesday that he was named on 258 of 451 ballots cast. The late Furman Bisher, who wrote for 59 years for The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, received 115 votes. Retired syndicated columnist Mel Durslag received 74.
Angell received the George Polk Award for Commentary in 1980 and the first PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2011.
BBWAA membership is limited to reporters for newspapers, news agencies and some Internet companies.
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Three Lakes Ice Fishing tournament set for Jan. 24
News | January 14, 2014
Reid Tulley
rtulley@skyhidailynews.com
John Grobecker of Edwards lands a fish on Lake Granby duringthe 2013 Three Lakes Ice Fishing Contest. This year's tournament begins Jan. 23.
Byron Hetzler file photo/bhetzler@skyhidailynews.com | Sky-Hi News
GRANBY —The 26th annual Three Lakes Ice Fishing Contest is set to begin on Friday, Jan. 24, and continue throughout the weekend with more than $6,000 up for grabs each day and thousands more in raffle prizes being offered through the competition.
The competition takes place on three of the most popular fishing lakes in the Granby area; Lake Granby, Shadow Mountain Reservoir, and Grand Lake, and participants can choose to fish one, two, or all three days of the competition.
The competition is open to all anglers, not just the serious anglers, and children of all ages are welcome to compete. Children under 17 can enter the competition at no cost, and the entry fees for adults range from $35 for a one-day participation to $50 for all three days. You can also save $5 by entering before Jan. 20.
This year the competition will feature the standby “Grand Slam” prize, where anglers try to catch one fish of each species including Kokanee salmon, Rainbow trout, Brown trout, and Mackinaw. After weighing all four fish, the prize is awarded to the person with the heaviest overall weight.
This year the competition will also feature a “Big Fish Catch and Release” competition, where anglers are held to their honor — by photograph or eye witness — to catch the largest fish and then release it back into the lake. Fish 32 inches or larger will be eligible to win the daily prize.
Anglers will also have the opportunity to help Colorado Parks and Wildlife with the task of controlling the population of Mackinaw in Lake Granby with the introduction of the special Mackinaw prize on the Saturday of the tournament. Cash prizes will be awarded to the three anglers who bring in the heaviest bag of three Mackinaw, all less than 17 inches in length.
The special Mackinaw prize is an effort to utilize the fishing tournament to help manage the fish population in the reservoir, according to Jon Ewert, a fisheries biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The prize should aid in increasing the Kokanee salmon population in the reservoir, which has been struggling in recent years due to the increase in the population of Mackinaw, the fish’s natural predator, according to Ewert.
“We are trying to work together with the CPW to help manage the population and use the fishing tournament as a tool to harvest the fish rather than bringing in a government entity,” said Steve Penley, the sponsor of the special Mackinaw prize event. Penley has been sponsoring the tournament since its inaugural year 25 years ago, by supplying trophies and sponsoring special events.
Kokanee salmon are stocked in the lake at a very small size, about an inch, which makes for a prime meal for lake trout less than 17 inches, according to Ewert.
Mackinaw under 17 inches are the most populous size group currently inhabiting the reservoir, Ewert said.
“This should help us with the management of the reservoir and keep things in balance,” Ewert said.
More information about the tournament as well as information about lodging specials in the area can be found at the Granby Chamber of Commerce’s website at Granbychamber.com. You can request an entry form from the chamber by emailing your name, mailing address, and phone number to granbychamber@aol.com. You can also fill out an entry form at Granby Bait n’ Tackle, located in Granby, Budget Tackle, also located in Granby, or Rocky Mountain Outfitters in Grand Lake.
Reid Tulley can be reached at 970-887-3334
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Mac Farlane’s ‘Africa’ for Obama
By Sean Douglas (T&T Newsday)
Brian Mac Farlane’s Out of Africa, which has won the 2009 Large Band of the Year title, will perform for April’s Summit of the Americas whose guests will include US President Barack Obama.
“We are doing the Summit of the Americas. We have been asked by the Government to do it,” he revealed to reporters at the celebrations at his Woodbrook mas-camp.
“There’s a lot of work to be done, so I rest for about three or four days then the camp is back in full swing. It will be a whole Carnival-sort presentation that we will be doing for the opening ceremony,” he said.
Mac Farlane also hinted at the possibility of Africa performing at next year’s FIFA World Cup competition in South Africa, as he recalled being interviewed by South African football officials during Carnival.
“Five days before Carnival there was a contingent from South Africa that came to visit. They were from the Cultural Department of South Africa...They want to do a carnivalesque opening ceremony and so there’s no better place than Trinidad to learn from. They came and were elated and excited.”
Mac Farlane said a Zulu member of the delegation praised him for the band’s authenticity. He also saw his Mas being taken worldwide through the filming of Africa over Carnival by renowned Trinidadian-British broadcaster, Sir Trevor McDonald. One woman even offered to take the mas to Broadway, he recalled.
“There was this wonderful spiritual vibe that was in the band, which is all part of the soul, the history and the heritage, and people wanted to be part of that.”
Mac Farlane also said many teenagers know only of bikini-and-beads mas, as he recalled his own efforts to involve youngsters in making his more traditional costumes. Africa gives Mac Farlane a hattrick of victories.
He won in 2007 with India, and last year with Earth.
The Conquering Lion of Judah shall break every chain.
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Interview: Clarke Peters on playing Nelson Mandela in Endgame
Clarke Peters has been given the holy grail for a black actor: the awe-inspiring challenge of playing a ‘walking saint’. Nelson Mandela.
Clarke Peters stars as Nelson Mandela in Channel 4's Endgame Photo: Channel 4
By Serena Davies
5:14PM BST 01 May 2009
‘I was absolutely overawed. Wouldn’t you be? How would you like to play the Queen?’ The actor Clarke Peters is talking about the moment he was offered the part of Nelson Mandela for Channel 4’s one-off political drama Endgame, which airs on Monday. Mandela, surely the only living statesman held in unalloyed veneration by the rest of the world, is the holy grail of roles for a black actor, and one deeply resonant for the 57-year-old Peters. ‘For years I didn’t eat South African food,’ he says. ‘I didn’t go to South Africa when I was invited there. I was counting on the whole world to bring pressure to bear to help end apartheid…’
Before he became involved in Endgame, Peters had little imagined that the end of apartheid was in some part due to the efforts of capitalist enterprise. The scriptwriter, Paula Milne, has made the focus of the film the secret negotiations that took place in the late Eighties and early Nineties between the ANC and leading Afrikaners in an unlikely place: Mells Park, an English country house in Somerset.
Mandela himself was still in prison at the time but these talks, for which Mandela’s release was an important aspiration, helped create a vital framework of trust between the two sides that the ANC leader could build on when he was freed. They were brokered by an Englishman, Michael Young (played by Jonny Lee Miller), who was head of communications at Consolidated Goldfields, a British gold-mining company that saw that the dissolution of apartheid was inevitable, but that it would happen peaceably was far less so. And Consolidated Goldfields needed a stable South Africa if it were to continue its activities there.
‘I was always under the impression that the world forced South Africa’s hand,’ says Peters. ‘But it was the gold industry that really started negotiations going. What I thought was a case of people being enlightened and exercising virtue, I was a little disappointed to see had been motivated by human greed.’
Peters gives one of his deep, low chuckles at this point. It’s a laugh that fans of the US drama The Wire, whose second series begins on Monday on BBC Two, will recognise as belonging to the brilliant and subversive Detective Lester Freamon, the character Peters plays in the drama. This role has given the veteran New York-born actor, who lives in London, the greatest exposure he has yet known. But Peters never guessed when he signed up how the radical message of this brutally realistic series set in the decrepit city of Baltimore would strike a chord with so many. ‘They were good scripts and good stories but we never knew how important The Wire was to society,’ he says.
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Endgame may depict events of 20 years ago but it too feels scorchingly relevant. As the news stories from last month’s election attest, Endgame’s key players continue to define South African politics. Thabo Mbeki (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) was the leading ANC representative at the Mells Park talks, and President-Elect Jacob Zuma also attended.
Mandela’s importance as a figurehead is nearly as strong now as it was then, as the 90 year-old’s influential endorsement of Zuma a few weeks ago shows. In Endgame, his refusal to be corrupted by the Pretorian regime provides the film’s counterbalancing focus in a series of scenes where he rejects the offers PW Botha made to him to enter into a separate set of talks, which would have divided the ANC. The culmination of this stance was his release from jail, unblemished by compromise. In a moving scene, the Mells Park negotiators watch this moment on the television, together.
Peters thinks a story about the end of apartheid has a broader relevance, too. ‘I think we are still in the throes of it,’ he says. ‘It’s still in people’s mindset. I expected some enormous change when I went out to South Africa to film Endgame but the only thing I could see was that South Africans are still playing the roles apartheid rubber-stamped on them.
‘In the hotel I was in, the darker people were doing the most menial work and the fairer people were doing all the administration. It was disconcerting, and it wasn’t very nice.’
If change is taking its time, what hasn’t waned is the admiration Mandela inspires. Peters joins a fine group of actors to have played him, including Danny Glover, Sidney Poitier and Morgan Freeman – who will play him in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film, The Human Factor. Freeman has spoken of the ‘great honour’ of doing so; David Harewood, who will play him for a BBC drama about Winnie Mandela, wonders: ‘How do you play a myth?’
Peters, whose quiet, understated performance in Endgame conveys both the frailty of Mandela as well as his gravitas, perhaps reveres him most of all: ‘I think the man is a walking saint,’ he says. ‘The thing that turned my mind in that direction was that I met a man who had been an inmate on Robben Island with Mandela and he told how, when Mandela’s son was killed, Mandela stood at his cell window for four days. He wouldn’t talk to anybody, or take any food, and when he turned away from the window he was a changed man.
‘Who was he talking to during those four days, to release the bitterness, to fill him with understanding and wisdom?
I think he was having a very deep conversation with God – that God imbued him with that extra bit of wisdom, that extra bit of patience. And in my mind it’s that one story, more than anything in the public domain, that makes me have so much respect for him.’
Endgame is on Channel 4 on Monday at 9.00pm
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Shared Ownership in Aylesbury | Help to Buy in Aylesbury
An ancient market town that dates back to the Iron Age, Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire. From the museums to historical places of interest and, of course, the town itself, it derives a unique sense of character from its many centuries on this earth.
Alongside its great respect for the past, Aylesbury has a burning passion for the future. This can be seen in ongoing housing developments and its progressive cultural institutions, such as the incomparable Queens Park Centre, the largest independent UK art centre of its kind. There’s also tons of great restaurants, pubs and even a state-of-the-art multi-million-pound entertainment venue in the form of the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre to further cement its commitment to the future of art and culture here and beyond.
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Shaiken: Kick the tires first on the ‘new NAFTA’
By HARLEY SHAIKEN
President Donald Trump would like to see the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ratified without delay. It’s a bit like a used car salesperson giving you 10 minutes to accept the deal of the century. You may want to look under the hood and test-drive the vehicle first.
The USMCA is largely an updated and rebranded version of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was passed in 1993. That deal contributed to what the economist Joseph Stiglitz views as a defining national problem: “stagnant or declining wages at the bottom, an eviscerated middle class, and top wages that are soaring.”
The central question now is: Will the USMCA correct the flaws of NAFTA or lock them in for another quarter-century? Specifically, what impact will the new agreement have on U.S. jobs, wages and outsourcing to Mexico?
Merchandise trade soared sixfold under NAFTA from $101 billion in 1994 to more than $615 billion last year. What is problematic, however, is the paradox that fueled much of this growth. Mexican workers have produced more and earned less, creating a lure for investment and a fierce downward pressure on U.S. wages.
Why? Industrial wages in Mexico aren’t simply low, they are suppressed by few labor rights — workers cannot form independent unions — and government policy to throttle wages to attract investment. Despite high productivity, Mexican industrial wages now trail wages in China and are among the lowest in the world.
In a highly integrated economy, this dismal picture is also an American story. Not surprisingly, General Motors put its fast-selling new Chevy Blazer SUV in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, with labor costs at $3 an hour, rather than in Lordstown, Ohio, at $30 an hour.
At these rates, the total annual compensation bill of wages and benefits for 3,000 hourly workers in Lordstown would be more than $360 million, compared with $30 million in Ramos Arizpe.
The auto sector accounts for about a third of Mexico’s manufacturing exports and reflects a distorted trading relationship. While the market remains in the U.S., production has migrated to Mexico. The U.S. ran a $95 billion auto trade deficit with Mexico in 2018 — more than the U.S. deficit with Japan and South Korea combined.
We need a new trade agreement, but one that will protect U.S. workers and families. The best way to do this is ensuring the rights of Mexican workers.
Two critical changes are needed before ratification: improved labor rights in the agreement and demonstrated labor rights reform in the export sector. Simply put, workers would actually have to be able to join independent unions and bargain collectively. The first change is important, the second fundamental.
Mexico has a new reform government genuinely committed to change. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected in 2018 with an overwhelming majority. He already has passed impressive labor reform legislation, but the law has not yet been carried out.
Fierce opposition to labor reform from well-financed old-guard unions and employers who profit from suppressed wages still rules the day, with state institutions too weak to implement far-reaching changes in the labor sector.
Whatever the relative merits on paper of the old NAFTA and the USMCA — in effect, the “new NAFTA” — the reality for both Mexican and U.S. workers would not be much changed, if at all, without labor reforms.
What we know from NAFTA is that any leverage evaporates once the trade deal is signed. That’s why it’s crucial that reforms to USMCA happen before ratification.
This would not require tackling the entire economy immediately, but it would make it more likely that the new trade agreement will result in a more broadly shared prosperity.
Harley Shaiken is a professor specializing in labor and globalization at the University of California Berkeley. This op-ed was distributed by Tribune News Service.
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Keynotes/Talks
Shubham Banerjee
Google Knowledge Panel Link for reference - https://g.co/kgs/45uMC8
(6) WHITE HOUSE MAKER FAIRE - HONORED MAKER
On invitation from the White House, Shubham Banerjee , the creator of Braigo, was among the more than 100 students, entrepreneurs, engineers, and researchers from 25 states — all of whom love to "Make" stuff to attend the first ever White House Maker Faire and witnessed President Obama declared June 18th as a National Day of Making through a proclamation. #NationofMakers
(25) Fortune 18 under 18 - Meet the Young Innovators Who Are Changing the World, Fortune (Sept 2016)
(21) "The Tommy" - 2016 Edison Innovation Award (March 2016)
In an event at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara on March 18, 2016. The Edison Innovation Foundation Board members were present to give "The Tommy" 2016 Edison Innovation Award to selected three individuals based on their innovation using Intel Edison Development kit. Braigo Labs Founder - Shubham Banerjee received "The Tommy" - 2016 Edison Innovation Award for inventing "Braigo" from President and Chairman John Keegan.
(20) Smithsonian & USPTO - Innovation Festival selected Presenter
Thirteen companies, universities, government agencies, and independent inventors, was selected by a juried panel, to participate at the "Innovation Festival" at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History as a signature event in collaboration between the Smithsonian and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The festival explored how today’s inventors are creating the world of the future. Festival participants were selected by experts in patented technology from the Intellectual Property Owners Organization, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the National Academy of Inventors, and the independent inventor community. Sept 2015
(18) INNOVATION AND INSPIRATION AWARD -American Council of the Blind (ACB) and The Randolph Sheppard Vendors of America (RSVA)
Presented Jointly by ACB and RSVA at the ACB 2015 conference on July 6th, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. "For his exceptional intellect, creativity and determination to develop affordable braille technology for people who are blind all around the world"
(13) VECKANS AFFARER - 20 UNDER 20
Sweden Business Week - 20 under 20 - stjärnskotten som bygger framtiden
(12) SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL - 40 UNDER 40
"Shubham Banerjee may be the youngest person to ever get venture funding, which made him the hit of Intel Capital's recent Global Summit in Huntington Beach. It also helped secure Banerjee a place on the 2014 Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list."
@trustedreviews innovation award 2014 for @braigolabs @TimeIncUK received it today at home , thank you so much pic.twitter.com/1hzarseRJ1
— Shubham Banerjee (@ShubhamSocial) December 23, 2014
(9) TRUSTED REVIEWS (UK) - TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD 2014
Voted by Trusted Reviews readers - "In one of the most exciting categories where votes are cast on the new and genuinely genius products, which have the potential to make a real impact on the world, a low-cost braille printer by Braigo is hailed Technology Innovation of the Year." - Time Inc. (UK)
Low-cost braille printer by Braigo awarded Technology Innovation of the Year by @trustedreviews #TRAwards
— Time Inc. UK (@TimeIncUK) November 25, 2014
(4) MAKER FAIRE EDITORS CHOICE RIBBON
Shubham Banerjee received Maker Faire Editor's Choice Ribbon at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2014. This was his first time participating in Maker Faire. He applied to Maker Faire at the time of his science fair project in February 2014. The staff of MAKE and Maker Faire award Maker Faire Editor's Choice Ribbons to the Makers that have demonstrated great creativity, ingenuity and innovation for their Maker Faire project. These ribbons are handed out at each event and signify the highlights of Maker Faire. This year in the Bay Area Maker Faire 2014 there were more than 900 projects exhibited.
(3) OPEN SILICON VALLEY - YOUTH INNOVATION AWARD
Shubham Banerjee, was invited as a Young Inventor for the Youth Track to talk about Braigo and participated in a discussion with others in the audience about Innovation. He was recognized with 2014 Youth Innovation Award at Open Forum 2014. OPEN Silicon Valley is the largest chapter of OPEN – North America, and has been established in the valley since 2001. OPEN Forum is a day-long annual premier business conference in Silicon Valley and one of the largest conferences for entrepreneurs with panels, workshops and discussions on a wide variety of topics important to entrepreneurs and professionals in the valley and elsewhere. Open Forum 2014 was help on May 10, 2014 at Santa Clara Marriott. OPEN Audience includes entrepreneurs and professionals and events are continuously held all over the bay area reaching out to diverse communities in and around the valley. These audiences range from school attending youth to recent graduates to seasoned CEOs & Leaders on the cutting edge of technology.
(2) LEGO BUILD 4 GOOD CHALLENGE
The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 "Build 4 Good" challenge took place in Seattle on 4/10/2014 and tasked teams from Amazon, Egencia, Expedia, HTC, Nordstrom, Xbox and zulily to build robots that creatively solve everyday problems. Twelve-year-old Shubham Banerjee's braille printer inspired the competition and Nordstrom's medicine-dispensing robot took top honors.
Shubham's 4th Grade Science Fair Project @ Don Callejon School
How playing video games is helping in hand and eye co-ordination 2nd Place.
(26) The Guardian - Teen Powerlist (Dec 2016)
(24) #2 10 Inspiring Kids Who Are Making The World A Better Place, Buzzfeed (August 2016)
This visionary, who turned his love of toys into a tool for those who can’t see.
(22) David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series "The Entrepreneurial Generation" by Shubham Banerjee (March 2016)
College of Communication, Information & Media - Ball State University
The David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series hosts some of today’s most influential figures in business, media and academics, focusing on the latest trends in communication and emerging media.
(15) US NEWS - NEXT GENERATION OF STEM LEADERS
To inspire young people to engage in science, technology, engineering and math, U.S. News & World Report, publisher of the Best High Schools for STEM and host of the national STEM Solutions conference, today unveiled the Next Generation of STEM on www.usnews.com. The new report highlights 16 students, ages 13-21, from across the United States who are changing the world through their work in STEM fields. "America’s economic future is dependent on young people developing critical science, technology, engineering and math skills," said Brian Kelly, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News. "These students serve as powerful examples of what’s possible when we engage younger generations in STEM." May 2015
(16) INDIA ABROAD PERSON OF THE YEAR - SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT (RISING STARS)
The India Abroad Person of the Year Awards, held at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Friday June 12, honored 14 achievers in seven categories. Pulitzer-winning poet Vijay Seshadri, founders of the Rubin Museum of Art Shelley and Donald Rubin, India Abroad Person of the Year 2014 US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, founder of Empower Orphans Neha Gupta, Fields Medal winner Manjul Bhargava, Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri, global emergency health coordinator for the International Medical Corps Dr Pranav Shetty, Vivek Ranadivé , the well-known software businessman who became the first Indian American to own an NBA team when he bought the Sacramento Kings. Scripps Spelling Bee winners 2014 Ansun Sujoe and Sriram Hathwar, National Geographic Bee 2014 winner Akhil Rekulapelli, inventor of the Lego Braille printer Shubham Banerjee. June 2015
(10) UNICEF: STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN - "BRAIGO and my quest to make an advanced, affordable Braille printer"
Author: Shubham Banerjee ; Publication date: November 2014 Publisher: UNICEF ISBN: 978-92-806-4780-8 Description: "Around the world, an innovation revolution for children is growing – often in the most unexpected places – and increasingly led by young people themselves. Fueled by creativity, connectivity, and collaboration, new ways of solving problems are emerging – in tech design studios and university laboratories, in development organizations and corporations, and in kitchens and community centres. To mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, this edition of The State of the World’s Children highlights the work of remarkable young innovators who are already reimagining the future – and invites the world to join this rising movement to advance the rights of every child."
(7) READERS DIGEST BEST OF AMERICA
In the Reader's Digest July 2014 publication - 25 Uplifting, Quirky Things That Could Only Happen in America. Shubham Banerjee was published for his invention of Braigo.
(5) 2014 ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH HONOREE
NBC Bay Area and Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) selected Shubham Banerjee as the 2014 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Honoree in the Silicon Valley Bay Area. At an honor lunch event held at NBC Bay Area Studios in San Jose, CA - Shubham received the recognition and awards from NBC News anchors Raj Mathai, Janelle Wang, Vicky Nguyen.
(1) SYNOPSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CHAMPIONSHIPS
2014 Synopsis Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize for Physical Sciences - Next breakthrough in science or engineering
His motivation to think about understanding the Global warming comes from - The documentary "Inconvenient Truth" Natural progression towards being inquisitiveness from what he sees from Life - He received a 3rd Place (confidence Booster) for more challenges ahead in Middle and High School.
The President’s Volunteer Service Award - Gold (2018) - Category Education
Athletics Recognition
(29) 7 Inventions Conceived by Kids That Make the World a Better Place
(28) The World's 50 Smartest Teens - 2018
(27) Lenovo - Most Inspiring People of 2016
(23) Nifty Fifty Speakers under the age of 30 , X-STEM 2016 (April 2016)
The USA Science & Engineering Festival is a national grassroots effort to advance STEM education and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Exhibitors, performers, speakers, partners, sponsors and advisors are a who-is-who of science and engineering in the United States: from major academic centers and leading research institutes and government agencies to cutting-edge high tech companies, museums and community organizations. More than 350K+ attendees celebrate science at the Expo
(14) POPULAR SCIENCE - GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE YEAR
from Popular Science "Every year, the Popular Science Invention Awards celebrates 10 scrappy inventions designed to solve real problems. To find the winners of the ninth annual awards, we reviewed dozens of reader submissions, combed through hundreds of news stories, and reached out to schools and hackerspaces across the country. The 10 finalists tackle a range of issues, from taking the needles out of vaccination to preventing the destruction of coral reefs--and, of course, bringing the flying car from science fiction into reality.."
"Hangi fikre aşıksanız onu seçin!" @burakbuyukdemir Start Up'ta yazdı! pic.twitter.com/zRgOaIkLcY
— Start Up (@StartupDergisi) February 9, 2015
(17) RECOGNITION OF ACHIEVEMENT - Wells Fargo, Times of India, World Journal, SINA
"For being a shining example of the commitment to hard work and dedication to the excellence that embodies the strong work ethic and values of the Asian American Community"
Thank you to @WellsFargo , World Journal, @timesofindia for the recognition @braigolabs #WhyIWork #APHM pic.twitter.com/Cp0qyYRsYe
— Shubham Banerjee (@ShubhamSocial) June 20, 2015
(19) SEVATHON 2015 - YOUTH AWARD
"n recognition for your Outstanding Community Achievement" Sevathon Youth Award 2015. http://www.indiacc.org/sevathon
Image credit India West (Sameer Yagnik)
(11) IEEE COMPUTER "This is what I made - Braigo - Build for Social Good"
Author: Shubham Banerjee ; ISBN: 0018-9162 , 19 December 2014.
(8) THE TECH AWARDS 2014 - HONORABLE MENTION
The Tech Awards honors individuals, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies who are using technology to significantly improve human conditions in the categories of environment, education, health and economic development. There is also a category for young innovators. The technology used can be either a new invention or an innovative use of an existing technology. A signature program of The Tech Museum of Innovation, The Tech Awards is an international awards program that each year honors 10 innovators from around the world who are applying technology to confront humanity’s most urgent challenges.
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Mon, 01/28/2019 - 1:00pm to 6:30pm
Amphitheatre, Rackham Building (4th floor)
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Symposium & Research Showcase
Privacy is an inherently interdisciplinary research topic that touches many disciplines at the University of Michigan. U-M faculty and researchers across many fields either face or address privacy challenges and issues in their work. This event in celebration of the International Data Privacy Day brings together faculty, researchers, students and staff from different colleges, schools and units across campus and aims to spark on-going, multidisciplinary conversations about privacy’s role in society – here at U-M and worldwide.
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Sarah St. Vincent
The keynote speaker Sarah St. Vincent will present "Privacy and Power: Why Is Privacy a Constitutional and Human Right?"
Privacy is often dismissed as a concern that should take a backseat to “national security” and crime prevention—or downplayed as something people in the digital age freely trade away. However, privacy rights have deep historical and legal ties to equality and human dignity. In the United States, the right to privacy found in the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment began life as a free-speech protection and safeguard against political tyranny, and privacy-related concepts continue to be a means by which women, racial minorities, LGBT people, and the poor gain greater equality and resist state oppression. This talk will present the idea of privacy as equality and invite listeners to consider the role privacy plays in the causes that are most important to them.
