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Mixed Reality Headsets Coming to Xbox One and Project Scorpio
By Don Reisinger 2017-03-02T17:42:01Z
Microsoft is getting serious about mixed reality and will support the technology in its gaming consoles.
Microsoft will be offering support for Windows Mixed Reality on both its existing and future console.
(Image credit: Microsoft's Project Scorpio will support mixed reality headsets. Credit: Microsoft)
In a statement on the company's blog on Wednesday (March 1), Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman said that the Xbox One and the company's next gaming device, called Project Scorpio, will both support mixed reality headsets. In his statement, Kipman said that Microsoft will deliver the support for the headsets next year.
Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality is the new name for the company's former Windows Holographic. The Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem starts with a PC that's capable of delivering sophisticated content to a headset. That content is viewed through a device like the HoloLens, and allows you to view and interact with physical objects over the real world.
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While Microsoft has pitched Mixed Reality as a suitable solution for those who want to interact with software, it could also be a neat way for game developers to deliver titles. Instead of forcing you to view the game and play with a controller, Mixed Reality headsets are designed to immerse you inside the virtual world and interact as if you're the game character.
Microsoft of late has been making a push to game developers in hopes that they might start investing in the company's Mixed Reality. Now that it's confirmed to be coming to Xbox One and Project Scorpio, it might have an easier time at that.
Microsoft previously announced that Project Scorpio will be compatible with VR technology and said it should be available when the device launches this year. Now, though, it appears that functionality has been pushed back to next year.
Still, when the Xbox One and Project Scorpio get support for Mixed Reality, you'll find a boatload of headsets on store shelves that will support the technology. Also in the blog post on Wednesday, Kipman said that several PC makers, including Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Acer are all working on Mixed Reality headsets.
Acer is getting into the mix first and will be offering its headset to developers this month. Mixed Reality will be supported in the Windows 10 Creators Update launching this spring.
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Pakistan wants congenial relations with India but not at cost of sovereignty: COAS
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“Pakistan wants better relations with all its neighbours, including Afghanistan and India, but it will not compromise on its honour and sovereignty,” said Gen Raheel.
The COAS was addressing a dinner hosted in his honour by the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK, Ibne Abbas, where General Raheel expressed about relations with India.
Army chief expressed his hope to eradicate the threat of terrorism form the soil of the country and he vowed to complete the military operation Zarb-e-Azb against terrorists at all costs.
“Pakistan Army successfully conducted around 10,000 intelligence-based operations across the country, killing terrorists and their abettors,” said the army chief. Moreover, Army chief expressed that the mega-project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would bring about economic opulence as well as open ways of foreign investment in the country.
“Britain is our ally and we want good relations with it”, said Gen.
Meanwhile, his statement about relations with India comes only a few hours after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif proposed a new peace initiative with India on the condition of demilitarisation of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
PM Nawaz outlined a four-point agenda while speaking at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
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What is Zim-ASSET?
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THE Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-ASSET) is a well-crafted document which makes an interesting read.
It brings out a sense of hope in the recovery of Zimbabwe’s economy.
The executive summary of the document is very scholarly.
The strategy for the implementation of the project is well focused and well-grounded on the clusters approach.
This enables evaluators to check on individual cluster for progress in the implementation.
The foreword by President Robert Mugabe provides some guidelines as to the intention, purpose and thrust of the project.
As noted in his words, “This results based agenda is built around four strategic clusters that will enable Zimbabwe to achieve economic growth and reposition the country as one of the strongest economies in the region and Africa.”
The four strategic clusters identified are: Food security and nutrition, social services and poverty eradication, infrastructure and utilities and value addition and beneficiation.
These clusters identify with the people’s aspiration and they can be classified as socially oriented.
The cluster approach is not new; we have had a committee on agriculture, a committee on infrastructure, but it is the implementation that is lacking.
The model of implementation needs to be enhanced for instance, the operational concept of an army, a small unit like a section is created and someone is put in charge to account for the victories scored and the deaths suffered.
The Zim-ASSET if well implemented and worked upon can bring very positive results to the economy of the country and to the general well-being of the Zimbabwean society.
Zim-ASSET must be implemented outside the mantra of economic sanctions which has become a perennial excuse for non-performers.
Indeed sanctions have been imposed on Zimbabwe and have impacted negatively on the livelihoods of Zimbabweans. But we need to pretend that there are no sanctions otherwise a view is distilling which is that underperformance is solely due to sanctions.
Zim-ASSET has been crafted to bust those sanctions through the ‘judicious exploitation of the country’s abundant human and natural resources’.
Challenges to Zim-ASSET
The first challenge noted is the lack of knowledge by the people on what exactly Zim-ASSET is.
The need to understand Zim-ASSET cannot be overemphasised as it is a prerequisite for its success.
There is need to clarify Zim-ASSET as a policy statement and how it interrelates with the indigenisation policy.
Zim-ASSET as an implementation policy document seems to be more flexible on the courting of partners with whom to do business.
For instance, if a private company is to build a road under the built operation transfer, there is no talk about indigenisation.
Whereas to harmonise the two policies one would suggest that it must be made clear that a company is to build a road, 60 percent of its raw materials must be supplied by indigenous companies and 40 percent to already existing companies.
There is also a need from the Government to come clear on cardinal policy pronouncement such as the property rights.
While the indigenisation policy is based on a 51/49 percent, one may not feel comfortable to invest under such conditions.
There is need to encourage indigenous entrepreneurs to form 100 percent owned companies that will supply the raw materials without necessarily taking over existing companies.
There is need for a physical inspection of the equipment that companies claim to have and also look at the capability, expertise, capital and capacity to undertake a project.
Zim-ASSET must bring about opportunities for indigenous people to form their companies with the support of Government especially on the supply of raw materials, private security services and such other services that can be sourced locally as long as property rights are guaranteed.
The issue of mortgaging the country’s mineral resources must be thoroughly interrogated.
What percentage of the mineral wealth must be used or mortgaged as obviously a 100 percent mortgage will be dangerous for the country’s present generation and future generations.
The idea of mortgaging the country’s mineral resources is noble, but before that, efforts to examine on the tenders that have been awarded to both foreigners and local companies must be intensified.
There are so many tenders that were awarded, but have not materialised and the implementation of Zim-ASSET cannot afford to continue to award tenders to companies for speculation purposes.
Judging by the few articles that have appeared in our print media that lacked a deeper understanding of the Zim-ASSET, one is likely to trash the project as an elitist project.
I will commend on two articles that appeared in The Patriot, ‘Zim-ASSET and the Mgagao document’.
While the writer wanted I presume to link the document with the resoluteness of the fighter, to fight the war, the Zim-ASSET document lacked the political ideology on which it is anchored unlike the war of liberation.
It is critical for the party whose Zim-ASSET is its brain child to clearly enunciate its party ideology to allow the young leadership and supporters that have joined the party to clearly understand what the party seeks to achieve through its government.
Another article is by Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki, ‘Zim-ASSET and soya bean production’.
In Part One, one will find it difficult to relate the article with Zim-ASSET as the only statement that relates to the project is, “to make Zim-ASSET operational, we need to walk the talk”. Presumably the statement is pregnant with meaning, but one might be comfortable with a well explained inter-relationship on the production of soya beans and Zim-ASSET showing in which cluster does this come under.
The unavailability of the
Zim-ASSET document in indigenous languages creates illusions and lack of knowledge to the general public of what Zim-ASSET is all about.
l To be continued
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Would I have produced Rent if I had seen a reading?
Demos of Rent were famously circling the biz for years before the show was eventually picked up for a tryout at the New York Theatre Workshop, and then eventually revolutionized musical theater as we know it.
Lots of people heard the tunes, read the script, saw readings . . . and they all passed.
Well, many of them probably just didn’t like it. And so they should have passed. First rule of producing? Do what you love, and only what you love. Because there is nothing worse than when something doesn’t work . . . and you never liked it in the first place.
But I have this funny feeling that many people passed because it wasn’t perfect. They saw too many flaws, too many imperfections, and just wrote it off.
One of the greatest tools a Producer needs is imagination. Producers need to be able to look beyond what something is . . . and see what it can become. It ain’t easy. Going to readings and workshops is like looking at a kid and saying, “Yep, with the right education, the right guidance, this one can be President.”
But what Producers also need is the ability to accept that nothing is perfect, especially early in the process. Shoot, Rent still isn’t perfect. Les Miz? Nope. And while I hear Hamilton is the most incredible thing to bust onto a Broadway stage in a long time, I’d bet an actual Hamilton that it isn’t perfect either. But these shows’ imperfections didn’t stand in their way of being successful.
I talk to a lot of want-to-be first time Producers, Writers, Investors, etc. and many are sitting back, waiting to get into the game, because they want the “perfect” opportunity. They wait to write anything because they haven’t come across the perfect idea. They wait to invest because they are waiting for the perfect cast and show combo. They wait, wait, wait . . .
And what happens more often than not is that they sit by the edge of the pool, watching the other kids play in the water . . . as time ticks on.
I get it. We all want to be “perfect,” even though we know it doesn’t exist. I was the same way.
In fact, I remember pitching Hal Prince about a hundred ideas for shows once . . . and in the middle of it he stopped me and said, “Ken, do you remember what was the first show I ever produced? It was The Pajama Game. West Side Story was my third show. Don’t come out of the box trying to produce West Side Story. Be happy if you get The Pajama Game. Do something. Anything. But start.”
If you look for perfect as a Producer . . . or in your life . . . all sorts of amazing imperfect things will pass you by.
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July 28, 2015 Miscellaneous, Producing
“They wait to write anything because they haven’t come across the perfect idea.”
Perfect ideas, or even great ideas, or even “original” ideas don’t happen very often in a writer’s lifetime. Some writers are skillful enough to weave a bland idea into a story, but “good” ideas are hard to come by and I have abandoned many ideas that didn’t hold my interest because I didn’t love the idea. So – I continue to wait…
So Hal Prince thought The Pajama Game was no West Side Story? That’s a bit harsh.
But the talk of “waiting for the ‘perfect’ opportunity” puts me in mind of the story that’s been circulating in the wake of EL Doctorow’s death recently about how he came to start writing Ragtime. He couldn’t come up with an idea, so he just started writing about the wall he was staring at. Nothing’s perfect from the get-go; that’s why one polishes and shapes and edits and reworks. And sometimes why one has to just start. Start something. Start anything. Worry about what it will become later; there’ll be more than enough time for that.
Vynnie Meli says:
It doesn’t have to be perfect? Whew! (I’ve got that.)
Susan Corso says:
What great advice for life as well!
Bryan Austermann says:
I’ve heard this essential sentiment before, but it is always good to hear it again, especially from a new voice. And it was the perfect 😉 time for me to hear it. Thank you.
David Merrick Jr says:
Great Hal Prince story. I’m impressed!!
Beth Crawford says:
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I too, didn’t love RENT, at first…mostly bc I just wasn’t ready for it yet… it was ahead of its time. But, if you’re looking for what just might possibly be the next RENT, check out goodflightmusical.com
Because one can only hope their show will be equally as imperfect:)
And so the long arm of George Abbott continues. Abbott > Prince > Davenport. It is a shame that, 20 years after his passing at 107, there’s still no biography. Perhaps before Hal has left us at Abbott’s tender 107, plus 1 day, someone will attempt a dual biography, spanning more than 100 years of Broadway history. That would be epic.
Adryan says:
Thanks. I needed that.
Michael L. says:
Wonderful, moving advice (literally and figuratively). Thank you.
Kate Fuglei says:
One of the best pieces of advice you’ve shared, Ken. And that is saying something. ALL of the successful people I know just started, went ahead, took and are taking the “leap into the dark” as Martha Graham put it. I used to think that being a perfectionist was something to be desired. As I have gotten older and had more experience, I actually think it is a real killer, a real “stopper” of creativity and moving forward. Thanks for reminding us to be messy, to just get started.
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Synopsis – LOOKING FOR PARADISE, is a two act, 87 page comedy set in a two bedroom condo in Florida. Jan and Craig Harding have moved from Boston to Green Park, Florida. Craig sees Florida as an opportunity to start over. He’s an optimist. Jan is allergic to Florida. She’s marooned in the middle of a swamp with a husband who identifies with Harry Potter. She’s a pessimist.
At Rise: Craig and Kelso are working up stage manipulating oversized furniture through undersized doorways. The play’s dialogue and down stage comic development override and take precedence as Jan attempts to contend with eccentric neighbors. Anything that can go wrong goes wrong. A tropical down poor leads to a leaking roof, lightning crashing, lights going out, no a/c, and giant cockroaches roaming free.
Jan’s alone in her condo with no electricity and no a/c. It’s raining in her living room. She is holding an umbrella. The chirping, screeching, croaking sounds of the swamp come through the open window. Jan can’t take it anymore. She finally surrenders, and accepts the plight of the Floridian.
Log Line – Jan and Craig Harding have lost their jobs and made their escape from a freezing over priced Boston to the promise of a tropical paradise in Florida. They discover what it takes to become Floridians and realize they are now outcasts from the refined civilization they once knew and are stranded in the middle of a glorified swamp.
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What Is Cachaça?
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Cachaça vs. Rum
How to Drink
Cachaça (pronounced kah-SHAH-sah) is a distilled spirit made from sugar cane juice. It is produced exclusively in Brazil and is often erroneously thought of as a style of rum. The country's national spirit, cachaça—and its most famous cocktail, the caipirinha—were mostly enjoyed in Brazil for the longest time. While cachaça often outsells gin and tequila, 99 percent of that is drunk by Brazilians. Today, it is receiving global attention in the U.S., Portugal, and other markets and now makes a regular appearance in well-stocked bars and liquor stores.
It's easy to refer to cachaça as Brazillian rum and when it was first imported into the U.S., cachaça was listed as a category of rum, out of convenience. However, cachaça was most likely created before rum and is credited by many historians as Latin America's first distilled beverage. It's more appropriate to consider cachaça a separate category of liquor that's related to rum because they share a sugar-based distillate.
The primary difference is that cachaça is made from freshly-pressed sugar cane juice. Rum, on the other hand, is most often distilled from sugar by-products like molasses (rhum agricole is made with sugar cane). It's a technicality, but an important one because cachaça tends to have a raw, vegetal, fruity taste with a more subtle sweetness. Additionally, aged rums often spend time in used bourbon or sherry barrels while aged cachaça may rest in native woods, which impart a unique and exotic flavor profile.
Ingredients: Sugar cane
Proof: 80–100
ABV: 40–50%
Calories in a shot: 64
Taste: Sweet, vegetal, fruity
Aged: Unaged or up to 3 years or more
Serve: Straight, on the rocks, cocktails, shots
What Is Cachaça Made From?
Cachaça is made exclusively in Brazil and is the national spirit of the South American country. It had long been known as a poor man's drink though this has changed and some brilliant artisan cachaças are produced today. There are over 3,000 legal distilleries in Brazil and nearly that same number producing cachaça illegally. Just like any other distiller, those who make cachaça can experiment with the sugar cane, distillation process, and barrel aging to bring out particular flavor nuances in the spirit.
It is a requirement that cachaça is fermented from freshly-pressed sugar cane juice. The cane must be grown in Brazil, though distillers use different varietals to impart subtle variations in the cachaça they produce. The juice is fermented with yeast to convert the sugar into alcohol and then distilled. Typically, it undergoes a single distillation and premium cachaças tend to use copper pot stills. Some styles of cachaça are bottled directly after distillation or a period of resting in stainless steel tanks while others are aged.
Aging makes cachaça truly unique. Distillers may use American or French oak barrels, either new or used (previously housing spirits like bourbon or brandy). They may also use any variety of indigenous woods to create their barrels and each adds to the uniqueness of the cachaça. A cachaça aged in Brazil nut barrels will have a completely different flavor profile than one aged in zebrawood, for instance. Brazillian amburana, balsam, cabreúva, tapinhoã, and teak are among the many types of wood employed.
The majority of cachaça is 40 percent alcohol by volume (ABV, 80 proof). Some producers choose to bottle their specialty cachaças at a higher proof. As is the case with whiskey, this means you're getting a liquor with a fuller flavor.
What Does It Taste Like?
The flavor of cachaça can vary greatly though it often has a subtle sweetness (much less than rum). It's often vegetal and has a few fruity notes. Many of the more industrial brands can have a chemical alcohol taste while top-shelf brands will have a more pronounced fruitiness and delicious undertones of sweets.
Similar to rum and tequila, the different types of cachaça are classified by color which is determined by how they're stored after distillation.
Branca: Meaning "white" in Portuguese, branca cachaças may also be labeled as prata (silver), clássica (classic), or tradicional (traditional). These are either unaged, rested in stainless steel vats, or stored in wood that does not affect the spirit's color for less than one year.
Amarela: Amarela means "yellow" and this type might be labeled ouro (gold) or envelhecida (aged). In order to qualify as an aged cachaça, a bottle must be comprised of at least 50 percent cachaça that spent a minimum of one year in barrels that hold no more than 700 liters. "Premium" aged cachaça needs to be entirely made up of 1-year or older spirit while "extra premium" notes that all of the cachaça is at least three years old.
Where to Buy Cachaça
Cachaça is getting easier to find, though it's still not widely distributed. Look for it at well-stocked liquor stores with a diverse selection of imports. You can also shop online. Regulations on shipping alcohol vary by state and country, so that's not an option for everyone.
How to Drink Cachaça
Cachaça can be drunk anyway you like. Top-shelf cachaças are the best for sipping straight or enjoying on the rocks. Some people like it as a shot as well. It's also a very versatile liquor for cocktails and is quickly finding a home in the modern bar. However, cachaça is so ingrained in Brazillian culture that it is best appreciated in the country's national drink, the caipirinha. It is to cachaça what the old-fashioned is to bourbon and it's made in the same manner but with lime and sugar.
If you need an excuse to drink cachaça, it even has its own holidays:
September 13 is National Cachaça Day.
June 12 has been designated as International Cachaça Day.
May 21 marks a regional cachaça celebration within the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
The caipirinha and batida are two essential cachaça cocktails from Brazil. New recipes featuring it are continually being developed, pairing it with both common and exotic flavors. It can be used in many rum cocktails as well.
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Exporting cachaça has not been a priority for Brazil's distillers until recent years. Even now, the brands available in the U.S. and other countries are limited. The good news is that the majority of the cachaça you will find outside of Brazil is premium quality. While you might enjoy one more than another, the chances are slim of finding a bad cachaça.
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AMD, Applied Materials Get Price Target Boosts From Nomura Instinet
Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Applied Materials get price target boosts from Nomura Instinet.
Jan 2, 2020 1:22 PM EST
Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - Get Report and Applied Materials (AMAT) - Get Report had their price targets lifted by Nomura Instinet analyst David Wong.
The analyst boosted his price target on AMD to $58 from $40, and maintained his buy rating.
The new price target is 26% higher than AMD’s closing price Tuesday of $45.86. The average price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices is $36.66, according to Bloomberg.
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices were rising 4.3% Thursday to $47.09.
Wong said Advanced Micro Devices should continue strengthening its competitive position in 2020 with a "steady stream" of new product launches in in the 7nm and 7nm+ technologies, according to The Fly.
AMD was rated the No. 4 stock of 2019 in TheStreet's Best Stocks of the Year round-up. TheStreet's Eric Jhonsa wrote that "AMD's story in recent years hasn't simply been a corporate version of David vs. Goliath, but one in which "David" has landed a few good blows against a much bigger nemesis that not too long ago had little trouble pushing him around ... and has richly rewarded those who bet on him."
Wong, meanwhile, boosted his price target on Applied Materials to $75 from $68. He also maintained his buy rating on the shares.
Applied Materials closed Tuesday at $61.04. The new price target implies a 23% increase. The average price target on Wall Street for Applied Materials is $67.84, according to Bloomberg.
The stock was rising 1.62% in trading Thursday to $62.03.
Wong said Applied Materials should benefit from a cyclical rebound in global wafer-processing equipment sales in 2020.
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It’s our ritual to meet up once a month over a drink-cum-discussion kind of scenario. The issues come under discussion range from society to individual insights. Our group of friends consists of people with diverse backgrounds; some are moderate liberals, few consider themselves socialists, others found nirvana in atheism, and one or two once were dry religious and now they enjoy not being under constant pressure of wearing a poised persona. And not to mention that some of them are highly opinionated and they utter final judgments with end-of-the-world-expression on their faces. One thing that makes the group unique is that everyone has spent his or her prime in activism, social or political movements. And not to mention that we all are Desis, hooray!
Sometimes we try to touch a subject that often turns out to be beyond our intellectual capacity; google comes to our help when quick reference is needed amidst the crossfire of heated debate.
On one such occasion, “Can a man, to be more precise, an Asian man, be a feminist?” Asked our middle aged friend while puffing a cigarette. It seemed like he asked the question for shock value.
The question brought in a long moment filled with deep silence.
“Well”, breaking the silence responded a friend, clearing his throat as if someone was trying to wake up in the wee hours, “ Because we are men and it is an unmanly thing to think – feminism is meant for women not for us.” The respondent said it chewing each and every word in his mouth.
“Why did Bernie Sanders once claim that he is a big feminist if it is considered to be a women’s domain?”, said the first friend, while raising his one of eyebrows. Unfortunately, the question did not lead to a full scale debate. No one seemed interested.
The only woman in our group felt that we were all chauvinists and not really ready to deal with equality. She didn’t think we had transformed even as immigrants.
Later I thought, why do we brownies (of course generally speaking) love to debate issues and politics but when it comes to our own behavior or understanding towards our counterparts, we find it a not so thrilling a subject to deliberate, not even for the sake of our own betterment.
I decided to follow up and ask the same question to a few non-desi (saying non- desi is not racist by the way!!) and a couple of desi friends individually.
What I found was not surprising. In brown circles feminism is an alien idea. Not that we aren’t familiar with it, just that the concept is simply not integrated with our daily lives. Some attached it to religious notions, and a battle for dominating each other, others view it within their cultural norms of where they come from. On the other hand, I found that in my non- desi circle respondents, mostly European and Hispanic Americans, were a bit articulate. But none of them took feminism as a political movement generated by and for women in a broader gender context of political, social and economic equality.
To my own understanding, it’s simple that half of the world’s population, the female segment demands equal share as men. But it’s not as simple as it appears to be. I asked my sister-in-law, who was born in England and raised in America, but she does not consider herself a feminist. She is quite vocal for women rights, though. I have been googling for last two hours and I am still unclear if I am a feminist.
The more I googled to get an understanding, the more it got me confused. Perhaps you might have thought that I would lead the conversation to logical conclusion, but I don’t have one folks!
I am neither trying to form a particular definition towards feminism nor was I aiming to get certain answers to the question. I just wanted to ask you guys why men and women should not have equal rights, equal treatment, and equal opportunities. What’s wrong in it? If this is called feminism than why men and women cannot be both feminist? Or this is not as simple as it appears to be?
Tarik Zia is a former Pakistani journalist who worked in national newspapers, television and magazines. He now lives in the USA.
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Cuba accuses UK of being anti-capitalist over plain packaging plans
From: The Telegraph
By Keith Perry, and John Bingham
Cuba has accused Britain of being anti-capitalist and threatening free trade with its plans introduce plain packaging on cigarettes and cigars.
The Communist country has complained to the World Trade Organisation over the UK Government plans to ban branding on smoking products to try and encourage people to give up the addictive habit.
This came as Tory MP Priti Patel wrote in the Asian Trader arguing that uncertainty surrounding the regulations and timescale is “causing considerable anxiety to newsagents and independent retailers”.
Kenya: Anti-counterfeit officers seize Sh18 million counterfeit goods at the port
From: The Star
THE Kenya Anti-Counterfeit Agency has impounded a Sh18.7 million counterfeit cigarettes consignment at the port of Mombasa.
Mombasa ACA officers yesterday seized the 20-foot container with goods imported from India by a Sudanese company – Diesel General Trading Company Ltd.
The agency’s county inspector Ibrahim Bulle, who led the seizure and verification at the port’s G-section, said the container was carrying three million sticks of counterfeit cigarettes.
“The container had 375 cartons and each carton contains 10,000 sticks of cigarettes. The goods are a counterfeit of ‘Bringi cigarettes’ whose rights belong to Haggar cigarettes and Tobacco Factory Ltd based in Khartoum, Sudan,” he said.
Vietnam could become the next big counterfeiter
From: ThanhNienNews.com
Fake product makers in China are chasing cheaper labor and leaner oversight from European and US importers all the way to Vietnam, said Phan Minh Nhut, brand protection manager for Nike, during the a conference on intellectual property rights held in Hanoi on Tuesday.
Nguyen Thanh Hong, from the Department of the Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam’s counterfeit goods’ operation is equal to one-sixtieth, or one-seventieth of China’s.
“Without drastic measures to combat fake products, Vietnam could become a big counterfeit goods producer in a near future,” he said adding that many handicraft villages specializing in counterfeiting have cropped up as farmland continues to disappear.
Pakistan: Food, Tobacco & Drug Industries threatened by IPR violations
From: OnlineNews.com.pk
ISLAMABAD: While the theme of the world IP day this year is “Movies – A global passion”, innumerous industries are under threat from intellectual property rights (IPR) violations against them.
According to a press statement, food, tobacco and drug industries are some of the worst affectees of this heinous crime.
“If that is the case in the developed countries imagine what the counterfeit cigarettes would contain in countries like Pakistan”
The IPR violations in case of non-food items have an adverse impact on government and industry revenues. However in case of food, tobacco and drug related industries, counterfeiting can also result in far more worse consequences.
Smuggled cigarettes destroyed in China
From: Xinhua
China’s customs and tobacco authorities destroyed 375,890 cartons of smuggled cigarettes worth 22 million yuan ($3.6 million) in Zhanjiang City in south China’s Guangdong Province on Tuesday.
The cigarettes involved more than 30 brands including Marlboro, 555, and Double Happiness. They were shredded before transported to a local power plant to be used as burning material.
Officials said the destruction illustrated China’s firm stance in abiding by the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It also showed the country’s achievements in cracking down on the illegal trade of tobacco.
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Mustang Sampling and Corvette Racing Victorious at Long Beach
Corvette manages first race win of 2018 season with Mustang Sampling leaping ahead to championship lead.
By Caleb JacobsApril 14, 2018
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Saturday's 100-minute IMSA contest in Long Beach concluded its two-class battle with the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadilac DPi-V.R and No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R claiming Prototype and GTLM victories respectively. The result of a mid-race shakeup brought those which started in the middle of their categories to the front with leads changing near the halfway point in General Motors' favor. In turn, Mustang Sampling has reclaimed its spot atop the title chase and Corvette Racing is on the board for the first time in 2018.
Hectic Prototype Shootout Lands Mustang Sampling on Top
Team Penske started on the Prototype pole for the season sprint-opener. Juan Pablo Montoya piloted the No. 6 Acura ARX-05 DPi towards the front of the field after a first-lap caution and beyond the 60-minute mark. Pressure from the field of Cadillacs and Mazda Team Joest was eventually enough to knock him and his teammates off of the lead, initially surrendering to the No. 31 Whelen Engineering entry. However, a series of overtakes and subsequent contact pushed the expected frontrunners to the midfield while throwing Tequila Patron ESM and Wayne Taylor Racing into the mix.
The two latter competitors had an exclusive bout as Mustang Sampling pushed for a near-five-second gap at the end. A white flag turn-eight competition between Ryan Dalziel and Jordan Taylor saw the No. 2 Nissan Onroak DPi pull ahead, eventually awarding it the second step on the podium. WTR then settled with third-place despite winning at Long Beach for three years in a row leading up to this weekend's event.
Strategy and pace were equally important to Saturday's race as both decided the final standings. Keeping out of trouble is a consistent challenge for teams at the tight city circuit, and as with any multi-class competition, heavy traffic is ominous. The No. 77 Mazda RT24-P preyed on a full-service stop by the No. 6 Acura of Montoya and Dane Cameron under the green flag and eventually overcame the talented team to finish fourth. The pair of Penske entrants came fifth and sixth after the No. 7 car faced supposed issues towards the end and gave away podium contention.
