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If you elect not to purchase this option. In the event of a claim your no claims bonus will reduce by 2 years. In the event of 2 claims within the policy period your no claims bonus will revert to zero.
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Our registered office is; PO Box 2, Insco House, Rohais, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3AA.
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The Big Island Travel Guide
The Big Island
Although the Big Island of Hawaii could hold all the other islands with room to spare, it has the population of a medium-sized town, with just 185,000 people (perhaps half what it held in Captain Cook’s day). Visitation remains lower than at Oahu and Maui; despite its fair share of restaurants, bars and facilities, this is basically a rural community, where sleepy old towns have remained unchanged for a century. The few resorts are built on the barren lava flows of the Kona coast to catch maximum sunshine.
Thanks to the Kilauea volcano, which has destroyed roads and even towns, and spews out pristine beaches of jet-black sand, the Big Island is still growing, its southern shore inching ever further out to sea. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which includes Mauna Loa as well as Kilauea (though not Mauna Kea, further to the north and higher than either), is absolutely compelling; you can explore steaming craters and cinder cones, venture into the rainforest, and at times approach within feet of the eruption itself.
As befits the birthplace of King Kamehameha, more of the ancient Hawaii survives on the Big Island than anywhere else, with temples and historic sites including the Puuhonua O Honaunau in the southwest, and lush Waipio Valley in the northeast.
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Jordan Peele's 'Us' is scary, smart and blood-curdling
Joe Gross, Austin American-Statesman
Jordan Peele just can’t help himself. After the horror movie roots of his debut “Get Out” ended up being overtaken by its brilliant socio-political themes, Peele swore his next one would be a straight-up horror movie.
Which, no question, the excellent “Us” is -- your blood will curdle, there will be yelling at the screen.
But, like “Get Out,” it’s a lot more. Also like “Get Out,” it demands to be seen more than once.
It is 1986 in Santa Cruz, Calif. A young girl named Adelaide (Madison Curry) is at a beach front amusement park with her parents when she wanders off into an abandoned-looking house of mirrors. And then...something happens.
Whatever that something was, it haunts Adelaide to this day. This is where the movie picks up about 30 years later. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) is driving with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and young children Jason (Evan Alex) and Zora (Shahadi Wright-Joseph) to her childhood beach house. Gabe wants to go to the local amusement park, Adelaide most definitely does not -- she is still traumatized by whatever happened there. They meet old friends (Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker) and have a decent time. (Whomever cut the film’s trailers did a bang-up job both revealing and mixing up information.)
That night, however, the family is menaced by a family of doppelgangers, all dressed in red jumpsuits. Each actor plays the horrifying “shadow” version of themselves. Nyong’o, talking in a genuinely chilling croak, speaks for the four invaders, noting that they have lived “tethered” to their counterparts and, well, it’s payback time. “Us” then shifts into a home invasion movie, yes, but as we move further from the house itself, everything gets weirder and weirder. This is not a safe ride.
Everyone is rock solid as his or her counterpart, but Nyong’o does a dazzling job with both parts -- her Adelaide is scared and tough, her tethered counterpart is here for holy vengeance.
Mixing Cronenberg, Hitchcock and yes, a lot of “Twilight Zone” (a reboot of which Peele is helming), “Us” mixes rather direct allegories (“Us and “U.S.” do look awfully similar) with a mess of images that seems designed to provoke vigorous post-view debate. (I am still trying to figure out all the stuff with the rabbits.)
And yes, it’s absolutely as smart as “Get Out.” Peele has said he knows exactly what, for him, the movie is about, but he tried hard to construct a film that folks could project their own meanings upon. It’s hard to escape the “we have met the enemy and he is us” of it all, but the film offers a few paths to getting there.
Oh, and just to save you the time, because it does come up in “Us,” Jeremiah 11:11 (King James Version) says, ” Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.”
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A sad night when Wales broke Samoan hearts at Apia Park
(Photo: Emily Dunn)
By Emily Dunn, 25/06/2017
A sea of blue, Apia Stadium hosted the Manu Samoa vs Wales rugby match on Friday.
Amid endless blue jerseys, the consensus was to expect a strong Samoan team who would bring their country what they wanted.
Few could predict the final outcome. Even Welsh supporter, Shaun Harding, said: “Wales are playing great but I don’t think they’ll win, but they’ll do their best. It’s fantastic to be here though.”
The first half saw a frenzied display of support from the Samoan crowd, particularly with the team starting strong with a try in the first ten minutes.
Local man, Werner Tuatagaloa, told the Samoa Observer that “it feels great to see my home team here in Apia, I think they’ll definitely win.”
The Samoan community continued to rally and support their team as Talei Esera said, “it feels awesome to be here, they already have a try, they’re going to win!” Through the general admission stand, morale was high at half time as fans were elated with their team in pole position.
Even cautious Manu fans had faith in their team to deliver.
Titilia Tuileva said, “they’re doing alright, definitely better than against the All Blacks. I know they’ll win; for the players, having their home crowd here should really push them on. It’s a win or nothing!”
Frenchman Alex Caron came out in support of Samoa.
“The atmosphere is good and most people are excited. The Welsh are looking strong tonight but I think Manu have got it in them to win.”
On Samoan soil, the game was always going to draw in the home crowd.
The supporters genuinely had faith that their team would thrive with the locals behind them. So this begs the question: what went wrong for Manu Samoa?
Layla Faosiliva believes it was the weather that held them back.
“I’m speechless. I think it’s the weather, but that’s no excuse. They played well and I’m proud of them, but Wales were playing really well tonight as well. It’s a game and sometimes you lose.”
She questioned the effect of a number of empty seats around the stadium, “the atmosphere was not what I was expecting. The weather is so horrible, hopefully their next game will be better.”
With kick off at 7:30pm the match was one of the latest test matches held. Several supporters questioned if this caused a marked decrease in ticket sales. Combined with the poor weather, the players experienced poor conditions.
As the game drew to a close, even Welshman Neil Roberts, was optimistic for the Samoan side, “it’s a tricky game because obviously it’s wet”.
The game has brought a number of tourists to Samoa.
Neil Roberts was among them.
“It’s marvellous to be here and we’ve mostly had great weather. And definitely great people. It’s unbelievable to be here, the hospitality has been superb.”
Nathan Murphy, aged 20, who also made the long trip from Wales, said “it feels brilliant, its such a nice place and the whole community it’s welcoming. It’s a real privilege and an honour to be here.”
In the final moments, Nathan predicted the outcome perfectly stating, “it’s a close match but I think Wales will just get the win.” They did.
Govt. moves to reduce cartons of tinned fish
Wholesales and shops will soon be selling downsized cartons of tinned fish and corned beef as the Government continues to push for ways to curb the cost of living.
By Lanuola Tusani Tupufia - Ah Tong 19/01/2020
Three measles patients left at Moto'otua Hospital
There are just three people in hospital with measles, the Ministry of Health reports, and no new cases of the disease since January 12.
By Sapeer Mayron 18/01/2020
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The Little Hours
Thu. Jul 13, 2017 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Premiere Engagement!
(2017) dir Jeff Baena w/Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Nick Offerman, Paul Reiser [90 min; DCP]
Medieval nuns Alessandra (Brie), Fernanda (Plaza), and Ginevra (Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
Teeming with comedic talent, Jeff Baena’s THE LITTLE HOURS is adapted from some of the bawdier tales in Boccaccio’s The Decameron and shot on location in Italy. The dialogue, however, is completely fresh and modern having been improvised on set. What could be a jarring juxtaposition in the hands of a less experienced group, instead comes off as genuine and authentic thanks to the wildly talented cast. Baena’s own secret weapon is his deep knowledge and clear affection for the source material – while a film major in college, he minored in Medieval Literature.
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UBS Adds New Non-Compete Clause To Bonus Agreements
By George C. Miller, Esq. of Shustak Reynolds & Partners, P.C. posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2018.
Just months after exiting The Broker Protocol, UBS Financial Services has reportedly added a broad non-solicitation clause to bonus agreements certain advisors are required to sign before receiving their 2017 production bonuses. That clause, which is of questionable enforceability in California, purports to prevent departing UBS advisors from soliciting their clients for a period of one year after leaving the firm and claims to give UBS the right to seek injunctive relief and damages in the event of a breach.
UBS will require employees to sign the revised bonus agreements as a condition of receiving their previously earned bonuses. Firms often impose these agreements on a “take it or leave it basis” and are unwilling to make exceptions or otherwise negotiate their terms. The new non-compete language comes as no surprise, as other firms who have recently exited the Protocol, including Morgan Stanley, have imposed similar non-competes on existing employees, many of whom enjoyed the firm assuming the Protocol would apply for the duration of their employment. Both UBS and Morgan Stanley have recently sought to enforce similar non-compete agreements in court and obtained a series of temporary restraining orders against departing financial advisors preventing those advisors from contacting clients.
For any financial advisor considering a transition, whether from a wirehouse, independent firm, RIA or hybrid firm, it is critically important to consult with experienced counsel to assess the risk of litigation. Our California trade secrets, non-compete and broker protocol lawyers have extensive experience counseling financial advisors in transition.
UPDATE: Over the weekend, facing push back from its advisors, UBS agreed to revise its bonus agreements to remove the non-solicitation language--for now. In the same announcement, UBS confirmed the next iteration of the agreements (e.g., those for 2018 bonuses) will include a broad non-solicitation clause.
Shustak Reynolds & Partners, P.C. focuses its practice on securities and financial services law and complex business disputes. We represent many broker-dealers, registered representatives, investment advisors, investors and businesses. For more information, or if you or your company require counsel in these areas, contact us today for a confidential, complimentary consultation.
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This Privacy Policy applies to the website of FinPoint IQ, Inc. DBA Sigma IQ (“Sigma IQ”) located at www.sigmaiq.com (the “Site”), and describes the types of information Sigma IQ gathers from users of the Site, and how we collect, use, protect, and disclose such information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information gathered through the Site, and does not govern the treatment of information that Sigma IQ customers provide to Sigma IQ for processing pursuant to separate services agreements. The treatment of such information is governed by the separate agreements.
If you reside in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, please see Part V (Supplemental Notice to EU Data Subjects), below, which contains information about your rights and how to contact us.
Part I – Types of Information We Collect and How We Collect It
Information you Provide to Sigma IQ
Communications and interactions with Sigma IQ: We collect, analyze, and use the information you provide when you communicate or interact with us (including via email) with our customer support professionals and information you submit for processing pursuant to a service you’ve subscribed to.
Form submissions: We collect information that you submit when you submit a form to request a demonstration of our services or to contact Sigma IQ for any other purpose (such as through a “Contact Us” form.
Account registration and access: If you register for an account to access our services, we ask you to provide information such as your name, telephone number, email address, company name, and company address to complete the account signup process. Account holders are also required to choose a unique password for accessing their account and access-controlled services. After establishing an account, you will be required to submit your email address and password in order to access your account and use access-controlled services.
Information Sigma IQ Collects Automatically
Information from web browsers, devices, and servers: In addition to information that you provide to us, we also automatically collect information provided by your web browser, mobile device and/or server when accessing our Site. This information is collected in the form of server log files. The information includes the name of the webpage and/or file on the Site accessed by you, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, the type of web browser or device type used by you to access the Site, device ID, your operating system, the referring URL (of the previous page linking to our Site), and your internet protocol address.
Cookies and tracking technologies: We use session (temporary) and persistent cookies to collect certain information about your use of the Site. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or device’s hard drive that enable our system to recognize your browser and to collect and store certain information. For example, we use cookies to help us identify whether you have visited the Site previously. We also use cookies to collect aggregate data about traffic to the Site (such as the number of visitors) and user interaction with the Site. We use such data to improve the Site and the user experience. Most web browsers have settings that allow you to refuse some or all cookies, and/or to alert you when cookies are being applied. We also use beacons, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify site visitors, track user navigation on the site, gather demographic information about users, understand email campaign effectiveness.
Social Media Tools: We use Facebook’s conversion tracking pixel to monitor Site users who are directed to the Site after clicking on a Facebook ad. Use of Facebook Pixel allows us to monitor our ads and their effectiveness. For information regarding Facebook conversion tracking, please visit the Facebook website at https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/conversion-tracking.Facebook explains its use of cookies and other storage technologies, as well as how to control Facebook’s use of cookies, on its site herehttps://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/. We use Instagram and may use solutions provided by Instagram to monitor users who interact with the Site while logged into their Instagram accounts. We may also use Instagram API code to track users who interact with the Site. For information about Instagram’s privacy policies, please visit the Instagram website at:https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
Part II - How We Process and Use Your Information
In addition to the uses described in Part I, above, we may use information that we gather:
To provide any services you have purchased from us, including the processing of information you have directed us to process.
To communicate with you (such as through email) about services you have subscribed for, changes to our policies (such as this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service), or to provide important notices.
To provide information or content that you’ve subscribed to receive.
To set up and maintain your account, and to do all other things required for providing our services, such as enabling collaboration, providing website and mail hosting, and backing up and restoring your data.
To understand how our services are used, to monitor and prevent problems with our Site and/or services, and to improve our Site and/or services.
To provide customer support.
To detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, to report spam, and to protect the rights and interests of Sigma IQ, SIgma IQ's customers, third parties, and the public.
To update, modify, and analyze our records, and to identify prospective customers.
To identify and analyze trends, track user activity on the Site, and understand what Site visitors are looking for.
To create, monitor, and improve marketing campaigns.
To inform you of new services, upcoming events, offers, and other information that we believe will be of interest to you.
To ask you to participate in a poll or survey, or to request feedback about our services.
For any other purpose that we describe to you when you provide information to us and for which you provide your consent.
Part III - Disclosure of Your Personal Data to Third Parties
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Pirates of the Internet age: Part 2. What is cryptojacking, and what can we do?
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Nowadays probably each of the Internet users can take part in cryptocurrencies mining. Sometimes we do it without even knowing about it. In this case, cryptocurrencies do not go to income at all. In Part II of our article, we tell about stealth mining (or cryptojacking) and how to avoid it.
In Part I of our article, we told what cryptocurrency and cryptomining are, why did the cryptomining equipment has been evolved, and why mining is so risky.
Do have cryptocurrency? We’ll board you!
How to infect mining virus?
Stealth mining in browsers
You’ve detected a miner on your computer – what should you do?
And what can SIM-Networks say?
In the legal regulation field, cryptocurrency is one big headache — countries mostly were not ready for a full-fledged virtual competitor of fiat money, devoid of the shortcomings of ordinary currency. However, the economic value of cryptocurrencies is based on the classical principle of commodity exchange: demand strengthens the supply. The stronger people believe they can exchange their cryptocurrency for material values (pizza :-)), the stronger the currency position. You’ll have to come to terms with this, and sooner or later, the digital money will gain global recognition. In Japan, for example, Bitcoin has been recognized as legal tender since March 2016. The EU has abolished the taxation of transactions for exchanging bitcoins for fiat currencies. Switzerland, Bulgaria, Singapore, the USA, Croatia, and many other countries have defined cryptocurrencies as a kind of financial asset.
By the way, Germany also does this so that SIM-Networks customers can pay for the services of our company with the most popular cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. In the article, You can pay for SIM-Networks services in cryptocurrency! we describe how to do it.
Although the cryptocurrency opponents also have reasons, emphasizing that anonymous and decentralized money is easily used by criminals to legalize the illegally obtained income. Yes, cryptocurrency is still in the shadow — and will remain there until governments determine cryptocurrency role and functions in their economic system. In the meantime, there is no law — there will be chaos, creating favorable conditions for stealth mining, aka cryptojacking.
Mining cryptocurrencies on your resources is an acceptable way to generate income, even if not everywhere and not quite legal. However, when someone uses for mining someone else’s resources and receives profit, this is an unacceptable way to generate income from any point of view.
Since ancient times, pirates have been called robbers aggressively appropriating other people's values. In the digital age, the “piracy” word has another connotation: on the Internet, pirates usually act quietly, secretly, and take away what they are not entitled to, trying to go unnoticed. In the case of mining, their task is to hold out hidden for as long as possible. This behavior is characteristic of viruses; therefore the “mining virus” term is often used.
Pirate mining has many more names: stealth mining, black mining, cryptojacking. One essence is to mine cryptocurrency on other people's capacities without the knowledge and consent of the owner. Hidden miners get to users' computers in different ways:
direct injection (rarely, but it happens: for example, offended by the dismissal, an employee uploads a miner from a flash drive directly to the corporate network);
using a variety of Trojans, backdoors, and other malware from downloaded cracked programs, key generators, installers, media files, etc. Checking such software is not always easy, which is what modern filibusters use;
through unauthorized remote access: “luck chain letters”, suspicious attachments can infect your system with a miner;
via internet browsers.
Does everybody remember the basic rules of information security? It will be reasonable to remain them again. Read more, please, in our article Corporate cybersecurity: How to defend information values. Do not forget — information hygiene is the first of all!
There are even more exotic ways of other people's resources grappling for mining. At the end of 2017, the world was bewildered by the news that the WiFi provider in the Starbucks network in Buenos Aires was mining a Monero on the computers of cafe visitors!
By the way, hackers also thrive in the wake of the cryptocurrency popularity. For example, in May 2019, was detected a group of scammers which promised some Bitcoins daily just for installing some software, but instead of it this group installed malware to users’ computers. Checking information and critical thinking in such cases can save you a ton of money and nerve cells.
A clear sign of the hidden miner’s work on your computer is large resource consumption. Due to it, all applications slow down. Have you ever noticed that the browser works too slowly? When you open the task manager and watch the CPU load, you can see that more than 90% of the resource is busy by the browser. No matter how many browser tabs are open, the one or thirty-one, — the browser makes the processor work hardest. Do you recognize this case? Try disconnecting from the Internet — if after that the computer stops dulling right away, you are probably a victim of a browser stealth mining.
Browser mining is the type of cryptojacking. Malicious code is contained in a special JavaScript-script, which you can run by simply opening a browser window. The browser mining efficiency is minimal in comparison with miner software or embedded miner Trojans. But when tens of thousands of users visit the website daily, the income of the cryptojacking-pirates can be significant enough to continue this activity. What kind of websites can be very popular, which are interested for most users? News, sports, weather forecast — are first come to mind.
Cryptominers can use not only computers but also using mobile devices. By downloading an application on a tablet or smartphone, you cannot be sure that its code does not contain a script for launching a hidden miner. In late 2017 - early 2018, a wave of publications swept through the media that mining scripts were found in applications on Google Play and browser extensions.
The cryptojacking is discussed very often at forums on IT portals. An interesting case of a cryptominer injected inside the advertising on YouTube noted in January 2018. A two-component JavaScript miner was launched when watching a video and loaded the CPU by 80%. In this case, the famous high-level protection of Google’s resources didn’t work, and pirate outrage continued for several days:
From: https://blog.trendmicro.com/
The chart above shows the activity of the malicious campaign from January 18 to January 24, 2018. Considering the huge number of visitors to the most popular video resource on the Web, the attackers had enough weeks to break a good jackpot and quietly disappear. After January 24, the miner's activity died out, cryptocurrency mining stopped.
Another trick is to hide the miner in the pop under – it was a trick often used by Coinhive scripts. In its case, the cryptominer is very difficult to detect, and even when the browser window is closed, it continues working. So the victim, not suspecting a trick, continues to get cryptocurrencies for the fraudster, a one of the Pirates of the Internet Age.
Anti-Virus may not detect JavaScript execution in the page code and will not block it. You may not even pay attention to the fact that the load on the processor has increased, if the crypto-pirates are smart enough, they will not load your device at full capacity. And your computer, meanwhile, is mining cryptocurrencies for someone unknown. But sometimes, in order to stop the miner’s operating, it is enough to disable the execution of Java scripts in the browser.
Sure, it is not profitable to mine bitcoins or their forks in browsers, due to the low power capacity of the browser, and slow payback. The most popular cryptocurrency for browser mining is Monero. It does not require particularly powerful resources, and it can also be mined on a usual PC. Unlike BTC and similar cryptocurrencies, Monero is based on the CryptoNote protocol with a special PoW algorithm. It ensures almost complete anonymity of users, which explains the huge popularity of Monero in Darknet. Bitcoin and the same cryptocurrencies allow tracking the owners of crypto-wallets by the transactional trace. But Monero makes it impossible, due to stealth addresses technology. Group confidential transactions allow you to hide the amounts of each such transaction, and for the “twilight” residents of Darknet, the complete confidentiality is valuable.
Therefore, the stable growth of miners aimed at mining exactly the Monero is not surprising. But while some people do it on their own equipment, others use fraud methods, like real pirates.
Some people consider mining on the website an additional and a quite effective means of monetizing the web page, along with advertising banners and others. The experiment provided in September 2017 by one of the world's largest torrent trackers The Pirate Bay received wide publicity on the Internet. For 24 hours, the website implemented a mining script that loaded the site visitors' CPUs 100%. According to some estimates, this script can bring the owners of the Pirate Bay more than $ 45 thousand per month.
This amount is impressive. And it is quite possible that in the foreseeable future banner ads familiar to us will cease to be profitable for sites, in comparison with browser miners.
But now, when we are forced to give part of our resource in favor of someone else's crypto wallet, we are rightly angry and are looking for ways to protect ourselves from pirate mining.
On the Internet, you can find many recipes for treating cryptojacking infection — from the simplest disabling the execution of JS in the browser to complex multi-level cleaning with various antivirus programs. One of the easiest ways is to install the Anti-Miner extension for the Chrome browser. Its developers promise that it automatically blocks any software miner on sites where the user enters. Sometimes this is enough.
However, in some cases, stealth miners get into the computer inside a multi-module program. This program monitors the user’s behavior and strives to hide the presence of the “alien” by all means — removes it from the task manager window, or disguises it as one of the Windows processes, suspends the miner if activity monitoring is started (and your system performance magically increases instantly), disables anti-virus scanning system. If the user detects third-party software and removes it, this virus program is able to restore the miner and resume mining of cryptocurrency.
We can also remain a multi-component malware Black Squid, that attacks web servers and mining Monero on AMD NVidia graphics cards. It uses seven exploits at once, including EternalBlue. Getting to the web server, it determines whether there are software monitoring, analytics, and other tools that can reveal it incognito. If they are, it hides. But if this does not detect them, it starts to work, including cryptomining, and stealing data, and change access rights and privileges in the system, and breaks software and hardware, and even can organize a cyber attack on the neighboring infrastructure. Just a jack of all trades!
However, in such cases there are antidotes — you just need to search them good. And, of course, do not neglect good antivirus protection that can detect cryptomining programs.
