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December 12, 2019 - Senator Browne and his Harrisburg and District staff spend time volunteering at the Allentown Salvation Army, sorting toys and gifts to be distributed to local families.
November 12, 2019 - Shawn Millan (second from left), Sen. Browne’s Public Outreach Coordinator, celebrates with Brad Maier (middle) on the grand opening of Brad Maier’s State Farm Agency in South Whitehall Township.
November 7, 2019 - On the occasion of their 20th Anniversary, Altagracia Mercado, Urban Affairs Liaison for Sen. Browne, presented the Clubhouse of Lehigh County with a congratulatory Senate proclamation. Christopher Stout (left), Clubhouse Director, accepted the proclamation on behalf of the organization.
October 29, 2019 - Ellen Kern, Chief of Staff, presents Norman James a congratulatory Senate certificate marking the grand opening of Norman James Voice Studio in Allentown.
October 27, 2019 - Chief of Staff, Ellen Kern, presents a Senate citation to Rafaela Corton Rosa, in celebration of her 90th birthday.
October 26, 2019 - Chief of Staff, Ellen Kern, presents a Senate citation to Doris Bova, in celebration of her 100th birthday.
October 22, 2019- Jose Soto (Middle), Field Representative, and Altagracia Mercado (Right), Urban Affairs Liaison, participate in the Lehigh Valley Active Life’s annual senior health fair.
September 12, 2019 - Ellen Kern presents a copy of SR183, which recognizes September 8, 2019 through September 14, 2019 as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research and Awareness Week in Pennsylvania, to the Wescoe Foundation for Pulmonary Fibrosis
September 8, 2019 - Ellen Kern, Chief of Staff, presents a Senate Citation in recognition of Treatment Trends’ Confront Program’s 50th Anniversary.
Senator Browne’s Chief of Staff, Ellen Kern, participates in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new mural commissioned by South Whitehall Township (SWT). The mural adorns the wall of the pedestrian bridge in Covered Bridge Park, the township’s largest and most used park. Pictured (from L to R): Randy Cope – SWT Director of Operations/Treasurer, State Rep. Mike Schlossberg, Ellen Kern – Chief of Staff for Senator Pat Browne, Tori Morgan – President, SWT Board of Commissioners, Renee Bickell – SWT Manager, State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie
August 19, 2019 - Matt Szuchyt, Deputy Director of Policy and Communications, helps to honor William Wolford for his 48 years of combined service as a firefighter with Weisenberg and Upper Macungie Townships.
July 30, 2019- Matt Szuchyt, Deputy Director of Policy and Communications, presents a Senate Proclamation to Harold Frey, recognizing his 33 years of community service and involvement through Frey’s Country Store in Alburtis.
July 26, 2019 - Ellen Kern (Far Left), Chief of Staff, and Altagracia Mercado (Left), Urban Affairs Liaison, welcome First International Services to Allentown during their grand opening.
July 16, 2019 - In welcoming another new business to the 16th District, Ellen Kern, Chief of Staff, helps to cut the ribbon during Keystone Canna Remedies grand opening.
July 10, 2019- Altagracia Mercado, Urban Affairs Liaison, presents congratulatory Senate certificates to 78 newly naturalized citizens in Lehigh County.
June 29, 2019 - On her 90th Birthday, Ellen Kern (right), Chief of Staff, presents Marian Heft with a congratulatory Senate citation in recognition of this milestone event.
May 29, 2019- Ellen Kern (right), Chief of Staff, helps to kick off the Northern Lehigh Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan Update with Becky Bradley (left), Executive Director of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission.
May 13, 2019 - Ellen Kern (right), Chief of Staff for Sen. Browne, presents a Senate Proclamation to Jean Engler in celebration of her 90th birthday.
May 2, 2019 - Vince O’Domski (Far Right), Director of Government and Community Relations, presents a Senate citation and helps to cut the ribbon on the new Basketball Courts at Covered Bridge Park in South Whitehall.
May 2, 2019- Sen. Browne’s Chief of Staff , Ellen Kern, presents a Senate Certificate to Circle of Seasons Charter School Principal and CEO, Alison Saeger, in celebrations of the completions a $2.7 Million renovation project to the school.
May 2, 2019- Senate Proclamations are presented to several recipients of the Girl Scouts of Eastern PA’s Take the Lead Award. Pictured Left to Right: Dr. Ceil Connelly-Weiss, Susan Drabic, Ellen Kern, Olga Negron and Ashley Russo.
April 24, 2019 - Ellen Kern (left), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents and reads a senate citation prepared for Anna Brown’s 100th Birthday.
March 19, 2019 – To mark his 100th birthday, Ellen Kern (Right), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents a senate citation to Raymond Mohr in recognition of this milestone event.
March 16, 2019- Matt Szuchyt (Far Right), Deputy Director of Policy and Communications, attends the 44th annual Marine Corps League Detachment 284 Mess Night to honor Major General Gerald Still.IGITAL CAMERA
March 15, 2019- Ellen Kern (Left), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents a senate citation to the Eastern Pennsylvania Down Syndrome Center’s Executive Director, Kerri DiDario, in celebration of their 20th anniversary.
Ellen Kern (Right), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, helps to break ground on Lehigh Career and Technical Institutes’ (LCTI) new welding lab. LCTI’s Executive Director, Tim Rushton (Left), received a senate certificate to commemorate the occasion.
March 9, 2019 - Ellen Kern (Left), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents a senate citation to Dolores Kline in celebration of her 90th Birthday.
February 27, 2019- Altagracia Mercado (Far Right), Urban Affairs Liaison, presents a Senate citation to the Dominican Cultural Association, in recognition of 175th year of the Dominican Republic’s Independence.
February 23, 2019 - Ellen Kern (left), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents a senate citation to Leah Schwoyer in celebration of her 90th Birthday.
February 22, 2019 - Matt Szuchyt (Middle Left), Deputy Director of Policy and Communications, presents a senate certificate to World War II Veteran Clarence Smoyer (Middle Right). Also pictured is Adam Makos (Far Left), author of “Spearhead” detailing Clarence’s experiences during the war, and Joe Caserta (Far Right), World War II veteran.
January 25, 2019- Ellen Kern (left), Chief of Staff for Senator Browne, presents a senate proclamation to Matthew Blommel (middle) in recognition of him achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Pictured, right, is Matthew’s mother Kerry Blommel.
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Spotlight on: Alexander Hajek
Jenna Simeonov Oct 6, 2016
Canadian baritone Alexander Hajek has taken stages on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Canadian Opera Company and l’Opéra de Montréal to the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Stuttgart, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His staple roles include Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Schaunard in La bohème, and the men of Don Giovanni, and this fall he heads to Atlanta Opera to sing Lt. Gordon in Kevin Puts’s Silent Night.
Hajek chats about the checklist he has for “good singing,” and making artistic use of the “inevitable suffering” in life.
Why do you sing, and why are you doing it professionally?
I sing because I must. It started after spending grade two in the hospital for throat cancer. (Ironic, right?) After that, it went The Little Mermaid in the theatres (a dozen times), Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, St. Michael’s Choir School, voice lessons at the Royal Conservatory, saw my first Bohème at the Canadian Opera Company, (I ended up covering in that SAME production many years later), then the Juilliard School.
It was never a conscious choice to sing for a living, I’ve literally been singing for as long as I can remember. And I’m rubbish at math, so that’s why I picked the job that only requires counting to four.
Hajek in the title role of Gianni Schicchi, The Juilliard School.
What does “good singing” mean to you? What does it feel like when you achieve it?
For “good” singing, I use a few benchmarks to keep myself in check. After the curtain goes down, is my voice in good enough shape to do the whole thing again? Did I manage to make the audience laugh AND cry? Did I discover a deeper truth about the piece or myself?
On the nights that these are achieved, I can only describe it as having made love, won a gold medal, and solved world hunger*, all wrapped up in one.
*which would only cost 30 billion, what’s the hold up?
What do young singers need to do more of? What should they do less of?
My advice for younger singers (just what they don’t need, another opinion):
Focus on developing who you are as a person as much as you do your instrument. It’s a hard balance to achieve, but you’ll hear the results. Fill your life with enriching experiences, use the inevitable suffering life brings and fill your repertoire with those moments. Don’t impress…express.
Hajek as Sulpice in La fille du régiment, Seattle Opera.
Do you have any “bucket list” roles you’d like to sing (realistically or otherwise)?
My realistic bucket list includes Simon Boccanegra, Posa in Don Carlo, Eugene Onegin, and Rigoletto. I’m looking forward to singing them one day, but appreciate being taught to have patience and let the voice grow. I just sang my first Germont at 35 and I’m glad I waited.
Semi-unrealistically I’d like to take a crack at Commendatore (so that I can say I’ve sung all the male roles in Don Giovanni), Peter Grimes, or Canio from Pagliacci…before I retire.
What do you wish you knew about singing 10 years ago?
Ten years ago it would have been helpful to know that I should stop worrying where I’ll be in ten years. Live in the moment.
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Watch live: SCSU Sports Chat with Mick Hatten (10-31-18)
SCSU Sports Chat is a weekly live show that takes place from noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays at Garvey Commons on the campus of St. Cloud State University.
Watch live: SCSU Sports Chat with Mick Hatten (10-31-18) SCSU Sports Chat is a weekly live show that takes place from noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays at Garvey Commons on the campus of St. Cloud State University. Check out this story on sctimes.com: https://www.sctimes.com/story/sports/2018/10/31/watch-live-scsu-sports-chat-mick-hatten-10-31-18/1826023002/
Mick Hatten, Saint Cloud Times Published 8:00 a.m. CT Oct. 31, 2018 | Updated 2:26 p.m. CT Oct. 31, 2018
SCSU Sports Chat with Mick Hatten(Photo: SCTimes)
SCSU Sports Chat is a weekly live show that takes place from noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays at Garvey Commons on the campus of St. Cloud State University. People can also follow the show and submit questions for the guests online at sctimes.com.
Volleyball players Halle Hughes and Bekah Miller and wrestling graduate assistant coach Travis Holt and wrestler Taner Trembley will be guests for SCSU Sports Chat.
SCSU Sports Chat is hosted by Times sports writer Mick Hatten and gives people an opportunity to get to know the athletes and coaches at St. Cloud State beyond their respective playing fields.
SCSU picks up home win over rival UMD
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Konstantin Kolesnichenko
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Konstantin's distinctive and modern style of harmonica playing has earned him others players acclaim and a place among Ukrainian top harmonica players. In different times he got acclaim from world famous musicians including Adam Gussow, Jason Ricci, Keith Dunn, Todd Parrott, Barbeque Bob Maglinte, Martin Lang, Guy Davis, Jelly Roll Johnson, Dennis Moriarty, Bartosz Łęczycki to name a few.
A native of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Konstantin's career has spanned 14 years. He began playing harmonica at age 19. Later in 2008 he joined the Bullet Blues Band a local chicago blues band and acoustic duo with guitarist Oleg Lavrik. The band opened for such greats as Guy Davis and Keith Dunn, and many local jazz and rock musicians. He took part in the first international harmonica festival in Kiev, Ukraine in 2011.
In 2014 he released his first album "If You Want to See This Blues". Which was a mix of blues and jazz and gets a pretty good attention in public. He did not stop to work on his own albums and in 2015 released his next album “Sweeten’ It Up”. This album represents Konstantin's movement into funk and soul-jazz territory.
Here is some reviews that Konstantin get from one and only Boris Plotnikov and maestro David Barrett himself about his last album!
David Barett:
"A very well produced recording... good musicians, good recording quality and fine playing from you. Tasty use of effects (never over the top) and enjoyable songs to listen to. Very well done."
Boris Plotnikov:
"Not common for harmonica! From the very beginning of my harmonica journey I was wondered, why most harmonica players perform the same Little Walter stuff and although I love this stuff too I always look for harmonica players who think outside the box. Konstantin is one of these guys! EP is still in tradition it's funky, jazzy, but it's uncommon to hear such good harmonica playing in this music. Konstantin have some very bright ideas in his playing. I dig harmonica tone, especially fat warm overdriven tone."
Konstantin is pretty well known in ukrainian, russian and belorussian harmonica community but in USA and Europe he has a good auditory too. Now he is a teacher for advanced students in http://harmonica-school.pro/ and already graduated more then 60 students from his blues courses.
A few quotes about Konstantin’s playing from world’s famous harmonica players.
"Konstantin you've definitely reminded me that you're a heavyweight player! You've got the spirit that I was seeking: you're pushing the harmonica into places that few of us take it." - Adam Gussow
“Holy crap!!! Dude you rule!!!!!” – Jason Ricci
> Konstantin Kolesnichenko's Hompage
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Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Hunt, J. A.; Senn, D.; Hale, T.; McKee, L. J. . 2019. Optimal Selection and Placement of Green Infrastructure in Urban Watersheds for PCB Control. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment 5 (2) . SFEI Contribution No. 729.
San Francisco Bay and its watersheds are polluted by legacy polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), resulting in the establishment of a total maximum daily load (TDML) that requires a 90% PCB load reduction from municipal stormwater. Green infrastructure (GI) is a multibenefit solution for stormwater management, potentially addressing the TMDL objectives, but planning and implementing GI cost-effectively to achieve management goals remains a challenge and requires an integrated watershed approach. This study used the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) coupled with the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) to find near-optimal combinations of GIs that maximize PCB load reduction and minimize total relative cost at a watershed scale. The selection and placement of three locally favored GI types (bioretention, infiltration trench, and permeable pavement) were analyzed based on their cost and effectiveness. The results show that between optimal solutions and nonoptimal solutions, the effectiveness in load reduction could vary as much as 30% and the difference in total relative cost could be well over $100 million. Sensitivity analysis of both GI costs and sizing criteria suggest that the assumptions made regarding these parameters greatly influenced the optimal solutions.
If you register for access to the journal, then you may download the article for free through July 31, 2019.
DOI: 10.1061/JSWBAY.0000876
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Hunt, J.; McKee, L. 2018. Green Infrastructure Planning for North Richmond Pump Station Watershed with GreenPlan-IT. SFEI Contribution No. 882. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Hunt, J.; McKee, L. 2018. Green Infrastructure Planning for the City of Oakland with GreenPlan-IT. SFEI Contribution No. 884. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Hunt, J.; McKee, L. 2018. Green Infrastructure Planning for the City of Richmond with GreenPlan-IT. SFEI Contribution No. 883. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Hunt, J.; McKee, L. 2018. Green Infrastructure Planning for the City of Sunnyvale with GreenPlan-IT. SFEI Contribution No. 881. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
Kauhanen, P.; Wu, J.; Hunt, J.; McKee, L. 2018. Green Plan-IT Application Report for the East Bay Corridors Initiative. SFEI Contribution No. 887. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
Schoellhamer, D.; McKee, L.; Pearce, S.; Kauhanen, P.; Salomon, M.; Dusterhoff, S.; Grenier, L.; Marineau, M.; Trowbridge, P. 2018. Sediment Supply to San Francisco Bay. SFEI Contribution No. 842. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
Doehring, C.; Beagle, J.; Lowe, J.; Grossinger, R. M.; Salomon, M.; Kauhanen, P.; Nakata, S.; Askevold, R. A.; Bezalel, S. N. 2016. San Francisco Bay Shore Inventory: Mapping for Sea Level Rise Planning. SFEI Contribution No. 779. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
With rising sea levels and the increased likelihood of extreme weather events, it is important for regional agencies and local municipalities in the San Francisco Bay Area to have a clear understanding of the status, composition, condition, and elevation of our current Bay shore, including both natural features and built infrastructure.
The purpose of this Bay shore inventory is to create a comprehensive and consistent picture of today’s Bay shore features to inform regional planning. This dataset includes both structures engineered expressly for flood risk management (such as accredited levees) and features that affect flooding at the shore but are not designed or maintained for this purpose (such as berms, road embankments, and marshes). This mapping covers as much of the ‘real world’ influence on flooding and flood routing as possible, including the large number of non-accredited structures.
This information is needed to:
identify areas vulnerable to flooding.
identify adaptation constraints due to present Bay shore alignments; and
suggest opportunities where beaches, wetlands, and floodplains can be maintained or restored and integrated into flood risk management strategies.
The primary focus of the project is therefore to inform regional planners and managers of Bay shore characteristics and vulnerabilities. The mapping presented here is neither to inform FEMA flood designation nor is it a replacement for site-specific analysis and design.
The mapping consists of two main elements:
Mapping of Bay shore features (levees, berms, roads, railroads, embankments, etc.) which could affect flooding and flood routing.
Attributing Bay shore features with additional information including elevations, armoring, ownership (when known), among others.
SFEI delineated and characterized the Bay shore inland to 3 meters (10ft) above mean higher high water (MHHW) to accommodate observed extreme water levels and the commonly used range of future sea level rise (SLR) scenarios. Elevated Bay shore features were mapped and classified as engineered levees, berms, embankments, transportation structures, wetlands, natural shoreline, channel openings, or water control structures. Mapped features were also attributed with elevation (vertical accuracy of <5cm reported in 30 meter (100ft) segments from LiDAR derived digital elevation models (DEMs), FEMA accreditation status, fortification (e.g., riprap, buttressing), frontage (e.g., whether a feature was fronted by a wetland or beach), ownership, and entity responsible for maintenance. Water control structures, ownership, and maintenance attributes were captured where data was available (not complete for entire dataset). The dataset was extensively reviewed and corrected by city, county, and natural resource agency staff in each county around the Bay. This report provides further description of the Bay shore inventory and methods used for developing the dataset. The result is a publicly accessible GIS spatial database.
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McKee, L. J. .; Hunt, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Wu, J. 2015. GreenPlan-IT: Locate and determine cost effective watershed scale Green Infrastructure implementation scenarios and model future conditions with Reasonable Assurance.
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Mckee, L. 2015. GreenPlan-IT Toolkit Demonstration Report. SFEI Contribution No. 958. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
GreenPlan-IT is a planning level tool that was developed by SFEP and SFEI with support and oversight from BASMAA to provide Bay Area municipalities with the ability to evaluate multiple management alternatives using green infrastructure for addressing stormwater issues in urban watersheds. GreenPlan-IT combines sound science and engineering principles with GIS analysis and optimization techniques to support the cost-effective selection and placement of Green Infrastructure (GI) at a watershed scale. Tool outputs can be used to develop quantitatively-derived watershed master plans to guide future GI implementation for improving water quality in the San Francisco Bay and its tributary watersheds.
This report provides an overview of the GreenPlan-IT Tool and demonstrates its utility and power through two pilot studies which is summarized in this report as a case study. The pilot studies with the City of San Mateo and the City of San Jose explored the use of GreenPlan-IT for identifying feasible and optimal GI locations for mitigation of stormwater runoff. They are provided here to give the reader an overview of the user application process from start to finish, including problem formulation, data collection, GIS analysis, establishing a baseline condition, GI representation, and the optimization process. Through the pilot study application process the general steps and recommendations for how GreenPlan-IT can be applied and interpreted are presented.
Wu, J.; Kauhanen, P.; Mckee, L. 2015. GreenPlan-IT Toolkit User Guide. SFEI Contribution No. 958. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
Structurally, the GreenPlan-IT is comprised of three components: (a) a GIS-based Site Locator Tool to identify potential GI sites; (b) a Modeling Tool that quantifies anticipated watershed-scale runoff and pollutant load reduction from GI sites; and (c) an Optimization Tool that uses a cost-benefit analysis to identify the best combinations of GI types and number of sites within a watershed for achieving flow and/or load reduction goals. The three tool components were designed as standalone modules to provide flexibility and their interaction is either through data exchange, or serving as a subroutine to another tool. This user manual addresses each of the tools separately, though they are designed to complement each other.
Lowe, S.; Grosso, C.; Pearce, S.; Robinson, A.; Salomon, M.; Kauhanen, P.; Shusterman, G.; Bezalel, S. N.; Collins, J. N.; Titus, D.; et al. 2015. Stream Health of the Coyote Creek and Guadalupe River Watersheds using WRAMP.
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Grab launches free medical leave insurance for drivers
By Aw Cheng Wei
Grab’s new scheme covers medical leave from the sixth day onwards, to a maximum of 14 days, and hospitalisation leave from the second day onwards, up to 60 days.
Ride-hailing platform Grab yesterday launched a free medical leave insurance scheme for drivers - but they must hit a minimum level of earnings.
Mr Andrew Chan, Grab Singapore's transport head, said the company has rolled out the scheme to "push the boundaries in offering even more comprehensive support and benefits" for private-hire drivers on its platform.
"Drivers' earnings are something we recognise as core to their livelihoods and families," he added.
Currently, Grab offers a range of benefits, from fuel discounts to scholarships and bursaries for drivers' children.
The new scheme comes on the back of recommendations by a tripartite work group on self-employed persons that the Government accepted in February last year.
It will be on top of Grab's existing free personal accident insurance provided for all drivers and passengers on its platform. And it covers "the majority of Grab driver-partners for free", a Grab spokesman said, without providing specific figures on its fleet size.
Payouts are determined by how often private-hire drivers use Grab, their earnings and the duration of their medical or hospitalisation leave. To qualify for the coverage, the drivers have to have earned about $2,000 in fares per month.
The scheme covers medical leave from the sixth day onwards, to a maximum of 14 days, and hospitalisation leave from the second day onwards, up to 60 days.
Drivers will be reimbursed between 50 and 85 per cent of their average daily earnings, within a range between $30 and $200. Calculations are done based on their earnings from Grab for the past 90 days before they fell sick or got injured.
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According to Grab's website, the payout will take about 10 days after Chubb Insurance receives the claim forms, if no additional documents are required. Drivers who are not covered can sign up for another insurance scheme that the company will launch soon, the Grab spokesman said.
Mr Cedric Lim, a private-hire driver on Grab's platform, suggested that the insurance coverage would be more helpful if the duration before medical leave coverage kicks in could be shortened to fewer than six days.
Rent, which costs more than $100 a day, is his primary worry.
Mr Lim, 28, who drives a Mercedes E-class for Grab's higher-end service, said: "When I'm sick, I'm concerned if my rental can be paid or not, and not about my earnings for that day."
A spokesman for competitor Gojek Singapore said the company is "close to finalising partnerships with a number of... companies - including insurance and healthcare providers - to offer a comprehensive suite of welfare benefits for all of our driver-partners". More details will be out soon, he added.
A Deliveroo spokesman said its riders currently have accident insurance, which the food delivery service rolled out in May last year.
"Deliveroo would like to go further... and offer riders more benefits, but runs the risk of courts reclassifying riders' employment status, which could reduce their ability to work flexibly," he added.
"Deliveroo is campaigning for a change in the law so that riders can have both flexibility and security."
A Foodpanda spokesman said its fleet is made up of independent contractors who have the choice to sign up for insurance packages at preferential rates from the company's insurance partners.
"Rider safety is a very important topic for Foodpanda," he added.
Mr Ang Hin Kee, executive adviser at the National Private Hire Vehicles Association, called Grab's move "a step in the right direction". The association has been in "close consultation with Grab", he added.
"We hope more can be done so that eventually, all drivers can be protected with the (prolonged medical leave) insurance."
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Take yourself to London Road for a culinary tour around the world. Kelham Island for a real ale trail and foodie haven. The Devonshire Quarter for independent coffee shops and US-inspired deep-fried chicken and doughnuts.
Certain corners of Sheffield are defined by the food and drink they offer. Get out there and discover what makes each unique, all while giving your tastebuds a treat. Sheffield’s an international city, and our many food and drink shops reflect that.
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Sheffield is also known as the real ale capital of the world. Around 1,000 different beers are produced by 57 different breweries in Sheffield each year. The city boasts a number of regular beer festivals and events and has a selection of real ale trails to be enjoyed across the city.
Celluloid thrillseekers can find plenty on offer at the dozens of screens across Sheffield – and there are big student discounts aplenty. Pick from the blockbusters at the Odeon, Cineworld, Vue of The Light, for fans of independent film there’s a real gem in Curzon Sheffield and the Showroom cinema both slap bang in the city centre. A fabulous art deco building, the Showroom has been voted by Guardian readers as the best indie cinema in Britain. Curzon Sheffield has its own rooftop bar.
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Sheffield is a safe, tolerant and welcoming city for all students.
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For the fluffiest, friendliest field in Sheffield, head to the alpaca farm. With a visitor centre and cafe, Mayfield Alpacas is on the Sheffield Round Walk route, right where Sheffield meets the Peak District.
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Sheffield: the outdoor city
As well as two professional sides in Sheffield Wednesday and United, the city is a hotbed of grassroots football and the birthplace of the modern game. Founded in 1857, Sheffield FC are the world's oldest club. Just across the city you'll find Hallam FC playing at Sandygate – the oldest football stadium on Earth.
Every year during the spring, you can experience the fabled atmosphere of the Crucible Theatre as it welcomes visitors from far and wide for the World Snooker Championships.
Choose from ice hockey with the Sheffield Steelers, both codes of rugby with the Sheffield Tigers and Eagles, the famous Sheffield Sharks basketball side, and speedway at Owlerton Stadium – the fastest track in Britain.
Climbers flock to Sheffield for the excellent array of indoor climbing walls. From disused railway line the Monsal Trail to picturesque reservoir loops, the nearby Peak District has tons of glorious routes to charm cyclists. And, for all kinds of leisure pursuit, including Olympic sized pool and diving pool, a visit to Ponds Forge is a must.
For high-street shopping, the city centre is host to well-known retail names. Fill your boots at Meadowhall - one of the largest shopping centres in Britain with pretty much any big retailer you can think of under its roof and only a few minutes away from town by bus, tram or train.
If you end up living in the Broomhill or Crookes area, as many of our students do, there are some gems to be discovered. For second-hand bargains, there are many charity shops ready to be rummaged. Broomhill is also home to Sheffield’s largest record shop, Record Collector, for all your vinyl needs.
An independent spirit
Sheffield is jam-packed full of independent stores. Several areas of the city have grown to become quirky shopping districts in their own right. From local makers and vintage treasures to designer boutiques, you’ll find an eclectic mix of shops, bars and restaurants that are worth a browse. Devonshire Quarter, Ecclesall Road and the Antiques Quarter are a few notable names.
Galleries, museums and exhibition spaces
If contemporary art floats your boat, the Site Gallery is a gem – but with Jarvis Cocker as a patron you'd expect no less. And Museums Sheffield offers three great venues. There's the spectacular Millennium Gallery for art, crafts and history. The Graves Gallery's breathtaking collection of visual art spans centuries and continents. And next to the University there's Weston Park Museum, where you can explore natural history, art and events in the city’s social history. For a glimpse into Sheffield's past, a visit to Bishops' House is a must. Everywhere's free to get in, of course.
Next to the Peace Gardens and the Millennium Galleries you'll find Sheffield's award-winning Winter Garden where you can explore 2,500 plants from around the world, catch an exhibition or have a coffee and put your feet up.
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New Shell MD, Osagie, steps in …Mutiu bows out after 36 years of service
A new Managing Director for Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mr. Osagie Okunbor, has assumed office succeeding Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu who retired on Saturday after 36 years of service.
Osagie’s appointment had been announced in January while he was serving as a Senior Advisor in Shell’s Upstream International Operated business in The Hague, Netherlands.
The new Shell helmsman, who is also assuming the role of the Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, brings over 28 years of industry experience and expertise to the role his new role.
“I’m delighted at the opportunity to build on the progress we have made over the years. Shell continues to be a highly valued partner for progress in Nigeria and I’m looking forward to exploring more channels for fruitful collaboration with our stakeholders,” Osagie said as he took over from his predecessor weekend.
Okunbor is the third Nigerian MD of SPDC and Country Chair Shell Companies in Nigeria in a row. Mr. Basil Omiyi assumed office as the Managing Director of SPDC in 2004, and also became Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria in 2008, the first Nigerian to hold both positions.
In a farewell note, the outgoing Managing Director thanked staff of Shell Nigeria and key external stakeholders for their dedication and support which enabled the company to collectively achieve the successes recorded during his tenure. "I am indeed proud to have made this remarkable journey with you and tremendously grateful to God for the privilege to have done so.”
A graduate of Business Administration from the University of Benin, Okunbor is an accomplished professional who has worked in Nigeria, the UK, Brunei and until now, the Netherlands.
His previous assignments included Vice President, Human Resources for Shell’s Upstream Business in Sub-Saharan Africa and Vice President, Infrastructure and Logistics Shell Nigeria. He is currently Senior Advisor in Shell’s Upstream International Operated business, based in The Hague, The Netherlands, from where he returns to Port Harcourt to take up his new role.
Commenting on the appointment, Vice President Nigeria and Gabon, Shell Upstream, Mr. Markus Droll, said: “We are delighted to see another Nigerian at the helm of affairs in Shell Nigeria. Mr. Sunmonu worked very hard over these years – managing production and setting a new agenda in dealing with communities, government and other key stakeholders. We’re confident that Osagie will consolidate and build on the progress we have made in the past years.”
Okunbor is married to Soala and they are blessed with children. He enjoys music and football in his spare time.
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The Drug or the Bug? Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications of Subclinical Myopericarditis in a Patient Taking Clozapine
Chuan Jiang, MD*1 and Sean LaVine, MD2
1Hoftsra North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY
2 Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md.
Abstract number: 553
Keywords: Clinical Vignette Abstracts — Adult
Case Presentation: A 33 year old man with treatment refractory bipolar disorder was titrated onto clozapine 200mg daily in an inpatient psychiatric facility. 10 days into his course, he was noted to have fevers, diaphoresis, and tachycardia and was transferred to the emergency department for further medical evaluation. He did not endorse chest pain, URI prodrome, or CHF symptoms. An ECG demonstrated concave down ST elevations in several precordial leads and PR depressions in several limb leads possibly consistent with pericarditis, and he was admitted to the hospital. Further testing revealed elevated troponin-T, serum-BNP, ESR, and CRP levels. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed the presence of a pericardial effusion. The patient was diagnosed with myopericarditis. Clozapine was discontinued and the patient was started on high dose ibuprofen and colchicine. Infectious workup proved nondiagnostic. The final diagnostic workup pointed to either the clozapine or an idiopathic cause as the etiology. The diagnosis of clozapine-induced myocarditis could not be firmly established as the patient did not necessitate endomyocardial biopsy. Fortunately, the patient’s management did not change and he demonstrated clinical improvement.
Discussion: Clozapine is a tricyclic dibenzodiazepine antipsychotic proposed to be mediated through D2, 5-HT2A, H1, alpha adrenergic, and cholinergic receptor antagonism. It is approved therapy for treatment resistant schizophrenia and also has off label uses in bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. However, its notorious side effect profile has limited its use as a last-line therapy for refractory psychiatric disease. Agranulocytosis and neutropenia are well known side effects which have led to strict monitoring protocols. Cardiac side effects have also been documented in numerous case reports, but there are no set monitoring protocols in place. Clozapine induced myocarditis has an incidence rate ranging from 1/500 to 1/10,000. Theorized pathophysiologies involve Type I IgE mediated acute hypersensitivity reaction of the myocytes, cytokine release, and elevated levels of catecholamines. However, there are no classic clinical criteria for its diagnosis, and patients often present with nonspecific febrile prodromal symptoms and nonspecific ECG findings. Amongst these patients, mortality rates remain as high as 50%, with delayed diagnosis often resulting in poor outcomes.
Conclusions: Although this case presents an interesting diagnostic conundrum, it is also important to identify potential diagnostic pitfalls which could have affected timely management. This constellation of symptoms suggested an infectious etiology. If clozapine-induced myocarditis had not been on the differential, proper imaging and treatment may have been delayed. The learning point for this case is to consider cardiac pathology in a patient taking clozapine with a nonspecific presentation. Without a high index of suspicion, cardiac workup may be delayed, potentially leading to an adverse outcome.
To cite this abstract:
Jiang C, LaVine S. The Drug or the Bug? Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications of Subclinical Myopericarditis in a Patient Taking Clozapine. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md. Abstract 553. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2015; 10 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/the-drug-or-the-bug-diagnostic-and-therapeutic-implications-of-subclinical-myopericarditis-in-a-patient-taking-clozapine/. Accessed January 22, 2020.
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First Look: Springfield Armory Saint with Free-Float Handguard
by SI Staff - Monday, June 12, 2017
Springfield Armory announced the launch of a new addition to the Saint line of AR-15 rifles from the company. The new Saint rifle features a free-float handguard, which provides shooters with a number of added benefits.
The new AR features the company's patent-pending Free Float Handguard system, which incorporates a pinned low-profile gas block that ensures an uninterrupted length of rail for mounting optics and accessories, as well as providing users with a great deal of real estate along the fore-end of the gun for optimum control.
The design is M-Lok compatible and features all-aluminum construction with a hard-anodized finish, and the pinned gas block ensures that the rifle and its gas system can withstand a great deal of punishment without working loose, an advantage over similar systems that use set screws.
Other features of the Springfield Armory Saint AR-15 include elevation-adjustable front and rear flip-up sights, which can lay flat on the top rail of the gun in order to accommodate mounted optics. The gun also features a Bravo Company trigger guard and Mod 3 pistol grip, along with a nickel-boron-coated single-stage trigger that is designed to provide users with a trigger pull that is free from the grit and inconsistencies of common mil-spec triggers.
The rifle also features an upper and lower receiver constructed from anodized aluminum and features the company's Accu-Tite receiver wedge that ensures that both halves of the receiver are locked tight, removing any accuracy or reliability issues that could arise from having space between the upper and lower.
The rifle features an M16 bolt-carrier group that uses a bolt constructed from Carpenter 158 steel and is shot peened and examined for consistency. The gun uses a 16-inch barrel that features chrome-moly vanadium steel construction and uses a 1:8-inch rate of twist as well as a 5.56 NATO chamber. The chamber, bore and barrel all feature a Melonite finish for added durability.
The Springfield Armory Saint is finished off with a Bravo Company stock that provides shooters with rattle-free furniture that incorporates a substantial comb that allows for a solid cheek weld, even when using optics. The stock features a recoil-absorbing butt pad, as well as six different length-of-pull positions for added customization.
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Sex Act
by Clair Dickson
The handcuffs clinked against the metal headboard.
“Come on, let me up.”
“Oh, you’ll like this. Trust me.”
“I don’t get into this kind of shit.”
“No? That’s not what I heard.”
“I don’t who you’ve been talking to.”
“I heard you like a little bondage. That you like being . . . naughty.”
“Look– ah– I, uh, heh, I like to have fun, you know, but . . .”
“You don’t like this?”
“Yeah. This really isn’t my thing. We could do–”
“What about the photos?”
“What photos– oh.”
“Yeah. Not very clever to hide them in your sock drawer. I found them when you were in the restroom. Kinky shit.”
“You’re not here– you’re not here to . . . play, are you?”
“Funny, you don’t seem to be able to talk about sex, but you don’t have any problems with using a camera. Maybe it’s because you’re not actually in any of these pictures. At least your face isn’t. But that scar on your wrist gives you away.”
“There’s nothing illegal here.” The handcuff scraped against the bed frame.
“No? Consent.”
I selected one of a series of six photos and held it out. “This girl here– she’s not old enough to consent.”
“That– that law doesn’t apply–”
“What because you didn’t fuck her?”
“I didn’t!”
“Glenn– she’s twelve fucking years old! She’s too young to consent to a sex act!”
“I didn’t know she was only twelve! She doesn’t look it!”
I went through his pants pockets and found a business card for Bo Fexler, private investigator. Mine. Given to him at the bar, as introduction, in hopes I could get him to take me home. A few drinks and a few pick-up lines later, he did. A few carefully worded persuasions and he was handcuffed to the bed.
“You don’t believe me? Come on– I don’t like kids. I brought you home, didn’t I?”
I looked at him. “You told her not to tell her parents. You even paid her. Which, of course, is how her parents found out something was up.” And hired me to find out.
“I– I mean, most parents don’t want their teenage daughters having sex. I just figured.” He swallowed, and looked away.
“What was it you whispered in my ear? It was right after I gave you that line about how I’m still a virgin. Oh, that’s right. You said you like virgins best. And that it’s hard to find a girl who’s still a virgin.” I shrugged into my shirt and bra. I pulled my long blond hair out of the shirt collar and grabbed my keys. I was tempted to lighten Glenn’s wallet, but that would have been wrong.
His face paled. “Wait– are you gonna leave me here?” His voice rose to a shrill pitch.
I just smiled. The same flirty smile I’d used in the bar.
His shouts could be heard from the driveway. But in his swanky subdivision, he would have to yell a lot louder for the nearest neighbors to even hear.
"Sex Act" © 2011 by Clair Dickson
About Clair Dickson
Clair Dickson is a writer of everyday evils, when she's not working one of her many part time jobs or chasing after her toddler son. Visit www.bofexler.wordpress.com for links to other short stories.
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Moulson, Grabner rally Isles to win over Leafs
TORONTO (AP) Matt Moulson and the New York Islanders needed a little time to get up to full speed.
The forward scored twice in his 248th straight NHL game, helping the Islanders overcome an early two-goal deficit in a 7-4 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.
``I had a bunch of chances the last couple of games, but couldn't get anything to go in,'' Moulson said. ``I just have to keep whacking away in front of the net. A lot of credit to my linemates for working hard and creating chances for me.''
Moulson, in his fifth NHL season and fourth with the Islanders, has yet to miss a game with New York. Only Billy Harris (576 games), Bob Nystrom (301) and Denis Potvin (262) have played in more consecutive contests in club history.
New York (2-1) trailed 3-1 after the first period, but gained momentum by killing off a late two-man disadvantage. After tying it with two goals in the second, the Islanders took control by scoring four times in the third in the opener of a five-game, eight-day trip.
``Killing that (5-on-3) penalty when we were down 3-1 late in the first period, you could look at that as a turning point for us,'' said Islanders forward Brad Boyes, who had a goal against his former team. ``If they get one there, it's probably a much different game.''
Toronto (2-2) fell to 0-2 on home ice this season and returned to the Air Canada Centre following a solid 5-2 road victory in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. But that didn't impress some among the ACC gathering of 19,125 who began chanting ``Let's go Blue Jays!'' with 2:40 remaining.
``I think we saw one team last night and a totally different team tonight,'' Toronto coach Randy Carlyle said. ``We were out of it, we were out of sync.
``I thought the first period was more a shinny period of hockey. We were skating but we weren't really engaged in the game. We managed to get a 3-1 lead out of it but really the last 7, 8 minutes of the first period was the start of the way we finished the game.''
Toronto was 0 for 5 on the power play, going 0 for 2 with two-man advantages for a combined 52 seconds.
``It's huge, it usually comes back to haunt you,'' Carlyle said. ``It you don't score on your 5-on-3 at some point in the game usually momentum is going to turn in favor of the opposition.
``They get life from it and it sucks life from you.''
Michael Grabner also had two goals for New York, and Mark Streit and Keith Aucoin added goals.
Carl Gunnarsson, Nazem Kadri, Mikhail Grabovski and Matt Frattin scored for Toronto.
Grabner gave New York a 4-3 lead at 3:27 of the third, firing a wrist shot past Ben Scrivens for his second of the season before Aucoin scored his first just 1:08 later to put the Islanders ahead 5-3. That was it for Scrivens, who allowed five goals on 20 shots in his third start of the season.
``I was seeing the puck well and in good position,'' Scrivens said. ``Sometimes those things happen.
``You just have to focus on the process and keep playing games the way I feel I can and should play. It's a journey ... it's the only way you can look at it. It's another learning experience and it's a tough one to swallow but I'll take what I can from it.''
Scrivens was replaced by James Reimer, who got the win in Pittsburgh. But Reimer was beaten cleanly by Moulson on a wrist shot at 11:20 for his second.
The Islanders were playing for the first time since beating Tampa Bay 4-3 on Monday night.
NOTES: Frattin had eight goals and seven assists in 58 games for Toronto last season. ... The Islanders are in Boston on Friday night for the first of their seven back-to-back sets this season.
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Uncle Jasper reviews: Chinatown Kid (1977)
-By Uncle Jasper, on November 18, 2010, 6:32 am
Chinatown Kid [唐人街功夫小子] (1977)
Starring Alexander Fu Sheng, Sun Chien, Shirley Yu, Susan Shaw Yin-Yin, Kuo Chui, Lo Meng, Wang Lung-Wei, Jenny Tseng
Directed By Chang Cheh
I’m afraid that this review was a little bungled from the start. This is what happens when you wind up with a bad copy of a film slated for review and are left with no alternatives but to move ahead…
Any true old school kung fu movie fan has no doubt been in sustained elation since the Shaw Bros catalog had been obtained and dramatically restored by those fine folks over at Celestial Pictures almost ten years ago now. It’s been a nice decade of film viewing for fans of the legendary studio, no longer forced to waddle through 7th generation muddy pan & scan copies of their favorite martial arts classics. It’s a win-win situation for all parties involved, as I think nobody can complain about the work done on preserving the integrity and beauty of these fine films.
Then we have Chinatown Kid, which proves to be the proverbial one that got away when this whole deal went down. Not to say that the film doesn’t look amazing, the restoration here is every bit as beautiful as Celestial’s other remastering efforts. The problem is that Celestial went through its arduous, painstaking lengths only to wind up remastering THE WRONG FILM!
DOH!! You see, Chinatown Kid previously existed in two forms. The original 116 minute Cantonese print, and a severely truncated 86 minute print which was shipped overseas for international theaters to presumably slip on the bottom of a double bill in order to pacify hungry kung fu film fanatics jonesin’ for a fix. This butchered print is the one that Celestial eventually got their hands on and subjected to their thorough remastering process. In their defense, this was the only print that the Shaw Studios supplied to Celestial and they did good work with what they were handed.
The dwarfed version still remains interesting because it contains snippets and extended scenes that are missing from the full-length cut, but it comes at the cost of entire subplots and characters being completely excised. While the film contains what is probably the immortal Alexander Fu Sheng’s greatest performance, this movie is also chock full of interesting characters played by a who’s who of Shaw’s finest at the time, most of who are reduced to mere cogs of the plot device machine in this 86 minute cut. Fu Sheng’s real life wife Jenny Tsang is introduced as a potential romantic interest, only to never be seen again in the film. Imagine my surprise when looking at Chinatown Kid’s IMDb entry and seeing the charismatic Kara Hui listed in the credits! I bet she was great… too bad she was missing from my copy. Probably the greatest tragedy is in Sun Chien’s character, whose story was obviously intended to be every bit as significant as Fu Sheng’s in the film. He plays a naïve, bookwormish student who nearly becomes a drooling cocaine addict when faced with the harsh realities of being a struggling expatriate in a strange land. Sadly, the jumpy nature of this truncated print tosses his near tragic skirt with addiction into the realms of ham-fisted preachiness usually reserved for afterschool specials.
Due to this version’s accelerated storyline, these great characters are never truly given a chance to shine. Damn near all of them show interesting potential, which unfortunately is never explored due to theater business politics.
Now listen, I understand the essential reasoning behind these malignant cuts. If you are faced with the task of trimming this sucker down for repeat screenings, you have to go with the bread and butter, that being Fu Sheng’s interesting bumpkin-turned-triad character and his magnificently diverse performance. But I guess what I’m trying to say is that there is a really great kung fu film under the surface here that is sadly obstructed by erratic cuts and half-developed characters that ends up presenting only a slice of the whole pie.
Perhaps in a few months I can get my hands on the real version of Chinatown Kid and give it the fair review that it so rightly deserves. This is a landmark in the Shaw Bros timeline for many reasons including the first exterior scenes (That I know of) of a Shaw Bros film shot in America. Just watching Fu Sheng tooling along the busy streets of San Francisco was a sight to behold. Also notable is that this film marks the first appearance of all five venoms together (granted Chiang Sheng and Lu Feng are reduced to tiny “blink and you’ll miss ‘em” bit parts, but interesting nonetheless). Argh! I can’t wait to watch Chinatown Kid instead of the 90-minute trailer I was treated to tonight. I’m filing this one away as a non-review for now, a glimpse at the theater politics surrounding the grindhouse era, and how often times it spelled doom for a little movie like Chinatown Kid.
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7 comments to Uncle Jasper reviews: Chinatown Kid (1977)
Will Silver
November 19, 2010 at 7:06 am · Reply
Wow, this explains a lot. When I watched the movie I had no idea it was heavily edited. I thought it had a disjointed feel, but I attributed that to me being tired when I watched it… but it was actually disjointed and edited! Argh.
There’s tons of promise here though, so I look forward to checking out the longer cut.
Uncle Jasper
November 19, 2010 at 6:44 pm · Reply
Yeah. Another thing I didn’t even mention is the very conventional ending here. The full length version supposedly has a different one that is far more in line with the blood soaked finales of Chang Cheh’s other films.
Also, there is supposedly a fan made cut out there that not only restores the full length print, but also incorporates the extended scenes from the truncated version. That might be interesting, although at this point I just want to see the 2 hour version. Can’t wait to give this film its proper review!!
November 20, 2010 at 10:06 am · Reply
Ah man, the more I hear about the real cut, the better it sounds.
Also, I forgot to mention that Lo Meng was awesome in that scene where he’s showing off his skills to the students at the school. Dude was ripped!
Dangerous Meredith
January 6, 2011 at 2:42 pm · Reply
Thanks for the interesting article anyway. Good luck in tracking down your preferred print
Richard Li
March 27, 2015 at 6:36 am · Reply
It’s a real shame that we Shaw Bros enthusiasts will probably never see the full version again.
Well I spoke too early, the full length version does exist after a quick google search. I have watched Celestial’s truncated version before, thought it was decent (without knowledge that it was a cut version) so the real thing must be super duper awesome I suppose.
March 28, 2015 at 9:42 pm · Reply
I’ve only seen the Celestial version and I enjhoyed it for what it was, too. The longer cut does exist, but it’s only available on fanmade DVDs or commercial bootlegs at this point. There was a VHS release of a close-to-uncut version that was used along with the Celestial DVD to create the “uncut” edition. Apparently, there are a lot of footage between the two that are re-shoots of the same scenes, so each one has slightly different sets and what not. The fanmade DVD runs 120 minutes, and is considered the definitive version. I look forward to seeing it one day!
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The recent outage effecting Facebook and other social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram has definitely caused a worldwide stir among its users. Well, nothing to worry as the following content will help you to understand the cause of this Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage.
Facebook’s Recent Outage Shows How the Platform’s AI Tags Photos
First of all, let’s start with the explanation of what happens during an outage situation. Consider a situation where you decide to browse through your old uploaded photos on Facebook, unfortunately instead of seeing the actual photos or snaps from the various occasions, holidays, gatherings etc., you will be shown or prompted with texts like- “image may contain: cat”, “image may contain: people dancing, drinking” etc. Well, let me tell you this is how the computer interprets your uploaded photos. This is how Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence judges you.
Similar tags are showing up on Instagram as well. The only difference is that on Instagram there are details of the photo and it also prompts suggestion on who is in the concerned photo. This suggestion is based on Facebook’s facial recognition. Facebook has been doing this process of using machine learning to read images in the same manner since April 2016. In fact, this project is a huge part of company’s accessibility efforts, as well as the tags, are used to describe photos or videos to users who are visually impaired.
As per DownDetector, a website which monitors website and app issues, various users all around the world reports of the outage incident, but it was Europe and North America where maximum cases were reported. No one was spared, from individuals, businesses to organizations working locally or internationally.
A similar situation was experienced earlier this year when an outage lasted for as long as 24 hours. It was believed to be the worst ever outage for Facebook, which connected about 2.7 million people worldwide with its core social network, message applications and Instagram as well.
The biggest question which arises among its users who have to face this outage is that whether Facebook uses this information to target ads or there is some other reason behind it, for example, the one quoted by Facebook during these outages- that “it occurred due to an error triggered during the routine maintenance operation.” Whatever may be the reason, there is no denying of the fact that there is a lot of personal data contained in our photos that are uploaded on various social networking sites, and it can be extracted easily by AI this way.
Is there another agenda behind this outage?
Obviously, there are various details of one’s personal life which he/she would want to protect or shield from Facebook and other social networking platforms (which are often contained in the images, videos, posts present on timeline or user account). This information can range from hobbies to user’s favorite holiday destination, anything and everything can be spotted. There are efforts made to reach out to Facebook in order confirm the cause of this outage and to address the main question that whether they are using this data for as targeting or not.
Well, whatever may be the real agenda behind this Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage, or regardless of how the information is being used, it makes us realize a very important fact that visual world has definitely become machine readable and accessible.
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K. Lie and A. Tveito. Development of a Staggered Central Difference Scheme That Does Not Use a Spatial Reconstruction. Simula Research Laboratory, 2004.
K. Lie and S. Noelle. "On the Artificial Compression Method for Second-Order Nonoscillatory Central Difference Schemes for Systems of Conservation Laws." SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 24 (2003): 1157-1174.
K. Lie and S. Noelle. "An Improved Quadrature Rule for the Flux-Computation in Staggered Central Difference Schemes in Multidimensions." J. Sci. Comput. 18 (2003): 69-81.
K. Lie and S. Noelle. High Resolution Nonoscillatory Central Difference Schemes for the 2D Euler Equations Via Artificial Compression In Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2000, Edited by M. Anile, V. Capasso and A. Greco. Mathematics in Industry., 2002.
