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FINAL LISTING RULE CHANGES EFFECTIVE FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019
Corporate News - 02 December 2019
erif">FINAL LISTING RULE CHANGES EFFECTIVE FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019
Following a lengthy consultation period, significant changes to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listing rules (Listing Rules) came into effect on 1 December 2019. These changes have been designed to simplify, clarify and enhance the integrity and efficiency of the Listing Rules.
Listed below is a high-level summary of some of the more important changes likely to affect many of our clients whether currently listed or considering seeking an ASX listing in the future.
Listed entities will need to ensure that all ASX announcements are dated, include the entity’s name, address and corporate logo, and identify the name and title of the officer who authorised the announcement.
Any announcements under Listing Rule 3.1 must also include the contact details of a person who investors can contact if they have any questions regarding the announcement.
Quarterly reporting
Significant changes to the quarterly reporting requirements and forms have been made and will apply to reports for the quarter ending 31 March 2020.
Start-up entities will be subject to additional reporting requirements.
Placement capacity
A number of changes have been made to clarify the manner in which a listed entity’s placement capacity under Listing Rules 7.1 and 7.1A is calculated.
In addition, 7.1A mandated entities may no longer issue securities under their additional placement capacity for non-cash consideration.
Announcing issues of securities
ASX has made changes to the manner in which entities must notify issues of securities.
Good fame and character
The good fame and character requirements which must be satisfied at listing have been extended to CEOs and CFOs (in addition to the existing requirements for directors and proposed directors).
ASX has introduced a new two-tiered regime, which requires more significant holders of restricted securities and their controllers (such as related parties, promoters, substantial holders, service providers and their associates) to execute a formal restriction deed in the form of revised Appendix 9A.
For less significant holdings, ASX can permit an entity to issue a restriction notice in the form of new Appendix 9C (provided they have adopted appropriate provisions in their constitution enabling them to do so).
Rules involving persons in a position of influence
Listing Rule 10.11 has been amended to include two new categories of persons who may not be issued equity securities without shareholder approval. These are:
a “substantial (30%+) holder”; and
a “substantial (10%+) holder” who has a nominee director on the board.
Significant change to activities
ASX has significantly changed its guidance in relation to transactions which involve a significant change to activities, including in relation to “pre-emptive loans” and the effect of disposal or abandonment of an entity’s main undertaking.
ASX has also stipulated new disclosure and escrow measures in connection with Chapter 11 transactions and has included guidance on drafting resolutions for the approval of a transaction involving a significant change to activities.
Security holder meetings
Notices of meeting despatched from 1 December 2019 onwards will need to include:
additional minimum content requirements for certain resolutions;
new voting exclusion statements; and
a summary of the consequences of a resolution being passed or not being passed by shareholders.
ASX now also requires all Listing Rule resolutions to be conducted by way of poll rather than by a show of hands.
Persons responsible for communication with ASX on Listing Rule issues
To improve Listing Rule compliance, ASX has introduced a requirement that communication officers complete an approved online Listing Rule compliance course and attain a satisfactory pass mark in the examination.
This change will take effect in July 2020.
Corporate action timetables
ASX has amended the timetables for a number of corporate actions across a wide variety of transactions (including rights issues). The revised timetables apply to corporate actions notified to ASX from 1 December 2019 and in most cases the changes have resulted in reduced time periods.
ASX has removed a number of standard forms from the Appendices to the Listing Rules and have made them available online only, on ASX Online.
Clients with any queries regarding the changes should contact us in our Perth office on +61 8 9321 4000 or our Melbourne office on +61 3 9111 9400 to discuss.
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Eze 16:1-63. DETAILED APPLICATION OF THE PARABOLICAL DELINEATION OF THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER TO JERUSALEM PERSONIFIED AS A DAUGHTER.
(1) Taken up by God's gratuitous favor from infancy (Eze 16:1-7); (2) and, when grown up, joined to Him in spiritual marriage (Eze 16:8-14); (3) her unfaithfulness, her sin (Eze 16:15-34); (4) the judgment (Eze 16:35-52); (5) her unlooked-for restoration (Eze 16:53 to the close).
2. cause Jerusalem to know—Men often are so blind as not to perceive their guilt which is patent to all. "Jerusalem" represents the whole kingdom of Judah.
3. birth . . . nativity—thy origin and birth; literally, "thy diggings" (compare Isa 51:1) "and thy bringings forth."
of . . . Canaan—in which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob sojourned before going to Egypt, and from which thou didst derive far more of thy innate characteristics than from the virtues of those thy progenitors (Eze 21:30).
an Amorite . . . an Hittite—These, being the most powerful tribes, stand for the whole of the Canaanite nations (compare Jos 1:4; Am 2:9), which were so abominably corrupt as to have been doomed to utter extermination by God (Le 18:24, 25, 28; De 18:12). Translate rather, "the Amorite . . . the Canaanite," that is, these two tribes personified; their wicked characteristics, respectively, were concentrated in the parentage of Israel (Ge 15:16). "The Hittite" is made their "mother"; alluding to Esau's wives, daughters of Heth, whose ways vexed Rebekah (Ge 26:34, 35; 27:46), but pleased the degenerate descendants of Jacob, so that these are called, in respect of morals, children of the Hittite (compare Eze 16:45).
4. Israel's helplessness in her first struggling into national existence, under the image of an infant (Ho 2:3) cast forth without receiving the commonest acts of parental regard. Its very life was a miracle (Ex 1:15-22).
navel . . . not cut—Without proper attention to the navel cord, the infant just born is liable to die.
neither . . . washed in water to supple thee—that is, to make the skin soft. Rather, "for purification"; from an Arabic root [MAURER]. GESENIUS translates as the Margin, "that thou mightest (be presented to thy parents to) be looked upon," as is customary on the birth of a child.
salted—Anciently they rubbed infants with salt to make the skin firm.
5. cast . . . in . . . open field—The exposure of infants was common in ancient times.
to the loathing of thy person—referring to the unsightly aspect of the exposed infant. FAIRBAIRN translates, "With contempt (or disdainful indifference) of thy life."
6. when I passed by—as if a traveller.
polluted in . . . blood—but PISCATOR, "ready to be trodden on."
I said—In contrast to Israel's helplessness stands God's omnipotent word of grace which bids the outcast little one "live."
in thy blood—Though thou wast foul with blood, I said, "Live" [GROTIUS]. "Live in thy blood," that is, Live, but live a life exposed to many deaths, as was the case in the beginnings of Israel's national existence, in order to magnify the grace of God [CALVIN]. The former view is preferable. Spiritually, till the sinner is made sensible of his abject helplessness, he will not appreciate the provisions of God's grace.
7. caused . . . to multiply—literally, "I . . . made thee a myriad."
bud of . . . field—the produce of the field. In two hundred fifty years they increased from seventy-five persons to eight hundred thousand (Ac 7:14) [CALVIN]. But see Ex 12:37, 38.
excellent ornaments—literally, "ornament of ornaments."
naked . . . bare— (Ho 2:3). Literally, "nakedness . . . bareness" itself; more emphatic.
8. thy time of love—literally, "loves" (compare So 2:10-13). Thou wast of marriageable age, but none was willing to marry thee, naked as thou wast. I then regarded thee with a look of grace when the full time of thy deliverance was come (Ge 15:13, 14; Ac 7:6, 7). It is not she that makes the advance to God, but God to her; she has nothing to entitle her to such notice, yet He regards her not with mere benevolence, but with love, such as one cherishes to the person of his wife (So 1:3-6; Jer 31:3; Mal 1:2).
spread my skirt over thee—the mode of espousals (Ru 3:9). I betrothed thee (De 4:37; 10:15; Ho 11:1). The cloak is often used as a bed coverlet in the East. God explains what He means, "I entered into . . . covenant with thee," that is, at Sinai. So Israel became "the wife of God's covenant" (Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Ho 2:19, 20; Mal 2:14).
thou . . . mine— (Ex 19:5; Jer 2:2).
9. washed I thee—as brides used to pass through a preparatory purification (Es 2:12). So Israel, before the giving of the law at Sinai (Ex 19:14); "Moses sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes." So believers (1Co 6:11).
oil—emblem of the Levitical priesthood, the type of Messiah (Ps 45:7).
10. Ps 45:13, 14, similarly describes the Church (Israel, the appointed mother of Christendom) adorned as a bride (so Isa 61:10). It is Messiah who provides the wedding garment (Re 3:18; 19:8).
badgers' skin—tahash; others translate, "seal skins." They formed the over-covering of the tabernacle, which was, as it were, the nuptial tent of God and Israel (Ex 26:14), and the material of the shoes worn by the Hebrews on festival days. (See on Ex 25:5).
fine linen—used by the priests (Le 6:10); emblem of purity.
11. The marriage gifts to Rebekah (Ge 24:22, 47).
12. jewel on thy forehead—rather, "a ring in thy nose" (Isa 3:21).
a crown—at once the badge of a bride, and of her being made a queen, as being consort of the King; the very name Israel meaning "a prince of God." So they are called "a kingdom of priests" (Ex 19:6; compare Re 1:6). Though the external blessings bestowed on Israel were great, yet not these, but the internal and spiritual, form the main reference in the kingly marriage to which Israel was advanced.
13. flour . . . honey . . . oil—These three mixed form the sweetest cakes; not dry bread and leeks as in Egypt. From raiment He passes to food (De 32:13, 14).
exceeding beautiful— Ps 48:2, the city; also, Ps 29:2, the temple.
prosper into a kingdom—exercising empire over surrounding nations.
14. thy renown . . . among . . . heathen—The theocracy reached its highest point under Solomon, when distant potentates heard of his "fame" (1Ki 10:1, &c.), for example, the queen of Sheba, Hiram, &c. (La 2:15).
my comeliness—It was not thine own, but imparted by Me.
15. Instead of attributing the glory of her privileges and gifts to God, Israel prided herself on them as her own (De 32:15; Jer 7:4; Mic 3:11), and then wantonly devoted them to her idols (Ho 2:8; compare Lu 15:12, 13).
playedst . . . harlot because of thy renown—"didst play the wanton upon thy name" [FAIRBAIRN], namely, by allowing thy renown to lead thee into idolatry and leagues with idolaters (Isa 1:21; 57:8; Jer 3:2, 6). English Version is better, "because of thy renown," that is, relying on it; answering to "thou didst trust in thine own beauty."
his it was—Thy beauty was yielded up to every passer-by. Israel's zest for the worship of foul idols was but an anxiety to have the approbation of heaven for their carnal lusts, of which the idols were the personification; hence, too, their tendency to wander from Jehovah, who was a restraint on corrupt nature.
16. deckedst . . . with divers colours—or, "didst make . . . of divers colors" [FAIRBAIRN]; the metaphor and the literal are here mixed. The high places whereon they sacrificed to Astarte are here compared to tents of divers colors, which an impudent harlot would spread to show her house was open to all [CALVIN]. Compare as to "woven hangings for Astarte" (the right translation for "grove") 2Ki 23:7.
the like . . . shall not come, neither shall . . . be—rather, "have not come, nor shall be." These thy doings are unparalleled in the past, and shall be so in the future.
17. my gold . . . my silver— (Hag 2:8).
images of men—rather, "of the phallus," the Hindu lingam, or membrum virile [HAVERNICK], deified as the emblem of fecundity; man making his lust his god. English Version, however, is appropriate; Israel being represented as a woman playing the harlot with "male images," that is, images of male gods, as distinguished from female deities.
18. tookest thy . . . garments . . . coveredst them—that is, the idols, as if an adulteress were to cover her paramours with garments which she had received from the liberality of her husband.
my oil—the holy anointing oil sacred to God (Ex 30:22-25). Also that used in sacrifices (Le 2:1, 2).
19. My meat . . . I gave— (Ho 2:8).
set it before them—as a minchah or "meat offering" (Le 2:1).
a sweet savour—literally, "a savor of rest," that is, whereby they might be propitiated, and be at peace ("rest") with you; how ridiculous to seek to propitiate gods of wood!
thus it was—The fact cannot be denied, for I saw it, and say it was so, saith Jehovah.
20, 21. sons and . . . daughters borne unto me—Though "thy children," yet they belong "unto Me," rather than to thee, for they were born under the immutable covenant with Israel, which even Israel's sin could not set aside, and they have received the sign of adoption as Mine, namely, circumcision. This aggravates the guilt of sacrificing them to Molech.
to be devoured—not merely to pass through the fire, as sometimes children were made to do (Le 18:21) without hurt, but to pass through so as to be made the food of the flame in honor of idols (see on Isa 57:5; Jer 7:31; Jer 19:5; Jer 32:35).
Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, that thou hast slain my children—rather, "Were thy whoredoms a small matter (that is, not enough, but) that thou hast slain (that is, must also slay)," &c. As if thy unchastity was not enough, thou hast added this unnatural and sacrilegious cruelty (Mic 6:7).
22. not remembered . . . youth—Forgetfulness of God's love is the source of all sins. Israel forgot her deliverance by God in the infancy of her national life. See Eze 16:43, to which Eze 16:60 forms a lovely contrast (Jer 2:2; Ho 11:1).
23. woe, woe unto thee, &c.—This parenthetical exclamation has an awful effect coming like a lightning flash of judgment amidst the black clouds of Israel's guilt.
24. eminent place—rather, "a fornication-chamber," often connected with the impure rites of idolatry; spiritual fornication, on "an eminent place," answering to "fornication-chamber," is mainly meant, with an allusion also to the literal fornication associated with it (Jer 2:20; 3:2).
25. at every head of the way—in the most frequented places (Pr 9:14).
thy beauty . . . abhorred, . . . opened . . . feet to every one—The wanton advances were all on Israel's part; the idolatrous nations yielded to her nothing in return. She had yielded so much that, like a worn-out prostitute, her tempters became weary of her. When the Church lowers her testimony for God to the carnal tastes of the world, with a view to conciliation, she loses everything and gains nothing.
26. fornication with . . . Egyptians—alliances with Egypt, cemented by sharing their idolatries.
great of flesh—of powerful virile parts; figuratively for the gross and lustful religion of Egypt (for example, Isis, &c.), which alone could satisfy the abominable lust of Israel (Eze 20:7, 8; 23:19, 20, 21).
to provoke me—wantonly and purposely.
27. The consequent judgments, which, however, proved of no avail in reforming the people (Isa 9:13; Jer 5:3).
delivered thee unto . . . Philistines— (2Ki 16:6; 2Ch 28:18, 19).
ashamed of thy lewd way—The Philistines were less wanton in idolatry, in that they did not, like Israel, adopt the idols of every foreign country but were content with their own (Eze 16:57; Jer 2:11).
28. unsatiable—Not satisfied with whoredoms with neighbors, thou hast gone off to the distant Assyrians, that is, hast sought a league with them, and with it adopted their idolatries.
29. multiplied . . . fornication in . . . Canaan unto Chaldea—Thou hast multiplied thy idolatries "in Canaan" by sending "unto Chaldea" to borrow from thence the Chaldean rites, to add to the abominations already practised "in Canaan," before the carrying away of Jehoiachin to Chaldea. The name "Canaan" is used to imply that they had made Judea as much the scene of abominations as it was in the days of the corrupt Canaanites. The land had become utterly Canaanitish (Eze 23:14, &c.).
30. weak . . . heart—Sin weakens the intellect ("heart") as, on the contrary, "the way of the Lord is strength to the upright" (Pr 10:29).
31. Repetition of Eze 16:24.
not . . . as . . . harlot . . . thou scornest hire—Unlike an ordinary harlot thou dost prostitute thy person gratis, merely to satisfy thy lust. JEROME translates, "Thou hast not been as a harlot in scorning (that is, who ordinarily scorns) a hire offered," in order to get a larger one: nay, thou hast offered hire thyself to thy lovers (Eze 16:33, 34). But these verses show English Version to be preferable, for they state that Israel prostituted herself, not merely for any small reward without demanding more, but for "no reward."
32. instead of her husband—referring to Nu 5:19, 20, 29. FAIRBAIRN translates, "whilst under her husband."
33, 34. Israel hired her paramours, instead of being, like other harlots, hired by them; she also followed them without their following her.
35. Here begins the threat of wrath to be poured out on her.
36. filthiness—literally, "brass"; metaphor for the lowest part of the person [CALVIN]. English Version is better: thy filthy lewdness is poured out without restraint (compare Jer 13:27). As silver is an emblem of purity, brass typifies "filthiness," because it easily contracts rust. HENDERSON explains it, "Because thy money was lavished on thy lovers" (Eze 16:31, 33, 34).
blood of thy children— (Eze 16:20; Jer 2:34).
37. thy lovers—the Chaldeans and the Assyrians. The law of retribution is the more signally exemplified by God employing, as His instruments of judgment on Israel, those very nations whose alliance and idols Israel had so eagerly sought, besides giving her up to those who had been always her enemies. "God will make him, who leaves God for the world, disgraced even in the eyes of the world, and indeed the more so the nearer he formerly stood to Himself" [HENGSTENBERG], (Isa 47:3; Jer 13:26; Ho 2:12; Na 3:5).
all . . . thou hast hated—the Edomites and Philistines; also Moab and Ammon especially (De 23:3).
I . . . will discover thy nakedness—punishment in kind, as she had "discovered her nakedness through whoredoms" (Eze 16:36); the sin and its penalty corresponded. I will expose thee to public infamy.
38-40. judge thee, as women that break wedlock— (Le 20:10; compare Eze 16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4, 5). In the case of communities, the sword. Also apostasy (De 13:10) and sacrificing children to Molech (Le 20:1-5) incurred stoning. Thus the penalty was doubly due to Israel; so the other which was decreed against an apostate city (De 13:15, 16) is added, "they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with . . . swords." The Chaldeans hurled stones on Jerusalem at the siege and slew with the sword on its capture.
shed blood . . . judged— (Ge 9:6).
jealousy—image taken from the fury of a husband in jealousy shedding the blood of an unfaithful wife, such as Israel had been towards God, her husband spiritually. Literally, "I will make thee (to become) blood of fury and jealousy."
39. thine eminent place—literally, "fornication-chamber" (see on Eze 16:24), the temple which Israel had converted into a place of spiritual fornication with idols, to please the Chaldeans (Eze 23:14-17).
strip thee of . . . clothes— (Eze 23:26; Ho 2:3). They shall dismantle thy city of its walls.
fair jewels—literally, "vessels of thy fairness" or beauty; the vessels of the temple [GROTIUS]. All the gifts wherewith God hath adorned thee [CALVIN].
40. (Eze 23:10, 47). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, Lu 19:43, 44.
41. The result of the awful judgment shall be, when divine vengeance has run its course, it shall cease.
burn— (De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9).
women—the surrounding Gentile nations to whom thou shalt be an object of mocking (Ps 137:7).
I will cause thee to cease . . . harlot— (Eze 23:27). Thou shalt no longer be able to play the harlot through My judgments.
thou . . . shall give . . . no hire . . . any more—Thou shalt have none to give.
42. my fury . . . rest—when My justice has exacted the full penalty commensurate with thy awful guilt (see on Eze 5:13). It is not a mitigation of the penalty that is here foretold, but such an utter destruction of all the guilty that there shall be no need of further punishment [CALVIN].
43. (Eze 16:22; Ps 78:42). In gratitude for God's favors to her in her early history.
fretted me— (Isa 63:10; Eph 4:30).
thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations—that is, this the wickedness (compare Zec 5:8), peculiarly hateful to God, namely, spiritual unchastity or idolatry, over and "above" (that is, besides) all thine other abominations. I will put it out of thy power to commit it by cutting thee off. FAIRBAIRN translates, "I will not do what is scandalous (namely, encouraging thee in thy sin by letting it pass with impunity) upon all thine abominations"; referring to Le 19:29, the conduct of a father who encouraged his daughter in harlotry. English Version is much better.
44. As . . . mother . . . her daughter—"Is," and "so is," are not in the original; the ellipsis gives the proverb (but two words in the Hebrew) epigrammatic brevity. Jerusalem proved herself a true daughter of the Hittite mother in sin (Eze 16:3).
45. mother's . . . that loatheth her husband—that is, God ("haters of God," Ro 1:30); therefore the knowledge of the true God had originally been in Canaan, handed down from Noah (hence we find Melchisedek, king of Salem, in Canaan, "priest of the most high God," Ge 14:18), but Canaan apostatized from it; this was what constituted the blackness of the Canaanites' guilt.
loathed . . . children—whom she put to death in honor of Saturn; a practice common among the Ph nicians.
sister of thy sisters—Thou art akin in guilt to Samaria and Sodom, to which thou art akin by birth. Moab and Ammon, the incestuous children of Lot, nephew of Abraham, Israel's progenitor, had their origin from Sodom; so Sodom might be called Judah's sister. Samaria, answering to the ten tribes of Israel, is, of course, sister to Judah.
46. elder sister . . . Samaria—older than Sodom, to whom Judah was less nearly related by kindred than she was to Samaria. Sodom is therefore called her younger sister; Samaria, her "elder sister" [GROTIUS]. Samaria is called the "elder," because in a moral respect more nearly related to Judah [FAIRBAIRN]. Samaria had made the calves at Dan and Beth-el in imitation of the cherubim.
her daughters—the inferior towns subject to Samaria (compare Nu 21:25, Margin).
left—The Orientals faced the east in marking the directions of the sky; thus the north was "left," the south "right."
Sodom . . . daughters—Ammon and Moab, offshoots from Sodom; also the towns subject to it.
47. their abominations—Milcom and Chemosh, the "abominations of Ammon and Moab" (1Ki 11:5, 7).
corrupted more than they—So it is expressly recorded of Manasseh (2Ki 21:9).
48. Sodom— (Mt 11:24). Judah's guilt was not positively, but relatively, greater than Sodom's; because it was in the midst of such higher privileges, and such solemn warnings; a fortiori, the guilt of unbelievers in the midst of the highest of all lights, namely, the Gospel, is the greatest.
49. pride—inherited by Moab, her offspring (Isa 16:6; Jer 48:26), and by Ammon (Jer 49:4). God, the heart-searcher, here specifies as Sodom's sin, not merely her notorious lusts, but the secret spring of them, "pride" flowing from "fullness of bread," caused by the fertility of the soil (Ge 13:10), and producing "idleness."
abundance of idleness—literally, "the secure carelessness of ease" or idleness.
neither did she strengthen . . . the poor—Pride is always cruel; it arrogates to itself all things, and despises brethren, for whose needs it therefore has no feeling; as Moab had not for the outcast Jews (Isa 16:3, 4; Jer 48:27; Lu 16:19-21; Jas 5:1-5).
50. haughty—puffed up with prosperity.
abomination before me—"sinners before the Lord" (Ge 13:13); said of those whose sin is so heinous as to cry out to God for immediate judgments; presumptuous sins, daring God to the face (Ge 18:20; 19:5).
I took them away— (Ge 19:24).
as I saw good—rather, "according to what I saw"; referring to Ge 18:21, where God says, "I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto Me."
51. Samaria—the kingdom of the ten tribes of Israel less guilty than Judah; for Judah betrayed greater ingratitude, having greater privileges, namely, the temple, the priesthood, and the regular order of kings.
justified thy sisters—made them appear almost innocent by comparison with thy guilt (Jer 3:11; Mt 12:41, 42).
52. Thou . . . which hast judged . . . bear thine own— (Mt 7:1, 2; Ro 2:1, 17-23). Judah had judged Sodom (representing "the heathen nations") and Samaria (Israel), saying they were justly punished, as if she herself was innocent (Lu 13:2).
thy shame—ignominious punishment.
53. Here follows a promise of restoration. Even the sore chastisements coming on Judah would fail to reform its people; God's returning goodness alone would effect this, to show how entirely of grace was to be their restoration. The restoration of her erring sisters is mentioned before hers, even as their punishment preceded her punishment; so all self-boasting is excluded [FAIRBAIRN]. "Ye shall, indeed, at some time or other return, but Moab and Ammon shall return with you, and some of the ten tribes" [GROTIUS].
bring again . . . captivity—that is, change the affliction into prosperity (so Job 42:10). Sodom itself was not so restored (Jer 20:16), but Ammon and Moab (her representatives, as sprung from Lot who dwelt in Sodom) were (Jer 48:47; 49:6); probably most of the ten tribes and the adjoining nations, Ammon and Moab, &c., were in part restored under Cyrus; but the full realization of the restoration is yet future; the heathen nations to be brought to Christ being typified by "Sodom," whose sins they now reproduce (De 32:32).
captivity of thy captives—literally, "of thy captivities." However, the gracious promise rather begins with the "nevertheless" (Eze 16:60), not here; for Eze 16:59 is a threat, not a promise. The sense here thus is, Thou shalt be restored when Sodom and Samaria are, but not till then (Eze 16:55), that is, never. This applies to the guilty who should be utterly destroyed (Eze 16:41, 42); but it does not contradict the subsequent promise of restoration to their posterity (Nu 14:29-33), and to the elect remnant of grace [CALVIN].
54. bear thine own shame—by being put on a level with those whom thou hast so much despised.
thou art a comfort unto them—since they see thee as miserable as themselves. It is a kind of melancholy "comfort" to those chastised to see others as sorely punished as themselves (Eze 14:22, 23).
55. (See on Eze 16:53).
