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Beds Police bosses have called for tougher sentences for attacks on police officers after the case of one PC was shown on a television documentary this week.
Special constables volunteered 47,000 hours to keep Bedfordshire safe in 2019
Members of the public volunteered more than 47,000 hours as special constables last year, to help keep Bedfordshire safe.
Bedfordshire Police throw their weight behind campaign to warn elderly of phone scams
Residents in Bedfordshire are being urged to speak to elderly relatives and friends about the dangers of impersonation fraud.
The top 10 burglary hotspots in the UK have been revealed by MoneySuperMarket’s annual burglary claims tool.
Over 1,100 deaths and serious injuries on Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire roads
More than 1,100 people were killed or seriously injured on the roads of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire between November 2018 and November 2019.
Appeal for witnesses after car stolen in Edlesborough
Police are investigating after a car was stolen during a burglary in Edlesborough.
Police continue crackdown on serious youth violence in Bedfordshire
An 18-year-old man has been charged in relation to a serious stabbing in Luton as Bedfordshire Police continue to combat serious youth violence and drug criminality.
Two HGV drivers killed in M1 collision named by police
Two HGV drivers killed in a tragic collision on the M1 on Saturday morning have been named by Bedfordshire Police.
Two HGV drivers killed in major M1 crash between Bedford and Milton Keynes junctions
Police are appealing for witnesses regarding today's (Saturday) major crash on the M1, in which two people have died.
Beds PCC Kathryn Holloway welcomes government funding for violence reduction unit
Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Kathryn Holloway has welcome government funding for the force's violence reduction unit.
Woman in her 80s airlifted to hospital after collision in Leighton Buzzard
A woman in her 80s was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after a collision in Leighton Buzzard.
Family pay tribute to 'wonderful and kind' woman who died in Christmas Eve collision in Bedfordshire
The family of a woman who died following a road traffic collision on the M1 on Christmas Eve have paid tribute to her.
Bedfordshire Violence and Exploitation Reduction Unit secures funding for another year
A new unit set up to tackle the root causes of knife crime and other serious youth violence in Bedfordshire has been funded by the Home Office for 12 more months.
Specials praised for successful arrests in Leighton Buzzard
Two Specials have been praised following successful arrests in Leighton Buzzard, despite being on their way home at the end of their shift.
Record numbers of weapons seized as Bedfordshire Police cracks down on organised crime
A record numbers of weapons have been taken off the streets in Bedfordshire this year, as police continue to crackdown on serious violence and exploitation.
Regional organised crime unit nets jailed sentences of almost 500 years in 2019
The regional police unit which tackles serious and organised crime across the east has helped secure jail sentences of almost 500 years this year.
Bedfordshire Police issues festive reminder about consent
Investigators from the force’s Emerald team are issuing a timely reminder about the importance of consent.
Bedfordshire Police and crime charities release video to highlight trafficking in the sex industry
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Bedfordshire Police will be #KeepingBedsSafe this Christmas
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Community police team targets drug related crimes in Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard's community police team will be targeting drug use and supply in the town following a meeting with the community.
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Masterpieces? Of San Diego? Yep
The exhibition celebrating a building expansion at Oceanside Museum of Art is titled “Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works From Fifty Years, 1900-1950.” If that doesn’t stop you dead in your tracks, nothing will. Masterpieces? Of San Diego painting? From before World War II?
Surely the museum jests. Or, more likely, it’s making provincial boasts. A visit to the show reveals that a third explanation for the claim is closer to the truth. Guest curator Bram Dijkstra pretty much means what the cheeky title says. Surely he knows that it will be received with skeptical regard, but Dijkstra wants to provoke a conversation about a specific history of art where virtually none has existed before.
And “Masterpieces of San Diego Painting” delivers -- no, not 50 pictures I’d trade for a mess of Matisses and Picassos from the same era, or even O’Keeffes, Hartleys and Doves. But it does tell a compelling story of regional aesthetics with cosmopolitan ambitions, which more museums ought to do. Click here for the full story.
Here are some highlights from new exhibition, which runs through June 29. (Collection of San Diego Museum of Art)
Belle Baranceanu (1902-1988) finished “The Yellow Robe” in 1927. In it, she combined a womans profile and a fabric design to form a domestic environment. Baranceanu was famous for the murals she painted for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression. The painting is part of the exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art. (Collection of San Diego Museum of Art)
Charles Reiffel (1862-1942) has seven paintings on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art. For “The Old Farm,” he blended paint on the canvas instead of on a palette, creating a rough chromatic density. (Oceanside Museum of Art)
“Matilija Poppies” by Albert Valentien (1862-1925) suggests a life cycle with its buds, blossoms and fading petals. Valentien painted vases for Rookwood, the famous pottery in Cincinnati, before moving to California. (Oceanside Museum of Art)
The untitled 1936 Abstract painting by Fred Hocks (1886-1981) derives from Pablo Picasso. It is among the artworks in the Oceanside exhibition. (Oceanside Museum of Art)
Inspired by machinery, Marius Rocle (1897-1967) painted “Trigon” in 1939. Rocle was a self-taught French expatriate. (Oceanside Museum of Art)
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April 25, 2013 |Dodd-Frank, FDA, Federal Reserve, NPR, sequester
When Government Goes Into Business
by Michael S. Greve|Leave a Comment
A large group of people gather for the first ever Medicare For All Rally led by Bernie Sanders in downtown Chicago in June, 2019 (ShellyShoots/Shutterstock).
The sequester is kicking in, and the consequences are upon us: airplanes are falling out of the sky, furloughed FBI agents commiserate over donuts, sea levels keep rising. Help, however, is on the way. Increasingly, federal agencies are funding themselves from sources other than appropriations. Not a few have turned into profit centers for the Congress.
Just last week, the Federal Reserve proposed a fee schedule for its banking oversight “services,” pursuant to section 318 of Dodd-Frank and to the tune of $440 million. (That’s what the exercise supposedly costs the government. What it costs the banks and the economy, no one knows.) Not everyone is happy with the NPR—see here.
March 28, 2013 |Federalism, NPR, welfare, welfare reform
Federalism for Blockheads
by Michael S. Greve|1 Comment
During the late recession (ended, we are reliably informed, eons ago), welfare enrollment barely budged. The rates have remained low, despite a lousy labor market. How is that possible? More proof that the heralded 1996 welfare-to-work reform worked? Not really. NPR (yes, NPR) has a series of reports on the disability system, which has rapidly swollen to 17 million (!) individuals. Among the things that are going on here, covered in yesterday’s must-hear segment: states have taken aggressive steps to transfer individuals from (partially) state-financed welfare system into the disability system, which is 100 percent federal. Consulting firms are paid $2,300…
December 11, 2012 |Dodd-Frank, Mary Shapiro, NPR
Run Government Like Business
by Michael S. Greve|3 Comments
Drove the kids to school this morning and now, there are bite marks in the steering wheel—not on account of anything they did, but courtesy of my listening in on an NPR interview with outgoing SEC Chair Mary Shapiro. While gushing about the SEC’s fabulous post-Dodd-Frank rules (the handful that haven’t been gunned down by federal courts, and wouldn’t you know the SEC is now regulating hedge funds—the only outfits that had absolutely nothing, nada, zippo to do with the financial crisis and now, do you feel safe??) Madam Chair complained that the SEC, alone among federal financial agencies, is still not “self-funding.”
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At the boundary's edge
The Word of Gold: for modern law firms, “local” has never been a more flexible concept
18th March 2019 | Stephen Gold
Tim Marshall’s bestseller, Prisoners of Geography, looks at how countries’ foreign policy is shaped profoundly by their physical landscape. Mountains protect against invasion. Rivers assist trade, but also divide peoples. Great plains allow for industrial-scale agriculture, but provide an open door for hostile armies. Russia’s hostility to the alignment with the West of its former satellites Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia is unwelcome, but more comprehensible when we understand that between 1812 and 1941, Russia fought an invading foe every 33 years. Technology has overcome many geographical barriers: drone warfare in the mountains of Afghanistan is fought with devastating results from a screen in Nevada. But a country’s physical features are still fundamental.
Business, including legal practice, is war without guns. There was a time when a firm’s reach was defined strictly by geography. Lawyers thought of themselves as confined to their jurisdiction. Many were happy to define themselves as serving their local area. Any suggestion they might practise beyond it was greeted as if a proposal that they open on Mars.
Over time, a more expansive approach developed, and now national and international firms proliferate. Today, most of Scotland’s largest firms either have a physical presence in London, or have been merged with top-tier English firms. Those that still have offices only in Scotland invest large sums in building English and international referral networks. Small and medium-sized firms look at these behemoths and conclude they have nothing in common. They could not be more wrong. Most of them grew from small beginnings. A firm’s destiny is limited less by its locality, than the boundaries of its imagination.
We now have tools our forebears never had. The internet has transformed the ability of every size of business to reach a global marketplace. A good example of harnessing this potential is the accountancy firm Armstrong Watson. It has built a UK-wide reputation as advisers to law firms. While it now has physical offices in several locations, it has done it from a base not in London or a major city, but Carlisle.
Closer to home, in the late 90s and early 2000s, my firm, which began as a sole practice, was serving clients across the UK from two offices, one in Glasgow and one in Manchester.
Where clients shop
Do clients care these days whether their providers are local or not? The internet has changed their attitude profoundly. Conveyancing is an excellent example. It used to be the archetypal local service, and throughout the UK there are still many excellent local firms. But they face formidable competition from a network of “big sheds”: volume providers serving clients often hundreds of miles away, who find them perfectly satisfactory. Not all of them are law firms.
It is a similar story with debt recovery, personal injury, remortgaging and executry, to name just a few. Every day, corporate and commercial transactions are successfully completed without client and adviser ever having been in the same room. There are some services, family law for example, where clients may prefer to meet their lawyer face-to-face, and older people especially (though by no means all) are less comfortable with distance. But there is virtually no service now which cannot be offered remotely.
Your own territory?
What does it take for a firm to expand successfully beyond its location?
First, be clear about what markets you want to target, and what it is about your offering that will make it stand out.
Secondly, invest in top quality communications. In general, clients will be less concerned about physical remoteness if they are confident that in all other ways their lawyer is close. Making contact and getting prompt, empathetic advice must be seamless. This means not only excellent systems, but training, and a sincere commitment to fantastic personal service.
Thirdly, the internet is a wonderful tool, but like all tools, needs skilful handling. Be thoughtful and imaginative in building the firm’s online presence, and its people’s visibility. You will probably need expert help, and you will also need a realistic budget, but taking it step by step, the cost need not be prohibitive.
Is there a future for local practice? I passionately believe there is, but it is becoming more difficult. Just as a drone operated from Nevada can vaporise a jihadi in Helmand, the imminent introduction of alternative business structures (ABS), the advance of technology, the resources of national competitors, and clients placing far more value on price, service and brand recognition than proximity, mean that invasion will become much harder to repel. It’s a threat that is better met not by retreating to a bunker, but raising one’s eyes to the horizon.
Stephen Gold was the founder and senior partner of Golds, a multi-award-winning law firm which grew from a sole practice to become a UK leader in its sectors. He is now a consultant, non-exec and trusted adviser to leading firms nationwide and internationally. e: stephen@stephengold.co.uk; t: +44 (0)7968 484232; w: www.stephengold.co.uk; twitter: @thewordofgold
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by Kirsten Smith
Now a Netflix Original Series! The Breakfast Club meets Leah on the Offbeat in this story of female friendships that break all the rules.
Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout. Tabitha has just about everything she wants: money, friends, popularity, a hot boyfriend who worships her… and a yen for stealing. So does Elodie, who, despite her goodie-two-shoes attitude pretty much has “klepto” written across her forehead. Both of them are nothing compared to Moe, a bad girl with an even worse reputation. But the day that Tabitha and Elodie walk into Moe’s Shoplifters Anonymous meeting, everything changes. When Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, they forge a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing, and the reasons that spawn it. A more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen.
Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten Smith tells this story from multiple perspectives with humor and warmth as three very different girls who are supposed to be learning the steps to recovery somehow end up on the road to friendship.
Genre: Teen & Young Adult / Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship
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* "Literary without being precious...[a] funny, smart, and perceptive book."
"A just-right ending will make this a hit with fans of Sarah Dessen, Deb Caletti, Elizabeth Scott and other venerable chick-lit authors."—Kirkus Reviews
"...Nails the claustrophobic feel of high school..."
"With different glimpses of high school life, some romance for each character, and family drama that doesn't overwhelm the plot, Trinkets is a quick and entertaining read."
"Chapters alternate between the voices of the three girls, giving insight into three differing yet parallel motivations for shoplifting while creating characters that readers will find appealing and sympathetic whether or not they agree with their perspectives."
"I want to build a shrine to this book. It explores and debunks high school clichés, and understands the language only teenage feelings speak. Its three narrators make a unique story not only exciting to experience vicariously, but relatable. It will sit on my shelf next to a My So-Called Life boxset and copies of The Virgin Suicides and Girl, Interrupted."
Tavi Gevinson, Editor-in-Chief, Rookie
"Hilarious and wise, Trinkets brought me straight back to those hellish days of high school. I fell in love with these three girls--their individual struggles are so real and wonderfully touching."
Anna Farris, star of The House Bunny
"I am not surprised that Kiwi Smith, once again, has written something so insightful, sensitive and, of course, funny. Trinkets is a beautiful creation. It is raw and full of heart, honest and open. Never has someone described the phenomena of 'mirror faces' more perfectly. I am grateful for that."
Ellen Page, star of Juno and Whip It
"Trinkets is a sweet, funny, edgy novel...imagine The Breakfast Club with girls and shoplifting. I absolutely loved it."
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With the aim to increase the efficiency of passenger and cargo transportation, promote the use of environmentally friendly technologies and boost the international competitiveness of the Latvian rail corridor, LDz plans to carry out rail network electrification in the following years. On October 9, 2019 VAS Latvijas Dzelzceļš signed an agreement with the Central Finance and Contracting Agency on the implementation of Stage 1 of the project Electrification of the Latvian Rail Network.
The project provides for the electrification of the Daugavpils-Krustpils, Rezekne-Krustpils and Krustpils-Riga railway lines by the end of 2023, using the 25 kV A/C technology, including by reconstructing the existing partly electrified rail network, replacing the 3.3 kV system with the 25 kV.
The project implementation will allow transportation of heavier trains with the maximum gross weight of 9 000 tons, and in rail passenger transportation, diesel trains will also be replaced with electric trains.
The project will be financed with co-funding provided by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund*, and LDz, as well as a loan raised from the European Investment Bank.
At the beginning of 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the implementation of Stage 1 of the project Electrification of the Latvian Rail Network, which is the largest project co-funded by the EU Cohesion Fund in Latvia yet.
Although the project’s original cost estimate was EUR 519 million, thanks to an increasingly rapid technological advances in the railway industry, VAS Latvijas Dzelzceļš managed to find a solution allowing to reduce the project’s total costs by 15 percent, or EUR 78 million by replacing the planned power supply systems for traction substations with inverters, which reduced the substations’ total costs. As a result, the project’s new cost estimate is EUR 441 million.
The project has received a positive assessment from from the European Commission’s independent technical assistance experts (JASPERS, Independent Quality Review). In July this year, the European Commission gave the green light to implementation of Stage 1 of the project.
At present, there are 257 kilometers of electrified railway lines in Latvia, making up 14 percent of the country’s entire railway network, which is significantly less than the EU’s average – 60 percent.
*The Cohesion Fund support for development of TEN-T railway network is granted within framework of measure 6.2.1.1 “Electrification of the Latvian Railway Network” of specific support objective 6.2.1 “To ensure a competitive and environmentally-friendly TEN-T railway network, promoting its safety, quality and capacity” of operational program “Development and Employment”
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HomeRandomized Trial of Community Treatment With Azithromycin and Ivermectin Mass Drug Administration for Control of Scabies and Impetigo
Randomized Trial of Community Treatment With Azithromycin and Ivermectin Mass Drug Administration for Control of Scabies and Impetigo
Marks M, Toloka H, Baker C, Kositz C, Asugeni J, Puiahi E, Asugeni R, Azzopardi K, Diau J, Kaldor JM, Romani L, Redman-MacLaren M, MacLaren D, Solomon AW, Mabey DCW, Steer AC,
Background: Scabies is a public health problem in many countries, with impetigo and its complications important consequences. Ivermectin based mass drug administration (MDA) reduces the prevalence of scabies and, to a lesser extent, impetigo. We studied the impact of co-administering azithromycin on the prevalence of impetigo and antimicrobial resistance.
Methods: Six communities were randomized to receive either ivermectin-based MDA or ivermectin-based MDA co-administered with azithromycin. We measured scabies and impetigo prevalence at baseline and 12 months. We collected impetigo lesions swabs at baseline, 3 and 12 months to detect antimicrobial resistance.
Results: At baseline, scabies and impetigo prevalences were 11.8% and 10.1% in the ivermectin-only arm and 9.2% and 12.1% in the combined treatment arm. At 12 months, the prevalences had fallen to 1.0% and 2.5% in the ivermectin-only arm and 0.7% and 3.3% in the combined treatment arm. The proportion of impetigo lesions containing Staphylococcus aureus detected did not change (80% at baseline vs 86% at 12 months; no significant difference between arms) but the proportion containing pyogenic streptococci fell significantly (63% vs 23%, P < .01). At 3 months, 53% (8/15) of S. aureus isolates were macrolide-resistant in the combined treatment arm, but no resistant strains (0/13) were detected at 12 months.
Conclusions: Co-administration of azithromycin with ivermectin led to similar decreases in scabies and impetigo prevalence compared to ivermectin alone. The proportion of impetigo lesions containing pyogenic streptococci declined following MDA. There was a transient increase in the proportion of macrolide-resistant S. aureus strains following azithromycin MDA.
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The Adventures of a Bank-Note. in Two Volumes. Volume 3 of 4 (Paperback) Loot Price: R478
The Adventures of a Bank-Note. in Two Volumes. Volume 3 of 4 (Paperback)
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT071294Anonymous. By Thomas Bridges. The third and fourth volumes bear the statement: "In four volumes.," and have inprint year 1771.London: printed for T. Davies, 1770-71. 4v.; 12
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Loggly vs New Relic
Solve Operational Problems Faster. Make all of your logs accessible to everyone in one place. No more logging into individual machines. Use searches, filters and graphs to spot trends and narrow down potential root causes. Set up in minutes. No software or agents to install. Works with all standard logging facilities. Owned by SolarWinds.
New Relic gets you immediate code-level visibility to build faster software, create better products, and delight your customers. New Relic gets you immediate code-level visibility to build faster software, create better products, and delight your customers.
Loggly vs New Relic in our news:
2018 - SolarWinds acquires log-monitoring service Loggly
IT management company SolarWinds has acquired the cloud-based log-monitoring and analytics service Loggly. According to its marketing materials, about a third of the Fortune 500 use the company’s services, including the likes of Lenovo, Pizza Hut and Dell. SolarWinds argues that this acquisition will expand the company’s engineering and analytics expertise and that it will push the company’s overall strategy of building a full-stack monitoring platform. SolarWinds, which has acquired its fair share of companies (including Pingdom) over the years, will keep the Loggly brand and product alive.
2014 - Mobile analytics startup New Relic is now a billion-dollar company
New Relic, that provides app-monitoring on a SaaS-basis, ended first day of trading as a billion-dollar company. The share price ended up being 47 percent higher than the $23.00 share price it set on Thursday, and makes the company worth roughly $1.5 billion. New Relic offers SaaS Software Analytics Platform that offers Application Performance Management and Real User Monitoring for Cloud and Data Center deployed web applications implemented in Ruby, Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Node.js. New Relic also offers mobile monitoring solutions for iOS and Android applications. The company is aiming full-steam ahead for the new year and compared his company to a football player that just made the big leagues.
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Bogus cop phone terror
A BOGUS policeman is striking fear into Liverpool people with hoax phone calls.
Pensioners and young mothers are among those wrongly told the police want to speak to them about a road accident.
Some fear relatives have been killed or seriously injured - others are led to believe they are suspected of being involved or responsible for the accident.
On each occasion the hoax caller has warned his victims they face prosecution if they do not help with police inquiries.
Many of them have turned up at a police station in tears.
South Liverpool officers say at least 40 people have been conned in recent weeks, but believe there may be many more.
Victims included one couple in their 80s who were told to attend Belle Vale police station after an accident.
Today Chief Superintendent Andy Cooke said: "If this man thinks this is funny, he's wrong. It's the furthest thing from funny. It is causing terrible distress."
The hoaxer claims to be a police officer who says he has found a mobile phone at the scene of a road traffic accident.
He says he is calling the last number dialled on the phone and says they need to speak to police about the crash.
Worried victims have visited Belle Vale police station or made phone calls to investigate.
One man was on a business trip in Germany when he picked up the message on his answer phone at home.
Police are unsure if the bogus officer is calling telephone numbers randomly or picking them out of a phone book.
Supt Cooke: "A number of people have been taken in by this including some young mums and a couple in their 80s who were very scared. They are met with blank faces at the police station.
"We will take action against those who make hoax calls and I would always urge members of the public to report any such call to the police."
He said the public should insist on the caller's name, rank and collar number and the police station where he works to establish his identity.
If people are in any doubt they should call 0151-709 6010.
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In Re Dalnyaya Step LLC (In Liquidation) v Nogotkov Kirill Olegovich, The Official Receiver Of Danyaya Step LLC (In Lidquidation) (2017)
It was in the public interest for the court to determine whether an official receiver who had obtained a without notice recognition order under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 had breached his duty of full and frank disclosure, even though the parties had agreed that the order should no longer continue. In the circumstances, the order was set aside ab initio as the official receiver had failed to inform the English court that granting the recognition order potentially engaged political issues involving the Russian state.
The applicants requested that the court determine whether the respondent Russian official receiver had breached his duty of full and frank disclosure even though that was no longer determinative of any live issues between the parties.
The official receiver had obtained a without notice order under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 requiring the English court to recognise the liquidation of a Russian company which the applicants used to manage. The applicants alleged that the company was a victim of a tax fraud carried out by criminal elements within the Russian authorities. They left Russia but claimed that the Russian authorities were subjecting them to ongoing persecution in retaliation for the fraud allegations. The official receiver obtained an order in the English proceedings that the applicants provide documentation and information in relation to the company's tax affairs. The applicants applied to set aside the recognition order on the grounds that the official receiver had failed to comply with his duty of full and frank disclosure when obtaining the order. The official receiver then applied to terminate the order on the ground that he had obtained a Russian judgment which made the English proceedings unnecessary. The parties agreed that the recognition order should no longer continue, but they were not completely agreed on the disposition of the three applications.
The applicants argued that the official receiver's applications were part of a retaliatory campaign by the Russian state against them and that it was in the public interest, and legitimate, for the full and frank disclosure issue to be determined. The official receiver argued that where a case had not been fully argued the court either had no jurisdiction to hear argument in the absence of any live dispute or, if there was jurisdiction, that the earlier the stage of the proceedings the higher the burden on the party seeking to persuade the court to give judgment.
Should the court decide the issue of whether the official receiver had breached his duty of full and frank disclosure? Yes. The parties were almost, but not completely, agreed. Therefore, the principles in Barclays Bank Plc v Nylon Capital LLP [2011] EWCA Civ 826 about when the court should hear and give judgment on matters that were no longer determinative of any live issue between the parties was not precisely in point, Nylon considered. It was agreed that the recognition order should no longer continue, but it was not agreed whether it should be declared to terminate, or to have never been validly in existence. It would not be satisfactory to terminate the order on the basis of the official receiver's application if he had breached his duty of full and frank disclosure. There was a material, if not critical, difference between an order setting aside a recognition order ab anitio, and terminating such an order at the office holder's own request some seventeen months after it had taken effect. There were clear and compelling reasons why it was in the public interest to determine the full and frank disclosure issue, Gawler v Raettig [2007] EWCA Civ 1560 applied. Where there were serious allegations of wrongdoing, and where the UK Government had already made clear its views about connected aspects of the case, the court could not stand by without deciding whether there had indeed been inappropriate conduct. It was in the public interest for that issue to be determined, whatever effect it had on the private parties to the litigation. It was a wholly exceptional case. The applicants had good reason for wanting the issue determined, and the official receiver had no good reason for not wanting it determined. The court could not willingly accept a situation in which one party could prevent it determining, where it was in the public interest to do so, whether its procedures had been flouted or abused (see paras 71, 74-78, 81, 83 of judgment).
Did the official receiver breach his duty of full and frank disclosure? Yes. When seeking a recognition order, full and frank disclosure had to be made in relation to the consequences for third parties that were not before the court that might flow from the recognition of the foreign proceedings, including from intended future applications enabled by the order. The official receiver had intended, at the time he applied for the order, to issue his application for information about the company's tax affairs. The history of the Russian state's actions against the applicants were material facts of which the English court needed to be fully and fairly informed in order to allow it to decide whether the public policy exception in sch.1 art.6 of the Regulations was engaged. The official receiver knew that the actions he was taking were highly charged politically. That was enough to make it incumbent on him to tell the English court that political issues involving the Russian state might arise, and of the UK public policy issues that it was likely to raise and of which he was, or ought to have been, aware. The recognition order was set aside ab initio (paras 86-88, 92).
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New multihull record for Maserati Multi70 at Rolex Middle Sea Race
2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds
At exactly 14 00’ 01” today, Maserati Multi70 sailed across the finish-line of the 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race after a 608-nautical mile gallop, stopping the clock in the multihull category of the Royal Malta Yacht Club - organised event at 2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds.
Aside from her victory, Maserati Multi70 has also set a new multihull record for the legendary Maltese race, slashing just over 10 hours off the previous one set by Phaedo3 in 2015 (2 days, 11 hour, 29 minutes and 41 seconds).
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Maserati Multi70 won! It's record!
Multihull category victory and record for Maserati Multi70 in the 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race.
At exactly 14 00’ 01” today, Maserati Multi70 stopped the clock at 2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds.
Maserati Multi70 took the lead of the Rolex Middle Sea Race overnight
Maserati Multi70 took the lead after a tactical error by Phaedo3 which, after a blistering match race with the Italian trimaran, rounded the island of Linosa rather than Lampedusa as specified in the race rule. Phaedo3’s skipper Brian Thompson commented: “We’re having a fantastic race with Maserati Multi70. Last night we scored a bit of an own goal but we’ve recovered from that now and we’re heading for the final destination”.
Maserati Multi70 is sailing straight for Malta, making a speed of 17 knots in a 20-knot SE wind. She holds a 30-nautical mile lead over Phaedo3 and is 48.5 nautical miles from the finish-line at Malta where she is expected to arrive in three hours’ time.
The team sailed well and problem-free throughout the night, beating in a good wind and making a slew of unerring tactical choices.
Giovanni Soldini comments the race from Maserati Multi70
"Racing within sight of Phaedo3 has kept us on high alert. There was a gap of about 20 miles between us but we completely made that up by looking for wind offshore. We’re now leading and trying to defend that position by beating from San Vito Lo Capo to Malta. But all is good aboard. Morale is high – despite the fact that we were more affected by the lack of wind than Phaedo3, the boat is responding perfectly. We made a tactical choice that is now paying off and we’re really giving it our all”.
Maserati Multi70 catches up with Phaedo3
Having now covered over half of the 608 miles of the Rolex Middle Sea Race route, including a spectacular passage past the Stromboli volcano at first light and with the Aeolian Islands now in her wake, Maserati Multi70 has just caught up with Phaedo3, which had been leading the fleet since the start, and the duo are locked in a heated battle for first position.
The Italian trimaran made up the ground thanks to a tactical decision by Giovanni Soldini to stay offshore to look for wind.
With San Vito Lo Capo behind them, the trimarans will run into the Sirocco (SE) which will fresh to a maximum of 25 knots.
Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3 will have to beat all the way to the finish-line at Malta, which is now under 300 miles away. They are separated by a tiny distance and are making similar speeds of between 12 and 20 knots.
The two trimarans should cross the finish-line off Malta’s Grand Harbour in the late morning or early afternoon of tomorrow.
Maserati and Phaedo still within sight of each other off the Aeolian Islands
After a spectacular night-time passage of the Stromboli volcano, the heated battle between Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3 continues off the Aeolian Islands. The English craft has been leading the Rolex Middle Sea Race since the start, but currently the two trimarans are racing about 18 miles apart in a 10-knot SE off Salina and Filicudi. MaseratiMulti70 is making a speed of 21 knots (381 miles from Malta) while Phaedo3 is making 19.1 (363 miles from Malta). The weather conditions will remain stable as far as Palermo but just before San Vito Lo Capo, the wind will freshen and turn southerly so that the two MOD70s will be sailing increasing into the wind and will have to beat all the way to Malta.
The 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race has started
The Rolex Middle Sea race fleet sailed out of the Grand Harbour in 10-knot NW. In the multihull category, the two MOD70s, Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3, started at 12.40 with the English boat skippered by Brian Thompson first across the line tailed closely by her Italian rival.
The clash between the two MOD70s in the multihull grouping (Mocra) looks set to be very much a clash of equals thanks to Maserati Multi70’s new configuration featuring a Mod rudder and C-foil on her starboard side.
Weather forecasts confirm the fleet will initially be racing in weak NW winds, so both MOD70s in the competition will be beating to windward. However, winds will freshen for the second half of the route from Stromboli on
Soldini confirms the conditions may make it a tougher race for Maserati Multi70
“It’ll be slightly torturous near Messina because our centreboard still has the short fin of the standard MOD. I’m not sure how we’ll do compared to Phaedo3 because the boats have a different trim: our daggerboard is a metre shorter, it has an attached wing and a larger wetted surface. That could work to our advantage in certain conditions but in others it penalises us a bit. The wind should be freshening as we get to the western tip of Sicily where we’re expecting to be beating in 25 knots of wind. As ever, we’ll be giving it our all to the last”.
A tight team that have clocked up a long series of circumnavigations, ocean races, unbeaten records
On the team are sailors that have flanked Soldini on many of his adventures over the years and who have come up through the ranks of Italian offshore sailing, including Guido Broggi and Francesco Malingri, respectively Maserati Multi70’s boat captain and mediaman. Also aboard is French professional sailor Jean-Baptiste Vaillant, a leading player in many ocean races aboard maxis such as Banque Popolaire V, and a consultant to Oracle. These offshore veterans are joined by two young but expert Spaniards, both of whom sailed aboard MaseratiVolvo70: Carlos Hernandez, who has two Volvo Ocean Races to his credit, and Oliver Herrera Perez who sailed IMS, Swans and J80s before taking to the oceans with Soldini.
The team is completed by Monaco-born Pierre Casiraghi, who began his career aboard Maserati in 2014 and makes a welcome return fresh from racing GC32 foiling cats on the 2016 Racing Tour 2016.
Motivated and ready to set sail from Malta tomorrow morning
Sailors of 25 different nationalities will be competing in the race with Italians making up the lion’s share as per tradition. The regatta continues to attract an international following as attested to by the jump in Russian and British entries and the return of Danish, Ukrainian and Swedish competitors after several years’ absence.
The boat has been repaired
The Maserati Multi70 Team has won its first race against time, fixing in record time the starboard foil and rudder destroyed during the incident that happened on the night of October 16, and will join the rest of the Rolex Middle Sea Race fleet at the start-line at 11.00 am on Saturday, October 22.
Giovanni Soldini described how the incident unfolded
“We were making 30 knots on a reach in 22 knots of wind off the south-west of Sicily when we heard a sharp bang and the rudder was gone. We don’t know what we hit. The bearings (inside which the rudders rotate) were torn out. We lost the lot: rudder, fitting and sector”.
A serious damage for Maserati Multi70 that sailed into port at Malta’s Grand Harbour yesterday morning
On the night of October 16, the Italian MOD70 was involved with a high speed collision with an unidentified floating object 150 miles off Malta en route from La Spezia. Her starboard rudder, rudder tubes and one of the sectors attached to the rudder arm were all completely destroyed in the incident.
Despite the severity of the damage, however, Maserati Multi70’s crew managed sail the craft safely and unaided into the Maltese port.
Soldini says about the race
“We had agreed that we’d all race together in both the Rolex Middle Sea Race and the RORC Transatlantic Race, but we’ll only be competing against Phaedo at Malta because Oman Sail capsized last August off Newfoundland during the Québec-Saint Malo, and the Concise team changed their mind at the last minute.
This is our first race with Maserati Multi70. It’ll be an excellent opportunity to test out the boat and try to improve on our weak points. We’re at an experimental stage. When we get the boat foiling, she performs brilliantly. However, we are at a disadvantage on some levels: Maserati Multi 70 has a much larger wetted surface than her direct rivals and can be slow in manoeuvres because it’s more difficult to adjust the foils and T-foil rudders and so they’re less suited to races like this one where there is a lot of manoeuvring.
The race is usually technically very varied from a weather perspective which demands a huge effort and a lot of strategizing. The passage through the Strait and then the run back to Malta are the best bits. We’ll be giving it our all.
We are just at the start of a very long road. The Middle Sea Race is our first opportunity to compete side by side with a trimaran that’s very similar to Maserati Multi70. We’re sure it’ll be a very valuable experience. "
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Renting in New York can be a convenient way to live without having to worry about the expenses and upkeep that goes along with owning a home. However, there are times when there could be a dispute between landlord and tenant that leads to an attempted eviction. Understanding what constitutes an illegal eviction and what eviction protection a tenant is accorded under the law is imperative when there is a dispute.
If a tenant has a lease, there is protection from eviction while the lease is in effect if the tenant has not violated it, housing codes or laws. Whether the apartment is regulated or unregulated, there must be formal notice from the landlord as to the decision to evict the tenant. If the tenant does not vacate by the required date, the landlord has two options to pursue eviction. First, there can be a summary non-payment court proceeding to remove a tenant who has not paid the rent that was agreed upon when it was due and for the landlord to receive the outstanding rent. Second, there can be a summary holdover proceeding to evict a tenant if there has been a significant violation like using the property for illegal activities or the tenant staying beyond the terms of the lease without approval.
If it is an apartment that has a regulated rent, the landlord might need to receive approval from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) prior to moving forward with a court case if, as an example, it is a situation in which the owner plans to demolish the building. If the eviction is because the tenant has not paid the rent, is causing problems, has done damage or some other act in violation, the case can be brought straight to court. The tenant cannot be evicted after there was a court proceeding and a judgement of possession was given. The landlord is not legally able to remove the tenant by force. This must be done by a marshal, sheriff or some other person who is legally allowed to do so. If a landlord removes a tenant by force or in an illegal manner, the tenant can sue for triple damages.
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Branford Marsalis Quartet with Kurt Elling: Upward Spiral review – master saxophonist meets great jazz vocalist
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Branford Marsalis has mastered most tricks of the sax-player’s trade – traditional song-playing lyricism, an advanced post-Coltrane technique (lately coupled with a classical one), and long experience of playing with singers, notably Sting in the 90s. All that colours this memorable meeting between Marsalis’ quartet and Kurt Elling, one of the best jazz vocalists on the planet. Elling mixes his signature rhythmic hipness with (slightly stagey) jive-talk on the Porgy and Bess classic There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York, lets loose his Mark Murphy-inspired scatting ingenuity on Rollins’ Doxy, and illuminates, with unselfconscious poignancy, the downbeat intensity of Sting’s Practical Arrangement.
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As explained in the notes on the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s album Upward Spiral (featuring Kurt Elling), this is truly a collaborative effort. Everything about the album, from the instrumental musicians’ desire to work with a vocalist, to the choice of that vocalist—although when that choice is Kurt Elling what other choice is there—to the choice of material, is the result of “serious musical debate” creating what Marsalis calls “a true partnership.”
“I usually reject the word ‘collaboration,’” Marsalis explains, “because it implies a third thing from that which each collaborator does well. I don’t need a collaborator to do what I normally do, and Kurt doesn’t, either.” The idea for the new album was to get together to do something different. “The goal here, even though he sings lyrics, was to highlight Kurt’s voice as an instrument.” In effect, Upward Spiral was not intended to be just another vocalist fronting just another quartet.
Now while in any artistic endeavor there is often a great chasm between what was intended and what resulted, and in spite what is oft said of good intentions—the Marsalis-Elling intentions are plenty good, and the road they pave could well bridge over any chasm and end at an innovative musical heaven.
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Branford Marsalis Quartet + Kurt Elling – Four Big Nights
It is difficult to believe that the last time saxophonist Branford Marsalis headlined at Snug Harbor, New Orleans most prestigious modern jazz mecca, was circa 1984. At that time, Marsalis, who appears at the club for a unprecedented four-night stand (December 10 through December 13), co-led a group that was put together by the late Earl Turbinton and included the legendary “Big” Nick Nicholas. Dubbed “Three Generations of Jazz Saxophone,” Turbinton’s aim, it is said, was to illustrate how influences shape the jazz world. Nicholas’ blowing (he’s the guy taking the sax solo on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca”) affected Turbinton and thus the heritage was passed on to Marsalis.
Of course, Marsalis, a New Orleans native now residing in North Carolina, has stood on stage at the Frenchmen Street club since then but only to sit in most often with his father, pianist Ellis Marsalis. For these dates, the three-time, Grammy-winning saxophonist is bringing in his entire, highly-regarded Branford Marsalis Quartet with longtime pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner. The world-renowned vocalist Kurt Elling will join the group as a special guest. Elling, a Chicago native who also claims multiple awards, is truly a dynamic jazz singer and noted for his unique vocalese and scatting. The musicians are all coming to New Orleans to record an album.
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Archivio Locchi
Archivio Giorgini
Traslucido
The Archivio Storico Foto Locchi, under the protection of the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities and containing material of unequalled historic and artistic value, is considered one of the world’s foremost collections of its kind.
A continually expanding corpus of images, which thanks to recent acquisitions now counts upwards of 5 million photographs recounting the history of Florence and Tuscany from the 1930s to the present, preserved in the form of the original negatives.
Images from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and fashion, and reportages of great events in history – as well as “minor” picturesque fragments that tell of customs and daily life, yesterday as today.