K. Lie, S. Noelle and W. Rosenbaum. On the Resolution and Stability of Central Difference Schemes In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on: FINITE VOLUMES FOR COMPLEX APPLICATIONS - PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES, Porquerolles. Hermes Penton Ltd, 2002.
V. Haugse, K. H. Karlsen, K. Lie and J. R. Natvig. "Numerical Solution of the Polymer System by Front Tracking." Transp. Porous Media 44 (2001): 63-83.
H. Holden, K. H. Karlsen, K. Lie and N. H. Risebro. Operator Splitting for Convection-Dominated Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations In Godunov Methods:Theory and Applications, Edited by E. F. Toro., 2001.
K. H. Karlsen, K. Lie, J. R. Natvig, H. F. Nordhaug and H. K. Dahle. "Operator Splitting Methods for Systems of Convection-Diffusion Equations: Nonlinear Error Mechanisms and Correction Strategies." J. Comput. Phys. 173 (2001): 636-663.
K. H. Karlsen, K. Lie and N. H. Risebro. "A Fast Marching Method for Reservoir Simulation." Comput. Geosci. 4 (2000): 185-206,.
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K. Lie. "Front Tracking for One-Dimensional Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations With Variable Coefficients." Numerical Algorithms 24 (2000): 275-298,.
R. Bürger, S. Evje, K. H. Karlsen and K. Lie. "Numerical Methods for the Simulation of the Settling of Flocculated Suspensions." Chem. Eng. J. 80 (2000): 91-104,.
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H. Holden, K. H. Karlsen and K. Lie. "Operator Splitting Methods for Degenerate Convection-Diffusion Equations II: Numerical Examples With Emphasis on Reservoir Simulation." Comput. Geosci. 4 (2000): 287-322,.
K. Lie. "A Dimensional Splitting Method for Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations With Variable Coefficients." BIT 39 (1999): 683-700,.
K. H. Karlsen, K. Lie and N. H. Risebro. A Front Tracking Method for Conservation Laws With Boundaryconditions In Hyperbolic problems: theory, numerics, applications (Seventh international conference in Zürich, 1998), Edited by M. Fey and R. Jeltsch. Int. Series of Numerical Mathematics. Birkhäuser, 1999.
H. Holden, K. Lie and N. H. Risebro. "An Unconditionally Stable Method for the Euler Equations." J. Comput. Phys. 150 (1999): 76-96,.
R. Holdahl, H. Holden and K. Lie. "Unconditionally Stable Splitting Methods for the Shallow Water Equations." BIT 39 (1999): 451-472,.
K. H. Karlsen and K. Lie. "An Unconditionally Stable Splitting Scheme for a Class of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations." IMA J. Numer. Anal. 19 (1999): 609-636,.
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Reports: Nonprofits & Public Interest
Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report
Annaliese Hoehling
Publications Director
NTEN
49 pages, April 2013
Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly “IT”) Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. Over 2,600 nonprofit professionals filled out the latest annual survey, providing another year of benchmarks and data concerning: salaries, technology budgets, organizational structure and other aspects of nonprofit technology practices.
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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Study
NTEN & Charity Dynamics
16 pages, November 2012
This donor-focused study gathered feedback from consumers spanning a wide range of giving levels ($25 – $5,000+) who donated to a nonprofit in the past 12 months. Survey questions sought to understand individuals’ preferences regarding traditional and digital media for donating, volunteering and engaging with nonprofits.
2012 State of Nonprofit Data Report
Idealware
In April 2012 NTEN worked with Idealware to conduct a survey of nonprofits about their relationships with data, and found a large dichotomy: either they were doing a lot with metrics or not much at all. They also learned that internal factors — such as staff capacity, expertise and budget — as well as external demands and stakeholders — including funders; local, state and federal governments; donors; clients; and community groups — also hinder an organization’s ability to make strategic use of data they have collected.
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Consumers Guide to Low Cost Nonprofit Content Management Systems
100+ pages, October 2012
This report is a valuable resource for small and mid-sized organizations that are considering options for their CMS solution (for website content management). The report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.
Civic Engagement in the Digital Age
Pew Internet
15 pages, August 2012
Social networking sites have grown more important in recent years as a venue for political involvement, learning and debate. Overall, 39% of all American adults took part in some sort of political activity on a social networking site during the 2012 campaign. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from July 16 to August 7, 2012.
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Best Practices for Building a Subscriber List
Anthony Carraturo, VP of Lead Generation & Data Services, MeritDirect
Thomas Harpointner, CEO, AIS Media
Andrew Kordek, Chief Strategist and Co-Founder, Trendline Interactive
Tom Scearce, Principal, Falconry Group
Jordie van Rijn, Email Marketing consultant, eMailmonday
4 pages, August 2012
Building up your subscriber list is at the heart of e-mail marketing, so you must ensure that your list is of the highest possible caliber. In this report, other thought leaders join the party to offer their best practices for building an effective subscriber list.
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Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments
Publications Director, NTEN
54 pages, May 2012
It can often feel like we’re making important investment decisions in the dark. Should we put more resources toward developing a formal technology plan? Will that improve how our organization works on our mission? How many technology staff should we have if our total staff is only five? NTEN’s annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions and many more.
The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook
Andrea Berry, Laura S. Quinn, Idealware
Lisa Colton, Darim Online
A good social media policy will provide clear guidelines as to what staff should and shouldn’t do when posting and interacting with the community on a day-to-day basis. The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook is designed to help you and your organization ask the important questions about social media and take the next steps to growing a social culture.
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The 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmarks Report
NTEN, Common Knowledge and Blackbaud
This report provides insights for nonprofits, foundations, media and businesses serving the nonprofit sector about the most important behavior and trends surrounding social networking as part of nonprofits’ marketing, communications, fundraising, program and IT work.
Manual on the measurement of volunteer work
Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies
120 pages, March 2012
This manual is intended to guide countries in generating systematic and comparable data on volunteer work via regular supplements to labor force or other household surveys. The objective is to make available comparative cross-national data on a significant form of work that is growing in importance but that is often ignored or rarely captured in traditional economic statistics.
The State of Grantseeking Report Spring
GrantStation and PhilanTech
33 pages, March 2012
The State of Grantseeking Spring 2012 is the fourth semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits conducted by GrantStation and PhilanTech to reveal the current state of grantseeking in the U.S.
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2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report
Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge
Despite limited budgets and staffing, nonprofits continue to find great value in their fast-growing social networks. This annual report is packed with insights into how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their marketing, communications and fundraising strategies.
Why most Facebook users get more than they give
Keith N. Hampton, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Lauren Sessions Goulet, Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania
Cameron Marlow, Head of data science research, Facebook
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project
40 pages, February 2012
Most Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to a new study that for the first time combines server logs of Facebook activity with survey data to explore the structure of Facebook friendship networks and measures of social well-being. Some of this report is based on the findings of a national survey on Americans’ use of the internet and computer logs of how people use Facebook as provided by Facebook.
Engaging Millennial Participants
DonorDrive Social Fundraising
A recent webinar included Paul Ghiz, Managing Partner of DonorDrive Social Fundraising Software, David Hessekiel of the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council and special guest Zac Johnson, head of Youth Marketing at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Under Zac’s direction CMN Dance Marathons are held on 150 college campuses across the country and raise $10 million annually. Zac provides insight on the elusive millennial fundraiser and shares some of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ secrets of success on how they’ve been so effective at engaging today’s college students.
Real Time Charitable Giving
25 pages, January 2012
This report on those who gave to the Text for Haiti campaign is based on telephone surveys with 863 individuals who contributed money to the Haiti earthquake efforts using the text messaging feature on their cell phones, and who consented to further communications at the telephone number they used to make their donation.
2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report
Kivi Leroux Miller
The Nonprofit Communications Trends Report reveals what nonprofits big and small have planned in terms of overall communications trends. The trends in this report come from 1,288 nonprofits in 42 countries.
Transactions – Transformations – Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements
Manuel Pastor, Jennifer Ito and Rachel Rosner
56 pages, October 2011
This report provides an evaluative framework and key milestones to gauge movement building. Aiming to bridge the gap between the field of community organizing that relies on the one-on-one epiphanies of leaders and the growing philanthropic emphasis on evidence-based giving, the report stresses three main insights: Any good set of movement metrics should capture quantity and quality, numbers and nuance, transactions and transformations; a movement is more than one organization – and if the whole is to be greater than the sum of its parts, we must measure accordingly; and, metrics must be co-created, not imposed.
Benchmarks Extra: Facebook
Ezra Billinkoff, Amy Peyrot, Megan Yarbrough
M+R Strategic Services
Benchmarks Extra takes a deeper dive into the data to provide more metrics for nonprofit engagement on Facebook. This report relies on data from 37 participating organizations, each of whom used Facebook’s new Insights analytics tool to provide results. The findings and recommendations are meant to help nonprofits develop meaningful standards and measurements for their own Facebook efforts.
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Your Voices: 2011 NTEN Community Survey Report
33 pages, July 2011
The Nonprofit Technology Network conducts an annual Community Survey to find out about how these nonprofits use technology in their work, to gauge the impact of NTEN programs and services on individuals’ professional development and their organization’s missions, and to track tech trends in the nonprofit sector over time.
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From Fundraising to Resource-Raising:
How an organization can use donated resources as part of an income-generation strategy
Caroline Beaumont
2010 Clore Social Fellow
What is resource-raising? This report found that resource-raising or “in-kind gifts” accounted for 4.3% of funds raised in 2008/09 reported by the top 500 charities. The trend appears to be growing, since “just under half of the 76 charity professionals surveyed expected to be working more with resources in-kind over the next year, due to increased demand from their organizations and an increase in the potential supply from supporters.”
Donor Stewardship:
Making Virtual Friends for Life
Rick Christ
Vice President, Amergent
In the overview of this whitepaper, Amergent asks: “How do you get more of your current donors to reinvest in your mission each year?” The answer is good donor stewardship in every channel. What does that entail? After analyzing millions of gifts to nonprofits, the authors discovered consistently improved results from effective multi-channel stewardship and found that donors who make a second gift in their first year are twice as likely to renew and that direct mail donors who have trusted you with an email address have an average donor value that can be 150% higher than similar donors who have not.
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The 7 Habits of Effective Personal Fundraisers
Become your nonprofit’s best fundraiser by following seven proven habits
CauseVox Team
The CauseVox team examines the thousands of individuals who have used their platform, selected some of the most successful to study, examined what and how much they raised, and identified seven habits that they all had in common.
2011 NTEN Community Survey Report
Publications Manager,
The Nonprofit Technology Network conducts an annual Community Survey to find out more about the individuals and organizations using technology in their work, to gauge the impact of NTEN programs and services on their professional development and their organization’s missions, and to track trends in the nonprofit technology community over time.
2011 Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
Jay Leslie
Andrea Berry
Laura S. Quinn
Chris Bernard
141 pages, June 2011
Fully updated for 2011 and including all-new reviews and new products, this detailed, impartial report walks through the features that might be useful, summarizes and compares 29 different donor management systems that cost $4000 or less in the first year, and provides detailed reviews of ten of them.
The Consumers Guide provides you the unbiased comparative information you need to narrow down your choices in a fundraising system. This 140 page report provides an overview of what donor management systems do, recommendations for systems based on particular needs, comparison charts, an index that provides summaries of all 29 systems and a directory of consultants who can help you navigate your choices.
Volunteering + Values
A Repair the World Report on Jewish Young Adults
Fern Chertok, Joshua Tobias, Shirah Rosin & Matthew Boxer
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
Jim Gerstein
Gerstein | Agne Strategic Communications
66 pages, June 2011
Commissioned by Repair the World and conducted as a collaborative effort between the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and Gerstein-Agne Strategic Communications, this study reveals that Jewish millennials believe their service can make a difference in the world and in the lives of others. While the majority of these young adults currently do not connect their service with Jewish values and identity, the findings provide a path forward for Jewish leaders who believe that making this connection is important for strengthening the Jewish community.
Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey
Kyle Andrei, Laura Quinn & Chris Bernard
Should your organization be using Facebook? Nonprofits are increasingly told that they need to be on Facebook, and countless gurus and experts offer them advice for maximizing their Facebook presence to get the most return. But are nonprofits actually seeing results, or is Facebook a bandwagon for nonprofits that’s not going anywhere? Whether your organization is considering adding Facebook to its strategy, or looking for new ways to use it, this report offers some answers.
Online Fundraiser’s Checklist 2.0
Covering the Basics to Ensure Success Across Online Fundraising, Email Outreach and Event Management
Inside this eBook, you’ll find 10 checklists that cover the website home page, a donation form, writing style, email lists and campaigns, thank-you programs, creating and marketing your next event and more.
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Cause Marketing Through Social Media
Kate Olsen, Network for Good
Geoff Livingston, Zoetica
This eGuide identifies the key questions your company should ask before initiating a cause marketing campaign and outlines the five steps to success. Recent online social good case studies, in addition to general cause marketing examples, provide recommendations for best practices and lessons learned to inform your next campaign. Further, this guide is summarized in a handy checklist to direct your campaign development.
eNonprofit Benchmarks Study
M+R Strategic Services and NTEN
This year’s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study includes data collected from 40 nonprofit organizations. This year’s study, which includes an analysis by sector and by email list size (small to large), also analyzes social media and text messaging programs.
Wired Workforce, Networked CSR
Howard Greenstein, Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Heyman Center for Philanthropy
Tom Watson, President, CauseWired Group
Howard Greenstein and Tom Watson have authored a new whitepaper where they studied several large U.S. corporations that are using social media and that have found ways to involve employees, customers and stakeholders as they seek to achieve their CSR goals. The purpose of the report is to place a marker in this continuum of change and provide an actionable account of trends and best practices to corporate social change officers and executives.
Convio Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study
Vinay Bhagat, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Dennis McCarthy, Vice President, Strategy & Business Practice
Bryan Snyder, Convio Senior Analyst
The online channel provides a cost effective and compelling way to engage constituents. Your success online is not solely measured by how much you raise, but how effectively you are able to grow your audience while sustaining and deepening their interest. The Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Index Study will help nonprofit marketers answer the following questions:
• What online marketing metrics should I focus on?
• How is my organization doing?
• What targets should I set for my organization?
The Goodness Engine
Produced by Deep Focus
Since few organizations have the time, money or connections to engineer their own social hackathon, Deep Focus has produced this ebook of insights from a DonorsChoose.org gathering so other nonprofits may benefit from the marketing and technology insights within. Each chapter discusses a central theme from the day: driving Web traffic, converting visitors into donors, turning small donors into regular philanthropists and engaging the developer community for growth.
Connecting Online Advocacy and Fundraising
Steve Daigneault, Vice President of eCampaigns, M+R Strategic Services
Mark Davis, Director Technical Solutions, Blackbaud
Milo Sybrant, Managing Director of New Media, Amnesty International USA
8 pages, March 2011
This new whitepaper will show you the ways to integrate your advocacy and fundraising efforts and discover best practices to optimize advocacy appeals that lead to increased response rates and fundraising.
Media, Information System and Communities: Lessons from Haiti
Anne Nelson & Ivan Sigal with Dean Zambrano, Knight Foundation
This report contains a series of recommendations for technology groups, media development and humanitarian organizations, national governments and donors on improving coordination in future recovery efforts.
Big Impact in Small Places: 9 Ways to Write Better Email Subject Lines, Headlines, Tweets and Facebook Updates
Kivi Leroux Miller, NonprofitMarketingGuide.com
18 pages, 2010
EmailNow was built by email marketing experts to do the tough stuff for you. It allows you to send beautiful email appeals without having to become a designer, software engineer or an expert in HTML or CANSPAM laws. Create stylish campaigns, manage your subscribers, track how your audience members respond.
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Going Social: Tapping Into Social Media for Nonprofit Success
Social Media Group within the Convio Services Team
This guide was designed specifically for nonprofit professionals as a means to discover and deploy successful social media programs that further your mission. Download the social media guide and learn:
• Social Media Fundamentals — Where to Start
• An Overview of Social Platforms, Strategies and Tactics
• Tips for Adding Social Media to Your Communications and Marketing Programs
• Case Studies Highlighting Successful Social Media Strategies
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The Online Giving Study:
A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships
Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing
23 pages, December 2010
This isn’t another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing) — it’s a call to reinvent donor relationships. This study of $381 million in giving through Network for Good looks specifically at the online giving experience and finds it is directly tied to donors’ likelihood of giving more — and more often.
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2010 Website Benchmarks Report
Jon Stahl, Groundwire Senior Strategist, and Groundwire team
This study allows you to determine how small to midsize environmental groups are doing with their websites. It offers benchmarks for common website statistics as well as information about how much time and energy organizations are investing in their websites, and how much they should be investing. This study will also provide some insight into the correlations between organizational behaviors and website traffic outcomes, which will be useful to organizations that wish to assess and improve their website performance.
The Nonprofit Research Collaborative: Fundraising Survey
GuideStar USA
In this ninth annual survey of nonprofits and foundations, respondents answered questions comparing their organizations’ total contributions in the first nine months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. The majority of people taking the survey served their organization as CEO, director of finance or director of development. Questions focused on how the first nine months of 2010 compared with the first nine months of 2009.
How to Raise a Lot More Money Now
Some of the best minds in the business came up with 50 creative ideas that you can start using today to raise more money for your cause. You’ll find great ideas from Jeff Brooks, Jocelyn Harmon, Mark Rovner, Kivi Leroux Miller, Beth Kanter, Allison Fine, Nancy Schwartz, Sarah Durham, Chris Forbes, Alia McKee Scott, and Katya Andresen.
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Assessment & Reflection Report
Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, Zoetica
(Recommended)
This report encapsulates the main lessons extrapolated from the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge and the data collected to assess the challenge, including a survey of cause champions and four conversational case studies hosted on the Case Foundation’s blog.
The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector
Chuck McLean, Carol Brouwer
A survey of public charity and private foundation employees was conducted online in June 2010. The purposes of the survey were to explore how charitable organizations fared during the first five months of 2010 and to try to gauge the effect of the downturn in the economy on the American nonprofit sector. The report presents the results of this survey and more.
Seeking Sustainability: A Nonprofit News Roundtable
Christopher Sopher, Knight Foundation
The Knight Foundation, in partnership with the Voice of San Diego, Texas Tribune and the Knight Center at the University of Texas at Austin, organized an unprecedented meeting of 12 nonprofit news organizations and funders, academics and researchers from across the country, focused on “Seeking Sustainability.. This report summarizes the proceedings and topics of the meeting and evaluates the future challenges and needs of these organizations in the years ahead.
2010 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report
Adina Wasserman & Tony Rossell
Marketing General Inc.
The 2010 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report marks the second year that Marketing General has surveyed associations to better understand the strategies and tactics they use to recruit members, engage new members, renew existing members and reinstate former members. Over 400 associations participated in the survey and shared their membership practices and their opinion on what works best for each stage of the membership lifecycle.
Informing Communities:Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
148 pages, April 2010
The digital age is creating an information and communications renaissance. But it is not serving all Americans and their local communities equally. This report focuses on the information people actually need, suggesting ways that the flow of information and its uses may be enhanced.
Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report
NTEN, Common Knowledge and ThePort Network
The second annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report, a joint project of Common Knowledge, thePort and NTEN, has hard data and insights on the trends surrounding social networking technology as part of nonprofit organizations’ marketing, communications, fundraising and program services.
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Nonprofit IT Staffing: 2009 IT Staffing & Spending Report
Chris Bernard, Writer/Editor
Dr. Kimberly Pukstas, Research Consultant
www.italicsmedia.com
This survey gives a good look at the state of nonprofit staffing and helps provide organizations with information to help evaluate the state of their IT spending. With this information, all nonprofits — regardless of their self-reported ranking — can analyze and adjust their IT practices to their own benefit.
The Next Generation of American Giving
Vinay Bhagat, Convio
Pam Loeb, Edge Research
Mark Rovner, Sea Change Strategies
The art and science of fundraising is undergoing rapid and permanent change driven by technology, the imperative to attract new donors and by the evolving traits of different generations of supporters. This paper and the accompanying statistics are a contribution to understanding this change and offers some strategic guidance for fundraisers who are struggling to keep up with it.
Homer Simpson for Nonprofits
Katya Andresen, Alia McKee and Mark Rovner
The success of your online outreach hinges on your understanding of the inner workings of the human mind. Learn the basics of the new and revolutionary field of behavioral economics and how you can use these principles to craft more effective messages that will win the hearts and minds of your audience.
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Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals
Kaitlin LaCasse & Laura S. Quinn, Idealware
Chris Bernard, Italics Media
This report provides the results of a survey conducted of 459 nonprofit staff members actively using social networking for their organization to determine whether social media channels are working to help nonprofits engage their current audience, recruit new supporters or raise money.
2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks
Michael Amoruso and Jessica Bosanko of M+R Strategic Services
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org
The 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks report is an analysis of mobile advocacy and mobile fundraising metrics for nonprofit organizations. It aims to provide benchmarks and metrics by which nonprofit organizations can measure their success with text messaging and to illustrate the various ways in which organizations are using text messaging.
Quadruple digits: Who and how to ask for the (relatively) big bucks online
Liz Ertner and Marc Ruben
4 pages, Feb. 1, 2010
While high-dollar donors comprise less than 2% of total online donors, their gifts make up 18%+ of funds raised every year. This whitepaper studied the Human Rights Campaign fundraising program and suggests that nonprofits need to look at past donation data to identify audiences for high-dollar appeals, and it outlines a few key tips from three years of campaigns to recruit four-digit donors.
Social Media, Risk, and Policies for Associations
Lindy Dreyer, Maddie Grant, CAE, and Leslie T. White, CPCU, ARM, CIC, CRM
The purpose of this whitepaper is to help association executives create effective social media policies for themselves, their staff, and key volunteers.
Social Media, Risk and Policies for Associations
Lindy Dreyer, Maddie Grant and Leslie T. White
Socialfish
This whitepaper aims to help association executives create effective social media policies for themselves, their staff and key volunteers. Using their own social media guidelines as a template, they will show you the building blocks they used to write the guidelines and explain what risks each section is meant to address.
Connect Contribute Collaborate Change: Online Volunteering in Action
Program Director: Chiara Camponeschi
Chief Editor: Chiara Camponeschi
Editorial Committee: Romina Oliverio, Jennifer Corriero
“Connect, Contribute, Collaborate, Change: Online Volunteering in Action” is an impressive collection of tools, tips, and stories based on the organizations’ leadership in managing and working with large teams of international online volunteers. The guide is divided into four main chapters (Connect, Contribute, Collaborate, Change) and offers important resources to debunk myths about online volunteering while highlighting its many social benefits.
The Online Fundraiser’s Checklist
Throughout this eGuide the authors share tips, ideas and resources for getting your online presence on the road to success in the upcoming year.
Six Online Community Vendors for Associations: An Analysis
Lindy Dreyer, Maddie Grant
The purpose of this paper is to help you think through the criteria for online community platforms that are important to you and your members, and then see how these six vendors meet those criteria. The paper is aimed at the decision makers – those who are less from IT but instead from marketing, communications, government relations, PR and membership departments, or those “many hat” wearers from small staff associations whose responsibilities cover several of these areas.
Building Community to Foster Social Innovation
TechSoup Global
6 pages, December 2009
While every local community is unique, they all face similar issues. NetSquared offers social change makers a variety of opportunities to connect with like minds from around the globe — sharing ideas, providing feedback and collaborating on new projects. This whitepaper explores local initiaitves that connect to a global network, such as DatAgro, a project of D.C.-based DataDyn.org, which promotes the development of rural agricultural communities in Chile through access to critical farming information via SMS text messaging.
Report page on Slideshare.net
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Watta?: What Are They Talking About?
Dean Hollander, New Media
John Gordon, New Media
Fenton Communications
The guide goes in depth on things like the importance of “listening” to social media conversations already taking place, targeting your audience, developing active ideas to join the conversation, producing engaging content, the best ways of distributing that content, and getting social. In addition, the guide gives some great examples of strategies that have worked for real organizations and campaigns.
Over Here: 10 Tips to Get U.S. Media Coverage on Global Issues
Getting U.S. media coverage of international issues has its challenges, but it’s not impossible. It requires persistence, agility and a sharply tuned news sense. This guide offers 10 tips to help you cross the divide between events over there and the news over here.
This Just In: 10 lessons from more than 25 years of public interest communications
For more than 25 years, Fenton Communications has partnered with nonprofit clients to make social change. Here’s 10 lessons from their years in the field.
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Seizing the Moment: Frank Advice for Community Organizers Who Want to Raise More Money
Aaron Dorfman, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Marjorie Fine, The Linchpin Campaign
8 pages, November 2009
This report offers tips and strategic advice that will help organizers dramatically increase their funding from institutional grant-makers and major individual donors.
Disrupting Philanthropy 2.0: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector
Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint Design
Edward Skloot, Duke University
Barry Varela, Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
This whitepaper tells about the changes and challenges that nonprofits are facing today. The high expectations and troubling fears about the impact of digital technology on “business as usual” are nothing short of extraordinary. Digital seems to change everything: The question the authors address is: Does it change how philanthropy works?
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Making a Name for Yourself: Branding for Non-Profits
7 pages, 2009
Branding gives you immediate currency in today’s cluttered environment. It defines you and instills trust in your product, service or cause. For nonprofit organizations, this trust results in greater credibility, influence and fundraising power. What is involved in creating a successful brand in today’s saturated market? In this guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals involved in creating a successful brand by examining great brands from the corporate and nonprofit sectors.
In a Study Released Today…: 10 Tips to Get More Ink on Your Next Report
This guide offers 10 tips for turning your report into a morning headline or a segment on the evening news. No matter what your issue is or what type of research you’re releasing — from scientific data to a public opinion survey — these tips can help you insert your hard work into the news cycle. This is a step-by-step guide to help you position, package and promote your report so it gets the media attention it deserves.
Now Advertise This: How to Make News with Public Interest Advertising
This guide lays out 10 tips for making news for your public interest advertising, drawing from media campaigns the firm has done for a broad range of public interest organizations.
Social Media in the Nonprofit Sector: A Survey of Nonprofit Communications Executives
19 pages, Nov. 17, 2009
This Weber Shandwick Social Impact survey of 200 nonprofit executives and senior communications officials explores how leading nonprofits and foundations are using social media and the value they derive from these efforts.
Report page on Scribd
The Nonprofit Tagline Report
Nancy E. Schwartz
121 pages, November 2009
This report defines the nonprofit tagline landscape, guiding the way to tagline success. The report digs into nonprofit taglines, providing models, dos and don’ts, trends on tagline use and longevity and a directory of over 2,500 nonprofit taglines (the first ever).
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Social Networking and Mid-Size Non-Profits: What’s the Use?
Timothy N. Ogden and Laura Starita
Philanthropy Action
The use of social networking and social media in the nonprofit sector has exploded in the past few years, spurred by successful, widely profiled social media initiatives by organizations like Save Darfur and charity:water. But this whitepaper argues that in terms of fundraising and attracting volunteers — metrics that most nonprofit boards and executive directors highly value — the available evidence suggests that social media is not very effective.
Proving Your Worth: 10 Ways to Measure the Impact of Your Communications
In this practical guide, the authors outline 10 key questions to help evaluate whether your communications are effective. If you can answer these questions, you’ll be light years ahead in articulating the value of communications.
eCampaigning Review
Advocacy Online and Fairsay
Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organizations in the UK, Canada and several other countries. In addition to the benchmark data, the project also includes an e-campaigning survey created by Jess Day, an independent e-campaigning consultant.
Compiled and Edited by Maddie Grant, CAE and Lindy Dreyer
49 pages, Oct. 5, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to help you think through the criteria for online community platforms that are important to you and your members, and then see how these six vendors meet those criteria.
From Legacy to Leadership: Is Philanthropy Ready for the New Consumer?
Mirm Kriegel
BBMG
4 pages, October 2009
The new economy has created a reset moment that’s changing how we live and work. And it has profound consequences for philanthropy. Over the past several months, some of the nation’s most iconic nonprofit brands — Nature Conservancy, AmeriCares, Red Cross and the Boys and Girls Club — announced sizeable layoffs and service cuts, while smaller, more nimble organizations like charity: water and Stand Up to cancer tweeted their way into prominence, mobilizing tens of thousands of people in cities around the world. This single snapshot speaks volumes about the challenges facing the philanthropic landscape in a world that’s adapting to radical social and economic change. Trust in our institutions has eroded while a spirit of entrepreneurship has soared.
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Defining ‘Noncommercial’: A Study of How the Online Population Understands ‘Noncommercial Use’
Netpop Research
255 pages, September 2009
The primary objectives of this study were:
1) to survey variations in the general online population’s understanding of the terms “commercial use” and “noncommercial use,” when used in the context of the wide variety of copyrighted works and content made available on the Internet;
2) to provide information and analysis that would be useful to Creative Commons and to others in understanding the points of connection and potential disconnection between creators and users of works licensed under Creative Commons noncommercial, or “NC,” licenses or other public copyright licenses prohibiting commercial use.
A Consumers Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools
Laura Quinn, Idealware
32 pages, September 2009
You’ve got data. How do you transform it into charts, graphs and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action? This 32-page independent Idealware report provides an overview of the types of graphic formats that might work for you, and then compares eight low-cost tools that can help you create them.
Report page (pre-registration required)
The Internet and Civic Engagement
Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady
Pew Internet & American Life Project
66 pages, Sept. 1, 2009
Political and civic involvement have long been dominated by those with high levels of income and education, leading some advocates to hope that internet-based engagement might alter this pattern. However, a new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that the internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America. When it comes to online activities such as contributing money, contacting a government official or signing an online petition, the wealthy and well-educated continue to lead the way. Still, there are hints that the new forms of civic engagement anchored in blogs and social networking sites could alter long-standing patterns. Some 19% of internet users have posted material online about political or social issues or used a social networking site for some form of civic or political engagement. And this group of activists is disproportionately young.
Speed Matters: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States
speedmatters.org
67 pages, Aug. 26, 2009
The results of this third annual speedmatters.org survey of Internet speeds show that the U.S. has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet. Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries. The average download speed for the nation was 5.1 megabits per second (mbps) and the average upload speed was 1.1 mbps.
Speed Matters: Benefits of Broadband 2009
This report is a project of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) as part of its commitment to promote affordable, high-speed Internet for all Americans. High speed Internet is essential for economic growth, job creation and global competitiveness.
Broadband Internet’s Value for Rural America
US Dept. of Agriculture
USDA economic analysis has found that rural communities with greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth than areas with less access. This study by economists at USDA’s Economic Research Service, compared counties that had broadband access relatively early – by 2000 – with similarly situated counties that had little or no broadband access. Employment growth was higher and non-farm private earnings greater in counties with a longer history of broadband availability.
Social Media: A Promising, Untapped Tool for Engaging High Dollar Non-profit Donors
Geoff Livingston
10 pages, July 31, 2009
Here’s the executive summary of the Community Philanthropy 2.0 research report funded by the Columbus Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation and the Saint Paul Foundation. The report examines the use of social media by nonprofits and causes as well as existing donors and Internet-savvy users’ traditional and social media usage patterns. The research was designed to determine if and how social media can be used to engage and cultivate high dollar donors.
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Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report
Nonprofit Technology Network
17 pages, May 20, 2009
According to a survey conducted in March 2009 by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort, social networking has become an integral part of nonprofits’ online strategy. Of the 929 respondents to a survey, nearly three-quarters (74.2%) have a presence on Facebook, and 30.9% have one or more social networking communities on their own web site. The report addresses such questions as: Besides Facebook, which commercial social network sites are nonprofits using most? How many members do nonprofits have on their social network communities? How are nonprofits marketing their social network sites?
M+R Strategic Services and NTEN released this eNonprofit Benchmarks Study for 2009. The report analyzes online messaging, fundraising, and advocacy data from 32 leading nonprofit organizations to answer such questions as: How is the financial crisis affecting online fundraising? How do my targeted emails, appeals to non-donors, phone call alerts, and more compare to those of other nonprofits? For state-based or local groups, what’s a good email response rate?
Working Wikily 2.0: Social Change with a Network Mindset
Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper and Heather McLeod Grant
The Monitor Institute
Over the past year, the use of social media tools has become increasingly common, interest in networks has mushroomed and the tools themselves have continued to mature. This second version of “Working Wikily” is an effort to update and share our learning to date. The authors hope this iteration can take you beyond the basic description of networks and social media tools to provide you with some helpful advice on how to start working wikily.
Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics
Jessica Clark and Pat Aufderheide
Center for Social Media
Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in our democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment. What platforms, standards, and practices will replace or transform legacy public media? This whitepaper lays out an expanded vision for “public media 2.0” that places engaged publics at its core, showcasing innovative experiments from its “first two minutes,” and revealing related trends, stakeholders, and policies.
The Cultural Challenge to Integration
CRT/tanaka
5 pages, April 1, 2009
There are still great challenges to business adoption of social media. Regardless of the cause, companies, nonprofits and organizations find themselves stubbing their metaphorical toes. Their cultures prevent success. There’s no greater example of this than the enormous challenges the Obama administration faces moving the government into the Web 2.0 era. No one questions whether or not the president and his team understand social media. Yet the barrier lies in a prohibitive federal culture that enforces privacy and security regulation and protects agencies from getting lambasted publicly. As Allison Fine says, organizational silos prevent online communities from being empowered. If an organization needs to become social-media friendly -– from PR firms and nonprofits to enterprises and government agencies -– then a serious gut check needs to take place. Can we change the way we interact to allow more of our community into our business?
Take a Position: 10 Tips to Set Your Organization or Cause Apart
This guide provides 10 key pointers to positioning your organization or cause, including why it’s important to do so. The authors draw from real-life examples of nonprofit groups and businesses that have successfully gone through a positioning process and conclude with practical tips on how to make positioning work for you.
Making Change: How Social Movements Work — and How to Support Them
Manuel Pastor, Rhonda Ortiz
This report offers a guidepost to both funders and the field by detailing what makes for a successful social movement, what capacities need to be developed and what funding opportunities might exist. The California Endowment commissioned USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity to do a series of interviews with leading organizers –- and asked the USC authors to write something that would make sense to these activists as well as foundation leaders. This report is the result of these interviews as well as a review of the academic literature on the theme.
Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone
Michelle Murrain, Laura Quinn, Maggie Starvish
This 60-page independent report provides a summary of what open source content management systems are, what features can be most useful to nonprofits and a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone, the content management systems most widely used by nonprofits. Which are easiest to use? Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Which provide the strongest features for website community features, workflow or ease of maintenance? The report answers these questions and many more. The report also includes our new directory of consultants and designers who help nonprofit implement these content management systems.
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Jessica Clark and Patricia Aufderheide
Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in our democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment. What platforms, standards, and practices will replace or transform legacy public media?
Using social media for social change
Susan Mernit
iFOCOS Media Think Tank and Futures Lab
6 pages, February 2009
Net-enabled social tools have enabled new models for grassroots activism and community building, and they have changed how we function in society — how we communicate globally and locally, how we form ties and how we organize and connect. This paper aims to take some of the fear and confusion out of the question of whether to use these tools or not.
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Social Collaboration: Joining Forces on the Digital Frontier
Kate Adams, BA (hons), PGCE, PGCert
Melissa Adey, BA (hons)
What is social collaboration? How did it emerge? And why now? This paper explores the past and present but also to look into the future of the growing phenomenon of social collaboration.
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Are We There Yet? : A Communications Evaluation Guide
Edith Asibey, Toni Parras and Justin van Fleet
Asibey Consulting
“Are We There Yet?” is designed for philanthropic organizations and nonprofits that want to be more effective with their communications.This guide offers an evaluation strategy that can help you keep your communications on track and use your limited resources effectively, whether you are using communications to instill healthy nutrition habits in a community or promoting a national energy policy. The guide offers solutions in a format that you can adapt to the needs of your organization.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Center for Social Media, American University
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances — especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question — as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities. This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth and in adult education.
Cross-posting for Advocacy: An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration
Sami Ben Gharbia
This guide offers us a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. It reviews different Web 2.0 tools, showcasing successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide also includes the pros and cons of the cross-posting technique.
Digiactive Guide to Facebook Activism
Dan Schultz
DigiActive
Movements cannot succeed without good communication and effective collaboration among activists. Would you prefer to hand out flyers to a demonstration with a group of friends or by yourself? Working together is not just more enjoyable, it’s necessary. Only by mobilizing our collective power and talents can we achieve our goals of social and political change. The social basis of activism explains why Facebook is a natural companion for tech-savvy organizers. This guide is written to provide some insights into what works, what doesn’t work and how to use Facebook effectively to advance your movement.
Now Hear This: The 9 Laws of Successful Advocacy Communication
This document is not intended as a blueprint for creating communications campaigns, but offers a way of thinking about campaigns from a strategic marketing and communications perspective.
The Nonprofit Tagline Report: How to use storytelling to engage and motivate your base
Learn how to build your nonprofit’s brand in 8 words or less, including: the 10 Have-tos for Successful Taglines; the 7 Deadly Sins — examples of what not to do; what makes a winning tagline; over 1,000 nonprofit tagline examples.
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A Room With a Viewpoint: How to Create an Online Press Center
How can you create an online press center that reporters return to again and again? This guide will show you how.
Low-Profit Limited Liability Company
Community Wealth Ventures
4 pages, July 2008
The L3C, or Low-Profit Limited Liability Company, is a new type of corporate designation that is a cross between a nonprofit and for-profit corporation. The L3C was enacted by the Vermont legislature in May 2008 and builds upon the existing Limited Liability Company (LLC) structure.
Civic Engagement on the Move: How mobile media can serve the public good
Aspen Institute
110 pages, July 2008
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement convened 29 thought leaders from business, academia and the nonprofit world to tackle a number of questions: How does increased mobility impact our willingness to engage people with different backgrounds than our own? What is it about mobile that sets it apart from other media platforms? How are civic values, such as trust and reciprocity, preserved in the mobile media environment? How are citizen journalists who use mobile devices reshaping the enterprise of journalism? How are mobile technologies being put to good use on the streets to advance social justice?. This report is a synthesis of their findings.
Rapid Donor Cultivation
Jenny L. Feinberg and Jeff Patrick
Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge presents a new concept in online fundraising: Rapid Donor Cultivation. The motivation for this service is the maximization of the return on investment of a nonprofit’s email subscriber acquisition efforts. To increase revenue from email direct marketing programs, a nonprofit fundraising online needs to grow its online subscriber base. This report focuses on both the long-term ROI and the elapsed time to the first gift — both crucial components of increasing acquisition costs.
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Code of Best Practices Committee
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances. This is a guide to current acceptable practices, drawing on the actual activities of creators, as discussed among other places in the study Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video and backed by the judgment of a national panel of experts. It also draws, by way of analogy, upon the professional judgment and experience of documentary filmmakers, whose own code of best practices has been recognized throughout the film and television businesses.
A Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Systems
The Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Systems summarizes the common features of 18 different systems used by grantmakers to track outgoing funds. It also provides detailed reviews of nine of the most widely used packages, with prices and a comparison chart. The report focuses on systems that help grantmakers manage their grant-giving process rather than systems that help nonprofits manage proposal submissions and received grants (also, confusingly, known as grants management systems).
Introduction to Citizen Media
David Sasaki
Rising Voices
8 pages, January 2008
This is the first in a series of outreach guides by Rising Voices meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership.This guide offers context and case studies that show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation that transcends borders, cultures and differing languages.
Recut, Reframe, Recycle
Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi
This study shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of practices — satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving as well as pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups) — all of which could be deemed legal in some circumstances.
Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features
Laura Quinn & Paul Hagen, Idealware
This report provides an evaluation framework to help weigh the advantages and tradeoffs of the data integration features across different applications. The Data Exchange Report itself provides an overview of the framework, while the accompanying Grading Worksheet allows you to apply to the systems that you’re evaluating.
Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship
A CiviSec Project
The Citizen Lab
According to research by the OpenNet Initiative, more than 25 countries now engage in Internet censorship practices. Those with the most pervasive filtering policies have been found to routinely block access to human rights organizations, news, blogs and Web services that challenge the status quo or are deemed threatening or undesirable. Others block access to single categories of Internet content or intermittently to specific websites or network services to coincide with strategic events, such as elections or public demonstrations. This guide is meant to introduce non-technical users to Internet censorship circumvention technologies and help them choose which best suits their circumstances and needs.
The City that Networks: Transforming Society and Economy Through Digital Excellence
Mayor’s Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide
One of the best of its kind, this report was produced by the Mayor’s Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide in Chicago. The advisory council was tasked the make recommendations “to help ensure universal digital access and to improve community, educational, economic and other outcomes.” The lengthy report goes far beyond this goal. It lays out a short and long term road map that addresses immediate actions and long term drivers; identification and engagement of key stakeholders; ownership and governance; funding; public, private, and nonprofit sector participation; and evaluation and metrics. In addition, the report provides a wonderful set of definitions.
ICT Foresight: How online communities can make the Net work for the VCS
Megan Griffith
NCVO
41 pages, March 27, 2007
This report examines how the Internet is impacting the relationships that individuals have with each other and with organizations by looking at the development of online communities and social networking sites and exploring strategic opportunities and risks for voluntary and community organizations.
How to Test a Web Site for Accessibility
Brian Satterfield, TechSoup Global
13 pages, Jan. 12, 2007
A step-by-step guide for determining whether your nonprofit’s website is accessible to people with disabilities.
Net Gains: A Handbook for Network Builders Seeking Social Change
Peter Plastrik, Innovation Network for Communities
Madeleine Taylor, Arbor Consulting Partners
117 pages, December 2006
This handbook provides the growing number of people who are developing networks for social change with practical advice based on the experiences of network builders, case studies of networks small and large, local and international, and emerging scientific knowledge about connectivity. It is intended to join, complement and spur other efforts to capture and make widely available what is being learned in the business, government and civil sectors about why and how to use networks, rather than solitary organizations, to generate large-scale impact.
Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving Toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency
Jerr Boschee
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
This book draws upon Jerr Boschee’s 25 years in the field to capture the basic principles and critical success factors associated with social entrepreneurship. It also includes A Practical Lexicon for Social Entrepreneurs that defines more than 80 key terms, many in the form of mini-tutorials; a bibliography of print publications, and a list of annotated links to online resources.
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Strategic marketing for social entrepreneurs
This book works on two levels. The first is a quick-and-dirty way for Board members and senior
managers to think about the intersection of social impact and financial returns, and the second is an expansion of Level One that requires more rigorous analysis by measuring the relationship between the degree of social need being addressed and the anticipated financial results.
Powering Social Change: Lessons on Community Wealth Generation for Nonprofit Sustainability
Bill Shore
126 pages, 2003
This research report looks at new revenue-generation strategies nonprofits are using to sustain themselves. It includes cases of social entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy that have built community wealth by re-investing revenues in the community.
Unlocking Profit Potential: Your Organization’s Guide to Social Entrepreneurship
Community Wealth Ventures developed Unlocking Profit Potential, a guide for nonprofit boards to understand and assess earned income business ventures.
The Social Enterprise Sourcebook
This book contains journalistic profiles of 14 nonprofits that have successfully started business ventures, including candid comments by their senior managers about what they did wrong along the way. The lessons described by the social enterprise leaders come in two sizes, some apply to any social enterprise and some apply to specific types. Jerr Boschee has filled the stories with pragmatic information for neophytes and veterans alike.
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Working Paper: Defining Scale-Up of Nutrition Projects (PDF, 614 KB)
This document is part of an occasional series produced by SPRING staff and consultants on topics of relevance to practitioners in global nutrition. As "Working Papers," we especially welcome feedback from readers who would like to share their perspectives based on related experience. To provide feedback, please send us an email .
SPRING has drawn from various definitions of scale-up in development-related literature to draft a definition that captures its key elements. This proposed definition is intended to lay out the main principles that SPRING believes are essential for effective, wide-scale nutrition program implementation, as well as a starting point for discussions on how to measure the effectiveness of scale-up efforts, short of impact assessment.
This is a working paper to inform and serve as a basis of conversation. As SPRING continues its scale-up-related work, this definition may be updated.
Recent years have seen the proliferation of evidence on strategies for combating malnutrition, and with it a call to action to implement these interventions on a broad scale. The Lancet’s Maternal and Child Undernutrition Series in 2008, for example, called for 99 percent coverage of eight core interventions for children and pregnant women in countries with high burdens of undernutrition (Bhutta et al. 2008); the 2013 update of the series recommended ten interventions at 90 percent coverage (Bhutta et al. 2013). Moreover, a number of initiatives have been launched to assist the scale-up of such nutrition strategies, including the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Currently 50 countries have signed on to the core SUN principle of multisectoral commitment to increasing coverage of nutrition-improving interventions (SUN 2014).
This nascent movement presents an exciting opportunity for high-level nutrition advocates, program implementers, and policymakers; at the same time, examples of scaling up a unified strategy to effectively combat malnutrition are rare, and it is unclear what exactly the scaling-up process should take into account. Because of this, there is a need to define scale-up not merely in terms of expanding intervention coverage, but also the dimensions needed to achieve that coverage. SPRING has drawn from various definitions of scale-up in the development literature1 to draft a definition that can capture key elements in scale-up. This proposed definition is intended to lay out the key principles SPRING believes are essential for effective, wide-scale nutrition program implementation, as well as a starting point for discussions on how to measure the effectiveness of scale-up efforts, short of impact assessment..
Definition of Scale-Up (Proposed)
A process of expanding nutrition interventions with proven efficacy to more people over a wider geographic area that maintains high levels of quality, equity, and sustainability through multisectoral involvement.
The characteristics included in SPRING’s definition are mentioned frequently in other definitions of scale-up in the health, agriculture, and economic development sectors. Reaching more people over a wider geographic area is mentioned in almost all definitions. Table 1 summarizes the results of the literature review, showing select scale-up characteristics that are mentioned by each definition. In developing its understanding of scale-up, the SPRING project highlighted characteristics in two categories: components and types of scale-up.
Components of Scale-Up
This proposed definition lays out key principles for effective, wide-scale nutrition program implementation, as well as a measurement of the effectiveness of scale-up efforts. We provide a rationale and an explanation of select components below that we consider essential to defining and measuring scale-up efforts.:
Proven efficacy: The majority of the definitions found in the literature included the requirement that the planned interventions demonstrate real improvements at a smaller scale. However, several documents explicitly acknowledged that the evidence base for scaling up was under-controlled, experimental, or otherwise relatively homogenous populations and that successful scale-up would entail more than mere replication (CORE Group 2005; Victora et al. 2004; Linn 2012; Milat et al. 2012; WHO and ExpandNet 2009; Hartmann and Linn 2008; Hodgins 2013). Similarly, The Lancet’s series selected nutrition-sensitive and -specific interventions based on studies in discrete areas of the world, yet acknowledged the gap between trial effectiveness and scaled-up effectiveness by modifying the interventions’ delivery platform according to context (Bhutta et al. 2013). This characteristic provides a rationale for scaling up, but mere replication is likely not enough. More research is needed to determine the drivers of successful scale-up and inform translation from pilot to large-scale programming.
Quality: Three documents, all products of field experiences with scaling up health activities, named quality as a defining characteristic. The CORE Group highlighted quality both of implementation and of the end benefits to the target group. Victora and colleagues note the importance of focusing on quality because in practice, trade-offs between it and coverage are often made. This aspect is applicable to nutrition programming in particular because it often requires raising demand for services (such as antenatal care) or changing behaviors ingrained in social norms or environmental realities (such as infant and young child feeding), which are not likely to change with poorly-implemented interventions.
Equity: Much like other areas of health and development, those most in need of nutrition interventions are likely the poorest and hardest to reach in each country. By simply aiming for a certain level of coverage, the most disadvantaged might still be missed in scale-up efforts (CORE Group 2004). Victora and colleagues note that accounting for equity should also affect the very design of the intervention, such as the selection of delivery platforms or the decision on whether to build up the capacity of existing ones (such as immunization days).
Sustainability: Several sources mentioned the need to ensure continued and sustained commitment when scaling programs up. The underlying assumption is that programs in need of scale-up generally cannot achieve their long-term development goals without continued and concerted efforts. The emphasis on sustainability may also be a reaction to several actual scale-up efforts, which failed to secure resources in the long term due to issues like vertical funding and programming, waning commitment and shifting priorities, and lack of planning (CORE Group 2005; Victora et al. 2004; Hartmann and Linn 2008). To sustain scaled-up programs requires “vertical” scale-up, or institutionalization of required changes at multiple levels of the relevant system (CORE Group; WHO and ExpandNet) from national to local, in order to achieve “horizontal” scale-up (expanding coverage across people and space) (Hartmann and Linn 2008). Some sources also noted the need for country ownership—including both decision making and financial independence—in order to achieve sustainability (CORE Group; Hartmann and Linn 2008).