Many people think that cryptomining is a kind of passive income that does not require effort. However, it is wrong to say that mining makes money out of nothing. Equipment costs — CPU, GPU, farm, or ASIC— are expenses. The cost of electricity, including for enhanced air conditioning of the premises with the farm, are expenses. The cost of Internet traffic and a router for stable operation are expenses. That is what distinguishes classic mining from pirate mining — the latter shifts the lion's share of the costs to other users. Rather, processors of their computers, sure.
In human society, legal norms cannot be violated. But in the same way moral norms cannot be violated. Everyone should have a personal responsibility to society and their own conscience. The ethical base of SIM-Networks is built on this, and therefore, the protection of user rights and information security issues are our top priority. In our GTC, there is a limitation in servicing customers who use the company's resources for mining — mining is prohibited on all services except dedicated servers. Why? It is very simple: in a decent society, it is considered extremely obscene to use shared distributed resources to achieve personal, purely mercantile goals. Simply put, on shared hosting, VDS or in the public cloud, your mining “eats away” part of the total resources, because, despite the complete isolation of the clients, the capacity base is common. Neighbors will have to “share” their resources with you against their will, additionally increase configurations, spend their own funds — while your miner brings you income. This behavior, dear gentlemen, is not comme il faut at all! We declare directly: we block such clients for violation of our rules.
Of course, there are times when a client is hacked, and his resources are used by hackers for their own purposes. Nevertheless, having discovered crypto miner activity, SIM-Networks regards this as a violation of our terms of service and has the right to restrict access to such a client.
Is there a way out? Of course. A Dedicated Server or Private Cloud is always at your service. If there is a suspicion of hacker activity, you can contact our technical support and order an administration service. Our experts will conduct an audit of the system and find out all the details of what is happening with it.
In addition, at your request, we can assemble almost any configuration of dedicated servers, and even a farm in a private cloud! And all this is for you, without affecting the interests of other customers, according to your requirements, for your budget and taking into account your wishes for payment. Almost everything is possible with us. Yes, and our brilliant Customer Care, too, – do not hesitate to contact them, they will help 24/7/365!
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Lockup: Raw
Keiser Report : RT : November 24, 2018 5:30am-6:01am EST
buffalo it could only been talked about italy we've talked about japan yes and we've talked about the student loan debt or the yeah in the u.s. ryan of the china. ok so he's saying the white rhino the grey rhino. only visible yeah that was a chinese metaphor. his metaphor is the buffalo is the buffalo u.k. that you're not looking at all the other big predators on the game reserve the lion the leopard that the rhino and the elephant you're all looking out for that that's china that you're not letting on. they're not looking at in the u.k. is saving rays down because of austerity austerity was a government contract and government spending cut g.d.p. by you're saying point for a one and a half percent and so the savings rate is decimated. so going forward ok u.k. is a two trillion dollar economy one of the u.k. one completely bust so who cares i mean why would that cause a global crisis so most people have been saying that the economic uncertainty in the u.k. is caused to break set but he doesn't believe that what edwards says is that two years of massive u.k. public sector fiscal tighte
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Lockup: Raw : MSNBCW : November 18, 2018 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
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First Look : MSNBCW : November 28, 2018 2:00am-3:00am PST
school delays. additional snowfall. the berkshires up through the white mountains of new hampshire. and a little bit of enhanced snow. that's isolated four to six inches in between eery and bradford and buffalo, could get four to six inches. the bigger story is that this storm has opened the door and cranked through the ohio valley and arrived in the deep south. it's interesting because the storm itself, right now the wind chill is 27. it is colder this morning in montgomery, alabama. in atlanta they're at 19 degrees. it's almost the same as vermont. and it's still very chilly from kansas city to bismark, minneapolis, you get the picture. so today, by florida standards, it's almost cold enough you have to wear pants. 66 in miami. 27 in chicago. and if you want great weather, nice from houston to san antonio to dallas to oklahoma city. that's one of the really warm mild spots. tonight is going to be windy. tonight's the tree lighting ceremony here at 30 rock. wind chills in the 30s. no rain, no snow. >> yeah. especially when it comes to the troolighting too. perfect. >>> on a somber note
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were like stop talking like that and i was like yeah. really, that's a white girl who elementary school at her boyfriend's house and had to use man shampoo. then people were mad about a martin luther king statue in buffalo because they said it looks nothing like martin luther king and i said, how bad could it be? then i saw the picture. what? what? that guy looks nothing like martin luther king. do you know who looks more like martin luther king? this guy. then oprah canvassed for stacey...
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Does tax policy affect executive compensation? Evidence from postwar tax reforms
Carola Frydman, Raven S. Molloy*
The trends in executive pay and labor income tax rates since the 1940s suggest a high elasticity of taxable income with respect to tax policy. By contrast, the level and structure of executive compensation have been largely unresponsive to tax incentives since the 1980s. However, the relative tax advantage of different forms of pay was small during this period. Using a sample of top executives in large firms from 1946 to 2005, we also find a small short run response of salaries, qualified stock options, and bonuses paid after retirement to changes in tax rates on labor income - even though tax rates were significantly higher and more heterogeneous across individuals in the first several decades following WWII. We explore several potential explanations for the conflicting impressions given by the long-run and short-run correlations between taxes and pay, including changes in social norms and concerns about pay equality.
Journal of Public Economics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.02.005
Short-run
Large firms
Elasticity of taxable income
Frydman, C., & Molloy, R. S. (2011). Does tax policy affect executive compensation? Evidence from postwar tax reforms. Journal of Public Economics, 95(11-12), 1425-1437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.02.005
Frydman, Carola ; Molloy, Raven S. / Does tax policy affect executive compensation? Evidence from postwar tax reforms. In: Journal of Public Economics. 2011 ; Vol. 95, No. 11-12. pp. 1425-1437.
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A Case Study of Aravind Eye Hospitals
Abstract of the Case
Aravind Eye Hospitals (AEH) present an extraordinary perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility. While typically, CSR refers to the social initiatives of an organization, which has its own independent mission, objectives and goals, AEH’s very creation and subsequent phenomenal growth are directed at fulfilling a compelling need of the society, namely, eradicating the scourge of needless blindness in India. Dr. G. Venkataswamy, fondly referred to as Dr. V, the founder of AEH, is mainly concerned with one performance indicator; how to clear the backlog of 20 million blind people in India, an issue which he passionately discussed with a Harvard Professor, more than a decade ago.
AEH headquartered in Madurai, South India is the largest and most productive Eye Care system in the world which according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology performs nearly two lakh eye surgeries per year, which is more than any other institution in the world. AEH does not devote merely a portion of its resources to society. Rather its very raison d'être is literally to illuminate the society by bringing light into the eyes of millions of poor villagers who cannot afford the cost of cataract surgery. Putting the issue of corporate economics in the larger perspective, Dr. V asked “In America, there are very powerful marketing devices to sell products like Coca-Cola or hamburgers. All I want to sell, to market, if you will, is good eyesight, and there are millions of people who need it badly. Nothing more basic is needed than good eyesight. A man who loses it, loses fifty or sixty years of life. If that man can afford to pay me for it, certainly he should pay. If the man cannot afford to pay, still he needs eyesight. So how exactly should the market work?”. He did not wait for the market to give him the answer but found one himself which gave birth to a radically new model of community ophthalmology with the formula of 30:70. In simple terms, it means that 30% of the paying patients support the free treatment of 70% of patients. Thus Aravind is an “incredible” organization where 70% of its customers do not pay a rupee but receive a high quality medical care absolutely identitial to their counterparts who pay the fees (which too is only reasonable and not exorbitant). For Dr. V the “pay structure” is a necessity in order to support the free structure and not to shore up the profits of Aravind. Despite this seemingly unconventional and asymmetric customer mix, Aravind’s financial health is sound, in fact, extremely sound with a fabulous 200% return on capital employed and 40% margins on its services. The secret lies in the revolutionary organizational model invented by Dr. V which consists of standardization of the surgical procedure, assembly line operations, boosting of paramedical support, economy in non- essential services coupled with uncompromising insistence on the state of the art technology.
Another unusual ingredient of the Aravind’s model is the inspiring influence of the spiritual orientation of its founder, Dr. V. He is an ardent follower of Sri Aurobindo who stressed the need for the little self to expand its boundaries and embrace the larger Self of
the universe. Accordingly, Dr. V internalized this philosophy steadily over decades so deeply that it found spontaneous expression in his personal life as well as shaped and influenced Aravind’s organizational ethos. The latter is characterized by features such as courteous service for patients (patients who pay nothing), mutual respect between doctors and paramedical staff, passion for hard work and quiet efficiency such that the serene atmosphere evokes epithets such as a “divine environment” from many a distinguished visitor such as the former President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam.
While in a typical corporation growth, expansion and diversification occur to fulfill the corporate mission, the picture at Aravind offers a contrast. Aravind too expanded and diversified in unusual ways, not to fulfill its organizational objective but in response to its social commitments. In fact, Aravind has no independent mission of its own unlike a corporation in the form of growth targets for market share, profitability and sales turnover. Societal mission constitutes the mission for Aravind and it continuously renews itself to be an efficient instrument for empowering the society. It is quite literally true because the restoration of sight, empowers an individual since his productivity and earning potential register an immediate rise.
At the same time, Aravind is not a laggard or loss making venture, but gives an impressive account of itself on the exacting benchmarks of modern corporations. It has an enviable financial track record, produces lenses of international standards, exports them to more than 100 countries, earns the coveted ISO 9002 certification and has doctors whose productivity is incredible – 6 times that of national average - - the achievements any top notch corporation would be proud of. But with one major difference. The driving force behind this pursuit of excellence is neither corporate ambition nor personal enrichment (Dr. V does not take a single rupee from Aravind and lives on his pension from Government), but relentless pursuit of its mission which is; to restore vision to the millions of blind people residing in remote villages, many of whom are not even aware that a 10 minute operation can change their life for ever, for the better. This is a situation, which worries Dr. V most and his solution for this is stunningly simple. The Aravind’s doctors and staff fan out into the villages, educate the patients, transport them to the base hospital, house and feed them (all free of cost) and then perform the state of the art eye surgery using IOL (Intra Ocular Lens) and eventually drop them back at home with a supply of medicine for 40 days. This extraordinary model of service delivery coupled with a highly efficient organizational model ends up stretching the very limits of the definition of CSR. At Aravind, the most modern technology harmoniously blends with timeless spiritual and human values to produce an incredible organization that has dedicated itself to the service of humanity.
Mike Myers, who has a two decade old association with Aravind and who was at pains to figure out the unique attraction of Aravind, finally puts his finger on the bottom line: “I think the bottom line is that while so many companies and people are simply trying to earn lots of money for themselves, the goal at Aravind has always been to use the “Paying Structure” to support the “free structure”. In today’s world that is very unique and worthwhile.”
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Ambassador Lwin Oo is flanked on his right by his wife and Mr. Min Si Thu Zaw, Third Secretary, Embassy of Myanmar in the Philippines. Also present are Myanmar students enrolled at UPLB, many of whom are SEARCA scholars.
His Excellency U Lwin Oo, Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Philippines, visited SEARCA on 19 December 2019. He was received by Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio, SEARCA Director, and Mr. Joselito G. Florendo, SEARCA Deputy Director for Administration.
Ambassador Lwin Oo has been very recently appointed to the Philippines, having presented his credentials to President Rodrigo R. Duterte just last December 4.
Dr. Gregorio briefed him about SEARCA and its programs, many of which are regional in scope and include projects and activities covering Myanmar. In particular, Myanmar has been actively engaged with SEARCA’s Graduate Education and Institutional Development Program. Exactly 100 Myanmar nationals have been awarded SEARCA scholarships for master’s and PhD studies, 83 of whom have completed their graduate programs.
Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio (center) presents to Myanmar Ambassador Lwin Oo a mini replica of SEARCA's Growth Monument. Also in the photo is SEARCA Deputy Director Joselito G. Florendo.
Ambassador Lwin Oo presents the 2020 calendar of the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Dr. Gregorio.
The envoy expressed appreciation of the scholarships that SEARCA has provided to Myanmar nationals.
Also present during the briefing were Mr. Florendo; Mr. Min Si Thu Zaw, Third Secretary, Embassy of Myanmar in the Philippines; and the Ambassador’s wife.
Before meeting with the SEARCA officials, Ambassador Lwin Oo met with Myanmar students currently enrolled at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), most of whom are SEARCA scholars.
Dr. Gregorio apprises Ambassador Lwin Oo on SEARCA's programs and activities.
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The A.I. Age
How to stop robocall spammers and exact revenge
April 7, 2019 at 10:55 pm Updated April 17, 2019 at 8:39 am
Verizon now offers a free robocall-blocking service, but you have to download its Call Filter app and turn on the protection. (Washington Post photo by Geoffrey Fowler).
Geoffrey A. Fowler
“Call me, maybe?” is on the brink of becoming “Call me, never.”
Robocalls, those computer-generated shysters, are making some people stop answering the phone altogether. The rest of us trust unknown calls about as much as truck stop sushi. By several estimates, Americans got more than 5.2 billion automated calls in March – a record of about 16 for every man, woman and child.
It’s happening because the internet made it incredibly cheap and easy to place thousands of calls in an instant. But we don’t have to just bury our heads in the spam and take it. While lawmakers debate what to do about the roboscourge, engineers have cooked up some clever ways to make bots work for us, not against us. Verizon just began offering free spam-fighting tech like AT&T and T-Mobile, if you sign up. The right app or service on your phone can make it safer to say hello again – or even extract revenge.
Yes, revenge.
So let’s battle, bots. I collected dozens of robocalls from my Washington Post colleagues along with the (good grief) 30 I got myself in March. I get lots in Chinese; one colleague gets one for a “medical-grade brace” that he definitely doesn’t need. Then I took this list of 100 naughty numbers – and a few legitimate calls like pharmacies and schools – to six tech companies that flag and block robocalls on cellphones: Hiya, Nomorobo, RoboKiller, TNS, Truecaller and YouMail. (Landlines and VoIP phones also get barraged, but some of the solutions are different.)
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My test lasers in on one important question: Who was first at identifying the bad guys? I discovered no service could flag more than two-thirds of the calls on my list, in part because so many robocalls spoof their identities. Those are the callers that look conspicuously similar to your number, or copy the caller ID of some poor soul who gets lots of angry return calls.
In a robocall deathmatch, speed matters. And one free app was, on average, faster at adding bad guys to its blacklist.
It comes down to how much effort you want to put into battling robocalls, and how much personal information you’re willing to share to make it happen. Just adding numbers to your phone’s individual block list won’t get you very far, but there are a few simple steps everyone could benefit from. Here’s my recommended plan of attack.
Round 1: Register on the ‘Do Not Call’ list
It won’t help much, but it only takes 30 seconds so why not? The list, kept by the Federal Trade Commission, tells legitimate telemarketers not to bother you – the equivalent of a “no trespassing” sign on your lawn. Bonus: It also registers with the government that you care about this issue. It’s free to register at donotcall.gov.
Round 2: Activate your service provider’s free protection
Phone companies have finally realized that stopping robocalls is an essential part of what we pay them for.
You may have heard that recently the biggest carriers pledged to support new network technology with a James Bond name — STIR/SHAKEN — that will help identify the true origin of calls. That’s a good thing to help stop all those spoofed calls, but there’s still a lot to work out before it might make a noticeable difference.
Meanwhile, everyone should take advantage of tech the carriers offer to identify and block certain robocalls. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon offer free services that monitor network activity and crowdsourced reports to block suspected fraudulent calls. The carriers outsource these services to Hiya, First Orion and TNS, respectively.
Don’t worry: they cross-check your contacts list to make sure they don’t block someone legitimate. One caveat: If your company pays for your phone service, it might have to authorize turning on some of these services.
– AT&T: Download an app called AT&T Call Protect. The free level of service will label suspected spammers and gives you the option to automatically block calls that are a fraud risk. Unfortunately, if you also want to automatically block nuisances like spam, political calls and telemarketers, you have to pay $4 per month, which also comes with access to AT&T’s mobile security service.
– Verizon: Download an app called Verizon Call Filter. As of last week, Verizon stopped charging for basic service, which labels suspected robocalls and gives you three options based on risk level for how many to block. If you pay $3 per month, you’ll also get caller ID.
– T-Mobile: Most T-Mobile customers already have the company’s Scam ID and Scam Block service turned on, with no need to download an additional app. If you pay $4 per month, you’ll get better caller ID and the ability to send more kinds of calls straight to voicemail.
In my test, the carrier services were slower at adding spammers to blacklists than some independent apps – and paying for their premium versions won’t make them faster. In everyday use, these services take advantage of algorithms that might have stopped spoof numbers my test didn’t pick up.
Verizon’s service provider TNS and AT&T’s provider Hiya identified nearly the same number of robocalls, though Hiya did so, on average, a bit faster. (T-Mobile’s provider First Orion declined to participate.) Just as important: Both let the legitimate calls through.
Round 3: Get a robocall-blocking app
Independent apps offer a few tricks of their own, but they’re not all effective and might be after the personal data in your phone.
Into my bot battle, I threw four popular apps: Nomorobo, RoboKiller, Truecaller and YouMail. I also spoke with the companies behind them about how they make money and handle our privacy.
I recommend starting with the free YouMail, which won my robocall speed test. The main reason it’s faster is that it has data the carrier-provided services don’t: the contents of your voicemail. YouMail replaces your phone’s existing voicemail service, and it uses software to identify when robocallers leave messages – like Shazam for spam. That helps it quickly crowdsource the identity of new robocallers and block them from other phones.
If YouMail, which has about 10 million registered users, sees a scam rotating through lots of different spoofed numbers, it knows not to block those numbers that belong to legitimate callers for all its users. A coming update will also let you automatically block spoof calls designed to look like they’re coming from neighbors.
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And my favorite part: YouMail tries to trick known robocallers into taking you off their lists by playing them the beep-beep-beep sound of a dead line.
I wouldn’t blame you for being hesitant about handing over so much data, including (on Android phones) the details of every call that comes in. You’re required to use the YouMail app to listen to your messages, but it does helpfully transcribe them, make them accessible on the web and offer fun outgoing message options. YouMail says it makes money through selling a premium voicemail service for businesses and through advertising, but over its 12-year history has also run an identity-verification data service. The company told me it’s ending its data business and won’t sell user data or share it with others unless it’s part of an effort to stop robocalls.
If you don’t want to give up your voicemail, the most-effective option is Truecaller, which replaces your phone’s main call app and crowdsources spam numbers from some 300 million users worldwide (including 10 million in the U.S.). But it wasn’t my favorite app, because you have to pay $3 per month to automatically block top spammers, and it stuffs in lots of functions unrelated to robocalling.
The simplest app, $2 per month Nomorobo, is one of the first robocall blockers on the market with a popular service for home lines. On your smartphone, Nomorobo doesn’t sell your data or monkey around with your voicemail or calling apps, and it is smart about blocking spoofed calls that appear to be from neighbors. But I also found it was the slowest to add my test’s robocalls to its blacklist.
Round 4: Get revenge
For some, dark times call for dark measures. The $4 per month RoboKiller, which ranked second in my speed test, also takes over and fingerprints your voicemails but adds a clever twist: “answer bots.” They’re voicemail messages that try to keep robots and human telemarketers on the line, listening to nonsense.
Answer bot options range from Trump impersonators and extended coughing sessions to someone doing vocal exercises. Even better, RoboKiller will send you an often-hilarious recording of the interaction. (It only uses these recordings when it’s very sure it’s a spam call.)
Another service, called Jolly Roger, doesn’t sell itself as a robocall blocker but takes this auto-generated annoyance idea a step further by actively trying to game the spammers’ systems, such as when to press 1 to speak to a human. It calls this tech “artificial stupidity.” It costs $11.88 per year.
It’s possible you’re better off not engaging with a robocall in the hopes the dialer with decide the line is dead. And it’s also not clear how much these actually cost the people placing robocalls. But any time robocallers spend with your bot might be minutes they’re not calling someone else, so you can think of it as community service.
I expect we’ll see more call software that works like this. Google’s Pixel phones last year added a button to have a robot assistant screen calls for you. Even if you’re not interested in revenge, good bots can play a role in combating bad ones.
Video: Ever get a phone call from a number that looks suspiciously like your own? This video explains them, and what you should do about them. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)
This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com. Read it here.
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Pep Guardiola’s rapid rise is not a template for managerial success
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a club legend but he is not Pep Guardiola
“First and foremost, Freddie has Arsenal DNA.”
So says Josh Kroenke, club director and son of owner Stan. And so the Premier League's peculiar fascination with biochemistry continues.
James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin deserve only admiration for the discovery of the double helix, but perhaps we should temper our enthusiasm for the term when it is used to offer facile explanations for football recruitment decisions.
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Freddie Ljungberg's appointment as interim boss means he joins Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Frank Lampard among that group of former favourites at the helm of last season's top six clubs. But it is another, Pep Guardiola, whose name is most frequently invoked as evidence in their favour. What experience did he have when he went to Barcelona, after all? Just look at how well he did.
They say the definition of insanity is attempting the same experiment and expecting a different result. But when it comes to managerial appointments surely the definition of optimism is attempting the same experiment and expecting the same result. It is a thought that occurs in the week that Guardiola faces off against Solskjaer in the Manchester derby.
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When the Norwegian took over as Manchester United's new manager almost a year ago now, the club's supporters were sold on the vision of a hero who understood the unique demands of the role. Eight wins from his first eight games in charge added some substance to the outlandish notion that Solskjaer was in fact the next Guardiola.
As absurd as it might now seem, there were similarities that will have tempted Ed Woodward to believe that he had pulled off a masterstroke to rival that of Txiki Begiristain's call at Barcelona just over a decade before. He will have felt it particularly keenly in the aftermath of United's improbable Champions League win at Paris Saint-Germain in March.
Solskjaer knew United. He was steeped in its culture, the expectations of the supporters and the style they craved. His mere presence harked back to the glory days. He had the hotline to Sir Alex Ferguson. A conduit to greatness. The prince who was promised. This was United restored. The rest, the small matter of results, would flow from there.
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Similar stories were told about Guardiola at Barcelona. He was the ball boy turned club captain who became Johan Cruyff's eyes, ears and brain on the pitch. A Catalan hero with a deep understanding of Cruyff's football who returned home to restore it. In the process of doing so, he made Barcelona the greatest team in the world. Arguably, the greatest ever.
It is a compelling tale but it misunderstands some of the key reasons for Guardiola's success. In part, that is because he was happy to perpetuate the restoration myth. Cruyff is still a hero and the line from Xavi that the Dutchman built the church and everyone else is merely maintaining it, makes for a seductive story. But religion adapts. Guardiola is not Cruyff.
The central doctrine of Cruyff's football is that the player is king. Individualism is prized. His dream team indulged the excesses of Romario and the ill-discipline of Hristo Stoichkov because of their moments of magic. When restrictions on foreign players meant that a star name had to be sacrificed, Cruyff chose the selfless playmaker Michael Laudrup.
