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LinMin Releases Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0, Adding Support for Cloud Architecture and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Deployments
LinMin, maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, today unveiled LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center enhancements. Today’s release, which has been in development for nearly a year, also offers improvements in security, platform support and ease of integration with IT applications, including control panels and Cloud orchestrators.
The new release offers several key new features. The optional Windows Provisioning Module enables the deployment of Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 and Windows® 7 systems using the same graphical or programmatic interfaces used to provision all current releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and SLES as well as legacy Windows operating systems. The new online self-help and knowledge base provides customers with unprecedented self-support ability.
LinMin now also offers more streamlined application integration. Release 6.0 boasts an upgraded API, including a new disk imaging interface, enhanced provisioning support, and token and IP-based authentication. LinMin’s API enables Cloud, hosting and corporate data centers to seamlessly add provisioning and imaging support to their existing IT applications, enabling full server provisioning, recovery and cloning automation of the data center. The API also enables Independent Software Vendors and OEMs to augment their offerings with sophisticated provisioning and imaging capabilities.
"Large hosting companies need to implement server provisioning automation as much as possible in order to keep service levels high and costs low,” said David Elbaze, Managing Director, Elb Group Netissime, a leading French hosting company. “We standardized on LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 because it takes less than one day to implement, is easy to use, reduces labor costs tremendously and offers high scalability, resulting in very efficient data center operations."
"LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 incorporates everything we’ve learned from LinMin production deployments in numerous data centers and IT shops worldwide, including enhancements in performance, platform support, security over public networks, online self-help, rescue system deployment and the provisioning of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7,” said Laurent Gharda, CEO of LinMin Corp. “Our new Application Programming Interface enables data centers and OEMs to easily add automated provisioning and imaging to any IT application."
Ultimately, LinMin helps create flexibility within the data center. By enabling system administrators to automate server provisioning, scalability is enhanced without increasing cost. Disaster Recovery is also substantially streamlined with LinMin’s snapshot rollback capability. By offering both a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an Application Programming Interface (API) so customers can integrate their control panels, cloud orchestrators and other automation tools, LinMin makes server provisioning, rollback and cloning easy.
LinMin is also used to automate PC deployments by remotely installing Windows 7, Windows XP and Linux. PCs can also be backed up and restored, avoiding lengthy OS and application installations should PCs get infected with malware.
Read about all the new features of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0.
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 for Linux and Windows is available for free trial. Perpetual license pricing starts at $1,199 for up to 100 systems to provision and image (for major versions of Linux and Windows Server 2003/XP) or $1,799 (for major versions of Linux, legacy Windows plus Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7).
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Blade Runner VR Experience Announced For Lenovo Mirage & Google Daydream
Google WorldSense technology lets you freely explore 2023 Los Angeles.
The Blade Runner VR content keeps coming and I don’t think anyone’s complaining. Owners of the recently released Blu-ray edition of Blade Runner 2049 were treated to a special trailer announcing Blade Runner: Revelations, an upcoming VR experience for the soon-to-be-released Lenovo Mirage Solo headset and the Google Daydream platform.
A partnership between Seismic Games and Alcon Media Group, the interactive VR experience takes place shortly after the events of the original film, dropping you into the plot of the critically-acclaimed sequel. Players step into the shoes of seasoned blade runner Harper as he attempts to unearth a diabolical replicant scheme that could threaten all of 2023 Los Angeles. Using classic blade runner tools like the flying spinner, esper image reconstruction, and the deadly blaster, players will search for any clues or leads that could bring down the massive conspiracy.
“Seismic Games continues to invest and focus on creating high production game titles that authentically engage and transform major IPs into compelling and expansive interactive experiences for the fans. Collaborating with Alcon Media Group, Google and Lenovo for Blade Runner: Revelations has been an absolute honor, and we can’t wait to hear what the fans and general VR users think as they explore the game.”
However, the most impressive aspect of the upcoming experience is by far its use of Google’s advanced positional-tracking technology, WorldSense. Revelations breaks the mold by allowing users to freely traverse the city of Los Angeles in search of the truth.
“It has been incredibly rewarding to see the Blade Runner universe brought to life with so much faithfulness and nuance in Blade Runner: Revelations thanks to our partners at Seismic Games, Google, and the cutting-edge technology from Lenovo and their upcoming Mirage Solo release,” states Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alcon Media Group. “From the aesthetic and narrative details to the intriguing gameplay in the VR world, Seismic has set the bar in delivering a highly rewarding and immersive film-to-game experience Blade Runner fans will enjoy.”
Blade Runner: Revelations will be available for the Lenovo Mirage Solo headset and Google Daydream platform the first half of this year. Blade Runner 2049 is available now on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD.
It’s exciting to see an official Blade Runner VR experience looking so polished. Allowing players unrestricted access to the world they’re inhabiting could be just what this title needs to set itself apart from the pack as well as give the Lenovo Mirage Solo a bit of an advantage against it’s competitors.
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Title Image Lori Eanes · Date 12/22/2016
The composer, performer, and media artist Pamela Z works with a wide variety of techniques, including “voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video,” and has produced art both for the concert hall and the museum. From San Francisco, she sent us this playlist. Each track here contains a multiplicity of influences; taken together, the compilation becomes as diverse as her artistic practice itself.
Björk - Meredith Monk’s “Gotham Lullaby” from “Monk Mix (Remixes & Interpretations)”
I felt tremendously honored to be one of 25 artists invited by Meredith Monk’s House Foundation to contribute a track to the 2012 double-CD release “Monk Mix (Remixes & Interpretations).” I was even more delighted when I heard the rest of the tracks on the album, which introduced me to a host of remarkable performances of Meredith’s music. Björk’s phrasing in this lovely interpretation of “Gotham Lullaby” strikes me as perfect, and the pairing of her voice with Britain’s energetic Brodsky String Quartet makes the track even more powerful. I was smitten with Brodsky when I first heard them accompany Elvis Costello on a startlingly moving rendition of the Beach Boy’s “God Only Knows.”
The Slits - “So Tough” from “Cut”
In the early 1990s, I formed a group called The Qube Chix with two other women in San Francisco. We were the kind of bizarre hybrid of performance art ensemble, contemporary opera company, and quasi punk band that results from my obsessive aesthetic fence-straddling tendencies. Our chief inspiration for the punky side of our strange repertoire was most certainly the Slits—specifically this album and this song.
Philip Glass - “Knee 5” from “Einstein on the Beach; Lucinda Childs, Paul Zukofsky, Philip Glass Ensemble
I will forever be enchanted Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s “Einstein on the Beach.” I’m particularly enamored of the “Knee Plays” (five little intermezzos connecting the four movements of the opera.) The performances included language written and performed by choreographer Lucinda Childs. Her calm intoning of these minimal, repetitive text fragments, for me, epitomizes an era during which I was discovering a whole world of inter-media arts that enormously influenced and shaped my own performance and composition practice for many years to come.
Antony and the Johnsons - “Cut the World”
The first and only time I ever saw Anohni (then Antony Hegarty) perform live was December 2013, in Robert Wilson’s epic performance work, “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,” at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. I was startled to hear this beautiful song, sung in that familiar, buttery voice, coming from a towering six-foot-something frame regally dressed in a hooded gown. She towered over Abramovic and Willem DaFoe, and her plaintive, warm, elastic tones stopped everything in that moment.
John Cage - Sonata I from “Cage: Sonatas and Interludes,” John Tilbury (Piano)
Like many contemporary musicians and composers, I owe a huge debt to John Cage for turning around the way the music and art worlds define music and contextualize sound. When I think of Cage, his prepared piano works loom particularly large for me. This brilliant extension of the instrument has become a solid part of our sonic palette. I never tire of these gamelanesque, wildly varied, percussive timbres.
Erin Gee - “Mouthpiece IX, Part I” from “Mouthpieces,” Erin Gee (Vocals), ORF Vienna Radio Orchestra
We contemporary music vocal artists often bandy about the term “extended vocal techniques.” It’s a term we’ve all questioned at times, but it still seems to work well as quick shorthand for vocal work that steps outside of the norms of conventional Western bel canto and folk/pop/rock techniques. Erin Gee’s work epitomizes the idea of using the entire vocal apparatus to make music. I find her sound and her composing to be a satisfying departure from the (albeit powerful) work of the usual extended voice suspects.
David Cunningham - “Belgrano” from “Voice Works”
I can’t get enough of David Cunningham’s choppy sampled-voice pieces. Some of them are operatic and bombastic, some are stately choral-sounding works, but they all chop the vocal samples up and present them in an almost non-vocal manner. This one evokes something unexplainable for me with its pounding piano and choppy, deep, glottal, female voice.
J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Aria from the Glenn Gould 1955 version
Bach remains a constant foundation to my musical world. And I think of Glenn Gould as the quintessential performer of this both mechanical and lyrical music that was actually written for harpsichords or clavichords. I’m always stuck on some Bach keyboard piece. At the moment, my Baroque earworm is the Aria of the Goldberg Variations. I selected this particular recording because I like it at this tempo; and, if you listen carefully, you can hear Gould’s involuntary singing and humming, which the recording engineer was unable to completely EQ out of this piano recording. I like hearing that.
CocoRosie - “Tears for Animals” (featuring Antony Hegarty) from “Tales of a GrassWidow”
I first encountered CocoRosie in 2004 when I was programmed on a festival with them in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I loved their peculiar freak-folk/experimental sound and the odd, little-girl timbres of their voices. Much later, I found this recording of “Tears for Animals.” What a striking surprise it was with its tight production and techno underpinnings! I think Antony’s warm voice is a nice foil for their bright vocal colors.
Alessandro Bosetti - “Gloriously Repeating” from “Royals”
Alessandro Bosetti makes liberal use of a technique of which I am quite fond: the composing of melodies based on pitch-following, a transcribing of the pitches and rhythms found in spoken text. Many composers working since the advent of sound-reproduction, myself included, have become fascinated with the music of speech sounds, and have worked out ways to bring those melodies into other instruments through digital and analog means. “Gloriously Repeating” is a lovely example of this kind of work, and I’m drawn to the actual text material he uses here, and the way in which it’s delivered (and gloriously repeated) by the speaker.
Tristan Perich - “1-Bit Symphony: Movement 1” from “1-Bit Symphony”
Tristan Perich has sculpted quite a career for himself making music that uses only a single bit of information at a time. He has released some of these compositions as “albums” that consist of a tiny microchip cleverly built into a clear plastic CD jewel case with an audio headphone jack and a switch to start/stop and skip between “tracks.” It is not a recording so much as a machine that performs the work each time it’s switched on. This track is the first of five movements in Tristan’s “1-Bit Symphony.” For me, it brings to mind minimalist works that I love like Steve Reich’s “Four Organs,” or some of the early Philip Glass Ensemble works.
Carl Stone - “Al-Noor”
Carl Stone has written a patch in Max MSP software that allows him to modulate one recorded or live performance with a completely different performance; he morphs very different musics together to make a strikingly new music. I once did a structured improvisational performance with Carl, and he ran my voice through his patch and morphed me with Vivaldi, the Beatles, a Balkan Choir, and who knows what else! In “Al-Noor,” he starts with a Vietnamese singer’s pure voice and then proceeds to morph and manipulate her so masterfully and subtly that the piece seems to flow seamlessly and elegantly from one sonic world to another.
Åke Parmerud - “Les objets obscurs: I.–” from “Osynlig musik”
Åke Parmarud makes gorgeous multichannel fixed-media works. His works often employ techniques of musique concrète. In this piece, there are four movements. The movements each start with a riddle (read in French) and then he creates a musical version of the riddle by manipulating sounds generated by a single object. I love his treatment of the sounds and of the speaking voice.
Lennon & McCartney - “Revolution 9” from “Modernists,” Alarm Will Sound (Ensemble)
In 1968, to the bafflement of most, the Beatles released a full-on experimental “tape music” piece as the penultimate track of a double LP. The piece was composed entirely of collaged sounds. As a little kid, I was fascinated by it and also found it to be a bit scary. Little did I know that it would turn out to be my first encounter with the kind of music that would eventually become central to my life. I’ve since enjoyed hearing the piece presented in electroacoustic and tape music festivals alongside Stockhausen, Oliveros, and Varèse. In 2008, the New York chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound, who had previously transcribed and recorded an entire electronica album by Aphex Twin for acoustic instruments, decided to transcribe “Revolution 9” for live performance. I had the pleasure of hearing them perform it at the Bang On A Can Marathon, and I couldn’t believe the accuracy with which they reproduced all of its intricate layers in live performance—with humans playing, singing, and speaking every noise that John Lennon had collaged. ¶
A Pamela Z Playlist
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Bruno Sammartino Net Worth 2019, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height
Bruno is the man who had devoted his expertise in wrestling in creating World Wide Wrestling Federation or WWWF which later changed to WWF and currently the world know this wrestling display under WWE. He had proved his strength by retaining his champion title for a long period of time in WWWF. He is definitely an idol for many wrestlers who want to dominate the wrestling ring for a longer period.
He is one of the topmost WWE Hall of Famer who had been the declared as the strongest man in early 60’s. The amount of respect Bruno has in his world of wrestling can be well understood if one took a look at the recordings of the event when Bruno had received the WWE Hall of Fame. The occasion of felicitation has been matching with the heroes of another field as Mike Tyson or Peter Rose.
A matchless personality and an institution in himself. One of the prominent personalities of pro-wrestling is also known for his unique analytical commentary for WWE in recent times from the formation of the format.
A living legend had definitely earned quite handsomely in his golden period. It is not so easy to estimate the power of this veteran wrestler, who has been one of the strongest warriors by the yardstick of money. Still, he has accumulated an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars.
Bruno was born as Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino on 6th October 1935 in Pizzoferrato, Abruzzo, Italy. With the mixed ethnicity of America and Italy, he was born to Alfonso Sammartino and Emilia Sammartino.
Among seven brothers and sisters, Bruno was the youngest child. He went to Schenley High School to get his startup education without getting any training in wrestling. Later after his high school education when he got into the University of Pittsburgh his wrestling began under the strict guidance of his coach Rex Perry.
To escape the German soldiers Bruno along with his family had to hide in some secluded areas of mountains. Bruno had moved from Italy his native land and landed on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was in his early teenage days. His father was already staying at that place during the period of World War II. As an Italian boy, he lacked eloquence over the English language and the frequent movement during the war has made him little sickly.
He got an unfriendly atmosphere in his school where he was bullied by his fellow student. This had created an urge of strength in Bruno and to attain such power he started weight training. During his schooling at Schenley High School, Bruno was improving upon his wrestling techniques with the wrestling team of University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of tough coach Rex Perry. Gradually he became a known talent with his immaculate stunts.
The story about his stunts was spreading fast in the areas of Pittsburgh. Bob Prince who was eminent sports caster approached Bruno and started a television show on his stunts. While the shows were telecasted with great appreciation from the viewers, Rudy Miller who was a wrestling promoter saw the promise in the young wrestler. Rudy inspired Bruno to put his strength in the professional wrestling world. Rudy was highly convinced that the strength of Bruno will have an undeniable acceptance from the supporters of wrestling who were the immigrants of Italy.
In 1959 Bruno’s strength was promoted highly when he lifted cleanly 565 pounds. The incident caught the sharp eye of the founder of WWWF, Vincent J. McMohan, who had promoted the Federation. The unbelievable potency and vigor made him a sensation overnight in the pro-wrestling arena.
After his wrestling career, Bruno had also shown his ability as a commentator who presents wrestling with perfect analysis. Bruno himself had become an efficient promoter who had dedicated his life to the betterment of WWE.
Long back in 1959, he exchanged vows and ring with Carol Sammartino. The couples are blessed with three children who are David and the fraternal twin in the form of Danny and Darry. Bruno and Carol is the grandparent of four kids.
Since 1965 Bruno is living with his Carol near Pittsburgh in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Arnold Schwarzenegger had handed him the WWE Hall of Fame and still had an intimate relationship with the wrestler who had a colossal strength. It is very common that the celebrities go with their controversies and rumors. In this respect, Bruno is an ideal example whose entire life had never been blemished with such marks.
Full Name: Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino
Date of Birth: 6th October 1935
Birth Place: Pizzoferrato, Abruzzo, Italy
Profession: Former Professional Wrestler
Height: 5 Feet 10 Inches
Weight: 120.2 Kg
Net worth: $4 Million
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Secret file may be opened, revealing identity of paedophiles at the heart of the British establishment – The Elite Pedophilia Ring is REAL!!
Posted by Luke Rudkowski | Nov 6, 2014 |
PAUL GALLAGHER / http://www.independent.co.uk
A secret file which is said to contain the names of paedophiles with links to the British establishment and which is rumoured to be locked away in archives at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, could be made public as part of the Government’s child abuse inquiry.
Inquiry panel members Barbara Hearn and Sharon Evans, along with Ben Emmerson QC, counsel to the inquiry, assured campaigners at their meeting last week – shortly before Fiona Woolf announced she would be the second person to resign as chair – that they would have top-level security clearance and access to restricted or closed files.
The whereabouts of the “Dickens Dossier”, containing allegations of paedophiles linked to the British establishment and compiled by former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, is unknown. It went missing after the politician handed it to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, in 1984, as are more than 100 documents concerning child abuse allegations that had been held by the Home Office. It is rumoured it may be in the Barbara Castle archives within the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
Former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens (Getty)
Ian Pace, who in 2013 organised a petition of musicians calling for a public inquiry into abuse in specialist music schools, and one of 21 campaigners at Friday’s meeting chaired by Home Office official Usha Choli, asked whether the panel would have access to closed archives such as those belonging to the former Labour cabinet minister under Harold Wilson.
“The answer seemed to be yes,” said Mr Pace. “We were told the panel’s security clearance would enable them to access things like intelligence files and closed archives such as a lot of material contained within the Barbara Castle archives where some people suspect she may have kept a copy of the dossier.”
At least three people have tried unsuccessfully to access the Castle files to see if it contains the Dickens Dossier, but found a lot of the material closed. Some papers with restricted access include diary entries and correspondence with family members. All of her correspondence with the former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw between October 1981 and February 1999 is also marked “closed” on the library’s database, along with a letter she wrote to Neil Kinnock in December 1999.
Barbara Castle, pictured in 1974 (Getty Images)
Mr Pace said: “I do know of separate occasions where people went after a whole range of material where the Dickens Dossier was likely to be, but could not see any of it.”
The Independent on Sunday revealed at the weekend that the inquiry panel will have “developed vetting” – top-level clearance allowing them access to intelligence files and information.
Home Secretary Theresa May told the Commons on Monday that the Government was “in the process of working out the protocol” to ensure that access is possible “between all agencies and the inquiry, so that no stone is left unturned”.
Due to the number of ongoing cases and historical sex abuse trials taking place in the coming months, campaigners have received assurances from the panel that witnesses could give evidence about people already on trial, with proceedings therefore sub judice.
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Disaster Capitalism Proceeds as Puerto Rico Privatization Progresses With Appointment of Former Louisiana State Superintendent
November 22, 2018 wgersen
Education Week blogger Andrew Ujifusa reports that “...Paul Pastorek, the former Louisiana schools chief who helped lead the overhaul of New Orleans’ schools after Hurricane Katrina, has agreed to a contract with Puerto Rico’s Department of Education to provide various services as island schools continue their recovery from their own catastrophic storm, Hurricane Maria in 2017.” In a (presumed) effort to avoid any editorializing, Mr. Ujifusa does not speculate on whether Mr. Pastorek’s entrance is a sign that Puerto Rico will go the way of New Orleans, but it is abundantly clear to anyone one watches policy issues that is the direction their public schools are headed… and I will not be surprised to see the schools in the FL panhandle headed the same way soon because, as Rahm Emmanuel famously said, every disaster is an opportunity for change…. and vulture capitalists love to see a hurricane, a train wreck, or an economic downturn.
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The Secret to Selena Gomez’s Instagram Success
Victoria Hendersen 6th Dec 18 12:05 pm
Selena Gomez rings in 2018 holding on to her title as the (literal) queen of Instagram. Selena Gomez’s Instagram has been the most followed account on the app for almost three years now. She even broke her own record on the number of likes on an Instagram photo in September of this year.
Selena Gomez’s Instagram presence has had a lot of bloggers and Internet users scratching their heads over the years. After all, the star has taken multiple breaks from the social media spotlight for mental health reasons and even claimed that she hasn’t been on the Internet in months.
So how, exactly, does she hold onto her crown? Let’s take a tour of Selena Gomez’s Instagram to find out.
Selena Gomez Takes A Lot Of Instagram Selfies
If you go onto any normal 26-year-old girl’s Instagram, you’re probably going to find pictures of her friends, family, any fun weekend activities, and Instagram selfies. Selena Gomez delivers on all of those fronts. But her selfie game is particularly strong.
Of course, when you’re Selena Gomez, you have professional makeup and hair artists at your disposal. But it’s actually her simpler pictures the singer chooses to highlight that make her stand out.
Take this simple photo set showing off Selena and some friends having a blast on a boat. Instead of highlighting the lives of the rich and famous part, the cover image Selena uses is a simple selfie to commemorate a day of fun.
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Aug 15, 2018 at 5:19pm PDT
These pictures from the Taki Taki performance at the Global Citizens concert in August this year with DJ Snake and Cardi B likewise don’t show off a huge arena filled with screaming fans – just personal selfies with Selena and her fellow performers.
today was so fun
In this super cute Instagram, Selena Gomez posts a selfie wearing accessories taken from her younger sister, taken in her car. I mean, who doesn’t have a picture like this?
i stole from my sister
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Nov 29, 2017 at 2:01pm PST
Selena Gomez’s Instagram keeps it personal. Her followers get a glimpse into a real person’s life, and that’s why they keep coming back!
Selena Gomez’s Instagram Doesn’t Brag About Her Lifestyle
Of course, being Selena Gomez isn’t exactly what I would call normal. She’s been in the spotlight since her early teens! That means that she’s constantly involved in high-profile projects most of us could only ever dream about.
Whether it’s modeling or her music, Selena Gomez’s Instagram shows off the exciting parts of her life in a way that somehow manages to be totally humble.
This Instagram shared from her Harper’s Bazaar shoot is style goals. The lack of a caption adds some mystery to the already cool photo vibe.
@harpersbazaarus
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Feb 7, 2018 at 2:18pm PST
This post celebrating Selena’s Instyle cover sums up the philosophy pretty well. Instead of rambling and bringing attention back to her, she instead tags everybody who worked to put the cover together and recognizes their achievements.
Ahhh!💕thank you Instyle!! wearing @Coach dress for the @InstyleMagazine September cover! Photograph by @PhilPoynter; Story by @LauraBrown99; Hair @OfficialDaniloHair for @Pantene; Makeup @HungVanngo Fashion Editor @KateYoung; Manicure: @TomBachik (basically the entire squad)
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Aug 3, 2017 at 3:10pm PDT
Of course, we can’t talk about Selena Gomez’s Instagram without talking about her face as the Coach campaign. There are so many gorgeous photos she’s shared on Instagram I honestly had a hard time choosing. They embody glamor, but Selena never waxes poetic about it. She’s genuinely excited to share what she’s been working on.
A New Year’s first just for you guys- I’m so excited to reveal my new @Coach campaign. #CoachSS18 #CoachNY
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Jan 2, 2018 at 4:09pm PST
Selena Gomez’s Instagram certainly highlights glamorous aspects of her life, but they’re in no way the center of it. She makes all the posts with a quiet humility, often directing attention towards other people. It’s just like looking at a friend’s Instagram.
Selena Gomez’s Instagram Teases Her Upcoming Projects
If there’s one thing Selena Gomez’s Instagram has down, it’s using Instagram to promote her new projects. Her posts get longtime fans excited and new fans interested. All of her promotional posts are artistic and interesting to look at on their own.
Take a look at this shot from her “Back to You” video. The post isn’t captioned, but fans understand straight away that it’s part of a music video. Keeping her fans guessing is half the fun!
Let’s take it back a little. When she and Dj Marshmello released “Wolves” in October 2017, Selena Gomez’s Instagram showed off some masterful promotional skills.
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Oct 23, 2017 at 10:08am PDT
This shot of the two together achieves everything a promo post needs to without fanfare. It shows the artists, the aesthetic, and the release date, while maintaining a cool composure and building hype.
Keeping it ultra cool, mysterious and exciting is what makes Selena Gomez’s Instagram the most followed account.
Selena Gomez’s Instagram is A Love Letter to Her Friends
Celebrities may spend all day on shoots, have expensive dinners and wear haute couture, but they have friends, too! Selena Gomez’s Instagram may not show off a lot of her private life, but it is full of posts about her closest friends. She’s constantly Instagramming fun activities with them or shouting them out.
We all know that Selena is tight with fellow celeb Taylor Swift, but the confirmation on Instagram is sweet to see anyways. Her captions don’t allude to Taylor Swift’s stardom – the text is raw and honest, and it works.
I’m glad you were born. You write all the thoughts some aren’t able to articulate. (ME!) Thank you for giving a voice to this world that is authentic and inspiring. I wish some knew how big your heart actually is.. it’s fierce, bold and freaking wild with light. I’m glad you protect that. Love you @taylorswift
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Dec 13, 2017 at 1:24pm PST
These photos of Selena and her BFFs getting tattoos together are friendship goals. That level of devotion is something we all hope to have in our life!
Best friend turned 26. Part 2. #4 because these women have stayed by my side for 7 years (@ashley_cook 12 years) 4, because you are my 4 for the rest of my life. I love you ladies. You all inspire me to be better, stronger, closer to god and we have lived the most INSANE story together already. Can’t wait for 50 more!! Ps @raquellestevens had an actual panic attack 🙄 it’s a dot! 🤦🏽♀️
These artsy Polaroid shots are so relatable it almost hurts. We all have these kinds of photos laying around from an old sleepover. somewhere.
It’s clear from Selena Gomez’s Instagram that she spends a lot of time with her friends. She almost never names them or shouts them out, so it’s clear that she’s not doing it for attention, just to save precious memories. She definitely hasn’t lost sight of what’s important!
Selena Gomez’s Instagram Doesn’t Shy Away From her Health Struggles
Selena Gomez’s Instagram is also open about her health. She’s let the public know about her struggles with lupus and its effects on her mental health that have come from dealing with it in the public eye.
Selena Gomez’s Instagram lets fans get a glimpse behind the scenes of a picture-perfect life and brings awareness to her condition at the same time.
This picture is the 14th most liked Instagram picture of all time, and it’s easy to see why. The touching post shows Selena and her kidney donor, fellow actress Francesca Raisa, holding hands across hospital beds before her kidney transplant. It’s an incredibly touching photo, and Selena’s caption is poignant and thoughtful, too.
I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn’t promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of. So I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my Lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health. I honestly look forward to sharing with you, soon my journey through these past several months as I have always wanted to do with you. Until then I want to publicly thank my family and incredible team of doctors for everything they have done for me prior to and post-surgery. And finally, there aren’t words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa. She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me. I am incredibly blessed. I love you so much sis. Lupus continues to be very misunderstood but progress is being made. For more information regarding Lupus please go to the Lupus Research Alliance website: www.lupusresearch.org/ -by grace through faith
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Sep 14, 2017 at 3:07am PDT
But Selena Gomez’s Instagram goes beyond the simple fact of having the disease, though. Selena also Instagrams her involvement with Lupus foundations, most notably the WE Movement. In this post, she draws attention away from herself again and uses her platform to speak up!
@wemovement -my sixth year doing this incredible show. They have such a force of young people that are doing so much for their communities and the world. This is Nellie. She’s fearless and is wanting to spread awareness about kidney diseases.
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Apr 19, 2018 at 11:45am PDT
Selena’s openness about her health struggles is refreshing on a platform where so much can be about looking good, no matter what the truth is. Her
Selena Gomez’s Instagram Shows Off her Big Heart
Many may still be puzzling over the key to Selena Gomez’s success. Is it the high fashion, the music videos, or fancy dinners? I’ve arrived at a different answer.
Selena Gomez has been in the spotlight for more than ten years now. That comes with its own trials and tribulations. It would be easy to get a big head. But Selena Gomez’s Instagram still shows off how big her heart is.
Whether it’s an event for a charity foundation or showing how much she values her friends through sweet captions, Selena Gomez’s Instagram keeps it humble and personal. She shows off the more glamorous aspects of her life, but she’s never braggy.
Here’s the lesson we can take from Selena Gomez’s Instagram: Be thoughtful, be deliberate, and be humble. The world will like you better for it.
By Victoria Hendersen
Victoria is an American expatriate currently based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Originally from Santa Cruz, California, she lived in Bordeaux, France before relocation to Russia's cultural capital. Victoria holds a BFA in Film and Media Studies from UC Irvine.
She works as a copywriter and translator. An experienced travel blogger and vlogger, her main drive in life is discovering the jewels of lesser traveled cities. You can keep up with her travels on Instagram at @village_witch.
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Will Federal Oversight Help or Hinder DC Transit?
The feds have taken over safety oversight of D.C.’s embattled Metro, and that could actually be cause for concern, says David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington.
How much will the Federal Transit Administration disrupt DC Metro service to achieve its safety goals? Photo: Wikipedia
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx laid out his vision for safety-related reforms under the aegis of the Federal Transit Administration in a recent piece in the Washington Post.
One person was killed when smoke filled a train earlier this year, and that’s inexcusable, says Alpert. But the effort to improve Metro safety could backfire, he argues, if it entails overzealous disruptions to service:
There’s particular reason to worry because the FTA has not behaved in the past like an organization that wants to help transit agencies. Instead, it’s like a sword of Damocles hanging over each transit agency, ready to fall if the agency missteps.
FTA regularly behaves as though there’s no problem with transit agencies running very little transit, yet spending huge dollars on expensive bureaucratic overhead. I’m sure not everyone at FTA feels this way, but the ultimate stance of the agency often ends up being that it doesn’t matter if the transit gets run, only if every comma is in place on the forms.
Foxx seems to be saying he’ll stand firmly behind FTA’s safety people if they take the same attitude as the rest of the agency. If there’s a way to improve safety by 0.000001% but it causes thousands of hours of rider delays, well, safety is number one…
If platforms get more crowded, that will harm safety too, perhaps far more than whatever a long-term shutdown or slowdown will fix. Same if people switch to driving, where they might imperil not only themselves but others. Shutting down night Metro service might help with repairs but also increase drunk driving, for instance.
Anthony Foxx has been a strong proponent of road safety, no doubt, and deserves credit for it. Still, none of us expects him to write that “America can forget any new road-expansion projects until the roads meet our safety standards.”
Elsewhere on the Network today: WABA wonders why DC is still settling for unprotected bike lanes. The Dirt shares visualizations of how different cities have expanded over time. And Citizens for Modern Transit explains Kansas City’s new experiment with “micro transit.”
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In June 2009, a fatal crash on the D.C. Metro prompted federal lawmakers to consider adding a new layer of transit safety oversight. Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, introduced the National Metro Safety Act of 2009 to establish national safety standards for transit systems. It was never enacted, but it certainly raised the issue’s profile, and Transportation […]
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Cargo Port
Possible Layouts
4 km x 4 kmFull tank area size
N/AReal World Location
1.1 Historical Background
2 Map configuration
2.1 Domination
2.2 Conquest
2.3 Battle
Cargo Port is a ground forces map available in all modes. The map is set in a largo, fictional, cargo port with an attached airport. The map has three distance sections; the main area of the map where most battles take place is the eastern half. This is the main port area with many buildings and stacks of shipping containers, it is also where the map's iconic cargo ship is docked. The next section is a motorway running straight down the centre of the map. Finally in the west of the map there is a large airport, with two runways, one running parallel with the motorway and the other running at an angle in the Northwest of the map.
The east of the map is an expansive cargo port. The area largely consists of a mix of buildings and areas where shipping containers are being stored. Battles in this area are generally fairly close quarters; the containers and gaps between buildings proving many places for players to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting enemies, or to sneak around other players. There is also room for slightly longer range engagements down the long, straight and largely unobstructed roads. Shipping containers and buildings are placed throughout the cargo port, the south of the port contains more buildings, while the middle and north of the port are more focused on container storage. Starting in the south of the port a series of rail lines run parallel to the motorway, before turning east into a rail yard in the middle of the port.
The motorway runs north - south down the centre of the map. This area is very open, with players able to shoot down the entire length of the map, the only cover is provided by abandoned vehicles. There are two bridges over the motorway, however overturned lorries and discarded containers make them inaccessible to players. The motorway is slightly lower then the cargo port and airport, and separated from each by a row of trees.
The eastern edge of the airport consists largely of administrative buildings with areas of open space acting as car parks or storage areas. It also contains the eastern apron for the north - south runway, this area consists mainly of hangars and large open areas where the aircraft would be loaded, containers and abandoned airport equipment provide very limited cover. Across the runway is the western apron; this area is wide open, with a few hangars and parked aircraft. At the northern end of the runway there is a second runway running west-southwest to east-northeast. The area to the west of the vertical runway, and the area around the northern runway are modeled using lower poly buildings than the rest of the map, suggesting they are not meant to ne played on.
The tank battles map is 4km x 4km, but this area is restricted in battles; see the table below for the exact battle area sizes in each mode. The air battles area is 32 km x 32 km.
Battle area Size
Domination 1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km
Conquest #1 1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km
Battle 1.3 km x 1.3 km 1.3 km x 1.3 km 1.3 km x 1.3 km
This map is a completely fictional location. The cargo ship is a Maersk Triple E-class container ship which first sailed in 2013. The aircraft at the airport appear to be Douglas C-54 Skymasters,
Map configuration
Change Maps by Game Modes
At present this map has the same layouts in AB, RB and SB.
Domination Mode - Map Layouts
1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km 1.8 km x 1.8 km
In AB point A is on the eastern edge of the port near the bow of the cargo ship, B is at the radio tower near the rail yard, and C is near some buildings in the east of the airport. In RB point A is on the eastern edge of the port near the bow of the cargo ship, B is at the radio tower near the rail yard, and C is near some buildings in the east of the airport. In SB point A is on the eastern edge of the port near the bow of the cargo ship, B is at the radio tower near the rail yard, and C is near some buildings in the east of the airport.
Conquest Mode - Map Layouts
Conquest #1
In AB the capture point in an oil storage area near the rail yard, in the middle of the port. In RB the capture point in an oil storage area near the rail yard, in the middle of the port In SB the capture point in an oil storage area near the rail yard, in the middle of the port
In AB the capture point at the radio tower near the rail yard. In RB the capture point at the radio tower near the rail yard. In SB the capture point at the radio tower near the rail yard.
In AB the capture point is near some buildings in the east of the airport. In RB the capture point is near some buildings in the east of the airport. In SB the capture point is near some buildings in the east of the airport.
Note: In this layout the northern team get two spawn points, while the southern team only get one.
Battle Mode - Map Layouts
In AB the capture points are located at the radio tower near the rail yard, between some buildings near the end of the rail yard. In RB the capture points are located at the radio tower near the rail yard, between some buildings near the end of the rail yard. In SB the capture points are located at the radio tower near the rail yard, between some buildings near the end of the rail yard.
Describe what focus a team should have when spawning into the map
An excellent addition to the article will be video guides, as well as screenshots from the game and photos.
reference to related locations;
[Devblog] New locations in the update 1.91
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ArmchairGM
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ArmchairGM is a fan-based sports community originally built on a heavily customized MediaWiki (Wikipedia) engine that combines blogs, news, and voting, with the power of a sports-wiki. ArmchairGM was bought by Wikia in December 2006 for $2 million.
Parts of the ArmchairGM codebase were open-sourced in early 2008, and in early 2009 the developers and founders of ArmchairGM were laid off.
By early 2010, Wikia had dropped support for ArmchairGM and considered it "a failed project", in the words of their then-CEO.
Somewhere between 8 August 2010 and 10 February 2011, ArmchairGM was migrated from its own codebase into the standard Wikia codebase and Wikia's Oasis skin. During this migration, a lot of the site's original content was lost, in addition to many features which were unique to ArmchairGM back in the day.
On 1 August 2011 the ArmchairGM codebase was finally open-sourced.
Many of the features that originated at ArmchairGM, commonly called social tools, are nowadays available as stand-alone extensions, compatible with the latest releases of MediaWiki.
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Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows)
Posted by John Cutfeet on September 16, 2009
As the site of the longest-running blockade to stop clearcut logging, Asubpeeschoseewagong. or Grassy Narrows, located eighty + kilometers, northeast of Kenora off the Trans-Canada Highway, has seen more than its share of struggles throughout its ancestral traditional territory. The Anishnabek of Asubpeeschoseewagong were relocated by a government decision in 1963 to the present location “to allow better access to the nearest town and to benefit from what it has to offer.”
This entry looks at the First Peoples of Asubpeeschoseewagong, (Grassy Narrows) who have been displaced; their graveyard and sacred sites flooded, and their water and food supply contaminated by large-scale developments. Asubpeeschoseewagong, located in Treaty # 3, near the town of Kenora is road-accessible via highway 671, a short drive northeast on a former logging road which has only been paved since 2002. With a population of approximately 1000 and a 14 square mile reserve, the members of Asubpeeschoseewagong consider the surrounding 2,500 square miles as their traditional territory.
In 2007, Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister, and community leaders declared a moratorium on all industrial activity within their traditional territory without community consent, citing, “We’ve been seeking for many years a constructive solution to this untenable situation, but the response has been to talk and log. We cannot sit back and watch the demise of our way of life which disappears every time more cutting areas are extended.”
“The clear-cutting of the land, and the destruction of the forest is an attack on our people,” says Roberta Keesic, a grandmother and trapper. “The land is the basis of who we are. Our culture is a land-based culture and the destruction of the land is the destruction of our culture.”
In the mid-70’s, the way of life of Asubpeeshoseewagong was heavily impacted by mercury being released into the English-Wabigoon river system by a pulp and paper mill in Dryden from 1960- 1979. As a result, the Ontario government told the community to “stop eating fish,” – and closed down their commercial fishery. The release of mercury, upstream from Grassy Narrows resulted in the loss of the main source of food and employment for the community and greatly impacted their health and way of life and still continues to this day.
Living close to all the development and being close to an urban center has not brought all the benefits that one might expect.
A trapper reported that his trapping cabin had burned down. The logs that he had cut down for the replacement of the cabin which he hauled to the main road were cut up for firewood by a person or persons unknown. In March 2007, Roberta Keesic was charged with building 2 cabins for shelter in her traditional territory without a permit , and refusing a stop-work order. Her case comes up on October 20, 2009.
Recently, youth leader Chrissy Swain and community organizer Judy Dasilva visited the former site of the Macintosh Residential School near Kenora and found several large hydro towers at the grave site of the children who died at the school, disrespecting their memory. Ms. Swain, who has started walking with other youth from Grassy Narrows to Parliament Hill in Ottawa, had this to say:
“We need Canada to recognize the damage those schools have done to our communities and cultures, and we need an end to the destruction of our lands, and an end to native people being criminalized when they stand up for their rights to protect their lands, their cultures, and their communities.”
Judy Dasilva pointed out that there are now mining claims that run into a spring-fed lake, a few kilometers from the community that will potentially impact their water and food supply…..once again.
Their voices continue to echo through Noopemig…..
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Sep 26. 2019. 7:49 PM
Gum's the word: Former MVP comes out of retirement to resurrect career
DECORATED midfielder Courtney Gum has made a bid to resurrect her AFLW career, nominating for the South Australian portion of the NAB AFLW Draft despite retiring at the end of March.
Gum, 38, played for Greater Western Sydney in the 2018 and 2019 AFLW seasons, running out in all 14 possible games.
The 2018 season in particular was outstanding for Gum, winning the AFLPA Most Valuable Player and named All Australian.
Courtney Gum is chaired off by the Giants in her final game. Picture: Getty Images
Gum was of the stronger clearance players in the competition, the South Australian local knows how to find the ball and uses it well.
The draft will be held on 22 October, and any players who aren't picked are able to be selected as free agent signings by clubs outside of their original nomination pool.
Another former AFLW player to keep an eye out for is Adelaide premiership key defender Talia Radan, who has nominated for the West Australian draft pool.
Former Demon Talia Radan. Picture: AFL Photos
Radan played 10 games across two seasons at the Crows before crossing to Melbourne in a complicated five-way trade ahead of the 2019 season.
The 31-year-old was recovering from a shoulder reconstruction during pre-season and didn't manage to break through for her debut in the red and the blue.
She has been playing for Hawthorn in the VFLW competition this winter.
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Sly Of The Underworld’s..
Sly Of The Underworld’s blunt message for convicted cop killer
Sly Of The Underworld has a simple message for convicted cop killer Jason Roberts – “you had your chance.”
Sly returned to 3AW Breakfast this week, rubbishing calls for a fresh appeal.
Distinguished former homicide detective Ron Iddles has come to the conclusion Roberts “probably” wasn’t involved in the murders of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller in 1998.
Roberts and Bandali Debs were both convicted of murdering the police officers.