The Privacy@Michigan event is free of charge and open to the public. RSVP.
1:00 pm Opening remarks and welcome
Ravi Pendse, University of Michigan Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
1:30 pm Keynote Address
Sarah St. Vincent, Researcher/Advocate on National Security, Surveillance, and Domestic Law Enforcement, Human Rights Watch.
This session will feature a 30-minute talk, "Privacy and Power: Why Is Privacy a Constitutional and Human Right?," followed by a 30-minute "fireside chat" with Thomas A. Finholt, Dean of the School of Information.
2:30 pm Privacy in Six Words
3:00 pm Privacy in Public Spaces: What is public in the digital age?
An interdisciplinary panel discussion.
Moderator: Sol Bermann, Chief Privacy Officer & Interim Chief Information Security Officer
Panelist: David Jurgens, Assistant Professor, School of Information
Panelist: Len Niehoff, Professor from Practice, U-M Law School
Panelist: A.J. Vicens, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Mother Jones reporter
4:00 pm Privacy Research Showcase (Break)
A variety of posters and materials reflecting privacy research at U-M will be available for viewing during the break.
4:30 pm We value your privacy: Privacy technology in practice
A second interdisciplinary panel discussion.
Moderator: Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor, U-M School of Information
Panelist: Sarita Schoenebeck, Assistant Professor, U-M School of Information
Panelist: Atul Prakash, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, U-M College of Engineering
Panelist: Anna C. Gilbert, Herman H. Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, U-M College of LSA
5:30 pm Reception & Privacy Research Showcase
Attendees are invited to attend a reception with light refreshments and view a variety of posters and materials reflecting privacy research at U-M in the Assembly Hall.
The event will be livestreamed here.
The first symposium took place on Tuesday, January 30, 2018. The video recording of the 2018 program is online.
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Can Handle Financial Implications of Pay Commission: Finance Ministry
The Finance Ministry on Thursday said it can "handle" financial implications of the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission and will work out modalities for implementation of the suggestions.
"There are challenges, we will face that... It's not going to impact this fiscal. By the time it is implemented, it goes into next financial year and our growth prospects are good, our economy is pretty robust, we will handle this," Finance Secretary Ratan Watal told reporters here.
In a big bonanza to central employees and pensioners, the seventh Pay Commission today recommended a 23.55 per cent increase in salary, allowances and pension along with a virtual one-rank-one-pension for civilians, involving an additional outgo of Rs 1.02 lakh crore a year.
Watal also said the Finance Ministry would look at how to channelise the increase in money in the hands of people to long-term saving instruments.
The government had unveiled a fiscal consolidation roadmap in Budget under which fiscal deficit was to be brought down to 3.9 per cent of GDP in 2015-16, 3.5 per cent in 2016-17 and 3 per cent by 2017-18.
Fiscal deficit in 2014-15 was 4 per cent of GDP.
Earlier talking to reporters, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that an Implementation Secretariat, under Expenditure Secretary, will look into the recommendation of the Seventh Pay Commission.
"There will be a separate Empowered Committee which is normally headed by the Cabinet Secretary where different departments of the government which are concerned with the recommendations their heads are members. And therefore if any representations come from any segment, they take a view," Jaitley said.
"Last time when the report was submitted both these exercises took about five and a half months. This time we will endeavour to do take a decision quickly," the Minister said.
The recommendations of the Pay Commission are to come into effect from January 1, 2016.
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Number of dwellings going into use in Romania, higher by 1,006, in first three quarters of 2018
Published: 10/12/2018 13:52
Sursa foto: Twitter
The number of dwellings than went into use in the first nine months of 2018 was standing at 40,378, up 1,006 from the same period of 2017, according to data released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
In Q3 2018, 17,363 dwellings went into use, by 1,048 dwellings more than in Q3 2017.
According to a breakdown by area of residence, most of the dwellings that were built in the third quarter of 2018 were in the urban area (62.4 percent).
The distribution of the completed dwellings by financing sources shows that the number of dwellings built in the third quarter of 2018 on private funds increased by 882 dwellings compared with the third quarter of 2017, and the number of dwellings built on public funds rose by 166.
The regional distribution shows an increase in the number of completed dwellings, with rises reported in the following development regions: Bucharest-Ilfov (+606 dwellings), Center (+441), South-West Oltenia (+409), North-East (+207) and South-Muntenia (+98). There were drops in the number of completed dwellings in the following development regions: South-East (-406 dwellings), North-West (-275) and West (-32).
January-September, 2018, 40,378 dwellings went into use, 1,006 dwellings more than in the same period a year before.
According to a breakdown by area of residence, most of the dwellings that went into use in 1 January - 30 September, 2018 were in the urban area, making up 58.3 percent of the total. The distribution of the completed dwellings by financing sources shows that the number of dwellings built on private funds increased by 1,283 in the same period compared with the similar period of the previous year, and the number of dwellings built on public funds decreased by 277.
The regional distribution shows rises in the number of completed dwellings in the following development regions: North-West (+725 dwellings), South-West Oltenia (+435), West (+268), South-Muntenia (+212) and Center (+148).
There were drops in the number of completed dwellings in the following development regions: Bucharest-Ilfov (-402 dwellings), North-East (-351) and South-East (-29).
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Nicolae Moga picked for Interior Minister, Ramona Manescu - ForMin, Mihai Fifor - Deputy PM
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American theme for concert with guest pianist
Jinah Shim
Award-winning pianist Jinah Shim will join Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra for their next concert, taking place this weekend.
The concert has an American theme and will include George Gershwin’s instantly recognisable Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Jinah, who was the winner of the 2015 Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert
Jinah began learning the piano at the age of five and entered and won competitions and festivals during her school years.
She studied with Professor Malcolm Wilson at the Birmingham Conservatoire on a full scholarship as a junior student.
Continuing the American theme, the weekend concert will include Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 From the New World.
Written while Dvorak was in America, this piece includes the popular Largo, which is often seen as an expression of his desire to be back home in his native land.
Readers may recognise the music from the famous Hovis bread television advertisement in the Seventies, where a young delivery boy was seen pushing his bicycle up a very steep cobbled street.
Completing the concert programme Jinah will join the orchestra on piano for Marquez’s Danzon No. 2 which
celebrates a dance style with its origins in Cuba, but which is a part of the folklore of Mexico.
Written for full orchestra, the piece features solos for clarinet, oboe, piano, violin, trumpet and piccolo and will be sure to have everyone tapping their feet.
The orchestra will be conducted by Ben Palmer, acclaimed for his innovative and imaginative programming, who is gaining increasing recognition around the world as an inspiring and versatile conductor.
The concert takes place at St Mary’s Church in Church Street, Aylesbury, from 4pm on Sunday, May 7.
From Avenue Q to Jimmy Carr, Jason Manford, Michael Parkinson and Madagascar The Musical: All the shows coming to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre this summer
Tickets are £12 for adults and £10 for concessions and are available from the orchestra website at www.aylesburyorchestra.co.uk.
Students under 18 accompanied by an adult pay only £5 to get in.
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Bolivian police search for cocaine king who fled medical clinic
December 9, 2018 — 1.40pm
La Paz: Police in Bolivia say a former drug lord who had served almost 28 years in prison in the United States before returning to the Andean country has fled a medical clinic where he had gone for treatment.
Jorge Roca Suarez, now 67, was one of Bolivia's leading drug lords in the 1980s after taking over from his uncle Roberto Suarez, who was known as the "Cocaine King".
Bolivian drug king-pin Roca Suarez (right) pictured in the 1980s with Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Credit:unknown
Roca Suarez was arrested when he returned to Bolivia in April. He had received a 10-day pass to go to the La Paz clinic.
Fernando Rojas, deputy-director of the Special Force to Fight Crime, said on Saturday an operation was underway to find him
Both Roca Suarez and his uncle were suppliers to the Medellin Cartel led by late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Pete Buttigieg Offers America Double Relief
He can deliver us from a scandal-plagued presidency and transform the relationship between gay and straight America.
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Recounting how he met his husband via an online dating app, the Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made light of his sexual prudence. “Possibly not the app you’re thinking of,” he quipped earlier this month before an extremely friendly audience assembled by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a clear reference to the gay hookup app Grindr. (Buttigieg met his future husband, Chasten, who has improbably emerged as the most intriguing and popular campaign spouse, on Hinge, which is more oriented to long-term relationships.) In his best-selling memoir, Shortest Way Home, Buttigieg writes, “Other than the same-sex aspect, our first date was something our parents could have recognized as typical, almost vintage.” The happy couple own a home, have two dogs, and speak frequently of their desire to have children. There is no hint that their relationship is anything other than monogamous.
Buttigieg is a model of conventional, bourgeois gay domesticity, and one who frequently quotes Christian scripture unironically. The heterosexual president whom Buttigieg hopes to defeat (and our self-proclaimed “moral majority” hypocritically supports) has been married three times, bribed a porn star to prevent her from publicizing allegations of adulterous peccadilloes, been accused by multiple women of sexual assault, bragged obscenely on tape about molesting women, joked about dating his daughter, and once boasted that avoiding STDs was his “personal Vietnam.”
That an openly gay politician can convincingly portray himself as more virtuous than a straight opponent attests to more than just the character of the current president. It shows how dramatically the country’s perception of homosexuality has changed.
For most of American history, gay people have been criminalized, pathologized, and religiously condemned; gay sexual expression was relegated to public parks, toilets, and bathhouses. Gay gathering places were routinely surveilled and raided by law enforcement; this June marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall uprising, when a group of patrons at a Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against police harassment. Even those who begrudgingly tolerated gays associated them with an inherent promiscuity unbefitting true and equal citizenship. (“Gay marriage will destroy the institution of homosexuality” went one joke.)
By embracing traditional family and sexual norms, a route made officially available to him by the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing same-sex marriage, Buttigieg is radically upending popular expectations of what a gay politician can be. The South Bend, Indiana mayor has made much of the fact that he is the first Millennial to run for president. He is also the first post-Obergefell candidate.
As Buttigieg has remarked repeatedly on the campaign trail, an earlier version of his highly qualified self (Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, military veteran) would never have had a shot at the presidency. For previous generations of gay politicians, sexual orientation imposed a ceiling on their career advancement. When Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts came out of the closet to Speaker Tip O’Neill in 1986, the plain-speaking Boston pol replied, “I’m sorry to hear it. I thought you might become the first Jewish speaker.”
In his memoir Stranger Among Friends, the gay activist David Mixner described his decades-long friendship with Bill Clinton, whose life paralleled his own. “The President and I were born three days apart. We both dreamed of serving our country,” Mixner wrote. “There was one difference. He could pursue his dreams while I felt I could not. Bill Clinton was born straight and I was born gay.” For Sean Strub, a gay activist who eventually did make a failed run for Congress in 1990, it was the very act of gay sex that instilled a sense that public office would forever be off-limits. “When I started sleeping with men, one of the most sort of salient truths that I embraced about that was that I couldn’t run for office,” he recalled in an unpublished, 1994 interview with the late New York Times reporter Dudley Clendinen.
Until very recently, a cloud of scandal and questionable sexual ethics hovered over the gay male politician, a function of society’s illegalization and stigmatization of homosexuality. Gay men are hardly more predisposed to sexual impropriety than their hetero peers, but as long as same-sex desire was driven underground, it was all but inevitable that gay men’s political careers would lurch toward some form of humiliation.
Gerry Studds, Frank’s former colleague in the Massachusetts congressional delegation, became the first congressman to publicly identify as homosexual after he was outed for having a consensual affair with a 17-year-old male page. Frank himself would later be forced to weather scandal when it emerged that he allowed a male prostitute to operate out of his apartment. Jeremy Thorpe, the former leader of the British Liberal Party and a man once tipped to be prime minister, was charged with arranging for his alleged male lover to be assassinated rather than risk exposure as a homosexual. (Thorpe was acquitted of the charges; the saga was brilliantly retold in last year’s BBC docudrama A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as the devious and cunning Thorpe.)
On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, Buttigieg represents a long-overdue liberation from this repressive past. That he speaks of his gayness with nonchalance—as “just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am”—has engendered critics from both the religious right and the intersectional left, each of whom has a problem with the way Buttigieg expresses his sexual orientation: The former take issue with the very fact of it, while the latter don’t consider him gay enough. For social conservatives who believe that a gay person, simply by dint of his sexual orientation, is unfit to hold the nation’s highest office, Buttigieg has the potential to change hearts and minds in much the same way Barack Obama could with respect to race. As for those who take umbrage at Buttigieg’s “assimilationist perspective,” I hate to be the one to break it that the first president from the LGBT community is likelier to be a cisgender, white gay man from a red state who looks like a middle manager at a paper company than a transgender woman of color from the Tenderloin.
The fact that a gay politician can say of a straight one, with absolute plausibility, “It is hard to look at this president’s actions and believe that they’re the actions of somebody who believes in God” is not just a sign that the religious left is successfully fighting the religious right on its own rhetorical turf. It indicates that gays are finally beginning to play on equal political ground with straights. Pete Buttigieg offers his country double relief: He has the potential to deliver us from a scandal-plagued presidency and, by doing so, transform the relationship between gay and straight America for the better.
James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age and is writing a history of gay Washington.
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Willis, Stephen C.. "Garnet Brooks". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 04 February 2014, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/garnet-brooks-emc. Accessed 15 July 2019.
Willis, S., Garnet Brooks (2014). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/garnet-brooks-emc
Willis, Stephen C., "Garnet Brooks". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published October 14, 2009; Last Edited February 04, 2014. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/garnet-brooks-emc
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Garnet Brooks
Article by Stephen C. Willis
Published Online October 14, 2009
Last Edited February 4, 2014
Garnet Brooks. Tenor, (born 4 September 1937 in London, ON; died 21 July 2009 in Regina, SK). Brooks' voice studies began in his native city and continued 1960-4 in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where his teachers were Mary Raze, Dorothy Allan Park, John Coveart and Douglas Bodle.
Tenor, b London, Ont, 4 Sep 1937, d Regina 21 Jul 2009. Garnet Brookss voice studies began in his native city and continued 1960-4 in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where his teachers were Mary Raze, Dorothy Allan Park, John Coveart, and Douglas Bodle. He made his Canadian Opera Company (COC) debut in September 1963 as von Faninal's major-domo in Der Rosenkavalier. In 1966 he studied with Robert Weede in San Francisco. In 1967 a Canada Council travel grant enabled him to audition at opera houses in England, Germany, and Switzerland. He was a member of the Glyndebourne Touring Company in 1968 and sang 1968-9 with the Western Opera Theatre (the touring branch of the San Francisco Opera). With the COC Brooks performed Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. He also appeared in supporting roles in the premieres of Somers'Louis Riel and Wilson'sHeloise and Abelard. Garnet Brooks sang the title role in the premiere (Halifax, 1973) of Wilson's The Summoning of Everyman and repeated the role in the 1974 Stratford Festival production. At the Guelph Spring Festival he sang the title role in the North American premiere (1969) of Britten's The Prodigal Son and was the Shaman in the premiere (1977) of Derek Healey's production of the West Coast legend of the Tshimshiamtrib, Seabird Island. Brooks lived 1974-6 in Switzerland, singing at the Staatstheater of Bern, and was based 1976-82 in Vienna, singing there with the Salzburg Opera Company of Austria, in addition to performing with the Glyndeborne Opera of England and West German opera houses.
Returning to Canada in 1982, Brooks joined the University of Western Ontario to teach voice. While in London he appeared - as a singer and teacher - in "The Next Voice You Hear," a documentary on the human voice, produced by CFPL TV (CTV London, Ont.). Brooks moved to Regina in 1983 to teach at the University of Regina and to head the voice department of the Conservatory of Music there. He retired in 1997.
Brooks performed in oratorio, in recital, and on CBC radio and TV, including performances of Bach's St John Passion (Vermont 1973 and Regina 1987) and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1966. In 1988 he was Honey Man in the Calgary Opera Association's production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for the Olympic Arts Festival. He continued to perform, including occasionally with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, into the early 2000s. His voice has been described as a genuine high tenor, lyric rather than heroic, clear and vibrant in sound and effortlessly produced.
Forner, Jane. 'Profile: Garnet Brooks,' OpCan, May 1970
Kirby, Blaik. 'Garnet Brooks lives by singing - but abroad,' Toronto Globe and Mail, 19 Jul 1975
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HomeNewsLiability For Unnamed Drivers
Liability For Unnamed Drivers
In the case of Cameron v Hussain and LV 2017 the Court of Appeal handed down a key decision in relation to the naming of parties in court proceedings.
The case involved a road traffic collision between an unknown driver and the claimant. The claimant commenced court proceedings against the owner of the vehicle initially, believing him to have been the driver at the time of the accident. The claimant then added the insurer to proceedings as second defendant and sought to obtain a declaration that they satisfy any unsatisfied judgment against the first defendant. It transpired that the first defendant was not driving the vehicle at the time of the collision and the policy of insurance with Liverpool Victoria was opened fraudulently, with the name of the policyholder being untraceable.
The owner failed to provide any information on the driver and was subsequently convicted of failing to provide information in relation to the accident. He played no part in ongoing proceedings. Crucially, the insurer did not apply for a declaration under s152(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 that the fraudulent policy was invalid from inception. As such, any judgment obtained would need to be satisfied under s151[1].
The insurer responded with a defence stating that the owner was not insured to drive the vehicle under the policy and, as the claimant could not identify the actual driver, they were not bound to satisfy a judgment.
At first instance an application was made by the insurer for summary judgment. A cross-application was made by the claimant to substitute the first defendant for the unnamed driver, to be identified by a description of the vehicles, location and date of the accident. The claimant’s application was dismissed at first instance and then on appeal to the High Court with summary judgment being awarded.
In the Court of Appeal the claimant argued that it was within the Civil Procedure Rules that proceedings could be commenced against an unnamed driver and judgment be obtained against that unnamed driver. They argued that the test of whether the party could be unnamed was whether it was necessary and efficacious to obtain justice. They heavily referenced the case of Bloomsbury Publishing Group v News Group Newspapers[2] to support the assertion that the defendant need not be named.
In response, the defendant submitted that the CPR allowed for certain exceptions but that these were narrow and, in general, the rules indicated that the parties should be named in proceedings. In addition the aim of s151 RTA 1988 was that the driver be named. It was also submitted that the Motor Insurer’s Bureau (MIB) Untraced Driver’s Agreement (UTDA) was put in place for this exact situation and the claimant should forward their claim to the MIB.
By a majority of 2:1 the Court of Appeal found in favour of the claimant. It was concluded that the CPR allowed for the claimant to bring proceedings against an unnamed driver to be identified by the description. The judgment in Bloomsbury was heavily referenced. The decision in that case reviewed the wording of CPR r7A PD4.1(3) which says that statements of case ‘should’ provide the full name of the parties[3], it was concluded in that case that this meant the full name was not a requirement but more of an indication[4]. The test was then whether it was just and proportionate to allow the case to proceed against an unnamed party or whether relief should be granted from that course.
Gloster LJ and Lloyd Jones LJ rejected the submission of the defendant and concluded that the fact that an alternative remedy – under the UTDA – existed did not prevent the court from allowing an unnamed party to be included in proceedings. It appeared to be agreed by the court that the claimant’s view of the remedies under the UTDA as inferior was a relevant factor[5].
The Court appeared to stress that the relative bargaining positions of the insurer and injured party were also relevant. Gloster LJ at paragraph 46 states ‘It is for insurers to stipulate the conditions which they require to be satisfied by a proposed insured to establish identity before insurers issue a policy’. Furthermore, ‘If they do not as a matter of practice…seek declarations that they are entitled to avoid policies in the event of fraudulent non-disclosure or misrepresentation, that is a matter for their own commercial choice’[6]. Lloyd Jones LJ echoes this at paragraph 88; ‘The intention of Parliament in enacting section 151 was that a motor insurer should compensate any parties injured by a vehicle that it insures’ and ‘…this policy and liabilities which result from it, are simply the obligations which motor insurers must accept as the price for writing motor business in the United Kingdom’[7].
In his dissenting judgment Sir Ross Cranston emphasised that, although there were exceptions to the general rule that parties should be named in proceedings, these should be interpreted narrowly. At paragraphs 94-95 he says ‘There are a number of situations spelt out in the rules permitting unnamed parties’ ‘these limited exceptions in the rules indicate to me that the underlying premise of the CPR is that parties should be named and that to move away from the named parties outside the gateways they provide needs substantial justification’[8]. He concludes that the intention behind the RTA 1988 is that the defendant be named. The insurer has a right of recourse against their own insured under s151(8) the requirement being that that insured be named. In addition, ‘…under the 1988 Act and its predecessors, it is the driver who must be insured, not the vehicle…that suggests that identity is important within the legislative framework’[9]. He expresses the view that the general flavour of the rules indicates that a party should be named, he states that it ‘…seems to be consistent with the principle of open justice, as well as a means of enabling defendants to know about proceedings and to put their case in response’[10]. He suggests that amending the rules places the insurer in a worse position in terms of investigating the claim and preventing fraud[11].
Furthermore, he indicated that a more strict test should be applied than that proposed by the claimant in considering whether to allow an unnamed party. At paragraph 105 he outlines what he believes the test should be; firstly, there is no injustice to the unnamed persons involved and, secondly, ‘…that there be a real potential for injustice to a claimant should such proceedings not be permitted’[12]. In this case he proposed that the first part of the test was satisfied but he did not see any injustice to the claimant should the amendment not be allowed[13]. He concluded that the existence of the UTDA meant that the claimant had access to a remedy preventing injustice. He held that although the costs recoverable under the scheme may well be less than could be recovered in usual litigation there was no assertion that damages recoverable were any less[14]. In terms of the costs he found that it made sense that costs were less as the MIB undertook the bulk of the investigation into the claim. In conclusion he stated that ‘In my view the differences with the MIB scheme are no basis for the contention that the judge should have allowed the amendment’[15].
Gloster and Lloyd Jones LJ both sought to narrow this approach. Both were quick to show that the facts of this case are unique[16]. This perhaps indicates that allowing an unnamed person to be shown on proceedings is going to be restricted to these types of cases; one eye is obviously on the flood gates argument. It is possible that in the intervening period insurers will be putting stricter tests in place upon inception of policies. Decisions on whether to make applications under s152(2) to avoid policies are likely to happen on a wider scale. There was no dispute between the parties that the insurer was entitled to seek a declaration to void the policy which would have removed any liability to satisfy a judgment. Claimants currently looking at pursuing claims within the UTDA may well revisit the opportunity to approach insurers and issue proceedings against an unnamed driver in order to have cases dealt with more swiftly and recover more by way of costs.
The Respondent is understood to be in the process of preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court.
It would seem sensible where proceedings are brought against an unnamed party, that these be stayed pending the outcome of a potential appeal. It is unclear how the courts would deal with cases of an unnamed defendant with an outstanding appeal.
[1] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited [2017] EWCA Civ 366 paragraph 38 iii
[2] Bloomsbury Publishing Group Limited v News Group Newspapers [2003] EWHC 1206 Ch
[3] Civil Procedure Rules Rule 7A Practice Direction 4 1.3
[4] Bloomsbury Publishing Group Limited v News Group Newspapers paragraph 19
[5] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraphs 57 and 83-84
[6] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraph 46
[8] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraphs 94-95
[9] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraph 112
[10] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraph 93
[12] Bianca Cameron v Naveed Hussain and Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited paragraph 105
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10pm transfer news LIVE: Tottenham to sign £8.5m Jack Clarke from Leeds this week, Almiron to Real Madrid
By SunSport Reporters
THE transfer window is in full swing with the world's biggest clubs freshening up their squads ahead of the new season.
Manchester United have already completed their first signing while Spurs are also looking to make some early running.
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Dave Fraser3 weeks agoJune 23, 2019
EVERTON have joined the race for Bristol City’s Adam Webster.
Aston Villa and Newcastle also want the defender, 24, who was signed from Ipswich last summer for £3.5million, rising to £8m.
The Tractor Boys have a sell-on clause – so City immediately want bids north of £10m, with Villa thought to be offering around £12m.
Webster played 47 times for Bristol City in 2018-19 – across all competitions – scoring three times.
But now he could be on his way to Goodison Park, joining Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes.
ICYMI, Roy Keane left Nottingham Forest after just five months at the club earlier today.
The Irishman, 47, worked as the assistant manager to Martin O'Neill.
But he has decided to move on from the City Ground and could decide to pursue his own managerial career.
Keane said: “Working with Martin over the last few years has been a magnificent experience, one of my greatest in football both as a player and a coach and one I want to personally thank him for.”
Joseph Miles3 weeks agoJune 23, 2019
MOHAMED SALAH has been urged to join Barcelona over Real Madrid if he wants to become one of the world's best players, according to Samuel Eto'o.
The Egyptian refused to commit his future to Anfield when asked after scoring in the 2-0 Champions League final triumph over Spurs.
The 27-year-old's heroics in Madrid capped sparked rumours of a permanent return to the Spanish capital but Eto'o has urged him to snub Los Blancos.
The 39-year-old, who spent five years at the Nou Camp after being taken on as a youth player by Real, told BBC Sport: “Barcelona would be a better fit.
“Real gave me the opportunity to leave Africa but I know Barcelona's style and I think it would be better for him.”
“If he has the chance to play in the best league of the world, which is the Spanish one, he has to sign for Barcelona.
“Mo has everything to be one of the best players in the world.”
MAN UTD should sign Matteo Guendouzi and two other young Prem stars if Paul Pogba leaves, according to Stan Collymore.
The former Liverpool striker has urged the club to steer clear of signing a big-name replacement for the Frenchman.
He said: “Of course, if Pogba is allowed to go, then Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will have big money to reinvest.