Guardiola twice led Barcelona to the Champions League trophy
It is impossible to imagine that Guardiola, who famously cried when Laudrup was sold, would have made the same call. One of his first decisions upon taking the Barcelona job in 2008 was to remove Ronaldinho. Guardiola valued humility and work ethic too much to build the team around the Brazilian. He moved quickly to change the culture at the club.
"Your talent will get you as far as the dressing room. How you behave determines if you will stay there." That was how Begiristain described Guardiola's philosophy at Barcelona. But, in regard to himself, the young coach flipped his own mantra on its head. Guardiola's behaviour and reputation got him the gig. His talent kept him there. The playing style was built on Cruyff's principles of ball retention, but the work was all his own.
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It is worth remembering that Barcelona had just finished a distant third under Frank Rijkaard, 18 points behind Real Madrid. Under Guardiola, they were transformed. Late in his first campaign, Barca beat their great rivals 6-2 in the Bernabeu with Lionel Messi moving to the 'false nine' role that he would go on to occupy in the spectacular 2011 Champions League final win.
It was a triumph of innovation as much as tradition, the signs of which had been there during his successful season in charge of the Barcelona B team. Indeed, his ideas about ball circulation when in possession and the importance of pressing when out of possession changed the game. Premier League football is played differently now because of him.
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Why does all this matter? Because Guardiola has become the template. A one-word argument to explain away underqualified former players being entrusted with the biggest jobs in football. His name came up when Ryan Giggs briefly took charge of Manchester United after David Moyes' sacking and it returned once more with Solskjaer's appointment.
But Guardiola did not make Barcelona great again merely because he understood the culture of the club. It was not that he got it, it was that he had it. His multiple titles at Bayern Munich and Manchester City since then - clubs with very different cultures - are proof that he can flourish outside of an environment in which he was familiar.
At Bayern, in particular, Guardiola was at odds with the culture. After a win over Arsenal in the Champions League in 2014, club legend Franz Beckenbauer said: "We are going to end up being unwatchable like Barcelona. The players will start passing the ball back even on the goal line." Guardiola went on to win three consecutive titles with the club - his way.
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Conditions off the pitch were more favourable at City given Begiristain's presence, but here too he has had to tweak his ideas. City rely more on crosses than Barca ever did. "When you have [Leroy] Sane or [Raheem] Sterling or Kevin De Bruyne, you attack more the spaces, you play in a different way," Guardiola explained. "You adapt to the qualities of the players you have."
It highlights a misunderstanding about him. Guardiola is not so intransigent. His ideas have evolved. He knew Barcelona but that is not why he is a great coach and it is not why he is enjoying success in the Premier League. After all, the closest that he came to pulling on a Manchester City shirt was during a failed trial under Stuart Pearce in the summer of 2005.
Jurgen Klopp was never as close to becoming a Liverpool player. He was so far removed from the famous Boot Room that he had not even visited Melwood when he was first presented to the media, declaring himself the Normal One. It has not prevented him thriving at Liverpool, embracing the traditions of the club while forging a new path to success.
Perhaps Lampard's promising start at Chelsea will continue - strengthening the case for those fixated on this DNA theory. But having spoken to him about this subject earlier in the season, attempting to drill down into the reasons why it is so useful, one suspects even Lampard himself would not wish to overplay it. "There are little things that help," he conceded.
"I know the structure and I know the faces behind the scenes so the familiarity helps in that sense. I didn't feel nervous walking into a big new building on day one. I knew big parts of it. I watched every Chelsea game last year and I had trained with a lot of the academy players previously too. But performances and results will define how long I am here."
That is the crux of it. Knowledge of the club can provide a head start and it can buy some time. But it is what a coach does with that time that will define them. Ultimately, everyone, Ljungberg included, will stand or fall on their ability as a coach, not their DNA. For Guardiola, that has worked out well. For Solskjaer, in particular, it threatens to prove his undoing.
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Accurate software usage reports
Trusted data for negotiating better vendor deals
Fast turnaround of license reviews with actionable intelligence
Cost effective – saving money and time
Ability to optimize Cloud spend
SAM HERO
James Shepherd, IT Operations Manager at Dimensions, cannot wait to get Snow up and running. “You have something that will get results right out of the box, but actually we’re investing in a product that’s developing and market-leading, so we’ll continue to get the benefit from that.
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FORMALIZING THE SAM PROCESS
As well as a personalized care provider for people with a wide range of support needs, Dimensions is also a landlord. As a result, the range of software it has to license and manage is extensive – especially relative to the size of the company. IT budgets are always tight, but nowhere more so than at a not-for-profit organization when government spending on social care is being squeezed.
Dimensions had no formalized structure in place to manage its software. In 2015, it contracted a consultant to carry out a compliance review that gave Shepherd “a rough idea” of his license positions. The experience made him think. “Is this the best way? To get someone in to do this once every four or five years, and then to trim our holdings?”
He decided to start looking for a SAM solution.
Shepherd did his due diligence on a handful of market-leading solutions. Of all the vendors he engaged with, only Snow showed sensitivity to the particular difficulties faced by Dimensions. “The engagement from the team at Snow was far better than anyone else,” Shepherd says. “It’s good when someone actually takes the time to listen and understand, being in the sector we’re in, social care, which even two years ago was struggling financially.”
Shepherd was committed to Snow but had to postpone purchase and implementation due to time and budgetary constrictions. The sales team at Snow, Shepherd says, were discreet and understanding. “I find it really annoying when you show interest in a product, you get to a point and go, ‘Okay, I’d really love to do it, but I can’t do it for a year,’ and then three months later you get a call going, ‘We’re just checking to see if anything had changed and we could move this forward.’ I didn’t get any of that from Snow.”
Before Dimensions decided to implement Snow in 2015, it went through two exercises where it worked through their Microsoft licences to identify and verify its license volumes against actual usage. Although Shepherd had nothing but “vast arrays of Excel spreadsheets” and SCCM to identify license numbers and allocation to reach a final license position. “We could true it up okay,” he says.
“The engagement from the team at Snow was far better than anyone else”
James Shepherd, IT Operations Manager
MAKING SAVINGS FROM THE OUTSET
The time and cost required to complete the licensing review exercise vindicated his decision to purchase Snow. “When I look at the whole-life cost of Snow versus doing all that painstaking work and the cost of every so often doing a licensing review or just dropping everything because Microsoft or another vendor comes along and says, ‘We want to make sure that you’re licensed correctly,’ it saves us money to have a SAM solution doing it for us. And out of all the products that we looked at, Snow was the most cost-effective.”
Dimensions are deploying a piece of software, Dragon Naturally Speaking, developed especially for people with dyslexia and other kinds of learning impairment. Dragon licenses are “phenomenally expensive”, Shepherd explains, but usage data from Snow will help keep down costs. “I think we’ve got 25 licenses for Dragon. We get people who try it, then go, ‘Oh yes, it’s great.’ Once we have Snow we can use the intelligence information to comment, ‘Well, you say it’s great, but you never use it’ and make an informed decision when another request comes in as to whether to move a license from one user to another or buy one more.
Shepherd also hopes to make savings on every-day software such as Microsoft Visio and Project and the popular screen grab tool Snagit. “I get requests for Snagit all the time. People see their colleagues using it and they go, ‘Ah, that’s amazing. Can I have that?’ But if I give them a license, will they really use it? I’ll be able to tell with Snow.”
Microsoft Office 365 E1 and E2 licenses are currently free to charities; Snow will help Dimensions evaluate if co-workers with an E3 license are actually using those components that require a paid-for license. If not, the E3 license will be reharvested or Dimensions will cut back on its E3 license count.
Shepherd expects Snow Automation Platform with its automated workflow to improve the working life of his team and reduce the time it takes to either remote-connect to someone to install a piece of software, or set it up as a deployment package through SCCM, and then deploy it.File share and mapping automation will also take away many mundane and unnecessary tasks from the helpdesk team. “All things that the Automation Platform will do far better, through workflow,” comments Shepherd.
No organization wants to spend unnecessarily on software, but the urgency for Shepherd lies in the fact that every penny he saves can be spent on helping the 4,000 people Dimensions supports. Not only that, the target for 2020 is for technical staff to have the time to work directly with those four thousand. And it is technology – the insight and automation from Snow – that will free up the time to step away from IT and spend it with people instead.
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Devils part ways with GM Ray Shero
Palmieri earns second-straight All-Star nod
Devils' Taylor Hall traded to Arizona Coyotes
Taylor Hall to sit out second straight game
Dec 14, 2019 | 12:36PM
Devils fire head coach John Hynes
Dec 3, 2019 | 4:38PM
Hughes scores first career NHL goal
Oct 19, 2019 | 2:13PM
Devils sign center Nico Hischier to seven-year contract extension
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Hughes records first career NHL point vs. Rangers
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WATCH: Jack Hughes dons his Devils jersey for the first time
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NHL Draft prospect Jack Hughes wants to go No. 1
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Kaapo Kakko scores another highlight-reel goal
Kaapo Kakko continues to dominate World Championship
Rangers, Devils have 'eyes' on Finland's Kakko
Hughes, Kakko top final NHL Central Scouting rankings
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Devils awarded No. 1 pick in 2019 NHL Draft
Apr 9, 2019 | 9:42PM
Devils score two late goals, top Rangers 4-2
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Devils fall in overtime to Blues, 3-2
Mar 30, 2019 | 9:46PM
Devils can't muster offense against Red Wings in 4-0 shutout
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Devils outlast Sabres for 3-1 win
Devils pick up a shootout win over Coyotes, 2-1
Devils drop third straight with 5-1 loss to Bruins
Devils drop opener of homestand to Capitals, 4-1
Devils open homestand vs. Capitals at 7:30 p.m.
Devils shut out by Avalanche, 3-0
Devils erase two-goal deficit to beat Canucks in shootout, 3-2
Mar 16, 2019 | 1:01AM
Devils take down Oilers in 6-3 win on the road
Devils start hot, but go ice cold late in 4-2 loss to Rangers
Mar 9, 2019 | 10:24PM
Devils blanked by Capitals in 3-0 loss
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Devils fall in shootout to Blue Jackets, 2-1
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Devils lose a close one, 2-1, against the Flames
Feb 27, 2019 | 10:59PM
Devils hang on for 2-1 win over Canadiens
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Devils dig early hole, fall to Rangers, 5-2
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Schneider collects 30 saves, Devils win 4-0
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Devils trade 36th overall pick to Ottawa
By Gabby Lucivero | Jun 27, 2015 | 10:27AM
In the second round of the 2015 NHL entry draft, the Devils traded their 36th overall pick to the Ottawa Senators (Devils, 10:22 a.m.).
In return they'll pick up the 42nd overall pick and choose between the 109th pick in 2015 or the Senators' third round selections on 2016.
Ottawa drafted Gabriel Gagne with the 36th overall pick following the trade.
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New Jersey names assistant Tom Fitzgerald its interim GM
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 13 | 12:17AM
Dec 3, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils GM Ray Shero speaks to the media prior to a game between the New Jersey Devils and the Vegas Golden Knights at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
A little over one month after the Devils' Dec. 3 firing of head coach John Hynes, they announced their next change in leadership with general manager Ray Shero out.
On Sunday afternoon, the Devils announced that they parted ways with Shero, who was the organization's GM since the start of the 2015-16 season.
The Devils released the following statement on the front office change, which applies the interim tag to assistant general manager Tom Fitzgerald.
Devils' Kyle Palmieri earns second-straight All-Star nod
NJ native named NHL All-Star again
(Ed Mulholland)
Devils forward Kyle Palmieri was named to his second-straight NHL All-Star game on Monday.
The 28-year-old leads the Devils with 27 points and 15 goals this season. Nico Hischier is currently second on the Devils with 22 points.
Palmieri participated in last season's All-Star festivities after he replaced then-teammate Taylor Hall on the Metropolitan Division roster.
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Hall had 208 points in 211 games with New Jersey
Nov 22, 2019; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Taylor Hall (9) skates with the puck against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the third period at PPG PAINTS Arena. Pittsburgh won 4-1. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports (Charles LeClaire)
After being scratched in each of the last two games, Taylor Hall was traded by the Devils to the Arizona Coyotes, the team announced on Monday.
In return, the Devils received a pair of draft picks, including Arizona's first-rounder in 2020, along with defenseman Kevin Bahl and forwards Nick Merkley and Nate Schnarr.
Hall was expected to be a leader on and off the ice for the Devils, who brought in P.K. Subban in the offseason along with No. 1 overall draft pick Jack Hughes.
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Devils' Taylor Hall to sit out second straight game
Winger is in fourth season with Devils
Dec 2, 2019; Buffalo, NY, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Taylor Hall (9) takes a shot on goal during the third period against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports (Timothy T. Ludwig)
After being held out of Friday night's game in Colorado, Taylor Hall is once again out of the lineup as the Devils prepare to take on the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday, according to NHL reporter John Shannon.
Hall skated in warmups on Friday, but was a healthy scratch for what the Devils termed as "precautionary reasons."
Rumors have swirled over the past week that New Jersey was shopping the 28-year-old, and those rumors intensified after he was taken out of the lineup against the Avalanche.
Devils fire John Hynes, Alain Nasreddine to take over as interim head coach
150-159-18 record in four-plus years in New Jersey
By Coby Green | Dec 3, 2019 | 4:38PM
Oct 14, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils head coach John Hynes on the bench during the third period of their game against the Florida Panthers at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The Devils announced Tuesday afternoon that they have relieved John Hynes of his head coaching duties and will elevate Alain Nasreddine to interim head coach.
Hynes had been the head coach of the Devils since 2015 and held a 150-159-18 record during his four-plus seasons with the team.
This season, the Devils have gone 9-13-4 with 22 and sit at the bottom of the eastern conference. Despite having the No. 1 pick in 2017 and 2019--which turned into Nico Hischier and Jack Hughes-- and the additions of Taylor Hall and P.K. Subban, the Devils haven't progressed much since Hynes took the reins.
WATCH: Devils' Jack Hughes scores first career NHL goal
18-year-old was first overall pick in 2019 Draft
A game after recording his first career NHL point, Jack Hughes lit the lamp for the first time to give the Devils a 1-0 lead over the Vancouver Canucks.
With the Devils on the power-play, Taylor Hall skated along the left wing half-board, before picking out Hughes with a beautiful cross-ice pass. Hughes made no mistake and rifled it past Thatcher Demko for the goal.
Devils sign center Nico Hischier to seven-year contract extension at $7.25 million AAV
Swiss native was first overall pick in 2017
Oct 12, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) controls the puck during the first period against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports (Bob DeChiara)
The Devils locked up a key piece of both their present and their future on Friday, signing center Nico Hischier to a seven-year contract extension, worth an average annual value of $7.25 million. The contract is set to begin in the 2020-2021 season.
Hischier, 20, was the first overall pick in the 2017 draft and scored 99 points (37 goals, 62 assists) in his first two NHL seasons. In six games this season, the Swiss native has collected a pair of assists.
The move futher solidifies the core of the Devils, who added star defenseman P.K. Subban in the offseason a day after drafting Jack Hughes No. 1 overall. They came into the season as one of the more talked about teams in the league, but began the season 0-4-2 before collecting their first win of the season over the Rangers on Thursday.
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Devils' Jack Hughes records first career NHL point in first head-to-head matchup with Rangers' Kaapo Kakko
Thursday was the first matchup of the top two picks
By Alex Smith | Oct 17, 2019 | 9:32PM
Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko went head-to-head on Thursday night for the first time since the duo was selected first and second, respectively, in this year's NHL Draft.
With the Devils already up 2-1 in the second period, Hughes recorded his first NHL point. with under eight minutes to play in the period, Matt Tennyson wristed a shot from the point. The shot deflected off of Hughes' stick, then bounced off Miles Wood's backside and into net past Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev.
Wood was credited with the goal, but Hughes picked up his first career NHL point on the play.
Examining the big moves the Devils, Islanders, and Rangers made this offseason
The local teams could be three of the most interesting in the Eastern Conference this season
By Phil Akre | Jul 30, 2019 | 1:00PM
(Anne-Marie Sorvin)
Disappointing seasons from the Rangers and Devils prompted impressive offseason work from both organizations. It certainly helped that both teams had the top two picks in the NHL Draft -- selections that netted potentially franchise-altering talents in Kappo Kakko and Jack Hughes, respectively.
While they didn't have a high draft pick or significant free agent signing, the Islanders made a handful of moves, mainly in the form of re-signings. For the most part, their roster enters 2019-20 relatively unchanged.
Taking all of this into consideration, here's a closer look at the biggest moves each organization made...
Tags: Anders Lee, Brock Nelson, Jordan Eberle, Mika Zibanejad, Robin Lehner, Taylor Hall
The No. 1 overall talks about what he's looking to get out of developmental camp
Jack Hughes, the Devils first overall draft pick, donned the red and white jersey for the first time on Tuesday when he took the ice for the start of the team's developmental camp.
"Yeah, it was good to get out here. Good little skate to get our feet under us. It was good to get out there with the jersey for the first time."
While Hughes admitted the hype has gone down and he's had time to relax by the pool, he's ready to start soaking in all the information his new coaches will be throwing at him as he gets acclimated to his new team.
WATCH: Devils first overall pick, Jack Hughes, talks start of NHL career
The 18-year-old dishes on reaching his dream and what lies ahead
Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils' first-round pick and first overall pick of the NHL Draft, was officially introduced as a Devil on Tuesday at the Prudential Center in Newark where he unveiled he will be wearing No. 86.
The 18-year-old joined SNY's Dan Graca for a few minutes to discuss what it was like being the No. 1 pick and what lies ahead for his NHL career, plus much more.
"It's been a whirlwind," he said. "I'm really excited to be a Devil."
Newest Devil P.K. Subban optimistic in Jack Hughes, New Jersey
Devils acquire Subban in trade with Preds
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban celebrates after a Predators goal against the Buffalo Sabres during the first period at KeyBank Center. (Timothy T. Ludwig/USA TODAY Sports)
P.K. Subban is optimistic in his new team and what No. 1 pick Jack Hughes brings to the Devils.
A day after New Jersey acquired Subban in a trade with the Nashville Predators, Subban said he is looking forward to joining a team with playoff potential.
"My main objective is to come in and be a good mentor for the young guys, but I'm coming to win," Subban told the New York Post's Mollie Walker. "I'm not coming for participation, I want a Stanley Cup ring and I want to do that in New Jersey."
NJ gave up two players and two picks in the deal
Apr 22, 2019; Dallas, TX, USA; Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) in action during the game between the Stars and the Predators in game six of the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports (Jerome Miron)
The Devils continue to load up on talent.
One day after selecting Jack Hughes first overall in the NHL Draft, the Devils acquired defenseman P.K. Subban in a trade with the Nasvhille Predators, according to Pierre LeBrun of TSN.
The Devils will send defensemen Jeremy Davis and Steven Santini, plus a 2019 second-round pick and 2020 second-round pick to Nashville.
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Get to know Devils NHL Draft pick C Jack Hughes
Devils select Hughes first overall
By Phil Akre | Jun 21, 2019 | 8:13PM
The Devils selected center Jack Hughes with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft on Friday.
He'll likely become the first-ever player to make the jump straight from the USA Hockey National Team Development Program to the NHL.
Here are six facts to know about the 18-year-old Hughes.
Devils or Rangers? NHL Draft prospect Jack Hughes wants to go No. 1
Hughes and Kaapo Kakko will likely be the top two picks in the draft
Jun 22, 2018; Dallas, TX, USA; A general view of the draft floor and stage before the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft at American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports (Jerome Miron)
It wouldn't have mattered which team had the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft. Jack Hughes just wants to be the first player taken.
"You always dream of being No. 1," Hughes told reporters Friday at the NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo. "You don't dream of being two, three or four when you're a young kid."
But the 18-year-old American center isn't about to ruffle any feathers. Asked whether he'd look better in red or blue, with the Devils and Rangers holding the top two picks in the NHL Draft, Hughes said, "I think I'd look good in either."
Devils own the No. 1 pick with the Rangers holding the No. 2 pick
(Noah K. Murray)
It was a rough season for the NHL's Hudson River Rivalry.
The Devils took a huge step back after making the playoffs in 2017-18, their 72 points the third-fewest in the league, while the Rangers were only six points better as they embarked on their first full season of their rebuild.
But next month's NHL Draft represents an opportunity for both teams to add a potential game-changing prospect, as the Devils hold the No. 1 pick with the Rangers picking right after at No. 2. American center Jack Hughes and Finnish wing Kaapo Kakko should be the top-two picks in some order, with Hughes long pegged as the top prospect in this draft class.
How many players in the Stanley Cup Final have New York connections?
Several familiar faces have a chance to win the Cup this year
By Tom Krosnowski | May 27, 2019 | 10:00AM
(Geoff Burke)
Although no New York-area teams made it to the Stanley Cup Final this year, the Empire State will still have a large impact on hockey's grandest stage. Twelve players from the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues have connections with the New York metro area in some way, so local fans still have plenty of reasons to tune in.
The Bruins have one of the largest collections of American-born hockey players of any team in the NHL. Not surprisingly, several of them have called New York home for at least part of their careers.
Tags: Boston Bruins, Jaroslav Halak, John Moore, Marcus Johansson, Paul Carey, Steven Kampfer, St. Louis Blues
Devils Draft Watch: Kaapo Kakko thinks he can be the No. 1 pick
Jack Hughes and Kakko are the top two players in the 2019 draft class
Finnish prospect Kaapo Kakko (left) posing with teammate Santeri Virtanen after winning the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. (Kaapo Kakko on Instagram/@kaapokakko)
Time will tell whether the Devils thinking highly enough of Kaapo Kakko to take him over long-presumed No. 1 NHL Draft pick Jack Hughes, but Kakko's emergence over the last year has at least made it a debate.
And Kakko thinks it can happen, especially as he dominates in the IIHF World Championship.
"This is a big thing for me for the draft," Kakko told NHL.com through a translator. "I think I can be the first (pick)."
Devils Draft Watch: Kaapo Kakko scores another highlight-reel goal
Kakko has six goals in four games at IIHF World Championship
The NHL Draft gets more interesting by the day.
Because the more Kaapo Kakko plays in the IIHF World Championship, the more he impresses, adding intrigue to the Devils' decision on whom to select first overall.
The Finnish wing, who will go to the Rangers at No. 2 if the Devils take American center Jack Hughes at No. 1, scored a beauty of a goal on Thursday for his sixth goal of the tournament.
Possible Devils, Rangers draft pick Kaapo Kakko continues to dominate World Championship
Kakko scores hat trick in second game after scoring twice in opener
The tournament is only two days old, but Kaapo Kakko is already the talk of the IIHF World Championship.