The Foto Locchi mission is and always has been to keep alive the Archivio’s exceptional heritage and the immense iconographic wealth it represents, and to make it available to the public, that it may become not only an avant-garde tool but also a point of reference and a source of inspiration for companies, professionals, scholars and students, and aficionados of photography and history.
In March 2014 the new website www.fotolocchi.it was inaugurated.
OUR HISTORY: “LA BOTTEGA”
In 1924, landscape photographer Tullio Locchi, also an esteemed war photographer and official photographer to the royal family, decided to found a studio and shop in the city center: Foto Locchi in Piazza Vittorio, today’s Piazza della Repubblica.
Giorgini Archive manages the most important documentation on the birth of Made in Italy as a brand.
Collection includes photographs, letters, invitations, programs, press releases, magazines and newspapers on early Italian Fashion.
In 2001 Neri Fadigati, G. B. Giorgini grandson, established Giorgini Archive as a no profit organization.
Giovanni Battista Giorgini spent his entire life to promote and export Italian high quality handcrafts. He opened his buying office in 1923, and traveled to North America, presenting a collection of selected samples to the most important department stores.
On February 12, 1951 he organized the First Italian High Fashion Show, at his home in Florence. Then he directed the shows, in the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti, contributing to the worldwide success of Made in Italy.
Neri Fadigati, Giorgini grandson, established the Archive in 2001, to manage the materials documenting his grandfather activity.
Collection includes photographs, letters, invitations, programs, press releases, magazines and newspapers. Some are in the V&A Museum show “The Glamour of Italian Fashion” that will next tour to the USA, until 2015.
The owners of the antique shop Traslucido, both graduated at Accademy of Belle Arti in Florence in scenography and painting, opened the antique shop in Florence in 1985.
They like best Liberty and Decò ,historical periods dated 1940-1950 of both Italian and Europen nineties. They select carefully furniture, pottery and glasswork items, for the lighting chandeliers, lighting fittings, reading lamps and appliques, paintings and sculptures of Italian school and others countries as well.
Particular attention is to the quality and the rareness of each article so that customers can always find the right offer.
You can find manufactured articles like tables, sideboards, armchairs and sofas of the most prestigious Italian and European furniture-makers of nineties.
Among ceramics you can find works of authors like Gio Ponti, Galileo Chini, Cantagalli, among glassworks and Murano lightings you can find factories like Venini, Seguso, Barovier.
Two large exhibitions, the first one in Via Maggio 11/r and the other one inside prestigious Palazzo Ricasoli in Via Maggio 7, give you the oppurtunity of appreciate a large quantity of articles and variety of choice.
What is real in a world invaded by texts and images? What is hidden behind our personal vision of things? How can one set and develop a coherent photographic reportage?
Creating personal photographs different from the mass of images which we are invaded by daily seems like an impossible task.
The secret is slowing down, reflecting, and using essential instruments, whose limitations becoming a starting point to then expand our visual capacities.
At the forefront for over a 100 years, Leica has realized a camera capable of going beyond technical limitations and allowing emotions to emerge.
In 1914 Leica revolutionized photography forever, becoming a point of reference for the best photographers in the world.
The secret? Don’t just make cameras, create immortal values, combining clever design and exceptional craftsmanship.
DOGUE, Australia’s favourite dog brand has finally arrived in Europe and is thrilled to be associated with The Lungarno Collection of hotels.
DOGUE opened its first store in Sydney in 1988 and was Australia’s first dog boutique. Known for its luxurious bedding and custom made outfits, DOGUE – The House of Canine Couture, catered to every dog’s whim and their owners desires.
Here you could find a dog bed to match your lounge room, food bowls too good to serve dinner in, collars covered in jewels and outfits inspired by the latest fashions.
In 2004 DOGUE began wholesaling its exclusive range of products and today their range can be found in over 600 stores across Australia.
DOGUE continues to lead the way when it comes to doggie must haves, their products are fresh, fun, unique and fashionable. All accessories are designed by DOGUE founder Simone Kingston, and together with her partner Tony Kingston have recently moved to Florence to set up an office to work on the expansion of their brand into Europe.
The very lucky dogs staying at The Portrait Hotel, Firenze will be welcomed on arrival with a “G’Day Mate Aussie Animal” toy, theirs to keep, take to the park, carry across the Arno, or save it to play with when they return to the hotel.
They will sleep and relax in complete comfort in one of DOGUE’s soft, luxurious beds and eat in style out of one of their stunning bowls.
Dogs can now experience their own piece of 5 star luxury when visiting Florence.
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LVMH subsidiary Sephora wins Special Jury Prize at 2010 Corporate Citizenship Awards for
LVMH subsidiary Sephora wins Special Jury Prize at 2010 Corporate Citizenship Awards for - LVMH
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Sephora, a subsidiary of the LVMH Group, today received the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Corporate Citizenship Awards, organized under the aegis of the President of the French Senate. The prize was given for a Sephora initiative called “Jobstyle”. The Corporate Citizenship Awards recognize innovative, concrete actions by businesses that support the general interests of all citizens.
The Sephora “Jobstyle” initiative helps people with disabilities find employment by advising them on their image prior to job interviews. Candidates selected benefit from coaching and an individual diagnostic during a “style and video” workshop.
This action reflects the LVMH Group’s proactive Corporate Social Responsibility policy. It follows the 2010 Special Jury Prize for “Engagement and Innovation” given to LVMH several weeks ago during the Diversity Awards, also in recognition of “Jobstyle”, as well as another initiative called “Handi-Talents”. The latter is an appraisal center that promotes hiring of people with disabilities by LVMH companies, using role playing methods and aptitude tests to enable candidates to identify their full potential in seeking new responsibilities.
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Reading the American Past: Volume II: From 1865
Selected Historical DocumentsFifth Edition| ©2012 Michael P. Johnson
With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in a manageable, accessible way. Thirty-two new documents infuse the collection with the voices of an even wider range of
With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in a manageable, accessible way. Thirty-two new documents infuse the collection with the voices of an even wider range of historical actors. Expertly edited by Michael P. Johnson, one of the authors of The American Promise, the readings can be used to spark discussion in any classroom and fit into any syllabus. Headnotes and discussion questions help students approach the documents, and comparative questions encourage students to make connections across documents. Reading the American Past is FREE when packaged with The American Promise, The American Promise: A Compact History, and Understanding the American Promise. For more information on the reader or on package ISBNs, please contact your local sales representative or click here
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Sources that connect students to the people who made U.S. history
The documents introduce students to the range of historical actors in U.S. history, from a Seven Years’ War captive, a colonial woman writer, and a slave appealing to his president to end slavery to a young female homesteader, a staunch segregationist, and a president seeking an end to terrorism. The variety of perspectives helps students analyze historical events and appreciate the historical agency behind the sometimes successful and sometimes thwarted search for the American promise.
The Introduction for Students explains the importance of primary sources and gives students step-by-step instructions for document analysis.
Chapter introductions and headnotes provide the right amount of background information for students’ comprehension of the documents.
Questions for Reading and Discussion follow each document to engage students to think critically.
Comparative Questions at the end of each chapter connect the documents’ themes and ask students to evaluate the sources taken together.
Thirty-two new documents add more diverse voices to the collection, from a farmer on the New York frontier during the American Revolution to one of the real “Rosie the Riveters.”
Additional gloss notes help students with unfamiliar vocabulary.
New questions further encourage discussion and debate.
“Reading the American Past is a succinct collection of primary sources that supplements the major topics and themes covered in class, and it provides students with a good starting point for working with primary documents. The selections allow for discussion on a range of topics but do not slight some of the key documents with which students should be familiar in their study of American history.”
— Tonia M. Compton, Columbia College
“This is an excellent document reader, appropriate for use by a wide range of American history survey students. I can think of no better reader for teaching students the skills necessary for interpreting the past.”
— Luke E. Harlow, Oakland University
“Reading the American Past anticipates all the readings you would want for an introductory course. It balances politics and foreign policy with an excellent selection of social and cultural documents.”
— Jeffrey P. Moran, University of Kansas
Fifth Edition| ©2012
Michael P. Johnson
Fifth Edition| 2012
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877
16-1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
16-2 Black Codes Enacted in the South
Mississippi Black Code, November 1865
16-3 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870
16-4 Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves, 1867
Louis Manigault, “A Narrative of a Post-Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations,” March 22, 1867
16-5 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1870-1900
17-1 Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870
17-2 Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead
Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873
17-3 Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875
17-4 In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879
17-5 A Plea to “Citizenize” Indians
Richard Pratt, “Kill the Indian ... and save the man,” 1892
18. BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1870-1895
18-1 Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies
Marshall M. Kirkman, “The Railway Army,” 1894
18-2 William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883
18-3 Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
18-4 Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
Wealth, 1889
18-5 Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885
19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870-1900
19-1 A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market
Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885
19-2 Domestic Servants on Household Work
Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s
19-3 Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums
Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890
19-4 Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
Walter A. Wyckoff, “Among the Revolutionaries,” 1898
19-5 George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905
20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890-1900
20-1 Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers' Alliance
Mary Elizabeth Lease, “Women in the Farmers' Alliance,” 1891
20-2 White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington “Rebellion” of 1898
20-3 Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead
Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893
20-4 Conflicting Views about Labor Unions
N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900
Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894
20-5 Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
Case against the United States, 1899
21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890-1916
21-1 Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892
21-2 A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900
21-3 Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony
Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907
21-4 Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage
Marie Jenney Howe, An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913
21-5 Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
21-6 W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914-1920
22-1 The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse
“For Freedom and Democracy,” The North American Review, April 1917
22-2 Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918
22-3 A Doughboy's Letter from the Front
Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918
22-4 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
The Case against the “Reds,” 1920
22-5 An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919
23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920-1932
23-1 Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World
Edward Earle Purinton, “Big Ideas From Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself,” The Independent, April 16, 1921
23-2 Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
Diary Entries, 1925-1928
23-3 The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926
23-4 Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928
23-5 Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923
24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932-1939
24-1 Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934
Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934
24-2 Working People's Letters to New Dealers
Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935
Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936
Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937
24-3 Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935
24-4 A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together
Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941
24-5 Conservatives Criticize the New Deal
Herbert Hoover, Anti - New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936
Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937
25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
25-1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan
Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941
25-2 A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999
25-3 The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews
Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942
25-4 Soldiers Send Messages Home
Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942
John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942
Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943
James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944
David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945
25-5 Rosies the Riveters Recall Working in War Industries
Rosie the Riveter Memoirs
26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945-1953
26-1 General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
For the Common Defense, 1945
26-2 George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
26-3 Cold War Blueprint
NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950
26-4 Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists
Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950
26-5 Donald M. Griffith Recalls Combat in the Korean War
Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003
27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952-1960
27-1 Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
Women Are Household Slaves, 1949
27-2 Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence
The Status Seekers, 1959
27-3 George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
George E. McMillan, “Sit-Downs: The South's New Time Bomb,” 1960
27-4 Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow
North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960
27-5 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Farewell Address, January 1961
28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960-1974
28-1 New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change
Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962
28-2 Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
28-3 George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax," July 4, 1964
28-4 Black Power
Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967
28-5 Equal Rights for Women
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966
29. VIETNAM AND THE LIMITS OF POWER, 1961-1975
29-1 President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam
Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963
President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963
29-2 A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966
29-3 Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971
29-4 An American Soldier in Vietnam
Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger
29-5 John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War
John Kerry Testimony before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971
30. AMERICA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, 1969-1989
30-1 The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency
Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973
30-2 Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Decision, 1973
30-3 Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became “Roe” of Roe v. Wade
Norma McCorvey Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000
30-4 President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983
30-5 A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983
31. THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1989
31-1 National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002
31-2 A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007
31-3 A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked
Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004
31-4 Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools' Responsibility for the Economic Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Capitalist Fools,” Global Research, December 11, 2008
31-5 President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U. S. Relations with the Muslim World
President Barack Obama, “On a New Beginning,” Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2010
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
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MADEIRA’S no 1 OFFICIAL GUIDE since 1997
Uber in Madeira
Madeira December 2019
Xmas Lights 2019
November Events 2019
October Events 2019
What’s On for September
August Events 2019
Madeira Weather
Madeira Maps
Flowers, Fruit & Fish Calendar
Banks & Currency
Electricity, Time & Water
Dangers & Nuisances
Gay Travellers
Restaurants and Eating Out
Typical Markets
Madeira Events
Madeira Carnival
Madeira Flower Festival
Type of Sport
Sports Figures
Madeira Apartments
Madeira Resorts
Madeira Hostels
Madeira Villas
Funchal City Live Webcam
Funchal Marina Live Webcam
Ritz Madeira Live Webcam
Fixed Views
Funchal Fixed Views
Ritz Fixed Views
New Year Celebrations
Classic Car Revival
Madeira Old Photos
Daily Pic
Madeira Protected Areas
Images of Madeira’s fascinating natural ecological reserve and protected areas, discover its beauty and the Laurissilva Forest, which has been classified as World Heritage by UNESCO.
The stunning view of Madeira Island from Deserta Grande
The Guard House at Fajã da Doca - Deserta Grande
The workstation of the Parque Natural da Madeira (the body that supervises the nature reserve) is at Fajã Grande. Fajã means piece of fertile land consequence of a landslide and this one formed in 1984. It is now a natural harbour and the official anchorage of the reserve.
Nature Watch at Deserted Islands 'Ilhas Desertas'
Castanheira Valley - Deserta Grande
The Castanheira Valley is home to the Desertas Wolf Spider, a species of spider which is endemic to Madeira and that can become as big as a hand. It is considered the largest wolf spider in Europe.
Bugio, Desertas Coastline
The Desertas coastline is almost 37700 meters long and has steep cliffs that are almost inaccessible. As one navigates around the islets one can see many caves formed by sea erosion and several sand and pebble beaches.
Ilhas Desertas (Deserted Islands) Nature Reserve
The Desertas are made up of three islets (Ilhéu Chão, Deserta Grande and Bugio) all of volcanic origin that formed 3.5 million years ago. Classified as a Nature Reserve since 1995 they have a unique natural heritage filled with rare and endemic species, of which the one that gets most attention is the Monk Seal (Monachus monachus), considered the rarest seal in the world.
Seagulls on the Desertas
The Desertas are an important nesting ground for many seabirds due to their inaccessibility and the relative absence of human intervention.
Ilhéu Chão - Ilhas Desertas (Deserted Islands)
Lobo Marinho - Sea Wolf (Monachus monachus)
Monk Seal - Lobo-Marinho
Considered the rarest seal in the world, it is the ‘star’ of the reserve and one of the main reasons that the Desertas were classified as a Nature Reserve. Nowadays the colony has about 30 individuals (there are only 500 in the world) and they are prospering in the Madeira waters.
Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulweria)
The Selvagens - Boettger's Wall Gecko (Tarentola Boettgeri Bischoffi)
The Selvagens Wall Gecko is a species endemic to these islands. It lives in rocky habitats and is not a threatened species. One of its main characteristics is its ability to climb vertical smooth surfaces, including glass.
Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
The biggest colony of Cory’s Shearwaters in the world, about 18 thousand couples, breeds on the Selvagens. These pelagic birds nest on small islands and sea cliffs where they build their nests in holes in the rock face or under large stones. Their territory stretches from Madeira to continental Portugal, the Azores and the Canary islands.
Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulweria) with an egg
Fea’s Petrel (Pterodroma Feae)
A protected species, Fea’s Petrel (Pterodroma Fea) is a macaronesian seabird that only nests on the Ilhéu do Bugio in the Desertas and in Cabo Verde. It builds its nest in holes in the rock face or it digs them in the soil.
Berthelot's Pipit (Anthus berthelotii madeirensis)
This is the only bird that can be seen all year round in the Selvagens. It is the same as can be found in the Canary Islands but it is different from those found on Madeira Island.
Baby Seagull
Madeira Common Sea Turtle
Dusky Grouper (Epinephelus Marginatus)
This friendly fish which approaches divers without fear and can weigh as much as 65kg is one of the symbols of the Garajau Nature Reserve. It is the reserve’s main attraction because it is so docile and comes to eat from divers’ hands. This friendliness almost got it extinct because of spear-fishing. Nowadays it is on Portugal’s list of threatened species.
Barred Hogfish (Bodianus scrofa)
The barred hogfish is only one of many fish species that can be found at the Garajau Nature Reserve. This brightly coloured fish has great commercial value, the male being usually more colourful than the female.
Selvagens Nature Reserve
Discovered by Portugal in the 15th century the Selvagens (Savage islands) suffered several colonization attempts, which failed due to the lack of drinking water and the unwelcoming nature of the islands. They were private property until 1971 when they were bought by the Portuguese government and made into a reserve. They are made up of three islands (Selvagem Pequena, Selvagem Grande and Ilhéu de Fora), which are a sanctuary for nesting seabirds. The difficult access and the absence of mammals make these islands ideal for breeding birds.
Snail Floor ‘Chão dos Caramujos’ - Selvagens
Top of Selvagem Grande
Rocha do Navio Natural Reserve
The cultivated fields almost reach the sea - Rocha do Navio
Panoram of Baía D´Abra, Ponta de São Lourenço
Ponta de São Lourenço with a view towards Caniçal
Legend has it that the name of this area is as old as 1420 when Madeira was discovered and is due to someone on Henry the Navigator’s ship having yelled “Oh St. Lawrence, arrive!” when they came round the easternmost point of Madeira. This area is completely different from the rest of the Island of Madeira with high sea cliffs and lots of caves and beaches on the coastline. It also has a black sandy beach called Prainha, which is very popular with bathers in the summer.
Ponta de São Lourenço
Desertas Wolf Spider
The Desertas Wolf Spider (Lycosa ingens), shown here with its young, is a species, which is endemic to Deserta Grande, more precisely the Castanheira Valley, where it hides under rocks and stones. There are about one thousand individuals and they can become 12cm between legs. These spiders are cannibals so it is believed that not many reach adulthood even though broods are 100 to 200 young strong.
Garajau Nature Reserve
The Garajau Nature Reserve, created in 1986, was the first marine nature reserve in Portugal. It was created to protect this privileged area of the Madeira coastline and to contribute to the repopulation of these seabeds that were becoming despoiled due to overfishing. These waters are very rich biologically.
Laurissilva Forest
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Alon Zakaim Fine Art and Melzi Fine Art are proud to present Dinamicaダイナミック, one of the first exhibitions in the UK of Italian and Japanese post-war art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition will explore the evolving concepts, aesthetic parallels and thematic connections between Italian and Japanese artists aspiring to transform and redefine their art in the aftermath of World War II. Key Gutai artists, Shozo Shimamoto, Yasuo Sumi, Shu Takahashi and Kazuo Shiraga will be presented alongside Italian post-war masters such as Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani and Arnaldo Pomodoro. The show will also trace their continual influence by presenting a selection of works by contemporary Japanese and Italian artists including Kenjirō Azuma, Koji Yamamoto, Matteo Negri and Stefano Perrone.
In the wake of World War II, totalitarian regimes were brought to an end in both the East and the West. Established cultural ideas were challenged and fascist tyrannies rejected resulting in a new found aesthetic freedom. Artists in both Italy and Japan responded by experimenting with a diverse body of work.
Japanese art expanded with new materials, radical subject matter and experimental performances, manifested by artists like Shiraga with his barefoot paintings. Meanwhile Italian artists such as Castellani and Fontana experimented with spatial perceptions and the idea of the canvas itself to redefine and question established artistic modes.
Throughout the exhibition distinct parallels and compelling comparisons will be explored by placing the art of the East and West in juxtaposition. The show will address the relationships of materiality, composition and process in order to examine the artistic similarities and differences between the two cultures. Takahashi’s R6.45 (1966) explored the blurred boundaries between painting and sculpture, concurrent with manipulated canvases such as Superficie gialla (1984) by Italian contemporary, Castellani. Punctured works such as Shimamoto’s Hole (1972) and Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale (1962) explored the use of both positive and negative space, highlighting a mutual interest in pushing the extremes of canvas. Strikingly similar, both visually and conceptually, Shimamoto insists that neither artist was aware of the others practices, although Fontana was featured in Gutai journals from the 1950s onwards. Despite a strong contrast between the fundamental geometrics of Pomodoro’s Piramide (1985) and the more earthly, tactile nature of Azuma’s La goccia (2016), a shared gravitational aesthetic can be found between them. The simplicity by which they have been able to represent geometry and nature has allowed for successful translations into monumental reproductions, which are admired in public spaces worldwide.
Dinamicaダイナミック will highlight the shared spirit of investigation that resulted in the evolution of a new aesthetic in both the East and the West. The viewer is encouraged to look deeply at the art on show, discovering their own interconnections between the works produced during this dynamic post-war period and the enduring influence on contemporary Italian and Japanese artists today.
Dinamicaダイナミック will be on display at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 5-7 Dover St. London W1S 4LD from 3 October - 7 November 2017. Entry is free to this selling exhibition and gallery opening hours are 9am-6pm, Monday-Friday. Weekends by appointment only.
Dinamica ダイナミック: Italian & Japanese Post-War Art
5-7 Dover Street, 3 October - 7 November 2017
Shiraga - Work, 1981
Fontana - Concetto Spaziale, 1962
Shimamoto - Helicopter Work 06, 2004 (unframed)
Castellani - Superficie gialla, 1984
Sumi - Untitled, 1965 (unframed)
Sumi - Untitled 61, 1961 (unframed)
Boetti_-_Le_cose_nascono_dalla_necessità_e_dal_caso,_1968
Castellani - Superficie bianca, 1985
Aricò, 1966, 100x70cm
Pomodoro - Piramide, 1985
Scanavino, Tramatura, 1983, 130x100
Azuma - La goccia
Griffa - Orizzontale, 1975 (unframed)
Perrone - Impossibilitato alla ragione, si limitava a colpire
Negri - L'ego Mondrian, 2017
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Tanagra - "Meridiem" (audio)
Ο νέος δίσκος των Tanagra είναι προ των πυλών. Φέρει τον τίτλο "Meridiem" και θα κυκλοφορήσει στα τελειώματα του Απρίλη. Οι Tanagra μας έρχονται από το Πόρτλαντ, δημιουργήθηκαν πριν από εννέα χρόνια, αρέσκονται στο μελωδικό metal κι έχουν κυκλοφορήσει ένα demo κι έναν "ολοκληρωμένο" δίσκο...
Δελτίο τύπου: «Hunkered down across four studios for close to three years, joined by guest musicians on piano, cello, and viola, Portland’s Tanagra has been refining and crafting the seven multi-layered compositions on their upcoming album "Meridiem" to perfection. The release, due out on April 26th, is power metal packed with depth, emotion, harmony, and complexity.
Debuting the 11 and a half minute epic title track as the first single, the song displays much of the same ambition that guided Tanagra in their three years crafting "Meridiem". It's the perfect overture to open the release, distilling the entire album's essence of dynamic lengthy songs, soaring guitar solos, majestic orchestrations, and powerful choral vocals into a single track containing everything from mournful piano passages to driving power metal riffing with a dash of symphonic black metal.»
Tanagra: «It’s pretty unanimous that this is one of the best things we’ve ever written. It’s really close to all our hearts. Initially, 'Meridiem' started as a spiritual successor to 10:04 PM off of None Of This Is Real. As the song began to take shape it became more than just a spiritual successor, instead, it seemed that 10:04 pm existed so that one-day Meridiem would take form. Really as time went on they shared little connection musically and lyrically but at its core shared the collaborative nature that we had come to know as Tanagra. This is the quintessential Tanagra song.»
Bio: «Formed out of the love of science fiction, fantasy, and theatrical heavy metal storytelling, Tanagra hit the Portland, USA metal scene in 2011 with epic, symphonic, progressive power metal with lyrical content about original fantasy/sci-fi settings, Magic: The Gathering, historical tales, and other nerdy themes.
In 2015, they released their debut album, None of This is Real, an energetic collection of American power metal showcasing their love for complex arrangements and lengthy songs which garnered critical acclaim from a multitude of publications around the world.
In the time following their debut release, the members found a deep love for progressive rock/metal and symphonic black metal, and in writing new material found ways to combine the sounds of bands like IQ, Anekdoten, Caladan Brood, and Borknagar into their existing American power metal framework. In 2016, Tanagra entered the studio with the fruits of their labors to begin recording their ambitious second album, titled Meridiem, slated for global release April 26, 2019.»
Band: Tanagra
Lyrical themes: Time, Science fiction, Fantasy, History, Dreams
Years active: 2010-present
Audio: "Meridiem"
Album: "Meridiem"
Release date: April 26th, 2019
Format: CD, Digital
1. Meridiem (11:35)
2. Sydria (4:01)
3. Etheric Alchemy (8:49)
4. Silent Chamber (7:52)
5. Hidden Hand (10:14)
6. Across the Ancient Desert (7:39)
7. Witness (14:19)
Erich Ulmer - Bass
Josh Kay - Guitars
Steven Soderberg - Guitars
Tom Socia - Vocals
Christopher Stewart - Drums
Guest/Session:
Jake Rogers - Vocals (track 6)
Miscellaneous staff:
Kris Crummett - Mastering
Gary Tonge - Cover art
Tom Socia - Layout
Posted at Μαρτίου 31, 2019
Tagged under APRIL 2019, AUDIO, TANAGRA
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Massive Anime Blu-ray Sale
Amazon is having a massive Blu-ray Anime sale right now – this is a once in a great while sale that should make any anime fan happy. Tokyo Magnitude 80, Patlabor, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Un-Go, No. 6 are just a few of the titles on sale – most for up to 60% off the list price!
Title On Sale for $27.99:
The World God Only Knows: Season 2 [Blu-ray]
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Play The Oregon Trail Deluxe and 2K+ Old Games Online
Finally!!! After not being able to get this game for so long, archive.org has just posted it up to play in browser (via the DosBox Dos emulator) along with over 2,000 other old, old school games from Commodore 64 and other platforms! Check them out here!
Batman the Animated Series Records and Prints
Tonight Mondo will be dropping their new “Batman: The Animated Series” 7-Inch records featuring five different sleeves, each by a different artist showcasing villains from the hit tv series!
Missed Prints Helps Support WolfCop
A few of us here at Missed Prints have decided to help fund our first crowd sourced project, the upcoming horror-comedy film “WolfCop” – and it was an easy decision! The film is being released between June and September worldwide and features alcoholic cop Lou Garou who routinely blacks out (as we all do), but starts to realize he’s not just lying on his floor half dressed the whole time (as we all do) – there’s something else a foot…
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“Strafe” – the fastest, bloodiest, deadliest, most adjective-abusing, action-packed first-person shooter of 1996 boasts the best retro gaming commercial we have seen since “Bonestorm”!
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Recording Connection, Pensado’s Place Scholarship Winners at Work
Matt Gallagher ⋅ Apr 7, 2015
The Recording Connection Audio Institute in Los Angeles partnered with Web series Pensado’s Place to offer full-ride scholarships for training in professional recording studios. Winners receive the full benefits of the Recording Connection program: hands-on training by a respected audio engineer or music producer in partnership with a curriculum-backed instruction, along with free tutoring and job assistance services.
To enter, applicants had to send in a short essay explaining why they deserved to win and move forward with their careers. Pensado’s Place hosts Dave Pensado and Herb Trawick announced the contest winners over several episodes of the series in 2014.
Award recipient Brian Zadel, an aspiring EDM producer, says, “I didn’t have to pay anything to enter, and one day I was watching the show and they announced my name.” Shortly after receiving the scholarship, Zadel was placed with music composer and engineer Dick Orr at John Wagner Studios, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I know by the end of the program, I’m going to have a vast amount of knowledge that I didn’t have, not even a year ago,” Zadel says. “I’m just glad to be a little lucky, and I’m glad I took that chance.”
Scholarship recipient Dani Munoz was placed with Hal Batt of Afterhours Music in Miami. Since then, Munoz has worked as the front-of-house sound engineer for Flo Rida’s European tour, produced Tien, and will work as FOH engineer for the band Magic!. “The fact that you connect with somebody that’s working, the fact that you connect with somebody that’s in it—that, to me, is the way to go,” Munoz says of the scholarship opportunity.
“One of the greatest pleasures Herb and I have is the opportunity to educate,” says Pensado. “The fact that we can partner with organizations like Recording Connection, offer Pensado’s Place Scholarships, and then watch the recipient grow and succeed, makes it all worthwhile.”
For more information, visit www.recordingconnection.com and www.pensadosplace.tv.
Recording Connection Pensado’s Place Scholarship Winners Making Moves
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HomeTV ShowsAmerican IdolAmerican Idol Spotlighted on ABC’s Country Music Special (VIDEO)
American Idol Spotlighted on ABC’s Country Music Special (VIDEO)
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Ahead of the CMA Awards which will air on ABC Wednesday (Nov 14) the network aired a news special featuring Robin Roberts interviewing some of the biggest stars in country music.
The Sunday night special (Nov 11) included several American Idol stars including season 4 winner Carrie Underwood and judge Luke Bryan. Additionally, the special also aired a segment on American Idol and country music which featured Carrie and her fellow country music alums Kellie Pickler, Scotty McCreery and more.
The CMA Awards air Wednesday November 14 at 8 PM. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley host. American Idol returns to ABC in early 2019.
Watch Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Scotty McCreery talk about their time on American Idol and the impact the show has had on their careers. Plus, host Ryan Seacrest and judge Luke Bryan share their thoughts on the legendary competitive reality show.
Robin Roberts interviewed Carrie Underwood in her hometown of Checotah Oklahoma, which included a trip to the singer’s old high school. The segment offers a look at Carrie’s life since she won Idol in 2004, including career highlights and family life with husband Mike Fisher, son Isaiah, and a baby on the way.
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Carrie Underwood, to Co-Host CMA’s With Brad Paisley Again
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They did it last year, and were such a big hit (plus winning, once again, Male and Female Vocalist of the Year) that Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will return as co-emcees of the CMA
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According to JoesPlace blog, Michael Castro, Jason Castro’s little brother, got a golden ticket from the judges during the Dallas Season 9 auditions this week. He advanced to Hollywood last year too, making it all
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Are Presidential Candidates Talking Down to You? Science Says Definitely
By Jon Levine
Kids aren't the only ones who say the darnedest things — it would seem some presidential candidates do too.
A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University determined that the language used by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on the campaign trail roughly corresponds to that of an 11-year-old or younger. Trump has proven himself adept at using a brash political rhetoric, often calling his peers (and, in some cases, voters) "babies," "stupid" and "losers." Some might call it schoolyard speak.
Perhaps the study's most revealing find is the degree to which candidates adjust their speaking styles to address different demographics, a tendency most dramatic with Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
"This analysis shows the changes that candidates make in the level of their speech according to the type of speech," study authors Elliot Schumacher and Maxine Eskenazi wrote. "It also reflects each candidate's combination of personal delivery style and their analysis of the level of the audience they want to address."
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The study also compared the speech patterns of candidates and recent presidents to one Abraham Lincoln, and determined that Honest Abe had the most sophisticated style, while former president George W. Bush had the least. Among the remaining 2016 candidates, Bernie Sanders speaks with the most erudition with language equivalent to Americans between the age of 15 and 18.
In August, Politico's Jack Shafer ran Trump's words through the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level test and found similar results. "He prefers to link short, blocky words into other short, blocky words to create short, blocky sentences that he then stacks into short, blocky paragraphs," he wrote.
But maybe we're just all a stinkin' buncha bullies.
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Mike Ware - Alternative Photography
Warning & Disclaimer
Practical Instructions
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Paper for Alternative Printing
Background to the Problem
Alternative photographic printing involves the hand-coating of plain paper with solutions of light-sensitive chemicals. There is an important sub-group of alternative processes which have one feature in common: they are all based on light-sensitive salts of iron. Many readers will already be acquainted with some of these, for instance, the Platinotype, Palladiotype, Chrysotype, Argyrotype and Cyanotype processes, in which the final image consists, respectively, of platinum, palladium, gold, silver or Prussian blue. In all these processes (and their relatives, such as the Kallitype, Vandyke, Argentotype, Amphitype, and Sepiaprint), a solution of reactive chemicals is absorbed by the surface fibres of a fine paper, where the photochemistry takes place in intimate contact with all the substances that are contained in the paper. This distinguishes the iron-based processes from conventional silver-gelatin printing and those alterantive processes using pigmented colloids, such as Gum Dichromate, or Carbon printing, where the photochemistry is isolated within a binder layer of polymer lying on top of the paper substrate.
Workers with the iron-based processes, like myself, are perpetually confronted with the difficulty of finding a paper that satisfies all four of the following criteria:
It must be chemically compatible with the sensitizer.
It must have sufficient wet strength to withstand processing.
It should fulfill the requirements for archival permanence.
It must provide an aesthetically satisfying image surface.
Until recently, we have had to compromise by using papers which were intended for drawing, watercolour painting or printing etchings. However well these papers may suit their intended purpose, none is ideal for iron-based printing. The makers of artists' papers have always assumed, quite reasonably, that the substances that will be applied to them are chemically inert - like insoluble pigments, pencil graphite, or inks. Only very recently have any of the manufacturers of fine papers attempted to supply the needs of our very small minority group - the alternative photographic print-makers.
Machine-made papers
Paper is produced commercially by machines in such large volume that it is uneconomic for the manufacturer to conduct experiments with small makings in order to perfect a specification for the minority user. Moreover, the large scale mills of the papermaking industry tend to be reluctant to disclose details of their furnishes and the additives to the pulp, so the lack of any dialogue on these matters leads to the inclusion of substances that interfere with the chemistry of alternative processes. Even worse, paper manufacturers have been known to change their specifications without notice, which may completely alter the chemical characteristics of the paper (the Palladio Company in the USA experienced just such a problem in 1989, for example).
A compromise solution that I have recommended in the past is the use of Atlantis Silversafe Photostore. This was actually developed for use by conservators as a wrapping paper for photographic archives. It fulfils very high, published standards of chemical purity and is consequently an excellent substrate for experimental work but, being a wrapping paper, it naturally lacks the aesthetic qualities desirable in a fine print, moreover its absorbency tends to be rather high for aqueous coatings and its wet strength is rather low.
Very recently, the famous Arches Mill in France has marketed a paper - Arches Platine - which, as its name implies, is specifically intended for platinum printing. This was commissioned in response to demand from the USA: early opinion there (as voiced in the Alternative Photo Process list on the Internet) reflects a qualified approval. I have found it to work well enough with platinum-palladium, but it is reluctant to yield a good result in pure platinum with the print-out process. (It may be better suited to the traditional method, which is still used by many platinum-palladium printers in North America.) Arches Platine also provides a fair cyanotype paper, but it is not suitable for my Argyrotype process. Cranes Platinotype paper is also available to North American users, and I am told that it answers well for this pupose.
The Solution: Handmade Paper
The only complete answer to these problems, which enables us to gain some control over the paper specification, is to commission a special paper to be made by hand. Fortunately there still remain in this country (UK) a few craftspeople who have kept alive the skills of hand-making paper, and it is only through the willing and patient cooperation of one of these craftsmen, that the present initiative has been possible.
The making of a paper for iron-based alternative processes was developed by Chris Bingham of Ruscombe Mill in Gloucestershire, in response to initial specifications that I drew up in 1992. The name that Chris chose for it was Buxton paper - a nice reference to my home town, noted for its spa waters! The evolution of Buxton paper has called for several painstaking trial makings by Chris, my testing the product each time by alternative photographic printing, and then much frank discussion and negotiation between the two of us in solving the problems.
The specification of Buxton paper has been carefully worked out with the iron-based processes particularly in mind, but I hope it may be useful for other processes also: Judy Seigel has found that it performs very well indeed with single-coat gum-bichromate, and it also responds very well in ink-jet printers! The composition is compatible with the chemistry that will take place within its fibres, and it is also intended to offer the highest standards of image quality and archival permanence, provided the correct wet processing procedures are followed.
The Specification
In summary, the specification of Buxton paper is as follows:
It is made from long cotton fibre, nearly 100% alpha-cellulose
The papermaking mold is wove (not laid), with no watermark
It is internally sized with alkyl ketene dimer, 'Aquapel'
There is no added buffer of chalk to provide the 'alkaline reserve' so popular in archival papers: calcium carbonate reacts unfavourably with iron-based sensitizer solutions
The paper has a natural white colour, with no added pigments
There are no other additives whatsoever, such as the optical brightening agents, bleaches, buffers, dyes, clay fillers, wet strength agents, etc., which are so commonly encountered in commercial papers, and which are most often inimical to iron-based photochemistry
The pH is approximately 7.5, very close to neutrality
A relatively light weight of 160 gsm has been chosen for the sheet, in the interests of efficient washing out of the excess sensitizer chemicals, and yet providing sufficient wet strength to withstand considerable handling in the wet processing.
The paper has been cold-pressed, leaving an attractive 'tooth' to give life to the surface, which does not change significantly after wet processing. In contrast, many of the highly calendered, hot-pressed commercial papers lose some of their smoothness on wet processing.
Being hand-made, Buxton paper has no preferred 'machine direction', i.e. the fibres are randomly oriented. It is therefore equally strong in all directions and dries flat without cockling or curling.
The dimensional stability is high: its size changes by less than 0.5% after a cycle of wet processing and drying, making it suitable for multiple printing, where accurate re-registration of the image is paramount. The attractive texture of the surface may also commend it as a substrate for gum dichromate, and the other alternative printing processes employing a layer of photohardened colloid.
The Importance of Correct Absorbency
The degree of internal sizing has been chosen so that this paper is initially somewhat hydrophobic, i.e. slightly water repellant. This is intended to allow time for an aqueous sensitizer to be uniformly spread over the surface of the sheet before it starts absorbing into the fibres. It is undesirable that a sensitizer should soak rapidly into the interior of the sheet, where it cannot contribute to the image and may resist washing out.
Workers with the iron-based processes must recognise that the absorbency of a paper varies with the sensitizer solution being applied to it. The viscosity, surface tension and chemical composition (which influences its ability to swell cellulose) are all important factors. Sensitizers employing ammonium iron(III) citrate (Argyrotype, Vandyke , Brownprint and traditional Cyanotype) cannot easily penetrate the cellulose structure; the sensitizer just tends to lie on the surface of the paper or in the open pores between the fibres, rather than diffusing into the capillaries of its intrafibrillar space. Two problems may result:
when the coating dries, crystals may be formed on the surface, which will leave marks on the image and may damage the photographic negative on contact printing
the image substance will tend to wash out during the wet processing, because its tiny particles (often of colloidal dimensions) are not physically trapped within the cellulose capillaries; the result will be a weak picture and wasted sensitizer.