“I’d go down a different route to the Galacticos-like path United have trodden in recent seasons.
“I’d be looking at a mixture of [Declan] Rice, James Maddison and Matteo Guendouzi, three players who would thrive at United.
“They’re young, talented, you could bring them up together and even have a little change left over from Pogba – even if you signed all three.”
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New housing estate could have 'detrimental impact' on village, residents fear
Protest notices on a property opposite the field on Kenninghall Road at East Harling, the site of a proposed housing development of 67 houses, adjacent to the Poppy Fields development. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Copyright: Archant 2018
A bid to build a new housing development in East Harling has been met with strong opposition over the "detrimental impact" it could have upon village amenities.
The field on Kenninghall Road at East Harling which is the site of a proposed housing development of 67 houses, adjacent to the Poppy Fields development. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
An outline application has been submitted to build approximately 67 houses on land off Kenninghall Road in East Harling.
The development would consist of two and three-bedroom semi-detached houses and four-bedroom detached houses. Up to 40pc would be affordable housing.
However the bid has sparked controversy among many residents, with more than 40 letters of objections sent to Breckland Council.
Concerns have been raised about the insufficient number of school places and the strain an increase in the population would have on the East Harling and Kenninghall doctors’ surgeries.
A letter from NHS England said the GP practices “do not have capacity for the additional growth resulting from this development and cumulative development in the area”.
Resident Lynn Lock said villagers understand the need for housing but feel the village has had its fair share of developments.
Heritage Developments haS already created the Poppy Fields and Rusina Fields estates with more than 60 houses. There is also potential for a third phase consisting of 85 houses.
Mrs Lock, who has lived in East Harling for 11 years, said: “The feelING is that we live in a village with narrow roads and surrounded by farm land.
“Building this estate on what is now agricultural land will turn the village into a small town without any infrastructure.
“It is outside the village envelope. People’s main problem with it is that the school is already full. The doctors’ surgery is also full.”
Harling Parish Council unanimously agreed to oppose the development because it was felt it would “have a serious impact on the residential amenities and would demonstrably harm the character and appearance of the surrounding area”.
The council also raised issues with the increase of traffic on the B1111, which it said is already under “great strain” and said becomes a “bottleneck” at peak periods. Councillors are also concerned about the loss of an open countryside walk, as a public right of way currently runs through the development site.
The applicant did not wish to comment.
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May the Fourth Be With You: 5 fun facts about Star Wars Day
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1. May the Fourth be with you. Celebrating the Star Wars film franchise, Star Wars Day is observed by fans on May the Fourth, an obvious pun on the popular Jedi phrase "May the Force be with you." Taking puns a step further, May 5 has come to be called "Revenge of the Fifth," a play on "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," a day for fans to join the "dark side" and celebrate the Sith lords from the Star Wars movies.
2. Fully fan inspired. While Star Wars Day is a tribute to the movies made by George Lucas, Lucasfilm had nothing to do with the holiday’s creation or its ongoing observance.
3. London calling. The phrase tied to Star Wars Day was first used May 4, 1979, when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the U.K. Members of Thatcher’s Conservative party published full-page advertisement in the London Evening News congratulating the new Prime Minister, which read: "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."
4. Kicked off in Canada. The first organized Star Wars Day events were held at the Toronto Underground Cinema on May 4, 2011. Sean Ward and Alice Quinn organized the celebration, which included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show; a celebrity judged costume contest and Star Wars tribute films and parodies screened.
5. It’s a Small World After All: The Walt Disney Company, which purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 has officially observed the holiday since 2013 with special Star Wars events May 4 at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org and http://www.starwars.com/
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A $20T BlackRock-Vanguard Duopoly Is Investing’s Future
A world where two asset managers call the shots, with wealth exceeding U.S. GDP and almost everyone as a customer, is closer than you think.
By Rachel Evans, Sabrina Willmer, Nick Baker & Brandon Kochkodin | December 04, 2017 at 05:51 AM
Imagine a world in which two asset managers call the shots, in which their wealth exceeds current U.S. GDP and where almost every hedge fund, government and retiree is a customer. It’s closer than you think.
BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group — already the world’s largest money managers — are less than a decade from managing a total of $20 trillion, according to Bloomberg News calculations.
Amassing that sum will likely upend the asset management industry, intensify their ownership of the largest U.S. companies and test the twin pillars of market efficiency and corporate governance.
None other than Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, widely regarded as the father of the index fund, is raising the prospect that too much money is in too few hands, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Corp. together owning significant stakes in the biggest U.S. companies.
“That’s about 20 percent owned by this oligopoly of three,” Bogle said at a Nov. 28 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “It is too bad that there aren’t more people in the index-fund business.”
Vanguard is poised to parlay its $4.7 trillion of assets into more than $10 trillion by 2023, while BlackRock may hit that mark two years later, up from almost $6 trillion today, according to Bloomberg News projections based on the companies’ most recent five-year average annual growth rates in assets.
Those gains in part reflect a bull market in stocks that’s driven assets into investment products and may not continue.
Investors from individuals to large institutions such as pension and hedge funds have flocked to this duo, won over in part by their low-cost funds and breadth of offerings. The proliferation of exchange-traded funds is also supercharging these firms and will likely continue to do so.
Global ETF assets could explode to $25 trillion by 2025, according to estimates by Jim Ross, chairman of State Street’s global ETF business. That sum alone would mean trillions of dollars more for BlackRock and Vanguard, based on their current market share.
“Growth is not a goal, nor do we make projections about future growth,” Vanguard spokesman John Woerth said of the Bloomberg calculations.
While bigger may be better for the fund giants, passive funds may be blurring the inherent value of securities, implied in a company’s earnings or cash flow.
The argument goes like this: The number of indexes now outstrips U.S. stocks, with the eruption of passive funds driving demand for securities within these benchmarks, rather than for the broader universe of stocks and bonds. That could inflate or depress the price of these securities versus similar un-indexed assets, which may create bubbles and volatile price movements.
Stocks with outsize exposure to indexed funds could trade more on cross-asset flows and macro views, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The bank found that, for the average stock in the S&P 500, 77 percent might trade on fundamentals, versus more than 90 percent a decade ago.
That’s not BlackRock’s experience. “While index investing does play a role, the price discovery process is still dominated by active stock selectors,” executives led by Vice Chairman Barbara Novick wrote in a paper in October, citing the relatively low turnover and small size of passive accounts compared with active strategies.
Another concern is that without the prospect of being part of an index, fewer small or mid-sized companies have an incentive to go public, according to Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group LLC, a New York-based firm that analyzes the structure of financial markets.
That’s because their stock risks underperforming without the inclusion in an index or an ETF, he said. Benchmarks are governed by rules or a methodology for selection and some require that a security has a certain size or liquidity for inclusion.
We’re not near a tipping point yet. Roughly 37 percent of assets in U.S.-domiciled equity funds are managed passively, up from 19 percent in 2009, according to Savita Subramanian at Bank of America Corp. By contrast, in Japan, nearly 70 percent of domestically focused equity funds are passively managed, suggesting the U.S. can stomach more indexing before market efficiency suffers.
There’s even further to go if you look globally: Only 15 percent of world equity markets — including funds, separately managed accounts and holdings of individual securities — are passively managed, said Joe Brennan, global head of Vanguard’s equity index group, in an interview.
BlackRock and Vanguard’s dominance raises questions about competition and governance. The companies hold more than 5 percent of more than 4,400 stocks around the world, research from the University of Amsterdam shows.
That’s making regulators uneasy, with SEC Commissioner Kara Stein asking in February: “Does ownership concentration affect the willingness of companies to compete?”
Common ownership by institutional shareholders pushed up airfares by as much as 7 percent over 14 years starting in 2001 because the shared holdings put less pressure on the airlines to compete, according to a study led by Jose Azar, an assistant professor of economics at IESE Business School.
BlackRock and Vanguard are among the five largest shareholders of the three biggest operators.
“As BlackRock and Vanguard grow, and as money flows from active to large passive investors, their percentage share of every firm increases,” said Azar in an interview. “If they cross the 10 percent threshold, I think for many people that would make it clearer that the growth of large asset managers could create serious concerns for competition in many industries.”
BlackRock has called Azar’s research “vague and implausible” while other academics have questioned his methodology.
One of those is Edward Rock. A law professor at New York University, Rock says a variety of legal rules in fact discourage stakes above 10 percent and he favors creating a safe harbor for holdings up to 15 percent to incentivize shareholder engagement.
‘Best Outcomes’
The firms are among the biggest holders of some of the world’s largest companies across a range of industries including Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. in technology, and lenders like Wells Fargo & Co.
In the U.S., both companies supported or didn’t oppose 96 percent of management resolutions on board directors in the year ended June 30, according to their own reports.
“We’ve put more and more efforts behind it but we’ve always had a substantial effort,” said Vanguard’s Brennan. “We’re permanent long-term holders and, given that, we have the strongest interest in the best outcomes.”Their size could also help companies change for the good.
Both firms were among the first to join the Investor Stewardship Group, a group of institutional asset managers seeking to foster better corporate governance, according to the organization’s website.
Vanguard has doubled its team dedicated to this over the last two years and supported two climate-related shareholder resolutions for the first time.
BlackRock has more than 30 people engaging with its portfolio companies.Active managers will be watching these developments closely.
While many concede that stemming the passive tide is a challenge, they may see better days as central banks start unwinding a decade of easy monetary policy that’s sapped volatility.
Data show performance among active managers is improving. Some 57 percent of large-cap stock pickers underperformed the S&P 500 in the year ended June 30, compared with 85 percent the year before, data from S&P Dow Jones Indices show.
And if indexing distorts the market so much that it’s easier to beat, more investors will flock to stock pickers, says Richard Thaler, Nobel laureate, University of Chicago professor and principal at Fuller & Thaler Asset Management.
Right now, though, the duo’s advance appears unstoppable, and the benefits they’ve brought with low-cost investments may outweigh some of the structural issues.
“Given that they’ve grown so big because their fees are so small, these are the kinds of monopolies that don’t keep me up at night,” said Thaler.
MSCI Adds ESG Ratings to 32,000 Funds and ETFs
Ginger Szala | July 11, 2019
Ratings are on a scale from AAA (leader) to CCC (laggard).
“It’s clear from these early results that we’ve struck a chord,” Schwab's Cynthia Loh says.
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The Early History of Dr Pepper
Famous Inventions
Famous Inventors
Invention Timelines
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This Iconic Soft Drink Dates Back to the 1880s
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by Mary Bellis
Mary Bellis, known by some as CalmX, was an experimental artist, film director and producer, video game content creator, and freelance writer for some 18 years. She specialized in writing about inventors and inventions, in particular. Bellis died in March 2015.
In 1885, in Waco, Texas, a young Brooklyn-born pharmacist named Charles Alderton invented a new soft drink that would soon become known as "Dr Pepper." The carbonated beverage was marketed as having a unique flavor all its own. More than 130 years later, the brand can still be found on shelves and in refrigerated store coolers worldwide.
Alderton worked at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas, where carbonated drinks were served at the soda fountain. While there, he began experimenting with his own soft drink recipes. One, in particular, was fast becoming a big hit with customers, who originally ordered the concoction by asking Alderton to "shoot them a 'Waco.' "
As the soft drink's popularity grew, Alderton and Morrison had trouble manufacturing enough Dr Pepper to keep up with the demand for the product. Robert S. Lazenby, owner of the Circle "A" Ginger Ale Company in Waco, had been impressed with "Dr Pepper" and was interested in manufacturing, bottling, and distributing the soft drink. Alderton, who had no desire to pursue the business and manufacturing end, he agreed to let Morrison and Lazenby take over.
Fast Facts: Dr Pepper
The U.S. Patent Office recognizes December 1, 1885, as the first time Dr Pepper was served.
In 1891, Morrison and Lazenby formed the Artesian Mfg. & Bottling Company, which later became the Dr Pepper Company.
In 1904, the company introduced Dr Pepper to 20 million people attending the 1904 World's Fair Exposition in St. Louis—the same World's Fair that introduced hamburger and hot dog buns and ice cream cones to the public.
The Dr Pepper Company is the oldest major manufacturer of soft drink concentrates and syrups in the United States.
Dr Pepper is now also sold in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, and South America, as well as New Zealand and South Africa as an imported good.
Varieties of Dr Pepper include a version without high-fructose corn syrup, Diet Dr Pepper, as well as a line of additional flavors first introduced in the 2000s.
The "Dr Pepper" Name
There are several theories regarding the origin of the Dr Pepper name. In some versions of the tale, drugstore owner Morrison is credited with naming the drink "Dr. Pepper" in honor of his friend, Dr. Charles Pepper, while in others, Alderton is said to have gotten one of his first jobs working for Dr. Pepper, and named the soft drink as a nod to his early employer.
Another theory is that the "pep" refers to pepsin, an enzyme that breaks down proteins into smaller peptides. Pepsin is produced in the stomach and is one of the main digestive enzymes in the digestive systems of humans and many other animals, where it helps digest the proteins in food.
Or it might have been something more simple. As with many early sodas of the era, Dr Pepper was marketed as a brain tonic and energizing pick-me-up. The "pep" in Pepper might literally have been named for the lift it supposedly imparted to those who drank it.
In the 1950s, the Dr Pepper logo was redesigned. In the new version, the text was slanted and the font was changed. Designers felt that the period made "Dr." look like "Di:" so for reasons of style and legibility, the period was dropped—but to paraphrase Shakespeare, no matter what you call it, "a Dr Pepper by any other name would taste as sweet."
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Jack London: His Life and Work
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Prolific American Author and Activist
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by Karen Schweitzer
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John Griffith Chaney, better known by his pseudonym Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876. He was an American author who wrote fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, poems, plays, and essays. He was a very prolific writer and achieved worldwide literary success prior to his death on November 22, 1916.
Jack London was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, became pregnant with Jack while living with William Chaney, an attorney and astrologer. Chaney left Wellman and did not play an active role in Jack's life. In the year that Jack was born, Wellman married John London, a Civil War veteran. They stayed in California, but moved to the Bay Area and then to Oakland.
The Londons were a working-class family. Jack completed grade school and then took a series of jobs involving hard labor. By the age of 13, he was working 12 to 18 hours per day in a cannery. Jack also shoveled coal, pirated oysters, and worked aboard a sealing ship. It was aboard this ship that he experienced adventures that inspired some of his first stories. In 1893, at the encouragement of his mother, he entered a writing contest, told one of the stories, and won first prize. This contest inspired him to devote himself to writing.
Jack returned to high school a couple of years later and then briefly attended the University of California at Berkeley. He eventually left school and went to Canada to try his luck in the Klondike Gold Rush. This time in the north further convinced him that he had many stories to tell. He began to write daily and sold some of his short stories to publications like "Overland Monthly" in 1899.
Jack London married Elizabeth "Bessie" Maddern on April 7, 1900. Their wedding was held on the same day that his first short story collection, "Son of the Wolf", was published. Between 1901 and 1902, the couple had two daughters, Joan and Bessie, the latter of which was nicknamed Becky. In 1903, London moved out of the family home. He divorced Bessie in 1904.
In 1905, London married his second wife Charmian Kittredge, who worked as a secretary for London's publisher MacMillan. Kittredge helped to inspire many of the female characters in London's later works. She went on to become a published writer.
Jack London held socialist views. These views were evident in his writing, speeches and other activities. He was a member of the Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Party of America. He was a Socialist candidate for mayor of Oakland in 1901 and 1905, but did not receive the votes he needed to get elected. He made several socialist-themed speeches across the country in 1906 and also published several essays sharing his socialist views.
Jack London published his first two novels, "The Cruise of the Dazzler" and "A Daughter of the Snows" in 1902. A year later, at the age of 27, he achieved commercial success with his most famous novel, "The Call of the Wild". This short adventure novel was set during the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush, which London experienced firsthand during his year in Yukon, and centered around a St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd named Buck. The book remains in print today.
In 1906, London published his second most famous novel as a companion novel to "The Call of the Wild". Titled "White Fang", the novel is set during the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush and tells the story of a wild wolfdog named White Fang. The book was an immediate success and has since been adapted into movies and a television series.
"The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902)
"A Daughter of the Snows" (1902)
"The Call of the Wild" (1903)
"The Kempton-Wace Letters" (1903)
"The Sea-Wolf" (1904)
"The Game" (1905)
"White Fang" (1906)
"Before Adam" (1907)
"The Iron Heel" (1908)
"Martin Eden" (1909)
"Burning Daylight" (1910)
"Adventure" (1911)
"The Scarlet Plague" (1912)
"A Son of the Sun" (1912)
"The Abysmal Brute" (1913)
"The Valley of the Moon" (1913)
"The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1914)
"The Star Rover" (1915)
"The Little Lady of the Big House" (1916)
"Jerry of the Islands" (1917)
"Michael, Brother of Jerry" (1917)
"Hearts of Three" (1920)
"The Assassination Bureau, Ltd" (1963)
"Son of the Wolf" (1900)
"Chris Farrington, Able Seaman" (1901)
"The God of His Fathers & Other Stories" (1901)
"Children of the Frost" (1902)
"The Faith of Men and Other Stories" (1904)
"Tales of the Fish Patrol" (1906)
"Moon-Face and Other Stories" (1906)
"Love of Life and Other Stories" (1907)
"Lost Face" (1910)
"South Sea Tales" (1911)
"When God Laughs and Other Stories" (1911)
"The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii" (1912)
"Smoke Bellew" (1912)
"The Night Born" (1913)
"The Strength of the Strong" (1914)
"The Turtles of Tasman" (1916)
"The Human Drift" (1917)
"The Red One" (1918)
"On the Makaloa Mat" (1919)
"Dutch Courage and Other Stories" (1922)
"An Old Soldier's Story" (1894)
"Who Believes in Ghosts!" (1895)
"And 'FRISCO Kid Came Back" (1895)
"Night's Swim In Yeddo Bay" (1895)
"One More Unfortunate" (1895)
"Sakaicho, Hona Asi And Hakadaki" (1895)
"A Klondike Christmas" (1897)
"Mahatma's Little Joke" (1897)
"O Haru" (1897)
"Plague Ship" (1897)
"The Strange Experience Of A Misogynist" (1897)
"Two Gold Bricks" (1897)
"The Devil's Dice Box" (1898)
"A Dream Image" (1898)
"The Test: A Clondyke Wooing" (1898)
"To the Man on Trail" (1898)
"In a Far Country" (1899)
"The King of Mazy May" (1899)
"The End Of The Chapter" (1899)
"The Grilling Of Loren Ellery" (1899)
"The Handsome Cabin Boy" (1899)
"In The Time Of Prince Charley" (1899)
"Old Baldy" (1899)
"The Men of Forty Mile" (1899)
"Pluck And Pertinacity" (1899)
"The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone" (1899)
"The White Silence" (1899)
"A Thousand Deaths" (1899)
"Wisdom of the Trail" (1899)
"An Odyssey of the North" (1900)
"The Son of the Wolf" (1900)
"Even unto Death" (1900)
"The Man with the Gash" (1900)
"A Lesson In Heraldry" (1900)
"A Northland Miracle" (1900)
"Proper GIRLIE" (1900)
"Thanksgiving On Slav Creek" (1900)
"Their Alcove" (1900)
"Housekeeping In The Klondike" (1900)
"Dutch Courage" (1900)
"Where the Trail Forks" (1900)
"Hyperborean Brew" (1901)
"A Relic of the Pliocene" (1901)
"The Lost Poacher" (1901)
"The God of His Fathers" (1901)
"FRISCO Kid's Story" (1901)
"The Law of Life" (1901)
"The Minions of Midas" (1901)
"In the Forests of the North" (1902)
"The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen" (1902)
"The Story of Keesh" (1902)
"Keesh, Son of Keesh" (1902)
"Nam-Bok, the Unveracious" (1902)
"Li Wan the Fair" (1902)
"Master of Mystery" (1902)
"The Sunlanders" (1902)
"The Death of Ligoun" (1902)
"Moon-Face" (1902)
"Diable—A Dog" (1902)
"To Build a Fire" (1902)
"The League of the Old Men" (1902)
"The Dominant Primordial Beast" (1903)
"The One Thousand Dozen" (1903)
"The Marriage of Lit-lit" (1903)
"The Shadow and the Flash" (1903)
"The Leopard Man's Story" (1903)
"Negore the Coward" (1904)
"All Gold Cañon" (1905)
"Love of Life" (1905)
"The Sun-Dog Trail" (1905)
"The Apostate" (1906)
"Up The Slide" (1906)
"Planchette" (1906)
"Brown Wolf" (1906)
"Make Westing" (1907)
"Chased By The Trail" (1907)
"Trust" (1908)
"A Curious Fragment" (1908)
"Aloha Oe" (1908)
"That Spot" (1908)
"The Enemy of All the World" (1908)
"The House of Mapuhi" (1909)
"Good-by, Jack" (1909)
"Samuel" (1909)
"South of the Slot" (1909)
"The Chinago" (1909)
"The Dream of Debs" (1909)
"The Madness of John Harned" (1909)
"The Seed of McCoy" (1909)
"A Piece of Steak" (1909)
"Mauki" (1909)
"Goliath" (1910)
"The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910)
"Told in the Drooling Ward" (1910)
"When the World was Young" (1910)
"The Terrible Solomons" (1910)
"The Inevitable White Man" (1910)
"The Heathen" (1910)
"Yah! Yah! Yah!" (1910)
"By the Turtles of Tasman" (1911)
"The Mexican" (1911)
"War" (1911)
"The Unmasking Of The Cad" (1911)
"The Captain Of The Susan Drew" (1912)
"The Sea-Farmer" (1912)
"The Feathers of the Sun" (1912)
"The Prodigal Father" (1912)
"The Sea-Gangsters" (1913)
"The Hussy" (1916)
"Like Argus of the Ancient Times" (1917)
"Shin-Bones" (1918)
"The Bones of Kahekili" (1919)
"Theft" (1910)
"Daughters of the Rich: A One Act Play" (1915)
"The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play" (1916)
"The Road" (1907)
"The Cruise of the Snark" (1911)
"John Barleycorn" (1913)
"Through The Rapids On The Way To The Klondike" (1899)
"From Dawson To The Sea" (1899)
"What Communities Lose By The Competitive System" (1900)
"The Impossibility Of War" (1900)
"Phenomena Of Literary Evolution" (1900)
"A Letter To Houghton Mifflin Co." (1900)
"Husky, Wolf Dog Of The North" (1900)
"Editorial Crimes – A Protest" (1901)
"Again The Literary Aspirant" (1902)
"The People of the Abyss" (1903)
"How I Became a Socialist" (1903)
"The War of the Classes" (1905)
"The Story Of An Eyewitness" (1906)
"A Letter To Woman's Home Companion" (1906)
"Revolution, and other Essays" (1910)
"Mexico's Army And Ours" (1914)
"Lawgivers" (1914)
"Our Adventures In Tampico" (1914)
"Stalking The Pestilence" (1914)
"The Red Game Of War" (1914)
"The Trouble Makers Of Mexico" (1914)
"With Funston’s Men" (1914)
"Je Vis En Espoir" (1897)
"A Heart" (1899)
"He Chortled With Glee" (1899)
"If I Were God" (1899)
"Daybreak" (1901)
"Effusion" (1901)
"In A Year" (1901)
"Sonnet" (1901)
"Where The Rainbow Fell" (1902)
"The Song Of The Flames" (1903)
"The Gift Of God" (1905)
"The Republican Battle-Hymn" (1905)
"When All The World Shouted My Name" (1905)
"The Way Of War" (1906)
"In And Out" (1911)
"The Mammon Worshippers" (1911)
"The Worker And The Tramp" (1911)
"He Never Tried Again" (1912)
"My Confession" (1912)
"The Socialist’s Dream" (1912)
"Too Late" (1912)
"Abalone Song" (1913)
"Cupid’s Deal" (1913)
"George Sterling" (1913)
"His Trip To Hades" (1913)
"Hors De Saison" (1913)
"Memory" (1913)
"Moods" (1913)
"The Lover’s Liturgy" (1913)
"Weasel Thieves" (1913)
"And Some Night" (1914)
"Ballade Of The False Lover" (1914)
"Homeland" (1914)
"My Little Palmist" (1914)
"Rainbows End" (1914)
"The Klondyker’s Dream" (1914)
"Your Kiss" (1914)
"Gold" (1915)
"Of Man Of The Future" (1915)
"Oh You Everybody's Girl" (1915)
"On The Face Of The Earth You Are The One" (1915)
"The Return Of Ulysses" (1915)
"Tick! Tick! Tick!" (1915)
"Republican Rallying Song" (1916)
"The Sea Sprite And The Shooting Star" (1916)
Many of Jack London's most famous quotes come directly from his published works. However, London was also a frequent public speaker, giving lectures on everything from his outdoor adventures to socialism and other political topics. Here are a few quotes from his speeches:
Why should there be one empty belly in all the world, when the work of ten men can feed a hundred? What if my brother be not so strong as I? He has not sinned. Wherefore should he hunger—he and his sinless little ones? Away with the old law. There is food and shelter for all, therefore let all receive food and shelter.—Jack London, Wanted: A New Law of Development (Socialist Democratic Party Speech, 1901)
Out of their constitutional optimism, and because a class struggle is an abhorred and dangerous thing, the great American people are unanimous in asserting that there is no class struggle.—Jack London, The Class Struggle (Ruskin Club Speech, 1903)
Since to give least for most, and to give most for least, are universally bad, what remains? Equity remains, which is to give like for like, the same for the same, neither more nor less.—Jack London, The Scab (Oakland Socialist Party Local Speech, 1903)
Jack London died at the age of 40 on November 22, 1916 at his home in California. Rumors circulated about the manner of his death, with some claiming that he committed suicide. However, he had suffered numerous health issues later in life, and the official cause of death was noted as kidney disease.
