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Robert Kolbas
Robert M. Kolbas has been a Professor (1985-present) and was Head (1995-2000) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. From 1979-1985 he was employed by Honeywell Inc. as a Principal Research Scientist and a Senior Research Scientist where he responsible for the development of Integrated Optoelectronic Circuits and the growth of semiconductor thin films. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1979 where he worked under Professor Nick Holonyak, Jr. in the early development of semiconductor quantum well heterostructure lasers. Professor Kolbas's research interests and contributions include: III-V semiconductor heterostructures and quantum wells, optoelectronic integrated circuits, quantum well lasers, strained layer lasers, vertical-cavity lasers, ultra-thin quantum wells, carrier collection in quantum wells, phonon assisted stimulated emission and AlGaN-GaN heterostructures, and II-VI semiconductor materials and devices. He has published more than 140 manuscripts in refereed journals. His present interests include MBE, MOCVD, tunable light emitting devices, light emission from nanoparticles, rare earth doped semiconductors, and wide bandgap semiconductor materials. He is a member of the IEEE, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.
1975 BS in Engineering Physics, Cornell University
1977 MS in Physics, U. of Illinois, Urbana
1979 PhD in Physics, U. of Illinois, Urbana
2000 - IEEE Fellow
1999 - IEEE Senior Member
1983 - Winning Edge Award, Honeywell Inc
1978 - Kodak Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Application of deconvolution to recover frequency-domain multiplexed detector pulses (2019)
Frequency domain multiplexing of pulse mode radiation detectors (2018)
Stimulated emission and lasing from an Al0.13Ga0.87N/GaN double heterostructure grown on a silicon substrate (2008)
Room temperature laser action from multiple bands in photoexcited GaN grown on a silicon substrate (2007)
Effect of thermal annealing on the metastable optical properties of GaN thin films (2006)
Optical and structural studies of hydride vapor phase epitaxy grown GaN (2003)
Electron-beam-induced optical memory effects in GaN (2002)
Er-doped AlGaAs native oxides: Photoluminescence characterization and process optimization (2002)
X-ray and Raman analyses of GaN produced by ultrahigh-rate magnetron sputter epitaxy (2002)
Optical characterization of wide band gap amorphous semiconductors (a-Si: C: H): Effect of hydrogen dilution (2001)
kolbas@ncsu.edu
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Prabhash Joshi passed away
Dr. M. P.Mishra November 08, 2009 ECOSENSORIUM NEWS
Prabhash Joshi, the noted Hindi Journalist who worked to show the real India through his bold and powerful writings up to the age of 72, passed away in the late night on 5th November, 2009 following a heart attack.
The journalism of Mr. Joshi remained multidimensional as he used to write on varying topics ranging from sports to politics. However, during the last phase of his work he remained busy in voicing the concerns and anxieties of the weaker and marginalized sections of people. Mr. Joshi worked tirelessly for the freedom of the press for which he is specially acknowledged in the world of journalism.
Prabhash Joshi was the founder editor of Jansatta, the Hindi News Paper since June 1983 though he began his journalistic career with “Nai Duniya”. He retired from Jansatta in 1995 though he remained its Chief Editorial Advisor for a long time. Mr. Joshi also worked in the field of English Journalism and remained associated with the Indian Express as its resident editor at Ahmadabad, Chandigarh, and Delhi offices. In Tehelka Hindi, he had recently launched a weekly column entitled “Aughat Ghat.”
Mr. Joshi is survived with his mother Leela Dewi, wife Usha Dewi, daughter Sonal, and sons Sandeep and Sapan. He had deep faith in the Gandhian Philosophy and originally belonged to Indore. In his condolence message Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India has expressed deep concern saying that the demise of Mr. Prabhash Joshi is a great loss to the Indian Journalism. To quote Mr. Singh – "He acquired an iconic status as the founder editor of the Hindi daily Jansatta. A whole generation of journalists drew inspiration from him, especially in questioning the current orthodoxy. In his later years, Shri Joshi worked tirelessly to give voice to the concerns and anxieties of the voiceless and marginalized. Indian journalism will be so much the poorer for his death".
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Optimism for sealant tapes market in 2019 despite challenges
A leading UK foam sealant tape supplier remains optimistic about the prospects for sector growth in 2019, despite uncertainty around Brexit and the long-term economic outlook.
Andy Swift, national sales manager of ISO-CHEMIE, says that while Brexit could stall new commercial construction and investment in infrastructure projects, the housing shortage will continue to drive demand for window and door sealants in the next 12 months.
The country is in the grip of a chronic housing crisis and the government has said that 300,000 new homes need to be built annually to meet the current shortage.
Andy Swift says: “The housing shortage will create new build opportunities, particularly in offsite and timber framed construction. In turn, this will drive demand for cost-effective window and door sealing tapes, which are quick-to-install and provide long term energy efficiencies.
“So, as we look forward, the market appears future proof for companies like ISO-CHEMIE, and who knows, it may even be better than expected.”
Following Brexit, the free movement of labour between the UK and EU might also add up to become a concern for the industry.
“This country will undoubtedly face a skills shortage following the departure of foreign workers post Brexit,” says Andy Swift. “We also saw significant numbers leave the trade in the wake of last recession, never to return.
“A lack of take up by millennials of construction and building trade careers, is also contributing to worker shortfalls across the fenestration sector. It’s a challenge for both recruiters and the industry, but not necessarily an impossible one to overcome.”
The skills shortage is being addressed through ISO BLOCO 600 and ONE among other products, which offer ease-of-installation benefits to accommodate the dearth in expertise, says Andy Swift.
However, he says more action will be required in 2019 to attract young people to the sector: “One solution to address this, is to offer more industry specific apprenticeships. Or as we are doing, introduce products that don’t require specialist skills or expertise to install.”
Undoubtedly, companies will need to remain streamlined, cost conscious and well run if they are to survive the next 12 months, says Andy Swift.
“State-of-the art products and quick delivery, backed up by good on and off-site technical support, will be key to this, along with theincreased use of foam-based technology to close off more sales and develop new business opportunities.”
Photocaption: ISO-CHEMIE’S ISO BLOCO ONE, which is easy-to-fit, helps to address sector skills shortages.
https://www.iso-chemie.eu/en-GB/home/
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26/09/2017 ESMA71-99-599 EBA and ESMA provide guidance to assess the suitability of management body members and key function holders Guidelines and Technical standards, Joint Committee, MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases Press Release PDF
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have published their joint Guidelines to assess the suitability of members of management bodies and key function holders.
esma71-99-598_joint_esma_and_eba_guidelines_eba-gl-2017-12.pdf
11/11/2015 JC/2015/078 ESAs consult on PRIIPs key information for retail investors Fund Management, Joint Committee, Press Releases Press Release PDF
30/07/2015 2015/1238 ESMA advises on extension of AIFMD passport to non-EU jurisdictions Fund Management, Press Releases Press Release PDF
147.48 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Advice in relation to the application of the AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive) passport to non-EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and its Opinion on the functioning of the passport for EU AIFMs and the national private placement regimes (NPPRs). The Advice and Opinion, required under AIFMD, will now be considered by the European Commission, Parliament and Council. ESMA Advice – Extension of AIFMD Passport to non-EU AIFMs and AIFs The Advice relates to the possible extension of the passport, currently only available to EU entities, to non-EU AIFMs and AIFs which are currently subject to EU NPPRs. ESMA conducted a country-by-country assessment, as this allowed it flexibility to take into account the different circumstances of each non-EU jurisdiction regarding the regulatory issues to be considered i.e. investor protection, competition, potential market disruption and the monitoring of systemic risk. ESMA assessed six jurisdictions – Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States of America (USA) – who were selected based on a number of factors including the amount of activity already being carried out by entities from these countries under the NPPRs, EU national authorities’ knowledge and experience of dealing with their counterparts and the efforts by stakeholders from these countries to engage with ESMA’s process. The Advice concludes that no obstacles exist to the extension of the passport to Guernsey and Jersey, while Switzerland will remove any remaining obstacles with the enactment of pending legislation. No definitive view has been reached on the other three jurisdictions due to concerns related to competition, regulatory issues and a lack of sufficient evidence to properly assess the relevant criteria. Next Steps The Advice and Opinion have been sent to the Commission, Parliament and Council for their consideration on whether to activate the relevant provision in the AIFMD extending the passport through a Delegated Act. However, the institutions may wish to consider waiting until ESMA has delivered positive advice on a sufficient number of non-EU countries, before introducing the passport in order to avoid any adverse market impact that a decision to extend the passport to only a few non-EU countries might have. ESMA aims to finalise the assessments of Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA as soon as practicable and to assess further groups of non-EU countries until it has provided advice on all the non-EU countries that it considers should be included in the extension of the passport. ESMA Opinion – Functioning of the EU AIFMD passport and NPPRs The opinion on the functioning of the EU passport and the NPPRs contains ESMA’s preliminary assessment of the operation of these two mechanisms. Its preliminary view is that, given the short time period that has elapsed since the implementation of the AIFMD in Member States, a definitive assessment of their functioning is difficult and would recommend preparing a further opinion after a longer period.
2014-esma-1340_call_for_evidence_aifmd_passport_u_3rd_country_aifms.pdf
2015-1235_opinion_to_ep-council-com_on_aifmd_passport_for_publication.pdf
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19/07/2016 2016/1138 ESMA advises on extension of funds passport to 12 non-EU countries Fund Management Press Release PDF
28/02/2013 2013/266 ESMA and the EBA warn investors about contracts for difference MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
119.01 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) have published a warning to retail investors about the dangers of investing in contracts for difference (CFDs).The two authorities are concerned that during the current period of low investment returns, inexperienced retail investors across the EU are being tempted to invest in complex financial products, which they may not fully understand and which can end up costing them money they cannot afford to lose.Andrea Enria and Steven Maijoor, Chairs of the EBA and ESMA, warned:“Retail investors across the EU should be aware of all the risks arising from investing in CFDs. These products appear to promise investors substantial returns at a low cost but may ultimately cost them far more than they may have intended or could afford to lose.“CFDs are complex products that are not suitable for all types of investors, therefore you should always make sure that you understand how the product you are buying works, that it does what you want it to do and that you are in a position to take the loss if it fails.”Investors trading CFDs should protect themselvesInvestors should only consider trading in CFDs if they have extensive experience of trading in volatile markets, if they fully understand how these operate and have sufficient time to manage their investment on an active basis.Investors should carefully read their agreement or contract with the CFD provider before making a trading decision. They should make sure that they at least understand the following: • the costs of trading CFDs with the CFD provider, • whether the CFD provider will disclose the margins it makes on their trades, • how the prices of the CFDs are determined by the CFD provider, • what happens if they hold their position open overnight, • whether the CFD provider can change or re-quote the price once an investor places an order, • whether the CFD provider will execute investor’s orders even if the underlying market is closed, • whether there is an investor or deposit protection scheme in place in the event of counterparty or client asset issues.If investors do not understand what’s on offer, they should not trade. Further information Always check if the CFD provider is authorised to do investment business in your country. You can check this on the website of the CFD provider’s national regulator. A list of all the national regulatory authorities, and their websites, is also available from:• ESMA at http://www.esma.europa.eu/investor-corner; and • EBA at http://www.eba.europa.eu/Publications/Consumer-Protection-Issues.aspx.The investor warning on CFDs will be translated into the official EU languages.Concurrently with the publication of this warning, the EBA is addressing an internal Opinion under Art. 29 of the EBA Regulations to national supervisory authorities on the prudential supervision of CFDs. Notes for editors1. ESMA/2013/267 Investor Warning – Contracts for Difference (CFDs)2. ESMA and the EBA are independent EU Authorities that were established on 1 January 2011 and work closely with the European other European Supervisory Authority responsible for insurance and occupational pensions (EIOPA).3. ESMA’s mission is to enhance the protection of investors and promote stable and well-functioning financial markets in the European Union (EU). As an independent institution, ESMA achieves this aim by building a single rule book for EU financial markets and ensuring its consistent application across the EU. ESMA contributes to the regulation of financial services firms with a pan-European reach, either through direct supervision or through the active co-ordination of national supervisory activity.4. The EBA has a broad remit in the areas of banking, payments and e-money regulation, as well as on issues related to corporate governance, auditing and financial reporting. Its tasks include the protection of consumers and depositors, preventing regulatory arbitrage, guaranteeing a level playing field (especially by building a single rule book for the European banking system) strengthening international supervisory coordination, promoting supervisory convergence and providing advice to EU institutions. Further information:Reemt SeibelESMA Communications Officer Tel: +33 (0)1 58 36 4272Mob: +33 6 42 48 55 29Email: reemt.seibel@esma.europa.eu David CliffeESMA Senior Communications OfficerTel: +33 (0)1 58 36 43 24Mob: +33 6 42 48 29 06Email: david.cliffe@esma.europa.euRomain SadetEBA Communications Officer Tel: +44 (0) 207 997 5914Mob: +44 (0) 7785 463278 Email: romain.sadet@eba.europa.eu Franca CongiuEBA Communications OfficerTel: +44 (0) 207 382 1781Mob: +44 (0) 7771 376395Email: francarosa.congiu@eba.europa.eu
11/06/2013 2013/726 ESMA clarifies pay rules applicable to investment firms MiFID - Investor Protection Press Release PDF
01/10/2013 2013/1368 ESMA clarifies reporting requirements for alternative fund managers Fund Management, Press Releases Press Release PDF
81.3 KB Questions regarding technical support should be sent to info.it.aifmd[at]esma.europa.eu.
19/12/2012 2012/848 ESMA clarifies rules for alternative investment funds and their managers Fund Management, Press Releases Press Release PDF
12/11/2013 2013/1645 ESMA clarifies shareholder cooperation in takeover situations Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Press Releases Press Release PDF
86.55 KB ESMA clarifies shareholder cooperation in takeover situations The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a statement on practices governed by the Takeover Bid Directive (TBD), focused on shareholder cooperation issues relating to acting in concert and the appointment of board members. The statement contains a White List of activities that shareholders can cooperate on without the presumption of acting in concert. It also contains information on how shareholders may cooperate in order to secure board member appointments by setting out factors that national authorities may take into account when considering whether shareholders are acting in concert. The statement is in response to a request by the European Commission for clarity on these issues, following its 2012 report on the application of the TBD. It is based on information collected about the TBD’s application and common practices across the European Economic Area (EEA). The statement was prepared by the Takeover Bids Network, a permanent working group, under ESMA’s auspices, that promotes the exchange of information on practices and application of the TBD across EEA. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said: “Today’s statement means that shareholders can now be confident that they can expect authorities to take a consistent approach across the EEA to their cooperative activities. This consistency should in turn provide the reassurance needed by shareholders for the effective, sustainable engagement that is one of the cornerstones of listed companies’ corporate governance model allowing them to hold their boards to account. “ESMA believes that ensuring a consistent and convergent supervisory approach to this issue will be instrumental in affording equality of treatment to shareholders and investors across the EEA.” National competent authorities will have regard to the White List when determining whether shareholders are persons acting in concert under national takeover rules, but will also take into account all other relevant factors in making their decisions. Shareholder cooperation and acting in concert - The White List When shareholders cooperate to engage in any of the activities listed below, that cooperation will not, in and of itself, lead to a conclusion that the shareholders are acting in concert: 1. entering into discussions with each other about possible matters to be raised with the company’s board; 2. making representations to the company’s board about company policies, practices or particular actions that the company might consider taking; 3. other than in relation to the appointment of board members, exercising shareholders’ statutory rights; 4. other than in relation to a resolution for the appointment of board members and insofar as such a resolution is provided for under national company law, agreeing to vote the same way on a particular resolution put to a general meeting. If shareholders cooperate in an activity not included on the White List, this will also not result in an automatic assumption that they are acting in concert. Each case will be determined on its own particular facts. Cooperation in relation to the appointment of members of the board of a company The White List does not include any activity relating to cooperation on board appointments, due to differences in Member State approaches towards determining whether shareholders who cooperate in relation to board appointments are acting in concert. However, shareholders may wish to cooperate in order to secure board members’ appointment in a company in which they have invested. This cooperation might take the form of: 1. entering into an agreement or arrangement (informal or formal) to exercise their votes in the same way in order to support the appointment of one or more board members; 2. tabling a resolution to remove one or more board members and replace them with one or more new board members; or 3. tabling a resolution to appoint one or more additional board members. The statement therefore indicates which factors may be considered when assessing whether such cooperation is indeed an act of acting in concert. ESMA will keep the public statement under review in order to ensure that it continues to reflect accurately the practices and application of the TBD in the Member States. 2013/1642 Public Statement - Information on shareholder cooperation and acting in concert under the Takeover Bids Directive. 2013/1643 Cover Note to the Public Statement
03/10/2016 2016/1425 ESMA consults on consolidated tape for non-equity products MiFID - Secondary Markets, Press Releases Press Release PDF
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a consultation paper on its draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) regarding the creation of a consolidated tape for non-equity instruments which is required under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The new MiFID II framework, which covers equity-like and non-equity instruments traded on trading venues, introduces provisions for establishing a central source of post-trade prices or consolidated tape.
ESMA, having already issued its draft RTS on an equity tape, is seeking feedback on its draft RTS for the non-equity tape. In order to create the non-equity tape, trading venues and approved publication arrangements (APAs) will send real-time post-trade data to consolidated tape providers (CTPs), who will consolidate this data in real-time and make the data available to the public.
22/05/2014 2014/557 ESMA consults on MiFID reforms MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases, MiFID - Secondary Markets Press Release PDF
119.33 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched the consultation process for the implementation of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). This is the first step in the process of translating the MiFID II/MiFIR requirements into practically applicable rules and regulations to address the effects of the financial crisis and to improve financial market transparency and strengthen investor protection.MiFID II/MiFIR introduces changes that will have a large impact on the EU’s financial markets, these include transparency requirements for a broader range of asset classes; the obligation to trade derivatives on-exchange; requirements on algorithmic and high-frequency-trading and new supervisory tools for commodity derivatives. It will also strengthen protection for retail investors through limits on the use of commissions; conditions for the provision of independent investment advice; stricter organisational requirements for product design and distribution; product intervention powers; and the disclosure of costs and charges.MiFID II/MiFIR contains over 100 requirements for ESMA to draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS), and to provide Technical Advice to the European Commission to allow it to adopt delegated acts. In order to ensure that MIFID II achieves its objectives in practice, ESMA is publishing the following documents:1. Consultation Paper on MiFID/MiFIR Technical Advice – ESMA needs to deliver this advice to the European Commission by December 2014 and is therefore subject to a condensed consultation process for this paper; and2. Discussion Paper on MiFID/MiFIR draft RTS/ITS – this will provide the basis for a further consultation paper on the draft RTS/ITS which is expected to be issued in late 2014/early 2015. The closing date for responses to both papers is Friday 1 August. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said:“The launch of today’s MiFID II/MiFIR consultation process is an important step in the biggest overhaul of financial markets regulation in the EU for a decade. The reform of MiFID is an integral part of the EU’s strategy to address the effects of the financial crisis and aims to bring greater transparency to markets and to strengthen investor protection. These changes are key to restoring trust in our financial markets.“We appreciate the magnitude of this exercise for stakeholders. We strongly encourage all those affected by these reforms to provide their views to ensure that we take them into account in our final proposals.”The main issues covered in the Discussion and Consultation Paper are divided into those addressing the structure, transparency and regulation of financial markets, and those aimed at strengthening investor protection.Financial Markets Structure, Transparency and RegulationThe main proposals in this area cover the following issues: enhanced transparency and trading obligations - increasing pre- and post-trade transparency for many categories of instruments, e.g. shares, ETFs, certificates, bonds and derivatives, limitations to trade shares OTC and new obligations to trade derivatives on trading venues; micro-structural issues – refining the definition of high frequency trading and direct electronic access and specifying the requirements for operating in the market using algorithmic techniques; data publication and access – issues related to the development of the consolidated tape including requirements for tape providers, approved publication arrangements and reporting mechanisms, and the definition of a reasonable commercial basis for data sales; and the access to CCPs, trading venues and benchmarks; other organisational requirements for trading venues; and commodity derivatives – new regulatory tools, including position limits. Investor ProtectionThe main proposals relating to the improved protection of retail investors include technical advice on: inducements – new limitations on the receipt of commissions (inducements); independent advice – clearly distinguishing independent from non-independent advice; product governance – requirements on the manufacture and distribution of financial products including target market and risk identification; product intervention/banning - introducing powers for both ESMA and national regulators to prohibit or restrict the marketing and distribution of certain financial instruments; and improved information on costs and charges – requirements to provide clients with details of all charges related to their investment (relating to both the investment service and the financial instrument provided) so they can understand the overall cost and its effect on their investment’s return. In addition, the draft regulatory technical standards in the investor protection area relate to the authorisation of investment firms, passporting, and certain best execution obligations.Next StepsESMA will hold three public hearings about secondary markets, investor protection and commodity derivatives issues on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 July. Further details on the hearings will be published on ESMA’s website. 2014/548 2014/549
24/05/2017 ESMA71-99-468 ESMA consults on Money Market Funds rules Fund Management, Press Releases Press Release PDF
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Consultation Paper (CP) on the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR). The CP contains proposals on draft technical advice (TA), draft implementing technical standards (ITS), and guidelines under the MMFR. The key proposals relate to asset liquidity and credit quality, the establishment of a reporting template and stress test scenarios.
05/10/2016 2016/1438 ESMA consults on product governance guidelines to safeguard investors MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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13/07/2018 ESMA71-99-1005 ESMA consults on tick size regime PR MiFID - Secondary Markets, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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10/11/2016 2016/1570 ESMA consults on transparency rules for package orders under MiFID II MiFID - Secondary Markets Press Release PDF
23/07/2015 2015/1193 ESMA consults on UCITS remuneration guidelines Fund Management, Press Releases Press Release PDF
111.21 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a consultation on proposed Guidelines on sound remuneration policies under the UCITS V Directive and AIFMD. The Directive includes rules that UCITS must comply with when establishing and applying a remuneration policy for certain staff categories and the proposed UCITS Remuneration Guidelines further clarify the Directive’s provisions. The proposed Guidelines aim to ensure a convergent application of the remuneration provisions and will provide guidance on issues such as proportionality, governance of remuneration, requirements on risk alignment and disclosure. The final Guidelines will apply to UCITS management companies and national competent authorities.
09/01/2018 ESMA71-99-925 ESMA Double Volume Cap delay MiFID - Secondary Markets, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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Facebook’s New ‘Dislike’ Function Isn’t What You Think
Ashley Allen / 4 years ago
Announced last month, Facebook’s new ‘dislike’ button has finally been unveiled, and it’s not as we expected it. Instead of a simple ‘thumbs down’ – a reverse of the familiar ‘like’ button, which founder Mark Zuckerberg feared would be open to abuse – Facebook will be providing users the ability to express their emotions in relation to posts through a series of emojis.
Rolling out tomorrow in Spain and the Republic of Ireland, Facebook Reactions aims to encourage greater engagement and “empathy” with user posts though the six emojis: ‘Love’, ‘Haha’, ‘Yay’, ‘Wow’, ‘Sad’, and ‘Angry’.
“People come to Facebook to share all kinds of things — whether that’s updates that are happy, sad, funny or thought-provoking,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “And we’ve heard you’d like more ways to celebrate, commiserate or laugh together. That’s why we are testing Reactions, an extension of the Like button, to give you more ways to share your reaction to a Facebook post in a quick and easy way.”
While Facebook has not set a timeframe for the worldwide launch of Facebook Reactions, it is expected to slowly roll out to other countries over the course of this year.
Thank you VentureBeat for providing us with this information.
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Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage and career and now the death of her father, from whom she had long been estranged. She is faced with the daunting task of clearing his house, believing he had removed all traces of her mother. Yet hidden away in a barely used top-floor room, she finds he had secretly kept a cupboard full of her possessions. Sifting through the ancient papers, Ruth discovers the diary and letters written by her ancestor from the 18th century, Thomas Erskine.
As the youngest son of a noble family now living in genteel poverty, Thomas always knew he would have to make his own way in the world. Unable to follow his brothers to university, instead he joins first the navy and then the army, rising through the ranks, travelling the world. When he is finally able to study law, his extraordinary experiences and abilities propel him to the very top, and he becomes Lord Chancellor. Yet he has made a powerful enemy on his voyages, who will hound him and his family to the death - and beyond.
Ruth becomes ever more aware of Thomas as she is gripped by his story and slowly senses that not only is his presence with her, but so is his enemy's. Ruth will have to draw upon new friends and old in what becomes a battle for her very survival - and discover an inner power beyond anything she has imagined.
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ALL ABOUT MULMUL
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By: Treesha Datta 04 May, 2018
Do you remember listening to the 1949 song, 'Hawa mein udta jaye mera laal dupatta Mulmul ka' and envisioning a soft, flowy red cloth flying away with the wind? That song romanticised this particular fabric, and if there is any fabric that deserved to be immortalised in pop-culture, mulmul was the right choice because of its royal beginnings. It was not as readily available in the beginning as it is today and was originally exclusively available to Indian royalty. Over time it has gained popularity and is now found in almost all parts of the world.
Mulmul or Muslin as it is known in Europe, is a soft and fine weave of cotton, that was first made by Bengali weavers many hundred years ago. In fact the commercial viability of this delicate fabric was perhaps established in Europe almost a 1000 years ago or more, and we know this since ‘Muslin’ has been referred to by a few ancient Greek and Roman writers in their works. It was definitely traded in Europe by 17th century, and was one of the prized imports from India. Later the manufacturing of mulmul or muslin started in England and Scotland.
Infact the name Muslin was derived from the city ‘Mosul’ in Iraq, a place where Europeans were said to have first encountered the fabric, Marco Polo mentioned the same in his 1298 book - The Travels. Originally it originated in Dhakeshwari or Dhaka in Bangladesh, which was then a part of India. The fabric was referred to as Daka here. Bengali Muslims are said to have traded the yarn all across the Muslim world, which is how it landed in the Middle East. Under the Mughal rule, ‘Mughal Bengal’ became the largest exporter of high-quality muslin, and Dhaka became the capital of the worldwide Muslin trade.
High-quality Mulmul or Muslin, was so lightweight and delicate that it was sometimes referred to as wonder gossamer or the woven wind. While the trade of Mulmul flourished under the Mughal rule, it was repressed aggressively under the British raj. Since the industrially manufactured and imported variant could not compete with the hand woven counterpart in India, it is noted that they tried to eradicate the knowledge and production of fine mulmul by rounding up the local weavers and mutilating their hands by cutting off the thumbs. The production of this fine weave suffered greatly for about two centuries during this time. Many revival attempts have been made in modern Bangladesh since.
Today, mulmul is widely available and is not as expensive as it used to be. This lightweight, super soft and breathable cotton fabric is great for summer, particularly harsh Indian summers, since it readily absorbs moisture and keeps the wearer cool. Its other benefits are that it can be dyed easily and it only gets softer with every wash. Along with its rich history, it is these qualities that made us choose this wonderful fabric for our latest collections Pardeiza and Isfahan.
The next time you purchase one of our pieces from this collection, and feel the beautiful fabric, you’ll probably take a minute to remember the Bengali weavers, from centuries and centuries ago, who first created this splendid cotton weave.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare campaign review
Carl Jones October 27, 2019
Credit: Activision
We all have our opinions on the juggernaut known as Call of Duty. Its popularity is polarising but at its heart, it’s a good series. I have a fondness for its campaign modes and while they’ve been increasingly lacking, this year’s title is a reboot of the much loved Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Given that last year they decided to skip the story mode entirely, here hoping this is a return to form.
On a covert mission to recover a deadly gas, CIA operator Alex is attacked and finds the chemicals stolen by persons unknown. His boss, Chief Laswell, requests the assistance of SAS Captain Price in recovering these deadly chemicals and preventing war with Russia. In London, SAS Sergeant Kyle Garrick is following a lead on potential terrorists when London falls victim to a massive terrorist attack. Rendezvousing with Captain Price, Garrick manages to contain the situation and they discover a connection between this attack and the stolen chemicals. They travel to Urzikstan and ally with the freedom fighters and their leader Farah Karim. She agrees to help them find these deadly weapons if they help her push back the forces led by the Russian General Barkov.
Watch the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare story trailer below:
As with most Call of Duty titles, you play as multiple characters throughout the story. Alex is your typical American soldier, driven by his failure in his mission to recover the gas and he vents his frustration to his boss. His boss, Laswell, understands the situation needs something…..less than legal and brings in Captain Price. Price is as pragmatic as we know him to be but there is depth to his character to come later. Alex is the character we are meant to inhabit. He’s new to this life and his growing relationship with Captain Price takes him down a path of blurred lines and potential war crimes, to a point where he has to question his own actions. This is handled very well and gives a reason for Price’s actions. “We get dirty so the world stays clean”, a statement Price makes and it sums up his character perfectly. Farah is trying to save her homeland and the story that involves her family goes deeper than expected and works brilliantly, without compromising the story.
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PYRO SPECIAL EFFECTS
Whether used alone or as an accessory to a display, pyrotechnic special effects are guaranteed to make a significant, visual impact to any event.
Entertainment Effects use only the highest quality, zero debris products with state of the art firing systems. This enables us to fire the pyro with split-second accuracy and synchronise displays perfectly in time with music to create a spectacular show.
Our stunning pyro backdrops, displays and effects are used at a wide variety of events across the UK.
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Large, outdoor live events like Sports, Music Shows and Festivals.
Large, indoor live events like Sports, Music, TV and Award Ceremonies. Past events include the Hunger Games Film Premier and Harlequins Rugby Big Game.
Big product launches where companies want to make maximum impact.
Any event where someone wants to get a big publicity photo.
Setup – Depends on the event type, where the specific pyro special effects are to be located, alongside any access restrictions.
Location – Our experienced team can rig the equipment almost anywhere, often clamping firing plates to truss structures and scaffolding poles.
Duration – Pyrotechnic shows in general are relatively short, averaging less than one minute, but the impact and effect will leave a lasting impression.
Contact our team of experts on 01707 269 566 to discuss your project in detail.
Please click on the images to read the full case study for each project.
Roof Pyrotechnics Premier League Football
Gerb Fountains Wedding Entrance
Pyro Sequence Will Smith at Livewire Festival
All of our pyro special effects are available in a wide range of sizes, colours and durations, enabling us to work in almost any venue.
Our team can usually turnaround a display in less than 24 hours and some of our products are even available for next day delivery if ordered before 2pm.
A comet creates a shooting burst of light, producing a similar effect to that of a shooting star.
A star is propelled and as it travels, sparks trail behind leaving a sparkling tail. The comet then disappears without any fallout.
These can be fired individually or several at a time as per the picture.
Available in a variety of sizes (heights), ranging from 8m to 45m.
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GERB FOUNTAINS
A gerb is a jet of sparks creating a dazzling plume.
These come in different heights and can last various lengths of time, making a great entrance feature.
Can be used both indoors and outdoors.
Available in durations from half a second to 20 seconds, reaching heights between 2m and 15m.
Mines are similar to comets as they release multiple small bursts which each individually have a sparkling tail trailing behind.
These are jetted into the same direction and naturally spread out producing a spectacular fan-shaped pyro effect.
Can be used indoors and outdoors.
Pyrotechnic effects are mostly fired using wireless technology, meaning our team are able to install them accurately in under a minute.
We always try to pre-rig our pyro products and store them in discrete purpose-built cases so that they can be easily transported to the agreed display positions. Our trained technicians then ensure that the safety zone is cleared before firing as efficiently as possible.
Set-up time will depend on where the products are to be located, the access or activity that is taking place in the area.
If the area we’re working on is difficult to access or a clear zone with no activity, for example a stadium or stage roof, then our team will rig the pyrotechnics well in advance of the display.
We can rig the equipment almost anywhere, often clamping firing plates to truss structures or scaffolding poles. Any products which are not positioned directly on the floor will most likely need to be secured, especially if there isn’t a flat surface or the products fired from these locations are more powerful.
Accessing raised positions varies by location. Most stadium roofs are accessed by stairs, lifts or ladders but the trickier locations may need to be reached by a cherry picker or scissor lift.
For sporting events:
Pyrotechnics cannot be positioned in the middle of a sports pitch while the players are warming up. For this reason, we have a small window to work in, while the players return to the dressing room after the warm-up and before the match starts (usually taking around 3-5 minutes).
For cup finals, our team is required to wait until the game is finished before moving the equipment into position behind a presentation stage. The same applies for stage and TV performances.
For musical performances:
When supporting third-acts on stage, any pyro kit cannot be on the stage while other acts are performing. For this reason, we may need to rig during an advert break or while a VT is running.
How long will my pyrotechnic show last?
Pyrotechnic shows in general are relatively short, averaging less than one minute. It’s all about making a big impact; short and sharp but bold and powerful. We only use the very best products available, but you can’t have an explosive product without some smoke. For this reason, we have to consider the build-up of smoke in the show design, which can restrict the duration. It all depends on the location of your event – if outdoors, a slight breeze will disperse the smoke, but if inside or in a confined stadium, then the lack of wind will need to be taken into consideration.
Timings based on event:
Shorter pyrotechnic displays can last just a couple of seconds, if we’re doing a big reveal for a product launch.
Sports events last between 15 seconds and 3 minutes because we’re limited to the amount of time it takes for players to run on the pitch and line up. Extended displays can last for the duration of a song, which is played to build atmosphere prior to a team entering the pitch.
Some sports like cricket have effects fired throughout the games for key moments like sixes and wickets. Therefore, pyro can fire over an 8 hour period, but each element again may only last a few seconds.
Who supplies our pyro products?
Certain manufacturers specialise in the different pyrotechnic products that our company supplies, so we purchase from a variety of reliable suppliers depending on customer demand.
We obtain the majority of our products from Le Maitre, Ultratec and Europla, purchasing in bulk 2-3 times a year to ensure that we have the stock available for any last minute bookings.
We source only the highest quality pyro special effects products and our qualified technicians ensure that they are operated to the highest safety standards.
Each project is covered by £10m public liability insurance and our team supply specific risk assessments and method statements as appropriate.
We also provide all of our customers with a Job Specific Health & Safety Document which includes everything from detailed diagrams and site layouts.
Read more about the specific Health & Safety precautions taken.
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New EPCRA Reporting Exemption
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has signed a final rule amending the emergency release notification regulations under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). The amendments exempt reporting of air emissions from animal waste at farms under EPCRA.
According to EPA, the final rule comes as first responders across the county have repeatedly reminded the agency that community-specific protocols are determined between local responders and animal producers well in advance of emergencies. The Agency stated that these strong partnerships provide a platform for resolving issues when they arise without the need for a national one-size-fits-all approach.
“This final rule provides clarity and certainty to the regulated community that animal waste emissions from farms do not need to be reported under EPCRA,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. “This action eliminates an onerous reporting requirement and allows emergency responders and farmers to focus on protecting the public and feeding the nation, not routine animal waste emissions.”
“The goal of emergency response officials and local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) is to prepare communities for emergency threats related to hazardous chemical releases. Such emergency threats do not include 'best guess' reporting on day-to-day emissions on farms and animal operations,” said National Association of SARA Title III Program Officials (NASTTPO) President Tim Gablehouse. “The focus of LEPCs should be and is on chemical hazards that present meaningful risk of harm to community members and first responders. We look forward to working on enhanced coordination and cooperation between all community members to improve preparedness for hazardous chemical releases.”
The changes to emergency release reporting regulations reflect the existing relationship between EPCRA and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and provide consistency between the two environmental laws.
On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Omnibus Bill). Title XI of the Omnibus Bill is entitled the “Fair Agricultural Reporting Method Act” or the “FARM Act.” The FARM Act expressly exempts reporting of air emissions from animal waste (including decomposing animal waste) at a farm from CERCLA section 103. The FARM Act also provides definitions for the terms “animal waste” and “farm.” Because these types of releases are exempted under CERCLA, based on the release reporting criteria under EPCRA section 304, these types of releases are also exempt under EPCRA section 304.
On October 30, 2018, then Acting Administrator Wheeler proposed the reporting exemption under EPCRA alongside National Association of SARA Title III Program Officials (NASTTPO) President Tim Gablehouse and various state animal producer trade associations.
The final rule maintains consistency between the emergency release notification requirements of EPCRA and CERCLA in accordance with the statutory text and framework of EPCRA.
Carrie Apfel, a staff attorney for Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming Program said, “through this rule, EPA is allowing meat factories to avoid reporting their toxic air emissions to state and local authorities despite a clear statutory mandate to do so. The rule is illegal, and an affront to rural communities that have every right to know what’s in the air they breathe. Earthjustice has been challenging EPA’s guidance and will fight this rule, too.”
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New EPA Guidance on Water Quality Certification
As directed by the President, EPA released guidance on Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) that provides recommendations to clarify and streamline the 401 certification process and to promote greater investment in and certainty for national infrastructure projects while continuing to protect local water quality.
Under Executive Order 13868, “Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” EPA was directed to issue guidance for federal permitting agencies and state and authorized tribal authorities to modernize previous guidance and clarify existing CWA Section 401 requirements.
Section 401 of the CWA provides states and authorized tribes with an important tool to help protect water quality within their borders in collaboration with federal agencies. The rules governing this authority have not been updated in nearly 50 years. In addition, evolving case law and EPA’s outdated guidance have caused some confusion and resulted in delays in certain infrastructure projects with potentially significant national benefits.
EPA’s “Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Guidance for Federal Agencies, States, and Authorized Tribes” provides clarification and recommendations on CWA Section 401 certifications in the following specific areas:
Statutory and regulatory timelines for review and action on a CWA Section 401 certification;
The appropriate scope of CWA Section 401 certification conditions; and
Information within the scope of a state or authorized tribe’s CWA Section 401 review.
EPA’s new guidance, which replaces EPA’s prior interim guidance from 2010, also provides additional recommendations to federal agencies, states and authorized tribes to promote early collaboration and coordination through the 401 certification process. Executive Order 13868 also directed EPA to propose new rules modernizing the agency’s CWA Section 401 implementing regulations by August 8, 2019. The agency intends to propose regulations that may help further clarify and streamline CWA Section 401 certifications. Since the Executive Order was issued on April 10, 2019, the agency has initiated formal consultations with its state, local, and tribal partners, as well as outreach with its federal partners on this rulemaking effort and invited written pre-proposal recommendations through a public docket. The agency is reviewing the input received through these engagements and the docket prior to issuing a proposed rule.
EPA to Increase Compliance with Clean Water Act Deadlines
The EPA is taking steps toward ensuring the Agency is meeting its statutory obligations and carrying out the cooperative federalism principles embodied in the Clean Water Act (CWA). In a memorandum to EPA Regional Administrators, EPA Assistant Administrator for Office of Water David Ross directed regional offices to comply with statutory deadlines for acting on state and tribal CWA submittals while improving responsiveness in the agency’s oversight role.
“The Clean Water Act establishes a framework that authorizes states and tribes to make water quality management decisions that can be tailored to the needs of their citizens and specific natural resources,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for Office of Water David Ross. “Going forward, EPA will be more responsive to our regulatory partners while recognizing their expertise in local and regional water quality as we work together to better protect public health and the environment.”
For years, EPA has routinely exceeded the review and action timelines established by Congress in the CWA. This inaction has resulted in uncertainty for states, tribes and the regulated community; delayed meaningful actions to improve local water quality; spurred lawsuits against the agency; and created significant backlogs and increased workload.
“State agencies and their stakeholders deserve clarity and certainty,” said Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Carol Comer. “Timely decisions made at the federal level allow states to operate more effectively. Often, states must develop processes and procedures to implement proposed rules or standards, which in the past have been delayed—sometimes by years—awaiting an EPA determination. In addition, our regulated community depends upon our decisions to plan investments or process changes. We support the Administration’s policy promoting quick action at the federal level. We believe it will be good for the environment and good for our stakeholders.
The memo directs regional offices to approve or disapprove state and tribal CWA submittals within the timelines established by Congress. For example, EPA must approve new or revised water quality standard submittals within 60 days of the date of the submission or disapprove within 90 days, and the agency must approve or disapprove biannual lists of waters determined to be impaired and total maximum daily loads within 30 days.
EPA’s memo underscores the importance of restoring the agency’s oversight role to be more consistent with congressional intent. Should the agency disapprove a state or tribal submittal on the basis that it fails to meet CWA requirements, the memo directs regional offices to develop a plan to ensure all required follow up actions are consistent with CWA requirements and statutory deadlines. This plan must be put into place prior to issuing the disapproval.
“Idaho appreciates the cooperation we have recently experienced as EPA has worked with us to address our pending submittals,” said Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director John Tippets. “This policy will further the cooperative partnership that we believe is necessary for effective collaboration between the EPA and the states. We welcome a process that recognizes that states should expect timely action on their submittals and that approval should be expected when federal guidelines have been followed. Ultimately, this policy will result in better outcomes for states and their citizens.”
Cruise Line to Pay $20 Million Criminal Penalty for Water Pollution
Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. and its parent, Carnival Cruise Lines & plc were ordered to pay a $20 million criminal penalty and will be subject to enhanced supervision after admitting to violations of probation attributable to senior Carnival management in a case in which Princess had already paid $40 million.
Princess was convicted and sentenced in April 2017, after pleading guilty to felony charges stemming from its deliberate dumping of oil-contaminated waste from one of its vessels and intentional acts to cover it up. While serving 5 years of probation, all Carnival related cruise lines vessels eligible to trade in U.S. ports were required to comply with a court approved and supervised environmental compliance plan (ECP), including audits by an independent company and oversight by a Court Appointed Monitor. Numerous violations have been identified by the company, the outside auditor, and the court’s monitor during the first two years of probation, including “major non-conformities” as defined by the ECP.
Carnival admitted it was guilty of committing six violations of probation. Two of the violations involved interfering with the court’s supervision of probation by sending undisclosed teams to ships to prepare them for the independent inspections required during probation. When this was first discovered in December 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Seitz directed that the practice cease and ordered additional inspections as a consequence. However, without seeking court approval, a second undisclosed program was started shortly thereafter. Documents filed in court showed that a purpose of the vessel visit programs was to avoid adverse findings during the inspections.
“This case demonstrates the importance of identifying and correcting compliance problems at their source. Carnival sought to avoid the discovery of problems during the audits rather than learn from them. Carnival’s deliberate deception undermined the court’s supervision of probation,” said Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “I want to take this opportunity to thank and commend the Office of Probation and the Court Appointed Monitor for the close attention that they have devoted to this important matter post-conviction.”
Carnival’s Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer attended the hearing pursuant to court’s order and were asked to personally pledge their commitment to correcting the company’s compliance issues and corporate culture. In addition, senior management of each operating cruise line of Carnival Corporation & plc were present for the court proceedings.
The company admitted to other violations of probation today including:
Failing to establish a senior corporate officer as a corporate compliance manager with responsibility and sufficient authority for implementing new environmental measures required during probation;
Contacting the Coast Guard seeking to re-define the definition of what constitutes a major non-conformity under the ECP without going through the required process and after the government had rejected the proposal and told the company to file a motion with the court if it wanted to pursue the issue;
Deliberately falsifying environmental training records aboard two cruise ships; and
Deliberately discharging plastic in Bahamian waters from the Carnival Elation and failing to accurately record the illegal discharges. Prosecutors advised the Court that this particular instance was an example of a more widespread problem, identified by the external audits, in failing to segregate plastic and non-food garbage from waste thrown overboard from numerous cruise ships.
Under the terms of the settlement, Carnival will do the following:
Pay a $20 million criminal penalty;
Issue a statement to all employees in which Carnival’s CEO accepts management’s responsibility for the probation violations;
Restructure the company’s corporate compliance efforts, including appointing a new chief Corporate Compliance Officer, creating an Executive Compliance Committee across all cruise lines, adding a new member to the Board of Directors with corporate compliance expertise, and train its Board of Directors;
Pay up to $10 million per day if it does not meet deadlines for submitting and implementing needed changes to its corporate structure;
Pay for 15 additional independent audits per year conducted by the third-party auditor and Court Appointed Monitor (on top of approximately 31 ship audits and 6 shore-side audits currently performed annually);
Comply with new reporting requirements, including notifying the government and court of all future violations, and specifically identifying foreign violations and the country impacted; and
Make major changes in how the company uses and disposes of plastic and other non-food waste to urgently address a problem on multiple vessels concerning illegal discharges of plastic mixed with other garbage.
The revised sentence imposed by Judge Seitz also requires that Princess remain on probation for a period of three years.
The case is being prosecuted by Richard A. Udell, Senior Litigation Counsel with the Environmental Crimes Section of the Department of Justice and Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Watts-FitzGerald, Deputy Chief, Economic & Environmental Crimes Section for the Southern District of Florida, with assistance from Lt. Commander Anton DeStefano of the U.S. Coast Guard.
DEP Inspector Accepted Bribes from Asbestos Abatement Contractor
New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett today announced the guilty plea of Samuel Nebedum, 64, an Inspector with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Nebedum engaged in a long-term bribery relationship with an asbestos abatement contractor, wherein he accepted cash bribes, meals, and fish in exchange for providing various benefits to the contractor, including intentionally overlooking violations at the contractor’s worksites and the referral of additional abatement business.
Nebedum pleaded guilty to charges of Bribe Receiving in the Second Degree, a Class C felony; Bribe Receiving in the Third Degree, a Class D felony; Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, a Class E felony; and two counts of Official Misconduct, an A misdemeanor. Nebedum was sentenced to a conditional discharge, and must pay $15,000, $5,000 of which must be paid by July 15, 2019. The Court will determine the remaining pay schedule, to be paid to the New York City DEP.
"By accepting bribes, Samuel Nebedum violated public trust and put the health and safety of New Yorkers at risk,” said Attorney General Letitia James. “New Yorkers deserve to be able to trust the integrity of their officials. My office will continue to hold accountable those who disregard the interests of the public in favor of financial gain.”
“Today’s guilty plea sends the message that a City inspector, entrusted with safeguarding the public, will be held accountable and prosecuted when he trades in his integrity for bribes,” said DOI Commissioner Margaret Garnett. “This defendant is now a convicted felon who no longer works for the City. DOI will continue to work with its partners, in particular the state Attorney General, to expose and prosecute corruption in this City.”
The joint Attorney General and DOI investigation revealed that this arrangement has allegedly gone on for over ten years and put the health and safety of workers and New York City residents at risk.
According to the felony complaint filed in December 2018 at the Queens County Supreme Court, Nebedum had been an Inspector with the DEP since May 29, 1990, and during the course of his employment allegedly accepted over $10,000.00 in bribes from a contractor during that time. With his guilty plea, Nebedum admits to an agreement or understanding that his actions or decisions were influenced upon the receipt of the bribes. As alleged in the complaint, Nebedum used his position as an Inspector to give advance notice prior to official DEP inspections taking place at this contractor’s jobsites, ignored asbestos removal violations at this contractor’s jobsites, and referred additional business to the contractor, which stemmed from his official jobsite visits, all in violation of DEP policy.