To overcome these problems, a wetting agent may be added to the sensitizer. I favour the non-ionic surfactant, Tween 20, (polyoxyethylenesorbitan monolaurate) at a concentration of about 0.2% to 0.5%, depending on the paper, which seems compatible with all the usual sensitizer chemicals.
In contrast, sensitizer solutions based on ammonium iron(III) oxalate (my processes for Platinum, Palladium, Chrysotype and New Cyanotype) appear to penetrate cellulose fibres quite readily: they suffer less from these two problems, and require very little additional wetting agent (0.1% at most, helps to reduce the contact angle and facilitates rod-coating). If the sensitizer is allowed to diffuse too deeply within the paper, the image will seem flat and 'sunken'. The control of the paper absorbency towards the sensitizer is certainly the key to quality in hand-coated print-making.
Use and Performance
Buxton paper is currently available in Imperial sheet size (22x30 inches or 56x76 cm) with four deckle edges, of course. Because it is hand-made, users should not expect the sheet to have quite the uniformity as a machine-made product. Its individuality should be a source of pleasure to the maker of handcrafted prints; it is not intended as a beginners' paper. If you find that coating by the glass rod method proves difficult, due to slight variations in the thickness of a sheet and the 'hard' sizing of the surface, I recommended that you use a resilient sheet of foam rubber, rather than a glass plate, as the support and syringe out two strips of sensitizer solution - one at the top and one at the bottom of the area to be coated. Even if the line of sensitizer 'beads up' as it is drawn down the paper, when the unbroken strip at the bottom is picked up by the rod, it usually suffices to fill in the gaps, if a firm pressure is applied. Coating may also go more smoothly if the sheet is pre-humidified. Brush coating, on the other hand, should present no problems.
The reward for all this trouble (and expense!) lies in the sheer quality of the images obtainable on Buxton paper: experimental comparisons with popular machine-made papers, by exposure of a Kodak step tablet under controlled conditions, find that Buxton paper provides a superior tonal range and separation, image colour and maximum density in all the processes I have named: Platinotype, Palladiotype, Chrysotype, Argyrotype and Cyanotype. (The only commercial paper I have ever found that works acceptably with all of these processes is Atlantis Silversafe). In particular, Buxton paper can yield superb images in pure platinum - which are not to be confused with the so-called 'platinum' prints commonly made from a mixture of platinum and palladium - consisting mostly of the latter. Platinotype by the humid print-out method is a most exacting test of paper quality, because many impurities interfere with it. This is one reason why many 'platinum' printers today have come to use a platinum/palladium mix. They need do so no longer.
Buxton paper can be ordered from:
Ruscombe Paper Mill
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Marine Keeps 300 Comrades Fed
American Forces Press Service | By Cpl. Ed Galo
COMBAT OUTPOST CASTLE, Afghanistan – Whether preparing the ingredients to be used for a meal, preheating ovens or making sure the food doesn’t overcook, feeding 300 people can be a difficult task.
Marine Corps Cpl. Nicholas Fredrick, a food service specialist with Charlie Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 6, usually starts his day around 4 a.m. to begin cooking breakfast here. He begins to serve at 7 a.m.
Fredrick, of New Castle, Del., said being the only cook at his combat outpost can be difficult.
“The hardest part is just putting all the food out there and keeping up with all the Marines.” he said.
Fredrick, 26, says his favorite meal to cook is steak and lobster, which he tries to make every Saturday. “We have a grill in the back, and I’ll just get out there and start grilling for the guys,” he said.
He also is licensed to operate 7-ton trucks, the vehicles Marines use to move supplies throughout Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Once a week, he drives as part of a convoy to pick up the supplies he needs to continue to feed his Marines.
Since Fredrick is the only cook in his company, he gets to decide what is on the menu every day. He said he likes to add something extra instead of just cooking them right out of the packages they come in.
“The guys always tell me they like the meatloaf,” he said. “I like to add a little extra cheese to the top of it and bake it in the oven. They always love the steaks, too. I season those myself. I try to make things a little better for everyone out here.”
Even though cooking for so many Marines can be a demanding task, he said, seeing happy Marines makes it worth it.
“I like boosting everyone’s morale,” he said. “That’s [my] main purpose out here -- keeping the Marines nice and full and happy. If they’re happy, then I’m happy, too.”
Fredrick said he takes pride knowing that he is never late to open the doors to the mess tent. He always tries to open up 15 to 20 minutes early, he added, and sometimes closes late to ensure everyone is fed.
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2010 Yamaha TW Review
This on-road/off-road road motorcycle by Yamaha was originally produced and sold in the U.S. in the early 1980s. After more than two decades, the 2010 Yamaha TW200 continues to be one of the most sought after dual purpose bikes in the market. The Yamaha TW200 comes packed with an air-cooled, 196cc, four-stroke, single-cylinder engine and a five-speed manual transmission. The burly tires, electric starter, low seat, great handling, and reliable torque promise a smooth and exhilarating ride for upstart and veteran riders.
The 2010 Yamaha TW200 features a flat seat that is integrated into the body of the bike. The seat measures 31.1 inches and provides seating for the rider and a passenger. The bulky front and rear tires provide great traction and are suitable for all terrains. The overall length of the Yamaha TW200 is 82.3 inches, and the overall width is 32.3 inches. This bike weighs 279 pounds, making it easy to maneuver. The Yamaha TW200 is available in white with red or black trim. The electric start and street equipment ensure that riders can take it anywhere.
The additional features that are available for this model are flex-mounted turn indicators that offer greater durability against breakage, an easy-to-use choke lever, and frame-mounted passenger foot pegs that provide two-up riding capability. The 2010 Yamaha TW200’s smooth-shifting, five-speed transmission with manual clutch offers amazing on- and off-road performance. The internal engine counterbalance keeps the vibrations to a minimum, allowing the rider to enjoy a more comfortable ride. The 33mm telescopic front fork with 6.3 inches of travel almost swallows the bumps, providing a smooth and rich experience. A powerful hydraulic front disc brake ensures greater stopping power with minimal effort.
The bike gives an incredible 78 mpg. The 2010 Yamaha TW200 has a fuel capacity of 1.8 gallons and is capable of going from zero to 60 mph in 14.75 seconds.
To improve the bike’s handling, Yamaha makes the following changes/additions in 2010:
A 33mm telescopic front fork with 6.3 inches of travel
The lightweight box section swing arm and single rear shock with 5.9inches of travel
Long, two-tone, motocross-style seat
Enduro-style, 60/55-watt halogen headlight that features high and low beams
2010 Yamaha TW Specs
Engine Type: 196cc, four-stroke, single cylinder
Bore and Stroke: 67.0 x 55.7mm
Valve Train: SOHC; two valves per cylinder
Induction: N/A
Ignition: CDI
Transmission: Constant-mesh five-speed
Fuel Capacity: 1.8 gallons
Estimated Fuel Economy: 78 mpg
Brakes (Rear): 110mm drum
Suspension (Front): Telescopic fork; 6.3-inch travel
Suspension (Rear): Single shock; 5.9-inch travel
Wheelbase: 52.2 inches
Rake: N/A
Trail: N/A
Seat Height: 31.1 inches
Curb Weight: 279 pounds (wet)
Tires (Front): 130/80-18
Tires (Rear): 180/80-14
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Tata Nexon Electric’s ZConnect Tech To Offer 35 Connected Car Features
Home News New 2014 Skoda Octavia vRS (NOT) coming to India in August
New 2014 Skoda Octavia vRS (NOT) coming to India in August
July 17, 2014 | Ayan Ghosh
Update: Skoda India have officially updated Motoroids India, denying the possibility of the launch of the vRS in India in foreseeable future.
Brace yourself! The next iteration of the popular Skoda Octavia vRS is coming. And if reports are to be believed, it will be here as early as next month. The original Octavia vRS and even the last generation Laura vRS are the darlings of enthusiasts and tuners alike. The new one though, promises to be even more spectacular.
The car made its international debut back in 2013 at the Frankfurt Auto Show. It’s basically a go-faster Octavia with Skoda’s vRS touch which sees more aggressive bumper work- bigger mesh riddled air dams, subtle side skirts, and revisions to the rear bumper to accommodate a diffuser and twin exhausts. A range of new 18 inch wheels and a rear spoiler declares its sporty intents further. The vRS extends the Octavia’s color palette with a range of new, racy shades to choose from.
We kid you not, this car’s going to be really quick- for the 6 speed manual gearbox equipped 2.0 liter, 217bhp TSI petrol variant, 100 kmph is dispatched in just 6.8 seconds, making it the fastest production Octavia in history! There’s also the optional DSG automatic gearbox and surprisingly a diesel engine option too-a 2.0 L TDI motor producing 184 BHP of power and 380 NM of torque, with a 0- 100 kmph time of 8.1 seconds. However, the latter won’t make it to India anytime soon.
The insides are all black with leather everywhere and vRS badges here and there. Standard kit includes rear parking sensors, Bluetooth, DAB tuner and dual-zone air-conditioning; although the inherent Octavia characteristics stay- the superior rear legroom and a humongous 590-litre boot. The Octavia vRS is available in estate body styles as well, the vRS Combi- although we don’t see that coming here anytime soon.
Check out the new 2013 Skoda Octavia in the gallery below.
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Book Review: Waiting at Jimmy’s
By Ashley Gatimu, Contributing Writer
WAITING AT JIMMY’S is a novel about a girl named Clara who just recently graduated college and is looking for her first big job to start her career. She had high hopes after graduation. However, after two months pass and still no job leads, she begins to lose faith in herself and in God’s plan for her life.
Reluctantly, she takes her old waitressing job back at the diner she worked all through high school to earn a little extra cash on the side. She also moves back home with her parents and her two little brothers, Cameron and Carter, in Rockton, Missouri. After coming home, Clara’s frustrations only seem to worsen when she sees how good everyone else is doing around her, including her old friends, Aunt Marcia, and especially Henry, the neighbor boy who grew up with her.
After scrolling through her social media feed and seeing how well off all her friends are doing, Clara feels confused, sad and alone. Clara’s dad suggests she check out a Bible study group or a Sunday school class at their church to meet new people and develop a better relationship with God. The first person she meets at the church is El Rimes, the pretty brunette who always has something positive to say. They hit it off right away, and she becomes Clara’s go-to person for anything. From El comes a whole crew of people, including Sam, Adam, Jules, Leah, etc. Clara starts spending a lot of time with these people, who help Clara on her journey of finding her path in life and re-connecting with God.
Immediately after returning home from college, Clara takes up her old job at Jimmy’s, a diner she’s worked at since her sophomore year of high school. One day during her shift, her childhood friend and neighbor Henry enters with all his jock buddies from high school, and he accidentally bumps into Clara, knocking everything out of her hands and into her lap. This not only embarrasses Clara but starts a feud between them. Eventually, they clear things up between them. Although they haven’t talked in a while and aren’t nearly as close as they were when they were younger, the reader can tell early on they still clearly care about each other. Clara has a big role in assisting Henry on his path to finding his faith as well, and they start to spend more time together.
The whole story in WAITING AT JIMMY’S is about Clara having trouble trusting herself to find a good paying job using her skills and the education she acquired through the years. She believes she’s done everything right up until this point: get good grades, partake in extracurricular actives, and graduate college. However, she still can’t seem to find her calling in life. She is in a place of desperation, and she keeps comparing herself to everyone else in her life and their achievements. More importantly, she struggles with her faith in God to provide for her needs.
As the story progresses, the reader sees the people around Clara start to change her for the better, including trying to uplift and encourage her. Clara ultimately sees God is faithful with His Word. She also sees that all those job opportunities where she was rejected and all the dead-end roadblocks she encountered were for the good in the end and that God was leading her to something so much better.
Readers will enjoy this first novel by Kristen Higgins. Kristen has a very good story going. People will relate to the worries and doubts of the main character Clara. Most of all, they will love Clara’s relationships with her church group, and how these relationships begin to change her and ultimately bring her closer to God.
Kristen took a class at MOVIEGUIDE® once, and it’s obvious how she incorporated elements she learned there into the book. For example, on page 10 she says after watching a movie her and her family talk about the movie, what they like, what they didn’t like, what the movie could have left out, what the message was behind the movie. And on page 84-85, she talks about being an intern for a Christian radio station.
That said, the book’s editing needs some work. It was very simple and bland to read most of the time, and there were many recurring words and sentences. It wasn’t always structured the best either. Conversations between some of the characters sometimes don’t seem too realistic. Clara’s character had just graduated college, but you would think by the dialogue and her actions that she was a teenager or some high-schooler. Also, some of the conflicts she has with her mother and Henry seem too melodramatic.
Other than these objections, however, Kristen does a great job with her first novel. She clearly has the potential to be a really great storyteller in the future!
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Exorcism Gone Wrong in the Trailer of "The Possession of Hannah Grace"
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Death is only the beginning. Watch the first trailer of the new terrifying horror thriller The Possession of Hannah Grace now which has just been launched by Columbia Pictures.
In the film, a shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) is working the graveyard shift in the morgue when she takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver. Locked alone inside the basement corridors, Megan begins to experience horrifying visions and starts to suspect that the body may be possessed by a ruthless demonic force.
Directed by Diederik Van Rooijen, written by Brian Sieve, and produced by Todd Garner & Sean Robins, the film stars Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon, Kirby Johnson and Stana Katic.
In Philippine cinemas December 05, The Possession of Hannah Grace is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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This Bright and Cheerful Home Will Have You Grinning From Ear to Ear
Hadley Mendelsohn
Hadley was the Associate Editor at MyDomaine for two and a half years before joining the House Beautiful team as the Design Editor.
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Designing a home that will reflect the whole family's style as well as the surrounding environment while also looking cohesive and well-curated is a tall order. But when Lindsey Borchard of Lindsey Brooke Design was enlisted to design a sprawling four-bedroom, five-bathroom ranch-style home, she was up for the challenge. Her task was to fill all the main liveable spaces, which included a "huge double entry, the living room, dining room, breakfast nook area, den, and office," she tells MyDomaine.
The home sits behind a quaint gated community in Westlake Village in Los Angeles and features gorgeous dark espresso cabinetry and hardwood floors and looks out over the expansive Santa Monica Mountains. After working with her clients to come up with a plan to fill such a large space, Borchard zeroed in on a goal: make sure the house had personality and flow within each space. Borchard describes the homeowners as a "young family who loves color and isn't afraid to take risks with design," so in the design she wanted to "make sure to everything was cohesive and had a reason for being there." And we'd say Borchard achieved that and then some. Read on to see how she transformed the space and take a virtual tour of this colorful family home.
Creating Flow in the Living Space
"This living room has an incredible view of the Santa Monica mountains, so we wanted to play off those colors and textures," says Borchard. That meant grounding "the space with neutral pieces like the vintage gray rug and oatmeal-colored sofas." Next, they decided to layer "in different textures with the wood table, leather chairs, and vintage textiles in the pillows." Together, each piece creates a calm, warm, and liveable environment that speaks to the landscape it looks out on.
And because the space is wide open and opens into the kitchen, Borchard wanted to make sure it didn't get overpowered with too much color, she tells us. It complements the rest of the house while also feeling like it's own distinct little area. Since her clients love color, she "decided to use a neutral base and add in blues and greens first to complement the location of the house and the mountains surrounding it." She also added touches of warmer tones as pops of color.
Because the breakfast nook is also apart of the living room, Borchard opted for similar textures and warm, neutral colors. Each item is a nice balance between casual and durable to comfortably withstand everyday use, while also being pretty enough to blend in while entertaining guests in the living room.
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Striking the Balance Between Casual and Formal
The main goal in the dining room was to strike the balance between formal and approachable, a fitting goal in a stylish but family-friendly home. "We wanted to create a continuous feeling from the den into this pace and have it be a 'casual' formal dining room," Borchard tells us. It also opens up to the den area, the more casual living room in the home.
Borchard also tells us, "Since the main living room was more subdued to the rest of the house, we needed to make sure this space balanced out the neutral living room and the colorful den." In order to achieve that goal, she added shibori wallpaper and warm wood tones in the furniture to make it feel casual. "We then paired it with dark graphite gray window treatments and velvet chairs for a bit of drama," she says.
"Brass details and oversize art really tied everything together," Borchard tells us. From the wall art to the bar cart in the corner, each piece reflects the overall direction and style of the space, making it feel grown-up but still leaving room for playful elements to shine. The bar cart also introduces extra storage, which can make entertaining a lot easier.
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Making a Grand Entrance
"They have a huge entry and [were] only utilizing half of it," says Borchard. So she decided to break up the two sections by using matching jute rugs in each to ensure cohesion and flow. "The first entry—which is right when you walk in—is super inviting with a bench to sit on and a console table," she says. "We added lots of layers with a huge floor-length mirror behind the console and colorful art and textiles to make the space pop."
Since this is the immediate space to greet guests and come home to, it was important to make a style statement while also adding plenty of usable pieces and storage solutions. While this bench area sets the tone for the style and feel and the rest of the home, it also provides extra seating and a place to puts guests' bags or put on your shoes before running out the door.
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Right across from the sitting area is even more storage space. Place baskets under the console table or opting for a console table with drawers is a great way to avoid clutter from piling up in the entryway. Aside from the additional storage, the surfaces provide a space for vases and décor that introduces more of your personal style. And the mirror not only makes the room feel larger, but it will definitely come in handy for touchups and last-minute outfit changes.
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Since this is the main hangout area, the family wanted really fun elements and pieces that were unique and would start a conversation. "We started with hanging chairs from their 12-foot ceilings and pairing a neutral gray sofa with a black-and-white diamond patterned rug," Borchard explains. The main goal was to have fun with it and make it feel unexpected. "This is where we could have the most fun with pattern, color, and design," she says.
As with the living room, she started with the most important staple items: seating and then the design around them, Borchard tells us. It's a family home, so "we wanted to create as much seating as possible," she tells us, and since the seating happens to be the biggest piece in the living areas, it also anchors the rooms. "Once we knew the size of the sofas, we could then layer in the chairs, tables, and accent pieces," she says. From there, she added in texture via a jute/rattan coffee table, colorful pillows, "art that popped," and a showstopping media console.
The space is "very California causal" and stays true tothe surrounding environment and Borahcard's personal style. "I like to mix traditional pieces with vintage/boho/contemporary pieces to create a very curated styled look," she tells us. The choice of the jute ottoman is a perfect example. It's durable and casual yet coastal chic. The suspended chairs exude a similar feel.
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While the den was converted from a bedroom that was just off the entryway, the workspace was originally the walk-in closet. The owners "decided to turn into a space for their kids and guests to hang out as a family," says Borchard. Even better, this extra area provides a ton of additional storage.
Borchard explains this area as "where the kids can do homework and also utilize it for storage," which was a much better use of the extra space since there are already "so many other closets in the house." And because it's a closet, there are no windows. So Borchard decided to add more overhead lighting, paint the inside white, and add a very subtle graphic wallpaper for interest. The owners also designed custom built-in storage and a long desk to make sure both kids had a space to work, she tells us.
"Since we were trying to find unique pieces and wanted color and lots of patterns, we needed to make sure to tone it down where we could so that the more unique design elements really popped," Borchard tells us. As evident in this hallway, mission accomplished.
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Letter to Frema: Whence Busia, the standard-bearer of Ghana's intellectual history?
Source: Nana Yaw Osei, Minnesota, USA. N_yawosei@hotmail.com
Dear Nana Frema Busia,
As I was perusing an exciting book, "Gospel According to Judas Iscariot," I resolved to pause and visit Myjoyonline.com, to find out, what is going on in Ghana. I came across your exciting opinion piece "Busia's daughter re-educates' Akufo-Addo on intellectual history.” Thanks for your frantic effort to reconstruct a distorted account of Ghana history in favor of Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah (Ph.D.). Nonetheless, as someone who majored in history at the University of Cape Coast, and erstwhile High School history teacher in Ghana for many years, I was virtually convulsed in the intellectual throes because of the underneath assertion of yours. “Mr. President at a time when the western world was indulging in colonial subjugation of Africa with crude theories about defective 'negroid' brain and fake scientific justification about ingrained inferiority of the black man and his in-capacities, Prof. Busia by a God endowed superior intellect debunked their theories of inherent intellectual blemish. Prof Busia was Africa's solo Intellectual Star-Banner, shinning bright in the sky above a Continent deemed dark with impenetrable ignorance after unjustifiable centuries of enslavement.”
Nana Frema, you appeared to be roiling in disquietude, and quibbling anxiously to come to terms with the reality of fake history constructed by President Akufo-Addo and his chief Consigliere Professor Mike Oquaye, under whose behest as the Speaker of Parliament that a bogus bill scrapped the republic holiday. It is an attempt to make posterity oblivious of Kwame Nkrumah. My sister, I do understand your frustration. We are not only in the same boat, relative to the conspicuous and broad daylight intellectual dishonesty, moral turpitude all in the name of vengeful partisan vendetta, obsessed with sycophancy and bootlicking of their creation, but we are all children of Bono parentage. It is an indisputable fact that Professor Kofi Busia was a man of meticulous and impeccable sociological erudition, even so, projecting your father as the pioneering intellectual, first of his kind to have restructured negative Euro-centric perception about Africans, make you complicit of the same sin you are backlashing President Akufo Addo for.
Dear Nana, your demeanor reminds me of the Greek Storytelling guru, Aesop's Fable entitled; "The Owl and the Grasshopper." In the fable, there was a particular old Owl who had become very cross and hard to please as she grew old and old, especially if anything disturbed her daily slumbers. One sweltering afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very husky song. The old Owl said, get away from here, sir," she said to the Grasshopper. "Have you no manners? You should at least respect my age and permit me to sleep in peace!"
The Grasshopper answered that she had the right to his place in the sun as the Owl had to her abode in the old oak tree. Then he struck up a louder and still more rasping tune. The wise old Owl knew very well that it would serve no good to argue with the Grasshopper. Besides, her eyes were not sharp enough by day to permit her to punish the Grasshopper as he deserved. So she declined to exchange words in the derogatory terms with him. "Well sir," said the Owl, "If I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing. Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo [God of Music in ancient Greece) drinks before he sings to the high gods. Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me. I know it will make you sing like Apollo himself." The foolish Grasshopper was taken in by the Owl's flattering words. Up he jumped to the Owl's den, but as soon as he was near enough so the old Owl could see him clearly, she pounced upon him and ate him up.
Dear Nana Frema, flattery will hardly suffice as proof of sincere admiration, and that is the message from Aesop! The fact that Professor Busia is one of the best scholars in Ghana did not make him a pioneer in the intellectual history of Ghana. At the time that African written history fell under the clutches of European paradigm, J. E Casely Hayford, John Mensah Sarbah, and Rev. Attoh Ahuma authored books and articles in reputable intellectual journals to project Ghana and therefore African culture against parochial Euro-centric worldview about the black racial stock. The black racial stock has been subjected to psychological torture and emotional injuries because of the most egregious holocaust in the world: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and colonization. In Ghana in the early 15th century, Portuguese passed a criminal ordinance which empowered them to chop off one ear of a black man for breaking a plate. The founding fathers of the Gold Coast Proto Nationalist Movement: Aborigines Rights Protection Society formed in 1897 were destined to fix the porous European egotistical worldview about Africans? Where was Professor Busia then?
Out of patriotic zeal, John Mensah Sarbah donated Funds to set a News Paper called Gold Coast Nation in the late 19th century. The Newspaper adopted the slogan "for the safety of the republic and the welfare of the race." The Motto of the Newspaper is an ample testimony that many people championed the cause of repudiating incorrect Euro-centric perception about the black racial stock long before Busia. Casely Hayford is on record to have founded the Gold Coast Research Association in Sekandi, with branches in Cape Coast and Accra to restructure the negative European perceptions about Africans. In 1911, Rev. Attoh Ahuma, published a book, “The Gold Coast Nation and National Consciousness, Liverpool. Casely Hayford equally published, “The West African Land Question, London 1913. Joseph Peter Brown, Jacob Say all did their parts in fighting for the blacks.
I do not remember Prof. Busia’s involvement in the Pan Africanism. Martin Delany, Alexander Crumwel all African American, and Edward Blyden a West Indian, were the paneers of the foregoing movement. The actual father of Pan Africanism is W.E. B du Bois. Henry Sylvester Williams from Trinidad and Marcus Gurvey from Jamaica played a leading role in pan Africanism. Reggae icons like Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff later projected black race through music. Though your father was a sociology professor, his famous dialogue with South Africa was a far cry from a sociology scholar because his position was based on his Christian faith. South Africa was cascaded into the ignominy of the most loutish, and most vulgar face of political brutalities and segregation under the institutionalized apartheid regime.
Busia as a Prime Minister of Ghana initiated a dialogue based on his Christian convictions that apartheid was evil. This is a rebuke to his lofty sociology professoriate! Nana, your assertion, as quoted above, is historically antithetical! I am very sorry for making me make Prof. Busia fall like Aesop's Grasshopper. Those who follow my articles could deduce that I am an ultraconservative Nkrumahist, even so, to state that Busia was a better intellectual than Danquah is very unfortunate. Danquah wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the philosophy of the mind and logic, whereas, Busia gathered information from Asante and Wenchi chiefs’ palace for a Ph.D. thesis. Nana Frema Busia, you know philosophy and classics are very tough disciplines. Danquah was also a lawyer. Nonetheless, Busia became a prime minister whereas, Danquah obtained only 10 percent of the votes against Nkrumah! Just kidding, they are all intellectuals and Ghana is grateful to them! Nevertheless, Nkrumah is the tallest of them all! Better late than never, kindly tell Nana Addo to stop the needless renaming spree! Shalom!
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Aide: Perry pushed Trump for Ukraine call, for energy issues
by: ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 6, 2019 / 10:10 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 6, 2019 / 06:16 PM CDT
FILE – In this May 9, 2019 file photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on his future budget request, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry encouraged President Donald Trump to speak to Ukraine’s president — but on energy and economic issues, Perry’s spokeswoman said Sunday, addressing Perry’s role in a telephone call that’s at the center of a congressional impeachment probe for Trump.
“Secretary Perry absolutely supported and encouraged the president to speak to the new president of Ukraine to discuss matters related to their energy security and economic development,” Perry’s Energy Department spokeswoman, Shaylyn Hynes, said in an email.
Hynes’ remark comes as Perry becomes the latest administration official drawn into inquiries in a House impeachment probe of Trump. Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the July 25 call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter — sparking a whistleblower complaint and now the impeachment inquiry.
Trump on Friday evening told House Republicans that it was Perry who had teed up the July call with Ukraine, according to a person familiar with Trump’s new comments who was granted anonymity to discuss the private conference call.
But Trump did not suggest that Perry had anything to do with the pressure on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, or a U.S. holdup in military aid to the country, the person said. Trump’s remarks on the late Friday call was first reported by Axios.
Perry, the former governor of Texas and up to now a lower-profile but active member of Trump’s Cabinet, has made repeated trips to Ukraine and met often with Ukranian officials, including Zelenskiy. Perry and his agency say his involvement with Ukraine was part of U.S. policy, predating the Trump administration, to increase U.S. natural gas, coal and other supplies to Eastern Europe to lessen Russia’s control of the region’s energy market.
“He continues to believe that there is significant need for improved regional energy security,” Hynes said. Perry was heading to Lithuania again Sunday night, and would meet with nearly two dozen European energy officials, including those from Ukraine, she said.
Hynes did not immediately answer questions Sunday about whether Perry had discussed the Trump administration’s push for help investigating Trump’s Democratic rivals in his meetings with Ukraine.
But Perry told an evangelical Christian news outlet, CBN News, in an interview aired Friday that he had never heard anyone in the administration bring up Biden or Biden’s son, who served on a board of a Ukraine natural gas business, in dealings with Ukrainian officials.
“Not once, as God as my witness, not once was a Biden name — not the former vice president, not his son — ever mentioned,” Perry told the outlet. “Corruption was talked about in the country but it was always a relatively vague term of, you know, the oligarchs and this and that and what have you.”
House lawmakers in the impeachment probe are seeking information from Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the administration’s approach to Ukraine.
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The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said Defense Secretary Mark Esper did not know of the injuries until he was told Thursday afternoon that the 11 troops had been sent for evaluation at U.S. medical facilities — eight in Germany and three in Kuwait. Hoffman said the notification to Esper was in line with military procedures, which he said do not require notification of service member casualties to the Pentagon unless they involve the loss of life, limb or eyesight.
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10 quirky properties available in Southtown
By By Rebecca Salinas
on May 14, 2015 11:36 AM
Here lately, Southtown has been all the rage. Its historic feel, mixed with modern features, appeals to both the younger and older crowd.
Click through the slideshow to see 10 fun, lavish properties currently for sale in the Alamo City's Southtown.
Click through the slideshow to see 10 fun, lavish properties currently
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221 Claudia St.
Located in the King William Historic District, this house is a mix of vintage charm and modern pizzazz. The home is listed for $430,000, and has 4 bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. Features include a casita located in the backyard, a large front porch and original wood floors.
MLS: 1095829
Located in the King William Historic District, this house is a mix of vintage charm and modern pizzazz. The home is listed for $430,000, and has 4 bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. Features include a
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230 Callaghan Ave.
This contemporary home is nestled in Lavaca-Artisan Park, the oldest neighborhood in San Antonio. The three-bedroom estate is listed for $469,900, and features high ceilings, bamboo floors, a floating staircase and a large backyard deck.
This contemporary home is nestled in Lavaca-Artisan Park, the oldest neighborhood in San Antonio. The three-bedroom estate is listed for $469,900, and features high ceilings, bamboo floors, a
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This 2,285-square-foot King William home has a price tag of $655,000. The main house has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, but there are two separate living quarters on the property. The property’s courtyard features a deck and koi pond with a bridge.
This 2,285-square-foot King William home has a price tag of $655,000. The main house has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, but there are two separate living quarters on the property. The property’s
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1339 S. Flores
This 1,030-square-foot condo located in South End is listed at $215,000. Its open-floor plan includes two bedrooms and one bathroom. Because the condo is attached to South End Lofts, amenities include access to a gym, pool, yoga room and roof patio.
This 1,030-square-foot condo located in South End is listed at $215,000. Its open-floor plan includes two bedrooms and one bathroom. Because the condo is attached to South End Lofts, amenities
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1339 S. Flores This 1,030-square-foot condo located in South End...photo-7979222.109711 - |ucfirst
This 3,427-square-foot home is listed for $535,000. Built in 1902, this home is a mixture of modern features in a historic setting. Features include four bedrooms, three bathrooms, floor-to-ceiling windows and a game room.
This 3,427-square-foot home is listed for $535,000. Built in 1902, this home is a mixture of modern features in a historic setting. Features include four bedrooms, three bathrooms, floor-to-ceiling
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515 Cedar St. This 3,427-square-foot home is listed for $535,000....photo-7980058.109711 - |ucfirst
Located in San Antonio’s Art Deco District, this loft is listed for $179,000. Features include views of the Hemisphere Tower, bamboo flooring, stainless steel appliances and a walk-in closet. Because the condo is attached to South End Lofts, amenities include access to a gym, pool, yoga room and roof patio.
Located in San Antonio’s Art Deco District, this loft is listed for $179,000. Features include views of the Hemisphere Tower, bamboo flooring, stainless steel appliances and a walk-in closet.
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This four-bedroom home in the King Williams neighborhood is listed for $575,000. The home features original wood flooring and trim work. Other features include a newly renovated kitchen, modern baths and two living areas.
This four-bedroom home in the King Williams neighborhood is listed for $575,000. The home features original wood flooring and trim work. Other features include a newly renovated kitchen, modern
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831 S. Flores St.
This condominium at the Judson Candy Factory Lofts is listed for $207,900. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit overlooks downtown San Antonio, and features high ceilings and stainless steel appliances. Amenities include access to a pool, dog park, pet grooming station and gym.
This condominium at the Judson Candy Factory Lofts is listed for $207,900. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit overlooks downtown San Antonio, and features high ceilings and stainless steel
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418 Clay St.
This newly refurbished free-standing condominium is listed for $194,900. On two stories, the condo has 2 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. Recent updates include new ceramic tile and appliances, as well as fresh paint and custom wood blinds. Other features include an open-floor plan and a large front porch.
This newly refurbished free-standing condominium is listed for $194,900. On two stories, the condo has 2 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. Recent updates include new ceramic tile and appliances, as well
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418 Clay St., San Antonio, Texas 78204 This newly refurbished free-standing condominium is listed for $194,900. On two stories, the condo has 2 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. Recent updates include new ceramic tile and appliances, as well as fresh paint and custom wood blinds. Other features include an open-floor plan and a large front porch. MLS: 1095265 less
418 Clay St., San Antonio, Texas 78204 This newly refurbished free-standing condominium is listed for $194,900. On two stories, the condo has 2 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. Recent updates include new ceramic ... more
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612 Leigh St.
This 1,741-square-foot home, located in the Lavaca Historical District, is listed for $369,900. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and features high-end finishes and a spa-like master bathroom.
This 1,741-square-foot home, located in the Lavaca Historical District, is listed for $369,900. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and features high-end finishes and a spa-like master
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2013 Audi A5 Values
Select a 2013 Audi A5 trim level
Sporting a refreshed exterior and interior design, the 2013 Audi A5 is a compact luxury car available in coupe and cabriolet trim levels. The A5 is powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine that produces 211 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque, for a 0-60 time of 6.4 seconds. Available transmissions include a standard 6-speed manual and an optional 8-speed automatic. The A5 utilizes FWD, however a permanent all-wheel-drive option is also offered. Fuel mileage falls within an EPA estimated range of 21 mpg city to 30 mpg highway, depending on transmission and drivetrain selection. Features include 19-inch alloy wheels, tilting panorama sunroof, adaptive xenon headlights, navigation system, HD radio, extensive drive select options, heated front seats, 14-speaker sound system, and power rear sun shades. Safety is comprised of parking sensors, dual-stage front airbags, thorax airbags, electronic stability control, electronic brake distribution, and anti-lock braking. The A5 is backed by a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty.
For 2013, the Audi A5 and S5 family of luxury and performance-oriented coupes and convertibles gets a styling refresh, with a new front fascia and a new bumper and headlamp design. Inside, the A5 and S5 get a new instrument cluster and 3-spoke steering-wheel design, (the S5's features a racing-style flat-bottom version). Perforated Milano and Fine Nappa leather surfaces are new, with oak and aluminum trim. There's also a new black headliner option, and several new exterior colors have been added to the lineup. Feature-wise, Audi parking plus is new this year, incorporating a rear-view camera system and acoustic warning system; also making its debut in the A5 family is Audi adaptive cruise control, packaged with a side assist system, with warning lights in the side view mirrors warning of vehicles in the driver's blind spot. Audi Connect, with its first factory integration of Wi-Fi in this class of vehicle, is new to the A5 and S5; the system includes Google voice search and other real-time information services. The 333-hp supercharged V6 is new to the S5 for 2013, and later in the year the 2.0T engine will be E85 flex-fuel capable. All A5 and S5 models now also have an electromechanical steering unit, for more precise control, with some feedback.
Strong and responsive yet fuel-efficient powertrains; stylish interior; nicely proportioned exterior; excellent quattro all-wheel drive system; advanced infotainment and connectivity; great soft-top arrangement in the cabriolet
The 2013 Audi A5 and S5 are a family of compact luxury coupes and convertibles. While the powertrains and some of the performance hardware is different between the two models, much of the same features are carried over, and they have essentially the same seating space and design--except Coupes have seating for five and Cabriolets can seat four. The A5 lineup offers a good alternative to the BMW 3-Series, Cadillac CTS Coupe, and Infiniti G37 Coupe, and especially in S4 form, it offers one of the best compromises between ride, comfort and performance of any of these models. And with the new Audi Connect system and revised MMI controller, and its live Google Earth maps, it has one of the best (and best-looking) infotainment systems. The top-performance RS5 Coupe can get to 60 mph in just 4.5 seconds, according to Audi.
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She may be an Olympic gold-medal winner but, like us, Sally has her own personal challenges too. This is how she overcomes them.
Mar 21, 2018 4:21pm
By Lizzie Wilson
World-champion hurdler Sally Pearson has opened up about her ongoing private battle with anxiety. In the April issue of The Australian Women's Weekly, Sally, who has suffered from anxiety most of her adult life, reveals how even the simplest social interaction can be a struggle.
"I was at the local shops. This lovely lady called my name and I froze. On the track, with sometimes 80,000 people in the stands, I'm completely in control," Sally explains to The Weekly. "Put me at the checkout, where I'm just little old Sal, and it comes over me like a tsunami and it's far greater than shyness – I feel like a deer in headlights!"
Now aged 31, Sally – who is the current 100m women's hurdles world champion and Olympic gold and silver medallist - jumps hurdles for a living. Her anxiety battle, something she hardly speaks about, is just another hurdle for the athlete. While she struggles with its debilitating side-effects daily, she manages it and never allows it to affect her on and off the track ambitions or her determination to be number one.
"Proud perfectionist" Sally manages her anxiety every day, even when she's training on the track.
Not shying away from the topic of her anxiety, Sally tells of the amazing transformation she's made over the past two years to prepare for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.
"I know what people say about me and understand why they think I am a little odd. I'm really open to talking about it, because I get better with it every day. I suffer from a condition known as social anxiety, which has been at times more debilitating than any of the physical injuries," Sally says. "I'm not great in situations where I'm out of my depth or feel I have to talk to someone and have no idea what to say."
"It could be why so many people read me wrong. They see me as a bit tricky – they take that gritty steeliness, and my sometimes clumsy social skills, and minds are made up that I'm either arrogant or aloof. Or seemingly so self-absorbed I only function when I'm on the track. Nothing could be further from the truth."
Sally is definitely a lot more than her anxiety battle. After all, she has cemented her status as one of the top five sportspeople in this country and perhaps Australia's greatest track-and-field athlete.