Although it is common nowadays for books to be made into films, that was not the case in Jack London's day. He was one of the first writers to work with a film company when his novel, The Sea-Wolf, was turned into the first full-length American movie.
London was also a pioneer in the science fiction genre. He wrote about apocalyptic catastrophes, future wars and scientific dystopias before it was common to do so. Later science fiction writers, such as George Orwell, cite London's books, including Before Adam and The Iron Heel, as an influence on their work.
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“The Class Struggle (Speech first given before a Ruskin Club banquet in the Hotel Metropole on Friday, October 9, 1903.).” Sonoma State University, london.sonoma.edu/writings/WarOfTheClasses/struggle.html.
“THE SCAB (Speech first given before the Oakland Socialist Party Local, April 5, 1903).” Sonoma State University, london.sonoma.edu/writings/WarOfTheClasses/scab.html.
“Wanted: A New Law of Development (Speech first given before the Socialist Democratic Party on Thursday, August 1, 1901.).” Sonoma State University, london.sonoma.edu/writings/WarOfTheClasses/wanted.html.
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Church marks century since consecration
Renee Gamela
Jan 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM Jan 28, 2008 at 1:39 AM
One hundred years ago, St. Joseph’s Church received the indelible mark of consecration. On Sunday, parishioners packed St. Joseph-St. Patrick Church to recreate the Jan. 26, 1908, ceremony and mark the anniversary.
One hundred years ago, St. Joseph’s Church received the indelible mark of consecration.
On Sunday, parishioners packed St. Joseph-St. Patrick Church in Utica, N.Y., to recreate the Jan. 26, 1908, ceremony and mark the anniversary.
Twelve consecration candles on the church’s exterior walls were lit to represent the 12 Apostles. It was the visible sign that the church building has been consecrated, parish leaders said.
Holy water was sprinkled over the congregation, and incense filled the corners of the church. Candles were lit to spell out the word “Jesus” in Latin, as well as “Alpha” and “Omega” — the beginning and the end.
“It is a mark of great significance when a church is consecrated,” said the Most Rev. James M. Moynihan, bishop of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y. “It was a mark of great stewardship for the pastor of 100 years ago to be out of debt.”
Moynihan was the main celebrant Sunday.
Consecration raises a church to a higher order, and sets it aside for a special blessing, said the Rev. Richard Dellos, pastor of the church. In order to receive the designation, a church must be debt free and have permission from the Vatican.
People snapped photographs during the celebration where more than 20 clergy and deacons participated. Many wore buttons in honor of Blessed Mother Marianne Cope, who was beatified in 2005 by the Vatican. St. Joseph’s is Cope’s home parish.
St. Joseph’s Church opened in 1841 to serve the German immigrant population, and 67 years later it was consecrated. In 1965, St. Joseph’s Church merged with St. Patrick’s Church.
Michael and Bridget Parisi brought their children Luke, 10, and Claire, 9, to the 100th anniversary Sunday.
St. Joseph-St. Patrick Church is Bridget Parisi’s home parish where she made all her sacraments. She called it a privilege to be part of the celebration.
“I think I speak for everyone,” Bridget Parisi said of her family, “we feel very proud.”
“It’s a once in a lifetime occasion,” her husband said.
Claire noted it might be possible for some to see such an event again.
“If you live over 100 it could be twice,” Claire said as her parents laughed.
Joyce Schmidt also calls the church home. She teaches religious education there and has been a parishioner since her baptism.
Schmidt said it is difficult to put her emotions into words about the anniversary.
“It’s overwhelming, and a very emotional day,” she said, “a very happy time.”
Schmidt said that her “heart is here in this church.”
“Everybody is welcome to the church of Mother Marianne.”
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10 Best Things to Do in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
United States Idaho
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The lake resort town of Coeur d'Alene is located near the point where grand Lake Coeur d'Alene empties into the Spokane River. Surrounded by forested hills and mountains, the charming town offers its visitors warm hospitality along with a long list of activities and attractions.
Whether you spend a day, a weekend, or an extended vacation in Coeur d'Alene, you're sure to leave feeling refreshed and with fond memories.
Get Outdoors and Play
Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
The huge lake, the rushing rivers, the forested hills, the nearby mountains, and the hot sunny weather make Coeur d'Alene a wonderful base for an active getaway. You can relax and enjoy a boardwalk stroll or a scenic float trip. If you're looking for more of a physical challenge, there are miles of recreation trails, including the popular North Idaho Centennial Trail, a 22-mile paved trail, and Tubbs Hill Nature Trail, a self-guided two-mile loop located near downtown. If you want to get out on the water, Coeur d'Alene Lake is a 30-mile lake where you can boat, sail, or jet ski. Local company Harrison Boat Rentals will even deliver your watercraft of choice to your lakefront resort.
Take a Scenic Lake Coeur d'Alene Boat Cruise
115 S 2nd St, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814-2738, USA
Operating from the Coeur d'Alene Resort Boardwalk Marina, Lake Coeur d'Alene Cruises offers a variety of fun, festive, and interesting tours. The shorter tours loop around the upper part of the lake, while the longer six-hour cruises go down to the St. Joe River at the lake's south end. Regularly scheduled scenic Sunday brunch and sunset dinner cruises are offered each season. Special holiday cruises, including the Holiday Light Show Cruise, are scheduled throughout the year. The Lake Coeur d'Alene cruise boats are also available for private events.
Swim or Picnic at the Coeur d'Alene City Park
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814, USA
Located just west of downtown, Coeur d'Alene City Park offers plenty of space to play or to relax. The sandy swimming beach is popular with families and teenagers. The bulk of the park is covered in grass and trees, offering a cool escape from the heat and sun. Park facilities include a whimsical wooden playground, a bandshell used for their Summer Concert Series, and open and sheltered picnic areas. A stroll along the North Idaho Centennial Trail will take you through this park.
Go Shopping Along Sherman Avenue
210 Sherman Ave, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814, USA
Your Coeur d'Alene wanderings will surely take you through the charming downtown area filled with shops, art galleries, and places to eat and drink. The main shopping area in Coeur d'Alene runs along Sherman Ave. between the Coeur d'Alene Resort and 5th Street. Our top picks include Figpickels Toy Emporium, Finan McDonald Clothing Company, and Summer's Glass, a working studio.
Drive the Lake Coeur d'Alene Scenic Byway
Following Idaho Highway 97 on the east side of the lake, the Lake Coeur d'Alene Scenic Byway offers scenery, wildlife, and a few places to get out and stretch your legs. The Mineral Ridge Scenic Area at Wolf Lodge Bay, the Thompson Lake birding station, and Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes at Harrison are popular stops along this scenic byway.
Run a Marathon or Triathlon
In case you need that one more excuse to visit this gorgeous lake town, Coeur d'Alene hosts a variety of special events and festivals each year—including a marathon and an Ironman triathlon. There are few better place to get outdoors, so if you're the sporting type plan a visit to the Coeur d'Alene Marathon in May and the Ironman Coeur d'Alene Triathlon in June.
Shop at a Local Farmers Market
The Kootenai County Farmers Market boasts a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, and other items from farmers in the area. Depending on when you visit, you can expect to see cherries, strawberries, and delectable summer fruit or hearty winter root vegetables. There are also crafts and other goods for sale.
Take a Seaplane Flight
If you want to get a bird's eye view of the lake, what better way than a seaplane? Brooks Sea Plane offers various seaplane flights, including the 25-minute Lake Coeur d'Alene Loop flight. This 40-mile trip will showcase aerial views of Coeur d'Alene city, shores, and river, as well as the Bitterroot Mountains, Washington Palouse, and nearby Fernan Lake.
Splash Around at McEuen Park
The city's McEuen Park is one of the most popular parks, with good reason. It's home to a colorful splash pad that's popular with kids, as well as a large playground, an off-leash dog park, and basketball and tennis courts. The park venues can be used to host private events.
Learn About the Region's History
The Museum of North Idaho is a small, but interesting, museum located near the city park. It's open by appointment but features ever-changing exhibits that highlight the history of the Coeur d'Alene region. A recent exhibit focused on the development of the region's railways, including their impact on trade and local economy.
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Inside story: the US prison system
The US Bureau of Prisons' lack of compassion costs it dear
Sadhbh Walshe
The federal BOP houses more than 200,000 inmates. Last year, it granted 25 compassionate releases for the aged, sick or dying
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Thu 6 Dec 2012 17.01 EST First published on Thu 6 Dec 2012 17.01 EST
US law does not permit a prisoner, however elderly, ill or incapacitated, to apply for compassionate release on his own behalf. Photograph: Tim Gruber / Tim Gruber for the ACLU
Between 1940 and 1980, the inmate population in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which is an agency under the US Department of Justice, averaged approximately 24,000 a year. This all changed after 1984, when Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act, which eliminated parole in the federal prison system, did away with time-off for good behavior and introduced determinate sentencing.
As a result of this legislation and several subsequent follow-up acts, the number of prisoners in federal custody has increased tenfold, to approximately 218,000 today. Regardless of how excessive these prisoners sentences may have been, or how rehabilitated those inmates are, it is almost impossible for a prisoner to be released early – and the Federal Bureau of Prisons seems to like it that way.
These days, the only way an inmate in federal prison can get his sentence reduced is by applying for compassionate release. Compassion appears to be severely lacking in the BOP, however, as evidenced in a joint report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM). The title of the report, "The Answer is No", pretty much sums up the BOP's attitude towards granting early release, even when the continuance of a prisoner's sentence is "senseless, incompatible with human dignity or cruel". In 2011, only 30 motions were filed by the BOP on behalf of prisoners (out of a population of 218,000), most of whom were terminally ill. Twenty-five of those motions were granted.
According to the sentencing commission guidelines (pdf) (amended in 2007), the courts may reconsider a prisoner's sentence when "extraordinary and compelling reasons" arise that could not be foreseen at the time of sentencing. This means that once public safety has been taken into account, a prisoner can be released early if they become terminally ill, are suffering from a permanent physical or medical condition, or a deteriorating condition because of ageing, or in the case of the death or incapacitation of the defendant's only family member capable of caring for their minor children.
Despite these guidelines, the BOP pretty much refuses to put forth motions on behalf on any prisoner unless their death is imminent. And even then, many prisoners are left to rot in prison, often incapacitated to the state of paralysis and incapable of getting out of bed, never mind contemplating another crime.
By law, a prisoner may not apply directly to the courts for early release; the BOP has to file a motion on their behalf. But getting the bureau to do this can be a next-to-impossible task. In the HRW report, a prisoner (using the pseudonym Victoria Blaine) who was serving a 75-month sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, chronicled her attempts to get her case manager simply to process her request for compassionate release – so that she could take care of her young children after her husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Here's an excerpt of one of many exchanges with her prison case worker (found on p106 in the HRW report):
"Case Manager S: 'Ms Blaine, judges don't ask themselves is this person gonna get cancer before they sentence them. You are not a special case. I've got men in the FCI who have newborn babies that've had five family members die within two years. You are not being realistic. There are 60-year-old women walking around this camp with canes. What makes you more special? There are thousands of cases in the BOP.'
"Inmate Blaine: 'I didn't say I was special. I am sorry you are getting angry. If you found out your husband was going to die, you would do the same.'
"Case Manager S: 'That is the reality of prison: people die, women lose their children all the time. You are not being realistic. I am going to end this right here and now. I am going to deny it.'"
This kind of mentality seems to have trickled down all the way from the top. In 2006, the Department of Justice, which oversees the BOP, sent an extraordinary letter to the Sentencing Commission, objecting to its guidelines on compassionate release and railing against any broader interpretation of what constitutes "extraordinary and compelling" reasons beyond its very narrow interpretation that only terminally ill prisoners or those suffering from a "profoundly debilitating" medical condition that was "irreversible and irremediable" should even be considered for early release. The letter claimed this limitation was necessary because:
"[Congress never intended for compassionate release] as a back door for the re-introduction of a parole-like early release mechanism, but as an element of a system whose fundamental premise is that prisoners should serve an actual term of imprisonment close to that imposed by the court in sentencing."
The letter also explained why releasing terminally ill prisoners and those with a profoundly debilitating medical condition that was "irreversible and irremediable" was just about acceptable to them as follows:
"Such an offender carries his prison in his body and mind, and will not in any event be living in freedom in any ordinary sense if released from a correctional hospital facility to be cared for in some other setting."
As I said, the BOP is not big on compassion. This is unfortunate because, thanks to the extremely harsh and unduly long sentences that have been imposed since the 1980s, the number of elderly prisoners in the federal system is growing at an astronomical rate. In a 2011 report, HRW found that the number of prisoners aged 55 and older grew at six times the rate of the overall prison population between 1995 and 2010. Because of their age, medical costs for this group are three to nine times higher than those of younger prisoners.
The BOP has acknowledged that its annual operating budget of over $6bn is unsustainable. A small sum of compassion would not just cost them little, it would potentially save them millions of dollars in operating costs.
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Chicago's interim police superintendent chosen
Posted: 3:29 AM, Mar 28, 2016
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CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rejected three finalists recommended by the Chicago police board for the city's top police post and selected the force's current chief of patrol as the new interim superintendent, his office said.
The mayor's office said in a statement late Sunday that Emanuel was appointing Chicago Chief of Patrol Eddie Johnson as interim superintendent. A formal announcement was set for Monday.
Emanuel is trying to replace Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whose firing was part of a frantic effort to restore trust in the Police Department and his own leadership following the release in November of dash-camera footage showing a white police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager 16 times.
Johnson, who is African-American and a 27-year veteran of the force, was not among the police board's recommendations. A former commander of the Gresham police district on the South Side, Johnson was promoted to deputy chief of patrol in 2012 and chief of patrol in December.
The statement said Johnson is a Chicago native who grew up in the now-demolished Cabrini Green housing project until he was 9 years old. As chief of patrol, Johnson commanded 8,000 officers, the statement said.
Johnson will take over during a time of immense turmoil marked by protests over police shootings. In one of the more high-profile cases, officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, which was captured on squad-car video and has prompted investigations, including a federal civil rights probe of the Police Department.
Alderman Anthony Beale said the mayor's office reached out with news of Johnson's selection ahead of the official announcement. Beale said he supported the mayor's decision.
"Eddie Johnson knows Chicago, he knows the police department and the challenges facing our neighborhoods," he said. "He is a true leader and will bring the fundamental changes CPD needs right now. I look forward to getting to work with Eddie right away."
Anabel Abarca, a spokeswoman for Alderman George Cardenas, a prominent member of the Chicago City Council's Latino caucus, also told The Associated Press the alderman had been notified of Johnson's selection in advance. Cardenas and Hispanics on the council had expressed frustration that the police board had passed over current Interim Superintendent John Escalante, who is Hispanic and has been running the department since McCarthy's firing. Escalante has said he applied for the job. The AP emailed Escalante's spokesman asking for his comment, but did not get a reply Sunday.
A city ordinance allows Emanuel to appoint an interim chief and ask the police board for a new list of finalists.
"While each of the finalists had strong qualifications, the mayor did not feel that any of them were the complete package that Chicago needs at this time and thus none were offered the position," Emanuel spokeswoman Kelley Quinn said earlier Sunday. "The mayor called each of them individually late Saturday to let them know of his decision."
One of the board's initial nominees, Cedric Alexander, told AP on Sunday that Emanuel offered him the job on Thursday during a meeting in Washington, D.C., and that the mayor told him he intended to make Johnson his first deputy. But he said Emanuel phoned him Saturday night to say he had changed his mind.
"He did offer me the position in D.C. on Thursday, and last night he called and said he's going in a different direction," said Alexander, the public safety director in Georgia's DeKalb County. NBC5 in Chicago first reported that Alexander said he'd been offered the position.
Alexander told AP the plan had been for him to fly to Chicago on Monday and that the announcement was to have come Wednesday.
"I would like to thank the Chicago Police Board for giving me the opportunity to apply," Alexander said. "Clearly the mayor is going in another direction, and I would just like to wish the very best for the people of Chicago."
The Chicago City Council's black caucus said last week that they would prefer a local African-American for the job. But they stopped short of endorsing Eugene Williams, a black deputy chief in Chicago who was among the police board recommendations. Anne Kirkpatrick, a white former police chief in Spokane, Washington, also was a finalist.
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Leica Q2 with 47.3-megapixel full-frame sensor announced
By: The Mobile Indian network, New Delhi Last updated : March 09, 2019 11:54 am
The latest camera from Leica comes with a full-frame sensor packed in a compact body. It is equipped with a 47.3-megapixel full-frame sensor.
Leica Camera AG has announced the launch of a new camera in its Q lineup. The company has introduced Leica Q2 at a price tag of $4,995 (approximately Rs 3,50,000) in the US. The company has announced that it will be making the device available in India starting mid-April.
The latest camera from Leica comes with a full-frame sensor packed in a compact body. It is equipped with a 47.3-megapixel full-frame sensor along with processor from the Maestro II family that the company claims enable high shooting rate of 10 frames per second at the full resolution of 47.3 MP. The sensor is paired with a fast Leica Summilux 28 mm f/1.7 ASPH. prime lens
The autofocus system of the Leica Q2 focuses on the subject in less than 0.15 seconds, making it one of the fastest cameras in its segment. One can record 4K videos at 30 or 24 fps or, alternatively, in the familiar full HD format with 120, 60, 30 or 24 frames per second. The camera has a sensitivity up to ISO 50,000. The Leica Q2 also features a newly developed, high-resolution OLED viewfinder with a resolution of 3.68 megapixels.
In combination with the Leica FOTOS App, the camera’s integrated Wi-Fi module makes it possible to quickly and easily share pictures and video in social media, change numerous camera settings from a smartphone or even or even remotely control the shutter release of the Leica Q2. The camera comes with protective sealing against dust and water spray and is ideally equipped for shooting in all weather conditions.
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C.S.T.: The stock market is booming after that speech! Just because they didn’t have to haul him off in a straitjacket! There’s such a thing as setting the bar too low.
A.L.: The key to understanding our president is to realize there are three versions. Unscripted Trump is the one who obsesses about crowd size and expresses complete astonishment that constructing a national health care plan is hard. That’s the one we worry will start a nuclear war.
C.S.T.: So the Dow went up 300 points because Unscripted didn’t show up to address Congress?
A.L.: Yep. The second version is Reasonable Chatting Trump. R.C.T. is the one who had pre-speech gatherings with journalists in which he mused about passing immigration reform and making the Dreamers legal.
Everyone was very excited until it became clear this had no relation to anything he was actually planning to say in public.
If you ever have an opportunity to sit down with the president for a private conversation, let me warn you: He’s going to be totally open to all your suggestions, nod frequently and leave you with the impression that you’ve scored a huge breakthrough.
But he will not remember a thing that you discussed. In fact, he'll have forgotten everything the minute you said it.
C.S.T.: Then he walked in front of Congress and became Version 3?
A.L.: Yes, the guy with the teleprompter. We will call him Somewhat Normal Republican Trump, or SNORT.
C.S.T.: When he started off with a call for unity against anti-Semitism, I threw my sock at the screen. Just a couple of weeks ago, someone asked him about attacks on Jewish institutions and he just quoted his Electoral College numbers.
A.L.: True, we don’t normally expect to have to educate our new presidents in how to express disapproval of anti-Semitism. But just be glad he seems to have absorbed the lesson.
C.S.T.: Only when he has a teleprompter.
A.L.: If you want to find something to throw your footwear at, take a closer look at those brief remarks condemning “hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.” Trump began with a nod to Black History Month, then decried threats against Jewish community centers and vandalism against Jewish cemeteries “as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City.”
You’d think there’d be a little more attention to the “shooting,” which was in fact the murder of a tech worker from India that is being investigated as a hate crime.
C.S.T.: It wasn’t even in Kansas City! It was in Olathe, Kansas!
A.L.: OK, that’s a tad over-obsessive.
C.S.T.: And what about his rants about the inner cities? I hate it when he acts as if every place with black people is a death zone. But you can’t just say, “Stop picking on Chicago’s murder rate.”
A.L.: Try yelling: “Yes! Crack down on gun sales to gangs!” He finds it upsetting when anybody suggests the problem with gun violence is guns.
C.S.T.: I think I could definitely do that.
A.L.: You could also try giving Trump a thumbs-up whenever he says something you agree with. It'll make you feel fair-minded, and if he ever found out, it would confuse the heck out of him.
C.S.T.: There is nothing I agree with.
A.L.: What about lots of infrastructure spending?
C.S.T.: He'll spend it on the wrong things.
A.L.: You really are tough.
C.S.T.: In an hourlong speech, the only thing he said about the environment was that he wanted to “invest in women’s health and to promote clean air and clean water.”
A.L.: Well, that was SNORT reading. Reasonable Chatting Trump is crazy about the environment. He’s even worried about climate change. Just ask him, before he forgets.
Donald the Unscripted thinks environmentalism is an evil plot by the same people who bused millions of unregistered noncitizens to the polls to dilute his election triumph.
Take your pick. They'll all be around for the next four years.
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney kisses the championship trophy after defeating Alabama 44-16 in the NCAA college football playoff championship game, in Santa Clara, Calif. Swinney has agreed to the biggest contract in college football history, paying him $92 million over the next 10 years. Trustees approved the contract Friday, April 26, 2019, which runs through 2028. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Dabo Swinney signs largest college football contract ever
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
Two national titles in three years have helped earn Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney the biggest contract in college football history.
University trustees approved the 10 year, $92 million deal Friday. It runs through 2028 and includes two new clauses to make sure Swinney stays with the Tigers and stays one of the sport's best paid coaches as long as he keeps winning.
The buyout in Swinney's contract increases significantly if he leaves Clemson to coach at Alabama, where he was a walk on wide receiver and assistant coach in the 1990s. Swinney must pay $4 million if he leaves Clemson before the end of this year, but the buyout increases to $6 million if he coaches the Crimson Tide.
The deal also requires Swinney to be one of the three highest paid coaches in college football any season after his team makes the playoff semifinals or he can leave without penalty.
Swinney's contract is bigger than the $74 million, eight year deal Alabama's Nick Saban has through 2025 and the 10 year, $75 million contract Jimbo Fisher with Texas A&M signed through 2027.
Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich, who also received a contract extension Friday through June 2024, said Swinney is worth every penny.
"Dabo's leadership of our football program has brought value, exposure and unprecedented levels of success not only to our athletics program but to the entire university," Radakovich said in a statement.
Swinney's first head coaching contract in 2009 at Clemson paid him $800,000 a year — the lowest salary in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He went 15-12 his first two full seasons, including his only losing season at 6-7 in 2010.
Swinney is 97-15 since then, making the past four college football playoffs — Clemson's only miss was the inaugural edition after the 2014 season — and won two national titles, both over Alabama.
Swinney, 49, said he was humbled by the school's commitment to him and promised fans even bigger accomplishments.
"Our boys attended elementary school, middle school, high school and college in Clemson," Swinney wrote in a letter to fans after the deal was finalized. "Very few head coaches get the opportunity to experience that type of stability and support, and we don't take it for granted."
Swinney will be paid at least $8.25 million this season, with his salary increasing to $10 million in 2027. The contract includes other incentives like a $250,000 bonus for a national title, $200,000 bonus for an ACC championship and $50,000 if he wins a coach of the year award.
If Clemson fires Swinney in the first two years of the contract, it will have to pay him $50 million with the buyout slowly declining over the next decade.
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BANGKOK, 10 January 2019 – More than 150 representatives from government agencies, civil society organizations, private sectors and international organizations have gathered today to reaffirm their commitment in creating a more promising future for every child in Thailand, agreeing on the need for greater investment in children and young people and strengthening collective efforts.
The event titled “UNICEF’s 70 Years in Thailand: A Future for Every Child”, co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand and UNICEF Thailand, with the participation of senior officials, diplomats, civil society organizations, private sector executives, as well as youths, marked the culmination of UNICEF’s 70 years celebrations in Thailand. The event highlighted significant progress made for children in the country during the past decades and acknowledging some remaining challenges, underscoring the important roles of each sectors and members of society in offering creative solutions towards building a future for every child.
“For 70 years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, together with relevant partners, have joined with UNICEF in improving the lives of Thai children and youths,” stated His Excellency Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand. “We must continue to working together to create a rewarding future for our children who we believe can truly bring about change as members of the Thai society and the world.”
His Excellency Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand and UNICEF Thailand’s Goodwill Ambassador, remarked “Thailand has made remarkable progress and UNICEF has been an integral part of this journey. This moment today offers us a perfect opportunity to review our success, close the remaining gaps, and to reach every child, by using the power of our voice, support, network and resources.”
About 12 million adolescents and young people aged between 10-24 years old in Thailand are poised to assume leadership roles in families, workplaces and communities and shape up the future for Thailand. However, there are about 14 per cent of secondary school-age children who are not in school, while 15 per cent of young people (aged 15-24 years) are secluded from any forms of education system and employment according to the International Labour Organization. We must continue to work together to promote inclusive education for all children.
“The complexity of the challenges that children face today pushes us to change the way we do business, so that children and young people are better prepared for their future,” said Thomas Davin, UNICEF Representative for Thailand. “Children and adolescents in Thailand need opportunities to acquire new skills to function effectively and creatively in the 21st century environment and workforce. We must look at co-creating solutions and strategies, involving all sectors of society, to ensure that every child has access to quality services and information that will equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive in their future.”
A panel discussion was held during the event, under the theme ‘Developing the Human Capital of Thailand: Be Part of the Solution’, in which prominent speakers from the Government, civil society, academia and the private sector discussed and reflected on new ways of working, and how all sectors can play an important role as part of the solution and as the key instrumental force in moving Thailand towards prosperity and high-income status by addressing the needs of every child.
The event was concluded with the participants signing a pledge wall to show their commitment to join collective efforts to ensure that every child in Thailand has a fair chance to thrive and reach their fullest potential.