The DEP is the primary City agency responsible for the regulation of the asbestos abatement industry. Proper abatement procedures involve requiring all workers at a jobsite to wear Personal Protective Equipment, which includes a protective mask and hazmat suit; wetting down all asbestos containing material (ACM) when removed, so as to prevent asbestos from becoming airborne; the setting up of a proper decontamination unit with proper air-monitoring equipment, to ensure the work area does not have air containing ACM escaping; and the dumping of materials containing ACM at designated disposal facilities. As set forth in the felony complaint, the Attorney General and DOI alleged that Nebedum ignored these regulations during the course of this bribery scheme, putting the health of many workers and City residents at risk for inhaling and ingesting asbestos. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that is hazardous to human health and is known to cause a type of cancer known as mesothelioma.
Attorney General James and DOI Commissioner Garnett thanked the New York City Department of Environmental Protection for their assistance during this investigation. Attorney General James and DOI Commissioner Garnett also thanked the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Bureau of Environmental Crimes Investigation for their support.
Updated Regulations for Toxic Air Pollutants Proposed in Washington
The Washington Department of Ecology has proposed an updated rule for toxic air pollution using the most recent and best available information about health effects.
Ecology periodically updates this rule to reflect toxicity information developed by the EPA, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Under Washington law, Ecology is required to develop a list of about 400 toxic air chemicals based on data from those three agencies. The rulemaking will use the most recent, best available health effects information to:
Update the list of toxic air pollutants.
Recalculate:
Acceptable source impact levels (ASIL)
Small quantity emission rates (SQER)
De minimis emission values
The goal of the rule is to protect public health by limiting new emissions of toxic air pollutants from industry. The proposed revisions add criteria to better protect children and babies from the extra risks air pollution poses to the very young.
Of the roughly 400 chemicals covered under the air toxics regulations, standards for two-thirds will remain unchanged, 25% will become more protective, while 10% will become less restrictive, all based on the latest scientific information.
Ecology is seeking public comments on the proposed rule updates through July 23. The Agency will hold a public hearing in Lacey and via webinar at 10 a.m. July 16, 2019.
Two Petroleum Suppliers to Pay $1 Million for Clean Air Violations
The California Air Resources Board announced it has fined two petroleum product suppliers — George E. Warren Corp. and Shell Pipeline Co. — for failure to comply with California air quality regulations. George E. Warren Corp. and Shell Pipeline Co. were fined $735,000 and $300,000, respectively.
The fuel violation was discovered during a routine sampling audit of an import marine vessel at the Port of Los Angeles. California Air Resources Board inspectors determined approximately 11 million gallons of motor fuel imported by George E. Warren Corp. had exceeded the threshold concentration of olefins allowed under the California Reformulated Gasoline Regulation.
Olefins are a type of hydrocarbon that readily reacts with sunlight to form smog. By reducing the olefin content of gasoline, the amount of smog formed and the amount of 1,3 butadiene (a toxic compound) in exhaust emissions are reduced. The fuel imported at Shell Pipeline Co. facilities had been distributed to five separate bulk terminals downstream of the original import location, and to several retail service stations.
“Companies must demonstrate that their products will not result in excess emissions into our air,” California Air Resources Board Enforcement Division Chief Todd Sax said. “Periodic testing of fuel by companies and inspections by CARB ensure that Californians will not be exposed to harmful air pollutants.”
Once they were made aware of the noncompliant fuel, George E. Warren and Shell Pipeline took prompt action to halt all movement and sales of the fuel. CARB estimates approximately 1.3 million gallons of affected fuel was sold at retail stations. Once CARB determined the fuel was re-blended and in compliance, sales were allowed to continue.
To resolve the violations, George E. Warren and Shell Pipeline agreed to pay the combined total of $1,035,000. The companies also agreed to offset $501,327 of the settlement by funding eight Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs). Projects include air filtration, health and air pollution research, community air monitoring, and identification of diesel pollution hotspots. All projects were selected to improve health and education and provide funding for exposure reduction projects in San Joaquin Valley and San Diego disadvantaged communities.
New Mexico Agencies Begin Stakeholder Process on Methane Regulatory Strategy
The New Mexico Departments of the Environment (NMED) and Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources (EMNRD) are beginning stakeholder outreach efforts as work continues to develop the state’s first methane reduction regulations per Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order on climate change.
A key component of the executive order is the development of an enforceable regulatory framework to ensure methane reductions from the oil and natural gas sector and to prevent waste from new and existing sources.
“In undertaking this regulatory effort, collaboration between regulators, communities, industry and environmental groups is imperative to enacting lasting changes to methane regulations in New Mexico,” said Environment Department Secretary James Kenney. “EMNRD Sec. Cottrell Propst and I look forward to meeting with stakeholders to gain ideas, perspectives, concerns and innovative ideas throughout this regulatory effort.”
“The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department looks forward to kicking off our stakeholder engagement in the coming weeks as we continue our important partnership with the New Mexico Environment Department to develop rules to curb methane,” EMNRD Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst said. “Our departments will create cutting- edge rules and regulations pursuant to the climate executive order. Collaborating with stakeholders and gaining expert insights is a crucial step in this process.”
Public stakeholder engagement events will take place throughout the state:
1-5 p.m. July 29, San Juan Community College, Farmington
1-5 p.m. July 30, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 7, Nuclear Waste Partnership Building, Carlsbad
More information on these events will be available on the NMED and EMNRD websites as details are finalized. Following the meetings, a summary and presentation materials will be posted online.
During the stakeholder meetings, NMED and EMNRD will provide an overview of their authorities to regulate methane from the oil and natural gas industry. Ultimately, two separate rulemakings will be necessary. One proceeding will take place before the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission for the regulation of methane as a wasted resource. The other will take place before the Environmental Improvement Board for the regulation of methane and volatile organic compounds related to air quality impacts. NMED and EMNRD are working together to ensure these rules are complementary and do not result in redundant requirements.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a 20-year global warming potential of more than 84 times that of carbon dioxide, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Nearly one-third of methane emissions in the U.S. come from oil and natural gas production, transmission and distribution.
21 Corporations Cited for UST Violations at NY and NJ Gas Stations
Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Peter D. Lopez, EPA Regional Administrator, announced that the United States has filed a civil lawsuit against Genesis Petroleum, Inc., and 20 of its associated companies, for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at 13 gas stations within the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey. The violations alleged in the complaint involve Defendants’ improper management of 38 underground storage tanks at 13 of Defendants’ gas stations. These tanks typically contain gasoline and diesel fuel and can cause serious environmental damage if allowed to leak.
The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to assure Defendants’ future compliance with RCRA and an order imposing civil penalties for Defendants’ violations of up to $16,000 per tank for each day of violation.
As alleged in the complaint in federal court in Central Islip, New York, Defendants repeatedly violated RCRA and its related regulations at various times from 2012 to 2016. These violations included failing to install spill and overfill prevention equipment, failing to perform release (i.e., leak or spill) detection and failing to maintain and provide records of release detection monitoring. In some instances, Defendants failed to secure underground storage tanks that were temporarily closed, and failed to investigate or report suspected releases. In another instance, EPA inspectors observed a visibly corroded storage tank at one of Defendants’ stations. At times, Defendants also failed to cooperate with the EPA by refusing to permit station inspections and by failing to respond to the EPA’s requests for information about the underground storage tanks that they owned and/or operated.
“The Defendants’ repeated violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act put groundwater at risk of contamination, potentially endangering the health and safety of residents of Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York as well as residents of New Jersey,” stated United States Attorney Donoghue. “We are committed to enforcing the laws protecting our residents from hazardous wastes and the dangers they pose.”
“Failure to monitor and maintain tanks to prevent leaks can pose a serious safety risk, as the leaking underground tanks can release toxic components that can seep into the soil and the groundwater,” said EPA Regional Administrator Peter D. Lopez. “These violations are all too common, and EPA is working to ensure that we hold the companies responsible for properly managing their tanks to reduce these risks where these gas stations are located.”
While the violations alleged in the complaint do not pose an immediate threat to the drinking water of the areas’ residents, compliance with the RCRA’s leak prevention regulations for underground storage tanks is vital to ensure the integrity of tanks and prevent the release of petroleum product to soil and groundwater. Petroleum products such as gasoline contain chemical compounds that pose substantial threats to human health. When operated conscientiously and monitored closely, underground storage tanks are a safe and effective means to store gasoline. But when tanks are not subjected to basic operational safeguards, they can endanger the public and the environment, for example by leaking petroleum into the water supply, discharging toxic vapors into the air, or even triggering fires or explosions. EPA’s regulations under RCRA are designed to protect the public by requiring underground storage tank operators to reduce the likelihood of leaks and monitor for leaks so they can promptly be addressed.
The matter is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jolie Apicella of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, working with Lee Spielmann, Assistant Regional Counsel, EPA Region 2, and Paul Sacker, Senior Enforcement Officer, EPA Region 2.
Legislative Hearing on Dangerous Consumer Products
U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on legislation to address hazards found in everyday products on Thursday, June 13, at 10:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Keeping Kids and Consumers Safe from Dangerous Products.”
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been inactive for far too long while American children have been dying from long-known dangers like furniture tip-overs, inclined sleepers, and crib bumpers,” Pallone and Schakowsky said. “It’s time for Congress to act to protect consumers and spur greater CPSC enforcement and outreach. The Committee will examine legislation at this hearing to do just that.”
Information for this hearing, including the Committee Memorandum, legislation, witness list and testimony, and a live webcast, will be posted here as they become available.
Changes Proposed to Strengthen Railroads’ Oil Spill Response Efforts
Railroad lines stretch across thousands of miles in Washington, often along pristine rivers and shorelines of the state. An oil spill from a train could pose a significant threat not only to the environment but to people and local economies. That’s why in 2015, Washington began requiring railroad companies to have oil spill contingency plans to ensure they are adequately prepared in case of a spill.
After several years of implementing the initial regulation, the Department of Ecology is proposing updates, based on direction from the Washington Legislature, to streamline requirements and strengthen response to potential railroad spills.
Ecology proposes to:
Enhance readiness requirements for oils that may weather and sink when spilled.
Improve ability to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife that may be affected or oiled during a response
Ensure that the railroad response teams are trained and well qualified to manage a response in Washington
Update oil spill drill requirements
Streamline plans for small rail lines that don’t move crude oil, with requirements that are in line with the size and scope of their operations
Legislation driving the changes is included in 2017’s ESHB 1136 and 2018’s E2SSB 6269.
Ecology has invited the public to weigh in on these changes through July 22, 2019. The Agency is hosting a public hearing for this rule proposal in Seattle, another in Spokane, and an online webinar public hearing. For full information about dates and times, visit Ecology’s Oil Spill Contingency Plan – Railroad website.
Challenge from Clean Air Groups Forces NC Wood Pellet Factory to Install Pollution Controls
The world’s largest manufacturer of wood pellet fuel for power plants, Enviva, agreed to install air pollution-reducing equipment at a biomass plant under construction in Richmond County, North Carolina, in a settlement finalized today after three conservation groups challenged its state permit.
At a unit of its wood pellet plant being built in the town of Hamlet, east of Charlotte, Enviva will reduce harmful volatile organic compounds (or VOC) air pollution from its smokestacks by at least 95% according to an agreement the company signed with Clean Air Carolina, which is represented by the Environmental Integrity Project and the Southern Environmental Law Center. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) also signed onto the agreement.
“This settlement agreement is a huge victory for the people of North Carolina, because it will mean fewer asthma attacks and health risks for families living downwind,” said Patrick Anderson, attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). “The biomass industry is nothing like the clean, sustainable answer to climate change it paints itself to be. In fact, it is a major source of air pollution.”
“Residents of Richmond County already face some of the worst health outcomes in our state,” said June Blotnick, Executive Director of Clean Air Carolina. “The new air pollution controls required by this settlement will decrease hazardous air pollutants and VOC emissions, reducing two additional threats to the communities’ health.”
“The residents of Hamlet and Richmond County deserve protection from the unnecessary air pollution that would’ve come with Enviva’s facility if not for this agreement,” said Heather Hillaker, attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. “Now Richmond County families can breathe easier, but, as the wood pellet industry plans to expand operations throughout the state, the threat remains for many North Carolinians to the air we breathe and wetlands that buffer us from storms and floods.”
On behalf of Clean Air Carolina, EIP and SELC on February 13 challenged the Enviva Hamlet air pollution permit in the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings. The case alleges that DEQ failed to scrutinize Enviva’s air pollution estimates and improperly classified the facility as a “minor” air pollution source when it was actually a major source.
Enviva entered the settlement agreement with the three environmental organizations to avoid further litigation over the Richmond County plant’s construction permit.
Under the terms of the agreement, Enviva will install one of several pollution control technologies on a wood pellet production unit known as a dry hammermill at the Hamlet plant. Although the exact control technology will be selected by Enviva in the coming months, each of the available options will achieve at least 95 percent reduction in volatile organic compound (VOCs) pollution and hazardous air pollutants like methanol, acrolein, and formaldehyde.
VOCs are a potent precursor to ground level ozone and smog, and can cause breathing problems for the elderly, young children, and people with lung conditions such as asthma. The new controls will reduce the facility’s VOC emissions by at least 140 tons per year, and potentially by as much as 500 tons per year, according to the terms of the agreement.
The Enviva plant is part of a new and growing industry expanding across North Carolina and the South, with 21 plants – 15 of them built in the last decade -- that clear cut forests and compact wood into pellets to ship overseas to Europe to burn in power plants. The demand is driven by a European climate change policy that incorrectly treats wood biomass pollution as harmless or carbon neutral.
Numerous studies, including a study commissioned by the Southern Environmental Law Center, debunk this myth and show the industry actually puts as much or more carbon pollution into the air than the fuels it replaces. A 2018 study by the Environmental Integrity Project found that the 21 U.S. wood pellet mills exporting to Europe emit a total of 3.1 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, along with 2,500 tons of particulate matter (soot), 3,200 tons of nitrogen oxides, 2,100 tons of carbon monoxide, and 7,000 tons of volatile organic compounds.
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Researchers in the US have developed a catalytic upcycling process using platinum nanoparticles supported on perovskites to convert single-use polyethylene (PE) (such as grocery bags) into value-added high-quality liquid products (such as motor oils and waxes). An open-access paper on their work is published in ACS Central Science. Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced worldwide each year, and the majority of these materials are discarded after a single use.
GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. Open burning of agricultural wastes and devastating forest fires in California severely degrade air quality in the state.
A new approach developed by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) could alleviate that situation a bit by using waste heat from other industrial processes. Low-grade waste heat is used to restore the concentration difference in RED.
The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. FastOx technology, developed by Sierra Energy and supported by grant funding from the Department of Defense and the California Energy Commission, uses oxygen and steam to heat waste to 4,000°F (2,200°C). Waste is fed into the top of the gasifier vessel through an airlock.
A partnership comprising AkzoNobel, Van Gansewinkel, Air Liquide, AVR and Enerkem is proposing to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Rotterdam in collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam, the City of Rotterdam, the province of South Holland and InnovationQuarter.
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A team of researchers in Italy has transformed chars—the least valuable by-product of waste-tire pyrolysis—into highly efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in alkaline fuel cells and metal air batteries. The dramatic growth in the number of combustion engine powered vehicles is responsible in large part for our environmental problems, both due to the emission of greenhouse gases and in terms of solid waste disposal.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a request for information ( DE-FOA-0001607 ) on lower-grade waste heat recovery technologies. quadrillion BTU of energy was wasted mainly in the form of heat. Q of waste heat. ARPA-E Waste Heat Recovery
Lithium Australia NL reported that its wholly owned subsidiary VSPC Ltd has successfully produced Li-ion battery cathode material, and Li-ion batteries (LIBs), from tri-lithium phosphate produced directly from mine waste using the SiLeach process. LFP and batteries from waste.
Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China have selectively synthesized gasoline- and jet-fuel range C 7 -C 8 cycloalkanes and aromatics by the methanolysis of poly(ethyleneterephthalate) (PET) waste, followed by the solvent-free hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO).
Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity. Materials Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery
Compared to other waste heat recovery systems, the E1 requires only minor up front engineering scope and no operation by the customer. It has long been our goal to be known as the ‘Intel Inside,’ or in our case, the ‘Alphabet Inside’ of waste heat recovery.
To “recharge”, the TRAB uses low-grade waste heat from an outside source. 2 through acid addition to the regenerated catholyte to decrease pH and dissolve Cu(OH) 2 precipitates, suggesting that an inexpensive acid or a waste acid could be used to improve performance.
Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. Fulcrum’s Centerpoint plant will be the company’s second waste-to-fuels plant.
Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. The resulting technology can also be applied to harvesting wasted heat energy in power plants.
With the goal of boosting the circular economy, energy efficiency and emissions reduction, SEAT is currently working on the Life Methamorphosis project to obtain biomethane from previously selected waste and animal slurry from a farm in Lleida. The European Union is going to limit to 10% the amount of municipal waste that can be dumped in landfills by 2035. For this reason, converting waste into vehicular biofuel is one solution to this environmental challenge.
Brightmark Energy , a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, closed a $260-million financing package for the construction of the US’ first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, which will be located in Ashley, Indiana.
In May, researchers at MIT and Stanford University reported the development of new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 ?Celsius. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery
Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery
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Biogas facilities produce renewable gas mainly by fermenting biological waste. In countries with a large forestry sector, such as Finland or Sweden, there is a high potential for the production of SNG from waste wood.
The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85
Tesla's manufacturing struggles to build the Model 3 at its Fremont, California, factory have been well documented. The same can't be said for its partner Panasonic, as it struggles to build enough new lithium-ion batteries to power them. A report by Business Insider, quoting three current and former employees, says that the company scraps enough. battery fire
Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China report a two-step method for the synthesis of jet-fuel-range high-density polycycloalkanes from polycarbonate waste under mild conditions. Strategy for the synthesis of jet fuel range C 13 -C 15 polycycloalkanes with PC wastes.
Berlin-based Graforce Hydro GmbH, the developer of a plasma electrolyzer—the Plasmalyzer —is applying its technology for the highly efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water. Only purified water and oxygen remain as waste products.
Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.
Waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer Enerkem has successfully produced a clean, renewable bio-dimethyl ether (Bio-DME), a by-product of biomethanol, that could replace the use of diesel fuel in the transportation sector. Using the company’s proprietary thermochemical technology, its innovation group has tested and validated the production of fuel-grade bio-DME made from unrecoverable carbon-rich municipal solid waste.
Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. This is a clever idea, and low-grade waste heat is everywhere.
A prototype automotive waste heat recovery system has been fired up on a recently commissioned test rig at the University of Brighton. The organic Rankine cycle test rig uses a novel linear free piston expander from Libertine ( earlier post ) to overcome the technical and economic barriers to using Rankine cycle technology for automotive waste heat recovery. Engines Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery
Zero Waste Energy, LLC (ZWE) broke ground on an anaerobic digestion facility in South San Francisco, CA that will convert organic waste into compressed natural gas (CNG) and compost. The Blue Line Biogenic CNG facility will convert 11,200 TPY of food and green waste into 100,000+ diesel equivalent gallons of CNG fuel. and Zero Waste Energy, LLC. The project addresses numerous AB 32 requirements, diverting almost 95% of the organic waste feedstock from landfills.
Opcon, in collaboration with Wallenius Marine, recently completed the first reference installation of its Waste Heat Recovery technology for ocean-going vessels in a project supported by the Swedish Energy Agency. Engines Fuel Efficiency Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery
The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers. The Rankine Cycle transfers waste heat to a working fluid at a constant pressure. Current ORCs on the market aimed at a too high a waste energy flow.
Since 2010, SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has improved its production-related environmental footprint by 34% on average with measures to emit less CO 2 and fewer volatile organic compounds, generate less waste and consume less water and energy. Over the next few months, the company will implement measures designed to reduce production waste by up to 60% in the next six years. less waste.
Recently, considerable and increasing attention has been paid to the management or reuse of waste lubricating oil, particularly engine oil.
Among the different methods for engine waste heat recovery proposed in the literature, Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) have the highest chance to couple effectiveness and technological readiness for the application to internal combustion engines of both conventional and hybrid vehicles.
An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. Currently the waste is turned to landfill; this is very costly and can become a major environmental problem.
a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has raised C$152.6 With its proprietary thermochemical process, Enerkem converts non-recyclable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely used chemical intermediates. Canada-based Enerkem Inc.,
The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. Engines Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery
Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The Siemens system can generate electricity from waste heat of only about 300 ?C.
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10 Brain Exercises That Boost Memory
Keep your brain as healthy and fit as your body with these simple tips.
Linda Melone
Learning new things is one of the best ways to improve brain health.Getty Images
We don’t just lose muscle over time — our brains can atrophy, too. More specifically, your brain's cognitive reserve — its ability to withstand neurological damage due to aging and other factors without showing visible signs of slowing or memory loss — diminishes through the years. That can make it more difficult to perform mental tasks. But just as weight workouts add lean muscle to your body and help you retain more muscle in your later years, researchers now believe that following a brain-healthy lifestyle and performing regular, targeted brain exercises can also increase your brain's cognitive reserve.
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In one of the most detailed studies on the connection between lifestyle and dementia risk to date, researchers found that people who participate in multiple healthy behaviors significantly reduce their risk for dementia. The 2013 study, published in PLOS ONE, looked at 2,235 men for 30 years and measured their participation in five healthy lifestyle behaviors: non-smoking, optimal BMI, high fruit and vegetable intake, regular physical activity, and low to moderate alcohol intake. The study participants who followed four or all five of the behaviors were about 60 percent less likely to develop cognitive impairment and dementia.
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"Approaches to brain health include a well-balanced diet low in fat, low in cholesterol, and high in antioxidants," says Robert Bender, MD, medical director of the Johnny Orr Memory Center and Healthy Aging Institute in Des Moines, Iowa.
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In addition to good nutrition, regular exercise can promote vascular health to help protect brain tissue. Avoiding ruts and boredom is also critical. "The brain wants to learn new things," says Dr. Bender, noting that some researchers believe that people are more vulnerable to dementia when they pay less attention to the things around them. "When the brain is passive, it has a tendency to atrophy," he adds. For this reason, sedentary and relatively passive activities, such as sitting in front of a TV for hours a day, can be detrimental to brain health over time.
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On top of a healthy diet and regular exercise, there are ways to give your brain its own workout routine — without emptying your wallet. Although brain training software is everywhere these days, it has yet to show any significant neurological benefits for older adults. In a 2014 review published in PLOS Medicine, Australian researchers looked at 52 different studies on computerized cognitive training on a total 4,885 participants and found that the games are not particularly effective in improving brain performance.
Experts recommend sticking to brain training that involves real-world activities. Exercises to strengthen brain function should offer novelty and challenge. "Almost any silly suggestion can work," says David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. "Drive home via a different route; brush your teeth with your opposite hand. The brain works through associations [which is why it's easier to memorize lyrics to a song than it is to try and remember the same words without music], so the more senses you involve the better."
Your morning newspaper is a great place to start. "Simple games like Sudoku and word games are good, as well as comic strips where you find things that are different from one picture to the next," says John E. Morley, MD, director of St. Louis University's Division of Geriatric Medicine and author of The Science of Staying Young. In addition to word games, Dr. Morley recommends the following exercises to sharpen your mental skills:
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Test your recall. Make a list — of grocery items, things to do, or anything else that comes to mind — and memorize it. An hour or so later, see how many items you can recall. Make items on the list as challenging as possible for the greatest mental stimulation.
Let the music play. Learn to play a musical instrument or join a choir. Studies show that learning something new and complex over a longer period of time is ideal for the aging mind.
Do math in your head. Figure out problems without the aid of pencil, paper, or computer; you can make this more difficult — and athletic — by walking at the same time.
Take a cooking class. Learn how to cook a new cuisine. Cooking uses a number of senses: smell, touch, sight, and taste, which all involve different parts of the brain.
Learn a foreign language. The listening and hearing involved stimulates the brain. What’s more, a rich vocabulary has been linked to a reduced risk for cognitive decline.
Create word pictures. Visualize the spelling of a word in your head, then try and think of any other words that begin (or end) with the same two letters.
Draw a map from memory. After returning home from visiting a new place, try to draw a map of the area; repeat this exercise each time you visit a new location.
Challenge your taste buds. When eating, try to identify individual ingredients in your meal, including subtle herbs and spices.
Refine your hand-eye abilities. Take up a new hobby that involves fine-motor skills, such as knitting, drawing, painting, assembling a puzzle, etc.
Learn a new sport. Start doing an athletic exercise that utilizes both mind and body, such as yoga, golf, or tennis.
Soon people will realize that they can take steps to keep their brains healthy, just as they know they can prevent heart disease by taking certain actions, says Bender. "In the coming decade, I predict brain wellness to be right up there with heart health — now that there's proof that living a brain-healthy lifestyle works!”
Sarah McNaughton also contributed to this report.
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Brexit: Business leaders react to Leave vote
British business will weather the storm of Brexit, claim business leaders
by Richard Crump | Writer - June 24, 2016
Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General
“The British people’s vote to leave the EU is a momentous turning point in our history. The country has spoken and it’s for us all to listen.
“Many businesses will be concerned and need time to assess the implications. But they are used to dealing with challenge and change and we should be confident they will adapt.
“The urgent priority now is to reassure the markets. We need strong and calm leadership from the Government, working with the Bank of England, to shore up confidence and stability in the economy.
“The choices we make over the coming months will affect generations to come. This is not a time for rushed decisions.
“The CBI will be consulting its members and business is committed to working with Government to shape the best possible conditions for future prosperity.”
Simon Walker, Director General of the Institute of Directors
“While this may not have been the result that the majority of our members wanted, Britain has voted to leave the EU, and it is now imperative that our political leaders manage the transition as smoothly as possible. The weeks and months ahead are going to be a nervy time for business leaders, so they have to know that the Government is focussed on maintaining stability while a new relationship with the EU is established.
“British businesses are resilient and, with their characteristic ingenuity, they will weather this storm. It is now beholden on politicians to negotiate a deal with European leaders which preserves the ability of British firms to trade easily with the remaining member states. Even once we have left, the EU will continue to be our biggest trading partner, and the first destination for many companies when they start to export. One thing the Government must do immediately is to guarantee the right to remain of EU citizens currently in the UK. Companies do not want to have to worry about losing valued staff.”
Before the referendum, a survey of IoD members revealed that, despite concerns about the effect of Brexit on trade and access to skills, businesses leaders saw potential improvements to employment regulations. Half of directors thought that the UK could be an economic success outside of the EU.
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“While it is not the result many businesses wanted, it’s the democratic will of our nation. The Government must move very quickly to stabilise the economy, reassure the markets and shore-up business confidence.
“The process of leaving the Union will take some time, and the Government should not rush to instigate Article 50 and the formal exit process, while there is so much uncertainty. Ministers must think carefully about our negotiating position while setting out a clear roadmap for establishing a new deal with the EU which remains our biggest market and trading partner.
“We need a clear vision for a new relationship between the UK and the EU, but we must also avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water. In the complex task of unpicking the UK from EU regulation and legislation, the Government must tread carefully, keeping if we can a trading relationship with the single market, avoiding dramatic overnight changes and not becoming bogged down to the detriment of making long-awaited and much-needed decisions on projects vital to our future economic prosperity.
“We must also ensure that the skilled workers we need are still encouraged and enabled to live and work in the UK.”
Adam Marshall, British Chambers of Commerce acting director general
“In the wake of the electorate’s historic decision to leave the European Union, the immediate priorities for UK business are market stability and political clarity.
“Some business people will be pleased with the result, and others resigned to it. Yet all companies will expect swift, decisive, and coordinated action from the government and the Bank of England to stabilise markets if trading conditions or the availability of capital change dramatically.
“Firms across the UK want an immediate and unambiguous statement from the Prime Minister on next steps, along with a clear timeline for the UK’s exit from the European Union.
“Business will also want to see a detailed plan to support the economy during the coming transition period – as confidence, investment, hiring and growth would all be deeply affected by a prolonged period of uncertainty. If ever there were a time to ditch the straight-jacket of fiscal rules for investment in a better business infrastructure, this is it.
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“Firms want help to get Britain back to business at a time of great uncertainty. The health of the economy must be the number one priority – not the Westminster political post-mortem.”
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President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with President-elect Donald Trump (L) following a meeting in the Oval Office in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to blame the Obama administration for not responding aggressively enough to Russian hacking of Democratic targets in the 2016 U.S. election — cyberattacks underpinning the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers.
Trump's first response to special counsel Robert Mueller's initial charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics came in tweets the president posted while at his golf resort in Scotland, two days before a high-stakes summit in Finland with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
"The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration," Trump tweeted. "Why didn't they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?
The indictment announced Friday said the Russians hacked into Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications as part of a broad conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in an American election that ended up putting Trump in the White House.
U.S. intelligence agencies have said Moscow was aiming to help the Trump campaign and harm Clinton's bid.
The 29-page indictment lays out how, months before Americans voted in November 2016, Russians schemed to break into key Democratic email accounts, including those belonging to Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Stolen emails, many politically damaging for Clinton, appeared on WikiLeaks in the campaign's final stretch.
The charges say the Russian defendants, using a persona known as Guccifer 2.0, in August 2016 contacted a person in touch with the Trump campaign to offer help. And they say that on the same day Trump, in a speech, urged Russia to find Clinton's missing emails, Russian hackers tried for the first time to break into email accounts used by her personal office.
Mueller did not allege that Trump campaign associates were involved in the hacking effort, that Americans were knowingly in touch with Russian intelligence officers or that any vote tallies were altered by hacking.
The White House seized on those points in a statement that offered no condemnation of Russian election interference.
Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about Russian involvement in the hacking while being accused by Democrats of cozying up to Putin. Trump, hours before the indictment was made public, complained about the Russia investigation hours, saying the "stupidity" was making it "very hard to do something with Russia."
The Kremlin denied anew that it tried to sway the election. "The Russian state has never interfered and has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections," said Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov.
The indictment identifies the defendants as officers with Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, also known as GRU. If that link is established, it would shatter the Kremlin denials of the Russian state's involvement in the U.S. elections, given that the GRU is part of the state machine.
The Russian defendants are not in custody, and it is not clear they will ever appear in an American court.
The indictment accuses the Russian hackers, starting in March 2016, of covertly monitoring the computers of dozens of Democratic officials and volunteers, implanting malicious computer code known as malware to explore the networks and steal data, and sending phishing emails to gain access to accounts.
One attempt at interference came hours after Trump, in a July 27, 2016, speech, suggested Russians look for emails that Clinton said she had deleted from her tenure as secretary of state.
"Russia, if you're listening," Trump said, "I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
That evening, the indictment says, the Russians attempted to break into email accounts used by Clinton's personal office, along with 76 Clinton campaign email addresses.
By June 2016, the defendants, relying on fictional personas such as DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, began planning the release of tens of thousands of stolen emails, the indictment alleges.
The Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks displayed the campaign's private communications, including deliberations about messaging that played into attacks that Clinton was calculating and a political flip-flopper. Private speeches she gave to financial industry firms were particularly damaging within the left wing of the Democratic party and among independents frustrated with the influence of Wall Street in politics.
The indictment alleges that Guccifer 2.0 was in touch with multiple Americans in the summer of 2016 about the pilfered material, including an unidentified congressional candidate who requested and then received stolen information.
On Aug. 15, 2016, the indictment says, Guccifer 2.0 reached out to someone in contact with the Trump campaign and asked the person if they had seen anything "interesting in the docs I posted?" Guccifer 2.0 said it would be a "great pleasure" to help.
Prosecutors say weeks later, Guccifer 2.0 referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked the person, "what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign." The person responded, "(p)retty standard."
The indictment doesn't identify the person, though longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone acknowledged Friday, through his lawyer, a "24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0."
"This exchange is now entirely public and provides no evidence of collaboration or collusion with Guccifer 2.0 or anyone else in the alleged hacking of the DNC emails," said lawyer Grant Smith.
The charges come as Mueller continues to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Before Friday, 20 people and three companies had been charged in the investigation.
Defendants include four former Trump campaign and White House aides, three of whom have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate, and 13 Russians accused in a powerful social media campaign to sway U.S. public opinion in 2016.
Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said on Twitter that it was time to end the investigation since "no Americans are involved" in Friday's indictment. But with Mueller still investigating, it's not known whether further indictments are taking shape or will.
Colvin reported from Glasgow, Scotland. Associated Press writers Darlene Superville, Richard Lardner, Desmond Butler and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington and Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.
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First Coast Foodies at TPC: Going to THE PLAYERS? Bring your appetite; Check out the Foodies Trail
This year, organizers released the Foodies Fan Journey, kind of like a foodie trail you can tour to give you the ultimate foodie experience.
Author: Melissa Guz
Published: 8:08 PM EDT March 13, 2019
Updated: 10:23 AM EDT March 14, 2019
Get the chance to sample foods from all across the First Coast while you're at THE PLAYERS.
This year, organizers released the Foodies Fan Journey, kind of like a foodie trail that you can tour to give you the ultimate foodie experience. On the trail, there are 11 markers, but nine of them are food-related stops.
Each of the nine stops features restaurants on the First Coast. Their menus highlight their signature dishes.
If you're interested in touring the foodie trail, print out the map below and make sure you have comfortable shoes! It's quite the hike!
Click here to see a larger/printable version of the map.
1) Food Court inside THE PLAYERS Welcome Experience
First on the list, though it's marked No. 2 on the map, is the Food Court inside the Welcome Experience. Located on your left when you walk in, you'll find restaurants that are popular within 5 Points and the San Marco areas: Bono's Pit Bar-B-Q, Firehouse Subs, Hawkers Asian Street Fare, M Shack and Tropical Smoothie
Try the curry chicken at Hawkers, found in the Food Court at THE PLAYERS Welcome Experience.
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2) Daily's Grab-N-Go inside THE PLAYERS Welcome Experience
Up next is Daily's Grab-N-Go where you can pick up a limited selection of drinks and snacks found within Daily's gas stations. Keep in mind that it's marked No. 3 on the map. Despite showing that the stop is across from the Food Court, it is located right next to the other restaurant tents.
Perhaps one of the best deals this place offers is the $5 bottomless lemonade and tea. Keep in mind, however, that there are no Daily's tents throughout the course, so this deal is only beneficial if you're going to remain near the Welcome Experience.
3) Taste of Jax between the 11th and 15th hole
Marked No. 4 on the map, the Taste of Jax highlights local eateries, or so it says. There are four restaurants that are featured, two of which are actually local: Brucci's Pizza and MOJO BBQ. The other two restaurants are found nationwide: Cousins Maine Lobster and Zoe's Kitchen.
This year, MOJO BBQ is offering an exclusive smoke turkey wrap. It will only be offered during THE PLAYERS.
Taste of Jax stop features Cousins Maine Lobster and MOJO BBQ.
4) Tacos on 12 featuring Taco Lu
So many people on the First Coast rave about Taco Lu, which is the next stop on the foodie trail. It is marked No. 5 on the map and offers visitors the chance to try Jacksonville's most beloved and popular Baja Mexicana restaurant. One of the favorite dishes: Bang Bang Shrimp.
While there, pick up some free goodies like Taco Lu stickers or golf tees!
5) Trucks on 10
Start your engines, foodies! It's food truck time at Trucks on 10. Marked No. 6 on the map, Trucks on 10 is similar to a food truck park where you'll find about seven different local food trucks: Delish Kabobs, Mama's Food, Island Girl Seafood, Tikiz Shaved Ice & Ice Cream, Pounders Burgers, Up in Smoke BBQ and Cely's Filipino Food Truck.
In the center, you'll also Miller Lite's portable bar complete with seats. Don't forget to bring your charging cord for your phone -- there are charging stations here!
Get some pancit and pomegranate ice cream found at Trucks on 10!
6) The Patio featuring V Pizza
For a more peaceful and quiet atmosphere -- yes, even quiet for golf -- you'll find the Patio, which is marked No. 7 on the foodie trail. You'll find dozens of tables and chairs with adorable cacti plants as center pieces, as well as a fountain to complete the aesthetic, giving you a calm vibe while you enjoy your pizza.
Voted "The Best Pizza in Jacksonville," V Pizza will offer you some of their traditional favorites, including their margherita pizza, pepperoni pizza and chicken wings!
7) Sawgrass Square featuring Mini Bar
If you're in the mood for something sweet, check out Mini Bar in Sawgrass Square. Marked No. 8 on the list, you'll be able to try a few different flavors offered from their stores, as well as their popular nitrogen coffee on tap.
Keep in mind that their donut flavors change every day. If you're interested in knowing the flavor the day you plan to go to THE PLAYERS, check their social media pages.
Though Sawgrass Square highlights Mini Bar, you'll also find food from 4 Rivers Smokehouse on other side of the tent. They are serving some of their more popular dishes, including their smoked brisket sandwich, which is savory and flavorful!
Mini Bar is found at Sawgrass Square. Every day, they will feature a different flavor donut.
8) Palm Valley Village featuring Publix
If you are a Pub Sub lover, then you need to stop here.
Palm Valley Village is not only offering Pub Subs already made, but it's also offering an exclusive Pub Sub made for THE PLAYERS. It consists of chicken and jalapenos... it's quite tasty!
Good news for folks who can't go to the Players: You can ask for a PLAYERS sub at any Publix store and they'll make it for you during this limited time!
9) Wine & Dine at 9 featuring Restaurant Medure
The last stop on the foodies trail is the Wine & Dine at 9, marked No. 10 on the map. This is the place to go if you're in the mood to treat yourself to some fine dining with hors d'oeuvres and gourmet meals.
This stop features Restaurant Medure, a four-diamond restaurant that focuses on New American plates. It offers kale salads, but the more popular dishes folks like to order while here include the Slow Smoked Pulled Pork Sandwich and the Pistachio Crusted Salmon.
And don't forget to wine while you're there. You'll find a variety of wines from Kendall-Jackson.
Melissa Guz is a digital content producer for First Coast News and content creator for First Coast Foodies. You can follow her Twitter and First Coast Foodies on Facebook and Instagram.
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Gymnasts & Groups To Watch At The Rhythmic Junior World Championships
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Jul 17, 2019Amanda Wijangco
When it comes to rhythmic gymnastics, many of the top athletes and teams are from Europe, and several junior European Championship medalists and finalists will be ones to watch at the first FIG Junior Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, especially in this pre-Olympic year.
Laura Anitei (ROU)
When it comes to Romanian gymnastics, rhythmic isn't usually the discipline that comes to mind, but Anitei has shown she can contend for major international titles. At last year's European Championships, she was seventh in the all-around and qualified for the hoop final, finishing in fourth with a score of 16.750. With some familiar faces from European Championships also competing at the Rhythmic Junior World Championships, Anitei has a good shot at making the hoop final once again if she can at least match her performance from last year.
In addition, she turns 16 next year, meaning she's age eligible for the Tokyo Olympics. If she can do well at Junior Worlds, she'll show the Romanian Gymnastics Federation she's capable of hitting on one of the biggest international stages.
Belarus group (5 hoops, 5 ribbons)
The junior group from Belarus has already shown it's capable of medal-worthy routines in Europe, but now it's time to show that to the world. In both the 5 hoops and 5 ribbons competitions, the Belarusian gymnasts won bronze at this year's European Championships, demonstrating their versatility. The group sometimes has timing issues but has a lot of potential.
Belarus' junior group includes Palina Aliaksandrava, Yauheniya Kel, Polina Kovalyova, Viktoriya Padkidysh, Palina Slancheuskaya, and Marharyta Yatseuskaya.
Israel group (5 ribbons)
Gym fans don't usually hear or see Israel much when it comes to artistic gymnastics, but in rhythmic gymnastics, the Israeli gymnasts are contenders. At this year's European Championships, Israel's junior group won silver for its 5 ribbons routine. The group has good synchronicity and beautiful ribbon work and has shown that Israel should not be counted out.
Israel's junior group includes Amit Hedvat, Emili Malka, Mishel Mialitz, Romi Paritzki, and Duaba Svertsov.
Arzu Jalilova (AZE)
Jalilova is one of Azerbaijan's top rhythmic gymnastics and an Olympic hopeful for 2020. At last year's European Championships, she qualified to the ball final and won bronze behind gymnasts from rhythmic's two powerhouse countries, Russia and Ukraine. She's able to balance execution and difficulty well to contend for medals, especially for ball.
Earlier this year in March, she showed her prowess on two other apparatus at the Corbeil International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament in March. She won bronze for ribbon and clubs.
Lala Kramarenko (RUS)
Russia is dominant in rhythmic gymnastics, and Kramarenko could be the country's next star. Last year at the European Championships, she won two of the four individual medals juniors were eligible for, becoming the ball and ribbon champion. She's no stranger to the Junior Grand Prix circuit, having won last year's Junior Grand Prix all-around title. In addition, she's a three-time junior Russian all-around champion, winning three years in a row.
Russia group (5 hoops, 5 ribbons)
In addition to being dominant in individual rhythmic competition, Russia's junior group is one to beat as well. It won gold for both 5 hoops and 5 ribbons at the 2019 European Championships. The group has great synchronicity, especially during the fouette turns in the 5 ribbons routine and the kick sequences in both. In addition, the 5 ribbons routine has good difficulty with a D-score of 13.0 while the 5 hoops routine is even more difficult at 16.3. The group seems to have a bit more control and better timing in the 5 hoops routine but is able to hit both routines cleanly and without major problems or mistakes.
In Russia's junior group are Amina Khaldarova, Elizaveta Koteneva, Anna Batasova, Aleksandra Semibratova, Dana Semirenko, and Alisa Tishchenko.
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The 2020 Tampa Bay Turners Invitational is coming up this weekend, and FloGymnastics has you covered with a live stream. This competition will take place Jan. 17-19, and with many exciting gymnasts on the floor, it’s one you won’t want to miss.
Lexy Ramler Ready For Another B1G Year At Minnesota
In just two seasons, Minnesota junior Lexy Ramler has already made incredible strides for her program. She is the first Gopher to be an All-American on all four events, she achieved the highest individual finish for the program since 1990, and she became highest-scoring all-around gymnast in program history. She’s also achieved a lot individually winning the co-runner up spot at 2019 nationals for both all-around and bars, as well as being a Sports Minneapolis Women’s Collegiate Athlete of the Year Finalist at the 2019 Minnesota Sports Awards.
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A new year means a new season. Gym season that is! As we’ve rung in the new year, teams all across the country have geared up for the 2020 competitive season. From the SEC to the Pac 12, you can expect to see each team bring their A-game—but today, we’re talking Big Ten.
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The 2020 California Grand Invitational is exploding with talent, from NCAA superstars to breakout level 9 and 10’s looking for the spotlight. With so many accomplished gymnasts taking to the mat in just a few days, we’re highlighting just a few of the many skilled level 10 gymnasts to watch at the California Grand Invitational.
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Intel to increase production of 10nm CPUs in June 2019
Intel will begin shipping its 10nm processors in large quantities in June this year.
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American multinational chipmaker Intel is almost ready to ship its 10nm processors in large quantities. After delaying it for years, the semiconductor giant has announced that it will begin shipping its 10nm mobile Ice Lake processors in June this year. However, even now, it is not certain when we will get to see the first laptops that are based on these new parts. But then, it is worth mentioning that Intel is boasting about a Core i7 quad-core chip that it will launch in future.
The company has touted that the upcoming Core i7 quad-core chip will come with twice the graphics performance, twice the video transcoding speed and up to three times enhanced AI enhancements over its 8th-gen counterpart. While that is a big improvement over the predecessor, we should mention that you would not be able to do heavy duty work on it for long.
Intel has said that we can expect to see “multiple” 10nm chips throughout 2019 and 2020 and this will include a GPU for general purposes and server-side processors. The chips will also come with some special parts like an AI-focussed Nervana.
It is worth mentioning that you will have to wait for some time before the devices with 7nm chips hit the stores. We should also add that the first product that is based on smaller and denser technology – Xe-based general-purpose GPU – is due to release in 2021. But then, you certainly can expect some gains from it.
The company is expecting a boost of 20 percent in performance per watt and Intel has also added that the extreme ultraviolet lithography that is required to make the chipset should be useful for “multiple” generations of smaller processors.
The chipmaker is opening the floodgates in a number of ways. The struggle of the company to manufacture 10nm chips has somewhere held it back and given its rivals like AMD an advantage. While some have been able to catch up to Intel, some have surpassed it. But then we should add that their processes are not exactly comparable at all times.
Needless to say, that does not look very good for a company that once took pride in consistently offering the fastest CPUs. Intel has also started offering generation-to-generation improvements without adding on too many cores to its chipsets. With this, everyday users have reasons to upgrade their PC after they skipped incremental revisions by Intel for years.
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Humana Deal Could Bring Walmart Into Patient Homes For Care
Bruce Japsen Senior Contributor
I write about healthcare business and policy
Talk of a deal with Walmart comes with Humana on the verge of expanding its “Humana At Home” operation
Kindred shareholders over the next three days are voting on whether to sell to Humana and two private equity firms
A sign hangs outside Walmart store on January 11, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott... [+] Olson/Getty Images)
If Walmart follows through with an acquisition of Humana, the retailer will partner with the insurer just as it’s moving aggressively into outpatient care including an expansion of services into patient’s homes.
Several reports say Walmart is in “preliminary stages” to buy Humana or at the very least forming “closer ties” like the “Humana Walmart Rx Plan,” that has been popular for seniors eligible for Medicare Part D drug benefits. Walmart is also looking to buy online pharmacy PillPack, which has also drawn interest from Amazon, CNBC reported Monday.
Talk of a deal with Walmart comes with Humana on the verge of expanding its “Humana At Home” operation via a 40% stake in Kindred Healthcare’s home division for about $800 million. Kindred shareholders over the next three days are voting on whether to sell to Humana and two private equity firms : TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Polls close Thursday, Kindred Healthcare said last week.
The private equity firms plan to separate Kindred at Home from Kindred’s specialty hospital company and form a joint venture with Humana to own Kindred at Home. That would seemingly extend Walmart’s reach from its pharmacy and retail clinic business into patient’s homes should the retail giant buy Humana or form closer ties with Humana’s provider operations.
Humana’s interest in Kindred is designed to further the insurer’s population health strategy to keep patients out of the hospital and cared for in lower-cost outpatient settings. Nearly 40,000 caregivers serve about 130,000 patients every day via Kindred at Home, generating $2.5 billion in annual revenue, the companies have said.
“We believe that care in the home is a vital element of improving the health of seniors living with chronic conditions, allowing them to receive services in the comfort of their home, with less time in more costly institutional settings,” Humana CEO Bruce Broussard said in December when the Kindred Healthcare acquisition was first announced.
Kindred provides a range of healthcare services including home care and “transitional” outpatient treatment for when patients leave hospitals to recover from surgery or other illnesses. Humana has a large business administering Medicare health benefits for the elderly and the Kindred deal is seen as helping Humana form closer ties with a provider of home care and related services predominantly used by the elderly.
In December, Humana’s Broussard said the insurer was “excited about the opportunity" the Kindred acquisition "provides to advance our vision for integrated care delivery, as we continue to deliver our Humana At Home capabilities while building a transformative platform for the future.”
Humana’s stake in Kindred, which still needs shareholder approval, is the latest deal by a health insurance company to form closer relationships with providers of lower cost medical care. The Optum unit of UnitedHealth Group in December said it was buying DaVita Medical Group for $4.9 billion a week after pharmacy chain CVS Health is working through the regulatory process to buy Aetna, the nation’s No. 3 insurer, for $69 billion.