“This is a case which has gone on too long,” Sly said on Wednesday.
“He has been convicted – there is no new evidence.”
Sly said Roberts had multiple chances to clear his name, but couldn’t or wouldn’t.
“He says he was frightened of Debs? Debs was a loner, he had no underworld connections,” Sly explained.
“If he was convicted, he could have never have got at Roberts.”
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Semester Assessment Report 2,000-2,500 words each 50%
*explain how research information is stored and retrieved, using various types of databases in the health sector as examples of `evidence-based' research presentation for a variety of audiences
*describe and appraise some of the sources of evidence based information
*explain how statistical evidence is presented and discuss the implications of presentation format
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*propose a strategy to ensure that knowledge and evidence is shared within an organisation and its clientele, and that any appropriate changes are made when new evidence becomes available
Unit 1 discusses the scientific method, the process of generation of the research evidence in a knowledge base and the role of consensus in deciding how and where research is published. Unit 2 discusses the format of research evidence in various databases, and how such databases are searched. Unit 3 covers critical appraisal skills required for selecting and using the evidence. Unit 4 discusses how to implement a culture which values an evidence-based approach to practice, and how to achieve awareness and acceptance of research information in the process of implementing research findings. Unit 5 discusses the presentation of the research evidence, demonstrating how changing the way in which statistics on risk are presented can affect our attitudes to whether the evidence is compelling or not. Unit 6 examines some possible future directions to information systems research and `evidence-based practice? for information professionals
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Jesse Heley was awarded a BA and MA from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Having completed his Ph.D. at the same institution on the subject of 'Rurality, Class, Aspiration and the Emergence of a New Squirearchy', Jesse was appointed as a Research Associate in DGES in 2009. He took up a Lectureship in Human Geography in the same department in April 2012.
Jesse is Research Associate of the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD). He is the Director of Employability & Enterprise for the Institute of Geography, History, Politics and Psychology.
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Jesse's research is situated within the broad fields of political geography, economic geography & spatial planning, being particularly concerned with rural restructuring & shifting class dynamics in the British countryside. Currently, Jesse's research addresses; the nature & impact of globalization in rural localities; the role of older volunteers in shaping & maintaining rural services & development; & ethnography & the ethical implications of undertaking 'native', 'local' & 'insider' research.'The Global Countryside: Rural Change & Development in Globalization' (GLOBAL-RURAL), Co-investigator with Professor Michael Woods (Principal Investigator). This is a five-year research project (Feb 2014 - Jan 2019) funded by the European Research Council.
‘Ageing, Serious Leisure & the Contribution of the Grey Economy’ Principal Investigator, with Dr Laura Jones, Dr Sophie Yarker & Professor Paul Milbourne). Part of the ESRC-funded ‘WISERD Civil Society Research Centre’, this work package is exploring the value that the non-working/ retired over 60s group attach to & extract from 'serious leisure' pursuits, the interaction between serious leisure & social class, & the value of serious leisure pursuits as part of the social & economic fabric of local & regional economies.
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Heley, J, Welsh, M & Saville, S 2019, 'The fanta-sy of global products: fizzy-drinks, differentiated ubiquity and the placing of globalization' Globalizations.
Heley, J, Goodwin-Hawkins, B, Woods, M & Welsh, M 2019, 'The ‘problem’ of Mid Wales and rethinking rural-urban relations in wales after BREXIT' WISERD Annual Conference 2019, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 03 Jul 2019 - 04 Jul 2019, .
Jones, L, Heley, J & Woods, M 2019, 'Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: researching place and production networks in the global countryside' Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 137-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12220
Heley, J, Jones, L & Yarker, S 2019, 'Volunteering in the Bath? The rise of Microvolunteering and implications for policy' Policy Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2019.1645324
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After five years of experience in international freight forwarding, you have recently been hired as the international logistics manager of a US-based manufacturer of fuel additives for race cars. Your mission is to improve your company’s compliance with dangerous-goods regulations, as the company was recently fined for having incorrectly packaged a rush shipment. Your predecessor is no longer with the company.
The company has done extremely well over the past few years. Its products are technically superior to its competitors’ products, and it dominates the domestic market. Its reputation has traveled to foreign markets, and your company has just received a number of inquiries to supply international race events.
Now that the company will ship overseas in larger quantities, by both air and ocean, it faces regulatory hurdles beyond those of the US Department of Transportation (DOT)—shipments will have to comply with International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Maritime Organization (IMO) dangerous-goods regulations.
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As the international logistics manager, you know it is your responsibility to find answers to these issues so that your company can ensure it is compliant with all regulations and avoid fines. Most important, you have to make sure your goods arrive in good condition at each of the race tracks to which your company will sell. That’s the only way your customers will reorder.
Where do you start? The Accenture Academy courses Classifying and Identifying Dangerous Goods; Packaging Decisions for Dangerous Goods; Marking, Labeling, and Placarding Dangerous Goods; and Documentation and Training Requirements for Transporting Dangerous Goods will equip you to identify the changes that can be made to your shipping practices so that your products can gain market share abroad. Some changes can be implemented relatively quickly while others are more long term, but all will allow your company to build a competitive advantage by following solid dangerous-goods shipping practices.
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PHOENIX - The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona will deliver 378 postcards and a petition with over 2,300 signatures directed at Governor Brewer at a press conference on Wednesday, April 3rd. The petition is part of the “Arizona is MAXED Out” campaign, which the groups launched last summer to highlight abuses in the Arizona prison system, raise awareness about the dangerous practice of solitary confinement, and demand an end to the construction of 500 more maximum-security prison beds.
“Across the country, states are making the wise decision to use public resources on proven policies that promote safe communities and fair treatment, and are successfully reducing the use of solitary - at the same time saving their states millions and reducing violence in the prisons,” said Alessandra Soler executive director of the ACLU of Arizona. “Inexplicably, Arizona continues to take a backward approach to prison management and solitary confinement,” she added.
"Although the plan to build these 500 beds has been quietly moving forward, Arizonans are clearly saying they do not think this is a good move for the state,” said Matthew Lowen of AFSC. “We are calling on the Governor to halt the construction process, and for the Legislature to reject additional spending for this facility and do what is right and necessary to prevent additional needless human suffering,” he added.
Patti Jones, the aunt of Tony Lester who tragically died in a state prison will also speak at the event highlighting the need for adequate mental health care for people in state custody.
The ACLU of Arizona’s lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) over unconstitutional conditions in supermax prison units, as well as system-wide denial of medical and mental health treatment is available here:issues/prisoner-rights
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Marc Ribot’s ‘Songs of Resistance’
by Richard Williams on September 30, 2018
My grandparents lost brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles in the Holocaust, and I’ve toured and have friends in Russia and Turkey; we recognise Trump, and it’s no mystery where we will wind up if we don’t push back.
Those are the words used by the guitarist Marc Ribot to introduce his new album, which seems to me to be one of the year’s most important releases. A series of protest songs aimed at our current discontents, Songs of Resistance is in the spirit of Charlie Haden’s first Liberation Music Orchestra album, back in 1968, in that it fuses music of the past with that of the present, adding historical perspective to the various struggles it depicts.
The difference is that Ribot varies the musical approach from track to track, using guest singers and different instrumental groupings. So Tom Waits — with whom he has collaborated more more than 30 years — delivers a ballad called “Bella Ciao”, sung by the Italian partisans of the Second World War. Fay Victor fronts a irresistible funked-up “John Brown”, one of several tracks alluding to the civil rights movement. Steve Earle takes his turn on a Ribot tune about a Sikh immigrant murdered in Texas by a racist who mistook him for a Muslim (“A madman pulled the trigger / Donald Trump loaded the gun”), containing fragments of “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” and “My Country ‘Tis Of Thee”. Meshell Ndegeocello sings Ribot’s elegant “The Militant Ecologist”, based on another Italian song. The homespun “Knock That Statue Down”, attacking the resistance to the removal of memorials to the Confederacy, is delivered by Ribot himself. The last of the 11 tracks features Justin Vivian Bond singing “We’re Never Turning Back”, Ribot’s comment on gender politics.
Throughout his long career, the guitarist has been noted for the inclusiveness of his approach. Although the settings here reflect his diversity of musical interests, veering from folk songs and country music through go-go to free jazz, he succeeds in tying the whole sequence together through a unity of emotion, showing us how many shades of “stirring” there can be.
It’s a record that, in Ribot’s own phrase, chooses to fight the good fight. As such, it’s in a great and honourable tradition. And at this moment in history, it feels more necessary than ever.
* Songs of Resistance is out now on the Anti- label.
← Forever Aretha
A Mingus discovery →
If only for getting Waits to record something new, this has to be worth it. But it sounds a lot more worthwhile besides.
A pleasant surprise to receive notification of this post and to have a sabbatical from the sabbatical as it were
Nick Grant #
Did you pick up on our “Songs of Love and Resistance” too Richard. Samples from CD and live here at: http://www.soundcloud.com/tfhas
Paul Crowe #
Thanks for recommendation, Richard. Sounds like a very interesting and timely project.
Have had the album for a couple of weeks now, and coupled with his new Ceramic Dog album, one gets the the feeling with some justification , that Marc is one angry man right now.
…… as should anyone with a modicum of common sense , dignity , compassion , respect and intelligence be living here in the ( not so ) Good ole US of A .
Problem is a good 35% plus of us are convinced this administration is God’s blessing upon all mankind .. rather than the curse from hell that it is
FYI to all ; A fantastic album by one of our best well worth purchasing . The only thing that could of possibly made it better would of been if MR had included the Pat Metheny / David Bowie song ” This Is Not America ” which pretty much sums it up in a nutshell . Cause this aint … in the slightest
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the National Museum of Scotland
In case you missed it the first time, the 51st Wildlife Photographer of the Year is going on tour from the Natural History Museum in London, and will open at the National Museum of Scotland on Friday 16 September 2016. The competition is one of the most prestigious photography events of it’s kind, and the exhibition showcases the 100 award winning images.
Through the lens of wildlife photography, the exhibition captures the intrigue and beauty of our planet, giving us a glimpse of the natural world as it has never been seen before. The Culture Trip has selected the best of the competition.
The company of three by Amir Ben-Dov / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Birds category is Amir Ben-Dov, who photographed these red-footed falcons on agricultural land near Beit Shemesh, Israel.
Broken cats by Britta Jaschinski / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner for the Wildlife Photojournalist Award: single image is Britta Jaschinski. Photographed at the Seven Star Park in Guilin, China, the big cats are locked into obedience by their trainers’ gaze. They have had their teeth and claws pulled out, and when not in the arena, they live in tiny cages. For the past 20 years, Britta has travelled extensively, documenting the world of animals in captivity and their unnecessary suffering in the name of education and entertainment. But never, she says, has she come across ‘such brutal and systematic deprivation’ as in China.
A tale of two foxes by Don Gutoski / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Mammals category is Don Gutoski, who photographed this surprising behaviour of a red fox and an arctic fox in Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Canada. The two animals do not actively hunt each other, but where the ranges of two predators overlap, there can be conflict.
Still life by Edwin Giesbers / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Amphibians and Reptiles category is Edwin Giesbers. Edwin took this shot of a Great Crested newt as part of a major story on the threat facing amphibians throughout the Netherlands and Belgium.
Flight of the scarlet ibis by Jonathan Jagot / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Young Wildlife Photographer: 15-17 years old is Jonathan Jagot. He spotted these scarlet ibis in Lençóis on the coast of northeast Brazil.
Life comes to art by Juan Tapia / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Impressions category is Juan Tapia, noticed that a pair of barn swallows had nested in the rafters of an old storehouse on Juan’s farm in Almeria, southern Spain, entering the building through a broken windowpane, putting a painting in front as a prop for his photograph.
A whale of a mouthful by Michael AW / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Under Water category is Michael AW’s photograph of a Bryde whale ripping through a swirling ball of sardines.
Ruffs on display by Ondrej Pelánek / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Ondrej Pelánek won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 11-14 years prize for his photo of some territorial male ruffs in Norway’s Varanger Peninsula.
Shadow walker by Richard Peters / Photographer of the Year 2015
Winner of the Urban category is this shadow of an urban fox taken by Richard Peters in his back garden in Surrey, England.
To find out more about the exhibition, and discover where you can see it next, check out the Natural History Museum website.
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How to Discover Your “Why”
Maggie Bowling
Sometimes I feel it would be easier to be a member of the animal kingdom rather than humankind. Despite the fact that animals aren’t allowed to wear clothing (in most cases) and have to forage for their food, they live each day without the pressure most humans feel to do something significant with their time on earth. Most days, I’m happy to be a part of a race that values doing good and changing their community, but with the earth so filled with needs, and so many humans gifted with various passions and abilities to use, there are days I wish I could move through on auto-pilot. Days I wish someone would grasp my chin and say, “this is your purpose in life, now go and do that.”
We are lucky, though. We are lucky to have the abilities and talents, and also lucky to have the inclination to use them. The really difficult part is taking the broad range of gifts and interests, trying to match them with the great needs the world presents to us, and narrowing those intersection points down to something we can take with our own two hands.
My favorite quote from writer Frederick Buechner says this: “The place we are called to is the place where your deep passion and the world’s deep hunger meet” (paraphrased). And that’s really the secret to finding our why in this world. Where we are passionate will inevitably match up with a need in the world, and both holes will be filled.
I wish someone would grasp my chin and say, “this is your purpose…now go and do that.”
If you’re on a journey to find your way right now, ask yourself a few helpful questions:
When is the last time I felt really impassioned about something I was doing? (Art? Writing? Fundraising? Teaching an exercise class? Volunteering at a local school?) The good news is, our why is tied to our passions. If we are not passionate about animal rescue, we won’t want to expend our time and efforts there. But the opposite will be true for something that we love doing. Our purpose in life will reflect something we are excited about.
What am I naturally good at? What do other people ask me to do? (Organize a craft fair? Prepare a spreadsheet? Bake 60 cupcakes? Foster a kitten? Foster a child?) Likewise, our natural abilities are an indicator for what our passion will be. Imagine a scenario in which we’re very passionate about art but cannot draw, or about singing but cannot carry a tune? It would be terrible! Look to where you already excel, and then build on it; expand it into something that will have a positive ripple effect all around you.
What makes me cry, or makes me angry? (Animal cruelty? The orphan crisis? Underfed school children? The plight of education?) The world issues that are closest to your heart will likely produce either tears or rage in you; that’s the place for which you’ll want to expend your efforts.
These questions are just some ways to start you thinking about how to make your time meaningful. However, life has seasons. What works for you now may be different in one year, or five, depending on each stage of life. What is more, as your life changes—marriage, children, career shifts—the answers to these questions may shift as well. Don’t fret. You’re not an inconstant person that can’t stick to a calling or passion. You’re a complex, beautifully made human that grows and changes, and that’s okay. As long as you are doing something you love, that has a positive effect on the world around you, count it a win.
You’re a complex, beautifully made human that grows and changes, and that’s okay.
Until the day we are reduced to the animal kingdom, moving through life based only on instinct and muscle memory, we will be plagued with these questions. Just remember to give yourself grace, try lots of different things, and allow yourself to grow and change if your circumstances dictate it.
Now get out there and change the world.
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Maggie Bowling is a mom of 4 living in the wilds of suburban Atlanta, looking for excellent guacamole and trying to face down middle age with class.
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Frisco RoughRiders: Hooks Defeated In Comeback Fashion
The Frisco RoughRiders, Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, topped the Corpus Christi Hooks Friday night, in a 3-2 come-from-behind win. Michael O’Neill drove in the game-tying run, while Michael DeLeon sent the go-ahead run across the plate. The RoughRiders improved to a second-half record of 3-1, and sit first in the Texas League South standings.
Michael De Leon eliminated a 2-1 deficit with a game-tying RBI double in the sixth inning. Michael O’Neill immediately followed with a sacrifice fly on the next pitch. It put Frisco ahead for good by a score of 3-2. De Leon went 2-4 Friday night, with a double, RBI, and a run. O’Neill hit 1-3, with a sac fly, RBI, and a walk. Scott Heineman was the final highlight of the Frisco RoughRiders offense, going 2-4 with a double, RBI, walk, and a stolen base.
The RoughRiders left 11 men on base, hitting 3-for-16 with runners in scoring position. Hitting with RISP and leaving runners on base was an issue for the club in the first half of the season. Success in these two areas can ensure the club has a more successful second half than they did in the first.
Pedro Payano started on the hill for the RoughRiders. He tossed 4.2 innings, giving up four hits and two runs (earned). Payano walked five and struck out two. He finished his time tossing after 102 pitches, 55 for strikes. Payano is a top prospect for the Texas Rangers, ranked No. 27. He hasn’t been at the Double-A level long but will need to be able to focus on stamina and control if he expects to do well.
News and notes from RidersBaseball.com:
The Riders have won four of their past five games, and five of their past eight. Frisco is 3-1 to begin the second half and has sole possession of first place in the South Division’s second-half standings.
Frisco and Corpus Christi combined to go 4-25 with runners in scoring position, stranding 23 runners. Corpus Christi left the bases loaded three times, including in the ninth.
Scott Heineman has reached safely in 20 of his last 32 plate appearances, extending his on-base streak to 11 games.
Andy Ibanez snapped a 2-22 drought, going 2-4 Friday for his eighth multi-hit game of the season.
The Frisco RoughRiders take on the Hooks Saturday night, at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas. The first pitch is set for 7:05 PM CT. You can watch the game via MiLB.tv, or listen to the broadcast at RidersBaseball.com.
Collin Wiles (6-3, 3.55 ERA) takes the mound for the RoughRiders. He will take on Brock Dykxhoorn (1-4, 5.47 ERA) in the matchup.
You can read more about Collin Wiles by clicking here.
Follow Blake Cole, Senior Writer for The Inscriber, on Twitter (@blakeacole) for news and updates on the Frisco RoughRiders, Texas Rangers, and more.
*Featured image courtesy of RidersBaseball.com.
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Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson stand next to a banner on their SUV showing their late son, Kendrick Johnson, on Dec. 13, 2013, in Valdosta, Ga. The 17 year old was found dead inside a rolled up gym mat at his high school Jan. 11, 2013, and authorities ruled it was a freak accident. Kendrick’s family believes someone killed him and has been fighting to reopen the case. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
Photo: Russ Bynum
Gym mat death of Georgia teen still being questioned
Russ Bynum, Associated Press
VALDOSTA —
Each weekday, the mother and father come to the same corner outside the county courthouse and spend hours camped out with cardboard signs. As cars stream past, some drivers wave and honk. Others occasionally shout jeers: “Go home!” or “Give it a rest!”
It’s been a year since Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson’s son was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school — the victim, investigators concluded, of a freak accident. Authorities determined 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson fell head-first while reaching for a shoe and was trapped. Almost a full day passed before his body was discovered.
The Johnsons, however, do not accept those findings. Their attorneys say authorities may have covered up evidence that someone killed the teenager. A grim post-mortem photo of his swollen, distorted face has been posted by the family on protest signs and websites to help rally support for reopening the investigation.
“My family won’t be satisfied until someone is behind bars and someone is convicted for what happened,” says Kenneth Johnson, pacing the sidewalk one afternoon as his wife sat with her sister and mother. “Going over it with common sense, how can it be an accident?”
Perhaps it’s the bizarre manner in which the teenager was found dead that leaves some disbelieving. Or lingering doubts about how police in the South treat cases involving black victims.
Johnson’s supporters won’t let his case be put to rest. But is there evidence someone killed him?
It was the morning of Jan. 11, 2013, at Lowndes High School, a sprawling campus attended by 3,000 students near the Georgia-Florida state line. Philip Pieplow’s gym class was filling out a survey. Some students sat on the bleachers in the school gymnasium, while others climbed atop a cluster of 21 wrestling and cheerleading mats standing three-deep against a wall.
The rolled-up mats stood just over 6 feet high, each measuring nearly 3 feet across. Soon students who had clambered on top of them began yelling for help. A pair of feet clad in socks could be seen inside the center hole of one mat.
“I reached (and) grabbed one of his ankles hoping for a response,” Pieplow said in a written statement included in the investigative file on Kendrick’s death. “There was none, and I knew he was lifeless at that point.”
Students began calling 911 and, within minutes, police and paramedics arrived.
At the same time, Jacquelyn Johnson was at the school asking if her son had shown up for class, guidance counselor Dana Hutchinson later told investigators. Kendrick hadn’t come home the night before.
The youngest of four children, Kendrick grew up in Valdosta. A junior at Lowndes High, Kendrick made average grades but had a knack for numbers. He kept accounts in his head of his allowances, his father says, and saved cash in stashes throughout his bedroom.
He also liked sports, having played 8th-grade basketball and football and track when he started high school. After taking a year off from team sports, Kendrick was working toward rejoining the football team, his father says.
Matthew Mark Carron, an 18-year-old former football teammate who was among the students investigators interviewed, remembered Kendrick once got into a fight with another player before a game. Carron told investigators it was the only negative thing he could remember about Kendrick.
Deputies found nothing to dispute the portrait family and friends painted of a well-liked and responsible teenager, says sheriff’s Lt. Stryde Jones, who oversaw the investigation.
Lowndes High School has dozens of security cameras watching over its hallways, entrances and parking lots. Four motion-activated cameras are posted in the gym where Kendrick was last spotted on Jan. 10, 2013.
Surveillance footage shows him entering the gym shortly after 1 p.m. and walking toward the far corner where the mats were stored. It doesn’t capture him leaving, and Kendrick never showed up for his fourth-period weight training class.
Footage released by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office fails to show what led to Kendrick’s death.
The Associated Press obtained the 522-page case file through an open records request and reviewed it, along with security camera footage and crime scene and autopsy photographs, for this story.
Three students told deputies that some classmates kept gym shoes stashed behind or beneath the gym mats. One said he and Kendrick shared a pair of Adidas shoes and that after class the student always would “go to the mats, jump up and toss the shoes inside the middle of the hole.”
When Kendrick was found, the Nike shoes he’d worn to school were tucked behind his legs inside the mat. Also on the floor was an Adidas shoe. Deputies found its match pinned beneath Kendrick’s arm and head.
Medical Examiner Maryanne Gaffney-Kraft found no wounds except for a scrape on the back of Kendrick’s right wrist and three small injuries on his right pinky. She determined he died accidentally from “positional asphyxia,” meaning his body was stuck in a position that prevented him from breathing.
Investigators concluded Kendrick fell into the mat while trying to retrieve one of his gym shoes. Nobody saw him struggling or heard him cry out, though a steady stream of students were in and out of the gym until 8 p.m.
The case was closed May 2. But to Kendrick’s family, it remained an unsolved crime.
Kenneth Johnson doesn’t say much when asked why someone might have wanted to kill his son, or who he thinks could have done it.
For those inclined to reject the official findings, the case has its share of stumbles and loose ends to fuel alternate theories.
The lack of camera footage showing Kendrick’s last moments has been seized on by family attorneys, who say they fear the footage was edited as part of a cover-up. Images from the camera pointed toward the gym mats are also blurred. School officials told investigators a basketball had knocked the camera out of focus.
Investigators also waited to call the county coroner until six hours after the body was found, though state law requires immediate notification. It was standard practice in Lowndes County to process potential crime scenes first, but that has since changed, Jones says.
“At best it was incompetence,” says Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Johnson family. “At worst it was some conspiracy to conceal the truth.”
Kendrick’s parents obtained a court order to exhume their son’s body and hired a private pathologist to perform a second autopsy. Dr. William Anderson reported finding hemorrhaging beneath the skin of Kendrick’s jaw and neck and concluded he suffered a fatal blow near his carotid artery that appeared to be “non-accidental.”
U.S. Attorney Michael Moore in Macon stepped in Oct. 31, announcing his office would review the case. Those findings have not yet been released.
Kenneth Johnson says neither he nor his wife have returned to work since that January day. He is a long-haul trucker, and she a school bus driver.
“I want the world to know what happened to Kendrick,” he says.
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Champions Report
July 24, 2015 - Twelve juniors earn victories
By Emily Greenwood, AJGA Communications
Aaron’s / Bob Estes Abilene Junior
Kyle Cox of Carrollton, Texas, shot a 10-under-par 206 to claim the victory at the Aaron's / Bob Estes Abilene Junior. The 15-year-old entered the final round two strokes back, but fired a bogey-free 4-under-par 68 with four birdies to earn his first AJGA title.
In the Girls Division, Alisa Chong of Carrollton, Texas, topped the leaderboard after shooting 6-under-par 210 at Abilene Country Club - Fairway Course. Chong, who will attend Houston Baptist University in the fall, carded three final-round birdies for her first AJGA victory.
the Memorial Junior
Erin Harper of Dublin, Ohio, shot a 2-over-par 215 to take home champions honors at the Memorial Junior. The Indiana University commit boasted eight birdies and an eagle on the tournament, carding an even-par 71 in the final round for her first AJGA win.
In the Boys Division, Daniel Wetterich of Cincinnati, Ohio, claimed the victory with a 5-over-par 218 at Ohio State University Golf Club – Scarlet Course. Wetterich, who will attend Xavier University in the fall, sank a 35-foot birdie putt in the final round to top the leaderboard and earn his second AJGA title.
AJGA Junior at Owensboro
Gavin Cohen of Tucson, Arizona, came out on top in a one-hole playoff to win the AJGA Junior at Owensboro with a 9-under-par 207. The University of Arizona verbal commit turned in six birdies for a 4-under-par 68 in the final round and his first AJGA win.
Tristyn Nowlin of Richmond, Kentucky, took home the Girls Division title with a tournament total of 2-over-par 218 at Owensboro Country Club. After two rounds of even-par 72, the University of Illinois verbal commit took sole possession of the lead and claimed her first AJGA victory with a final-round 2-over-par 74.
Davis Love III Junior Open
Emilia Migliaccio of Cary, North Carolina, shot an even-par 72 in the final round to win the Girls Division at the Davis Love III Junior Open. Migliaccio, a Wake Forest verbal commit and Rolex Junior All-American, claimed her third AJGA title with a 3-under-par 213.
Colin Kober of Southlake, Texas, shot a final-round 2-under-par 70 for the Boys Division title at Sea Island Golf Club - Plantation Course. The Baylor University verbal commit carded 15 birdies throughout the tournament for a 7-under-par 209 and his second AJGA victory in three seasons.
The Yang Foundation Junior at Yorba Linda
Chase Furey of Newport Beach, California, finished with an even-par 213 to win the Boys Division at the Yang Foundation Junior at Yorba Linda. The 16-year-old made six final-round birdies, including five consecutive on the back nine, en route to a 1-under-par 70 and his first AJGA title.
In the Girls Division, Jiyoon Jang of Rancho Mirage, California, also won her first AJGA event after shooting a 5-over-par 218 at Yorba Linda Country Club. Jang, a verbal commit to the University of California, Berkeley, finished the tournament with six birdies and a one-stroke victory.
Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy Boston Junior
Kyra Cox of South Salem, New York, notched her first AJGA win by shooting a 5-over-par 221 at Cyprian Keyes Golf Club. After two rounds of 3-over-par 75 to start the tournament, Cox carded a 1-under-par 71 with four birdies in the final round to get the Girls Division win.
Nicholas Cummings of Weston, Massachusetts, earned the Boys Division title after carding a 5-under-par 211 at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy Boston Junior. The 15-year-old recorded 11 birdies and an eagle during the tournament, shooting the low final-round 3-under-par 69 for the victory in his third AJGA event.
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How the Power of Employee Engagement Will Boost Your Business
A meaningful workplace translates to better performance
By CJ Follini
What if you could attract, retain and engage the world's best talent with purpose-driven employee engagement? And what if you could increase employee productivity while inspiring your workforce to become brand evangelists reaching millions of people with just one click?
CJ Follini
Purpose-driven employee engagement that utilizes advanced VR, AR & 360-degree video and presents a holistic strategy for an employee's emotional, spiritual, physical and professional growth needs could be the disruption that makes a difference.
BusinessDictionary.com has defined employee engagement as "the emotional connection an employee feels toward his or her employment organization, which tends to influence his or her behaviors and level of effort in work related activities." To create such an emotional connection, a company has to treat its employees as its first customer. Employee engagement can make the difference between success and failure, as disengaged employees are estimated to cost the U.S. economy billions in lost productivity, accidents, theft and turnover.
In contrast, organizations with highly engaged employees had an average 3-year revenue growth 2.3 times greater than those whose employees showed average engagement. And 79 percent of today's graduates consider a company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments when deciding where to work, according to a recent Cone Communications study. Purpose-driven content and sponsored volunteer activities have proven to be the most effective means of increasing emotional investment for employees, making the workplace more meaningful, productive and just plain irresistible.
Unfortunately, today's employee engagement landscape consists mostly of uber specialized technology platforms that while highly functional, usually don't address all of their employees' needs especially when it comes to content creation, social sharing and wellness. Thus quickest path to a successful program would be an easy to use, singular platform presenting a 360-degree offering for emotional, spiritual, physical and professional growth with meaningful content distribution and sharing, particularly immersive video. This places technology in the service of companies and society in an organic way that engages and champions the individual as they build a socially conscious, positive self esteem.
With this in mind, here are eight elements critical to really tapping into the power of employee engagement.
Content Centric
A company that provides entertaining and inspiring, yet deliberately transparent content can increase employee engagement and inclination to share positive stories about its company and its fellow employees.
Activating employees as co-creators of the corporate message in this way fortifies internal reputation and enables another way to externally represent the brand. As such, an employee engagement portal should provide one-stop content distribution from across all company channels, as well as allow for employee content creation and management within the platform.
Video in particular is the most easily consumable and shareable form of media—it represents an increasing share of digital/mobile ad spending, with growth driven by a substantial increase in mobile video allocations. The latest VR, AR, and Google 360° advanced video techniques should be implemented for any truly holistic employee engagement campaign due to its potential to dramatically improve participation rates as well as enhance goal communication and content sharing both internally and externally.
Cause Driven
If CSR causes are the core of optimizing employee engagement, then cause-driven content is more effective toward engaging employees than any other. With a singular purpose-driven portal, brands and corporations could integrate all their CSR & cause initiatives into a database that provides employees with a searchable source of causes and ideas.
Nonprofits benefit from exposure on the platform so that brands and their employees can become familiar with causes and support them if they match the brand's mission. Employees wouldn't have to worry about where to have their donations matched, or what causes their company supports, and could track their individual, group and company social impact all in one place.
Authentic storytelling through social sharing
The reach of online sharing by employees is growing as social media algorithms evolve. For example, Facebook's News Feed algorithm challenges companies to be smarter marketers and better storytellers to provide fans with content that matters to them. An individual employee sharing personally-created content deepens engagement for employees and, importantly, their social networks.
This "Inside-Out" approach starts from within—a company's talent, resources, customer relationships and distribution networks—and leverages these to reach company cause marketing goals through organic, authentic employee stories. With one-click social sharing on the platform, employees don't have to jump through hoops to get their stories out there, resulting in benefits for the business, associated nonprofits or causes and stakeholders (employees and customers).
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REST AND BE THANKFUL the beautiful album from _LINDEN, available on VINYL, CD AND DL.. . . the vinyl LP comes with a CD version.
From the shores of Loch Fyne. . .
'Sparklingly soulful… as welcome as the first true summer’s day in Argyll' ****Q
'A record with a beauty and sense of emotional elevation to match the place where it was made.' ****Mojo
‘The British Isles may contain no finer purveyor of sunshine pop than Joe McAlinden’ - Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
Having travelled to West Heath Yard in 2012 to work with Edwyn Collins and Sebastian Lewsley on Bleached Highlights, Joe decided this time he needed a rural approach and it quickly became apparent that it would be easier to make a new record at home in Argyll with the _LINDEN live band; Stuart Kidd, Eric Lindsay and Marco Rea. Joe built a makeshift studio in an old fisherman’s croft on the shores of Loch Fyne, threw some logs on the fire and set about recording Rest and be Thankful which he then sent to Edwyn and Seb via courier pigeon to mix at WHY in London. The boys reckon you can hear Argyll in the music, you can feel where Joe lives… a sonic snapshot of rural life!
. . .and the inspiration behind the album title?
Rest and be Thankful are the words inscribed on a stone near the junction of the A83 and the B828, placed there by soldiers who built the original military road in 1753. The section is so named as the climb out of Glen Croe is so long and steep at the end that it was traditional for travellers to rest at the top, and be thankful for having reached the highest point. RABT features on the album sleeve with striking artwork by Jim Lambie.
You can try before you buy and stream the album here . .
Plus, here's the official video featuring Joe and Eric on location in Argyll:
www.joemcalinden.com
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Jack Makes Giant Apology
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Round Ten's clash at Spotless Stadium between the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants and the Richmond Tigers would have been a major talking point in AFL media circles no matter the result. Richmond, struggling with a 2-6 record, found itself under massive media scrutiny all week, not only due to its ongoing poor form but also because key forward Jack Riewoldt had questioned Coach Damien Hardwick’s game plan in a press interview during the week. GWS players had been under pressure of their own, putting together a six game losing streak highlighted by a 111-point belting at the hands of the West Coast Eagles in Round Nine. To say both of these teams needed to win would be a massive understatement.
Tigers Surprise Dockers
Submitted on Wed, 07/24/2013 - 12:48 PM EDT
Fremantle flew in to Melbourne determined to continue the excellent form that had seen them win ten of their last 11 contests. Richmond was looking to beat a team above them on the Ladder for the first time this season. When the same two teams met on Fremantle’s turf earlier in the season, only one point separated them as the Dockers snatched victory in the dying seconds. The battle of fifth versus sixth certainly shaped up to be a defining game in the context of the remainder of the home and away season. A Dockers' win would have them knocking on the door of a Top Four finish and the prospect of an all important home Final. A Tigers' win would cement them well and truly in the Top Eight with only a tough run home standing between them and their first Finals appearance since 2001.
Brilliant Roos Trounce Tigers
Submitted on Tue, 07/09/2013 - 10:17 AM EDT
Richmond came into the Round 15 match against the Kangaroos aiming for a fifth successive win for the first time in 13 years. The Kangaroos were hell bent on turning around the frustrating form that had seen them lose six games by a margin of 16 points or less. For Brad Scott and his boys it was a must win game if North Melbourne were to stay in the hunt for a Finals berth. Missing from the Tiger line up was the injured Ivan Maric, while Kangaroo Lindsay Thomas had been given a self-imposed holiday for his mini head b*tt against the Giants in Round 14.
Tiger Rampage Stuns Crows
Submitted on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 8:51 PM EDT
Richmond headed to the MCG looking to climb back into the Top Eight after their Round 11 bye. The Adelaide Crows, fresh off a 77 point belting at the hands of a rampaging Sydney Swans, were keen to make amends and show the fans they were still in the hunt for a Finals berth. In the past Adelaide has had the wood over the Tigers winning six of their past eight encounters. However the return of young guns Brandon Ellis and Reece Conca had the bookmakers installing Richmond as the favorites to win over a determined Adelaide outfit.
Dreamtime Nightmare For Tigers
Off field distractions haunted both teams in the lead-up to “Dreamtime at the G”, with Essendon players continuing to be interviewed by ASADA and Tiger Alex Rance in court to face his one time acquaintance turned stalker. There were further problems on the injury front for Richmond, with young Tiger Brandon Ellis pulling out with a hamstring injury incurred at training prior to the big match.
Tigers Shut Down Power
Brook “Boris” Kilpatrick reporting from AAMI Stadium in Adelaide
Coming off three losses in a row, Richmond was desperate to arrest the slide with a win on the road against the surprisingly 5-1 Port Adelaide Power. Despite losing for the first time this season in Round 6, the Power had gained plenty of admirers after a narrow loss in Tasmania to a dogged North Melbourne outfit. If the Tigers were to cause an upset, it would be without 2012 Brownlow Medal runner-up and Captain Trent Cotchin who succumbed to knee soreness and was declared unfit for the game. Ty Vickery and Ricky Petterd were also added to an increasing Tiger injury list, while Dom Cassisi was a late out for the Power. The bookies had Port backed into firm favorites early in the week, no doubt on the back of the withdrawal of Cotchin.
Bad Bounce Turns Tigers Blue
Brook "Boris" Kilpatrick reporting for AFANA
Richmond and Carlton headed to the MCG on Saturday night desperate for a change in fortune. With the Blues sitting in 11th position and the Tigers 12th, a loss in their round 18 clash would spell curtains for any post-season aspirations in 2012. Richmond, fresh off narrow defeats to Gold Coast and North Melbourne, were searching for a win against a Carlton team that has completely dominated them over the last few seasons. The Blues were riddled with injury after being touted as premiership favorites just a couple of months earlier, their problems exacerbated by losing prime mover Chris Judd to a bizarre “tackle” against the Kangaroos in Round 17. Matthew Kreuzer and Kane Lucas returned for Carlton, while Richmond welcomed back spiritual leader Jake King from a knee injury.
Suns Eclipse Tigers
Tropical Cairns greeted a Richmond outfit with a genuine chance to lift themselves into the Top Eight with a win over a much improved Gold Coat Suns. A solid showing in Round 15 against reigning Premiers Geelong gave the Suns renewed hope that their first win of the season was just around the corner. The Tigers' hierarchy was anxious for a win in Cairns having lost the equivalent “home” game in 2011, giving rise to criticism of the three year package brokered by the Tigers to assist in funding a depleted football department. Gold Coast fans would have been well pleased to learn that in-form Tiger ruckman Ivan Maric was a late withdrawal due to groin soreness.
Tigers Bury Saints Hoodoo
Brook “Boris” Kilpatrick reporting for AFANA from Australia
In an unlikely “match of the round”, form teams St Kilda and Richmond met at Etihad Stadium in front of a pumped up Friday Night Footy crowd. The Tigers had not beaten St Kilda since 2003, though they came painfully close in the corresponding match just 12 months earlier when the game ended in a tense draw. The Saints were instilled as slight favorites with the bookmakers, in part due to the Tigers' poor form at Etihad and the aforementioned head to head record. St Kilda has been transformed into a more attacking team under new coach Scott Watters, giving the match all of the ingredients for an enthralling contest.
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Merck Foundation in partnership with the First Lady of Malawi launches a children story to teach children and youth family values of love and respect- The Story of Limbani and Takondwa
Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation and President, Merck More than A Mother with H.E. PROF. GERTRUDE MUTHARIKA, The First Lady of Malawi and Ambassador of Merck More Than a Mother during the launch of children's storybook in Malawi (1) (Source: Merck Foundation | 4 months ago)
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AGORA Centre for Market Design
Jacob K Goeree
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20. “The 1/d Law of Giving” (with M. McConnell, T. Mitchell, T. Tromp, and L. Yariv) American Economic Journal: Micro-Economics, 2(1), February 2010, 183-203.
21. “An Experimental Test of Flexible Combinatorial Spectrum Auction Formats” (with C. Brunner, C. Holt, and J. Ledyard) American Economic Journal: Micro-Economics, 2(1), February 2010, 39-57.
22. “Risky Procurement with an Insider Bidder” (with J. Boone, R. Chen, and A. Polydoro) Experimental Economics, 12(4), December 2009, 417-436.
23. “In Search of Stars: An Experimental Study of Endogenous Network Formation” (with A. Riedl and A. Ule) Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), November 2009, 445-466.
24. “Vertical Integration of Successive Monopolists: A Classroom Experiment” (with N. Badasyan, M. Hartmann, C. Holt, J. Morgan, T. Rosenblat, M. Servatka, D. Yandell) Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 5(1), Spring 2009.
25. “Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Study” (with D. Burtraw, C. Holt, E. Myers, K. Palmer, and W. Shobe) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28(4), 2009, 672-691.
26. “Optimal Privatization Using Qualifying Auctions” (with J. Boone) Economic Journal, 119, January 2009, 277-297.
27. “Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees” (with N. Ali, N. Kartik, and T. Palfrey) American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 98(2), May 2008, 181-186.
28. “Price Floors and Competition” (with M. Duwfenberg, U. Gneezy, and R. Nagel) Economic Theory, 33(1), October 2007, 211-224.
29. “Self-Correcting Information Cascades” (with R. McKelvey, T. Palfrey, and B. Rogers) Review of Economic Studies, 74(3), July 2007, 733-762.
30. “Welfare Reducing Polls” (with J. Grosser) Economic Theory, 31(1), April 2007, 51-68.
31. “Social Learning with Private and Common Values” (with B. Rogers and T. Palfrey) Economic Theory, 28(2), June 2006, 245-264.
32. “Using First-Price Auctions to Sell Heterogeneous Licenses” (with T. Offerman and A. Schram) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24, March 2006, 555-581.
33. “Regular Quantal Response Equilibrium” (with C. Holt and T. Palfrey) Experimental Economics, 8, December 2005, 347-367.
34. “How (Not) To Raise Money” (with E. Maasland, S. Onderstal, and J. Turner) Journal of Political Economy, 113(4), August 2005, 897-918.
35. “An Explanation of Anomalous Behavior in Models of Political Participation” (with C. Holt) American Political Science Review, 99(2), May 2005, 201-213.
