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Worsfold takes aim at umpires after goalpost fiasco
Dane Rampe shakes the goal post during the post-siren shot on Friday night.
BOMBERS coach John Worsfold has said his club "doesn't really cop" the explanation that umpires were within their rights to use discretion not to penalise Dane Rampe in the dramatic Friday night thriller in Sydney.
Rampe was on Monday charged with conduct unbecoming for climbing the goalpost.
The AFL issued the Swans with a "please explain" despite two days earlier clearing the on-field umpires of any wrongdoing in the dramatic Friday night finish at the SCG.
Rampe sent the AFL world into meltdown by doing a Spider-Man impersonation in climbing the goalpost, causing it to shake as Essendon's David Myers - a prodigious kick by anyone's standards - launched an after-the-siren shot at goal from 60m out.
The kick didn't make the trip but Essendon stars Jake Stringer and Cale Hooker remonstrated on the ground with umpire Andre Gianfagna, demanding a free kick from the goal line - as stipulated under the laws of the game.
On Monday night, Worsfold expressed his club's genuine hurt over the incident because of the dangerous, seismic precedent it created for umpires to disregard the rules and instead apply their own gut feelings surrounding big decisions.
Speaking on Channel 7's Talking Footy, Worsfold said there were double standards at play because his team received a 100m penalty - when the rules were applied hard and fast - while Sydney escaped the same fate because the umpires used discretion not to award a free kick against Rampe.
Swan Colin O'Riordan kicked his first career goal after Devon Smith was smacked with a 50m penalty for impeding the Irish recruit as he ran down field following an initial 50m penalty paid against forward Jake Stringer for dropping the ball, instead of handing it to O'Riordan on the full, after a holding-the-ball call went against the Dons inside their own 50.
Worsfold suggested the umpires failed to give Smith the same warning Rampe received at the death.
"If something happens in the game that breaks the rules, you expect a free kick to be paid," Worsfold said.
"If it's not paid we all cop that, umpires miss free kicks. But we don't really cop that umpires have a choice to decide.
"A deliberate kick out of bounds, is that going to affect the game? If we were 25 points down would that be different? Would he have paid the free kick because it's not going to impact the game.
"Would they say, 'Essendon deserve a shot at goal because the bloke's broke the rules and we'll pay the free kick.'? The fact that it was going to influence the game, does that change the decision? I don't know.
"As coaches we would like to know what the rules are. Do the umpires have a chance to give a 100m penalty instead if someone runs alongside them and is that impeding the game?
"Or do they say, 'It's not really, get out of the way.'? Like they said, 'Dane get off the goalpost'.
"They could have said to Devon Smith get out of the way otherwise I'll pay another 50, but he didn't do that, they decided to pay the 100m penalty."
The AFL's move to censure Rampe without scrutinising the umpires came as AFL boss Gillon McLachlan called the decision not to ping Rampe with a match-deciding free-kick as "pragmatic" umpiring.
"I'll wait and see what the footy department says, but for me it seems pretty practical umpiring," McLachlan told SEN.
"Apparently there is lots of different camera angles. But he gave him the warning and the guy got down and it didn't impact on the play.
"That seemed to be a very practical response. People are getting into the technicalities of what the rule says, but if he'd stayed there it would have been a free kick. He gave him the warning and it didn't impact the play.
"It seemed a pretty pragmatic piece of umpiring."
But now it seems that the AFL have changed their stance and, as reported by the Herald Sun's chief football writer, Mark Robinson, charged Rampe for the act.
The unbelievable moment was followed by severe backlash on Friday, which only amplified following McLachlan's comments the day after.
Now the latest news has left fans scratching their heads and left one former Western Bulldogs star up in arms.
On Tuesday morning, Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley told SEN Adelaide he was "staggered" to see the footage of Rampe climbing the post.
The Herald Sun's Jon Ralph also told Macquarie Sports Radio that Rampe was an "idiot" for naively climbing the post without realising the rules.
If the letter of the law had of been followed, Myers would have been awarded a free kick from the goal line and would have kicked the match-winning goal.
It would have left Essendon with a 4-4 record, instead they sit fuming over the non-decision and in 13th spot on the ladder at 3-5.
The outrage over the incident was led by Aussie comedian and media personality Dave Hughes, who believes the Bombers "should appeal the result".
Hughes was far from alone in condemning the AFL's swift attempt to dismiss the outcry, with Ralph labelling the fiasco "a bats*** crazy 20 seconds of football".
Rampe addressed the two incidents on Monday after his coach John Longmire had addressed the media earlier in the day.
Longmire said: "You address it and move on. That's all you can do as a player and coach - look at that, speak about it and get on with the next thing.
"He's a real quality person. He made a couple of mistakes, he'll learn from that and move on.
"I spoke to him on Saturday morning and he said, 'I just genuinely didn't know the rule,'" Longmire said.
"I said, 'Well you do now and it'd be best to stay away from goalposts in the future'.
"It was a pretty brief conversation and, it's fair to say, I wouldn't expect him to do it in the future."
Rampe said: "Being called a girl is something that should be celebrated and I genuinely mean that. I've learnt from my mistake and I'll definitely keep that front of mind going forward.
"I just want it to be known that by no means did I mean any disrespect by (comments to the umpire at the end of the second quarter of the win over Essendon).
"I know it's a hard job they do. And at times my frustrations can boil over but I hope that's seen or portrayed in a way that shows my passion and excitement for the role I play in the team.
"I put my hand up and say I can overstep the mark at times and I will keep that in mind going forward."
Rampe addressed the now infamous goalpost climb and admitted the moment was purely a brain fade.
"I don't know what I was thinking, to be honest, at the time, but my intention was certainly not to shake the post," he said.
"There was a bit going on down there at the time, and I think I just got caught up in the emotion of it.
"Safe to say I won't be doing it again. I'm a little bit embarrassed by it, but I guess there was no malice intended."
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On matters maritime
Mark Cocker
The Greenland shark has to be one of the most fascinating creatures of which you’ve probably never heard. Growing sometimes to 25ft, it is the largest flesh-eating shark, longer even than a great white. It dwells in the deepest northern oceans. It eats seabirds, huge fish and seals, most of which it probably surprises and devours on the seabed. The youngest Greenland shark of reproductive age is 100 and the oldest may have been alive when the Mayflower set sail. It is, thus, the longest-lived vertebrate life form on the planet.
Whalers and the native people of the Arctic have hunted it for centuries, primarily for the immense oil-rich liver. Yet catching one is no easy business. As the author notes, the teeth are like ‘over-sized steel traps’. The outer skin is structured so that if you rub your hand along its body in a tail-to-nose direction it cuts you like razor blades. The Germans once imported and used it as a form of sandpaper.
The eyes of Greenland sharks are riddled with large burrowing worms that leave most of the creatures blind. Its flesh smells of urine and contains a nerve gas, trimethylamine oxide, which can have a powerful hallucinogenic effect; hence the title Shark Drunk. If the meat is not prepared properly it can even be fatal, but Inuit once fed Greenland sharks to their huskies, and the mutts could be paralysed for days.
So why on Earth would anyone set out to fish for it in a rubber boat armed with a gaff, 1,000 feet of high-strength line and large chunks of rotten bull flesh as bait? Part of the joy of this strange but utterly engrossing book is that we never quite learn what drives the central narrative thread.
All one can say is that Strøksnes, one of Norway’s most celebrated non-fiction authors, has an friend called Hugo Aasjord, who lives within the Arctic Circle, on one of the Lofoten islands off the country’s northern coast, and comes from a long line of intrepid fishermen. Greenland sharks have been in Aasjord’s blood from birth, and as long as he can recall he’s had a desire to land one. It’s as simple as that. Whether they succeed or not — and I shall leave the matter hanging — is beside the point.
What makes the book such a triumph has little to do with the kind of action generated by landing a big one, and everything to do with Strøksnes’s free association on matters maritime as he sits there, day after day, in his rubber boat, waiting for the beast to bite. It is not a fishing drama, but a work of meditation and wonder with a horizon as wide and open as the far Nordic coastlines that he so beautifully evokes.
Strøksnes ponders a time when Scandinavia was part of a primordial continent called Rodinia that lay where the South Pole now stands. He speculates on the origins of water on Earth, on the foundation of our solar system, on the spatial relationship of light in our galaxy. We learn that the Milky Way is only one of billions of galaxies, yet it alone is 100,000 light-years in diameter.
While relishing his immense canvas, Strøksnes also loves details, especially when they relate to creatures hidden under thousands of feet of seawater. Time after time he descends to the ocean floor to ponder aspects of life every bit as mind-expanding as intergalactic space. There are jellyfishes known as Praya dubia, which can be 130ft long and have 300 stomachs. There are deep-water octopi called Heteroteuthis that emit clouds of electric light as a distraction to predators. A relative from Indonesian waters, which can shape-shift to look like a sea snake or flounder, has blue blood, three hearts and a brain in every arm.
Weirdest of all, however, is the so-called vampire squid, named for its eyes — which, proportional to body size, are the largest in the entire animal kingdom, and can change colour from light blue to blood red. If it is attacked, the squid’s other trick is to bite off one of its own limbs that then emits a blinking blue light to confuse the assailant.
Strøksnes comes from a nation that still undertakes whaling operations, and there is an unflinching toughness of tone as he describes his countrymen’s central role in the slaughter of 200 million cetaceans between 1870 and 1970. As he says himself, ‘The stench of death and putrefaction was indescribable’ and lingered in whalers’ nostrils even decades later. Although the narrative voice is seemingly non-commital there is no doubting Strøksnes’s true sympathies. As he points out, sharks annually kill fewer people per year than do champagne corks; humans, on the other hand, kill around 73 million sharks every year.
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Books + Comics // JULY 20, 2015
Star Wars Insider #159: 10 Highlights!
July just got 10 times better.
Jonathan Wilkins
The latest issue of Star Wars Insider arrives on July 21 (or, if you are a subscriber, a little before). There are lot of reasons to track down a copy — cool contests, hilarious title puns, features on micropscopic super cells, and much more. Check out 10 highlights — plus a preview gallery — below.
1. “Skyguy? Is that you?”
Everybody loves Ahsoka Tano. And that goes double for Ashley Eckstein, the talented actress who has been playing her for eight years. In this issue, she talks about being back in action in Star Wars Rebels and being reunited with Captain Rex and… you know who! We’ll also be giving you a chance to win Ashley’s wardrobe as seen throughout the article. Not her actual wardrobe, of course — you will have to find somewhere to store your new threads if you win!
True story: I asked Ashley if she’d mind being interviewed for this issue back at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim. I spotted her walking through the convention hall at the end of the day and made a dash to speak with her, brandishing a mock-up of the cover for this issue. I’m not sure what she made of a sweaty, out-of-breath man waving a crumpled bit of paper at her and gasping “interview please,” but thankfully she agreed to speak with Amy Ratcliffe!
2. PORKINS: THE MOVIE!?
Star Wars Insider exclusively reveals 10 standalone movies from a galaxy far, far away that you’ll never see. Written by Michael Price, the Emmy award-winning writer of The Simpsons and the LEGO Star Wars TV specials, this feature will have you demanding such future classics as “Sith-teen Candles” and “Bombad Lieutenant” be green-lit immediately! To quote the original Star Wars teaser: “Somewhere, in space, all this could be happening….”
3. VENTRESS STRIKES!
Dark Disciple, the much-anticipated novel based on unaired Star Wars: The Clone Wars scripts has been winning rave reviews — and rightly so. But there’s more! Its star, Asajj Ventress, is featured in our exclusive tale this issue. Written by the author of the book, Christie Golden, and illustrated by Magali Villeneuve, it’s a story you won’t want to miss!
4. VENTRESS STRIKES AGAIN!
Asajj Ventress’ popularity belies the fact she never appeared in a Star Wars movie. A complex character, it seems only right that we celebrate her with an in-depth analysis by Tricia Barr, whose features on some of the great Star Wars characters have proved hugely popular with readers!
5. MIDI-CHLORIAN MADNESS!
Every Jedi has them. Yoda had the most (until Qui-Gon and friends made a fateful stop-off on Tatooine). Those Midi-chlorians that proved to be, for some, a subject of controversy go under the microscope as we discuss how they enrich the mythology of Star Wars!
6. END OF AN EMPIRE?
Michael Kogge’s look back at Dark Empire comes to a close in the third and final part featuring rare imagery and revealing interviews with creators, Cam Kennedy and Tom Veitch.
7. VANESSA’S VIEW
Ever wondered what it’s like being a guest at a Star Wars convention? Wonder no more! Vanessa Marshall, AKA Hera in Star Wars Rebels, takes us behind the scenes showing what Star Wars Celebration looks like from the other side of the autograph table!
8. BANTHA TRACKS
Always popular, the Bantha Tracks section of Star Wars Insider has been a firm favorite for a long time. It’s always inspiring to see how much Star Wars means to fans all over the world — and rarely more so than in the story of 501st member Kevin Doyle, whose powerful story offers much to admire. If you’d like to be featured, please send photos and art along with your stories to banthatracks@starwars.com
9. BOUNTY HUNTERS
There’s nothing quite like meeting somebody who was actually involved in the making of Star Wars, is there? It’s a lovely opportunity to voice appreciation for their work, maybe get an autograph, and, if you are really lucky, get a photo with them. We love seeing photos and hearing such stories and have a cool Star Wars statue from the lovely folk at Kotobukiya to give away to one entry every issue. We always need more encounters to fill our pages, so send your photos and stories to: starwarsinsider@titanemail.com.
10. FACTS OF THE FORCE!
DK’s Ultimate Star Wars co-author, Adam Bray, offers five amazing pieces of information that will most certainly surprise your friends!
Coming up in Star Wars Insider #160: Topps trading cards with every issue, clone actor Dee Bradley Baker interviewed, action figure action, and Blade Squadron fly into action! Available September 8.
Subscribe to Star Wars Insider and get to choose between a light side T-shirt or a dark side T-shirt! Plus: Get an exclusive subscriber cover with every issue!
For more info on this issue or to subscribe visit Titan Magazines.
Jonathan Wilkins is the editor of Star Wars Insider. Follow him on Twitter @jdog_wilkins and follow Star Wars Insider @SW_Insider.
TAGS: Asajj Ventress, Ashley Eckstein, Star Wars Dark Disciples, Star Wars Insider
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Tag: floor crossing
Those Ignorant of History are Doomed to Repeat It
Yesterday, two members of Ed Stelmach’s Alberta PC caucus crossed the floor and joined Danielle Smith’s Wildrose Alliance. Two Calgary area MLAs, Rob Anderson and Heather Forsyth, left the PC caucus citing failed leadership and bureaucratic glut in the Premier’s office.
Today, Stelmach send an email to supporters addressing the news (emphasis mine),
Hello [name withheld],
During difficult economic times, it is important to stick together and help each other out. It is the Alberta way. We did it during the Depression in the 1930s and we did it during the dark days of the National Energy Program.
You may have heard that two of our MLAs recently decided to leave our party. Of course, I was disappointed when I heard they had decided to leave the PC team. But their departure will not deflect us from our goal of leading Canada out of its recession, and ensuring Albertans have the brightest future possible.
The remaining 68 MLAs in our strong majority government caucus are focused on the task of growing the Alberta economy, making Alberta the most competitive jurisdiction in North America and returning this province to a surplus position in three years, while protecting services for the least fortunate.
And when the recession is over, unlike any other jurisdiction in Canada, Alberta will not be passing debt onto the next generation.
The coming year will be difficult but we have never shied away from hard work. And Alberta will very soon be leading the country in economic growth again, thanks to you.
Ed Stelmach
Premier of Alberta
Now, a quick review of history from Wikipedia,
Alberta’s second dynasty was the United Farmers of Alberta who rose from a minor party known as the Alberta Non-Partisan League, formed in 1916. Henry Wise Wood would lead the party into the 1921 election and form a majority based on winning rural seats. The party did not run in the cities and allied with Labour candidates. Henry did not want the job as premier so the farmers were forced to shop around. John Brownlee was asked first but declined. Herbert Greenfield, the second choice, became the new premier.
Greenfield would resign four years later because he was often absent due to illness. John Brownlee, who had previously been offered the job, succeeded him. Brownlee’s reign as government leader was troubled by the onset of the great depression. He resigned in scandal after he was accused of sexual acts with a minor in the Attorney General’s office. This and another scandalous divorce by Oran McPherson, speaker of the legislative assembly, gave the United Farmers an image of moral decay. In 1934 Richard Reid would replace Brownlee and lead the United Farmers government into total defeat at the hands of the new Social Credit party.
This, of course, happened during the Great Depression.
In recent history, Stelmach replaced Klein.
Back then, the decay was cited as moral, today it is financial decay and bureaucratic ascendance.
Albertan political history is marked by political dynasties. Is this the end of the Progressive Conservatives and the rise of the Wildrose Alliance?
Posted on January 5, 2010 Categories OtherTags danielle smith, ed stelmach, floor crossing, heather forsyth, pc party of alberta, rob anderson, wildrose alliance
Anonymous sources say…
The Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt wrote an article a couple of days ago quoting an anonymous source that told her that a “trio” of Liberals were in high level talks with Conservatives to cross the floor over to the government benches.
OTTAWA–A Conservative government official said Monday there have been discussions with three Liberal MPs interested in crossing the floor to the Tory side over the past month.
Liberals immediately dismissed the talk as Conservative “mischief” and said it is the government that is on a raiding mission.
Then it all started to smell a bit funny and Ms. Delacourt published the following on her own blog:
Q. Is it possible that the Conservative source made up this story to make “mischief,” as Liberals allege?
A: Yes it is. But our usual practice is to “out” the source if we find out it was a deliberate lie, so stay tuned. Seasoned political people know that you only get to lie once to a reporter.
and then the next day we get this under Delacourt’s print by-line:
OTTAWA–The Prime Minister’s Office sought Tuesday to distance itself from reports coming from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office about possible defections of Liberal MPs to the Conservatives.
Dimitri Soudas, a PMO spokesperson, said there was no truth to claims made to the Star by Kenney’s communications director, Alykhan Velshi, about three Liberal MPs interested in crossing the floor to the Conservatives.
Nor could Soudas explain why he was “outing” Velshi on Tuesday afternoon as the source of the tip to the Star. Soudas went on to explain that only the PMO knows certain information and Velshi wouldn’t have had the kind of facts the Star was seeking.
Read that sentence a couple of times to see if it makes sense logically. “Nor could Soudas explain why he was “outing” Velshi on Tuesday afternoon as the source of the tip to the Star.”
First Ms. Delacourt suggested that she herself was on the verge of outing Velshi as the source. And that brings up an interesting question. Wasn’t she the one guarding the identity of Velshi as her tipster? We Conservatives may share one big evil hive mind according to some, but I’m not sure how Soudas was able to “out” Velshi as Delacourt’s source to Delacourt. How did Soudas come to know that it was Velshi that told Delacourt the tip?
Somebody should ask Soudas how he came to learn that Velshi was the tipster.
Posted on October 8, 2009 Categories OtherTags alykhan velshi, anonymous sources, dimitri soudas, floor crossing, susan delacourt
Final cabinet speculation
Mostly certain:
– Prime Minister Stephen Harper
– Flaherty to stay in Finance (confirmed by numerous people in the department)
– Baird moving (confirmed)
– Clement moving
– Guergis moving (family has flown in, and hair appointment booked early AM tomorrow apparently)
– Bernier not in cabinet
– Aglukkaq in cabinet
– Prentice staying in Industry (no indication of a move from bureaucrats or political staffers up until midnight)
– Lunn moving (family has flown in)
– Verner moving
– MacKay stays in defence
– a good number of Secretaries of State named
Responsibly speculative:
– Cannon in foreign affairs (heard this from a high level source on Tuesday night)
– Kenney at CIC
– Nicholson stays in Justice
– Strahl stays at INAC
– Clement in trade
– Baird in transport
– Verner to intergovernmental affairs
– Ambrose to HRSDC
– Shea or Duncan in Fisheries
– Raitt in cabinet
– James Moore promoted
Wildly and so irresponsibly speculative:
– Raitt to get NRCan (doubtful)
– Liberal crosses the floor and enters cabinet (sourced at a high level, but I don’t see it happening. Yet, a number of Liberals staffers have been confirming they’ve heard the same rumour for days)
– Rob Moore in cabinet
Posted on October 30, 2008 Categories OtherTags cabinet, chuck strahl, citizenship and immigration, defence, Environment, finance, floor crossing, Foreign Affairs, gail shea, gary lunn, helena guergis, hrsdc, indian affairs, industry, intergovernmental affairs, james moore, jason kenney, jim flaherty, jim prentice, john baird, john duncan, josee verner, justice, lawrence cannon, leona aglukkaq, lisa raitt, maxime bernier, nrcan, peter mackay, rob moore, rob nicholson, rona ambrose, stephen harper, tony clement, Trade, transport
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Blackwell will send 6 boys to regional meet
Ron Howell
Blackwell has six boys who will advance to the regional track meet April 26-27 after top-four finishes at the 11-1A/12-1A area track meet on Tuesday held at Sterling City.
The three individuals to advance for Blackwell are Peyton Hinckley, who was first in the high jump (5-10); Devan Clower, third in the 800 (2:13.65); and Junior Guia, who was fourth in the shot put with a throw of 41-1 3/4. Blackwell will also send its boys 800 relay of Hinckley, Nathan Shipman, Cameron Coldiron and Carson Sorrells that was third with a time of 1:39.97.
Blackwell, which had 35 points at Tuesday’s area meet, also got points from its 400 relay which placed sixth (47.23) with Clower, Shipman, Coldiron and Sorrells and with a sixth-place finish by Guia in the discus with a throw of 114-7 1/2 at Sterling City.
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Brothers Cock and Ton van Wingerden own and run the company, Van Wingerden Limonium
Van Wingerden Limonium is a modern greenhouse company, and has specialised in growing Limonium sinuatum, also known as the combed statice, since 1991.
The cultivar, Crystal Dark Blue has been grown since 1991. The plant material comes from tissue culture, which means a high level of uniformity is safeguarded. This Statice is characterised by an extremely strong twig with an even stronger blue colour, if that is possible. Cultivation of this variant has actually raised the Statice to a higher level and is an essential component of the Dutch assortment. The excellent longevity and strong colour makes this flower the longest stayer in a bouquet.
This flower was grown in the ground until 2001. Due to continued modernisation and demands in the area of re-circulation, a new greenhouse was built in 2001, and cultivation was taken out of the ground. The plants are now cultivated in coconut balls, with fully controlled nutrition and watering. The new system enables excess water to be collected and re-used. Because of this measure, the company immediately met the currently applicable environmental regulations.
This is however not the only way the company works on sustainability. The diseases are biologically controlled. The predatory mite, Montdorensis, is used to combat Trips and the Aphischout prevents lice. These natural enemies bring balance in the crop which means chemical control is no longer necessary. Even mould is treated with the introduction of biological preparations like Trichoderma. A large percentage of electricity is generated by solar panels on the roof of the processing area.
To make all sustainable actions visible, the company is MPS-A certified.
Van Wingerden nursery works on being future-ready and is open to new developments in the area of quality, service and sustainability.
By participating in Summerflowers Van Wingerden wants to create publicity for the Limonium sinuatum and the Van Wingerden nursery. They believe the product is worth it.
The flowers are supplied from April to early November in Naaldwijk, Aalsmeer and Rijnsburg, the large locations of Royal FloraHolland flower auction.
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From being a journalist, Samuel Olatunji, CEO 007 Global has seamlessly transformed into a moviemaker and now a director. In this chat, Olatunji talks about his journey from journalism into artiste management and filmmaking. He also talks about his directorial debut entitled, Dear Affie among other interesting issues.
We understand that you are shooting a new movie, your directorial debut entitled Dear Affie. Could you tell us about it?
I am done shooing Dear Affie. We shot for 16 days. Dear Affy is a romantic comedy with an amazing plot and a twist which tells the story of a beautiful career lady who is about to get married to the man of her dreams. A man on the verge of sealing contracts worth millions of naira. However, he is between the devil and the deep blue sea because sealing the contract comes with a condition, having an intimate affair with the female billionaire contractor by all means just few weeks to his wedding. It is the most anticipated movie of 2020.
What inspired Dear Affie?
Last year I did two movies entitled Ghost and The Tout and Seven and Half Dates but before that I had gone to film school and studied under Tunde Kelani. Seven and Half Dates is currently on Netflix. I had made up my mind that I was going into content planning. I believe so much in the power of media, entertainment and communication and that we can change the narrative with that. I believe we can inspire people to live better lives. So I said, let us create content that is top notch. I learnt a lot from the last two films though I was only involved in the money aspect so I registered a new company called 007 Global exclusively for content creation. I am talking about music videos, adverts and commercials. Dear Affie is an expression of our new journey into content development. I cannot say a particular incident inspired Dear Affie but we are at the stage where an arm of our company is into content development and we want to develop great content. Dear Affie is an amazing film; it will be the biggest film of 2020. Dear Affie is out of this world!
The biggest film of 2020? Could we have the roll call of the cast and a price tag?
I don’t think anyone could have done better in terms of casting. From the East we have Chiwetalu Agu, Chinediu Ikedezie, Enyinna Wigwe and Williams Uchemba. From the west we have Odunlade Adekola, Toyin Abraham, Sadik Kosoko, Fathia Williams, Eniola Ajao, Bimbo Akintola, Bimbo Ademoye and Kehinde Bankole among others. We also have Teni the Entertainer. From the north we have Ali Nuhu and Afeez Oyetoro aka Saka. In terms of photography and production, we have spent over N30m already. Now we are in post-production where we are already spending money. Later this month we are going to start publicity and it is going to be one of the most awesome publicity campaigns ever. We are having a concert like premiere with A-list stars performing.
You were once a journalist, now you are into moviemaking. How would you describe the transition?
I am trying to fulfill God’s purpose for my life. I believe that one of the purposes of my life is to use communication tools to effect change. When I say communication tools, it could be speaking, writing or movies. It could be TV, cinema or radio so don’t be amazed if you hear that I own a cinema or just established a popular TV platform. Currently we have one of the most popular TV platforms on YouTube, Broadway Africa TV so journalism is communication. I left journalism for PR which is communication, and celebrity management and movie making is communication too so we are harnessing the power of media to effect change.
What were your fears when you left journalism?
I resigned three times but eventually I just had to go. This shows that I gave resignation a lot of thought; it was not spontaneous. I believe in giving a shot at something I believe in. Before journalism I was an entrepreneur. Since 2007, there is no month I haven’t paid somebody a salary. So, before I became a journalist, I had already cut my teeth as an entrepreneur and all my days as a journalist I thought as an entrepreneur. If there is no market, create your market. I am very good at doing interviews, I went full blast on interviews as a journalist. I believed that part of being a journalist is setting agenda. And then I began advising artistes on their brands for free. And then I started doing press releases for them and I was in demand. That was when it occurred to me I could charge for this it. I began to do a lot of management and media consultancy. I had done a couple of investments that were interfering with my journalism so when I knew I could no longer give my best I had to go. Did I have fears? Naturally you would have fears stepping into a new region. I had the fear of living all I had achieved behind. I am taking about relationships. For me, the greatest failure is not trying and failing but failing to try so I took the bull by the horns.
Nollywood started with just the video camera and they were shooting blockbusters. Today the quality of movies have improved but opportunities are becoming narrower. Genevieve Nnaji got an Oscar nomination but was disqualified, what is your take on all of these?