Finishing out the top-ten were Whelen Engineering, JDC-Miller Motorsports' No. 99 entry, the No. 55 Mazda, and CORE Autosport in that order. Sebastian Saavedra then placed 11th in the AFS/PRI Mathiasen Motorsports car. There were three retirements in the Prototype field with Kyle Masson parking his No. 38 Oreca on the first lap, followed by Robert Alon's Oreca 07 Gibson on lap 20 and Pipo Derani's ESM Nissan Onroak DPi twelve laps later.
Corvette Racing Notches First W of the Year
Up to this point, Corvette Racing has had to watch as its GTLM rivals took class victories at Daytona and Sebring, leaving the Chevrolet factory team with high hopes for Long Beach. The crew won last year's event here in SoCal, and via consistency has been able to recreate that result. Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin decisively won the category in the No. 4 C7.R, awarding Ollie his 50th win as part of the team—his fifth at Long Beach.
Near the checkered flag, Gavin fought off the dueling Chip Ganassi Racing entries and cleared the No. 67 by 2.157 seconds. Both Ford GTs were side by side in the final minutes, allowing the American team to put two cars on the podium albeit without managing the victory. This is the second consecutive P2 at Long Beach for Ganassi, and additionally, the pole-sitter No. 66 of Joey Hand and Dirk Mueller completed the rostrum.
Issues for Porsche's two-car effort meant that it fell behind all four entries of Corvette Racing and CGR. The No. 911 Porsche RSR collided with Eric Curran's Cadillac prototype and lost key bits of bodywork which not only forced the team to pit but also caused a full-course yellow. Its sister car, the No. 912, kept Porsche's ambitions going but a reported suspension issue led to a lead change to the eventual race-winning Corvette. The two would finish seventh and eighth correspondingly.
BMW suffered a similar fate despite an applaudable fight from the back of the field. Alexander Sims clawed from a P7 start and suddenly took the lead in the third quarter of the race; however, contact with the wall forced his No. 25 M8 GTE to retire. His teammate John Edwards did manage to finish on the lead lap, though a gap of 14.023 seconds meant fifth-place would be the outfit's best result.
FULL 2018 BUBBA BURGER GRAND PRIX RACE RESULTS
The next round of IMSA WeatherTech competition will be hosted at Mid-Ohio on May 6th. Sunday will resume action of the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix weekend with IndyCar's third race of the season starting at 1:40 p.m. PT.
Team Penske Acura, Chip Ganassi Racing on Pole for 2018 Long Beach IMSA Contest
Juan Pablo Montoya and Joey Hand put the respective legacies on P1 for the start of Saturday's 100-minute race.
Mazda Team Joest Counting on Improvement at Hometown Long Beach Grand Prix
After two shortcomings so far in 2018, Mazda hopes to recreate past success at the Californian city circuit.
What to Expect at This Weekend's IMSA Long Beach Grand Prix
This Saturday, 22 cars will take to the grid for the 100-minute event.
22 Car Entry List Released for 2018 IMSA Long Beach Contest
The 100-minute Californian race drops the GT Daytona class in favor of the all-pro GT Le Mans and Prototype categories.
Spirit of Daytona to Skip Long Beach IMSA Contest
A late race crash at Sebring ended the Spirit of Daytona team's chances at a podium and attending the next round at Long Beach.
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Photo Gallery: October Favorite News Photos
The Gazette’s visuals staff shares a collection of their favorite news and feature photographs produced in October.
Kinley Belland, 8, of Williamsburg plays with friends and family while waiting for the start of the NewBo Halloween Parade in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Cancer survivors pose for a photo before the Especially For You Race Against Breast Cancer in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019. More than 14 thousand runners and walkers participated in this year’s race raise money for the Especially For You fund, which provides free mammograms, breast-care and gynecological services to area people in need. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Sen. Kamala Harris laughs at a joke as she enters the house during a women’s tea with Sen. Harris at the home of Betsy Kutter in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Harris has maintained throughout her campaign that all issues are women’s issues. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Members of Benton Community High School marching band wait to perform during the Iowa High School Music Association Marching Band Festival at Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (David Harmantas/Freelance)
Paramedic Matt Brooke drives to a call reporting a man having difficulty breathing while his partner, Zack Berger, puts on gloves and prepares to work in Iowa City on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
This was a pretty quick moment to capture as Lance showed me around his property. I had just enough time to dial in some negative exposure compensation since the camera’s meter would likely be fooled by the large percentage of darkness in the scene and over expose the frame. I normally shoot in aperture priority, where I set the lens opening and the camera sets the shutter speed depending on the ISO sensitivity and amount of ambient light. I find that I can concentrate on making good pictures instead of worrying about continually adjusting my exposure as the light keeps changing. I’ve been doing this job long enough that I know the situations where the camera is going to be fooled. Lance Lillibridge walks out of a grain bin storing corn from the last harvest at his farm in rural Vinton, Iowa on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Lillibridge uses the wet and rainy conditions to do maintenance on his equipment as well as working to empty the last 60,000 bushels of corn from the bin. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Deanna McLaud of Cedar Rapids stands on the back porch of her house boat while talking about the issues that face her and her Ellis Harbor neighbors in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. McLaud grew up spending time around Ellis Harbor as a child when her family owned a home on the river and has been an owner, herself, since 1991. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
This girl had little fear of this insect. She kept coming back to handle the cockroach. I love seeing that. It breaks the stereotype of girls not liking or being afraid of bugs. Liana, go become an entomologist or some other scientist. Three-year-old Liana Klima of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, corrals a Madagascar hissing cockroach after being given it by volunteer Jenny Corbett (right) during the eighth annual Wickiup Fall Fest at Wickiup Hill Learning Center, 10260 Morris Hills Rd., in Toddville, Iowa, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Members of the Linn-Marr High School marching band march onto the field during the Iowa High School Music Association Marching Band Festival at Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (David Harmantas/Freelance)
Just a nice moment showing the love dogs have for their humans. Josh Fettkether of Iowa City, Iowa, gets some dog kisses from of his his and his wife’s Chihuahuas- Bindi during the Second Annual Wag-O-Ween fundraiser for Last Hope Animal Rescue at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City, Iowa, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Attendees could take part in a costume contest, pumpkin decorating, balloon animals, bounce house, and meet adoptable cats and dogs. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
This is another “beyond the velvet ropes” photo. I’m fortunate to see and learn about things few people get to experience firsthand and share them with readers, The 1882 Clinton H. Meneely Bell Company of Troy, NY, in the bell tower of King Chapel will ring again soon after re-installation of the restored clock movement and faces at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. The 1882 Seth Thomas Model 17 clock was being re-installed after being restored Chuck Roeser of Essence of Time Tower and Street Clock Restoration of Lockport, New York. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Barry Grove introduces one of his two key characters, Jonas Parker Jr., during a presentation on life in colonial America at Shellsburg Elementary School in Shellsburg on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Sen. Kamala Harris talks with area education and childcare leaders during a Caucus For Kids campaign event at the Cedar Rapids Education Association in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Caucus for Kids is a project of the Children’s Policy Coalition, which has invited presidential candidates to answer questions about education, childcare, and family and economic issues affecting children. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Iowa Sen. Dan Zumbach leads a prayer as Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Joni Ernst clasp hands during a fundraiser hosted by the Iowa GOP at the Hughes Family Barn in southwest Cedar Rapids on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Sen. Bernie Sanders greets people after his speech during a campaign rally on the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democratic presidential hopeful, speaks during her Solon Coffee and Toffee House Party on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Beto O’Rourke speaks during a campaign stop on the Orange Carpet at Thomas Commons on the Cornell College campus in Mount Vernon on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. O’Rourke will continue his swing through Iowa with stops in Iowa City and Des Moines this week. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
A crowd fills the intersection of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue while waiting to rally with Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg rallies in downtown Iowa City on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. The student-led movement has resulted in the Iowa City school board and the City of Iowa City each passing a climate resolution. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
ZiZi Maybanks, 9, waits for the arrival of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to rally with local activists in downtown Iowa City on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. The student-led movement has resulted in the Iowa City school board and the City of Iowa City each passing a climate resolution. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
I noticed the long shadows being cast as people walked to their next session during the Iowa Ideas Conference. I had some other frames with more people and their shadows. I like the simplicity of the single figure and shadow being framed between the panes of glass. State Sen. Joe Bolkcom casts a shadow on the floor as he walks to his HC, Vaping & Marijuana session in the Policy track during the Iowa Ideas Conference at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Cedar Rapids Convention Complex in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
I was glad to see and hear someone who could actually play the guitar when I visited the exhibit. University of Iowa international student Shushe Zou plays a Breedlove Pursuit Dreadnaught Acoustic/electric guitar during a tour of the Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the GUITAR exhibit at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, 1400 Inspiration Place SW, in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Officer Shannon Sampson pulls a dummy below a bar as Occupational therapist Justin Kaspryk looks on during an occupational therapy appointment at St. Luke’s Therapy Plus in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Sampson was diagnosed earlier this year with a benign tumor near her spine, and has undergone surgery. Occupational therapy is addressing some of the physical demands of her job, such as the ability to restrain a suspect or to pull an adult, both of which require balance while close to the ground. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Beth Bender pulls a new cover onto a loveseat being reupholstered for the Coralville Public Library in the shop shared by Regeneration Factory and Bender’s Good Bones Upholstery in Iowa City on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Bender’s parents own Kalona Upholstery, and mother Jody Bender (foreground) occasionally helps out at Good Bones. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Iowa wrestler Gavin Teasdale, a redshirt freshman wrestling at 133, climbs into the cattle enclosure wearing a mask during Iowa Wrestling media day at Kroul Farms in Mount Vernon on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Karen Theriault packs Chieftain apples after they are cleaned at Buffalo Ridge Orchard in Central City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. The orchard has over fifty varieties of apples, which are sold at area markets and served at local colleges and businesses. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
I didn’t see any of the expressions of the women running from the chainsaw-wielding figure. It was just too dark. I had to resort to using a flash in the darkness to record the moment. I tried to focus on the spot where the actor would emerge from the woods and trip the shutter once I heard the screams. I taped an empty pill bottle I had in my car to knock down the power of the flash. Haunted Trail walkers make a run for it after a chainsaw-wielding actor emerges from the brush during the fifth annual Haunted Trails at the Sugar Bottom Recreational Day Use Area in North Liberty, Iowa, on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. The scary event, a collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers, is a fundraiser for the Friends of Coralville Lake. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
A slice of Americana. This was for a story about Tipton applying for a grant to rebuild Cedar St. through the downtown of the city. The compression caused by the use of a long telephoto lens helped me connect the southern boundary of town with the downtown district. Traffic moves along Highway 38 or known locally as Cedar St. in Tipton, Iowa, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. The City of Tipton filed an application for a federal BUILD grant. The money from the grant would fund the city’s share of a joint city-Iowa Department of Transportation project, estimated to cost $7,418,650, to reconstruct Highway 38 through the city. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Fall colors are seen on a leaf during an ecospirituality tour at the Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. This marks my first Iowa Photo feature since joining the Gazette visuals staff on Sept. 18. There has been much to be excited about during my transition to the paper, but one thing that stood out to me was our access to a macro lens. I’ve always wanted to play with one but somehow have never found the opportunity. So, I decided I’d carry our Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens around for a few days and see what I could come up with. Macro work certainly poses challenges I didn’t expect, but I learned a bit and I thought these few photos were a fun start. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Holding ponds belonging to the city of Cedar Rapids are seen near Cedar Lake and the Cedar River during a tour of ITC’s high-voltage power lines in the Cedar Rapids area on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. The company inspectss its electric transmission lines twice per year, looking for downed trees and damaged infrastructure to be repaired. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Susan Salterberg of Iowa City looks down from the top of of the Celebration Barn in Solon to celebrate the winners of the 2019 Hagie Heritage Award on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Pat and Enid Cancilla of Iowa City won the award from the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for their decades-long efforts at restoring prairie and woodland on their property and for their conservation efforts in Johnson County. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Although I took this photo in September, it was published as an Iowa Photo feature in early October. I’m attracted to photographing shadows cast on the ground or floor like a moth is drawn to a flame. I liked the combination of the angular shapes of the foam squares and the asphalt mixed with the organic shapes of the people. I also like the regressive difference in heights of the shadows. The splashes of color from the mats and the photograph also add to the scene. Students walk along a path with their eyes closed as they are guided by classmates to various German cities during a gam at a stop by the Wanderbus at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, Iowa on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. The traveling exhibit, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and the German Foreign Ministry, features cultural exhibits focusing on German-American Friendship. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Women's March in Iowa City canceled because of winter storm
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‘Don’t count us completely out’: Sears takes to social media to remind U.S. shoppers it’s still around
Richa Naidu and Melissa Fares
Published January 8, 2019 Updated January 9, 2019
The clock may be fast running out on Sears Holdings Corp, but you wouldn’t know it from the company’s feisty posts on Twitter.
“We are down, but not out... – SMT,” Sears, via its official Twitter account (@Sears), said in reply to one of the many posts Monday morning about the 126-year-old company potentially going out of business.
Instead of Escape from LA - its like Escape from bankruptcy, Mr. Snake Plisskin. We are down, but not out... -SMT
— Sears (@Sears) January 7, 2019
The optimistic tweets come ahead of a hearing on Tuesday, where Sears will ask a U.S. bankruptcy judge if it can proceed with liquidation after it failed to reach a deal on Chairman Edward Lampert’s $4.4 billion takeover bid, according to people familiar with the matter.
Another Twitter user opined that the retailer “had a good run I would say.” Sears replied: “We would say that as well, but we are Marathon Runners, and we are still running. We may be slowing down, but we are not out of the race just yet. Don’t count us completely out. Happy Shopping! -SMT”
We would say that as well, but we are Marathon Runners, and we are still running. We may be slowing down, but we are not out of the race just yet. Don't count us completely out. Happy Shopping! -SMT
The “SMT” sign-off is for the Sears Social Media Team that runs the Twitter account, which has a following of 209,000, significantly smaller than many of its retail peers.
The company declined to comment on its social media strategy.
In the face of competition from online giant Amazon.com Inc and other brick-and-mortar retailers, including Walmart Inc, Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based Sears has struggled to reinvent itself.
Sears’ former Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Cook told Reuters at the end of 2017 that the company planned to invest more heavily in social media in 2018.
Cook said marketing directly to shoppers via Twitter and Instagram posts and influencers could help change consumer sentiment toward Sears. The company also planned to use shoppers’ opinions to make operational and merchandising changes, she said.
However, only 9 per cent of U.S. millennials – aged between 22 to 37 years in 2018 – said they would consider buying goods from the retailer, according YouGov BrandIndex, a company that tracks public perception of brands.
On Monday, Sears encouraged those saddened by its store closures to shop online.
Thank you for the picture! It is very surreal. Here's to ONLINE Shopping for everyone!
-SMT
Over the last 30 days, Sears’ posting frequency on Twitter has gone up by the week, as have interactions per post, according to social media analytics firm Zoomph.
Toys ‘R’ Us took a slightly different tack to reach its nearly 2 million followers on Twitter.
“While our store roster may be getting smaller, what is not changing is our desire or commitment to serving you,” Toys ‘R’ Us (@ToysRUs) tweeted from its official account in February 2018, roughly five months after it filed for bankruptcy protection.
“We will continue to operate stores in all major markets and as always, you can also continue to shop online. Thank you!”
Then, in March, Toys ‘R’ Us announced it would sell or close all 885 stores in its U.S. chain, after failing to restructure billions of dollars in debt.
Nearly three months after filing for bankruptcy in October, Sears has made plans to sell its vast inventories of tools, appliances and store fixtures, sources told Reuters on Sunday.
Lampert’s bid is meant to preserve 425 Sears stores and up to 50,000 jobs across the United States. A liquidation would put roughly 68,000 people that Sears now employs out of work.
“If Sears liquidates, it’d be very, very sad for all of us,” said long-time Sears vendor Joe Shamie, CEO of furniture vendor Delta Children, which lost millions after Toys ‘R’ Us filed for bankruptcy.
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Aphria and Rapid Dose Therapeutics sign MOU related to QuickStrip products
Easy-to-use, safe and effective oral fast-dissolving drug delivery system, RDT's innovative QuickStrip was developed in conjunction with McMaster University, which provides accurate dosing and potency
By The GrowthOp
This proposed strategic partnership highlights Aphria's persistent focus on innovation with a view to incorporating the latest technologies to revolutionize the way patients and consumers integrate cannabis into their lives.
Aphria announced today that they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding related to RDT’s QuickStrip™ products.
Under the terms of the MOU, the companies intend to enter into a definitive agreement in the near future where RDT will provide Aphria with exclusive global preferred rights to produce, distribute and sell QuickStrip™ products for cannabis markets around the world.
This proposed strategic partnership highlights Aphria’s persistent focus on innovation with a view to incorporating the latest technologies to revolutionize the way patients and consumers integrate cannabis into their lives.
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RDT’s innovative QuickStrip™ is an easy-to-use, safe and effective oral fast-dissolving drug delivery system, developed in conjunction with McMaster University through the renowned Adronov Research Group, which provides accurate dosing and potency. With this technology, Aphria intends to produce oral thin strips for both the medical and adult-use cannabis markets.
“Aphria is committed to bringing breakthrough innovations to the global cannabis market, which is why we are excited to introduce RDT as a strategic innovation partner,” said Jakob Ripshtein, Chief Commercial Officer at Aphria. “They have developed a truly innovative product that will offer both patients and consumers a new way to consume and experience cannabis. We eagerly anticipate launching QuickStrip™ delivery technology across our portfolio of medical and adult-use brands and look forward to extending this valuable partnership to other markets around the world.”
Pictured above, Vic Neufeld, CEO of Aphria Inc. With this technology, Aphria intends to produce oral thin strips for both the medical and adult-use cannabis markets.
Said Mark Upsdell, Chief Executive Officer at Rapid Dose Therapeutics: “Partnering with Aphria is a natural fit for RDT as we bring our patent-pending proprietary technology to the medical and adult-use cannabis markets. Oral thin film strips are embraced by consumers everywhere as a safe and effective delivery device for low dose, high impact drug, vitamin, and personal use products, including cannabis. Aphria’s innovation-led approach along with the Company’s substantial infrastructure, capacity and global reach make this an ideal strategic partnership for both companies.”
Under the proposed definitive agreement, Aphria will have the ability to bring products developed using RDT’s QuickStrip™ technology to international markets where the Company operates today and in the future.
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Superstar celebrity judges announced for Telstra Bollywood dance contest
Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition—People's Choice Winners
The Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition (TBDC) is set to draw thousands of people to Melbourne’s Federation Square on Saturday, 11 August with returning superstar judge Malaika Arora, along with Bollywood heavyweights Nikkhil Advani and Avtar Panesar confirmed to attend and judge the Bollywood dance action.
The event is the perfect opportunity to enjoy some masti with friends and family. Viewers can cast a vote for their favourite performers by sending an SMS vote on the day. Voting lines will be open for the duration of the event and details will be announced on the day.
Anthony Shiner, Executive Director, Telstra Digital with the celebrity judges and Mitu Bhowmick
Jeremy Nicholas, Executive Director, Brand Consumer Business Marketing, Telstra said, “Telstra is excited and proud to connect and build on our relationships with the South Asian community by bringing fans the Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition for the sixth year in a row. We are committed to bringing Bollywood fans and dance enthusiasts from around Australia and the world more of the entertainment they love, and this year the competition promises to be our best ever with many surprises in store.”
The TBDC is one of Australia’s most loved Bollywood events, with performers from all over the country coming together to dance in front of a celebrity judging panel.
Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition—Dancers
This dance extravaganza promises to be a celebration of all things Bollywood. The pulsating environment, the foot tapping music and the electrifying energy are sure to make attendees dance along in this free-for-all dance competition.
In previous years, the talented actress, dancer, model, and producer, Malaika Arora, surprised TBDC attendees with impromptu dancing and singing with fans—much to the crowd’s delight. Surprise celebrity guests also often attend on the day to join in the festivities.
This is the sixth year that Telstra is supporting the competition at Melbourne’s Federation Square. Viewers are encouraged to vote for their favourite performer and ask celebrity judges questions via SMS.
Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition 2018 | Date: Saturday 11 August, 2018 | Time: From 12pm | Location: Federation Square, Melbourne VIC | Website: http://www.iffm.com.au/telstra.html | Trailer: https://youtu.be/jFyBkSyDRvs?t=25
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Wyndham City is driving down greenhouse gas emissions and creating a sustainable future for residents through its Large-Scale Solar and Lighting the West programs.
The programs have resulted in Council exceeding its emissions reduction target for 2018/19 by 12%.
Council is now emitting 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, compared to 25,000 tonnes the year before (excluding emissions generated by the Refuse Disposal Facility).
Environment and Sustainability portfolio holder Cr Heather Marcus said while Council was pleased with this result, it wasn’t resting on its laurels.
“Having installed solar panels in 38 Council buildings already, Wyndham City is now turning its attention to the municipality’s non-profit and community organisations,” Cr Marcus said.
Over this financial year, Wyndham City plans to install solar panels on 14 buildings that are used by kindergartens, childcare providers and sports clubs. The panels on these 14 sites are estimated to save $2 million in power bills over their 20-year lifespan and all savings will be passed on in full to community groups.
In addition, through the Lighting the West Program Council is replacing 1,500 inefficient street lights with LEDs this year alone.
“With street lights and electricity output accounting for 82% of Council’s greenhouse gas emissions, these programs play an essential role in helping us reach our long-term goal of being carbon neutral,” Cr Marcus said.
“When it comes to sustainability, Wyndham City is one of the most proactive Councils in Australia. Council was recently awarded the 2019 Sustainable Council Award by Keep Victoria Beautiful, and with good reason,” Cr Marcus said.
“Wyndham City is not just planning for sustainability—we’re acting on and exceeding our green ambitions.”
The Lighting the West and Large-Scale Solar programs have been running for four and five years respectively.
Council has invested a total of $8.4 million in Lighting the West, in addition to $1.5 million in Federal Government funding.
The $3.5 million Large-Scale Solar Program is largely funded by a $3.1 million Federal Government grant, with Wyndham City investing $400,000.
Council will start installing the first of the panels and lights this week.
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China says trade deal with US must be 'mutually beneficial'
By JOE McDONALD and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers
BEIJING (AP) — Expectations for a U.S.-Chinese trade truce rose Friday, though Beijing accused Washington of unfairly attacking its economy and said a settlement to their costly, 17-month-old conflict must be “mutually beneficial.”
A senior Trump administration official said an announcement regarding China would take place Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning.
A “deal is close,” said Myron Brilliant, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s head of international affairs, who was briefed by both sides.
Brilliant said the Trump administration agreed to suspend a planned tariff increase on $160 billion of Chinese imports due to take effect Sunday and to reduce existing tariffs, though it wasn’t clear by how much.
In return, Beijing would buy more U.S. farm products, increase Americans companies’ access to the Chinese market and tighten protection for intellectual property rights.
The interim “Phase 1” deal, which doesn’t appear to cover major U.S.-Chinese disputes, awaits final approval from President Donald Trump. Trump did not comment to reporters on the talks late Thursday when returning to the White House.
Trump declared on Twitter early Thursday: “Getting VERY close to a BIG DEAL with China. They want it, and so do we!”
Chinese officials gave no confirmation of a possible deal in comments that highlighted how far apart the two sides still are. There is no indication the “Phase 1” agreement extends to major disputes including U.S. complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology.
“Negotiations must be based on the principles of equality and mutual respect,” said a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, repeating Beijing’s long-held position. “The deal must be mutually beneficial, a win-win.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Wang Yi complained at a separate government-organized forum in Beijing that Washington is unfairly attacking China.
“The U.S. side has successively imposed unjustified restrictions and crackdowns on China in economy and trade, science and technology and personnel exchanges,” Wang said. “As far as China is concerned, what we are pursuing is our justified rights of development.”
Trump’s comments triggered a rally on Wall Street that carried over to Asian trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 220 points, or 0.8% on Thursday. In Friday trading, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 2.6% while the Shanghai Composite index advanced 1.5%.
Beijing has threatened to retaliate if Sunday’s tariff hike goes ahead.
Trump announced the “Phase 1” agreement following talks in Washington in October but neither side has disclosed details.
Three Democratic senators — Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sherrod Brown of Ohio — sent a letter to the White House on Thursday, urging Trump to “stand firm” in the negotiations with China. They called on the president to hold out for “commitments from the Chinese government to enact substantive, enforceable and permanent structural reform.”
The administration accuses Beijing of cheating in its drive to develop advanced technologies as driverless cars and artificial intelligence.
The administration alleges — and independent analysts generally agree — that China steals technology, forces foreign companies to hand over trade secrets, unfairly subsidizes its own firms and throws up bureaucratic hurdles for foreign rivals.
Beijing rejects the accusations and contends that Washington is simply trying to suppress a rising competitor in international trade.
Despite the plans for an announcement, it’s not a done deal, noted Jeffrey Halley of Oanda.
“After such an interminable wait and having being led to water before, I would like to see something official in writing officially. Further to that point, although the in-principle agreement may have been agreed, the legally binding text has yet to be drawn up,” he said.
Since July 2018, the Trump administration has imposed import taxes on $360 billion in Chinese products. Beijing has retaliated by taxing $120 billion in U.S. exports, including soybeans and other farm products that are vital to many of Trump’s supporters in rural America.
On Sunday, the administration was set to start taxing an additional $160 billion in Chinese imports, a move that would extend the sanctions to just about everything China ships to the United States.
Repeated rounds of negotiations had failed to achieve even a preliminary agreement. The prolonged uncertainty over Trump’s trade policies has curtailed U.S. business investment and likely held back economic growth. Many corporations have slowed or suspended investment plans until they know when, how or even whether the trade standoff will end.
A far-reaching agreement on China’s technology policies will likely prove difficult. It would require Beijing to scale back its drive to become a global powerhouse in industrial high technology, something it sees as a path to prosperity and international influence.
Efforts to acquire foreign technology are a theme that runs through Chinese law and government. Security researchers have asserted that Beijing operates a network of research institutes and business parks to turn stolen foreign technology into commercial products.
The Trump administration has been seeking a way to enforce any significant trade agreement with China, reflecting its contention that Beijing has violated past promises. One way to do is to retain some tariffs as leverage.
Wiseman reported from Washington. Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville in Washington contributed.
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Mitt Romney had a cosy dinner last night with Trump, the man he labelled a fraud
Previously a fierce critic, the former Republican nominee is now a front-runner in the race to become the Secretary of State.
By AFP Wednesday 30 Nov 2016, 9:05 AM
President-elect Donald Trump eats dinner with chief of staff Reince Priebus and former rival Mitt Romney at Jean-Georges restaurant in New York last night.
Image: Evan Vucci/PA
DONALD TRUMP DINED last night at one of New York’s swankiest restaurants with Mitt Romney, his former bitter rival who has become a front-runner in the race to become the next Secretary of State.
The dinner came as the president-elect got a shot in the arm by a manufacturing company’s announcement that it will keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the Rust Belt.
The controversial New York property developer is preparing to switch his attentions from job interviews to a post-election victory tour.
“We will keep our companies and jobs in the US. Thanks Carrier,” Trump tweeted last night, referring to the Indiana-based air conditioning company that announced the deal.
The choice of Jean-Georges, a three-starred Michelin restaurant overlooking Central Park run by celebrity French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and popular with New York high society, was the clearest indication yet that Trump may select Romney as his chief diplomat.
After the dinner, Romney offered words of praise for Trump that contrasted sharply with his past criticisms, saying he had been “impressed” by his acceptance speech and subsequent preparations for office, calling it “a wonderful evening.”
Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.We will keep our companies and jobs in the U.S. Thanks Carrier
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2016
Source: Donald J. Trump/Twitter
Romney told reporters:
I think you’re going to see America continue to lead the world in this century.
He added that he had “increasing hope that president-elect Trump is the very man who can lead us to that better future.”
In March, Romney said that:
Trump’s bombast is already alarming our allies and fueling the enmity of our enemies.
He also described him as a “phony, a fraud”.
Romney speaks to reporters after his dinner with Trump. Source: Evan Vucci/PA
The brash property developer and the 2012 Republican nominee – who lost to Barack Obama – were joined by Trump’s incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus in full view of other diners, who included CNN’s senior White House correspondent.
