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GOP swings and misses with pipeline attacks on Cooper
- in Top Story, Weekly Briefing
Back in the early 1990’s, the late and sorely missed Bob Hensley – a talented, feisty and frequently funny trial lawyer and Democratic state representative from Wake County – was engaged in a tense debate on the House floor with a Republican adversary when things suddenly turned personal.
Having been cornered by Hensley’s formidable skills at debate, the GOP lawmaker lashed out and accused Hensley of being untruthful in some of his claims about the bill in question.
To which, Hensley replied without missing a beat, “Representative, being accused of dishonesty by you is a little like being accused by Ross Perot [the famously homely and buzz-coiffed Texas oil billionaire and then-well known independent presidential candidate] of having a bad haircut.”
A quarter century later, it would be interesting to hear what Hensley might have to say about the spectacle of the party of Donald Trump attempting to assail North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper for, of all things, questionable actions with respect to regulation of a giant polluter.
Trump, of course, has, with the enthusiastic backing of state-level politicians like state Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, spent the last three years doing his worst to undermine every environmental rule and regulation in sight.
In Trumpland no lie about the environment or giveaway to a polluting industry is too blatant or outrageous. Trump doesn’t just relax regulations on the environment, he hires professional polluters to head the agencies charged with environmental oversight and then unleashes them to aggressively worsen environmental devastation.
All of which serves to make it just a little bit difficult to take the much ballyhooed Republican investigation into Cooper’s clumsy handling of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy terribly seriously.
For nearly two years now, having repeatedly found themselves politically outmaneuvered by (and dramatically less popular than) the Governor, Republican lawmakers at the General Assembly have been advancing all manner of frenzied claims and conspiracy theories about the pipeline and the supposed treachery of the Cooper administration in approving it. These include claims that:
the approval of environmental permits for the pipeline were driven by politics and self-dealing rather than the findings of Department of Environmental Quality regulators;
the “mitigation fund” to which the pipeline owners agreed to contribute in order to address its negative environmental and economic impacts was really just a “slush fund” for Cooper to oversee;
Cooper was improperly infringing on legislative authority by attempting to establish and administer the mitigation fund; and
Cooper and his family stood to personally profit from the pipeline and related regulation of a solar energy farm.
Unfortunately for the GOP, despite some awkward and awkwardly timed moves by the administration on the matter, every effort to advance these theories keeps running into a dead end. The latest such occurrence took place last week when a legislative hearing on the matter failed to unearth any new or damning findings.
As noted above, the grand irony in all of this is that if the chief executive in question here was President Trump, accusations of this kind would not be treated as potential transgressions, but rather as standard operating procedure and even bragging points for the “world’s greatest deal-maker.”
All that said, it should be pointed out that there are many powerful reasons to be deeply concerned about and oppose the pipeline. As advocates have pointed out repeatedly, the pipeline will:
further threaten endangered species;
dramatically alter vital wetlands, forests and rivers;
endanger drinking water sources;
undermine property rights of numerous individuals who will see their lands taken or impacted;
threaten Native American historical sites;
discriminate against low-income people and people of color, who will be the most directly impacted by its construction;
enrich giant corporate polluters; and
bring precious little economic benefit to the region of the state it will traverse.
Perhaps most importantly, the pipeline represents precisely the wrong kind of investment for a state and nation that should be moving aggressively to curb fossil fuel consumption and the planet-threatening emissions it generates.
Given this backdrop, it’s understandable that many caring and thinking people are deeply concerned about the pipeline and frustrated that Cooper didn’t oppose it aggressively.
Much as he did on the partial repeal of the infamous HB2 “bathroom bill,” however, Cooper attempted to find a middle ground – a place from which he could at least speak to longer-term goals for the environment and equitable economic development, without dangling a red cape in front of hard right, pro-fossil fuel proponents. It was a questionable political decision, but it did not amount to kind of wrongdoing GOP critics have claimed.
The bottom line: At last week’s hearing the Governor’s advisor Ken Eudy admitted that the administration was less than perfect in its handling of the pipeline matter. This would certainly seem to be a fair assessment – especially when it comes to the decision not to oppose the pipeline altogether.
But it’s also increasingly clear that, absent the emergence of some smoking gun they’ve failed to produce in nearly two years of digging, GOP claims of corruption and malfeasance on the matter come up woefully short.
Rob Schofield, Director of NC Policy Watch, has three decades of experience as a lawyer, lobbyist, writer and commentator. At Policy Watch, Rob writes and edits daily online commentaries and handles numerous public speaking and electronic media appearances. He also delivers a radio commentary that’s broadcast weekdays on WRAL-FM and WCHL and hosts News and Views, a weekly radio news magazine that airs on multiple stations across North Carolina.
rob@ncpolicywatch.com
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Adjudication (Hearings)
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The NRC's regulations (see 10 CFR Part 2) provide the opportunity for numerous hearings that include the following types of proceedings:
Commission-Ordered Proceedings. Hearings can be conducted for any nuclear-related matter that the NRC Commission directs (see also Subparts H and O of 10 CFR Part 2).
Enforcement Proceedings. Hearings are available to individuals, employees, licensees, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors to contest penalties such as monetary fines, facility shutdown, or license revocation for infractions of NRC regulations (see also Subparts B, C, G, L, and N of 10 CFR Part 2).
Reactor License Amendments. Affected parties may challenge proposed license amendments that seek to change the operating requirements, ownership, or the physical configuration of nuclear reactors or spent fuel pools. If public health and safety warrants, hearings will be required before the license amendment is authorized (see also Subparts A, C, K, L, and M to 10 CFR Part 2).
Materials Licenses. Hearings may be conducted to contest NRC actions licensing the commercial use of nuclear materials. These licenses involve manufacturing, treatment, disposal, or storage of radioactive materials and their commercial use in fields such as nuclear medicine and radiography (see Subparts C and L to 10 CFR Part 2).
Reactor Licensing. The Atomic Energy Act requires that a hearing be held on every application for a construction permit for a nuclear power reactor and an opportunity to request a hearing on an application for a license to operate such a reactor facility. In addition, the Atomic Energy Act requires a hearing be held on every application for a combined construction permit and operating license for a nuclear power reactor and an opportunity to request a hearing on a combined licensee's request for the NRC to authorize operation under a combined license. Affected individuals and organizations may raise health, safety and, in some instances, antitrust issues, in these hearings (see also Subparts C, D, E, F, G, and L to 10 CFR Part 2).
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The third series of Merlin features the now familiar blend of magic, monsters and mayhem but as misbegotten secrets are exposed and old friends choose new sides it becomes clear that the great battle for Camelot is only just beginning...
With epic action sequences, stunning CGI sequences, terrifying new monsters and a guest cast featuring Warwick Davies (The Harry Potter series, The Chronicles of Narnia), Miriam Margolyes (The Harry Potter series, Being Julia), Mark Williams (The Harry Potter series, The Fast Show) as well as Emilia Fox (Ballet Shoes, The Pianist) returning as Morgause and Santiago Cabrera (Heroes, Che) as Lancelot, the third series of Merlin will be bigger, bolder and more action-packed than ever.
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State of the Laboratory—1986: ORNL Engages in Collaborative Research. ORNL is performing an increasing amount of work jointly with technical groups in industry, universities, other national laboratories, and laboratories in foreign countries. This collaborative research includes a physics experiment at an accelerator in Switzerland, applications. of surface-modification techniques, studies of radon in the home, the Integrated Forest Study, breeder fuel-reprocessing tests in Japan, development and testing of SDI optical components, modeling of the Chernobyl reactor accident, and tests of superconducting magnets and pellet fueling for fusion energy.
Positive Feedback in Nature. Ecologists have increasingly come to appreciate the positive feedback processes that occur in ecosystems. These processes are self-amplifying and promote ecological change as well as biological production and diversity. Positive feedback is involved in coevolution, ecological succession, insect and disease outbreaks, and many phenomena.
Books. Biotechnology Risk Assessment is reviewed
News Notes. New materials lab dedicated; ORNL reactors shut down; DOE team issues report on HFIR; ninth Distinguished Scientist appointed; DOE waives rights to 20 ORNL inventions.
The U.S.-Japan Collaboration on Breeder Fuel Reprocessing: ORNL's Role. In March 1986 the United States and Japan agreed to collaborate on developing and demonstrating breeder-reactor fuel reprocessing at a Japanese fuel-recycling pilot plant, which incorporates technology developed at ORNL. The U.S. work, mostly in remote technology, is centered at ORNL.
National Laboratories and Science Education: The University Relations Programs at ORNL. ORNL and other national laboratories play a significant role in the education and training of university students and providing unique research experiences for university faculty. To improve science education and encourage more U.S. students to choose technical careers, ORNL has developed new programs for undergraduate and precollege education.
ORNL Follows the Chernobyl Accident from Afar
The Chernobyl Accident: Causes and Consequences
Chernobyl from a Vienna Perspective: The Soviet View of the Accident
Dynamic Analysis of the Chernobyl Accident
Environmental Aspects of the Chernobyl Accident. When news of the Chernobyl nuclear accident was first announced in April 1986, ORNL scientists made calculations to determine about when the accident had occurred. Other ORNL scientists helped model the accident and used information on fission-product concentrations in Europe to determine the chemical conditions affecting the two releases of radioactivity from the stricken reactor. Since then, ORNL scientists have been analyzing environmental radiation data from Europe and the Soviet Union.
News Notes: HFIR remains idle while its embrittled pressure vessel is studied; ORNL helps EPA and the Border Patrol
Books. Our Radiant World by David W. Lillie is reviewed
Fooling Mother Nature: Ion and Laser Beams Improve Materials
High-Efficiency Beam-Processed Solar Cells
Characterizing Materials by X Rays
Neutron Scattering in Materials Research
Characterizing Materials by Analytical Electron Microscopy
Solid State Physics Theory
Design of Ordered Intermetallic Alloys
The Theory of Alloys: From Schrodinger to the Rolling Mill
Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys
Marketing ORNL-made Materials
Unique ORNL Facilities Used by Academic and Industrial Scientists
Design of D9: A Radiation Damage-Resistant Alloy
Materials for Fusion
Radiation Effects in Metals and Alloys
SPECIAL SECTION: Aging Trends in Nuclear Power Plants
Eddy-Current Inspection of Energy-System Components
Reactor Vessels and Safety
Alloys for Nuclear Power Systems in Space
Toward a High-Temperature Materials Laboratory
Materials Technologies for Advanced Nuclear Energy Concepts
Advanced Structural Ceramics
Materials for Energy Conservation
Welding Metals and Alloys
Graphites for Space and Defense
Corrosion Studies at ORNL
Fossil Energy Materials Research
Growing Single Crystals of Refractory Materials
Editorial. Alex Zucker writes on ORNL's role in materials research.
Lab Anecdote. Stories from the materials sciences
Books. Tales about Metals is reviewed.
Paradox of the Striped Bass: ORNL Fishes for Answers. An ocean fish is declining in marine water but thriving in fresh water, except in some lakes during the summer. That's a paradox, and so is the fact that many of the experts who understand what's going on with this coastal fish reside in the hills of East Tennessee.
Cable-in-Conduit Superconductors: A Story of Science in the Making. The plasma fuel of fusion reactors must be confined by the fields of powerful magnets. Means for designing internally cooled superconductors for such magnets have been developed at ORNL. During the development, ORNL 's scientists encountered a few surprises.
Monoclonal Antibodies and Cancer. ORNL biologists have used these "magic bullets" produced by modern biotechnology to cure some mice with solid tumors. These products of the fusion of two types of cells show promise in treating and detecting some human cancers.
Clean Water from Synfuels Plants. Synthetic fuel plants will need large volumes of water for the process of converting coal to oil. Water from the converted coal could be used but it is dirty. ORNL has tested a combination of processes that clean up the water enough for recycle or for discharge under anticipated regulations.
The Staying Power of the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor. The national HTGR program has faced extinction for five years but Congress continues to save it. Because of its high-temperature heat, its potential for efficient power generation, and its excellent safety features, the HTGR concept may be too good to discard.
Health Risks of Energy Technologies: The Experts' Views. A book edited by two ORNL researchers sheds light on this volatile issue. In an interview, the two editors discuss the results and problems of risk analyses made by the experts.
Editorial. Herman Postma critiques the critiques of national laboratories.
Lab Anecdote. Alvin Weinberg recalls the days of the last contract change.
Books. Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source, reviewed by Art Snell
Technical Capsules. How Clean is indoor air? Neutron Dosimeters; Surfaces and Defects
State of the Laboratory—1982. Long-Range, High-Risk, High-Payoff R&D
Life at the End of the Periodic Table. Scientists at ORNL's Transuranium Research Laboratory are exploring the properties of heavy, man-made elements and participating in the quest for superheavy elements.
Neutron Scattering: A Tool to Probe Biological Structures. Neutrons from reactors can be used to determine the changes that occur in giant molecules such as genes and enzymes as their environment is altered.
Safeguarding Reprocessing Plants (Second in a series of two articles). The internal rather than the external adversary may be more of a threat.
Books. Advances in Energy Systems and Technology, reviewed by W. Fulkerson.
Technical Capsules: Microwave Spectrometry. Help for LMFBR Designers
Lab Anecdote. Remembrances of a Reactor Past
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Gillies Jones
Glass artists Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones create visually stunning, bespoke glass artworks by hand in their studio in Rosedale Abbey, in the heart of the North York Moors.
Stephen and Kate are part of the rich and vibrant contemporary British and international studio glass scene. Their work is a celebration of the virtuosity, economy of use and respect for the qualities of the material practised by generations of glassmakers before them.
Stephen blows the initial hot-glass bubble, generally in transparent glass, to which he adds one or more layers of coloured glass. Kate then brings a strongly defined sense of design to each glass artwork, using the slow process of masking and sand engraving or by using a diamond lathe to create fine lines and textures. Consequently, each Gillies Jones artwork is a tour de force, reflecting broad variations in colour and a complex intertwining of linear patterning.
Stephen and Kate say:
Our way of working with glass is about layering – both adding and removing colour. This physical process lends itself to our interest in, and observations of, the landscape around us, which has its own inherent beauty, all of which is animated and changed by light. Light in turn animates glass and we are always mindful of the unique transparent qualities of the material, and this intrinsic interplay of light with the elements.
www.gilliesjonesglass.co.uk
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Chapters Frequency Rank Rating Readers Reviews Title Last Updated
Story Status
All Completed Ongoing Hiatus
2207 Chapters Every 0.5 Day(s) 15029 Readers 272 Reviews 01-18-2020
Action Adventure Fantasy Harem Martial Arts Mature Xuanhuan
Jiang Chen, son of the Celestial Emperor, unexpectedly reincarnated into the body of a despised young noble, thus embarking on the path of the underdog... more>> trouncing all commoners. No one has the right to call himself a genius in front of Jiang Chen, as no one has a better understanding of the heavens than the son of the Heavenly Emperor. “Genius? He who adheres to me shall ascend. Those who oppose me can find solace in hell!” <<less
689 Chapters Every 332.9 Day(s) 20812 Readers 271 Reviews 09-25-2017
Completed Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Seinen Supernatural
Chen Yan travels between worlds, ending up becoming an honorable prince in a medieval fantasy world. Yet this world was not quite as simple as he thought. Witches with magical powers abound, and fearsome wars between churches and kingdoms rage throughout the land.... more>>
Roland, a prince regarded as hopeless by his own father and assigned to the worst fief, spends his time developing a poor and backward town into a strong and modern city, while fighting against his siblings for the throne and absolute control over the kingdom. Join Roland as he befriends and allies with witches and, through fighting and even farming, pushes back invaders coming from the realm of evil. <<less
KR (4.6)
55 Chapters Every 21.7 Day(s) 19467 Readers 270 Reviews 11-26-2017
Completed Action Drama Ecchi Fantasy Harem Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Romance Seinen
Do you know how this world ends?... more>>
Become the hero and defeat the 72 Demon Lords. The game that was boasted as the absolute hardest strategy game, 『Dungeon Attack』.
I used to be the ‘hero’ that had accomplished everything in this game, but after answering a suspicious survey, I found myself in the game as the weakest Demon Lord, 「Dantalian」.
With only my eloquent tongue and my memories of conquest as a hero—.
In order to survive as Dantalian. I shall tear this world apart. <<less
Action Adventure Fantasy Harem Martial Arts Mature Mystery Xuanhuan
A boy that was imprisoned for millions of years has regained a mortal body.... more>>
He became a disciple of the declining Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect where its patriarch used to be his disciple. Now he will bring this sect back to its former glory.
This is his journey to reach the apex and take revenge on those who had imprisoned him.
This is his story of meeting old friends and making new companions.
This is his path of traversing the Nine Worlds and becoming the next ruler of the Heavens.
Several millennia have passed and the golden age of experts have passed. A master whose disciples once were the most exalted Immortals among the 9 worlds has all left him. With his mortal body, mortal physique and mortal life wheel... he shall sweep the 9 worlds and take what is rightfully his. <<less
JP (4.2)
The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
258 Chapters Every 9.7 Day(s) 22317 Readers 240 Reviews 01-17-2020
Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Mature Psychological Seinen Supernatural Tragedy
Amamiya Hiroto is unlucky. His life consisted of misfortune after misfortune, culminating in an unlucky death during an incident on a school boat trip, trying to save a girl he barely knew. After death, he met a god of reincarnation who requested that the hundred or so dead passengers—one of them being the girl he tried in vain to save—be reincarnated into another world.... more>>
Yet a series of unfortunate events forced Hiroto to reincarnate with even less luck than before, starting with nothing but a tremendous amount of Mana. His second life, far worse than his first, came to a cruel end.
However, upon meeting the god a second time, he was informed that there would be yet another reincarnation—one that had already been set in motion and could not be stopped. Not wanting Hiroto to live long, the god cursed him before he was reborn in the hopes that he would either die quickly or commit suicide.
Hiroto was reborn once more as a half-Vampire, half-Dark Elf. A Dhampir. Not wanting a fourth life, he is determined to live this third life with the only things remaining from his previous lives—death-attribute magic and his enormous Mana pool. <<less
Overgeared
Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
As Shin Youngwoo has had an unfortunate life and is now stuck carrying bricks on construction sites. He even had to do labor in the VR game, Satisfy!... more>>
However, luck would soon enter his hopeless life. His character, ‘Grid’, would discover the Northern End Cave for a quest, and in that place, he would find ‘Pagma’s Rare Book’ and become a legendary class player… <<less
To Be A Virtuous Wife
123 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 7957 Readers 201 Reviews 01-05-2016
Completed Historical Josei Mature Romance Slice of Life
As a virtuous wife, does it include tolerating his cousin, enduring his concubines, bearing his mother?... more>>
If you will not let me live freely, why would I let you live in satisfaction?
Did fate let women time-travel so she could learn the three morals and four virtues?
Rather than act like a coward and live, it would be better to live in satisfaction and die. <<less
The Founder of Diabolism
Completed Action Adult Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Mature Mystery Romance Supernatural Xianxia Yaoi
As the grandmaster who founded demonic cultivation, Wei WuXian roamed the world in his wanton ways, hated by millions for the chaos he created. In the end, he was backstabbed by his dearest shidi and killed by powerful clans that combined to overpower him.... more>>
He incarnates into the body of a lunatic who was abandoned by his clan and is later, unwillingly, taken away by a famous cultivator among the sects—Lan WangJi, his archenemy.
This marks the start of a thrilling yet hilarious journey of attacking monsters, solving mysteries, and raising children. From the mutual flirtation along the way, Wei WuXian slowly realizes that Lan WangJi, a seemingly haughty and indifferent poker-face, holds more feelings for Wei WuXian than he is letting on… <<less
World of Cultivation
Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts Xuanhuan
An unknown disciple from a small sect battling against the strongest in the cultivation world! The long journey working at cultivation, the realization of destiny and the chance to reach the apex of the world.... more>>
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Zuo Mo is a zombie faced low level cultivator in a minor sect of a little world. Ever since he was picked up by the sect leader two years ago, he has no memories of his earlier life except a recurring nightmare. Navigating the rigid class structure and intricacies of the cultivation world, as one of the lowest possible of the lowest class, Zuo Mo’s dream is to earn money, and lots of it, through being a spiritual plant farmer. A chance occurrence reveals that someone powerful had changed Zuo’s features and erased his mind. The money grubbing zombie decides to set out on a journey of cultivation to find out answers. Fate colludes with chance, the drums of war are beating, the ghost of his past is coming…… <<less
To Be a Power in the Shadows!
201 Chapters Every 13.5 Day(s) 16958 Readers 164 Reviews 10-08-2019
Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Martial Arts School Life
Just like how everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in shadows. After hiding his strength and living... more>> the mediocre life of a mob character by day while undergoing frenzied training by night, he finally reincarnates into a different world and gains ultimate power. The young man who is only playing at being a power in the shadows, his misunderstanding subordinates, and a giant organization in the shadows that gets trampled.... This is the story of a young boy who had adored powers in shadows possibly eventually reigning over the world of shadows in another world. <<less
The World Online
Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts Mature Sci-fi
Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to zero. Ouyang Shuo, an above average player, suffered the ultimate betrayal. For merely a piece of equipment, his sworn brother betrayed and backstabbed him. This time, after he reincarnated in the game, Ouyang Shuo swore to exact vengeance.... more>>
However, in an unexpected turn of events, Ouyang Shuo found himself back five years before the betrayal – right before the launch of Earth Online. This time, armed with the knowledge from his past life, Ouyang Shuo would venture upon a new path.
How to perfectly complete quests? What historical battle maps would appear? How should one build up their territory? Utilizing the experience from the predecessors of his last life, Ouyang Shuo makes his bid for the top against all odds. Follow his journey as he seeks to lord over the world!
A different kind of tale that blends historical characters and virtual reality gaming, with heavy emphasis on kingdom building and warfare. <<less
Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss
Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Gender Bender Josei Romance Xuanhuan
She was a peerless genius in the 24th Century – all she needed was a silver needle and she could practically bring anyone back from the dead. ... more>>
After an explosion, she crossed over into a strange world; everyone calls her “Miss.” The previous “Miss” before had no contractual spirit, was weak and incompetent, and even the fiancé comes over with a new love and bullies her?
Now that she has taken over, who dares to act so presumptuously around her? With needles in hand, the world is for her to own! Wherever she goes, miracles follow! However, she saved a pest. What was she thinking when she saved that man. His stunning demeanor and impeccable face is a huge contrast to his cruel actions. He tries all ways to win her over. <<less
When I opened my eyes, I was inside a novel.... more>>
[The Birth of a Hero].
[The Birth of a Hero] was a novel focused on the adventures of the main character, Choi Han, a high school boy who was transported to a different dimension from Earth, along with the birth of the numerous heroes of the continent.
I became a part of that novel as the trash of the Count’s family, the family that oversaw the territory where the first village that Choi Han visits is located.
The problem is that Choi Han becomes twisted after that village, and everyone in it, are destroyed by assassins.
The bigger problem is the fact that this stupid trash who I’ve become doesn’t know about what happened in the village and messes with Choi Han, only to get beaten to a pulp.
“…This is going to be a problem.”
I feel like something serious has happened to me.
But it was worth trying to make this my new life. <<less
I Alone Level-Up
41 Chapters Every 8.7 Day(s) 11187 Readers 134 Reviews 12-01-2017
Completed Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Shounen Supernatural
10 years ago, after “the Gate” that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as “Hunters”.... more>>
However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I’m someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of catacombs, the “World’s Weakest”.
Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled catacombs… at least until I found a hidden catacomb with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank catacombs!
In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise.
Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter! <<less
Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World
Action Adventure Fantasy Harem Martial Arts
“If he’s being badass, I’m gonna plant my own crops. If he messes with me, he will not live past next year.”... more>>
Homebody Zhao Hai brought ‘QQ Farm’ along in his traversal to another world and resided within the body of a fallen noble. His fief was a black land which nothing could be planted, and more importantly, he even had a peerlessly powerful fiancee, who was actually the successor of a duchy and future Grand Duchess!
Even more importantly, he is a magical and martial cripple who could not learn magic and martial arts. His crippling was very thorough.
“I can’t learn magic, but I have the farm. You dare attack me? I’ll release bugs to eat up your rations and crops, and put pesticides and weed agents into your water sources to make your lands grow weeds. See if you dare to attack me. What? You wanna hire killers to assassinate me? Hehehe. I’ll hide inside the little house in my farm and see how you can attack me. When you leave, I’m gonna terminate your country’s crop productions, and then all of your people will revolt. See if you dare to kill me.”
Watch how this somewhat black hearted hobo uses his QQ Farm in the world of swords and magic to become a globally known nightmarish existence. <<less
The Human Emperor
1409 Chapters Every 0.5 Day(s) 8883 Readers 128 Reviews 01-18-2020
Forcefully brought over from the modern world to an alternate world, Wang Chong felt detached and lived his life aimlessly.... more>>
However, when calamity struck and he saw his family and everything he cared for being torn apart, he felt regret.
Thus, he stood up and eventually became the Grand Marshal of the Central Plains, leading an army against those who seek to destroy all he cherished.
Yet, despite all his efforts, it was already too late to reverse destiny.
But before his death, a shooting star, the same one which brought him to this world, appeared before him, and he was given another chance to undo his regrets. <<less
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Seoul Station’s Necromancer
0 Chapters Every 2.4 Day(s) 13945 Readers 119 Reviews 11-09-2017
Completed Fantasy
[You have entered the dungeon at Gwachun Station’s 1st Exit.]
When former high school student Kang Woojin finds himself returned back to Earth after being forcibly summoned to a foreign planet for 20 years, he soon finds that Earth is not the same, normal place as he once remembered it to be.... more>>
With his former strength and age reset back to zero, watch Kang Woojin as he gets back on the path to becoming the Earth’s strongest Necromancer! <<less
Shura’s Wrath
Completed Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Harem Mature Romance Sci-fi Seinen Tragedy
The mysterious boy Ling Chen is saved by a little girl as he lay on the street dying. Years later, he strikes a deal to save this savior-turned sister and enters the virtual world. In a future Earth where advanced warfare has forced nations to settle issues virtually or else suffer the consequences, Ling Chen bursts into the scene and goes from unknown to legend. Yet all is not as it seems, for Ling Chen has a dark past, and there is a greater mystery at hand behind this virtual world.... more>>
To save his terminally ill little sister, Ling Chen enters the newly released virtual game world and joins a small gaming studio comprising entirely of women. From now on walking upon his path towards the pinnacle. An ancient, evil item almost forgotten by history, the “Lunar Scourge” helps forge his unsurpassable legend, and causes him to unknowingly step upon a path that is destined to be punished by the heavens, the way of the Shura. <<less
History’s Strongest Senior Brother
Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts Xuanhuan
The first time Yan Zhaoge crossed worlds, he landed in a martial warrior civilization that was at the peak of prosperity. He ended up in the book storage building of the the Divine Palace, which collected and preserved the classics of the entire world from all fields of knowledge. However, a world class calamity struck soon after and even the Divine Palace was destroyed.... more>>
Yan Zhaoge’s soul once again crossed over, but this time he arrived in the same world, except countless years have passed.
With his brain full of rare books and classics from the era of peak prosperity, Yan Zhaoge’s second crossing over to the present era was like a gamer who was used to playing hell mode suddenly finding himself playing the game on easy.
That was just way too awesome.
But before that, he needs to fix a certain problem.
“I’m not a main character? In fact, I’m actually the main character’s love rival and the antagonistic Mr. Perfect senior martial brother? This script is wrong!” <<less
An ordinary student accidentally traveled into an other universe and became the king of a small kingdom. He had gotten a “Cheating Code” of life... more>> and was able to complete something extraordinary. This is the story about a king that was able to conquer continents and leave behind him an ultimate legend that will be recited between every generation to come. <<less
Demon Wang’s Golden Favorite Fei
Completed Action Comedy Drama Josei Martial Arts Mature Romance
“Miss, since you came back, every three days there will be someone who start a rumor to slander you……”... more>>
“Some say you are ugly and really ill and will not live till eighteen…….”
“Some say your personality is vulgar, even rural women are not as wild…..”
“There are also people who mentioned the theft of that year. They told it like it has a nose and eyes, like they personally have witnessed Miss steal the glowing pearl……”
A time traveler, she became the ancient version of Cinderella. Not only did her younger sister steal her fiancé, she is also sent to ChongXi by her father for other people…..
What a joke! It has always been her that slaughters people, when is it their turn to be arrogant?!
Beat her? Alright! A needle and you will no longer be able to lift your right hand!
Curse her? Deal! A kick and you’ll fall into the lake as food for carp!
Assassination? Good! Making it so you won’t be able to see tomorrow’s sun!
What? Want her to marry that Demon Wang whose eight wives died on the wedding night? No problem! She is the Demoness of the white and black world. She’d like to see who between the two of them is more evil, who is more vicious.
Only after marrying into WangFu did she find out this Demon Wang is different from the rumors. Not only are there different kinds of poisons in his body, he needs medication every day, and every night when it’s full moon, he’ll endure unbearable pain. That man’s weak appearance actually made her to let her guard down and feel pity. She vowed, the one who made him like this, she’ll pay him thousand, no, ten thousand times back! It’s just that this man, he doesn’t seem the same like he is on the surface…… <<less
Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World
972 Chapters Every 0.7 Day(s) 13500 Readers 96 Reviews 01-18-2020
Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts School Life Supernatural
The world’s largest VRMMO, Conviction, was almost like a second world for humanity. It had integrated itself into the real world’s economy, with both corporations and individuals seeking their fortunes through the game. ... more>>
In this game, Nie Yan prided himself in his Level 180 Thief. He could barely be considered among the top experts in the game. Though, that was the only thing he could take pride in. He was penniless and unable to advance in life; a situation he was forced into by the enemy of his father. If it weren’t for the little money he made by selling off items in Conviction, he would’ve barely been able to eat. In the end, he chose to settle his matters once and for all. He assassinated his father’s enemy. He lay dying shortly after being shot in the pursuit.
However, that wasn’t the end of his story. Instead, he awoke moments later to find that he had reincarnated into his past self. Armed with his experience and knowledge of future events, he sets out to live his life anew. <<less
Action Adventure Fantasy Mystery Supernatural
Humanity was on the brink of destruction. Muyoung, an assassin from the Forest of Death, fell to his knees. There were corpses all around him. For years, he had worked for the Forest of Death and had finally been able to eradicate them. Now, he, himself, was about to die. He closed his eyes as he felt his heart stop beating.... more>>
Suddenly, Muyoung opened his eyes. By some miracle, he was still alive. He then realized that he had actually gone back 40 years in time. Join him as he decides to fix humanity’s past mistakes and fight against the 72 demons of the Underworld. <<less
I am the Monarch
Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Martial Arts Shounen
Roan, ran away 20 years ago from his rural village in the aim of becoming a Great General. However, all he got 20 years later was just a handful of money and the lowly position of squad commander of the First Legion’s.... more>>
In the end, he became a cold corpse in the battlefield… but somehow, he came back in the past.
“Alright. This time, I won’t become a Great General but a Monarch.”
His previous life’s aim was becoming a Great General, but, he only became a spearman squad commander.
This time, his life’s aim is becoming the Monarch.
“Then I guess I’d become at least a General, right?”
Roan, who remembers 20 years of his future, now starts his unstoppable march. <<less
Overlord (LN)
118 Chapters Every 79.7 Day(s) 13659 Readers 89 Reviews 05-20-2018
Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Mature Psychological Seinen
In 21st century, world entered a new stage of VR games...and "YGGDRASIL" is considered top of all MMORPG...but, After announcing that all its servers will... more>> be off, the internet game ‘Yggdrasil’ shut down…or so was supposed to happen, but for some reason, the player character did not log out some time after the server was closed. NPCs start to become sentient. A normal youth who loves gaming in the real world seemed to have been transported into an alternate world along with his guild, becoming the strongest mage with the appearance of a skeleton, Momonga. He leads his guild "Ainz Ooal Gown" towards an unprecedented legendary fantasy adventure! <<less
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Maple Glory
Handcrafted Holiday Leaf Ornaments from India Set of 6, "Maple Glory"
Six maple leaves exude the arrival of the holiday season in this set of... more
Six maple leaves exude the arrival of the holiday season in this set of ornaments by Rajesh Gehlot. In off white, green, yellow, dark brown, orange and red, each wool felt leaf is designed with cotton vines and sparkling glass beads. Both the front and backside is marked by the same beaded work and feature a cotton string for hanging.
Each: 17 cm H x 14 cm W x 0.7 cm D
Each: 6.75" H x 5.5" W x 0.3" D
100% wool and glass beads
Made in India.
Certified and shipped by our office in India
You can find wool ornaments 'Maple Glory' (set of 6) by Rajesh Gehlot in holiday decor & ornaments categories such as Christmas Ornaments and Leaf and Tree Ornaments. Enjoy exploring these sections for other Novica treasures.
Rajesh Gehlot has received a $1100 microcredit loan with 0% interest.
This artist supports children under the age of 18.
Beaded Ornament! Multicolor Holiday Decor & Ornaments Leaf and Tree Holiday Decor & Ornaments Christmas Holiday Decor & Ornaments Holiday Decor & Ornaments
Rajesh Gehlot
Ornaments and holiday accessories
Rajesh Gehlot Ornaments and holiday accessories
"I specialized in holiday ornaments, home furnishings, carpets, and wall hangings, but, so far, our holiday ornaments have been a big hit with shoppers. I hope you like all our designs."
"I come from the pink city of Jaipur. I grew up in a family in Jaipur where family values, tradition and culture mean a lot. I went to school in the beautiful pink city itself. There was so much to explore, as Jaipur has a rich history.
"While still studying, I took up a part time job to earn some pocket money. Since I was good at drawing, I worked as a sketch artist at an export house which dealt in leather goods and stone home décor items. For a modest salary, I sketched bags and they really liked my work, so much that they wanted to hire me permanently. So after I completed my Bachelor of Arts degree, I joined them full time.
"With me, they started a new category of felt items. I began helping them create new designs by means of my sketching, and it worked out well. In fact, in one of the exhibitions, my creation received the first prize from among almost 5,000 entries. It was such a moment of pride for me. The owner of my company had me accept the award on behalf of his company since I was the creator of the pieces that won. This was a great feeling of achievement for me.
"We worked together so well. My boss taught me a lot and I would say that whatever I have learned so far, a lot of the credit goes to him, too.
"But I always wanted to do something of my own. So, after spending almost eight years with the same company, I started out on my own. It was a big challenge but I did not lose hope. Slowly, I found people to collaborate with me and taught them the work. We started participating in exhibitions and slowly but surely, people started appreciating our work. Today I am proud to say that we are doing well, although not in a big way.
"I specialized in holiday ornaments, home furnishings, carpets, wall hangings, etc. but, so far, our holiday ornaments have been a big hit with shoppers. I hope you like all our designs."
4 Testimonials for Rajesh Gehlot
I love these, charming leaves! I have them on a branch indoors for fall!
I purchased Holiday Begonias and hang them around my door. They are simply lovely. They can bend to your liking and are bright and cheerful. Beaded ends complete the look.
The 3 French Hens...I need many more than 3! These are soooo adorable that I am keeping them for myself instead of gifting them. But these will go on my gift list to order for others in the future. I can't wait for Christmas to decorate the tree with them. Please create many more such ornaments and more garlands with the pom poms. Thank you!
Snow AbodesSet of Six Assorted Wool House Ornaments from India
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Robin StarStar-Shaped Wool Felt Tree Topper from India
Festive DollsSix Handcrafted Heart Motif Wool Doll Ornaments from India
Dancing DollsSix Colorful Wool Doll Ornaments from India
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Home » Documentation » Submitting SMS Messages » Sending SMS Text Messages
Sending SMS Text Messages over HTTP
To send a text SMS message via a menu driven interface, please see the help section titled Web Menu Interface. This section describes how to send a text message programmatically via URL parameters. Other sections of this document explain how to send SMS text messages via PHP, Java and a command line interface.
To send an SMS text message via HTTP, use the following URL format:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=xxxxxxxx&Text=abc+def+ghi
For 127.0.0.1, please substitute the IP address or host name assigned to your gateway PC. (Note: 127.0.0.1 is a local loop back address that can be utilized when you are connecting to the gateway from the same computer.)
For 8800, please substitute the port number that the gateway is configured to use.
Substitute the phone number that you wish to send the SMS message to for the “xxxxxxxx” in the “PhoneNumber” parameter. Use either the local phone number format, or the international phone number format (your network provider may or may not allow you to send to international phone numbers). If the international phone number format is used, note that you must substitute “%2B” for the “+” character, because of URL escaping restrictions. For example, to send an SMS to +447778001210, use the following URL format:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=%2B447778001210&Text=abc+def+ghi
If authentication is enabled for the web interface, any application submitting a message must supply a user name and password for access. This user name and password refers to an account defined on the “SMS Users” configuration dialog. The application can either include the user name and password in an “Authorization:” header using “HTTP Basic Authentication”, or it can include the “User” and “Password” parameters in the URL request. For example:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?User=username&Password=password&PhoneNumber=xxxxxxxx&Text=abc+def+ghi
Multiple recipients can be included in a URL request by separating them in the “PhoneNumber” parameter with a “,” (comma). For example:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=xxxxxxxx,yyyyyyyy&Text=abc+def+ghi
Or some environments may require the comma character to be URL escaped as %2C. For example:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=xxxxxxxx%2Cyyyyyyyy&Text=abc+def+ghi
There is no limit on the number of recipients that can be specified in a URL request (NowSMS dynamically allocates more memory as required). However, the software that you are using to submit the HTTP request to NowSMS might impose a limit on the HTTP URL length.
The above examples all show HTTP GET transactions. HTTP POST can also be used, with the same variable names and formats, using the standard “form value” MIME type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
It is also possible to create distribution lists that are kept on the NowSMS server. These are simple text files that contain a list of phone numbers. You can send a message to a distribution list by specifying the distribution list name in the “PhoneNumber” parameter. (Or you can specify multiple distribution lists or a mix of phone numbers and distribution lists separating each entry with a “,”.) For example:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=DlistName&Text=abc+def+ghi
If the distribution list is a public distribution list, it must be prefaced with the # character when sending to the list. For example:
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=#DlistName&Text=abc+def+ghi
For more information about distribution lists, please refer to Editing Distribution Lists and Address Books in NowSMS.
Substitute the text of the SMS message in the “Text” parameter. Note that due to URL escaping restrictions, space characters should be replaced with “+” characters. Also, certain special characters, such as “?”, “&”, “:” and “=” need to be replaced with an escape character. The gateway expects characters to be encoded in UTF-8 (Unicode-based) format, therefore some characters, including the Euro (€) may require multiple escaped characters. (Note: The Web Menu Interface automatically performs this escaping.) The following table shows common characters that must be escaped:
? %3F
“ %22
< %3C
> %3E
& %26
+ %2B
# %23
% %25
* %2A
! %21
, %2C
‘ %27
\ %5C
= %3D
€ %E2%82%AC
It is possible to use the “&charset=”xxxxxxx” parameter to indicate that the text has been encoded using a character set other than UTF-8. NowSMS supports any of the character sets supported by Windows. Common “&charset=”xxxxxxxx” settings include “iso-8859-1” for Western Europe, “iso-8859-6” for Arabic, and “big5” for Chinese
Message text up to 160 characters in length can be sent in a single SMS message. The gateway automatically supports the sending of longer messages by utilizing “concatenated SMS” to send messages larger than 160 characters in length. Note that some older mobile phones will not support longer SMS messages. For longer SMS messages, one message is sent for every 153 characters of text in the message.
If a text message contains text that is outside of the GSM character set, then it is necessary for the message to be sent out using Unicode encoding. When a message is sent with Unicode encoding, only 70 characters can fit into a single SMS message. If a message that contains Unicode characters is longer than 70 characters, one message is sent for every 63 characters of text in the message.
The following table details the characters that are part of the standard GSM character set:
Hex 0x 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x
x0 @ Δ SP 0 ¡ P ¿ p
x1 £ _ ! 1 A Q a q
x2 $ Φ “ 2 B R b r
x3 ¥ Γ # 3 C S c s
x4 è Λ ¤ 4 D T d t
x5 é Ω % 5 E U e u
x6 ù Π & 6 F V f v
x7 ì Ψ ‘ 7 G W g w
x8 ò Σ ( 8 H X h x
x9 Ç Θ ) 9 I Y i y
xA LF Ξ * : J Z j z
xB Ø 1) + ; K Ä k ä
xC ø Æ , < L Ö l ö
xD CR æ – = M Ñ m ñ
xE Å ß . > N Ü n ü
xF å É / ? O § o à
LF = line feed (0x0A)
CR = carriage return (0x0D)
SP = space character (0x20)
1) = Space holder for escape character. This character means that the character is from the GSM default alphabet extension table, and the extension code follows.
Additionally, there are some characters, such as the Euro (€) which are part of an extended GSM character set, which is detailed in the following table:
x4 ^
x5 €
x8 }
x9 {
xC [
xD ~
xE ]
xF \
If a text message contains only characters that are part of either the standard or extended GSM character set table, then it is subject to the 160 character limit (with the exception that any characters in the extended GSM character set are encoded as two characters instead of one). Otherwise, if the text message contains any characters outside of this character set, the entire message must be encoded in Unicode format, subject to the 70 character limit.
Additional supported URL parameters when sending text messages include:
“Sender” – Specifies the phone number to be included as the sender of the message. (Note: Depending on the configuration of the gateway and the SMSCs to which the gateway connects, this value may be ignored.)
“PID” – Specifies a protocol id field to be associated with the message. The web interface of NowSMS includes checkbox settings for specifying a “Message Type” value. Setting one of the “Replacement Type” values means that if the gateway sends a subsequent message with the same replacement type value, this will replace any previous messages that were sent by the same sender with the same replacement type value. When submitting an SMS message via URL parameters, replacement type values 1 thru 7 correspond to settings of PID=41 thru PID=47.
“DCS” – Specifies the data coding scheme value associated with the message. NowSMS normally sets this value as appropriate (0 indicates a normal text message, and 8 indicates that the message contains Unicode characters). The web interface of NowSMS includes checkbox settings for specifying a “Message Class” value. “Message Class” settings are generally used only for testing, except for “Class 0 (Flash)” messages which can be occasionally useful. A “flash” message is an SMS message that is automatically opened on the display of the receiving phone, and is normally not saved to the phone’s inbox, so that once the user exits the message, the message automatically disappears.
When submitting an SMS message via URL parameters, message class settings of 0 thru 3 correspond to settings of DCS=10 thru DCS=13. Note that NowSMS will automatically convert these DCS values if the message text contains characters that must be encoded using Unicode characters. However, some SMSC connections, such as SMPP, will not support flash messages that contain Unicode text.
For a complete list of URL parameters, please refer to the section Submitting SMS Messages – URL Parameters.
Emoticons and Emoji in SMS Text Messsages
Shift Tables – National Language SMS in 160 characters without Unicode
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Parking Australia seeks to engage with government
By Stuart Norman, CEO – Parking Australia
On Wednesday 8 May, Parking Australia Vice-President Mosstyn Howell, Board Member James English and I, met with the Federal Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population, the Hon. Alan Tudge MP. This meeting was the result of a concerted effort to have the minister engage with us specifically, regarding the Liberal Party’s commuter car park policy.
In the lead up to the election both major parties announced they would fund the building or expanding of commuter car parks at train stations or transport hubs. Now that the election has been run and won, Parking Australia will continue to engage the government on the building of these car parks.
The $500m Commuter Car Park Fund as announced in the budget and confirmed to us by the Minister, will see up to 50 Commuter car parks either built or expanded. Of the 50 announced by the government 30 will be built in Melbourne.
The Minister informed us that the car parks will be built on either state government land or by local councils. He also told us that for most of the proposed sites, councils had developed a proposal to request the funding and identify the site where they will be built. Some of the proposals accepted will be multi-storey car parks.
In our meeting with the Minister we made three main points:
Control measures needed to be put in place where the car parks are used by those taking public transport. For example, in Sydney where commuters get free parking by using their Opal card and non-commuters still pay.
Car parks in and of themselves do not ease congestion. The motorist needs to have a way of being informed about whether the car park has vacant parking or not. We suggested further funding be allocated to provide technology whereby the motorist can be informed or notified.
Research be conducted to measure the effectiveness of the commuter car parks and parking in general, as a solution to reducing congestion. We suggested that as the industry association for parking that we’d be in an ideal situation to manage and conduct any research in this area.
Now that the Government have been returned to power, Parking Australia hopes that Mr Tudge remains the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population and that we will be able to continue working with him on the promotion of car parking, as part of the solution to solve congestion in our major cities.
Melbourne Congestion Levy
The Victorian Government delayed the delivery of their budget from 30 April to after the federal election and was delivered on Monday 27 May. With the state’s finances taking a massive hit from reduced property stamp duty revenue, it was anticipated that other fees and taxes would be increased. As such, Parking Australia believed that the government had been planning to increase the Melbourne Congestion Levy by as much as 25%.
With the potential of such a big increase, Parking Australia worked with operators and the Property Council to put pressure on the government not to increase the levy. This pressure came in the form of the Property Council and its members who own car parks, making direct contact with the government. Parking Australia encouraged operators to make the owners be aware of what an increase would mean for them.
With the Property Council doing the behind-the-scenes lobbying, we engaged the media to inform the public of what it would mean for them and their hip pocket. This was a highly effective strategy with coverage in the Financial Review and the Herald-Sun. I was also interviewed on radio station 3AW during its popular morning program with Neil Mitchell.
We may never know how effective this campaign was, but the end result has seen the levy only increased by CPI and not expanded to include any new inner Melbourne suburbs. However, I’m certain that if we had not started the lobbying process then the Congestion Levy would be increased by more than what was included in the budget.
Brisbane Networking Breakfast
On Wednesday 15 May Parking Australia held a Networking Breakfast in Brisbane at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The event was held near Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct at QUT, which provided attendees with the ability to network over breakfast and hear from the speakers.
The main speaker Luke Abercrombie, Transurban’s Head of Technology, presented on their recent initiatives to help reduce congestion in Brisbane, now and into the future. We also heard from Trystan Eeles at Liftango, who outlined their app which enables students at QUT to rideshare and receive a discount on their parking for doing so.
I’d like to thank Silje Troseth from Q-Free for also being a member of our panel and for sponsoring our event. I thoroughly look forward to seeing everyone at our Melbourne event on Tuesday 20 August. Mark that date in your diary – event details will be released asap.
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Day 2 at OUTLOOK 2019 has drawn to a close and we've had some amazing sessions - including this afternoon's case study from the UK's Coventry City Council, plus @AusPressCouncil, and @clemnewtonbrown on Uber Air. Thanks to all our speakers! #outlookparking
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Life imitates Akira: the NSA’s fear of psychic nukes
Agency wondered if ten psychics could cause a chain reaction that would cause a city to become lost in time and space
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
A classified government document opens with “an odd sequence of events relating to parapsychology has occurred within the last month” and concluded with an alarming question about psychics nuking cities so that they became lost in time and space. If this sounds like a plot out of science fiction, it is - but it’s also a NSA memo from 1977.
The first “event” raised by the NSA note is a CIA report which mentioned KGB research into parapsychology. According to this, the KGB used hobbyists and non-governmental researchers to talk to western scientists. This allowed the KGB to collect useful information without putting themselves into a position to accidentally leak confidential information to westerners. According to the NSA note, this tactic yielded “high grade western scientific data.”
The next event described by the NSA note was what appeared to be a Russian provocation, though exactly what sort was a matter of some debate. In June 1977, an American journalist was detained in Russia for receiving a Soviet paper on parapsychology. The paper allegedly documented “PSI” (i.e. psychic) particles within the living cell, allegedly providing a physical basis for parapsychology.
This struck American intelligence as being a form of entrapment, though the goal was uncertain. Some thought it was an effort to provoke radio chatter which the Soviets could trace to get a better idea of the U.S.’s interest and activities. Another theory was that it was simply a warning to the West to stay away from sensitive Soviet research. A third theory was that it was “a double-think ploy to pretend interest in a clumsy manner to make us think that this was really just a deception to trick the West into believing there was interest when there really was none.” While this last theory might sound paranoid, this is how denial and deception operate - and it’s something that Russian counterintelligence has long excelled at.
The section concluded with a note that there had supposedly been a successful demonstration of “telekinetic power” in a Soviet military sponsored research lab, and the alleged discovery of a new type of energy “perhaps even more important than that of Atomic energy.”
The third event was the apparent postulation by “some physicists along with the famous evolutionist, Teilhard de Chardin” that the universe was more of a “great thought” than a “great machine.” According to this view, “the ‘unified field’ on ground of reality is awareness.” The note cited telekinetic experiments and postulated that “awareness focusing” could produce “a new form of energy that moves or perhaps alters matter.”
The report cited British scientists experiencing “poltergeist phenomena” after testing Uri Geller. Objects allegedly left the room, some of which apparently reappeared later. Supposedly, this didn’t surprise unnamed scientists who found it no harder to believe that objects could disappear and reappear than it was to believe in the “detected particles emerging from energy and dissolving or disappearing back into energy.”
From these premises, two types of telekinetic weapons were hypothesized: a telekinetic time bomb and the equivalent of a psychic nuke that could dislodge a city in time and space.
The first involved a member of the command and control staff being kidnapped and subjected to trauma that would allow him to be “suggestively programmed to develop telekinetic effects under stress at work.” The theory was that when an emergency situation arose and the officer was subjected to stress, objects would begin to move and disappear independently “and communications would become impossible.”
The second hypothetical weapon was even more elaborate and potentially terrifying. Citing a prediction of “a massive change which will alter the direction, time, space and energy-matter relationship of our world,” the note wondered what would happen if a group of psychics were brought together. If ten people who were “evidencing disruptive telekinetic phenomena” were brought into one area, would it “cause a chain reaction, causing much matter to reverse direction and sink back into a sea of energy or be displaced in time and space”? The memo concluded by wondering if such an event reach a “critical mass” and affect an entire city.
By an interesting coincidence, the “Philadelphia Experiment” hoax bears some superficial resemblance to the theorized weapon in the NSA note. According various versions of the hoax, the USS Eldridge was temporarily rendered invisible or transported through time and space. The incident is even listed on NSA’s webpage of paranormal topics that they don’t have records on. However, there were other papers prepared on the perceived potential of weaponizing psychic abilities, some of which will be explored later. For now, you can read the NSA note below:
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Have you ever donated a can of soup or a shiny new toy to a holiday collection drive? The moment that gift leaves your hand to join other items in the pile, you feel joyful at using your blessings to make someone else’s day brighter.
Made up of over 200 incredibly generous employees, Bozzuto Construction Company (BCC) is no stranger to this feeling. Over the past 30 years, BCC has shown an unwavering commitment to affordable housing, supporting organizations such as The Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing, Montgomery Housing Partnership, Wesley Housing, So Other Might Eat (SOME), the Women’s Housing Coalition and the Mission First Housing Group.