The 18-year-old Finnish wing scored a hat trick Saturday in Finland's 4-2 win over Slovakia, giving him five goals after he scored two in the team's opener on Friday.
Kakko's first of the game was a long one-timer. He showed brilliant hands on his second goal before adding an empty-netter.
NHL Draft: Rangers, Devils have 'eyes' on Finland's Kaapo Kakko at IIHF Worlds
The two teams both had tweets in reference to Kakko's goal on Friday
It appears as if there could be a good ol' New York vs. New Jersey battle for Finnish hockey phenom Kaapo Kakko.
Many expect the 18-year-old forward to go second overall to the Rangers, but perhaps it is too early to count out the Devils just yet.
Kakko scored an impressive goal at the IIHF Worlds on Friday, grabbing the puck on a breakaway while a defender attempted to trip him from behind. Kakko escaped free of the defender's stick while also deking out the goalie to sneak the puck past him.
When the clip of the goal surfaced on Twitter, the Rangers tweeted out the eyeball emoji while the Devils tweeted out a double eyes emoji along with a gif of the goal five minutes later.
Devils Draft Watch: Jack Hughes, Kaapo Kakko top final NHL Central Scouting rankings
Hughes and Kakko are expected to be the top two selections in this year's NHL Draft
The probable top two picks in the 2019 NHL Draft have topped NHL Central Scouting's final rankings lists, which were released Monday.
American center Jack Hughes is ranked No. 1 on Central Scouting's list of North American skaters, while Finnish wing Kaapo Kakko is ranked No. 1 on its list of International skaters.
The Devils drew the No. 1 pick in the June draft during last week's NHL Draft Lottery, while the Rangers came away with the No. 2 pick. Hughes has long been considered the consensus No. 1 selection, but there's been recent talk of Kakko at least closing the gap on Hughes as far as who the top prospect is in this year's draft class after a strong season in the Finnish Liiga.
Game of Thrones predictions and Season 8 theories from NY athletes
Who will wind up on the Iron Throne?
Winter is here.
With Game of Thrones set to return Sunday for its eighth and final season, New York athletes gave their predictions and talked about theories for how the saga will end.
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This is New Jersey's second first overall pick in the last three years
(David Banks)
The 2019 NHL Draft lottery took place on Tuesday night, and it was the New Jersey Devils' card that flipped to lock in the No. 1 pick.
This is the second time in the last three years the Devils were awarded the top pick, as they landed it in 2017 as well. They spent it on Nico Hischier, who has collected 99 points over two years thus far.
After hearing the announcement, Devils GM Ray Shero couldn't be happier as he said "we need talent." That statement comes after a dismal Devils season where they finished last in the Eastern Conference with a 31-41-10 record.
Devils snap two-game losing skid
New York Rangers defenseman Brady Skjei and New Jersey Devils right wing Drew Stafford battle for the puck during the first period at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
The Devils snapped their two-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the New York Rangers on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
First period:
3:54 NJD Miles Wood; Assists: Connor Carrick, Mirco Mueller
14:34 NJD Travis Zajac (power play); Assists: Damon Severson, Nico Hischier
18:40 NYR Brett Howden; Assists: Connor Brickley, Neal Pionk
Devils host Rangers in Newark at 7 p.m. as rivals play out string
First time both teams have missed playoffs in same season since Devils' 1982-83 relocation
Mar 9, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers center Filip Chytil (72) plays the puck in front of New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during the third period at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils 4-2. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
This spring marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest non-Stanley Cup Finals playoff series in history -- the New York Rangers' epic seven-game Eastern Conference finals win over the New Jersey Devils. The Rangers, on their way to their first championship since 1940 that season, trailed three games to two before winning Game 6 when Mark Messier backed up his victory guarantee with a natural third-period hat trick and winning Game 7 on Stephane Matteau's goal in the second overtime.
The tri-state rivals will not commemorate the anniversary with a similarly high-stakes meeting this spring. Instead, the Rangers and Devils will each be looking to take solace in playing out the string in inspired fashion Monday night, when they complete their season series as New Jersey hosts New York in Newark.
Stafford and Anderson scored for New Jersey
Mar 30, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) shoots the puck at St. Louis Blues goaltender Jake Allen (34) in front of defenseman Jay Bouwmeester (19) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports (Vincent Carchietta)
The Devils kept this one close, but the Blues pulled out the overtime win in a 3-2 loss for New Jersey at The Rock on Saturday night. >> Read More
15:09 STL Robert Thomas; Assists: Pat Maroon, Tyler Bozak
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MacKenzie Blackwood still had 32 saves for the Devils
Mar 29, 2019; Detroit, MI, USA; New Jersey Devils right wing Joey Anderson (49) and Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) battle for the puck in front of goaltender Jimmy Howard (35) in the third period at Little Caesars Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports (Rick Osentoski)
The Devils couldn't get anything past the Red Wings goaltenders in a 4-0 shutout loss on the road Friday night. >> Read More
13:38 DET Danny DeKeyser; Assists: Dylan Larkin, Tyler Bertuzzi
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Zacha, Wood score in third period for Devils
Buffalo Sabres center Jack Eichel skates with the puck while being defended by New Jersey Devils center Blake Coleman during the first period at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
The Devils scored twice in the third period to beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
1:55 NJD Blake Coleman (power play); Assists: Nico Hischier, Travis Zajac
7:23 BUF Sam Reinhart; Assist: Rasmus Dahlin
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MacKenzie Blackwood notched 23 saves in the win
A shootout was needed to decide who took the win in the Devils-Coyotes matchup on Saturday afternoon, and New Jersey came away with the victory, 2-1, on their home ice. >> Box score
2:31 PHX Oliver Ekman-Larsson; Assists: Alex Galchenyuk, Conor Garland
17:01 NJD Drew Stafford; Assists: Pavel Zacha, Miles Wood
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New Jersey has lost 10 of its last 12 games
Mar 21, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask (40) makes a save on New Jersey Devils center Blake Coleman (20) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The injury-riddled Devils lost their third straight game Thursday night, falling 5-1 to the Bruins in Newark. New Jersey has lost 10 of its last 12 games. Cory Schneider stopped 22 of 26 shot. >> Box score
18:34 BOS Patrice Bergeron; Assists: David Pastrnak; Brad Marchand
Caps score three unanswered goals in second period
Mar 19, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Washington Capitals players celebrate a goal against the New Jersey Devils during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
Devils backup goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood struggled in net during the second period, allowing three unanswered goals as New Jersey fell to the Washington Capitals, 4-1. >> Box score
2:52 WAS Andre Burakovsky; Assists: Nic Dowd, Brett Connolly
19:59 NJD Kenny Agostino
New Jersey went 2-4 on its recent road trip
Mar 17, 2019; Denver, CO, USA; New Jersey Devils center Travis Zajac (19) defends as Colorado Avalanche defenseman Patrik Nemeth (12) passes the puck in the third period at the Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports (Isaiah J. Downing)
The Washington Capitals conclude a four-game road stretch when they visit the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
New Jersey (27-37-9) has been eliminated from playoff contention and is returning from a six-game road trip to open a four-game homestand.
The Devils went 2-4 on the trip, which ended with a 3-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.
Cory Schneider makes 33 saves but Devils shut out by Avalanche, 3-0
New Jersey has dropped seven of last nine
Despite Cory Schneider playing well in goal, the Devils could not get anything going offensively and fell to the Avalanche 3-0 on Sunday. >> Box score
Damon Severson scores in seventh round of shootout to win it
Mar 15, 2019; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; New Jersey Devils defenseman Steven Santini (16) defends against Vancouver Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher (51) during the second period at Rogers Arena. Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports (Anne-Marie Sorvin)
The Devils erased a two-goal deficit to come back and defeat the Canucks in a shootout, 3-2, Friday night in Vancouver. The injury-riddled Devils have won consecutive games for the first time in a month. Damon Severson ended the game in the seventh round of the shootout. MacKenzie Blackwood made 25 saves. >> Box score
Second Period:
3:18 VAN Elias Pettersson (Power Play;) Assists: Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat
Tags: Damon Severson, Stefan Noesen, Vancouver Canucks
Devils take down Connor McDavid, Oilers in 6-3 win on the road
A slew of Devils notched goals in this one
(Perry Nelson)
The Devils took care of business on the road, defeating the Oilers in their barn, 6-3, on Wednesday night. >> Box score
7:34 NJD Kenny Agostino; Assists: Andy Greene, Kevin Rooney
9:37 EDM Sam Gagner; Assists: Jujhar Khaira, Matt Benning
14:22 EDM Alex Chiasson (Power Play); Assists: Connor McDavid, Oscar Klefbom
19:41 NJD Travis Zajac (Power Play); Assists: Damon Severson
New Jersey allowed four unanswered goals to close the game
Mar 9, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers right wing Jesper Fast (17) defends as a puck shot by New York defenseman Libor Hajek (not pictured) gets by New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during the third period at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils 4-2. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
The Devils scored the first two goals of the game, but that's all they could muster in a 4-2 loss to the Rangers at the Garden on Saturday night. >> Box score
16:26 NJD Damon Severson; Assists: Kenny Agostino, Michael McLeod
19:49 NJD Blake Coleman (Power Play); Assists: Will Butcher, Travis Zajac
Fifth straight loss for New Jersey
The Devils' struggles continued Friday night as they were shut out by the Capitals in D.C., 3-0. New Jersey has lost five straight and has scored just one goal in its last three games. MacKenzie Blackwood made 33 saves. >> Box Score
2:40 WSH Andre Burakovsky; Assists: Michal Kempny, Travis Boyd
Tags: Washington Capitals
Zajac the lone Devil to score for New Jersey
Mar 5, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets left wing Artemi Panarin (9) scores the game winning goal against New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider (35) during shootout at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports (Noah K. Murray)
It was a solid defensive game for both teams, but the Devils came out on the losing end in a shootout to the visiting Blue Jackets, 2-1, at The Rock on Tuesday night. >> Box Score
0:52 CBJ Cam Atkinson; Assists: Davis Savard, Markus Nutivaara
Tags: Columbus Blue Jackets
Mar 2, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; New Jersey Devils defenseman Sami Vatanen (45) and Boston Bruins center Danton Heinen (43) battle in front of the goal during the second period at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports (Bob DeChiara)
BOSTON (AP) Brad Marchand scored a power-play goal early in the opening period and Tuukka Rask made it stand up with 20 saves for his third shutout of the season, lifting the surging Boston Bruins to a 1-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.
The victory improved the Bruins' streak of at least one point in every game to 16 straight (12-0-4) and they haven't lost in regulation since a 3-2 setback to the New York Rangers on Jan. 19. It's their longest since 18 games (14-0-4) last season.
Rask is 14-0-3 in his last 17 starts.
Severson, Bratt, and Rooney scored for New Jersey
Mar 1, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Philadelphia Flyers center Claude Giroux (28) battles with New Jersey Devils left wing Kenny Agostino (17) during the second period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Catalina Fragoso-USA TODAY Sports (Catalina Fragoso)
New Jersey-bred James van Riemsdyk wasn't friendly to his hometown team, as he led the Flyers in a 6-3 Devils loss on Friday night. >> Box score
12:53 PHI James van Riemsdyk (Power Play); Assists: Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek
14:16 PHI James van Riemsdyk; Assists: Ryan Hartman
Tags: Philadelphia Flyers
Mackenzie Blackwood notched 33 saves for New Jersey
Feb 27, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Calgary Flames center Mark Jankowski (77) skates with the puck against New Jersey Devils defenseman Sami Vatanen (45) during the third period at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
The Devils found themselves on the losing side of a low-scoring game at The Rock in a 2-1 loss to the Flames on Wednedsay night. >> Box score
1:07 CAL Elias Lindholm (Power Play); Assists: Matthew Tkachuk, Johnny Gaudreau
13:52 CAL Mark Giordano; Assists: Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan
16:47 NJD Kevin Rooney (Short Handed)
Tags: Calgary Flames
Bastian, Gabriel score for New Jersey
New Jersey Devils right wing Nathan Bastian celebrates his first NHL goal during the first period of their game against the Montreal Canadiens at Prudential Center. (Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports)
Nathan Bastian scored his first-career goal as the Devils beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Monday at Prudential Center. >> Box score
12:35 NJD Nathan Bastian; Assists: Connor Carrick, Egor Yakovlev
Tags: Montreal Canadiens
Marcus Johansson, dealt by Devils, now teammates with man who concussed him last year
Devils trade Johansson and Keith Kinkaid before NHL trade deadline
By Justin Tasch | Feb 25, 2019 | 7:05PM
Nov 23, 2018; Newark, NJ, USA; New Jersey Devils left wing Marcus Johansson (90) carries the puck during the overtime against the New York Islanders at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports (Vincent Carchietta)
It went down to the wire Monday afternoon before the NHL trade deadline, but the Devils did trade pending unrestricted free agent Marcus Johansson to the Bruins in exchange for a 2019 second-round pick and a 2020 fourth-round pick.
Earlier Monday, the Devils dealt goalie Keith Kinkaid to Columbus for a 2022 fifth-round pick.
Johansson is now teammates with Brad Marchand, who concussed Johansson last year and whom Johansson ripped for the vicious elbow which caused Johansson's second concussion of the 2017-18 season. Johansson was injured on Jan. 23 last year and didn't return until Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs on April 16.
Tags: Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets, Keith Kinkaid, Marcus Johansson
Ranking the 10 best New York sports movies of all time
By Danny Abriano | Feb 24, 2019 | 11:00AM
Some of the best movies ever -- including some of the best sports movies ever -- have been filmed in and/or take place in New York. Here is our ranking of the 10 best...
10. Above The Rim (1994)
Devils dig early hole in 5-2 loss to Rangers
Chris Kreider registers two points en route to Blueshirts victory
Feb 23, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) plays the puck against New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad (93) during the first period at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports (Brad Penner)
The Rangers and Devils are both scrapping at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division but it was the Blueshirts who came out on top in a 5-2 win over the Devils. Jimmy Vesey, Ryan Strome and Chris Kreider scored three unanswered goals in the first period as the Devils fall for the second time in their last five games. >> Box score
4:48 NYR Jimmy Vesey; Assists: Pavel Buchnevich, Tony DeAngelo
8:54 NYR Ryan Strome (Power Play); Assists: Chris Kreider, Pavel Buchnevich
14:23 NYR Chris Kreider; Assists: Mika Zibanejad, Jimmy Vesey
Devils visit Rangers at 1 p.m. as trade deadline looms
Both teams enter game with trade rumors swirling
While the Rangers elected to play players who are expected to be dealt, the Devils held out Marcus Johansson and veteran defenseman Ben Lovejoy on Thursday ahead of any possible trades. Both players will make the trip to New York but are expected to be scratched again.
Without those two veterans, the Devils won for the third time in four games by getting goals from Travis Zajac, Steven Santini, Kurtis Gabriel and Miles Wood in a 4-0 home win over the Ottawa Senators.
"This time of year's never easy, and this is sort of the consequence of not having a good year to this point," said Devils goaltender Cory Schneider. Read More
Cory Schneider collects 30 saves to blank Senators in Devils' 4-0 win
New Jersey had four different scorers tonight
Feb 21, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; The New Jersey Devils celebrate their 4-0 win over the Ottawa Senators at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports (Ed Mulholland)
While Cory Schneider was a brick wall in net, the Devils ran up four goals against the Senators for a big win at home on Thursday night. >> Read More
11:45 NJD Travis Zajac; Assists: Miles Wood, Will Butcher
14:34 NJD Steven Santini; Assists: Jesper Bratt, Will Butcher
Tags: Ottawa Senators
WATCH: Seinfeld actor returns as Devils superfan David Puddy
Patrick Warburton brings out the face paint for Devils' '90s Night'
By John Healy | Feb 19, 2019 | 10:51PM
Gotta support the team.
The New Jersey Devils hosted a "90s Night" on Tuesday and perhaps the franchises most famous fan from the decade made an appearance.
Patrick Warburton reprised his role as David Puddy from "Seinfeld" at the Prudential Center during the ceremonial puck drop before the game against the Penguins.
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How is Solar Energy Used? Traditional and Modern Day Uses for Solar Power
We have tapped into Mother Nature for centuries to provide us with energy, as well as help us with tasks such as using the sun to dry clothes, or the wind generating a water pump, or even using oxen to run a gin mill; all of these are products of producing natural energy. Solar power is no different, except that it uses modern technology to tap further into one of Mother Nature's resources: the sun. How is solar energy used?
The energy the sun produces through solar generation provides solar energy to many things. Solar power provides energy to give heat and to warm water; to treat water, power dryers, cool a home, drive a car, and many more things. Mother Nature truly has provided us with a powerful resource in solar power.
Passive Solar Architecture
The Greeks and the Chinese were the first to tap into using the sun positioning when determining how and where they would build a house or building. They would build south-facing to utilize the sun's resources for lighting and warmth. This is referred to as passive solar architecture. Other considerations taken into passive solar architecture are structure height, selective shading for cooling, and the natural heat source, the sun. Modern passive solar architecture utilizes computers to do the layout that best utilizes Mother Nature's finest as well as incorporating solar lighting, heating, ventilation, solar powered pumps and fans, and solar roof tiles to help capture the power of the sun.
Green House Effect and Agricultural Benefits
In green houses, the glass panels work as a natural generator for warmth, optimizing plant growth and allowing year-round growth - a huge benefit to the horticulture field. In the agriculture field, solar energy is used for pumping water for crops, drying crops, brooding chickens, drying manure and powering grape presses.
Solar lighting is actively used in many household applications, including solar powered garden lights, Christmas lights, lights on deck posts, streetlights, lighted signs and billboards to name a few examples.
Solar powered water heaters are actively used in both residential homes and business. Pools also utilize the sun for heating purposes through solar pool covers that heat the pool water.
Solar Heating, Cooling, and Ventilation
Commonly used in residential homes, solar home heating is used to help offset the cost of traditional energy bills.
Solar has been being actively used in water treatment plants to disinfect water, water stabilization, and to treat wastewater without the use of chemicals or electricity.
Cooking has been done by solar energy from dehydration to running a electric stove. Dehydrating food has been done for centuries, simply by laying out strips of food and letting the sun naturally dry them. Learning how to cook with solar power is a useful outdoor skill to have.
Solar Processed Heat
Provides process heat for commercial and industrial applications.
Solar Electrical Generation
Probably the most well known of the solar energy-providing spectrum, powering anything from a small desk calculator to powering a whole household with the use of solar panels.
Solar Powered Vehicles
Since the 1980s, solar power has been creeping into the automobile industry. At the time of writing, the solar cars that are on the market today use solar power when in an idle state or for auxiliary items such as the radio - but technological advances will eventually create more viable solar-powered vehicles. There are also forms of solar power utilized in boats, planes, RVs, and even spacecraft.
Solar power is not as new or recent as sometimes made out to be; it's not a form of power that's widely embraced yet because of a number of issues - cost being one of the largest issues that put it out of reach of the average homeowner. However, as technology advances and people become more aware of what solar power can do, it's sure to continue to grow in popularity.
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Solar Cooling: The Time is Ripe for Small-Scale Devices
Solar cooling system at Bachler Austria: 40 m2 of flat-plate collectors drive an absorption chiller of the type Chillii PSC10 Photo: Solarnext
Eurosun 2008: Decision for Solar Thermal
Eurosun 2008 took place in Lisbon from 7th to 10th of October. Photo: Joachim Berner
Viessmann: Own Production Facility for Vacuum Tubes in China
Viessmann will expand its own production plant for vacuum tubes near Beijing, China. The German manufacturer for heating systems had bought into an already existing German-Chinese joint venture in autumn of 2007. The German company Eurocol GmbH held 51% on the manufacturer Eurocon.
MTS: International Player from Italy
Solar thermal factory in Italy: Flat-plate collectors for the MTS Group’s business are produced at this new site in central Italy. Photo: MTS Group
IEA Study "Solar Heat Worldwide": Global Market Growth of 22 % in 2006
2006 was an extremely satisfying year for the global solar thermal industry. According to the new study “Solar Heat Worldwide. Markets and contribution to the Energy Supply 2006” on behalf of IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme the new installations grew 22 % in 2006. The authors from...
Process Heat: the Solar Thermal Challenge of the Future
So far solar thermal technology is mostly used for domestic hot water, pool heating and room heating. It´s often forgotten that there is a huge demand for heat below 250 °C in industry, which can easily be reached with solar thermal collectors.
An international team of researchers...
What can solar thermal technology be used for?
Submitted by Baerbel Epp on May 9, 2008
There is a wide variety of applications for solar thermal technology. The most common application is the heating of pool water, the heating of domestic hot water and space heating. Not very wide spread yet are solar cooling systems, because of the complexity of the technology and the high initial investment costs. Also, process heat applications such as in breweries or car washes, as well as in the food and textile industries, are still in their infancy. You can search for all these different kinds of applications in the filter section market sectors on the right hand side of the page.
What is the difference between vacuum tube collectors and flat plate collectors? With flat plate glazed collectors the absorbers are fitted in a box closed by a pane of glass (90 % market share in 2009 in Europe). Vacuum tube collectors – which are the dominating technology in China (96 % market share in 2008) – have the absorber coating on the outside of the inner tube in placed within an evacuated glass tube. Generally speaking, the advantage of vacuum tubes is a higher efficiency (less space required for the collector on the roof) and higher temperatures (necessary for process heat and some solar cooling technologies).
The disadvantage: The vacuum tubes produced in Europe are more expensive than the flat plate collectors but in some incentive schemes like in Germany they receive the same grants as the flat plate collectors. In China, some locally produced vacuum tube collectors have a poor quality performance, flat plate collectors are seen as high-quality products.
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Which are the big players of the industry?
You have fast-growing independent producers here which focus on the production of solar thermal components only. Some of these companies are more than 30 years old, like the German Wagner & Co, the Israeli Chromagen and the US-American Sun-Earth. But the global market leaders today are newer firms like Greenonetec in Austria, the biggest flat-plate collector manufacturer in the world, which was founded in 1991 (turnover 2008: 117 million Euro). Find the ranking of the biggest flat-plate collector manufacturers here.
The giants of the European heating industry discovered the advantages of heating with the sun only ten years ago. Today all of them offer solar thermal systems and most of them have started producing their own collectors, e.g. Viessmann, Bosch Thermotechnik, the MTS Group or the Vaillant Group. Check the biggest European heating companies here.
The big players in China are the manufactures of the vacuum tubes for vacuum tube collectors; the three biggest among them are Linuo New Materials, Himin and Sangle.