In a restaurant where dinner starts at $148 (€139) a head, the Trump team said they feasted on garlic soup with thyme, sauteed frog legs and scallops with caramelised cauliflower and a caper raisin emulsion.
For their main course, both the president-elect and Priebus opted for prime sirloin with a citrus glaze and carrots, and Romney for lamb chops with the mushroom bolognese sauce. All three had chocolate cake.
Asked by a reporter briefly allowed to observe the meal whether it was going well, the president-elect flashed a thumbs up.
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It was the second face-to-face meeting in 10 days between Trump and the 69-year-old former Massachusetts governor, who savaged him as a “conman” and a “fraud” during the election campaign.
Trump’s secretary of state will be America’s public face to the world who could face the delicate task of reassuring foreign allies alarmed by the president-elect’s rhetoric on the campaign trail.
Other key posts yet to be announced are the secretaries of defence and treasury — for which US media reported that Trump was expected to name former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin.
But the search for the right diplomat has proved contentious with some of Trump’s inner circle horrified at the prospect of rewarding a prominent critic with such a plum job.
Priebus, Trump, and Romney. Source: Evan Vucci/PA
Distrust of Russia
Romney’s distrust of Russia – at odds with a president-elect who has spoken admiringly of Vladimir Putin – and the respect he generally commands have been touted as qualities by establishment Americans.
It remains unclear how influential the secretary of state would be on crafting foreign policy with Trump loyalist and retired general Michael Flynn already nominated as national security adviser.
Besides Romney, other potential candidates are celebrated general yet scandal-clad former CIA director David Petraeus, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Earlier yesterday, Trump met Corker, 64, who said that he thought Trump had narrowed the choice “to a very small group of people”, and it was important that he selects somebody on the same wavelength.
Petraeus, who met the president-elect on Monday, has by far the most foreign policy experience, but was forced to resign from the CIA after showing classified material to his mistress Paula Broadwell.
In 2015, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials, and was put on probation and fined $100,000.
Nevertheless, Trump professed himself “very impressed” following their meeting.
Just met with General Petraeus--was very impressed!
Jobs to stay
Helping Trump claim success on his election pledge to save American jobs from going overseas, air-conditioning company Carrier Corp announced it had reached a deal with the president-elect and vice president-elect Mike Pence “to keep close to 1,000 jobs.”
Trump had tweeted on America’s Thanksgiving holiday last week that he was seeking to persuade the company to stay in the United States.
The New York Times reported that Trump and Pence plan to appear at the company’s Indianapolis plant tomorrow to announce they have struck a deal after the company had threatened to move 2,000 jobs to Mexico.
The same day, both Trump and Pence are also scheduled to lead a post-election rally in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The evening event at the home of the Cincinnati Cyclones, with a maximum capacity of more than 17,000, is expected to be similar to those that drew enthusiastic crowds of thousands during the campaign.
The transition team has dubbed it a “thank you tour.”
- © AFP, 2016 with reporting from Darragh Peter Murphy.
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Mt. Pleasant officials address behavior problems in downtown neighborhoods
By Adrian Hedden Special to the Sun
Touring the student neighborhoods during Central Michigan University’s welcome weekend last fall, Mt. Pleasant City Commissioner Kathy Ling was surprised by large crowds and parties flowing into the streets.
“I don’t think the problems have reduced,” Ling said. “When I was down there this year, I was surprised by how many were in the street. If we were enforcing the nuisance policy, we wouldn’t have people in streets.”
Ling’s concerns and those of other city commissioners were voiced at Tuesday’s work session, where commissioners met to discuss new ways of enforcing city codes, and reducing the amount of criminal activity.
The discussion focused on neighborhoods along Main, Lansing and Fancher and Washington Streets in an area known as the M2 neighborhood.
“We need to send a message,” Ling said. “If you’re violating the law, you should get a ticket. We want enough that anyone down there is worried about it.”
Enforcement methods discussed ranged from increased ticketing from police, to higher fines for code violations and requiring landlords to submit identification information to the city about their tenants.
Mt. Pleasant Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Glenn Feldhauser said his department operates under the “broken window” theory. He said this means police address small issues before they build up into larger problems.
“We try to deal with little things up front,” Feldhauser said. “If we let five small things go unenforced, then we tend to see a bigger problem later on.”
In his presentation during the work session, Feldhauser outlined the most common crimes committed related to alcohol, and issues with city code compliance involving trash and outdoor furniture.
The issue most discussed at the session was nuisance parties. The city’s policy identifies a nuisance party as a gathering of more than 25 people at a residence where loud music and alcohol are present.
He said police are hoping to ticket more offenders to make the city unattractive to outsiders. Feldhauser also outlined a diversion program in place for first-time alcohol offenders.
An alternative to criminal court, the program is applied to 90-day misdemeanors, assessing a $250 fine, 24 hours of community service and payment of restitution. In order to pass the program, applicants must have no charges for six months.
“The diversion program is really just for people who we believe made a mistake,” said City Manager Nancy Ridley. “They can just pay the fine and move on.”
In 2014, Mt. Pleasant Police made 542 arrests, and offered the program to 229 or 42 percent of offenders. Feldhauser said 186 accepted.
Feldhauser worried about minors consuming alcohol, along with drunk driving and partiers packing the streets, many from outside CMU and Mt. Pleasant.
“People are rolling up from all over the state because it’s attractive to party here,” Feldhauser said. “We trying to make it less attractive because they come here to party, leave and prey on the students here.
“We arrest as many people as possible. It’s a matter of manpower. The problem isn’t CMU students or residents; it’s the others who show up. We have zero tolerance during the big weekends.”
The morning after parties, commissioners worried about enforcing city codes related to trash and the fall out of large gatherings.
Mayor Jim Holton said landlords often struggle to enforce the codes, and that the city should increase efforts in the M2 neighborhood. He proposed a code enforcement officer, to issue citations specifically in that area.
“I see a dedicated enforcement officer for that area,” Holton said. “There are questions about cost, and finding someone, but that would send a message.”
Commissioners also discussed raising fines for code violations, and implementing a zero-tolerance policy for those who fail to comply.
“Our goal so far has been to get compliance, not to punish,” Ridley said. “If we want to punish, then we talk about increasing the fines so they hurt more.”
Commissioners agreed to set a meeting with local landlords to gather information and decide what course of action should be taken to have the “biggest impact.”
City Attorney Scott Smith agreed to contact city attorneys in comparable college towns for input.
“I like the idea of meeting with the landlords to see how they can strengthen their leases to solve our problems and their problems,” Smith said. “We need to engage them up-front to avoid any backlash.”
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Love to Stay: Sex, Grace, and Commitment
by Adam Hamilton
(Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013)
Marriage “has its ups and downs, its ebb and flow, and it requires perseverance, hard work and from time to time a bit of help.” That’s how Adam Hamilton describes the reality of marriage in Love to Stay: Sex, Grace, and Commitment, an effort to provide that “bit of help,” practical advice and encouragement for married couples or for people contemplating marriage. He explores the little things (annoyances or habits) and the big things (emotional or physical abuse; addictions to drugs, alcohol or pornography; and infidelity) that can hurt marriages, offering strategies for dealing with them.
Each chapter ends with discussion questions and valuable suggestions for couples, for individuals within a marriage, and for single people. He also draws on feedback and survey results from thousands of people to help illustrate some basic truths. He encourages people to take the long view and “do love until you feel love.” When it is difficult to feel love, the trick is to hold on to the knowledge that it will get better and to avoid doing anything stupid in the meantime.” (review by Sarah Lowther Hensley, shared by permission)
This book would be an excellent addition to a church library and a resource for a study group. The Love to Stay Leader Guide includes a DVD with six ten-minute clips related to the book chapters and everything you need to facilitate sessions appropriate for the time and learning style of a group.
See also “Marriage Education and Enrichment” articles under “Best Practices and Recommended Resources” at the United Methodist Marriage and Family Ministry website (www.marriagelovepower.net) and at www.umcdiscipleship.org/leadership-resources/marriage-family-ministries.
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Home / The University / Faculties / Faculty of Economics and Business Administration / News / Official opening of the 1st Sofia Energy Economics Conference organized by FEBA and IAEE at Sofia University
On December 7, in hall 272 at the central building of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”the First Sofia Energy Economics Conference “Southeast European Energy Challenges” was officially opened. The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) and the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE - www.iaee.org) are co-organizers of the Symposium, which is also part of the 130th Anniversary celebrations at Sofia University.
The conference was officially opened by the Vice-Rector of Sofia University – prof. Mariya Stoycheva, and by the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration – Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev. Prof. Stoycheva noted, that Alma Mater has been teaching master and PhD students in its energy economics program for 13 years and now has more than 200 alumni in this field, most of whom are working as managers and experts at companies, state administration, and NGOs.
Official addresses were also made by the Chairman of the Energy Committee at the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria – Delian Dobrev, and the President of IAEE David Knapp. The keynote speech was given by Jean-Marc Leroy, President of Gas Infrastructure Europe and Vice-President at Engie.
The event was sponsored by AES Bulgaria and by ContourGlobal Maritsa East 3, and SeeNews is media partner.
The panelists in the conference are:
David Knapp, IAEE President
Jean-Marc Leroy, GIE President, Chairman of GIE Board and GIE General Assembly, Senior Executive Vice President, External Relation, ENGIE
Isabella Ruble, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., United States
Sarah Jezernik, President of the Slovenian Association for Energy Economics, Deputy General Manager of Plinovodi d.o.o.
Julian Popov, Fellow at the European Climate Foundation
Ruslan Stefanov, Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria
Konstantin Delisivkov, Executive Director of the Bulgarian Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers
Gurkan Kumbaroglu, President of the Turkish Association for Energy Economics, Former President of IAEE
Irena Mladenova, Head of Corporate Development at Resalta, and Managing Director of Resalta Bulgaria
Boyko Nitzov, TSO Cooperation Officer, Team Leader for gas infrastructure development at the Gas Department of the European Union's Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators
Prof. Ionut Purica, Professor at Hyperion University, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, former President (State Secretary) of the Romanian Nuclear Agency
Prof. Vilayat Valiyev, Director at the Institute for Scientific Research on Economic Reforms (ISRER), Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan; and founder and president of the “Azerbaijan Energy Engineering & Consultin
Andi Aranitasi, Associate Director, Senior Banker, Power and Energy, EBRD
Kostadin Sirleshtov, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Evo Stefanov, Managing Partner, Methodia AD
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Students from the master’s program “Energy Markets and Services” at FEBA made a guest visit at Kozloduy NPP – the largest electricity generating plant in Bulgaria
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1970 Royal Marksman
Up for sale is a modern-looking Royal Marksman which was manufactured in 1970 in Japan by Silver-Seiko. This typewriter is essentially a Royal 240, although the body is colored more like a toy rather than black and wood-grain. Despite its cheap appearance, this typewriter is very much a fully functional full-size portable. Condition-wise, this machine is in near mint shape. Everything is working perfectly, right down to the bell, and there are very few cosmetic flaws. The typeface is standard pica (10 characters per inch).The inner workings are mostly identical to the later Royals made by Silver-Seiko- most well known being the Mercury. The mechanism isn't the lightest or most pleasing to type something like a novel on, however it is extremely reliable and trustworthy. This would make an excellent first typewriter for someone who has never used one before. The owner's manual for this machine can be downloaded for free here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9INR5ltu-o8SzJvM0dCYThPdTg/edit
Universal ribbons fit this machine perfectly, so there are no worries keeping this machine typing for many years to come.
As I said before, this typewriter would make an excellent first typewriter because of how easy it is to use and care for. This wouldn't be my first choice to write a novel on, however it can still be used as heavily and frequently as you wish.
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CCC Baseball closing in
Turlock and Pitman prepare for spring
Sophomore Matt Carrigg pitches for Pitman during its game against Lincoln in the first day of the Atch Pedretti Tournament on Thursday. - photo by EDDIE RUIZ/The Journal
Frankie Tovar
Updated: March 6, 2014, 6:04 p.m.
Basketball season is over and wrestling season is winding down. Winter is making way for spring, and you know what that means—baseball is upon us.
Turlock and Pitman High have already begun their respective pre-seasons, albeit truncated ones, and each team is eyeing 2014 as their year to shine. Last year, the Bulldogs had a storybook season as they broke school records, won the Central California Conference championship, and made it to the Division I Sac Joaquin South Section title game. As for the Pride, though they finished in third place in the CCC, they also experienced significant post-season success in 2013 as they missed out on a south section title game appearance thanks only to their cross town rivals.
But it’s a new beginning in the month of March. There are new lineups and new team dynamics.
Turlock returns with Austin Bush, Gavin Gaffaney, and Brett Cumberland in leadership positions. While Turlock enjoyed a strong pitching rotation last year, they will have to rely on pitching by committee this year as Bush and Gaffaney are expected to aid from the mound along with newcomers Nick Gonzalez, Nick Benson, Cody Cornell, Rob Domingos, and Jon Temple.
“Last year we were pretty much a strike-out, dominating pitching team. This year we’re going to have to… pitch several pitchers and not walk guys,” Turlock head coach Mark de la Monte said.
Bush and Cumberland are also expected to contribute from the plate in power hitting positions.
“They’re going to be a chunk of our offense as well as them being solid defensive guys,” de la Monte said. “They handle the ups and down a lot better. That kind of experience and leadership helps a lot.”
Turlock is currently 2-0 on the season with wins over Sierra and Lodi High
Pitman’s pitching core was headed up by Jordan Gonzalez last season. Now, with Gonzalez gone via graduation, the Pride will rely on returners Trevor Chaney and Matt Carrigg, among others.
“We’ve got more depth. Jordan was obviously a good, solid pitcher for us and did an outstanding job as a senior, but I foresee Trevor Chaney doing the same and being strong for us like Jordan was,” Pitman head coach John Acha said. “Last year we had to rely heavily on only three or four guys, at most, and this year we have a little more depth.”
Carrigg, a sophomore, will also contribute heavily on offense as he’s developed his strength at the plate.
“He’s already gone through the learning curve with us,” Acha said.
Other returning contributors include catcher Dakota Spillers and Drew Lewis. Though the majority of Pitman’s squad are juniors and sophomores, last season’s success has endowed the team with a sense of purpose for this season.
“Guys that are returners got a real good pace for it and I can see that they want that back, they want to get there again. That’s going to help to motivate these younger guys,” Acha said.
The Bulldogs and Pride both won their first-day games of the Pedretti Tournament, against the respective teams of Lodi and Lincoln, by a score of 3-2.
Turlock plays Oakdale and Pitman plays Sonora in day two of the Pedretti Tournament at 3:30 p.m. today in what will be one of the many gauging opportunities for the teams in respects to their readiness for CCC play.
“Our approach is to have our pitching keep us in every game and play great defense. Sometimes you’re going to hit and sometimes you’re not,” de la Monte said. “It’s everybody’s goal to win the gold in league, including us. It’s going to be a little more even this year, I think every team is good, so it’s going to be competitive.”
“Last year Turlock had one of those teams that just don’t come around very often but I feel like the league is going to be a lot more spread out and even. It’s going to be a lot more competitive,” Acha said.
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Degree alone not enough to prepare grads for workforce
Melanie Dostis
Half of all students surveyed felt they were job-ready upon graduation
Students found lacking organization%2C leadership and personal finance skills
A college degree is no longer enough.
A study released this week by Chegg, the Student Hub and the Harris Interactive found a substantial skill gap between students' self-assessed readiness when entering the workforce and the skills employers actually want.
"The speed of which things are changing is much faster than institutions are able to change," says Dan Rosensweig, president and CEO of Chegg.
In a survey of 2,001 students or recent graduates — 18- to 24-year-olds — and 1,000 hiring managers, fewer than two in five hiring managers who had interviewed recent graduates in the past two years found them prepared for a job in their field of study.
In contrast, half of all students surveyed felt they were job-ready upon graduation, creating a 17-point gap in the different perceptions between both parties.
Facing a grim job market, a slow economic restoration and competition from other graduates, college students are scrambling to stand out.
As the study indicates, they might be going about it the wrong way: It found that students were lacking skills in areas such as organization, leadership and personal finance, as well as street smarts.
"Technology is disruptive to jobs and job creation. Instead of preparing our students for a particular job or career that would show more predictable and linear growth, they need to learn skills so they can adapt to whatever their job becomes," says Lesley Mitler, president at Priority Candidates, a career coaching service for graduates to land their first job.
The question for most students, employers and schools is: who does the responsibility fall on to prepare students?
For Chegg's Rosensweig, continual changes in the types of skills employees need is a national call for colleges to modernize their curriculum.
"We're moving in the wrong direction and it should frighten us," he says. "This is fixable fast. Institutions have a role to update their curriculum ... This generation speaks a whole different language and communicates differently and they (schools) need to update themselves."
Yet, the data didn't surprise many career experts.
"At its core, college prepares you to learn, to be enthusiastic about learning, to manage your time, and to work independently or with teams to solve problems," says Susan Davis-Ali, president of Leadhership1, a professional coaching company. "Being successful on the job takes that and so much more."
This means internships, extracurriculars and online classes as students are constantly told to be well-rounded in their talents, to expand their résumés and set themselves apart by applying their learning outside the classroom.
To bridge that 17-point gap, experts say schools should make activities and experiential learning readily available, but students still need to have the initiative.
Alice Harra, the interim director of career services at Northwestern University, says a balance needs to be achieved between what the school can do and what students take upon themselves.
At Northwestern, the school does case interviews with employers, mock interviews with alums and workshops for students but "students should make time to educate themselves," she says.
For Amy Homkes-Hayes, coordinator for the Career Center at the University of Michigan, bridging the gap between employer and student perceptions requires all parties to come together to help the student in the rapidly changing career market.
"I don't think there is one single 'best' way to bridge the gap," she says. "Rather, I would argue employers, career centers and academic units need to collaborate in multiple ways to prepare students for an increasingly complex working world."
With an abundance of schools emphasizing work experience, stressing a balanced education and offering online courses or leadership seminars, there is no one solution to ensuring the worth of a college degree.
One thing was certain, however, for Chegg's president after this study.
"When I left college, what I learned was enough when I graduated to get a job. That's not the case anymore for students today," Rosensweig says. "People could not be more wrong when they call them (Generation Y) the lazy generation. They are motivated students ... We should be concerned with building them into great citizens."
Melanie Dostis is a senior at Northeastern University.
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American Go E-Journal » 2010 » June
RACES HEAT UP IN AGA BOARD ELECTIONS
Contested seats in the Eastern and Central regions highlight this year’s AGA Board of Directors election. Andrew Jackson is challenging incumbent Chuck Robbins in the Eastern region while current Central Region board member Roy Schmidt is being challenged by Daniel Smith and Lisa Scott. Andrew Okun is unopposed in the Western Regon, as is At-Large member Jie Li. Current AGA chapters are eligible to vote in the election, weighted by membership; ballots will be sent to each current chapter on June 21 and must be returned by July 30. The votes will be counted at the U.S. Go Congress and the results announced. CLICK HERE for candidate statements (if any; there are none as of press-time), voting procedures and rules. “Chapter representatives should have received their current voting rights,” reports Arnold Eudell. Report any discrepancy or your current contact information to him at elections@usgo.org
LEE CHANGHO TO MARRY YI DOYUN
Lee Changho 9P announced his engagement to Cyberoro reporter Yi Doyun on Tuesday. Miss Yi Doyun is a strong baduk player as well, and the couple said they plan to have between one and three children.
– JustPlayGo
Categories: World
YASUMASA HANE 9P & GO FAMILY TO ATTEND U.S. GO CONGRESS
The opportunity to learn from top professional go players has always been a major attraction of the annual U.S. Go Congress, set this year for July 31 – August 8 in Colorado Springs, CO. This year’s roster of pros includes a very special visit by Yasumasa Hane 9P (right, in blue jacket) well-known as a major contributor in the development of the Chinese fuseki as well as the father of Naoki Hane 9P (far left, in tan jacket), the current Honinbo and a former holder of the Kisei and Tengen titles. Hane’s family — wife Masami 1k (left front), daughter Michiyo Yamamori 1k (back center) daughter-in-law Shigeko Hane 1P (back left, next to husband Naoki), and Shigeko’s daughters Ayaka 1k, Ranka 1k and Rinka 4k (center) — will also be attending and playing in the U.S. Open. “It’s a great honor to host such a famous and impressively strong go family,” says American Go Association President Allan Abramson. “We look forward to learning much from the Hane family.” Also attending the Congress this year are defending U.S. Open champion Myung Wan Kim 9P (US), Seong-yong Kim 9P of Korea, Ming Jiu Jiang 7P US, Yilun Yang 7P (US), Ryo Maeda 6P (Japan), Cheng Xiaoliu 6P (China), Jennie Shen 2P (US), Hui Ren Yang 1P (US), Cathy (Chen Shuo) Li 1P (China), and Qiao Shiyao 1P (China). CLICK HERE for details and to register for the U.S. Go Congress.
– Chris Garlock; photo courtesy the Hane family. Includes reporting by Yuki Shigeno
ichiyo Yamamori 1k(daughter/wife of Yamamori6p
Categories: U.S. Go Congress,U.S./North America
TOP PROS STUMBLE IN CHINA’S QUZHOU-LANKE CUP
While top professionals do lose big games now and again, it seems a bit unusual for so many to be struggling at the same time. In the past few weeks, Korean pro Lee Sedol 9P has lost a few important games he was expected to win, and Lee Changho 9P has been in a painful slump. Now, it looks possible that things could get rocky for a few Chinese players as well.
Kong Jie 9P, Chang Hao 9P, and Nie Weiping 9P were all eliminated in the first round of the 3rd Quzhou-Lanke Cup, which ended this Wednesday. Nie Weiping’s loss to Shi Yue 4P was not too surprising, as Shi Yue is one of China’s better mid-level pros and may move to the top level in the future. Chang Hao lost to Li Zhe 6P, a mid-level pro, who has played very competitively against Kong Jie, Gu Li 9P, Chang Ho, Lee Sedol, and other top players.
The big surprise in the first round came when Jiang Weijie 5P defeated Kong Jie. Jiang Weijie turned pro in 2005 and is a solid player, but has yet to win a major tournament. Gu Li, the defending Quzhuo-Lanke Cup champion, was the only top Chinese pro to make it out of the first round, defeating Zhong Weijing 5P by resignation.
YAMASHITA KEIGO TAKES 1-GAME LEAD IN HONINBO
Monday June 14, 2010
Yamashita Keigo 9P took a 2-1 lead in the 65th Honinbo Wednesday when he defeated defending title-holder Hane Naoki 9P by resignation. The fourth round will be played on June 17-18.
REGISTER FOR U.S. GO CONGRESS BY JUNE 30 & SAVE; REGISTRATION TOPS 300
“Register for this year’s 2010 U.S. Go Congress by midnight June 30 and save!” says Congress Director Karen Jordan. Base costs increased $50 after 6/15 and will increase $75 after 6/30 and $100 after 7/17. Registration for the Congress — set for July 31 – August 8 in Colorado Springs, CO — has now passed 300, including 12 professionals, 113 dan players and 138 kyus. Click here for the latest list of attendees. The Congress website is being regularly updated with new Congress information, like the Go Congress group rate for people coming to the Congress site from Denver International Airport. Click here for the website of the Congress shuttle service; the e-mail address is aairshuttle@aol.com. You may sign up and pay online. Questions about the Congress? Click here for answers to frequently asked questions.
LEE CHANGHO UPSET IN GS CALTEX CUP
Lee Changho 9p’s troubles continue to plague him. Playing in the second round of the 15th GS Caltex Cup on Saturday, Kim Junghyun 2P defeated Lee Changho 9P by resignation. Kim Junghyun is relatively new to the professional scene, turning pro in 2009 and gaining the rank of 2 dan on April 8th, 2010.
ZIPEI FENG 7D WINS ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPRING GO TOURNEY
Zipei Feng 7d took first place in the June 12 Rocky Mountain Spring Go Tournament in Boulder, Colorado. “We had 43 players attend,” reports David Weiss, “including five people who drove all the way from Salt Lake City, and drove back immediately after the tournament was over.” Victor Traibush 3k won 2nd place, Yun Bo Yi 6d was 3rd and Lenny Den 15k won 5 of 6 games in his second tournament to take first place in the handicap section.
TANG WENHUA 6D MOST CAFFEINATED IN SANTA MONICA COFFEE CUP
Tang Wenhua 6d (r) claimed top place in the 2010 Santa Monica Coffee Cup’s Espresso Division last Saturday after a tense final-game win over the Santa Monica Go Club’s own Yixian Zhou 7d, the 2009 US Open 6d Division winner. In addition to a pound of dark roast and the eponymous hand-painted coffee cup — in this year’s theme color of avocado green — Tang was awarded certification as a 6-dan amateur by the Hankuk Kiwon, courtesy of the Kiwon’s go ambassador, Myung-wan Kim 9P (center). Other winners topping the 50-player field were Tyler Oyakawa 2d in the Java (2k-2d) Division, Alex Lee 3k in the Mocha Division (3k-4k), Ezana Berhane 7k in the Arabica Division (5k-9k), David Whiteside 10k in the Cappuccino Division (10k-14k) and Jerry Lu 15k in the Decaf (15k and under) Division. The Espresso Division also served as an NAMT qualifier and eligible players will receive points toward an NAMT invitation for Congress. Joe Cepiel was tournament director. “Fifty players is a lot for the UnUrban Coffeehouse but the cool June weather made it nice and some folks took their equipment outside to play in the open air,” said organizer Andrew Okun (at left in photo at left). Next year’s theme color will be purple, Okun adds.
– photos courtesy Andy Okun
AGA BOARD NOMINATIONS CLOSE JUNE 15
Deadline for nominations to the American Go Association’s Board of Directors is Tuesday, June 15. “This is a great opportunity to contribute to the current running and future direction of the AGA,” says President Allan Abramson. Deadline for nominations is June 15. Email nominations to elections@usgo.org Nominees must be full AGA members, as must be those who make nominations; CLICK HERE for details on nomination procedures and candidate qualifications.
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Campus Safety Universal Technical Institute Long Beach
STAY SAFE ON CAMPUS AND OFF CAMPUS
Universal Technical Institute Long Beach
At Universal Technical Institute, your well-being and safety are our priority. Below you will find information on campus and community resources covering a range of topics. It’s important to familiarize yourself with services and organization that can provide assistance in times of need and help keep you safe and healthy. Please do not hesitate to contact a campus representative with any questions.
Police emergency: 911
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Medical emergency: 911
211 County Infoline: 211
Long Beach Police Department: (562) 435-6711
4891 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807
Long Beach Medical Center: (562) 933-2000
Resources for Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
Protect yourself and loved ones.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): (800) 656-HOPE (4673)
Women Shelter of Long Beach: (562) 437-4663
Su Casa – Ending Domestic Violence: (562) 402-4888
Interval House, Crisis Shelters & Centers for Victims of Domestic Violence: (562) 594-4555
The LGBTQ Center Long Beach, Domestic Violence Services: (562) 434-4455
CA Partnership to End Domestic Violence: (916) 444-7163
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Someone is always here to talk.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Hotline: (800) 662-4357
PTSD Foundation of America: (877) 717-PTSD (7873)
LA Department of Mental Health: (800) 854-7771
Community Family Guidance Center: (562) 927-5526
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Bottega Veneta Sweeps the Fashion Awards With Four Big Wins
By Steff Yotka
Photo: Andrea Adriani / Gorunway.com
In less than one year, Bottega Veneta’s Daniel Lee has become one of fashion’s most influential designers, a status he cemented at Britain’s Fashion Awards tonight with a record four wins. At the ceremony hosted by the British Fashion Council, Bottega Veneta and Lee were nominated in four categories, winning each one: Designer of the Year, British Designer of the Year—Womenswear, Accessories Designer of the Year, and Brand of the Year. At just 33 years old, Lee is not only one of the winningest designers at the awards, but also one of the youngest to win the ceremony’s biggest prizes.