56. Sodom was not mentioned—literally, "was not for a report." Thou didst not deign to mention her name as if her case could possibly apply as a warning to thee, but it did apply (2Pe 2:6).
57. Before thy wickedness was discovered—manifested to all, namely, by the punishment inflicted on thee.
thy reproach of . . . Syria and . . . Philistines—the indignity and injuries done thee by Syria and the Philistines (2Ki 16:5; 2Ch 28:18; Isa 9:11, 12).
58. borne thy lewdness—that is, the punishment of it (Eze 23:49). I do not treat thee with excessive rigor. Thy sin and punishment are exactly commensurate.
59. the oath—the covenant between God and Israel (De 29:12, 14). As thou hast despised it, so will I despise thee. No covenant is one-sided; where Israel broke faith, God's promise of favor ceased.
60. The promise here bursts forth unexpectedly like the sun from the dark clouds. With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace. Contrast "I will remember," with "thou hast not remembered" (Eze 16:22, 43); also "My covenant," with "Thy covenant" (Eze 16:61; Ps 106:45); then the effect produced on her is (Eze 16:63) "that thou mayest remember." God's promise was one of promise and of grace. The law, in its letter, was Israel's (thy) covenant, and in this restricted view was long subsequent (Ga 3:17). Israel interpreted it as a covenant of works, which she while boasting of, failed to fulfil, and so fell under its condemnation (2Co 3:3, 6). The law, in its spirit, contains the germ of the Gospel; the New Testament is the full development of the Old, the husk of the outer form being laid aside when the inner spirit was fulfilled in Messiah. God's covenant with Israel, in the person of Abraham, was the reason why, notwithstanding all her guilt, mercy was, and is, in store for her. Therefore the heathen or Gentile nations must come to her for blessings, not she to them.
everlasting covenant— (Eze 37:26; 2Sa 23:5; Isa 55:3). The temporary forms of the law were to be laid aside, that in its permanent and "everlasting" spirit it might be established (Jer 31:31-37; 32:40; 50:4, 5; Heb 8:8-13).
61. thou shalt remember—It is God who first remembers her before she remembers Him and her own ways before Him (Eze 16:60; Eze 20:43; 36:31).
ashamed—the fruit of repentance (2Co 7:10, 11). None please God unless those who displease themselves; a foretaste of the Gospel (Lu 18:9-14).
I will give them unto thee for daughters— (Isa 54:1; 60:3, 4; Ga 4:26, &c.). All the heathen nations, not merely Sodom and Samaria, are meant by "thy sisters, elder and younger." In Jerusalem first, individual believers were gathered into the elect Church. From Jerusalem the Gospel went forth to gather in individuals of the Gentiles; and Judah with Jerusalem shall also be the first nation which, as such, shall be converted to Christ; and to her the other nations shall attach themselves as believers in Messiah, Jerusalem's King (Ps 110:2; Isa 2:2, 3). "The king's daughter" in Ps 45:12-14 is Judah; her "companions," as "the daughter of Tyre," are the nations given to her as converts, here called "daughters."
not by thy covenant—This does not set aside the Old Testament in its spirit, but in its mere letter on which the Jews had rested, while they broke it: the latter ("thy covenant") was to give place to God's covenant of grace and promise in Christ who "fulfilled" the law. God means, "not that thou on thy part hast stood to the covenant, but that 'I am the Lord, I change not' (Mal 3:6) from My original love to thee in thy youth" (see Ro 3:3).
62. (Ho 2:19, 20).
thou shalt know that I am the Lord—not, as elsewhere, by the judgments falling on thee, but by My so marvellously restoring thee through grace.
63. never open thy mouth—in vindication, or even palliation, of thyself, or expostulation with God for His dealings (Ro 3:19), when thou seest thine own exceeding unworthiness, and My superabounding grace which has so wonderfully overcome with love thy sin (Ro 5:20). "If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged" (1Co 11:31).
all that thou hast done—enhancing the grace of God which has pardoned so many and so great sins. Nothing so melts into love and humility as the sense of the riches of God's pardoning grace (Lu 7:47).
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Sudanese court sentences Czech journalist to life in prison over espionage charges
January 29, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese court has sentenced a Czech journalist Petr Jasek to life in prison for espionage. The court, also sentenced a pastor and an activist to 12 years for rendering him criminal assistance .
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Jasek had been arrested by the Sudanese security service at Khartoum airport carrying video and written material about the armed conflict in the Nuba Mountains where the government is accused to targeting civilians in the rebel controlled areas.
The Judge of North Khartoum court, Osama Ahmed Abdallah, Sunday, sentenced the journalist Peter Jacek to life imprisonment for spying against the Sudan and disseminating reports - via an "American organization hostile to Sudan" - including alleged persecution of Christians in the country, and the bombardment of civilian populated areas in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan State.
The judge also sentenced the journalist for filming military areas, provoking hatred against religious communities and spreading false news about the country. Further, the Czech was ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 Sudanese pound for violating the Sudanese humanitarian law.
In October 2016, the European Parliament mentioned the detention of the Czech Christian aid worker in a resolution on human rights in Sudan, and called on the Sudanese government to release rights activists, and to respect the freedom of religion.
The court also sentenced to 12 years in prison the Pastor Hassan Abdel Rahim and the activist Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Mawla for rendering criminal assistance to the Czech journalist, disseminating false information about the country and inciting hatred against religious communities.
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In Prague, the Czech foreign ministry swiftly rejected the ruling of the Sudanese court, pointing that there was no evidence to support his conviction or sentence, according to the Associated Press.
In a statement released on Sunday the Czech foreign ministry said a deputy foreign minister would travel to Sudan in the coming days to try to negotiate Jasek’s release and if necessary, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek is ready go there, too.
Prague further said Jasek is in relatively good condition.
30 January 2017 14:12, by koang mi kei
we sorry the court in south Sudan is independence that is why no one bother himself or herself to go to them now what was the offence to sentence some one for life imprison this rubbish law are not in place the right of people are been control by those who threaten them
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12 Days of Christmas: River Kidz need help printing environmental workbook for schools
For their Christmas wish, the River Kidz need help printing the latest edition of their workbook for school kids.
12 Days of Christmas: River Kidz need help printing environmental workbook for schools For their Christmas wish, the River Kidz need help printing the latest edition of their workbook for school kids. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2019/12/25/12-days-christmas-help-river-kidz-print-environmental-workbook/4227298002/
Tyler Treadway, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 25, 2019
Marty, Milly and Manny are ready to teach kids about the beauty of South Florida's waterways, and about the issues facing them.
But the three friendly manatees, and the River Kidz who created them, need your help.
The manatees are characters in the River Kidz Workbook, a tool to teach elementary school students about the St. Lucie River and southern Indian River Lagoon, where Marty lives; the Caloosahatchee River, Milly's home; and Florida Bay, where Manny lives.
To print 10,000 copies of the book, the River Kidz need from $8,000 to $10,000.
"It's the only workbook, that I know at least, designed to teach kids in the county about our local waterways and how the local environment has been damaged," said Nic Mader, a member of the Rivers Coalition leadership team and River Kidz coordinator. "If kids learn about what's been going on to our water, perhaps they're going to change it and help it."
River Kidz will be encouraging those who attend to join their efforts. From left: Kiele Mader, Rachel Goldman and Hannah Lucas. (PHOTO BY NIC MADER)
The River Kidz group was formed in 2011 after two 10-year-olds, Naia Mader (Nic Mader's daughter) and Evie Flaugh, raised $85 for the Rivers Coalition by selling lemonade.
Since then, the group's members have lobbied against offshore oil drilling, circulated petitions to limit fertilizer runoff, appeared in a documentary filmed by the Everglades Foundation, attended rallies against Lake Okeechobee discharges and sat in on a congressional hearing on the lagoon's health in Washington, D.C.
More: River Kidz urge Congress to stop Lake O discharges
With the help of parents and a Jensen Beach High School marine biology class, the Kidz developed the workbook to teach elementary school students about how pollution threatens the Indian River Lagoon and St. Lucie River.
The first edition contained lots of information about the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon, and the second edition looked at the ecosystem through the eyes of a new character: Marty the Manatee.
Third edition of the River Kidz Workbook features manatees Milly, Marty and Manny. (Photo: Courtesy of River Kidz)
The scope expanded in the third edition to include environmental issues Milly the Manatee faces on the Caloosahatchee River estuary on Florida's Gulf Coast and Manny the Manatee struggles with in Florida Bay at the southern tip of the state.
"Kids identify with anthropomorphizing," Mader said. "Just look at all the talking animals in cartoons."
The latest edition of the workbook contains "some updates and some new artwork," Mader said, "but no major changes."
(Spoiler alert: There's talk of adding a fourth manatee to represent the northern Indian River Lagoon in the next edition.)
More:TCPalm's complete coverage of Indian River Lagoon issues
As usual, copies of the workbook will be distributed at all public and private schools, as well as to home-schooled students, in Martin County. They also will be available at Rivers Coalition meetings and events, as well as sites throughout the county.
And for the first time, the workbooks will be part of the curriculum in elementary school science labs throughout the Martin County School District this spring, Mader said.
"In the past, teachers could use them if they wanted, or the workbooks could just go home in kids' backpacks," Mader said. "Of course, that's not such a bad thing: Maybe parents who saw the books learned a thing or two."
More: River Kidz' environmental message hits home at elementary school
To get the workbooks to classes on time, Mader said, "we have to have them printed by early spring so we can get them to classrooms well before the end of the school year."
With help from Valerie Gaynor, science coordinator for the Martin County School District, and science teacher Christina Radcliffe at Felix A. Williams Elementary School, the River Kidz will have a workshop in January or February to introduce the new workbooks to teachers and give some tips on how to use them.
River Kidz logo (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY RIVER KIDZ)
Who: River Kidz
Wish: Help printing latest edition of environmental workbook
Cost: $8,000 to $10,000
How to donate: Send checks to River Kidz c/o Rivers Coalition, P.O. Box 2627, Stuart, FL 34995
For information: Email info@riverscoalition.org or call Barbara Osborn at 772-225-6849
Treasure Coast groups that research, protect and restore the Indian River Lagoon need more than holiday cheer to continue their mission of saving area waterways. Find out what they need — and how you can help them — to continue their work as TCPalm.com highlights a different organization each day from Dec. 25 to Jan. 5, the traditional 12 Days of Christmas.
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Binance announces Venus, a stablecoin positioned to rival Facebook's Libra
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The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume is planning to take on Facebook's Libra with a blockchain called Venus. While details are scarce, Binance's press release does offer a few hints at what to expect from what appears to be the first fully-fledged Libra competitor.
The new initiative deviates a bit from the concept put forward by Facebook in that Binance wants to leverage its "public chain technology and cross-border payment system for secure operations of new stablecoins." More specifically, it wants to create localized cryptocurrencies that are tied to a traditional asset such as gold or local currency.
To give you an idea of what they might look like, Binance has already issued several of them such as the Bitcoin-pegged BTCB and the British Pound-pegged BGBP. The idea is to use the already well-established Binance Chain infrastructure as a platform for the new stablecoins, which are targeted at both developed and developing countries.
Binance is seeking to forge new partnerships with enterprises, blockchain companies and governments to assist in its efforts, and "will provide full-process technical support, compliance risk control system and multi-dimensional cooperation network to build Venus." With them, the exchange hopes to create a global-scale digital ecosystem that is open and built on trust.
Trust isn't a luxury that Facebook has right now, which is the reason why regulators are carefully combing through the company's documentation on its Libra cryptocurrency and asking a lot of questions about compliance with laws and regulations. By comparison, Binance has a relatively clean track record and isn't taking the market by storm. Its open approach is also less likely to invite the same criticism as Facebook, who is looking to use its dominance in social media to gain an advantage with Libra and the associated Calibra digital wallet that is set to arrive next year.
Binance co-founder Yi He told CoinDesk that he believes "stablecoins will progressively replace traditional fiat currencies in countries around the world, and bring a new and balanced standard of the digital economy." However, he's not the only one who sees their potential - last year we saw Gemini and Paxos launching a USD-pegged stablecoin, and Circle quickly followed with its USDC alternative.
It's worth noting that not too long ago some experts considered cryptocurrencies to be a failed experiment. Companies like Apple are steering clear of them with their new financial services and their value is too speculative to consider as a good investment. It also doesn't help that just as the cryptocurrency phenomenon is set to reach critical mass, billions of dollars worth of digital assets have been stolen from exchanges in the last year alone.
In any case, Binance likely sees Facebook's regulatory troubles as the perfect opportunity to deliver an alternative to Libra that people can trust. Exactly how it will tackle security and privacy remains to be seen, but its Venus initiative is a sign that we're about to see even more alternatives soon enough.
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I suspect the number of these is going to increase to the point that the Federal Reserve "tries" to step in and put a stop to all financial streams that are outside of its control, but with the internet being so flexible, the Fed might just find it to be a nearly impossible task that will only be achieved if they get the Secret Service involved and treat these the same way they treat counterfeit currency. Of course, that will require a LOT of new laws and regulations and with some in congress openly participating in the movement of money it could be nearly impossible.
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Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster somehow familiar, yet still quite different from anything ever seen has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city. It is a Big Sister, new denizens of Rapture who were once one of the forgotten little girls known as Little Sisters, known to inhabit the city's dank halls. No longer a pawn used to harvest ADAM, the dangerously powerful gene-altering lifeblood of Rapture, from the bodies of others and in turn run the risk of being harvested herself, the Big Sister is now the fastest and most powerful thing in Rapture. You, on the other hand are the very first Big Daddy, in fact the prototype, that for some reason has reactivated. You are similar to the Big Daddies familiar from the original BioShock, but also very different in that you possess free will and no memory of the events of the past ten years. 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Within these players are provided with a rich prequel experience that expands the origins of the BioShock fiction, and allows you to play as one of several characters pulled from Rapture's history before the events of the first game. Key Features The Big Sister - No longer just something to be harvested or not, the Big Sister is the most powerful resident in Rapture. You Are the Big Daddy - Take control with the original prototype Big Daddy, and experience the power and raw strength of Rapture’s most feared denizens as you battle powerful new enemies. New Plasmids - New plasmids such as "Aero Dash" allowing for bursts of speed over short distances, and "Geyser Trap" a stream of water used as a jump pad and electrical conductor, join the ample list of Plasmids from the original game. New Game Mechanics - BioShock 2 contains many new gameplay mechanics. Just a few of these are: the ability to wield plasmids and weapons simultaneously; flashback missions detailing how you became the Big Daddy; the ability to walk outside the airlocks of Rapture to discover new play areas, and many more. New Locations - Just a few of the locations and environments debuting in BioShock 2 are Fontaine Futuristics, headquarters of Fontaine's business empire and the Kashmir Restaurant. Evolution of the Genetically Enhanced Shooter - Innovative advances bring new depth and dimension to each encounter, allowing players to create exciting combinations to fit their style of gameplay. Return to Rapture - Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the story continues with an epic, more intense journey through one of the most captivating and terrifying fictional worlds ever created. 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Nikkor 50 f1.2 - A timeless classic
This fast normal lens was first released in 1981 and, rather surprisingly, is still produced today. That's right, you can get yourself a brand new 'vintage' lens, guaranteed to be scratch/fungus-free and smooth-focusing. It's about 650-700 bucks in the US, but if you visit Japan, you can pick up a new one for about 50 000 yen (currently about 400 USD). That's actually really surprising since new camera gear isn't usually cheaper here. This one was lent to me for about a week by Eric from work, who uses it mostly for video (hence the red follow-focus ring I was asked to leave on).
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Length - 68.5 mm (93 mm with adapter)
Filter size - 52 mm
Min. focus distance - 0.5 m
Aperture - 9 blades, f1.2 to f16
Build Quality/Handling (Excellent/Probably quite good)
I gotta say that it's difficult to comment on handling when focusing with a giant metal ring meant for a video rig. However, it's safe to say that the all-metal build quality of the lens is excellent and that both the aperture and focus rings are smooth and a joy to use. The aperture moves in well-defined clicks from f1.2 to f1.4 and then in full stops to f16. The ring moves in the opposite direction to all other lenses I've used before, which took some getting used to.
Due to Nikon's large flange distance the lens with adapter is longer than comparable offerings from Canon (the FL 55 f1.2, for example is only 78mm vs Nikkor's 93mm), so it's not the most compact solution out there. However, it's a fairly light lens for an f1.2 and the 52mm filter thread is convenient.
Image Quality (Excellent, especially from f2)
This lens has a wide range - from dreamy, bokehfull (that's not really a word) at f1.2 to pin-sharp, surgical when stopped down.
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100% crops. From top left to bottom right: f1.2 - f2 - f2.8 - f4
At f1.2 this lens glows (there's lots of CA) but does resolve enough fine detail on the Sony A7s, especially in the centre. The sharpness increases dramatically stopped down to f2 and again at f2.8, at which point it seems to already be as sharp as it gets on 12 megapixels. It might not be as sharp as the FL 55 f1.2 wide open, but I think it sharpens up faster.
Vignetting is pronounced at f1.2, improves significantly by f2 and is basically gone by f2.8. Curiously, the lens I had seemed to vignette more in the top left corner (I'm not sure why).
In my opinion the bokeh is good and definitely smoother than the Canon FL 55 f1.2, but probably not as creamy as the Canon FD 100 f2. Of course, there's lots of it when shooting wide open.
I didn't really find flare to be an issue with this lens but I did forget to shoot it into the sun. However, there was some crazy ghosting visible when shooting at night. As seen in the photo below, there's also lots of purple fringing and coma around bright highlights at f1.2 (but gone by f2).
This is a great lens and I wish I could have shot it without the extra ring to get a better idea of how it handles on the Sony A7s. I suspect that it's a decent fit for the camera, though perhaps a bit long due to the size of the Nikon to E-mount adapter. The mechanical operation was certainly as good as any other vintage lens I tried (though this one was not nearly as old as some of the lenses I have).
The image quality is great, especially stopped down, but even wide open this lens resolves enough detail. Sure, there are some shortcomings at f1.2 such as vignetting, CA, glow, coma, etc. Some, however, might like the dreamy results at that aperture. Others might want to stop it down to f2 to get clean, sharp results. It's a lens that can probably please many with its versatility.
I think it's great that Nikon still makes these lenses, though I'm not sure that I would buy one over an older, cheaper f1.2 such as the Canon FL 55 f1.2.
Below are a few more samples. Also, check out a video shot with this lens.
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Kirsty Marrins: What does 2019 hold for digital?
We canvass opinion from the sector on what the future holds
Kirsty Marrins
In 2018 we saw charities investing in digital, whether that was trialling contactless donation badges, using digital for service delivery or simply recruiting digital trustees. But what does 2019 hold for the sector? I asked some colleagues from the sector for their thoughts.
Voice and vision technology will cause disruption – Lisa Hornung, senior data and research analyst, National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Content development is changing, and this will in turn change the way charities can fundraise and deliver their work. Organisations are already adopting digital design principles, such as being user-centred and agile, and this will become increasingly important.
The rise of smartphones required charities to think about a "mobile first" strategy, putting mobile devices before desktops. But with the rise of more new platforms, organisations need to be thinking about how voice-and-vision technology, such as smart speakers, will again change how people interact with digital content. This creates a huge amount of prospect for charities in both fundraising and service delivery. Some are already experimenting with developing content for smart speakers, such as Cancer Research UK’s Alcohol Tracker and the British Red Cross’s First Aid app.
Messaging App Bots will be used more – Matt Navara, social media consultant
The increased usage of messaging apps, combined with the integration of chatbots and improved artificial intelligence will lead to a resurgence in businesses using bots for customer service and other experiences. Facebook-owned WhatsApp is most likely to see the biggest growth because of the rollout of WhatsApp for Business to more companies. The real test, however, is whether brands can create truly useful and meaningful services with bots, as opposed to gimmicky and uninspired bots. Charities that run mass-participation events should look to build a Whatsapp Group to be used as both a comms and customer service channel to engage and inspire their participants.
We’ll look beyond feeds – Dan Papworth-Smyth, digital enagagement manager, Breast Cancer Care
I think 2019 will see more and more charities move away from the traditional feed-first model for social. The saturation of news feeds and timelines will lead to the increased adoption of alternative methods to get messages to our supporters. This could be through heightened priority for Stories content on Instagram and even Facebook. It could also be through podcasts, with more charities exploring other avenues to share their rich stories (we launched ours earlier this month). We might see more investment in messaging tools too, and building more detailed bots to effectively engage with our supporters.
Online service delivery must be a priority – Matt Haworth, founder, Reason Digital
Websites and social media are embraced nowadays bringing (most of the time) more efficient and effective ways of communicating – and we allow people to donate online, so fundraising is covered. However, our new research shows that digital service delivery is the new, relatively unexplored frontier in charity digital.
We discovered a clear imbalance in that 50 per cent of the UK public supported a charity online, yet only 16 per cent had been supported by a charity online. How long will people stick around in a relationship this unequal? Online service delivery needs to be something we focus on if we're to continue to support and be supported by the public and to meet the potential digital has, not just to talk about, or to find support for our mission but actually to deliver our mission.
We’ll have more conversations about responsible tech – Giulia Merlo, service design lead, Cancer Research UK
If 2018 was the year that a user-centred approach became the norm in our sector, then 2019 will be the year charities begin to drive the conversation on responsible technology.
Digital teams in charities are now talking about culture and not just about delivery. As a sector, we've started to understand the value of disciplines such as design thinking and agility. This means we're in an ideal place to move beyond the user and look at the wider consequences of our tech and design choices, and to start considering their impact on the whole system, rather than just on individual behaviour.
And for me? Well, I believe that 2019 will be the year of the charity podcast.
When last did you listen to one? I bet it was very recently… perhaps even today. According to the regulator Ofcom, six million UK adults listen to a podcast each week – double the number of five years ago. Half of all podcast listeners are under the age of 35, but its popularity is increasing across all age groups. Over the last year or so, I’ve found myself listening to more and more podcasts, ranging from true crime to lifestyle, as well as charity-focused ones.
There are already lots of sector podcasts, such as CharityComms, Tech For Good Live and the Cancer Research UK Tech Team Podcast. Even this publication has recently launched one. Organisations including Breast Cancer Care, Amnesty International, Bliss and the Mental Health Foundation are just a few that have their own podcasts, but I predict that more charities will start them as part of their comms strategies or at least will look to advertise on popular podcasts, just as Save the Children and Versus Arthritis have. It’s a great way to reach a new audience and engage people in your work.
Kirsty Marrins is a digital communications consultant
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As a Latino who is also a patriotic American, I am painfully aware of the tendency for the United States to look at Latin America as a problem. The current border crisis is clearly exacerbating that tendency, and I can appreciate why.
In fact, it’s difficult to ignore how many negatives – cultural, political and otherwise – are highlighted or aggravated by the fact that tens of thousands of children have suddenly come to our country without homes or parents, putting the U.S. in what seems like an unwinnable position of either absorbing a huge cost (and likely encouraging more illegal border crossings and more future cost) or abruptly deporting these vulnerable children, sending them back to what we know must be a multitude of threats and dangers.
The situation is actively highlighting the facts that an unsecured border puts the U.S. at physical and financial risk, and that immigration reform is both desperately needed and completely stuck at partisan crossroads.
The crisis – with its void of solutions – also serves as a vivid example of why 70 percent of Americans feel the U.S. is on the wrong track. The people are seeing a situation that cries – literally cries, with the heartbreaking tears of children – for a solution, but the only message they are hearing from their leaders in government is the irritating squawk of politics: “It’s the other guys’ fault; that’s why you should vote for my side in November.”
I often tell lawmakers that they need to change their view of Latin America from “problem” to “opportunity.” I also remind them that immigration is not a Latino issue, it’s an American issue.
I’d like to encourage a similar shift in mindset when it comes to the current border crisis. I think everyone can readily agree that what’s going on right now is an American challenge, requiring solutions that will impact all Americans.
But I recognize that opportunities may be harder to see. My belief is that one single-but-significant opportunity is staring our lawmakers in the face: This is a moment ripe for leadership.
So far, the only true leadership I’ve seen is from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas – two men who reached across the aisle this week with a realistic, tough-but-fair proposal that would quickly change immigration law to treat unaccompanied children from every Central American country they way children from Mexico and Canada are already treated.
I find it shameful that his colleagues in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus immediately criticized Cuellar for this act of bipartisanship. Instead of criticism, I believe both Cuellar and Cornyn should be applauded. In a situation that has no great answers, they are brave enough to put forward ideas that might provide some answers.
We won’t achieve a perfect solution to the current crisis, but we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. True leaders know that perfection can never be the goal of government.
True leaders also have faith in the people. In the current situation, we need leaders to emerge who have confidence that Americans will accept imperfect actions and just-adequate solutions.
Sometimes you have to amputate a limb to save a life, and people understand that concept. In fact, they admire those strong enough to make that kind of difficult choice.
Finally, true leaders don’t rely on blame to get through a crisis. As a Republican and former Bush appointee myself, I can tell you how tired Republicans are of hearing the Obama administration blame George W. Bush for everything that is ever wrong in the world.
But I’m also ready to say that blaming President Obama for the current border crisis isn’t getting us anywhere. I have confidence that Americans know where to place blame. They don’t really need a lot of help with that.