Another sector which is gaining strength is the coatings industry, providing absorber sheets with a certain coating which guarantees very high absorptivity and very little emissivity. The two biggest players worldwide are the German companies Alanod-Solar GmbH & Co. KG and Bluetec GmbH & Co. KG. In the next few years, façade and roof specialists are likely to enter the market in Europe. Additionally, a few more national heating manufacturers will start selling and producing solar thermal systems.
Further information:www.greenonetec.com,www.sunearthinc, www.chromagen.biz, www.alanod-sunselect.de, www.bluetec-germany.de, http://www.bosch-thermotechnik.de/,www.vaillant-group.com ,www.viessmann.com,www.mtsgroup.com, www.wagner-solartechnik.de, www.lnxcl.com/ (Linuo New Materials), www.himin.com and www.sangle.com
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Wagner & Co Solartechnik
Viessmann Werke
Tian Xu
Sun-Earth
MTS Group
Greenonetec
Bluetec GmbH & Co. KG
Bao Guang
Alanod Aluminium Veredlung
What are the long-term future perspectives of the sector worldwide?
The international solar thermal market is growing constantly but with ups and downs. According to the annual study "Solar Heat Worldwide" the newly installed collector area globally grew accordingly:
2004: 12.6 %
2006: 22 %
2007: 8.7 %
The future perspective depends very much on the market development in China. In the last seven years the solar thermal market in the People’s Republic increased at an average rate of 21 % per year.
Further information: Solar Heat Worldwide, a study from the IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme, May 2009 (http://www.aee-intec.at/0uploads/dateien648.pdf)
Which are the major solar thermal markets worldwide?
By far the largest solar thermal market in the world according to newly installed solar thermal capacity per year is China. In 2008, around 21 GWth (30 million m2) were sold in China, which was around 80 % of the world global solar thermal market.
In Europe, Germany – the second biggest market in the world – is dominating. With its newly installed capacity of 1.13 GWth (1,615,000 m2) in 2009, the country reached a market share of 38 % within Europe.
Position three is held by Turkey, a dynamic solar thermal market which is estimated at 785 MWth ( 1,120,000 m2).
Besides these front-runners, India, Brazil, Israel, Austria, Greece, USA, Japan, France, Italy, Spain and Australia are countries which reached a market volume of greater than 70 MWth (100,000 m2) in 2007.
Solarenergie 2007, Study by the Swiss bank Sarasin, November 2008 (Only available in German)
Solar thermal Markets in Europe. Trends and Market Statistics 2009, Study by European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF), June 2009 (see the following link)
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Solar Thermal Power
Sarasin - Swiss Private Bank
Is solar thermal technology still a niche market?
There are a number of mature markets like Israel, Austria, Barbados, China or Cyprus where solar thermal is used by a wide majority of people for heating the domestic hot water and sometimes for room heating.
One factor that shows the market penetration of this technology in a certain country is the total capacity installed per capita. In Cyprus there were 0.65 kWth in operation per capita at the end of 2007 followed by Israel (0.5 kWth/head), Austria (0.23 kWth/head) and Barbados (0.2 kWth/head). You find niche markets when looking at market penetrations such as in the United States with only 0.006 kWth per capita or in sunny South Africa with so far not more than 0.0036 kWth per capita. Also, there is still quite a large untouched potential worldwide in using solar thermal technology for cooling and for supplying process heat.
0.7 kWth nominal solar thermal power equals 1 m2 of collector area.
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Which are the main market drivers?
Submitted by admin on May 5, 2008
Generally speaking, you can differentiate between naturally growing markets and incentive driven markets. In the former, low-cost solar water heaters are already an economic alternative for households to produce hot water instead of using fossil fuels or electricity. Some examples are: China, which is the biggest solar thermal market in the world, Cyprus which has one of the highest solar thermal capacities in operation per capita in the world, and Turkey, which is the third biggest market in the world.
In incentive driven markets like Germany, there are grants for households and companies. In Austria there is a nationwide subsidy scheme for hotels and guesthouses and there are grants at a provincial level for household customers.
A third category is markets driven by legal frameworks such as solar obligations. The most famous example is Israel, where the government – because of the oil crisis – passed an obligation applying to all new residential buildings as well as hotels, old people’s homes and boarding schools 29 years ago. Spain followed two years ago with a national solar obligation. In the meantime 15 countries more adapted renewable building laws or solar obligations. You find further news on this issues in the filter section "key pillars", then "policy" and "obligation".
Further information: “Best practise regulations for solar thermal”, Study by the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF), August 2007 http://www.estif.org/fileadmin/estif/content/policies
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Along with the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, the following organizations and people have endorsed Prop 110:
Arizona League of Cities & Towns
Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Arizona State Land Commissioner Maria Baier
DM-50
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Fighter Country Partnership
National Federation of Independent Businesses
Senator John Nelson
Sonoran Institute
Valley Partnership
Join us for Environmental Day 2020! - January 10, 2020
Thinking about what you can do for the environment this year? Join us for Environmental Day at the Arizona State Capitol on Wednesday, February 5, 2020. We’ve got a bus chartered to bring community members up to Phoenix for the day to meet your state legislators, see the Legislature in action, and learn more about […]
Oracle Road wildlife crossings featured on FOX10 Drone Zone segment - December 17, 2019
The Oracle Road wildlife crossings were recently featured on TV station FOX10’s Drone Zone segment in Phoenix. Check out this 3+ minute segment to see some amazing drone footage of both the Oracle Road wildlife underpass and overpass, along with a great interview of our partner Jeff Gagnon with the Arizona Game and Fish Department […]
Tortolita Preserve protected in new Marana General Plan - December 13, 2019
Good news for conservation in Marana! On December 10, 2019, the Marana Town Council approved the new draft Marana General Plan with a few major changes we requested. This includes 1) solidifying the long-term protection of the Tortolita Preserve and 2) removing a “Special Planning Area” from lands southwest of the Tortolita Preserve so these […]
What types of wildlife cameras do we use? - December 5, 2019
Interested in purchasing a wildlife camera for yourself or as a gift for family or friends? The short answer from our Conservation Science Director Jessica Moreno is: I recommend checking out the reviews and the beginner’s buyers guide found at www.trailcampro.com. With new models coming on the market all the time, this is a great resource […]
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Sending an unsolicited d*ck pic could get you fined
By Tymon Smith - 17 September 2019 - 00:00
Have you ever engaged with someone on a dating app and haven’t explicitly told them that you’d like to see a photo of their naughty bits, and they decide to send you a nude snap anyway?
If so, and you lived in Texas, the person who sent it to you could be liable for a fine of up to $500 (about R7,340), regardless of whether they sent it via a dating app, SMS, social media or e-mail.
The US state this month introduced a bill that makes it illegal to send sexually explicit photos without consent. The bill was proposed by Senate Representative Morgan Meyer of Dallas in conjunction with the people who run the dating app Bumble, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Fox 4 News reports that Bumble spurred authorities to introduce the law after it discovered that there was no legal recourse available to users who received unwanted and unasked-for pictures of genitalia from potential partners on the service.
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How much of a problem are such unsolicited snaps? According to Vox.com "41% of women ages 18 to 36 said in a 2017 YouGov survey that they’d gotten at least one unwanted penis picture".
The company is now looking to introduce a similar law at federal level in the US. New York City also introduced a bill last year to ban unsolicited nude pictures after several subway riders reported receiving nasty pics of strangers’ bits via AirDrop during their daily commute.
Some critics of the laws have said that they are difficult to enforce and may mean that people who share pictures of breastfeeding or other images not intended to be sexual are liable for fines. However, supporters feel that this is an important step in trying to stop a uniquely millennial form of sexual harassment that has thus far been very hard to curb.
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Two Excellent Guides for Charities in LGPS Launched this Week
By David Davison | 30th March 2017
We are delighted at Spence to be able to support a further two publications launched over the last week.
The 4th Edition of Charity Finance Group (‘CFG’) “Navigating the Charity Pensions Maze” was published in London on Thursday 23rd March. Spence were pleased to sponsor this invaluable publication and our Director and Head of our Charities Practice, David Davison, provided technical input on the Guide content. The Guide contains an excellent section on “Navigating the Local Government Scheme” compiled by leading legal firm Charles Russell Speechlys. This covers the benefits and risks of membership and provides a list of helpful questions charities should be asking about their participation. The CFG accompanying blog can be found here.
Leading representative body the Pension & Long Term Savings Association (‘PLSA’), formerly the NAPF, have launched the third of their guides covering Best Practice for Employers in LGPS with David Davison again providing technical input on the content. This was launched on the 28th March and a link to the launch information can be found here.
We believe these documents, and those published previously, will provide an excellent resource for charity trustees and senior personnel to assist them in dealing with the issues associated with LGPS membership.
An Amicable Divorce – LGPS Bulletin
The question I’m asked about most often is about the cost of exiting a LGPS, as for most charities the costs can come as a bit of a surprise. One organisation I worked with recently had a small surplus at their last actuarial review and in their accounts, but when a couple of their staff left unexpectedly they were immediately hit with a bill from the fund in excess of £500,000, pretty much wiping out all their assets and placing them on the brink of insolvency. So what do you need to know?
Should you run out of active members in your LGPS fund (and not be in a position to add any new ones, for example if you have a closed agreement or a local authority contract has come to an end) under the LGPS Regulations the fund must commission the Fund Actuary to complete a cessation valuation. Whilst the Regulations do not prescribe how this calculation should be carried out, the actuaries undertaking the calculation will use very prudent ‘least risk’ assumptions based on gilt yields. This will result in liabilities being much higher than is the case on either a funding or accounting measure. Often this is the first point that an admitted body may be aware of this liability, as unfortunately numerous funds still do not provide organisations with an annual estimate of the potential cessation debt.
The conservative approach taken reflects that once an organisation exits an LGPS, the fund cannot pursue them for any extra money if the cost of providing members’ benefits is higher than expected. The fund therefore wants to make sure that there is a minimal risk that other employers in the fund would be responsible for paying for any of these exiting liabilities. As such the approach is a protection for all. However, what has been called in to question more recently is whether the basis adopted is reasonable, and indeed suitable in all circumstances. What is clear however, is that there is a great reluctance on the part of the funds to change, not surprisingly.
Whilst the approach to calculating a cessation debt across Funds, and across the various fund actuaries, tends to be consistent, the circumstances in which it applies can vary significantly. For example, some funds offer public sector out-sourcers ‘pass through’ protection, which means that any cessation debt is calculated on the much lower on-going funding basis. Other funds recognise where the last employer has inherited significant liabilities from a public sector body, and will account for these by ensuring that the public sector body picks up their fair share. Unfortunately, though the vast majority of funds do not.
Some funds are prepared to negotiate around the cessation amount payable, subject to affordability and the term of any repayment. However, in most circumstances these negotiations need to be conducted in advance of any formal debt trigger / calculation.
Admitted bodies therefore need to be aware of their situation and look to plan for it, as far in advance as possible, as allowing a cessation event to just happen could have catastrophic implications for the charity.
In my next bulletin I’ll consider why change should be considered.
Charity Finance Group publishes Fourth Edition of “Navigating the Charity Pensions Maze”
They always say that sequels are never as good – well here’s a publication that well and truly proves that adage wrong. This fourth edition has taken over nine months to compile and provides over 50 pages of invaluable information, compiled by industry experts, which will hopefully allow finance directors, HR managers and CEO’s to find information on the issues which affect their charity and therefore help them get the most from their pension provision.
I am delighted to have been able to contribute to, and indeed sponsor, the publication of “Navigating the Charity Pensions Maze” produced by Charity Finance Group (CFG) having provided input in the area of Section 75 debts in non-associated multi-employer defined benefit schemes, and providing our experience on how the problems can be addressed. We believe that this document will provide charities with an invaluable reference guide to the complex pension issues they face.
All I got for Easter was a chocolate coated balance sheet deficit
By Richard Smith | 22nd March 2017
At the risk of showing both my age and my teenage self’s film preferences, I have to confess I enjoyed a bit of Bill & Ted and their musical adventures through time. One of the scenes I recall from the second film was an evil Easter Bunny, pursuing our terrified heroes through the underworld. It was incongruous how a loveable character could be portrayed in such a scary manner. But what’s that got to do with pensions accounting?
Back in November I wrote a blog about my expectations for accounting disclosures for companies reporting at the calendar year-end. Many recent events have proved the foolishness of attempting to predict the future, but (unfortunately perhaps in this case) taking an educated guess at the broad size of upcoming accounting deficits was fairly straightforward back then. Sadly, it made uncomfortable reading, and I predicted that pensions deficits would be an unpleasant surprise in the FD’s Christmas stocking.
The Overly Cautious Actuary
By Hugh Nolan | 20th March 2017
Once upon a time, there was a Scheme Actuary. He was very proud of his profession and his reputation as a prudent man of business. Trustees all across the land admired and respected him and queued up to follow his advice, for they all understood how clever and learned he was. Besides, the wise old King passed a law requiring them to appoint a Scheme Actuary so they had to have one anyway…
One day the actuary was counting out the gold coins in a pension scheme and a tiny fragment chipped off one and flew straight into his eye. From that day on, he could only see pensions through a gilt lens and his peripheral vision vanished altogether. However, nobody in the Kingdom knew about this incident, and everyone still trusted the Grand Vizier (surely “actuary”?) when he demanded a mountain of gold from every farmer, so he could look after all their cows should they go bankrupt… which many promptly did, since they didn’t all have a spare mountain of gold lying around.
Of course this is just a fairy tale and couldn’t happen in real life. Or could it? In fact, a similar story happens every day in pensions – albeit not as extreme or (hopefully) amusing. Read more »
Green Paper asking the wrong questions on multi-employer schemes
By David Davison | 6th March 2017
Fortunately my expectations for the Green Paper published last week weren’t high which was good as at least I didn’t have to deal with crushing disappointment. I did have some hopes that after a myriad of working parties and consultation on Section 75 and multi-employer schemes over the last few years, that expectant charities at last may see some revelation on an issue that has been dogging the sector for well over a decade. There was indeed a revelation, of sorts! It was just that they needed more consultation!! How could anyone not understand the issues here? The problem isn’t about lack of understanding of the issues, but about lack of will to do something about them.
The commentary on multi-employer DB schemes is contained in paragraphs 400-407 in the ‘Consolidation of Schemes’ section, which is somewhat ironic given that most of the necessary change for multi-employer schemes results in anything but consolidation!!
In point 405 there is one tantalising comment, namely “We intend to consult on a new option employers can consider to manage the employer debt in these circumstances.” Ah, what could this be, and why was it not actually in the Green Paper?
My greater concern is that at the end of the Consolidation section there are three key questions posed in relation to multi-employer schemes:- Read more »
Playing the Blame Game – LGPS Bulletin
By David Davison | 3rd March 2017
Many charities participating in local government pension schemes (‘LGPS’) have been increasingly frustrated by the lack of recognition of the issues they face by the schemes they participate in and, indeed, from Department of Communities and Local Government (‘DCLG’) who oversee them. The issues are not new but there remains an element of denial and finger pointing, and it’s very easy to see how charities could be understandably frustrated.
I often experience a feeling amongst charitable admitted bodies that Councils and LGPS encouraged them to join Funds, without ensuring independent advice was sought or providing any risk warnings about the step they were taking, and have now just abandoned them to their fate. Whilst, to a great extent, the problem has been capped over recent years as admission to Funds has become much more rigorous, this unfortunately does nothing for all those employers admitted before that stable door was closed.
For those employers, LGPS have sat on their hands allowing organisations to continue to accrue liabilities even when they clearly couldn’t afford to do so, and without providing the flexibility to address the issue. Many charities I’m aware of have approached LGPS over many years looking to stop accrual, and arrange a payment plan and were just provided with pay up or keep participating as options. Now, as funding positions have deteriorated and funding costs have increased these same schemes are pointing fingers at these same trapped charities for their inability to be able to continue to participate.
For many charities there is also a growing recognition that Councils have adeptly transferred historic past service liabilities in £millions to them, due to LGPS inability to segregate service between employers and without making employers aware of the impact. This has been hugely expensive for charities and DCLG and LGPS continue to try to ignore this issue and sweep it under the carpet. Indeed, LGPS continue to do this with unsuspecting Academies being a prime example.
A limited number of Funds and Local Authorities have sought to deal with the issues however, the response has been at best patchy and has lacked any level of standardised practice. Indeed these ore enlightened approaches attract a “nothing to do with me” response when raised with pension managers from Funds not employing them and for many admitted bodies they are completely unaware of the alternative options explored and implemented elsewhere. A lack of consistency of approach also means that each exercise needs to be looked at on an individual basis, adding complexity and professional adviser costs when helping charities through the maze.
The Shadow Scheme Advisory Board (SSAB), which was established to encourage best practice, increase transparency and coordinate technical and standards issues for LGPS as well as providing recommendations to Government for future regulation commissioned a report from PWC as part of its deficit management project kicked off in summer 2014.
The report was published in July 2015 and the key recommendations which will be of specific interest for admitted bodies are:
More flexibility on when exit debts are triggered. The proposals suggest that debts would not be automatically triggered by the exit of the last member. The paper recognises that some minor changes to regulation will be required.
Establishing a maximum level of prudence when calculating exit payments. Currently Schemes tend to use a gilts basis to calculate the exit cost despite schemes not investing assets in this way. This effectively means that employers paying a cessation debt are cross funding other employers who remain. This is recognised as inequitable and is also a discouraging factor for charities wishing to look at an exit. This proposal would effectively reduce cessation debts for those looking to exit the Scheme, for many to a point which may be affordable.
Flexible exit arrangements. These could include continuing to pay contributions on an on-going basis for a prescribed period and for employers to pay their cessation debts over a much longer period. This would be extremely welcome flexibility for many small employers and is a more consistent approach with that adopted in the private sector.
Employer exit on weaker terms. It is recognised that, in some circumstances, it could be in the interests of the Fund, the remaining employers and the admitted body to allow them to exit on weaker terms and small charities are cited specifically as an example.
These items certainly reflect much of the commentary supplied by charity representative bodies, charity advisers and charities themselves although at this stage they haven’t fully addressed issues around the transition of prior local government liabilities to charities but it is hugely helpful to charities’ positions and it has been a welcome addition to the debate, especially given that it comes from such a reputable source.
Unfortunately however, it has disappeared in to something of a black hole, possibly overtaken by other more pressing global events. The proposals however need to be addressed by the SSAB and implemented by Government and LGPS as quickly as possible. The issues faced have been created by local government, LGPS and the admitted bodies and there needs to be a commitment to co-operatively finding solutions, and a desire to do it soon. Charities need to be vocal with their Funds and local authorities about the issues they face and get them to look to address them positively. Charities should also be working collectively and in conjunction with their representative bodies to make sure their voices are heard.
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Mid-Term Melancholy
I do believe that Mid-Term in the final Term of the year is the shittiest time of the year. Teachers are generally dismissive because they are trying to thump out reports, the kids are testing that very last length of rope because they can, and everyone waits around on tenterhooks wondering when or even if a new contract for next year will arrive. In a nutshell - it's crapola! And I find myself a little less joy filled, a little more impatient and lot less tolerant as every day passes.
I like to call it Mid-Term Melancholy (MTM for short) because it generally arrives around week 5 or 6 of the first and fourth Term; it gives everyone license to act like a sack of shit and makes the drive to get out of bed on a work day incredibly challenging.
It's just far too early in the Term to start heading for the light at the end of the tunnel because you're at the point of no return - the middle mark. It is too busy to make good plans and it is just plain risky and pretty socially unacceptable to admit out loud that you actually have MTM for fear of being beaten down by a colleague that clearly has much larger problems than your own.
It is probably worth noting that you don't have to work in a school environment to suffer from MTM, in fact people that haven't stepped foot in a school for years appear to get it too. Maybe because their douche-bag kids have it and brought it home with them to spread around. Who knows? Who cares?
In the words of Ben Lee, I want a TV embrace.
Gus Van Sant had an unnecessary try at remaking this classic in 1988, firstly I will never understand why he did that, and secondly it wasn't nearly as good as the black and white original. Stylishly directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this horror/mystery has enough seedy goings on to sate anyone's need for a creeping out. This movie is now considered to be the best work that Hitchcock ever produced and has been praise as a work of cinematic art by film scholars and international film critics.
The film centres on an encounter between an embezzling secretary (Janet Leigh) and a disturbed motel owner (Anthony Perkins) named Norman. At the secluded Bates Hotel, things are certainly not as they seem and Norman 's penchant for taxidermy and his relationship with his mother are all pretty odd to say the least.
Black and white can't even hinder the blood red effects of that shower scene! If you haven't been to the Bate's Motel yet, you really need to check yourself in, it's a hell of a stay!
FINAL SAY: We all go a little mad sometimes, haven't you?
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Calvert-Lewin determined to impress as Everton's number nine
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Cape Town - Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin is eager to repay the faith the club has shown in him by doing well in the number nine shirt.
Caretaker manager Duncan Ferguson will have taken great satisfaction from the 22-year-old's two goals in the 3-1 win over Chelsea.
The Sheffield-born forward has always been a hard-working willing runner but the currency with which he is judged has always been in short supply and it is an area he knows he has to improve on.
Calvert-Lewin has never scored more than eight club goals in a season but his double - his first since playing for Northampton against Carlisle in League Two in October 2015 - took his tally to seven for the current campaign.
And some encouraging words from Ferguson have clearly helped.
"It is a big number and comes with big responsibility," said the Calvert-Lewin on his decision to request the number nine shirt this season.
"For me it is a privilege to wear the number nine and I want to repay the club for putting the faith in me and giving me the number.
"I asked for the number and it means a lot, I want to lead the line like I did in this game.
"I'm confident that I am capable of putting in performances that warrant wearing the number nine. To top it off with two goals I'm over the moon.
"I've got a good relationship with Dunc. I've worked alongside him for three years now, since I started training with the first team and he's always backed me and worked closely with me to help my game.
"To have him on the touchline, it was important that I repaid him with my performance. To celebrate with him was a special moment."
On the advice he received from the caretaker boss before kick-off Calvert-Lewin added: "He just said 'Work as hard as you can and play free. Enjoy the game'.
"The system (4-4-2) we played was slightly different. Richy (Richarlison) and me up top is something we haven't done before but it paid off.
"We both have legs, we can both be physical on our day and it gelled. Credit to Dunc for changing it up and going for that."
- TeamTalk Media
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Darren Lockyer pays tribute to 'authoritative' Cameron Smith following representative retirement
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Cameron Smith made his Origin debut for Queensland at age 20, and his Test debut at 23 - at such a young age, you could excuse a player for being naive and nervous on the biggest stage.
However, according to Darren Lockyer, Smith's calmness helped mould him into one of the most versatile representative players in rugby league history.
Smith announced his shock representative retirement on Tuesday, ending a Maroons career that began in 2003 despite having just 18 NRL games to his name.
The 34-year-old has featured in a record 42 Origins, steering Queensland to 11 series victories in the past 12 years, including six of them as captain.