I call myself a media and entertainment content entrepreneur. The truth is that opportunities are not shrinking but endless. I know a musician who has not had a hit for over two years but he still makes between $80, 000 to $100, 000 every month. Opportunities are opening up but for people who have positioned themselves as serious players. So, it is either you play big or you just sit down. For Genevieve Nnaji. I think we need to commend her for going that far. Based on what we have read, the reason is that it was supposed to be a foreign language film with 70 pe cent foreign but Lionheart is not and that is enough reason for the Oscars to disqualify it because it did not meet their basic requirements.
Against the backdrop of the Genevieve Nnaji experience, what advice do you have for Nigerian film makers?
Make movies for what you want to achieve. If you want to make a movie for an award, make an award movie. If you want to make a film festival movie, do that. If your goal is to compete at the Oscars, then play by the rules. That is not my goal. I am sticking to mine so I cannot advice producers who want to go that way so all I will say is, let your goal inspire you.
To be able to influence thought and inspire people towards greatness so you might be seeing more of me next year. We must be able to inspire thought. As per my movie, my goal is to make a lot of money at the box office and I am not mincing words on that. I don’t want to make a movie that will travel to all the festivals. Yesterday, I told an actor that if you stand out well in your place of assignment, the big market will look for you. China is working with AY because he is the only producer that has done back-to-back N100m for like five years in movies and that is a big deal. So, when Chine came calling, they called someone who has done well. Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido have conquered local territory so it is easier for investors to relate with them. Do well in your immediate market and the next level market will open up for you. So, my goal with Dear Affie is to make major box office sales as I entertain my audience. We are hoping God will help us. If you ask my crew members, they will tell you that the target for Dear Affie is N500m at the box office. No Nollywood movie has done that!
Do you have any regrets, how would you describe 2019?
I would say it has been a good year. It has given me reason to strategise and it is a year that I developed faith. Thank God I have investors for Dear Affie. Almost everybody I called to invest messed up. 2019 is a year that made me re-evaluate who I am and where I am coming from. My 2019 has set agenda for my 2020. I was able to make inroads. Like Aristotle said ‘Man know thyself.’ I have evaluated who I am and where I am going. I have become less apologetic about pursuing my dreams. 2019 made me realise that I have to look inwards more and pay more attention to myself.
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Deal alert / Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings 36CD box set
January 6, 2017 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1960s, Bob Dylan, deals
The 36CD Bob Dylan box, The 1966 Live Recordings is very cheap right now over on Amazon Italy.
The box set is a Dylan fan’s – and completist’s – dream, containing “every known recording” from his legendary 1966 tour. This is around £65 (€77) right now which is as cheap as it has been.
The 1966 Live Recordings
Amazon uk 80 Order
Amazon jp 14615.00 Order
CD 1 -Sydney, April 13, 1966 (Soundboard recorded by TCN 9 TV Australia)
1. She Belongs to Me (Incomplete)
2. Fourth Time Around
3. Visions of Johanna
4. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
5. Desolation Row
6. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
1. Tell Me, Momma
2. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
3. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
5. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
6. One Too Many Mornings
7. Ballad of a Thin Man
8. Positively 4th Street
CD 3 -Melbourne, April 20, 1966 (Soundboard / unknown broadcast)
6. Just Like a Woman
7. Tell Me, Momma (Fragment)
CD 4 -Copenhagen, May 1, 1966 (Soundboard)
1. She Belongs to Me
2. Fourth Time Around (Fragment)
5. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Incomplete)
7. Like a Rolling Stone
CD 5 -Dublin, May 5, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 7 -Belfast, May 6, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 9 -Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard / audience)
4. Vision of Johanna
CD 10 -Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard)
6. One Too Many Mornings (Incomplete)
CD 11 -Cardiff, May 11, 1966 (Soundboard)
3. Baby Let Me Follow You Down
CD 12 -Birmingham, May 12, 1966 (Soundboard)
3. Visions of Johanna (Incomplete)
5. Desolation Row (Incomplete)
CD 14 -Liverpool, May 14, 1966 (Soundboard)
5. Tell Me, Momma (Incomplete – Drop Out)
10. One Too Many Mornings
11. Ballad of a Thin Man
CD 15 -Leicester, May 15, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 17 -Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
CD 18 -Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 19 -Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
CD 20 -Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording except Soundcheck/ Soundboard)
9. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Incomplete) Soundcheck
CD 21 -Glasgow, May 19, 1966 (Soundboard)
10. One Too Many Mornings (Incomplete)
CD 22 -Edinburgh, May 20, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 24 -Newcastle, May 21, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 26 -Paris, May 24, 1966 (Soundboard)
CD 28 -London, May 26, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
CD 31 -London, May 27, 1966 (CBS Records recordings)
CD 32 -White Plains, NY, February 5, 1966 (Audience tape)
2. To Ramona
6. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
9. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) [Incomplete]
CD 33 -Pittsburgh, PA, February 6, 1966 (Audience tape)
5. Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Incomplete)
CD 34 -Hempstead, NY, February 26, 1966 (Audience tape)
10. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
11. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
12. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
CD 35 -Melbourne, April 19, 1966 (Audience tape)
12. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Fragment)
CD 36 -Stockholm, April 29, 1966 (Audience tape)
8. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Fragment)
11. Ballad of a Thin Man (Incomplete)
14 responses to Deal alert / Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings 36CD box set
johnxwolfe@hotmail.com says:
Got it delivered in 3 days. Ordered in Amazon Italy delivered from Dunfermline!!
daveid76 says:
I’m holding out for the Never Ending Tour 30th anniversary box set 1988-2018. Every concert in a box as long as the Golden Gate Bridge.
Ill shut up in case someone at Columbia is earwigging…
Simon Taylor says:
Still trying to resist as plenty coming out in the near future. Very nice price tho.
Robert HPM Laversuch says:
Awesome – bagged it – with loads more to get at some point or other!
Thank you for this site!
Took the plunge, £71 with delivery. First box set of the year……but best not to count!
Larry Davis says:
Nope…price all gone (doesn’t last very long), but around 100 bucks is still not bad for a 36CD boxset…I can get it for that price anytime…
Phil Wilson says:
Still there as at 7.30 pm Larry
Paul Wren says:
“Patience is a virtue” or “all good things come to those who wait” could well be a strap line for the SDE website as many of us who resist the urge to purchase a release early on are often rewarded later on via Paul’s alerts.
Ralph MacGillivray says:
Thanks Paul. I finally went for it.
PAUL LUPTON says:
A great price for an historic set like this.Remember how much we laid out on bootlegs of this incredible tour
The accoustic performances are IMHO the most sublime recordings ever made…
Dylan at his almighty best……
Anthony crotty says:
I knew i should have waited but i couldn’t, this is the box srt that fans dream of
AFGreenwood says:
Aaargh. how cheap will this get? I paid £83 which seemed good at the time. I’m only up to May!
But nearly all the CDS are from May!
5th May – missed that out
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Prediction of functional and employment outcome one year after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Structural Equation Modelling approach
Vortrag auf dem Zwanzigsten Rehabilitationswissenschaftlichen Kolloquium vom 14. bis 16. März 2011 in Bochum
Sammelwerk / Reihe:
Nachhaltigkeit durch Vernetzung
Schönberger, Michael; Ponsford, Jennie; Olver, John [u. a.]
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV Bund)
Berlin: Eigenverlag, 2011, Seite 353-355
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of disability amongst young adults (Langlois et al., 2008). TBI can cause lasting physical, cognitive, and emotional sequelae (Draper, Ponsford, 2008; Jorge, Robinson, 2003) as well as behavioural changes (Kelly et al., 2008). These functional changes are associated with poor employment outcome (Pagulayan, 2008). In order to improve outcome after TBI, it is important to understand the factors that predict outcome. These factors appear to be related to each other, and their effect on outcome might be mediated by other predictors. However, we are not aware of any study that has tested a comprehensive model predicting outcome after TBI that embraces the complex interrelationships between the predictor variables. The current study aimed to develop, test and optimise a comprehensive structural equation model predicting functional as well as employment outcome after TBI, based on the existing literature and taking the interrelationships amongst predictor variables and amongst outcome variables into account.
Participants were n equal 949 adolescents and adults (74 percent male; median age 25.7 years, range 14 to 74; median duration of post-traumatic amnesia 17 days, range smaller than 1 to 183) who were admitted to Epworth Hospital, Melbourne for rehabilitation after TBI and who were part of the labour force at the time of injury. For the present study, follow-up data routinely collected one year post-injury was used. Functional outcome one year post-injury was measured with the Structured Outcome Questionnaire (SOQ). Participants were asked to indicate whether they had, since the injury, experienced changes in the domains of cognition, behaviour and emotion. Employment outcome was dichotomized into paid work/student versus other (unemployment, not in labour force, etcetera). Demographic and injury-related information was gathered from participants' hospital files.
At follow-up, 56 percent of the participants were in paid work or students. On the SOQ, between 25 percent and 67 percent of the participants reported changes on the different items. Forgetfulness (67 percent) and irritability (61 percent) were reported most frequently. A modified structural equation model, displayed in Figure 1, was well supported by the observed data (CFI equal .99, RMSEA equal .03). As can be seen, both direct and mediating relationships between predictor and outcome variables were found, with injury severity (PTA) being the strongest and most consistent predictor of outcome. Pre-injury psychiatric disorders predicted employment outcome indirectly via its association with post-injury cognitive and mood changes. The observed variables that indicate the mood, cognitive and behavioural change factors were entered into the SEM, but are omitted from this figure. Curved lines represent correlations; straight lines represent regression coefficients. Correlations and standardized regression coefficients are displayed.
The SEM developed in this study improves our understanding of the complex interplay between the predictors of outcome after TBI, as well as between the different aspects of outcome. Even though gender, pre-injury psychiatric disorders and spinal injuries were not directly related to post-injury employment, these predictors were related to employment outcome via their association with pre-injury education and employment and with post-injury mood changes. For clinicians, it is especially important to be aware of the association between pre-existing psychiatric disorders and outcome and the importance of specialised interventions for individuals with such conditions. More research is needed on who benefits from which rehabilitative intervention at which point in time. Long-term support offers might be warranted especially for those at risk of poor psychosocial outcome. Further research can build on the model developed in this study and expand it.
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Tet gathering for foreign diplomatic missions and domestic journalists held
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh speaks at the event. (Photo: cand.com.vn) Addressing the event, Minh stressed that 2019 was a memorable year for Vietnam as the economic growth rate reached over seven percent and the import-export turnover hit USD 517 billion while the country welcomed over 18 million international visitors. Vietnam has already signed several free trade pacts such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), he added. … [Read more...] about Tet gathering for foreign diplomatic missions and domestic journalists held
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General Staff missions check units’ combat readiness ahead of Tet
* Applauding the Quang Ninh provincial Military Command for their good outcomes in task implementation last year, Lt. Gen. Le Huy Vinh, Deputy Chief of the General Staff noted that the unit should make more proposals to the local Party Committees and authorities on local military-defense task, cooperate with local forces to ensure political security and social order and safety. Especially in border areas and on islands, so as to ensure a cozy Tet for local people and continue taking the lead in the “Determined to Win” emulation movement. … [Read more...] about General Staff missions check units’ combat readiness ahead of Tet
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GS mission inspects Southwestern border area
General Nam hailed the efforts and working spirit of troops in inspected units and localities and required that in the coming time they should enhance coordination in grasping local situations so that effective solutions could be devised while dealing with arising problems. They should also help people in developing their local economy. … [Read more...] about GS mission inspects Southwestern border area
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Vietnam presides over UNSC session on Yemen, Colombia
New York (VNA) – Vietnam presided over a United Nations Security Council session on January 13, during which the organisation adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) in Yemen and listened to a report on activities of the UN mission overseeing the peace agreement in Colombia. The council unanimously adopted Resolution 2505 extending the mandate of the UNMHA until July 15. The UNMHA was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 2452 on January 16, 2019, with the main task of overseeing a ceasefire and the troop redeployment in Yemen’s Hodeidah city and coordinating UN efforts to help the parties implement the Hodeidah Agreement. At the session, the Security Council also listened to Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Colombia and head of the UN Verification Mission in the country, delivering the Secretary-General’s report on Colombia’s … [Read more...] about Vietnam presides over UNSC session on Yemen, Colombia
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Vietnamese ambassador presides over UNSC meeting on Mali’s situation
New York (VNA) – Vietnamese Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN), on January 15 presided over a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) which looked into issues regarding Mali’s political and security situation. At the meeting, UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre LaCroix presented the UN Secretary General’s report on the political and security in Mali and the operation of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission (MINUSMA) in the country. According to the report, the situation in Mali has worsened, especially in its northern and central regions. The increased violent and terrorist activities against innocent residents, the government’s army and UN peacekeepers at MINUSMA have killed and injured many people, and made hundreds of thousands of others homeless. About 1,000 schools have been closed and children have to stop going to school due to such … [Read more...] about Vietnamese ambassador presides over UNSC meeting on Mali’s situation
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Hurricane Michael unearthed a 19th century shipwreck on Dog Island
Among the destruction is a reemergence of history.
A photo of the shipwreck posted to the Carrabelle Boat Club Facebook page
By Emily L. Mahoney
Hurricane Michael carved through the Florida Panhandle with crushing force, reducing entire neighborhoods to flattened rubble and killing at least 27 people, according to state and local officials.
But among the destruction is also a reemergence of history.
The storm's surge unearthed a shipwreck from the 19th century, one or possibly two sunken ships that were washed up on Dog Island by a 1899 hurricane.
According to Sarah Revell, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State, the wrecks "have been mapped and investigated scientifically multiple times," and parts of them have been exposed in the past.
Because of past research and Hurricane Michael recovery efforts happening nearby, "we do not have immediate plans to revisit the site," she said. "We may visit the site in the near future with some of our partners if it has not been covered up by sand again."
Photos posted to the Carabelle Boat Club Facebook page depict what could be the outline of a hull poking through the sand, as well as the splintered remnants of another large piece:
Emily L. Mahoney
Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
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Sudan Tanker Explodes at Ceramics Factory
December 3, 2019 - WebDesk - Comment is Closed
KHARTOUM - A gas tanker exploded at a ceramics factory in Khartoum on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens more.
Eyewitnesses in the Sudanese capital said the tanker exploded while a shipment was being unloaded.
Doctors at Bahari Hospital in north Khartoum made an urgent appeal for all medical personnel to come to the hospital to help treat the burn victims.
"I could see in one [ward] seven injured and in another ward there were 12 injured, and all of them are in critical condition where they are unable to see or talk," reporter Michael Atit told VOA's South Sudan in Focus.
Atit said eyewitnesses told him the injured were people who had been sitting outside the factory and that "people who were in the factory, none of them survived, none of them actually came out."
News reports said people were being called on to donate blood.
Atit cited the hospital's doctors as saying more than 200 people were believed to be inside the factory at the time of the blast. South Sudan in Focus could not verify that figure. Atit said police officials and investigators were at the hospital trying to gather information from witnesses.
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The wines used to blend Taylor Fladgate LBV were drawn from a reserve of some of the best full bodied red Ports, produced at the 2014 harvest, from grapes grown on Taylor’s own vineyards and on other top properties in the Cima Corgo and Douro Superior areas.
Vivid ruby coloured rim around a deep purple black centre. On the nose, the first impression is of brambly woodland berries and rich, jammy aromas of blackcurrant. Around this dense core of ripe dark berry fruit are leafy scents of mint and wild herbs, a subtle spiciness and fleeting cedary notes of cigar box. The palate is underpinned by firm, linear tannins and lifted by a lively acidity. Thick, luscious cassis flavours blend with raspberry and apricot and carry through into the very long finish. An archetypal Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage, elegant and restrained, with great quality and purity of fruit.
The cycle started with a wet and warm Spring, resulting in strong vegetative growth. Bud burst and flowering took place in optimal conditions. The Spring rainfall and a relatively cool June and July meant that the ripening season started with abundant water reserves in the soil and very healthy leaf canopies, leading to a very even and complete maturation of the crop. Hot weather in early September, followed by a brief spell of rainfall, rounded off the ripening. Picking at the 2014 harvest at Taylor Fladgate’s Quinta de Vargellas started relatively early on 8th September. The early start meant that the best grapes had been picked and were under cover by the time that heavy rain began to fall on the 21st. The grapes were reported to be very healthy and the wines as having excellent phenolic ripeness, sugar levels and colour.
Ready to drink and does not require decanting.
The bottle should be kept upright, protected from direct sun light and at a cool and constant temperature. Optimum drinking time after opening the bottle is two months.
The wine benefits from being served between 16ºC to 18ºC.
Excellent with fully flavoured cheeses, especially blue cheeses such as Stilton or Roquefort. It is also delicious with desserts made with chocolate or berry fruits.
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Azizov Ulugbek Uktamovich
Candidate of economic sciences, docent
Time of receipt:Tuesday: 10:00-13:00
Phone: (99871) 2345334
E-mail: rector@tfi.uz
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Azizov Ulugbek Uktamovich was born in 1976.He has a high economic education, candidate of economic sciences, docent.
From 1998 to 2011, he worked in the Bank sphere of the Republic of Uzbekistan (during 1998 and 2005 at the same time as a nontenured lecturer of Banking department at Tashkent Institute of Finance).
In 2005-2007 studied for master’s degree at Yokogama National university of Japan.
He worked as a senior advisor at Presidential Administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2011-2012, a the Rector of Tashkent Institute of Finance in 2012-2015,Head of Information-Analytical Department on issues of education, health, physical culture, sports and tourism at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2015-2016.
He worked as a senior advisor; Presidential Administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2011-2012, a the Rector of Tashkent Institute of Finance in 2012-2015, Head of Information-Analytical Department on issues of education, health, physical culture, sports and tourism at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2015-2016.
From the 3rd of September 2018; he has been working as the Rector of Tashkent Institute of; Finance
Vice Rector for academic affairs
Tuychiyev Alisher Jo'rayevich
Doctor of economic sciences, professor
Information for help:
Time of receipt: Every day: 09:00-17:00
Phone: (99871)234-90-32
E-mail: puib@tfi.uz
Vise-rector on scientific affairs and innovations
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5 critical water questions Arizona must answer - and soon
The hard work isn't over, now that we've passed the Drought Contingency Plan. Here are 5 pressing water issues Arizona can't afford to let simmer.
5 critical water questions Arizona must answer - and soon The hard work isn't over, now that we've passed the Drought Contingency Plan. Here are 5 pressing water issues Arizona can't afford to let simmer. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands/2019/02/07/arizona-must-answer-water-questions-and-soon/2748594002/
Joanna Allhands, Arizona Republic Published 7:00 a.m. CT Feb. 7, 2019 | Updated 2:07 p.m. CT June 17, 2019
Opinion: The hard work isn't over, now that we've passed the Drought Contingency Plan. Here are 5 pressing water issues Arizona can't afford to let simmer.
It’s not over.
Yes, Arizona has joined the Lower Basin Drought Contingency Plan, which aims to keep Lake Mead, a significant source of our water supply, from tanking.
But if you think that solves our water problems, think again. We’ve simply bought ourselves time to finish even tougher work.
Here are five big questions we'll need to tackle soon:
1. What’s the future for groundwater?
This goes way beyond the fact that DCP will put Pinal County farmers solely back on groundwater. As water from Lake Mead depletes, the temptation will be heavy for everyone to rely more heavily on the water we have underground.
But it’s already questionable whether the state’s groundwater active management areas (including Phoenix and Tucson) will meet “safe yield” by 2025 – that is, the point where they replenish as much water as they pump out of the aquifer.
Meanwhile, places like Cochise, La Paz and Mohave counties are rapidly depleting this non-renewable resource because they aren’t subject to state’s groundwater law. They have fiercely fought any suggestion that the law should apply to them – even measuring how much water they are pumping has been met with vehement resistance.
Something needs to give.
2. How do we hold our own on Lake Mead?
The guidelines that govern the Colorado River reopen for negotiation starting next year, and all seven basin states will be in the mix. This process is expected to get testy as water dwindles and shortages become more severe.
A lot of issues that previously haven’t been on the table are likely to surface in these discussions.
Arizona will need to speak with one voice during in this process, particularly because we have junior rights to the water.
3. What’s the future for farming and growth?
This question comes with as much emotional baggage as groundwater. And unless you have a crystal ball, there are no clear answers.
We do know there are no magic bullets to keep all farmers in business. Increasing water scarcity, particularly in Pinal County, will make agriculture less profitable. And without profit, farmers can’t do what they do.
The good news is there are a lot of experiments underway to find markets for less thirsty crops and new techniques to save water. But they need to be scaled up quickly – and that’s not cheap.
Expect how we fund them (and if we fund them at all) to color debates for the next few years.
The same goes for residential homebuilding. The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District – the body tasked with finding water to help builders secure a 100-year water supply – recently cemented a water deal to meet obligations for current members. But it’s an open question where the water will come from to fund developments well into the future.
Is it time to rethink that board's role? I don't have an answer, but some are asking the question.
4. What other water sources can we find?
Conservation is important, and we should do more to encourage everyone to use less. It may require additional carrots to make ideas like rainwater-harvesting systems, leak-detection units and point-of-use water heaters more widespread.
But efficiency can only get us so far. We need additional sources of water – and while tribal water certainly holds promise in the short term, we'll likely need another big-idea project like the Central Arizona Project to set us up for the long haul.
I routinely get notes from readers suggesting we build a pipeline from Idaho, or the Great Lakes, or (insert your wetter place here). I won't say that's impossible, but it's highly improbable. Ideas like water recycling and desalination are more likely.
No matter the technology, chances are it will be costly. And it will take decades to plan and finance. The quicker we can start that debate, the better.
5. What happens if we don’t act?
Those who worked so hard on DCP have earned some time away from the negotiation table. They worked nights, weekends and holidays to keep this deal on track.
But we can’t take our eye off the ball for too long, because there are consequences that come with inaction. And they will come about much sooner than later.
DCP is so monumental because it gave us the template for how we make deals in this new water reality: To meet in person to work out differences and then periodically meet in public to hold each other accountable.
We need to continue that process and fight the urge to dawdle, particularly now that some of the deal-making pressure is off.
Reach Allhands at joanna.allhands@arizonarepublic.com.
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Will NYPD Finally Punish The Cops Responsible For Eric Garner’s Death?
Alice Salles• July 23, 2018 July 25, 2018
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The horrific murder of Eric Garner over the sale of some loose cigarettes shocked the country four years ago. And yet, none of the New York Police officers involved in the well-documented attack were held accountable.
Until now?
Garner’s call for clemency, in the shape of the now iconic “I can’t breathe” line, became a symbol of the struggle the African-American community experiences while trying to navigate the suffocating restrictions imposed by the government. But despite the public outcry, the city did little to hold the cops who perpetrated the crime responsible.
Now, the Department of Justice is looking into whether the police violated Garner’s civil rights. And the announcement came after the New York Police Department (NYPD) said it would put Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who choked Garner, and his supervisor, Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, under an administrative trial next year.
Needless to say, both Garner’s family and critics of the NYPD and police brutality as a whole are disappointed that it took the city four years to act. Still, the police department’s decision may amount to very little, such as the men losing their jobs. And as we can all agree, holding individuals accountable for their own actions is the best way of explaining to other officers that it’s no longer OK to just use the “I was just doing my job” excuse.
While it’s clear that the NYPD was just hoping the federal government would take over this case so they wouldn’t have to stand up to the police unions that dominate New York, it’s also clear that no administrative action would be enough to send a message to officers that unjustifiable killing is not part of their jobs.
Enforcing The Law Calls For Violence
When we call for laws to be passed, whether it’s a piece of legislation meant to inhibit the use of certain products such as cigarettes or a law meant to criminalize the use of scooters, we must ask ourselves whether we’re willing to see police officers using deadly force to enforce them.
As Yale professor Stephen L. Carter wrote, “Every law is violent. We try not to think about this, but we should.”
He’s so serious about this that on his first day of class, he tells his students “never to argue for invoking the power of law except in a cause for which they are willing to kill.”
His point is simple. Government-backed enforcement of laws gives officers the blanket power to kill in order to enforce these laws. Officers, then, could argue that the buck doesn’t stop with them. And so far, they have been successful at making that point. After all, not many officers are held personally responsible for murder.
When thinking about what happened to Garner, it’s important to look at the cops’ actions both as irresponsible and as a symptom of a greater problem.
In a country where overcriminalization is a reality, we should be thinking long and hard about getting rid of laws, not giving cops more reasons to use deadly force to enforce them.
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1 thought on “Will NYPD Finally Punish The Cops Responsible For Eric Garner’s Death?”
James Creighton Mitchell Jr says:
Let’s not forget that if police are called and they try and control the encounter with initially with their voice and the alleged person in the complaint does not cooperate with police instructions escalates the encounter becoming non compliant, makes confusing gestures, is combative or decides to run; what is the officer supposed to say “I am sorry I offended you or please, we can work this out.”
People, life is simple, obey the law, dont put yourself in the position to respond to police questions because someone called them because of your questionable behavior!
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UK Mother Yells Rape, Wants Sleeping Beauty Banned
by Rehan Ijaz December 6, 2017, 5:00 pm 1.4k Views 1 Comment
UK MOTHER BELIEVES FAIRY TALE LEADS TO RAPE
A mother of two in England has stirred up some controversy that is likely to cross the pond. Her name is Sarah Hall and she lives with her family in Northumberland Park. Sarah ia starting a conflict calling for the classic Sleeping Beauty story one of rape. Sarah believes that the fairytale will teach children unacceptable behavior about consent and should be removed from schools. Specifically, Sarah thinks Sleeping Beauty teaches children that it’s ok to kiss a sleeping woman which is unacceptable. The UK mother wants Sleeping Beauty banned.
KISSING A SLEEPING WOMAN NEVER APPROPRIATE
This all came about as Sarah was reading the school book with her six-year-old son Ben that is based on the traditional story. For this mother, it’s all about consent. She really believes that Sleeping Beauty will teach kids it’s ok to kiss a woman without her consent. “I think it’s a specific issue in the Sleeping Beauty story about sexual behavior and consent. It’s about saying is this still relevant, is it appropriate?”
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YOUNG KIDS WILL LEARN CONSENT NOT IMPORTANT
The UK mother further elaborates that she worries that the story will teach impressionable youngsters that they can ignore consent, even if in the smallest way. The 40-year-old mother left a note in her son’s dialogue book and also contacted the school asking that the book be removed from circulation, especially for younger classes. Her rationale has some merit, but it seems a bit extreme from a parenting perspective. Yet she still wants Sleeping Beauty banned from the youngsters.
CONSENT TOO COMPLICATED FOR LITTLE ONES?
Sarah went on, “In today’s society, it isn’t appropriate – my son is only six, he absorbs everything he sees, and it isn’t as if I can turn it into a constructive conversation. I don’t think taking Sleeping Beauty books out of circulation completely would be right. So I actually think it would be a great resource for older children, you could have a conversation around it, you could talk about consent, and how the Princess might feel. But I’m really concerned about it for younger children, would really welcome a conversation about whether this is suitable material.”
More: Daisy Coleman: The Culture of Rape
SLEEPING BEAUTY BANNED, WANTS TO SAY “ME TOO?”
Sarah says her perception of the fairy tale has been impacted by all the recent coverage of sexual misconduct, issues of consent and the “Me Too” social media campaign. She believes even stories like Sleeping Beauty contribute to men’s perception that consent is not important. Now she wants Sleeping Beauty Banned. So far, no one has asked Trump, Weinstein, Cosby, Moore or any other the other public idiots what they think about Sleeping Beauty. The era of grab’em by the fairy tale is clearly over.