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Memorial University of Newfoundland: undergraduate experience
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Service learning enriches Memorial’s undergraduate experience
What’s it like to be homeless? To have an addiction? Those are questions students at Memorial University of Newfoundland considered when they prepared and served a hot pasta lunch for over 75 community members experiencing poverty and later walked the streets of St. John’s, NL in simulated ‘barrier’ experiences as part of a unique Community Service Learning project.
About 50 students – one group of participants in Memorial’s larger Community Service Learning Day – focused on connection and conversation in providing a hot meal last October during the second Street Reach Community Lunch, a service project helping students learn about issues facing the most marginalized members of society.
“The experience was by far the most memorable and influential aspect of my semester and I would gladly participate again if given the chance,” says psychology student Laura Bonnell.
“Experiencing what was discussed in class first-hand changed my pre-existing views and cemented the information. It was extremely rewarding to be able to give back to my community and to connect with some of the people. It also inspired me to continue with volunteering in the area and it showed me the importance of philanthropy.”
Open to students in any discipline, the Street Reach project held particular interest for students in Dr. Lilly Walker’s fourth-year Psychology 4650 (Addictions) class. It comprised a significant academic component of their course including reflective and summary papers.
“The students learned so much. The Service Learning component added such richness to their experience,” says Dr. Walker. “Over and over again, they report how it changed their views of themselves, of others, of addictions, of people. It is so rewarding to read through their learning journey, to see what they discovered and learned.”
Street Reach volunteer coordinator Jenni MacPherson says experiences that bring people together can only lead to the promotion of equality by helping reduce barriers and eliminate stigma. “If we can change the way young people acknowledge homelessness, poverty addictions, mental health and use of social supports, that is going to carry with them for the rest of their lives.”
The experience provided many moments of awakening, says Penny Cofield, experiential learning coordinator with MUN’s Department of Career Development and Experiential Learning.
“To hear another’s story first-hand is a very powerful way to learn,” she says.
Service learning has been a valuable part of Memorial’s educational landscape since 2004. Through course projects and co-curricular volunteer opportunities, students have participated in service projects in areas such as food sustainability, seniors’ care, social justice, animal and humane services, and nature stewardship. The annual Community Service Learning Day offers various opportunities to get involved in service placements. And interest is growing all the time. Ms. Cofield says the department has had over 1,800 students participate since 2004.
“I think education is about the full development of the individual. I know I am not alone in that thinking. To provide opportunity to grow and be challenged and to expand their world (is so beneficial),” she says.
“It gives students a chance to reflect on the world in a different way, to see themselves in action, and to connect with people they wouldn’t otherwise connect with. It could also set them on another path they may not have considered before,” Ms. Cofield says.
“They get to see themselves in a whole new way, and that’s very powerful learning.”
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Red-hot Chargers face reeling Broncos
Philip Rivers and the Los Angeles Chargers take on the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Photo by Lori Shepler/UPI | License Photo
The Los Angeles Chargers are among the league's hottest teams, riding a six-game winning streak and trying to keep pace with the first-place Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West.
The Chargers have not lost since Week 3 and will play at home for the first time in six weeks when they square off against the skidding Denver Broncos in a divisional matchup on Sunday afternoon.
The 7-2 record aside, one of the most impressive aspects of Los Angeles' season is how it has navigated a brutal five-week schedule that featured road games at Cleveland, Seattle and Oakland, and a "home" matchup in London sandwiched around its bye.
"It's a heck of a run," said Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers. "But it can become a one-game losing streak just like that."
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The Broncos (3-6), losers of two straight and six of seven overall, certainly can appreciate how noteworthy the current run is by Los Angeles, which has not played a true road game since beating Oakland on Oct. 7. Denver is seeking its first road win against an AFC West rival since knocking off the Chargers in San Diego on Dec. 6, 2015.
"It's hard to win on the road in this league," Broncos head coach Vance Joseph said. "We have to get off to a better start. That's part of our team's issues on the road -- playing fast and winning the first quarter. This team we're playing, they've won the first half by plus-53 (points) so we have to get off to a better start on Sunday to have a chance to win the game."
Los Angeles has won 13 of its last 16 games dating to last season and its only two losses in 2018 came to the Chiefs and Los Angeles Rams, who share the NFL's best records at 9-1. One of those wins was a 21-0 rout of visiting Denver in October 2017, the Broncos' first shutout loss in 25 years.
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Defense has fueled the torrid stretch for the Chargers, who have permitted only 66 points over their past five games and have not allowed a team to score 20 points since a 29-27 win over San Francisco on Sept. 30.
Head coach Anthony Lynn attributed one of the reasons for the improvement to not having to play catch-up, as often was the case a year ago.
"That's something that we put an emphasis on," Lynn said. "We want to play from ahead. Last year we played from behind a lot. We're trying to start with more urgency this year, playing from ahead.
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"It can benefit your pass rush, I can tell you that. You force teams in obvious situations where you've got to pass the football, our guys get a chance to come off the ball and tee off a little bit."
The unit can receive a huge boost as star defensive end Joey Bosa returned to practice on Wednesday for the first time this season as he rebounds from a foot injury suffered in early August. The 2016 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year and a 2017 Pro Bowl selection, Bosa has 23 sacks in 28 career games.
Lynn wouldn't rule out Bosa, a Pro Bowler, playing on Sunday against the Broncos. He also noted that the Chargers were going to be cautious with Bosa, who was limited in practice, and "ease" him back into playing.
Rivers, who has thrown for 21 touchdown passes against only four interceptions and ranks third in the league with a 115.4 passer rating, can expect to see defensive pressure from Denver's linebacker tandem of perennial Pro Bowler Von Miller and rookie Bradley Chubb.
Miller (9.0) and Chubb (8.0) have combined for 17 sacks -- the most by a pass rushing duo this season -- and have each recorded at least one sack in four straight games. Miller also has sacked Rivers 15 times, the most by any active player against an active quarterback.
"It's going to be a heck of a challenge," said Rivers, who has thrown multiple touchdown passes in every game this season.
Rivers also has the luxury of handing off to running back Melvin Gordon, the second player in the last 10 years to post at least 120 yards from scrimmage with a touchdown in five straight games.
That will put pressure on a Denver offense that has been held to 20 points or fewer in five of its nine games, including a 19-17 home loss to Houston on Nov. 4 prior to last week's bye.
"It's the next week," Broncos quarterback Case Keenum said. "It's this week and we're trying to go 1-0 and then build on that and do it again next week."
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 1:00 PM 13:00
Dupont Underground 19 Dupont Circle Northwest Washington, DC, 20036 United States (map)
DuPont Underground will feature VOC’s Witness Project Series and selections from The Gulag Collection, paintings by Nikolai Getman, which are dedicated to the memory of those who survived the Gulag and those who did not.
The gallery is open on Wednesdays through Fridays, between 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
About The Witness Project
The Witness Project is a video series featuring the powerful stories of victims of communism. Videos in the Free2Be art gallery will feature stories of witnesses of communism in Cuba, China, Cambodia and Hungary.
About The Gulag Collection
Nikolai Getman was born in Ukraine in 1917, and began drawing at an early age. Following his discharge from the Red Army, Getman was with a group of artists, one of whom drew a picture mocking Stalin on cigarette paper. An informer reported the sketch and the whole group was arrested on October 12, 1945 for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. Getman spent eight years in Siberia and Kolymma. He was freed on August 30, 1953.
Getman immediately began painting from his memory about life and death in the Gulag. No allusions to Gulag life was permitted in the Soviet Union until 1962. He didn’t tell anyone about the paintings, not even his wife. It took him over 40 years to complete a total 50 paintings.
Robert Conquest observed, “Nikolai Getman shows the world of hunger and deprivation and oppression with extraordinary clarity and vision. In his paintings one can see the whole perspective of what the Soviet government itself had to describe in the last years of the regime as a system in which ‘death was caused by unbearable toil, by cold and starvation, by unheard of degradation and humiliation, by a life that could not have been endured by any other animal’.”
These haunting paintings from the Gulag Archipelago were saved from likely destruction and brought to the United States in 1997. Nikolai Getman died in Russia in 2004. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is pleased to be able to share this selection from The Gulag Collection.
Roll Call of Nations Wreath Laying Ceremony and Presentation of the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
An Evening With Albanian Classical Pianist, Dr. Elida Dakoli
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Excerpt: The 33 1/3 Book On Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk, Featuring A Lot Of Money, A Lot Of Cocaine, And A Lot Of Band Bed-Hopping | Village Voice
Excerpt: The 33 1/3 Book On Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk, Featuring A Lot Of Money, A Lot Of Cocaine, And A Lot Of Band Bed-Hopping
by Rob Trucks
Recently, beloved friend-of-SOTC Rob Trucks (last seen chatting with the Big Star tribute crew and exploring Bob Dylan-centric Greenwich Village landmarks) published a book on Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk, adding to the venerable 33 1/3 series the tale of the fraught, outrageously expensive, doggedly uncommercial follow-up to Rumours, one of the best-selling albums of all time. Trucks spoke extensively with FM boss Lindsey Buckingham, and also grilled Tusk fans who now make up such bands as Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band. Below, please find an excerpt that at least begins to explore how much Tusk cost to make, and who was sleeping with who while they were making it.
The double-edged sword of that kind of success is that it gives you freedom, but you’ve also got to have the perspective to use the freedom.
–Lindsey Buckingham, September 5, 2008
After the group’s Grammy win in February of 1978, but before the final leg of the Rumours tour that begins again in July, Lindsey builds a home studio. He listens to, among others, new albums by the Talking Heads (Talking Heads: ’77) and the Clash (The Clash). He writes and records “That’s All For Everyone,” “Not That Funny,” and “What Makes You Think You’re the One,” all at home.
And cuts off all his hair.
Reason #497 not to trust Wikipedia:
Buckingham was able to convince Fleetwood to allow his work on their next album to be more experimental and to work on tracks at home, then bring them to the band in the studio. His expanded creative role for the next album was influenced by an appreciation for New Wave music, specifically Gary Numan.
Gary Anthony James Webb, a/k/a Gary Numan, records his first album, Tubeway Army, in August of 1978, a month after Lindsey Buckingham presents his post-Rumours ultimatum to Mick Fleetwood in an upstate New York hotel room. At the time, Numan is 20 years old. The best-selling album of Numan’s career, The Pleasure Principle, fueled by his decidedly most well-known single, “Cars,” is released in September of 1979, the same month as the “Tusk” single. During the recording of Tusk, Gary Numan is way, way absent from Lindsey Buckingham’s radar.
I’d been working at home on songs just by myself, which was sort of more like the painting process, you know, one on one with the canvas, and the idea was to bring some of that stuff back in and let the band work on it, and just to kind of shake it up, and the result was, you know, a much more surprising, to-the-left group of tunes, generally speaking.
–Lindsey Buckingham, October 11, 2006
History fades.
Tusk is in no way perfect.
Far from it.
In fact, that may be the point (if not the concept).
Rugged, ragged, fragmenting and fracturing an already fragmented and fractured band.
Say the secret word and win a hundred dollars.
At the end of the never-ending Rumours tour (think of the album as an oil well that won’t quite go dry, no matter how many times it’s been pumped), Lindsey meets Mick in the drummer’s hotel room. It is July of 1978 and the band is in upstate New York, most likely the Hilton in Saratoga.
Mick, despite a long-standing inability to manage money, serves as the band’s manager. He is also the band member most likely to accept Lindsey’s new direction.
What Lindsey delivers is just short of an ultimatum. “I have these songs . . .”
What Mick returns is just short of an ultimatum. “You’re either in the band or you’re not.”
Sure, Mick didn’t want to lose Lindsey, but the fact that Mick and Stevie are now sleeping with each other but unsure whether Buckingham knows and what his reaction will be may have played a part in Mick’s willingness to allow Lindsey to do whatever the hell Lindsey wanted to do.
So off Lindsey went, back to his home studio, to kick out some more jams.
Adjectives found in reviews contemporary to the release of Tusk: brave, restless, opulent, nonliterary, audacious, gleeful, allusive, spare, incantatory, luxuriant, spacious, ethereal, histrionic, offbeat, terse, excitable, giddy, spectacular, intense, cutting, nonsensical, mysterious, unintelligible, fragile, obsessive, anticipated.
The final product, a 20-song double album called Tusk, features nine songs of Lindsey’s, six of Christine’s, five of Stevie’s. Lindsey, for the first time, receives individual production credit.
A “Special Thanks to Lindsey Buckingham” graces the liner notes and in one particularly telling photo the other four band members turn, as a group, to gaze upon his visage. Stevie and Christine lay hands like a couple of Mary Magdalenes, while John and Mick, the temple elders, look on with some hesitancy and skepticism.
Lindsey, for his part, beams at his bandmates’ presumed adoration. (Around the time of his teenage-basement fumblings with Buckingham Nicks as background, Rob learned, in high school English, that every book contained Christian symbolism. And none more so than Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (“wafer in the sky” and so forth), though Billy Budd came close. This is the Christian symbolism in this book.)
Tusk is Lindsey Buckingham’s album with the band’s other four members pretty much along for the ride.
This is how the story goes:
The recording of Tusk begins in Studio D at the Village Recorder in May of 1977, three months before Rumours tour dates finally grind to a halt.
The first night, Stevie Nicks arrives two hours late. Mick Fleetwood has just purchased a $70,000 sports car and, as if in need of a reason to celebrate, the band begins snorting cocaine.
Despite Lindsey’s new initiative, some things do not change.
Early evening Mick gets a phone call saying that his sports car, while being towed to his home, was broadsided by a semi and split in half, a total loss. The car is not insured.
The session, for which no recording takes place, ends at six the next morning, and Tusk has officially begun.
The affair between Mick and Stevie, begun while on tour in Australia in November of 1977 and still a theoretical secret, is not quite ongoing, not quite over. Which does nothing to diminish the ever-present in-studio stress.
Christine breaks up with the band’s lighting director and begins an affair with Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, who later moves into her house, while Lindsey lives with girlfriend Carol Ann Harris. The entire band continues to ingest prodigious amounts of cocaine, though Mick is recently diagnosed with diabetes and Lindsey with a mild form of epilepsy following a collapse in a hotel shower.
John McVie marries Julie Reubens, and Mick, who is still involved with his wife Jenny, still not finished though not quite involved with Stevie, begins dating Stevie’s friend Sara Recor, the wife of Kenny Loggins’ manager Jim Recor, who may or may not have had an affair with Stevie when Fleetwood Mac and Loggins & Messina shared a tour bill, and Sara leaves her husband to move in with Mick.
Which at least brings some closure to the Stevie-Mick intrigue.
The breaking apart of intraband relationships serves as an advantageous theme in both the music and the marketing of Rumours.
And given that it comes post-breakup, Tusk is one of the few Fleetwood Mac albums that does not try to sell the Stevie-Lindsey love story.
Which may be yet another reason for its disappointing sales.
Before Tusk recording begins, Mick, as manager, approaches the record company, the record company that has just been delivered the best-selling album in its history, and suggests that the band purchase its own studio.
With a record company advance, of course.
The record company says, No. A mistake, considering they will ultimately shell out a record-setting $1.4 million to custom-fit Studio D and receive nothing but the Tusk master tapes in return.
This is the last time the record company will have the opportunity to say, No, for more than a year as, during the recording of Tusk, no executive, no record company representative at all, actually, is allowed past the recording studio lobby.
Music is personal.
Tusk is a symbol.
We did go over to Village Recorders and had something to do, were somehow financially involved in the building of Studio D over there, or the remodeling of it. Whether or not that, at the end of the day, was a good thing for us, I would have to think not. Mick was actually managing the band and, in a way, they had a reason not to want another manager. Clifford Davis, I guess, had screwed them out of some money. But you know when you have the kind of almost immediate success that ignites with that first album and then Rumours, anybody could’ve been managing and been perceived as doing a good job.
The first Fleetwood Mac album of the Buckingham-Nicks era takes longer to record than any album in group history yet also garners the band’s best sales. Rumours takes even longer, more than a year (they leave their primary studio in Sausalito after nine months with nothing but drum tracks) and sells even better. Thus Fleetwood Mac learns to make themselves happy with the recording process, regardless of the time or financial cost. Tusk is the effect.
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“The Grateful Dead were in town and the prospects for peace looked promising. A happy, scruffy parade of 80 marched down St. Mark’s Place, complete with police escort, to present the Dead with a white carnation key to the East Village, graciously accepted by Pigpen.”
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Volunteer Grant Writer - U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, CAWG Civil Air Patrol
California Wing Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary
Local Squadrons of California Wing, Civil Air Patrol are seeking a talented Grant Writer to become part of our all volunteer non-profit organization chartered by Congress as the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary.
Do you have a desire to volunteer and serve your community a few evenings per month? Do you have an interest in becoming part of a Search & Rescue organization that saves numerous lives every year throughout Southern California and the United States? Civil Air Patrol participates in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions; Search and Rescue training exercises (SAREX’s); and disaster relief efforts as part of the Auxiliary to the United States Air Force. The Civil Air Patrol also participates with other disaster relief and governmental organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security, DoD, FEMA and Cal EMA office of emergency services.
The Volunteer Grant Writer should have a proven track record in securing both government grants and private/corporate foundation grants and will be supporting / promoting Civil Air Patrol's three primary missions (Aerospace Education, Cadet Programs, and Emergency Services) by researching and identifying new funding opportunities; cultivating relationships with foundation program officers and decision makers; prepare and submit letters of inquiry, proposals, and reports; assist in securing funding from public and private foundations as well as government entities; maintain grants tracking schedule, foundation and government activity logs, and grant files. The ideal volunteer will be self-directed and capable of working independently on proposals and reports with limited instruction.
For additional information please contact eric.buesing@cawgcap.org or contact us via the VolunteerMatch link.
Veterans and disabled veterans are welcome to join.
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126 More opportunities with California Wing Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary
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The Squadron meets one evening per week.
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BREAKING: 6th District Candidate Trone Diagnosed With Cancer
August 27th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
David Trone, Democratic nominee for Maryland’s Sixth District Congressional seat and co-owner of Total Wine & More, issued the following statement today:
I want the 760,000 residents of the Sixth District and my 7,000 teammates in the Total Wine family to know that I am being treated for a localized cancer. An abnormal lab result at the time of my annual physical exam led doctors to conduct additional tests. On Monday, June 25, it was confirmed that I had a tumor in my urinary tract. Since then, I have undergone chemotherapy treatment at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, a treatment that has led to a substantial reduction in the size of the tumor.
The next step in the recommended course of treatment is to remove the kidney on that side of my urinary tract. The treatment team members believe my prognosis is positive. They say I may miss a few days of the campaign immediately after the surgery, but nothing will interfere with my being fully engaged as a candidate and as a member of Congress after the recovery.
I am confident I will make a full recovery.
I could not have faced this challenge without unwavering love and unconditional support from June. If anyone is a hero in this, it is June. She has been a rock, just as she has been in over 30 years of our marriage. Our four children have responded as every parent would want: with love, support, encouragement, and good humor since the diagnosis.
Dr. Phillip Pierorazio of the Brady Urological Institute and Department of Urology at Johns Hopkins, and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, said that “David’s prognosis is excellent. He is being treated for a localized cancer of the genitourinary system with chemotherapy and planned surgery. The cancer is localized, and the treatment has been aggressive. The chemotherapy has reduced the size of the tumor, and we foresee no complications from the upcoming surgery to remove the kidney. His underlying health is strong, and he has fully complied with every recommendation of his treatment team. We expect David to fully recover, to return as an active candidate, and, if elected, to carry out all of the duties of a member of the House of Representatives.”
June Trone added, “I am so grateful for the care of the medical professionals treating David, and the love and support of the family. David is in great spirits and attacking this the way he attacks everything: full throttle. We look forward to seeing friends and supporters as we campaign this fall.”
Trone campaign manager Jerid Kurtz said that “David has been fully engaged in all aspects of the campaign during the chemotherapy treatment.”
David spent the morning notifying friends and professional colleagues of this matter. The following are statements they authorized us to include with this release:
US Representative John Delaney:
“I have never been prouder to call David my friend. April and I hope everyone in the District will join us in wishing David a full and speedy recovery, and supporting David, June, and their children with love and prayers. David is a most worthy successor to hold this seat. He is an outstanding candidate, and I am confident he will be a truly great member of Congress for the good people of the Sixth District.”
US Senator Ben Cardin:
“With the assistance of the world-class professionals at Johns Hopkins, David Trone will meet this challenge like he’s met so many in his life and become a great Representative for the Sixth District. I look forward to campaigning and serving Maryland with him for many years to come.”
US Senator Chris Van Hollen:
“This is what I know: David will emerge from this stronger than ever, ready and able to take his message of civility, compassion, and competence to every corner of the Sixth District, and to provide extraordinary public service as a member of the House of Representatives for the foreseeable future.”
US Representative Anthony Brown:
“Even when no one was watching, David has stood up for people without a voice in our political and judicial system, and I am proud to stand with David Trone as he recovers from surgery. David has overcome incredible odds throughout his life, and this will be no different. David and June are great friends, and I am excited to campaign with them this fall and working with David in the House.”
US Representative Dutch Ruppersberger:
“As someone who has faced several health challenges myself in the past, David has my full support as he works with the folks at Hopkins to return to full health and the campaign trail. Given the way he grew up and the success he has had creating jobs and building a successful business, David will bring the kind of common sense we need in the House. I’m excited for the chance to work with him in the new Congress.”
US Representative Jamie Raskin:
“I know David Trone to be a great businessman, a visionary philanthropist, and a fiercely committed and competitive Democrat. As a cancer survivor of eight years, I know how tough this is going to be for David and June and their family. But I also know he’s tough as nails and will come through this stronger than ever. I will support him and his family in every possible way and look forward to working with him in Congress where he will offer a unique and-important perspective from day one. Godspeed to David and his family.”
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett:
“David has been a good friend to Montgomery County, beating every challenge he’s faced to build a successful business that supports countless Marylanders. He will overcome this latest obstacle, and he will go on to serve as an outstanding advocate for all of us in Congress. I’m proud to support David – and I know Montgomery County stands with him, June and their kids.”
Maryland Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Matthews:
“As a businessman and now in politics, David Trone has been a strong advocate for good jobs, affordable healthcare, and civil rights for Maryland families. He will be a great Member of Congress for families in the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland. We wish him best wishes for a speedy recovery, and know he will come out of his stronger than ever.”
One Response to “BREAKING: 6th District Candidate Trone Diagnosed With Cancer”
August 27, 2018 at 5:52 pm, Jayne Parks said:
Get well wishes. It’s good to seeyou are receiving the best of care at Johns Hopkins.
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BlackRock Exposes Data on Thousands of Advisers Via Website
The data, which appeared in three spreadsheets linked on one of BlackRock's iShares web pages, included names and email addresses of financial advisers who buy BlackRock ETFs on behalf of customers.
By Annie Massa
(Bloomberg) --BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, inadvertently posted confidential information about thousands of financial adviser clients on its website.
The data appeared in three spreadsheets, linked on one of the New York-based company’s web pages dedicated to its iShares exchange-traded funds. The documents included names and email addresses of financial advisers who buy BlackRock’s ETFs on behalf of customers. They also appeared to show the assets under management each adviser had in the firm’s iShares ETFs.
The links were dated Dec. 5, 2018, but it’s unclear how long they were public. The documents were seen by Bloomberg and removed Friday. BlackRock, which oversees assets of almost $6 trillion, is the world’s largest issuer of ETFs.
One of the spreadsheets appears to list more than 12,000 entries of advisers and their sales representatives at BlackRock. On another, the advisers were categorized in a variety of ways such as “dabblers” or “power users.” A column noted their “Club Level” including the “Patriots Club” or “Directors Club.”
Pledging Review
“We are conducting a full review of the matter,” spokesman Brian Beades said in a statement Friday. “The inadvertent and temporary posting of the information relates to two distribution partners serving independent advisers and does not include any of their underlying client information.”
Securing data is known to keep Wall Street leaders awake at night. But most often, senior executives cite a fear of hackers, which has prompted some of the nation’s biggest banks to pour upwards of $1 billion a year into cybersecurity. It’s one area where financial firms set aside bitter rivalries, sharing tips and collaborating on projects to ensure the public remains confident in the industry -- and that it never suffers a catastrophic loss.
But even data breaches that don’t expose client assets risk reputational harm.
In 2014, JPMorgan Chase & Co. suffered one of the industry’s largest losses of information, estimating at the time that hackers had accessed contact information on more than 80 million clients. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon vowed to increase the bank’s security budget and embarked on a hiring spree to build out those operations for what he called “a permanent battle.” He has repeatedly updated investors on those efforts in annual letters.
Firms can’t avoid breaches entirely, but they can react to them in a way that rebuilds trust, said John Reed Stark, who focused on internet crimes while working in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division and now runs a cybersecurity consulting business.
“Data security incidents are inevitable,” he said after the incident at BlackRock. “The most important thing in this kind of situation is about the response from the firm, and whether they’re communicating accurately about what happened.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Annie Massa in New York at [email protected] To contact the editors responsible for this story: Margaret Collins at [email protected] David Scheer, Josh Friedman
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Across the Years
Yeadon fountain
THIS impressive bronze and marble fountain was a familiar sight in Yeadon for around half a century.
Standing at the junction of Victoria Avenue and Yeadon High Street it was dedicated to the people of the town in 1898 by Mrs E Brown in memory of her late husband Thomas Brown, of Mount Cross Bramley and Kirk Lane Mills Yeadon. It also commemorated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
The fountain was set on a stone plinth with an iron drinking cup chained to the side.
The pictures are from the archives of Aireborough Historical Society.
|Archivist Carlo Harrison said: “It fell into disrepair and was removed during the second World War, a marker stone with plaque stands in the grounds of Murgatroyds fish restaurant, placed there by the Aireborough Civic Society in 1977.”