Humana has increasingly been opening “senior-focused” primary care clinics that have been reducing the need for elderly to be admitted to hospitals. And when seniors are released from the hospital, the clinics help reduce the number of hospital admissions.
It's a strategy for Humana that was coming into focus before the announcement of the proposed Kindred acquisition.
“Interwoven with our provider strategy, we continue to be very focused on the home, as home is often a superior clinical environment to deliver care and reduce high-cost hospital admissions,” Broussard told analysts last November on the company’s third quarter earnings call last year. “In its current state, care in the home is often disconnected from primary care physicians, challenged with issues on timeliness of care, lacking in robust data exchange, as well as based on a fee-for-service-driven business model.”
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5 program closes.
* Academy at Swift River
* Talisman Academy
* Stone Mountain School
* SUWS Adolescent & Youth Programs - Idaho
* Adirondack Leadership Expeditions
Instead of blaming the economy just state as it is. They just could not shut up those who survived and it is a killer for the marketing efforts.
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Re: 5 Aspen programs closes
Quote from: "Oscar"
Absolutely Oscar instead of blaming the economy- just tell the truth. They, these programs (Elan, Aspen, Straight, etc) just could not shut up those who survived and it is killing their marketing efforts, you are most correct kind sir.
It is funny that these programs are incapable of ever telling the truth or recognizing the truth,( they will try to blame their closing on the economy ,lol) these hell holes cannot hide from the truth of what they did ( or do ) to children in the guise of therapy, because there are survivors that are alive to tell the truth about what went on in these places.
Burns my ears to listen Oscar. It burned my eyes to see Oscar, firsthand what an abusive program like elan and what it's henchmen did to children. The folks that run these places now need assistance in finding justice for the crimes of sadistic physical and emotional serial child abuse that they heaped upon defenseless children- all for the love of money and well they also enjoyed being serial child abusers. Criminally sick people run these type of places.
Sharon Terry ,Martin Kruglik ,and Jeffery Gottlieb the cretins that ran elan need to be put in prison -no doubt in my mind or many other elan survivor's minds about this.
It is nice to know Oscar, that many people like yourself realize that it is not the economy , that it the truth that is shutting down these Synanon spawned treatment centers, And it is coming from survivors lips to the worlds ears.
Damn Oscar thank you for putting things right and in their proper perspectives, And to the survivors don't ever shut up!
Thank you Oscar
none-ya
Matt,do you really think a couple of hundred disgruntled voices can stand in the way of real money being made? By anybody? Pretty naive.
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Whooter
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None-ya has a good point, The economy picture has had a tremendous influence over the past several years and a few disgruntled or even a few hundred vs the tens of thousands who have benefited from these schools, as None-ya has brought up, could not have had much of an impact. If you look at the media reports there has been none (or very little) negative press to support the closings are due to this. The economy has been a much more predominant driving force.
The fluctuation in the TTI will continue and as the economy rises and falls so will the specialty schools that are supported by "out of pocket" finances.
Whooter wrote;
None-ya has a good point
Well there goes what was left of my credibility.
Sadly, I think Whooter and none-ya actually do have valid points. I think the economy probably has been the primary factor for a lot of these programs closing. That doesn't mean that exposing them hasn't helped. It just means that it hasn't been the only reason programs have been shutting down.
Benchmark Young Adult School - bad place [archive.org link]
Sue Scheff Truth - Blog on Sue Scheff
"Our services are free; we do not make a profit. Parents of troubled teens ourselves, PURE strives to create a safe haven of truth and reality." - Sue Scheff - August 13th, 2007 (fukkin surreal)
I guess all the program pushing ed-con pimps are feeling the pinch too. Right Whoot?
psy wrote;
Sadly, I think Whooter and none-ya actually do have valid points
Damn! I finally make a valid point, and it's "sad".
DannyB II
It does have more to do with the economy than anything else. Since 2008 more programs have closed than in the last 20 years. I would love to say this had to do with voices from sites like this one but this just wouldn't be true. None of the programs listed by Oscar were even close to the "hellholes" as Matt stated.
This economy has had a residual effect on corporation and their supporting companies. Take Apple and all the companies that support Apple or Ford etc....plus the housing market being crushed as it was and is. Your house lost money, your retirement account lost money and so on. This is where the money came from to pay for the enrollments.
Parents aren't reading this site or any other site any more than they were 10 years ago.
This is what is sad.
Watch! When the economy gears back up more programs will come back on line. Our job will be to advocate for better oversight.
Stand and fight, till there is no more.
Danny. I don't think it's fair for you to speak for others and berate their experiences just because you believe your program to be "worse". There are certainly enough bad stories about, say, ASR, to go around. Also, just to correct a factual error: Apple did quite well despite the economy. Like I said, I think the closure was a result of both people speaking out and the economy.
I found this article mentioning the neighbors concern:
Outdoor program for troubled teens closing (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
SARANAC LAKE - An outdoor recreation program for troubled teens that's operated here for 10 years is shutting down, leaving more than two dozen full-time employees and many more seasonal staff members out of work.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, which is based in Saranac Lake and has sites in Onchiota and Gabriels, is one of five programs run by Aspen Education Group that will close this summer, according to an email sent to its employees last week by Andrew Eckert, CEO of CRC Health Group, which acquired Aspen in 2006. The email, a copy of which was obtained by the Enterprise, cites financial reasons for closing the facilities.
"While the need for residential treatment for teens with behavioral or substance abuse issues is arguably as big if not bigger than it was seven years ago, gone are the days of student loans for these programs which, when coupled with other national economic factors, has severely impacted parents' ability to afford this type of help," Eckert wrote. "Following serious deliberation about the current market and how we can best apply our resources to serve the broadest network of people, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations at certain of our therapeutic boarding schools and outdoor programs."
In addition to ALE, Aspen is also closing one other wilderness program, SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs in Shoshone, Idaho, and three boarding schools: Academy at Swift River in Cimmington, Mass., Talisman Academy in Hendersonville, N.C., and Stone Mountain School in Black Mountain, N.C. Students in each site will complete their programs before its operations come to an end, Eckert wrote.
Tracy Edwards, ALE's executive director, didn't return a phone message left at her office in the program's Church Street administrative site. ALE also operates a base camp in Onchiota which includes cabins, an infirmary building and campsites, and a logistics building in Gabriels where equipment is stored and staff training takes place. The latter two sites are on land ALE has leased from Paul Smith's College.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions opened in June 2003. It offers a "character-development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences," according to its website. The program is geared for teenagers from ages 13 to 17 who have low self-esteem, substance abuse problems, defiant behavior, attention-deficit issues and other problems. It doesn't serve youth involved in the criminal justice system.
Several current and former ALE employees, who spoke to the Enterprise on condition of anonymity, said the number of students enrolled in its programs has dwindled over the last two years. While economic factors like those cited in Eckert's email played a role, the employees also said they didn't feel enough had been done to market ALE's programs to parents who could afford its expensive tuition. The program costs more than $460 a day, plus admission fees and other charges. Sessions can run from 30 to 90 days.
The employees told the Enterprise that ALE has a year-round staff of about 30 people, including administration, admissions, clinical, field instruction and operations staff, plus another 20 people hired seasonally. Some of the year-round workers who will lose their jobs have been offered severance pay, and some have been offered jobs at other facilities and programs run by ALE's parent company.
"We recognize and regret that the decision to consolidate services affects our valued employees," Eckert wrote in his email. "We are sincerely appreciative of our employees' years of hard work and determination, and their dedication to young people whose lives they have forever positively affected."
ALE's last student will reportedly complete the program in early September, and it will shut down for good by the end of the month.
In addition to the affected workers, the current and former ALE employees the Enterprise spoke with said local businesses that benefitted from its operations will also be hurt by the closure. They said that includes Nori's Village Market, where much of the food for the program's participants is purchased, and MC Motors in Gabriels, which has maintained ALE's fleet of vehicles, among other businesses.
ALE made news last year when a group of about 10 people who live near the program's Onchiota camp showed up at a Franklin town board meeting to raise concerns about the organization's oversight of students enrolled in the program. They cited several cases of teens running away from the camp and trespassing on their property, including one 16-year-old who stole a local resident's car and tried to drive it south before he was caught on the Adirondack Northway. In an emailed response to the Enterprise at the time, Edwards promised to review the organization's procedures and, where possible, enhance them.
With the closure of ALE and the four other programs, Aspen Education Group now has nine remaining programs across the country. Its parent company, CRC Health Group, is a large national health care corporation owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm that 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney co-founded and managed in the 1980s and '90s.
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Obviously you really don't know anything about Apple's stock value or their earnings...lol. But this is for another thread.
It is always fair to write my opinion, especially when many agree. You can believe what you want psy, just ease up on your judgment. Words and actions like "berating and speaking for others" are coming from you not me.
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Let’s Take a Mets Break: Two People Worth Knowing
Aja Zanova/ Dr. Donald L. Rasmussen
Two days in a row, the New York Times paid long and literate attention to two worthy people I happened to know – one a coal-region doctor, one a figure skater.
I met Dr. Donald L. Rasmussen once – at a Black Lung meeting in Beckley, W. Va. Miners, wrecked in their 40s, were milling around, coughing and brandishing tattered papers of denial for medical benefits.
In the swarm was a tall and red-headed doctor, as out of place as a Viking in a Bosch painting. Doc Rasmussen was one of those outsiders come to foment trouble among the innocent folk of Appalachia (as the coal lobby would say.)
He carried a small rectangular box that could have held cigars or chocolates. Inside was a gray object, grainy and desiccated – a slide from a miner’s lung, available only upon autopsy. That’s when I learned about Pneumoconiosis – Black Lung Disease. Most miners had it, the doctor said.
This was after decades of coal-region doctors attesting that coal dust was good for you – cured the common cold.
Doc Rasmussen taught generations of miners and any federal welfare officials that would listen what miners’ lungs looked like after a few years underground.
The coal companies never did run him out of Beckley. He died at 87 on July 23. Don’t know if Sam Roberts ever heard of him before, but he did right by Doc Rasmussen.
I met Aja Zanova when I was doing Martina Navratilova's book. Aja was tall for a figure skater, head up, shoulders out, one of the straightest shooters I ever met. Her career as a world-level Czech figure skater was cut short by the Soviet domination, and she defected to the United States, part of the Czech diaspora. I was lucky to meet her husband, Paul Steindler, the New York restaurateur, who was dying. Aja served as a surrogate big sister to Martina.
I would run into Aja at tennis and skating events all over the world. She had news and opinions and was good company. She outwaited “our good friends” from the East (as Martina’s stepfather Mirek called the Soviets) and eventually she went back to Prague, greeted by 50,000 people in Wenceslas Square.
The new Czech government gave her a medal and restored some long-confiscated family real estate. Aja wryly told me how some old acquaintances looked her up, said they had always been on her side. She died on July 30 at 84. I don’t know if Margalit Fox knew her, but the obit in the Times caught her strength.
I was toying with commemorating Jerry Garcia and Mickey Mantle, who both died in August of 1995, but here is my column linking them. Better I should honor Doc Rasmussen and Aja Zanova.
i missed this when traveling, very nice. The old column you reference, about the Mik and the non-Quick, is a poignant classic. The last line scares the bejesus out of me, though.
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Gerard Pique says Lionel Messi takes Barcelona to another level
on April 6, 2019 at 8:26 am
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Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has said that Lionel Messi takes the team to another level with his performances. The Blaugrana recently progressed to the quarter-final stage of the competition after they secured a comfortable 5-1 win over Lyon at the Camp Nou to compensate for the frustrating 0-0 draw on the road. Speaking after the […]
Gerard Pique unsure whether Lionel Messi would be recalled for the Copa del Rey
on February 6, 2019 at 6:09 am
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Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has said that he is unsure whether Lionel Messi will make the squad for the second leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-final against Sevilla. Ernesto Valverde decided to field a weakened strike force during the first leg at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan and that ended up costing them with […]
Gerard Pique Gives His Word That Barcelona Will Play To Defeat Tottenham
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Gerard Pique has insisted that Barcelona is aiming to defeat Tottenham in the final group game of Champion’s League, irrespective of winning the group already. The match is going to be pretty significant for the visitors who are looking for the final qualification spot apart from the Italian giants Inter, who has shown their concern […]
PIQUE READY FOR BARCELONA POST GRIEZMANN SAGA
on July 28, 2018 at 11:18 am
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Barcelona defender Gerard Pique seems ready for the showdown talks with his employers for his involvement in the Antoine Griezmann sage. With Spain set to qualify from the group stage after an enthralling draw against Portugal and then a win against a stubborn Iranian side, Pique says he is ready for whatever Barcelona brings. His […]
Ernesto Valverde Denies Bust-Up Between Gerard Pique And Lionel Messi
on June 10, 2018 at 5:05 am
Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde has denied suggestions of a bust-up between Gerard Pique and Lionel Messi in the aftermath of the club’s shock Champions League exit at the hands of AS Roma. The Blaugrana had a comfortable 4-1 advantage over the Giallorossi in the quarter-final first-leg, and they surprisingly underperformed at the Stadio Olimpico, where […]
Gerard Pique Likely To Start Against Chelsea In The Champions League
on April 19, 2018 at 9:38 am
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Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde is likely to feature Gerard Pique from the off when the Catalan giants host Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 second-leg. The Spain international has been playing with a knee problem over the past few weeks, and this saw him left on the bench during the recent draw versus […]
Gerard Pique hits out at ‘lack of respect’ from Espanyol fans
on March 23, 2018 at 6:16 am
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Barcelona defender Gerard Pique hit out at the lack of respect shown by the fans during his side’s 1-1 draw versus Espanyol at the RCDE Stadium. The Spain international netted the all-important equaliser for his side with just eight minutes left on the clock, and he celebrated the goal by shushing at the home supporters. […]
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Brentt Salas will play golf at the Division I level Brentt Salas, bound for Gonzaga University on scholarship, had stellar high school golf career. Check out this story on guampdn.com: http://www.guampdn.com/story/sports/2018/06/02/brentt-salas-play-golf-division-level/662425002/
Jojo Santo Tomas, jsantotoma@guampdn.com Published 6:13 p.m. ChT June 2, 2018
Brentt Salas, Father Duenas Memorial School senior, is a 2018 Shieh Su Ying Scholar Athlete Awards Program finalist.(Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Thomas Shieh)
Editor's note: This is part of a series of stories featuring the finalists of the 2018 Shieh Scholar Athlete Awards.
Gonzaga University-bound Brentt Salas is on the cusp of living out his high school dream of playing college golf, something he's worked toward for several years.
Salas — son of Roxanne and Carlos Salas of Mangilao — won all-island championship honors in individual golf in all four of his high school years. Even as a junior golfer, he was a member of Guam's National Golf Team as one of the island's best amateur golfers.
Salas graduated with honors and was a member of the Father Duenas Memorial School National Honor Society. His civic involvement included work as an altar server for Santa Teresita Church in Mangilao.
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Q: How do you connect athletics and academics in your life?
A: Connecting athletics and academics has always been two great priorities during high school. Making it my goal to play college golf, I knew that I needed to find a balance to do well in both. Excelling in both school and golf required a lot of time management and devotion in order to perform well.
Q: How do you balance academics, athletics, and other extracurricular activities?
A: Balancing academics, athletics and other extracurricular activities has been extremely important throughout high school. I’ve done this by making time and prioritizing what needs to be done. After academics, I’m working on improving in golf and then try to find time for me to fit in extracurricular activities.
Q: Tell me something about yourself that most people don’t know about you.
A: One thing most people don’t know about me is that I’ve dedicated countless hours to practicing my game. Often times I have to explain that I still have to be practicing since golf is a year round focus for me since I also play outside of high school.
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Polish[ed]: Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction
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Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction is the only anthology of Polish-Canadian writing in Canada and includes many internationally acclaimed and award-winning Canadian writers. What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution to Canadian literature. It makes it known where they come from personally and metaphorically, what inspires them. The contributors to Polish(ed) are all writers who share Polish-ness, in whatever ways they define it: as a part of their personal story, be it through similar experiences or influences; as a perspective on the world; as a sense of history and of who they are. The collection also features Canadian writers who have no Polish roots, but are interested in various aspects of Poland and Polish culture.
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Leaked Galaxy S10e Poster Promises 'Premium Fun, for Everyone'
Tomorrow evening is when the Galaxy S10 finally arrives, and we can stop all this speculating over what the phone might be like. While we've already heard pretty much everything there is to know about the S10, S10 Plus, and S10e, there's still marketing material to be leaked. Like this S10e poster (via GSMArena).
Our sources told us that the 'e' actually stood for "everyday", which suggested Samsung thought people would go for a cheaper phone for everyday use while keeping a special handset for fancy occasions. It was a pretty ridiculous idea, and this poster suggests that our sources were wrong. The S10 Everyone makes way more sense, especially since the phone is supposed to be cheaper than the S10 and S10 Plus. Only a small group of people can really afford to drop close to a grand on a brand new smartphone.
The poster also seems to confirm that the S10e has two rear cameras, compared to the three on the pricier models, and that it will be available in some sort of lime green. Unless the colours are off, and this is supposed to represent the yellow colouring that's been rumoured in recent weeks. That seems plausible.
Of course this could still be an elaborate fake, and it's not like there's any shortage of leaked materials for people to exploit in this manner. Thankfully we only have to wait another day, since the Galaxy Unpacked event will kick off tomorrow at 7pm GMT. [GSMArena]
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The global health community is gathering this week in Astana, Kazakhstan, to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Alma Ata conference on primary health care. This time around, primary health care is being framed through the lens of universal health coverage (UHC). While everyone agrees that UHC is the right aspiration, the term has come to mean all things to all people, a catch-all with multiple proposed interpretations. The problem with this fuzzy language is that, without specificity, UHC risks being an empty promise.
What does UHC mean, exactly? The WHO definition is the lodestar: all people have access to needed, effective health services and using these services does not cause financial hardship. But which effective services do we mean? How will they be delivered? And how will they be financed in a way that protects people from financial risk? When governments say they will provide UHC, they shouldn’t use vague notions: UHC should be a guaranteed promise of explicitly defined, publicly funded services.
In our new paper, “Alma Ata at 40: Reflections from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health,” co-authored with 21 colleagues, we try to clarify the fuzziness surrounding UHC. Our starting point is “a concrete notion of UHC that makes use of an explicitly defined, guaranteed, publicly financed set of essential health interventions.” Building on evidence from the Disease Control Priorities project, we define a package of 218 unique interventions as “essential UHC” (EUHC), based on being locally relevant, feasible to implement, pro-poor and providing high value for money.
These interventions tackle infections, noncommunicable diseases and injuries, and include surgery, palliative care and rehabilitation. All but 20 can be delivered in primary care settings. We show that extending this package to everyone would achieve the “40 by 30” target in Sustainable Development Goal 3 (i.e., reducing premature mortality from all causes in people aged under 70 years by 40 percent by 2030).
Is EUHC affordable? With anticipated economic growth, by 2030 most middle-income countries will be able to afford EUHC delivered through primary health care. However, many low-income countries could struggle unless their macroeconomic conditions improve; these countries are likely to need external financing for years to come.
It should be noted that even this UHC package, providing only the very cost-effective interventions, will require hugely increased spending. It will cost, on average, about $100 per person—much higher than the $20 per person that governments are spending across low- and lower middle-income countries. These numbers show the perils in advocating that governments must immediately fund “everything for everybody.” This is the right vision, but what’s the financing plan?
To be clear, we passionately believe that healthcare for all must be the goal, and that governments should spend the minimum of $100 per person to achieve this. But where public resources are scarce, investments should be distributed fairly in a way that gets the most health for the money and that disproportionately benefits the poor. As countries’ economies grow, they can expand their UHC packages.
Countries will also need to contextualize and adapt EUHC and use it as one of many inputs into their pathway towards high-quality, affordable services for all. That’s our aim in publishing our vision of EUHC.
We also hope to start a much-needed discussion about what we mean when we say UHC. If you don’t like our definition, tell us on Twitter (@gyamey and @davidawatkins) how to improve it. But be specific about the exact interventions, their delivery and costs, their estimated impact and how they’ll be funded. If you’re not defining these terms, then what are you really saying?
Gavin Yamey is a professor of Global Health and Public Policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. Twitter: @gyamey
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This school is rated below average in school quality compared to other schools in Tennessee. Students here perform below average on state tests, ... More are making below average year-over-year academic improvement, and this school has below average results in how well it’s serving disadvantaged students.
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Test scores at this school fall below the state average. This suggests that most students at this school may not be performing at grade level.
Ask the school what it’s doing to help students who are behind. Understand what on-track learning looks like,... More and explore higher-performing schools in your area to find the best opportunities for your child to succeed.
Students at this school are making less academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Low progress with low test scores means... that students are starting at a low point and falling farther behind their peers.
Ask the school how it interprets this rating and how it might use this information to improve its programs.
Disadvantaged students at this school may be falling behind other students in the state, and this school may have significant achievement gaps.
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7 key trends all sustainability execs should watch
Michael Holder
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 12:15am
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Automated vehicles are already driving big changes.
It is 2018, and it arguably never has been a more difficult, unpredictable, yet exciting time to run an international business.
No doubt overcoming the Great Depression ahead of the outbreak of World War II in the 1930s was more than a little trying, of course. But fast forward 80 to 90 years and the global economy is an ever more complex and fast-evolving place, exposed to a widening variety of risks and shocks — a fact only underlined by last week's stock market volatility.
Today, data is the world's most valuable commodity, oil companies are investing in renewables, vacuum cleaner companies are building electric cars and car manufacturers are leasing out bicycles. Silicon Valley tech firms — aside from having their reach extended into myriad industries — are even accused of undermining, or at least influencing, democratic elections. Meanwhile, environmental damage is intensifying, global CO2 emissions jumped up 2 percent last year and the U.N. estimates the world's population could grow to 11.2 billion by 2100, putting ever greater strain on resources and infrastructure.
All in all, climate change, new disruptive technologies and associated political and social upheaval make building a sustainable company that is fit and robust for the present, let alone the long-term future, a significant challenge for executives.
Yet, according to global non-profit Forum for the Future, by better understanding these complex trends and risks, companies can create strategies that can unlock new opportunities for both sustainability and their bottom line.
As James Goodman, director of futures and projects at the Forum and lead author of a new report published (PDF) this week, pointed out, amid great political, economic and environmental uncertainty sudden and major changes "have become the new normal."
"We need a better understanding of the trends emerging today that will impact the future, how they are linked, and also how we are part of ongoing processes of change," Goodman said. "Only then can leaders make better decisions that ensure that we survive and thrive in the future."
So what are these main emerging trends? Here, BusinessGreen assesses the report's seven key "signals of change" — or areas of likely disruption and innovation — taking place for which all sustainability executives should prepare in a low carbon future.
1. E-mobility and automated vehicles
Driven by air pollution and climate concerns, the emergence of electric and automated vehicles as viable technologies has been hard to miss the past couple of years, and their disruptive impact on the global economy over the next decade is likely to be profound.
Several countries have moved to ban fossil fuel cars within the next 25 years, and with increasing numbers of consumers expected to share rather than own cars in future, city infrastructure will need redesigning to support changes in mobility habits, according to the report. After all, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecasts that fleets of self-driving vehicles eventually could remove up to 90 percent of vehicles on urban city streets.
Clearly, changes to road transport habits — already starting to be seen with the popularity of ride-hailing apps such as Uber — have big implications for companies' staff and supply chains, requiring significant investment in new fleets, charging infrastructure and electricity grid capacity management in the coming years.
But in the longer term, a well-managed transition to shared, low-emission transport can produce major efficiency gains, reductions in CO2 and more breathable air in cities, Goodman pointed out.
"If the entire mobility system is in this state of extraordinary, dynamic flux of the sort that we haven't seen for over a century, then how do you shape it to try and drive business value, but also social and environmental value?" he told BusinessGreen. "So there's a massive opportunity there to think really big picture and reinvent business models behind that."
2. Regenerative agriculture
Another "dynamic change" outlined in the report which perhaps has fallen under the radar in recent years is that of "regenerative" agriculture, which encompasses a range of alternative approaches to farming that, in essence, seek to put more into the environment and society than they take out.
As climate change, biodiversity loss and declining nutritional contents of soils and food start to bite, there is a growing trend towards farming methods which improve the ability of soil to both store carbon and produce nutritious crops, the report said. Such techniques include intercropping — cultivating two or more crops together — carbon sequestration in the soil and using insect predators rather than chemical pesticide. Far from being a simple reversion to traditional techniques, these approaches can be bolstered by greater use of AI, data and automation as technology develops.
"The internet of things, remote sensing, artificial intelligence and a revolution in robotics are coming together to make low-input, data-driven automated agriculture at scale a real possibility," the report stated. It points out that in the U.K., 60 percent of farmland is managed by precision methods such as sensor systems, cameras, drones, microphones, virtual field maps, analytics and GPS-guided tractors.
But while there is a "huge amount of potential" in harnessing technologies to better understand crop growth, tackle climate change and keep track of farming practices in supply chains, businesses also should be aware of the signs of significant change ahead in consumer eating habits, Goodman warned.
"You're seeing on one side signs that farming production is changing slightly, or at least moving into the mainstream, then on the other side people in some countries are actually eating a lot less meat and thinking about plant-based protein in a very different way," he said. Sustainable companies, he explained, therefore should consider the impact of both agriculture technologies and changing diets on their businesses.
"There are signs of a shift in the whole food system starting to emerge," stated Goodman.
Blockchain may have been grabbing headlines for its use in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and CloakCoin of late, but its applications for boosting companies' sustainability credentials — particularly by improving transparency and tracking of supply chains — potentially are significant. Businesses should be striving for increased supply chain transparency, the report stated, which can help to reduce or eradicate material waste, boost collaboration and knowledge sharing, and help decentralize energy grids.
However, it remains too early to be sure blockchain's potential as a game-changing technology can be realized, while environmental concerns pervade over the vast energy used to ensure the security of each transaction.
As Goodman stated, while it is worth keeping a keen eye on, the "jury is still out as to whether blockchain will prove a negative or a positive" for sustainability.
4. Action on plastics pollution
One issue which took Goodman by surprise in 2017 was the rise to prominence of plastic waste and pollution in the public consciousness, demonstrating how businesses need to stay ahead of or respond swiftly to fast-changing sustainability trends.
Moreover, regulatory and business-led action on tackling plastic waste in recent months has instilled a sense of urgency, meaning plastic waste is a huge risk and opportunity for sustainability execs to build into their company plans, the report suggested.
"It is worth reflecting on what has happened in 2017 with the plastic pollution issues, as it is only just now that we've noticed how pervasive the pollution is, because it has reached a threshold," Goodman said. "But what has also been really astonishing has been the really rapid and growing response. You could argue is it a bandwagon that everybody is jumping on, but it is not an easy thing to solve — it is a massively complex and systemic issue."
Several companies have made pledges the past fortnight to reduce their plastic waste, including supermarket Iceland, which plans to rid its own brand products of plastics by 2023, and media giant Sky, which wants to eradicate single use plastic across its business by 2020. Such targets are ambitious and demonstrate the sort of action companies should take over the issue, but reaching them will be by no means an easy feat.
"People have really taken on stretch targets — it is difficult to remember another time when that has happened," Goodman pointed out. "Even climate change — there has never been a scramble to demonstrate stretched targets and ambition in the way there has been with plastics."
5. Retail and consumerism shifts
The growth in online shopping is radically changing the way people buy and sell goods, and the wider impacts of this shift on town centers, employment and the sharing economy are major considerations for businesses and governments in the coming decade or two.
Customer buying experiences are likely to continue to change and reduce high street footfall, but this can shift more pressure onto freight for deliveries with implications for congestion, emissions and other related environmental impacts. Meanwhile, Goodman suggested, unless managed properly, the ease with which goods can be purchased and delivered could encourage even more consumptive, unsustainable resource use.
Indeed, a separate study this week of 151 countries led by University of Leeds' researchers this week concluded that no nation currently meets its citizens' basic needs at a globally sustainable level of resource use.
There are opportunities, though. For example, IKEA is looking at the future potential to lease products rather than just manufacturing new goods in response to resource concerns and behavior change, while U.K. firm Smarter's FridgeCam is designed to link up smartphones to help plan meals and reduce food waste.
"If you can see how the whole retail system is reconfiguring, how can your business be part of that change and shape it in such a way that is setting us up for more sustainable systems?" asked Goodman.
6. Disruption to work and livelihoods
As industries built around fossil fuels are forced to confront low carbon alternatives, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy, workforces will need retraining. At the same time, greater automation may begin to reduce the need for human workers altogether. Yet losses in income or livelihoods can lead to backlashes against businesses or governments, thereby undermining the low carbon transition.
Moreover, the report highlights how automation is eroding traditional routes to development for emerging economies through manufacturing and agriculture, which can affect supply chain resilience and climate adaptation.
The problem is there is still little understanding of the potential scale of this challenge, let alone a consensus on how businesses and governments should respond.
"There is a need for all stakeholders — governments, workers representatives, corporations, development INGOs and relevant academia — to collaborate to identify new routes to development and prosperity," the report stated.
7. Social action
Social media, collaboration, campaigning and crowdfunding platforms are tools readily used by a variety of groups and businesses, enabling them to respond immediately to events with actions that can go viral and gain significant influence. For example, the ban on plastic microbeads came into law in the United Kingdom this year, having resulted from a green activist campaign that quickly picked up support on social media.
Clearly, sustainable companies need to be aware of such trends, but grassroots organization also provides opportunities to change the very nature of how businesses are run, explained Goodman.
"Power is moving out from the center and it is becoming easier to mobilize people around a particular issue, and businesses absolutely need to be alert to that," he said. "The organization form is also changing in itself. It's a radical change in power structures and that provides an opportunity to do things in a different way again and to be much more collaborative and democratic in the way that value is created."
In the U.K., it may be tempting to think of Brexit as the most immediate dynamic affecting the future of the green economy, yet the pervading uncertainty at present serves to demonstrate the need for businesses to think more carefully and holistically about wider trends threatening to cause disruption in the coming years.
"When you see some of these changes coming together, it motivates — or at least it should do," explained Goodman. "This report is aimed at giving a little bit of hope amid all of that flux."
Amid such political, technological and social upheaval, it is no doubt difficult for businesses to prepare for a sustainable future, but such flux also means it is more necessary for them to do so.
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Lord Lucan's final days at the backgammon table
By Florence Walker 5 February 2016
As Lord Lucan's death certificate granted 42 years after he disappeared, we spoke to British businessman Stuart Wheeler about his recollections of a backgammon game played days before Lord Lucan was last seen...
British businessman Stuart Wheeler saw Lord Lucan days before he disappeared. We asked the founder of the spread betting firm IG Index to recount his memories from that last backgammon game before the infamous Lord disappeared forever.
Stuart Wheeler at home in Davies Street, London
We heard that you were playing poker the night before Lord Lucan disappeared, is this true?
It wasn’t quite that, it was either two days or three days before he disappeared. I was playing backgammon at my bridge club, the Portland Club with someone else, but John Lucan was sitting behind me and in a friendly sort of way giving me advice. He was a good backgammon player but I can’t remember if his tips were good or bad.
Infamous for the murder of Sandra Rivett in November 1974, Lord Lucan disappeared without trace before arrest or trial.
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Did he give any indication of what he was about to do?
He didn’t give me the slightest indication of what was about to occur. He was his normal completely calm self. He and I got on very well but I wasn’t one of his real inner circle.
Is he still alive?
I think there has to be a possibility, I wouldn’t lay a 100-1 against it, but I think it’s very highly unlikely. I knew Michael Stoop very well, whose car he was using that evening. Michael received two letters from him written after the nanny was killed, but the same night. And although I don’t know exactly what was in those letters, he was absolutely convinced that Lucan was dead and so I think it is highly likely that he is. Stoop’s opinion was that the most likely thing was that he got on a cross channel steamer and threw himself into the water and drowned. The reason, he believed that Lucan’s body was never found was that the propellors cut him up.
Did you ever play poker with Lord Lucan?
I played poker with him at the Clermont Club, which was the centre of everything in those days. It had poker competitions on a couple of occasions, I won them both I think. And in one of them, when we got down to the last four, Lucan was one of my opponents. I think he probably was a good player, but those were the only two occasions that I played him so I’m not really in a position to judge.
The Portland Club, No 180 Charles Street W1 in 1947
How good was his poker face?
He had a good poker face. He was famous for never showing emotion when playing other games, whether he won or lost. Even though, as we know now, that he was in a dreadful financial situation.
Did you know Lucan at Eton or was it just from when you were both professional card players?
I didn't know him at Eton. I was not a professional, but it is right that card playing was what led to our knowing each other.
Did he ever speak of missing his children in public?
Not that I am aware of.
Lord Lucan's home in Lower Belgrave Square
How intelligent was he? Was it wise to leave his job as a merchant banker and become a gambler?
Probably quite intelligent. No, he would probably have turned into a successful banker.
He had run up vast debts but didn't he have enough friends who would have helped him?
I guess his friends had already helped him so much that he was unhappy about approaching them again. In any case, if he did the murder the motive was to get custody of his children.
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Alan Richman: At Estela, An Extraordinary Chef and What Could Be the Steak Dish of the Century (So Far)
By Alan Richman
Photography by Lindsay Maas
If you are an admirer of Houston St., moved by its struggle to rise above a history of drugs, alcohol, and indie rock, reveling in the hilarity of tourists mispronouncing the name, grateful for the existence of Katz's pastrami, you might enjoy finding your way to Estela.
The restaurant is at 47 E. Houston, an address packed with possibilities. On the ground floor is Botanica, a dimly lit bar where to my knowledge nothing requiring sunlight grows. To the left of the bar is a baleful entranceway, the door held open during my visits with a shiny yellow cord, the kind psychos use to tie corpses to bedposts on Law Order: SVU.
Come right in.
Looming before you is a long flight of narrow stairs ornamented with aged black-and-white tile, a suggestion that flophouse accommodations await above. This is not Keith-McNally-style ambience, a startlingly realistic replica of what was. This is historic Houston St., still breathing hoarsely, still kind of alive.
Up the steps you go. You'll be relieved to discover that Estela is on the first landing—dinner is served, as they say in hotel lingo, on the mezzanine level.
The restaurant is entirely nontoxic. In fact, it's a brand new construction, airy and surprisingly tame. Bistro-style globe lights. Marble tabletops. Exposed brick. Votive candles, mirrors, white plates. You know the look. A bar stretching from the middle of the room to the front window has so much space behind it that the bartenders could fit cots there, create a mini-flophouse of their own. In my three visits I was titillated by the surroundings only once, by a woman sitting at the bar with color-coordinated bra and tattoos, both neon pink. Estela looks more Houston (pronounced Houston) than Houston (pronounced House-ton) Street.
After a minute or two, I understood Estela quite well. It is one of those increasingly rare restaurants—one that will rise or fall not on ambience or hype, but on the talents of the chef.
In the kitchen is Ignacio Mattos, possibly the world's pre-eminent Uruguayan-born chef, not that the competition is plentiful. Mattos became known here for his cooking at Brooklyn's Isa, by all accounts simple, quirky, and brilliant. Then he was known for his exit from Isa, by all accounts controversial.
Estela's menu is curiously assembled, to say the least. The dishes are arranged, according to my inadequate grasp of the explanation offered by our otherwise articulate waitress, in a manner that has something to do with the size of the portions and something to do with the heartiness of the ingredients. That results in the ricotta dumplings (big portion, delicate texture) turning up adjacent to the croquettes of blood sausage (tiny portion, big flavors). Makes no sense to me.
Both items have their virtues. The blood sausage—a beloved foodstuff in meat-mad Uruguay—is rich and spicy yet altogether tame. There's nothing to dread and a lot to like. The ricotta dumplings are impressively light and accompanied by an extraordinarily generous heap of shaved white button mushrooms that have no taste at all. Perhaps that is deliberate, intended to emphasize the delicacy of the dumplings. Or maybe better mushrooms would help.
There I was, enjoying a nice enough meal, drinking an $8 glass of a good Spanish white from a small sherry glass, which I've never liked even for sherry, admiring the sassy and attentive service, thinking pleasant but dispassionate thoughts, when the quail arrived. It was served split down the middle, which means one breast. Also, one foot. And one head.
You don't see birds served this way every day, although the trend is spreading. If you're unsettled by fish with heads attached, you've got more to worry about. Not everybody gets a head, of course. There's only one per two servings. This time, we were the lucky ones.
The quail—it looked like a little dead dragon—came with a pile of chickpeas plus nettles and yogurt. A friend said the dish reminded her of Tiny Tim's Christmas dinner, one scraggly bird plucked off a rooftop with a net to feed a family of eight Cratchits.
None of that mattered, The quail was spectacular, blazingly wonderful. Not just the presentation, but also the too-few tiny bites—sweet and savory and moist and gone. I wouldn't call them mouthfuls.
I was happily ready for meals to come. Mattos was clearly something different, certainly daring, possibly special.
I couldn't wait to go back. We had an 8 p.m. reservation on a Thursday night, when restaurants are as busy as they get. Estela was four-deep in places where it had room for two-deep. Food took forever to arrive. Empty plates remained on tables too long. Flatware was infrequently changed between courses. Our four-course meal took four hours, from the time we walked in until we walked out.
We ordered a snack of anchovies and matzo, the unleavened bread of the Jewish Passover. I didn't make too much of the combo, since on another night it was whipped cod and matzo. Mattos is ever-curious, ever-dissatisfied, ever-challenged, compelled to alter dishes. The matzo tasted like a tortilla chip. Maybe that's what matzo tastes like in Uruguay.
The quail was better than ever—the chickpeas were gone, and in their place were peaches and huckleberries. Calamari a la plancha, a specialty of the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, was dazzlingly gentle on our first visit, tough this time. Cod came out too cool. Pork was overcooked.
Toss Back a Few at Botanica
Botanica, the legendary bar beneath Estela.
— You can't miss the rating, the letter B, prominently displayed in the front window at Botanica and proclaiming a less than perfect Sanitary Inspection Grade from the health department. Hail, Botanica! Why would a dive bar want anything more?
In fact, I was a little disappointed when I ordered a draft beer and got it in a scrupulously clean glass. Nice pour. Cheap, too. I walked over to a full-sized couch against the far wall, started to sit, then came to my senses. I wouldn't want any part of my body to touch that couch, not if I was hit by a truck on Houston St. and carried inside unconscious.
Botanica possesses a classic dive bar bouquet of old beer, old couch, and old building. There's nostalgia in the air, too. "In my poetry days," a friend told me, "I remember sitting in there all scrawny and hungry and pale and teeming with angst, with a large beer and a small notebook, watching a bunch of models crawling around the window for a music video. I remember fondly all that smoking and suffering."
The owner of Botanica, Mark Connell, is a partner in Estela. If that association worries you, be assured that Estela smells great. Botanica used to be the Knitting Factory, but by 1995 it had become what it is today. The music on my visit was Sam Cooke. Probably wasn't back then.
The fireplace works—it was plugged in. (Sadly, it might soon be a victim of renovation, its cheery glow forever dimmed.) There's no TV, no games, nothing but chairs and tables and alcohol. You want something fancy, there's the Ginger Yum Yum, which is ginger beer, rosemary vodka, fresh ginger, and lime juice. One of the ingredients I saw go into my glass looked like a big, foamy, beige worm. I tried not to think about it.
A friend who came with us, a native of Austria, was awestruck. She talked about how perfectly the designers had replicated an authentic New York dive bar, the kind she had heard about back home. I explained to her that this wasn't a Disneyesque dive bar but the real thing, a product of neglect, not planning. She couldn't believe anything so authentic remained in Manhattan. She loved it, as did I.—A.R.
I deliberately made my final reservation for 6 p.m., as early as possible, before the masses marched in. I remained curious about Mattos, eager to see him at his best.
We asked to dine far up front, where the jumbo bar dominates and there is room for only two undersized tables. Ours was custom-made in the shape of a trapezoid and fit snugly against a sharply angled wall. One friend, a Houston Street devotee, insisted we sit there so she could stare out the window at the brightly lit Old Navy sign that looms over the street. She found it endlessly fascinating, the way Bostonians feel about the Citgo sign high above Fenway Park. Makes no sense to me.
Beef tartare looked like breakfast cereal: granola with dried, chopped goji berries. It was crunchy, salty, briny, fruity, and spicy, a flavor combination that deserves a classification of its own. Not umami. Something else. Maybe it was just pure Mattos, never playing it safe. Burrata was unusual, somewhat rustic, not the smooth stuff flown in from Rome by restaurants that make you pay too much for it. It was draped with sweet potato leaves. I bit into one and wished I hadn't. Perhaps it was there for decorative purposes only.
I rarely order steak in restaurants anymore; the quality of the meat depresses me. But Mattos has fashioned what could be the steak dish of the century. The two slices of rib-eye were thick, juicy, meltingly magnificent. Accompanying them were long, thin halves of miniature eggplant draped with anchovies, a dining synergy I hadn't experienced before. There were leeks, too. They didn't look like leeks. They were chopped up. This dish had everything I admired plus a bonus, a taste of the charring so beloved in Uruguay.
We had two wines from the ambitious and well-priced list assembled by co-owner Thomas Carter, formerly the wine director of Blue Hill at Stone Barns. I was enticed by the 2011 Weiser-Knstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Spätlese trocken. I don't just like saying all those words, although it's certainly fun. I love Rieslings that are dry, pure, and delicate. We got real glasses, too, the Burgundian kind that comes with every wine by the bottle. The 2012 La Grande Colline "Le Canon," a Syrah from northern Rhone, was an impossibly good deal, priced at $36.
The desserts were a little too good to be true, inasmuch as the restaurant doesn't have a pastry chef. Turns out a former pastry chef at Blue Hill, Alex Grunert, advises the Estela kitchen. He's a good man to have around. These were homemade desserts that nobody can make at home. The chocolate sorbet came with extra-crunchy crumb-cake topping. The panna cotta—the dessert every restaurant is making this year—was topped with honey and possessed a creaminess that puts it up with the best.
If there is anything wrong with Estela, it's that it allows too many people to come to dinner, but Mattos's cooking is so exuberant, original, unconventional, and compelling, I don't know how you can keep them away. I don't even know what to call his food. Maybe contemporary, but that's so yesterday. I don't think it's Uruguayan. I've been there, and I never ate anything as extraordinary as this.
Stars: Two.
Don't Miss This... Cocktail: Valuable Lesson (rum, Campari, Madeira), $12
White Wine: 2011 Weiser-Knstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Spätlese trocken, $80
Red Wine: 2012 La Grande Colline "Le Canon" Vin de France, $36
Appetizer: Beef tartare and sunchoke chips
Main Course: Steak with eggplant, leeks, and anchovies
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Grandpa Mason is a feral cat rescued in 2016. The terminally ill cat loves kittens, so rescue organizers are hunting for kittens in need of love. They want to make him happy for the final weeks or months of his life. (Tiny Kittens photos/Special to the Langley Advance)
VIDEOS: Companion kittens needed for terminally ill grandpa cat
A Lower Mainland feline rescue group wants to immerse Mason in kitten love during his last weeks.
Roxanne Hooper
Mar. 6, 2018 3:00 p.m.
An old grandfatherly cat needs kittens.
Sounds odd, indeed, but the Langley-based rescue organization Tiny Kittens has put out a plea for help.
“This is going to sound weird at first,” Tiny Kitten founder Shelly Roche said, acknowledging it’s a strange but “important” request.
She hopes someone knows of a cat owner in the area willing “to give us two or more kittens for Grandpa to love?” She even went as far as to put out a plea through social media and CraigsList more than a week ago.
Grandpa Mason is an ancient, battle-scarred feral cat with terminal kidney disease, who is in need of kittens, Roche explained.
LEARN MORE ABOUT GRANDPA MASON’S HISTORY
He was rescued in 2016 by Tiny Kittens, and instead of euthanasia, they hoped to make him comfortable and free of pain in what they call his “sunset months.”
What happened next completely melted hearts.
He’s adjusted remarkably well to life indoors, although he’s still is not a big fan of humans. But what floored them was that Mason become an incredible grandpa to many of the organization’s foster kittens.
“He loves kittens more than anything in the whole world… He lets them nurse on him, styles their hair, and teaches them important Grandpa secrets about how to be a cat,” Roche said.
Mason has raised several litters now, and is “happiest when he is covered in a pile of purring kittens.”
His story has been told on social media, and one of his transformation videos has received in excess of 6.6 million views.
VIDEO: GRANDPA MASON AND HIS KITTENS
His last litter of kittens was adopted out in January, and Tiny Kittens has been unable to find replacements for him since then.
“It is not currently kitten season here, which is actually a good thing,” Roche said. “But we just want Grandpa to live out his final months surrounded by as much love and joy as possible, so we are looking for kittens now.”
They are specific in asking that the kittens not be ill.
“Because Grandpa is old and has kidney disease, we have to be careful not to expose him to kittens who are sick, so we are looking for at least two kittens who are around four weeks old (so he has enough time with them) and who are relatively healthy. Malnourished, fleas, parasites, etc. are no problem – we can fix that fast,” Roche explained.
“Orphaned kittens would benefit most from being fostered by Grandpa, but we are happy to take mama, too, if you have kittens with a mama – since four weeks is too little to be separated.”
The idea to post the ad, Roche said, came when she was watching a video posted to Facebook featuring one of Mason’s past kittens.
Bean Bunny, as she was named, was very demanding when she woke from a nap, so Mason was accustomed to finding her and giving her a “smoosh.”
When Roche was listening to the video, the meows coming from Bean Bunny awoke Mason from his cat nap. He began searching the house for his ‘little babe’.
That’s when Roche realized he needed some more kittens, sooner rather than later.
“Kittens are just starting to come into our local shelters, but they are not yet overflowing to the point where they would benefit from sending them to Grandpa,” Roche shared with the Langley Advance.
MASON’S FACEBOOK PAGE
“We had offers from the southern United States, and were looking into transport options, but I know in a few weeks, we will all be flooded with kittens up here.”
Fearful, however, that a few weeks might be all Mason has, she didn’t want to wait and so put out the call for some local kittens.
“In the meantime, we brought in a three-year-old feral, named Riska… It turns out, Grandpa loves Riska, too,” she said, noting they’re both ferals that came from the same area.
“I thought they might enjoy each other’s company while he waits for his next litter of kittens… they play together, he smooshes her and makes biscuits on her, they snuggle together, and the scamper around the house at 4 a.m. trilling to each other.”
Anyone with kittens for Grandpa Mason can email meow@tinykittens.com. For more information about Tiny Kittens, people can go online.
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Democrats call out Marathon Petroleum for 'relentless lobbying against climate action'
Business // Energy
James Osborne Jan. 13, 2020 Updated: Jan. 14, 2020 10:46 a.m.
Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum "is one of the leading forces in Washington opposing efforts to limit carbon pollution and fight climate change," according to a letter written by three Senate Democrats.
Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY, BLOOMBERG NEWS
WASHINGTON — A trio of Democratic Senators is asking some of Marathon Petroleum's largest shareholders, including JPMorgan Chase and Blackrock, to warn the Ohio-based refining company that it needs to stop lobbying against climate action.