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Free climbing for all at Golden Gecko’s opening event this weekend
Posted by Tony Ryan on 01/05/2015
Golden Gecko has 150m2 of bouldering, a top-rope/lead climbing central tower and 10 auto-belays.
Golden Gecko Climbing, a new centre in Romsey, opens its doors tomorrow, Saturday 2 May, and is offering free entry on the day to anyone who wants to give climbing a try.
The event will be kicking off at 10am and running all the way through until 6pm, and is promised to be fun for any and all who attend, as there will be something for everyone.
The centre provides over 150m2 of bouldering, as well as a central tower of top-rope/lead climbing and a challenge wall with 10 auto-belays, meaning no climbing partner is required!
Golden Gecko aims to provide fun climbing opportunities for everyone from novice to expert. Geoff Niblett, managing director explained that he wants to provide “fun climbing challenges which people aged five and upwards will have instant access to.” and aims to create a facility where “All you need to do is put on a safety harness and go climbing” to have fun!
Councillor Jan Lovell, Mayor of Test Valley commented: “Golden Gecko Climbing will be a fantastic facility for Romsey, providing an opportunity for people to try a new sport which is quickly accessible… this will attract people from a considerable catchment, boosting the number of new visitors into Romsey… The business also represents a significant investment into Romsey Industrial Estate creating about a dozen new jobs. Test Valley Borough Council is pleased to support this new venture.”
The Golden Gecko team look forward to seeing many BMC members, friends and local residents on 2 May for a free climb! Bring all the family, as those with their feet firmly on the ground will have access to refreshments available from the new, great value ‘Energy Bar’, boasting barista coffee as well as hot and cold food!
The Golden Gecko Climbing Open Day is on Facebook
For more information about Golden Gecko Climbing, visit the website
Behind the scenes: training, youth and walls
Continuing our series of articles about the work of volunteer-led BMC specialist committees, we highlight the work of the Training, Youth & Walls Committee; from climbing walls to climbing mountains TYWC oversees a very diverse programme of events, publications and initiatives.
Climbing in schools: making the most of your climbing wall
Welcome to the BMC ‘Climbing in Schools’ page with advice and guidance for schools with roped climbing walls or low-level traversing walls. Here you will find information about how to safely get the most from a facility, how to increase the use of a facility and how to improve the quality of coaching and instruction.
Bouldering indoors: the low-down
Indoor bouldering is arguably the most accessible form of climbing and requires the least amount of equipment, says Jordan Buys, one of the UK’s top climbers.
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#ThisIsOurLane: Medicine and the NRA
Plus, antipsychotics don't help with ICU delirium
WHEN ACP RELEASED PAPERS late October advocating for more research into gun violence and detailing ways physicians could help reduce gun injuries, the NRA shot out on Twitter: “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.”
In response, hundreds of doctors took to social media to recount their experiences treating gun injuries. According to Washington Post coverage, Joseph Sakran, MD, a trauma surgeon at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins who survived being shot as a teenager, launched #thisisourlane, one of several Twitter feeds where doctors began posting.
“Where are you,” Dr. Sakran wrote in response to the NRA tweet, “when I’m having to tell all these families their loved one has died.” A tweet from Judy Melinek, MD, a forensic pathologist, went viral: “Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane. It’s my f****** highway.” At press time, a shooting that followed a domestic dispute at a Chicago hospital killed an emergency physician, a pharmacy technician and a police officer, in addition to the shooter.
Close to 10% of young family physicians are hospitalists
BAD NEWS for primary care, good news for hospital medicine: A 2016 survey of family physicians who are only three years out of residency found that about 9% report being a hospitalist, with no outpatient practice.
Further, family physicians who identified as hospitalists were more likely than their non-hospitalist peers in family medicine to report working longer hours per week (64.2 hours vs. 53.6 hours), while many more also said they worked more than 60 hours per week (46.4% vs. 29.1%), However, the hospitalists were also better paid (earning a median of $250,000 vs. $185,000) and reported being more satisfied with their careers. Those attributes may, according to the authors publishing the results, “attract more family physicians to hospital medicine.”
More than 2,000 young physicians responded to the survey, and male family physicians were almost twice as likely to self-report being hospitalists as females (11.9% vs. 6.6%). Survey results were published in the September-October issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Delirium in the ICU: Antipsychotics don’t help
WHILE IV ANTIPSYCHOTICS have been a mainstay of delirium treatment in the ICU, a new study finds that neither typical nor atypical antipsychotics are any more effective than placebo in shortening the duration of delirium.
The authors of the multicenter trial, with results published in the Oct. 22 New England Journal of Medicine, randomized nearly 600 patients with acute respiratory failure or shock and hypoactive or hyperactive delirium to IV haloperidol (up to 2 mg a day), ziprasidone (40 mg) or placebo for up to 14 days. Clinicians could adjust patients’ doses.
Endpoints included the number of days patients went without delirium or coma, 30-day and 90-day survival rates, freedom from mechanical ventilation, and time to ICU and hospital discharge. Outcomes were similar across all three groups in terms of duration of delirium. “I would still consider using dopamine antagonists in patients at imminent risk of … injurious behaviors,” editorialist wrote, “but I would have less confidence in their benefits than I had in the past.”
Aspirin holds its own against VTE after knee replacement
A STUDY that pitted aspirin alone against anticoagulants to prevent VTE after total knee replacement concludes that aspirin may be “an appropriate alternative” to other forms of drug prophylaxis. Study results were posted online in October by JAMA Surgery.
The authors looked retrospectively at a Michigan database on pharmacologic prophylaxis among knee replacement patients from 2013-15. Among more than 41,000 patients, 30.9% received aspirin alone, 54.5% received anticoagulation alone (including low molecular weight heparin, warfarin or Xa inhibitors), 13.0% received both aspirin and an anticoagulant, and 1.6% received neither. The primary outcome, which was a composite of first PE, DVT or death within 90 days, occurred in 4.8% of those given no prophylaxis, 1.2% of those on aspirin alone, 1.4% of those receiving anticoagulants and 1.3% taking both.
The secondary outcome was bleeding events, and “aspirin alone was also noninferior for bleeding complications,” the authors wrote.
The high price of hospital-acquired conditions
A RECENT RESEARCH BRIEF issued by IBM Watson Health delivers this grim news: In 2016, 14 hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) led to nearly 49,000 adverse events, more than 3,200 deaths and more than $2 billion in unnecessary hospital costs.
Moreover, patients who experienced those avoidable conditions—which included falls, CAUTIs, and stage 3 and 4 pressure ulcers, among others—spend on average more than eight days longer in the hospital than other patients, with HACs increasing patients’ mortality risk by more than 70%. Modern Healthcare coverage of the IBM Watson research brief notes that according to some experts, such data indicate that the HAC reporting system and the penalty program maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aren’t doing enough to reduce those complications.
Not all the news about HACs was bad, however. The results of two surveys published in the Nov. 1 New England Journal of Medicine found that the number of health care-associated infections fell between 2011 and 2015. The drop was most steep for surgical-site and urinary tract infections.
Less lumens=less risk: boosting the use of single-lumen PICCs
WHILE GUIDELINES RECOMMEND using the minimal number of lumens in PICC lines to help reduce complications, that recommendation isn’t always followed.
To increase the use of single-lumen PICC lines, researchers in a
new study implemented the following interventions: educating doctors, pharmacists and nurses on a vascular access service team about the importance of reducing inappropriate use of multi-lumen PICCs; changing the PICC order set to make single-lumen PICCs the default; and setting criteria for when to use multiple-lumen PICCs.
Their results: Researchers found that the proportion of single-lumen PICCs being used increased from 64.7% to 93.6%, while the proportion of PICCs with an inappropriate number of lumens fell from 25.6% to 2.2%.
The authors also saw a downward trend in PICC-related complications. Results were posted online in October by the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
“Make sure to get the name of the dog”
A PERSPECTIVE PIECE from a cardiology fellow describes his first day as a resident when, after he presented on a patient admitted for chest pain while walking his dog, the attending asked the author what the dog’s name was.
When the attending led the residents back to the bedside to get the answer to that question, the author received what he says may have been the most useful lesson he gained during his residency: Talking briefly to patients about their pets, children, favorite pie recipe or television show allows him to see the “actual person behind that hospital-issued gown.” It also allows patients to experience him as a person and learn to trust their care team.
Those lessons, according to FierceHealthcare coverage of the piece, are confirmed in research that links good communication and relationship skills on the part of providers to lower burnout rates and better job satisfaction, as well as to improved patient satisfaction. The perspective was published in the Oct. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Why you hate your computer
IN AN ARTICLE published in the Nov. 12 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande, MD, the New Yorker staff writer, surgeon and now CEO, tackles a topic familiar to any physician: being boxed in and burned out by an EHR designed to benefit administrators more than the clinicians who need to feed it.
Dr. Gawande describes his training with and go-live for an EHR that even one Epic executive described as “the revenge of the Ancillaries.” As Dr. Gawande writes, “I’ve come to feel that a system that promised to increase my mastery over my work has, instead, increased my work’s mastery over me.”
He likens the increasing brittleness of EHRs to technology in other fields, including construction, and deplores the ways EHRs have changed how people in medicine work together. At the same time, he finds advances to be optimistic about, including innovations being made by doctors to modify EHRs for their own use and create their own EHR apps.
Published in the December 2018 issue of Today’s Hospitalist
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Why the gig economy is in danger
by N.F. Mendoza in CXO on December 16, 2019, 12:19 PM PST
California's new law takes effect January 1 and it will curtail freelancers and independent contractors—including those who work in tech—and other states are following suit.
These are the top tech freelance jobs TechRepublic's Alison DeNisco Rayome enumerates the most in-demand skilled jobs for freelance tech workers.
California residents who rely on the once-booming gig-economy and culture are finding freelance work increasingly challenging. And it's something aspiring Californians, who also want a flexible freelance schedule, need to take note of, because change is coming soon.
And while those who freelance outside of California may be sighing with relief that they are "safe" (and not to mention likely to get the overflow of work that used to go to Californians), other states are stepping up to adopting the same laws. New Jersey, New York, and Illinois are considering clamping down on the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law Sept. 18, 2019, which codifies and expands on the 2018 California Supreme Court "Dynamex decision" that made it harder for companies to classify workers as freelancers rather than employees. They were misclassified as "independent contractors" rather than employees.
The intent, it is believed by many, was a good one. Too many companies had hired freelancers to do the work of full-time employees, but without the benefits of health insurance or PTO (paid time off).
SEE: The gig economy: An insider's guide (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
It's about the Benjamins
Millions were pledged by Uber, Lyft and Doordash (the primary targets for AB5) for a ballot measure to allow them to continue to qualify drivers as independent contractors. But while the businesses are not profitable , there's a lot of money behind Uber and Lyft. Conceivably, those companies will be able to afford AB5's ruling.
Conversely, newspapers are folding, and magazines are shuttering (e.g. dozens of Sports Illustrated staff were laid off, to be replaced by freelancers, albeit not freelancers from California). If you were reliant on a California writing/editing/photography gig, you will probably have to supplement your income with something else.
Upwork's 2019 Freelancing in America survey reported 57 million American freelancers contribute an excess of $1 trillion to the economy each year.
Reclassified information
The new California law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, will require companies to reclassify contract, freelance and contingent workers as full-time employees eligible for benefits, a guaranteed $12 to $13 state minimum wage and protections under the state's employment law.
The employer must deduct Social Security and Medicare taxes from the freelancer's fees, and contribute to worker's comp and unemployment insurance. It will put a damper on what freelancers can use as tax deductions.
And this is not a one-industry issue, despite the initial response as being all about freelance writers.
"Creatives" get a pass
While there are some 20 jobs that will be exempt from the law, including "creatives" (artists), travel agents, fishermen, stockbrokers, accountants, architects, doctors, insurance agents, lawyers, grant writers, real estate agents, tutors, truck drivers, and manicurists, many people who gig are going to find their income seriously curtailed.
Some tech workers do not
A cursory look at Upwork's job listings include the following freelance tech opportunities , which include, yes, tech writers, but also DEV-OPS engineers, IT network troubleshooters, web scrapers, developers, project managers, Python developers, IT help desk support, SEO workers, full stack engineers, digital marketing specialists, SEO site auditors, web flow developers, front end developers, technical marketers, iOS developers, link builders, tech pack designers, Angular developers, Django developers, Google tag managers, Google analysts, React developers, and Ab Initio developers.
Even though Massachusetts has a long-held 1990 statute that the California law was based on, the most western US state has an apparently high enough freelancer profile to raise alarm and concern.
The ABC test
Previously, California had applied a 10-factor test, often distilled down to one core factor, the "right to control," explained Danielle Lackey, chief legal officer, Motus, developer of management mobile reimbursement software to help employers with cost and IRS compliance.
"Though all 10 factors were evaluated, this test placed strong emphasis on whether a hiring entity or a contractor had control over the means used to accomplish their work in determining whether someone was an employee or an independent contractor."
The new law features what they're calling an ABC test, established in the 2018 California Supreme Court ruling. Lackey said: "The Dynamex ABC test deems all workers as employees, unless the hiring entity can demonstrate that the worker in question meets all three of these conditions:
The worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in performing the work (both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact).
The worker performs work that is not within the usual course of the hiring entity's business.
The worker has an independently established business that provides the same services to others."
New Jersey and New York
Lackey said: "Last month, New Jersey Sen. Stephen Sweeney introduced S4204. This bill closely mirrors AB5," and added, "New York State Senator Diane Savino and Assemblyman Marcos Crespo also recently introduced a bill that would have created a new employment classification for gig economy workers called 'dependent workers' who would have the right to organize and collectively bargain.
"It also would have given these 'dependent workers' protections against wage theft and record-keeping requirements. While the bill stalled, they will no doubt look at the issue further to craft new legislation for the upcoming 2020 session – which may more closely resemble AB5."
California freelancers are thrown a bone
Meanwhile, California's AB5 resolved that freelance writers, photographers, editorial cartoonists and editors could be hired by publishers for up to 35 separate "content submissions" a year.
Initially, the drafters of the bill wanted to allow only 25 or fewer annually, and the freelancers countered with 52, before they settled on 35. They did agree that, for example, if a tech writer is covering SXSW, for example, the articles they produced could be bundled and considered a single submission. Interestingly, graphic designers have a full exemption.
Chane Steiner, CEO of the credit repair education site Crediful, admitted the law is a "blow to the freelancing world," as "freelancing allows for flexibility that normal hourly jobs don't offer."
This new law inhibits the choices freelancers can make without becoming 'employed.' Employers will require different things from those they consider on the books as opposed to those who are hired for one-time gigs," Steiner added.
And, as far as Steiner is concerned, things don't look good for California freelancers, because it means "no longer working with California independent contractors or freelancers. My preference is to provide stability for my employees, but freelancers provide stability for some, keeping the company afloat, and allowing for gig employees to keep their autonomy and flexibility. California law may hinder that."
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New butterfly house at the Horniman sets south London aflutter
Butterfly House at Horniman Museum and Gardens Credit: Phil Sofer
Alice Vincent
8 September 2017 • 8:00am
If you've been to enough of Europe's botanical gardens, you'll know there is a quiet battle raging. Amsterdam's Hortus Botanicus claims to be among the oldest, founded in 1638, while in Britain, Oxford holds the crown after starting a collection in 1621. The Chelsea Physic Garden followed 50 years later. According to Google, Padua's Orto botanico di Padova is the most elderly, still in the same place as when it was first built in 1545. In short, it is unusual to find a new botanical garden.
One of the new residents Credit: Phil Sofer
And yet, in south London, that is exactly what has emerged in recent weeks. The Horniman Museum and Gardens (1898) has a new addition: a butterfly house, and one that places as much pride in its planting as the insects that flutter among them.
Wesley Shaw has been head gardener at the Horniman for the past four years, after heading up the Palm House at Kew Gardens. He's an expert in tropical plants, and brought his knowledge to the new butterfly house, which is kept between 25-30C and 70-80 per cent humidity for the benefit of the butterflies. The planting in this small but well-laid out garden is 50 per cent for the "ridiculously fussy" butterflies, and 50 per cent to indulge the interests of Shaw and his team.
New planting in the butterfly house Credit: Phil Sofer
They had explored other butterfly houses before work began in March and were determined to make the Horniman's different, with a greater focus on planting and more space to enjoy it. "Traditionally, butterfly houses are quite claustrophobic," Shaw explains, "you tend to walk down a narrow path. We wanted it to be more open, so that when the butterflies aren't as active, people can enjoy the plants."
Credit: Phil Sofer
The result is colourful beds of lantanas - better for the butterflies - with a few rare and donated plants thrown in for good measure. There are a couple of cycads from a private collection, and a papyrus. Shaw's connections with Kew mean that there are often intriguing new additions on the horizon, too. "It's not a static collection," he says, "we can swap things in and out quite easily".
The butterflies seem happy enough, landing on people and places as if they own the place. You frequently have to watch your step - "they're not very bright," Shaw jokes, as one lands next to his foot - and the intention behind much of the planting is to demonstrate how the insects have adapted to their environment. The bright hues of these wet tropical plants demonstrate the butterflies' camouflage skills effortlessly.
There are, however, downsides to building a garden for insects to thrive in. With no pesticides troubling the ecology, aphids and spider mites are being battled biologically. There's also the issue of caterpillars munching on more sacrificial plants, which is never easy for a gardener to witness.
But there are big plans for the Butterfly House's future. Already a bottle gourd vine is rapidly taking over the structure and the intention is for the other plants to do the same. In a year, this will be an unrecognisable jungle, hidden away on a leafy hill in zone 2.
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Inside the world's best art hotels, from celebrity favourites to a national gallery
One of the rooms at the newly opened Puro Vik in Chile
Claire Wrathall, Travel writer
5 June 2019 • 6:00am
Claire Wrathall
Luxury art
Wise to the fact that fine art appeals to ultra-high-net-worth guests, many of whom are probably collectors, hotel owners are investing in some truly exceptional pieces.
The art-all-over hotel
In Paris, guests at the Hôtel de Crillon will see art everywhere they look. Its collection of 1,000-odd works by living artists are not just prominently displayed in the hotel's public areas, but also decorate bedrooms and suites.
Most of the artists such as Jules de Balincourt and Antoine Poncet are French, but there are also high-profile Brits on show including Mat Collishaw, Kate MccGwire and Gavin Turk. The collection was purposely acquired by the Saudi prince who owns the hotel, prior to its reopening in 2017.
The Park Hyatt Chicago
Or take the contributions of the Pritzker family, owners of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Back in 1998, "When we were building the [Park Hyatt Chicago]," Thomas J Pritzker told an interviewer, "my cousin Nick said, 'Let's go all in and get a great piece of art'."
They spent $2.2 million on a Gerhard Richter, which 16 years later they sold for $37.1m. Guests loved it. Journalists wrote about it. "It worked out really well," said Pritzker.
The Sigmar Polke that hangs in its place used to be in the lobby of its New York flagship, where it's been replaced by Leo Villareal's compelling Star 2008.
It's prime Instagram fodder (Gwyneth Paltrow posted a video of herself in front of it when she stayed there in March), while upstairs you'll find works by the likes of Darren Almond, Rob Fischer, Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt.
The art collector showcase
A spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois at Villa La Coste in France
Established art aficionados are now investing in and even opening hotels to showcase their collections. Greek lawyer Dimitris Tsitouras did not set out to be a hotelier; he had bought a handful of houses on the island of Santorini to house his assemblage of artworks, including a Picasso and various Greek antiquities.
A chance meeting with Gianni Versace led to the designer suggesting that he should turn his antique-filled 18th-century houses into a hotel - and so The Tsitouras Collection was born.
In Chile's wine country, activist investor Alexander Vik and his wife Carrie have used the creation of newly opened Puro Vik, their sixth art-filled Vik Retreat, as an excuse to invest in an eclectic range of works for the retreat's seven glass bungalows.
These range from prints by the 19th-century Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige to paintings by Richard Brown Lethem and Luciano Castelli, prints by Roy Lichtenstein, a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly and six lenticular holographic works by Dominique Mulhem.
In combining its owners' passions - fine wine, fine art and stellar architecture - it calls to mind Château La Coste near Aix-en-Provence in the South of France.
This wine estate owned by businessman and property investor Paddy McKillen is home to an outstanding collection of contemporary sculpture, including works by Ai Weiwei, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Tracey Emin and Hiroshi Sugimoto, as well as a delightful art-filled 28-suite hotel, Villa La Coste.
The hotel owners with galleries
Child Portrait (Annie), by Lucian Freud at The Fife Arms
The Fife Arms may be located just off the A93 in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, but, yes, that is a Picasso in the lounge, a Lucian Freud near reception and a Gerhard Richter and a Brueghel in the dining room... All of these, plus 14,000 other works, objets and antiques are spread throughout the hotel, which belongs to Iwan and Manuela Wirth, co-founders of the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth.
There's even a watercolour Queen Victoria painted of her ghillie John Brown, hung in a bedroom.
The beach at Tulum, Mexico, is another unlikely place to encounter blue-chip art, but Casa Malca is another stellar repository, with a Kaws in the lounge, a Keith Haring lobby bar and works by George Condo and Vik Muniz in the guestrooms.
They are all owned, like the hotel, by Lio Malca, proprietor of the New York gallery that bears his name.
The galleries with hotels
A sculpture at The Silo in Cape Town
The Official State Hermitage Hotel, St Petersburg, partners Russia's great museum. Guests can stay among fabulous objets in rooms, where the neoclassical décor echoes the interiors of the Winter Palace. It's just a shame that the hotel is not nearer the Hermitage Museum, which is a two-mile walk away.
In Cape Town, the upper six floors of the former grainstore that Thomas Heatherwick configured as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa have been transformed into The Silo hotel.
The abundant African art within it includes works by artists including Frances Goodman, Cyrus Kabiru and Mohau Modisakeng and is curated by its owner, Liz Biden, rather than the museum.
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A painting by Sean Scully at Dublin's Merrion Hotel
The Merrion Hotel in Dublin has a collection of Irish paintings to rival many of those in the nearby National Gallery of Ireland - by artists ranging from Sir John Lavery to a hyperrealist street scene by John Doherty, by way of Louis Le Brocquy, William Leech, Daniel Maclise, Roderic O'Connor, William Scott, Sean Scully and Jack B Yeats.
It's a display of such quality that guests should set time aside to explore it during their stay, accompanied by a fascinating audio guide.
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'OK, boomer' is a slur on the elderly and must be stamped out, says French MP
OK boomer is 'racist' claims author of report on tackling ageism in French society Credit: Christophe Ena/AP
Henry Samuel, Paris
12 December 2019 • 6:30pm
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The quip “OK, boomer" is discriminatory and reinforces “ageism”, has warned the author of a French government-commissioned report on finding ways to bridge the growing generation gap.
The term went viral last month after a 25-year-old New Zealand MP used it to dismiss an older heckler during a speech about climate change.
Young people now use it on social media as a way of brushing off the views of "baby boomers" perceived to be out-of-touch, condescending or closed-minded.
Dubbed the youthful riposte to “snowflake millennial”, it has struck a nerve with one US radio host declaring the phrase to be “the n-word of ageism”. According to the New York Times, it marks “the end of friendly generational relations”.
In France, there have been a string of attempted translations, including the arguably cruel: “D’accord, presque mort” (OK, one foot in the grave).
That may explain why Gallic politicians have failed to see the funny side of the tongue-in-cheek put-down of scolding oldies.
Audrey Dufeu Schubert, a 39-year old MP from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist LREM party, on Thursday took aim at the expression when handing in a special report on “”succeeding in bridging the generational gap and fighting ageism”.
“We’re talking about censorship of what old people have to say,” she told Le Parisien.
“This contributes to ageism, which is, in fact a form of racism or, at the very least, discrimination. It’s extremely prevalent in our society, whether in the media, at work, or in public policy.”
She said elderly French were far too resigned to being treated as second-class citizens and their voice needed to be heard.
“I was surprised during my work by the fact that older people often put themselves into a submission position related to (such treatment),without even realising it. It’s as if as they get older their voice suddenly carried less weight,” she told the newspaper.
“To fight against ageism is also to work on acknowledging this voice,” she said.
Some would argue that the elderly French population are quite capable of making themselves heard.
Some would argue French pensioners are a vocal bunch Credit: CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EPA-EFE/REX /REX
Tens of thousands have joined two national days of protest against changes to the country’s generous pension regime.
With a dwindling number of active workers funding a growing cohort of retirees given the ageing population, the government insists the pay-as-you-go system must modernise to avoid collapse.
Pensioners also made up the lion’s share of “yellow vest” protesters that occupied roundabouts earlier this year. Many accused Emmanuel Macron - at 40, France's youngest leader since Napoleon - of "bleeding them dry".
Ms Schubert handed in an 87-point plan on fighting ageism that was ordered by President Macron.
It includes a raft of proposal to stamp out discrimination against the aged, such as obliging young people on civic service to spend two months with pensioners.
Other suggested measures include promoting "Grey Games" - ‘Olympics for oldies’ - and putting polling stations in retirement homes to keep the aged in the electoral loop. One recommends banishing the “mid-career evaluation” in most companies at 45 on the grounds it suggests those past that age are in decline.
Ms Schubert also called for measures to encourage more older people to take up high-profile jobs in media and film, claiming that the age gap in screen couples was often 15-20 years with men almost always older, whereas “in reality (it) is only two to three years”.
According to a study by student work specialists Student Pop, some 81 per cent of millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) see the expression “OK boomer” as a generational “rallying cry”, with some 81 per cent saying climate change is the main cause of inter-generational friction.
A 25-year-old New Zealand politician has admitted making "some people very mad" by using a viral phrase in parliament. Credit: BBC
OK boomer went viral after Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick used it during a speech in support of a bill to reduce New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
"How many world leaders for how many decades have seen and known what is coming, but have decided that it is more politically expedient to keep [climate change] behind closed doors?" she said.
"My generation and the generations after me do not have that luxury. In the year 2050 I will be 56 years old... yet, right now, the average [age] of this 52nd Parliament is 49 years old."
As she spoke, another MP began to jeer from his seat, before Ms Swarbrick fired back: "OK, boomer.”
Michèle Delaunay, a former French Socialist official in charge of policy for the elderly, slammed the term as a “misunderstanding” based on an “Anglo-Saxon ageist fad”.
The truth is, she said, the young “need this boomer generation that represents 20 million people”.
“Today, they make up the backbone of social cohesion.”
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d&b Soundscape Stage Wows WOMAD 2019
The 2019 UK incarnation of the art and music festival, WOMAD, once again featured the d&b Soundscape, delivering an enhanced live sound experience that equally served the huge dynamic range of program, the touring front of house engineers, the artists, and the musically inquisitive audiences .
The WOMAD d&b Soundscape stage line up featured some of the most inspiring artists and performances of this year’s festival, including the acoustic mastery of Saving Grace feat. Robert Plant, drum and bass DJ LTJ Bukem, Kenya’s Muthoni Drummer Queen, and Roosevelt Collier, whose blues, rock and gospel sound was described as ‘dirty funk swampy grime’.
The d&b Soundscape stage is the result of a relationship between Real World Records – the music label owned by the founder of WOMAD, Peter Gabriel – and the d&b team. Born from a mutual ambition to enhance the sound experience at WOMAD for both artist and audience, using a d&b Soundscape system.
Prominently positioned within the main arena site in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, the Soundscape stage held capacity audiences of over four thousand people and was created to galvanize WOMAD’s mission to be the ‘best sounding festival’ featuring ‘the best music you’ve never heard’, and curated to give acts from around the world a space to showcase their landscape of genre-diverse sounds.