Peace Day in Ilkley
First hand account of the Normandy landings
Rejoicing in Ilkley to celebrate peace
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Reproductive Health Act
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BIG NEWS: The RHA finally passed!
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EXPLORE TALKING POINTS
New York State has a dangerously outdated
abortion law. It's time to fix that.
Our state law was written in 1970, three years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. The state law is inconsistent with, and falls short of, the constitutional protections of Roe and its progeny, but it remains on the books in New York—which means that New Yorkers have no state statutory protection if the Supreme Court overturns Roe, a promise the GOP has made for years and may now be in a position to fulfill.
The State Assembly, for several years now, has passed a bill to fix NY law and bring it in line with the settled law of Roe v. Wade. The bill is called the Reproductive Health Act. It passed the Assembly again in March 2018, but was blocked by the Senate Health Committee from going to the floor for a vote.
The New York State legislative session ended in June, with no vote on this bill. But with Justice Kennedy's retirement, Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance and it's more critical than ever to protect reproductive rights here in New York State. So now is the time to demand a special session of the NY Legislature to vote on the RHA.
In addition, we need to pressure our state senators to be more vocal in the fight for the RHA. It's not enough just to co-sponsor the bill; truly pro-choice state senators must become active champions for the bill. We need to let our elected officials know that we are paying attention to how strongly they speak up for our reproductive rights.
rha FACT SHEET
The RHA Fact Sheet tells you everything you ever wanted to know about NY's existing abortion law, the details of the proposed RHA legislation, and who is standing in the way of its passage.
CURRENT LAW VS. RHA
See a clear layout of the three key problems with the current law and how the RHA will fix each of those problems.
RHA + CCCA
The RHA is just one bill needed to protect reproductive rights in New York State. Learn more about the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act.
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‘The Hunger Games’ – Spectacle, Panopticon & a Culture of Paranoia [2/3]
February 10, 2016 February 7, 2016 Pam Punzalan 0 Comments 9/11, academic discourse, panopticon, september 11 2001, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, war on terror
Here’s the second in a series of posts on The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You can find the first post over here.
Please note that all of the articles collected under this series will contain spoilers for The Hunger Games trilogy. You’ve been warned!
The first post of this series served as a bit of an introduction to The Hunger Games. We emphasized how the trilogy was young adult fiction published during an intriguing in world history: the 9/11 tragedy, and the throes of the war on terror. We took a look at the systems of discipline and control employed by the fictional government of Panem. We also discussed the Hunger Games themselves, and how both the citizens of the Capital and the people from the Districts function in a world where censorship and propaganda is key.
This second post is going to discuss The Hunger Games in relation to the concept of the Panopticon.
A QUICK AND DIRTY DISCUSSION OF THE PANOPTICON
The discussion below is, by no means, exhaustive. Please check references like this one, beyond the original text on the Panopticon, if you want to learn more.
The Panopticon is “a type of institutional building” designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham. It’s basically a prison tower that allowed prison guards to monitor large numbers of inmates effectively by taking advantage of their uncertainty and fear. We quote:
Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all times, effectively controlling their own behaviour constantly.
Here’s an architectural visualization of Bentham’s Panopticon. It was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791.
Michel Foucault built on this by doing an analysis on two things: the measures of control taken against the bubonic plague during the 17th Century, and the structure of the guard tower in prisons. According to him, two forms of control are involved in the Panopticon: exclusion and disciplinary partitioning. Lepers were marked as “different” and separated – excluded – from the rest of “healthy” society, as were plague victims. Along that vein of thought, authority figures began to segregate their constituents by definitions of their choice. Sick, healthy, mad, odd… such categories determined the amount of surveillance and control that needed to be employed, as a matter of “safety”. Hence, disciplinary partitioning. We note, at this point, that effective surveillance always involves visibility. The more that one can see, the more one can control.
In the panoptic mechanism, both as a structure and as the phenomenon that Foucault describes,
“…arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and recognize immediately. In short, it reverses the principle of the dungeon; or rather of its three functions – to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide – it preserves only the first and eliminates the other two.”
Inside one of the prison buildings at Presidio Modelo, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. Look at how it borrows Bentham’s design.
Let’s go back to Bentham’s ideas. The gaze of the single guard or small host of people in authority is both an actual fact and a perceived sensibility. There is a constant reminder of their presence in the guard tower itself. There is, as well, the constant threat of punishment. Inmates, then, are encouraged to behave at all times.
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Such an analogy is applicable to a wide variety of situations. The preservation of law and order in contemporary society, in fact, seems to be premised upon the idea of surveillance. A government has disciplinary mechanisms in place – like the police force, or the army – that possesses the means to “correct” undesirable behavior. A government also reserves the right to censor “delicate” information, or open the records on a subject of their choice when the need arises.
LOOKING AT THE HUNGER GAMES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PANOPTICON
In The Hunger Games, the primary panoptic mechanism used by President Snow was the tournament itself. Its visibility and constant reminders of its existence is exerted by mandatory televised proceedings. Panem’s government also make it a point to saturate the daily existence of its citizens with The Hunger Games by making it a huge production. State regulation on all other information lends itself well to this fantasy. The suffering of the people of the District is rendered invisible to the people of the Capital because of high levels of censorship.
Another shot from the movie: Katniss and Peeta on display at a feast hosted by President Snow.
It does not help, of course, that everything is carefully, methodically scripted, from what is said to what is shown on the screen. This horrific level of control is then wrapped up in the wonders that a life of excess can provide: comfortable homes with all the amenities, beautiful clothes, an abundance of great food, and the perfect, riveting narrative of the Hunger Games to underscore the might of the nation. Why discuss “hard” topics like social inequality when you can occupy yourself with the latest lifestyle trends, or gab off all day about your favorite tribute for the next Hunger Games tournament?
A good shot of some of the people of the Capital, as visualized by the movie. Note the outlandish outfits with vibrant colors and the excessive makeup.
The Capital paints itself as a generous benefactor to “obedient” citizens of the nation. Recall how victorious tributes are “rewarded” for their participation in The Hunger Games – and how Panem’s government continues to regulate how they live the rest of their lives, without civilians in the Capital knowing, or caring. In the meantime, Districts who conform best to government control win more favor for themselves at the “small” cost of their freedom and the lives of their children for generations to come.
District Two is one of the prime examples of a District that attempts to cooperate with Panem’s government in order to survive. They supply the Capital with Peacekeepers, who, in their own right, get to reap the fruits of their labor by exerting control on other Districts.
The reach of Panem’s propaganda machine is extended through the use of a strictly controlled network of televisions and radios. Heavy censorship, excellent timing, and clever scripting help Panem gloss over what the government is really doing. Close to no one in the Capital views the Hunger Games as a means to punish the Districts and keep everyone in line. It’s the prison structure that we described above without the label. The consequences for this prove to be horrific at the end of the trilogy, and ultimately contribute to the collapse of President Snow’s control.
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Here’s a chilling gif of one of the last scenes of The Mockingjay Part Two. The people of the Capital – long brainwashed by their government – do not sense the danger they’re in. The bombs falling upon them were packaged the same way as gifts to tributes in the Hunger Games were.
The same system, as previously stated, was employed by the rebels. At several points in the narrative, the Districts manage to hack into the Capital’s network. They use these as windows of opportunity to counter the government’s propaganda with a compelling narrative of their own, built upon Katniss as the Mockingjay.
Promotional material like this for the movie seems deliberate in its attempt to emulate the stylized, powerful imagery that the rebels in the story try to go for with their Mockingjay.
And here’s one of District Thirteen’s first attempts at building the Mockingjay narrative, as visualized by the movies. They placed Katniss on a staged battlefield, and expected her to read from a script.
Katniss eventually gets a television crew following her around on her “exploits” throughout the Districts. The movie is especially good at showing how this crew ensures that the general public gets the kinds of shots, images, and rhetoric that they need. The dichotomy between what’s shown on screen and what’s actually happening becomes clear: Katniss is shown to supposedly fighting for the Districts but in actuality she’s spirited away from most of the conflict.
Cressida (played by Natalie Dormer) and the rest of Katniss Everdeen’s television crew, as visualized by the movie.
District Thirteen makes it a point to mix in a lot of propaganda with slivers of truth, both to scare the Capital and to boost morale among the rebels. Everything Katniss does is regulated, making one wonder if she escaped one media-run dictatorship only to fall into the cage of another. She chafes at this control, especially when it becomes obvious to her that Alma Coin – the president of District Thirteen – is trying to use her and the other tributes to seize power.
Once again, the movie was excellent at visualizing the almost god-like influence that Katniss comes to wield as the Mockingjay. This is just one of several scenes that illustrate this.
Once it becomes evident that her building Katniss as a living symbol was a mistake, Coin comes to view Katniss as a threat. She underestimated Katniss, thinking that she would simply conform to the panoptic systems that she was attempting to control. Attempts at punishing her also did not work, traumatizing as they ended up being. Katniss eventually rose above Coin, and took matters into her own ends at the end of the trilogy by assassinating her before the nation’s eyes.
As things stand, we can even say that Katniss herself learns how to use spectacle to her advantage. Everyone in Panem watched as the Mockingjay killed Coin with a single arrow to the chest.
A look at the major conflicts that have occurred between national powers in recent history will show that war is fought through propaganda just as much as it is done on the battlefield. In order to sustain a wair, one must be successful in vilifying the enemy while building up an imagined sense of nationhood and patriotism. Part and parcel of doing this means employing a system of censorship carefully selected facts toted around as “the truth”.
This is something that Collins appeared to emphasize on throughout the course of the trilogy. In fact, it may be not be so far off to say that it is something that Collins – as author and individual – is intimately familiar with.
Stay tuned for the last installment of this series!
Pam Punzalan
29, female, not in Narnia about anything. Games, teaches, writes, reads, flails, smokes, occasionally drinks, loves cats. Answers to Kae, Pamela, Pam, Pam-Pam, Pammy, Pammeth. Pamera, and Pammu. Also part of the admin team of Girls Got Game, over at http://girlsgotgame.org/!
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Nature Focus of Year's First Art Exhibition
by Beth Swift
Get directions to Wabash College Fine Arts Center
The first art exhibit of the new year will feature a Wabash College graduate's work.
The Art Department's first 2005 exhibit is titled "Nature Observed and Expressed." The exhibit illustrates the varied ways artists are influenced by and respond to nature.
The show features three artists - Betsy Stirratt, Linda Salerno, and alumnus Joe Trumpey '88. An opening reception is set for 8-9:30 p.m. today in the Fine Arts Center.
Trumpey was an art and biology major at Wabash and received his Master's of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan in scientific illustration. He recently served as the Chief Science Illustrator for Grzimek's Animal Encyclopedia, a set of 17 volumes with 5,500 illustrations.
"Imagine an assignment: Research and illustrate over 5,000 species of animal life ... make sure each painting is researched, sketched, reviewed, painted, scanned, revised, reviewed again, composited and constructed as a digital file. Complete all 5,000 paintings in three years."
Trumpey calculated that it would take 22 years to do the project on his own. Instead, he brought together 15 artists with degrees in natural science and fine art. They worked together as Michigan Science Art to complete the task in October 2003. Trumpey teaches in the Art and Design School at the University of Michigan.
Stirratt, who serves at Director of the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington, describes her paintings using terms such as measured luxury, voluptuousness and desirability. Her work is influenced by current graphic and interior design as well as natural and biological forms and phenomena.
Salerno says the genesis of this body of her work came in 1990. While in Italy, Salerno was surrounded by a garden and longed to record the magic she saw. She began by making imprints of the plants there with a tube of black paint and plain paper.
The exhibition will run through Feb. 19. Gallery hours are 8-5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10-2 p.m. Saturday. Gallery admission is free.
Beth Swift is Wabash College's Archivist.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM): What it is and what to know about it
What is Acute Flaccid Myelitis?
By Jonathan Raymond | November 9, 2018 at 6:39 PM CST - Updated November 12 at 3:57 PM
(RNN) – Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has caused concern around the country this year as the number of cases of the disease, which impairs motor functions and has been compared to polio, has seen an unexplained spike.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last month that it was investigating the recent spate of cases.
The agency has said it is “concerned” about the disease, which has had 404 confirmed cases across the U.S. since August 2014, mostly in children.
Here are some things to know about the illness:
According to the CDC, it affects “specifically the spinal cord, which can cause the muscles and reflexes in the body not to work normally.”
It has been known, in rare cases, to cause extended and even permanent paralysis.
Its exact cause is not known, though the CDC says it could be linked to other viruses or environmental toxins.
So far this year, there have been 80 confirmed cases, and 219 total patients under investigation for the disease.
The spike in confirmed cases comes after there were just 33 in 2017. However, the recent increase hasn’t yet reached the levels of 2016 (when there were 149 confirmed cases) or 2014 (when 120 cases were confirmed just between August and December).
For reasons that are not yet understood, cases usually spike between August and December and then taper off through the rest of the year.
Significant spikes in AFM were seen this year, in 2016 and in 2014. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Symptoms can include: weakness and loss of muscle tone and reflexes in the arms or legs, facial droop or weakness, difficulty moving the eyes, drooping eyelids, difficulty swallowing and slurred speech.
While scary, the CDC stresses that it still “remains a very rare condition.” It affects fewer than one in a million people.
According to the agency, “there is no specific treatment for AFM.” Some doctors who specialize in neurological disorders may recommend “physical or occupational therapy to help with arm or leg weakness caused by AFM.”
There is no officially known long-term outlook or expected outcome for AFM patients.
However, a 2017 National Institutes of Health study that tracked eight children with the disease in Colorado saw six continue to have “persistent motor defects” one year after contracting the illness and just two make a full recovery. Of another four children who did not participate in the study, two reported a full recovery one year later.
The CDC advises: “While we don’t know the cause of most of the AFM cases, it’s always important to practice disease prevention steps, such as staying up-to-date on vaccines, washing your hands, and protecting yourself from mosquito bites.”
Copyright 2018 Raycom News Network. All rights reserved.
Jonathan Raymond
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Unleashing the power of real girls
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Columnist covering national politics, progressive politics and movements, and foreign policy
In a 1993 article published in the media watch group FAIR’s Extra! magazine, 17-year-old intern Kimberly Phillips criticized Seventeen magazine’s preoccupation with fashion and beauty, and its failure to encourage young women to think about important issues. Balking at the criticism, Seventeen’s managing editor responded with a defensive letter to the editor, insisting that the magazine’s focus on appearance was consistent with the interests of its adolescent readers.
Nearly 20 years later, almost nothing had changed — until now. Within the span of two months, a 14-year-old Maine girl named Julia Bluhm mobilized more than 80,000 supporters to lobby Seventeen to commit to a more modest goal: printing one photo spread per issue without an unaltered image. Bluhm’s efforts are part of Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge or SPARK, a girl-fueled activist movement that is demanding an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media.
This time, the editors had a different response. In the magazine’s August issue, Seventeen editor Ann Shoket responded to the campaign with a carefully worded statement that vowed that the magazine will “never change girls’ body or face shapes” and will publish only images of “real girls and models who are healthy.”
While cynics may roll their eyes at the gaping loopholes Shoket left open, this still represents a meaningful victory for young women seeking reality-based images in a seemingly unwinnable war against big publishing, big advertising and big fashion. After all, just last month, Cosmopolitan’s cover photo of teen star Demi Lovato included obvious alterations to her midline, and a created a stunning blind spot for irony considering that the bulk of Lovato’s interview was about her struggle with eating disorders.
This, of course, is nothing new. Images of blemish-free cover models displaying skeletal arms, enhanced chests and disappearing waistlines are a time-honored magazine tradition. Never mind that these women — mostly actresses, models and pop singers — are already hand-picked for their beauty and, unaltered, are intimidating enough to the average teenager.
Yet, the breakthrough success of Bluhm’s campaign represents more than a possible end to the era of digital nip/tuck. It also represents the beginning of a new era of female empowerment.
Bluhm started her movement on the online organizing site Change.org, which allows users to share electronic petitions with their social networks. When petitions like Bluhm’s rally significant support, the site offers the additional assistance of its expert organizing staff and broad activist network. The same model is used by SignOn.org, a similar service launched by powerhouse MoveOn.org, which reported hosting 18,000 petitions on a range of issues in just the past year.
With the power of insta-organization at their fingertips and their inherent social media savvy as digital mavens, young women are discovering new ways to leverage their collective influence and amplify their voices on issues that matter to them. Now, with the momentum of a successful campaign, Bluhm and her peers have turned their attention to transforming the policies of other magazines, including Teen Vogue and Cosmo Girl.
The crusade against Photoshop might sound like a relatively trivial issue, but these magazines play an important role in the lives of young women and in our culture. Teenagers draw social cues from their pages even as they shun the guidance of many other adult influences in their lives.
A widespread commitment by teen magazines to more accurately reflect the reality their readers live could generate a ripple effect, transforming the way women are portrayed in other media as well. Indeed, the success of “Girls,” the unabashedly honest and unedited HBO series written and produced by 26-year-old Lena Dunham, is another testament to the burgeoning power of young women. With its frank humor and unapologetically real-body imagery, the wildly popular show offers real-life girls a healthy dose of self-awareness and acceptance, while implicitly questioning outmoded beauty paradigms.
It remains to be seen whether these developments do, in fact, signal the brewing of a new kind of women’s liberation movement. But the signs are positive. Armed with an arsenal that enables them to instantly mobilize thousands and wage multi-front wars via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the blogosphere, these activist young women are finding their voices.
If they continue this trend — taking advantage of the new platforms available to them — their opportunities to create real change are limitless. It’s easy to imagine the short leap from campaigning against the air-brushing of women’s bodies to protesting against those who are legislating women’s bodies. A new generation that trades digital enhancement for digital empowerment is well-equipped for the fight.
Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation magazine, writes a weekly column for The Post. She has also edited or co-edited several books, including “The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama” (2011) and “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover” (2009). Follow
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Horology & Architecture: Extension and natural integration at Jaeger-LeCoultre
Ever since its founding in 1833, Jaeger-LeCoultre has been expanding its manufacturing facilities in its favourite environment, the Vallée de Joux.
By David Richard
The biggest expansion in Jaeger-LeCoultre history
The result of the seventh extension since 1866 is a building that responds to many specific constraints, notably the proximity of the lake, the fact that it is within the confines of a village, the especially harsh weather conditions, and the objective of obtaining the Minergie energy label.
The modern and sober building is made up of three distinct parts: the first houses sensitive products that are electroplated. The second section consists of a three-level cube with a central patio. It has been assigned the workshops. The third part is for the company restaurant, which boasts views of the lake and the mountains.
Quoting the architect
“An initial project was launched in 2001, but was abandoned for political and economic reasons. In 2007, the project was back on track with a different programme and implementation plan. The new building was scheduled as a complement to the building we did in 1996-1997. It was to support the original buildings and act as a backbone for production facilities in the wake of the reorganization of the Richemont group’s production.” De Planta & Portier Architectes
Minergie-label building and hydro-local (power supplied by hydroelectricity)
Solar panels: provide hot water production and ensure one-third of the building’s electricity needs.
Thermal insulation reinforced by triple glazing
Optimization of natural lighting
Water recovery systems, cooling of closed-circuit cooling of machines and free-cooling (inflow of fresh air from outside)
Use of materials with low grey energy (energy used to produce, manufacture, transport and recycle)
Financing of a railway station, shuttle and car-sharing services in order to avoid more exterior parking space and daily traffic estimated at 300 vehicles.
Jaeger-LeCoultre, Le Sentier
Address: Rue de la Golisse 8, CH-1347 Le Sentier, canton de Vaud
Tel.: +4121 845 02 02
Website: www. jaeger-lecoultre.com
Function: Extension of production unit
CEO: Daniel Riedo
Commissioning Studies: 2000/ Designed 2007-2008/ Start of the works in 2008
Completion date: December 2009
Architect: De Planta & Portier Architectes SA (Genève)
The building in numbers
Grounds area: 29,000 m2
Total surface area of the manufacture: 25,500 m2
Extension net surface: 9,560 m2
SIA volume: 53,000 m3
Total floor area: 10,110 m2
Floor space: 3,780 m2
Occupied work stations: 1,000 (administration and production)
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The Latest: Police officer dies in Tunisia suicide attack
Posted: Jun 27, 2019 / 07:30 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 27, 2019 / 08:25 AM EDT
Tunisian police officers stands guard near an explosion site in Tunis, Thursday June 27, 2019. The Tunisian Interior ministry said one police officer has died in the suicide bombing targeting a police patrol in a busy commercial street in central Tunis. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Latest on the suicide attacks in Tunisia (all times local):
The Tunisian Interior ministry says one police officer has died from his injuries after a suicide bomber targeted a police patrol in a busy commercial street in central Tunis.
That attack took place near simultaneously Thursday with another at the government’s anti-terrorism brigade headquarters on the outskirts of Tunis.
At least eight other people have been injured in total, including five officers.
Two suicide bombers targeting Tunisian security forces struck nearly simultaneously in the capital, injuring at least nine people, including six officers.
Statements from the Interior Ministry said one bomber set off explosives near a police patrol in the capital’s busy commercial center shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday.
At about the same time, a second bomber struck one of the entrances of the headquarters of the government’s anti-terrorism brigade on the outskirts of the city.
Tunisia has been struck repeatedly by terror attacks. In October a female suicide bomber struck the city center, killing only herself.
A suicide bomber targeting a police patrol has struck a busy commercial street in central Tunis, injuring at least five people including two officers.
Tunisia’s interior ministry says the attacker detonated explosives near the French embassy shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday. Radio Mosaique reported a second explosion soon afterward in the parking lot of the government anti-terrorism agency.
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Illinois American Water acquires Farmington’s water system
Shalini Nair 6th April 2018
Illinois American Water has acquired the City of Farmington’s water system for $3.75m, in a move that will enable the firm to add around 1,125 new customers to its customer base in the Peoria district.
Last March, the Farmington City Council voted in favour of the divestment and the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) approved the sale last month.
Illinois American Water president Bruce Hauk said: “We look forward to investing in the City of Farmington and ensuring quality water service to our new customers.”
The city Mayor Kent Kowal said: “We welcome Illinois American Water and look forward to their team helping us meet our water service needs. Their knowledge and ability to upgrade our aging water system is critical to our community’s economic future.”
Illinois American Water plans to invest $5m in the first five years of acquisition.
This investment will comprise a hydraulic study to be completed this year with focus on improving water pressure and fire flow.
Investment will also cover GIS updates and meter exchanges.
In next few years, Illinois American Water plans to focus on water main replacements and installations to loop water mains.
The city will be incorporated into the company’s Peoria district, which currently serves residents in Peoria, West Peoria, Bartonville, Bellevue, Rome, Mapleton and parts of several surrounding townships.
Illinois American Water, a unit of American Water, provides water and/or wastewater services to around 1.3 million people.
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This killer belt of seaweed stretches all the way across the Atlantic: And we finally know why it exists.
Source: Popular Science
A massive mat of seaweed, hundreds of miles long, is currently floating toward the Caribbean coast of Mexico. The Sargassum threatens to coat over 180 miles of beaches there, washing up along popular destinations like Tulum. As it advances, the once clear blue waters are turning brown and the algae's decay sickens the fresh, salty air with a rotten egg smell. Desperate to keep tourists coming, hotel owners are spending up to $47,000 a month to clean up the mess.
New satellite data reveals that the "great Atlantic Sargassum belt" extends from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. This yearly bloom might be here to stay, according to a new study, published Thursday in Science. "This is the largest belt of seaweed in the world," says the study's lead author, Mengqiu Wang, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida.
Sargassum is a brown seaweed with large, leaf-like structures and gas-filled "berries," which allow it to stay afloat. It is, unsurprisingly, a defining feature of the Sargasso Sea in the northern Atlantic ocean. Sargassum mats are important habit for fish, birds, turtles and crustaceans. A lot of prized fish we love to eat—including mahi mahi and amberjack—use these tangled marine vines as a place to raise their young. "In open waters, it's a good thing," says Wang. "But when it washes onto the coast, it becomes a coastal nuisance." Or worse.
"No man is an ," but land surrounded by water certainly is.
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Locals react to tag controversy
By Brianna Bynum |
Posted: Mon 5:29 PM, Apr 15, 2019 |
Updated: Mon 6:54 PM, Apr 15, 2019
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - The American Humanist Association is a national group threatening to sue Mississippi if the state does not remove the phrase 'In God We Trust' from its license plate.
Source: Gov. Phil Bryant/Twitter
The group recently sent a letter to lawmakers saying they may take legal action if another design is not offered for Mississippi drivers at no cost.
Meridian resident Carrie Latham said she thinks the group is just trying to start trouble.
"I don't understand," said Latham. "They obviously don't have anything else to do. Don't worry about Mississippi."
"I don't think that's right at all. I really don't," said Meridian resident Dorothy Burkes. "We should have the say-so for what we want in the state of Mississippi."
Lauderdale County Tax Collector Doris Spidle said the phrase 'In God We Trust' is in many places in the state.
"This is the Great Seal of Mississippi," Spidle said. "It says 'In God We Trust' on every state seal in Mississippi."
If Mississippi residents don't like the new license plate, they may choose a different design. However, a different design comes with a different price tag.
"There are hundreds to choose from, and yes, there is an extra fee," Spidle said.
Drivers may expect to pay about $50 more for a personalized license plate. The state license plate changes every five years.
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Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, a NASA mathematician, was born August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs. The local segregated schools offered schooling only to eighth grade for black children. Johnson left home to attend an African-American high school associated with West Virginia State College (now University), and completed her secondary school course work at the age of 13. She began college at West Virginia State the next year and graduated in 1937, at age 18, with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and French. In 1939, she married James Francis Goble; together, they had three daughters – Constance, Joylette, and Katherine. After graduation, she worked as a teacher of mathematics until she began her work for the space program in the 1950s.