“On a business and individual level, our company and employees are incredibly active in supporting and working with organizations,” commented Kelly Cantley, Senior Vice President of Business Development. Cantley also shared that “We always try to think about how we can support, or work with, our partners and clients to create a combined greater good.”
In addition to the company’s charitable contributions, several BCC employees donate their time outside of work to associations who share similar missions and values. To learn more, we spoke with team members Dave Schorr, Senior Vice President of Accounting and Controller; Jim Marshiano, Senior Project Manager, and Nick Umosella, Project Manager about the causes they are passionate about.
What is your role/involvement with your respective organizations?
Dave: About 20 years ago, I joined UMAR to help get the program running. I’ve been an active member on their board ever since and regularly tutor the kids.
Jim: I have been an active member of the Franciscan Center for nearly 14 years and recently became a member of their advisory board.
Nick: I’m in my second year of serving on the Reading Partners advisory board in Baltimore. I am also the liaison between Reading Partners and Bozzuto’s involvement in their efforts.
Describe the mission of the organization you support.
Dave: UMAR is an after-school boxing and education program in a rough neighborhood in West Baltimore. Because most of the kids in our program don’t have one or more parents at home, we provide mentorship, teach them skills and promote self-confidence to affect how they think about positive, alternative paths for their lives.
Jim: The Franciscan Center provides compassionate and dignified assistance to those who are most vulnerable. Franciscan charisma is passed down from St. Francis of Assisi, who is known for giving away his material possessions to live a life of poverty amongst the poor.
Nick: Reading Partners helps improve the reading skills of Baltimore elementary students, specifically kindergarten to second-grade levels when they go from learning to read to reading to learn. Statistics show that children entering the third grade reading at the proper level have a much better chance of graduating high school and going to college or vocational schools, etc. Reading Partners has a hands-on approach, utilizing tutors who volunteer their help a few hours a week.
How did you originally get involved?
Dave: In 1997, there was an article in the Baltimore Sun about UMAR and its founder, Marvin McDowell, inviting the community to help start the organization. After my wife read it, knowing I was a boxing fan and had experience tutoring kids, she called Marvin saying, “My husband loves boxing and he’s going to help you out!” She then called me and said, “Dave, this guy wants you to come meet him.” So, she kind of orchestrated it, although I know I would have found my way to Marvin even if she hadn’t helped make the initial introduction.
Jim: My Aunt Irene founded the Franciscan Center in Baltimore in 1968. I’ve been involved since I learned how to tie my shoes, but I became more involved in 2005. My family continues the tradition and gives back to the center whenever possible.
Nick: I mentioned to Kelly Cantley that I was interested in serving on a nonprofit board and she helped introduce me to Reading Partners‘ Executive CEO. Once I learned exactly what and who they were, I knew I wanted to be involved.
What’s the most impactful experience you have had in spending time with these organizations?
Dave: There was a kid, Marcus Johnson. I’ll never forget him. He was killed within the first two months I started tutoring at UMAR. It happened right behind the gym. There was an article in the paper about it, which I saved to remind me why I help and why it’s important to have a safe haven for kids in Baltimore city. We’re changing the area and giving them something else to do rather than get mixed up in drugs and/or violence.
Jim: When I was younger, my aunt took an oath of poverty and gave all her birthday and Christmas gifts to the Franciscan Center patrons. Her humble commitment to her Catholic faith and the number of lives she positively impacted changed my life.
Nick: My favorite task as a board member is calling volunteers to thank them. I have not made a call to a volunteer that lasted less than 10 minutes. You can hear the genuine joy and love for teaching these kids in their voices.
How does it feel to see BCC have such a strong focus on giving back?
Dave: It makes me feel proud to be a part of Bozzuto. I know everybody in this company has a charitable mindset. It’s about creating positive momentum as we hire and meet people that are involved with charities. They become more charitable, and we continue to create that good momentum throughout the organization. I love it.
Jim: It’s a blessing working for a company that truly understands they have a responsibility to give back to the community. Toby Bozzuto; says our business is predicated on creating joy for our customers, clients and each other. We show the world that magnificent things can happen when people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives work together for good.
Nick: At the risk of sounding cliché, a lot of companies talk the talk, but Bozzuto walks the walk. They have supported my endeavor every step of the way.
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A RUSTIC VIBE SUITS THE SETTING FOR COMPACT BAR/RESTAURANT
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HUNTER (SEATED) AND ANGIE CATCH A MOMENT TO ENJOY THE OUTDOOR SPACE WITH DESIGNER, LISA POIRER (RIGHT)
OLD FASHIONED, WITH A TWIST
One of Ontario’s most charming and historic towns just became a much more delicious destination with the recent opening of The Lobby Bar at the Almonte Riverside Inn. Tucked beside the Mississippi River, the upscale, six-room inn is a luxurious retreat, with The Lobby Bar serving up inventive cocktails and inspired dinners every day of the week.
Proprietors Hunter and Angie Little, worked with the Inn’s owner, Rod Prior, to come up with a fresh, new concept for the cute and compact restaurant that now seats twenty. A personal connection through their sons’ hockey teams drew Rod together with Lisa Poirier, owner of Westyle Interior Design, who was instrumental in transforming the space in under two months.
Hunter, who served most recently as sous chef at the acclaimed Riviera restaurant, is excited to be putting his own unique culinary spin on the ever-evolving menu at The Lobby Bar. An abundant garden right outside his kitchen influences many dishes, as do the classic cocktails which Angie helps create, having worked at Fauna prior to giving birth to their daughter last year.
As Angie explains, “We had a vision for the space but Lisa really refined it and pulled it all together. She helped us maximize the bar so there is room for guests to eat and drink with a view into the kitchen.”
Although she doesn’t typically do much restaurant design work, preferring to focus on home design and renovation projects, Lisa says she was eager to take on this job, despite the compressed timeline. She confirms that making good use of every square inch of the small room was a key objective, as was creating a bar that offered visual appeal along with functionality.
“It helped that they really had a solid vision so we could get things done quickly and that their vision fit the space,” says Lisa. “I would not have taken on this project if I couldn’t work within their timeline, but as soon as I saw the Inn I got really excited about the possibilities for transformation, to create a unique restaurant that suits the heritage building and really reflects the client’s aesthetic and style.” Lisa coordinated the trades including Christian Guibord of Millstrong Cabinets in Hammond.
The design aesthetic is rooted in the traditions of an old English country inn, confirms Hunter. “We wanted a classic style incorporating a hint of florals and a little bit of an old-world flair to create a space that feels instantly relaxing and welcoming.” The look incorporates the natural environment of trees, rocks and water visible from the windows and the adjacent 12-seat patio.
Hunter’s seasonally-driven food is similarly European inspired, promoting the vegetable-focused, farm-to-table movement which is rightfully so popular now. “What we can’t grow ourselves, we purchase from local farms so the menu will evolve accordingly, moving from brighter summer fare to heartier fall options,” he explains. “As befits the traditional hotel lobby bar, we also feature timeless hors d’oeuvres and bar snacks.”
The atmosphere of The Lobby Bar is complemented by using vintage glassware and silver trays sourced from local antique shops. The flexible space is ideal for special gatherings and both Hunter and Angie are enthusiastic about hosting events such as their popular trivia nights. They are looking forward to chef takeover dinners, winemakers’ dinners and more.
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Allen, Mike
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Info Mike is the son of Madeline and the late Ed Allen. The family has deep roots in the St. John River Valley where members of the family have been in engaged in farming, railroad operations, education, and politics. Mike has several years experience with NB Power and in private consulting. Mike’s strong personal beliefs in leadership, empowerment and excellence have stood him in good stead in all of the various challenges he has undertaken.
Mike has a Bachelor of Business Administration from UNB and an MBA with Honours from the University of Pittsburgh. He has consulted to major energy and retail companies, in Canada and the United States, on business strategy and information systems.
Mike is a member of the Certified General Accountant’s Association of New Brunswick. He is a past President of the Fredericton Golf and Curling Club and has also served on several organizing committees for such groups as the Canadian Nuclear Association, the World Energy Congress, and the NB Construction Symposium.
Mike has always been an active member of the community. His key interests are as both a coach and player in the areas of baseball, hockey and golf.
Mike resides in Douglas, NB with his wife, Jennifer.
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Force Area Neighbourhood Watch Associations are key in maintaining the impetus of the Neighbourhood Watch movement at local level. Their role includes providing guidance and, where necessary, policies on the details of how Neighbourhood Watch operates within their area. This includes things like deciding any processes new schemes need to follow and maintaining a good working relationship with the police at force level.
Although we refer to 'force level' Associations, they are run by Neighbourhood Watch volunteers - not by the police. The term 'force area' just refers to the same geographical area covered by the police force. It makes sense to have an Association for each force area because this allows for more effective working with the police and for our strategies to be aligned.
Want to know more about how Neighbourhood Watch is run in your area?
Get in touch with your local Association's lead contact listed below.
You can also request copies of our Members' Guide and window stickers via your local Association.
Is there a force area Association where you live? Check the list below.
If not, perhaps you could help get one started?
If you want to start an Association, we can help with documentation such as a constitution.
We can put you in touch with the police 'single point of contact' for Neighbourhood Watch issues in your force area.
We have lots of templates that can help you get started.
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Meet the force area representatives
Avon & Somerset
Graham Boyle
I have been involved with Neighbourhood Watch for some time now, holding many posts, and am currently a Street Coordinator in Turvey, the Treasurer for the Bedford and Bedfordshire Associations, and a Bedfordshire volunteer representative in the Eastern Region Partnership.
Robin Sutton
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Juila Griffiths
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Lynn Farrar
Lynn was born in Derbyshire and loves living there. Her career in the Civil Service meant she moved away for some time but she returned in 2001 and got involved with Neighbourhood Watch (NW) in her local village.
She became Chair of the Derbyshire Neighbourhood Association Trust in 2009 but reverted to a Trustee in 2011 when she was elected to the Board of the Neighbourhood Watch Network (NWN). She became Vice Chair of the charity in 2012 before being elected Chair in July 2016. She worked with colleagues to turn the organisation into a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, ensuring that the new Board was suitably skilled to take NWN into the future. She believes in community cohesion and that everyone deserves to live in a safe and secure environment.
She recently returned to local NW duties after recruiting a new Chair for NWN and knowing she was leaving the organisation in capable hands. In November 2018 she was elected Chair of Derbyshire NW once again and is looking forward to concentrating on the local community issues.
Lynn lives in a small Derbyshire village by the River Derwent with her husband David. They enjoy travelling around the country in their caravan visiting stately homes and parks and taking photos of scenery and wildlife.
Julie Dowton
Protecting our homes and our possessions is our responsibility. We are responsible for making sure we and our family are safe. Neighbourhood Watch can give us the knowledge and skills to be aware of, and avoid, the dangers. Being part of the problem solving process is very satisfying. That is why for me 20 years on I am still as passionate about Neighbourhood Watch as I was when I started.
Please enquire for details
Dyfed Powys
We currently have no Force Area Association in Dyfed Powys but please email us and we can put you in touch with a local contact.
Clive Stewart
In July 2019 I was re-elected Chairman and Secretary for a sixth consecutive year. During 2019 I created an Essex County Neighbourhood Watch Members Guide and Jane Gardner, Deputy Essex Fire & Crime Commissioner, funded the printing of it which were distributed throughout our fourteen Neighbourhood Watch Districts .
In Essex we have in excess of 140,000 Neighbourhood Watch members (inclusive of our Neighbourhood Watch Facebook Group members and Twitter users). This expansion of members raises the profile of Neighbourhood Watch and increases the distribution of our information - local crime incidents and crime prevention advice provided by Essex Police, Essex Fire & Rescue, Crimestoppers and Victim Support.
Our Police Fire & Crime Commissioner has agreed increased funding for Neighbourhood Watch in 2020. They are our main source of income and much appreciated. The fourteen Neighbourhood Watch Districts also receive funds from District & Parish Councils, Community Safety Hubs (includes Essex Police), Essex Association of Local Councils and High Sheriffs Awards. Our registered charity (Number 1168988) status helps us in funding applications. New groups have access to funds to purchase Neighbourhood Watch items such as street signs, wheelie bin stickers, window stickers, promotional pens and no cold caller stickers.
2020 is an important year for us as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary on 15th January in which we present special 25th anniversary badges to many District Coordinators, their Deputies and other Area Coordinators. We also have new BIG members badges which you can purchase.
Phil Sullivan
For contact please email Bob Lloyd our police SPOC
Andrew Taylor is Chairman of the Greater Manchester Neighbourhood Watch Association and a retired Police Inspector.
Find a list of contacts for each borough within Greater Manchester via the following link. Copy and paste this into your browser: https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/greater-manchester-neighbourhood-watch-contacts/
Bob Combes
I have worked with Neighbourhood Watch for the past twelve years at my home in Gosport and currently chair the Hampshire Neighbourhood Watch Association.
I have been involved with Neighbourhood Watch in Hertfordshire for over 20 years. I was involved with the setting up of HertsWatch in 2006. I am currently Chair of HertsWatch, which is the county ‘umbrella’ committee which oversees Neighbourhood Watch and all other themed watches.
Glyn Atkinson
I have run my own Neighbourhood Watch group for 10 years now which I started in response to an arson attack on a local garage. I am a qualified Neighbourhood Watch safety advocate having completed a NVQ 4 level of training at Manchester Police College.
Coordinator meetings are held for our local groups in north-east Lincolnshire four times a year with the aim of supporting schemes to reduce crime and streghen communities.
Humberwatch, the body that covers north Lincolnshire, Hull and East Riding, also meets four times a year to pass on good practic techniques and exchange ideas between different schemes within our region.
Peter Rolington
I am the Kent Neighbourhood Watch representative.
Roger Baines MBE
My name is Roger Baines MBE. I am chair of Lancashire Combined Watch Forum. I live in Preston in Lancashire. I have been involved in Neighbourhood Watch since 1998.
Dennis Browne
I became a member of Neighbourhood Watch in the late ‘80s and when I moved to Uttoxeter in 1998 I became Chairman of Uttoxeter and District Neighbourhood Watch and Crime Prevention Panel. Moving to Lincolnshire in 2005 I took over Gainsborough and District and progressed to County Chair. I am also a Police Volunteer and represent them and Neighbourhood Watch on a number of local committees.
Peter Evans
Since I became the Chairman of Norfolk Home Watch three years ago the committee and I re-built Homewatch and are going from strength to strength. In March 2016 we changed our name to become Norfolk Neighbourhood Watch.
Alan Earle
Alan has lived in Northampton since 1986. He took early retirement in 2011 from his role as General Manager for International Business Development for a Global Organisation . Having had various volunteer roles including Chair of one of the biggest Parish Councils in Northants, he became involved in Neighbourhood Watch just 3 years ago starting up a small scheme where he presently lives. He was elected Chair of the Northampton Area Support team in 2017 and recently Chair of the Northants County. We have a very strong and experienced team in Northants.
He believes that things like knowing your neighbour and being neighbourly helps build safer and stronger communities, that combined with active Neighbourhood Watch schemes will also not only help to reduce crime and the fear of crime, but also make people proud of where they live and improve the local environment.
Our relationships with our partner organisations like the Police, County, District, Parish Councils , Crimestoppers and other agencies is key to what we do in Northants, and we will continue to develop those and expand our network of members and schemes throughout the county.
Please enquire for more details
Yvonne Johns
John Lennard
I have been involved with Neighbourhood Watch for over 16 years. I have been the Treasurer of West Bridgford Neighbourhood Watch for seven years. I am a trustee of NottsWatch and the Webmaster. I also deal with the messages that are sent to NottsWatch admin. I am a police volunteer for Nottinghamshire Police. I am one of two East Midlands Representatives for NottsWatch.
Derek Bateman
I moved from South London to Cardiff in 1978 and have been involved with crime prevention activities for many years as Chair of South Wales Neighbourhood Watch, Wales Neighbourhood Watch and RCT CPA and as a Magistrate. I am also an active member of numerous music and drama groups in the Cardiff area.
Please email:
enquiries@ourwatch.org.uk
Tony Spall
I have been involved with Neighbourhood Watch for well over fifteen years, initially as a co-ordinator for my local scheme, then as a lead co-ordinator for the area network, followed by chair for the Ipswich Area Network Forum. I am privileged to now undertake a new role as chair for the Suffolk Neighbourhood Watch Association.
Mike Fox
Mike Fox took over as the Chair of the Surrey Neighbourhood Watch Association in March 2019.
John Wright MBE
I am passionate about Neighbourhood Watch and I am a great believer in ‘care in the community’. I lead a strong team of committed pro-active volunteers who help make Neighbourhood Watch a respected and potent force for good in Sussex. In 2013 I was awarded the MBE for services to Neighbourhood Watch and the community in Crawley.
David Alder
David Alder is Secretary of Thames Valley Neighbourhood Watch Association (TVNHWA - tvnhwa.org.uk). He is also a Members' Representative for the Chiltern area on the TVNHWA Committee. The Committee is focused on expanding Neighbourhood Watch across the whole of Thames Valley, and developing the value of the organisation to the whole community.
Stan Jones is the Chair of the TVNHWA, as well as Chair of High Wycombe NHWA.
Chris Cade
Within Neighbourhood Watch my roles have included Street Coordinator, Borough Chair, County Chair for Warwickshire and Regional Representative for the West Midlands Region. I served as a National Trustee for 6 months from July to December 2015. I am also an Independent Member of the Trust, Integrity and Ethics Committee for Warwickshire and West Mercia Police.
From January - June 2016 I took on the role of Interim Police Liaison Manager at NHWN in order to help establish more Force Level Associations and to assist existing Force Level Associations in building more effective relationships.
I am a data governance and IT change consultant, I have been involved in the development of the West Mercia Social Media programme.
I am keen to work with a new executive team at West Mercia to reinvigorate the Neighbourhood Watch movement in our area.
Kardaya Rooprai
As a Neighbourhood Watch Force Area Association our vision is to help connect, build and empower active communities within civil society, to increase the standards of living and quality of life across the West Midlands and surrounding regions.
Paul Sunners
I have served as a village coordinator since 2007 and was elected Chair of Wiltshire Neighbourhood Watch Association in July 2019. In collaboration with our Association members, I will continue to emphasise the benefits of partnership and collaboration between Wiltshire and Swindon NW schemes and Wiltshire Police. I also recognise the work and support available from the Central Support Team based in London which I hope will serve as a catalyst for innovation in supporting principles of Community Safety in Wiltshire.
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Trust to go smoke-free
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) is today announcing its plans to go smoke free from 2 March across all its sites.
From this date smoking across all trust sites will not be permitted for any patients or visitors.
The trust has taken the step to implement the new smoke free policy to bring us in line with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines.
Stuart Bell CBE, chief executive of OHFT, said: “As a healthcare provider we have a duty to provide a setting that promotes good health and we didn’t feel the current policy around smoking was in keeping with this philosophy.
“Advanced notice will be given to patients coming into our care to notify them of this change to our policy and support and advice will be readily available for anyone who feels they need it.
“Staff across all our wards have received training to be able to offer smoking cessation advice and within some of our care settings nicotine replacement will be offered.”
Information for patients and service users about the policy will also be available via the trust’s website.
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Tierra del Sol Resort & Golf
Noord, Aruba
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Home to the island’s only 18-hole championship golf course and a pro shop
A four-minute drive to numerous beaches, restaurants, and nightlife
A range of fully self-contained Condo, Villa, and Estate Home residences
Stunning classical Mediterranean pool and poolside bar offering cocktails and snacks
Stylish restaurant serving all meals with golf course views
Free shuttle to Arashi Beach where beach chairs are provided
On-site day spa and hair salon
Modern fitness center with LifeFitness equipment
Tennis courts with lessons available (at extra cost)
Free Wi-Fi throughout
Beaches, restaurants, and sites require a drive or shuttle ride
Some home and villa rentals can experience maintenance issues
Upscale Tierra del Sol is an upscale time-share community spanning 600 acres. It includes Aruba’s only 18-hole golf course and a Spanish-inspired clubhouse with a range of amenities, including a stunning pool, day spa, fitness center, hair salon, tennis courts, and stylish restaurant. An ever-changing stable of Condos, Villas, and Estate Homes are available for resort guests to rent as home-away-from-home alternatives to traditional hotel rooms. Individually decorated layouts range from two- to five-bedrooms, but maintenance issues can be an annoyance. Many residences back right onto the golf course with sweeping views to the Caribbean Sea, and some even have private pools. Tierra suits golfing fanatics and families seeking an upmarket timeout, though the short drive or shuttle ride to the beach can be a drag. For something right on the beach, try Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort -- but it's adult-only.
Three-Bedroom Condo
Hotel Class: Upscale
A sprawling enclave with an upscale vibe, Mediterranean aesthetic, and an emphasis on seaside golf
Grand Mediterranean architecture in warm terra cotta tones and bougainvillea gardens in brilliant fuchsia set an elegant tone on arrival at Tierra del Sol (land of the sun) -- an ever-growing villa-meets-golf resort community spanning 600 acres. The grand clubhouse, stunning classical pool, and many villa residences unfold along the upper edge of the sweeping 18-hole golf course. It's a wonderfully rugged, cactus-strewn expanse that often deals with fierce trade winds from the Caribbean Sea enveloping it. A Sotheby’s office, golf shop, reception area, and an upscale restaurant comprise the main Clubhouse which neighbors the huge main pool, which feels like an escape to somewhere in the Spanish countryside. Scores of privately owned Condos, freestanding Villas, and Estate Homes unfold, complete with street signs, throughout a series of mini-neighborhoods with names like Las Rocas (the rocks) or Bella Vista (beautiful view). Wide, winding roads edged with neat succulent gardens and lofty palm trees conjure New Mexico or Palm Springs, while architecture predominantly continues the Mediterranean theme. Avid golfers, diners visiting the clubhouse restaurant, residence owners, and resort guests with families are all here, but golf is the star of the show.
Northwestern Aruba, a four-minute drive from beaches, restaurants, and nightlife
The property resides in Noord’s peaceful Malmok Beach area, in the island’s northwest, about a 25-minute drive from Queen Beatrix International Airport and slightly inland from the west coast -- essentially a long stretch of Aruba’s famed white-sand beaches. The closest are Malmok and Boca Catalina Beaches (both a four-minute drive or a 20-minute walk). There’s also Arashi (four minutes) and Hadicurari Beach (six minutes by car), and there are plenty more beaches to choose from up and down the coast, depending on the vibe beachgoers seek. The Palm Beach strip in Aruba’s high-rise resort area is teeming with restaurants, bars, and nightlife. It’s about an eight-minute drive from the property. Renting a car can make sense and free on-site parking is provided throughout the Tierra del Sol.
A choice of luxury Condos, Villas, and Estate Homes, all individually decorated and fully self-contained
Privately owned residences include a wide range of Condominiums (two- and three-bedroom); Villas (two-, three-, and four-bedroom); and Estate Homes (four- and five-bedroom). Homes unfold throughout the various mini-neighborhoods that make up the Tierra del Sol community, and each area has its own architectural flavor. While all residences are designed for upscale living, each has been given its own interior decor look, which varies from home to home, so decor in one home may satisfy some guests but feel outdated to others.
All units have kitchens which are fully-equipped with everything required to cook (stoves, ovens, microwaves, coffee machines, toasters, blenders, and dishwashers). Some residences offer two-story layouts and most have outdoor terraces or patios. Many back right onto, or overlook, the golf course, with sweeping, uninterrupted views to the Caribbean Sea. Regardless of category, all units come with linens, safes, telephones, air-conditioning, laundry facilities, and private parking. Free Wi-Fi is provided in each rental.
Mediterranean-inspired buildings are composed of two or four attached apartments ranging from 1450 to 1675 square feet, and can sleep between two and six people. Villas are freestanding and come with private pools, also accommodating between two and six depending on the layout which averages between 1500 to 2100 square feet. Villas come with some extra perks like free airport pickup and free daily breakfast.
Estate Homes are all custom built with open plan living areas, expansive pool decks, and al fresco barbecue settings. These homes can accommodate between eight and 10 people, with layouts spanning up to 6,000 square feet.
Given the scale of this place, and the individual residences, it's no surprise that maintenance issues can occur.
An incredible golf course, outdoor pool, fitness center, tennis courts, premium restaurant, and a spa
The 18-hole championship golf course is the main attraction here. Designed by Robert Trent Jones II, the course is home to the PGA's The Aruba Cup, and offers a full-length practice range, chipping areas, putting greens, and an upscale golf shop. All golf carts come with GPS and there’s a beverage cart service doing the rounds. Hotel guests all receive 50 percent off golfing fees.
Another major highlight is the spectacular classical pool and whirlpool that neighbors the clubhouse. There are plenty of shaded and unshaded sun beds on offer, with more available on an expansive terrace adjoining the pool area, with great golf course views. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are offered in the upscale restaurant, simply known as The Restaurant at Tierra del Sol. Indoor seating overlooks the golf course, while the terrace takes in views of the golf course and gorgeous pool. There are weekly specials, like surf and turf night and discounted wine nights. The 19th Hole Bar is located near the pool, providing snacks and cocktails for poolside or post golf enjoyment. Located between the 9th & 10th holes, the Look-out Bar & Grill offers a range of mid-game snacks and refreshments.
Other features include a day spa, hair salon, and a modern fitness center featuring modern cardio- and weight-training equipment. Tennis courts are on offer and lessons can be arranged at extra cost.
There's a free shuttle service to Arashi Beach where lounge chairs are provided. Free parking and Wi-Fi are provided throughout the Tierra del Sol community.
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Resorts World Bimini
Bimini, Caribbean
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750-acre resort with a stunning white-sand beach
Spacious condo-style digs with classic beach decor and terraces
Full kitchens, washer/dryers, flat-screen TVs, and AC come standard
Two outdoor pools, including a rooftop, ocean-view infinity one
Multiple bars and restaurants serving seafood, pizza, and cocktails
Big casino with slots and games tables
Home to the Bahamas’ largest marina complex
Wide choice of indoor and outdoor event spaces
Free access to a beach club
Two-hour ferry ride from Miami
Free property-wide Wi-Fi
Some complaints of maintenance issues
Bars and eateries aren’t consistently open
Common areas can be crowded and noisy
Mandatory daily resort fee
Towels and beach umbrellas cost extra
White sand abutting azure water combine with homey cottages, and a host of features to make the upper-middle-range Resorts World Bimini a family-friendly spot. Cottages come with kitchenettes or full kitchens, one to four bedrooms, and laundry facilities, as well as outdoor terraces -- some with stellar ocean views. The property’s features are impressive, consisting of multiple pools -- including a rooftop infinity pool -- a popular 10,000-square-foot casino, elegant spa, several restaurants and bars offering everything from burgers to sushi, a marina, and private beach club. Issues regarding maintenance and service are common, however. For travelers not needing a kitchen, it's worth comparing rates with the Hilton at Resorts World Bimini, which has access to the facilities here.
Mega-Yacht Pool
Three Bedroom Ocean View
Three Bedroom Tree House
Hotel Class: Upper-middle-range
Fun-in-the-sun ambience draws a wide range of vacationers
With their cute white porches and cute pastel exteriors, the rows of well-landscaped houses that constitute the condo section of Resorts World Bimini have a much quainter look than the hotel rooms at the on-site Hilton. They also offer more privacy and, thanks to their kitchen or kitchenette facilities, at least the option of self-sufficiency. As a result, they appeal to a mixed bag of vacationers that can run the gamut from multi-generational family groups to a party-hearty platoon of friends. Though as access to the pools, restaurants, and wellness features are shared, the complex can feel a bit busy and some maintenance issues have been reported. Nevertheless, the volume of facilities and stunning beachfront make this a popular option.
Covering 750 seaside acres on stunning North Bimini
Located on the thin tail of Bimini’s north island, Resorts World Bimini sits some 50 miles due east of Miami. Many visitors never feel compelled to leave the hotel, thanks to the fact that the 750-acre property contains multiple bars and eateries, a selection of pools, two marinas, and a glitzy casino. Free hop-on tram service allows guests to negotiate the sprawling spot. Golf carts and bikes can be rented at the resort for those wishing to go farther afield; fishing excursions and such can also be booked for off-site adventures. Arriving and departing guests travel via plane to South Bimini Airport or take the two-hour ferry connecting the Port of Miami with the South Bimini Port, and then hop on a shuttle boat for the five-minute trip onward. Privileged vacationers can reach the property by taking a private boat to the resort’s own marinas, which can accommodate vessels up to 200-feet long.
Self-catering digs with a colorful colonial style
The resort’s cottage-like condos range from Studios to four-bedroom houses, all of which share a colorful, colonial-inspired look. Exteriors are painted in charming pastel hues, while interiors have a homey mix of wooden furniture, ocean-inspired accents in coral lamp posts and beach photographs, and granite countertops. The smallest of the lot come with adjustable air-conditioning, ironing facilities, digital safes, flat-screen TVs, iPod docking stations, and somewhat unreliable Wi-Fi, which is covered by the mandatory daily resort fee. Plus, they have convenient kitchenettes with microwaves, mini-fridges and coffeemakers; stacking washer/dryers are welcome extra. All units have outdoor spaces, while larger cottages add separate living and dining spaces and full kitchens complete with stoves, dishwashers, and assorted small appliances. Daily housekeeping (which is not a given in similar places) is also included.
Wide array and kid- and adult-friendly amenities
The list of features that the condos here share with the Hilton is long and varied. The complex's crowning feature is different for many travelers, though many agree it's the gorgeous white-sand beach and its private beach club. However, while beach chairs are provided, umbrellas and towels cost extra. Another draw of this property is the 10,000-square-foot casino packed with slot machines and games tables. Marinas are convenient and fun for yacht-lovers, and there are multiple pools across the resort, including a rooftop infinity pool with stellar ocean vistas. On the downside, some past guests have complained of pools looking a bit dirty, and facilities are often crowded with people.
Wellness options include a lovely spa with a full menu of treatments and an ocean-view fitness center with modern equipment. Ample meeting and event spaces are available, including a wedding gazebo by the beach. The resort also boasts multiple dining and drinking options -- a sushi bar, seafood and steak spot, and pizza eatery among them, though some aren't consistently open. Wi-Fi is free.
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Thursday, Dec 05, 2019 01:30 PM
Lambeau Field ready for Sunday's game
Lambeau Field is ready for Sunday's game, which will kick off at noon and will recognize the Fuel Up to Play 60 program, in partnership with the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.
Prior to the start of the game, selected Fuel Up to Play 60 participants will be introduced and will run through the tunnel and onto the field.
On gameday, the Lambeau Field parking lots will open at 8 a.m., with stadium gates opening at 10 a.m. The Lambeau Field Atrium, including 1919 Kitchen & Tap, the Packers Hall of Fame and Packers Pro Shop will be open at 8 a.m. to ticketed guests only. Stadium exit and re-entry will not be available at any point prior to the game. The team is also reminding fans to allow plenty of time to enter the stadium, and enter through the specific gates indicated on their tickets.
Fans on Sunday can enjoy live music, food, beverages and a festive tailgating atmosphere at the Johnsonville Tailgate Village on the east side of the stadium, which opens at 8 a.m. for ticketed and non-ticketed guests alike.
All fans entering the gates will receive an ugly sweater can Koozie, compliments of Miller Lite.
Featured alumni are scheduled to make appearances Sunday; T.J. Lang and Josh Sitton will be taking part in fan activities at surprise locations around Lambeau Field and the Legends Club, respectively, leading up to kickoff. Brady Poppinga also will be appearing in the U.S. Cellular Loft to greet fans prior to the game.
Prior to the national anthem, the Packers and WPS Health Solutions will honor Senior Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Pionk and his family as part of Operation Fan Mail on the field.
Prior to kickoff, the national anthem will be performed by country singer/songwriter Matt Stell, and a flyover will be performed by four T-38C jets from Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The pilots are from the 25th Flying Training Squadron.
At the two-minute warning of the first half, Nick Beckett from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the winner of the "Ultimate Leap Contest," will have the opportunity to do a Lambeau Leap in the north end zone. The contest is presented by Kitchen Tune-Up.
At halftime, the High School Quarterback Challenge, presented by HPE and Camera Corner will take place on the field. The competition will feature players from Lomira High School in Lomira, Wisconsin, and Cambria-Friesland High School in Cambria, Wisconsin.
Also at halftime, the Madison Radicals and the Minnesota Wind Chill from the Ultimate Frisbee League will square off on the field.
The Packers are reminding fans of the NFL's stadium safety policy. No bags or purses will be allowed inside Lambeau Field unless they are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and are no larger than 12" by 6" by 12". Stadium cushions are not allowed as a part of the policy, however, stadium seats and stadium pads that contain no pockets or zippers and are 18" wide or smaller are allowed. All fans entering Lambeau Field on gamedays will use walk-through metal detectors.
For more information about gameday, visit packers.com/lambeau-field/gameday.
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Rep. William C. Kortz 38th District / Allegheny County
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Kortz: New 10-year contract extension reached between UPMC and Highmark
Extension will allow Highmark-insured patients access to UPMC facilities
Rep. William C. Kortz June 24, 2019 | 3:13 PM
HARRISBURG, June 24 – State Rep. Bill Kortz, D-Allegheny, has released the following statement regarding the announcement of a contract extension between UPMC and Highmark, which will extend UPMC facility access to Highmark-insured patients.
“First off, I want to thank state Attorney General Josh Shapiro for his hard work to ensure health care access for all Pennsylvanians. I am pleased to learn of the new contract extension between UPMC and Highmark, which will extend UPMC facility access to Highmark-insured patients in western Pennsylvania for 10 years. Today’s announcement eases the concerns and anxieties of thousands of Pennsylvanians, who were left wondering about their health care access, as well as the coordination and management of that care, including those who are undergoing significant medical treatment. They can breathe a much-needed sigh of relief.
“Moving forward, I still believe that much more needs to be done to protect consumers, and I will continue to advocate for legislation to require charity hospital-insurance company hybrids to behave in the public interest and stop from taking advantage of sick and vulnerable Pennsylvanians.
“I hope that over the next 10 years that these non-profits will do the right thing. As a public charity, these entities should be focused less on profits and more about patient care.
“Let me be clear – while this is certainly great news, keep in mind that contracts have to be worked out between UPMC and Highmark, and this will take some time. Please make sure to contact your insurer before making any important decisions or changes regarding your health insurance policy.”
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BBC To Investigate 'The Dark Side Of Dairy' In TV Show
The show will be available to watch next week
The broadcaster labeled the industry 'controversial' (Photo: BBC)
The BBC will be investigating animal agriculture in a program called The Dark Side of Dairy.
The one-off episode is part of BBC Scotland's Disclosure series - a current affairs show 'examining the issues affecting the lives of people around Scotland'.
It will be available to watch on BBC iplayer after it screens on September 10.
'Controversial world'
According to the broadcaster: "Investigative journalist Samantha Poling takes a journey into the controversial world of live animal exports.
"She uncovers some shocking truths about what happens to the male calves the Scottish dairy industry has no use for.
"And she goes on the trail of a live cattle shipment across Europe to see for herself the long journeys they endure."
'Share the horrific truth'
Vegan activist Chris Hines, Founder of animal rights organization Virtue, shared a video of the trailer on social media.
He wrote: "Share this video and let's make sure the world watches and learns the truth about this horrific industry."
You can find the trailer for the program here
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Why Do We Need Labels Like “Gay”, “Bi”, “Trans”, and “Cis”?
July 16, 2014 by Daniel Fincke
Why Do We Need Labels Like “Gay”, “Bi”, “Trans”, and “Cis”? July 16, 2014 Daniel Fincke
In this post I want to address skepticism about identity labels. I want to deal with people who say things like the following:
People shouldn’t have to identify as gay or straight or bi, they should just be people.
People shouldn’t identify as gay or bi because that’s defining yourself by who you want to sleep with. I don’t care about that, no one should care about that, and you shouldn’t be announcing it to everyone you meet. I don’t care about who you sleep with, just don’t shove it in my face.
If some transgender people don’t like the word ‘tranny’ and want to make me stop saying it, I should have the right to tell them to stop calling me ‘cis’, since I don’t appreciate that word. If everyone can protest a label they don’t like, then I refuse to be called ‘cis’. I don’t like to be called that, you’re oppressing me when you call me that.
If gender identification is just a social construct and has no basis in fact, then why do people bother to change their identification or alter their bodies in order to change their genders. If it’s just a fiction, why care so much about which fictional label you have. Why not just be however you like and refuse all constricting gender demands and all gender labels altogether?
Before addressing these specific problems, let me remind everyone of some basics about language.
According to the Global Language Monitor, there are more than a million English words. The Oxford Dictionary has 250,000 without even including slang words or jargon from the sciences, medicine, academia, etc. The Urban Dictionary has nearly 8 million definitions at present, with 2,000 added every day. And every day you and I will come across some new portmanteau, neologism, meme phrase, clever bit of slang, or some other form of wordplay that is tempting to pick up and start using because it encapsulates a particular phenomenon and gives it a word to store it in for easy access.
Why do we have so many words?
The answer is simple: without a word for a concept, it’s harder to think it. That’s because every time you think of a concept for which you have no word, you have to spell it all out. Every time you want to reference it in a conversation you have to say, “You know that feeling when…” or “You know circumstances like…” in order to convey your meaning. Then being understood hinges on your ability to describe something very particular and nuanced. It takes a lot of words and a lot of precision—especially when you’re trying to get at something really particular. It could take sentences, paragraphs, essays, books, or whole generations of discussions to nail down a particular concept or experience. But when we can finally nail down a feature of the world or an experience or a set of experiences with a single word or set of words and spread the them around, then everyone who hears the words can instantly get what we mean. The words mean being able to convey complicated concepts that would require several steps of thinking in just a handful of sounds and just a few sets of letters.
This is of course why academics and scientists and technical workers of all sorts have jargon. They’re not trying to be abstruse to outsiders (hopefully). It’s that by nailing down the sophisticated concepts their field has developed simple words they can easily remember and access them when speaking to each other. These words mean they can communicate with each other more easily and simply and fluently. And now that these sophisticated concepts are mastered and memorized as (to them) simple words, they can build off these settled concepts to work out the next stage of sophisticated understanding, leading to new complicated concepts which can themselves be mastered and simplified with easily memorizable words. And once the words are known, whole intricate concepts can be called to mind and held in mind at will where ordinary language would have required fumbling around vaguely trying to remember all the pieces and moves that make them up.
This is how technical languages build. While this process can make communications within advanced disciplines impenetrably esoteric to non-specialists, it’s invaluable to the advance of knowledge. The world is a much more complicated place than our shared everyday vocabulary can precisely describe with any ease or rapidity. The more we can penetrate into a complex realm (be it that of chemistry or economics or anatomy or philosophy, etc.) and investigate all its sophisticated contours, the more that we are going to have to make clear distinctions among the concepts and the things we come across in order to keep them straight in our minds. And this means a proliferation of words for the sake of mapping out all the intricacies of the phenomena we’re investigating.
And before we look at what all the labeling going on in the LGBT community is about, we have to keep something else in mind. Different human cultures make for extraordinarily varied human experiences. The contours of different cultures create wildly different social arrangements, ethical judgments, and self-understandings. Cultural practices take the raw biological and psychological materials that make us up and teach us to draw distinctions here but not there and to engage in these practices and not those. Through the very words a culture has or does not have at its disposal, certain aspects of experience become visible, invisible, or hard to see.
In every culture the everyday stock of words encode an everyday stock of distinctions that everyone is readily familiar with and defaults to. This means certain structures of reality are clear because they’re easily thought. Other structures of reality that the culture knows no word for are harder to instantly spot. Or if they are spotted, they are harder to articulate and understand. Because when experiencing these aspects of reality people in the culture don’t immediately say, “Ah ha! This is an x!” and simply slap on the label. No, instead, they have to go through a complicated process of saying “”You know that feeling when…” or “You know circumstances like…”
Which concepts you have words for and which ones you don’t can make a key difference in which objective features of reality you are able to see or not. Just as any inquirers into a technical field of science will only be able to see certain features of reality when they have systematically investigated them, refined their concepts with a high degree of specificity and given precise jargon names to each, so there are features of ordinary social and psychological life that can only be seen through technical investigations that go far beyond ordinary language and involve making highly specialized distinctions.
Now, two different cultures may have as their everyday set of concepts, ideas that to each other sound strange and incomprehensible. The one has the equivalent of a sophisticated academic jargon and conceptualization for areas of experience that the other barely differentiates at all. What are simple and basic everyday distinctions to one group are sophisticated nuances hard for another group to wrap their minds around.
And to further complicate things, human minds and societies are plastic. And so the jargon they build up is more like tech jargon than more descriptive forms of science jargon. The same ways that technology evolves to serve various purposes and the kinds of conceptual and linguistic distinctions that are made are influenced by the goals, priorities, and current shaping of the technology, is the way that societies build their social and psychological language with feedback to the social projects they are engaged in. In other words, societies are aiming at ordering themselves for certain goods. Those influence which concepts they’re interested in developing. And societies build what we might call “social technologies”. That is, they develop a huge range of practices. Some of these are explicitly prescribed. Others just become implicit habits. Many are some hybrid between the two.
The practices that societies develop profoundly influence the shape in which they experience their social and personal natures as people. The language they organically evolve for describing human society or personal psychology or economic designations or social authorities or political structures or family relations or sexuality or ethics or gender are not going to be scientifically neutral, simple descriptions of the way the world simply is. In most cases unreflective descriptions of these various kinds of relationships are going to be descriptions that happen within the “social tech” (the social practices) they’ve built up for organizing all these things.
There may be other ways to organize them that are better “social technologies”, better ways of ordering society, politics, family, sexuality, ethics, economics, etc. for the ends they really care about. If they could get out of the “tech” they’re already using, go back to the “science” of the basic dynamics of these things and get back in touch with their potential for plasticity, they might be able to conceive alternative “tech” strategies, i.e. alternative social practices for accomplishing these basic goals. To do that though means going against the grain of their received everyday, tech-based, descriptions of the world that they readily confuse for reality itself.
Now before we get to the LGBT applications, let’s look at the third crucial element to keep in mind. Cultures, from time immemorial, have not been defining their concepts with an open-minded, scientifically rigorous perspective, interested only in the simple truth of reality. They’ve been engineering their social and political and psychological concepts in particular with an eye towards practices that lead to flourishing. Which is good. But many of the social concepts developed have not been determined by an inclusive interest in everyone’s flourishing. Rather, just as the winners write the history books, those who are economically or politically or socially or religiously most dominant have had inordinate influence in defining social practices in ways that serve their own interests. In turn, since “everyday” concepts about these matters are shaped in people’s minds by the practices they live within, the concepts that reinforce dominant classes’ power become seen as common sense reality itself.
This happens both explicitly and implicitly. Sometimes the dominant deliberately engineer in their own favor the practices and resultant language stemming from them. More often it seems that it’s just the natural trickle down effect of dominance. And of course what is more common in people will have an inevitable dominating effect. In matters where the elites are not skewing perceptions through their dominance, simple majority tendencies will influence what practices are typical and then seen to be part of nature itself for being so “normal”. In this way the normal, in the sense of typical, becomes readily conflated with the normative, in the sense of ideal. (See my post From Normal to Normative, Human Minds’ Conformist Conservative Prejudice for more on this theme.)
So, in this context, we have LGBT people and the proliferation of labels and distinctions and jargon related to them.
What we non-LGBT people need to understand is that our received, everyday language that most of us grew up with only very selectively makes distinctions for us in the realms of sexuality and gender. Just as our everyday language only skims the surface of the deep and complicated world that science investigates, well so does it only skim the surface of a multifarious realm of possibilities in sexuality and gender. And thanks to religious repressiveness related to sex and simplistic essentialism related to gender, we spent millennia barely plumbing the complexities of what is actually possible in our psychologies and social arrangements. And, again, since these are matters that inevitably our cultures construct our thinking about in a million subtle, untraceable ways, to think of them with a scientific kind of rigorousness and detachment we have to be aware that our social practices are shaping our thinking in the first place.
So not only do we need to struggle to move from the everyday to the more technically scientific, we need to extricate ourselves from a set of practices and ethical norms stacked in favor of both the dominant and the usual in order to pay attention to that which we are outright biased against seeing.
So, when you say, “what are all these silly words–“homosexual”, “bisexual”, “transgender”, basically what you’re saying is “My personal social and psychological experience and needs have no use for these distinctions. All I need to think about is a simple dichotomy between men and women. And I am served best by a world in which only men and women marry and in which we only talk about sex between men and women. Or in which we never talk about sex at all, even. So, everybody else shut up about your alternate experiences that have nothing to do with me.”
Do you hear how self-centered and self-serving that sounds?
With gays who are biphobic or transphobic, the problem is slightly different. The objection sounds more like this:
Since I am definitely not straight, no one who is attracted to members of the same sex can possibly be truly attracted to members of the opposite sex. So bisexuals don’t exist.
Since I used to hide my homosexuality by dating members of the opposite sex, that must be what bisexuals do.
Since I could not choose to be with a member of the opposite sex and it was excruciatingly painful when people tried to tell me I could make that choice, no bisexuals who actually in theory could make that choice can actually exist.
Since my being a more effeminate man or a more butch woman didn’t mean I wasn’t still a man or still a woman, no one’s gender non-conformity amounts to being transgender.
Again, do you hear the closedmindedness? The myopia? The self-centeredness? The arbitrariness?
For millennia we had men having sex with and loving men and women having sex with and loving women. And yet we didn’t have a word “homosexual” until the 19th Century—let alone a whole conceptualization of a “sexual orientation” until even after that. The language was shaped by heterosexuals. It was shaped by people who for the most part identified with the genders they were assigned at birth. And so our practices were shaped around man-woman love and sex. They were shaped around an illusory ironclad fact of nature that one could not possibly have a gender that was misaligned with their sex organs. For millennia it seems like at least some men who enjoyed sex with men so bought into the heteronormative schema that they would see little contradiction or feel little consternation between simply marrying a woman in order to have children and fulfill the ideal of a man in their culture while just as simply having sex with men on the side. For centuries the language groped around without a clear definition of the sexual orientation of homosexuality.
Today, the concept that there are different sexual orientations seems natural and intuitive. People who enjoy love and sex exclusively with members of the same sex are an obvious and plain as day reality to all but the most obstinate, literally religiously dogmatic, bigots. But it was so unclear in prior eras–even as everyone knew some same sex sexual activity was happening–that clear words and conceptual frameworks and explicit practices and identities were for the most part lacking.
Gays having words to name their feelings and developing a community and a jargon to explicate all the features of their real experience was crucial to understanding themselves. I have a friend who grew up gay in the ’50s and didn’t even know a word for what he was feeling. Imagine that, my straight friends. Instead of growing up as you did–with a million love songs and attending weddings and observing your parents and seeing heterosexual couples everywhere and being given on a platter all these cultural forms to guide you in imagining how to fulfill your sexual and love longings–imagine growing up as my friend did, without even a word for being gay and thinking he might be the only one who felt that way at all.
When the gay community finally arose as an explicit, out of the closet, cultural force, it brought with it words to name the experiences so many gay people shared. The community created concepts, debated what the ideal practices for gay people might look like. Must they take the same forms as straight relationships? Do the same ethical and social and psychological relationships that straights in their culture were wedded to be the ones they should idealize? What was the path to their own fulfillment? What sorts of new institutions might they benefit more from?
Remember, society is a tech project, not just a science one. It’s something malleable. Something we can experiment with. And the redefinitions we do are not a “denial of biology” and a mythic “biological determinism”. The redefinitions of our social relationships are not a denial of nature. Our biological and psychological nature is precisely to be plastic on the cultural level. Of course there are limits to our plasticity. And there are limits to what cultural forms we can experiment with that will actually accomplish our ultimate goals of both maximizing our potential as humans and living satisfying lives.
But when you see new challenges to sexual or gender arrangements, if your first inclination is to say, “well biological dimorphism exists so this is clearly an attempt to deny basic biology” then you’re not thinking. You’re being dogmatic. You’re trying to evade the hard work of proving that only the existing conceptualizations of gender or sexuality are workable frameworks for describing reality and the best tech for structuring social reality by trying to pretend that the currently dominant social way of doing things is the innate and only way to order things.
But that’s palpably false. Cultures have workably varied in how they’ve sliced up social arrangements in a dizzying number of ways. Some have been for the worse, some for the better. Some differences are objectively a better kind of tech for their particular environmental or social circumstances in their very particular time and place. Some differences have objectively failed the cultures that adopted them.
What’s happening when transgender people or gay people or bisexuals or polyamorists or any of a number of identifiably differently inclined people come forward and start trying to explicate the contours of their experience is they are trying to do as all sciences do. They’re trying to say, hey, we have hit upon a whole set of realities and experiences ill-described in ordinary language and we’re developing a language that does justice to them.
While the new words will sound to those without those different experiences as some attempt to turn reality on its head, there is no difference in principle between developing a language to describe your experiences of sexuality and gender than developing a language to describe economics or chemistry.
When people feel so threatened and defensive over new words like “cis” or the articulation of bi people’s experiences, what they’re doing is defending the social conceptualizations that serve themselves as being the only kinds there are, rather than expanding the concepts to include others on a par with them.
To take an analogy. When Christians started talking about religions, they didn’t want to think of Christianity as just another religion. Christianity was just Christianity. It was the path to salvation. It was the revelation of God. What other people had were “religions”. It was knocking Christianity off its place of privilege to make it just another religion.
When non-transgender people bristle at the word “cisgender” being coined to describe them they’re doing something similar. Many cisgender people just want to go on assuming they’re “just normal”. They want to be the default. “There’s normal people like us, and then on the margins some deviations from normal that get their own names.” Setting up the world like that means the fundamental taxonomy prioritizes you and how you are and makes everyone else just a deviation from you.
Whereas saying “there are transgender and cisgender people” is equalizing. And uncontroversially factual, helpful, descriptive of a real phenomenon. There are some people who want to identify with the gender they were assigned with birth and they’re cisgender. There are some people who find themselves identifying more with a different gender than they were assigned from birth and want to outwardly express that. They’re transgender. Two concepts. It’s perfectly right to give two words. That’s the scientific thing to do. To say, “there’s normal people like me who we don’t even need to classify as anything but normal” is not to be clear. It’s to avoid understanding yourself on a common spectrum with those who are struggling to articulate their experience on the margins of society.
Again, it was only in very recent decades and centuries that it would have been weird and bizarre to “heterosexual” people to have a “heterosexual” or “straight” identity. Again, it could have just been “normalcy”. But, by now, most people have come to see that as perfectly fine and ordinary and clear to helpfully distinguish those who are homosexual from those who are heterosexual. That change happened because enough time using these new (and better) categories made things clearer.
But then the bisexuals start speaking up. And, tragicomically, even gay people are straining their brains to conceive of their true existence, accepting their testimonies about their experience as real, etc., etc.