Instead, they want leadership. In fact, if the president came forward with concessions and real bipartisan efforts on immigration reform, right now, I think Americans would absolve him of some of the blame for the current crisis.
Again, alongside problems, I see opportunity. Putting ego and politics aside to work out a bipartisan solution on immigration reform could ameliorate blame; does this not sweeten the pot, Mr. President? We’re watching, waiting and hoping for you to lead.
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The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » I'm a real boy! » » Cute Joke (0 Likes)
Police Magician
Posted: Sep 8, 2009 01:03 pm
Some of you may already have heard this one, as it may be an oldie, but it is a goldie. Glenn
A ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain in a small town.
He's going through his usual run of off-color and "dumb blonde" jokes, when a well-presented blonde woman in the fourth row stands up and says:
"I've heard just about enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What connection can a person's hair color possibly have with their fundamental worth as a human being? It is morons like you that prevent women like myself from being respected at work and in our communities and from reaching our full potential...because you and your anachronistic kind continue to perpetuate negative images against not only blondes, but women in general, for the sake of cheap laughs. You are a pathetic relic of the past, and what you do is not only contrary to Discrimination laws in every civilized country, it is deeply offensive to people with modern sensibilities and basic respect for their fellow citizens. You should hang your head in shame, you pusillanimous little maggot."
Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to apologize, when the blonde yells, "You stay out of this Mister! I'm talking to that little *** on your knee!"
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That was great!!! Tell me more. LOL
The best ventriloquism joke I ever heard came from a mediocre ventriloquist, but a great showman.
He opened the vent portion of his act by saying: Last night there were complaints about the quality of my ventriloquism. My lip control was so perfect that many people thought I was using a tape. So tonight, for one night only, I am going to let you see my lips moving.
It got a great laugh, and it also papered over the fact that he was not a great ventriloquist.
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A ventriloquist meets a young lady in a small farming town, she begs him to come back to the farm and show her father his talent. The farmer is satnding in yard when they arrive, the vent says" Hello cow", the cow replies"hello to you", the vent says to the pig "g"day pig", and the pig replies "G'day to yourself sir".
At this point the farmer says "If that sheep says anything, it's a bloody lie!"
Mike "Gus" Harvatt
"Bullwinkle that trick never works."
Tony, love that one. I hope to use it in case someone does see my lips move. In that case, I will restore the lines to fit the post show.
Mike, in this area, I would be afraid of mimicking that vent as it may be true on some of the farms here (lol). Great one as well. Keep um coming.
AN irishman & a scottsman walk into a pub, the scot say's "Drinks for the house".
The next day headlines read "Irish ventriloquist found beaten up behind local pub"
JimbosMagic
Good one Mike
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I heard another joke which I thought was good, but it does not have to do with a ventriliquist. Rather, it has to do with a dummy.
This guy heard about how pumpkins were soft on the inside and wanted to try one out in a sexual manner. As he was doing his thing in the pumpkin patch a cop arrived on scene and asked him if he knew he was having sex with a pumpkin. The man, not fledging a bit, stated "you mean it is midnight already". So much for the Cinderalla story.
A bartender can tell the nationality of his client by putting a fly in thier beer,
An Englishman says " I can't drink that, there's a fly in that!"
An Irishman says " Lookit that fly in there" And drinks his pint
A Scotsman pulls the fly out and says " Spit it out! Ive PAID for that!!!!"
mkmager
Posted: Oct 6, 2009 12:52 pm
That is great! Now I want to add a blond to my act
What is the difference between a Scotsman and a coconut?
You can get a drink from a coconut
What is the difference between a Scot & small boat?
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Mets: Rosario to Play in Colorado
Look who finally got called ups Sandy is saying Dom Smith is right behind him....
Posted by MediaGoon at 7:16:00 PM
Mets: Calling Up Rosario?
I'm away from the mainland US so I am getting my News a little slower....
Hearing this is happening..... from twitter....
Mets: Trade Reed to Red Sox
Of course I am away and my posts are going to be waaaaaaay late. I'm six hours behind you folks today....
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Mets: Season Ticket Holders Not Happy
I'll have a post coming in the next few weeks about the netting and how season ticket holders are getting treated with it.
For now, here's one from Ricky....
Hi Goon,
I've had season tickets since 2011, and this year was the worst experience so far. The first issue I had was regarding the Citi gift card that was promised if you paid with a Citi card. It took multiple phone calls and emails to my rep for that to happen.
On top of that, I requested 50 tickets to a subway Series game for a group outing with an open bar. After I received the tickets, I noticed there were no food vouchers or information on the open bar. When I contacted my rep, he said there is no available open bar for that game. So I agreed to a price with an open bar and then after the Mets take my money, they pull the rug right out from
Beneath me. By the way, the people that bought tickets for this group event are not happy. I took money from people while telling them we are getting an open bar, and now I have to regretfully tell them it's not included.
I am not renewing my plan next year. I can go to the same amount of games I go to with a full season plan and pay less money. It's not worth it for me ( or my wallet) to bend over backwards for the Mets. They will not bend over backwards for me.
Now, I have a great ticket who I know really looks out for his clients, but I do know there are some reps that aren't that strong with helping out their clients...
So if you guys have tales of horror or tales of goodness from your reps email me at Mediagoon@gmail. Of course Mets please hit me up too if you want to refute anything...
Posted by MediaGoon at 10:22:00 PM
Mets: Game Notes 7/30/17
Aloha from Me....Game note from the Mets
NEW YORk METS (48-54)
TIED FOR THIRD PLACE, NL EAST, -13.5 GB
DIVISION CHAMPIONS
& NLDS LEAGUE & NLDS LEAGUE LEAGUE WINNERS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS WILD CARD
SEATTLE MARINERS (52-53) SECOND PLACE, AL WEST, -17.0 GB
Sunday, July 30, 2017 • 4:10 p.m. (ET)
Safeco Field • Seattle, WA
RHP Seth Lugo (5-2, 4.10) vs. LHP James Paxton (10-3, 2.84) PIX11 • WOR 710 AM • 104.3 WAXQ-FM HD 2 • ESPN 1050 AM
METSCELLANEOUS: The Mets are 7-4 in their last 11 games... New York is 3-3 on its season high-tying 10-game road
trip (San Diego, Seattle, Colorado)...The Mets are 17-13 in their last 30 games...The Mets are 23-26 on the road...New York has five come-from-behind wins in their last 10 games...The Mets are 10- 19 in day games and 12-10 vs. lefthanded starters this year.
INTERLEAGUE: New York is 6-4 vs. the AL this year...Since 1997, when Interleague play began, the Mets are 184-168...The .523 Interleague winning percentage is the best all-time among NL clubs.
SECOND-HALF: The Mets are 9-7 since the All-Star break, tied for sixth-most wins in the majors...New York has scored 83 runs in the second-half, the fourth-most in the majors.
SERIES NOTES: The Mets are 5-4 in rubber games this year, including 3-1 on the road...New York is 2-0-2 in its last four s
eries.
WELCOME HOME: Michael Conforto, the Seattle native, is 3-9 (.333) with two home runs and three RBI during this series... Conforto is tied for the most homers in the majors with seven homers after the break with Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton and J.D. Martinez...Conforto is the second Met age 24 or younger to hit 20 or more home runs before the end of July...David Wright (age 23) in 2006 is the other...Conforto has four multi-home run games this year (April 29, May 23, July 21 and July 28)...He is the first Mets hitter to have four multi-home run games in a season out of the leadoff spot in the batting order...His 21 home runs extend his career-best.
MORE MIKE: Conforto is hitting .313 (20-64) with five doubles, seven homers, 14 RBI and 12 runs scored since the All-Star break (16 games)...He is eighth in the NL with a .398 on-base percentage, eighth with a .581 slugging percentage and sixth with a .980 OPS.
ROAD HOMERS: The Mets have hit at least one home run in 42 of their 49 road games this year...The Mets have 86 home runs in 49 games on the road, the second-most in the majors...Houston is first with 91...New York hit a franchise-record 106 home runs on the road last season.
HOME RUN NOTES: The Mets are third in the NL and tied for fifth in the majors with 152 home runs...Mets outfielders have combined to hit 68 home runs, tied for the most in the majors with Miami.
YO VS. SEATTLE: Yoenis Céspedes has 18 homers and 39 RBI vs. Seattle, the most vs. any opponent in his career.
WILMER FLORES: Has four home runs and seven RBI over his last 10 games...Flores is hitting .323 (10-31) during that
span... Flores is batting .289 (22-76) with four home runs vs. lefthanded pitching this season...Since the beginning of 2016, Flores is hitting .318 (56-176) with 15 home runs vs. lefthanded pitching.
GRAND: Curtis Granderson tied his career-high with three walks yesterday...It was the 14th time he's walked three times in a game.
SETH LUGO: The Mets have won 13 of Lugo's last 15 starts dating to August 25, 2016...Lugo is 10-2 with a 3.40 ERA (34 earned runs/90.0 innings pitched) over that 15-start span...Lugo is 7-2 with a 3.69 ERA (26 earned runs/63.1 innings) in 14 career games, nine starts on the road...Lugo has pitched at least 5.0 innings in each of his 16 starts in the major leagues...The only other Mets pitchers to go 5.0 innings or longer in each of the first 16 starts of their career were Matt Harvey (first 44 starts) and Bill Pulsipher (first 17 starts).
THE PEN: New York's bullpen tossed 6.1 scoreless innings during this series...The pen is 4-0 with five saves and a 2.37 ERA (10 earned runs/38.0 innings) since July 18.
ADDISON REED: Has saved 13 straight chances and is 19-for-21 in save opportunities...He is eighth in the NL in saves... Reed’s 8-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio this season (48 strikeouts, six walks) is the fourth-highest among pitchers with 15 or more saves this year...Reed has allowed four runs in his last 23.1 innings (1.54 ERA) and eight runs over his last 36.0 innings (2.00 ERA).
deNOTES: Jacob deGrom registered his eighth double-digit strikeout game this year yesterday...That is tied for the sixth- most such games in a single season in team history and the most since David Cone also had eight games with 10 or more strikeouts in 1992.
ASDRÚBAL CABRERA: Is batting .302 (19-63) with four doubles, one homer, six RBI and 12 runs scored since the All-Star break (16 games)...Cabrera has gone 10-26 (.385) in the first six games of this road trip.
JOSÉ REYES: Is hitting .313 (30-96) with eight doubles, three triples, three home runs and 14 RBI and 12 runs scored in his last 27 games (since June 27)...Over his last 37 games, dating to June 16, Reyes is batting .292 (38-130) with eight doubles, four triples, six home runs, 19 RBI and 16 runs scored...Swiped his 500th career stolen base on Monday.
JAY BRUCE: Has seven homers and 17 RBI over his last 19 contests dating to July 4...Bruce is tied for third in the NL and tied for seventh in the majors with 27 homers...Bruce is tied for fifth in the NL with seven home runs in the month of July...He also has 18 RBI this month, tied for the eighth-most in the NL.
AJ RAMOS: Has recorded 92 saves over the last three seasons (32 in 2015, 40 in 2016, 20 in 2017), the fifth-most in the majors behind Kenley Jansen (110), Mark Melancon (109), Jeurys Familia (97) and Craig Kimbrel (95).
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Mets Trade Cespedes for AJ Ramos
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METS ACQUIRE RHP A.J. RAMOS FROM MIAMI
FLUSHING, N.Y., July 28, 2017 – The New York Mets today announced they have acquired righthanded pitcher A.J. Ramos from the Miami Marlins in exchange for minor league outfielder Ricardo Cespedes and minor league righthanded pitcher Merandy Gonzalez.
Ramos, 30, was an All-Star with Miami in 2016 and is 2-4 with 20 saves, a 3.63 ERA (16 earned runs/39.2 innings) and 47 strikeouts in 40 games for the Marlins in 2017. This season, Ramos ranks fifth in the National League in save percentage (90.9%, 20-of-22) and since the start of the 2016 season, Ramos ranks sixth in the major leagues with a 92.3 save percentage (60-of-65).
In 325 career major league games, Ramos is 15-16 with a 2.78 ERA (101 earned runs/327.1 innings) with 92 saves and 379 strikeouts.
Gonzalez, 21, is a combined 12-3 with a 1.78 ERA (21 earned runs/106.0 innings) in 17 starts between Columbia (A) of the South Atlantic League and St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State League. Gonzalez was named a South Atlantic League mid-season All-Star for his performance with Columbia earlier this season.
Cespedes, 19, has played at three minor league levels in 2017 and is batting .255 (26-102) with one home run and 15 RBI between the GCL Mets (R), Columbia (A) of the South Atlantic League and Brooklyn (A) of the New York-Penn League.
Mets: Mets Game Notes 7/28/17
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Mets Press Release about Lucas Duda Trade
METS ACQUIRE RIGHTHANDED PITCHER DREW SMITH FROM TAMPA BAY
FLUSHING, N.Y., July 27, 2017 – The New York Mets today announced that they have acquired righthanded pitcher Drew Smith from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for infielder Lucas Duda. Smith will report to Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League. Smith was the Rays’ No. 30 prospect according to MLB.com.
Smith, 23, was the Tigers’ third-round pick in the 2015 First-Year Player Draft of out Dallas Baptist University before being acquired by Tampa Bay on April 28, 2017 as the player to be named later to complete an earlier trade that sent Mikie Mahtook to Detroit on January 18, 2017.
He began the season with Lakeland (A) of the Florida State League and was 1-0 with a 0.77 ERA (one earned run/11.2 innings) in seven games before being assigned to Charlotte (A) of the Florida State League following the trade. In 20 games with the Stone Crabs, Smith was 0-2 with a 2.20 ERA (seven earned runs/28.2 innings), seven saves and 28 strikeouts.
On July 2, Smith was promoted to Durham (AAA) of the International League where he made one appearance of 1.0 scoreless inning before being assigned to Montgomery (AA) of the Southern League on July 18. In 31 combined games for Lakeland, Charlotte, Montgomery and Durham this season, Smith is 1-2 with a 1.60 ERA (13 earned runs/45.0 innings) with seven saves and 40 strikeouts.
In 79 career minor league games, all relief appearances, Smith is 5-4 with a 1.80 ERA (25 earned runs/124.2 innings pitched) with 13 saves and 140 strikeouts.
Duda, who was drafted by the Mets in 2007, played all of his 760 career major league games for the Mets after making his major league debut in 2010. Duda’s 125 home runs in a Mets uniform are seventh-most in team history and his 71 homers at Citi Field are the most in the ballpark’s history.
Mets: Trade Lucas Duda to Tampa Bay
From metspolice.com photo by @mediagoon
From the NY Daily News
A Mets source has confirmed the Mets and Rays have finalized a deal sending first baseman Lucas Duda to Tampa.
Multiple reports indicate the Mets will receive minor league reliever Drew Smith in the deal.
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Home/TENNIS/5 Men Stabbed In Neck Before Setting Me On Fire: Unnao Rape Survivor
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5 Men Stabbed In Neck Before Setting Me On Fire: Unnao Rape Survivor
TPI Staff December 6, 2019
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Mumbai: In another development in the Unnao rape survivor case, it is reported that the survivor claimed that she was beaten up before she was kidnapped. On the other hand, the survivor’s medical report reveals that she was not stabbed.
‘They surrounded me and first hit me on the leg with a stick and also stabbed me in the neck with a knife.
‘After that, they poured petrol on me and set me on fire,’ the woman told the police from her hospital bed in Unnao.
‘When I started shouting, a crowd collected and the police were called,’ she said.
Meanwhile, the survivor’s medical report shows that he has 90 per cent burn injuries and no other injuries. The development came to light a day later when the survivor was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
While on the other hand, the medical report states that the survivor was not stabbed, she has made some revelations in her statement to the magistrate.
In his statement, the survivor alleged that she was beaten up, stabbed in the neck and kidnapped by the accused. The family told the magistrate that the accused poured petrol on her and set her on fire.
The Uttar Pradesh government also said in a statement, “According to the medical report, the rape victim has not suffered any external or internal injury and has only evidence of a burn injury.” The clarification was given on Friday after some media reports claimed that the survivor was beaten to death by the accused.
The 23-year-old woman was set on fire in Unnao area of Bihar when she was going to a Rae Bareli court. The survivor was released by the five accused. After the incident, locals rushed to rescue the survivors and took him to Unnao Civil Hospital. On Thursday, the survivor was given initial treatment and in the evening he was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital for further treatment.
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One of several boxes of rings stolen from a Chilliwack woman’s garage at her residence on Promontory. She estimates $30,000 of jewelry was stolen in the early hours of Nov. 25, 2019. (Submitted)
Chilliwack woman has $30,000 worth of jewelry stolen from garage
Hundreds of rings were part of her inheritance from her late mother
A Chilliwack woman is devastated after thieves stole upwards of $30,000 of jewelry she inherited from her mother who died last year.
Stephanie Hilton said approximately 500 rings in five or six cases, an earring display, and more were taken out of her garage after someone broke into her car and used her garage door opener.
The jewelry doesn’t have sentimental value in and of itself, but Hilton’s mother was ill for several years and she would buy and resell jewelry online.
“That was her way to earn some money and also leave her daughters an inheritance,” Hilton said.
“My inheritance is gone, just like that. In the blink of an eye, someone totally wiped me out. I’m devastated.”
The incident happened in the early hours of Nov. 25 at her townhouse complex on Promontory. The strata has no cameras but a neighbour’s dashboard camera caught a black Chrysler Town and Country minivan pull into the parking lot at 3:54 a.m. The vehicle was apparently stolen.
She didn’t hear anything but she said her son had a friend sleeping over and they heard something in the garage. The next day when she went to the garage to get out Christmas decorations she realized the jewelry, and her son’s bike, was gone.
“I kind of stood there in disbelief,” she said.
Hilton is sharing photos of her jewelry widely on social media hoping someone spots it or knows who stole it. She also posted that she is offering a $500 reward to anyone who returns the jewelry no questions asked.
“We were sleeping with children in the house,” she posted on Facebook. “They could have seen us sleeping for all I know. I have never felt so violated in my life.”
Hilton has called police and there is an open file but the jewelry has not been found as of Wednesday.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Chilliwack RCMP at 604-702-4000.
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The Latest on Amtrak Crash: Foxx sets high bar…
The Latest on Amtrak Crash: Foxx sets high bar for safety
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PUBLISHED: May 18, 2015 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 7, 2018 at 12:00 am
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says the government is looking to take additional steps, beyond the activation of the automatic train control systems for the Northeast Corridor to ensure safe travel.
Interviewed Monday on MSNBC, Foxx said the government aims to make sure that “intercity travel sets a high bar for safety.”
Foxx said his agency is looking into the entire rail system and isn”t done yet.
He noted that the National Transportation Safety Board is the lead federal agency on investigating what caused last Tuesday”s deadly derailment that killed eight and injured more than 200 and said once it”s know what caused the accident, you can expect additional corrective measures to be taken.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter kept his promise of being on hand when Amtrak service resumed after the derailment that killed eight passengers and injured more than 200.
Nutter was at 30th Street Station Monday morning as service resumed between Philadelphia and New York City just after 6 a.m.
Nutter had told Amtrak”s president and board chairman that he”d be at 30th Street whenever service resumed.
Nutter hugged the first passenger in line, Mary Schaheen. He told her and others in line that he was out at the curve on Sunday and that the repairs look beautiful.
He says getting trains back is credit to Amtrak”s crews who “worked diligently but have also been very, very mindful of the tragedy last week.”
“I just wanted to be here to see those first passengers, give them an additional sense of confidence about what has happened here, the relationship between the City of Philadelphia and Amtrak — which is tremendously strong — and just make sure that everyone gets off in a positive way leaving Philadelphia today,” Nutter said.
Regional commuter rail service has resumed along the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority”s Trenton Line after it was halted last week because of the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia.
Trains began rolling Monday with delays because of continued repairs at Frankford Junction.
SEPTA says trains headed to Trenton will not stop at North Philadelphia, Bridesburg and Tacony stations. SEPTA trains headed toward Philadelphia will not stop at North Philadelphia Station.
Mary Schaheen of Philadelphia was among passengers waiting to board a train to New York City, and was confident in Amtrak”s ability to provide a safe ride.
Schaheen said she takes the train once a week or every other week, and on Monday was headed to the UBS Life Sciences conference and didn”t want to miss it.
“I”m confident Amtrak wouldn”t put us back on route unless they thought it was safe to put us back on route,” she said. “I”m sure they have all the resources to have worked through it in the days since this tragedy
“I, like a lot of other people, have to get to New York.”
Passenger trains are again rolling between Philadelphia and New York City.
Amtrak restored full service on its busy Northeast Corridor early Monday when a train headed south from New York City”s Penn Station and another headed north from Philadelphia.
Amtrak vowed to have safer trains and tracks while investigators work to determine the cause of Tuesday night”s derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight passengers and injured more than 200.
Amtrak has restored full service on its busy Northeast Corridor for the first time since last week”s derailment killed eight passengers and injured more than 200.
The first train to head south departed New York City”s Penn Station at about 5:30 a.m. Monday.
Another train that was due to leave Philadelphia at 5:53 a.m. is delayed.
Amtrak officials had said all trains rolling between Washington to Boston are in “complete compliance” with federal safety orders following the derailment.
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Mystery History - July 25, 2019
July 25, 2019 | View PDF
This week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. Send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 406 Central Ave., Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected] Winners will be revealed here next week, along with the facts behind this photo and a new one to challenge you. LAST WEEK: The Shafter Depot Museum Dedication, with the Shafter High School Band playing at the dedication of the Shafter Depot Museum. Jennifer Dobbs, band leader, and Mike Hutchinson, band teacher. Taken by the Shafter Press' Patty Messich on Oct. 9, 1982.
The Shafter Depot Museum Dedication, with the Shafter High School Band playing at the dedication of the Shafter Depot Museum. Jennifer Dobbs, band leader, and Mike Hutchinson, band teacher. Taken by the Shafter Press' Patty Messich on Oct. 9, 1982.
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Weis Markets Opens Store In Bedminster Township, Pennsylvania
Weis Markets recently held a grand opening of its new store in Bedminster Township, Pennsylvania. The 61,323-s.f. supermarket is the company’s eighth location in the Delaware Valley and second in Bucks County.
The store employs more than 150 full- and part-time associates and features a beer-wine café, a full-service pharmacy and a fuel center. It also includes an expansive produce department with a wide selection of organic produce; a full-service seafood department with sustainably caught seafood; a full-service meat department with on-premise, custom-cut Certified Angus beef; a deli offering a wide selection of meals to go including a hot foods bar, salad bar and sushi prepared in-store daily; and eight advanced self-scan checkout lanes.
“We are pleased to expand our services in Bucks County and the Delaware Valley to offer our new customers a strong combination of convenience, quality and low prices that help them live better and spend less,” said Jonathan Weis, chairman and CEO for Weis Markets. “We appreciate the welcome we’ve received and look forward to serving and becoming active members of the Bedminster-Dublin-Perkasie community.”
To mark the opening and thank the community for its warm welcome, Weis Markets donated to Philabundance in support of local food pantries and hunger programs. It made additional charitable donations to the Pennridge Music Association, Army National Guard Headquarters and Headquarters Co. of the 55th Brigade Support Battalion Family Readiness Group, Dublin Borough Police Department, Dublin Volunteer Fire Co., Pennridge Regional Police Department and Deep Run Valley Sports Association.
The donations are part of a year-round giving program, which includes campaigns to support local community hunger organizations, pet shelters and veterans’ organizations, among many other local nonprofits.
As part of its 12th annual Fight Hunger campaign, Weis Markets and its associates raised more than $343,000 for more than 150 community hunger relief organizations in the communities it serves.
“We are proud of our customers and associates for collaborating to fight hunger in the communities we serve,” said Ron Bonacci, Weis Markets’ VP of advertising and marketing. “Over the past 12 years, our customers have responded to the issue of food insecurity in their communities with tremendous generosity, donating nearly $3 million. We remain committed to fighting hunger year-round in partnership with local hunger relief organizations and will continue to complement our customers’ generosity with donations of our own.”
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Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge (1979, Don McDougall)
Leave a Comment / 1979, Film, Television, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ / 17 November 2017 17 November 2017 / CBS, Chip Fields, Ellen Bry, Nicholas Hammond, Richard Erdman, Rosalind Chao, Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
Some of The Dragon’s Challenge’s problems are because it’s a TV two-parter stuck together then packaged as a theatrical. An overseas theatrical, but still a theatrical feature. The action in the first half takes place in New York, with some cuts to villain Richard Erdman making plans. He needs to get a Chinese official out of the way so he can build a steel plant.
When the Chinese official (Benson Fong) heads to New York, Erdman sends touch guy Hagan Beggs after him. Better to assassinate him in New York than Hong Kong.
Except Fong’s in New York with a purpose–get help from Robert F. Simon and the Daily Bugle. Enter Nicholas Hammond and, pretty quickly, Spider-Man. Fong’s got a niece, played by Rosalind Chao, who thinks Hammond’s a coward for running off. Little does she know he’s running off to change into his Spider-Man outfit and save the day.