"I'm a high achiever. I hate the feeling of losing almost as much as I love a win. I'm a proud perfectionist – I don't believe you can be the best in the world at what you do without that DNA. If that's my pathology, bring it on!"
For all the critics predicting that Pearson's career might end because of physical or mental injuries that she suffers, Sally retorts: "I don't give up that easily. As clichéd as this sounds, stumbling blocks have been the making of me, my stepping stones to victory. Since I can remember, I've been fearless and the bullies gave up on me pretty quickly!"
*Read our full interview with Sally in the April issue of The Australian Women's Weekly."
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Just registered to get early access to the new upcoming League of Legends CCG, Legends of Runeterra. It looks pretty nice from what I can see, with it's hybrid take kind of between Magic The Gathering and Hearthstone.
Riot already gave details regarding the game's economy and it's very F2P friendly. The game's most powerful card won't be your credit card! That's cool too.
They couldn't wish for a better timing to announce such a game. Just look at the state of Hearthstone and Blizzard Entertainment right now, in light of the blitzchung PR disaster. What a train wreck.
Will Riot succeed where Valve failed? Will this be the Hearthstone-killer?
After playing AFK Arena for about a week, I stumbled upon Mobile Legends: Adventure and figured I'd post a short review of that game too. It's mostly the same game as AFK Arena, but way more polished. Everything is perfectly streamlined for an optimal experience. All your daily tasks are relevant and make sense, the UI is super easy to use and has you racing through all the menus you have to work with seamlessly.
I like how it's easy to manage your heroes and keep them fully upgraded and geared-up at all times. They're all easily recognizable and don't all look the same.
The battles can be accelerated quite a bit, so things go fast. At all times you're able to see which heroes do what and fix your lineup accordingly. Secret tip: It seems the battle goes even faster if you disable high-frequency mode in the options.
The drop rates are very good. It's easy to acquire heroes, useful gear and all the different currencies found in the game. Each single battle will give you something. The grind is pretty soft, I think it's a bit more F2P-friendly than AFK Arena.
The relevant game modes are all present. The tower, the arena, the labyrinth, the time portal. It's so much fun, I wish there were even more modes. Apparently a new one is coming in an upcoming update. Let's wait and see.
All in all, I prefer MLA to AFK Arena. It feels more polished and seems to be a better, more generous and more balanced game. It's my favorite hero collector / idle game yet. Nothing feels redundant or pointless. It's fun.
Check it out for yourself:
Mobile Legends: Adventure - Google Play Store
Discovered this game entirely by accident while browsing the Google Play Store. It's pretty cool and very F2P friendly.
The combat can be automated and made faster after only a short time. After a few days, I hit several super high level bosses that took me several days to beat. Pretty challenging, but not too grindy yet.
All in all, you get all the interesting Gacha elements that type of games usually provides you with. The tower, the arena, the tavern, the labyrinth, etc. All those elements integrate well with one another and do not feel needlessly grindy. It's always fun to receive those rewards and combine things together to enhanced them. :)
The game could use a few QOL improvements IMHO.
For instance, why dispatch heroes manually for the tavern bounties? Mobile Legend: Adventures does that automatically for you. The same goes for the library, why dispatch each single hero manually?
Also, the way heroes are sorted in the Heroes screen doesn't consider regular heroes VS heroes improved through the Resonating Crystal. Because of that, you find yourself switching to the next hero in order to level it up, only to notice it's a blessed hero from the resonating crystal. Level up current Hero. Next Hero, can't level that one up. Next hero, oh, same thing. Next, oh, I can level that one up. Next... When you think about it, AFK Arena isn't the only game with that issue...
AFK Arena is a lot of fun and will keep you entertained a few minutes every day. That's what an AFK game is for isn't it? It does everything it has to and it does it right.
You can install the game from the Play Store:
AFK Arena - Google Play Store
Native Instruments A61
Returned my MPK Mini earlier this week, as I kinda reached the limit of what I could do with it. 25 keys / 2 octaves is a pretty short range of notes after all. It quickly became a problem after a few weeks of learning.
I almost bought the Native Instruments A49, but settled instead for the 61 keys version because why not. 5 full octaves and a pretty sweet mod-wheel. That mod-wheel will be a lot better than the MPK Mini's knobs and joystick. It also seems to come with several interesting libraries and tools, should be interesting.
It will hopefully integrate well with Reaper and Kontakt. :)
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Akai MPK mini Mk2
Ordered this baby on Amazon last week, can't wait to give it a try with Reaper and a few cool VSTs I got my hands on!
Lemmings Game on Android
Found this game by accident on the Google Play store. It's pretty cool!
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What Playing Hearthstone Sometimes Feels Like
When it comes to playing Hearthstone, the grind can become pretty intense sometimes. Especially when you consider how cheap the reward system is when you're playing for free. Here's a quote I found on Reddit that sums it up very well:
It (Hearthstone) felt like a I had a job and my payment was .1 packs/3 wins.
Yup, that's pretty accurate.
Eternal Dropocalypse - A Chrome Extension
Here's a pretty handy Chrome extension if you want to optimize your Eternal Card Game Twitch drops without having to constantly monitor ongoing streams all the time.
This Chrome extension that "watches" Twitch Eternal streams that have a drops campaign running. But only when needed. To save precious bandwidth (and worse cpu, twitch is heavy) it tunes out when no campaign is running (no worries, you can shut the thing down to watch twitch to your hearths delight) and when you are at your cap. The extension tries to be smart and watch the highest level campaign running (unless you already watched a campaign of that level).
I've been using it for a few days now and it seems to work great. It switches seamlessly between streams whenever a better one shows up.
You can get it in the Chrome Web Store:
Eternal Dropocalypse - Chrome Web Store
How Most People Feel About Artifact
As of March 2019, Artifact is kind of a no man's land, with its player counts dropping under 300 now and then. You read it well, under 300.
A recent post on Reddit sums up pretty well how a lot of people feel about the game right now:
I’m still here, I liked the game and wanted it to succeed, but at this point watching its descent into total, complete, undeniable failure is far more entertaining than the game ever was.
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Jumpers get their due nearly 75 years after wartime missions over Northwest
By Tom Banse • Sep 6, 2019
Paratroopers at Pendleton Army Airfield getting briefed before taking off to drop on a wildfire in the summer of 1945.
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Pendleton-based Army paratroopers get ready to jump over a forest fire in summer 1945.
Edgar Weinberger / US Army via National Archives
It’s a story that seemingly has it all: a classified mission, dashing young men in uniform, leaps out of flying airplanes, stray bombs, plus some wildfires and a side of racial prejudice. The little-known slice of Pacific Northwest history featuring an all-black Army battalion is less likely to be overlooked now that the state of Oregon and people in Pendleton have put up a historical marker.
Eastern Washington University sociologist Bob Bartlett had a big hand in reviving regional interest in the veterans of Operation Firefly, which he only heard about five years ago.
"I see this picture of these paratroopers, these all-black paratroopers, boarding a plane. I said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa,'" Bartlett recalled in an interview. "It says 1945. I'm thinking, 'I don't know...' I read the story. Immediately I was drawn in. Wait a minute. How did I not know this story?"
Bartlett has been hooked ever since on the history of the Triple Nickles. That's the nickname of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion -- the nation's first black paratroopers. The U.S. military was segregated back then. Bartlett's own father and uncle served in other segregated Army units in World War II , which seeded his interest in military history.
Bartlett said the Triple Nickles thought they were destined for Japan when they stopped at Pendleton Army Airfield in the spring of 1945. But no, they were about to be converted into smokejumpers for Operation Firefly. Professional smokejumping started in 1939 in Washington's Methow Valley.
"They had two missions: to find Japanese balloon bombs and to dismantle or destroy them AND to fight forest fires," Bartlett said. "At the time, the military thought those two things were connected."
In the final years of WWII, Japan launched thousands of bomb-carrying hydrogen balloons to drift across the Pacific on the jet stream. Most probably fell harmlessly into the ocean, but hundreds reached North America.
"They dropped all over including Spokane and Boise, and Mexico and Alaska," Bartlett explained. "As far away as Michigan and Iowa."
The partial success of the enemy's incendiary balloon barrage was kept hush-hush on the homefront to prevent panic.
Bartlett said he is motivated to make sure the soldiers' story doesn't get lost to the winds of time. That's how his path crossed with the Oregon agency in charge of historical markers. The Oregon Travel Information Council wants to "fill in gaps" in whose history is recognized, says heritage manager Annie von Domitz.
It took several years of planning and fundraising before a diverse crowd could gather in the late summer heat for a dedication on Pendleton's Main Street. Bartlett, who hails from Spokane, got the honor of cutting the ribbon for Oregon's newest historical marker.
"Are the scissors sharp?" he asked as he hefted the oversized ceremonial shears. A sizeable audience of onlookers and history buffs let out a big cheer when three vigorous snips severed the red ribbon.
Eastern Washington University senior lecturer Bob Bartlett, kneeling lower right, poses alongside other history buffs beside the new historical marker for the Triple Nickles in Pendleton on Aug. 30.
Credit Tom Banse / Northwest News Network
The interpretive panel succinctly describes Operation Firefly, the Triple Nickles and the Japanese balloon bomb barrage. The marker also is forthright in acknowledging the discrimination that 300 or so black soldiers experienced in Pendleton during that era.
Reached by phone in Florida, 96-year-old former Sgt. J.J. Corbett said the reception the elite troops got varied from friendly to racist.
"We met people who said they had never seen colored folks," Corbett recalled.
Corbett distinctly remembers being taken aback by the signs on some business doors.
"During that time, we saw signs (that said), 'No dogs and Indians are allowed,'" he said.
The African-American soldiers learned the prohibition applied to them, too.
"The reception was cold. We could not eat in any one of the restaurants," retired Lt. Col. Bradley Biggs said in a 1990 oral history recording preserved at Howard University. "We found it difficult to buy a drink or a meal. Only two bars would serve us anything... Hotels in town would not serve us."
The townspeople, he said, "were living in the Northwest but with a southern attitude."
Very few members of the Triple Nickles are still alive today, and none of them could make it to the late August dedication.
"I wished I could be out there," Corbett said in an interview from his home in Bartow, Florida, ahead of the event. "I regret that I didn't go back to Pendleton ever."
Corbett said it took him a long while to realize his battalion had done things that were worth recognizing.
A trooper in full gear waits for the order to board ship at Pendleton Army Airfield in summer 1945.
Credit National Archives via Eastern Washington University
Pendletonian Brooke Armstrong, executive director of Pendleton Underground tours, contributed to placement of the historical marker. She said that while her city is different now, the discrimination that happened in the past "needs to be addressed."
"I love how things are turning around," Armstrong told public radio. "Maybe not everywhere in the world, but if we can make some impact on it, I'm all for it."
Event organizer Kristin Dollarhide of Travel Pendleton said the marker dedication showed "it's never too late" to make amends, even almost 75 years later.
The Triple Nickles -- that spelling, by the way, derives from old English -- weren't stationed in the Pacific Northwest all that long. The battalion arrived in Pendleton in May 1945. They immediately received a crash course in smokejumping from Forest Service firefighters. Military assault parachuting and smokejumping use different procedures and gear.
The summer of 1945 was a dry one in the American West. Members of the Triple Nickles were called out to 36 wildfires spanning from Northern Washington state to Idaho to California, author Tanya Stone writes in her book "Courage Has No Color."
Bartlett said it is difficult to judge if any of the wildfires the paratroopers fought were ignited by Japanese incendiary balloon bombs. The last of the balloon bombs launched from Japan would have crossed the ocean shortly before the Triple Nickles arrived in Pendleton, but the soldiers told historians they encountered and disarmed unexploded balloon bombs a few times in the Northwest woods.
A Japanese balloon bomb caused the only civilian WWII casualties in the contiguous U.S. During a Sunday school outing near rural Bly, Oregon, five children and a pastor's wife died after they discovered a Japanese balloon lying on the ground and it exploded. This happened on May 5, 1945. At the time, the cause of death was censored to prevent the Japanese military from learning whether the balloon barrage was working.
The Triple Nickles were redeployed back to the Eastern Seaboard in October 1945. The trailblazing battalion would be folded into the 82nd Airborne Division a couple of years later, in an early example of racial integration of the U.S. military.
There is one other historical marker to remember the Triple Nickles in Oregon. It was erected in 2017 in the opposite corner of the state at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base Museum in Cave Junction. That is close to the forested ridge where the first smokejumper to die while parachuting on a fire met his untimely end. PFC Malvin Brown was a member of the Triple Nickles who perished in August 1945.
Once on the ground, the 555th parachute infantry wielded shovels and other standard firefighting equipment in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service.
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Lewis Somers looked a bit like a prospector with his sun hat tipped back, eyes glued to the ground and tools strapped to his belt. Last week, you could have found him in the eastern Oregon town of John Day, pulling a ground-penetrating radar on a small sled back and forth across a gravel parking lot. Somers was prospecting, but not anything like the gold miners of old whose trail he followed.
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Kin of Queens man arrested in fatal shove of landlord say death was an ‘accident’
By Kerry Burke and John Annese
Video captures the moment a man is fatally thrown down a flight of stairs to the sidewalk.
A shove down the stairs that killed an elderly Queens landlord was a tragic accident, relatives of the alleged attacker insisted Monday night.
The mother and brother-in-law of tenant Alex Garces, 22, said he didn’t mean to hurt landlord Edgar Moncayo, 70, who fell down the front steps of his Corona building Sunday afternoon.
Alex Garces is pictured in an undated photo. (Obtained by New York Daily News)
“My son is a good son. He is not a fighter,” Garces’ mother, Delia Velastegui, 50, told the Daily News. “He is a construction worker and he helps support our family because his father has medical problems.”
Police arrested Garces on manslaughter charges after doorbell camera footage showed him shoving Moncayo down the front steps of the house on 102nd St. Moncayo, who hit his head on the sidewalk, died Monday.
“Oh my God! It was an accident!” Garces’ mother said at the family’s home a few blocks from Moncayo’s building.
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“He is a good man. He’s never been in trouble before," she added. The family declined to comment about Garces’ December 2018 drunken driving arrest, which is still pending in court.
Moncayo’s family said Garces refused to pay $200 rent for a room in the elderly man’s house, and alleged that he broke in with a drill to retrieve his belongings.
Fatal shove victim Edgar Moncayo, 70, pictured with his wife, Sonya Moncayo. Moncayo’s family said Garces refused to pay $200 rent for a room in his house, and broke in with a drill to retrieve his belongings. (Obtained by New York Daily News)
Garces’ brother-in-law, Christhian Guapi, 22, disputes that account, saying that he accompanied Garces to help him move out, and that the landlord let both men in. Guapi said he had no idea about the rent.
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"He didn’t ask us for anything. He just let us in to get Alex’s stuff,” Guapi said. They made two trips, and brought a “screw gun” to break up Garces’ bed. Moncayo even lent them an Allen key, he said.
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But things got heated on their second trip, Guapi said.
“When I went inside, the landlord started an argument. He said, ‘Why are you trying to get all this stuff?’ The landlord locked us inside the corridor," Guapi said.
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Moncayo allegedly jumped on Garces after he opened the door, Guapi said.
“Alex tried to ignore him while he got the stuff,” Guapi said. "He jumped on Alex one more time. They started pushing one another. One final push and the guy fell.”
Video showed the deadly encounter lasted just a few seconds — with Moncayo stepping back abruptly and telling someone on the phone to “call the police” in Spanish before he went back inside and was shoved down the stairs.
Guapi said his brother-in-law called 911 as soon as he saw the landlord couldn’t move, and stayed on the scene. “There was no fighting, no punching," he said. “It was an accident."
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1 Dead, 2 Hurt as Speeding Truck Swerves Into Path of Bus on Long Island
Published at 9:17 am on April 1, 2014
A man was killed Tuesday morning when his speeding pickup truck drifted into the path of a charter bus on Long Island and was struck head-on, authorities said.
The driver of the bus and its lone passenger were injured and were in serious condition after the 9 a.m. crash on the border of Roslyn and Albertson in Nassau County, police said.
Nassau County Police Inspector Kenneth Lack said the 2006 Dodge Dakota was heading southbound on Roslyn Road, near Heathcote Drive, when it drifted into the northbound lane, as the charter bus was approaching.
Witnesses told police that the bus appeared to swerve in an attempt to avoid the truck, but was not able to clear it. The bus then crashed into a tree, Lack said.
The truck driver was identified as 43-year-old Facuno R. Ponce of Glen Head.
Neighbors said they have been concerned about speeding in the area, where the speed limit was already lowered from 40 mph to 30 mph.
--Andrew Siff contributed to this story
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Kelowna RCMP ‘not in a position’ to explain unfounded sexual assault numbers
‘We are committed to ensuring the public that we are accountable for our investigations,’ Kelowna RCMP
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Kelowna RCMP is continuing to look into unfounded reports of sexual assault in the city but is yet to provide answers on why local stats are more than double the provincial average.
The RCMP said it received 82 reports of sexual assault in Kelowna in 2018, 30 of which were deemed unfounded.
“We understand that there are many questions about the roots of these statistics, and we’re taking immediate steps to get answers,” says Cpl. Meghan Foster of the Kelowna RCMP.
“The BC RCMP has conducted a preliminary review of these files, but we are currently not in a position to provide specific examples of why any of these investigations were deemed unfounded. For every investigation, there are many variables — each investigation is different and we do not want to deter any other survivors from bravely coming forward to report a sexual assault.”
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While the RCMP said it encourages sexual assault survivors to report these crimes, there are times when charges may not be laid. It added that reports of assaults contribute to police records, which can help further other investigations and identify repeat offenders.
“We are aware that people may find the number of unfounded sexual assault files unsettling, and we are committed to ensuring the public that we are accountable for our investigations,” continued Foster. “In addition to the preliminary review of these files, Kelowna RCMP has requested that the RCMP’s Sexual Assault Review Team at National Headquarters review our 2018 and 2019 unfounded sexual assault files.”
After a Globe and Mail series called Unfounded was published in 2017, the RCMP formed the Sexual Assault Review Team, a group of experienced sexual assault investigators and experts in gender-based violence. The team is meant to look at each file to ensure that all investigative steps were followed and that the file was categorized correctly.
“If this review indicates that not all investigative steps were followed, the file will be designated for a secondary review to determine what additional steps need to be taken by investigators and will be sent back to the BC RCMP for further review and/or investigation,” stated the RCMP in a release.
“Sexual assault is a devastating crime, and the RCMP is committed to improving how its employees respond to victims and investigate allegations of sexual assault.”
The RCMP encourages anyone who feels that their case was not investigated properly to go to their local detachment and request a review. If a victim is not satisfied with the RCMP review, complaints can be made through the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP at crcc-ccetp.gc.ca.
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6 Morning Routines for Managing Dry Hair
There are plenty of things that can be damaging to your hair and cause it to dry out, from the products you use on it to the elements that you expose it to. If you struggle with dry hair and can’t seem to find the root of the cause, maybe you should try some of these 6 morning routines to help you better manage your hair and make it look healthier and more beautiful.
1. Wash your hair less
This might be the most difficult routine to embrace. Who wants to walk around with dirty hair? But actually, the chemicals in your shampoo can be really damaging, so the less shampoo you use, the better for your hair.
Some of the biggest culprits most commonly found in shampoos are sulfates (SLSs), parabens, and synthetic fragrances. While they each play an important role in the functioning of the shampoo (cleaning and lathering, preventing bacterial growth, adding a pleasant smell), they can also have adverse effects on your hair and body (stripping hair of its natural oil, damaging the hair follicle, causing allergic reactions with sensitive skin, and having other toxic effects.)
Even if you use an all-natural shampoo, washing your hair less can help balance the production of natural oils and sebum. When your hair’s oil is repeatedly stripped, the scalp goes into overdrive to produce more. You can counteract this production and find your scalps natural balance with fewer hair washes.
2. Filter out the chemicals in your water
Depending on where you live, your city’s water supply may contain various contaminants that could be damaging your hair and skin. Many cities use chlorine to purify water for drinking, but the chemical also strips your hair of sebum. Other water supplies contain heavy metals which may contribute to hair loss. Or perhaps you live in a hard water area, meaning there is a lot of calcium in your water supply which can cause a buildup of minerals and contribute to breakage.
Thankfully, there’s a range of shower head water filters that can help you target each of these problems specifically. If you’re confused as to which will work best for you, check out this review of the best shower filters currently available: https://www.best-osmosis-systems.com/shower-head-filter-reviews/
3. Change your drying and styling techniques
It has become common knowledge that using heat on your hair does no good. But are you actually implementing this? If you can’t bring yourself to stop using heat to dry or style your hair altogether, at the very least, invest in some good heat protection products. But letting your hair air-dry could also be damaging it! When hair is saturated with water, it swells which puts pressure on the follicle, and air drying hair means it is wet for longer. Instead, try wrapping your hair while being wet to help it dry naturally, but faster.
4. Rehydrate with oils
One of the ultimate treatments for dry hair is applying essential oils. These all-natural products are free of additives and chemicals that could cause any damage and instead have a range of benefits: Stimulating hair growth as well as moisturizing the scalp to reducing dandruff and hair loss. Jojoba oil, Moroccan argan oil and coconut oil are also popular and effective oil treatments for your hair.
5. Get the right nutrients out of your breakfast
Your hair benefits from certain aspects of your diet, so packing in the right nutrients, such as antioxidants, vitamins, and proteins can help to keep it nourished. The easiest way to achieve this at breakfast is through smoothies. Berries and spinach are high in vitamins that promote hair growth and antioxidants that combat damaging free radicals. You can also sneak in some other super ingredients.
If you’re not all that into smoothies, you might want to consider taking some supplements to ensure you’re getting all the right vitamins and nutrients for healthy hair growth.
6. Stop damaging your hair with accessories
Have you ever taken your hair down after a long day and seen a kink where the tie was? That kink demonstrates the damage that some accessories can do. Tight hair ties, combed hair bands and sharp hair clips can all break and damage your hair.
When thinking about your morning look you should consider loose hairstyles or try other accessories that are gentler on your hair and will actually protect it, such as soft scrunchies and silk accessories.
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“Swarm of deer at Nara Park”, Nara, c. 1910.
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Tosho-gu Shrine, Ueno Park, Tokyo.
Temple of the Goddess of Mercy, Asakusa Kannon, c. 1910.
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Amarinder Singh writes to Law Minister, says Kerala resolution on CAA represents people's will
Punjab CM also took a dig to the Law Minister’s remarks reminding the States of their "constitutional" duty to implement such laws.
Published: 03rd January 2020 03:29 PM | Last Updated: 03rd January 2020 03:53 PM | A+A A-
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh wrote a letter to Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad (Photos | PTI)
By Harpreet Bajwa
Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: Taking exception to the Union Law and Justice Minister’s remarks on the subject, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has come out in support of the resolution passed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly seeking an amendment to the controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA). The resolution, Singh said, is the voice of the people and Centre should heed to it.
In an open letter to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Amarinder countered the former’s recent remarks in which he had “discounted the position being taken by some of the States against the CAA” and “called upon such politicians to seek appropriate legal advice before taking such a stand.”
Asserting that the said States had already taken the necessary legal advice, Amarinder said the Kerala Assembly’s resolution represented the will and wisdom of the people, as spoken through their elected representatives. “Such MLAs represent the voice of the people at large,” he said, adding that it was not only a matter of Parliamentary privilege but the constitutional duty of those representatives to make known such views.
READ: 'Unconstitutional, illegal': Kerala Governor slams Assembly resolution against CAA
As heads of responsible state governments “we are neither naive nor misguided”, he declared that laws cannot be forcibly imposed on citizens, and like all powers, even the Parliamentary power was coupled with the duty to exercise it responsibly.
According to Amarinder, by insisting that only Parliament under Article 245 had the legislative power to pass laws with regard to Citizenship and not the State Governments, the Law Minister had entirely missed the point of the resolution passed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly. “It has not passed any citizenship law. It urges the Government of India (through Parliament where it now has a majority) to amend the CAA,” he pointed out.
As the leader of the state, I took my oath under the Constitution @rsprasad Ji. I'm neither naive nor misguided & it's my duty to represent the voice of my people & Centre must pay heed to same. As the law minister, you'd know that #CAA fails the test of the Constitution. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/QKa68CDGi4
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) January 3, 2020
“Surely, you, both as Minister of Law as well as a lawyer, know that the resolution is rightly directed, as it is Parliament which must amend/repeal such law based on a proposal/ Bill mooted by the Government of India,” Amarinder quipped.
He also took a dig to the Law Minister’s remarks reminding the States of their "constitutional" duty to implement such laws. The leaders of such States had won their elections and taken oaths of office under the Constitution of India, he noted.
READ: States duty-bound to implement CAA, says Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Drawing the Minister’s attention to the Preamble of the Constitution, Amarinder reminded him that he was a lawyer, and should “know that the word ‘Secular’ was one of the three words specifically introduced into the Preamble by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976. Given that the very fabric of our Constitution requires secular conduct, the Minister was actually asking the States to abide by the very foundation of the Constitution," he observed.
Amarinder dubbed the Union Minister’s continuous disclaimer that the CAA does not in any manner affect Indian Muslims as “a public/political stand which you are forced to take out of compulsion of office.”
“Surely (and again as a lawyer yourself) you would be alive to the raging debate that the CAA fails the test of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees to all persons equality before law and equal protection of laws, irrespective of their religion,” said the Chief Minister.
If the CAA seeks to protect religious persecution, then such protection should be available to persons of all religious minorities, from all countries where people may face religious persecution, he emphasized, citing the example of Uganda as a country from where Hindus were ousted during the Id Amin regime.
Citing the sensitive border location of Punjab, the Chief Minister also expressed another serious concern with respect to the CAA, noting that the Act’s language “does even require that any illegal migrant seeking its benefit need be of Indian origin in any manner.” All they have to be is from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, he pointed out, adding that this could be a citizen or even a resident, or even a temporary person in transit through these countries.
“Since the CAA has no requirement of being of Indian origin or having to prove any such origins, this means that any person claiming to be of the six religions could simply apply in terms of the amended law, prove entry on/before the cut-off date and be eligible for citizenship. This could in fact be misused the for infiltration into our country, particularly in the border states, converting this misguided legislation into a national security threat,” said Amarinder in his letter.
Referring to the NRC, on which conflicting statements had been emerging from the Government of India, “which generates no confidence whatsoever,” Amarinder pointed out that when read along with the CAA it would automatically deprive many (if not all) Indian Muslims of the rights of citizenship. “The fear that laws can be mutilated, shredded and discarded overnight to suit political objectives is naturally a legitimate concern of many right-minded citizens of our country,” he added.
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Presidential polls: Opposition candidate Meira Kumar files nomination
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The opposition's presidential candidate, former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar, filed her nomination for the July 17 polls in the presence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh and other senior leaders.
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President Pranab Mukherjee's term is set to end on 25 July, 2017. Elections will be conducted before this to choose his successor.
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Parker recouping from Hurricane Michael a year later
Collin Breaux News Herald Reporter @PCNHCollinB
A year later, businesses such as Planet Fitness have reopened. The community is building a life back. Roads have been cleared of debris in the small eastern Bay County town that retirees and others call home.
PARKER — A year ago, Hurricane Michael slammed into Parker and surrounding areas.
The Category 5 storm dismantled the dog park and other features of the Parker Sports Complex. It damaged homes. Residents and officials were initially in a daze after landfall.
“To me, it’s doing pretty good,” resident Quincy Newsom said of the recovery. “They’re doing the best they can. This place was destroyed.”
Trees fell on his trailer, including through his roof. He rode out the storm in his trailer, a scary experience, though his trailer made it through. A blue tarp still hangs on part of the roof.
“With all the trees gone, it kind of looks better,” Newsom said. “I guess that’s God’s way of cleaning off the earth. Now, when you drive through, you ain’t got the landmarks that you remember. I been here all my life and I get lost sometimes at night trying to go around.”
Brian Hartzell also said the recovery is going fairly well, considering Parker is a “small little community.”
“I’m not doing all that well,” Hartzell said. “I’m trying to save a thousand dollars to get my roof done. Just some shingle stuff.”
Hartzell said the area “looks way better” a year later than it did right after Hurricane Michael landed. Hartzell recalled barely being able to drive through town due to debris and downed trees.
“I had to cut my truck out. That’s where all the damage came from,” Hartzell said. “I had to cut it out of here so I could go see my wife and kids.”
Mayor Rich Musgrave said most streets were passable by day three after the storm “thanks to citizens and our pubic works department,” water and sewer handled by day nine and most electric service by day 14. Debris pickup began around day 14 using the Sports Complex as a debris management site, Musgrave said. Debris pickup was completed May 1, totaling 600,000 cubic yards at a cost of $8,000.
“With the city only being 2 square miles, this is 300,000 cubic yards of debris per square mile,” Musgrave said.
The City Hall complex only sustained “moderate damage,” most of which was on the Parker Library branch.
“We were provided a mobile library bus to provide library services to the east side of the county while the permanent library was repaired,” Musgrave said. “It's now been open since early September.”
The city lost about 20% of their structures and almost every structure sustained some form of damage.
“Homes are now being rebuilt and commercial businesses are looking for sites. Many, like our Winn-Dixie store, have already reopened,” Musgrave said. “We're now focusing on re-treeing our community, having lost about 80% of our trees, and on restoring our City parks, especially our Sports Complex and PEEP Park.”
A public open house will be held in early November to review the next phase concept drawings for parks and receive comments, and officials are working with the National Park Service for further designs and elements, Musgrave said.
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Global Warming Still Making Headlines
By Ira Stoll
Tuesday, 17 February 2015 08:12 AM Current | Bio | Archive
The morning temperature here was -3 degrees Fahrenheit. That makes it harder to shovel the four feet of snow outside.
Boston is having the second-coldest February in its history, according to the National Weather Service. The temperature has averaged 19.6 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than any year since 1934.
The city has only been at or above the freezing mark for 28 hours in the entire month so far, or 7.7 percent of the time, according to the National Weather Service. It’s so cold the salt and friction of the car tires don’t even melt the snow on the roads, making travel dangerous and difficult.
Speaking of snow, there is plenty of it. The Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, Mass., which says it is home of the longest climate record in the nation, reports that it has an average snow depth of 46 inches, “the greatest snow depth ever measured in our 130 year existence.” The Observatory reports that February 2015 is “the snowiest February on record, as well as the snowiest month on record.”
The National Weather Service reports that for Boston, too, it is the snowiest month on record, with at least 58.5 inches of snow so far in February. That brings the season’s total snowfall here this season to 95.7 inches, the city’s third snowiest winter on record, according to the National Weather Service.
Since it is so cold and miserable outside, I’ve been spending some time indoors, curled up in front of the computer watching comedy. No, not the 40th anniversary program of “Saturday Night Live,” but The New York Times newspaper coverage of climate change, which in this context is bitterly humorous.
There was the Feb. 9, 2014, Times article headlined “The End of Snow,” which ran on the front page of the paper’s Sunday Review section, and which the ever-shrewd Matt Drudge remembered, and linked from his Drudge Report site, amid the snowmaggeddon roughly a year later.
“In the Northeast, more than half of the 103 ski resorts may no longer be viable in 30 years because of warmer winters,” the article warned. “It’s easy to blame the big oil companies and the billions of dollars they spend on influencing the media and popular opinion. But the real reason is a lack of knowledge. I know, because I, too, was ignorant until I began researching the issue for a book on the future of snow . . . This is no longer a scientific debate. It is scientific fact.”
But that article was just one of many. Others ran not in the opinion sections but in the news columns. “Rising Temperatures Threaten Fundamental Change for Ski Slopes,” was the headline over a December 2012 dispatch from New Hampshire by the Times’ Katharine Q. Seelye.
“Scientists say that climate change means the long-term outlook for skiers everywhere is bleak,” she reported. “The threat of global warming hangs over almost every resort, from Sugarloaf in Maine to Squaw Valley in California. As temperatures rise, analysts predict that scores of the nation’s ski centers, especially those at lower elevations and latitudes, will eventually vanish.”
“As Snow Fades, California Ski Resorts Are Left High and Very Dry,” was the headline over another Times news article, from November of 2014. It reported, “The ski industry, which expects higher temperatures, less snow and shorter seasons in the coming decades, is seen a bit like the canary in the coal mine of climatology.”
None of this is to say that global climate change is nonexistent, or that human activity may not contribute to it, or that it may not make sense to consider some policy actions to avert the chances of potentially damaging consequences, such as sea level rise.
The website Climate Central, an organization of scientists and journalists funded by government and foundations, reports that some climate scientists suggest that global warming could “paradoxically” be behind the “non-stop sucker punches of frigid air,” but acknowledges that “many people who study the dynamics of the atmosphere are dubious about the connection.” The cold and snow could be a matter of “natural fluctuations” or “random shifts,” Climate Central says.
Meanwhile, the cold is hardly limited to Boston. WTMJ radio in Wisconsin reports that ice cover on the Great Lakes was about 58 percent. That’s higher than the average of 51 percent. “2014 saw the second highest amount of ice ever on the Great Lakes with 92.5 percent ice cover at its peak,” the radio station reported.
Nor is the climate change panic limited to the pages of The New York Times. Divest Harvard, a group that wants to fight climate change by getting Harvard University to divest its endowment from fossil fuels, picked last week, of all times, to storm the Harvard president’s office in Cambridge for an overnight sit-in to draw attention to its goals.
It’s certainly possible that 30 years from now, the snow-is-over crowd will be proven right, and that instead of shoveling snow in Boston we’ll be sunbathing. But the evidence from this winter, at least, is that if climate-change “science” consists of making testable predictions, the debate on snow isn’t over yet.
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CES 2020: Samsung Launches an External SSD with Fingerprint Scanner Built-in
January 9, 2020 January 10, 2020 by Rabin Mistri
This year at CES, we have seen many innovative products and prototypes from all sorts of brands from all around the world. In one of our previous articles, we’d shared news about Samsung’s new, almost bezel-less 8K QLED TV. And look likes Samsung is not stopping just with TVs. We have seen many launches from Samsung, such as a vertical TV, a tennis ball size robot called Ballie, Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, and more. One such product from CES is an external SSD. Samsung is known for its cheap and powerful SSDs – both internal and external. Samsung is calling this new SSD T7 Touch; it is a successor of popular T5 external SSD from Samsung. What is so exciting about the new Samsung T7 Touch? Well, it has a fingerprint reader built-in for extra security. While most SSDs generally focus on transfer speed and storage capacity, Samsung went a step further in securing files in the drive. The built-in fingerprint assures that your personal files stay locked and secure from prying eyes.
Samsung says the new T7 Touch can store up to 5 fingerprints, which means you can share your drive with others as long as they have their fingerprint registered. There is also an addition of an indicator LED that glows when the drive is connected and/or transferring data. This is a good addition that most SSDs should have.
Samsung has also taken steps to make the drive safe from physical drops. The body of the SSD is now a solid aluminum chassis. Samsung says it can survive drops from up to 2 meters. Despite all these physical changes and additions, the drive remains very lightweight with just 58 grams. Kudos to Samsung for keeping it light while making all these wonderful additions.
Samsung T7 touch is not just about these physical changes and addition. Samsung has made many changes to actual SSD here to make it faster. It uses the USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard to deliver faster transfer speed. According to Samsung, the new T7 Touch can now write at 1,000MB/Sec speed and read at 1,050MB/Sec speed. This is twice as faster as its predecessor T5 SSD and almost 9.5 times than HDD.
For connectivity, this drive has a USB-C port which can be connected with computers and smartphones via USB-C to USB-C or USB-C to USB-A.
Unlike most products launched by Samsung at CES 2020, we actually know when this device is going to hit the shelves. The T7 Touch will be available for purchase later this month. T7 Touch is offered in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB sizes and going to cost $129.99, $229.99, and $399.99, respectively.
There is also another variant of this SSD, it is called T7, and it has everything T7 Touch has minus the fingerprint reader. The T7 is set to release in Q2 2020.
What do you think of these new SSDs from Samsung? I personally think it is a great product. What kind of SSD do you use? Let us know in the comment section below. For more news from CES, follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
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Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip
September 3, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan AI, Compute 1
It would be convenient for everyone – chip makers and those who are running machine learning workloads – if training and inference could be done on the same device. For the moment, Nvidia has a virtual lock on machine learning training with its Tesla “Volta” GPU accelerators and it has made great inroads in the nascent inference space with its “Turing” GPUs, which are used in its most recent GeForce graphics cards as well as a low-voltage Tesla variant aimed at inference offload in servers.
At the recent Hot Chips 31 conference at Stanford University, we sat down with Bill Dally, who has headed up Nvidia Research for the past decade after a long and storied career at CalTech, MIT, and Stanford designing supercomputers and the interconnects that make them hum. Dally didn’t just write the book on interconnects, he actually co-authored three of them: Digital Systems Engineering (1998), Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks (2004), and Digital Design: A Systems Approach (2012).
Ahead of the presentation of the RC18 research chip that Dally’s team put together last year and unveiled at the Hot Chips conference, we talked about chippery and interconnects and how Nvidia is loading up the shelf with technologies that are ready to be productized when the company needs them. After running through that chat, we will go over the details on the RC18 chip, which as Dally explains below, is interesting on many different fronts. This is a bit of an unconventional format for us, but these two things really belong in one place.
Timothy Prickett Morgan: So an inference chip that can chew through 128 teraops, that sounds like something that the market might need in the not too distant future as inference becomes an important, if not dominant, part of the software stack across companies of all shapes and sizes. Particularly one as energy efficient as the RC18 research chip that you are showing off. How close is this to being productized?
Bill Dally: We always do this. We have a whole bunch of technologies that we’re developing, but doing a chip is hard so we throw many of them together on a research chip to see how they play out. The RC18 chip is an efficient inference engine – it’s 9.5 teraops per watt, done in vanilla 16 nanometer process from TSMC.
TPM: That makes it around 13.5 watts, and that’s about as good as this is it going to get. And importantly, it is the kind of power profile and performance, and therefore power efficiency, that the hyperscalers and cloud builders are looking for in inference engines.