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Lockyer himself fostered Queensland's Origin dominance, skippering six series victories of his own for the Maroons, and played alongside Smith for Queensland and Australia between 2003 and 2011.
According to Lockyer, Smith's poise under pressure helped shape him into an unflappable representative leader.
"In terms of his demeanour, it was the same when he started to when he finished," Lockyer told AAP.
"His first game, it just looked like he was going to play for his school. As he got more senior in that team, he became more authoritative. He was always just looked in control.
"I think whenever we’re under pressure in anything, life or sport, I think it’s an art to stay calm under pressure.
"In those big moments and big games, he was the one who kept everyone calm and on task to what they needed to do."
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On Tuesday, Smith cited a mentally and physically draining 2017 campaign as one of the main reasons for his shock decision to retire from the rep arena.
Smith's representative retirement has left a massive void for Queensland and Australian sides to fill, with Andrew McCullough firming as his replacement.
However, if you thought replacing Smith as a player would be tough, replacing Smith the captain is another challenge altogether.
Mal Meninga and Kevin Walters, among others, have already sparked discussions about who will assume the Queensland and Australian captaincies.
Inevitably, the betting markets have swung towards towards the Blues, with New South Wales now favourites for this year's Origin series.
Regardless, Smith will depart the representative arena as one of the most prolific players at the game's highest level.
He won the Wally Lewis Medal four times to go with two Harry Sunderland Medals for the Kangaroos' player of the year.
Smith skippered Queensland 21 times and Australia 33 times after taking over from Lockyer at the end of 2011, claiming two World Cups as captain to go with his six Origin wins as skipper.
For Lockyer, Smith was always destined for leadership.
"I think early on, we all saw the leadership qualities in him early on," Lockyer said.
"By the time I was getting towards retirement, I don’t think there was even a debate about it. I think he just stared everyone in the eyes and everyone knew he was the man.
"There’s no doubt his influence had a big impact on the results."
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Debra Harrison-Lowe, inheriting roots to the United Kingdom, received her collegiate education in America. She attended Eastern Michigan University in 2006 majoring in Theatre while studying music as her minor. She graduated with a Bachelors Degree in 2006. Debra first appeared on screen in 2009, working two consecutive [the] Asylum-produced films. The first of these two films was The Terminators (2009) followed promptly by Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009). The next year she appeared in the sexual comedy Milf (2010). In 2011, she also made a showing in the actioner House of the Rising Sun (2011) starring former WWE superstar Dave Bautista and Dominic Purcell.
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Wacko Roary Lionman (2017)
Film (Drama) Actress The brutal murder of Roary's wife, Gabriella causes him to slip into a realm of depression. Roary's suffering transmutes into rage, and he decides to eliminate the evil person who murdered his wife.
My Soul to Keep (2016)
Film (Horror) Actress Like many 9-year-old boys, Eli Braverman believes something menacing lives in his basement. When his older sister leaves him home alone one night, Eli discovers if this evil is real or all in his head. What Eli confronts may end up being far more terrifying than even his worst nightmare.
Wronged (2016)
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Film (Short and Drama) Actress The true story of one man's fall into prescription pain-killers and his redemption
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TV Movie (Action and Drama) Actress A team of Supernatural hunting experts reluctantly banded together to fight supernatural threats and form in the brotherhood of hunters what they call a pack. The pack hunts together, lives together, kills together and sometimes dies together. Written by Michael Robinson
Land of the Outlaws (2015)
Television (Action, Sci-Fi and Western) Actress It's 2051. It's been years since America has recovered from a viral pandemic that ruined the world, and the prohibition of remaining technology has been imposed. Lawmen now rule the land, but a Wild West mentality remains. Amidst the backdrop of one town's reform, a series of heists and murders threaten the Roxville Force's legacy. Enter the honest but troubled veteran, Deputy Curtis Ames. When he and his temperamental partner (Sonny 'Six Gun' Devlin) stumble upon a gang of corrupt lawmen, Curtis decides to bring them all to justice before he rides off into the sunset. Written by Colin Jett
Destiny (2014)
Film (Short, Action and Thriller) Actress When a secret collection of Isaac Newton's final papers arrives at a library in Jerusalem, a covert search begins to find someone who might crack the code left by Newton. Former cryptographer, Paul Marcus is tapped. Marcus hopes the information might lead him to the person who murdered his wife and daughter. As he digs deeper into Newton's work, Marcus learns how the lines from the past will intersect with the future. But what he doesn't know is his own fate and how that path will cross with powerful people determined to control the events that touch everyone on earth. Only one man ever discovered the information that Marcus now knows. Isaac Newton knew ... and he took it to his grave.
Crossroads (2014)
Film (Action) Actress The story of Leo Staggs Diego and his fight with self destruction. An Action Drama about the life of an ex military, ex cop that is being forced into the crime world against his will. After losing his family he starts down the path of self destruction only to find his morality and ethics being put to the test. Written by production
Chemistry (2011)
Television (Drama and Thriller) Actress The scandalous lives of Liz and Michael, a cop and a lawyer who meet in a near-fatal coincidence. Drama and comedy with inevitable and powerful chemistry between a man and woman that completely alter a destined life plan.
Batting Practice (2011)
Film (Short and Comedy) Actress Add a Plot »
House of the Rising Sun (2011)
Film (Action, Crime, Drama and Thriller) Actress Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in on him as their target suspect. Written by Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager
Princess and the Pony (2011)
Video (Family) Actress A sheltered young princess is sent to live with relatives in America, where she befriends a pony held captive by a shady carnivalowner.
Video (Comedy) Actress A group of nerdy college guys who can't seem to connect with girls their own age discover the excitement of hooking up with sexy older women.
Jelly (2010)
Film (Comedy and Romance) Actress Life is like a John Hughes movie, or at least Jelly would like hers to be that way. After a terrible breakup with the love-of-her-life, Luke, she throws herself into a life of emotionally driven predicaments and turning to her best friends Mona and Floyd for comfort. Written by Sarah Louise Wilson
Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
Video (Action and Sci-Fi) Actress In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the Earth, forcing a small band of humans to seek refuge below the surface of the planet.
The Terminators (2009)
Video (Action, Horror and Sci-Fi) Actress A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
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3 year ban for delivery driver who topped 104mph on M4 near Swindon
By Tom Seaward @swindonadver Reporter
Swindon Magistrates Court
A DELIVERY driver who played a high-speed cat-and-mouse game with an unmarked police car down the M4 has been handed a three-year driving ban.
Brighton man Roger Noonan was rushing to make his next delivery as he sped down the M4 past Royal Wootton Bassett at 104 mph.
The 43-year-old’s grey Nissan Qashqai was spotted by a traffic officer driving an unmarked police car shortly before 3.40am on February 15.
The Nissan overtook the officer. Prosecuting, Nick Barr said: “In his opinion it was being driven well in excess of 70 miles per hour.”
The police officer sped up, matching the Qashqai’s speed and keeping around 100 metres behind it: “His speedometer showed a constant speed of 104mph.”
Noonan slowed down and the officer passed him by. A short while later, that police officer was passed once again by the Nissan, at which point the traffic cop put on his blue lights and indicated to Noonan to stop.
When the Brighton man wound down his window, the officer was said to have smelled cannabis. A drugs wipe showed positive for the class B drug. Asked if he had anything in the car the officer should know about, Noonan handed over a small brown square. “He says, ‘I have this hash,’” Mr Barr told the court.
Tests at the police station found he had the equivalent of 6.2 microgrammes of tetrahydrocannabinol in a litre of blood. The legal limit is two microgrammes.
Appearing before Swindon Magistrates' Court, Noonan, of Sandhurst Avenue, Brighton, pleaded guilty to speeding, drug driving and possession of herbal cannabis and cannabis resin. A charge he was over the limit for cocaine derivative benzoylecgonine was withdrawn by prosecutors.
Defending, Mark Glendenning, said his client had been working as a delivery driver at the time of the incident, making drops around the country.
“It’s the early hours, it’s an open road and, in his anxiety to get where he’s going, he’s exceeded the speed limit,” he said.
Noonan had fractured an ankle previously and was using cannabis as a form of self-medication.
Acknowledging his client had previous driving matters on his record, Mr Glendenning said: “Clearly, he is going to be disqualified. He askes you to keep it as short as possible.”
Magistrates fined Noonan £120 for the speeding offence and £160 for the cannabis possession. He was disqualified from driving for three years.
Jane Flew, chairman of the bench, admonished him: “You were going at a very significant distance above the speed limit.”
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Clifton County Cricket Club and Cape to City community planting day a success
Thanks to the help of over 80 volunteers, 1,300 new native plants now adorn the hillsides behind Te Awanga.
On Sunday 24 July, the Clifton County Cricket Club held its fourth annual community planting day on the Nilsson farm property. This year’s planting marked the first collaboration between the cricket club and the Cape to City project, an initiative to see “Native species thrive where we live, work and play” on 26,000 ha between Hastings, Waimarama and Cape Kidnappers.
Volunteers from the Club, the Cape to City project, the Haumoana school and EIT spent two hours planting flaxes, kowhai and other native species throughout the property. The event culminated in a sausage sizzle and spot prizes for the participants.
Matt Nilsson, who has been leasing the farm for the past decade, said he and his family have seen big changes since the community plantings began.
“We now have pateke nesting here, and we’re starting to see some of the same species of birds that live up in the Cape Sanctuary”, says Mr. Nilsson. “It’s pretty exciting. The birdlife is slowly but surely coming back.”
“This is an excellent opportunity for conservation,” agrees Clifton County Cricket Club restoration project manager Kate Howard. “At some point you’ll be able to come back here and be surrounded by native bush.”
“The planting is really a partnership between the club, the landowners, and the farmers, and it’s great to be doing work that benefits everyone.”
Ms. Howard was “absolutely thrilled” with the number of volunteers who attended, including a group of 30 Southeast Asian government officials from EIT’s English language training programme.
The cricket club received assistance from the Department of Conservation Community Fund for the event. The final club planting is slated to take place next year.
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The Way, Way Back
Despite its familiar plot and characters, this winning coming-of-age comedy feels remarkably fresh
By Al Hoff
Duncan (Liam James) isn't much of a beach boy.
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Liam James, Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
Fri., July 19. AMC Waterfront and Manor
En route to the beach where he will spend the summer with his mom (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is balefully watching the road retreat from the rear-facing station-wagon seat, a.k.a. "the way, way back." Trent asks Duncan to rate himself on a scale from 1 to 10. Duncan tentatively offers "6." Trent says no, you're more like a 3.
This is going to be a long, miserable summer.
It probably was going to be in any circumstances for Duncan, who's introverted, geeky-looking and socially awkward. But now he's trapped with his mom's dickish boyfriend, older teens who despise him, as well as a weirdo kid with a lazy eye and an oversharing, boozy mom (Allison Janney). But as depicted in this sweet coming-of-age comedy, The Way, Way Back, both the summer and Duncan's sense of self-worth can be salvaged.
Duncan borrows a girl's bike (naturally), and on his ride-about discovers Water Wizz, a cheerfully grotty water park. The park's manager, Owen (Sam Rockwell), is a feckless, middle-aged man-child, but he's wise enough to intuit Duncan's loneliness. Owen offers Duncan a job, and uses his disarming goofball charm to coax Duncan out of his shell.
At Water Wizz, Duncan finds respite from familial psychodramas, and also discovers unknown reserves of playfulness and confidence. (It's nice, for once, to see an awkward teenage boy saved through work and platonic relationships, rather than the miraculous intervention of a beautiful girl.)
The Way, Way Back is written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. There are as many coming-of-age films as there are bad beach vacations, but despite its familiar plot and characters, the film feels remarkably fresh. It's funny, but with a bittersweet edge, and many finely observed moments about adolescence, family, growing up and neglecting to grow up.
Much of the film's charm is borne on James' hunched shoulders and Rockwell's manic charisma. Rockwell is as funny as you hope, but it's his unstated empathy for Duncan that really makes this a winning performance. It's a great cast all around, with nearly every character doing double-time to be entertaining on the surface, while not quite concealing the insecurity and confusion beneath. The adults aren't doing any better than Duncan at social interactions or being true to themselves: They just look better faking it.
The film ends with Duncan once again in the way, way back.But it's now a space he's claimed rather than been banished to, and the view out the back window is of Duncan's greatest summer ever.
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The MMDA started a dry run of the policy last week, April 22.
The STAR/Boy Santos, file
SC asked to hit brakes on ban on provincial buses on EDSA
Kristine Joy Patag (Philstar.com) - April 29, 2019 - 7:07pm
MANILA, Philippines — Members of Ako Bicol party-list on Monday urged the Supreme Court to issue a halt order against the implementation of the provincial bus ban along the EDSA.
Ako Bicol party-list chairperson Aderma Angelie Alcazar and its representatives at the House, Ronald Ang and Alfredo Garbin Jr. filed a petition for certiorari Monday
They asked the SC to issue a writ of preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order against the implementation of Metro Manila Development Authority Regulation No. 19-002, series of 2019.
The petitioners asked the tribunal to strike down the memorandum as null and void ad initio (from the beginning) for violating laws and the Constitution.
The directive, to be fully implemented in June 2019, prohibits or revokes the business permits of public utility bus terminals and operators along the metro’s main thoroughfare.
The MMDA started the dry run of the policy last week.
Bus ban 'injurious to poor rural people'
The petitioners said that the Metro Manila Council approved the policy proposal of the MMDA without public consultations or hearings. They also pointed out that it was issued “solely on the basis of the verbal directive” of President Rodrigo Duterte.
There was no extensive public information campaign on the move, they also said.
“For this reason, it cannot be denied that the effect of implementation of the regulation is very injurious to poor rural people in terms of additional inconvenience, additional fare, additional time to destination and double loading,” the plea also read.
“It was issued without any showing or concrete finding that the traffic congestion along EDSA is directly correlated to the existence of provincial buses,” the petition read.
They also argued that the directive, which aims to resolve traffic congestion, was issued in the exercise of police power, a power not vested upon the MMDA.
Bus operators urge MMDA to scrap directive
Provincial bus operators and commuters have also asked the MMDA to scrap its directive.
READ: MMDA urged: Junk provincial bus ban
In an interview with One News’ “The Chiefs” last week, Alex Tague, the executive director of the Provincial Bus Operators Association of the Philippines said that the provincial bus ban move “has no discernible reduction in traffic.”
He also pointed out that the policy is not helpful to commuters as they are forced to go to interim terminals since they were not allowed to alight the bus along EDSA.
Transport Assistant Secretary Elvira Medina, for her part, said: “It is not only inconvenient, but economically unsuitable, as we know, the cost of transportation is going higher and higher.”
MMDA traffic czar Edison Nebrija however said that the policy does not only aim to reduce traffic, but also to ensure the safety of commuters. — with report from The STAR/Robertzon Ramirez
BUS BAN EDSA METRO MANILA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SUPREME COURT
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Parlophone respond to David Bowie ‘Berlin’ box set mastering criticisms
October 3, 2017 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, david bowie, Industry, recalls and errors
In the last few days there has been mounting criticism from some of the audiophile community about perceived mastering errors on Parlophone’s new David Bowie box set A New Career In A New Town.
In terms of specifics, criticisms levelled include the following points:
There is a volume drop during the title track of Heroes at around the 2.50 mark
Low has a rather overcooked bass-heavy remastering which spoils side one, in particular.
Various issues with the Lodger remaster, including a similar increase in bass some tape/noise flutter being present and an incorrect fade-up on the beginning of Red Sails
Not everyone complaining has problems with all of the above, but there is a general consensus that given the status of the iconic track, the Heroes issue is disappointing and rather puzzling. The accusation is one of sloppiness; lack of quality control.
In fact, the strength of feeling is reflected in the reviews on Amazon UK, many of which bring up these issues. There have been enough complaints for the UK arm of the online retailer to actually stop selling the CD box set for the time being (it’s still available from third party sellers) so this issue is obviously of concern to the record label.
SDE put these criticisms to Julian Stockton, David Bowie’s publicist and and as a result I was invited to Warner’s London HQ this morning to discuss this issue in some depth, with Julian and Tim Fraser-Harding (President, Global Catalogue, Recorded Music for Warner Music Group).
‘Bottom end’ on remastering
During a conversation that lasted close to two hours, the team stressed how much time and energy had gone into both getting the music and the presentation of this set right. I was told, for example, that over 50 vinyl test pressings for just one of the albums in A New Career In A New Town were checked. In terms of the issue around the mastering and the additional bass or ‘bottom end’ on albums like Low and Lodger, the point was strenuously made that Tony Visconti has never been involved in remastering these albums before, and what you hear on these new remasters is how he always wanted them to sound. Back in the 1970s, there was only so much bottom end you could deliver, due to the limitations of vinyl, but this was an opportunity to address that. Visconti of course, was the producer of all four records (Low, Heroes, Lodger and Scary Monsters) and therefore ‘in the room’ when they were being made. He has the credibility to make this call, even if the sound isn’t to everyone’s taste (or what they are used to via previous remasters). This approach was discussed with Visconti and agreed on beforehand. In other words, the object was never to make these sound as much like the original vinyl pressings as possible. Warner Music/Parlophone categorically reject the notion that these sound differences constitute any kind of error or fault with the box set.
Heroes ‘change in volume’
In terms of the problem on the title track of Heroes, it was explained that this is down to an issue on the master tape. It was stressed that for all four albums, the label went back to the original analogue master tapes for new digital transfers (done at 192/24). The issue on the master tape of Heroes is described as a ‘loss of energy’ on that title track that starts at around the 2.42 mark, and lasts for about four or five seconds. Parlophone stressed that they were very keen to maintain the integrity of using the original master tape. So rather than ‘fly in’ a section from another tape generation or source (such as a safety copy) they kept to the original master tape transfer and the track Heroes was given a boost of high frequency during the period of this loss of energy. When this high frequency boost finishes (around the 2.50 mark) the effect creates the impression of a drop in volume but Parlophone insist that this simply isn’t the case. The level is consistent with the start. Again, Warner Music/Parlophone reject the notion that this disc is in any way faulty. You are listening to the original master tape with this slight frequency adjustment for a short period in the middle of Heroes to correct an issue inherent with the master tape itself. I asked why this issue on the master tape hadn’t come up before and was told that it was probably because this was the first time in a very long time that the original master tape was being used and no-one knows when the issue with the tape may have come about.
Tape hiss etc.
Warner Music / Parlophone emphasised that there was no de-noising at all on any of the remasters within this box set any hiss present is as per the original master tapes.
Above is a summary of the issues discussed at the meeting, but below you can read a statement in full issued by Julian Stockton, David Bowie’s publicist:
“DAVID BOWIE A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN – HEROES
Concerning ‘Heroes’ what fans are hearing is not a level drop. This is, through mastering, an attempt to resolve an issue that exists on the original master tape.
On the flat unmastered transfer, there was a temporary loss of energy on the track just before 2.50. During the album mastering some high-frequency automation (in the region of +- 6dB) has been added in order to compensate for this. So to clarify, there is not a drop in volume, there is a high frequency boost for a couple of seconds at the loss of energy which then returns to normal and the track continues to the end at a level consistent to the start.
As the co-producer of ‘Heroes’ Tony Visconti, was both fully involved and approved the remastering of this and all original albums within the set.
DAVID BOWIE A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN – REMASTERING
The albums contained in A New Career In A New Town are how Tony Visconti, who was not involved in past remasterings, always wanted them to sound. He was previously hampered by the restrictions of vinyl regarding the bottom end.
Any tape hiss on the albums comes straight from the original analogue tapes. For A New Career In A New Town, there was no de-noising as had happened on the previous remastering of these records. The hiss is far more true to the sound of the original analogue tapes which Bowie and Visconti would have heard when making the record.”
459 responses to Parlophone respond to David Bowie ‘Berlin’ box set mastering criticisms
John Marshall says:
I emailed them today and got a response within hours
I was looking for Vinyl
The offer for replacement discs of “Heroes” from the David Bowie box set “A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)” has now come to an end. However, the version of the album with the updated “Heroes” is available from all streaming and download services, as well as on individual CD and LP via all good physical outlets.
Warner Music Customer Services.
Now disappointed I might have to purchase 3 albums. I’m going to contact DavidBowie.com and see if they will help…
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JonesTWorth says:
God, you people complain a lot.
genius in, garbage out.
F. Ger says:
I did receive my Heroes replacement cd.Thank you to Paul Sinclair and everyone on the forum.
I received my “heroes” replacement cd today. Haven’t seen any mention of any others getting theirs, so don’t know if I’m early or late with this news.
I received my replacement cd today..
Sami,thanks for the update,can you provide the email address you received the response from?Still trying to contact them with no response
For some strange reason I Still haven’t received my replacement cd and lp.
I sent my info to them on the first date that the replacement-program was announced december 8th.
After then I’ve received few emails, I understand that they originally somehow tried to lessen the mistake, by producing only small quantity of replacement.
They only sent email that they were waiting for more them to be produced.
Still, I wonder, how did they originally decide to prioritize on when and where they would send the replacements, since there’s some people who have gotten their many weeks ago.
Something not quite right there and they should be ashamed and actually compensate this harm much better.
Last email was on january 31, where they said that I should ask the whereabouths of the replacements in 2 weeks time again, so I sent them email, another, and yet another but no reply.
Right now I won’t believe any explanations from them, as they should have handled this thing more carefully. It’s now almost 5 months since the boxsets were released and most of us still haven’t received replacements.
Sami,thanks for the update,can you provide the email address you received the response from?Still trying to contact them with no response.
F. Ger
The email is heroes@wmgcustomerservice.com
You will need a copy of your receipt
Can anyone on the forum provide an update on the corrected Heroes cd? I am trying to reach David Bowie website to inquire about how to receive the replacement disc but have had no response from them.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.
I’m having trouble getting a response from the David Bowie website on how to get the replacement cd of Heroes.I have emailed them four times in last two weeks with no response.
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Received my replacement vinyl copy of “Heroes” from Parlophone in the post at work today. It’s just the LP in an inner sleeve, no outer sleeve, posted in a brown cardboard package. Just need to get it home in one piece to see how it sounds…
Has there been any word on the replacement discs yet?Any update would be appreciated,
Thank you-
Hi Paul – any news on the replacement disc and how to get it. Will Amazon customers just be sent it based on who purchased ? Thanks
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phlmarie says:
Thanxs a lot for your quick reply !
Sorry for my bad english, I’m French…
I’ld like to buy the CD Box for Christmas.
But, for the matter, I would prefer to receive the “good” release without errors.
Do you think that the new sold boxes are ok ? (for example, those sold by Amazon)
Is it a way to make the difference between the two versions ?
A ‘good’ version of the box (ie fixed) doesn’t exist yet. We’re still waiting to hear from Warners on this.