“This stage was special, because of the incredible sound experience that was created,” says Chris Smith, Festival Director at WOMAD. “WOMAD is a festival for music lovers, but it is also about innovation in music and technology and now we have one of the finest sound systems in the world.”
At the heart of the d&b Soundscape stage arena setup was d&b V10P loudspeakers for the main system, and Y10P loudspeakers hung at regular intervals around the tent, which measured more than sixty metres across. d&b E8 loudspeakers were used as front fills with a sub array mixture of V-SUBs and SL-SUBs. The entire system was driven by eighteen d&b D80 amplifiers.
The d&b DS100 signal engine, the network-controlled, Dante-enabled DSP platform for Soundscape, served all of the object based mixing, room acoustic emulations and system matrix functions, and was interfaced with the array of different console surfaces required for the busy festival environment. This was all integrated with the d&b R1 Remote control software and a Soundscape touchscreen, facilitating simple operation to enhance the mix graphically, channel by channel, loudspeaker by loudspeaker, group by group.
While mostly invisible within the tent set up, the system effortlessly delivered significant SPL with a wide screen, high definition sound that was able to be driven by each of the touring engineers to suit their needs, whether fully immersive 360 or using 180 focused frontal arrays only.
“Our relationship with WOMAD allows us to offer international artists and engineers exposure to a system concept that is changing the nature of the way sound can be delivered for events of all scales, programs and purposes.” Stephen ‘Oggi’ Hogg, d&b UK Managing Director, comments, “Combining the creativity of the performers with the flexibility of the sound design inspires a whole new dimension of experience for the festival.”
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How Blockchain Technology Could Help Tackle Digital Advertising Fraud
A lot of people are getting excited about the possibilities of blockchain technology. Its ability to offer higher levels of transparency and security could impact on a wide cross section of industries.
One of these industries is likely to be digital advertising, where fraud remains a serious concern.
Blockchain offers a potential fraud-busting solution for online advertisers that could help restore confidence in the industry and support its growth.
Used in the innovative digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain technology is based on the principle of recording digital transactions using a distributed ledger with a network of duplicated databases.
This means that all participants in a transaction keep a record of it, rather than relying on an intermediary such as a bank to keep the official record. These networks of ledgers can be either public or private, so you can keep an exchange of value confidential or have it on public record.
Although the technology is used as the foundation of the Bitcoin digital currency, it also has other applications. These could include voting, authenticating academic qualifications, property ownership transfer and registration, and healthcare record storage and patient authentication.
Blockchain has the potential to impact on many different types of industry that have a need to verify transactions. It’s likely to be a disruptive technology because it has the potential to do away with intermediaries (such as banks and other bodies offering record-keeping and verification, such as land registry services) and replace them with a decentralised platform that requires no central supervision.
One of the main reasons why blockchain exchanges tend to be very secure is that to interfere with the transaction record (for example, to steal funds by duplicating units of cryptocurrency) you would need to break into every computer where the transaction chain is recorded.
Because it has potential to help combat fraud, the technology could help create markets where none presently exist owing to security concerns. It can also help restore confidence in industries where fraud is a key concern, such as digital advertising.
Blockchain in the digital advertising space
Although digital advertising is expanding, and surging ahead of older ad methods such as TV, fraud, bot traffic and malware remain a problem.
Econsultancy has said that the costs of ad fraud “by most accounts number in the billions of dollars”. Some markets are particularly badly affected, with China often cited as a market riddled with online ad fraud.
eMarketer stated that 40% of China’s digital ad market was fraudulent. Concerns about fraud, whether they are accurate concerns or not, have the potential to limit the growth of digital advertising, so it’s in everyone’s best interests to try to combat it.
Several vendors are applying their own blockchain solutions to try to tackle the advertising fraud issue. These include MetaX’s adChain, designed to use blockchain technology to coordinate the ad supply chain.
The new solutions offer to improve advertising transparency, so advertisers can have greater confidence that their ads were shown to real people when this happened, and see information such as audience segments.
Ad impressions can be better verified using blockchain than under current technologies underpinning the ad supply chain network, so the new approach offers advertisers greater confidence that their ads are being seen by real people, not bots.
The user adoption challenge
Getting everyone on board remains a challenge. Despite a generally high level of interest in blockchain (one blockchain-based startup recently raised $35m in 30 seconds), it may be tricky persuading the whole ecosystem to adopt the new ways of doing business.
For a start, Google and Facebook seem satisfied with their own fairly self-contained systems. These two giants dominate the digital advertising space – but blockchain could be a way to topple them from their pedestals.
Blockchain could act as a way to challenge the present balance of power in the digital ad arena. Facebook and Google are thought to account for 99% of current ad growth (according to IAB figures) and that’s partly due to features such as the excellent targeting capabilities these platforms can offer.
If the supply chain manages to organise itself and pool blockchain data, there’s potential for it to challenge the two giants in the advertising world.
The technology could show every ad impression in the supply chain, who saw the ad, and where traffic ends up. It can provide an audit trail of every stage of the advertising process and every part of the campaign. It’s a way to measure campaigns more accurately and handle impressions more efficiently, then quickly produce data.
At present, Google and Facebook offer advertisers the best user experience and a dashboard view of their advertising efforts. These platforms offer a way to reach huge numbers of users with excellent targeting features, so it’s an obvious choice for advertisers to use.
If the blockchain-based services can coordinate their efforts, they can offer a real alternative to Google and Facebook that doesn’t mean advertisers have to compromise on features such as visibility or accuracy of measurement.
There’s clearly great potential for the new technology, and the possibilities associated with blockchain are just starting to become apparent.
It’s worthwhile watching how new vendors emerge that make use of the technology, as it’s likely to have a disruptive effect on the market that could shake things up for the end user.
The digital advertising industry knows that it has a problem with fraud, what remains to be seen is how quickly and effectively it migrates to solutions that incorporate blockchain technology in the fight against it.
Written by Demetrius Williams
Demetrius Williams is a Digital Marketing Specialist at TranslateMedia and has previous eCommerce experience working with a number of luxury brands in the fashion and beauty industry. He enjoys photography, binge-watching Netflix and can often be found roaming around London with a camera in his hand.
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Boxer Amir Khan’s assault charge removed
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Spokesman of Amir Khan, the British former world champion boxer, claimed that police will take no further action against the boxer who was taken into custody over the suspicion of assaulting two teenagers three days earlier.
The former WBA and IBF light welterweight champion was arrested on Friday morning when police was called to a street in Bolton, home town of the boxer, near Manchester in northwest England where, two 19-year-old boys found with some minor injuries.
Khan was arrested for questioning over the incident.
“This was a minor incident involving a misunderstanding between Amir Khan and two other youths,” the Olympic silver medalist’s spokesman said.
“Amir was notified by the police that the allegations against him had been withdrawn and the matter would not be pursued any further.”
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman verified the claim while talking to media: “No further action will be taken against a 27-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assault” in Bolton on Friday.
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Patronize Innoson Vehicles, PDP Chieftain Appeal To FG, State, Others
By Kenneth Orusi, The Nigerian Voice, Asaba
A Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to the Federal, State governments, corporate organizations and individuals to patronize Innoson home made vehicles.
He made the appeal Friday when he visited the premises of Innoson vehicles manufacturing company located at Nnewi, Anambra state.
Onuesoke, a fomer governorship aspirant under the platform of PDP in 2007 disclosed that patronizing the company’s products would serve as catalyst for the growth of all other sectors in the country aside its contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth.
According to him, “We as citizens, our governments, both state and federal owe it to Innoson Motors for support and patronage. Besides, the more the company grows, the more the country will benefit in the forms of employment opportunities, research and development, and the incalculable economics benefits of balance of trade".
He explained that for the fact that purchasing power of Nigerians has falen, he argued that Innoson has the key to making Nigerians wanting to buy, stressing that Innoson vehicles could achieve the result, saying that Tesla got in Norway through government subsidizing of Tesla cars for Norwegians thereby making Tesla almost a national car.
“It will reduce foreign exchange spent on importation of vehicles,” he disclosed.
Onuesoke who pointed out that Nigerians should be proud of such local company as Innoson located on its shore, explained that if only government could boldly and confidently use made-in-Nigeria cars, then the nation would be on its way to having a better economy because every other persons that could afford it would follow suit.
He said although government and companies are purchasing their buses, dump trucks and other utilitarian vehicles as well as ambulances, but he felt the quantum of purchases could not be compared to imports of between 200,000 and 500,000 vehicles annually.
“To hear that the company is laying-off employees at a season Nigeria needs jobs is heartbreaking. Innoson is a goldmine waiting to be mined. If all things fail, even if the owner is the worst Nigerian, Our government should be buying shares and offering loans to the company. Innoson is strategically a treasure for Nigeria. Even offering expansion loans to diversify its production is in the best interest of Nigeria.
“We are traveling across the world to find investors, when we have an institution we can invest in. That is very cost effective. The government can even assist the industry to find more foreign markets across the globe and help it transport its automobile and other machines it can manufacture there. It's a foreign exchange earner of great magnitude, almost like oil,” he stated.
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Chelsea forward Pedro joined Chelsea from his boyhood club Barcelona in 2015 and last month at Anfield, he reached the notable landmark of 100 Chelsea appearances.
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“It’s a great honour for me to get to 100 games with Chelsea,” Pedro said as quoted on Chelsea’s official website.
“I hope to play many more games here.
“Looking back, when I knew Chelsea were interested it was good news for me because Chelsea is a very big club, one of the biggest in the world, and the best for me in England. It was an opportunity for me to come here and face a good challenge.
“When I arrived I lived a difficult situation, a strange situation. It’s very difficult to adapt, to know your new team-mates, but now I am happy here with the club, with my team-mates, with the supporters, with the coach – it’s all good.
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X-amining Excalibur #60
"Braddock of the Jungle"
Early January 1993
A hodgepodge assortment of Avengers & Excalibur defeat Icon.
Writer: Lobdell
Pencils: Kolins
Inker: Holdredge
Letterer: Higgins
Colorist: Thomas
Editor: Kavanaugh
Editor-in-Chief: DeFalco
Surrounded by Icon's unwilling minions and refusing to harm them, Black Panther surrenders, while Brian tries to find a way out of the shelter Black Panther put him in. In London, Nightcrawler & Cerise track down Knight Errant. Back in Wakanda, Brian manages to burrow under the shelter through the mud, emerging with his clothes tattered and dirty. He pretends to be a hero named Jungle Man in order to protect his identity, and joins Excalibur and the other Avengers in fighting Icon. In London, Nightcrawler & Cerise attack Knight Errant, only to discover he led them to a nuclear warhead left behind by terrorists. They let him go, much to Inspector Thomas' consternation, and he returns to the senior living home where he resides. In Wakanda, Icon is defeated, and Black Panther's suspicions are confirmed when Icon turns out to be a Wakandan scientist grieving the death of his daughter, who died as a result of the toxic waste Black Panther and Captain Britain were trying to destroy.
Both Icon and Knight Errant are dealt with in this issue, such that neither one will ever appear again.
Icon does get one good moment, in which he laments that while Wakanda usually only has one resident superhero, he chose the day a ton of them were in town to make his big power play.
Not an idiot, Captain America puts together that the woman fighting alongside them is Meggan, since she's wearing the same clothes as Brian's assistant was.
Brian notes that his strength is failing, but he (or Lobdell) incorrectly blames his lack of costume; it's because he's not close to England.
Iron Man ends the issue still having no clue who Excalibur is (remember, this is James Rhodes, who hasn't team-up with Excalibur in the past like Tony Stark did), though he recalls its supposed to be some kind of a sword.
The Grim 'n' Gritty 90s
Kitty observes that whenever someone starts talking about creating a perfect society, they think destroying diversity is the best way to do it. Sadly, as true today as then.
A bad story limps along to a forgettable conclusion. Charitably, this isn't as bad as the previous issue, but that's mainly just because it's concluding and doesn't have to setup all of this nonsense. In the end, though, the whole Nightcrawler/Cerise/Knight Errant subplot is superfluous & pointless (they don't really even get a good "romantic couple" moment in this issue), all the secret identity shenanigans seem like a waste of time (especially when Captain America is figuring it out, Kitty is just being Kitty, without any attempt to hide her ID, and Iron Man is all "who the heck is Excalibur?" anyway), and it's unclear why Excalibur is even involved in this story, something Iron Man's comments also underscore (on a macro level, at least; I get that last issue tied itself in knots explaining what Captain Britain, Meggan & Shadowcat are doing in Wakanda). And, of course, the weird & questionable cultural commentary from last issue pervades this issue as well. Frankly, the best thing about it is Icon's joke about how lousy his timing is, making his big move during a team-up issue (but it's also never clear why he's making his move NOW). Excalibur has had way more than its fair share of fill-in stories, yet this still manages to rank pretty close to the bottom amongst them all.
Next week: Stryfe's Strike Files #1, New Warriors #31, and Excalibur #61.
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Excalibur, Scott Lobdell, X-aminations
Matt April 21, 2017 at 3:49 PM
Austin Gorton April 21, 2017 at 3:51 PM
I came very close to just leaving that as my analysis. :)
Licínio Miranda April 21, 2017 at 6:40 PM
Is there an explanation to why Excalibur lasted for so long being as irregular in quality as it was? Nowadays comics don't last for 12 issues if they don't sell.
Also, when comics went from 400,000 per issue to 12,000 as they are today? It has been awhile since you mentioned the number of issues sold in a given month.
The sales collapse in the comics industry happened near the end of 1993, so this is long before that. In any case, Excalibur wasn't selling that badly- the next statement of ownership will have 170,000 average copies, and the nearest issue 138,000 copies.
"Brian notes that his strength is failing, but he (or Lobdell) incorrectly blames his lack of costume; it's because he's not close to England."
It's a bit more complicated then that- when Brian got his new costume, we were told it would help him keep his powers longer outside of England but we never saw that. In any case, in a few issues, we'll see that Brian IS losing his powers.
Mike-EL April 22, 2017 at 6:54 PM
I know that by the year 2000, X-Men had fallen from its peak of about 900K-1,000,000 all the way down to 90,000.
Blam April 23, 2017 at 3:22 PM
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, folks, but I believe this story is too awful to run in Marvel Comics Presents.”
“Alan Davis needs some more time again. Stick it in Excalibur.”
“You, my friend, are Employee of the Month.”
Teemu April 26, 2017 at 6:56 AM
Well anyway, I like how both on the cover and the inner pages Meggan seems to feel very positive about the new-found jungle-man person of Brian's.
And you have to appreciate at least a little how Kitty effectively tries to re-do her UXM #150 trick of seemingly dying for to jolt the villain back to his senses, with the Nazi references to boot and all, but she's a bit to cavalier about it this time around and she manages only to aggravate him more.
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Victoria Purcell on 10th September 2019 Tagged East London North London South East London South West London West London
Open House London returns from 21-22 September 2019 with more than 800 buildings across the capital flinging open the doors to curious visitors, from homes to offices and breweries. The Resident picks out the most intriguing buildings to see in north, south, east and west London…
Lead image: Crystal Palace Subway (photo: James Balston)
1 264 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill
This new building, an urban accent on Westbourne Park Road by Studio Bednarski, is two independent houses on top of each other. Contemporary in design, the building draws from the tectonic composition of adjacent Victorian houses, and has sustainability features such as rain water harvesting, a roof garden and solar water heating. Open Saturday & Sunday 10am-12pm & 3pm-5pm.
264 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill W11 1EJ
2 Walmer Yard, Notting Hill
Forming a discreet and private set of four interlocking houses set around an open courtyard, Walmer Yard is architect Peter Salter’s only UK project. The houses now form the home of the Baylight Foundation, a charity that aims to increase the public understanding of what architecture can do. The four houses and courtyard engage our sense of touch, smell, sight and sound, as well as encouraging sharing. Open Saturday 21 with guided tours from 10am-4pm (booking required).
235-239 Walmer Road, Notting Hill W11 4EY
3 World’s End Estate Walk, Chelsea
Designed by Eric Lyons and built in the 1970s, the World’s End Estate is a deliberate attempt to overcome many of the issues of previous high-rise developments and eliminate monotonous bland facades through alternative designs and materials. Open on Saturday, meet at the Residents Association Clubroom for guided tours at 2.30pm and 4.30pm.
16 Blantyre Street, World’s End Estate, Chelsea SW10 0DS
4 Royal Hospital Chelsea
Sir Christopher Wren’s Royal Hospital Chelsea is one of England’s architectural glories, built in brick in the decades after the Great Fire of London and sitting in 66 acres of beautiful gardens. Other famous architects John Soane, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, also had input into this iconic building. Open Saturday from 10am-12pm and 2pm-5pm, and Sunday 2pm-5pm. Access is restricted to the Great Hall, Chapel, State Apartments and Museum.
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea SW3 4SR
5 Trellick Tower, Kensall Town
The Grade II* listed Brutalist Trellick Tower by Ernö Goldfinger has long been a source of fascination for west Londoners. Goldfinger’s 31-storey tower, originally built as social housing, is now one of London’s most desirable addresses with some fantastically done-up apartments inside. Monumental in style, with its free-standing service tower and surreal boiler house, it retains beautiful detailing and a rich use of materials. Open Saturday with regular tours from 10am-4.30pm (booking required).
5 Golborne Road, Kensall Town W10 5UT
Take a look around the iconic Royal Hospital Chelsea
World’s End Estate was a deliberate attempt to eliminate monotonous bland facades
Westbourne Park Road is two new independent houses on top of each other
6 The Wheelhouse, Merton Abbey Mills
The Wheelhouse at Merton Abbey Mills is a listed building with unique seven-spoke Victorian waterwheel – the only daily working example in south London. Originally used by Liberty’s for rinsing printed silk, The Wheelhouse is now the home of Stephen Llewellyn Pottery and the waterwheel now turns five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday. Open Saturday & Sunday from 10am–5pm.
Merantun Way, Merton SW19 2RD
7 Fulham Palace, Fulham
Fulham palace reopened earlier this year following a restoration project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, that has doubled the size of the museum, opening historic rooms never before seen by the public. The residence of the Bishops of London from AD 704 to 1973, the palace also has a Tudor red-brick courtyard with Georgian additions, Butterfield Chapel and a walled garden. Open Sunday from 11am–4pm. History tours run every 90 mins from 11am-2pm.
Bishop’s Avenue, Fulham SW6 6EA
8 Wandsworth Prison Museum
The grand Victorian design of Wandsworth Prison features a radial pattern of wings and landings from a central point, as well as an impressive gatehouse where the Governor and Chaplain resided. The prison now has a new museum with more than 400 items. General access during Open House London is to the museum only, but you can take an architectural tour of the museum at 12.30pm on both Saturday and Sunday (general opening hours 10am-5pm).
North Gate Car Park, HMP Wandsworth, Heathfield Road SW18 3HR
9 Buddhapadipa Temple, Wimbledon
An eternal favourite, this Thai-style Buddhist temple is one of only two found outside Asia, so if you haven’t visited yet, make this the year you do. The striking exterior of Buddhapadipa Temple was designed in accordance with Thai architecture and is finished with an ornate gold and red roof, filled with remarkable painted murals and surrounding by tranquil gardens. You can even sign up to a Buddhism course for beginners too. Open Saturday & Sunday 10am–5pm.
14 Calonne Road, Wimbledon SW19 5HJ
10 Baitul Futuh Mosque, Morden
The Baitul Futuh Mosque by Sutton Griffin Architects is the largest purpose-built mosque in Western Europe accommodating 13,000 worshipers. The building is a blend of Islamic and modern British architecture and incorporates much of the structure of an old dairy site. Open Saturday 10am-5pm (talks: Construction of Baitul Futuh: Architectural Challenges and Solutions at 11.30am, & Objections and Resolutions at 3pm) and Sunday 10am–5pm (talks: Fire Loss and Plans to Rebuild at 11.30am; Use of Baitul Futuh at 3pm).
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, 181 London Road, Morden SM4 5PT
Buddhapadipa Temple
Fulham Palace
11 Dulwich College, Dulwich Village
Who can help but stare at Dulwich College when passing? Do more than stare and step inside Charles Barry Junior’s Harry Potter-esque school building. The Barry Buildings, built in 1869, are Grade II* listed, Palladian-style, and built in terracotta and stone. Extensively refurbished from 2017-2018, you can also explore the RIBA National Award-winning New Science Building. Open Sunday with archivist-led tours every 75 mins from 10am-12.30pm (tours must be pre-booked).
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12 Crystal Palace Subway, Crystal Palace Park
The Crystal Palace Subway one of London’s most beautiful hidden gems, with a stunning fan vaulted ceiling made of red and cream brick, was reopened in 2016 following a successful, locally championed crowdfunding project. The subway, which now supports the A212, and was built by Charles Barry Junior to connect Crystal Palace High Level Station with the celebrated Crystal Palace, neither of which survive today. Open Sunday 11am–5pm. The nearby Crystal Palace Bowl will also be opening up on Saturday.
West-side pavement of Crystal Palace Parade SE19
13 Greenwich Yacht Club, Greenwich Peninsula
Greenwich Yacht Club is a contemporary Frankl + Luty structure of timber and aluminium, built on an existing pier over the Thames and offering unique views of the river, the O2 and the Thames Barrier. As well as a working yacht club, it’s also a popular spot for weddings. While you’re there, check out The Tide, London’s first-ever riverside linear park with public art installations by the likes of Damien Hirst. GYC is open Saturday & Sunday with guided tour every mins from 2.30pm-4.15pm.
1 Peartree Way, Greenwich Peninsula SE10 0BW
14 The Old Waiting Room, Peckham
The Old Waiting Room is a popular one for Open House, and now that it’s fully reopened, you’ll be able to see it in all its glory. The Grade II listed room was designed by architect Charles Henry Driver and in its time was used by up to 100 people awaiting their trains. It was blocked up in 1961 but local firm Benedict O’Looney Architects worked on the project for about 10 years to restore the building. Open Saturday 10am–5pm with an architect-led tour of the restoration work at 1pm and a photography exhibition.
Station Arcade, Rye Lane, Peckham SE15 5DQ
15 Blackheath Quaker Meeting House
Blackheath Quaker Meeting House is a calm space for Quakers and others in octagonal meeting room lit naturally from high central roof lantern and side ‘turrets’. The unusual building won a Civic Trust Award in 1973 and Concrete Society Commendation in 1974. The Meeting Room is kept simple, as Quakers have no cross, altar or pulpit. The stairs to the lower floor are built at a rather unnerving angle, parallel to the end wall, instead of at right angles to the side wall. Open Saturday 10am–4pm with regular tours every 10 mins between 10am-3.45pm.
Lawn Terrace, Blackheath SE3 9LL
The Old Waiting Room in Peckham
The Tide at Greenwich Peninsula
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16 Millennium Mills, Royal Docks
Built in the early 20th Century by flour company Spillers, Millennium Mills is an Art Deco landmark that has stood vacant since the decline of the docks as a working port in the 1980s. Nowadays, you’re likely to spot it on TV as a remote place used by baddies to rough up their enemies (it’s been used in the likes of Luther and Eastenders). Open Saturday & Sunday. Regular tours every 60 mins (10am-3pm). Must be pre-booked. The meet point is the Rayleigh Road Entrance E16 1UR (ages 16+ due to health and safety reasons).
Rayleigh Road, Royal Docks E16 1UR
17 White Collar Factory, Shoreditch
The White Collar Factory by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris is a new office space that combines the wisdom of well-built industrial spaces with innovative design, sustainable principles, future-proof flexibility and panoramic views. It’s so good that it was classified Outstanding by BREEAM – the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and buildings. Open Saturday 10am–5pm & Sunday 1pm–5pm. Tour at 11am, otherwise access to ground floor lobby and roof terrace only.
1 Old Street Yard, Shoreditch EC1Y 8AF
18 Geffrye Museum, Hoxton
The Geffrye Museum, a Grade I listed 18th Century almshouse that was converted into a museum in 1914, is currently undergoing a major transformation courtesy of Wright & Wright Architects. Due to reopen in 2020 with a Café, Studio, Learning Pavilion, and galleries exploring the multiple meanings of home, you can take a preview tour this weekend. Open Saturday 11am–5pm. Architect tours every 60 mins (12pm-4pm).
136 Kingsland Road, Hoxton E2 8EA
19 A House with a Slide, Hackney
The House with a Slide in Hackney has a fun, puzzle-like layout, complete with a slide running from the kitchen to the basement (because stairs are so 2018). The five-storey property was originally a three-storey property, until architects Sean and Stephen got their hands on it, and it now has a lovely double-height atrium with large internal window. Open on Saturday with an architect-led tour every 60 mins (from 2pm-4pm). Booking through Eventbrite only.
41 Groombridge Road, Hackney E9 7DP
20 Round Chapel, Clapton
The Round Chapel is Grade II* listed nonconformist chapel, created by Henry Fuller & James Cubitt and built in 1875. It was described by Pevsner as ‘one of the finest nonconfirmist buildings in London’. The horseshoe plan building has innovative cast-iron columns and has been restored as a centre for the performing arts. Open Sunday from 11am–5pm.
Lower Clapton Road/Glenarm Road, Clapton E5 0NP
The White Collar Factory in Shoreditch (photo: Matt Chisnell)
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21 Kingsland Basin Moorings, Haggerston
Six foot narrowboats provide individual design solutions for living and working in confined conditions at Kingsland Basin Moorings – governed by Canals in Hackney Users Group. The self-managed moorings are a unique community with shared open spaces, offering a glimpse of alternative urban living. Open Sunday 1pm–5pm. Participating boats are marked with a green flag.
Kingsland Basin Moorings, Haggerston N1 5BB
22 Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley
One of the oldest continuously-running cinemas in the country, the Grade II listed Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley is an independent single-screen community cinema showing mainly art-house films. It was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome and retains its barrel-vaulted ceiling and Art Deco wall reliefs by Mollo and Egan. Open Sunday 10am–12pm with access to the projection rooms only with pre-booked tours (running every 30 mins from 10am-11.30am).
52 High Road, East Finchley N2 9PJ
23 The Bower, Old Street
Extending Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ involvement in the regeneration of the Old Street area, The Bower, a new 320,000 sq ft landmark quarter, reinvents a collection of underperforming buildings into a coherent mix of workspaces, retail, restaurants and a new public realm. Open Saturday 10am–4pm with architect-led tours every 30 mins (10am-3.30pm).
207-211 Old Street EC1V 9NR
24 Bunhill Heat and Power Energy Centre
Bunhill Heat and Power Energy Centre by Tim Ronalds Architects is a ground-breaking district heating scheme located in south Islington. The energy centre is part of Islington Council’s wider strategy to reduce fuel poverty and produce financial and environmental benefits for the community. Open Saturday with regular tours every 20 mins between 10am and 4.45pm.
Central Street, nr Barbican EC1V 8AB
25 Periscope House, Queens Park
Periscope House, designed by Groves Natcheva Architects, converted a disused infill garage site in Queens Park into a joyful home within the high-density urban fabric of London. Open Saturday with architect-led tours every 45 mins between 10.15am and 5.30pm. Put your good socks on – shoes will need to be removed when in the house!
1 Woodville Road, Queens Park NW6 6HQ
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Ebola crisis – a $14 million funding gap – our nation needs our help
July 28, 2014 Abdul Rashid Thomas Editorial 0
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The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2014
The news that Sierra Leone, like other countries in the sub-region, has been hit by the Ebola disease is no longer a secret.
If anything, I had assumed that the disease could easily be contained and our health authorities have the resources and expertise needed to contain it.