Again, as I described above, it all becomes about me, me, me. Heterosexuals oh so conveniently incapable of wrapping their minds around homosexuals for a long time before they were finally acknowledged as a common sense, ordinary, easily conceivable, biologically real set of people. So now it’s heterosexuals and homosexuals acting all uncomprehending about bisexuals. It’s cisgender people gawking in puzzlement about transgender people.
The way to make all of this less strange is to stop going, “Bah! These new words are bullshit!” but instead to just learn them. Just use them. Just start thinking within them.
Again, the language has over a million words. But bisexual and cisgender come along and the response is, “What’s with all this new word making! Go home, New Words! We just closed. We’re already filled up with enough words. If only you had gotten here a half hour earlier.”
Again, science and academia and technological fields and subcultures of all sorts invent new words to make real distinctions clearer all the time. There is no reason that the sexual orientation and gender experiences of 6 billion people should be boiled down to an easy two that everyone has to cram themselves into because suddenly we’re people who cannot fathom anyone inventing a new word! Oh the unnaturalness of such a thing! Don’t we realize that nature only consists of things we have everyday language words for?
Naming the gender types, the sexual orientation types, the sexual interest types even, in all their beautiful diversity helps us think better. It helps us acknowledge more realities and account for them with better social practices so that the people who don’t fit into one or two current everyday categories are now taken into account. Having words for these differing people at the tip of our tongue, reminds us they exist at all. Refusing the words for them. Refusing the conceptualizations of their experience they offer us is an attempt to erase their existence. It’s an attempt to make it harder for us to remember them or think about them. It will make it harder for us to take any interest in their thriving.
The conditions of their thriving may be different than ours. Denying them labels to describe themselves or their experiences will make it harder for us to meet their needs.
And this is why transgender people care about gender “even though it’s a social construct”. We all live through social constructs. They’re the social technologies we have for ordering life. We can’t deal with a completely undifferentiated mass of experiences. We need to break things down. “This is this” and “that is that”. We inevitably have to devise institutions and group designations and systems of economics and systems of government and systems of education and systems of family, etc., etc.
Humans need cultural forms to express themselves through. There is no simple expression of the self that does not mediate itself through language and practices.
So opting out of gender altogether is as futile a suggestion for many people as opting out of money or family or citizenship or romantic-partnering would be. Gender’s a major kind of social technology cultures around the world develop.
Transgender people are simply those who feel like the way their particular culture constructs genders, they would feel more comfortable identifying and expressing themselves in the opposite gender of the one they were assigned at birth according to their sex organs. The simplest way I have to grasp this is the following:
Any given culture will cluster together a whole set of characteristics as typical of one gender and another set as typical of another. These are loose clusters. There’s a lot of room for overlap. There’s a lot of room for versions of one thing in a “feminine” way and the same thing in a “masculine” way. Most people feel comfortable that they are mostly the gender everyone expects them to be, based on their genitalia. They feel comfortable enough with enough of the cluster of traits expected of them. They express them well enough according to others’ expectations that they feel basically understood by others. They may want to expand what’s seen as permissible for people of their gender. They may want to present themselves in ways the other gender is more expected to without experiencing judgment. That’s all great. Gender shouldn’t be a straitjacket for anyone. But for these cisgender people, they still fundamentally feel like they belong to the gender everyone assumes they would.
For transgender people, it’s something like an experience where the cluster of traits that resonate and which they want to express most naturally are too much more in line with the gender people don’t expect from them. And so people their whole lives are expecting (even demanding) they constantly express themselves outwardly at odds with how they feel inwardly. And if they can start expressing themselves according to the norms and forms their culture has set up for the opposite gender, they will feel more it all comes more naturally to them and they will be understood by others more naturally for what they’re truly feeling on the inside.
Trans people are trying to fit themselves the best they can into the cultural forms available and re-tailor those forms to their own needs.
They’re not trying to overturn “the natural order”. There’s a long long long road from biological dimorphism to “women should be the ones who paint their faces and wear pink and speak more languidly and if you are born with a penis you may never think of doing all these things”.
What clusters of traits are viewed as masculine or feminine really is more fluid than our myopic tendency to conflate our particular social order with biology itself misleads us to believe.
Transgender people can’t overthrow the entirety of gender construction. It’s unfair to them to demand that of them with pedanticism about what their denial of fixed genders should entail when instead you can simply take them at their word that they feel more comfortable and more able to express themselves by identifying in this new way rather than what was foist on them by society’s simplistic demand that “penises require these highly socially arbitrary traits” and “vaginas require these other highly socially arbitrary traits”.
Finally, two last pieces to fill in. Gay people are not “shoving their sex lives in your face” when they identify as gay. They’re not telling you about their weird bedroom kink. They’re owning something much more central to their identity. Homosexuality is not just a bedroom taste. For gays and bisexuals it is as core to who they are as heterosexuality is to straight people. We straight people consider our romantic partners fundamentally important to our lives. Whether or whom to marry is a fundamental question to straight people. A wedding is, far from a hidden private issue, one of the central public rites most people have. People’s marriages are the relationships they most discuss. Whole families are built around them. Because romantic love and sex are not trivial parts of the self. And gays demanding to be able to be just as public about their homosexual love relationships or their desire for such are not describing the specific manner in which they have sex to you any more than straight people are. Just like straight people they’re telling you what kinds of people they generally engage with for romantic love and sex. Straight people “say” this equally as much when they simply mention their romantic partners or their desire for one. And no one flips out. Because it’s not sexually explicit. It’s mundanely open about an important aspect of their lives that contributes to their identity. Same with gays.
So, no, gays are not defining their entire selves by who they have sex with. Just as romantic and sexual orientation are important components of an identity for a straight person that do not entirely define them, so gay people can make their sexual orientation identity a part of their self-expression without that entirely defining them. And they have needed to do this in order to band together and find others who share their experience so they can help conceptualize it for themselves and express it to others.
Saying, “I wish we didn’t have to worry about it and could just treat people as people” is not supportive. It effectively translates to “I don’t need to talk about homosexuality. It’s not a big deal to me so no one needs to talk about it.” Again, this is remarkably self-centered, self-serving, and possibly a cover for homophobia. Gay people need to talk about their identity because otherwise they won’t have anywhere near the equivalent of help working out their identity that you have from mainstream heteronormative culture, which you take for granted. They need to talk about their identity because millions of gay kids are (or were) bereft of gay role models that could serve the role a million heterosexual role models served for you, which you take for granted. They need to identify publicly because their rights are still threatened or non-existent in some areas. Congratulations on your self-absorbed dream of a day when no one has to care about identity labels. All your bleating on about that tells me is you don’t care about where gays are now and what they need to do to empower themselves now. Because where they are they need more visibility, not less. And they don’t need you suggesting their visibility and their efforts to normalize their identity culturally are somehow a problem.
And one last word about self-identifications. When cis people get huffy about being told not to call transgender people “tranny”, they’re refusing to acknowledge that this word–whatever benign origins it might have had–is often used as a slur. It’s often used by abusive people. Therefore it’s heard as an abusive term by many transgender people. Telling them not to hear it that way, instead of respecting their wishes that you not use it, just says you also don’t care about them and making them feel safe. You are more obsessed with your legal right to use any word you want (even when your legal rights are not in question, but just the ethics of using the word) than you are with signaling you’re one of the people that wants to support transgender people rather than hurt them.
As Das Janssen pointed out in a guest post last week, slurs serve a function. They express hate. It’s good we have some words designated as slurs. It lets the bigots show themselves. If you want to support a group of people, one of the ways you do so is you avoid the words that are being used to denigrate them. Not because words are “magic”. But because one of the functions words have is to express hatred or to marginalize or dehumanize someone. Anyone with a minimal comprehension of linguistics should understand not all words simply designate facts. Some express hatred. And demanding an emotional invulnerability to expressions of hate rather than people not express hate in the first place is to side with the hateful people over their targets. Words can hurt people. That’s not a weakness of those people. It’s the way we’re psychologically constituted. It’s one thing to say people shouldn’t get hurt over differences of ideas. It’s another to say they shouldn’t be hurt by words that are hateful in their basic linguistic function given the conventions of our society.
And cis is not a hate word. If cisgender people don’t like being called it, it’s because they don’t like being criticized by trans people and they’re usually hearing it in contexts of trans people explaining the myriad ways cis people are inconsiderate of them. Cis is not a slur. It wasn’t devised that way, it doesn’t usually function that way. Sure, some trans activists are hateful abusive people. Hateful abusive people come in all sizes, shapes, colors, sexual orientations, and gender orientations. But the word “cis” is at its core simply descriptive and needs to catch on for the reasons I enumerated before. While the “Die Cis Scum!” meme is unfortunate, there’s hardly the rash of murders of cis people by trans people that there is by cis people of trans people. The far more routine murders and verbal abuse of trans people by cis people who call them “trannies” is what makes “tranny” a word associated with hatred and violence. Cis is for the most part just a helpful distinction concept. It’s not uniquely or predominantly a slur. If you’re feeling the sting of always hearing cis in critical contexts, it’s better to start listening to all the ways trans people are frustrated and think of what (usually incredibly minimal) changes you could make to simply accommodate their frustrations and make their lives exponentially easier. That’s more productive than whining that they have “heaven forfend!” devised a word to describe you that isn’t “normal”.
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Methods and systems for providing cyber security, wherein a computer with network access incorporates game theory and utilizes a honeypot to enhance game-theoretic developments over active and passive sensors. To numerically solve the uniquely three-sided game modeled cyber security problem, using a geometric solution based on three-dimensional (3D) action surface and action curve. The methods and systems determine whether the game problem has one Nash equilibrium, multiple Nash equilibriums, or no Nash equilibrium; checks whether the equilibrium is a mixed or pure Nash; and timely computes Nash equilibriums; and follows a fictitious play concept. The solution is adaptive and can be applied for any partially observed cyber security system.
1. A cyber security system, comprising: network servers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors in a cyber network; a computer with data network access and programmed for a three-sided game-theoretic analysis of interactions among cyber attackers, the passive network sensors, and the active network sensors, wherein the network servers are targets of the cyber attackers; wherein the passive network sensors and the active network sensors are defenders; wherein the passive network sensors are a Snort-based Passive Network Sensor (PNS) and the active network sensors are a Honeypot based Active Network Sensor (ANS); wherein the passive network sensors are controlled by PNS engine and the active network sensors are controlled by ANS engine, wherein the PNS engine and ANS engine are coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers and are reconfigured by implementing a mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game-theoretic analysis; the honeypot, including the active network sensors, acting as an active side and camouflaged in the data network to help passive network sensors detect and track cyber network attacks originated from the cyber attackers; andwherein the passive network sensors monitor data network traffic and interacting with the honeypot, wherein the PNS engine choice (sk), and the ANS engine choice (hk) are combined and coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers computed best response (rk), wherein: k>=1; hk, sk and rk are all scalar values; a set of rk of the cyber attackers are used to determine an action surface, and a set of sk and hk are combined and coordinated to obtain an action curve; and an intersection point of the action surface and the action curve are calculated according to a geometric solution, wherein the intersection point of the action surface and the action curve is used to calculate a solution of the mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game theoretic analysis to provide a closed loop control paradigm.
2. The cyber security system of claim 1, wherein the action curve includes a three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface the three-sided game-theoretic analysis utilizes three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface to analyze and numerically solve three-sided game modeled cyber security problems.
3. A method for providing cyber security, comprising: providing network servers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors in a cyber network; and providing at least one computer with data network access and programmed for a three-sided game-theoretic analysis of interactions among cyber attackers, the passive network sensors, and the active network sensors, wherein the network servers are targets of the cyber attackers; wherein the passive network sensors and the active network sensors are defenders; wherein the passive network sensors are a snort-based passive network sensor (PNS) and the active network sensors are a honeypot based active network sensor (ANS); wherein the passive network sensors are controlled by PNS engine and the active network sensors are controlled by ANS engine, wherein the PNS engine and ANS engine are coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers and are reconfigured by implementing a mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game-theoretic analysis; the honeypot, including the active network sensors, acting as an active side and camouflaged in the data network to help passive network sensors detect and track cyber network attacks originated from the network servers; and wherein the passive network sensors monitor data network traffic and interacting with the honeypot, wherein the PNS engine choice (sk), and the ANS engine choice (hk) are combined and coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers computed best response (rk), wherein: k>=1; hk, sk and rk are all scalar values; a set of rk of the cyber attackers are used to determine an action surface, and a set of sk and hk are combined and coordinated to obtain an action curve; and an intersection point of the action surface and the action curve are calculated according to a geometric solution, wherein the intersection point of the action surface and the action curve is used to calculate a solution of the mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game theoretic analysis to provide a closed loop control paradigm.
4. The method for providing cyber security of claim 3, wherein the action curve includes a three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface the three-sided game-theoretic analysis utilizes three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface to numerically analyze and solve three-sided game modeled cyber security problems.
1. A cyber security system, comprising:
network servers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors in a cyber network
a computer with data network access and programmed for a three-sided game-theoretic analysis of interactions among cyber attackers, the passive network sensors, and the active network sensors, wherein the network servers are targets of the cyber attackers
wherein the passive network sensors and the active network sensors are defenders
wherein the passive network sensors are a Snort-based Passive Network Sensor (PNS) and the active network sensors are a Honeypot based Active Network Sensor (ANS)
wherein the passive network sensors are controlled by PNS engine and the active network sensors are controlled by ANS engine, wherein the PNS engine and ANS engine are coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers and are reconfigured by implementing a mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game-theoretic analysis
the honeypot, including the active network sensors, acting as an active side and camouflaged in the data network to help passive network sensors detect and track cyber network attacks originated from the cyber attackers
andwherein the passive network sensors monitor data network traffic and interacting with the honeypot, wherein the PNS engine choice (sk), and the ANS engine choice (hk) are combined and coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers computed best response (rk), wherein: k>=1
hk, sk and rk are all scalar values
a set of rk of the cyber attackers are used to determine an action surface, and a set of sk and hk are combined and coordinated to obtain an action curve
and an intersection point of the action surface and the action curve are calculated according to a geometric solution, wherein the intersection point of the action surface and the action curve is used to calculate a solution of the mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-sided game theoretic analysis to provide a closed loop control paradigm.
2. The cyber security system of claim 1, wherein
the action curve includes a three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface the three-sided game-theoretic analysis utilizes three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface to analyze and numerically solve three-sided game modeled cyber security problems.
3. A method for providing cyber security, comprising:
providing network servers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors in a cyber network
and providing at least one computer with data network access and programmed for a three-sided game-theoretic analysis of interactions among cyber attackers, the passive network sensors, and the active network sensors, wherein the network servers are targets of the cyber attackers
the honeypot, including the active network sensors, acting as an active side and camouflaged in the data network to help passive network sensors detect and track cyber network attacks originated from the network servers
and wherein the passive network sensors monitor data network traffic and interacting with the honeypot, wherein the PNS engine choice (sk), and the ANS engine choice (hk) are combined and coordinated to defend against the cyber attackers computed best response (rk), wherein: k>=1
4. The method for providing cyber security of claim 3, wherein
the action curve includes a three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface the three-sided game-theoretic analysis utilizes three-dimensional action curve and a three-dimensional action surface to numerically analyze and solve three-sided game modeled cyber security problems.
The present invention relates generally to the field of network security. More particularly, the present invention is related to methods for analysis of cyber network interactions among attackers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors using three-sided games, where each side can have multiple participants sharing the same goal. The method provides network security based on the analysis.
Network attacks include one-to-one attacks, one-to-many attacks, and many-to-one attacks. Existing network security methods suffer from high false positives, difficulty in detecting highly complex attacks, and the inability to adapt for detecting new types of attacks. Moreover, existing methods often perform attack identification in a passive manner by using only available alerts instead of actively seeking and prioritizing the most useful alerts to mitigate. Another aspect that is lacking with current methods is the inability to provide effective mitigation of network threats, predicting future attacks, and resolving multiple simultaneous attacks. For current methods, the recommendation of mitigation is usually provided in an ad hoc and heuristic manner, often independent of the situation awareness (SA) process, the user, or the importance of the network for operational considerations.
SUMMARY OF THE EMBODIMENTS
It is a feature of the present invention to provide network security in the form of three-sided game-theoretic analysis of the cyber network interactions among attackers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors. A honeypot (e.g., including active network sensors) can act as a supportive side, which can be camouflaged in the network to help passive sensors detect and track cyber network attacks.
In accordance with an additional feature of the present invention, a system is provided that includes a computer programmed for three-side game-theoretic analysis of cyber network interactions among attackers, passive network sensors, and active network sensors. A honeypot acts as a support side, which can be camouflaged in the network to help passive network sensors detect and track cyber network attacks, and which generally originate from attacking servers. Game theory is relatively a new application for cyber research, and the use of a honey net provides a unique aspect of the work that enhances game-theoretic developments over passive network sensors and active network sensors.
It is yet another feature of the present invention to utilize a geometric solution based on a three-dimensional action curve (for a cyber defender) and a three-dimensional action surface (for a cyber attacker) to numerically solve the uniquely three-side game modeled cyber security problem. The numerical game solution includes four features: first, it can quickly determine whether the game problem has one Nash equilibrium, multiple Nash equilibriums, or no Nash equilibrium; second, it can efficiently check if the equilibrium is a mixed or pure Nash; third, it can timely compute the (mixed) Nash equilibriums; and fourth, it also follows a Fictitious Play Concept. These four features provide an adaptive solution and can be applied in any partially observed cyber security system.
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a system in accordance with features of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a concept level block diagram of the three-sided game model for cyber network security problems;
FIG. 3 depicts the system level flowchart of the three-sided game model and the geometric method;
FIG. 4 depicts an exemplary three sided game in a matrix format;
FIG. 5 is an exemplary action curve and surface intersection which has pure active sensor strategy;
FIG. 6 depicts another exemplary action curve and surface intersection which is a typical mixed Nash equilibrium;
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the block 33, “determine a cell and line segment”, of FIG. 3.
FIG. 8 depicts an exemplary cell and line segment to be searched for the intersection of action surface (of attacker) and action curve (defender).
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the main process of “current set contains MNE?” route 71 in FIG. 7.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the “is p insider a triangle (p1, p2, p3)?” route 93 in FIG. 9.
FIG. 11 depicts an exemplary cell and line segment containing the intersection of action surface (of attacker) and action curve (defender).
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
The purpose of this invention is to develop three-sided game theory based innovative situation awareness systems and methods for active network security and impact mitigation of adversarial attacks against cyber networks.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an implementation of a cyber-network security system according to the invention in a local network having the passive and active network sensors deployed. The local network comprises N production server 14.sub.1 to 14.sub.N. The network traffic can be monitored by a Snort based passive network sensor (PNS) 12a, which can be controlled by the PNS engine 12b. Some network requests can be routed to an active network sensor (ANS) 13b, which can interact with remote users in a virtual way. The ANS can be deployed based on Honeypot and Address Resolution Protocol Daemon (ARPD). The interaction scripts and strategies can be reconfigured via the ANS engine 13b. The attacker 10 can launch cyber-attacks to the local network via the Internet 11. The PNS engine and ANS engine can follow the mixed Nash equilibrium of the three-side game model shown in FIG. 2.
FIG. 2 shows the concept level framework of the three-side game model. Attacker 2 may launch various cyber-attack weapons 21a, which are inputs to the game model. Attacks will get rewards 21b, which depend on the game model parameters 23, PNS strategies 25a, and ANS strategies 26a. Similarly, PNS engine 27 and ANS engine 28 can obtain their rewards 25b and 26b respectively. Their values are also partially determined by the attacker's choices. This reward dependence is the main modeling merit of game theory method: decisions should be made with the consideration of the opponents. To obtain the game solution of Mixed Nash equilibrium (MNE), the invention presents a geometric solution 24 to determine and calculate the intersection point of attacker's action surface and defender's action curve. The action surface or action curve is set of one side's best response actions for his opponents' possible choices. In the three cyber game model, the ANS and PNS are coordinated to defend attackers. Therefore, given a combined PNS and ANS choices (hk, sk), the attacker will compute his best response rk. Since hk, sk and rk are all scalar values, the attacker's best response set is a surface, which is called an action surface. Similarly, for ANS and PNS, their combined best response is a curve, called an action curve.
FIG. 3 shows the system level flowchart of the invention. Block 30 creates a three-sided game model based on a scenario or problem. For the general scenario in FIG. 1, the system states are defined as the probability vector of N servers:
(p11|1,p11|0,p21|1,p21|0, . . . pN1|1,pN1|0) (1)
where pi1|1 is the detection rate (DR), which is the probability that server i is flagged as attacked when it is actually attacked, pi1|0 is the false positive rate (FPR), which is the probability that server i is flagged as attacked when it is actually NOT attacked.
Given the system state vector p=(p11|1, p11|0, p21|1, p21|0, . . . )′, the reward functions for the attacker and defender are defined as
Jd(p)=Σi=1:N(ci1pi1|1−ci2pi0|1−ci3pi1|0) (2)
Ja(p)=Σi=1:N(vi1pis−vi2pit) (3)
where ci1, ci2, ci3 are the positive constants for server i; pi0|1=1−pi1|1 is the miss detection probability; vi1, vi2 are the value of server i and the cost of attacking server i; pis is the probability of successfully penetrate server i. The model includes pis=pi0|1pa(j), where pa(j) is the success rate of the selected attack (j). pif is the probability that an attack on server i is failed and pif=pi1|1+pi0|1(1−pa(j)). The three-sided interaction is modeled as a matrix game. FIG. 4 depicts an exemplary three-sided game in a matrix format. The game size (shown by 40) is determined by the possible strategies of the three sides. After all sides choose their strategies, a special three-dimensional (3D) action curve or cube can be picked. For example, if attacker chooses r3, ANS engine chooses h3, and PNS engine chooses s3, then cube 41 is picked. Square 43 is the coordinated strategy of PNS and ANS. Square 42 tells the chosen attacker strategy. In the cube 41, there are two values obtained from equation (2) and (3), respectively.
The game in FIG. 4 is played by three sides in such a way that attacker chooses his strategy to maximize the Ja (eq. 3) in the picked cube (for example cube 41 in FIG. 4), while PNS and ANS engines choose their coordinated strategies to maximize the Jd (eq. 2) in the same cube, which depends on both attacker's and PNS/ANS combined engine choices.
To solve the three-sided game problem, this invention presents a geometric solution to compute MNEs. The action curve (surface) based solution is depicted in block 31-34 of FIG. 3. Block 31 computes the action curve of PNS and ANS engines. For all possible attacker strategies, eq. (2) is maximized by choosing the coordinated PNS and ANS strategies. By connecting all these best responses of coordinated strategies, along with the chosen attacker strategies, block 31 obtains the defender action curve.
Block 32 computes the action surface of attacker. For any possible coordinated PNS and ANS strategies, eq. (3) is maximized by choosing the attacker strategy. Then block 32 connects these best responses of attacking strategies, along with the chosen coordinated defender strategies, to obtain the attacker action surface.
For the three-sided game, an intersection of action curve and surface is a Nash strategy. If the intersection located exactly on these best response points, then the Nash strategy is a pure Nash equilibrium (PNE). Otherwise it is a mixed Nash equilibrium (MNE). PNE can be seemed a special case of MNE, so in this invention, MNEs can be used to solve the three-sided game model. Another advantage of MNE is that at least one MNE always exists for the three-sided game model for cyber network security.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary action curve and surface intersection which has a pure active sensor strategy. 5100 is the point at attacker action surface when ANS and PNS engines choose the coordinated strategy (0, 0). 51a2 is the point at attacker action surface when ANS and PNS engines choose the coordinated strategy (10, 2). 507 is the point at the defender action curve when attacker takes no. 7 strategy. 505 is the point at the defender action curve when attacker takes no. 5 strategy. 525 and 52a are the contour lines of the attacker action surface when the attacking rate is 50% and 100% of the maximum attacking speed. From the plot in FIG. 5, it is obvious that PNS engine will play his No. 10 strategy and the intersection occurs between 504 and 505 at the action curve.
FIG. 6 depicts another exemplary action curve and action surface intersection which is a typical mixed Nash equilibrium. 609 is the point at the defender action curve when attacker takes no. 9 strategy. 608 is the point at the defender action curve when attacker takes no. 8 strategy. 6127 is the point at attacker action surface when ANS and PNS engines choose the coordinated strategy (2, 7). 6119 is the point at attacker action surface when ANS and PNS engines choose the coordinated strategy (1, 9). 6223 and 627 are the contour lines of the attacker action surface when the attacking rate is 30% and 70% of the maximum attacking speed. From the plot in FIG. 8, it is difficult to find location of the intersection. Therefore, the invention presents a geometric solution (FIG. 7) to find cells in action surface and the related line segments in action curve so that they contains the intersection points.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the “determine a cell and line segment” block 33 in the process of FIG. 3. Block 70 is to initialize the searching by setting the sizes of the attacker action set, the PNS action set, and the ANS action set. It also set the initial position of the searching. Block 71 is to test whether current action surface cell and action curve segment contain the intersection. The details of this block are described in FIG. 8. Block 72 saves the current decision set if it contains the intersection. Otherwise, the process will search next set (surface cell and curve segment). This decision can be decomposed in Block 73-77. Block 73 will check whether all the surface cells are searched. If yes, it is ready to test the possible intersection between next curve segment and one of the all surface cells. The test will start from first curve segment as set in block 74. Block 76 will check whether all curve segments searched. If yes, the search processing ends and exits (block 78). If no, the next curve segment is set in block 77. Then it will repeat the search by going to block 71. Another possible outcome of block 73 is that unsearched cells for current curve segment may exist. Therefore, the next surface cell is set as the current cell in block 75. The test procedure repeats and goes to block 71. After all sets are searched, the process will exit (Block 78) with saved sets containing the intersection points, which are MNEs. The invention will further calculate the MNEs in Block 34 of FIG. 3.
FIG. 8 depicts an exemplary cell and line segment to be searched for the intersection of action surface (of attacker) and action curve (defender). 801-804 determine the action surface cell projected to ANS and PNS engines strategy space (like 43 in FIG. 4). 811 and 812 define the action curve segment, where r1 and r2 are the consecutive attacker strategies. Since all 6 points are on the action surface or action curve, the locations in three-dimensional (3D) spaces can be determined. This problem, of whether the set contains an intersection point, can be solved via the following way:
if r1r2 go through Δ123, true, exit;
else if r1r2 go through Δ124, true, exit;
else r1r2 go through Δ234, true, else false;
where Δ123 is the triangle determined by points 801, 802, and 803. Similar notes for Δ124, Δ134, and Δ234, The geometric solution to test whether a line segment go through a triangle is presented in FIG. 9.
FIG. 9 is a flow chart of testing whether a line segment goes through a triangle. This part is the main process of “current set contains MNE?” route 71 in FIG. 7. Block 90 specifies the input and output structure. The inputs are the three points of the triangle and the line segment. The output is yes or no. Block 91 calculates the intersection point of the plane, which contains the triangle, and the line, which contains the line segment. The detail algorithm is listed as follows:
n=cross((p2−p1), (p3−p1)); % calculate the normal vector
if (n′*(pt−ps)==0), return false; % no intersection
r=n′*(p1−ps)/(n′*(pt−ps)); % calculate the ratio on the normal vector
p=ps+r*(pt−ps); % calculate the intersection point based on the ratio
Note that the intersection may not be located in the triangle or in the line segment even if the intersection point exists. Therefore, blocks 92-95 are used here to further test whether the intersection point is in the triangle AND in the line segment. Block 92 checks if the intersection point p is between ps and pt. If no, triangle (p1, p2, p3) doesn't intersect with the line segment (ps, pt) as stated in Block 95. Otherwise, the Block 93 is used to test whether the intersection point p is inside the triangle (p1, p2, p3). The details of the block 93 will be explained in the following FIG. 10. If the result of Block 93 is yes, triangle (p1, p2, p3) does intersect with the line segment (ps, pt) as stated in Block 94. Otherwise, the procedure goes to Block 95.
FIG. 10 is a flow chart showing the “is P insider a triangle (p1, p2, p3)?” route 93 in FIG. 9, Block 100 is to specify the input structure, which contains the three points of the triangle and a point to be tested. Given that the p and triangle are in the same plane (since p is the intersection point, p is in the plane contains the triangle), the geometric solution is based on following observation. A point p is the triangle (p1,p2,p3), if and only if
p and p1 on the same side of the line through p2 and p3, AND
p and p3 on the same side of the line through p1 and p2.
The invention uses the following geometric method to test where two points (p1, and p) on the same side of a line (p2, p3):
cp1=cross(p2−p3, p−p3); % calculate the cross product
cp2=cross(p2−p3, p1−p3); % calculate the cross product
IF cp1′*cp2>=0, same side. ELSE different side.
Blocks 101-106 depict the whole test processing of whether p insider a triangle (p1, p2, p3). Block 101 tests whether p and p1 are on the same side of line (p2, p3). If yes, the procedure continues in Block 102. Otherwise, p is not in the current triangle as stated in Block 105. Block 102 tests whether p and p2 are on the same side of line (p1, p3). If yes, the procedure continues in Block 103. Otherwise, p is not in the current triangle as stated in Block 105. Block 103 tests whether p and p3 are on the same side of line (p1, p2). If yes, p is in the current triangle as stated in Block 104. Otherwise, p is not in the current triangle as stated in Block 105. The procedure exits in Block 106.
The next step (block 34 of FIG. 3) is to compute the MNE for a given action surface cell and action curve segment, which contains the intersection point. FIG. 11 depicts an exemplary cell and line segment containing the intersection of action surface (of attacker) and action curve (defender). Points 1101-1104 define the cell and point 111 is the intersection point. The exact position (in three dimensions: PNS s* , ANS h*, and Attacker r*, see FIG. 4 for visual illustration) of 111 can be formulated as
s*=λ1s1+λ2s2+λ3s3+(1−λ1−λ2−λ3)s4 (4)
h*=λ1h1+λ2h2+λ3h3+(1−λ1−λ2−λ3)h4 (5)
r*=κ1r1+(1−κ1)r2 (6)
where 0≦λ1≦1, 0≦(λ1+λ2+λ3)≦1, and 0≦κ1≦1. r1 and r2 are the attacking strategies of the two end points of active curvve segment. Then the rewards, J, are
J*d=Jd(s*,h*,r*)=fd(λ1,λ2,λ3,κ1) (7)
J*a=Ja(s*,h*,r*)=fa(λ1,λ2,λ3,κ1) (8)
Since (s*, h*, r*) is a mixed Nash equilibrium, the following equations apply:
∂fd/∂λ1=0 (9)
∂fd/∂λ2=0 (10)
∂fa/∂κ1=0 (12)
where λ1, λ2, λ3, and κ1 can be obtained by solving the equations (9-12). Then the MNE can be computed by eq. 4-6.
Block 35 of FIG. 3 is implemented the obtain MNE. For the defender side, the PNS engine will play s1 strategy with probability λ1, s2 strategy with probability λ2, s3 strategy with probability λ3, and s4 strategy with probability 1-λ1-λ2-λ3. The ANS engine will play h1 strategy with probability λ1, h2 strategy with probability λ2, h3 strategy with probability λ3, and h4 strategy with probability 1-λ1-λ2-λ3. Similarly, for the attacker side, the attacker will play the r1 strategy with probability κ1, and the r2 strategy with probability 1-κ1. To implement the MNE, two uniformly distributed random variables over [0, 1], Xd for defender and Xa for attacker, will be created. Each time, the random values will be used to determine which pure strategy to use. If Xd∈[0, λ1], then PNS engine takes s1 and ANS engine takes h1. If Xd∈(λ1, λ1+λ29 , PNS engine takes s2 and ANS engine takes h2. If Xd∈(λ1+λ2, λ1+λ2+λ3], PNS engine takes s3 and ANS engine takes h3. If Xd∈(λ1+λ2+λ3, 1], PNS engine takes s4 and ANS engine takes h4. Similar, if Xa∈[0, κ1], the attacker will apply the r1 strategy. If Xa∈[κ1, 1], the attacker will apply the r2 strategy.
Block 36 and 37 of FIG. 3 are designed to let system update the states defined in eq. (1). Then the game can be updated with the new system states. Accordingly, the three-sided game solution can be calculated using the geometric solution of the present invention, which provides a closed loop control paradigm.
In general, geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. The disclosed geometric solution solves the three-sided game model by finding a three-dimensional action curve (e.g. for a cyber defender) and a three-dimensional action surface (e.g. for a cyber attacker). The action surface or action curve is set of one side's best responses actions for all the opponents' possible choices of actions. In the three-sided game model, the ANS and PNS engines are coordinated to defend against attackers. Therefore, given a combined PNS and NAS engine choices (a two-dimensional point), the attacker computes his best response. All the attacker's best responses form a surface, which is called an action surface. This set is described in block 32 of FIG. 3. Similarly, for ANS and PNS engines, their combined best response is a curve, called an action curve, which is described in block 31 of FIG. 3. To find the intersection point between the action curve and the action surface, the first step is to find a cell containing the point, as described in block 33 of FIG. 3. The second step is to locate the intersection point in the cell, as described in block 23 of FIG. 3. Since the three-sided game solution is based on the geometric relation (intersection) of two shapes (action curve and action surface), the solution is called geometric solution in this disclosure.
For cyber applications, game theory is a relatively new concept and the use of a honeypot is a unique aspect of the work that enhances game-theoretic developments over active and passive sensors. To numerically solve the uniquely three-side game modeled cyber security problem, a geometric solution based on action surface and action curve is developed. To summarize, the present numerical game solution has four features: first, it can quickly determine whether the game problem has one Nash equilibrium, multiple Nash equilibriums, or no Nash equilibrium; second, it can efficiently check the equilibrium is a mixed or pure Nash; third, it can timely compute the (mixed) Nash equilibriums; and fourth, it also follows a Fictitious play concept, from which the solution is an adaptive one and can be applied for any partially observed cyber security system.
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OPPO Neo 7, successor to the mirror-backed Neo 5 launched at Rs.9990
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by Anuj Sharma October 29, 2015 0 comments
OPPO Neo 7 will carry forward the unique design feature that set apart the Neo series, a sleek and reflective rear surface, while adding a wide range of performance upgrades and an attractive design. It offers dual SIM slots and SD card support upto 128GB. The OPPO Neo 7 specs include Qualcomm MSM8916 Quad-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 16GB ROM, 2420mAh Li-polymer battery. The device sports 5 inch IPS display with 960*540 pixels and 220 PPI. It weighs 141 gm with battery.
OPPO Neo 7 uses industry’s leading optical coating technology and fiber glass materials. The back of the handset has 13 layers of coating refined through a series of 40 processes to increase strength, giving the surface an impressive thinness of only 0.56 mm. Special laminating process make Neo 7 look smooth and clear and the handset reflects light like a mirror. The handset will be available in two color variants – white and black.
The OPPO Neo 7 uses an 8-megapixel back-illuminated sensor with a photo sensitive area of up to 1/4 inch, a wide f/2.0 aperture, and lets you take stunning images in all conditions. An upgraded 5-megapixel front camera with high light-sensitivity and frame rate effectively reduces noise to take clear pictures and videos. Equipped with the Pure Image 2.0+ imaging platform, the new device contains a wide range of plug-ins for customized camera functionality.
Other features that set the camera apart is it has a light-sensitive sensor that can adjust the screen brightness perfectly to a user’s face, and the screen itself can be converted into a flash to brighten selfies in low light. There are 11 filters and 3 beautify modes available, and Neo 7 can easily edit images without downloading additional apps. Special function like Double Exposure allows users to take two separate photos and overlap them to create a single image, result in unique and fun photographs.
As a special addition to 4G, ultra HD shoots six photos consecutively and combines the best parts of each to a create a 24-megapixel Ultra HD image, which will have four times the clarity of ordinary photos. The Colorful Night Mode uses a smart multi-frame optimization and synthesis algorithm to effectively remove noise and improve brightness and clarity. This mode can bring out the true colors of the gorgeous night.
The OPPO Neo 7 uses a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad-core CPU, which brings users an extraordinary smooth gaming experience. The Neo 7 supports 1GB RAM and 16GB ROM and 2420 mAh battery capacity to satisfy the demand of cruising handset for a whole day. Neo 7 is Dual-SIM to make switching between business and private use easy. The independent microSD card slot supports memory expansion of up to 128GB.
The Neo 7 uses OPPO’s in-house ColorOS 2.1, based on Android 5.1. It has been thoroughly upgraded, with smoother performance, optimized power use, and has a host of new features, including Floating Window, a feature that will allow users to chat with their friends while they watch a video in the background.
Along with the powerful specs and upgraded ColorOS 2.1, the Neo 7 also offers endless possibilities in entertainment. The new Lock screen Magazine feature will automatically update lock screen photos once a week with more than 20 beautiful photos curated by OPPO. The Neo 7 also inherits the excellent sound performance of OPPO devices. The Dirac Sound achieves superb effects through a unique adjustment of the phase of the sound signal and frequency amplitude.
OPPO recently launched OPPO R7 Plus and R7 Lite in the Indian market, which have been getting phenomenal reviews from various technology experts. OPPO currently has 19 phones including flagship models such as the Mirror 5, N3, R5 and Find 7.
With shining mirror surface and streamlined arc design, the affordable smartphone is aimed at the mid-range mobile market and is priced at Rs 9,990 and will be available in India within this week.
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Correction: victory against GMOs and Monsanto not achieved in UK
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Editor's note: We regret to inform our readers that this story is based on a Daily Mail article that we have now been informed is from 2003, not 2012. In their own search engine, Daily Mail mistakenly listed their own story as being published on February 3, 2012. We have a screen capture of this search to prove this, taken from the Daily Mail's website search engine:
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/GMO-Site-Screen-2012.jpg
A second source, Investors.com, had also reported Monsanto's withdrawal from the UK. In a story dated February 3, 2012 that was sourced from UPI (United Press International), Investors.com reported: (http://news.investors.com/Newsfeed/Article/140895211/201202030212/Mon...)
Monsanto Co. said it's leaving Britain due to opposition to genetically modified foods. Officials at Monsanto -- a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation and leading producer of genetically engineered seed -- said the company is closing its wheat growing operation, based in Cambridge, which employed 125 people, and selling off crop-breeding centers in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, the Daily Mail reported.
Investors.com may have updated their story, so here's a screen capture of their original report, as proof that this was there:
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For our own story, we had relied on the Daily Mail's posted date on the story, which turns out to be incorrect. Daily Mail has since corrected this publish date, so it now shows the year 2003. This, in turn, has caused us to publish this correction. We regret the confusion. Even more, we regret that the good news we originally reported turns out to be old news rather than today's good news. At times like this, we all need some good news, but it seems our optimism in this case was misplaced...
Monsanto even went to the trouble to contact us and inform us that they have not retreated from the UK at all, and in fact, their business across Europe is surging. Sadly, Monsanto has not been defeated in the UK as we had hoped, and the threat of Monsanto's presence in Europe remains ever present. They are quite proud of it, in fact. In a phone call with NaturalNews, they went into great detail about all their "success" across Europe, describing all the GMO fields they have planted in numerous countries there.
More than ever, it is now crucial to join in the grassroots resistance against Monsanto and its seed domination agenda, across Europe, North America, India and everywhere around the world.
Here's the news that happened in 2003:
A massive victory against Monsanto and genetically engineered seeds has been achieved in the United Kingdom today. Monsanto has announced a total withdrawal from the UK, shuttering its Cambridge-based wheat production operation. UK newspaper Daily Mail was instrumental in promoting opposition against Monsanto through its "Frankenstein Foods" educational campaign (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-199884/GM-giant-quits-Britain...).
And now, here's what we must do in 2012 to stop Monsanto:
We must stop Monsanto here in the USA!
We know that GMOs are death for agriculture, death for bird populations, death for honey bee pollinators, and death for the soils. We know that Monsanto is the most evil corporation on the planet (http://www.naturalnews.com/030967_Monsanto_evil.html), willing to destroy the future of life on our planet in exchange for a quarterly profit.
We also know that the public is joining the fight against GMOs. A massive effort is already underway to mandate the labeling of GMOs on foods sold in California (http://www.naturalnews.com/033763_GMOs_California_ballot_initiative.h...). A similar effort has begun in Washington state. Many other states are considering similar legislation.
The FDA and USDA, meanwhile, have proven they are total sellouts, corrupted by powerful corporations, worshipping the technology of death, and serving as outright betrayers of the American people. Death merchants like Bill Gates -- the depopulation agenda pusher -- continue to try to pimp GMOs by calling them "high-tech agriculture." They buy media influence with their billions of dollars (http://www.naturalnews.com/034859_Bill_Gates_mainstream_media_influen...), and they corrupt members of Congress with campaign money. They are literally trying to destroy modern agriculture in North America as a way to control every seed, every patent, and every grain of food that appears on a dinner plate in America... it is an agenda of total domination.
And yet... we can stop them. We the People have the power to end agricultural imperialism in North America and around the world. We have an opportunity to stop the death merchants, expose the deceptions, mandate honest labeling of our foods and send Monsanto, DuPont and other GMO companies packing.
What's required to accomplish this? Keep reading NaturalNews.com, where we wage a 24/7 battle against the chemical poisoners and death merchants of our world -- those who push vaccines, chemotherapy, GMOs, food additives, pesticides and psychiatric drugs. We fight to protect life and protect the future of life on our planet by exposing the poisoners and demanding justice for the People.
Real justice means not having our food poisoned. Not having our crop fields invaded by foreign DNA engineered by Monsanto. Not being forced to inject our children with dangerous vaccines. Not having our raw milk stolen and destroyed by FDA agents. Not having our bodies contaminated with mercury, aluminum and cancer-causing chemicals.
We fight for the restoration of food freedom, medical freedom, health freedom and economic freedom. We seek to protect the rights, freedoms and powers of the individual, and we stand firm against the tyranny of bad government and corrupt corporations. The future belongs to We the People -- but only if we have the courage to grasp it and tear it away from the clutches of the evil, twisted corporations who are desperately trying to dominate our world and control everything they can.
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• Vote with your dollars by purchasing food items that are verified as containing no GMOs!
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Other than representation of country, donning with pride the National colours, the annual National Championships are rightly the main goal, the stage on which each aspiration towards honour leads.
Contested over a five-day period, in order that long distance exertions afford athletes time enough for recovery, our Pembroke Athleta members again gave an excellent account of their capabilities, at the end of the day emerging victorious, as Champions, in 14 disciplines, including the 4 x 100m Relay Women.
In fact, the females also managed another 4 second and 3 third places while the males recorded another 4 second places and another 2 third. This is not taking into account another number of first places in categories other than the Open.
The Sprints and the Jumps once again proved to be the Club’s forte, Charlotte Wingfield winning both the 100 and 200m, with Ian Paul Grech and Claire Azzopardi both finishing in second spots in the highly competitive shorter sprints. Janet Richard won handsomely the 400m besides placing just behind Charlotte in the 200m while Daniel Saliba remained the undisputed top gun in the 110m hurdles.
In the Long Jump the Club once again reigned supreme with a demonstration of power with a one-two-three by Claire Azzopardi, followed by Rebecca Sare` and Rachela Pace, while in the males’ Ian Paul Grech confirmed why he is the current Male Athlete of the Year. Out of competition but in second spot just the same with another amazing result, finished 15-year old Jeremy Zammit, who along with Rachela have made age category records their own time and again and whose prospects shine as bright as any star in the new moon phase. To really cement the club’s power in the jumps, Ian Paul Grech won the Triple Jump leaping very near his personal best. And to compliment this feat, Rebecca Sare’ also came quite near the distance registered this year as a National Record by her team-mate Claire Azzopardi, who hopped, stepped and jumped into first and second place respectively.
Aside of these disciplines, the Club put on excellent performances to win, through Jordan Gusman and his counter-part Lisa Marie Bezzina, the gruelling 10,000m with Jordan going on to win the 1500m, at which Dario Mangion gained third place. Luke Micallef continued to demonstrate why he has become one of the top names in Maltese distance events by winning the 3000m Steeplechase, followed by newly turned veteran Mark Herrera, who placed second.
In the throws it was left to Bradley Mifsud to win the Javelin, with Miguel Griscti taking third place. Bradley’s brother, Christian, was second in the shot while Jana Dabic, although out of competition, was third, same as she finished in the Hammer.
The 4 x 100m relay was another blazing performance crowning the final day, with the foursome of Rebecca Sare, Rachela Pace, Sian Pledger and Charlotte Wingfield storming in well ahead of the competition.
Aside from these ‘Open’ achievements, category wins were registered by Rachela Pace, Alessia Cristina, Jacob Greengrass and 0/55 veteran Brian Magri, not only being the category winner in the 5000 and 10000 metres but in addition establishing National Records at this age category. Other athletes who placed in their category were Steve Camilleri, Sean Spiteri, Luke Mizzi and Gary Cocker.
Excellent performances that continue to make Pembroke Athleta proud!
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METS 2016: Navico, Fusion, Airmar and Signal K
Written by Kees Verruijt on Nov 18, 2016 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub
This year's annual Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam seemed busier than ever. It's good to see that the marine industry has largely recovered, although the sailboat business still seems to lag behind behind motorboats. The super yacht halls were very busy too. I saw some exciting new developments from Navico, who were showing the brand new NSS evo3 and B&G Zeus3 as well as their recently announced instrument displays. Fusion had a new high-end speaker, and Airmar showed me their brand new electromagnetic DX900+ multifunction speed sensor.
Simrad NSS evo3 and B&G Zeus3
First up is the new 'evolution' of Navico displays in the form of Simrad NSS evo3 and B&G Zeus3. Visually they look quite similar to the previous generation; it seems that the designers are now satisfied that a combination of touch and keyboard is the way to go in the mid-range. Part of what drives these upgrades, I think, is that the low-end devices had overtaken these mid-range series with built in features. So now all the new Navico MFDs contain WiFi and have sonar built in. Another part is the continued refinement of the user interface (UI). Besides seven buttons and a rotary knob there is now a separate cursor pad. Having more controls means it is now possible to drive the complete UI without needing the touchscreen at all. If you're on a wild ride you can even disable the touch controls, thus preventing accidental touches from messing with your display. The LCD screens have been improved, with higher resolution, better sunlight visibility and improved off-angle color reproduction.
What I think is the most important development here, and a very smart move, is that Navico has included a customised web browser in their new NOS (Navico Operating System). Until now integration with parties like Mercruiser and CZone was done by including additional UI pages written by either party, but included in the software image that was installed in the MFD. This means you need tight cooperation between two development teams and a new release of the MFD software if something in the digital switching system or engine changed. By moving to a HTML5 based web browser this is now much easier. On Simrad NSS evo3 the launching integration partner for this is Naviop, who they have been working with for over a year now (as Ben reported from METS 2015). On Zeus3 they are using the HTML browser to allow full configuration of the H5000 CPU, which required a laptop or tablet until now. I'm sure that they will find new uses for the web browser.
Lastly I find the new addition of PredictWind integration in NOS very useful. It allows users of the PredictWind weather service to download forecasts directly onto their plotter and view GRIB files and predictions directly over the chart window. Navico is also making it possible to download updates for the chart plotter itself directly from the device, further enhancing their GoFree strategy. I've seen a different part of their download update capability in action on my own Lowrance HDS2T last weekend -- I switched it on and it reported that I should update the software on my AIS. Very cool.
I hope to make a more in depth report on this in Spring, as I will likely be updating my HDS2T to Zeus3 once it is available.
Simrad IS42 and Triton2
Also on show were the Simrad IS42, AP44 and B&G Triton2 displays that were covered by Ben when announced in September but I was able to see in the flesh. They have beautifully rendered screens with (if you want) very high information density. The AIS display seems a bit of a gimmick, but I really liked the updated SailSteer page that has improved markedly over the wind page in the earlier generation IS40/Triton. I also liked the rotary knob on the AP42 and the buttons in general are much nicer with a better feel, so it is much clearer when you have actually pressed a button. I also like the capability to use a reverse color palette with white letters on a dark background. There are two downsides to these new displays though. Software updates need to be applied over USB, so you need access to the backside to update them. Furthermore they are not direct drop in replacements as the rear side doesn't use the traditional circular hole that earlier versions (and most of the competition) use. You now need to cut a 10.5 cm square cutout, which also means you only have a 6.5 mm overlap of the display over the hole.
As Ben reported last month, Fusion is still on a roll as Garmin lets them do their thing quite separately from the mothership even after the takeover -- they're not taking the word Fusion literally in that particular sense! Besides what Ben got to see I was able to see the new Fusion Sound-Panel in action. It's a dual speaker system capable of stereo sound, all encapsulated in a neat, single, very shallow enclosure. It has uncharacteristically subdued styling for Fusion, with just a small emblem and no swishes, swashes or LED lighting (which look cool on a powerboat but may be out of place on a more traditional yacht.) It's fully closed at the back as well, ensuring well defined bass. The sound environment at the show didn't lend itself well to a qualitative assessment, but given the size of the drivers and their reputation I'm pretty sure it will sound very nice indeed.
Airmar DX900+
I am happy to report that Airmar is now finally shipping the long awaited ST900/950 ultrasonic speed sensor (for either NMEA0183 or NMEA 2000 output). Reading the updated Airmar brochure PDF it sounds all very well and seems especially suited to high speed motorboats. What was even more interesting though was another new paddle-less electromagnetic speed sensor oriented to racing and high-end sailboats, which will be on the market in just a few months. I wasn't the only one impressed as the DX900+ MultiLog won the DAME electronics and software category award. Airmar was confident enough to let me speak to the three French engineers who developed it. It's always a good sign if a company lets you talk directly to the engineers behind the product.
The first thing I liked is that it adapts existing technology to a new use. The core of this same sensor has been used in the fishing market for years to monitor trawls. The sensors are mounted on the net ends because the fishermen want to keep the mesh square so that the trawl has the optimal size and strength, and thus they must measure sideways as well as forward speed. The beauty for sailors is that the DX900+ can measure leeway directly, instead of inferring it from the difference between speed through water and speed over ground. As the sensor is fully symmetrical it can even measure reverse speeds accurately. It's been tested in non-saline waters as well as sea water. It also contains a fast response temperature sensor (I think it's the fifth metal surface you see) and a three-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, outputting heel and trim. Since the technology measures in the boundary layer it does require some calibration, but the engineers have found that one point calibration is good enough for all but high end racing conditions.
Another DX900+ advantage over a paddle wheel speed sensor is its sturdiness. The four speed measuring pins stick out of the epoxy core about 1 mm or so, to ensure a good bond of the epoxy to the alloy. Since they are bonded in completely it should survive being covered by a sling when hauling the boat (it's also retractable), or flotsam passing by whilst sailing.
There will be three models, one with speed and temperature outputting via NMEA 0183, and two with depth, speed and temperature and either 0183 or 2000 output. The latter include a small interface box. All three are calibrated using an application from your smartphone or tablet, and the BlueTooth connection can also be used to view the data. Software updates will be possible using this method as well.