The second half takes place in Hong Kong. Much of it shot in Hong Kong. When the Spider-Man stuntman is dangling alongside a huge Hong Kong skyscraper, Dragon’s Challenge delivers on something it hadn’t really been serious about. Even though director McDougall is clearly thrilled to be shooting on location in Hong Kong, nothing in Lionel E. Siegel’s teleplay sets anything up for Spider-Man. It doesn’t even set anything up for Nicholas Hammond. The Hong Kong stuff is entirely about the villains hunting Hammond, Chao, and soon-to-be government witness John Milford. Until they get attacked, however, it’s a travelogue with this odd trio.
Hammond and Chao have no chemistry. It’s Hammond’s fault. He ignores Chao in the first half, then condescends in the second. It’s because he’s sweet on her, it turns out. Milford’s fine, but not any fun. The travelogue still can get away with it because it turns out they’re on location.
There’s a car chase in Hong Kong and then a helicopter chase. Oh, and a boat chase. And Spider-Man lets the bad guys get away. For maybe the second time in Dragon’s Challenge. Hammond makes some bad superhero decisions throughout.
Series regulars Chip Fields and Ellen Bry don’t get anything to do and barely make an impression. Particularly Bry. Even though she and Hammond get a very romantic setup–using New York location shots–they don’t have anything going on in Dragon’s Challenge. Mostly because Hammond’s weird subplot about Chao not liking him infests the first half. It’s silly.
Chao’s good. She’s got lousy material and no energy from Hammond but she’s a great guest star. Simon’s got some strong scenes with Fong. Beggs is a fine bad guy, even if he is an idiot who whines about his inability to plot assassinations. It’s more amusing than when Hammond mopes about Chao thinking he’s a coward. Those scenes are just awful.
Hammond’s part in Dragon’s Challenge is thin. His job is to run out and become Spider-Man then have no excuse when Spider-Man gets done so everyone is an idiot for not realizing the obvious.
It’s nice to see Fields, even if it’s only for a few scenes.
Fine editing from Erwin Dumbrille and Fred Roth.
The Dragon’s Challenge has got some decent pieces and it’s far from unbearable; it’s still closer to unbearable than any good.
Directed by Don McDougall; teleplay by Lionel E. Siegel, based on characters created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; “The Amazing Spider-Man” created by Alvin Boretz; director of photography, Vincent A. Martinelli; edited by Erwin Dumbrille and Fred Roth; music by Dana Kaproff; produced by Siegel; aired by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Starring Nicholas Hammond (Spider-Man / Peter Parker), Robert F. Simon (J. Jonah Jameson), Chip Fields (Rita Conway), Ellen Bry (Julie Masters), Rosalind Chao (Emily Chan), Hagan Beggs (Evans), Richard Erdman (Mr. Zeider), John Milford (Professor Roderick Dent), and Benson Fong (Min Lo Chan).
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Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978, Ron Satlof)
Leave a Comment / ★, 1978, Film, Television / 3 November 2017 3 November 2017 / CBS, Chip Fields, JoAnna Cameron, Nicholas Hammond, Robert Alda, Spider-Man Strikes Back, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Steven Anderson
Spider-Man Strikes Back is the international theatrical release of a two-part “Amazing Spider-Man” episode. It’s unclear if any significant changes were made (or insignificant ones). Though I really hope the frequent sequences without much sound are the result of editing and not composer Stu Phillips dropping the ball. Phillips does a Morricone-lite version of his “Spider-Man” theme at one point in Strikes Back (when Spidey’s in an Old West backlot). It earns Phillips some cred.
In fact, the strangest thing about Strikes Back is how comfortable it gets making fun of itself so quick. In the second half (i.e. second episode), Spider-Man Nicholas Hammond, boss Robert F. Simon, and intreprid tabloid reporter and pretty face JoAnna Cameron head to L.A. There’s a long, goofy car chase, with some solid jokes at Simon’s expense, not to mention an international arms dealer who also manages Country Western singers. It’s strange, almost like teleplay writer Robert Janes couldn’t figure out what to do with Spider-Man in L.A.
The Old West backlot fight is in the second half too. Just before Simon shows up in a dune buggy-looking thing. He had to get in on the chase scene too. It’s silly. It amuses.
The first half has Cameron going to New York (from Miami) to get an interview with Spider-Man, which brings her to Simon and Hammond. Hammond’s got his “Spider-Man Revealed” subplot (he’s just been on photographed for the evening news) and then his “my professor is bringing plutonium onto the campus” subplot. They eventually intersect.
Strikes Back has some very “TV” programs, like series regular Chip Fields getting an introduction before guest star Cameron even though it’s a throwaway for Fields. She’s Simon’s suffering assistant and Parker’s confidant. Fields just gets the “hip, urban but demure, Black lady” role. Hammond’s always calming her down from going off on Simon. It’s not a great part, but Fields is still awesome. She can handle the clunky exposition a lot better than anyone else.
Hammond takes a while to get comfortable; he’s got a big “Woe is Spider-Man” monologue–apparently when I’m discussing the “Amazing Spider-Man” TV show, I’ve got to use a lot of quotation marks for descriptive statements–and he doesn’t do great, but he’s earnest enough to become likable. He just can’t do exposition. And writer Janes loves exposition.
Cameron’s always likable, sometimes good. Her part’s way too thin. She also gets the “professional woman” (did it again) subplot only to be in a bikini for the finale. Sure, it’s because international arms dealer Robert Alda is a big creep, but it’s a bad excuse. Cameron is reduced to damsel for the third act, then down to flirtation for the finale. It’s a bad arc.
The second half–the L.A. half–with Hammond and company trying to find Alda and his stolen nuclear bomb falls apart once it runs through novelties. There’s a big special effects finish with Spider-Man skydiving and it’s such a bad composite a laugh track wouldn’t have been inappropriate. Director Satlof is never good but he does appear to care. That care is gone for the action-packed finale.
Steven Anderson, Anna Bloom, and Randy Bowell have a first half subplot–they’re Hammond’s classmates who build the bomb to prove plutonium doesn’t belong on college campuses; they’re all fine. They too do better with exposition than Hammond.
There’s some bad cutting from David Newhouse and Erwin Dumbrille, but it’s hard to imagine it’s their fault. Strikes Back has some big stunts and they’re not ambitiously presented. More enthusiasm in the big stunts might’ve helped things, actually.
Thanks to competent television production, Strikes Back doesn’t entirely strike out. Hammond gets to be likable enough to carry the show (and movie). Simon’s a fun windbag. Cameron’s a good guest star. Alda’s not a great villain, but Strikes Back is so committed to his silly character–with his henchmen, who offer him frequent, unsolicited council (democratic Mr. Bigging)–he doesn’t drag it down too much. It’s hard to imagine anyone else could be better. Just like it’s hard to imagine Strikes Back could be any better. But it could be a lot worse.
Directed by Ron Satlof; teleplay by Robert Janes, based on characters created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; “The Amazing Spider-Man” created by Alvin Boretz; director of photography, Jack Whitman; edited by David Newhouse and Erwin Dumbrille; music by Stu Phillips; produced by Satlof and Janes; aired by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Starring Nicholas Hammond (Spider-Man / Peter Parker), JoAnna Cameron (Gale Hoffman), Robert Alda (Mr. White), Robert F. Simon (J. Jonah Jameson), Chip Fields (Rita Conway), Michael Pataki (Captain Barbera), Randy Powell (Craig), Anne Bloom (Carla), Steven Anderson (Ted), Simon Scott (Dr. Baylor), Sidney Clute (Inspector DeCarlo), and Lawrence P. Casey (Angel).
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A Chinese flag is illuminated by sunshine in the Hall of Honour on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday September 22, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Closed meeting on Hill between MPs and Chinese officials planned, then cancelled
An all-party House of Commons committee of elected MPs planned a closed-door meeting with a delegation of Chinese politicians and diplomats on Parliament Hill that was abruptly cancelled today.
An all-party House of Commons committee of elected MPs planned a closed-door meeting with a delegation of Chinese politicians and diplomats but abruptly cancelled it today.
A former Canadian ambassador to China says the meeting was a bad idea in the first place because holding it in-camera meant a lost opportunity for Canada to show Beijing how a democracy really works.
The meeting was cancelled one day after Canada’s new top spy told a business audience that interference by hostile states has now become a greater threat to Canadian national security than terrorism.
The Commons foreign-affairs committee had planned to meet in-camera for one hour on Thursday with Lu Shaye, Beijing’s ambassador to Canada, and four visiting members of the National People’s Congress of China.
The congress is China’s legislature, consisting of nearly 3,000 deputies.
A spokesman for the committee’s Liberal chair said China cancelled the meeting, but he dismissed further questions about why it was initially closed to the public.
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Bond notes: What you must know
Posted on November 11, 2016 by The Independent in Analysis, Comment, Opinion
RBZ governor John Mangudya
Bond notes have dominated much of the social and economic discourse ever since the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Mangudya made public his intention to introduce a surrogate currency via the avenue of an export incentive.
By Durban Marukutira
A lot of economists and financial experts have sought to dissect the matter, but there appears to be a gap in terms of explaining what really has caused the monetary authorities to go the bond notes route. This article will make an attempt to explore that journey using proper evidence and economic principles.
It is important from the outset to highlight that the government faces an untenable fiscal situation where over 94% of its revenues are channeled towards recurrent expenditure. This to a greater extent has left the government with no fiscal headroom to fund capital and other expenditures. It is even worrying to note that, faced with dwindling tax revenues owing to the biting economic conditions, the government has principally resorted to the issuance of Treasury Bills to fund expenditure. In his Mid-term Fiscal Policy Review Statement, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa made the following admission:
“Financing of the budget deficit has been primarily through issuance of Treasury Bills by the Reserve Bank on behalf of Government. However, lack of capacity to service domestic debt has also seen roll-overs, which are posing some financial risks on domestic debt instrument holders and domestic financial institutions. This situation, unfortunately, is not tenable and is undermining the stability of the financial sector and overall economy.”
From the above statement, it is disturbing to note that the government has been failing to honour Treasury Bill maturities and resorting to rollovers. In the same Mid-term Fiscal Policy Review statement, Chinamasa makes another very heart-rending revelation when he indicates that the Government of Zimbabwe account at the Reserve Bank has been in overdraft over the period January to June 2016. The pinnacle of the overdraft was June 30 2016 where the account was down an astonishing $726 million as shown by figure 1 (top, right):
Chinamasa goes on to forecast that, if not mitigated, the position has the potential to worsen to almost US$1.1billion by end of December 2016 if measures to arrest government expenditure — which have since been nullified through a press statement dated 13 September 2016 by Information minister Chris Mushohwe — are not implemented.
It is within the context laid above that Zimbabweans ought to view the contentious issue of bond notes. From the above it is clear bond notes, though hidden behind the shadow of an export incentive, are clearly a natural reaction of a government that is faced with a dwindling funding base and has resorted to the only avenue of funding left: printing money.
If we are to further analyse the impact of the US$726 million overdraft, it is worth mentioning that the figure relates quite closely with the exponential growth in the total Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) market position, which for some time has remained north of US$1 billion, from a previous average of almost US$500 million. It is apparent from the inter-relation between the government account balance and the RTGS market position that what Chinamasa preferred to call “rollovers” is, in fact, some creative accounting tendencies wherein the RBZ is debiting the Government of Zimbabwe’s unfunded account to finance Treasury Bill maturities due to institutional investors.
Excessive government borrowing has also had a very devastating effect in that whenever the government becomes the single biggest player in domestic debt markets, it crowds out other private players who ordinarily should have had access to debt for their working capital requirements and efficiently allocating those resources in key economic activities that feed into the growth matrix. This partly explains the deflationary environment that most companies have endured over the duration of the multicurrency system, hence the decline in Gross Domestic Product growth statistics.
Enter the US$200 million question
It is important at this juncture to highlight that the US$200 million figure for bond notes was neither plucked out of thin air nor is it the outcome of some thumb suck exercise.
A proper analysis of commercial banks’ trends for holdings of cash notes and coins from the beginning of 2015 to August 2016 using publicly available monthly RBZ reports is quite revealing. Whilst it is clear from the trend line (See figure 2) that commercial banks’ holdings of bank notes and coins have been declining at an increasing rate over the period, it is vital to note that the average commercial bank notes and coins over the period is around US$200 million.
So in arriving at the US$200 million quantum of bond notes, the idea was to try and match commercial banks’ stock of foreign currency to the amount of bond notes. While it might sound noble at face value, the dictates of Gresham’s Law are such that bad money always chases away good money. If that obtains, then the bond notes will almost certainly become the dominant currency insofar as its use as a medium of exchange is concerned, while the US dollar will be relegated to being a store of value and a safe haven asset. This scenario provides fertile ground for the emergence of a parallel market wherein the bond notes will almost certainly be trading at a discount to the official exchange rate of 1:1 on the formal market.
Smoke-and-mirrors games
It is common cause that the best way to kill your neighbour’s dog is by first alleging that it has rabies. The same logic was applied when bond coins were literally forced on the transacting public on the back of the claim that small change was a challenge to retailers and the transacting public alike.
With bond notes the excuse was the need to boost exports in the economy. But like a certain friend of mine observed in a long discussion, exports by their very nature are an autonomous function. In other words, they are influenced by exogenous factors which fall outside the influence of the countries from which the goods or services originate.
His argument made sense to me because I do not see how Zimbabwe can be able to influence the price of its gold, tobacco or let alone the amount of remittances that its foreign nationals remit back home.
A more suitable strategy would have been to levy an import tariff which would then be passed on to exporting clients who produce the same products we seek to replace from our import basket. That would at least have yielded positive results in saving the little foreign currency and lowering the cost of production for exporting customers.
How the government chewed bank nostro accounts
Several theories have been propagated as to how the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe played a chief role in the current cash and nostro crisis. The explanation is found in the RBZ’s Exchange Control Operational Guideline and Directive 3 of 2015(ECOGAD3/2015). The directive says:
“Authorised Dealers shall be required to maintain a Nostro Account balance threshold of 5% of Total FCA balances (Total Bank Deposits) on a daily basis. In addition, Authorised Dealers shall also maintain limits of foreign currency cash holdings equivalent to 15% of Total FCA Balances on a daily basis”
What the above entails is that all commercial banks would not hold more than 5% of total deposits in a nostro account. Furthermore,banks were not allowed to hold more than 15% of their total deposits in the form of cash.
Anything in excess of the 5% and 15% thresholds for nostro and cash would have to be forfeited to the RBZ in exchange for RTGS balances. In instances where a bank was non-compliant, a penalty fee of 2,5% would be levied to the defaulting institution.
Using nostro funding and cash from the proceeds of the above directive, the RBZ and the government would effectively spend money primarily obtained from the issuance of Treasury Bills to bankroll government’s payments for power, foreign travel, vehicles, and tractors among other imports. In all this, the country was bleeding foreign currency out of the market, hence the presently obtaining situation where banks have no cash notes or enough nostro balances to cover importing customers’ imports.
The ECOGAD3/2015 directive was no different to the Gideon Gono era in which banks were forced to surrender foreign exchange held on behalf of embassies, non-governmental organisations and other forex-generating customers in return for domestic currency.
The consequences going forward
Panic cash withdrawals
Given a tainted history of monetary losses as a result of currency exchanges, the introduction of bond notes is likely to trigger a large-scale deposit run on banks as people seek to hold USD cash notes before the bond notes are introduced. If this is to happen, then for the foreseeable short-term period the cash crisis is most likely to worsen.
Low USD cash deposit traction
Against a backdrop of limitations on withdrawals, it is likely most customers will desist from depositing cash via official banking channels since they will not be able to withdraw USD cash notes on demand.
Emergence of parallel market
When the bond notes are launched, a parallel market will emerge wherein the bond notes will be traded at a discount to the official market rate of 1:1 with the US dollar. This scenario is already evident, with reports that cash notes are selling at a premium of between 5%-10% on the parallel market. It is most likely the minimum discount factor for the bond note on the parallel will be in same range of 5%-10% before factoring other variables that feed into the parallel market price.
Shortage of fuel, basic commodities
On the back of a shortage of cash notes and nostro funding, it is inevitable that retail operators will encounter challenges funding their orders. This may result in acute shortages of goods on the local market. As a result, rent-seeking tendencies such as hoarding and profiteering might become the order of the day as witnessed in 2008.
Price distortions
Due to the measures introduced, we are mostly likely to witness a multiple pricing mechanism where prices will be pegged according to either the medium of payment (cash or RTGS) or the currency (bond notes, rand or US dollar) one is using to settle obligations. This will lead to massive price distortions as witnessed in the 2008 crisis.
Marukutira is a Zimbabwean economic analyst based in Germany. He can be contacted on Durban.Marukutira@gmail.com
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The Week In Storage: WD Buys SD, Drops Anyway; NAND Boom Or Bust
By Paul Alcorn 2016-05-14T14:45:00Z
This week in storage was a somewhat quiet affair, as all of the major storage vendors are holding new product announcements prior to Computex, which takes place at the end of the month. We are going to have a full complement of reporters on hand for the show in hot and humid Taipei, so expect the news deluge to begin soon.
WD and SanDisk are hearing wedding bells as the MOFCOM Chinese regulatory agency approved the Western Digital acquisition of SanDisk. Both companies have multiple products from their previous marriages, and there are a few SSD overlaps, so the situation will get dicey as WD slices out redundant products. The companies manufacture inherently dissimilar products, for the most part, so the axes will likely swing hardest in many of the support roles, such as marketing and HR.
In either case, WD's investor friends are not particularly impressed with the acquisition, as evidenced by the plummeting stock price during the process (it's now trading at a four-year low). WD has lost more than 60 percent of its value in the last year, and Bank Of America downgraded the company due to reduced NAND pricing. (Poor WD...first it loses value on reduced HDD sales, so it buys its way into flash, then loses value due to reduced NAND prices.)
Samsung announced that it is bringing an incredible amount of storage to hand-held devices with its new 256 GB EVO Plus MicroSD card. Suddenly, my meager 128 GB MicroSD card feels inferior to the well-endowed EVO Plus, as does SanDisk's competing 200 GB Ultra MicroSD card. The EVO Plus serves yet another example of the performance and density advantages provided by 3D TLC NAND in comparison to planar (2D) NAND.
The SanDisk 200 GB Ultra does not have a sequential write speed listed in its specifications. Usually, when a key specification is missing, it means the company would rather not talk about it because it is horridly slow. SanDisk does note, however, that the Ultra's "write speed is lower" in comparison to its read speed, but the lack of a listed specification tells me all I need to know.
Meanwhile, the prodigious Samsung is thrusting its extra 56 GB of capacity into SD slots with 95/90 MBps of sequential read/write speed. Now if Samsung would just reduce its $249.99 price to a sane level...
Phison Predicts NAND Drought In Midst Of NAND Flood
The burning question around any computer component is whether we should buy one today or wait until prices go down. In the case of SSDs, according to Phison, prices are headed the other direction.
Khein-Seng Pua, the Company Chairman of Phison, predicted a looming third-quarter NAND shortage in the Chinese Economic Daily News. Pua indicated that the transition to 3D NAND is not progressing smoothly for several of the large NAND fabs, which will ultimately lead to an industry-wide shortage.
Phison is a well-known SSD controller manufacturer, but few know that it actually builds the entire SSD for several of the third-party SSD vendors. Companies such as Corsair, Patriot, PNY, and others buy the complete SSD from Phison and then sell it under their own brand.
To fuel its manufacturing efforts, Phison maintains a large supply of NAND, which is currently valued at NT$9.27 billion (~$284 million USD), so it is keenly aware of NAND market trends. It appears the company is building up its NAND stockpile, which was valued only at $160 million USD at the end of 2015.
SSD prices, which are largely driven by the price of NAND, are currently at historic lows. The price of a 256 GB SSD has fallen from roughly $125 last year to sub-$60 this year, so it is clear that there is an abundance of NAND on the market.
The low SSD prices are the result of the declining smartphone and desktop PC markets, which weaken demand. The depth and extent of the decline varies depending upon the analyst firm that is reporting them, but all foresee a continued desktop PC slump for the remainder of the year, along with uncharacteristic single-digit growth numbers for the mobile phone market.
Many analysts contradict the Phison predictions, and instead foresee an increasing oversupply as 3D NAND from other fabs, such as Intel/Micron 3D NAND and SK Hynix 3D NAND V2, come to market. When 3D NAND does take hold, it will magnify the amount of capacity shipped due to its increased density, and pouring more capacity onto a market that is already swimming in NAND should only intensify the oversupply condition.
Samsung certainly believes there is a pending possibility for an oversupply situation, as evidenced by its February 2016 announcement that it postponed the expansion of its 3D NAND fab in Xi'an, China. SanDisk is also rumored to have its 3D BiCS NAND very close to shipping, but the company has been quiet during its pending (now final) acquisition by WD. Speaking of NAND oversupplies, Bank Of America just downgraded WD due to weak NAND ASPs.
However, the 3D NAND transition has been painfully slow, and most fabs are still not shipping 3D NAND in volume. We also have yet to see any 3D NAND-powered products from third-party SSD vendors, which we expect to see teased at Computex, but it is unlikely that many will be available in the near term.
Many of the fabs are transitioning their NAND bit output to 3D and have not increased 2D NAND output, which Khein-Seng Pua contends will open a window of opportunity for the NAND drought. If his predictions come to fruition, there will be a sudden increase in SSD prices across the board, and some cite an increasing price gap between 2D TLC and MLC as a sign that there is already an MLC NAND drought brewing.
If there is not an impending drought, as the industry at large tends to believe, then Phison has a stockpile valued over a quarter of a billion dollars that will lose value rapidly as 3D NAND continues to dilute the average selling price. If a drought materializes, then Phison made a particularly wise investment that will pay big dividends.
Such is life in the NAND game. If one were to believe the Phison predictions, and just happen to have a lot of skin in the game, the time to buy an SSD is now.
Paul Alcorn is a Contributing Editor for Tom's Hardware, covering Storage. Follow him on Twitter and Google+.
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gravitybell07 14 May 2016 18:36
Forgive my ignorance, but why do two American companies need Chinese approval for the merger?
epobirs 14 May 2016 19:02
Because both of them have so much of their operations in China that a merger is going to affect stuff the Chinese government cares about, such as employment. This is an issue for any government but is any shock that a totalitarian regime is nosier about such matter than in the West but not by much?
Despite the price drops, it's still impossible to buy most PC models with a factory installed SSD or SSD and hard drive configuration. The single best upgrade to the PC in many years is still largely limited in market reach because the marketing people don't understand how to sell it.
The clients I've done SSD upgrades for would never buy another PC without an SSD as the main volume but most brands don't offer SSDs in their mainstream models. If I install the SSD in a new PC it breaks the warranty.
And the industry wonders why it is in severe decline.
PaulAlcorn 14 May 2016 19:28
Despite the price drops, it's still impossible to buy most PC models with a factory installed SSD or SSD and hard drive configuration....
I couldn't agree more. If someone kicks around on a PC for a bit at a big box store it is going to be a pretty miserable experience in comparison to a tablet, which by default is powered by flash. Suddenly that tablet looks a lot better than a clunky PC, and the problem is the HDD.
HDDs should still ship with PC's, we need the capacity, but there is no excuse for every shipping PC not to have an SSD for an OS drive. Perhaps this would stop some of the slow bleeding of PC users over to tablets and other moblie devices as their primary computing platform.
Roy_5_ 14 May 2016 21:28
Just drop HDD entirely and go 100% ssd start at the bottom again in terms of capacity' s
Solandri 14 May 2016 22:09
17965261 said:
If they want to be able to sell their products in China, they need to get approval from the Chinese government. Same thing with the EU, Korea, Japan. All had to approve the WD-Hitachi merger. And in fact, it was these governments which came up with the idea of Hitachi selling its 3.5" HDD production to Toshiba as a condition of approval for the merger. (Toshiba only made 2.5" HDDs up til then, so by having them buy Hitachi's 3.5" HDD production, we now have three 3.5" HDD manufacturers instead of two.)
termathor 15 May 2016 09:11
Win10 is definitely malware. It uses malware techniques (sneaky "security" updates), and will soon deliver its full payload (ransom, ads, other ...).
To anyone that updates, I always say: "you're already screwed, enjoy the ride".
eriko 15 May 2016 14:18
Eventually the Microsoft 'Pre-crime division' will come to get us.
<removed> Windows 10.
Watch the language. - G
g-unit1111 16 May 2016 15:01
256GB micro SD? Sweet, can I buy one yet? :lol:
BulkZerker 17 May 2016 19:45
" Just drop HDD entirely and go 100% ssd start at the bottom again in terms of capacity."
When SSDs get down to $80 usd for a 1tb drive, sure. Till then spinning ruat platters will rule the roost. PC owners atr spoiled by having more storage than they need (by a factor of 4 usually) and are programmed to think more is better.
Let's say you were going to buy a car. Would you buy the sub compact for $24,000 or the midsize sedan? That's kind of thinking is what the everyman has. The same applies to computers.
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NOVEMBER 9 10:15 2016
Producer Profile: Mark Lewis
Working out of Audiohammer Studios in Orlando, FL, Mark Lewis has helped shape the sound of the past decade of American metal – Whitechapel, DevilDriver, The Black Dahlia Murder and many others.
How did you get started in the business and how come you ended up behind the console as opposed to on stage?