In fact, I was wrong! I was completely wrong after I began to understand the severity of the disease and its consequences.
Given the number of confirmed deaths in the country and reports that the only Sierra Leonean doctor in Kenema with the requisite expertise that the country has known and has led the fight to defeat Ebola, has himself fallen victim to the disease, it is clear all hands are needed to avoid exacerbating the already ugly situation.
The news about Dr. Sheik Umar Khan hit close to home. ‘Squazo’, as he is fondly called, was a schoolmate at St. Francis Secondary School and a neighbour in Makeni when he stayed with his older sister.
When news of his illness hit social media, the overwhelming positive response from compatriots tells a story; a story about a young man who gave generously of himself to help the Ebola victims.
Ask anyone who knows him, they will tell you they expected nothing less.
Well, our Alma mater, St. Francis Secondary School has taught us that where great things are expected of us, we will never disappoint. In the Ebola battle field, my friend and brother, Dr. Khan (Squazo) did not flee.
He faced it head –on with severe consequences. He chose not to disappoint. Instead, he manifested the true Franciscan spirit in a national tragedy.
His bravery and selfless service is an example to all of us. He and his colleagues and the nurses chose to be at the epicenter of the crisis.
We pray that they will recover soon and those whose lives have been lost in the line of duty, that their service never, never go in vain. May their service to the nation teach us about standing together in good and challenging times and bring the best in us.
A call for support
President Koroma realized this devastating health crisis when he summoned all citizens to engage in the fight and help raise awareness and support his government’s efforts.
Late this week, it also emerged that His Excellency has engaged development partners in the country to intensify their efforts in eradicating the Ebola crisis and he is now personally leading a presidential task force to coordinate his government’s response.
I wish to recognize the herculean task faced by governments in the Mano River Union in general to contain this disease. The report of a confirmed case in Nigeria demonstrates that Ebola is a threat to ECOWAS and the global community at large.
Hence, we very urgently need a scaled up global effort to support Sierra Leone and the sub-region eradicate the disease.
If anything, experience over the last few weeks has shown that, battling a disease of this nature in a country whose health Infrastructure has never been stellar, at least as far as I have known or one constrained by the legacy of war, was never going to be easy.
As dire as the situation is, I commend Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad who have risen to the occasion. They have answered the President’s call and have mobilized resources and support from their communities and continue to do so as I write.
There are many organizations and companies that are helping in their own unique ways, albeit some have chosen to do so quietly. All who have contributed in one way or the other deserve to be commended.
Allow me to highlight the quiet but powerful mobilization of effort by Sierra Leoneans in the United Nations system. Within a short period of two weeks, they have mobilized tens of thousands of dollars of donations to buy protective gear and other essential supplies.
They showed efficiency and speed in establishing accounts for easy transfer of funds, identified what to purchase, and discussed effective delivery mechanisms to make sure the assistance will reach the intended beneficiaries.
I salute our colleagues in the Entebbe -Sudan UN-system for leading this drive. They have demonstrated a true sign that we can apply our service to our country at a time when our knowledge and skills are needed – over and above the millions of dollars sent home as remittances.
Quiet Diplomacy
Speaking about quiet mobilization, I also feel compelled to share my experience in supporting Dr. Yumkella doing his quiet, international diplomatic and personal efforts for several weeks, to support our government and the people deal with the crisis.
I have had the privilege of watching him make non-stop calls to senior UN colleagues and other agency heads, donors, NGOs, and other personal contacts to find out more about the scope of the crisis; ask how he could help mobilize support and action and link the government with global experts.
For example, this past few days as he travelled from Paris to London and to Scotland on official engagements, he intensified his efforts even further. In Scotland, he also made a direct and personal appeal to UK DFID’s Under Secretary Lynne Featherstone.
I even had the privilege to listen and make notes during his discussions with Dr. Margret Chan, Director General of WHO, who has personally taken a hands-on approach to dealing with this crisis.
His telephone calls to organizations have not stopped – to secure more funding for groups on the ground to get mobile laboratories into the country, and how to set up a call between President Koroma and Dr. Chan (to facilitate getting treatment for Dr. Khan outside of Sierra Leone).
I was excited to listen to President Koroma and Dr. Yumkella discuss actions and options all aimed at containing the disease and getting additional international support.
I was particularly amazed at the marathon meetings and hands-on approach the president has now personally taken this past week. It is obvious that as a leader he cannot boast about what he has tried to do. After several attempts to synchronize schedules all day, Dr. Yumkella linked the two leaders up two nights ago.
I also know for a fact that he and his family have also provided direct personal financial contribution through NGOs to support contact tracing and social mobilization through community leaders and members of parliament from the worst affected areas of Kailahun and Kenema.
Supporting the government and people of Sierra Leone is really not new for him. He has always done it regardless of which party is in power and whether it is an official request or not. For him, it is about Sierra Leone and making a difference in peoples’ lives.
As the government continues to deal with this crisis, a number of things should be understood:
1. No developing nation has the full capability to deal with Ebola. Isolation of all suspected cases is crucial. The key is to focus on avoiding further spread, containment and treatment of suspected and confirmed cases.
2. The government should do a greater awareness campaign to dispel rumors and misconceptions. This is necessary so that people do not hide suspected cases or try to go to traditional healers. Social mobilization is critical to contain the spread.
3. The international community including WHO, DFID, CDC, Red Cross, Doctors without Borders and other partners are already doing their best. But this effort needs to be scaled up.
There is currently a $14 million gap in the funding required. The country needs more treatment centers and protective gear to successfully win the Ebola battle. Let’s mobilize funds from our communities in the diaspora to ensure we win this devastating battle.
What can we learn from moments of crisis?
Over time, I have learnt from my boss – Kandeh Yumkella that, to successfully manage a crisis, a few things are necessary. First, determine the real facts and cross-check the data with credible experts.
Second, identify the gaps; and third, see where you can be useful or can add value. Finally, take effective action and then scale up action.
A few years ago, we overcame the war. We can do it again – we can defeat Ebola. Every little effort helps, provided that it is well coordinated.
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The Devil's Brood - Professor Robert Bartlett explores the foundations of the Plantagenets, England's most dysfunctional yet longest ruling royal dynasty. In a story of intrigue, treachery and violence, he tells how the family expanded their power beyond their French homeland and transformed the culture and politics of the British Isles. Bartlett explores how the first Plantagenet king, the fiery Henry II, won his crown and attempted to consolidate his power through marriage, conflict with the church and the introduction of the common law. But the greatest threat to Henry's rule came from his own wife and sons as the ruthless family turned on itself. (S.1,Ep.1) (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CC
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‘Frozen’: Same Old Disney or Surprisingly Countercultural?
November 16, 2019 | Dustin Crowe
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To prepare for Frozen 2, I watched Frozen again with my daughter. I remembered it being a funny, whimsical movie with a catchy soundtrack, but I was surprised by how much the story resonated with me.
What it teaches is surprisingly countercultural, calling into question the adequacy of common narratives pushed in pop culture (including often by Disney), replacing them with ideas that are, dare I say, biblical.
Freedom in Autonomy vs. Belonging in Community
Frozen initially appears to follow the pervasive Western narrative of finding happiness as an autonomous individual. We find our identity and purpose by looking within (self-discovery) and expressing what we find or feel (self-realization). A person can only be true to themselves, or “authentic,” when they’re free to act on desires discovered within. Despite what doubters and haters—usually authorities—want you to do, “follow your heart” (Moana), “live your dream” (Tangled), and “listen to your inner voice” (Toy Story 4).
Such “expressive individualism” permeates Western culture. Find yourself and be true to yourself. Again, that’s the mantra of most Disney movies. The autonomous, authentic individual reigns supreme.
Find yourself and be true to yourself. That’s the mantra of most Disney movies. The autonomous, authentic individual reigns supreme.
Some Christians hear this loud and clear in Frozen’s Elsa, particularly her anthem of liberation, “Let it Go.” Elsa puts Arendelle and her sister in the past to break free from the burdensome expectations of others. She walks up North Mountain in a pilgrimage to find herself.
By pushing and breaking free from limits (“no right, no wrong, no rules for me”), Elsa can be herself. She transforms from a timid girl, bound in cloak and gloves, into a glamorously dressed, glittering woman—hair flowing, reveling in her newfound freedom. We find this appealing because the siren song of self-rule is so potent in our world.
But the story doesn’t end there. Much of what follows dismantles the narrative of expressive individualism, exposing the hollow promises of autonomy and offering something better. Frozen makes us feel the seduction of living for self—only to reveal its emptiness. The end leaves us not with the glory of the autonomous individual, but the surpassing beauty of belonging in community. The real happy ending isn’t found at the end of a solitary path, but on a journey with others. Elsa finally learns that love toward people—not freedom from them—casts out fear.
We should caution our kids not to belt out “Let it Go”—which millions of girls do, including my toddler—or grab onto its lyrics without keeping in mind how self-empowerment turns rotten in the film, as it does in life. The song’s standalone power is dangerous if detached from the rest of the film.
The end of Frozen leaves us not with the glory of the autonomous individual, but the surpassing beauty of belonging in community. Its happy ending isn’t found at the end of a solitary path, but on a journey with others.
Selfish Dreams vs. Selfless Purpose
Frozen also complicates the typical Disney trope of “following your dreams.” The film’s plot moves from characters caught up in self-focused dreams, to tasting the disappointment of them, to moving beyond them to a larger purpose.
We learn about Anna’s dreams, for example, when she sings “For the First Time in Forever.” She desires romance and magic. With the castle’s gates opening to the world, for the first time in forever, nothing stands in her way. She gets her dream when she meets Hans. Elsa warns Anna she’s being foolish, but Anna knows in her own heart there’s something special between Hans and her. She insists on her own path, sticks to her gut, and follows her dreams.
But Frozen exposes the unreliability of our hearts. Anna’s fantasies blind her to reality, and she puts herself before the people she loves. Hans is not who she thought he was. Her dreams betray her, toss her against the shores of heartbreak, and almost kill her.
Frozen exposes the unreliability of our hearts.
Elsa also achieves her dreams when she no longer has to hide or worry about what others think. She can let loose and be herself atop the mountain—but it locks her in a prison of solitary confinement. Her anthem of freedom (“Let it Go”) turns into a lament of bondage (“For the First Time” reprise): “Oh I’m such a fool; I can’t be free! No escape from the storm inside of me! I can’t control the curse!”
Elsa’s dream castle isolates her in loneliness, robbing her of love. She (literally) spins out of control until she finally pierces her sister—the one who never stopped loving her—with a deadly wound to the heart. It’s not exactly the dream-come-true moment Elsa imagined when she left home. Like the prodigal, she wonders how she got here. Is there a path leading us home when our dreams have led us to a pig’s slough, or an empty castle?
Finding Yourself vs. Being Found
Both sisters learn that dreams centered on self turn into nightmares. The initial pleasure of following your heart crumbles and crashes down in an avalanche of regret and isolation.
As the movie ends, the main characters prioritize friends and family over personal dreams. As Olaf says, “Love is putting someone else’s needs before you.” Kristoff gives up Anna so she can live. Olaf will lay down his snowman life if the fire keeps her alive. And when Anna is forced to choose between saving her own life by running to Kristoff (seizing the love she dreamed of) or rescuing Elsa by sacrificing herself under the sword, she chooses sacrificial love. The selfless act is as surprising as it is beautiful.
The sisters are redeemed through sacrificial love. In losing life, they find it. We see the triumph of community over autonomy, dependence over self-sufficiency, finding purpose in serving others rather than serving self.
The self-centered gospel is a false gospel, Frozen vividly reminds us. Autonomy cannot deliver on the good news it promises. And like Elsa and Anna, we can neither save nor free ourselves; help must come from beyond. Only grace can give us what we most need but can’t supply. As it did for Anna, love reaches down into our frozen heart and unthaws us with new life. And this act—Anna laying down her life—finally saves and changes her sister. Love spares Elsa’s life, frees her from captivity to fear, breaks the curse’s power, and allows the prodigal to return home.
We find life, not by finding ourselves, but by being found. True belonging is nothing less.
Dustin Crowe serves as pastor of discipleship at College Park Church Fishers in Fishers, Indiana. You can follow him on Twitter or visit his blog.
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Did W1A really need the brilliant Olivia Colman?
Olivia Colman was the best thing about Twenty Twelve, so it's understandable she should turn up in its sister sitcom about the BBC. But was her presence actually any help this time round?
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Wed 9 Apr 2014 17.30 EDT First published on Wed 9 Apr 2014 17.30 EDT
Olivia Colman: brilliant at everything. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Olivia Colman wasn't in the final episode of W1A for very long at all – if she was onscreen for more than a minute, I'd be surprised – and yet she managed to transform the entire series. Before her, it was a show about several slightly two-dimensional characters repeating the same phrase to each other over and over again in the desperate hope that it would take as a catchphrase. After her, it surged ahead with a reinvigorated sense of purpose.
After meeting her character Sally in the reception of Broadcasting House, Hugh Bonneville's mumbling, incompetent Ian Fletcher finally found the courage to punch through all the layers of bureaucracy that W1A has been so hellbent on lampooning. By leapfrogging the hundreds of toadying middlemen and speaking to the director general directly, he managed to accomplish more in six minutes of airtime than anyone in the previous three episodes put together. Given the inertia and surface-level din of the series up to that point, watching this felt like a tremendous victory.
But don't expect Olivia Colman to reappear on W1A any time soon. As well as moving one plot forward, her scene effectively killed another completely dead. To some extent, Twenty Twelve revolved around the relationship between Ian and Sally, his doting, lovelorn PA. She was the emotional backbone to the show, always there for him as his marriage continued to crumble around him. By the final episode, he was toying with the idea of taking her on holiday. They were perfect for each other and it looked like they would become a TV couple for the ages.
That obviously isn't the case any more. Colman's scene had an unmistakable air of finality to it, from her unbearably sad delivery to the suspicion that she was only brought in to underline the potential of Lucy Freeman (Nina Sosanya) as Ian's next romantic interest. And that's a shame because Olivia Colman is, well, Olivia Colman. She's brilliant at everything. All TV shows immediately become 50% better just by her showing up.
In fact, her appearance might have actually harmed W1A. Without her, it was a perfectly fine, if occasionally slightly maddening, exploration of an unusually funded corporation. But with her it had heart. It was almost Twenty Twelve again. And after spending a month gradually earning the trust of an audience that really wanted W1A to be Twenty Twelve again, the last thing it should have done was bring back the best part of that show for a cameo.
But perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps, despite all the signs to the contrary, Colman's appearance in W1A is a precursor to a bigger part in series two. That would quite clearly be fantastic. It would mean that we could finally find out what happened in Italy, for starters. Perhaps she could return just as Ian solidifies his relationship with Lucy and ask for him back. Given that Ian's resting emotion appears to be crippling indecisiveness, making him choose between two romantic partners would be as excruciatingly hilarious as anything the show has offered up so far.
However, I fear this might simply be a case of wishful thinking. Colman's career continues to explode in all manner of exciting and unexpected directions – coming soon, a musical based on the Ipswich prostitute murders. You can't blame her for leaving something like W1A behind. I just hope it can survive without her.
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Declining numbers of sheep trailing through county
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Butch Theos counted more than 500 vehicles passing through his herd during a five hour period Saturday on the trail.
RBC I Meeker’s sheep men have trailed through town on their way to the Utah desert for the winter, with fewer numbers than in the past. The industry has declined over the years.
Many herds have decreased in size and some have liquidized completely.
“Twenty years ago there were around 20,000 ewes making the trip,” said Martin Inda, herd manager for Nick Theos Ranch. “This year I would say there were about 12,000.”
Many reasons account for the sheep industry shrinking over the years. The number of ewes trailing is smaller but the ranchers hope to make it to the desert with as many ewes as they had when they start down the trail.
There are several reasons the residents of Meeker are seeing fewer ewes make the trip each year. It’s a demanding industry that is labor intensive. There are fewer people coming back to run the family ranches and therefore, the operations are being sold.
The sheep demand a lot of land and they are meant to be grazed out in order to perform the best.
The limits on predator control are continually putting an end to operations. With all of these restraints and the market on lambs being low in the past, many sheep men have sold out.
Another reason fewer sheep have been through town is due to the danger of trailing them through traffic.
“We have to put flag people in the front and back and people still don’t pay attention,” said Angelo “Butch” Theos, owner of Swallow Fork Ranch. “We counted 550 cars go through the sheep from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m.”
Even with all the dangers associated with trailing, there are advantages. There are two main reasons producers take their sheep down the trail.
“The cost of trucking is much higher,” Theos said. “Being on the trail allows us to utilize the land on the way down there and save the winter land for eight days.”
With fewer sheep numbers, local producers will finish trailing this season and begin grazing the Utah desert.
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Engaging Kerala's non-resident diaspora
The NoRKA ROOTS Business Facilitation Centre at Norka Centre in Thiruvananthapuram seeks to facilitate investments of NoRKs and ‘returned emigrants’ in commencing business ventures in the State. S. Mahinsha | Photo Credit: S MAHINSHA
S. Anil Radhakrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 14 December 2019 23:27 IST
Updated: 15 December 2019 08:27 IST
Contributions of Non-Resident Keralities to the socio-economic growth of Kerala are remarkable. NoRKA Roots has stepped in to effectively utilise the vast experience and knowledge of the NoRKs for the development of the State and to ensure safe migration, dignified living, and successful rehabilitation of returnees.
Over the past five decades, the role of Kerala’s diaspora in the economic, social, and cultural development of the State has been crucial. Although the migration of workers for employment is a universal phenomenon, migrants from Kerala have certain comparative advantages making them the most sought-after.
Able to adapt to technically sophisticated and changing work environment, they have shown themselves capable of mastering new skills and technologies with ease. Worldwide, especially in the Middle East, the contributions of migrant workers are distinct and identifiable.
The country tops the list of nations with $69 billion in remittances it received last year from the large pool of skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled as per a study by the Reserve Bank of India. Kerala tops the States with $13.11 billion (19%, ₹95,000 crore) in remittances, showing the contribution of migrants in Kerala’s economy and development.
A series of steps have been rolled out by the State through the Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NoRKA) Department and later NoRKA Roots, the nodal agency headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, to ensure quality of migration and welfare of Non-Resident Keralites (NoRKs) and gain from the benefits of enhanced engagement with the diaspora.
34.17 lakh NoRKs
As per the Kerala Migration Survey 2018, the number of NoRKs is estimated to be 34.17 lakh in 2018, which was 36.5 lakh in 2014. The number of emigrants from the State also declined to 21.2 lakh from 24 lakh in the same period. The ‘returned emigrants’ (REM), according to the survey, was 12.94 lakh in 2018, up from 11.5 lakh in 2008.
Malappuram has the largest number of residents who have lived outside India with a total NoRK population of 7.16 lakh in 2018, followed by Kollam 4.06 lakh, and Kannur 3.44 lakh.
The countries in West Asia account for 89.2% of Kerala’s emigrant population. As many as 39.1% of emigrants are in the United Arab Emirates and 23% in Saudi Arabia.
Automation coupled with citizen preference in employment policies in the Middle East countries, slowdown in global economic growth, and cheap labour have resulted in the increase in the number of return emigrants and a sharp drop in remittances from the NoRKs.
Reverse migration
Demographers and planners are concerned over the reverse migration.
Surprisingly, the highest number of ‘returned emigrants’ is from Malappuram, followed by Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam.
Many who return after years of toil abroad and without adequate savings are not able to utilise their skills and work experience, which affects their employability.
Compared to the trend in the 1970s and during the exodus from the State to the Gulf, a large number of the skilled workforce of doctors, nurses, engineers, IT professionals and teachers are now seeking employment outside the country. Of those employed abroad from the State, 67.78% are professionals such as businessmen, teachers, bankers; 3.78% are engineers, doctors (0.53%), nurses (6.37%), IT professionals (2.23%), drivers (11.85%), and 10.99% are salesmen.
In tune with the changing scenario, NoRKA Roots has also geared up to cater to the needs of jobseekers and demand of the recruiters with the change in the choice of professions emigrants seek abroad.
NoRKA Roots role
A multi-sectoral approach has been adopted to face the challenges and the tag is “We are with the NoRKs”.
One-sixth of the State population are expatriates. Of the ₹81-crore budget allocation to the department, ₹66 crore is for the Plan schemes, showing the emphasis given by the Government for the welfare of the NoRKs. Mandated for the overall welfare of the NoRKs, the agency focusses on recruitment, rehabilitation, reintegration, and resettlement and is a unique entity that touches whole stages of migration.
Apart from certificate attestation, issue of NoRK insurance card, Pravasi ID card, skill upgrading training programmes, over a dozen-and-a-half schemes have been rolled out by NoRKA Roots. Santhwana, a distress relief scheme intended to provide time bound financial support to expatriates who had returned to the homeland for medical treatment, death assistance, marriage assistance, and purchase of physical aids, stands out.
The NoRKA Department Project for Return Emigrants (NRPREM), a rehabilitation package that aims at promoting entrepreneurship for returnees, is another key project. Subsidy for entrepreneurship having a seed capital of up to ₹30 lakh is the attraction. Last year, 791 returnees became entrepreneurs availing themselves of the scheme.
Lending a helping hand to the government to attract investment, the NoRKA Business Facilitation Centre (NBFC) at Thycaud here seeks to facilitate investments of NoRKs and returned emigrants in commencing business ventures in the State. The NBFC has facilitated 22 persons to set up new ventures in the past four months.
“The aim is to use technology to improve services and physical infrastructure and to use digital information to enhance service quality and perception. NoRKA Roots has emerged as a safe ethical channel to migrate without any intermediary,” says Chief Executive Officer NoRKA Roots K. Harikrishnan Namboothiri.
The Ministry of External Affairs has enlisted NoRKA Roots as a State-run agency to recruit nurses and domestic service workers for 18 ECR countries. eMigrate system is in place to facilitate overseas recruitment.
“We have set up a nursing institute for career enhancement to impart training for nurses attending various exams in destination countries. The recruitment of 1,000 housemaids to Kuwait is on. We are changing the sector and location and has started recruitment for various jobs, including teachers, in the Maldives,” the CEO says.
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Kadakkal Ramesh, vice chairman, Kerala State Gulf Returnees and NRI Coordination Council, says the Middle East is no more a gold mine for the emigrants in view of the priority to locals in some jobs and global recession. This is a set back for the Kerala economy that is dependent on remittances from the NoRKs.
“The Kerala government has come up with several projects and rehabilitation schemes for the return emigrants. How successful are these steps is debatable. Many who had availed themselves of loans to set up business ventures and run taxies with the help of NoRKA Roots are finding it difficult to repay it due to the slump in economy.”
Reservation in jobs for return emigrants who have completed a fixed tenure as provided to ex-servicemen will be a big solace to them, he says.
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Mini MuringatheriThrissur, January 16, 2018 23:38 IST
Police take case under Section 107 CrPC against NGIL action council leaders
Kathikudam, a village on the banks of the Chalakudy river in Thrissur district, is once again on the boil.
The agitation of the local people against the NGIL (Nitta Gelatin India Ltd), manufacturer of gelatine, took another turn on Tuesday with the police registering a case under Section 107 of the CrPC against three leaders of the Nitta Gelatin Action Council alleging they might breach peace or disturb public tranquillity in the area.
The case was registered against action council president Jaison Panikulankara, secretary Anil Kathikudam, and member Franko Mathew.
“The case has been taken against the action council leaders on an allegation that we are damaging properties of the company. A commission appointed by the Chalakudy Munsiff Court had examined the pipeline passing through the private land owned by Franko Mathew, where the company alleged vandalism by the protesters. No sabotage was found in the pipeline,” said Mr. Anil Kathikudam.
“We have been fighting for more than 10 years for the survival of almost five lakh people living at Kathikudam. The NGIL is polluting water, air, and soil for the last four decades. It is discharging untreated pollutants to the river,” said Mr. Jaison Panikulankara.
Even the National Green Tribunal has found that the NGIL is discharging 65 tonnes of chemical waste into the Chalakudy river. The Central Pollution Control Board also had found that the company was creating severe environmental damage, said Mr. Anil Kathikudam.
“Instead of taking action against the company, the authorities are trying to silence the protesting voices, ” said Mr. Anil Kathikudam.
“None of us has a criminal background. The only cases pending against us are filed by the NGIL,” the leaders noted. They have been asked to present themselves before the Sub Divisional Magistrate on Wednesday with a bond amount of ₹25,000 and two persons for getting bail.
“We will present the facts and current situation at Kathikudam. We hope the magistrate will understand the situation. Otherwise we are ready to go to jail.”
The general body meeting of the action council is planning a ‘fill-the-jail’ protest in front of the NGIL if their leaders are not cleared of the charges. When contacted, Rural SP Yathish Chandra said the case was registered to avoid damage to properties of the company.
“Section 107 has been invoked on a public complaint to avoid any situation breaching peace or disturbing public tranquillity. Anyway they can present their case before the executive magistrate,” said Mr. Chandra.
The NGIL, a joint venture of Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation Ltd and Nitta Gelatin Group of Japan, manufactures ossein, limed ossein, intermediaries in gelatine manufacture. Ossein gelatine is derived from de-greased hard animal bones that are washed and then leached with diluted hydrochloric acid.
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Plants Clean Up More Air Pollution Than Previously Thought
Driving sustainability mainstream
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Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some types of trees actively consume certain types of air pollution.Looking at oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOCs)--which are emitted from both manmade and non-manmade sources and can have serious effects on the health of the environment and humans--the team found that deciduous plants take up oVOCs as much as four times more rapidly than previously thought. The canopies of dense forest actually are responsible for 97% of observed uptake of oVOCs.
Especially interesting is that certain types of trees--they looked at poplars--actually markedly increase their uptake of these chemicals when the tree is wounded or otherwise stressed, with the tree's metabolic cycle increasing.
Science Codex on what's happening:
Plants can produce chemicals to protect themselves from irritants and repel invaders such as insects, much as a human body may increase its production of white blood cells in reaction to an infection. But these chemicals, if produced in enough quantity, can become toxic to the plant itself. In order to metabolize these chemicals, the plants start increasing the levels of enzymes that transform the chemicals into less toxic substances. At the same time, as it turns out, the plant draws down more oVOCs, which can be metabolized by the enzymes.
Globally Over One-Third More oVOCs Consumed by Plants
At the global level, plants are taking up 36% more oVOCs than has been accounted for in previous studies. This means that fewer of these compounds are evolving into aerosols, which has large implications for air pollution and climate change as aerosols play a significant role (both increasing and decreasing warming) in global warming.
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The RSPB, the country's largest nature conservation charity, has used a new finance deal with Triodos Bank UK to help install renewable energy projects across its nature reserves.
A loan of £710,000 has supported the installation of over 700 solar panels at seven nature reserves, including Minsmere, The Lodge and Bempton Cliffs. It is expected that these will provide up to 80% of the sites’ annual energy requirements (around 10% of the energy RSPB uses in total each year), saving the RSPB a significant sum on its energy bill, as well as providing income from selling energy back to the grid. Any additional electricity is purchased on a green tariff.
The RSPB has also used the finance to install a new biomass boiler at Old Moor and deploy energy-efficient LED lighting across 10 office locations.
The new measures are part of the RSPB’s ongoing sustainability programme, with the organisation aiming to generate at least 50% of the energy that it uses from sources on its own estate by 2020, with ambitions to become carbon-neutral in the future. It has already taken steps in lowering its own environmental impact – with wind turbines at two reserves and its headquarters, which also boasts a 95% recycling rate.