36. “An Experimental Study of Costly Coordination” (with C. Holt) Games and Economic Behavior (special issue in honor of Richard McKelvey), 51(2), May 2005, 349-364.
37. “Experience-Based Discrimination” (with R. Fryer and C. Holt) Journal of Economic Education, 36(2), Spring 2005, 160-170.
1. “Inefficient Markets” (with J. Ledyard, P. Louis, and J. Zhang) under revision for the American Economic Review
2. “Designing Package Markets to Eliminate Exposure Risk” (with L. Lindsay)
3. “Linear Payment Rules for Combinatorial Exchanges” (with M. Bichler and V. Fux)
4. “Creating Fair Trade: Market Design and Equilibrium Selection” (with L. Lindsay)
5. “A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design” (with A. Kushnir)
6. “What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs” (with M. Agranov, J. Romero, and L. Yariv) under revision for the Journal of the European Economic Association
7. “Wise Crowds or Wise Minorities?” (with C. Brunner)
1. Quantal Response Equilibrium – A Stochastic Theory of Games (with C. A. Holt and T. R. Palfrey) Princeton University Press, June 2016, ISBN: 9780691124230.
2. Handbook of Spectrum Auction Design (with M. Bichler) Cambridge University Press, in press, to appear 2017.
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Michael Jackson: Man in a Jazz Mirror - Part I
By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU | Mondo Jazz
This week let's pay homage to the musical legacy of Michael Jackson.
It has been 10 years since Michael Jackson passed away and lots of things have emerged since then, but the popularity of his music remains strong, including among jazz musicians (the majority of the tracks featured this week was released after his passing).
If you are concerned that jazz interpretations of pop music come very close to smooth jazz, don't worry... that's not Mondo Jazz's fare and the fact that forward thinking musicians like Lester Bowie, Mal Waldron, Geri Allen, Enrico Rava, Vijay Iyer, Ran and Michael Blake or Ibrahim Maalouf have embraced the repertoire of the King of Pop should provide sufficient reassurances.
So stay tuned for 2 hours of covers played by these musicians and many more as well as a collaboration between Michael Jackson and the master of jazz organ, Jimmy Smith -under the watchful eye, of course, of Quincy Jones.
Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" Mondo Jazz Theme (Self-released) 0:00
The Hot 8 Brass Band "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" Take Cover -EP (Tru Thoughts) 0:16
Host talks 4:18
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy "Black or White" The Fire This Time (IN+OUT) 6:18
Geri Allen "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" Grand River Crossings (Motown & Motor City Inspirations) (Motema) 13:31
Ibrahim Maalouf "They Don't Care About Us" Diagnostic (Mi'ster) 15:38
Host talks 19:56
Enrico Rava "Blood on the Dance Floor" On the Dance Floor (ECM) 22:15
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox "Thriller (feat. Wayne Brady)" Jazz Me Outside, Pt. 2 (Mud Hut) 27:08
Manu Codjia Trio "Beat It" Covers (Bee Jazz) 31:06
SFJAZZ Collective "Blame It on the Boogie" The Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions (SFJAZZ)39:36
Jacob Collier "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" Live at the YouTube Space, NY (YouTube) 44:24
Ran Blake "Baby Be Mine" Indian Winter (Soul Note) 48:50
Stefano Bollani "In a Silent Way -Billie Jean -Couldn't Stand the Weather" Live from Mars -Jazz Italiano Live 2016 Vol. 2 (L'Espresso -La Repubblica) 54:01
Cover based on a file photo (AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa).
About Michael Jackson
Radio Michael Jackson Ludovico Granvassu Lester Bowie Mal Waldron Geri Allen Enrico Rava Vijay Iyer Michael Blake Ibrahim Maalouf Jimmy Smith Ben Allison Ted Nash Pyeng Threadgill Hot 8 Brass Band Scott Bradlee Manu Codjia SFJAZZ Collective Jacob Collier Ran Blake Stefano Bollani
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Canine vector-borne infections in Mauritius
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Parasites & Vectors, January 2015
Gary Lee, Jean Ignace, Ian Robertson, Peter Irwin
Canine vector-borne diseases have a worldwide distribution, but to the best of our knowledge, no research has been carried out to evaluate their presence on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. An investigation into canine vector-borne infections was conducted in dogs (n = 78) resident at an animal shelter in Port Louis, Mauritius using a combination of traditional microscopy and serological methods. Ticks were manually collected from the stray dog population for identification as well as for quantifying tick burdens. Blood was also collected from each dog via either the jugular vein or the cephalic vein, and was stored in EDTA tubes. The stored blood was then used to measure PCV values, make blood smears for the identification of parasites, and used for serological testing of vector-borne disease. A total of 178 ticks were collected from 52 dogs and identified as Rhipicephalus sanguineus (175/178) or Amblyomma variegatum (3/178). Twenty-six (33%; 95% CI 23, 45) dogs were seropositive for Ehrlichia spp., and 12 (15%; 95% CI 8, 25) for Anaplasma spp., Dirofilaria antigen was detected in 14 (18%; 95% CI 10, 28), and nine (12%; 95% CI 5, 21) dogs had Hepatozoon canis gamonts observed in blood films during microscopic examination. Eleven (14%; 95% CI 7, 24) dogs were co-infected with two pathogens. Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies were not detected in any dogs. Infection with these pathogens had no significant effect on the packed cell volume (PCV), but high tick burdens were significantly associated with the presence of a tick-borne pathogen. This is the first study of its kind on the dog population in Mauritius and demonstrates the presence of previously undocumented canine vector-borne infections on the island. The relatively high proportion of infected dogs within the study should alert clinicians to the presence of canine vector-borne diseases on the island of Mauritius.
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24 May, 2017 - 18:59 Mark Miller
Egyptologists Find 4,000-year-old Dried Heart, 50 Embalming Jars and Mummification Materials of Ancient Vizier
A team of Spanish archaeologists has discovered a large cache of embalming materials for the Vizier Ipi of ancient Egypt’s 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom, including large urns, shrouds and bandages, oils, and natron salts. The team also found the mummified heart of Ipi, who was overseer of Thebes and a member of the elite of King Amenemhat I’s court.
Historical Context of the Find
The 12 th Dynasty is considered the finest period of the Middle Kingdom, and Amenemhat I was its first pharaoh. His reign lasted for 29 years, from 1991 to 1962 BC—about 4,000 years ago. Amenemhat was not descended from royalty, and he attempted to legitimize his sovereignty by building pyramid complexes like those of the 6 th Dynasty.
The Spanish University of Alcalá team’s Middle Kingdom Theban Project, an international mission, found the 50 Nile and marl clay jars under the courtyard of his tomb. They were cleaning it when they came across the jars and other materials.
Responsible for the Horn, Hoof, Scales, and Pen: Finding Ipi, A Forgotten Vizier of Ancient Egypt
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This statue of Sehetepibre (Amenemhat I) stands at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Amenemhat was not of royal lineage, so he renewed the pyramid style of monuments to cement his place as a sovereign. ( CC-BY-2.0 Photo by Juan R. Lazaro)
Who Was Vizier Ipi?
In an article about Ipi, Ancient Origins reported in June 2016 that the administration of ancient Egypt was a complex and perfectly organized system in which there were many grades of officials: from simple scribes and copyists to the highest officials represented with similar roles as current ministers. Topping them all was the Chaty (or Taty), and answering to the pharaoh, was a figure commonly known as vizier. There were viziers as long ago as Egypt’s First Dynasty of 5,200 years ago.
As the Spanish news outlet El Mundo reported in 2016, the Vizier Ipi “was the senior official in charge of the horn, hoof, scales, and pen. Guardian of any bird that swims, flies, or walks. Supervisor of what was and was not.” However, the memory of Vizier Ipi, “the king’s only friend” who held numerous titles, seems to have been lost in the pages of history. In fact, his tomb, located on the hill of Deir el Bahari on the west bank of Luxor today, appears to be his only legacy.
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The Embalming Jars and Mummification Paraphernalia
Ahram Online reports this week that Mahmoud Afifi of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department said American Egyptologist Herbert Winlock discovered the jars in 1921 and 1922. They were in an auxiliary chamber in the upper courtyard of Ipi’s tomb, where they were left. Over time, the courtyard was buried in sand until the Spanish mission uncovered it just recently.
An embalming jar with an incision on its side, found in an auxiliary chamber underneath the upper courtyard of Vizier Ipi’s tomb monument. (Spanish Mission photo)
The jars contain the oils, salts and bandages used in mummification. They also have jars, bowls and scrapers. One of them contained a mummification board onto which ankh-signs had been carved.
“The identification of these materials is of great importance for understanding the mummification techniques used in the early Middle Kingdom and the assessment of the kinds of items, tools, and substances involved in the process of embalming,” head of the Spanish mission Antonio Morales told Ahram Online.
Professor Morales said the materials also included jars with inscriptions and what he termed potmarks. The linens included various shrouds, 4-meter (13.12-feet) sheets, shawls and rolls of bandages. The cloths included rags and slender wraps for covering Ipi’s fingers, toes and other body parts.
The identification of the vizier’s heart merits more investigation, specialist Salima Ikram told Ahram Online.
Among the finds were 300 sacks of natron salt, jar stoppers and a scraper. Some of the Nile clay and marl jars had hieratic writing, a type of script from ancient Egypt. One of the jars contained a shroud that covered Vizier Ipi’s body and a fringed shawl of 10 meters (32.8 feet). These things are among the most prized pieces of the discovery.
Some of the embalming bandages found in a chamber underneath the main part of Ipi’s tomb ( Photo courtesy of the Spanish archaeological mission)
Ahram Online reports that some of the natron bags had been deposited in Ipi’s body along with twisted bandages and small bandages for the upper and lower limbs. The newspaper reports:
The collection should provide members of the Middle Kingdom Theban Project an excellent opportunity for the scientific analysis of the substances, components, textiles, and human remains found in the embalming cache, as well as the technical procedures and religious rituals used in the mummification of a high official in the early Middle Kingdom.
It’s sort of amazing the team found all this stuff, given that the tomb’s walls and floor have completely washed away, including the old hall of worship at the end of the corridor. "Everything was covered in stone and the walls had hieroglyphic texts. It was all destroyed because it was later used as a quarry," Professor Morales lamented to El Mundo .
Top image: A worker on the Middle Kingdom Theban Project takes out an embalming jar he had just discovered among a cache of other embalming materials of the Vizier Ipi, who lived more than 4,000 years ago. ( Photo courtesy of the Spanish Mission)
By Mark Miller
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Mark is a Writer for Ancient-Origins. He has a bachelor of arts in journalism and is a former newspaper and magazine writer and copy editor who's long been interested in anthropology, mythology and ancient history. His hobbies are writing and drawing.
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Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
BBC shortchange women : Samira Ahmed wins £700,000 backpay
Hold your ire about what the Royals cost, and know that the BBC have been forced by law to hand one its presenters, Samira Ahmed, £700,000 in backpay in a discrimination equal pay case.
Ahmed (female; £440 per episode) claimed she was underpaid for hosting audience write-in show Newswatch when compared with Jeremy Vine (male; £3,000 per episode)) who earned shedloads more for hosting audience write-in show Points of View. The Beeb said he gets more because he’s more widely known and so gets picked to present a more widely-watched show.
The judgment ruled: “Her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine’s work on Points of View under section 65(1) of the Equality Act 2010… [the BBC] has not shown that the difference in pay was because of a material factor which did not involve subjecting the claimant [Ahmed] to sex discrimination”.
The BBC goes on the record: “We’ll need to consider this judgment carefully. We know tribunals are never a pleasant experience for anyone involved. We want to work together with Samira to move on in a positive way.”
Or to put it another way: the BBC made her sweat, spunked a load of cash on lawyers and then lost. And you, the licence-fee payer, funded it. Now wait for Samira’s predecessor, a man, to ask for his backpay. And the rest of us can wonder why Vine was paid so much.
Posted: 10th, January 2020 | In: Money, News, TV & Radio | Comment
Ricky Gervais stirs up Hollywood AGM in fifth season finale
For the fifth time, the big Hollywood AGM for TV types was hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais. Like all telly, the Golden Globes sticks with the familiar until even the most slack-jawed viewers can stand no more. But Gervais did his best to wake up the telegenic, well-powdered audience by telling them to get a grip and stop harping on about woke stuff.
“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” said Gervais from the podium. “You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, thank your god, and fuck off.”
Ricky Gervais kicks off The #GoldenGlobes. pic.twitter.com/ZSdqiWMudx
— NBC Entertainment (@nbc) January 6, 2020
Lots of praise all over the web about how great it is that a multi-millionaire entertainer told other multi-millionaire entertainers on a TV show that no-one gives a toss abut their views.
Ricky Gervais Does The Golden Globes Seasons 1-5 is not yet available as a box set.
Posted: 6th, January 2020 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Jeffrey Epstein: Prince Andrew on the BBC’s Newsnight looks like PR drivel
Prince Andrew has been talking to the BBC about his friendship with the not-in-the-least-bit-murdered-convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York thought it right to tell the BBC Newsnight’s show about how he did absolutely nothing wrong.
The official version of events has it that Epstein killed himself as he awaited sentencing for child-trafficking charges. Epstein, a minted pervert with friends in high places, could take it no more and ended it all. Some allege that he might have been helped along the way. But that, of course, is bunkum.
And if you want more myths, look also at Virginia Roberts (now Virginia Giuffre) who claims she was “forced to have sex with the duke three times between 1999 and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein.” Andrew says this is untrue. At the time Virginia was under-age according to Florida state’s law. Andrew says he not have sex with that woman.
Also making claims against Andrew is one Johanna Sjoberg, who alleges that the duke touched her breast while they were hanging out at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001. The duke says that too is untrue.
The BBC says its interview with the Prince at Buckingham Palace pulls no punches and leaves “no holds barred”. Really? You might suppose that if something new was revealed in the upcoming interview, the Beeb would have gone big with it. It hasn’t. The show is all. The content is meh. There is no news on the Newsnight scoop.
We might have some questions of our own. Did Andrew know the questions before sitting down with the Beeb’s journalist? Did the Palace’s PR machine not vet the interview for anything that could reflect badly on their precious client? Why the BBC and not another broadcaster? Why now? Why at the Palace and not in the studio?
But let us not be cynical. For those of you not au fait with the story, the BBC presents it thus:
In 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. Prosecutors forged a deal with Epstein in 2008, which saw him avoid federal charges. He instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on “work release” to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.
In 2010, the duke was photographed walking with Epstein in New York’s central park – two years after the financier’s first conviction. Video footage, released by the Mail on Sunday, shows the duke inside Epstein’s Manhattan mansion around the same time.
In a statement released by Buckingham Palace in August, the duke said he was “appalled” by the sex abuse claims surrounding his former friend.
The statement added: “His Royal Highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent.”
Nothing to see here – well, apart form a Prince engaging in what could be mistaken for a televised PR stunt. Move on but only after you’ve given the late-night show’s audienec figures a boost…
Posted: 15th, November 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, TV & Radio | Comment
Grange Hill can ‘save Britain’ from ‘the cult of Greta Thunberg’
Zammo’s smack addition. Roland’s weight issues. Janet’s acting. Gripper’s audition for work at the tax office. Trisha’s fringe. Children’s telly show Grange Hill never shied from tackling the weighty issues of the day. Now the Daily Star want its return to ‘save Britain’ from knife crime and bullying.
The show’s creator, Phil Redmond, is quoted:
Asked if it would tackle knife attacks, trolling, sex grooming and homophobia, he told the Radio Times: “All of them, plus Extinction Rebellion and the cult of Greta Thunberg. But underscoring them would be the root causes – self-worth, bullying, loneliness, isolation. Now, though, they’d be illustrated through the pressures of social media.”
Sounds like a riot. And if it was on Netflix and came with a free voucher for depop, the cool kids would tune in for sure. Failing that the BBC show that went out with whimper will be back to confront the big issues just as soon as hell freezes over – which it won’t so because it’s burning like the rest of the plant (source: Thurberg. G) .
Posted: 12th, November 2019 | In: News, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Why Harry and Meghan don’t love us anymore
The official photo harry
We love Harry and Maghan, don’t we? You don’t turn out in the wind and rain to wave flags and cheer for just anyone. But the heir’s former spare and his wife have fallen out of love with us. We can’t do right by them. The couple outlined their issues with the plebs in ITV’s Harry and Meghan: An African Journey. This was woe-is-me TV set against the backdrop of Africa, the go-to place for any jobbing celebs in need of a photogenic poverty backdrop.
Sure they arrived in Malawi by private jet, with platoons of staff, wardrobes of the finest schmutter, hand gels and more jewellery than a company of Namibian miners can stuff down his pants, but their location, the poor, dry Africa of Western made-for-TV audiences, is shorthand for “I feel”. If you want to look caring, a saviour in chinos, head to Africa with a film crew and crumble dust in your fingers. You can use your privilege to raise awareness for things most Africans might well care about less than you do (cheap protein; coal-fired power stations; the tabloid press; buying trees to purify private jet travel; editing Vogue; and inequality).
Away from the palaces, jets and celebrity mates, Harry and Meghan are just like the best of us. And if we were even half decent, we should ask Meghan if she is okay. If Meghan were an athlete, no end of BBC pundits and ex-pros would line up to ask her ‘How does it feel?’. But being a Duchess is tougher than running through the rain in Gateshead. And that’s not a snide comment. It’s true. There are less big game royals than there are champion British athletes (but not champion British tennis players, who are positively regal). And at that rarified level, life must be peculiar. Meghan is a new mum and a new wife living in a new country. We can all relate to her in parts. We can sympathise. One writer says Royals’ “freedom of choice about their lives is almost as constrained as a slave’s”.
It’s not them. It’s us. Maybe ITV can help? Maybe between the ads for discount supermarkets and debt, we can get to the heart of why Meghan is “existing not living”. Can posho news anchor Tom Bradby can tap a blue vein for emotion?
No worries. Tom delivered. He lowered his voice like a guest whispering at a Royal wedding (he’s been to many). ‘How do you feel?’ he asked? “Any woman when you’re pregnant you’re vulnerable,” says Meghan. “And thank you for asking, not a lot of people have asked if I’m OK.”
Why not? My hunch is it’s because most of don’t care. We’re not callous, just not bothered by what the nth in line to the throne and his misses get up to unless its gossipy or weird, preferably both. Meghan’s problem with us might be rooted in not who she married but what she married. They’re not the main event. We’d be happy to ignore them and let them get on with things – but what with all the court cases, photoshoots, TV shows and magazine work, they won’t let us…
Posted: 25th, October 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Royal Family, TV & Radio | Comment
The Making of a Steinway Piano – A Steinway & Sons Factory Tour Narrated by John Steinway
Posted: 21st, August 2019 | In: The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment
Mick Jagger dances to the theme from ‘On The Buses’ –
Mick Jagger interprets the theme from ‘On The Buses’ – by @CuriousUkTelly:
Mick Jagger does his thing to the On the Buses theme. pic.twitter.com/NcgMB5DkCI
— CuriousBritishTelly (@CuriousUkTelly) July 28, 2019
Posted: 30th, July 2019 | In: Celebrities, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
‘Destination Moon’: The best timed TV shot ever
In 1978, James Burke (born 22 December 1936) timed his piece to camera to perfection. The rocket was primed. Burke, presenter on the BBC’s Connections talked the viewers down:
'Destination Moon' – In 1978, James Burke (born 22 December 1936) timed his piece to camera to perfection: pic.twitter.com/tSCTtgleoN
— Flashbak.com (@aflashbak) July 21, 2019
Posted: 21st, July 2019 | In: Key Posts, Technology, TV & Radio | Comment
Whinefeld : The Seinfeld parody video game
It’s 30 years since Seinfeld first aired. The show branded ‘too New York, too Jewish’ defied the critics and thrived. And it spawned this, Stay Tooned!, a 1996 computer game developed by Funnybone Interactive.
Wikipedia has more:
The player takes the place of an ordinary patron living in an apartment. The player starts off simply channel-surfing with a TV remote and watching short cartoons and commercials that parody real-life shows (such as Seinfeld, which is parodied as Whinefeld). One channel even has the game’s chief programmer providing hints on how to play the upcoming game. Several cartoon characters either forbid or encourage the player to push the red button on their remote as the player surfs the channels. When the player pushes the button, the cartoons break out of the television set, steal the remote, and cause the entire apartment complex to go into animated form. The player must recover the television remote, which is the only thing that can zap the escaped toons and send them back to TV Land, the fictional toon world found within the depths of the television.
Spotter: r/ObscureMedia
Posted: 11th, July 2019 | In: Key Posts, Technology, TV & Radio | Comment
John Rhys-Davies is Adam Ant on Question Time
John ‘Prince Charming’ Rhys-Davies
For those of you missed John Rhys-Davies’s performance on the BBC’s politics as circus show Question Time last night, here is the man himself channeling the great Adam Ant. Green MP Caroline Lucas is his audience of one:
A musical commemoration of John Rhys-Davies's performance on Question Time last night, with humble apologies to Adam Ant. pic.twitter.com/klkmpYJrqP
— Rhodri Marsden (@rhodri) April 26, 2019
Oh Woman, no Cry…. Oooooh Woman!!!!! no cry:
“Oh woman have you not read Kenneth Harrow” may be the stupidest sentence ever to follow someone slamming their fists on the table pic.twitter.com/Stuz4CLutP
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 26, 2019
Note: John Rhys-Davies is (looks at web) an actor.
Posted: 26th, April 2019 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
The Future of Netflix: Competition Does Not Sleep
158 million – the number of Netflix subscribers around the world, not counting all the passwords exchanged, shared accounts, and collective visions. Netflix is the home of global entertainment, not only of movies but of TV series as well. In the first quarter of 2019, Netflix scored positively in all aspects, especially considering the growing number of new customers. However, the outlook of this streaming service does not look quite so good, as we have to take into consideration the competition.
Competition is an important and tricky topic in any sector. Customers are always testing new platforms and new products, even if they have a favourite one. This is the case not only of streaming services, but also of online casinos where players test games with no deposit bonus codes, or of new music streaming platforms, such as Spotify & Co., where fans search for their favourite artists.
The History of Netflix
Founded in 1997, Netflix’ main and original activity was the DVD and video game rental. People could book disks on the internet and receive them directly at home by mail. In 2000, Blockbuster, a leading company in the field of video rental stores, offered 50 million to buy Netflix, but the latter refused the offer and continued its own business path.
Since 2008, Netflix has activated an online streaming service on demand, accessible by subscription. This is the beginning of the challenge between the two companies. The end of the story is known, with Blockbuster declaring bankruptcy in 2010, while Netflix continues to grow exponentially.
Netflix: What now?
Netflix expects slower user growth after a strong start this year. The world’s leading online video service, which has made a name for itself with series successes such as “House of Cards” and movies like “Bird Box”, is facing a heightened competition. In addition to established rivals like Amazon or Hulu, Disney and Apple are pushing new adversaries into the booming market of Internet television. And even worse: In this critical phase, Netflix is raising prices – definitely a risky manoeuvre. But Chief Executive Reed Hastings is not afraid.
So far, there is no real reason for it. In the first quarter, Netflix had 9.6 million new subscriptions. Overall, Netflix had nearly 149 million paid memberships by the end of March 2019. However, the trend is now sinking, due also to the price increase announcements. This will noticeably slow down user growth in the current and next quarters.
For instance, Netflix announced 5 million new memberships in this current quarter, disappointing experts’ expectations. This was not a good thing for investors; for instance, the stock of the company went down. However, Netflix had a good run with a stock price increase of about 34 percent since the beginning of the year, so that the market reaction is – for now – not very meaningful. The profit of Netflix indeed climbed from 290 million to 344 million dollars in the first quarter of 2019.
Netflix: New Competitors, Fewer Users?
Nevertheless, it can not be ignored that the market environment for Netflix should be more uncomfortable in the future. With Disney and Apple new rivals – also financially very strong – that will attack the streaming market leader, the situation will not be easy. Both the Mickey Mouse group from Hollywood and the iPhone giant from the Silicon Valley recently presented competing offers that leave no doubt about their big ambitions. In addition, also WarnerMedia attacks with its renowned pay-TV channel HBO under the corporate roof of Telecom AT&T.
Netflix boss Hastings is clear about what is going on in his company but is combative. In his letter to shareholders, he described Apple and Disney as “world-class brands” against which Netflix would like to compete. Moreover, he does not expect the new counterparties to impact the growth of Netflix significantly. “We believe we’ll all continue to grow as we each invest more in content and improve our service and as consumers continue to migrate away from linear viewing,” said Hastings. The top manager had already emphasised in the past that the streaming market was big enough for several competitors.
The two-year period 2019-2020 will probably be important and decisive to define the future of the platform and in general of the use of home and personal entertainment. No one is a magician or a fortune teller, so predicting today what the impact of this increase in services will be complicated, if not impossible. The consumer is in danger of finding himself lost among so many proposals, with the difficulty of choosing what to subscribe to and for how long, trying to chase what will be the current fashion. Today is Netflix, tomorrow who knows.
Mike Kritharis
Posted: 26th, April 2019 | In: Money, TV & Radio | Comment
Brexit: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie predicted it all (video)
Brexit negotiations were written by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie:
I wonder how many of you realise that the Parliamentary speeches used today by Theresa May were actually penned 25 years ago by @stephenfry and @hughlaurie? pic.twitter.com/VIS4hesPbF
— BabelColour 🎞 (@StuartHumphryes) March 31, 2019
Meanwhile… Jacob Rees-Mogg is on Newsnight:
To the lighting people ar the BBC…… I applaud you.
*dofs hat* pic.twitter.com/cZ0z8lrHN2
— Rhea (@Morrigan_Wolfe) March 29, 2019
PS: Anyone got any tapes of Alas Smith And Jones so we can know what Tusk and Junker talk about?
Posted: 1st, April 2019 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
Comic Relief: David Lammy shamed whites into not giving
Two stories about Comic Relief, the BBC’s tired telethon. What is about the BBC that shows are celebrated chiefly for their longevity? And those presenters who go on for eons – but at least Dr Who gets to regenerate his genitalia every couple of years. Maybe it’s about institutions needing other institutions to make the mob bow to their edifices of permanency and legacy? Or maybe it’s just laziness?
The first Comic Relief story is that some Tory MPs are angry (natch.) that the fundraiser dresses to the Left. The Mail on Sunday calls it an “AD FOR CORBYN”. In which case, hard cheese, Jezza, because the Sunday Times says Comic Relief raised £8m less than last year – £63m compared with £71.3m.
The blame for less cash is apparently rooted in Labour MP David Lammy citing tin rattlers for their “white saviour” complex. When the Beeb’s pro-celeb dance champion and journalist Stacey Dooley, 32, uploaded a photo of herself posing with a young African child in Uganda she captioned it “Obsessed!”, “as if she was plugging a new face cream, not holding an unhappy Ugandan child.” Lammy saw it and tweeted: “The world does not need any more white saviours.”
The Times notes today: “Others said they had decided not to donate this year because they did not want to be accused of acting like a “white saviour”.” Nice one, Dave. Middle-class whites with spare cash will spend it on something else. What does Jess Phillips spend her money on? Farrow & Ball paint, festival tickets and Waitrose, possibly.
So how can we redistribute the world’s wealth and keep narcissistic politicians and celebs happy? Fair trade coffee, au pairs, cocaine and Filipino maids are a start. But this is about giving and who gets to give freely. We don’t tick a box declaring our race when donating money to Comic Relief, but maybe we should. In the current climate of identity politics, the State can use the data to work out which sort of people give the least and which give the most. Much fairer that way, right?
Africa’s poor will be waiting.
Posted: 17th, March 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Money, News, TV & Radio | Comment
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann: TV at its most pathetic
Netflix’s Madeleine McCann documentary was full of shocks and theories from experts in ‘Our Maddie’ Studies (OMS). So dire was the that the missing child’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, refused to take part. How can you fill an eight-part TV show if the people who knew the subject best won’t say anything new? Will eight hours of grainy footage, newspaper cuttings and speculation be enough to keep subscribers tuned in to a show without end?
The director wants “to take the viewer on the journey that the public went on”. This is what happens when you watch the X Factor too often: you realise a journey can lead nowhere.
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann opted for timeline over insight. So we get Madeleine McCann jetting off on her hols; Madeleine McCann playing on her hols; Madeleine McCann going missing on her hols; get the full glossary of OMS terms – Cuddle Cat, Tapas 7, Arguido, Amaral – and then lots of ‘Our Maddie’, and how the British child became public property and a docu-drama on pay-for-view US telly.
The single thread story spun by a voracious media was all Netflix had and it wasn’t going to bother finding anything more.
If you know what happened to her, call the police. If you want to see a crime show, watch an Agatha Christie.
Posted: 15th, March 2019 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, News, TV & Radio | Comment
Michael Jackson: beat him and burn him but don’t miss the Wacko Jacko exhibition at The Tate
Michael Jackson fan Seany O’Kane displays a message of support
No-one’s dug Michael Jackson up and beaten the corpse with sticks. Nor have they set his remains alight – and given his latter-years’ waxy appearance, stuck a wick in his head and let him burn so that all the living can see what we do to dead stars accused of molesting children and getting away with it. For now we’ll have to make do with burning Wacko Jacko’s memorabilia, which is what anyone who tuned into HBO’s four-hour-long documentary Leaving Neverland saw as the closing credits rolled. Before we got to the burning pyre of branded Jackson merchandises, we heard the harrowing and credible testimonies of Wade Robson and James Safechuck. The two claim that they were abused as children by Michael Jackson.
But unless Jackson begins to speak and justice can grind and arrive at some incorruptible truth, facts are hard to ascertain, and people will take sides and turn hideous, grim alleged crimes into a shouting match.
All we have is a spark of light in the darkness that is soon extinguished, leaving us to flounder in search of its source. Maybe the next spark will alight on a new angle and flash us glimpses of different propositions, thing to stir our hunches and armchair investigations based on prejudice, righteousness, caprice and schadenfreude? After all, as Tim Black notes, “Robson was convincing and credible in 2005, when he took to the stand in defence of Jackson, over allegations of child molestation. And then he was not facing the sympathetic director of Leaving Neverland, Dan Reed, but fearsome prosecution attorney Tom Sneddon.” But that’s child abusers for you: they know their quarry are easily scared.
So what are you going to do with your Michael Jackson clobber and records? It’s not as if he sang about paedophilia and promoted it as a lifestyle choice. The music and videos were wildly entertaining. Can you ignore the man and delight in their product?
Last year, the Tate exhibited the work of English artist Edward Burne-Jones (28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898). The brochure says he “brought imaginary worlds to life in awe-inspiring paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries”. You can see his work at the National Portrait Gallery. When not making worthy art, Eddie was busy being a virulent anti-Semite. His Jew hatred was “blatant and repulsive“. And what of Phil Spector? He murdered a woman. You can hear his records on the radio and buy the house where the crime took place.
Patience, Jackson diehards. Your hero will rise again. The smart investor will be buying up Jackson’s oeuvre and old tour jackets while prices plummet. One day they’ll put on a show at the Tate and that stuff will be worth a bomb.
Posted: 11th, March 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News, TV & Radio | Comment
Biased BBC: John McDonnell is Fleabag on BBC News
More questions over the dreaded mainstream media’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn and his comrades after last night’s BBC News at Ten used an image of shadow chancellor John McDonnell to trail a TV show called Fleabag during a segment on Brexit.
Fleabag is about an angry, confused young woman living in London. As anyone knows, John McDonnell as with Corbyn, is an angry and confused man living in London. Although Labour abhors gender labelling, so McDonnell might well be angry and confused woman living in London after all.
John McDonnell is 68.
Posted: 11th, March 2019 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
Stacey Dooley grandstanding for Comic Relief is celebrity colonialism for a good cause
Stacey Dooley: putting Uganda on the map
Labour MP David Lammy says “the world does not need any more white saviours”. He’s taken offence at the picture Stacey Dooley posted on instagram (see above) of her trip to Uganda with BBC’s Comic Relief.
Think not of the grandstanding, but of the good causes it helps.
“The image is a perpetual image of people who are impoverished, who need white celebrities”
Labour MP @DavidLammy says Comic Relief must stop promoting tired stereotypes, following an image of Stacey Dooley in Uganda#VictoriaLIVE pic.twitter.com/NsQbMbCRAp
— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) February 28, 2019
Lammy says “the image she wants to promote is her as heroine and black child as victim”. When she told him he could always go there himself, he replied: “This isn’t personal and I don’t question your good motives.” Which is precisely the opposite of what he did.
Previously in celebrity colonialism:
Previously at the Labour Party conference:
Fact: The West knows best.
Posted: 28th, February 2019 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
‘Jihadi’ Jack Letts misses his mum and wants to come home to the UK
Jack The Bad / Jack the Sad / Jack the Dad
White Briton, dad of one and Islam convert ‘Jihadi’ Jack Letts wants to leave the Kurdish prison he’s called home for the past two years and come home to the UK. In no particular order, he wants to see his mum, watch Dr Who and eat pasties.
Jack Letts is the the 23-year-old from Oxford accused of travelling to Syria to fight for Islamic State, the group that murders children in Manchester, rapes Christian women and chucks homosexuals from tall buildings. The YPG have charged him with being a member of ISIS.
Letts has been talking with ITV News:
“If the UK accepted me then I’d go back to the UK, it’s my home. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. I miss people mostly. I miss my mum. I know that sounds a bit toddler-ish. Even if I could just see my mum – I would just like a phone call, I don’t know if Britain can do that for me here, but I’d like just a phone call to my mum – it’s been two years.”
If not the UK, then Letts can head to Canada – he holds a Canadian passport thanks to his father’s nationality.
Back home in Oxford, mum and dad, Sally Lane and John Letts, are to be tried for sending money to their son. They deny three charges of funding terrorism. They insist their boy went to Syria to help refugees. On the FreeJackLetts blog, they write:
“…we too dream of the day when we will see him again, wrap our arms around him, and convince him that – despite his claim that ‘the world hates me without even knowing me’ – he will again be treated like a human being and not like the media-created monster he has been made out to be.”
Letts’ chat comes as the UK media form a queue to speak with Shamima Begum, the Briton who joined ISIS and has had her British citizenship revoked. You wonder who’s next in the hot seat? Do foreign journalists interview their fellow nationals held in UK prisons? And does it help to get your story widely known before any court case?
Human rights champion Nadia Murad was sold into sexual slavery by ISIS. She escaped, seeking and gayning asylum in Germany in 2015. She wants justice for Yazidi men and women. Upon becoming a Nobel laureate, she said:
“We must work together with determination — so that genocidal campaigns will not only fail, but lead to accountability for the perpetrators. Survivors deserve justice. And a safe and secure pathway home.”
Isn’t it time we heard more from the victims?
Posted: 22nd, February 2019 | In: News, TV & Radio | Comment
Gemma Collins seeks spiritual advice from Kerry Katona
Who better for Gemma Collins to turn to for spiritual advice than Kerry Katona, former Queen of ITV’s I’m A Celebrity jungle and long billed in the tabloid press as “troubled”? Kerry is the women who had her cosmetic surgery televised and was once so hard up, she was forced to sell her parrot to buy Tampax.
Collins, 38, currently between injuries in ITV’s Dancing On Ice is “seeking help from crystal-loving Kerry Katona”. That’s an unfortunate or conniving play on words by the Mail, given Kerry’s battles with drugs – and crystal is a shorthand for crystal meth. The People reminds readers that Katona is an “ex-addict” whose nadir – or at least one of them – was being filmed taking coke a caper that led to her getting sacked by Iceland (the frozen food store and not the nation). In any case, Collins wants help calming down not speeding up. A source arrives to explain all:
“It sounds a bit woo and wacky, but Kerry’s obsessed with meditating and yoga and it’s helped her so much with her stress and anxiety. Kerry has been choosing crystals she thinks will help Gemma cope with the pressures of Dancing on Ice and all the diva accusations she’s had.”
Anorak advices Collins choose the homophonous Krsytle Carrington, who was always ice cool in a crisis, save for when Alexis pushed her too far and she resorted to fisticuffs.
PS: Cynics will point out that Katona and Collins have have the same agent. This in no way diminishes from the truth of this story.
Posted: 10th, February 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Love Island winner Jack Fincham: being famous gets you drugs and booze
Jack Fincham, winner of TV’s Love Island, and Mr Dani Dayer, wants to talk about “My coke shame”. But before the shame, the sympathetic back story. The Sun, which leads with the news of Fincham’s drug taking, tells us he “caved in” to the “temptation” of “regularly being offered drugs in the wake of his TV triumph”. Other reality TV shows offer less mind-blowing prizes. But that’s showbiz.
Jack, 27, tells us: “I’ve made a terrible error.” And ..? Well, why are you telling us, Jack? Are you getting in first before an expose hits the papers? Is the Sun now an extension of the therapy industries – “If you want a sympathetic ear and a chance to talk, call 0800 Snort ‘n’ Tell (You’re amongst friends!”)?
There are two more pages of Fincham to browse. And we note that he’s “dreading telling hardman Danny Dyer about his cocaine shame”. Danny is, of course, Dani’s homophonous dad, the EastEnders actor.
But surely Danny will understand how “dangerous elements of the showbiz scenes” can pull young noses towards an incidental table in an Kent hotel. Says Jack: “Since winning the show I’ve been offered cocaine a lot”, plus “free drinks” and a chance to appear in another reality TV show. Yes, that’s right, Jack’s shame trails the TV show The Full Monty, named in honour of the film in which a group of down-on-their-luck men from the impoverished provinces turn to the skin trade to earn a few quid and fame. Showbiz, eh. The top prize used to be car.
Posted: 5th, February 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Bros find success in failure – 1980s band enjoy fame after documentary ridicule
The answer to the stuttering refrain “When will I, will I be famous?” was simple: when you’re shaggable, have pop star hair and write a catchy tune the promoters love. Now Bros, who asked the question in 1987, have triggered a new answer to it: when nostalgia bites and you become the nation’s pet thickos. And so it is that after a documentary brought them to back to the fore, Surrey-born Matt and Luke Goss – the other part of the original Bros band, Craig Logan, is busy – have announced they will be performing a comeback show in London.
For those of you missed the Decembeer 2017 BBC documentary Bros: After The Screaming Stops, here are a few choice cuts:
The lovely irony is that the documentary followed twins Matt and Luke as they reunited ahead of their ill-fated 2017 tour. Showing us failure has resulted in success.
And you too can be famous – just as soon as “you’ve read Karl Marx
/ And you’ve taught yourself to dance.”
Posted: 14th, January 2019 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Music, News, TV & Radio | Comment
Jeremy Corbyn completes his EastEnders audition
Jeremy Corbyn is on Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning politics show. If body language matters – and surely it does – the Labour leader’s habit of tilting his head and looking up does him few favours.
In 2008, actor Chris Coghill was hired to play Tony King on EastEnders. His character would become one of the most reviled in the history of British soap operas. How did he manage to look shifty and disingenuous. Coghill explained: “I’ve always been able to turn on the sinister look. Sid Owen said to me that all I had to do was tilt my head down and look up and it’s there.”
Jeremy Corbyn says vote for him and he’ll let you know what his Brexit plans are.
Posted: 13th, January 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
Bob Einstein tells a funny and a revolting joke
Bob Einstein has died aged 76. Best known for playing Marty Funkhouser in Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Einstein is seen here telling a joke at a show Q&A.
Want to hear a joke? pic.twitter.com/wyYlSntXst
— William Mullally (@whmullally) January 3, 2019
And this – which is “revolting” and is very NSFW:
Goodbye Bob Einstein (aka Marty Funkhouser) and thank you for this joke. “I like that guy.” pic.twitter.com/dmOJDx4CT4
— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) January 2, 2019
Here he is pulling over Liberace for playing too fast. Einstein is Officer Judy, the character who made his debut by lip-syncing to a Judy Collins record.
And not forgetting Super Dave:
Bob Einstein – November 20, 1942 – January 2, 2019.
Posted: 7th, January 2019 | In: Celebrities, News, TV & Radio | Comment
The Marion Stokes Archive: 33 years of 24-hour live news TV
In 1979 Marion Stokes flipped the record button on her VCR and began recording live television. She continued to record live telly for over 33 years. She only stopped when she died. Matt Wolf wants to show us more of the Stokes Archive:
Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today.
The whole shebang is being hosted by The Internet Archive but we can’t find any. But this Tumblr has a few stills from the Stokes tapes.
Spotter: Kottke and Flashbak
Posted: 5th, January 2019 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Inbetweeners are back for a 10th anniversary special
After the yellow Fiat Cinquecento – The Yellow Peril – sank in 2010, The Inbetweeners headed off for films in Magaluf and Australia. But now the car and the foursome are back in suburbia for a tenth anniversary, two-hour TV special. Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas are back. Let’s hope none of them are ill, and nothing’s deeper than Jay’s box of bedside tissues. At what point does teenage humiliation turn into something darker and more depressing?