What makes the young designer such a success? Chalk it up to the marriage of luxury and virality he offers at Bottega Veneta. Leather goods are the brand’s core category; Lee has remixed shoes and bags into quirky, instantly recognizable pieces. His square-toed quilted shoes can barely be kept in stock at retail, while his slinky Stretch sandals were voted the most wanted shoe of the year by Lyst, which tracked a 471 percent spike in searches in the month of July alone. The only product to outshine the Stretch sandal according to the shopping search engine was, of course, also by Lee. The Pouch bag—a concept as simple as it sounds—was named the most wanted product of the year, with more than 10,000 searches a month on Lyst. Celebrities have also taken a liking to the clutch bag, with Rihanna seeming to own it in nearly a dozen colors and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley posting 39 Instagrams—and counting!—of her clutch.
Lee wasn’t the only big winner of the evening, even if he will walk away with the most trophies. See the full list of winners and honorees from the Fashion Awards below.
Fashion Icon: Naomi Campbell
Outstanding Achievement: Giorgio Armani
Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator: Sam McKnight
Trailblazer Award: Sarah Burton
Award for Positive Change: Signatories of the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
Designer’s Designer: Christopher Kane
Accessories Designer of the Year: Daniel Lee for Bottega Veneta
Brand of the Year: Bottega Veneta
British Designer of the Year, Menswear: Kim Jones for Dior Men
British Designer of the Year, Womenswear: Daniel Lee for Bottega Veneta
British Emerging Talent, Menswear: Bethany Williams for Bethany Williams
British Emerging Talent, Womenswear: Rejina Pyo for Rejina Pyo
Business Leader: Remo Ruffini for Moncler
Designer of the Year: Daniel Lee for Bottega Veneta
Model of the Year: Adut Akech
Urban Luxe: Fenty
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Albert Einstein once said, "Everybody's a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid."
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today on trial, we have modern day schooling.
Glad you could come.
Not only does he make fish climb trees, but also makes them climb down, and do a ten-mile run.
Tell me school, are you proud of the things you've done?
Turning millions of people into robots?
Do you find that fun?
Do you realize how many kids relate to that fish?
Swimming upstream in class, never finding their gifts, thinking they are stupid, believing they are useless?
Well, the time has come.
I call school to the stand and accuse him of killing creativity, individuality, and being intellectually abusive.
He's an ancient institution that has outlived his usage.
So your honor, this concludes my opening statement.
And if I may present the evidence of my case, I will prove it.
Exhibit A.
Here's a modern day phone.
Recognize it?
Here's a phone from 150 years ago.
Big difference right?
Stay with me.
Here's a car from today.
And here's a car from 150 years ago.
Well, get this.
Here's a classroom of today.
And here's a class we used 150 years ago.
Now ain't that a shame, in literally more than a century, nothing has changed.
Yet you claim to prepare students for the future?
But with evidence like that I must ask, do you prepare students for the future or the past?
I did a background check on you and let the record show that you were made to train people to work in factories.
Which explains why you put students in straight rows nice and neat, tell them sit still, raise your hand if you wanna speak, give them a short break to eat, and for eight hours a day, tell them what to think.
Oh, and make them compete to get an A.
A letter which determines product quality.
Hence, grade A of meat.
I get it. Back then times were different.
We all have a past.
And myself ain't no Gandhi.
But today we don't need to make robots zombies.
The world has progressed.
And now we need people who think creatively, innovatively, critically, independently, with the ability to connect.
See, every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same.
And every parent with two or more children will confirm that claim.
So please explain why you treat students like cookie cutter frames or snapback hats?
Giving them this one size fits all crap?
Watch your language.
Sorry your honor.
But if a doctor prescribes the exact same medicine to all of his patients, the results would be tragic!
So many people would get sick.
Yet, when it comes to school this is exactly what happens.
This educational malpractice.
Where one teacher stands in front of 20 kids.
Each one having different strengths, different needs, different gifts, different dreams.
And you teach the same thing, the same way?
That's horrific.
Ladies and gentlemen, the defendant should not be acquitted.
This may be one of the worst criminal offenses ever to be committed.
And let's mention the ways you treat your employees.
Objection.
Overruled; I want to hear this.
It's a shame.
I mean teachers have the most important job on the planet, yet they're underpaid?
No wonder so many students are short changed.
Let's be honest, teaches should earn just as much as doctors.
Because a doctor can do heart surgery and save the life of a kid.
But a great teacher can reach the heart of that kid, and allow him to truly live.
See, teachers are heroes that often get blamed.
But they're not the problem.
They work in a system without many options or rights.
Curriculums are created by policy makers, most of which have never taught a day in their life.
Just obsessed with standardized tests.
They think bubbling in a multiple choice test question will determine success.
That's outlandish.
In fact, these tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned.
But don't take my word for it.
Take Frederick J. Kelly, the man who invented standardized testing, who said, and I quote, "These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned."
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if we continue down this road, the results will be lethal.
I don't have much faith in school, but I do have faith in people.
And if we can customize health care, cars, and Facebook pages, then it is our duty to do the same for education, to upgrade it, change it, do away with school spirit.
'Cause that's useless.
Unless we're working to bring the spirit out of each and every student.
That should be our task.
No more common core.
Instead, let's reach the core of every heart in every class.
Sure, math is important, but no more than art or dance.
Let's give every gift an equal chance.
I know this sounds like a dream, but countries like Finland are doing impressive things.
They have shorter school days; teachers make a decent wage.
Homework is non existent and they focus on collaboration instead of competition.
But here's the kicker boys and girls.
Their educational system outperforms every other country in the world.
Other places like Singapore, succeeding rapidly.
Schools like Montessori; programs like Khan Academy.
There is no single solution, but let's get moving.
Because while students may be 20% of our population, they are 100% of our future.
So let's attend to their dreams.
And there's no telling what we can achieve.
This is a world in which I believe.
A world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees.
Hey guys, my name is Prince EA, and I want to say thank you so much for watching my video.
But now, I want to know what you think.
How can we together, create a more efficient, effective, and just better future of learning.
I want you to visit Neste.com/preorderthefuture and share your thoughts and ideas on the topic.
I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!!
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Posted on December 16, 2008 by Don Warrington
Bernie Madoff: A Disaster of Biblical Proportions–and Meaning
I’ve been doing a little “Rocky Mountain High” in Colorado the last few days so I’ve not been blogging much, but during that time the whole Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff has broken. For most investors, smarting from the already gargantuan losses in the stock market, it doesn’t have much impact (yet, at least.) But for me, coming from Palm Beach, it’s both riveting and instructive.
A little explanation at the start is helpful. Students of the New Testament are very familiar with the division of humanity into Jew and Gentile: “And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them–the Law with its injunctions and ordinances–in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace.” (Ephesians 2:15) Unfortunately that division is still very much alive in Palm Beach, as I discussed in my 2005 piece Join the Club (Maybe Not!) Madoff socialised (and recruited) many of his clients at the Palm Beach Country Club, which we used to refer to as the “Jewish Country Club;” in fact, the Club itself is one of his victims. That leads me to point out something else important: most of his clients/victims are Jewish, although the impact of his collapse is now reverberating throughout many financial institutions around the world.
I’ve seen some comments which would lead one to believe that situations like Madoff’s are largely Jewish in nature, but this is not the case. I’ve seen this kind of thing at work in the Evangelical world. Someone comes along in church circles, claiming special financial genius and high rates of return coupled with being a great Christian. He or she (usually male) signs up some prominent people in the church and/or Christian circles, which puts pressure on the rest of us to get in on the action. Put another way, it’s very hard to make a putt when your golf buddies are over there crowing about how well their investments are doing with __________, and I guess there were many putts missed at the Palm Beach Country Club on account of Madoff’s clients doing this. Once they’ve gotten everyone (including you) on board, they tank, leaving everyone broke.
There are two important differences between such Evangelical scam artists and Madoff.
The first is that many Evangelicals of this kind claim that God tells them what to invest in. My guess is that Madoff never made this claim for himself.
The second is the sheer enormity of the losses. No Evangelical could ever corral enough people and money to do this. It is a disaster of Biblical proportions, and it’s no accident that such a gargantuan loss took place amongst God’s chosen people. The same people whose ancestors witnessed the plagues of Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea and the collapse of the walls of Jericho are watching their investments do the same thing.
Anti-Semites who gripe about how Jewish people control such a disproportionate portion of the world’s wealth never stop and think about why this is so. The blessings that God gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants have never stopped, and that includes special intelligence and industry. Out of that comes the ability to assemble and manage vast wealth.
But blessings that come can be lost. In addition to taking advantage of the “herd instinct” of his own people, Madoff managed to circumvent the weak oversight that our government exerted over his operation. That has led some to cry for more oversight. Some of this is justified, but it leads us into the next trap: attempting to use oversight as a substitute for people of integrity. Oversight’s limits are severe in an environment where people act without conscience.
It’s not an understatement that the whole Evangelical view of how a righteous society should operate is based on the Tanakh, the Old Testament. A large part of that is that people should first act with integrity and transparency, accountable to God himself:
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:6-8)
Coupled with that is a respect for what people have, especially people that don’t have much. Although many of Madoff’s clients were wealthy (note the past tense,) others weren’t. The Old Testament shows God’s displeasure at those with little having that taken away, and that includes the sovereign, be it David with Bathsheba or Ahab with Naboth’s vinyard. It’s also not an accident that, at the end, protection of what one has is a part of God’s earthly paradise:
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. (Micah 4:4)
Madoff has made them afraid by betraying their trust.
In the end justice needs to be done here. In our court system, it will take a long time. But we who claim to reject “replacement theology” and also claim to know the Scriptures must see that the disaster of Madoff’s making must be a lesson to us. There is no substitute for upright living and transparent dealing–not the Law, not the sacrificial system, not even whatever special spiritual gift that God has given us. That kind living is what God expects of us, as he expected it (and still does) of his special chosen people, the Jews.
“You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for Salvation comes from the Jews.” (John 4:22) Jesus Christ himself noted this to the Samaritan woman. Salvation indeed comes from the Jews. That process is described here. But the Old Testament speaks of the Jews’ mistakes too. It’s easy to concentrate on them, but ultimately were it not for the mistakes the salvation wouldn’t be as significant: “And for this, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned, because she has loved greatly; but one who has little pardoned him, loves but little.” (Luke 7:47)
Bernard Madoff has given us an expensive lesson. Like those in the Scriptures, it’s our duty to learn from it.
Postscript: after I wrote this, Joyce Reingold posted a link to this, an article in the New York Social Diary about “Jewish Society in Old Palm Beach.” For those of us from Palm Beach or aficionados of the subject, both photos and reading are fascinating.
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Sail Europe’s picturesque waterways in elegant comfort with Viking. Ranging from 7 to 23 days, our itineraries offer a wealth of unforgettable journeys across the continent.
Cooking with Karine: Bratwurst
Taste a variety of German delicacies with Karine in Nuremberg’s medieval district, and learn some of the best side dishes to go with them, perhaps paired with a local brew.
The Berlin Airlift
Go behind the scenes at Tempelhof Airport, long closed to visitors, and learn about the famed “Raisin Bombers” and their role during the historic Berlin Airlift, the largest in history.
Go behind the scenes with the world-renowned Vienna Boys’ Choir. Join Karine as she meets some of these talented youngsters and sits in as they prepare for an evening performance.
Prague Synagogue
When in Prague, be sure to visit the Old New Synagogue in Josefov, the Jewish Quarter. This is the oldest synagogue in Europe, where generations have been worshipping since 1270.
Master Chef & Author Toni Mörwald
Watch the world-famous master chef and author Toni Mörwald and Karine prepare the traditional wiener schnitzel dish. In Austria, you might visit Chef Mörwald’s Michelin-starred restaurants. Bon appétit!
Our Viking Vintner
Head into the cellars of Erhard Mörwald, the fifth-generation Wachau Valley vintner who produces the distinctive private-label wines that are served on board our river ships.
Designed by New York architect Daniel Libeskind, Berlin’s compelling Jewish Museum provides an unforgettable journey through Jewish culture and a rich chronicle of memory and hope.
Learn about the war crimes tribunals that took place in Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice as the entire world watched with rapt attention, and consider seeing Courtroom 600 for yourself.
Viking Baker
Come inside the 300-year-old Schmidl Bakery in Dürnstein on the Danube River, where Karine meets the owner and sees how the fine breads served on board Viking ships are made.
Shakespeare & Co.
Peruse this literary haven in Paris, a favorite of book lovers and renowned authors since 1919. Browse its stacks and learn about the “tumbleweeds” who work and reside here.
Go behind the scenes at Vienna’s Spanish Riding School to meet the “dancing horses,” the world-famous Lipizzaner stallions. Seeing these magnificent white horses perform is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Cooking with Karine: Prague Duck
Watch as Kampa Park’s executive chef Marek Raditsch prepares this regional dish. In Prague, you might visit this world-famous restaurant, next to Charles Bridge on the Vltava River.
Explore: Prague
Prague, the “City of a Thousand Spires,” offers endless discoveries. See some of Karine’s top recommendations, including Lobkowicz Palace, the Old New Synagogue, the Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge and more.
Explore: Paris
Discover the magical “City of Light.” Visit the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, a literary haven on Paris’s Left Bank; stroll the Champs-Élysées; and admire the priceless works of the Louvre. Be sure to stop for a cup of coffee in the St. Germain district.
Explore: Berlin
Experience a vibrant city that is always reinventing itself. See iconic Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall and the Reichstag, an architectural masterpiece. Stroll around Museum Island or go shopping in the Mitte District.
Lobkowicz Palace
Preview our Privileged Access tour as Karine visits the residence of this noble Czech family. See the original score of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, attend a private concert and more.
Cooking with Karine: Goulash
Explore Budapest’s Great Market Hall and learn how to make goulash, Hungary’s rich, hearty dish seasoned with paprika and packed with flavor.
Viking Executive Chefs
Come into the galleys of our European river ships for an unforgettable visit with two Viking Executive Chefs, and glimpse some of the passion that goes into every dish they serve.
France, Painter’s Muse
See for yourself how France has inspired famous artists like van Gogh, Monet and so many more.
Monet’s Gardens
Join Karine at Giverny as she visits the Japanese bridge, gardens and water lilies that inspired one of history’s great painters, founder of impressionism Claude Monet.
Witness the beauty, romance and spirit of the holidays come alive at Europe’s colorful Christmas markets when you join Viking on a festive river cruise during November or December.
Cooking with Karine: Gingerbread
Join Karine as she learns the art of making gingerbread at Passau’s Café Simon, established more than 100 years ago. Sample some on our late fall cruises along Europe’s great rivers.
Cooking with Karine: A German Treat
Join Karine for a private cooking lesson with pastry chef Joanna Hajn, who teaches her student how to make a German holiday favorite: a tasty gingerbread house.
Glühwein (Mulled Wine)
In November and December, public houses in nearly every European town offer mulled wine as a delicious antidote to the season’s chill. Let Karine show you how to prepare your own with our special and simple recipe.
Shopping in Berlin
Today’s Berlin is a veritable treasure trove of gift ideas for the holidays. Join Karine as she shares some of her favorite things in the cosmopolitan German capital.
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Join Karine at her favorite shop in Budapest, Hungary: the venerable Café Gerbeaud, purveyors of fine chocolates.
Shopping in Passau
Passau is one of Germany’s most charming cities. Karine shows you that the city’s gift ideas hold equal charm when she takes you to her favorite shopping spot.
Shopping in Vienna
Christmastime or anytime, Karine knows one gift that visitors to Vienna cannot return home without. You can even purchase this little cake in the very hotel where it was invented.
Thanksgiving in Europe
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Viking on November sailings. There is no better way to complement your succulent turkey dinner than with a stroll through one of Europe’s cultural capitals.
Wreath-Making Workshop
Join Karine in Passau, Germany, as she has a good laugh making traditional and modern German Advent wreaths with a local wreath maker.
Gifts Along the Danube
The Danube’s banks overflow with shopping opportunities. Join Karine at her favorite spots in Passau, Vienna and Budapest as she shares perfect gift ideas for yourself or your loved ones.
Explorer Roald Amundsen
On December 14, 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole and secured his place in history as one of the great explorers.
Setting a New Standard
Learn about the past and future of Viking and the innovations behind our Viking Longships. Then come explore the great rivers of the world in unprecedented comfort.
Hungarian Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Hungarian words and phrases with Eszter, your Viking tutor. Jó napot!
Dutch Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Dutch words and phrases with Johan, your Viking tutor. Proost!
Portuguese Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Portuguese words and phrases with Maria, your Viking tutor. Saúde!
French Language Lesson
Learn a few useful French words and phrases with Maaike, your Viking tutor. À votre Santé!
German Language Lesson
Learn a few useful German words and phrases with Rebecca, your Viking tutor. Prost!
Croatian Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Croatian words and phrases with Ivana, your Viking tutor. Živjeli!
Flavors of the Mekong
History, culture and friends—all rolled into one delicious and creative feast. Explore the floating markets along the Mekong Delta and master the culinary art of rolling your very own Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Karine.
Join Karine as she learns about the history of Chinese porcelain, an art form created during the Han Dynasty and shaped by artisans from the Song, Ming and other dynasties.
Beijing Hutongs
To experience an authentic slice of real Chinese life, step into the hidden corners of the hutong alleyways, an ancient maze of traditional courtyard houses linked by narrow corridors.
Secrets of Chinese Tea
Legend has it that tea was discovered 5,000 years ago. Learn about the beloved beverage’s place in Chinese culture, lore and medicine.
For millennia, the Chinese have balanced their energy with tai chi, acupuncture, herbal medicine and more. Join Karine and learn more about their approach to healthy living.
The Three Gorges
Enjoy a scenic journey with Karine through China’s most dramatic region, the Yangtze River’s Three Gorges, and learn about some of the area’s residents, past and present.
Shanghai Acrobats
Dexterity and strength, passion and focus. Join Karine backstage as she watches some of the world’s most courageous artists perfect their gravity-defying acrobatics.
Yuyuan Garden
Chosen by the wealthy Pan family as the location of their retirement home, the Yuyuan Garden is a serene example of a traditional Chinese garden—juxtaposed against the backdrop of Shanghai.
In China, calligraphy is not just a form of writing but it is a revered form of art that dates back millennia. Join Karine and learn its timeless secrets from an expert calligrapher.
Cooking with Karine: Noodles
Watch as onboard Viking Chef Fong gives Karine a hands-on lesson that reveals some traditional culinary secrets that go into preparing the world’s finest noodles.
Shibaozhai
Learn about mysterious Shibaozhai and the Bridge of Luck, beautifully situated in the middle of the mighty Yangtze. Join Karine as she unveils the secrets of this twelve-story temple.
The Story of Silk
From humble silkworms to beautiful custom silk jackets, learn how the most famous fabric of China is made as Karine takes you on a fascinating visit to a silk factory.
Giant Pandas of China
Do you know the legend of how the panda got its unique coloring? Find out as Karine meets these rare and treasured animals in the mountain forests of central China.
Food in China
Venture into a Chinese night market to sample some of China’s most beloved delicacies. Join Karine and discover the secrets of hot pot, Peking duck, homemade noodles and more.
Karine helps reveal the heart of China’s greatest mystery. Once closed to all but royalty, now this legendary “treasure box” is open to guests like us.
What to Do in China?
Have a little extra time on your own while exploring China with Viking? Karine has a few recommendations for you, from tai chi in Beijing to exploring Taikan Lane in historic Shanghai.
Terra Cotta Warriors
Visit Xian, China with Karine, where you will marvel at arresting images of the famous Terra Cotta Army, sculpted in the 3rd century BC and still being excavated today.
Chinese Superstitions
Why do many Chinese office buildings lack a fourth floor? What color attracts prosperity? Join Karine and learn about some of China’s time-honored beliefs.
Yangtze School
Meet some of China’s next generation of enthusiastic citizens when you join Karine and Viking guests on an inspiring visit to a Viking-sponsored elementary school on the Yangtze River.
The Wonders of China
Home of the iconic Great Wall, China embodies a rich history set against a backdrop of breathtaking landscapes.
Chinese Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Mandarin words and phrases with Jessica, your Viking tutor. Nĭ hăo!
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An original set of Herman Miller and Eames designed plywood DCM chairs; these black wooden beauties will compliment any living or dining space. The DCM Chair is an addition to Charles and Ray’s celebrated DCW Plywood Chair, but uses the metal frame instead of the wooden one on the DCW. Due to its popularity, the DCM chair was introduced to bring an alternative choice to the fashionable piece.
The construction of the DCM, much like the DCW, proved to be challenging and it eventually took aircraft inspired shock mounts stuck to the frame with glue set using radio waves to make the chair work. These shock mounts later inspired the ones found on many fiberglass chairs for the many different bases that were produced.
These particular examples will require a little bit of love and care due to being used and enjoyed well. However, the integrity of the chairs is still as good as the day they left the factory. Some time spent on the black finish of these chairs will help restore them to their former glory.
Whilst newer examples of the iconic design, these chairs will be slow to increase in value; however, due to the popularity and history behind these chairs, they will continue to be sought-after helping to increase the interest in these particular items.
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Find a train from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN
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Virail helps you to find the best train ticket from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN. You can compare many different offers at the same time, all you need to do is to enter the date of your trip and we will find all the possibilities for you. On our platform you can also filter the results by departure and arrival time, number of changes, duration, price and you can also decide if you want a one-way or a round-trip ticket. Once you chose the best option for you, we will redirect you automatically to the provider’s website and you will be able to book your ticket. Virail is a travel transportation portal with customers across more than 30 countries. We help more than 60 million users yearly to find the best option for their trip. Our comparison tool works with more than 2000 transportation companies and makes it possible to find the perfect travel solution, regardless of your needs.
Which companies take you from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN by train?
Virail finds offers from lots of rail companies in Europe and in the rest of the world. For example, it shows you the possible train connections from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN offered by Amtrack.
What is the price of train tickets from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN?
By booking in advance, you can find cheap train tickets from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN from 177,00 $. However, train tickets for this route cost on average around 251,00 $.
Trains from Richmond, VA to Saint Cloud, MN
Amtrack Northeast Regional 94 10:16 – 00:24 Richmond, VA – St. Cloud, MN177 $39 h 8 min
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Amtrack Northeast Regional 94 10:58 – 00:24 Richmond, VA – St. Cloud, MN177 $38 h 26 min
When the journey is as long as between Richmond, VA and Saint Cloud, MN, you should consider to take a flight to Saint Cloud, MN. If you book in advance, low cost airlines can provide flight that will make you save not only time but also money.
Which stations serve the rail line Richmond, VA - Saint Cloud, MN?
Trains leave Richmond, VA from Richmond, VA and arrive at St. Cloud, MN.
How many connections are there to go Saint Cloud, MN from Richmond, VA by train per day?
If you desire to go to Saint Cloud, MN from Richmond, VA by train, 12 daily connections are available. Please note that these routes are all indirect lines. Thus, you will never have to change trains.
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While the first train to Saint Cloud, MN leaves at 07:05, the last one is scheduled for 10:05. The average duration of the journey is of 40 hours and 31 minutes, but the fastest trains can get you to Saint Cloud, MN in 38 hours and 26 minutes.
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7315 212th St. S.W.
Main Line: (425) 775-9474
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
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All Virginia Mason locations are open today. If you are scheduled for today but unable to come in, please call Virginia Mason as soon as possible to let us know: (888) 862-2737.
At Virginia Mason’s Edmonds Family Medicine, we empower people to live healthy lives. That’s why we focus on health education and preventive medicine, in addition to comprehensive, compassionate medical care.
We provide care for the whole family, offering pediatric, adult, obstetrical and geriatric medicine. Primary care appointments are available five days a week, and we offer urgent care through our walk-in clinic seven days a week.
We also offer laboratory testing, diagnostic screenings, occupational medicine and much more. Our caring team members enjoy building relationships with our patients, who are of all ages and come from a variety of backgrounds. We see patients for many years and our family atmosphere helps them feel at home.
Edmonds Family Medicine is located just off Highway 99 in the Edmonds Professional Building. Our medical center is especially convenient for people living or working in north King County and south Snohomish County.
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Let's disrupt your daily commute
Reasons to be cheerful: one, two & three
Our national obsession with the weather is challenged only by our ability to launch into a compulsive rant about the state of the UK’s transport system. What’s left to say about fuming on the M6, rolling your eyes at train cancellations, or being anxiously delayed at the airport?
But Virgin Media Business is firmly in the camp that more transport disruption is a good thing.
One: making the best of what we have
Whim launched in Helsinki last month with, reports Curbed, the rather bold claim that it would “change urban travel forever”. It can’t prevent the delays. But it can navigate you around them. So you never again suffer the ignominy of a double-long commute. It brings together feeds from public transport including bus, train and shared bike schemes, with taxis, car shares and even an on-demand bus (more of that later). All of this data – and its real-time performance - is taken into consideration when you’re planning (and paying for) your journey. So you might end up taking a longer route. But you’re less likely to get stuck.
But if you’re determined to stick with the car, try Waze - the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Drivers share real-time traffic data, saving time and fuel on every trip.
Two: the sharing economy’s caring
Many transport experts point out that, despite our resistance, sharing is a necessary innovation in an increasingly crowded world.
And recasting mobility as an on-demand service is particularly attractive to sharing economy-savvy millennials - services like Air BnB and Spotify have familiarised usership over ownership.
So perhaps car sharing will finally have its day? It’s certainly enjoying a resurgence. As Nasdaq reports, Google is in on the gig, using Waze’s app to expand carpooling in the San Francisco Bay area. And carmakers are taking note. Here in London BMW reports its DriveNow car-sharing service is profitable, while Daimler’s car2go offers rentals charged per minute, hour or day.
And this isn’t the only way that long-established carmakers are cashing on the trend. Uber competitor Lyft attracted $500m from General Motors and the New York-based ride-hail service Gett secured $300m from Volkswagen. Uber itself received an undisclosed investment from Toyota, as Techcrunch reported earlier this year.
We reckon they’ll be more ways to share soon.
Three: on-demand buses (yes, really) and more
Transport’s tech revolution is impacting the use of large vehicles as well as small. TheVerge reports that none other than Ford has bought Chariot, an innovative bus shuttle startup in Silicon Valley.
As well as successfully trialling its own on-demand bus service in Detroit...
Ford has likely been inspired by the triumph of firms like Bridj, which runs on-demand buses across the USA. The app displays pick-up and drop-off points according to your location, and deducts the relevant fare.
Not everyone is pleased about transport being disrupted. Google and Tesla’s work on self-driving cars has been well documented, but it’s Uber that attracts the ire of Guardian writer Paul Mason, to whom driverless vehicles represent a dark future. He calls for more protection for workers who stand to lose out as disruption rages ever louder: “to protect the employment rights tech predators are trying to take from them”.
As in life, the disruption of transport will see winners and losers in the form of both enterprises and individuals. But surely the majority of us stand to gain?
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Scarlett joins the Visceral Studio Company after six years of study at Your Performing Arts Center in Yorkville, IL, where she had the privilege of dancing under choreographers Emily Weber, Megan Edwards, and Janell Larson. At the age of 10, she discovered her love of ballet and contemporary under the direction of former Joffrey artists, including McKenna Herzog, Lucas Segovia, and Kara Zimmerman. Scarlett has been recognized with numerous awards for her lyrical/contemporary choreography— a passion that feeds her soul.
Scarlett’s ballet repertoire includes roles in the Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Marzipan, Dew Drop), Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake among others. She was a member of the Joffrey Ballet’s Children’s Cast in 2013. Scarlett has been awarded scholarships to several summer intensives including 360, and Inaside, and was most recently an NYCDA Triple Threat award winner to their Summer Intensive in NYC.
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Discover the North Coast
The Lost Coast
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Hike—or better yet backpack—a secret stretch of coastline
World-renowned State Highway 1 cruises along 650 miles of the California coast from Orange County north toward the Mendocino Coast. At its northern terminus, this epic route ends where it joins U.S. 101—but the coast continues, bending west just north of Fort Bragg.
With no major roads to access this ocean-wrapped region, it is justly called the Lost Coast. But you can explore on foot. In fact, the nearly 25-mile-long Lost Coast Trail is on the bucket list of many an avid backpacker.
Walk a wild beach to discover shell mounds, marking the spot where Native Americans once shucked clams and shellfish.