Bill Dally: The important thing is that we’ve demonstrated that anytime we want we can plop that into products. In fact, it can replace the Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator. It’s actually designed very similarly to NVDLA, but we are as interested in the tools as much as we are about the chip. We developed the design space, exploration tools that try all combinations of vector widths, the number of vector units, the sizes of buffer arrays, and ways of tiling the loop to stage things. The tools came up with the optimal points for various neural networks.
TPM: Here is something we have been wondering about at The Next Platform as we look at all of these training and inference chips. What are the right sizes for the vectors? Google started with 256×256 in the TPU1 and then knocked that back to 128×128 in the TPU3, for instance. And the Nervana inference chips at Intel are 32×32. How do you decide the size of the matrix?
Bill Dally: The TPU is way too big. The ones we use in RC18 are 8×8. The way you decide is you take a bunch of different neural networks. You have this tradeoff because as you make it bigger it gets slightly more efficient on really big matrix multiplies but it gets less efficient when it doesn’t fit. If you make it really big, you amortize out the external overhead more but then if you can’t fill it you are just wasting space. As far as we are concerned, for inference, it’s somewhere between 8×8 and 16×16 – and it’s nice to make it powers of two because it makes everything map.
TPM: It’s a wonder that the TPU is so large, but they are also trying to do training and inference on the same chip. For inference, is the ideal matrix size likely to change?
Bill Dally: I don’t think so. If anything, some of the newer networks wind up wanting even a smaller granularity. I think we’ll push it more. I think it’s going to stay in the 8×8 to 16×16 range.
TPM: Tell us a bit about the different technologies that went into the RC18 test chip.
Bill Dally: One of the experiments we wanted to do was to figure out how to build a really efficient accelerator. We figured out that you waste power and timing margin by running everything off of one clock because you have to run the clock slow enough that the part of the chip with the lowest voltage can keep up with it. So what we do is we actually run each of our processing elements, or Pes, which are very small regions of the chip, on a separate clock which is locally generated and tracking the power supply. We have almost no margin, so we can run a frequency that’s right up to the hairy edge and then throttle back as the power supply dips.
But that means we have to synchronize as we move in and out of these relatively small regions. And so we created really fast synchronizers that do that do it on average in half a clock cycle. Normally, it’s like five or six clock cycles to go from one clock domain to another. This technology that won the best paper award at the International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) in May.
TPM: How do you do anything in half a clock cycle?
Bill Dally: It’s the average. Because the communication is asynchronous and only when you’re in that hairy region does it then delay you an additional clock to make it safe. But that almost never happens, so on average it ends up being a half clock cycle. So you really need the synchronizer technology that we’ve developed. And like the efficient neural network technology, it’s on a shelf so the product guys can pull it down anytime they want. It’s completely product ready, and it has been demonstrated in a realistic silicon, it’s ready to drop in there.
TPM: What kind of push do you have in getting them to productize something that you have created in the labs?
Bill Dally: Instead of pushing, we actually encourage them to pull. A lot of what I do is building relationships with people in other parts of the company and one of the tenets for how we run Nvidia Research is that technology transfer starts that is beginning of the project, not at the end.
TPM: That makes sense. But not every technology can make it.
Bill Dally: For all of these technologies, at the beginning in the project, we have this meeting where we identify who is the champion of and receiver for each technology. They’re often the same person, but in some cases they’re different people. And we start cultivating the champion at that point – the person who we need to trumpet this technology and get it into a product. And sometimes they pull things out of our hands before we are precisely ready. NVSwitch was that way. We were developing NVSwitch in Nvidia Research and we wanted to play with a little bit more, but they came in and said – whomp! – this is a product.
TPM: It sure looks like they were right, looking at DGX-2 and all of its clones.
Shifting topics, there is a lot of pressure on inference these days, and the competition is really good on inference. . . .
Bill Dally: Well, they like to say they are.
TPM: Well, the competition is relatively strong, at least compared to training, which is pretty weak compared to Nvidia GPUs. And ignoring the fact that many of the inference upstarts don’t have fully developed software stacks, you’ve got to admit that the inference players have got a better shot at taking market share away from Nvidia and, perhaps more significantly, taking share away from Intel’s CPUs, which still do most of the inference in the datacenter these days.
Bill Dally: Inference is more of a greenfield because there’s no dominant player yet the way training has got a dominant player. But you know what? We have great discussions with the people who are designing the next generation GPUs, which right now actually means two GPUs after Turing because the one after Turing is done. And they understand what we’re doing and we understand what they are doing.
TPM: Do you have code names for these GPUs? [Laughter]
Bill Dally: I don’t think we’ve publicly released code names. And so you know we are we are very strongly influencing what they’re going to do. They understand what we’re doing. We have weekly meetings with these guys so that the technology is transferred in the sense that they’re involved from the beginning of our project. They know what we’re doing they can grab it anytime they want and move it over. That goes for the efficient accelerator, it goes for the synchronizer.
We also are demonstrating a multi-chip module on an organic substrate using a signaling technology called ground-referenced signaling. GRS is single ended and, unlike the differential signaling technology commonly used today, it gives you twice the bandwidth per pin and, more importantly, twice the bandwidth per millimeter of chip edge. This is key because that’s actually the scarce resource – you can put more pins on, but you got to squeeze all the wires out from under the edge of the chip.
TPM: Understood. Now I have to learn a new networking scheme. Thanks for that.
Bill Dally: And GRS is 25 Gb/sec, so that means it’s equivalent to a 50 Gb/sec differential technology in terms of bandwidth. And it runs at 1 picojoule per bit moved, so it’s about a factor of seven better than the average 25 Gb/sec SERDES, which runs at 7 picojoules per bit. And it’s just wonderful for connecting things in an organic substrate. That’s how we’re able to scale this inference accelerator from one chip to 36 chips transparently. So that’s a technology that’s on the shelf. And there’s a couple other technologies that are in there. But the whole point of the chip is basically to demonstrate and de-risk technologies so they can go on the shelf and product developers can use them with confidence.
As I hinted at previously, another really key technology focused on design methodology. The whole RC18 chip was designed by fewer than ten engineers in six months, coded entirely in C++ using high level synthesis. If you look at the NVDLA chip, which is a very comparable design in terms of complexity, RC18 had about an order magnitude less design effort with a comparable quality of design. And so we’re basically developing new design methods will make it faster for us to design almost anything.
TPM: That’s pretty cool.
Bill Dally: It is very cool. Don’t tell Jensen this, but I would probably do what I do if he didn’t pay me because it is so much fun.
TPM: Too late. You’re on the record. Good thing you qualified that with “probably.”
And now, let’s take a look at that RC18 test chip, which might portend some of the future of Nvidia’s GPU designs. Or not. This is not a GPU, and it could be commercialized more or less as is.
The RC18 has a tile approach to building up the compute, just as several of the prior RC classes of chips did, and this one adds in distributed memory across the tiles. Here’s how the compute elements are built up hierarchically, starting with the processing elements, which are in the zoom below:
Each processor element, or PE, has eight vector multiply accumulate (MAC) units; there are 16 of these Pes on a chip, plus a global PE and a single RISC-V core for handling serial functions and I/O – let that be a warning to you, Arm Holdings. The PEs can process a total of 64 8-bit multiply-accumulate operations per cycle, and across the 16 computing PEs on the chip, that’s 1,024 operations per cycle per chip. With 36 chips on the die, that’s a total of 36,864 operations per cycle.
Data comes in to each PE over a router interface, with a distributed weight buffer and an input buffer front-ending the vector MACs. As data pours through the chip, it feeds into an accumulative buffer, which in turn feeds back out into the mesh network linking the cores to each other. The routers on each PE implement a 4×5 mesh topology on the chip, and it takes about 10 nanoseconds per hop with the mesh lanes able to deliver around 70 Gb/sec of bandwidth at 0.72 volts. At that voltage, the routers are clocking in at 1.1 GHz; depending on the voltage applied, the clocks on the PEs scale from 480 MHz to 1.8 GHz.
On the package, the 36 chips are hooked into a 6×6 mesh topology, with each chip having its own router chip with four interfaces to the higher-level mesh. The routing is configurable so it can heal around bad links or dead chips, which means such failures do not take out an entire processing complex. The latency of a hop across this network on package mesh is around 20 nanoseconds and the links run at a maximum of 100 Gb/sec. The inter-chip interconnect is what is based on the GRS technology that Dally was talking about above.
So very generally, here is how it works. The system uploads the weights created by a machine learning training model into the registers on each PE. The input activations for the inference are added to the Global PE, and then the RISC-V processor configures the control registers. The input activations are streamed down into the PEs, and then the output activations are pushed back into the Global PE. Data can be synchronized and spread across the multiple chips in the RC18 device to scale across the 36 tiles on the RC18 package.
As you might imagine, the more cores that are activated, the more energy those mesh networks consume on an RC18 chip to crosstalk as inference is performed.
On the ResNet-50 image recognition benchmark test, with a batch size of one (meaning images were inferred in series as they came into the chip rather than being batched up into bundles of 10 or 25 or 100 as is commonly done on larger inference engines to boost their throughput), the RC18 was able to process just under 2,500 images per second with a 390 microsecond latency across 32 cores. That’s very good latency, and pretty good performance for such a small device. But that performance comes at an energy cost, as it always does. It doesn’t take long before the GRS signaling between the chiplets on the RC18 package consume as much power as the cores themselves when running an inference.
From this, we posit that not only is time proportional to money, but energy is inversely proportional to time. So if you have more time, you can burn less energy. That’s true of just about every kind of machine ever invented because, physics.
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Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud
October 30, 2019 Jeffrey Burt HPC 0
A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM.
Their position wasn’t helped by the fact that Oracle was getting a somewhat late start into the market, with co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison originally dismissing the cloud as more of a passing fad than a trend that would soon come to revolutionize how organizations do business.
The group began by taking stock of not only Oracle’s strengths but also areas where its rivals were falling short. What they determined what that while AWS had grown big by focusing on the needs of developers, what it and other companies were not doing was doing much in the enterprise, a place where Oracle had decades of experience. In addition, thanks to the Sun Microsystems acquisition in 2010 gave it a hardware business that Oracle built on, particularly the Exadata database systems that are foundational to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
“We thought, what if we built a cloud for the enterprise?” Vinay Kumar, vice president of product management for Oracle Cloud, said during a recent day-long event at the company’s cloud headquarters in a much busier building in Seattle. “What if we shifted the conversation from the lower end of the cloud to the truly high end? Everything that was compelling about the cloud – easy to access, easy to sign on, paying only for what we use, everything is programmatic and with an API interface – nothing that was in the cloud was not compelling to enterprises other than the security was not good because the security was an afterthought and performance was variable and not consistent. Secondly, the older clouds were not targeting the existing workloads.”
It wasn’t going to be easy. There was a “big mismatch in expectations” in what the cloud could offer to and was delivering for enterprises, Kumar said. Enterprises didn’t want to spend a lot of time recoding their applications to run in the cloud, for example. In addition, putting in place everything that that was needed to be a cloud provider to compete with Amazon and Microsoft – such as a bare minimum of services and a presence in multiple regions around the globe – requires hard work and a lot of money.
According to Kumar, Oracle also is experimenting with what it calls dedicated regions, which are essentially on-premises instances of Oracle Cloud for large enterprises that are limited in what they can do in the public cloud for geographic, political or regulatory reasons. In those instances, Oracle will set up a cloud instance in the enterprise’s facilities. It’s a nod to the growth of hybrid cloud adoption and something other cloud providers are addressing, such as AWS with Outposts appliances, Microsoft with Azure Stack and Google Cloud with Anthos.
Oracle has made strides over the past three years, including last year rolling out the second generation of its cloud infrastructure and growing from four regions last year to 16 in 2019, with plans for 36 by the end of 2020. It is adding 500 to 800 customers a month and also is entering into partnerships with other tech vendors, particularly VMware and Microsoft Azure, in which enterprise customers of each can migrate and run their mission-critical workloads on the other’s cloud. Oracle and Microsoft also are developing dedicated high-speed interconnects between their datacenters.
The company is all in on the cloud. Oracle earlier this year cut an unspecified number of jobs reportedly to focus more on its cloud efforts and this month announced it was planning to hire another 2,000 people for OCI. The focus is on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), with OCI running the company’s myriad software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. In its most recent financial quarter, total cloud services and license support revenues hit $6.8 billion, a 4 percent increase.
Putting A Focus On HPC
About a year and a half ago, Oracle turned its attention to HPC. As we’ve noted at The Next Platform, not all HPC organizations have rushed to embrace the cloud, with concerns around everything from latency and networking costs to software licensing and application portability. In addition, HPC on-premises infrastructures tend to be vary efficient. But Kumar said it was an area that Oracle could address and use as a way to expand its reach into the enterprise. With Exadata and its database and other software, the vendor already offered the tools to work with HPC workloads.
With that in mind, Oracle began bringing in executives with both cloud and HPC experience from other cloud providers – including Taylor Newill and Tajas Karmarkar as senior managers of product management, both of whom had worked at Microsoft with HPC and Azure – and building out cloud infrastructure aimed specifically at the HPC space.
“When we started this a little over a year ago, there were the three of us doing this,” Newill said. “There are, including the sellers who are actively selling HPC if you include the teams that are working with us both, on the engineering side and product management side, there’s probably over 200 people now that are directly engaged specifically on HPC and GPU development, testing and selling. We feel like we’ve been pretty successful.”
Oracle’s OCI HPC infrastructure is based on instances powered by Intel’s latest “Skylake” Xeon processors – with high core count and high frequency options – or AMD Epyc server chips and Nvidia’s “Volta” Tesla GPUs. They offer up to 51.2 TB of local NVM-Express storage per compute instance. The HPC instances leverage RDMA – and RDMA over Ethernet – for fast networks with low latency, block storage of up to 1 PB– as well as InfiniBand and bare metal compute instances. Oracle also offers software frameworks for HPC workloads such as rendering, manufacturing, design, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Cluster networks offer up to 20,000 cores and 1.5 millisecond latency between nodes.
Coming next year will be new E2 instances leveraging AMD’s Epyc chips based on the new “Rome” and standard and HPC X9 instances leveraging Intel’s latest Xeons. The HPC instances will include up to 36 cores, local NVM-Express SSDs, two 100 Gb/sec RDMA ports (we presume this will be Ethernet, not InfiniBand), and the ability to scale to tens of thousands of cores per cluster. Also on the horizon are GPU bare metal instances.
The cloud infrastructure with such features as bare metal instances and RDMA is a driver for Oracle in HPC and allows the company to further create a “beachhead” into the enterprise, according to Kumar. Oracle is currently focusing on three industries: automotive, manufacturing and aerospace, oil and gas and financial services. It’s also leveraging software partnerships with such HPC players as IBM (which has put its Spectrum Scale LSF on OCI), Altair, and Univa.
Newill said he is seeing customer interest in HPC through the Microsoft partnership.
“In practice so far, is a customer that has commitments, that has paid for both Microsoft and Oracle, wants to use some part of our cloud and some part of the Microsoft cloud,” he said. “It typically so far has been the intense interest in Oracle Automated Data Warehouse Cloud on the Oracle side and feeding that data or streaming that data into one of the instances on the Microsoft side. We’re starting to see interest specifically in HPC, where customers are actually asking to run a containerized HPC application specially on Singularity and streaming data from an object store inside of Microsoft Azure. This is a solution we’re in the process of building out for our customers and from the HPC perspective, it really highlights the value of us working together. We recognize that every enterprise customer we’re working with is looking at some sort of multicloud strategy and the two enterprise cloud players – Microsoft and Oracle – working together benefits our customers.”
Oracle isn’t the only cloud provider with an eye on HPC. Azure offers HPC instances with bare metal compute, CPU- and GPU-enabled systems with Linux and Windows virtual machines, RDMA-capable instances, and software from Microsoft and a range of partners. Google Cloud leverages Intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs and its own Cloud TPUs in its HPC instances and offers a number of reference architectures.
Not Behind The Curve
Oracle’s evolution into a cloud company has been swift and aggressive, with a greater focus on everything from partnerships to open standards illustrating the changes that the vendor is embracing, according to Kumar. Customers can get an Oracle database in a multiple of ways, such as on a virtual machine or a bare metal instance, or as a complete service from Oracle. At the same time, they can run non-Oracle databases from other vendors on OCI.
“Oracle has always been a product company,” he said. “You hear – or you used to hear – the words ‘Red Stack’ or ‘the Oracle stack.’ If you’re not using only the Red Stack in your application, it’s not optimal. We were that company for a long time. With the big initiative of cloud, and especially the infrastructure investment, we are truly transforming from a product company to a platform company. We are no longer a single monolithic stack. We are truly heterogeneous in terms of customers being able to come in and build on this platform. My job is to give you the right set of services with or without the Oracle stack in it. “
Internally Oracle also is a cloud company, with its SaaS offerings running on OCI. The company is focusing on building out its business with its software running atop is cloud hardware. The enterprise cloud space also is still young and wide open and Oracle is poised to take advantage of it, Kumar said. The company’s entrance into it may have been more recent than other vendors, but it doesn’t mean that it’s too late to the game.
“A lot of people didn’t believe it at that time” that Oracle began its cloud efforts, Kumar said. “They told us: ’It’s too late. You’re laggards. The market is all taken.’ It’s not true. This is a massive market opportunity.”
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5.1 Mortality due to progressive respiratory insufficiency occurred at 3 months in 1 patient in a case series of 50 patients.
5.2 Myocardial infarction occurred at 6 months in 1 patient in the case series of 50 patients.
5.3 Gastric haemorrhage occurred in 1 patient in a case series of 100 patients (timing not stated). Patient had endoscopic coagulation but further details were not reported.
5.4 Postoperative gastric leaks occurred in 2% (2/100) of patients in the case series of 100 patients. One leak was visible with a barium swallow but uneventful, and the patient was discharged on the thirteenth day. One clinical leak was managed with an abdominal drain, and the patient was discharged after 5 weeks. Duodenal anastomotic leak (treated conservatively) occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 100 patients.
5.5 Haemoperitoneum occurred in 1 patient in a case series of 97 patients. Further details were not reported. Abdominal haematoma occurred in 3% (4/123) of patients in the case series of 123 patients. Further details were not reported.
5.6 Acute trocar site herniation occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 100 patients. The patient had another operation and prosthetic/mesh repair. Incarcerated umbilical hernia occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 97 patients. The patient had another operation.
5.7 Subphrenic abscess (drained under radiological guidance) occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 50 patients.
5.8 Stricture in the gastric sleeve (which led to dysphagia) needing dilatation occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 123 patients.
5.9 Reoperation due to early postoperative ulcer was needed in 1 patient in the case series of 123 patients.
5.10 Acute cholecystitis occurred within 1 year of the procedure in 4% (2/50) of patients in the case series of 50 patients. One patient had cholecystectomy and another patient was waiting to have surgery at the time of the report.
5.11 Clinical hypoalbuminemia occurred in 4% (4/100) patients in the case series of 100 patients. In 1 patient, it was related to severe diarrhoea and treated with metronidazole. In another patient it was due to intra-abdominal infection and the abscess was drained. In 2 other patients, it was due to reduced food intake; the patients were given counselling and their oral intake increased. Because of recurrent hypoproteinaemia, 2 of the patients had revision to the Roux‑en‑Y duodenal switch with a longer gut. Hypoalbuminemia was detected in 12% of patients, low vitamin A levels in 53% and high parathormone levels in 54% at 3 years follow-up in the case series of 97 patients.
5.12 Sporadic vomiting occurred in 1 patient in the case series of 50 patients. Further details were not reported.
5.13 Diarrhoea was reported in 2% (2/123) of patients in the case series of 123 patients. Further details were not reported.
5.14 Constipation was reported in 2% (2/123) of patients in the case series of 123 patients. Further details were not reported.
5.15 In addition to safety outcomes reported in the literature, specialist advisers are asked about anecdotal adverse events (events which they have heard about) and about theoretical adverse events (events which they think might possibly occur, even if they have never done so). For this procedure, specialist advisers reported no anecdotal adverse events. They considered that the following were theoretical adverse events: malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
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Iwata Asks: Wii U
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Iwata:
Speaking of guts, I’d like to ask you something, Ibuki-san. The tea table got overturned three or four times for the Wii U GamePad design, didn’t it?
Ibuki:
Yeah... (laughs)
What were once circle pads were changed to analogue sticks that can be pushed down to work as additional buttons, and the design of the Wii U GamePad was flat but then gained grips. You had to make a number of big design changes for operability during a short time, which must have been quite hard. Tell me about those memorable moments.
Okay! (laughs) The first Wii U GamePad was the one we used to announce it at last year’s E3. At that time, the design group was of a mind to make a pad-like device. The main concept was a device that would be worthy of sitting in your living room.
The surface was extremely uncluttered.
Yes. But after last year’s E3, we heard it was difficult to use. We played the NES version of the Mario Bros. game on the Wii U GamePad and realised we couldn’t do it very well.
I remember that with the design of the GamePad at the time, a number of people said it was tiring and difficult to play.
Yes. That’s no good for a controller, and just when we thought we wanted to do something about it, we heard of a desire from within the company to change the specs regarding improvement of the controls and took it up.
As those who had made it, you just couldn’t let it go.
Yeah. We would have regretted releasing it like that. So we started from the beginning to see whether a flat, pad-like design, or a shape of a traditional controller that players could firmly grab that emphasised on controllability was the right way to go. We held a lot of meetings within the team over what the Wii U GamePad should be like. A lot of opinions came up.
Both Miyamoto-san and myself wanted the change to happen. It was a decision made even as Takeda-san said, “We usually wouldn’t do such a thing at this point, you know!” It’s true, however, that if you held the earlier incarnation of the Wii U GamePad for very long, there were times where your fingers could get tired. That really changed, though.
Yes. There was still a long way to go, and we were thinking, “We’ve got to make a controller!” but at the same time, a conflict arose with the opinion that a pad-like design that would be appropriate in the living room was best. It was hard to maintain the balance.
It took time to reach a balance between a controller’s ease of use and a design that would be appropriate in the living room.
Yes. The grips we affixed to the improved version actually weren’t finalised until the very end. At first, we looked at a more flat, square-shaped pad, then to a version with gradual grips and considered various options. We took an in-house survey as to which was easier to use, but the votes were divided and we couldn’t decide which was better.
How did you finally decide on the final form of the grips?
We looked at multiple factors. It needed to be a design that you wouldn’t easily get tired using, and we looked into what was the best design that would be the most comfortable for both big and small hands. Ultimately, the design that everyone in the design group agreed was the easiest to use, was the final form with the grips.
You tested a collection until it reached its current form.
To be honest, we didn’t know how tacking grips on the back of a square pad-like device would make it any easier to hold. So we made a collection of designs, I carved them by hand, adjusted them with clay, did that day after day for a long time, went to have it checked by those involved, and got told it was difficult to hold!
Everyone:
No matter how tenacious you are, it may break your heart.
I thought, “Come on, this is pretty good isn’t it?” But they flat-out said it wasn’t, so we repeated that process. I think that was the hardest time for me.
Where else did you expend a lot of energy?
Making it lighter was also important. The Engineering group took the lead in making it lighter. ith the Wii U GamePad we put in a lot of effort in reducing its weight. There is a part called a chassis to protect the screen, and at first we were planning on using materials like aluminium and magnesium. But ultimately we decided against those and used what’s called a resin chassis to further reduce its weight. In that way, we chipped away one or two grammes here and there.
We made it as light as possible without causing durability problems. There may be some that would think 500 grammes is heavy for a controller, but pecking away at it like that created something much lighter than at first.
Yes. Any suggestion for a change in the design had to come with how many grammes it would increase the weight. It was like: “I want a design like this.” “How many grammes will that increase the weight?” “Five grammes.” “Request denied!!”
Five grammes is about how much a 100-yen coin weighs! (laughs) We wanted the Wii U GamePad to weigh about 500 grammes, so when we were approaching 500 and more grammes, all suggestions that may put more weight on it were refused.
Whenever we make a controller or handheld gaming device, we test a lot with regard to weight. But even so, it looks like this time sets records.
Yeah, that may well be the case! (laughs) The senior staff encouraged the new employees starting off with the Wii U project by saying that development isn’t always this hard. I think all the teams were that way. (laughs)
For two years, the senior staff members consoled the newer staff members and somehow you made it through. Did everyone here give kind words to your newer teammates?
(unanimously) Yes, we did! (laughs)
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VOTE NOW: The Naples Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Babcock Ranch, Feb. 18-23
It’s time to vote for the Naples Daily News high school athlete of the week sponsored by Babcock Ranch. Voting will close at 10 a.m. Thursday.
VOTE NOW: The Naples Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Babcock Ranch, Feb. 18-23 It’s time to vote for the Naples Daily News high school athlete of the week sponsored by Babcock Ranch. Voting will close at 10 a.m. Thursday. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/02/25/vote-naples-daily-news-athlete-week-sponsored-babcock-ranch/2973236002/
Adam Fisher, Naples Daily News Published 10:00 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019 | Updated 11:28 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019
The Naples Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Babcock Ranch (Photo: Naples Daily News)
Nominees are derived from scores and stats emailed in by Collier County’s coaches during the week. Voting begins each Monday at 10 a.m.
The Naples Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Babcock Ranch for Feb. 18-23
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Coaches can email scores to sports@naplesnews.com. The deadline for each night’s results is 10:30 p.m.
Each winner will be presented with an Athlete of the Week T-shirt provided by BSN SPORTS as well as a Naples Daily News gift bag. A video featuring the winner will be posted Thursday on naplesnews.com.
Congratulations to First Baptist boys basketball player Preston Urbancic, who won the previous poll.
The nominees for Feb. 18-23 are:
Tony Green, Naples – Scored 20 points, including 11 in the fourth quarter, in a 90-83 loss to Lehigh in the regional quarterfinals
Jada McCray, Barron Collier – Led the Cougars with 11 points in a 52-29 loss to Fort Myers in the regional semifinals
George Zeropoulis, Palmetto Ridge – Won the 138-pound weight class at the Class 2A-District 12 tournament, helping the Bears win their sixth straight district title
Andrew Dreyfuss, Barron Collier – Drove in three runs during a 9-1 win over Strawberry Crest
Markie Rosenbalm, Palmetto Ridge – Collected five hit, including two triples, in two victories last week
Juan Chavez, Immokalee – Scored four goals in a win over Palmetto Ridge and added an assist in a loss to Barron Collier
Chloe Quintero, Naples – Had four goals and three assists in a victory over Lely
Alex Richey-Klein, Naples – Won both singles and doubles matches in two team victories for a total of four personal wins last week
Isabella Sorhequi, Barron Collier – Earned a win at No. 2 singles as the Cougars beat Palmetto Ridge
Grace O’Malley, Community School – Placed third in the 3,200 meters and sixth in the 1,600 at the Jim Smith Invitational at Golden Gate
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All 6 accused in Pehlu lynching case acquitted
August 15, 2019 National News 27 Views
An Alwar court on Wednesday acquitted all six accused in the lynching of Pehlu Khan two years ago by a mob that set upon him while he was transporting cows.
Hours after the verdict, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the state government will appeal against the verdict delivered by the court of an additional district judge.
Apart from the six acquitted by the Alwar court, three others – all under 18 – are still facing a separate inquiry by a juvenile justice board.
While acquitting the six men, the court gave them benefit of the doubt, additional public prosecutor Yogendra Khatana told reporters in Alwar.
A lawyer representing the accused said the witnesses produced by the prosecution failed to identify them. He also claimed that the video that purportedly showed the lynching was not sent to a forensic lab by the prosecution.
Pehlu Khan (55), his two sons and a few others were transporting cows from Jaipur when they were allegedly stopped and thrashed by a mob near Behror in Alwar district on April 1, 2017.
Later, a video clip surfaced on social media purportedly showing a group of men beating them.
Khan, a resident of Jaisinghpura village in Haryana’s Nuh district, died in hospital on April 3, triggering outrage over the murder and focusing attention on attacks by cow vigilantes.
“The court gave benefit of the doubt to all six accused and acquitted them of lynching charges. We have not received the court order copy and will wait for it to study it and appeal in the higher court,” additional public prosecutor Khatana said.
The accused let off by the court are Vipin Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Kaluram, Dayanand, Yogesh Kumar and Bheem Rathi.
The court of additional district judge Sarita Swami completed the trial proceedings on August 7 and reserved judgment for Wednesday.
Pehlu Khan’s son Irshad Khan said, “I am not happy with court decision and will appeal in the higher court.”
Prosecution lawyer Qasim Khan also said there will be in an appeal in the higher court.
“We are hopeful of getting justice,” he said.
Additional chief secretary (home) Rajeeva Swaroop told PTI that the state government has decided to file an appeal before the High Court, a decision also confirmed later by the Chief Minister.
“Our state government has enacted law against mob lynching in first week of August 2019. We are committed to ensuring justice for family of late Sh Pehlu Khan. State government will file appeal against order of ADJ,” Ashok Gehlot tweeted.
Defence lawyer Hukum Chand Sharma called the Alwar court decision “historic” and a “slap on the face” of the people who he said were doing politics over it.
Elaborating on the line taken by the defence, Sharma said witnesses produced by the prosecution could not identify the accused.
He said Pehlu Khan was a heart patient, and there were differing opinions on the cause of death – a heart attack or a rib fracture.
Asked about the video clip, the lawyer argued that the witness who filmed the lynching did not appear in the court and it was not sent for forensic lab examination.
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People's power forces Chandrika to withdraw her Emergency declaration Updates
Wilson Gnanadass 17 November 2003
Wilson Gnanadass November 17, 2003 00:00 IST Island Retreat
It was a drama reminiscent of a banana republic: the prime minister is on a foreign tour, a general stages a coup, and its people continue to live in sullen silence. But the script of last week's political drama in Sri Lanka had some vital differences. It wasn't a general but the country's president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, who decided to precipitate a national crisis, sacking three senior cabinet ministers, proroguing Parliament and declaring a state of Emergency. And all this when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was in Washington.
On November 7, though, three days after Kumaratunga's brinkmanship, people's power was on display in the capital, Colombo. More than 100,000 people thronged the airport to receive Wickremesinghe returning from his jaunt abroad. As people cheered him lustily, the PM promised, "Parliament will be resumed in order to get the peace process going." It didn't quite come to that as the president withdrew the Emergency on Friday morning averting a showdown.
Perhaps Kumaratunga hadn't envisaged such popular upsurge at the time she invoked national security to impose Emergency. The general secretary of Kumaratunga's People's Alliance, D.M. Jayaratne, cited the LTTE's counter-proposals of establishing an Interim Self Governing Authority for the Northeast (ISGA), and the government's refusal to dismantle new LTTE camps in Trincomalee, as factors endangering national security.
Most analysts here think Kumaratunga's gameplan was to divide the ruling United National Front (UNF), invite a faction to join her People's Alliance and appoint her advisor Lakshman Kadirgamar as prime minister. But this plan was promptly squashed as about 130 MPs pledged their support to Wickremesinghe. As Labour Minister Mahindra Samarasinghe put it: "The president has boxed herself into a corner."
What prompted Kumaratunga to precipitate the crisis? It is, some say, linked to the peace process. Wickremesinghe claims to have the popular mandate to negotiate a settlement with the LTTE; Kumaratunga feels the government has overlooked the LTTE's violation of the ceasefire agreement, and that the Constitution has vested in her the "plenary powers" to interfere in issues pertaining to national security. This conflict over the Constitution prompted her to move the Supreme Court, which ruled in her favour. According to this school of thought, Kumaratunga prorogued Parliament as she was apprehensive of Wickremesinghe impeaching her.
Underlying it is quite another story—of influencing provincial elections scheduled early next year. Currently, the UNF holds only the Central Province, and the PA the remaining six provinces. Control over these provinces, as well as over the police, the armed forces and the media, is considered vital for winning the presidential election in 2005, and the general election in 2006. Thus, Kumaratunga moved in now because finance minister K.N. Choksy was expected to present a poor man's budget on November 12, including a hefty salary hike for public servants and agriculture subsidies. Such a budget would have rendered it impossible for Kumaratunga to topple a government riding the crest of popularity.
Says an irate MP of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Gajendran Ponnambalam: "The PA could not have shaken the government for another 20 years and that is why Chandrika has done this." Her real intention becomes clear, points out finance minister Chosky, through her decision to sack the mass communication minister. "What role has the media played in disrupting national security?" he asks.
PA parliamentarian A.H.M. Fowzie, however, differs, saying national security has deteriorated because the government hasn't stopped the LTTE from harassing Muslims in the east. "This could lead to Muslims taking up arms," he warns.
With Sri Lanka witnessing peace over the last two years, and the economy booming, its citizens favour a resolution of the LTTE problem. Wickremesinghe may have people's power, but Kumaratunga has the backing of the Constitution. It isn't surprising why most want them to resolve their differences through talks.
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'In fifteen years of working at Ewood Park, I have not known a year as bad as this for germination and growth, and you can quote me on that'. Steve Patrick (Blackburn Rovers FC).
'I have always worked as a Groundsman and I can't remember a spring/summer for poor growth and establishment like this one'. Paul Courrier (Northampton Town FC).
'I thought that we had more than enough weeks during the close season this year, but I'm now counting down to the season and becoming more worried by the day'. Paul Knowles (Rushden and Diamonds FC).
These are just three quotes from the many Groundsmen I have spoken to in recent days concerning the growing conditions this spring and summer.
The weather has been colder this year than usual, and I have found that even when we have had the sunshine there has usually been an accompanying cool wind. Soil temperatures are taking an eternity to rise and therefore the seed germination and the subsequent establishment of the sward has been poor.
The end of June turned out quite nice, and we perhaps all felt that the weather was at last working with us, but the start of July has once again brought cold winds, and plenty more rain.
Many of the renovated pitches have suffered with the torrential downpours that we experienced four and five weeks ago. Much of the seed sown at that time was washed away in these monsoonal flurries and now pitches have had to be over sown to try and establish a sward in time for the season.
Steve Patrick said to me that 52mm of rain fell in just one Friday afternoon at Ewood Park three weeks ago.
There must be a lot of worried people out there looking for a bit of moral support, wondering whether their playing surfaces will be in the right condition come start of season. Every year we seem to shoulder that burden of worry.
Why do we all put ourselves through the mill?
My old boss used to say to me 'a week is a long time at this time of year' and he was always right. Even a week or two from the start of the new season on so many pitches I have seen those same characteristics. The ground still loose, tender infant plants and the sward a long way from being thick enough.
But with regular mowing, fertiliser to boost the growth and some water, the new grass would start to mature almost as you watched it.
I think on preference we all want to see that maturity well in advance, and I suppose that there is that piece of mind. But by the same token, complacency can creep in on such occasions.
A week to go, everything looking great, your guard relaxes and before you know it the colour has gone and disease has taken hold.
The worry seems to be part and parcel of the job, and I've always used it to feed my adrenalin. But the inevitable sleepless nights are unavoidable. The point is that there are thousands of us in the same boat, either catering for summer or winter sport or both. But it is nice to share these problems and know at least how others cope.
So here is a quick summary of my last three weeks- it may make you feel better!
For the last three weeks I have been working at Villa Park, a new contract for my former company (covering staff holidays).
With the best intentions I took on the pitch and that first weekend, cut it twice at 35mm and fertilised the pitch with eight bags of 12:0:9 (NPK) granulated feed. The fertiliser was applied in two directions. The pitch was then well watered to encourage the quick dissolve of the granules.
The following week, I watered the pitch after mowing each day, and while the colour was poor, I expected results by the end of that week. By Friday the pitch was diseased and with no real take up of nutrient, the colour was orangey-yellow, sick indeed!
I phoned the local contract sprayers that afternoon and the pitch was being sprayed at 6am Saturday morning with 16 litres of Rovral Green (fungicide).
Fortunately the rain stayed away and I kept the water off until Sunday afternoon, following another cut.
Then it was down to waiting, the disease initially seemed to check itself within 24 hours, but my expectation of a flush of colour didn't happen.
By midweek, I was starting to worry, so I called the consultant (PSD) and asked for a site visit, we discussed the problems and soil samples were taken, the decision was taken to feed the pitch again. By the end of the week a full rate application (350KG) of 12:0:9 had been administered, in fact slightly over the full normal rate of 300kg.
Again this feed was well watered, but I had now refrained from cutting the pitch because there was little or no growth- in fact the pitch seemed to be getting even worse (desperately worried now!).
This week the analysis results have came through, and I am now in the proud possession of the knowledge that the pitch PH is extremely low and acidic (4.5). A quick call to the local suppliers was made and we have some microcal (limestone) on its way to neutralise the extreme acidity.
This product will be applied at 70g/square metre as soon as it arrives.
At least now, with the problem known we can move forward. I am more confident that the grass will suddenly kick into life by the middle of next week, as it starts to take up the nutrients sitting in the soil.
The first game at Villa Park is now only three weeks away (Inter Toto Cup). So as usual it will be all hands to the pump to catch up on lost time.
Mind you, if there was to be no significant change then I might just start to pray.
If you have similar experiences that you can share with all the members, please drop us a line, via e-mail.
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Investigation Launched And Charges Filed After Video Reveals Animal Suffering In Lab
Cruelty Free International, which played a major role in the investigation, said 'more must be done to protect animals at LPT and in laboratories across Europe'
Maria Chiorando
The footage shows monkeys in 'barbaric' restraints (Photo: Cruelty Free International/SOKO Tierschutz)
A German laboratory is under investigation after video footage revealed animal suffering, according to Cruelty Free International.
The organization, working with SOKO Tierschutz, filmed multiple incidences of extreme suffering, including 'monkeys restrained in barbaric devices' and 'dogs left to suffer when it was clear that they were very ill and even dying' at Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Germany.
LPT, a family-owned contract-testing laboratory, carries out toxicity testing for global pharmaceutical, industrial and agrochemical companies. This includes poisoning animals to see how much of a chemical or drug it takes to cause serious harm, in an attempt to measure what a 'safe' dose for humans might be.
'Preliminary investigation'
Now, according to Cruelty Free International, its footage has led to the local public prosecutor's office opening 'a preliminary investigation for animal cruelty against LPT'.