Posted: 10th, December 2018 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
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The Empire Must Die
Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900 - 1917
By: Mikhail Zygar
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Categories: History, European
All the Kremlin's Men
Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Narrated by: Dan Woren
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted - if not controlled - by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself.
The House of Government
A Saga of the Russian Revolution
By: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
By: Orlando Figes
Narrated by: Malk Williams
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero - these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of the era documents the Julio-Claudian women whose bloodline, ambition, and ruthlessness made it possible for the emperors' line to continue. Eminent scholar Guy de la Bedoyere, author of Praetorian, asserts that the women behind the scenes - including Livia, Octavia, and the elder and younger Agrippina - were the true backbone of the dynasty.
Russia in Flames
War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
By: Laura Engelstein
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster."
The Code of Putinism
By: Brian D. Taylor
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book examines how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also the set of emotions and habits that influence how Putin and his close allies view the world. While some observers portray Putin as either a cold-blooded pragmatist or a strident Russian nationalist, Taylor provides a more nuanced and compelling interpretation of Putin's motives and actions.
The window between two equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the communists - was open only briefly, in the last couple of years of the 19th century until the end of WWI, by which time the revolution was in full fury.
From the last years of Tolstoy until the death of the Tsar and his family, however, Russia experimented with liberalism and cultural openness. In Europe, the Ballet Russe was the height of chic. Novelists and playwrights blossomed, political ideas were swapped in coffee houses, and St. Petersburg felt briefly like Vienna or Paris. The state, however, couldn't tolerate such experimentation against the backdrop of a catastrophic war and a failing economy. The autocrats moved in and the liberals were overwhelmed. This story seems to have strangely prescient echoes of the present.
©2017 Mikhail Zygar (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Simon Vance is excellent
Very good book excellent narration, well written and recommended for those interested in Russian history.
An excellent look at an interesting history.
A documentary format, if you will, through old diary and other forms to look on those interesting and dark days. Narration by Simon Vance is excellent as always, a narrator I love to hear, among many others, American and British.
Jason Close
This was a decent history book.
This book was done well. It has a good ratio of data-to-anecdote. Your won't get lost in the weeds too much with repetitive listing of dates and people, but that info is included where relevant.
It will give you a good grounding on how the stage was set for the Communist regime of early 20th century.
OMG This Is Boring
I have listened intently to many long audio books about history, things that would make other people fall asleep at the wheel. I love them. But this is a boring book. It has the occasional interest tidbit. But waiting for those is agonizing. I really wanted to like it.
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Chapter Titles from Kindle
An excellent & very interesting account of the Russian Revolution & the atmosphere of the late Russian empire written by a distinguished contemporary Russian, Mikhail Zygar, one of the many experts interviewed in the Putin Files, available on youtube. Beware though, this book is unavoidably complicated! Here are chapter titles from the printed book. Sadly Audible doesnt provide them. And there are several audio chapters per actual chapter.
Ch. 1 Leo Tolstoy becomes a symbol of the fight against the regime and the main ideologist of the opposition
Ch. 2 Sergei Witte fails to stop Russia from invading China and seizing Beijing
Ch. 3 Jews go on the war path: Mikhail Gotz and Gregory Gershuni create the most powerful opposition party in Russia
Ch. 4 Liberals come into fashion: Peter Struve and Pavel Milyukov become the most popular politicians in the country
Ch. 5 Empress Alexandra and Dowager Empress Maria argue over who will be mistress of the palace and of Russia
Ch. 6 Russia gets a new leader of popular protest: his name is Georgy Gapon
Ch. 7 Black-Hundreder Alexander Dubrovin creates the first Russian party of the state, and oppositioner Maxim Gorky asks the West to stop funding Russia
Ch. 8 Pyotr Stolypin and Dmitriy Trepov suggest two different ways of reforming Russia
Ch. 9 Art fan Sergei Diaghilev and religious fanatic Sergei Trufanov (Iliodor) try to stay independent from the state and even use it to their advantage
Ch. 10 Millionaires Alexander Guchkov and Pavel Ryabushinsky try to engage big business in managing the country
Ch. 11 Grigory Rasputin becomes the most powerful kleptocrat and the most hated pacifist in Russia
Ch. 12 There is a second leader of popular protest in Russia: his name is Alexander Kerensky
Ch. 13 Irakli Tsereteli tries to turn Russia into a parliamentary democracy and Vladimir Lenin stands in his way
Ch. 14 Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev don’t wish for a Bolshevik revolt anymore, since they believe it to be completely unnecessary
This is a superbly dynamic retelling of the years leading up to the October Revolution. As a historian I was wary of how a journalist might use the sources. I couldn't have been more wrong. His researches and interpretation have produced a vivid, exciting, and truly memorable illumination of the time by focusing on the personal experiences of many of the main characters directly involved in how the changing pattern of events played out.
Fantastic story, tough listen
This is a really interesting and important story about a true turning point in history. The narrator does a good work but as a audio book it's kind of a tough bite to chew. Loads of names, places and other things, mainly of Russian origin, made it (for me) sometimes hard to follow all the, albeit interesting, characters and story arch's.
Boy Thorne
Worthwhile listen.
An excellent and broad account of the Tsarist collapse, the individual events that unfolded around it and the contributing factors toward it. Lots of involvement from many key players helps to build quite a story which is well worth the listen.
Leonard Turton
Wide Ranging
Better than the old song Lenin Bolshevik Romanov narrow band Revolution history... There was a wider landscape... a lot more people and many more incidents than we are generally told about. Much appreciated.
Charles Palmer
superb, a hugely important contribution
to the history of the world's worst man made catastrophe. for the last 30 years I have been a scholar of Russian history and this book contextualized the most extraordinary event.
doubly relevant today, when the evil of Bolshevism appears to have been consciously forgotten.
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1570 The Complications of Orpheus
2018 SOLD for $ 275K including premium
The English word 'clock', from Latin clocca, is an onomatopoeia. By gradually improving its robustness and accuracy, this alarm instrument replaced the sundial. At the end of the 16th century, complications appeared.
A group of twelve gilt metal horizontal astronomical table clocks have many characteristics in common including a relief frieze on the theme of Orpheus and Eurydice charming animals from Europe and Africa. They appear as a hybrid between clock and astrolabe for offering a universal measurement of time.
The clock itself has three hands. One of them makes a 24 hours rotation indicated as a double 12 when the marks are accompanied by numerals. The other two hands run the solar minutes and the lunar time. Depending the specimens, it strikes hours or quarters.
In the following of the astrolabes, a planisphere engraved with reference lines enables to determine the unequal hour which is the division into twelve intervals of the time between sunrise and sunset, varying according to the rhythm of the seasons and to the longitude. Other indications apply to planets and zodiac, not missing also the annual calendar, the day of the week and the Italian time. The bottom plate is removable to access the mechanism.
A 23 cm diameter specimen, well preserved although several components have been modified or changed, was sold for £ 260K including premium by Christie's on July 5, 2002. The catalog explained that its attribution to South Germany around 1570 was linked to the Nuremberg engravings that served as models for Orpheus' images and to a mark punched on two other pieces of the group that also appears on a clock of another type at Stuttgart Castle.
The best preserved Orpheus clock surfaced in 2007. It is estimated $ 250K for sale by Bonhams in New York on December 6, lot 68. Its dimensions are almost identical to the specimen above. Its two bells ring hours and quarters.
#SaleUpdate: A highly important South German quarter striking astronomical table #clock from the group known as "The Orpheus Clocks",
circa 1570, sold for $275,000 inc. premium in today's Art of Time sale in New York https://t.co/0BaBwiBosb pic.twitter.com/RLhadHL5Yp
— Bonhams (@bonhams1793) December 6, 2018
The Art of Time sale in NY on Dec. 6 is led by a highly important astronomical table #clock, from the group known as "The Orpheus Clocks". While no two of the clocks are identical, all share a finely cast frieze depicting the legend of Orpheus & Euridice. https://t.co/i3lSVadOE1 pic.twitter.com/PMie6RLXLN
— Bonhams (@bonhams1793) November 21, 2018
1663-1670 Pioneers of the Pendulum Clock
2013 SOLD 460 K£ including premium
The invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens in 1656 revolutionized the accuracy of the time measurement. Easy to make, the new instrument had all the qualities to become immensely popular.
The craftsmen of London managed very quickly to operate specialized workshops. It is generally accepted that the first of these pioneers was Ahasuerus Fromanteel. Two types are available: the table clock and the longcase clock.
On July 9 at Bonhams in London, a table clock signed by Samuel Knibb in London is estimated £ 200K.
Only five clocks are known by this master, and no anonymous instrument can be attributed to him because of the similarity of his production with that of Fromanteel. The clock for sale was made after his arrival in London in 1663 and before 1670 as no later activity of Samuel Knibb has been identified.
Joseph Knibb, who was a younger cousin of Samuel, was his apprentice before 1663. He will be the most outstanding clockmaker in London at the end of his century and his production is abundant.
George Daniels, who was the best connoisseur of antique clocks, appreciated the work of Joseph Knibb. At the auction of his collection at Sotheby's on November 6, 2012, two table clocks were sold respectively £ 1.27 million and 340K including premium.
In the same sale, a longcase clock made about 1685 also by Joseph Knibb had not been sold, probably due to a rebuild of the case. It is listed again, now with a reasonable estimate of £ 40K, at Sotheby's in London on July 10. Here is the link to the catalog.
POST SALE COMMENTS
Excellent result at Bonhams, £ 460K including premium. The mysterious Samuel Knibb enters the short list of major clockmakers.
The clock from the Daniels collection was sold for £ 84K including premium by Sotheby's.
I invite you to play the video shared by Bonhams on YouTube to introduce the clock of Samuel Knibb:
1665-1667 The Clockmaker of Oxford
PRE SALE DISCUSSION
The invention in 1656 of the pendulum clock by Huygens immediately interested the craftsmen of London. It takes the simple form of a cubic box or of a tall furniture in two bodies named longcase clock that may include a longer pendulum.
In the very beginning, it is difficult to distinguish a particular style distinguishing the production of a specific workshop. Fortunately many of them were signed : Samuel Knibb, or Ahasuerus or Johannes Fromanteel, or Edward East. A table clock signed by Samuel Knibb was sold for £ 460K including premium by Bonhams on July 9, 2013.
Samuel Knibb started his business in Newport Pagnell, where he apprenticed his cousin Joseph Knibb. The movings of Samuel to London and of Joseph to Oxford seem simultaneous, in 1662 or 1663.
On March 11 at Donnington Priory in Berkshire, a grandfather clock 1.90m high signed by Joseph Knibb in Oxford is estimated £ 80K by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury, lot 143 in the catalog shared here on LiveAuctioneers platform. This piece directly influenced by the clocks of London was made between 1665 and 1667.
Joseph Knibb moved in his turn to London in 1670, certainly to succeed Samuel. Joseph then left his Oxford business to his younger brother John. The pieces made by Joseph in London are the masterpieces of old English clocks. Aluxurious table clock from the Daniels collection was sold for £ 1.27 million including premium by Sotheby's on November 6, 2012.
POST SALE COMMENT
This very early pendulum clock was sold for £ 287K including premium, much over its estimate.
1677 The Grandfather Escapement
2012 SOLD 1.27 M£ including premium
The use of oscillating pendulums in instruments for measuring time was invented by Christiaan Huygens in the late 1650s. The English will be the pioneers in the manufacture of these pendulum clocks.
Not only it was one of the most useful of all inventions but also, by raising the skills of the mechanical craftsmen, it was certainly a key to the start of the industrial revolution.
Joseph Knibb, who worked in London since 1670, was one of those masters of the time. Skilled clockmaker, he was a precursor and perhaps one of the inventors of the anchor escapement, a basic accessory designed to ensure the isochrony of the pendulum as a function of the deflection angle.
Back to the beginnings of his career. The horological collection of the watchmaker George Daniels, which will be dispersed on November 6 in London by Sotheby's, includes two clocks made by Joseph Knibb, in ebony, with Roman numerals on the dial.
The most luxurious, dated 1677, has the shape already usual in his time of the table clock, a cube with a handle. It is estimated £ 600K.
The other, made around 1685, is a longcase clock, or in a more familiar wording, a grandfather clock. This type of model is an early easy approach to improve the accuracy thanks to the lengthening of the pendulum. It is estimated £ 200K.
Here is already the link to the announcement of the sale.
Here are the links to the catalogue for the table clock and for the longcase clock.
Clocks made by Joseph Knibb were the stars of the George Daniels collection of ancient clocks.
The table clock discussed above was sold £ 1.27 million, and another less luxurious example reached £ 340K. The grandfather clock has not been sold.
Among other makers, let us mention at £ 300K a table clock made around 1697 by Thomas Tompion.
These results include premium.
1693 A Little Clock for Queen Mary
2019 SOLD for £ 1.93M including premium
Established in London since 1671, Thomas Tompion became the best English manufacturer of clocks and watches by the accuracy of his mechanisms, the choice of the best materials and the employment of the best workers. He belongs to the second generation of pendulum clock manufacturers. Sponsored by Robert Hooke, he certainly benefited from the experience of the pioneering Oxford clockmakers.
Aware of the quality of his production, Tompion numbered his instruments, an exceptional practice in his time for a manufactured product. He mixes in a single serialization list the table clocks and the long case clocks. His clocks have a long autonomy. His grande sonnerie pieces offer a repetition of quarters over a long duration.
From 1692 or 1693 Tompion improves the elegance of his design with his Phase Two which includes the cushion dome, the thistle bud handle, the bellflower keyhole and the operation of the mechanism from the front face.
The master seems more interested in standardization than in miniaturization. Nevertheless Number 215 appears as the first of a small series of Phase Two table clocks with a total height of 28 cm including the raised handle. It was sold for £ 170K including premium by Bonhams on December 13, 2011.
Number 222, made especially for Queen Mary II in 1693 and known as the Q Clock, is the smallest clock ever made by Tompion with an ebony case. It is 20 cm high overall with the handle raised. It offers the quarter repetition and an autonomy of eight days.
Re-assembled in 1949 by a collector with its original movement, the Q Clock was sold for £ 440K including premium by Christie's on June 30, 1993. It will be sold by Bonhams in London on June 19, lot 103. The May 20 press release is announcing for this silver mounted royal clock an estimate in excess of £ 2M. A modern replica is joined to the lot.
Please watch the video shared by the auction house.
We are delighted to announce that one of the most valuable clocks ever to appear at auction, The King William & Queen Mary Royal Tompion, will star in The Clive Collection of Exceptional Clocks in London on 19 June.https://t.co/6ufWtyi4Ax pic.twitter.com/ROoThd69zu
— Bonhams (@bonhams1793) May 20, 2019
1698 A Longcase Clock by Thomas Tompion
Thomas Tompion is considered the most important English watchmaker. Wikipedia tells us that he manufactured about 650 clocks and 5500 watches. His workshop was in London. He was one of very few watchmakers who were admitted to the Royal Society, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
All of his clocks were numbered. The serial number 301 comes up for sale at Christie's in London on June 4. It is 2.27 m high with a walnut case and dates from around 1698 (then William and Mary). It has an autonomy of one month.
The estimate is 200 K £. In its catalog, Christie's provides three higher results for pieces of similar models. The most expensive, sold in September 2004 for 520 K £ including expenses, had a royal provenance. A visit to their archives allowed me to view a regulator sold 620 K £ including fees in July 2003.
The clock remained at its lower estimate. It was sold 240 K £ including premium. I had seen in the catalog that this serial number 301 was a bit (a very little bit) simplified in its decor compared to usual models.
1740 Tall case clock by Peter Stretch in Philadelphia
2004 SOLD for $ 1.7M including premium by Sotheby's
Link to catalogue.
1755 The Workshops of Newport
2018 SOLD for $ 610K including premium
In Boston, Newport, Philadelphia or Providence, the wealthy New England paterfamilias are fond of luxury furniture to demonstrate their social importance. Dynasties of craftsmen perform this work in local styles. The tall case clocks with complications are technical feats that add to the prestige of their owners.
In October 2004 Sotheby's sold for $ 1.7M including premium a clock made around 1740 by Peter Stretch in Philadelphia. The catalog does not indicate any complication but insists on the magnificence of its 2.73 m high mahogany case.
At the same time the families of cabinetmakers Townsend and Goddard have their workshops in the Quaker district of Newport. They develop for their high quality furniture the Block and Shell decoration which is certainly also imitated by their local competitors and becomes the signature feature of the furniture from that city.
The clockmaker William Claggett was established near Townsend and Goddard. He died in 1749. James Wady who was his apprentice and son-in-law continued his clock models for a few years and died in 1759. Thomas Claggett, son of William, in turn rented a shop in 1755 to make similar clocks.
Wady's activity as a shop owner appears as brief, perhaps only the time to settle the estate of William Claggett who was deemed a bad payer. Towards the end of his career Wady adds the phases of the moon above the main dial and improves the readability of the sub-dial of seconds and of his signature, allowing now to classify in four chronological groups his nine surviving clocks.
A 2.35 m high clock from the third group with a mahogany block and shell case attributed to one of the Townsends was sold for $ 670K including premium by Christie's in January 2002.
A clock of similar size and design but from the last group was sold for $ 440K including premium by Christie's in New York on January 21, 2000. It is estimated beyond $ 200K in the same auction room on January 19, lot 159. It includes a very rare complication which was favored in Newport, the time of the tides.
The Hunter-Dunn family Chippendale plum-pudding mahogany block-and-shell tall-case clock, dial signed by James Wady (d. 1759), Newport, 1750-59, is estimated to sell for $200,000/300,000 at @ChristiesInc https://t.co/3BpgTNgq7R #antiques #Americana #antique #auction #clocks pic.twitter.com/xpzO1f6NhG
— Maine Antique Digest (@AntiqueDigest) December 27, 2017
Wishing everyone celebrating a very Happy New Year as clocks strike midnight across the globe tonight. This Hunter-Dunn tall-case clock is a highlight of our Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver sale in #NewYork. Pictured in full here: https://t.co/GnyExfteEd pic.twitter.com/C1swrR6ZXT
— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) December 31, 2017
1766 A Flat Desk with its Clock of Cartonnier
2015 SOLD for € 2.22M including premium
Philippe-Claude Montigny is a cabinetmaker at the end of the reign of Louis XV. Cousin of René Dubois, he is also an occasional collaborator to Etienne Levasseur who is at that time the skilled successor of Boulle. The large bureau plat in the style of Boulle naturally becomes one of his specialties.
All accessories are designed for writing: drawers and pull in the desk, black leathered top and the very tall serre papier now named cartonnier or filing cabinet which is surmounted by a clock.
The desks stamped by Montigny are rare. One of them is estimated € 2M for sale by Christie's in Paris on November 4, lot 510. It retained its matching cartonnier with its original clock as they were described in the inventory of the estate of a former intendant of Louis XVI in 1795. Two period écritoires are joined to complete the equipment.
The desk is adorned with a leafy garland in antiquisant style 'à la grecque' which was fashionable in the early 1760s. It certainly dates from the very beginning of the accession to the maîtrise by Montigny in 1766. The sets of furniture of this period in which desk, cabinet and clock were never separated are of extreme rarity.
I invite you to watch the video shared by Christie's.
1766 Exuberance of George III Timepieces
On 12 December 2012, Bonhams sold for £ 385K including premium a clock that had belonged to the collection of King Farouk. Here is the link to their catalog. It is now for sale at Christie's. I repeat below my previous article after changing the information related to the sale:
The clockmakers of London were once the best in the world. In the mid-eighteenth century, James Cox was one of those who maintained this tradition. The Swiss will soon become their main competitors thanks to the progress started by Jaquet-Droz.
The best clocks made by Cox are works of art, with the heavy figuration so appreciated at that time including volutes, animals and masks. A musical clock is estimated £ 150K, for sale by Christie's in London on July 4. Here is the link to the catalog.
With an overall height of 37 cm, this piece dated 1766 is a three-body composition mounted on four high legs terminating on full elephants. It is in gilt bronze adorned with agate panels on the lower chest.
The main dial, at the top, is still surmounted by a winged dragon in silver perched on an urn. The intermediate level offers two dials, one of the main face for the phases of the moon, and the other on the back. The piece retains its original key.
The Qianlong emperor had a predilection for European clocks, and Cox is one of the leading English watchmakers who have exported to China, probably later in his career.
Sold for £ 480K including premium, the clock realized a good gain in less than seven months.
1770-1773 French Rotating Spheres
2015 SOLD for £ 600K including premium
From the early eighteenth century, the best English and French clockmakers develop mechanisms simulating the movements of the planets. These instruments are named orrery clocks in England.
The Enlightenment fosters the scientific precision. In addition to the technical achievement already in combination with multiple complications, very competent astronomers such as Lalande and Cassini adjust the astronomical tables and mathematicians like Camus position their gears and wheels.
At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, Jean Pigeon realizes a moving sphere clock on the principle of Copernicus and publishes his invention in 1714. The astronomical clock by Passemant is presented in 1749 at the Royal Academy of Sciences and is used to set the official time of the kingdom. It is kept at Versailles.
The Prince of Conti had little skill in politics but became the greatest collector of his time. Resolutely dismissing the academies and corporations, he commissioned around 1770 the most complex astronomical clock of his time. The clockmaking is made by Mabille and the spheres by Baffert, certainly before 1773 which is the date of bankruptcy of the latter.
The clock displays all the possible elements for measuring time and a beautiful dial for the position of the moon. Extended to the outer planets, the planetary includes six rotating spheres with the highest scientific accuracy. It also marks ecliptic, solstices, equinoxes and zodiac.
Janvier, who had this piece in hand after the Révolution, noted that it is better than Passemant's clock by the accuracy of its annual rotation because it incorporates the calculations published by Camus in 1749.
The planetary clock of the Prince de Conti is estimated £ 600K for sale by Christie's in London on July 9, lot 9.
Prince de Conti's Planetary clock — the 18th century equivalent of the best of Silicon Valley http://t.co/Ssoz70EO2r pic.twitter.com/93nzHxPAIX
— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) May 26, 2015
ca 1774 Régulateur de Parquet by Berthoud
1999 SOLD for £ 1.93M including premium by Christie's
Mechanical Craft ca 1800
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Empowering Teen Authors & Teen Publishers
Projeto do capítulo Chicago, IL criado por Jennifer Steele
The Revolving Door Arts Teen Chapbook series publishes the creative writing of teens at the manuscript level. We are currently working with four Chicago teen poets to produce their first print and online publications in the form of chapbooks. This series includes peer-to-peer support and manuscript alongside mentor support of established writers.
We believe that the creative arts remain an integral part of our society and that young people are critical to its sustainability and evolution. We also believe that creative workforce development can provide young creatives with new forms of exposure to sustainable, life-long careers in the arts.
For this reason, we have a vision to grow this initiative into a teen-driven publishing house where teens are given the space to professionally produce teen creative work in fiction, poetry, memoir, essay, and more. Our youth publishing house will give teens an opportunity to serve as editors, graphic and layout designers, and PR personas as they curate, collaborate, produce, and promote small collections of creative writing by their peers. This will be the first teen-driven publishing house within the United States.
Financiado pelo capítulo Chicago, IL (January 2017)
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☕Good Monday morning. Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 1,187 words ... 4½ minutes.
⚡Situational awareness: PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim.
The FBI is operating on the assumption the attack was an act of terrorism.
1 big thing: Biden on stuttering, Hunter, Pete
Photo: "Axios on HBO"
Joe Biden told me during an interview in Storm Lake, Iowa, for "Axios on HBO" that stuttering isn't to blame for a string of his verbal mistakes during the 2020 campaign.
"I don't think of myself as continuing to stutter," the former vice president said. "That doesn't cross my mind ... Look, the mistakes I make are mistakes. And some people think I still stutter. I don't think of myself that way."
A reporter for The Atlantic who stutters wrote recently that he studied Biden miscues and concluded that lifelong stuttering struggles were to blame.
Asked whether he wants to get to the bottom of the work that his son, Hunter, did in Ukraine, Biden said: "No. Because I trust my son." (Video.)
Elizabeth Warren would be on his list of potential VPs. He said it's important to find "someone who has your confidence and you have their confidence." (Video.)
Biden cited a lack of experience in communities of color as a reason Pete Buttigieg might be struggling with black voters. (Video.)
The former V.P. doesn't think Mike Bloomberg will catch on with Democratic voters: "What is he bringing in? What's he adding to the race?"
2. What Iowans want
Joe Biden at Water's Edge Nature Center in Algona, Iowa. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Rural Iowans who met Joe Biden during his weeklong bus tour say they want a nominee who works with Republicans — and they aren't fixated on impeachment or liberal proposals like the Green New Deal, Axios' Alexi McCammond reports from Cedar Rapids.
Why it matters: These voters' views validate Biden's argument that Democrats nationally aren't as liberal as on Twitter or as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — but also foreshadow liabilities for him versus others in the moderate lane.
Many potential Biden backers also spoke positively about Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.
After his last event on Friday — where he ended by passing out pizza to his local volunteers and staff in Decorah — Biden talked with a small group of reporters on his bus, emphasizing compromise.
"If I win, and Lindsey [Graham] is still there, I promise you we'll be able to work things out," Biden said.
When Axios asked whether he thinks the Republican Party will revert to what he knew it to be pre-Trump whenever a new president is elected, Biden said: "Nothing's going to snap back" because "we're in a totally different world."
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3. ⚖️ Articles of impeachment expected this week
Judiciary Committee's impeachment report in 1974, and 45 years later. Screenshot via MSNBC
The House is rapidly headed toward the real work of impeachment this week, with articles expected to be introduced and voted on in the House Judiciary Committee, AP's Mary Clare Jalonick reports.
If the Judiciary panel approves articles by Friday, as is expected, that would set up a final impeachment vote in the days before Christmas.
Judiciary holds a hearing today (network coverage begins 9 a.m. ET) to hear evidence from the House Intelligence Committee, which investigated President Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
Republican members of the Judiciary and Intel committees met last night for an intense prep session, Axios' Alayna Treene reports.
4. Secret history: Officials systematically misled us on Afghanistan
A U.S. Marine takes up a fighting position during the start of Operation Khanjari in Main Poshteh, Afghanistan, in 2009. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
"A confidential trove of government documents obtained by the Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign," Craig Whitlock writes.
They made "rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable."
"[P]eople who were directly involved in the war could not shake their doubts about the strategy and mission, even as Presidents Bush, Obama and ... Trump told the American people it was necessary to keep fighting," the Post reports.
"After a three-year legal battle, the Post obtained notes and transcripts, as well as several audio recordings, from more than 400 of the interviews and compiled them into a comprehensive database."
Go deeper ... "The Afghanistan papers: A secret history of the war."
5. 🇨🇳 Beijing pushes out foreign computers
"Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, in a potential blow to the likes of HP, Dell and Microsoft," the Financial Times reports (subscription).
Why it matters: "The move is part of a broader campaign to increase China’s reliance on home-made technologies, and is likely to fuel concerns of 'decoupling,' with supply chains between the U.S. and China being severed."
6. Rudy's role in impeachment
Rudy Giuliani meets with Ukrainian lawmaker Adriii Derkach in Kyiv on Thursday. Photo: Adriii Derkach's press office via AP
Within one minute of each other last night, the N.Y. Times and WashPost dropped big heaves on Rudy Giuliani's role in impeachment.
N.Y. Times, "The Indispensable Man" (5 bylines):
Without Mr. Giuliani’s push for money and frank yearning for relevance, the Trump Ukrainian initiative might never have amounted to much more than presidential tweetstorms. Mr. Giuliani compressed the digital gases of the president’s suspicions and wishful theories into what is now the molten core of impeachment.
WashPost, "Giuliani’s two hats: Influencer-for-hire, policy force" (4 bylines):
Giuliani has bragged to ... Trump allies that he has made millions of dollars since the president took office ...
White House aides fear Giuliani has used his role as the president’s lawyer to promote the interests of private clients, fretting that they do not know who he represents ... His conversations with Trump are protected by attorney-client privilege, meaning even Trump's closest aides are not briefed on what they discuss.
🥊 Maggie Haberman, a co-author of the Times opus, tweeted: "Giuliani's friends are pained that the last three years are what he is going to be remembered for more than his time as mayor in the '90s."
7. Poll finds impeachment helping Trump in Mich., Penn., Wis.
Graphic: Firehouse Strategies
Quarterly polling by the Republican firm Firehouse Strategies, with Optimus, had President Trump struggling in the mega-battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But in the new edition, he beats every Democrat.
Firehouse partner Alex Conant tells me: "Democrats racing towards impeachment are at serious risk of leaving behind the voters they need to retake the White House next year."
8. First look: Mike Bloomberg's climate week
Bloomberg in Phoenix on Nov. 26. Photo: Rick Scuteri/AP
Mike Bloomberg today will announce a climate week that kicks off with the campaign's first ad on climate change.
It's an online-only spot in California that's called "Smoke and Fire." It calls President Trump "the climate denier," in contrast with Bloomberg's battles with the coal industry.
Tomorrow, Bloomberg will speak at the UN climate conference in Madrid, where he will deliver an update from America’s Pledge, a group (which he co-chairs) that quantifies climate progress of 4,000 cities, states and businesses.
On Wednesday, Bloomberg will travel to California to announce policies to curtail the region's record wildfires.
9. The carbon footprints of the rich and activist
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: John Lamparski, Inga Kjer, Michael Buckner, Neilson Barnard via Getty Images
Axios' Amy Harder explored the travel and consumption habits of some of the world's leading voices on climate change for her "Harder Line" column.
Greta Thunberg eschews activities emitting a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, most notably flying and eating meat, and sailed to and from Europe for climate talks on carbon-free boats.
Bill Gates, who owns a private jet and loves hamburgers but has invested heavily in clean-energy technologies, told Harder in an interview over the summer: "I don’t think there is anyone doing more [on climate], but if there is, congratulations to whoever that is."
10. 🏈 1 bowl thing
College Football Playoff final regular-season top 25. Graphic: College Football Playoff
Fun fact: Twelve of the 26 first-year coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision are taking their teams to bowls, AP reports in its Bowl Notebook:
Ohio State's Ryan Day is among six first-year coaches at bowl-bound Power Five schools.
His unbeaten Buckeyes, the No. 2 seed in the College Football Playoff, play #3 Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., in prime time on Dec. 28.
The other semifinal match: No. 1 LSU (13-0) vs. No. 4 Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, four hours before the Fiesta Bowl kicks off.
The championship is Jan. 13 in New Orleans.
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42. Jäger-Division
Published: 17 November 2011 17 November 2011
Last Updated: 15 June 2013 15 June 2013
The 42. Jäger-Division was formed on 22 December 1943 in Croatia from the 187. Reserve-Division. After taking part in Operation “Margarethe”, the military occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the division returned to Yugoslavia in May and then transferred to Italy two months later. It surrendered to the British forces near Belluno in northern Italy in April 1945.
This unit took part in anti-partisan operations in Croatia.
Generalleutnant Josef Brauner von Haydringen (1 Jan 1944 - 26 Apr 1944)
Generalleutnant Walter Jost (26 Apr 1944 - 24 Apr 1945)
Operations Officers (Ia)
Oberstleutnant Otto Mitlacher (5 Mar 1944 - 15 Sep 1944)
Major Georg von Mangelsdorff (15 Sep 1944 – 1945)
Croatia (Jan 1944 - Mar 1944)
Hungary (Mar 1944 - May 1944)
Yugoslavia (May 1944 - July 1944)
Italy (July 1944 - Apr 1945)
Holders of high awards
Holders of the German Cross in Gold (3)
- Jäger, Franz, 04.09.1944, Oberfähnrich, 6./Jäg.Rgt. 25
- Markhart, Anton, 30.12.1944, Oberfeldwebel, 13./Jäg.Rgt. 40
- Schmidt, Georg, 04.09.1944, Leutnant, 6./Jäg.Rgt. 25
Holders of the Knight's Cross (1)
- Kainz, Karl 31.01.1945 Hauptmann d.R. Chef 11./Jäg.Rgt 25
Order of battle (1944)
Jäger-Regiment 25
Aufklärungs-Abteilung 142
Artillerie-Regiment 142
Pionier-Bataillon 142
Panzerjäger-Kompanie 142 (1)
Gebirgs-Flak-Kompanie 142
Nachrichten-Abteilung 142
Feldersatz-Bataillon 142
Versorgungseinheiten 142
Heer Jäger Sleeve Badge
(Courtesy of The Ruptured Duck)
1. Panzerjäger-Abteilung 142 was formed in January 1945 by the amalgamation of Panzerjäger-Kompanie 142 and Gebirgs-Flak-Kompanie 142.
Georg Tessin - Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht 1933-1945
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Fostering Quotes
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
Love, Inspirational, Family
"'Blind Side' Story's Real-Life Happy Ending: Super Bowl Victory". abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2013.
71 Copy quote
The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
Inspirational, Happiness, Smile
Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.67, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
126 Copy quote
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
Eliot Porter
Photography, Strong, Race
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.
Beauty, Stars, Law
People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.
Wendy Kopp
Perseverance, Teacher, Real
Source: www.economist.com
You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.
Ideas, Want, Environment
"Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Talk THIS IS THE END". Interview with Jason Gorber, screenanarchy.com. June 5, 2013.
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.
Strong, Children, Independent
Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.
Lewis M. Branscomb
Technology, Should Have, Issues
"Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1993.
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.
Ideas, Pennies, Affection
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.
Kindness, Omission, Self
Robert Southey (2006). “Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.
Alan Cooper
Dream, Memories, Heart
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.
Middle East, Election Results, Want
YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English "/"Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal - 05 Mar 08 - Pt. 1", www.youtube.com. March 06, 2008.
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.
David Roediger
Kids, Color, Europe
Source: www.counterpunch.org
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.
Cities, Humanity, Today
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
Fall, Creativity, Independence
Source: www.publicanthropology.org
What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.
Children, Animal, Self
In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.
Creativity, Independence, Fields
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals, educators, youth and other concerned citizens can play in fostering a reawakening of America's battered public memories.
Memories, Fighting, Artist
Source: www.truth-out.org
I am not saying that government has nothing to offer. Government has an important role in fostering an environment conducive to business creation while also protecting its citizens. These are not mutually exclusive.
Sher Valenzuela
Government, Important, Roles
By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
Agency, Aliens, Robust
John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.19, Read Books Ltd
To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare organizations around the world, and by signing petitions, starting your own campaigns, rescuing and fostering animals, organizing cleanups, recycling, volunteering at your local animal shelter, going to eco-tourist destinations or photo safaris. This will help get the word out to the masses, and hopefully, this will bring more awareness and more compassion to animal welfare.
Animal, Compassion, Media
There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.
Sex, Kids, Years
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.
Community, Realizing, Ethical
Source: www.3ammagazine.com
Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.
Gary Goodyear
Jobs, Home, Ideas
Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.
Broken, Community, Police
James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.138, American Enterprise Institute
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist
Barack Obama 44th U.S. President
Mark Twain Author
Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of the United States
Oscar Wilde Writer
Mahatma Gandhi Civil rights leader
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist
Marilyn Monroe Actress
George Bernard Shaw Playwright
William Shakespeare Poet
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Thursday 12th January at Banquet Records, Under 18s, 6:00pm
Ahead of their 18+ show at New Slang, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes play a stripped-back show for under 18s in the shop.
Frank's played Kingston in various guises over the years, but after the anger of Gallows and the party of Pure Love, this seems like the middle ground of the two, under his own name. The new album, Modern Ruin is out the following week and this will kick off the year in style. One thing we're sure of, Frank has never put on anything but an amazing show!
CD/LP and ticket combos are available from £9.
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes Thursday 12th January at Banquet Records, Under 18s, 6:00pm
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'Towards the immeasurable Perhaps!'
Wilhelm Morgner. Painting 1910–1913
12 October 2014 – 1 February 2015
“a spring-like promise”
Theodor Däubler
Wilhelm Morgner (1891–1917) was an exceptional talent. Self-taught and unresting, at barely 20 years of age he took part in exhibitions at the Neue Sezession in Berlin, the Blauer Reiter in Munich and the Sonderbund in Cologne, and is today considered the main figure of Westphalian expressionism.
Morgner's astonishing development was abruptly ended by the First World War – his painterly work, which came about in only four years and mostly in large formats, traces remarkable motivic and stylistic arcs between tradition and avant-garde, figuration and abstraction, Vincent van Gogh and Keith Haring. This presentation of Morgner in Hamburg – the first outside Westphalia for almost 25 years – follows the stormy ups and downs in which Morgner pressed ahead with his art. Alongside impressive paintings from the Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus in Soest, the exhibition also includes a selection of self-portrait drawings. These too show the young artist as an uncompromising seeker.
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In a obituary to his fallen friend, the writer Theodor Däubler described Morgner's development as a path 'towards the immeasurable Perhaps!' and his work as 'spring-like promise': a potential to be discovered.
The exhibition is accompanied by a richy illustrated catalogue (96 pages, German, hardcover).
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Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition 2017 dazzles Melbourne
Monday 14 August, 2017: The Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition (TBDC), part of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, was held at Melbourne’s Federation Square over the weekend with Bollywood celebrity judges and dance performances from 22 dance groups.
This year Telstra live-streamed the event for the first time ever, over Australia’s best mobile network.
Anthony Shiner, Executive Director, Telstra Digital said Telstra was thrilled to be able to livestream the event so more fans could join in from around the world.
“Telstra’s mobile network is making it easier for Bollywood fans in Australia to connect to the content they love.”
Celebrity judges included Bollywood actress, dancer and model Malaika Arora, Bollywood director Karan Johar (known as KJo) and award-winning actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The winners who each received $1,000 prizes courtesy of Telstra were:
Telstra’s People Choice Award Winner – Adelaide Agni
Pre-Teens Dance Winner – JJ Group
Adult Dance Winner – Ranjhe Bhangra
When asked what he would do with the prize money from Telstra, a member of JJ Group promised that he would buy ‘sensible things’, much to the crowd’s amusement and delight.
Malaika Arora said, “I can really see that the Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition competitors have grown in confidence and skill this year. Everyone is doing a fantastic job. It is undoubtedly this love that draws me back to Melbourne year after year. I want to say to Telstra – dance is the best form of expression. It is like body language.”
Mr Shiner said it was an honour for Telstra to support the Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition for the fifth year in a row.
“This year, we were particularly impressed with the talent of dance performers and excited that Telstra could join in the magic of Bollywood by supporting this event,” he said.
During this year’s TBDC, over 3,500 SMS votes were cast and, courtesy of Telstra, one lucky SMS voter was picked from the crowd to meet celebrity judge Malaika Arora. The winner also won a Telstra TV and will be able to stream their favourite entertainment to the big screen, including premium South Asian content provider YUPPTV, using a Telstra internet connection.
Other notable appearances included veteran Bollywood actress Simi Garewal, director, producer and actor Satish Kaushik and His Excellency, Dr A. M. Gondane, the Indian High Commissioner to Australia, and City of Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle AC among others.
The Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition features dance performers wearing vibrant colours and traditional South Asian and Bollywood inspired costumes, captivating the audiences. Competitors were judged on choreography, technique, costumes, music and props.
Dancers from across the country do battle on stage across a range of categories and age groups.
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For more information, please visit: https://www.telstra.com.au/
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Book 3 in the Skin Kadash Series
The Skin Kadash Series:
A young woman flees abuse; a teen runaway hides a dark secret; an ex-cop chases his own past. All three converge at the harrowing end of a trail of violence stretching from the high desert to the streets of Portland.
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Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, her trail dogged by a brutal ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law.
In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long unsolved murder. Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and working the angles in the homeless underground, oblivious to the unfolding events which will force him to face the consequences of a crime, and a longing, which has haunted him for years.
These disparate trails converge at a bloody standoff, the harrowing end of a string of violence which stretches from the high desert to the streets of Portland.
Day One combines philosophical first person wit with a spider web of a plot. It is an utterly engrossing page-turner, but you’ll force yourself to slow down, just so you don’t miss any of Bill Cameron’s crackerjack writing. A reluctant hero, a damsel in distress, a kid with a secret, plenty of Oregon references, and oh, lots and lots of murder. What more could anyone want?
As usual, Cameron takes us on a dark ride through uncharted territory — a journey that leaves us both satisfied and begging for more
ROBERT GREGORY BROWNE
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In the year-end edition of the Portland Mercury, Gabe Barber of Reading Local selects Day One as one of the best books of 2010.
Vancouver Voice: “The body count is positively Shakespearean, but in Cameron’s vision of P-town’s dark underbelly, love really is strong as death. Maybe stronger.”
Phil Hanson: “dark, gritty, compelling thriller.”
The Portland Mercury says, “Cameron’s ability to paint visuals—especially the seedier streets of Portland and the dark underbelly of its neighborhoods—is laudable.’
Barbara Tom says, “Cameron has invented a novel filled with complex plotting and writing that is both tough and lyrical.”