Stretching between Shelter Cove to the south and the Mattole River to the north, the Lost Coast is a wild land of forests, fog, waves, and sand. On the hike, which typically takes three days one way, you’ll be wowed by sweeping views of the King Range, its peaks soaring 4,000 feet above the Pacific. Walk a wild beach to discover shell mounds, marking the spot where Native Americans once shucked clams and other bivalves. Bring binoculars to spy impressive Roosevelt elk grazing in bluff-top prairies. Another essential item to pack: a current tide table. When the tide is high, boulder-strewn beaches (and your trail) disappear beneath the waves. Time your tromp right or you could face a long wait in a flooded cove. To hike the entire Lost Coast Trail, leave one car at Mattole River Beach and the other at Black Sands Beach near Shelter Cove, or make arrangements with a local shuttle service.
Not up to backpacking but want to stretch your legs? Head for the Lost Trail’s northern terminus, accessed by following Lighthouse Road west from the hamlet of Petrolia. A three-mile out-and-back trail south from Mattole River Beach affords an awesome photo op: the abandoned lighthouse at Punta Gorda.
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Romance finds a home in this idyllic coastal land, where ocean fog rolls in from the ocean to blanket hushed redwood forests. Along more than 100 miles of coast, artists set up their easels to paint scenes of pounding surf, picturesque headlands, and whitewashed cottages wrapped in rose-filled gardens. And in towns and hamlets, a new generation of farmers and winemakers focus on preserving the land as well as producing amazing food and wine. In this burgeoning culinary scene, every hyper-local specialty is worth a try: slapping-fresh seafood, artisan cheese, grass-fed beef, locally foraged mushrooms, bold ciders, and hoppy beer.
Favorite escapes include the romantic hamlet of Mendocino, roughly a 3-hour drive up the coast from San Francisco. Steep roofs, tall water towers, and leaded windows appear plucked from a classic New England town. Wander among the meticulously restored historic buildings to browse eclectic galleries and charming shops. Or visit the harbor town of Trinidad, nestled on picture-perfect headlands overlooking a teacup harbor; or stroll through history-rich Eureka, a former logging town filled with grand Victorians and gilded mansions. Every town along the North Coast celebrates its annual seagoing visitors—from December through May, about 20,000 gray whales travel along the coast on their annual migration.
Of course, this region is also the gateway to breathtaking Redwood National and State Parks, where the tallest trees in the world grow in primeval wilderness. Towering more than 300 feet high, the coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) take your breath away, whether it’s your first time seeing them or your one hundredth. Drive the 31-mile stretch along Avenue of the Giants or the 10-mile Newton B. Drury Redwood Scenic Parkway to marvel at the massive trees right from your car. The stunning redwoods in Lady Bird Johnson Grove can be seen on a relatively easy 1.5-mile hike. Or go explore the otherworldly delights of the 0.7-mile Fern Canyon Loop Trail, which takes hikers through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park to a steep-walled canyon covered in ferns.
See the forest, enjoy the trees, but don’t forget the “coast” component of the Redwood Coast. Hike the California Coastal Trail at Humboldt Lagoons, head to Moonstone Beach to watch pelicans swoop above the mossy cliffs, or check out Agate Beach to search for its precious namesake rock. If you’re visiting in November, December, March, or April, you have a good chance of witnessing the gray whale migration. Bring a pair of binoculars to High Bluff Beach, or get up close and personal with an ocean tour from Pacific Outfitters.
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Go hiking, boating, and wildlife-watching at this sprawling monument
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Feast Mendocino
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Experience sky-scraping trees, windswept beaches, and roaming Roosevelt elk
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
At 115 feet, Point Arena Lighthouse is the tallest climbable lighthouse on the West Coast.
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Visit a Victorian village where time stands still
A fairytale come to life, this remote village features carefully preserved Victorian-era century homes, a visual and architectural feast. On a...
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We’re Hiring: Organizational Development Consultant
Consultancy Title: Organizational Development Consultant
Duty Station: Home-based (with possible travel to Bangkok)
Application Deadline: 11 November 2019
Contract Duration: 30 days (November to December 2019)
Reports to: Executive Director
Since it was founded in 2009, APTN has grown to become a credible platform and voice for transgender people in Asia and the Pacific, working to ensure that their needs and rights are represented politically, socially, culturally and economically. The network serves as a platform for transgender people to advocate for access to health, legal gender recognition, legislative reform, social justice and human rights and to exchange information and strategies with each other.
APTN addresses transgender specific issues including vulnerability to gender-based violence, stigma and discrimination, risks for HIV infection, and health issues stemming from almost complete lack of access to appropriate health and medical care. In this region, the terms transgender and trans are used frequently as an umbrella term to describe people whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex at birth including those who have not seek medically gender-affirming health services. In 2011, the governing board decided to formally include trans men as a Board member and to consider trans man advocacy health issues beyond HIV.
APTN has published several key reports, policy and technical briefs that have been used to inform programmes, policy and laws. Legal gender recognition deeply impacts the livelihood of trans and gender diverse people and is critical to ensure their dignity, rights and security. APTN is committed to working to ensure that so long as gender exists as a legal classification, that all people in Asia and the Pacific have access to identity documents that reflect their self-defined gender.
APTN envision a society that upholds, respects, and protects the diversity, safety, equality, and dignity of trans /transgender people, the mission of APTN is to mobilize and advocate for the human rights of trans/transgender people in the Pacific and Asia Region.
Tasks and Deliverables:
APTN is currently mid way through implementing the three pillars of its Strategic Plan 2018-2020 Standing up for Trans Rights. As part of this pillar, APTN is engaging a consultant to support a review on the progress made in progressing the actions under its strategic plan and reviewing the impact its work has made in the years of 2018 and 2019. We hope to come out of this process with a better understanding of what APTN’s priorities should be in the future, and how the organisation can improve its work to guide the priority settings for its strategic plan in 2021.
You will work closely with the Executive Director who will guide you on relevant documents for your review and identifying key stakeholders to conduct key informant interviews to support APTN to review and strengthen their work, systems and a community evaluation framework to ensure APTN is documenting and implementing their programmes effectively. This will include:
Perform a financial and governance capacity assessment to determine capacity and priorities of APTN and its consortium partners
Development of a monitoring and evaluation framework to support the organisations operational mandate, this includes auditing the current M&E framework and proposing recommendations for strengthening data collection, documentation and identifying practical ways to improve engagement / internal communications across the whole staff team
Undertake an assessment on APTN achievements of its operational metrics and strategic objectives. The assessment plan will use information based on the programmes aligned to its strategic plan
Develop an assessment tool a) Internal assessment of the achievement of operational metrics; b) External assessment on the achievement of strategic objectives
Disseminate a) Internal assessment tool of the achievement of operational metrics to staffs, board and advisors; b) External assessment tool on the achievement of strategic objectives to stakeholders and partners
Collect assessments; conduct analysis of data received.
Conduct an assessment on the feedback from the community, stakeholders and partners to support APTN 2020 programmes and advocacy focus
Conduct a skills and resource assessment. This may include but is not limited to:
Undertake an assessment to review key functions, responsibilities of APTN sub-grantees, in-country focal persons and APTN personnels
an assessment of the fundraising priorities and sustainability strategies;
a review of our programme development and management; our communication and PR strategies; partnerships
an assessment of the monitoring, evaluation and learning process;
Undertake an evaluation of APTN partnerships, and perform an assessment and review of membership structures that will propel APTN vision and mission
An assessment of membership structure that will enable APTN to carry out its strategic pillars with success
A tool to evaluate partnerships
Provide recommendations and an action plan for a membership structure required to ensure that APTN will be able to deliver effectively and efficiently on a structure that would be able to go beyond 2020. This will include deriving and refining an appropriate membership structure to deliver the services/outputs of the strategic process
Deliverables:
No. Deliverables No. of Days
0 Inception Report; detailing the methodology, tools, proposed sources of data and time bound work plan with proposed schedule and activities 2 days
1 Financial and governance capacity assessment report providing recommendations and outline to the capacity and priorities of APTN and its consortium partners 2 days
2 Assessment report on APTN achievements of its operational metrics and strategic objectives.
3 Partners and stakeholders assessment report to support APTN 2020 programmes and advocacy and Key Informant interviews
4 A report detailing the following from assessmentthe key functions, responsibilities of APTN sub-grantees, in-country focal persons and APTN personnels fundraising priorities and sustainability strategies; programme development and management; APTN communication and PR strategies; partnershipsmonitoring, evaluation and learning process; 5 days
5 A report detailing the evaluation of APTN partnerships, and assessment findings, and recommendations for membership structures that will propel APTN vision and mission .A tool to evaluate partnerships A recommendation and an action plan for a membership structure required to ensure that APTN will be able to deliver effectively and efficiently on a structure that would be able to go beyond 2020. This will include deriving and refining an appropriate membership structure to deliver the services/outputs of the strategic process 5 days
6 Powerpoint presentation to reflect findings to the Executive Director by 3 December 2 days
7 Draft and Final Report detailing the findings from the membership, partnership and community assessment to include recommendations and proposed solutions 2 days
Education: University degree and/or equivalent experience in social science, development and/or gender studies, Organisational Development or a related field, with:
At least 7 years demonstrated knowledge and experience in conducting and facilitating organizational development, strategic planning and management for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
Ability to conduct strategic reviews and assessments, pertaining to Governance, Project Management, Human Resources and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Knowledge and experience in using participatory approaches and innovative techniques, with and for organizational leadership.
Excellent analytical and report writing skills
Working with dispersed teams to bring people together around improved ways of working.
Proactive approach, able to identify new opportunities and propose solutions based on experience.
Strong communication skills in written and spoken English
Interested candidates should submit a maximum of two pages outlining the Consultants’ understanding of the TOR, relevant experience and the proposed methodology to conduct the assignment, including techniques and tools to be used. CV for the lead consultant and any others involved, specifying the roles and responsibilities of each team member. Itemized consultant’s fees and costs – consultant should indicate professional rates and time input for each team member, and any other expenses necessary for this piece of work.
Please express your interest and send your application to apply@weareaptn.org by 11 November 2019 and indicate ‘Organisational Development Consultant’ in the subject in the email.
APTN is an Equal Opportunities Employer. APTN adheres to a fair recruitment process, regardless of any individual or group characteristics, including gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, race, age, disability, ability, economic status, national origin, religion, ethnicity, and historical, cultural and geographic experiences.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex persons, transgender and gender non-binary persons, and persons from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply. Only qualified candidates will be notified.
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Following the school shootings in Parkland, Fl (2018), President Donald Trump established The Federal Commission on School Safety. The goal of this commission was to extensively research school violence and produce a report to include all recommendations to prevent future school related tragedies. After numerous field visits, listening sessions and meetings with students, parents, school officials, school safety personnel, law enforcement officers, and mental health professionals, recommendations by The Federal Commission on School Safety were developed for leaders at local, state and federal levels (December 2018).
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1. Prevention begins with character education and the creation of a positive school environment. This will help students feel connected to, rather than isolated from teachers and fellow students. It will combat cyber-bullying. Student-led efforts are critical to addressing all forms of bullying. Firm and prompt responses are important for this type of student behavior.
WSA provides School Violence Prevention Training, a safety prevention solution which includes a full-day of violence prevention information beginning with a student-led performance skit discussing the importance of reacting appropriately to unsafe/suspicious behavior at school. Next, a student survivor of school violence provides a dialogue with students as they discuss their personal journey in a violent situation. Finally, students review a 54 page handbook filled with valuable information about school violence and ways in which to prevent it.
WSA also provides wellness classes. These classes are pre-recorded and offered online through CANVAS. They focus on issues such as anger management, bullying, self-esteem, and substance misuse. Students and their families are able to take these courses at their convenience. They come with pre and post testing, worksheets, quizzes and a final examination. This option is great for behavioral students who find themselves in detention or in-school suspension situations as well as yearly training for all students to keep up to date on what to do when faced with difficult situations.
2. State and local school districts and state and local behavioral health agencies should work together to promote screening and early intervention of for mental/substance use disorders. Improve access to school based mental health and counseling for young people is a vital aspect of school violence prevention. Integrating mental health, substance misuse and other supportive services into schools can help early identification needs and access to treatment. Empowerment results from youth having leadership opportunities and a voice within the classroom.
WSA provides a School Wellness Assessment, a safety prevention solution which gathers student information by asking simple questions addressing bullying, anger, depression, suicide, child abuse and substance misuse. It provides a private means for students to disclose at-risk information about themselves and their peers. It gives students the ability to voice their concerns about themselves, their peers, teachers, parents and their educational environment. Students answering affirmatively to specific questions are identified and provided with treatment resources for anger management, suicide prevention, substance abuse, and mental health issues. WSA works directly with school counselors in assisting with local and state resources for these students and their families. At no point is a student diagnosed. This is not the direction of this assessment. It is only a screening to assist with the identification of students who assess themselves as high-risk. A complete and thorough report is given to the School Administrator on every student approved by their guardian to take the screening.
3. Prior to most school attacks other students had concerns about the attacker yet most did not report the information. Creating a means to easily report is key to preventing violence within schools.
WSA provides an Anonymous Reporting System allowing students, teachers, parents and the community to call, text, message or email when they see or hear anything unsafe or suspicious while at school. Reports are also taken on student wellness issues. If a child or a child's friend reports he is considering harming himself, WSA will take a report and forward it to school officials immediately as well as contacting emergency services. Reports are also taken on child abuse, mental health issues, bullying and much more.
4. State and local educational agencies should collaborate with parents to strengthen internet safety measures to curb access to inappropriate content.
WSA provides an "All About School Safety" web page that any school can link to (free of charge) from their school's website. It is student and family friendly and offers great information on mental wellness, school safety clubs, cyber-bullying, and much much more. Parents can also find and download treatment resources for students struggling with substance misuse, anger management and mental illness. Teachers can download free anti-bullying and "Our Generation" posters for their classrooms and learn how to safe guard their classroom in case of an intruder.
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WSA offers a free School Safety Checklist for schools to help them decipher how to coordinate services with outside agencies including law enforcement and EMS. Go to the WSA homepage and download a free copy of this checklist.
6. Every school in America is different and appropriate protective measures will vary based on characteristics of the site, location, resources and personnel available. A risk assessment can identify vulnerabilities and enable the development of a strategy to address security gaps. Effective security plans use a layered approach across all 3 areas of a school: entry points, the building envelope and the classroom.
WSA provides a School Safety Environmental Assessment (SSEA) which includes an Assessor going to each school campus (every school within the district) to review the 3 designated areas identified within the Federal Commission on School Safety report. The Assessor will physically review all school entrances and exits, walls, roofs, windows, doors as well as each individual classroom. Screenings are provided to every staff member and ten percent of the student body within every building providing valuable input about the school environment. A detailed and thorough report is provided to the School Superintendent with necessary recommendations based on the FCSS report.
7. Active Shooter Preparedness Training should be deemed a priority.
WSA provides a web page offering Active Shooter Preparedness Training information free of charge for every school. The information includes downloadable booklets and training guides, training videos and much more. Schools can also sign up for the monthly WSA newsletter providing valuable new school safety information as it is released.
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Today in Soap Opera History (November 3)
1979: Edge of Night's Bobbie was hired to be the Whitneys' maid.
1986: Another World's Nicole Love returned to Bay City.
1992: Guiding Light's Ross had an Election Day dream.
2005: Laura Wright ended her run as Guiding Light's Cassie.
"History is a vast early warning system."
― Norman Cousins
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1967: On Dark Shadows, after a run-in with Carolyn Stoddard, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall) was convinced that Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) was planning to kill her.
1970: On Another World, Walter (Val Dufour) was thrilled when Lenore (Judith Barcroft) told him she was pregnant.
1977: On Guiding Light, a hateful Georgene Granger (Delphi Harrington) was in town swearing vengeance against Rita Stapleton (Lenore Kasdorf) for the death of her husband, Malcolm Granger.
Thanks to Scott for sending in the item above.
1981: On Guiding Light, Tony Reardon (Greg Beecroft) asked Katie Parker (Denise Pence) out on a date.
Thanks to Jennifer for sending in the clip above.
1981: On The Edge of Night, Raven Whitney (Sharon Gabet) fired Chrissy Summers (Debra Whitfield), and later offered Bobbie Gerard (Mady Kaplan) a job as a maid at the mansion.
1983: On Knots Landing, Lilimae (Julie Harris) was arrested after hitting Chip with her car. Val (Joan Van Ark) was upset about Lilimae so Gary (Ted Shackelford) comforted her and they ended up sleeping together. Val later learned she was pregnant from this post-divorce encounter (with twins Bobby and Betsy).
1986: Laurie Landry debuted as Nicole Love on Another World. In the episode, Michael Hudson (Kale Browne) was hassled by a reporter, Ms. McGee, who later turned out to be Donna's long-lost sister, Nicole.
1988: On General Hospital, Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker) survived through the night following her surgery. Victor Jerome was released from jail.
1992: On Guiding Light, Ross (Jerry verDorn) had a dream about the women in his life while awaiting election results.
1993: John Lupton, who played Tommy Horton in Days of our Lives and Everett Thornton in The Young and the Restless, died at age 65.
1999: Australian soap Breakers aired for the final time after a 430 episode run. The series revolved around The Breakers building situated near Bondi Beach, and the lives of the people who work and live there.
2005: Laura Wright last aired as Cassie Layne Winslow on Guiding Light.
Thanks to Enrique for sending in the item above.
2006: Singer and entertainer Donny Osmond guest-starred on All My Children.
2009: On General Hospital, after being kidnapped and held hostage by Claudia (Sarah Brown) in a cabin, Carly (Laura Wright) went into premature labor and gave birth to a baby girl, Josslyn.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Peggy McCay (Caroline, Days of our Lives; ex-Iris, General Hospital; ex-Susan, The Young Marrieds; ex-Vanessa, Love of Life) - 90
Lois Smith (ex-Ruth, Ruth & Erica; ex-Adele, True Blood; ex-Allison, Desperate Housewives) - 87
Ron Leath (ex-Henderson, Days of our Lives) - 80
JD Souther (ex-Watty, Nashville) - 71
Roseanne Barr (ex-Jennifer, General Hospital) - 65
Kate Capshaw (ex-Jinx, The Edge of Night) - 64
Kathy Kinney (ex-Bunny, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) - 63
Philippe Brenninkmeyer (ex-Carter, As the World Turns; ex-Martin, Guiding Light) - 53
Sean Ringgold (ex-Shaun, One Life to Live) - 40
Julie Marie Berman (ex-Lulu, General Hospital) - 34
Shayna Rose (ex-Stephanie, Days of our Lives) - 34
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you would like to submit a soap history entry for this date or a future date, email editor@welovesoaps.com.
Categories: Birthdays, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, History, Peggy Mccay, The Edge of Night
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Micky & The Motorcars - 'Long Time Comin'' Album Review
1. Road To You
2. Rodeo Girl
3. Alone Again Tonight
4. Lions Of Kandahar
5. All Looks The Same
6. Thank My Mother’s God
7. Break My Heart
8. Run Into You
9. Stranger Tonight
10. Hold This Town Together
11. Long Time Comin’
Micky & The Motorcars (MMC) return with their 7th studio album, their first since 2014’s ‘Hearts From Above’ which did not connect with me as much as their earlier material. ‘Long Time Comin’’ has found a sweet spot with me though that started with the very first listen. These 11 songs channel their red dirt legacy and add songs that I immediately want to hear in the live setting. I first heard MMC when they opened for Reckless Kelly in Arizona one year and was immediately hooked on their music. It is not just one thing that drew me to them, but the combination of the music with the awesome lyrics that take the songs to another level. This new album checks every box for me.
Kicking off with the catchy hook laden ‘Road To You’ where the lyrics paint the picture better than any movie or tv show ever could. From the first listen, I was wanting to sing the verses and the chorus at the top of my lungs. ‘I’m a little bit North of the heart of Texas but I’m carrying yours with me’ being one of the standout lines here. This red dirt rocker needs to take up residence in their setlist moving forward. The acoustic guitar on ‘Rodeo Girl’ makes it easy to imagine this as a song that will eventually be sung around campfires. The song picks up with the chorus again being another one designed for future singalongs. The subtle electric guitar nuances give the song even more texture. ‘Alone Again Tonight’ mines red dirt gold with the midtempo beat setting up an awesome narrative that Micky Braun sings the hell out of by pouring his heart into the song. The rhythm here is laid down perfectly by Bobby Paugh (drums/ percussion) and Joe Fladger (bass).
MMC take a serious turn with the epic ‘Lions Of Kandahar,’ which tells the story of someone going to war. The lyrics here paint a vivid picture and feel like it is a letter written from someone on the front lines wanting to let everyone know exactly what he experienced both in the field and when they return home. The intensity of the music builds with each passage as we truly feel for the person in this song and the trauma they are experiencing. After the emotional heaviness of ‘Lions Of Kandahar,’ the band slow things down with the excellent ballad ‘All Looks The Same.’ MMC have always featured amazing musicians with Micky Braun (vocals/ acoustic guitar), Gary Braun (vocals, guitar, mandolin, and harmonica) and Josh Owen (lead guitar and pedal steel) rounding out the band. This album simply reveals strength after strength with ‘Thank My Mother’s God’ increasing the tempo on an acoustic frame. There are threads in red dirt where artists such as Cody Canada, Wade Bowen, Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers Band, etc. pull from, but each artist has their own identifiable sound that belongs to only them.
The tempo remains quick with ‘Break My Heart’ kicking off the back half of the album. The acoustic guitar passages fit the song perfectly with the subtle chorus being as contagious as anything on the album. The band strip it down for the mellow ‘Run Into You.’ This is another brilliant lyrical take as the person talks about how badly he wants to fix an old relationship with the hopes of running into his old flame. Micky takes us on a vivid journey of where he is going with the harmonic placed perfectly in the mix. ‘Stranger Tonight’ carries with it a swaggering beat that I think I would enjoy more in the live setting. There are just certain songs that work that way for me with ‘Mood Ring’ by Wade Bowen also being in that category.
On the final stretch of the album, ‘Hold This Town Together’ is another stellar red dirt rock number with Micky again telling us a story and painting the picture of the town in the song. The chorus is huge and perhaps my favorite from the album. The guitar solo hits the spot perfectly. The bridge is an example in how to craft a picture through words. The title track ends the album on a high with the acoustic guitar giving the song a backyard feel. Micky’s words make this an excellent driving song, which really goes for the whole album.
MMC have made possibly the best album of their career when they needed it the most after a five year gap since ‘Hearts From Above.’ This album carries my highest recommendation with the combination of musical and lyrical excellence raising the bar for other red dirt artists to follow. As I prepare to figure out my favorite albums of the year, this one will definitely make the list.
‘Long Time Comin’’ is released November 1, 2019.
Website - www.mickyandthemotorcars.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/themotorcars/
Review - Gerald Stansbury
Micky & The Motorcars
Gerald Stansbury
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Thursfields warning about government’s far-reaching employment shake up
The Government’s shake up of working practices, particularly in the so-called “gig economy”, is not just about zero hours, sick pay and holiday entitlements, Thursfields Solicitors is warning.
The practical impact of the Taylor Review will be much more far reaching. James Monk, a senior associate in Thursfields’ employment team, said: “Last year an independent review, called the Taylor Review, was issued in relation to the gig economy and modern working practices. The Government has announced its response to the Taylor Review and claims that it will be acting on all but one of the 53 recommendations made by the Taylor Review as part of its plan to promote ‘Good Work’.”
The key proposals that are to be implemented by the Government can be broken down into three key areas;
Workers’ rights will be further protected by ensuring unpaid interns are not doing the job of a worker. A new “naming and shaming” scheme will identify employers who fail to pay employment tribunal awards.
Fines for employers who show malice, spite or gross oversight will be quadrupled to £20,000, and the Government is considering increasing penalties for employers who have previously lost similar cases.
The Government is also acting to ensure workers are paid fairly through a series of measures, including providing all agency workers with a clear breakdown of who pays them and any costs or charges deducted from their wages.
Also under consideration is a proposal to ask the Low Pay Commission to consider the impact of higher minimum wage rates for workers on zero hour contracts, and a repeal of laws allowing agencies to employ workers on cheaper rates.
The Government is also seeking to increase transparency in the business environment by defining “working time” for flexible workers who find jobs through apps or online, so they know when they should be being paid.
A task force is proposed to promote awareness and the take-up of the right to request flexible working introduced in 2014. There will also be a drive to ensure new and expectant mothers know their workplace rights, and to raise awareness among employers of their obligations.
And a new campaign will be launched to encourage more working parents to share childcare through Shared Parental Leave.
However, warned James, “the devil is in the detail. Until we see the detail of the changes in practice, it is difficult to judge the exact impact of these changes,” he said. “Already both sides of the debate are lining up in opposition with the Trade Unions saying the announcement is a ‘baby step’ and what was needed was a ‘giant leap’.”
In contrast however, Stephen Martin, the Director General of the Institute of Directors, has commented that “this could be the biggest shake-up of employment law in generations” and it is therefore right “that the Government proceeds cautiously.”
James added: “We will await further details to see just how this will impact organisations in practice, but businesses that are currently sitting down with their legal advisers to review issues such as their contracts and working practices, should do so in the light of these proposed changes.”
For further information, please contact: James Monk, Senior Associate on 0121 227 3850 or email: jmonk@thursfields.co.uk
Thursfields’ expert employment solicitors are available at any of our offices and surrounding areas – Worcester, Solihull, Kidderminster, Stourport, Halesowen, Sedgley and Birmingham
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PUBLISHED: December 15, 2014 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2018 at 12:00 am
Tony Ubalde and Burky Worel will take the oath of office Wednesday night at the Vallejo City Unified School District Board of Education annual organizational meeting.
Ubalde, an incumbent on the board, was reelected in November, while challenger Burky Worel also earned a seat. Worel is a former VCUSD Board of Education trustee, having served on the board from 1993 to 2001.
The board will also meet to decide on whether to call for a special election or make a provisional appointment, to fill the vacancy created by Richard Porter.
Porter, who teaches math and science at the Mare Island Health & Fitness Academy, confirmed that — despite winning election to the board on Nov. 4 — he would not accept the board seat, opting to stay as a teacher at the academy.
Due to state law, Porter can not serve on the board of education and teach in the district at the same time. Porter — who filed candidacy papers in August — suspended his campaign in early September to teach. Despite halting his campaign, more than 7,000 Vallejo voters decided to elect him, placing him second out of three available seats.
Also on the agenda, trustees will discuss future meeting times for the board. According to a staff report, since 2004 the board has held its meetings at 5 p.m. with closed session beginning at 4 p.m.
The board will also be asked to approve a settlement agreement for a 2013 motor vehicle accident.
According to a district staff report, “on October 30, 2013, while attempting to make a left turn, a district driver failed to yield the right of way, impacting the front end of the claimant’s vehicle.
“The vehicle was a total loss and the vehicle damage was settled,” district officials said. “The 23-year-old plaintiff suffered soft tissue injuries to his neck and back … The district driver failed to yield the right of way, causing the accident. Speed was not a factor.”
The settlement will cost $12,000 to cover attorney fees, services and assessment,” district officials said.
The meeting will begin at 5 p.m., Wednesday, inside the Governing Board Room, 665 Walnut Ave.
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Pastor of LGBT church sees progress in sign changes at Wichita Falls nightclub
Amid controversy about the wording of a previously posted sign, a Wichita Falls nightclub has changed the rules for its dance floor.
Pastor of LGBT church sees progress in sign changes at Wichita Falls nightclub Amid controversy about the wording of a previously posted sign, a Wichita Falls nightclub has changed the rules for its dance floor. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: https://wtrne.ws/2Iyo7oA
For the Times Record News Published 6:47 p.m. CT May 19, 2018
This sign posted at the Boulevard Nightclub in Wichita Falls sparked a social media outrage earlier this spring.(Photo: Trish Choate/For the Times Record News)Buy Photo
A group of friends headed to the Boulevard Nightclub this spring to sample the new venue with its expansive dance floor, drink specials, Top 40 music and – they discovered – a sign appearing to prohibit men from dancing together.
Wichitan Corey Rauscher, a gay man, felt distinctly unwelcome because of posted rules including “Guys must be dancing with a female unless line dancing” and “Guys may not dance by themselves.”
In solidarity, his group got up and left.
“In that type of environment, I wouldn’t necessarily, myself, feel very comfortable dancing with another man,” Rauscher, 26, said. “But to slap a sign up there to say that it’s not allowed, that’s a whole other story. I don’t even want to be there.”