As you can imagine the DX900+ is a much more complicated product than a simple paddle wheel sensor. The predicted end user price will be around $1,400. This means it's quite a lot more expensive than a DST800, but if you want to have direct leeway measurement, or are just fed up enough about cleaning or breaking your paddle wheel, this seems to be a very good option. And lastly it's a simple retrofit as it fits the DST800 housing perfectly. I hope to report on a field test soon, as Airmar have promised to come by and install one on my sailboat.
I didn't have as much time as normal to walk around with my "Panbo hat" as there were two Signal K meetings and some meetings with vendors involved. We had a "meetup" with about 20 people meeting the four out of five Signal K core team members present. Not only was it fun to finally meet each other, but the core team was amazed that so many people took the effort to come over! Discussions continued until late at night at a local Amsterdam "brown cafe" where bonds were improved over drinks and dinner. This resulted in a commitment by the Signal K core team that we will release version 1.0 of the specification this year -- likely between Christmas and the end of the year. New versions will be released after that on a regular schedule, probably every 12 months as that is a natural cycle in boating.
Many thanks to Kees Verruijt for again sharing some METS impressions with Panbo readers. Kees owns and operates the cool sloop Merrimac and is a member of the Signal K core team ~ editor
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War in Australia (any Oz Politics): the Original
Location: Australia - South of where I'd like to be !
"If the ABC doesn't care about the Australian military or its history, tell me why the Anzac Day March in every capital city is shown live on ABC TV? Do the commercial networks do likewise? Who shows live on TV, the Dawn Service at Gallipoli. And another Anzac Day commemoration at Villers-Bretoneux? The ABC of course."
The Commercial networks often do show these live.
Either way, the left leaning wankers on the ABC might show the above
but that doesn't make up for the damage and crap they do in other areas.
Quote happy to run negatives regarding our involvement in recent wars
that didn't fitthe ABC agenda.
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Ken Borough
Location: All over the Planet
What is the 'ABC agenda'? Where are the details so that we may become, like you, enlightened!
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short flights long nights
There are non so blind as those that will not see.......
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Why the ABC distorts the news agenda
"Most reasonable people would think the Indonesians were angered by the spying but the ABC wants its audience to see Abbott as the villain.
The ABC sucks more than $1 billion from the taxpayers.
What’s more, Labor rewarded it for its support with more money and was prepared to twice ignore a tender process and award it with the Australia Network to pursue “soft diplomacy” on Australia’s behalf in our region.
The ABC is a bloated failure in the hands of ideologues. It should be stripped back to its charter, at the very least, or broken up and sold, if possible to commercial interests.
In a world of expanding media, the notion of a taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is anachronistic.
Those who want to keep “our” ABC, should fund it. Those who don’t should not have to pay for it. "
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The Tony Abbott Gov't doesn't fit the agenda of the abc so they run no end of stories on the Asylum Seekers to discredit the Gov't and make it look bad.
Yet as shown above, it did the opposite foe Labor "but the ABC wants its audience to see Abbott as the villain.
What’s more, Labor rewarded it for its support with more money and was prepared to twice ignore a tender process "
"But the rank enthusiasm of the ABC in this story suggests it will go to great lengths to prosecute its endless war against the dark forces of conservative Australia."
Does that give you the gist of what the ABC Agenda is ?
De fund them and make them get any money they need
just like the commercial networks.
In fact, that might be a good campaign to start pushing harder on
as it achieves a huge goal of dismantling a lefty organisation
So Ken, what do you think ?
Does the ABC have an agenda ?
Or are you one of the blind left as SOPS put it so well.
SOPS - PM sent.
No, I'm not so blind as to not see. Or understand, or think for myself for that matter. I don't need right wing dogma that's peddled by the Murdoch juggernaut. If Joe Citizen is unable to understand the facts, stiff but don't accuse the ABC of having an agenda without levelling the same accusation at the likes of Murdoch publications, 2GB in Sydney et al.
I chose not to read Murdoch's stuff, and I chose not to listen to the likes of Jones and Hadley. And, surprise surprise, I don't listen to the lefties such as Philip Adams on the ABC. Again, I ask and challenge anyone here to state what is the so-called ABC Agenda. 500N, you made the claim so why do you ask me?
OH, and I see that another right wing drone has joined the rabid right at Murdoch. The SMH on Tuesdays will be a much more enjoyable read.
Oh, don't worry, I am fully aware the Murdoch press has an agenda.
At least they state they have an agenda !!!
The ABC doesn't.
When I read anything or hear anything, I take it with a dose of salt
from the other side of the fence that is providing the info, that way
it tends to even out the report !!! Works for me.
"500N, you made the claim so why do you ask me? "
Because I am interested in your view, that's why.
Good discussion and all that
(unlike some of the lefty twaddle spilled by K&C et al ) !!!
Captain Dart
Location: with the other ex-CX pond scum (a zoologist was once head of Flight Ops)
I do not read the Murdoch press either; newspapers are so 'yesterday'. But I think that I am in tune with local community values and those with whom I work.
Why the obsession with Murdoch, Ken?
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John Eacott
Originally Posted by Ken Borough
Remind me, Ken: how much of the Murdoch press is funded by the taxpayer?
And how much of the ABC is funded by the taxpayer?
Grasp that point and you may come part of the way to understand why the ABC must not only be impartial but be seen to be impartial. 50% of the voting population votes to the left, and 50% votes to the right (approximately) so a nationally funded broadcaster must not favour either side.
Once upon a time, newspapers and TV used to report the news: not editorialise any issue that takes a journo's fancy.
Visit John Eacott's homepage!
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"And how much of the ABC is funded by the taxpayer ?"
Maybe I should highlight this from my post above.
"The ABC sucks more than $1 billion from the taxpayers."
FFS, $1 billion dollars.
The SBS do a better job across the board than the ABC.
Public funded broadcasters and any other media that seeks to appear impartial face a serious handicap in that reality has a significant 'leftist' bias.
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It matters not who owns what! No one has yet demonstrated that the ABC has an agenda or is indeed biased. The calls for ABC reform etc are coming from an almost solitary voice - the Murdoch press. The Right's PoV is just as well represented on the ABC as is that of the Left. If you look at their satirical programs, for example, they were just as hard on Rudd and Gillard as they were on Abbott.
In summary, this country would be much the poorer were the ABC gutted. The commercial media is neither interested nor capable of fulfilling the role of the ABC - there's no money to be made!
Ken, the comment was tongue in cheek!
"The Right's PoV is just as well represented on the ABC as is that of the Left."
The ABC is anti gun, anti hunting, pro the UN agendas, anti everything to do with that way of life even if it benefits native wildlife or stops suffering of native wildlife (ie over population of kangaroos that mean more die from starvation.
End of fcking story.
And if you believe otherwise, pull your head out of the sand.
And don't ask what are "pro the UN agendas", if you don't know then
you need to find out.
John H,
I was responding to John Eacott who posted just before you!
Why has the ABC not run with the story of Indos salvaging the HMAS Perth ?
They were quite happy to run a story on spying to damage Abbott
and others stories to help wreck his AS policy.
But no, we can't run a story that offends the Indos.
The ABC is doing everything it can to discredit the Abbott AS policy
and embarrass the Gov't. It is so bleeding obvious it is not funny
and even the media are writing about it.
And then the ABC director calls a review to check on bias !
(which of course will come out saying with a couple of exceptions, it isn't biased !!!).
bosnich71
Location: Melbourne
The problem with comparing the ABC with the Murdoch press is that Rupert swaps sides as it suits him. Something which I haven't noticed from the our ABC.
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I disagree: it does matter who owns what, especially publicly funded entities.
You only have to look at the standards demanded of our defence personnel to see that they are held to much higher levels of accountability than private enterprise employees. This should apply to the ABC and the value that we get for our $A1 billion per year. I note that the old advert referring to 8c per day should now read 11c per day, and the population has increased in the meantime, too!
A casual look at the ABC online will show a plethora of left-biased opinion pieces. The Drum: Barrie Cassidy, David Braue, Benjamin Jones, Mungo et al with very little balance from the centre, let alone the right.
I have no dog in the fight to reduce the funding nor to split off the ABC since I do believe in and support a national independent broadcaster. But I strongly believe that they have been allowed to develop an unhealthy bias which is not good for the country. (And I flew for them many years ago, when communist propaganda adverts were openly displayed on the walls of the newsroom. Unbiased, eh?)
communist propaganda adverts were openly displayed on the walls of the newsroom
Are you sure they weren't 'taking the Mickey'? Satire is not always understood.
Quite sure: I worked for them for about 3 years. Helicopter pilots love satire and can't understand why people think that running up and down runways to get airborne is a sensible alternative to real flying.
If you have any idea how a newsroom works then you could understand the morning starts with the CoS deciding on the primary news items for the evening news and allocating them to journos. That selection alone will come from the morning papers, generally The Age and online references.
Scheduled press conferences are covered, too, with news crews (journo & cameraman) tasked for the appropriate time and place. Breaking news is handled as appropriate.
That such a bunfight should be under the control of ideologues with a responsibility to be impartial should be of concern to all rational Australians.
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More details of horror history in West Virginia's torture case appeared
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A woman, who said to be tortured by six people in a remote trailer, released more horror details during the suspects' court hearings - leaving her mother sobbing.
Reading Tuesday from a statement 20-year-old Megan Williams gave deputies the day she was rescued from the ramshackle home, a sheriff's deputy said she had been stabbed with what she described as a butcher knife and beaten with wooden sticks and fly swatters.
She said she was sexually assaulted, doused with hot water, forced to eat animal feces, and taunted with racial slurs. Among the new allegations, she said hot wax was poured on her, and that two of her captors forced her to drink a cup of their urine.
Carmen Williams, the victim's mother, left the preliminary hearing of one of the defendants in tears Tuesday after listening to what her daughter allegedly experienced.
Charges against most of the six suspects were upgraded Tuesday. All six, who are white, now face charges of kidnapping, which carries a maximum life sentence. Four of the defendants had faced lesser charges before Tuesday's filings.
Megan Williams' statement said the defendants told her they did not like black people and that they were going to hang her, though no hate crime charges were filed.
"They told me if I tried to get out they was going to hit me and stuff. I was scared of them," Logan County Sheriff's Deputy Jeffrey Robinette read from Williams' statement.
Some of Williams' supporters have urged the state to file hate crime counts. Prosecutors have not ruled out such a move, but have said they are focused on crimes with the toughest penalties and note that the maximum sentence for a hate crime is just 10 years.
The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name. Carmen Williams said she wanted people to know what her daughter had endured.
Megan Williams' ordeal ended when an anonymous tip led police to the home Sept. 8. Deputies are still trying to determine how long Williams was held.
Kidnapping and sexual assault charges, along with additional counts of battery, were filed against Karen Burton, 46; her daughter, Alisha Burton, 23; and George A. Messer, 27, all of Chapmanville. They also face additional counts of battery.
Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, now faces a kidnapping charge that carries life in prison. He originally was charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding. Prosecutors added two more sexual assault charges, which each carry a maximum of 35 years in prison.
Three counts of misdemeanor battery were added to the charges against Frankie Brewster, who owns the home where the suspected assault took place. She also is charged with kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and giving false information to police. An unlawful malicious wounding charge was dropped.
In a statement to deputies, Brewster detailed her role and implicated others, saying "I just want to come clean." Brewster also is accused of forcing Williams to perform oral sex on her.
A sixth defendant, Bobby Brewster, 24, who is the son of Frankie Brewster, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony. Police have said he had a previous relationship with Williams.
Williams said in her statement Tuesday that she was raped at knifepoint by Combs in the trailer's bathroom, tied with a cable cord and choked by Karen Burton, doused with hot wax by Messer, and stabbed by Bobby Brewster.
Sheriff's Deputy Rick Goodman testified Tuesday that Brewster told deputies that the six defendants were afraid to let Williams go because she might tell on them. They also talked about killing her.
Karen Burton, who was arraigned by video teleconference from jail, said, "Oh, hell no," when informed of the sexual assault charge against her. The other defendants said only "yes, sir" and "no, sir" during their arraignments.
In another courtroom Tuesday, Megan Williams answered outstanding warrants from three counties charging her with crimes involving worthless checks. She was released on US$8,000 (EUR5,770) bond.
Williams, who clutched a small teddy bear in court, was wearing a brace on her right hand and a bandage on her left ankle. She was accompanied by her parents, and her mother held her through portions of the proceeding. Williams' mother also accompanied her during a brief period in a holding cell.
Hearings on the charges will be held in each county. Williams' father, Matthew, told Magistrate Ward Harshbarger, "She'll be there."
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An interview with Dr. Heather-Marie Schmidt, the WHO and UNAIDS Advisor tasked to advance the implementation of PrEP in the Asia-Pacific Region
An interview with Dr Heather-Marie Schmidt, the WHO and UNAIDS consultant tasked to advance the implementation of PrEP in the Asia-Pacific Region.
When taken consistently and correctly, the co-formulation of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC) (initially manufactured by Gilead as Truvada®) was shown to help reduce the risk of HIV infection through sexual contact by more than 90 per-cent. This strategy of using antiretrovirals for HIV prevention in uninfected people is called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis – or PrEP for short. Despite the game-changing nature of PrEP, global uptake has been slow, with implementation in Asia and the Pacific piecemeal and fragmented. Regulatory, political, and financial barriers hinder access to the drug that many at-risk individuals could stand to benefit from
For this PrEP MAP article, we interviewed Dr Heather-Marie Schmidt, the new UNAIDS and WHO advisor who is working to advance the implementation of PrEP in the Asia-Pacific region. Heather-Marie is passionate about improving the HIV response across Asia-Pacific, including making PrEP available to those that need it. Heather-Marie was the Senior Programmes Officer at APCOM. Dr. Heather-Marie Schmidt also led aspects of the design and implementation of the EPIC-NSW study in Australia. At that time, EPIC-NSW was the world’s largest PrEP trial – rapidly scaling up to provide PrEP services to almost 10,000 people at high risk of HIV.
Philips PrEP MAP (PM): Thank you so much for letting us poke your brains a little about PrEP implementation in the region. I’m excited to hear your thoughts!
Dr Heather-Marie Schmidt (HM): Thank you for having me!
PM: Dr Schmidt, what are 3-5 keys steps needed to plan for the introduction of PrEP and discuss what difficulties, if any, you could expect in bringing PrEP to scale, for some of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region?
HM: What a great question! Every country in our region is at a different stage with PrEP implementation, from not being available at all to being available as part of the national health insurance. Looking at the places that have been really successful with PrEP, I would say a few key priorities are:
Political commitment. Having a strong Government commitment to implementing PrEP is important to its long-term success. The inclusion of PrEP in National Strategic Plans or clinical guidelines can be the first step.
Community leadership. Mobilising the community around PrEP, advocating to stakeholders for PrEP access and generating demand is essential.
Integrated, community-friendly delivery models. Having models to provide PrEP that are community-friendly, exist where the community need them and deliver a comprehensive package (including regular HIV and STI testing). Innovating in models of delivery can mean that PrEP is delivered in a low-cost way. Key population-led clinics, like the ones in Thailand and Vietnam, are one model that should be used more widely. It’s important that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and peers are well informed about PrEP.
Monitoring and evaluation. It’s crucial that the implementation of PrEP, and the effect on the HIV response, is measured in a reliable way to show whether PrEP is successful and to justify Government and donor investment in PrEP programs.
But many other things need to happen. And many of these “priorities” need to occur at the same time. Bringing PrEP to scale in the Asia-Pacific is going to be a challenge.
PM: You mention inclusion of PrEP in National Strategic Plans or clinical guidelines as one of the first steps. Why is it so important to ensure PrEP is integrated into national health plans or clinical guidelines?
HM: PrEP is a crucial additional HIV prevention option. The science shows how effective PrEP is if it is taken as prescribed. And recent studies, including EPIC-NSW from Australia, show that if implemented at a population scale, PrEP helps cause dramatic drops in the numbers of new HIV infections. It’s quite an exciting tool, but it isn’t a silver bullet. PrEP needs to be implemented as part of a comprehensive HIV response, alongside HIV testing, treatment and other prevention interventions like condom promotion. So ensuring PrEP is integrated into national strategic plans is an important to start because it demonstrates the commitment of Government and key stakeholders to PrEP implementation. Making a public commitment can help donors and Governments fund PrEP in a country. It also helps advocates. Inclusion in national clinical guidelines helps to ensure that PrEP is provided to the people who need it safely and it begins to embed it into the national HIV response.
PM: How do you feel about people who are accessing PrEP informally, such as purchasing independently through an online website or sourcing it through friends or hookups?
HM: In most countries in our region, formal access options don't exist. But informal access isn't ideal. Informal access can make it difficult to ensure that you are taking a quality, safe drug that is going to protect you from HIV. And it can also make it more complicated to get accurate information and support from a doctor, nurse or peer, particularly if you’re worried about letting them know you’re on PrEP. So, if you are accessing PrEP informally, do your homework and use reputable methods to access PrEP. Having a good clinic will make all the difference in making sure you’re safe and protected. Ask your friends or a community organization you’re comfortable with about community friendly clinics. I recommend talking to your doctor about PrEP, and making sure you’re having regular HIV and STI when you’re taking PrEP.
PM: What are some key takeaway messages about PrEP that you’d like to share with our audience?
HM: We need to remember that PrEP is just one HIV prevention option. It’s good to remember that PrEP works really well but only if you take it, so take PrEP as recommended by your doctor. Most people take it daily, but there are other patterns like ‘event-driven’ PrEP that will be right for some people. Taking PrEP can be really empowering HIV prevention option for people at substantial risk of HIV. But it isn’t right for everyone, and it does not prevent STIs or pregnancy.
Condoms are also a great, cheap HIV prevention option for many people (and they also help protect against STIs)!
PM: Lastly, as a final takeaway: What are some things PrEP MAP audience could be doing to support your work in advancing the implementation of PrEP?
HM: There are a lot of different things the PrEP MAP community could do to help, and they can be really small things (or big ones!):
Raise awareness about PrEP within your communities
Counter misinformation when you hear it and point to reliable information
Advocate to your Governments and clinicians that PrEP is a crucial new tool in the fight against HIV and something they should help prioritise
Support people to use the HIV prevention method that’s right for them.
Only if we all work together can we end the HIV epidemic!
Philips Loh published this page in News 2018-12-10 17:54:39 +0700
The PrEPMAP website is intended to provide general information and is not meant to replace consultation with a medical professional. Read more about us.
Have additional or more recent information about PrEP that you'd like us to share? contact us at prepmap@apcom.org
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M-REIT Industry Set for More Growth
Malaysia's iconic and jewelled assets are in M-REITs.
Rare an excellent proxy to the Malaysian EAL estate investment trusts (REITs) property market.
At a time when property prices are slow to pick up or renting out a property is tough due to an oversupply and competition, it is good to look at investing your money in Malaysian REITs (M-REITs).
Unitholders can enjoy both capital gain and income distribution without the hassle or problems that often come with managing the assets on your own.
A REIT is a form of public-listed corporation which invests in acquiring and running profit-making real estate such as shopping malls, hospitals, office towers and industrial properties.
The profit from rental income is distributed to investors in the form of dividend.
There are currently 18 REITs listed on Bursa Malaysia, including four syariah-compliant REITs.
Careful analysis of a REIT's background and monitoring of its share price are important before putting an investment in it.
A REIT should have a healthy balance sheet and good dividend payout trend. It should also be active — acquiring assets in strategic locations or regularly maintaining its assets.
The REIT manager should also be competent enough to continuously improve its net rental/profit which translates to growing dividends for shareholders. Property analysts said the best REITs to invest in now are those that own office, retail and industrial assets which have sufficient numbers and a variety of tenants.
Sunway REIT is one of the largest diversified REITS in Malaysia with a diverse portfolio strategically located in integrated townships in key locations in Greater Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Perak.
The market capitalisation of Sunway REIT, which was listed on Main Market of Bursa Malaysia in 2010, was RM5 billion up to September 30.
Sunway REIT recently recorded RM143.7 million revenue in the first quarter of its financial year ending June 30 2019, an increase of 1.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y).
The higher revenue, which was mainly attributable to increased contributions across all segments, however, partially offset by that from the hotel segment.
Net property income (NPI) eased marginally by 0.4 per cent y-o-y to RM110.5 million on the back of higher property operating expenses.
Datuk Jeffrey Ng, the chief executive officer of Sunway REIT Management Sdn Bhd — the manager of Sunway REIT — said in a statement that taking into consideration its new strategic direction, Sunway REIT would reposition itself to diversified REIT from retail-focused REIT to capitalise investment opportunities on the broader emerging growth subsectors riding on global mega trends.
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD FOR M-REIT
Ng, who is also the chairman of the Malaysian REIT Managers Association (MRMA), said the M-REIT industry is seeing an exciting time ahead simply because “Malaysia's iconic and jewelled assets are in M-REITs”.
Up to end-December last year, the market capitalisation for REITs stood at RM46.5 billion compared with just RM5 billion in 2007 (with 11 REITS listed).
Ng said the proposed Airport REIT announced by the government in the 2019 Budget would further boost the combined property value of M-REITS to more than RM70 billion.
He said MRMA expects the Airport REIT, which would be the first of its kind in the world, to be one of the largest M-REITS.
“Imputing a certain leverage level, the property value for the REIT is estimated to be just below RM20 billion that is to be injected into the proposed REIT. This may position the REIT as one of the largest in M-REITs and boost the combined property value by 35 per cent to above RM70 billion,” said Ng.
The world's first Airport REIT is expected to raise RM4 billion for future airport upgrades and expansion by disposing of a 30 per cent stake in it.
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said during his 2019 Budget early this month that those who invest in the airport REIT would get income from user fees collected from Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), which is the concessionaire that operates and manages Malaysian airports till 2035.
Ng hopes the 2019 Budget measures would propel the M-REIT market growth, providing positive spillovers to the capital market in the country.
The proposed Airport REIT is seen as a strategic way to unlock the country's aviation infrastructure value, creating a sustainable structure to fund future capital expenditure and expansion of airports, as well as igniting capital market interest.
“The proposed Airport REIT is indeed a powerful way for the government to securitise and monetise its infrastructure assets. We are confident that with the right pricing and valuation, its initial public offering (IPO) will garner strong interest from both institutional and retail investors as its is supported by high quality government-backed assets.
“In line with the local bourse's priority to attract higher foreign participation in the domestic capital market, MRMA suggests the government consider increasing the free-float of the Airport REIT to more than the proposed 30 per cent stake in order to increase liquidity and tradability of the proposed REIT.
With sizeable free-float, the IPO will attract greater interest from international funds,” said Ng.
MRMA said over the long term, it is optimistic that the proposed REIT would perform well given that passenger traffic at the 39 airports in the countries MAHB operates in has been recording healthy growth over the years.
This is further supported by the International Air Transports Association's forecast of a 3.5 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) worldwide over the next two decades. Asia Pacific is expected to grow at a faster pace of 4.8 per cent CAGR during the same period, Ng said.
Henry Butcher Malaysia said the Airport REIT would provide not only institutional but also retail investors a rare opportunity to invest in quality infrastructure assets and benefit from the growth of the aviation industry.
“Nevertheless, the setting up of this REIT is announced at the same time as the levying of a tax on international departures which may, although probably not much, affect the number of international travellers departing from our airports,” it said.
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https://www.propertyhunter.com.my/news/2019/03/6043/west-malaysia/napic-urged-to-provide-more-up-to-date-data
NAPIC Urged to Provide More Up-to-Date Data
Data coming from the National Property Information Centre (NAPIC) should be more up-to-date so that buyers can understand the current demand and supply situation and make purchasing decisions.
See Kok Loong, executive director of Metro Homes Realty Bhd, said the data provided by some parties like NAPIC only present property overhang and not the overall market supply.
NAPIC had in January published the Property Stock and Status Q3 (third quarter) 2018 data which showed that the number of unsold houses in Malaysia had reached a new high of 30,115 worthRM19.54 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9,811 units, or RM18.28 billion, from 20,304 in Q3 2017. The Q3 2017 figure was 6,111 more than the 14,193 unsold units in Q3 2016.
These figures represented houses that remained unsold nine months after they secured the certificate of completion and compliance (CCC). They exclude residential properties built on commercial land like serviced apartments and small-office home-offices (SoHo).
A property consulting firm reported in February that at end-September 2018, Malaysia’s property overhang stood at 43,219 units worth RM29.47 billion. This time serviced apartments and SoHo units were included.
See said all the above only represents property overhang and not the overall market supply.
“The figures provided only covers developer’s stock... it does not cover units already sold to individuals or companies,” said See.
He said the real ratio that represents a supply and demand situation should be the residential vacancy rate (RVR).
RVR is the percentage of all units in a specific market that are unoccupied during a particular time.
Vacancy rate is calculated by multiplying the number of vacant units in a building by 100 and then dividing that by the total number of units that are available in that block.
“Unfortunately, we don’t use the RVR in Malaysia. I believe it is time for NAPIC to provide the information based on RVR, instead of just overhang numbers.”
See, who is also deputy-president of Malaysia Institute of Professional Estate Agents and Consultants, said Napic should provide RVR by national, state, city or location basis similar to other developed countries such as the United States, Singapore and Australia.
“I believe this will help developers, banks, property consultants, house buyers and investors make a decision by understanding the current demand and supply situation. For example, RVR above seven per cent is considered high and it is alarming for the market to add on supply,” he said.
See said low vacancy rates generally mean that the real estate market performance of an area is good.
It is an indication that strong demand for rental real estate units exists.
“Once we have a series of data over several years, we will able to analyse the market situation better in terms of demand and supply.
“NAPIC should compile and publish it on a quarterly basis for the public to analyse. For a better Malaysia, we should start providing more information on timely basis so that the stakeholders can react accordingly,” he added.
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B.C. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson in his B.C. legislature office, Nov. 28, 2019. (Tom Fletcher/Black Press)
B.C. forest industry aid on the way, Doug Donaldson says
Layoffs focus of B.C. legislature’s final day of 2019
Community job coordination offices are opening to help B.C. Interior forest workers laid off in the industry downturn, Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says.
Donaldson spoke to Black Press Thursday, after a raucous last day of the B.C. legislature session where he was again pressed for action on logging and sawmill shutdowns across the province. Opposition critics reported multiple cases where forestry-dependent families are looking at a bleak Christmas season.
The assistance office in 100 Mile House has opened, and others are preparing to open in Clearwater, Fort St. James, Mackenzie and Fort St. John, he said.
“That’s to give direct one-to-one service for workers, trying to connect them with retraining opportunities, and the other four are on their way to being opened,” Donaldson said.
For workers who are looking for retirement rather than retraining, there have been more than 500 applications so far to a retirement bridging program that offers up to $75,000 for qualifying workers. It’s open to full-time mill workers who are 55 or older, have worked in a mill for the last two consecutive years, and meet other criteria.
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“It’s a $40 million program over two years, so it takes a little while to implement,” Donaldson said. “We have more than 500 applications in, and they’re being dealt with on an individual basis.”
For loggers who have been idled, the Forest Enhancement Society of B.C. is delivering a $27 million program to reduce fire risk and improve forest health by removing burned trees or wood debris.
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The council approved a bond to pay for a bulkhead to halt erosion at North Prospect Avenue, above. A change to another bond, for a possible spray park at Bellhaven Natural Area, below, drew criticism. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
Not for the first time and almost certainly not for the last, Red Bankers picked over a pair of big-ticket projects at Wednesday night’s council meeting.
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The other: A possible spray park at Bellhaven Natural Area that has pitted environmental activists against West Siders desperate for a playground.
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Jeff Dement gives a lesson in tree identification during Saturday’s walk through the Fair Haven Fields Natural Area. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge)
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Members of the borough council at Tuesday night’s meeting. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
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Chris Wood, as seen in a video, above, and Mayor Dina Long, below, at Saturday night’s event, which raised $130,000 for Sea Bright Rising. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
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At a news conference in the borough firehouse, Christie stood in front of a signs from local businesses including Bains Hardware, Woodys Oceanfront Grille and Sea Bright Pizza to announce and lay out plans to help businesses that were affected by the hurricane. These include, he said, the creation of a new cabinet-level position the Office of Recovery and Rebuilding and the formation of a business impact assessment group, designed to aid businesses on a personal level.
SEA BRIGHT: BAIN’S IS BACK IN THE PAINT
Frank Bain working the phone and the computer in the freshly restored paint section of his hardware store. (Photos by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
The rebuilding process in Sea Bright took a big step forward this week when Ocean Avenue mainstay Bains Hardware reopened its doors to the public for the first time since Hurricane Sandy hit.
We opened at noon on 12/12/12 why go to some concert when you could come down here, right? owner Frank Bain told redbankgreen Thursday in his newly renovated shop.
Less than seven weeks ago, Bains store and every piece of inventory inside of it was destroyed. Now, the half of the store that is currently open looks as though it was never touched by the storm.
SECOND ‘MOUNTAIN’ PILES UP MEMORIES
A passerby eyes debris in the Anchorage Beach parking lot, above, while a mountain of it dominates the former Peninsula House lot, below. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
Mount Sandy, meet Mount Refuse.
Though smaller in stature, the mountain of debris occupying in Sea Bright’s old Peninsula House parking lot on Ocean Avenue is just as scene-stealing and ominous as its sand counterpart, located just a stones throw away. This ever-growing pile, however, wont have onlookers climbing it or posing for closeups anytime soon.
The refuse is the accumulated result of curbside trash pickups in this Hurricane Sandy-smashed town, where residents and business owners are early on in a restoration effort.
It stands, however briefly, as a jarring, visceral reminder of the storm’s reach over porches, through doors and windows, and into rooms and closets.
SEA BRIGHT: AMID TEARS, GUARD ROLLS OUT
Sea Bright’s tent city was largely dismantled by Friday afternoon. Below, Governor Chris Christie speaking with National Guardsmen at the site on November 9. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
After six weeks of assisting displaced residents and first responders with everything from hot meals to extra clothes, Sea Brights tent city created by the US National Guard is leaving town.
Following a final community meal on Thursday, National Guardsmen made their move out of the municipal parking lot around 10:30 a.m. Friday, according to Onofrio Moscato, head chef at neighboring restaurant, Woodys Ocean Grille, Emotions were running high for the Guard as well as volunteers and residents, he said.
The National Guard was escorted out by the Sea Bright firemen, Moscato told redbankgreen. They were hanging out of the windows and waving. It was a special send-off for them. Before they left, they all stood in line and made a final salute, kind of a sign that their mission here was over.
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HOT DOG CART AND CHIC EATERY BACK IN BIZ
Hot dog seller Frances Rooney poses for a photo with admirers, including Councilwoman Peggy Bills, at right above. Below, Pat Trama in his restored restaurant. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
One of Sea Bright’s oldest food businesses reopened this week, and one of its newest was scheduled to do so Friday night, two signs that the storm-battered town is cooking up a recovery.
Frances Rooney, affectionately known as Grandma Hot Dog,” fired up the gas on her cart this week and was soon attracting lines of hungry and loyal customers.
My son was the one who really encouraged me to come back out here and start serving people again sooner rather than later, she told redbankgreen, He thought it would be a comforting sight for everyone to see me back in business, up on my feet.
November 30, 2012 - 7:52 am | Comments ()
RUMSON TEEN’S STORM VIDEO DRAWS TRAIN
A 33-minute video about Hurricane Sandy by a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional student caught the attention of the rock band Train, which will play an acoustic show in Sea Bright as a result, NJ.com reported Wednesday.
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Nagy videotaped conditions in Sea Bright and Rumson before, during and after the October 29 storm, and folded the band’s music into her production. Now, the San Francisco-based band is planning to play a private show for residents, first responders and their families next week, with the performance to be aired on on VH1 Christmas Day, the website of the Star-Ledger reports.
The effort will spotlight the efforts of Sea Bright Rising, a nonprofit devoted to the general recovery of the town of Sea Bright and care for its residents in the interim.
SEA BRIGHT: BAIN’S PAINTS ITS OWN FUTURE
Frank Bain outside his Ocean Avenue hardware store, where all the inventory was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
This isnt a competition,” said a stone-faced Frank Bain, when asked if his would be the first business to reopen in Sea Bright after Hurricane Sandy.
But checking in on recent activity at Bain’s Hardware, a visitor might conclude that not only was Bain in a race, but one that his life depended on winning.
One late afternoon last week, the Ocean Avenue storefront was a swarm of dust-encrusted laborers, some installing new subflooring even as others continued with interior demolition work. At one point, an impromptu crew, Bain included, picked up and hustled the pieces of a shattered street lamp from the sidewalk out front to the side of the building.
Make no mistake about it: Bain is in a major hurry. With no flood insurance and every item in his 65,000-SKU shop destroyed, his economic life hangs in the balance, he’s the first to admit. “Getting that register ringing again is paramount,” he told redbankgreen.
But he’s driven just as much, he said, by the importance of his store to other businesses and homeowners who themselves are faced with rebuilding challenges. We are out here working so that we can get back on our feet and help this town as soon as humanly possible, he said.
November 28, 2012 - 1:03 pm | Comments ()
SEA BRIGHT: ON TOP OF MOUNT SANDY
Rachel Pedersen and Carolyn Rigby on the Sea Bright sandpile, which attracts dog-walkers and other sightseers. (Click to enlarge)
The beach clubs and bars may be temporarily gone, but Sea Bright appears to have a new, if temporary attraction: ‘Mount Sandy.’
Rising perhaps 40 feet above the ocean beach on which it was built, a giant pile of sand reclaimed from the storm-tossed borough’s streets has been luring sightseers willing to climb its soft face, rewarding them with a bird’s-eye view of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation.
Just yards away, in fact, is a another mountain rising, this one made of discarded appliances, furniture and building materials.
SEA BRIGHT: GIVING THANKS BY GIVING BACK
Montclair State University student Noah Smith interviews owners of some of the hardest-hit businesses in Sea Bright and the volunteers who spent last weekend helping them out. (Thanks to Debbie Galant of the New Jersey News Commons for passing this along.)
November 21, 2012 - 11:05 pm | Comments ()
SEA BRIGHT MOVES MEETING TO THE BASIE
The mayor and council of Sea Bright took to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Monday night to accommodate a crowd that would not have fit into the town’s borough hall. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
It was anything but business as usual for Sea Bright residents as they gathered for their borough council’s bimonthly meeting Monday night.
Stoked by concerns that their homes and businesses might not be rebuilt in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy’s extensive damage, dozens filled seats near the stage at Red Banks Count Basie Theatre to pepper elected officials with questions about everything from stray transformers to the fate of their town.
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE STORM’S DESTRUCTION
Here’s a compelling video made in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Shot by Adam Worth of Asbury Park, it includes footage of Sea Bright and the Red Bank-based Rebuild/Recover effort. Worth also made a fascinating time-lapse video of Hurricane Irene in 2011.
SEA BRIGHT: MERCHANTS PLAN NEW STARTS
Cono Trezza in his newly built pizzeria last February, and as it appeared five days after the storm, below. (Photo below by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge)
For owners of Sea Bright businesses damaged by Hurricane Sandy, the rebuilding process has just begun. As they assess the damages and take steps toward the recovery of their livelihoods, each has his or her own distinct post-Sandy tale to tell. redbankgreen spoke to four of them this week about their plans in the aftermath of the cataclysmic events that ravaged through their beach community. Here are their stories.
Sea Bright Pizza:
Cono Trezza faces an uphill battle, like most property owners in Sea Bright, though he is meeting it with spirit and vigor that some might find surprising, given the state of his business.
I want to get back as soon as possible, Trezza said. If my ovens were working right now Id start cooking pizzas for everyone that’s out here.
SEA BRIGHT: MOVING ‘MOUNT SANDY’
Bulldozers redistributing sand recovered from the streets of Sea Bright on the borough beach Wednesday morning. Below, contractor Mike Stavola with Governor Chris Christie last week. (Click to enlarge)
It’s been dubbed ‘Mount Sandy,’ and in its enormity, it looms as one of many reminders of the woes inflicted on Sea Bright by Hurricane Sandy on October 29.
We’re talking about a pile of sand so wide and tall upwards of 60 feet, says the contractor who built it that it blocks the view of the ocean from nearly any spot in the municipal beach parking lot.
But the sandpile also stands as a gritty reminder of the rapid progress being made in restoring out the town, while prompting questions about the future of the beaches.
SEA BRIGHT REOPENS TO OUTSIDERS
As seen in two views along Ocean Avenue Wednesday morning, passenger vehicles must share the road with earth movers, backhoes and dumptrucks. (Click to enlarge)
After more than two weeks in lockdown to everyone but residents and restoration workers, Sea Bright took down the barricades Wednesday morning.
With the opening of checkpoints at the Rumson Road entry to town and the northern and southern borders on Ocean Avenue, traffic was trickling through the narrow sandbar borough shortly after dawn.
The Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge drawbridge was also back in service, having had its electricity shut off as a precautionary measure in advance of Hurricane Sandy.
Now, officials are bracing for a possible influx of gawkers eager to eyeball the destroyed beach clubs and downtown up close.
CHRISTIE SHINES A SPOTLIGHT ON SEA BRIGHT
Prompted by a request from Mayor Dina Long and Councilman Read Murphy to keep Ocean Avenue closed to through traffic, Governor Chris Christie summons his transportation secretary during a visit to the borough Friday. Below, Christie tours a National Guard galley set up as part of a relief camp. (Click to enlarge)
On the first day since Hurricane Sandy that building contractors were allowed into town, Governor Christie Christie visited Sea Bright Friday to call attention to the lingering devastation along New Jersey’s coastline as the rest of the state staggers back toward normalcy.
Touring an encampment of National Guard tents erected in the municipal parking lot to serve emergency volunteers, utility contractors and, soon, residents, Christie said there’s a lot of work to do at the Shore, and no one should expect it all to be completed by Memorial Day.
“By Monday, I think, things are going to be, for most people in the state, back to normal,” he told borough Engineer Jaclyn Flor in an impromptu chat. But for hard-hit places like Sea Bright, “first we have to sit down and talk about what we want normal to be, and what you want it to look like, and then we have to go to the federal government and say to them we need some money to get it that way.”
November 9, 2012 - 6:15 pm | Comments ()
SEA BRIGHT READIES FOR RESIDENTS’ RETURN
Aided by the Army, volunteers have built an encampment of tents to serve food and provide other necessities to Sea Brighters when they’re allowed back into town. Restaurateur Chris Wood, below, unloads supplies. (Photos by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)
Outside a mobile kitchen, a National Guardsman chows down a hot dog before helping young volunteers unload boxes of supplies from a tractor trailer in the heart of a newly erected tent city that’s taken shape in the heart of Sea Bright.
With regulation Army tents, Humvees, makeshift kitchens and grills, the parking lot next door to the borough firehouse is looking more like a refugee camp than the slice of summer heaven that draws thousands of visitors each summer.
But the camp has been built in anticipation of an influx not of tourists but of exiled Sea Brighters, who’ve been shut out of their town since leaving under a mandatory evacuation order in advance of Hurricane Sandy.
Chris Wood, owner of Woodys Ocean Grille, who has spearheaded an effort to feed first responders, relief workers and volunteers, plans to expand the effort exponentially when residents and contractors begin moving back to town, perhaps as early as Monday.
Were going to have it all,” Wood said Thursday, while unloading some boxes himself, “three hot meals a day to anyone who needs them, and a veritable Wal-Mart of supplies and clothing, available to anyone and everyone that needs them.
Beginning Friday, residents and business owners were to be allowed into the sequestered town on a day basis only, accompanied by contractors, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., said Mayor Dina Long. Also on Friday, Governor Chris Christie was expected to make an 11 a.m. stop in town “to thank the heroes on the ground,” she said.
November 9, 2012 - 10:30 am | Comments ()
AERIALS SHOW SEA BRIGHT UNDER SAND
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has posted aerial shots of Sea Bright before and after Hurricane Sandy struck on October 29 that show dramatic change in terms of sand coverage of town. Click to enlarge, or go here for even better views of Sea Bright and other New Jersey shore towns.
SEA BRIGHT SHAKES OFF NORTHEASTER
U.S. Army soldiers setting up mess tents in Sea Bright next to the firehouse Thursday to serve work crews and, starting next week, returning residents. (Photo by Chris Wood. Click to enlarge)
Sea Bright experienced nothing more than “typical street flooding” from the Shrewsbury River during Wednesday night’s northeaster, Mayor Dina Long tells redbankgreen.
“It was a quiet night in Sea Bright” with no additional damage to homes and businesses in the hurricane-shattered town, Long said Thursday. Heavy-duty work on streets and utilities aimed at bringing the sandbar municipality back to life has resumed, she said.
That work is now expected to be advanced enough to allow residents to return to their homes next Monday assuming that Governor Chris Christie first lifts the mandatory evacuation order he issued in advance of Hurricane Sandy, Long said.
November 8, 2012 - 12:06 pm | Comments ()
SEA BRIGHT: SHOCK AND DISMAY AT DAMAGE
A home on the Shrewsbury River side of Sea Bright showed the height of the flooding on Saturday. Below, a resident leaves a shuttle bus with recovered belongings on Monday, assisted by Councilman James LoBiondo. (Click to enlarge)
One resident fled with nothing but his paycheck. A young couple stayed, fleeing with their two-year-old child only after watching a hurricane tear their town apart.
This week, they and other Sea Brighters began getting their first glimpses of the destructive power of Hurricane Sandy, which many of them had anticipated would blow past this sandbar town much as another storm did nearly 14 months earlier.
I thought it would be a situation like Irene, where it turned out to be not much of a big deal,” Jim Paustian said Tuesday, as he and his family took photos outside their East New Street home, which is now uninhabitable. “I even almost decided to stay. Now, Im sure glad I didn’t.
MIXED AFTERMATH AMONG SEA BRIGHT HOMES
Wine lover Kevin Corbett recovered all his wine, as well as his golf clubs, from his riverside house, which is slated for demolition. Two doors away, the year-old home of Beatrix and Paul Patton saw little damage. Click to enlarge)
With a backhoe in his front yard and an orange 5 spray-painted across the face of his house, Kevin Corbett hustled out from his rear deck, a bottle of ’82 Petrus in hand, attempting to use the little time he had to save the things he values most: wine, golf clubs and clothes.
As the backhoes claw yanked at a wire strung from whats left of his Ocean Avenue house, Corbett seemed surprisingly unfazed about entering a precarious structure Monday afternoon.
Its beat up out front,” he said with a laugh, but its fine in the back.”
Hundreds of Sea Bright Residents made a brief return home on Monday afternoon to find varying levels of damage inflicted on their households. In some instances, houses that made it out of the storm relatively unscathed were juxtaposed against a neighbors residence lying in ruins.
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Here are 7 times Trump professed his undying admiration for Vladimir Putin
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After a year in office, President Trump’s man-crush on Vladimir Putin is an unrequited love affair, long on lies, legal charges and unfulfilled promises. While unstinting in his admiration for the Russian president, Trump is ineffectual in delivering the policy results desired by his Moscow penpal.
As the advice columnists say, “Can this relationship be saved?”
The Trump-Putin bromance is no casual fling. A cascade of news reports has documented previously undisclosed contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 election. Last month, the Washington Post cataloged dozens of them. On election day, a Trump spokesperson denied any meetings with Russians.
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The indictments of Trump’s national security adviser, his campaign manager and deputy, and the staffer who facilitated a meeting with Russian officials provide further evidence of illegal activities by his entourage. Trump responded by calling the Russia investigation “fake news.”
Now the Post has documented how Trump consistently rejects what U.S. national security agencies are telling him about Russia’s capabilities and intentions to manipulate the U.S. electoral process.
It is, as the Post points out, a situation without precedent in American history—a president who refuses to “accept what even many in his administration regard as objective reality” about the actions of a foreign adversary.
“Rather than search for ways to deter Kremlin attacks or safeguard U.S. elections, Trump has waged his own campaign to discredit the case that Russia poses any threat and he has resisted or attempted to roll back efforts to hold Moscow to account,” reporters Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker write.
At the same time, the president has failed to lift sanctions imposed by President Obama and approved of the closing of Russian diplomatic facilities, including its San Francisco consulate, reportedly a locus of Moscow’s U.S. spying operations.
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According to the Post, President Trump has:
1. Never convened a meeting of his national security advisers about the question of Russian interference.
Told in early January 2017 that members of his incoming Cabinet had already publicly backed the intelligence report on Russian election meddling, President-elect Trump shot back, “So what?” Admitting that the Kremlin had hacked Democratic Party emails, he said, was a “trap.”
2. Rebuked U.S. intelligence officials who provide information on Russia that conflicts with his views.
Russia-related intelligence that might draw Trump’s ire is in some cases not raised verbally, a former senior intelligence official told the Post. In other cases, Trump’s main briefer—a veteran CIA analyst—“adjusts the order of his presentation and text, aiming to soften the impact.”
3. Held a private, unscheduled meeting with Putin, without an adviser or U.S. interpreter present, which is unprecedented.
4. Agreed with Putin about the outlines of a cooperative cybersecurity plan, which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) described as “pretty close” to “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.”
5. Reiterated America’s commitment to the defense of NATO allies in Europe only after National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster pushed him to do so.
6. Offered to return two Russian diplomatic compounds seized by the Obama administration on Moscow’s terms and only relented when Congress intervened.
7. Spurned Pentagon proposals to provide lethal weaponry to the Ukraine government, which is fighting Russian-backed separatists. While no doubt a favor to Putin, rejecting military aid to Ukraine is also a defensible U.S. policy.
Overall, U.S. officials told the Post that the Kremlin believes it got a huge return on its investment in an operation that by some estimates cost less than $500,000 to execute and was organized around two main objectives: destabilizing U.S. democracy and preventing Hillary Clinton, whom Putin despises, from reaching the White House.
“Putin has to believe this was the most successful intelligence operation in the history of Russian or Soviet intelligence,” said Andrew Weiss, a former adviser on Russia in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It has driven the American political system into a crisis that will last years.”
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At the same time, Trump’s failure to lift sanctions has alienated Moscow’s affection.
When Trump reluctantly signed a new set of sanctions overwhelmingly approved by Congress in July, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev posted on Facebook that the president had shown “complete impotence, in the most humiliating manner, transferring executive power to Congress.”
In early September, Putin mocked the idea he had a special relationship with the U.S. president with a gendered poke at Trump’s masculinity. Trump “is not my bride,” Putin said, “and I am not his groom.”
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Despite oil tax cut, Alaska projects steady production decline for next decade
Pat Forgey, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 10:37
Alaska Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell, shown here announcing the 2013 Permanent Fund Dividend amount, said her department didn’t attempt to make oil production forecasts beyond 10 years out and thus couldn’t say whether production would begin increase that far in the future.
(Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
JUNEAU — Despite the passage of Senate Bill 21 last year and claimed success from its supporters, Alaska’s Department of Revenue maintains that oil production will not increase in the foreseeable future.
At best, it may briefly stabilize before resuming its decline, Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell told the Senate Finance Committee during the first week of Alaska Legislature.
Just hours later, Gov. Sean Parnell maintained that there would be more oil production following last year’s passage of tax cuts worth billions.
“I also assume we’ll have new oil production bringing in new revenue,” Parnell told reporters while explaining how the state would cope with deficits.
Years of deficit spending
In addition to Department of Revenue projections showing years of deficit spending consuming the state’s savings, similar projections have been made by the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Legislative Finance Division since the passage of Senate Bill 21.
On Thursday, Rodell was grilled on those projections, and the Parnell administration claims that additional oil company investments would reverse the state’s fortunes.
Oil production in Alaska has declined since peaking at 2 million barrels per day in the late 1980s as the huge North Slope fields gradually run out of petroleum.
Tax cut advocates such as Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, maintained that cuts would reverse that. “Turn the curve with (Senate Bill) 21, that was the mantra,” said Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, who opposed the bill last year.
Rodell presented the Senate Finance Committee with the state’s 10-year production estimates, released to the public last fall in a document known as the “Revenue Sources Book,” something of a bible for Finance Committee members.
Rodell acknowledged that declines similar to those seen before the tax cuts are expected for the 10-year period covered by the book.
Where’s the new oil?
Some projects underway may result in new oil, but they are not certain enough to be included in the official projections, Rodell said. It is important for the state to budget conservatively from conservative projections, something that credit rating agencies view favorably, she said.
Hoffman asked if the department was projecting a turnaround beyond 10 years, but Rodell was non-committal. “That’s a really hard question for me to answer,” she said. “Quite honestly, we don’t look that far into the future.”
Rodell said she couldn’t say when the turnaround would happen. Hoffman wanted to know if it would happen at all. “I can’t say one way or another if that will happen,” Rodell said.
That’s the last the public got to hear on the issue of new production, however. Chairman Kelly stopped the public meeting, moved all the committee members behind closed doors. Fifteen minutes later, the meeting resumed, leaving the production question behind. Kelly did not respond to an inquiry from Alaska Dispatch about the purpose of the closed-door meeting.
Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, asked at a Thursday press conference about the new oil that was promised in exchange for Senate Bill 21.
“It was going to put a lot more oil in the pipeline, that’s what we were told by the oil companies, that’s what we were told by the governor, that’s what we were told by the majorities,” said Wielechowski, a member of the minority caucus of Democrats. The Republican-led majority caucuses in each house supported Senate Bill 21.
Wielechowski said that the range of estimates in the Revenue Sources Book all call for continued declines, even the most optimistic.
In 10 years, the state is projecting 312,000 barrels of oil per day, compared to 2013’s average of 531,000 barrels per day.
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"The GPS Told Me To Do It", Says Woman Who Blindly Drove Her Car On Railway Tracks
In a bizarre incident, a Pennsylvania woman drove right onto the railway tracks as the GPS navigated her on it. The City of Duquesne Police Department received a call at around 10 pm about a vehicle on the railway tracks and posted about the incident on Facebook sharing a picture of the car.
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In a bizarre incident, a Pennsylvania woman drove right onto the railway tracks as the GPS navigated her on it. She said this after she veered off the road and her car got stuck on train tracks. The City of Duquesne Police Department received a call at around 10 pm about a vehicle on the railway tracks and posted about the incident on Facebook sharing a picture of the car.
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“The GPS told me to do it…This evening at approximately 10 PM, the city of Duquesne Police Department was dispatch for a vehicle on the railroad tracks at Grant Avenue and State Route 837. Arriving Officers learned from driver, a female from Sewickley, that her GPS advised her to go this way. The female was 100% sober and had no medical conditions affecting her decision-making. The vehicle was towed from the scene and the driver was cited for careless driving", the officers wrote on the Facebook post.
Some trolled the woman while others supported her on Facebook, some said that GPS technology really can confuse the best of us. "Common sense would say GPS was wrong anyone knows driving on the tracks is wrong..." wrote one commenter.