The deal with Triodos Bank, Europe’s leading sustainable bank, enables the RSPB to focus its charitable donations from the public into live conservation projects, while the repayments of the renewable energy projects are paid for by ongoing energy bill savings, plus payments from electricity generation over a 20-year period.
Ruth Davis, Deputy Director - Global Conservation at the RSPB, said: “We are all becoming more aware of the growing threat climate disruption poses for people and nature. As an environmental body, we have adopted targets to drive reductions in our carbon footprint, including through energy efficiency and generating energy at our nature reserves. I am delighted that we have been able to achieve this through our developing Conservation Investment Programme, with the support of Triodos and Environmental Finance.”
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First published 21 October 2019 • Updated 17 October 2019
The UK’s most celebrated fund manager, Neil Woodford, has been sacked following a string of poor decisions. His fund’s failure leaves investors and pension fund members with potentially heavy losses – and many questions. Article by Nick Green.
The investment funds managed by Neil Woodford are to be wound up, some five months after their trading was suspended. The funds include the flagship Woodford Equity Income Fund, which will begin the process of closing down from 17 January 2020, under the new name of the LF Equity Income Fund now that Woodford has been dismissed.
Once among the UK’s most celebrated fund managers, Neil Woodford has suffered a humiliating fall from grace. With a long reputation for making bold calls that paid off, he famously dodged the dot-com boom and bust, and was one of the few to predict and profit from the financial crisis of 2008. But his most recent gambles failed to repeat the magic: investing in small unlisted companies, illiquid (hard-to-sell) assets and, most recklessly, betting on a speedy resolution to Brexit. When this didn’t happen, Woodford’s winning run hit the skids.
How Woodford lost his magic touch
The Woodford Equity Income Fund went from a remarkable 16 per cent return in 2015 to being the UK’s worst-performing equity fund. In the wake of the EU referendum it fell to nearly minus 20 per cent, overall recording a 66 per cent loss, more than three times the losses of the next-worst performer, according to Willis Owen. Woodford’s complacent attitude to Brexit may have been a major factor; he was quoted pre-referendum as saying, ‘I think it's really hard to see any credibility in an argument to stay or to leave [the EU] constructed around economics. I think it's a nil sum game.’ Woodford assumed that a speedy and positive Brexit deal would revitalise his flagging UK stocks that had proved vulnerable to Brexit gloom. But three years of uncertainty put the damper on his predictions.
The fund’s poor performance caused many investors to cash out, which left him over-dependent on the assets that were hardest to sell. When more clients – including a local council pension fund – tried to claw back their investments, Woodford was forced to halt withdrawals altogether. Currently there are still hundreds of thousands of investors who have money locked away in the fund, who stand to make up to a two-thirds loss when they finally recover what is left of their money.
Adrian Lowcock, head of personal investing at Willis Owen, called the Woodford debacle ‘truly shocking’, saying, ‘We have seen the complete demise of the most famous fund manager the UK has seen for years.’
The fallout from Woodford’s fall
The Woodford saga will inevitably trigger nervousness in the investment community. The myth of the ‘super’ fund manager has again been punctured, with the most sobering reminder yet that ‘past performance is not a guide to future performance’.
The biggest surprise, however, is that anyone is surprised. By now it should be drummed into every investor that big rewards go hand-in-hand with big risks. An asset is said to be ‘volatile’ when it can deliver stellar performance some of the time, only to give abysmal returns at other times. This description applies whether you are talking about individual equities, a crypto-currency, or a whole investment fund. Woodford’s exceptional performance in the past should (perhaps counter-intuitively) have served as a red flag for his clients. This isn’t to say that they should have avoided his funds altogether; rather, that they should have treated Woodford’s products as ‘volatile assets’ and invested only as much as they could afford to lose, while spreading their portfolio across other, more stable assets.
Many did not. What’s more, many were not high-net-worth investors but ordinary individuals. One high profile case is that of Kent County Council, whose pension fund has over a quarter of a billion pounds invested in the Woodford fund. Though this sum represents less than 5 per cent of the Kent Pension Fund’s total value, and the Council insists that there will be no impact on their service provision, it is still an anxious time for scheme members. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of other investors have been left in limbo, unsure if they can still afford the retirements they were planning.
Lessons for investors and pension savers
The Woodford debacle has wider implications for investors and pension schemes. Can they depend on such funds in the future? The answer, of course, is that they could never ‘depend’ on them. Investment funds are an invaluable tool for generating returns over time, but like many tools they can be dangerous if used carelessly.
Investors (and this includes anyone who belongs to a pension scheme, which is most UK workers) owe it to themselves to pay more attention to where and how their money is held. This means contacting workplace pension providers to ask about the funds involved, and to check that these are suitable for one’s personal risk profile. A pension fund that shows unusually erratic performance (large gains followed by heavy losses), or a fund that depends on a narrow range of assets for its gains, should raise warning flags. The same caution should apply to those drawing down an invested pension pot, not just those building one up. Judging the personal suitability of a pension fund requires expertise, however, so is usually a task for an independent financial adviser.
The moral of the story is an old one: if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. Investment experts can be as fallible as anyone – though that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use them. As in any competitive field, stars will rise, have their day, and then (perhaps) lose their form. The private investor simply needs to remember this reality, and spread their eggs over a sufficient number of baskets.
Investment primer: what is a fund?
A fund is a way to invest in the stock market without having to choose individual stocks yourself (which can be challenging, especially for novice investors). When you invest in a fund, your money is pooled with that of other investors and used to buy up a range of different assets, including equities and bonds.
The choice, range and diversity of assets chosen will depend on the fund’s stated strategy, and/or on the fund manager’s professional judgement. Not all funds have a fund manager. ‘Passive’ funds will follow a simple strategy such as tracking a particular market in the hope of steady growth – as a result they have lower management fees. By contrast, ‘active’ funds are run by fund managers who do real-time research, and who buy and sell regularly to try and beat the average market performance. This service results in higher fees.
Which are better – active funds or passive funds?
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) first annual report found that active funds do outperform passive funds by a small margin – but that this margin disappears once the higher fees for active funds are factored in. Higher fees mean that, over the long term, passive funds will generally outperform active ones, on average.
There is a catch, however, which is in the words ‘on average’. Among the large number of active funds there will be some that outperform passive funds even when fees are included – just as there will be others that perform worse than passive funds. The challenge is to identify those top performers (not easy) and to use them wisely, i.e. not depending on them too heavily.
In most cases, investors should aim for a blend of active and passive funds, favouring active funds to deliver aggressive, short-term growth and passive funds for maintaining long-term stability.
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Saturday March 29, 2014, 8pm
Concert with the Art of Sound Orchestra
Vivaldi's Gloria and highlights from Handel's Messiah
St. Columbs Church, Hawthorn
Saturday May 31, 2014, 8pm
Mozart Requiem and Beethoven's 7th Symphony
Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne CBD
Sunday August 17, 2014, 2:30pm
Concert with Stonnington Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Verdi's Stabat Mater, Handel's Zadok the Priest
Malvern Town Hall, Malvern
Sunday November 30, 2014, 2:30pm
Concert with Preston Symphony Orchestra
Australian music including
Barry McKimm's Four Poems by John Shaw Neilson
Works by Grainger and Hopkins
Preston City Hall, Gower Street, Preston
C o n c e r t s 2 0 1 4
Victoria Chorale had four wonderful concerts programmed for 2014, with repertoire ranging from the ever popular Vivaldi Gloria and Handel Messiah to Mozart's stunning Requiem. The third concert featured Victoria Chorale in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth with the Stonnington Symphony and Monash University Choir. For the last concert we collaborated with the Preston Symphony Orchestra to give the world premiere of Four Poems by John Shaw Neilson composed by Australia's own Barry McKimm.
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FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Award honour Gamuda Land’s green work
Gamuda Land, one of Malaysia’s leading real estate developers, has had its town making principles recognised at the FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards 2018.
Gamuda Land’s Gamuda City project turned a heavily polluted area of Hanoi into a green paradise, which is now a favoured living and recreation spot for Hanoians
Gamuda Land’s rejuvenation development project located in Hanoi clinched the World Gold Award for Environmental (Rehabilitation/ Conservation) prestige at the FIABCI World Prix d’ Excellence Awards 2018, which took place at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai on May 1.
FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence celebrates projects that best embody excellence in all real estate disciplines involved in its creation. It has bestowed awards to well-deserving projects and developments from across 60 member countries, and has undoubtedly created a reputable name for itself.
Already in its 27th year, the awarding ceremony has gained recognition and reputation as the ‘Oscars Award’ of the real estate industry – which, according to the organiser, is “more than just a beauty contest. It represents projects that are a cut above the rest”.
The Environmental (Rehabilitation/Conservation) category judged contenders based on criteria including architecture, design and planning, sustainable construction methods, environmental impact, and community benefits, to name a few.
Representative of Gamuda Land received the award in Dubai
“We are truly honoured to receive this renowned award for Gamuda City, located in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital. To receive this award is a major testament to our principles in town making, one of which is ‘listening to what the land has to tell us’. When we work closely with nature to restore and rejuvenate the land, we create a better place for the community to call home,” Ngan Chee Meng, CEO of Gamuda Land, said on the occasion.
The environmental rehabilitation of Yen So Park and Yen So Lake in Hanoi remains a remarkable turnaround story that has transformed one of Hanoi’s most polluted and inhospitable areas into a thriving green living space.
What was once a shunned wasteland of untreated sewage and abandoned rubbish in the south of Hanoi is now a picturesque parkland of scenic lakes, abundant with flora and fauna.
“When we first came here about 10 years ago, the absence of a proper sewage system in Hanoi had resulted in contamination of its waterways and lakes. It also created a growing concern for public health and the need for better water management practices,” Meng said. “However, backed by our credible experience and expertise in drainage and wastewater treatment projects, a proposal was made to the government of Hanoi to build Yen So Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and rejuvenate Yen So Park in exchange for land development rights.”
Today, Yen So STP manages and treats up to 200,000 cubic metres of wastewater discharge daily. Since the start of its operations, the STP has been an effective solution to the pollution problem at Hanoi’s Set and Kim Nguu rivers.
For more info about Gamuda City project, please contact the hotline 0902 178 088 or visit the website www.gamudacity.com.vn
Gamuda Land’s rehabilitation efforts have also delivered immense socio-economic benefits to south Hanoi, the key benefits being that chronic wastewater and sewage issues in south Hanoi are now effectively addressed, and that various health hazards have now been eliminated for the surrounding community.
The rejuvenation of Yen So Park has also repositioned south Hanoi as an attractive location vis-à-vis the north, which was historically a more favoured location for development and dwellings.
Gamuda Land’s mindful planning and rejuvenation of Yen So Park has restored the land to its natural beauty, resulting in an attractive ‘blank canvas’ environment for further developments and investments to pour into the area.
“What is most heart-warming for us is to see thousands of Hanoians enjoying the park facilities, especially on weekends, when it is usually quite busy. When we listen to the land in this way, it
allows us to create a place where biodiversity thrives and our community can grow up and grow old, for generations to come,” Meng said.
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Carolyn F. Palmer Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Carolyn Palmer earned her BS from Pennsylvania State University and her PhD from the University of Minnesota, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Drucker Brain Injury Center in Philadelphia. She has been at Vassar College since 1992, teaching a variety of courses at all levels of the curriculum, including developmental psychology; contemplative science and practice; rhythms of activity; touch and movement; and creativity. She is a Feldenkrais Method Practitioner, and a Child’Space Practitioner; both of these methods are empowering, embodied movement education approaches grounded in psychological and developmental theory and evidence for how to move more easily and expansively. Ms. Palmer’s scholarly work includes research on perception/action learning and development across the lifespan, including Feldenkrais and Child’Space lesson learning, with participants ranging from very young infants to very old adults. Ms. Palmer is also a musician and serves on a regional music school board.
BS, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, University of Minnesota
Email: capalmer@vassar.edu
Office: New England Building
Contemplative Science and Practice
Rhythms of Activity
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CLCS 151. Introduction to Contemplative Studies
PSYC 239. Research Methods in Developmental Psychology
First-Ever Vassar Partnership in Beijing Yields Learning in Both Directions
Vassar debuted an inaugural program in China this summer, partnering with a secondary school for gifted students in Beijing who took courses taught by Vassar faculty grounded in the college’s liberal arts model.
URSI and Ford Scholars Learn Research Can Be Frustrating—and Fun
Learning that setbacks are an integral part of research, about 60 Vassar students took part in projects this summer on the auspices of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) and Ford Scholars programs.
Vassar to Collaborate on Summer Program for Gifted Students in China
Vassar College to launch a summer program for gifted high school students in Beijing, China, in partnership with a Beijing-based education organization. Three faculty members will teach courses there this summer.
Psychology professor Carolyn Palmer speaks with Inside Higher Education about programs that encourage students to slow down and think about life outside of college.
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Fall 2011 Ready-to-WearFrancesco Scognamiglio
MILAN,February 23, 2011
Backstage tonight, Francesco Scognamiglio was feeling energized. "This is my favorite collection in the last ten years," he said. "There's a good energy in my business right now; I did everything with my heart." You could never call Scognamiglio a designer with a commercial mind-set, not with an item like last season's pearl-studded, cream-colored rubber number to his name, but even for him there were pieces here that pushed the boundaries. A keyhole dress that was more keyhole than dress, for one, and a bum-grazing French maid frock in peekaboo black lace, for another. It's with outré looks like those that he's become a favorite with Gaga, Riri, and a superstar who must remain nameless until she shows up at Oscar parties in L.A. this weekend wearing his creations.
There was, however, a lot more here than showbiz bait. Yes, Scognamiglio loves kink, but he's not so shabby as a tailor, either. He showed snazzy high-waisted trousers, some featuring sculptural fans of fabric at the hips, and delicate silk blouses that felt very Old Hollywood in their proportions. A pair of strong-shouldered ivory pantsuits, in particular, would've had Joan Crawford itching to ditch Adrian. Same goes for the two long-sleeve gowns with the thigh-high slits: The one Coco Rocha wore was decorated with a gold harness molded to resemble roses and thorns, and Saskia de Brauw's came in ruby red with matching Swarovski crystals. Nothing old-fashioned about a white down jacket with curvilinear quilting and a bold, cocoon shape. It looked not only like an editorial hit but also like a model for a very retail-friendly coat line. That's not just show business, it's good business.
Francesco Scognamiglio Spring 2018 Couture
Francesco Scognamiglio Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear
Francesco Scognamiglio Fall 2017 Couture
Francesco Scognamiglio Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear
Francesco Scognamiglio Pre-Fall 2017
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Build Season
About FIRST Power Up
Point Values
Pirate Robotics hosted a local kickoff event in which several teams from the area gathered to watch the live unveiling of the season's game and rules.
The 2018 FIRST Power Up game consists of two three-
team alliances whose robots must work together to defeat
the boss. This is done by collecting Power Cubes and placing
them on the Switches and Scale in order for them to be tipped towards the
team's side. Robots can also bring the Power Cubes to its human players through a
window in which the Cubes can then be placed in a vault to activate4d2 Power Ups. Power Ups
can help an alliance gain points more quickly and include:
Force - Alliance gains control of the Switch, Scale, or both for a limited period of time
Boost - Doubles the point receiving rate for a limited period of time
Levitate - Robot receives a free climb
For the first 15 seconds of the game, all robots run on their own. If a robot crosses the Auto Line during this period, its alliance earns points. During the final 30 seconds of the game, robots who climb the scale at least 12 inches above the ground receive points. The alliance with the most points wins!
Teleoperated
Kickoff, Build Season, Competitions, Etc.
Pirate Robotics had a busy six week build season. The build and programming teams were in charge of creating the robot while the marketing team prepared for awards and designed the team's t-shirts, buttons, safety manuals, etc.
After months of hard work, the team finished building the robot and preparing for competition. The robot was built to fulfill the needs of the team's strategy - fill the vault and use the Power Ups.
Miami Valley Regional
After several practice matches, our robot stood out as a strong vault bot. By the end of the qualification matches, team 6032 was in 45th place with a win-loss record of 4 - 5, but we were 2nd place in total vault points. We were selected as the 7th pick for the playoffs! Our alliance was team 3777 (Bean City Bots) and team 4085 (Technical Difficulties). Our team did an excellent job filling the vault but our alliance was eliminated during the first round of the playoffs.
The marketing team did a great job with scouting and showing our Chairman's presentation. According to one judge, the presentation was "Tremendous."
Pittsburgh Regional
The team had an amazing experience at the Pittsburgh Regional. After the qualification matches, we were ranked the number one vault bot. During alliance selections, team 303 (T.E.S.T. team) and team 4027 (Centre County 4H Robotics) chose us for their alliance. We finished the finals with a 6 - 1 record and won the competition. This qualified us for the 2018 FIRST Championships in Detroit, Michigan. Go Pirates!
We competed in the Curie division. Although we ended qualifications with a record of 2-8 and an overall ranking of 66, we were ranked third in total vault points (out of 67 teams).
Beyond the statistics and match analysis, attending Worlds was also an opportunity for our team to celebrate everything we have accomplished throughout the season and embrace the values of FIRST. Our team re-connected with friends such as 4028 (The Beak Squad), 303 (T.E.S.T. team), 302 (The Dragons), and 4027 (Centre County 4-H Robotics). By the way, 4027 was on our winning alliance in Pittsburgh, and they went on to WIN the World Championship!!! We were inspired by everything we saw at Worlds and we are energized for next year. What an exciting event!
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Lions meet the needs of local communities and the world. The 1.35 million members of our volunteer organization in 207 countries and geographic areas are different in many ways, but share a core belief – community is what we make it. The Wellington Lions Club was founded in September 1966 by 20 Wellington residents. The Club...
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Police officers are seen at a crime scene in Halle, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. A gunman fired several shots on Wednesday in the German city of Halle. Police say a person has been arrested after a shooting that left two people dead. (Sebastian Willnow/dpa via AP)
2 dead, 1 arrested after shooting near synagogue in Germany
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is calling the shooting an 'anti-Semitic attack.'
Author: Geir Mouslon (Associated Press), Jens Meyer (Associated Press)
Published: 9:24 AM EDT October 9, 2019
Updated: 1:19 PM EDT October 9, 2019
Shots were fired outside a synagogue and into a kebab shop in an eastern German city on Wednesday, Judaism's holiest day, witnesses said. Police said that two people were killed and the assailant or assailants fled.
An attacker tried to force his way into the synagogue in the city of Halle but did not get in as 70 to 80 people inside were observing Yom Kippur, a local Jewish leader said.
German's top security official is describing the shooting as an anti-Semitic attack and saying that prosecutors believe there may be a far-right motive.
In a statement, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer confirmed that a "heavily armed perpetrator" tried to force his way into a synagogue Wednesday in the eastern German city on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.
Police said in a tweet that the suspects fled in a car, and soon after reported that one person had been arrested. They gave no information about that person, or the suspected target or targets, or why they thought the attack may have been carried out by multiple assailants.
Officers were out in force across Halle, a city of 240,000. They initially urged residents to stay at home, and the city's train station was closed. Several hours later, police said that there was no longer an "acute" danger to the population and residents could go back into the streets.
They didn't specify why the assessment had changed, but news agency dpa and newspaper Bild cited unidentified security sources as saying the evidence points to a lone assailant.
Federal prosecutors, who in Germany handle cases involving suspected terrorism or national security, took over the investigation.
A video clip broadcast by regional public broadcaster MDR showed a man in a helmet and an olive-colored top getting out of a car and firing four shots from behind the vehicle from a long-barreled gun. It wasn't clear what he was shooting at.
Pictures from the scene showed a body lying in the street behind a police cordon. The body was lying opposite a synagogue, about 30 meters (yards) away from the building, dpa reported.
The head of Halle's Jewish community, Max Privorozki, told German news magazine Der Spiegel that a camera at the entrance of the synagogue showed a person trying to break into the building.
"The assailant shot several times at the door and also threw several Molotov cocktails, firecrackers or grenades to force his way in," he said. "But the door remained closed - God protected us. The whole thing lasted perhaps five to 10 minutes."
Privorozki said there were 70 or 80 people inside the synagogue when the shooting occurred. Dpa quoted unidentified security sources as saying that an assailant laid home-made explosives outside.
A witness interviewed on n-tv television said he had been in a kebab shop when a man with a helmet and a military jacket threw something that looked like a grenade, which bounced off the doorframe. Conrad Roessler said the man then shot into the shop at least once.
"All the customers next to me ran, of course I did too — I think there were five or six of us in there," Roessler said. "The man behind me probably died."
"I hid in the toilet," he said. "The others looked for the back entrance. I didn't know if there was one. I locked myself quietly in this toilet, and wrote to my family that I love them, and waited for something to happen."
Police then came into the shop, he said.
Synagogues are often protected by police in Germany. Police in two other cities in eastern Germany, Dresden and Leipzig, stepped up security at synagogues there after the shooting in Halle.
"Shots being fired at a synagogue on Yom Kippur, the festival of reconciliation, hits us in the heart," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Twitter. "We must all act against anti-Semitism in our country."
"All our country's citizens of Jewish faith can be sure that we are with them with our whole heart and we will give them all the security that is possible," Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin issued a statement that said, "today's attack is an attack on all of us, and the perpetrators must be held accountable."
Police said shots were also fired Wednesday in Landsberg, about 15 kilometers (nearly 10 miles) from Halle but it wasn't clear whether the two shootings were related. Scores of police vans and a helicopter could be seen on the edge of the small town a few hours later.
The European Parliament held a moment of silence at the start of its session Wednesday to mark the unfolding situation in Halle.
Moulson reported from Berlin.
An earlier version of this story was updated to correct the spelling of the Jewish community leader's surname to Privorozki, not Privorotzki.
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A royal victory
by Guest Post on May 24, 2018 at 11:30am
All right-thinking New Zealanders will be delighted that, at long last, a black woman has found her place in the British royal family. Whaleoil readers will have noticed that racists among the media, and among the public at large, have failed to acknowledge that Meghan is black, but she is decidedly so. Like President Obama, one of her parents was African American, and she will surely follow the lead of America?s greatest president and identify as black. Like him, she will surely reject the pejorative designation ‘mixed race’.?
Meghan?s victory is historic but we have yet to see true equality in the Windsor family. We can be sure there are lesbians and homosexuals among its number but, regrettably, the extant prejudice in Britain prevents them from publicly proclaiming their sexual identity. One can only hope that the time is not far away when everyone in British royal circles can be recognised for who they are and what they are.
Another major step we must look forward to, hopefully in the not too distant future, is the doing away with the sexist title ‘queen’. Why on Earth should the gender of a female monarch be indicated by her title? It smacks of the past practice of referring to female actors with the demeaning term ‘actress’. Some Whaleoil readers will recall that, before sanity prevailed in Hollywood, there was even a ‘Best Actress’ award in the Academy Awards. How that must have rankled with the thousands of fine female actors of days gone by; women remaining silent because of the sexist society in which they lived. One wonders how many of them rejected the abhorrent Best Actress award and so failed to have their talent publicly acknowledged.
As with Hollywood, change has always been slow in things to do with the British aristocracy. One hopes it will be in the lifetime of today?s Whaleoil readers that we are ruled by a transgender king of the female sex, of African or Asian race, of the Muslim religion and preferably left handed.
-Michael Edgar
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Volcanic ash cleaned from planes at Manila airport as all flights are cancelled
Newsflare• January 12, 2020
Volcanic ash is cleaned from planes at Manila Airport yesterday (Jan 12) evening after Taal began erupting.
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila has been closed to flights today (Jan 13) after ash drifted more than 100km from the site of the volcano into the capital Metro Manila region.
The volcano spewed thick plumes of ash in the sky forcing more than 8,000 people to be evacuated.
Taal is in the Batangas province, around 100km from the centre of Metro Manila, but even there, residents felt the effects of falling ash.
Clouds of ash in the immediate epicentre stretched 1km into the sky.
Authorities raised the alert level, warning that a ‘hazardous eruption’ was possible within weeks.
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Goldman Goes Medieval On JCPenney: Shorts Bonds; Slams Liquidity; Expects Default Risk Surge
Back in April, in a desperate scramble to raise liquidity courtesy of a hail mary Goldman syndicated term loan, we penned "Confused By What Is Going On At JCP? Here's The Pro Forma Cap Table And The Cliff Notes", where in addition to the obvious - that this is merely buying a few months for the melting icecube company which with every passing day is closer to a Chapter 11 (or 7) bankruptcy filing - we also laid out that what Goldman was doing was merely positioning itself to be at the top of the company's capital structure with a super secured and overcollateralized credit facility, through what is effectively a pre-petition DIP. Of course, if that was the case, then after a certain period of time Goldman was actively start agitating to destabilize JCP in a way that slowly but surely (or rapidly and even more surely) pushed it into bankruptcy before even more collateral/assets was wasted away. As it turns out we only had to wait for five months before the same Goldman that raised the company's emergency liquidity term loan turned around and launched a vicious attack on the same company that paid it millions in dollars in underwriting fees.
Specifically, what Goldman just did is write a report (perhaps one of the best bearish cross-asset investment theses we have seen to come out of the firm in a long time) in which it laid out, in a lucid and compelling manner, why JCP is doomed. The report is titled appropriately enough: "Initiate on JCP with Underperform: Looking for cash in the name"... and not finding it. Furthermore, not only is Goldman saying the company's unsecured bonds are impaired, with a recovery on the tranche reaching as low as 13% in a liquidation bankruptcy scenario or as "high" as 65% in the best case going concern outcome (which also suggests the equity is pretty much worthless) but is advising clients to buy either 5 Year CDS (with expectations of a near term blow out in default risk) or alternatively a CDS steepener (sell 1 Yr, buy 5 Yr).
But before we get into the nuances of the report (which for those who have read our extensive coverage on the name will be nothing new), here are some of the more amusing, and confusing, aspects of the Disclosure section:
Goldman Sachs beneficially owned 1% or more of common equity (excluding positions managed by affiliates and business units not required to be aggregated under US securities law) as of the month end preceding this report: J.C. Penney Company
Goldman Sachs expects to receive or intends to seek compensation for investment banking services in the next 3 months: J.C. Penney Company
In other words, Goldman is now actively trying to destroy the value of its equity investment in JCP. Obviously, the firm would not be doing this unless it had some other motive at hand. Namely: to offset equity losses through other means, be it more investment banking fees (for which it intends to be compensated in the next three months), or from cap structure arbitrage. Because nothing helps forget an equity wipe-out, like a blockbuster CDS blowout from 1000 bps to several thousands basis point wider. In fact, the more dramatic the bankruptcy, the greater the return. It is precisely the CDS that Goldman is now long, in what is a bet that the end for JCP is nigh.
Going back to the report, here is how Goldman frames the endgames for JCP:
We initiate on JCP’s 7.95% unsecured bonds due 2017, its 5.65% notes due 2020, and its 6.375% notes due 2036 with an Underperform rating. We recommend that investors buy 5-year CDS, and also recommend a steepener, whereby investors sell 1-yr CDS and buy 5-yr CDS. Additionally, although we are comfortable with the collateral value at the top part of the structure, in our view, the company’s term loan could experience downside if the company were to tap the debt markets for incremental liquidity as discussed below. As a result, we are waiting for a better entry point on the term loan. JCP is now in our HY coverage.
Of course Goldman is right that should JCP raise more funding (and as Goldman lays out further on, the most likely source of cash is a 2nd Lien), it would impair the existing secured Term Loan: a Term Loan which is likely still mostly on Goldman's own books. Which is why it is in Goldman's interest that JCP does not dilute the corporate collateral any more, and proceed straight to Chapter 11 (or better yet, 7). After all, as Goldman notes, even in a worst case scenario the term loan is fully covered (that remains to be seen).