Types of Scale-Up
Aside from the components described above, SPRING also identified three different types of scale-up discussed in the literature. These types can be implemented separately or jointly, depending on need and circumstance. However, effective and sustainable scale-up of programming will likely require all three types of scale-up, which include:
Horizontal scale-up: Menter et al. (2004) describes horizontal scaling up as a process that “implies adapting knowledge and innovations to the conditions of different end-users,” a process which requires “training and support networks” for on-the-ground implementers. This idea of scale-up as an expansion of coverage and/or programming to new end-users plays a prominent role in all definitions of scale-up, as can be clearly seen in Table 1, where every definition contains a reference to increased or expanded coverage of services. Horizontal scale-up is important because it expands coverage of an intervention to a wider number of people.
Vertical scale-up: The discussion of scale-up by Menter et al. (2004) defines vertical scale-up as an “institutional” process, which broadens the stakeholders and sectors involved in the intervention from the local to national or even global levels. In the process of vertical scale-up decision-making moves from the individual to collective levels or from simple to complex organizations, and institutions internalize the program or project principles. Vertical scale-up is important to ensure buy-in by local actors and support program sustainability.
Functional scale-up: Hartmann and Linn describe this type of scale-up, which moves beyond one function (e.g., health and education) to include others. Although they write that this factor is optional to the scale-up process, they also note that ignoring it could pose “a serious threat to the long-term success of development interventions.” They provide the example of vertical funding for specific diseases that ignore the cross-cutting weaknesses of health systems overall, and contrast it with PROGRESA, a conditional cash transfer program to improve public service utilization across the health and education sectors to improve nutrition. Functional scale-up improves quality and sustainability of programs and allows for expansion of the program through different platforms.
Concurrent with Hartmann and Linn’s example and the SUN Movement’s emphasis, SPRING believes that multisectoral involvement is especially salient for nutrition program scale-up and impact. Though multisectoral is not a component that is widely discussed in the literature, SPRING felt its important role in functional scale-up necessitated its inclusion into the draft definition with the other key components.
It is important to note that although these requirements of scale-up are presented individually, in reality they are closely interconnected and dependent on one another. Maintaining high-quality services and programming in underserved areas, for example, is essential for promoting equitable outcomes in nutrition. Moreover, individual programmatic decisions, such as selecting delivery mechanisms and developing financial plans, impact several of these areas at once. Finally, these features of effective scale-up likely share similar enabling factors, such as strong country leadership and managerial capacity and robust monitoring and evaluation systems. Figure 1 lays out the components and types of scale-up described above.
Figure 1. Scale-Up Conceptual Framework
Table 1. Definitions of Scale-Up in the Development Literature, and Included Characteristics
Source/Year
Proven Efficacy
CORE Group 2005
“…efforts to bring more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographic coverage area more quickly, more equitably and more lastingly.” x x x x
Victora et al. 2004
“A policy that builds on one or more interventions with known effectiveness and combines them into programmatic delivery strategy designed to reach, high, sustained and equitable coverage at adequate levels of quality in all who need interventions.” x x x x
Linn (IFPRI) 2012
Expands, replicates, adapts, and sustains successful policies, programs, or projects to reach a greater number of people x x
Mangham and Hanson 2009
Increasing the coverage of health interventions (extending the geographic reach such that it benefits a greater number of people) or increasing the financial, human, or capital resources required to expand coverage
Milat 2012
(Scalability) The ability of a health intervention shown to be efficacious on a small scale and or under controlled conditions to be expanded under real world conditions to reach a greater proportion of the eligible (target) population, while retaining effectiveness x
WHO and ExpandNet 2009
Deliberate efforts to increase the impact of health service innovations successfully tested in pilot or experimental projects so as to benefit more people and to foster policy and program development on a lasting basis. x x
Hartmann and Linn (Brookings Institution) 2008
The expansion, replication, adaptation, and sustaining of successful policies and programs in space and over time to reach a greater number of people x x
Hodgins (MCHIP) 2013 (draft)
Increased quality and population coverage (and equity) of current interventions/services on a sustained/sustainable basis; and adoption, expansion, and sustained achievements of high population coverage of new high-impact interventions x x x x
Adamou (MEASURE Evaluation) 2012 (draft)
[A process with] two key elements: institutionalizing the practice (obtaining buy-in from leaders and stakeholders that translate into legal, political, and institutional changes) and expanding/replicating it (moving from one geographic area to more areas or one health service level) x
1 A supporting literature review was conducted for articles in the published and gray literature focused on defining scale-up. The review included searches in Google, Google Scholar, and PubMed using the following key words: scale OR scaling AND up; plus one of the following: nutrition, health, agriculture, development. Documents that did not explicitly define scale-up and devote significant space to explaining the definition were cut due to the large number of resulting articles on scale-up generally. In addition, two projects highly experienced in scale-up of programs in the health sector, MEASURE Evaluation and MCHIP, were included.
Adamou, Brigit. 2012. Guide for Monitoring Scale Up of Health Practices and Interventions (DRAFT). MEASURE Evaluation PRH.
Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Tahmeed Ahmed, Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Kathryn Dewey, Elsa Giugliani, Batool A Haider, et al. 2008. “What Works? Interventions for Maternal and Child Undernutrition and Survival.” The Lancet 371 (9610): 417–40. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61693-6.
Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Jai K Das, Arjumand Rizvi, Michelle F Gaffey, Neff Walker, Susan Horton, Patrick Webb, Anna Lartey, and Robert E Black. 2013. “Evidence-Based Interventions for Improvement of Maternal and Child Nutrition: What Can Be Done and at What Cost?” The Lancet 382 (9890): 452–77.
CORE Group. 2005. ‘Scale’ and ‘Scaling-Up’: A CORE Group Background Paper on "Scaling-Up Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services (link is external).
Hartmann, Arntraud, and Johannes Linn. 2008. Scaling Up: A Framework and Lessons for Development Effectiveness from Literature and Practice. Wolfensohn Center for Development Working Paper 5. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Global Economy and Development.
Hodgins, Steve. 2013. “Draft Guidance on Scale-Up”. Draft. Washington, DC: Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP).
Linn, Johannes F., ed. 2012. “Scaling Up in Agriculture, Rural Development, and Nutrition (link is external).” International Food Policy Research Institute.
Mangham, Lindsay J., and Kara Hanson. 2010. “Scaling up in International Health: What Are the Key Issues?” Health Policy and Planning 25 (2) (March 1): 85–96. doi:10.1093/heapol/czp066.
Milat, A. J., L. King, A. E. Bauman, and S. Redman. 2012. “The Concept of Scalability: Increasing the Scale and Potential Adoption of Health Promotion Interventions into Policy and Practice.” Health Promotion International (January 12). doi:10.1093/heapro/dar097.
Menter, Harriet, Susan Kaaria, Nancy Johnson, and Jacqueline Ashby. 2004. “Chapter 1: Scaling Up.” In Scaling Up and Out: Achieving Widespread Impact through Agricultural Research, edited by Douglas Pachico and Sam Fujisaka, 9–24. CIAT.
Scaling Up Nutrition. 2014. “SUN Countries - Scaling Up Nutrition.” Accessed April 11.
Victora, Cesar G, Kara Hanson, Jennifer Bryce, and J Patrick Vaughan. “Achieving Universal Coverage with Health Interventions.” The Lancet 364, no. 9444 (October 2004): 1541–48. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17279-6.
World Health Organization (WHO) and ExpandNet. 2009. Practical Guidance for Scaling Up Health Service Innovations (link is external). Geneva: WHO.
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Administrative Actions Report Oct-Dec 2019
The following are summaries of administrative enforcement actions the Texas State Securities Board took from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2019.
Timeless Protect and Associated Companies: Emergency Cease and Desist Orders
Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered three emergency orders on Nov. 22 against Timeless Protect LLC, a company that claims it is erasing the risk in oil and gas offerings being marketed to investors in Texas.
Timeless Protect, with offices in Florida and Ontario, Canada, is enrolling oil and gas investors into its Cash Back Program. The company claims it is an “absolute guarantee” that investors will not lose their principal investments even if wells do not produce any oil or natural gas.
The emergency actions accuse Timeless Protect of fraudulently offering investments in oil and gas programs that are purportedly guaranteed by its Cash Back Program. North Texas-based oil and natural gas companies also named in the order include Rare Earth Exploration and Helium Hunters of Garland, U.S. Energy Assets LLC in Cedar Hill, and Travco Oil and Gas LLC in Little Elm.
One of the investment promoters is Bradley Sherman Haycraft of Garland. His criminal record includes pleading guilty in Collin County in 2018 to possession of methamphetamine, state jail felony, and pleading guilty in Rockwall County in 2008 to robbery, a second-degree felony.
Haycraft is the president of Rare Earth Exploration and is involved in the business of Helium Hunters. Both companies are based in Garland and offer investments in oil, natural gas, and helium. Haycraft promotes the investments on a radio show on KLRD-AM 1080 in Dallas.
Another promoter, Raymond Leslie Boykin, is a former broker who was suspended by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in 2015 for misappropriating confidential information from an employer to solicit investments in oil and gas drilling projects.
According to the order, Boykin is promoting Timeless Protect-backed oil and gas investments offered by U.S. Energy Assets LLC in Cedar Hill, near Dallas.
The orders entered against Timeless Protect and associated companies are:
Order No. ENF-CDO-20-1792, U.S. Energy Assets LLC; Texas Victory Joint Venture; Timeless Protect LLC; Raymond Leslie Boykin; Mark Taylor; Duane Lee; Sunil Joseph AKA Joseph Sunil; and Paul James
Order No. ENF-CDO-20-1794, Rare Earth Exploration LLC; Helium Hunters; Bradley Sherman Haycraft; Timothy P. Taylor; Bill Webber; Timeless Protect LLC; Duane Lee; Sunil Joseph AKA Joseph Sunil; and Paul James
Order No. ENF-CDO-20-1795, Travco Oil and Gas LLC; Travis Jordan; Tom Darcy; Timeless Protect LLC; Duane Lee; Sunil Joseph AKA Joseph Sunil; and Paul James
As described in the emergency actions, the company is allegedly enrolling investors in the Cash Back Program, depositing their funds in a trust account, commingling those funds with money obtained from other sources and concealing material information regarding its management and use of principal.
Timeless Protect allegedly claims funds will be available to pay returns to investors regardless of the profitability of the oil and gas investments or the solvency of the companies. According to the order against Haycraft and Rare Earth Exploration, Timeless Protect claims its "bulletproof" structure is fueling its growth into different industries.
Frugal Financial Retirement Plan Services: Fine, Reprimand
Florida investment adviser Frugal Financial Retirement Plan Services LLC paid a $5,000 fine for doing work for Texas clients while not registered with the Texas Securities Commissioner.
The fine and a reprimand were part of the Disciplinary Order that Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered on Nov. 5. The commissioner also granted the investment adviser registration of the Saint Petersburg, Fla.-based firm.
Frugal Financial Retirement Plan Services had acted as an investment adviser for Texas clients since June 2015, but did not have enough clients – six or more – to require registration with the Securities Commissioner.
In April 2018, the firm had at least six clients in Texas, meaning it lost its exemption from state registration requirements. The firm did not register and continued to advise the clients until June 2019.
The Disciplinary Order is the fourth one entered in 2019 against out-of-state firms that acquired enough Texas clients to require registration but continued to do advisory work without being registered. The firms have paid a total of $45,000 in fines to the general revenue fund of the State of Texas.
The previous orders in 2019 were against Global Asset Management Group Inc., Integrity RIA LLC, and FRA Wealth Management LLC.
Jason Hyson LeBlanc: Repayment to Investors
Jason Hyson LeBlanc, an investment adviser representative for Vere Global Wealth Management, has been ordered to repay $366,218 to individuals who bought promissory notes he sold to fund a Fort Bend County coffee shop.
LeBlanc’s wife was a part-owner of the coffee shop, located in Fulshear.
Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered a Disciplinary Order on Oct. 31 that requires LeBlanc to repay 14 individuals who bought the unsecured promissory notes.
LeBlanc sold the promissory notes while working as an investment adviser representative and agent for Girard Securities Inc. Girard fired LeBlanc in 2015 because he didn’t disclose the sales, or his duties with the company that owned the coffee shop, as an outside business activity.
LeBlanc cannot solicit new accounts on behalf of his current firm for one year and he was placed on five years’ probation by the State Securities Board.
Under the conditions of probation, LeBlanc will not have trading authority on any client account at Vere Global Wealth Management; his supervisor must review and approve all information he obtains in connection with client accounts; and LeBlanc’s supervisor must review all electronic communications with clients before they are sent.
Even though the promissory notes were outside the scope of his work at Girard, LeBlanc solicited Girard clients for the notes, and 11 of the 14 investors were clients of the firm. Six clients withdrew funds from their Girard account to invest in the coffee shop.
The notes promised an annualized return of 8% for three years.
Jason LeBlanc had no ownership interest in the two companies that controlled the coffee shop business, which were called Alpha Grounds Coffee LLC and Higher Grounds Java Holdings LLC. But he incorporated both companies, opened bank accounts for both, and served as chief financial officer for both.
LeBlanc registered with the Securities Commissioner as an investment adviser representative of Vere Global Wealth Management in 2016. When he registered he disclosed his corporate duties for Missco Services and the related companies. However, he failed to disclose the full extent of his activities for Missco, which included selling the promissory notes to clients at Girard Securities.
In 2017 the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority barred LeBlanc from working for any broker-dealer it regulates.
PK Crypto Investment AKA PK-Crypto Investment; Peggy Kay Brendan; and Janet A. Osborn: Emergency Cease and Desist Order
Crypto Miner Limited AKA Cyp Miner Limited AKA Cyp Miner and Elizabeth Frazier: Emergency Cease and Desist Order
The Texas State Securities Board concluded its second regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency offerings with two emergency actions on Oct. 15 against businesses claiming they have the expertise and financial strength to deliver high-yielding, no-risk returns.
The State Securities Board's second regulatory sweep of suspect cryptocurrency-related offerings started in mid-June 2019 in response to the price of Bitcoin nearly tripling in the prior three months.
The Enforcement Division’s first sweep of cryptocurrency investment offerings started in December 2017, also in response to a sharp increase in the price of cryptocurrencies.
George A. "Gus" Marwieh and Marwieh Advisory Services: Registrations Revoked
Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles revoked the registration of George A. “Gus” Marwieh, who fraudulently sold more than $5 million in pension-linked investments and real estate development notes to clients without disclosing his excessive commissions, misuse of client funds, and conflicts of interest.
Marwieh, the president of Marwieh Advisory Services LLC in Austin, consented to the Oct. 11 Disciplinary Order. The order revoked the investment adviser registration of Marwieh Advisory Services and the investment adviser representative registration of Marwieh.
The revocation order stemmed from a May 7 inspection of Marwieh by staff of the State Securities Board’s Inspections and Compliance Division.
The inspection revealed that from mid-2013 through 2017, Marwieh almost exclusively recommended and sold two securities: investments from Future Income Payments LLC (FIP), which were supposedly based on the payout from pensions, and promissory notes issued by real estate developers that Marwieh said would pay 18% annually.
Marwieh reaped $343,431 in commissions from selling the pension income investments and the real estate notes. He collected $228,109 in commissions from selling $2.2 million in the real estate notes and $115,322 from selling pension income investments totaling $1.8 million.
Marwieh also charged his clients an annual management fee of 1% to 2% of the value of their assets – even though the pension-linked and real estate investments required no managing.
Marwieh violated his fiduciary duty to clients by not disclosing the conflicts of interest that gave him a financial incentive to recommend the investments. In the Form ADV Part 2, which an investment adviser must provide to clients as the primary disclosure document, Marwieh stated that neither he nor his firm receives any external compensation for the sale of securities to clients.
In fact, his advisory business was based almost entirely on investments he sold while concealing the costs and conflicts of interest.
Marwieh also misused funds intended to purchase interests in the real estate notes.
In a one-week period in 2017, Marwieh took in $189,881 from three clients who intended to invest in the development notes. Marwieh never transferred the money to the developers. Instead, he used the money to pay $194,918 to a different investor whose development note had reached maturity.
Investor funds in the escrow account also paid for Marwieh’s personal expenses, including credit card payments, rent, automobile loans, and insurance.
Inkprint Finance, Onoriode Ikimi AKA Steve Ikimi, and Kevin Flores: Emergency Cease and Desist Order
Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles took emergency action Dec. 30 to stop an unregistered Sugar Land investment promoter from offering guaranteed returns through the trading of foreign currencies.
According to the Emergency Cease and Desist Order, Onoriode Ikimi, who also goes by Steve Ikimi, is telling investors his firm, Inkprint Finance, can earn a return of 25% in 30 days on an investment of $50,000. An investment of $125,000 will generate a return of 40% in 45 business days. Ikimi is advertising the offering on craigslist and other platforms.
The order also names an Inkprint trader, Kevin Flores, also known as Kevin Ulises Flores Santos. The order lists addresses in Sugar Land and West Babylon, on New York’s Long Island.
According to the order, Ikimi and Inkprint are telling investors that Inkprint has at least one licensed forex trader and that Ikimi is a broker. They are representing that Ikimi maintains a forex portfolio through an online platform that has a balance of $1.4 million.
According to the order, Ikimi and Flores are not licensed to sell securities in Texas, nor are they registered with the National Futures Association. There is also no evidence that Ikimi or Inkprint maintains a portfolio of foreign currencies of that value on any platform.
The guaranteed returns are being offered without any disclosure of the risks in the complex, global market of currency trading. Currency traders seek to profit from minor fluctuations in exchange rates and speculate on changes in the values of currencies.
According to the order, Ikimi and Inkprint are intentionally failing to disclose the risks inherent in currency trading, including fluctuations in a country’s interest rates, fees associated with trading foreign currencies, and leveraging transactions using borrowed money.
Inkprint claims offices in Texas and New York, but is not providing physical addresses in those states.
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STS-46 -- Atlantis
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August 8, 1992 - 9:11:51 a.m. EDT at Runway 33, Kennedy Space Center. Rollout distance was 10,860 feet. Rollout time was 66 seconds. Mission duration was 7 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 3 seconds. Landing occurred during the 127th orbit.
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With the launch of Instagram TV, the rise of shoppable content, and countless Google algorithm updates, 2018 was a big year for content marketers. To say that the digital world is constantly changing would be an understatement. In order to keep up, we collected five of the top trends to watch according to some of digital marketing’s biggest names at the 2018 Young Women In Digital networking conference.
Content creation experts Ann Unger, head of digital marketing at Puma, and Claire Oliverson, senior director of content strategy at America’s Test Kitchen, revealed the content marketing trends that have them on the edge of their seats heading into 2019.
It’s no secret that personal recommendations are some of the most valuable currency in the marketing world, but lately the opinions of influencers seem to hold the most weight for customers. A 2016 Twitter study cited that 49 percent of consumers rely on the product recommendations of influencers, and marketers are currently investing an estimated $500 million annually in influencer marketing. YouTube influencers have caught the eye of both Oliverson and Unger. “We’re thinking about things like collaborations,” Oliverson shared. “How can we borrow that equity from other publishers and other influencers?”
Image attribution: Catherine Zaido
While YouTube seems like the perfect platform for cooking show content, where does retail fit in the mix? Even the most unsuspecting products have a place on YouTube, and in Puma’s case it’s with “shoe-tubers” like Jacques Slade. Said Unger, “Yes-it exists!”
Social Listening and Real-Time Content Creation
Sometimes the most valuable earned media buzz comes from the opportunities you weren’t planning for, but seized in the moment. Puma’s recent foray back into basketball footwear included a partnership with fashionable and outspoken Celtics point guard Terry Rozier. Unger recounted, “When [Rozier] announced in Bleacher Report that he was going to be a Puma athlete, he said, ‘I aint f*****g with nobody else but Puma.'” Rozier’s quote quickly went viral, and the team over at Puma acted fast.
Within days, the Puma team was creating substantial social buzz and even had Rozier wearing a shirt of his own making. Regarding this campaign, Unger said, “It wasn’t a content series or something we planned. To me, it was much more reactive. We were looking at a conversation. We tried to leverage the moment and what people were talking about.”
Listening to the buzz around your brand and acting quickly can be invaluable. Other global brands like Wendy’s are using interactions on social sites to spark conversations with customers and eliminating layers of internal approval. Brands shouldn’t be afraid to react in real-time, and as Unger says, “You can always delete it.”
When asked about trends that they wanted to do more of, Unger quickly mentioned gaming as “a huge area where I wish we were more advanced.” The gaming audience is a fast-growing, valuable segment due to their high engagement and willingness to respond to sponsored content. According to a study by digital marketing agency Levelwing, 78 percent of gamers exposed to in-game ads recalled them later on.
Gaming provides unique opportunities for marketers because it can also allow for a value exchange between brands and consumers. Reward-based advertising is native to the gaming environment-and it has proven effective. Mobile engagement firm Tapjoy found that users are 4.5 times more likely to make a purchase after engaging with a value-exchange ad.
Since its launch in mid-2018, Instagram TV (IGTV) has been met with excitement and skepticism from brands and users alike.
“I don’t think anyone really knows exactly what Instagram TV is going to be about,” Unger candidly shared. “We’re testing. We’re seeing what’s working and not working.”
Similarly, Oliverson echoed that her team “piloted a few new shows on IGTV and learned a ton from it.”
However, the two were in agreement that the current IGTV audience is still so unknown that it may be a trend they pull back from in the coming months.
Image attribution: Joey Huang
Despite its slow roll, IGTV is starting to gain traction with big-name brands and their influencer partners. Postmates recently partnered with Nick Jonas to share videos of the pop singer making deliveries, earning the brand around 164,000 views. While this is a small portion of Jonas’ follower base of nearly 17 million, the outlook on IGTV is becoming increasingly positive, particularly in the realm of episodic content. If nothing else, both marketers agreed that IGTV is an area that brands can take advantage of as a “testing ground.”
For brands whose products or services hinge on experiencing before buying, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) ad spend is expected to grow exponentially by 2022. “I would say given that we’re a retail and wholesale business, AR and VR is definitely a space that we’re leaning into a little bit, especially the in-store experience,” Unger shared.
AR overlays digital objects into a real environment (think dancing Bitmojis on your SnapChat camera), while VR is an entirely simulated digital environment.
The beauty of both technologies is that they allow products to present themselves in a realistic, digital environment for consumers to experience without leaving the comfort of their homes. In fact, media relations company Walker Sands found that a staggering 66 percent of consumers have an interest in virtual shopping, and 73 percent of the coveted Gen Z demographic expressed interest in VR. Despite barriers to entry, the VR and AR realms have plenty of room to grow, with an estimated 17 million regular users predicted by 2019.
Looking ahead, there are plenty of opportunities for brands to get their toes wet across these growing mediums. However, as Oliverson advised, you shouldn’t stretch yourself too thin for the sake of trying everything. “We’re sort of pulling back from the approach we had five years ago of ‘do everything.’ It’s more about doing a few things really, really well,” she stated.
As you plan your 2019 content marketing strategy, think about which of these trends fit with the work your brand is already doing and which could help you get ahead of the competition.
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Carina Sorrentino
Carina Sorrentino is a content marketer and forever-aspiring writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her love of words developed at a very young age and has helped her to craft ideas and strategies for brands looking to tell great stories. She loves to write about food, travel and lifestyle topics and you can find her work featured in Thought Catalog and Elite Daily.
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Completed developments
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The Victoria Park development meets one of Britain's highest energy efficiency standards.
By Property News team
Ward Homes is to launch 116 properties at Victoria Park set in the grounds of the historic former Stone House Hospital near Dartford, Kent.
Featuring one and two bedroom properties for first time buyers and larger three and four bedroom homes for families, the development combines traditional materials with contemporary styles.
All the properties also meet the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4, making them among the most energy efficient in the country and ensuring energy bills remain low.
Nick Fenton, managing director for Ward Homes, said: "Victoria Park has been years in the planning and we are extremely proud of the scheme. Demand for quality houses in this area is high and as a result we expect strong interest at the development, particularly from local buyers."
Dartford is also due to undergo a renovation in the coming years and already boasts a number of direct trains to London from the town's main railway station.
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SMASH VIII – Honoring Shane Mosley, Dolph Lundgren, Lou Ferrigno, & Mickey Rourke
SMASH VIII - Honoring Dolph Lundgren, Lou Ferrigno, Shane Mosley, and Mickey Rourke
SMASH Global, the most unique experience in all of combat sports returned on December 13th with SMASH VIII: Night of Champions. It was the organization’s eight event and each event keeps getting bigger and better. If you are unfamiliar with SMASH Global, imagine if the Oscars and the UFC had a baby. It is red carpet extravagance paired with pro MMA fights. It was an evening where Hollywood comes together to honor legends of both entertainment and combat sports. The honorees for SMASH VIII were Kyokushin blackbelt and Action star Dolph Lundgren, Hollywood Icons Lou "HULK" Ferrigno and Mickey Rourke, and Boxing Hall of Famer “Sugar” Shane Mosley. If the line up of honorees were not enough, the event was capped of with four championship fights.
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SMASH VII – Performance by Chiara Arie
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SMASH GLOBAL continues to unite elegance with fighting excellence. On this night, Italian opera singer Ariè opened SMASH VII with a stunning performance that left the guests with chills up their spine.
SMASH VII – Honoring Mel Gibson & Rigan Machado
Honoring Rigan Machado
Awarding Mel Gibson
SMASH GLOBAL continues to blur the lines between beauty and brutality. The cutting edge mixed martial arts organization held its biggest event thus far on Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 with SMASH VII. Every SMASH Global event not only holds high level MMA competition but it also honors a figure(s) that have played an important role in the growth of martial arts around the world. On this night two incredible individuals received accolades. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu pioneer Rigan Machado received a lifetime achievement award for his contributions as an athlete and teacher, while Hollywood icon Mel Gibson received the annual "pop up" award during Hollywoods most coveted week, The Oscars.
SMASH VI – Honoring Chuck Liddell & Earnie Shavers
Honoring Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell
Awarding Earnie Shavers
Hollywood, CA - September closed on an explosive note with the premiere of SMASH Global VI hosted at the stunning Taglyan Complex in the heart of Hollywood. Black-tie elegance and intense mixed martial arts excitement collide in this must-attend event benefiting anti-bullying. SMASH Global is redefining the spectator experience in the MMA. To kick off the night, MMA legend Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell , the night's guest of honor, received the SMASH Icon Award for his contribution to the sport. Liddell, a UFC Hall of Fame Inductee was the UFC World Light Heavyweight Champion for two years, defended his title five times and currently holds the UFC record for the most Knock-Out wins in the Light Heavyweight Division. In a surprise twist, Boxing Legend Earnie Shavers received the first ever "pop up" award for his contributions to both boxing and philanthropy.
SMASH V – Honoring Steven Seagal
Honoring Steven Seagal
SMASH GLOBAL V to honor one of Hollywood's first mixed martial artist. In an Oscar season saturated with repetitive red carpet affairs, one black-tie event stood out from the rest in the lead-up to Sunday’s ceremony — the only awards party where Steven Seagal was the guest of honor and mixed martial arts fighters brawled in the center of a ballroom between courses of a lavish four-course dinner.
SMASH IV – Honoring Tito Ortiz
Honoring Tito Ortiz
Honoring the first superstar of mixed martial arts: MMA Superstar and UFC Hall of Fame Inductee Tito Ortiz. Celebrity meet and greets hosted by NBA Hall of Fame inductee and 5-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman. Come watch as we unite MMA and Hollywood in a night of extravagance and giving back to the underserved.
SMASH III – Honoring Freddie Roach
Honoring Freddie Roach
Honoring Legendary Boxing Trainer Freddie Roach, hosted by Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns and special guest appearances by World Champion MMA fighter Dominck Cruz, Hollywood Action Star Frank Grillo, and World Champion Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosely. Come watch as we unite Boxing, MMA, and Hollywood in a night of live professional fights, black-tie extravagance, and raising funds and awareness for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
SMASH II – Hall of Champions
The Hall of Champions
The Museum of Champions... SMASH Global produces luxury entertainment events that showcase professional MMA fighters, creating the most exciting black tie networking events in the world. Using the most exciting sporting event on the planet—professional mixed martial arts—as our backdrop, we deliver a unique networking opportunity that is one part sporting event, one part networking opportunity, and all parts class and sophistication.
SMASH I – The Hard Rock
The Hard Rock Hotel
Where it all began... SMASH Global produces luxury entertainment events that showcase professional MMA fighters, creating the most exciting black tie networking events in the world. Using the most exciting sporting event on the planet—professional mixed martial arts—as our backdrop, we deliver a unique networking opportunity that is one part sporting event, one part networking opportunity, and all parts class and sophistication.
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Pakistani government gambles on peace talks with militants
Associated Press Writer
Updated: May 14, 2008, 5 a.m.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As power shifts in Pakistan from U.S. anti-terrorism ally President Pervez Musharraf, the new government is gambling on peace talks with Islamic militants to push back the tide of violent extremism.
It’s a strategy backed by the majority of Pakistan’s 160 million people, exhausted by bloodshed many blame on Musharraf’s forceful tactics against the Taliban and al-Qaida along the Afghan border.
Initial results are encouraging: There has been only one major bombing in the past five weeks. However, U.S. officials note that past peace deals failed and new accords could simply give militants time to rebuild and plan attacks in Afghanistan and the West.
The talks appear snagged over militant demands for the army to withdraw from the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
A senior official urged militants to show flexibility. ‘‘At the moment, the withdrawal of troops from the tribal areas is next to impossible,’’ said Haider Khan Hoti, chief minister of North West Frontier Province. ‘‘Once there is peace and stability in the area there can be a dialogue on such demands.’’
Musharraf, who retired as army chief in November and saw his political allies routed in February elections, has been pushed to the periphery.
As president, he retains the title of commander in chief of the armed forces, but his successor as army boss, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, is taking orders from the civilian rulers, Kayani’s spokesman says.
Musharraf’s power will fade further if the new ruling coalition amends the constitution and strips him of the authority to dissolve parliament.
‘‘I don’t think the government needs to involve the president’’ in its counterterrorism policy, said presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi, a longtime Musharraf aide.
The U.S. is adjusting to the new political reality.
Its diplomats are reaching out to the new administration, led by the party of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto. Washington agreed last year to co-fund a development program for the border zone. A spate of airstrikes there widely blamed on U.S. drones has come to a halt.
But the freeing last week of a cleric who sent thousands of volunteers to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and efforts to hatch a peace pact with militants in South Waziristan have prompted wary responses from the U.S.
‘‘The problem has been that many times, those deals are reached and they’re not enforced,’’ Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher said. ‘‘It’s got to be done with a way to make sure it produces results.’’
Musharraf’s regime also tried to talk to the Taliban after its use of military force against al-Qaida hideouts provoked a violent response from militant tribesmen opposed to the deployment of the Pakistan army in their domain.
The subsequent peace deals struck in 2005 and 2006 in Waziristan — including one with Baitullah Mehsud, the top Taliban leader in Pakistan — broke down last year. Cross-border attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan spiked, and American officials claimed al-Qaida leaders had been able to regroup.
The army pushed back into Waziristan in July 2007, and militants responded with about 50 suicide bombings in nine months, including the December attack that killed Bhutto — an assault Musharraf’s government and the CIA both said was the work of Mehsud’s network.
A Pakistani intelligence official told The Associated Press that a draft deal now under negotiation included a commitment from the Mahsud tribe — of which Mehsud is a member — to stop attacks on government targets and prevent their territory from being used as a base for terrorism elsewhere.
The tribe would evict foreign militants, while the government would gradually withdraw the army and exchange prisoners, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his job.
Last time around, tribal elders lacked the muscle to enforce such terms. Their command over the region’s conservative Pashtun society was diluted in recent years as ruthless militants gained sway and assassinated dozens of pro-government tribesmen.
But some say conditions for dialogue are now more favorable.
Unlike Musharraf’s unpopular regime, which set policy without consulting lawmakers, the new government has a strong popular mandate.
Musharraf ‘‘was fighting this proxy war of America,’’ said Javed Hashmi, a close aide to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, a key coalition leader.
‘‘We are talking to the tribal chiefs, and America definitely has its reservations, but we are not bothered,’’ said Hashmi. ‘‘We think our people should be with us.’’
The situation may also have changed in the tribal regions.
Ikram Sehgal, a defense analyst, said Mehsud was weakened by military operations in January. The tribe, whose business smuggling goods over the border was also disrupted, could expel him from the area if the talks succeed, Sehgal said.
Initial successes could mollify Washington and buy the government time to work out what to do next.
Bhutto’s party has been careful not to offend the U.S., which has given more than $10 billion in aid to Pakistan since it joined the war on terrorist groups after the Sept. 11 attacks. It insists the government will not make peace with ‘‘terrorists.’’
Yet the coalition’s political honeymoon could soon end.
It must resolve differences over how to restore independent-minded judges who were unseated by Musharraf. Public anger is growing over hours-long power outages and spiraling food prices.
And if peace talks fail, a bloody militant backlash could trigger political disarray and encourage American forces in Afghanistan to mount more cross-border operations.
Many doubt the secular government can extract meaningful concessions from battle-hardened Islamic fundamentalists.
‘‘How can you have peace negotiations with people who ideologically believe in something else and will fight for it?’’ said Najam Sethi, editor of the Daily Times newspaper. ‘‘If things heat up again, I don’t expect the Americans to keep sitting back.’’
Associated Press writers Munir Ahmad in Islamabad, Ishtiaq Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan and Riaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report.
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This statistic shows the share of apps with data privacy policies in China as of September 2018, by privacy policy type. During the survey period, 53 percent of apps analyzed in China passed the evaluation as having sufficient data privacy policies.
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PPTA EVENT
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On Tuesday 17th December 3.15pm-5.30pm the PPTA are holding a Film Night that will present Toy Story 4. Tickets are £5 each and include a hot dog, sweets and a drink. Payable via ParentPay.
FIRST RESPONDERS FUNDRAISER RAISED £288.50
Thank you to all our families for supporting this amazing cause.
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Thank you to all who supported our cake sale. £180.00 was raised for a local family in need. Well done to Will and Charlie for leading the event!!
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Our fabulous Cricket team came 2nd in the whole of Lancashire on Tuesday 10th September 2019. What a great way to start the new school year!
THANK YOU PPTA
To all parents and friends of St James the Less, thank you for your support for our canopy. All contributions have amassed an amazing £20,000 to buy a very impressive canopy. This means that our infant children will be able to use the outdoors in all weather conditions. Special thanks to those who have given their personal ,me to make this happen as well as all those who have contributed financially. Our school could not have achieved this without your support.
There are currently no procedures for reporting Domestic Abuse incidents to schools which means that our children are left without the support and nurture that they need when they need it most. Operation Encompass has been created to address this so that by 9.00am on the next school day the school’s Key Adult will be informed that the child or young person has been involved, heard or witnessed a domestic incident. This knowledge, given to schools through Operation Encompass, allows the provision of immediate early intervention through silent or overt support dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.
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ALDI ACHIEVEMENT
As you are probably aware we’ve already filled one poster👍
This evening I would like to announce our amazing parents, families & staff accepted the challenge & have completed the 2nd poster💪
This is absolutely fantastic🙌
CAFOD RAISED £954.30
Y6 Picnic in the Park
Year 6 had a lovely day in the park on Monday 15th July and they managed to enjoy the sunshine along with an ice-cream!
Our amazing team have won first place at Catholic Sports morning again!
We have been first for12 years!!
Momo Info
Momo Challenge in ‘Peppa Pig and Fortnite videos’ as YouTube and Instagram fail to remove ‘dangerous’ clips despite self-harm warnings HEADTEACHERS and parents have warned sick web suicide game Momo is being spliced into seemingly innocent YouTube videos of Peppa Pig and Fortnite. Kids have reportedly been left terrified after the disturbing character - which has been linked to two children's deaths - emerged on their screens. Meanwhile, YouTube and Instagram has failed to take down 'Momo Challenge' videos despite a warning by police in Northern Ireland. Momo Challenge is a 'suicide challenge' game on social media in which players are threatened to follow 'orders' from the scary-looking avatar. Northolt Community Special School in Hull, East Yorks, issued a warning to parents today after pupils were reportedly targeted on YouTube. The school said: "We are aware that some nasty challenges (Momo challenge) are hacking into children's programmes. "Challenges appear midway through Kids YouTube, Fortnight, Peppa pig to avoid detection by adults. "Please be vigilant with your child using IT, images are very disturbing."
PARENTS SHARE MOMO HORROR STORIES Parents have previously told The Sun Online how the character, which was originally created by a Japanese artist with no links to the game, has appeared on their child's YouTube videos. One mum, from Swindon, said her six-year-old son was watching a gaming channel when the creature popped up and warned "I'm going to kill you". She said: "The video paused half way through - but he didn’t press pause. "Then the Momo face popped up and was making weird noises, he couldn’t hear everything it said but it was saying ‘I’m going to kill you’ and he thinks it said ‘I will hurt your friends’. Then the Momo face popped up and was making weird noises, he couldn’t hear everything it said but it was saying ‘I’m going to kill you’ One Mum Speaking To The Sun Online "He turned it off straight away and ran downstairs. He was absolutely terrified. "He wouldn’t leave my side at all after it happened. He wouldn’t stay in a room alone and he had to sleep with me in my bed last night. "He asked for our German shepherd to sleep on my bed also so she could chase away Momo if she got into my room."
POLICE MONITORING CHILLING THREAT Police Service of Northern Ireland has said it is liaising with other UK forces over the 'disturbing game'. Detective Sergeant Elaine McCormill said: "This extremely disturbing challenge conceals itself within other harmless looking games or videos played by children and when downloaded, it asks the user to communicate with 'Momo' via popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp. "It is at this point that children are threatened that they will be cursed or their family will be hurt if they do not self-harm." But despite the warning scores of videos featuring the Momo Challenge - some featuring images of self-harm - remain live on YouTube and Instagram. Charity Kidscape has said that social media companies are "not doing enough" to protect children from harmful or distressing content such as Momo. A YouTube spokesman said: "YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit content that's intended to encourage dangerous activities that have an inherent risk of physical harm or death. We remove flagged videos that violate our policies."
Rossendale Hospice Penny Pinching £178.99
We raised an amazing £178.99 in our Penny Pinching fundraiser for Rossendale Hospice. We thank all of our supportive parents, children and families.
Ghana Fundraiser £211
The PPTA raised £211 for Miss Merrifield who visited Ghana at October half term. They did a raffle for a hamper and a signed Burnley football. Thank you to all our families and children who helped.
Aldi Free School Kit
Our amazing parents, families & staff have completed the Aldi poster! Can we accept the challenge to fill another one! #BringItOn
Heritage Tea Party
A Massive THANK YOU to all those who helped and/or baked/donated cakes....! Your never ending kindness is always appreciated by all.
All visitors/grandparents had a lovely time and really enjoyed the food.
Cricket Team through to finals
Our fabulous Year 5 Cricket Team are through to the finals on Wednesday 22nd May 2019!
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Connect with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professional gathered exclusively for a series of day-long science and technology themed events. At the Bright Ideas Expo, you can meet and work alongside some of the most innovative artists, tinkerers, entrepreneurs, STEM experts and creative types in the St. Louis region and beyond. Get involved and engage your own creativity and bright ideas! At the Saint Louis Science Center.
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Preschoolers can explore letters through a variety of stories and activities at this free workshops at the St. Louis County Library.
Dino Chat at the Saint Louis Science Center
Learn all about the world of dinosaurs including what they ate, newly discovered dinosaurs and more.
Roller Coaster Engineering for Kids
Kids will learn how roller coasters work as they loop their own tracks for some speedy marble fun. Roller Coaster Engineering is for kids ages 8-12 and is a free workshop held at the St. Louis County Library. Registration is required.
Sensory Story Time
Sensory Story Time is geared to families with children ages 3-9 who are on the autism spectrum or who have multi-sensory needs. Children of all abilities are welcome.
My Amazing Body Can Dance: A Dance and Movement Workshop for Kids from DaySpring Arts and Education
Kids will get their whole body moving as they discover all the important things that let you move. An accomplished ballet dancer will make a special appearance at this free workshop. Registration is not necessary.
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Instructional Soccer Leagues (ISL) at Vetta Sports are a great way for beginner players, Pre-K through high school, to grow in experience, confidence and development in the sport. ISL programs focus on four key building blocks to teach the FUNdamentals of soccer. More experienced players will develop better confidence and improve their skills. Winter Sessions are now enrolling at four Vetta Sports locations! Sign up today! Learn more and view schedules at VettaSports.com/isl
This family film night truly is for everyone! Come to Purina Farms for a showing of Marmaduke shown inside the Gateway Hall inside the Purina Farms Event Center. There will also be an indoor playground and games for kids! Concessions will be available for purchase, or you may bring your own food & drink. Admission is $5 per person. All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times. Dogs are welcome to attend the event, but all activities are geared toward children. Family Night at the Farms: Marmaduke is set for Friday, January 31 beginning at 6 p.m. LEARN MORE AND GET TICKETS
Bring your family to Cardinals Nation every Wednesday night for Family Night with Fredbird! Meet Fredbird from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., play games and win prizes! You'll also get lots of great photos! Kids eat FREE per adult meal purchased. (Dine-in only, for kids 12 and under). Make reservations today! LEARN MORE AND GET RESERVATIONS
Share the Love This Season: 15 St. Louis Gift Drives That Need Your Family's Help
With a variety of nonprofits across the region currently collecting gifts and toys for those they serve, you and your little ones can help make the holidays a bit brighter for our neighbors in need by donating to the following drives.
Play Street Museum Brings Kid-Sized Fun to The Streets of St. Charles
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Nellie Scott, Lizzie Strachan, Mrs Brunton, Bessie Taylor, Lizzie Robson, Polly Donkin, Mrs Brunton’s niece Mrs Brunton’s brother
on April 15, 2011 in Cullercoats
15 Responses to “Nellie Scott, Lizzie Strachan, Mrs Brunton, Bessie Taylor, Lizzie Robson, Polly Donkin, Mrs Brunton’s niece Mrs Brunton’s brother”
sylvia fleck February 19, 2012 at 5:02 pm #
lizzie robson was my nanna,my mothers mother,my mam was lillian, and she had 4 sisters.
John Hetherington February 25, 2014 at 3:10 pm #
I’d love to see a date associated with this image. My grandmother was Bessie Burton of Cullercoats, the age of the photo would lead me to hope that the girl in the picture was her. If anyone has a date, or perhaps a little more than ‘Mrs Brunton & her brother’, I’d be eternally grateful.
Teresa Brunton March 5, 2014 at 8:11 pm #
The fashions, shoes and cap of Mrs Bruntons brother, date around or just before the 20s .
Who is Mrs Brunton ithe wife of William George or Jacob could you advise.
Peter Burns March 23, 2014 at 5:18 pm #
Lizzie Robson was my Grand mother, my mothers mother. she was married to Edwin Robson and had five daughters, Elizabeth, Edith, Lillian, Phyliss and Elsie.
John hetherington April 4, 2014 at 7:28 am #
There were several Brunton families in Cullercoats at that time, however, this could not be my grandmother Bessie. Her father John died in 1919 when she was 9 but the girl in the photo looks a little older. Also the reference to Mrs Brunton suggests a married name and since my great grandfather had only one brother who didn’t live to see his teenage years, we must assume it couldn’t be them. Teresa, your probably nearer the mark with William of Jacob.
John hetherington April 4, 2014 at 7:56 pm #
So much for my ideas. I mentioned this picture to my mom, and she said straight away, that’s your great grandmother, Mary Brunton (nee Richardson). That means the girl isn’t my grandmother, but instead she is the daughter of George Henry, William or John Richardson, who is probably sitting next to her. These were themselves the children of Thomas Richardson and wife Margaret of newsham.
Teresa Brunton April 15, 2014 at 8:01 pm #
So which Brunton was her husband. There were a lot of Bruntons in Cullercoats, seems all related.
John Hetherington April 30, 2014 at 7:22 am #
Mrs Bruntons husband was John Brunton (1881-1919). He worked at the Railway Power Station on Burnside Road in 1991, but I believe I remember being told that he died after the Great War having been rescued from a sinking ship during the latter stages of the war. Any more information gratefully received.
Pam Lambert May 11, 2014 at 6:29 pm #
I am interested to read what you have said about John Brunton 1881-1919 and glad to see a photo of his wife. I too have John in my tree he was a second cousin to my late father. His burial took place 20 July 1919 at St Paul’s Church in Whitley Bay. I do not have any further details as to how he died though.
Teresa Brunton May 4, 2014 at 5:47 pm #
Could you possibly elaborate, 1991?
…Must be John Lisle Brunton, Lisle given as a middle to either girl or boy. Lisle was a Cullercoats family.
Janice Williams May 12, 2014 at 8:28 pm #
Lizzie Strachan was my Grandmother on my fathers’ side. Her mother was Kitty Laidler a fisherwife from Cullercoats.. My Grandma had five children. Jack, Martin, Andrew Kathleen and Betty.
John Hetherington May 16, 2014 at 6:22 am #
I have compared the above photo with my family snaps and I have no doubt that Mrs Brunton is Mary Elizabeth Richardson (1885-1956) who married John Brunton (1881-1919). The 1991 reference was a mistype and should have been 1911. I referred to the census of that year. Always read and reread what you type….
Also I don’t believe John Brunton was a Lisle. His mothers maiden name was Mills with some Forsters in previous generations, but he was not on the lisle side or the Storey side.
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'The Tale of the Herring' is a project run by Newcastle University's Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats. Celebrating the fishing heritage in five ports in eastern England, the project features a touring exhibition and work created by schools in 2011. Take a look around, learn more about the history of the ports, and submit your own photos and stories.
Nellie Scott, Lizzie Strachan, Mrs Brunton, Bessie Taylor, Lizzie Robson, Polly Donkin, Mrs Brunton’s niece Mrs Brunton’s brother April 15, 2011
Watching for the boats April 15, 2011
Jakey’s Bay and fishermen’s cottages April 15, 2011
Isabella Wilson (middle) from Back row April 15, 2011
Polly Donkin, Martin Henderson April 27, 2011
Cullercoats Crescent Club posters December 9, 2014
Jakey’s Bay September 10, 2014
Fisherman’s gansy jumper April 27, 2011
Child baiting the lines April 27, 2011
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Domaine Henri Germain et Fils, Meursault
Jean-François Germain recalled that it was hot in August 2017 and they started the harvest on the 30th August taking 10 days to pick. There was no rain and the weather was good. They use a 25 strong team of pickers, all French. There was some millerandage on the old vines which reduced yields a little. They also had a little bit of frost on some Aligoté vines. “It has the style of 2014,” he thinks, “but has a little more body.” He says the reds have more black fruit than the 2016s. He receives few, if no journalists during the year and doesn’t send samples for review either relying instead on his distributors to promote his lovely wines.
It’s always a pleasure to spend time with such a calm, modest and affable character as Jean-François Germain and a treat to taste his wines, which are so highly rated by his winegrower peers. This is a small estate of only 8 ha, centred on Meursault but with some vines in Chassagne-Montrachet. These came by way of Jean-François’ mother, one of the extended Pillot family of Chassagne. Jean-François is therefore a cousin of Thierry Pillot, his wife is a Jobard and his brother Eric is winemaker at Vincent Girardin: it’s an interconnected world in the Côte d’Or! Germain wines are reliably charming and complex thanks to a very full flavour profile that can be attributed to the domaine’s cool, damp cellars, a factor that can stretch fermentation times to over a year. Those conditions also create a fascinating mosaic of penicillin and colourful fungi on the wet walls! Germain wines have been great favourites at Tanners since the very early eighties when we started dealing with Henri Germain, Jean- François’ father, always in the same cellars beside a tiny vineyard among the old backstreets of Meursault. Little has changed in the intervening years! Due to the slow development of these wines in the cellars they also age extremely well.
Bourgogne Chardonnay, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (White)
Meursault, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (White)
Meursault-Charmes 1er cru, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (White)
Meursault Perrières 1er cru, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (White)
Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (Red)
Beaune 1er cru Bressandes, Henri Germain et Fils 2017-En Primeur (Red)
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New Film LIBERTÉ: A Call to Spy about Three Female WWII Spies Premieres at Santa Barbara Film Festival: Wins Prestigious Anti-Defamation League Stand Up Award
LIBERTÉ: A Call to Spy, a film written and produced by Sarah Megan Thomas (Equity), will premiere at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival which runs January 15th-25tth 2020. LIBERTÉ: A Call to Spy, is the story of three heroic women serving as spies in World World II as part of Churchill's new secret army, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which was designed to build a resistance. The film is inspired by the real lives of three women: Vera Atkins (played by Stana Katic) Virginia Hall (played by Sarah Megan Thomas) who was an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (played by Radhika Atpe), The movie was directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher. The movie also stars Linus Roache and Rossif Sutherland.
This film will receive the prestigious Stand-UP Award at SBIFF given by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Santa Barbara/Tri-Counties Region in California. The League states, "The courageous heroism of soldiers risking their lives to counter the Nazis is not a new story. What is new, at least for the big screen, that the heroes featured in LIBERTÉ are women, and it is certainly worth discussing why it has taken so long for their stories to be celebrated in this way."
Stana Katic, Sarah Megan Thomas and Radhika Apte play real-life female heroes.