Thank you for the update-
Mijacmad says:
New 24bit found available today is glitch free. Replacements possibly incoming.
scat-man-biddle-pants says:
So, if we are to believe Parlophone’s statement regarding the “error” – everything after the rise in volume should be exactly the same as it was on the version with the error (as there is only a perceived drop in volume rather than a real drop). So if they get rid of their +-6db thinger-me-jiggery “fix” for the “loss of energy” the volume after that point will not sound quieter anymore, without having to do anything to the track after that point. Is that the case? I hope that it is – as telling porky pies to your customers isn’t a very good thing to be doing.
I assume they haven’t done anything about the loss of dynamics due to over-compression, though, have they?
Hi Paul – any news on the replacement disc and how to get it. Will Amazon UK customers just be sent it based on who purchased ? Thanks
Use heard the glitch – ouch! I’m a sound engineer and musician and would go crazy if any recording of mine was put out with such an error. Why didn’t they patch it from a snippet from a second generation tape? No-one would ever know.
Jimi Fletcher says:
“Heroes” the LP is 40 years old today! Play your copy! Even better, with the new version you can, at 2:50, truly turn on, tune in and, ahem… ‘drop out’.
Is there anything wrong also with vinyls and High Res FLAC versions of this box set?
Wayne Klein says:
The vinyl uses the same digital source so, yes.
Marien says:
Paul there is an appologie from Parlophone.
There wil be an replacement for Heroes.
See the official David Bowie site.
Thanks for all,
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Has anyone asked Eno about all this tomfoolery?
Uncle Arthur says:
It’s back on sale at Amazon UK Prime for £99.99 in stock.
Seems they have amended the product description to make a virtue of the analog transfer & mastering flaws / mistakes
in the light of Parlophone rebuttals…?
“DAVID BOWIE A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN – “HEROES” Concerning “Heroes” – what fans are hearing is not a level drop. This is, through mastering, an attempt to resolve an issue that exists on the original master tape. On the flat unmastered transfer, there was a temporary loss of energy on the track just before 2.50. During the album mastering some high-frequency automation (in the region of +- 6dB) has been added in order to compensate for this. So to clarify, there is not a drop in volume, there is a high frequency boost for a couple of seconds at the loss of energy which then returns to normal and the track continues to the end at a level consistent to the start. As the co-producer of “Heroes”, Tony Visconti was both fully involved and approved the remastering of this and all original albums within the set. DAVID BOWIE A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN – REMASTERING The albums contained in A New Career In A New Town are how Tony Visconti, who was not involved in past remasterings, always wanted them to sound. He was previously hampered by the restrictions of vinyl regarding the bottom end. Any tape hiss on the albums comes straight from the original analogue tapes. For A New Career In A New Town, there was no de-noising as had happened on the previous remastering of these records. The hiss is far more true to the sound of the original analogue tapes which Bowie and Visconti would have heard when making the record.” ”
So the corporate line is, “It was intentional, this is how it should sound…!!!”
Now I would not be surprised if this is in order to refuse any more partial refunds….????
An interesting article here on the Bowie box from the buy who headed up the Ryko Bowie campaign
http://www.jeffrougvie.com
Very good article by Jeff Rougvie,thanks JWL.
Bevan James says:
Music A+
Box, CD Packaging, Book etc A+
Mastering E-
Parlophone Response to Fan Criticism F
I thought I might chip in with my impression of the new Bowie boxset. I did not pick up on that “Heroes” misstep but certainly went back and listened to it. It’s definitely there and I don’t think they corrected much. From there the recording never seems to get back to it’s building energy as we all know that’s how “Heroes” goes.
I do have another complaint and I believe it’s worse. I’m not digging that Lodger remix. Some of that reverb stuff is pretty cheezy and I could never see Bowie ever going for that. And the remaster of Lodger is pretty nondescript, it’s almost nonexistent. I’ve seen the improvement of remastering elsewhere in the boxset series where there is better clarity and a sharper sound. This seems to be missing from the Lodger remaster. It’s almost like they’ve dumbed down the Lodger remaster in order to point up the Lodger remix. Again which I’m not impressed with. Possibly Tony Visconti was going to have a bigger role in the upcoming boxsets and they want to promote his contributions to make them more marketable in following releases? I’m not trying to be critical of TV but I really feel the remaster was purposely left flat. There’s plenty of clarity in the Lodger remix, that should be readily apparent in the remaster then if the remix has it and it does! Does anyone have any similar thoughts?
What are the odds that Parlophone will put out a stand-alone, ‘fixed’ edition of Heroes? It’ll placate those ngry at the dropout debacle, plus it’ll mean more money in the label’s coffers. Cynical much?
I should have said the best way for Parlophone to respond to the criticism would be in a truthful way.Sorry.
Thank you so much for this in depth article!!
this is a really good forum for discussion,however,the only thing that one could consider “blasphemous” about this box set is the remaster of the album “Heroes.” Mistakes happen,the important thing would be for Parlophone to address the criticism of the “Heroes” album in an objective way.I am enjoying the original “Lodger” very much.
Diego Zapple Imperatore says:
Hi Paul. So your opinion about Heroes? You’re happy with it?
It’s annoying. However, call me blasphemous, but I’ve never really liked ‘Heroes’ as a track *that* much, despite all the historical importance and significance. All the public love for the song is a bit like how everyone loves John Lennon’s “Imagine” which I think is a bit of a dirge, too! Therefore I’m genuinely not that bothered, although Parlophone could definitely have handled the whole thing better, from a transparency point of view.
Seth Hollander says:
If I wasn’t so damned open-minded I would call you blasphemous for that!
Over the years my Bowie collection has always contained something that for me that transcended mere music listening and induced spiritual feeling and sustenance.
Starting with side 4 of the Ziggy Sdtk album in the early 80s (my early teens) to side 1 of Scary Monsters (college/late 80s) to Station To Station (CD, no sides!/San Francisco, 90s) to a simple tonic, extremely concentrated, of “Heroes” (album version, Live Aid version, Freddie Mercury Tribute version).
I was so excited about this box that I almost bought it despite successfully not buying the first two.
If it had been any other song disfigured, I would have spent the money anyway.
Imagine saying “It is a great release of Sgt Pepper’s LHCB, despite the error in “A Day In The Life”!”
.. as an aside, I recall the hunt for some of the missing The Move master tapes
about a decade ago.
The team involved wrote that during the search they found tapes of other important artists
stored uncared for in the most deplorable conditions.
If I remember correctly, Bowie tapes were among them…???
We’re lucky so many tapes still survive at all, and were not discarded completely after transfer to that new modern Hi Tech audiophile DAT format…
Observing the extreme hissy fit reactions to merely a flawed box set…
makes you wonder how some of these over dramatic people would cope with a genuine problem in life…!!!???
[Ok, I admit I sulked for weeks after my parents refused to let me have the money to bunk off school for an afternoon to go see Bowie at Taunton Odeon]
So right now I now own a bodged CD remaster of one of Bowie’s better post Ronson LPs.
It may or may not eventually get sorted by Parlophone.
Hope so.. but if it doesn’t, life goes on…
Far worse things occur in life at our age, like gout and piles….
.. and those are just two of the least problems we might have to contend with……..
Chris Squires says:
I had my first tooth out last week and that hurts way more than a box-set that isn’t quite perfect. Hopefully I can stave off the ailments you mention for a tad longer.
Nigel D Day says:
Well I’ve tried 4 times to get Amazon to pick up my damaged, unwanted box. They keep telling me a courier will be out the next day but no one has turned up I’ve given up now and cancelled my Amazon account. The Bowie box I’ll sell as separates on eBay.
Anyone got any recommendations as to who I can buy my vinyl/CDs from now ? Anyone reliable ?
Wow, cancelling your amazon account is a bit extreme, is it not? Don’t know where you are but in the UK you can just take a return item to a local newsagent that participates in the Collect+ scheme.
It’s not the first time they’ve screwed up orders. 4th time this year.
Fair enough. They are certainly not perfect, but my experience is that Amazon customer service, when things go wrong, is normally a cut above virtually everyone.
Mar Wolfgang says:
when you began this site a few years back, the comments were much fewer. Now, your site deservedly attracts more viewers and hence more comments, like this section. I wonder if it would be possible to change the order, i.e., having the latest comments showing up first so one does not have to scroll all the way down to see the newest comments. There maybe pros and cons of each order but I do believe that the articles receiving most attention would benefit from the change of order. This is especially relevant when browsing the site on a smartphone.
Will try to sort this out. A few people have mentioned. Cheers, P
Yea that would be super nifty. Particularly in a post this long.
Michel Bendichou says:
“Parlophone stressed that they were very keen to maintain the integrity of using the original master tape”
What a load of nonsense. The objective is surely to accurately portray what was intended and not reproduce clear errors. Plenty of instances of companies selecting the best parts of masters to reissue and surely Parlophone had access to more than one master.
Glad I didn’t waste my money on this.
The objective is not clear at all. It was clearly not to accurately portray what was on the master-tape for instance, or they would have done a flat transfer.
There’s at least one thing I really don’t get: if one of the purposes of this remaster was to overcome “the limitations of vinyl”, what about the vinyl version of the new set? Was it mastered differently than the cd version?
This, together with the “loss of energy” fixed with an added “high-frequency automation” resulting in a perceived drop in volume when the added frequency ends (couldn’t they just leave the “loss of energy” be as it was in the first place, since the result seems to be the same?), makes it seem like they’re bs-ing us, big time. And quite shamefully if I may say so.
Honestly, while I obviously understand many audiophile’s frustration with certain remasters, there is a point where it starts to transcend into fanatical nitpicking over details that only become noticeable with ultra-advanced audio technology that no normal person could get their hands on without selling an arm and a leg.
True, a bad remaster is a bad remaster (look at the 2007 Genesis remasters/remixes, or the 2010 remaster of Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America”, which had extreme amounts of compression), but at the same time, when you’re trying to refurbish and remaster stuff recorded more than forty years ago, you’re bound to run into issues that cannot be avoided, regardless of how the music was recorded or produced originally, because things age and decay over time.
And luckily, at least we had the original producer on hand to make these particular remasters, versus handing them off to some random person, who may not understand the needs of the individual pieces of music.
Interestingly, I rarely see this sort of intense nitpicking and debate in the classical music genre, which seems to have generally good audio. Probably because of the nature of classical music versus pop music, since recording a Beethoven symphony or a Shostakovich string quartet is going to present radically different challenges to recording stuff like The Beatles or Led Zeppelin, or Muse or Coldplay or Katy Perry or what have you.
Also, on a final sidenote, I personally felt the mastering on Blackstar was quite good. It managed to have a decent kick to it, without tripping into ear-bleeding territory, and was able to capture the dynamics of the jazzy style of the music (particularly on Lazarus and the title track, which are both masterpieces). Also, it’s entirely possible that Bowie might have chosen a more dense mix on some songs deliberately. Who can say.
Yes,maybe we could get a new and corrected remaster of the entire “Heroes” album mailed out to everyone who bought the box set.That would be great.
Daniel Lalla says:
THE PERFECT/CHEAPEST FIX:
Remaster that disc
New copies of the box get the new version
Also press a promotional single of the corrected version (throw in Helden on B side)
Others with the old box get a corrected version of that track on a single by mail and have an EXCLUSIVE BOWIE COLLECTIBLE. PEople will be happy now.
“Thin Line Between Love and Hate”?
Nitpicking OCD details aside…
At the price demanded for these box sets, the HD tracks should have been included as a disc or download voucher.
The two HD tracks sets are an outrageous rip off !!!
[ and yet again – incomplete ]
Heroes drop out is ridiculous!!!
Amazon USA Update
1) The number of 5 Star ratings sits @ 14% (down 1 point from the previous 15%)
2) The number of 1 Star ratings is now 54% (Down from 61%)
3) I did get to hear this yesterday for the 1st time & I really like the Low mix a lot, the first lodger disc to me sounds better than my Ryko issue, the second Loder disc is definitely different
4) The Top Postive review mentions SDE by name. This a repost and this gentleman’s opinion differs from mine or SDE Paul
5) If all 3 were the same opinion then we would not need @ least 2 of them
6) Heroes is a mess. You think that when the producer listened to the music without the vocal track (which is why they get paid) they would have noticed all the VU meters going spastic. Amazing to me that this would be released to the public
7) The box set itself is beautiful
8) One bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch. On the whole, this is a great set
Alexander Supertramp says:
Only just listened to the ‘pigs ear’ that is Heroes …..the ( 2017 second half recorded in the bathroom with the door closed mix).
The PR guys are missing a trick , simply pull the box set to fix it ……and we will all want to make sure we have our copy of this rubbish for posterity .
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I have been listening to David Bowie and buying his music since 1972. It has always been about the music. I have to say for my generation it is becoming tiresome the way all the major artists companies keep rehashing, rereleasing, re-mastering, producing deluxe editions et cetera, which are out of the reach of many peoples pockets. Putting that aside I have bought all three of the recent Bowie box sets and I have bought them for the my love of the music. I started buying vinyl again a few years ago and made the mistake of looking at forums. This made it quite clear to me that there are people who are obsessed with the technical aspects of music i.e. the equipment and look to finding fault with the equipment and the music produced and released in an obsessive way. I have no intention of returning the latest ANCIANT boxed set and I’m enjoying working my way through it on CD. People really do need to get a life and appreciate the brilliance that was and still is David Bowie and appreciate the actual music itself.
Maybe people can now relax and simply enjoy some very very good music.
K. Thompson says:
Proof positive that Steve Hoffman should have been hired to oversee remastering of the entire Bowie catalogue.
Producers should stick to what they know.
Torben Pilgaard Madsen says:
Bowie-fan since 1980 here, so I have the WG RCA’s, the Japan-US RCA’s, the Ryko’s, the 1999 EMI’s and these Parlophone 2017 editions for reference. And I have to say, to these ears, the Parlophone’s are doing a solid job: Better than the 1999-editions, generally better than the Ryko’s and generally much better than the revered, but sourced from inferior masters, RCA’s.
Yes, “Heroes” has an issue. I find it easier to see than actually hear though, and basically I have zero interest in going down the Hoffmann Forum waveform path. (And speaking of issues, the Japan RCA cut the first second of “Beauty and the Beast”!) In other words, I can live with the issue. The package as a whole is still amazing imo.
The slagging of Tony Visconti is not warranted in my book. Neither are the assumptions that he treats this as “his gig”. I would be hard pressed to find another Bowie-collaborator better suited for the job.
It’s all subjective in the end, of course. Apart from keeping a sober tone and refraining from slinging mud at people. That’s not being subjective, that’s forgetting one’s manners.
Paul, thank you for a great site and for keeping things in perspective. SDE is a truly great ressource.
Thanks Torben.
Roland K. says:
Toni visconti, it’s you!! Toon, please listen your remastering through fine speakers and a fine audio set instead of ear plugs and a transistor….
Haven’t listened through earplugs yet, though I do like my Fidelio S2’s. Listening on quite nice speakers and equipment, and stand by every word. Don’t believe I have any transistor of any kind.
“Tony Visconti, it’s you….”. Cracks me up every time. Or not. But then humor is another subjective thing, hmm?
http://www.laweekly.com/music/rollins-radio-notes-avoid-the-new-bowie-box-set-a-new-career-in-a-new-town-8725169
Nass Khan says:
So far I have played Low/Heroes/Lodger/ Scary on on Lp & only Low on Cd. Low is not brickwalled. The late 70s Bowie were never Audiophile in sound. Neither is Lust for Life the Idiot. More Songs About Building & Food, Fear of Music, Remain in Light.
They sound good to me & if I am being honest maybe Bowie fans are more acquainted with the Ryko/EMI 1990 brighter sounding as a reference than the original orange RCA lps.
Shock horror I didnt like the Lodger remix
My personal preference are the green RCA international Lps.
Ok shame about Heroes but personally I am a Bowie nut so plenty of go to copies.
Stop moaning folks the 3 Bowie boxes are good and corrects the abysmal 1999 masters.
Unfortunately Low is definitely brick walled. See the below waveform:
https://i.imgur.com/IM17a2K.jpg
I bought my set at a Barnes and Noble bookseller in The United States so I dont really know how I would go about getting a partial refund.I would like to get one.
F Ger
Give it a try they might give you a discount on your “NEXT” purchase. All retailers are aware that something is amiss here
Greg Clow says:
I noticed the issue with “Heroes” before reading this article, and hadn’t thought of approaching Amazon UK for a refund until I saw the comments here. I hit them up on chat and was told that I’d have to return it for a full refund, but I didn’t want to do that – partly because the “Heroes” volume drop is the only one of the identified issues that really bothers me, so I’d prefer to keep the set; and partly because returning if from Canada would be expensive. So they offered me a £15 partial refund, which I consider fair given that I paid around £75 for the set (lowest pre-release price less VAT) – and I can just pull out my Ryko copy of “Heroes” when I’m in the mood to listen to it.
I have have gone back and tried to play the “Heroes” disc again and I just can’t make it through the whole cd.It is mastered so poorly as to be unlistenable to my ears.I have compared it to the 2007 Japanese release of “Heroes” which sounds much better to me.The drop in volume during the song “Heroes” is stunning and a true shock,what happened? As for the rest of the set,it seems passable now that I’ve had a chance listen to the discs a few times.”Low” is fine,the new 2017 remix of “Lodger” is interesting,and the original “Lodger” remaster seems ok.” Heroes”should be done over though,it’s horrible.
I’m listening to ‘”Heroes”‘ on Spotify again; it sounds different than when I first listened a few days ago after first reading this article. The significant apparent change in volume after the part they “fixed” is no longer apparent. I’m wondering if they decided to quietly fix the digital streaming edition (and, presumably, the digital download editions as well) as a way of having to deal with the matter while still being able to stick to their original position with regard to the physical editions…
I’m still hearing the drop on the Spotify version – but I’ve also got the whole set synced to my phone, so it’s possible that I have the older version downloaded. I’ll see if I can force it to refresh. And if they have indeed fixed the digital version, that really pokes a hole in their “it’s supposed to sound like that!” argument…
A comment earlier about nitpicking the previous sets–of course audiophiles are going to do that because it’s ALL about the sound and what might bother one person wont bother the average Joe.
I felt, for the most part, that the previous sets were pretty good although they had their flaws. The worst being using the awful sounding pumped up, compressed anniversary edition of Aladdin Sane in the second box. There were some issues with one track cutting off the beginning of one track and other miscellaneous issues but I don’t think anything has been handled this badly–especially the response– for any of,the other sets. I can overlook some decisions madden there but this set there’s no excuse.
fish says:
I really wish I had your job Paul. I would love to be doing this for a living!
I’m still waiting for my refund from Amazon for the dozen or so albums that i have bought from them over the years that had errors on them. I would like to know what makes this box set so special that people are getting refunds left, right and centre and as for the error on Heroes Parlophone are just doing the same as EMI did with that Duran Duran debacle burying their heads in the sand.
That’s because there’s been so much publicity and so many complaints.
The 5 Star rating for this release is now to 15% (up from the previous 10%)
The 1 Star rating is now 60% (down from the previous 61%)
Now that people know what this is (A REMIX) folks might be a little more open to the content.
A friend of mine is bringing his copy by this weekend so I can put it on the big rig & see what we have here. He falls into the mortified group
confusedface12 says:
It’s not a remix it’s a remaster – it’s a very bad remaster, which is why it sounds like a remix. Compression, Eq & Limiting can and generally do all take place when mastering or remastering an album. If only David Bowie had written “cut it flat” on the multis like the beatles did on sgt pepper maybe we’d not be having these discussions – although saying that, they’d probably have gotten some tipex out and done a little rewriting history anyway.
Leemer says:
Is there any way to get Warners/Parlophone to address this defect in Heroes? I would be interested in joining a letter writing campaign or something. That said, I am keeping by box set b/c Amazon was kind enough to discount it and the records are so beautiful. Really kind people there at Amazon. I only wish that the keepers of the Bowie archives would stand up and remedy their failing.
Chris M says:
This is simple, everyone knows the difference between a Remix and a Remaster (at least I hope everyone does). This set is a remix not a remaster. A lot of people have remixed DB stuff before, some great some awful. If they’d said “here’s a new drum ‘n’ bassy remix of Low for you to listen to”, we could have said “interesting I love it” or ” interedting I hate it”, both completely valid views, but anyone who thinks this is a remaster doesn’t know what a remaster is. They did it with the Lodger album and you can make up your own mind. Personally my 1979 version sounds far better than the remaster here but that’s personal preference and I quite like the remix as a curiosity, but it is honest. Honesty please that’s all we need, not this guff from Parlophone and their cronies.
Interesting that you state that everyone knows the difference between a remix and a remaster and that your next statement about this set is then incorrect. The albums in this set have been remastered, not remixed. The only exception is Lodger, as also a remixed version is included (next to a remastered one).
So yes, this set is a remaster. Tony Visconti & Ray Staff did not go back to the multitracks and made new mixes of the albums (Lodger excepted, etc.). They used the original album masters, the already mixed songs, and tweaked them (thus, re-mastering them) for this release. Bringing forward the lower frequencies (the bass, not the instument but low tones in general), adjusting the mid-range, higher frequencies, etc.
In short, the new set IS a remaster. And considering the albums have not sounded really good in the past 30-or-so years it is disappointing that this time they again did not get it right (and with all the compression may be even worse than the previous versions).
Coming next year in an alternative universe -”CHUNKY BRICKWALLY” deluxe edition and ”CIGGY BRICKWALLDUST”,both in deScottified’ mixes.
Andrew r says:
My last words on this as its time for me to move on. Echoing Ryan’s comment above about respect.
Leaving the issue of the sound to one side. Consider the level of work that went into this box set and the previous two. the fan club insert, the duplicate period correct inners the sticker for the rear of Low speak volumes for the care and respect for Bowie’s work by all involved. The risk in future is that faced with this level of vitriol a major company will look at a project like this and say “nah” “why bother ? sell them the old stuff again and don’t bother with care and detail as they(the fans) obviously don’t appreciate it. Last thought when i was younger the idea of boxsets such as these were the stuff of dreams, are we all spoilt by an embarrassment of riches these days and as a result become navel gazing nit pickers? Finally i would like to thank Paul for his open minded stewardship of this thread you have done a brilliant job sir .
the other option is that they pull their finger out and actually deliver on the sound, rather than polishing up the old proverbial t-word in the hope that nobody will focus on the sound quality.
there wasn’t the same level of complaint about the other 2 sets – so they mostly got positive reviews – they both have their mastering faults too, but not to same level as this set. that is why this set has received “the level of vitriol” it has, otherwise the level of nitpicking would have been just the same for the other sets. a lot of people think they’ve done a terrible job and so they are calling them out on it – how is that any more or less valid than vapid praise?