"Marathon is one of the leading forces in Washington opposing efforts to limit carbon pollution and fight climate change, " the letter reads. "As a major financial institution, we believe that you have a critical role to play in shaping the lobbying and influencing activities of the companies you own to ensure that this considerable influence is not condoned against the climate action you claim to support."
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The letter from Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, follows efforts by American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative activist group of which Marathon Petroleum, the American Petroleum Institute and other oil interests were reportedly members, to weaken national efficiency standards for cars and trucks known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standard.
"CAFE standards are now a relic of a disproven narrative of resource scarcity, as the United States is currently poised to become the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world and a net exporter of energy," said an ALEC resolution released in 2018.
While originally written in reaction to the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, the vehicle efficiency standards have been adopted as a tool to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Former President Barack Obama ordered the standards to double by 2025, boosting the average new vehicle fuel economy standard to 54 mpg. But the Trump administration has frozen the standards, setting off a legal fight with environmentalists and California, which has long set its own efficiency standards.
Marathon Petroleum, which was a subsidiary of Houston-based Marathon Oil until a 2011 spin-off, told Politico that the company was making efforts to "diversify our portfolio, including our substantial investments in biofuels."
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Knocking the elf off your shelf: 8 fun alternative ideas for the Christmas tradition
Christmas is speeding on its’ way, bringing with it a variety of tasks and traditions that can either bring the joy or put a damper on holiday enthusiasm. One such tradition that has been making a mark on millions of families the past few years comes in the form of a tiny, stealthy spy sent from Santa himself to keep kiddos in line. The ubiquitous Elf on the Shelf comes with a strict set of rules, moves about your house while you sleep, can’t be touched by “humans” and is ready to tattle to Santa about your smallest slip-up.
Santa's favorite little helper may have shown up at your house Friday, but if you are looking for another fun way to celebrate than bringing out that pesky elf, here are eight other alternatives.
The Christmas Angel
Courtesy of www.yourchristmasangel.com
The Christmas Angel is a more faith-based approach to an Elf on the Shelf-style Christmas activity. Rather than just emphasizing appropriate behavior so the Elf won’t tattle to Santa, the Christmas Angel is a great way to get your family’s focus on serving and loving others.
The Christmas Angel comes complete with a story, much like the Elf on the Shelf, and should be moved each night to a different location. Rather than wreaking mayhem, though, the angel can share with children scriptures, thoughts and service-based activities that will promote the true spirit of Christmas. For more information on the Christmas Angel click here.
The Mensch on a Bench
Courtesy of www.themenschonabench.com
Christmas isn’t the only holiday that makes an appearance each December. For those who love the spirit of the season but don’t necessarily celebrate with the jolly St. Nick, check out this soon to be Hannukah classic - The Mensch on a Bench!
According to his story, Moshe the Mensch was present in the temple at the time Judah and the Maccabees defeated the Greeks, and found himself watching over the Menorah as everyone slept. Now Moshe, the Mensch on a Bench is available to watch over each family’s Menorah, and is quickly becoming a Hanukkah tradition.
Visit Moshe on Facebook here or check out the product website here for more information and holiday ideas, as well as to see Moshe’s special set of rules.
The Maccabee On the Mantel
Courtesy of www.maccabeeonthemantel.com
Continuing with Elf on the Shelf-like traditions for Hanukkah, you’ll definitely want to see the Maccabee on the Mantel. Your cute plush Maccabee will come complete with a story and fun ideas for incorporating him into your Hanukkah celebrations.
Far from the untouchable Elf on the Shelf, the Maccabee on the Mantel is meant for fun and play, and the website encourages families to invite him into the kitchen, play Dreidel with him and make him an exciting holiday addition. For more information on the Maccabee, or to buy this “Kid tested, Rabbi approved” product, get one on Amazon here.
Christopher Pop-In-Kins
Courtesy of www.elffun.com
If you’re looking for something a little closer to that ubiquitous Elf, look no further than the original elf, Christopher Pop-In-Kins. Also known as “Elf Fun with Pop-In-Kins,” Christopher Pop-In-Kins and his sister, Christina Marie, choose families each year to “pop in” on, and have been for 28 years!
Much like the Elf on the Shelf that’s currently trending, these mischievous siblings also play hide-and-seek and report to Santa at the North Pole, but only to tell him about their adventures and new friends.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Pop-In-Kins or want to check out some of their cool color pages and activities, visit their website here.
Do-It-Yourself Christmas friends
Courtesy of www.facebook.com/thekindnesselves
As fun as the Elf on the Shelf and his alternates might be, the cost of supplying that fun through toys and books can really add up. We’ve got the premise - a fun holiday season game with meaning, but maybe you don’t want to spend the funds. One great place to look is here, where you’ll find the Kindness Elves, and how they came to be.
The Kindness Elves were created by a mom hoping to place the focus of the holiday season on positive activities for her kids, rather than just encouraging them to earn their gifts through good behavior. Their main function is to help children learn to help and serve, as well as see the kind things others do for them. Rather than buying a specific elf or book, Kindness Elves can be homemade or purchased inexpensively (any elf will do!). They can then be used each day to give ideas on how to be kind and best serve others. For more information on the Kindness Elves or to learn more about how they work, visit their Facebook page here.
Any kind of little creature can work to serve that same function, including a Christmas Mouse, as discussed with fun activities here.
Dwarf in the Drawer
(www.facebook.com/DwarfintheDrawer)
As the Dwarf in the Drawer once said, “In a box he’d arrived, with a smile quite contrived. Oh, I knew in a snap - there was mayhem on tap.”
In this fun and funny alternative story, the Dwarf in the Drawer was around long before any silly elves came to play, and he isn’t really pleased with the way things have been looking since that brat of an elf arrived. The Dwarf comes with no special rules, and really just likes to play and hang out all year round.
You can learn more about the Dwarf and his anti-Elf campaigning by checking him out on Facebook here. He’s always looking for new friends.
The Shepherd on the Search
The Shepherd on the Search provides Christ-centered Christmas activities throughout the month of December. Each activity includes a story relating to the nativity story. Activities include paper lanterns, scriptures to memorize, coloring pages and dress like a shepherd day.
You can buy one on Amazon here.
The Little Lamb from Bethlehem
"I have come to your home from a land far away to tell you a true story. It's a story of something that happened in my little town many years ago..."
The Little Lamb from Bethlehem, found this year at Deseret Book, tells the story of Jesus' miraculous birth.
The lamb is meant to make Christmas meaningful as kids can use the plush lamb to learn about Jesus, serve others ad celebrate the true meaning of the season.
You can buy one through Deseret Book here.
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State's Highest Court Deals Setback to Death Row Inmate
By Andrew Herreth of Herreth Law posted in DUI on Sunday, July 28, 2019.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rodney Reed's most recent appeals, so he will remain on death row for the 1998 murder of a Bastrop County woman.
In one case, the CCA upheld the state's use of controversial scientific tests in Reed's trial, even though former Medical Examiner Robert Bayardo said the prosecutor manipulated his reports. In Reed's other appeal, the CCA refused to grant him a new trial based on new evidence. During a 2016 interview, former Giddings Police Officer Jimmy Fennell Jr. said he had been drinking the night authorities found Stacey Stites' body, and that he had trouble remembering the events in question.
Reed admits being in a consensual sexual relationship with Stites but he denies raping and killing her. At the time of her death, Stites was involved in a love triangle with Reed and Fennell, whom authorities considered a suspect in this case. Reed's lawyers still hope DNA evidence will clear their client.
Challenging a Conviction on Appeal
It is very difficult to successfully challenge a criminal case on appeal. So, it is very important to have effective representation from a Fort Worth criminal defense lawyer. Your trial may be your only bite at the apple.
In terms of evidence, the prosecutor has a very high burden at trial (guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. On appeal, that burden is reversed. The defendant must show that no reasonable juror could have possibly convicted the defendant based on the evidence. It's not enough to show the case could have gone either way.
Procedural challenges are difficult as well. Typically, Tarrant County judges have a great deal of discretion in matters like search warrant validity and arrest procedure irregularities. Unless judges clearly abuse their discretion, appeals courts generally do not second guess their decisions. Once again, it's not enough to show that the judge probably made the wrong call.
"Scientific Evidence" in Criminal Cases
Reed is definitely not the only criminal defendant, or criminal prosecutor, to rest a case on DNA evidence. This type of evidence is very reliable. It has a solid scientific basis, and there is no grey area. It's always 99.99 percent conclusive either way.
But other "scientific" evidence, like tire tracks, bite marks, shoe prints, clothing fibers, and dirt or dust, may be more science fiction than science fact. Jurors who grew up watching CSI shows on TV may assume this evidence is accurate, but a defense expert can usually shatter that myth.
The DWI eye test also falls into this category. Intoxication does cause nystagmus, or involuntary pupil movements at certain angles. But a significant number of people have lazy eye, or Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus, but they do not know it, because the symptoms are so mild. Additionally, intoxication is not the leading cause of nystagmus. In fact, it's not even near the top.
So, an increasing number of Tarrant County judges only allow prosecutors to use the HGN test in limited situations.
Criminal appeals are hard to win, with or without scientific evidence. For a free consultation with an experienced criminal defense attorney in Fort Worth, contact Herreth Law. We routinely handle matters in Tarrant County and nearby jurisdictions.
Tags: Criminal Defense, appeals, scientific evidence
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Kayakers escape injury as cliff collapses into Lake Superior
MUNISING — Kayakers on a tour of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in northern Michigan narrowly escaped injury when a large section of cliff collapsed near them into Lake Superior.
WLUC-TV reports the kayakers were in an area where sandstone cliffs stand up to about 200 feet above the water.
Van Ouellette-Ballas of Northern Waters Adventures, one of the guides, says smaller rocks had fallen near the group Monday before the massive section fell. He says they "thought we were at a safe distance" and were paddling away when the large collapse missed them by about 50 feet.
MLive.com reports nature photographers Jon Smithers and Craig Blacklock were on a boat and Smithers turned a drone toward the sounds of the collapse in time to record video of it.
Reece told the Free Press the park doesn't necessarily have a recommendation for how far kayakers or boaters should stay from the cliffs, but if these kayakers had been 100 feet closer, results could have been "catastrophic."
Because Pictured Rocks' cliffs are made of sandstone, Reece said they're easily eroded, and can be undercut by wind or rain. While large collapses don't happen often, the cliffs often erode with spring thaw.
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June 25, 2015 11:12am PT by Lesley Goldberg
Murder Thriller Produced by Steve McPherson Lands ABC Family Pilot Pickup
The drama is a co-production with Lionsgate Television and Thunderbird Films' Sea to Sky Entertainment.
ABC Family is continuing to bolster its pilot coffers with a thriller seemingly based on the Amanda Knox trial.
The younger-skewing Disney-owned cable network has ordered to pilot Guilt, a murder thriller produced by Steve McPherson, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama is described as an edgy, soapy thriller that revolves around an American in London who becomes the prime suspect in the savage murder of her roommate. As the investigation unfolds, viewers will question whether she's a naive, young girl whose poor decisions are being magnified under the ruthless glare of the British tabloids, or whether she's a sociopath who brutally murdered her friend. Even her own sister, who comes to London to defend her, will question how well she really knows her little sister as more and more ugly truths come out.
Read more ABC Family Targeting Older Women Amid Restructuring
The mystery will twist through all layers of London society — from a posh, but depraved, sex club all the way up to the Royal Family itself.
Kathryn Price created the series and will pen the script and exec produce alongside The Game Plan cohort Nichole Millard. Former ABC Entertainment chief McPherson will serve as executive producer on the series, which is a co-production of Sea to Sky Entertainment, the joint venture between Lionsgate Television and Thunderbird Films, and BV Family Productions in association with ABC Family.
For ABC Family, this marks the cabler's fifth pilot order and third drama. Guilt comes as ABC Family is looking to double its original programming content over the next four years. It joins a roster of pilots that also includes Tim Kring drama Beyond, and Jon Turteltaub hotel thriller Stay. On the comedy side, ABC Family has single-camera entry Tough Cookie from the creator of Awkward, and multicamera comedy Georgeous Morons from the producers of The Office. The network is undergoing a bit of a rebranding under president Tom Ascheim, with a renewed focus on "Becomers" and unscripted fare.
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For McPherson, who had a first-look deal with Lionsgate, Guilt becomes his latest pilot order and potential first on the cable side. Two years ago, he developed comedy No Place Like Home for Fox, via his deal with the network. The pilot, starring Jane Kaczmarek, did not move forward.
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David Hogg: ‘Great That Corporate America Standing With Me’
Nothing says ‘revolutionary’ like having the total backing of MSM and Corporate America!
Chris Menahan | Information Liberation - March 31, 2018 Comments
Self-described revolutionary David Hogg hailed “Corporate America” Friday on CNN for standing with him and said he still rejects Laura Ingraham’s apology and considers her actions “disgusting.”
“I think it’s great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends,” Hogg told CNN host Alisyn Camerota. “Because when you come against any one of us, whether it be me or anybody else, you’re coming against all of us. And I think it’s important that we stand together as both corporate and civic America to take action against these people and show them that they cannot push us around, especially when all we’re trying to do here is save lives.”
"I think it's great that corporate America is standing with me," David Hogg says of his call for advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham's Fox News show, "They cannot push us around, especially when all we're trying to do here is save lives" https://t.co/kL7RrM6fHF pic.twitter.com/yvz1PpXMxg
— New Day (@NewDay) March 30, 2018
Indeed, organizing a boycott of Laura Ingraham for poking fun at you with the aid of George Soros-funded Media Matters and the entire corporate media will no doubt save millions of lives!
(See the type of coverage Hogg’s boycott is getting below.)
After showering Corporate America with praise, Camerota went on to ask, “what kind of dumbass colleges don’t want you?!”
Alisyn Camerota: What kind of dumbass colleges don't want you?
Parkland survivor and gun control activist David Hogg: They rejected me about two weeks ago … I think there's a lot of really good candidates that don't get into college.https://t.co/kL7RrLOEQ7 pic.twitter.com/9N3teyvIw7
Nothing says “revolutionary” like having the total backing of the corporate media and Corporate America! You really know you’re “fighting the system” when all your critics are banned and censored on YouTube, Google, Twitter and Facebook for having the audacity to push back against you!
Ann Coulter goes to town on Tucker Carlson's show as she mocks "The Resistance" for being ‘lockstep with corporate America’ https://t.co/jYtQ37gXAv #MAGA
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During breakfast, I noticed that the twins were watching me with sympathy, wanting to talk to me.
After I finished eating, I excused myself from the table that had my brother and husband and went to their table.
"We're sorry," Wanda said right away.
"For what?" I asked.
"We should've tried to do more to help you," Pietro said. "Stopped the experiments, protected you."
"You didn't want to get attached in case I didn't make it," I replied. "Pietro, Wanda, I hold nothing against you two. It wasn't your fault HYDRA came to my school, picked me, and the experiments worked on me. Maybe it was a bad thing they worked, maybe it's not. That I don't know, but we can't change the past."
"Do you remember what I told you the first time I talked to you?" Pietro said.
"If I survive, then you'd protect me," I said.
Pietro nodded. "And I still stand by that," he said. "We would've helped you out with Ultron, but it was obvious your memory was still gone, and we didn't want to make you remember. That would've been worse than anything Ultron could've done. But a promise is a promise, and you did survive." He paused and smiled. "Sister."
I smiled and looked at Wanda, who was also smiling. "I've never had a sister before," I said with a chuckle, causing her and her brother to laugh.
"Well, now you do," Wanda said.
For most of the day, I was just relaxing with Vision, quickly getting use to the base again as compared to the cell.
As a silent agreement, we didn't tell anyone what had happened, at least for today.
Instead, the others told us what had happened while we were gone, which wasn't a lot outside of training, missions, and the search besides the arguing that had started to grow out of control.
The party that night was really surprising: Tony had toned down his usual pizzazz for celebration, making it smaller than usual.
It was something that I could enjoy as well as everyone who wanted something amazing.
After the party, when everyone was drifting off to sleep, Vision and I went to the roof to talk, like our usual schedule.
Though we mostly didn't talk: it was just us laying down on the roof, me curled up at his side, staring up at the cloudy sky. Even if we couldn't see the stars, the clouds were still a sight for sore eyes. My head was resting on his chest, my arms under my head like a pillow. One of Vision's arms was curled around me and his other was resting across his stomach.
Vision kissed the top of my head. "How did you like your birthday?" he asked.
"It was one of the best I've ever had," I replied.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it," Vision said. "I talked about it to Clint before the wedding started. It was I who was able to get Tony to tone down the party. Took some work, but he agreed to it finally."
"Thanks," I said, lifting my head up and giving him a kiss on the cheek.
Vision smiled. "You're welcome," he said.
I sighed as I looked up at the stars again. "I know I've said this before, but it's great to be home," I said.
"I completely agree," Vision said.
I gasped as I saw a shooting star. "Make a wish, Vision," I said.
"Why?" Vision asked as he pulled me into his arms, hugging me. "All my dreams have came true."
I smiled as he kissed me gently, warmth spreading through my body.
Our kiss was rudely interrupted as it thundered and started to rain.
"I bet Thor's laughing up in Asgard," I mumbled as we quickly got to our feet and ran inside.
"Maybe that's his way of sending birthday wishes?" Vision suggested, smiling as I laughed.
"Maybe," I agreed as we walked to our room, the only place we knew we could be without disturbing anyone else.
We sat on the edge of the bed together, watching the raging storm outside the window.
"I use to be not so fond of storms," I commented. "It always made it difficult to get rest. It only was good for when I had to run from something and needed my footprints to be hidden. But now, I really don't mind it. It's a...simple beauty, meant to bring out the best things in nature: blooming flowers, ripening fruit. It doesn't matter how bad the storm is. There's a good turnout afterwards."
"I'm rubbing off on you, more than you think," Vision said. "I was thinking the same thing."
"A simple mindset I've always had," I said. "You're the only one I feel really comfortable to say it around. When you've lived with nothing, you really appreciate the things you have."
"Only around me?" Vision asked, surprised.
I nodded. "Even Clint hasn't experienced what I have," I said. "When you have everything, it's so easy to overthink things. But when it comes down to it, the answer can always be found easily. We both have a simple mind, but the reasons we have them are different."
"Well, sometimes the answer isn't so simple," Vision said. He seemed to have planned that line, as if hoping to get the chance to use it. He saw I sensed this and when I turned to him, he took my hands in his and said, "I understand if you are not ready, but I would like to see if we are able to have a child. Do you want to?"
"Vision," I whispered. I looked down, thinking about everything, the pros and the cons. After a moment, I looked up at him. "Yes."
I was sent out on a mission with Pietro and Wanda a few days later. We had to investigate an "abandoned" HYDRA base, though none of us really thought that was truly the case. Vision had tried to come along with us, but I had been able to persuade him to remain on backup.
He seemed more protective of me since we had gotten out, and finding out that we both were infertile made him want to keep me safe even more.
Wanda and I flew in the air as Pietro ran below us, though he often complained that we were going to slow because he'd get ahead of us and then need to wait.
"Oh calm down hare," I said at a certain point. "Even if you're fast, if you're not careful the tortoises will beat you to the finish line."
Pietro just rolled his eyes as Wanda chuckled. "Whatever," he said. "By the time you two get to this base, I'll have everything investigated."
"You really wouldn't go ahead, would you?" Wanda asked. "I mean, you'd be leaving your poor, defenseless sisters behind!"
"Defenseless my-" Pietro began.
"Language!" Steve and I said at the same time.
"Hey old man, you're rubbing off of me," I commented.
"Oh shut up," Steve mumbled. "You're five minutes out."
"I could be there in five seconds," Pietro muttered.
"We heard that!" me and Wanda said. We chuckled as he rolled his eyes.
When we reached the HYDRA base, Wanda and I touched down on either side of Pietro.
"Ladies first," Pietro said.
"Leader first," Wanda added.
I sighed. "You guys," I said. I walked up to the door, casting a spell to see if there's any traps.
Seeing none, I opened the door up and stepped inside, the twins following a few steps behind.
"I don't have a good feeling about this," Pietro whispered as we looked around.
"It's so dark," Wanda commented.
I raised a hand up and a ball of light appeared above us, following us as we went deeper into the base. "Cap, we're in," I said. "Requesting next step."
"At the center of the base, there's a lab," Steve said. "Get in there and I'll give you further instruction."
"Roger, over and out," I said.
The door suddenly slammed shut behind us.
We spun around and Pietro tried the door, but it was locked.
"We're worry about that when we need to get out," I said. "Right now, we have our objective."
"Right," the twins said and we walked forward.
I always had a spell going to let me know if there was any traps that were going to go off, but one didn't warn me until the last second.
"Move!" I suddenly cried, shoving the twins back before I dived forward.
There was a small explosion that went off, Pietro quickly pulling his sister into a protective embrace while I pulled my cape over me to shield myself.
"Pietro! Wanda!" I called as the dust began to settle. "Are you two ok!?" When I didn't hear a reply, I began to worry.
"Help," I heard Pietro whisper, his voice shaking.
I flew through the debris to the two and saw Wanda lying unconscious in Pietro's arms. She looked like she took a good hit on her side, wounds gushing blood.
"I-I wasn't quick enough," Pietro mumbled, shocked and pale.
"No talking like that," I said as I went to Wanda's other side, hovering a hand over her wounds to see the damage done. "Get some pressure on those wounds! I'll call for medical assistance and then do what I can." When Pietro did that, I said to Steve, "Medical assistance required. Scarlet Witch is down."
"What happened?" Steve asked.
"There was a bomb my magic didn't warn me of until almost too late," I said. "Pietro and I are fine, but Wanda's pretty banged up."
"Medical personnel are advancing with Vision, Sam, and Rhodey," Steve said. "Remain in your area until they arrive. Once she's brought back, Vision will take her place. Sam and Rhodey will escort her back."
"Understood," I said. "The door locked behind us, so one of them are going to have to force it open."
"I will relay that to them," Steve said. "Over and out."
I turned my attention to Wanda, seeing Pietro covering her wounds as much as possible, but seeing her blood on his hands making him become more and more distressed.
"Help is coming," I said as I took his spot, using magic to partly heal her.
"Why aren't you healing it all the way?" Pietro asked.
"There foreign particles in her body," I said. "I don't want to take them out because I'm not a medical personnel. They know what to do, I'm just keeping the bleeding down."
"She's lost a lot already," Pietro whispered, looking at his hands in blank shock.
"She's not going to die, Pietro!" I said. "I saved you from death, and I will do the same for her!"
Pietro nodded slowly, trying to tear his gaze away from his sister's figure.
I placed a hand on the side of Wanda's head. "Wanda, can you hear me?" I asked gently, leaning in close so I could see her eyes if she opened them.
"R-Rose," Wanda breathed, slowly opening her eyes.
I saw fear in them: she was scared to die.
"Wanda I want you to listen closely," I said. "The medics are on the way. They'll take care of you. Sam and Rhodey will stay with you."
Wanda nodded slightly. "Pietro," she whispered, looking over at where he stood a few feet behind me. She held out a hand to him.
"Wanda," Pietro said shakily, grabbing her hand and going to his knees. "I'm sorry. I-I wasn't quick enough. I don't know how, but I wasn't."
"I forgive you, Pietro," Wanda said. "I know you wouldn't let me get hurt on purpose." She paused, looking at the ceiling. "Another bomb is going to go off. Five seconds, behind you."
Without a response, I pulled Wanda quickly into my protective arms and Pietro hugged both me and Wanda.
There was another explosion farther down the hall, causing us to skid back.
"I'm aborting the mission," I said when Pietro let go of me and I laid Wanda back down. "It's unstable as is. Even if the others, I'm not risking it. Pietro, get Wanda to the door. I'm right behind you."
"Steve won't be happy," Wanda pointed out weakly.
"Better than my whole team dead," I said. "Pietro, take her and go. That's an order."
Pietro nodded and picked Wanda up, running back the way we came.
"Mission abort," I report to Steve, though I knew everyone heard it. "The area's too unstable. I'm not risking it."
"If HYDRA uses the information they have stored here, we're in for a tidal wave of attacks," Steve said.
"Make your choice: the information or the team's death," I said, now feeling a sharp pain in my side and seeing a shard of metal embedded in my skin, just barely scraping the bone. "Wanda's down, at least a week recovery time, Pietro's too shaken up to continue, too worried about Wanda to do much, and there's metal that's embedded in me, touching the bone. I'm not risking the rest of my team. You may be the leader overall, but I've gotta make a call, and my call is no."
"Then get out of there ASAP," Steve said after a pause. "At least make sure there's no one in there."
"Roger," I said, breaking connection. I did a thermal scan of the area and saw two people, kids by the looks of it.
"Rose, come on!" I heard Pietro call at the end of the hallway.
"There's kids here," I said. "I can't leave them." Before he could reply, I raced to where I found the readings, attempting to ignore the scraping feeling.
There was a brother and sister in a cell, huddled together, reminding me of Wanda and Pietro if they were younger.
"Y-you're not going to hurt us, are you?" the girl asked, eyes wide with fear. Both she and her brother were eight, at most.
I shook my head, sadness piercing my heart seeing the terror the two had. "The opposite," I replied, smashing the lock and bringing them out. "Hang on tight." I flew out to the door where Pietro was with Wanda.
"The door's still locked," Pietro said.
There was the sound of two more explosions in the base.
"Stand away from the door," Rhodey said in our communicators.
We moved away, turning our backs to the door to protect the ones in our arms from any possible hits as Rhodey shoots his missiles at it, breaking the door and sending it crashing down.
The first to come in were the medics, going to Wanda, Pietro hesitantly handing her over to them. Vision, Rhodey, and Sam came in after them, checking up on Pietro and I.
"Make sure the kids aren't hurt," I said as Sam and Rhodey got the brother and sister. "I'll come check on them once I finish here."
"Alright," Sam said.
"Hang on, kids," Rhodey added.
Pietro joined them as they raced after the medics and Wanda, leaving just me and Vision.
"Are you alright?" he asked me, gesturing to my side.
"I just need to have it looked at and I'm fine," I said. "Trust me."
Vision nodded and we followed after the others.
When we reached the medical jet, a medic came to me, examining the metal.
"How's Wanda, Pietro, and the two kids?" I asked.
"The two kids have minor injuries, Pietro is watching his sister closely but he's fine, and Wanda's in critical condition, but is expected to make a full recovery," the medic said, guiding me to a table and having me lay down.
Each step brought a flare of pain to me.
"I'm going to remove the metal, repair any broken blood vessels, and then heal the skin," the medic said.
I nodded as I stared at the ceiling of the jet, seeing Vision come to my other side and taking my free hand. He smiled at me and I returned the smile.
When the medic finished his work, I got to my feet and went to go check on the kids, Vision staying a little bit behind.
The young brother and sister ran to me when they saw me, hugging me tightly.
"We were scared you were hurt bad, Miss," the brother said.
"I'm fine," I said. "What are your names?"
"I'm Lucy," the sister said.
"I'm Lucas," the brother said.
"What happened to your parents?" I said. "Where are they?"
"We're orphans," Lucas said, hugging his sister. "We only have each other."
I heard Vision let out a small gasp when he heard that.
I got down to my knees so that I was at eye-level with both of them. "If you'll allow me, I'll be your mother," I said. "I know I can't compare to your real one, but at least it'll be better than nothing."
"And I your father," Vision added, getting to a knee next to me.
Both kids gasped, tears welling up in their eyes.
"We'll have parents again?" Lucas asked.
We both nodded.
Suddenly, they both jumped at us, hugging us.
I tried to hold back tears as they cried on our shoulders, holding onto Lucas tightly as Vision held Lucy in his arms.
We were giving two kids a second chance, and chance to start over early in life.
Lucas and Lucy had a family again.
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Why You Need a Content Manager on Your Digital Marketing Team
Liz Moorehead
March 27th, 2019 min read
Let's cut to the chase. If you want to see results from inbound and content, someone in-house has to own your content as a full-time job.
Now, inevitably some of you are saying to yourselves:
"We're not ready to commit yet. We want to dabble first to see if inbound is for us."
You'll never get 110 percent results by putting in 50 percent (or less) effort. Success will only come if you commit fully. There is no in-between. (This is true for almost everything in life, so I'm not sure why anyone would think inbound would be different, but whatever.)
Or maybe you think you've got it covered:
"We've got a few people who can use part of their time on inbound, it's fine."
No. No, it's not fine.
You've got a few people who will deprioritize your content strategy the second something else "more important" comes along -- and you won't have anyone to hold them accountable.
As we've spoken about at length before, you need to hire a content manager if you want to walk an inbound path to attain the growth, revenue, and expanded brand awareness you're looking for.
You can call them whatever you want -- content strategist, content marketing manager, chief content officer, grand high priest (or priestess) of words... I don't care!
You just need someone in that seat.
We've also shared what questions to ask when interviewing for a content manager, as well as the most important qualities to look for in a content manager.
But I think we need to roll this narrative back a bit.
Lots of people -- including us -- are telling you that you need a content manager, but why?
Why do you really need a content manager? What do they bring to the table that can't be covered by someone else on your team? ("Seriously, can't the marketers we've already hired just take care of it?") Are the skill sets we're suggesting you look for actually necessary?
Most of all, will having a content manager really make a difference for your team and your company, beyond accountability?
Those are the exact questions I'm going to answer here for you.
But first...
A Brief History of Liz the Content Manager
Before we joined forces with IMPACT in 2017 -- where I was first a content strategist and I'm now our director of web and interactive content -- I was Quintain Marketing's content manager.
Although I didn't start out in that role.
I joined Quintain Marketing in 2014 as an account manager (and then a senior account manager), before Kathleen Booth (then-owner) created the content manager position for our company and moved me into that seat a year or so later.
Kathleen's move solved two challenges.
Coming from a writing and publishing background -- part of the reason she hired me in the first place -- I was much more suited to that role. As a result, I was able to thrive and excel professionally in a way that would have never been possible as an account manager. (Truth be told, I wasn't that great of an account manager. I was the right person in the wrong seat.)
More importantly, however, it helped us centralize content creation efforts for ourselves and our clients.
🔎 Related: The Only Content Manager Job Description You'll Ever Need (+ Free Template & Hiring Tips)
Kathleen realized what many other marketing leaders (agency or otherwise) had not at that time -- mediocre content no longer gets results.
So, if an organization doesn't bring centralized content and publication expertise in-house, they will fail in the long-run.
Through my experience as our content manager, I could not agree more.
What It Feels Like When You Don't Have a Content Manager (Spoilers: It's Painful)
No matter what your marketing strategists and subject matter experts tell you, creating content feels like a burden. (Although some will be upfront about it. Really upfront about it.)
There are those who will be exceptions to that assertion, of course. But, for the most part, creating content -- even when they see the value in it and want their voice to be heard by your audience -- will always be that thing they have to do.
It will always be in the way of what they really want to be doing.
Without having a content manager in place:
You will have some folks who grow to resent your strategic content efforts. Even if you're getting results, their pain doesn't go away or get better.
Marketers who want to create and execute innovative campaigns and strategies will leave, because they didn't sign up to be a brand journalist who is forever caught in a loop of chasing people down for edits and approvals.
You won't have someone in-house who can empower others to create truly engaging content that actually gets them noticed and gets better results.
Deadlines will be missed, strategies will go off the rails, and -- eventually -- your little inbound experiment will fall apart.
I want to draw particular attention to that second point, because this is something that often gets overlooked.
One of the top things I look for in a content manager or specialist hire is the desire to do that exact role.
Unfortunately, it's my experience that digital marketers who end up with content manager responsibilities they shouldn't have (and/or didn't ask for) always end up leaving or cycling out to another role within the company.
Even if they say they want that role, it's not going to work out. That's not to say there aren't marketers who later go on to find their passion as a content specialist -- that's exactly what I did, as did Ramona. But someone either has the foundational skills and (more importantly) the passion for content, specifically, or they don't.
I've seen too many super-talented social media strategists and digital marketers try to backdoor their way into a different dream marketing job via a content specialist role, and it never goes well.
If you don't take this into account, you will hire the wrong people or worse, lose the people you've already got in-house.
Which leads me to a personal bone to pick with the digital marketing industry, as a whole.
Stop Expecting Your Digital Marketers to Be Everything to Everyone
There are way too many of you out there who expect your digital marketing strategists to wear as many hats as possible.
They need to be experts in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, community management, LinkedIn, HubSpot, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite, conversion rate optimization, social advertising, PPC, Salesforce, sales enablement, marketing automation, business writing, SEO, keyword research, brand messaging, website user journeys, privacy laws, public relations, video production, graphic design, web design, HTML, event production and marketing, email marketing, public speaking, personal branding, podcasting, audio editing, audience research, data analysis and reporting, wood carving, baking soufflés that never deflate, predicting the future, and so on.
Now, you're also expecting them to become storytelling, publishing, and journalism experts?
Those are areas of expertise people get degrees in and build whole careers around, because you can't just "wing it" or watch a few YouTube tutorials to learn the required skills to excel in those areas.
Here's a story to show you what I mean.
Almost two years ago, a senior marketing strategist who is absolutely brilliant at crafting results-driving campaigns for his clients came to me with a problem that had been keeping him up at night.
"I have this outline for a guide a client wants to publish, and I want you to look at it," he said.
He shared they were way over their timeline on the project. A fully-designed version was supposed to have been published the week prior, according to their original timeline -- and they were still mired in the outlining phase, with no end in sight.
"I don't know what's wrong with it or why we're stuck -- can you take a look at it?"
It only took me a five-second glance to realize what the problem was.
The topic they had chosen for their guide was so broad in scope -- with no specific problem they were trying to solve clearly identified -- there was no way they were ever going to agree upon an outline, let alone actually produce the damn thing.
They were doomed to fail from the start.
To toot my own horn, this is what my background in writing and publishing has trained me to do.
But it wasn't his fault that he couldn't see that -- we're simply experts in different things. Seriously, some of the strategies he would share with me blew my freaking mind, because I knew I could never make my brain work that way in 1 million years.
Bottom line, asking your digital marketers and other subject matter experts to suddenly become storytelling wizards and editing geniuses is a bridge too far. You're creating unnecessary friction while also guaranteeing your inbound content strategies will ultimately tank, because you're not putting someone qualified in place to own it.
I say this because the story I shared above is not a unique one.
There isn't a week that goes by where I don't have between at least three and five people approach me with a content problem. They do so because they know it will take us 10 to 15 minutes (on average) to solve it together, instead of the many hours (days, weeks, or more) it might otherwise take them to do so on their own.
Why You Want a Content Manager on Your Team
Content nerds like me know how to manage writers, make content more powerful, edit content efficiently (so you can produce more, better and faster), make writing blogs less painful, spot why content projects will fail (long before they do), get other stakeholders participating (and enjoying) the content creation process, and manage competing deadlines for lots of projects -- all of which are inevitably a "top" priority.
We spend our late nights obsessing about new ways we can tell our brand's stories in ways that are more helpful, engaging, and innovative.
We go out of our way to find the content tools and applications your company needs to make content creation and collaboration easier and more productive.
🔎 Related: How to Evaluate the Interviewing Skills of a Content Manager Candidate
We're constantly trying to find new methods and processes for empowering our internal subject matter experts to have more time to do what they do best, while still getting their names and insights in front of our audiences.
This is the stuff we're born to do, and that's why you want someone like me (and Kevin Phillips) on your team.
(Not us, specifically, of course. We're IMPACTers. But you get the point.)
Beyond all that, however, we've seen time and again with our clients that there's a direct correlation between the companies that see significant gains and improvements in digital marketing and sales, and those that don't, when they have hired an in-house content manager.
West Roofing Systems is a perfect example -- they hired an in-house content manager, and saw 1,200-percent increase in website traffic and an 828-percent jump in lead conversions (among other amazing results) from their efforts.
If You're Still with Me, Here's What You Need to Do
If you want to see exponential gains in your website traffic, lead generation, and the numbers of deals you are able to close, you've got to hire a content manager. It's that simple.
And if any of the pains I outlined above sound familiar, trust me when I say a content manager will make a lot of that go away... assuming you hire the right person.
To do that, you need to:
Commit to memory the top qualities your content manager needs to possess.
Download our free content manager job description template to help you get started in hiring the right person.
Use the interview questions and situational activities Marcus Sheridan outlines in this article.
I know Marcus mentioned this in those articles above, but I want to reiterate how important it is to hire for the right skill set and company culture fit over industry expertise.
If you happen to find someone who checks all of those boxes, that's great!
But never, ever exclude a candidate because they're unfamiliar with your space -- especially since some of the best content managers we've seen were fresh out of college with journalism degrees.
If you hire for the right skills, your content manager will quickly accumulate the knowledge and expertise you want them to possess simply by doing their job.
They'll become unstoppable.
And you'll wonder why you ever questioned investing in a content manager, because (in hindsight) you'll see you never could have afforded not to.
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The Late 'Penny Dreadful' Leaves a Glorious, Gorgeous, Messy Legacy
In memoriam of TV's best envelope-pushing gothic drama
By Lauren Sarner
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Penny Dreadful, the best gothic fever dream on TV, ended last week after three seasons. It wasn’t announced ahead of time that Season 3 would be the last, and as a result, the show’s termination is a relatively controversial one. After all, a surprise show finale is basically the opposite of a surprise album drop. But regardless of its untimely end, Penny Dreadful leaves a legacy as one of the most unique shows of recent memory.
In borrowing from multiple novels — Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Marquis de Sade’s Justine, and more, it managed to be the most successful page-to-screen adaptation on TV. Since it wasn’t using only one novel as a source text, fans couldn’t be distracted by protesting, “but it wasn’t in the book!” The focus was on the literary references, the atmosphere, and the subversive takes on characters. Here’s what else it will be remembered for.
Josh Hartnett, Eva Green, Danny Sapani, Harry Treadaway, and Timothy Dalton
Recycling characters whom viewers have seen a hundred times before is a tricky business, but Penny Dreadful handled it masterfully. Every monster or gothic film that’s made from now on will pale in comparison. Victor Frankenstein is a character who has been depicted countless times, but with Harry Treadaway’s ambitious young junkie with shades of modern-day “nice guy” thrown in, this version of the good doctor felt new and unique. And as the mysterious, sinister, charming gunslinger Ethan Chandler, Josh Hartnett gave the best performance of his career with a fresh new take on the Wolfman legend that tied it to both Native American massacres and Jack The Ripper.
Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler
Rory Kinnear’s Caliban/John Clare gave Frankenstein’s Monster a twist that was equally filled with horror and Billie Piper’s Lily provided a feminist take on the Bride of Frankenstein that will go down as one of the most intriguing, intelligent spin on the tale yet.
Penny Dreadful could be a messy show — it often focused on character at the expense of plot and fudged convenient changes of heart, like Vanessa’s too-abrupt demise in the series finale and Ethan’s Season 3 waffling between good and evil — but it delivered the most subversive takes on Victor Frankenstein, the wolfman, and the Bride of Frankenstein in recent pop culture history.
It was the most unapologetically feminist show on TV
Many shows feature strong female characters, but Penny Dreadful placed the unforgivable Vanessa Ives at the center, and gave her lines like “you seem to be a woman who understands why submission to another would be intolerable.” It also made angry feminism fun. Where other shows dance around or even avoid the F-word, Penny Dreadful embraced it gloriously.
Eva Green as Vanessa Ives
It was the most atmospheric and insane
Nearly every episode ensured a bizarre image you’d see nowhere else on TV. Want to see a fancy dinner party with a bowl of human hands on a table? Done. A ball where blood rains from the ceiling as the revelers dance? Of course. And though the dialogue was beautiful, it never took itself too seriously, as seen in scenes like the increasingly unhinged secretary Renfield biting a frog and telling his boss, “Consider this my resignation” as he chewed, or Lily saying, “Liberty is a bitch that must be bedded on a mattress of corpses,” while having a threesome covered in blood. Nothing was too strange or or over-the-top for Penny Dreadful, and its sense of abandon will be missed.
It was the kinkiest show on TV
Penny Dreadful was far from the only show to depict kink, fetishes, or non- heteronormative sex, but it always treated them nonchalantly. Recall Vanessa and Dorian’s Season 1 blood play scene, or Vanessa’s taxidermy fetish (it can’t be a coincidence that she had sex to the backdrop of a room full of stuffed dead animals multiple times). It also featured nonchalant sex between a man and a trans woman and sex between a couple in which both parties are above the age of 40. Other shows feature fetishes or non-heteronormative intimacy, but rarely with this breadth or depth.
Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray and Billie Piper as Lily
It was a showcase of fantastic acting
Eva Green gets all the praise for Penny Dreadful — and as well she should, her performance was the very definition of fearless and uninhibited. Vanessa Ives will always be her zenith.
For most shows, one performance like that at the center would be enough, but she was surrounded by equal strength. Billie Piper was magnetic, Josh Hartnett gave the best quietly intense performance of his career, Timothy Dalton’s every line was scenery chewing joy, while Rory Kinnear’s was tear-inducing, and Harry Treadaway made a role that’s been done thousands of times before his own. The show never did figure out what to do with Dorian Gray, but we saw Reeve Carney’s potential in the final few episodes. Penny Dreadful often showcased monologues and poetry recitals regardless of whether they moved the story forward — but in the realm of quality acting, it was one of the richest shows on TV.
Its end was handled poorly
In talking about Penny Dreadful, we can’t avoid the ending. Fans are not dense, and despite creator John Logan’s insistence that three seasons was always the plan, it clearly wasn’t. Why would the Wolf of God showdown with Dracula be dropped? Why would new character Catriona Hartdegen be introduced in the 11th hour if the show didn’t intend to do anything with her? Why would it spend three seasons making references to Egypt and Egyptian mythology, clearly setting up a subsequent season exploring it, only to say, “nevermind!” And if ratings were down, why on Earth wouldn’t creators announce it was the final season, thereby attracting more viewers? Suspicious fans is not an outcome that any show should strive for.
The nature of its ending goes leaves a bitter aftertaste, and it stands as a memento mori for the age of Peak TV — but perhaps that’s oddly fitting for this subversive, morbid, and monstrous show.
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VAT - the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Dr Vicky Kell, Director of Innovation, Research & Development
Invest NI
As at 1 January 2015 the standard rate of VAT in the Republic of Ireland is 23%, but reduced rates of 13.5%, 9%, 5% or 4.8% may apply to some supplies. The reduced rate of 13.5% is for certain goods and services, including:
electricity, solid fuels, heating oil, and gas for heating
non-oral contraceptive products
A second reduced rate of 9% was introduced for certain goods and services mainly related to tourism such as the following:
restaurant and catering services
hotel and holiday accommodation
admissions to cinemas, theatres, certain musical performances, museums and art gallery exhibitions
fairgrounds or amusement park services
the use of sporting facilities
hairdressing services
printed matter such as brochures, maps, programs, leaflets, catalogues and newspapers.
admissions to open farms and built and natural heritage facilities
A reduced rate of 4.8% also applies to the following supplies:
Exporting goods to the Republic of Ireland
A VAT-registered Northern Ireland business does not need to charge VAT on goods it is sending to the Republic of Ireland, provided it keeps documentary proof of export It must also obtain the Irish customer’s VAT registration number and show it on the invoice (including the IE prefix).
Even where VAT is not being charged, the net value of the sale must still be reported on the UK VAT return. It should also be included on the EC Sales List, and the Intrastat return if the business is required to make one.
The Northern Ireland business is able to reclaim any UK VAT on the goods which it is exporting, subject to the normal rules about reclaiming input VAT.
If the Irish customer is not registered for VAT, and the Northern Ireland business is not registered for Irish VAT, then UK VAT must be charged. No VAT is chargeable on goods which would normally be zero-rated or exempt when supplied in the UK ( for example, books, children’s clothing and some food items ).
Any compulsory extra charges for freight, shipping, postage or delivery should be charged at the same rate of VAT as the rest of the items in that shipment, being either 0% if all the conditions are met, or the usual UK rate applicable to those items if not.
Importing Goods from the Republic of Ireland
A VAT-registered Northern Ireland business importing goods from Ireland should give the Irirsh supplier its UK VAT registration number (including the GB prefix) so that Irish VAT is not charged.
When a UK VAT-registered business imports goods from Ireland from an Irish VAT-registered business, the UK business should pay UK VAT on the import by including VAT in its regular UK VAT return, at the appropriate UK VAT rate.
VAT on services provided in or to Ireland
UK VAT may need to be charged on services performed in Ireland or to clients based in Ireland, depending on the type of service supplied. This is a complex area, and there are specific rules for the following services:
services relating to land or property
services of short-term hire of means of transport
services involving physical performance and events. For example artistic, cultural, education and training, sporting, entertainment services, exhibitions, conferences, meetings
supplies of admission to artistic, cultural, education and training, sporting, entertainment events, exhibitions, conferences and meetings and services related to admissions
ancillary transport, valuation of / work on goods
intermediary services (generally agencies or brokers working for a commission)
training services supplied to overseas governments
Under the general rule, if the service is being supplied to a consumer ( rather than a business ) in Ireland, it will be subject to UK VAT. This means that UK VAT must be charged at the ususal UK rate, either standard rate, reduced rate, zero-rated or exempt. The UK business will account for VAT in the usual way.
If the service under the general rule is being supplied to a business customer in Ireland, it will be within the scope of Irish VAT ( UK VAT is not charged ). The customer does not need to be registered for VAT for the service to qualify as being for business purposes, but some evidence of the business purpose should be obtained.
Reclaiming Irish VAT
A VAT-registered Northern Irish business which buys goods ( which are not for export ) or services in Ireland may be able to reclaim any Irish input VAT paid, by using a special refund scheme. This is available to a Northern Ireland business which is not registered in Ireland for VAT and does not make any supplies there. The claim is made using the specific form, and sent to the appropriate tax office in Ireland together with original supporting invoices and a UK VAT66 certificate.
digital goods
think you might have left out an important section on digital media etc - rules have changed recently in this
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R&D Investment Helps Okotech to Turn Up Heat on Sales
Janette O'Hagan, Okotech, (right) is pictured with (L - R) Trevor Kane, Bayview Hotel, and Kevin McCann, Invest NI.
Antrim based Okotech Limited is capitalising on consumer drive for energy efficient heating solutions with its innovative heating control system, heatboss, winning new business here and in GB.
The company recently won a contract to supply the City of Cardiff Council with its smart wireless radiator control valves and room thermostat control system, for installation in its heritage buildings, the first of which was a local primary school in Cardiff.
As well as in schools, heatboss is also now installed and saving energy in care homes, offices, heritage buildings, offices and the company has also gained its first hotel client in March this year, opening up a new business market. The Bayview Hotel, Portballintrae, installed the heatboss system in March this year and is already achieving savings of between 30-40% on heating costs.
Janette O’Hagan from Okotech said: “The system enables users to control temperatures and on/off times for each room individually, ensuring that the correct heat is used only when and where it’s needed. Our intuitive web application also means that the system can be controlled easily and remotely from any web-enabled device.
“The heatboss system overcomes installation issues encountered by other wireless heating controls in scaling to commercial and public sized buildings and it also integrates seamlessly with any underlying building management system to ensure optimal savings.
“With our first hotel now on board this is already opening up new opportunities for us with other national and international hotels.”