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Movie Review of JoJo Rabbit: A Satire Done Right and Here's Why
By Ashton Samson
In the opening scenes of JoJo Rabbit, I must admit that I found myself in a state of disbelief. I couldn’t believe that I was watching a satire, where the principal character, JoJo, adores and idolizes Hitler. One can imagine the initial conflicting feelings that were swirling around in my head as the film started. Is it alright to laugh at what I’m seeing? Will there be an abundance of humor in this film?
I was thinking in the theater as the film started that Taika Waititi, a man known for his humor, shouldn’t include too many jokes in the movie, because otherwise, it could come across as a movie in which the audience is on Hitler’s side, laughing at his jokes, finding him to be a funny man. The answers to my questions were yes, it is alright to laugh because no, there won’t be an abundance of humor. Although it might not seem like it at first, JoJo Rabbit is an immensely successful film because it does what a satire is supposed to do.
Indie Rock Band Zoochie Debuts First Album entitled "Honey" at Pianos Showroom in New York City January 10th
Zoochie, the popular indie-rock band that came together in New Brunswick NJ, is debuting their long-awaited first album at Pianos howroom in New York City on January 10th from 7pm - 11pm EST. The venue is located at 158 Ludlow Street. Flychatcher and Boyish will open.
Zoochie will be debuting songs from their new album entitled "Honey". Honey contains 9 dynamic rock tracks, each of them pulling from different influences of each of the band members over the three years they have been together. Expect rock and jazz sounds with whispers of their favorites like Zappa, Cage the Elephant and Haitus Kaiyote.
When asked what can be expected of the album, the band responded. "A specific type of energy.. one that will move you.. something new."
The band's first hit was "Matador." They released an EP in November 2019 called Pow! This past summer they released the song "Talk", which will also appear on a movie soundtrack. The album "Honey" was produced by Paul Ritchie at the Parlor Mob at New Future Studio in Belmar, NJ.
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Film Review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - A Phenomenal Conclusion to the Series and Message about Inclusivity Satisfies the True Fan
Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker is a somewhat disappointing entry not without its moments of greatness.
Editor's Note: We get a unique perspective from Ashton, who is a very young Star Wars fan when you consider the age of most movie reviewers.
The force has been strong with me for most of my life, as it has been for many of the true fans of Star Wars. Therefore, there must have been a great deal of pressure placed upon J.J. Abrams to make The Rise of Skywalker a fitting conclusion to the Star Wars Saga. Although A New Hope wasn’t the first film I watched, the classic was one of the only movies at the time that I understood on a deeper level than Peter Pan, Pirates of the Carribean or any other childhood film I grew up watching. I was obsessed with watching Johnny Depp make jokes as Captain Jack Sparrow or Captain Hook dueling with Peter Pan, but when I watched A New Hope for the first time, as the mature little boy that I was, I saw more to the film than lightsaber duels and operatic space battles.
Movie Review of Knives Out with Jamie Lee Curtis: Sharp, Suspenseful and Star-studded, it's an Intense and Masterfully Realized Mystery
Everyone’s a suspect in Rian Johnson's new brilliant mystery, Knives Out. Most of them are of the usual type, all of them could be liable for the murder of affluent mystery writer, Harlan Thrombey. As it starts, the film feels like something out of an Agatha Christie novel. Even as the film races through its energetic and riotous opening montage, I was uncertain of how Johnson was going to pull off a decent homage to the mystery/suspense genre, especially since it's been years since a truly good flick of that sort has been released.
As Knives Out progressed, continuing it's impressive handling of the diversity of well-chosen actors, all while maintaining a fresh and rejuvenated pace for the genre, it became clear that this wasn't going to be a straightforward mystery. The way that Johnson put a fresh spin on a nearly lost genre is by adding political undertones and stereotypical characters for a modern age, all seen through the eyes of Marta Cabrera, Harlan’s caretaker, played superbly by Ana de Armas.
Johnson altered the traditional Agatha Christie format, by revealing the murderer earlier in the story. The significance of this? It's not about the mystery as much anymore. It's about Harlan's complete disdain and disgust for the greedy and self-centered behavior of his family members amidst the backdrop of the kind and compassionate Marta.
From the beginning, I latched on to Marta as a character, because I had a feeling that she would bring something greater to the themes of Knives Out. In a lavish house filled to the rim with the usual old-school suspects of rich, pretentious people, Marta was the standout, because she provided an opposing perspective. Johnson used this film as a platform for social commentary regarding the issues of immigration and the power of women.
Winnie Cooper: Danica McKellar is the Definition of Sweet Success - Get to Know More about this Charming and Smart Christmas Movie Superstar (Includes Video)
Danica McKellar is sweet. Sweet, successful and hardworking. We believe her in all her her roles, from girl-next door to princess, from child actress to adult leading lady.
I had the opportunity to meet Danica at the press block for Chistmas Con 2019, the first ever - and sold out I may add, convention devoted to Christmas and more so Christmas movies in Edison NJ. Dancia took the time to talk to all the reporters there. She was decked out in a beautiful, understated green lace dress - perfect for the event and perfect for Christmas. Any red in it would have been too much, it was just the righ amount and the right color green (evergreen) to subtly indicate Christmas.
Yes, this lady is now synonymous with Christmas. Though for those of us who grew up watching her on the small screen on The Wonder Years, she will always be Winnie to us, she plays her parts on her Christmas movies flawlessly. In each role she takes on a new character and defines herself as it.
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“Hallmark-Gate!”
By Beth Abramson Brier, Writer of "My Thoughts.. Exactly"
As if the backdrop of impeachment were not enough to “make the Yuletide gay*”, this holiday season has given us the “Hallmark Channel debacle“. For the last ten years Hallmark Channel offered us a reprieve from shopping, wrapping, baking, and stressing with its 24 hour sucrose diet of happy-ever-after-Christmas movies. But this year I turned it off. Earlier this month Hallmark pulled four ads that featured two brides kissing each other. It had caved to pressure exerted by an organization that calls itself “One Million Moms”, part of the uber-conservative American Family Association.
The 40th Annual New York Women in Film & Television MUSE Awards: Inspiration and Hope from Honorees Gloria Estefan, Ann Dowd, Anjali Sud, Kasi Lemmon, Jane Rosenthal, Shoshanna Stern & Caroline Hirsch
2019 NYWIFT Honoree Gloria Estefan at Hilton Midtown NYC
Inspiration and progress. That's the message that came from the New York Women in Film and Television's 40th Annual MUSE Awards ceremony held at the Hilton Midtown in bustling New York City on December 10, 2019.
And the 2019 Honorees were:
Ann Dowd, Actor, Gloria Estefan, Singer/Actor/Executive, Anjali Sud, CEO, Vimeo, Kasi Lemmons, Director (Nancy Malone Directing Award),Jane Rosenthal, CEO Tribeca Enterprises (Career Impact Achievement Award),and Shoshannah Stern, Writer/Creator (Loreen Arbus Changemaker Award). The Made in NY Award went to Caroline Hirsch, Carolines on Broadway Owner/NY Comedy Festival Founder
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Lifetime's A Christmas Winter Song Christmas Movie with Grammy-Winner Ashanti: Actors Stan Shaw, Sashani Nichole, Director Camille Brown & Writer Melissa Bustamente Talk about this Heartwarming and Melodic Film
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by Suzanne Ordas Curry
A Christmas Winter Song premieres on Lifetime as part of the tremendously popular "It's a Wonderful Lifetime" seasonal lineup of movies on December 14th. This heartwarming tale is the story of a woman Clio (played by Grammy-winner Ashanti), who befriends an older man, Fred (played by veteran actor Stan Shaw) who was a promienent jazz singer back in the day. He's down on his luck now, but together he finds a new zest and meaning of life as they form a special bond over music. It's a meaningful story about life and reconnecting, wonderfully acted by a cast of known actors and upcoming talent. Another special aspect of this story is that there are many females behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Ashanti stars in and Executive Produced this film.
Interview with the Versatile Actor Tim Rozon: A Man in the Middle of Many Fandoms - From Wynonna Earp to Schitt's Creek to Hallmark's Christmas Town & More
Tim Rozon is the actor you've been seeing all over. Due to his rugged yet classicly handsome good looks, his command of the craft, his work ethic and his ability to become his character so effortlessly, he's found himself in the thick of several totally unrelated HUGE fan universes.
As Doc Holliday on the internationally-successful Wynonna Earp on SyFy, he's a hit of the Earpers fandom. As the wayward son of Roland Schitt (say that name a few times!) on the clever comedy Schitt's Creek (which is being discovered every day on Netflix), he's well known for those fans who appreciate quirky comedy (think legendedary sitcoms like Seinfeld and Curb which this show will end up as). And just recently, he has embarked on a universe of fans that may or may not have any crossover to his other fan bases, the ever-expanding universe of the world of Halllmarkies. He's shot his first film for the network as the leading man for one of the queens of Hallmark, Candance Cameron Bure. What a way to get started on this platform! His film Christmas Town, premiered this month on Lifetime to rave reviews.
Indeed, for this Canadian actor who is working at his passion regularly, he is living the dream, and he's often known for saying that. One of his biggest dreams came true recently. A comic book fan since he was a kid, he recently co-authoured with Beau Smith a series of Wynona Earp graphic novels. (You can find them on Amazon and wherever comic books are sold.) Yes, not only does he look good but he writes well too. Sitting on panels at Comic Cons, I think Tim often has to pinch himself to make sure this is indeed his reality.
Tim Rozon as the notorious Doc Holliday on #Wynonna Earp Photo courtesy #Wynonna Earp
Hop on Board for the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bus Tour - See the Sights, Feel the Nostalgia
The only thing better than a New York City bus tour about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel would be if she herself were the guide. Can you imagine?
"I wonder how much of a cut Susie is getting."
"I know that's her plunger stand on the route."
From the company that brought you the Sex in the City, Seinfeld and Sopranos tours - On Location Tours - here comes the most marvelous NYC tour of them all, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bus Tour.
Staring December 16th, with a cost of $52 for advance tickets the two and a half hour tour will cover many of the locations featured in the AmazonPrime series, well at least what or where they are now. Oh, the places you'll see! Think B Altman, The Gaslight, The Village Vanguard, the park where she protested and more. You'll get to stop in and order at drink at the bar where Mr. Maisel drank and order food at the infamous diner frequented often by the character. If you thought the reuben looked good on tv, wait till you taste it for real.
Oh, and patrons are welcome to come in their best 50's outfits. Hats a must.
For more information: https://onlocationtours.com/
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Movie Review: Martin Scorsese's The Irishman is Brilliant, Reflective and full of Good Old-Fashioned Mob Fun
Once upon a time there was an old man, on the verge of death, lacking in remorse for his past deeds, but sorrowful for his failures and the loss of his family. What started out as running miniscule criminal errands in an attempt to gain money for his family soon transformed into a lifestyle of crime, leading to rivalries and the destruction of many men, including the character himself. Now in a nursing home, the errors of his ways are clear to him, but it's all too late. He might as well confess anyway and that's mostly what the “Irishman,” Frank Sheeran does while telling the audience his life story. Brilliant director, Martin Scorsese looks back on a behemoth career, finally writing an unofficial ending of sorts for similarly related characters he's written about since his debut, Mean Streets (1973). Welcome to The Irishman, one of 2019’s best films that is equal parts reflective, solemn and good old-fashioned mob fun.
When Scorsese commenced his career, he probably wasn’t thinking that he would still be telling stories about mobsters forty-six years later. Sure enough, that's exactly what he ended up doing. Now remember, the characters in this film are not the same exact characters as those in Scorsese's previous films (these characters are real people), but they are certainly related. So you might be asking yourself, how is The Irishman any different from Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets or The Departed?
Are You Tired of Christmas Movies Yet? Here's a Guide on What Is Yet to Come in 2019
Well, I thought I was tired of them.
I started watching them pretty much right when they started, way back before Halloween. That's a steady diet of holiday movies - dating back to when there is pretty much no holiday spirit in the air yet - for well over 6 weeks already. For my tastes that means countless Crowns for Christmas, innumerable Hallmark and Lifetime weekend premieres, several versions of Home Alone, always Love Actually and probably two dozen other movies that right now seem to blend in to one another. I am holding off on Elf and It's a Wonderful Life. Those I watch Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. My husband watches A Christmas Story.
But I had to take a break last week. I was actually a little bored with them. Yes, as much as I love them some of the plots are pretty much the same, just different people in different locations. I turned on the news.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache, A Documentary About One of the First Female Filmmakers Screened at Teaneck Film Festival: Jodie Foster Speaks About How a Century Later Equality Behind the Camera is Not Fast Enough
Jodie Foster Executive Producer
Be Natural -
The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache
Academy-award winning actress, director and producer Jodie Foster stopped by Teaneck, NJ for a screening of her documentary, Be Natural, The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache. Foster is the executive producer and narrator of this documentary about Alice, whom some people are familiar with as being the first true female motion picture director but whom many know little or nothing about.
And that was the purpose of this film. The film was made by documentary filmmaker Pamela B. Greene, who painstakingly detailed and traced the life and times of Alice Guy-Blache using any avenues she could including personal as well as technological means. With a Jersey connection, Ms. Green followed Alice's' beginnings in France as a secretary at film equipment company to her full career and family life in New Jersey. She still has some family remaining in NJ, and many of her relatives contributed their knowledge to this film.
The film accomplished it's objective - the viewer gets a complete and accurate picture of her ambitions, her struggles and, her accomplishments in this period of time on this earth and also touches upon the relevant aspects of her personal life. It is a film for everyone, especially anyone interested in cinema to watch, as her life chronicles the birth of film as we know it. My guess is that Ms. Greene has documented facts and stories about this inspiring filmmaker and creator that had never been uncovered before.
Review of NJ Paper Mill's Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella: This Updated Version is Purely Magical and Simply Charming
By Beth Abramson Brier
Just Be Home By Midnight.
How do you describe a performance worthy of a prince? In a word: Charming!
Paper Mill Playhouse swaps its ruby slippers for glass slippers this holiday season. Following on the heels of Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz, the timeless fairy tale Cinderella takes the stage with all the romance and magic you could wish for. Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director of Paper Mill, directs this classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical with a few modern twists courtesy of Douglas Carter Beane.
As the curtain rises to a story book set of woods and cottages, the ensemble announces that the prince is “coming of age”. Billy Harrigan Tighe takes on the role of Price Topher, not only a slayer of dragons and giants but, we learn, a recent university graduate. The wide-eyed prince returns home to hear rumblings of unrest among his subjects. The royal court, led by the Prince’s advisor Sebastian, knows just how to deal with these peasants – create a distraction. Sound familiar? Christopher Sieber plays this role for laughs and often, for a point. The palace decrees that there will be a ball so that Prince Topher may find a wife.
Film Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is What We All Need Now: Tom Hanks Shines as the Affable Fred Rogers
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is out in theaters.
Henrietta Pussycat is my doppelganger! This may explain why I was among just seven other people at the 10 AM showing on opening day of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. The other explanation is that I wanted to see right away if it lived up to the hype - and my hope. A simple answer for a complex film: Yes.*
Tom Hanks takes on the enormity of playing not only Mr. Rogers but also Fred Rogers. Although they are separate it is almost impossible not to conflate them. The New York Times praised Hanks’ performance in a three page spread in the Arts and Leisure section on Sunday, November 17. He is that good in this role. Matthew Rhys is Lloyd Vogel, a journalist charged with interviewing Fred Rogers for an article in Esquire about heroes. Together Hank and Rhys bring you into the co-existing worlds of both truth and make believe.
The film is gentle. Like Mr. Rogers himself it is unrushed – which is very different than slow. Something director Marielle Heller understood well. The pace is the very core of the enduring success of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Hanks artfully recreates Mr. Rogers’ cadence and deliberate movements. I watched him remove his blazer and street shoes and put on his signature zip cardigan and blue sneakers, marveling that he finished just as the opening song concluded.
Gina Avino's Artistic Design Stores Holds Holiday Open House to Benefit Ramapo Bergen Animal Shelter- Shop for a Cause, Free Medium and Tarot Card Readings
Start your holiday shopping early and benefit animals who need homes! Gina Avino's Artistic Design store in downtown Ramsey NJ will be running a Healthy Mind and Soul Event. Come by her store on November 21st to shop her line of Soulscents products for the body and mind, home decorative products and other items. Enjoy some free refreshments and perhaps try something new. There will be free tarot card readings, medium reading and crystal healings available. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the shelter. Donations of pet goods and food will also be accepted.The event runs from 6-9pm.
Event: Film Forum in New York City Presents a Retrospective of Actress, Filmmaker, Visionary Lee Grant with Special Appearances by Lee Grant
A celebration of the life of the iconic actress Lee Grant will be held from November 17, 2019 to February 12, 2020 at the Film Forum in New York City. There will be screenings of the movies she appeared in as well as made.
This legendary woman was not just an actress but also a groundbreaker. According to the press release, at 26, Grant won Cannes’ Best Actress award and was Oscar-nominated (for Detective Story); within the year, she was blacklisted for over a decade. Coming back strong, she won an Emmy for Peyton Place, then appeared in a series of modern movie classics, winning an Oscar for her brilliant comic performance in Shampoo. But a whole new career beckoned as the director of acclaimed documentaries (including a Best Documentary Oscar for Down and Out in America), both warm portraits of friends and cutting-edge films on women’s gender issues.
She made her film debut in William Wyler's Detective Story, starring with Kirk Douglas. Lee Grant is also known as being the first woman to win a DGA Award. Her stellar career spans decades, and she is still active, having a small role in a new film called Killian and the Comeback Kids, to be released in 2020.
Review of Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite: Unique, Relevant and Powerful, Perhaps the Best Movie of the Year
Review by Ashton Samson
In 2019, the latest trend in Hollywood seems to be finding original opportunities to communicate creative and insightful storylines. It's almost as if our newest generation of directors, each of whom have proven that they are perfectly capable of filling the shoes of previous directors, united in a secret meeting and decided it was time to tell stories from a different perspective.
Directors such as Robert Eggers, Taika Waititi, Todd Phillips and Vince Gilligan are all tired of seeing the same superheroes lunge across the screen, or the same jump-scare movie garbage. They want to produce something that will make a difference within the fabric of Hollywood and they all did just that with their new films in 2019. Bong Joon-Ho, the director of Parasite, not only continued the streak with his work, he also delivered the very best film of the year.
New Filmmaker Series: Sing to Me by Scranton Films to Premiere in November - An Emotional Story of a Young Friendship
The premiere of a new short film, Sing to Me, produced by Scranton Films will take place at the Ritz Theater and Performing Arts enter in downtown Scranton, PA on November 16th at 6pm. Tickets are still available but seating is limited. This is a great movie for a family, it's a touching movie about the power and love of a friendship between two young girls having to deal with a loss at a young age.
The film was made by Scranton Films, a company that uses local resources and talent to produce entertainment. I spoke to Luz Cabrales, producer and director of this emotional and pretty film.
What is this film about?
Luz Cabrales: Sing to Me is about two friends who use the power of friendship to help cope with grief and loss.
This film is a wonderful story written by Julian Santos, a long time friend and creative collaborator and it is directed, filmed and edited by Luz Cabrales. We wanted to tell a story that focused on the experience children have when they lose someone important in their life, it is about coming to terms on the reality of a bad situation and using friendship to help with the process of healing.
ChristmasCon 2019 Day 3 Photos: The Busiest Day of the Convention Celebrating the Busiest Time of the Year - Hallmark Movie Stars Shine throughout the Day
Day 3 of #ChristmasCon 2019 was the busiest of all! It was a convention hall full of Hallmark Christmas movie fans, all bustling about browsing the vendors, eating the foods, getting selfies and chatting with the stars, listening to panel discussions by the stars and the writers and taking lots and lots of pictures in front of the many gorgeous Christmas backdrops provided by Hallmark. Hallmark was an official sponsor of this event created by Thats4Entertainment.
Panel discussions for the day were: Danica McKellar and Rachel Boston with Bubbly Shesh, Creating Chrismas with the writers Julie Sherman Wolfe, Alys Murray and Joany Kane with Joanna Wilson, Gingerbread Wars (a contest hosted by Jonathan Bennett- there were about a dozen stunning entries), Panel with Eric Krakow, Paul Greene and Jack Wagner, and another panel with Ryan Paevey and Andrew Walker. In all the panels, convention-goers got to hear some behind-the-scenes stories about how their favorite Hallmark movies were made and other fun facts. Audience members also got to ask questions, many were about locations. There was enough trivia to keep the fans going until ChristmasCon2020!
View Video of Day 3 Here:
One of the points I was told by the organizer was that the actors were all happy to be together in one place, that it was like a reunion for them since the movies are shot at different times.
Here's some exclusive pictures from Day 3 of ChristmasCon2019.
Nikki DeLoach and Lacey Chabert on stage with Jonathan Bennett and a Gingerbread Baker
Christmas Con 2019 - Exclusive Photos of Hallmark Christmas Movie Actors including Lacey Chabert, Paul Greene, Holly Robinson Peete, Alicia Witt, Nikki Deloach and More
Alicis Witt appeared at ChristmasCon 2019
Edison NJ - The first ever ChristmasCon came to the convention center in Edison NJ on a chilly weekend in November, but inside it was warm with the Christmas - or shall I say Hallmark - spirit in everyone there. ChristmasCon2019 was created by Thats4Entertainment, a company created by 4 ladies who love Hallmark Movies and conventions. (Come back to this site for my interview with the organizer.) And what an event it was!
This sold out event was an early Christmas present for any fan of Hallmark, complete with a bevy of Hallmark's favorite actors and plenty of photo opps with them, vendors with cupcakes and fudge and other goodies that looked straight out of a Hallmark movie, Hallmark Christmas backdrops perfect for your personal Christmas cards, fake snow, Christmas songs in the air, old-fashioned carolers, panel discussions with the stars, and well, lots of ugly sweaters. Let me rephrase that, there were lots of people walking around in "beautifully-adorned" sweaters with bows, trees, lights, you name it some of which were so outrageous you just had to stop and stare. But isn't that what a "con" is about?
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All the actors felt the excitement, and spoke about the power of the movies during the panel discussions. I got to speak with Nikki Deloache, who said how grateful she was for the fans and how she just could feel the love. Here's some exclusive pics from ChristmasCon 2019. While viewing, see if you can name the movies these stars are in!
Netflix Christmas Movies: What's New for 2019 and What Classics You Can Find - New Netflix Originals Include Holiday in the Wild and Let It Snow But no New Prince Movies
Tis the Season for holiday movies! Netflix, coming off the success of its movies from previous years including The Christmas Prince (which frankly checked the box for every cheesy and twinkling detail we crave in a holiday movie) is providing us with yet even more this year. The number one movie I plan on seeing is Holiday in the Wild. Right off the bat the title does not conjure up snow and mistletoe, but it's got Kristin Davis (Sex and the City and Deck the Halls) and Rob Lowe (who needs no intro with that chiseled mug) in it, so that's a definite yes for me. I don't even have to know what it's about or even if it's filmed where there is no snow (it is), I'll watch it just because they are in it.
Event: Morphmom Conference in NJ Features Women to Inspire you to a New Path - Tickets Still Available
Sally Jesse Raphael spoke at
the last Morphmom Conference
If you've never been to a Morphmom event, you're in for a treat. For women of all ages, these quarterly events feature accomplished women willing to share there know-how and story for other women who dare to dream. Whether you just want to hear some inspiring stories, want to connect with like-minded women, or are looking for ideas for a new career, this event will provide you with that opportunity.
Visit www.Morphmom.com for info and tix.
New Book Entitled American Boy: The Opioid Crisis and the Sister Left Behind Chronicles One Family's Fight Against the Opioid Crisis in America - Read what Mom Megan Megale Wants Every Mother to Know
Though in my time on this planet I have known many parents who lost children, losing one to addiction is one of the most difficult situations I have encountered. I try to choose my words and questions very carefully and often second-guess everything I say.
I had the pleasure and honor of being connected by a new friend to Megan Megale, whose son Matt died from a fentanyl/opioid overdose - in the bathroom of their home while she was in the next room watching TV. It was difficult to know what questions to ask this grieving and courageous mom, but i hope I have touched upon the main points so that anyone reading this can get a glimpse of the magnitude of her and her family's grief as well as the magnitude of the opioid crisis in this country.
The family has chronicled their events and emotions in a book written by Matt;s sister Shear, for all the world to see. Fortunately or coincidentally, Shea, who is wheelchair bound due a disease, was already a prolific writer who enjoyed putting her thoughts into words on a page.
The goals of the book are twofold. The family is bearing their souls for others to see what they went through, but they also want change to come from it. They want to change the way rehab in this country works and take the stigma away from addiction. They know they cannot change it all but hope that what they are doing makes some small change or makes someone, on any level, think differently. And, in speaking to Megan, I can safely say that one message they want out there is that this can happen to anyone - to any American boy.
BTS: Tell me what this book is about.
New Filmmaker Series: Rutgers Grad Ian Lettire Talks about Making his first Feature Called Anywhere Is Here and Gives Advice for Young Film Students
In this interview I talk to Ian Lettire of NJ, a Rutgers grad who straight out of Mason Gross School of the Arts hit the festival circuit with his first feature, Anywhere is Here and already has it streaming on Amazon. As making a feature film is a daunting task, read how he had the help of his family and community to create this movie, and learn some words of wisdom for other film students.
BehindtheScenezz: What is this film about and where did you get the idea for it?
Ian Lettire: Anywhere Is Here is about Sarah Dawson, a teenaged girl, who endures life at the hands of an abusive father and a neglectful mother. Seeing no other option, Sarah devises a plan to steal her father's money and run away with her best friend Ben. Unfortunately, things go terribly awry, and Sarah is unwittingly thrown into a nefarious world of white - collar crime. Sarah stands at a crossroads where she must decide to flee or take over her father’s business. If Sarah is to navigate the tangled web of corruption her father has spun she will need to dig deep and find the inner strength she never knew existed.
Discount Tickets for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
This annual show in New York City starts soon. Here is a way to get discount tickets. If you miss this offer, check the Radio City Box office, all the resellers and NYC theater sites for discounted seats.
Women in Film: Cady McClain's Seeing is Believing: Women Direct to Screen at DTLA Film Fest Followed by Panels Featuring Females Talking The Biz
Producer/Director Cady McClain will be screening her documentary film, Seeing is Believing: Women Direct, at the DTLA Film Festival in Los Angeles on October 26, 2019. Following the screening, Cady, a 2-time Emmy award winner who spent years in front of the camera on As The World Turns, All My Children and Young and The Restless along with many TV roles but is now an active advocate for females behind the camera, will participate in two panel discussions. One panel will be on the constantly changing landscape of indie film distribution and the other about diversity.
Seeing is Believing features candid and intriguing interview with female directors talking about their experiences, goals and the environments they have encountered. Cady states that the "film emphasizes the opportunity for women to use their voice through media to change the social and political landscape and achieve full equality." The importance of a film like this in today's environment, with a continued lack of females providing direction and voices in the film industry cannot be understated.
Some of the directors interviewed in the film include Lesli Linka Glatter (EP/Director Homeland), Sarah Gavron (Director: Suffragette, Brick Lane), Li Lu (There is a New World Somewhere) and Naima Ramos-Chapman (Director HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness) as well as Marianna Palka (3 time Sundance Alum), Lee Grant (first woman to win a DGA Award), Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames), Kimberly McCullough (One Day at a Time), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry), Deborah Kampmeier (Queen Sugar, Sundance Jury Prize nominee), and more. Special guest Deborah Riley Draper (Olympic Pride, American Prejudice and director of Coffee Will Make You Black starring Octavia Spencer) will be attending the Q&A.
Move over ComicCon There's Something Bigger - Hallmark Christmas Stars Come to NJ at the First Ever Christmas Con!!
If you're a fan of Hallmark Christmas movies (and you live in the NY metro area), you're getting an early Christmas present this year (aside from the 40 new movies they are showing this season)! Fans of those wonderfully perfect Hallmark holiday movies that start oh so early this year will be able to meet their favorite stars - we all know who they are - in Edison, NJ on November 8-10th at the NJ Convention Center.
It's a Christmas expo filled with all the trimmings of holiday fun. Aside from the exhibitors, the main attraction will be performances and photo opps with the Hallmark stars. Actors attending as listed right now are: Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Cameron Matheson, Jackee Harry, Alicia Witt, Nikki DeLoach, Erin Krakow, Paul Green, Ashley Williams, Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Paevy, Chad Michael Murray, Melissa Claire Egan, Jack Wagner, Melissa Joan Hart, Andrew Walker, Rachel Boston, Danica McKeller, Whoa... what a lineup!!
Writer/Director Joshua Coates Talks about His New Indie Film Hollywould- A Thriller Which Stars Eric Roberts, Pete Postiglione, Torrei Hart and Caitlyn Fletcher
By Diane Somerset
Independent film is alive and well. It seems every week there's a new film festival popping up, and at these festivals one can find a plethora of new movies, in every genre available. I had the pleasure of meeting writer/director Joshua Coates at the Ridgewood Guild International Film Festival in picturesque Ridgewood NJ at the premiere of his latest film, Hollywould. Flanking the Red Carpet with him were not just the actors, including Eric Roberts, Torrei Hart, Pete Postiglione and Caithlyn Fletcher, but also most of the crew and his family. Everyone was there to support this filmmaker who has a knack for making films that keep you at the edge of your seat.
BTS: So tell me Joshua, how did this film get started?
Joshua Coates: The Story of Hollywould was inspired from the ideas and writings of Mitchell Bass who pitched the idea to me. I thought the concept was amazing and soon after that Mitchell and I met for weeks developing the outline for the story. It took me about 2 weeks to write the screenplay, Mitchell was blown away with the first draft and soon after that he secured funding from the Executive Producers Steven and Marcia Bass to green-light the Production.
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Image Comics' Unearth creators preview 'cosmic', 'balls-to-the-wall' horror
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Horror comics can get caught up in the same touchstones with the same look and the same scares, but Image Comics’ upcoming Unearth — from Cullen Bunn, Kyle Strahm, and newcomer Baldemar Rivas — has plenty of horror bonafides to back up its creepy design and some tasty twists to keep fans coming back for more.
The comic’s premise — a team of military officers and scientists go investigate (Annihilation-style) an unthinkable, body-altering phenomenon in the small Mexican town of Mitlan Itza — is only the tip of the iceberg, as the “disease” causing the horrible transformation of its victims won’t be contained so easily. And who’s to say that the hardcore, Junji Ito levels of body horror are caused by something as simple as an illness? Understanding the far-reaching, “cosmic” horror coming from this “balls-to-the-wall” book means hearing from the trio of friends behind it.
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Bunn, Strahm, and Rivas started their collaboration after Rivas (a former student of Strahm’s at the Kansas City Art Institute) graduated and presented the other two with a list of things he wanted to draw. The story’s “ghastly” twist was the cementing moment for the creative partnership, with the inciting incident springing from a “much darker, much more cosmic storyline,” according to Bunn. SYFY WIRE spoke to the team about their horrific new comic, setting up the exclusive interior pages fans can find below:
Its initial Mexican setting was selected by Rivas, who said that the area was selected for both its atmosphere and its rich cultural history — something that will “reveal itself later on” as being impactful to the story. However, this is only the main location of the first arc, according to Bunn. This is a story where the problem spreads, heading in a “much more global direction,” the writer said, though he was wary of spoilers with regards to the comic’s future.
But what about those addressing this crisis? Speaking about the fates of Dr. Frankie McCommick, Dr. Reyes, and Lieutenant Morris (the three characters seen in the first interiors of Unearth #1), Strahm explained that while “some characters will maintain their importance” over the course of the story, “not everyone is gonna make it.”
“We start with a large cast and try not to make it exactly clear who we’re following,” Strahm said. Though some from the first pages will make it through, there is a feeling that “no one is safe.” That uncertainty stems from a writing process that stayed unpredictable. “While we were developing the story, certain characters that I did not forsee having a major role became major players,” Bunn said, while others he’d thought might stick around met their untimely demise. “Since it surprised us,” the writer said, “I think it’ll surprise readers too.”
The “balls-to-the-wall action horror” of Unearth #1 hits comic stores on July 10.
Video of The End Of Harrow County: Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (Behind the Panel) | SYFY WIRE
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Marvel Comics cancels Chelsea Cain's The Vision before launch
Tag: the vision
Tag: chelsea cain
Tag: cancellations
Marvel has canceled writer Chelsea Cain’s upcoming six-issue comic book series The Vision before it was set to actually launch, the Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling author confirmed. Approximately four issues had apparently been turned in up to this point.
The Vision, a limited series written by Cain and Marc Mohan with art by Aud Koch, would've followed Vision and his family, picking up after Tom King's acclaimed run in 2015-2016 that kicked off the story. It was announced in July and set to debut in November. But Cain revealed via social media that Marvel decided to pull the plug on the series.
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“I’m incredibly proud of the 4 issues we’ve turned in so far,” Cain wrote on Twitter Thursday. “It’s been 2 years of work. And reflects tremendous effort by an incredibly talented team. It kills me that we won’t get to share them...Forgive me, Viv.”
Later, she wrote on the site: “.@Marvel asked me to keep this 'clean and quiet' because apparently they've never met me. HI, GUYS, I'M THE ONE WHO'S THE PAIN IN THE ASS. REMEMBER ME NOW?”
On Friday, Cain tweeted: “I want you to know that I am being truthful and transparent because most comic book freelancers can’t be. I am loud, for all of them.”
Citing anonymous sources familiar with the situation, a story from The Hollywood Reporter says that Marvel cancelled the book because of a “shift in long-term publishing plans” for characters in the series — specifically, Vison and his daughter, Viv. Viv has recently become a player in the ongoing Champions series, where she joins several other teenage heroes.
Marvel did not immediately respond to SYFY WIRE’s request for comment.
This is not the first time Cain has had experience with Marvel canceling her work. In 2016, the comics publisher pulled her critically-acclaimed series Mockingbird after its eighth issue. Her Mockingbird series was later nominated for two Eisner awards, and became a post-cancellation bestseller on Amazon after the publisher pulled the plug.
But all is not lost. Cain's new ongoing monthly comics series Man-Eaters from Image Comics is set to launch later this month — Wednesday, September 26, to be exact.
Video of Marvel's Vision (Paul Bettany) & Mantis (Pom Klementieff) On What's Next In The MCU | SYFY WIRE
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An A to Z of Team Taylor
Chris was born in 1977 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He started playing bowls when he was 3 years old. His Mum, Dad and Sister all played and he went along and enjoyed practising before and after matches and as soon as he was allowed started playing in team games.
Chris plays with a Taylor Deluxe 2lb 8oz crown green bowls. He started playing with Taylor bowls about 10 years ago, with a 2lb 11oz and gradually reduced in size over the years. He says: "they feel really comfortable in my hand and do seem to run true to follow the jacks".
He works as a civil servant and his nickname is "Lucky Brown". He says: "i'm not quite sure where this came from although I do tend to think it's more ironic than that i'm genuinely lucky! But then again I might just be lucky!"
He says his funniest moment in bowls was when " I once struck at an opponents bowl that upon connection shattered into quite a few pieces (which wasn't funny) but one of the pieces ricocheted onto the jack and knocked that off the green, resulting in a dead end (which was even less funny for me!!!). Fortunately my opponent saw the funny side of it..."
He most admires Michael Leach, a legend of a crown green bowler who has just turned 68 but is still winning tournaments and has a wealth of experience and tales to tell about the greats of the game."
Major Bowling Achievements:-
2019 Winner of the Rob & Colin Pemberton memorial. This has been running for 6 years and Chris has won this three times. (on 3 different greens as well) and lost in the final twice! Well done Chris!!
Pairs winner of Mirfield Old Bank 2003, 2012 & 2017 (along with Team Taylor Player Gary Ellis)
As of 2018 Chris has won 67 singles titles, across 12 of the 16 counties that play Crown Green bowls. The major ones being:-
Paul Hague Memorial 2015
Cleckheaton Sports Classic 2014
Metro Sports 2014
Arthur Johnson Memorial 2012
Rastrick Classic 2011
Sandal Classic 2011
The Panel Xmas Handicap 2011
Les Evans Memorial (2008, 2013, 2014)
Pudsey Classic 2007
The Grange Classic 2007
Carlsberg Tetley Open Lower Hopton 2006, 2007
South Yorkshire County Merit 2002, 2012
217 Bernard Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G40 3NB.
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PIRATES OF THE CANAL, 8-14 August 2016
Mother & Daughter adventure
Sean Conway Adventure Scholarship - Investing in Dreams
Extreme endurance adventurer Sean Conway, firmly believes that we should all lead a more adventurous life. Seans' #FindYourBeard Adventure Scholarship is about giving people the opportunity to get up and have an adventure of their own by offering a grant of up to £1000 to fulfil a dream.
We are truly honoured to be the winners of Sean Conways' 2016 Scholarship that will undoubtly transform our dream into an incredible adventure!
'The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves.'
-Roald Dahl
1 BLOW UP BOAT
2016 John MacGregor
Adventure Scholarship
2016 SEAN CONWAY
Finalists in 3 categories:
Inspirational Individual of the year
Sporting Achievement of the year
Outstanding contribution
On the 8th August 2016, Athina and I kayak down the historic Liverpool-Leeds canal in our very own inflatable ´Boaty McBoatface´.
This adventure combines some of the things we love best: sports, nature, history and living more adventurously!
We plan to cover around 130 miles (around 210 km); UKs longest canal.
We will travel through history and stop at many iconic places on route such as: The International Slavery Museum, Saltaire Mills and the Royal Armouries.
We aim to kayak for 7 consecutive days, at least 10 hours of kayaking daily.
We will enter and exit the canal at least 100 times (!) in order to go round the locks and tunnels. We will do this carrying our 17kg boat and our supplies.
We will camp along the way and we will be joined by our favorite teddy; Bobby Bear. We are the scary ‘Pirates of the Canal’. Argh!
What does say?
"Pirates of the Canal provides a unique opportunity to revisit some of the past glories of the Leeds and Liverpool canal in a way emphasises the hard work and endeavour that characterised the British canal system in its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday.
Indeed, the aim to complete the journey from the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool to the Royal Armouries in Leeds in seven days is roughly the same timeframe that horse-pulled barges would have hoped to complete the same journey two hundred years ago!
This mother and daughter adventure also helps us to remember the harsh experiences of thousands of families of canal-boat people who lived and worked on the British canals during the industrial revolution and beyond."
Dr Peter Maw
Lecturer in 18th Century History
(University of Leeds)
Dr Maw is author of Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the canal age (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has also published articles on canals in The Economic History Review, The Journal of Transport History, and The Industrial Archaeology Review.
What do the experts say?
'Addi and Athina’s trip will show people just how easy and fun it is to get into canoeing and what wonderful experiences families can have together on the water.
The mother and daughter expedition also coincides with the British Canoeing athletes being in action in Rio, illustrating perfectly the diversity of the sport.
If you have been inspired by Addi and Athina’s adventure head to the British Canoeing website, where you can find full information on canoeing opportunities near you.'
Cadi Lambert at British Canoeing
Go Canoeing Development Officer
Meet the Pirates of the Canal
#LittleLobster
Aka: Athina
8yrs old and the 'Sensible adult' in our little home. Like all lobsters, she loves being inside the water and she's so tasty sometimes I want to eat her.
#HumanPenguin
Aka: Addi
Possibly 12yrs old and refusing to grow up :) Happiest at most when it's cold outside and fed fish.
#BobbyBear
Aka: The 'brains' of this adventure.
He's a scary pirate and wears an earring because he thinks it will improve his eyesight.
Boaty McBoatface
went to Liverpool after all!
What does the say about us?
“It has been amazing to watch Addi and Athina prepare, take part and complete this epic challenge! We are currently celebrating the bicentenary of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, this is a wonderful way to highlight this incredible piece of waterway history.
By taking part in this adventure Addi and Athina have shown what a fantastic resource canals are for exercise, nature spotting and quality family time together. We hope that this will encourage others to seek out experiences on their own local waterways.
The Canal & River Trust supports over 2,000 miles of waterways, ensuring that canal adventures can be enjoyed now and forever. If you would like to support our work, please visit https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/donate”
Fiona Evans, Yorkshire Evening Post
Helen Jones. BBC Radio, Liverpool
Mark Kielesz-Levine, Made in Leeds TV
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Internet Explorer 9 heading to the Xbox 360 with Kinect controls
By Shawn Knight on May 10, 2012, 18:30
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 could soon become an even more integral part of your home theater / media / social networking system. Sources say that Microsoft is testing a version of Internet Explorer 9 designed to run on Redmond’s gaming console with Kinect voice and gesture support.
The 360 already has a voice search function using Bing but as The Verge points out, results are limited to media only. Internet Explorer will open up the full web browsing experience on the console in an unrestricted environment. The Verge has a solid track record with regards to Xbox predictions. Most recently, the publication correctly revealed Microsoft’s plans to subsidize the 360 a week before it happened.
Users with a Kinect motion sensing device will be able to utilize it with IE for voice and gesture control. Kinect isn’t mandatory but sources claim that the browser will be tuned to work best with it. Since entering text can be a real chore with a controller, it makes sense to either use a Kinect or the 360 Chatpad accessory, a tiny keyboard that mounts to the bottom of a controller.
No word yet on when Microsoft will officially introduce this feature but as we know, E3 is looming in the not-so-distant future so we could very well see an announcement either leading up to the event or during the conference. The annual video game conference takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 5-7.
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About | The Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network | Traineeships Toolkit
Sources of Information and Research
Aims of the Toolkit
About the Toolkit
In compiling this guide, we have undertaken considerable desk research on the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) websites, to source the latest Funding Rules and additional guidance notes. We have reviewed and sourced information from the Apprenticeship pages of the ‘Gov UK’ website.
Material published from the Association of Employers and Learning Providers (AELP) Traineeship Staff Support Programme was accessed and reviewed. GMLPN staff attended webinars and associated with that programme in order to understand the national picture and the existing resources available.
The broader web was researched thoroughly to identify examples of good practice, with a particular emphasis on excellent models of websites and materials directed at young people and parents.
From the GMLPN Annual Members’ Survey, we obtained information on the extent of engagement of the network members in the Traineeship programme. This assisted us in identifying a number of the most pressing issues and concerns from our network members, and where they were seeking support. In addition, we have undertaken one-to-one discussions with network members based in Greater Manchester who are eligible to deliver Traineeships.
Consequently, to support the development of the Toolkit we have established a steering group involving a number of providers currently delivering Traineeships and representatives of the referral agencies, including Jobcentre Plus. The steering group has provided us with invaluable insight into the requirements and content of the Toolkit.
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Report: Minorities lacking in Metro departments
Report: Minorities lacking in Metro departments Report: Minorities lacking in Metro departments Check out this story on Tennessean.com: http://tnne.ws/1IRIGkl
Joey Garrison, jgarrison@tennessean.com Published 4:03 p.m. CT Jan. 16, 2015 | Updated 6:34 p.m. CT Jan. 16, 2015
Mayor Karl Dean signs an executive order Thursday for a new nine-member Diversity Advisory Committee.(Photo: Submitted)
African-Americans and Latinos are underrepresented in workforces of most Metro Nashville departments, and white city workers make disproportionately higher salaries than their minority counterparts.
That’s according to a new report by the Metro Human Relations Commission that prompted Mayor Karl Dean to take action even before findings came out.
The study, which the human relations commission began in March and released Friday, shows that many Metro departments don’t resemble the city they serve.
• Sixty-eight percent of Metro’s 50 departments lack workforces that are at least 26.2 percent African-American — the employable Black/African American population in Nashville. (Across Metro as a whole, though, blacks are about 26 percent)
• No Metro department has a Hispanic workforce of at least 8.2 percent — the employable Latino population in Nashville
• Only 12 percent of departments have a workforce that matches Nashville’s Asian/Pacific Islander population of 3 percent
• Forty-four of 50 Metro department heads are white.
Overall, Metro government’s 9,282-person workforce is 63 percent male and 37 percent female. Seventy-one percent of workers are white; 26 percent are black; 2 percent, Latino; and 1 percent Asian.
But the study found that pay doesn’t match. For example, 84 percent of the 448 Metro workers who are paid in the top three salary brackets — earning $63,782 to $170,068 each year — are white. Only 14 percent are black, and 1 percent is Latino.
The report found black workers are “mainly concentrated and, in fact, overrepresented” in pay brackets at $40,000 or below, while white workers are overrepresented in pay brackets above that threshold.
Figures do not include employees of Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Findings come as Nashville has gained new attention for its growing immigrant population, highlighted by a visit from President Barack Obama last month. Nashville’s minority population is likely to continue grow sharply — white, black and Latino populations are expected to each nearly make up 30 percent of Nashville’s population by 2040.
“If Nashville wants Metro government to properly reflect the community it represents, it is imperative that action be taken now,” the report reads.
“While what this report outlines may be viewed as a problem, the Metro Human Relations Commission views it as an opportunity to blaze a trail and set a precedent for ensuring that governments properly reflect and represent the communities they serve.”
The report used Title VI records, federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports and annual diversity reports that are submitted to the Metro Council.
The human relations commission, led by interim Director Tom Negri, released the report Friday — one day after the mayor’s office released a press statement announcing he had signed an executive order creating a new nine-member Diversity Advisory Committee. Its mission: “help ensure that Metro Government’s workforce reflects Nashville’s rich diversity.”
The committee, which consists of nine department heads, came from a recommendation in the report. The panel is to advise the mayor and ultimately assist all Metro agencies, boards and commissions recruit, hire and retain more minorities.
“The more our workforce reflects the diverse cultures in our community, the better job we do as a local government to provide needed services to our citizens,” Dean said in a statement. “We also want our local government to serve as a model for employers in Nashville when it comes to having a diverse workforce.”
The mayor’s announcement, while highlighting the workforce discrepancies, made no mention of the actual report, which was 10 months in the making.
Some observers, meanwhile, noted that the mayor appointed a nine-member panel that includes seven white members — six white males — to tackle diversity.
“The mayor of Nashville has decided to turn his attention to diversity in our workforce with [a] 9- [member] task force consisting of 6 white men,” Metro Councilwoman Emily Evans tweeted.
Walter Hunt, one of 10 black members on the Metro Council, applauded how the mayor has ensured city projects like Music City Center have diverse workforces. He recommended that the Diversity Advisory Committee add a black male representative as a well as council member.
“The names on there are pretty good, but I’m not sure it’s quite inclusive,” Hunt said.
Diversity Advisory Committee members are: Scott Potter, director of Metro Water Services, who will serve as chair; Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson; Metro Action Commission Director Cynthia Croom; Interim Human Resources Director Veronica Frazier; Acting Public Works Director Randy Lovett; Metro Department of Law Director Saul Solomon; Metro Fire Chief Ricky White; and Davidson County Clerk Brenda Wynn.
In the announcement the previous day, the mayor’s office highlighted efforts it says show Metro’s “commitment to diversity” — implementation of domestic partner benefits; Dean’s executive order reaffirming Metro’s commitment to ensuring that Metro workplaces are welcoming and accessible to employees with disabilities; and offices aimed at minority and women business assistance as well as New Americans.
Metro departments with the highest percentage of African-American workers are the Metro Action Commission, Sheriff’s Office, Beer Board and Sports Authority. Those with the lowest include the Historical Commission, Office of Emergency Management and Metro Criminal Justice Planning.
Reach Joey Garrison at 615-259-8236 and on Twitter @joeygarrison.
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Top 10 Best Teams in the 2020 NFL Playoffs
Randomator Well we’ve narrowed it down to 12. The playoffs are here and with that who will remain the lone team standing holding the Lombardi Trophy? Both sides are loaded with talented teams and this may be one of the best fields I’ve seen in awhile. Really any team could win it except maybe Philadelphia
1 Baltimore Ravens The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ravens compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference North division.
Baltimore May be one of the most complete teams in the NFL. They have talent on both sides of the ball. Lamar Jackson has been electrifying and near impossible to stop. Pair that with a Defense that has been solid when it needs to be and you have a dangerous team. Not to mention they have beat some of the best teams in the league. Including New England, San Francisco, Seattle and Houston - Randomator
CONGRATULATIONS You Just Got Exposed by the Titans at home! So much for crowning yourself AFC champions when you didn’t even make it there. - Randomator
Too be fair the Titans were actually the third best team in the AFC after them and Chiefs despite what the record shows - germshep24
2 San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Strong Defense and Offense..most complete and balanced team. Battled tested. Fears no team.
49ers and Cheifs at the superbowl! - Oliversky
Well congratulations you’re hosting the NFC championship after beating the Vikings. Pretty good showing so far - Randomator
If you were to tell me they would be the #1 seed in the NFC at the start of the season I’d give you a funny look but here we are now. San Francisco has gone from laughingstock to super bowl contenders again. Jimmy Garoppolo has developed into a rather dangerous quarterback and we can’t forget other guys like Emmanuel Sanders George Kittle and Tevin Coleman. On defense they have been pretty decent with guys like Nick Bosa, Dee Ford and Kwon Alexander. Even without those guys the defense has been lights out when they needed it. They will be an interesting team to watch - Randomator
3 New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints currently compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference South division.