The reason why Goldman is coming to the public now with its bearish thesis, is as follows:
In our view, a combination of weak fundamentals, inventory rebuilding, and an underperforming home department will likely challenge J.C. Penney’s liquidity levels in 3Q. In order to safeguard against a potentially poor 4Q holiday season, it is likely that management will look to build a bigger liquidity buffer, as has been suggested by recent press reports. Although we believe this would be a prudent measure for the company, given our expectation for new capital to come in the form of additional debt (rather than equity), we believe this will be a negative catalyst for creditors.
Especially those creditors who bought the Goldman syndicated term loan (the part that Goldman was able to offload from its balance sheet).
So what happens next if Goldman is right? First CDS blows out to fresh wides, which means at least 300 bps of imminent widening as the company attempt to conduct a new secured leveraging transaction.
Goldman continues:
With this as a backdrop, we recommend investors put on a steepener (sell 1-year CDS and buy 5-year CDS), based on the view that the company has some liquidity triggers available that should enable it to extend its life, but that it will continue to encounter a difficult fundamental backdrop within which to effect a turnaround. Liquidity triggers include:
Sell fringe land (est. value: $100mn)
Sell tire, battery, and automotive locations (est. value $115-135mn)
Sell mall partnership interests (est. value $100-150mn)
Tap debt markets for $500mn of incremental second lien bank loan or bonds (est. value $500mn)
Raise equity (up to $1bn)
Monetize portion of its below-market leases (up to $400mn)
But it is what comes next that is the biggest kick in the groin of the company's recent (and soon to be future) client: Goldman's tongue in cheek discussion of JCP's bankruptcy.
Finally, although we believe handicapping a bankruptcy filing for JCP is premature, we do believe that understanding likely recovery values in the event of a bankruptcy is an important exercise. To that end, we view the term loan as the safest liquid instrument in the capital structure given our base case of a par recovery. We expect recovery on the unsecured bonds to range from 47-65%. However, under the scenario where the company issues $500mn of incremental secured debt, the recovery range would fall to 35-54%. We provide a full recovery waterfall later in this report.
Before Goldman discloses its waterfall residual value analysis, it naturally has to make sure that at least the term loans are not impaired in even a worst case scenario. While it can't explicitly do that, it goes as close as possible.
In Exhibit 3, we compare JCP’s secured term loan to other term loans in the space that are secured by real estate. As discussed in a later section of this report, we think that JCP’s real estate collateral offers ample coverage for the loan. However, we are looking for a better entry point. We think that JCP’s term loan could see near-term weakness if the company were to issue a 2nd lien bond with a pledge on the ABL collateral. At a price (ask) of $98.5, the JCP term loan yields 6.4%. This compares to the Toy Delaware term loan, which trades at $96.5 and yields 6.1% and Toy’s Propco I unsecured term loan, which trades at par and yields 6%. We think it is appropriate for JCP to trade wide to Toy Delaware and Propco, and think this relationship could widen slightly. Although we acknowledge that JCP has some liquidity triggers at its disposal we think that JCP would likely encounter liquidity difficulties prior to TOY (Toy still generates positive free cash flow).
We disagree with Goldman that the JCP Term Loan is money good: in fact, in even a simple Chaper 11 with DIP, it is quite likely that the term loan will end up being the fulcrum security, but that is a bridge we will cross when we get to it. For now, the question is what options the company has in order to raise near-term liquidity when things once again turn out worse than expected. There aren't many.
While J.C. Penney pledged the vast majority of its real estate assets to its term loan, it still has some liquidity levers left. Additionally, in fiscal 2012, the company incurred a federal net operating loss (NOL) of $1.5 billion of which approximately $284mn was carried back. The remaining $1.2 billion carry-forward (expiring between 2013 and 2032) is available to offset future taxable income. As a result, the tax implications of any asset sales should not be onerous. Below we provide a list of potential triggers divided between “simple” levers and those that would likely prove more complicated
Liquidity triggers
Sell fringe land (est. value: $100mn): JCP owns 240 acres of vacant land surrounding its headquarters in Plano Texas. This fringe land is not part of the term loan’s collateral package. In 2011, when JCP began marketing the land, the Collins County Appraisal District appraised it at $150 million. Given that JCP has not yet sold the land, it is possible that its actual market value may be below appraisal value. We assume a 30% haircut and estimate potential proceeds of $100mn. We note that the credit agreement allows JCP to contribute fringe land to a joint venture for the purpose of developing it. As a result, JCP may choose to develop the land to garner a higher value; therefore it is not clear that monetization of fringe land is a near-term liquidity lever.
Tire, Battery, and automotive locations (est. value: $115-135mn); J.C. Penney owns 30 tire, battery, and automotive locations that are not pledged as collateral. Assuming an average store size consistent with history, the square footage of these locations would total 2.5-3.0mn. Assuming a valuation of $45/square foot (JCP’s assets have a lit appraisal value of $55-60/square foot) translates to $115-135mn valuation.
Regional mall partnership units (est. value: $100-150mn); J.C. Penney owns 8 regional mall partnerships that they could monetize. Last year, they sold one for $65 million. The company has not provided information about where the mall partnerships are located.
Issuing an additional $500mn of bank loan or bonds ($500mn); The company’s ABL has a $400mn accordion. Its bank loan has a carve-out for $500mn of “debt issued under the ABL credit agreement”. The company would have the ability to issue new debt with a second lien on the inventory that comes ahead of the term loan but behind the ABL. We think that it would be difficult for the company to issue incremental ABL because its current ABL has a clause that could require the company to reprice its existing ABL, making it a costly option.
Equity raise (est. value: up to $1 bn); According to Bloomberg, JCP’s top five equity holders own almost 50% of its equity. If equity holders are confident that JCP can re-attract its customer base, they may be willing to commit more capital in the form of backstopping a rights offering, a convertible, or an outright incremental equity offering. We’ve listed these in order of our view of probability.
That said, and here we do agree with Goldman, the most likely option for JCP is more secured debt in the form of a Second Lien.
... we conclude that secured debt is the most likely near-term liquidity lever for the company. Although unsecured issuance is possible, with outstanding debt trading at double-digit yields, it is unlikely that the company would be able to issue at palatable levels. This leaves us with secured debt as the most likely liquidity lever for the company nearterm. Here the company’s options are limited by the term loan credit agreement. Our reading of the credit agreement suggests that the only available carve-out for secured debt that is raised for the purpose of putting cash on the balance sheet is a carve-out for indebtedness under the ABL credit agreement up to $2.35bn. This provides the company with room for an additional $500mn of ABL debt. Although the ABL credit agreement provides for a $400mn accordion, our understanding of the covenants suggests that the company would need to re-price the entire ABL to take advantage of this. As a result, we believe it is most likely that the company would issue a 2nd-lien instrument backed by ABL collateral.
Which then brings us to the meat of the matter: Goldman's bankruptcy "waterfall" residual value analysis, which unfortunately for the bondholders, and certainly the equity, runs dry about half way through:
Based on our recovery analysis, JCP’s bank loan and ABL would recover par (plus postpetition interest) under each scenario and its unsecured bonds would recover 47-65% under two of three scenarios, and 15% under a full scale liquidation, which we view as unlikely. The scenarios are discussed below.
However if the company were to issue bonds that have a 2nd lien on inventory, our waterfall suggests that this would reduce unsecured recovery by 11-12pts, leading to an estimated recovery of 35-54% under Scenario 1 and 2. If the JCP were also to grant new debt an unsecured guarantee on its guarantor subs, it could reduce the recovery potentially more. Because the real estate collateral is sufficient to cover the bank loans in most cases (except dark value appraisal), the pledge of second lien on inventory is less onerous to the bank loan than to the unsecured bonds. In terms of the bank loan, $3.2 billion of assets are pledged to cover $2.25bn of term loan. The collateral value would have to fall by $950mn, or approximately 30% before the term loan recovery even relied upon inventory value.
As shown in Exhibit 7, the bank loans are issued by J.C. Penney Corporation Inc., and are guaranteed on a senior secured basis by J.C. Penney Purchasing Corporation, JCP Real Estate Holdings, Inc., and J.C. Penney Properties, Inc. The company’s unsecured bonds are co-issued by J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. (OpCo), and J.C. Penny Company Inc. (Holdings) and have no subsidiary guarantees.
For those curious about the intercreditor nature of the Org Chart linkages, you are in luck - it is shown below, although...
... it is largely irrelevant. Once the pre-bankruptcy filing tailspin begins, the only constant will be utter chaos as every stakeholder in the ungainly capital structure scrambles to generate whatever recovery they can. Which again, won't be much:
We considered three scenarios in estimating the recovery values for JCP debt:
Scenario #1: Going concern with no DIP loan. In this hypothetical scenario, we postulate that CEO Ullman could choose to file the company earlier than absolutely necessary given a higher level objectivity (he was brought in to fix an existing problem). However, under a scenario where traffic, conversion, and margins do not improve, and cash levels fall below what we view as a $500mn minimum threshold, if he has already pulled the “simple” liquidity triggers, it is possible he may file it and restructure it as a going concern. This scenario assumes that he files the company with $450 million of cash on its balance sheet and a fully drawn ABL (minus $125mn because if ABL availability falls below this level JCP becomes subject to a 1.0x fixed charge covenant requirement). Because of the cash on its balance sheet, we assume that the company files without a DIP loan. We think it is most likely that JCP would operate as a going concern if it were to restructure. Generally, the most important factor in identifying retailers who have reorganized as a going concern has been their ability to access new capital (rights offerings, new debt put in place at emergence). Many of the retailers that liquidated did so in the tight credit years of 2008-2009, which are not representative of current market conditions.
Scenario #2: Going concern with DIP loan. In this hypothetical scenario, we examine the scenario where CEO Ullman runs cash down to minimal levels in hopes that he can save the company with a longer liquidity runway. Because of these minimum cash levels, a DIP would be needed to fund working capital needs and other expenses. We postulated that the company would need an $800mn DIP. In this scenario, the term loan is still not garnering any of its par recovery value from its 2nd lien on inventory.
Scenario #3: Liquidation and no capacity for DIP: In this hypothetical scenario we assume that the company files when cash levels fall to $500 million but that it is a liquidation scenario. Because we are using dark store appraisal values, the company does not have capacity for a DIP (any DIP would result in the impairment of the term loan and ABL). Given our view that JCP would continue as a going concern, we think this scenario is the least likely of the three scenarios, and give it little weight in our ultimate assessment of unsecured recovery values.
There is more but this is the gist: the countdown to a filing has begun, because once Goldman uses the words "waterfall analysis" and invokes the dreaded "filing" word there is no turning back. We only wonder if Goldman waited until Bill Ackman was out before it issued this report, which objectively gives the company 6-9 months.
Aside from that, our only question is whether JCP will be just another Movie Gallery: yet another sterling Goldman debt deal, that resulted in a bankruptcy before even one coupon could be paid. It will take some special talent for JCP to overtake Movie, but Goldman has been known to do even more impossible things in the past (see: Lehman Brothers).
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Many view a home as the most important asset to consider when a divorce looms. However, Texas residents who are considering divorce and facing decisions about property division may want to rethink this issue. Many individuals focus so intently on the house that they completely ignore retirement accounts belonging to their spouses.
Marital property typically includes assets acquired during the course of a marriage, with the exception of gifts and inheritances. Equitable distribution may be used in property division related to divorce. Retirement accounts should be considered, although funds that were in such an account prior to the marriage are not subject to asset division. Any increase in value of such accounts, however, may be considered marital property.
An individual facing divorce may want to prepare in advance by taking steps to protect their financial interests. Working with a financial planner may allow for a careful look at issues such as retirement funds as well as potential Social Security benefits, especially important for those dealing with divorce in their later years. Careful consideration of a home's value and maintenance costs may also be important. In some cases, sale of the home and division of the proceeds may make the most financial sense. An individual may be better served by seeking a spouse's Roth IRA instead of a traditional IRA due to the fact that Roth funds have already been taxed. Retirement assets may prove more valuable than alimony, making it important to consider long-term prospects.
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‘Fitting in’ and ‘standing out’: the peer group and young people’s development of reader identity is Dr Sellers’ first publication available in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
The abstract for her article is:
“The benefits of reading for pleasure and positive reader identities have been well established in previous research. However, much discussion regarding young people’s reading is underpinned by a discourse of deficit, placing emphasis on what young people should be reading. In an attempt to move away from this discourse, this article considers reading in the context of young people’s broader social and cultural worlds, exploring the role of the peer group in young people’s development of a reader identity.
The article argues that the reading practices young people engage in are part of their broader social and cultural participation and, consequently, part of a broader project of identity formation. By highlighting the complexity of young people’s development of a reader identity and the meaning ascribed to specific reading practices, the findings challenge deficit models of young people’s reading lives, which underpin attempts to redistribute cultural capital through educational and cultural policy.”
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NFL players kneel, raise fists or sit out National Anthem as preseason gets in full swing
The NFL's warmup games are in full swing -- and the National Anthem protests are back.Several players...
Posted: Aug 10, 2018 11:01 PM
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The NFL's warmup games are in full swing -- and the National Anthem protests are back.
Several players on Thursday took a knee, raised a fist or did not take to the field while the anthem was played before a dozen games as the league's first full week of preseason contests kicked off.
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The action comes weeks after the league suspended what was supposed to be a new policy barring such demonstrations.
The anthem protests -- meant to draw attention to racial injustice -- have happened with varying participation since 2016, pulling the NFL into a public debate that has seen President Donald Trump call on team owners to stem them.
In Philadelphia, Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett walked out of the tunnel Thursday during the anthem and headed to the team bench ahead of a game against the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.
Eagles captain Malcolm Jenkins and cornerback De'Vante Bausby raised their fists during the song.
"I just think it's important to keep this conversation going, that we don't let it get stagnant," Jenkins said after the game, according to NFL.com. "You know, as we understand it, everybody's kind of waiting to see what the league is going to do. ... It's just my personal decision to keep these things at the forefront."
Trump, as he has in the past, took notice.
"The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem," the President tweeted Friday morning. "Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their 'outrage' at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love."
Trump continued: "Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!"
In Miami on Thursday night, Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson knelt during the anthem ahead of their game against Tampa Bay, The Miami Herald reported. Dolphins defensive end Robert Quinn raised his fist during the song, according to WTVJ.
In Jacksonville, several Jaguars -- including Jalen Ramsey, Telvin Smith, Leonard Fournette and T.J. Yeldon -- were not on the field as the anthem played ahead of their game against the New Orleans Saints, The Florida Times-Union reported.
It wasn't immediately clear how many players overall protested during Thursday's 12 NFL preseason games.
Donté Stallworth takes issue with Trump's tweets
Former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth, a CNN contributor, took issue Friday with Trump's assertion that protesters weren't able to define what outraged them.
"When you look at people who are in prisons today, close to 60% of the prison population are people of color -- these are the things that the players" are protesting, Stallworth told CNN's Kate Bolduan. "They are eloquent and articulate, and they've explicitly said why they are protesting.
"I think that one of the best things that the players have talked about is that they've tried their best to ignore the President and continue to go to their local city halls, continue to meet with governors and attorneys generals, continue to donate hundreds of thousands, and even ... millions of dollars" toward equality causes.
NFL had shelved its new anti-protest policy
The NFL said it won't punish the players who took part in Thursday's protests, noting it had shelved what was supposed to be a new policy on anthem conduct until it reaches an agreement with the NFL Players Association.
In May, team owners, reacting to a public backlash against the protests, issued a policy requiring that all team personnel who decide to be on the field during the song "shall stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem."
Players would be allowed to stay in the locker room during the anthem if they chose -- but if any team personnel did kneel on the field, the team would be fined. The teams then could decide how and whether to punish offending personnel.
But in July, the players association filed a grievance, saying the new policy infringed upon player rights and was enacted without consulting the union.
A week later, the NFL said it would put the policy on hold so it could discuss a solution with the association.
Colin Kaepernick kicked off the protests in 2016
The anthem controversy has been rumbling since 2016 when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt during the anthem to draw attention to racial injustice.
An increasing number of players joined him, but critics perceived the protests as unpatriotic and disrespectful of the American flag and US military.
The issue came to a head when Trump said in September that NFL owners should tell protesting players, "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!"
Soon more players began to kneel during the anthem, and the controversy in the most popular sports league in America became a partisan talking point.
In a tweet, Kaepernick lauded Stills and Wilson, two of the Dolphins who protested Thursday night.
"My brother @kstills continued his protest of systemic oppression tonight by taking a knee. Albert Wilson @iThinkIsee12 joined him in protest. Stay strong brothers!" the tweet reads.
Kaepernick has not been hired by any NFL team since he became a free agent in 2017. He has filed a grievance against the NFL, saying team owners colluded to deny him a job because of the protests.
CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to remove a reference to 10 Giants players kneeling in the end zone. The players did this before the anthem was played and may not have been protesting the anthem. It is a common practice by some players to kneel and pray in the end zone before the anthem begins.
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Three years after intentionally set fire kills four sisters, investigators stay tight-lipped
News 18 reached out to several officials who are involved in the investigation to ask for updates. They all told us "no comment."
Posted: Nov 21, 2019 8:59 AM
Posted By: Isabella Caruso
FLORA, Ind. (WLFI) — Three years to the day after an intentionally set fire killed four Flora sisters, Indiana State Police say it is not a cold case.
However, Sgt. Kim Riley said not many arson cases are ever solved because of lack of evidence. He explained most of the evidence is burned in the fire, so there is little to no physical evidence for investigators to use.
So what does that mean for the family of Kionne, Keyara, Kerriele and Keyanna?
News 18 is looking back on everything that has happened in the investigation into the fire that killed the girls.
The fire happened on Nov. 21, 2016 at a home on the corner of Columbia and Division streets in Flora. Kionne, 5, Keyara, 9, Kerriele, 7, and Keyanna, 11, did not make it out of the home alive. Their mother, Gaylin Rose, was the only one who survived. She now lives in California.
Two months after the fire, in Jan. 2017, it was ruled as arson.
In June of 2017, the fire investigator assigned to the case resigned.
In October of 2017, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed the investigation into the fire seemed like a cover up. However, Indiana State Police denied those allegations.
In November of 2017, two officials involved in the case both resigned. That included the Carroll County Prosecutor and Flora Fire Chief. One thing to note; Flora's Fire Chief who resigned is the son of the fire investigator who resigned during this case as stated above.
Todd Trent was named Flora's new Fire Chief in January of 2018.
Carroll County named a new prosecutor in January of 2018.
Also in January of 2018, the Indianapolis Fire Department conducted a peer review of the fire. This means IFD looked over the content of the case to make sure everything is in order.
In November of 2018, the mother of the girls sued the landlord of the home. Joshua Ayres owns the property. Rose sued him along with his business partner Troy Helderman, and their company Birch Tree Holdings.
Also in November of 2018, ISP told News 18 there are "solid persons of interest in this case."
Investigators are tight-lipped on this case. News 18 reached out to ISP First Sgt. Jerry Holeman and Sgt. Kim Riley, who are involved in the investigation, to ask for updates.
They told us "no comment."
News 18 also asked if anyone is withholding information in the case. Investigators gave us the same reply.
At this time, we do not know if any progress has been made on the investigation in the past 365 days.
Community members are shocked by that.
"I was definitely expecting more answers by now. I mean the only thing we do know is that it's arson," said Flora resident Jenna Seward. "And I feel like three years later we should have more answers other than just arson, or a lead of some sort."
One thing that has not changed since the investigation began is the house where it happened.
Although the home still stands, ISP said they are done investigating the home.
Sgt. Kim Riley explained whatever happens to the home is all up to the owner.
News 18 asked Riley if the house needs to stay untouched because of the ongoing investigation, and he said it does not.
According to Riley, ISP has not asked the owner of the property to keep the house in the condition it is in. Currently, it looks as if it has not been touched since the fire.
There is still visible damage on the exterior of the home. The windows are boarded and the front porch is falling apart.
There are old toys on the front porch, which look to have belonged to the girls.
The people living in Flora want something done about it.
"I've heard different people in the community say 'Oh we just need to tear it down and hopefully then it'll help people heal,'" said Seward. "I mean I hope we can have answers quick so it's justice for the mom and the girls."
News 18 reached out to the owner of the building, Joshua Ayres, who did not return our message.
ISP released a statement this week saying there are two people actively working this investigation.
If you have any information on this investigation call the arson hotline at 1-800-382- 4628.
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NH Primary Source: High-level support: Hassan backs Craig; Sununu to campaign with Gatsas
John DiStaso
Political Reporter
New Hampshire Primary Source
HIGH-LEVEL SUPPORT. With the election for Manchester mayor just more than two weeks away, each candidate on Monday formally picked up the support of leaders of their respective political parties.The Manchester election is officially nonpartisan, but only “on paper.” Challenger Joyce Craig, who is a Democrat, was endorsed by Sen. Maggie Hassan during an event at Girls at Work. Mayor Ted Gasas, a Republican, said he will be joined on the campaign trail by Gov. Chris Sununu on Saturday.In 2014, as governor, Hassan appointed Craig to the Governor’s Science, Technology and Engineering Task Force. "I have seen personally that Joyce Craig has what it takes to move Manchester forward,” Hassan said in endorsing Craig. “Joyce has proven herself to be a leader focused not on partisanship but on results. We need her vision and her life-long commitment to Manchester in City Hall.”Gatsas noted that he recently “worked with Gov. Sununu to secure $150,000 in state funds to help Manchester continue to fight the opioid epidemic."“Gov. Sununu is incredibly popular not only across the state but also here in the Queen City. He has been a tireless ally and advocate for Manchester,” Gatsas said.Also Saturday, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts will launch a volunteer canvass for Craig organized by the New Hampshire Young Democrats.
HIGH-LEVEL SUPPORT. With the election for Manchester mayor just more than two weeks away, each candidate on Monday formally picked up the support of leaders of their respective political parties.
The Manchester election is officially nonpartisan, but only “on paper.” Challenger Joyce Craig, who is a Democrat, was endorsed by Sen. Maggie Hassan during an event at Girls at Work. Mayor Ted Gasas, a Republican, said he will be joined on the campaign trail by Gov. Chris Sununu on Saturday.
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In 2014, as governor, Hassan appointed Craig to the Governor’s Science, Technology and Engineering Task Force.
"I have seen personally that Joyce Craig has what it takes to move Manchester forward,” Hassan said in endorsing Craig. “Joyce has proven herself to be a leader focused not on partisanship but on results. We need her vision and her life-long commitment to Manchester in City Hall.”
Gatsas noted that he recently “worked with Gov. Sununu to secure $150,000 in state funds to help Manchester continue to fight the opioid epidemic."
“Gov. Sununu is incredibly popular not only across the state but also here in the Queen City. He has been a tireless ally and advocate for Manchester,” Gatsas said.
Also Saturday, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts will launch a volunteer canvass for Craig organized by the New Hampshire Young Democrats.
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The Weird Thing You Should Be Eating During Your Endurance Workout
It'll actually help you stay hydrated. - by Ashley Ross
Earlier this year, I embarked on a three-day trek on the Colorado trail for the Fjällräven Classic, an international group backpacking, camping, and hiking tour of the mountains.
I'd gone on big hikes before, even touring in the Italian and French Alps around Mont Blanc one year, but nothing prepared me for this. With around 60 pounds on my back, my friend and I embarked on this trip knowing it'd be a challenge.
Soon enough, we were panting our way up to altitudes that made us dizzy, trekking 10-plus miles a day, filtering stream water into our CamelBacks, and—per fellow trekkers' recommendations—taking salt pills and eating salty liquorice candies to keep us hydrated. Hydrated, you ask? Yes, indeed.
"Essentially, if you think about yourself, your body is just a big bag of salty water," says John Higgins, M.D., sports cardiologist with McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. "Your ability to function is tied in fairly closely with that balance with respect to the salt and the water."
Salt, or sodium, is an electrolyte—one of many, including magnesium, potassium, and calcium—that can be used as a way to replenish your body's depleted supply during intense exercise. What's great about salt specifically is it's easy to carry and take, in pill form or candies, during an endurance, or 90-plus minute, workout.
But why exactly are electrolytes important? Chris Davis, M.D., and Fellowship Director for Wilderness Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains that as we drink water and it goes to our stomachs, it gets absorbed into the intestines. But in order to actually get hydrated, we need those electrolytes to absorb, retain, and distribute the water throughout our cells.
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Sweating and body temperature are obviously both factors here, too. "Be mindful that when you sweat, you're not just losing fluids, but you're losing salt," Davis says.
So, the hotter you are, the more you sweat to balance your body temperature, and the more salt your body loses in your sweat. This can especially be an issue in dry climates, when your sweat evaporates almost immediately, says Nikolas Harbord, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
"You may not realize how much water you're losing in these drier temperatures," Harbord says. "So you have to be especially aware of your hydration in those climates."
Higgins agrees, saying that if you're sweating more than usual, it could deplete your sodium supply and affect your performance, either in terms of lightheadedness, a slower pace during a run, or muscle cramps.
As a result, many athletes turn to products like Gatorade (one bottle has 270 mg of sodium), salted candies, and salt pills to keep their hydration levels consistent. Some even resort to oral rehydration solution or therapy—a mixture of one litre of water, half a teaspoon of salt, and six teaspoons of sugar, Davis says.
The problem? There's no one formula that fits for everyone. Of course, everybody is different and therefore needs different amounts of water and salt to ward off dehydration. However, there are some ways to keep yourself replenished throughout a workout. First, Davis warns against overdoing it by pre-loading with salt before exercise, since many of us eat too much salt anyway.
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Higgins—who runs marathons himself and takes SaltStick Caps an hour into his runs, and every 30 minutes after that—says that keeping up that salt intake throughout an intense workout can help your performance. But replenishing after you exercise is important, too. "You're still going to be producing sweat and cooling down after," Higgins says. "So it's important to keep drinking fluids after you exercise as well."
Salt is important for intense workouts or endurance athletes, but if you aren't drinking enough water in the first place, the salt won't be able to do its job. Higgins recommends drinking 16 ounces of water before your workout and sipping a few ounces every 15 minutes throughout. The salt can come in handy here, too, essentially by making you thirstier so you drink more water.
But be careful about how much salt you take in, as the body will only absorb what it needs, sending the rest to your bowels where, if you have too much, it could turn to diarrhoea. Salt pills or tablets with around 200 milligrams of salt are a safe bet, Higgins says.
That's why Higgins especially stresses not to have salt before a typical, moderate workout of 30 minutes or so, as it could lead to stomach troubles. Davis says it can be like dropping a salt bomb on your gut.
The bottom line: Use salty candies or salt tablets for intense, endurance workouts, which is when you really need it. Any more than that and it could be like rubbing salt in the wound.
This article originally appeared on Women’s Health US.
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6-year-old boy in Dayton Children’s Hospital after dog bite
Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 @ 1:18 PM
Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 @ 2:00 PM
By: Breaking News Staff, Allyson Brown
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SPRINGFIELD — A 6-year-old Georgia boy is recovering in Dayton Children’s Hospital after being bitten in the face by a dog Monday in Springfield.
The boy is in stable condition and received more than 200 stitches and plastic surgery.
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“My son could have lost his eye,” said Ashley Fellows, mother of the dog bite victim. “He had a gash ... under the right side of his eye. If the dog would have kept ... any further, my son’s eye would have probably would have been gone.
He has this stint thing in his nose now that can’t get out until Friday and it’s helping him breathe and it’s draining the blood from all his sinus regions from that eye ... They had to reconstruct his lip back together because half his lip was missing.”