– I was always fascinated with how things sounded once i started playing guitar. Growing up, my dad had a pretty amazing stereo system with some old JBL 4311 studio monitors as his main setup. I would listen to his records all the time and eventually, they started buying me my own at a pretty young age. Once I really started getting serious about guitar, I got deeper and deeper into how things sounded and how those things were achieved. Between my dad pointing things out to me and my guitar teachers really schooling me on production and tones, I really got deep into the audio world pretty early. I would spend hours tweaking my amps and trying all kinds of different things. I would probably have been a much better guitar player if i hadn’t been so fascinated with audio! In reality, I always wanted to be a performer, but when people started noticing how seriously I took sounds, I sort of became the person they would go to about tones and recording advice. I figured out I could actually make a living doing this instead of relying on 4 or 5 other crazy people to keep a band together. So far its worked out OK, i think.
There are tons of engineers and producers out there doing records with mid-sized bands, but only a handful of go-to, A-level guys producing the bulk of what’s topping the US modern metal scene. You’re definitely one of them. Is there a specific moment or project that helped push you on to the next level?
– Well, I was lucky to start engineering under my super-talented best bud Jason Suecof, and from the moment I started at Audiohammer, we were working on some really cool stuff. I would say the records that really put us on the map as a team sonically was Bury Your Dead’s “Beauty and the Breakdown” as well as Black Dahlia Murder’s “Nocturnal. Those were the early landmarks that sort of blazed my trail i suppose.
If you weren’t producing records, what would you do?
– Good question. I don’t really know anything else. I taught guitar before I did this, and i liked it. But I didn’t get the same satisfaction as i do from this. If I had to start over, I think maybe I would get into electronics of some sort. My knowledge now is so limited, but it really fascinates me.
In a mix, where do you usually start: the drums, guitars, vocals or something else?
– I usually start withe drums, getting those right. The snare, overheads and toms usually take the longest to sit right. I have a very rough guitar and bass mix going that whole time too, and once I feel good about the drums I move onto the guitars and bass. I’ve been known to take days dialing in a guitar sound and EQ. It gets tedious beyond even what most people would think or tolerate.
Is there any instrument you generally struggle with more than any other in a mix?
– If I tracked it, not usually. But the biggest problems from doing things I am familiar with are usually bass and overheads, or a badly recorded vocal. Those can really pose a problem if there are issues with the tracks. These days with re-amping I can usually solve a guitar problem, but there have been times where I’ve gone crazy trying to get it to my standards.
You are also an avid guitar player and amp aficionado. If you had to pick one amp, cab and mic chain, would would it be.
– Thats really tough!!! A 5150 style amp (there are a few in that voicing these days) with a Mesa cab is tough to beat for heavy rhythms. A modded Marshall/Bogner/Soldano/Friedman style through a Marshall cab is the unbeatable screaming lead for me, and also my favorite for mid-gain rock stuff. Fenders, Diesels, and the new PRS Archons or even just the guitar direct in (no amp or sim) with some EQ and compression tend be my favorites for cleans.
Which Toontrack products do you regularly use and where in the creative process do these come into play?
– Superior Drummer 2 and EZdrummer 2, of course. It’s just amazing what can be done for demoing and even full productions with them. I sometimes even augment my own sounds with Toontrack’s stuff. The EZmix 2 stuff is fantastic too, especially when working on the fly and not wanting to lose inspiration trying to dial in a tone. Thats what I wanted to do this. Its such a useful tool for writers and recordists – from beginner to pro.
Name a few productions from your catalogue that you feel particularly proud of.
– Hmm… Whitechapel’s “Our Endless War” (I’m pretty fond of all the records with them actually). Cannibal Corpse’s “A Skeletal Domain”, Unearth’s “Darkness In The Light”, Black Dahlia Murder’s “Nocturnal” and “Abysmal”, Carnifex’s “Slow Death”, Devildriver’s “Beast”… This is a very tough question. I feel like I’m leaving too many out and wouldn’t want my friends and clients to be offended if I didn’t put them on the list! I am proud of them all! Even if I am never happy, haha. That’s what keeps us growing!
Name a few all-time favorite albums that you did not work on where performance, sound and feel all come together in perfect balance.
– Metallica “Metallica”
– Steely Dan “Aja”
– Jeff Buckley “Grace”
– Carcass “Heartwork”
– At the Gates “Slaugther of the Soul”
– Black Sabbath “Heaven and Hell”
– Zakk Wylde “Book of Shadows”
– Jimi Hendrix “Electric Ladyland”
Almost any Rudy Van Gelder jazz recording, but especially Jimmy Smith’s and John Coltrane’s stuff with him. I could go on for hours… There are so many landmark albums for me… I am leaving a zillion off…
If you produced an album that you couldn’t mix yourself, who’d be the first name on your list for the gig?
– In a perfect world, Randy Staub, Colin Richardson, Jay Ruston, Andy Sneap, Josh Wilbur, Andy Wallace, Bob Clearmountain, Max Norman, Terry Date, Michael Wagener, Jason Suecof would all do test mixes. Again, I could on for hours here. These are the guys i really admire, to name a few.
Best studio moment ever?
– Ha, I don’t know – thats really tough! I’ve had a lot of great ones I’m lucky to say…
Worst studio moment ever?
– Having to retrack four songs after realizing the left overhead mic was not imported into the songs correctly via Pro Tools. We didn’t notice because we were having fun and monitoring with the room mics too loud… Now I’m a bit more careful!
Finally, any tips to those looking to make a career in music production/engineering?
– Work your ass off long after you’ve wanted to quit, don’t expect to make any money for a long time, and never stop learning.
SOME OF MARK’S WORK.
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Eduardo Arellano Sanchez
Sabra Stafford
Updated: July 7, 2015, 4:44 p.m.
A Turlock man who volunteered at a local church has been convicted of multiple accounts of sexually abusing children.
Eduardo Arellano Sanchez, 37, entered no contest pleas Monday in Stanislaus County Superior Court to two charges of continual sexual abuse of a child and one count of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years, said Deputy District Attorney Merrill Hoult.
As part of the plea deal the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office agreed to drop six other charges against Sanchez, including two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor.
Hoult said the plea deal stipulates Sanchez will be sentenced to 28 years in prison and following that will be on parole for 20 years and six months. He’ll have to register as a sex offender for life and the conviction counts as strikes against him.
Sanchez was arrested in December 2012 after a priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Church grew suspicious about the attention Sanchez was giving to two young boys at the church. Based on his suspicion, the priest spoke to the boys separately and they both stated Sanchez had been sexually abusing them for some time.
Arellano had been a volunteer at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for five years. He volunteered in two Spanish language religious classes for youth and was a parishioner at the church, according to Stockton Diocese.
The resulting investigation did not reveal that any of the incidents occurred on church grounds or during church sponsored functions. The Diocese stated volunteers are never left alone with children.
Sanchez was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy from May 18, 2004 to Sept. 30, 2006 and a 12-year-old boy from June 1, 2009 to Jan. 1, 2012. The third victim, an 11-year-old boy, was molested by Sanchez during a car ride home.
Sanchez is scheduled to be sentenced on July 30.
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The Challenge of Realistic Animation: Disney’s Bambi
Mari Ness
Thu May 14, 2015 4:00pm 15 comments 2 Favorites [+]
Oh, this film.
This film.
Wait. I can do this. I can put together a reasonable, thoughtful blog post on Walt Disney’s Bambi without interrupting the post every few paragraphs with a KILL THUMPER ALREADY, right? I can put aside my feelings about the jarring pacing and tone of the film and the supposedly romantic twitterpating stuff and write some lovely, touching (KILL THUMPER) words about what even I have to admit is a lovely ice scene involving a bunny and an adorable deer on ice, and comment on the great forest fire bit (KILL THUMPER) and put the film into its historic context, with a few words comparing the film to the book. I can do this. I can.
Walt Disney found himself in a bit of a mess when developing Bambi. His studio was still reeling over the high costs of producing Pinocchio and Fantasia, and the closure of the European film market after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. (In this context, it is perhaps not surprising that Disney insisted on continuing to adapt the anti-fascist, banned-by-Nazis book next, even while assigning animators to the cheaper Dumbo midway through production.) And those were just the external factors. Internally, he had the issue of developing a serious and frankly depressing book into a “Disney” feature, which, to his audience, meant at least some comedy. Oh, Snow White and Pinocchio had their serious moments, certainly, but they had also retained comedic scenes.
And he had the issue of asking his animators to draw animal characters that—because portions of the film would be dealing with serious themes of hunting and death—had look, not like cartoons, but realistic. The Disney animators had managed this more or less in portions of Snow White and Pinocchio, but in both cases, the animators had also put the animals into unrealistic—for animals—situations: housecleaning, smoking, trying to escape evil people who have turned them into donkeys, that sort of thing. The animals in Bambi would be living in a forest and suffering from hunger, just like very real forest animals. It was a new artistic challenge for the animators.
Since the full extent of the Pinocchio financial disaster wasn’t quite apparent at the start of production on Bambi, Walt Disney handled some of these problems the same way he had solved technical problems on Snow White and Pinocchio—by throwing money at them. Lots of money. He sent a photographer to Maine to take pictures of cute forest animals; he brought animals to the studio so that animators could look at actual jumping rabbits, and sent tired animators out to the zoo yet again. Costs leapt up.
The real financial disaster of Bambi, however, turned out not to be live animals, but production speed: animators could churn out about one tenth the number of drawings per day that they had managed for Pinocchio—itself a film with comparatively slow production. To put this in hard numbers: Bambi animators typically created eight to ten drawings per day; Dumbo animators, working at the same time, and free to create cartoon animals not particularly bound by reality or gravity, managed around 120 to 140.
And the real problem with Bambi, as it turned out (BESIDES THE NEED TO KILL THUMPER) was not creating realistic animals and backgrounds, but rather, hinted at right in the title of the book: Bambi: A Life in the Woods. Because the novel is just that: a life. Not what Disney needed: a plot.
Granted, Disney’s films had been relatively episodic in nature. But both were unified by an overreaching plot or theme: with Snow White, escaping the evil queen and marrying Prince Charming; with Pinocchio, becoming a Real Boy; and with Fantasia, creating visuals for music. Bambi: A Life in the Woods has none of that: it’s a work that follows Bambi from year to year, philosophizing about violence and death along the way, but without a central goal beyond survival, or an overwhelming plot beyond the ever present menace of the hunters. And, of course, a high death count.
Snow White and Pinocchio, of course, also had deeply problematic elements and a significant amount of death and violence, so the idea was not, on the face of it, impossible. But the comedy scenes deemed necessary for popular appeal, which had effortlessly flowed in Pinocchio and at least sorta worked in Snow White, proved more difficult with Bambi. Some scenes transitioned well—the dark greys and blues of the opening sequence shifting to the brighter, happier moments of Bambi’s birth.
Others did not. Arguably the worst: the death of Bambi’s mother in the snow—a gripping, emotional sequence that left many small children scarred for life—which is immediately and jarringly followed by a colorful scene of cheerful birds singing about spring. I am entirely on the side of the owl loudly and angrily objecting to all of this, but also, emotionally spinning. An argument could be made, I suppose, that the audience desperately needs something to follow that scene, but not, I would say, that moment. The forced comedy and cheer robs the film of a moment to breathe, and to mourn, and it feels all wrong.
Not quite as wrong, granted, as the scene that follows, when Flower, Thumper, and Bambi all fall in love, just moments after assuring the viewers that they won’t, but wrong.
Speaking of the falling in love stuff, the worst part of that is not, I must say, the misogyny, or the part where Bambi and Rollo fight over Faline. The animation of that is fascinating, as the already softened backgrounds slide away still further, leaving Bambi and Rollo often fighting against colors, and it serves as a nice enough setup for Bambi and Faline’s later relationship. Nor is it the brief moment when Flower meets the love of his life and they trot over to live in the flowers, although that’s not really great either.
It’s, sigh, Thumper’s part.
Here, the animators abruptly dropped the realistic animation used in most of the rest of the film and instead had his lady rabbit vamp out in front of him and seduce him away from Bambi, right down to using sexy poses and long fluttering lashes. I cringed. In another animated film, this would work quite well (mild misogyny aside). In this film, which contains realistic scenes of hunting and starvation, jarring is not quite the word for this cartoon sequence that feels completely out of place.
And since I’ve brought Thumper up:
I know, I know.
Yes, yes, Thumper has his adorable moment of grammatically destroying his father’s command of “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say nothing at all,” and he doesn’t want to eat his greens aww and he goes ice skating with Bambi how sweet and he grates on me. Oh, how he grates.
For the record, it’s not that I don’t like adorable bunnies. I love them. Thumper’s little brother and sister bunnies? Adorable. Love them. Thumper? No. Also, not that adorable. It’s partly the voice, but mostly the character, who is frequently obnoxious and superior, and often seems to belong to an entirely different film. Thumper’s scenes, after all, are generally played for comedy, in a film where most of the other animals are dealing with the serious notes of hunger and death and fear and hunting in the rest of the film. But beyond that, Thumper is also animated in a looser, more cartoon like style, instead of the realistic approach used for other animals in the film. His ice skating scenes, for example, were patterned on the movements of human ice skaters, not actual rabbits sliding on ice—which is standard for many animated films, granted, but out of place for a film like this which otherwise sticks to having its animals move as realistically as possible.
Thumper, I should note, is not in the original novel, and was added to the film because Walt Disney thought they could have a lot of comedy and fun with a rabbit. Their rival studio Warner Bros would prove them right on this, of course, but while Bugs Bunny is one of my all time favorites, I spent this film hoping that the forest fire would burn Thumper to the ground.
Possibly not the reaction Disney wanted from viewers of this film.
Having said all that, in one sense Thumper does fit in well with other, crueler sections of the film. In scenes where others praise and nearly worship Bambi (for instance,the birth scene, something that would be redone, rather better, by The Lion King decades later), Thumper mocks the little deer, and is often cruel. This has the immediate advantage of turning Bambi into the underdog, someone viewers can sympathize with and root for, and it also works with the rest of the film, with its undercurrents of cruelty and pain.
That function, however, is undercut by another very real problem with Thumper: he, more than any other character in the film, is trying to get Bambi to do very human things like ice skating—thus copying the very people trying to kill him.
And watching that right after reading the book made me shudder.
I know what happened to the animals in the book who did try to be more human, who did work with humans, who did allow the humans to turn them into pets.
It did not go well.
So a film that on the one hand contains lovely little nods to elements within the book (for example, the scene where two leaves fall from a tree, in a homage to the chapter in the novel where those two leaves discuss life and death), but on the other hand contains scenes where Thumper, without irony, attempts to make Bambi more human, strikes a deeply discordant note.
The animators did better with Bambi, who grows from a timid, cowardly, and, if we are to be honest, rather annoying little deer (he is very young) to a bold deer capable of fighting off dogs in order to save Faline, right before they have to flee a forest fire. I am a bit dubious that Bambi would be capable of fighting off a single dog, let alone a pack of dogs, but that scene, plus the earlier hunting moments, and the forest fire, provide the most visually interesting parts of the film, so I guess I can let it slide.
I’m less inclined to let a few other things slide: the forgettable songs (not a single “Whistle While You Work” here, let alone a “When You Wish Upon a Star,”), the jarring emotional changes, and the problem that the parts of this film not involving hunters or fire are often incredibly slow. Bluntly put, much of Bambi might be beautiful, but with the exceptions of the twin scenes with the hunters, it’s also boring.
That is, until the forest fire, a gloriously animated, terrifying sequence, as the animals flee from a terrible fire accidentally set by the hunters. (This scene is not in the book, and was reportedly inspired by accounts of major wildfires in the American west in the 1930s.) It’s astonishing, gripping, and for me deeply frustrating, since it—and other gloriously animated moments—show what Bambi could have been.
Those gloriously animated moments include the rainstorm, the forest fire, the two leaves falling from a tree (a quiet and welcome nod to the book), a snowstorm (animated with the help of cornflakes), and, well, the two hunting scenes. But they’re not enough to make up for the rest of the film, even with a remote control on hand.
I can’t leave the post, I guess, without talking about one of those two hunting scenes—the death of Bambi’s mother. It works, I think, in part because so much of the rest of the film is so slow, so boring, so beautiful, so cute. Death permeates the book; it does not permeate the film, which contains only two deaths—Bambi’s mother and a partridge. Death is so inevitable in the book that it is never a shock. Even knowing that it’s coming, it’s a shock in this film. It doesn’t help that I totally forgot the film has two hunting scenes—and Bambi’s mother does survive the first one. And that in the film, we can see little Bambi, who has never been presented as very intelligent, or very knowledgeable, all alone in the snow, hearing that his mother will never come back.
No wonder so many small children, seeing this, were scarred for life.
It’s powerful, certainly.
Beautifully animated, certainly.
You’re all probably better off watching Bambi Meets Godzilla.
Initial earnings for Bambi were a disappointment, and that was only the beginning of the bad news. As final production inched along in 1941, the Disney animators went on strike; the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; and the United States entered a lengthy, two front war. The brand new Walt Disney Studios, built to accommodate the ever growing artistic staff, was commandeered by the United States Army. Bambi turned out to be the latest in a string of financial losses for the studio. It was a disastrous period for Disney—what Roy Disney would later call the “lost years.”
As a result, Disney abandoned the idea of full length, lavishly animated films, instead producing cheap anthology films featuring various animated shorts. We are going to skip most of these, with the exception of the final one in the group: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Mari Ness lives in central Florida.
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If you’re looking for the very warmest time to visit Yogyakarta, the hottest months are October, September, and then May. See average monthly temperatures below. The warmest time of year is generally mid-October where highs are regularly around 94.4°F (34.7°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below 76.3°F (24.6°C) at night. If dry weather is what you're after, the months with the lowest chance of significant precipitation in Yogyakarta are August, July, and then September. The lowest chance of rain or snow occurs around early to mid-August. Yogyakarta has some very humid months, with other comfortably humid months. The least humid month is September (58% relative humidity), and the most humid month is February (78.1%). Wind in Yogyakarta is usually calm. The windiest month is August, followed by January and July. August's average wind speed of around 5.8 knots (6.7 MPH or 10.8 KPH) is considered "a light breeze." Maximum sustained winds (the highest speed for the day lasting more than a few moments) are at their highest in late January where average top sustained speeds reach 13.7 knots, which is considered a moderate breeze.
The busiest month for tourism in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in November, followed by January and May. Prices for hotels and flights will be most expensive during these months, though you can save if you purchase well in advance. Tourists are unlikely to visit Yogyakarta in July. Those willing to visit at these times will likely find it the least expensive month. Spring (September through November) daily highs range from 94.4°F (34.7°C) and 89.8°F (32.1°C), which will feel very nice given the humidity and wind. It rains or snows a significant amount: 3 to 10 days per month. Tourism is the busiest during these months due to the weather so that hotels may be higher priced. On the contrary, the middle-year months have very comfortable weather with high temperatures that are quite warm. These months see the least precipitation with 2 to 4 days of rainfall per month. June – August is the slowest season for tourism in Yogyakarta, so lodging and other accommodations may cost less than usual.
Catch Ramayana Ballet in April where it is performed at the place where the story was carved a thousand years ago: Prambanan Temple. This cultural performance has managed to combine the diversity of Javanese art in forms of dance, drama and music on one stage and at the same momentum to present Ramayana Story summed up in four stages: Sinta's abduction, Anoman's mission to Alengka, the death of Rahwana and a happy ending when Sinta and Rama meet up again. While in Yogyakarta, enjoy Ketoprak every Wednesday! Ketoprak is a traditional Javanese theater performance. Just like wayang orang, Ketoprak comes with a drama inserting a Javanese composition and gamelan music. The critical difference lies in its source of the story where it's not derived from Mahabharata or Ramayana, but it's derived from legend or other stories.
What are the Top 3 Things to Do in Yogyakarta?
Yogyakarta is one of the most visited cities in the world. Many attractions can be found in Yogyakarta.
1. Jomblang Cave -Jomblang cave is famous for the streaming heavenly light that descends into the cave. The cave is said to have formed when a forest collapsed due to an earthquake, forming a 200-meter hole in the ground. Light penetrates directly over the cave's hole at approximately noon. To get to the hole, you'll be dropped through a rope and pulley system approximately 90 meters down. Best to book through a tour.
2. Taman Sari -A garden chateau with an elaborate series of swimming pools, this palace was built by the Portuguese (when they briefly resided in Java) as a gift for the wives of Sultan Hamengku Buwono I. The castle is built in an architectural style loved by Yogyakarta's ancient royalty and boasts not only a magnificent view but an eerie underground catacomb that's worth checking out!
3. Kraton Palace -Kraton of Yogyakarta is the city's palace complex and the main seat of the Sultan Yogyakarta and his family. It also serves as a cultural center with a museum for the Sultan's artifacts. More of a walled mini city than a palace, this massive compound is home to 25,000 people and has its own industries, schools and shops. Distinctive features to note the male and female dragon entrances, the European-influenced architecture, gifts from various European monarchs and sacred banyan trees.
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Psychiatrists identify causes of high incidents of suicide in Nigeria
On December 10, 2019 4:22 pmIn Newsby Bankole
Dr Taiwo Sheikh, National President, Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria (APN), on Tuesday blamed the high incidents of suicide in Nigeria on lack of prevention strategies and programmes.
Sheikh made the assertion at the ongoing Health Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HEWAN) Annual Symposium in Lagos, with the theme: “Rising Incidents of Suicide, the Way Out’’.
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He said suicide was the second leading cause of death, especially among youths, adding that the government needs to prioritise every form of an intervention programme to prevent the trend.
According to him, for every death by suicide, 20 to 25 more have attempted same.
“Since the year 2000, national prevention strategies have been established in 28 countries of the world and there had been a decline in suicide rate in those countries.
“In Europe, they have 13 programmes, America has eight, Western Pacific has five, South East Asia has two programmes while in African and Nigeria, we have zero-intervention programmes.
“So, you can understand why the suicide rate is on the increase here in our country. It is declining in those places because they have put certain things in place.
“Like in Europe, they have blocked access to different means of suicide such as changing the design of their bridges so that people don’t go and jump to death.
“America too is blocking access to firearms and harmful medications.
“Here in Nigeria, we are talking about banning the sale of ‘Snipper’,” Sheikh said.
He said APN was in collaboration with the Suicide Research and Prevention Initiative (SURPIN), to drive community awareness programmes and provide social support in the country.
“We also do online and telephone counselling, as well as training of healthcare practitioners on how to provide support.
“People who engage in suicide do it to solve a problem, but not to die. We believe that if there was help in terms of social help, they will not carry out suicide.
“The government should also work on improving our healthcare system.
“A very good healthcare system will put in place prevention strategies that will respond swiftly and adequately to cases of suicide in the country,’’ Sheikh said.
Also, Prof. Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, promised that the state government would double effort to provide quality healthcare for residents to boost their mental wellbeing.
In her remarks, Mrs Chioma Obinna, President of HEWAN, promised that media would continue to hold government accountable via objective and factual reporting.
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Media Release 21 March 2018
An ATAR isn't the 'be all and end all' to secure a place at university
Fewer students than ever before are getting into university based on an ATAR, as universities develop more diverse ways to assess student potential, a new report from the Mitchell Institute highlights.
Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said the ‘Crunching the number’ report was an excellent review of the use and usefulness of an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).
“The national data shows very clearly that an ATAR has become less important as a path to an offer as our universities have developed a broader set of assessment tools,” she said.
“What is not often well understood is that there are now a number of pathways into university.”
Fewer than half of all new students enrolling at university now come straight from high school. Only one in four students is admitted based on their ATAR.
“An ATAR can still be useful – but it’s important for high school students and parents to know that an ATAR isn’t the only way into a place at university,” Ms Robinson said.
“It certainly can’t tell you everything about a student or their ability to succeed at university.”
“In recent years, we’ve been seeing students from a much broader range of ages and backgrounds coming through a variety of pathways to study at university. This is a great thing.”
And for students who seek to use their ATAR to apply for universities, information on course requirements and cut-off rankings is now easier to access and compare between universities.
Universities Australia helped to develop this clearer guidance as part of a review commissioned by Education Minister Simon Birmingham and overseen by the Higher Education Standards Panel.
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Clarke hoping clubs get message
But boss says interest in his players is not unsettling
STEVE Clarke says outside interest in his players is not unsettling – but hopes rival clubs get the message they are not for sale.
The Baggies boss revealed on Thursday that Albion had rejected out of hand an offer from QPR for Jonas Olsson.
And he had to field further questions from journalists after Saturday’s defeat at Reading following media speculation that the same club had enquired about Peter Odemwingie.
Clarke claims he cannot stop anyone showing an interest in his troops, saying it is part and parcel of the transfer window.
But he says all enquiries will be rebuffed.
“It would be nice if clubs accepted the fact our players aren’t for sale,” he said.
“But clubs are entitled to make enquiries and put bids in, as long as it's done in the right manner. If that's the case, we have no complaints or grievances.
“It's not unsettling. It happens because there is such a media interest in the game. It's part of the job.
“But any bids or enquiries will be met with the same answer: no.”
Clarke will today continue putting right what went wrong in the final nine minutes at Reading with his players.
He was part of the Liverpool coaching staff that witnessed a similar defeat last March, when Kenny Dalglish’s side surrendered a 2-0 lead at QPR.