1 down 2 to go - RawIsgore
CONGRATULATIONS YOU Guys Lost to the Vikings! 3 straight heartbreakers in the playoffs and now your window is closing in. You may have wasted your last shot with Brees! No the refs aren’t to blame this time either. You can only blame yourselves. WHO DAT? Failures all around Dat’s who - Randomator
The Saints have had an impressive season even with losing Drew Brees for a stretch of games we got to see the return of Teddy Bridgewater. The Saints have 2 main offensive weapons in Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas. The Saints are dangerous and honestly deserves a bye in my opinion. They have the talent to get to the Super Bowl but if there’s one weakness it’s that defense. They’re going to be tested multiple times starting in round 1 especially if Dalvin Cook is healthy - Randomator
4 Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's American Football Conference West division.
WOW I’m still amazed at what just happened. Imagine being told that Kansas City would not only win but lead at halftime and put up 51 points total after being down 24-0... just how? - Randomator
I was a bit skeptical at first but this team is better than last year and they almost made the Super Bowl. I’m not getting my hopes up yet because of “Full Reid” but you have an explosive offense with Mahomes, Kelce, Hill, Hardman, Williams, McCoy, Watkins and so on. And they have gotten better on defense with guys like Honey Badger, Frank Clark, Terrell Suggs, Juan Thornhill and so on. This team is getting hot at the right time. There’s a lot to like. Can they overcome their playoff demons? - Randomator
5 Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference West division.
Seattle you had a good showing vs a severely banged up Philadelphia Eagles team. Now can you do it again vs Green Bay? - Randomator
Seattle has a lot of guys injured but they still have one of the game’s best quarterbacks in Russell Wilson. With him they are a competitive bunch I mean just look at that week 17 battle against San Francisco. Never underestimate these guys - Randomator
Well good game guys you were so close to pulling off the upset. Can’t bash them too hard because a lot of key players were on IR and they still managed to at least make this a game so credit for them. Nothing to be ashamed of - Randomator
6 Tennessee Titans The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
GO TENNESSEE TITANS!
Edit: Congratulations You Have defeated the evil empire! Yes that’s right Vrabel Tannehill and Henry were able to blow up the Death Star and outsmart Emperor Belichick by beating him at his own game.
The NFL World thanks you for your service - Randomator
Tennessee is a team that could make some noise. With how off the Patriots Look and this team looking hot at the right time it’s not impossible. I mean you have Tannehill and Derrick Henry. Don’t underestimate them - Randomator
Edit: Okay Dereck Henry and Ryan Tannehill are for real. Don’t underestimate them. Talk about an underdog mentality this team has it. Don’t let their 9-7 record fool you this is a scary good team. A lot like Wichita State or Loyola-Chicago or VCU in March Madness you just don’t see it coming - Randomator
7 Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference North division. The Packers have won 4 super bowls and 13 NFL championships.
They have Rodgers. Much like teams that had Tom Brady, John Elway, or Joe Montana, last-minute heroics are in his DNA.
You guys are still frauds. I don’t care if you won in ugly fashion this shouldn’t have been close. You got lucky this time but you cannot expect to keep winning like that. Still not convinced - Randomator
They have the potential but I’m not buying it. This team hasn’t played a full 60 minute game. They’re just inconsistent. I feel like they aren’t as good as their record indicates. Week 17 against the Lions says it all. That kind of game will come back to haunt them. Rodgers can’t bail them out forever - Randomator
8 New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region. New England Patriots are one of the few teams to have 5+ wins in the Super Bowl.
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU JUST LOST TO THE TITANS! Yes Emperor Belichick and Darth Brady weren’t enough to overcome the Jedi Titans. Now the NFL world dances on your grave as the Evil Empire May be no more even if Darth Brady comes back for another year - Randomator
Despite how un- Patriot like this team has been they are still the Patriots. By that I mean they will still find a way to win the Super Bowl. Just look at last year. Even with a good defense they are looking pretty bland on offense. Brady is looking like Father Time has caught up with him. I won’t say it’s the end but when you don’t have a bye things are a lot different - Randomator
Actually its been proven that a mediocre offense and an elite defense can get to a superbowl, but its rarely done. 2015 Broncos, 2000 Ravens etc. - htoutlaws2012
9 Houston Texans The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team competes in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
Houston could be dangerous in the Postseason they have Deshaun Watson and Deandre Hopkins leading the offense and JJ Watt is coming back on defense. They could be a potential dark horse - Randomator
CONGRATULATIONS You have blown a 24-0 LEAD! How about letting the Chiefs offense regain momentum all in less than a quarter? You might have just 1 upped the Falcons. AND KANSAS CITY HAS TIED IT IN THE 8TH! Just like in 2015 this game is the equivalent of that. Imagine blowing a 24-0 lead and giving up 50 AND losing by 20? Couldn’t be my team - Randomator
10 Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.
Well congratulations you pulled off an upset. Kirk Cousins shut up the haters for now. The question is can you keep it up? - Randomator
Well good game guys no shame for losing that one Niners were the better team coming off a bye. - Randomator
Minnesota is an interesting team yet they are riding one guy essentially. Dalvin Cook. Their entire postseason fate depends on him. Kirk Cousins hasn’t been bad but we all know he has yet to win the big one. They will be underdogs for sure - Randomator
11 Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area that competes in the National Football League. Buffalo Bills had the longest playoff drought of any team which came to an end in 2017.
Well Good Game guys you were so close to pulling off the win but the Texans are a good team. Nothing to be ashamed of boys - Randomator
Might as well just add the other 2 playoff teams...
Buffalo is back in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years. They have potential and have proven that defense is for real especially with Tre’ Davious White who has been lights out over the past few weeks. On top of that Josh Allen has got better. Simply put this team could make noise in the playoffs for the first time since the 90s - Randomator
12 Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional football franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference East division.
Sucks seeing Wentz go down in his first playoff game. Can’t knock them too hard because literally their entire team was injured so they earned this playoff berth - Randomator
Philadelphia congratulations you have limped into the playoffs because of a historically awful division that someone had to win. I don’t think you’ll go anywhere but at least you made it? The Eagles have been dealing with injuries all around but maybe they will find a way - Randomator
What are you talking about, it is not an historically awful division, it a division that has had an rough decade. I mean last year both Eagles and Cowboys made the playoff - germshep24
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Ugly Tomorrow - "Pretty Ugly" EP
Ugly Tomorrow is a rising new artist from Toronto that blends genres and instrumentation in a stand out way amongst the cities current hip hop sounds. Already having a productive 2019, Ugly Tomorrow has been touring across Canada in support of acts like Xavier Wulf while working on his new EP. Now officially releasing the project titled “Pretty Ugly” on all stream services world wide, he’s eager to share the music and his journey. Pulling influences from various genres, Ugly Tomorrow’s sound is all his own and he proves to be a solid song writer on his debut outing. Blending; hip hop, R&B, punk / rock and pop- Ugly Tomorrow’s signature haunting melodies over the emotional compositions are sure to capture the atmosphere of the impending Canadian winter. Stand out singles off the project include “Cry Out” which is a solid example of Ugly’s sound. The single was recorded, produced and mastered in Montreal by Beau Gest and is a big track on the 5 song offering. Be on the look out for new music and visual content dropping soon!
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There's a $1,685 Krispy Kreme covered in gold and filled with Dom
By Kristin Hunt Published On 05/22/2014
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By Kristin Hunt @kristin_hunt Published On 05/22/2014
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Apparently, $1,000 sundaes are for peasants. Those committed to truly refined tastes at any cost now look to the taste-makers at Krispy Kreme, who recently unveiled the world's most expensive donut at London department store Selfridges. The price: £1,000... or $1,685 if you won the Revolutionary War. (Burn!)
The ritzy things that go into this breakfast pastry include a Dom Perignon vintage 2002 Champagne jelly with raspberry and Chateau d’Yquem creme, edible 24-carat gold leaf, a 23-carat gold-dusted Belgian white chocolate lotus flower, and edible diamonds. But it also rested on top of a Krispy Kreme cocktail mixed with a 500-year-old Courvoisier de L’Esprit Cognac and even more Dom. The treat sounds great for a billionaire's birthday party, but since it doesn't have brownie batter, we'll pass.
Kristin Hunt is a food/drink staff writer for Thrillist, and has personally never felt the urge to eat jewels. Follow her to $5 meals at @kristin_hunt.
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Connor Betts: 5 things to know about Dayton shooting suspect
By Gary Dinges gdinges@gatehousemedia.com
Aug 5, 2019 at 1:25 PM
In less than a minute, nine people were killed and 27 others were injured when a shooter opened fire in Dayton, Ohio's busy entertainment district late Saturday night.
Police gunfire took down the suspect, 24-year-old Connor Betts, ending the massacre.
Here are five things to know about Betts:
1.) Shooting lasted just 32 seconds. City leaders said a number of police officers were already in the area where Betts is alleged to have opened fire, allowing for a quick response, according to Yahoo! News. If they hadn't been nearby, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and Police Chief Richard Biehl speculated the death toll would have been much, much higher.
2.) Shooter kills sister. Among the dead was Betts' sister, 22-year-old Megan. The two rode together to the Oregon District, the scene of the shooting, USA Today reports. A passenger who traveled with them was injured by gunfire. Police have said they don't believe Megan Betts knew what her brother had planned.
3.) No known motive. Biehl said at a news conference Monday that investigators were still searching for a motive. He did say, however, that the shooting was not believed to be racially motivated, CNN said.
4.) Heavily armed. Police say Betts was armed with a .223-caliber, high-capacity rifle with a pair of magazines that were each capable of holding 100 bullets. The shooter wore a bulletproof vest and mask, as well as hearing protection. CNN reports the rifle was ordered online from Texas, then transferred to a local gun dealer before being acquired by Betts. A second weapon, a shotgun, was found nearby in Betts' car.
5.) Kept 'hit list,' 'rape list.' While in high school, Betts reportedly kept a list of students he wanted to kill and a separate list of girls he wanted to rape, two former classmates told The Associated Press. Betts disappeared from campus for a short time after police were notified about the list, but ultimately he returned following an investigation. Officials with Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Schools declined to discuss the lists and how the district dealt with them. Still, the AP notes, nothing that turned up in a routine background check would have prevented Betts from buying guns and ammunition.
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24 septembre 2019 08:57 | Updated on 18 octobre 2019 16:37
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British royal the Duchess of Sussex has presented herself as a "woman of colour" and "sister" to native South Africans during her trip to Cape Town with Prince Harry.
The former actress and her husband marked the first day of their tour of the nation on Monday (23Sept19), and in a powerful speech addressing gender-based violence, the 38 year old made it clear she stood beside the victims.
"We are encouraged to hear your president take the next step towards preventing gender-based violence through education and necessary changes to reinforce the values of modern South Africa," she said. "I feel incredibly humble to be in the presence of all of you as you stand firm in your core values of respect, dignity, and equality."
She then drew on her own personal life to address the crowd.
"On one personal note, may I just say that while I am here with my husband as a member of the royal family, I want you to know that for me, I am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of colour and as your sister. I am here with you, and I am here for you."
The first day of the Duke and Duchess' trip to South Africa included a visit to the Justice Desk, an organisation that "aims to educate, train, advocate for and equip youth, vulnerable groups, civil society, and governments in human rights, justice and advocacy".
The pair was also photographed hugging and dancing with local children in Nygana township.
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Drones to carry medical samples for Turnhout hospital
Turnhout will begin a pilot project in September that uses drones to transport medical samples between hospital sites. The aim is to make hospital services more efficient and to avoid adding to the pollution and congestion on the city’s roads.
AZ Turnhout is spread over several sites in the city, with medical samples such as blood and tissues frequently moving from one to another for analysis. Usually this is done by courier.
With a drone, “there are no traffic jams and no delays on busy roads, which ultimately means that the patient will have to wait less time for a diagnosis or life-saving medication,” said Duncan Walker, managing director of Skyports, which is providing the drones for the project.
The one-month pilot project will begin by transporting medical samples from hospital wards to the laboratories. Later on, drones may also be used to move drugs and other supplies around the city. The project will also look at connecting AZ Turnhout with other hospitals.
“With the establishment of various hospital networks in Flanders, we will have to co-ordinate much more in future,” said Griet Braekmans, facilities director at AZ Turnhout. “With drones we can deliver customised patient care and enable better collaboration between hospitals.”
The project also has the backing of Turnhout City Council. “Urban air mobility is still new in Belgium, but we believe it can play a role in smooth and sustainable mobility,” said Marc Boogers, city councillor responsible for mobility. He also said that seeing drones overhead should come as no surprise to the general public. “We will inform the residents thoroughly before the flights start.”
The Turnhout project is part of an EU Urban Air Mobility initiative, involving 42 cities throughout Europe. If the results are positive, it could lead to permanent drone operations on a larger scale.
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Written by Ian Mundell (Flanders Today)
The aim is to make hospital services more efficient and to avoid adding to the pollution and congestion on the city’s roads...HAHAHA...noooooooooo...the "aim" is to save money and time by not having to pay delivery drivers. I read so many of these articles here and they appear to targeted to children or people who believe everything they read.
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Whereas most aleatoric art is created by nature, Anne B. Schwartz derives her palette from nature and depicts the earth's geological elements—raw minerals and uncut gems in their natural state, the cosmic elements that constitute our universe and the planets with their gaseous swirls and roiling atmospheric storms. Her work also captures the colors and shapes of the distant nebulae that contain the stardust from which all life originated.
Whether we speak of her impressionistic aerials or densely featured metallic surfaces based on precious metals found in cave walls, Schwartz’s paintings evolve over time and are always in flux as she adds layer upon layer of texture and color until the amassed material conveys the awesome power and scope of the heavenly bodies, or the beauty and richness of rare earth.
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Anne Brawer Schwartz has exhibited her mixed media paintings in numerous exhibitions throughout Los Angeles County. In 2010, her work was published in the coffee table book "Santa Monica," featuring art inspired by the seaside city of Santa Monica, CA, published through Jeffrey Crussell Fine Art. She has received several awards for her work. Her paintings are in collections world wide. Giclee prints are available on line at Neiman Marcus, Horchow and at other fine retail stores. Anne frequently works with interior designers on commissions and sales. One of her paintings, "Piazza San Marco" is currently featured on the hit TV show "The Mindy Project" seen on Fox. Anne earned her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the University of Oregon, and she also attended the Gemological Institute of America. Her background as a successful jewelry designer informs her fine art practice.
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Video – River Runner: A Staff Story
For those of us at The Freshwater Trust, water is more than a job. Our ties to the river run deep, and our staff story series is meant to share those personal connections with our supporters, partners, followers and friends.
River Runner will introduce you to Jeff Fisher, habitat monitoring coordinator for The Freshwater Trust. Fisher collects and analyzes critical pieces of data for our habitat restoration and flow restoration programs. But when he’s not waist deep in the river, he’s following its bends on foot.
“My first trail run began from the Salmon River trailhead, which lies in the shadow of Mount Hood in the central cascades. It was decided that we were going to go six miles or so, but something primal clicked almost instantly as my level of awareness was heightened by the environmental stimuli that was flooding my soul, at a pace that I had never experienced before. The protruding roots, slippery rocks, swaying cedar limbs and dew soaked spider webs that I had to navigate and leap over demanded that I was completely in the present. The sound of water crashing over countless boulders, as the river navigated through the unforgiving roughness of its channel, enriched my sense of hearing. The sight of salmon spawning in the margins of the river had me so mesmerized at times I almost ran off trail and into the river. My need to see what was around the next bend had aroused a curiosity that was hard not to pursue. This was nothing short of amazing.” – Jeff Fisher
Jeff’s story is the first in a series of video profiles set to be released every two weeks over the course of the summer. Stay tuned for the next on June 26.
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Despite finals loss, Eugenie Bouchard develops as stone-cold killer on the court
Bouchard has had a relentless and uncompromising devotion to winning Grand Slam titles, and a fearless belief in herself versus any opponent
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Sean Gordon and Rachel Brady
MONTREAL AND TORONTO
Published July 5, 2014 Updated May 11, 2018
Talented kids by the hundreds have clicked through the turnstile at Club de tennis de l'Ile-des-Soeurs, all carrying tennis bags stuffed with rackets, sneakers and big ambitions. Many have oozed swagger and potential, but who could predict that one of them would make it to a Wimbledon final by age 20.
A pint-sized Eugenie Bouchard would troop into the club on Nun's Island, south of downtown Montreal, usually with her mother and twin sister Beatrice. The girls began tennis there at age five, in an introductory class that got the little ones moving first with hoola hoops and balloons. While her sister and the other youngsters found whimsy in that, to Bouchard it felt like a humdrum opening act, as she burned to get at the racquets and yellow balls.
By now, even casual fans know about Bouchard's upbringing in the affluent Montreal enclave that is Westmount, Que., the fact her parents named her and Beatrice after the Duchess of Kent's daughters, and she honed her talents between Montreal's national training centre and Plantation, Florida, where she has worked with coach Nick Saviano since she was 12. What's less discussed is the quality that sets her apart.
Those who have rubbed elbows with Bouchard longest cite a confluence of factors that explain her meteoric rise, starting with obvious athletic talent. But more so, they stress, since her earliest days in the sport, she has had a relentless and uncompromising devotion to winning Grand Slam titles, and a fearless belief in herself versus any opponent. Despite her eye-catching looks, smiling articulate persona and growing global celebrity, Bouchard is a stone-cold killer on the court.
"Genie had this competitive streak and was never satisfied, always wanted to hit more balls," said her mother Julie Bouchard in a phone interview with the Globe and Mail last summer. "So it became a growing commitment, two hours a week, three hours a week. By grade 3 she was going every day, in another year, she was starting to leave school a bit early so she could do a private lesson before the group. Then she went to regular school until the middle of grade 7, and then we moved to Florida. It was a long slow process but the interest and fire and competitiveness were always there."
At nine, Bouchard won a qualifying event in Montreal to get into a 12-and-under tournament in France. The fire intensified then within the youngster.
"I beat 12 year olds to get there, and it really opened my eyes about what I could do," Bouchard recollected to the Globe during an off-season interview in Florida. "It was the first time I had ever left North America and I was doing it to go play tennis because I earned my way there. In France, I realized I want to travel the world and play tennis as a career."
Her confidence struck Ralph Platz the first time he met her at an under-12 national selection event in Edmonton, a man who become her coach on Canada's national junior team.
"I went over and asked what her name was. She looked at me like she was almost disgusted that I didn't know who she was. She put her hand on her hip and said 'I'm Eugenie Bouchard', and walked off," said Platz, who coaches rising talents at Montreal's National Tennis Centre.
When the players at the camp were asked about their goals, Bouchard declared "to win Grand Slams."
Platz is reminded of the 2005 Junior Fed Cup World Championships in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, when Bouchard was training with the Canadian girls' team and they were doing wind sprints. One of the other players kept winning.
"She wasn't having it," said Platz, who remembers that Bouchard kept asking for one more race, over and over again, wanting to keep going until she could win one. "At one point I just had to stop them."
And how did Bouchard perform on the court that week?
"She won every match she played," Platz said.
The highly-reputed focus extended beyond the court. Michael Cristofaro, the principal of Westmount High School, remembers a driven young woman with outstanding commitment and determination, but who was nevertheless sociable. The school offered a flexible curriculum that allowed her to travel for tennis; she didn't complete her diploma at the same time as her peers but enrolled in a distance education program, determined to finish.
"She had pretty much the same personality then that she has now," said Cristofaro.
The same personality carried through, as did the same dream. She admits to looking at her twin sister sometimes to see a very different life from her own.
"We're very different, but very close, and because she is exactly my age, I see what my life would be like if I wasn't playing tennis," said Bouchard, who also has a younger sister and brother. "She's normal, I'm abnormal – that's how I see it. It's cool having someone exactly your own age in your family."
The family's schedule was often dictated by Bouchard's growing commitment to training with Saviano, who was also coaching others destined for the WTA, like American Sloane Stephens and Brit Laura Robson.
The junior ranks are brimming with players who believe they're destined for the pros, but only a select few make it out. Juniors have to call their own lines when competing there, and some desperate ones cheat and intimidate, often those from less-fortunate countries who believe tennis is their only way out.
"You have to get through those years – imagine little league or soccer without an umpire – tennis is like that when they call their own lines at a young age," said her mother. "But it toughened her up."
Coaches often say that from an early age, Bouchard had a unique ability to take in coaching without complaint.
"She was special, very unique, in her desire to receive information at an early age – to really want information – then apply that information right away," said Sylvain Bruneau, Canada's Fed Cup coach, who has had a part in Bouchard's development since she was 12. "She's always been relentless about improving... she has a really special mind."
She spent the last five weeks of 2013 working in the gym, racing against herself up hills on sandy beaches and honing her game on courts around Southeast Florida from Plantation to Boca Raton.
"A lot of athletes just trust and don't question what we plan to do in the gym, but Genie would challenge me on a daily basis "why am I doing this exercise, how will this make me better?', because she really wants to understand, and then she totally buys in," said Andy Hanley, a strength and conditioning coach who worked with her at The Chamber, a Florida gym that also has NFL clients. "I never fear for her when she's in competition, because she's competing against herself every day in training, and the expectations she has for herself are so high."
Bouchard is striking as opportunity knocks, chasing after the top prizes on a WTA Tour that is ripe for a new headliner. At the top of the tennis world, every athlete is gifted technically, but what separates good from great are intangibles like toughness, confidence, and relentlessness. She's sometimes blunt in her post-match press conferences. Does this rapid success surprise her, she's repeatedly asked.
No, she often says in a frank way. She's been chasing this since she was five. She doesn't feel out of place beside the more experienced women. She feels deserving.
Bouchard's old coach Platz offered this insight while explaining Bouchard's fearlessness: working with one of his current pupils recently, he stopped her to point out that the situation called for aggressive play. The player went for an audacious shot and missed, then became more conservative.
"I told her that in that situation Genie would be aggressive, even if it didn't work, and that she would keep being aggressive until it did, until she could make the shot," Platz said. "Genie will be aggressive in a given situation because it's the right thing to do, and she'll keep doing it."
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Pepsi deal to bring $10 million to university
By Dave Jones on September 9, 2014 in University
Graphic: Pepsi Beverages Co. logo
There will be a different flavor to the UC Davis campus this fall: Pepsi.
The university will begin selling Pepsi products after signing a letter of intent for a 10-year agreement that will bring the campus nearly $10 million in support for students.
Pepsi plans to have its products in place before freshmen move into residence halls at the end of September.
When final, the agreement will give Pepsi Beverages Co. near-exclusive rights to sell, advertise and promote its soft drinks and other products in campus dining commons, athletic concessions, catering, cafeterias and retail stores. The UC Davis Health System has a contract with Pepsi that expires in October 2015, after which the health system will become part of the new agreement.
Funds for student services and programs
In exchange, the terms provide UC Davis with $10 million for student services and programs, including academic support in athletics, nonathletic scholarships, sustainability projects and the purchase of electric carts for athletics, as well as goods and support for marketing, summer camp, youth programs and more.
A subcommittee of UC Davis' Commercial Activities Advisory Group that is negotiating the contract will determine how funds will be used to support student services and programs.
The agreement allows the university to sell competitors' products on up to 10 percent of the shelving allocated for beverages in its retail stores.
The leadership of the Associated Students of UC Davis, which runs the Coffee House, opted to not participate in the agreement at this time.
Pepsi's signage and advertising rights will be determined prior to the execution of the final agreement but will include rights to advertise the sponsorship of the university and its athletics teams as well as sideline sponsorship and player-area benefits for Gatorade products.
Gatorade sports drinks are among the Pepsi lineup that also includes Lipton tea; Aquafina, SoBe and Propel waters; and Naked Juice. Pepsi's offerings at UC Davis will include low- and no-calorie options as well as beverages with 100 percent natural ingredients.
Beverage Alliance
To negotiate better value, UC Davis formed a Beverage Alliance to consolidate the purchasing power of Dining Services, the Department of Athletics, Campus Recreation and Unions, UC Davis Stores and the UC Davis Health System.
UC Davis followed its standard process for making requests for proposals and reviewing them.
The university's earlier agreement with Coca-Cola, which guaranteed $1.5 million plus vending commissions over 10 years, expired in January and was extended to the end of June.
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NBA Courtside: Shai's now a show and Raptors are taking notice of Thunder star
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Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander passes around Los Angeles Clippers' Ivica Zubac. (GETTY IMAGES)
Oklahoma City Thunder fans are never going to forget about Russell Westbrook, but they have to be thrilled that they’ll likely be watching a new star guard for years to come.
It had to be tough losing both former MVP Westbrook and Paul George, but Chris Paul has been great and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been one of the NBA’s biggest surprises so far this season. The Hamilton native has been on a tear lately, might already be the best Canadian in the league (Jamal Murray has the best case otherwise) and recently became the youngest player to notch a 20-rebound triple-double, supplanting some guy named Shaquille O’Neal.
Gilgeous-Alexander has been brilliant for the Thunder and his production has resulted in success for the team as a whole. Oklahoma City started 6-11, but has gone 17-6 since. Gilgeous-Alexander has averaged more than 20 points a game and shot a high percentage from the field during that span. He’s now the player opponents gameplan around, including the Raptors, who are set to visit the Thunder on Wednesday night after losing to the team at Toronto thanks in part to Gilgeous-Alexander’s heroics earlier this season.
“When we played him here on our home court, you got to see his versatility his quickness,” Raptors assistant coach Adrian Griffin said on Tuesday.
“I mean he really was a lot more explosive than I thought and the help has to be there early with him. And what that means is now our bigs are going to have to come over and help and then that leaves Steven Adams on the glass. So obviously we’ve got our hands full. It’s going to take a total team effort.”
Gilgeous-Alexander plays at his own pace, which Griffin says is usually something only veterans can do. And, as Griffin says, the guard forces defenders to come at him, which opens up a lot of things for the Thunder.
“When you watched (him) last year, (on) the Clippers, you started to see what kind of player he was becoming,” added former NBA defensive player of the year Marc Gasol.
“And then you get to see it this year in full effect … You see it in his body language, his poise. You see his defensive presence. Now you’re seeing his shooting a little bit, too,” Gasol said.
Raptors star Pascal Siakam said the 20-rebound game really stood out to him.
“It’s tough. I mean, I think the first game of the year I had like 18 rebounds. And I was feeling myself and I kind of had a bet with Norm (Powell): He was gonna bet every single game that I was gonna get at least 15 rebounds. I don’t even know if I got close to that,” Siakam said.
“So I just know how hard it is to grab that many rebounds. So, it’s really impressive to be able to do that.
“He’s just making noise. Like you (have) to kid of pay attention to it.”
WNBA KEEPS THE PEACE
The WNBA and its player’s association reached agreement on an eight-year collective bargaining agreement on Tuesday. The highlights of the deal are significant increases to player salaries, enhanced travel standards, marketing boosts, progressive family-planning benefits and career development opportunities.
“Foremost among the deal terms is a 53% increase in total cash compensation, consisting of base salary, additional performance bonuses, prize pools for newly created in-season competitions, and league and team marketing deals,” read a release.
“Under the new CBA, the league’s top players will be able to earn cash compensation in excess of $500,000, representing a more than tripling of the maximum compensation under the prior deal. Other top players will have an opportunity to earn between $200,000 and $300,000. And for the first time in WNBA history, the average cash compensation for players will exceed six figures, averaging nearly $130,000, resulting in an increase for all players from rookies to veterans.”
RAPTORS WIN AGAIN
Winning the NBA title wasn’t enough for the Toronto Raptors.
The franchise also was named the NBA’s first-ever team of the year for its achievements across team business, including ticketing, partnerships, marketing, digital media, business analytics and innovation.
According to the NBA, the Raptors won “for their strong business performance and innovative marketing programs. The team was near the top of the league for ticket member renewals, total tickets sold and full season tickets sold. Toronto was also recognized for its innovative approach to partnerships resulting in it being presented with the NBA’s Activation of the Year Award last July, and its creative marketing strategy, including its efforts to drive community conversations around diversity and inclusion.”
League and team executives chose the winners.
AROUND THE RIM
Utah had won nine straight and 14-of-15 before Tuesday’s games to move into a tie for second in the West. The top team, the Lakers, haven’t had superstar Anthony Davis for three games in a row and the Clippers are missing George … Chicago’s Zach LaVine has averaged 30.2 points over his past six games … Sneaky most improved player candidate? Phoenix forward Kelly Oubre, who has averaged 23.1 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.88 steals over his past eight games … Raptors guard Kyle Lowry is 46 assists shy of passing former teammate Jose Calderon for the franchise lead … Memphis is 11-0 when Canadian Dillon Brooks scores 20 points or more … If you missed it, Kyrie Irving returned for Brooklyn earlier this week after missing 26-games and hit 10-of-11 shots. So much for rust … Keep an eye on Detroit’s Sekou Doumbouya. The NBA’s youngest player (he just turned 19 a few weeks ago) is getting a starting gig with Blake Griffin sidelined and is producing both statistics and highlight-reel dunks. Pistons coach Dwane Casey benched all-star centre Andre Drummond for most of the fourth quarter and overtime against New Orleans and the Pistons rallied from 16 down to force overtime … DeMar DeRozan has scored at least 20 points and shot 50% or better from the field in each of his past 11 games … Last year’s G League scoring champion Jordan McRae has averaged 20.3 points on 50% shooting for Washington over his past nine.
THEY THE NORTH
A quick look at the top Canadians in the NBA this season:
Jamal Murray, Nuggets: Got to line 11 times in statement win over Clippers.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder: Making an all-star case in Year 2.
Andrew Wiggins, Wolves: Leading Canuck scorer, but numbers have cratered.
R.J. Barrett, Knicks: Coaching change has agreed with him.
Tristan Thompson, Cavs: Career-high 35 points against Detroit.
Dillon Brooks, Grizzlies: Finally cooled against Warriors, but on a huge roll.
Kelly Olynyk, Heat: Oddly out of the mix in Miami at the moment.
Cory Joseph, Kings: A couple of clunkers after some good games.
Brandon Clarke, Grizzlies: Big part of Memphis’ winning streak.
Dwight Powell, Mavericks: Had 19 and 12 vs. Sixers as nice run continues.
Chris Boucher, Raptors: Deserves minutes, even with Gasol back.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Pelicans: Producing when he is given a shot to play
56-6: Toronto’s record against teams below .500 over the past two years. That’s the NBA’s best mark. The Lakers (22-0) and Bucks (26-1) have fared the best against those teams so far this season.
1-15: Golden State’s record against teams .500 or better. How the mighty have fallen indeed. Only Chicago (1-16) has fared worse. The Warriors went 53-37 against those teams over the previous two seasons.
51.3%: Three-point shooting by Milwaukee’s George Hill. The previous qualified (84 made three-point field goals) player to nail more than 50% was Kyle Korver (a record 53.6%) in 2009-10. Hill shot 31% from behind the arc last season.
7: Straight games scoring at least 30 points by Phoenix guard Devin Booker, a franchise-record. He fell short in his past two games, but handed out 14 assists in them.
FIVE UP
Five surging squads (before Tuesday’s games).
1. Utah Jazz: Scoring at will against everybody and making it look easy. How will Mike Conley’s looming return impact things?
2. L.A. Lakers: Locking it down defensively while scoring at a sky-high clip. Injuries are the only thing that can throw them off course, though haven’t missed Anthony Davis much.
3. Milwaukee Bucks: Opponents can’t score at the rim on these guys. Giannis and Co. have easily been the class of the East.
4. Memphis Grizzlies: When’s the last time they were here? The Grizz are 7-2 in the past nine, with vets and youngsters combining to make some sweet music near Beale Street.
5. Houston Rockets: Don’t forget about Harden’s crew. Defence has caught up to offence in recent games (fifth in NBA over past five).
FIVE DOWN
1. Golden State Warriors: Have lost eight in a row and most of the games haven’t been close. Cruising toward a high lottery pick in this forgettable season.
2. Charlotte Hornets: Five straight losses, including a crushing one against the Raptors. A nice story is starting to go sour.
3. New York Knicks: Defence has been offensive. Surrendering 122.8 points per 100 possessions over past five, which is hard to do.
4. Atlanta Hawks: Maybe Trae Young is a deserving all-star? Without him Atlanta has looked like it doesn’t belong in the NBA offensively.
5. Cleveland Cavaliers: The Cleveland Slugs simply aren’t very good. Tristan Thompson is about the only player exceeding expectations. That’s not good.
BIG V HAVING CAREER YEAR FOR STREAKING GRIZZLIES
The Memphis Grizzlies have been one of the NBA’s surprise teams and a familiar face has been helping lead the charge.
Centre Jonas Valanciunas, the long-time Raptor who was the centrepiece of the Marc Gasol trade for Memphis, has been on an absolute tear in recent weeks.
Memphis is 12-6 since Dec. 9, has won five straight to vault into a playoff spot, and is way further along in its rebuild than anyone expected.
Youngsters Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson III are the core of an intriguing future, but Valanciunas is showing he fits too. Valanciunas scored 31 points and hauled in 19 rebounds in a recent win over Golden State, both near career-highs, and he’s averaging 15.5 points and 9.9 rebounds on the season. Valanciunas is also passing better than ever before and is hitting just shy of 45% of his (limited) three-point attempts.
Morant, Canadian Dillon Brooks and others can now feed two big men who are deadly from long-range, along with Canadian Brandon Clarke — who has hit 41% of his three-point attempts in his rookie season — when one of them is off.
Morant will win rookie of the year and is a superstar in waiting, Jackson might be an all-star one day, too, and Valanciunas decided to stick around, signing a three-year deal.
Valanciunas will always have his faults (particularly at the defensive end), but he does many things extremely well overall (like rebounding, shooting, setting screens) and is as popular a teammate as you’ll find in the entire NBA. And, as Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins will tell you, Valanciunas is even improving on defence.
“He’s gotten so much better in our centre-field, rim-protection coverages over the course of the season, but naturally as he’s just gotten integrated with his teammates after not really having a pre-season,” Jenkins said.
“You see all his hard work paying off and it’s the new version of Jonas, but there’s so much of what he’s been doing in his eight-year career that he’s still playing on and making a huge impact with.”
Memphis hosted Houston on Tuesday in what was suddenly a must-see game.
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This site went live in October 2010 to flesh out technology and legality of CYBER PRIVATEERING as I wrote DADDY'S LITTLE FELONS. The novel pays homage to my old friend Judge Pat Brian, who died of pancreatic cancer on June 28, 2010.To get updates as new articles are posted, enter your email below:
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Cyber privateer code: 100-to-1 restitution
Saturday, I posted a tongue-in-cheek note on the cyber security gang that couldn't shoot straight. The New York Times story was picked up and continued in today's Computerworld, HBGary Federal quits RSA over Anonymous WikiLaks eamail. In today's story, Computerworld shares reader comments on the HBGary Federal fiasco, and I can't help but be entertained. Gosh it must be embarrassing for a security company to be so badly spanked in public, and I should be ashamed of myself for jumping on the dogpile. Except I'm not. Because if the exposed emails are authentic, then "the gang that couldn't shoot straight" actually proposed illegal actions. So their "not shooting straight" is a double entendre. All along, I have made it clear that cyber privateers should be legally bonded, and must follow the cyber privateer code of honor.
That said, the acts of the Anonymous group who unveiled the HBGary Federal emails are also illegal and cannot be justified. Ditto for WikiLeaks. But I confess a certain amount of schizophrenic interest in the fruits of this thievery. Amusement at the stupidity of the approach recommended by HBGary Federal, and embarrassment at the culpability of US diplomats in hiding the truth about some of the world's bad guys. From whom are we trying to keep secrets? Certainly not the bad guys, who know that we know. No, as a matter of policy we're trying to spare the bad guys from public scrutiny. We're keeping secrets from the public, because public opinion might force a more coherent policy making process.
My own attitude is that we ought to shine the light on the world's cockroaches. Nevertheless, that end does not justify the means used by Anonymous or purveyors of WikiLeaks. Which is again why I call on an above-board legalization of cyber privateers, who will be held to a strict code of conduct and authorized by a bonding authority who won't take kindly to 100-to-1 restitution metrics. I'm intrigued that my first draft of the cyber privateer code seems to stand up, even after three months of kicking it around. Draft one! Not bad, friends. Not bad.
Posted by Destroying Angel at 2/16/2011 01:09:00 PM
Implementation suggestions for THE MORGAN DOCTRINE are most welcome. What are the "Got'chas!"? What questions would some future Cyber Privateering Czar have to answer about this in a Senate confirmation hearing?
Daddy's Little Felons, an ebook with cyberwar hyperlinks for only $2.99 from Amazon
Mitch Rapp and Jack Reacher, meet Morgan Rapier! He starts, wages, and wins a world-wide cyberwar. He also solves several murders, becomes the #1 U.S. Navy SEAL recruiter, and gets his Islamic school chum into a whole lot of trouble. All in one week! Dedicated to my late friend, district court judge Pat Brian.
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Meet the real…Destroying Angel.
Background: Welcome black hats, white hats and cyber swashbucklers
The Revolutionary War was fought, financed, and pretty well WON by bonded privateers, legalized pirates who were given Letters of Marque and Reprisal by the Continental Congress and authorized to attack, capture and monetize British ships. The purpose of this site is to explore the possibility of a modern-day doctrine much like the Monroe Doctrine, by means of which the U.S. government could legally and, more importantly, effectively stop international hackers. Current cybercrime law is not only ineffective, but downright stupid. My Linux servers are attacked hundreds of times a day (mostly from China and former USSR domains), yet if I retaliate against those servers with some creative technology at my disposal (I know some VERY smart guys), then I am in violation of federal law and subject to some onerous penalties. We need more than a new law. We need a new international doctrine. I call it The Morgan Doctrine, named after Morgan Rapier, a fictional character I've created (hey, this is my way of establishing ownership of the concept, should it ever see the light of day).
Why a new international doctrine? Simply, nothing else will work. Introduced on December 2, 1823, the Monroe Doctrine told the world to keep their hands off the Americas. Combine this with current legal thinking on "hot pursuit" of fugitives. In 1917 the US Army went into Mexico after Pancho Villa. More recently, in 1960 Israeli Mossad agents abducted Adolf Eichmann from Argentina. Granted, much of the world regards the Eichmann adventure as a violation of international law. I don't share that opinion and therefore use it as the third leg of my Monroe-Pancho-Aldof platform for The Morgan Doctrine.
If someone comes into your home and attacks or attempts to rob you, you may shoot them dead. You may do so as long as they expire on your property. But what about cyber criminals? They attack you in your home from their homes. Retaliate in kind, and you go to jail. The Morgan Doctrine states simply that if you attack my computers (or my banking assets held in US-based computers), then under a certain set of well-defined conditions, a licensed and bonded "cyber privateer" may attack you in your home country and split the proceeds with the U.S. government. For the sake of argument, let's call it a 50-50 split (heh heh).
Right now, American law enforcement is completely unequipped to deal with the sheer number international cyber hackers. Sure, I could report each of the thousand daily attacks to the FBI, as could the millions of other attackees in the USA. But the volume of such reports would make any meaningful resolution laughable. Not to mention that the FBI has no jurisdiction outside the USA. Yet to make such "enforcement" profitable to recognized (ie, "bonded" "deputized") privateers, as Heath Ledger's Joker said in his last role, "Now you're talking!" You raid our bank accounts, we raid yours. You make money from off-shore child pornography, we're going to loot your bank accounts and, with some REALLY creative black hat operations, you will be taken off the grid worldwide to the extent that you'll not even complete a cell phone conversation for the remainder of your miserable depraved life. Okay, that last part probably won't fly, but you get my drift.
The purpose of this site is to explore the mechanics, legalities and practicality of The Morgan Doctrine.
And I will be the sole arbiter of whether or not your comments get posted. As Mel Brooks wrote, "It's good to be king."
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The most important Internet legal ruling of the decade
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My legal justification for cyber privateers
NY Senator: "Switch to HTTPS"
RANT: FBI now running a 3rd-world orphanage?
Dear Switzerland: How about the Lockerbie families...
Jeff Menz may now rest in peace.
Dear Russia: I have a solution for you!
Dear Huawei: I have a solution for you!
Huawei withdraws from 3Leaf acquisition
February's top-10 cyber privateer blogs
Cyber privateering argument from UK security minis...
RSA: "Act now on cyberwar"
Internet meltdown: 'Plan B' from science fiction?
If I were a jihadist, Part II
The cyber security gang that couldn't shoot straig...
China, I wouldn't even take a FREE Huawei cell pho...
Cybercrime: an easy-entry career
Russia doesn't jail young Darth Vader
NASDAQ penetration spoils? The SEC should know!
Virus Report Card: Stuxnet and Zeus/SpyEye
NASDAQ penetrated. Feds clueless? Dear John:
Hey Google, put up $1 million!
Government no match for individual cyber warriors
Infecting an alien architecture, Part IV
To Russia with love
Destroying Angel
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Jamie Prentis
US causing 'brain death' of Nato, Emmanuel Macron claims
Mike Pompeo and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reject French leader's assertion
Emmanuel Macron said Europe was "on the edge of a precipice". Reuters
The US failure to co-ordinate with its Nato allies is causing the “brain death” of the military alliance, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
In an extraordinary criticism, Mr Macron said the administration of US President Donald Trump was showing signs of “turning its back on us”.
He was non-committal when asked if he still believed in the concept of collective defence, a cornerstone of Nato’s values.
Last month US troops abruptly began pulling out of north-eastern Syria, resulting in a Turkish incursion into the region against Kurdish forces with whom the West had allied against ISIS.
“What we are experiencing is the brain death of Nato,” Mr Macron told The Economist.
“You have no co-ordination whatsoever of strategic decision-making between the United States and its Nato allies. None.
"You have an unco-ordinated, aggressive action by another Nato ally, Turkey, in an area where our interests are at stake."
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Mr Trump has previously criticised some Nato states for failing to boost their military spending and is likely to raise it again when the organisation meets early next month in London.
Speaking in Germany, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the Nato alliance remained relevant.
“I think Nato remains an important, critical, perhaps historically one of the most critical, strategic partnerships in all of recorded history,” Mr Pompeo said in Leipzig.
The German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, said he did “not believe Nato is brain dead”.
“I firmly believe in international co-operation,” Mr Maas said.
But Mr Macron said Nato would only work if “the guarantor of last resort functions as such.
"I’d argue that we should reassess the reality of what Nato is in the light of the commitment of the United States," he said.
Mr Macron, a committed Europhile, also repeated his support for an EU military force as he warned Europe was on “the edge of a precipice” and risked “in the long run” disappearing “geopolitically” unless it woke up.
He said that Mr Trump “doesn’t share our idea of the European Project”.
“Look at what is happening in the world," Mr Macron said.
"Things that were unthinkable five years ago – to be wearing ourselves out over Brexit, to have Europe finding it so difficult to move forward, to have an American ally turning its back on us so quickly on strategic issues.
"Nobody would have believed this was possible."
Mr Macron’s comments were quickly rebuked by his close ally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"I don't think that such sweeping judgments are necessary, even if we have problems and need to pull together," Mrs Merkel said.
Updated: November 8, 2019 01:49 AM
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Protest4Bandit
by: Ree Gonzalez - Protest4Bandit
recipient: Maine & To All Animal Lovers, Owners and Those That Just Care
On June 8, 2007 Michael Morin of Biddeford, ME broke into a truck, grabbed Bandit, a rat terrier, and slit his throat then throwing Bandit to the back of the truck to die. This was done all in retaliation against the owner with whom Michael Morin had an argument with earlier.
Michael Morin has not been charged with a felony as of yet. The Biddeford Police Department has recommended a class D offense of burglary of a motor vehicle and a class D offense of animal cruelty [not aggravated animal cruelty, which is a felony offense, class C]. However the prosecutor (DA) office is reviewing it to determine whether it should be bumped up D to aggravated animal cruelty.
This petition is for the DA to upgrade the charge to aggravated animal cruelty, a class C felony offense here in Maine. Please sign this petition and pass along to many others ASAP. This decision is being made soon.
We are also having a protest at the Biddeford Courthouse with a tentative date of August 15th on the courtdate of Michael Morin. We will be having a meeting on August 2nd in Portland, ME with speakers from animal organizations to discuss animal cruelty in Maine. For updates, please email to Protest4Bandit@hotmail.com .
UPDATE!!!!
If you have not yet heard, last week Michael Morin was indicted with a felony charge of animal cruelty. Excellent news!!!
The case has been moved from the Biddeford District Courthouse to the Superior Courthouse in Alfred, ME. I have called and confirmed that the arraignment will be on September 11, 2007 at 8:30am. With this said, the protest that was to be held this coming Wednesday on August 15th in Biddeford is postponed and moved to the Superior Courthouse in Alfred, ME for the September 11th date. I am asking all to be at the courthouse an hour or so earlier.
We are there to show our support to Bandit, his family and to all abused animals in the state of Maine and all over. We are there to show that Mainers care and WILL NOT TOLERATE this again. We are there hoping that he will not just get a slap on the wrist like many do.
If you are attending this protest, please let me know. We want numbers there on that day and would be great to make history here in Maine.
The address for the Superior Court in Alfred, ME is: 45 Kennebunk Road, Alfred, Maine 04002. Anyone willing to offer a ride to a fellow protestor please let me know and I will take your information and pass it along to those who can use a ride.
Parking is on the side parking lot along Court Street on opposite side of the road from the Courthouse. Handicapped parking is located in the employee lot directly behind the courthouse.
I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you that has signed the petition, wrote and called the District Attorney, called and emailed me their reasons for wanting to help out, put up and handed out flyers, forwarded emails, wrote ads in papers and websites, interviewed us, made t-shirts, faxed and phoned all over, offered their services, spoke at and came to our meeting and advised me on this and so much more. You are all great and I look especially forward to meeting you all at the protest. Please let me know who you are and I am so proud that you have all come together with me on this effort. Thank you.
Email me if you have any questions at Protest4Bandit@hotmail.com
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Office 365 gives Aston Martin a smoother ride
Software fuel injection
By John Oates 4 Jun 2013 at 09:59
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Aston Martin, James Bond's favourite sports car maker, celebrates its centenary this year. The company recently shifted its disparate office IT onto Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365.
Designing, building and selling high-performance cars requires reliable systems that can deal with data-dense diagrams and images.
Aston Martin’s ERP system, based on Microsoft’s Dynamic AX, is used across the organisation for customer and supplier accounts. The company is moving to a standardised server setup and SharePoint 2013 to further simplify management.
The long-term aim is to focus on just three primary suppliers for its desktop services: Microsoft for software, HP for hardware and Verizon for comms kit and services.
Their own devices
Daniel Roach-Rooke, who has been with the firm for three years, is the IT infrastructure manager. He says he needed to give staff access to email and the rest of the desktop suite without creating an administrative nightmare for his small IT team.
Staff also needed to have secure, reliable access to systems on a variety of devices, not just laptops and PCs. Ninety-five per cent of Aston Martin’s staff work most of the time at its headquarters at Gaydon, Warwickshire, but the rest are spread around the world, some of them never going into a company office.
Aston Martin depends on an IT operations team of 15 people to support 2,200 computers and other devices. Any new system needed to be really easy to manage without a team of people on full-time support duties, Roach-Rooke explains.
“Each member of the team is focused on one product but tends to have a fairly broad background,” he says.
“With a small team it is hard to get best-of-breed everywhere. We needed to work with a big supplier because we’d never hosted our own Exchange systems. We had a hosted deal with a partner, which was unreliable.”
Roach-Rooke did not want to lose a team member to the task of administering the new system, or worse still, do it himself.
From cloud to cloud
Aston Martin had no particular concerns about moving to the cloud: its previous use of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) meant it had effectively already been cloud-enabled for three years.
“We went to BPOS in 2009 and migrated to Office 365 in April last year, with remote help from Microsoft’s Premier Support services,” says Roach-Rooke.
“It went in over a weekend and we used the opportunity to standardise on Office Professional 2010 at the same time. Most people have Office at home, which makes user training easier. They have half learned the features already."
And because Office 365 lets every user have the software on up to five different devices, users can download other copies onto their home machines. “Another benefit for them and for us,” says Roach-Rooke.
One teething problem with the migration was that Active Directory didn’t have the Exchange schema installed because it had never been used on-premise. The only other issue was that users needed help in configuring devices and changing passwords.
The system gave Outlook users a 25GB inbox, as well as easier access to email when out of the office – no more VPNs. Users get almost seamless access to all their familiar Office software from wherever they are.
The system also eliminated the headache of managing .PST files for syncing emails and made for much simpler administration.
One surprise has been the number of other devices, from iPhones to Samsung slates, that people wanted to use to access email.
Email is a crucial function for the company, both internally and for communicating with suppliers and customers. Easy scalability is also important, as Aston Martin is hiring.
Office 365 provides a simple way of adding or deleting users and setting security profiles for them and their devices through its admin console.
“We have had hundreds of requests to get email onto different devices. This would normally be a challenge, but the system uses role-based security which is really easy to administer,” says Roach-Rooke.
Spam filters catch about 1.5 million messages a day (“a pretty good job," says Roach-Rooke) without taking up staff time or bandwidth.
Aston Martin has also introduced instant messaging, using Office’s Lync.“Several departments have really embraced it,” says Roach-Rooke.
"The marketing department is using it for sharing PDFs and draft creative concepts.”
The firm has many complex manufacturing supply-chain relationships and is federating its instant messaging with some suppliers.