This isn't the first time GPS has been blamed for accidents. In April last year, a driver in China landed himself in quite the predicament. He managed to drive his car right into the middle of a river, all because his car's navigation system led him that way. According to local reports, the incident occurred on April 1 in Anhui, China. Pictures from the incident showed the car stuck in the middle of the water body. Let this be a cautionary tale for everyone to not follow their car's GPS blindly.
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Peru's top court says Vizcarra's closure of Congress was legal
Marco Aquino
FILE PHOTO: People demonstrate to support Peru's President Martin Vizcarra after he dissolved Congress In Lima, Peru October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
LIMA (Reuters) - In a win for Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra, the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday that his dissolution of Congress amid a long-running standoff with lawmakers was legal.
With four votes in favor and three against, the court said a claim that Vizcarra exceeded his powers by dissolving Congress on Sept. 30 was unfounded and had not violated the Constitution. The decision means legislative elections will move forward on Jan. 26.
“Our government has ... always respected the Constitution,” Vizcarra said on Twitter, adding that the courts had “closed this chapter.”
Vizcarra dissolved Congress amid a protracted showdown with lawmakers over anti-corruption reforms. The move won him support among the armed forces, police and voters in the copper-rich nation.
In October, Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal unanimously voted to admit a lawsuit to determine whether Vizcarra exceeded his powers with the shutdown.
The dissolution of Congress had been rejected mostly by lawmakers from the right-wing Popular Force party of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori.
The daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori was jailed last year for alleged money laundering and receiving illegal payments from scandal-plagued Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
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With more than 45 years of expertise, Rivit is the ideal partner for what concerns the distribution of fastening systems, tools for fasteners and machines for sheet metal working and assembling.
Founded in 1973, Rivit has come to set the Company core business in three separate macro-divisions: industry, building and products for dealers, with particular attention to the fields of industrial auto body shop, electronics, household appliances, sheet metal working, metal furnishings, roofing, metal roofing, air conditioning and metal frames.
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Nowadays Rivit strongly aims to the international market, to challenge new situations and to widen its own strategies of partnership and marketing.
To be able to develop these ambitious projects, Rivit prepared itself with an advanced logistics including an automatic warehouse; this new setting grants and supports a state-of-the-art logistic system, and allows Rivit to meet all the requirements of the Customers, which are getting more and more demanding. The building premises covers an area of 10,000 sqm on a land of 18,000 sqm.
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The automatic warehouse with its two trasloelevators, located in a 18 meter high and 90 meter long tower has 24,000 trays, divided along two corridors, that can contain up to 100,000 references.
As today Rivit is already managing over 40,000 items, the perspectives of growth and the variety of stock items are considered very important targets by the Company, that has chosen an automatic warehouse with trays to optimize the activities of picking.
Automated warehouse 90 x 10 x h18 meters
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The quick and precise logistic management of the stock items is part of the commercial policy of the Company, which aims to the most precise and speediest management of the orders, so that they can be executed within 48 hours.
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ENGLAND'S O'LOUGHLIN RACES CLOCK FOR FINAL
England have enough depth to cover the absence of Sean O'Loughlin should the inspirational skipper be ruled out of Saturday's Rugby League World Cup final, according to prop Chris Hill.
England stocks have already been tested after star hooker Josh Hodgson was ruled out with a torn ACL, forcing coach Wayne Bennett to bring Chris Heighington onto the bench.
In what is an otherwise unchanged line-up from the team that survived a roaring comeback from Tonga in the semi-final, veteran James Roby will now play 80 minutes at hooker.
"Robes can do 80 minutes regardless. He's done it for 15 years in Super League. He's done it in internationals, Great Britain, so he's more than capable," Hill said on Tuesday.
However all eyes will be on O'Loughlin and his shoulder issue when England take to the training paddock for a field session on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old remains a 50-50 chance of featuring at Suncorp Stadium.
"I'm not a physio. If I was, I'd heal him like that. Seeing him this morning, he's moving a lot better so we've got a couple of days," Hill said.
"HE'S DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO GET FIT. I THINK IF HE DOESN'T PLAY, OBVIOUSLY IT'S A LOSS. BUT THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT A SQUAD. SOMEBODY HAS TO STEP IN."
Hill is also adamant the underdogs will challenge the favourites, having pushed Australia in the tournament-opener in Melbourne five weeks ago.
The Kangaroos only led 10-4 before scoring eight points in the final five minutes.
"We've got to control the ball, it's as simple as that. We can compete with the best, we've proved that. It's got to be who's best with the ball on the night," Hill said.
"We can go toe-to-toe with them but if you give them too much ball, they'll punish you.
"They had a runaway try at the end, which, we were chancing our arm and we needed to. I thought we could've improved with our chances a lot more in the first half."
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Alexander Lycoyannis joined Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. in 2002 and is a member with the firm's Litigation and Appeals Departments. Mr. Lycoyannis represents clients in all phases of litigation and appellate practice before the New York City, New York State and federal courts.
Mr. Lycoyannis has wide-ranging knowledge and experience in an array of real estate and complex commercial matters, and has represented clients ranging from the country's largest real estate developers to nationally-recognized commercial tenants and individuals who own a single building. Mr. Lycoyannis has successfully litigated disputes arising out of commercial leases and contracts for the purchase and sale of real property; commercial and residential landlord/tenant litigation; New York City rent regulation; applications for Yellowstone and preliminary injunctions; corporate, partnership and LLC disputes; the New York City Loft Law; brokerage commissions; condominium and cooperative disputes; construction litigation; adjacent landowner disputes; and the enforcement of guaranties and promissory notes.
Mr. Lycoyannis also has significant transactional experience, including, among other things, drafting a residential lease utilized by a prominent New York developer in its Manhattan portfolio. Mr. Lycoyannis has also drafted and negotiated purchase and sale agreements, buyout agreements, real estate brokerage agreements, occupancy agreements and lease amendments.
Mr. Lycoyannis's writing and oral argument abilities frequently result in summary judgment decisions in favor of his clients -- saving them from the expense and inherent uncertainty of a trial -- as well as victories at the appellate level. His litigation experience and negotiation skills have also consistently led to positive outcomes for the firm's clients.
Mr. Lycoyannis is the former chairman of the litigation subcommittee of the New York City Bar's Real Property Law Committee. He is also a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of real estate-related topics, having written multiple articles for the New York Law Journal and the New York Real Estate Law Reporter, and having given several presentations to the New York City Bar and the Small Property Owners of New York.
Year Joined Firm
Rent Regulation & Administrative Law
Litigation (Commercial)
Litigation (Real Estate)
Landlord Tenant Law
Condominium/Cooperative Law
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2002
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2002
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2015
Boston University School of Law
Law Journal: American Journal of Law and Medicine, Case and Note Editor, 2000 - 2001
Law Journal: American Journal of Law and Medicine, Staff Member, 1999 - 2000
State University of New York at Binghamton
"ATTORNEY'S ADVICE: Housing Insights," SPONY, October 2018
“Yellowstone Injunctions When Prompt Cure Is Impossible,” New York Real Estate Law Reporter, April 2017
"The New Anti-Airbnb Law: An Overview,” Commercial Observer, November 2016
"Airbnb: Boon Or Bane For NYC Residential Real Estate?" Law360, April 2015
"The Enforceability of No-Waiver Provisions in Commercial Leases," ALM, January 2015
Landlord/Tenant Law Column, New York Law Journal, June 2013
"The Obligations to Permit Pets Notwithstanding No-Pet Provisions," New York Real Estate Law Reporter, March 2013
"The Enforceability of Liquidated Damages Clauses in Real Estate Leases," New York Real Estate Law Reporter, June 2012
'''Piercing the Corporate Veil' with Respect to Monetary Claims Against Commercial Tenants," New York Real Estate Law Reporter, October 2011
Kuzmich et al. v. 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC, 157 A.D. 3d 505 (1st Dept 2018)
Tap Tap, LLC v. 558 Seventh Ave. Corp. et al., 144 A.D. 3d 409 (1st Dept 2016)
Bowery Residents' Committee, Inc. v. Lance Capital LLC, 121 A.D.3d 505 (1st Dept 2014)
Bowery Residents' Committee, Inc. v. Lance Capital LLC, 2014 WL 3707981 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty)
Gordon v. Board of Managers, 36 Misc.3d 1210(A), 2012 WL 2914168 (Table), 2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 51245(U) (Sup Ct. N.Y. Cty 2011)
Tennant v. Manhattan Skyline Management Corp., 925 N.Y.S.2d 330, 85 A.D. 3d 557, (1st Dep't 2011)
Southbridge Towers Inc. v. Pion, 25 Misc 3d 132(A), 901 N.Y.S.2d 911, 2009 WL 3384469 (App. T. 1st Dep't 2009)
Southbridge Towers Inc. v. Yagman, 22 Misc 3d 142(A), 881 N.Y.S.2d 367, 2009 WL 737407 (App. T. 1st Dep't 2009)
Durst Buildings Corp. v. JPR 2 Inc., 2009 WL 2221468 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty)
Durst Buildings Corp. v. JPR 2 Inc., 2008 WL 195614 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty)
2170-2178 Broadway LLC v. Ross, 14 Misc. 3d 137(A), 836 N.Y.S.2d 495, 2007 WL 489205 (App. T. 1st Dep't 2007)
Yenom Corp. v. 155 Wooster Street Inc., et al., 33 A.D.3d 67, 818 N.Y.S.2d 210 (1st Dep't 2006)
Moderator of CLE panel discussion, “AirBnB Under Siege: The Evolving Legal Landscape for Short-Term Rentals in NYC” - April 20, 2017
New York City Bar Real Property Law Committee: Airbnb.com, June 2, 2015
R&E's 2013 In-house Lecture Series: Appellate Law 101, May 21, 2013
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Publications: MSNBC, San Diego Union-Tribune, Gannett News Service, DVDActive.com, San Diego Reader, Copley News Service
No Score Yet The Slugger's Wife (1985) This is the most nakedly calculated film Simon has written (which is really saying something), and also the least funny. - Copley News Service EDIT
81% Beverly Hills Cop (1984) It has a creamy surface and junky insides. - Copley News Service EDIT
88% Phar Lap (Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation) (1983) The film is richly acted... And it's as well paced as a good race by director Simon Wincer. - Copley News Service EDIT
65% 2010 (1984) Hyams directed, produced, scripted, even supervised photography, but his dossier is not that of a masterbuilder. He's a sturdy craftsman who gets all the gears moving in tight rhythm. His film is impressive but not elating. - Copley News Service EDIT
85% Tightrope (1984) On an action fan's gut level, I like Eastwood. There's no other star who can pull off tense, John Wayneish moments so well. - Copley News Service EDIT
81% Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) Mazursky taps and carbonates a rich source Boudu Saved From Drowning, Rene Fauchois' play that became a classic 1931 movie directed by Jean Renoir. - Copley News Service EDIT
36% Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) From its whip 'em up music to its doggy cliches, the movie is a rubbish pile. Even the vaunted action scenes... don't show fresh verve or tactical flair. They're just stunts with big price tags. - Copley News Service EDIT
53% Dune (1984) Inside Dune is a good freak show struggling to get out (and failing). - Copley News Service EDIT
56% Weird Science (1985) Weird Science has a laser-line to the hopes and fears of teen-age boys. - Copley News Service EDIT
No Score Yet Torchlight (1984) [Ian McShane] is irrepressibly slimy and entertaining. Not since Malcolm McDowell played a creep Nazi (in a movie I have otherwise managed to forget) has a villain done such solo salvage work on his scenes in a terrible film. - Copley News Service EDIT
11% Band of the Hand (1986) Dumb movies are with us always, but it isn't every week that we have a Band of the Hand. Flawlessly false, it breaks into the elite of the super-stupid. - Copley News Service EDIT
85% The Sure Thing (1985) The Sure Thing is one of those movies that start to fade right after you've seen it, but while you're watching there's pleasure to be had in its craft. - Copley News Service EDIT
No Score Yet Solarbabies (1986) Solarbabies is baked in the cliche oven, and then iced with derivations. - Copley News Service EDIT
No Score Yet The Bear (1984) The Bear hawks the oldest line in sports films, telling us in various ways that Bryant was a "maker of men." We can believe it, and even admire it, because Busey brings out Bryant's courtly grace, his instinctual decency. - Copley News Service EDIT
75% The Cotton Club (1984) This movie would have been ruined by good taste. It is spendthrift on every level but logic, and at times inane, yet a smashing entertainment. - Copley News Service EDIT
19% City Heat (1984) Imagine The Sting without charm, and you have a fix on City Heat. - Copley News Service EDIT
40% The Evil That Men Do (1984) The Evil That Men Do is an efficient C.B. machine. - Copley News Service EDIT
71% Under the Volcano (1984) There are nips of beauty and terror, but the movie starts small and then shrinks. - Copley News Service EDIT
36% National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) It must have been fun for the film's makers to work in London, Paris, Rome and Southern Germany, but their fun didn't get exported to us. - Copley News Service EDIT
96% Ran (1985) This film is the visual epic of the year, and one of the few really great movies of the 80s. - Copley News Service EDIT
67% The Stone Boy (1984) This film is sincere, earnest and irritating. - Gannett News Service EDIT
97% Lost in America (1985) With co-writer Monica Johnson, his collaborator on Real Life and Modern Romance, Brooks has scripted the perfect outing for his gifts. - Copley News Service EDIT
3/5 77% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) Maturing performances are a bonus, but the show's the thing, and by now it seems much richer than any theme park that could ever be made from it. - San Diego Reader EDIT
3/5 100% Waste Land (2010) With Walker and cinematographer Dudu Miranda, Muniz has a hawk's eye for the weird beauty of bulldozed hillocks of trash and the catador faces that he chose to star in photographic portraits. - San Diego Reader EDIT
2/5 33% Wild Target (2010) A few tart, amusing lines echo the fabled Kind Hearts and Coronets, yet this British movie based on a French farce falls into morbid silliness. - San Diego Reader EDIT
2/5 86% Kings of Pastry (2010) The makers are left, finally, a few cookies short. - San Diego Reader EDIT
73% Prometheus (2012) The story is a lurching carnival of budget blasts. - San Diego Reader EDIT
2/4 80% Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Devout fans will have to go. For the rest of us, the best rewards of this show were long ago, in a galaxy that now seems far, far away. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3/5 49% Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Strong effects, good design, and an exciting use of nature help to empower Stewart and Theron, who inject a rich, double dose of feminism. - San Diego Reader EDIT
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3/4 91% Crime After Crime (2011) Despite its plodding tactics, the movie is an alarming witness. - San Diego Reader EDIT
2/4 92% Children of Men (2006) Here is your post-holiday depression pill: Children of Men. Not to relieve depression. To cause it. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
4/5 95% The King's Speech (2010) The film is richly rooted, with splendid trappings, including pea-soup fogs. For all the pomp and protocol, it's an intimate story about a scared man who must find his voice if he is to rise, in regal stature, above his epaulets. - San Diego Reader EDIT
4/5 95% The Artist (2011) Through it all, Dujardin has great dignity, is hugely likeable, and pulls off touches of comic poignancy not far from Chaplin's. - San Diego Reader EDIT
3/4 71% Carnage (2011) The acting marathon is adroitly blocked and paced by Polanski and impeccably shot by Pawel Edelman. - San Diego Reader EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 4, 2015
95% The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) It's very pretty (plus a song that is like a gumdrop melting in your ear). Girls may enjoy the sweet, rather wistful story more than most boys. - San Diego Reader EDIT
4/4 87% Howl's Moving Castle (2005) Like Tiepolo, Miyazaki is a winged artist who flies in his own space, taking gravity with him. He can put us into a childish stupor of anticipation, then satisfaction. His vision is so free that it captivates. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3/5 96% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) The grand finish, if not always inspired, feels necessary. In a sustained, imaginative way, this is the best of any movie series. - San Diego Reader EDIT
4/4 94% Moneyball (2011) Brad Pitt is at the top of his own game as Beane. Cocky and often nonchalant, he is gnawed by doubts that he tries to cover by grabbing a snack or pitching a grin. - San Diego Reader EDIT
6% Underclassman (2005) The finish, a rush of climaxes, can make you feel zoned at 3 a.m., trying to decide between TV and the wallpaper. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
2/4 96% Persepolis (2007) Persepolis feels abstract, never deeply personal, because Satrapi offers only surfaces and push-pin thoughts while sharing here sincere but glib sisterhood with Iranian history. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3.5/4 91% There Will Be Blood (2007) Anderson is a gambler who likes wild cards. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
2.5/4 22% Mad Money (2008) What's not to believe? A lot. But asking for bolted logic and dramatic structure in such a movie is about like asking former Fed chief Alan Greenspan to open a mosh pit in Miami. Anyway, the money in the bank here is Keaton. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
1/4 40% 27 Dresses (2008) The film 27 Dresses only seems like a lobotomy. In fact, this is public surgery to install a new vacuum tube for airheads into the generic chick flick, model 2008. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3/4 98% Diva (1981) Had Wile E. Coyote chased Jean-Luc Godard, the result might have been Diva. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3/5 41% The Bucket List (2007) The Bucket List gets through its list while rarely seeming a chore. Its two great stars invite us into their company, often amusingly, always humanly. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
2/4 87% The Orphanage (2007) The truly disturbing element is the heavy reliance on childhood loneliness, fear and sickness. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
2/4 94% The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) It would be inhuman not to empathize with the actual man's plight, but the movie is a sophisticated prod, pushing us inside its own Bauby. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
3/4 65% The Kite Runner (2007) Afghanistan is a nation tortured by history, but the core feeling in The Kite Runner is heartburning love of the place, its proud people and dusty, rugged beauty. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
2/4 89% The Savages (2007) The movie greedily uses its rich cast. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
4/4 32% Youth Without Youth (2007) Coppola has conviction even with the airiest elements. The churn and sweep of time, memory, karma, the whole enchilada of fate, give the story a weirdly compulsive charm. - San Diego Union-Tribune EDIT
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Psychology in Southeast Asia
Sociocultural, Clinical, and Health Perspectives, 1st Edition
Edited by Grant J. Rich, Jas Laile Jaafar, David Barron
Available for pre-order. Item will ship after 25th May 2020
Despite diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity, there has been a paucity of research on psychology in Southeast Asia. This book aims to fill that gap, with a series of well-written theoretical and empirical chapters by PhD psychologists in SE Asia along with respected international colleagues and co-authors from around the globe.
In particular this book focuses upon critical sociocultural, clinical and health issues and perspectives in psychology in Southeast Asia. Overviews help contextualize the cultural data, permitting nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and more.
Psychologists and mental health professionals with interests in Asia will find this book to be a must-read, as will other readers seeking to deepen their cultural and international understanding.
'Some 650 million persons reside in Southeast Asia. This pioneering volume discusses innovative psychological research conducted in 9 ASEAN countries and helps us to understand better what culturally varied lives these people lead. There is no other book like it.' - Uwe P. Gielen, Ph.D., Past President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR); Past President International Council of Psychologists (ICP); Past President American Psychological Association, International Division; Professor Emeritus, St. Francis College
'For many years, cross-cultural psychologists have pointed to the Eurocentric bias in Psychology. Henrich, Heine and Norenzayan provided strong empirical evidence of this bias when they demonstrated that much of psychological science is based primarily on samples from Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democracies (WEIRD). In this pioneering volume on Psychology in Southeast Asia, Rich, Jaafar and Barron have provided a significant contribution to counter this WEIRD science. In this timely book, the authors cover the significant psychological theories and research from 9 of the 10 ASEAN countries. It provides an enlightening overview of the people of Southeast Asia beyond the stereotypes engendered by the Vietnam war or the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia. I highly recommend it to scholars and individuals interested in understanding Southeast-Asian psychology from indigenous perspectives.' - Frederick Leong, PhD, Director of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research, Michigan State University; Past President, Asian American Psychological Association; Past President, APA’s Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), Founding Editor APA’s Asian American Journal of Psychology
'Having worked very closely with refugees from Southeast Asia for more than 10 years, and witnessed how they started with nothing and became established as business people or professionals in Canada in 20 years, I know that they have much to teach people in the West about the cultural source of their resilience and success. That is why I believe that Psychology in Southeast Asia fills a major gap in the literature regarding the vital role of culture-specific beliefs, values, rituals and social structures for clinical psychology, health psychology and positive psychology. I highly recommend this book for both researchers and practitioners.' - Paul T. P. Wong, President of the International Network on Personal Meaning (www.meaning.ca), Professor Emeritus, Trent University
1.Psychology in Southeast Asia: An overview (Grant J. Rich, Jas Laile Jaafar, and David Barron)
Part 1: Resilience and Adjustment (Grant J. Rich)
2.Psychology in the Philippines: An overview of the state of the discipline emphasizing sociocultural, clinical, and health perspectives (David Barron, Nor Azzatunnisak Mohd Khatib, Hanoor Syahirah Zahari, and Evelyn Toh Kheng Lin)
3.Psychology in Cambodia: Looking forward with resilience (Grant J. Rich and Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn)
4. Moving Forward: Understanding the adjustment of domestic violence survivors from the perspective of family counselling (Melati Sumari, Nor Hasniah Ibrahim, and Dini Farhana Baharudin)
5. Filipina migrant domestic workers in Asia: Mental health and resilience (Esslin Terrighena and David Barron)
6. Sexism and disengagement in the Thai workplace (Prapimpa Jarunratanakul)
Part 2: Well-being (Jas Laile Jaafar)
7. The relationship between meaning in life and subjective well-being among on-call employees with forgiveness and hope as mediators (Bagus Takwin and Aninda Enza Azura Mundakir)
8. Values and subjective wellbeing in Singapore (Tambyah Siok Kuan, Tan Soo Jiuan, and Daniel Tan Chun Jie)
9. Subjective well-being of adolescents and their parents in Vietnam (Truong Thi Khanh Ha)
10. What makes young Malaysians healthy? Establishing the determinants of social well-being (Haslina Muhamad, Nik Daliana Nik Farid, Nurul Fazmidar Mohd Noor, and Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad)
11. Cognitive-emotional regulation and aggression and their relationship to well-being among Thais (Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn and Nattasuda Taephant)
Part 3: Identity and Health Perspectives in Southeast Asia, with Assessment Concerns (David Barron)
12. Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees from Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia: Psychological perspectives on identity and health in the United States (Julie Badaracco and Skultip Sirikantraporn)
13. Malay social identity: A study of personality traits reflected on two political and non-political Facebook pages (Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, Salinah Jaafar, Haslina Muhamad, Mohd Awang Idris, and Muhammad Saiful Haq Hussin)
14. Measures of image and disordered eating for use with Malaysian populations: A critical review and methodological critique of the recent literature (Viren Swami)
15. The case of post hoc ergo propter hoc with the psychological assessment of schizotypy and psychotic-like experiences in Southeast Asia: Identity, self-image, and health (David Barron and Evelyn Toh Kheng Lin)
16. Conclusion: Past, present, and future of psychology in Southeast Asia (Grant J. Rich, David Barron, and Jas Laile Jaafar)
Grant J. Rich,PhD, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is senior editor of "Pathfinders in International Psychology" (2015) and has three coedited books for 2017-2018: "Internationalizing the Teaching of Psychology" (2017), "Human Strengths and Resilience: Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives" (2018), and "Teaching Psychology around the World" (2018).
Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, PhD, is a Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
David Barron, PhD, is the Deputy Director and Reader at the Centre of Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Malaysia.
Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioural Sciences
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Cross Cultural Psychology
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Archives for Lawsuit
Man sues Samsung after his new smartphone explodes in his pants
September 28, 2016 | by Christine Wilson
According to an article from CNET, a Florida man has filed what may be the first lawsuit in the US involving the Samsung Note 7’s combustible battery. 92 reports in the US alone have said the phone battery overheats, with 26 reports of it causing burns. Jonathan Strobel of Boca Raton perhaps has the most alarming story about the Korean manufacturer’s new smartphone.
28-year-old Strobel has recently filed a lawsuit concerning the Note 7’s combustible battery, saying that his device exploded in the front pocket of his pants this September 9th.
“His right thigh has a deep second-degree burn the size of the phone,” Strobel’s lawyer Keith Pierro told CNET. The Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue also cited the phone as having melted in Strobel’s pants.
Strobel’s suit says that he “sustained serious and permanent bodily injuries resulting in pain and suffering, permanent impairment, disability, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of the enjoyment of life, expense of medical care and treatment, expense of hospitalization, lost wages, and ability to earn wages in the past and to be experienced in the future.”
His argument is that Samsung could have taken immediate action to protect customers but chose not to. Although Samsung announced a self-initiated recall the week before Strobel’s accident, it did not work with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on an official recall until a week later, when injuries had already been sustained.
Others have made complaints that Samsung has not done enough to contact Note 7 customers personally. Australian Tham Hui said on September 4th that his Note 7 caused $1,400 worth of damage to his hotel room. “You’d think they’d contact people [who] bought directly from Samsung to return their Note 7,” said Hui at the time.
The Psychology of Piracy
May 16, 2016 | by Christine Wilson
We’ve all seen the ads that explain why piracy is theft. And yet a lot of people use torrent sites to access bootlegs copies of their favourite shows, movies, and music with an easy conscience. But why? New research by Australian PhD student Robert Eres has shed some light on the phenomenon.
Eres’ home country, despite its population of only about 23 million, leads the world in Game of Thrones piracy. Australians aren’t all thieves though, right? Eres studied the brain activity of a person stealing via file sharing compared to someone doing something obviously criminal like shoplifting. Here’s the catch – our brains won’t let us feel the same guilt about piracy.
Eres’ study proves the human brain cannot process the same level of guilt in a crime where physical objects are not involved.
“The findings from the two brain imaging experiments suggest that people are processing the intangible and tangible objects very differently within their brains,” Eres was quoted as saying in a CNET article. He connected these findings to the rise in online bullying and hacking, suggesting that the same logic might apply.
Spotify User Information Posted Online
April 27, 2016 | by Christine Wilson
Hundreds of Spotify accounts were compromised when a list containing personal details was posted on Pastebin last weekend. The list includes vulnerable information such as passwords, email addresses, username and account type. Thankfully, payment information was not revealed.
Although Spotify maintains the “records of the users are safe,” users themselves are more concerned. Some noticed playlists on their accounts they did not create and others had unfamiliar tracks in their “recently played” tab. Most worrisome, some users have even been locked out of their accounts.
All this occurred within the same frame of time as the records being posted online, leaving a rather obvious correlation. It’s not the first time this has happened: last November, more than 1,000 Spotify email logins and passwords were hacked, making their information public and locking users out of their accounts for three days.
Clearly Spotify, like other web-based services, will have to work to upgrade its security and protect the privacy of its users. In the meantime, change your Spotify password if you’ve been hacked or not, just to be safe.
*Source: Tech News Today
Viber Bringing Powerful Encryption to 700M People
Communication app Viber is following in the footsteps of WhatsApp and making end-to-end encryption default for its 700 million user base. That means every text message, photo, and whatever else you can share on Viber will be protected. And because it is not an American company, it’s not subject to U.S laws.
End-to-end encryption means not even the Viber itself can see what’s passing between users once they update their software to Viber 6.0. Basically, the sooner users do that, the sooner their personal conversations are completely protected. This will take some time, as many people are either slow or hesitant to update their applications. However, even if only 10 percent of Viber users make the update, it will encrypt a group of users larger than the United Kingdom.
The decision for Viber and WhatsApp to encrypt their user-base comes after the Apple-FBI controversy over the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone. The incident has sparked a debate amongst the tech community over which is more important in the digital age; privacy or security? Clearly WhatsApp and Viber have chosen the former.
In a Wired article, Viber’s COO Michael Shmilov says that the encryption is “not necessarily a marketing feature. We did it because it’s a standard we need to meet. Users share a lot of private data between them, and we want to make sure it’s secure.”
He argues that messaging apps are a central part of life now, and that users should have a fun experience with them without feeling like Big Brother is watching.
Textalyzer Could Crack Down on Distracted Driving
April 12, 2016 | by Tori Sutton
Careless drivers are always quick to deny using their phone during a crash. Soon law enforcement officials may be able to prove a driver was fiddling with their screen thanks to the Textalyzer.
“Just like police use a breathalyzer to check your blood alcohol level, the Textalyzer checks your phone activity and crucially, ascertains if you were using it at the time of the incident being investigated,” states a Digital Trends article by Bruce Brown. “That’s bad news if you’re in a state, county, or town where phone use while driving is illegal. Even where hands-on cell phone usage isn’t prohibited while driving, a police record of your activity could matter in civil suits.”
Just like a breathalyzer can detect alcohol in your bloodstream, the Textalyzer can tell if a phone has been accessed, including call logs, text messages and media files. It could be a great resource for an investigating officer, but privacy watchdogs have raised alarm bells despite assurances all personal data – which usually requires a warrant to obtain – would be blacked out.
The Textalyzer hasn’t yet been approved for use in the United States, though it is a device we’re sure many police services are itching to get their hands on.
FCC Hands Down $51M Fine in Lifeline Scam
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is handing down a massive fine to a telecom company that defrauded the government of nearly $10 million. The FCC announced the $51 million fine against Total Call Mobile in a press release last week, alleging the company signed up tens of thousands of duplicate and ineligible consumers to the Lifeline program.
“We reserve the strongest sanctions for those who defraud or abuse federal programs,” said Enforcement Bureau chief Travis LeBlanc, in the press release. “Any waste, fraud, or abuse in the Lifeline program diverts scarce funds from the consumers they are meant to serve and undermines the public’s trust in the program and its stewardship.”
The Lifeline program offers phone service to low-income consumers at a reduced rate, allowing them to connect with jobs, family and emergency services. Eligible phone service providers receive $9.25 per month for each consumer receiving the service, with the intent of passing on the reimbursement to the customer. The Total Call Mobile fine is the largest ever handed down for Lifeline infractions.
“The Commission alleges that since 2014, Total Call has requested and received an estimated $9.7 million dollars in improper payments from the Universal Service Fund for duplicate or ineligible consumers despite repeated and explicit warnings from its own employees, in some cases compliance specialists, that company sales agents were engaged in widespread enrollment fraud,” states the release.
Total Call Mobile offered the service in at least 19 states. An Enforcement Bureau investigation found the company was aware of issues surrounding duplicate enrollments up to a year before authorities raised the issue with Total Call. In late 2014, there is evidence as many as 99.8 percent of the company’s enrollments were made by overriding the third-party verification system designed to catch duplicates.
One sales agent was arrested and charged with identity theft after they allegedly used ID from a stolen wallet to register 10 Lifeline cell phones. When the agent was taken into custody they had 12 additional Lifeline cell phones and the stolen wallet in their possession.
In addition to the fine, the FCC says it may take action to strip Total Call’s authorizations to operate as a common carrier and Lifeline provider.
Oracle Files Lawsuit Against Google
April 7, 2016 | by Christine Wilson
Software creator Oracle has filed a $9.3-billion lawsuit against Google, alleging the tech giant illegally used its Java software in developing the Android OS. Oracle has some experience facing off against Google in civil court – its previous lawsuit ended with uncertain results in 2012.
Android is the most widely used OS in the mobile world with an 80.7 percent market share. Oracle maintains it is looking for a fair share of this success and has increased its damages by 10 since the 2012 lawsuit. If Oracle wins this suit, it will be the biggest copyright verdict ever, seconded only by the $1.3 billion won by Oracle from SAP in 2010.
Of course, Google has refuted Oracle’s claims, saying the case “ignores the statutory standard for copyright damages and fails to offer anything resembling expert analysis,” states an Inferse.com article.
Schooley Mitchell Lawsuit Watch: A Big Verizon Rip-Off?
March 29, 2016 | by Tori Sutton
In this edition of the Schooley Mitchell lawsuit watch, a consumer advocacy group is squaring off against Verizon, accusing the telecom giant of scamming customers and diverting the funds to expand its wireless and fiber optic networks.
The New Networks Institute alleges Verizon has overcharged New York landline subscribers to the tune of $1,000 to $1,500 each, spending the money on infrastructure improvements and corporate expenses. New Networks executive director Bruce Kushnick says Verizon is overcharging for its copper-based landline service and that its other services are a rip-off. For example, call forwarding and call waiting costs $7.95 per month, but only costs the company 2 to 3 cents, he says.
“All the copper networks have been written off,” Kushnick was quoted as saying in a New York Post article. “Copper-based phone services should be $10 or $20 [per month].”
New Networks is planning on filing a lawsuit related to these allegations, while Verizon continues to deny any wrongdoing. Stay tuned …
Schooley Mitchell Lawsuit Watch: Verizon’s Big Tax Bill
November 24, 2015 | by Tori Sutton
In this week’s Schooley Mitchell lawsuit watch we take a look at a case that Verizon recently lost in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, forcing the telco to pay taxes on fees collected for installing phone lines, performing repairs and providing directory assistance.
According to the Daily Journal, the issue started 11 years ago when the Department of Revenue delivered Verizon a bill for an additional $48 million in taxes. The amount was lowered by its board of appeals to just $10 million. A subsequent ruling in 2013 by the Commonwealth Court put Verizon on the hook for revenues associated with installing lines and directory assistance, but said it didn’t have to pay for moving or changing lines, or any repairs.
But that’s all changed since the Supreme Court ruled that yes, Verizon does owe taxes on all of it. And others could be impacted by the decision – the Pennsylvania Telephone Association has warned the precedent means other companies may face hefty back tax bills related to other matters before the courts.
Chief Justice Thomas Saylor noted it has been over 70 years since the scope of gross tax receipts has been clarified by the Legislature.
“I find this state of affairs an unhappy one and would welcome a decision by the legislative branch to enter the field and provide guidance,” said Saylor, in his dissent.
Verizon refused to comment on the matter, as did the Department of Revenue, citing confidentiality.
Man facing prison in Verizon phone scam
In criminal news, a Los Angeles man is facing eight years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. According to the Associated Press, Karen Galstian told Verizon he needed phones for drivers in his expanding business. He managed to purchase thousands of iPhones for 99 cents each under contract. He then sold them to companies who shipped them to emerging markets overseas. Galstian pocketed $13 million as a result of the scam. Considering he was also convicted of bank fraud in an earlier case, we suspect he’ll be spending lots of time behind bars.
Schooley Mitchell Lawsuit Watch: Fake Calls Plague Consumers
November 9, 2015 | by Tori Sutton
The phone rings and you pick it up. On the other end, a recording tells you the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you. You’re given a phone number to call to get more information about your case. Your heart beats a little bit faster and anxiety rises. The IRS? Lawsuit?
Take a deep breath, exhale and relax. Resist the urge to dial your lawyer. You’ve got nothing to worry about: this phone call is currently being received by people across America. And it’s fake.
There are a few versions of this scam currently circulating. But the essence of the call is the same: the robocaller will say the IRS has made multiple attempts to contact you and a lawsuit is being filed. The voice will advise you to call back – sometimes a number is left, other times it is not. Then a second call often follows, this time with more urgency, threatening to place a lien on assets.
Those who call the scammers back usually end up talking to someone who tries to elicit sensitive personal information, such as your Social Security Number. Sometimes they’ll even know the last few digits already, or offer to send you an email decked out with fake IRS branding to trick you into thinking it’s the real thing. They’ll ask you to wire money or send prepaid debit or credit cards to pay back your debt.
Though the majority of us see through these scams, there are people who fall victim. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), over 3,000 people have been bilked out of over $14 million over the last few years. Nearly 300,000 complaints have been registered with the TIGTA.
The IRS says the scammers have preyed on immigrants – people with less knowledge about the U.S. tax system – in the past. Activity often picks up during the income tax filing season. The agency reminds consumers it never asks for credit or debit card information over the phone. If you receive such a call, you are encouraged to report it to the TIGTA via this online form.
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scia Systems GmbH, Version 2014/I
1.1. The following General Terms and Conditions shall apply to all orders contracted to scia Systems GmbH (scia Systems). Divergent, contrary, or additional terms requested by the client (Client) shall not form part of the contract without the prior written consent of scia Systems.
1.2. Verbal declarations before or upon conclusion of the contract, which shall in particular include giving of advice and the assurance of properties, shall only be binding if they are confirmed in writing.
1.3. Where the following General Terms and Conditions provide the barring or limitation of damage liability of scia Systems, its legal representatives or agents, such barring or limitation shall not apply to liability for damages from injury to life, body, or health.
2.1. Documents forming a part of the quotation such as illustrations, drawings, information on consumption, weight, and dimensions, shall only be approximately decisive and shall not be understood as procurement, quality, or service life guarantees to the extent that they have not expressly been termed binding.
2.2. scia Systems shall reserve ownership and copyright to estimates, diagrams, and other documents. They may not be made accessible to third parties. scia Systems hereby agrees only to make plans designated as confidential by the Client accessible to third parties with the Client's approval if the third parties render services for scia Systems on the basis of the said plans. In this case, scia Systems shall impose confidential treatment of the plans on the third party.
3. Scope of delivery
3.1. scia Systems' written order confirmation shall be decisive for the scope of delivery.
3.2. scia Systems' quotations shall always be non-committal and can only be effectively accepted by the Client if scia Systems expressly declares that it will be bound by the quotation. In this case, scia Systems' quotation shall apply for the scope of the delivery.
4.1. Except as otherwise agreed herein, the prices shall apply "Ex Works", excluding packaging and transport costs. The current Value Added Tax shall be added to the prices.
4.2. Payments shall be due according to the agreed payment schedule. In the absence of a payment schedule, the due date shall be the date stated in the invoice. Payments shall be made without a cash discount and with an indication of the invoice number to the account designated by scia Systems.
4.3. If the Client is in default with a payment obligation from an earlier contract in existence between the contracting parties for longer than 10 days or if the Client stops its payments or if other circumstances impairing the creditworthiness of the Client become known to scia Systems, all invoices open at this point in time shall immediately fall due, notwithstanding further rights of scia Systems and forfeiting any payment period which may have been agreed. In this case, scia Systems shall also be entitled to demand pre-payments or securities.
scia Systems shall further be entitled to forbid the resale and the processing of the delivered objects and to demand return or transfer of indirect ownership of the delivered objects at the Client's expense within the limits of the retention of title-clause and mandatory law.
4.4. scia Systems shall be entitled to set off its claims against the Client’s claims regardless of the legal ground. This shall also apply if payment in cash for the one party and payment in bills of exchange or other payments for the other party have been agreed upon. Setoff against claims of scia Systems shall only be allowed if the counterclaim is uncontested or if it is the subject of a final court decision. The Client may only exercise a right of retention if its counterclaim is based on the same contractual relationship.
5. Delivery period
5.1. The delivery period shall commence with the dispatch of the order confirmation, but not before the presentation of the documents, approvals, authorisations to be procured by the Client. Except as otherwise agreed herein, the period confirmed in the order confirmation shall be decisive for non-committal quotations, the period stated in the quotation being decisive for committal quotations.
5.2. The delivery period shall be deemed observed if the delivered objects have been handed to the Client pursuant to the delivery clause agreed upon in this respect or if readiness for dispatch has been notified before the expiry of the same period. If no delivery clause has been agreed upon, delivery "Ex Works" (Incoterms in their current version) shall apply.
5.3. The delivery period shall be extended adequately in the event of industrial disputes, in particular strikes, and lock-outs, and also in the event of the occurrence of unforeseen obstructions outside the sphere of influence of scia Systems, insofar as such obstructions can be proven to be of considerable influence on the completion or delivery of the delivered objects. This shall also apply if the circumstances occur with sub-scia Systems. scia Systems shall also not be answerable for the above mentioned circumstances even if scia Systems is in default. The beginning and ending of such obstructions shall be notified to scia Systems by the Client as soon as possible.
5.4. If dispatch is delayed for reasons attributable to the the Client, the Client shall bear the costs incurred by storage, starting one month after notification of readiness to dispatch, at least 0.5% of the amount of the invoice for each month in the event of storage in scia Systems' works. The delay shall not release the Client from the payments becoming due with the original delivery date. This clause shall apply without prejudice to claims for damages.
However, scia Systems shall be entitled to dispose of the delivered objects elsewhere provided it has allowed the Client a reasonable period for collection and has notified it of the consequences of substitutive utilisation of the delivered objects after expiry of the period of collection.
6. Rights of use
6.1. The Client shall have the right to use the equipment in his usual course of business. Furthermore, the Client shall have the right to integrate the equipment in his own equipment and to re-sell the equipment to his end customers. Reverse engineering of the equipment whether in whole or in part shall not be permitted. The Client has the right to use the disclosed know-how only for operation and maintenance of the equipment. All disclosed Know-how shall be deemed confidential pursuant to section 7. Any other rights, including, but not limited to, licences on copyright, know-how, inventions made, or intellectual property rights applied for or granted to scia Systems shall not be granted.
6.2. The Client shall receive, in accordance with the contractual provisions or, if such provisions were not agreed on, to the extent essential to operate the equipment, the source code of the applications as is reasonable for service and technological progress of the delivered objects. The source code shall be handed over to the Client exclusively for the purposes of maintenance of the delivered object and necessary software adaptations through modifications or addition of functions, if applicable. The Client shall keep the source code in a safe place. Handing over of the source code of generally applicable standard functions and for additionally purchased software shall be excluded in any case.
6.3. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Client shall not pay any royalties or fees for the licence granted under section 6.1.
7.1. The contracting parties shall for the duration of the contract and for a period of five years after its termination not make accessible to third parties information of a technical or commercial nature disclosed to each other and declared to be confidential. This shall not apply to information known or generally accessible to the other contracting party or to the public, or information which becomes known or generally accessible to the public after disclosure without any involvement or fault on the part of the other contracting party, or correspond to information disclosed or made accessible to the other contracting party by an entitled third party, or independently developed by an employee of the other contracting party not in possession of the information disclosed.
7.2. Third parties within the meaning of this provision shall not include subcontractors of scia Systems if these have been entrusted with a part of the services by scia Systems within the context of the assignment and if they have been placed under an obligation of confidentiality.
8. Passage of risk and acceptance
8.1. Risk shall pass to the Client upon dispatch of the delivered objects, even if part deliveries are made or scia Systems has also taken on additional services, e.g. the costs of dispatch or transport and erection. The consignment shall be insured by scia Systems against risks stated by the Client at the latter's request and expense.
8.2. If dispatch is delayed for reasons attributable to the Client, risk shall pass to the Client from the day of readiness for dispatch. Nevertheless, scia Systems shall be obliged to effect the insurances requested by the Client at the latter's request and expense.
8.3. Objects delivered shall not be returned by the Client without prejudice to the Client’s warranty claims, even if they are defective. Part deliveries shall be admissible.
9.1. The delivered objects shall remain scia Systems' property until complete payment of all claims of scia Systems against the Client existing upon conclusion of the present contract or arising from the present contract or arising at a later point in time, on any legal grounds. However, retention of title shall not exclude the Client's right to sell and process the objects in the ordinary course of business as long as the Client is not in default. Pledging and assignment for security shall not be permitted.
9.2. In the event of resale of the delivered objects, regardless of whether it is admissible or not, the Client shall here and now assign to scia Systems all claims and rights against the Client’s customers arising from this resale, up to the amount of the value of the resold objects. scia Systems hereby accepts this assignment. The Client shall be entitled to collect the assigned claims as long as scia Systems does not withdraw this right from the Client. In any case, the Client shall transfer the amounts collected to scia Systems immediately to the extent that scia Systems' claims are due for payment.
9.3. In the event that the ownership of scia Systems to the equipment lapses through combination, commingling, or processing it is already hereby agreed that the ownership to the combined object created in such a case shall, until full payment of the agreed fee, be proportionally assigned (invoiced value) to scia Systems.
9.4. The Client shall keep the objects the title of which has been retained by scia Systems free of charge for scia Systems. Upon request by scia Systems, the Client shall be obliged to have the conditional objects insured against the customary risks at its own expense.
9.5. In the event of interventions by third parties against the conditional objects, the Client shall make reference to scia Systems' retention of title and notify the latter without delay.
10.1. The liability of scia Systems, its legal representatives and agents in the case of violation of obligations and tort shall be limited to intent and gross negligence. Only in case of violation of essential contractual obligations (cardinal obligations) scia Systems, its legal representatives and agents shall also be liable in case of slight negligence. In any case, liability shall be limited to the foreseeable, contractually typical damages. scia Systems shall in no case be liable for consequential or indirect damages such as loss of profit or increased production costs. The foregoing limitations shall not apply for damage caused intentionally. Liability according to the German Product Liability Act remains unchanged.
10.2. Should scia Systems neither fulfill the performance as agreed upon nor do so at the time due nor in the manner agreed upon, then the client may only demand compensation in lieu of performance if the client has unsuccessfully set an appropriate deadline for the performance by scia Systems including the statement that it would otherwise reject acceptance of the performance after the passing of that deadline.
11. Warranty
11.1. Minor deviations customary in the trade and not essentially impairing the useful value of the delivered objects shall not entitle the Client to any claims to warranty or replacement.
11.2. Should the equipment delivered by scia Systems prove to be defective, then scia Systems shall first be given the opportunity to supplementary performance - depending on the nature of the equipment, the defect, and other circumstances also repeatedly - either by means of remedying the defect or substitute delivery.
11.3. Should scia Systems reject supplementary performance or if supplementary performance cannot be achieved or the client cannot reasonably be expected to accept supplementary performance, then the Client may either terminate the contract or demand reduction of the fee owed (reduction) or damages. The right to termination may be exercised only in case of a serious defect. Such right lapses if the Client does not declare the termination of the contract within 14 days after receiving notification of rejection or failure of supplementary performance or at the latest 14 days after the date at which it is recognised that the client cannot reasonably be expected to accept supplementary performance. scia Systems shall pay damages only under the further conditions of Section 10.1 and, if scia Systems has rejected supplementary performance, Section 10.2 shall apply also.
11.4. In the case of an infringement of third party intellectual property rights scia Systems shall only be liable if such rights apply in the Federal Republic of Germany, if the Client uses the equipment in a manner consistent with the contract, if a court decision based on infringement by the client of third party intellectual property rights is rendered against the Client, and if the Client has immediately notified scia Systems in writing of the claims asserted by such third party. Supplementary performance under Section 11.2 will be carried out by scia Systems by either obtaining a contractual authorisation for the Client's use or by modifying the equipment that the relevant third party intellectual property rights are no longer infringed.
11.5. For products delivered to scia Systems by sub-scia Systems', scia Systems' liability shall be limited to assignment of scia Systems' warranty claims against these sub-scia Systems'. If the third party fails to satisfy the Client's justified claims, scia Systems itself shall be liable under warranty as stipulated in these general conditions.
11.6. No warranty shall be assumed for damage caused by unsuited or improper use of the delivered objects, faulty assembly or commissioning by the Client or third parties, improper interferences with the delivered objects by the Client or third parties, natural wear and tear, faulty or negligent treatment, the use of unsuitable operating equipment and replacement materials, faulty preparation of construction by the Client or unsuitable building ground provided by the latter and are also such damage arising from chemical, electrochemical or electrical influences for reasons not attributable to scia Systems.
11.7. Claims due to defects shall be statute-barred in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.
12. Statutes of limitation
12.1. To the extent permitted by the applicable law, Client’s claims for breach of duty and tort shall be statute-barred within 12 months.
12.2. Should acceptance of the Services is agreed upon, the statute of limitations on claims due to defects pursuant to Section 12.1 shall commence upon acceptance, otherwise upon completion of performance of the Services.
12.3. Statutes of limitation shall be suspended by negotiations between the contracting parties of claims or of circumstances giving rise to claims. Such suspension shall end if one of the contracting parties has not complied within four weeks with the request of the other contracting party to continue negotiations.
13.1. In the case of unforeseen occurrences, which can be proven to be of considerable influence on the performance of the scia Systems or the Client, the party affected shall notify the other party of such occurrences in writing without delay. The affected party shall describe such occurrence in detail and state the contractual obligations which it cannot perform or only perform with delay as a result. The contracting party in question shall not be liable under any legal ground for such delay or force majeure. Force majeure shall include all unforeseen occurrences which - even if they were foreseeable - are outside the sphere of influence of the affected party and the effects of which on the performance of the contract cannot be prevented by reasonable efforts of the affected party, including, but not limited to, general lack of materials, unrest, riot, uprising, lock-outs, lightning, blockades, embargoes, epidemics, earthquakes, landslides, fire, wars (declared or not), warlike situations, lack of port and unloading capacity, military or civilian coups d'état, storm, rebellions, government orders, revolutions, lack of raw materials, sabotages, shipwreck, severe transport accidents, strikes, storm tides, typhoons, tumults, flooding and natural catastrophes of all natures.
13.2. If the Client’s or scia Systems' performance is delayed by force majeure or if it’s performance is interrupted thereby, the affected party shall be granted a suitable extension of time limits and/or other adaptation of the contract, about which the parties shall come to an agreement.
13.3. Force majeure shall not entitle a party to terminate the contract, unless the parties have agreed otherwise, especially if the force majeure situation cannot be objectively expected to end in reasonable time. However, if the occurrence exceeds a period of 6 (six) months, each contracting party can terminate the contract by giving written notice. After notice has been given, the contracting parties should meet once more in order to examine the possibility of a continuation of the contractual relationship, taking the occurrence into account. If no agreement is achieved within one (1) month of receipt of the notice, the termination shall be effective. In this case, the Client shall reasonably reimburse scia Systems for works and services already rendered.
13.4. The provisions of the present section shall also apply if force majeure affects sub-scia Systems'.
14.1. If any term or provision of these General Conditions (or any part thereof) are held by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal or unenforceable, such term or provision or part shall to that extent be deemed severable and shall be replaced by a provision the economic intention of which corresponds as far as possible to that of the ineffective provision. The validity and enforceability of the remainder of these conditions shall not be affected.
14.2. This contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. The United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) shall not apply.
14.3. Place of performance and venue for all disputes shall be scia Systems' seat, insofar as the Client is a merchant, public law legal entity, or public law special assets. scia Systems' right to sue the Client at its seat shall not be affected.
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scia Systems GmbH | Annaberger Straße 240 | 09125 Chemnitz | Germany
Phone: +49 371 5347 780 | E‑mail: info@scia‑systems.com
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Outfest names writing lab fellows
By Jeremy Kay2013-06-03T19:09:00+01:00
Adam Baran, Rosie Haber, J Michael Feldman, Pete Mercurio and Julia Dwyer Sullivan have been selected for this year’s 2013 Screenwriting Lab, now in its 11th year and set to take place in June.
The workshop is backed by a grant from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and will include sessions with other industry professionals, structured career development opportunities and participation in ongoing festival events.
Outfest executives said 2013 had already been an “extremely successful” year for scripts mentored through previous Screenwriting Labs.
Former fellows and their works that have premiered at festivals in the year-to-date include Yen Tan whose Pit Stop [pictured] screened in Sundance, George Northy’s G.B.F. in Tribeca and Doug Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns, the closing night film at the Miami Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.