On that occasion, Rangers’ three goals came in the final 13 minutes.
“That was exactly the same game as Saturday,” he reflected.
“We had total domination against a team at the bottom fighting for their lives.
“Credit to Reading – they came back and got the 3-2 win.
“Even they would admit it was undeserved – but that's football.
“We will be getting the players in, chatting about the game and making sure what we did wrong we never do wrong in the future.”
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FEMA Visits 18 Wisconsin Counties, Including Fond Du Lac to Assess Storm Damage
by: Robyn Oguinye
Posted: Sep 27, 2018 / 03:16 AM CDT / Updated: Sep 27, 2018 / 03:16 AM CDT
Parts of our area are still recovering from flooding and tornadoes that hit in August and this month.
Now federal agencies are visiting several counties to assess the damage left behind and will possibly secure financial aid for those who still need to make repairs.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, has begun assessing damage left from the storm in 18 Wisconsin counties.
Five teams are assessing homes and businesses, another three are examining public infrastructure.
This will tell FEMA exactly how much money will be granted to locals affected and if those 18 counties will be under a federal disaster declaration.
Local 5 was in the town of Alto after it was hit by a tornado in August.
Down trees and high winds caused damage to several homes, but FEMA may be able to help.
“A lot of times we are asking here, ‘do you have insurance?’ It’s hard to understand what the needs are, but some people don’t have enough insurance or they don’t have insurance and that’s where FEMA can step in and offer assistance for recovery,” says Gerard Hammink, a representative for FEMA.
“A lot of it is the wind damage that we did see from the tornadoes,” says Bobbi Hicken with Fond Du Lac County Emergency Management. “There is some flooding that happened to people’s basements, but we are really focusing on the tornado damage at this point.”
Fond Du Lac County Emergency Management was only one agency touring the damage this week.
They’re partnering with FEMA to create an assessment report.
“We gather the information through these tours of these counties, I will give that information to the state and then the state puts that into their report for a possible presidential disaster declaration,” says Hammink.
Hammink says there’s no way to tell right now how much money all the counties will receive.
The county wants the most accurate assessment possible so they did not solely rely on what has been surveyed this week.
“We also worked with our municipal emergency managers who know their community and they know who was affected,” says Hicken. “We went with them in order to determine where the most significant damages were and to be able to get a good picture.”
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Is ClassPass still worth it? I tried it to find out
by Zoe Weiner, March 15, 2019
Photo: Stocksy/Ivan Gener
Classpass has come a long way in the last six years. What started as a $100-a-month membership plan that gave you unlimited access to workout classes across New York City has now expanded 2,500 cities in 15 countries, and launched a booming digital fitness business that gives members access to top trainers from the comfort of their own living rooms. As the company’s offerings have changed over the last half-decade, so too, has its membership options. Which begs the question: Is ClassPass worth it?
The monumental increase in partner studios and gyms (9,000 were added in the past year, rounding out to over 15,000 total) is just one of the many, many things that’s changed about the boutique fitness membership platform recently, along with the addition of varying class pack options, price hikes, the discontinuation of the Unlimited class plan, and the addition of wellness experiences to the growing roster. The biggest recent change, though, has been the introduction of the “credits” system.
Unlike the original post-unlimited ClassPass model, where your membership afforded you a set number of classes per month (the Core Plan, for example, yielded 10 classes for $135), users are now able to purchase “credits,” and can redeem those credits at as many different classes as they’d like. Various classes retail for a various number of credits determined by a “dynamic pricing system”: A peak spot at Barry’s Bootcamp, for example, could cost 20 credits, while a two-hour slot at Crunch Gym will run you only two or three.
“We work tirelessly in support of our mission to inspire people to live their most active lives. Iteration and innovation are core to our DNA, so we’re constantly seeking new ways to connect our members seamlessly to fulfilling experiences,” Payal Kadakia, Founder & Chairman of the Board at ClassPass, tells Well + Good. “Since our launch just over five years ago, we’ve booked over 65 million class reservations on our platforms. That’s 65 million hours of people’s lives we’ve helped enrich and improve by connecting them to nurturing experiences at our 15,000 partner studios worldwide.”
Plan prices vary from city to city, but in New York City, you can purchase as few as 27 credits (the equivalent of two to four classes) for $49 a month, 49 credits (approximately four to seven classes) for $75 a month, or 100 credits (which nets out to 10 to 15 classes) for $159. The brand also has a partnership with Blink Fitness in the New York Metro area, where for an extra $15 a month on top of the 49- and 100-credit plans, you can have unlimited access to the gym’s various location throughout NYC. If you don’t use all of your credits in a given month, up to 10 can roll over into the following, and if you run out, there is always the option to top up whenever you want.
Since that experience could be pretty unrecognizable to someone who was a member five years ago, I gave the $75 a month plan a test drive over the last few months to find out what exactly it’s really like to use ClassPass in NYC…right now.
Here are eight things you need to know if you’re thinking of using ClassPass to sweat all over town.
Photo: Larkin Clark for Well+Good
1. The selection can be overwhelming (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing)
My head nearly exploded when I started browsing the full list of classes—there are so, so many to choose from. But thanks to the filters that ClassPass offers (you can sort by activity, neighborhood, time, and distance from your current location), it made it a lot easier to sort through. I could see it being tough to figure out where to start, especially if you aren’t totally familiar with the NYC fitness scene. But the sheer number of options is great for anyone looking to try something new, or mix up their regular routine. Because through trial and error, you can ultimately find something you love. The credits system also makes it easy to figure out which classes are the best—the more credits it requires, the more popular the class likely is.
2. The app is really helpful
ClassPass’s app has been around since 2016, and makes sorting through the thousands of studio offerings a whole lot easier than just going in blind. It’s really well-designed and easy to navigate and you can filter classes based on exact time, neighborhood, type (barre, spin, etc.), and even whether or not the spot has a shower.
Setting a few parameters makes the selection way more manageable, and it also does a great job at recommending classes based on your past behavior. Finally, it makes it easy to book classes you liked again, allows you to save studios as your favorites, and even includes a map feature that shows classes right near you for last-minute, on-the-go bookings.
3. The credits system makes it easier (but arguably pricier) to get into classes at top studios
It’s traditionally been challenging to get spots in ClassPass classes with more cachet (aka the best studios at the most popular times), but the credits system actually helps make it slightly easier…as long as you’re willing to pay the price. The best classes will, semi-understandably, cost the most credits. Premium studios like Tone House, Barry’s Bootcamp, and The Fhitting Room, for example, will run you the most credits, except during off-peak times. (If you’re a freelancer and can go to classes midday, you’re in luck!)
As a user, this makes sense: A popular, premium class with a top trainer probably should cost more than an hour on your own at the gym, which is how the program used to be structured when a membership got you a set number of classes per month regardless of what they actually were. Keep in mind, however, that many of the bigger names aren’t on ClassPass at all, like SoulCycle, 305 Fitness, and SLT (unless you’re in Philly, where it was recently added), so if these are studios that matter to you, it’s probably not the right option.
4. It’s a great time to be a barre babe or a spin devotee
The incredible growth of many barre studio brands over the past few years has led to a ton of variety and availability in this realm, and if barre is your workout of choice, ClassPass is a great option. Studios like Physique 57, Pop Physique, FlyBarre, Pure Barre, Barre3, Core Fusion at Exhale, and Bar Method—many at multiple locations—offer credits-friendly classes at peak times. And if you’re into spinning, there are plenty of indoor cycling classes available from studios like Flywheel, Cyc, and Swerve to classes at gyms like Crunch.
5. You can use ClassPass to go to the gym, too
It was news when ClassPass added its first gym partner, Crunch, in early 2015. Now, there’s a long list of gym partners on board, many with dozens of locations all over the city. Instead of booking a class, for instance, you can snag gym time at Crunch, New York Sports Club, or 24-Hour Fitness. Of course, memberships at all of those spots are cheaper than joining ClassPass, so this feature is only beneficial if you prefer studio classes but just want to hit the gym once in a while. Plus, gym time runs you far fewer credits than a premium class would, so you can arguably get the most bang for your buck if you want to sweat it out on your own.
6. ClassPass Live and ClassPass Go will give you classes without having to go to a studio
In addition to letting you sweat it out at the gym, ClassPass has also hopped on board the digital fitness trend with ClassPass Live and ClassPass Go, which means your monthly membership will give you unlimited access to trainers via your cellphone or laptop. So even if you’re only attending a few actual classes a month, you can make full use of your membership by tuning into a live class or on-demand program, straight from your living room.
“By expanding into at-home digital products, we’re able to offer existing members more value and flexibility in how and when they work out, while simultaneously bringing studio-fitness- inspired workouts to a whole new demographic nationwide,” Fritz Lanman, ClassPass CEO, said when the app launched last year. Offerings are mostly HIIT-based and require limited equipment, which make them easy to do wherever you are.
7. The wellness experiences are a game changer
In addition to the usual fitness classes, in 2018 ClassPass added a number of wellness experiences to its offerings. Now, in addition to using your monthly credits on a HIIT class, in NYC you can also apply them to things like cryotherapy, facials, and blowouts. Not a bad deal, huh? And ClassPass Getaways, which will launch later this year, will allow members to book daylong self-care experiences at unique destinations, giving them access to different fitness programs from popular boutique studios, complimentary wellness and beauty treatments, and delicious food. “We’re thrilled to give members the opportunity to take a mini escape from their day-to-day to try new things and explore unfamiliar places,” ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia said when news of the new initiative broke. “It’s our hope that attendees will leave feeling energized and empowered to continue living life to their absolute fullest.”
8. For the right person, it’s still a great value
The 40-credit pack, which gives you four to seven classes, now costs $75—netting out to $10-$19 a class. That’s a great value considering most classes cost upwards of $30 each at retail value. The credits system also allows you to have access to prime spots at popular classes (unlike back in the day, when it was nearly impossible). If you have favorite instructors at The Fhitting Room and Cyc and will go six days a week without fail—another option might be the best call. But if you’re a casual fitness enthusiast who lives to try new things all the time, it’s perfect.
With additional reporting from Lisa Elaine Held.
And of course there’s the question of what to wear to boot camp vs. barre vs. Bikram. Here’s the latest intel on leggings, sneakers, and what to wear underneath.
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What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of “Earthship Biotecture” by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony. However, these experimental structures that defy state standards create conflict between Reynolds and the authorities, who are backed by big business. Frustrated by antiquated legislation, Reynolds lobbies for the right to create a sustainable living test site. While politicians hum and ha, Mother Nature strikes, leaving communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes. Reynolds and his crew seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it most. Shot over three years and in four countries, Garbage Warrior is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.
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painting, DAMAGED TANK AND CANADIAN GRAVES NEAR CESENATICO, ITALY
Object Number 19710261-4337
1943-1945 Italian Campaign
Artist / Maker / Manufacturer MacDonald, Lieutenant Thomas Reid
Date Made 1944/10/
Category Communication artifacts
Sub-category Art
Department Art and Memorials
Earliest 1944/10/01
Latest 1944/10/31
Support paper
Materials Not applicable
Unit 3rd Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (Governor General's Horse Guards)
Measurements Height 39.2 cm, Width 57.3 cm
Caption MacDonald, T.R. (1908-1978)
Additional Information A trained figure painter, MacDonald enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1941. In 1944 he was briefly a service artist before receiving an appointment as an official war artist. Most of his work was completed in Italy. From 1947 to 1973 he was the director of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Fatal accident in neighboring Dodge County | By Dodge County Sheriff
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UTV through the ice on Fox Lake in neighboring Dodge County
March 2, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – At approximately 12:40 p.m. on March 2, 2018 the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office investigated a report that a 2016 John Deere Gator UTV broke through the ice on Fox Lake. The investigation revealed the gator was driven by Clarence Feucht
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March 1, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – Following every mass killing, I ask myself, what has happened to our society? I also wonder what the solution is to ensure our families do not become future victims. Many have pointed out that years ago, people would go
Dodge County Sheriff responds to early morning snowmobile accident in Town of Shields
Feb. 8, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – At 3:59 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2018 the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office investigated a snowmobile crash Hwy. Q near Walton Road in the town of Shields. A 27-year-old male from Watertown was operating his snowmobile on the highway and on private
Dodge County Sheriff releases name of woman injured in weekend accident
Feb. 6, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – On February 3, 2018 at approximately 1:34 a.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of CTH S and STH 67 in the Township of Hubbard, Dodge County, Wisconsin. The preliminary investigation shows Amanda
Dodge County Sheriff recognizes youth in Explorer post
Feb. 1, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – The Dodge County Law Enforcement Explorer post held its annual parents/awards night at the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. This event also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Explorer post in Dodge County. In February, 2008, then patrol deputy Dale Schmidt began
Names released in Dec. 31, 2017 fatality in neighboring Dodge County
Jan. 2, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – On Dec. 31, 2017 at 5:37 p.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a three-vehicle crash that occurred on CTH R near CTH EM., Town of Emmet, Dodge County. Preliminary investigation showed that a 2000 GMC Jimmy operated by
Two people killed in 3-vehicle accident in neighboring Dodge County
Jan. 1, 2018 – Dodge Co., WI – On Dec. 31, 2017 at 5:37 p.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a three vehicle crash on CTH R near CTH EM., Town of Emmet, Dodge County. Preliminary investigation shows a GMC Jimmy was traveling eastbound on
Child seriously injured in accident Sunday afternoon in neighboring Dodge County
Dec. 16, 2017 – Theresa, WI – At 2:57 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office began taking 911 calls of a serious injury crash at the intersection of (State Highway) STH 28/67/175 and STH 28 (east) in the Township of Theresa or about one
Man injured in Dodge Co. accident cited with 18th offense operating with suspended license
Dec. 7, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – On Nov. 29, 2017 at 11:06 a.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motor vehicle crash on State Highway 33 at the intersection with Cth V, in the Township of Hubbard, Dodge County. Preliminary investigation shows that Jose Bermudez,
Flight for Life called to Dodge Co. Accident
Dec. 2, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – At about 7:13 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, 2017, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office received 911 reports of a semi-tractor trailer colliding with a pickup truck at the intersection of STH 28/67/175 and STH 28 in the Township of Theresa. The
Person suffers life-threatening injuries in 2-vehicle accident Wednesday in Dodge County
Nov. 29, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – On Nov. 29, 2017 at 11:06 a.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motor vehicle crash on State Highway 33 at the intersection with CTH V, in the Township of Hubbard, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Preliminary investigation shows a
Fatal fire under investigation in neighboring Dodge County | Ron Naab
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Nov. 14, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – A fatal fire Saturday in neighboring Dodge County is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. Authorities say the fire on Zion Road in the Town of Theresa was paged out at 6:29 a.m. There were initial reports of a
Howdy partner, the big cattle drive in Dodge County has been cancelled
Nov. 12, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – There were some wayward cattle on the dusty trail today settin’ up for the great cattle drive Dodge County. The proposed cow path in the Lebanon and Hustisford area. Neighbors lined the highway for the big show…. although the whole
What in Tarnation??… A cattle drives a comin’ Sunday morn in neighboring Dodge County
Nov. 11, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – There’s a cattle drive a comin Sunday morn Nov. 12 in neighboring Dodge County. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office received information the cattle drive is expected to last about 4-5 hours. The drive is apparently going to be taking place starting
On Nov. 5, 2017 at 3:06 a.m. the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a one-vehicle accident on USH 151 near CTH C, Town of Trenton, Dodge County. Preliminary investigation shows a Pontiac G6 traveling northbound on USH 151 just north of CTH C failed to
Serious injury accident in neighboring Dodge County
Nov. 5, 2017 – Dodge Co., WI – On Nov. 4, 2017 at 10:37 p.m.the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motor vehicle crash involving a pickup truck at W12390 Sth 16/60, in the Township of Elba, Dodge County. Preliminary investigation shows a 2008 Ford Ranger
Reward offered to help catch and convict robbery suspects in neighboring Dodge County
Oct. 23, 2017 – At 10:32 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017 the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a robbery that took place at Sensations Lingerie, N8089 State Hwy. 33, in the Town of Beaver Dam. Investigators responded to find two male subjects entered the business
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Study: Arctic is warmer, will remain so
HANOVER, N.H., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The arctic polar region's climate has warmed up in the last five years and the change is likely to stick around as a "new normal," U.S. scientists say.
A team of 121 scientists from 14 nations concluded the arctic climate has reached a turning point, ScienceNews.org reported Thursday.
Enough data have been collected "to indicate a shift in the Arctic Ocean system since 2006," said Jacqueline Richter-Menge of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. "This shift is characterized by the persistent decline in the thickness and summer extent of sea-ice cover and by a warmer, less salty upper ocean."
Since the arctic is a factor in driving climate around the world, changes there have impacts elsewhere, Richter-Mange said.
Once a warming trend starts the loss of ice built up over many years "we seldom go back to where we were before," James Overland of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
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"The past five years have had the five smallest September ice extents," Perovich said, "showing that Arctic sea ice has not recovered from the large decrease observed in 2007."
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Again, I try to stay somewhat positive when writing this column, but about the only thing we have positive to say about our national government is that Wyoming’s Congressional delegation is doing a good job, and we’re thankful they have so much respect back in Washington, D.C. All three are in leadership roles – roles based on hard work, good thinking and conservative spending.
Reading the latest Gallup Poll on “Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government,” one doesn’t come away with the greatest of feelings. It shows “record or near-record criticism of Congress, elected officials, government handling of domestic programs, the scope of government power and government waste of tax dollars.” That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? Americans should be proud of their government. Even at its worst, and that could be the present, we’re still better than all the rest. One person, one vote, the majority wins – you feel they do a poor job, then vote them out, as it’s not a lifetime job. If they are doing a good job, keep voting for them and let them build up their seniority. That’s how our republic works.
It was disturbing to read the poll, first because it really does reflect our national government, as the guy said, “I’d rather vote for Charlie Sheen.” On the cable news shows there are those who praise our government officials, and those who always slam them. Why don’t they both forgo the spin and just report the news? Who cares about their personal opinions, we can think for ourselves so give us the facts.
The poll stated that 65 percent of Democrats and 92 percent of Republicans are dissatisfied with the nation’s governance. That is huge, isn’t it? Other key findings were: 82 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job; 69 percent say they have little or no confidence in Congress; 57 percent have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems; 53 percent have little or no confidence in the men and women who seek or hold elected office; and 49 percent of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.
The latest actions of the Senate this past week would cause higher percentages, I think, and I would guess they won’t drop anytime soon. The rise started around 2002 and really rose after 2008 as I see it, so it looks like the Iraq and Afghanistan war started the movement that has escalated in the last three years. The war has really taken its toll, both in dollars spent and lives lost. We’re really proud of our servicemen and women who do their jobs, and especially those who have been wounded or lost their lives. We just want our leaders to explain the timetable and how we’ll know we’ve reached it.
Complaining about government has gone from casual conversation to epidemic ranting, and when we get to that part, one realizes we are in trouble. The positive part is that we are able to do something about it, and hopefully we are at the bottom, with nowhere to go but up.
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150 years has passed since wild sambar first browsed Australian bush, left their prints and droppings on game trails and rubbed soft velvet off their antlers. We have the Victorian Acclimatization Society to thank for their hard work with arranging the delivery of four sambar on the ship ‘Jeddo’ that departed Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1861. There were two stags and two females on board but the journey wasn’t easy for all of them. One of the hinds calved on the voyage but unfortunately both her and the newborn failed to survive the passage across the Indian Ocean. The fact that three out of the four deer were able to tolerate many weeks at sea in conditions that would have tested them to their limits would have been a precursor to the tenacity of this species.
These sambar were held in enclosures at Royal Park to adjust to conditions far removed from their native homeland and it is believed the first release at Mount Sugarloaf took place in 1863. This is an area now located within the Kinglake National Park just to the north of Melbourne in Victoria.
Further liberations points were near Mount Cole in Western Victoria, down at Wilsons Promontory in South Gippsland, on French Island in Westernport Bay and also Coburg Peninsular in what is now Gurig National Park in the Northern Territory. It is a lasting legacy of the species in that even to this day, in all of these release points that encompass such a wide range of habitat and geographical variance, sambar still exist in sustainable numbers. The lack of four legged predation that is found in their native range and minimal hunting pressure in the early stages of release certainly assisted sambar in all of these areas to obtain steady population growth.
Since their initial release animal numbers grew in many locations and in the early 1900’s special permits were issued for the culling of deer that were deemed destructive to farmers pasture and crops. Times were no doubt tough for the locals in that era and large heavy hoofed wild animals were probably the cause for much angst in the farming community. After consultation with the local Fisheries and Game Departments a drive was generally arranged consisting of a group of men, and deer were harvested by members of the team. Probably dogs were also involved in the hunt and would have been a valuable asset in locations where deer lived in heavier cover. Its safe to say that all venison obtained on these hunts would be considered a valuable source of protein for those involved and their families.
1915 was when the first permits were issued to parties of up to five hunters to spend a week at a time on Snake Island. For a princely sum of two pound the hunters could use the cottage on the island and take up to ten deer between them. This must have been quite an adventure for these early sportsmen.
It wasn’t until the 18th of November in 1919, the Department in control of wildlife passed a law that effectively removed deer from the list of protected fauna. Sambar and the other deer species in Victoria could now be hunted year round. That long half century from first liberation to the acceptance of legal hunting would have seemed like an eternity to those with the slightest interest in hunting deer. There was no turning back since this decision and whilst seasons and laws have been modified and adjusted with each new release of the Game Regulations, there has always been the capacity for hunters to head bush, climb mountains and enjoy sambar hunting in very liberal conditions.
The distribution and spread of Sambar
Sambar are large framed, heavily muscled and capable of covering vast distances with ease. They are able to adapt to a wide range of food sources, habitats and climates. When compared to European deer species they make very little vocalization during any rutting period, this makes them impossible to locate through noise associated with rutting. Sambar do not form large herds that are easily visible, they shy away from open areas during daylight hours, are capable of living long lives in the wild and the females are known to occasionally have twins when conditions are ideal. All these factors accumulate making Australian sambar one of the leading deer species around the world that is capable of colonizing new territory and forming sustainable populations within a very short space of time.
Sambar do not need much encouragement to push into new country. They will eagerly utilize river systems and all interconnected forested areas as corridors for travel. Pine and Eucalyptus plantations, nature reserves, coastal scrub and national parks all offer relative safety, cover, food and security for the travelling sambar.
Like all deer species it is generally the young males needing to find new territory that turn up first followed by the females and their offspring. Often when sambar are reported in fringe areas or in locations they have rarely been seen it is these young males in the first few years of their lives that are the animals arriving first. Eventually when a few animals of either sex find a suitable location with all the right attributes, a small nucleus of sambar is formed and given the right set of circumstances numbers will increase to a point where again the young males get pushed out by older males or simply go exploring to find their own territory. This cycle will be repeated over and over as sambar continually expand both their range and population. Pressure from hunters, landowners, pest controllers and predation from dingoes and wild dogs will determine just how quickly these new areas will get colonized by emerging populations and how settled the local resident deer will become. If there is too much sustained hunting pressure they will either adjust the location where their core home range is located or they will become nocturnal in an attempt to evade dangerous conflict.
It must be noted that in many populated areas where sambar are afforded moderate protection from hunting pressure, they are happy to live within earshot of houses, pets and livestock and general human contact. They know where they are relatively safe and certainly have no issue with building herds in these areas.
The Southern and Eastern portions of Australia are dominated by the Great Dividing Range. This fantastic range is simply a natural corridor that will allow sambar to reach sustainable numbers in all suitable locations. This is a large tract of seemingly endless mountains consisting of many headwater catchments, river systems, ranges and deep valleys. There is mixed browse all through the different elevations, much of which sambar find palatable and there is substantial rainfall and snow at the higher levels creating lush spring and early summer conditions to help carry the condition of the deer into winter. On the northern edge of the Great Dividing Range smaller clusters of hills and lesser mountains finally give way to open fertile farming country. The Southern portions do likewise, but in many locations the farmland finishes close to the ocean, creating a natural barrier for all deer movement.
A look at a Google Earth Image of Victoria and Eastern New South Wales will show that big cities, the coast and large tracts of cleared farm country will be the only limiting factors as to exactly where the northern range of sambar will extend to. Travelling sambar are just so tenacious and adaptable that they will either make do with the set of conditions that they find themselves in or they will keep pushing on until ideal habitat and environment is located. There is no doubt the huge system of National Parks in New South Wales will be ideal breeding grounds for sambar. They will relish in these conditions and it will speed up the colonization process undoubtedly. In regards to NSW state forests where there is tightly regulated stalking and hunting access, there will no doubt be sambar taken in increasing numbers but whether it will be enough to control the emerging populations is hard to say. Most likely sambar being sambar, once they form a sustainable base population in any area forested area of decent size in NSW they will all but be impossible to eradicate and opportunistic controlling and harvesting by hunters and land users will be the most likely outcome. There is no doubt that as numbers of sambar increase in NSW the government needs to find a solution utilizing the many licenced hunters in this state to open up and facilitate more regulated hunting on public lands. Hunters in NSW have proven to be efficient at managing feral animals and deer herds on public land but in order to get best effect out of the program certain National Parks need to be managed by these hunters as well.