It is also using SharePoint Online to communicate and share documents with suppliers. The system is separate from its internal equivalent, minimising security headaches and any chance of accidentally exposing intellectual property.
Aston Martin is prepping a single sign-on system running on Active Directory in the cloud, which will put all user management in one place. It will also let the company set its own password controls and email identities.
"If one of our cars appears on Top Gear, page impressions go through the roof"
The firm already uses Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud application platform, to run Astonmartin.com, which can deal with fluctuating demand.
“When we announce a new model, or if one of our cars appears on Top Gear, for instance, page impressions go through the roof. This system lets us pre-arrange extra capacity for events or react dynamically to unexpected instant messaging,” says Roach-Rooke.
With this year’s centenary, demand on the website is likely to be more varied than ever. The firm is also experimenting with mobile applications to communicate with customers and celebrate the anniversary.
“The decision on email was a no-brainer, given that we had never hosted our own Exchange servers – pretty unusual for a company of our size,” says Roach-Rooke.
“The main argument was on-premise or off-premise. Once that was decided we looked at the alternatives. We were more concerned with functionality than price and Office 365 is both cost effective and robust. Microsoft has really pulled it together with this product.
“Of course there are the usual cloud restrictions: you need your pipes in order – bandwidth needs to be there 24/7. But after a year, we have had no noticeable outages.”
The move to paying by subscription, rather than getting a lumpy upgrade invoice past the finance director, also suited Aston Martin.
Roach-Rooke adds that having considered various options, Aston Martin saw nothing missing in Microsoft’s product. The company is looking forward to the next update, without seeking a solution to any specific problem.
He offers the following advice for companies contemplating a similar move: check your firewall; Outlook is hungry for ports so make sure you can have enough open, concurrent ports; and your bandwidth must be able to cope.
“This was a business-critical function for Aston Martin so we needed resilience. We have redundant internet connections should anything go wrong,” he adds. ®
This article was produced in association with Microsoft.
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International Leadership Programme (ILP)
For the UK to have a strong, respected and supportive voice in international sport, we believe it is important to support credible, high-calibre individuals from the UK to attain leadership positions in international sporting organisations.
To achieve this, we have developed a comprehensive People Development programme, which includes our flagship International Leadership Programme (ILP), bespoke seminars and workshops, and the management of a vibrant International Relations network. The latter comprises UK post-holders within International Federations and senior individuals from NGBs and partners active in international sport.
The ILP targets high calibre British sports administrators and retired athletes from National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and other national partners to develop their knowledge, expertise, skills and relationships to operate effectively in - and make a tangible and positive impact on- the development and governance of international sport. Tailored modules cover major themes including the international sporting landscape, building powerful relationships, negotiating and influencing techniques, cross-cultural working, sport governance and communicating effectively with international audiences. Participants also benefit from specific personal development opportunities and on completion, join an ever growing and influential ‘ILP Alumni’ network of more than 100 graduates. Click here for a list of those on our 2017-19 ILP Programme.
Alongside the ILP, we also provide the opportunity for our wider International Relations network to attend bespoke seminars and workshops. This includes our annual IR Seminar, organised jointly with the BOA and BPA; and a series of targeted workshops throughout the year which cover prominent topics and developments within the international Olympic and Paralympic landscape.
To promote the development and knowledge sharing within our International Relations network, we also provide networking opportunities primarily at some of our funded Major Events in the UK. Other areas of our People Development programme include targeted support for UK nominees seeking senior positions on International Federations; and bespoke support to existing post-holders, as part of our International Relations investment into NGBs.
For more information on our People Development programme, please contact: international.relations@uksport.gov.uk
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If atrial fibrillation continues unabated, it may evolve into a persistent dysrythmia with associated symptoms. A majority of patients suffering from the condition have increased episodes of shortness of breath, fatigue, and anxiety, negatively impacting their quality of life, and causing an increased risk of stroke.
At UNC, our goal is to identify patients with atrial fibrillation, evaluate their quality of life, determine the source of their condition, and provide a comprehensive treatment plan. With this strategy, we hope to improve the lives of our patients by successfully curing this prevalent, chronic, and life-impacting condition.
Medical vs. Surgical Options
Medical treatment of atrial fibrillation with anti-arrythmic agents has failed to achieve a significant therapeutic impact. The most commonly used agent, Amiodarone, is associated with an increasingly toxic profile over time. Electrical cardioversion (a brief shock administered to the heart to bring it back into normal rhythm) provides a temporary solution, but the cause of the arrhythmia (usually in the pulmonary veins) persists. Because of the increased risk of embolic stroke with atrial fibrillation, medical treatment requires lifelong therapy with Coumadin (a blood thinner which discourages clotting), with its resulting dangers.
The surgical solution for atrial fibrillation, on the other hand, is to isolate the pulmonary veins from the remainder of the left atrium, thus removing the source of the fibrillation.
Although the original surgery (Cox/Maze III) proved successful in over 90% of patients, it required that surgeons cut through and open the sternum in the middle of the chest (median sternotomy), put the patient on cardiopulmonary bypass, and perform extensive intra-cardiac reconstruction.
A new minimally-invasive approach at UNC
With technological advances, UNC now offers a safer minimally invasive treatment for lone atrial fibrillation using a thorascopic approach, which involves only small incisions in the chest, through which a tiny camera and instruments are passed. This approach can be accomplished without stopping the heart, and without cardiopulmonary bypass (placement on a heart-lung machine).
Using microwave energy, we’re now able to isolate the pulmonary veins, a frequent source of the disrhythmia, from the rest of the heart conduction system. Anticipated length of stay in the hospital at UNC is less than three days, with a success rate over 70%.
If diagnostic evaluation reveals other cardiac abnormalities such as myocardial ischemia (a painful deficiency of oxygen-rich blood to the heart), or valvular disease, we offer complete management with myocardial revascularization or valve repair, with accompanying atrial fibrillation surgery.
Andy C. Kiser, MD
Brett Sheridan, MD
Call the Heart & Vascular Center referral line at 866-862-4327 to find specialists, make an appointment or learn more about preventing heart disease.
Open Access is a new physician referral service, created by the UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care, which coordinates all admissions and transfers through a single phone call and guarantees immediate acceptance for patients. Please contact us to learn more or call 866-862-4327.
To learn more about the academic and research missions of our team, visit the websites for the Division of Cardiology, Division of Vascular Surgery, UNC Adult Cardiac Surgery and Division of Vascular Interventional Radiology.
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5 Things You Must Do At Mardi Gras
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New Orleans is home to one of the world's greatest parties.
Like other Carnival celebrations, Mardi Gras grew from the Christian practice of feasting and celebrating on 'Mardi Gras' – which means 'Fat' Tuesday - on Shrove Tuesday, just before the solemn fasting of the 40-day pre-Easter season of Lent.
The actual dates differ every year. Shrove Tuesday can happen during February or early March, and Carnival season begins immediately after the 12th day of Christmas, continuing up to the Eve of Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins.
Other places in the world celebrate pre-Lent, too; you've probably heard of famous Carnivals in Venice, the Caribbean, in Rio and elsewhere. But New Orleans' Mardi Gras has its own unique character. The city's French-Creole heritage and culture and cuisine, steamy Southern climate - and oh, that famous local jazz! - make Mardi Gras one-of-a-kind.
Thousands of people from North America and around the world flock to Mardi Gras. Here's how to celebrate in true N'awlins style:
Feast on Fat Tuesday Food
Fat Tuesday is the one day of the year when eating fried foods is a virtue. No dieting on Mardi Gras! Sink your teeth into some of the best Creole dishes New Orleans offers. To get that local flavor, order anything on the menu with crawfish – a classic crawfish boil, crawfish bisque, or the iconic crawfish etouffee, which means 'smothered', with the local crustacean coated in a rich creamy Louisiana-seasoned sauce served over rice.
Iconic Creole stews gumbo or jumbalaya are a must while you are in Louisiana. For feasting on the run, a local muffuletta sandwich is the best best on the menu: where the special ingredient, olive salad, binds cured meats and cheeses in sesame dinner rolls.
Indulge your sweet tooth with the local version of beignet – or as you might call it: a traditional-recipe donut.
A Mardi Gras special sweet treat is King Cakes, often a brioche/raisin bread type ring topped in official Mardi Gras colors of green, gold and purple, and with a hidden bean or even baby Jesus statue inside. Whoever gets the bean, becomes the next Mardi Gras 'king', or party host.
Have a Ball
Krewes are social clubs of New Orleans' residents that date back to the 19th century, established to organize the famous Carnival parades and masked balls. Most major krewes follow the same parades schedule and route annually. These days parades are too oversized to take place inside the famous French Quarter. But they still rouse up enthusiastic spectators and toss trinkets into the crowds, including 'doubloons' – replica coins often stamped with a krewe logo – and of course beads, the symbol of New Orleans Mardi Gras decadence.
Play Dress Up
There is no Mardi Gras without the costumes. This is not a time for subtlety. Sparkles and matching headgear and masks are the order of the day, especially in Mardi Gras' traditional colors of purple, gold and green. New Orleans Mardi Gras may lack the baroque elegance of Venice or the throbbing sensuality of bikinis and samba in Rio, but dress up you must. Mardi Gras costumes span everything from black tie at private balls, to mutant octopus costumes and Elvis impersonators, jokers and mythological figures in a surreal whirlwind of excitement.
And Dress Down
It's easy to blame the current younger generation and TV shows featuring bad behavior for the decadence of topless party-goers at Mardi Gras. But semi-nudity and even cross-dressing have a long history with the Carnival in New Orleans, at least back to the 19th century. Women flashing from balconies in the French Quarter have long been documented crowd stoppers. The beads-for-baring-them motif is all part of the unrestrained party ambiance of Mardi Gras.
Feel the Music
Any time of the year, New Orleans is one of the greatest music capitals of the world, the birthplace and home of jazz. Mardi Gras takes music to another level in the city, and even more than usual to the streets, where jazz music and brass instruments are joined by the latest beats and rhythms. You won't be able to resist dancing in the streets, at parties, in hotel lobbies, at of course at any ball you are lucky enough to be invited to attend.
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Update: Robbery suspect dead after pursuit ends with crash
Posted: Nov 26, 2019 / 09:48 AM CST / Updated: Nov 27, 2019 / 05:59 AM CST
VANDERBURGH COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) – A robbery suspect is dead following a pursuit that ended with a crash.
According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 4800 block of Rolling Ridge Dr. for a report of a stolen vehicle.
The victim told deputies she was involved in a physical altercation with a boyfriend before he stole her vehicle and other personal belongings.
Around 10 minutes later, deputies say they located the vehicle at State Road 65 (Big Cynthiana Rd.) and New Harmony Rd.
Initially, deputies say the vehicle stopped, but as deputies approached, the driver sped away.
According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, the behicle continued north on S.R. 65 while deputies pursued.
Deputies say within minutes, the car crossed the center line and hit a semi-truck head-on. The crash resulted in both vehicles catching on fire.
Due to the extent of the damage, deputies say they were unable to free the suspect from his vehicle.
Deputies got the truck driver out before both vehicles became fully engulfed in flames.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, but the truck driver was unharmed.
The road was closed for about five hours while crews processed the scene. It has since reopened.
The suspect’s name has not been released at this time.
According to the sheriff’s office, the suspect had an active warrant for burglary and for failing to return to lawful detention in another Indiana county.
VANDERBRUGH COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) – The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s office says a suspect in a morning chase has died after crashing into a semi.
The Sheriff’s Office says this all started as a domestic dispute where a woman said that a man stole her money and car.
Deputies found the man and pulled him over but say he sped off moments later.
The Sheriff’s Office says its deputy backed off and lost sight of the suspect vehicle on HWY-65. That’s when the deputy drove up on the accident scene where the suspect had crashed into a semi at St. Wendel Road.
The semi and the car both caught fire. We’re told the driver of the car has died while the semi-truck driver is expected to be okay.
(HWY-65 closed following deadly accident at Saint Wendel Rd. Nov. 26, 2019)
(This story was originally published on Nov. 26, 2019)
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Ciez successfully defends All-City titles
September 1, 2016 /in Homepage /by admin
By Roy Elia
A stretch of three consecutive birdies on the front nine Sunday afternoon helped carry three-time defending champion Michael Ciez into the winner’s circle after the second and final round of the 67th Annual All-City Golf Championship at the Walla Walla Country Club.
Ciez grossed a field-best score of 139 for 36 holes. He carded a 3-under-par 69 on Sunday after an opening-round 70 on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Golf Course.
Tyler Daniels, who entered Sunday tied atop the Championship Flight’s leaderboard with Ciez, fired a one-under 71 to finish two shots back.
Ciez and Daniels both opened round two with pars on the first hole and birdies on the second.
Daniels nudged his way in front of Ciez with a birdie on No. 3.
Both golfers registered par 3s on the fourth hole before Ciez stroked a 15-foot, chip-in birdie from just a yard off the right side of the No. 5 green.
“I knew I couldn’t putt it, so I tried to chip it as close as I could and it went in,” Ciez said.
The chip, coupled with a Daniels’ bogey, put Ciez in the driver’s seat for good.
Ciez and Daniels both birdied the sixth hole, but the margin edged up to two shots after a Ciez birdie at No. 7.
The lead fell back to one following a bogey by Ciez on the ninth hole.
Ciez regained control of the tournament with pars on the first four holes of the back nine and a birdie putt on No. 14. He played even-par golf on holes 15-17 prior to an anti-climatic bogey at the last.
While Ciez shot an even-par 36 on the final nine holes, Daniels and two others in the final group — Eric Kimball and Carl Wheeler — went over par. Daniels had a 37, Kimball penciled in a 40, and Wheeler shot 41.
“I just wanted to put the ball in play and not put up a big number,” Ciez said. “I didn’t want to put up bogies. That is the worst thing you can do in golf.
“This (All-City victory) was more special because in the others, I was confident I would win,” Ciez said. “I didn’t have that sense this year. This was the most nervous I’ve been on a golf course in a long time.”
“I knew I had my work cut out for me,” Daniels said. “He (Ciez) is a good player. I had too many bogies (4). You’re not going to beat him making bogies.”
Kimball ended the weekend with a 146 total and Wheeler put up a 151. On the positive side, Kimball (138) and Wheeler (143) finished first and tied for third, respectively, in the Championship Flight’s low-net category.
“Ciez played a solid round,” Kimball said. “I expected him to play well.”
“I was grateful to watch some good golf,” Wheeler quipped when commenting on the final round. “I had a front-row seat. The guys hit the ball really well. I tried to stay out of their way.”
Todd Kimball nipped Barry Wofford (147-148) to win the Open Flight gross title. Allen Stanley (129) was low net.
Howard Crosby and Dave Boldman claimed senior division crowns. Crosby tallied a low-gross total of 144 while Boldman set the low-net pace with a 122.
Kendall Dunovant and Patty Cook were the weekend’s top women’s performers. Dunovant swung her way to a gross tally of 158 and Cook put up a 144 for low-net honors.
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Zimbabwe Mulls 'Use It Or Lose It' Approach To Mining Rights
FILE - A worker is pictured at a mine in Bindura town, ZImbabwe, Feb. 7, 2015.
Tiisetso Motsoeneng
By Tiisetso Motsoeneng
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe may withdraw mining rights from companies that take too long to dig for minerals, the deputy mines minister said on Wednesday, part of efforts to lift output in a sector vital to the country’s economic revival.
Zimbabwe sits on the second-largest known platinum deposits after neighbouring South Africa and President Emmerson Mnangagwa is keen to revive mining after years of reticence by foreign investors during the Robert Mugabe administration.
Speaking to investors and executives at a mining conference in Johannesburg, Polite Kambamura said details of the so-called “use it or lose it” approach to mining policy would be made available in due course.
“We will be calling owners of such mineral resources to come forward and show cause why they are not mining,” he told Reuters on the sidelines of the conference.
“If we’re not satisfied with their explanation or mining plans, then we will kindly ask them to give that resource back to the government.”
As part of plans to boost mining export revenues to $12 billion a year as of 2023 from $3 billion now, Kambamura also said the country was putting policies in place to make it easier for mining companies to boost production, while urging investors to restart mines that closed in periods of political upheaval.
Last month, Zimbabwe said it would scrap the controversial indigenisation law under which foreign companies are restricted to only 49 percent of their Zimbabwean operations.
Zimbabwe, which counts South Africa’s Impala Platinum and Anglo American Platinum among its mining investors, is also in talks with an industry body, the Chamber of Mines, about reviewing and streamlining mining taxes.
“The ministry is looking at the whole array of taxes like royalties etc to streamline them and establish a more competitive regime,” Betirai Manhando, president of the Chamber of Mines, said at the same conference.
MIDDLE-INCOME ECONOMY
About a year ago, Mnangagwa won the first election since the removal of Mugabe in 2017, and has laid out an economic transformation strategy that his government hopes will turn the country into a middle-income economy by 2030.
Though investors at the conference did not dispute the prospect of lucrative returns from the country’s underdeveloped mining, tourism and agricultural industries, they were worried about shortages of foreign currency.
“Currency convertibility is a big issue for investors,” said Richard Tait, a director at Harare-based private equity outfit Mangwana Capital - which is trying to raise $150 million for investments in Zimbabwe.
Mangwana’s investments that mainly earn foreign currency should deliver returns of more than 20 percent, Tait told Reuters.
Zimbabwe ditched a discredited 1:1 dollar peg for its dollar-surrogate bond notes and electronic dollars on Feb. 20, merging them into a transitional currency called the RTGS dollar. (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Dale Hudson and Kirsten Donovan)
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C++ Program to Swapping Two Numbers Using a Temporary Variable
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This C++ program is used to demonstrates swapping two numbers by using a temporary variable.
int x, y, temp;
cout << "Enter the value of x and y:" << endl; cin >> x >> y;
cout << "Before swapping x=" << x << ", y=" << y << endl;
/*Swapping logic */ temp = x;
x = y;
y = temp;
cout << "After swapping x=" << x << ", y=" << y << endl;
Program Output:
This program is showing the use of swapping of 2 variables using a temporary variable. So, first of all, you have to include the iostream header file using the "include" preceding by # which tells that hat the header file needs to be process before compilation, hence named preprocessor directive. Now, for removing naming conflict you can use namespace statement within a program.
Next you start writing the code and declare the main() with its return typeas'int'. Now, you have to declare three integer type variables name 'x', 'y',and'temp'. Then the cout<<""; statement is used which is used to print the message:
"Enter the value of x and y".
The cin>> statement then takes the values of X and Y from the user and using cout statement shows the value of x and y before swpping. The 'endl' is used to command the C++ compiler to end the line and move the cursor to the next line. Now the swapping logic is implemented where the 'temp' stores the value for 'x'. Then the value of 'y' is stored in 'x'. And finally the value of 'temp' which was first initialized by 'x' is now stored in 'y'. Here the 'temp' which is a temporary variable acts an a temporary container of the variable of 'x'.
Now the cout<<""; statement is again used to print the swapped values of 'x' and 'y' on to the screen. . The system("PAUSE") is used to pause the console of the system. And finally the return 0; statement is used to return an integer type value back to main().
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My Patient Could Have Been A Mass Shooter
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People gather to pray during a vigil in response to a fatal shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
“There are only six or seven of them in there,” he said. “I could take out half a town.”
A routine Friday afternoon clinic appointment had taken a frightening turn. I realized that I was sitting opposite a man whose actions could be on CNN the very next day, and I wasn’t sure how to stop him.
It was my intern year and I was seeing a young veteran in clinic at the VA hospital associated with my residency program. Apart from a history of post-traumatic stress disorder, his medical record was unremarkable. We struck up a pleasant banter and were done with the interview and physical exam in about 10 minutes. His medical issue was easy to treat. While writing laboratory and prescription orders into the computer, I filled the momentary silence: “How are things otherwise? All good?”
“Not really,” he replied before beginning a chilling narrative.
He told me that after a recent altercation with two policemen, his guns had been confiscated. Enraged, he planned to buy an AR-15 -- the same weapon used by the perpetrators of mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, Newtown, Connecticut, Orlando, Parkland, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and others -- to attack his local police station.
How many patients leave their busy doctors’ doorsteps with unexpressed murder in their hearts?
His mirth had evaporated. Words rushed out of his mouth with urgency. “I will aim for their faces,” he growled. With messianic fervor, he described seeing “chariots of fire in the midnight sky.” Then his voice reached a crescendo: “I am the chosen one.” I asked if he expected to survive his planned attack. He replied defiantly: “I’d rather die standing than live kneeling.”
He was seated between me and the door. Sweat trickled down my chest, millimeters above my racing heart. My thoughts raced too: “Could I stop him? What if he attacks me? Will I get out of here?”
He didn’t object when I left the room to talk to my supervising physician. We called for backup. Within minutes, security guards, nurses and a psychiatrist assembled outside the door of his room. We convinced him to come to the psychiatric emergency room, since we feared for his safety and the safety of others. Surprisingly, he agreed. A difficult inpatient course of treatment followed, which involved antipsychotic and antidepressant therapy as well as intensive counseling, but he now has a job and is undergoing court-mandated therapy.
I don’t know if this young man would have actually attacked the police station, but he did have features of psychotic mania with homicidal intent. Although many persons with severe mental illness are incapable of actualizing their lethal intentions, he seemed organized enough to me to be dangerous.
What scares me is how easily he could have left that clinic room without informing me of his harmful intent.
I had been focused on efficiency, spending just enough time with one patient before moving onto the next one. It was lucky that he shared his gruesome plans without skillful prompting. How many patients leave their busy doctors’ doorsteps with unexpressed murder in their hearts? Could doctors stop a few shootings just by paying more attention to patients with risk factors for violence? Can we really expect overworked physicians to identify would-be mass shooters in frenetic 15-minute appointments?
Mental illness is a part of the human condition. Guns are not.
The Virginia Beach shooter had been a long-time public servant without a known history of violence or apparent behavioral issues. He is exactly the sort of person who would have flown under the radar.
In the grim aftermath of shootings, groups that oppose stricter gun laws, including the NRA, draw focus away from guns by emphasizing better screening and support for mental health issues. I don't disagree. Enhancing access to mental health resources is necessary. I am so grateful that the VA health system had the resources to save my patient from his own demons that day. I would have been helpless if I were at a facility without resources and well-established protocols.
But it is abundantly clear that merely augmenting America’s mental health system is insufficient to eliminate mass shootings. The perpetrator of the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora saw his psychiatrist a few days before the shooting. He’s since said, on the record, “I kind of regret that she didn’t lock me up so everything could have been avoided.”
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Pranay Sinha is an infectious diseases fellow at Boston University School of Medicine, where he helps care for patients with complicated infections and takes part in global health research.
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The Gloves Come Off Over Corporate Cash In Markey Vs. Kennedy
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Sen. Ed Markey, left, and Rep. Joe Kennedy III (Elise Amendola, Josh Reynolds/AP)
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As Washington focuses squarely on the formal impeachment process against President Trump — one the full Massachusetts delegation now supports — the gloves have come off in the state’s heavyweight U.S. Senate bout.
Oh, It’s On! Markey Hits Kennedy On Corporate PAC Cash
Sen. Ed Markey’s campaign released a video Thursday hitting Rep. Joe Kennedy III for his No Corporate PAC (political action committee) pledge, despite the Newton congressman’s past acceptance of donations from corporate campaign committees.
The video highlights more than $41,000 in corporate PAC cash Kennedy took in during June, in the run-up to his Senate campaign, and the $1.9 million he’s taken from such groups since he’s been in Congress.
"Congressman Kennedy is not being straight with the people of Massachusetts about corporate PAC contributions and his accusations in this race. People should take a look at the facts for themselves," Markey’s senior campaign director, John Walsh, said in a statement.
Kennedy campaign spokeswoman Emily Kaufman acknowledged his past acceptance of corporate PAC money.
"He took the No Corporate PAC pledge in early September, prior to entering the Senate race, after hearing from voters loud and clear about how important this issue was to them,” Kaufman said. “He encourages Sen. Markey to follow his lead and sign the pledge, as well as accept the People's Pledge to keep all dark money out of the primary race."
But a source close to Kennedy noted that the Malden senator himself has flip-flopped on the corporate pledge. As a congressman, Markey chose not to accept corporate PAC funds in 1984, but reversed course in 2003 when he mulled a bid for then-Sen. John Kerry’s seat. In all, from 2003 to 2012, Markey’s total haul from corporate PACs exceeded $2.7 million.
This fight's just getting started, folks…
Lawmakers Hail Cannabis Banking Bill — But Call For MORE
(Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The U.S. House on Wednesday passed the SAFE Banking Act, which would allow cannabis businesses to use federally insured banks in states — like Massachusetts — where marijuana is legal.
All Massachusetts representatives backed the bill. But several said the law should go further.
“While I was proud to support this narrowly tailored bill, I believe we must also prioritize restorative justice reforms required to make amends with the communities most impacted by bad drug policies,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said. “If we are to truly address the injustice of the War on Drugs, we must remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, invest in communities most impacted by past and present policies, and expunge the records of those convicted of marijuana related offenses.”
She urged passage of the MORE Act, which would federally decriminalize marijuana.
Rep. Jim McGovern echoed the sentiment.
“Now, we need to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis while providing reinvestment, restorative justice & expungement to persons & communities of color that continue to be adversely impacted by the War on Drugs,” the Worcester Democrat tweeted.
Chances of either bill passing the Republican-led Senate remain slim to none.
Lawmakers Knock Columbia Gas After NTSB Merrimack Valley Explosion Findings
A view of the destruction following the September 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions (Courtesy of the NTSB)
This week’s findings by the National Transportation Safety Board — laying the probable cause for last year’s deadly explosions on Columbia Gas’ “weak engineering management” and failure to use adequate protections — drew the ire of lawmakers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Columbia Gas’ “mind-numbing negligence and blatant disregard for safety cost a young man his life, injured countless individuals, risked the lives of our first responders, and left thousands of Merrimack Valley residents without heat or hot water during some of the coldest months of the year.”
Rep. Lori Trahan said in a statement: “This preventable disaster is a tragic demonstration of the need for Congress to strengthen pipeline safety laws.”
Warren, Markey and Trahan introduced the Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act, a bill named after the teenage victim of the blasts, to address the deficiencies outlined by the investigation into the accident.
While the NTSB cited negligence on the part of Columbia Gas, it also praised parent company NiSource and Massachusetts officials for their assistance in the investigation.
3 More Things:
— Warren Targets Collins: Warren isn’t just focusing her presidential campaign staffing and ad buys in early primary states. Her campaign is setting up shop in Maine too — a clear sign she’s targeting Republican Sen. Susan Collins in an effort to flip that competitive seat blue.
“If we want to make big, structural change, we need to make sure Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate and win important gubernatorial and state legislative races across the country,” Warren campaign manager Roger Lau said in an email to supporters.
— The Debate Everybody Missed: There was a presidential debate this week, but you’d be forgiven if you didn’t know.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld faced off with former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh in a debate hosted by Business Insider, in which they focused mostly on blasting Trump.
Neither Trump nor former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford participated.
— Markey And Clark Push To Boost Fentanyl Mail Screening: Amid the ongoing opioid crisis — in which fentanyl is present in the vast majority of fatal overdoses in Massachusetts — Markey and Rep. Katherine Clark have introduced legislation to mandate 100% screening of all inbound international mail and express cargo from high-risk countries for illicit fentanyl and other illicit synthetic opioids.
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Hello Readers. It’s September, so as soon as your kids are off to school, maybe you can finally have a five-minute power nap. Take that power nap with equal parts gusto and relief, dear Reader. You’ve earned it.
Last month, one of you asked for less “ultra-modern” designs, and the design gods have seen fit to provide. We still have some of that ultra-modern goodness — because apparently now that it’s been started, we can’t make it stop — but I managed to find and sprinkle in a few more classic-feeling designs. Enjoy.
Note: I’m judging these sites by how good they look to me. If they’re creative and original, or classic but really well-done, it’s all good to me. Sometimes, UX and accessibility suffer. For example, many of these sites depend on JavaScript to display their content at all; this is a Bad Idea™, kids. If you find an idea you like and want to adapt to your own site, remember to implement it responsibly.
45royale
45royale is one of those sites that combines minimalism with a healthy love of gradients.The layouts are simple, and the type is good, but it’s the use of color that truly makes this site stand out.
Platform: WordPress
RedElegant
RedElegant embraces a classic and more corporate-client-friendly aesthetic with just a touch of that material design feel. It’s the sort of design you’d expect to see at a bank.
Interesting side note, the WordPress theme used seems to be a heavily customized version of the Twenty Seventeen default WordPress theme. The extent of the customization makes this site impressive, as I would never have guessed this if I hadn’t looked at the source.
5e Rue
5e Rue combines a fairly minimalist and classical feel with light hints of more modern artistic flourish, and a bold use of blue. The serif heading type overlaps with illustration-style bits in a way that creates a beautiful yet staid experience. It puts me in mind of a classic Parisian café, and not just because the studio itself is in Paris, okay?
Platform: Static Site
Co-Partnership
Co-Partnership has gone for the solid background with the big sans-serif text, and just a little bit of asymmetry. Well, there’s nothing at all wrong with using a tried and true formula.
I particularly like what they do with their logotype. The ever-shifting branding is a nice touch of art direction on an otherwise very simple site.
Object goes hard on the use of color as art direction. Just about every page has a different palette, and the overall effect is quite pleasing. While I’ll admit that the “hero” section on their home page is a bit of an eye-gouger, the overall effect is a pleasant one.
60fps specializes in motion design, so it’s to be expected that their site will be a bit JavaScript-heavy. Even so, the animation used feels understated, even while making its presence known so clearly. With unique-feeling layouts and good typography, the whole experience is one of the better ones I’ve seen in the “presentation site” category.
I just wish they would stop with the scroll-jacking. I’m not a fan.
Hochburg uses a very light touch with animation and a very simple, minimalist, and grid-based look. One thing I do rather like about the home page is this very light animated static effect to highlight portfolio pieces when you hover on them. It’s just a good-looking plain old dark layout, and I love it.
Platform: Contao CMS
Rimini Berlin
Rimini Berlin is interesting for in that the entire site is an accordion element. Sure, the implementation is a bit too JS-dependent for my taste, but it does preserve navigational context on this one-page site in a fairly clever way. Give me a pure CSS implementation, or at least some simple fallbacks, and I’d have nothing to complain about.
ED. goes for full minimalism, and a classic three-ish-column approach. In fact, I’m kind of a fan of the way the columns shift around a bit when you click on a project, even if I’m unsure about this trend of letting your branding clip onto the content of your site. It’s a simple effect, but it works, and allows for a certain flexibility in this simple layout.
Intervaro
Intervaro goes for full minimalism with a touch of material design, by which I guess I mean drop shadows and a fixed navigation bar. That’s Material Design, right? And Material Design is the new corporate aesthetic?
Whatever, it’s a simple and good-looking portfolio site. Bonus points: they implemented a rather fantastic-looking dark mode for users who find that easier on their eyes.
Modest Department
I find myself fascinated by the choices made on Modest Department’s portfolio site because they went with very intentionally small thumbnails for everything. Is it to fit with the name? Is it to save people’s bandwidth? Either way, it does both.
The small thumbnails and wide spacing naturally draw the eye in and make you really look at what they’re showing you. It would be inadvisable for an extended browsing experience, but it’s great for a quick portfolio. It’s not great for those with visual impairments, but they could zoom in, and clicking on a thumbnail gets you a full-sized video in any case.
Koto’s studio portfolio has gone with a one-column portfolio site, relying on their use of color and branding to help them stand out. And it works. Every element feels very intentionally placed despite the almost extreme simplicity. And I can’t fault the way they use illustration-style elements.
Jane Studios
With all of the comparably simple sites on this list so far, we were due for another artsy one. Enter Jane Studios, a site so minimalist, artsy, and generally PowerPoint-like, we might have reached peak modern design. I’ll never be a fan of that in-all-the-corners navigation, but the rest of the site is an excellent example of its kind,
Raxo gets a spot on this list only partly because I’m a sucker for horizontal layouts like the one they have on their home/landing page. The rest of the site is a fairly simple and business-like affair with a strong but not overwhelming use of solid red.
Once again, I’m going to complain a bit about the navigation, though. Hamburger icons are bad enough on a desktop site, but it’s not even a hamburger icon anymore. It’s a circle. Come on. The rest is pretty good, though.
RubyAnne Designs
RubyAnne Designs, which is abbreviated very awesomely as “RAD”, is an architecture firm. Unlike many architecture sites, this one skips a lot of the fluff and just shows you the houses already. The aesthetic is nearly brutalist, but don’t let that stop you from checking it out. It’s a fantastic example of a simple, clean, and not at all overdone architecture portfolio.
Platform: SquareSpace
Robin Mastromarino
Robin Mastromarino is an interaction designer, which means you should expect lots of animation. The animation is fairly low-key, though, and doesn’t detract from this delightfully clean and well-structured site.
The click-and-drag slideshow probably works better on mobile than it does on the desktop. Well, mobile is a huge market, so that works.
Célia Lopez
Célia Lopez’ portfolio lands squarely in artsy territory with lots of 3D-ish graphics and that aesthetic form that’s just so “modern” that I feel like inventing a new word for it. Supermodern? Anyway, as presentation sites go, this one looks absolutely lovely. I love the heading type, especially.
Platform: JS App(?)
Hamish Stephenson
Hamish Stephenson’s flim and photography portfolio is dark, simple, and… smooth? Look, it feels smooth. Maybe that’s just because Samuel L. Jackson stares out at you from the portrait section of the site, but it just looks “cool”, in that dark and honey-voiced narrator sense of the word. Like old jazz.
Man, blurry background elements have never gotten so much praise, but here we are.
Sebastian Chen Speier
Sebastian Chen Speier’s one-page portfolio is fairly post-modern, minimalist, and basically defines the phrase “dead simple”. It does that whole hover-over-text-to-see-a-preview thing, but with a twist: click, and you’ll get different preview images. It’s not the most intuitive setup, but it’s worth checking out for the novelty alone.
The Helder agency site is of that school of thought that holds bold text in high regard. It’s all bold. All of it. Then there’s the strong color changes (that still somehow work), the stark imagery… it’s just a design that doesn’t hold back. And yet, it still looks kind of reserved for all that.
By Ezequiel Bruni
Ezequiel Bruni is a web/UX designer, blogger, and aspiring photographer living in Mexico. When he\'s not up to his finely-chiselled ears in wire-frames and front-end code, or ranting about the same, he indulges in beer, pizza, fantasy novels, and stand-up comedy. More articles by Ezequiel Bruni
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Don’t discriminate against the Mizrachi
Sheli – left camp of Israel
Uri Avnery Social activist
191. Right-wing strategy to replace ruling Mapai party 11 04:08
192. Sharon the extreme megalomaniac 11 04:50
193. Ariel Sharon’s plot to overthrow Iran 11 03:57
194. Winning over Ariel Sharon with flattery 10 04:20
195. Sheli – left camp of Israel 7 04:19
196. Don’t discriminate against the Mizrachi 6 05:20
197. Ranking election candidates on a whim 4 04:32
198. Returning to the Knesset 7 03:18
199. Becoming a one-man party for the second time 9 02:51
200. Voting for peace with Egypt 6 03:14
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English | Hebrew
[Q] 1977! In 1977 you were elected to the Knesset.
Yes... Oh, Sheli! I lost the election in 1973, but didn't despair. I decided that it was like a car accident − we would fix it next time. At the beginning of 1977, I planned a serious election campaign. I started by writing this booklet with a hundred and something sections: A Plan for the State of Israel. I feel quite proud of this booklet to this day. And, just like The Hebrew Manifesto we wrote in 1957 − a difference of 40 years − in 1977 [sic], I wrote a plan that was far beyond the program or political platform of a regular party. A plan for a complete change in the State of Israel and in all areas of life. And we printed it, and we started election campaigning, and I started to appear here and there. We had no money, and this time there was no government funding, because we were not an existing faction. Somehow, I scraped money from HaOlam HaZeh and I appeared in places where there was no need to pay, coffee shops or places like that. Then there was an initiative. All of the small peace factions were worried about their future. Then came the idea − I think it was Lova Eliav's initiative − to establish a common list of all the peace organizations and so on, and discussions started. Lova Eliav, it should be mentioned, had resigned from the Labour Party. He had been Secretary of the Labour Party, had quarrelled with Golda [Meir] − it was impossible not to quarrel with Golda if you didn't succumb totally − and me, HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash.
I forgot to mention here that among all of the nonsense that I did before the previous election, in 1973, I noticed that a faction had been established – Moked – that was in direct competition with us for the same audience with the same slogans, imitating our slogans, with deletions. So things which were unpopular, such as refugees and things like that, they just deleted. But after four years in the Knesset, Moked didn't gain momentum. Meir Pa'il was active. You could say he was a very social individual, very nice, very appealing, but not the genius of his generation. And the people from Maki were involved, remnants of the communists who were also nothing special. So they also were afraid that they would not pass the threshold.
מראיינת: 77'! ב-77' נבחרת לכנסת. אה, של"י! אני הפסדתי את הבחירות ב-73' אבל לא התייאשתי. החלטתי שזאת הייתה תאונת דרכים, נתקן את זה בפעם הבאה. ובהתחלת שנת 77' אני תכננתי מערכת בחירות רצינית. התחלתי בזה שכתבתי חוברת של מאה וכמה סעיפים: "תכנית למדינת ישראל”. אני די מתגאה בחוברת הזאת עד היום. והיא, כמו המנשר העברי שעשינו ב-57’ - 40 שנה הבדל - ב-77' חיברתי תכנית שהיא הרבה מעבר לתכנית או מצע פוליטי של מפלגה רגילה. תוכנית לשינוי מוחלט של מדינת ישראל על כל תחומי החיים. והדפסנו את זה, והתחלנו בתעמולת בחירות והתחלתי להופיע פה ושם. לא היה לנו כסף והפעם גם לא היה מימון ממשלתי, מפני שלא היינו סיעה קיימת. איכשהו גירדתי כסף מ"העולם הזה" והופעתי במקומות שלא היה צורך בכסף, בתי קפה או מקומות כאלה. ואז נוצרה יוזמה. כל סיעות השלום הקטנות חרדו לגורלן. ואז בא הרעיון, אני חושב שהיוזם היה לובה אליאב, להקים רשימה משותפת של כל ארגוני השלום וכן הלאה, והתחילו דיונים. לובה אליאב, צריכים להזכיר, פרש ממפלגת העבודה. היה מזכיר מפלגת העבודה, רב עם גולדה - אי-אפשר היה לא לריב עם גולדה אם לא נכנעים כניעה טוטאלית - ואותי, "העולם הזה כוח חדש”. שכחתי להזכיר פה שבין כל השטויות שעשיתי לפני הבחירות שלפני זה, ב-73', ראיתי שקמה סיעת "מוקד", שהתחרתה בנו תחרות ישירה על אותו הקהל עם אותן הסיסמאות, חיקוי של הסיסמאות שלנו, עם מחיקות. זאת אומרת דברים לא פופולאריים כמו "פליטים" ודברים כאלה פשוט מחקו. אבל "מוקד" אחרי ארבע שנים בכנסת לא צברה תאוצה. מאיר פעיל היה, נגיד ככה, איש מאוד חברותי, מאוד נחמד, מאוד מושך אבל לא גאון הדור. ואנשי מק”י בתוך זה, השאריות של הקומוניסטים גם כן לא היו מי יודע מה. אז הם גם פחדו שלא יעברו את אחוז החסימה.
Uri Avnery (1923-2018) was an Israeli writer, journalist and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. As a teenager, he joined the Zionist paramilitary group, Irgun. Later, Avnery was elected to the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. He was also the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine, 'HaOlam HaZeh' from 1950 until it closed in 1993. He famously crossed the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery was the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including '1948: A Soldier's Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem' (2008); 'Israel's Vicious Circle' (2008); and 'My Friend, the Enemy' (1986).
Title: Sheli – left camp of Israel
Listeners: Anat Saragusti
Anat Saragusti is a film-maker, book editor and a freelance journalist and writer. She was a senior staff member at the weekly news magazine Ha'olam Hazeh, where she was prominent in covering major events in Israel. Uri Avnery was the publisher and chief editor of the Magazine, and Saragusti worked closely with him for over a decade. With the closing of Ha'olam Hazeh in 1993, Anat Saragusti joined the group that established TV Channel 2 News Company and was appointed as its reporter in Gaza. She later became the chief editor of the evening news bulletin. Concurrently, she studied law and gained a Master's degree from Tel Aviv University.
Tags: Sheli, A Plan for the State of Israel, The Hebrew Manifesto, Maki, Knesset, Moked, HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash, Aryeh 'Lova' Eliav, Golda Meir, Meir Pa’il
Duration: 4 minutes, 19 seconds
Date story recorded: October 2015
Date story went live: 11 May 2017
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In Thailand, motorcycles are an unlikely mosquito repellent
Mosquito-borne infections affect hundreds of thousands every year, from the outbreak of the Zica virus in Brazil to a surge in cases of Dengue fever in South East Asia. But now a device that can be fitted to the backs of mopeds could provide a new way to repel mosquitos from cities in Thailand.
MotoRepellent is a device that fits onto the back of motorbikes, which fill the Thai capital of Bangkok. The cylinder is filled with natural mosquito repellents that are activated by the exhaust pipe of the bike, spreading the insect repellent several meters around the vehicle.
With millions of motorbikes in the capital, the repellent device could crowdsource mass mosquito removal to reduce the impact of diseases in the city and further afield. The technology’s developers claim to have helped repel mosquitos in slums across Bangkok and protected 80,000 people. The project is being promoted by advertising agency BBDO Bangkok and the charity Duang Prateep Foundation, which provides assistant to slums.
We have already seen street lamps used in Malaysia to trap and kill mosquitos. What other existing, city-wide infrastructure and objects can be adapted to have mosquito-repelling functions?
UReka, driven by Agensi Inovasi Malaysia, is an online open innovation platform where people share ideas, seek expertise, form collaborative teams, attract funders and customers. It is a Crowd-sourced movement to turn innovative ideas into realities.
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Horse meat becomes PR problem, social-media joke
Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY
The U.K. horse meat issue could become a U.S. public relations issue
American consumers are wondering%3A Will it show up here next%3F
Few companies have apologized for selling unlabeled horse meat
If only the spinmeisters could paint this horse a different color.
In recent weeks, unlabeled horse meat has been linked in Europe with some of the world's biggest and most familiar brands: Burger King, Nestlé, Tesco and this week, Ikea. One by one, each has tried to explain away the mess.
But in a social-media world, a problem in the U.K. instantly becomes a global issue. Now, Americans are wondering: Is unlabeled horse meat going to show up here? Should these brands proactively address this question in the USA?
"It's all over Twitter," public relations consultant Katie Delahaye Paine says. "You can't ignore anything related to food these days, because it spreads around the world so quickly."
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Social-media jokes abound, such as this Twitter post: In reaction to the horse meat found in their meatballs, Ikea has decided to sell the raw ingredients in a pack for you to assemble yourself.
But this is no joke. The brands are taking it seriously. "This is clearly not a good situation," says Hannah Coan, a Nestlé USA spokeswoman. "We are doing everything we can to address this issue in a timely and transparent way."
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Burger King says media reports were wrong, and none of its product sold in the U.K. or Ireland contained horse meat. Trace amounts were found last month at a BK supplier in Ireland, but this was never sold to consumers, and BK has transitioned all U.K. restaurants to approved suppliers in Germany and Italy. "We continue to take this very seriously," says Diego Beamonte, vice president of global quality. "Globally, we have completed unannounced audits of all of our ground beef suppliers."
Here's what else experts say the brands should do:
• Be transparent. Retailers should be transparent about where their meat comes from, Paine says. That, she says, includes signs in U.S. stores.
•Be certain. Every food seller should be certain where its food comes from — and what's in it, says Philip Tierno Jr., director of clinical microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. "Be sure you know what you're putting in your finished product."
• Apologize. Instead of pointing fingers at suppliers, retailers should look inward, says Jez Frampton, global CEO of brand specialist Interbrand. Few, he notes, have apologized.
• Certify safe food. Few companies have put together strategies that reduce the risks of this happening again, says Mark Jarvis, chief executive at Steritech Group, a brand-protection service. "You need to be able to look the customer in the eye and say that the food they're eating is safe -- and is as labeled."
• Reach out via social media. The place to engage consumers is where the conversation is happening, Frampton says. "Don't go on talk shows or run TV ads," he says. "If the conversation is taking place online, that's where to tell people what you're doing."
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Manafort resigns from Trump campaign
Campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned from Donald Trump's team Friday, less than a week after the candidate reshuffled his staff and amid news reports about Manafort's past political activity for pro-Russian elements in Ukraine.
“This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign," Trump said in a statement. "I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process."
Trump added that "Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success.”
Earlier this week, Trump brought on two new top campaign officials in a move largely seen as a sidelining of Manafort.
Trump revamps his team and message, but is it too late?
Meet the new heads of the Trump campaign
Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman for Breitbart News, is the new campaign CEO, and pollster and consultant Kellyanne Conway is now campaign manager. Trump had planned to retain Manafort as campaign chairman, but the veteran consultant left instead.
Trump announced he would accept Manafort's resignation while en route to Louisiana to tour flood damage.
This is the second change at the top of Trump's campaign in a little more than two months. Trump fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in June, a time at which Manafort ascended to the top of the organization.
The New York businessman brought Manafort into the campaign in March to organize the Republican nominating convention, including the prospect of a delegate challenge by "Never Trump" opponents. Manafort wound up running the campaign but took criticism over continuing Republican opposition to Trump and complaints about the candidate's lack of discipline and repeated attacks on GOP leaders.
Manafort leaves the campaign amid a rising number of news reports about his past work for pro-Russian political elements in Ukraine. While his work overseas has been no secret, there are new stories about allegedly secret cash payments that Manafort has denied. Democrats and others criticized Manafort for working against reformers who wanted Ukraine to focus on the West, not Russia.
Ukraine releases details of alleged payments to Trump’s aide
Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, denies secret payments from Ukraine
Aides to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton attributed Manafort's resignation to "the disturbing connections" with pro-Kremlin forces, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. "You can get rid of Manafort, but that doesn't end the odd bromance Trump has with Putin," added Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook.
The departure from Trump's team did not surprise political consultants.
"It had to happen," said Republican consultant Bruce Haynes, founding partner of Washington-based Purple Strategies. "The revelations about the Ukrainian involvement put the consultant in a position where he was overshadowing the campaign and choking its ability to deliver its message."
Texas-based political consultant Matt Mackowiak said Trump "needed Manafort to leave over the Ukraine revelations. And now he has."
Eric Trump, the candidate's son, said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on Fox News Channel's Sunday Morning Futures that Manafort did an "amazing" job for the campaign, but "I think my father didn’t want to be, you know, distracted by, you know, whatever things Paul was dealing with."
In another sign of a new direction in the campaign, Trump on Thursday made an unusual admission of regret for some of his past comments.
"Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing," Trump told backers in Charlotte. "I have done that — and, believe it or not, I regret it ... And I do regret it — particularly where it may have caused personal pain."
Trump says he regrets some of his controversial comments
Trump, who has been accused of offending Mexicans, Muslims, immigrants, the disabled and fellow Republicans such as John McCain during a campaign that began in June 2015, did not specify which comments he regretted and said at one point that journalists have often taken him "out of context." Throughout the campaign, Trump has generally refused to apologize for remarks viewed as insensitive or insulting.
It is unusual to make major organization changes this late in a campaign, but Haynes said Trump "simply cannot afford to have any more drama" little more than 80 days before the election against Clinton.
Haynes also said it is not too late for a race against a "flawed candidate" such as Clinton when voters want change.
"It's not like he's trying to catch Usain Bolt," Haynes said. "It's more like he's trying to catch Ryan Lochte."
Democrats said the repeated upheavals of Trump's campaign reflect dysfunction and disarray.
The pro-Clinton organization American Bridge cited news reports that Manafort will continue to be an ally of Trump's and added that "the Trump campaign will have plenty of Russia ties without him — starting with the Putin-admiring, NATO-hating candidate himself."
Republican consultant Liz Mair, a critic of her party's nominee, questioned how much difference staff changes would make in any event: "Trump is Trump. You can't make him more appealing, no matter who is running that particular clown show. He looks set to lose, and lose badly."
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Safe is the New Dangerous
Art is about arriving with nothing and connecting to everything that it means to be alive. Art is something that happens inside us.
By Kenneth Goldsmith, special to Utne Reader
| Summer 2018
In 1973, Chris Burden had himself photographed on the ground, shooting a revolver at a tiny jet 10,000 feet up in the air. The result was an iconic image of a man pointing a gun at a plane.
Photo by Chris Burden
It used to be dangerous to be dangerous. Being dangerous was a choice not to be safe. The realm of art was a safe space that pretended it was dangerous, a theoretical empire of open options, a place where perversity signified possibility, where people were very good at playing being very bad. If it boiled over and got truly dangerous, as it sometimes did, one would be held accountable to the legal and judicial systems of the larger world, as Carl Andre was when he faced a court of law for the alleged murder of his wife, Ana Mendieta, whose artworks used her own body to address very real dangers of violence against women. Or Valerie Solanas’ attempted assassination of Andy Warhol — for which she was given a three-year prison sentence — not to mention the grave physical and psychological trauma that Warhol suffered for the rest of his life as a result of the shooting. Or how Chuck Close is being forced to answer accusations of his years-long mistreatment of women.