In addition, 'the Lower Saxony Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES) - the responsible local authority - has filed criminal charges too', and the local veterinary authority is also taking action against LPT for the size of the cages in which 44 of the monkeys were kept.
While the organization says that it and SOKO Tierschutz are pleased that the joint investigation has prompted some action on the part of the authorities, they have branded the action 'too little too late'.
'Doesn't go far enough'
"This initial response is of course welcome, but we do not believe that it goes far enough to protect the animals at this laboratory and others," Cruelty Free Internationals' Director of Science, Dr. Katy Taylor, said.
"Our evidence show cruelty and breaches of law that we believe mean that LPT should immediately lose its authorization to carry out animal tests and the facility should be closed down.
"We also believe that as a priority, an independent investigation should be set up to ensure that similar failings at other animal laboratories in Lower Saxony and Germany as a whole are rooted out as soon as possible.
"It is imperative that findings from our investigation are not dismissed as an isolated incident. This is the real face of toxicity testing on animals throughout Europe and beyond. The EU prides itself on its standards of animal protection. If this is the case, then the new Commission should immediately establish an urgent and comprehensive review of animals used in regulatory toxicology testing."
LPT has not yet responded to PBN's request for comment.
Cruelty Free International has launched a petition calling on the European Commission for an urgent and fundamental review of animal testing in Europe. You can find out more here
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HARDI names new CEO
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — During a HARDI executive committee meeting at the HARDI Annual Conference, members of the committee promoted Talbot Gee CEO of HARDI effective immediately.
“It’s a true honor to serve such an exceptional membership and leadership so dedicated to improving the industry and enhancing value for our members and key partners,” Gee said. “Our leadership is always asking if I have everything the staff needs to be successful, and they have empowered us to invest in new initiatives, take some risks, and reward our exceptional performers. They’ve created a perfect recipe for HARDI’s success and I’m just fortunate to be part of it.”
Michael Meier, vice president and Chief Operating Officer of Meier Supply Co., Inc., said, “Talbot’s promotion to the CEO of HARDI is well-deserved. He is an exceptional leader and always thinking three steps ahead, which makes the HARDI organization much more proactive. The benefits of being a HARDI member in recent years have risen significantly. Kudos to Talbot and his HARDI team!”
Meier currently serves as president-elect of the HARDI Board of Directors. Gee has been with HARDI since 2006. He joined the association as vice president and since 2010 had been executive vice president and chief operating officer.
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President Duterte waves goodbye to a send-off party before boarding the plane bound for the Philippines at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman to cap off his official visit to Jordan the other day.
Duterte warns of move to oust him by October
Emmanuel Tupas, Edith Regalado (The Philippine Star) - September 9, 2018 - 12:00am
DAVAO CITY , Philippines — President Duterte warned yesterday of a unified effort from three groups that have connived to oust him by October.
“Tatlo yan, bantayan ninyo. Yang (There are three, watch out for the) Yellow, Liberal (party), (Sen. Antonio) Trillanes, pati ang (even the) politburo (communists),” the President said upon arrival yesterday at the Davao International Airport from his trips to Israel and Jordan.
Duterte said he is aware of the plan of the three groups who have connived to oust him from power.
“I have my sources from other countries that provide me with the information,” the President further said.
Duterte said he has sources of information regarding the movements of the three groups toward the same purpose.
However, the President did not provide details of the plan of the three groups.
Duterte said the prevailing issues that have been hurled against his administration, including the reported rice shortage, the increase in inflation rate as well as other matters, were all part of the grand effort to remove him from office.
The President likewise accused Trillanes of having conspired with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in the senator’s desire to remove him from office.
“Ang problema dito kay (the problem with) Trillanes is he is also playing with the Communist Party of the Philippines, basta makuha lang niya gusto niya (just to get what he wants),” the President said.
But Duterte was quick to point out he is ready for any eventuality and that he is ready to step down from office when the time comes.
The President also explained that the military and the police do not have to kill each other should they want to grab power from him.
“I cannot allow my soldiers to kill each other just for them to oust me. They can even just have coffee with me and then I will transfer power to you without any trouble,” the President said.
Duterte also disclosed that he plans to meet with the military top brass to discuss the latest intelligence reports in his hands on this supposed October plot.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said there is no need for a loyalty check in the police force, saying that they have not monitored anyone from their ranks who are sympathetic to Trillanes.
He said the PNP remains loyal to the Filipino people and will always adhere to the provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
Trillanes claimed that some military officers informed him of their sentiments and expressed support after President Duterte revoked his amnesty for leading two failed mutinies during the term of former
president and now Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
According to Albayalde, nobody from their ranks are dismayed or disgruntled at the government because of Trillanes’ current situation.
“We really do not know where he got that information but as far as the PNP is concerned, it’s zero,” he said.
Albayalde also downplayed the presence of police officers from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) at the Senate where Trillanes has been holed up since Duterte’s proclamation revoking his amnesty became public on Monday.
He said the presence of the policemen at the Senate is just to maintain peace and order.
“A group might take advantage of the situation. That is the reason why we have a presence in the Senate,” said Albayalde.
He said they will not make any move unless an arrest warrant against Trillanes is issued by the Makati City regional trial court.
“We will wait for the decision of the court,” said Albayalde.
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Seven Obscure Local Releases From 2019
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Jason Keil
Jason Keil | October 30, 2015 | 3:43am
People flee from the east coast to escape the gloomy seasons. Guitarist Cleo Tucker and bassist Harmony Tividad, the duo who make up the indie punk band Girlpool, left the perennially sunny streets of southern California to experience the unpredictable weather patterns of Philadelphia. It was a bold move when you consider how the two young musicians established themselves in Los Angeles’ DIY scene, most notably at the downtown club The Smell, where experimental bands like No Age got their start.
Tucker reflects, “[The Smell] is a totally magical, beautiful, and pivotal space for both of us and many others. We wanted to try something new. When we visited Philadelphia about a year ago, we felt a pull there and wanted to shake things up.”
Dealing with change, moving into the unpredictable world of adulthood, and yearning for growth are the running themes of Girlpool’s debut full-length album Before the World Was Big. The intimate, introspective lyrics are sung by Tucker and Tividad in compelling unison, giving way to a transcendent feeling that stays with the listener long after the music has stopped.
“Cleo and I initially begun jamming together each others’ songs,” Tividad recalls, “One of us would lead on vocals and add harmonies. Eventually, we realized how powerful it is when we would sing the same words together and it makes what we say separately much more special. It was an idea since we write together. It encapsulates better ourselves individually and as a whole.”
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“One idea that we like to explore and touch on is the way change and growth are constant,” Tucker describes, “There’s always something to reflect on in the past moment. You’re constantly reflecting on what seemed like growth before. You’re always reaching for this thing.”
The attention and acclaim the album has garnered from critics and fans has surprised its creators, but they are taking their newfound success well. “It’s been really special to see people feel close to something we both made,” Tucker says. As they embrace the adventures that come their way, their friendship grows stronger. “There’s so much room for growth, both within myself and Cleo,” Tividad says, “It’s so cool to learn and explore that growth together through how similar and different we are. We’re exploring feelings and thoughts that will push us along. It’s so beautiful.”
And while they’re not limiting themselves to only playing guitar and bass, don’t expect them to add a drummer anytime soon. Tividad says, “We’re about exploring whatever we want to sound-wise, but at the moment we are definitely interested in in exploring things between the two of us without adding the element of another person.”
Girlpool is scheduled to play Wednesday, November 4, at Rebel Lounge.
Jason Keil is the culture editor for Phoenix New Times. He loves local music, co-hosts a podcast about NBC’s The Good Place and knows too much about James Bond movies.
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The Great Charity Struggle
Wed, Jun 28, 2017, by Russell Wes
The UK continues to donate as generously as ever, so why are 1 in 5 charities struggling to survive? And what needs to change?
2017 has seen the UK rife with tragedy, but also with love. In the wake of the Manchester attack, the Manchester Evening News set up a fundraising page to support the victims and their families. It raised over £1.5m in one day. At the time of writing, the support fund for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire is over £4m and will rise far higher. When disaster strikes, Britain gives. It’s unquestionable.
The UK’s philanthropy is nothing new. The charity sector in the UK has over 800,000 employees and is worth over £39b. 44m Britons donate an average of £16 a month to charity. However, according to the Charitable Aid Foundation, 1 in 5 UK charities are struggling to survive. How can this be, in a country where people are so willing to donate?
The Innovation Blockade
The charity sector faces barriers towards innovation which are not matched in other sectors. Any funds used for in-house improvements are funds that are taken away from charitable causes. ‘Money cannot be wasted’ is an understandable approach, but one that creates a reluctance to innovate.
However, in other cases it is not reluctance, but circumstance, which shackles charities and prevents technological innovation. As the CAF report, “many charities are finding funding and income generation a challenge, which may be preventing them from investing in the technologies that they need”. Indeed, generating income/achieving financial sustainability is noted to be one of the top three most pressing challenges for 62% of charities in 2017. It becomes a vicious circle. They cannot innovate due to lack of funds, yet without looking to innovate they are struggling. But money can be saved - primarily at the payments stage.
Cost Stings and Surprises
The largest charity fundraising platform in the UK is integrated with over 13,000 charities. They charge a 5% fee on all donations, regardless of donation size or the volumes a charity receives. In the payments world, this approach is unnecessarily costly.
“As the volume of transactions increases, the price of processing them decreases. Why then, is this saving not being passed on to the charity? ”
Despite an already high processing fee, this charge also applies to the Gift Aid donation. A £125 donation (including £25 Gift Aid) will see the charity receive £118.75. Considering that £106m is donated in the UK every day, a substantial sum of donated money is being taken by the payment platform.
If other donation platforms seem cheaper, be wary. Some of the large platforms separate out the costs to appear cheaper, offering, for instance, a 2% charge but charging an extra 1.45% for card fees. Card payments will of course account for the vast majority of donations.
Furthermore, some payments providers insist on minimum incomes or lengthy contracts. This means that if charities do not receive the amount they originally forecasted, they will still be charged the processing fee agreed for the higher value.
Less money and disproportionately high fees - a double sting.
Structural Disadvantages
What is even more troubling about the statistics from the CAF report, is that the smaller and medium-sized charities are being hit the hardest. Out of all charities with an income < £1m, 28% described themselves as ‘struggling to survive’. The top three challenges facing charities were reported as: generating more income, meeting increased demand for their services and reduction in public/government spending. The main concerns are not related to lack of skilled staff or increased competition within the market, but simply that the charities need more money.
With smaller charities forming 97% of the charity sector, the CAF is concerned that these issues could have ‘potentially dangerous implications’ for the future support of many beneficiaries.
Paybase wants to change this. More importantly, it can.
A Fair Cost Structure
Paybase operates its payment processing through a tiered system. The more money that a charity receives through donations, the lower the fee becomes. Does this mean that Paybase is only beneficial for the larger charities? Absolutely not. We will be at least 50% cheaper than the largest charity fundraising platform at our highest pricing tier, and at least 85% cheaper at our lowest.
Moreover, we offer transparency and flexibility from the very beginning. No high setup costs. No monthly minimums. No hidden fees.
The eMoney infrastructure that we have developed enables us to process money in a cheaper, easier, and more flexible way than our competitors.
Supporting the Smaller Charities
Whilst our pricing structure also benefits larger organisations, the ultimate goal of Paybase is to democratise payments. We are set up to help smaller and younger organisations get to market faster - charities or otherwise. As part of this we cover all compliance and regulatory needs to allow charities to focus on fundraising.
Paybase wants to help smaller charities get the exposure they deserve and help donors find the charities that resonate best with them. By providing one unified API that fully takes care of payments, we let the charity use their own, branded frontend. This enables them to process donations within their own site, in place of creating a pre-templated page on a site alongside 13,000 other charities.
Shaking the Sector
One thing to make clear - the innovation is there. Companies such as Thyngs are confronting the cash issue of donating to charity by allowing people to donate through scanning QR codes. Whether there’s a bake sale at the local library or a sponsored walk in your community, lack of cash need not be a problem in the near future. Thyngs, like Paybase, understand the innovation blockade charities face and want to help them overcome it. As long as charities are willing to partner with new companies, they will find innovators determined to increase their income and offering them fair rates in order to do so.
Paybase believes it can help many industries with the service it provides, but the charity sector is very high up our list. Partnering with Paybase quite simply means - money saved. This enables charities to focus their limited resources on what really matters: their beneficiaries.
We are currently speaking to both charities and charity aggregators, and will be integrating with our first partner by the end of this summer.
If you like what you read and are interested to find out how we can help you with your payments, compliance and risk requirements - get in touch . We’d love to hear from you.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ultrasound-sensors-dig-deeper-into-your-fingerprints-and-fat
Ultrasound sensors dig deeper into your fingerprints and fat
Science Jun 29, 2015 5:17 PM EST
In spy movies, cunning characters like James Bond or Ethan Hunt are always nabbing fingerprints from wine glasses and creating gelatin replicas to break into hi-tech vaults. Now, scientists have created technology based on ultrasound that could prevent people from cracking electronic scanners with artificial fingertips. These sonicwave sensors would work with wet, dirty or very smooth fingertips — addressing some of the issues seen with fingerprint scanners in the iPhone and other Apple devices with Touch ID.
“The fingerprint sensor industry is always looking for new ways to measure ‘liveness’ — the ability to distinguish between a real finger and a printout,” said David Horsley, a mechanical engineer at the University of California Davis and co-creator of the new ultrasonic fingerprint scanner reported today in Applied Physics Letters.
This new device scans a fingerprint by releasing pulses of ultrasound that bounce off the fingertip’s skin, creating an echo. It takes more time for sound waves to reflect off the valleys of a fingerprint versus its ridges, allowing the device to pinpoint and paint a picture of the crevices. However, some of the ultrasound waves also penetrate through the outer skin layer — the epidermis — reaching the inner layer called the dermis.
“It turns out that you have the same fingerprint on your dermis that you have on your epidermis,” Horsley said, and this deeper scan can detect physical landmarks like sweat pores and blood vessels buried in that inner skin layer.
To measure these subtle shapes in fingerprint echoes, Horsley’s team relied on two electronic wafers that are stacked on top of each other. The first layer is populated by a field of tiny drumheads known as piezoelectric sensors. As skinny as human hairs, these sensors transform the mechanical energy from the sound waves pushing against the wafer into electricity, which is read by a second layer of microcircuits. These ultrasound sensors cost about 30 percent more to manufacture than current fingerprint detectors.
By spotting blood vessels and sweat pores, these ultrasound sensors could verify if a fingerprint came from a real finger versus a fake. In contrast, Apple’s Touch ID relies on physical contact with your finger and the small electrical current that passes between your skin cells and the scanner. Hackers have cracked this system by creating an artificial mold of a fingerprint and sticking it to their skin.
An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor measures a 3-D image of the finger’s surface and the underlying tissue. Photo by Dave Horsley
The wireless tech company Qualcomm unveiled a similar ultrasound fingerprint scanner in March, called Snapdragon Sense ID, but Horsley says if the technology catches on, its uses could extend beyond fingerprints. For instance, his team has designed similar ultrasound sensors that can measure the fat and muscle content underneath your skin. These sensors are small enough to be packed into a stylus or a smartwatch.
“Say you’re interested in learning if all the sit-ups that you’ve been doing have had an effect. You could point these sensors at your stomach to see if the fat layers have shrunk and if the muscle layers have thickened,” Horsley said.
“There is a lot of interest in sensors that can tell what’s going on in your body thanks to the personal health revolution,” Horsley said. “These ultrasound microsensors clearly have that capability. They’re safe because they don’t penetrate very deep, and we’ve only scratched the surface of what they can do.”
Left: Illustration by KTSDESIGN/Getty
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Lucas – Johnson’s attempts to force No Deal will only succeed if Parliament capitulates to him
Opposition party representatives are meeting today to discuss strategies to prevent Boris Johnson’s Government from forcing a disastrous and undemocratic No Deal on the country.
Commenting, Caroline Lucas MP, leading supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, said:
“Boris Johnson’s attempts to force a wretched No Deal on the people of Britain will only succeed if Parliament capitulates to him. That is why it is essential that, today, those opposed to a disastrous No Deal focus on the things around which they can unite, and not on those matters over which they differ. Our country and the fate of future generations are at stake, and this is the moment to find common ground to stand on, not small hills to die on.
“Parliament has the power to halt a runaway executive working to impose No Deal and to resist the damage that outcome would do to our NHS, to wages and the cost of living, and to agriculture and industry. Parliament also has the responsibility to hold to account politicians like Boris Johnson - who told us we didn’t need to worry about No Deal because we’d “get a great deal”. MPs have a duty to hold ministers responsible for their actions and to stop them now they are treating democracy with contempt by trying to force on us something nobody voted for.
“The voters elect Parliament to protect the national interest. That has never been more important than now and the need to block No Deal.”
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American Bar Association Gives Gorsuch High Marks
Robert Fowler
President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, federal judge Neil Gorsuch of Colorado, has received top marks after an evaluation by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. The endorsement arrives only weeks before Gorsuch is set to appear before Congress, where Democratic lawmakers are facing pressure from constituents to oppose his nomination.
On March 9, the ABA submitted a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and ranking member Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, offering their assessment of the Colorado judge, The Daily Caller reports.
The ABA judiciary committee offered its highest endorsement for Gorsuch, describing him as highly qualified after evaluating his "qualities of integrity, professional competence, and judicial demeanor."
"After an exhaustive evaluation process, the Committee has determined by unanimous vote that Judge Gorsuch is 'Well Qualified' for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court," the ABA letter stated.
Grassley took to social media to tout the ABA's endorsement of the conservative-leaning appointee.
"The ABA just gave BIG BIG boost to SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch [with] HIGHEST rating-unanimous well qualified," Grassley tweeted. "He's well on his way to Supreme Court."
The Senate confirmation hearings for the Gorsuch nomination will be held on March 20. Republican Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has vowed that the Colorado judge will be confirmed before the congressional recess on April 8.
"We're gonna confirm his before the April recess," McConnell told Politico.
The Senate majority leader, who had managed to keep the Supreme Court vacancy open for nearly a year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, has also taken credit for how the prospect of a conservative replacement appointee had helped Trump's electoral prospects with a mobilized Republican base.
"Politically, oddly enough, not only did it not hurt our guys who were running, it actually helped the president bring Republicans home," McConnell added. "And [Trump] ended up getting 90 percent of the Republican vote just like [former presidential candidate] Mitt Romney did, and the single biggest issue was, 'Who do I want to make the Supreme Court appointment?'"
That strategy, and the fact that Gorsuch will receive a confirmation hearing that former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, federal Judge Merrick Garland, had been denied, has the Democratic base urging their representatives to vote against the Colorado judge.
"This is a stolen seat being filled by an illegitimate and extreme nominee, and I will do everything in my power to stand up against this assault on the court," said Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon on Jan. 31, according to The Hill.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has asserted that Gorsuch will need 60 Senate votes to gain confirmation or face a filibuster. With a 52-seat majority in the chamber, Republicans have the upper hand but would not be able to overcome a filibuster unless McConnell invokes the so-called nuclear option, which would permanently make the confirmation of Supreme Court judges up to a simple majority.
Even if Democratic lawmakers have no real recourse to block the Gorsuch nomination, they are facing pressure from grassroots liberals to demonstrate that they are hearing their calls for opposition.
"Any Democrat, any elected official who is wondering whether the Supreme Court fight is a priority for the grassroots, needs to understand that the answer is an unequivocal yes," executive director Anna Galland of progressive advocacy group MoveOn told The Huffington Post.
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In Oregon, helicopters spray weed killers near people under West Coast's weakest protections
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Oct 23, 2014
Lax aerial spraying rules in Oregon
Gallery: Lax aerial spraying rules in Oregon
By Rob Davis | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Each year, helicopters spray weed killers on more than 165 square miles of Oregon timberland, an area larger than the city of Portland.
The spraying happens under the Pacific Northwest's most industry-friendly regulations.
Washington requires a wide no-spray zone around nearby homes. Oregon doesn't.
Washington says when it's OK to spray, right down to setting a 7 mph maximum wind speed. Oregon doesn't.
The Oregonian reviewed regulations in four states and found Oregon stacks the deck in favor of the timber industry. The state does less to protect people and the environment from drifting chemicals than neighboring states -- Idaho, Washington and California.
Oregon's rules even do more for fish than people. Streams with fish get a 60-foot buffer from aerial sprays. Residential properties get none.
Oregon's lax regulation is drawing scrutiny from state lawmakers after a helicopter pilot repeatedly flew over homes while spraying outside Gold Beach last October. Curry County residents standing outside said they felt chemicals land on their faces. Twenty complained. The pilot's spraying license was later suspended for a year and he was fined $10,000.
The incident drew strangers together -- a retired nurse, a former firefighter, a logger -- and turned them into advocates.
"We feel we've been violated tremendously and the state still won't do anything for us," said John Burns, an assistant volunteer fire chief who fell ill after being sprayed last year. "We want the regulations and laws changed – at least brought up to the standards of our surrounding states."
James Aldridge, a local resident who helped log the timber behind his home, discovered an oily sheen in his water tank after the clearcut was sprayed. He thinks oil from sprays got into his drinking water stream, which is surrounded by such a small buffer that wind gusts have bowled over many remaining trees. He now drinks bottled water at home.
Lisa Arkin, executive director of Beyond Toxics.
Organized by a Eugene-based advocacy group, Beyond Toxics, Burns, Aldridge and other residents have begun lobbying to see laws tightened.
"Oregon has a history of regarding aerial spraying as simply a common tool in the tool chest, as if it's somehow a commonplace, safe activity," said Lisa Arkin, executive director of Beyond Toxics. "Other states see it for what it is – a hazardous activity."
Spraying by ground and air has increased 17 percent since 2010 as Oregon's timber industry has bounced back from the Great Recession. More than 800,000 pounds of herbicides were sprayed on forestland in 2008, the last year Oregon required amounts to be reported.
Helicopter spraying is the most efficient way to kill the blackberry bushes, ceanothus and other plants that sprout on new clearcuts and compete for light with replanted seedlings.
But it comes with risk. Aerial spraying can allow chemicals like glyphosate, 2,4-D and atrazine to drift long distances. Acute exposure to some chemicals can cause rashes, impaired vision and gastrointestinal irritation. Long-term exposure can harm the liver, kidney and muscles.
Oregon entrusts pilots to decide how wide a buffer they need to leave around sensitive sites like homes. As in every state, they're expected to follow federal guidelines requiring weed killers to be sprayed without moving off-target.
Still, other states, where some of the same industrial timber companies do business, go farther:
• Washington requires a 200-foot-wide buffer around homes where no herbicides can be sprayed. Idaho doesn't allow spraying within a half-mile of cities and densely populated areas unless the wind is blowing away from them.
Oregon hasn't had a protective buffer around homes since the Board of Forestry removed it in 1996.
• Oregon's 60-foot buffers around fish-bearing streams and drinking water sources are the Pacific Northwest's smallest. Washington requires a buffer of between 125 and 325 feet, depending on the helicopter's elevation, an extra precaution to ensure sprays don't pollute waterways.
• Idaho and Washington define what wind speeds are acceptable for spraying. Oregon doesn't, giving applicators more leeway to decide when to spray, even in conditions where drift is more likely.
Weed killer spraying
Curry County residents complained about being exposed to weed killer sprays four times between 2007 and early 2013, trusting that the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon Department of Agriculture would take them seriously.
An investigation by The Oregonian found that the state dismissed concerns or botched investigations – all involving the same timber company. Evidence was tossed away. Important details weren't shared. Key records weren't obtained.
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• Washington and California ensure that neighbors can learn about sprays beforehand. Washington allows the public to comment on planned sprays and requires sites to be posted five days in advance.
Oregonians hoping to avoid sprays must listen for the sound of an approaching helicopter as their only sign it's time to leave their homes or shut their windows.
Many concerned Coast Range residents rely on a notification system that is vague and costly. Starting at $25 annually, the Oregon Department of Forestry will provide written notices companies must file saying what they might spray on a parcel during a months-long window.
The state doesn't require any warning for neighbors immediately before a spray. The state requires sprayers only to notify nearby water treatment plant operators.
• Oregon law doesn't require state agencies to investigate complaints about forest practices such as spraying. The same law makes it difficult to bring lawsuits about herbicide drift. Oregonians can't sue over chemical trespass unless they can prove their crops have been damaged or they've suffered serious physical injury or death.
The timber and chemical industries, for whom tighter regulation means more expense, say wider buffers like those in Washington aren't inherently better.
"We're not seeing benefit for what's done in Washington," said Scott Dahlman, executive director of Oregonians for Food and Shelter, an industry group that represents timber companies and chemical companies like DuPont and Monsanto. "There are still complaints in Washington, there are still concerns in Washington. It's a more difficult, onerous system without more benefit."
But authorities in Washington, which also has a large private timber industry, receive far fewer complaints about clearcut spraying than Oregon. The Washington Department of Agriculture, which investigates complaints about aerial drift from forestry, has received just one complaint since 2012.
Records show the Oregon Department of Agriculture has received six complaints in the same timeframe. That doesn't include the 2013 Curry County incident when 20 people complained.
Stu Turner, a West Richland, Wash., agronomist who investigates drift complaints for private landowners, said he gets far more business because of spraying on Oregon timberlands than his home state.
Turner said he hasn't investigated a claim about aerial drift from a clearcut spray in Washington for more than a decade, but averages two or three a year in Oregon. "There's no wilder place in the West," he said.
"Whatever they're doing in Washington is working better," Turner said. "It may not be perfection, but it's a step in the right direction."
Both Doug Decker, Oregon's state forester, and Katy Coba, the state agriculture director, demurred when asked if Oregon's laws needed to be tightened.
"This issue is a pretty politically sensitive issue," Coba said. "It's our job in these cases to provide factual information we have and have the policy discussion happen among legislators."
State Sen. Michael Dembrow, a Portland Democrat, has been leading efforts to update Oregon's laws.
Dembrow wants to improve the state's notification system to let neighbors know about sprays and ensure residents who complain don't get lost among the eight state agencies with roles in herbicide regulation.
Residents today are sent "into a bureaucratic maze," said Dembrow, chairman of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. "I'm just not convinced it's working. It really needs to be improved and beefed up."
Dembrow's committee will meet in December to continue its discussions.
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Days Gone review: The beginning of an essential new PlayStation franchise?
Rik Henderson · 25 April 2019
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Days Gone combines many gameplay tropes from some of the best titles around and wraps them in a heart-warming, complex tale of relationships and human connectivity. It is a solid first outing for what will undoubtedly be a continuing franchise.
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Great heartfelt storyline
Big open world environment
Splendid voice acting
Combat and stealth mechanics work very well
Occasional graphical glitch
Side missions can be repetitive
Loading between cutscenes can grate
HDR differences not pronounced enough
Days Gone has taken its sweet, merry while to arrive – with its promising debut at E3 2016 now a distant memory. But, after a few delays along the way, it’s finally arrived at just the right time.
Not only are zombies still “on trend”, the game is a PS4 exclusive when many of PlayStation’s other big-name titles are still on the far horizon. And, it provides a post-apocalyptic, story-driven action-adventure that will sate the appetite of those frothing at the mouth for The Last of Us Part 2.
That doesn’t mean it’s merely an appetiser, however. Indeed, in many ways it’s a headlining new IP that capably holds its own amongst many triple-A peers already released this year. We’re also sure it’s the start of a new, high-production value franchise in its own right.
Paying lip service
Part of the reason is that Days Gone pays lip service to some of the greatest open-world and action-adventure games around, making it both familiar and instantly playable.
There is a dash of Last of Us, a smidgen of Red Dead Redemption, even the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series spring to mind for some elements of the game. However, its biggest influence is Uncharted – which is hardly surprising considering in-house Sony Interactive Entertainment developer Bend Studio’s last two games were Uncharted related, including Golden Abyss on the PS Vita.
Character and graphical design smacks of Uncharted, while the voice acting and scene setting are of suitably high levels. Even the 3D-rotating loading icon in the bottom corner of the screen is Uncharted-esque.
The biggest comparison, however, comes with combat. It feels very similar to the duck-and-cover/stealth mechanics in Nathan Drake games. But, as they say, imitation is the greatest form of flattery and, in this case, it works well with the subject matter and helps thrust you into the heart of the action quickly without you needing long-winded tutorial missions first.
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Certainly, the keenly-refined stealth aspects are well suited to sneaking around and backstabbing zombies and human enemies alike. Both are usually best avoided in a head-to-head confrontation, so hiding in long grass or ducking behind cover are helpful tools while you wait for one to wander past to dispatch quietly.
It’s a tactic that stood us well in Uncharted 4 and does so here too.
The shooting mechanics seem familiar as well. When you have been spotted, human enemies tend to run behind nearby cover themselves and it becomes a game of popping your head up occasionally to fire off a round or two. The big difference here though is that, as this takes place in a relatively sparse post-apocalyptic landscape, ammo is a resource that you will soon run out of. Lengthy fire fights are not only ill-advised, they are rare.
Of course, combat styles and outcomes also depend on the enemy types, which vary greatly.
Get your freak on
The main threat throughout comes in the form of virally-infected armies, called Freakers, that just-about populate every inch of the large open world environment. There are four main types you encounter near the start: Swarmers, Newts, Screamers and Breakers. Others are best left as surprises to discover for yourself.
Swarmers are the most common, slowest and dumbest of them when isolated, especially when they haven’t yet spotted you. Be ready to run when they do, however, especially if there are several together.
They can group into large hordes and attack at pace and with what seems to be a hive mind. You don’t really stand a chance if they see you and pelt at you en masse.
Newts are as sad as they are scary, being as they are zombie kids. They usually scurry around on roofs and will generally leave you alone if you don’t attack them or get too close. But are nasty if you do.
Screamers let out hideous wails that will bring every other Freaker around upon you. While Breakers are brutes you really don’t want to get close to – they will, well, break you.
This is all compounded by the fact that your lead character, Deacon, has limited stamina alongside health – as represented by two bars on the bottom-left of the screen. You can only run for so long, therefore, or swing a melee weapon so many times before you physically tire and get munched.
You can improve those stats – plus an Assassin’s Creed Eagle Vision-a-like focus mode that highlights items to scavenge, tracks and other points of interest – but only by collecting booster injections from Nero sites discoverable around the map. So, the first few hours of the game will be a little harem scarem as you get to grips with what your character can and can’t do.
Thankfully, a plentiful supply of weapons help. Melee weapons can be found in the back of pickup trucks or just lying around in disused buildings. And, they can be modified as you progress and find crafting recipes, to be deadlier and more durable.
The latter is of vital importance as all melee weapons will break after relatively few uses. You can repair them if you have found enough scrap, but once they are down to zero per cent, they are done completely.
Guns and your crossbow are more permanent, although their ammo is obviously not. They are also not as effective as you would like – at least those that you have access to for the first part of the game. It can take up to five or six shots to take down even the most basic Freaker or human foe, so you have a keen aim or a decent stash of ammo around the next corner.
Thankfully, when you’ve killed an unfriendly human, they tend to drop a weapon to swap to, plus carry ammo or crafting items if you search them. This includes the strange, bald-headed Rippers that look like Freakers but are a cult gang of nutters that get in the way often.
You can also purchase guns and ammo, plus upgrades for your motorbike – an essential form of transport around the large map – from survivor settlements. They are also a good source for side missions that will earn the trust of each camp and open up more powerful supplies. As you are effectively a freelance bounty hunter come gun for hire, they don’t immediately respect you, but trust can also be earned by saving strangers in random encounters, sending them to the settlements to bolster the numbers, or clearing nearby areas of Freaker infestations.
There is therefore certainly plenty to do in Days Gone, even though some of the side missions can feel like a grind at times and are repetitive. The main story is different though, with plenty of variety in campaign exploits and a heart-warming thread of love and friendship apparent from the start.
While Deacon is a badass biker gang dude, with his best friend and fellow chapter member Boozer by his side, his journey is driven by his quest to find out what happened to the love of his life, Sarah, and the role the sinister corporation Nero has in it all.
It works well and is tightly scripted, although some of the cut scenes are rather jarring in how they are edited at times, while loading screens can often take enough time to pull you out of the otherwise fully immersive experience. Nonetheless, these are minor caveats and the overall, overarching theme works as a great contrast to the dirty, extreme violence required by much of the gameplay.
Days Gone isn’t quite Last of Us, but it’s got heart and soul to go with its entrails.
It also looks great – like a Naughty Dog game, in fact, as we’ve alluded to previously. There are moments where you notice foliage popping up while travelling along dirt roads on your motorcycle, but detail is generally superb. Ruined houses and other buildings look suitably distressed and it naturally looks best on a PS4 Pro.
We’re not 100 per cent sure, but it looks to be using a dynamic 4K rendering technique. HDR is optional too, although, if we’re being honest, it doesn’t seem to make that much difference to the colour gamut when active. Maybe more during the night-time than day, but those without an HDR compatible TV aren’t missing out on that much.
Days Gone is a massive game all told. In depth, in scope, in heart. As soon as the open world map opens up (after the first few missions), you realise that the game setting is finely tuned for exploration and action in equal measure.
It is partly a survival game, with crafting and scavenging, partly an action-adventure come RPG. And this strikes it apart from the likes of The Last of Us, to which it will be mostly compared.
Bend Studio has combined many gameplay types from some of the best titles around, plus several key zombie genre tropes and wrapped them in a heart-warming, complex tale of relationships and human connectivity.
In many ways, it’s the same clever trick pulled by The Walking Dead comic book and TV series, exemplifying humanity's finer moments with its apparent collapse. For that reason, we can’t help but feel Days Gone would therefore have made a better TWD game than any of the officially licensed efforts so far.
In the current world of zombie entertainment, there is seldom higher praise and, caveats aside, this is a solid first outing for what will undoubtedly be a continuing franchise for years, not days, to come.
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Gamesys: Latest Jackpotjoy Online Bingo Winner Donates win to the Children of Chernobyl
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21 Dec, 2011, 12:37 GMT
LONDON, December 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Popular online gaming website Jackpotjoy has paid out £1,313 to their latest online bingo winner, Mrs Julie W, who scooped the amount after playing the website's 90 ball version of the gaming classic.
Bingo 90 ball is just one type of bingo game available at jackpotjoy.com, which also boasts a wide selection of online slots, online roulette games and other popular casino games.
When you get started at Jackpotjoy online bingo you'll be taken to the Games Lobby and presented with a range of 90 Ball Bingo rooms, which are sorted by ticket price, jackpot size or number of players. Best of all, every room offers a progressive jackpot, which really adds to the excitement.
For every ticket bought a proportion of the price goes into the progressive jackpot, which is awarded to the player who makes the first full house call within a certain number of balls being drawn. If no winner comes forward during the game then the amount rolls over to the next one, with the potential for a rather tasty sum accumulating for the eventual winner. What a way to up the ante, right?
Part of the attraction of online bingo is its simplicity; the cards are marked automatically as you go along, allowing you to keep more cards on the go and increasing your chances of winning. Players get to watch their cards being marked, with the cards closest to completion being brought to the front ensuring that you never fail to spot a bingo win!
On hearing of her win, Mrs Julie W, a regular player of Jackpotjoy's 90 Ball bingo games, said: "I am sending the bulk of this to Chernobyl. I host children every year that stay with me for a month at a time."
What a brilliant way to spend your prize money Julie! Many congratulations!
Jackpotjoy offers loads of variations on 90 Ball bingo with huge jackpots up for grabs in rooms such as Diamond, Sapphire, Emerald and Bejeweled, to name but a few.
The Gamesys Group was founded by Noel Hayden in April 2001 with a small team of developers. The aim was to build a profitable online entertainment business, like the website Jackpotjoy, offering a variety of the most popular online casino games and bingo.
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On Earth Day, North Carolinians Rally for 100% Clean Energy by 2050
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The Image Is: A Poetry Workshop
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Aldrin Valdez is a Pinoy artist and the author of ESL or You Weren’t Here (Nightboat Books, 2018). Their poetry and visual art has appeared in the Felt, Femmescapes, Nat. Brut, Poor Claudia, and the Recluse. They have presented work at Dixon Place, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Poetry Project, and been awarded fellowships from Queer/Art/Mentorship and Poets House. Currently Valdez curates the Segue Reading Series with fellow poet Joël Díaz.
On October 27 I led a workshop at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division (BGSQD), currently hosted by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. The workshop was organized by Sarah Sala, founder of the Office Hours poetry workshop, with support from Poets & Writers’ Readings & Workshops program. I haven’t led many workshops before, so this was an experiment of sorts. I called the craft class “The Image Is _____” and its focus, of course, was the image. A series of questions motivated this workshop:
What is an image?
Where and how do we encounter images today?
As prose writers, poets, and artists who use text, how do we each relate to images?
Do images factor into our individual works?
How can we use images to surprise our writing?
Is there an image that haunts/grips/inspires you, will not leave you, or one that you invoke often?
What does the image contain?
Is the image a dam we choose to break? What language emerges if we do?
Does the language trickle out? Or is it a torrent, flooding us/out of us into writing?
Are we prepared to write through this flood?
To guide the workshop, I shared poems by Derrick Austin, Anne Carson, Rio Cortez, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Lara Mimosa Montes, and Justin Phillip Reed. I see their work as having complex, dynamic relationships with images. They’re aware of how we are surrounded by, and surround ourselves with, images and the tools with which to make them. And they acknowledge and question images as historical, political, and personal. What can we learn from their works in thinking about our own creative processes?
In a series of exercises I asked the class to interact with images—those around them (the BGSQD bookshop and the Center are filled with art) and those on their phones (if they had phones)—as catalysts for writing. One particular exercise, inspired by poems from Justin Phillip Reed’s Indecency (Coffee House Press, 2018) and Lara Mimosa Montes’s The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016), encouraged the class to think of the page—either as the screen of phones and computers or as a sheet of paper in their notebooks or a printed book—as constituting in itself a visual, physical, and material experience. Do we consider the white space, for instance, as blankness, silence, emptiness, a pause, or a held breath? Does a poem require that you move the book about in your hand? Is the poem concerned with legibility? What happens when a photograph precedes the text or a text precedes an image—how does that affect the experience of reading and our subjective ways of making meaning?