Library Journal‘s verdict: “Readers will get caught up in this thriller’s various plot threads, which will lead them to a sad yet satisfying conclusion.”
Booklist says, “Unrelievedly bleak and gritty yet thoroughly compelling.”
Publishers Weekly says, “The characters’ operatically intense passions are powerful.”
Ryan Pfeil of the Klamath Falls Herald & News writes about Day One and its southern Oregon settings.
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You’ll fall in love with Menorca when you watch the sunset at Son Bou
Son Bou is Menorca’s longest beach at 2.5 km with fine white sand on a wide stretch of beach overlooking the Mediterranean sea and a marsh area at the back which is teeming with fauna and flora. At the end of the beach lies the unspoiled Atalis bay, with one of the most beautiful sunsets in Menorca. Fancy spending a day with sunshine, sea and history? And finishing off with a stunning natural show while sitting quietly at a beach bar and wiggling your toes in the sand?
You really should stop at the entrance to the beach as, before you get to the wooden walkway, you’ll see and hear the ducks and other water fowl as they dip in the little strip of fresh water trickling down from Prat de Son Bou wetland. In the winter and on stormy days, this stretch of water runs into the sea and splits the beach.
Son Bou, the longest beach in Menorca
El Prat is one of the most important wetland areas in Menorca after Albufera de Es Grau lagoon. This is where the streams run down from the ravines Son Boter and Es Bec. Soaring cliffs of white rock with and tumbling green vegetation form part of this lovely natural landscape. With about 80 hectares of land where rice was cultivated 80 years ago, and now comprises a natural and safe habitat for hundreds of birds.
The dunes which separate these wetlands from the beach keep them in good condition and no one should walk on them so that they are preserved. You probably know that it the dunes that help to stabilise the sand on the beaches and stop them being swept away.
There are all facilities available on Son Bou beach: showers, toilets, rental of sunbeds, sunshades, pedalos, canoes... there’s also a water park, lifeguards and some great beach bars where you can have a drink or a snack.
Defence tower at the unspoiled Atalis bay
If you turn right and walk along the shore you’ll see that it gradually gets less crowded as you reach the little bay of Atalis with its gorgeous clear water. This a very quiet beach as not many people go there, but walking along the shore and letting the water lap at your feet is simply perfect first thing in the morning.
Beside Atalis is Punta Rodona, a small penninsula where the remains of an old defence tower can be seen. All that is left is the lower section, as the rest was destroyed by an English frigate in 1808. From here you can join the Camí de Cavalls old bridle path and walk on to Sant Tomàs beach.
The 80 m cliffs of Cap de Ses Penyes separate the Eastern side of the beach, right at the other end from Atalis. Close to here you will find the remains of a paleo-Christian basilica, one of the oldest religious building in Menorca. It was built in 5th century by the first Christians to live on the island, but only the remains are left as when the Norses, who arrived 300 years later, set fire to it.
The mystery of the submerged city in the sea at Son Bou
There are some very interesting stories about this part of Son Bou. They say that there was a small city called Sa Canessia there, which was flooded by the sea but whose remains can still be seen on the sea bed.
Some marine archaeologists say that they have seen columns and streets made from huge rectangular rocks. And, from the air, they say that about 300 metres from the beach at a depth of 15 metres, these remains can be seen.
Even the famous ocean researcher, Commander Cousteau, moored his boat Calypso in Son Bou to view this submerged city which is evidenced, according to Menorcan archaeologists such as Josep Mascaró Pasarius, by writings from the 18th century that refer to it.
Nobody knows who lived there or how it sank. It’s one of Menorca’s own special mysteries.
A sunset to make you fall in love with Menorca
It is from the paleo-Christian basilica at Son Bou that you start to see how the sun drops to the horizon. The light intensifies the colours of both sky and sea. How about dinner at a beach bar while you watch the sunset?
The closest one to the basílica is Es Corb Marí, where everyone recommends the irresistible tuna ceviche, sobrassada croquettes and Mahón cheese, apart from some other delicious gastronomic dishes from Menorca.
The place is just perfect. Listen to the sound of the sea along with the gentle live music played at night while you delight in one of the most incredible natural sights: the sunset. It changes every day, and you’re lost for words while witnessing the harmony of colours until it grows dark. Is there any better way to finish a great day off?
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Infertility is a problem of rising prevalence, affecting around one in seven couples, with male factors contributing to approximately half of all cases.
These problems are becoming more prevalent in the UK due to couples trying for a baby later; fertility problems are if anything more important in the developing world, due to social stigma, lack of access to treatment, and may appear as an unintended side effect of important efforts to provide women with the means to control their fertility.
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Despite the prevalence of male factor problems, treatment options directed at sperm factors are very limited, and diagnostics are generally limited to manual counting, resulting in a reliance on invasive, expensive and often ineffective treatments focused on the female partner, such as IVF and ICSI (intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection).
The job of a sperm is complex, requiring navigation, a marathon journey to the egg, and delivery of a healthy and intact cargo of DNA, which will form half the genetic material of every cell of the resulting baby.
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To improve diagnosis of sperm problems and to support the development and monitoring of novel therapies based on lifestyle changes and supplementation, we need to bring 21st Century technology to the fertility clinic.
This University of Birmingham project is led by Professor Dave Smith, Professor of Applied Mathematics, with fertility expert Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown. It is funded by EPSRC through a Healthcare Technologies Challenge Award and supported by the Centre for Human Reproductive Science at Birmingham Women's Hospital, of which Dr Kirkman-Brown the scientific lead, is developing a new approach to fertility treatment based on high-speed digital imaging, using mathematical algorithms to analyse and interpret the movement and shape of cells, and integration of patient data.
The ultimate goal is a diagnostic approach to support better treatment decisions and healthier sperm, improving conception rates and leading to the birth of healthy babies.
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‘She’s already dead fam’ – horrific moment women is dragged by car in Halesowen
Nikkita Leigh-Gayle has released photos of her injuries
A brave woman who was dragged along the road by a car during a serious assault has released shocking images of her injuries in a bid to trace the thug responsible.
Nikkita Leigh-Gayle has told Black Country Live that she suffered cuts to her face, hands and legs during the brutal and unprovoked attack in Birmingham Road, Halesowen, on Friday, July 19.
The victim claims that the suspect grabbed her jumper and dragged her along the road after intervening with an argument between a group of men at around 12am.
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Nikkita Leigh-Gayle has released photos of her injuries.
She posted on social media: “I was a victim of a hit and run. Not only did they hit me whilst I was walking, I was grabbed by my jumper and dragged whilst the car was reversing.
“All that goes through my mind is what were their intentions to take them with me?
“Thank you god for the parked car a bit behind them, as they ended up crashing into that, which made them panic and let me go.
“I’m in so much shock and agony – I can’t even go into detail.
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Nikkita Leigh-Gayle.
“I can’t believe you still came back at me with the vehicle after saying ‘she’s already dead fam,’ please make sure your children are safe.
“Heartbroken to see how my sons are looking at me this morning.”
Medics and police were called to the scene and she was taken to hospital for further treatment, a spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police added: “Police are investigating after a woman was seriously assaulted on Birmingham Road, Halesowen, shortly after midnight this morning (July 19).
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“It is believed an argument took place between a group of people and a woman tried to intervene. A car approached and a man grabbed the woman, dragging her along in his car before colliding with a parked car and letting her go.
“Fortunately she was not seriously injured.”
Woman ‘left for dead’ after being dragged down Birmingham Road in Halesowen by car
Anyone with information can contact us via Live Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am and midnight, call 101 anytime or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Quoting crime reference number 20DY/171102T/19.
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The 15 most popular Harry Potter filming locations and tourist sites in UK
Uber has released the top 15 destinations its users visit associated with the wizarding phenomenon
Liam Beard
You may spend your evening reading one to your little one, or otherwise have heart-warming memories of queuing outside Waterstones at midnight for the latest release.
And, whatever your memories of Harry Potter are, you will be hard pressed to find somebody who has not been touched by the novels in some way.
The phenomenon and universe gripped the world for more than a decade, thrilling millions of literature lovers and helping spark a passion in many a youngster.
And now Uber has released the top 15 destinations its users visit associated with the wizarding phenomenon.
To celebrate Harry Potter's birthday on July 31, the taxi company has revealed a quarter of a million taxi journeys were made to tourist sites to get a slice of the magic.
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The trips are popular with customers from New York, Los Angeles and Paris as they revel in the spots where their favourite fantasy world came to life, reports Wales Online .
While some locations are where filming took place, other locations include spots where writer JK Rowling wrote the novels and also the official studio tour.
Customers can actually choose to put Platform Nine-and-three-quarters as their location on Uber and it appears many users have as it is the most visited attraction.
Coming in second place is the official studio tour and then Leadenhall Market in London in which Diagon Alley scenes were filmed.
The top 15 most-visited Harry Potter sites
1 - Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross London
2 - Official Studio Tour, Leavesden
3 - Leadenhall Market, London (Diagon Alley)
4 - London Zoo (Where Harry speaks in Parseltongue to the snake in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
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5 - Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh (Where JK Rowling finished the last Potter novel)
6 - Durham Cathedral, Durham (Hogwarts scenes)
7 - Claremont Square, London (Grimmauld Place)
8 - Spoon Cafe, Edinburgh (Where JK Rowling penned the first novel)
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9 - Gloucester Cathedral (Gryffindor Common Room)
10 - Alnwick Castle, Northumberland (Madame Hooch’s flying lesson)
11 - Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire (Hogwarts’ interiors, including Professor Snape’s classroom)
12 - Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (Scenes in Deathly Hallows: Part 1 where the trio hide in the forest while chasing horcruxes)
13 - Bodleian Library, Oxford (Where the students learnt to dance for the ball, and the restricted section of the Hogwarts Library)
14 - Christ Church College, Oxford (The inspiration for the Grand Hall)
15 - Hardwick Hall, Nottingham (Malfoy Mansion)
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13 Best Free Audio Editing Software (DAW) for Beginners in 2019
If you have a passion for creating music and are just starting out in your music composition journey, you will need a good audio editing software or a Digital audio workstation(DAW) to showcase your talent to the world. To accomplish that, you might have to buy some very expensive professional studio DAWs available on the market. Fret not, even if you are short on money you can still create some awesome tunes by grabbing the best free audio editing software or audio editor for recording and mixing music similar to costly professional studio DAWs without spending a dime.
So, what’s the best audio editing software for beginners, you ask? Well, there’s a wide array of DAWs available out there that market themselves as the best free DAW software, or lay claim to being the best affordable audio editing software for beginners. How do you know which ones are good and which ones should be given a miss?
Knowing your predicament, we have compiled a list of the best audio editing software for beginners like you across platforms(Windows/Mac/Linux). So, are you ready to find out the best free audio editing software for beginners to create some wondrous tunes that will be cherished by music lovers? Here’s our roundup:
Note You can download them all because they are free!
The Best Free Audio Editing Software for Beginners in 2019
1) Tracktion 6 (Windows/Mac/Linux) [Overall Best DAW for beginners]
This DAW was released as a free audio editing software in 2016 exclusively for Behringer Customers, but is now absolutely free for everyone. With a swift audio editing and mix workflow, Tracktion 6 should keep the ears of most audiophiles satisfied.
Moreover, Tracktion 6 is compatible with most VST plugins (Virtual Instruments) and boasts a very fine and streamlined user interface. What makes it one of the best free audio editing software? Tracktion 6 is available for Mac, Windows and Linux for free and users can take advantage of features such as: Warp Time audio editing, Z-Plane’s Elastique Pro time stretch algorithm, and its nifty time correction tool kit.
Tracktion 6 has more highlight features under its belt that make it one of the best audio editing software for beginners, namely: an enhanced plugin management system, tape-style start/stop effects, dedicated sub-mix and automation tracks, and a robust audio compiling tool.
2) GarageBand (Mac) [Best affordable audio editing software for Mac]
GarageBand is a fully equipped audio editing software for beginners that comes pre-installed in Mac with a sound library replete of a dazzling array of VST and AU(Audio Unit) plugins, presets for guitar and voice, as well as a full-fledged selection of session drummer loops and percussion samples.
GarageBand has a gamut of guitar amp cabs from the 60’s to modern metal if you are into guitar-based music production. Also, it provides multi-track recording so layering your guitars would be a walk in the park. Plus, GarageBand comes with plenty of preset loops for various instruments ranging from keyboards to guitars as well.
It consistently ranks high in various best audio editing software for beginners lists thanks to a sleek and intuitive user interface and great touch bar features for Mac. Total novices in audio recording and editing needn’t fret about music production with GarageBand because it provides a very easy way to learn, create, record, and share your musical masterpieces worldwide.
However, GarageBand lacks the incredible depth of Apple Logic Pro X which typically suits professionals. But the good news for beginners is that GarageBand is still a brilliant DAW to play around and craft melodies with, plus it is absolutely FREE!
3) Audacity (Windows, Mac and Linux) [Best DAW for Voiceover Recording]
What would a list of best free audio editing software be without Audacity? For those of you still not in the loop, Audacity is an open-source free program that is all about basic audio editing/recording. If someone ever asked you what is the best audio editing software for beginners available on the market for voiceover/speech recording, tell them about Audacity.
Despite its lack of features and a basic design, Audacity is massively popular. You can create multi-track recordings, and add effects ranging from removing noise, stretching time, correcting pitch, changing key, or even create some basic dubstep loops with a bit of tweaking around.
However Audacity suffers from drawbacks aplenty such as: lack of in-built VSTs, compatibility issues with most third-party VSTs and its destructive editing style wherein effects once applied are permanent, all of which make it a pretty basic DAW.
4) OcenAudio (Windows, Mac and Linux) [Best DAW with the cleanest UI]
OcenAudio is a very new and simple audio editor with a colourful and clean user interface. The interesting bit about it is that it’s more fast and lightweight compared to Audacity. OcenAudio also comes bundled with a barrage of effects including reverb, compression and EQ all of which can be applied and tweaked in real-time.
This is very impressive since most free editors such as Audacity are destructive i.e. they record effects straight to the audio forcing users to constantly rely on a ‘preview’ button. But, OcenAudio is a great audio editor for beginners that allows them to fiddle with the parameters of an effect and instantly hear the changes.
It also provides VST support for third-party plugins and comprises loads of useful tools such as a spectogram for more nuanced users. It is also blessed with the cleanest UI in the game which is an attractant for first-time users.
However, one major downside of this audio editing software is that it doesn’t allow multi-track sessions and supports single stereo/mono files. So, you cannot record multiple instruments in your home studio and mix them. Ah, bummer. But if you are looking at editing stereo music files, or mono audio files for recording voice, OcenAudio is your best free audio editing software mate.
5) PreSonus Studio One 3 Prime (Windows and Mac) [Best DAW for PC]
Launched by PreSonus, Studio One 3 Prime is another brilliant music making software that has all the tools a beginner would need to start crafting great music. For a free version, it surprisingly boasts unlimited audio and midi tracks, as well as unlimited sound FX.
Moreover, Studio One 3 Prime is loaded with a drag-and-drop functionality that gives it a super smooth experience with a bunch of nifty features thrown in for a good measure to enhance your mix/track.
6) MixPad (Windows and Mac) [Best Free DAW for PC]
MixPad is a cohesive multi-track recording and mixing software that mashes the power of professional recording and mixing through a single platform by streamlining the audio recording process. It makes mixing a breeze for the less-experienced budding music enthusiasts and is considered a stepping stone in the list of best audio editing software for beginners.
Due to its minimal download file size, users can start mixing and making music within minutes. What’s more? MixPad features multi-track recording, hordes of free effects and a complete sound library all of which make it a compact DAW for beginners well worth a try for great aural experience.
Further, you can also save your audio tracks in any audio format from MP3, WAV to FLACC, which comes in very handy always.
7) Zynewave Podium (Windows) [Best free DAW for MIDI recording]
Podium Free is brilliant freeware from Zynewave that is a complete audio and MIDI recording program with multi-tracks support (albeit one input/output can be used at a time), bundled plugins, and VST support.
However, the freeware version of Podium has certain restrictions such as no 64-bit mixer engine option, no multiprocessing, etc. But, it’s still a strong contender amongst the best DAWs on the market thanks to its intuitive interface design full of editing options.
8) Ohm Studio (Windows and Mac) [Best DAW for collaborations with friends]
A majestic DAW having a unique feature that truly makes it stand out on our list of the best free audio editing software for novices – Ohm Studio is a collaborative audio editing program wherein you can invite others to your project or join other projects to create music in real-time.
It is extremely beneficial if your band members are in far off lands and provides a great platform to let other members give in their inputs any time. Beyond collaborations though, Ohm still offers a brilliant package of a beautiful DAW with plenty of instruments and effects in a smooth workflow.
9) Soundtrap (Windows, Mac and Linux) [Best online DAW for in-browser editing]
Perhaps one of the only few unique entrants on our list, Soundtrap is an in-browser online DAW that is propelled by a powerful software which is quite easy to use. Soundtrap is a cinch because it’s accessible for everyone ranging from beginners to professionals.
Soundtrap can be instantly started from the browser and users can start creating music from their website. What else has has Soundtrap going that injects it into the best audio editing software for beginners list? Soundtrap also boasts collaborative capabilities for working on and sharing projects for you and your band mates so that producing music from far off places becomes a reality. However, being an in-browser DAW, Soundtrap does lack certain features and processing power.
SEE ALSO: Best Free Music Production Software
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10) AudioTool (Windows, Mac and Linux) [Best DAW for beginners using Linux]
Here’s another in-browser online DAW that made it to our list of best audio editing software for beginners. For starters, Audiotool too doesn’t require a download, since it works straight from your browser. You must be wondering does it also lack in power and features? No, that’s not an issue with Audiotool.
Audiotool features thousands of samples to work with and loads of virtual instruments(VSTs) and effects that can all be manually tweaked to craft your sounds like early 80’s disco music producers. Plus, since it is an in-browser online DAW, AudioTool allows you to store all your projects on the cloud for easy access any time, anywhere.
Bonus additions on our list of the Best Free Audio Editing Software
11) Wavosaur (Windows)
A term perhaps derived as a spinoff from “Dinosaur”, Wavosaur is indeed ancient, but it still gets the work done if you are someone searching for the best audio editing software for beginners. Funny enough, Wavosaur resembles a DAW that could be the missing link in the evolution between tape cutting and modern DAWs. With a download file size of only 1.3MB it is more like a on-the-go audio editing tool.
The latest version of Wavosaur was launched back in 2013 and it still retains its charm of having a no frills layout. It also supports VSTs but doesn’t come preinstalled with any. The USP of Wavosaur lies in providing a very basic user interface, loads of great analysis tools and ease of volume automation.
12) Pyramix (Windows and Mac) [Best DAW for creating music videos’ scores]
In a stark contrast to its reputation as one of the best audio editing software for beginners in the game, Pyramix is actually a digital audio workstation frequently used by professional audio engineers in recording studios and audio-related industries around the world for music production, post-production in TV and film, and CD mastering.
The USP of Pyramix lies in providing flexible advanced tools as well as astounding sonic precision. For those people seeking a DAW wherein they can work with video and audio simultaneously for creating music videos, Pyramix is easily your go-to editor.
Further, Pyramix comprises a lot of smaller features that make it shine compared to other best free audio editing software on our list such as audio importing for adjusting the tempo to sound perfectly, sleek dual-screen optimisation, and a backlog list to undo specific actions. On the downside, beginners could find Pyramix a little confusing because there is a steep learning curve for getting used to it.
13) Acoustica Basic (Windows) [Best Beginner DAW for PC]
The last one on our list of the best audio editing software for beginners, Acoustica Basic as the name implies, is easy to set up a project and start recording. It boasts a scrub tool for removing bad retakes! However, it doesn’t support multi-tracking, but there is some good news in the offing.
It is perhaps one of the rarest DAWs worth zilch that comes with a convolution reverb which is a special digital reverb used to accurately model your instruments’ sound to any room.
And…that’s a wrap! Did you like our list of the best free audio editing software for beginners circa 2019? Did we miss out on any free DAWs that you know of? Let us know in the comments.
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Doug Aldrich (WHITESNAKE, ex-DIO) has released the following statement to Classic Rock Revisited regarding the passing of former THIN LIZZY guitarist, noted session player, and blues rock icon Gary Moore:
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What Is The Rock Cycle: Definition, Diagram, And Examples ...
Dec 12, 2017· The rock cycle is a concept of geology that describes the transition of rocks between the three rock types: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The cycle outlines how each rock type can be converted to another rock type through geologic processes. Most of us think of rocks as objects which don't change.
How is a metamorphic rock formed? - Quora
Metamorphic rocks are formed when igneous or sedimentary rocks under go immense temperature and pressure, usually at a subduction zone where two or more plates (continental-oceanic, continental-continental, or oceanic-oceanic, or more than two pla...
Metamorphic Rocks | Types Of Metamorphic Rocks | DK Find Out
Other metamorphic rocks form when the rocks surrounding super-hot igneous rocks are baked by the high temperatures. Find out more › Rock cycle; Metamorphic rocks get their name from the Greek words meta and morphe, meaning "change of form".
Rocks: Pictures of Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks
Home » Rocks. Rocks: Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks hold the history of the earth and the materials that will be used to build its future.
What are the uses of metamorphic rock? - Quora
Mostly decorative. Metamorphic rocks often show flow textures, and extra large crystals of white or black mica, red-brown garnet, and pink feldspar. These rocks are partially melted sediments on their way to becoming granites. They are termed 'gn...
List of rock types - Wikipedia
The following is a list of rock types recognized by geologists.There is no agreed number of specific types of rocks. Any unique combination of chemical composition, mineralogy, grain size, texture, or other distinguishing characteristics can describe rock types.
metamorphic rock | Definition, Formation, & Facts ...
Metamorphic rock, any rock that results from the alteration of preexisting rocks in response to changing conditions, such as variations in temperature, pressure, and mechanical stress, and the addition or subtraction of chemical components. The preexisting rocks may be igneous, sedimentary, or other metamorphic rocks.
What is a Rock and What are 3 Basic Types of Rocks | Earth ...
What is a Rock? Rocks ordinarily lie everywhere on the ground of the Earth. They constitute most of the landforms, as we often notice. For instance, rocks make up the mountains and most of the non-water portions of the earth's surface. A rock is hence defined as a solid naturally occurring mass of consolidated mineral matter.
Classification of Metamorphic Rocks: Texture & Parent ...
These parent rocks can be any type of rock, meaning they can be igneous, sedimentary or even other metamorphic rocks. ... Hornfels might sound like a funny name for a rock, but its name comes from ...
What Makes Metamorphic Rocks So Unique? - ThoughtCo
Metamorphic rocks are the third great class of rocks. They occur when sedimentary and igneous rocks become changed, or metamorphosed, by conditions underground. The four main agents that metamorphose rocks are heat, pressure, fluids, and strain. These agents can act and interact in an almost infinite variety of ways.
What are metamorphic rocks? - USGS.gov
Metamorphic rocks started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed from their original igneous, sedimentary, or earlier metamorphic form. Metamorphic rocks form when rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure, hot mineral-rich fluids or, …
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In other cases intrusive junctions, chilled edges, contact alteration or porphyritic structure may prove that in its original condition a metamorphic gneiss was an igneous rock. The last appeal is often to the chemistry, for there are certain rock types which occur only as sediments, while others are found only among igneous masses, and however ...
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The Rock Gallery contains pictures and descriptions of common igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.The igneous rocks, like the granite that makes up half Dome, in Yosemite National Park, pictured above, are listed at the top of the page followed by metamorphic rocks.
How Is Metamorphic Rock Formed? | Reference.com
Metamorphic rock is formed underground through a process that changes a rock's molecular structure due to pressure, heat and chemical reactions. A metamorphic rock forms from a parent rock called a protolith. Depending on conditions, a protolith can transform into any metamorphic rock.
Metamorphic rock - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...
A metamorphic rock is a type of rock which has been changed by extreme heat and pressure.Its name is from 'morph' (meaning form), and 'meta' (meaning change). The original rock gets heated (temperatures greater than 150 to 200 °C) and pressured (1500 bars). This causes profound physical and/or chemical change.
Types of Rocks | Classification of Rocks.
Its Types & Methods. (ii) Sedimentary Rocks: These Types of Rocks are also called secondary rocks. At any time, the existing rocks on the surface of the earth are being broken into smaller particles by the natural process of decay and decomposition called weathering and erosion.
Metamorphic | Definition of Metamorphic at Dictionary.com
Metamorphic definition, pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis. See more.
Answers about Metamorphic Rock
Metamorphic rocks are formed from other types of rocks. The original rock is exposed to conditions such as heat or pressure. Carbon turning to diamonds while under extreme pressure is an example ...
What are the three main types of rocks and their definitions?
there are 3 types of rocks- Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, and Metamorphic Rocks There are three main type of rocks in the world. The names are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
metamorphic rocv its defination and name - k … These kinds of metamorphic rocks are most commonly exposed in old mountain chains, like the Blue Ridge Mts., that have substantially eroded away over time, leaving only disturbed structure and regional metamorphic rocks. Metamorphic - definition of metamorphic by The Free …
Types of Metamorphism - tulane.edu
Classification of metamorphic rocks depends on what is visible in the rock and its degree of metamorphism. Note that classification is generally loose and practical such that names can be adapted to describe the rock in the most satisfactory way that conveys the important characteristics.
Metamorphic Rocks Flashcards | Quizlet
Name the metamorphic rock that forms from sandstone. quartzite. Schist, slate, & gneiss are what type of metamorphic rock? foliated. Marble & quartzite are what type of metamorphic rock? Nonfoliated. A series of processes on Earth's surface & in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks …
Metamorphic Rocks | Pictures of Foliated and Non-Foliated ...
The table below shows examples of common metamorphic rocks. Clicking on the name of the rock will bring up a larger picture and a description of the rock type in a new window. Remember these rocks are formed under extreme heat and pressure. Learn more about metamorphic rocks here.
Metamorphic Rock Facts for Kids - Information & Examples
Examples of metamorphic rocks include anthracite, quartzite, marble, slate, granulite, gneiss and schist. Anthracite is a type of coal with a high carbon count, few impurities and with a high luster (meaning it looks shiny). Marble is a metamorphic rock that is formed from the sedimentary rock limestone.
Geology Exam2 Flashcards | Quizlet
Geology Exam2. STUDY. Flashcards. Learn. Write. Spell. Test. PLAY. Match. Gravity. Created by. Murasamatoan. Chapter 8. Terms in this set (23) ... Match the name of the metamorphic rock with its parent rock.Anthracite. Bituminous coal. Match the name of the metamorphic rock with its parent rock.Slate. Shale.
Metamorphic Rock Facts: Fascinating Types of Metamorphic Rocks
Jan 25, 2018· Metamorphic rocks can be divided on the basis of their metamorphism - regional, thermal, hydrothermal, and fault zone metamorphism. Regional metamorphic rocks are found in the mountainous regions, and are developed in accordance to the …
Metamorphic Rocks | Geology
This is not far beyond the conditions in which sediments get lithified into sedimentary rocks, and it is common for a low-grade metamorphic rock to look somewhat like its protolith. Low grade metamorphic rocks tend to characterized by an abundance of hydrous minerals, minerals that contain water within their crystal structure.
Metamorphic rock - Wikipedia
Metamorphic rock definition at Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation. Look it up now!
The types of rock: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary
The types of rock: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. ... Metamorphic Rocks. Here, the name says it all. These are rocks that underwent a metamorphosis; they changed. ... Foliated metamorphic ...
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The textures of some metamorphic rocks do not fit neatly into any of these categories. In such cases, where the protolith is obvious because the texture of the protolith is well preserved, the prefix " META" is simply used in front of the protolith name, e.g., METAGRANITE, METABASALT, METAWACKE, METACONGLOMERATE, etc.
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Hellboy Volume 1: Seed Of Destruction
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Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster films. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding. Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar. " ... Hellboy is a brilliant example of how to elevate the comic of the future to a higher literary level while achieving a higher pitch of excitement."
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Publication date 21 Sep 2016
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Publication City/Country Milwaukie, United States
Edition Statement 3rd Revised ed.
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The first thing that struck me when i got the book was its great design. Great cover art, and the first few pages really gives the reader a feeling that something special is about to happen. The introduction is a really fun read, written by one and only Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, grandfather of horror, and member of Lovecrafts circle of writers. All in all a great first impression. This is something i really like about collected works, you often get some nice artwork, introductions and maybe some good stories on its origin. During the final years of the Third Reich, Hitler and his cronies are getting desperate. They enlist several experts on the occult, and attempts to turn the tides of war by ways of magic. So the story starts on a remote island in Scotland, where some of Hitlers leading occultist perform a summoning ritual. Enter: Hellboy. This is an introduction story, so there is little or no plot to be found. The main story evolves around how Hellboy came to earth, a tale of a russian occultist and mad man, and his ultimate clash with the beeing he summoned. Hellboy immediately strikes you as interesting, and in comparison to lots of other comic heroes, is a really unique. He (it?) is a huge, red, demon, with sawed off horns. At least we can presume he is a demon, although the story merely hints as to where he originates from. Hellboy fires of hilarious one liners more often than he fires his gun, and his jokes are definitely hitting target more often then his marksmanship does. He is vulnerable, he is flawed, and all these traits makes him a hero you can`t but love. In some way he reminds me of Hellblazers protagonist, John Constantine, although Hellboy, in this volume at least, is not as dark spirited and nihilistic. Hellboy is obviously a young and underdeveloped character in these first issues, but by choosing to tell the story from Hellboys perspective, Byrne & Mignolia manage to properly convey their plans for the continuing development of the character. Hellboy was intended to be a team book, with several other characters. Mignola states that he ditched that idea because he "i couldn't come up with a name for any of the other characters or the team". But he still chose to include a few. In this book you`ll find the amphibian unknown species the call Abe Sapien, and the human Elizabeth Sherman who has pyrotechnic abilities. These two teammates of Hellboy really don't contribute much to the character gallery in this first volume, and gives Hellboy the spotlight almost through the entire book. Readers can expect to be proper introduced to those two in the following books. The story falls nicely into the classic horror genre. Even though the characters are more modern than say Lovecrafts, it`s still the classic tale of greed and madness of desperate men consumed by the powers they invoked. People obsessed with achieving personal goals and power. Using Hitler and Himmlers rumored interest in the occult really knocks this through, just as the Indiana Jones movies did back in the eighties. The tale is really well crafted, and the artwork really do it justice. It`s unique quality fits the uniqueness of the characters, and its earthy coloring really sets the mood. Just flipping through the pages and look at drawings is a great experience in it self.show more
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Hellboy has to be be one of the most enjoyable comic book series ever created. And that is thanks to the minds and talents of Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. Mignola has crafted a comic book rich in myth, folklore, and horror, but the key word is 'fun'. His art is just sensational - a visual feast for the eyes! When I purchased this book, and read it for the first time I spen a good portion of my time just immersed in Mignola's magnificent artistic renderings because this book is a visual feast. Mignola's unique style has been described by Alan Moore, the god of comic's, as German Expressionism meets Jack Kirby. And he couldn't have been more correct in his description. One of the main draws is of course Hellboy himself, but it is also about his sidekicks, fish man Abe Sapien, and Liz Sherman. It is also the surreal creation of other odd characters, like the 'Frog' monsters, Rasputin (and in book two, it gets weirder, we have a decapitated talking head, a Gorgon, a vampire, a witch and a 'Chicken Leg House'!) Seriously, you have to see it to believe it! This comic book is like no other. And I for one, love it! The comic book Seeds of Destruction differs somewhat from the movie (Hellboy). The story line briefly revolves around the birth if you will, of Hellboy into this world. The Nazi via the help of Rasputin, open a portal to release the Ogdru Jahad, seven beasts of the apocalypse. However, thanks to the American's they fail but not before a creature manages to get through. That creature is a baby demon, with mini horn, and a big stony right hand. Professor Bruttenholm, or 'Professor Broom' as he is later known, takes charge in looking after this creature whom they name Hellboy. Rasputin however has unfinished business. Years later, we see Hellboy alongside his colleagues, Abe Sapien, and Liz Sherman who are agents for B.P.R.D, Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence, investigate some weird goings on at a house. And it is whilst they are there that all hell breaks loose! If you are new to the Hellboy universe, then boy are you in for a treat! Do not dwell on it, just click on 'buy'. You will not regret it!show more
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Live Updates: Kownacki edges Arreola & Pascal defeats Browne
Brad Thompson - August 3, 2019
Heavyweights Adam Kownacki and Chris Arreola went to war on Saturday night in a that smashed the CompuBox record for most punches landed. It was a real fun fight to watch, Kownacki (20-0, 15 KOs) defeated a surprisingly fresh 38-year-old Arreola (38-6-1, 33 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The scores were 118-110, 117-111, and 117-111.
Kownacki vs. Arreola break record for punches thrown
Arreola and Kownacki threw 2172 combined shots tonight. It’s an incredible amount of punches thrown for heavyweights. Kownacki threw most of them, but he was mostly just throwing arm shots. Arreola had focused on throwing to the 266 pound Kownacki midsection, and that seemed to take the power out of the Polish fighters’s shots. By the second half of the fight, Kownacki’s legs were gone, and he was just standing upright throwing arm punches. Arreola had taken away Kownacki’s legs with his body attack. When a fighter does that, it forced their opponents to throw arm punches, which is what we saw tonight.
Boxing 247 had the contest scored for Kownacki by an eight rounds to four score. Kownacki, 30, won the fight, but it was closer than the scores handed down by the three judges that were assigned to the fight tonight. Kownacki was busy, throwing a lot of arm punches.
Arreola landed the harder shots
That’s what made it difficult to score the rounds, because Arreola landing the harder blows, but the judges decided that were more impressed with Kownacki being busier. You can argue that if you look at who landed the better shots in each round, you could give it to Kownacki by a narrow 115-113 score. It was close in terms of scoring the rounds for the fighters that landed the better shots.
Jean Pascal decisions Marcus Browne
Jean Pasccal (34-6-1, 20 KOs) knocked 2012 U.S Olympian Marcus Browne (23-1, 16 KOs) down three times to beat him by an eight round technical decision to take his interim WBA light heavyweight title in the co-feature bout on the card Pascal, 36, dropped Brown in round 4, and 2 times in round 7. Browne, 27, was fortunate not to have been stopped. The first knockdown in the fourth round was from a right hand by Pascal. Browne may have never recovered fully from that knockdown, because he was vulnerable to Pascal’s punches for the remainder of the fight.
Browne had just thrown a shot, and he was in close, and he was nailed with a hard right hand to the head from Pascal that he didn’t expect. the shot knocked Browne down on his backside on the canvas. Browne staggered around the ring after he got back to his feet. The referee could have stopped it at that point, because Browne was wobbling around the ring like a drunk. Being the A-side in the fight, it’s not surprising that Browne wasn’t pulled out by the referee
Marcus Browne cut in eighth
Browne was cut badly over his left eye from a head-butt in the 8th round. The fight was stopped at the end of the round, and Pascal won by the narrow scores 75-74, 75-74 and 75-74.
With the victory, Pascal, 36, is now the interim WBA light heavyweight champion. Pascal was just beaten by WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision last November. It’s unclear if it’s worth it for the two to face each other so soon. It might be better if Pascal challenges another light heavyweight champion like Sergey Kovalev, Oleksandr Gvozdyk or Artur Beterbiev.
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Rhapsody in Black - Andi Cook - 10'40'' - BVT126 The primary inspiration for this work comes from the composer’s first encounter with the genre of Symphonic Metal - the opening track of the 2004 Nightwish album 'Once', entitled Dark chest of Wonders. The combination of full orchestra, operatically trained female vocals and the raw power of a Scandinavian metal band was a potent mix that instantly had me hooked.That same dark and powerful sound is one that a brass band can generate, and I've tried to capture that in this composition. Heavy Rock/Metal as a genre is arguably fifty years old now, but symphonic metal is a newer concept, and I feel possibly the one that can bridge the gap between two musical styles very dear to me.Composer Gilbert Vinter had explored through music the connotations that different colours held for him, and his movement Purple from 'Spectrum' gave me an idea for the structure of ‘Rhapsody in Black’. Andi Cook explored the different connotations of one colour within his own life, black being an easy choice due to the personal dichotomy of the black leather jacket he wore to the rock club on Friday night and the black suit jacket and tie he wore to the concert hall the next day.To avoid repetition the word 'black' is omitted from the five movement titles, each of which is a different episode. '...as Thunder' is a furious argument between two people - the top and bottom of the band - set against the backdrop of a storm, with lightning flashing outside while barbs, insults, sarcasm, tears and even violence is traded inside. Following that '...Satin and Pearls' is an old black-and-white movie with a wistful character to it as if we're looking back a screen icon with fondness long after their career or even their life has ended. '...as the Raven's Wing.' is deliberately gothic and funereal, hinting at Edgar Allen Poe's similarly named poem, with undertones of death and afterlife. The shift into F/C Minor (band pitch) represents the descent - alive - into the grave that Poe had a paranoid fear of his entire life. Family and friends standing around grieving, oblivious as we're lowered into the earth despite frantic attempts to make ourselves heard. '...and Chrome' is an unashamed motorcycle reference with all its born-to-be-wild, open air, high speed and freedom overtones. In a deliberate contrast to what went before it continues several of the same motifs though this time in the major key. Lastly, we reprise the second movement with '...as the Night Sky' which is simply the feeling of walking home under the summer stars, with someone important - who that is, is left to the listener, but a walk under the stars is always that bit special.There's an old saying that very few things are black and white. I hope this work will prove that even black alone isn't quite as simple as it's often made out....‘Rhapsody in Black’ is dedicated to the composer’s friend and mentor John Roberts, who shares his love of both brass and rock.
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From 2020, we will engage thousands of young people aged 16 and 17 in Calderdale, delivering National Citizen Service (NCS), a 4 week programme funded by the Government.
In partnership with EFL Trust, we have won the contract to continue the delivery of NCS from 2020 onwards, joining 65 Delivery Partners that will be managed by EFL Trust.
NCS is one of the fastest growing youth programmes, engaging 500,000 young people since piloting in 2009. The NCS experience will give young people a clearer idea of what they want from their future. They will take on fresh challenges, get a taste of independence, be given a platform to have their voices heard and deliver a social action project that will positively impact their local area.
Through EFL Trust, over 1.8 million hours of voluntary work has been delivered addressing local and national issues which young people are passionate about, such as mental health, the environment and plastic waste.
We have delivered NCS since 2013, engaging over 1200 young people. During that time young people have delivered over 37,000 hours of social action in Bradford, Calderdale and Sheffield which has included raising funds for a variety of charities including Andysmanclub, Overgate Hospice, Age UK, and Children's Hospital. They have renovated local family & community centres by decorating and gardening, and hosted a number of events to promote health & wellbeing for children and families.
There have been many campaigns which highlighted young people’s passions, including campaigning against Plastic Pollution, producing a DVD resource which is used within schools, and working with ITV Fixers to produce posters/air fresheners which highlight road traffic incidents.
We also have young people who have become Food Ambassadors for the Children’s Future Food Enquiry, which saw them join actor Emma Thompson at Westminster to celebrate the publication of the report.
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Being a participant on NCS in 2014 opened many doors for me, it supported me with my confidence, took me to places and events I’d never experienced before, developed my self esteem, social networks and gave me some amazing friends who I class as my “NCS family”. We won awards for our social action programmes, but the best thing for me is that whilst studying at University I have worked on NCS for the last 4 years, supporting other young people to have the same experiences as those Brathay Trust gave me.
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I’m incredibly proud of everything that NCS has achieved in the last ten years. As it moves into the next phase of its life, I’m confident NCS can make a more significant difference for our young people and their communities than ever before.
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Published plays that either premiered (*) at The Bread & Roses Theatre or toured to our venue with their original production run.
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It Tastes Like Home - Book & Lyrics by Lorna Wells
A musical about family, food & belonging.
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It Tastes Like Home is a romantic comedy musical set in London exploring a love story between first generation Jamaica, Camilla, and Yi, of Chinese descent. As their tentative relationship evolves, can they balance their two worlds of family, culture and values?
This unique and feel-good multicultural musical explores what ‘home’ looks like when you come from another place and whether two cultures can ever really be in harmony when it comes to beliefs, identity and most importantly food.
With book and lyrics by Lorna Wells and music by Eudora Yutong Qiao, It Tastes Like Home premiered at The Bread & Roses Theatre in London in 2018.
Pussy Liberty - A One Act Play by Valerie Isaiah Sadoh
A fearless look at the diverse world of millennials & feminism.
Blaire, an early twenty-something woman, struggles with the pain of a past trauma and loses herself in the fight for equality. Meanwhile her best friend Halle is stuck in a relationship defined by passé gender roles, which increasingly affects her friendship with Blaire.
In a melodic yet naturalist style the two storylines of young women trying to find their way in the world intertwine, as with sarcasm and wit Pussy Liberty shows that even in the toughest of times there is something to laugh about.