But art’s danger usually was not so dangerous. In 1969 Valie Export was photographed sitting on a bench in a black leather jacket, spread-legged with crotchless pants, holding a machine gun to her chest, an image which she then postered across walls of European cities. Powerful, political, resonant, and scary, yes; dangerous, no. Chris Burden didn’t shoot anybody but himself. In 1973, he had himself photographed on the ground, shooting a revolver at a tiny jet 10,000 feet up in the air. The result was an iconic image of a man pointing a gun at a plane. No animals were hurt in the making of this movie. Chris Burden and Valie Export were art’s idea of danger.
But now it’s dangerous to be dangerous. Today, Burden or Export would surely be tracked by Homeland Security and their gestures would become memes, malleable grist for a panoply of passions. It is said that in the 20th century, abstraction was a hedge against being usurped by fascism; nobody would ever think to use, say, a murky cubist painting as a strong political symbol. But an image of a man pointing a gun at a plane, regardless of the artists’ intention, is a different story.
It’s hard to imagine anyone daring to be dangerous in that same way now. One would think very, very hard before including an image of a gun in an artwork, knowing that it could potentially draw unwanted attention from unwanted places. Instead, safe is the safe choice. An artist must ensure that their work will fly under the radar, and at the same time address the widest audience possible. That takes a lot of effort: works are thoroughly vetted head-to-toe, carefully scrutinized for the tiniest detail that might trip an unwelcomed alarm. Ambiguity and noise are muted; signal and message are amplified. Art that’s been fine-tuned to the economy of the network: Burden and Export’s gestures were semi-private ones in a time when one could still be semi-private. Today, every gesture, no matter how insignificant, has the potential to be very public. The result is a new safe art. Today, the best artists are the safest artists. But is it enough to merely be safe? Perhaps not. Safe art is, well, too safe. In order to be art, even the safest artworks somehow need to have an element of danger. Let us imagine, then, an art of radical safety, an art so safe that it is dangerous. Like extreme sports, the art of the future will be an art of extreme safety.
The artist of the future will make artworks of extreme comfort, art so comfortable that, like an overheated bedroom, it will suffocate the sleeper; art so intimate that, like consensual rough sex, it will tip over into asphyxiation; art so powerful that, like a whiff of Fentanyl, it will instantly render the viewer comatose. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that much of the art around the world is funded by the Sackler family who notoriously made their fortune peddling opioids. By eliding big pharma with big culture, pain and painting became inseparable.
The Sackler aesthetic was crystalized in a recent, short-lived movement known as “zombie formalism.” It was a numbingly robotic art that insisted on being handmade in order to give it more value; an art precisely calibrated to shimmer on the hollow sheetrock walls of an oligarch’s Time Warner Center condo; an art familiar enough to evoke “important” abstract paintings from the past (which had themselves migrated over time from dangerous to safe), but novel enough to claim the mantle of newness. Like pieces of over-designed furniture, it was décor posing as art, rather than art posing as décor. Zombie formalism could’ve been a radical self-reflexive strategy — one whose goal would’ve been to make safe art dangerous and dangerous art safe — but it wasn’t smart enough or critical enough or aware enough to articulate its own machinations. Instead, like the clientele it courted, it quickly stumbled into a lot of money and was just as quickly dumped at auction.
Years earlier, a team of conceptual artists, Komar and Melamid, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to New York in the late 1970s, used actual market research as an articulated strategy in order to critique truly populist art. They did a pair of projects called the “People's Choice” series, which consisted of two bodies of work, “The Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings” and the “Most Wanted and Least Wanted Music.” The artists commissioned marketing companies to take surveys in over a dozen countries to ask people what qualities they most liked and disliked in painting and music. The paintings and music were then executed according to the responses they received.
In painting, the results for each country were nearly identical. The most wanted paintings were heroic landscapes with alpine mountains and sparkling blue bodies of water. The least wanted paintings were, not surprisingly, geometric abstractions. Similarly, the most wanted music was a compact love song in the style of Celine Dion; and the least wanted was a meandering 20-minute mashup of bagpipes, children’s voices, opera singers, and cowboy music. Komar and Melamid discovered that in the West, art by committee — free market politburo — yielded nearly the identical social realism that was mandatory in the U.S.S.R. Reflecting on the similarities between the two, they commented, "Picasso mimicked Stalin, so we try to mimic Clinton." Given a choice, they found that people don’t want a choice at all. Safe art is popular art, and populism, be it in the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., is equally perilous.
Populism, of course, is ultimately conservative, driving resurgent right wing movements around the world in ways that are both terrifyingly dangerous and stupendously dull. These days, to cheer for populism is to cheer for danger. Instead, one might adopt neutrality — at first thought a safer strategy — but being neutral is one of the most socially, aesthetically, and politically risky stances that one can take. Particularly in polemical times, when opinions are mandated to be loudly proclaimed — if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem — not taking a stance is seen as coercion with the enemy. Whereas previously, neutrality was equated with safety (think Switzerland), it is now suspect, viewed as an act of treason. Because of its perversity, neutrality is untouchable, the last great unclaimed strategy. Few dare to be intentionally apathetic, for apathy is treacherous. Instead, it is safer to remain safely committed.
Or one could just swathe oneself in beige. When asked “What is your favorite color?” nobody ever answers “beige.” In safe times like these, beige’s liminal status signifies a decisive uncertainty. The new beige chic: muddy sets of surgical appurtenances — ACE bandages, sheer-strip Band-Aids, medical gauze, body wraps, abdominal binder belts, bilateral hernia support braces, diaphanous lingerie — in tones of unbleached silk, ecru, cosmic latte, drab, desert sand, or buff. Whereas previously beige was merely bland, now it’s dimly radiant, brimming with indifferent passion and supercharged passivity; a new beige art.
If Brian Eno imagined music for airports, let us imagine art for hospitals. Eno reconceived of airports as meditation chambers, spaces in eternal stasis. Not wishing to impose itself upon the tranquil atmosphere, his airport soundtracks tinted the crystalline air with ripples of barely perceptible pulsations. The resultant sound is of global hospitality: your arrival at any Cathay Pacific Lounge is instantly recognizable, greeting you with the familiar feeling of a comfortable home.
Art for Hospitals. Another Beige World. When art can no longer afford real danger, it adopts strategies of faux danger: tonic immobility, thanatosis, playing possum. Art in a coma; art teetering on the cusp between life and death; art in suspended animation; art without worries; art that evokes blissful states of calm and peace; flatlined art, containing no significant events, only eternally looping sequences of haggard shades of pale. If airports are weightless, then hospitals are torpid. The inverse of crystalline airport air, hospital air is thick and overheated, clinging to dispensary walls like a stupefacient fog. A monkey on your back. While Eno’s airports defied gravity, nobody ever left a hospital unburdened.
Hospital, hospitality, hospice. Art that reimagines the hospital as indulgently decadent spa, mingling the thrill of extreme danger with the luxury of extreme comfort. From rubber glove to white glove; from beige blanket to red blanket. Bespoke hospital stays. Suffering served with gourmet food, pain in plush bathrobes, discomfort in 300 thread count bed linens, anguish on polished marble bathroom floors, misery through oversized windows displaying panoramic river views. In the hush of the hospice, men with black vests and ties proffer elaborate menus. “I’ll be your butler, ma’am.” Deeper hues of danger mitigated by opulence for the few who can afford it. For the rest, whiter shades of pale are plentiful in steerage.
Damien Hirst: It is now culturally acceptable for medicine cabinets to be works of art. Medicine cabinets are filled with medicines, in other words, substances that heal. Art is capable of healing. What kills cures and what cures kills. If hospitals are the new spas and opioids the new cocktails, then the street is the new hospice — minus the hospitality. The cordiality proffered to you inside now shows you the door. “Right this way, sir!” Oxycontin as extended stay; white glove service — minus the hands.
I want an art so dangerous that it is safe. I want an anesthetic art, an analgesic art, a palliative art, a radically anodyne art. I want an art that relieves suffering without treating the cause of that suffering, an art that mitigates the effects of the problem without ever solving the problem. I want an art that tells me that there is no solution because there is no problem. I want a static art — visually, morally, aesthetically — a hypometabolic art of hibernation, dormancy, anabiosis, and animalistic estivation. I want an art bathed in liquid nitrogen, an art cryogenically frozen. I want an art on perpetual life support, an art so enfeebled that in order to get off of it, someone must pull the plug. Please kill me. Art as feeding tube, art as passive euthanasia, art that comes with a "do not resuscitate" order, art that is in a persistently vegetative state. I want an art that is clinically dead. I want an impotent art, one unlikely to arouse, interest, or distress. I want an art that is floaty, sleepy, dull, lazy, heavy, sluggish, and couchbound. I want a narcotic art, an innocuous art, a postcoital art. I wanna be sedated.
I want an art so safe that it is dangerous. I want an art that is like being wrapped up in a warm blanket next to a campfire in the middle of a frozen forest, without a care in the world. I want an art that makes you feel the way you do when you wake up on a warm sunny morning, either on your screened-in porch or with a big window open, when the sun is soft and shinning in on you, when you have the whole day ahead of you — during which only good things of your choosing can happen. I want art that makes you feel like big slice of butter melting over a big pile of flapjacks. I want an art that is like a swimming in a pool of warm marshmallows. I want an art that makes your body feel like it’s plunging into velvety fur, an art that hits all the right places at all the right times, a purely delicious art with a champagne glow. I want an art of cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets, and frolicking puppies; an art of celebration, concordance, and solidarity. I want an art of quiet aromas, of lily, mallow, violet, elderberry, henbane, hemlock, tobacco, nightshade, stramonium, ether, and chloroform.
Because I believe that art should make the word a better place. Because art is something that happens inside us. Because when we look at things in the world, we become excited by them. Because the job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. Because it’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image — it’s about the viewer. Because art is about profundity, about connecting to everything that it means to be alive. Because wherever you come to with art, it’s perfect. Because you don’t have to come with anything. Because what you bring to something is the art. Because I want an art that is safely dangerous. Because I want an art that is dangerously safe.
Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of 10 books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews. Originally commissioned for a publication by the Royal College of Art and reprinted with permission from the author.
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The UK’s growing skills gap is impacting on business performance, with one in four vacancies going unfilled last year due to a lack of qualified candidates.
Such findings come from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) report, entitled Employer Skills Survey 2015.
Furthermore, 14 per cent of employers said there was a significant skills gap within their existing workforce, which equates to approximately five per cent of employees in the UK, or 1.4 million people.
Nineteen per cent of employers said they had at least one unfilled vacancy in 2015, which is a jump from the 15 per cent who said the same in 2013. Furthermore, six per cent of respondents said they had at least one skills shortage vacancy, which is up from 2013’s figure of four per cent.
In terms of the type of role, it was revealed that recruiting for machine operatives was particularly difficult, with 33 per cent of vacancies here cited to be caused by a skills shortage, up for 25 per cent in 2013. In addition, skilled trades continued to experience the highest density of vacancies due to skill shortages, at 43 per cent.
Unsurprisingly, the construction sector also reported that it was significantly impacted on by skills shortages. Employers within this sector found it difficult to fill one in three vacancies.
The financial services showed the sharpest rise in skills shortages, which rose from just ten per cent in 2013 to 21 per cent in 2015.
Characteristics and skills most missing in applicants for skills shortage vacancies included time management, customer-handling skills and possession of specialist skills or knowledge.
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Over two-thirds of employers who reported recruiting difficulties also said that this was causing a direct financial impact either due to loss of business to competitors, higher operating costs, and/or the need to outsource work.
Dr Adam Marshall, executive director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), underlined that these skills shortages are costing businesses financially and called for the government to focus on the quality of apprenticeships, rather than the quantity.
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Data Fusion Helps Autonomous Platforms Make 3D Maps More Efficiently
by Winn Hardin, Contributing Editor - AIA - AIA Posted 04/30/2018
Whether designing autonomous automobiles, mobile robots, drones, or futuristic pilotless aircraft, developers must employ multiple sensors to localize the vehicle in three-dimensional space. Depending on the system, different types of image sensors can be used to accomplish this task. Autonomous vehicles, for example, may use lidar to generate a 3D point cloud of the surrounding area. While data from lidar systems is accurate for large distances, the data
Figure 1: The µINS-2 from Inertial Sense is smaller than a U.S. quarter and uses sensor data and GPS data to provide position estimation.
generated is sparse, often necessitating the use of traditional complimentary machine vision solutions for close-up sensing and safety.
Lidar sensors can be used to map the environment in either 3D or 2D, depending on the system’s application requirement. The HDL-64E from Velodyne LiDAR provides a 3D 360° horizontal and 26.9° vertical field of view (FOV), while the TiM571 LiDAR scanning range finder from SICK provides a 2D 220° FOV.
2D laser scanners are often used in conjunction with camera systems to locate objects and their distances within the FOV of the autonomous vehicle. For these applications, different types of camera systems can include single (mono) cameras, stereo cameras, or cameras that capture RGB and depth (RGB-D) images. If single-camera systems are used, 3D images must be computed based on the motion of the camera, and any errors associated with this movement will have a detrimental effect on the resultant 3D image.
RGB-D sensors include both RGB cameras and IR structured light projectors and sensors. For example, the Structure Sensor from Occipital operates with portable tablets such as the iPad, which handles the RGB image acquisition, while accessories provided the structure light protector for capturing depth information.
Alternatively, pre-calibrated stereo cameras such as the Bumblebee from FLIR Systems, Inc. provide similar capability. By identifying differences between features in the left and right images, stereo vision cameras determine depth. While stereo cameras produce dense data sets for short distances, they often lack range. As a result, many 3D mapping systems use both lidar and stereo vision imaging systems to obtain more accurate data.
Multiple Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles
To estimate the position of a vehicle, robot, or drone in space, designers usually depend on layered sensing networks that include more than just machine vision and lidar. Designers typically use a combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers, and on-board inertial measurement units (IMUs) to measure acceleration and angular rate. Of course, these “dead reckoning” systems need to know a starting point and absolute location to stay safely on track. In many designs, this is performed using a global positioning system (GPS) that has an accuracy of approximately 5 meters or a differential GPS that uses fixed ground-based reference stations to improve this accuracy to approximately 10 cm.
Figure 2: At the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, a map in the form of a 3D point cloud was used by simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms for localization of the forestry vehicle and to measure properties such as tree trunk diameter and the coordinates of single trees.
Thanks to the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, the size of these IMU/GPS systems has reduced dramatically, making them useful in the design of autonomous aircraft. The μINS-2 from Inertial Sense, for example, is smaller than a U.S. quarter and uses sensor data and GPS data to provide position estimation (Figure 1).
In ground-based autonomous vehicles such as mobile robots and automobiles, data from IMUs can be used with data from wheel encoders to determine the position of the vehicle.
In the process of combining known locations with movement tracking to autonomously navigate environments as diverse as deserts to warehouse interiors, vehicles must construct a map of the environment while at simultaneously locating the vehicle within the map. To do so, they must perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
SLAM consists of first extracting landmarks or features from the point-cloud data generated by 2D or 3D lidar, sonar, or 3D camera system, and then confirming the feature location by matching the data from different sensor networks. SLAM navigation systems then update the current position of the vehicle using GPS, odometer, and/or INS data before estimating where future landmarks will be based on the mobile platform’s current position. (For a tutorial on how this can be accomplished in C# using an Evolution Robotics ER1 robot equipped with a laser rangefinder from SICK, read “SLAM for Dummies: A Tutorial Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.”)
Today, SLAM, or variations of it, is being used in a number of applications to map the environment. Examples include mobile robots used to generate local maps of forests, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling applications, and drones for environmental awareness.
Mapping Applications Abound
In the development of a mobile robot to measure the diameter of tree trunks, Marek Pierzcha?a of the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research and his
Figure 3: Fetch Robotics’ Freight robot employs a lidar scanning range finder, an IMU, and wheel encoders to generate a web-based GUI to limit the motion of the robot and define the positions of charging stations.
colleagues developed a mobile platform that combines a number of sensors to perform automated 3D mapping of forests. These include a Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR, a FLIR Bumblebee stereo vision camera to record stereo images, and an onboard IMU and GPS interfaced to a
Pixhawk microcontroller for global reference.
Employing the Robot Operation System running under Ubuntu 14.04, the system produces a map in the form of a 3D point cloud, which was then used by SLAM algorithms for localization of the forestry vehicle. The point cloud also computed properties such as tree trunk diameter and the coordinates of single trees (Figure 2).
Meanwhile, Fetch Robotics is using AMRs for warehousing and intra-logistics applications. In the past, installing automated guided vehicles was time
consuming and expensive since dedicated tracks needed to be installed on the warehouse floor in the warehouse for these vehicles to follow. Now, AMRs that do not require dedicated paths can automatically generate a map of a warehouse.
Figure 4: Top-down view of a 250 m drone trajectory (red) through a forest, with 3D map overlaid in gray dots that was generated by direct sparse odometry SLAM.
To accomplish this, Fetch Robotics’ Freight robot employs SICK’s TiM571 LiDAR scanning range finder that uses time-of-flight measurement to locate objects up to 25 meters away. Polar positional coordinates and the distance and angle from the lidar are transferred to the system’s host CPU and combined with data from the IMU to generate a 2D map. The Freight robot also uses a Carmine 1.09 short-range 3D camera sensor from Primesense to allow visualization above and below the lidar's FOV. A map of the robot’s surroundings can then be made by combining data from its wheel encoders, IMU, and lidar. Once generated, a web-based GUI can be used to limit the motion of the robot and define the positions of charging stations (Figure 3).
To further illustrate how companies are using layered sensing systems for 3D autonomous navigation, Nikolai Smolyanskiy and his colleagues at NVIDIA have demonstrated how the technique has been used in the development of a micro aerial vehicle system for autonomously following trails in unstructured outdoor environments such as forests. Packed onto a 3DR Iris+ Quadcopter from 3D Robotics with a Pixhawk module and NVIDIA Jetson TX1 embedded supercomputer on a J120 carrier board from Auvidea, the system features a vision system based on a forward-facing Microsoft HD Lifecam HD5000 USB camera and a downward-facing PX4FLOW optical flow sensor from Pixhawk with sonar and a Lidar Lite V3 optical distant measurement sensor from Garmin . (Figure 4).
While autonomous cars may have gleaned the most publicity for 3D mapping, other applications are using the same technology in areas as diverse as farming, forestry, and warehouse mapping. The technology is also being used to map the ocean floor, measure fish school populations, and enable remote underwater vehicle guidance. And as the number of 3D mapping applications rise, so, too, do opportunities for vision and imaging companies.
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VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, TO HOST LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL WESTERN REGIONAL TOURNAMENT
Krista Hildebrand
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VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, TO HOST
LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL WESTERN REGIONAL TOURNAMENT
More than 500 players, families and friends expected to visit Vancouver
as 10 teams compete in week-long playoffs
VANCOUVER, Wash.-For the seventh year in a row, Vancouver, Wash., has been selected
as the host city for the Little League Girls Softball Western Region Tournament, which will draw
teams from eight western states. Girls, ages 11 and 12, all who have won their district and state
tournaments, will now be competing for one of ten spots in the Little League Softball World
"Vancouver is the perfect setting for the Little League Tournament and for family sports of all
kinds," said Vancouver USA Regional Tourism Office President Kim Bennett. "When not
involved in the games, there is so much for families to do and see including historic sites,
walking and hiking, wildlife viewing, kayaking and canoeing, and so much more. We are
delighted that Vancouver was once again selected to host these games."
The Regional Tournament will be held at Fort Vancouver Little League Field, located in the
heart of the city. The week-long tournament will be kicked off with opening ceremonies starting
at noon on Saturday, July 31, and will wrap up on Sunday, August 8.
Tournament officials estimate there will be 170 children and adults directly involved with the
games including the players, coaches and umpires. It also is estimated that there will be another
300 families and friends traveling with the teams. These teams have all won their district and
state tournaments and will be coming from Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. The Little League Softball World Series will be held the following week
just across the Columbia River in Portland, Ore., at Alpenrose Dairy Field.
When not participating in the games, players and their families will be filling local hotel rooms,
dining at local restaurants and enjoying the historic sites and outdoor activities the city has to
offer. The host hotels for the tournament are the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver at the Quay and the
Comfort Inn and Suites.
For more information on attending the games, visit www.wad4llb.org . For more information on
visiting the Vancouver area, visit www.VisitVancouverUSA.com .
About Vancouver USA Regional Tourism Office
Vancouver USA Regional Tourism Office (formerly Southwest Washington Convention & Visitors Bureau)
is an economic development organization responsible for competitively marketing Vancouver and the
surrounding area as a destination for meetings, conventions, and group and leisure travelers. The
organization's mission is to promote Vancouver and Clark County by increasing convention and visitor
business. For more information call 360-750-1553, or log on to www.VisitVancouverUSA.com .
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Sully - Film Review
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by Olga Junek (subscribe)
I am an academic and writer living in Melbourne. I love to travel and I also love writing about all the things Melbourne, regional Victoria and other parts of Australia have to offer.
Published September 18th 2016
We all remember the so called "Miracle on the Hudson", when in 2009, on a cold January day, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberg landed his US Airways jet with 155 passengers on board in the Hudson River. We remember the images across our TV screens of passengers standing on the wings of the plane and waiting for NYC rescue services which had sprung into action immediately following the landing.
Theatrical Release poster Warner Brothers
Now, the film Sully, starring Tom Hanks and under the direction of Clint Eastwood, is showing in cinemas. Even though we know the basic details of the story, especially the fact that all 155 passengers were safely rescued off the plane with a few out of the freezing water as well, the film gives us new insights into the event and heightens our admiration for Sully. Through the film we begin to understand the details of the unbelievably tense, scary 208 minute landing - from the time of the bird strike to the actual landing on the river. We can also only admire the skills, talent and experience of Captain Sullenberg; this was no "miracle', it was a carefully thought out response to an emergency and is portrayed with emphasis on the importance of human capability and decision-making, as opposed to computer simulations (which play an important role in the film).
We can only shake our heads in disbelief at the bureaucratic approach of the investigation that followed this event and we become emotionally connected to Sully, his first officer and the crew who are all portrayed as true professionals with the utmost intent of getting their passengers safely off the plane.
Through the capable direction of Clint Eastwood, the film allows us to see the event from different perspectives of time but also of from other perspectives too, from flashbacks and TV reportage . The film is a tribute to the man who, through his decisions, averted a major disaster and thus saved the lives of all of the 155 passengers on board, yet a man who refuses to see himself a hero. In his eyes he was just doing his job.
Well worth seeing.Sully - the official trailer
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Aparajita Amar, Founder of SHLC-Sexual Harassment Law Compliance Advisory, she is a Certified Sexual Harassment and Workplace Diversity Advisor and an Advocate. At SHLC, Aparajita and her colleagues provide documentation, consultation and advisory services to organizations, assisting them in complying with the Sexual Harassment Laws. They work on drafting anti-sexual harassment policies, sensitization and awareness sessions and ICC capacity building, enabling workplaces to be inclusive, diverse and gender neutral.
She has designed and conducted training, sensitization and awareness workshops for employees, supervisors and senior management. She is an external member for several organizations. She has also designed and conducted capacity building and strengthening programmes for Internal Complaints Committee Members.
She is also a Legal Development Programme (LDP) Member for Strengthening Road Safety in India organized by the Bloomberg Initiative and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Global Road Safety and has attended workshops held in Beijing and Geneva. She is a graduate from Amity Law School, Delhi and has previously worked as a Law Researcher with Hon’ble Justice Gita Mittal at the Delhi High Court.
Aparajita has researched extensively on women empowerment laws. She has deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2016. She has co-authored several papers such as ‘The emerging laws relating Surrogacy: A procreational right for Single Parent, Transgenders and Foreigners”, published on the SCC Online blog. She has also presented a paper at the Conference on Statelessness and Citizenship organized by Center for Statelessness and Refugee Studies on Surrogacy Law. Aparajita has also authored and presented a research paper at the National Conference on Indian Society and Emerging Social Issues – “Need for recognition of Marital Rape in India” at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law which was been published in a book “Contemporary India and Gender”. She has authored papers such as “Accident Information Report- the Importance and Need” published on livelaw.
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DUBBO REGIONAL MUSEUM
HISTORY OF THE DUBBO REGIONAL MUSEUM
The museum collection originated in 1954 in Andy Graham’s backyard shed in Wingewarra Street. It quickly outgrew the premises and the council approved the use of the Drill Hall in Darling Street in 1956 as a museum. From here it outgrew itself once again and in 1964 it was relocated to Macquarie Street at the former Bank of NSW building (1876-1918).The Museum was set up as a pioneer Museum and in 1972 a “Village Square” was created. In 2001 following a major storm the museum suffered flood damage and had to be closed. The collection was stored at the airport where many of the large objects remain today. Around the same time as the flood, Dubbo City Council bought the Dubbo High School site from the Department of Education for the express purpose it be developed into a cultural facility. Today the museum collection lives in the school hall of what use to be Dubbo High School.Dubbo Regional Museum features two distinct spaces – a permanent space devoted to the story of Dubbo entitled People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories and a temporary exhibition space for travelling and in-house curated exhibitions.
PEOPLE PLACES POSSESSIONS
Dubbo Stories presents showcases devoted to the people of Dubbo through time. A photographic streetscape features images of the changing face of the city, together with a White Box tree installed in the centre of the space. A large showcase containing possessions from the collection features at one end of the Museum offering a treasure trove of items from past eras. There are over 5000 objects in the Dubbo Regional Museum collection, People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories presents a sample of these.
For further information regarding Dubbo Regional Museum please contact WPCC on 02 6801 4444.
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Chef and Tell: Jamey Fader of Lola and Big Red F
Lori Midson
Lori Midson | August 19, 2009 | 11:09am
I've kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest - and usually crazy - chef shenanigans, listening intently as he explains his stance on celebrity chefs, namely that he couldn't care less.
Fader once auditioned for Top Chef, the Bravo TV reality show that produced a Boulder victor - Hosea Rosenberg - last season, but instead of being forced to make food for a hundred from a Twix bar and a Twinkie, Fader went back to his kitchen, free of regrets. "They asked me something about what celebrity chef I looked up to, and I told them, I don't." And that, says Fader, was that.
And that's how Fader rolls. He grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, walked away with a bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University, moved to Colorado in 1996 and got a gig as a prep cook at Jax Fish House in Denver, one of Dave Query's restaurants. In 2002, Fader partnered with Query to create Lola, which is where Fader had been cooking until last fall, when he assumed a much larger role as the corporate chef for Big Red F, Query's restaurant group (and, yes, Rosenberg's employer, too).
It's been a great ride for Fader, but his success hasn't come without frustrations and hard lessons. He addresses all of that in the interview that follows -- the same interview in which he also admits that moose meat is the most disgusting thing he's ever put in his mouth.
Six words to describe your food: Simple, while ingredient- and craft-driven.
Ten words (or more, if you're Fader) to describe you: Obsessive, committed, vigilant, open-minded, loyal and unflappable in the line of fire.
Favorite local product: I love Haystack Mountain products and Colorado's Best Beef in Boulder. And I really like Abbondanza Farms for local produce.
Culinary inspirations: Working with my talented friends and fellow chefs in Denver, namely Matt Selby, Tyler Wiard, Troy Guard, Goose Sorensen, Sheila Lucero, Brian Laird and Keegan Gerhard. I'm also inspired by classic Mexican dishes and the foods that I grew up with -- pot pies, tacos, hunter stews, boils, sandwiches, grilled cheese and tomato soup. I dig the stuff that doesn't just fill the belly, but also evokes memories laden with emotions. I'm also really inspired by something called 50 Top, which are these super-cool chef dinners for Denverites put on by local chefs who want to support and bring recognition to the Denver dining scene. Each dinner is held at an iconic Denver location that pays homage to the town we call home.
Favorite ingredient: In general, fish, specifically scallops. They go with just about anything and are delicious grilled, baked, fried, raw, seared, crusted - whatever. I'm an East Coast kid, so for me, there's also something comforting about scallops. Things like lobster, blue crabs and scallops may be the stuff decadent meals are made of in most parts of the world, but with my family, these were simple local folk food. I totally dig that dichotomy.
Proudest moment as a chef: Opening Lola was a big step for me. I was going from chef to chef/partner, which is just as big of a leap as when you're going from prep to line cook, line cook to sous chef and so on. The level of awareness is exponentially greater at this point, and when a guy like Dave Query gives you the green light, you're stoked and excited but humbled and nervous. When Query trusted me enough to pull the trigger at Lola, it became the proudest moment in my career, because it was the culmination of years of hard work, and I was finally being rewarded with the ultimate kudos by one of the most respected restaurateurs in the business.
Best food city in America: Denver. No, I'm not bullshitting you. There's no other city where you can find the talent, entrepreneurship, humility, creativity and tight community within the restaurant industry, while simultaneously being supported by food-savvy guests and enthusiasts dying to make it all work.
Favorite music to cook by: Lucero, a great rock band from Tennessee.
Most overrated ingredient: Truffles. Yes, they're delicious, but using them doesn't make a dish great or a chef a genius. It's not that they don't have their place, but they tend to be overused, and white-truffle-infused oil is especially overused.
Most undervalued ingredient and why: This is tough, because I get the idea of overrated, but undervalued has got me a bit stumped. I'll have to say habanero peppers, in that they're shied away from because of their heat, yet when they're used properly, they have this sweet and fruity flavor that's undeniably delicious.
Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Take what you do very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Be professional and let your work do the talking, never blame others, and do your best to solve problems.
Favorite New York restaurant: Toloache. It's a taco joint in New York that's simple, delicious and perfect every time. I always order tequila when I'm there, because nothing goes better with kick-ass tacos than tequila.
One food you detest: Beef liver. It was always a once-a-month thing growing up, and I have a keen olfactory memory. There's just something about that smell that unnerves me. Calf's liver is fine, but beef liver? No, thanks. Actually, there are two foods I really detest. Is that okay? Moose. I hate moose. A buddy of mine who's also a hunter in Alaska sends me some moose meat every season, and it's seriously the foulest thing I have ever eaten. Ever. Period.
One food you can't live without and why: Sriracha sauce. It goes well with literally everything. I may even try it in my coffee tomorrow morning.
Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: I once cooked the mascot of a fish house where I worked. I was asked to get the biggest lobster from a live tank for a VIP, but I didn't know that the lobster I chose, and subsequently poached, was part of the, uh, "family." Yeah...it was the last decision I ever made there.
What you'd like to see more of in Denver from a culinary standpoint: Farm-to kitchen connections. When there's less shipping and fewer emissions involved, more local dollars staying in the local economy and fresher ingredients being used, it's a win-win situation for everyone.
What you'd like to see less of in Denver from a culinary standpoint: Molecular gastronomy. Very few chefs can do it well, and more often than not, it's done poorly. I love to experiment, and this side of cooking is yet another weapon in the arsenal, but when you play with guns, bad things can happen. And in this case, the result is often really bad food. I don't know, maybe I'm too old-school, but craft and technique always work better for me than flash and gimmicks.
Denver has the best: Group of hardworking chefs looking out for the local industry.
Denver has the worst: Late-night dining scene. Having a few late-night gastro-roach coaches would be great. I'd love to see trucks serving up yummy stuff to pad the stomach for more reverie, or to send me off to a blissful full-belly slumber. If it were my gig, I'd serve things like pho, ramen, tacos, tostadas and meat on a stick.
Favorite cookbook: Fannie Farmer. It's a great cookbook that has everything you need for a basic recipe that you can always build upon and make your own.
What show would you pitch to the Food Network? Rogue Dinner. I'd take some chefs and plan a great dinner at some crazy spot somewhere. Without asking for permission, obviously.
Weirdest thing you've ever eaten: The reproductive organs of a chicken. Texturally, they were like liver, but much sweeter and not as strong-tasting as liver.
Current Denver culinary genius: Sheila Lucero, the executive chef at Jax in Denver. Her food is so spot on and so simple, and yet she continues to go so unnoticed. I don't get why that is, because her food is inspired and always makes sense.
You're making a pizza. What's on it? Meatballs, mushrooms and peppers.
You're making an omelet. What's in it? Avocado, crab and jalapeños.
After-work hangout: My couch. It used to be the PS Lounge back in the day, though.
Favorite Denver restaurant other than your own: Right now it's got to be TAG, Troy Guard's new restaurant in Larimer Square. I love the concept, and that little guy named Troy is just really talented. His food embraces all types of great culinary adventures, and there's never a dull moment when you're eating it.
Favorite celebrity chef: I don't have one on a national level. Honestly, I couldn't care less about celebrity chefs. It's not that I'm hating on anyone, but I believe in, and look up to, those chefs within my community, especially Matt Selby at Vesta. He's humble, talented, creative, always pushing the envelope and constantly looking to help out the industry as a whole. To me, that defines a real celebrity chef. I'm not sure that you want to tell people this, but I also really like the chef on The Muppets.
Celebrity chef that should shut up: I guess he's not really a chef, but that guy, Ted Allen, from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy who was a judge on Top Chef knows absolute shit about what it takes to be in this industry, let alone consider himself any kind of expert that would qualify him to comment on anyone's food.
Hardest lesson you've learned: Perception is everything. You can have all the good intentions in the world, but they mean nothing when they're pitted against people's own perceptions of what they think you're trying to accomplish. Over the lifespan of a restaurant, things change...a lot, and those changes are embraced by some and loathed by others. As an operator, I'm trying to keep things fresh and create a draw that builds upon my existing clientele and concept, but what I've learned is that, in the end, how we're perceived is determined not by our intentions, but by what the momentum of the buzz is -- and sometimes that's a bitter pill to swallow. You know, some people may think we're too expensive, or the food is too challenging, or we cater to this type or that type, when the truth is that we're just folks trying to make this restaurant thing work, and we're doing it with all the heart and soul we can muster. There are times that all I want to do is scream at the top of my voice, "We love what we do. Please give us a chance to show you that." I don't think that's too much to ask for.
What's next for you? Figuring out how to find that thing in life called balance, while enjoying the amazing family, job and life that I'm living. And for as long as I'm a chef, I'm going to continue to foster the idea of a chef-driven community with a common goal of nurturing the dining scene in Denver.
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World Series 2019 Game 1: Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros - Predictions & Odds
World Series 2019 Game 1: Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros – Predictions & Odds
Derek Blake - October 21, 2019
The Astros will easily win Game 1 on their way to a World Series title in five games. Game 1 final score - Astros 5, Nationals 1.
Derek Blake
How to Watch Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, TX.
When: Tuesday, October 22nd at 8:08 PM EST
How (TV/Radio): National TV: Fox. Nationals Radio: WJFK/106.7 FM. Astros Radio: KBME 790 AM.
The Nationals swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four games to advance to their first World Series in franchise history.
Washington has a 40% chance to win the World Series title according to FiveThirtyEight.
The Nationals have +170 odds to win Game 1 and are +192 to take the World Series.
The Astros walked off Game 6 after Jose Altuve’s home run and clinched their second trip to the World Series in the last three years.
Houston has a 60% probability to win the World Series title according to Five Thirty-Eight.
The Astros are -210 to take Game 1 and currently sit at -235 to take the World Series.
Pitcher Notes
Houston Astros: Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Cole has been dominant ?
Will he lead the @astros to a Game 3 win? pic.twitter.com/sCBaRkVmEF
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) October 15, 2019
Cole has been masterful over his three postseason starts including the series-clinching win in Game 5 of the ALDS.
Cole has yet to allow more than four hits in a start in the postseason.
His ERA is 0.40 over 22.2 innings with just ten hits allowed, including one homer.
Cole’s elite strikeout rate has rolled over into October as the Astros’ ace has whiffed 32 batters over the 22.2 innings.
Nationals: Max Scherzer
Max Scherzer was on fire in the Nationals’ 3-1 win over the Cardinals:
? 11 K’s
? 1 hit
? 7.0 IP
Washington up 2-0 in the NLCS. pic.twitter.com/ZgM0q6g2II
— Bleacher Report MLB (@BR_MLB) October 12, 2019
The Nationals have won all three of Scherzer’s starts in the postseason as the right-hander has posted a 1.80 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 20 innings.
Scherzer’s best start of the postseason came on October 12th as the ace allowed just one hit over seven innings while striking out 11 Cardinals hitters.
Michael Brantley is the Astros’ best hitter off Scherzer, going 15 for 44 with one homer and nine RBI.
Scherzer is 14-10 with a 2.98 ERA in his career (40 starts) when he pitches on six or more days’ of rest as he will in Game 1 of the World Series.
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Hitter Notes
After being shut out 7-0 in Game 1 of the ALCS, the Astros’ offense outscored the Yankees 22-14 in the final five games of the series.
2B Jose Altuve has been incredible for the Astros in the postseason, hitting 15 for 43 with five homers, three doubles and has scored ten runs.
OF George Springer is hitting just .152 in the postseason but has hit two big homers to propel Astros to victories.
3B Alex Bregman went 3 for 18 in the Astros’ ALCS victory with one double and one RBI.
The Nationals’ offense was stellar in the NLCS, scoring 20 runs for an average of five runs per contest. The Nats’ outscored the Cardinals 20-6 in the four-game NLCS.
In the postseason, SS Trea Turner is 12 for 42 with one homer and three RBI but has zero steals.
2B Howie Kendrick went 5 for 15 in the NLCS to win MVP for the series. He is 2 for 9 against Cole’s lifetime.
3B Anthony Rendon led the Nationals in the NLCS, going 5 for 12 with a double and two RBI. Rendon is 5 for 13 lifetime against Cole.
Roster Notes
The Astros will start Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke in Games 1 and 2.
RP Ryan Pressly wrenched his knee in Game 6 of the ALCS but claims he’ll be ready for Game 1 of the World Series.
2B Jose Altuve won the MVP of the ALCS after his Game 6 walk-off 2-run homer against the Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman.
SP Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin will start Games 2 and 3 for the Nationals.
The Nationals will have six days off between the end of the NLCS and the start of the World Series. Teams who have played under these same circumstances are 5-7 in Games 1 and 2.
NLCS MVP Howie Kendrick could get some at-bats as a DH in Houston over the first two games of the series.
Game 1 & World Series Prediction
In his last start, Gerrit Cole struggled in New York, but the warm confines of Minute Maid Park will get the strong right-hander back into his groove. Look for the Astros to ride the momentum of their walk-off win against the Yankees on Saturday night and grab a couple of early runs against Nats’ starter Max Scherzer.
The Astros will easily win Game 1 on their way to a World Series title in five games.
Game 1 Prediction: Final score – Astros 5, Nationals 1.
World Series Prediction: Astros in five.
Game 1 Odds – Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros
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The home team has not won any of the first six games of the 2019 World Series, so Houston tries to be the first in a winner-take-all Game 7 against Washington.
World Series 2019 Game 6: Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros - Predictions and Odds
After being down 2-0, the Houston Astros won all three games on the road in Washington and look to close out the World Series on the Nationals in Game 6.
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Welcome from the Roundup
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Jennifer Womack
Dick Perue
Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame
Alcova Sweet Corn, 2010 marks 50th corn crop
Alcova – First on the market in 1960, this year marks 50 years of sweet corn at Alcova.
Harry and Kay Eichorn began the endeavor, known simply as Alcova Sweet Corn, when they lived and worked on what was then Miles Land and Livestock north of town.
“We began with 24 rows, maybe 30 feet long, of sweet corn,” recalls Kay from her present-day home in Alcova. “We grew it for ourselves, and to feed the ranch hands. When we first started we also hauled corn to various markets and groceries in town, and at that time we hand-picked everything.”
Kay says at that time the government camp was still in Alcova, filled with families who worked with the power plant, so their children would come out and help pick sweet corn each season. “I ram-rodded probably up to 15 kids in those days. Some of them stayed at our place, while others were shuttled back and forth to Alcova,” she says, adding she also had some extra adult help.
Harry and Kay had four kids of their own, and Kay says three grandchildren also grew up in the sweet corn patch. “Last year two great-granddaughters were out there picking corn, and thinking it was wonderful,” she says of the next generation, ages six and four years old.
In the early years the Eichorns staggered the planting dates of the sweet corn. “Being a crop that turns fast, you have to move it. When we hauled to the market, that worked fine to stagger it,” says Kay. “With the influx of people, the volume of business has increased, with a good market, so now they plant it all at once.”
When traffic to Alcova Reservoir began to pick up in the 1970s, Kay says that’s when they didn’t have to haul sweet corn to town anymore, as everyone from town came out for their own.
“Once in a while we would still take some in to the farmers market, it just depended on the crop and how prolific it was,” says Kay.
Customers can either pick their own sweet corn, or purchase ears by the dozen, already picked.
“I remember back when we still had the patch, and I had a 94-year-old man come out, and he wanted to pick his own,” says Kay. “With the irrigation running down, the rows get kind of wild, but we went out and he thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing as he picked sweet corn. A lot of our senior citizens enjoy doing that.”
“On the weekends we’d go ahead and get as much pre-picked as we could, before we had the automatic picker,” says Kay. “With the kids, it was always a challenge to see how high they could get it stacked on the pickup, and how many truckloads we could get ahead of the game. By Sunday evening, when all the people from the lake were headed to town, it wasn’t a fun time to keep up with the demand.”
To keep the pre-picked ears cool, the Eichorns would set sprinklers atop the pickup loads of sweet corn.
Today Alcova Sweet Corn utilizes an automatic picker, which moves down one row at a time and picks everything off the stalks, so it has to be sorted before it’s counted into dozens.
Kay says she and Harry grew several crosses and strains of sweet corn throughout the years, though she says it was hard to stick with one good variety, as the seed dealers would often substitute new, and what they thought were better, varieties.
“It’s always an experimental thing,” she says. “I can remember one year where it almost took a machete to get the ears of corn off the stalks. That variety was so hard to pick. We like to be able to go down the rows and snap them off and have them in the wheelbarrow.”
Whatever variety they plant on a given year, it has to have a short growing season, usually around 58- to 62-day corn. Planting dates all depend on what kind of spring presents itself.
The sweet corn is grown in rotation with alfalfa, something the Eichorns did since they started. “We tried to do three years of sweet corn, then put it back in alfalfa,” says Kay.
Of the leftover sweet corn at the end of the season, Kay says she “absolutely” froze the extra. “I always had enough friends who would come in and pick and help me out. Those were fond memories, too, putting up the corn.”
When the Eichorns first began growing corn, Kay says they had the most problems with antelope getting into the patch. “At that time the Game and Fish said the antelope wouldn’t eat it, but the kids had grown a patch for a 4-H project, and the antelope hit the patch and ate the silks off. The silks are what feed the kernels, so their corn was gone. We had a to-do with the Game and Fish about antelope, and now they’ve got them pretty well under control.”
Now the biggest challenge can be blackbirds. “They’re the ones that give us the biggest headaches nowadays,” she notes.
Following Harry’s retirement in 1984, the Eichorns’ son Jerry Eichorn took over the sweet corn management through 2005, when the ranch was sold to John Martin and became Gray Reef Ranch. Today ranch employees Stacy and Mark Schmidt oversee the sweet corn operation. Jerry still advises the Schmidts on growing and harvesting the crop.
Both Kay and Stacy agree that, with the cool, wet June Wyoming experienced this season, the sweet corn will be ready much later than usual. They expect harvest to come around Labor Day weekend.
“Our biggest challenge this year was the cool, wet spring, and we’ll have the late harvest, but we’re happy to still have corn, and it’s doing well,” says Stacy.
“But, I hear next week is supposed to be cooled down, and we need warm nights to put the sweetness in the corn and make it develop,” notes Kay, who still keeps a watchful eye on each year’s crop.
When Alcova Sweet Corn is ready to harvest, the word is spread through radio spots and a few newsprint advertisements. “The Eichorns built it up so big, and it’s so popular, that people look for us at the road to know when it’s ready,” says Stacy.
“It’s a lot of fun, and we love it and it’s an honor to keep the tradition going,” says Stacy of running the sweet corn patch. “It’s so hectic, and we work long days during harvest time, but it’s special to be a part of this, and the Eichorns are so good to work with.”
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Fans decked out in red and blue hoped their team would win the Battle of the Bluegrass and stay undefeated Saturday.
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WEBVTT WILD WINGS, WIH FANS DECKED OUT IN RED AND BLUE...HOPING THEIR TEAM WOULD WIN THE RIVALRY AND STAY UNDEFEATED. TAKE PKG: NATS THE CHEERS CAME LOUD AND CLEAR...AND OFTEN... NATS AS POINT BY POINT...THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS AND THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS DUKED IT OUT ON THE COURT. IT MADE UP FOR A DIVIDED HOUSE IN THE BUFFALO WILD WINGS IN ST. MATTHEWS. AND TENSE MOMENTS FOR FANS... NATS FOR COUPLE JASON SCOTT - A UOFL FAN - AND CHELSEA ANDREWS, WHO CHEERED FOR THE CATS - IT LEAD TO PLENTY OF TRASH TALKING... BITE JASON SCOTT AND CHELSEA ANDREWS, 1858 30.16 "I don't do it directly, i look away when I make any comments and she just sits there and i think she just sits there and rubs her hands together and silently plots. " 30.28 BITE JASON SCOTT 30.00 "I keep high hopes...it's going to be super low scoring. It's all defense right now, and its super physical so it's a fun game to watch," 30.10 AND AS THE GAME WENT ON...STAYING CLOSE THROUGHOUT...FANS OF BOTH TEAMS STAYED OPTIMISTIC... NATS BUT AS THE GAME CAME DOWN TO THE FINAL SECONDS...AND A WILDCAT VICTORY...KENTUCKY FANS CELEBRATED. BITE JENNIFER GILBERT, 1918 27.21 "It's a really big deal that we won. It's the second year in a row and we're at 13 and 0...so we're ready for a national championship," 27.28 LOUISVILLE FANS STAYED POSITIVE... BITE ANDREA COMBS 1918 28.18 "I was the only one cheering at my table for the cards. I was throwing paper at them when the Cats were winning... . Overall I think it was a really good game," 28.34 BUT FOR THIS YEAR...BRAGGING RIGHTS WERE DECIDED. BITE JASON SCOTT AND CHELSEA ANDREWS, 1919 30.16 "She's already started, she's already started. WHO KNOWS THE CATS AND CARDS COULD MEET AGAIN COME TOURNAMENT TIME. IN ST MATTHEWS, CORY PIPPIN, WLKY NEWS
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Irene Joseph says run-in with Const. Darrin Meier in 2014 has left her with psychological damage
Trevor Hewitt
A First Nations elder described how a police officer knocked her over and stood on her ankle outside a clothing store in Smithers as a civil trial on possible excessive force began this week.
Irene Joseph of the Wet’suwet’en told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that she’d gone to Mark’s Work Wearhouse in Smithers on Dec. 4, 2014. She said ran into an acquaintance whose name she’d forgotten.
The acquaintance, a woman, had allegedly stolen items from the store.
Joseph bought a scarf and left. She said she was met outside by an RCMP officer she would later learn was Const. Darrin Meier, who asked her for the other woman’s name. Meier has denied all allegations.
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Joseph said she told Meier she didn’t know her name, and that it was embarrassing being questioned right outside the store.
“I told him I wanted to go to the side of the store and he could talk to me there,” Joseph said. “But he was pushing me – asking me who she was and he just [wouldn’t] stop.”
Joseph, then 61 years old, said she tried to sit on her walker, which she uses because of an ankle injury, but Meier stopped her and began to rummage through her purse. He then tried to handcuff her, Joesph said, and she resisted.
“I wasn’t going to get cuffed for something I didn’t do.”
She said Meier’s feet knocked the front part of her leg and she fell to the ground head first. She said concealed her hands under her body to prevent from being handcuffed.
A struggle ensued, and the officer eventually stood on her ankle for what she estimated was 10 to 15 minutes but felt “like hours.” She said Meier felt like he weighed around 300 lbs. in full uniform.
After a period of time, another RCMP officer arrived. Meier released his hold, the two officers questioned her for a few more minutes, then left.
Joesph said the entire ordeal left her upset and confused. She is seeking general, aggravated, and punitive damages.
“I just walked back to my walker and sat down,” she said. “I just felt so dirty.”
Her lawyer, Ian Lawson, said the incident has caused her ongoing psychological stress, including fear of leaving the house she has lived in for 33 years.
The court was scheduled to hear Meier’s testimony on Friday.
In his response to Joseph’s initial claim in 2015, Meier argued he had reasonable grounds to believe she had shoplifted, after speaking to the store manager. However, his claim clearly stated she paid for her scarf.
He said she refused to speak to him multiple times, so he took her arm and told her she was under arrest for theft. When she resisted, he said he attempted a “foot sweep manoeuvre” and she dropped to the ground, and hid her hands.
“Const. Meier was required, justified and authorized to arrest and detain the plaintiff without warrant and to use as much force as necessary for that purpose,” his claim said.