As a visual artist and writer, I enjoyed sharing these questions and activities with the class. It was thrilling to be writing together for a few hours, immersed in poetry—a collectivity I’ve been missing lately. I left the space feeling uplifted by the vulnerability and tenderness with which the group thoughtfully engaged and shared with each other.
Support for the Readings & Workshops Program in New York City is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional support from the Frances Abbey Endowment, the Cowles Charitable Trust, and the Friends of Poets & Writers.
Photos: (top) Adlrin Valdez (Credit: Aldrin Valdez), (bottom) Workshop participants (Credit: Sarah Sala).
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Is Text Messaging a Game-changer for Ecommerce?
Mobile devices are ubiquitous. I don’t go anywhere without mine, and I bet you have a smartphone with you now. In fact, you may be reading this on a mobile device. But are you doing everything you can to connect with shoppers on mobile? Because according to a survey from Quiq, a provider of chat software, 66 percent of consumer-respondents ranked mobile messaging as their preferred channel for contacting a company.
I recently spoke with Chris Albro, head of enterprise sales for Quiq. What follows is my entire audio conversation with him and a transcript of it, edited for length and clarity.
Armando Roggio: Could you introduce yourself and Quiq?
Chris Albro: Absolutely. The company is based in Bozeman, Montana, and I’ve lived in Bozeman for about 15 years. All of those years I’ve spent in the enterprise software customer-experience space, in a variety of roles, ranging from sales, which is my current capacity, as well as professional services, implementation, pre-sales support, and customer success.
Quiq is roughly three years old. Our management team is well over the century mark in terms of direct, hands-on experience in the enterprise software space. We’ve all built, deployed, sold, supported, and enabled customers on enterprise-class platforms.
Roggio: What is mobile messaging?
Albro: The “messaging” part is what most people would consider as texting — SMS [short message service] and MMS [multimedia messaging service]. The “mobile” part is where it gets interesting. Mobile users operate differently than people sitting at a desktop computer and or a landline phone.
Mobile message conversations might take hours to conclude, but they’re happening in eight and 10-second increments that fit our lifestyle patterns.
SMS is the most common form of mobile messaging. But there are texting apps in certain geographies or demographics that have come to play an important role for the people in those geographies and demographics — Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE in Japan, KaTalk in Korea.
Roggio: How can digital messaging drive sales for ecommerce companies?
Albro: The most typical is with a pure outbound marketing message, such as a coupon code or a promotion code. The reason it is so popular is that text messages have something like a 98 percent read rate.
There are more advanced ways with some of the brand-specific messaging apps. For example, using Facebook ads as promotions and turning them into Facebook Messenger conversations. Or putting a “text us” link in your Google AdWords ad and allowing somebody on a mobile device to just text your brand from that ad.
Roggio: Walk me through an SMS-aided sales process.
Albro: A consumer would start the messaging conversation while on a mobile ecommerce site — requesting assistance is some manner. The agent from the brand would help. The agent could build a shopping cart for the consumer and then SMS the link to that shopping cart. And all the consumer has to do is click on that link, which goes to a secure mobile web page. She can confirm the contents of the shopping cart, the price point, and then complete the purchase securely.
Roggio: How would the consumer know that messaging was even an option?
Albro: Putting a “text us” link on a mobile web page entails exactly 24 characters of code, 10 of which are the phone number for the text. That 24 characters of code create a clickable link, which could include a label such as “Text us for help.” When a mobile browser receives that click, it opens the native, default messaging app on that device.
If you have an IVR [interactive voice response], you can also play a message such as, “We’re busy now, but if you’d prefer text messaging, we can help immediately. Press 1 to use text messaging.”
Roggio: What sort of infrastructure is necessary to respond via text to customer interactions?
Albro: None. Much of technology today is delivered in a software-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service model. Our software is no different. We provide it as a service. We provide the underlying infrastructure, including the SMS telephone numbers. We connect it to gateways. We handle all of the underlying fees associated with getting messages on and off the carrier networks. From an infrastructure perspective, there’s nothing additional needed.
To broaden the definition of infrastructure to include the tools that a brand would need to be successful in the messaging space, the answer is a bit different. They include things like routing and queuing engines, management of service level agreements, agent statuses, and sophisticated capabilities around handling spam and PCPA [private cloud platform appliance] compliance.
Roggio: Will text messaging go the same way as email?
Albro: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 — TCPA — governs the use of SMS. It contains rigorous mechanisms for enforcement. Those of us in this space have to comply with those regulations. So a little bit of governance and a little bit of stewardship from participants will go a long way to help prevent texting or SMS from becoming the next email.
Roggio: Are there restrictions on whom we text or how often we send?
Albro: To send somebody a commercial text message, he has to have opted in. There are various ways to do this — explicit being the safest. That could include the consumer initiating a text message. For example, consumers would have opted in if they go to your mobile site, find a “text us” link, and send a message. The TCPA requires the ability for somebody to opt out. The brand and the messaging enabler have to comply with that.
Armando Roggio
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Barbara Pleban, owner and vice-president of Multi Communications, and Isabel Jorge de Carvalho, CEO and founding partner of Global Press, will be jury members of the 63rd edition of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Cannes, FR – Two members of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN), one of the largest international networks of leading independent public relations agencies, were selected as jurors for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Barbara Pleban and Isabel Jorge de Carvalho will judge entries to the festival, which takes place June 18-25, 2016. This year, as many as 40 percent of all Cannes Lions jurors are women – the highest percentage in the festival’s history.
Barbara Pleban, of Multi Communications in Poland, has been active in the public relations industry for nearly twenty years. She worked in key positions in strategic communications consulting and specializes in management consultancy in integrated corporate, product and B2B communications, stakeholder relations and crisis management. She is also an experienced media trainer and communications coach for management boards of Polish and multinational corporations.
“I am honored to be selected as a juror for one of the industry’s most prestigious award festivals and am looking forward to viewing the most creative projects of the year,” said Pleban.
Isabel Jorge de Carvalho is the CEO and founding partner of Global Press, an independent boutique public relations agency, with a wide range of actuation and specialized in strategic communication. Carvalho acts as vice president for the Fashion Office unit, responsible for the strategic communications, public relations and events for some of the most premium brands in the luxury and lifestyle field in Portugal.
“I’ve been following the awards and have enjoyed the Cannes Lions for many years; being part of the judging process and in contact with one of the most creative happenings in the world is truly a privilege,” said Carvalho.
Each year, just under 400 members of the creative communications industries are invited to Cannes Lions to serve on the Juries. They consider and award all the work that is entered into the Festival. To make sure that each piece of work is evaluated in an independent manner, the Festival follows a rigorous Jury selection procedure.
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Global Press, Portugal: global-press.com
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Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From The Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist.His relentless and passionate research puts into question the notion of a post-racial society and opens readers' and audiences' eyes to the reality of racism in America today. Kendi's lectures are sharp, informative, and hopeful, serving as a strong platform for any institution's discussions on racial discrimination.
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When Dr. Ibram X. Kendi won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016 for a book about the history of racist ideas in America, some people felt a disconnect. Emerging from eight years of leadership under an African-American president, a narrative was building in America about the emergence of a post-racial society, colorblind to race and valuing merit over skin color. Kendi challenges this notion in his New York Times-bestselling book Stamped from the Beginning, taking an expansive view on race and racist ideas that spans from 15th century Europe until modern day America. Kendi’s insight on racist structures are the focus of his latest book, How to Be an Antiracist, which empowers readers and audiences to not only recognize the pervasive influence of racism and racist ideas, but to actively participate in dismantling it.
Kendi embarked on the research for his book under the assumption that the major producers of racist ideas were hateful and ignorant. And that borne from racist ideas were racist policies like slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration. But as Kendi dug deeper and contextualized motives, he began to gain a new understanding of the cause and effect actually at play. He soon discovered that political, economic, and cultural self-interest are behind the creation of racist policies and these policies in turn create the racist ideas that rationalize the deep inequities in everything from wealth to health.
Ibram X. Kendi is Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is a frequent public speaker who speaks with great expertise and compassion about the findings of his book and how they can fit into the national conversation on racial and social justice.
Kendi has received research fellowships, grants, and visiting appointments from a variety of universities, foundations, professional associations, and libraries, including the American Historical Association, Library of Congress, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation, Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Brown University, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Chicago, and UCLA. Most recently, he was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow for his work.
In addition to winning the National Book Award, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas was also named a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and nominated for the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Nonfiction. The book was featured on many Best Books of 2016 lists, including in the Boston Globe, Kirkus, The Washington Post, The Root, Chicago Review of Books, and Buzzfeed.
Kendi has published numerous academic essays as well as op-eds in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is also the author of the award-winning book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972. In 2018, he was named a columnist for a new vertical of The Atlantic focusing on ideas, opinion, and political and cultural commentary.
Racist Ideas in America: From Slavery To Black Lives Matter
Ibram X. Kendi is one of the nation’s most prolific and accomplished young professors of race, writing for and speaking to both scholarly and general audiences. This lecture builds on Kendi’s firm belief that in order to understand racism in America today, we must confront the history of anti-Black ideas. Kendi traces this history of racist ideas; beginning in 15th century Europe when racist ideas were used to legitimize slave trade, up until modern day America when unarmed human beings were being killed at the hands of law enforcement officials and #BlackLivesMatter was born. In shedding light on the history of racist ideas, he gives his audience the tools to expose them and reason to hope for the future.
How To Be An Antiracist
When the first Black president headed into the White House, Americans were imagining their nation as colorblind and went so far as to call it post-racial. With the arrival of Donald Trump many people are awakening and seeing racial reality for the first time. With opened minds, people are actively trying to understand racism. In this deeply personal and empowering lecture, Kendi shifts the discussion from how not to be racist, to how to be an antiracist. He shares his own racist ideas and how he overcame them. He provides direction to people and institutions who want more than just band-aid programs, but actual antiracist action that builds an antiracist America.
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Praise for Stamped from the Beginning
This heavily researched yet easily readable volume explores the roots and the effects of racism in America. The narrative smoothly weaves throughout history, culminating in the declaration that as much as we’d like it to be, America today is nowhere near the “postracial” country that the media declared following the election of Barack Obama in 2008. The hope here is that by studying and remembering the lessons of history, we may be able to move forward to an equitable society.
— Booklist
An intricate look at the history of race in the U.S., arguing that many well-meaning American progressives inadvertently operate on belief systems tinged with a racist heritage.
A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society.
In this tour de force, Kendi explores the history of racist ideas—and their connection with racist practices—across American history. Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep that scar cuts and why it endures, its barely subcutaneous pain still able to flare.
— Kirkus (starred review)
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Master thesis: "Antimonybased Nanowires grown by MOCVD". Besides theoretical studies in low-dimensional systems, epitaxy and thin film growth and device processing just to name a few, I conducted extensive experimental work on antimony-based nanowires, such as GaSb and InSb.
I characterized the performance of a newly purchased MOCVD reactor and its parameter space. Lund University, Sweden.
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Objectives: The objective of my project within QuESTech is to obtain high mobility graphene suitable for nanoelectronic devices, aiming for industrial scale. The mobility of graphene on Si/SiO2 is limited by the substrate to a certain extent and this limits the applications of graphene in certain nanoelectronic applications. Therefore, substrates that are suitable for graphene such as, for example, h-BN will be investigated, as the mobility of CVD graphene has been shown to dramatically improve when h-BN is used as a substrate between the SiO2 and the graphene layer. Large area h-BN will be grown using CVD on top of catalysts such as different transition metals, in an attempt to produce wafer-scale synthesis reproducibly. In addition, atmospheric adsorbates can also affect the performance of an atomically thin material: sandwich or encapsulating layers (metal oxides, h-BN) will also be studied in order to protect the graphene. h-BN/graphene/h-BN sandwich structures will be investigated in order to obtain ultra-high mobility graphene samples, suitable for RF and power applications where a lack of band-gap is not crucial. Encapsulation is also required for graphene doping control, minimizing batch-to-batch variations. The characterisation of the grown films will be carried out using Raman, optical microscopy, IR, SEM, etc. The electronic properties will be determined using field effect or Hall effect measurements in samples patterned by optical lithography. Potential applications can be envisaged and implemented.
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You are here: Home / Business / DED director seeks tax credits for flooded big businesses
DED director seeks tax credits for flooded big businesses
The director of Iowa’s Department of Economic Development is pushing for new tax credits for large Iowa employers that were hit by this spring’s flooding. "At the next Economic Development Board meeting in October we’re going to ask them to change some the rules in kind of an aggressive fashion that would allow companies which had substantial damage, which need to rebuilt, would be granted some tax credits to do that," D.E.D. director Mike Tramontina says.
The state’s current economic development programs restrict tax credits to new or expanding companies. Tramontina says unless the rules are changed, the state may continue to lose companies like Norwood Souvenir. The company announced Friday it is closing its plant in Cedar Rapids that employs 200. "We’ve come to the conclusion, clearly, that economic recovery from the disaster, whether it’s a tornado or a flood…that is a retention issue that the state must be a partner in reinvesting," Tramontina says.
Tramontina made his comments Tuesday after the "Rebuild Iowa Commission" reconvened to discuss longterm recovery issues. Commission member Bill Bywater of Iowa City says Norwood Souvenir’s decision to close in Cedar Rapids is a big blow. "In Cedar Rapids there’s like 600 companies that have been effected by the flood with 9000 jobs," Bywater says. "Economic development’s always working on new jobs. We’ve got to do something for those that are already here, like the one we just lost."
The Rebuild Iowa Commission issued a report in September, addressing short-term needs in storm-ravaged areas of the state. It’s now meeting to discuss long-term ideas and issue report in mid-November.
Filed Under: Business, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Democratic Party, Legislature, Republican Party
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You are here: Home / Agriculture / Iowa’s child labor laws updated for first time in 35 years
Iowa’s child labor laws updated for first time in 35 years
Governor Culver today signed a bill into law which dramatically increases the fines for Iowa businesses that knowingly violate child labor laws.
State Labor Commissioner Dave Neil says Iowa’s child labor laws haven’t been updated since 1974. "This is one big improvement in the tools that we’ll have to move forward," Neil says.
Legislators drafted the bill in response to the situation at Agriprocessors, the Postville meatpacking plant accused of dozens of child labor violations.
The new law establishes a $10,000 state fine for each child labor violation. The corresponding federal fine is $11,000. The legislation also hikes the penalty for businesses who fail to pay employees their rightfully-earned wages to $500. It had been a $100 fine. Supporters say the law also gives county attorneys more power to prosecutive businesses that engage in child labor violations.
The new law does not provide money to beef up state investigations of child labor law violations, however. "We don’t have any investigators, per se. We’ve got one child labor person who acts on all the permits and all of that," Neil says. We can’t today actively investigate everything we want to but, you know, we make phone calls and try and make sure people are aware of the law and those that ignore us we’ll be able to now move forward with."
Neil doesn’t believe that many Iowa businesses are ignoring the laws which forbid kids from workplaces and restricts the hours teenagers may work.
"It’s something that takes place in given circumstances and, thank God, with no real investigators to go out there, the public is really good about letting us know where some of these situations exist," Neil says.
Click on the audio link below to hear what Governor Culver had to say about this subject.
AUDIO: Culver signs bill (mp3 runs 3 min)
Filed Under: Agriculture, Business, Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Chet Culver, Democratic Party, Employment and Labor, Legislature, Republican Party
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You are here: Home / Human Interest / 13th Safe Haven baby left to state
13th Safe Haven baby left to state
Iowa Department of Human Services spokesman, Roger Munns says a baby was turned over to the state last Thursday under the safe haven law. Munns says the newborn baby was brought to the hospital about three hours after the baby was born at home, and the mother told hospital officials she didn’t want the baby.
Munns says it is the 13th baby dropped off since the safe haven law went into effect in July of 2001. Munns says the child is doing well. He says the child was healthy and was released to state custody this weekend and is already in an approved adoptive home.
Munns says the next step is a hearing to terminate parental rights, he says all of the 12 previous safe haven babies were successfully adopted. Munns says it’s the second safe haven baby this year, and says it’s a good news story, but says the recommend way to deal with the pregnancy is to get the proper pre-natal care and arrange an adoption yourself. Munns says if all other options fail, the safe haven law gives you an option.
Munns says the location where the babies are dropped off and other information is kept confidential. Munns says the law guarantees anonymity for the parents and the child so people can be assured that their names are not leaked out. The safe have law was passed by the Legislature after a high-profile case in 2001 involving a teen-aged girl in eastern Iowa who killed her home-delivered newborn.
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POINT BREAK (2016) MOVIE NEWS & REVIEW
point break (2016) movie
Genre | Action
Classification | M
Running time | 114 minutes
Released | 1 January 2016
Luke Bracey as Utah
Edgar Ramirez as Bodhi
Ray Winstone as Pappas
Teresa Palmer as Samsara
Kurt Wimmer ... (screenplay)
Rick King ... (story) &
W. Peter Iliff ... (story) and
Kurt Wimmer ... (story)
John Duffy
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Worldwide $ 133,718,711
Australia $3,997,454
North America $28,782,481
Several characters: Brother.
Pappas: Have you ever surfed
Johnny Utah: Yeah
Pappas: [points to the squall] But have you ever surfed anything like 'that'
Pappas: I don't think you noticed or not but what went down was a crime
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POINT BREAK (2016) STORY SYNOPSIS
A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. Deep undercover, and with his life in danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world's financial markets.
POINT BREAK (2016) MOVIE REVIEW
Reviewed by Mark Geraghty | Review date 1 January 2016
Pop Movee Rating ⭐⭐
The key to telling any story successfully is to make a point. Given the word “Point” is featured in the title, it’s a little surprising that Ericson Core’s reimagining of the 1991 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze action film fails to make any point and, for that matter, much sense. Instead, much of the movie plays like a Warren Miller documentary (sans his famous narrations), where coherent storytelling is hastily moved aside in favour of extended action sequences that serve little to no purpose. With only a passing resemblance to Kathryn Bigelow’s movie, this version of POINT BREAK could have been called just about anything and a cynic may take the view that the only reason this new film bares the same moniker came about through a shameless attempt to cash-in on the nostalgic following that the first film has developed over the last 24 years.
The story opens with up and coming dirtbike champion Johnny Utah (Australian actor Luke Bracey) giving up on his dreams after the death of his friend Jeff (Max Thieriot) while attempting one of the most ridiculous stunts ever seen in a film. Jumping seven years forward, the story picks-up with Utah being reluctantly accepted into the FBI training program. There’s no real explanation as to how or why Utah decided to join the FBI, but Senior Agent Hall (Delroy Lindo) is not that thrilled by his presence. Only after Utah makes a spectacular cognitive connection in a series of unexplained cases, does Hall decide to give Utah a chance. Utah believes three crimes in three different countries have been committed by the same group, whose members seem to display the same level of elite athleticism as Utah and appear to be following a pattern of behaviour based on a series of death-defying feats in exhortation of Mother Nature’s goodness. What follows defies the rational acceptance in the suspension of disbelief within a fictional story, as Utah, who has no prior law enforcement experience, is sent overseas by Hall to investigate a paper-thin lead even after senior FBI officials have rejected Utah’s theory. It’s just a little bit too much of a narrative leap to swallow.
In a piece of detective work worthy of the great Sherlock Holmes, Utah, with the help of Ray Winstone’s Pappas, manages to locate the suspects he’s after almost immediately; managing to “drop-in” on the group’s leader Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) while surfing some of the biggest waves in history. Once Utah ingratiates himself with Bodhi and his “gang”, the viewer is forced to endure a combination of never-ending macho-man antics that just don’t make sense. To make matters worse, writer Kurt Wimmer (responsible for the similarly woeful 2012 TOTAL RECALL remake) attempts to characterise Bodhi as a cross between David Suzuki and Robin Hood, where Mother Nature’s awesomeness has to be rewarded with some kind of criminal act that puts lives at risk for no good reason. Nowhere does this pointlessness hit home better when Italian authorities (and for some reason, members of the FBI) surround the “Bodhites” in the midst of them pulling a bank heist and, in the space of a couple of minutes, the cast is almost halved in a hail of gunfire!
Surprisingly, given the lack of coherent story, most of the actors manage to extract something out of the script to make their character interesting. Luke Bracey does as much as he can with Utah and any of the character’s shorth-comings are a result of Wimmer’s poor dialogue writing. Edgar Ramirez does his usual suave South American accent, but, despite attempts to give the character some kind of motivation as to why he does what he does, there’s nothing going on behind his eyes. Ray Winstone and Delroy Lindo pop-up throughout the course of the film and their presence provides a welcome relief even if their characters are convoluted cliches of just about every “Law Enforcement” type that’s ever been committed to film. Teresa Palmer as Samsara, the film’s hippy-dippy Earth Mother character, is the least impressive of the performances and her inclusion is a poor substitute for Lori Petty’s Tyler from the 1991 film. Director Ericson Core, who also puts his experience as Cinematographer to use, captures all the stunt action with multiple camera coverage from all vantage points, but it’s not enough to keep people entertained for the film’s 114 minute running time. The absence of well-thought through plot and action for the sake of action makes the film’s tagline of “Find Your Breaking Point” take on a meaning that POINT BREAK’s producers may not have intended.
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The 13 Fastest Cars You Can Buy in 2015
It's going to be a year for driving much, much too fast. At least if these high-performance beasts have anything to say about it.
By John Brandon
Price: $845,000 0-60: 2.5 seconds For the 2015 model year, nothing beats the Porsche 918 Spyder (though the Bugatti Veyron can match its 0-60 time of 2.5 seconds). Somehow, the Spyder is that ungodly speedy without any turbocharging or supercharging. It's also a hybrid: Two electric motors boost the gas engine at launch, hitting their highest their maximum power output. You'll feel every one of the 887 horses and 944 lb. ft. of torque, especially if you take this Porsche to its top track speed of 214 mph.
2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 Coupe
Price: $90,980 0-60: 2.95 seconds The racing version of Chevy's sexy seventh-generation Corvette has a 0-60 rating of just 2.95 seconds thanks to improved aerodynamics. The aero package uses carbon-fiber parts and tricks like a rear spoiler with a fixed wickerbill (a flap on the end of the spoiler) to increase downforce. This Corvette is the fastest production car GM has ever made and has a 1.2 g-force rating for lateral acceleration.
2015 Dodge Viper SRT / 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
Viper Price: $84,885 0-60: 3.5 seconds Challenger Hellcat Price: $58,295 0-60: 3.5 seconds Dodge doesn't provide exact 0-60 ratings for the Viper and Hellcat, but state they both hit 3.5 seconds in time trials. (A few have testers hit slightly better times with the Viper, and slightly worse with the Hellcat) and they are very different cars. The Viper has a 8.4-liter V-10 engine with 645 horses and 600 lb-ft of torque. The Hellcat has a 6.2-liter supercharged HEMI V-8 with 707 horses and 650 lb.-ft of torque. The Viper achieves this with an ideal power-to-weight ratio (it weighs only 3,400 pounds) The Hellcat shifts in only 160 milliseconds.
2015 McLaren P1
Price: $1.15M 0-60: 2.8 seconds This little hottie has a twin-turbo engine rated at 727 hp and 663 ft-lb of torque. Like the Porsche, it gets a little electric boost — the P1 has an electric motor that adds another 176 horsepower at launch. It's like squeezing extra hot sauce on a red hot burrito. The rear wing doesn't just keep you grounded, it also adjusts for the optimal angle as you drive to reduce drag by 23 percent. The main carbon fiber body structure weighs only 198 pounds. The 0-60 rating is only 2.8 seconds, and the P1 has a top speed of 217 mph.
2015 Lexus RC F
Price: $62,400 0-60: 4.4 seconds No, the F doesn't stand for "fast" — it's a reference to the fact that Lexus does most of its high-speed testing at the Fuji Speedway in Japan. But maybe it should, because this car goes 0-60 in just 4.4 seconds and has a top speed of 170 mph. The secret to all of that power, besides the 467 horses from a V-8, is an 8-speed transmission and something called Sports Direct Shift that smoothes. The RC F isn't in the same sub-3-second league and the 'Vette and the McLaren, but it's the hottest Lexus you'll ever drive.
Price: $32,300 0-60: 4.4 seconds We're still waiting to hear what kind of number the gorgeous and probably mad 2017 Ford GT will post. Until then, the Mustang GT gets Ford's top spot for sheer speed. The big V-8 can push this pony to 60 in just 4.4 seconds, according to a recent AutoWeek test; the top speed is 155 MPH. A slew of enhancements borrowed from the 2012 Mustang Boss 302 boost the GT's performance, but it really comes down to improved aerodynamics. Every part — from the splitters and air dams on the front to the two air vents on the hood — keep the car planted to the ground and reduce air underneath.
2016 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe AWD
Price: TBD 0-60: 3.9 seconds The prettiest Jag in years is getting performance to match when this F-Type variant arrives this spring. Despite a curb weight of 3,814 pounds, the R Couple AWD will hit 60 in 3.9 seconds and zoom all the way to 186 mph. Thank the 5.0-liter V-8 engine with 550 horses and 502 lb. ft. of torque. Jaguar added more boost to the supercharger on the intake stroke for each piston, which pumps in more air to give you a push off the starting block.
2015 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG S-Model 4MATIC Sedan
Price: $100,600 0-60: 3.5 seconds It might be tempting to overlook sporty sedans like the Mercedes E63, especially when there's a McLaren on our list. Big mistake. This powerhouse goes from 0-60 in just 3.5 seconds and has a 577 horsepower with 590 lb-ft of torque. Top speed is 186 mph.
2015 Audi R8 V-10 Competition
Price: $199,900 0-60: 3.3 seconds Yes, the 570-horsepower V-10 engine helps this sleek (but very driveable) coupe hit 0-60 in just 3.3 seconds. But there's more. The Competition model shares about half of its parts with the racing version of the R8 and is made mostly of carbon-fiber to keep the weight down. And the chassis weighs less than 500 pounds, mostly because of aluminum components.
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse
Price: $2.5M 0-60: 2.5 seconds No round-up of the fastest cars is complete without including the Vitesse, a scorcher that is nearing its final run. (Bugatti plans to make only ten more of them.) The car accelerates to 62 mph in only 2.6 seconds, or about as long as it took you to read this sentence. It has four turbochargers. Four. In case you get going a little too fast, you should know that the Bugatti stops almost as fast as it accelerates. It takes just 5.9 seconds to go from 0 to 62 and back to 0 again.
2015 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4
Price: $397,500 0-60: 2.9 seconds It's exotic, sleek, and eye-catching. But what we care about most is the engine. Everything you need to know about the Aventador LP 700-4, at 700 horses, is wrapped up in this basic concept: the "super sports car" has a low power to engine weight ratio of just 4.96 pounds per horsepower and a total weight just under 3,500 pounds. The production model goes 0-62 in 2.9 seconds and hits 217 mph.
Price: $101,770 0-60: 2.5 seconds This compact speed demon achieves some of its greatness due to how it is assembled. Parts are put together in a clean room by technicians to make sure the car is ready to make you scream with glee. (It's a similar process used for making racecar engines.) There's a 545-horsepower, 3.8-liter twin turbo V6 engine with 463 lb-ft of torque.
2015 Tesla Model S P85D
Price: $101,770 0-60: 3.2 seconds Just for bragging rights, Tesla decided to pump more power into the P85D model. it's the fastest four-door sedan ever built. You can accelerate to 60 in just 3.2 seconds, and hit a top speed of 155 MPH. There's 691 horsepower available, a combination of front and rear electric motors working in conjunction.
The Acura NSX will also debut in 2015, as will the Ford GT, but 0-60 times were not available at press time. As for Ferrari, the Italian automaker has no models new for 2015, but the ridiculous LaFerrari will take you to 60 in about 2.9 seconds.
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Posted on July 24, 2019 by Portsmouth Daily Times
Wagner IV’s jury trial delayed
Accused murderer George Wagner IV sat quietly awaiting the start of his latest pretrial Wednesday.
Perhaps it’s not surprising given the fact the overall case involves eight murders and six suspects – four of whom face the death penalty – but defense requests for discovery, that is evidence held by the prosecution, remains the driving force in the ongoing Rhoden murder trials.
In June, Pike County Court of Common Pleas Judge Randy Deering set a September date for the start of the aggravated murder trial of George Wagner IV. Perhaps it’s also not surprising, during Wagner IV’s first court appearance since early June on Wednesday, Deering granted the request of the suspect’s attorneys and continued his trial to an as yet undetermined date.
Speaking for the defense, attorney Richard Nash said the biggest reason for his continuance request is the amount of discovery still on its way from the prosecution.
“That’s a great deal of material for defense to look at, I’m sure,” Deering said.
During a pretrial for Wagner IV’s mother, Angela Wagner, who also faces the death penalty, Deering said it was his understanding some four terabytes of information still needed to be delivered by the prosecution to Angela Wagner’s defense team. As previously noted by the Daily Times, one terabyte of information is enough to hold 500 hours worth of movies.
Wagner IV’s defense team has at least six outstanding pretrial motions on which Deering has not rendered a decision. The judge described those motions as non-substantive, meaning they are standard motions and no evidence or witnesses need be presented before he can render a decision. Deering set an Aug. 31 deadline for the defense to present any further such motions and gave the state until Sept. 13 to respond. Should either side feel the need to present oral arguments on those motions, that hearing is set for Sept. 20. Deering said officials will decide on a new trial date once discovery issues seem more settled.
Next up in the Rhoden trials is what is advertised as the last pretrial for Rita Newcomb, charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and forgery. That pretrial is slated for Thursday.
Newcomb is the first of the six suspects scheduled to go to a jury trial, with that date set as Oct. 21. At last month’s pretrial for Newcomb, Deering warned attorneys to expect her trial to begin on that date. As predicted previously by the Daily Times, Newcomb’s trial could represent the first chance for the public and the media to get a real look at the evidence in the Rhoden cases. Little if any of the prosecution’s case has come out during the numerous pretrials to date and Deering long ago barred anyone connected with the cases from speaking to the media.
Newcomb’s case eventually may be the key to the entire Rhoden murder mystery. Before the imposition of Deering’s gag order, prosecutors said a custody battle over the daughter of Jake Wagner and one of the victims, Hanna Rhoden, is the reason behind the massacre. Newcomb’s forgery charge stems from her allegedly creating false custody documents.
Jake Wagner is the grandson of Rita Newcomb and George Wagner IV’s younger brother. For whatever reason, Deering has not set a trial date for Edward Wagner. He did set a date of Sept. 17 for a motion hearing in Edward Wagner’s case. Last month, Deering granted a request by Edward Wagner’s defense for an ex parte hearing on issues related to bringing in experts to testify for the defense. While Deering indicated the court will videotape the hearing, ex parte hearings by definition, take place out of the earshot of the public and, of course, the media.
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Fly Westchester to Cape Cod: $1,000
The flight service carries people in 3-passenger planes and the price is a one-way fare.
Fly Westchester to Cape Cod: $1,000 The flight service carries people in 3-passenger planes and the price is a one-way fare. Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/money/2014/06/04/new-flights-westchester-capecod/9956017/
Ken Valenti, klvalent@lohud.com Published 11:48 a.m. ET June 4, 2014 | Updated 10:25 p.m. ET June 4, 2014
One of the three-passenger Cirrus airplanes used for flights offered by Linear and Hopscotch Air from Westchester to Cape Cod-area destinations.(Photo: Linear Air)
Flights to New England in 3-passenger airplanes offered from Westchester.
Offered by Hopscotch Air and a partner, who began Boston flights last October.
Competes with some services offered by Tradewind Aviation and Fly the Whale.
To get to Nantucket or Provincetown a new flight service from Westchester lets you skip the security check-in, soar over the traffic and take your shoes off only when you want.
And all it costs is, well, close to $1,000 each way.
Flights to Martha's Vineyard come in a little cheaper: $870 for a one-way trip.
The new services are being offered by Hopscotch Air, based at the Westchester County Airport, and its Massachusetts-based partner Linear Air.
"Once you remove all the stress of commercial aviation — the security check-in, the parking and the lines, and being packed in there like sardines — flying becomes what it should be," said Hopscotch co-founder Andrew Schmertz.
The two companies began offering direct flights from Westchester to Boston aimed at business travelers in October. They have suspended that service for the summer to focus on the seaside destinations for weekend pleasure hops.
They're hoping many of the people who flew in their three-seat Cirrus airplanes for business trips will find it an attractive option for vacation.
"We saw a tremendous influx of people who had never flown privately before," Schmertz said.
Flights to Provincetown are $997.50; a Nantucket flight costs $12 less.
It's not the only way to fly from Westchester to New England for the weekend other than booking a flight on a commercial airline.
Fly the Whale offers flights to Nantucket on a nine-seat Cessna Grand Caravan for $575, with discounts for passengers who buy a group of tickets at a time.
Tradewind Aviation offers flights to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in its Cessnas and eight-seat Pilatus PC-12s.
The base price to Nantucket is $750, but most people fly for less with discounted bulk tickets, and can even get a half-price flight if they take a "reverse" flight, for example returning from Nantucket on a Thursday or Friday when most vacationers are headed in the other direction, said Vice President David Zipkin.
The companies also offer chartered flights.
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In a sport where the average career of an NFL quarterback lasts just over 3 years, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots continues to put up MVP-caliber numbers well into his 18th season.
Follow Tom Brady’s journey on Tom vs Time, only on Facebook Watch.
Tom vs Time S1:E1 – The Physical Game
Coming off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is already looking ahead to next season. This premiere episode offers an intimate look inside Tom’s unique, well honed training process – and his drive for perfection – heading into the 2017 NFL season.
Tom vs Time S1:E2 – The Mental Game
For Tom Brady, football is as much a mental game as it is a physical one. This episode puts us inside Tom’s head, revealing just how cerebral football really is for him. Despite all of Tom’s preparation, the Patriots narrowly lose their fourth game, bringing their record to 2-2. But Tom also has a young family at home that wants his attention win or lose. He has no time to wallow in failure both for his family’s sake – and because there is another game just a week away.
Tom vs Time S1:E3 – The Social Game
Tom Brady may be the greatest football player of all time, but football is a team sport. As Tom puts it, he’s nothing without the guys around him. So, Tom takes some of his closest teammates to Yellowstone for a brotherhood bonding experience aka “Gladiator Camp.” But even on vacation, the training never stops.
Tom vs Time S1:E4 – The Emotional Game
Two things matter more than anything to Tom Brady: football and family. Chapter IV explores the push-pull between Tom’s supreme dedication to his sport, and his deep devotion for his children. Tom takes his eldest son on a whirlwind tour of China during the off-season, even while he struggles to find a healthy balance during the all-consuming football season.
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For Tom Brady, football is more than a game – it’s a spiritual vocation. Football is what gives his life purpose. But the clock is ticking, Tom’s children are growing up fast, and his wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, is losing patience with Tom’s all-consuming devotion to his sport. Time is all we have – and Tom is painfully aware of it. How much longer can he keep playing the sport he loves?
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots returned to their historic eighth Super Bowl, only to face a last-second loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Follow Tom on his wild ride through the playoffs – and watch as he deals with the emotional fallout from losing a tough game on the biggest stage.
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M60 junction 26, where Manchester's ring road motorway interchanges with the parallel A560, allowing westbound to westbound and, er, westbound to westbound movements.
It was spotted by Peter Edwardson.
It's half a junction, filling in bits of movements that the junctions either side either don't have or, in some cases, already do have. There's no access for traffic heading eastbound on the A560 — but it's still forced to stop at a set of traffic lights where the sliproads take it in turns to cross each other over. The layout of this means that heading eastbound on the A560, and waiting at the traffic lights, there appears to be a sliproad leading up to the left onto the motorway. The danger of this isn't just potential — numerous confused drivers have ended up facing the wrong way round on the M60 here. In addition, the A560 is dualled to the east but single to the west — and of course the west is the busier part.
Why is it wrong?
It shouldn't really exist at all — the reason it's wrong is that it's forced into existence by silly junctions at each side that leave out certain movements (there's no access to the westbound M60 from the junction further east, for example). If a couple of sliproads had been built there, it may have cost more, but would have avoided this.
What would be better?
Either add in the missing movements at the other junctions, or grade-separate this junction, so there's no traffic lights and no opportunity for confused pensioners to end up facing the wrong way on a busy motorway. There's no shortage of space for two levels of flyovers and room for them to merge in properly with the A560.
Andrew Bowden 7 April 2017
I'm with Iain Benson. That merger from the A560 onto the M60 going north is horrible. I hate doing it, but unfortunately it's my local junction to the M60. Going north is quite maddening. You get forced onto the fast lane and can easily get stuck there as all the M60 traffic comes rushing in from the other lanes meaning it's very difficult to get yourself out. Thankfully I don't use it during rush hour as I can imagine it would be horrendous.
To be honest, much of the M60 through Stockport is a mess, partly caused by the botching together of two motorways into one, and partly due to sheer lack of space to do anything proper.
Floyd 13 April 2017
Not an ideal junction, agreed, but there are no need for any problems here. There are 'No Entry' signs in the correct places, so no one should be going the wrong way up slip-roads. And traffic lights at the end of slip-roads are a common occurrence in England so that shouldn't be causing any problems either, (especially as advanced warning is given on the overhead gantry as you leave the M60 that there are traffic lights ahead).
Anonymous 28 August 2018
It would be easier to make adjustments to junction 27 and only have the M60 to A560 slip to create full access for the area.
F.Pitt in response to Anonymous 30 August 2018
In reply to It would be easier to make… by Anonymous
I've suggested the same thing myself. Can't see why a westbound slip to the M60 couldn't be squeezed in off the roundabout.
Sorry, meant an 'Eastbound' slip.
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Hose lining manufacturer is gearing up for more growth
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Attending this year's NAHAD meeting from SRM Industries are, from left, Kevin and Cheryl Jones, and Bernie and Mary Jacobsen.
LAKE FOREST, Ill.—A company that makes protective products used in the hose and other industries is looking to grow now that two of its principals are devoting full time to the business.