In terms of population growth and pushing into new areas the survival rate of those travelling through forested areas would be far greater then the fringe country dwellers so whilst some pockets will grow in protected open country on the western edge of the Dividing Range, the areas that will be colonized initially are those with suitable forested habitat as the sambar will simply live longer with reduced human encounters and this creates more opportunity for population growth. Most rural farmers have rifles or neighbours that do and I’m sure there would be no shortage of country shooters lining up to hunt any big brown deer that turn up in new territory. Crop damage and fence issues would be at the forefront of farmers minds, not to mention the appeal of a substantial amount of meat running around that could be put in the cool room.
There are plenty of instances of sambar living in little pockets of bush and scrub on the outskirts of their main range in what many would consider sheep and rabbit country. They will happily live and expand in this type of habitat provided the hunting pressure is light.
The push of sambar into new areas will only be halted by environmental conditions that either aren’t to their liking or locations that allow effective hunting and control due to the lack of heavy cover and bush. Towns and cities will all need to be skirted around by the adaptable sambar but often the local reserves and outer city limits will prove to be attractive for deer with its mixed browse and safety being off limits to legal hunting. Highways and main roads will potentially be hazardous for sambar and the incidents of deer and vehicle collisions will only keep increasing as deer expand and build populations.
Considering sambar are able to adapt to almost all conditions in Australia, the only locations that probably wont see big numbers of resident sambar in the future will be the open rural country on the edges of the Great Dividing Range where the deer simply do not have enough suitable cover to survive and evade those who pursue it. Sambar certainly have no trouble living in open farmland, especially if there is minimal hunting pressure, but the odds of human encounter greatly increase when they live in this habitat and naturally sooner or later hunters will encounter them.
Nobody can accurately judge how far north sambar will progress, but the Great Dividing Range dominates a lot of Eastern Australia and you would be safe to assume that at some stage in the future sambar would have the capacity to occupy every last piece of suitable habitat. They have endured bush fires, logging, encroachment by humans, farming, floods, and intense hunting pressure but against all odds they are surviving and flourishing and there is no doubt they will continue to do so.
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Mueller: No Russia exoneration for Trump, despite his claims
By: Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick And Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press | Posted: 07/24/2019 8:05 AM | Comments: | Last Modified: 07/24/2019 9:36 PM
WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller, the taciturn lawman at the centre of a polarizing American drama, bluntly dismissed President Donald Trump's claims of "total exoneration" Wednesday in the federal probe of Russia's 2016 election interference. In a long day of congressional testimony, Mueller warned that Moscow's actions represented — and still represent — a great threat to American democracy.
Mueller's back-to-back Capitol Hill appearances, his first since wrapping his two-year Russia probe, carried the prospect of a historic climax to a rare criminal investigation into a sitting American president. But his testimony was more likely to reinforce rather than reshape hardened public opinions on impeachment and the future of Trump's presidency .
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in before the House Intelligence Committee on his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)
With his terse, one-word answers, and a sometimes stilted and halting manner, Mueller made clear his desire to avoid the partisan fray and the deep political divisions roiling Congress and the country.
He delivered neither crisp TV sound bites to fuel a Democratic impeachment push nor comfort to Republicans striving to undermine his investigation's credibility. But his comments grew more animated by the afternoon, when he sounded the alarm on future Russian election interference. He said he feared a new normal of American campaigns accepting foreign help.
He condemned Trump's praise of WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails stolen by Russia. And he said of the interference by Russians and others: "They are doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign."
His report, he said, should live on after him and his team.
"We spent substantial time assuring the integrity of the report, understanding that it would be our living message to those who come after us," Mueller said. "But it also is a signal, a flag to those of us who have some responsibility in this area to exercise those responsibilities swiftly and don't let this problem continue to linger as it has over so many years."
Trump, claiming vindication despite the renewal of serious allegations, focused on his own political fortunes rather than such broader issues.
"This was a devastating day for the Democrats," he said. "The Democrats had nothing and now they have less than nothing."
President Donald Trump speaks to the media about the testimony of White House Special Counsel Robert Mueller to Congress, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Mueller was reluctant to stray beyond his lengthy written report, but that didn't stop Republicans and Democrats from labouring to extract new details.
Trump's GOP allies tried to cast the former special counsel and his prosecutors as politically motivated. They referred repeatedly to what they consider the improper opening of the investigation.
Democrats, meanwhile, sought to emphasize the most incendiary findings of Mueller's 448-page report and weaken Trump's reelection prospects in ways Mueller's book-length report did not. They hoped that even if his testimony did not inspire impeachment demands — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made clear she will not pursue impeachment, for now — Mueller could nonetheless unambiguously spell out questionable, norm-shattering actions by the president.
The prosecutor who endured nearly seven hours of hearings was a less forceful public presence than the man who steered the FBI through the Sept. 11 attacks and the 12 years after that. But Mueller, 74, was nonetheless skilled enough in the ways of Washington to avoid being goaded into leading questions he didn't want to answer.
Mueller frequently gave single-word answers to questions, even when given opportunities to crystallize allegations of obstruction of justice against the president. He referred time and again to the wording in his report.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller, is sworn in before he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Was the president lying when he said he had no business ties to Russia? "I'm not going to go into the details of the report along those lines," Mueller said. Did you develop any sort of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia? "Again," Mueller said, "I pass on answering."
But he was unflinching on the most-critical matters, showing flashes of personality and emotion.
In the opening minutes of the Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, asked about Trump's multiple claims of vindication by the investigation.
"And what about total exoneration? Did you actually totally exonerate the president?" Nadler asked.
"No," Mueller replied.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to testify before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
When Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House intelligence committee, asked, "Your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it?"
"It is not a witch hunt," Mueller flatly replied.
He gave Democrats a flicker of hope when he told Rep. Ted Lieu of California that he did not charge Trump because of a Justice Department legal opinion that says sitting presidents cannot be indicted. That statement cheered Democrats who understood him to be suggesting he might have otherwise have recommended prosecution on the strength of the evidence.
But Mueller later walked back that exchange, saying: "We did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime." His team, he said, never started the process of evaluating whether to charge Trump.
Though Mueller described Russian election interference as among the most serious challenges to democracy he had encountered in his decades-long career, Republicans focused on his conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
"Those are the facts of the Mueller report. Russia meddled in the 2016 election. The president did not conspire with Russians. Nothing we hear today will change those facts," said Rep. Doug Collins, the Judiciary Committee's top Republican.
Mueller, pressed as to why he hadn't investigated a "dossier" of claims that the Republicans insist helped lead to the start of the probe, said that was not his charge. That was "outside my purview," he said repeatedly.
Mueller mostly brushed aside Republican allegations of bias, but in a moment of apparent agitation, he said he didn't think lawmakers had ever "reviewed a report that is as thorough, as fair, as consistent as the report that we have in front of us."
And when he was pressed on the fact that multiple members of his team had made contributions to Democratic candidates, Mueller bristled at the implication his prosecutors were compromised.
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"I've been in this business for almost 25 years, and in those 25 years I have not had occasion, once, to ask somebody about their political affiliation," Mueller said, raising his hand for emphasis. "It is not done. What I care about is the capability of the individual to do the job and do the job quickly and seriously and with integrity."
Former special counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in to testify to the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into President Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Wednesday's first hearing before the Judiciary Committee focused on whether Trump obstructed justice by attempting to seize control of Mueller's investigation. The special counsel examined nearly a dozen episodes, including Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey and his efforts to have Mueller himself removed, for potential obstruction.
The afternoon hearing before the House intelligence committee dove into ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
On that question, Mueller's report documented a trail of contacts between Russians and Trump associates, including a Trump Tower meeting at which the president's eldest son expected to receive dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire in New York contributed to this report.
For more of AP's coverage of the Trump investigation: https://apnews.com/TrumpInvestigations
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Risky obsession snaring Aussie men
The pursuit of the perfect body can be obsessive and never-ending for a growing number of Australian men, experts say.
by Shannon Molloy
18th Aug 2019 5:04 PM
A GROWING number of Australian men are obsessed with building the biggest bodies they can, going to extreme and potentially dangerous lengths to achieve idealised physiques.
Experts say this behaviour goes well beyond vanity, with muscle dysmorphia - dubbed bigorexia - posing serious physical and mental health implications.
Those men deepest in a body dysmorphia hole avoid social gatherings where they can't count calories and dodge school or shift to part-time work to accommodate gruelling gym schedules.
Melbourne clinical psychologist Ben Buchanan, who runs the body image treatment program at Foundation Psychology Victoria, said muscle dysmorphia is on par with anorexia in women.
"It's an obsessive preoccupation with changing one's body to make it look more masculine, bigger, fitter and stronger," Dr Buchanan said.
"Many of the guys who have this spend hours and hours at the gym daily, hours obsessing over diet, take large quantities of supplements, and then constantly compare their physical appearance to those around them."
Building more and more muscle has become a dangerous obsession for a growing number of Aussie men, who go to extreme lengths in pursuit of the perfect physique.
What might start as a hobby or pursuit of health and fitness can quickly spiral into a serious disorder, inspiring greater risk-taking in order to achieve physical perfection.
But like anorexia, muscle dysmorphia sufferers don't views themselves how others do, looking in a mirror and often seeing a small, weak frame staring back.
And worse, they spend hours scrolling through filtered and photoshopped images of muscled men on social media, ensuring the vicious cycle continues.
BLEEDING INTO MAINSTREAM
Once upon a time, obsessive behaviours like these were confined to competitive bodybuilding circles where multiple gym visits a day and restrictive dieting were the norm.
But exercise physiologist Drew Harrisberg said ordinary gyms were now home to bigorexia sufferers who might as well be zombies.
They become "a slave to the cycle", alternating between several workouts session and eating meals every two hours that must be the perfect balance of micronutrients.
"That means if there's a social occasion, they don't eat there or they don't go because they're worried about what's in it," Mr Harrisberg said.
"They do two sessions a day, or more for some people. There's all of the garbage supplements on top of that. It's micromanaging every aspect of your life.
"If you zoom out and take a look at the big picture, they're not even living. It's robotic."
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What might begin as a hobby or effort to improve health and fitness can spiral into obsessive tendencies.
The sad reality is that no matter how much muscle they build, the majority of bigorexia sufferers will never be satisfied.
"It's incredible to think that these seriously big guys look at themselves in the mirror and see a skinny guy looking back at them," Mr Harrisberg said. "They literally don't see what everyone else is seeing. They believe they're small. It's such a destructive cycle."
A big part of the bigorexia condition is comparing one's self to others to measure progress and "inspire" better bodies.
"Guys compare themselves to other guys, then look at themselves, and they're obsessed with getting bigger and bigger. It's never-ending. Nothing will ever be enough."
It's those unhealthy comparisons that play a central role in reinforcing a man's insecure view of himself and his body, Dr Buchanan said.
Just like fashion magazines that focused on the impossibly thin "ideal" body in the 1980s and '90s had a detrimental effect on female body image, technology is fuelling issues in men.
"It's Instagram, in a word," Dr Buchanan said. "Social media allows people to compare themselves to others and normalises this ideal of an 'ideal' physique.
"The problem is that it makes it seem really attainable to be incredibly muscular. These social media accounts make it look like these huge guys have taken a quick selfie and posted it.
"In actual fact, they've been working out for hours before taking 100 photos and picking the best one. People are seeing more idealised images that are sold as being natural and normal, when really they're not."
Bigorexia sufferers will rarely be satisfied with their muscle gains, instead remaining obsessed with getting bigger and bigger.
The prolific use of social media by young people means body disorders are beginning to develop in teenage boys.
Danni Rowlands is the head of education and prevention services at the Butterfly Foundation, a not-for-profit devoted to helping those with eating and body image disorders.
The organisation started out working primarily with young girls via school programs more than a decade ago, before shifting the focus to boys and co-ed programs.
"We've realised over time that how we talk to boys about body image needs to be done differently because boys aren't connecting with the fact that they're experiencing it too," Ms Rowlands said.
The group launched the RESET program earlier this year, a digital learning tool aiming to spark a conversation among young men.
"There's an emerging body of research highlighting that this is becoming quite a serious issue for boys. We're seeing them engage in risky behaviours like overtraining, over-supplementation, really restrictive dieting and, in some cases, turning to steroids."
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Drew Harrisberg is an exercise physiologist who has seen the worst of muscle obsession play out.
Social media allows teenage boys to easily compare their bodies to others, which often leads to an unhealthy motivation, Ms Rowlands said.
"These platforms are having an adverse impact when it comes to body image. There's a muscular ideal. Males experiencing muscle dysmorphia see themselves as being small, in some ways a kind of reverse anorexia.
"Muscularity and masculinity are very tightly connected. What it means to be a man is often a physical ideal."
STEROIDS BECOMING NORMALISED
Data on steroid usage in Australia isn't robust, with researchers relying on indicators like the numbers of drug seizures by customs officials.
But anecdotally, Matthew Dunn, senior lecturer at Deakin University's School of Health and Social Development, said the types of men likely to use steroids has shifted.
"There have typically been three main groups," Dr Dunn said.
"There's the person who needs to perform at a high level of sport, there's the person who wants to look good, and the person who needs it for their job.
"Anecdotally, there's a belief that steroid use is moving away from performance-enhancing motivations and towards image-enhancing. It's people wanting to look good."
Steroid usage is becoming normalised among obsessive gymgoers.
Bigorexia has also bled into the mainstream due to the easier access to protein powders and a cocktail of legal and illegal image-enhancing supplements.
But steroids have become especially normalised in image-obsessed male circles, where any muscle advantage is accepted.
"I don't think guys are talking about it at the dinner table with their families, but if they're in a group of muscle building-focused people at the gym, then using these substances has become more normal," Dr Dunn said.
The health effects of steroid use can be serious and multifaceted, he said.
"At the lower end of the scale are the 'nuisance' effects like acne on the back and the enlargement of breast tissue, through to serious consequences like cardiovascular disease and liver or kidney damage."
Mr Harrisberg has seen first-hand how serious the implications of bigorexia can be, having watched a young man at his gym fall down a deep and dark hole.
"He was 16-years-old and naturally very athletic when he started coming to the gym. He was tall and muscular for his age, he played rugby," he said.
"He was training alongside grown men who really built up his ego. They were encouraging him, bringing him into their groups. You could see him change. It got to a point where he was obsessed with getting bigger and stronger. It was his worth."
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In extreme cases, those experiencing muscle dysmorphia change work habits and avoid social situations so they can work out more and accurately count calories.
As happens more often than many might appreciate, the boy turned to performance-enhancing drugs like steroids and testosterone injections to become bigger and bigger.
He was booted from his high school football team when he was caught taking steroids and began engaging in riskier behaviours, Mr Harrisberg said.
"He ended up being hospitalised and in really intense rehab. He ended up overdosing on drugs. I didn't see him for three years and when I did, he'd withered away. I spoke to him and could see he'd completely lost his identity."
INTEREST BECOMES OBSESSION
The average age of onset for muscle dysmorphia is 16-years-old, when teenage boys begin to feel the full weight of insecurity and expectation, Dr Buchanan said.
"It starts off mild and then gets a life of its own," he said.
"It's usually about a decade after a problem started when guys realise it's become a big issue. There's a realisation that someone has lost years of their life by being obsessed with this one thing."
But in adolescence, behaviours that could be a precursor to a serious issue - hitting the gym, being active and improving physical health - are celebrated.
"In the first years, they get lots of positive reinforcement - people notice they look good, they get into the culture at the gym with other men. And so, initially it's a positive," Dr Buchanan said.
"The irony is that what probably began as a social thing, being part of a community at the gym with like-minded guys, gets really isolating. In the end they're avoiding people because of the intense feelings of inferiority."
Filtered and photoshopped images on Instagram of the perfect male bodies are fuelling bigorexia.
Ms Rowland said young men engaging in really rigorous or seemingly "disciplined" behaviours don't raise red flags.
"If a young female did those same kinds of behaviours, there'd be warning signs that something could be wrong," she said.
"Of course we want young people to engage in healthy behaviours and have a positive relationship with exercise. That's crucial to physical and mental health. But it's a fine line when it comes to what's driving those behaviours.
"Poor body image has a range of impacts on a person's mental health, whether that be the way they engage with food and exercise, relationships with others, substance use and other risky behaviours, and the increased risk of depression and anxiety.
"It's complex to address but the difficulty with males is that some of these behaviours are celebrated and, on the surface, seen as healthy."
COMPLEXITIES OF TREATMENT
Awareness of muscle dysmorphia has grown in recent years but Dr Buchanan said there's a stigma among men who perceive seeking help as being weak.
It makes treating male body dysmorphia conditions incredibly complex.
On top of that, those who struggle with male body image disorders don't believe there's anything seriously wrong with them.
And worse, they think the solution to their feelings of inadequacy is to build more muscle.
"There's an idea that if you're not putting in 100 per cent and you're not getting bigger, you're weak and unacceptable," Dr Buchanan said.
"It's difficult for people to let go of the idea that being muscular means being successful.
"There's a growing awareness around the issue but it's still not considered by some people to be a proper disorder. A lot of people consider it to be merely vanity.
"The reality is that the seriousness of bigorexia is as severe as other severe body dysmorphia disorders."
If you or someone you love needs help for an eating disorder, contact the Butterfly Foundation via their website or call 1800 334 673
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Garden City Runners surrender cross-country title
PUBLISHED: 06:48 18 February 2009 | UPDATED: 22:26 26 October 2009
Bruce Judge
GARDEN City Runners have finally surrendered their Herts and North London Sunday Cross-Country League title. Having been champions for the last five years, GCR were for once unable to reclaim their top status. They were not able to perform a miracle at th
GARDEN City Runners have finally surrendered their Herts and North London Sunday Cross-Country League title.
Having been champions for the last five years, GCR were for once unable to reclaim their top status.
They were not able to perform a miracle at the fifth and final race of the series at Watford.
The four team categories and the overall competition were won by FVS Tri, who had been runners-up to GCR so many times.
Snow still covered much of the scenic course in Cassiobury Park and nearby Whippendell Woods, and with a few sunny spells it was looking beautiful.
In one or two places compacted snow had turned to hazardous slippery ice, but the route was largely safe.
GCR's Bruce Judge successfully negotiated the twists and turns, the pits and ruts, the muddy puddles and the ice and snow to finish 18th in 38 minutes 46 seconds for the 5.6 miles.
Not far behind it was a close-run battle. Laurence Pidcock was 20th in 39 mins 09 secs, Dave Desborough 21st in 39 mins 19 secs and Steve Livingstone 22nd in 39 mins 30 secs.
Russell Casey recovered from his trademark late start to finish 34th in 40 mins 39 secs, with Patrick Bird 57th and Dave Edwards 70th completing the A team.
Newcomer Tom Denbigh ran a very promising 46 mins 05 secs for 80th.
There were great performances from Steve Rivett, Rick Hole, Dave Brown, Mick Wise and evergreen George Woods.
The men finished fifth on the day, with the vets second behind FVS Tri.
Caroline Hale capped an outstanding season, finishing as fourth lady in 43 mins 26 secs, behind Herts Phoenix stars Lizzie Hall and Laura Cowley.
Celia Pardoe was an excellent 16th in 49 mins 28 secs with Joy Allen and Helen Spark 36th and 37th respectively.
Avis Cowley was 43rd and Eleanor Draper 56th.
The ladies were fifth and the vet ladies third behind hosts Watford Joggers.
The series awards presentation took place later at nearby Sun Postal Sports Club with Colin Taylor of the hosts and league secretary Malcolm French.
As expected, FVS Tri picked up the series trophies for first men's, ladies, vet men and vet ladies, and in the combined team scores, won by a convincing margin.
The running section of the Hitchin-based triathlon club had benefited from the iron-discipline of their founder in getting consistently high turnouts.
For GCR, a case of victory fatigue had perhaps contributed to being under-strength for most of the series.
The men were third overall, behind Trent Park, while the vets were third behind Royston.
The ladies were fourth, and the lady vets third behind Trent Park.
However, there were some fantastic results for Garden City in the individual overall series totals.
Dave Desborough, in a splendid debut season, took first MV50 with 14, 18, 20, 27 and 21, ahead of FVS Tri's Brian White.
Michael Bowe was second in the MV60 category, and Dennis Draper was the first MV70.
Caroline Hale retained her W35 title in fine style, with a comfortable margin after placing 4th, 8th, 9th, 7th and 4th.
Joy Allen won the W55 category, with 15, 22, 26, 33 and 36.
With plenty of new talent joining the club, there is every reason to expect GCR to be back in October, hungry to win back their crown.
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Cuisine has always been one of the most important element of a cruise and it is now going to a new level, says Andy Harmer ...
By Steve Newman
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Cuisine has always been one of the most important element of a cruise and it is now going to a new level, says Andy Harmer
CLIA recently reported that 2013 was another record year for the UK cruise market and even more people are showing an interest in cruising than ever before. With an increase in the number of ships that will sail from British ports in the coming years, we hope that this trend continues.
In order to stay at the top of their game, cruise lines continue to make investments in their on board offerings to ensure service remains high and guests have a wide choice of experiences, particularly in the area of on-board cuisine.
Food plays an important part of any great holiday and today’s travellers are always on the hunt for new culinary experiences. A cruise can provide a dining option to suit every palate, from a range of on board restaurants to the latest food trends. Celebrity chefs are also a big draw, so I was interested to read that P&O Cruises is featuring five celebrity ‘food heroes’ on its brand new ship Britannia which launches next year. But P&O is certainly not alone when it comes to the gastronomic delights that await today’s cruise passengers and it’s clear that all cruise lines attach great importance to the on board dining experience.
The likes of James Martin, Marco Pierre White and Atul Kochhar – three of P&O’s heroes – are in good company in offering exceptional food. Indeed, all cruise lines offer extraordinary dining experiences, from the main dining room to alternative dining restaurants, and even on-board venues that offer a ‘dinner with a show’, such as the Illusionarium on the recently launched Norwegian Getaway.
Guests are now able to sample the delights of many renowned chefs including Master Chef Rudi Sodamin on Holland America Line and Silk Road by Nobu Matsuhisa on Crystal Cruises; as well as Todd English on Cunard Line and Geoffrey Zakarian on Norwegian Cruise Lines. Then there is Oceania Cruises which specialises in epicurean cruises overseen by master chef Jacques Pépin.
Most recently, Jamie Oliver announced a partnership with Royal Caribbean to open the first Jamie Oliver eaterie at sea. The company’s most innovative resort ships, Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas will feature a Jamie’s Italian on board, bringing with it the world famous chef’s own approach to food and dining, which is to serve simple, fresh ingredients, emphasising the importance of locally sourced produce.
But great culinary experiences stretch beyond celebrity chefs – there’s QSINE from Celebrity Cruises and Eataly Steakhouse and Ristorante Italia on MSC Cruises, amongst others. All of these partnerships bring guests even more choice to an already wide selection of dining options.
Another growing trend is culinary themed itineraries which can range from a chocolate connoisseurs cruise with AmaWaterways, exclusive cookery courses in Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Miele Culinary School or a five day gastronomic cruise with CroisiEurope, allowing guests to indulge in a variety of regional dishes that complement the region through which they are travelling.
Dining is such an essential part of a cruise holiday with great food and service available at every meal time, every day. The breadth and quality of dining proves that a cruise can offer holiday experiences that just can’t be found elsewhere.
Andy Harmer is director of CLIA UK & Ireland, which represents cruising in the UK and Ireland
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Members of the WEDC board at a meeting Monday in Oshkosh. Gov. Scott Walker is visible in the background.
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WEDC Selects Chairman To Replace Walker
Democratic Board Members Call For Policy Changes At Troubled Agency
By Patty Murray and The Associated Press
Monday, July 20, 2015, 1:05pm
The troubled Wisconsin Economic Development Agency's board has picked a new leader to replace Gov. Scott Walker.
The board unanimously elected board member Dan Ariens, president and CEO of Ariens Company, as the new board chairman during a meeting Monday at Fox Valley Technical College in Oshkosh.
The state budget Walker introduced in February removed all elected officials from the board, including the governor from the chairmanship. The Legislature's budget committee revised the spending plan so it removed only the governor from the board. Walker signed the budget earlier this month.
Walker created WEDC in 2011 as his flagship jobs creation agency. The agency has been plagued by mismanagement and questions about handing out loans without properly vetting recipients.
Overall, $1.7 million in loans have gone unpaid, the bulk of the money is owed by two companies.
While Walker is no longer a part of WEDC, he attended Monday's board meeting as a "visitor." He insisted the agency has made improvements.
"It's a new entity. Over the last four years have there been hiccups along the way? Sure," he said.
A legislative audit in May showed a lot of hiccups, enough for board member and Democratic state Rep. Peter Barca to introduce two motions. One would require stricter legal scrutiny before the interest free loans are made. Another would "make sure we're referring to district attorneys and legal authorities when we know there's been fraudulent circumstances under which borrowers receive loans," Barca said.
Some recipients haven't disclosed outstanding debts or legal obligations. One of Barca's motions was tabled, and the other wasn't taken up.