Kevin McCann, Director of Research and Development, Invest NI said: “It is great to see this investment in R&D delivering a return for the business. The company continues to review its product range to ensure it is meeting the demands of customers, and potential customers. This innovative approach has meant the company has been able to look to new markets and expand its customer base.”
The Bayview hotel owner, Trevor Kane said: “Before installing heatboss we were heating the whole hotel, and to the same temperature, regardless of what rooms were in use. Now we are able to only heat the rooms we need, and can adjust temperatures in individual rooms to suit customer needs. Not only is this great for customers, but it has also had a dramatic impact on our energy costs already. Our investment will be fully paid for within 12 months, and we are also meeting our responsibility to help reduce the carbon footprint of Bayview, so this is proving to be a great investment for my business.
“Due to the energy efficiency benefits we were able to benefit from Invest NI’s 0% Energy Efficiency Loan Fund, operated by Carbon Trust, to purchase the system.”
Okotech participated on the Invest NI Propel programme, and was named Propel Company of the Year in 2012. It has gone on to focus on growing the business with support from Invest NI for marketing, design and R&D to develop its heatboss product.
Invest NI has offered R&D assistance of £22,345 towards the development of the heatboss product. Invest NI’s R&D support is part funded by ERDF under the EU Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme 2014-2020. Okotech Ltd has also availed of Invest NI support for marketing and design development.
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With iOS 10, Mobcrush Brings Live Game Streaming to iOS
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with David Bos, head of marketing for the relatively new, mobile-only, game-streaming platform, Mobcrush (free). With the introduction of iOS 10, Mobcrush will finally be able to offer its highly vaunted live-streaming feature to iOS gamers, a feature that has been available to Android gamers for some time. With ReplayKit Live, iOS gamers can finally, and with unprecedented ease, stream live broadcasts of their favorite mobile video games.
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I'm Updating to iOS 10 ASAP! Will You? Take the Poll
Today is the day! iOS 10 is finally available to the public. Sure, I could've signed up for the beta testing program, but I prefer the sheer surprise of a new iOS operating system and all that goes along with the brand new software. By default, as a tech journalist, it's hard to totally block out all news of a new update, but when it come to iOS upgrades, I do my best to do so. For me the experience of a new iOS is akin to the sensation a child experiences on Christmas when they open their gifts, and who doesn't love a surprise come Christmas morning? Will you update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 10? Take the poll at the end of the post and let us know!
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Opinion: Apple's Unveiling Left an Underwhelming Aftertaste
As much as I may have held my fingers crossed, wishing and hoping that Apple had somehow managed to keep some secrets stashed away about today's product unveilings, wishing apparently doesn't make it so. Instead, like years past, there was very little (nothing) that surprised me, primarily as a result of the persistent internet leaks that have plagued the company's product launches for years now. That's not to say I wasn't impressed. I was, although only mildly so. Right now Apple is under more pressure and scrutiny than it has been in decades, to innovate and introduce technology that isn't just of a high quality, but also revolutionary. I couldn't help but feel like the new Apple Watch and the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus were just more of the same; relatively minor incremental updates along the lines of what everyone has become so accustomed to. That's certainly not to say that the new Apple Watch Series 2 and the new iPhone 7 series aren't chock full of great features. They are. However none of the new changes and upgrades blew me away or left me in the type of awe that the original iPhone did.
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Focal Listen Headphones Raise the Bar for the Modern, Mobile Audiophile.
The Focal Listen headphones ($249) belong to a growing sector of premium, yet relatively affordable headphones aimed at the mobile audiophile. Unlike many premium headphones that target the smartphone market, the Listen aren't Bluetooth compatible; but what they lack in modern connectivity alternatives they make up for in comfort, design, and audio quality. Not to mention, many mobile audiophiles will swear that when relying on Bluetooth connectivity you lose audio quality; so the fact that the Listen only offer wired connectivity will be a plus in the eyes of the die-hard audio aficionado.
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Review: iHome's Weather Tough Waterproof Bluetooth Speakers
The iHome mini iBT82 ($49.99), the mid-sized iBT35 ($69.99), and iHome's largest boombox, the iBT9 ($99.99) are three excellent alternatives for those in search of a reliable, affordable, and portable Bluetooth speaker solution. These rugged Bluetooth speakers are part of iHome's Weather Tough line of Bluetooth speakers, all of which are waterproof, shock proof, and dirtproof. They also float, even the biggest of the lot, the iBT9.
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Olloclip and Otterbox Unite To Bring You The 4-in-1 iPhoneography Lens For The uniVERSE Case System
You’ve probably heard of the Ōlloclip 4-in-1 lens ($79.99); it's a staff favorite here at iPhone Life. However, you likely haven’t heard of the uniVERSE case system (starting at $49.95) from Otterbox. That's about to change though. I anticipate the uniVERSE case is about to become one of the hottest cases on the market. In an extremely shrewd and far-thinking move, Otterbox has partnered with a number of quality brands to co-create this brand new case that will offer rugged protection for your iPhone, while also allowing for the interconnectivity of numerous add-on accessories.
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Best Bluetooth Speakers: Sol Jam Lets You Harness the Sun to Power Your Tunes, and Your iPhone!
The EcoXgear Sol Jam Bluetooth speaker ($149.99) is one of my new favorites for best portable Bluetooth speakers. Its most outstanding feature is its revolutionary quick-charge SunCore solar panel built into the device's top side. Thanks to this panel, you can take this speaker off grid for extended periods; and with the panel's intelligent charging system, designed to deliver an effective charge (even in lower-light and artificial-light conditions), you can effectively keep the party going indefinitely without the pressing need to plug into a wall outlet.
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Game Centered: The International eSport Event and Its Implications for Mobile Gaming
It's that time again. From August 8–13 2016 all eyes in the world of eSports were on the KeyArena in Seattle. The annual DotA 2 championship cup isn't only of interest to eSport or MOBA enthusiasts though. Sport trend analysts and mobile game analysts alike were tuned in to this major event as an indicator of emerging markets and evolving trends in the video game business. In a nutshell, video games are a huge business and they are filling professional sports stadiums with spectators eager to watch these digital battles take place live and in-person. It's only a matter of time until a mobile game makes significant in-roads into this rapidly developing sector of the professional sporting world.
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How to Watch the 2016 Summer Olympics on Your Apple TV or iPad
If you've got a subscription cable service or a TV package with your internet service provider, then watching the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro on your iPad or Apple TV will be a snap. The bulk of the Olympics will be broadcast on NBC, with other events being shown on NBC's affiliates, such as *Bravo, *MSNBC, *CNBC and USA Network. Viewing the games is as simple as tuning in, either on your television, or via the free NBC apps for Apple TV, iPad, or iPhone, all of which work in conjunction with your paid subscription service. You can also watch the Olympics at the NBC website; however, by necessity, you have to watch it in a browser, and again, log in to a subscription service is required. But what about those of us who have happily cut the cord with traditional television providers? Read on to discover all of the alternatives that exist for viewing the 2016 Olympics sans TV subscription service.
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Game Centered: The Best and Worst of Mobile MOBAs
Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas make up one of the most popular and also most profitable genres of video games in the world. They are basically virtual capture-the-flag contests in which two teams of players compete to secure target goals and win the game by stealing/destroying the opponent's home base objective. Games like League of Legends and Defense of the Ancients 2 manage to fill sports stadiums with eSports spectators eager to watch the heated battles play out and they offer championship teams some of the largest prize pools of any professional sport, more even than the NFL or pro golf. So it's no wonder than MOBAs are really starting to catch fire on the mobile platform. However, not all mobile MOBA are created equally. Let's take a look at what the App Store has to offer.
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Man jailed for shaking baby who was left critically injured and blind
Steven Macaulay Credit: Cumbria Police
A man has been jailed for shaking a nine-week-old baby who was left critically injured and temporarily blind.
Steven Macaulay, 30, was left alone with the infant in 2017 before another adult returned to a West Cumbria address.
By that stage, the baby's eyes were closed, its full body limp and it was "making a moaning sound", Carlisle Crown Court heard.
After a 999 call was made, the critically-hurt baby - whose identity is protected - was taken by ambulance staff to hospital in Whitehaven, and then transferred to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary for specialist head injury treatment.
"Further tests led medical staff to believe that the baby had bleeding to the rear of the eyes as well as to the brain stem," said prosecutor Tim Evans.
"Unsurprisingly it was deemed that these injuries could only be non-accidental.
"Expert medical evidence suggests that the injuries were caused by (the baby) being shaken - shaken baby syndrome - with the effect this has by causing the brain to collide with the bony sides of the skull cavity."
Both retinas were detached by the force of the shaking but had since healed themselves. The baby was rendered blind for two months although sight appeared to have been regained. However, Judge James Adkin heard the extent of its developmental delay could not be fully assessed until school age was reached.
Carlisle Crown Court Credit: Google Maps
Macaulay, of Moss Bay Road, Workington, admitted causing the baby grievous bodily harm, and was described in court as being prone to angry outbursts although not previously towards people. He was said to have been suffering from mental health issues at the time he committed the offence, and had a "relatively low IQ".
"It was a momentary incident that of course has had a devastating effect," said his barrister, Kim Whittlestone.
Judge Adkin, who jailed Macaulay for 30 months, told him: "The injuries you caused were significant and life-threatening." He added: "In my judgement there could be no more vulnerable victim than this infant."
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PC sales grew 17 per cent in 2005
Martyn Williams and Stacy Cowley
Published: January 22nd, 2006
Worldwide shipments of personal computers registered a double-digit percentage increase in 2005, according to figures published Wednesday by two major market analysts.
Gartner Inc. estimated 218.5 million PCs were shipped in 2005 while IDC said it believes worldwide PC shipments totaled 208.6 million units. Both companies count desktops, mobile computers and x86-based servers in their figures and both said the data is provisional.
“The general good news is that it’s another strong quarter,” said Loren Loverde, director of IDC’s PC Tracker research. Despite long-standing concerns about weakening consumer PC sales, shipments have grown more than 17 per cent above 2004’s totals for the past three quarters running, he said.
The Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) came out on top of Gartner’s regional ranking for the first time to become the largest PC market worldwide.
Shipments in EMEA totaled 72.6 million in 2005, a 17.1 per cent jump on 2004 and several million units ahead of the U.S. market, which was estimated to have seen 67.2 million shipments in the year. U.S. market growth was pegged at 7.5 per cent, which was well below the worldwide average of 15.3 per cent.
Gartner believes the replacement cycle for corporate desktop PCs has peaked in the U.S., with across-the-board softness showing in the fourth-quarter. However, mobile PC growth was steady, especially in the SMB (small and medium business) market.
However EMEA was not the best performing region in terms of growth. That crown was shared by Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) and Latin America, both of which saw 26 per cent growth during the year, said Gartner. Factors propelling growth included strong fourth quarter demand in China, the expansion of PC sales beyond major cities in India and overall strong demand in Latin America. IDC did not release geographical shipment data.
Dell Inc. was ranked the top PC vendor by both companies.
Gartner estimated Dell shipped 36.8 million machines for a 16.8 per cent market share and IDC estimated shipments of 37.8 million PCs for a 18.1 per cent share.
Its growth for the entire year was above the industry average, at 18.6 per cent versus the industry-wide 15.3 per cent, but it has been slowing down during the year and in the fourth quarter only slightly exceeded industry growth, said Gartner. Dell saw particularly strong business in international markets, said IDC.
Second-ranked Hewlett-Packard Co. recorded growth just under the industry average said both companies and remained a couple of per centage market share points behind Dell.
The year was good on Lenovo Group Ltd., which acquired the PC business of IBM Corp. earlier in the year. It finished as the number three largest PC vendor by Gartner and IDC. Both companies ranked Taiwan’s Acer Inc. as number four and Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd. as number five. The latter company’s shipments include those from its Fujitsu-Siemens Computers GmbH unit in Europe.
IDC thinks PC shipment growth will slow this year — it’s forecasting growth of just over 10 per
cent. However, 2005’s total was stronger than IDC initially forecast, and Loverde said he won’t be surprised if that pattern repeats.
“We’re not formally upping the forecast yet, but there’s definitely good indicators going into 2006,” he said. “We’ve got a couple of vendors like Acer and Apple that are growing quite rapidly.”
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Despite the history that divides them, Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity have much in common. In The Human Icon, Christine Mangala Frost explores how both religions seek to realise the divine potential of every human being, and the differences in their approach. Frost, who has experienced both the extraordinary riches and the all-too-human failings of Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity from the inside, is perfectly placed to examine the convergences and divergences between the two faiths. Inspired by a desire to clear up the misunderstandings that exist between the two, The Human Icon is a study in how two faiths, superficially dissimilar, can nevertheless find meeting points everywhere. The powerful intellectual and spiritual patristic traditions of Orthodox Christianity offer a rare tool for revitalising too-often stalled dialogue with Hinduism and present the chance for a broader and more diverse understanding of the oldest religion in the world.
Tracing the long history of Orthodox Christianity in India, from the Thomas Christians of ancient times to the distinctive theology of Paulos Mar Gregorios and the Kottayam School, Frost explores the impact of Hindu thought on Indian Christianity and considers the potential for confluence.
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SEOUL – South Korea will probably announce its decision to officially exclude Japan from its whitelist of trusted export destinations as early as this week, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
Should the measures be implemented, Japan will be removed from the group of 29 member states of the export control regime that also includes the U.S. and will be subject to stricter export conditions, the report said, citing South Korea’s trade ministry.
The new group that Japan will be enrolled in includes countries that are still part of the export control regime, but have operated against ground rules or constantly adopted inadequate policies, Yonhap said, citing the ministry.
The move comes after Japan removed South Korea from its own list of preferred trading partners last month. Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have sunk to their lowest point in decades following a series of disputes, mostly rooted in unresolved rancor over Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula. The South Korean government on Wednesday said it filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against Japan’s export curbs.
South Korea has notified Japan about the amendments and explained the background of the revisions through various routes, the trade ministry said. It is also open to talks “anytime, anywhere” if Japan is willing, it said.
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May Prayer Calendar
Click on the link below to view and print the May Prayer Calendar (pdf).
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Pray for our office landlady to be blessed and for her husband to come to know Christ. (John 3:3)
Pray for Pastor Minamida and Tokyo Deaf church as they worship today. (Titus 3:7)
Pray for Fukushima Deaf church as they worship together. (Galatians 6:10)
Pray for Mr. Y to have much wisdom and humility as he serves many translation projects in Asia Pacific. (Mark 16:15)
Pray for Mrs. Shishido, a member of Fukushima Deaf Church. See her video titled "Reflections" on our website jslbible.org under Stories/Videos and on the JSL Bible Facebook page. (Philippians 4:6)
Pray for more daily prayer partners for the Japanese Sign Language Bible translation project. We currently have 168 people lifting us up in prayer with a goal of 175. (I Timothy 2:8)
Pray for Sophia as she volunteers at the translation project. (Philemon 1:25)
Pray for Mark as he celebrates his birthday today! (James 1:17)
Pray for Mary Esther as she travels and serves the team. (Ruth 2:12)
Pray for Japanese Deaf Pastor Sakaguchi as he serves the team, his family, and the Deaf Bible Church in Kagoshima. (I Thessalonians 5:11)
Pray for Mark and Mary Esther at annual Mission conference from the 21st - 23rd. (II Timothy 4:5)
Pray for more funding in order to hire additional translation team members and finish the Bible in Japanese Sign Language sooner. (Acts 20:35)
If you feel the LORD's leading to give to the translation project, please visit our homepage
www.jslbible.org scroll down to where it says:
Pray for more individuals and churches willing to support the project financially and in prayer.
(Luke 12:28)
Pray for Mrs. Sato, a member of Yamagata Deaf church, who longs to have the Psalms translated into Japanese Sign Language. Pray for the LORD's unfailing love to surround her. (Psalm 32:10)
Pray for all the translation project staff - past, present, and future to let the peace of Christ rule in their hearts. (Colossians 3:15)
Pray for Pastor Matsumoto and Mark as they travel to the United States for the FOBAI (Forum of Bible Agencies International) annual meeting the 16th - 18th. (Exodus 33:14)
Pray for Japanese Deaf Pastor Kori who serves on our executive team and her congregation as they worship.
(Exodus 15:13a)
Pray for Mr. Ogata as he serves the team and for good communication patterns in his marriage.
(Ephesians 4:2)
Pray for the U.S. support team to serve the project well and the monthly Skype meeting. (Zephaniah 3:9)
Pray for new team members joining the project.
(Jonah 4:2)
Pray for Hori as he serves the team, his three children to draw closer to God, and for his son's job interviews and future employment. (Jude 1:2)
Pray for Justina as she serves the team to develop good habits and use her time well. (Psalm 16:8)
Pray for Sign Language Bible translation projects around the world struggling with funding issues. (Genesis 22:14)
Pray for healing for Pastor Matsumoto's shoulder and Yamagata Deaf church as they have services today.
(I Corinthians 2:12)
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Teens find a connection in Forward's 'I and You'
In Lauren Gunderson's 'I and You,' two teens who seem to have little in common connect with each other through Walt Whitman.
Teens find a connection in Forward's 'I and You' In Lauren Gunderson's 'I and You,' two teens who seem to have little in common connect with each other through Walt Whitman. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2hMrKIe
Special to the Journal Sentinel Published 12:30 p.m. CT Nov. 6, 2017
Chantae Miller and Alistair Sewell perform in "I and You."(Photo: Zane Williams)
Spend ninety minutes with two high school students while they prepare a school project featuring Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”? Watching grass grow might seem more alluring.
But don’t ever bet against playwright Lauren Gunderson or Madison’s formidable Forward Theater Company.
Gunderson’s “I and You” – which does indeed feature teens wrestling with Whitman – is among the chief reasons Gunderson will be the most produced playwright in the country this season after Shakespeare.
Having introduced Wisconsin to Gunderson in its 2015 production of “Silent Sky,” Forward is demonstrating anew through its beautiful, just-opened production of “I and You” that there’s an elective affinity between Jennifer Uphoff Gray (director of both productions) and this gifted playwright.
Related: 'Silent Sky' recalls the woman who figured out how big the universe is
At first blush, the plot seems predictable.
Bedridden, 17-year-old Caroline has a failing liver that not only keeps her out of school but also threatens to kill her if she doesn’t get a transplant. Fresh from playing in a high school basketball game, the popular Anthony shows up unannounced to work on a joint Whitman project. The two don’t even know each other; Anthony had volunteered for this collaboration.
Little wonder that Caroline, who is black, suspects she’s become the white Anthony’s pity project.
But as made movingly clear by Chantae Miller – a promising Milwaukee-based actor and Lake Country Lutheran junior – Caroline projects as prickly and defensive because she’s so vulnerable. She hides within social media because she hungers for connection, even though she’s afraid to either touch or feel. Sure she’ll be rejected, she pushes others away first.
Luckily for her, Alistair Sewell’s sensitive but seemingly guileless Anthony refuses to take Caroline’s periodic hints and leave the attic bedroom in which this play unfolds. He instead sings the virtues of Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.” Most important, he explains why he loves Whitman, whose own love for his fellow creatures and all the world simply will not be denied.
Returning repeatedly to the glorious concluding section of Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” Anthony underscores what Allen Ginsberg once said of these lines: Whitman “dissolves himself into you the listener, the reader,” as his poem becomes “a part of your consciousness.”
In sharing Whitman’s insistence that “every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you,” these two teens gradually learn to share with each other. Miller and Sewell exude trust; when Miller credibly travels Caroline’s long arc and finally lets Anthony in, what ensues is so intimately tender it steals one’s breath.
And that’s before we’ve even reached Gunderson’s brilliant eleventh-hour reveal, a gob smacker that left the Sunday matinee audience audibly gasping. It’s among the best and most satisfying moments I’ve had in a theater all year – for reasons that will become clear if you make the drive to Madison and see it for yourself.
“I and You” continues through Nov. 19 at the Overture Center, 201 State St., Madison. For tickets, visit forwardtheater.com/. To read more about this production, visit TapMilwaukee.com.
I Contain Multitudes: So Whitman claims in the 51st and penultimate section of “Song of Myself,” as he once again drives home his insistence that even as each of us remains unique and distinct, we’re also shot through with traces of the many others around us. No wonder that Anthony tells Caroline her attic room reminds him of Whitman; as suggestively dressed by scenic and lighting designer Noele Stollmack (collaborating with props designer Pamela Miles), its walls are covered with artistic and photographic traces of the many influences in Caroline’s life, often touching or overlapping each other much as the rugs covering her floor do. Isolated as she is and alone as she feels, Caroline’s room screams her many points of connection to the life-sustaining world beyond her walls.
Social Media’s Disconnects: Contrary to what Caroline believes, Anthony insists that such connections do not take place through the various social media to which she’s addicted. Focusing on her little screen, she continually misses the big picture; ostensibly connecting to unseen others through her phone, she ignores the fellow human being in the room, trying to forge a connection with her in the here and now.
“Would you put down the phone?,” an exasperated Anthony asks Caroline at one point. “Can you put it down? You’re obsessed and you’re what’s wrong with America.” Whitman, who cared about making connections as much as any of America’s great poets, would have surely agreed; that’s presumably Gunderson’s point. Whitman championed connections through which we’d learn to see and touch each other as corporeal selves – beautifully messy and impossibly contradictory and emphatically real. Social media fosters woefully partial and fictional ways of seeing the world and each other. As Caroline demonstrates, it doesn’t help us lower barriers to connection. It creates them and divides us.
A Country Divided: “And then there’s this wacky hairy guy yawping from the roof about ‘oneness’ and we’re-all-in-this-together kinda stuff which must have sounded insane,” Caroline says to Anthony. “Like it sounds insane now.”
Does it? I head these words spoken from a Madison stage shortly before learning that a gunman in a country addicted to guns had murdered 26 people in Texas. Whitman preaches a gospel of love; reading a rousing passage to Caroline from the Preface to “Leaves of Grass,” Anthony channels Whitman urging us to love everyone (and read poetry). Does that make Anthony (and, by extension, Whitman) insipid and unrealistic, as some of the more benighted and snotty critics of this wonderful play have suggested? Or does it make them (and Gunderson) prophets, in an age when we’ve never more needed such visionaries – and when all too many plays featuring teens also involve guns?
Diverse Casting: “The race of each character can be altered,” Gunderson writes in her casting note. “The only essentiality is that the characters not be the same race.” There’s nothing politically correct about this prescription; it is, rather, a striking embodiment of Whitman’s insistence that we shall overcome.
“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean/But I shall be good health to you nevertheless/And filter and fibre your blood,” Whitman writes in the penultimate stanza of “Song of Myself.” Read “Leaves of Grass” and “your very flesh shall be a great poem,” he writes in the Preface. Both passages appear in this play. Each passage insists that if we read great poems like this one, we might learn to write and embody a different and more inclusive story, seeing all we might share rather than everything that divides us.
Related: Next Act delivers heavenly rendition of 'Silent Sky'
More Gunderson: Buoyed by the success of its terrific production this fall of “Silent Sky,” Milwaukee’s Next Act Theatre will close its season next April with a production of “I and You.” Anthony has not yet been cast, but Caroline will be played by Cristina Panfilio, who is among the best younger actors to appear on Wisconsin stages during the past decade.
I urge you to see both productions; as I can attest from seeing this play at Forward having already read the script, Gunderson’s play is even more moving once one goes in aware of the amazing reveal at its end. See it in Madison and be surprised. See it again at Next Act and be awed, as I am, by how smart Gunderson is in giving poignant and trenchant clues to her ending without giving it away.
Want more Gunderson (and why wouldn’t anyone who is in love with theater)?
One of Gunderson’s hottest plays right now is “The Book of Will,” in which this patron playwright of geeks takes another ostensibly dweeby subject – the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works – to reflect on how theater fosters and sustains memory while making us immortal (Gunderson has written several plays that riff on Shakespeare). It opens this week at Skokie’s Northlight Theatre, which did a bang-up job last year in staging Gunderson’s imaginative, co-written sequel to “Pride and Prejudice.” Purchase tickets through northlight.org.
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December 11, 2019 | Judicial Watch
NewsLink: Christopher Wray Must Step Up to FBI Corruption
The IG Report skimmed over egregious FBI corruption and documented bias against the President, but failed to criticize it’s own politicization against the President. With real concerns for political bias within the bureau, it’s unclear what FBI Director Wray has done to address these findings. Read more below.
From U.S. News and World Report:
Trump Assails FBI Director Wray After Report Finds No Political Bias – (12/10/2019)
President Donald Trump berated FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday after a U.S. government investigation found no evidence of political bias when the FBI began investigating contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia in 2016. “I don’t know what report current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray was reading, but it sure wasn’t the one given to me.”
From Judicial Watch:
1. Why Is FBI Director Wray Allowing The Clinton-FBI Cover-Up To Continue? (12/9/2019)
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “Why is Director Wray allowing this corrupt coverup to continue? That’s what I want to know. Too many of the President’s agencies don’t give a rat’s tail about the corruption and transparency of their institutions.
2. How can FBI Director Wray clean out the swamp if he doesn’t even see the corruption? (6/18/2019)
JW Pressident Tom Fitton: “FBI Director Wray has said nothing to reassure Americans that he understands the serious corruption highlighted in the IG report. The FBI’s cover-ups and stonewalling on Wray’s watch add to his credibility problems. Wray has demonstrated that he is more concerned about protecting the reputation of the institution of the FBI than about the astonishing corruption of top FBI officials detailed in the IG report.”
3. FBI Director Wray Should Have Fired McCabe Instead of Providing Protection (1/23/2019)
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not recuse himself from the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecure, non-government email server until one week prior to the presidential election. It is being reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray threatened to resign rather than fire McCabe. Is he protecting McCabe?
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Kathleen G. Alvarado
(951) 682-6630 7177 Brockton Avenue
Kathleen G. Alvarado is an accomplished advocate who is relentless in her goals of obtaining the best settlements and verdicts for her clients. She is not afraid to be firm in her convictions. She leaves no stone unturned, and investigates every option available when working for her clients. Ms. Alvarado is a graduate of Loyola Marymount where she earned her undergraduate degree. She earned her Juris Doctor degree at Loyola Law School. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Alvarado served as a Deputy District Attorney for San Bernardino. While serving as a Deputy District Attorney for...
Joseph William Galasso III
(951) 682-6074 3890 11th St
Dedicated Criminal Defense Attorney If you’re facing criminal charges, it’s important to act fast. The stakes are high — your freedom and your future could be at risk. Joe Galasso is an experienced, dedicated criminal defense attorney, here to offer you effective and aggressive legal representation in your time of need. As your criminal defense lawyer, Joe will work tirelessly to bring your case to a timely and favorable conclusion. By handling thousands of cases, ranging from low-level infractions to serious, violent felonies, Joe fully understands the various arresting agencies and prosecuting offices in the county, which gives him...
John Matthew Dorr
Riverside, CA DUI Attorney with 16 years experience
(951) 462-1221 4255 Main St #14
Free ConsultationDUI, Criminal and White Collar Crime
California Western School of Law and University of California - Riverside
Manuel Jess Barba
(866) 442-2722 Suite 100
DUI Defense Attorney Manuel J. Barba is an expert in DUI Defense and is dedicated to defending people accused of DUI, as well as other driving related cases. Attorney Manuel J. Barba awards and designations: - Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Designation from the American Chemical Society, Chemistry and the Law Division. - AV® Preeminent™ rating from Martindale-Hubbell®. - Superb 10 rating by Avvo.com, the highest rating a lawyer can receive. - Specialist member of the California DUI Lawyers Association - Nationally recognized Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor - Trained in Advanced Roadside...
Taylor Bristol Warner
Ontario, CA DUI Lawyer with 9 years experience
(909) 466-5575 3333 Concours St.
Taylor Warner is a founding partner of the Law Office of Taylor B. Warner. She graduated from the University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario, California in 2011 and was admitted to the Bar in California shortly thereafter and then formed Bristol & Haynes, APLC in 2012. While at La Verne Law, she was the Chief Managing Editor of the University of La Verne's Law Review and founded the Public Interest Law Foundation. Mrs. Warner was an extern for the San Bernardino District Attorney's Office (Appellate Services) for a term and was an intern for a local family...
Catherine Ann Schwartz
DUI, Criminal, Family and Juvenile
With each individual case, Catherine A. Schwartz brings the knowledge of over twenty years of experience practicing family law and criminal defense in California. Ms. Schwartz's undergraduate studies were in sociology at Philadelphia Christian College. She graduated with a B.S degree in law and a JD at Western State University College of Law, San Diego, in 1991. After passing the California State Bar in 1991, Ms. Schwartz practiced family law, juvenile dependency, and juvenile delinquency law in both San Diego and Riverside, CA. She has been involved in the areas of family law and criminal defense for the past 20...
Diana Vargas
Montclair, CA DUI Attorney with 7 years experience
(909) 554-3578 4795 Holt Blvd., Suite 110
Montclair, CA 91763
Boston University School of Law and University of La Verne College of Law
Paul Grech Jr
(951) 291-0105 7095 Indiana Avenue
Southwestern Univ School of Law
Paul Gretch has provided exemplary criminal defense representation to the people of Southern California for more than 30 years. After earning his Juris Doctor at Southwestern University School of Law he was admitted to the California State Bar in 1982. Before entering into private practice as a criminal defense attorney, he served as a Deputy District Attorney for more than 6 years, where he gained invaluable insight into the trial process and the ways in which prosecutors seek convictions. Attorney Grech believes it is crucial to stay up to date in the field of criminal defense, and has taken numerous...
Mrs. Ella Fernandez
(951) 683-5357 6329 Brockton Ave.
Whittier Coll School of Law
Spencer Seyb
Riverside, CA DUI Attorney
(714) 676-5554 6809 Indiana Ave #130-B3
The Law Offices of Spencer Seyb is a Criminal Defense firm with an emphasis on DUI Defense and we strive to provide the very best representation to each and every client. We are a boutique law firm that provides quality service and representation at conservative pricing. We believe each client deserves to be treated with integrity and not as number amongst many. We pride ourselves on stellar customer service never leaving a client wondering the status of their case or waiting to long for a return call. This coupled with giving your case our undivided attention is our recipe to...
Luis Aguilar
DUI, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Divorce
Univ of Minnesota L S
Benjamin Cates
(951) 330-2929 3941 Brockton Ave, #3
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Law enforcement officers use a variety of tests, such as field sobriety tests and breathalyzers, to determine whether a driver is impaired by alcohol. In some jurisdictions, you have a right to refuse some of these tests, but in other jurisdictions you may be required to submit to them. It is important to know the law in your particular state, and to consult a DUI attorney if you are facing charges.
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Historic Houses & Gardens in…
Cornish Gardens and Historic Houses
The mild Cornish climate means that South East Cornwall boasts a wide selection of stunning gardens which are open to the public. For a full list of gardens, see www.visitcornwall.com/things-to-do/gardens
Cotehele – St Dominick – (4 miles)
One of the finest Tudor houses in the country, at the heart of this riverside estate the house at Cotehele was mainly built between 1485 and 1627 and was a home of the Edgcumbe family for centuries. Its granite and slate stone walls contain chambers adorned with tapestries, original furniture and armour. Outside, the formal gardens overlook the richly planted valley garden below, with medieval dovecote, stewpond and Victorian summer house, and 18th-century tower. At the Quay there are interesting old buildings housing an art and craft gallery and an outstation of the National Maritime Museum. The restored Tamar sailing barge Shamrock is moored alongside.
• Access – Partly accessible (lots of stairs in this old house). Wheelchair route maps of the gardens available. Adapted toilets close to car park. Wheelchairs available for visitor use. Note that there is no electric light in the house so it is recommended to avoid dull days early and late in the season.
T 01579 351346 SN PL12 6TA W www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele
Anthony House and Gardens, Torpoint (13 miles) – beautiful National Trust house bordering the Lynher, with gardens by Repton, this is where Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was filmed. Woodland garden (not National Trust) • Access – Antony has accessible facilities and most areas are accessible.
T 01752 812191 SN PL11 2QA W www.nationaltrust.org.uk/antony
Mount Edgcumbe House & Country Park
Originally built by the Edgcumbe family in 1550 and described by Samuel Pepys in 1683 as “the most beautiful place as ever was seen”, Mount Edgcumbe is a fascinating house set in stunning grounds, with a collection of paintings and tapestries. The house is open April to September, between 11.00am and 4.30pm from Sunday to Thursday (closed Friday and Saturday). You can now also experience riding a Segway around Mount Edgcumbe!
• Access – Trampers are available at Mount Edgcumbe. Most parts are accessible, and there are accessible toilets. Dogs allowed on a lead in the gardens (not the house).
T 01752 822236 SN PL10 1HZ W www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk
Boconnoc Gardens, Lostwithiel
Three miles east of Lostwithiel, Boconnoc can trace its history back to the Normans. Eventually, the estate was bequeathed to the Fortescue family, who still own it.The most prominent monument is the Obelisk, which is 123 feet high and was erected in 1771 by Thomas Pitt, 1st Lord Camelford, in memory of his wife’s uncle and benefactor, Sir Richard Lyttelton. There are approximately 100 head of deer in the Deer Park contained within the grounds and also a garden of 20 acres, which is open in the spring for various charities. Boconnoc House and Park have been used for numerous film locations including the BBC ‘Poldark‘ series and Daphne du Maurier’s ‘My Cousin Rachel‘. Interesting Steam Fair in July every year, and Garden open days.
T 01208 872507 SN PL22 0RQ W www.boconnoc.com
Lanhydrock – Bodmin (01208 73320) – 25 miles
“One of the most fascinating late 19th-century houses in England”, Lanhydrock is full of period atmosphere and the trappings of a high Victorian country house. Although the gatehouse and north wing (with magnificent 32yd-long gallery with plaster ceiling) survive from the 17th century, the rest of the house was rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1881. The garden features a stunning collection of magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias, and offers fine colours right through into autumn. All this is set in a glorious estate of 900 acres of woods and parkland running down to the River Fowey.
• Access – Wheelchair access to building. Accessible loos available. Gardens have some loose gravel paths, but a map of accessible routes is available.
T 01208 265950 SN PL30 5AD W www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock
Lost Gardens of Heligan – Mevagissey (40 miles)
The award winning Lost Gardens of Heligan extend to some eighty acres of “superb pleasure grounds” together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens and a huge, productive vegetable garden, all fast returning to their former glory. Lying at the heart of one of the most mysterious estates in England, Heligan, the former seat of the Tremayne family, is now the site of the largest garden restoration in Europe. It has an extraordinary plant collection together with a range of exotic glasshouses, working buildings, romantic structures and designed landscapes.
• Access – Wheelchair access maps provided. Accessible toilets, and a Changing Places toilet with tracked hoist and adult changing bench. Accessible parking. Induction loop; large print information.
T 01726 845100 SN PL26 6EN W www.heligan.com
The Eden Project – Bodelva, St Austell (37 miles)
If you’ve never heard of the world-renowned Eden Project, it’s pretty difficult to describe adequately. An fabulous array of gardens, including an indoor rainforest and Mediterranean garden in the biomes, but also amazing buildings, sculpture, art and architecture. Just go and see! Only closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
• Access – fully accessible. A number of power chairs are available (book in advance).
T 01726 811911 SN PL24 2SG W www.edenproject.com
Headland Garden, Polruan
With magnificent views over the open sea, Headland Garden is an idyllic garden carved out of layers of rock and has a cove which is ideal for swimming. Headland Garden is open May to September, 2.00pm – 6.00pm, and all money goes to charity.
T 01726 870243 SN PL23 1PW W www.headlandgarden.co.uk
Ince Castle Gardens, Saltash
Three miles south west of Saltash, south of A38. A five acre garden taking in woodlands, borders, orchard, bulbs and shell house, with lovely views of River Lynher. Check website for opening dates.
SN PL12 4QZ W www.incecastle.co.uk
Ken Caro Gardens, Bicton, Nr Liskeard
In the village of Pensilva, 5 miles north east of Liskeard. Two acres mostly planted in 1970, with a further two acre extension in 1993. A well-designed and labelled plantsman’s garden filled with rhododendrons, flowering shrubs, conifers and other trees. Panoramic views, a collection of aviary birds and plants for sale. Open from February – September
• Access – There is limited disabled access. Cream teas are available.
T 01579 362446 SN PL14 5RF W www.visitthecornishriviera.co.uk
Moyclare Garden, Lodge Hill, Liskeard
Moyclare’s one acre garden contains rare and unusual plants and shrubs, many of which are variegated, some are no longer available commercially. The Moyclare Pink broom and the astrantia Moyra Reid originated in the garden, which is open regularly to the public and which has been televised often in the past. Worth a visit early in the year – the camellias begin to bloom as early as January in a mild winter and azaleas often last until June. Open by appointment only.
• Access – Disabled access.
T 01579-343114 SN PL14 4EH W www.moyclare.co.uk
Mary Newman’s Cottage, Culver Road, Saltash.
A quarter of a mile from Saltash town centre, near t he Waterside, this was allegedly the childhood home of Mary Newman, the first wife of Sir Francis Drake. The grade II listed cottage is a perfect example of 15th century domestic architecture, little altered over the centuries with a reconstructed Tudor herb garden. Open May-Sept on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and Easter & Bank Holidays.
• Access – Wheelchair accessible
T 01752 844846 SN PL12 4DS W www.museumsincornwall.org.uk/
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Kool Kruzer serves up nostalgia in a cone
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Updated: Sun 9:00 PM, Jul 09, 2017
FORT YATES, ND - Ice cream trucks scream nostalgia.
In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, thousands of Good Humor Ice Cream vehicles roamed the streets of America, beckoning kids of all ages with musical melodies that made mouths water.
In 1976 Good Humor sold its delivery fleet, due in part to soaring gas prices, to concentrate on sales in grocery stores.
Today, in select towns across the country, you can still chase down the past to catch some cubside refrigerated refreshment.
The sound of summers past ring through the streets of Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Arabella Archambault, Fort Yates, said, "Whenever I hear the ice cream truck I come running out because I know the music."
Kids just can't resist carnival music mixed with ice cream.
Kimberly Rhoades, Kool Kruzer, said, "The music is what they're drawn to and this little ice cream bus."
Kimberly Rhoades and her family take the Kool Kruzer for a spin twice a week.
Elliott Rhoades, Kool Kruzer co-owner, said, "I like to see the reactions of the kids, they come up on bikes, they come running up or stand on the block waiting for us."
Elliott Rhoades pilots the lime green treat machine around town. It takes three hours to make rounds.
The Rhoades family bought the Kool Kruzer to give kids on the Standing Rock Reservation a little recreation.
Justin Rhoades, Kool Kruzer, said, "That's what we do, we make kids happy."
Prices are kept to a minimum to allow children a maximum amount of enjoyment.
Red Star Cavanaugh, Fort Yates, said, "We got seven Icy's and four ice creams for only four dollars."
Edie Rhoades, Kool Kruzer co-owner, said, "We count a lot of pennies, they bring handfuls of pennies."
The Kool Kruzer attracts kids of all ages.
Hazel Red Bird, Fort Yates, 92-years old: "You're never too old for ice cream."
Many children sum up what a cool treat tastes like on a hot summer day with a single word.
Tayla Howard, Fort Yates, said, "Good."
Kids from every neighborhood in town know relief from the heat is just a song and a couple of quarters away.
Smiles as bright as the sun melt summer away.
The Kool Kruzer makes it's rounds through Fort Yates on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm until all the kids along the route are refreshed.
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Sports Spotlight: Joe Jahner
By Ryan Farrell |
Posted: Wed 6:16 PM, Feb 27, 2019 |
Updated: Wed 8:20 PM, Feb 27, 2019
BISMARCK, N.D. - The West Region basketball tournament starts Thursday and the Bismarck Demons are the number two seed in the boys bracket.
One of the main reasons they are one of the best teams in the West is because of the play of senior guard Joe Jahner.
Jahner has scored over 1,000 points throughout his career as a Demon. A majority of those points have come from behind the arc.
"I think when you watch him in the gym, Joe is one of those guys that can stand in place and he'll make 20 in a row and its not even anything for him; he just kind of rolls his eyes, its no big deal. He's just got a natural stroke and when he has his balance, and his feet are set, and he finishes his follow through, he's as good as a shooter as we've ever had in this program and that I've coached. And the things that he can do with his strength and his ability to get a shot off in a quick manner he doesn't need much space," said Jordan Wilhelm, Bismarck head coach.
Jahner's most impressive shooting performance came back in December against St. Mary's. Joe drained nine threes. A Bismarck High school record for the most triples made in a single game.
"Yeah, at the beginning of the game I came out and maybe hit like four threes in a row, and at that point I was just like I'm just going to let everyone fly that I get. People think of me as a scorer but when I think of myself I can do a lot more than that, like play defense, rebound and just be a play maker for my teammates," said Jahner.
His coach couldn't agree more and that's why he has Jahner lock down the opponents highest scorer.
"The one thing you'll notice with Joe is he's not a guy that is committed on the offensive side. He's a guy that on the defensive side a lot of the nights, we ask him to guard the other teams top players. And he's really improved his rebounding here down the stretch for us, which is huge, and I think when you look at it across the board I don't know that there's anyone in North Dakota that's played as well as him and I think the things that he's doing for us right now are as good as anything you're going to see across the league," said Wilhelm.
Jahner has one last goal he'd like to accomplish to cap off his high school career and that's a State Championship.
Jahner and the Demons play Belcourt in the first round of the West Region Tournament on Thursday.
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Man arrested after driver rams into 3 on Oregon sidewalk
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and STEVEN DUBOIS
A driver rammed into three women walking on a sidewalk Friday in downtown Portland, critically injuring one of them, before speeding away and getting arrested within hours of the crash, authorities said.Greg Phillip Porter, 61, is being held at the Multnomah County jail on several counts, including three counts each of attempted murder and assault.Someone called 911 after spotting a blue SUV that matched the description of the vehicle that struck the women near a light-rail station close to Portland State University, police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.Police have not yet determined a motive.Authorities said they were getting a search warrant to seize the car with a crumpled hood and have yet to rule out intoxication, mental health problems or a medical incident as the reason for the crash.The names of the victims have not been released.Sgt. Chris Burley said one victim was in critical condition at a hospital and another was in serious condition. The family of the third woman asked that no updates be given about her health.Police have not said how fast the 2005 Mazda Tribute was traveling or how long it spent on the sidewalk before speeding off.Witness Christopher Bond said he was standing on the sidewalk when he saw the SUV hit at least two women. He estimated it was traveling about 45 mph.Bond said he turned to help, and the driver "gunned it," nearly hitting him.Kat Caputo was talking to a friend by the light-rail station when she heard a commotion and turned around. She saw two women lying on the sidewalk and another leaning against a brick wall. Others were shouting that a car had jumped the curb, struck the women and sped away.One of the women appeared to have serious back injuries, Caputo said."I'm still kind of in shock. If I were two minutes later, that would have been me, or if I had just walked that normal route, that would have been me," Caputo said. "A lot of people were crying."Police cordoned off several blocks around the crash. A green sweater, a pair of sneakers, a pink slipper and one black bike glove lay scattered on the sidewalk near a small splash of blood.The crash stunned the city on the Friday before Memorial Day. On that Friday last year, a passenger fatally stabbed two men and wounded a third on a light-rail train as it pulled into a station. Police said the passenger spewed hateful comments at two black teenage girls shortly before the attack.___Associated Press photographer Don Ryan contributed to this report.
PORTLAND, Ore. —
A driver rammed into three women walking on a sidewalk Friday in downtown Portland, critically injuring one of them, before speeding away and getting arrested within hours of the crash, authorities said.
Greg Phillip Porter, 61, is being held at the Multnomah County jail on several counts, including three counts each of attempted murder and assault.
Someone called 911 after spotting a blue SUV that matched the description of the vehicle that struck the women near a light-rail station close to Portland State University, police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.
Police have not yet determined a motive.
Authorities said they were getting a search warrant to seize the car with a crumpled hood and have yet to rule out intoxication, mental health problems or a medical incident as the reason for the crash.
The names of the victims have not been released.
Sgt. Chris Burley said one victim was in critical condition at a hospital and another was in serious condition. The family of the third woman asked that no updates be given about her health.
Police have not said how fast the 2005 Mazda Tribute was traveling or how long it spent on the sidewalk before speeding off.
Witness Christopher Bond said he was standing on the sidewalk when he saw the SUV hit at least two women. He estimated it was traveling about 45 mph.
Bond said he turned to help, and the driver "gunned it," nearly hitting him.
Kat Caputo was talking to a friend by the light-rail station when she heard a commotion and turned around. She saw two women lying on the sidewalk and another leaning against a brick wall. Others were shouting that a car had jumped the curb, struck the women and sped away.
One of the women appeared to have serious back injuries, Caputo said.
"I'm still kind of in shock. If I were two minutes later, that would have been me, or if I had just walked that normal route, that would have been me," Caputo said. "A lot of people were crying."
Police cordoned off several blocks around the crash. A green sweater, a pair of sneakers, a pink slipper and one black bike glove lay scattered on the sidewalk near a small splash of blood.
The crash stunned the city on the Friday before Memorial Day. On that Friday last year, a passenger fatally stabbed two men and wounded a third on a light-rail train as it pulled into a station. Police said the passenger spewed hateful comments at two black teenage girls shortly before the attack.
Associated Press photographer Don Ryan contributed to this report.
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The Duke of Beaufort's Musketeers
The Beaufort Musketeers were one of twelve infantry regiments formed at the same time and for the same reason. An entry in the city's calendars shows that the Beaufort Musketeers were 'recruiting by beat of drum on 4 July'. The Regiment comprised ten companies, each a captain's command. The Duke was not only Colonel of the Regiment but also had his own company. In the same way his lieutenant-colonel and his major were in addition commanders of the companies they had raised. The remaining seven company commanders held the single rank of captain: they too had raised their own companies.
Those of the twelve regiments raised to face Monmouth, which escaped disbandment, became 7th to 15th of Foot in the expanded Regular Army. Six weeks later, the Beaufort Musketeers were being reviewed, resplendent in their red coats, having been confirmed as 11th in order of precedence, alongside fellow regular regiments at Hounslow Heath.
The majority of the regiment were armed with muskets but approximately one in five were armed with the pike. Since the invention of the plug bayonet the 18 foot long pike, as a battlefield weapon, had diminished.
Records show that the newly raised regiment had the standard design red coat with a facing of 'tawny cloth' to difference the regiment from others, for the practical purpose of command and control on the battlefield and for regimental identity in camp. There is however, some discussion regarding the interpretation by Victorian artists of Orange Tawny.
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Despite Megabus complaints, travelers love it
Despite delays, bus stops in parking lots with no shelter and some high-profile accidents, the Megabus remains immensely popular for its super-low fares to cities from D.C. to Miami to San Diego.
If you have ever seen a Megabus on the highway, with its "$1 fare" sign on the side, that's no lie: If you book well enough in advance, there is a seat on every bus for just a buck.
But one woman is wondering if Megabus is going downhill after spending an entire weekend trying to get a Megabus ride to Chicago.
Denise Schubert was trying to get her son to Chicago for his new job earlier this month, so she booked him on a 12:30 p.m. bus to the Windy City.
But shortly before noon, he received a text alert about a bus change.