“The fellows selected for the 2013 Outfest Screenwriting Lab have written fresh, exciting LGBT stories that depict the complexity and beauty of LGBT lives,” said executive director Kirsten Schaffer. “The lab mentoring process has helped dozens of writers hone their craft and I am very proud of the three films that premiered at film festivals this year originally developed through the Outfest Screenwriting Lab.”
The Writers Guild Of America (West) will host a panel ‘All About Outfest’ on Jun 4.
Outfest will announce the complete line-up for 2013 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival on Jun 6.
Jury set in Harvey Weinstein criminal trial
Opening statments expected to take place on Wednesday (January 22).
Olivia Colman, Anthony Hopkins Sundance drama 'The Father' lands at Sony Pictures Classics
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Streaming giant officially announces collaborations with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fanny Herrero and Julien Leclercq.
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'Indivisible' star, Rai team on Italian drama 'Lucania'
EXCLUSIVE: Darker Than Midnight producer to shoot feature in October.
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An Omnidirectional Approach to Anti-Authoritarianism
“Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.” ― Robert Anton Wilson
I can think of no better term to describe my political philosophy than anti-authoritarian. That simple term encapsulates my most consistently held beliefs concerning the nature of relations between individual, society and state. That I above all oppose authoritarian policies, aggressions and values is the firm bedrock from which I evaluate any and all action. That I favor liberty over tyranny is an absolute principle.
There are many factions of formal and loose-knit tribes of anti-authoritarians. I sympathize in varying degrees with all of them. On the other hand, I have found that the very moment I’ve identified myself with a specific subset of anti-authoritarianism, I begin talking myself out of such a commitment. The reason for this has to do with what Robert Anton Wilson described as “omnidirectional reading.” His practice was to read philosophies across the spectrum and even diametrically opposed to each other. This method of information gathering allows for greater ability to relate to some but not all of many competing perspectives. He did this to prevent becoming trapped in what he called a "reality tunnel." All ideologies for the most part demand a certain conformity or total commitment to its doctrines. It’s that conformity that I’ve never been able to square, because I've never found a perfect system of ideology that answered every concern to my total satisfaction.
Being simply an anti-authoritarian allows me freedom to support all measures and means of opposing tyranny and violence without having to “compromise my ideology.” At the moment, I’m perfectly at peace with throwing me support behind 3rd parties when their efforts overlap with issues that matter to me. Whether that party happens to be Pirate, Green or Libertarian presents no barrier to my spreading their message when it agrees with my values. Being outsiders and underdogs working outside of the corruption of the Washington elite apparatus, I see them as defensive educational platforms. They don't have the power to enact violence the way that the Democrats or Republicans can. They are strictly agitators throwing rocks at the empire.
A strict orthodox anarchist would never support any political party or candidate on principle. This is why I know I fail the purity test. Orthodoxy is not how I’m wired. My pure, idealist self is in total agreement with a peaceful and cooperative stateless society. My practical self sees any means of protecting individuals from invasion or aggression from the state as a tool to be used - even if only viewed as a temporary means to be replaced. The way I see matters is that if a political act, be it a new bill or an overturning of an unjust law, furthers the cause of liberty and peace, I’m happy to see it advance. I accept the fact that the structures that I philosophically take exception to in principle do not disappear by my refusal to acknowledge them.
If lives can be saved or wars can be averted we should not baulk to pressure the decision makers on such matters to act politically. Semantic arguments that circle the fact that the war or devastating sanction would never be possible in a stateless world do not save the lives at stake right then. Don’t misunderstand me, those moral arguments should always be made – in tandem with whatever expedient method is at hand.
To quote another author, “there's the world as we wish it to be and there’s the world as it is.” If a peaceful and voluntarily stateless society were possible, by all means that would be my ideal world. Completely self-organized, decentralized, spontaneous, horizontal and non-coercive – nothing could be better in my view. And yet society in the West has been moving towards and now on the brink of a total Fascist state on a seeming march towards martial law.
People seem to prefer collectivism and taken further, a strongly defensive nationalism. In light of that fact, my heart is behind any and every institution that can introduce measures of defense against such a state. Whether it’s a military or government insider that leaks misconduct, as in the case of Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, or a community of anarchists engaging in direct action – I favor all measures.
By technicality, an anarchist isn’t supposed to lend support to government agencies like the National Parks Services that have begun a social media insurrection against the Trump regime. Since “taxation is theft” those Park Rangers are all immoral and don’t deserve support according to the puritan position, so it goes. Well, sorry to the puritans, but I’m getting a hell of a kick out of the Alt National Park Service and other rouge accounts openly defying the acting administration, if in fact it’s a genuine act of resistance. I know I'm not the only one.
I’ve never been one for conformity or rule following. What I will be attacked for is a lack of ideological consistency. Because if I were utterly constant, I wouldn't have these internal struggles, right? It's quite clear to me that people who think they operate under complete rational consistency are really deluding themselves. The human brain, prone to emotional vulnerabilities, proves to be far less than robotic. I would also rebut that my position is not an easy abandonment of principles but a more flexible approach to advancing achievable ends in reality as it is today. Taking on issues case by case, I find that there are usually alliances that can be made to win battles, if not the ultimate war.
Creating temporary and transitory strategic political alliances on issues like domestic surveillance or fracking can lead to more immediate beneficial outcomes if one doesn’t demand an economic agreement as a term of partnership. To me that degree of “consistency” is utter foolishness to the point of reckless harm to the cause you claim to advocate.
An anti-authoritarian can enter coalitions across official political party lines and citizen run outfits without needing to betray some oath sworn on an online message board. Of primary concern is who is best positioned to advance the right move on the board when there’s an opportunity to make the move. President Obama was the only available actor in play that could grant a commutation to Chelsea Manning. Therefor, petitioning him to do so was the right thing to do. Refusing to advocate presidential action in that case would have been a ludicrous affront to justice for the sake of abstract principle. What mattered in that case was not that a war criminal acted on in the behalf of freedom. What mattered is that Manning is set for release and an injustice was corrected. That was an advancement of liberty even though the government’s danger to humanity yet grows.
I will part ways with the Green Party agenda when it comes to a range of philosophical positions regarding the morality of the size and scope of government. But to the extent that a Green representative could provoke conversations about police brutality and bankster shenanigans, I stand right there with them. To the extent that a Libertarian candidate can shine a light on constitutional violations of the 4th amendment or the evil of the War on Drugs, I fully support them. To the extent that a growing Pirate Party can create awareness for the unsung issue of Intellectual Property law or opposing NSA data collection, I commend them.
Quite a number of prominent anarchists participate in electoral politics either defensively or strategically. I don’t question their commitments. Like it or not the scales of liberty sway in relationship to who holds the illegitimate reigns of power at any given time. This holds true on the local as well as the national stage. I’m not implying that the shadow government or deep state factions can be overturned by mere ballots. (This last election should turn any optimist of representative democracy into somewhat of a pessimist.) I am saying battles that occur on the margins can be and should be won. I point to the defeat of measures like SOPA and CISPA, state decriminalizing of marijuana or state legalization of gay marriages. These little defenses of liberty matter. I'm hugely in favor of citizen groups like Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stop Watching Us that petition Congress to protect our privacy.
Anti-authoritarians can join allies across the political spectrum on a case-by-case basis. To contextualize matters further, I would rather have an operational 3rd party contingent both nationally and even more so locally that has greater access to news media than to have no oppositional parties at all. It’s a fact that they receive very little press and even the public largely ignores their efforts and yet they still serve as portals of entry for radicalizing individuals fed up with the status quo. The marginal educational platform for anti-establishment solutions that 3rd parties facilitate serves a function.
Thought of in terms of a multi-pronged effort, 3rd parties make sense to me, although on their own, they’re not nearly effective or radical enough. Individuals active among 3rd parties are committed to their respective causes and can be counted on to take action when it comes down to applying pressure on elected officials and creating oppositional presence. In short, unlike their counterparts among the Coke and Pepsi brands, I find them to be mostly agreeable, smart and subversive friends to have. The best thing they do is radicalize their former party compatriots on the road towards stronger anti-authoritarian ideas.
Setting aside political means of change, I do find most agreement with the philosophies of the anarchists. That statement requires a lot of clarification and conjecture when getting into the finer points of the branch’s of anarchism developed out of a plethora schools. That being said, the strictness of belief I’ve encountered among self-described anarchists can become off-putting when engagement with them becomes a pissing match of purity.
Anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-communists are forever at odds to the point of unadulterated hatred. Their differences about how to economically organize society in absence of a state prevent most of them from ever considering collaborating on the first step of ending the state. The back and forth bickering is unrelenting between factions of mutualists, feminists, vegans, primitivists, left market anarchists, socialists, etc. A commitment to debate can be a healthy sign of life and vitality. But I don’t think many people got involved to exist in a debate club bubble.
Graphic from Keith Preston at Attack the System
Anarcho-capitalists who celebrate the privatization of our lakes, oceans and wildlife don’t strike me as the slightest bit anti-authoritarian by displaying an eagerness to transfer power and domination of ownership from one monopoly to another. Corporatocracy is merely another form of authority and dominance based on control of capital. I knew I was disqualifying my orthodox anti-state credentials when I couldn’t get excited at the prospect of Trump defunding NPS, PBS and NPR. On the scale of tyranny, the extortion of 10 or 20 bucks so poor kids can watch Sesame Street or that our forests aren’t stripped away to make way for pipelines and parking lots, is not the tyranny I’m most concerned with. Dismantling social services while preserving crony capitalist markets represents no victory for free society.
"Ideologically, of course, I should have voted for Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party candidate; but I am not that kind of Libertarian, really; I don't hate poor people." ― Robert Anton Wilson, speaking about the 1980 presidential election
Admittedly, my sentimentality is an obstacle against 100% stone cold logic and rationalism. I favor defending services for public benefit until a clear voluntary replacement emerges. My conscience demands no less. It takes quite a callous radical to demand total overnight destabilization that would crush the already oppressed and victimized among us. The left-anarchists understand this best and I clearly favor their agenda over the right-anarchist path of corporate privatization.
Having taken some issue with the right-wing branch of anarchism, I have to admit to not having fully resolved my alliances with the far left variant that takes a more militant approach to anti-statism. The infamous Black Bloc anarchists favor a very forward campaign of rioting and physical confrontation as a means of confronting systemic violence. Having studied the by and large historical failure of such methods going back to the Weathermen of the 1960's-70's, I continue to reevaluate the possibilities of a small fringe movement beating the state at it's own game without the support of the populace. Despite their legitimate claims that violence has already been initiated by the state through militarized police and institutionalized racism, Black Bloc strategies may provide just the legal justification for extreme clampdowns against all forms of dissent that the far right would love to unleash.
Trump and his administration don't appear to be the least bit intimidated in the aftermath of destructive actions during the DC inauguration or more recently at the University of Berkeley in an effort to shut down the intentionally provocative rhetoric of Milo Yiannopoulos. As the far left readies itself to deploy added force at every turn, the far right can be expected to respond in kind. This tit for tat escalation could prove disastrous on the basis that it's the right that holds vast resources of weaponry that small bands of a few hundred can never hope to defeat. Milo and Trump are salivating at the opportunity to delegitimize the resistance and it will do so with all means of media propaganda.
Steve Bannon, the mastermind of Breitbart News and Trump's operational brains is obsessed with military strategy and is no doubt capable of drawing his enemies into a suicide mission. The considerations that I'm presenting here do not amount to the straw man that windows are more valuable than lives. The considerations continue to be the ability to draw the mass populace into the center of the resistance (which is absolutely necessary if the goal is to do more than shut down speeches) and looking at the propensity for agent provocateur intelligence infiltration. Being mindful of these considerations does not at all equate to siding with the fascists - I am certainly against them and open to the omnidirectional means in which to oppose them. I will give consideration to the advantages of selective property destruction and violent resistance and confrontation with a dose of calculated caution.
To be clear, what victims of the state decide to do to defend their lives is totally out of my experience to evaluate. I've been shielded from the direct threats that targeted populations suffer. There is a time when self-defensive violence will become a necessity, not just for them but for all who are anti-authoritarians. Many will argue persuasively that we have already crossed into that realm. If that is the case, then the phase of revolutionary guerrilla warfare is hypothetically not far off. My internal question is where I how my own efforts should be directed.
Black Bloc, Wikipedia Commons
The other challenge of commitments when considering schools of anarchism are certain unwavering pursuits of economic models that I find ethically flawed in practice (at least as far as we can gauge them based on their partial implementations under government control). I just can’t see dying on the sword for the ideals of capitalism or communism. Neither represent a morality I can fully defend. The words themselves are poisoned beyond recall due to their inseparable associations with totalitarian and imperialist empires. The extremes that the communist or the capitalist will go to fix reality into a century old economic model is baffling for a group that prides itself on rebellion toward tradition.
The concepts of voluntary market exchanges, free of government distortion on the one hand and robust mutual aid societies committed to social welfare, free of the state on the other are equally redeemable – sans all the corrupted baggage that the –isms bring along. Quite a number of stimulating thought experiments exist across the spectrum of anarchist thought. I happen to care about the environment so I pay attention to what geo-libertarians say. I care about woman’s rights, so I look to the feminist anarchists.
The fatiguing nature of inner-anarchist debates is the intellectual wrestling for superiority that is gained more from semantics than from practical demonstration. Two interesting conceptual developments that grew out of the friction of competing anarchist factions were movements called anarchism without adjectives and panarchism. Both ideals set off to amend and reach compromises in regards to the ultimate social or economic model to be executed in the event that a stateless society had been reached. This approach agrees with one of the great insights of Robert Anton Wilson when he claimed that reality was plural and mutable.
The very sensible and potent description of the historical impetus for the without adjectives movement is as follows:
“The originators of the expression were Cuban-born Fernando Tarrida del Mármol and Ricardo Mella, who were troubled by the bitter debates between mutualist, individualists, and communist anarchists in the 1880s. Their use of the phrase anarchism without adjectives was an attempt to show greater tolerance between anarchist tendencies and to be clear that anarchists should not impose a preconceived economic plan on anyone—even in theory. Anarchists without adjectives tended either to reject all particular anarchist economic models as faulty, or take a pluralist position of embracing them all to a limited degree in order that they may keep one another in check.” - Wikipedia
Taken in a different direction, the panarchist model put forth by Belgian political economist, Paul Émile de Puydt, allows all hyphens to exist simultaneously in free competition. By simply registering under any political affiliation made available, an individual could live anywhere but only pay into the model of governance they freely choose. if they were unhappy with the federation, they were free to transfer membership, if not immediately, possibly under a minimum one-year contract agreement. One federation could operate as a syndicalist, another capitalist, another collectivist. This open economic and social model competition was theorized to allow truly efficient, beneficial and functional systems to flourish while the lousy ones died off. Only under such conditions would all the curiosities and debating be put to the real test and to be settled once and for all.
"But I think government should be treated like religion, everyone should be able to pick the kind they like. Only it should be contractual not obligatory. I wouldn't mind paying tax money to a local association to maintain a police force, as long as we need one. But I hate like hell paying taxes to help the US government build more nuclear missiles to blow up more people I don't even know and don't think I'd hate them if I did know them." ― Robert Anton Wilson
What appeals to me in both of the above models is the agreeable and tolerant nature they bring to bare. On the face of them lies a humble admission that pencils should not be down in terms of proposing or attempting a variety of economic or community theories. Anti-authoritarianism could flourish under many orientations granted that they are all entered upon voluntarily. Even communist societies are agreeable under those terms. Hell, if 5,000 people chose to create a self-imposed monarchy, what business is it of mine?
The arrogance in asserting that there exists one true and righteous societal model that should be imposed monolithically over culture offends my open-minded spirit. It's exactly what we suffer under now. Not to mention the unscientific presumption of theory as undisputed fact. A theory on paper only achieves perfection in the confines of the imagination, free of practical scrutability.
The predictable argument that can be hurled back at me is that anti-authoritarianism is implicitly the property of unadulterated anarchism. The following passage lays down a broad explanation of anti-authoritarianism in action that frees the term up for broader usage.
“Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about those people who are respecting their authority. And when anti-authoritarians assess an authority to be illegitimate, they challenge and resist that authority—sometimes aggressively and sometimes passive-aggressively, sometimes wisely and sometimes not.” – Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill, Bruce Levine, PhD
Based on the passage above, I would argue that the distrust and questioning of authority figures can occur in the mind of any individual, even a committed Republican or Democrat. I see it as an impulse, a tendency and in my case, a fully flourished philosophical worldview that has thick applications instead of thin limitations. Back when Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were in Congress, you could count on their integrity to defend civil liberties and oppose war. They openly thwarted and threw wrenches into the cogs of authority for decades from the inside. They were both members of establishment parties and yet they acted on behalf of anti-authoritarian causes. Many anarchists of today go their start campaigning for the Ron Paul presidencies. So, forgive me if I have a hard time accepting that progress towards liberty can never occur within the confines of politics. To exploit a political tactic is not the same as being blindly devoted to or in explicit agreement with the current system of bureaucracy.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul
It is always applicable to also think of anti-authoritarianism as a movable grid from which to view other structures of dogma and dominance, entrenched academia or organized religion for instance. Referring back to the Levine quote, to hold skeptical views of authority doesn’t mean that the professor or priest will always be wrong. It’s the footing of a questioning mind as opposed to the blindly obedient mind that is important. Some people have gained a position of an intellectual or creative authority in an area of study by legitimate means. Those with earned knowledge and credentials should be respected and sought out. What makes that form of deference acceptable is the basis of it is non-binding and represents a voluntary decision. A scientist or artist can’t put me in a cell over a disagreement or by my refusing to live under their dictates. If I choose to defer to their experiential authority it is be free choice out of decidedly good sense.
All things considered, the only self-identifier I can wear that fits with ease and comfort, is anti-authoritarian. To friends and allies working under a clear and distinct banner of affiliation, I support you and thank you for your efforts. I know they are meaningful and productive in their own right. I choose to aid groups across the spectrum from the ACLU, to anarchist educational and action pubs, to the upstart Pirate Party. If you don’t see the sense in that I beg your pardon. From where I stand it’s the only thing that is sensible for my individual commitments.
There exists an encroaching authority all around us. Authorities that carry the force of oppression and violence should be opposed and fought back by all available means. Right now under an alt-right inspired Trump administration, I would say those of us who favor cultural diversity, peace and self-ownership face a clear and present danger. Clearly Muslims, racial minorities and LGBTQIA communities will bear the huge brunt of this cultural crackdown.
By appearances the intimidation and harassment won’t have to come just from legislation but from the random acts of emboldened supremacists and nationalists who feel as if they’ve won the right to do so. What actions those communities take to defend their liberties is not for an outsider to dictate. I can only hope for actions that create true change and not the product of an elaborate entrapment.
We are in the emergency room and the patient is dying on the table. Survival of the small liberty we still have to cling onto should be the order of the day. I advocate protecting the most vulnerable against tyranny by a multitude of means even when those means appear to slightly compromise the purity of your ideology. Keeping in mind an idealistic future world, perfect in it’s shinning moral consistency and always worth making strides towards. What marks a slight compromise over a fatal compromise is a conclusion only an individual can square for themselves.
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Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson) February 3, 2017 at 5:47 PM
I like the picture of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. The way they both stood steadfastly in favor of peace and civil liberties, regardless of their other differences, inspires a hope in me that alliances are possible.
Milo Yiannopoulos is "insightful"? I think you mean "inciteful."
Jeff Wolfe February 4, 2017 at 5:08 PM
Thanks for the catch Tom!
Monocolour February 4, 2017 at 3:26 PM
Excellent post! As another non-authoritarian I heartily agree.
I think in these peculiar times any reversal of the increasing totality has to be celebrated.
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The Anonymous GitHub Clone That Runs on the Dark Web
Meet Jeff Becker and his creation: git.psi.i2p. Lots of people seek anonymity these days, for various reasons, may it be because of abusive governments, because of a personal preference, or because they are in the middle of not-so-legal operations.
For these type of people Tor, and most recently I2P, have been some of their best friends. But while Tor has been the core technology powering the Dark Web, the Dark Web will only be useful as long as there are services that fully take advantage of its features and work directly on its core infrastructure, instead of having users access mainstream Internet sites via the Tor Browser.
One such service is git.psi.i2p (Tor link, I2P link), a so-called GitHub clone, running on Gogs, a Go-based system for hosting and managing Git repositories online.
git.psi.i2p is not your regular GitHub clone
The difference between git.psi.i2p and GitHub is that git.psi.i2p runs on the Tor network and is completely isolated from the rest of the Web, providing 100% anonymity.
Softpedia decided to get in contact with Jeff Becker, the service’s creator and ask him the most basic question. Why?
“I created the service to see if the software it ran on worked, I decided that since it worked, I would keep it as a service to those who wanted to use it,” said Mr. Becker referring to his mix of Tor and I2P for git.psi.i2p’s underlying infrastructure.
The service is still in its infancy, being launched almost two weeks ago, catering to around 30-40 users and hosting only 23 code repositories, 14 of which belong to Mr. Becker.
git.psi.i2p, exploring code repositories
For a service that lives on the Dark Web only, and has spent a few days of the last week in maintenance mode, that’s pretty good. But we all know how quickly server space and bandwidth can go up, especially for a service that tries to mimic GitHub. We asked Mr. Becker about how serious he is about making this into a business, or if the site is a test that might go offline any day now for good.
“I don’t have any intentions of shutting it down quite yet, it’ll exist for as long as people use it. Right now I pay out of my pocket, but if it gets really expensive, I’ll probably get the donation tin out and beg for Bitcoins, if it ever gets to that point.”
The place for controversial code
But git.psi.i2p is already looking like a handy tool, especially for a certain class of developers that regularly have a problem storing code on GitHub. Include here controversial applications that are usually the target of piracy-related or political scandals.
Just this summer, GitHub suffered DDoS attacks because of two applications hosted on the service, applications that allowed Chinese Internet users to evade China’s infamous firewall. The developers of those applications would have never been tracked down by Chinese police if they used git.psi.i2p.
Of course, with anonymity, there’s also the danger of git.psi.i2p becoming a place for malware developers and infamous, non-standard, and many times illegal adult materials unique to the Dark Web.
Not your regular Dark Web site either
“I have a ‘no porn of any kind’ rule to try to keep the place a bit more professional,” said Mr. Becker to Softpedia, “also, anything blatantly illegal like using the Git repo as a botnet C&C is not allowed.”
“Malware source code is fine given that my site isn’t used to directly infect [users]. I’ll allow source code, but I disagree with the content highly,” Mr. Becker added.
“Malware is fine for proof of concept, educational or research purposes but most of the time it easily escalates beyond that. A lot of malware authors either don’t realize or don’t care that governments can use their malware too.”
Mr. Becker is obviously no Ross Ulbricht, being more interested in keeping anonymity for anonymity’s sake, not because he has something to hide.
“Issues of that nature are only a matter of time for any site,” says Mr. Becker. “In my experience, anonymity networks play almost no role in that kind of activity. Contrary to popular belief, anonymity networks make it safer for regular users than making it ‘easier” for ‘bad’ users.”
git.psi.i2p, repository main page
Source:https://news.softpedia.com/
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Proposition E: Vote no despite measure’s laudable merits
Opinion // Editorials
San Francisco Chronicle Sep. 24, 2015
Perhaps no measure on the Nov. 3 ballot has quite the feel-good story of Proposition E. It was conceived by students in David Lee’s online political science course at San Francisco State.
In assessing San Francisco’s public meetings, the students found that many of the sessions were unattended, young people were underrepresented in the audiences that did show up, and that other cities were more innovative in trying to close what Lee called the “participation gap.”
Their proposed remedy, Prop. E, is revolutionary. It would require all public meetings — among an estimated 120 boards and commissions, covering 2,000 meetings a year — to be streamed live on the Internet.
Other provisions include:
•Meetings would need to be set up to accommodate digital testimony — live-streamed and recorded — during the session.
•All remote public comments must be translated into English.
•Boards and commissions would be required to offer a “time certain” scheduling of an agenda item if requested by 50 members of the public.
The students have identified legitimate deficiencies in city governance. Without question, public participation is stymied by the burden of having to take off school or work to testify at a hearing — which, in high-profile cases, often stretch long into the night.
But this measure is not without its logistical and cost challenges. Both the city Department of Technology and Controller’s Office have questioned whether Prop. E could be implemented within the required time frame.
We like both the spirit and the thought behind the measure. We would encourage City Hall to embark on pilot programs of live-streaming meetings and allowing video testimony. It would provide an opportunity to see whether virtual comments add or subtract from the quality of civic dialogue — and whether they actually make the deliberative process more effective and efficient or more plodding and subject to manipulation by special interests.
No other city has attempted such a digital-engagement project on anything close to this scale. It’s deserves testing before taking the leap.
Vote no on Prop. E.
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Congregation of the Masses
new metalheads thread
Thread starter Nevermore
TEA_DEMON
i am glad because i've been hoping it'll be a sort of second damnation.
Ivan_Starr
Opeth haven't been a good band since Blackwater Park.
first three albums are boring as shit.
Blackwater Park and Still Life are very good.
Deliverance was boring as shit.
Damnation proved that they are better as a prog band than a metal one.
Ghost Reveries was meh, and Watershed is their worst album.
not going to bother with Heritage.
Akerfeldt is a fantastic vocalist however.
Opeth is boring
TheValkyries
proudly reppin' 2 superbowl wins since DEFLATEGATE
Akerfeldt has some of the best Vocals in the world... clean or growled.
And Reveries was a great album...
Also popemobile... I am forever amused by how much we are the exact opposite of each other.
i am a big fan of damnation and watershed.
but i'm not a tr00 metvlhead anyway so my opinion is meaningless.
not that many people on smogon are so i have no idea what you're talking about.
okay now lets talk about better shit
Cianide are releasing a new album this year, wouldn't be surprised if no one here knew them (not trying to be all I'M SO UNDERGROUND AAAA but yeah), so yeah, the band is pretty much if Master went death/doom (Autopsy, Winter, etc):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLLqBs4tNg
though a lot of their later stuff has a more straight up death metal vibe to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yJ-Vhn_Tk
they did a split with Coffins if that tells you anything
fans of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and other primitive black/death/thrash fans need to pay attention to Slaughter (not the American one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TdObTdR3F8
Acid Bath have been popping up in my listening habits a bit more lately, i wish the vocalist would stick to his harsher screams/growls though because his cleans kinda piss me off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRj7LB6Zg74
Devastation are also pretty cool death/thrash with a heavy early Sepultura vibe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wpGiZpYCw
that should get at least some discussion started right
Doom Metal is boring and a chore to listen to... Second Cianide song is better but it's still boring as fuck. Listenable but nothing impressive happening from the instruments. Slaughter had potential for having something interesting then didn't deliver in that song... I'd have to hear more.
Acid Bath I could dig... drums kept up a variety, not virtuoso status obviously, but not generic boringness, and the riffs were simple but catchy enough to keep going. Not gonna go out of my way to listen to them though, but still good.
I really liked Devastation. Going to check them out soon.
New Symphony X has leaked, pretty sure I can't link anything, but it's out there if you know how to find it.
Reviews look something like: 'similar to old stuff but heavier with one ballad, When All Is Lost, apparently one of the best they've ever written'.
TheValkyries said:
going to have to disagree about doom metal being a "chore to listen to", but it guess that's just taste and all of that.
well, here are a couple other Slaughter songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EVewJA8jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paPe6s3Mn_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOT_KRXufdo
if it means anything, Chuck played with them on a couple rehearsal tapes before forming Death, and i think he wrote Evil Dead with them since there's an old rehearsal song of them playing it together. doesn't matter too much, but it's a nice little piece of history.
edit: here it is, for anyone curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5FapeSUV4U (song actually kicks in around 0:43ish)
Yeah, I should preface that with "Personally" I guess... I just can't ever bring myself to listen to any Doom Metal... Too slow with nothing interesting happening. I understand fully why people like it, I just can't get into it in the same way.
And yeah, Slaughter's pretty cool, which I had the feeling that the first song didn't represent them well.
Mayhem1349
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HaskEIda4&feature=related
\m/ i just saw belladonna in concert a week or two back with his solo band. The show was amazing i was the only kid under 30 therexD greaat show
New Alestorm is hilarious. A lot of tongue in cheek about the band themselves and what they write about, "Scraping the Barrel" being a song literally about how their lyrics are becoming repetitive but they don't give a flying fuck. Another lyrical beauty is "Midget Saw" which is about cutting off the legs of a midget... with a saw, and also hitting him with an oar a few times. Solid Folk Metal all around, and I would say definitely stronger than their other albums.
Good shit, check it out if you're into that sort of thing. Obviously, Popemobile is exempt.
i may or may not check out the new Alestorm, a friend of mine linked me a song and it was meh, and it was apparently the best song on there. i like putting on Captain Morgan's Revenge occasionally, it's a fun album, but i can't say i need more than one album like that in general.
Nevermore said:
There's certainly no "Wenches and Mead" on this album as far as I can tell, so there isn't really a best "song" per se. This effort just gives the best overall experience compared to their other two. But I'm reasonable, I understand that if you're not into that sort of thing, you only need to have one.
But moving on to other things. I have listened to the new Symphony X album 3 times now(Sample Song: Dehumanized), and once while doing nothing else but intently listening to every detail, and I have a few thoughts:
1) They spent some money on their recording software, the production is fantastic and all home-brewed by Michael Romeo himself (The best way to do it).
2) Russell Allen is utilizing his fullest range to date on this album, he kept the grit low tenor from Paradise Lost, but also hits some soaring high notes in a few choruses and outro vocal riffs. Fantastic display of singing.
3) The music, from what I can tell with only one focused listen, is outstanding. Each players skills being showed off quickly, then moving on to the next melody, with a lot of complex rhythms, and odd time signatures as per usual.
4) Michael Romeo shreds to shit as usual. Symphony X is always good for hearing something on each song that you won't be able to do unless you practice it for 6-12 months.
I've also come to the conclusion that Jason Rullo is so quietly good as a drummer. He sits there, doing his thing, allowing the other members to take the forefront, but if you listen in he's doing something pretty damn cool every single time.
Erazor
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Dream Theater's new album is coming in september.
First one without Portnoy :'(
Adm. Empoleon
DT without portnoy? this should sound good. i'm looking forward to the lyrics and drumming of it, should sound different (for a change).
tom araya is a fucking badass when it comes to high-pitched screams. just listen to him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Byik5lHHI&feature=player_embedded
doomvendingmachine
Wonder why he couldn't hit the screams in the chorus of their cover of Dissident Aggressor then ;P
Adm. Empoleon said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOoklqEDlFw
honestly as much as i like Slayer i'd never praise Araya's vocals. they're so fucking monotone, sometimes he sounds bored, though his performance on Show No Mercy was his best in my opinion.
bumping this thread from page 3 with some Jungle Rot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReyG-hK70g&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16oZtWEuYfs&feature=related
and some of Jordanian sympho black metal for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgL8y7oS8M
personally i'm not into black metal, but good god..............
pookar
Banned deucer.
dunno if anyone's heard, but theres a portnoy/allen project titled Adrenaline Mob. after listening to the teaser... it seems more hard rocky with some metal elements. but its only a sample so who knows really. mite b cool
New Mastodon Song
eh. it does sound more leviathan-y but it's nothing impressive imo. that video is fucked up though lol.
sounds better than anything on Crack the Skye and Blood Mountain. Looks like a move away from prog, which I'm happy about. I have pretty high hopes for the album tbh.
The song was average-ish, but that video is amazing. Also; I LIKE prog Mastadon >:(
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Majid Majidi, the least interesting of Iran’s internationally recognized filmmakers, uses formula and bathetic metaphor to cobble together his movies. For him, everything must mean something, and his new film, The Willow Tree, gives all sorts of connotations to ants, sticks, walnuts, and snow. This story of a university professor who regains his sight after visiting a Paris clinic is dignified by Parvis Parastui’s memorable performance, which partially offsets Majidi’s symbolic heavywork. A striking early scene, during which Youssef (Parastui) sees the world for the first time since childhood, is emblematic of the director’s forced poetic style. Youssef peers at a worker ant as it disappears in and out of the shadow cast by the bars of a hospital room window, but what would appear to be a seemingly random glimpse of nature in motion is a symbolic prognostication of the journey Youssef will make in and out of the physical light of the world. The film is most interesting when it isn’t making connections between disparate things, focusing on Youssef’s uncertainty as he grapples with his fidelity to his past and the newfound sense of moral obligation that accompanies his ability to see, as in a later scene during which he watches a young pickpocket swipe a man’s wallet. Parastui’s intensely physical performance gives credence to his character’s moral paralysis, and as Youssef thrashes his way back home, blind again and completely miserable, there is a sense that he might actually prefer the comforting veil of darkness. Unable to leave well enough alone, Majidi allows the worker ant to make a befuddling return appearance, and so The Willow Tree ends on sappy note that positions the film as a more sincere but equally overwrought relation of Theo Angelopoulos’s The Weeping Meadow.
Cast: Parvis Parastui, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi, Mohammad Amir Naji, Melika Eslafi, Leila Otadi, Mahmoud Behraznia, Fouad Nahas, Ahmad Gawaheri Director: Majid Majidi Screenwriter: Majid Majidi, Fouad Nahas, Nasser Hashemzadeh Distributor: New Yorker Films Running Time: 96 min Rating: NR Year: 2005 Buy: Video
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There doesn’t seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
Eric Henderson
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We couldn’t really say it any better than Odie Henderson, who recently scoffed: “Who wins the Costume Design Oscar for Joker? The Goodwill? Who wins the Makeup Oscar for Joker? A blind Mary Kay consultant?” While we think the Academy will stop short of awarding the motley threads of Todd Phillips’s risible throwback machine in the costume category, the fact that they were nominated at all over, say, the imaginatively garish ‘70s finery that Ruth Carter created for Dolemite Is My Name indicates a level of affection for Joker that no one who doesn’t use the word “snowflake” on a daily basis seems prepared for.
While, to us, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker looks like nothing so much as Marge after sitting still for a makeup gun, as Homer put it best, “Women will like what I tell them to like.” From his lips to the Academy’s ears (and face). And given this category’s expansion didn’t add more multicolored prosthetic creations along the lines of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but instead more invisible character augmentation along the lines of Judy and Bombshell, there doesn’t seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
Will Win: Joker
Could Win: Judy
Should Win: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time.
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Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time. As I write this latest prediction for Slant’s rolling Oscar coverage, the top article on the front page of Rotten Tomatoes is a ranking, by Tomatometer, of the nine films nominated for best picture this year. Number one? Parasite. Immediately next to that article is a callout to readers to vote for their favorite film of 2019 that uses Song Kang-ho’s face from Parasite’s poster as the featured image. Regarding that poster, in simply placing black bars over the actors’ faces, it succinctly, eerily, perfectly underlines the film’s obsession with social strata. And you don’t need to look far beyond the aggregate site to land on some article praising the perfectly lit and designed architectural purgatory that is the film’s main setting.
Perfect. That’s a funny word. There are no objectively measurable criteria for perfection, but given how many times I’ve heard Bong’s film described as being “perfect” since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or, you’d think that there were. Still, the impulse to use it to describe this particular film, so balanced and attuned to the ties that both bind and separate us, evident in everything from the dimensions of Bong’s aesthetic, to his actors’ faces, to their words, makes a certain kind of sense. Quick, can you name the other four films nominated in this category? How apt if you can’t, as this is a film profoundly obsessed with the subterfuge that can be weaponized during class warfare. Or awards campaigns.
Will Win: Parasite
Could Win: Pain and Glory
Should Win: Parasite
John Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four.
That one of the five films nominated for original score this year is not a best picture nominee nor had any shot at being one almost makes this category an outlier among this year’s Oscar races, which seem otherwise fixated on frontrunners. John Williams already had the record-setting strength of 51 previous nominations leading into this week’s announcement, so his nod for the third Star Wars installment, or sixth, or ninth, or…does The Mandalorian count? Anyway, suffice it to say that the only thing that could’ve been more knee-jerk than to select nominations solely from among this year’s best picture probables would be to rubber stamp Williams uploading yet more variations on intellectual property.
Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four. Alexandre Desplat already has two wins here, both in the last six years, but Little Women is finally picking up momentum at just the right time. His richly romantic cues, which are practically wall to wall throughout the film, come on like a crushed-velvet dust jacket, binding Greta Gerwig’s shifting timeline together in a way that makes just about everyone who isn’t Sasha Stone want to clutch the entire thing to their bosoms.
Arguably, another film that’s still reaching its crest stage is 1917, and unlike Desplat, composer Thomas Newman is still waiting for his first win, and now holding the category’s longest losing streak. It can’t be said that Newman doesn’t pull out all the stops, piecing together a work that feels inspired by both Hans Zimmer’s pulsating Dunkirk score and Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” most memorably used in Oliver Stone’s Platoon. And yet, we’re kind of with Bilge Ebiri, who after the nominations were announced, tweeted, “You didn’t give it to DUNKIRK, you’re not allowed to give it to 1917. Sorry, we’re very strict on this matter.”
Not to say that we expect 1917 to roll snake eyes on its 10 nominations. Only that any nominations for the film related to things that Dunkirk already did better two years ago are a tough sell, despite the draw of Newman’s increasingly amplified Oscar backstory. That’s presuming that the narrative doesn’t wind up over-shadowed by the sidebar-friendly cousin’s duel between Thomas and his cousin, Randy Newman, whose jaunty, Terms of Endearment-esque Marriage Story score appears to have as many detractors as it has fans.
Until the nominations were announced, we admit to assuming that Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Golden Globe win for Todd Phillips’s Joker was going to go down the same way as Justin Hurwitz’s did a year ago: with an Oscar snub. We reasoned that Guðnadóttir, who also perked ears up and won an Emmy last year for her work on HBO’s Chernobyl, was still too fresh a talent for the more cliquey AMPAS musicians’ branch. But now that she’s there, Globe in hand and attached to the film that, by the numbers, the academy loved best this year, she offers even conscience-wracked voters the chance to hand a feature-length 4chan fantasy a guilt-free win by also awarding one of the film’s few female nominees.
Will Win: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker
Could Win: Thomas Newman, 1917
Should Win: Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
Tags: Academy Awards, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker, Thomas Newman, 1917, Alexandre Desplat, Little Women, Randy Newman, Marriage Story, John Williams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Dolittle’s inability to completely develop any of its characters reduces the film to all pomp and no circumstance.
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Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle begins with a just-shy-of-saccharine animated sequence that spins the tale of the eponymous character’s (Robert Downey Jr.) adventures with his wife, who one day dies at sea during a solo voyage. It’s something of a more condensed, less moving version of the prologue to Pixar’s Up, underscoring our protagonist’s upcoming fantastical journey on behalf of Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) with a tinge of melancholy.
As soon as the film shifts to live action, we immediately sense the loss felt by Dolittle in the overgrown vines and shrubbery that surround the famed doctor and veterinarian’s estate, as well as in his unkempt appearance. But any hopes that the film might follow through on its promise to explore Dolittle’s emotional turmoil are quickly dashed once he begins interacting with the animal friends who keep him company. Their banter is ceaseless and mostly ranges from corny and tiresome to downright baffling, as evidenced by a pun referencing Chris Tucker in Rush Hour that may leave you wondering who the target is for half of the film’s jokes.
The tenderness of Dolittle’s prologue does resurface sporadically across the film, most memorably in a late scene where the good doctor shares the pain of losing a spouse with a fierce dragon that’s also enduring a similar grief. But just as the film seems primed to say something profound about the nature of loss, Dolittle shoves his hand into the dragon’s backside—with her permission of course—in order to extract a bagpipe and an array of armor, leading the fiery beast to unleash a long, loud fart right into the doctor’s face.
That moment is crass, juvenile, and, above all, cheap in its cynical undercutting of one of Dolittle’s rare moments of vulnerability. But it serves as a ripe metaphor for the filmmakers’ incessant need to respond to a show of earnestness with a dollop of inanity, as if believing that their young audience can’t handle anything remotely sincere without a chaser of flatulence.
But worse than the film’s failure to truly probe Dolittle’s emotional landscape is how it surrounds him with a series of uncompelling character types. While the film seems to mostly unfold through the eyes of young Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett), who becomes Dolittle’s apprentice after witnessing the doctor communicate with animals, he serves little purpose aside from drawing the man out of his shell. And Dolittle’s arch-enemy, Dr. Blair Müdfly (Michael Sheen, chomping on every bit of scenery within reach), has little motivation to justify his ceaseless quest to stop his rival from attaining an elixir that will save Queen Victoria’s life.
Despite repeatedly paying lip service to notions of grief and opening oneself up to the world, Dolittle ultimately plays like little more than an extended showpiece for its special effects. But even the CGI on display here is patchy at best, with the countless animals that parade through the film’s frames taking on a creepy quality as their photorealistic appearance often awkwardly clashes with their cartoonish behavior. The film’s notoriously troubled production, which went so off the rails that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles director Jonathan Liebesman was brought on board for reshoots, is evident in its clumsy staging and lifeless interplay between humans and animals, but it’s the film’s inability to completely develop any of its characters that reduces it to all pomp and no circumstance. Like the CGI animals that inhabit much of the film, Dolittle is flashy and colorful on the outside but dead behind the eyes.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland Director: Stephen Gaghan Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand Distributor: Universal Pictures Running Time: 106 min Rating: PG Year: 2020 Buy: Soundtrack
In the end, the film’s perpetuation of the franchise’s endorsement of police brutality comes back to bite it.
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From its parodically overused low-angle and circling tracking shots to its raw embodiment of Michael Bay’s unique brand of jingoism and adolescent vulgarity, Bad Boys II arguably remains the purest expression of the director’s auteurism. Bay doesn’t direct the film’s belated sequel, Bad Boys for Life, leaving one to wonder what purpose this franchise serves if not to give expression to his nationalist, racist, and misogynistic instincts.
Intriguingly, Bad Boys for Life is helmed by the Belgian team of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, whose streetwise, racially focused crime films, from 2014’s Image to 2018’s Gangsta, represent positions that are nearly the polar opposite of those of Bay’s work. Except the filmmakers do nothing to shake the franchise from its repellent roots, merely replicating Bay’s stylistic tics at a more sluggish pace, losing the antic abandon that is his only redeeming quality as an artist. At best, the half-speed iterations of Bay’s signature aesthetic reflect the film’s invocation of too-old-for-this-shit buddy-movie clichés, with Miami cops Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) forced to contend with growing old and obsolete.
The film is quick to establish that Marcus, newly a grandfather, longs to settle down, even as Mike continues to insist that he’s at the top of his game. It’s then that the partners are thrown for a loop when Mike is shot by Armando (Jacob Scipio), whose drug kingpin father Mike killed and whose mother, Isabel (Kate del Castillo), he helped get imprisoned in Mexico. Both men are left traumatized by the event, with a horrified Marcus forswearing a life of violence, while Mike seeks brutal revenge for his wounded sense of masculine security. And for a brief moment, Bad Boys for Life finds fertile ground in the emotional chasm that opens between the two pals, with Mike’s single-minded rage leaving Marcus morally disgusted.
Almost immediately, though, the film turns to gleeful violence, showing how grotesque the consequences of Mike’s vigilantism actions can be, only to then largely justify his actions. When Mike violates orders during a surveillance assignment to abduct a possible lead, that source is left dead in a gruesomely elaborate shootout that’s played for satire-less kicks. Partnered with a new unit of inexperienced, tech-savvy rookies (Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, and Charles Melton), Mike can only express his dismay at the new generation resorting to gadgets and nonlethal, perhaps even—dare one say—legal, measures of law enforcement. Each one gets a single defining characteristic (Hudgens’s Kelley is a trigger-happy fascist in the making and Ludwig’s Dorn possesses a bodybuilder’s physique that belies his pacifism), and they all exist for Smith to target with stale jokes about old-school justice.
Likewise, the surprising soulfulness that Lawrence brings to his character is ultimately just fodder for jokes about how the weary, flabby new grandpa isn’t getting laid. Unsurprisingly, then, Marcus only reclaims his virility as a man by lunging back into a life of chaotic police action. Even his turn toward faith and a vow of peace is mocked, as when he finds himself in possession of a machine gun during a hectic chase and Mike reassures him that God gave that to him in a time of need. “Shit, I do need it!” Marcus exclaims, but the humor of Lawrence’s delivery only momentarily distracts us from the film’s flippant take on his spirituality.
By saddling both heroes and villains alike with quests for revenge, Bad Boys for Life broaches deeper thematic possibility than has ever existed in this franchise. Indeed, the film’s focus on aging, when paired with a last-act reveal that forces the characters to think about the legacies that are passed on to future generations, places it in unexpected parallel to another recent Will Smith vehicle, Gemini Man. But where Ang Lee’s film actually grappled with the implications of violence bred and nurtured in our descendants, this movie merely gets some cheap sentimentality to contrast with its otherwise giddy embrace of carnage.
In the end, the film’s perpetuation of the franchise’s endorsement of police brutality comes back to bite it. The aforementioned scene with Marcus discovering the machine gun is played as a joke, even though the man, half-blind but refusing to wear the glasses that show his age, fires wildly at gunmen on motorcycles weaving around civilian vehicles. Watching this scene, it’s hard not to think of the recent, real-life case of Miami cops firing hundreds of rounds at armed robbers despite being surrounded by commuters, not only killing the suspects but their hostage and a random bystander. This coincidental timing is a reminder that the supposed harmlessness of glib entertainments like Bad Boys for Life plays a part in normalizing the increasing police-state tactics and mentality of our nation’s over-armed law enforcement.
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Joe Pantoliano, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Núñez, Kate del Castillo, Jacob Scipio Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah Screenwriter: Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan Distributor: Columbia Pictures Running Time: 110 min Rating: R Year: 2020 Buy: Soundtrack
Well hi, everybody, it’s nice to see you.
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Well hi, everybody, it’s nice to see you. Loyal readers of Slant’s Oscar coverage know that we don’t like to beat around the bush, and this year we have even less reason to do so what with the accelerated awards calendar forcing us to kick-start our rolling predictions earlier than usual. So, as we busy ourselves in the next few days catching up with some remaining blindspots, and being thankful that we don’t actually ever have to see Cats, we will be bringing you our predictions in some of Oscar’s easier-to-call categories.
Which isn’t to say that we’re going to be drama-free. Case in point: the revelation that Eric Henderson, my fellow awards guru, made on Twitter this week that “Scarlett Johansson is genuinely better in Jojo Rabbit than in Marriage Story.” He also asked us to throw the tweet back in this face four or five years from now, but I say right now is as good a time as any.
No, seriously, shocking as that tweet was to this fan of Marriage Story’s entire acting ensemble, that some are already predicting the actress as a possible spoiler in supporting actress in the wake of Jojo Rabbit scoring six nominations, it’s gotten us thinking about the ostensibly evolving tastes of AMPAS’s membership at a time when it’s struggling to diversify itself. And based on how things went down at last year’s Oscars, the only conclusion we can come up with is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Immediately after Glenn Close lost the Oscar last year to Olivia Coleman, Eric sent me a text wondering why AMPAS hates the former so much, to which I offered that there’s nothing more unwavering than Hollywood’s support for actors playing real-life individuals. Well, that and its support for actors who actually want to be exalted by the industry. Even in a world where Renée Zellweger isn’t also being helped by a comeback narrative, and has yet to follow Joaquin Phoenix’s savvy lead by getting arrested at Jane Fonda’s weekly climate change protest and erasing our memory of her performance at the Golden Globes, she’s nominated for a generally well liked performance in a film that has actually performed well at the box office.
On Monday, more outcry was provoked by the Oscar nominations, again for women being shut out of the best director race, but also for the snubbing of several actors of color, most notably Jennifer Lopez and Lupita N’yongo. Some will speculate that Cynthia Erivo, the only actor of color to be nominated this year, is a potential spoiler here, but whether she stands to benefit from a core of protest votes is something that can never be known. This fine actress’s performance checks off almost as many boxes as Zellweger’s, if not, at the end of the day, the one that matters most: representing a film about the industry itself, in this case one that will allow a reliably backward-looking Hollywood to atone for sins committed against their own.
Will Win: Renée Zellweger, Judy
Could Win: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Should Win: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Review: Intrigo: Death of an Author Is Damned by Its Lack of Self-Awareness
The film evinces neither the visceral pleasures of noir nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
David Robb
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“Surprise me!” demands reclusive author Alex Henderson (Ben Kingsley) near the start of Intrigo: Death of an Author of budding novelist Henry (Benno Fürmann), who’s come to him in search of advice. As an audience member, it’s difficult not to end up making exactly the same exhortation to director Daniel Alfredson’s film. With each plot point being not only easy to predict, but also articulated and elaborated on multiple times by an awkwardly on-the-nose narration, the only shock here is that a film apparently concerned with the act of storytelling could be so lacking in self-awareness.
Henry is a translator for the recently deceased Austrian author Germund Rein and is working on a book about a man whose wife disappeared while they were holidaying in the Alps, shortly after her revelation that she would be leaving him for her therapist. Most of the tedious opening half hour of the film is taken up with Henry telling this tale to Kingsley’s enigmatic Henderson, after he meets him at his remote island villa. The pace picks up a little when David switches to giving the older writer an account of the mystery surrounding Rein’s death and how this could be connected to his story, which (surprise!) may not be entirely fictional.
Death of An Author is the most high-profile release of the Intrigo films, all directed by Alfredson and based on Håkan Nesser’s novellas. Alfredson was also at the helm of two film versions of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, but he still doesn’t appear to have developed the stylistic tools necessary to elevate his pulpy source material. Here, his aesthetic seems to be aiming for the icy polish of a modern noir, but it leans toward a safe kind of blandness, evincing neither the visceral pleasures of the genre nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
While Fürmann’s stilted central performance at times threatens to sink Death of An Author, Kingsley always appears just in time to keep the unwieldy thing afloat. Nonetheless, his character’s cynical meta commentary, alternately engaged and aloof, is ruinous: As Henderson criticizes Henry’s story, he effectively draws too much attention to the film’s own flaws.
Death of an Author’s mise en abyme framing device has a similarly self-sabotaging effect. It initially promises an interesting push and pull between a writer’s literary perspective on reality and their own lived experience, but as so much of Henry’s psychology is explained through clunky expository dialogue instead of being expressed visually, no such conflict is possible. The structure ends up just distancing us further from the characters, as well as undermining the tension generated by the more procedural elements of the plot. Ultimately, aside from some picturesque scenery and a satisfyingly dark ending, all we’re left to enjoy here is the vicarious thrill of Kingsley’s smug, scene-stealing interlocutor occasionally denouncing Henry as a hack, and implicitly dismissing the whole scenario of the film as trite and clichéd.
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Benno Fürmann, Tuva Novotny, Michael Byrne, Veronica Ferres, Daniela Lavender, Sandra Dickinson Director: Daniel Alfredson Screenwriter: Daniel Alfredson, Birgitta Bongenhielm Distributor: Lionsgate Running Time: 106 min Rating: R Year: 2018
Review: Weathering with You Lyrically and Mushily Affirms the Sky’s Majesty
Contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed the film’s increasingly mawkish tendencies.