Bernie and Mary Jacobsen founded SRM Industries Inc. in 2003 as a bit of a sideline to Bernie's career in the hydraulic products industry following a suggestion from a customer. Mary Jacobsen said the client customer said if Bernie would manufacture a protective sleeving line for hydraulic hoses, the firm would buy from him because other sources at the time weren't reliable.
"We talked about it and decided it would be a good business venture," Mary Jacobsen said.
She had a business background, running a $70 million business unit in the health care field, but she left her prior career to become owner and president of SRM. "There's nothing like owning your own business," she said. "I have business development experience, I have management experience, and I have financial and sales experience."
On their own
There was no seed money provided by any of the three prospective customers or outside investors, or purchase orders on the book, she said. It was all done on a handshake basis.
So over the next two years, the Jacobsens were able to re-source production of the sleeves with U.S. manufacturers.
"I took a product and redesigned it and made it better," Bernie Jacobsen said, "and then went out to find suppliers who could meet those specifications."
The first samples of the RhinoSleeve-brand product were shown at the MineExpo in 2004, and the first sales took place in 2005. SRM got Mine Safety Health Administration standard approval in June 2005, a designation that lets the product be used in nearly all applications, he said.
"The key to our product is a special inline process where we make it a tighter weave," said Bernie, who serves as company vice president. "We use a minimum of four times more yarn per inch, both laterally and horizontally, than anybody else does."
Through evolution, SRM developed the RhinoSleeve HT, designed for higher temperatures with the same characteristics. From there, the company has introduced several other lines, including RhinoWraps, RhinoStrap and the Rhino spiral guard for hoses, cables and wires. The newest is the RhinoShield, for use with pumpers utilized in the concrete field.
All the products carry the "Rhino" moniker because in the animal world, rhinos have the toughest skin, a characteristic the SRM lines share, Bernie Jacobsen said.
Over the years, though, he remained working full time in the hydraulics field, most recently at Ryco Hydraulics Inc., until he left there in September 2012.
For most of the time, the company had just the Jacobsens to run it. But that changed when Kevin Jones, a former colleague of Bernie's at Ryco, joined the firm in 2011 as general manager.
"I knew about the product, I knew about the company," Jones said. "I've always told Bernie that all this company really needed was somebody to put some full-time focus into it because it was just primed and ready to go."
Jones is based out of Houston—the Jacobsens are in Lake Forest—and soon after hiring him, SRM located a new warehouse in the Texas city. Counting the three principals, SRM now has four full-time employees and one part-timer.
Bernie Jacobsen said SRM does some fabrication of its newer products at the Houston distribution site, but he does not see the firm ever manufacturing the protective sleeve line itself.
Mary Jacobsen said the main goal for SRM is continued growth.
"With our current method, we have a lot of ways to customize products for the customer based on their specific needs," she said, noting that SRM can supply lines on a private label basis, provide custom sizes and even create new products.
The firm won't release sales, but it said revenue climbed every year except during the economic downturn. Bernie Jacobsen said sales rose about 50 percent last year, with gains of 50-75 percent expected this year.
They said a lot of business comes from the contacts Jones and Bernie Jacobsen have made during their year in the hydraulics business, but the firm also gets a lot of hits on its website, www.rhinosleeve.com.
Ryco getting good response to new fittings
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Posted February 15, 2018 by David Latham in Feature
An Interview with Matt Heath, Australian World of Tanks Artist
Matt Heath is a Sydney based Australian illustrator with influences from Star Wars, 2000AD, and Blizzard’s Warcraft franchise. Matt now works for ARTtitude Collective and Plan 9 Entertainment, which has led to working on the Streets of Warcraft project.
In 2017, Matt became an ambassador for the Microsoft Surface in a three-city exhibition for Just Another Agency and Wacom Australia, and continues an ambitious illustrative career into 2018 by now working with Wargaming in creating an amazing piece of artwork to celebrate the 4th anniversary of World of Tanks on consoles.
World of Tanks has come a long way since its launch on Xbox 360 in 2014, now boasting support on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC platforms. The game itself has expanded from 100 tanks, three nations and 12 maps to now include over 660 tanks, nine nations and more than 90 maps.
More than 14 million players have tried World of Tanks on console, with over 10 billion shells fired across 34 million epic battles. Wargaming is celebrating the 4 year anniversary of World of Tanks by rewarding gamers that have a successful victory during the month of February with a Japanese tank, the Tier II Ashigaru Te-Ke.
Today we interviewed Matt and asked him a few questions about what it was like working with Wargaming on this anniversary. Check out our full interview below the official World of Tanks 4 Year Anniversary trailer:
Hi Matt, thanks for joining us today.
We’ve read a lot about your previous work, but where did you learn how to use Photoshop, etc? Self-taught or school?
Self-taught really, but when anyone says self-taught I think there’s just so many resources that we can learn from, studying from other artists, online tutorials, and that sort of thing. I studied briefly in a TAFE course in Sydney, but that kind of ended and then I’ve pursued it aggressively since then, getting up really early and do online tutorials and just self-perpetuated study.
There are sites that have industry professionals that do $3-4 tutorials and they’re literally in the business and you can get everything from them that they do and it’s amazing, and it’s cheap! (laughs) I’ve spent a lot of money on online tutorials, and they’re great. One half hour tutorial and you can have a whole portfolio piece out of it.
How did you get the gig with Wargaming?
I’ve got an agent in Paris who I met when I lived in Germany, and I’ve been producing art for Paris Games Week for the last couple of years and his job is to get contacts at Paris Games Week and other events, and he’s met up with the Euro end of Wargaming and set up this job with four artists and I’m really happy to be involved, it’s amazing. Each artist is chosen for their unique style which is another thing that makes me really happy that I have a style that can fit this, because it’s a great thing to be a part of.
Operation Sea Lion was a planned invasion of the United Kingdom by the Nazi forces during World War II. How did you come about choosing it for the artwork, and in particular the location used?
It was part of the War Stories on World of Tanks and the funny thing is that things just sort of fell in to place. I’ve been listening to a pod cast on World War II and just before I got this brief, I was listening to everything about Operation Sea Lion and it just blows my mind that that’s a thing that was going to happen and just didn’t happen, and I got the brief and that’s one of the World of Tanks stories and it just seemed appropriate right there – that whole “What if” scenario in the world, things that could have happened and things turned out the way they did. I thought it was a good way to go.
I spent a lot of time looking on Google Maps trying to find an iconic building, so that’s [Big Ben] obviously the one, but there were other things to consider like I looked up the buildings around it and what else would fit in to that piece and look realistic or in perspective, but then I blew them up anyway! (laughs) But with Big Ben being the most iconic, it was a pretty easy choice. There are some cathedrals and things like that that feature in a lot of photos from that time, in The Blitz, but Big Ben was just the one.
What was the hardest part of creating this piece?
I think a couple of things, but to me I spent a lot more time than usual on the concept. Normally I like to spend an hour or two, but for this I spent an hour or two over four days just getting that concept ready and just the problem was figuring out do I have a clear winner, do I have a maybe winner, do I have a guy on a tank or do I have the British and German tank, and all those sorts of things that no one will ever see or know, but you can probably pick some certain changes up in my time-lapse but I didn’t want to – because it was such an important piece and it’s going to have such great exposure through Wargaming, I wanted to spend time painting, I didn’t want to spend time changing as I went. I spent heaps of time getting it right before-hand which is a new thing for me.
And then the other part of it is I spent a lot of time on it painting. I painted a lot slower than usual which was weird because I got the concept down (laughs) but I wanted some really tight details in there, almost photo-real but it’s all painted. I spent a lot more, maybe twice the hours that I normally would have on a painting that size – but again it’s just my newest piece and I wanted to make it really great.
What was the most enjoyable part?
I think the process, again, and the fact that it’s hard and taking a long time, that’s the enjoyment and to be honest I had to research tanks and the gun, I like learning all these things, you know, the uniforms, you can’t make it up so you have to actually find out what the outfit would have been, and all those sorts of details and then maybe push those things that you’re learning to get the artwork exactly right historically but the process of it is the best part really, and then the end result is the main thing. I spent a bit of time nail-biting because it doesn’t look very good, and then you get to a point where you’re 90% through and you think, “It’s going to be fine!” (laughs) but once it all came together it was still quite a few hours away from being finished but I knew I was on the right track and then you go, “I’ve just got to fix his belt buckle or paint the end of the gun” and a hundred of those little things then it all starts making sense to a point, and it feels really good and you know you’ve got a successful painting.
And the little hand sticking out of the tank, was that always planned in the concept?
Yeah I wanted some sort of hint of grizzly death (laughs). It’s a war painting, you know, but I don’t want to have blood and things so much in this one, you know, people are dying that’s the reality of it as well but I just thought that would be a nice little point of interest that might draw your eye to another part instead of the main hero, as I said it’s a bit grizzly but it’s not too overt, I hope.
Keeping in line with the Wargaming competition, tell us which city you would like to cruise around in a tank.
Oh fantastic. Hmm, it sounds terrible but a Cuban city would be fun! It would be a nice location where you could stick your head out the top and get some sun and I think it would be kinda nice. It just looks lovely!
What’s next for Matt Heath?
Next up is hard to say because you can’t talk about things until they’re done but hopefully I’ll get to do some more stuff with Wargaming, it has been mentioned, but at the moment I’ve got some Samurai art coming out for an unrelated project, and I’ve got some more soldier things on the way so, really vague but those are the things I’m working on, so hopefully bigger and better artworks from now on!
Thanks for your time, Matt.
Watch as Matt Heath creates this amazing masterpiece for the World of Tanks 4 year anniversary, and check out the finished artwork below:
For your chance to win this amazing print, head to the official World of Tanks Console Facebook page, and follow the instructions on the pinned post. For more information on World of Tanks, head to the official website here. For further information on Matt Heath, check out his website here.
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Your Reaction: What did you think of Anastasia?
The Royal Ballet perform MacMillan's three-act work exploring memory and identity in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
By Rose Slavin (Former Assistant Content Producer)
27 October 2016 at 10.58am | 30 Comments
Natalia Osipova as Anna Anderson in Anastasia, The Royal Ballet © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
#ROHanastasia What a ballet! What a performance! Natalia pulled out all the stops in that final act! Unbeatable performance to remember.
— Graeme Williams (@GraemeBWill) October 26, 2016
#ROHanastasia - cannot wait for #Jewels now after 2nd act - there is a story here but needed to be just a quick prologue to 3rd act
— Pat Heath (@TheMemeSays) October 26, 2016
Wish I could see #ROHanastasia as multilayered rather than a mixed bag. Osipova's great & Act 3 is interesting. I'd skip 1 & 2 but for Nela.
— Shyam Bhatt (@_ShyamBhatt) October 26, 2016
Natalia Osipova as Anastasia, Christina Arestis as the Tsarina, Olivia Cowley as Olga, Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Tatiana and Yasmine Naghdi as Maria in Anastasia, The Royal Ballet © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
.@MNunezOfficial dazzles as Mathilde Kschessinska; a true masterclass in technical prowess, exquisite timing and pure elegance #rohanastasia
— Lee McLernon (@bangorballetboy) October 26, 2016
I long to see the original one act Anastasia again. The first two acts are padding for a superb searing third act. #ROHanastasia
— Michael Llewellyn (@michael456789) October 26, 2016
#ROHanastasia Act 3 > Act 2 > Act 1 (and we're siding w/ those who couldn't stop thinking of Mr B's Diamonds choreography in act 2)
— The Ballet Bag (@theballetbag) October 26, 2016
Natalia Osipova as Anna Anderson and artists of The Royal Ballet in Anastasia, The Royal Ballet © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
We need the gentle (some have said dull) opulence of the first two acts of #ROHanastasia so that Act 3 electrifies us as it did tonight!
— Jeremy Fielding (@jezfielding) October 27, 2016
Phew. @NatOsipova saves day as Act "3" of #ROHanastasia finally takes off. Ditto Arestis as Tsarina. Just put Act 3 in a triple bill yea?!
— royalballetbore (@royalballetbore) October 26, 2016
Brilliant third act of #ROHanastasia. Thanks @nataliavosipova for her great performance tonight.
— Bunny (@InquisiBunny) October 26, 2016
The Arts Desk ★★★★
The Guardian ★★★
Evening Standard ★★★
Independent ★★★
The Telegraph ★★
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27 October 2016 at 10.58am
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Graeme Williams responded on 27 October 2016 at 12:43pm Reply
I cannot understand the criticism about acts 1 and 2. Act 3 on it's own would be out of context and totally meaningless. It is a complete tale - otherwise it would be like just reading the last chapter of a novel.
LabLady responded on 27 October 2016 at 2:03pm Reply
Although I enjoyed last night's performance, I agree with Mark Monahan's view in the TELEGRAPH, where he highlights the fact that Macmillan believed Anna Anderson's claims (that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia) until he himself died in 1984. Now that we all know, via DNA and further research, that in fact she was NOT Anastasia, renders Acts I and II way less significant, and in my view redundant. Act III would be perfect as a one act ballet performed as part of a triple bill. Osipova's evocative portrayal of a woman torn apart by mental anguish was riveting and I would go again just to see Act III one more time. Thanks to all for all their hard work.
ML responded on 27 October 2016 at 4:11pm
MacMillan passed away in 1992, not 1984- from a heart attack backstage during the opening night performance of the revival of Mayerling. Having seen both the one-act version of Anastasia many, many years ago and the full length version of it (both performed brilliantly), I like the full length much more, and fellow ballet goers have said the same. It doesn't matter that Anna/Franziska isn't actually Anastasia- the first 2 acts give context to what her imaginings or confabulations are about. A retired dancer friend said that when he saw Anastasia Act III on its own, it was just a bit of crazy emoting nonsense if you didn't have programme notes to read - one should not have to study a programme to be able to enjoy ballet (a view shared by Massine and Fokine). Having the first 2 acts puts it into context. At least, unlike some movies, MacMillan didn't actually insert an ending where she and Russian royal relations say that she truly is the Grand Duchess after all!
Nina Battleday responded on 27 October 2016 at 3:56pm Reply
When I saw some of the original performances of the ballet the thought that Anna Andersen could be Anastasia was very much alive. The story therefore was very much current, and something that was frequently talked about, with numerous books and articles being written not to forget a film and play. We know the truth now, and therefore the story isn't as well known to audiences seeing it for the first time. For this reason, the three act ballet may make less sense to new audiences, whereas the third act,if performed on its own, would make sense as a compassionate and deeply felt story of a persecuted woman. Having said that I can't wait for Saturday when I'm seeing it, and, I am sure enjoying all three acts!
Sandie Lush responded on 27 October 2016 at 10:09pm Reply
What a stunning performance from Natalia Osipova. It has taken me 24 hours to get over it!
Could you please tell us who danced the revolutionary role (danced by Wayne Sleep back in the day)? His performance was superb but the dancer was not listed on the cast list.
Rose Slavin (Former Assistant Content Producer) responded on 28 October 2016 at 2:21pm
Hi Sandie,
So glad you enjoyed the performance!
The Revolutionary role was danced by our Prix de Lausanne apprentice called Vincenzo Di Primo.
Very best wishes,
elleG responded on 28 October 2016 at 4:16pm Reply
There is something of a clamour on online forums for the leading revolutionary to be named on the cast sheet. The dancer taking this role did use to be identified: after all, he does much more than (say) the maid. Please would you pass this request to ballet management? Thank you.
ML responded on 30 October 2016 at 1:24am
Stephen Jay-Taylor responded on 29 October 2016 at 12:43am Reply
I wonder if there'd be quite so much widespread criticism of Acts I and II as being either boring or extraneous if those doing the moaning had ever had the chance to see the 1971 original staging, which was in every respect superior to this current - 1996 - reworking. The first designs by Barry Kay were in each of the acts far more evocative and dramatically effective: Act I was a Chekhovian silver birch forest perched on the edge of a lake, Act II was a silver/white version of Sonnabend's later Swan Lake Act III with spindly gantries, against which the swarming of the black-clad revolutionaries made far more visual impact (Crowley's sets are far too dark), and the third act had not a scrap of scenery at all, except for a sweeping curved screen high up and the bed, all the imaginary characters flowing into and out of empty black space, far better than the current rectilinear grey box with doors.
There's also the fact that Act I has been clumsily cut, with the Tsarevitch's fall and Rasputin-led recovery moved from the end of the act - following the effective removal of the fourth movement of Tchaikovsky's symphony - to the second movement, which doesn't have the music to carry the drama, which now lacks a properly celebratory conclusion.
All is not progress, trust me......
Natascha responded on 29 October 2016 at 1:19pm Reply
The dancing was great, esp. N. Osipova throughout, and also M. Nunez and all three Archduchesses, in what I thought must be a very difficult ballet to pull off successfully.
AmyP responded on 29 October 2016 at 11:19pm Reply
Nice to see a very different ballet. Plenty of drama, very well staged. Loved the 3rd act. The Acting was amazing, Shame the dancing wasn't up to the usual royal ballet standard this afternoon. A few dodgy lifts, jumps by some of the male dancer and I really hope the girl who fell off the side of the stage isn't hurt. But overall a captivating ballet.
Kate E responded on 30 October 2016 at 9:10am Reply
Having seen both yesterday's matinee and evening performances (29th October), I have to say that of the two Anastasias, Laura surpassed Natalia in dramatic interpretation. Her Act Iii moved me to tears. A wonderful actress and dancer.
adrian burley responded on 30 October 2016 at 11:00am Reply
I was expecting the worst when I saw the 'school production' revolution of the second act but this fooled and the third act was even more astounding because of the contrast. Words fail to describe the brilliance of Natalie Osipova. This was a privilege to see. Macmillan had many failures but Manon, Mayerling and this ballet take you on a helter skelter of emotion-genius.
Simone Pope responded on 30 October 2016 at 7:04pm Reply
Acts 1, 2 and 3 work brilliantly as a whole. The formal, stately choreography of the corps de ballet in Act 2 reflect the impervious disregard of the Tsar's court refusing to recognise the revolution occurring at the palace gates. Gorgeous and opulent in other parts and yet an undercurrent of threat and fragility supplied through the brooding Rasputin and young prince. Act 3 is such an emotional contrast and so powerful.
Nina battleday responded on 1 November 2016 at 2:02pm Reply
Totally agree with Stephen Jay-Taylor. The original sets were far superior and gave far more sense of the Russian court. The current designs look, to my mind, a bit cheap and nasty, though I am quite certain they were anything but! Having said that, I had no complaints about the performance and will be seeing it again in 10 days time. But I'll miss those birch trees!
Michael J responded on 2 November 2016 at 12:56pm Reply
Great to see Anastasia again. I think it is a wonderful ballet & I am surprised at some of the reviews particularly from the critics. The contrast between the first two acts and Act 3 is I think the whole point and is dramatically very effective. There is some wonderful choreography in the first two acts and Act 1 in particular really conveys a sense of family relationships. I do however agree with some of the comments here that the previous designs were superior. I find the large ship's funnel in Act 1 obtrusive and it seems to take up nearly a third of the stage restricting the space for dancing. On Saturday night I thought some of the cast still had to find their way into their roles but Osipova was excellent and her performance in Act 3 really was thrilling. I am looking forward to returning in 10 days to see the cast with Laura Morera. Thank you for reviving this fascinating and beautiful work.
Shons responded on 2 November 2016 at 11:23pm Reply
I thought it was simply beautiful, poinant and moving. Natalia was remarkable. The contrast heightened emotions in the third act. I feel so privileged to have seen such a wonderful ballet - wow! Simply blown away.
Julie Donoghue responded on 3 November 2016 at 8:35am Reply
I'm speechless. What a refreshing and brave production. The choreography was outstanding and The Company more than did this ballet justice, but in particular Natalia was mesmerising. I came away wanting more.
Felicity responded on 3 November 2016 at 11:30am Reply
Could we have the name of the boy who danced the Tsarevich Alexei in the cinema broadcast last night? The cast goes up so quickly it is impossible to catch all the names and on the website only the main characters are named.
I would also like the names of the three leading officers.
Rachel Beaumont (Product Manager) responded on 3 November 2016 at 11:38am
Hi Felicity,
The Tsarevich was played by Rory Toms. The three officers in Act I were Ryoichi Hirano, Valeri Hristov and Alexander Campbell, and in Act II were Luca Acri, Tristan Dyer and Marcelino Sambé.
Alison Stirk responded on 3 November 2016 at 8:33pm Reply
Obviously a fantastic performance but we were just so disappointed in the very poor transmission by our cinema link. The second act was sadly a wobbly blur. Hopefully we will be able to buy the DVD of this performance in the near future.
Emma Nevell responded on 4 November 2016 at 9:59am
Dear Alison,
I'm sorry to hear that you experienced a poor transmission of Anastasia - could you please send an email to cinema@roh.org.uk and let us know which cinema you attended and what exactly was affected in the screening (i.e. sound, image etc)? We can then follow up with the venue in question and try and help resolve the issue for future screenings. I can tell you that there are discussions at the moment to release a DVD of Anastasia around Autumn next year, so hopefully you will have the chance to see the production again!
Fiona responded on 4 November 2016 at 9:17am Reply
So enjoyed seeing Anastasia live on screen, an amazing and emotional performance to watch. Agree with Felicity (above) re cast list on screen and disappointed further details were not included in the digital programme - all those moustaches made it very difficult to identify the dancers!
Hi Fiona,
Usually the full casting would be listed here but unfortunately a technical fault means it is not currently showing through. In the meantime, please find the casting for the cinema broadcast below:
Tsar Nicholas II: Christopher Saunders
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna: Christina Arestis
Tsarevitch Alexey: Rory Toms
Grand Duchess Olga: Olivia Cowley
Grand Duchess Tatiana: Beatriz Stix-Brunell
Grand Duchess Marie: Yasmine Naghdi
Grand Duchess Anastasia: Natalia Osipova
Rasputin: Thiago Soares
Anna Vyrubova: Kristen McNally
Tsar's Aide-de-camp: Alastair Marriott
Four officers: Ryoichi Hirano, Valeri Hristov, Alexander Campbell, Edward Watson
Three officers: Luca Acri, Tristan Dyer, Marcelino Sambé
Maid: Mica Bradbury
Mathilde Kschessinska: Marianela Nuñez
Her Partner: Federico Bonelli
Revolutionary: Vincenzo di Primo
Anna Anderson: Natalia Osipova
Her husband: Edward Watson
His brother: Tristan Dyer
Matron and peasant woman: Kristen McNally
Mr G D Gadd responded on 6 November 2016 at 3:11pm Reply
We were mesmerised by this ballet. Natalia Osipova was fabulous in her portrayal and the storytelling was so strong. The dancer who played Rasputin really portrayed the power held over the family. Mariella Nunez was wonderful. I really hope a dvd of the ballet will be available. I would love to see it again. It was a privilege to be at a live performance with these incredible artists.
Felicity responded on 6 November 2016 at 7:30pm Reply
Hallo Rachel,
Many many thanks for all the cast info. very much appreciated. I was completely bowled over by Macmillan's brilliant choreography. After reading so many negative reviews, dating back to the first performance in 1971, I couldn't believe my eyes. The only thing I didn't care for were the sets, as they made the stage look cramped in Act I & II and seemed to limit dancing space ( I think I would have preferred the originals) and I'm afraid I can't stand the dim lighting in those acts although I know it's the fashion these days, especially in contemporary works. The performance by the dancers, however, (watched in the cinema in Southern Spain) was absolutely top-notch. I realise that this is not actually the correct section of the web site to be writing on and that there is a separate section just for the cinema transmission where I have read some very pertinent comments, especially the power of Ospipova's performance and the brilliance of Marianela's. I hope it's true that we are finally going to get a DVD of her Giselle.
alex responded on 7 November 2016 at 6:57pm Reply
My first viewing of "Anastasia" tomorrow evening, just can't wait and very excited to see the wonderful Laura Morera as Anastasia and the lovely Akane Takada as Mathilde Kschessinska!
Steven Ingman-Greer responded on 12 November 2016 at 5:35pm Reply
A searing and beautiful ballet. I saw the original production with Lyn Seymour. This tops it. A shattering and emotional performance by all - and a great showing of what is still, at its core, a disconcerting mystery. Bravo and Brava to all concerned...blessings...Steven Ingman-Greer
Lesley Stansfield responded on 28 December 2016 at 12:09am Reply
Saw the Live Cinema, with Osipova., in Nove I'm in my 60's and have always wanted to see the 3 Act Ballet.
Natalia responded on 20 January 2017 at 7:20pm Reply
Yesterday saw for the second time this incredible ballet "live" in Mexico. Me and my mother were absolutely entranced by the music, the choreography, lavish costumes and sets and of course Natalia Osipova, what a masterful dancer! The first acts were so beautifully melancholic and joyful at times and the third act was one of the most powerful and moving things i´ve ever seen. I really, really hope this gets a dvd and blu-ray release (please!!), we need more of these incredible and inspiring current performances made available for older and younger generations that love ballet and really treasure having something like this in their collections, because they are so meaningful and beautiful to watch, experience and share over and over again. Thank you for these live broadcasts and for sharing with all of us outside the UK your amazing performances!!
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Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked)
The good cast and rollicking soundtrack eventually drown when this comic homage to pirate radio loses its quippy steam.
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In mid- to late-'60s Britain, an unusual yet colorful subculture sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music, only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC functioned as the country's main source of news and music, its programmers offered very little airtime to rock & roll -- which left an overwhelming need unfulfilled. In response, small bands of "pirate" radio enthusiasts set up broadcasting towers on boats just outside of English boundary waters, and transmitted signals to an estimated 25 million listeners, 24 hours a day and seven days per week. Unsurprisingly, the DJs who took charge of these broadcasts could rival just about anyone in terms of flamboyance and outsized personalities. With Pirate Radio (released as The Boat That Rocked in the U.K.), writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) travels back to the Swinging Sixties and takes a headfirst plunge into this colorful realm. The story opens in 1966, aboard a rusty fishing trawler christened Radio Rock and equipped with pirate broadcasting equipment. Here, the slightly daft elitist Quentin (Bill Nighy) presides over a motley crew of joint-toking, sex-hungry disc jockeys including Dave (Nick Frost), a heavyset boob who nevertheless considers himself a hot property with women and loves to chase skirts; "The Count" (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an American DJ who aspires to be the first person to drop an F-bomb over the British airwaves; the gloom-laden Irishman Simon (Chris O'Dowd); bonked-out hipster Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke); womanizer Mark (Tom Wisdom); Angus (Rhys Darby), a New Zealander whom nobody likes; and the only female member of the group, lesbian cook Felicity (Katherine Parkinson). These misfits pull off quite a show -- enough of one that they attain the status of national idols for the youth culture -- but the super-conservative government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) detests the whole business and will do almost anything in his power to shut them down.
R (for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity)
Comedy, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Romance
Nov 13, 2009 wide
as The Count
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as Gavin
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as Dave
as James
as Eleonore
Tom Sturridge
as Carl
as Angus
Michael Hadley
as Mr. Roberts
Lucy Fleming
as Mrs. Roberts
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as Bob
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as Thick Kevin
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as Desiree
Tom Wisdom
as Mark
as Marianne
as Charlotte
Will Adamsdale
as News John
Ike Hamilton
as Harold
as Prime Minister
as Sandford
Bo Poraj
as Fredericks
Sinead Matthews
as Miss C
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes
as Jemima Dormandy
Francesca Longrigg
as Mrs. Dormandy
Olivia Llewellyn
as Margaret
David Sterne
as Marianne's Captain
Olegar Fedoro
as Rock Boat Captain
Duncan Foster
as Swedish Crewman
Ian Mercer
as Transfer Boatman
William Ilkley
as Commanding Officer
Edward Hancock
as Policeman
Katie Lyons
as Angus' Boat Girl
Kirsty Mather
as John's Boat Girl
Lana Davidson
as Simon's T-Shirt Girl
as Model
Sarah Forster
Ocean Moon
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Tomas Andrisiunas
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Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy. It's just a hell of a lot of fun.
Nov 22, 2009 | Full Review…
Jonathan F. Richards
Grudgingly irresistible
Nov 19, 2009 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly
It just sits there in the water.
Any serious music fan -- that is anyone who sees the radio pirates as kindred spirits -- will be outraged by its sloppy approach to the history of rock and roll.
A.O. Scott
Forty years ago, they couldn't get these songs on the radio; now we can't get them off.
Nov 13, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Liam Lacey
Richard Curtis's comedy is anchored only in exuberance, but that's more than you can say for most movies these days; it keeps you beaming with pleasure.
Joe Morgenstern
But there is a sense that we've seen it all before from Curtis; this is essentially Love Actually-on-sea, and anyone who can't stomach his special brand of happy-ever-after won't find much to tempt them here.
Oct 29, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Nikki Baughan
Roll Credits
Not only do the cliché characters, ridiculous plot points and extended run time sink this ship, Pirate Radio also neuters any song that appears on its soundtrack.
David Harris
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Mr. Curtis has delightfully re-created that storied era, making Pirate Radio the most fun you'll have in a movie theater this year.
Nov 30, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Kelly Jane Torrance
The film is a tad cluttered but wildly entertaining, and if you don't go see it, definitely buy the soundtrack.
Debbie Baldwin
The Boat That Rocked is pointless, shapeless, historically bogus and so emotionally disengaging you can't even feel the soundtrack.
Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
At the very least, it will have you feeling all gooey and nostalgic about a time you may not have been around for.
Simon Miraudo
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Audience Reviews for Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked)
This is a pretty fun movie with a really likable cast and an excellent soundtrack. I don't think this film really managed to be anything more than a crowd-pleaser, but then again I don't think it was intended to be anything more than that to be perfectly honest. While the movie does have a narrative of the DJs doing their best to avoid the government shutting them down, it honestly feels more like a series of sketches, however entertaining they may be, than a full-fledged narrative. For the most part, the DJs have their own little side stuff going on but it never really affects the overall arc of the film's main narrative. It's just something to add a little flavor and color to the film's characters. And I understand that, but it feels, ironically enough, shallow. While I ended up liking all of the characters, even Kenneth Branagh's character, who had some of the funniest lines in the entire film, I was never really emotionally invested in them. Again, not that this was the film's intention. I don't want to say that they do the bare minimum as it relates to character development, but they really mostly on their talented actors to carry things as opposed to writing out fleshed-out characters with distinct personalities. They rely on the talented actors and a soundtrack in order to distract you from its flaws. It's misdirection really, putting your attention elsewhere so you don't focus on the real issues. I don't wanna sound like I'm shitting on this movie, because I genuinely had a fun time with it, but I think that the movie, ironically enough, ran out of stream before before it was over. No reason this had to be as long as it was. Maybe 105 minutes would've been good. Keep the film moving at a brisk pace. This isn't a big issue since the movie didn't feel long at all, it just didn't need to be close to two hours. There's just simply not enough material to justify it. But, again, the cast and the soundtrack does a good enough job at distracting you from that. This is a fun movie though, it was meant to be a good time and I definitely enjoyed myself whilst watching it. Something to watch, enjoy, smile, and move on to the next film. Perhaps the thing about this film, that's something that I've known for years, is how it does a great job at showcasing how important music really is for humanity as a whole. The world would be a whole lot sadder without music in it. I love film as an art form, trust me on this one, but I think music, in some ways, is far more essential to our daily lives than even films are. Music, in one way or another, is all around us. It's something that can make us happy in an instant. Some songs more than others of course. I think that's really the best thing about this film, even if it's something I've already known for a long time. This film is a fun little distraction. Flaws aplenty, but there's more than enough about this film that's good. Solid rental here...or it's worth a buy if you find it cheap, which I did.
Jesse O Super Reviewer
Pirate Radio stretches its plot pretty thinly over two hours and the script is fairly mediocre, but it packs a great soundtrack and a star-studded cast, and it's harmless and well-meaning enough to be watchable if not entirely successful.
Joey S Super Reviewer
Add this too the long list of films that endeavor mightily to capture the soul of rock and roll only to prostitute the admittedly bad old girl shamelessly. Cue the classics of yore, present cast et al "grooving to the beat", and cut to credits. Better to light one up, reheat the lava lamp and put on some Floyd.
Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
A great comedy about 1960s rock and roll and how far people will go for their love of awesome music.
Stephen S Super Reviewer
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) Quotes
Quentin: Believe me, they'll find a way. Governments loathe people being free.
Minister Dormandy: You see, that's the whole point of being the government. If you don't like something you simply make up a new law that makes it illegal.
Dave: So tell us Mark, now at the very end - what was your secret? How did you get all them girls?
Mark: Simple. Don't say anything at all.
Carl: Nothing?
Mark: Nothing. Then, when the tension becomes too much to bear, you finally, finally, you just say: "How about it, then?"
Mark: Nothing. Then, when the tension becomes too much to bear, you finally, finally, you just say: 'How about it, then?'
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RailStaff June 2018: Testing times
Rail Partnership Awards - The Vox, West Midlands - 07/06/2018
The Rail Partnership Awards this month was a celebration of what the industry can achieve when it works together, said Mark Carne, delivering his swansong as Network Rail CEO. In September, he will step down and Andrew Haines, CEO of the Civil Aviation Authority and an experienced railway executive, will take his place. It will be the start of a new era.
Mark is right; there’s plenty to be proud of from the past year and there was one winner from the night which perfectly illustrated the rail industry at its best.
Dealing with fatalities on the railway is a harrowing task for our colleagues around the network. During my time in the industry, it has become clear that these incidents have a lasting impact that we’re only now starting to appreciate and understand.
Following a particularly difficult incident in 2016, the British Transport Police (BTP) were left questioning their processes for recovering bodies on the railway and, as a result, developed the Incident Response Stretcher (IRS). The way the IRS was designed and rolled out demonstrates great technical ingenuity but it also shows a level of compassion and consideration for wellbeing that we can all appreciate.
There are plenty of other examples in this month’s issue of the industry working together to achieve extraordinary goals. Our projects issue includes schemes at very different stages in their development. We look back at the Crossrail programme as it approaches the final straight and speak to Network Rail major programme director Chris Montgomery about the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).
The June issue also includes news about the new Wales and Borders franchise and Colin Wheeler gives his assessment of the RAIB’s annual report, which was recently published.
But for everything we have to celebrate, it comes at a time when the railway isn’t working well for many people. Regular users of GTR and Northern can be forgiven for not sharing Mark Carne’s enthusiasm.
Staff safety was also brought sharply into focus with the fatality in Glasgow earlier this month. Investigators at the ORR and HSE will determine if there are lessons to be learnt, but the loss will be felt by the railway community around the country. All of us at RailStaff extend our deepest condolences to their family, friends and colleagues.
It isn’t for me to dismiss the concerns of passengers. Late or cancelled services aren’t just an inconvenience – they disrupt our lives. But, as an insider looking out, I know that Network Rail and the train operators want to find a solution as much as passengers do. There’s no pride in running a railway if it’s failing its passengers, and few take as much pride in their work as the men and women of GB rail.
marc@rail-media.com.
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Grizzly Man Diaries debuts tonight, features bear footage shot by Timothy Treadwell
by Andy Dehnart 29 Aug. 2008 | 9:27 am
Tonight, Animal Planet debuts Grizzly Man Diaries, which follows Timothy Treadwell, the man killed by the bears he lived among in Alaska. Back-to-back half-hour episodes air at 9 p.m. ET for four weeks as part of Animal Planet’s increasing focus on edgier but still animal-focused unscripted TV.
Treadwell was the subject of Werner Herzog’s documentary Grizzly Man, and like that movie, which shares producers with the TV show, the new series uses footage shot by Treadwell. It combines “hundreds of hours of archived footage, private pages from his diaries and more than 10,000 still photographs,” according to Animal Planet, “showcasing the personalities of the individual bears as well as Treadwell’s passion and unique connection with them” and “truly tells the story that Treadwell hoped to share — featuring ‘his’ bears as genuine creatures to be respected, admired, loved, heralded and amazed by, not as the wild, strong and dangerous animals that killed him.”
It’s quite compelling, in part because there’s a lot of incredible raw footage of bears (and foxes), but in part because Treadwell is so oddly captivating. He narrates as if he was producing his own Animal Planet documentary, providing information and facts usually while a bear does its thing extremely close by. Some of it gets a bit pedantic, but there’s always the threat of death lingering over even those moments, like when he tells an aggressive bear, “good boy.”
An actual narrator reads from Treadwell’s diaries, and in one of those excerpts, Treadwell writes, “my life is an exciting fucking life.” It’s hard to disagree, even knowing how that life eventually ended.
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Kyle Stone | Sunday, September 14, 2014
Art & Cuisine Series to launch in October
Uptown Consortium is preparing to launch an art and cuisine series in October, which will last through March, as they recently received a $10,000 grant from The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
The series, called POP UP Cincy, aims to bring creative talent together to collaborate on new projects, and will feature installations around the city—including Avondale, Ludlow Avenue, Calhoun Street and Burnet Avenue.
The first installation, titled Concept Camp, focuses on the local technology and art and design sectors. Participants will begin work Oct. 24, and the event will be open to the public Oct. 25.
"There aren't many events where those two sectors overlap," says POP UP Cincy organizer Catherine Richards. "The idea is that all these different people can come in and get feedback, leverage resources, and then at the end of the day the community, all of Cincinnati, is invited to come into the space and we'll transform the storefront together."
The Ludlow Avenue event, POP UP Fairytales, will involve creating boxed vignettes inspired by traditional fairytales, as well as a light-up parade. It will take place in conjunction with Holidays on Ludlow.
"We're really working on designing what the parade is going to be like," Richards says. "I'd love for residents to get involved and parade around the street."
The final event, which will take place in March, involves creating a digitally embroidered quilt inspired by the coral reef.
"To me, the coral reef symbolizes the potential of a city to be full of diversity where all these different people bring different strengths, different ideas to make something stronger," Richards says. "It will accumulate into a public exhibition of artwork in which many people will work on."
All event details are not yet complete, but updates will be made to POP UP Cincy's facebook page. Those interested in participating in the series should contact Richards.
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Kyle is a freelance writer based in Cincinnati. When he isn't writing, he's making music, riding his bike and taking photos of his adventures.
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