"He received an email an hour before that a Windstar charter bus was going to pick him up," she explained.
But after two hours, no bus appeared. "We called Windstar," she said, "and they knew nothing about a Megabus pickup."
Frustrated, she says, "he called Megabus again and they told him somebody from a Safe Travels bus would pick him up about 4:45 p.m."
But no Safe Travels bus showed up, she says.
Tries again the next day
So they bought a new ticket for the next day, Saturday. "Different Megabus, different day, different pickup," Schubert said.
But again, she says, the lunchtime bus was a no show. "They said they would be there at 1:30. Then my son got another email saying it would be a Windstar charter bus again, not a Megabus."
But two hours later, still no bus. "At almost 3 p.m., we decided to leave," she said.
Denise ended up flying her son to his new job in Chicago for $400 one way, instead of the $39 they were expecting to pay on Megabus.
Megabus: Buses did run
Travelers this past Friday had better luck: The 12:30 p.m. Megabus to Chicago arrived on time and took off 10 minutes later.
We contacted Megabus about the weekend mix-ups, where its parent company, Coach USA, said there was a a switch of buses and stop locations, but that all passengers were texted and emailed about the changes.
The company says there were plenty of seats on the next scheduled bus to Chicago, and that the bus did run both days.
Travelers love it despite complaints
Blogs and complaints boards are filled with Megabus complaints , and the buses have been in several accidents, one of them killing four passengers when t he top of a double decker bus hit a low bridge abutment .
News organizations such as the Christian Science Monitor have questioned the company's safety record.
Fans, though, say despite the criticism, you can't do better than Megabus for its low, low fares. It's not just cheaper than driving or flying, it is often cheaper than Greyhound.
"As far as the price, you can't beat it, and the convenience of it," one woman told us at Cincinnati's Gest Street stop.
The Better Business Bureau gives Megabus an "A" rating, despite almost 1,000 complaints, many about delays or poor customer service.
But despite all the online complaints -- and unprotected bus stops out in the heat, rain and cold -- it's hard to resist the lure of Megabus, and those super-low fares.
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MIGUEL COOLEY
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Man Sentenced In Shooting Death Outside Fargo McDonald’s
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FARGO, N.D. — Miguel Cooley was sentenced this morning to 35 years in prison for killing 20 year old Gabriel Perez outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Fargo. The Moorhead man received a 50 year sentence, with 35 years to be served in prison and with good behavior 10 years of supervised probation to follow. Prosecutor Josh Traiser said if Cooley…
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Moorhead Mom Accused Of Kidnapping Kids Reaches Plea Deal
Thirty-nine-year-old Izetta Cooley pleaded guilty to one count of depriving someone of custody rights in Mower County and two felony kidnapping charges were dropped.
Izetta CooleyAustin, MN (KFGO/Learfield) – A Moorhead woman charged with kidnapping her kids last month is agreeing to a deal with prosecutors. Thirty-nine-year-old Izetta Cooley pleaded guilty to one count of depriving someone of custody rights in Mower County and two felony kidnapping charges were dropped. Authorities say Cooley violated a no-contact order and took four of her five children…
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Preliminary Hearing For Man Accused of Killing At McDonald’s Is Pushed Back
Miguel Cooley made a brief appearance in Cass County District Court
Miguel Cooley Sr.FARGO, ND — The preliminary hearing for a Moorhead man charged with the murder of a man outside of a McDonald’s has been pushed back. Miguel Cooley made a brief appearance in Cass County District Court Wednesday morning. His attorney, Steven Mottinger, asked for more time to review evidence. The judge granted his request but a new hearing date…
Child of Man Charged in Deadly Fargo Shooting Turns Himself Into Police
MOORHEAD, Minn. – The missing child of a man charged in a Fargo murder turns himself into Moorhead Police. Authorities have been for 16–year–old Morgan Cooley ever since his mother Izetta was arrested in Moorhead for kidnapping and violating a child custody order. She’s accused of taking two of her children from a foster home in Rose Creek, Minnesota. Her husband,…
Murder Suspect In McDonald’s Shooting Awaiting Extradition In Minnesota
44-year-old Miguel Cooley, Sr. of Moorhead was arrested Monday night by a SWAT team in Rose Creek, Minnesota
Miguel Cooley Sr.AUSTIN, Minn. — A suspect in a Fargo homicide is in jail in Austin, Minnesota awaiting extradition to North Dakota. 44-year-old Miguel Cooley, Sr. of Moorhead was arrested Monday night by a SWAT team. The Mower County sheriff says U.S. Marshal’s had Cooley under surveillance in a home in the small town of Rose Creek, 12 miles southeast of…
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Baylor HC Rhule: 'Rice is a good football team'
Posted: Mon 10:44 PM, Sep 16, 2019
WACO, Texas (KWTX) In their 48-13 loss to the Texas Longhorns Saturday night, the Rice Owls surrendered 509 yards of offense -- 171 rushing and 338 passing.
Rice (0-3) trailed 38-0 after three quarters before finally adding a touchdown with less than eight minutes left in the fourth.
"Rice is a good football team," Baylor head coach Matt Rhule said. "Rice is going to present challenges to us in many ways, both physically, they’re a tough, rugged group. You watch their effort on special teams, you watch their punt return, you watch their kick return, you watch their run defense versus a really good Texas team, versus a really good Army team that took Michigan to overtime, versus a really good Wake Forest team."
The Owls' opponents' combined record is 7-2, with Texas' only loss coming to No. 4 LSU, and Army's lone loss to No. 11 Michigan.
Rice has given up an average of 45 points per game over the past two weekends. Considering Baylor is the highest-scoring team in the nation (59.5 ppg), the Owls are a 26-point underdog.
While the Bears have been able to move the ball at will, the same can't be said for Rice, which enters Saturday with a bottom-five scoring offense.
"One of our challenges coming out of the last few years is really two-fold, winning after a bye, which we have not yet done, and then winning on the road," Rhule said. "Winning on the road is its own entity, has its own process, it requires maturity, it requires the toughness to go into someone else's building and we're going to work hard at that this week."
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Friends of Canadian Broadcast members gathered to support community journalism Tuesday. - Carli Berry/Capital News
Campaign calling for regulation of Facebook, Netflix launches in B.C.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting launched a campaign Tuesday in Kelowna
Carli Berry
A group of Central Okanagan residents are trying to bring to light the pressing issues surrounding massive media conglomerates and the effect they have on community journalism.
Carol Kergan feels strongly about Canadian media democracy, which she said is being eroded by large corporations like Facebook and Amazon.
“It’s deeply part of who I am,” she said, adding her father was Dallas Smythe, a political researcher focused on communication.
“We want to keep Canada aware of Canada and (without sustaining and supporting Canadian media), we’re going to be invaded more and more from these platforms that other countries are working on (regulating),” she said.
Kergan was one of roughly 10 residents who gathered on Cadder Avenue Tuesday to kickstart the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting We Choose lawn sign campaign to advocate for the taxation and regulation of large digital corporations. Roughly 2,300 members of Friends live in the Central Okanagan.
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“Those companies are allowed to operate without having to follow any of the rules the rest of us have to follow. They don’t collect HST so they can change 13 per cent less than the Canadian competitors… There are tax rules that are not applied to digital media,” said Jim Thompson, communications officer with Friends.
“Our government let’s them operate in Canada, following their own rules and letting them do whatever they want.”
Daniel Bernhard, executive director with Friends, said the movement encapsulates all forms of journalism, not just the CBC.
Publishers like Facebook are not accountable and allow the publications of fake news, he said.
“They’re already censoring our speech, but they don’t have our values. They’re not accountable to anyone, and there are no standards of quality they have to abide by with standards of professionalism,” he said.
“We are launching our national land sign campaign here in Kelowna… and we’ll be setting up campaigns just like us throughout B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec,” Bernhard said.
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Kelowna was chosen as it’s considered a close riding, where politicians will actually listen to constituents, Bernhard said, and there’s enough support to actually launch a campaign.
The film Digital Disconnect will be presented as part of the campaign, Tuesday night at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna, starting at 6:30 p.m. Bernhard will also be conducting a meet and greet.
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Obama team will fund police body camera project
The administration will provide $20 million to police, $75 million over three years.
Obama team will fund police body camera project The administration will provide $20 million to police, $75 million over three years. Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: https://usat.ly/1GLOptc
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 10:58 a.m. ET May 1, 2015 | Updated 3:54 p.m. ET May 1, 2015
A Washington police officer models a body camera Sept. 24, 2014.(Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images)
Amid tense police-community relations, the Obama administration began a program Friday to assess the effectiveness of having officers wear body cameras that can record interactions with the public.
The Justice Department announced it is providing $20 million to police departments for body cameras, the first installment in a three-year program budgeted at $75 million.
"Body-worn cameras hold tremendous promise for enhancing transparency, promoting accountability and advancing public safety for law enforcement officers and the communities they serve," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the program will help jurisdictions with the purchase of 50,000 body-worn cameras and provide evaluations of how well the program works.
Civil rights advocates demand that officers be required to wear cameras in the wake of a series of police killings. After riots broke out over the death of a man in police custody, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she would launch a body-camera pilot program.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys have expressed privacy concerns for both the officers wearing the cameras and people filmed by police.
Earnest said there's not a lot of data on the effectiveness of body cameras.
"Some of the funds from the Department of Justice will go toward actually studying the impact of body-worn cameras," Earnest said.
Of the $20 million grant announced Friday, the Justice Department said $17 million will be devoted to "the purchase of body-worn cameras, $2 million for training and technical assistance and $1 million for the development of evaluation tools to study best practices."
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Retailers scramble to please the #samedaydelivery shopper
Target announced last week that is buying Shipt, a same-day delivery company, for $550 million.
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By Ronald D. WhiteStaff Writer
This holiday season, as giant shipping operations once again struggle to handle the e-commerce explosion, some mall retailers have found a surprising way to compete: same-day delivery.
Last week, Target Corp. said it would pay $550 million for Shipt, a fast-growing firm based in Birmingham, Ala., that operates a $99-a-year grocery delivery service. In August, Target said it was buying Grand Junction, a San Francisco transportation technology company that connects retailers to a same-day delivery network of more than 700 drivers.
Best Buy this month expanded same-day delivery to 40 cities using Deliv, a crowd-sourced service based in Menlo Park, Calif.
“Same-day delivery is a service that our guests are asking for more and more often,” Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said in an interview posted to the Minneapolis retailer’s website.
“By acquiring Shipt, we’ll be able to take advantage of our network of stores and Shipt’s technology platform and shopper community to quickly offer same-day delivery to millions of our guests,” Mulligan said.
Traditional retailers are trying to tap what some experts call the instant gratification economy.
“We can get our news instantly,” said Anthony J. Dukes, professor of marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business. “We can have food delivered instantly. We can stream programming instantly. That has given us higher expectations for retail.”
Amazon.com has conditioned shoppers to expect fast delivery, and mall retailers are trying to catch up.
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The catalyst may have come in February, when statistics showed that fast-delivery king Amazon.com accounted for more than half of all e-commerce growth in the previous 12 months, said Tushar Patel, chief marketing officer at Kibo, a Dallas-based company that helps merchants more closely tie their online and bricks-and-mortar operations, an effort known as “omnichannel” in the industry.
“That was a tipping point,” Patel said. “That was news to other retailers that they would have to constantly push the delivery envelope. Same day has become the new retail standard.”
Immediate gratification wasn’t always so important. Mail order catalogs came with the caveat “allow six weeks for delivery.”
But the time customers are willing to wait for satisfaction continues to shrink, from a week to two days to overnight to the same day. They also don’t want to pay for it.
“We have had studies that show 70% of consumers expect free shipping,” Patel said. An even higher percentage, he added, “said free shipping is compelling enough to make a purchase and not abandon a shopping cart.”
To manage all that, Amazon’s competitors have “to play both sides of the aisle,” said management professor Jay Prag, by offering the rough equivalent of same-day shipping but with a little consumer effort: buy online, pick up in store, or BOPIS in industry parlance. (There’s also BORIS, for buy online, return in store.)
“Target wants to be a hybrid,” said Prag, who teaches at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management. “Have the fast delivery options but keep the brick-and-mortar presence.”
Companies like Target don’t have a lot of confidence in the capacity of the traditional logistics providers.
Tushar Patel, Kibo chief marketing officer
Los Angeles resident Danielle Kent, 23, said Amazon.com raised her expectations, with its quick delivery and ability to track shipments.
“Coming home from a long day of work and finding what you ordered that morning waiting for you on your door step when you get home — it’s almost like someone sent you a gift, even though you bought it yourself,” said Kent, an account coordinator for the Konnect Agency in Los Angeles.
Kent said she never felt as comfortable with smaller retailers “where you still have to wait weeks or it even sometimes gets lost in the mail.”
That type of feeling — and figuring out how to tap into it — was part of what drove Daphne Carmeli to create Deliv in 2012. Her quandary: how to jump onboard the fast delivery train without a massively expensive build-up in warehouses, vehicles and customer base.
Deliv borrows some of the philosophy behind Uber and Lyft by relying on a small army of independent contractor drivers using their own vehicles. Each has to pass a background check and have a valid driver’s license and insurance.
“We all have a GPS source in our pockets with our smartphones,” Carmeli said, “so we can mobilize a group of drivers, know exactly where they are and who can get the job done first.”
Deliv now serves 4,000 merchants in 23 states, ranging from big players like Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Best Buy to small merchants.
“We are their same-day delivery option,” Carmeli said. “The shortest delivery window we will do is 45 minutes to an hour. We do returns as well.”
Claremont professor Prag said economies of scale matter greatly in whether companies such as Target will succeed with high-speed delivery.
“This will work in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, other big cities, where there is enough demand density to justify the delivery costs,” Prag said. “It won’t work in Oklahoma.”
Still, the hashtag #samedaydelivery has acquired a life of its own. Plug it into an Instagram search and nearly 58,000 shopping offers from around the world will show up, plugging the likes of high-heel shoes from Nigeria and flowers from Dublin, all offering customers same-day delivery.
With mainstream delivery options UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service struggling to keep up with record online shopping, Kibo’s Patel said delivery services such as Shipt and Deliv will remain in high demand.
“Companies like Target don’t have a lot of confidence in the capacity of the traditional logistics providers,” Patel said. “They want to control their own destiny.”
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The Brits who tried to cut their tax bills, but could now lose their homes
Story by RAFAEL MÉNDEZ | El Pais
A group of retirees is going to court after signing up for a plan to reduce inheritance duty
Julia Hilling (91) and Peter Cosgrove (84). / GARCÍA-SANTOS
More than 20 British retirees resident in Spain are taking legal action against the Rothschild financial services group, accusing it of fraudulent advertising for complex financial packages designed to avoid paying inheritance tax on their homes, which they now stand to lose. A court in Denia has since summoned Baron David Rothschild, the chairman of Rothschild bank, to answer questions in relation to its investigation into the alleged fraud.
Between 2005 and 2008 independent financial advisers operating in areas such as the Balearic Islands, Alicante and Malaga, sold pensioners loans that would release equity on their homes and see the cash invested in a fund, allowing them to enjoy inheritance tax benefits. The products were provided by a variety of banks, mainly in Scandinavia, but also by Rothschild.
The investment banking company sold around 130 of these products, which were distributed in Spain through the bank’s Credit Select Series Mortgage loan. Rothschild says that the activity was carried out by its Guernsey-based entity in the Channel Islands, outside the jurisdiction of the UK government or UK regulators.
Peter Cosgrove was warned that 80 percent of the value of his home would be lost if it were left to a friend
Among those who stand to lose their homes are Julia Hilling, aged 91, and Peter Cosgrove, 84, who retired to the Malaga resort towns of Fuengirola and Mijas in the 1980s. Hilling says she signed up to the Credit Select Series Mortgage loan in 2006 on the understanding that it would reduce inheritance tax on her home – in doing so, she was effectively remortgaging her property.
The following year, Cosgrove says he was contacted by a supposed financial advisor who warned him that as he did not have any family to leave his property to, 80 percent of the value of his home would be lost if it were left to a friend. “I thought that was ridiculous,” he says.
The investments proved worthless, due in large part to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis
The solution, says Cosgrove, was to take out a loan with the Rothschild Bank using his home, which cost him €75,000, and to then invest the money from the loan, which would bring him in around €5,000 annually for the next decade. He would be able to pay back the loan with the interest from his investments. In the event that he died before the loan was repaid, there would be no inheritance tax, as the money had been invested outside Spain.
Cosgrove signed, but says he had no idea that what he was actually doing was taking out a €290,000 loan, and putting his house, which had already been paid for, up as collateral. Others who signed similar agreements borrowed as much as €1 million.
“They made Spain out to be like the Soviet Union”
A cartoon from an ad related to Spanish inheritance tax.
One of the law firms representing around 15 people pursuing Rothschild for compensation have pamphlets issued by the bank to sell its Credit Select Series Mortgage loans, which clearly focus on them as a way to avoid paying inheritance tax in Spain. “They made Spain seem like the Soviet Union, with taxes that were all about confiscating your money,” says Salvador Martínez Echevarría of Cremades y Calvo Sotelo, a law firm based in Marbella.
“Too many expats have learned the hard way that Spain’s inheritance tax doesn’t work the same way as their own country’s. This affects anybody who owns a property in Spain, not just residents: the upper limit on inheritances is 81.6 percent. The solution is to reduce the amount of your assets exposed to this […] a mortgage is a very effective way of reducing the total value of your Spanish property exposed to inheritance tax,” reads one Rothschild brochure being used in the lawsuit against the firm.
Cosgrove says that he received €13,200 in advance, but that his investments soon proved worthless, due in large part to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent financial crisis that hit markets around the world. He found himself having to pay a mortgage on a property he thought he already owned. “Three months after I signed, I was told that I owed €3,000 and that I was in default.” A few months after that he stopped paying altogether.
Rothschild was not the only bank selling financial packages to people who did not understand them. Norwegian and Islandic banks were also seeking out Scandinavian retirees along the Spanish coast, warning them about Spain’s inheritance tax, which sets a maximum of 34 percent for property left to family members, but can reach as high as 81.6 percent for the super wealthy who have no family.
Cosgrove and Hilling say that they saw Rothschild’s involvement in the financial packages as a guarantee of their legitimacy. The bank was set up in 1798 by a German Jewish family, and over the centuries has become synonymous with high finance.
So far, none of the 130 people who signed up for the mortgage have had their homes repossessed, while Rothschild says that it is prepared to negotiate a solution. It points out that it only provided the loan, and was not involved in the investment side of the deal, which was carried out by financial intermediaries based in Spain, most of whom were British.
In an emailed response, the investment banking company says: “Rothschild provided a small number of mortgages in Spain acting solely as a lender.” It adds that it advised borrowers to take independent legal advice before going through with the loan: “All the loans were signed in the presence of a notary public to make sure that the signatories understood the contract. Rothschild did not provide advice. Rothschild believes that it met its legal and regulatory obligations at all times.”
The bank points out that it only provided the loan, and was not involved in the investment side of the deal
But one of the international financial advisers involved, Adrian Church, says that Rothschild was behind the loans: “If they say they had nothing to do with it, let’s just say they’re being economical with the truth.”
Antonio Flores, a Malaga-based lawyer representing around a dozen of the people who took out loans through Rothschild has managed to get a court in Denia to investigate Rothschild for fraudulent advertising.
Flores says Rothschild offered a product, the Credit Select Series Mortgage Loan, that was sold to pensioners as a legal means to reduce the value of their otherwise unencumbered homes, for Inheritance Tax mitigation purposes, but that the Tax Agency, on the contrary, has ruled that such scheme constitutes fraud.
“In short, independently of what happened to the investment, Rothschild advertised a loan aimed at reducing inheritance tax, which is a breach of tax law,” says Flores.
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September 5, 2014 |Common Core, Friedrich Hayek, Jacques Maritain, NCLB
Bringing an End to National Education Reforms
by Richard M. Reinsch II|14 Comments
Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard said recently that the Common Core state standards will ultimately be nothing more than another pile of ashes on the smoldering fire of national education reform. His excellent article reviewed the long and sorry history of such efforts, detailing how the Common Core came to replace George W. Bush’s vaunted (and then hated) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, itself an effort to replace President Clinton’s Goals 2000, which superceded, that’s right, George H.W. Bush’s America 2000.
Ferguson mocks Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s pronouncement that the Common Core is the most revolutionary education reform ever by deadpanning: What, did he forget Goals 2000?
Sad to say, if we go back even farther, we may have to fault President Reagan with laying the reform-mania groundwork with his 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.” Its call for higher standards in education, Ferguson notes, was an attempt to go around President Carter’s newly created federal Department of Education that was founded, in part, to address floundering public schools.
After the succession of reforms have all been tried and found wanting, where do we turn? On what comes after the failure of the Common Core, Ferguson is pretty pessimistic:
The educationists will grow restless. Someone somewhere will come up with a new reform program, a whole new approach—one with teeth, and high-stakes consequences for stakeholders. Bill Gates will get wind of it. He will be intrigued. His researchers will design experiments to make sure the program is scientifically sound. Data will be released at seminars, and union leadership will lend tentative support. The president will declare a crisis and make reform a national priority. She will want to be called an education president too.
He’s probably right. Nonetheless, we still need to ask why these reforms fail.
One perennial answer: federal education reforms fail because these directives require too much of too many institutional players in American education. Call it the Hayekian Knowledge Problem. Successful implementation would require that federal agents take federal law and accompanying enforcement regulations and sit on the shoulders of teachers, school boards, even state departments of education to ensure that the reforms are carried out. But what about the parents?
Even if a reform represents a solid improvement on existing practices and standards, the immense gulf that separates the lackluster pedagogical present from the much-improved future is too wide for reformers to bridge. As Frederick Hess noted in National Affairs:
First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do. And second, schooling is a complex, highly personal endeavor, which means that what happens at the individual level — the level of the teacher and the student — is the most crucial factor in separating failure from success. In education, there is often a vast distance between policy and practice.
The Common Core’s great triumph was that it found a way through this impasse, so it seemed, with copious amounts of Gates Foundation dollars. Advocates got the important education think tanks, Left and Right, on their side, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State Schools Officers, the national and many local chapters of the Chamber of Commerce. The coup de grace was the Department of Education’s linking “Race to the Top” dollars with acceptance of the Common Core standards. Cash-strapped states in 2009 lunged at the opportunity; several states applied before the standards were actually formalized.
Even so, failure is going to arrive as surely as the federal deficit will rise. Will anyone bemoan this? For that matter, does anyone look back wistfully to those heady days when NCLB was initially foisted on schools from coast to coast? No. The reasons go beyond the Hayekian Knowledge Problem. They reach to what education is supposed to develop within man. For the truth is that national reforms fail not only technically, but in actually recruiting our sentiments, and thereby securing our abiding consent to their handiwork.
In thinking about this, we should contemplate the 1943 lectures delivered by Jacques Maritain that were published in a book entitled Education at the Crossroads. Obviously the occasion—Europe’s renewed plunge into world war–that produced his thoughts does not match ours. But the arguments Maritain gives on the ends or purposes of education remain sound.
Maritain begins with “the two most general misconceptions against which education must guard itself.” The first is
a lack or disregard of ends. If means are liked and cultivated for the sake of their own perfection, and not as a means alone, to that very extent they cease to lead to the end, and art loses its practicality; its vital efficiency is replaced by a process of infinite multiplication, each means developing and spreading for its own sake. This supremacy of means over end and the consequent collapse of all sure purpose and real efficiency seem to be the main reproach to contemporary education.
Do we confuse the means and ends in the reforms that stretch from 1983 to today? Are we even able to identify ends beyond a raw utilitarian concern with producing workers for a global economy? The guiding standard for the Common Core is, famously, making students “college and career ready.” So we might say that we have an end, a more or less materialistic end, that reduces education to a technical function of aiding economic growth. Such needs, I think, are almost boundless. Can we ever do enough to aid economic growth? Could an education system so conceived, so purposed, ever truly be free from state control?
Maritain notes that when contemporary educational thinking isn’t confusing means and ends, it still proves unable to reason coherently on what ends it should pursue:
The educational task is both greater and more mysterious and, in a sense, humbler than many imagine. If the aim of education is the helping and guiding of man toward his own human achievement, education cannot escape the problems and entanglements of philosophy, for it supposes by its very nature a philosophy of man, and from the outset it is obliged to answer the question: “What is man?”
The Common Core presupposes that man is merely a worker, an economic entity, one called to respond to the needs of an employer in a dutiful manner. We see this most directly in its “lexile” framework that deliberately subordinates literature and history texts to the study of “information texts” or policy and news writings. This order of priority is, we are told, more relevant to the needs of employers.
We can return to Maritain’s question: Is this an education of man, or an education for a type of man fitting the needs of a society? If the latter, then it will be hard to avoid the state’s summoning education “to make up for all that is lacking in the surrounding order,” in Maritain’s words. The result of this, he says, is that “education would become a function directly and uniquely dependent on the management of the state, and the educational body an organ of state machinery.”
Our problem is that we struggle, as a result of our own feeble public reasoning, to entertain any understanding of the purpose of education beyond the rigid categories of what can be measured and assessed. This techno-vocational understanding of education may be inevitable in any society that can no longer see the purpose of a free society residing in the spirit of the person.
In short, is education for the person or for the state? Rejecting the techno-vocational system of education requires a commitment to an alternative understanding of man as a being of purpose, one whose spiritual capacities of reason, will, and wonder require educational institutions that support the flourishing of these capacities, that draw them out in study and reflection, and that lead the person to be the cause of his education. Not only is this vital essence missing from the latest federal educational reform fad, such a reform can’t even contemplate its existence.
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Kevin R. Hardwick says
To the extent that education is funded with state raised taxes, and administered and taught by state paid employees, government will be implicated in education. This has been the status of education in the various united states since the days of Horace Mann. It is silly to suggest that a particular goal–in this case economic growth–will produce more state involvement in education than some other, since the state has been thoroughly involved in education since the very beginning of the public school movement, in the 19th century.
If our concern is state intervention in education, it is an egregious error to presume that somehow the governments below the federal level are not governments. Whether state government or federal, education is still going to be a matter of public concern so long as it is funded with tax payer monies. Given the obvious advantages of public education over the alternative (good and plentiful formal education for the very wealthy and progressively less for the rest of the population), education will continue to receive attention from and oversight from various levels of government. In this sense education will always fall short of the libertarian ideal.
Ron Johnson says
First, the central question posed is whether education is for the person or for the state? The answered is best arrived at through state and local government—I see nothing in the constitution authorizing federal involvement.
Second, Kevin’s dichotomy is false since the choice is not either highly centralized and unionized public schools or private schools for the rich. Catholic schools already provide an excellent education that includes the poor and middle-class, and vouchers would permit access to many types school formats. This latter method would have the advantage of insuring public, i.e., fair and equal, funding, while allowing the parents rather than the state to answer the central question posed above. I can’t think of a better Hayekian solution.
This is an excellent essay in that it gets to the crux of the matter: what is the purpose of education; for what is it intended; and for what type of being is it purposed? Regrettably, it appears that a) we have determined that education is for “homo economicus” and b) we have, via aggressive state intervention, have laid the groundwork for further “purposive” interventions in the soon to arrive form of “social justice” education whereby the state initiates all sorts of corrective measures to address certain proscribed “inequalities.”
Yet, Kevin, truly implicates the demon in this matter – state funding of education. Indeed, in my own state, the state Constitution mandates that “education is the “primary” duty of the state. One need not speculate as to how this will turn out. State Judges now (and have historically) determined funding levels for schools in the state and are currently poised to hold the Legislature in contempt for “inadequate” funding. Witness, California’s recent requirement that all education must make mention of the historical importance of the election of Obama.
It is not just the focus on economic matters that plagues, and will continue to plague, current educational models but also the rapidly emerging “social justice” curricula that is being implemented.
So long as the state funds education, such distortions will continue.
And yet, (Kevin may correct me here) as I recall this was not always the case. Early American education, while being in part state funded (although on a truly local level) did allow for significant variation in educational methods, philosophies, and yes, religious doctrines.
If only such “diversity” were to be again permitted in our diversity crazed society. Of course, that would mean the loss of tens of thousands of Federal and State bureaucrats – more is the pity!!!!
How I could forget this, I don’t know!
Being a product of Catholic schools, I must say that Ron Johnson is absolutely correct. These schools offer, in my estimation, a far superior alternative to public schools, and are, in fact, open to all. Yes, there is tuition to be dealt with but a system that would allow education dollars to follow the student would certainly be helpful in this matter.
Moreover, at least in my case, the schools were always ready to accept deserving students who could not otherwise afford the tuition. I suspect that approach still applies.
The telos of public education at its origin was education for citizenship–Mann, Webster, and Jefferson, despite their differences, all agreed that a public society premised on popular sovereignty required citizens capable of self government and possessed of the right public dispositions. Among these dispositions was something akin to thumos–a rightly ordered emotional commitment to civic virtue and to the public project represented by the small-r republican state.
Catholic education, for all of its excellence, can not fulfill the goal to which Jefferson (and so many others) were committed. We may choose to disagree with these 18th and 19th century thinkers, but it seems to me that we must take them seriously. Our kind of state, at least originally, did not stand on its own. All states strive to preserve themselves. If ours is good, or at least better than most, then we should attend seriously to the argument that nourishment of appropriate civic dispositions is a legitimate public purpose.
I would add that the current emphasis on vocational education is every bit as hostile to the ends of cultivating private virtue as public. I do not seek here to defend the narrow and parched understanding of education embodied by our current educational system.
An additional thought–nothing in what I write here should be construed as support for “highly centralized and unionized” public schools. I wrote nothing that should be construed as support for our current status quo, and to suggest that I did is rather uncivil. Please do not erect straw men out of my words and sentences.
What I did point out is that “the state” encompasses much more than just the Federal government; that public schools since their inception have been supported by public monies; and that so long as that is the case, the state will be thoroughly implicated in education. I also suggested that private education, the excellent Catholic system not-withstanding, can not (and should not) strive to replace public education. That is an argument I have extended, in my second post, above.
We are in agreement in all but one area covered by your comments as we both recognize the inherent problems with “highly centralized and unionized” schools.
Where I would disagree is in your assertion that Catholic education can not fulfill the goals esposed by many of the Founders.
I can not speak for the present generation of Catholic educators and considering the leftward swing of many of these schools you may be on to something. However, I can assure you that the education I received in both elementary and high schools fit this description to a tee, as they say. We had extensive schooling in civics, history, philosophy and the “Great Works.” The responsibilities of citizenship in our republic were also stressed – indeed, it could be said that in today’s world much of what we were taught would be dismissed as too “patriotic.”
Of course, it was not. Rather, an emphasis was placed on both opportunity and as our fellow commentor R. Richard reminds us, our obligations.
Was this also part of a core of religious instruction? Yes, it was. That fact, however, should not diminish the value of the instruction or teachings. After all, most local schools, and they were supported by local tax levies, were religious in orientation. The Founders did insist upon a core of religious values as part of “civic virtue.”
You are more familiar with their writings and I am certain you could find some to support such a notion.
I should also point out that there is a general misconception as to what is taught in Catholic schools. Many people I have encountered seem to believe that such education is primarily concerned with religious indoctrination. That was certainly not true in my case and this was an education that began in the mid-1950’s.
I suspect the level of such instruction has further diminished in the intervening years.
In fact, now that I think of it, I may pay for my upcoming grandchild’s education in such a school.
Thank you–this is most useful. I think you are correct that I was assuming that the end of Catholic education was ultimately spiritual, whereas as I perceive it that of public education should be civic. But at a deeper level, I guess I should not be surprised. Catholicism conceives of the full human life as lived within spiritual communities, in relationship with God but also in proper relationship with other persons–I perceive Catholic theology as at root hostile to autonomous individualism and thus to some degree in tension with classical liberalism. So it makes sense that a proper Catholic education would take proper cognizance of civic obligations.
Kevin, you said: “Given the obvious advantages of public education over the alternative (good and plentiful formal education for the very wealthy and progressively less for the rest of the population), education will continue to receive attention from and oversight from various levels of government. In this sense education will always fall short of the libertarian ideal.” I assumed you were speaking of actual public schools as opposed to some theoretical public school system; if I misunderstood, I am indeed sorry and certainly I did not mean to be uncivil.
However, centralized and unionized schools are the inevitable product of government schools insulated from competition. Additionally, the actual centralized and unionized public schools we have do an absolutely terrible job of teaching the civic virtues we all value. I can think of no remedy save competition among various modes of schooling to bring about the improvement needed.
PS: You really should check out my wife’s middle school history class at St. Austin Catholic School if you want to see the teaching of civic virtues!
Why are unionized schools the inevitable result of lack of competition? In the history of our republic, school unions are (relatively) recent, whereas government oversight by some level of government (usually the jurisdiction that raises the taxes) has been part of the system from the get go.
Centralization strikes me as another matter–but if a jurisdiction raises monies via taxation, I think there is a strong case to make that the folks elected to administer it have an ethical and proper political responsibility to exercise some degree of oversight. So while I think that it is correct that public education entails some degree of public accountability and hence centralization, I find it hard to imagine an ethical alternative.
I posed this question (slightly revised) to Greg Weiner in a private email: If 1.) republican government is a good thing; and if 2.) civic education is necessary for republican government to endure; then what alternative is there to the conclusion that 3.) republican governments have an obligation to nurture civic education.
I do not think that there is any cause whatsoever to doubt that the Catholic school system does in fact do a very good job of nurturing civic education. Everything I have seen of the system is pretty positive, and most people I know who came through it received a terrific and admirable education.
On the other hand, the historian in me wants to inquire as to the historical roots of the current Catholic civic curriculum. If I had to guess, I would ground it in Catholic responses to the realities of the cold war–which is to say that it is contingent. I may very well be wrong about that, though. On the other hand, if it is contingent, and if the outline of the argument I posed to Greg has any merit, then I would wish some assurance that the current civic curriculum will continue into the future. Of course, one of the things that is especially disturbing right now–see for example the revised AP US history curriculum–is the massive shift going on right now in the public school history curriculum away from civic education.
No argument whatsoever that our current public system is flawed, and not likely to improve under current conditions. Lots and lots to worry about here.
All best wishes,
G. M. Curtis says
Some years ago Murray Rothbard wrote a powerhouse extended essay on the corrosive power of state compulsion in the world of education. I suggest that his perspectives merit a place in your conversations. .
William Chadwick says
Any solution put forth to solve education problems nationally will be steeped in the political philosophy of the person making the argument for their solution. Those who think giant, top-down ideas like “common core” are best, will want to implement a large behemoth that will be forced on everyone. Those who think local solutions are best – and these are a decided minority – will perhaps propose dismantling the collage created over the last one hundred years.
Those of us who teach our kids at home feel that we see through the cracks the experts are trying to hide. You don’t need an expert teacher to give someone a great primary and secondary education. All you need is someone who believes in the student and can read.
Instead of more money, more regulations, more federal personnel, what if we dismantled all of that and put it in the hands of local communities.
But these ideas have no political home. As the author pointed out, the two parties that run the country put out the same sort of ideas every four to eight years.
Riffing off of my speculation above, replying to Gabe– I am not persuaded, although open to being so, that reformed theology encourages the same kind of civic focus in education as I think likely does Catholicism. Thoughts?
Christel Swasey says
Thank you for your excellent article.
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Shero Out; Devils End Tampa Win Streak
Wow. What a day and a half for the New Jersey Devils.
Hot on the heels of defeating the top team in the league, the Washington Capitals, the Devils were set to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning, easily the hottest team in the league with a ten-game winning streak.
Then, about an hour before game time, word came down that the Devils and General Manager Ray Shero had parted ways. Josh Harris of the Devils’ ownership group, stated in a press conference before the game on MSG Network that there was a difference of philosophy basically on how the Devils should handle the upcoming trade deadline.
Shero was let go and Assistant GM Tom Fitzgerald would step in as interim General Manager with Martin Brodeur acting as an adviser for hockey operations to Fitzgerald. Brodeur had previously served as Assistant GM of the St. Louis Blues and was most recently the Devils’ executive vice president of business development.
Devils managing partner Josh Harris said that he and Ray “are in agreement that the Devils need to move in a new direction and that this change is in the best interest of the team.” He also said that the “organization remains deeply committed to creating a sustainably winning franchise.”
The Devils currently stand in last place in the Metro Division with a 17-21-7 record (as of tonight’s game) with 41 points. Over Shero’s five seasons in charge of the Devils, the team posted a record of 157-167-48 and had one playoff appearance. Not a knock on Shero at all, of course, the team was a mess when he took over. He made some moves to improve the team, no doubt. If you had told me before the season that all three of Shero, John Hynes and Taylor Hall would be gone before the All-Star break, I would not have believed you at all.
“Our fans deserve nothing but the best hockey. We thank them for their continued support as we work toward our goals” said Harris. These goals include a search for a new GM, which will be commencing immediately and will include Fitzgerald being interviewed.
Oh yeah, and following all of this turmoil, all the Devils needed to do was take down the Lightning, one of the elite teams in the Eastern Conference and winners of 10 straight.
There was one small other news item that slipped past with the news of Shero’s departure. Cory Schneider, last seen in the NHL losing to the Edmonton Oilers on November 8, made his return from the American Hockey League. He was called up from Binghamton and backed up starter Louis Domingue – making back-to-back starts for the first time as a Devil – with Evan Cormier being sent back to the AHL.
So, how did the Devils fare after all of this? They won, 3-1, handing Tampa their first loss in 11 games tonight at the Prudential Center.
The Devils did get some good news prior to the game. Jack Hughes came back after five games out with an upper body injury. It was his first game of the 2020 calendar year, as he got hurt on New Year’s Eve against the Bruins.
They were, however, subtracting someone from the lineup. Leading goal scorer Kyle Palmieri was out with a lower body injury as he got hurt blocking a shot last night in Washington. He joined Mackenzie Blackwood on the sidelines and Mirco Mueller was the healthy scratch with Connor Carrick back in again.
The goalie matchup, as mentioned, featured Domingue, a former Bolt traded to the Devils earlier this season – making a back-to-back start and he was great again, making 26 saves on 27 Tampa shots for a .963 save percentage. Opposing him was Tampa backup Curtis McElhinney, who stopped 17 of the 19 shots he saw for an .895 save percentage. The Devils ended up with 20 shots due to an empty net goal later on in the game.
The game started out feisty. At the 9:33 mark of the first period, Tampa’s Nikita Kucherov hit Jesper Boqvist from behind and Kevin Rooney took exception. He was taken down by Tampa’s Anthony Cirelli, who administered a few rabbit punches to the head of Rooney while he was down on the ice. Cirelli went off for roughing, but things would stay chippy all night.
On the power play, the Devils went 0-for-4 with ten shots. They also held the vaunted Lightning power play to 0-for-2 with just three shots.
Things started out normal enough. Tampa got on the board first just 37 seconds into the second after a scoreless first period. It happened when New Jersey could not get the puck out of their own end and Victor Hedman passed to Tyler Johnson on Domingue’s doorstep. He scored the 15th goal of Tampa’s ten-game winning streak. But it would also be the last.
Later on, at the 3:10 mark of the second, Andy Greene scored his first goal of the year when Miles Wood dropped the puck to Greene just as he was entering the Tampa zone. He ripped a slap shot that beat McElhinney clean and ended the shutout streak the Lightning had going at 169:05. That tied the game up at one. Hughes had the secondary assist on the goal.
The game-winner for the Devils came a little less than four minutes after Greene’s goal when Nikita Gusev took a pass from Damon Severson, then faked passing back to him. He instead shot quickly on net and Travis Zajac tipped the shot by McElhinney to give the Devils the 2-1 lead.
Late in the second, with a little over a minute left, Yanni Gourde and Carrick got into a scrap. It was a spirited fight and saw both players fall to the ice in a draw.
The third period seemed to yield a third goal early for the Devils when, with 8:21 left, Gusev made a great move around Cirelli, had him fall down and skated around him to put the puck in the net behind McElhinney.
Lightning coach Jon Cooper then used his coach’s challenge, arguing goalie interference from Blake Coleman. While initially, it seemed that Cirelli had fallen into McElhinney when Gusev beat him, it was actually Coleman that impeded the Tampa goaltender from making the save and the goal was called back after review.
The Lighting pulled McElhinney with 2:19 left in regulation and the Devils took their aim at the empty net, complete with Zajac skating down the rink, nullifying icing and trying to wrap the puck around and into the net. Unfortunately for him, Coleman and Lightning player tangled together and tumbled into the net, dislodging it before Zajac could score.
Miles Wood would eventually get the empty net goal with one second to go in the game for New Jersey, marking the second straight game where Wood has scored into an empty net. Wayne Simmonds and Greene had the assists, marking two points for Andy Greene on the night. Wood also had a goal and an assist for two points on the evening.
That made it 3-1 with two of the Devils’ oldest veterans combining to score the most important goals that would sink Tampa.
The Devils dominated in the faceoff circle, winning 61-percent of the game’s draws, with Pavel Zacha winning 75-percent of the faceoffs he took.
The Bolts outhit the Devils, 23-19, but the Devils had more blocked shots at 14-12 and only two turnovers to Tampa’s six.
Individually, PK Subban led all Devils skaters in ice time with 26:03 with 5:45 on the power play and 1:51 on the PK. Zacha led the forwards with 19:52 including 5:15 on the power play and 1:03 shorthanded.
Shots on goal were spread pretty evenly with Nico Hischier, Zajac, Wood, Hughes, Gusev, Will Butcher, Severson and Subban all registering two to co-lead. Coleman once again led in hits with four. Kevin Rooney and Greene each led in blocks with four each. Takeaways were co-led by Hischier, Zacha and Sami Vatanen who had one apiece.
Greene was the third star, Zajac the second and Domingue the first on the night.
So the Devils will try to go for the trifecta, defeating another highly offensive team in the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday north of the border. Puck drop for that game is 7 PM and we will have a write up for you right here when the game is done.
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FDA and Pharmacy Weekly Digest - March 19
FDA Acting Commissioner Announced – It has been widely reported that Ned Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will be appointed the acting commissioner of the FDA following Commissioner Gottlieb’s announcement of his resignation. This appointment will take effect in April 2019.
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FDA Seeks to Modernize Clinical Trials – FDA’s statement indicates that “[n]ew research paradigms are needed to break down barriers between real world data and clinical research, so that evidence can be shared rapidly to improve both domains across a learning health care system.” This statement was coupled with the publication of four draft guidance documents and one final guidance focused on cancer clinical trials.
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David Daleiden’s lawyers seek to dismiss ‘sham search warrant’ for raid on his apartment in 2016
If the political search warrant is thrown out, the charges in the case will also have to be dismissed for lack of probable cause.
Fri Aug 23, 2019 - 12:10 pm EST
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By LifeSiteNews.com
August 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – On Wednesday, David Daleiden’s lawyers filed a motion asking the Superior Court of San Francisco to disqualify the 2016 raid on his home ordered by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris – and materials seized during it – which if granted would lead to charges in the state’s case against him being dismissed for lack of probable cause.
The political raid and search by Harris, now a U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential contender, on Daleiden’s home to seize unreleased videos on behalf of Planned Parenthood launched the current 15-felony video recording prosecution by the California Attorney General’s office against Daleiden and another undercover investigator from the Center for Medical Progress.
As a political favor to Planned Parenthood, Kamala Harris’ Attorney General’s office blatantly ignored black-letter California law protecting a citizen journalist's unpublished materials and falsely alleged probable cause for a search warrant, over and above the objections of career law enforcement professionals.
Key parts of the motion state:
“Internal email communications released between the Attorney General and Planned Parenthood shows an investigation conducted and overseen by Planned Parenthood and allied activist groups as the basis for a sham search warrant. The special investigative team tasked with preparing and serving a search warrant on Mr. Daleiden’s home apparently did not believe that the search warrant was accurate or was based on probable cause.” (page 9)
“The warrant specifically sought unreleased videos and documents protected by Evidence Code section 1070, subdivision (c) and the California Constitution article 1, section 2 (b)” (page 23)
“This is not an honest prosecution but rather a political favor to Planned Parenthood. It appears that the investigative staff had to be coerced into serving a search warrant that they opposed. This is overwhelming evidence of bad faith.” (page 36)
“It is now known that both Doe 9 and Doe 10 admit that their conversations at restaurants could be overheard.” (page 37)
“The Los Angeles Police Department refused to take a report for filing with the District Attorney’s Office because the video was recorded in a public restaurant.” (page 38)
LifeSite readers can follow all the latest developments in this case HERE.
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The 7 Best Mac Productivity Apps of 2020
How To › Macs
The best applications for getting more work done in less time
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Patrick Shawn Hearn
Patrick Hearn has been a freelance technology writer for 6+ years. He has written for CBSi, GameSpot, Xfinity, and many others.
The right productivity apps can streamline your work day and help you get more done in less time. When searching for productivity, you want to find apps that have just enough bells and whistles without overwhelming you with options. Here are some of the top picks for the best Mac productivity apps.
Best for Text Shortcuts: TextExpander
Works on a variety of devices.
Provides a free demo.
Requires a monthly subscription.
If you need to type out similar messages or turns of phrase on a regular basis (or you find yourself using complicated, hard-to-spell jargon) then a text expander can save a lot of time. Even if you struggle to spell a few specific words, you can use TextExpander to implement a keyboard shortcut. TextExpander allows users to create custom shortcuts that expand into full phrases or sentences.
For example, if you need to type the word "silhouette" a lot but struggle to spell it, you can create the shortcut "sl." Once you type those two letters and press tab, the word fills in behind them. Once you get the hang of your shortcuts, you can save yourself a tremendous amount of time.
Download TextExpander
Best for Password Management: 1Password
More secure than using the same password on multiple accounts.
One-click access to different accounts.
Rather than struggle to remember dozens of individual passwords, make use of a password manager like 1Password. It gives you a single login for all accounts, but provides strong, secure passwords on a remote server, meaning your credentials are virtually impenetrable.
You won't have to struggle to remember specific passwords, and a password manager brings an extra level of security to your accounts. 1Password offers a personal plan for $2.99 per month.
Download 1Password
Best for To-do Lists: Todoist
Powerful functionality even at the free tier.
Worthwhile benefits for those that purchase the premium version.
Collaborative functionality could use more work.
Todoist is one of the foremost task management apps available today and allows users to enter upcoming tasks and set reminders for daily, recurring tasks. It works across all iOS platforms, and the automatic cloud syncing makes it easy to enter a task from your laptop and cross it off from your phone once you complete it.
Todoist offers a free tier with most of its powerful features, including a browser extension and reminders. For a fee of $29 per year, users gain access to automatic reminders, backups, and more.
Download Todoist
Best for Eliminating Distractions: Focus
Works at the OS level so users can't easily disable it.
Allows custom time limits and website restrictions.
The one-time fee is high.
The Internet is a wonderful place to explore and learn, but there are just as many distractions. When you're trying to meet a tight deadline, it can be hard to stay focused when social media or Reddit beckons. Focus is the solution to that problem, enabling users to block certain websites for a specified amount of time. It rests in your menu bar at the top of your screen, so a single click is all you need to activate it.
Focus works even if you switch to Incognito mode or another browser, so there are no ways around its functionality except to restart your computer. Since that goes beyond the effort most people want to put in for distractions, it's easy to stay focused. Focus comes with a free trial, but a single license is $19.99.