Chuck Bowen
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The lyricism of director Makoto Shinkai’s new animated film, Weathering with You, should shame the impersonality of the CGI-addled blockbusters that are usually pitched at children. An early scene finds a teenage girl, Hina (Nano Mori), floating through the sky, at times almost seeming to swim in it. This moment introduces a suggestive motif: In the film, scientists speculate that the sky possesses a habitat that, for all we know, is full of similar properties to the one in the world’s oceans. The Tokyo of Shinkai’s conception is plagued by rain that sometimes falls so hard as to suggest a tidal wave dropping out of the sky, which is a memorably scary and beautiful effect. Sometimes such rains even leave behind see-through jellyfish-like creatures that evaporate upon touch.
At their best, Shinkai’s images affirm the majesty and power of the sky and rain, intrinsic elements of life that we too often take for granted. Raindrops suggest bright white diamonds, and storms resemble cocoons of water. But Hina’s new friend, Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo), doesn’t take the weather for granted, as he’s introduced on a large passenger boat, surveying a storm that almost kills him. Running away to Tokyo from his parents, Hodaka first glances the city as the boat approaches a port, and at which point Shinkai springs another marvel: a city of vast neon light that’s been rendered with a soft, watercolor-esque delicacy.
The first 45 minutes or so of Weathering with You promisingly merge such visuals with the story of Hina and Hodaka’s blossoming romance, while introducing an amusing rogue, Keisuke Suga (Shun Oguri), who offers Hodaka minimal employment as a junior reporter for a tabloid magazine. Suga gives the film a lurid quality that’s surprising for a children’s fantasy—as he milks the young Hodaka for a free meal and carouses around Tokyo at night—until Shinkai sentimentally reduces him to a routine father figure. And it’s around here that the plot grows more and more cumbersome and gradually takes over the film as Hina and Hodaka become typically misunderstood youngsters on the lam, evading the law and the Tokyo crime world. The free-floating visuals are eventually tethered to a metaphor for the specialness of Hina, who’s a mythical “sunshine girl” capable of bringing light to Tokyo’s endless storms, and for the fieriness of Hina and Hodaka’s love. Shinkai over-explains his lyrical imagery with YA tropes, compromising the dreamlike mystery of the film’s first act.
The narrative is also an implicit story of global warming, as Tokyo’s storms threaten to destroy the city, with Hina representing a potential balancing of the scales at the expense of her own earthly life. That’s a resonant concept that Shinkai never quite steers into overtly political territory—and contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed Weathering with You’s increasingly mawkish tendencies. A free-floating atmosphere, in which sky and ocean are merged, suggesting collaborative gods, is more than enough for an evocative fable. It’s a pity that Shinkai overthinks his project, frontloading it with borrowed plot machinery that goes in circles, separating lovers mostly for the sake of separating them.
Cast: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Kana Ichinose, Ryô Narita, Tsubasa Honda, Mone Kamishiraishi, Kana Ichinose Director: Makoto Shinkai Screenwriter: Makoto Shinkai Distributor: GKIDS Running Time: 112 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 2019
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning by Issa Rae and John Cho.
Alexa Camp
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning by Issa Rae and John Cho. Todd Phillips’s Joker led the nomination count with 11, followed by Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Sam Mendes’s 1917, and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood with 10 each, and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women with six each.
While Joker mostly received attention throughout the awards season for Joaquin Phoenix’s lead performance, many pegged Hildur Guðnadóttir’s victory at the Golden Globes for her score as a sign that the film would do well at the Oscars. Elsewhere, Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) had to make way for Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell) in best supporting actress and Lupita N’yongo (Us) for Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) in best actress. And both Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) landed nominations for best actor, pushing Golden Globe-winner Taron Egerton (Rocketman), Robert De Niro (The Irishman), and Christian Bale (Ford v. Ferrari out of the way.
See below for a full list of the nominations.
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Best Animated Short
Dcera (Daughter)
Best Live-Action Short
Nefta Footfall Club
The Neighbor’s Window
The Edge of Democracy
Best Documentary Short Subject
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
Walk, Run, Chacha
Best International Feature Film
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” Rocketman
Review: VHYes Spoofs Late-Night TV Without Exacting Critiques
VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
Clayton Dillard
Photo: Oscilloscope Laboratories
There’s more inspired satire about how television manipulates an audience’s emotions in the original RoboCop’s opening newscast scene than in the entirety of Jack Henry Robbins’s VHYes. Set around Christmas in 1987—coincidentally, the year of the Paul Verhoeven classic’s release—the film opens as adolescent Ralphie (Mason McNulty) has received his first camcorder. Robbins filters everything through Ralphie’s camera, giving the film an entirely home-video aesthetic, and after Ralphie’s father (Jake Head) discovers the device can be used to record live TV, VHYes morphs into a procession of mostly stale sketch-comedy bits that have been taped during Ralphie’s late-night channel surfing.
Throughout, VHYes shuttles from one gag to the next in search of purpose. In one bit, Robbins serves up a parody of The Joy of Painting starring a woman, Joan (Kerri Kenney), whose dry wit and thinly veiled arousal for her work culminates in a painting of her dunking on Dennis Rodman, of which she assures viewers, “There’s moisture. Some of it isn’t sweat.” We also get a spoof of Antiques Roadshow featuring an appraiser (Mark Proksch) who increasingly reveals his lacking aptitude for the position. And on a mock QVC channel, the formerly married hosts bicker as they predominately sell drug paraphernalia disguised as household products.
VHYes is clearly indebted to the gonzo sketch comedy of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, but unlike Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, Robbins homes in on the oddities of people and things as a means to an end, rather than using them as a jumping-off point for unhinged social commentary. The only segment that approaches a distinct comedic take on its material is Conversations with Todd Plotz, in which the host (Raymond Lee) discusses “tape narcissism” with a cultural philosopher (Mona Lee Wylde) who makes obviously prescient remarks such as, “One day the real world will exist to be filmed.” Though this exchange might outwardly suggest an attempt to critique global technological influence, a la Videodrome, the sketch lacks a punchline, let alone insight, beyond the host donning a goofy expression, further revealing how the film is a parade of empty nostalgia for its own sake.
The film offers a reprieve from its grab bag of sketch comedy with a series of musical interludes hosted by Lou (Charlyne Yi), who uses the occasion to introduce bands to her interested but clueless parents. The best of these features Weyes Blood performing a haunting rendition of her 2016 track “Generation Why.” But lest the music linger for a moment in earnest, Robbins concludes the segment with the ironized, faux-Lynchian imagery of a door, isolated in darkness, opening onto Lou and Weyes Blood doing a slow dance.
The film’s climax returns to reality to find Ralphie and his friend, Josh (Rahm Braslaw), obsessed with the documentary Blood Files: Witch of West Covina. The show claims there’s a haunted sorority house on the outskirts of the town where the two live and, predictably, Robbins uses this material to spring the boys out of the house and toward danger, Ralphie’s camcorder footage all the while guiding us through their ghostly discoveries. As in its comedy, the film proves wholly derivative in its horror, borrowing liberally from The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and V/H/S and, in this stretch, without even the good sense to heavily ironize it. For all the outrageousness that could be concocted from its overarching premise, VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
Cast: Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Mark Proksch, Charlyne Yi, Mason McNulty, Rahm Braslaw, Jake Head, Christian Drerup, Mona Lee Wylde, Raymond Lee, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins Director: Jack Henry Robbins Screenwriter: Jack Henry Robbins, Nunzio Randazzo Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories Running Time: 72 min Rating: NR Year: 2019
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By Lynne Harrison
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Published: 08:00, 01 December 2019
Children from William Stukeley Primary School came face to face with a gigantic artwork on the side of a lorry trailer - a copy of William Stukeley's celebrated painting of Stonehenge.
The Holbeach school is named after William Stukeley, who was born in the town in 1687, and became one of the founders of field archaeology, pioneering the investigation of Stonehenge.
Pupils had a fascinating collective worship to celebrate Stukeley and were joined by the president of Spalding Gentlemen's Society, Tom Grimes, who displayed a large, original print of Stukeley and presented the school with a catalogue of Stukeley's art from an exhibition the society held at Ayscoughfee Hall.
Little and large copies of William Stukeley's celebrated Stonehenge artwork
During the assembly, a group of children who had worked with teaching assistant Helen Rowley over the last few weeks, shared the results of their research into the famous son of Holbeach.
The arts organisation, ‘Transported’, commissioned Electric Egg to create artwork to adorn the side of FreshLinc trailers.
This was part of the Creative People and Places project, which promotes art within the community,
Steve Hatton, one of the artists from Electric Egg, chose the work of William Stukeley as one of the subjects.
He recreated Stukeley’s amazing artwork of Stonehenge, which is now exhibited on a FreshLinc lorry.
Neil Baker and Steven Hatton also kindly printed the art for the school and two of FreshLinc's drivers kindly presented this art for them to keep.
Head teacher Tom Emery said: “This exciting project of researching the history of William Stukeley has satisfied a long term wish of mine, so that our pupils may learn about the school’s name sake.
"When you enter our school, you will now see a wonderful, permanent display, showing his life and achievements and why he is important to us."
The print of Stonehenge and the catalogue of William Stukeley’s art is now a part of the interesting historical memorabilia kept at the school.
Teacher Helen Ward, the world culture faculty teacher, and the whole school have thanked Neil Baker and Steve Hatton for providing the artwork.
Mrs Ward thanked Ashley Holland, from FreshLinc, for organising the lorry and trailer for the whole school to experience and appreciate the art on such a huge scale.
FreshLinc are based in Wardentree Park at Pinchbeck.
Mrs Ward said: "We would also like to say a huge thank you to Iain Braid, vice-chair of the school governors, for initiating and liaising throughout the whole project."
* William Stukeley studied medicine at Cambridge University and it was then that he began to make sketches of historical artefacts as well as topographical and architectural drawings.
He pursued the interest alongside his career in medicine and published books including works on excavations at Stonehenge and Avebury.
Stukeley's wide ranging interests saw him write music for flute and treatises on earthquakes and medical matters.
In a career change, Stukeley was ordained as vicar of All Saints' Church, Stamford in 1730. He died in London in 1765.
Lynne Harrison
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Jump Force Will Get Its First DLC This May
By Sato February 18, 2019
The crosssover fighting game Jump Force released worldwide on Friday but fans will have to wait until this May for its first DLC, according to the latest issue of V-Jump. [Thanks, Ryokutya2089.]
No further information was shared regarding the DLC, but we can expect some more characters to be added to the mix with countless options available.
Jump Force is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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In Los Angeles you are not allowed to sell, rent out, or give away a firearm without a valid permit. Even if you have a valid permit, you can only sell the type of firearm it specifies. Unfortunately, it’s easy for responsible gun owners to break this law without even realizing it—and it carries hard jail time for each gun sold. If you have been arrested for selling or giving away a gun, do not take changes with your future. You need to talk to a Los Angeles lawyer who understand unlicensed sale of firearms charges.
At the Simmrin Law Group, we have dedicated ourselves to helping those accused of breaking gun laws and other offenses. We understand that California’s gun laws are complex, strict and hard to follow. We don’t believe you should go to jail for making a mistake. Let us put our legal experience to work for you. We offer a free consultation to help you understand your case and get started. Fill out the form to the right or call us at 310-997-4688 and get your free consultation today.
What counts as an “unlicensed” sale or transfer of a firearm?
A California state law known as Penal Code 26500 makes it illegal to sell, lease or transfer firearms without a license to do so.
This applies to any type of firearm, defined as:
Any weapon…
…that fires a projectile…
…using the force of an explosion or combustion.
That includes all traditional firearms as well as tasers, rocket launchers, and flare guns. It does not include pellet guns or BB guns. Antique firearms are also exempt as long as they are not loaded.
Are there exceptions?
Yes. The number of exceptions is one of the reasons the law is so complex. For example, none of these groups need a permit to sell/transfer guns, even if a transfer takes place:
Target ranges or gun clubs that rent guns solely for use on the premises
Anyone taking a gun to a gunsmith to be repaired
Anyone who inherited a gun and simply wants to dispose of it
Foreign government if authorized by the US Department of State
Sales among manufacturers, importers and dealers authorized by the government
Performers using unloaded guns in a play, movie or other production
Anyone selling at a gun show, subject to strict limits (see below)
How does the gun show exception work for firearm sales?
This is one of the most common situations among dedicated gun enthusiasts. Essentially, you are allowed to sell some guns—with no permit—at gun shows/gun events. This comes with its own set of rules:
You cannot sell or transfer handguns
You must comply with all other laws regarding gun sales
You cannot sell or transfer guns at more than 12 shows in a calendar year
You cannot sell/transfer more than 15 guns at any one show
Additionally, you cannot sell/transfer more than 75 guns in a year
As you can see, even the “exceptions” involve red tape and strict rules of their own. Many people think they are doing everything correctly and don’t realize they’re actually breaking the law.
What are the penalties for unlicensed sale of a firearm?
The penalties are much harsher than you’d expect. Although unlicensed sale is a misdemeanor, its penalties include:
Up to 6 months in jail, and
Up to $1,000 in fines
For each gun sold or transferred
That means that is you sold three guns, you could face three separate charges and a sentence for each one. Potentially, you could spend years in jail for a single nonviolent offense.
How do you win against an unlicensed firearm sale charge?
There are many ways to fight this kind of charge. The one you should use depends on the specifics of what happened, and how police found out about the alleged sale or transfer. Some of the most effective defenses include:
Entrapment. Many gun sale arrests come from undercover operations. Basically, police go out posing as gun buyers and try to get someone to sell to them illegally. Police have to follow very specific rules in these operations, or the arrest is not valid. Specifically, they cannot pressure you to break the law. If you initially resisted selling the gun and were “talked into it,” you may have an entrapment defense.
Illegal search and seizure. How did the police find or recover the gun(s)? In some cases, police may not have had a legal right to search a person, vehicle or location—even if they claim that they did. Search rules are complex, but an illegal search may mean you win your case.
Valid exception. Police cannot remember every detail of every law. It’s possible to be arrested for unlicensed sale, even if you qualify for an exception to the law. A lawyer can help you review whether any exceptions apply.
Police misconduct. Sometimes officers lie. Sometimes their reports are wrong. Some may coerce confessions, violate your Miranda protection, or otherwise violate your civil rights. Any of these could be grounds for suppressing evidence or dismissing the case.
Remember that prosecutors are overworked and look for easy wins. Simply by having a lawyer and presenting a valid defense, you send a strong message that you won’t go down easily. In many cases this is enough to get an offer with no jail time. Other times, we may be able to win your case entirely.
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Our Work: Pobal
Pobal is an organisation that works on behalf of the Irish Government to support social inclusion and local community development in Ireland.
To create an educational and informative website, highlighting Pobal’s range of services, ensuring accessibility and ease of use were of primary importance.
The Pobal site demonstrates exemplary User Experience (UX) Design as the project fundamentals were based on a design led methodology. Our fail safe User Experience process ensured that website Design was driven by User Interface Design validation and underpinned by an innovative use of technology, resulting in improved performance for Pobal.ie.
Our Design process is focused on ensuring that users achieve what they set out to do on a website. Built firmly on the principles of user-centred Design; this involves asking the right questions and acting based on the information that is returned.
We investigated what represents ‘success’ for the project and what represents ‘success’ for users of the website and how we best facilitate both. Success for Pobal was to ensure various types of users of the site achieved their goals and that the site followed best practice in terms of usability, accessibility, navigation and content. Accessibility was a key priority due to the unique demographic of users who utilise the Pobal site. The new site was an opportunity to improve User Experience by offering users an Accessibility panel to assist with site usage.
The Pobal website was built on the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) on a PHP framework, with the front end developed using Zurb Foundation 6. WordPress was selected because of its easy to use content management system, flexible permissions and workflows, social and CRM integrations and it is SEO friendly, a key consideration for this project.
We tailored the CMS by creating a range of customised templates and custom fields for the Pobal team to add their website copy and images. We also configured a range of user permissions, created to allow Admins to edit various sections.
WordPress incorporates in-built SEO capabilities which will support SEO activity underway with Pobal, including keyword research around key deliverables to incorporate into site content, meta titles and page descriptions.
The primary navigation contains a bespoke accessibility navigation panel. The panel sits in a red bar at the top of the screen and is available from all pages. The navigation is deliberately prominent to help the user demographic tailor the site to their own individual needs. The navigation is sticky and follows the user as they scroll down the screen
Accessibility tools implemented to facilitate users of all abilities include:
Greyscale – using a toggle switch, users can turn the site greyscale removing all colour from text and images. This is convenient for users with visual impairments such as colour blindness. This feature will disable colours that make a display more difficult to see and can make reading menus and viewing images more detailed for certain users.
High Contrast – using a toggle switch, users can make site colours highly contrasting. This setting benefits users with low vision and or other visual impairments and will invert the web page background and text colours.
Text Resizer – using a scale of three ‘A’s site users can make text larger or smaller to suit their individual reading needs. This makes the site more flexible and allows the user to take control to apply their own viewing preferences.
We provided CMS user training session to enable Pobal to update the site going forward. Ensuring the client was self-sufficient and could use the CMS with ease.
A seamless transition from the existing site, with a site launch plan managed by Zesty Account Management Team.
As a support client, Pobal benefit from;
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Insights – Ongoing analysis and benchmarking to explain data, with a view to increase ROI on marketing and optimise the user experience.
Year on Year (July 17 vs 18) the new site resulted in a 6% increase in users, with a 16% increase in new users – illustrating the steady improvement for the site. There has been a 17% increase in page views and a 29% increase in average page views per session, which demonstrates the improvement of content quality and presentation. Users can find relevant content more easily and are spending an increased amount of time-consuming site content.
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Wild Atlantic Way Celebrates Global Win
Since we launched the Wild Atlantic Way website with Failte Ireland last year, there has been nothing but award success. Starting with Kentico Site of the Month Award, then picking up the Best in Travel, Sport, Leisure and Tourism, as well as the Best Digital Geography at the Eir Spiders Awards.
We didn’t think it could get any better, but last month we were shortlisted for a site of the year award by Kentico. For our team to be shortlisted for designing and developing one of the best sites in the world, is a huge achievement in itself.
Winning awards is something we’re extremely proud of and this week has been no different. It was announced that our work for Failte Ireland went on to ultimately WIN the Best Travel and Events site. This was the result of our design and development team pushing the boundaries of design and the Kentico CMS with custom integration to not only deliver a website that is visually pleasing but ultimately extremely user friendly.
While we enjoyed celebrating success at the Eir Spider Award as a suited and booted team, this celebration is equally enjoyed in a more casual but cake filled way this morning which always goes down well with our team, we barely got a photo in before the celebration cakes were gone!
Thanks to all that voted for us, we really do appreciate it and are glad you enjoyed our work!
My first month at Zesty: Niamh
Welcome to Zesty: Stephen
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Annex B. International...
I. The year 2016 in review
II. Trends in armaments and disarmament
III. International politics and global security
2. Armed conflict and peace processes
I. Patterns of organized violence, 2007–16
II. Out of the darkness? The hope for peace in Colombia
III. Mapping armed conflicts over Islamist claims: exploring regional variations
IV. The Global Peace Index 2017
3. Armed conflict and instability in the Middle East and North Africa
I. The Middle East and North Africa: 2016 in perspective
II. The Islamic State in 2016: a failing ‘caliphate’ but a growing transnational threat?
III. Military spending and arms transfers to the Middle East and North Africa
4. European security
I. Conflict or peace in Europe? Increasing uncertainties, rising insecurities
II. Conflicts in the post-Soviet space: recent developments
III. Turkey’s search for stability and legitimacy in 2016
III. Protection of civilians: the case of South Sudan
IV. Table of multilateral peace operations, 2016
6. Sustaining peace and sustainable development in dangerous places
I. Peace and development
II. Sustaining peace: the new overarching United Nations framework
III. Delivering as one: other multilateral mechanisms for sustaining peace
IV. The peace being sustained: operationalizing prevention
7. Coping with crises: forced displacement in fragile contexts
II. Displacement dangers
III. Crises of forced displacement in fragile contexts: key developments in 2016
IV. United Nations and regional responses to displacement crises
8. Exploring the links between climate change and violent conflict
I. Exploring the climate–conflict link: the case of East Africa
II. Weather-related disasters and violent conflict
II. US military expenditure
III. Oil price shocks and military expenditure
IV. The backdating of SIPRI military expenditure data
V. Transparency in military expenditure data
10. International arms transfers and developments in arms production
II. Arms transfers as military aid
V. Arms production and military services
XI. Nuclear explosions, 1945–2016
12. Nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control
I. Russian–US nuclear arms control and disarmament
II. International cooperation to enhance nuclear security
III. Initiatives and multilateral treaties on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control
IV. Implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Iran
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14. Conventional arms control
I. International humanitarian law: ICRC guidance and its application in urban warfare
II. Humanitarian arms control regimes: key developments in 2016
III. A relaunch of conventional arms control in Europe?
II. Multilateral embargoes on arms and dual-use items
IV. Developments in EU dual-use and arms trade controls
V. Human rights, the European Union and dual-use export controls
This annex describes the main international organizations, intergovernmental bodies, treaty-implementing bodies and transfer control regimes whose aims include the promotion of security, stability, peace or arms control and lists their members or participants as of 1 January 2017. The bodies are divided into three categories: those with a global focus or membership (section I), those with a regional focus or membership (section II) and those that aim to control strategic trade (section III).
Smith, Dan. "Annex B. International security cooperation bodies." SIPRI Yearbook. SIPRI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. Web. 19 Jan. 2020. <https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198811800/sipri-9780198811800-chapter-17.xml>.
Smith, D. (2016). Annex B. International security cooperation bodies. In SIPRI, SIPRI Yearbook 2017: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 Jan. 2020, from https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198811800/sipri-9780198811800-chapter-17.xml
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Owen Hargreaves Doubted Etienne Capoue's Ability To Win The Ball
Last updated 4:15 PM, Monday September 16 2019 GMT+1
Owen Hargreaves made a fool of himself as a tv pundit when he questioned Etienne Capoue's ability to win possession, when the Watford midfielder had the most interceptions in Europe last year.
It was a good weekend for Watford as they came back from 2-0 down against Arsenal at half time to secure Quique Sanchez Flores' first point in his return to the Hornets, with a 2-2 draw.
Ahead of the match former midfielder Hargreaves had been discussing the team's midfield, on the Kelly and Wrighty Show, and he wasn't impressed with their ability to win the ball back, even if he did recognise their ability as ball players.
Unfortunately for the former Manchester United midfielder, Capoue actually completed more interceptions than any other midfielder in Europe last season.
Owen Hargreaves "Capoue is a terrific passer of the ball but does he stop anyone out of possession?"
Capoue had the most interceptions in Europe last season
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- Lou (@louorns_) September 14, 2019
No one's expecting Hargreaves to know Watford perfectly but if you're going to make a statement like that you should probably have the facts at hand.
Certainly it was a better weekend for the Hertfordshire club's midfield, than the one Hargreaves had, on Sunday as Arsenal allowed their opponents to have 31 shots on their goal.
The Gunners took a two goal lead just past the half hour mark, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, but their collapse allowed Sanchez Florez to earn the draw.
Arsenal players walk off the pitch after throwing away a win against Watford. Image: PA Images
Watford Observer gave the Frenchman an eight out of 10 rating for his performance at Vicarage Road on Sunday, as he took the captain's armband from the injured Troy Deeney.
Although the 31-year-old won't be too happy with his impact on the visiting side's first goal he was still one of the hosts top performers as Watford earned a much needed point.
The team had picked up just one point under Javi Gracia and were bottom of the table, hence why the manager who led the side to the FA Cup final last season was sacked, and they must kick on from the weekend's point.
Capoue once again wins the ball. Image: PA Images
Hargreaves' punditry faux pas is nowhere near the worst thing any pundit said last weekend, with one Italian pundit being suspended after directing racist abuse at Romelu Lukaku.
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Derby City Litho was already a successful and profitable printer, but it faced the challenge of informing loyal customers of new offerings and services, and attracting new clients.
DCL already had a solid reputation as an exceptional offset printer. With the advent of digital print and electronic media, it became necessary for DCL to show its expertise in these fields as well. A monthly series of variable digital direct marketing pieces was designed by Summa Creative to keep loyal customers informed of services and offerings of DCL of which they may not be aware, and to introduce prospects to the full range of their abilities. As print pieces, these were also prime opportunities to showcase the quality of the work DCL does.
It was the knowledge that most of these pieces would go directly into the hands of designers that set the bar high for the design. Each month’s offering had to be a little jewel that would go beyond attracting the attention of the most seasoned designer. The pieces needed to elicit either “I didn’t know they could do that!” or “How did they do that?”
All of the pieces used the company’s CMYK identity playfully and boldly. We incorporated scratch-off inks (a heat-processed foil stamp), mixtures of metallic inks and varnishes, and comic book absurdity in the designs, and gave links to the DCL website page that explained the techniques and process used to create the piece. All direct marketing pieces had a clear call to action to track ROI, and were accompanied by a targeted email.
Epilogue - The campaign was remarkably successful, to the point that the sales team asked us to print up cards that read “We know that you didn’t know that we did that!”
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Huawei Mate 30 release date will be much sooner than anyone expected
One month earlier than Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro
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By Aaron Brown 2019-08-17T05:00:00Z
With the Huawei Mate X still delayed indefinitely, the next flagship smartphone we're likely to see emerge from the Chinese company's R&D department are the successors to the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, widely expected to be branded (unsurprisingly) Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro.
Huawei unveiled the powerful Mate 20 series during a media event in London on October 16, 2018. So early reports tipped the follow-up to launch around the same time – a few weeks after Google holds its annual Made By Google hardware announcement in early October.
Huawei Mate 30: price, release date, leaks and everything we already know
However, that seems to no longer be the case. According to a new report from Russian news site hi-tech.mail.ru, Huawei Consumer Business Software President Dr. Wang Chenglu revealed the new handset will be unveiled on September 19, 2019.
Dr Chenglu was talking about the forthcoming Kirin 990 chipset at the time.
Huawei Mate 30 is widely-tipped to have a circular camera array on its rear panel with a brace of 40MP cameras capable of aping what we've already seen from the Huawei P30 Pro. However, it remains unclear whether the new flagship handsets will be able to ship with Android 10 – also known as Android Q – following the ongoing trade disputes with the United States.
Although the hugely-anticipated operating system upgrade is confirmed to be coming to many of the Chinese company's existing portfolio of handsets, it's unclear whether this will be possible for devices that were not announced when the ban was put in place. Regardless of what impressive hardware tricks Huawei dreams-up for the Mate 30 series, it's unlikely to tempt anyone if it ships without access to the Google Play Store, Gmail, and other core Google services.
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Auction draft different but more stimulating
Sports | September 7, 2005
The setting was that of any fantasy football draft. (At least I hope it was or my friends and I are pathetic losers.).
There were tables and chairs splayed across a room. Potato chips and beer graced the table tops. A muted television played a college football game. Countless sheets of paper, complete with player rankings and NFL team schedules, were guarded from spies with hostility.
This was our war room.
Sixteen 20-something guys were preparing to pick football players who would influence our emotions for the next four months. With terror and enthusiasm in our eyes, we were like NFL general managers on draft day. (Yeah, we are pathetic losers.)
But if it wasn’t for one glaring difference in how our draft was conducted, we were.
“Peyton Manning, opening bid is $1,” said commissioner Collin Couch. In less than a minute, the NFL’s record holder for touchdowns in a season went for $70 to Big Ed’s Beat Down, a price that amounted to more one-third of his team’s $200 salary cap.
With only $130 to spend on his next 13 players, the owner of Big Ed’s Beat Down was like a wounded soldier. He limped toward the nearest shelter, looking to hide, and his future confused him. He was unsure who to bid for next or how much to bid. Every other owner was equally confused.
Welcome to an auction-style draft, an increasingly popular way of drafting for fantasy football leagues but one that develops much differently than a typical draft. If not for the service of http://www.fantasydraftboards.net, our draft and the tense atmosphere would have been worse.
When the 16 of us heard about the auction draft, most of us were skeptical. We had always used the conventional method, where owners picked their draft position out of hat, and down the line we went.
You know the drill. Every owner had the same player rankings. When a player was selected, owners would cross that player’s name off their list, exposing the next best player. Everyone basically knew the next pick because the cheat sheets told them who to pick. It was boring and predictable.
Ah, but an auction draft is chaotic and frightening. It’s so new that owners can’t prepare properly. There is little information on the Internet or in magazines. And even though there is information on draft strategy, an owner must understand that the numbers likely won’t apply to his/her draft.
Player values fluctuate from the Internet cheat sheets because humans are emotional creatures. They don’t like being beaten and they don’t like being outbid by some punk who won’t shut up.
That’s why one owner in our league paid $35 for Kerry Collins and another owner (me) got Jake Plummer for $12. That’s why one owner paid $65 (third highest for a running back) for Edgerrin James and another owner (me) got both Mike Anderson and Fred Taylor for less than that.
In an auction draft, there is no real value. It’s perceived value.
My initial strategy was either draft two superstars for $120 and fill the rest of my roster with weaklings, or hope everyone else overvalues their picks and stands pat until other solid players became available.
Since 26 players went for $40 or more, which was twice the amount my Internet cheat sheet told me, I went for the second option. I was unwilling to pay $50 for Brian Westbrook when running backs such as Steven Jackson ($48), Anderson and Taylor would be available at a time when owners were short on cash.
The second option also left me more money to bid on second-tier players that would fill my entire lineup. Waiting allowed me a starting lineup – excluding kickers and defenses – of QB Plummer, RB Anderson, RB Taylor, WR Darrell Jackson, WR Donald Driver and TE Tony Gonzalez. My top reserves are running backs (and possible trade bait) Thomas Jones, Larry Johnson and Ricky Williams, with my next two wide receivers being Jimmy Smith and David Givens. I don’t have any superstars but will get production from every position.
Meanwhile, Big Ed’s Beat Down’s starting lineup is QB Manning, RB Westbrook, RB Rueben Droughns, WR Hines Ward, WR Justin McCareins and TE Jason Witten. Two different strategies. Two different teams.
As for which team will have a better season, well, I’ll let you know after four months. As for which style of draft I like better, I’ll let you know in about four months.
– Jeremy Evans is a Tahoe Daily Tribune sportswriter. He can be reached via email at jevans@tahoedailytribune.com. He’d like to hear your experiences with auction and conventional fantasy football drafts.
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A racist fight between two high school students, beat each other to death, but wait there’s more!
Gone are the days when racial superiority was one thing in the first world countries. Everyone now is more educated and knows his boundaries when it comes to indulging in fights. Still, there are parts of the world where discrimination is carried out based on place of birth and parental clan. However, the real lesson of the brotherhood must be taught which must be carried out by anyone living in this world despite his country or religion.
An interesting GIF emerged on social site Reddit which gathered a lot of attention in a span of merely 4 hours. Two high school students are supposed to be fighting the shit of each other but in the end, they leave everyone stunned. This happened in a high school where two students decided to fake a racist fight. A lot of people gathered at the place after looking at the two exchanging hot words. Everyone anticipated a possible fight between the two guys.
The interesting thing to be noted is the crowd. As the gathered mob noticed that the fight isn’t going to end as anticipated, they started to disperse. No one was willing to give attention to two people who weren’t willing to fight. I think the society is quite unpredictable in this nature. On the one side people say that they hate fights and racist crimes but on the other hand, this post made onto the top of Reddit. When the fight didn’t end as expected the people also seemed disappointed.
This video gives us a moment to understand our nature and psyche and also serves as a check to decide our middle point. Fights do happen but it doesn’t mean we make a point out of them, peace also happens but it isn’t necessary that we always yearn for peace. The middle ground is always appreciable.
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As mobile home park closes, owners pursue appeal
Alex Cooper / Observer-Dispatch William and Virginia Jaquish stand inside of a vacant trailer on Friday, September 15, 2017, at their trailer park in German Flatts. The Jaquishes are dealing with an order to close the park at the end of October.
By GREG MASON / gmason@uticaod.com
Posted Sep 22, 2017 at 5:30 AM
GERMAN FLATTS — William and Virginia Jaquish are expecting the state appeals court in Rochester to hear their case in January, a step that could save their mobile home park from permanent closure.
But it looks like the Creekside Mobile Home Park in German Flatts will be empty by then, nonetheless.
A court order last month mandated the park's shutdown by Oct. 31, and the Jaquishes say they have given their tenants notices to clear out.
The most recent court order came after state Supreme Court Justice Normal Siegel found the Jaquishes in contempt of court for not following an earlier order to close from November 2016. Siegel made his determination after lengthy litigation between the Jaquishes and the Town of German Flatts, which has sought the park's closure given the park's proximity to the Fulmer Creek floodplain.
The Jaquishes could face as much as $250 per day in fines, retroactive to June 1, unless they comply with a number of conditions, one of which was the prompt issuance of notices to tenants. They also are on the hook for more than $7,300 in legal fees the town incurred for the contempt of court matter.
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"Everybody's leaving," Virginia Jaquish said. "We've lost our income. We've lost these beautiful tenants. They are incurring a ton of costs to move and find places to go. It's horrible."
The Jaquishes and the town have been at odds for at least the last four years. Their appeal seeks either a reversal of Siegel's original rulings or for the matter to be remanded back to the court for another review "to address unresolved issues," according to court papers.
Owners of the Creekside Mobile Home Park and officials with the Town of German Flatts have been at odds about the park's future ever since the area sustained heavy flood damage in 2013. Following the floods, the town rejected applications from the park owners for floodplain development permits, leading to legal action. Here's a timeline of notable events in the case's history:
* September 2016: Supreme Court Justice Norman Siegel ordered park owners William and Virginia Jaquish to shut down the park by March 2017.
* November 2016: Siegel adjusts that deadline to May 31, 2017.
* February 2017: Siegel rejected a motion by the Jaquishes to re-argue the case.
* Aug. 3, 2017: The Jaquishes are found in contempt of court for not adhering to Siegel's order to close.
* Aug. 29, 2017: Penalties against the Jaquishes are announced. The court orders them to close by Oct. 31 and imposes several financial sanctions.
* January 2018: The appeal is expected to be heard in the state Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department in Rochester. An exact date has not yet been set.
'Economic and emotional hardship'
The O-D obtained a court brief detailing the appeal.
The document, prepared by Ilion attorney Audrey Dunning, argues German Flatts town officials did not follow certain procedures when legal action was taken by the town against the park owners and when town officials denied the Jaquishes a floodplain development permit.
Regarding legal procedures, the appeal argues that the park's tenants should have been joined as parties in the town's litigation given the impact that action would have on their lives, in accordance with state civil practice law.
The appeal states the town's action from 2015 identifies the mobile home park tenants as "John and Jane Does, residents of the Creekside Mobile Home Park."
"Displacement and forced relocation certainly creates economic and emotional hardship, which is exactly what compliance with the Orders of the Court will create for residents of the Park," the appeal states.
On the floodplain development permit, the appeal's argument includes longstanding allegations by the Jaquishes that town officials — including Codes Enforcement Officer Anthony Klimek — denied the owners the permit using preliminary flood mapping that was produced in 2015 by the Herkimer-Oneida Counties Comprehensive Planning Program.
These maps, the Jaquishes argue, are improper for determining such matters, pointing to a 1985 map produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the current effective floodplain map.
Attorney Michael Moore, representing the town, said the town's response to the appeal is due Tuesday. He declined to comment further.
'To keep the people safe'
German Flatts Town Supervisor Frank Spatto said the town probably will wait and see how the latest court issue resolves.
In the meantime, Spatto said the Town of German Flatts does not have any specific plans or projects outlined for the Fulmer Creek floodway "other than keeping people out of harm's way."
He said three property owners along the creek previously chose to participate in a buyout program. Spatto said the issue has always been about the safety of residents, maintaining that the town pursued legal action in defending this case to uphold the town's laws.
Spatto declined to comment directly about the appeal.
"Knowing that, and knowing the capability of Fulmer Creek and the damage that it could do at any given time at any given storm, how can you put your head on your pillow knowing that people could be in harm's way?" he said. "You've got to rest assured you've done everything in your power to keep people safe."
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We’ve seen quite a jump in Nigerian 419 scams during the past week. You know, those are the scams in which someone overseas wants to give you money for one reason or another but there’s a catch. You’ll have to pay for some customs fees, airport fees, bribe some government official, etc. etc. to get your millions. Most of these scams are accompanied by a “poker tell” that we’ve written about in the past. It is our understanding that many Africans speak of blessings and use “Dear” a lot. Most of the African scammers use phrases like “be blessed,” “hello dear,” “dear beloved,” “dearest one,” “remain blessed,” and references to Christ and the Lord. They try hard to appear religious, and therefore seem trustworthy.
Those that aren’t trying to appeal to your belief in God, claim to represent International organizations like the International Monetary Fund. But instead of having an email address from these organizations, like imf.org, they have a Gmail or other public email account. They would be laughable if it weren’t for the fact that people repeatedly fall for their scams. In May, 2018, Lily Newman published a fascinating article about these “Yahoo Boys” on Wired.com called Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever.
According to Newman’s article on Wired, some of the Nigerian scammers are so sophisticated that they will study a business for days or weeks, learning about the employees and how the business operates. Then they will try to impersonate one of the employees to try to trick another employee into moving money or clicking a malicious link to install malware to further improve their chances for financial gain. Perhaps these criminals are the ones behind the first email in this week’s Top Story titled “Painful Social Engineering.” Take a look at one of these un-Godly scams from someone who sounds like “she” is deeply connected to the Lord (we count more than a dozen references to religion.)
Two years ago, from January 1 to May 1, 2017, The Daily Scam had 61,000 page views. During the same time period this year we’ve had more than 140,000 page views, greatly exceeding our expectations. This love of labor started because two guys became fed up and angry with the barrage of scams targeting their friends and family, some of whom fell victim to the leeches who prey on us all. Since our beginnings in August, 2014, without any budget, plan or direction other than exposing online fraud, we’ve served well over 800,000 pages to people around the world about hundreds of scams. Every week we get emails from our readers who have valued our effort and/or ask for help to recognize or deal with a scam. To our readers, we are grateful and happy to have made a difference.
Phish NETS: Chase Bank, PNC Bank, and American Express
One of our readers sent us this hysterical phishing email, pretending to be from Chase Bank. Our reader took great pride to say “Well, we Uuable to respond as we have no Chase account.” This phish is filled with so many grammatical, spelling and other errors that it is a joy to read!
“Your Account We be Locked.”
Another TDS reader sent us this phish meant to look like it represents PNC Bank, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The email was sent from chas[.]com. It also contains many errors, such as the fact that your account will be “Temperary Suspended.” The link “Verify Your Account” pointed to the link shortening service ow.ly. The short link will redirect you to a phishing page on one of the free web hosting services we wrote about last week in our article “Misuse of Free Website Services.”
Though not current, a TDS reader sent us this American Express phish last week. Fortunately for all of us, many of the criminals who create these phishing emails don’t have a superior command of English. “We have temorarily locked your account due to missing of detailed information .” The link for “sign in & update now” points to the tour website of a musician named Jason Aldean. McAfee shows that this website has been blacklisted (as of 4-28-19) so it is probably still being used by cybercriminals. We’ve notified the hosting service.
YOUR MONEY: Pre-Qualified for Indigo Mastercard, Shark Tank Shocker, and Ultimate Windproof Umbrella
Everything about this next email looks and feels completely legitimate… except the FROM address and the destination URL for most of the links. All the graphics and content were stolen from the real business at IndigoCard.com. This email was sent from the domain “vente-exclusive[.]com” which was registered years ago in Belgium and hosted on a server in Brussels. All “Get Pre-Qualified” links point to a very suspicious domain called “page[.]link.” You can see below that this link actually redirects you to a website at hatios[.]com, which has also been blacklisted by McAfee. Does any of that sound the least bit like Indigo Mastercard?
Shark Tank is often weaponized by the cybercriminals who target us. We think it is either because of the popularity of the Shark Tank series, or perhaps the Cybercriminal Gang Leader loves Shark Tank, or both! Regardless of the reason, this email came from the domain saludns[.]pro and contains links that point back to it. It took Sucuri.net just seconds to discover malware waiting on this website for those who click to find out if the Keto Diet Really Works. An interesting detail to point out is the directory structure created by the criminals as they try to infect your computer with this malicious clickbait. They’ve created a directory called “subtractors-smashers.” We’ve talked about this cybercriminal gang for years. They are the group that we believe automate the creation of domains and directories in their cyber-scams using software that combines two random words from the English dictionary.
Time to erase-forthwith!
Sometimes we’re surprised by the things we learn about while investigating Internet fraud. Imagine yourself getting into and out of a car with your umbrella on a very rainy day. Yes, wet interior door, getting wet while folding it up. Did you know that someone designed an upside-down umbrella that actually makes this in-out easier? It’s called “Better Brella” and there is a video on YouTube about it and a website called BuyBetterBrella. And then there is this email that landed in one of our honeypot accounts. It was sent from the domain lotuselan[.]info. This domain was registered just 3 weeks earlier with a proxy service in Panama and is being hosted in Mumbai, India.
Google can’t find any website posted at this domain.
The links in this bogus “Better Brella” email all point to the website “localtownforums[.]com” which has been blacklisted by both McAfee and Spamhaus. This “local town forum” domain was similarly registered through the Panamanian proxy service back in late January and is being hosted with the exact same hosting service in Mumbai, India. In 2018 we published an article titled Criminals in India Target Americans. We think there is a good chance that this malicious email, using stolen graphics from Better Brella, is their handiwork.
TOP STORY: Painful Social Engineering
According to the cybersecurity service Imperva, social engineering attacks are described as “a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.” Their article nicely explained several attack techniques used against people. We have a few specific examples from the last week that we believe are particularly successful at causing you pain. Thankfully, all of them were recognized as fraud by the TDS readers who sent them to us! We’ll begin with the best one…Spear-phishing.
There is a manufacturing business in Massachusetts that does millions of dollars in sales through the Internet. The employees are heavily targeted by scammers and have become extremely savvy at recognizing fraud and malicious intent. (Doug had the great pleasure of giving their employees a workshop to help them improve their skills!) One of their top administrators recently informed us that someone tried to spear-phish their sales staff. Check out this email from Mike, sent to Steve. Both work in the Sales Department at this company. Subject is “verification letter.” Apparently, Mike tells Steve that he is sorry for the delay in getting him this information but Steve can go ahead and pay the receipt (see link) and get this order processed. However, Steve noticed something critically important about Mike’s email. It wasn’t from their business email address. If you look at the 2-letter country code at the end of Mike’s email, can you figure out what country the email came from?
Mike’s email came from a server in El Salvador. (“.sv”) To be honest, we didn’t know that and had to look it up. Of course that made Steve suspicious and he checked with Mike. Though Mike’s full name and correct contact information were listed in the email (with his email signature), he hadn’t sent it. This feels a bit creepy because it means that some cybercriminal has spent time researching this company and its employees before putting this email together. Perhaps this criminal actually reached out to each of these employees separately, and via other email addresses, to inquire about their products for the sole purpose of getting their email signatures, contact information, and a bit of their email language.
Besides the obvious possibility of paying for a fake invoice sitting at the other end of that “whalefinance” link, what else could be bad? A HELL OF A LOT, according to VirusTotal.com!
Kudos to Steve for recognizing this threat! However, more sophisticated criminals are capable of spoofing the FROM address. Would Steve have been suspicious if Mike’s email address were correctly shown?
Another effective method cybercriminals use to engineer our clicking behavior is through the content of an email. They will often write things to evoke an emotional response, hoping that the recipient impulsively clicks a link because she or he is troubled, concerned, or in some way, very curious about the content. Take this email which claims to be sent from the United States Post Office. Subject line says “an email containing confidential personal information was sent to you.” If the recipient would only pause for a moment and think…
The USPS doesn’t send Americans emails about online content.
Why would the USPS know that my content is personal and confidential?
Being skeptical or suspicious about this email can motivate the recipient to take a closer look. It came from a server in France and the link for “More information” points to a server in Norway. (Coincidentally, the “whalefinance” link in our first example points to a website on a Gandi.net server in France as well.) Not that it adds anything at all but that “senior university” website in that Norway link has been blacklisted by McAfee.
Another effective method we’ve seen to engineer someone’s clicking behavior is to lead someone to believe they have paid for something they did not. Fake iTunes invoices for gaming software are fairly common and great for getting an immediate angry response from parents. “WHAT? What did my son buy?!” They come with links to “cancel this order” that point to phishing pages, malware or both. Last week a TDS reader sent us this email thanking her for her Amazon purchase. She was led to believe that she had spent $560 for a red ceramic table lamp. Notice the large BOLD black and red font asking her to “Click Here” to confirm or cancel with “This is not My Order.” Fortunately, our TDS reader is plenty savvy and recognized that the email didn’t come from Amazon. It prompted her to look more closely at the links.
We believe this email is a trick to phish your credit card information because you are likely to be asked to provide it so they can “credit your account.” Look below at all the email addresses your reply would automatically be sent to. Can you recognize the 5 country codes spread across these 15 email addresses? And of course, none of these were for the real amazon.com.
Our final recent example concerns links to known services, such as Docusign, that may contain important information for review. Docusign is a well-known company in the world of digital documents. Getting an email saying “you received a protected document” could easily engender a click. But again, the TDS reader who sent this noticed that it didn’t come from Docusign. It came from someone’s Verizon account, prompting him to take a closer look. Mousing over the link for “VIEW DOCUMENT” revealed a server in the Netherlands.
Deeeleeete!
FOR YOUR SAFETY: Walgreens Shopping Survey
For months we have warned readers about fake surveys offering to pay recipients for their time to participate. Most of these have pretended to be from Amazon.com. Here is another one, this time claiming to represent Walgreens. Though it was sent on April 20, 2019, notice that the email content says “2018 Shopping Survey.” Criminals frequently re-use malicious content over and over but are not always good about updating the details. The FROM and REPLY-TO emails make it easy to spot this as bogus. The link for “Take the Survey” points directly to malware! (See the Sucuri screenshot below.)
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Pit Bull Chained For 3 Years Can't Believe Rescuers Have Arrived
“Our favorite part of rescue — the change from sadness to happiness.”
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Three years — that's how long Milo and Princess, two pit bulls living in Fort Worth, Texas, spent chained up in their owner's yard.
It's likely they forgot life had anything else to offer them other than a little plot of land with a ramshackle dog house. Their expressions were totally devoid of hope.
But when Judy Obregon, founder of local rescue organization The Abandoned Ones (TAO), arrived to help the pit bulls, they seemed to start to perk up.
Milo and Princess strained against the pull of their chains to try to get closer to their rescuer.
"Milo and Princess were originally part of our community outreach program," Emily Walker, a volunteer with TAO, told The Dodo. "We were working with the family to get them neutered and spayed and off of their chains."
Then Hurricane Harvey barreled down on Houston, and TAO knew there would be a lot of work helping relocate needy animals left homeless by the storm. "Our team was about head to Houston, we could not leave not knowing the fates of these two," Walker said.
But then rescuers had a stroke of luck — the owners finally decided to surrender Milo and Princess to TAO instead of keeping them chained in the yard. "After three years they are free," Walker said.
And the two dogs made no secret of just how happy they were to go with Obregon, far away from where they'd been chained for so long.
Tails wagging and tongues licking, Milo and Princess were sure to thank their rescuer, who brought them to the vet to get up-to-date on vaccinations and get spayed and neutered.
A whole new life is just beginning for the dogs, who will need foster homes very soon so they can get acclimated to what it's like to be an actual part of the family.
"The change from the picture you posted before to the video you posted now … totally different personalities,” one commenter observed on Facebook.
“Our favorite part of rescue,” TAO replied. “The change from sadness to happiness.”
If you live in the Fort Worth area and want be a foster parent for these lucky dogs, you can fill out an application here. To help TAO save more animals, you can also make a donation.
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2018-19 Poems
Puppets and Poets
Events: Cartons of Ultrasounds by TS Hawkins
Cartons of Ultrasounds, by TS Hawkins, is a choreopoem experience highlighting how scantily clad images, pejorative song lyrics, and abusive homes heighten the maltreatment of the female form; teaching womyn to be the missing and the forgotten. This work, devised in 2012 during Alphabet Arts "Puppets & Poets" Residency at BAX and supported by InLiquid's 2018 Winged Woman: Three Perspectives exhibit at the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, returns to NYC directed by Lois Moses and featuring Ciani Barclay!
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
TS Hawkins is an international author, performance poet, artivist, and emerging playwright. Plays & short works include: Seeking Silence, Cartons of Ultrasounds, Too Late to Apologize, They’ll Neglect to Tell You, #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, and “don’t wanna dance with ghosts…”.
Hawkins’ one-act choreopoem, AGAIN, was acknowledged for having the "Best Theater Moment of 2017" along with #SuiteReality receiving the 2017 "Reality Check" Surya Bonaly Award. Books include: Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately, Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, and The Hotel Haikus. Hawkins is most known for the Poetry Master Class, "Thriving Ain't Easy"; a course that infuses health, wellness, and activism through poetry.
Lois Moses is a Philadelphia native holding a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, a law degree from Temple University and is a graduate of LaSalle University’s Master’s program in Clinical Psychology. Her publications include: Not Just Another…Black/Woman, Missing Pages… (Women Behind the Glass Door), A Timely Trinity, Freedom Not Them Give, and a self-titled spoken word CD. Using her theater, music, and dance background, Moses creatively combines art forms to produce powerful performance art.
Moses conducts motivational workshops for women and men, geared toward addressing the necessity of healing and self-evaluation. Her award winning short film titled, And They Jumped Into the Water…Some has been touring at colleges and conferences with her Woman to Woman Conversation: Beyond Sound and Fury…Sacrifice as the True Poetic Voice; a poetry and multimedia presentation exploring the evolution of the sacrifice, courage and voice of African American women in America. The world premiere of her acclaimed play, Say That He Had More Than a Dream…; a piece chronicling the last years of Martin Luther King’s life after his controversial “Beyond Vietnam” Speech at Riverside Church in 1967, debuted at First World Theatre in 2016, and in 2017 toured at the Match Theatre directed by Zuhairah McGill.
ABOUT THE ACTOR
Ciani Barclay is a Delaware native residing in Philadelphia. Barclay is overjoyed to be back on stage performing her second choreopoem after working with TS Hawkins on AGAIN, which debuted during the 2017 Bridge PHL Theatre Festival under the direction of Katrina Shobe. Her training includes: Walnut Street Theater and Community College of Philadelphia; where she’s obtained her associates degree. Up next, she looks forward to graduating from Temple University her BFA.
Labels: 2018-19 Poems Events Puppets and Poets
News: March - May 2019 Newsletter
Events: #SuiteReality by TS Hawkins debuts in Chic...