Despite the obstacle of being an African-American woman in a male-dominated field, she persevered and thrived. She began working with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the agency that preceded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in 1953, as a “computer” doing complex analysis and calculations. Following her first husband’s death from a brain tumor in 1956, she married Lt. Colonel James A. Johnson in 1959. From 1958 to 1986, when she retired from NASA, Johnson was an aerospace technologist. Her work was crucial in calculating the 1961 trajectory for Alan Shepard’s historic suborbital flight. In 1962, for John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth, she verified calculations made for the first time by electronic computers. In 1969, she calculated the Apollo 11 trajectory to the Moon. Johnson’s successful calculations were central to many prominent American space flights during her tenure at NASA.
Johnson has received many awards, including honorary doctoral degrees. She has authored or co-authored 26 articles in her field. A pioneer for African-American women in science, math, and technical fields, she continues to be a vigorous advocate for young girls and education. In 2015, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama for her accomplishments in the field of mathematics and science. In 2016, NASA announced the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
In September 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race was released. The book follows the interwoven accounts of Johnson and three other African-American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes over three decades. On Christmas Day, 2016, 20th Century Fox released the movie Hidden Figures, based on the book and with actress Taraji Henson in the role of Johnson. On August 25, 2018, West Virginia State University unveiled a statue of Johnson on campus and dedicated the Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson Scholarship to aid young people studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. On December 11, a NASA software facility in Fairmont was renamed the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. The facility ensures that all of NASA’s critical safety mission software is safe.
Katherine Johnson now lives in Hampton, Virginia.
This Article was written by Kelly Doyle
Last Revised on July 03, 2019
Warren, Wini. Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press, 1999.
The White House. President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 16 Nov. 2015.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory"
Early LIfe, Marriage, Loss and Red Cross Training to be a WASP Joining the Red Cross and Going Overseas Red Cross Service in England Red Cross Service in France Red Cross Service in Germany Paris, Versailles and Flying a B-17 to England Back to Germany The Glenn Miller Band and General Henri Giraud Reflections
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Red Cross Service in France
Red Cross Service in Germany
Paris, Versailles and Flying a B-17 to England
Back to Germany
The Glenn Miller Band and General Henri Giraud
Blanche Marie (Gregory) Barnes Gangwere was born in 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up near Northeast High School there. After graduating from that high school, she was married and moved away from her hometown. Her husband was killed during the war and she moved back with her parents. She has remained in what was her parent's home ever since. She studied music at the age of nine and stayed with it. She attended music school at Northwestern University. She graduated with two degrees. She began teaching but found she did not particularly enjoy the profession. Her first husband attended the same university as she did. They also belonged to the same church. They met while they were in the choir together. They would eventually be married. When the war started, knowing he would be drafted, her future husband studied intensely so that he could be selected as an officer. That, with his two years of college, allowed him to become a second lieutenant in the Army. The couple dated two years. He did his basic training in California. He was transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was teaching in Kansas City when she received a telephone call from him on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] and he suggested that they get together for a weekend and get married. Gangwere thought he was joking, but he drove nearly a whole day to get to her in Kansas City. Family and friends gathered as they were wedded in their church. While getting married and having their honeymoon, an FBI or Secret Service man constantly tailed them. He even stood outside their hotel room door. Her new husband knew about the new bombsight. He had been sworn to secrecy, and the escort was going to make sure that the secret was protected. Although her husband had returned home without leave, he successfully made it back to base in time. He returned with the escort still accompanying him. Shortly afterward, her husband was told he was going overseas. He returned home to visit with his parents and his in-laws. The newlyweds then drove to West Palm Beach, Florida where they stayed with a group of people in a hotel. The man in charge of the group was John "Killer" Kane [Annotator's Note: USAAF, then USAF, olonel John R. Kane, also known as Killer Kane, was the commanding officer of the 98th Bombardment Group]. Gangwere and her husband drove Kane to the airport when he could not find transportation there. The men were to begin deployment to Africa. That was the last time Gangwere saw her husband. She drove back to Kansas City and stayed with her parents. Her husband was a bombardier in a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber]. He had told his new wife on that last drive together that he was concerned about the ineptitude of the navigator on his plane. While over Africa, the navigator made a course error and flew them into the side of a mountain. Her husband was dead before Gangwere reached Kansas City. She was notified within a week that he was missing, but it took two to three months to confirm that he was dead. Gangwere had a hard time with the loss. People were always reminding her of her loss. Her father recommended she take a teaching job in another city. She contacted a gentleman at Northwestern who was familiar with her school record. She asked him for a suggestion for a teaching job. She went to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and took a job as a junior high teacher. With all the male teachers drafted into the service, the class sizes were huge. She had 100 students in her class. She taught music to pupils who were not interested. The experience was awful. She decided she was not going to be a teacher. She looked young and some of the male students were fairly big. They would ask her if she wanted to join them at the corner drug store after school for a soda. She had no control of the class. [Annotator's Note: She laughs.] That was about the last of her teaching days. She decided she wanted to be part of the Red Cross while watching a newsreel in Milwaukee. It told of what the Red Cross was doing overseas to aid the war effort. Everyone wanted to help win the war in some way. She decided to join the American Red Cross to support the soldiers fighting the war. She was not seeking a husband. She was still grieving for the loss of her husband. She still wore her wedding rings. Nonetheless, she would go on to meet the man who would become her second husband.
Blanche Gangwere thought of joining the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] as her first option to personally help the war effort. She went to the Pewaukee airport where she took flight instructions from a pilot who had been in World War 1. Women were being trained there as pilots for the WASP organization. She took all the training and learned navigation and thought she would be able to join the service. She was prevented from doing so because she was too short. She looked for other options as a result. She completed her flight training and successfully performed her solo flight. There was a significant amount of air traffic in the area because of a nearby Navy flight school. When she was given the plane to fly by herself, she was provided specific instructions about where to go and where not to go to prevent interference. She did so without incident. Prior to her first solo, her instructor landed with her and got out of the airplane and told her to take it up. She did so but noticed when she crossed over a creek; the airplane reacted to the cooler air and dropped on her. When she had to land, she was required to thread a course between the tower and another building. Accomplishing that, she found the airplane had no brakes and just kept on rolling. [Annotator's Note: She laughs.] It was quite an experience being in the air by herself. While aloft, the wind direction changed and caused some unpredictability during her first solo landing. That was partially the reason the aircraft kept rolling on the ground. Gangwere worked on her master's degree at Northwestern while she took flight lessons. It was not too long after she had her solo flight that she graduated from Northwestern and returned to Kansas City. It was then that she decided to join the Red Cross [Annotator's Note: American Red Cross].
Blanche Gangwere was 26 and over the minimum age of 24 when she joined the Red Cross [Annotator's Note: American Red Cross]. She was interviewed and asked about various things before being accepted. They wanted to be assured that she was a college graduate. It was important that the volunteer could do more than just hand out coffee and donuts. She was questioned about losing her husband. She explained that she was able to handle the loss because of her strong religious faith. She had to assure the interviewer that she would not attempt to influence others because of her beliefs. To her, religion was a private thing. It was important for the Red Cross workers to get along with people. Having good character was necessary. After the interview and acceptance, she was sent to Washington, D.C. and billeted with other girls who had joined the organization. They had instructions on what to expect and training by various groups. Some would be trained to go into clubs in the cities and others would go into clubs in the field. Others, like Gangwere, were chosen to be Clubmobile girls. She was trained to drive a truck and given the requisite license. She was shown how to make donuts in the machine. There was a brief training assignment in a club in Richmond, but that was not what she was going to be doing. She went to New York City where she prepared for deployment overseas. She voyaged on the Queen Elizabeth. The ship was a troopship. About halfway across, the passengers were told to come up on deck wearing their life preservers. They were told the engines would be cut, and all personnel should remain silent. No one told the passengers that there were not enough lifeboats for all. An enemy submarine had been sighted but had passed them. They were sitting quietly so as not to be detected. After the submarine scare, the ship pressed on to land at the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. They remained in the staging area there for a week or two. Then, they took a train to London. While aboard, they heard a buzz bomb [Annotator's Note: a German V-1 rocket propelled bomb]. The motor stopped and it dropped. The explosion was nearby. Arriving in London, they had more training about their new assignments. An English lady gave a speech about the trials that the people of England had withstood. It was very difficult for them. The Red Cross girls were told that they would be billeted in an English home. That was good for the homeowners because the Air Force provided extra food for them to feed their guests. The food in England was very tightly rationed. The girls were divided and three were sent to Kettering where they were billeted in an English home there.
Blanche Gangwere would leave each morning in a Clubmobile [Annotator's Note: she was billeted with an English family in Kettering, England near a series of airbases with several other American Red Cross volunteers]. The vehicle was a Green Liner Truck custom built to serve the situation. An English driver picked up the three girls to drive them to a different airfield each day. Upon entry to the airfield, the driver found a power pole to provide the vehicle with electricity. The donut machine was hooked up and the preparation of the dough began. The preparation consisted of combining the mix with water in a large bowl. The GIs liked to help. When the dough was at the right consistency, it was put into the machine which made the donuts. Water was also needed, not only for the dough mix but to make coffee. One girl made the mix while a second located water. The third woman would be on the back of the Clubmobile where there were magazines and popular music records for the men to enjoy. The girls visited with the servicemen and often got out of the truck and danced with them. In the afternoon, the sides of the truck were opened and the prepared donuts and coffee were distributed to long line of GIs waiting their time in queue. It was obvious they loved seeing an American girl offering them coffee and donuts. They liked it. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere smiles and chuckles while recounting the process and the reaction of the GIs to the Red Cross girls.] The girls wore their Red Cross outfits, including a little hat. Their footwear was GI boots and they danced in them. [Annotator's Note: She laughs.] Gangwere thought the slacks with blouse one-piece uniforms were very good looking. At Molesworth, she served the "Hell's Angels" [Annotator's Note: the 303rd Bombardment Group] which had the record for the most successful missions in World War 2. She also went to Harrington Airfield where there were aircraft that flew at night and dropped soldiers behind the enemy lines. The girls also moved to other bases with different bomb groups. Typically, the GIs did not want to discuss the war. They preferred to talk about the girls and family they left behind when they went to war. They talked of previous experiences back in the United States and what their hopes had been prior to service. The girls would be asked to reciprocate with their experiences. That was the type of conversations they had. Gangwere went to Molesworth twice a week to either go to a dance or the officers' club there. She could get food there and sit and talk and do things. She met a gentleman there and had fun with him. Discussion of the war was off-limits. One night after the dance, she and her gentleman friend went into the kitchen and cooked up some scrambled eggs and coffee. She was driven home afterward. She was dating Major Schulstead [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling] at the time. He was a real gentleman. They met at a dance while he was in charge of operations at Molesworth. He would invite her to the base all the time. He even flew an airplane to Kettering to pick up Gangwere and fly her back to the officers' club at Molesworth. They dated for about six months. A pilot, the Major flew over 40 missions over Germany and France. He was ill for one flight and had to miss the assignment. His normal bomber, named "It Beats Me," was shot down by the Germans. He was lucky to avoid that. There were restrictions on the Red Cross girls dating. They could only date officers, not GIs. That was because they were given officer status. They had been provided with a card that was to be shown to the enemy should they be captured. It stated that they were officers and should be treated as such. Gangwere entered the Red Cross in July 1944. She ended her service in September 1945.
Blanche Gangwere was sent to France in February 1945. The Army had advanced far enough along that Red Cross girls could be sent over there. The girls were first sent to a staging area near Rouen. They were billeted in a three story building that dated back to the 16th century. It likely was a highway inn for travelers back in the day. It had no plumbing, only round holes in the floor. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere laughs.] There was no electricity. It was rugged. The girls went out every day to serve donuts. The newly arrived troops were in pup tents there. George Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] came up to give a pep talk to the men and the few girls. Patton's language was very colorful. It was a bit embarrassing to the girls with all the men around them. She was glad that she had a chance to listen to Patton. In order to get water, the girls alternated driving the truck 20 miles at night along a narrow road to a place that had water. The headlamps were masked because of the blackout. Only a small slit allowed diminished light to shine in front of the vehicle. Drivers were warned that the land off the road was likely to be mined. The vehicle had to be kept on the road. When Gangwere was driving one night on the narrow road, a large truck transporting tanks came toward her from the opposite direction. She was concerned about leaving the road so she drove as close to the edge as she could and hoped she would miss the big vehicle. She did miss the large truck and acquired the water. She returned after the roughly 50 mile roundtrip. She was in the general area from February to April 1945. She did not have much of a chance to visit with the GIs because they were being prepared to send to the front. One day when it rained hard, she and the other girls walked from one pup tent to another talking with the men. Her next move was to Bad Neuenahr [Annotator's Note: in Germany] where a sentry shot at her while she was attempting to serve donuts to him.
Blanche Gangwere and two other Red Cross girls served coffee and donuts to a tank group. The tankers offered to let the girls drive a tank. Gangwere sat in the driver's position in the armored vehicle with the girl above her placing her feet on Gangwere's shoulders to let her know which direction to head in. Gangwere could not see anything from her position so she had to depend on the directions given to her. When the tank started up, the tankers jokingly warned everyone to watch out because a woman was driving the tank. It was dangerous, but fun, to drive it around the field a bit. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere laughs.] She was shot at by an American sentry late at night when the Red Cross girls were near a camp close to the front. The girls took turns providing coffee and donuts to the sentries. It was necessary to know the password when a sentry challenged them. When Gangwere brought refreshments to the sentry, he appeared to be nervous. He forgot to ask for the password and fired a shot at her instead. The bullet went right past her ear. She did not take cover but calmly told the soldier that he should ask for the password. She then offered him coffee and donuts. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere laughs.] Gangwere served coffee and donuts near the destroyed Remagen Bridge. A pontoon bridge had been established. The girls went about halfway across when the vehicle's brakes locked up. The GIs came to help. They tried to push the Clubmobile off the bridge, but that did not work because the wheels were locked up completely. It took all afternoon to find someone to fix the brakes. That roadway was a part of the Red Ball Highway with all the traffic going up to the front with supplies. If George Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] had been there, he would have had the stalled vehicle pushed off the bridge and into the river. Instead, the girls got their record player out and danced on the pontoon bridge. They finally reached the opposite side of the river to serve the coffee and donuts and then got back. The thing that caused the most fear for the girls was the potential for German snipers in the towns. She never did receive any enemy fire though. The enemy aircraft did not worry them much at that point in the war.
Blanche Gangwere received a leave to go to Paris. She did not have to wear her uniform during that time. She wore civilian clothes and could avoid being stopped frequently as she would have been in her uniform. She went to a movie and was ushered to her seat. The usher would not leave her but was jabbering something in French. Someone said to Gangwere that the usher wanted a tip. She replied that she did not realize that. When the theater full of servicemen discovered that an American girl was in the movie with them, the feature had to be stopped so they could converse with her. They were excited and whistled at her. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere laughs.] Gangwere also went to Versailles for a tour. She met a young woman who spoke English and took several of the Americans on the tour. Afterward, she invited them to go to Paris where she lived in the former residence of Maurice Chevalier who was in Vichy. When the girls had dinner with her in Paris, the girl's parents asked many questions about where the America soldiers were located. It was odd so when the Red Cross girls returned to their base, they informed the officers what had happened. They were to learn later that the girl and her parents were informants and were trying to gather information from Gangwere and the American girls. Gangwere never found out what happened to those people. She went back to England and saw the Major [Annotator's Note: an officer she dated while in England]. It was a nice time but she had to return to Paris. She had no way to get there so the officer sent a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] to transport her. She sat up in the copilot's seat beside the pilot. It was interesting up above the clouds. The pilot found out she had learned to fly. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere had attempted to join the WASPs, Women Airforce Service Pilots, but was not accepted after successfully completing examinations and flight lessons because she was too short.] The pilot asked Gangwere if she wanted to fly the aircraft. She did and flew across the English Channel. It was a much larger and more powerful plane than she had flown before. She enjoyed the experience. Meanwhile, the copilot was livid since a woman had flown his plane. Nevertheless, she enjoyed flying the huge B-17 and could well understand why she was thought to be too small.
Blanche Gangwere went to Bad Neuenahr, Germany on the Danube River near Cologne. She always wanted to make it to Bonn because it was the home of Beethoven. She never made it there because of the prevalence of disease resulting from the extensive bombing of the city. Coblenz was near, but it had been completely leveled. The Remagen Bridge was there. Gangwere and another girl had two weeks before they had to report to Regensburg. The maps they had been given were actually maps given by the Germans to the Americans intending to confuse them. That succeeded. The girls were confused. They drove south to Heidelberg and stopped there while they did some sightseeing. They then headed southeast and reached Bad Tolz, Germany. They had dinner with the staff of the 1st Army Group. The girls had been looking for the 12th Army but were lost. There were only a few officers there but dinner was prepared and General Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Army General of the Army Omar Bradley] attended. Gangwere struck up a conversation with the General when he learned she was also from Missouri. He was a nice gentleman and very down to earth. She enjoyed the visit. From there, the lost girls were directed to go to Munich and then further to Regensburg to reach the 12th Army Group. On the way, she passed Dachau with the liberated prisoners still in the former concentration camp. The memory of one of the skeletal survivors looking through the fence has never left her. In route through Munich to Regensburg, she ran into a German army unit that still had their weapons. She did not realize the war was over and immediately searched for her card that indicated that she had officer status in case she was captured. They kept going and hoped for the best. Gangwere found out about the end of the war after it had become old news. They drove into Regensburg and reached an ancient hotel where she would be billeted. Upon arriving in Regensburg, an officer named McClung told his buddy that a cute Red Cross girl had arrived. The man who received the word would eventually meet and marry the young Red Cross girl. His named was George Gangwere. He was there as a liaison officer with Patton's [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] 3rd Army. He also had the job of coordinating efforts for the performers such as Ingrid Bergman, Bing Crosby and others who came over to entertain the troops. He told her about those times and showed her photographs of some of the people he met. They started dating. They would go to the officers club and dance to a German band which attempted to play American music. They danced every night. George told his new girlfriend that he was in charge of finding a piano for a liberated concentration camp concert pianist to play for a general. George had found an upright but Gangwere said that would never do. A grand piano was eventually found. Gangwere said if it was handled badly, it would not be in tune for the pianist. George made sure that the prisoners who transported it did not mishandle it. The concert went off very well so Gangwere thought she probably saved the day. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere points out a watercolor painting on the wall of her home that depicts where she and George were at Regensburg. She also talks of the picnic they had on a beach there as well as some other good times they had there.]
Blanche Gangwere was sent to Passau, Germany where she was billeted in an old castle on a hill. The castle was accessible for their truck only by a narrow road. They reached an ancient Roman archway that prevented the truck from passing. They had to back all the way down the hill and find another route up to the castle. While at Passau, Glenn Miller's band arrived in town to play a concert. The Red Cross girls were taken on a tank to listen to the concert. After the performance, they talked to some of the musicians. Inquiring as to whether the girls could help the band in anyway, the band members told the girls that no one was taking care of them. They requested that the girls visit with them. Later in conversation, the members of the band invited the young ladies to go swimming with them. Luckily, the Red Cross had advised the girls to bring along some civilian clothes so Gangwere had her swimming suit. When the girls joined the young men the next day for a swim, none of the males had swim suits. They had to swim in their Army skivvies. [Annotator's Note: Gangwere laughs.] It was fun swimming with the Glenn Miller band. General Giraud [Annotator's Note: French General Henri Giraud] was in charge of the area. He took a liking to Gangwere. He kept asking for a date even though he was married. Gangwere tried to avoid him. One day, the General sent a GI to pick her up and escort her to his location. When she refused the offer, the GI told her to please agree to accompany him or he would be in big trouble. She consented on that basis but was very careful about the whole thing. When General Giraud invited her to go with him on Hitler's [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] yacht, she agreed only if the other Red Cross girls could go with them. He acknowledged that they could. The group sailed the Danube River from Passau to Hitler's birthplace in Austria. The yacht was very fancy. That would be the last Gangwere saw of General Giraud.
Blanche Gangwere maintained contact with only one Red Cross girl she worked with during the war. Her name was Elizabeth Hardys [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling]. She has passed like most people that Gangwere knew during that period. Gangwere was pleased with her personal efforts with the Red Cross. Unlike some elements of the Red Cross, the Clubmobile girls never charged the GIs for anything they provided. The Army insisted that the Red Cross charge the GIs for items in the clubs because it was felt the soldiers would not want a handout. That requirement gave the Red Cross a bad name. The supplies in the Clubmobile were handed out without expectation of payment. The Red Cross was very good to Gangwere. The Clubmobile seemed to mean a lot to the GIs. They liked to see an American girl and even have a chance to dance with one. It was a morale booster for the servicemen. Gangwere was proud of her contribution to the war effort. It is important that people remember history and what happened and why. That is how to learn not to make the same mistakes. People are not keeping up with history or even current events in the world. Mistakes could be avoided if more thought was given to what happened in the past. There were women making valuable contributions to the victory in many types of ways during the war. Women Airforce Service Pilots [Annotator's Note: also referred to as WASPs], Red Cross girls and nurses, factory workers, secretaries, and other females played a major role in the war. The women in the factories built airplanes, munitions and other important equipment and supplies. The WASPs flew aircraft overseas to replace those that had been lost. Gangwere's experience overseas was wonderful despite her occasional doubts while she was there. She is glad she did it. The men were so wonderful. Her only follow up contact with any of the GIs she met overseas was with her husband she met while there and Major Schulstead [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling, the Major and Gangwere dated for six months while Gangwere and her Clubmobile supported his airbase in Molesworth, England]. Her son had found the Major on an internet webpage. Gangwere had many conversations with him over the internet until he died. He was a remarkable man. He overcame the alcoholism he developed overseas. He established an organization to help military personnel who also suffered from the addiction. Gangwere did a fine job in her interview with the help of Robert [Annotator's Note: her son who is off camera].
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Dearborn Heights buying up homes in flood zone
By: Kim Craig
Their houses are in a flood zone and now the city of Dearborn Heights is using federal dollars to buy up 15 houses from people who have often been unable to even leave their homes because of the water around them.
"We've been in this house since November of 89.. 27 years," said Brian Lauer.
Brian and Deb Lauer have said goodbye to their home--sad to let go, but not sorry to get away from the constant flooding.
"Every time it rains, it floods...you can't live like that forever," said Deb Lauer.
The city of Dearborn Heights has finalized the purchase of the Lauers' home on Hanover with funds provided by FEMA's Hazard Mitigation grant. It's a $2.8 million grant to buy up 15 houses on the street. These are houses city officials say that never should have been built in the Ecorse Creek flood zone.
"They got a grant from FEMA to buy everybody out. Because we found out it's not really a creek behind our house, it's a drain and you're not supposed to build houses so close to that drain," said Brian Lauer.
In 2014, these families saw the worst of the flooding.
"Short of death it was the hardest thing that's ever come to our family," said Heidi Brown.
Brown and her family have also agreed to sell their home to the city for market value-- and within 90 days of closing, the homes will be demolished.
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Cancer patient receives first penis transplant
Posted: 7:48 AM, May 16, 2016
BOSTON (AP) — A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday.
Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor.
The New York Times first reported the transplant Monday.
Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who helped lead the surgical team, tells the newspaper that normal urination should be possible for the 64-year-old Manning in a few weeks, with sexual function possible in weeks to months.
"We're cautiously optimistic," said Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, adding that "it's uncharted waters for us."
The Times reports most of Manning's penis was removed amid a battle with an aggressive and potentially fatal penile cancer.
Manning said he experienced hardly any pain during and after the procedure. One serious complication came the day after the surgery when he was rushed to the operating room after beginning to hemorrhage. He said his recovery has been smoother since, but he still wasn't ready to take a close look at the transplant.
Manning, who is single and was not involved with anyone when the cancer was discovered, said the amputation made new relationships impossible.
He said he'll be lucky if he gets to "75 percent" of what he used to be. The bank courier told the newspaper that he looks forward to going back to work and hopes to have a love life again. He said he's speaking out in order to help dispel a stigma associated with cancers and injuries affecting the genitals.
The donor penis came from the New England Organ Bank. It told the newspaper that the donor's family wished to remain anonymous, but had delivered well wishes to Manning.
It took three years of preparation, including operations on cadavers, before the team was ready to perform transplants. The operation on Manning involved about a dozen surgeons and 30 other health care workers, according to the Times.
Cetrulo said his team will likely perfect its technique on civilians before providing transplants for injured veterans. He said the Defense Department doesn't "like to have wounded warriors undergo unproven techniques."
A set number of transplants is not planned. Dr. Dicken Ko, who directs the hospital's urology program, said candidates for future transplants will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. They will be limited to cancer and trauma patients for now, and will not be offered to transgender people.
Another transplant is planned as soon as a matching donor becomes available for a patient whose penis was destroyed by burns in a car accident, Cetrulo said.
The world's first penis transplant was performed at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in December 2014.
That patient had his penis amputated three years earlier after complications from a circumcision performed in his late teens.
The university near Cape Town said in announcing the transplant in March 2015 that the 21-year-old patient, whose name was not released, made a full recovering following the nine-hour surgery and regained all function in the transplanted organ.
A man in China received a penis transplant in 2005. That operation also appeared to be successful, but doctors said the man asked them to remove his new penis two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by him and his wife.
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Lathrup Village man, who is a registered sex offender, charged with child pornography
Posted: 12:40 PM, Sep 02, 2016
A Lathrup Village man, who is a registered sex offender, has been charged in a separate child pornography case, according to an affidavit filed in federal court on Friday.