Download Focus
Best for Keeping Your Screen Active: Amphetamine
A wide range of features provides a deep level of control.
Great replacement for the no-longer-supported Caffeine.
The app causes the battery to drain faster than normal.
Amphetamine is one of the best options for keeping the screen on while you handle other tasks. The app is free and provides a wide range of functionality, including specific triggers you can set to keep the screen on. For example, if you're uploading a video to Youtube, you can tell Amphetamine to run until the upload is complete so you don't risk interrupting the process.
Download Amphetamine
Best for Cleaning Your Mac: CleanMyMac
The app cleans Mac drives in a way few other applications do.
Provides transparency on what will be deleted and what won't.
The cost can be prohibitive.
CleanMyMac is a powerful tool that scans your Mac's drives and identifies files you no longer need and gives you the ability to delete them without harming your system. The tool is a great way to speed up your computer so all of your applications run just a little bit faster.
Before you run it, CleanMyMac tells you how many files its found and how much space will be cleared out, providing you with the chance to backtrack if you feel something is off about the number. You can also clean out only certain partitions if you want to leave other parts of your drive untouched. A single license of CleanMyMac is a one-time fee of $39.95.
Download CleanMyMac
Best for Managing Menu Bar: Bartender 3
Lets you customize the menu bar.
Great level of control over your display.
Low cost.
Bartender injects code into existing apps, which can create security flaws.
The menu bar at the top-left of any Mac computer is one of the most useful features for quickly activating specific apps, but it can get overwhelmed with options as time goes on. There are a lot of icons you want to keep access to, but don't necessarily want on the main part of the menu. That's where Bartender comes in. Bartender allows you to rearrange menu bar icons and hide those you don't use very often.
If you only use four or five icons on a regular basis, keep those within easy reach. Any other icons are miscellaneous and can be relegated to the extra menu pane Bartender adds. Bartender is available for a one-time fee of $15.
Download Bartender 3
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IP Rights Again Brandished to Silence Critics
The Associated Press reports:
The distinctive chocolate bar on the dust jacket of a new book about the founder of The Hershey Co. violates its trademark, the candy maker said in a federal lawsuit.
The company wants an injunction to prevent publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. from using Hershey-owned images to market “Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams,” which is coming out next month.
Hershey spokeswoman Stephanie Moritz said the company is concerned that consumers may think it “authorized, sponsored or approved” the book. The jacket also depicts a Hershey’s Kiss and a subtitle in a font similar to the paper wrapper inside a Kiss.
Simon & Schuster said the Hershey symbols on the cover are “artistically relevant” to the book’s subject and not expressly misleading.
“This seems to me to be a backdoor way to try to stop publication by claiming trademark issues, when really they don’t like what the book says. I consider it an attempt at censorship,” said author Michael D’Antonio.
The publisher is advertising the book as Hershey’s first major biography, the story of “a gambler, raconteur, despot and servant.”
They never learn. Hershey will lose this suit. No one is going to think the book is a giant cardboard chocolate bar. This is one of those great trademark / copyright / free speech / fair use intersection moments — especially in a case where there’s actual criticism of the subject of the trademark (meaning there could even be a semblance of a parody defense here). Let’s hope the courts don’t drop the ball this time.
UPDATE: Oh, I almost forgot: Buy it here.
UPDATE: Settled. Believe me, a settlement is a loss for Hershey, because according to press reports, the main concession by the publisher was the addition of a disclaimer — which never works as a defense. “Author Michael D’Antonio called the settlement ‘a victory for people who can’t tell the difference between recycled paper and chocolate’ and praised Simon & Schuster for fighting the lawsuit.” I prefer Nestle’s myself but I do think “recycled paper” is pushing it.
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Act 1, Part 1 Act 1, Part 2 Act 2, Part 1 Act 2, Part 2 Act 3, Part 1 Act 3, Part 2
All Themes The Art of Deception: Fact v. Fiction The Pursuit of Marriage Cash, Class, and Character Name and Identity Hypocrisy, Folly, and Victorian Morality Men and Women in Love
All Characters Jack
All Symbols Town and Country Bunbury Ernest Tea Service Food The Dandy Orphans and Wards Christenings Jack’s Mourning Clothes Diaries Cecily’s Love Letters Miss Prism’s Three-volume-novel Jack’s Handbag Jack’s Cigarette Case Jack’s Business Card The Coatroom at Victoria Station and The Brighton Line The Army List
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Act 1, Part 1
The Art of Deception: Fact v. Fiction
Cash, Class, and Character
Name and Identity
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Men and Women in Love
The Dandy
Orphans and Wards
Jack’s Mourning Clothes
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The Army List
The Importance of Being Earnest Act 2, Part 2 Summary & Analysis
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Jack greets Algernon coldly, furious that Algernon has showed up at his country estate, masquerading as “Ernest” and shocked that he has been talking to Cecily about “Bunbury.” At Cecily’s prompting, Jack begrudgingly shakes Algernon’s hand. Miss Prism, Dr. Chasuble and Cecily leave the brothers alone to talk things out.
Jack and Algernon must pretend to reconcile and switch identities in order to preserve their alter egos. Though Jack resists this transition, the relative ease with which Algernon becomes “Ernest” marks the fluid nature of name and identity in the play.
Outraged, Jack tells Algernon that he has to leave. Algernon insists that that he is staying for week, but Jack asserts that “Ernest” has been called back to town and instructs Merriman to order a dog-cart to take “his brother” back to the train station. Algernon refuses to leave until Jack changes out of his mourning clothes, saying that he is absurdly over-dressed.
Jack’s attempt to send Algernon /“Ernest” back to town represents his endeavor to keep not only fact and fiction apart, but also his lives in town and country separate. Because Algernon/“Ernest” are associated with his city life, Jack tries to expel them from the country.
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Jack goes to change and Cecily comes out to the garden. Before departing, Algernon declares his love for her. But Cecily insists that they have already been engaged for three months. Taking out her diary, she relates their elaborate romance, complete with a ring, a broken engagement, and love letters.
While diaries tend to record fact, Cecily’s diary is an instrument of fiction making. Her diary shows Cecily’s powerful ability to align fact with fiction, as she and Algernon fall in love through her made-up love story between her and the fictional "Ernest" (who she thinks is real).
With their engagement confirmed, Cecily confesses that she has always dreamed of marrying a man named “Ernest” because it inspires “absolute confidence.” When Algernon asks if she could love a man with his own name, she immediately declares her dislike for it. This revelation unsettles Algernon, who rushes to see Dr. Chasuble about getting christened.
Even though Cecily is initially attracted to “Ernest” for his wicked nature, her declaration of love mirrors Gwendolen’s. Like Gwendolen, Cecily holds up “Ernest” as an ideal. Her echo of “confidence” redoubles the irony underscoring her and Gwendolen’s love affairs, because Algernon and Jack are not trustworthy insofar as they are not Ernest. Though it is worth noting that their love is real; their love is in earnest.
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Meanwhile, Merriman announces Gwendolen’s unexpected arrival at the manor house to Cecily. The two women, unaware of each other’s connections to Jack or Algernon, greet each other in the garden. Gwendolen assumes that Cecily is a visitor to the house, but shows concern when she learns that Cecily is actually Mr. Ernest Worthing’s young and beautiful ward. Cecily corrects her, informing Gwendolen that Jack Worthing is her guardian. “Ernest” is actually Jack’s brother and her fiancé. Shocked, Gwendolen asserts that she is in fact, “Ernest’s” fiancée, reading an entry from her diary as proof.
Jack and Algernon’s carefully crafted cover stories and fake identities unravel, as Cecily and Gwendolen believe themselves to be engaged to the same man. Mistaken identities motivate their emerging jealousies. Lastly, because diaries read more like fictions in the play, Gwendolen’s diary does not appear as an authoritative source, but a paltry piece of evidence.
Believing that they are both engaged to “Ernest,” Cecily and Gwendolen’s jealousies play out over the course of a tea service. Gwendolen refuses Cecily’s offer of sugar and cake, while making snide remarks about Cecily’s tasteless country upbringing. Cecily responds, dumping healthy doses of both into Gwendolen’s cup and onto her plate, while making comments about the city’s “vulgar” nature.
Gwendolen and Cecily’s food fight not only pivots on romantic jealousies, but also exposes class biases. Gwendolen, being a sophisticated urbanite, finds Cecily’s country manners to be uncouth, while Cecily finds Gwendolen’s snobbishness to be evidence of the city’s vulgarity.
As tensions come to a head, Jack and Algernon arrive, one after the other, having separately made appointments with Dr. Chasuble to be christened later that day. Gwendolen confronts Jack, asking if he is engaged to Cecily. He firmly denies this. Yet Cecily takes great pleasure in pointing out that Gwendolen’s betrothed is not “Ernest,” but her guardian Uncle Jack. Cecily goes to Algernon’s side and declares that he is “Ernest.” Gwendolen takes even greater pleasure in pointing out that Cecily’s fiancé is not “Ernest,” but her cousin Algernon.
Gwendolen and Cecily each play a part in dismantling the fantasy of “Ernest.” By revealing Jack and Algernon’s true identities to each other they essentially destroy the figure with which they are so enamored. While it is gratifying for Cecily and Gwendolen to expose Jack and Algernon, their mean-spirited revelations showcase an empty truth, where no “Ernest,” or earnest man exists at all.
Realizing that they have both been fooled, Gwendolen and Cecily embrace each other and demand to know the whereabouts of Jack’s brother and their fiancé, “Ernest.” Jack confesses that he does not have a brother at all. Cecily and Gwendolen, distraught at no longer being engaged to “Ernest,” retreat into the house.
Cecily and Gwendolen’s distress at no longer being engaged to “Ernest” shows that they have confused the name they adore with the men whom they admire. They loved the name, not the men. In this way Wilde mocks the Victorian aspect of marriage as a uniting of "names"—wealth and reputation being more important than a possible lover's actual traits.
Realizing that they have ruined their chances of getting married, Algernon and Jack argue about their failed “Bunburying” schemes, which prohibit them from further excursions in town or country. They also debate about who will ultimately take the name of “Ernest” at their upcoming christenings with Dr. Chasuble. Jack asserts that he should take the name because there is no proof that he has ever been christened. Attempting to manipulate his friend, so that he can take the name for himself, Algernon insists that such a name change could be dangerous. Meanwhile, the two men squabble over muffins and teacake, until the curtain drops.
Jack and Algernon do not bemoan the loss of their fiancées, but the loss of a good alibi for Bunburying—“Ernest.” Without “Ernest” their double lives in the country and city can no longer live on. Even as the fictional “Ernest” disappears, Jack and Algernon still fight over who will actually assume his name in real life, showing their willingness to make real this character to please their partners. Their quarrel over muffins parallels Cecily and Gwendolen’s fight under the pretense of a civil tea service.
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EPA launches crackdown on emissions defeat device makers
Daniel Strohl on Jan 14th, 2020
After finding dozens of aftermarket parts companies in violation of the Clean Air Act for selling emissions defeat devices last year, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will step up enforcement against such companies and clamp down on any aftermarket parts designed to bypass emissions controls, whether intended for on- or off-road use.
The announcement came after the EPA reached its most recent settlement with an aftermarket parts seller, in which it found Punch It Performance and Tuning out of Florida to have sold more than 20,000 devices that “included hardware components and electronic tuning software, known as ‘tunes,’ that hack into and reprogram a motor vehicle’s electronic control module to alter engine performance and enable the removal of filters, catalysts and other critical emissions controls that reduce air pollution.”
The owners of Punch It Performance and Tuning, who dissolved the company sometime after the EPA’s investigation began in July 2015, were ordered to pay a civil penalty of $850,000 and surrender all software and source code they used to create the devices in question, according to the EPA. Punch It Performance appeared to focus largely on diesel-related products, including EGR-delete tunes.
“EPA will vigorously pursue and prosecute companies who attempt to circumvent emission controls that are required to reduce air pollution,” Susan Bodine, the EPA’s assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance, said in a statement. “This case illustrates why stopping the manufacture, sale, and installation of aftermarket defeat devices is an EPA National Compliance Initiative.”
Some of the other aftermarket companies that the EPA has pursued enforcement action against over the last year also specialized in tunes and other products for diesel engines. For selling tunes, largely for heavy-duty diesel engines, Performance Diesel Inc. was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $1.1 million in September; for selling catalytic converter-delete aftermarket exhaust systems, California-based MagnaFlow was ordered to pay a $612,849 penalty in March; and for selling catalytic converter-delete aftermarket exhaust systems, Nevada-based JAMO Performance Exhaust was ordered to pay a $10,000 penalty in August.
In addition, the EPA secured settlements against a number of companies that sold parts for gasoline-engine vehicles over the last year, among them Nevada-based Flowmaster, which paid a $270,000 penalty in March; California-based OBX Racing Sports, which paid a $25,000 penalty in April; California-based Weistec Engineering, which paid an $8,500 penalty in March; and California-based APEX Integration, which paid a $5,000 penalty in August. All were for selling either tunes or catalytic converter-delete exhaust components.
In all, the EPA secured settlements against 42 companies in 2019, more than in any one year over the past decade and a 40-percent increase over 2018. Since 2010, the EPA has secured settlements against 298 companies for Clean Air Act violations involving vehicles and engines.
According to the EPA, its National Compliance Initiative, which “will focus on stopping the manufacture, sale, and installation of defeat devices on vehicles and engines used on public roads as well as on nonroad vehicles and engines,” is slated to run from 2020 through 2023, though the August and September enforcement actions listed above were considered part of the initiative. As the EPA notes, doing so will reduce
mobile source pollutants includ(ing) smog-forming volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, various toxic air pollutants such as cancer-causing benzene, carbon monoxide, particulate matter or soot, and greenhouse gases. In addition to adverse effects on the environment, these pollutants are responsible for asthma, heart disease and other illnesses.
Stuart Gosswein, the senior director of federal government affairs for the Specialty Equipment Market Association, said SEMA is following the National Compliance Initiative. “The EPA has always had the authority to enforce clean air laws on any emissions-related parts that would take a vehicle out-of-compliance,” he said. “But (the National Compliance Initiative) does confirm the EPA’s recent increased level of review and potential enforcement.”
According to SEMA’s Guide to Government Regulation of Emissions-Related Aftermarket Parts, it’s up to aftermarket parts manufacturers to obtain certification – in the form of a CARB EO number – that their parts don’t fall afoul of the Clean Air Act’s requirement not to tamper with emissions controls.
Generally, any product that affects air flow into or out of the engine, impacts the containment or delivery of fuel or affects the functionality of an emissions control system or device must demonstrate emissions compliance to be considered legal for street use. That includes but is not limited to intake systems, exhaust components, tuning products, intercoolers, turbos and superchargers.
In addition, SEMA warns that selling any aftermarket parts with the disclaimers “for off-road use only” or “for racing use only” is “essentially meaningless… if the part can be installed on a highway vehicle.”
As pointed out during the debate over the SEMA-backed Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act, re-introduced in Congress late last year (S.2602, H.R.5434), the EPA does not make a practice of prosecuting individuals who have bought and made use of emissions control defeat devices, only the manufacturers selling those devices. At the time, Gosswein noted that the EPA’s targeting of such companies were examples of the enforcement mechanisms already in place working like they should.
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LostPawn
While it seems the targeted manufacturers were selling parts and tunes to delete emissions controls, the language is there and this could lead to all tunes being targeted. The language is also there to require all power adders (intakes, turbos, superchargers, exhaust, fuel controls, etc.) to apply for certification for each application they could be used for.
Yes. Those actions would/do make sense if we remember why the rules were passed into law in the first place.
I do love my BOE 300 tune tho......
jds62f
He's on fire!
I believe we're stepping over quarters to pick up pennies. Of all the vehicles on the road, how many people are actually making these sort of changes? The companies cited are known to primarily operate in the consumer space, so basically we're picking on individual consumers. Of the big numbers listed in the article, the biggest settlement was $1M, and the others listed quickly dropped off. Is it really the best use of time to be going after little companies for $5k?
How big a problem is this compared to emissions generated by commercial logistics (ie trucks, ships, and air travel). To me it seems like there are bigger wins in that space, but we probably don't focus over there because those areas are organized, lobby, and quickly chicken little the resulting costs of improvements.
"Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Well, if truck, ships and planes meet the emissions control laws (assuming they exist), it would be difficult to go after them.
Second, if companies who sell devices and/or software to cheat laws see the trend enough, they may stop.
glb said:
From reading some of the cases the past few years, there are several related to importing off-road vehicles that do not meet the emissions of their counterpart on-road vehicles or engine family. Some were fined for importing ATVs or generators.
I do agree this seems to be geared to both fine offenders and scare others into stopping. It's been shown several times that you can make just as much power (or damn close) while keeping the emissions equipment, at least for gas vehicles. I still hate taking the Lotus through emission testing.
My point is that we should be looking at the true major contributors to the emissions problem. Show me the data that gives us any clue that tunes are a top level contributor to pollution. There is no argument, they are "a" contributor- my assertion is that there are bigger fish to fry.
I'd reason that commercial logistics are a much larger contributor to pollution, and that minute gains in those associated industries would be far more beneficial than fining APEX $5k. Unfortunately large companies and industry are far more organized and thus much better at making sure the law never changes. The fact that there are places that are bigger contributors to the pollution problem, and we're not making changes to the law to encourage them to improve, is my point.
David Craig
Interesting article, thanks for posting
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jds62f said:
Oh, I got your point and offered my opinion. But, we have 2 different topics. One is using existing law to reduce cheating and pollution.
The 2nd, tho, is getting laws passed. Wholly different.
Do planes and ship have emissions limits?
Aircraft: No Ships: Yes
Ls1Rx7
Trying to rationalize the EPAs actions are a feat in insanity.
XHILR8N!
Would this apply to full race cars? Track only cars?
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XHILR8N! said:
That’s where I think this gets a little unclear. They are only targeting manufacturers and not individuals, but the “for off road use only” labeling is not going to work. I think they will target parts that can convert a street car to a track only car but not cars built for racing only from the beginning. This is for items bypassing emissions, so maybe we’ll see less tunes offering that or exhaust parts bypassing cats.
exigegus
#14 • 1 day ago
There are millions of passenger cars on the road. Driving billions of miles a year. Go follow the link in the OP
Just one of the fined companies sold more products than there are Elises on the road.
You are making an unfounded supposition that this doesn't amount to anything and charging others to prove you wrong.
You have seen one of these pinheads 'rolling coal'
Screw them
IF enforcement to get rid of those idiots eliminates our tunes, so be it, it was fun while it lasted.
The EPA is doing their job, it doesn't sound like most of those fines were particularly crushing.
If you don't believe in emission controls, you are a fool, or so young you do not remember what real smog is.
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Slow_Polk
LostPawn said:
I wonder if we will see an uptick in non-US sources for tunes since it will be pretty easy to import them? There is already a growing eastern European market for pirated John Deere software since the manufacturer has made it so difficult for owners to do even simple maintenance. Tuning software is big business and there are few means to enforce US laws on other nations. Sure they can try to stop the imports but just look at all the items of questionable legality that are for sale on ebay and aliexpress. It will be like trying to stop pirated music/movies. As soon as one source is shut down three more will pop up in it's place.
steelypip
Slow_Polk said:
I wonder if we will see an uptick in non-US sources for tunes since it will be pretty easy to import them? There is already a growing eastern European market for pirated John Deere software since the manufacturer has made it so difficult for owners to do even simple maintenance.
This is already happening. I was casually considering getting the current Honda Super Cub as a commute bike, and quickly found that there's a brisk trade in offshore hot rod ECUs for the (Grom) engine in it. Expect more of this.
exigegus said:
There aren't that many elises on the road- lets try a much bigger number than any listed in the article. The defeat devices result in 30% more emissions (according to a quick google search). If 4M people bought tunes, the emissions output would be as if there were an additional 1.2M cars on the road. There are 273M vehicles registered in the US- this is a 0.4% difference. I HAVE seen the pinheads rolling coal... but I can tell you I've seen far more regular semi's pushing loads of soot into the air than coal rollers.
In my post I clearly stated I thought tunes defeating emissions on road going cars could be considered "a" problem. If my history is right, it was the introduction of emissions regulations that lead to smog reduction. In other words, upstream changes in regulations that affected industry, not going after small companies. glb caught my viewpoint - regulations changes are proven to be a much more effective method of reducing pollution than the activity primarily cited in this article. Generally speaking I'd rather my tax dollars go to activities that are going to maximize the effect per dollar spent. While it is true that ignored a problem may grow, I'm ok with that as long as we're using the opportunity cost to solve the biggest, most impactful problems first.
Tpup
I'm supportive of enforcing emissions. That said there are plenty of studies that suggest that 80% of the bad stuff is coming from a small % of the cars on the road. We just don't have the stones to tell people that their car is no longer road worthy and force them to change. Every state I have lived in has emissions laws but if you don't pass them there are ways out of it. Register your car to someone in the country or show that you have attempted to fix the car and paid X dollars for it and they will green light you.
What I'm saying is that step 1 should be getting the polluters off the road imo.
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The very conservative want vehicles to spew black soot like the good old days, the futurists imagine electric cars whose power magically appears with no environmental effect anywhere.
Regardless, lower emission cars are faster and handle better than any ever in history. Our hobby will move forward, we will all have access to plenty enough performance to keep us more than entertained.
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Tpup said:
I'm supportive of enforcing emissions. That said there are plenty of studies that suggest that 80% of the bad stuff is coming from a small % of the cars on the road.
Actually, it's well above 80%, and has been for decades. There's a reason we coined the term 'Gross Emitter' for a badly out of tune vehicle when we were doing roadside sampling at EPA back in the '90s. A car running really rich (say with a miss or some other thing horribly wrong) with a dead catalytic converter emits 2-3 orders of magnitude more HC and CO than one running near stoichiometric mixture with a working cat.
That means that one gross emitter is worth 100-1000 clean cars in the total mix. It really doesn't take many bad apples to spoil the barrel in a place like Denver in February or LA in July. It also means, incidentally, that a car actually modified for good performance is not a gross emitter as long as it's not running horribly rich at cruise. So the 'waaah it hurts performance' whine is completely bogus. You can run an oversize low-restriction cat, tune for stoichiometric mixture below, say 80% throttle opening, and pass any sniffer test in the world until you go above 80% throttle (none of the regulatory tests requires over 80% throttle on anything with an acceptable power/weight ratio). NOx is a little trickier, but also not a big deal as long as you leave EGR on the car and let the mixture dither around stoichiometric at cruise as it is designed to.
Taking the cat off raises HC and CO emissions by about 300%, mostly when the engine is not fully warm, during throttle transitions (one reason why DBW throttle appeared), and at light throttle cruise.
Diesels are different, but the same principles mostly hold - you give up some fuel economy to keep the NOx and particulate reactors hot (or run DEF), but not a lot if you're working the engine hard enough. A diesel at max power mixture smokes a little. It does not make a cloud of black smoke. The only time that's not true is on things like unlimited class competition pulling tractors running propane injection - definitely not normal on-road use. Further, nearly any diesel can't sustain max power mixture for very long before something in the exhaust tract overheats. You moderate this by reducing the fueling rate which...also does away with the visible smoke (and most of the particulate) in the exhaust. NOx managment is a lot trickier due to higher compression ratios and combustion temperatures than in an otto cycle engine, but carrying around an enormous NOx reactor bomb (or carrying and spraying DEF) is not that big a deal on something that weighs 20,000+ lbs unladen.
Lots of smoke from an on-road diesel usually means somebody didn't understand the relationship between intake pressure and fueling rate when they were reprogramming the injection system for more power, or the thing is just out of tune, or they wanted smoke just to be an a$$hole. In other words - the effects are different than with an otto cycle engine, but the causes are the same.
I don't know why people are traditionally so reluctant to just put a bigger cat on the car. It works fine, passes sniffer tests (and visual tests if well done) and hurts performance less than most mufflers do.
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First iPad Air 2 Reviews: 'Ridiculously Fast', 'Vibrant Display', Thinner Profile Comes at the Cost of Battery Life
Tuesday October 21, 2014 7:54 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Following Apple's October 16 event that saw the debut of the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, Apple provided multiple publications with review units. The embargo has now lifted on review posts, so we've gathered some of the relevant excerpts from each site in order to highlight general release reactions to the new tablet.
Apple's iPad Air 2 is an entire millimeter thinner than the original iPad Air, and Apple has billed it as the thinnest tablet in the world. It offers a new A8X processor, Touch ID fingerprint support, an anti-reflective screen coating, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and an improved 8-megapixel rear camera.
Walt Mossberg, Re/code:
So when Apple brought out new iPads last week, and I had a chance to test them over the past four days, you might think I'd be pretty excited about them -- but I'm not. They are, in most respects, the best iPads ever made. But for average users, they represent only a modest evolutionary improvement over last year's models, not the kind of big change that the first iPad Air or the Retina display iPad mini did last year. [...]
The Air 2 didn't allow me to hold or carry the tablet longer and more comfortably than the Air. Its weight of 0.96 pounds isn't discernibly lighter than the Air's weight of one pound. And its thickness of 0.24 inches is a barely noticeable reduction from the Air's 0.29 inches.
Nilay Patel, The Verge:
The Air 2 has a vibrant, sharp display that looks almost painted on. Apple says the new antireflective coating on the Air 2 reduces glare by 56 percent, but I didn't really notice it making a huge difference; you definitely can't use it in bright sunlight. [...]
Inside the iPad Air 2 lies Apple's new A8X chip, which is a variant of the A8 found in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus with additional graphics capabilities. It's ridiculously fast -- noticeably faster to load web pages and launch apps than my iPad Air, and it has so much graphics headroom that I'm eager to see how game developers take advantage of it.
Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch:
The 6.1 mm chassis just makes all the difference when it comes to the Air feeling like something that you could comfortably hold for long periods of time, and even for all-day computing, should you need it (and it's easy to imagine an event coordinator, for instance, needing exactly that).
Our review unit came in Apple's gold finish, and let me just say that on the iPad, that means there's a lot of gold going on. Apple's take on this particular metal color is better than most, but this definitely isn't my favourite finish. The Air 2 in either space grey or silver still looks fantastic however, and the gold is definitely going to stand out in a crowd, especially if you're also using the iPad as a camera.
Brad Molen, Engadget:
A thinner profile comes at the expense of battery size. The new Air's is 5.1Whr smaller than the old one, but Apple still promises that you'll get the same 10-hour battery life because the A8X is more power-efficient. Real-life use shows that the original Air still rules the roost; after a day of heavy use, I typically went to bed with around 20 percent left in the tank. If you're only using it moderately -- say, for casual content creation or consumption -- you should get a little over two days. In our video test, in which an HD movie plays through the life of the battery, the Air 2 squeezed out 11 hours and 15 minutes, significantly lower than last year's Air and about an hour short of the Samsung Tab S. [...]
The Air 2 also doesn't have a mute switch, which I didn't think would be a huge loss until I actually found myself trying to use it and becoming frustrated more frequently than I expected. Your new options are to press and hold the volume down button or go into the Control Center and press the mute key; if you used the switch to lock screen orientation, you'll need to do that in the Control Center as well. A microphone now sits where the mute switch once was; there's another one right next to the camera.
Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal:
That anti-reflective screen also makes a great, though admittedly ginormous, viewfinder for snapping nature shots with the revamped 8-megapixel camera. It takes much crisper shots than before, and in many cases, ones as good as those I can take with my iPhone 6. But I won't bring my iPad to some mountain peak, as some Apple promo shots suggest.
Besides, when I set the iPad Air 2 down for a second on a bench, it slid off and hit concrete, shattering the screen. Sure, I'm to blame, but if Apple wants me to climb every mountain armed with nothing but an iPad, ruggedness should be as important as anti-reflectivity.
Harry McCracken, Fast Company:
The weirdest fact about the iPad Air 2 is that Apple isn't publicizing (or even acknowledging) one of its best new features. The tablet now has 2GB of RAM, up from the rather cramped 1GB allotment in the original iPad Air. (Some competitors, like the Galaxy Tab 10.1, have even more.)
Doubling the RAM means that the iPad can keep more apps and browser tabs in memory without having to reload anything. That results in a speed boost which which is very apparent as you hop between apps and load new web pages.
Lance Ulanoff, Mashable
To get an anecdotal sense of the performance, I installed a pair of console-level games: Asphalt 8 Airborne and Modern Combat 5: Blackout. Each of these games is notable for rich imagery and physics including smoke, water, rain, and reflections. The games looked and worked great on the original iPad Air and worked just as well — if not better — on the iPad Air 2.
However, Apple isn’t just blowing smoke when it says the A8X is more powerful. I ran Geekbench 3 on both Airs and found that that Apple’s A8X has 3 cores (the A7 had 2) and that the multicore score for the iPad Air 2 is nearly double that of the original Air. The singlecore score for the iPad Air 2 is only slightly better than that of the iPad Air.
Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times
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Matt Warman, The Telegraph
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macduke
"Doubling the RAM means that the iPad can keep more apps and browser tabs in memory without having to reload anything. That results in a speed boost which which is very apparent as you hop between apps and load new web pages."
Vindication! More RAM is better. Everyone who has said otherwise is full of crap. FINALLY!
The Doctor11
I still don't understand why the mute button had to go :( I love it
surfingarbo
Walt Mossberg sounds like he was in a bad mood.
lewisd25
Waiting for the crying to start if Safari still auto-refreshes with 2GB of RAM.
billystlyes
90 minutes less battery life than the original iPad Air. It's THINNER though. What a joke!
TheRainKing
4GB ram please
aristobrat
2GB of RAM. Let the buying commence, and the subject for whining change...
To be fair the iPad for intents and purposes hasn't changed much since iPad 2 design and Retina were added.
Its just faster CPU, thinner, faster CPU, thinner, faster CPU. The End.
Not many people are gonna be paying $400 every year for that.
Phones are necessities and are subsidised, tablets are largely luxuries that aren't.
WilliamG
I agree. It does seem peculiar that they advertised this new feature "thinness" which comes at the expense of battery life. I'd have been impressed if we could have had thinness and the same battery life, but it looks to not be the case..
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In the Name of Feminism, 28 Movies and TV Shows That Feature Female Masturbation
Breaking taboos one vibrator at a time.
By Mehera Bonner
This just in: women masturbate! It's totally normal and healthy! Everyone does it! Yay! So, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's talk about on-screen female masturbation scenes—which are pretty few and far between compared to their male equivalents because for some reason people get super uncomfortable with the idea that women like sex. And more specifically, like touching themselves.
Even now, this is considered pretty scandalous—so cheers to films and TV shows like Fleabag, Girls, The Deuce, and Reign for breaking taboos.
1 Frankie Shaw, 'SMILF'
The scene: Single mom Bridgette [Shaw, who also created the series] masturbates to photos of her ex's new girlfriend after a hilariously failed attempt to get off with a vibrator earlier in the episode.
Her comments on it: “Part of what I’m drawn to when I’m writing is sort of a fantasy aspect [of women] and the secret life. So, a lot of this is a huge discrepancy between reality and women’s fantasy lives."
2 Logan Browning, 'Dear White People'
The scene: Fans think Sam and Gabe are on again in the season two premiere—until its revealed that their hot and heavy sex scene is actually Sam's fantasy, and that she's in bed alone with a vibrator.
Her comments on it: None, because BFD.
3 Aimee Lou Wood, 'Sex Education'
The scene: Aimee Gibbs gets in touch with her own sexuality during her first masturbation experience, trying out lots of positions and techniques to figure out what works for her.
Her comments on it: "It’s just so weird because [in school] you would hear boys talking about, 'Oh, I watched this video last night. I had the best wank, da-da-da-da-da.' They'd be shameless about it at school, and it was all the girls being like, 'I don't know what that is. We don't masturbate.' It was a complete taboo. I think debunking some of those myths about if a boy plugs away, a girl's going to have a great time, but no, girls need to be like, 'No, this is what I want.' So I'm really happy that that's in the show.
4 January Jones, 'Mad Men'
The scene: Textbook housewife Betty Draper is at home, doing housewifey chores, when she notices that the washing machine is shaking. Upon closer inspection, she realizes that the vibrating machine is actually totally fine and indulges in a fantasy.
Her comments on it: None, about the washing machine love scene. Jones has talked about Betty's sexuality more broadly, however, recalling that Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, "keeps telling me: 'She is a sexual person, she’s not some prude.'"
5 Kim Cattrall, 'Sex and the City'
The scene: Samantha meets a very hot man of the cloth (Friar F*ck) and, given his vow of celibacy, she has to take care of her urges all on her own.
6 Mia Wachowski, 'Stoker'
The scene: Wachowski's character, India, masturbates in the shower while thinking about her uncle committing murder on her behalf. The scene (like the entire movie) is a twisted exploration of the link between sex and violence—including a rare look at how the two intertwine from a female perspective.
Her comments on it: “If you’re gonna go there, you go there. The anticipation is worse than actually filming it. It’s a closed set, and they’re such specific, small shots, and they yell ‘Action!’ And then after you’re covered right up. So you’re not that exposed, thankfully!"
7 Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 'Fleabag'
The scene: Titular character Fleabag is minding her own business masturbating in bed (as ya do)—the catch is her boyfriend's asleep next to her and she's masturbating to Obama videos.
Her comments on the scene: "Ah yes, the masturbating-to-Obama bit! That was in the play. Originally, she was looking for something to distract herself from having a bad wank so she turns on the news and, well…I mean, it's Obama, can you blame her?"
8 Sharon Rooney, 'My Mad Fat Diary'
The scene: Rooney's character gives herself her first ever orgasm thanks to masturbation. Because you really don't need another person to enjoy yourself, mmmkay?
Her comments on the scene: "When they said we’d be doing that scene, I thought 'Yeah I’ll do that. Why not?' How many times have you seen a boy having a wank? All the time! It’s all they talk about! I thought: 'Let’s do it for the girls.'"
9 Allison Williams, 'Girls'
The scene: Marnie masturbates in a public bathroom while leaning against the door.
Her comments on it: "A scene like [that] just gets added to the pile and gets smushed in. It's been really interesting being interviewed and being asked about it so much, because I'm like, 'Oh, yeah, well there have been seven episodes since that scene.' I also feel like we are showing these very intimate, private and specific moments in our characters' lives and it just sort of is a part of Marnie's puzzle."
10 Caitlin Stasey, 'Reign'
The scene: Lest you forget, Reign is a CW show. And CW shows don't typically show sex, let alone masturbation. But this scene features a royal bedding ceremony with witnesses—one of whom is so turned on that she runs away to masturbate.
Her comments on it: "This is the thing: I don't care about being naked on screen. I don't care about masturbating on screen; I don't care about sex scenes on screen. The aftermath is fine; I don't care who sees it. It's the actual process of filming it that sucks. It's unsexy, it's incredibly technical, it's incredibly boring and also incredibly embarrassing. You're just like writhing around in front of a group of maybe 30 dudes because the set is primarily men…. But the act of a woman actually taking care of herself in that way is incredibly powerful."
11 Maggie Gyllenhaal, 'The Deuce'
The scene: Gyllenhaal's character masturbates after sex thanks to not orgasming during the deed itself. Relatable!
Her comments on the scene, and why she *asked* for it to be included: "I thought here’s all this performative sex, all this transactional sex. I wanted to know what her desire looks like. And after we filmed it, he was like, 'Okay. Okay. We’re okay. We have made something feminist. We have.'"
12 Beth Behrs, 'Two Broke Girls'
The scene: Beth's roommate finds her masturbating in the bathtub with a shower head. Everything happens off screen, but the hijinks!
13 Lea DeLaria, 'Orange Is the New Black'
The scene: Boo is seen getting off with the end of a screwdriver, because when in jail, you gotta make due.
Her comments on it: "I jumped up and down like a little girl. I was that excited. Because I knew it was going to be something that people will remember. And indeed, it is. The first take, I started laughing because I made the mistake of thinking about what I was doing. That's a huge mistake when acting—you shouldn't think about it. So, the first take was one of the first shots on our gag reel. It was me, starting to masturbate, and howling with laughter. It's just like, 'What am I doing? I'm getting paid to do this.' I can't tell you how many people have asked me to autograph their screwdrivers."
14 Ilana Glazer, 'Broad City'
The scene: Glazer performs her "pre-masturbation ritual," which involves a mirror, candles, and a giant vibrator. Treat yourself.
Her comments on female sexuality on the show in general: "It's like these girls are horny but not under the male gaze. They're horny, period. Just starting from the vagina, not starting from some man looking at them."
15 Amy Adams, 'Junebug'
The scene: Adams' very pregnant character masturbates in bed while looking at a photo of her husband.
Her comments on it: While talking about the most difficult scene to film in the movie, Adams said "It's a toss up between the masturbation and the hospital...it was such an intimate and vulnerable moment."
16 Joan Allen, 'Pleasantville'
The scene: Allen is seen masturbating in the bathtub as the screen changes from black to color.
17 Kate Walsh, 'Just Before I Go'
The scene: Kate Walsh's character masturbates while sleep walking.
Her comments on it: "We actually shot all of those on the second day of shooting. [Director Courteney Cox] was great; she made me feel super safe."
18 Maggie Gyllenhaal, 'Secretary'
The scene: Gyllenhaal's character fantasizes about her boss while masturbating.
Her comments on sex in the film: "I love the fact that people wanna talk about sex. I mean, I wanna talk about sex, too."
19 Shiri Appleby, 'Unreal'
The scene: Rachel is masturbating to porn with a vibrator in the back of a van.
Her comments on it: "The opening and closing scenes of episode 105 of UnREAL really sparked a conversation. Who knew a women pleasuring herself would be so newsworthy."
20 Naomi Watts, 'Mullholland Drive'
The scene: Watts' character masturbates on a bed, a moment that was so uncomfortable for the actress that director David Lynch had a tent made around her so she could be completely separated from the crew.
Her comments on it: "I was mad at him for making me do this! I remember saying, 'David, I can't do this!, I can't do this! and being mad at him....I did anger, I did crying, it was just wildly uncomfortable. The thing with David is he just keeps you going, you want to please him because he's after something really true and you don't want to give up."
21 Natalie Portman, 'Black Swan'
The scene: Okay, so Portman's masturbation scene was kind of unrealistic (for most women, masturbating isn't a male's fantasy come to life, like it was depicted in this film)—but it basically consists of her writhing around on her bed.
Her comments on it: "So disgusting. It was akin to the experience of watching the movie with my parents sitting next to me, let me tell you."
22 Riley Keough, 'The Girlfriend Experience'
The scene: Keough's character, an escort, enjoys watching herself masturbate.
Her comments on it: "We wanted to show things that you don't really see, like the girl getting her period or the girl masturbating… You really feel like you're creeping in on this girl, so it's a bit uncomfortable. It's not like we're showing her masturbate just to have a masturbation scene. It's showing every part of this person and her private moments."
23 Lizzy Caplan, 'Masters of Sex'
The scene: Her character stands completely naked and masturbates as Michael Sheen's character watches.
Her comments on it: "That was shitty. I could not have been more well protected...crew was as paired down as possible, these are my friends now. I just remember sitting in my trailer feeling for the first time since being on the show that I don't know if I can walk out there. What is it going to take to be able to walk out there and do this."
24 Kiernan Shipka, 'Mad Men'
The scene: Young (10-year-old) Sally Draper has her sexual awakening while watching an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. While the scene does not depict Sally masturbating on screen, it's implied and later confirmed by her mother, Betty's, reaction afterwards.
Her comments on it: "I was very in the world of Sally when we shot that scene. I knew that her mother was really ashamed of what she’d done, and I played off that."
25 Issa Rae, 'Insecure'
The scene: Issa just casually wants to quench her thirst solo and is frustrated to find that the batteries in her vibrator are dead.
Her comments on it: "In the [writers’] room we were talking about what it feels like to be thirsty and how we don’t really get to see female characters masturbate. Even in a funny way. Especially black women! So we wanted to portray that, while remaining true to our show and showing sexual frustration."
26 Aubrey Plaza, 'The To Do List'
The scene: Recent high school grad Brandy (Plaza) wants to be more sexually experienced before she starts college, so she makes a list of experiences she wants and spends the summer checking them off. One item on the list is to bring herself to orgasm by masturbating.
Her comments on it: "[Director Maggie Carey was] like, 'Well, the camera is going to see everything, so you just have to do it.' And I was like, ‘OK,' so I’m just gonna put my hands in my underwear. All the sex stuff was kind of under this umbrella of awkward comedy, so I didn’t ever feel like ‘Oh my God, I’m baring my sexual self.’ But I hope that people know that I’m better at sex than that."
27 Adèle Exarchopoulos, 'Blue Is The Warmest Color'
The scene: Adèle touches herself while thinking about Emma.
Her comments on it: "The first time we filmed a sex scene, I was just laughing. I was supposed to touch myself and it was supposed to be my fantasy and then when I opened my eyes and saw her we laughed so much. We were embarrassed. And he shoots for such a long time, I was thinking, 'Man, you can stop there!'"
28 Sally Hawkins, 'The Shape of Water'
The scene: Hawkins' character, Elisa, slips into the tub while she waits for an egg to boil and casually and quickly brings herself to climax.
Her comments on it: None, but director Guillermo Del Toro did discuss the scene, saying, "We are used to either never depicting female sexuality, or depicting it in a glamorized, artificial way. I thought, most of the sexuality in the movie is not glamorized."
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‘Most ridiculous thing ever’: Officials split building in two to solve property dispute
by: Web Staff
RUGGLES TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – An Ohio man says local officials cut a building in half to end a property dispute with him.
It happened in Ruggles Township following a complaint by Brett Galloway, who contends township officials constructed a building that was partly on his property.
“It is pretty much the most ridiculous thing ever,” Galloway told WJW.
He said he has tried negotiating with township leaders since January, but last week, when they didn’t reach an agreement, officials put up a fence and cut down part of the building.
About a third of the building still remains on Galloway’s property. Officials plan to tear down their portion.
The building was used to store equipment.
Galloway said he has another unrelated property issue with the township that is already in court, and he had hoped to get this matter resolved.
WJW reached out to township officials to discuss the matter, but an employee referred the reporter to their legal counsel, the Ashland County prosecutor’s office.
The county prosecutor said trustees tried to reach an agreement with Galloway, but when they couldn’t, they decided to tear down the building. He said they couldn’t knock down the portion on Galloway’s property because he wouldn’t let them on his land.
So for now, the building remains sliced in two with part of it separated by a fence and a no trespassing sign.
Those living near the area said it seems like a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and “silly.”
“I don’t know who would think this is a good idea,” Galloway said. “I can’t use my property and they lost a building.”
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Feds Settle Probe Into Suffolk Police Handling of Hate Crimes
Marcelo Lucero
Federal investigators have reached a deal with Suffolk County police to settle a probe into allegations that the department turned a blind eye to hate crimes before one left an immigrant dead.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday a tentative agreement that calls for Suffolk police to implement policies that ensures its officers don’t discriminate against members of the Hispanic community on eastern Long Island.
“All residents of Suffolk County deserve full and unbiased police protection, regardless of national origin, race, or citizenship status,” said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “When people feel they cannot turn to the police for protection, they have lost one of our most basic rights—the right to feel safe in one’s community. Law enforcement also suffers when it does not hear from everyone under its umbrella of protection.”
Local federal prosecutors opened the joint investigation with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division shortly after the killing of 37-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero by a group of seven teenagers in Patchogue in November 2008.
Jeffrey Conroy is serving 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of manslaughter as a hate crime for fatally stabbing Lucero. Six of Conroy’s friends were also sentenced to prison for lesser charges.
Advocates called for the probe citing claims that Suffolk police discouraged Hispanic victims from filing complaints and cooperating with the police and failed to investigate hate-crime incidents as well as crimes involving Latinos.
The agreed upon policies include enhanced training and investigation of allegations of hate crimes, improved access to police services for people with limited English proficiency and strengthening the department’s outreach efforts in Hispanic communities.
The agreement requires approval of the Suffolk County Legislature. DOJ will monitor the department’s compliance with the agreement, which terminates when Suffolk police have complied by its requirements for at least one year.
Police have made strides in improving relations since the Lucero slaying by making translations more widely available to non-English speakers, retooling the Hate Crimes Unit and hiring more minority officers, among other initiatives.
“This agreement represents how far Suffolk County has come since the initial investigation into the tragic death of Marcelo Lucero,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said in a statement. “This agreement memorializes and builds upon the progress we have made throughout my administration to improve relations with ethnically diverse communities, ensure language access for all Suffolk County residents and prioritize community led policing.”
Javier Valdes, co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York, said: “We’re excited to continue working with the county executive to continue making Suffolk a more welcoming county for all.”
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MILLION DOLLAR SHOOTOUT WILL SCALE NEW HEIGHTS AT LUXURIOUS AUSTRIAN RESORT
Bymartintyrrell on August 1, 2017
Million Dollar Hole In One (MDHIO) looks set to hit new heights after announcing it will hold its 2017 showdown final at the stunning mountain setting of the Golf & Spa Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel, Austria in September.
Golfers enter its hugely popular par-three hole-in-one challenge that is run throughout the year at one of its associated courses across Europe, with those who succeed going through to the $1m shootout on the par-3 second hole at the 18-hole Championship course Eichenheim.
And ex-England strike ace Alan Shearer is hoping to join the 10 finalists who will compete for the life-changing pot of cash during the all-expenses-paid trip to the luxurious Alpine destination, which boasts spectacular views of the Wilder Kaiser mountain range, between Sunday September 10th and Wednesday 13th.
MDHIO director Martin Tyrrell said: “MDHIO is growing in popularity. We are always looking for new destinations to host the final and having visited the five-star Golf & Spa Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel, I am certain this is the ideal destination to host such an event.
“This really is an amazing picture-postcard setting on the side of a mountain. Kitzbühel is a very famous ski resort but golf is also very popular in Austria and hosting a $1m shootout final in such a resort is very exciting. It promises to be a thrilling occasion for everyone involved.”
The 18-hole Championship course Eichenheim. at the Golf & Spa Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel, Austria
Situated about an hour from Salzburg Airport, the Golf & Spa Resort Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel is a salubrious hotel, featuring an extensive range of facilities such as the Grand Alps SPA that includes an indoor/outdoor pool, six saunas and 13 treatment rooms.
MDHIO, which has been running since 1990 in USA and since 2000 in Europe, has steadily grown in popularity over the years and more than 50,000 people each year try their luck at the various par 3 holes at the 40 associated courses across Portugal, mainland Spain, Majorca and the UK.
The final will be held in Las Vegas, USA every other year and hosted at other top venues across the world every alternative season.
MDHIO is also offering golfers another chance to scoop $1m after teaming up with American Golf. The retailer is running a simulator challenge until August 20th at participating stores across the country with anyone who nets an ace or the 10 nearest the pin going through to a final shootout at the Belfry on Thursday, September 7th.
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Your Guide To Lasting Longer: How To Delay Ejaculation
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Is it bogus, or could it actually help you last longer in bed? - by Melissa Matthews
Sometimes it’s good to be early — like at happy hour or when completing a marathon. But men with premature ejaculation are often embarrassed about crossing the finish line too soon.