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Not many details — including how the dog got inside the house — are known at this time.
Fellows spoke with the dog’s owner and was told the dog should not be around children.
The animal is described as a 10-year-old white and gray male pitbull according to an Animal Bite Reporting Form by the Clark County Combined Health District.
It is now in quarantine at the Clark County Dog Shelter and will remain there for the next 10 days.
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Clark County Dog Warder Sandi Click said after that period the dog will be evaluated. It will not be available for adoption to the public due to its bite status. If the shelter cannot find a rescue to take the dog, he could be euthanized.
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»Anti-Christian»Your Daily Muslim #558: Abu Abdillah Ismaeel
Your Daily Muslim #558: Abu Abdillah Ismaeel
Posted by Your Daily Muslim on July 24, 2014 in Anti-Christian, Anti-LGBT, Anti-Scientologist, Clerics, Dietary Absurdity, Men, Messed-Up Marriages, Political Islam, Pseudoscience, Sexism, United States
Abu Abdillah Ismaeel
“Some heretics have tried to attack Islam and its rulings; they have denounced divorce and plural marriage and permitted alcohol. Those who look at the state of their societies will see the state of misery which those societies have reached.” Yes, because Denmark is totally in a “state of misery” compared to Iran.
New York imam Abu Abdillah “Abdildo” Ismaeel can best be described as every crazy cleric featured on this site rolled into one. Ismaeel is the imam of the Masjid Ahlul Qur’an wa Sunnah in Queens, NY. Instead of standing for American values and serving as a pillar of the community, Ismaeel spends his time preaching hate from his pulpit in a clearly decrepit mosque.
In addition to his vitriolic sermons, the cleric enjoys filming himself and uploading videos of his hate speech onto his mosque’s video site. The irony here is that Ismaeel himself has condemned any and all photography on the Ask the Imam section of his mosque’s website. “The basic principle concerning making pictures of any animate being, whether it is a human or any animal, is that it is haram [forbidden], whether the pictures are three-dimensional or are drawn on paper, cloth or walls, etc., or are photographs (taken with a camera), because of the reports in the sahih ahadith which state that that is not allowed, and threaten the one who does that with a painful torment…” Well then, Ismaeel, prepare for a painful torment. However, I doubt anyone really wants to look at a picture or video of the unkempt cleric. He could seriously benefit from some grooming advice.
Speaking of grooming, Ismaeel tried to justify his hideous appearance, namely his wretched beard. “The Sunnah of the messenger of Allah [pigs be upon him] indicates that it is obligatory to let the beard grow and that it is haram to shave it or cut it,” Ismaeel wrote. Well, modern standards of personal upkeep dictate that beard maintenance is necessary. Unlike the ramblings of a 7th-century madman, maintaining a presentable appearance actually matters for something.
Ismaeel then insulted those very standards which he refuses to fit into, likely out of a deep-seated sense of jealousy toward those who don’t get looked at funny: “It should be noted that the beauty referred to is shar’i or Islamic beauty (beauty as prescribed in Islam), and not the so-called beauty which appeals to sick minds which are enamored of kafir [infidel] fashions and the appearance of corrupt people such as male and female actors and singers, or fashion models. Hence when some people were misled by those immoral western women who pluck or shave or draw their eyebrows, or make their nails long (like wild beasts), or have tattoos, and thought that this is beauty, many Muslim women imitated them in these things, even though they are forbidden by sharia.”
Let’s dissect that giant text-blob of bile. Ismaeel refers to western standards of beauty as “so-called beauty,” which appeals to “sick minds.” Gee, if the majority of people find a certain thing beautiful, maybe, just maybe, those who don’t are sick-minded. Especially when talking about something as normal and benign as trimming your pube-stache. Comparing long nails to those of “wild beasts” is just ridiculous. Women don’t grow talons or claws when they grow out their nails. Also, it’s 2014. No one gives two shits if you have tattoos anymore unless you’re in modeling. As for women doing their eyebrows – the traditional Islamic ninja costume covers them, so why does it matter? Unless, of course, you’re a sexist bastard like Ismaeel who just wants to dictate what women are allowed to do.
“Islam made the husband the protector and maintainer of the wife and gave him the responsibility of heading the household, because he is more perfect in rational thinking than her in most cases,” Abdillah wrote. “This means that it is obligatory for her to obey him.” If men are more perfect than women in rational thinking in most cases, why is car insurance more expensive for young men, a demographic prone to making reckless decisions? Why are women frequently seen as voices of reason and moderation? Despite its lack of basis, Ismaeel feels the need to spew this misogynistic garbage all over his mosque’s website. This hatred of women likely stems from repeated rejection, which probably relates back to the heap of pubes on his face.
“Hence we see chaos in the societies which go against that: men do not shoulder the responsibility of spending on their wives, and wives are not obliged to obey their husbands; they go out of the home whenever they want and leave the marital nest empty and neglect their children.” Actually, we see chaos in Islamic societies, not in the west. Let’s compare Somalia and Pakistan to the Netherlands and Sweden. Case closed.
When a Muslimah asked Ismaeel how to repent for an encounter in which a friend of hers sucked her tits, the imam began by informing her she was an awful sinner. “Undoubtedly you have committed a grievous sin, in fact a number of sins, starting with your speaking to this man privately, and ending with what you did to with him.” Really? Speaking with a man privately is a sin? I know all about the verse that says the devil will come between a man and woman who are together in private, but shouldn’t that be their own choice? “You should note that it is not permissible for women to speak with men except for necessary purposes,” Ismaeel wrote. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Islam and the west are totally compatible. However, there’s one positive reminder to come from this: reading the Muslimah’s account of the incident is probably the closest Ismaeel will ever get to sucking tits.
“The Muslim… should know that there is great wisdom in what Allah has commanded and what he has forbidden; it is the straight path and is the only way in which man can be safe and at peace, protecting his honor, his mind and his health, in accordance with the natural disposition (fitrah) with which Allah has created man.” Yes, because chugging camel urine is definitely a way to protect one’s health. It almost seems as though Ismaeel is trying to make mockery of his religion (not a difficult task) through his ridiculous blithering, but sadly he’s completely serious.
“It is not permissible to greet or congratulate the kuffar [infidels] on the occasion of Christmas, New Year or any of their other holidays, and it is not permissible to respond to them when they greet us on those occasions, because they are not festivals that are prescribed in our religion, and returning their greeting is an affirmation and approval of them.” Yep, as Barack Hussein Obama put it, “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” How’s that statement from Ismaeel for some interfaith dialogue? Muslims expect us to respect their holidays (no matter how unhealthy), but they refuse to reciprocate.
Speaking of things that Islam considers impermissible, Ismaeel had a lot to say on the subject of homosexuality. Though likely never having had a meaningful conversation with an openly gay person in his life, the cleric felt himself an expert on the subject and wrote: “They (gays and lesbians) both go against the natural disposition (fitrah) which Allah has created in mankind – and also in animals – whereby the male is inclined towards the female, and vice versa.” Never mind the fact that homosexuality is seen in numerous animal species, and the fact that gay people say they were born gay. Despite the mounting evidence against his stance, Ismaeel felt the need to dig an even deeper hole. And by “deeper hole,” I’m not referring to his anus.
“The spread of homosexuality has caused man diseases which neither the east nor the west can deny exist because of them,” the idiotic imam wrote. “Even if the only result of this perversion was AIDS – which attacks the immune system in humans – that would be enough.” Wait, lemme get this straight… did he really just say that homosexuality is responsible for AIDS? Just when I thought he couldn’t get any dumber, he goes and proves me wrong. AIDS was around well before its spread through part of the LGBT community; to suggest otherwise is to ignore current scientific hypotheses behind its origins. However, Muslims are fairly pro at dismissing science in favor of dogma.
Ismaeel had even more baseless rhetoric to fling about gays. “It also causes the breakup of the family and leads people to give up their work and study because they are preoccupied with these perversions,” he wrote. Really? How does homosexuality break up any families? Oh, you mean the forced marriages many closeted homosexuals are thrown into by their Islamic families? That’s no way to live. It’s cruel to deny someone a mutual, loving relationship. As for people giving up academic pursuits, clearly Ismaeel abandoned those a long time ago in favor of repeatedly banging his head on the ground.
Speaking of banging, here’s how Ismaeel described gay sex. This is, like Sabreena Sadaf‘s description, comical in its own right. “Lesbianism means one woman doing to another something like that which a man does to a woman. Homosexuality means having intercourse with males in the back passage. This was the action of the accursed people of the prophet of Allah Loot (peace be upon him). In sharia terminology it refers to inserting the tip of the penis into the anus of a male.” Uhh, just the tip? Who does that? Ismaeel could greatly expand his mind and rid himself of these incorrect notions by watching gay porn. Also, it’s called an ass, not a “back passage.”
The homophobic barrage didn’t end there. In a recorded sermon, Ismaeel shared his beliefs on philosophy. “Instead of reading the Qur’an, instead of busying themselves with Sahih al-Bukhari and [Sahih] Muslim, [Muslims] started to busy themselves with philosophy.” I’d call that cultural advancement, a step in the right direction. Of course, any sort of progress in Islam is promptly dealt with by those unwilling to move beyond the 7th century. “‘Broadening our horizons,'” Ismaeel mocked before going further off the deep end. “You broaden your horizon, your son will become a homosexual! You broaden your horizon, your daughter will be a lesbian! You broaden your horizon, your son will become a Scientologist! A philosopher! A Darwinist! All the way to the fire for eternity!” Philosophers are noted intellects, as was Darwin. Muslims, on the other hand, are noted for anti-intellectualism and pseudoscientific beliefs like the unfounded claim that philosophy will turn future generations gay.
Anyway, I think this piece has been long enough and you’re probably not reading this anymore. If you have some questions for Ismaeel about his bizarre beliefs, you know where to ask them. I’m gonna be taking a break for a couple days after this post due to some professional commitments. Hope you enjoyed this one, and don’t forget to vote in the Muslim of the Month poll!
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9 comments on “Your Daily Muslim #558: Abu Abdillah Ismaeel”
Leaveit July 30, 2014 at 2:45 pm Reply
Even this twat has to admit there are dumbshit men, probably loads of them in Islam, most of the time men are superior to women? So who decides this? What’s the percentage of men he admits are lesser to women? He’s an idiot and a hypocrite. Hate speech is hate speech and I suspect the reason why his Mosque is decrepit is because few people go there, or watch him online, and he’s not getting much cake to live on. I’m sorry some poor soul married this idiot, but he’s an idiot. Don’t you love that he thinks he’s an expert on EVERYTHING in the universe? First clue he might be one of that slice of men that isn’t most men. He’s in the slice that can’t hang with the real men. His poor wife. You really have to pity her. Hopefully he can’t breed because his junk is broken.
Your Daily Muslim July 31, 2014 at 12:52 am Reply
I don’t think his wife is old enough to give birth yet… but that’s just speculation
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Horrible Muslims pigs
Jason Lewis September 22, 2014 at 6:17 am Reply
Love the part about beards. A friend of mine says you can tell how extreme a muslim is by the state of his beard. Sikhs are forbidden from cutting their hair or beards, but to Sikhs, grooming is just as important. That’s why Sikhs don’t look like homeless crackheads, unlike muslims. There are a very small number of Sikhs who believe we can all coexist, but the majority know JUST how dangerous islam is. Sorry for turning this reply into Sikh propaganda, but they’re awesome people. It seems like every tenet of their religion is in some way contradictory to islamist belief. They protect their women, they say a girl cannot marry until she reaches maturity, rather than puberty, they have an obligation to defend anybody under attack, no matter if they aren’t Sikh, they will allow any religious person into their temples to pray to whatever deity they choose, because, as they see it, god is in everything. I’m an atheist, and even I think that’s beautiful. Best of all, they carry a ceremonial dagger that they must carry at all times so long as islam exists. So yeah, the best ally in the war against muslims is a proud and noble Sikh
Mat November 9, 2014 at 4:22 pm Reply
I love the way that Muslims cannot greet us or acknowledge our infidel holidays..
But where i work they are more than happy to take the infidels money as in work over Christmas and Easter at public holiday rates and then they all call in sick over ramadahn.
True hypocrites the whole lot of them..
I can imagine the bleating if one of them worked on the infidel holiday and never got paid the penalty rates for doing so
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[…] Last time we looked at New York imam Abu Abdillah Ismaeel, he was bashing photography, women’s independence, and philosophy. The seventh-century primitive is back with even more madness straight from the bowels of ancient history. […]
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I know Javascript is a language a lot of people already agree is terrible, but now that I've got a substantial amount of experience with it myself, I think it'll be fun to write a language opinion article where I get to be more ranty. Of course, in keeping with my tradition, I'll have to open with the good things first. How Javascript And I Met isn't particularly interesting (I just chose to learn it because of its unique ability to run in a browser and because it was a bad thing not to have on my resume as a programmer), so I'll skip that.
Also, I'll stick to talking about Javascript itself, not the DOM APIs. I'll probably write separately about those someday.
Interactive¶
Well, at least you've got the interactive use. Any browser's devtools allow running JS interactively, and the Node.js command-line tool also has an interactive prompt. This is really nice, I'll admit.
The type correction features most browsers' devtools I've seen foist on you are disgusting. When I'm typing a name it always opens a suggestion box that covers the rest of the command history if there's any name defined that starts with what I have, and it fucking rebinds the enter key to "accept suggestion" (not tab for some god-forsaken reason), so I get hoodwinked by that on a regular basis. Worst of all, typing out the full name of a suggestion doesn't make the box go away, so I have to press enter twice if I'm ending a statement with a defined name.
But the in-browser command-line experience has some compensatory advantages. Due to the nature of browser devtools, it's an out-of-the-box feature to be able to use it interactively while the page is running. That's pretty damn useful.
I actually love how it handles objects.¶
Javascript objects are dictionaries. They're just mappings of string keys to values.
I sincerely think that if you don't have any type safety whatsoever in your language and objects are going to be totally mutable, you should not distinguish between objects and dicts, because that loses all the meaningful differences.
No compile-time sanity checking¶
A repeated point from my opinion on Python, the flipside of being interactive. You'll never know your JS is even valid until you run it and test every code path.
"Just use TypeScript! Problem solved!"
No, problem not solved. Using TypeScript adds a requirement for me to compile my JS before I run it. I'm not saying TypeScript isn't good or helpful (I haven't used it), but it's not built-in, it's a separate tool you have to learn, and even then it introduces a large drawback of its own.
Trying to access a nonexistent slot of an array or an object silently returns undefined¶
But you can define one of the values to be undefined and it's now in there!
arr = [undefined];
arr[0]; // undefined
arr == []; // false
By the way, even a function parameter just gets undefined if it's not passed. All arguments are optional; you can't define a function that requires you to pass it a parameter. Let that sink in for a minute.
Arrays aren't really arrays¶
This took me a while to understand, but arrays are really just objects with numbered fields. (No wonder you can't add arrays in the way you'd expect...) This has many bad corellaries. One is that you can assign past the end of an array and you just get "empty items" inbetween;
arr = [];
arr[5] = 'x';
arr; // [<5 empty items>, 'x' ]
arr.length; // 6
delete(arr[5]);
arr; // [ <6 empty items> ]
And note that those empty items aren't the same as undefined. Or they are, but they're not. Check this out:
emptyArr = [];
arrEmpty = [,,,];
arrUndefined = [undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined];
emptyArr == arrEmpty; // false
arrEmpty == arrUndefined; // false
arrUndefined == emptyArr; // false
console.log(emptyArr[0], arrEmpty[0], arrUndefined[0]); // undefined undefined undefined
It's like the holy trinity of undefined!
This is because arrays have a length attribute that stores the number of elements they supposedly have. So when you assign to an index, it changes the length, and then when you look at the array all the slots inbetween that don't exist as keys in the array are presented as these "empty items". delete is meant for removing a key from an object, so when used on an array, it only deletes the key and doesn't collapse the others or modify the length attribute, so it just leaves an empty slot behind.
Arrays and objects represent fundamentally different ideas. I know dynamic typing obscures this, but arrays exist to represent a set of values of the same type. That's what the idea of iterating is based on. You would never iterate on the fields of an object in an object-oriented language. Iterating implies doing the same thing to each element, which necessitates the elements having some common type or interface. If the values are meant for iterating, they're in an array; if they're not in an array, it's because they don't represent a set of comparable things, but different attributes of one thing.
In Javascript, dicts are objects, which means that for an iterable set of values with duplicate prevention and no ordering, you have to use an object. But that doesn't change the truth that arrays are not objects semantically.
Thinking about them as such has led to the aforementioned tragedies, and also the actual ways to work with arrays are counterintuitive. The .push method is how you're supposed to add stuff to the end, and .concat is for adding arrays. The main way to delete from an array is .splice, but there are a lot of others depending on the specifics. This article goes through a bunch of them.
For some reason, .splice is also how you insert elements. The one method is basically a swiss army knife instead of using different functions to accomplish different tasks.
This implicit type conversion is outrageous¶
A lot of people who rant about Javascript mention this. Let me just jump into the examples:
// Strings and numbers
'q' - 'q'; // NaN
5 + '5'; // '55'
'5' * '2'; // 10
'5' - '2'; // 3
// Arrays
1 + [1]; // '11'
1 + [1, 2]; // '11,2'
1 - [1]; // 0
1 - [1, 2]; // NaN
[] + []; // ''
[] - []; // 0
[1, 2] - [3, 4]; // NaN
// Objects
{} + 0; // 0
{} + ''; // 0
{} - 0; // -0. No, I am not kidding. -0 can be assigned to a variable and it stays that way. On the bright side, it seems to be exactly the same as 0 for every purpose I can find.
{} + []; // 0
[] + {}; // '[object Object]'
{} - []; // -0
[] - {}; // NaN
{} + {}; // NaN
{} - {}; // NaN
{} / []; // SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: missing /. ?!?!?!
I can see arguing for some implicit type conversion. I hate in Go when you can't even compare int to int32 without an explicit conversion for example. But this? Not only it is through the roof, it's wildly inconsistent and unintuitable.
Iterating is a mess¶
Javascript has three different for loop constructions: the C-style for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {; then for (let i in items) {, and for (let i of items) {. What are the differences? Can we maybe use these two latter constructions to elide the antiquated C bullshit?
Well, no. for..in is for iterating on the keys of an object... but objects in Javascript have string keys. And do you know what that means happens when you try to use this on an Array?
nums = [5, 16, -3];
for (let i in nums) {
console.log(i + 1);
/* Prints
Because arrays are technically objects and so their keys as given by for..in are of course the string indices. This works for some use cases, but if you try to add to the index counter, it'll break your code in bizarre ways.
for..of, on the other hand, only gives you the values. Not the keys. And of course there's no easy way to get the key from the value; there's nothing equivalent to Python's enumerate, as far as I know. So, we still need to use antiquated C bullshit to iterate in Javascript.
Variable declarations are a mess¶
Assigning to an undefined variable in Javascript by default creates a global variable, if you don't use 'use strict'; at the top of the file. Besides this unfortunate fact, there are three different keywords for declaring variables that all have subtle differences:
var - creates a function-local variable. That's all it does.
let - two differences from var. It's block-scoped instead of function-scoped, and it doesn't allow redeclaring the variable with let later.
const - like let, but makes the variable immutable.
What an elegant and straightforward system!
Boilerplate syntax - semicolons, parentheses around conditions¶
I talked about this a lot in my review of Python, but Javascript does worse than just having these boilerplate syntax features. Semicolons will usually be automatically inserted by the interpreter, so often you don't need them, but if you lean on that fact, sometimes semicolons will be inserted incorrectly and break your code in bizarre ways. And you can't even say "Just don't lean on the feature", because the nature of the feature precludes that. Everyone forgets semicolons sometimes in semicolon languages.
Objects can't compare for equality¶
== on Objects (including Arrays) compares for identity, not equality. If you want to test whether two Objects are equal, you have to iterate over their keys.
In a language that has == and ===, you would think == would compare by value for objects, and === would compare identity. But no, they do the same thing.
Barren standard library¶
The JS stdlib is thoroughly lacking compared to other languges, especially when it comes to Strings. No titlecase. I had to implement that one myself. No functions to parse and format query strings. Pretty important for a language that's almost exclusively used on the web. At least we have ones to encode and decode URI components.
Object constructors for primitive types¶
y = new Number(5);
x == y; // true
x === y; // false
typeof x; 'number'
typeof y; 'object'
Just why? What is the difference between these two things? I'm sure Number provides some methods or something that primitive numbers don't, but why should it if these two things represent the exact same idea? Why shouldn't whatever works on Number just work on numbers?
No error when passing too many arguments to a function¶
Ugh... for real?
function f(param) { console.log(param) };
f(1, 2, 3); // Just prints 1
Distinction between null and undefined is confusing and unnecessary¶
There are two primitive values that represent the lack of a value. null and undefined are semantically different; for function parameters, passing undefined causes the parameter to get its default value. Passing null causes it to get null. Now that's nice and intuitive.
Arrays don't support negative indices¶
Negative array indices are a super useful feature in other languages for making code more concise and more readable. Javascript, perhaps owing to the way it treats arrays as objects, doesn't support them. Just compare the readability difference:
arr[-5];
arr[arr.length - 5];
Slicing arrays is ugly¶
Javascript also doesn't support the usual syntax for slicing arrays. Instead you use .slice:
arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'];
arr.slice(1, 3); // Returns ['b', 'c']
It's not horrible, but it's a good deal more verbose than most other languages.
No passing parameters by name¶
Function parameters in Javascript can't be passed by name, they have to be passed by position. For a long time I actually thought you could do this because it was working for me, but then I got bitten by the inability later and found out it was working in the first place because I was actually still passing them in the right order; the parameter assignments I was doing were actually assigning to global variables. The second place I tried to use it it was in a file with 'use strict'; enabled so I found out.
It is of course possible to have your function take an object for its parameters, but that's an inadequate replacement because it means the function has to be specifically made to be used this way, so at best that works on functions you write yourself and that you refactor with a more convoluted syntax to get this functionality and also lose the ability to pass them by position while you're at it.
Single versus double quotes - meaningless decision¶
Another point from my review of Python. Having to constantly make this decision distracts me while I'm coding and breeds inconsistent style.
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8 'Wow'Programs For The Linux Terminal!
1. CMus
cmus is a small and fast console audio player
for Unix-like operating systems. cmus is
distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL) and operates
exclusively through a text-based user interface,
built with ncurses.
2. Finch
Finch is an open-source console-based instant
messaging client, based on the libpurple
library. Libpurple has support for many
commonly used instant messaging protocols,
allowing the user to log into various services
from one application. Finch uses GLib and
ncurses.
3. ELinks
ELinks is an advanced and well-established
feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP)
browser. ELinks can render both frames and
tables, is highly customisable and can be
extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite
portable and runs on a variety of platforms.
4. Alpine
Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is
suitable for both the inexperienced email user
as well as for the most demanding of power
users. Alpine is based on the Pine Message
System, which was also developed at the
University of Washington. Alpine can be
learned by exploration and the use of context-
sensitive help.
5. GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customisable text
editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs
Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming
language with extensions to support text
editing.
6. w3m
w3m is a free software/open source text-based
web browser. It has support for tables,
frames, SSL connections, color and inline
images on suitable terminals. Generally, it
renders pages in a form as true to their
original layout as possible.
7. naim
naim is a messaging and chat program that
supports the protocols AIM, ICQ, IRC, and
RPI's Lily CMC protocols. Unlike most
messaging clients, it is not graphical; it runs
from the console using the ncurses library.
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader.
It supports all versions of RSS natively and
supports other formats via plugins. The
program depends on ncurses for the user
interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should
work with any version of libxml2.
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10 Useful Command Privileges On Linux Ubuntu
In continuation
with our recent efforts to bring you everything
that there is about Linux and open source,
today we have compiled a list of 10 useful
command privileges for Linux Ubuntu. The
command line tools as you're aware are an
excellent resource to get the best out of Linux
platform, however, learning all the commands
is tough for the simple reason that there are
so many of them.
1.sudo
Runs command with root privileges.
2.sudo su
Opens shell as root.
3.sudo su user
Opens shell as user.
4.sudo -k
Forget password sudo.
5.gksudo
Sudo visual dialog in GNOME.
6.kdesudo
Sudo visual dialog in KDE.
7.sudo visudo
Edit sudoer.
8.gksudo nautilus
Root file manager in GNOME.
9.kdesudo konqueror
Root file manager in KDE.
10.passwd
Changes password.
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Here Are 10 'Free' eBooks On C#
C# programming language, although comparatively new in comparison to the other (well established) lot has slowly and steadily picked up steam to mark its presence felt well across the globe. Built on the syntax and semantics of C++, the now popular object-oriented language allows C programmers to take full advantage of .NET as well, something that has been well-received by programmers.
1.Threading in C#
"C# supports parallel execution of code through multithreading. A thread is an independent execution path, able to run simultaneously with other threads."
2.How to Become a C# Programmer
"In this free ebook, LearnItFirst.com founder Scott Whigham talks about how you can become a C# programmer by following a step-by-step approach that requires minimum investment, no college degree, and no prior experience."
3.The C# Yellow Book
"The C# Yellow Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hull as the basis of the First Year programming course."
4.C# Query Expressions and Supporting Features
"The book is filled with exercises that have solutions in the back. To show you what these are like, there are 82 of these exercises and solutions in the sample. The full text includes more material from Query Expressions chapter. It also includes additional chapters that cover LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML, respectively."
5.C# Essentials
"The C# Essentials online book contains 28 chapters of detailed information intended to provide everything necessary to gain proficiency as a C# programmer. The book begins with a detailed overview of the C# development and runtime environment with overviews of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), Common Intermediate Language (CIL) and Virtual Execution System (VES) followed by simple steps to creating both Windows and console based C# applications."
6.Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours
"C# is a modern object-oriented language designed and developed from the ground up with a best-of-breed mentality, implementing and expanding on the best features and functions found in other languages. C# combines the power and flexibility of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic."
7.Dissecting a C# Application
"This great book shows you the process, thinking and code behind the open-source .NET IDE SharpDevelop that went on to branch into MonoDevelop."
8.What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to
Know About C# and the .NET Framework
"This free on-line 267-page book is an introduction to C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework for programmers who have experience with C or C++."
9.Object-oriented Programming in C#
"The starting point of of this teaching material is a number of slides. The slides are annotated with explanations and additional resources. The most comprehensive version of the material has the form of a traditional textbook. You can think of the textbook as grown on top of the slide material."
10.Revisiting C#
"This book is intended to be a value adding reading material for beginner to intermediate C# programmers. It may also be used for accelerating the learning about new and upcoming features in C#, and also to get an introduction about new libraries in .NET."
Book introductions have been taken from official websites.
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He has been a teacher at the The Hague Waldorf School since 1976 and active in the Waldorf School Movement, both nationally and internationally throughout this time. After some time of initially combining international and national work and activities, he later committed himself fulltime to teaching, both as a Eurythmy and Class Teacher in pedagogy and didactics atHogeschool Helicon.
Marcel has particular specialization and a deep connection to ‘The study of man as basis for pedagogic’, given as a lecture by R. Steiner 1919. He is currently the coordinator of the Pedagogical Section of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands, faculty of the School for Spiritual Science, and member of the international conference of the Pedagogical Section (Haager Kreis). An artful lecturer and writer, some of his publication include, ‘Jonas’, ‘Vrije Opvoedkunst’ and ‘Bezinning op Opvoedkunst’.
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