WEDC has been buffeted by recent criticism following reports that it handed one of Walker's major donors' companies an unsecured $500,000 loan that hasn't been paid back. Another audit found the agency handed out 28 awards to 24 companies without a staff review between mid-2011 and mid-2012.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include reporting by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Wisconsin Public Radio, © Copyright 2020, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Vitex agnus-castus
The Middle East until West Asia
Aphrodisiac, diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, promotes milk flow in nursing women, treats infertility, balancing, sedative, digestive, treats the entire female hormonal system.
Ripe and dried fruits, and dried leaves
Schisandra chinensis
North East China and Korea.
Anti-rheumatic, antitussive, aphrodisiac, astringent, anti-cancerous, cardiorestorative choleretic, expectorant, hepatoprotective, laxative (stool softener), nervine, upper respiratory tract tonic, sedative, stimulant, general tonic
The plant is excellent for strengthening and rehabilitation in conditions of stress and it also promotes joy and joie de vivre.
The plant is a substitute for ginseng and used as tonic to both male and female reproductive system.
The fruits are antitussive, aphrodisiac, hepatoprotective, astringent, cardiorestorative, choleretic, expectorant, hypotensive, sedative, nervine, upper respiratory tract tonic, general stimulants and tonic.
Small doses of the fruits stimulate the central nervous system; large doses inhibit it.
The fruits help in regulating the cardiovascular system.
Internally used, the plant treats dry cough, asthma, night sweat, urinary disorders, uncontrolled ejaculation, chronic diarrhea, palpitations during rest, insomnia, memory problems, hyperacidity, hepatitis and diabetes.
External use is meant to treat allergies and skin irritations.
The fruits contain ligans which are known as very powerful hepatoprotectives.
A clinical experiment reports a 76% success among hepatitis patients while no side effects have been recorded during the experiment.
The seeds are used as anti-cancerous. The plant itself is anti-rheumatic.
Concoction of the branches produces a gel-like substance which treats cough, dysentery and gonorrhea (sexual disease).
Fruits.
The fruits are harvested after the first seasonal frost and are dried for future use.
Originally from China. Today it is cultivated in Korea, Japan and Russia.
Adaptogen – allows the body to better cope with changes and pressures, hypocholesterolaemic, induces vomiting, expectorant, hypoglycemic, nervine, general tonic.
The roots are adaptogen, blood purgative, carminative, anodyne, induces vomiting, expectorant, stimulant, general tonic.
The plant has stimulating and sedative properties in respect of the nervous system, stimulates secretion of hormones, improves body resilience, hypoglycemic, hypocholesterolaemic, improves the body’s resiliency against diseases.
Internally taken, the plant treats old age diseases weakness, lack of appetite, insomnia, stress, shock and chronic diseases.
The plants is not recommended for pregnant women, patients under 40 years old or those suffering from depression, acute anxiety or acute inflammatory diseases.
Dried roots.
The documentation regarding this plant goes 5000 years back. It is one of the most popular plants in the oriental herbal medicine where it has reached an almost magical status due to its ability to support health, improve general vitality and promote longevity.
Overdose of this plant might induce headaches, restlessness, hypertension and other side effects, especially if the plant is consumed together with caffeine or alcohol, turnip or bitter/spicy foods.
The roots are harvested in the autumn, usually from 6-7 year old plants and are used when dry or fresh.
Inula helenium
Originally from Europe and parts of Asia, USA and China.
Alterative (purifies and drains blood), parasiticide, purgative, anti-cough, astringent, bitter, choleretic, anodyne, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, digestive, supports and balances the body.
The plant has supportive, enhancing and mild warming properties. It has been found very effective in treating cough, constipation, bronchitis and a variety of problems in the chest and respiratory system and in the digestion system.
The use of this plant is highly safe, also in young and elderly population, especially when the patent is recovering from an exhausting disease.
The plant detoxicates, stimulates the immune and digestion systems and treats bacterial and fungal infections.
The roots are alterative (purify blood and drain), parasiticide, purgative, astringent, bitter, choleretic, anodyne, diaphoretic, diuretic, partially expectorant, digestive and general tonic.
An extract of the plant is very powerful against various organisms, in particular the organism inducing tuberculosis.
The roots contain alatoakton, a very powerful parasiticide.
This active ingredient has strong anti-inflammatory properties. It reduces excretion of mucosae and stimulates the immune system.
The plant is also recommended for external use, washes of infected skin and varices developed into ulcers.
Fresh or dried rhizome
The best season to harvest the plant is autumn when the plant is 2-3 years old.
The plant is not recommended for pregnant women.
Note that external treatment with the plant has been known to induce allergic reaction.
Siberia, North China, Korea and Japan,
Adaptogen, anti-inflammation, tonic, vasodilators, hyperglycemic. The Eleutherococcus senticosus is a powerful tonic with a wide spectrum therapeutic range. Contrary to many herbal plants with medicinal properties, it is more effective in maintaining users’ health than in treating damaged health.
Research has proven that the plant has anti-stress properties and therefore it is commonly used as tonic in times of stress and pressure.
In Russia and China the plant is used mainly by simple people as a substitute for ordinary Ginseng. Its flavor is hot – bitter-sweet.
It is considered as having heating properties which sometimes exceed those of the Korean Ginseng.
Regular consumption rejuvenates energy reserves, improves memory and also promotes longevity.
The root and skin are adaptogen, anti-inflammatory, hyperglycemic, tonic and vasodilators.
Internal consumption of these parts of the plant helps in periods of healing and recuperation. It also treats menopausal symptoms and geriatric-related weakness. During periods of physical and mental stress, the plant’s effect is reflected in improving the natural resilience of the body and immune system.
The plant is used in treating diseases induced by exposure to radiation and dangerous chemicals.
Grinded plant roots; alcoholic extraction of the grinded root.
The plant is not recommended for children and is not to be used for more than 3 weeks each time.
Caffeine should not be consumed when using the plant.
The roots should be harvested in the autumn and dried for future use.
Aralia racemosa
North America – from central Canada to the west and up to Virginia.
Purgative, anti-rheumatic, diaphoretic, expectorant, for external treatment, dermal, stimulant.
Rheumatism, eczemas, pulmonary diseases, removal of mucous, general stimulation and detoxication, also as first aid dressing for pains, burns, itching skin, ulcers and swelling. Preparing a drink from the mashed root of the plant treats cough.
Rhizome and root may be used both dry and fresh.
Angelica atropurpurea
Mountain in China, Korea and Japan in cold and moist conditions.
Carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, sedative, digestive, enhancing and tonic.
Treatment of the female hormonal system (also in early menopause and improving of sexual drive), anti atherosclerosis (prevents thrombosis of blood vessels), anti congelation, fat dissolving effect, mild vasodilator, mild effect on cold, treats spasmodic pains in the digestive tracts, carminative, general stomachic, general sedative, uses for gurgling to treat sore throat and oral pains, externally used for dressing treats swelling and provides first aid for broken bones.
Roots, leaves and stems.
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Few Words about Leros Island
Leros is an island in the South Aegean and belongs to the Prefecture of the Dodecanese. It lies between Patmos and Leipsi to the north and Kalymnos to the south. It is 179 nautical miles from Greece’s main port Pireaus and 7 nautical miles from the coast of Asia Minor (Turkey). Leros covers an area of 53 square kilometres with a long coastline of 71 metres filled with beautiful pristine beaches. Along the coastal areas many large natural gulfs and bays have evolved as a result of intense sea activity along its shores.
In the central part of the island, two powerful communities have been developed. All public services are concentrated within these polar communities. The populated area at Agia Marina and Lakki are linked along the axis of the main road with the rest of the island. Agia Marina is the capital of Leros’s Municipality and has a detailed, street infrastructure uniting the neighbourhoods of Agia Marina along the northern coast of the central region, Platanos between Castle Hill and the Merovigli high-grounds to Panteli creek and the bay by the same name. Panteli has a remarkable harbour which is alternatively used when weather conditions do not allow for ferries to moor into the main harbour at Lakki.
It offers relaxation to both the body and soul with peace of mind in wonderfully hospitable environment that will embrace you from the very first moment and invite you to feel at home. This is the reason why the local people emphatically declare: “Those who experience the island will never forget it.”
Source: www.leros.gr
Access & Directions to Leros Island
By boat:
Leros is connected by boat on a daily basis with lines from and Greece’s main Port of Piraeus.
It is also connected to Kalymnos, Kos and Rhodes and the rest of the islands of the Dodecanese.
During the summer, Leros is additionally connected to Patmos, Leipsoi, Kos, Symi and Samos, Fourni, Ikaria by the ‘Catamaran’ and hydrofoil boats (flying dolphins), respectively.
A local boat provides excursions to Simi, Tilos, Nisyros, Kos, Kalymnos and Leipsi.
Excursions to Agathonisi, Patmos, Samos and Rhodes are provided on a daily basis by catamaran year round.
Additionally, visitors may travel by the boat ‘Kalymnos’ that connects four times weekly with the islands of Samos, Agathonisi, Arki, Lipsi and Patmos. Besides, the boat ‘Katerina’ (Muggros), with home base in Leros, provides a daily itinerary from Xerokambos in Leros (am departure) to Kalymnos, with arrival at the Harbour of Myrties and vice versa.
There are non-stop flights provided by the Olympic Airlines every day, from the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport in Athens, with destination to Leros and return. The aircrafts used are ATR43 and Dash 8s with a seating capacity of 50 and 38 passengers, respectively.
Apart from the non-stop flights from the island of Leros to the Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, there is one more flight in operation with a departure from the airport in Rhodes and serves the islands of Kos, Leros and Astypalia with a scheduled return from these islands to the Rhodes airport.
During the summer months, this itinerary is carried out three times a week. Yet, in the winter months, it is carried out twice a week.
Leros has a constantly changing landscape. It has an outline that demonstrates profound sea partitions and forms deep leeward shelters and large bays at many points. The greater part of the island is flat with valleys that reach as far as the sea and with low-lying mountains and its highest point being at Kleidi at 320 metres. This is why the island has derived its name from the ancient Greek word “leros” meaning smooth or level.
Its strategic geographical position in the southeast Aegean has granted Leros a past rich in history. The first traces of inhabiting were found at Partheni and Gourna dating back to the Neolithic period in the 4th century B.C.. The settlement at Knotarides which was discovered in 1980 is the most important monument of the island’s pre-history. It is located in the depths of the Bay of Partheni. Traces of a human presence during the Neolithic Period and the Early Bronze Age have been found in different locations throughout the island and primarily along the coast.
No evidence of the Minoan period has thus far been found and only a few remains from the Mycenaean era have been discovered.
Thucydides stressed the special importance of the bays and the harbours of Leros during the Peloponnesian War (431 BC – 404 BC), where Leros supported the democratic Athenians. After the end of the war Leros came under the sovereignty of the Spartans. The island had a famous sanctuary of the goddess Artemis.
After the division of the Roman Empire, Leros was part of the Byzantine Empire.
On the island of Farmaco east from Leros, a few miles from Didyma on the Turkish coast, Julius Caesar was held as a hostage by local pirates for forty days.
During the 5th century, Leros experienced great cultural development under the political influence of the leading Ionian city of Miletus. The fortification projects at Paliokastro in Xirokambos during the 4th century B. C.and the fortifications at Partheni seem to be connected to Leros’s political dependence on Miletus.
The Macedonian presence on the island can be seen from the excavation of coins that were found and the fact that the island’s liberation from the Persians is attributed to the Macedonians.
The Byzantine period at the end of the 3rd century A.D. and onwards, enriched the island with exquisite examples of church architecture and fortification projects. The Castle at Panteli was built during this period. Also, the Castle of Lepida, known today as Palaikastro in the vicinity of remains of an even older wall of “Cyclopean” construction is dated to the Hellenistic period. It was used as a refuge by the inhabitants in the mid-Byzantine period.
In 1314, Leros was conquered by the Knights of St John of Rhodes and was ruled by them until 1522 when the Ottoman Empire came to dominate the entire Aegean Sea area.
During the period of Turkish rule, Leros managed to maintain a limited level of independence. But, when the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 the people of Leros contributed to the revolution with all their hearts and soul for their country’s liberation.
Between 1912 and 1943, the entire Dodecanese was under Italian rule. During this period, many military undertakings were carried out and military facilities and installation were built throughout the island. The purpose of this development was to transform Leros into important nautical and aerial bases for the Italians by taking advantage of the island’s strategic geographical positioning as well as the unique morphology and fortification of the natural Bay at Lakki. A new pioneer city of its kind with a modern infrastructure and architecture unique in the whole of Europe was developed at Lakki.
During the Second World War and after the Italians’ surrender, the Germans who had already captured Rhodes and Kos turned their strategy towards Leros which was being defended by the Italians and the English.
The Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga was the first victim of the Battle of Leros, and was sunk on 26th September, 1943. After continuous and violent bombarding, the battle ended on the 16th November, 1943 victoriously for the German army. The island was freed upon the liberation and handover of the Dodecanese to the British and the Greeks on 9th May, 1945. Two years of English occupation followed and at the end of March, once again Leros was finally united to the Dodecanese and the rest of Greece.
During the island’s most recent history, Leros had been used as a place of incarceration for political prisoners who were imprisoned at either of the camps at Lakki or Partheni by the military police during the dictatorship from 1967 to1974.
…“Alikarnassos, Partheni, Oropos, Koridalos…” Not a single Greek person can avoid becoming emotional on hearing or being touched by the lyrics of this specific verse.
Further, in 1957 Leros was chosen as the site of the state psychiatric hospital which was built to relieve the congestion in other Greek psychiatric hospitals. Not only has this led to the long-term, dependency of the local economy on the hospital but also people’s negative association of Leros with the sanatorium.
Since 1989, Leros has been implementing programmes for de-institutionalisation and patient psycho-social rehabilitation. The local community is also collaborating with efforts to re-integrate patients into society and in the implementation of treatment initiatives that are being pioneered throughout the whole country.
PHERECYDES
Pherecydes of Leros (c. 450s BC) was a Greek mythographer and logographer. He came from the island of Leros. Pherecydes spent the greater part of his working life in Athens, and so he was also called Pherecydes of Athens: the encyclopedic Byzantine Suda consider Pherecydes of Athens and of Leros separately.Pherecydes of Leros should not be confused with Pherecydes of Syros, the mid-6th-century philosopher, who was one of the Seven Sages of Greece and was reputed to have been the teacher of Pythagoras.
Pherecydes's great treatises—a history of his native isle, Leros; an essay, On Iphigeneia; and On the Festivals of Dionysus—are all lost. However, numerous fragments of his ten-book genealogies of the gods and heroes, which was written in the Ionian dialect to glorify the ancestors in the heroic age of his 5th-century patrons, have been preserved. Pherecydes modified the legends, not in order to rationalize them, but rather to adjust them to popular beliefs. Therefore, Pherecydes cannot be classed with the earlier mythographer Hecataeus of Miletus, whose Genealogiai ("Genealogies") were more skeptical and critical.
DEMODOKUS
Demodocus (Demodokos) of Leros was an ancient Greek poet who is believed to have lived during the fifth century BCE. on the small island of Leros in the Aegean sea. He composed in elegiacs and iambs and appears to have specialized in gnomic poetry like his likely contemporary Phocylides.
Little of his poetry survives, preserved in brief quotations by other authors, but it is possible that, like those of Phocylides, many of his gnomic utterances opened with the tag "And Demodocus says ...," as in the following assessment of Milesians: And Demodocus says this:
Milesians aren't stupid, they just act as if they are.
καὶ τόδε Δημοδόκου. Μιλήσιοι ἀξύνετοι μὲν οὔκ εἰσιν, δρῶσιν δ' οἷά περ ἀξύνετοι.
M.L. West, who characterizes this couplet and similar fragments dealing with Demodocus' contemporary Lerians as "brilliant", notes that the poet's use of the elegiac couplet in poetry with an "epigrammatic air" is indicative of the meter's suitability for composing the pithy verse that would later become a hallmark of the classical epigram.
castle of Leros
Leros Calling Code 22470
Municipality of Leros: +30 2247360200
Hospital of Leros: +30 2247023251
Rural health center Agia Marina: +30 2247023359
Police: +30 2247022222
Airport: +30 2247022777
Port Authority: +30 2247022224
Taxi Lakki: +30 2247022550
Taxi Platanos: +30 2247023070
Hotels & Apartments in Leros Island, Dodecanese
Leros Camping
Xirokampos, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
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Crithoni's Paradise
Agia Marina, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
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Leros Island, Dodecanese Beaches
Chochlakari Beach
Leros Island, Dodecanese
Kokkali Beach
Kokkali, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Germanos Beach
Gourna, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Krifos Beach
Krifos is a clean, virgin beach with sand and it's located near the area of Dio Liskaria in Leros island. Krifos beach is accessible only by sea. Source: leros.gr Translated and edited by: Yallou
Vagia Beach
Flea Beach
Diapori Beach
Agia Giannis Beach
Agia Kioura Beach
Partheni, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Agia Kioura is a small, remote beach, with sand inside the sea and pebbles on the beach. Access to Agia Kioura is relatively easy, following the dirt road that begins from the historical church of Agia Kioura in Partheni. The beach...
Vromolithos Beach
Vromolithos is the beach of the local homonymous settlement. It is an organized beach with sand, pebbles and tamarisks that offer shade. In Vromolithos you can find also cafes and restaurants. Source: leros.gr Translated and edited by: Yallou
Alinda Beach
Alinda, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Alinda is a long organized beach in Leros island, with sand and small pebbles. In Alinda there are umbrellas and sunbeds available, while many tamarisks offer shade. In the beach you can find shops that will cover your needs, like...
Tourkopigado Beach
Koulouki Beach
Lakki, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Koulouki has three continuous bays with sandy beaches and pinetrees. On the second bay you can find a cafe and restaurant. Source: leros.gr Translated and edited by: Yallou
Lavatses Beach
Drimonas, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Agrela Beach
Skrofes Beach
Dio Liskaria Beach
Dio Liskaria beach is located in a bay right after Panaghies. Dio Liskaria is a small, sandy and organized beach, with tamarisks. It is protected from the winds. In Dio Liskaria you will find cafes and restaurant. Source:...
Agios Nikolaos Beach
Xirokampos Beach
Xirokampos is long, organized beach in Leros island, with sand and tamarisks that offer shade. Near the beach there is a mini-market, cafe and restaurants. In Xirokampos there is diving school. At a small distance there is the small...
Krithoni Beach
Krithoni is a clean beach with sand and small pebbles. The beach is organized with umbrellas, sunbeds and there are also tamarisks that offer shade. In close distance to Krithoni beach there are restaurants and organized pools with...
Blefoutis Beach
Blefoutis is a quite long beach in Leros island, with sand and small pebbles. The beach has tamarisks that offer shade and the visitors can enjoy lunch in the taverns. Source: leros.gr Translated and edited by: Yallou
Ammos Beach
Agia Marina Beach
Agia Marina beach is located in the homonymous villafe of Leros island and is a beautiful and privileged beach due to its unique natural features. It is a family friendly beach, with a quiet environment and charming scenery. In close...
Pigadi Beach
Panagies Beach
Panagies beach is just a few minutes away from Alinta. It is a small sandy beach, protected from the winds. In Panagies there are tamarisks that offer shade and you can find a refreshments shop in a close distance. Source:...
Merikia Beach
Merikia beach is located a few minutes after Koulouki. It is a clean beach with pebbles and tamarisks that offer shade. Source: leros.gr Translated and edited by: Yallou
Agios Spiridon Beach
Kokkina Beach
Kokkina beach can be found after Merikia. It is a wonderful unaltered natural beach, long with crystal and deep waters and pebbles. Kokkina beach is ideal for nudists.
Korakia Beach
Panteli Beach
Panteli is the beach of the homonymous settlement of Leros island. It is an organised beach with sand. In Panteli visitors can find all kinds of shops, from mini-markets to cafe, bars and restaurants. Source: leros.gr Translated...
Gourna Beach
Gourna is a long organized beach in Leros island, with green-blackish sand and tamarisks that offer shade. The waters in Gourna are shallow. In the beach you can find cafes and restaurants. Source: leros.gr Translated and...
Mixed Sand & Pebbles
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What to see in Leros Island, Dodecanese
Leros War Cemetery
Paliokastro
The oldest castle in the history of Leros is the Castle of Lepidon that is spotted on the top of the hill in Xirokampos. The castle or acropolis is dated back in 2500 b.C. The remains of eighteen miniature homes can be seen, where...
Belleni Tower - Folklore and Historical Museum Manolis Isychos
Τhe Historical and Folkloric Museum, is hosted in the Tower of Belleni. Costumes, needlework, musical instruments and hand-crafted, ecclesiastical wood carvings dating back to the historical period from 1880 to 1920 and depicting...
Panagia Kavouradena Church
One of the most beautiful churces on the island is located in Xirokampos and it is Panaghia Kavouradena church. According to the folklore tradition, the church was built on the spot, where an icon of Panaghia (Virgin Mary) was found. It...
On the west side of the Byzantine castle stands the Church of Panaghia namely the Virgin Mary, which has a gold-adorned iconostasis with remarkable religious paintings and icons inside, comprising a religious and intellectual cultural...
Archaeological Museum of Leros
In the modern Archaeological Museum of Leros, you are invited to enjoy fine exhibits and artefacts dating back to the island’s pre-historic period to medieval times. One can see inscriptions, grave markers, coins, mosaics and vessels...
Windmills of Leros
Tunnel War Museum
The ‘Tunnel Museum’ in the area of Merikia is a place of great interest with many significant exhibits from the period of World War II. It was inaugurated in August 2005 and it is recognized as being completely unique in its nature...
Agios Isidoros Church
In the area of Kokkali, the picturesque, little church of Agios Isidoros can be found. It is built on an islet in the sea and is connected to the old submerged little port by a small passageway built next to it. Source: www.leros.gr
Temple of Artemis
Visitors interested in the history of their country must visit the archaeological ruins at Partheni, located next to the airport. During excavations in 1980, a group of churches built on top of Roman structures was discovered. The...
Castle of Panteli
This is a strong fortress crowning the peak of the Pityos hill in NE Leros, at a height of about 600 metres above sea level. There are no visible traces of ancient occupation of the site. A chrysobull of 1087 associates the castle...
Agia Matrona Kioura Church
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Ecclesiastical Museum of Panagia
Τhe Ecclesiastical Museum is housed in a newly built building next to the church of Panaghia. Here, you can marvel at the very rare, hand-written manuscripts, the sacred holy books, precious icons, the holy vestments of the clergy...
Bourtzi of Agia Marina
War Museum
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What to do in Leros Island, Dodecanese
Leros Active
Leros Active is an office for alternative tourism that appeals to travelers looking for something different, an alternative proposal for a holiday on the beautiful island in the southeastern corner of the Aegean Sea. Diving to the...
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Restaurants & Tavernas in Leros Island, Dodecanese
El Greco Traditional Taverna
Located in Panteli Beach, Leros, El Greco is a Greek taverna that serves authentic greek traditional food, with fresh ingredients, mostly coming from local producers in the island. The customers will enjoy the view of the beach under...
O Karaflas Tavern
Michalis & Maria's Seafood Taverna
Ouzeri o Sotos
Mylos Fish Restaurant
Zorbas Taverna
Welcome to Zorbas, the oldest Taverna on Leros! You find us in the heart of the beautiful Panteli Beach, with the picturesque windmills and the impressive castle in your back and the opened sea facing you.
Gourna Fish Tavern
To Steki tou Dimitri
In one of the most beautiful corners of the island, in Alinda will find our restaurant. We started 20 years ago and since then we try to be better and better. There you can find fresh fish, seafood, Greek cuisine, and meat. We can...
Skipper's All Day Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Temenia, Leros, Leros Island, Dodecanese
Come and enjoy our homemade Mediterranean tastes and our infused Cocktails. From early in the morning till late at night, you can enjoy your coffee/brunch/lunch or dinner together with a cocktail. The beautiful view of Lakki bay and...
Sweet Leros
Our shop in Panteli of Leros offers homemade sweets and cakes based on traditional recipes, all of our sweets and cakes are made from local products. Taste the Baklavas and Galaktobouriko in our shop on our roof terrace overlooking...
Apostolis Taverna Psaropoula
Pirofani Taverna
Ostria Restaurant
Fresh Fish & Shellfish, Traditional Cooked Meals, Grilled Meat. Everything is made with love!
Pastry Store
Ouzeri
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Clubs, Bars & Cafe in Leros Island, Dodecanese
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Agia Marina Port
Xirokampos Port
Leros Marina Slipway
Concrete.
Leros Marina
220 BerthsUp to 600 dry – dock placesElectricity and water supply on the berths Fuel supply
Lakki Port
Leros Island Public Airport Dodekanisos
Leros Municipal Airport (Greek: Δημοτικός Αερολιμένας Λέρου, Dimotikós Aeroliménas Lérou) (IATA: LRS, ICAO: LGLE) is an airport serving the island of Leros in Greece. It is also known as Leros Public Airport...
Public Airport
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Telendos Island
The imposing mountain landscape of Telendos dominates the view across the...
Leipsoi Island
Leipsoi (Greek: Λειψοί, also: Lipsi) is an island south of Samos...
Kalymnos Island
Situated between Kos and Leros, Kalymnos is the fourth largest island in...
Farmakonisi Island
Farmakonisi (Greek: Φαρμακονήσι) is a small Greek island and...
Beautiful Photos of Leros Island, Dodecanese
I would go again to Leros Island!
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