He posted a photo of the sign hanging in the club’s entry on social media, triggering strong reactions.
Since then, a new sign has appeared that rephrases or leaves out most of what was unwelcoming to Rauscher and Pastor Melanie Martinez of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Community Church.
WFMCC is a place of worship for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community and others.
In any case, the owner-operators of Boulevard Nightclub, a project of the Amburn family, did not have to alter a single word on the original sign.
No federal or Texas law, or city of Wichita Falls ordinance, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in business-patron relationships.
Taking nothing for granted
Martinez said there should be such measures. She noted that the LGBT community can’t take basics for granted the way heterosexuals do – right down to childcare.
“Sometimes childcare places won’t take the child who has two moms or two dads,” she said. “When you’re in business, you can make decisions like that, who you will serve and why.”
While Martinez is out and outspoken, she understands why others in the LGBT community in Wichita Falls might be more reticent about their sexual orientation or gender identity.
“There are some jobs here in town that you still could lose if somebody finds out. People lose jobs. They lose housing,” she said.
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Rauscher is mindful of safety and of the impression he makes.
“I don’t know if it’s because I’m careful of how I act in certain situations, but no one’s really given me grief,” he said. “That’s good, but I’m wondering what would happen if I was 100 percent myself in every situation in this town. I don’t know.”
As for the new sign, Martinez had positive things to say about the Amburn family changing it.
“I think that is a huge testament to their integrity and their desire to be good business people in this community,” she said.
Private businesses and discrimination laws
What anti-discrimination laws can compel private business owners to do is in the spotlight because of the wedding cake case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission pits a state law prohibiting discrimination against a business owner’s refusal to create a custom cake for a gay couple.
To justify his refusal, owner Jack Phillips cites his religious beliefs about marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. At the crux of the case is whether compelling Phillips to make a custom cake for a gay couple would violate his right to free speech.
Fort Worth is among 12 Texas cities of more than 100,000 that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the Texas Tribune.
“Fort Worth is actually fairly progressive with respect to those kinds of issues,” Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison of Hutchison and Stoy said.
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That city’s public accommodations ordinance prohibits any place of business from denying access to goods and services because of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and transgender identity, according to the city’s website.
“Honestly, it doesn’t have a lot of teeth to it,” Hutchison said. “It doesn’t allow people a private cause of action to sue on. The only remedy the ordinance provides is a fine.”
Punishment for violations is a fine up to $2,000 that can be assessed daily.
Sign change is 'ultimately progress'
Used to acting with care, Rauscher is leery of returning to the Boulevard Nightclub in spite of the new sign posted later in April.
“I want to know what prompted it,” he said, “if it was really something that they wanted to change or if it’s just because of backlash?”
He said he wondered if the nightclub might enforce the now absent prohibition against men dancing together after all.
Rauscher said he's glad the sign has changed, but he would like a statement from the nightclub about the intent of the signs.
Mike Amburn and wife RaLane declined to comment although the Times Record News made several requests over a period of weeks.
Both versions have a section on dance floor etiquette alerting men in all capital letters that it is ladies’ choice. So men shouldn’t assume they can just walk out and begin dancing with women they don’t know.
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The old sign went on to list “Dance Floor Rules for Men,” such as no roaming the dance floor, dancing on all fours, solo or break dancing, blocking entrances or making lewd gestures while dancing.
When Martinez learned about the original sign in April, she went to the bar to see it for herself.
“When I started reading the sign from the top all the way down, I read for the first three-quarters of the sign that you’re trying to keep women safe,” Martinez said.
Rauscher and Martinez agreed that was good.
Then came statements reading as if gay men weren’t to patronize the club, Martinez said.
In addition, the sign excluded women from most rules, yet females have exhibited such unwanted behavior in clubs, she said.
Martinez said she chatted with a manager about her concerns. The manager told her the intent wasn’t to exclude gay men from the bar.
The sign posted at Boulevard Nightclub in Wichita Falls that sparked controversy was replaced with a slightly altered wording. (Photo: Trish Choate/For the Times Record News)
“But there was kind of this lack of understanding about the impact of what’s going on here,” Martinez said.
The manager explained the club has safety concerns and must be vigilant about males becoming aggressive on the dance floor, she said.
Most of the new sign is made up of general rules for everyone, regardless of gender, Martinez said.
The new posting has “DANCE FLOOR RULES FOR SAFETY REASONS.” Still, it includes a rule that “Men may not dance by themselves.”
“It’s not going to be perfect, but it’s a dang sight better than it was,” Martinez said. “I think it’s ultimately progress.”
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The heartbreaking story of a teenager whose spine is becoming misshapen due to a cancerous tumour
Doctors found a lump on Matt Coley's spine when he was just seven years old
Mark SmithHealth Correspondent
Updated 10:48, 19 MAY 2016
A teenager who has spent more than half of his life with a cancerous tumour on his spine has been praised for his “incredible bravery” ahead of a crucial set of scan results.
Matt Coley, an avid computer gamer from Radyr, Cardiff , will need an operation to straighten his back after the lump caused his spine to curve and made it difficult for him to walk.
The 14-year-old, who has been greatly helped by staff at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales , will receive a new set of scan results in June which will determine whether the tumour has grown to dangerous levels.
'He's been through absolute hell'
His mum Julie said: “Even though he’s been going through absolute hell he’s still been able to have a laugh.
“Matt’s been through so much and he’s incredibly brave. He lives in the moment and just takes life one day at a time.”
Matt Coley, from Radyr, has a tumour on his spine
Matt, a pupil at Radyr Comprehensive , was just seven years old when he began to experience sharp pains in his back and legs.
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But his parents knew something was more seriously wrong when his neck began to turn at a strange angle.
In March 2009, following a series of trips to hospital , doctors carried out an MRI scan which revealed he had an astro cytoma – a tumour on his spinal cord near the top of his neck.
He managed his pain with medication
“It was about two inches long, which isn’t particularly big, but when it’s in your spinal cord it doesn’t need to be that long to cause damage.”
The tumour caused temporary cysts to form on parts of his spine which pushed on certain nerves, making the pain unpredictable to manage.
“One week he’d be absolutely fine and the next he’d be screaming,” added Julie.
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“But we found out the tumour was low-grade, which means if it was anywhere else in the body it wouldn’t have been that bad.”
With new medication now effectively managing his pain, Matt had a year symptom free and at Christmas the family enjoyed a well-earned holiday to Lapland organised by children’s cancer charity LATCH.
'Our life revolved around hospital'
But in early 2010, Matt’s pain got worse and an MRI scan revealed that the tumour had grown “significantly”.
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He was admitted onto the Rainbow Ward at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales to begin 18 months of chemotherapy.
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Julie added: “Suddenly our life revolved completely around hospital stays and looking after a very poorly Matt while also trying to keep some kind of normality for his little brother Ben.
“The first few months of chemotherapy were particularly intense and Matt was very sick but we got through it and most importantly, it worked.”
At the end of the 18 months the tumour had shrunk to a manageable size and Matt was able to live a relatively normal life for more than four years.
But 12 months ago, Julie and Simon noticed that Matt’s spine was beginning to curve and was impacting on his mobility.
He underwent a further MRI which revealed his tumour had ballooned dramatically.
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“Matt was put on the same course of chemotherapy, but just before Christmas we were told that this time, the tumour was not responding to the treatment.
“He will have to switch to a different chemotherapy, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”
Julie heaped praise on staff at the children’s hospital who have become “like family” to her poorly son ever since he started treatment.
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Julie added: “As a family we know how fortunate we are to have a hospital specialising in paediatric medicine on our doorstep.
“When Matt first started treatment, we had to take him to the adult surgical unit which was a long way from the ward we were on.
“We all remember those trips to surgery as tense and nervous times.
“Now everything’s in one place and specifically geared for children, it makes such a difference.”
Hydrotherapy pool made a difference
Matt’s back pain tends to subside when he uses the hydrotherapy pool at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital.
It was funded by the Noah’s Ark Charity, the official charity of the hospital, as part of the £7m second phase on the hospital which opened 12 months ago.
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The donation also funded the equipment for critical care, ophthalmology and radiology units as well as its six integrated theatre suites.
The Noah's Ark Charity continues to need funding to provide such important facilities.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board say the natural buoyancy and warmth of the water relieves pressure on patients’ joints and reduces pain, while the natural resistance it provides helps improve muscle strength and balance.
It is also equipped with a sensory light and sound system which allows children to control their environment using floating switches.
It is now close to receiving its 100th patient and holding its 500th session.
'The pool has given him confidence'
“In the water Matt is just…happy,” added Julie.
“The room is beautifully lit and warm and he can play his own music which all relaxes him. But most of all I think he feels safe and unburdened.
“Out of the water, Matt can’t really do any kind of exercise and feels very self-conscious but all of that melts away when he’s in the pool.
Matt Coley, from Radyr, has a tumour on his spine. Here he is receiving physiotherapy in the hydrotherapy pool at the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital
“The physiotherapists who go in the pool with him make sure he gets a really tough work out but they’re lovely and fun and they treat him like an individual so he’s keen to do it and do it well.
“Matt’s going through an awful lot and quite understandably, he doesn’t relish the thought of going in to hospital.
“But the sessions in the pool are different. It loosens the tension in his muscles but it’s done more than that for him. It’s improved his self-esteem and his confidence.”
Improves strength and mobility
Senior physiotherapist Sharon Hortop said: “Children who face physical challenges because of their medical condition often find they’re able to do more in the water than they can on dry land.
“That’s great for us in terms of improving their strength and mobility but the effects are often more far reaching than that.
“Hydrotherapy can give children a sense of confidence in their own abilities that lasts much longer that their session in the water.
The Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales
“The children we see are often going through challenging times, undergoing treatments and procedures that can often be uncomfortable or painful.
“The hydrotherapy pool gives us the opportunity to support children in their recovery in a way that’s effective but also really fun.
“People often comment on how much laughter they hear coming from our area in the hospital and we’re very proud of that.”
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Search starts for new man as Euro 2016 architect Chris Coleman swaps Wales job for Sunderland
Having taken the job in January 2012, Coleman moves on after a successful and memorable tenure
Chris WathanChief Football Writer
Wales must to find a new man to lead their Euro 2016 heroes after Chris Coleman shocked Welsh football by accepting the offer to manage struggling Sunderland.
The FAW confirmed Coleman formally quit his post on Friday night – with Sunderland understood to have made their move with a double-your-money offer for the former defender.
Wales boss Chris Coleman
Coleman is due to be unveiled by the Championship club over the weekend and could be in charge in time for Tuesday’s clash with Aston Villa.
It is a huge blow for Wales whose players and fans had made it clear they wanted the 47-year-old to remain in charge as he entered contract discussions with the FA of Wales.
Coleman had sought assurances over deals for backroom staff and investment into infrastructure and had become increasingly frustrated when it appeared he was not being granted his wishes.
The FAW are understood to have offered Coleman a deal that would have been a record for the national post and hugely lucrative by the association’s standards.
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But they were always unable to compete with the finances and lure of club football and, having already been approached by the Stadium of Light club, Coleman made his decision and informed FAW hierarchy early Friday evening.
However, it has still come as a surprise he has opted for the side currently bottom of the Championship just days after admitting his preference would have been to carry on in the national job he has held since 2012.
Coleman, who led the country to the semi-finals of the European Championship, had cited a desire to return to club management and had turned down previous approaches from Premier League clubs including Swansea and Leicester.
Captain Ashley Williams celebrates with Coleman and staff during the historic Euros run
Wales must now brush aside the shock to find the man to lead them through the Nations League and Euro 2020 qualifiers and galvanise a squad who had gone on record their desire to keep Coleman.
Players were said to be privately upset at the news while there will be uncertainty about the future, with backroom members likely to join Coleman in the North East and assistant Kit Symons having already quit.
In the FAW’s statement, chief executive Jonathan Ford said: “We are extremely disappointed to see Chris’ tenure as Wales manager come to an end.
“The FAW and Wales as a nation will be eternally grateful for the job he has done over the last six years as National Team Manager, from travelling the length and breadth of Wales outside of the media spotlight to talk to players and supporters, to guiding us to the semi-finals of the European Championships.
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“We wish Chris the very best of luck for the future as he returns to club management, a desire for which he has always been honest and open about.”
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By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press |
Posted: Tue 2:40 AM, Oct 29, 2019 |
Updated: Tue 10:45 PM, Oct 29, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying White House orders, an Army officer serving with President Donald Trump's National Security Council testified to impeachment investigators Tuesday that he twice raised concerns over the administration's push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden.
Courtesy: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arobgast
Alexander Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat, is the first official to testify who actually heard Trump's July 25 call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He reported his concerns to the NSC's lead counsel.
Vindman also told investigators he tried to change the White House's rough transcript of the call by filling in at least one of the omitted words, "Burisma," a reference to the company linked to Biden and his son, according to people familiar with his testimony. But Vindman was unsuccessful.
His concerns, though, were far bigger than the transcript. And lawmakers said his failed effort to edit it didn't significantly change their understanding of what transpired during Trump's call that sparked the impeachment inquiry.
Vindman's arrival in military blue, with medals, created a striking image at the Capitol as the impeachment inquiry reached deeper into the White House. He testified for more than 10 hours.
"I was concerned by the call," Vindman said, according to prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government's support of Ukraine."
Vindman, a 20-year military officer, added to the mounting evidence from other witnesses — diplomats, defense and former administration officials — who are corroborating the initial whistleblower's complaint against Trump and providing new details ahead of a House vote in the impeachment inquiry.
"Every person has put it in higher resolution," said Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., during a break in the daylong session.
"That's the story: There's not like a new headline out of all of these," said Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J. "Every single witness, from their own vantage point, has corroborated the central facts of the story we've heard."
The inquiry is looking into Trump's call, in which he asked Zelenskiy for a "favor" — to investigate Democrats — that the Democrats say was a quid pro quo for military aid and could be an impeachable offense.
With the administration directing staff not to appear, Vindman was the first current White House official to testify before the impeachment panels. He was issued a subpoena to appear.
Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the probe as a "sham," adding: "Why are people that I never even heard of testifying about the call. Just READ THE CALL TRANSCRIPT AND THE IMPEACHMENT HOAX IS OVER!"
Vindman, who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old from the former Soviet Union, said that it was his "sacred duty" to defend the United States.
Some Trump allies, looking for ways to discredit Vindman, questioned the colonel's loyalties because he was born in the region. But the line of attack was rejected by some Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who said it was "shameful" to criticize his patriotism.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called the slams on Vindman "absurd, disgusting and way off the mark. This is a decorated American soldier, and he should be given the respect that his service to our country demands."
The testimony came the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would vote on a resolution to set rules for public hearings and a possible vote on articles of impeachment.
Thursday's vote would be the first on the impeachment inquiry and aims to nullify complaints from Trump and his allies that the process is illegitimate and unfair.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the resolution merely "confirms that House Democrats' impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he and other GOP lawmakers will review the resolution to see if it passes a "smell test" of fairness to Trump.
The session Tuesday grew contentious at times as House Republicans continued trying to unmask the still-anonymous whistleblower and call him or her to testify. Vindman said he is not the whistleblower and does not know who it is.
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio acknowledged Republicans were trying to get Vindman to provide the names of others he spoke to after the July 25 phone call, in an effort to decide whom to call to testify. "He wouldn't," Jordan said.
In his prepared remarks, Vindman testified that in spring of this year he became aware of "outside influencers" promoting a "false narrative of Ukraine" that undermined U.S. efforts, a reference in particular to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
He first reported his concerns after a July 10 meeting in which U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland stressed the importance of having Ukraine investigate the 2016 election as well as Burisma, a company linked to the family of Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Vindman says he told Sondland that "his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push."
That differs from the account of Sondland, a wealthy businessman who donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration and testified before the impeachment investigators that no one from the NSC "ever expressed any concerns." Sondland also testified that he did not realize any connection between Biden and Burisma.
For the call between Trump and Zelenskiy, Vindman said he listened in the Situation Room with colleagues from the NSC and Vice President Mike Pence's office. He said he again reported his concerns to the NSC's lead counsel.
He wrote, "I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. This would all undermine U.S. national security."
Vindman served as the director for European affairs and a Ukraine expert under Fiona Hill, a former official who testified earlier in the impeachment probe. Hill worked for former national security adviser John Bolton.
He told investigators that Ukraine, in trying to become a vibrant democracy integrated with the West, is a bulwark against overt Russian aggression.
Vindman attended Zelenskiy's inauguration with a delegation led by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and he and Hill were both part of a Ukraine briefing with Sondland that others have testified irritated Bolton at the White House.
"I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend OUR country, irrespective of party or politics," wrote Vindman, who was wounded in Iraq and awarded a Purple Heart.
"For over twenty years as an active duty United States military officer and diplomat, I have served this country in a nonpartisan manner, and have done so with the utmost respect and professionalism for both Republican and Democratic administrations," he wrote.
Associated Press writers Zeke Miller, Padmananda Rama, Matthew Daly, Laurie Kellman, Eric Tucker and Alan Fram contributed to this report.
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IP issues arise in citizen science in a variety of different ways. Indeed, the more broadly the concept of citizen science is cast, the more diverse the potential IP interests. Some community-based projects, for example, may well involve the sharing of traditional knowledge, whereas open innovation projects are ones that are most likely to raise patent issues and to do so in a context where commercialization is a project goal. Trademark issues may also arise, particularly where a project gains a certain degree of renown. In this study we touch on issues of patenting and commercialization; however, we also recognize that most citizen science projects do not have commercialization as an objective, and have IP issues that flow predominantly from copyright law.
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Birck and Hampson are 2016 Distinguished Citizen Award winners
Jeannette Ross
Published 5:36 pm EDT, Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Karen Birck and Bruce Hampson will be the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Citizen Awards, the Wilton Family YMCA announced on Tuesday, April 12. The awards are presented annually at the Wilton Community Celebration being held this year on Sunday, May 22, at Millstone Farm.
More than 81 outstanding volunteers — individuals, businesses and organizations — have been honored for making a positive difference that benefits Wilton since the Community Celebration began in 1986.
Bob McDowell, CEO of the Riverbrook Regional YMCA said of this year’s choice was not easy, with several worthy nominations submitted.
“Both Karen and Bruce have made significant contributions to improving the quality of life in Wilton and are eminently deserving of this honor,” he said.
Described as “the very best of volunteers” in one letter supporting their nomination, Birck and Hampson have contributed much to the town, sometimes working on projects together. Their first joint effort was co-chairing the $20 million renovation of the Wilton High School science classrooms and Little Theater which were completed during the 10-week summer vacation of 2010. In addition to meeting a strict construction schedule, the project came in under budget. Not only was the strict timeline met, it was also finished under budget.
Both also served, until recently, as co-chairs of the Miller-Driscoll Building Committee.
According to a press release from the YMCA, “it would be accurate to say both of these dedicated volunteers have led or participated in every bonded school and municipal capital project in Wilton since 2007.”
“Karen and Bruce are the kinds of people who are wonderful role models for young folks who want to become volunteers in our special town,” another letter said. “In difficult times it is the strong, courageous and forward-looking people who are willing to lead. Karen and Bruce are those kinds of caring, dedicated people who accept the toughest challenges which will ensure the brightest future for our community.”
A retired engineer, Hampson has been dedicated to energy efficiency and in 2010, he was chosen as a recipient of the Connecticut Climate Change Leadership Award presented by then Gov. Jodi Rell for his energy efficiency work on the high school renovation and with the Wilton Energy Commission, which he chaired and co-founded. Other volunteer involvement includes serving as vice chair of Wilton’s Council for Public Facilities, and director for Wilton Go Green. He has also been very active in Trout Unlimited that works to benefit the Norwalk River and other water resources in this area.
Examples of Birck’s volunteer work extend across civic and private community organizations. She has served on the Board of Education, acting as chair from 2006 to 2009, Wilton Energy Commission, and also as a founding member of Wilton Go Green. She also was treasurer and past-president of the Encore Club, and is an active member of the Wilton League of Women Voters.
Karen and Bruce are exceptional people on every front imaginable. Both are model citizens who are genuine, self-effacing people who do all that they do for the joy of helping Wilton. Karen and Bruce are most deserving of the Distinguished Citizen Awards in 2016.
Fairfield County Bank is sponsor of the Community Celebration. For information, including ticket purchases, call the Y’s development office at 203-762-8384, ext. 273.
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It's Not a Lack of Technology That's Keeping Trains From Going Driverless
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Airplanes have long been capable of flying on their own, Google's self-driving car has racked up more than 300,000 miles on public roads and trains... well, trains still rely upon a guy in the cab to keep them going.
It turns out we have all the tech needed to make autonomous trains, and we've seen robotrains running in limited capacity since the late 1960s. The problem isn't technology. It's line of sight, and the massive distances trains need to identify and react to obstacles and bring a few hundred tons of steel and cargo to a stop safely.
"The stopping distance of a train is much longer than a car," says Dr. David Clarke, director of the University of Tennessee Center for Transportation Research Center. "It could be close to a mile."
Unlike a car, where friction between the tires and road is much higher, metal wheels on metal track makes stopping a whole lot harder. The radar-based adaptive cruise-control systems fitted to most luxury cars these days could conceivably be adapted to trains, but the massive time and distance needed to slow the train means there's no effective way such a system could see far enough ahead to react in time. And there are just too many things that can obstruct the track.
"You don't have rights-of-way that are completely sealed," Dr. Clarke says. "There are no grade crossings, there's no pedestrian access. It's hard to detect a car stuck on the rails or a pedestrian on the tracks. You really need a human operator to deal with those systems."
Safety aside, the humans keeping those trains running are none to eager to give up their gigs.
"Organized labor doesn't like the idea of losing the jobs of its members to driverless trains," says Clark. "There has been push back with the allegation of safety issues. Politically, that makes it hard to implement."
There have been a few autonomous train systems deployed in recent years, including one in Ohio that carried coal from a mine to a powerplant. But that was in a relatively secluded area with a minimum of hazards.
Autonomous underground people movers or monorails have been around for a little more than four decades. London's Underground uses a system called Automatic Train Operation, which runs from station to station with a human operator to handle avoiding obstacles, closing doors and dealing with emergencies. Unattended Train Operation systems are common at airports and amusement parks, but they're limited to closed systems with little risk of people or obstructions on the rails.
"If you raised it off the ground, you could easily have an autonomous system," Clarks says. "You just have to insulate the railroad." That's why most high-speed rail systems – including California's proposed system — are required to be isolated from road crossings and built in less populated areas.
But the biggest hurdle to autonomous rail is the idea that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
"There hasn't been a particular interest in these systems," says Dr. Clark. "And that means it's going to be hard to get a driverless system in the cab."
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Pre-Match Chat
Marine AFC vs Witton Albion (PSF).
TOPIC: Marine AFC vs Witton Albion (PSF).
Marine AFC vs Witton Albion (PSF). 5 months 1 week ago #1
Witton complete their pre season programme on Friday night, when they travel to the familiar surroundings of Crosby to take on Marine AFC. The game being brought forward due to Marine's tenants AFC Liverpool being drawn at home in the Emirates FA Challenge Cup on Saturday afternoon. The Merseyside club have endured a difficult pre season so far, having won only once against a very young Tranmere Rovers side and won comprehensively by six goals to nil. Their last outing saw them lose narrowly to Stalybridge Celtic. Following their relegation from the Premier Division at the end of last season, the club have had to rebuild following the departure of a lot of their squad, including defender James Short & forward James Murray, who have arrived at Wincham Park to swell an already-sizeable contingent of former Mariners, along with manager Carl Macauley. Marine have always proved tough opponents in fact, under the guidance of Roly Howard in the 70's & 80's, they often got the better of Witton particularly in their days together in the Cheshire League. In recent years, that has changed and Witton have had the upper hand but meetings have always had interest and entertainment. Albeit a friendly, this encounter will be no different. Kick off at The Marine Travel Arena is 7.45pm.
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Directions: Follow the A556 for 5.0 miles. At Tabley Interchange, take the 1st exit onto the M6 slip road and continue for 0.3 miles. Merge onto the M6 and follow for 9.9 miles. At Junction 21A, exit onto M62 towards Liverpool/Warrington (N)/Southport/M57 and follow for 11.1 miles. At Junction 6, exit onto M57 towards Docks/Prescot/Southport and follow for 10.2 miles. Keep right at the fork to continue on Broom's Cross Road/A5758, follow signs for M58 and continue for 2.3 miles. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Southport Road/A565 and follow for 1.2 miles. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto The By-Pass/A565 and continue for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Coronation Road/B5193 and contine forward for 203 ft.
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Coronation Road and follow for 0.4 miles. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto College Road. Destination is on the right after 0.1 miles. (Total Distance - 41.6 miles).
Parking: Parking in the Club Car Park is reserved for Match Officials & Players only. There is plenty of parking available in the nearby streets. Please note: College Road has restricted parking for a maximum of two hours - this is patrolled by traffic wardens. For bigger games, the Club will announce details of additional parking facilities. Visit the homepage for details.
Admission Prices: Adults £5, Concessions £3. Turnstiles are open from 6.45pm.
Matchday Programme: Information unavailable.
Social Club: The Social Club is on the Car Park and is open from 6pm.
Refreshments: Following recent renovation work carried out at the stadium, the Tea Bar is now located at the opposite end of the stand from previous. The Social Club facilities remain unaltered.
Additional Information: Please note: As Liverpool are playing at home with an 8pm kick off - please be aware that the roads are likely to be busy.
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Students charged with shouting racial slurs sue UConn
by: DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two University of Connecticut students arrested for shouting a racial slur outside a campus apartment complex sued the school Tuesday, citing free speech rights as they fight officials’ attempts to remove them from school housing.
Jarred Karal, of Plainville, and Ryan Mucaj, of Granby, both 21, filed the lawsuit in federal court, seeing undisclosed damages and a halt to disciplinary proceedings against them.
The two students say the school is violating their First Amendment rights by bringing disciplinary hearings that have included a recommendation to remove them from student housing for violating a “disruptive behavior” policy. The proceedings remain pending.
They also allege school officials are violating the terms of a 1990 federal consent decree issued in another UConn student free speech case that bars the school from enforcing policies that interfere with First Amendment rights, when the speech doesn’t involve violence or the threat of violence.
UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said the school does not comment on pending litigation.
The students’ lawyer, Mario Cerame, also declined to comment.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that defends the rights of college students and faculty, agrees with the lawsuit, saying public institutions cannot punish protected speech.
“As the Supreme Court explained long ago, ‘the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us’ — by penalizing the use of particular words directed at nobody in particular,” the group said in a statement.
Police said Karal and Mucaj said the racial slur several times while walking with a third student through the parking lot of UConn’s Charter Oak Apartments complex on Oct. 11. Karal and Mucaj are white. The third student was not charged.
It was recorded on video by a black student and led to campus protests against racism. Free speech advocates said that while the slur is offensive, uttering it is not criminal.
Karal told police the group was playing a game in which they would yell an offensive word, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. The first person who refuses to say the word loses, he said. They decided to change the game to shouting the racial epithet, he said.
Karal and Mucaj were charged with ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race, a misdemeanor. Karal was granted a probation program that could result in the charge being dismissed. The case against Mucaj is pending.
by TOM HAYS and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press / Jan 17, 2020
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Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the case against the 67-year-old executive who has come to be seen as the archvillain of the #MeToo era.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by 21 young people who claimed the U.S. government's climate policies and reliance on fossil fuels harms them, jeopardizes their future and violates their constitutional rights, potentially bringing an end to a long-running legal battle that activists saw as an important front in the war against environmental degradation.
The Oregon-based youth advocacy group Our Children's Trust filed the lawsuit in 2015 in Eugene on behalf of the youngsters. It sought an injunction ordering the government to implement a plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions and draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide emission. The case had bounced around the federal courts for five years and multiple trial dates were canceled.
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A federal jury in Jacksonville convicted Navy Capt. John R. Nettleton on charges of obstruction of justice, concealing material facts, falsifying records and making false statements.