READ MORE: Smithers RCMP officer being investigated over excessive force
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Landscape in winter.
A view of the town of La Rong.
Priests, family and friends chant for the deceased outside the temple. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
A bereaved family member holds gifts for the monks. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
Men cut the flesh of the bodies to make them easier to eat. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
The Tianzang Master has to grind the remains finely with a hammer to make them easier for the vultures to eat. Tibetans believe the soul can be reborn in a better place only if the body is completely devoured. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
The Tianzang Master has to grind the remains finely with a hammer to make them easier for the vultures to eat. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
A site arranged for a sky funeral. In the Tibetan funeral tradition of 'Tianzang' (sky funeral), also called 'Niaozang' (bird funeral), the dead are fed to vultures. Tibetans believe that the soul passes from the body after death to be reborn, so the body can be used to benefit other living things. In the 1960s and 1970s Chinese authorities banned the practice, but it regained limited acceptance in the 1980s. Outsiders are seldom welcome at the ceremony. In the tiny village of La Rong high in the mountains of Sichuan there are few trees for firewood and the ground is stony, so Tianzang is a natural alternative to burial or cremation. Three days after death the corpse is placed in a fetal position in a box or sack and carried to the temple for prayers, and then to the Tianzang ground.
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Flower basket campaign a success
Tony Spinelli
Published 8:00 am EDT, Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The Making Wilton Beautiful campaign has bloomed into a resounding success, organizers told the Board of Selectmen June 18.
“The fundraising campaign was very successful, we received about $12,000,” said Nan Merolla of the Wilton Garden Club.
“This will allow us to purchase hanging baskets for the next two years,” she said, since each year’s supply of flowers costs about $4,000.
The flowers are pink and raspberry geraniums. They peak in mid-summer with long lasting blooms that are drought tolerant.
“They are very showy once they get going in mid-summer,” Merolla told the board. “So, you may have noticed they’re not very showy right now — please stand by.”
There are 110 flower baskets around town — two on each of the 54 lampposts in Wilton Center and two at Merwin Meadows.
“We’re delighted they’re back because that add so much beauty to our town,” Merolla said.
As a result of the successful campaign, no further fundraising is planned at this time. She thanked the local news media for publicizing the campaign and helping get attention, and thanked the 120 individual families and businesses that contributed. They will all receive letters or emails of thanks, she said.
Local businesses were not directly solicited to contribute, but many did anyway, she said, and that was much appreciated.
“It’s heartening to see the widespread desire for beautification,” she said.
It all began earlier this year when a group of volunteers dedicated to the beautification of Wilton joined with the Wilton Garden Club in a fund-raising campaign to purchase flower baskets for the lampposts in the town center this summer. There were none last year. Spearheading the campaign were resident Kelly Lash and Wilton Garden Club president, Suzanne Knutson.
“I love Wilton and want it to be as beautiful as possible,” Lash said at the time. “I really missed the hanging baskets last year, so I figured I’d roll up my sleeves and do whatever was necessary to bring them back.”
The baskets were delivered a few days before the Memorial Day parade and were hung by Wilton’s Parks and Recreation crew. They’ll water them regularly throughout the summer.
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The 2004 Wired Rave Awards
Author: Wired Staff. Wired Staff Magazine
They are the mavericks, the dreamers, the innovators. The 20 people paving the way to tomorrow and inspiring us to follow in their footsteps. We admire their smarts. We salute their achievements. And we can't wait to see what they'll do next.
For the greatest show on Middle-earth
• Film: Peter Jackson
THE RAVE AWARDS:
Film: Peter Jackson
Renegade of the Year: Steve Jobs
Books: Rebecca Solnit
Art: David Byrne
Business: Jeff Bezos
Politics: Joe Trippi & Scott Heiferman
Industrial Design: Antenna Design
Music: The Flaming Lips
Architecture: Zaha Hadid
Software: Bram Cohen
Games: Richard Marks
Television: Mike Lazzo
Medicine: Joseph DeRisi
Science: Public Library of Science
The 2004 Brain Trust
He put 70,000 screaming computer-generated soldiers onscreen, and 70 million wildly animated fanatics cheered in multiplexes, chat rooms, and at awards ceremonies around the globe. At the box office, The Lord of the Rings trilogy has netted $2.5 billion and counting. The films have also turned Jackson's New Zealand-based effects shop, Weta, into one of the foremost f/x factories on earth. So what's a filmmaker to do after the triumphant Return of the King? How about a remake of a little art house flick called King Kong. – Jennifer Hillner
Photo by Art Streiber
The hobbit king faces off with the original stop-motion animation skeleton used in the 1933 King Kong.
WIRED: The Lord of the Rings trilogy has reached its conclusion. How are you feeling?
JACKSON: It's every emotion. Relief that it's over. Pride that we ended with something bigger than we ever thought in terms of success. It was a very risky venture.
What was it like to make three f/x blockbusters end-to-end for seven years?
We were developing by the seat of our pants. There were two shots of Gollum in Fellowship. We kept him in the shadows – he wasn't good enough for dialog or a close-up in daylight. We worked on him for another year, and he was in 300 shots in Two Towers. A month before delivery of that film, [visual effects supervisor] Joe Letteri insisted on redoing all of it because we'd finally gotten the code for Gollum right. Even so, after Two Towers, we still weren't happy with the subtlety of Gollum.
Did that mean more pressure from the studio?
After the first film, they could have said, Well hey, you have the audience, we want to spend a minimum on the next two. But they kept their hearts in the movie. We were supposed to have 400 effects shots in Return of the King. It ended up being 1,500.
What were you like on the set?
It's a strange process this filmmaking. It starts with some imaginative vision of what the film is to be. I have an image in my head and I try to list practical steps so that we end up with that on film. Then others get involved and it morphs into being the collective imagination of several people. When you work on a project for 15 months, it's no longer a job,it's a lifestyle.
What did you do for fun?
We flew in helicopters with a list of locations that Tolkien had described, trying to find locations to shoot. He gave us very vivid mental pictures of what Middle-earth looked like. New Zealand has a familiar yet primitive quality that doesn't feel like it's in the industrial age. The landscape isn't tamed; the hand of man hasn't marked it yet. I'd never flown in a helicopter before. It's not the most natural way to fly. They don't feel like they belong there, in the sky, but they get up there. When the pilot zooms down canyons and riverbeds, it's like a roller-coaster ride.
How did you become interested in special effects?
I grew up watching the British TV series Thunderbirds. It was the first thing I ever watched that I realized I was looking at special effects. I understood that it wasn't real, it was magic. I wanted to become the magician who did those tricks. From the age of 7, I was making models and cardboard spaceships and monsters with wire to animate frame by frame. As I went through my teenage years, my interest shifted with an understanding that the storytelling was really the fun thing to do – ideally, with monsters and special effects.
Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive – your early work features some of the bloodiest scenes ever filmed. What do these movies say about you?
They all represent the type of film I would be entertained by. That's why you make movies. Because you're interested in a genre. I'm a huge horror fan and I always will be. My horror movies were made on the backs of films like Evil Dead that were extremely graphic. I had to top those films. I had to be more outrageous and more extreme. Not that I'm competitive with others, but when filmmakers raise the bar in terms of portraying something in a way you've never seen before, it's inspirational.
So where do you see movies heading?
I can't wait for films to get sold in high definition. I think at that point, we're going to see a plateau in the format that will last for 20 years. Laserdiscs and DVDs have been stops along the way to getting a system in the home that will be of sufficient quality to rival the cinema experience. Once that happens, studios will have to ask themselves, How on earth do we get people back in the cinema?
Why remake King Kong?
King Kong is my favorite movie – I love the original. It was initially the escapism that drew me to it. The adventure. Being swept onto an island. But it's 70 years old, and there is a generation of kids who don't have the tolerance for old black-and-white films. This will be a new vision. I'm trying to recapture what I loved about the film when I saw it when I was 9.
If you weren't a director, what else would you do?
I wish I could spend all day doing miniatures.
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Jacques Perrin Winged Migration
Andrew Stanton Finding Nemo
For imagining iTunes and Finding Nemo (then ditching Disney)
• Renegade of the Year: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has always prided himself on thinking different. Now the rest of the world is coming around.
Photo courtesy Apple/Michael O�Neill/Corbis/Outline
Apple CEO Steve Jobs
As CEO of both Apple and Pixar, Jobs is setting the agenda in digital entertainment. At the start of 2003, the recording industry chastised Apple for promoting piracy with the iPod and its "Rip. Mix. Burn." ad campaign – which one record executive told Wired was like saying "Fuck you, record labels." But Jobs convinced the industry that technology was its friend. Last April, he launched the iTunes Music Store with support from the five major labels. By October, Apple had a Windows version and was on its way to a catalog of half a million songs. Sales by year's end: 30 million songs. Jobs has made the world safe for legal downloads; we will never look back.
Across San Francisco Bay, Pixar is having an even better run. Finding Nemo – the highest-grossing animated film and best-selling DVD of all time – has raked in $850 million at the box office. This success made Jobs wonder just what his distributor, Disney, was bringing to the table. He publicly mocked Disney for the quality of its recent animated films, then brashly ended their 13-year relationship – and all but pushed CEO Michael Eisner out of the Magic Kingdom. With two anticipated films in the pipeline and studios scrambling to devise a Pixar-friendly arrangement, Steve Jobs has suddenly become the hottest man in Hollywood. – Jeffrey M. O'Brien
Burt Rutan founder, Scaled Composites; designer, SpaceShipOne
Linus Torvalds Fellow, Open Source Development Labs
Niklas Zennstr�m & Janus Friis cofounders, Skype
For rewriting the history of modern technology
• Books: Rebecca Solnit
Photo by Robyn Twomey
"In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse." In that moment, Eadweard Muybridge caught all four fast-moving hooves off the ground. That same instant, the beginning of Rebecca Solnit's transfixing River of Shadows, launched a career whose restless genius set the tone for the 20th century. Muybridge's stop-motion images settled a minor scientific debate (and a legendary $25,000 bet between railroad baron Leland Stanford and some East Coast businessmen). More important, his breakthrough revolutionized photography, laid the groundwork for motion pictures, and forever changed concepts of time and distance. Solnit's tale is part biography, part history lesson, and part meditative essay. In Muybridge, she finds the forefather of the Silicon Valley spirit. He was an indefatigable entrepreneur, she writes, "selling and inventing himself at the same time that he was inventing and selling his photographs." – Blaise Zerega
From River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Photo courtesy of Corbis
In the eight years of his motion-study experiments in California, he also became a father, a murderer, and a widower, invented a clock, patented two photographic innovations, achieved international renown as an artist and a scientist, and completed four other major photographic projects.
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
Michael Lewis Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Christopher Paolini Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
Neal Stephenson Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle)
For bending our minds with PowerPoint slides
• Art: David Byrne
Photo by F. Scott Schafer
PowerPoint is best known for mind-numbing presentations that transform bumbling salespeople into confident, corporate warriors. But David Byrne used the software to produce evocative – and controversial – art. Here are a few bullet points, as told to Blaise Zerega, about Byrne's PowerPoint conversion and his book/DVD Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information:
• A big part of American culture is business culture. I owe it to myself to acknowledge it, to say, OK, this is part of my life, part of my work, part of the world I live in.
• PowerPoint can make almost anything appear good and look professional. Quite frankly, I find that a little bit frightening.
• Slickness is not always something that is desired. It's just trying to knock you over, trying to hype you up. That's a danger if there's actually nothing there.
• Sometimes when you put on the mask or the clothes of a character, you take on some of the aspects of the character. I guess that's what happened to me. I found that I was enjoying it.
• In one of my favorite images, lots of overlapping words are tightly layered on top of each other. One of the few recognizable words is overwhelmed.
• Galleries are my obvious venue, but I find that my presentations work very well in public, non-art spaces, places where people who work in offices can interact with it. They gasp and say, "Oh my god, that's done with PowerPoint!"
Matthew Barney The Cremaster Cycle
Olafur Eliasson The Weather Project
Takashi Murakami Superflat
Gail Wight The Evolution of Disarticulation
For reinventing the book by day and moonlighting as a rocketeer
• Business: Jeff Bezos
Once upon a time, Amazon.com sold new books. Now it offers new and used music, videos, electronics, clothing, jewelry, food – and profitability. Perfect time to launch Search Inside the Book, an audacious project to digitize Amazon's entire catalog. Bezos has set his own sights even further out: His private jet propulsion lab, Blue Origin, aims to "create an enduring presence in space." To infinity and beyond. – Jeffrey M. O'Brien
Photo by David Ash
WIRED: How do you push for change with the promise of instant riches all but gone?
BEZOS: We've created an environment where builders can build. The people here like to do new things. There's even more innovation than you see, like the way we configure software in fulfillment centers, tweaking algorithms.
How did you know it was time to get started on Search Inside the Book?
Five years ago, it would have been prohibitively expensive. But disk space and bandwidth are getting twice as cheap every 12 months. As technology – the fundamental raw ingredients – gets cheaper and cheaper, it creates an opportunity to be imaginative.
What's the next transformative trend?
With computers and display devices getting less expensive, when will half of households have four or five computers? Assuming they all have always-on broadband, this will eliminate a lot of friction in using the computer. I put a computer in my kitchen and it doubled my Amazon purchases! [Guffaws.]
Google has a product search engine, Froogle, and book search capability. I hear Amazon has a search engine on the way. Are you headed for a dogfight?
If you're competitor-focused, you can watch your competitor go down blind alleys and you don't have to invest there. That can lead to success but not a lot of innovation. We have a pioneer strategy. Ten years from now, customers will still want choice, selection, and the lowest price. If you base your strategy on foundational needs of customers, even if the world is swirling around you, you can keep your head down and don't have to worry about it.
Marc Benioff Salesforce.com
Sergey Brin, Larry Page & Eric Schmidt Google
Diane Greene VMware
Brian Roberts Comcast
For electrifying the grass roots
• Politics: Joe Trippi & Scott Heiferman
Polls, attack ads, talking heads – it seems like just another election year. But the primary season was anything but politics as usual. Consider Joe Trippi, former head of Howard Dean's presidential machine, and Scott Heiferman, cofounder and CEO of Meetup.com, two men who used the Internet to rewire grassroots organizing.
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Joe Trippi
It wasn't just fundraising. "A lot of the political establishment now views the Net as 'Cool, it can raise money,'" Trippi says. "They don't understand the community-building that can get people to not just contribute but actually take action."
Trippi had been in presidential politics since the 1980s. But he spent the boom years in Silicon Valley. "I was always fantasizing about what would happen if you took an open source approach to building a political campaign," he says. "There were companies that had huge Web-based communities following their technology. If that could happen, why couldn't you build the same kind of community nationwide?" When Trippi heard that Dean supporters were using a Web site called Meetup to connect, he had his answer.
Heiferman, who sold his online ad agency itraffic in 1999, had his epiphany while in line for opening night of The Fellowship of the Ring – the costumed elves and hobbits there had used the Net to mobilize. "When people increase their sense of community, it strengthens things," he says. "And frankly, I wanted to do something that would help people more than advertising does." That became Meetup. By last winter, the activists scheduling gatherings for Dean, Clark, Kerry, and even Bush by far outnumbered the Middle-earthlings.
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Scott Heiferman
Sure, Dean flamed out. But so what? Revolutions eat their young; blogs and the Web are now indispensable political tools. The children of the Internet finally have a name for their decentralized, networked, bottom-up philosophy. It's called democracy. – Adam Rogers
Joan Blades & Wes Boyd MoveOn.org
Ted Costa People's Advocate; California recall organizer
Ira Magaziner Clinton Foundation
HIV/AIDS Initiative
Tim Muris Federal Trade Commission
For changing the public face of JetBlue and Bloomberg
• Industrial Design: Antenna Design: Sigi Moeslinger & Masamichi Udagawa
What do JetBlue's new check-in kiosk and Bloomberg's streamlined computer terminal have in common? An extreme makeover, courtesy of Antenna Design's Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, who nip and tuck pedestrian consumer products into hands-on fine art.
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Sigi Moeslinger & Masamichi Udagawa
Though best known for tech projects with the likes of Fujitsu, IBM, Sony, and Verizon, Antenna has also designed space-age subway cars for New York City and created an interactive art installation for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
When it came to putting a new face on the Bloomberg terminal, they morphed it from a nondescript box to something more sculptural and akin to sleek executive furniture. There's also a wry new feature called Squawk for instant voice communication (think "Sell, sell, sell!").
For JetBlue, Udagawa and Moeslinger followed their curiosity, taking inspiration from classic sci-fi films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and old computer equipment like the IBM mainframe. The updated kiosk looks surprisingly ready to launch passengers on their own space odyssey. Currently, there are 20 of the boxes at JFK's Terminal 6, and there will be another hundred-plus at airports across the US by the end of the year.
"With products, people don't care what's happening with the technology inside," says Udagawa. "Design should make only the magical part of tech available to people." – Laura Moorhead
Yves B�har Birkenstock Footprints
Laurene Leon Boym Baby Zoo Rug Collection and Goodnight Nightlight
Rob Haitani, Jeff Hawkins, Phil Hobson, Dave Hoenig, Greg Shirai, Mike Yurochko, Peter Skillman & Cathal Loughnane Treo 600
Kenichi Sugino Game Boy Advance SP
For taking rock & roll to the fifth dimension
• Music: The Flaming Lips: Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne & Michael Ivins
Record an album. Tour to support it. Repeat. After more than a decade of making eccentric indie rock, the Flaming Lips decided to challenge the notion of what albums and concerts could be. "Not because it needs to be done," frontman Wayne Coyne says. "Just out of curiosity."
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The Flaming Lips: Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne & Michael Ivins
So the Lips remastered their previous album in DVD-Audio and Dolby 5.1 Surround and took the music to the next dimension. Remixed to flow out of six speakers, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1 envelops the listener in a cocoon of warm, sweeping psychedelia so perfectly realized that it's hard to imagine it wasn't recorded that way in the first place. (The new Yoshimi also includes an extra disc of outtakes and brilliantly imaginative videos.)
The band has been throwing curveballs at fans for years: The 1997 release Zaireeka, for instance, consists of four CDs meant to be played on four different stereos simultaneously. But in the past year the Lips also transformed their already mesmerizing performances into celebrations complete with balloons, confetti, and fans dancing onstage in fuzzy animal costumes provided by the band. (Disclosure: I was a bunny at New York's Roseland Ballroom in early 2003.) To top it off, they released two EPs with remixes that take their tripped-out rock for a spin on the dance floor.
And this blurry, Technicolor revision of rock is actually attracting more fans. "We're a band that makes whatever music we want and presents it to an audience any way we want," Coyne says. "People think when you go up there with balloons and animal costumes, that's not rock 'n' roll." He pauses. "But rock 'n' roll can do all this." – Robert Levine
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
The Postal Service Give Up
The Neptunes The Neptunes Present Clones
The White Stripes Elephant
For rebuilding the art of building
• Architecture: Zaha Hadid
During the '90s, Zaha Hadid's ambitious, competition-winning designs never made it from concept to construction, and critics assailed her as a paper architect with unbuildable ideas. All that changed with last year's unveiling of the long-awaited Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. New York Times critic Herbert Muschamp proclaimed it simply "the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war."
Photo by Nathan Kirkman
The $35 million structure, her first in the US and her largest project to date, is classic Hadid: She plays with space, blurring inside and outside by extending the sidewalk into the lobby, and connecting the galleries by a long snaking ramp (made by a roller-coaster manufacturer). "The concept is a jigsaw of diverse exhibition spaces, long, short, broad, and tall, each with different lighting conditions," Hadid says. "I think architecture can influence the making of art as well as the experience of viewing it, and I hope this space offers a new sense of possibility for artists."
Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid, who worked with Rem Koolhaas in the late '70s, finds right angles boring and remains determined to stretch architectural boundaries. Her next projects: the Contemporary Art Center in Rome, a BMW plant in Leipzig, Germany, and a $23 billion, 20-year master plan for Singapore. – Jessie Scanlon
Pierre de Meuron & Jacques Herzog Prada Tokyo
Norman Foster Swiss Re Headquarters, London
Jeanne Gang Starlight Theater,Rockford, Illinois
Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
For unleashing fast, free swarming downloads
• Software: Bram Cohen
Photo by Chris Mueller
In 2001, at the height of the dotcom bubble, Cohen decided to take some time off. "I was feeling frustrated professionally," says the freelance code jockey and co-organizer of the hacker conference CodeCon. "I wanted to write something that got deployed on as many machines as possible – a general-purpose tool." Two years later, he had created an open source P2P program with a totally new transfer protocol that increases a user's effective bandwidth a thousand-fold, effectively ending traffic jams for popular downloads. Today his file-sharing software, BitTorrent, is running on an estimated 10 million machines. The principle is simple: The more you share, the faster your speed. BitTorrent requires users to upload what they download, meaning the more people who want a file, the more there are to serve it out. And because bits of the file are pulled from dozens of computers simultaneously, the result is lightning-quick copies of Linux distros, Phish concerts, and, yes, first-run movies.
"Historically, if you look at the movie industry, whoever controls distribution ends up controlling the product," notes Cohen. "But BitTorrent makes the cost of distribution very, very small." MPAA be warned. The program's two-year development was funded almost entirely by Cohen's savings and, now, by donations from grateful users. It's not lucrative, but that's beside the point: "It's pretty megalomaniacal to think that you can change the world just by hacking in your house for a little while," Cohen says, "but I like to think that I've made a small part of the promise of the Internet come true." – Adam Fisher
Jonathan Abrams Friendster
Toivo Annus, Janus Friis, Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallin & Niklas Zennstr�m Skype
iTunes Music Store team
Dave Winer RSS
For reinventing how to be a player
• Games: Richard Marks
"Avoid missing ball for high score." The complete instructions for Pong and its basic up-down controller are hard to beat for simplicity. But Marks, special projects manager for Sony R&D and creator of the company's EyeToy, gave it his best shot. "I wanted a game you can jump in and have fun with immediately, something you could play with your grandparents."
Richard Marks
Marks chucked knobs, joysticks, and buttons in favor of motion detection. Hook the EyeToy cam to a PlayStation 2, aim it your way, and watch onscreen as your mirror image interacts with objects in the game. Wave your hands in the air to scroll through menu options, then start slapping around ninjas, heading soccer balls, or wiping suds off windows.
Marks' first R&D gig was in the early '80s at his parents' game shop in Mishawaka, Indiana. "It was my job to know how to play all the games. Atari 2600, Coleco, Intellivision very rough for a 10th-grader." Fast-forward to a PhD in aeronautical-astronomical engineering at Stanford, where he developed "eyes" for deep-sea robots. "The robot could track a fish or gauge its surroundings and hold a position regardless of currents."
The debut EyeToy: Play was a smashing success, selling 2 million copies in Europe since autumn and 500,000-plus in the US since Christmas. The follow-up EyeToy: Groove is due in April. Marks can't discuss his work for the upcoming PS3 console, but he's bullish on direct interaction with onscreen events. Will we ever be able to ditch our desks and juggle windows the way Tom Cruise does in Minority Report? Marks says they're already doing it at Sony R&D. "Cruise was wearing these gloves with bright blue dots. We have a simpler device." – Chris Baker
Takehiro Izushi Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Petri Jarvilehto Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Hideki Kamiya Viewtiful Joe
Yannis Mallat Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
For making the Cartoon Network safe for adults
• Television: Mike Lazzo
High-school dropout. Forty-six years old. Obsessed with cartoons. Mike Lazzo is your guy if you want grown men to watch TV in the middle of the night. His brainchild, the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network, regularly ranks number one in its time slot among cable viewers 18 to 34.
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Mike Lazzo
There's no doubt the senior vice president puts bodies in Barcaloungers during the wee hours – and Adult Swim's wild success is prompting Lazzo to expand the block's airtime to six hours a night (11 pm to 5 am), Saturday through Thursday, and add a half-dozen shows to the 20 or so already in the lineup.
Lazzo's trademark is bringing dead toons back to life. He got his big break when he created the cult hit Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1994 by splicing new celebrity interviews into old animated footage. Last year, Futurama and Family Guy reruns did so well that it's likely both shows (which Fox killed in prime time) will produce new episodes.
"Who would've thought that a cartoon network would be doing some of the smartest programming on TV today?" says the admittedly biased Matt Groening, creator of Futurama and The Simpsons. "Their promos are smart and funny and don't insult the intelligence of viewers." What's more, Lazzo says Adult Swim's promos were created on a Macintosh "for $5."
His latest project: an original cartoon called Squidbillies. Loosely autobiographical, Squidbillies stars a family of backwoods cephalopods stranded in the Georgia mountains when the ocean recedes from the Ohio Valley. "We have to write what we know," explains Lazzo, who grew up in the South. "We like seafood and we're rednecks, so we think we've got the tonality down." – Rebecca Smith Hurd
Ricky Gervais The Office (BBC America)
Ronald Moore Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel)
George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh K Street (HBO)
Jon Stewart The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
For nailing SARS. Next up: malaria and the common cold
• Medicine: Joseph DeRisi
Joseph DeRisi
Some kind of super-pneumonia was making patients – and doctors – drop dead in Southeast Asia. Even the World Health Organization whiz kid who gave the deadly outbreak a name – severe acute respiratory syndrome – succumbed to it. The Centers for Disease Control obtained a sample of a victim's infected tissue and needed a diagnosis fast. There was just one man for the job: UCSF biochemist and biophysicist Joe DeRisi. He's the brains behind the microarray known as the virus chip, a glass slide embedded with 12,096 snippets of viral DNA. (Extra geek credit: DeRisi designed and built a robot in his lab to imprint the chip. Supergeek cred: He wrote the software, too.)
Within 24 hours, the virus chip produced a snapshot of the pathogen's genetic makeup. "It was a novel coronavirus, staring us in the face," DeRisi says. "It was just a blatant result."
DeRisi stands at the intersection of the disciplines driving the life sciences – genomics, bioinformatics, virology, materials science, and computer engineering. Wiry and hyper, the onetime black belt in aiki-jujitsu sees nothing especially daunting about taking on – even curing – the common cold, which he's investigating. He's also out to crush malaria, which each year kills more than a million people, mostly children. Last year, for the first time, his lab cracked the genetic code that drives the disease's distinctive 48-hour fever cycle. Just another blatant result. – Mark Robinson
Cynthia Kenyon aging research, UCSF
Robert Lanza stem cell research, Advanced Cell Technology
Erin Lavik spinal cord regeneration research, Yale
Tommy Morris Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center
For cracking the spine of the science cartel
• Science: Public Library of Science: Michael Eisen, Harold Varmus & Patrick Brown
Michael Eisen
Photo by Richard Ballard
Harold Varmus
If science is a search for universal laws of nature, why do scientific journals copyright the papers they publish and charge as much as $20,000 a year for a subscription?
"It's insane that the scientific community has allowed publishers to limit the impact of our research," says UC Berkeley geneticist Michael Eisen. Starting in the late '90s, Eisen and two of his colleagues, Stanford molecular biologist Patrick Brown and Nobel Prize-winning oncologist Harold Varmus, tried to work with traditional publishers to make research more widely available on the Web, but the publishers wouldn't cooperate. So the three scientists devised an end run: the Public Library of Science. In October 2003, PLoS published the first open source, peer-reviewed journal, PLoS Biology.
The key concept is what Eisen calls "open access." PLoS posts new research online, making it available to everyone from high school students to scientists in the developing world. Authors agree to let anyone annotate, excerpt, link, and otherwise add value. And that's not all: Online readers pay nothing. Funders of research – usually government agencies – cover the cost of publication up front.
The goal isn't to put old-line publishers out of business but to force them to embrace open access. "We'd be happy if every publisher shifted to open access tomorrow," Eisen says. "But they're not going to do it on their own. The scientific community has to take matters into its own hands." – Ted Greenwald
Charles Bennett astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Boldizs�r Jank� physics, University of Notre Dame
J. Craig Venter Center for the Advancement of Genomics
Alessandro Vespignani theoretical physics, Universit� Paris-Sud
• The experts & visionaries who helped select this year's Rave Awards nominees
ARCHITECTURE Cecil Balmond structural engineering, Arup • Aaron Betsky Netherlands Architecture Institute • Reed Kroloff architecture critic • William Mitchell MIT Media Lab • Terence Riley Museum of Modern Art
ART Barbara J. Bloemink Cooper-Hewitt • David d'Heilly filmmaker/curator/translator • Natalie Jeremijenko Experimental Product Design Initiative • Barbara London Museum of Modern Art • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer installation artist
BOOKS Natalie Angier science writer, The New York Times • Michael Cader PublishersLunch.com • David Gelernter computer science, Yale; author • Kevin Kelly Long Now Foundation; author; Wired editor at large • Lawrence Weschler NYU; author
BUSINESS Reed Hastings Netflix • Paul Jacobs Qualcomm • Andy Kessler Author, Wall Street Meat • Will Poole Microsoft • Vinod Khosla Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
FILM Roger Ebert Film critic • Geoffrey Gilmore Sundance Film Festival • Brian Grazer Producer • Gregg Hale Producer/director
GAMES Seamus Blackley Creative Artists Agency; Xbox cocreator • Dennis "Thresh" Fong pro game player • David Kushner author, Masters of Doom • Peter Molyneux Lionhead Studios • Will Wright Sims god
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Shoshana Berger editor, ReadyMade • Tim Brown IDEO • Richard Koshalek Art Center College of Design • Chee Pearlman Chee Company • Danielle Spencer graphic designer & artist • Bruce Sterling author; Wired columnist
MEDICINE Atul Gawande surgery, Harvard Medical School • Robert Langer biomedical engineering, MIT • Sean Morrison cell & developmental biology, University of Michigan • Gregory Stock medicine, technology & society, UCLA
MUSIC John Flansburgh They Might Be Giants • Mark Juris Fuse • Sia Michel editor in chief, Spin • Moby recording artist & producer • Scott Spock The Matrix
POLITICS Sherwood Boehlert US Representative (R-NY) • Lawrence Lessig Stanford Law School; Wired columnist • Declan McCullagh Politech blog; News.com • Glenn Reynolds Instapundit blog • Hilary Rosen political consultant
SCIENCE Albert-L�szl� Barab�si physics, Notre Dame • Paul Davies natural philosophy, Macquarie University • Neal Lane physics & astronomy, Rice • Oliver Morton author; Wired contributing editor • David B. Wake evolutionary biology, UC Berkeley
SOFTWARE Paul Boutin Wired contributing editor • Doug Engelbart Bootstrap Institute; mouse inventor • Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Slashdot • Jonathan Schwartz Sun Microsystems • David Vaskevitch Microsoft
TELEVISION Gail Berman Fox Entertainment • Paul Goebel Beat the Geeks • Tom Shales TV critic • Martin Yudkovitz TiVo
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YOUR GUIDE TO WISCONSIN’S BEST INSTAGRAM SPOTS
Your perfect trip in photos
One of the best ways to plan a vacation is to check out all the beautiful spots you might visit. And one of the best ways to do this is with Instagram, a visual app that showcases everything beautiful and interesting. Wisconsin’s vacation destinations are well-covered and this app will take you to some amazing places. Planning a lake trip? On Instagram you can see if the water is really as beautiful as your dreams. Heading to the forest? Before you take the path lest traveled, see if someone has been there before. When you pack your bags, and head to these beautiful places, be sure to bring your phone. You’ll surely find some images worth sharing.
Here’s a sample of some of the Wisconsin vacation spots you’ll find on Instagram:
This community is home to great shopping and unique attractions, including the National Mustard Museum and the award-winning Capital Brewery. It also has an extensive, award winning trail system that provides visitors and residents with a tranquil and relaxing escape from daily life. Arguably, the most scenic stretches of trails can be found along the Pheasant Branch Corridor, an oasis of bubbling waters. It’s a perfect Instagram spot. Check out Middleton’s Instagram.
This Northwoods destination has drawn travelers for more than a century. There’s a lot to love – it has more than 60 trails, pristine wilderness areas and scores of fun events. One of the biggest draws are the lakes – Vilas County is part of the largest concentration of freshwater lakes in the world. In all, the county has more than 1,300 lakes! They offer great fishing, boating and paddling opportunities, and on clear nights they provide some of the best Instagram sunsets on earth. Visit Vilas County’s Instagram..
This vacation community is known for a lot of things – sparkling lakes, beautiful trails, a cute downtown and great lodging. But there’s one unique attraction that really sets this community apart. Boulder Junction is home to white deer – they have been around here for generations, floating about the town like ghosts. Boulder Junction’s Instagram page is full of these mystical creatures – click to see!
People call Rhinelander “Hodag Country” after a creature that reportedly roams the forests around Rhinelander. The Hodag is celebrated all over town and a larger-than life likeness has been erected outside the Rhinelander Area Chamber of Commerce office. It’s a fun place to snap a unique vacation portrait. See more Hodag fun on Rhinelander’s Instagram.
#Hodag Country is a great place for a family getaway! Visit our website (link in URL) to enter our new Family Getaway Giveaway. #vacation #rhinelanderwi #rhinelanderwisconsin #wisconsin #northwoods #oneidacountywi
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This entry was posted in Boulder Junction, Enews, Land O' Lakes, Middleton, Oneida County, Rhinelander, Vilas County, West Bend on Thursday, July 28, 2016.
YOUR GUIDE TO WISCONSIN’S BEST NATIVE HERITAGE
Explore Wisconsin’s rich tribal past and present
This summer, explore Wisconsin’s remarkable native art, culture and history. From festive pow-wows to sacred sites, there’s a lot to experience and discover in this state, which has a rich tribal past and present. You can find Wisconsin’s native history and culture alive at every turn – you just have to know where to look. You’ll find unforgettable beauty and gain a deeper understanding of this state and the people who call it home.
Here’s a sample of places to explore this summer:
Middleton – Uncover chapters of history
Middleton’s Pheasant Branch Conservancy is popular with nature lovers but it also has a rich cultural history. The park is home to four conical and one lineal mound on a hill that has impressive views of the surrounding countryside. The park also was part of a more recent chapter of Wisconsin’s native history – on July 20, 1832 Sauk Indian leader Black Hawk and his followers camped here as they fled pursuing soldiers.
Vilas County – Explore Ojibwe culture
In Vilas County, beautiful Lac du Flambeau is home to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. A must-see is the George W. Brown, Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center, which features a fascinating collection of exhibits, including a 24-foot Ojibwe dugout canoe. The Waswagoning Re-created Ojibwe Indian Village offers a look at what village life was like for Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin.
Oneida County – Paddle the past
Oneida County’s beautiful waterways are forever linked to the region’s native history. Paddling routes trace the same paths taken by Native Americans here generations ago and can give you a sense of what traveling this country was like for earlier residents.
West Bend – Visit a sacred site
An easy drive north of Milwaukee is Lizard Mound Park in West Bend, which features 28 effigy mounds, including a lizard mound that’s hundreds of feet long. The park’s collection of mounds is one of the largest and most diverse groups in Wisconsin and it draws visitors from throughout the region. Modern-day travelers have been visiting the site since the 1800s; it’s been a public park since 1950.
This entry was posted in Enews, Middleton, Oneida County, Vilas County, West Bend on Thursday, July 14, 2016.
Planning Your Spring Birdwatching: Season Preview
Catching Crappie
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Thurrock Tory chair of planning slams Labour over civic centre application
By Staff Reporter on October 8, 2019 1 Comment
By Local Democracy Forum
THE leader of Labour has been criticised for claiming they were unable to oppose plans to rebuild the council’s civic offices due to a “technicality”.
Labour councillors Gerard Rice and Sue Shinnock had the power to change the vote for granting planning permission to the multi-million-pound redevelopment of the civic centre but they were absent from the meeting in September.
The party sent Councillors Abbie Akinbohun and Daniel Chukwu to replace them but they were unable to vote because they had not attended the previous month’s meeting when the plans had initially been discussed.
Labour leader Jane Pothecary has now vowed to challenge the decision and said the decision to prevent the two replacements from voting was a “technicality”.
But the chair of the council’s planning committee, Conservative Councillor Tom Kelly, has called her claims “nonsense”.
He said: “The fact that two Labour members on planning were absent, one being on holiday the other suspended by his group on allegations of planning irregularities, is the only reason why Labour could not vote on the Civic Offices.
“It is absolute nonsense that Labour are saying it is ‘a technicality’ that their substitutes on planning couldn’t speak or vote on the application for the council offices.
“It is clearly set out in the council constitution that a councillor cannot vote on a planning matter if they have not been present for the whole debate, and that has been the case for as long as I can remember.
“Equally the council offices application was on the planning agenda a full week before the meeting as well as it being made clear at the August meeting that it would return in September.
“The dates for Planning meetings are also set a year in advance. These excuses from Labour are paper thin and as usual do not stand up to the reality of the matter.”
Labour also faced criticised from Thurrock Independents Councillor Gary Byrne, who is also a member of the planning committee.
Speaking after the meeting last month, Mr Byrne said the offices were proceeding “as a direct result of Labour failing to attend” and called it an “utter slap in the face to residents”.
The multi-million-pound plan has been opposed by all opposition parties as well as residents who believe the council failed to provide a strong understanding of how it will be beneficial to residents.
Conservatives councillors have defended the plan with Councillor Mark Coxshall promising it will bring regeneration to Grays and “set the scene” for future development of the High Street.
Thurrock Tory chair of planning slams Labour over civic centre application added by Staff Reporter on October 8, 2019
One Response to "Thurrock Tory chair of planning slams Labour over civic centre application"
Lambo October 9, 2019 at 9:39 am
Seems typical of Thurrock Labour to be honest, always trying to blame others for their own problems
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Fired deputy mayor Kambarami replaced
0 November 17, 2019 10:46 AM
Source: Fired deputy mayor Kambarami replaced | Sunday News (local news)
Vusumuzi Dube, Senior Municipal Reporter
BULAWAYO councillors seem to have thrown in the towel regarding the status of disposed deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami after they appointed a caretaker councillor to take care of business in Ward Three.
Mr Kambarami lost his status as councillor and deputy mayor after High Court judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa ruled that his election was in violation of Section 119 (2) (e) of the Electoral Act following his conviction of theft.
Mr Kambarami went on to appeal the ruling at the Supreme Court. However, after consultations the local authority’s lawyers, Coghlan and Welsh wrote to his lawyers, Samp Mlaudzi and Partners noting that the notice of appeal did not necessarily overturn the High Court’s declaratory order.
At one point, his party, MDC-Alliance tried to intervene in the matter, ordering the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni to reinstate him, but that hit a snag with the Mayor noting that he had no power as the matter was now subjudice.
However, according to a council confidential report councillors have finally given in and set aside attempts to smuggle the embattled former deputy mayor through the backdoor by resolving that a caretaker councillor be appointed to oversee his ward until the matter has been concluded at the Supreme Court.
Councillors were also questioning what jurisdiction the Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube had in writing to the former deputy mayor informing him of the withdrawal of his benefits. It was revealed that Mr Kambarami was only told that he was no longer entitled to any privileges as a deputy mayor and councillor from a council stores attendant when he had gone to get his weekly allocation of fuel.
“The town clerk advised that he was merely performing his duties as the chief executive officer of the organisation when he wrote the letter. This was the court order that had come to council. In this case he was only implementing a court order.
“On the issue of a caretaker councillor for Ward Three, the committee supported the idea of Clr Silas Chigora (Ward Four) to be requested and appointed to take care of issues relating to Ward Three until the conclusion of the case involving Kambarami,” reads part of the report.
In the ensuing debate councillors concurred that there was a need to appoint a caretaker councillor as development projects were now at a standstill.
“Clr Mlandu Ncube said these were legal matters and there was a need for councillors to be guided accordingly. He mentioned that this was not the first time councillors had been suspended. Council was not an appellant court. There was a need to consider the judgment that had an effect on the organisation. The Mayor, Clr Solomon Mguni explained that there were some projects that were ongoing in Ward Three and there was a need to find someone who would overlook those projects,” reads the report.
Mr Kambarami was in July last year convicted of theft by Bulawayo provincial magistrate, Ms Sharon Rosemani, under case number CRB 1981/18. He was fined $80 or 18 days in prison for stealing an extension cord from an electrician he had hired to work at his offices. Justice Mabhikwa said Kambarami’s failure to notify his party and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission was in itself an act of dishonesty and an illegality, which rendered his subsequent election a nullity.
‘Gender stereotyping still exists’
Give Zec power to postpone elections: CSOs
Both Houses of Parliament Have Adjourned
ZEC begins consultations on delimitation
Proposed constitutional changes gazetted
Government underfire over MZWP
Embrace good hygienic practices
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Why you should begin using Sign in with Apple
Apple updates its privacy pages; you should take a look
Smartphone apps: Is your privacy protected?
Technology Industry
WWDC: What you need to know about Sign In with Apple
A private authorization system for the rest of us
There’s lots of interest in Apple’s new Sign In with Apple system, a highly secure, private way to sign in to apps and websites. Here’s what you need to know:
What is Sign In with Apple?
Apple has noticed that sign-in systems for services, apps, and websites rely on services that use your action of signing in to place cookies on your computer and track what you do.
Apple’s focus on privacy means it is attempting to restrict such practices, which is why it has developed the new system as a more private way to sign into these apps and services.
The idea is that Apple doesn’t track you and makes the entire process as private as possible.
[ Related: Apple's place is in the enterprise ]
Is Sign In with Apple complicated?
Not from what I have seen. Sign In with Apple works with your Apple ID. This means that instead of filling out forms, verifying email addresses, and choosing (and struggling to remember) new passwords, you can just tap the Sign In with Apple button to get started straight away. This makes it as easy to use as most other authentication systems, and — Apple claims — much more private.
How does Apple explain the system's privacy?
The system relies on your Apple ID. That means when you choose to sign into something, you can use your Apple ID to authenticate and Apple will then provide a unique random ID to access the service. In the future, you continue to log in as seamlessly as any other authentication service, but Apple continues to protect your privacy.
What if Sign In with Apple demands my email address?
If developers, sites, or services demand you share your email address, you can provide it if you wish, though Sign In with Apple can also generate a random email address for that service. This limits what the service learns about you, but it still allows those offering the service to contact you, while not actually gathering your real email address.
Will I need to enter my Apple ID each time I use the service?
That doesn’t seem to be the case. Apple’s system works merrily with Face ID or Touch ID. It also has two-factor authentication built in.
Yeah, but Apple knows what I’m doing
It is not true that Apple knows what you are doing. In keeping with its privacy models elsewhere across its platforms, the company works to collect as little information about you as it can. Apple promises that it, “Does not use Sign In with Apple to profile users or their activity in apps.”
What about fraud protection?
There are hackers, fraudsters, and automated fake account creation tools all over the modern internet. This is bad news in lots of ways — take a look at the millions of fake users deleted by Twitter in recent months and the impact on follower counts for some high-profile users for an idea of how these fakes sully social media discours.
Apple says Sign In with Apple uses on-device machine learning and “other information” to prevent fake or fraudulent account creation, or, as Apple puts it, “It uses on-device machine learning and other information to provide a new privacy-friendly signal that helps you determine if a new user is a real person or an account you might want to take another look at.”
Does Sign In with Apple support other platforms?
Sign In with Apple is designed to work on all Apple’s platforms, but that’s not going to be much use on other platforms, is it? This may be correct at this stage of deployment, but there are strong signals suggesting Apple has a plan for that.
The feature works natively on all Apple’s platforms, and it works in any browser. That’s important, as that cross-platform browser support means you can use it on websites and services and in versions of your app working on other platforms. You can learn more about how to deploy the system on websites and other platforms using HTML and JavaScript here.
What's next for Sign In with Apple?
I’ve spoken with non-Apple developers involved in the enterprise space at and around WWDC. Jamf, for example, says because they already support authentication services from Google and Microsoft, they are interested to see if they can help enterprises use Apple’s new and ultra-private sign-in system across their own internal applications and services, and in what other ways it could help improve rapid deployment and on-boarding of employees, services, and apps.
Given Sign In with Apple is accessible to other platforms and websites with little more than a few lines of code, it seems probable many enterprise users may choose to deploy the service internally and externally in some scenarios.
But what about the data broking industry?
Apple doesn’t seem to care too much about the data broking industry. The company has gone on record to warn against the chilling impact of privatized web surveillance and privacy erosion on democracy, freedom, and public discourse. While there is a need in many industries for access to such data, Apple’s decisions mean most of us can look forward to making more informed consent before granting access to such data to third parties. Apple CEO Tim Cook puts it this way: “If there is no privacy, freedom plummets,” he told CBS.
When will Sign-In with Apple be available?
Sign In with Apple will be available for beta testing this summer. Apple says it will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in “when it is commercially available later this year.” Apple won’t force you to use the system, but it clearly hopes that when given the choice of using its private system or less private options, most of us will choose to use Sign-In with Apple.
I think we will.
Another privacy protecting enhancement Apple delivered at WWDC is a new tool that lets users allow an app to track their location only once, which may help make people aware of how their location data can be exfiltrated and used.
[ Also read: WWDC 2019: 12 big announcements for enterprise users ]
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Activist Zizo Abdo released with precautionary measures - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Activist Zizo Abdo released with precautionary measures
Activist Zizo Abdo released with precautionary measures
Abdo was detained for more than 135 days on charges of unlicensed protesting, among others
Daily News Egypt September 18, 2016 1 Comment
Activist and April 6 Youth Movement member Zizo Abdo was granted release on Sunday with precautionary measures, according to lawyer Mokhtar Mounir.
Abdo must be present at the chosen police station from 6pm to 10pm three days a week over a period of 45 days as part of the precautionary measures, Mounir told Daily News Egypt.
Abdo was arrested on 5 May on charges of unlicensed protesting, attempting to topple the regime, and belonging to an outlawed group. He was arrested along with rights lawyer Malek Adly who was also released earlier this month. Both activists were arrested in relation to protests that took place in opposition to the maritime demarcation deal between Egypt and Saudi Arabia in April.
Abdo’s brother Ibrahim Fahmy claimed that Abdo’s health is deteriorating and that he was imprisoned under inhumane conditions.
Topics: detainees protest Red Sea islands Zizo Abdo
https://wwww.dailynewssegypt.com/2016/09/18/activist-zizo-abdo-released-precautionary-measures/
Tiran and Sanafir are still Egyptian: Malek Adly
Court renews detention of activists Zizo Abdo, Haitham Mohamedain, Hamdy Qeshta
Front to Defend Freedoms launches campaign for Red Sea island detainees
September 18, 2016 Breaking News
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Sep 30, 3:57 amHomecoming October 11, 2019
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Soccer Tryouts
Sharline Vanpelt, Author
Soccer tryouts started with a kick on December 2nd. Tryouts will last until December 12th, when the soccer coach, Aaron Russel, will make the last cuts to the team; he made the first cuts on December 6th, leaving the girls team with 19 members, and the boys with 25. The girl’s team will no longer have cuts and will keep all 19 girls.
Team member, Katie McCay, says, “soccer tryouts were serious but in a good way”. She also shares her excitement for the season, “I’m looking forward to getting closer with all the girls and playing at the away games”.
After one week of tryouts, Coach Russel shares his prediction for the following season stating, “…I think we will be a good side this year in both boys and girls. We have a lot of upsides and I look to improve on last season”.
The Team’s Potential
“I think our potential lies in our numbers. We are lucky enough to have enough players on each team to ensure that we can cover injuries and times when someone might be unavailable…”, Russel states regarding the large teams this year.
Having the numbers, however, mean nothing without each player having skill and dedication. They have three months before the season starts to improve. With just a week of tryouts, Russel has pinpointed areas that need practice and growth.
“We have to be better with our ball skills, Our dribbling and decision making must improve. The players also must buy-in to the new system and be willing to work for the team above themselves in order to make sure we are all on the same page with our game plan. With change comes adjustments, but by the time the season rolls around, we will be ready” says Russel, confident for the season.
Mccay also sees potential saying, “ I think we’ll have a pretty good year and that we have a lot of potential”.
A Crowd’s Support
Even with growth in their skill sets, teams still need support for a win. “ I cannot stress enough the importance of a crowd to a soccer match…”, Russel encourages supporters, “…They can make up some songs, cheer us on, they can do so much for our teams. Soccer is very much interactive; the atmosphere off the pitch can definitely turn a game for better or worse”.
Your support at games has the potential to give the teams more dedication. Come see for yourself how the teams perform this year and give them support at their games.
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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree
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their design decisions, Thrun says. For example, Tesla developed its driver assistance system Autopilot without using expensive LIDAR technology, relying instead on less-costly sensors such as cameras.
Other companies simply push toward making AV systems that work, without worrying too much about costs today, Thrun says. It’s hard to predict the outcomes of either approach. “We’re in a very early stage of research,’’ Thrun says.
The cost problem may solve itself—at least in part—due to factors such as economies of scale, he says. Some elements of autonomous navigation systems, such as radar, are already dropping in price because they’ve found mass markets for current-day uses, such as vehicle cruise control. A radar installation that would have cost $50,000 about 20 years ago now sells for something like $60 to $80, Thrun says.
In addition, the cost of each self-driving car is likely to dip lower once the cars are manufactured en masse, such as in production runs of 100,000, he says.
Still, he says, costs have to come down. “I’m sure it’s on people’s minds,” Thrun says.
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