According to the affidavit, Mitchell Stankiewicz, 22, is charged with online coercion and enticement of a minor, production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and sending obscene material to a a minor.
The affidavit states that Stankiewicz used an anonymous app called "Whisper," to communicate with a 14-year-old girl.
Stankiewicz and the girl used the app to send and receive pornographic and nude photos. When the teen's mother found out, she reported it to police.
The details and conversations are sexually explicit, and after obtaining a warrant, agents search Stankiewicz's house in Lathrup Village on Friday.
He is a tier-2 sex offender, and was charged on June 18, 2015 under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for rape or sexual act under the age of 12, possession of child pornography and bring discredit upon the armed forces.
At a General Court-Martial in Norfolk, Virginia last year, Stankiewicz, who was in the Navy, pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child and enticement of a person under 18 to engage in sexual activity. He was discharged with a bad conduct discharged on June 19, 2015.
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Operencia: The Stolen Sun Review
Anthony Cole April 6, 2019
Xbox Game Pass is a wonderful thing. I don’t want to spend too much time highlighting the pros of such a remarkable service, but, when it affords players the ability to play gems such as Operencia: The Stolen Sun (at launch no less) for no additional cost outside of the subscription, it simply needs praising. Now, with that being said, Operencia is a very particular game that’s likely only going to appeal to a very particular crowd, but if that’s you, you’re in for a treat. It’s by no means perfect, mind, but it does hit that old-school RPG spot.
The game is served as an action RPG that blends together mythology, history, and fantasy. The story’s backdrop tells of a plot that sees the Sun King Napkiraly abducted, leaving the world of Operencia in a state of darkness. With doom looming as a consequence, the world’s fate is left in the air, and that’s where you come in. You’ll take on the role of a team of colorful characters, and must work through a band of fantastical locations in an attempt to rectify these alarmingly pressing matters. It’s a basic yet effective setup to say the least.
Some may argue that it’s quite tropey, but in truth, I found the safe backdrop to be rather refreshing. It’s not too in your face, and it’s not too outlandish. It’s just there, and it lingers well through each and every location that you move through. This is all backed up by it’s decent pacing and delivery, ensuring that you’re always treated to a revelation or twist of some sort. Nevertheless, and with that in mind, fans of the genre are unlikely to be disappointed with its narrative. Now, how does the rest of the experience hold up exactly?
Operencia does a wonderful job at feeding you into the basics of play. There’s a short prologue to work through, which doubles up as a tutorial of sorts. Here, you’ll learn how to move, how to interact with objects, how to fight, and how to generally progress through each area. It’s all well struck and kept fairly simple, without sacrificing much of its challenge. That said, this is where the game’s few issues come to light, and sadly, they’re with you throughout the entirety of the adventure; long loading times, and poor voice acting.
Seriously, I don’t know who is in charge of the game’s optimization, but they seriously need a wake up call. The game’s loading times are horrendously long, and it doesn’t help matters that they’re pretty frequent too. The voice acting, on the other hand, is well over the top. It’s as though these actors have accidentally stumbled into corn-ville, putting forward spoken dialogue that’s either ridiculously delivered, or, too attention grabbing. These annoyances never let up, so if you cant overlook them to begin with, you may as well put down the pad.
If you can forgive the game for its try-hard voice work, you’ll find quite a likable cast of characters here. They all banter with one another throughout the entire experience, which does well to uphold the game’s already appealing foundation. I rather enjoyed observing these varying personalities, especially when they clash; specific characters having different outlooks, belief systems, and response patterns in comparison to others. It’s a great cast. I’ll say that much. I only wish that they were better realized by their respective voice talents.
Starting out, you’re free to create your own avatar. I say this loosely because you’re really only afforded the option to choose between four males, and four females. They’re all pre-set, and the only things you’re free to tweak are the classes, a few stats, your background info, and so on. Collectively, this will mold your character into a semi-unique build, so be sure to select your character wisely. There’s three classes to select from; archer, mage, and swordsman. Simple and to the point. Furthermore, you cant change later once you start.
That doesn’t really matter too much, because as stated, you’ll gain new party members along the way that tend to allow you to toy around with varying builds and outputs. Pressing on. Operencia takes some getting used to as far as movement is concerned. The game’s traversal is grid-based, meaning that you can only move in four directions. The game’s world is open, and plays out from a first person perspective. Naturally, you’ll always feel inclined to run to a point of interest in a straight line, but you cant do this due to the movement grid.
Instead, you’ll need to approach points of interest through moving forward, backward, left, or right. This wont be an issue for those of you that aren’t new to this style of concept, but for me, it took a while to gel with. Oftentimes I would see something of importance far in the distance, and try bolting for it, only to be reminded that I was confined to the game’s strict grid. Whatever the case, ladies and gents, and as alluded to above, it can be quite jarring for newcomers, but bear with it, because Operencia is well worth persevering for.
The crux of play has you moving through each distinctly designed area, typically following a linear path as you work to complete your objectives. You’ll usually have quite a few tasks at once, and will need to maneuver around the environment to seek out needed wares. There’s no shortage of puzzles present, with heaps of secrets to uncover and a shed-load of enemies to battle. There’s even a few puzzles within that you cant possibly work through until you’ve obtained needed items later on in the game, throwing in a degree of perplexity as a result.
You can indeed fast travel (unlocked later in the game) to make use of travelling to and from areas, removing needless travel filler that games like this tend to house. Puzzle complexity and variety will vary based on your selected difficulty, but even on the base setting, Operencia provides quite a kick. I was quite shocked to see the how deep the puzzles really are, with some even requiring that I make use of key items whilst interacting with environmental set pieces. It never gets old, and it does a good job of keeping you sat up.
That being said, the majority of the simpler puzzles tend to rely on the likes of activation panels, key combinations, and so forth. It would have been nice to see a bit more structure present as far as these puzzles go, or some more depth to the puzzles that are mandatory for progression. Instead, the easier tasks are typically the most tedious, and come across quite needless. Still, that’s a minor complaint. Whatever the case, Once you’ve overcome a puzzle or a tricky section, you’ll usually be amply rewarded for your time and your effort.
This can range from the likes of more uncovered secrets, bags of gold, and more importantly, loot. Now, as with any given RPG, loot is life. You’ll never get far without it. Operencia doesn’t attempt to buck the trend in any way shape or form. Whether you’re earning new weaponry and gear to improve your combat capabilities and resilience, or, set pieces that will aid you with the game’s puzzle elements, you’ll always feel adequately rewarded. That now leads us onto the game’s combat, the EXP, and the level-up system that’s in place.
Combat is a turn-based affair. It’s your straightforward run-of-the-mill setup. Each of your party members will house their own unique skill trees, which you can draw attacks from for use in combat. The attack variety is truly special, and certainly one of the game’s greatest aspects. There’s no shortage of attacks that you can take to, varying close range, mid range, long range, magical, and special. You’ll trade blows with your enemies until one of you falls, with all the usual-RPG customary items in place to keep you grounded and on-par.
During combat, range plays a key role. This is made apparent by the lanes of distance that are present during each confrontation, with enemy placement specific to each lane. The effectiveness of your ranged attacks will vary based on class. Archers have excellent range, meaning attacks from a distance will yield greater results. Swordsman, on the other hand, are much better up close, and will hand out some brutal damage output against foes that are in your face. They’re also handy for guarding your entire party from incoming attacks.
That’s where a lot of the game’s strategy comes into view. You’re given a host of tools to make use of, and a heap of enemies to use them against. You’ll need to carefully suss out what works best against specific enemies, identify a weak point, and then exploit said weakness for maximum efficiency. This holds especially true when you have a group of foes to defeat, or a towering boss. You’ll need always be mindful of the cool downs for your greater attacks too, some of which can last several rounds of attacks before replenishing.
Defeating an enemy will earn you EXP, and in doing so, will gradually level up individual party members. When that happens, they’ll gain a point to be spent in their respective skill trees, further opening benefits and advantages for use in and out of combat. Outside of that, you’ll also gain three ability points to enhance resilience and output; strength, wisdom, agility, and so on and so forth. When all is said and done, there’s more than enough depth here, but it finds a comfortable ground so that it doesn’t ever feel all that overwhelming.
It’s important to focus your points intelligently. Combat here, although easy to understand, is based on elemental strength and weakness. If you start plugging one character too much towards a specific aspect, and then come up against a tough foe that’s resilient to said aspect, you’ll be a fish out of water. Ensuring that you have a diverse output is certainly one useful tactic, but you’re never forced into playing the game that way. That said, if you’re smart and cover all your bases, you’ll tend to have an easier time later on in the adventure.
The game’s systems are well laid out and perfectly explained, making it an ideal title for newcomers to sink into on this front. Whilst the combat variation is on point, it would have been nice to see more flashy animation during command execution, but as it stands, that’s a small gripe. Each level houses a set amount of enemies, which is a smart way to ensure that the difficulty scales at a fair pace. I found that for the majority of play, I was (ever so slightly) under powered, making each encounter feel that more nerve wracking and more tense.
Most of the enemies cannot be dodged, which falls inline with the game’s grid based movement. They’ll often stumble upon you sooner than you on them, meaning that any sighted enemy tends to be one that you need to tackle. Enemies will constantly patrol their set routes, and their perceptional awareness is pretty decent. Further to that, the variation of enemies is wholly commendable. Operencia is packed with all sorts of interesting and diverse beasts to take on, many of which are unlike anything you’ll have seen before.
I can extend the same level of appreciation to the game’s visual presentation. Yes, the grid based movement system takes some getting used to, but this sits within a host of atmospheric, gorgeously rendered locations, all of which are distinct and stand out in their own way. The level of detail is respectable, which no shortage of stunning textures and wonderful lighting to soak up on your journey. Whether you’re in royal hidden tombs and cursed castles, or, enchanted forests and smokey bogs, you’ll find plenty to be immersed by.
Perhaps one of its greatest achievement is how it manages to keep things feeling fresh. The game’s mythological backdrop, together with its historic and fantastical concept, truly makes for some cleverly designed locales. It’s a good thing, really, because you’ll spend quite a lot of time traversing these environments. Simply due to its constant splendor, it never feels like a chore. This is all upheld by a wonderful score that absolutely suits the experience at hand, with epic fluctuations in place depending on where you are.
The game packs a considerable amount of playtime. You’ll find heaps of things to do, hordes of foes to battle, and a generous portion of side content to take to in the meantime. This all rests on an already lengthy, and quite frankly vastly interesting story that keeps you gripped and wanting for more. Rounding that off is a difficulty curve that feels challenging yet fair. Operencia boasts diversity across all aspects of play; from its intelligent framework, right up to its core pathway. That’s not to mention the amount of replay value that’s on display.
Replay value can be found through max completion, and by checking out the game’s varying difficulty modes. There’s also a decent amount of freedom to take to here as well; with options that allow you to limit saves, switch on perma-death, and even the disabling of auto-mapping. Safe to say that there’s more than enough content to work through. I’ll be returning for a double dip in the future, that’s for sure. If you, like me, have always been curious as to what this sort of experience offers, I cant recommend Operencia enough.
Despite a few issues with its long loading times and its poor voice work, Operencia offers a robust and diverse dungeon crawler that should not be overlooked. The game makes great use of its intelligently mashed-up framework, with a fine balance in place to ensure that the gameplay remains constantly fresh and rewarding throughout. Whether you seek engaging combat, deep progression, or, thrilling puzzles, Operencia has it all, and much more besides.
This game was tested and reviewed on Xbox One. All of the opinions and insights here are subject to that version.
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Easy to pick up and play.
Wonderful gameplay mechanics present.
Great deal of variation across the board.
Intelligently challenging, but fair.
Decent visual and audio design.
Heaps of longevity and replay value.
Long loading times.
Poor voice work.
Gameplay - 8
Anthony Cole
I was born to win, well, or at least try. I review games, post news and other content at Xbox Tavern. When that's not happening, I'm collecting as many achievements as possible or hitting up the latest FPS / RPG. Feel free to add me - Gamertag: urbanfungus
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Dungeon crawlers are ten a penny these days, especially on the Xbox One. Sadly, many of them have been hit and miss, but where does Operencia sit?
Genre:RPG
Rating:Mature
Developed By:Zen Studios
Publisher:Zen Studios
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On the price of oil
�I am sorry to say this, but we are headed toward really bad days,� a prominent energy economist told Time magazine last week. �Lots of targets have been set, but very little has been done. There is a lot of talk and no action.�
That was no alarmist talking. It was Fatih Birol, the chief economist for the International Energy Agency, an oil industry organization whose annual World Energy Outlook report is widely considered a reliable indicator of petroleum supplies. Released as the price of oil neared $100 a barrel, the 2007 forecast sent an urgent message to world governments: The days of cheap oil are probably over.
It's not hard to understand why. The current daily supply of oil can barely cover world demand. With China and India rapidly industrializing, the International Energy Agency expects that the planet will require 116 million barrels daily by 2030 an increase of more than 50 percent from today's output to slake its petroleum thirst.
Can increased production meet the expected demand? Depends on whom you talk to. Dallas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is one of the petroleum experts who believes that world oil production has peaked. If peak-oilers are right, there's nowhere for the oil supply to go but down and nowhere but prices to go but up. Others, including the International Energy Agency, believe that the current shortage is critical but manageable with necessary adjustments in both production and consumption, as well as investments in research and development.
The permanent end of cheap oil not only would hit American consumers at the gas pump, but in just about every other way. Our consumer economy, for example, depends on the foreign-made goods shipped inexpensively from overseas manufacturers. The points of potential pain are endless.
Moreover, there looms the threat of resource wars over dwindling supplies of a substance that no modern country can do without.
Now is the time to quit talking and start acting. Thoughtful Americans know that we can't keep living like this forever. Our nation must start investing heavily in public transportation, domestic drilling and research into renewable energy sources and clean-coal technology.
Whether the world supply of oil has absolutely peaked or is not rising to meet demand because of human folly, there's going to be a lot less of the black stuff around in the near future. And that's going to hurt.
URL: http://www.dallasnews.com
�The Dallas Morning News
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► Daughter In Law Hates Us; Unsure of Son
Daughter In Law Hates Us; Unsure of Son
Started by Merie, June 06, 2010, 09:05:38 am
Merie
Please forgive me for being so long winded. I will try to put my feelings into words but it is so hard when so much has happened. My son just recently married and graduated from medical school. He met and married a fellow student. She was all ways a little standoffish but I always gave her my love and have treated her as one of my own. I had hoped the little strange things that happened were accidental.
The slights that she and her family have shown us over the last year I had made excuses for all of them to myself. I was completely left out of the wedding plans. I called her mother every week to find out if I could help in anyway. My son told me that they wanted a very small wedding and that it was for them so our guest list had to be very small. Just close family. The wedding was to be for the kids friends and a close family members.
We were asked to provide an invitation list seven months ahead of time. I told my sons future mom in law that we might add a couple of more people. All I asked was to please go with the girls to look at wedding dresses.That did not happen. We were treated like we did not exist. We found out about the invitations when we got one in the mail. The only time I was asked to do anything was to show up with a check book and pay for half the flowers.
I do not have girls so I had looked forward to helping stuff envelopes and fill gift bags just anything to get together and be included. I did not want to plan just help. So many things happened that were hurtful that I just ignored.
At the wedding I was a little shocked when half the people there were from my DIL parents country club.We had 60 at the rehearsal dinner. (My sons MIL was an hour late with and did not even bother with an excuse) The wedding was only 110 guests.
My new DIL walked outside after their vows were taken and I hugged her and welcomed her to the family. I got a complete cold shoulder.That was the only contact we had all evening.
She or her parents did not ever speak to anyone from our side of the family. Not my sons grandparents or aunts and uncles my husband or my other sons. All of the aunts and uncles left after a couple of hours very confused. Well forgive and forget and move forward.
A few weeks before the kids graduated from medical school I asked them what plans my DIL family had for grad night. My DIL said none. I went through a list of restaurants so I could make reservations she picked one.
Two weeks before graduation my DIL said that it would be to awkward to get her mom and step dad together with her dad and his girlfriend.
I called and spoke with her a week before graduation and asked her again if I could add more people to the reservation and she said no and was a little put out.
Five nights before the graduation at ten a.m. she called me and said that she had just talked to her mom and she and my son were going to their house after graduation. I was like okay lets all get together for dinner and have a great time. I explained to her that my sons aunts and uncles had already made plans to travel and have dinner with us all on Friday
. DIL said that's to bad because my step dad and my dad can not be together and to have everyone together with out asking my dad would not be fair.
I was like well you guys are all welcome we can put them at opposite ends of the table. NO she said WE are going to spend this night with my mom. Her step dad had a golf game on Thursday and her mom's friends had made plans with her on Saturday so that was the new plan. I said You are telling me that we can't celebrate graduation day with you and she said yes.
I was very upset and told her that I did not understand that we had made plans for weeks. She said oh well that's just the way it has to be. I told her that I had to go that someone was at the door and I would call her back. She told me no don't we are going to bed.
Fifteen minutes later I called my sons phone and he would not pick up. I tried again and left a message. I told him that I was upset and had had my feelings hurt over and over again and never said a word but this was going to far and that I had raised him with better manners than to not pick up the phone. I said that I just did not understand how they could leave us out of the celebration. I told him that I loved him but just didn't get it. He called me a few minutes later and said he would talk to me the next day.
He and my DIL came over and said that they can't understand why I would be upset. That my message really upset my son. He and I sat and cried. The DIL just told me that I had to have lunch with them on Thursday before graduation so we did. I invited her dad and his girl friend. I also invited her father and girlfriend and her child to my house the night of graduation. (because I felt sorry for them being left out).
The day of graduation my DILs mom insisted we all meet for lunch. We did it was odd with such short notice but I was game for anything to spend time with the kids that day.
After lunch when we left I told my DILs stepdad and girlfriend that I would pick them up and bring them to my house. They told me that my DILs mom had invited them to her house for dinner. I started crying and almost ran away. I was so hurt. My husband said it was just one night and not to get upset. I told him that it was a start to what our future holds with our son.
We did not hear from the kids. Finally on Sunday my son called and came over by himself and told us that the graduation was for them and that he could not sleep and was so upset and that I had ruined it for them putting my needs first. He was crying and said that they had gone to counseling . I told him I was sorry but I just didn't understand how everything was my fault when I would never consider leaving DILS parents out of anything. He said he could not ask us because my DIL felt blackmailed and did not want to start our relationship giving in to me. Besides that her parents said that they were uncomfortable around us because we don't talk much. My son said that they needed time and space to heal.
We got a letter in the mail from them setting out guidelines for our relationship. They said that they would tell us when they felt like being around us again.
Needless to say I am Crushed and lost. My child has never had to go to counseling before. They are moving out of state to start their internships tomorrow. What did I do wrong? What can I do right?
Re: Daughter In Law Hates Us; Unsure of Son
June 06, 2010, 09:55:21 am #1
Why do you think you did something wrong? I sounds to me like you were supportive, cooperative, patient and fair. Someone has to be the bad guy, I guess. I agree that counseling is needed but not because of you. The only thing I can see that you did is that you wanted to be part of something you should have been part of. Sending love...
June 06, 2010, 12:54:37 pm #2
Dear Just a Mom:
I agree that you didnt do anything wrong. We love our kids so much that we want to be part of their lives and that sometimes translates to them that we are intruding.
I know how you feel. Many of us have felt just the same. The only thing here is to move on and distanced yourself from them ""their space"". That is what they want....let them have it. It is painful but you dont have any other choice. Things have a way of working out. Give them time and space.
I remember when my married son got married, it was a complete disaster. My dil was cold with our side of the family. Her mother was the one that directed the orchestra. Our side of the family was like the enemy and we were disrespected. I was so angry with my son's mil for all the things she did in the reception to our family that I could have killed her. It was a bad start.....it took more than a year for things to settle down but they did.
Just keep yourself together. Act with dignity and no more messages. Your son will eventually come back to you...give them time without pushing.
I hope the best for you. A big hug for you. We do not always get what we deserve.....but such is life.
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
Keys Girl
photo courtesy of Suat Eman
Dear Just A Mom, sometimes these DIL's are so easily threatened and that they want to replace us by taking our sons away from us and shut us out of their lives. There is no point in resisting, it's a type of emotional warfare that you can't win. You can however, go on with your life and move towards being as happy as possible.
Don't be so quick to pick up any blame. Whatever you did, you did with the best of intentions and that's that. Some people are always happy to "blame-shift" away from themselves. Yesterday is over your shoulder and you can only face tomorrow and do the best that you can with it.
Just keep your own boat afloat, and let them float theirs wherever they wish.
I am struggling with the same type of situation although the wedding has yet to take place. My son and future DIL won't speak to me or reply to emails. They are looking for space and I'll give it to them, unfortunately you don't have much choice but to do the same.
I would not take the "guidelines" in the letter sent to you too seriously and would put the letter in the bottom of a drawer and put something on top of it.
Ignore their attempts to try to dictate how you will relate to them. These troublesome DILs always remind me of pain in the neck teenagers......always making some kind of a mess.
As the British said in 1939 "Keep calm and carry on". Make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy the rest of your day.
K.G.
"Today I will be as happy as a seagull with a french fry." Author Unknown
What did the letter say? Not the entire text, just generally.
Weddings bring out such ugliness in people. At my brother's wedding, our aunt and uncle and their family drove several hours to get there and they got there kind of early (about 45 minutes). They were walking in to the room and the bride's father ran up the aisle and yelled at them, "YOU ARE TOO EARLY!!!" and slammed the doors to the hall in their faces! That was about the only interaction he had with my family the entire night. In the morning at breakfast, my 86 year old grandfather went up to the bride's grandmother to say good morning. Instead of saying it back, she yelled at him (loud enough that other people at the restaurant turned around to see what the commotion was), "THIS SEAT IS SAVED FOR (the bride)!!!" It was a weird event. One of the bridesmaids kept hitting my DH. Yes, very classy to hit on the groom's brother in-law. We just laughed about it later.
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Blockchain technology tops agenda at Insights Work...
Blockchain technology tops agenda at Insights Workshop
Growing digitalisation and decentralisation in the energy sector means that new technologies such as blockchain applications are becoming more visible, and are gaining momentum in the energy and utilities sector.
A blockchain is a distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. A blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks.
According to Ewald Hesse, Vice President of the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), “blockchain technology has the potential to reduce transaction costs in the energy sector, enabling active participation of a larger number of market participants (consumers and devices). As a consequence, it would accelerate the transition towards a cleaner, more resilient, and more cost-effective system.”
Functionally, a blockchain can serve as “an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.” The ledger itself can also be programmed to trigger transactions automatically.
In a workshop held in London organised by the World Energy Council on 15 May, Mr Hesse outlined areas where blockchain technology can make a difference to the energy sector, including cybersecurity.
“On the internet, there’s always a chance information could be hacked or modified. Blockchain ensures a constant bedrock that will not change data that is put on it, and where a transaction will be verified only if it follows the rules.”
“Blockchain’s security works not only because it’s encrypted, but is also decentralised. Any attempt to interfere with the data would be immediately flagged and would require consensus amongst all participants/ nodes, making it very difficult for a hacker to achieve its aim.”
Although blockchain technology has the potential to transform processes in the utility industry, the major opportunity in the near term will focus on the changes within the energy industry.
Through its Energy Web Platform, EWF is developing an energy web platform market standard that ensures interoperability, which will reduce costs and complexity, will align currently dispersed blockchain initiatives, and will facilitate technology deployment through easy-to-implement applications.
In May, the Rocky Mountain Institute announced that ten energy companies from nine nations, including Sempra and Royal Dutch Shell, had joined the Energy Web Foundation, with a mission to accelerate the commercial deployment of blockchain technology in the energy sector.
With the fast adoption of smarts contracts sitting within blockchains, the future could see a rise of machines transacting with each other. It’s hard to talk about the future of blockchain without explaining the role smart contracts will play. If the world is going to run on blockchain, much of it will rely on smart contracts to execute the data exchanges and program in rules to govern how each code-triggered agreement works. Smart contracts are also a flexible mechanism that can serve as the blockchain middleman for all manner of agreements and data exchanges.
Carsten Stocker, of Innogy SE and member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council, who also presented at the workshop, said: “When you charge an electric car, payment is approved via an app on your phone, this is made possible via the smart contract and a cyber physical system that enables you to exchange a physical transaction and a financial value in real time. Blockchain will be the lubricant for asset sharing and secure transactions among people, organisations and autonomous machines”.
Earlier this year, the Innogy Innovation Hub that is part of Innogy SE, launched the Share&Charge initiative. Share & Charge enables people and small-to-midsize enterprises (SMEs) to share their charging stations, thereby helping to advance e-mobility and convert personal charging stations into money-generating machines. Share & Charge is following the vision of a global mobility transaction platform enabling seamless transport everywhere. It is the first global peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for electric charging enabled by blockchain.
“If energy suppliers are not to be left behind, they should adapt to increasing competition, more decentralisation and new technologies”, said Axel von Perfall, Senior Manager, PwC Digital Energy Advisory; at the Council’s workshop. “By addressing this new technology, energy suppliers can build strategic options and gain experience with digital platforms and apps”.
Although blockchain technology is still in infancy stage, the emergence of new initiatives like the Energy Web Foundation, will help to speed up standards and create shared design between public and private companies. If the vision of what blockchain can do comes true, it could eliminate a lot of the complexities around managing distributed energy resources. The fact that major energy companies are allocating resources to understand it, is evidence that blockchain is worth paying attention to.
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Fresh signs emerged Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could embrace the intelligence community’s view that the Russians were behind a computer-hacking operation aimed at influencing the November election. Mr. Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said the president-elect could accept Russia’s involvement if there is a unified presentation of evidence from the FBI and other agencies. This followed weeks of skepticism from Mr. Trump and his supporters that there is sufficient...
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