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Kyle Ryan Williford, formerly incarcerated, explains how the FDC's issues are viewed from within the prisons.(Frances Pawlak/WUFT News)
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Families Oppose Florida Department Of Corrections Proposal To Change Visitation Schedule
By Frances Pawlak
April 5, 2018 Law and public safety, State of Florida
Families and prisoner rights advocates drove hours through heavy fog early Tuesday morning to represent their incarcerated loved ones and voice concerns at a public hearing held by the Florida Department of Corrections. Over one hundred people filled the courtroom of the Capital Circle Office Center in Tallahassee to take turns in front of the podium and beseech FDC officials not to put further restrictions on the visitation schedule.
The FDC announced the hearing March 27, giving members of the public a week to prepare their responses to proposed changes to Rule 33-601.722, guidelines delimiting visitation schedules for Florida prisons. The new rule will permit inmates a minimum of two days per month, two visitation hours each day, which families say is a cutback on the previous allowance of weekly visitation on Saturdays and Sundays.
From a dais at the far end of the courtroom, separated from the audience behind several desks, FDC staff addressed the crowd.
“Over the past year, the department has been faced with staff shortages and an increase in contraband,” said Richard Comerford, an FDC assistant secretary. “The number of recovered weapons, cell phones, and illicit drugs continue to rise across the state within our facilities.”
“In many of these incidents, contraband have been linked to visitation,” Comerford continued. “The proposed changes to this rule will provide the department with the ability to evaluate these areas and adjust visitation schedules in a manner to provide a safe and secure visitation experience for all.”
An agency spokeswoman proceeded to call the names of people who had submitted Public Hearing Appearance Request/Record form prior to the meeting. Due to a large number of submissions — over 150 — each speaker was allotted no more than two and a half minutes each to say their piece.
During the next three hours, dozens of speakers vehemently appealed to both FDC officials and the audience, expressing heartfelt testimonies, statistics, and reasons for their overall mistrust of the agency.
“In my history with the FDC, 23 years’ worth, it does not do anything except the minimum,” said Jewy Tryon, the first member of the public to speak at the podium.
“I have with me today a petition where over 9,000 people have signed, requesting that you do not cut our visitation,” said Jewy Tryon, whose husband is serving a life sentence. “Families would like to let you know that in addition to visitation every weekend, we would be happy to use video visitation, but otherwise, if you’re going to try to cut our contact visits, we’re going to boycott the video visitation.”
In February, the FDC began implementing interactive multimedia kiosks through a contract with JPay Inc. The kiosks feature authorized entertainment and educational videos for inmates as well as monitored video communication at $2.95 per 15-minute session, according to the FDC website.
However, due to the coincidence of visitation cancellations during the same time frame, many of the speakers worried that the videos will replace, rather than compliment, current visitation hours, and that contraband is just an excuse to enforce the cutbacks.
“Your officers are bringing in the contraband because they are overworked,” witnessed Williford. “Your officers are bringing in the heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine. I have bought contraband from officers with cash money. It is not these people who have loved ones. You’re not punishing the inmates; you are punishing these people who are taxpayers, and they’re not criminals,” said Kyle Ryan Williford, a former inmate at Hardee Correctional Institute who was released on March 26.
Beth Gammie, an attorney representing a man whose wife is serving a life sentence, cited data from the Florida Justice Institute that reaffirmed the increase in contraband but concluded that visitors were responsible for only 2.5 percent of banned items introduced to prisons.
Comerford replied, “We are not here to discuss the statistics.”
“You’ve felt free to make comments back when people have spoken. I’ll take that as you don’t dispute it,” responded Gammie. “These people have no control over it, and the inmates have no control over it. I would ask that you do not solve issues of contraband and staffing on the backs of inmates and their families.”
Although the meeting was originally scheduled for 8:30 to 10 a.m., FDC officials continued to allow members of the public to share their stories, pleading on behalf of their families and make complaints against the agency for an additional hour and a half.
Renee Graves brought her son the podium as she spoke on behalf of her husband, whose prison sentence has hindered him from bonding with his child.
“Visitation hours are the only opportunity he has to eat meals together, play soccer with and have a difference in his son’s life,” Graves said. “Instead of sports club fees, we are paying for travel expenses so that my son can have a relationship with his father.”
Barbara Graves, Renee’s mother-in-law, immediately followed that the FDC’s proposed changes would make it impossible for her to visit her own son on account of her disability.
Per provisions of Administrative Procedures Act, Chapter 120, Florida Statutes, the FDC will consider the comments made at the public hearing and may choose to revise the proposed rule, whereby another hearing will be scheduled to review it. Otherwise, if no changes are made, the new visitation policy will be implemented within a month.
“I have not committed a crime, yet I’ve lost a child to incarceration, which is a 10-year prison sentence for me,” said Kim Lawrence, whose 18-year-old daughter has already served two years. “I cherish every weekend, every holiday that I am allowed to visit her.”
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Has anyone heard if the FDOC has made a decision on the new visitation schedule?
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David Ausserhofer
werner.krause [at] wzb.eu
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Research Fellow of the Research Unit
Democracy, Political Competition, Populism, Radical Parties
Werner Krause has been a research fellow at the research unit "Democracy and Democratization" and the research project "Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR)". He studied Social Sciences and History at the Humboldt University Berlin as well as in Mexico City (UNAM and CIDE) and New York (The New School for Social Research). Moreover, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Essex in 2018. His main research interests include political competition, radical and populist parties, comparative political behavior and quantitative methods.
Krause, Werner (2019) Appearing Moderate or Radical? Radical Left Party Success and the Two-Dimensional Political Space. West European Politics, Online First: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1672019
Replication Files: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/XZEI7M
Krause, Werner; Wagner, Aiko (2019): Becoming Part of the Gang? Established and Nonestablished Populist Parties and the Role of External Efficacy. Party Politics, Online First: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819839210
Replication Files and Online Appendix: https://github.com/krausewe/bpg
Krause, Werner; Giebler, Heiko (2019): Shifting Welfare Policy Positions: The Impact of Radical Right Populist Party Success Beyond Migration Politics. Representation, Online First: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1661871
Replication Files: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KUNWOP
Abou-Chadi, Tarik; Krause, Werner (2018): The Causal Effect of Radical Right Success on Mainstream Parties’ Policy Positions: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. British Journal of Political Science, Online First. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123418000029
Replication Files: https://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KYSD5S
Krause, Werner; Merkel, Wolfgang (2018): Crisis of Democracy? Views of Experts and Citizens. In: Wolfgang Merkel/Sascha Kneip (Eds.): Crisis and Democracy: Challenges in Turbulent Times, pp. 31-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72559-8_2
Krause, Jana; Krause, Werner; Bränfors, Piia (2018): Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace. International Interactions, Online First. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2018.1492386
Replication Files: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LNMEXL
Krause, Werner; Spittler, Marcus; Wagner, Aiko (2017): Attraktion und Repulsion: AnhängerInnen rechts- und linkspopulistischer Parteien im europäischen Vergleich. Leviathan - Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, S. 106-137
Krause, Werner; Tanneberg, Dag (2017): Maintaining a Reproducible Database on Political Parties, Elections, and Governments. In: Justin Kitzes/Daniel Turek/Fatma Deniz (Eds.): The Practice of Reproducible Research, S. 301-308. Link: https://www.practicereproducibleresearch.org
MARPOR – Manifesto Research Project on Political Representation
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Bernhard Weßels, Andrea Volkens, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wolfgang Merkel, Werner Krause, Pola Lehmann, Thereß Matthieß, Sven Regel
In cooperation with: Judith Bara (Queen Mary University of London), Robin Best (Binghamton University), Ian Budge (Universität Essex), Simon Franzmann (Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf), Michael McDonald (Binghamton University), Thomas Meyer (Universität Wien), Annika Werner (Griffith University, Brisbane)
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Rob's Mtn Gin crafts a spirit to benefit Boulder's Growing Gardens
Laura Shunk | August 2, 2011 | 3:00pm
"Gardening is very important to me and my family," explains Rob Masters, the creator of Rob's Mtn Gin. "I found out about Growing Gardens, which teaches teenagers about the benefits of growing produce and eating green. It sells produce at local farmers' markets to fund the garden, and gives what it doesn't sell to local homeless shelters." Inspired by the organization's commitment to educate the community about an issue close to his heart, Masters decided to do something to help.
The distiller is making a special batch of gin culled from herbs and produce grown by Growing Gardens -- supplemented, when necessary, with products sourced in Boulder County. "The juniper berries come from Ollin Farms and the water comes from Indian Peaks," he notes. "So everything but the alcohol is sourced from Boulder."
And because he's adamant about working with what the organization has on hand, the final product will be a very different gin. "It's what I'd consider very green," he explains. "This isn't the best time to pick juniper berries, so those are in the dehydrator right now, but they'll have a green flavor to them." He also cites atypical botanicals that he'll be using, including basil and rosemary. And since citrus fruits aren't exactly readily available from Boulder growers, he's using lemon balm instead of lemons to give the spirit the citrusy taste associated with it. After distillation, he'll infuse the product with cucumber from the garden to give it mellow freshness.
Masters is making somewhere between 300 and 400 bottles of his unique concoction, and all the proceeds from its sale will go straight back to Growing Gardens. The product will launch this Saturday at the Growing Gardens ¡Cultiva! Harvest Dinner; after that, you'll be able to buy bottles of it at the Boulder Distillery (303 Vodka) tasting room. Masters says several restaurants in both Boulder and Denver have also expressed interest in carrying the gin, and Cured, the artisanal market slated to open on Boulder's Pearl Street, in a few weeks, will also stock it.
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From elation to deflation in seconds as Wexford held to draw by Dubs
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Round-Robin: Wexford 2-19 Dublin 1-22
Wexford joint captain Lee Chin taking on Dublin defender Eoghan O’Donnell
Alan Aherne in Parnell Park, Donnycarney
May 25 2019 0:00 AM
Seconds away from elation, but ending instead with deflation - those were the quickly-changing emotions of Wexford supporters in the tight confines of Parnell Park, Donnycarney, on Sunday when the county Senior hurlers had an away victory snatched from under their noses in their Leinster championship round-robin opener with a last-gasp goal.
https://www.wexfordpeople.ie/sport/gaa/from-elation-to-deflation-in-seconds-as-wexford-held-to-draw-by-dubs-38130879.html
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There was a distinct feeling of a valuable point lost rather than one gained in the immediate aftermath of this gripping contest, as Seán Moran's free somehow beat seven men on the line and rescued a draw for Dublin with the last puck of the game.
Nonetheless, everyone of a Wexford persuasion would have happily settled for a share of the spoils with 15 minutes left when the side trailed by 0-20 to 0-15, only to take over in the driving seat after two cracking goals by Liam Óg McGovern and Rory O'Connor.
Given that all of the pre-match opinions pointed towards a tight contest, in hindsight one shouldn't be surprised that the clash ended in stalemate.
And it will be fascinating to see how the point for both will impact on the table after the last round on June 15 when both teams are still likely to be vying for a place in the All-Ireland series.
While the opening half was something of a slow-burner as both teams figured out the playing formations of the opposition, it rose to an exciting higher gear on the re-start and was all-out championship fare by the time the finishing line was in sight.
Davy Fitzgerald opted for the O'Connor brothers, Jack and Rory, as his two inside attackers on this occasion, but neither got any joy from their direct markers, Eoghan O'Donnell and Paddy Smyth, during a first-half when Wexford didn't build on a very bright start.
They were full value for a 0-4 to 0-1 lead after nine minutes, with Liam Óg McGovern opening the scoring from distance from a short pass by clubmate Diarmuid O'Keeffe after an earlier Paul Ryan wide for Dublin.
The latter missed a free before Lee Chin bagged his first, with misses following from Rory O'Connor and an over-hit Tom Connolly pass prior to the third Wexford point.
Dublin struggled to pick up their men for the early opposition puck-outs and Shaun Murphy, who started at centre-back with Matthew O'Hanlon to his left, darted into a pocket of space and was picked out by Mark Fanning for a well-worked score in the fifth minute.
It was a case of so far, so good, for the visitors who, of course, didn't have the advantage of a game eight days earlier when the Dubs had let a lead slip away to Kilkenny.
Danny Sutcliffe and Lee Chin swapped wides prior to veteran Conal Keaney opening the hosts' account after Liam Ryan batted a long delivery by netminder Alan Nolan into his path.
However, a carbon copy of his first point saw Shaun Murphy move into unoccupied ground and land his second score from the re-start, prompting the Dubs to push up on their rivals' puck-outs thereafter and indulge in the dark arts on occasion without punishment.
Belfast man Mickey McCullough was a constant but unobtrusive presence on the field as their maor fóirne in the absence of the suspended Greg Kennedy after his pathetic Nowlan Park antics, but referee Fergal Horgan didn't get any help from linesmen Johnny Ryan and Colum Cunning in keeping an eye on the off-the-ball wrestling.
Dublin, who were against the slight breeze blowing towards the Killester end, gradually worked their way into the game and actually out-scored Wexford by 0-7 to 0-1 between the tenth and 19th minutes to surge into an 0-8 to 0-5 lead.
That was a worrying spell for the visitors when nothing would stick up front while strong running from deep by the likes of Cian Boland and Tom Connolly saw the lead change hands.
Boland and Paul Ryan (free) pulled two points back, with Diarmuid O'Keeffe striking a wide in between, before that sole Wexford response when a push on Jack O'Connor was punished by Lee Chin (0-5 to 0-3).
The next five points were all registered by the Dubs, courtesy of Seán Moran (free), Connolly, Ryan ('65 and play), plus Eamon 'Trollier' Dillon, before a missed long-range free from Chin was followed by a settling score.
Mark Fanning's long free located Chin on the left, and his handpass set up Conor McDonald for a superb strike between the posts (0-8 to 0-6).
The Gorey man then doubled his tally from a line ball on the other side of the field, and a brace of '65s from Chin had restored the Wexford lead by the 30th minute.
Dillon and Rory O'Connor had also added wides at either end, and Keaney restored parity after his initial attempt on goal from distance was batted away by Mark Fanning.
It remained tit-for-tat for the remainder of the half, with Liam Óg McGovern driving across goal and wide after latching on to a Fanning puck-out that went over the head of McDonald, before Chin punished a foul on O'Keeffe.
Danny Sutcliffe's wide from the re-start was followed by a solo point from Cian Boland after a McDonald bat back into the path of Aidan Nolan didn't work out as intended.
Fanning (free) and Sutcliffe struck wides before Nolan was hooked in a threatening position after impressive work in the build-up from Shaun Murphy and Simon Donohoe.
Chin made it 0-11 to 0-10 after another foul on Jack O'Connor, with the latter then striking his team's eighth wide (Dublin had the same tally by half-time) before a needless push on Paul Ryan in the right corner was punished by the Ballyboden free-taker.
Given they had faced the slight breeze, the home side ought to have been more pleased with their lot at the break, with seven of their eleven points having arrived from play.
This was in contrast to Wexford's four, with just one coming after a trio in the first ten minutes from McGovern and Murphy (two).
Otherwise, Conor McDonald's 23rd-minute effort was the sole addition with the exception of Chin's sextet from placed balls, with the attack not functioning as planned.
Jack O'Connor partnered Diarmuid O'Keeffe at midfield for the throw-in on the re-start before moving back inside, and a push on the St. Anne's man enabled Chin to restore the lead after 46 seconds.
Sutcliffe caught the puck-out over Shaun Murphy and Paul Ryan did the rest after he was fouled, but the Wexford response was memorable as McDonald converted a glorious line ball from a very tight angle on the right for one of the best scores of the year to date.
Chris Crummey made it 0-13 each from long range, and the pre-match expectations of a very tight finish were very much on course.
It was nip and tuck, with an Eamon Dillon wide followed by an effort for a point rebounding off the post from Fergal Whitely, whose mother is a native of Rathnure.
Aidan Nolan caught the clearance that followed and restored Wexford's lead, only for Cian Boland to hit back with his third.
A trio of successful Ryan frees, the first two justified but the last one a borderline call against Kevin Foley, saw a significant gap open up moving towards the end of the third quarter.
And when a Fanning puck-out only went as far as Dillon, he picked out Ryan to make it 0-18 to 0-14 in favour of Dublin in the 47th minute.
A foul on Jack O'Connor led to Lee Chin settling his side with a point, and a Seán Moran wide followed before the first hint of the goal-getting threat posed by Wexford.
Initially, Liam Óg McGovern looped a handpass from the left of the posts into the path of Jack O'Connor who was bottled up. McGovern then had an attempt blocked before Rory O'Connor crashed a shot into the side-netting, but Dublin were unable to fully capitalise on this let-off as the game moved into the last quarter.
While they did hit the next two points to move five clear, courtesy of Seán Moran and Tom Connolly, they were preceded by a couple of sloppy wides from the latter and Cian Boland.
In addition, Liam Rushe won a long delivery from Connolly and handpassed to Paul Ryan whose pull was saved, and fortunately he was off balance and didn't get a decent connection on the rebound.
Still, the game was in danger of slipping away from Wexford, but the first goal they needed so badly arrived at the perfect moment as we moved into the final 15 minutes.
Shaun Murphy and Jack O'Connor combined before the latter handpassed to his right to Liam Óg McGovern, and the St. Anne's man had the composure to weave back onto his left before burying the ball past Alan Nolan (0-20 to 1-15).
Now it was very much 'game on' again, with Nolan darting off his line to deny Jack O'Connor the lead goal after he was played in by a combination of Chin and Rory O'Connor.
That play was called back for a free that the Harriers man tapped over, and the excellent Shaun Murphy followed with the leveller, and his third of the afternoon, from a McGovern assist (1-17 to 0-20).
Simon Donohoe won the puck-out, raced forward, played a one-two with Jack O'Connor, and was hauled down, with Chin putting his side ahead from the free as Wexford's five and a half-minute purple patch yielded 1-3 on the bounce.
Fanning had to be alert to flick the sliothar out of the danger zone after a Paul Ryan line ball posed some problems, but it broke to Fergal Whitely who batted over for the leveller (0-21 to 1-18).
And with just over six minutes to go, an otherwise subdued player showed why it's worth persisting with somebody who has the capacity to alter the course of a game in an instant.
It wasn't anywhere close to Rory O'Connor's best game for the county by any stretch of the imagination, but he kept going and got on the end of a move featuring substitute Cathal Dunbar and McGovern to billow the net for a 2-18 to 0-21 lead.
It was a sloppy concession by Dublin, as Dunbar forced a turnover after Chris Crummey allowed a short crossfield pass to slip under his legs, and it looked like being the decisive moment even though a debatable charging call against replacement David Dunne resulted in another converted Ryan free.
Five extra minutes were announced, and 80 seconds of that time had been played when Lee Chin sold a trademark dummy off his hurl on the left and arrowed over a beauty, his sole effort from play, to make it 2-19 to 0-22.
Caolán Conway struck a Dublin wide, and Wexford then won three line balls in succession on the stand side that helped to wind the clock down.
However, the last one was awarded right in front of their own dug-out, and the instruction to Dunbar obviously must have been to make sure the ball went dead.
The call was understandable in one respect, given that he's quite capable of scoring from that range, but in hindsight it might have been the better option to tap it down into the right corner and kill the remaining time by trying to force a ruck to develop.
Instead, Dunbar's effort went right and wide, giving Alan Nolan one last chance to launch a long puck-out as far as he could.
He did exactly that some 23 seconds beyond the allocated five minutes, and a foul on Liam Rushe just outside the 20-metre line on the right, at the intersection of the 'D', afforded them one last chance.
Seven men lined the goal, and Seán Moran didn't seem to get a clean connection on the ball, but it somehow hit the net and there wasn't even time for Mark Fanning to find his forwards before Fergal Horgan blew for full-time.
The championship structure ensures there's no time to dwell on matches, as the focus quickly turned to next Sunday's trip to Galway (4 p.m.). The westerners were idle last weekend after their hard-earned home win over Carlow, so it will be a case of a fresher team facing a battle-hardened outfit in a game where the visitors will undoubtedly start as underdogs.
Wexford: Mark Fanning; Damien Reck, Liam Ryan, Simon Donohoe; Kevin Foley; Pádraig Foley, Shaun Murphy (0-3), Matthew O'Hanlon (joint capt.); Liam Óg McGovern (1-1), Diarmuid O'Keeffe; Lee Chin (joint capt., 0-11, 8 frees, 2 '65s), Conor McDonald (0-3, 2 line balls), Aidan Nolan (0-1); Jack O'Connor, Rory O'Connor (1-0). Subs. - Cathal Dunbar for Nolan (53), David Dunne for McDonald (66), Harry Kehoe for J. O'Connor (67), Shane Reck for Murphy (70+3).
Dublin: Alan Nolan; Paddy Smyth, Eoghan O'Donnell; Seán Moran (1-2, 1-1 frees); Chris Crummey (capt., 0-1), Tom Connolly (0-2), Shane Barrett; Seán Treacy, Danny Sutcliffe; Cian Boland (0-3), Conal Keaney (0-2), Eamon Dillon (0-1); Fergal Whitely (0-1), Liam Rushe, Paul Ryan (0-10, 7 frees, 1 '65). Subs. - David Treacy for Keaney (49), Jake Malone for Boland (61), Caolán Conway for S. Treacy (63), Ronan Hayes for Whitely (67).
Referee: Fergal Horgan (Tipperary).
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Parents concerned about how Indiana DCS is handling cases
Parents are concerned about how the Indiana Department of Child Services is conducting cases.
Posted: Nov 27, 2019 6:57 PM
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) -- Brittney Clark of Fort Wayne was looking for answers in July after her son nearly drowned while in the Indiana Department of Child Services' custody.
Now another mother Tonya Martin is looking for answers after she said her son ended up having a broken leg while in foster care.
“They can't even talk to their parents. It's not right. It's not fair to the kids. It's not fair to me. It's not fair to the grandparents," Martin said.
Tonya Martin said she hasn't been able to talk to her child at all.
While at a public hearing today for her case, another father, Benjamin Byerline realized they were both having the same problem- not getting the answers they are asking for.
“Somebody who is submitting false evidence, and doesn't return phone calls says they're in the best interest of the child. Yet that's all proven to be false," he explained.
FOX 55 has reached out to the Department of Child Services about the accusations from both Martin and Byerline of mishandling cases but did not receive a response.
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Minimum wage to increase on Oct. 1
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A new law, which takes effect on Tuesday, raises the state’s minimum wage from $10.10 to $11 an hour.
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – A new law, which takes effect on Tuesday, raises the state’s minimum wage from $10.10 to $11 an hour.
That wage will go to $15 in 2023.
Many businesses are being affected. Grocery stores are being greatly impacted because they hire a lot of minimum wage employees.
One grocery store says it’s one of the reasons they will have to close.
After nearly 10 year, a Shop Rite in West Hartford will be closing.
At the end of November, 135 part-time and full-time employees will no longer work there. Some may get jobs at a Shop Rite in Canton and possibly other stores.
The owners blame “A challenging business climate impacted by rising costs, regulations, and new minimum wage increase.”
“Fifty-three percent of our membership were very concerned about minimum wage increases and the vast majority of those said they would deal with it by reducing the workforce and more automation, and that’s very concerning,” said Eric Gjede, CBIA.
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association says large and small companies will be impacted.
Starting Tuesday, the minimum wage will go from $10.10 to $11 an hour and it will increase one dollar every year until it reached $15 in June of 2023.
This was a seven-year fight by Democrats to help low-wage workers. Republicans feel it’s anti-business, especially when Connecticut’s economy is struggling.
“There’s a lot of competition as well. I am personally sad. I live right around the corner and I’ve been coming here since I moved to Connecticut,” said Maura Forte.
Some businesses like Bear’s Barbeque in Hartford start their employees at $15 an hour already.
New York State already has a $15 an hour minimum wage, and a number of other states will be increase their wage starting on Tuesday such as New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
For a list of the new laws going into effect on Oct. 1, click here.
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En Route to Old” Conference Addresses the Effects of Aging
On Saturday, May 18, William James College hosted ‘En Route to "Old": Navigating the Years between 60 and 80,’ a conference addressing the years and path toward becoming an older adult. Eighty-five people were in attendance at this day-long conference that covered topics including retirement, downsizing, relationships, discovering new meaning, finding creativity and the real and perceived challenges of aging.
“It was inspiring to see how many people came from a variety of disciplines – psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, expressive arts therapists, among others – to hear us discuss this important early phase of older adulthood,” said Katherine King, Psy.D., William James College clinical psychology faculty member.
At the conference, King presented on integrating the arts into the lives of older adults to enhance well-being, encourage community building and positively affect the brain.
Other William James College faculty members, David Haddad, Ed.D., William James College counseling faculty member and director of the Behavioral Health Initiative; and Erlene Rosowsky, Psy.D., director of the William James College geropsychology concentration and Alliance for Aging, presented at the conference.
Haddad spoke about positive aging and coping strategies for the challenges of aging, as well as the ways social and political discourse shape our understanding of aging. Rosowsky presented on long-married or -partnered couples and the changes and challenges faced in older age.
William James College also hosted David Ekerdt, Ph.D., professor of sociology at the University of Kansas and former president of the Gerontological Society of America. King described his presentation on downsizing, reducing possessions and the ways these topics connect to a sense of self, as “lively, engaging and informative.”
Overall, Rosowsky explained that the audience had “great enthusiasm hearing about the aging process and how mental health professionals can guide the passage.”
The William James College pre-doctoral concentration in Geropsychology is designed to encourage and prepare students with a breadth of experience, knowledge and skills to meet the demands of working with older adults, an under-identified and underserved, albeit burgeoning, population.
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GRHS says goodbye to its second-largest graduating class
By Mark Wilsonmwilson@empiretribune.com
Jun 4, 2018 at 2:30 PM Jun 4, 2018 at 2:32 PM
The second-largest graduating class in Glen Rose High School history crossed the stage last Friday night during the commencement ceremony in the high school auditorium.
There were 127 graduates, including valedictorian Jordan Nabors (107.643 GPA) and salutatorian Andrea Mendoza (106.732 GPA). Tommy Corcoran, superintendent of operations for the GRISD, said that total ranks only below the number of the graduates in the Class of 2013.
“It’s a wonderful night,” Corcoran said. “The graduation ceremony is a way to celebrate their achievements since kindergarten.
“It’s a point of pride, to come from the K through 12th (grade) experience, for them. It’s a very emotional time. It’s exciting because they are off to another chapter in their life.”
The 2018 winner of the Tiger’s Eye award was presented to Glennis D. Million by Superintendent Wayne Rotan.
Senior Class President Grace Hill spoke to give the class history, and the GRHS Choir then performed the inspirational Josh Groban song, “You Raise Me Up.”
As the graduates crossed the stage, Glen Rose ISD board of trustees Kelley Snodgrass, Jason Dillard, Andy Snow, Brady Brown, Wade Busch, Marilyn Phillips and Paul Phillips took turns handing out diplomas.
Rotan then shook hands with each graduate, who paused as the audience was treated to something new for this year’s graduation. Each graduate recorded a personal message, and those audio sound bytes — some humorous and some poignant — were played for those in attendance. Some thanked family members and teachers, and some even acknowledged lifelong friends who had completed the journey together all the way from kindergarten.
In her commencement speech, Nabors noted, “Every one of us has come so far to get to this night, even if we barely made it here, we made it, and that is something to be proud of.”
Nabors encouraged her classmates to “take chances and make mistakes” — ideas that one of her grade-school class teachers, Mrs. Frizzle, had encouraged years before.
“This sounds like a common phrase, but after hearing many college graduates’ perspectives and regrets, it applies not only to our educational paths, but our entire lives as well,” stated Nabors.
Nabors also gave her take on the community that helped shaped the lives of the graduates and suggested that it will remain their foundation.
“Glen Rose is such a unique town, where we’ve been encouraged to try anything and everything, where the community selflessly contributes to the school without hesitation, and most importantly where peers can become family,” Nabors said. “So in a time when we are stepping out into the unknown, we can find some comfort in the idea that we always have a family which we are a part of and can rely on for support.”
Nabors then revealed the dreams she has for the class.
“I hope we all show leadership in everything that we do, remembering where we came from and knowing who to turn to when difficult tasks and decisions come our way. I hope that we all continuously and tirelessly strive to achieve all things our hearts desire, even if we have to uproot our entire lives, leaving everything that we’ve known, because in the end the pursuit of happiness and the passion to succeed are the qualities that are most important attributes to possess.”