Pussy Liberty is the debut professional play of Valerie Isaiah Sadoh and takes a fearless look at the diverse world of millennials and feminism, providing a strong contemporary voice. It was first performed at The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2017, after the producing company She’s Diverse won The Bread & Roses Emerging Companies Award 2017.
The Buzz - A Play by Lydia Rynne
Top 3 of The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2016/2017
"Success turns smart people crazy. Like smack, it’ll never be enough, only leave you gurning for more.”
Kyla was once a TV personality. Now she's the dress hanging on the arm of her celebrity popstar boyfriend. When her anti-establishment squatter brother pays her a surprise visit on the night of the biggest music award ceremony of the year, she is forced to confront the life, and lie, she's been living.
The Buzz is a dark comedy exploring the seduction of fame, overnight celebrity culture and the injustices we disregard in favour of our own success. The Bread & Roses Theatre is proud to present The Buzz as the final instalment of the 2016/17 Playwriting Award.
Between a Man and a Woman & F*ckingLifeMate - The Plays of Scott James
Different ways of life aren't so far away from ours...
"Between a Man and a Woman" is a gripping, thrilling and heartbreaking story of domestic abuse. A fast paced drama that questions if abuse is a learned behavior or something that is within us? It gives us an insight into what happens behind closed doors and whether that is actually just between husband and wife or whether it involves a larger number of people.
"F*ckingLifeMate" is an outrageous dark comedy. How does the area in which we grow up affect us? If what you see is what you know, does that mark your card from the start? The play follows Kirsty, a girl growing up on an estate in Thamesmead in South East London, trapped in the welfare system. Crime rate is high, teenage pregnancy is common and being gay is still not okay. Kirsty and her friends maneuver their way through this way of life, whilst dealing with their troublesome families and home-lives.
The first fully staged production of "Between a Man and a Woman" premiered at The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2017 and "F*ckingLifeMate" had its world premiere at The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2018.
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Choosers
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[November 2016]
Alfie and Reg are homeless. A series of unconnected events has led them to this park, at this time, under this tree. As days unfold, an unlikely friendship forms as the two men navigate through life under the light of a single lamp post.
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In an eerie tragicomedy set in what could be just anyone's dining room, Emma and James keep it all together for the sake of their baby: a constant reminder of what their love used to be, of the projects they have made together.
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by Floyd Touley
“I have dissociative identity disorder. Do you know what that means? It means people like you think I’m insane.” A slaughterhouse is set on fire and a body is found. The man believed to be responsible is questioned. A disturbing game of cat and mouse ensues.
The Great Unwatched
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Bob affectionately nibbles the hand that fed him for 35 years: the radio. Expect tales of disastrous interviews with the likes of Rupert Everett and Nina Simone, plus a chance for you, dear reader, to become the next big voice-over.
by Susan Gray
[*November 2014]
A technology that will change the concepts of self and other, love and death… This is just the pilot. Following the pioneering technology of the new Hivemind, we follow the stories of six individuals in their experiences of this new life.
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"Beacon acts as a guide and gives them the right advice and information when they need it. It’s about creating good places to work that are inclusive, supportive and look after their own.”
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Businesses across the South West will soon have access to a free ground breaking digital platform to provide them with advice and information on managing health and disability in the workplace.
Called Beacon, and led by the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the innovative online resource uses digital tools such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to deliver tailored business advice.
It is specifically aimed at small and medium-sized businesses who may be unsure or even fearful of how to handle workplace health and disability, and how they can create a good place to work by taking positive steps to support their staff.
Beacon will be launched in the next few weeks and businesses can register here for instant access when it goes live.
A year in the making, Beacon’s digital platform has been developed, designed and built in Cornwall with the support of local businesses, and is a UK-first.
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It has been described as “brilliant” and “like nothing else available” when tested by employers.
Beacon helps businesses navigate and manage health and disability issues, and provides them with the right national and local information and advice to support them to make decisions and connect with the right resources quickly, while complying with the very latest employment regulations.
In the UK 400,000 people leave work every year because of a disability or health condition, at an annual cost to the economy of around £100 billion. And research shows that just over half of people with disabilities have a job, compared to over 80% of people without disabilities.
LEP Chair Mark Duddridge said: “We need to close the disability employment gap by helping businesses attract and retain staff from a wider pool of talent, and we need to tackle the issue of workplace health as the workforce gets older.
"But businesses tell us they don’t know where to start and need help to build their confidence so they can take positive steps.
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“Beacon does that by delivering tailored advice about managing health and disability issues in an accessible, informative and engaging way. We know that many businesses are just plain scared when it comes to these issues and that can hold them back, inhibit recruitment and lead to a loss of skills.
“Beacon acts as a guide and gives them the right advice and information when they need it. It’s about creating good places to work that are inclusive, supportive and look after their own.”
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The £545,000 project is funded by the Government’s Employers, Health and Inclusive Employment Unit, with a view to it being rolled out nationally following the pilot project in Cornwall.
Frances Brennan, diversity champion on the LEP Board, added: “Businesses are struggling to recruit so we need to make it easier for them to find the right people from a wider range of candidates, and to hold on to the people they have. That’s why inclusive growth is such an important part of our Local Industrial Strategy and is a major focus for the LEP. Beacon will help empower business to respond positively to this important agenda.”
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Leanne (Lee) McIntyre joined St Austell-based social housing provider Ocean Housing Group as a project officer a couple of years ago.
When Leanne applied for the job she noted on her application that she was living with hearing loss and Ocean Housing took steps to make her feel comfortable at interview and after she was hired.
She said: “When I came in everybody was facing me, they took me to a quiet, small meeting room and I felt fully supported - from the moment I walked in the door, to now.”
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Nikki Forward, Head of Human Resources at Ocean Housing, added: “There’s a scarcity of certain skills and resources so it’s important for us to look at as wide a talent pool as possible. We’ve had a lot of experience managing and supporting people with physical, mental and medical issues. It might be providing emotional support, adjusting working hours, providing stand-up desks or screen adjustments, and they’ve often been quite simple things to do.
“A couple of years ago we recruited into one of our project officer roles and the candidate with the best match of skills and experience, Lee, had been living with hearing loss.
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“We talked to Lee and asked what she needed and then we got the support of Access to Work who came and did an assessment. With the help of a small electronic device that Lee could use in meetings, there were very few other adjustments we had to make. As part of her induction we also ran some deaf awareness training because she felt it would help her settle into her team if they understood the condition more.”
Leanne added: “That was really useful for simple things like remembering to close windows when the traffic is noisy outside, keeping the meeting room doors closed, speaking facing me and not covering up their mouth.
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“Anybody else who’s got an additional need, don’t be defined by that need, go for your goals and fulfil your potential. You just need that right support and you will get that.”
Ocean Housing Group has been working with Beacon for the last 12 months. Nikki added: “It’s been really great helping to design and develop the product and the thought of having a digital tool that we can access where there is central information is really great for us as a business and we can’t wait to see it come to fruition.”
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by Margaret George
It only took three days in Guatemala with Clean the World for the Caesars team members to have an experience of a life time. “Incredible” was the reoccurring adjective used by the travelers when describing the trip where they benefited a thousand Guatemalan lives.
The group spent its first day in Guatemala at the Chimaltenango community center. The center was built by CTW’s in-country partner, Children International, as a place where local children can see a doctor or dentist and use the computer lab. Long lines of people, stretching out the door and down the road, waited to enter the community center. Upon entering, they were met by Caesars team members dressed as “Super Soap” and “Super Water”. The members of the group performed an educational skit in which they act out how to “conquer the mean germ” while singing a song that teaches kids to wash their hands. After the performance, each of the 500 visitors received ten bars of soap.
The group then traveled to Zaragoza, Chimaltenango, where they were welcomed into two bedroom family homes that were built by hand out of cinder blocks, tree branches and metal-sidings. “I really didn’t understand what these families undergo on a day to day basis until I saw it first hard,” shared Laurie Porter. “In the U.S. we take so much for granted that the Guatemalan people can only dream of having.”
On the second day the group visited the San Lorenzo community center where they met 450 more Guatemalans and again performed as Super Soap and Super Water, and distributed bars of soap. “Hygiene products and education about how to properly use it can make a big impact in these communities by lowering the number of illness and diseases,” said Yader El-Azar.
Corporate representative Jeff Seavey shared, “I’ve learned of the value they place on hygiene, and how challenging it is to come by in these communities. The people waited in extremely long lines for extended periods of time just for soap. I fear that they would never have the opportunity to cleanse themselves of the various bacteria and germs without this program.”
On the third day the group took an excursion to explore Guatemala and its rich Mayan history. The day was a thrilling mix of antiquity and the modern, starting with an early morning expedition to the archeological treasures of Iximche. They toured the ruins of what was once a great Mayan community and then took a boat tour of Lake Atitlan and visited two local villages. The town was filled with coffee trees and drying corn. The pharmacy used herbs from the garden as natural remedies such as an aloe plant for burns and tea leaves for stress. Members of the group joined a woman who was spinning yarn out of the cotton picked from her own cotton tree. “We pulled the cotton into yarn and died it in buckets of water soaked in leaves that colored the water,” explained Jeff Seavey. “That yarn will be used to make scarves and blankets.”
The mix of meeting local families and experiencing the sights of Guatemala made a lasting impact on the Caesars team members. The annual Clean the World trip has proven again and again to be one of our most rewarding ventures. Caesars team members always leave with a sense of connection to the destination and a hope to return in the future to provide more assistance when they can.
Clean the World Celebration & Educational Tour in Las Vegas
Janet Beronio, Caesars Foundation Trustee Chair and Regional President.
The trip began with a celebration of the winners, plus an educational lunch and tour with Caesars corporate team members, leaders of the region employee volunteer group, called the HERO program, and leaders of CodeGreen, Caesars’ environmental sustainability strategy. The Caesars travelers were also joined by their Clean the World travel companions so they’d have a chance to get to know each other before embarking on their journey to Guatemala. “We wanted the travelers to meet in Las Vegas to get a firsthand look into the soap collection process and tour the local CTW Recycling Center, a facility that has surpassed others in large thanks to the $825,000 in grants donated by the Caesars Foundation,” said Vice President of Sustainability and Citizenship Gwen Migita. “Additionally it allowed our senior leadership to meet our passionate winners in person and recognize each of them and the Guatemala service trip.”
Caesars’ investment to its programs was the topic of conversation among the Caesars Foundation’s Board of Trustees, CodeGreen leaders and HERO chairs who convened for the CTW celebratory lunch at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill. Executives including Jan Jones Blackhurst, Executive VP of Communications & Government Relations, and Janet Beronio, Caesars Foundation Trustee Chair and Regional President, were there to highlight the importance of everyone’s individual contributions to Caesars’ Citizenship programs.
Rick Mazer, Regional President and Executive Sponsor of CodeGreen.
Lily Diming, Director of Programs of Clean the World, announced Caesars’ impressive historical totals which amount to over half a million pounds of waste recycled and nearly two million bars of soap distributed. The program wrapped up with Rick Mazer, Regional President and Executive Sponsor of CodeGreen, who sponsored the Caesars Foundation’s initial gift to CTW shared the genesis of Caesars’ CodeGreen program and how it has grown into an industry leading sustainability initiative.
After lunch, the group visited the local Clean the World recycling center where soap is sent to be recycled and sanitized. To date, Caesars’ North American properties with hotels have collected nearly 2 million bars of soap to be processed, sanitized, and distributed in various countries. ‘It’s amazing to see the difference a single bar of soap can make,” said participant Yader M. El-Azar. From these efforts, Caesars has been able to support CTW’s efforts to distribute to 100 countries and help reduce the spread of bacterial borne diseases. “As a room attendant it was breathtaking and inspiring to see the soap that we collect with our own hands from the Caesars hotel rooms now at the CTW facility going through the recycling process,” added participant Paulette Landell.
Before the soap is upcycled into new clean bars, it’s first broken down and shredded by CTW’s very own “Frankenstein” soap shredder.
The group continued to a back of house tour of Caesars Palace. The Caesars team members experienced operations at our largest property as they toured through the wardrobe, recycling docks, and Caesars Palace’s LEED Silver certified Octavius convention center. “I felt Caesars’ genuine commitment to the sustainability, community involvement, and Clean the World programs,” said participant Laurie Porter. “You can tell the company truly cares – it’s not just another corporate initiative.”
The CodeGreen display and recycling center is a reminder to team members of Caesars’ commitment to the environment.
The group reconvened in the evening as it joined company leaders from all over the world at the opening of the Leadership Summit at Planet Hollywood. Yader, Laurie and Paulette were recognized by President and CEO Mark Frissora for their service and altruism. Jeff Seavey, who is the corporate representative for the Guatemala trip, was touched by the number of people who stopped by the table at the Leadership Summit to give congratulations and well wishes. “It is great to know that such a great cause is supported by the entire company,” he said.
Caesars is proud to enable its passionate team members to be incredible agents of change.
Caesars Employees Share Soap in Guatemala
The donation from the Caesars Foundation that made the CTW Las Vegas facility possible.
Are you aware of the power of hygiene? Although it is commonly taken for granted, access to soap and hygiene education can mean the difference between life and death for millions around the world suffering from preventable diseases. To combat this situation, Caesars has joined forces with the Clean the World Foundation. The Caesars Foundation and the Clean the World Foundation (CTW) partnership began in 2010 with the purpose to change lives by distributing recycled and sanitized soap to cities in need around the world. In the 5 years since, Caesars has contributed $825,000 to CTW, distributed nearly two million bars of soap, and sent Caesars team members on three distribution trips around the world.Caesars team members traveled to Guatemala for this year’s distribution trip where they visited community centers and homes in San Lorenzo and Zaragoza, Guatemala to share soap with one thousand families. The trips are an integral part of the CTW cycle as they close the loop on a process that begins when Caesars’ housekeepers collect the soap to be recycled and sanitized.
“More than two million bars of partially used hotel soap are thrown away every day in the United States,” said Thom Reilly, Executive Director of the Caesars Foundation. “It’s incredibly rewarding for our employees to be involved at the ground level so they can witness firsthand the positive impact access to bar soap and hygiene education can have on families and communities.”
Paulette Landell, Yader El-Azar and Laurie Porter each exemplify Caesars’ Code of Commitment.
The Caesars team members selected to go on the Guatemala trip were the top candidates in one of three contest categories: service with passion in the workplace, outstanding housekeeper, and dedication to community.
Service with passion winner Laurie Porter is the driving force behind getting her fellow team members to get involved and participate in activities at Harrah’s New Orleans. In regards to her service Laurie’s co-worker stated, “Not only is Laurie Porter a tireless volunteer for both HERO and CodeGreen, she inspires and recruits the rest of us to step up and do our share of the work as well.”
Outstanding Housekeeper Paulette Landell was applauded by her colleague as an ambassador of Caesars’ Clean the World efforts, explaining that she is “strategically paired up with new housekeepers to help ensure they too understand the importance of guarding our planet’s health… Her special ability to promote CodeGreen awareness, coupled with her selfless actions, has truly inspired her peers and her leaders.”
Community involvement winner Yader M. El-Azar has been with the Caesars Entertainment family of companies since 1987 and was described by his supervisor as “a man with integrity and a heart for serving others.” Yader spends 40 hours each month at a local food bank where he is in charge of food distribution to hundreds of people in need in the Las Vegas valley.
Other Caesars travelers include corporate representatives Director of Facilities Jeff Seavey and Executive Director of the Caesars Foundation Thom Reilly. Stay tuned for upcoming posts from the Caesars travelers!
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Funds for Coromandel aquaculture and marine
The Provincial Growth Fund is investing $924,000 in Coromandel aquaculture and marine services, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced.
Broadband extends to 99.8% of population
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Kris Faafoi have today announced significant additional rural broadband and mobile coverage across New Zealand, taking coverage to 99.8% of the population.
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Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will support several projects in Eastern Bay of Plenty to boost the economic potential of the region and unlock new opportunities for local people.
PGF investment to boost digital connectivity in Eastern Bay of Plenty
People and businesses in Eastern Bay of Plenty will benefit from the Provincial Growth Fund’s (PGF) investment to improve digital connectivity in the regions, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
PGF investing in future of aquaculture in Eastern Bay of Plenty
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing to accelerate the development of aquaculture in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash announced today.
New mining venture a reality for West Coast
The Government is backing a new venture to mine garnet on the West Coast with a $10 million loan from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced.
$45m boost for South Island connectivity
The Government is investing $44.8 million from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) to improve digital connectivity in the West Coast and Southland, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
West Coast tourism gets big PGF boost
West Coast tourism will benefit from an $87.46 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
Investment in West Coast hi-tech dairy
The Government is helping future-proof a critical West Coast industry with a loan of $9.9 million from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) to enable a milk segregation project at Westland Milk Products, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced.
$140m investment in West Coast economy
The Government is investing significantly in the West Coast through the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) to strengthen the region’s economy and create new jobs with a $140 million investment package announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today.
PGF to support commercialisation at Taranaki sawmill
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will provide a loan of up to $1.8 million to TaranakiPine to allow the company to diversify and create new jobs, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
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The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will invest $40 million to improve digital connectivity in the regions, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Kris Faafoi has announced today.
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Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has today announced a Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) package for Manawatū-Whanganui of about $48 million.
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A $2.8 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will help establish a national commercial driver programme near Palmerston North, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
PGF investment in Advanced Aviation Hub in Whanganui
A $400,000 investment from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will be used to fund the first stage of an Advanced Aviation Hub at Whanganui Airport, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced.
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A $40 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will enable KiwiRail to build a new regional freight hub near Palmerston North, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.
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Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has today announced Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) support for a new 560-tonne travel lift for Oceania Marine Group.
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Marler a joker but underestimate him and Quins at your peril
Big character: Joe Marler can be a screen for Quins’ quality
By Michael Sadlier
December 7 2019 11:00 AM
Joe Marler. He's not really the shy and retiring kind now is he?
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/marler-a-joker-but-underestimate-him-and-quins-at-your-peril-38761453.html
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Certainly when it came to literally retiring, the loose-head prop tore that idea up for the last World Cup.
But you get the general idea. Marler is a one-off, a maverick who can either be beneficial or, sometimes, find himself saying or doing the wrong thing at exactly the most damaging time.
Give him a mic, or point a camera in his general direction, and you are hardly likely to be disappointed. A media/showbiz career of some description is seemingly his for the taking when he finishes playing.
Anyway, when it comes to Harlequins he appears to be at the epicentre. As he has said during his now nearly 12-year tenure at the club, he's a pure "Quin".
In the wake of last weekend's Premiership win over Gloucester, only Quins' second of the season, he was caught on camera throwing some serious shapes in the changing room, the familiar shaved head moving in time (sort of) to the beat.
And there's more, much more. The 'horsey' interview he recently gave over Harlequins having to respond to their first-round European drubbing at Clermont was comedy gold.
It also worked as they just about beat Bath to avoid shipping two straight Champions Cup defeats.
It may seem all just flimflam but Marler is important to Quins, who, under the coaching of Paul Gustard, are moving away from the notion that they are mere also-rans with an unforgettable character out front.
Marler is no clown though. He is a good operator at scrum-time and a vital rallying point for the club, but he also serves another, perhaps unintended, purpose.
His dominant personality, both on and off the park, can help distract from the fact that Quins have a decent collection of players in their squad and, on their day, can go toe-to-toe with anyone.
Mind you, Kyle Sinckler, who returns for his first club game of the season, can challenge Marler's mantle for attention-grabbing cameos and particularly so as, this week, Quins have said that retaining him for next season - he is out of contract in the summer - may be beyond them.
Scrum-half Danny Care is the spark to so much of their play but there is quality sprinkled throughout the side.
The combination of Chris Robshaw, Semi Kunatani and Alex Dombrandt in the back-row is an impressive one and the latter's physicality caused Gloucester quite a few issues last Sunday.
Out-half Marcus Smith will keep Quins ticking along on the scoreboard while Michele Campagnaro has brought aggression to Quins' midfield.
Of course, Gustard's coaching has also had a considerably positive impact on the largely under-achieving London club after he came on board in summer 2018 from the England set-up.
A fifth-place finish in last season's Premiership - an improvement from 10th in the previous campaign - and a Challenge Cup semi-final told of Gustard bringing his expected harder edge, especially in defence, and, already, Quins have made the most tackles in the league (796) and won the most turnovers (36).
It's a work in progress with Marler out front, smoke-screening all the serious grafting.
Quins look to be hungry again to make their mark.
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'A bowler is never to blame.': Phil Simmons on near-death experience
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons was disappointed but not surprised by Ireland's victory in the first Twenty20 international in Grenada on Wednesday. He has been there before, many times.
By Duncan Bech, PA Saracens appear resigned to automatic relegation from the Premiership as they face the impossible task of reducing their wage bill by up to £2million to comply with salary cap regulations for...
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Jonathan Bradley Neath, Llanelli, Celtic Warriors and Borders, a selection of the teams beaten at Ravenhill during what is Ulster’s longest run of home games unbeaten in the modern era.
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LifeSize Adds Senior Marketing and Sales Leaders to Executive Team
May 16, 2007 @ 11:18
LifeSize, the high-definition video communications company, recently announced that two senior executives have joined LifeSize to bolster the companys global marketing, sales and support organizations. Adam Taylor, formerly with Avid Technology, has been named executive vice president of worldwide sales and customer service; and John Doyle, who previously was with Secure Computing Corp., has been appointed chief marketing officer. Taylor and Doyle both will be located at LifeSize headquarters in Austin, reporting to LifeSize CEO, Craig Malloy.
Over the past 15 years, Taylor has been a key contributor in helping to guide Avid Technology from a $7 million per year venture-backed startup company to a publicly traded corporation worth more than $900 million. Taylor has great experience building high-performance teams, managing significant financial responsibility, growing diverse distribution and hybrid sales models, and creating field marketing programs that drive awareness and demand, LifeSize said.
Taylor will oversee the entire sales organization and the customer support organization. His charter is to continue building LifeSizes worldwide sales revenue and channel network. While LifeSizes sales team does indeed prospect and close deals, the indirect channel partners fulfill the orders and provide ongoing support.
Rob Hughes, who has run LifeSizes worldwide sales and support organization since its inception, will assume the role of senior vice president of Americas sales operations, reporting to Taylor.
Doyle has more than 20 years experience in the data communications and network security industries. At Secure Computing, he served as vice president of product marketing, responsible for the companys firewall, secure content management, and identity and access management portfolios.
LifeSize offers a fully integrated and interoperable high-definition video communications product suite that enables all types of businesses around the globe to more effectively interact and collaborate across distances.
LifeSize www.lifesize.com
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It's the "next step" in the channel program's evolution, one executive says.
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Telarus Brings Back Level 3, Equinix Alum, Kick-Starts Cloud Specialty Practice
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Passive smoking is associated with earlier delivery and lower birth weight
It has been known for more than 50 years that a mother who smokes whilst pregnant is more likely to give birth to her baby prematurely. But what if a mother doesn’t smoke but lives with someone who does? New research by academics from the University of Bristol has found women exposed to passive smoking, on average, deliver their babies earlier and with lower birth weights compared to unexposed women.
The study, published online in Reproductive Sciences, included more than 5,000 women delivering their babies in Bristol between 2012 and 2014. The researchers used both a woman’s report of her exposure to passive smoking as well as an objective measurement – an exhaled carbon monoxide reading in early pregnancy. Many other factors were considered too, including maternal age, weight, ethnicity, as well as employment and social circumstances.
The research team found that non-smoking women that lived with someone who smoked were more likely to deliver their babies earlier compared to women not living with a smoker. They also found these women exposed to passive smoking had smaller babies. Although the effect on gestational age at delivery was around a third smaller than when a woman herself smoked, more women are affected by passive smoking. About one in seven women smoke through their pregnancies but more than one in four non-smoking women live with a smoker and are exposed to these increased risks from passive smoking.
Dr Rachel Ion from Bristol’s School of Clinical Sciences and St Michael’s Hospital, who led the research, said: “Women are generally aware of the risks of smoking during pregnancy but more education is needed to inform women and their families and friends of the emerging evidence of the risks associated with passive smoking in pregnancy. Our results add evidence to public health arguments to implement further measures to reduce exposure to passive smoking.”
Babies that are born too early can suffer from many complications. Premature birth accounts for more than a million deaths each year worldwide. Those babies that survive can face significant long-term problems including breathing difficulties and cerebral palsy. Premature birth affects not only the child, but their family and society as a whole with significant healthcare costs associated with caring for these children. Although the study did not look at these long-term outcomes the finding that passive smoking is associated with earlier delivery highlights the importance of studying environmental factors such as this.
‘Environmental tobacco smoke exposure in pregnancy is associated with earlier delivery andreduced birth weight’ by Rachel C. Ion, Andrew K. Wilis and Andres Lopez Bernal in Reproductive Sciences
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Models of Transformation: Community Transformation Centers
By Chelsea Quackenbush
And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other and even more so because you see the day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25
Transformation is not going to take place in a community if it’s not going to take place in the individual.
That’s the goal of Buckner’s Community Transformation Centers around the world. Case managers work with local families and individuals to address physical, medical, emotional, vocational and above all, spiritual needs to transform their hearts and lives.
“There needs to be a transformation of the heart,” said Dexton Shores, a regional director of Buckner Latin American ministries. “If there’s a relationship with God and families are connected with local churches, the likelihood of transformation increases dramatically.”
Little by little, Buckner staff are making connections and building relationships with people and families in the communities they serve to teach lasting lessons about how to do life better. Like Jesus told his disciples, life is better when in community with one another.
They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42
Buckner CTCs provide a holistic approach to the communities they serve by delivering an integrated, needs-based continuum of care to vulnerable children and their families. They are located in fragile communities, surrounded by poverty and crime. The centers seek to enable and empower parents to provide a safe, stable and loving environment for their children.
The first CTC opened in 2009 in Jocotenango, a small community on the edge of Antigua, Guatemala. Now there are eight CTCs scattered in the Rio Grande Valley, Honduras, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Peru, and 10 more Buckner plans to open in 2012.
Each center delivers a slate of opportunities that include health services, social services, educational services, access to humanitarian aid and spiritual enrichment.
Read more about our CTCs around the world by following the links below:
Penitas, Texas - The only domestic Buckner CTC helped Albert Diaz turn his 12 years of painting experience into a small business. The Diaz-Gonzalez family is a best-case scenario representation of the families Buckner Border Ministries serves. Read their story.
Neza, Mexico - The Maná CTC in Neza has opened a satellite CTC in the Las Villas community, a squatter community of extreme poverty near railroad tracks. The program currently relies on volunteers while Buckner staff make evaluations and determine whether or not they will open a full-service CTC.
Sierra Leone - Matilda Conteh was once resigned to a life of begging. Now, through a partnership between Buckner and the Global Connections Partnership Network, she has learned a trade and hopes to support herself and her children.
Roatan, Honduras - Last summer, Alex was a 5-year-old Honduran problem facing serious health problems. Now, he's healthy and learning how to stay that way.
Zaachila, Mexico - A new initiative from Buckner Mexico seeks to turn families' lives around 180 degrees.
Eduardo Brito, Dominican Republic - The Buckner CTC in Eduardo Brito has partnered with Esperanza Bank to kickstart a microloan program that will help families become self-reliant as they build small businesses.
To learn more about how you can support one of the Buckner Community Transformation Centers and accompanying ministries, please contact the Buckner Foundation at 214-758-8000.
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SECONDARY SUPERHEROES OF GOLDEN AGE COMICS
Highly Recommended. By Lou Mougin. When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in the superhero—Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America, hundreds of new characters. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains and Hitler? Such as the Shield, the Black Terror, the Golden Age Daredevil, Amazing Man, Cat-Man (and Kitten), Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Hollywood starlet turned crime fighter The Black Cat? Publisher by publisher, this well-respected author covers in detail 14 offbeat outfits including Centaur, Fox, Prize, Ace, Harvey, Hillman, MLJ, Nedor (Standard), Lev Gleason, etc. Each unique character is examined, even if they made just a solo appearance.
TIMELY CONFIDENTIAL When the Golden Age of Comics was Young
THE GOLDEN AGE OF DC COMICS
THE GOLDEN AGE MASTERWORKS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ILLUSTRATION Volume 2
When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in the superhero—Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America, hundreds of new characters. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains and Hitler? Such as the Shield, the Black Terror, the Golden Age Daredevil, Amazing Man, Cat-Man (and Kitten), Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Hollywood starlet turned crime fighter The Black Cat? Publisher by publisher, this well-respected author covers in detail 14 offbeat outfits including Centaur, Fox, Prize, Ace, Harvey, Hillman, MLJ, Nedor (Standard), Lev Gleason, etc. Each unique character is examined, even if they made just a solo appearance.
Most have since been overlooked, and not necessarily because they were victims of poor publication. This book gives the other superheroes of the Golden Age of comics their due, with a blow-by-blow look at each one's career and creators, context and oddities.
Other publishers who rate their own chapter: Novelty, Street and Smith, Columbia, Holyoke, Chesler, plus a chapter on everyone else. These guys published such notable titles as Big Shot, The Face, Skyman, The Shadow, Doc Savage, Super-Magician, Captain Aero (by Charles Quinlain), Blue Bolt (by Simon & Kirby) and on and on.
Nerly 450 pages long, this is massive and thorough.
Lou is a comics writer, historian and interviewer with credits at Marvel, Heroic, Claypool, Warrant, Charlton and others. He's extremely knowledgeable and writes with good humor, making this easy to read. Issue by issue, character by character, he takes us from first issues to (sometimes much later) origins, and even post-Golden Age appearances up to the present day. This is not a history of each company and its inner workings, rise and fall. This is about the heroes and heroines, and the men and women who wrote and drew them. Lou's critiques are right-on, as he points out good stories and artwork, vs more forgettable works.
Publisher McFarland has gotten better of late with their high prices, but not so here. $75 really put me off, until I actually saw a copy. This is definately a major book. And although it has no interior color, it has nice large cover reproductions of many of the titles mentioned, more than in other McFarland books. I've just started reading it and I'm already quite happy with it, after just the first chapter (on Centaur).
Lou points out in his introduction that he'd waited years for a book like this, but no one stepped up to the plate. So he did, and I think he's done a superlative job here. As a fan of all these offbeat Golden Age companies, I think it's worth the price of admission.
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Titmouse an appealing regular at backyard feeder
I have a very appealing new "regular" in my backyard. I enjoy watching as the small bird goes about its business with energy and animation, until it seemingly vanishes against the dark gray bark of the lavender tree's numerous branches.
Titmouse an appealing regular at backyard feeder I have a very appealing new "regular" in my backyard. I enjoy watching as the small bird goes about its business with energy and animation, until it seemingly vanishes against the dark gray bark of the lavender tree's numerous branches. Check out this story on caller.com: http://www.caller.com/story/life/columnists/phyllis-yochem/2016/08/01/titmouse-an-appealing-regular-at-backyard-feeder/91542176/
Special to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times Published 3:18 a.m. CT Aug. 1, 2016
I have a very appealing new 'regular' in my backyard. I enjoy watching as the small bird goes about its business with energy and animation, until it seemingly vanishes against the dark gray bark of the lavender tree's numerous branches.
Its habits and pixie-like crest identify it as a titmouse. Unlike an adult black-crested titmouse, our local species, it has the gray crest of a close relative, the tufted titmouse. Try as I may, I have so far only seen one bird at a time. I am guessing this is a juvenile black-crested that hasn't gotten its adult plumage.
These sociable birds are more often seen in flocks or family groups, so this bird's lack of companions is a bit of a mystery.
Adult male and female black-crested titmice look alike, pale gray overall with lighter underparts, a pale forehead and a pointed black crest. A faint rusty wash colors the flanks.
Titmice and chickadee species form the family Paridae, and share several interesting feeding behaviors. My bird has been regularly displaying one of these.
For the benefit of our cardinal family, we have been supplementing the usual ration of birdseed with additional black oil sunflower seeds on a platform feeder in the backyard. In contrast to the cardinals' habit of perching on the feeder and eating at length, the titmouse selects just one seed per visit.
It then flies to a nearby perch, holds the seed with its feet, and hammers at it with its bill to remove the kernel from the hull. Parids also cache food, either as a hedge against future shortages or simply to obtain as much as possible.
Specialized leg muscles enable titmice and chickadees to hang upside down while feeding. This helps them reach food in relatively inaccessible locations, such as buds at the ends of small twigs.
They mainly eat caterpillars, spiders and insects, as well as their eggs and larvae. To a lesser extent, they also eat berries and seeds. Sunflower seeds are a favorite. Pecans, acorns and snails are included in their diet.
Black-crested and tufted titmice sometimes hybridize where their ranges overlap in Central Texas. For this reason, their taxonomy has been the source of contention. Until 2002, they were lumped together as a single species.
Research has revealed clear genetic differences, in addition to the obvious plumage and slight differences in vocalizations. The black-crested titmouse's call is slightly higher and more rapid than the tufted's. It sounds a little bit like peew peew peew peew peew.
I also have heard it deliver a buzzy scolding noise. It's smaller size doesn't seem to prevent it from clearing a cardinal from the feeder when it's ready to visit.
Phyllis Yochem, a Corpus Christi resident, has studied birds in Texas since 1960.
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Kevin Simmons: Annapolis prepares for the worst with active assailant training on Wednesday
By Kevin Simmons
Kevin Simmons, then director of the Office of Emergency Management for Annapolis, briefs volunteer victims as they prepare for a first responder training exercise at Maryland Hall in 2018. The city will conduct the next phase of training on Wednesday. (Brian Krista / The Capital)
The United States has experienced roughly 385 mass shootings in the United States this year according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive defines mass shooting as any incident where four or more people are shot or killed. This “new normal” has effectively changed the mindset of everyday Americans as we go about our daily business.
The frequency of active assailant attacks has heightened public awareness to include “lockdowns,” “run, hide, fight,” and “avoid, deny, defend.”
Could it be that the increase in mass shootings is causing a spike in more shootings? Research shows that mass shootings can be contagious. Arizona State University researchers explored the possibility that mass violence can spread contagiously like a disease outbreak such as Ebola or influenza.
In summary, researchers theorize that a person who is susceptible to committing mass violence may be encouraged when learning of other incidents of mass violence. A contributing factor in the contagious nature on mass shootings may include the amount of national and international media coverage they receive. Researchers who study mass shootings advise the media to limit coverage on the assailant by not showing his or her image or covering life history, in order to keep notoriety to a minimum.
Locally, there have been a few groundbreaking initiatives to combat gun violence, which is the basis for mass shootings. This summer, on the first anniversary of the horrific Capital Gazette shooting, Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley hosted a gun violence summit on the campus of St. John’s College. The summit addressed prevention, community impact, policy and advocacy.
Also this year, Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman, by executive order, created the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. This Task Force is charged with collecting data and reviewing relevant information related to crime, public safety and public health. The Task Force will be recommending actionable items to County Executive Pittman in the coming weeks.
Anne Arundel County Police Chief Tim Altomare recently gave me a tour of the new Anne Arundel County Police Training Facility, which has a state-of-the-art virtual firearms training simulator. The simulator engages officers in judgmental use of force and de-escalation training, both of which will dramatically improve an officer’s response in an active assailant situation.
On Wednesday, the Annapolis Public Safety team, along with our Anne Arundel County partners, will hold a full-scale exercise involving a simulated active assailant assault on a local house of worship. This exercise is the fourth and final installment of active assailant training that began in 2016. The training has included full-scale active assault exercises on St. John’s
College, St. Mary’s High School and the J. Albert Adams Academy. During the training, we have implemented Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training, Rescue Taskforce Training and advanced Incident Command System concepts. The ultimate objective in these trainings is to:
Immediately engage and neutralize a shooter.
Deliver medical treatment as quickly as possible to minimize civilian injury and death.
We encourage residents, community and civic members to assist us on Wednesday. We need you to role-play victims. Your participation will add a sense of realism to the exercise and will help us test our ability to rescue, transport and process victims for reunification with family members.
Unfortunately, we will also have to practice the proper process in delivering death notifications to families, which happens far too frequently in active assailant situations.
Finally, Gov. Larry Hogan continues to provide safety and security measures to Houses of Worship and non-profits through the “Protecting Against Hate Crimes” grant. The grant allows for personnel, operating expenses, security enhancements and equipment to improve the safety and security of these institutions.
To be considered for this grant, applications must be submitted by June 2020. If your house of worship or non-profit is interested in applying for this grant, we can help. Contact the City of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management at oem@annapolis.gov or call 410-216-9167.
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Kevin J. Simmons is the director of the City of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management.
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Workers strike at the post office in Chase on the morning of Thursday November 8. The four-hour strike is part of nation-wide job action by Canada Post workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). According to CUPW, workers are striking for better workplace conditions including better schedules. The rotating strikes have shut down Canada Post operations in over 200 communities across the country. (Rick Koch Photo)
Canada Post says protests at facilities in some provinces violates court orders
CUPE says 19 protests are scheduled this weekend at facilities across the country
Dec. 1, 2018 12:00 p.m.
Canada Post says protesters blocking mail from flowing in and out of one of the country’s busiest postal hubs are violating a court order.
The protesters rallying outside of the facility in Mississauga, Ont., are largely members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees acting in solidarity with postal workers who were legislated back to work last week.
The back-to-work legislation was passed on Monday following about five weeks of rotating strikes from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
READ MORE: Unions block trucks at Canada Post depot in B.C. to protest back-to-work bill
CUPE says 19 protests are scheduled this weekend at facilities across the country, allowing workers to enter, but not letting mail out of the plants.
The Ontario branch of that union says the protesters have been served with an injunction, but they still plan to protest in solidarity with the postal workers.
The injunctions were granted by courts in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, prohibiting anyone from obstructing or interfering with people or vehicles entering or exiting its facilities.
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The debate about the role of digital technology in our society has gone through a remarkable transformation. Following two decades of techno-optimism, we are now in the midst of a techlash.
The 2016 US presidential election was the catalyst for this turn; foreign actors who manipulated technology played a significant role in the election of Donald Trump. But the root cause of the techlash runs far deeper — a hands-off approach to technology regulation left companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon to serve billions of users and eventually perform core functions of society. The costs are clear: platforms threaten our social fabric, our economy and our democracy.
Despite growing calls for global platform governance, no solution has been found. To begin to address this, CIGI has convened leading thinkers to explore new models for governing digital platforms.
In this video, Joan Donovan, Gene Kimmelman and Kate Klonick — who all contributed to CIGI’s latest essay series, Models for Platform Governance — discuss the emergence of platform governance, how a lack of regulation could threaten democracy and why a global effort is needed to mitigate these harms.
The 2016 US presidential election was the catalyst for this turn; foreign actors who manipulated technology played a significant role in the election of Donald Trump. But the root cause of the techlash runs far deeper — a hands-off approach to technology regulation left companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon to serve billions of users and eventually perform core functions of our society. And the costs are increasingly clear: platforms are creating negative costs to our social fabric, our economy and our democracy.
We’ve arrived at a time when these platforms simply need to be governed, and the approach must be global.
When we talk about platform governance, we’re talking about what are the groups of people that need to come together in order to manage this large technological infrastructure that we’re calling platforms, and platforms usually are referring to a place like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. And the governance part is really about, well, how do we manage bad uses of platform technologies.
It’s really about creating another way of understanding exactly the role that private platforms have, and the outsized role that they have from other kinds of companies and other types of corporations that we’ve had before, just in terms of how they’re affecting people’s day-to-day lives.
It’s these companies that have now become the major means by which we get political information, we do social interactions with each other, and our economies are being driven more and more by a digital environment.
For the longest time, we have heralded platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, as liberatory technologies that are going to bring about massive democratizing social change throughout the globe. And we’ve seen numerous movements, from the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, as well as Black Lives Matter, all using digital technologies to mobilize groups for positive social change. However, the problems related to having a lack of agreements around how platforms are to be used really touches ground in Charlottesville, because when the Unite the Right rally was being planned, it was using all those same technologies and all those same techniques. The torchlight march and the coordinated outfits and all of that planning was done on open forums, on platforms, and so we have to start to reckon with, well, what are these platforms doing to society, what are they allowing, and how do we strike a balance between the good uses of these infrastructures and the evil ones.
So what we’re seeing happen in the digital environment, without a unified governance structure — a regulatory body — is we have companies merging together, we have companies creating partnerships, we have new relationships developing through contract with no public oversight mechanism. And so we have a few winners in the digital marketplace who seem to be dominating across the economy and in that way also controlling the way in which we communicate.
These platforms have become very, very powerful and so no one government is necessarily strong enough to take them on. And so now you’re seeing that if you’re going to have regulation and regulation is what you decide is better for these companies, you’re going to need to have to work with governments to have them work together and coordinate a way to either approach these companies so that they implement more ideal regulation regimes or they decide to regulate the companies from the outside.