A new system can purportedly help the one in three men who experience PE. Prolong is an FDA-cleared program that helps you train yourself to last longer by masturbating with a special device. It costs a hefty $299 for the gadget, guidebook, and some lube, but the company alleges Prolong can help fix your PE problems in just six weeks.
"Over your six-week training program, the studs and vibrations combine to fine tune that over-sensitive sweet spot under the head of your penis just enough to hand you the reigns to your climax," its website — a sexual health platform called Smiling Dick — promises.
A small-scale study on 58 men found that Prolong helped extend guys' ejaculation time from 48 seconds to almost nine minutes, on average. While those results may sound too good to be true, experts say this product might just work.
But first, here's how Prolong works.
Typically, guys have relied on behavioural therapy, exercises, medications, or condoms to help them last longer.
The Prolong program incorporates a traditional PE treatment known as the stop-start technique— or repeatedly masturbating until just before the point of climax, then stopping. Using the device, customers practice the stop-start technique for several weeks until the penis is less sensitive to stimulation.
Here's a step-by-step breakdown of the process:
Gently massage the penis with the device — and use lube
Remove the gadget before climaxing, so your body gets acclimated to resisting ejaculation
Repeat steps one and two until you’ve completed three rounds
After the third round, you can finally let yourself come
Repeat the first four steps three times a week, for six weeks
So Is It Legit, or What?
Most likely yes, according to Florida-based urologist Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt. He explains to MensHealth.com that Prolong makes sense theoretically, though he's never seen the product in person.
Brahmbhatt likens the process to a massage; at first the constant vibration could be painful, but over time, you adjust and become desensitised.
"The deeper and deeper the massage goes, it doesn’t hurt as much," he says. "Your body gets used to it."
The same is true for your penis.
Vibration from the Prolong device enhances stimulation, and when paired with the stop-and-start technique, it ideally builds up your tolerance for pleasure.
The doctor does have a few concerns about Prolong. He’d like to see larger, independent studies documenting its success, as well as feedback on potential risks, like allergic reactions or the dangers of becoming too desensitised. And of course, he cautions it should only be used as advised. If men don't experience PE, "then they should be cautious using this product thinking it will make them last longer," Brahmbhatt warns.
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How does it stack up against current treatments? For starters, it's probably safer than some over-the-counter solutions, like "buying supplements from a gas station," Brahmbhatt points out.
As for that $299 price tag? The doctor wouldn't be surprised if there's a market for pricey gadgets like Prolong's, but he points out that there are other, cheaper ways to treat PE — like the stop-start technique, or even having more sex. It just depends on what your preference is.
"You could get a cheap pedometer for 50 cents or you can get an Apple Watch," he says. "They’re all going to get you to the same goal, but it’s all depends on what your cup of tea is."
This article originally appeared on Men's Health
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Biodiversity occurs not only in the species level, but also in the macromolecular levels.
Biodiversity as described by Edward Wilson is the combined diversity at all levels of biological organisation.
The most important forms of biodiversity are:
Genetic diversity (diversity at the genetic level)
Species diversity (diversity at the species level)
Ecological diversity (diversity at the ecosystem level)
There are close to 1.5 million plants and animals that have to be discovered and described. More species have been discovered in temperate regions as compared to tropics.
According to an estimate made by Robert May, global species biodiversity is about 7 million.
Of the total species discovered so far, 70% are animals and 22% are plants. Of the animals, 70% are insects.
India has 2.4% of the world’s land and 8.1% of the total species diversity. According to May’s estimate, 78% of the biodiversity is still to be discovered.
Applying this to India’s biodiversity figures, there still is a scope for discovery of over 1 lakh species of plants and 3 lakh species of animals.
Patterns of Biodiversity
Latitudinal gradients − The plants and animals are not distributed evenly worldwide. The diversity of living forms decreases as we go from the equat…
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How to Live in the Future (Part 2)
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If some Omega Point in hyperspace, the Eschaton that waits for us at history’s end, draws all mundane phenomena into its all-embracing unity, we’re implicated in that vast conspiracy already. We can celebrate. But particles apparently pop in and out of being all the time, each moment a Creation. All of it occurs at once, a party more than a parade. So point me to “the” Singularity, again?
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When I attempt to visualize “the future” as I learned to think of it in childhood, I see the image of a silvery, metallic, shifting sphere…
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Video and transcript: Gov. Whitmer delivers 2019 State of the State address
By Emma Winowiecki • Feb 12, 2019
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Updated Feb. 12, 2019, at 9:08 p.m.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered her first State of the State address, calling out two major crises she feels the state is facing: Michigan's crumbling infrastructure and failing schools.
Whitmer's gubernatorial campaign featured the slogan "fix the damn roads," and she made it a central focus of her address.
"Last year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave Michigan infrastructure an overall grade of D-plus. Our roads fared even worse—a D-minus—with just 18% of Michigan roads in 'good' condition," Whitmer said. "Another recent study found that Michigan has the worst roads in the country. The worst. Let’s be honest: we don’t need studies to tell us this. The evidence is impossible to ignore."
Read the transcript of Whitmer's full address.
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Whitmer to give first State of the State amid a “mixed picture” economy
By Cheyna Roth • Feb 12, 2019
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to give her first State of the State address Tuesday. Whitmer will be the first Democrat to give the speech in 9 years. She succeeded term limited Republican Rick Snyder.
Charles Ballard is an economist at Michigan State University. He says Whitmer is giving a speech when the economy is doing better than a decade ago, but it’s a “mixed picture.”
Whitmer’s picks for key offices start Advice and Consent hearings in good shape
By Cheyna Roth • Feb 8, 2019
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Several members of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s cabinet are likely to get to keep their jobs. The state Senate began its Advice and Consent hearings this week for several directors appointed by Whitmer. There are more hearings to come.
The committee heard from appointees to the Department of Transportation, Michigan State Police, children’s ombudsman, and state treasurer.
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Mutt’s in a Name? These Were Milwaukee’s Top Dog Names of 2017
Brianna Hall December 24, 2017
Here's how Milwaukee stacks up among America’s favorite canine cognomens, culled from this “database of hundreds of thousands of dogs.”
According to Rover.com, “the world’s largest network of five-star pet sitters and dog walkers,” Milwaukeeans tend to name their furry friends in a very human way. The name “Buddy” topped the list of male dog names in Milwaukee, but came in fourth nationally, losing out to “Max,” which maintained its five-year reign as the top male dog name nationally. “Bella” topped Milwaukee’s list of names for female pooches, holding strong for its fifth consecutive year at the top of the national list as well.
Although Milwaukee didn’t stray from national trends much as far as human-inspired names go, some dog name influencers proved Wisconsin-specific. Since 2016, the name “Harley” is up 10 percent in the city, and cheese-themed names have increased by 232 percent. Rover.com lists “Colby” and “Mac” as popular examples. (Who’s a “Gouda” boy?)
Despite a win-heavy football season for the UW team, the name “Badger” has lost popularity, dropping 40 percent since 2016. In the meantime, other animal names have increased in popularity, with “Moose,” “Goose” and “Bear” up from last year.
Nationally, trends reflected the strong influence of TV and pop culture in the pooch-naming process. Fifty-three percent of owners bestowed their dogs with the names of characters from TV or book characters or celebrities. Top “Star Wars”-themed names include “Leia,” “Finn” and “Yoda,” and popular TV show-themed names include “Kahleesi,” “Eleven” and “Snow.”
Bona-fido female powerhouses also played a role in national dog naming trends. Rover.com lists “Oprah,” “Madonna,” “Katniss” and “Wonder Woman” as trending. Even “Ivanka” is up 88 percent this year. Other national trends included Internet memes – “Floof,” “Corgo” and “Woofer” are up. See the full lists below.
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The Joseph Moore Museum, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
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Posted: Nov 18, 2016 15:50 Post subject: The Joseph Moore Museum, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
On the weekend of October 14-16th, I went to visit Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana for my 10th year reunion. I thought since we had several threads dedicated to other natural history museums, it would be fitting to create a thread dedicated to one of the smaller and lesser known museums in the United States and share it with the forum. This museum is the Joseph Moore Museum, located on Earlham College’s campus in Richmond, Indiana.
The historical information below is a summary of the history behind the Joseph Moore Museum and is from Earlham College’s website.
The Joseph Moore Museum had its humble origins in the 1870s. Joseph Moore was an avid natural historian, professor and collector who taught at the Friends Boarding School (the Society of Friends are better known as the Quakers), later to become Earlham College. Joseph Moore was particularly fascinated with animal fossils, but mostly collected specimens to supplement his teaching material. Like most collections, it innocently started off in a cabinet, then grew into a small room off of Earlham Hall. This was just the beginning of the collection though…
In 1873, Thomas Pierson discovered a portion of what would become the iconic specimen of the museum, the Randolph Mastodon. The mastodon, discovered on the Ross Reed Farm in New Paris, Ohio was not a complete skeleton, but Joseph Moore decided to purchase it anyways as it was a unique opportunity to expand his collection. This purchase would be the tip of the iceberg that would transform the “cabinet curios” into a serious collection.
In 1887, Earlham College built Lindley Hall. An entire wing on one of the lower floors was given to Joseph Moore to house his collection. This move would later sow the seeds to Joseph Moore’s dream; an actual museum to display and house his personal collection. Two years later in 1889, Joseph Moore acquired a fossil of a giant beaver, but he also acquired his second signature specimen: Ta’an, the Egyptian Mummy. A few years later he acquired a skeleton of a former circus elephant named “Tippo Sahib”, who was shot because “it had gone mad”.
Although Joseph Moore was happy with these three acquisitions, one thing nagged him and that was his mastodon was still incomplete. An opportunity arrived in 1895 when another mastodon skeleton was found on Bookout Farm, Randolph County, Indiana in 1895.
Joseph Moore then wrote to the Earlham College Board of Trustees for funds to buy the Randolph skeleton so he could finish the mounting. As expected the Board of Trustees denied Joseph Moore his request and turned to his friends in Indianapolis, friends in Richmond and donations. With these additional funds, he was able secure the skeleton. In the summer of 1895, he and a recent graduate, Caswell Grave mounted the skeleton. Joseph Moore in his journal wrote that he didn’t like the initial mounting, so he rebuilt it the following year in 1896 and in 1905 Joseph Moore passed away. Dr. Allan D. Hole was named the next curator of Joseph Moore’s museum and begun to systemically organize the collection.
On October 23, 1924, Lindley Hall caught on fire, which included the wing of Joseph Moore’s collection. Allan Hole and his students wasted no time and tried to rescue as many of Joseph Moore’s specimens as possible. Ta’an the mummy, the giant beaver and miraculously, Joseph Moore’s mastodon, managed to escape the inferno, but the skeleton of the elephant Tippo Sahib was destroyed.
For the next 28 years, Joseph Moore’s collection was stored in various buildings around campus until a new building could house the collection. In 1952, Dennis Hall was built with a wing to specifically house Joseph Moore’s legacy. 3 years later the Randolph Mastodon was remounted along with the other artifacts, where you can view them today.
The museum’s focus is primarily the biological sciences. There are a few exhibits including fossils from Indiana and two cabinets with minerals. If you are considering driving through Richmond, try to stop by the museum (and as a bonus, admission is free).
One thing worth mentioning is that the students play a heavy role in the daily operation of the Joseph Moore Museum.
The second post will be the rocks and minerals in the Joseph Moore Museum's collection.
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Professor Joseph Moore, first curator of the Joseph Moore Museum between the 1870s - 1905. Photo in the collection of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
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Joseph Moore with the Randolph Mastodon, circa 1895. Photo in the collection of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
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A postcard image of Lindley Hall. One wing of the lower floor was where Joseph Moore's collection was stored. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1924. The original postcard was published by the S.H. Knox and Company, Richmond, Indiana.
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A newspaper clipping of the destruction of Lindley Hall on October, 1924. The original copy was published by The Paladium Item, Richmond, Indiana. Photo in the collection of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
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Mammut americanum, or the American Mastodon lived around 12,000 years ago during the Pleistocene. The American Mastodon inhabited wet, lush ice-age forests and ate plants (branches, bark, cones, leaves, etc.). The estimated weight of a typical mastodon was approximately 10 tons. The major theory of its demise was over-hunting by humans. It should be noted that mastodons did live alongside mammoths, though they are different species.
This specimen is one of three “signature specimens” of the Joseph Moore Museum. According to the history of the museum, the specimen was originally assembled by Professor Joseph Moore and his student Caswell Graves in 1895. The mastodon is in fact, built from 2 skeletons, one from New Paris, Ohio (directly east of Richmond, Indiana) and one from Randolph County, Indiana. The mastodon was then housed in Lindley Hall on Earlham College’s campus. Ten years later, Joseph Moore passed away and Allan D. Hole was named curator.
On October 23, 1924, Lindley Hall caught on fire and the students and Curator Dr. Hole rushed to save as many specimens as they could. Amazingly, the mastodon was saved from falling debris by a steel beam. In 1955, the mastodon was remounted in its current location off Dennis Hall.
In the case directly left of the mastodon, is the exhibit containing the giant beaver, another one of Joseph Moore's signature specimens.
Megalonyx jeffersonii, or the Giant Ground Sloth lived around 12, 190 years ago and would have stood 10.5 feet (3.2 meters) tall and weighed 4,500 pounds (2041 kilograms). The claws were used for digging roots. It was the largest and northern-most species of ground sloth. Giant sloths were common in Indiana and Ohio during the Pleistocene epoch (10,000 to 1.8 million years ago). The species was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson (jeffersonii) who discovered it in Virginia.
This sloth is a cast of an original skeleton, which was found in a peat bog in Greenville, Ohio. It was mounted in 1989 by students Timothy Miller (1990), Christina Chambers (1987) and then museum director, John Iverson.
This is a partial fossil of an Isotelus maximus which was found near Richmond, Indiana (most likely the Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana area). Whole specimens are very rare to find, but fragments are fairly common to find throughout the Ordovician outcrops near there. Isotelus maximus is the state fossil of Ohio.
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The “Devil’s Corkscrew” (the paleontological name is Daemonelix) is a giant trace fossil that was found upright in western Nebraska, formed during the Lower Miocene epoch. It represents the fossilized burrow of an extinct terrestrial beaver (Paleocastor) that lived like a prairie dog approximately 17-23 million year ago.
This specimen is from the Harrison Formation, about 20 miles southwest of Crawford, Nebraska. It was collected by Cyril Harvey II and Alan Smith, of the University of Nebraska Museum and James Thorp. It was mounted by Ansel Gooding, who taught at Earlham College. It is now in the Joseph Moore Museum’s permanent collection.
This specimen is approximately 105.6 cm tall based on the standard height of a brick (2.25 inches tall)
The basement level of the Joseph Moore Museum is where the natural wildlife and the mummy are exhibited. The animals are cared for by student caretakers. This particular milk snake (who was too shy to come out of his habitat), was named "Two Percent". Somebody had a good sense of humor.
This is the background information on the Sinaloan Milk Snake.
The basement level of the Joseph Moore Museum is where the natural wildlife and the mummy is exhibited. The animals are cared for by student caretakers. This particular exhibit featured the Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps), named “Hiccup” after the protagonist human character in “How to Train Your Dragon”.
The basement level of the Joseph Moore Museum is where the natural wildlife and the mummy is exhibited. The animals are cared for by student caretakers. This particular exhibit featured the Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps), named “Hiccup” after the protagonist human character in “How to Train Your Dragon”. The student volunteer explained that the animals are use to human interactions as the students are their caretakers.
The Egyptian mummy Ta’an is one of the “signature specimens” of the Joseph Moore Museum. According to the history of the museum, J.J. Mills, the president of Earlham College, purchased the mummy from the Government Museum in Cairo in 1889. Mills was under the (false) impression that it was an ancient Egyptian King, and came from a tomb 75 miles south of Cairo called “The Fayum”.
The mummy was shipped to Indianapolis, Indiana, where it was picked up and displayed in the home of Joseph R. Evans, a trustee of Earlham College, for a short period of time, then brought 70 miles east to Earlham where it could be seen in time for commencement. After that it was part of the Joseph Moore Museum which was at that time in Lindley Hall.
In 1924, Lindley Hall caught on fire and the students and then curator, Dr. Allan D. Hole rushed to save as many specimens as they could, including the mummy. The mummy was then stored in the attic of Carpenter Hall until 1952 when the museum was being built off Dennis Hall.
In 1979, the mummy was taken to Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Indiana to be x-rayed. The x-rays revealed that the mummy was actually a woman, approximately 5 feet tall and about 20-22 years old at the time of her death. Growth arrest lines in both her tibiae and femora indicated that there were times in her life when food was scarce or she was sick. She also has all of her teeth, including her wisdom teeth, and they show appropriate wear for the gritty diet of the time (Ancient Egyptian food was often mixed with particles of quartz sand. Since quartz has a hardness of 7 and teeth have an approximate hardness of 5, Ancient Egyptians often had worn teeth as the sand particles wore them down), the x-rays also show that her ribs, vertebrae and clavicle are not in the anatomically correct position. The head and its wrappings are also not attached to her body.
The hieroglyphs on the top of her coffin indicate that her name was Ta’an, meaning “beautiful one” and that she was the daughter of Irethorrou, a stolist priest in the town of Ipu. She lived during the Greco-Roman period and probably died around 200 B.C.
It should also be noted that Ta’an is one of three mummies currently on display in the state of Indiana. The information above was taken from a placard on the Joseph Moore Museum.
This photograph shows the result of the X-rays and information taken about the mummy Ta'an.
The mummy is housed in a special alcove in the basement of the Joseph Moore Museum. Students hand painted the hieroglyphs and other decorations in the alcove. The painting above is a translation of the hieroglyphs from Ta'an's sarcophagus.
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This is the second part of my trip to the Joseph Moore Museum, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. This segment will feature the rocks and minerals in the display cases.
Mineral: Hyalite
Unknown Locality
8 cm x 7 cm x 4 cm
This is a cabinet specimen of hyalite (opal) from an unknown locality. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum, at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was on a display of minerals that fluoresced.
Spruce Pine District, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Dimensions: 5 cm x 5.5 cm x 3 cm
This is a small cabinet specimen of hyalite (opal) from the Spruce Pine District, Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum, at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was on a display of minerals that fluoresced.
Mineral: Celestine
This is a miniature specimen of celestine from an unknown locality. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of general mineral specimens.
Note: The label for this specimen states the mineral as "Celestite", celestine is the official "IMA approved" name, though many Midwesterners still refer to the mineral as celestite.
A possible locality for this specimen is the Lime City Quarry, Wood County, Ohio, United States.
Mineral: Wulfenite, Calcite
This is a small cabinet specimen of wulfenite and calcite from an unknown locality. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of general mineral specimens.
The pyrites directly next to the wulfenite are likely from Magnet Cove, Arkansas. These were donated by the 2003 Earlham College Mineralogy class led by Ron Parker.
Mineral: Calcite, Quartz
12.4 cm x 8.8 cm x 7.5 cm
This is a cabinet specimen of calcite and quartz geode from an unknown locality (most likely somewhere in Indiana). This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of general mineral specimens.
Mineral: Fluorite
Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
Dimensions: 22.8 cm x 9.6 cm x 11.4 cm
This is a large cabinet specimen of purple fluorite from the Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois, United States. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of general mineral specimens.
Mineral: Fluorite, Siderite
Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Dimensions: 14 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm
This is a large cabinet specimen of fluorite and siderite from Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, United Kingdom. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of fluorescent mineral specimens.
Mineral: Fluorite, Quartz
Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 11 cm x 12 cm
This is a large cabinet specimen of fluorite with a druze of siderite and quartz from Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, United Kingdom. This specimen was on display at the Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. The specimen was in a display of fluorescent mineral specimens.
Although the specimen did not have an exact locality, it is probably from the Boltsburn Mine.
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Will cities of the future embrace bacteria?
Just like our guts need bacteria, so do our urban environments.
Passengers wear surgical masks while commuting on the subway in Mexico City during flu season. (Photo: Eneas De Troya/flickr)
When I travel by subway, I often stand, holding onto one of the vertical poles. In those moments, I will myself not to think about all the bacteria that's probably marching determinedly from the pole to my hand. That's because, like you, I've heard countless stories about the various types of bad-for-you bacteria (from the stomach-upsetting variety to the flesh-eating kind) that are found on swabs taken in public toilets, people's never-cleaned phones — and subway poles.
Despite my paranoia, I understand the risks associated with antibacterial wipes and soaps, so I'm conscientious about washing my hands, which is a solid defense against the nasties. Nonetheless, there are some days I definitely want to blast the train car with bleach. But scientists in the relatively new field of urban microbiology are finding that like our guts, our cities benefit from the good bacteria that's hanging around. So wiping it all out — which many building materials, cleaning agents, and HVAC air filters do — may be doing more harm than good. Sure, we're getting rid of the bad guys that cause staph infections, but we're also constantly flushing the good guys out, too.
This type of bacteriology is a relatively new field, and there's much we don't know. Of the trillion or so bacteria, viruses and fungi, we've only identified about half of the species out there. So when scientists swab subway surfaces, they're finding plenty they just don't know much about — be them harmful or helpful. But the more researchers study, the more beneficial bacteria they find — so much so that the standard practice of sterilization may soon be replaced with protocols and materials that welcome or encourage bacteria for better health.
Humans and microbes might be better together
In this new scenario, our built environment (buildings, subway tunnels and homes) would be integrated into the local bacterial environment, not separated from it.
In fact, our current building systems, which isolate and filter air might soon be considered old fashioned — and unhealthy. While the science isn't definitive yet, there are ongoing studies looking at how more diverse local microbial ecosystems directly affect human health. We already know that children who grow up in a bacteria-rich environment, like a farm, have fewer asthma diagnoses and allergies than those who don't. So instead of antimicrobial building materials in homes and schools, we should be investigating building materials that encourage air cleaning — plants like moss and lichen, or specific types of bacteria. Instead of buildings that are sealed off from outside air, we could fill them with fresh outdoor air, complete with all its beneficial microbes, with the ultimate goal of making our indoor air mimic outdoor air, because it's rich with microbes.
In fact, the video below showcases the work of sustainable architect Vincent Callebaut, who envisions buildings doing so much more than merely being buildings. (Don't just stand there; suck up some CO2 while you're at it.)
'Nature got it right'
"There’s momentum around this idea that nature got it right," Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg told Fast Company. Van Den Wymelenberg is an associate professor at the University of Oregon in the Department of Architecture and director of the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory. "Until 100 years ago, we were living in buildings that were designed to be heating systems, cooling systems, fresh air systems, lighting systems — the buildings themselves were designed through their architecture to provide these human needs."
Think of windows in a Victorian home, which are meant to be open wide, and spacing that encourages natural cross-ventilation, cellars that keep the first floor naturally cool, or large overhangs that shelter us from summer sun and winter snows. "With the industrial revolution, development of the fluorescent light bulb, the reliable electric grid, mechanical cooling, everything changed," says Van Den Wymelenberg. We all got sealed inside buildings with recycled air, which may not be as good for us as fresh air, even if you're in a building with a good HVAC system. (And older or unmaintained HVAC systems can compromise indoor air quality significantly.)
The researchers — and forward-looking designers and architects who are working with them — see cities of the future as teeming with bacterial life, plants and fungus; the opposite of the sterile future others have imagined for our urban spaces. They're even designing materials like bricks that encourage the growth of small plants and moss, or more natural rock exteriors to create environments to encourage natural biodiversity. This would change how our cities look too, of course, getting us closer to those plant-covered buildings sci-fi artists have often created in imagining a utopian setting.
In reality, the way our urban environments look in the future may have more to do with supporting the tiniest of organisms and less to do with aesthetics, but either way, it will change the way our cities look and feel.
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Alexander Morfov >> works >> theatre productions >> No Man's Land | MNT - Skopje
Macedonian National Theatre - Skopje
premiere 2, 3, 21 and 22 June 2017, Main stage
Author of stage adaptation
and director
Poster designer
the Oscar-winning film by Danis Tanovic (2001)
Alexander Morfov
Nikola Kimovsky
Maria Dimitrievska
Valentin Svetozarev, Nikola Toromanov
Valentin Svetozarev
Chris Jaeger
Sargan Janickievick
Dragan Gayck
Sashko Kocev, Nikola Acesky, Alexander Mihaylovsky, Gorast Cvetkovsky, Alexander Mykick, Slavisha Kayevsky, Alexander Gorgievsky, Borche Nachev, Oliver Mitkovsky, Kamka Totsynivsky, Nenad Angelkovick, Stefan Spasov, Grigor Yovanovsky, Kristina Gieva, Filip Milenkosky, Alexander Ivanosky, Maria Kondovska, Tome Stankovsky
In “No Man’s Land” I wanted to fuse the wild beautiful colours of nature with the greyness of war. I craved for contrast. When the first bombs fell over Sarajevo I was forced to contemplate the passing spring and summer both marked by fiery black holes. It’s like projecting a black & white photograph on a Van Gogh painting – not even a far resemblance.
~ Danis Tanovic, scriptwriter and director of the film
In his college years Danis Tanovic personally witnessed these painful sights. After graduation he chose for his debut a topic to reveal the on-going problem of war still taking place with all its cruelty and conceited disinterest in human life. His film "No Man's Land" (2001) had a major recognition and is among the most awarded films with 42 national and international awards, among which: Cannes 2001 - award for Best screenplay, Academy award for Best foreign language film, Golden Globe for Best foreign film, and Cesar award for Best debut. Tanovic's story does not take a side of either guilt , or innocence in the Balkan conflict.
A satire against war, a story of life and death.
Our world is governed by global organisations and controlled media in pursuit of sensationalism and ratings. The absurd war between Bosnia and Serbia is impartially presented with black humor and sorrow at the same time. The enemy is you, only his name is different. A metaphor of war that reveals the destructive human nature.
"You are right - what's the point of meeting you now when tomorrow we'll be back to shooting at each other."
Macedonian National Theatre
Inertia of destruction
Danis Tanovic’s “No Man’s Land” tells the story of the war that happened in the '90s of the XX-th century within the boundaries of former Yugoslavia. The reason is the same as with all wars – aggressive assertion and imposing of own cultural identity (including religious affiliation) combined with territorial, political and economical claims. What is interesting in this case is that the conflicting sides – Bosnians and Serbs – are very proximate in all senses. This leaves us with the impression that the existing differences are neglectable while the conflict is groundless. Yes, it is similar to many conflicts but it is as if happening as an echo without having an actual trigger. The characters are at war without knowing why exactly and how exactly it all started – they try but never find the answer. And yet, they kill… If there is one thing that this text adds up to the problem about war – a widely discussed and explored problem – it’s about the emergence of inertia – the endless inertia of destruction.
~ Stoyan Radev, director, Bulgaria
Will someone demine the body?
“No Man’s Land” is a photograph of the Balkan nations absurd relations and the naïve irrational interactions in times of both peace and war. Fratricide is part of the existence of those nations inhabiting this cursed land area where we are all distant relatives and where we all love and we all hate each other with an equal passion.
The plot – a war of black comedy, is a metaphor of our continuing spiritual and also actual status of “war and hate” with our “brother” nations as well as within our own nation.
Tanovic has chosen an exceptional venue for the action to take place. No man’s land! In other words – neither yours, nor ours, in a manner that makes us all feel part of the Balkan boiling pot. Neither yours, nor ours! There it is - our Balkan spite. Neither yours, nor ours. Neither (to the) east, nor (to the) west. Neither up, nor down. Stuck on the no man's land, long forgotten by the world and the times, a land where all hope is lost - for demining of a bloody mine which we ourselves have put under our own asses.
So, Danis Tanovic presents us with the following situation. Two Serbs find a dead Bosnian and put a mine under his body. Bosnians arrive and capture one of the Serbs. Suddenly, out of the blue, the dead Bosnian respires on top of the mine. Any move would cause a blast. Quite a fukced-up situation. A sapper is needed! An urgent help call is sent to the “smurfs”, as Danis Tanovic wittily calls the UNPROFOR. But they do not deal with such bastards who would put a mine under one another's asses, or at least not until the media arrive. This chance is recognised as an opportunity for a local public self-promotion in the context of democracy and civilizational achievements. The “take photos” and leave because nobody can demine the mine that we have put under our own asses.
Unfortunately, today it is easier than ever for us to recognise ourselves in Tanovic’s metaphor.
~ Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, dramaturg
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Jurors heard a third day of testimony in the murder trial of a teenager accused in a January 2010 slaying that occurred during a robbery in Northwest Moultrie.
Maurice Welch, also known as Maurice Lewis, originally was scheduled for trial in November but the case was delayed after he fired his state-appointed public defender. A second trial date in March also was delayed after there was a report of new evidence in the case.
This week’s trial is being held in a special week of court with an out-of-circuit Superior Court judge.
Welch, who was 16 at the time of the Jan. 25, 2010 slaying of David Gizon-Lopez, is charged with felony murder. Co-defendants Antwaun Demetrius Key, 20, and Tamorious Colins, 19, entered guilty pleas in November and testified in the trial.
The Moultrie Police Department said that three men initially tried to enter the front door of the 1011 Joe Louis Ave. residence and went to the back yard when they could not do so. At least two of the robbers pulled weapons and Gizon-Lopez was shot when he and a second man refused to hand over their money. During a struggle Gizon-Lopez was shot in the side.
Key was the accused triggerman in the fatal shooting, and he was sentenced in November to 20 years on a plea of manslaughter, the maximum sentence on that charge. He was sentenced to an additional five years on a charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
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November 2nd: The Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Health will be speaking about the importance of mental health, how to spot changes, healthy ways to cope, and resources that are available in Fresno. After the talk, we will build succulent pumpkins so you can take home a festive decoration.
December 7th: Amy Popp, DPT at the Neuroscience Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, and her colleague, Kelly Kehoe, PT, will introduce everyone to LSVT Big, the benefits of the program, and a couple exercises that can be done at home. After the talk, we will decorate sugar cookies and build edible snowmen.
January 4th: Our team at Move Up will discuss the factors that are important for good brain health and ways you can stimulate and strengthen the mind. After the presentation we will play games to reinforce what we learned. RSVP with Free Eventbrite Tickets or our Facebook event
February 1st: A local, licensed therapist, Tejal Patel, MFT will continue our discussion about mental health. She will cover the topics of anxiety and depression and teach everyone how to use mindfulness as a calming technique.
March 7th: Erin Singleton M.A., CCC-SLP a Speech Pathologist at the Neuroscience Outpatient Rehabilitation Center will be our speaker.
Exercise has been shown to have many benefits for those affected by cancer, improving outcomes during treatment and decreasing the risk of reoccurence after treatment. Our Move Beyond Cancer program combines a gentle progression through funtional exercises and an uplifting environment to empower those in the cancer community to reclaim their health, happiness, and drive. Whether participants are currently undergoing treatment, have just completed treatment, or completed treatment years ago, this program is designed to help them safely engage in exercise to improve treatment outcomes and prevent recurrence. With guidance from our specially-trained, compassionate instructors, survivors can safely reconnect with their bodies and regain strength, energy, and joy alongside others affected by cancer.
FREE Move Beyond Cancer CLASSES from November 12th to November 26th in celebration of the launch of our cancer-specific fitness program. As an added bonus, we'll waive the initiation fee for fitness assessments scheduled in the month of November - that’s a $140 savings! For more information or to schedule an assessment, send us a message, call (559)369-4284, or send an email to Jessica@moveuphealth.com.
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11.05.2004 Football News
Preview: Kotoko To Battle USMA Without Aziz
By Kwame Asare Boadu,Kumasi
Ghanaian champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko play in North Africa this weekend minus their trusted offensive defender, Aziz Ansah, as they attempt to make another giant stride towards the continental diadem.
Kotoko, playing in the African Champions League, are pitched against USM Algiers in the one-eight first leg preliminary on Friday and they would miss the services of Aziz who is in Israel in search of a professional stint. But while Kotoko battle away, city rivals, King Faisal, who are contesting in the Confederation Cup would be at home to South African side Santos.
Kotoko are not new to the North African terrain. In fact they have done several great battles in that part of the continent and are highly tipped to come out clean against USMA.The Algerians are, no doubt, in great shape this season and could be a threat to the Fabulous side's ambition to make a positive impact on the Champions League.
Currently USMA lie second behind JSK in the Algerian first division league and have been producing some encouraging results in Africa.They produced a frightening 10-3 aggregate against Burkinabe side, ASFA Yenenga, in the one-sixeenth stage, winning 8-1 at home and drawing 2-2 away.
USMA are deadly at home, no doubt about that, and could ride on territorial advantage to cow Kotoko into submission to make the second leg in Kumasi less difficult. Kotoko have undergone some changes in the technical set-up since their last encounter against Asec Mimosas.
Trainer Hans Kodric was given the sack and replaced with former King Faisal coach Hans Dieter Schmidt, and expectations are that the new coach would turn things round for the side that struggled to overcome Asec. Schmidt on arrival made it clear that his main task is to win the Champions League for Kotoko.
He might have made that declaration having at the back of his mind the fact that he had some great ball players who could take on Africa with their right tutelage. Already Schmidt has received a warm welcome from the Kotoko family and they believe he is the missing link in their quest to conquer Africa.
On Friday as he makes his debut with Kotoko in Africa, he would be doing so with the conviction that Kotoko fear defeat and would not take anything than a good result from Algiers.
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Queer Trash
Sunday, February 3, 2019, 3:00 p.m. MoMA PS1
Sunday, February 3, 2019, 3:00–6:00 p.m.
The music collective Queer Trash was founded in response to the lack of a dedicated queer platform in many of New York City’s experimental music scenes. Organized by Michael Foster, Richard Kamerman, and Eames Armstrong, Queer Trash has hosted events at locations throughout New York City, presenting both local and touring artists working across experimental aesthetics and practices. This program features Joe McPhee; Sarah Hennies performing PASSING (for woodwinds) with Ka Baird, Derek Baron, Lea Bertucci, Michael Foster, Rebekah Heller, Julie Nathanielsz, Katie Porter, and Joshua Rubin; and New York Review of Cocksucking.
MoMA PS1’s acclaimed VW Sunday Sessions performance series welcomes visitors to experience and participate in live art. Since its founding in 1976, MoMA PS1 has offered audiences one of the most extensive programs of live performance in the world. VW Sunday Sessions highlights artists responding to contemporary social and political issues through a wide variety of creative and critical lenses. Encompassing performance, music, dance, conversation, and film, the series develops and presents projects by established and emerging artists, scholars, activists, and other cultural instigators. With a focus on artists that blur and break traditional genre boundaries, VW Sunday Sessions embraces the communities in New York City that create and sustain artistic practice.
Since 2012, VW Sunday Sessions has presented a commissioning program resulting in new work by Trajal Harrell, Mårten Spångberg, Anne Imhof, Tobias Madison and Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Hannah Black, and Colin Self. Additionally, the VW Dome Artist Residency offers a platform for creative development and experimentation for artists at all stages of the creative process.
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VW Sunday Sessions is organized by Taja Cheek, Assistant Curator, and Alex Sloane, Assistant Curator, with Alexandra Rosenberg, Associate Producer, Chris Masullo, Production Coordinator, and Enrique Alba, Production Assistant, and Cody Simons, Production Assistant.
VW Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America, who have supported the program since its inception.
Major support is provided by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
Dance programming as part of VW Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1 is supported in part by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
Highlights from Queer Trash
This event is part of VW Sunday Sessions 2018–19.
All requests to license audio or video footage produced by MoMA should be addressed to Scala Archives at firenze@scalarchives.com. Motion picture film stills or motion picture footage from films in MoMA’s Film Collection cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For licensing motion picture film footage it is advised to apply directly to the copyright holders. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the Film Study Center. More information is also available about the film collection and the Circulating Film and Video Library.
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Welcome to NACo’s 2015 Annual Conference and Exposition
By Bev Schlotterbeck, Charles Taylor, Charlie Ban Jul. 10, 2015
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The game is on. More than 120 policy proposals are on the table and dozens of county officials from NACo’s 10 steering committees are reviewing and deciding whether they move along for a vote at the Annual Business Meeting, July 13. Submitted by NACo members, the proposed policy positions range from support for GMO-free zones to opposition to construction of a nuclear waste repository in the Great Lakes Basin.
As the policy process moves forward, NACo’s semi-annual and seminal technology event — the Technology Innovation Summit — takes a close look today at a number of tech-related subjects such as cyber security threats to county governments and technology as a social services tool.
County News reporters sat in on several sessions and here’s what they found.
Technology Innovation Summit
On the day Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta resigned following two data breaches in which 22.1 million federal employees’ personal information was compromised, the Technology Innovation Summit kicked off with a primer on cybersecurity.
Todd Sander, vice president of research and executive director of the Center for Digital Government at e. Republic, put the trend in context, pointing out that 2014 saw a 27 percent increase in data breaches over 2013, with government representing the third largest sector hit by cyber attacks.
“Business was number one and healthcare was number two,” he said. “A lot of counties conduct business and provide health care, so they’re part of those statistics, too.”
He compared cybersecurity measures to traditional assets counties maintain, including transportation infrastructure,
Peter McDonald, public health sector leader at Experian Information Systems, said medical records were more valuable than financial records.
Steve Hurst, director of security services and technology at AT&T, said most organizations allocated their cybersecurity budgets thusly:
80 percent for prevention
15 percent for detection
5 percent for response
“That really should be closer to one-third for each,” he said. “Detection really should get more attention.
Several panelists hammered home that people should use a variety of passwords--rather than the average five per person--and they should not be stored online.
Dan Pelino, general manager, IBM Public Sector, was the keynote speaker during the luncheon. He noted that an “historic transformation” is playing out on the world stage, and counties must be ready to take advantage of it.
He said we’re now in the fourth generation of the Industrial Revolution, one in which data is becoming a natural resource.
“We’re in a new era of cognitive computing,” he said, where artificial intelligence will increasingly be applied to solving problems. An example of cognitive computing is IBM’s Watson, which competed against humans on the game show Jeopardy.
The education sector will be the next to be “disrupted,” often through public-private partnerships (P3). As an example, he noted that Western Kentucky University has added a brewing and distilling program to its curriculum — in a P3 with Lexington-based Alltech Inc. The company is leasing space university’s Center for Research and Development to start a craft beer brewing operation. Alltech will develop a lab where students can gain hands-on experience and conduct research in the industry.
Since the 1950s, the world has changed from largely rural to increasingly urban, and by 2050, two-thirds to three-fourths of the world’s population will live in cities. This will challenge traditional boundaries, Pelino said, “We’re seeing more consolidations; we’re seeing centers of excellence emerge.”
About Bev Schlotterbeck (Full Bio)
Consulting Editor, County News
As executive editor, Bev manages and directs the editorial and production process for County News, NACo's official bi-weekly membership newspaper. She also oversees the County News website and emailed newsletter, CN Alerts. She has spent many years in the communications field, working as a reporter, editor and public relations director.
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Dead, burned trees remain a threat to falling in public roadways in Butte County, Calif., following the 2018 Camp Fire. Photo by Doug Teeter
A year after the Camp Fire, rebuilding remains a challenge
More than a year after the Camp Fire, Butte County is seeing complications in rebuilding, housing costs, traffic and more.
Santa Claus and Smokey the Bear lead the parade in front of the 2019 Capitol Christmas Tree as it leaves the Carson National Forest in Taos County, N.M. Photo courtesy Taos County Sheriff’s Office
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree came to Washington, D.C. from Taos County, N.M.
Franklin County Director of Jobs and Family Services Joy Bivens presents the Rise Together Blueprint for Reducing Poverty to the Columbus Urban League. Photo courtesy of Columbus CEO Magazine
Blueprint aims to reduce poverty
Franklin County, Ohio is addressing the causes of poverty identified by a diverse group of stakeholders.
Sacramento County Executive Nav Gill signs roughly 250 birthday cards early on Friday mornings.
County executive’s birthday cards reach 12,500 employees
Every year, each of the 12,500 Sacramento County employees will get a birthday card signed by County Executive Nav Gill - something he swore early in his career that he'd do if he got to a leadership position.
Shared costs make broadband happen
'Fiberhoods' are helping San Juan County, Wash. residents defray the costs of broadband expansion on the islands that make up their county.
Former Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Fla. Alex Penelas speaks to Large Urban County Caucus Symposium attendees on Nov. 7. 2019. Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, looks on. Photo by Hugh Clarke
Miami-Dade County uses Homeless Trust to combat homelessness
Local governments need a plan, leadership, money and a public-private partnership when it comes to addressing homelessness.
Large Urban County Caucus attendees tour the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery. Photo by Rachel Looker
Miami-Dade County builds center for mental health and recovery
The Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery will provide resources to the most difficult and underserved populations in Miami-Dade County, Fla.
Harris County, Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo speaks to Large Urban County Caucus Symposium attendees Nov. 8 in Miami-Dade County, Fla. Photo by Hugh Clarke
Preventing your county government from ‘operating in a bubble’
Harris County, Texas surveyed residents online & had canvassers visit neighborhoods to represent voices that weren’t always heard at public meetings or for individuals who may not have internet access.
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2019 Legislative Conference: Dealing with Difficult Topics and Stakeholders
Elected officials are faced with difficult topics, conflicting solutions, and multiple stakeholders every day. Do you have the skills to successfully negotiate solutions? This seminar examines the art and science behind finding consensus and explores methods and strategies to address challenging public issues.
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Live images from the nano-cosmos
(Nanowerk News) Using DESY's ultrabright X-ray source PETRA III, researchers have observed in real-time how football-shaped carbon molecules arrange themselves into ultra-smooth layers. Together with theoretical simulations, the investigation reveals the fundamentals of this growth process for the first time in detail, as the team around Sebastian Bommel (DESY and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Nicola Kleppmann (Technische Universität Berlin) reports in the scientific journal Nature Communications ("Unravelling the multilayer growth of the fullerene C60 in real-time").
This knowledge will eventually enable scientists to tailor nanostructures from these carbon molecules for certain applications, which play an increasing role in the promising field of plastic electronics. The team consisted of scientists from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität Tübingen and DESY.
Artist's impression of the multilayer growth of buckyballs. (Image: Nicola Kleppmann/TU Berlin)
The scientists studied so called buckyballs. Buckyballs are spherical molecules, which consist of 60 carbon atoms (C60). Because they are reminiscent of American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, they were christened buckminsterfullerenes or “buckyballs” for short. With their structure of alternating pentagons and hexagons, they also resemble tiny molecular footballs.
Using DESY’s X-ray source PETRA III, the researchers observed how buckyballs settle on a substrate from a molecular vapour. In fact, one layer after another, the carbon molecules grow predominantly in islands only one molecule high and barely form tower-like structures..“The first layer is 99% complete before 1% of the second layer is formed,” explains DESY researcher Bommel, who is completing his doctorate in Prof. Stefan Kowarik’s group at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. This is how extremely smooth layers form.
“To really observe the growth process in real-time, we needed to measure the surfaces on a molecular level faster than a single layer grows, which takes place in about a minute,” says co-author Dr. Stephan Roth, head of the P03 measuring station, where the experiments were carried out. “X-ray investigations are well suited, as they can trace the growth process in detail.”
“In order to understand the evolution of the surface morphology at the molecular level, we carried out extensive simulations in a non-equilibrium system. These describe the entire growth process of C60 molecules into a lattice structure,” explains Kleppmann, PhD student in Prof. Sabine Klapp’s group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Berlin. “Our results provide fundamental insights into the molecular growth processes of a system that forms an important link between the world of atoms and that of colloids.”
Through the combination of experimental observations and theoretical simulations, the scientists determined for the first time three major energy parameters simultaneously for such a system: the binding energy between the football molecules, the so-called “diffusion barrier,” which a molecule must overcome if it wants to move on the surface, and the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier, which a molecule must overcome if it lands on an island and wants to hop down from that island.
“With these values, we now really understand for the first time how such nanostructures come into existence,” stresses Bommel. “Using this knowledge, it is conceivable that these structures can selectively be grown in the future: How must I change my temperature and deposition rate parameters so that an island of a particular size will grow. This could, for example, be interesting for organic solar cells, which contain C60.” The researchers intend to explore the growth of other molecular systems in the future using the same methods.
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MSNBC Freaks: ‘Lying’ Trump’s ‘Strange’ Speech Was Like Dictators from Cuba, Venezuela
By Scott Whitlock | February 23, 2018 12:12 PM EST
MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle on Friday suffered a total meltdown after Donald Trump’s CPAC speech, foaming that the “strange,” “lie”-filled address was reminiscent of brutal dictators such as Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ruhle labeled certain comments “absurd across the board.”
Velshi fumed, “There were a lot of lies in the speech... It was a remarkable speech. It was lie to new topic to another lie. It was very strange speech.” How often were MSNBC hosts concerned about the big lies told by Barack Obama during his two terms? Immediately after the “truly sprawling, meandering” speech ended, Velshi compared Trump to thug dictators:
A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering speech by the President. The likes of which — I was saying to Stephanie — I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give speeches like this.
As an aside, Ruhle snapped: “Historically, the amount of lies the President has told, and this administration, over the last year, that is unprecedented.”
Velshi was clearly angry that the President called out the media during the speech. He seethed that journalists really just want to help Americans: “[Trump] keeps pointing to the back row, all the media, how they're against us. No, we're trying to keep you honest because you're lying to the crowd in front of you.”
A partial transcript of the February 23 segment is below. Click on “expand” to read more:
MSNBC Live
ALI VELSHI: Okay. A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering speech by the President. The likes of which — I was saying to Stephanie — I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give speeches like this. By our executive producer's conservative count, he touched on 31 at least 31 different topics in the speech. None of which were Russia, by the way. Russia didn't come up.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Absolutely no mention of Russia. When, remember, last Friday, 13 Russians were indicted. The President made no mention of it. If the White House is watching, I would like to ask you, the President said over and over about these great trade deals that this administration is renegotiating.
VELSHI: Yeah.
RUHLE: We cover that every day here.
VELSHI: I don't know of any.
RUHLE: Please, let us know what they are. And to the audience, we couldn't see the audience, only President trump, when they were cheering about when President Trump was talking about leaving TPP, unless the audience was filled with Chinese people, I have no idea —
VELSHI: Chinese factory workers in particular.
RUHLE: I have no idea why they'd be cheering. Leaving TPP has absolutely not done anything for America or the American worker.
VELSHI: He keeps talking about NAFTA, which he talked about in the election. They also still haven't done anything about that. Remarkable. This was a remarkable speech.
RUHLE: Touching on voter fraud there. We know the President's voter fraud commission that was put together was, of course, disbanded. When he was talking about the stock market, he said he liked the fact there was that correction. He'd been saying, hey, isn't it going to go down? That’s just absurd. Absurd across the board. He continued to say nothing has ever been done like this historically. Historically, the amount of lies the President has told and this administration over the last year, that is unprecedented.
VELSHI: There were a lot of lies in the speech, including the stuff you mentioned about trade, but talking about the fact that wages are finally going up. They hadn't gone up before his administration. Wages started going up — it was true that it stagnated for a while after the recession. 2015 was the year that wages started to go up. They went up in '15, went up in '16 and and went '17, and we think they're going up. It was a remarkable speech. It was lie to new topic to another lie. It was very strange speech.
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Scott Whitlock
Scott Whitlock is the associate editor for the Media Research Center's NewsBusters.org site.
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