Mendoza told her classmates, “Never again will we all be together like this, so I am going to take advantage of this moment and say that I am proud of all of you. I am proud that all 127 of us have successfully completed the first major challenge of life.
“We, through hard work, determination, and some procrastination, have beat the first level of the greatest game. All of you should have pride in yourselves for the diploma you are about to receive because that piece of paper is the result of 12 years of your life that you have used wisely.”
Then Mendoza also elaborated on the concept that the graduates have been shaped, in part, by the community.
“I want us all to remember what we have experienced at Glen Rose High School, and by that I mean I want us to not forget what has shaped us. I hope we don’t forget the laughing, the crying, the stress, the late nights, the early mornings, the oversleeping, the procrastinating, and the simple joy of being a high schooler because that is the foundation that has helped create us into what we are today. Those experiences are what formed us into responsible, hardworking young adults who are prepared for what awaits us. Even though we may have some unease about the future, we are ready for it.”
Outside after the ceremony and the traditional cap toss, Ashley Hang, the third-ranked student in the class, suggested that the reality of graduating may come later.
“It really hasn’t hit me yet — and I’m trying so hard not to cry,” said Hang, who was born in Kentucky, and moved here from Florida in time to start first grade in Glen Rose. “It’s so overwhelming in a very good way.”
Hang said she is heading for the University of Texas in Austin, where she intends to major in business and become a CPA.
In addition to Nabors, Mendoza and Hang, the other graduates in the top 10 percent academically (in order, based on grade-point averages) are Grace Hill, Savannah Culpepper, Emma Bozarth, Adriana Herrera, Payte Treadaway, Madison Roberson, Sydney Lozier, Allyson Andress, Emily Darby and Isela Delgado.
Honor graduates (numerical GPA of 90 or above, listed alphabetically by last name) —Allyson Andress, Marissa Beaman, Lilly Birdwell, Kelsey Bishop, Emma Bozarth, Amalie Brewer, Annie Bryant, London Bulliner, Valeria Castro, Savannah Culpepper, Emily Darby, Isela Delgado, Sandy Delgado, Madison Fisher, James Flynn, Michael Gillentine, Stephania Gomez, Rachel Gosdin, Connor Hansen, Ashley Hang, Adriana Herrera, Grace Hill, Cooper Holder, Zachary Ibarra, Morgan Kirby, Nicholas Lara, Sydney Lozier, Andrea Mendoza, Cayden Miller, Jordan Nabors, Karli Nobles, Cheyenne Noisey, Madison Roberson, Breana Rosentreter, Mikayla Ross, Weston Rynders, William Schmidt, Jessie Schoeder, Dawsyn Sharp, Lane Smajstrla, Irving Soler, Tanner Stroud, Logan Thames, Tyler Torres, Payte Treadaway, Rheagan Whitefield and Desiree Yzaguirre.
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July 4, Grand Prix closures: What to expect
Many downtown Sarasota roads and parking lots will be closed throughout the weekend.
by: Brynn Mechem Staff Writer
With powerboats, fireworks and thousands of visitors all making their way to Sarasota, there are a few things holiday-observers should keep in mind.
The weekend will bring road and parking lot closures, as well as heavy traffic, so beach-goers should be sure to pack their patience.
The Sarasota Police Department reminds residents and visitors of a few safety tips to keep themselves and the area’s wildlife safe.
Residents should report any suspicious behavior to law enforcement immediately and be mindful of road closures and county ordinances.
Due to limited parking spaces, the department recommends people carpool. Additionally, visitors should expect long delays from the beach area and exit times in excess of one hour following the conclusion of fireworks and races.
Illegally parked vehicles are subject to ticketing. Vehicles blocking private driveways are subject to towing.
Any vehicles not removed by the posted times for road closures will be towed. For information on towed vehicles, call Upman’s Towing at 941-364-7084.
Fourth of July road closures and limited parking
Bayfront Drive from Gulfstream Avenue to Orange Avenue will be closed from 7-11:30 p.m.
The parking lot at Bayfront Park will close when the lot has reached maximum capacity. No parking will be permitted on the grass. Additional parking will be available at the Palm Avenue Garage and State Street Garage, though visitors should expect delays when exiting due to heavy traffic.
Downtown Block Party closures
The city will hold a block party from 6-10 p.m. July 5. In preparation for the event, various streets will close during the day.
1:30 p.m. to midnight:
Lemon Avenue closed from First Street to Main Street
3:30-10 p.m.:
Main Street closed from Orange Avenue to Gulfstream Avenue
Central Avenue closed from First Street to Main Street
Pineapple Avenue closed from First Street to Main Street
South Palm Avenue closed from Main Street to McAnsh Square
North Palm Avenue closed from Main Street to Alley Way
First Street closed from Central Avenue to Pineapple Avenue
Weekend-long road and parking closures
Van Wezel parking lots and Van Wezel Way from East End to 10th Street will be closed from 8 p.m. July 4 through 6 p.m. July 7
The South Lido overflow parking lot will close at 10 p.m. July 6 and reopen at 5 p.m. July 7
Other closures
Centennial Park and its boat ramp will be the staging area for the Grand Prix Festival, so there will be no boat ramp access from 11:59 p.m. July 4 through 6 p.m. July 7. A suggested alternative boat ramp is located in Ken Thompson Park.
New Pass will be closed west of the New Pass Bridge from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 7. Boaters will be able to access the cove.
Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix race day information
Any race day operations, will only be announced on race control frequency. A live stream of the grand prix will be shown on Facebook live.
Marine turtle protection
Lido Key public beaches are closed from 11 p.m. to sunrise, around 6:30 a.m. The Sarasota County Sea Turtle Protection Ordinance requires all beach furniture and equipment be removed from the beach nightly. Sarasota police will enforce closure times as well as post signs prohibiting visitors from storing personal property on the beach to ensure the safety of beachgoers and marine turtles. Due to beach erosion, spectators are asked to stay off sand dunes along Lido Beach.
The Sarasota Police Department will conduct enhanced enforcement measures to ensure the conservation of several threatened species of wildlife such as Black Skimmers, Least Terns and Snow Plovers. Those on the beach should be aware of posted signs and fencing and stay away from marine turtle nests and seabird nesting areas. If members of the public observe stranded, sick or injured animals, they should call Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Stranding Investigations Program at 941-988-0212.
The police department encourages pet owners to leave their furry friends at home. In the past, several animals were lost after being spooked during events.
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Reading rooms is the new in-thing.
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The concept of reading rooms is fast catching up in the city as a substitute for the state-run libraries. The ‘RRs,’ as the reading rooms are referred to in the study circles, has become a buzzword among students aspiring to pursue professional courses and job seekers preparing for competitive exams. The business nerve centres like Bradipet in the heart of the city have been dotted with more 20 reading rooms that came up in the recent past.
Homes are no longer ideal locations for studies. The TV is a source of major distraction and the divergent interests of family members take a heavy toll on the academic pursuits of students. Visitors and guests contribute their part in spoiling the study environs, says Maheswar Pallaprola, former faculty of Reddy College in the city.
Pavani aspires to become a cost management accountant by appearing for a screening test conducted by the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWA). The women’s hostel in which she is staying is not conducive for such serious preparation. So, she found her way into a reading room in the vicinity by paying Rs 700 a month. “If I go with my study material, that is enough to keep me going.
Everything will be taken care of by the managers of the reading room,” says Pavani with a glee. The reading rooms are equipped with a chair and table in each cubicle with air conditioner and wifi facilities. In addition, mineral water bottles are also supplied to readers. “The fee hovers around Rs 700 to Rs 1,500 depending on the facilities available and location of the reading rooms. Yet it’s worth paying,” says another aspirant preparing for competitive exams.
Y Nagaraju, owner of Seshanjaneya Study Hall told The Hans India that his reading room is improving footfalls steadily with students staying in hostels, preparing for ICWA exams. Candidates, seeking a career in civil services and admissions in foreign universities are also opting for libraries. Ramesh a resident of local NGO Colony, stressed the need for more facilities in reading rooms matching with the fee. His son is preparing for screening tests for admission in professional courses.
The reading rooms began to increase in the city in the last two years by leaps and bounds as the coaching centres which were located in Hyderabad only in the past shifted their base to the new capital. The tempting growth prospects are prompting some enterprising sections to cash in on the trend by setting up reading rooms with financial assistance from banks, says Nagaraju.
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Oh, hey — didja hear? Larry and Sergey are leaving! Google's founders are jumping ship! THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS BEING SHAKEN UP AND TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN.
Well, kind of. It's true that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two fellas who started Google in what I can only assume was a somewhat dank and none-too-fresh-smelling garage some 20 years ago, are stepping back from their formal roles within the company. The pair announced as much in a public letter this week, saying it was "the natural time to simplify" the management structure and revealing that current Google CEO Sundar Pichai would take over the role of Alphabet CEO — a position held by Page up til now — in addition to retaining all of his existing duties.
(Brin's job of Alphabet president — a position whose practical purpose was even more murky than Page's CEO role — seems like it'll simply be eliminated.)
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Well, shiver me timbers: This all sure sounds pretty sporkin' earth-shattering on the surface. And it certainly is significant, in some sense; after all, the once-influential creators of a company formally resigning from their management roles is monumental, at least from a historical and sentimental perspective.
But, well, Google isn't exactly an ordinary organization. And so it only makes sense that there'd be more to this story.
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Join me in thinking through some critical context to Google's high-profile and widely misunderstood management shuffle, and let's see if we can get to the bottom of what it really signifies.
1. Pichai was already overseeing Alphabet's most important areas
Have you ever tried to explain to someone what Alphabet is? The first challenge is getting across the idea that Alphabet even is something, as hardly anyone who doesn't watch tech like a hawk is aware that it exists.
Once you manage that, you invariably wade into the thorny subject of what Alphabet truly represents — a conversation that, in my experience, usually goes a little somethin' like this:
"Um, well, y'see, a few years ago, Google decided to make itself one small part of a bigger umbrella company — kind of like a 'holding company,' I think? So Google is technically one wing of Alphabet, I guess, and other things that used to be part of Google are now their own separate wings of Alphabet."
Oh, I get it! So, like, YouTube and Android and Nest and whatever are all their own baby companies, alongside Google, and Alphabet is the papa?
"Uh....well, not exactly. I mean, YouTube and Android are still part of Google. Nest was its own separate wing under Alphabet for a while, but it's back within Google now, too."
Huh. So what else is under Alphabet, then?
And that's usually where you coyly try to change the subject (or just give up and gallop out of the room while making cacaw sounds as a distraction).
I mean, honestly, how many Alphabet companies — outside of Google — can you name? Assuming you aren't a professional industry "pundit" (which I'm pretty sure is a euphemism for "unemployed blowhard"), at best, you might come up with "some health research thing, some investment stuff or other, and something about hot air balloons?" Heck, even Alphabet's official website doesn't appear to have been updated since the organization's formation in 2015. You really have to do some serious digging to figure out what the hell it's all about.
But once you do, you discover that beyond the health research thing, the investment stuff, and the something-about-hot-air-balloons matter, Alphabet has a handful of thus-far-unrealized experimental sorts of projects within it — including the DeepMind artificial intelligence research group and the Waymo self-driving, uh, brainstorming entity. It also houses the confusingly named Google Fiber — the once-promising-sounding effort to bring affordable high-speed internet access to all of America that's now separated from Google and faded into barely-active-seeming obscurity.
When it comes to the more significant parts of the Alphabet operation, though, both from a business perspective and from the perspective of what actually impacts us as fragrant-footed bipeds who use the products — y'know, products like Google Search, YouTube, Maps, the whole advertising empire, and those silly little things we call Chrome and Android — well, those were already all under Pichai's purview.
And that brings us to our second point:
2. Alphabet projects that become particularly significant seem to have a way of moving back to Google, anyhow
The most prominent example is Nest, and it's an especially striking one: When Nest first became its own standalone entity, separate from Google and under the Alphabet umbrella, things didn't exactly go well.
During its Alphabet era, the company — which was initially held up as an illustration of what the Alphabet-centric, everything-isn't-Google model was supposed to achieve — lost its two co-founders and the founder of a high-profile connected camera company it acquired. It struggled to ship new products and seemed weirdly at odds with Google's own smart-hardware-making efforts. Google even reportedly tried (and failed) to sell the organization off altogether at a certain point, and stories abounded about discontent and frustration within the Nest ranks.
Now united with Google's hardware team, Nest is shipping products and slowly but surely settling on a cohesive strategy. Its story is far from finished, but it's certainly a dramatic turn from where it was a few short years ago.
Google similarly swallowed up Alphabet's enterprise security company Chronicle this past summer, just a few months after Chronicle released its first official product. From the sounds of it — with a little between-the-lines reading — out in the real world, Chronicle wasn't acquiring its own clients quickly enough and so it made more sense for it to become a part of Google's existing Google Cloud service instead of awkwardly trying to succeed as its own standalone entity.
See the trend here?
3. Page and Brin have already, by most measures, been mostly absent for a while
Perhaps the most important unspoken takeaway from this week's shift is the fact that the whole thing seems more symbolic than anything — more of a formalization of something that had largely already happened as opposed to a sudden shocking change.
To wit: Neither Page nor Brin has had any significant public role within Alphabet in ages. Neither even attended the company's last two shareholder meetings. When someone appears publicly on the organization's behalf — be it at an investor-focused event, a customer-focused unveiling, or a politically required meeting or hearing of some sort — it's almost always Pichai (along with other appropriate executives).
Even within Google's walls, the founders have long been conspicuously absent, according to numerous reports. In June, Bloomberg posed the question: "Where Is Larry Page? Alphabet Deserves Better" — the title of an article that made a pretty damning proclamation:
Alphabet has both a functional CEO in Pichai and a figurehead CEO who busies himself with far-off technology and is otherwise increasingly a ghost inside and outside of the company. ...
Everyone would like to do only the interesting parts of a job and skip the unpleasant or dull tasks. That’s not how adult life works, and that isn’t how a public company should work, either.
Page and Brin had even both mostly stopped attending their company's legendary "TGIF" town-hall-style pow-wows for employees — a noteworthy contrast from the past, when their presence was generally considered a given. (Those meetings have also since been scaled back and revamped into more structured monthly meetings about "product and business strategy," but that's another discussion for another time.)
4. Page and Brin may be formally stepping down in title, but they're ultimately still in control
This part is key: While both of Google's founders are relinquishing their managerial titles — "assum[ing] the role of product parents, offering advice and not but not daily nagging," as they put it — the two still have total command of their company's course.
It's no exaggeration: Page and Brin control more than 50% of the voting power on Alphabet's board, where they'll stay on as members. They're effectively kings of the Alphabet empire, in other words, and they'll continue to make the big decisions even if they aren't doing the day-to-day legwork.
That little tidbit makes the change in titles seem slightly less significant, doesn't it?
5. Page and Brin are reducing their roles at a time when strong leadership is most needed — and arguably most difficult
It's not a frequent subject of discussion in these more practical-impact-focused quarters of ours, but it's no secret that Google (and thus also Alphabet) is facing some serious challenges as a company right now — challenges that relate to labor issues and employee unrest as well as broader and not entirely unrelated questions about the company's culture. And that's to say nothing of the growing storm of political and regulatory hurdles that's long been a-brewin' and threatening to explode.
Page and Brin, perhaps not surprisingly, don't seem particularly interested in such issues. They're engineers — product guys. This stuff is difficult, dull, and presumably far less rewarding than achieving some awe-inspiring new technological breakthrough.
And while Google is of course still simultaneously charging forward on the tech front, it's hard not to think that the cultural, political, and regulatory issues are gonna be the biggest and most consequential challenges for the company in the months and maybe even years ahead — particularly from the perspective of a founder or executive.
Maybe Page and Brin aren't the right guys to steer that ship. It's certainly easy to see why they might not want to; even in a simpler past, Page was known to shy away from the more mundane managerial tasks, devoting his time and attention more toward product strategy and then outsourcing policy, budgets, and other such dry matters to folks who seemed better suited to handle 'em. He often spoke of wanting Google to act more like a startup, and there's nothing less startup-like than dealing with bureaucratic monotony.
6. The impact of this change — for us, as users — seems likely to be far less dramatic than what we've seen with Pichai's previous promotions
Given everything we've just discussed, the notion of this change in leadership leading to any major practical changes for us — not investors or shareholders or employees but simply the regular ol' folk who rely on Google services — doesn't seem especially likely.
Ultimately, the whole point of the Alphabet umbrella organization existing in the first place was to isolate the more experimental projects and thus allow Larry Page to focus on such "bigger-picture" thinking while Sundar Pichai handled the day-to-day business operations. The other point was to separate the less immediately profitable parts of the operation from the viable Google businesses and thereby to enhance investors' views of Google's success.
Well, the Page part of the equation is no longer relevant. And the investor part of it was never especially relevant from any practical, user-oriented standpoint.
Now, compare that with six years ago, when Pichai — then a Google VP in charge of Chrome — took over as the chief of Android following Android creator Andy Rubin's departure.
That change, as I noted back in 2013, made a significant and very noticeable difference: It made Android start to feel "more like a Google product and less like its own island within the Google universe" — with the first real steps toward a more Google-like design, the first prominent integration of non-Android-specific Google functionality, and generally just the beginning of a more consistent and connected sort of experience. It's tough to remember now, but that was a pretty sharp change from the way Android had been up to that point.
And all of that's to say nothing about the transformative Android-Chrome-OS alignment we've been seeing slowly take shape over the past several years, with seeds being planted around that same era.
It wouldn't be Google if there weren't some level of near-constant change
Putting all of Alphabet under Pichai's direction sure doesn't seem likely to have anywhere near that level of outward-facing impact, even if it could perhaps lead to a similar sort of increased unification from an internal organization perspective. Heck, even if Pichai pulls the ultimate Google move and eventually "spring cleans" Alphabet itself into oblivion, the practical impact for us on the outside would presumably be pretty minimal.
To sum things up, then: The founders of Google are stepping down from managerial roles they haven't really been actively practicing for a long time now while continuing to hold onto ultimate control of what happens within the company. And the guy who's been in charge of all the important stuff for a while already will continue to be in charge of all the important stuff, just with some other odds and ends sprinkled on top.
It wouldn't be Google if there weren't some level of near-constant change, but all in all, this shift — monumental as it may be in certain senses — seems like something that's more of a long-time-coming, logical sort of adjustment than any earth-shattering recalibration.
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Castle Biosciences is joining the public markets through a $64 million IPO that will support cancer tests that help doctors make treatment decisions.
On Wednesday evening, Castle priced its offering of 4 million shares at $16 apiece, which was the high end of its targeted price range. The Friendswood, TX, company had previously planned to sell approximately 3.4 million shares in the range of $14 to $16 each. Castle’s shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Thursday under the stock symbol “CSTL.”
Wednesday IPO activity also included two health IT companies. Health Catalyst of Utah raised $182 million and Mountain View, CA-based Livongo Health raised $355 million in their upsized IPOs. Livongo’s IPO gives it a valuation of approximately $2.5 billion.
But life science IPO activity appears to be slowing, according to SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges. In a Thursday research note, he wrote that while second quarter IPO and follow-on financing activity was robust, the spread between the biggest financings and the smallest ones has widened compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of this year. He added that the best performing IPOs are “unicorns,” which are companies whose valuations top $1 billion. Meanwhile, Porges said the smaller IPOs have been trading poorly after joining the public markets, and these smaller offerings appear to comprise a greater share of the new financings.
“We expect to see a slowdown in new issues during the rest of the summer, and with widespread political, regulatory, and legal concerns about the industry’s outlook, we would not be surprised to see a retrenchment in the support of new equity during the post-summer period,” Porges wrote.
Castle is on the small end of the IPO spectrum with a valuation of approximately $247 million. Castle will use its new IPO cash to expand sales efforts of its commercialized tests and continue development of experimental tests in its pipeline. Founded in 2007, Castle currently sells two products: DecisionDx-Melanoma for invasive cutaneous melanoma and DecisionDx-UM for uveal melanoma. Castle says in its IPO filing that these tests give a picture of the gene expression profile, which is a measure of the activity of the genes in a cell.
Using proprietary algorithms, Castle says these tests assess the risk that a patient’s cancer will spread or recur. The company says it has processed more than 40,000 patient samples since its first product launched in 2010. The tests generated $22.8 million in revenue last year, an increase of more than 65 percent over the prior year, according to the filing. Castle reported a $6.4 million net loss for 2018.
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Deepika Padukone stuns at 'The Youth Anxiety Center' event in New York
Dressed in a black coat and bell bottoms at the event, the actor turned heads with her formal avatar.
Photo courtesy: Instagram
Jun 20, 2019, 07:10 AM IST
New Delhi: Deepika Padukone who has always been vocal about her mental illness and her battle with depression is in New York to attend The Youth Anxiety Center event.
The actor shared pictures from the event and gave a glimpse of her attire. Dressed in a black coat and bell bottoms, the actor turned heads with her formal avatar. The 'Piku' actor completed her look with minimal makeup and a small leather handbag which added more charm to her gorgeous look.
"Mental illness has presented society with a very tough challenge... But my experience with the illness has taught me so much to be patient for one...but most importantly that there is 'Hope'!," she captioned a picture on Instagram.
Mental illness has presented society with a very tough challenge... But my experience with the illness has taught me so much;to be patient for one...but most importantly that there is ‘Hope’! @tlllfoundation #youthanxietycentre
A post shared by Deepika Padukone (@deepikapadukone) on Jun 18, 2019 at 11:00pm PDT
Apart from research and outreach programmes,The Youth Anxiety Center has conducted more than 75,000 treatment sessions in six years...something to be very proud of! Thank You #AnnaWintour for inviting me as your guest to this very special evening and allowing me to share my story. I wish you all the very best and look forward to supporting the centres future initiatives. As the African proverb goes, “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far, go together”. @tlllfoundation #youthanxietycentre @voguemagazine
While posting another picture, she wrote, "last night for The Youth Anxiety Center event in New York..."
The actor even shared a video where she can be seen narrating her experience of battling with the illness and how she overcame the pain. Thanking the organisation for inviting her as a special guest, she wrote, "Apart from research and outreach programmes, The Youth Anxiety Center has conducted more than 75,000 treatment sessions in six years...something to be very proud of! Thank You, Anna Wintour, for inviting me as your guest to this very special evening and allowing me to share my story. I wish you all the very best and look forward to supporting the centre's future initiatives. As the African proverb goes, "If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far, go together".
The 33-year-old actor was also spotted striking a perfect picture pose with the beauty mogul Kendall Jenner. Expressing her love for the model, she wrote, "I had the pleasure of meeting this beautiful soul...I wish you all the joy in the world and peace of mind...always!."
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Column by Emmanuel Nataf September 5, 2019
You probably already know that not all television shows and feature films are entirely original. Indeed, many are adapted from existing material — most commonly, well, books. (Game of Thrones, anyone?) But now that we're in 2019, technology’s given rise to another source of inspiration: podcasts.
With big sensations such as Amazon Prime’s Homecoming rocking our screens as we speak, it's time for you to meet the podcasts-turned-TV-shows-and-films that will soon be the stuff of daily watercooler conversation. And so, without further ado, here are seven podcasts that you should know before they start popping up in a theatre (or home theatre) near you.
1. Homecoming
Based on a scripted podcast of the same name, Homecoming is a psychological thriller from the point of view of Heidi, a social worker who begins to suspect a government facility built for soldiers is not all that it seems. Created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, the Homecoming podcast boasts a star-studded cast — Catherine Keener, David Schwimmer, and Oscar Isaac amongst others. And its television adaptation introduced even more stars into the fold, such as Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, and Stephan James.
Like the podcast, the first season of Homecoming met with critical acclaim when it was released in November 2018. What’s more, you can stream it now on Prime Video before season two of the series is released.
Plan to watch if: You binged The Haunting of Hill House in one day and are searching for an even tenser thriller.
2. Welcome to Night Vale
When a cult favorite podcast turns into a mega success, you can be sure television execs pay attention. That was the case with Welcome to Night Vale, a twice-monthly podcast in the style of an old-time radio show about the small fictional town of Night Vale. The podcast reports on the daily news in Night Vale, from the mundane (the weather) to the extraordinary (sightings of ghosts, angels, aliens, etc).
Launched in 2012, Welcome to Night Vale’s since been downloaded more than 180 million times worldwide — all of which points to no small amount of pent-up excitement for the small-screen version. FX is currently developing it for TV with Gennifer Hutchison, an executive producer of Better Call Saul.
Plan to watch if: You’re both a fan of H.P. Lovecraft and small dusty American towns.
3. Dirty John
Girl meets boy online. Boy and girl go on a date, and get married within months. Boy may or may not be a con man who spirals the relationship into one of abuse, manipulation, and denial. This is the premise of Dirty John, which follows Debra Newell and John Meehan from the onset of their relationship. And if that’s not enough for you, get this: Dirty John is based on a true story.
Created by Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard, the podcast pieced together this story of true crime through interviews and testimonies. Its television adaptation, starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana, premiered in November 2018 on Bravo, with the second season currently in development.
Plan to watch if: You’re a true crime aficionado.
4. 2 Dope Queens
Time to meet your next obsession. 2 Dope Queens was a popular podcast run by Jessica Williams of The Daily Show and fellow comedian Phoebe Robinson. Each episode featured 3 comedians, a celebrity (such as Lupita Nyong’o), and, of course, the easy banter between Williams and Robinson that made the podcast number one on the iTunes podcast charts for weeks.
2 Dope Queens ran from April 2016 to November 2018, but HBO picked up a special based on the show. It’s a total of four episodes and you can stream it on this page if you’ve got an HBO subscription.
Plan to watch if: You want to be a part of the conversation between two brilliantly funny best friends as they riff off of every topic imaginable.
5. Lore
Created by Aaron Mahnke, Lore is for all supernatural enthusiasts out there. The chilling podcast, which tells true instances of unsettling folklore, premiered in 2015 to great acclaim, receiving the iTunes “Best of 2015” award and “Best History Podcast” in 2016.
The TV adaptation, from the producers of The Walking Dead and The X-Files, builds upon Mahnke’s formula. Each episode focuses on a new true story, ranging from the origin of werewolves in Germany to a boy named Robert Gene Otto who owns a doll that everyone believes is cursed. As Mahnke says, "All of the material is from documented stories or historical events. Some are ancient and some are modern, but they are all factual in the sense that people reported these things and believed they were true."
Currently, you can watch two seasons of Lore on Amazon Prime. Fun fact: Lore was the first ever podcast that became a TV show, so if you want to see where it all began, this is the place to start.
Plan to watch if: You're a fan of scary stories told around a campfire.
6. Man of the People
“Man of the People,” an episode in the Reply All podcast, astounded when it was released: a profile of Dr. John Brinkley, a “medical doctor” who became rich by selling people fake medicine, it traces Brinkley’s improbable rise of fortune and equally stunning fall.
It’s the stuff of Hollywood material, so perhaps it’s not that surprising that, in 2017, it was announced it would be the basis for a film adaptation. The only thing that could make this project even more exciting? Robert Downey Jr. is attached to star in it — and Richard Linklater is set as its director.
Plan to watch if: You enjoyed reading up on Martin Shkreli’s extremely public fall from grace.
7. S-Town
Downloaded 16 million times in a single week when it was released in 2017, S-Town is one of the biggest success stories so far in the iTunes world. And it’s easy to see why: what is billed as a “murder mystery” on the surface is a Trojan Horse. S-Town is a fascinating, sharply-drawn, and sad portrait of a solitary man named John B. McLemore, who is a citizen of the so-called “Shit Town, Alabama.” His death — and the procession of events that precede it — is the subject of this podcast.
As far as investigative journalism podcasts go, S-Town is a shining (though ethically ambiguous) one. But its inevitable big-screen adaptation may be a bit trickier to create, as The Guardian aptly points out. Oscar-winning Tom McCarthy — the man behind Spotlight — is set to direct it. But can the film match up to the podcast’s psychological complexity and its grim, undeniably un-Hollywood ending? There’s only one way to find out.
Plan to watch if: You’ve got a bit of a voyeur streak and are drawn to intense character studies.
What are some of your favorite podcasts that deserve The Hollywood treatment?
Column by Emmanuel Nataf
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