We need better agreements now about how we share information, especially when it comes to sharing information that is hate speech, harassment or incitement to violence, and those kinds of information, while in the US are nominally protected by free speech laws, it is not the case globally, and these platforms are global. And so, we are sort of at the tipping point of needing a global governance strategy, whether it comes from the corporations themselves or from other governments, to mitigate against these harms.
At the end of World War II, the global community understood that a new framework was needed to bring stability to financial markets and to prevent future conflicts. Today, a new set of rules is warranted — rules to regulate data, competition and content, the intangible assets that our democracies and the global economy rely on. Deciding what these new rules look like and how we achieve them will require global coordination.
To begin to address this, CIGI has convened leading thinkers from across the globe to explore new models for governing digital platforms. To learn about their ideas and what a framework for global platform governance might look like, please visit cigionline.org/platforms.
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Jab Harry Met Sejal review: SRK charms, Anushka is hilarious in this jaded romcom
Release Date: 04 Aug 2017 / Rated: U/A / 02hr 23min
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Mumbai, 04 Aug 2017 14:53 IST
Updated: 05 Aug 2017 2:56 IST
This love story is an extension of director Imtiaz Ali's tried-and-tested formula.
Jab Harry Met Sejal is a love story that ticks all the right boxes when it comes to a romantic comedy. A charming hero, a fun heroine and great chemistry. There are some delightful compositions. There are the beautiful locales and interesting situations to bring the protagonists closer. But does it make for a memorable love story?
Sejal, daughter of a rich diamond merchant, who got engaged on a trip to Europe, loses her ring. The standoffish Gujarati girl with a thick accent forces the raffish tour guide Harry aka Harindar Singh Nehra (Shah Rukh Khan) to help her find it. Harry is a womanizer and often gets into trouble for sleeping with his female clients. He wants to have nothing to do with Sejal as he doesn't trust his raging libido one bit.
The odd couple create their own dynamic and a bond develops between them, which eventually turns to love, as they travel across various European cities — from Amsterdam to Prague and Budapest. But Harry is not sure if he can let go of his personality and nomadic lifestyle, and Sejal is way too practical, not wanting to be the 'cheap' woman who leaves her wealthy fiance for a tourist guide.
Harry is running away from himself and his roots. He wants to accept his perception of himself as the truth. Sejal forces Harry to come to terms with who he really is.
Fortunately, it is not only left to the woman to help the man find himself. Sejal, too, realizes, through meeting Harry, that she is not as practical and selfish as she percieves herself to be. She isn't really a woman who wants to live a life that is expected of her, which is to marry a good rich Gujarati boy and manage her family business.
The ring, obviously, is a metaphor, and Sejal and Harry are actually searching for something to complete them — the other.
Jab Harry Met Sejal thrives on the interaction and conversation between its two main characters. And a major advantage for director Imtiaz Ali is that Khan and Sharma bring the perfect energy to their respective characters and to each other's performance. Their chemistry is lovely.
Khan, apart from looking amazing, is at his charming best — whether it's humour, emotion or romance. His character is not likeable, but Khan is still a delight to watch.
Sharma, though, is a total scene stealer. She stays perfectly in character from start to end. Her comic timing in this film is brilliant. She brings Sejal's innocence, humour and quirkiness to the screen with great ease. If not for anything else, this film will be remembered for Sharma's comic shenanigans.
Imtiaz Ali's screenplay offers some great opportunities for both artistes to flex their acting muscle and create some good moments. But Ali follows a standard romantic comedy template. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, there is a conflict, the two part, reality dawns on them and they get back together. There is the airport scene towards the end and the film ends at a wedding.
He sets up the first half really well, with some very entertaining moments, but falters in the initial part of the second half as he attempts to explore the love and heighten the conflict between his protagonists.
Ali basically seems to have remade his own film Jab We Met (2007) with two seemingly different characters. While his previous film Tamasha (2015) came across as pretentious in the attempt to explore an existential crisis, Jab Harry Met Sejal is simpler in its goals and could have been so much better for having its heart in the right place. But Imtiaz Ali's 'finding love and something greater through travel' idea is jaded now. Only his actors change and the characters get somewhat of a makeover. Khan and Sharma need to be thanked for making Jab Harry Met Sejal worth a little more.
This is Imtiaz Ali's happiest film since Jab We Met and that could have been the best part about it. Unfortunately, in being so, it does not connect in the way it was crafted to. It is an opportunity missed. Ali is known for his depiction of Sufi love and emotional depth. He has made some memorable love stories. This one is not amongst those.
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Chinese International School
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Please read the main Admissions page first.
About Reception Admissions
Reception is Chinese International School’s entry year programme. It is a half-day programme. Upon completion, students normally move to Year 1 (full-day programme) and beyond. From August 2017, the Reception class will have 96 places.
Applicants for Reception must have reached the age of 4 years by August 31 of the year for which they seek entry.
For admission to Reception, the school seeks children who are well-rounded and have reached age-appropriate milestones cognitively, linguistically, physically, socially and emotionally. Candidates should demonstrate independence and initiative and the ability to concentrate in a formal setting.
CIS seeks to admit a balanced cohort of students. In assessing prospective students we look to have a balance in language backgrounds (English and Chinese), gender and age. We also seek to have a diverse student mix. Ultimately, to qualify, the student must appear to be a good fit for CIS (based on the observation session, pre-school reports and information provided) and his or her parents must similarly understand and appreciate the CIS mission.
Age-appropriate fluency in the child's native language is considered very important. The child's native language/dialect does not need to be one of the school's two languages (English or Mandarin). The child’s native language/dialect may be Cantonese or another language so long as the child demonstrates that he or she has reached age-appropriate milestones in its use and in other abilities, and thus demonstrates the potential to be a strong language-learner.
Applications will be accepted up to two years before the desired date of entry, but not earlier. The application period begins from September 1, beginning two academic years prior to entry and closing on October 1 of the academic year prior to entry.
Date of Birth Grade Applying For Application Period
1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016 Reception 2020-21 1 September 2018 to 1 October 2019
Two-Stage Admissions Process
The admissions process for Reception is a two-stage process. Not all applicants participating in the first stage will be invited to proceed to the second stage.
1. Online Application
Please complete an Online Application no later than October 1 of the academic year preceding the desired year of entry. A non-refundable application fee of HK$2,000 should be paid by cheque at the time of application.
The school will review all submitted applications. Based on the information submitted by parents, students will be selected for further consideration in the second stage of the admissions process.
Note: Children who are applying with a Corporate Nomination Right, have siblings at CIS, or who have a parent who is an alumnus/a or teacher of CIS have priority in the admissions process. They, together with selected other applicants, will be invited to take part in the second stage of the admissions process.
Notifications about the second stage of Reception admissions are sent out by email in late November.
Note: the Online Application may be completed before or after attending an Information Session, but please note that attendance at an Information Session is required and a mandatory Questionnaire will only be provided to parents after they have attended an Information Session.
2A. INFORMATION SESSION
Applicant parents interested in the Reception programme must attend an Information Session to learn more about CIS. The Information Session enables parents to gain a stronger understanding of CIS’ mission and culture and is a mandatory part of the Reception admissions process.
While applicants to Reception may apply up to two years before the desired year of entry, they should attend an Information Session during the academic year immediately preceding the desired year of entry.
Information Session dates for a given academic year are typically posted in early/mid September. Sign-up is online.
Each Information Session for Reception lasts approximately one hour.
2B. QUESTIONNAIRE & TOURS
After attending an Information Session, parents will receive an email with:
a Questionnaire (typeable PDF), which must be returned to the school in hard copy, with a photo of the student;
and information about signing up for an optional Tour of the school. Tours take place on weekday mornings and are led by Primary students, accompanied by a teacher. Tours typically take place at 8:30 a.m. and last about 30 minutes.
The school will review all submitted applications. Using the information parents have submitted, a subset of students will be selected for assessment.
3. OBSERVATION SESSION
For applicants proceeding to the second stage, Observation Sessions will take place from December to early March in the academic year prior to the year of entry. Children are invited to campus on a Saturday to take part in a group Observation Session. They will engage in a wide range of activities typical of a pre-school environment and will also be asked questions by the assessing staff in English, Mandarin or Cantonese, depending on the child's language background.
Observation Sessions are held on Saturdays from morning to midday and last approximately one hour.
A parent or guardian must accompany the child to the school; however, please be aware that during the Observation Session, parents/guardians remain in a separate area, where they will be briefed by a senior member of the school's Primary staff.
An additional non-refundable assessment fee of HK$2,000 will be charged if an applicant is invited for an observation session.
4. INDIVIDUAL PARENT MEETING
For applicants proceeding to the second stage, parents will be invited to come to campus on a different scheduled date for a brief meeting. This is a further opportunity for parents to ask questions and learn more about CIS.
Meetings last 20 minutes.
Note: Applicant families who proceed to the second stage of the admissions process may need to come to campus up to four times (Information Session, Observation Session, Parent Meeting and optional Tour).
Initial offers for Reception will be sent out by email by the end of March once all assessments have been completed. All applications will be closed at this time.
View the main Admissions page for information about acceptances and re-applications.
Reception Timetable
Sept-Oct: Information Sessions
Nov: Notification re Stage 2 status
Dec-Mar:
Observation Sessions
Mar: Notifications
May: New student Orientations
Info Sessions for Reception 2020-21
September 19, 2019 (FULL)
September 25, 2019 (Registration closed)
October 2, 2019 (Registration closed)
All start at 9:00am
Dates for information sessions for the year ahead are typically posted in early/mid September.
admissions@cis.edu.hk
Reception & Primary Applications
1 Hau Yuen Path
Which School Entrance to Use:
Visitors to the Admissions Office should use the New Tower entrance on Braemar Hill Road, facing St. Joan of Arc School.
Those attending Information Sessions should use the main school entrance on Hau Yuen Path and proceed to the Auditorium.
1 Hau Yuen Path, Braemar Hill, Hong Kong SAR, China
A dynamic, dual-language learning community based in Hong Kong and looking out to the world.
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THE COLONIAL PRESENT The Rule of Ignorance and the Role of Law in BC
Kerry Coast
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“If the reader is concerned about social justice, especially in their own backyard, then The Colonial Present is an important read. It is jam packed with urgent human rights and sovereignist issues that affect the Original Peoples, not just of BC, but throughout Turtle Island and on down to Tierra del Fuego.”
KIM PETERSEN, The Dissident Voice
NATSU TAYLOR SAITO, Professor of International Law – November 27, 2018
“A timely, thorough, and readable exposé of the persistence of colonialism in British Columbia, the genocidal policies of Canadian settler society, and their ongoing effects on First Nations peoples. The Colonial Present integrates historical context and contemporary political and cultural dynamics into its compelling assessment of urgent questions affecting indigenous land, natural resources and sovereignty. This fascinating study provides a template not only for understanding but transforming colonial realities throughout North America.”
NATSU TAYLOR SAITO, Professor of International Law, Georgia State University,
author of Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law
WARD CHURCHILL, – November 27, 2018
“Kerry Coast lays bare the putrid sophistries through which the Canadian state purports to legitimate its genocidal expropriation of the indigenous homelands comprising what is officially known as “British Columbia.” This is history as it should be done.”
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A breathtaking policy of criminalization, assimilation and extinguishment has been vigorously carried out against Indigenous Peoples where now there is a Canadian province called British Columbia.
Present day governments have re-named those programs many times and continue to manufacture support for them within Indigenous communities, relying on the element of duress to force change. They are, to quote the 1948 Genocide Convention, “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” They have not yet succeeded.
Why do the people of BC seek the dissolution of some thirty distinct Indigenous nations? Why do they cry,“ One law for all Canadians” in answer to Indigenous efforts to exercise their right of self-determination? Eighty percent of BC’s economy today comes directly from extractive industries using natural resources in lands and waters that have never been ceded, sold or surrendered to them by the owners.
The ongoing displacement and dispossession of Indigenous Peoples relies on the settler population’s indifference to their human rights. The interests of resource industries have dominated accounts of Indigenous Peoples throughout the mainstream media, the academic presses and the courts, impoverishing their histories and disappearing their futures.
The indigenous have suffered excruciating losses. But the highest expression of government reconciliation has this bottom line and none other: release title to the traditional territories and resources; accept a small financial, land and program funding settlement; and become a BC municipality.
The Colonial Present documents the colonizer’s manufacture of a new mythology to rationalize this ultimatum. This book is an unprecedented history and chronicle of British Columbians’ continuing attempts to leave the question of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the past, without ever recognizing them in the present.
KERRY COAST has lived her life in the lands of the Squamish, Líl’wat, St’át’imc, Secwepemc and Sto:lo. Coast produced The St’át’imc Runner newspaper and The BC Treaty Negotiating Times. She adapted five legends for the stage and produced them with the Úcwalmicw Players in Lillooet. She has done professional research in First Nations Education. Coast served as the representative of IHRAAM, an international NGO, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York in 2011-2013, and participated in the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) in 2013. She was part of an IHRAAM delegation meeting with Commissioner Tracey Robinson of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Vancouver on August 9th, 2013 concerning a case registered with the IACHR.
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This quote was shared with us by Pastor Ron Woolsey of Council Bluffs, Iowa. “A true leader is a servant, not a master.” ” – Robert K. Greenleaf. What does the lead goose do at the front of the flock? Understands the mission. Shows the way forward.
of Mason City, Iowa. “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” ” – Shannon L. Adler. At work, perhaps more than anywhere else, communication matters a lot. But words are not the only manner of communication.
from Davenport, Iowa. “The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.” ” – Robert Brault. So simple, so true, so wise, so powerful.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington all have statewide legislation protecting people against sexual orientation and gender identity. Discrimination against people for their sexual orientation is wrong, right?
Last week I was invited to be a guest on At Issue with Ben Merens which is heard in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa on Wisconsin Public Radio. The topic was 16 signs it's time to quit your job. The show featured an in-depth chat about how to know it's time to go and tips to set up a plan to leave a job. I had a blast fielding questions from listeners and hope to do it again in the future. I hope you'll take a listen below. Career Advice quitting your job
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The sponsor of the law, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, applauded the award to Mr. Birkenfeld, and called his actions “courageous.”. last month, a former investment banker who helped the U.S.
Danika Portz is originally from Remsen, Iowa and is a 2007 graduate of Remsen St. She is a 2011 graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa with degrees in accounting and marketing and a minor in musical theatre.
Now they are contesting my unemployment and I have a phone hearing set up for next week to discuss the disagreement, with my previous employer and an Iowa Unemployment representative. Answer : Dear Kayla: Though I am not licensed to practice law in Iowa, where you worked, my brief review of Iowa law on this subject indicates that Iowa law is quite similar to the law in most states. Question : I started working for my employer in Nov.
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The Department of Energy has made a conditional loan guarantee for $105 million to Project Liberty, sponsored by POET, LLC, for the development of a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to be built in Iowa.
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Senator for Iowa who served in the Military for 20 years before becoming the first female Senator from Iowa. Concurrently she serves as head of the Iowa National Guard. SUBJECT: Work responsibly.
Iowa – Iowa Workforce Development. Workers Compensation Definition.
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The insurance manager sued—and won—for age discrimination in Iowa after he was demoted in 2003. Jack Gross’ case set a precedent. But later, the Supreme Court reversed the decision, stating that Gross now had to cite substantial evidence that his age was the decisive factor in his demotion. The Court’s ruling made it much harder for Gross, and everyone else, to prove a case of age discrimination in the workplace.
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During one teen''s big moment, a heart-to-heart with Iowa State''s Bill Fennelly, the decorated coach of 23 years sang an insistent refrain. "He Iowa State, in contrast, pushed the personal hard.
I have an interesting example of this: Last summer, both men and women competed in the cowboy shooting competition at the Iowa State Fair. Social media (and the personal branding phenomenon that keeps it ticking) can make it seem like everyone has it together.
SHRM15 is literally within a week and if you’ve never been you’re in for a treat! This year we’ve put together another one of our ultimate guides to the conference and Las Vegas. Whether you’re going to SHRM to network or you’re going because it’s a free trip to Vegas (let’s face it, some of you reading this are thinking just that!) we have you covered!
He also has an extra space before the name John and extra space after Iowa. Below is the first half of a résumé written by a sales candidate. We will call him John. John’s résumé is substantially sub standard.
There's a whole bunch of people in Iowa who think the Monte Carlo in Vegas rocks. At #hrtechconf this week and if there's one sector that continues to get a lot of buzz, it's all things employment branding. Lots of solutions on the expo floor designed to help you look better than you really are as a company. And that may be the problem, right? Maybe you shouldn't look better than you are.
INSIDER’S GUIDE TO SHRM 2016 PARTIES & SPECIAL EVENTS. We are just 5 short weeks away from the 2016 SHRM Annual Conference in Washington DC. I’m currently working on blog content, selecting sessions and trying to develop a plan for all things #SHRM16.
Iowa (ia.jobs). Once upon a time, before the days of Facebook, was a series of computer network systems called USENET. Usenet was (more or less) an online forum without frills as all you could do was post text and share files (mostly pictures).
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Some of the best-value schools to get an MBA include the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. Obtaining an MBA is becoming increasingly popular these days.
Not exactly the dream job I had as a little kid growing up in small town Iowa. One year, I forced myself out of my comfort zone and attended a Career Fair at the University of Iowa. As a college student, your number one priority is to learn.
Garrison, Iowa. Question: Alan, I signed a severance agreement with little legal advice. I later had to defend myself at an unemployment hearing and I won. At the unemployment hearing my former employer stated the reason I was actually let go had nothing to do with the reason stated in the severance agreement. He stated I gave away company secrets and was doing his best to make it look like I was dishonest. Do I have a case of wrongful termination? Fred .
Phelps has benefited from innovations that go back at least to David Armbruster, who from 1917 to 1958 coached the University of Iowa swim team. The post Three Ways to Innovate Like an Olympian at the Office appeared first on Ms. Career Girl.
2 Designed Newsletter, Co-Edited, #3 Opened Markets – 2 in spare time, Iowa and Arkansas, 5 total new partnerships. #4 Join me in two weeks when I talk about 5 how-tos on hiring the unemployable in 2015. . The other night my husband and I were having a pretty intense conversation.
A federal district court in Iowa sided with Gross, but the decision was appealed. An era where it's easier for workers to prove age discrimination on the job may be closer than you think.
A 2008 University of Iowa study showed what you may have already suspected: a firm, solid handshake is an important part of a successful job interview, while a dead fish can end the interview before it even begins. Start your first impressions with a good first impression.
Torin Ellis, 47, was born in Florida and raised in the Midwest, spending time in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa. The post Navigating the Gig Economy appeared first on Ms. Career Girl. The following is a guest post by Torin Ellis, a job search expert. His bio follows.
Titled ‘ Gender, Job Authority, And Depression ‘, by Tetyana Pudrovska, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Amelia Karraker of the University of Iowa.
Earlier this month, the Iowa Supreme Court reaffirmed its December ruling that a dentist acted lawfully in firing a female assistant for being, well, just too darn sexy.
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After living 4 years of my life in Des Moines, Iowa for school, big city life was welcomed with open arms. Five things I’ve learned in the big city? I know what you’re thinking, this list should be more like 100. Two days ago, I celebrated my first year anniversary in Chicago.
Des Moines, Iowa. Question : Dear Alan: Can a company selectively enforce non-compete agreements? What I mean is that I know of several instances where my company knows that a former employee is now working for a competitor and my company chooses not to take legal action. Another interesting note that I also know is that my employer has knowingly hired employees from competitors knowing that they also have non-competes.
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Many of you are remembering this same conversation from the movie Field of Dreams when Terence Mann was instructing and motivating Ray Kinsella on why he must continue forward with the building of the baseball field on his farm in Iowa. HR Practitioners, people will show up at your doorsteps.
Here, Peter Awad, co-founder of Mission Meats in Decorah, Iowa; Lindsay Kolber, co-founder of LogicPrep in Armonk, New York; Brian Podwinski, owner of Blue Blood Brewing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska; and Ismael Wrixen, co-owner of brokerage firm FE International in Boston, Massachusetts, sound off. Are you having trouble choosing a business location for your company?
Does she have any recourse if she is fired? . Derek. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Question: My wife was called into her boss’s office yesterday (he is the company’s owner) and asked to change her compensation starting January 1st from (1) salary plus 7% commission to (2) straight 30% commission. This new compensation plan would have given her an extra $10,000 compensation this past year, so it seems like a good deal.
51 Jobs for Iowa. The city of Eldridge worked closely with the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce/Quad Cities First economic development team to close the deal after receiving a lead from the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
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So long, ‘South Park?’
By Mathew Klickstein |
Ed. note: Well, Matt wrote this before these dudes went on “The Daily Show” to say they’re not ending “South Park,” but we think it’s still a nice read.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s poignant yet scatological machination, “South Park,” was something I simply couldn’t do without in my film school days. Aside from being gut-bursting hilarious, the episodes espoused exactly what I was thinking at the time. No envy, just the exuberance that, “Well, if I can’t say it to the world, at least they will!”
With all that reverie behind me, I can’t help but give in to the resounding internet speculation that last week’s “South Park” episode, the half-season finale, might have been a clandestine series finale.
Any fan of the show knows that a few years back, the boys enjoyed a $75 million payday contractually obligating them to stay on at Comedy Central for what would today be one more half-season. They’ve since signed another contract and this past March spoke in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter about their intention to stay with Comedy Central until 2013.
The problem, of course, being that we all know what happened with Dave Chappelle and his famously walking away from a similar $50 million deal. We’re also talking about the world’s most successful living contrarians, Trey and Matt. They kinda do whatever the hell they want.
Compounded with these realities is the underlying message of the last episode, “You’re Getting Old,” in which the primary characters state directly that they’re getting bored with the same ol’ routine, making indirect reference to the show itself.
Throughout the episode (which I feel is hands-down the best since those college days), there’s a devastatingly apocalyptic motif about cynicism and despair. Stan turns 10, suddenly seeing the world is literally shit and — spoiler alert! — his parents divorce at the end, selling the family house.
The episode ends with mortal enemies Cartman and Kyle becoming friends, fade up “Landslide” — “Well, I’ve been afraid of changing…” — and then it’s an uncharacteristic fade to black with an eerily caustic end credits sequence absent the show’s signature theme music.
Indeed, as the producers themselves say in the description of the episode on their SouthParkStudios.com website, “the very fabric of South Park begins to unravel.”
So, especially now that they have more money than God and are riding a high crest of success in a whole other field, will Trey and Matt grant their customary finger to the consequences and walk? “But time makes you bolder/Children get older/I’m getting older too.”
Lest we forget that equally self-reflective episode, “Quest for Ratings,” in which the characters realize they can’t create a TV program to compete with a trite reality show of cuddly animals, in the end deciding to “bail.” Seven seasons later, Trey and Matt have yet to leave.
Perhaps we can therefore rest easy knowing that the end of 2011 is still a long way away, and that 2013 is even further down the road.
Particularly with this telling quote from Trey in that March Hollywood Reporter: “‘South Park‘ is way bigger than either of us… And it’s this curse, and when we are doing it, I hate it. I’m pissed off and I’m tired, and every single Tuesday I say, ‘This is the worst show we’ve ever done!’ It’s brutal. But it’s something I am a part of that’s bigger than I am. That’s what most important.”
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Unresolved? 36 Rafales now cost 7.1 billion euros, 126 in 2012 cost 7.75 billion euros
By Mohan Guruswamy*
Rahul Gandhi tried to make the Rafale issue the sharp edge of the sword to politically slay Narendra Modi. He failed. But that does not absolve the Modi government from providing convincing answers as to why we are paying almost three times more for each Rafale than what was offered in 2014. People need an explanation. It is not a defence secret. It is an essential truth that is being sought.
The Indian Air Force was hoping for a minimum of 80 Dassault Rafale fighters, but the Modi government has kept the initial order down to 36 fighters in a fly away condition for 7.8 billion euros. Or $9.13 billion (@ 1 euro= $1.17). This gave rise to the calculation that we were buying the fighters for Rs.1600 crores each.
During the run-up to the deal, the then defence minister, Manohar Parrikar, muddied the waters a bit by making off the cuff comments about the high cost of the Rafale compared to the IAF’s mainstay, the SU-30 MKI. I don’t think there is any issue about the quality of the Rafale, unless Ram Jethmalani has a view on it, like he had on the Bofors FH-77 howitzer.
The public, quite rightly too, believes that all weapons purchases by the government involve murky transactions and huge pay-offs to figures in the government. This has been our well-beaten track record. The Modi government too is a government of politicians and many people believe that the main offset contractor, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence, suggests a deal is on.
Asked why Anil Ambani was chosen as the offsets partner for Rafale, an unnamed French official reportedly said: "Il fallait un homme qui puisse sussurer dans l'oreille du cheval." We needed a man (a jockey) who could whisper into the horse's ear."
This should lend further credence to that. According to Ministry of Company Affairs, Reliance Defence Limited was registered on March 28, 2015. On April 11, 2015 Reliance Defence Limited becomes the main partner in to ensure the 50 percent offset clause under which Dassault and other related French parties will invest half the contract value back in the country. Government officials insist that 74 percent of the offsets will be exported earning 3 billion euros for the country in the next seven years.
Incidentally Anil Ambani’s flagship company , Reliance Communications Ltd (stylized as RCom), just defaulted on a major foreign loan and its future ability to fulfill its Rafale offsets commitment should now be in doubt. The defaulted 2020 notes issued by RCom, once the country’s second-largest wireless operator, were trading at a record low of about 35.6 cents on the dollar in Hong Kong. The company’s shares slid 3.3% to an all-time low of Rs11.55. In the past year Anil Ambani's ADAG group has spectacularly imploded and he buys staving off bankruptcy.
There is much noise about the huge costs at which the 36 Rafale’s have been contracted for. The comparable costs of the 126 and 36 deals can only be read when all the costs are factored in. The cost of the new deal for 36 Rafale fighters is 3.42 billion euros as the cost of the bare planes; 1.8 billion euros for associated supplies for infrastructure and support; 1.7 billion euros for India-specific changes to the plane; and 353 million euros for “performance-based logistics support”; with the weapons package of 700 million euros being the extra.
What is new here are the performance based logistics support and the weapons package. So take out 1053 million euros out and you have the comparable cost, which means it is it is 7.1 billion euros. It appears that the fiddle is in the India specific costs, additional infrastructure and support, and performance logistics support. The first MMRCA deal also would have included India specific specifications, as is in the case of the IAF’s SU30MKI’s. Thus for comparison sake the argument can be made that 36 Rafales now cost 7.1 billion euros while 126 Rafales in 2012 cost 7.75 billion euros.
IAF "spokesmen" have been justifying the Rafale purchase because the package includes the Meteor air-to-air missile. The Meteor is the new game changer in the air. It increases the "no-escape" zone for a hostile aircraft by about three times. The Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) developed by MBDA. It will offer a multi-shot capability against long range maneuvering targets in a heavy electronic countermeasures (ECM) environment with range in excess of 100 kilometers (62 miles).
According to the manufacturer, in a head-on engagement the Meteor provides a no-escape zone three times greater than that of a conventionally powered missile. With the Meteor launched in pursuit of a target—a tail-chase engagement—the Meteor is five times as lethal as a conventional equivalent such as the American AMRAAM. According to MBDA, Meteor has three to six times the kinematic performance of current air-air missiles of its type. The key to Meteor's performance is believed to be its throttleable ducted rocket (ramjet) manufactured by Bayern-Chemie of Germany.
Since the IAF cannot speak for itself, it deploys former IAF officials to speak for it. These “experts” have been deceptively disseminating the Meteor missile as the real reason for buying the Rafale’s. It was even said on a RSTV panel discussion in which I took part by an Air Vice Marshal who has found second wind as a strategic expert. The fact is that the Swedish Gripfen has now been integrated with the Meteor and open sources indicate that the IAF too is contemplating integrating the SU-30MKI and Meteor. Even the Tejas can be fitted out with Meteors. So we are not buying the Rafale for the Meteor.
Missile purchase can never be part of the capital cost of a fighter. Since they are expendable, they should be part of revenue expenditure
The cost of procuring Meteors is hard to come by. Limited figures came to light in Germany in 2013. The Luftwaffe will acquire 150 missiles at a cost of around $323 million, plus a further $175 million for integration. That compares favorably with a price tag of $423 million for 180 AIM-120Ds, which the Pentagon paid in 2012. Today each Meteor will cost about 2.5 million euros each. I don’t think the IAF will need more Meteor missiles than the USAF or Luftwaffe. But then there are other missiles to pay for too. Missile purchase can never be part of the capital cost of a fighter. Since they are expendable, and presumably mean to be expendable, they should be part of revenue expenditure.
Make no mistake. The Rafale is a top class 4+-generation fighter. Perhaps even the best. But we are concerned with prices and pay-offs. If this is a given we must be happy that we made a good purchase. We must also live with the nagging suspicion that money changed hands not just between the principals but to others less directly connected too.
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50% of the contract is an offset to develop a private aerospace industry through joint ventures between Indian and French companies + training of personnels, engineers, etc. The offset being about $4 billions, added with as much brought by Indian private sector, this is a huge aerospace sector coming, including airframes, integration, avionics and the most important : jet engines.
If you consider a weapons package of €711M, the integration of a good dozen weapons used by IAF (including BrahMos) added to the Elbit HMD helmet, if you consider that integrating even a dumb freefall bomb would be billed $100M by Lockheed or Boeing and Germany paid $175M to integrate Meteor on the EF-2000, add MILCON to the equation, the flyaway cost is actually very close to a Super-Hornet while the electronic warfare suite far exceeds an EA-18G Growler ($100M+ per unit).
The Rafale is NOT a 4+-generation fighter : for such 4+ gen aircraft, you upgrade Mirage-2000 with Rafale's combat systems. As air-marshal SB Deo said in Dec.2016, "Rafale has MANY stealth features."
In fact, there are baked-in radar absorbent materials (no need for coating), many saw-toothed areas, etc, added to an active cancellation of radar waves which is unique to France, the upcoming F4 upgrade will even add plasma-stealth making it barely totally invisible to any type of radar.
There are also serious infrared stealth features and the IRST uses 2nd generation quantum electro-optical technologies unstealthing fighter-jets like J-20 or J-31 from very long range. Sorry, data are classified, thus, the 1st gen "QWIP" could already lock-on a subsonic F-22 from 100-155km and a Mach1.8 one from 270-455km so you can be confident that, with a 300km+ range Meteor, if some unfriendly 5th gen aircraft is willing to test India, it's in for a very bad day.
A point even Dassault seems to have neglected, maybe due to high cost of Meteor (although a Patriot PAC-3 MSE ranging 35km is more expensive): preparing rails for 5 Meteors, eventually to carry 2 or 1 Meteor+1 Mica under the external wing hardpoints and Meteor on wingtip. That is called "beast load". Add the two conformal tanks, then a single Rafale can do a 2,400km combat air patrol without refuelling carrying up to... 36 Meteors and 2 MICAs...
It may require to ask for custom hardpoints, it's clear that such load in missiles costs as much as the aircraft, although, my 2c that IAF is into having enough Meteors to deal with full both PAF+PLAAF, cost per unit could greatly fall... An interesting option : seems that Rafael is into preparing an AAM version for David's Sling's Stunner. When ground-launched, it already ranges 160km and costs "only" $350k/unit so maybe integrating it on Rafale and considering a dual-load as if a single aircraft faces 2 incoming squadrons, range goes closer and closer. An air-launched Stunner is likely to range 200km+
Nevertheless, a single squadron with such beast-load would be capable to shoot down the full PAF fleet of fighter-jets while a single Rafale would have took out the full strike-pack sent by PAF in February 2019 to "retaliate" the IAF bombing of Balakot terrorist camp.
Such weapons configuration has never been seen, but Rafale's huge payload absolutely allows it...
Another point India should consider : Rafale takes off in 400m and lands in 450m. Any portion of 600m straight road able to cope with 30-40t trucks is a potential airbase! Go learn about Sweden's hidden bases. In case of war, classic airbases are the 1st targets. With micro-bases taking profit of Rafale's STOL features, while very few personnel is needed for maintenance, you can have cheap hidden bases anywhere, even rotating between these.
Such capabilities reshape aerial strategies if implemented.
Mystery around Gujarat PSU 'transfer' of Rs 250 crore to Canadian firm Karnalyte
By AK Luke, IAS (Retd)*
While returning from a Board meeting of the Oil India Limited (OIL) in Ahmedabad some time in 2012, two officers of the Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (GSFC), Nanavaty and Patel, saw me off at the airport. They said they were proceeding to Canada in connection with a project GSFC had entered into with a company there. As we were running late, I hastily wished them the best.
Savarkar in Ahmedabad 'declared' two-nation theory in 1937, Jinnah followed 3 years later
By Our Representative
One of the top freedom fighters whom BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi revere the most, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was also a great supporter of the two nation theory for India, one for Hindus another for Muslims, claims a new expose on the man who is also known to be the original proponent of the concept of Hindutva.
J&K continues to be haunted, as parts of India 'degenerate' into quasi-Kashmir situation
By Rajendran Narayanan*, Sandeep Pandey**
“Jab har saans mein bandook dikhe toh baccha kaise bekhauf rahe?” (How can a child be fearless when she sees a gun in every breath?) remarked Anwar, a gardener from Srinagar, when asked about the situation in Kashmir. On November 30, 2019, a walk through an iron gate in a quiet neighbourhood of Srinagar took us inside a public school. It was 11 am when typically every school is abuzz with activity. Not here though.
Indians have made 119 nations their ‘karma bhumi’: US-based Hindu NGO tells Rupani
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In a stinging letter to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, the US-based Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), referring to the report citing his justification for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) – that “while Muslims can choose any one of the 150 Islamic countries in the world (for residence), India is the only country for Hindus" – has said, he should remember, Hindus have made several countries, including USA, their home.
Dalits rights meet planned on how citizenship law 'negates' Ambedkar's equality focus
A Dalit rights meet has been planned at the Dalit Shakti Kendra (DSK), Sanand, Ahmedabad district, to discuss implications of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), passed by Parliament on December 10-11, for Dalits, Adivasis and other marginalized sections. Announcing the decision, DSK director Martin Macwan said, the meet would take place on December 25, 2019, at 11.00 am, to commemorate the anniversary of burning of copies of Manusmriti by Dr BR Ambedkar.
What about religious persecution of Dalits, Adivasis, asks anti-CAA meet off Ahmedabad
By Rajiv Shah
A well-attended Dalit rights meet under the banner “14 Pe Charcha” (discussion on Article 14 of the Indian Constitution), alluding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi well-known campaign phrase of the 2014 Parliamentary elections, “chai pe charcha” (discussion over cup of tea), organized off Ahmedabad, has resolved on Wednesday to hold a 14 kilometres-long rally on April 14 to oppose the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), enacted on December 10-11.
'Allow critical thinking': SAARC-sponsored varsity teachers support protesting students
Teachers of the high-profile South Asian University (SAU), a New Delhi-based international institute sponsored by eight member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – have supported “peacefully protesting students and other citizens” against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Upendra Baxi on foolish excellence, Indian judges and Consitutional cockroaches
In a controversial assertion, top legal expert Upendra Baxi has sought to question India's Constitution makers for neglecting human rights and social justice. Addressing an elite audience in Ahmedabad, Prof Baxi said, the constitutional idea of India enunciated by the Constituent Assembly tried to resolve four key conflicting concepts: governance, development, rights and justice.
Kerala governor turned History Congress into political arena, 'insulted' Prof Irfan Habib
In a signed statement, office bearers of the Aligarh Society of History and Archaeology (ASHA), Prof Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi (president), Prof Jabir Raza (vice-president), Prof Manvendra Kumar Pundhir (secretary) and Prof Farhat Hasan (joint secretary), have said that Kerala governor Arif Mohammad Khan had sought to insult veteran historian Prof Irfan Habib, 88, at the 80th session of the Indian History Congress, even as turning it into his “political arena”.
This is the blogging column of Rajiv Shah, editor, Counterview. A little weird, a little satirical, it is called True Lies, the same name which was chosen for his blogging column in the Times of India (TOI). Rajiv's TOI blogs can be accessed here.
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February 25, 2019 Guide Business
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Farming on the edge
In Vector Grain, the Bruggencates and Sulzles are collaborating on a joint venture to make their longtime farming dreams a reality. It takes dedication and smarts, and loads of professional advice. But it’s paying off
By Julienne Isaacs
Guide Business, Management
From left, Jennifer and Jay Bruggencate, and Mike and Kelly Sulzle. Photo: White Creek Ranch
Mike Sulzle had worked as Craig Shaw’s hired man for 16 years when Shaw approached him in 2015 with surprising news: 2016 would be his last year farming.
“Craig had always said I could take over when he quit farming one day, but it wasn’t serious,” says Sulzle.
“I didn’t see how I could do that.”
The obstacle was money, of course. As an outsider, Mike could work on a farm, he might even start leasing. In fact, he and Shaw had already been testing the boundaries, but becoming a full owner seemed, at best, a dream.
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“I’d been farming for 10 years as a sole proprietor, leasing Craig’s equipment from him, but we did it all together as part of Durango Farms,” Sulzle says. “How could non-related people get into farming unless they had a good chunk of change to start with?”
Shaw’s family had farmed on his land, four miles outside of Lacombe, Alta., for a century. His brother, Gary Shaw, ran a hog operation out of the same farmyard.
Now, both brothers were going to get out of farming in the same year. It came as a surprise to the Sulzles but, it turned out, it also presented a unique opportunity for another family.
Shaw called a meeting and asked Mike to come. And at that meeting was also Jay Bruggencate, a precision agriculture consultant and founder of Farmers Edge West who had been Shaw’s long-time agronomist.
Shaw had a proposal he wanted to float: Why shouldn’t Jay and Jennifer Bruggencate and Mike and Kelly Sulzle join forces and take over the farm?
“We hired a consultant, Reg Shandro at FarmAcist Advisory Services Inc., to help us figure out how it was going to work,” says Kelly Sulzle. “Someone suggested, ‘Should we try a joint venture?’ And then we asked, ‘What’s a joint venture?’ We’d never heard of anybody non-related doing this.”
But it was a chance neither family wanted to ignore.
“Jay had always wanted to farm full time,” says Jennifer. “We’ve always farmed on the side and had custom work done by Craig and Mike, and we thought, well, this is our opportunity, and opportunities like this don’t come often.”
For Kelly and Mike, the decision to collaborate with the Bruggencates was simple. “This is the life we’d always wanted to build for ourselves — it’s what we love. It’s how we were both raised and it’s what we know,” says Kelly.
Right from the start all four were in agreement about the breakdown of roles and responsibilities. Jay would manage agronomy and grain marketing while Mike would handle equipment management and logistics as well as day-to-day farm operations. Jennifer, who also runs a dance studio in Lacombe, would do the bookkeeping, and Kelly, who also works as a medical X-ray technologist in Red Deer, would assist Mike on the farm and maintain farm records.
They called their new joint venture Vector Grain.
“And then came the meetings, and the meetings, and the meetings,” laughs Kelly.
At first, Jay Bruggencate’s hope was to get the succession paperwork wrapped up in six months before the 2016 farming season began. It soon became clear that wasn’t going to happen.
“Craig had been farming for 40 years,” says Jen. “You don’t wrap that up in six months. We weren’t starting with nothing, but we were starting a new business and trying to make it advantageous to all of us, and the crop had to go in and come off, so we couldn’t meet during those times.”
Sometimes, not being family actually helps by taking the emotion out of their business decisions, the two couples agree.
photo: White Creek Ranch
The first year was rough, says Mike. “Spring planting couldn’t wait for us to get our paperwork lined up. We basically farmed that first spring without having a line of credit, with everyone just putting in what was needed to keep going.”
Craig Shaw made it possible by acting as a “silent partner,” says Kelly. Shaw leased his equipment to the four with no money down, while Gary Shaw sold his home to the Sulzles and allowed them to work out of the yard.
“Ours was a very unique, complicated situation. We were almost treated like family even though we weren’t. We were working out of a yard we didn’t own with equipment we didn’t own and putting in a very large grain crop — 3,500 acres,” says Mike. “Thankfully, in 2016 we had a very good crop. If we’d had a wreck the first year it would have been tough.”
With their first crop in the bins, the families started to put together a team that could help them sort out succession.
“Right off the bat we knew that we’d want to seek professional help,” says Jay. “I want to tip my hat to them because without their ideas and their strategies and advice it would have been extremely difficult and we would have questioned our path. But they gave us the confidence to move forward.”
Reg Shandro at FarmAcist helped the Bruggencates and Sulzles walk through roles and responsibilities for the new business, as well as with cash flow and financing, while Merle Good at GRS Consulting met with Craig, Mike and Jay to discuss tax planning. They also consulted a lawyer (Corey Gish) and their accountant at all stages of the process.
Jay and Jennifer decided to interview accountants to find one with the experience and willingness to take on the complexity of their joint venture, before they opted to work with Patrick Blair at Proverus.
“Who interviews accountants? Jay and Jennifer do,” says Kelly. “The accountants weren’t used to being interviewed, but I think some of them got a kick out of it.”