Events: TS Hawkins on WURD Radio
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For Distilled spirits: Any material which is to be subjected to a process of fermentation to produce distilling material.
For Wine: materials which are in the process of being fermented.
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The period which begins October 1 and ends on the following September 30.
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By Gazette Sports
IT'S party time at Kendal Rugby Club tomorrow (Saturday) as the newly-crowned North Division One champions parade their skills before the home fans for the last time this season.
The title was won with a narrow victory at Altrincham Kersal last weekend, but tomorrow the trophy will be presented at the end Kendal's final league match of the season against Sheffield Tigers.
The match will see Kendal pressing on with the aim of completing the league campaign with a 100 per cent winning record, a feat that has been achieved only twice before.
In the 2000/200 season Darlington Mowden Park were unbeaten, but played only 20 games because of foot-and-mouth disease restrictions, while Tynedale won all 22 of their encounters in 1999/2000.
On Saturday Kendal are bound to be roared on by a large celebratory crowd as they strive to tame the Tigers in a Tenon Group-sponsored match at Mint Bridge.
Mid-table Sheffield will be no pushovers, however, and Kendal will probably have to play better than they did when they sneaked a late win at Altrincham.
The home side also go into the match with a new half-back pairing. Star fly-half and kicker Dan Stephens is recovering from tonsillitis and is on the bench, so Kiwi Hoani Moore, who has played most of the season at full-back, takes the No.10 shirt.
Prop Billy Coxon who played a major role in turning the game around when he came on as a replacement last week, starts against Sheffield while the other front-row stalwart Richard Harryman is a replacement.
Although determined to go up to National League Three as unbeaten champions of the North, holders Kendal also have half an eye on the Story Cumbria Cup final the following weekend.
Aspatria will be the opposition for the final, at Penrith Rugby Club, on Saturday, April 26.
The kick-off is at 3pm and a supporters' coach, at £5 a person, will leave Kendal Rugby Club at 1pm and is scheduled to arrive back in Kendal at 7pm.
To book a seat contact Ron Hayes on 01539 721944.
The Kendal squad for the Sheffield Tigers match (kick-off 3pm) is: Forwards: B. Coxon, D. Green, D. Bowles; L. Hayton, G. Gore; N. McKain, M. Wilson, G. Holmes.
Backs: J. Gough, H. Moore; I. Voortman (captain), B. Ashley; L. Ladell, C. Park, J. Ladell.
Bench: R. Harryman, R. Quarry, D. Stephens.
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Andy Serkis Confirmed to Direct ‘Venom 2’
2018’s “Venom” grossed $856 million worldwide
Beatrice Verhoeven | August 5, 2019 @ 2:26 PM Last Updated: August 5, 2019 @ 2:45 PM
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Andy Serkis will officially direct “Venom 2” for Sony, TheWrap has learned.
According to Games Radar, Serkis said he’s had meetings with Sony executives to direct the sequel after a Hollywood Reporter report last month that he was in contention for the job.
“Venom” grossed $856 million worldwide during its 2018 theatrical release and starred Tom Hardy as the symbiote — the actor will reprise his role in the sequel, while Michelle Williams is expected to return as well alongside Woody Harrelson as Carnage. Kelly Marcel, one of the screenwriters of the first film, is writing the script for the sequel. Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and Amy Pascal will return as producers.
Also Read: Kelly Marcel to Write 'Venom' Sequel for Sony
Ruben Fleischer directed the first film. It received a score of 29 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Serkis most recently starred in “Long Shot” and “Black Panther,” and directed “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” and “Breathe.” He also served as an executive producer on 2017’s “The Ritual.” Of course, he also placed Caesar in “War for the Planet of the Apes.” His upcoming projects include “SAS: Red Notice” and “A Christmas Carol.”
Also Read: 'Venom' Writer Kelly Marcel to Make Directorial Debut on YA Novel 'Ferryman' at Legendary
Sony had no comment.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
Serkis is represented by CAA and Principal Entertainment.
Spider-Man Movie Villains Ranked, From Venom to The Vulture (Photos)
"Spider-Man: Homecoming" features some of the best Marvel movie villains in both the Spider-Man and MCU movies to date. Here is TheWrap's rankings from the worst to the best.
12. Rhino
Paul Giamatti's overdone silly accent + mech suit take on this classic bad guy is the worst Spider villain in what may be the worst "Spider-Man" film. Thanks, but Rhino thanks.
11. Venom
Long before making his third "Spider-Man" film, Sam Raimi was on the record as not liking this character at all. Sony forced him to include Venom (played by Topher Grace) anyway, which might be why it turned out so bad.
10. Electro
Jamie Foxx's forgettable portrayal of Max Dillon/Electro in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" was equal parts terrible cgi, terrible performance, and all cheese.
9. The Lizard
"The Amazing Spider-Man"'s Curt Connors/The Lizard was equal parts bad cgi, bad character design, and a bad take on one of Spidey's most iconic enemies. What a waste of Rhys Ifans.
Thomas Haden Church was still hot off his "Sideways" career rejuvenation when he played Flint Marko/Sandman in "Spider-Man 3." He's pretty good... too bad the movie isn't.
7. The Tinkerer
Michael Chernus played the first-ever movie version of The Tinkerer, seen in "Spider-Man: Homecoming" as one of the Vulture's inner circle. He's the guy who reverse-engineered alien tech and created the Vulture crew's gadgets.
6. Harry Osbourne/GreenGoblin
Perhaps one of the only saving graces from "The Amazing Spider-Man" duology is Dane Dehaan's Harry Osbourne, who had a much better arc than his predecessor.
5. The Shocker
"Fargo" star Bokeem Woodbine's grounded portrayal of this "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is an MCU standout.
4. Harry Osbourne (James Franco)
James Franco's version of Harry Osborn appears in all three Sam Raimi-directed "Spider-Man" movies. He went from being Spidey's best bud to one of the bad guys.
3. Green Goblin
Willem Dafoe gives an great performance as Norman Osbourne/The Green Goblin in the first "Spider-Man," though the character gets an uneven and incomplete arc, keeping it out of the top 2.
2. The Vulture
Michael Keaton's performance as Adrian Toomes/The Vulture is not only a fun meta-joke about his Oscar-nominated role in "Birdman," it also finally solved the Marvel Cinematic Universe's so-called villain problem.
1. Doctor Octopus
Alfred Molina portrayal of Otto Octavius in "Spider-Man 2" remains the gold standard by which all Marvel movie villains are judged by.
If you like this gallery, check out Everything You Need to Know Before Seeing ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ (Photos)
Some of the best Marvel movie villains have appeared in “Spider-Man” movies
All 35 Stan Lee Marvel Movie Cameos Ranked, Including ‘Venom’ (Photos)
By Jeremy Fuster and Phil Owen | December 28, 2019 @ 10:35 AM
Sony Sees Reversal in Box Office Fortunes Thanks to ‘Jumanji’ and ‘Venom’
By Jeremy Fuster | December 27, 2018 @ 1:45 PM
‘Venom’ Passes $800 Million – and ‘Wonder Woman’ – at Global Box Office
By Jeremy Fuster | November 25, 2018 @ 10:55 AM
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This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago
The Writer was built in the 1770s using 6,000 moving parts by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot
Designed in the late 1770s this incredible little robot called simply The Writer, was designed and built by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz with help from his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Jaquet-Droz was one of the greatest automata designers to ever live and The Writer is considered his pièce de résistance. On the outside the device is deceptively simple. A small, barefoot boy perched at a wooden desk holding a quill, easily mistaken for a toy doll. But crammed inside is an engineering marvel: 6,000 custom made components work in concert to create a fully self-contained programmable writing machine that some consider to be the oldest example of a computer.
In my youth the “automata” of choice was either a Tomy Omnibot or a demonic Teddy Ruxpin, cheaply manufactured plastic robots, both which played cassette tapes and were destined to break within a few weeks (if you lost or broke the remote control to the Omnibot it was effectively useless). Not to suggest the machines above were mass-produced as children’s toys, but it’s amazing to think such incredibly crafted machines like the Writer and the Swan were built in the eighteenth century around the time of the American Revolutionary War, the age of James Cook, and the invention of the steam engine. (via Colossal Submissions)
In this clip from BBC Four’s documentary Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams hosted by Professor Simon Schaffer, we go behind the scenes to learn just how this remarkably complex 240-year-old device was designed and constructed. Here’s another bit about Merlin’s gorgeous silver swan automata:
Update: Some also argue that the 2,100-year-old Antikythera mechanism used to calculate astronomical positions is a contender for the first analog computer. (thnx, Elliot)
Related posts on Colossal about automata bestof
An Amazing Collection of Mechanical Singing Bird Automata Filmed by Douglas Fisher
Manually Cranked Wood Toy Performs Sleight-of-hand Magic
Engineer Builds a Functional Miniature V8 Engine Using Only Paper
Elaborate Hand-Cranked Automata by Dave Hall
A Perpetual Sisyphus Kinetic Sculpture Built with Lego
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Home » Patients Portal » Clinical Thyroidology for the Public » May 2018 » Vol 11 Issue 5 p.8-9
A publication of the American Thyroid Association
Summaries for the Public from recent articles in Clinical Thyroidology
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Calcifications on thyroid ultrasound do not necessarily represent thyroid cancer
Thyroid nodules are a very common that can be detected in up to 2/3rds of people, often on a physical examination or a test done for other reasons. While most thyroid nodules are not cancer (benign), ~5% are cancerous. Thus, clinicians are often faced with the task of deciding which nodules require further investigation for thyroid cancer with a biopsy, and which nodules can be followed by just observation. In this respect, thyroid ultrasound is the best imaging test to evaluate thyroid nodules, because it can detect features that are felt to predict cancer.
One of the most important ultrasound features of cancer is the presence of calcifications, especially microcalcifications, in a thyroid nodule. Microcalcifications within a nodule are small flecks of calcification 1 mm or less in size that appear bright on an ultrasound image. In contrast, macrocalcifications are more coarse areas of calcification that are greater than 1 mm in size. The presence of microcalcifications (and not macrocalcifications) on an ultrasound is felt to be highly suggestive of thyroid cancer because they are assumed to correlate with the round, calcified Psammoma bodies of papillary thyroid cancer that a pathologist sees when examining thyroid tissue under a microscope after surgery. Thus, it is commonly accepted that, when present on an ultrasound, microcalcifications represent areas of papillary thyroid cancer. Since calcifications can also be seen in benign thyroid nodules, the aim of the current study was to examine whether ultrasound calcifications truly predict a) calcifications in thyroid tissue itself and b) the diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer.
THE FULL ARTICLE TITLE:
Bilici S et al Histopathological investigation of intranodular echogenic foci detected by thyroid ultrasonography. Am J Otolaryngol 2017;38:608-13. Epub July 5, 2017.
SUMMARY OF THE STUDY
This study included 81 thyroid nodules from 81 patients who underwent thyroidectomy at a single center in Turkey between January 2013 and March 2014. Patients were included if the same ultrasound features were observed by two different radiologists. The presence of calcifications in both the ultrasound image and the surgical tissue was noted and the relationship between cancer and calcification patterns was determined.
Of the 81 patients, 63% were female and the average age was 50 years. Ultrasound calcifications were detected in 42 (51.9%) of all nodules, although only 22 of those (27%) were true microcalcifications and the other 20 (24.7%) were macrocalcifications. Of the 42 nodules with any type of ultrasound calcification, 28 of them (66.7%) actually had calcifications in the tissues examined after surgery. However, only 11 of the 22 nodules (50%) with ultrasound microcalcifications contained calcifications in the thyroid tissue. In fact, 5 (12.8%) nodules without ultrasound calcifications were found to have calcifications on in the thyroid tissue.
Overall 23 of the 42 (54%) nodules with any type of ultrasound calcification were cancer, but 13 of the 29 nodules (45%) without ultrasound calcifications were also found to be cancer. Consequently, the rate of cancer was not different between nodules with or without ultrasound calcifications. Finally, only 12 of the 22 nodules (54%) with microcalcifications on ultrasound were found to be cancer and there was no difference in the rate of thyroid cancer between nodules with ultrasound microcalcifications and macrocalcifications.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS STUDY?
Overall patterns of microcalcifications and macrocalcifications seen on ultrasound were only loosely correlated with calcification in thyroid tissue. Furthermore, the presence of either of these types of calcifications did not reliably predict cancer. These results highlight the importance of evaluating multiple criteria for thyroid cancer, including those obtained through clinical history, physical examination and diagnostic imaging, and not relying on the presence or absence of a single finding.
— Phillip Segal MD FRCPC
ATA THYROID BROCHURE LINKS
Thyroid Cancer (Papillary and Follicular): https://www.thyroid.org/thyroid-cancer/
Thyroid Nodules: https://www.thyroid.org/thyroid-nodules/
Thyroid nodule: an abnormal growth of thyroid cells that forms a lump within the thyroid. While most thyroid nodules are non-cancerous (Benign), ~5% are cancerous.
Thyroid Ultrasound: a common imaging test used to evaluate the structure of the thyroid gland. Ultrasound uses soundwaves to create a picture of the structure of the thyroid gland and accurately identify and characterize nodules within the thyroid. Ultrasound is also frequently used to guide the needle into a nodule during a thyroid nodule biopsy.
Papillary thyroid cancer: the most common type of thyroid cancer. There are 4 variants of papillary thyroid cancer: classic, follicular, tall-cell and noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP).
Microcalcifications: Small flecks of calcium within a thyroid nodule, usually seen as small bright spots on ultrasonography. These are frequently seen in nodules containing papillary thyroid cancer.
Macrocalcifications: Large flecks of calcium that can be seen either inside a thyroid nodule or in the periphery (so called egg-shell/rim calcifications), usually seen as large bright spots on ultrasonography.
Thyroidectomy: surgery to remove the entire thyroid gland. When the entire thyroid is removed it is termed a total thyroidectomy. When less is removed, such as in removal of a lobe, it is termed a partial thyroidectomy.
Thyroid biopsy: a simple procedure that is done in the doctor’s office to determine if a thyroid nodule is benign (non-cancerous) or cancer. The doctor uses a very thin needle to withdraw cells from the thyroid nodule. Patients usually return home or to work after the biopsy without any ill effects
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About Kanpur
The largest industrial city of Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur It is known as the "Economic and Industrial Capital" of the state. Widely known as Manchester of the East, Kanpur is one of the oldest industrial townships in North India. The city is also known as the "Leather City" as it has some of the largest and finest tanneries in India and in South Asia. The 75th largest city in the world, Kanpur has many prominent universities and colleges, which includes the world renowned institute – IIT Kanpur and the city’s oldest technical institute Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI).
Kanpur has a wide variety of accommodation options near the bus stand. Some of them are Him Leela Regency, Aditya Home Stay and Hotel Dalhousie Heights that offers accommodation from Rs.700 onwards.
The four day long Antaragni, an annual cultural festival at IIT Kanpur, held in the month of October is one of the most popular college festivals in the country.
Hindi is the Local Language here.
The Gora Kabristan (a graveyard) and the Radha-Krishna Mandir, or J K Temple within the centre of the city are well-known places to visit.
There are three airports within the city limit namely-Kanpur Airport, Kanpur Civil Airport and IIT Kanpur Airport.
Kanpur Central is a major railways station
The Inter State Bus Station (ISBT), named as the "Shaheed Major Salman Khan Bus Station is locally known as the ‘Jhakarkati Bus Station’. The other bus stands in the city are the Chunniganj Depot, Azad Nagar AC Bus Depot, Fazalganj Bus Depot and Unnao Depot have regular bus service that connects the city to neighbouring regions. Private bus operators like Seabird Tourists, Kalpana Travels, RST Volvo, Jsr Travels, JBG Travels, UPSRTC and Chamunda Travels run regular buses to and from the village. Log on to bus ticket online booking sites like Ticketgoose and book your tickets without any hassle.
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Tickets available locally at Diamond W Western Wear (E 2nd St), Blaze N J's (W9th St), Fusion Pit (Anderson Outlets) & Tackle Box (at the bar)
Hand picked by Warren Moscow to sacrifice a chimichanga (goat sacrifice had already happened) in exchange of running the Metalachi Fan Page. Since I was hungry, I said SI SENOR!
On a hot summer night in Veracruz Mexico circa 1982, Consuela Espinoza stumbled out of her dilapidated shanty and into Rock N Roll history. What began as an innocent night of snorting horse tranquilizers in a hotel room with seven members of the village jai alai team went on to produce the greatest metal band to ever live.
Unhampered by a steady regime of tequila and ill advised sumo lessons, nine months later five bastard children where born. Unable to care for her hungry offspring and concerned that motherhood would seriously interfere with her Tuesday night Karaoke league, Consuela hastily packed the babies into the saddlebags of a burro and sent her children off to America in search of a better life.
Against all odds, 14 years later, and nearly dead from dehydration, the burro knelt down to drink from the stagnant waters of the Rio Grande just outside of Juarez Mexico --mere yards from the U.S. border. With one fleeting burst of energy the brothers Espinoza cinco climbed from their leather restraints and scampered the vast reach of the river, collapsing onto the sweet amber hue of American soil.
As if by destiny, lodged in the sand beneath their tanned faces was a record sleeve upon which were the words "PARANOID” and “BLACK SABBATH". For many years to follow, this definitive black metal album served not only as a teacher and a mentor..but also as a friend. From these bleak and humble begins grew the seed that would eventually be the band we know today. Often referred to as the greatest heavy metal band to ever live..always referred to as...METALACHI!!!
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Sun Mar 15 2020 9:00 PM
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This event is 21 and over. Any Ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund. No cameras, audio or video. No crowdsurfing/moshing. Opening acts subject to change. No refunds.
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Find Trails > California > Three Creeks Trail
Three Creeks Trail
Three Creeks Trail Facts
States: California
Counties: Santa Clara
Trail end points: Coe Ave. and Falcon Court cul-de-sac (south of Minnesota Ave.)
Trail surfaces: Asphalt
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Three Creeks Trail Description
The Three Creeks Trail will one day span 3 miles through San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. In 2018, the western leg of the trail opened, stretching nearly a mile from Coe Avenue to just south of Minnesota Avenue following a former Union Pacific Railroad corridor.
The experience of the rail-trail is one of a pleasantly landscaped linear park through a residential area. Travelers will find many visual delights along the way, such as the trailside iris garden between Broadway Avenue and Willow Street, a tall water tower inspired by similar structures once found in San Jose, and a sculpture that artistically represents the locomotives that once traveled the corridor. Visitors will also find frequent references to the number 3, which reinforces the Three Creeks Trail’s name. The three waterways that the pathway will reach are Los Gatos Creek, the Guadalupe River, and Coyote Creek.
When complete, the paved pathway will serve as an important connector between the Los Gatos Creek Trail on its northern end and a proposed extension of the Guadalupe River Trail on its southern end. When the eastern half of the Three Creeks Trail is constructed, it will also connect to the Highway 87 Bikeway and a future extension of the Coyote Creek Trail.
On-street parking is available along Coe Avenue at the northern end of the trail.
RTC blog story on the trail
Los Gatos Creek Trail
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It is difficult to travel through suburban Santa Clara County for more than a few minutes without noticing an abundance of cyclists and runners in the...
Guadalupe River Trail
The Guadalupe River Trail is the spine of San Jose's growing trail network, running north-south through much of the city. Portions of the trail run...
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The Highway 87 Bikeway follows State Route 87 between Willow Street in the north and Santa Teresa Boulevard at W. Valley Freeway (SR 85) in the south....
Coyote Creek Trail (San Jose)
For most of its length, the scenic Coyote Creek Trail meanders along its namesake creek south of the city of San Jose. South of Metcalf Road, an...
Umbarger Road Parkway
The Umbarger Road Parkway parallels its namesake road for just over 0.5 mile between Plumas Drive and Tuers Road in a narrow strip of greenspace...
San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail
The San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail offers a paved route running approximately 5 miles through Santa Clara along its namesake waterway. In the north, the...
Barberry Walkway
The Barberry Walkway runs parallel to Barberry Lane between Corda Drive near Meadowfair Park and Dina Lane. There are plans to extend the walkway...
Penitencia Creek Trail
The Penitencia Creek Trail follows its namesake creek through a suburban greenbelt in northeast San José. On the northeastern end, the trail passes by...
Lower Silver Creek Trail
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The Lower Silver Creek Trail runs in a nearly straight line between Ocala Avenue and Dobern Avenue (Abed Court). Between Foxdale Drive and Logsden Way...
Saratoga Creek Trail
Saratoga Creek Trail follows the winding course of the creek between just south of I-280 (Junipero Serra Freeway) and Saratoga Creek Park. The trail...
Los Alamitos Creek Trail
The Los Alamitos Creek Trail runs along its namesake creek between McKean Road and Almaden Lake Park, where the trail is also known as the Lake...
Upper Silver Creek Trail
The Upper Silver Creek Trail courses through Silver Creek Linear Park, offering a nice play area and picnicking at the southern end and tennis courts...
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Trelleborg and Dana jointly develop advanced Central Tyre Inflation Pressure System for the agricultural machinery industry | Trelleborg Wheels
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Trelleborg and Dana jointly develop advanced Central Tyre Inflation Pressure System for the agricultural machinery industry
Trelleborg Wheel Systems and Dana Incorporated have jointly developed a revolutionary Central Tyre Inflation (CTIS) system for the agricultural machinery industry. The concept of the new CTIS system will be displayed at Agritechnica 2019 (November 10th – November 16th). Named CTIS+ Inside, the full OEM integrated central pressure control system will enable tractor drivers to inflate or deflate tyre pressures directly from the tractor cabin, according to the recommended pressure calculated by the advanced Trelleborg Load Calculator (TLC) software.
Paolo Pompei, President of Trelleborg Wheel Systems, says: “In the near future, we believe that the integration of advanced CTIS systems within the new generation of tractors will significantly boost farming efficiency, making the industry more productive and sustainable. Our recent research demonstrates that the adoption of the correct inflation pressure can cut farming variable costs by as much as 20%, while reducing the environmental footprint of farming operations.”
The new system builds on the traditional functionalities of CTIS systems currently in the market, by integrating new and advanced components with state-of-the-art pressure software intelligence, provided by Trelleborg’s TLC software. Pompei adds: “According to our latest customer surveys, the adoption rate of CTIS systems will accelerate over the next three to five years. By 2025, CTIS solutions will equip one out of three tractors with over 120 horse power in Europe and North America. At the same time, we believe that this trend may accelerate if the industry is capable of offering an affordable, efficient, safe and easy to use CTIS system. This is why Trelleborg initiated this journey several years ago by pioneering smart tyre technologies such as Variable Inflation Pressure (VIP) and TLC (Trelleborg Load Calculator). At the same time, we decided to partner with a leading industry player like Dana, to complement our technology and extend our solution to leading tractor manufacturers and professional farmers.”
“Trelleborg and Dana have built strong relationships with leading tractor manufacturers through highly engineered innovations that improve performance,” said Aziz Aghili, president of Dana Off-Highway Drive and Motion Technologies. “The joint development of Trelleborg’s CTIS+ Inside technology will enhance the efficiency and productivity of professional farming while further strengthening our reputations and the awareness of our brands within the agricultural sector.”
Trelleborg and Dana are currently working closely with leading tractor manufacturers to make the new solution available during the configuration of new tractors. “Our ambition is to make the new solution accessible to farmers for the new generations of tractors and agricultural machines by the end of 2020. In time, the solution will be also available for aftermarket, as a retrofit system,” concludes Pompei.
The CTIS+ Inside will be officially launched at a joint press conference with Dana November 11th, at 10.00 am on Trelleborg’s stand at Agritechnica (Hall 20, booth A04). The press event is open to customers and visitors and will be live streamed on the company’s website and social channels for those that don’t attend the exhibition.
In addition, during the exhibition, the CTIS+ will be displayed on a real mock-up installation at Trelleborg’s stand enabling customers and visitors to experience the benefits of the system first-hand.
Download the PDF document of the press release:
"Trelleborg and Dana jointly develop advanced Central Tyre Inflation Pressure System for the agricultural machinery industry"
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I am a Physician Assistant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital-The Woodlands. I have been a NCCPA certified physician assistant since May 2007 and have been licensed by the Texas Medical Board since August 2007. I attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas where I earned a Bachelor of Biological Sciences, graduating Cum Laude in 2004. I earned my Master‘s of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, where I was on the Dean’s List and earned Dean’s achievement recognition. I have been practicing as a physician assistant in orthopeadics since 2007.
I am one of several Advanced Practice Providers in the department of orthopeadics who help support the volume of a demanding service, including seeing patients in an outpatient setting. My major area of expertise is in fracture management and sports related injuries.
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Having a pet in the house teaches us what animals are, in a means that watching a cute puppy or kitten video on YouTube doesn’t, especially for youths. That is advantageous for public well being and safety causes and reduces the big cost to taxpayers and personal agencies of capturing, impounding, and destroying hundreds of thousands of undesirable animals every year.
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Ryerson University | Health & Biosciences
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Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation
1 Dundas Street West, 11th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z3
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Ryerson University Analytical Centre – The RUAC was built in partnership with PerkinElmer. It houses the latest PerkinElmer instrumentation: HPLC with uv, refractive index, conductance, and fluorescence detection; GC-MS with autosampler; GC with headspace and purge-and-trap autosamplers; molecular luminescence, uv-vis, and FTIR spectroscopies.
Institute for Stress and Wellbeing Research – Has equipment that is capable of measuring and analyzing electrical and hemodynamic brain activity (EEG and fNIR, respectively), hormonal assays, psychophysiology (e.g., electromyogram, respiratory rate and effort, electrocardiogram, pulse, electrodermal activity and blood pressure) as well as face/emotion capture and eye tracking. In addition, the facility is equipped with sophisticated audio and visual recording equipment as well as two head mounted virtual reality systems integrated with a software suite for stress, addiction and phobia related scenarios.
Development of treatment planning platform for ultrasound stimulated microbubble therapy
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Older adults are the fastest-growing age group in Canada. The purpose of this multidisciplinary study is: first, to develop a comprehensive classification of risk factors for elder abuse in immigrant communities, and second, to identify the most appropriate and culturally relevant strategies to address the risk factors in immigrant communities in Canada.
Dr. Robert Botelho, Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Software and Semantic Computing), Department Biomedical Science and Technologies: A leading researcher on organelles, the ‘organ’ of the cell. The Botelho Lab for Organelle Identity and Function explores how cells establish, maintain and change organelles, and how this process can affect the human body’s ability to combat disease. His research aims to better understand organelle identity processes and consequently create knowledge for improved therapies.
Dr. Souraya Sidani, Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Design and Evaluation of Health Interventions), Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing: Dr. Sidani develops healthcare strategies to ensure that patients’ perception of what is acceptable in healthcare is incorporated into their overall treatment plan. She is one of Canada’s leaders in health and well-being research, specializing in the development of best practices for healthcare providers who are able to adapt her strategies and methods to provide treatment options that are consistent with patients’ preferences.
Dr. Julia Spaniol, Canada Research Chair (Tier II in Cognitive Aging), Department of Psychology: Research explores the impact of aging on both contextual decisions, such as the timing of an event, and on decision-making generally. Spaniol investigates how motivation and reward can affect cognition throughout a lifespan and how maximizing the cognitive strengths of older adults could help to counterbalance cognitive deficits.
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Acadia National Park Wildlife
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.
The small, photogenic birds have a black back and head, white belly, orange legs and feet, a white face and a stout but powerful beak outlined in orange. Their white face and small black eyes give them the look of a clown with wings.
The best months to see puffins from tour boats are June and July, but excursions to the islands happen from May through August. Early in the day the birds can be seen flying between the nest and the water bringing food to their young, while late-day activity is more relaxed with loafing on the rocks or rafting together on the surface of the water.
Tour boats depart from Jonesport, Cutler, Bar Harbor, Millbridge, Stonington, Rockland, Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor and Port Clyde depending on which puffin colony you wish to visit. Some have naturalists on board to share details about the birds and their island homes. Machias Seal Island is the only island that visitors can land on and view puffins from close range behind blinds.
The Project Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland is a great place for people of all ages to learn about the puffin and experience hands-on exhibits.
Puffins are seen off the coast of Maine. You must take a boat to one of these islands. Puffins aren't seen on or from Mount Desert Island.
Intertidal and Subtital Zones
With over forty miles of rocky shoreline, Acadia National Park possesses a tremendously rich intertidal flora and fauna. Twice daily, the nutrient-rich marine waters cover these plants and animals. However, during the lower stages of the 10- to 12-foot tidal range, the ocean leaves behind pools of water inhabited by sea stars, dog whelks, blue mussels, sea cucumbers, rockweed, and other creatures and plants.
The coastal ocean waters surrounding Acadia are home to countless other animals, from clams and sea urchins to the commercially-prized lobster. Gulls and other seabirds wheel overhead, and marine mammals such as seals, whales, and porpoises often frequent the area. In the Gulf of Maine, species ranging from tiny phytoplankton to large fish make up the diverse yet precarious food web.
Behavior - feeding, strikes, nesting Field Marks - wings, head, size, feet, plumage Peregrine Watch - what to look for at the nesting cliff Overview
For centuries, peregrine falcons hunted the skies of the world, displaying their impressive in-flight hunting tactics. Imagine this crow-sized raptor flying high above its quarry, then diving ("stooping") to attack prey at a speed of more than 100 miles per hour! Imagine the prey being struck to the ground or even killed in flight by the tremendous impact from the peregrine's outstretched talons! Imagine witnessing a peregrine tail-chasing a dove between Dorr and Cadillac Mountains!
By the mid-1960s, researchers determined that peregrines were no longer a breeding species in the eastern United States. Nest robbing, trapping, and shooting first contributed to their downfall, followed in the 1950s by ingestion of chemical pesticides and industrial pollutants. Occupying a position high on the food chain, peregrines are still exposed to high levels of chemical residues if they migrate to or eat migrant song birds from countries using pesticides now banned in the United States. As in other birds of prey, ingested chemical toxins accumulate in their bodies, causing reproductive failure and leading to the decline and eventual endangerment of the species.
When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, mandating all federal agencies to protect endangered species and their habitats, Acadia National Park responded enthusiastically by participating in a cooperative management plan to restore a self-sustaining population of peregrines to the eastern United States. The Eastern Peregrine Falcon Reintroduction Program's goal has been to restore the peregrine population to 50 percent of the 350 pairs estimated to have been present in the Eastern United States during the 1940s. This program has been so successful that the peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list.
The method used to increase falcon populations is the reintroduction of captive-reared chicks into the wild, a process termed "hacking." Acadia first participated in the hacking program in 1984.
Selected adult birds are bred in captivity. The eggs are incubated and hatched in a laboratory. Chicks three to four weeks old are transferred to a location, called a hack site, where scientists hope to establish a new falcon territory. Once there, to prepare the chicks for release, they are kept several weeks in a protective wooden box with a view of the area.
Hack sites are staffed by trained specialists who carefully monitor, tend, and feed the chicks for approximately three weeks. Attendants observe only from a distance at this time. Food drops are made via a long, sloping tube, preventing the association of food with humans. When their wings are strong enough for flight, fledglings are released. The young falcons continue to eat at the hack site until they learn to hunt on their own.
Peregrines at Acadia
Peregrines nested on Mount Desert Island at least as long ago as 1936. The last known nesting pair was reported in 1956. From 1984 until 1986, 22 peregrine chicks were successfully hatched in Acadia National Park from a high cliff face overlooking Jordan Pond. Adult peregrines often return to areas near their original hack sites, which was the case at Acadia. When an adult peregrine returned to the site in 1987, the park discontinued the hacking program for fear that this adult would prey upon any released chicks.
From 1987 to 1990 adult peregrines returned to Acadia, but did not produce young. The first successful nesting at Acadia in 35 years occurred in 1991. Since that time, at least one and sometimes three other pairs have produced young in the park, bringing the total to more than 70 chicks.
Many of the young have been banded to learn about peregrine migration, habitat use, and longevity. One female banded in 1994 has nested in New Hampshire, and another in Boston.
Each year, in early spring, park resource managers watch intently for signs of returning peregrines. If mating or nesting behavior is observed, certain trails are temporarily closed to avoid disturbance to the nesting area. These measures are helping this magnificent falcon make a triumphant comeback in Acadia National Park, and contributing to the success story of the Endangered Species Act.
Feeding: Hunts most vigorously at dawn and dusk in open areas like shores, marshes, and valleys. Hunting is often accompanied by a series of sharp, aggressive, territorial calls, "kee, kee, kee, kee, kee - kee, kee, kee, kee, kee." Plucks feathers from the prey as it feeds.
Strikes:
Usually in mid-air, knocking the quarry to the ground. Less commonly, it will strike and grab prey and fly away.
Nesting: Mostly on precipitous cliffs, but will also nest under suspension bridges and atop tall city buildings. Eggs are laid on a sand- or gravel-covered ledge with a depression that has been scratched in preparation for the clutch. This area is called a scrape.
Field Marks
Wings: Long, pointed, sickle shaped. All falcons in a dive appear to have sickle-shaped wings. Wing shapes depend on the degree to which the bird is soaring or diving. Be careful in making identifications.
Small with dark "sideburns"
Crow-sized, female larger than male
Large (hence the nickname "big-footed falcon")
Adult and yellow
Immature and light green
Plumage:
Adult and White breast, dark gray back
Immature and Streaked breast, brown back You can help protect and promote the conservation of peregrine falcons by:
Learning characteristic field marks and behavior to make a positive identification.
Observing trail closures at the Precipice, East Face, and Jordan Cliffs Trails, and the northern section of the Flying Mountain Trail. Keep away from areas where peregrines are nesting and report any person who fails to do the same. Avoid observing the birds from a location higher than the nest site. Adult peregrines generally won't tolerate people above them and may dive at intruders, particularly if they are defending a nest or chicks.
Peregrine Watch:
What to Look for at the Nesting Cliff
March to Mid-April (courtship)
Adult falcons fly close to each other near the nesting cliff, feeding each other, and perform in-flight acrobatics. The falcons are most vocal at this time. Typical breeding vocalizations are: "chup, chup, chip" or "Eeee, chup chup chup chup."
Mid-April though May (nesting)
One falcon incubates eggs while the other hunts or perches nearby. Adults may exchange food in mid-air.
In early June, young falcons may be seen as "tiny white snowballs" at the edge of the nest cliff. Their markings will change as they mature. They may flap their wings to build strength for flight. They take their first flights in late June or early July.
July through August (fledging)
Young falcons practice flight, exploring farther afield. Watch for them flying above the cliff or other parts of the island. They may perch anywhere on the cliff's ledges or on dead trees.
Fall and Winter (migration)
Some of Acadia's peregrines may head south for the winter, while others may overwinter in Maine or other areas of New England, depending on the severity of the winter or the availability of prey. Peregrines from Greenland and Canada migrate through Mount Desert Island from August through October.
Mount Desert offers an environment rich with the presence of somewhat shy and secretive wildlife. Many leave signs of their presence such as nipped-off twigs, scats, tracks, eggshells, shed hairs, or nut hulls.
Perhaps the most effective strategy for observing wildlife is to sit quietly for an hour or so in some secluded spot and wait for local species to declare themselves in the course of their daily lives. It may take repeated visits over many years to a variety of habitats to spot even half the species listed below, but the result is apt to be highly satisfying as a revelation of the hidden residents of the watersheds of Mount Desert Island.
BATS little brown myotis --caves, attics, barns, tunnels, hollow trees northern long-eared bat silver-haired bat--forested areas near lakes or streams big brown bat--buildings, bridges, caves, tunnels, hollow trees hoary bat--wooded areas where it roosts in trees 10 to 15 feet above ground (uncommon) Keen's myotis-- (uncommon) red bat--wooded areas where it roosts in trees 5 to 40 feet above ground (uncommon)
BEARS black bear (uncommon)
CANIDS coyote --edges of second growth forests, open brushy fields, forest openings red fox --prefers a mixture of forest and open areas
FELINES bobcat --mixed deciduous-coniferous and hardwood forests broken by fields and roads; (rare)
HARES snowshoe hare --woodlands with dense brushy understory; coniferous swamps
HOOFED BROWSERS white-tailed deer --forest edges, swamp borders, woods interspersed with fields moose --second-growth boreal forests with semi-open areas and swamps or lakes (uncommon)
RACCOONS raccoon --wooded areas interrupted by fields and water courses
RODENTS Eastern chipmunk--deciduous woodlands with abundant cover woodchuck --edges of woodlands, open cultivated land, pastures, meadows gray squirrel --deciduous and mixed forests red squirrel --coniferous, mixed, and occasionally deciduous forests Northern flying squirrel--mixed mature coniferous and deciduous forests beaver --slowly Flowing brooks, usually bordered by woodland deer mouse--coniferous or mixed forests, field borders, stone walls, out-buildings boreal red-backed vole--cool moist deciduous, mixed, or coniferous forests meadow vole --fields, pastures, orchards, marshes and meadows, swamps, bogs muskrat --marshes, shallow portions of lakes, ponds, swamps, streams, ditches house mouse--buildings, fields, corncribs meadow jumping mouse--moist, open grassy and brushy marshes and meadows white-footed mouse --forests and fields; not habitat specific woodland jumping mouse--brush and herbaceous vegetation in forests, near water porcupine --mixed or coniferous forests, especially northern hardwood-hemlock house mouse (uncommon) Norway rat--wherever food is abundant; waterfronts, farms, towns, dumps (uncommon) Southern flying squirrel (uncommon)
SHREWS AND MOLES masked shrew --woodlands with grasses, rocks, logs, or stumps; bogs water shrew--wet areas along ponds and streams in coniferous forests Northern short-tailed shrew --both timbered and fairly open habitats star-nosed mole --low wet ground near bodies of water short-tailed shrew hairy-tailed mole--open woods and meadows with light, sandy loam (uncommon) smokey mole (uncommon)
WEASELS ermine--wooded or open country with thickets, rock piles, and other heavy cover long-tailed weasel--open woods and woodland edges, grasslands, river bottomlands mink--streambanks, lakeshores, marshes striped skunk --semi-open country, woods and meadows, agricultural lands, suburbs river otter--borders of streams, lakes or other wetlands in forested areas.
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West Kelowna to reconsider previously-denied pot shop application at mayor's behest
Mayor Gord Milson has requested a review of the decision after the council voted to deny a rezoning application for the Dobbin Road dispensary last month
By Emma Spears
City council in West Kelowna, B.C. is set to reconsider an application for a recreational cannabis retail store after it was rejected earlier this summer — thanks in no small part to an intervention by the mayor himself.
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Mayor Gord Milsom has requested a review of the decision this week after the council voted to deny a rezoning application for the Dobbin Road dispensary last month, which was set to open in a local strip mall across the street from a public elementary school, Global News reports.
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The initial decision was voted down via a tie of 3-3, with six councillors voting and one councillor absent. The mayor’s appeal on Tuesday was listed on the council agenda as such:
“In accordance with Section 131 of the Community Charter, the mayor may require council reconsideration of a matter, and vote again on a matter that was the subject of a vote. The mayor may initiate a reconsideration either at the same council meeting as the vote took place, or within 30 days following that meeting.”
There was also a section later on the agenda that stated: “recommended motion: that council direct staff to accept a non-medical cannabis retail store rezoning application for a government-operated cannabis retail outlet located at 2475 Dobbin Road.”
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Query Corner: Dena Bank testing key medium-term resistance
Lokeshwarri S.K. | Updated on October 27, 2012 Published on October 27, 2012
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Please advise on the medium- and long-term out look on Graphite India. Can it be bought at current levels?
Graphite India (Rs 84): The long-term trend in Graphite India continues to be up. The correction from 2010 has retraced only half the gains made since 2009. The stock has key long-term supports at Rs 65 and Rs 55. Strong close below the second support is needed to turn the long-term view negative.
That said, the stock is currently struggling to cross over the medium-term hurdle between Rs 90 and Rs 100. It is currently reversing lower from this level and failure to surpass this resistance will make the stock move in the zone between Rs 55 and Rs 100 for a few more months. Strong close beyond Rs 100 will take the stock to its long-term ceiling at Rs 110.
Investors with short- to medium-term perspective should sell the stock if it moves below Rs 75.
I have purchased shares of Dena Bank at an average price of Rs 90. What is the 3-month outlook for this stock?
J.H. Krishna Murthy
Dena Bank (Rs 106.4): This stock has had a strong rally since the beginning of this year and it is up 130 per cent from its January low at Rs 47.5. Investors, however, need to tread cautiously at this point since the stock has reached its key medium-term resistance at Rs 112. It is possible that the stock reverses lower from this level and declines to the supports at Rs 87 and Rs 72.
Investors with a short investment horizon can, therefore, take some profits at this point and hold the rest of their holding with stop at Rs 85. The stock needs to make a strong move beyond Rs 112 to signal its intention to move towards the 2011 peak at Rs 151.
Medium-term investors should exit the stock on decline below Rs 72.
One can invest in the share market either by direct share investments by one self or through mutual fund route. Both incur transaction costs, service charges, etc. If one's investment horizon is long-term — say more than 5 years, and if one is mainly interested in large-cap shares without much churning of the portfolio, can we say that direct investment will be more cost-effective for the long-term?
Dr Balasubramanian
You are right in stating that direct investment in stocks is more cost-effective since the transaction cost for share purchase is incurred only once, at the outset. Mutual funds on the other hand deduct expenses up to 2.5 per cent of the fund assets under management, every year.
That said, there are tax advantages in investing in MFs. MFs do not have to pay capital gains tax when they churn their portfolio. Secondly, dividend distributed by mutual funds is not taxed in the hands of the investor.
Again investing through mutual funds is better for investors who do not have the time to read up and analyse the stocks held in their portfolio. MFs have fund managers who along with the research team can track the stock fundamentals and take appropriate action, much better than most individuals can.
Please explain your views on short- and medium-term target of Financial Technologies.
Financial Technologies (Rs 995.1): Financial Technologies is in a long-term downtrend. The 2009 rally has helped to mark the zone around Rs 1,700 as the long-term ceiling for the stock. The stock could attempt to move to Rs 1,700 or Rs 2,060 over the longer time frame. Zone between Rs 400 and Rs 500 will serve as a long-term base and investors can accumulate the stock every time it reaches this level.
The short as well as the medium-term trend in the stock is currently up. Short-term targets for the stock are Rs 1,122 and Rs 1,267. Short-term investors can hold the stock with the stop-loss at Rs 950.
Medium-term target on move beyond Rs 1,267 is Rs 1,670. Stop-loss for these investors can be at Rs 730.
I bought TVS Motor at Rs 66. I would like to know the medium-term target for this stock.
Prakash S. Bokil
TVS Motor (Rs 41.1): TVS Motor has key long-term support in the zone between Rs 30 and Rs 38. Though the stock threatened to breach this support zone in June, it is now moving higher from this area. The stock is in a medium-term uptrend since the low of Rs 32. This can now serve as the stop-loss for both medium- and long-term investors.
That said, the stock needs to cover a lot more ground before it moves to an area of relative safety. Key medium-term hurdle for the stock is at Rs 53. Failure to clear this level will result in the stock vacillating between Rs 30 and Rs 50 for a few more months.
Investors with medium-term horizon should, therefore, exit the stock if it struggles to clear this resistance. Medium-term targets on a move above Rs 53 are Rs 60 and Rs 66.
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AKA: 楽園追放 -Expelled From Paradise- (Rakuen Tsuihō - Expelled from Paradise-)
Length: Movie, 104 minutes
Distributor: Currently licensed by Aniplex of America. Available streaming on Netflix.
Content Rating: MA-14 (Violence, fanservice.)
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Also Recommended: Vandread. Probably as another show with some good ideas but also too much otaku-friendliness.
Notes: An original production directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Gen Urobuchi (better known as the "Urobutcher").
On the Earth-orbiting satellite Deva, human beings exist in post-human form, as wholly digital presences enjoying various virtual-reality existences. When a hacker calling himself Frontier Setter starts broadcasting appeals to the inhabitants of Deva to join his exploratory mission into space, security agent Angela Balzac is given a physical body and a mission to go to the desolate surface of Earth to shut down the troublemaker's broadcasts. Joining an "old-fashioned" Earthman (with the unfortunate moniker of "Dingo"), Angela discovers unexpected things about the mortal existence of human beings on Earth, and some unpleasant truths about her familiar world of Deva as well.
OK, let's get the stuff you might hate out of the way first. We DO have shameless pandering to the male otaku in Angela's character design, which of course means that she's got enormous breasts, stuffed, along with the rest of her, into a skintight bodysuit- and the show ups the ante by later having other Deva security personnel descend on Earth of exactly the same gender and physiques. Apparently men, or even women below Double-D cup size, are considered unsuitable for Deva "away" missions.
Many will probably also take an instant dislike to Angela's character because she's voiced by Rie Kugimiya. Now personally I've never really hated Rie as a voice actress. Most people like her Toko in Maria Watches Over Us, and as for myself I really liked her Maya in Burn Up Scramble, the series which was, in my opinion, the best iteration by far of the Burn Up! franchise. (Sadly long out of release, or I'd certainly like to review it.) It's the fact that Rie so often takes tsundere roles that really seems to annoy people, but Angela is a fairly complex character- sometimes petulant, and initially assuming an air of superiority over Earth's old-fashioned mortals, but over time she becomes increasingly ambivalent, and vulnerable, as her real knowledge of both Earth's and Deva's societies starts to expand.
I think Rie carries her part well enough here. I'm more troubled by the show's "kitchen sink" approach. In addition to the fanservice pandering, they throw in mecha, monsters, elaborate CG (but I liked the CG!), and even a "singing cowboy" (complete with six-shooter) in Dingo, though his songs are of a bit more modern style than those of Gene Autry or Roy Rogers. (Ask Grampa who those people were, if you want an explanation that could take hours.) I'm a little embarrassed by that name "Dingo" (he really should be too), so I think I'll just call him Mr. D for the rest of the review. My feeling is that if the show had jettisoned a lot of the extraneous fluff and focused on the good concepts in its plot, I could have gone at least another star on it.
So what are those good points? For one, the show does want to undertake some serious consideration of the merits of Angela's versus Mr. D's mode of existence. This is mostly in dialogue though, and to the extent that we actually see Angela dealing with the exigencies of being flesh-and-blood, they're mostly negative experiences (fatigue, illness, etc.) I would have liked to have actually seen her experiencing more of the joys of mortality. (Though I confess I would have been amused to have seen Mr. D instructing Angela on some other tasks doubtless unfamiliar to her, such as going to the bathroom.) The show mostly violates the show-me-don't-tell-me rule, which is unfortunate, but its heart seems in the right place anyway.
Another thing that did catch my interest was the show's willingness to at least attempt surprising the audience. Frontier Setter, when we finally meet him, turns out to be rather different than expected. Angela, at a later point, expects certain parties to take a certain action that would be both logical and compassionate, and is rightly horrified at the actual outcome. (In that case the audience may well have seen it coming, though.) I really expected that our main protagonists, and certainly Angela, would make different choices in the end than they actually made (though perhaps I'm just projecting my own feelings onto the characters.) For me, the depth and strength of some of the ideas the show wants to take on, even if not fully realized- and the show's attempts to surprise, even if not always fully successful- often outweigh its frequent silliness and otaku-baiting.
I thought the show had other interestingly imaginative little touches, one of my favorites being the way Angela's superiors are depicted- and the way Angela gets depicted at one point near the end, when she's journeying through Deva's computer. I can't say another word about any of this, though.
I had some fun with this, and fun is always worth at least 3 stars. It could have been better, but it's NOT Rie's fault. REALLY! — Allen Moody
Recommended Audience: Angela's walking fanservice of course. I think that during parts of the sequences where she's journeying through the computer as a kind of digital packet, she's actually nude- not graphically, just outline style. Netflix says MA-14; I'm good with that.
Version(s) Viewed: Digital stream on Netflix.
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Municipalities are also focusing more attention on organics. Metro Vancouver started an organics diversion program earlier this year, more commonly known as the green bins program. Aimed at encouraging Vancouver residents to recycle food scraps and yard waste, the program's goal is to eliminate organic materials from the landfill by 2015. Organics that can go into the green bins include meat, fish, bones, and other foods not normally composted at home. Food scraps collected in green bins are then recycled into valuable compost and soil for use throughout the region.
“To date we have seen a 40% decrease in the amount of garbage going for disposal and a 60% increase in the amount of material recovered for composting,” reported Albert Shamess, the Director of Waste Management & Resource Recovery for the City of Vancouver.
The green bin programs started in Nova Scotia back in the early 1990’s and have gradually progressed across the country. Vancouver’s program was the seventh one to start in BC. Shamess went on to explain the the city is now considering how the program can continue to be expanded into multi-unit residential buildings.
“The City of Surrey collects organics curbside which they then convert to biogas to fuel the garbage collection trucks, creating a closed loop system,” said Brock MacDonald, CEO of the Recycling Council of BC (RCBC). “Nanaimo was very clever as they started with the commercial side of things, and right now they are up to 70% diversion of all organics from the landfill.”
The RCBC's mission is to eliminate waste, mainly by educating the public about recycling options, and through the recycling hotline and recyclopedia, a free mobile app.
“We work with all the stakeholders in the waste recycling system in BC,” said MacDonald. “That includes a wide range of different of organizations and amenities. On the government side, we have the provincial government which set regulations. They require regional districts to submit waste management plans and recycling regulations, which in return require the districts to coordinate with their municipalities to adhere to those plans.”
Brock explained how the RCBC also works with non-governmental stakeholders. “On the private side, the recycling regulations ... hold manufacturers responsible for the end-of-life management for their products. What happens is once they become responsible - for example, for computers, electronics, tires, batteries, beverage containers, and paint - the recycling responsibility shifts from the municipalities to the industry.”
This shift in responsibility started over twenty years ago and met a high level of resistance from manufacturers at the time, but now many manufacturers realize that management of a product's entire life cycle has actually led to better product design, better materials and often long-term cost savings. These changes have also created several opportunities for environmentally-minded product designers and entrepreneurs.
There also continues to be room for improvement even in the most established areas of recycling. Encorp, the stewardship agency responsible for recycling of non-alcoholic beverage containers, has found that about 75% of beverage containers are being returned for a deposit. As for the millions of missing containers, it is predominantly males between 18-30 years old who are the worst recyclers in the province. Thus Encorp, in association with RCBC, has geared their public education toward that demographic.
“The idea is to increase their awareness and try to encourage their behaviour to recycle,” said MacDonald. “There are posters at skytrain stations and movie trailers, one of which is parody on Lord of the Rings.”
The province of BC is in the process of finalizing a zero-waste business case model, whose goal is to measure the amount of economic activity that can be generated by diverting material from landfills. Early estimates show the potential to add over $100 million to our GDP and create over a thousand jobs. The model would also create many regional opportunities in environmental entrepreneurship.
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