The pair interviewed five agriculture-focused accountants or accounting organizations based on word-of-mouth recommendations from other farmers. It was important for them to find an accountant with a succession plan, says Jay, to avoid getting “submerged” in an organization only to have to start over again if a key individual retired.
They asked who their key contact would be and who they’d be dealing with on a day-to-day basis. “We did not want to be dealing with a new intern every year,” says Jay.
They also asked about accounting software packages, rates, and what the accounting organization could offer Vector Grain from a business planning standpoint, not just tax planning.
“Proverus has a strong agriculture understanding and they ‘get’ the ag business,” says Jay. “They are local. And they answered our questions about succession in their own organization.
“Most importantly, we wanted not only an accountant but also someone who could be an advisor to our business — part of our team. We wanted someone who could help us strategize and plan on the front end, not just tell us how we ended up at the end of the year,” he says.
The Bruggencates also interviewed several banks before they found one willing to finance the project. They settled on ATB, which required crop insurance but — crucially — didn’t require land or equipment as collateral.
“Getting over that hurdle was huge,” says Mike. “The bank couldn’t classify any of these things as assets because we didn’t technically own anything.”
All of this meant a steady parade of meetings and massive amounts of paperwork — in one meeting, recalls Jennifer, the four signed their way through a 12-inch stack of paperwork.
“At first I was like, ‘Is this necessary?’ I’m not a meeting person, so these meetings were really painful for me at the beginning,” says Mike.
Both couples are now convinced the early planning was a crucial foundation for their business.
Currently, Vector Grain’s succession plan is about 75 per cent complete. Everything has taken more time than he expected, but Jay says he’s begun to realize that allowing time to evolve the plan has been beneficial.
“At the start I thought this was something we needed to put a deadline on, and be very rigid and structured, but we’ve let it evolve and progress and happen more naturally with the flow of the seasons and that’s been part of our success,” he says.
Honesty, trust and respect
A good deal of the venture’s success also has to do with interpersonal dynamics. The Bruggencates and Sulzles communicate and work together really well, a fact that Reg Shandro picked up on from the beginning.
“Honesty, trust and respect — that’s why this new project is working. These four have so much integrity,” says Shandro, a mediator and succession planning consultant who has worked in the Lacombe area for over a decade. “Craig Shaw is the same. They just trust each other, and don’t worry about every little nuance.”
Kelly believes the fact that the families are not related — to each other or to the Shaws — has also helped the process. “You hear a lot of stories about related people farming together and it doesn’t work, or it’s hard for Dad to step down and out, or the son doesn’t want to do it the same way he always did it,” she explains. “For us, this is business, it isn’t personal. Even though we’re friends, we all have that end goal that we want to be successful and we want the farm life, and we’re all on board to do what it takes to make that happen.”
Jennifer agrees. “We are unique in that we don’t bring in the emotions that a family succession can bring,” she says. “We also have natural separations because we aren’t family and aren’t in each others back pockets all the time.”
Both couples have kids; the Bruggencates have three — Janna (14), Gerrit (12), and Jacklyn (9) — and the Sulzles have two girls, Gillian (8), and Jade (7) — both girls can occasionally be found riding on the tractor in their princess dresses. Between school activities, 4-H and other pursuits (Janna has plans to turn the hog barn into an aquaponics farm), life is very busy for both families.
Jennifer and Kelly collaborate on bookkeeping for Vector Grain and also take turns picking up the slack on the farm, driving for parts and alternating evenings to bring harvest suppers out to the field.
There are also informal aspects to the collaboration: one “soft benefit” of joining forces has meant that the wider Sulzle and Bruggencate families, who have known each other a long time, can get involved on the farm. Both Jay’s father and Mike’s father help out with field work.
It’s been important to pay attention to the natural breakdown of roles and responsibilities, but also to allow flexibility and room for change, says Jay. “Not pushing or rushing it has allowed things to happen fluidly and naturally. But what we’ve done requires a very high level of trust on all parties,” he says.
Building a successful collaboration
There’s room in Vector Grain’s business plan for evolution of roles, as well as major life changes: divorce, accidents, death, and an exit strategy should the couples decide to end the partnership.
All of these “safety features” were discussed very early in the process as part of shareholder agreements.
“The consultants we worked with deal with these things on a day-to-day basis, where businesses are falling apart because people can’t get along. They helped us understand the importance of laying out roles and responsibilities, and building an exit plan right at the start. If things don’t go according to plan the exit plan is agreed upon,” says Jay.
The business is built on several levels. Because Vector Grain isn’t an incorporated business and doesn’t carry assets, it works as an operating entity: beneath its umbrella the Bruggencates and Sulzles each own their own companies. An entirely separate company called IronStone MC Ltd. owns the equipment purchased from Craig Shaw.
Mike Sulzle says it was Shandro’s detailed approach to strategy that helped the couples turn their expectations into writing.
“You need somebody who will ask those tough questions early on,” he says. “Otherwise, it’ll surface later on.”
Shandro says he believes the Vector Grain collaboration is counter-cultural. Out of thousands of case files, the Bruggencates and Sulzles represent his only successful collaborative non-related succession plan.
“A few years ago I was asked to do a webinar on non-family succession. I declined, because I’d never had one of these in my database. I had a couple of similar situations, where hired hands or neighbours wanted to take over a farm, but blood is thicker than water, and family equity usually trumps all in this type of story.”
It’s impossible to offer a bullet-list of ingredients that will make a non-family succession plan work, says Shandro, because it ultimately boils down to understanding the complexities of the farms and personalities involved. Succession never comes in a one-size-fits-all format — it must be built from the ground up to be successful.
For the Bruggencates and Sulzles, collaborating on Vector Grain has been worth the paperwork, because it means both families can do what they’ve always wanted to do: raise their families on the farm.
“The way I see it is that farms are getting bigger and equipment is so expensive. The guys who are doing it have been doing it forever. If you say, ‘Hey, let’s go farm,’ it’s not going to happen,” says Mike. “Maybe more farmers should join together.”
It’s a challenging mission, but for them, it’s worth it.
“Without taking a leap of faith we wouldn’t be where we are at the moment,” says Jen. “We are doing what we love.”
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L3Harris, AEC Announce Flight Training Teaming Agreement
12.09.2019 Joint Ventures
L3Harris Technologies and Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) are collaborating to establish rotary and fixed-wing flight training and aircraft maintainer programs for the Royal Saudi Armed Forces.
L3Harris and AEC, a Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) company, will deliver military training solutions to develop pilots and maintenance technicians, as well as provide performance-based logistics to the armed forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“L3Harris and AEC are expanding our more than nine-year relationship to bring advanced training and simulation technologies to the Royal Saudi Armed Forces fleet. This collaboration will help to enhance flight safety and operational performance, and improves cost efficiency,” said Lenny Genna, President, L3Harris Military Training.
Commenting on the teaming agreement, Abdulaziz Al-Duailej, President and CEO of AEC, said: “We are pleased to partner with L3Harris Technologies to further our credentials in rotorcraft simulation as part of our military and defense capacity-building efforts. The agreement will allow AEC to leverage the unmatched expertise of two major industry leaders combined to deliver on Saudi Arabia’s ambitious goals, including localizing 50% of its military and security spending and creating new employment opportunities in the country as envisaged in the Saudi Vision 2030, through the transfer of technology and know-how.”
“SAMI, AEC, and L3Harris Technologies will work closely together to explore new avenues of collaboration opportunities to contribute to the development of a self-sufficient military industries sector in the Kingdom,” he added.
L3Harris previously designed, developed, tested and fielded the first UH-60A/L Blackhawk Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) for the Royal Saudi Armed Forces. The team continues to support that trainer while assembling and preparing for acceptance testing of two additional UH-60A/L OFT trainers at AEC’s facility in Riyadh.
L3Harris’ training solutions apply high-fidelity simulators and other trainers to maximize operational readiness and reduce overall cost by replicating multi-aircraft training events and tailored operational scenarios. The training conducted on these devices enhances safety, performance and cost efficiency, and accelerates learning through the highly immersive training experiences.
L3Harris is a leader in providing platform operators and maintainers with total training solutions that improve training effectiveness and efficiency, and lower life-cycle costs in a secure cyber environment. The company’s innovative solutions provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art training technologies, including high-fidelity immersive simulations, as well as distributed academic and interactive courseware. L3Harris Military Training has delivered military and commercial training systems to customer locations throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim and North America.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $17 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in 130 countries.
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Starting out as a renowned firm in the electronics industry, AEC has evolved as a core ally of the Government of Saudi Arabia in localizing military manufacturing, deploying smart technologies, and accelerating industrial and commercial growth.
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Clavigo
Goethe and Clavigo
Audio (German)
Clavigo, Werther and more
based on Clavigo by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Director Stephan Kimmig
Set Eva-Maria Bauer
Costumes Johanna Pfau
Music Pollyester
Video Julian Krubasik
Lambert Strehlke
Dramaturgy Sonja Anders
Berlin-Premiere November 13, 2015
A coproduction with Salzburger Festspiele
"Odd! One lives but once in the world, has these powers, these prospects only once, and anyone who fails to make the most of his life, who fails to push himself as far as possible, is a fool."
The young Goethe, revered by his readers for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, was already weary of his genius status at the age of 24. He was drawn to Weimar, where a career in politics awaited. But first he wanted to write a ‘controlled’ play – one not as wild and reckless as his Götz, which was published the previous year. In just eight days, he wrote Clavigo. The tragic drama, which was not very popular among his contemporaries, is based on a true story: in Madrid, the sister of the writer Beaumarchais was abandoned by the courtier Clavijo after repeated promises of marriage. Goethe expands on the story: on one side are the young authors Clavigo and Carlos, both hungry for success; on the other Marie, her admirer Buenco and her brother Beaumarchais, who is determined to avenge his sister. The tale ends in Marie’s death, who dies broken-hearted as a result of the betrayal …
Career and love – it is these two coordinates that would preoccupy the poet Goethe throughout his life and whose incompatibility he never tired of exploring. Which makes it all the more remarkable that Goethe already depicts them as diametrically opposed concepts of life in Clavigo. His main protagonist, Clavigo, obviously Goethe’s alter ego, author of numerous texts, attractive and successful, needs love in order to be creative: it fires his imagination, intoxicates him, it is like a balm for his artistic soul. But as soon as romantic feelings are accompanied by faithfulness, the promise of fidelity or even marriage (a step that Marie takes for granted), the magic soon wanes. The artist needs some erotic thrills and absolute freedom.
In Goethe’s day and age, erotic adventure, climbing the career ladder and egocentric striving for freedom were an almost exclusively male prerogative, whereas today they are firmly established as a woman’s, too. In Stephan Kimmig’s production, Clavigo is played by a woman – her libidinous freedom and successful career are presented as givens; factors such as man, woman, time, biology are treated playfully; terms such as freedom, passion, pain and contradiction are explored without specific gender attributions. The complexity of Goethe’s play, with all its historical and gender-specific differences, serves as a mirror and counterpoint to the world of today. Kimmig’s production raises questions about the social engagement of the artist, the artist’s self-image and about projections, but also about self-deception, lies and emptiness. These are issues that Goethe also tackled in his plays. Why can’t we live and love with or without each other? What does artistic freedom mean? Is the romantic notion of everlasting love an illusion? Is happiness only ever fleeting?
Susanne WolffClavigo
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It's Time To Talk About That Awful Sonic Movie Trailer
Cedric Voets ·
There's a lot of opposing opinions going around about the upcoming Detective Pikachu movie, with some looking forward to the fresh cinematic take on a video game franchise, while others would pay with their lives to unmake every image of a real-life Lickitung. But whatever the movie's eventual merits will be, much like a third-world dictator long before their trial at the Hague, Detective Pikachu's legacy has already been sealed. We will all remember it as the movie that opened the door to this abomination:
Paramount Pictures"And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare." -- H.P. Lovecraft
In the kind of age in which we're apparently supposed to be fine with ultra-realistic video game rodents on our screen, Sega and Paramount have teamed up to bring us something no one has ever wanted ever: a Sonic The Hedgehog movie.
At least, we're pretty sure this is a movie about Sonic the Hedgehog. There's an at-risk teen with Werewolf Syndrome who vaguely looks like the beloved character, but the rest of the trailer is mostly a mishmash of stolen tropes from other, more successful films. There's the ironic old-school soundtrack from every other superhero movie, the small-town everyman teaming up with an alien force to save the Earth from half of Michael Bay's screenplay napkins, James Marsden having awkward car convos with non-Zootopia animals, and for some reason, Portal?
Paramount PicturesJust to remind audiences of all the fun video game adaptations they're currently missing out on.
And that's the few parts of the trailer that aren't an acting reel for Jim Carrey trying to prove he can still out-Lemony-Snicket the likes of Neil Patrick Harris any day of the week. Which brings us to the inevitable comparison Sega would rather everyone forget. If you strip Sonic the Hedgehog of his video game magic and just slap a boilerplate cat-and-mouse plot to his quills, all you're left with is an incredible fast animal racing along the highways of mountainous America and dodging government gadgets. That's the formula for Road Runner cartoons, which have been around since the 1940s and don't require you to go to decades of counseling immediately after watching them. If there's a silver lining to this monstrosity, at least Sonic isn't pregnant.
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Con Ed contract running out as temps run up
Consolidated Edison Inc. workers on a job site.
Talk about timing.
Temperatures Saturday will soar into the mid-90s as the final hours tick away on the contract covering the 8,500 Consolidated Edison workers who keep the city's power on.
Contract talks are not going well. A spokesman for Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America said the energy giant is "trying to impose its will" on the workers, who have vowed to strike if the company doesn't drop its demand to junk a defined-benefit pension system for new hires.
"There is no real give-and-take going on," said a spokesman for the union. "Con Ed came and announced to our president that it was time to join a new business model. It's not even a discussion—they just say, 'You better get on board with the new business model.' "
Con Edison issued a statement that said, "We look forward to productive discussions with the union leadership on a new contract that is fair and equitable for our employees and customers." A spokesman would not comment further.
The union spokesman said only peripheral issues have been addressed during morning, afternoon and evening negotiating sessions at the Hilton in Rye Brook, N.Y. In their public comments, including at a rally in Union Square earlier this month, union officials have framed the contract dispute as a fight between a corporate giant whose CEO is paid handily and has a defined-benefit pension worth $18 million and workers clinging to a middle-class existence.
The workers whose contract expires Saturday night include those who descend into manholes and climb poles to fix problems, control center operators, meter readers and customer service representatives. If they walk off the job Saturday night, the union says, the company would have trouble maintaining service, especially with the forecast calling for a weekend heat wave.
"If [Chief Executive] Kevin Burke persists in failing to engage in meaningful discussions and forces a work disruption, the system shows every indication that it will not be able to hold up in another heat wave," said Harry Farrell, president of Local 1-2. "There will be outages, and Con Ed will not be able repair the damage."
But the company has about 5,000 managers who could step in to keep power on in the event of a labor stoppage. To prepare for a strike, Con Ed has put contingency plans in place and has retrained its managerial force. It has also increasingly relied on outside contractors and can depend on some of them to step in. Work on major construction projects could be limited if a strike occurs.
Con Ed provides electric service in New York City, except for a small area of Queens, and most of Westchester County. The company provides natural gas service in Manhattan, the Bronx and parts of Queens and Westchester.
The last Local 1-2 work stoppage was in 1983, when 16,500 workers walked off their jobs for nine weeks. The strike had little effect on most New Yorkers, but union officials said at the time that it delayed repairs and caused a three-day blackout in the garment district. Macy's and Gimbel's were among stores where lights went out when a broken water main shorted out power lines, sparking a fire in a substation. Con Ed officials insisted there was no slowdown in repairs. In 2008, the two sides averted a strike with a last-minute deal.
A spokeswoman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not have an immediate comment on the possibility of a walkout. The union insists it wants to avert a strike but promised it wouldn't give in on the pension issue.
"When it comes time for June 30th, we will do whatever it takes at that 11th hour," Mr. Farrell said at the rally earlier this month. "If they push us, we will do whatever it takes."
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Inspirational Quote of the Day
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A selected week from earlier in our quote of the day world tour...
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"To give thanks in solitude is enough.
Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go.
Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
- Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885 : French novelist and poet
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Our location for inspiration this week is of course Paris.
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
- Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784 : French philosopher and writer
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Victor Hugo is one of France's greatest writers and poets, best known for writing Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
Hugo was born in France in 1802 but lived in exile in Brussels and Guernsey from 1851 to 1870, during which time he wrote Les Misérables. He returned to France the hero and re-entered politics working for social and political change.
Hugo died aged 83 in 1885 and was given hero's funeral attended by over 2 million people. More Victor Hugo quotes
"Fortune favours the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur 1882 - 1895 : French scientist
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
French military and political leader
"Life is thickly sown with thorns,
and I know no other remedy
than to pass quickly through them.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us."
- Voltaire 1694 - 1778 : French writer and philosopher
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
- Coco Chanel 1883 - 1971 : French fashion designer
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
- Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885
French novelist and poet
"If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes 1596 - 1650
French philosopher, writer and mathematician
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Vicks uses the true story of a Philippines’ boy born with HIV to show the power of love
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When you’re a brand whose very essence is centred on trust and family, it would be quite easy to create something fairly conservative with scenes of ‘normal’ family life that most people can associate with.
But if you want to really get cut-through and make people realise that the family unit these days is not the same for everyone, you need to be a little braver.
P&G’s Vicks brand in the Philippines took on that challenge.
This latest four-minute online film was the third in an overall campaign called ‘Touch Of Care’.
Like the previous two, this one called ‘Just A Boy’, was based on a true story which the agency had researched. The aim was to redefine what care really means within the family in modern times.
In the Philippines, Vicks is seen as an essential aid by mothers in the upbringing of their children and has been used from generation to generation.
But this ad ignores the soft, cuddly idea of care and goes with a very thought-provoking, intense angle.
For those of us with children, the very thought of your child suffering any sort of serious illness is almost too much to contemplate, but when that child is firstly not your natural child and secondly the illness is HIV, it really does shout ‘this is what care really is’.
As mentioned, this is a true story of a young boy who is handed as a baby to Agnes, a friend of his mothers who unfortunately dies from HIV.
In four minutes, the film shows Agnes bringing the boy up as she has to deal with prejudice and discrimination as the boy grows up. Even the simple enjoyment of a birthday party is a trial for her as parents of other children shun him. It’s the same lack of understanding and education we saw here when HIV first surfaced.
As I watched the film first time, I completely forgot that Agnes was not his natural mother such was the level of care and love she gives him and was drawn into the story completely. The ad finishes with titles announcing that the HIV is dormant within his system, so he is able to fulfil a lifelong ambition and attend school with other kids his age.
This Hollywood style ending is then brought back to the real world with a shot of the real Agnes and the boy as they are today.
It was interesting to see that HIV is still an issue in countries around the world and it’s good that awareness of it is still happening.
But this is not really a film about HIV. It’s about the intensity of care and depth of love a mother gives her child. Even though the child is not naturally her own.
So, if the brief was to reinforce the meaning of care which I believe it was from what I’ve found researching this piece, Publicis Singapore really nailed it with this film. Yes, it could be seen that the product (which you never actually see) is secondary to the whole thing, but this is a brand piece in the true sense of the word. And a good one at that.
In Hindsight
I know there will be people watching the film after reading this review who may find it overly emotional and maybe predictable. I can see that.
But for me, I engaged with the story, was drawn into the story of Agnes. And yes, I did find it quite emotional so don’t feel embarrassed if it chokes you up too.
Published on: 5th April 2019
Andy Mackenzie
Creative partner
BPL Marketing
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Former MP Bell shows the Way
A NETWORK creating 119km of walking, cycling and equestrian routes was launched by former MP and TV journalist Martin Bell.
The Weaver Way initiative runs the full length of the 60km long Weaver Valley linking six towns and eleven villages and connects eight regional trails and the National Cycleway.
Stretching from Frodsham to Audlem and through Middlewich to Sandbach the proposed routes mainly follow the river Weaver Navigation, Trent and Mersey Canal and Shropshire Union Canal.
It will provide unrivalled access for residents and visitors to the Valley's facilities, destinations and countryside.
Mike Cooksley, Chairman of The Weaver Valley Management Board, said: 'The Weaver Way is the first of a number of tangible high quality developments that will begin to connect the communities within the Weaver Valley.
'It will improve and co-ordinate a number of existing Rights of Way, making this one of the longest and most beautiful multi-user routes in the North West based on our most under-utilised natural asset our Waterways.'
Cheshire County Councillor Andrew Needham, Environment Executive member, said: 'This work will be a significant step in creating The Weaver Valley Regional Park and could open up funding opportunities.
'It is also important in linking towns and villages in the Weaver Valley as well as providing access to the 4m people who are within one hour's drive of the area.
'Having covered most of the route myself - on foot, cycle and boat, I can see its potential both now and in the future.'
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True North Cruise Review
From the moment of embarking the whole experience exceeded my hopes and expectations. It was my first cruise, I was on my own, 77 and I was anxious as I had not been a good sailor in the past. From the beginning I felt completely safe, looked after and cosseted. The crew were what made it and they were part of the whole careful and caring planning. The boat is beautiful, the other passengers delightful, food tops. The daily adventures, and this is not a passive holiday, were varied and fun with plenty of choice for different interests. The Kimberley Coast of NW Western Australia is a beautiful and still remote part of the world. I have run out of superlatives, suffice to say while still on board I signed up for another trip on this boat next year. By the way there is a maximum of 36 passengers (we had 35) and 18 to 20 crew including an on board helicopter with a calm, cheerful pilot to encourage the fearful.
Beyond all expectations!
True North Cruise Review by Ngaio
Sail Date: August 2014
Destination: Australia & New Zealand
From the moment of embarking the whole experience exceeded my hopes and expectations. It was my first cruise, I was on my own, 77 and I was anxious as I had not been a good sailor in the past. From the beginning I felt completely safe, looked after and cosseted. The crew were what made it and they were part of the whole careful and caring planning. The boat is beautiful, the other passengers delightful, food tops. The daily adventures, and this is not a passive holiday, were varied and fun with plenty of choice for different interests. The Kimberley Coast of NW Western Australia is a beautiful and still remote part of the world. I have run out of superlatives, suffice to say while still on board I signed up for another trip on this boat next year.
By the way there is a maximum of 36 passengers (we had 35) and 18 to 20 crew including an on board helicopter with a calm, cheerful pilot to encourage the fearful.
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Beautifully appointed, 2 berths as I was prepared to share but was lucky to have it to myself. L'Occitane toiletries, plenty of storage and a lovely member of the crew to look after me.
Ngaio
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Phenomenal holiday
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Poetry is having a renaissance on social media
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Shorter than a personal essay, but just as evocative in times of tragedy.
Illustration by Max Fleishman
Gillian Branstetter— 2016-06-21 09:00 am | Last updated 2016-06-21 09:43 am
As millions mourned last week’s massacre in Orlando, poems expressed the grief of a nation. Hamilton star and composer Lin Manuel-Miranda read his own sonnet at the Tony Awards commemorating the victims of the shooting. Poet Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones”—a poem about giving optimism to children while also knowing how dark the world can be—gave voice to many on Facebook and Twitter struggling to find hope. Patience Carter, who survived the shooting herself, wrote an emotional verse about the guilt that surrounds survival and the realities of witnessing such violent deaths firsthand.
So @Lin_Manuel‘s poem just made me cry, and I highly recommend you all listen to it. https://t.co/Rrgd6IQ8JR
— whooooooosh (@KivaBay) June 13, 2016
This poem from #Orlando mass shooting survivor Patience Carter hurts https://t.co/4gktKwCBQa pic.twitter.com/CgOjdpZltC
— Monivette Cordeiro (@monivettec) June 14, 2016
It seems poetry is commanding a larger and larger role in public life—despite its association with angsty teens and your high school English class. And amid the egos, feuds, and bickering that can often dominate social media, poetry has become a common sight—a bright light even—across our news feeds and timelines as a means to process emotion.
BuzzFeed’s new Reader section has featured work by poets like Patricia Smith and Denise Duhamel. Popular sites like The Awl, The Baffler, and The Toast regularly include poetry. Somali-British poet Warsan Shire became a minor celebrity after being heavily featured on Beyonce’s Lemonade. Poems about everything from disability to body hair to rape have been shared countless times, introducing untold millions to the potential of the art form.
Such developments come at a crucial moment for poetry as a business. Despite these viral successes, readers and traditional publishers are drifting away from verse as a worthwhile effort. Even big hitters like Billy Collins and Wendell Berry struggle to make a dent against larger blockbuster books. Indie publisher Reb Livingston, in a brutally honest blog post, described publishing poetry as “a thankless job” and admitted “very few people, including poets looking to be published, buy many poetry books.” And according to the Census Bureau’s most recent Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the portion of Americans who claim to have read a poem in the preceding 12 months dropped from 17 percent in 1992 to under 7 percent in 2012.
But even if the industry is not seeing a resurgence, the viral successes and websites’ investment in poetry means there is something about the environment of social media that is clearly feeding a public appetite for verse.
“Standing on a stage and reading a translation of your innermost thoughts puts you in an intensely vulnerable situation. Social media does the same, for better or worse.”
The most obvious reason is also the most cynical—poems are short. As our collective and personal attention spans dwindle into nothing, a few stanzas of a poem can express the same ideals and emotions as a lengthy personal essay or even a song—but in a format far more friendly to social media. Not all poems are concise, obviously (Claudia Rankine had a minor bestseller with her book-length response to the death of Trayvon Martin titled Citizen: An American Lyric). But poems typically manage a lot in very little space, making for easy reading and sharing.
Deeper than length and format, however, are the content similarities between social media and poetry. This isn’t to say that social media should be simply valued as “found art” (though, here’s a site that will transform your Twitter feed into a sonnet), but that users and poets also share a core mission: to connect with others by making their fears, desires, and struggles as public as possible. It’s one of the things that makes poetry readings so captivating; standing on a stage and reading a translation of your innermost thoughts puts you in an intensely vulnerable situation. Social media does the same, for better or worse, which makes it the perfect home for poetry and widens the audience looking for such a tool.
Before things turned sour, this vulnerability was the ethos of Alt Lit, a larger artistic movement that was popular a few years ago and capitalized upon the confessional nature of social media. Though Alt Lit, like poetry itself, was hard to define, it was typically characterized by blunt, low-effort writing resembling the casual tone of a Twitter feed or Facebook post (examples include Megan Boyle’s “How to Be Alone” or “Exactly What I Want” by Tao Lin). Alt Lit was often ridiculed for being pretentious millennial drivel, and when a sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2014, it alienated many women from the zines and blogs that had cropped up around the community, and many editors left the scene as well.
So perhaps the void left in Alt Lit’s demise has spawned what the New Yorker’s Kenneth Goldsmith calls “Post-Internet Poetry”—poetry which “uses the web while downplaying or taking for granted its influence.” In the introduction to his most recent collection of such work, poet Harry Burke promised to “look beyond fetishising the digital age and its ‘revolution,’ instead seeing what’s occurring now as a careful and important negotiation with what has gone before; a reworking rather than a rupture.”
Which is ironic, since the digital age he decries is giving poetry the same purpose and meaning it held for previous generations. Social media doesn’t merely give everyone a platform—though it certainly does that. It also gets people used to the idea of working out conversations and details about their life they might otherwise have never translated into the written word. Though we share, read, and write poetry differently than we tweet, we do it for the same reason.
This became immediately apparent to anyone watching reactions to the Orlando tragedy and its fallout. The shooting created a crossroads between otherwise disparate points and ideas—LGBT rights, gun rights, Islam, terrorism, mental health, immigration, and the acerbic nature of Donald Trump all converged on one horrific moment in our national debate. It’s not just politics that unfolded; it was an extension of the anger everyone feels of having to witness such horror over and over again and, against all desire not to, accept it as a mere fact of living.
Which is exactly what Maggie Smith spoke to in “Good Bones.” It’s what Patricia Lockwood spoke to in “Rape Joke,” and Jabari Asim in “The Talk.” It’s what the thousands of poets who write under the hashtags #poetsontumblr or #poetsofinstagram hope to do—connect through the fog of modern life with a format both ancient and constantly reinvented. Social media can make us more artificial, more practiced and rehearsed in how we want others to see us. But it also forces its users to encapsulate something about ourselves in a way that others will understand. It provides us with the tools and parameters we need to make ourselves knowable to others. If that comes in the form of sharing poems written by others, all the better.
Gillian Branstetter
Gillian Branstetter is a reporter and essayist who specializes in the intersection of technology, LGBTQ issues, and privacy. In April 2018, she joined the National Center for Transgender Equality as a media relations manager.
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The far-right is mobilizing to get Roger Stone pardoned
Paul Manafort wasn’t getting this kind of love.
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Zachary Petrizzo— 2019-11-20 07:00 am | Last updated 2019-11-22 07:43 am
Notorious dirty trickster Roger Stone will be trading in his double-breasted suit and matching tie and pocket square for an orange jumpsuit.
The longtime GOP operative stood in a federal courthouse Friday, guilty on seven felony counts, ranging from “obstructing a congressional inquiry” to “threatening a witness,” to “lying to investigators under oath.”
Stone could now face up to 50 years behind bars when sentenced early next year.
Thursday ahead of the verdict, Stone used a proxy—conspiracy theorist Alex Jones—to relay a message to his loyal followers, “Roger Stone’s message is this. He expects to be convicted. He said only a miracle can save him now.”
Jones continued reading Stone’s statement: “Alex, barring a miracle, I appeal to God, and I appeal to your listeners for prayer, and I appeal to the president to pardon me because to do so would be an action that would show these corrupt courts that they’re not going to get away with persecuting people for their free speech or for the crime of getting the president elected.”
And people are mobilizing behind Stone’s statement
An official White House petition urging President Trump to pardon his longtime friend and ally has already accumulated 11,600 signatures. Another petition garnering nearly 21,000 signatures on Change.org calls on Trump to “grant a full and unconditional pardon to Roger Jason Stone Jr.”
The owner of the petition, Yvonne Burton, a loyal Stone supporter and amateur blogger for her webpage, “Red Pill Sentinel,” did not return a comment to the Daily Dot.
SIGN THE PETITION & SHARE ⬇️
Roger Stone did nothing wrong!https://t.co/Dgd6KkADy8
— LT. COL Yvonne Burton (@_YvonneBurton) November 16, 2019
Roger Stone did not respond to the Daily Dot’s request for comment. The White House also did not return the Daily Dot’s request for comment on circulating petitions.
President Trump on Friday afternoon, though, blasted the guilty verdict. But he did not mention offering a presidential pardon to Stone.
So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr & Nellie, Steele & all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn’t they lie?....
However, right-wing operatives think they’ll be able it pull it off.
Jack Posobiec, a conspiracy theorist who pushed “Pizzagate” which falsely smeared Democratic Party officials of taking part in a child sex ring, has been one of Stone’s most vocal supporters on Twitter, pushing the petition urging President Trump to issue a presidential pardon.
Posobiec, who refers to himself as “Agent Poso” and is a TV host for One America News Network (OANN), has tweeted the Change.org petition out numerous over the past days, including claiming “if Trump can pardon crack dealers he can pardon Roger Stone.”
Posobiec is referring to Trump’s granting clemency to Alice Johnson, who served over 20 years.
Petition · Donald J. Trump: Pardon Roger Stone · https://t.co/q6iiIGBDZP https://t.co/CewETMIOkO
— Ukrainian Defense Minister Poso (@JackPosobiec) November 17, 2019
I hired Donald Trump to pardon people like Roger Stone.
The supporters pushing for Trump to pardon Stone include far-right personalities, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists, including the Proud Boys, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Ali Alexander, Gavin McInnes, and Faith Goldy.
While the Roger Stone jury deliberates, Stone's friends in the Proud Boys are urging supporters to call the White House and ask for a pardon. pic.twitter.com/42733V7t4L
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 15, 2019
Former White House strategist, Sebastian Gorka has also been an outspoken supporter of Stone, declaring his only crime was “being a supporter of President Trump.”
Gorka did not respond to questions by the Daily Dot on why he supports a presidential pardon or if he has financially supported Stone’s legal defense fund.
Goldy, a far-right Canadian commentator, messaged her supporters on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, stating that “either Trump locates his ‘pair’ and pardon’s Rodger or one of the greatest political mavericks in the nation runs the risk of being Epstien’d [sic] in jail.”
Jacob Wohl, who responded to The Daily Dot’s inquiry for comment, declared that “Roger faced a completely political show trial.”
But the 21-year-old internet troll dodged questions about what he believes to be inaccurate about the verdict.
Stone is expected to be sentenced in February.
Update 7:42am CT, Nov. 22: Stone told the Daily Dot he could not discuss his case or a potential pardon.
“I’m sorry, I am under a court-ordered gag order and cannot comment whatsoever at this time.”
Roger Stone convicted
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Zachary Petrizzo
Zachary Petrizzo is an undergraduate student at George Mason University and a Washington, D.C. based journalist.
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Norwich snap up Posh boy Bennett and then send him back on loan
By Sportsmail Reporter
Updated: 03:47 EST, 1 February 2012
Norwich have completed the signing of Peterborough defender Ryan Bennett.
The 21-year-old has joined the Barclays Premier League side for an undisclosed fee that the Posh are reporting as a club record sale.
Bennett has penned a three-and-a-half year deal with Norwich but will return to London Road on an emergency loan until the end of February, subject to paperwork being completed.
Highly rated: Ryan Bennett has joined Norwich
Canaries manager Paul Lambert said: 'I'm delighted we have signed Ryan. He's made a bright start to his career at Grimsby and Peterborough, he's an England Under-21 international and he's got so much potential.
'He can play, he's got great vision, he's comfortable on the ball, and he's a good age too.
'He'll be staying at Peterborough initially but will join us in time to be available for the Stoke game, and when he does come in he will provide more competition for places in defence, which is something you want to have right throughout the squad. I'm really pleased the deal has been done.'
Meanwhile, Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony said earlier: 'We knew when we signed Ryan from Grimsby that we were getting a player with fantastic potential and that is why we paid the money we did at the time,'
'He has proved to be a superb signing and there have been Premier League scouts watching him at every game this season.
'Myself and the gaffer (Darren Ferguson) had very little choice in the matter after the player informed us last night and again today that he wanted to leave for a Premier League club and didn't want the club to stand in his way.
'I have also always stated that I would never stand in a player's way should a Premier League club come in for them and offer us a heavy transfer fee at the same time.
'The gaffer was given final call on this deal only a couple of hours ago and he decided that it was in best interest of Peterborough United Football club to accept the offer from Norwich.
'To think only 12 months ago, I was asked to send Ryan out on loan or to move him on and now he is moving to a top-12 Premier League club smashing our existing transfer record by a long way.'
Norwich beat off competition for a number of other clubs for the services of the former Mariners defender according to Peterborough, who claim the fee is more than Brighton paid in the summer for Craig Mackail-Smith.
Bennett will return to train with the Posh squad on Thursday ahead of Saturday's npower Championship clash against Burnley at Turf Moor.
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Despite theft, the memory of Ozzy…
Despite theft, the memory of Ozzy Osbourne’s late guitarist Randy Rhoads burns bright at North Hollywood music school
Several stolen items of the guitar hero's life have been found after a November theft at the school run by his family. But a vintage guitar remained missing.
These are some of the recovered items stolen during a Thanksgiving burglary at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, including a photograph of Randy Rhoads, right, with Ozzy Osbourne. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
By Marianne Love |
Memorabilia stolen from a North Hollywood music school operated by the family of the late heavy metal guitarist and song writer, Randy Rhoads, has been recovered in a dumpster.
But not the treasured guitar he first played as a young man.
Photographs and other stolen memorabilia were recovered Monday in the area by a woman walking her dog, family members said.
Among the most valuable items, a red Harmony Rocket circa 1963, the first electric guitar Rhoads ever played along with his original Quiet Riot Peavey Amp Head circa 1970s and a brand new 100-watt Marshall Head presented to family members by the Marshal Co., were among the stolen items.
And, a French Besson trumpet of his mother, Delores Rhoads, most likely bought during the Great Depression and a flugelhorn of hers were also taken.
Of the most valuable items stolen, only the trumpet has been recovered so far.
“I hope we get them all back,” said Kelle Rhoads, Randy Rhoads’ brother and teacher at the music school.
Kelle Rhoads talks fondly about his family on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Many of the stolen items have been recovered from a Thanksgiving burglary at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood including those on the piano, that belonged to his late family members, brother Randy and mother Delores. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
These are some of the recovered items stolen during a Thanksgiving burglary at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, including photograph of Delores Rhoads and an amplifier. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
These are some of the recovered items stolen during a Thanksgiving burglary at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Missing damaged drawers are out being repaired. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
No arrests have been made in connection with the early morning burglary discovered on Nov. 29, according to Los Angeles Police Department officials.
Ozzy Osbourne, a lead singer of the heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, offered a $25,000 award for information leading to the arrest, conviction or return of all stolen items, according to a social media posting.
Osbourne could not be reached for comment to clarify his financial intentions now that only part of the heist has been recovered.
Rhoads, who would have turned 63 on Friday, died in a fiery plane crash in Florida in March 1982, while on tour with Osbourne.
Rhoads co-wrote “Crazy Train,” Osbourne’s first single on a debut solo album, “Blizzard of Ozz,” released in 1980.
Kathy D’Argenzio, Rhoads’ sister and co-owner of Musonia School of Music, said some of the memorabilia was damaged; yet, other items were salvageable.
D’Argenzio said a woman walking her dog near Burbank Boulevard and Sunnyslope Avenue saw a guitar poking out of a dumpster and covered them so they wouldn’t be ruined further by the rain before calling authorities.
“We were just devasated,” D’Argenzio said. “We lost our brother and our mother and this place is so dear to us, it felt like we lost our mother and brother again. I think as the news has spread about (the burglary thieves), they panicked and dumped the stuff. Randy’s fan base has been incredible.”
The burglars entered the building through a back door. Significant clues were left at the crime scene that might lead police to an arrest, Kelle Rhoads said on Tuesday.
“This was so unfair,” he added. “So cruel. They took everything in the way of photos and memorabilia of my brother.”
Much of the memorabilia and photos came from Rhoad’s fan base that continues to visit the music school to this day.
“Fans put together magazine clippings and pictures of Randy in the 80s,” said former student turned family friend, Andy Pincetich, 50, who was 12 years old when his neighborhood idol died. “Many of them may not have had money for (elaborate) gifts, so instead they brought what they could as a thank you … forms of gratitude for us taking time to speak with them about a painful tragedy that touched their lives.”
Pincetich said Rhoads was more than just an inspiration as a musician.
“He didn’t do drugs,” Pincetich said. “He barely drank. He just played guitar. He was someone I looked up to as a person and as a musician. He was totally a good guy, a positive male role model.”
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September 17, 2018 10:08 by gordonl
In 2013 a far-seeing Dalhousie Golf Club council decided that a group should be formed to plan – and budget – how the club should celebrate its sesquicentenary – its 150th anniversary – in 2018.
That small group devised a programme of events, planned a permanent celebratory feature on the Championship Course, purchased a special sesquicentenary trophy and decided the anniversary should also be marked by the publication of a major history of the club as well as the provision of golfing memorabilia for all members and the club’s guests. All of this was carefully budgeted and approved by the club at its half-yearly meeting.
Five years and 26 meetings later virtually all of the plans came to reality and the club celebrated its notable birthday in style – and, astonishingly, under budget.
# On March 13, exactly 150 years after the foundation of the club, over 50 members and guests from all of the local clubs teed off in a special celebratory golf event over the Championship Course. That evening the members and guests gathered in the Carnoustie Golf Hotel for a wonderful sesquicentenary dinner.
# On August 24, a magnificent turnout competed in a major competition again over the world-famous Championship links. Thirty teams of four – two members and two guests – competed. Our guests included representatives from the other Carnoustie clubs, from all of the clubs against whom we play matches and seniors’ matches – and representatives of 23 of the 24 clubs who, along with ourselves, were founder sponsors of the Amateur Championship. A splendid formal dinner in the hotel rounded off this memorable day enjoyed by both gentlemen and ladies of our club and guests from all over Britain, from Ireland and from the United States. The moving tributes paid by these guests – and by former Open Champion Padraig Harrington - confirmed the club’s, and Carnoustie’s, status in the world of golf.
# As a permanent marker, the club’s donation of a water fountain, complete with commemorative plaque, now graces the 16th tee of the Championship Course.
# The sesquicentenary silver rosebowl trophy is now competed for annually over a number of events.
# A highly acclaimed history of the club, in hardback with a mass of photographs, recording the club’s ups and downs over a century and a half was published as a gift for every member and our guests.
# The club’s badge, updated to incorporate the years 1868 and 2018, features on high quality bag tags, ball markers and golf towels produced as complimentary souvenirs to all members.
All in all, a tremendous year celebrated appropriately by a club proud of its past and confident about its future.
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