I am a mastering engineer, I had no involvement in this project, but know the people that did.
So, what are we supposed to do? People complain when we don’t use analogue masters and now you complain when we do.
No matter how well analogue tapes are stored, they will degrade after time. Trying to repair loss of energy is incredibly difficult.
I have been a mastering engineer for many years working at some of the the very top studios in London and I cannot recall any project where so much effort and dedication has been given.
I can understand that the result may not be as people expect and that they may not realise the issues time causes to analogue tapes, but it is unfair to belittle the effort, time and skill this project has received.
I wish I had been chosen to work on it.
Does this then mean they won’t be remastering these every again – so as to not degrade the tapes still further? It would be very irresponsible to just detroy them to keep churning out new remasters to resell to the public. Although, maybe the next set will employ the new “technology” to repair damaged tape used for the new Moody Blues release (mentioned in another article). I do have a sneaky suspicion they will come up with some way of ‘improving’ on this.
Can you point to other examples of new remasters with these sorts of flaws? And if not, does that mean the methods used to fix them weren’t very good or whoever is looking after the tapes is not storeing them correctly – resulting in them being far worse than all other major artists master tapes.
Although, I suppose it will be remixes next anyway, that seems to be the way these things go – will be good if they add the “analogue transfer master” on the next standalone box sets (like they did with station to station). That edition was brilliant and far better than the WCABN box set version.
They don’t need to go back to the tapes again. They have the digital transfers and Visconti’s remasters.
so the transfer process will not continue improving, warranting a new transfer? i’m fine with that, as the transfer process improving (in regard to this) has somehow resulted in the end result lowering in quality, but i find that very hard to believe.
let’s hope this site is still around (it is a great site for info on new releases etc…) if things change in that regard, and you then quickly point out the lack of need in doing so!
Well, until the next advance in technology! ;)
Danny Gromfin says:
Ryan – I have been wondering what exactly does “loss of energy” mean in this context? I’ll take my answer off the air, thank you. ;)
Punk Anderson says:
I certainly respect your passionate defence of your acquaintances and their work, not least when attempting to repair the energy loss in “Heroes”, but … do you actually think the final result was a success?
To someone who has never operated a mixing desk in his life, it still seems unbelievable that the overall volume of a track could not be adjusted during or after mastering …
Same goes for cutting the ‘Red Sails’ intro short, by the way.
Chris Hanington says:
WOW, this set is amazing!!!
This is my follow up since I finally received the set yesterday morning. I have gone through the entire set and I give is a six star review!! I loved everything about this set as it brought back so many great memories as I went through LP by LP. I was prepared to be disappointed from all of the reviews here but in fact was totally blown away with Low!! The Lodger remix is like hearing and old favorite for the first time again…love the different ideas Tony has put in place. Everything is exactly what I was hoping for and more!! I have all of the original RCA LP’s and CD’s, the Ryko CD’s and of course the EMI versions including the Japanese mini LP’s and this set is my favorite for sure!! I thing this set closely resembles the original pressings over everything else. Sit back, listen and enjoy everyone!!
Schu says:
It appears that some are trying to sensor the site based on comments they don’t agree with. I think Paul has done an exemplary job in keeping this an open and honest discussion that admittedly includes some very passionate opinions that land on both sides of the issue. At a minimum, this has been a very interesting read and gives the consumer more data from which to make their own economic decisions.
I really don’t begrudge anyone for buying (and actually enjoying) this set. I personally find the various issues more dissapointing than riot-inducing.
The deal breaker for me is really the aggressive compression and brick-walling, not the flutter/tape damage or Heroes issue. I’m definitely not going to pay a premium price for CD remasters that are arguably not as good or better than what we have. I might have been tempted by the vinyl if I didn’t already have decent original pressings – but “okay to good” digital pressings just can’t justify the cost for me. If these were done right, AAA etc. I would have bought it without hesitation.
I have a feeling that people who might feel the same as me don’t translate into enough lost sales to make the label care enough to change their approach, but it’s a shame. Unfortunately all the complaints about the other problems (although justified) is probably overshadowing the fact that some people are not buying this mainly because of the brickwalling.
Thanks Paul! I received the set yesterday and after reading the comments, I was prepared to be disappointed.
I just listened to the entire set and I love it. These CDS sound great to me. And the new Lodger is incredible as I’m hearing little things I never noticed before even though I’ve played that album 100s of times.
Don’t let the nitpicking or the insults get you down.
I look forward to your Lodger review!
Funny how they explain away the bottom end issue by saying they were not attempting to recreate the original. Then to explain the Heroes/hiss issue they say that’s just the way it was.
William K says:
I like David Bowie.
I like Tony Visconti.
I like the box set.
I like the 2017 remix of Lodger apart from ‘Move On’.
I like the remastered Low, bass and all. It reminds me of when I first heard it in 1977.
Peace and love to all.
If that’s “a little bit of politics” then thanks but no thanks Ralph. Cannot and will not see a connection between Blue Vinyl Elvis or Bowie Box sets and what I think you are driving at. One of the nice things about here is that *most* people check their politics in at the door. It’s tiresome, distracting and ultimately pointless as not one soul will ever change their mind in a politics debate. Either way.
Paul, another of the good things about this site is that you post all comments, even if they are against you, the website or your opinion. I am not sure I would be so generous of spirit. Hyperbole is the way of the ‘net. Some people and media outlets don’t feel able to say something is OK, or it’s not so bad, or could be a tad better. 0 or 10 are the only marks on some palettes with nowt in between. It has to be “the worst ever” or “he’s rubbish and tone deaf and everything he’s done is crap” I don’t know what it is but the middle is getting lost. Sadly. As with genuine insight, positives and negatives weighed up against history, expectation and that most deadly of things….. hope. This site treads that fine line, perfectly for most of us it would seem. As with most things in life, the answer and the truth is usually somewhere in the middle, as it probably is with this box set. A shame some only feel alive on the extremes.
How comforting that you all care about a “change in volume” but are deaf for the cries for help from people in need.
You might have to explain that…
“and” sorry
Tony Visconti is asd was a certain sort of producer .None of his work is
what one would call Hi fi quality(name a well recorded Bolan album?)
He is more an ideas man an enabler, a partner .David Bowie was a man of singular ideas
i would imagine you steered him rather than fitted your sound to him.
He trusted Visconti with his legacy . we should too!
Trash says:
“Visconti is a liability. He is quantifiably bad at his job and has been bad at his job for decades. He is single-handedly ruining Bowie’s legacy with his remastering. ”
I honestly have to say that this qualifies as the most over-the-top statement I have read in a long time.
Max Bisgrove says:
The explanation from Parlophone regarding Heroes is complete BS I’m afraid. I compared the newly remastered Heroes with all previously released versions and the drop in volume on the new version is massive. It does not exist on any other released version. I also studied the waveform and there is a very visible drop in amplitude at 2min 50sec. This is not a problem with the master tape. Magnetic tape can be prone to dropouts or changes in frequency response if not stored correctly but there is no change in the overall sound, just a big drop in amplitude. In fact what really happens is just before the drop in volume it actually gets a bit louder (I can visibly see this) and then suddenly drops down. It actually sounds and looks like somebody (a tape op to scared to own up per chance?) accidentally pushed up a fader during the mastering process then panicked and quickly pulled it down again, overcompensating WAY TOO MUCH!! (I have posted the waveform of this section of the track below.) I am a professional sound engineer with over 30 years experience and I know that if anyone had noticed this issue after mastering it would never have been released as is. Incredibly sloppy and the reason/excuse given just doesn’t add up I’m afraid. Just a poor bit of damage limitation. I’d love to hear what Tony Visconti has to say about it.
Rich L says:
I have no problem with the set’ I bought the CD edition. I noticed the “Heroes” volume change right off, but it did not bother me. The explanation given by Parlophone should have been included in the book, but the essays in the book were either by Visconti or long-ago reviews. As with virtually every remaster release by any artist, there were no recording notes such as there were with The Beatles remasters. That is more a testimony to the resources The Beatles have at their disposal than any inadequacy on Parlophone’s part.
What I really have I have problems with is the ad hominem attacks on Tony Visconti ad nauseum . They are the essence of what is wrong with the Web today, along with the hysterical responses from posters here, on hoffman, on Amazon, and on Discogs. If I were not already familiar with and utterly disgusted with the phenomenon, I would have had a hard time not thinking it was a poor attempt at over-the-top sarcasm.
Look. We were all reminded two days after this set came out what is really worth getting upset about, just as we were suddenly jarred two days after Blackstar came out what losing David Bowie meant.
Step back and breathe.
“ad hominem ….ad nauseum”
I see what you did there. However, your claims of a fallacious attack is….fallacious.
If a footballer plays a bad game, makes mistakes, is unprofessional etc. then the footballer and relevant parts of his character and actions that led to the performance and are rightly criticised.
Nobody is making ad hominem attacks on Visconti. The “attacks” are on his capabilities as a professional record producer, nothing else.
And that’s fine.
All professionals should be judged on their capabilities. If you are bad at your job, your boss will tell you that you are useless and sack you.
Visconti is a liability. He is quantifiably bad at his job and has been bad at his job for decades. He is single-handedly ruining Bowie’s legacy with his remastering. But we are supposed to give him a free pass because of some records he produced 40 years ago.
I would very much like to see a younger, fresher, more talented engineer and producer remaster and remix Bowie’s work.
To stretch the footballing analogy, a manager is only as good as his last match.
I look forward to you finding this “more talented” young producer that’s better qualified to work on DB’s archive than the man that Bowie had a close working relationship during almost his entire professional life.
it’s not my job to find this person! Dr Toby Mountain, in his 40s back when he did the Ryko masters, did a good job. There would have been thousands of engineers equally qualified and talented. The music industry is full of such talent!
Bowie certainly had a relationship with Visconti over his life; but not “during almost his entire professional life”
If TM, TM2 ad BOS are considered Bowie albums (and why not) then out of 28 studio albums, Visconti produced the grand total of 2; and was a co-producer on 9.
That’s not almost Bowie’s entire professional life. It’s much less than half.
It’s still significant, notwithstanding the fact that we do not know what the share of labour was in these co-productions.
The world is full of amazing and talented young engineers producing amazing work that knocks Visconti’s into a cocked hat. To even contemplate that Visconti is near the top of that particular totem is absurd. The Emperor has been naked for decades! He got lucky with Bowie and was in the right place at the right time. Fair play to him. But because he was around amazing talents 40 years ago means nothing today. Frankly, he ain’t that good, and a quick browse of his work in the past couple of decades shows it.
I’m checking out of this conversation. In fact I might close comments completely on this post soon. Tony Visconti will go down as one of the greats…it’s not even up for debate. It’s a fact.
William: If you won’t listen to a reasonable point and temper your criticism, I’m not going to engage any further except to ask you ask you what your audio engineering credentials are, who you have worked for, and have we heard any of your albums, especially your ’60s and ’70s work when audio engineering was moving forward so quickly.
Me? I have no audio engineering credentials. I admire the professionals who do the grinding and often tedious work and receive a boatload of complaints for their endeavors. I am a seasoned professional in another, entirely unrelated field. If anyone said about me what has been said about Visconti, I would treat them as they should be treated: uncivil, uninformed and not worth my time to respond.
betty davis says:
yeah – this is the best it’s ever going to get! sadly, it’s all downhill from hill guys.
well,this is the first of the Bowie Box sets that I’ve bought because this is the one I was patiently waiting for.I did purchase the 2016 remaster of “Station to Station” which I felt was a brilliant remaster.I thought it was a big improvement over all other CD releases of that album and so felt that this set would have comparable remastering and care put into it.I don’t hear the same care and precise remastering on ” A new career in a new town” though.Not sure what happened,but disappointed with the sound here.sorry.
Perhaps they should have presented the “trilogy ” as double discs one original one 2017 master?
It would have quietened the hoffman roar !
Nothing will quiet the hoffman roar.
Funny to read some people here are so negative towards the SHTV forum. They have there the same discussions about this box set as here with the difference some of them are showing proves the critics werd right.
Believe me, far the most at SHTV are just passionate Bowie fans, just like the readers here.
Not negative, I’m a member myself. I’m not an audiophile, having neither the ears nor the equipment. I hang out there because there are smart people there.
Jamil Ahmad says:
Firstly, I would like to thank Paul for all his time and dedication regarding this matter. He has brought forth light! Thank you.
I purchased both the CD and Vinyl Box Sets. I have to say that “Heroes” is the only issue that concerns me. One could liken the problem to experiencing and appreciating a painting…a masterpiece! One is quite simply immersed in its profound beauty only to be disturbed by a “Fly” landing on the painting and remaining there! It disturbs the song! That’s how it is for me! What I can’t understand is why Parlophone did not mention this “obvious” problem in the enclosed book… it is unbelievable, especially so, because it is Heroes!
May I suggest, that it would be right and proper of Parlophone to offer customers the opportunity to send their Heroes CD/Vinyl (without the covers, etc) back to them and in return, customers would receive a repressing of Heroes with the issue corrected. This would obviously mean that they would have to source Heroes from a different master tape!
Regarding the other complaints, I’m pleased to say that I have not been conditioned by all the negative criticism pertaining to Low and Lodger. I think they are brilliant! Whether one likes them or not is purely subjective!
Got mine last Friday, Vinyl edition…. and thought I’d wait until I had actually listened to it before doing what the internet does best, bullying and band-wagon jumping.
I admit I am not the biggest Bowie fan out there but have been an interested, casual listener over the years.
I have to say it sounds fine to me. The “drop” that I heard during Heroes is nothing like I was expecting. I half thought it would go silent for 45 seconds with only the sound of Tony Visconti laughing with a rickety old-age cough to be heard the way some were going on. If taking offence were to be an Olympic sport the internet would have it’s own team.
To me, most editions are part of a journey that will never end because the journey can’t end. All we have to decide is whether we want to jump on or off at any point by buying or not buying. There is no definitive edition of anything because how would we know it couldn’t be bettered. It’s something different and I applaud it for that. Each to their own of course and one might have a favourite version but no-one can state one version is categorically better than another, it’s just opinion.
By the way I have never been to the Hoffman group or whatever it is and I pray I never will, talk about taking the fun out of life and reducing it to specs on a graph (You were 3% happier this time last year and 1 % fatter). Give me Paul’s humanity site any day, look at the art not the numbers. These are pieces of art which can never be turned into Nurses or hip-replacements by pure Math. (Or mortgages and car insurance in my case).
The German 3for2 almost broke me but I don’t care, reduce it all to money and figures and it is rendered pointless. Who needs insurance when you have Slade – yeah!!!
Long live SDE!
Ha! Thanks Chris, for making me laugh with your third paragraph. Not sure which side is ‘winning’ in this extended dicussion, but great to read all the opinions. A bit of humour and perspective is always going to go down better than anger and insults!
@Chris – couldn’t agree more…
Reminds me of when I was young and used to read hifi specs to see which turntable had 0.01% less Wow and Flutter than the others. Then my dad pointed out that all the old stuff he used to play me (as a small child) was all on ropey 8-track cartridge and it never stopped me from enjoying it. It kind of put things in perspective.
Of course I wouldn’t want to go back to those days :-)
Hey Trash, nothing ever matches up to memories. I learned to drive around Birmingham in my Dad’s 1972 Morris Marina (by now 12 years old) – The awful brown colour and I thought it (and I) was just THE business. It would handle, and feel like crap now, but my memory of it was pure adolescent perfection. Probably the same goes for records. Nothing, not even 1/2 speed mastered 45rpm onecut (or whatever it is) virgin vinyl will match the memory of putting Ommadawn on for the first time in 1979, dust’n’all.
Sorry cocked up the statement but was the same explanation
they gave paul.
just received this from burning shed . Parlophone not for turning it seems
Those of you that got a discount from amazon were lucky it seems!Hi
We have received a couple of queries about a “fault” on this box set as a result of poor reviews on other sites.
Warners have issued the following statement:
“Please see below from Parlophone regarding the perceived issues with the new David Bowie box –
Please see below the statement that will be shared on Bowie’s official channels. NB we will not be sending out replacement discs to anyone as this is NOT an audio fault.
This box set needs to be recalled.The sound quality is very poor and in some instances is unlistenable.This is a very expensive set.The problem with the “Heroes” track is horrible and the mastering throughout the other cds is very bad.Only “Low” sounds a little bit enjoyable to my ears.Parlaphone please correct this for the people who have bought this set.Thank you.
Just wondering if ANCIANT-Gate is even bigger than Flowers in the Dirt-Gate…
Ha! Well ‘Flowers’ got about 700 comments across three different posts, so not yet… but 300 comments on one post is impressive. Not sure if that’s a record or not, will need to check!
Phil Wilson says:
a ‘record’. Love a pun!
‘a record’. I do love a pun
I don’t have the set, and don’t plan to get it, but this discussion piqued my curiosity so I went to Spotify to check out Heroes to hear what the issue was all about.
Yes, there is a slight increase in volume at 2:42, but then a sudden drop at 2:50 that sounds like the song is fading out but holds until the end. It is not just an audio illusion, it is real, as one can skip from the first half to the second half of the song and hear a difference.
While the mix up to 2:42 sounds rich and full compared to the other’s available, the volume drop in fullness at 2:50 is gutting. On one run through of the track I manually increased the volume at 2:50 and made it sound more consistent and listenable than the original. Seems like it could have been an easy fix with today’s technology.
I can’t be sympathetic to Parlophone as they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes. It is disingenuous to assert it was the master and that the post-2:50 volume is the same as the pre-2:50 volume when it is demonstrably different. Does no one believe in integrity or quality control anymore? It’s quite sad as the mix could have been the definitive one without the flaw. I hope Parlophone see the light, admit their mistake, fix the issue, and replace the bad LPs and CDs for those who have paid the high price fro this set.
memoryboy says:
OMG!! The Drama!
Demetrios Patsiaris says:
The audio drop in Heroes is no longer present in the Spotify version. I’ve now listened to it twice.
I’ve only listened once, but it’s certainly still there Sure it was the 2017 version?
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dodh7Bi4YhWxs9LxwjnYO
Darren Briscoe says:
Well I’ve now listened to my vinyl box and I LOVE it!!!! The new Lodger mix is wonderful and the revised Stage tracklist makes it feel more like a concert. As for all these sound problems…..my 50 year old ears haven’t noticed them …but they DO recognize great music when they hear it!.
And Paul…..thank you! For this article……for the deal alerts….. For being the first site I visit each morning…. And for being a nice bloke in general.
Paul – thank You for Your tireless effort on the behalf of we, the consumers.
The excuse that the master tapes were used here for the first(?) time being the reason for the level drop in “Heroes” is feeble. What is the point of mastering in the first place? Mastering is often a last stop chance to correct sonic deficiencies. It was apparently done on most/all previous releases of this song…and should have been done here as well.
I have no problem with Mr. Visconti’s re-imagining of the mixes (I’m a bass player, so I love a lot of bottom end in mixes). These Berlin-era albums would naturally be bassier than previous Bowie albums. Keep in mind that on the Ziggy-era recordings Trevor Bolder used a Gibson short-scale bass guitar, which are notorious for lack of bottom end. So subsequent recordings with different bass players using different guitars would yield a more traditional bottom end.
My problem here is the low DR/brickwalling. The Visconti remixes on these box sets are significantly louder/lower DR than the original mixes. In fact, this ENTIRE box is lower DR/sound quality than the previous boxes as a whole. Paul – You said “Parlophone denied that these are overly compressed – that was mentioned in the conversation.” This tells me Parlophone are in complete denial mode (rather than damage-control mode) so, subsequently, we can whistle “Dixie” before we see any replacement discs/masterings.
Sad. I own all three sets as hi-res FLAC downloads, but so far I have none on CD. I was planning on taking advantage of the Amazon Germany buy 2/get 1 deal on all three CD sets – but this ANCIANT debacle has kaboshed those plans. Congratulations Parlophone – my hard earned $$ will be spent elsewhere.
Just to clarify, apart from Lodger (the new 2017 Remix) the albums in this set have not been remixed by Tony Visconti. He oversaw the remastering (in which apparently a boost of the lower end was applied plus lots of compression), but there are no remixes of Low, “Heroes” or Scary Monsters in this set. And the original Lodger is also not a remix.
A lot of somewhat misleading comments here about “wanting perfection”. That’s not the point at all. I’d happily live with a sub-par phase of “Heroes” of a few seconds where the master tape was damaged. And I absolutely respect any decision to stick with the original master.
Thing is, they didn’t stick with that flawed but still legendary master. They tried to fix the thing. And they made a meal of it. On the most iconic, unforgettable song of the entire album.
Of course, Parlophone telling us we’ve all heard wrong, there’s no volume drop at all, doesn’t help either. But nah, no one demands perfection, a few of us just don’t appreciate hapless masking of IMperfection.
Especially when the darn thing costs a fortune on vinyl.
Kevin from Edinburgh says:
The comments on sound now run to nearly 300.
Is now the time to start discussing the fact that the new box isn’t laminated?
‘Laminate-gate’ anyone?
Daniel Wylie says:
From Paul’s, piece on the Moody Blues reissue:
‘Technology’ has allowed the repair of the audio from the original tapes. Wake up Parlophone.
The statement from parlaphone is pure rubbish, trying to fool people into believing that this is how it should be done ?? I have my opinion and i have my ears, this is the only Heroes release that has this problem ! then we have Low, it sounds like it’s being played in a trunk of a car, plus glitches and drop outs galore on all the other records and the recall3 album full of stuff we don’t need??? Last but not least two versions of stage , oh yeah fantastic job !!
Can’t speak for the ANCIANT box, but I bought the standalone Parlophone vinyl edition of Aladdin Sane and the sound is such a disaster on it that I’ve got no need for further new Parlophone editions of Bowie’s work. Pity.
Whew I’m glad I didn’t rush out and spend my hard earned cash for something of its price now. If any of you aren’t happy with your boxset and are willing to sell your boxset at a greatly reduced price, please let me know and I will gladly take it off your hands.
Sure I’d gladly sell you mine so you can take advantage of my loss. UNREAL that you would openly express relief at not having bought the boxset and then soliciting someone to sell to you one cheap!
Bobbyjean says:
Paul has his opinion and people are forgetting that he’s entitled to it.I like the box set personally and the heroes thing doesn’t affect me.I have the original heroes but I prefer this sound drop or not.Paul isn’t the spokesperson for this box set so why keep going on to him about it.he got you the answer from the record company .anymore problems and im sure people should write to them or send them a message.you want answer’s Paul simply can’t give.keep up all the good work Paul
A New Excuse For A New Box Set. says:
I`ve sent my vinyl and CD box sets back. I ain`t takin` in no Parlophone bollox.
Paulix says:
In regards to people complaining about being able to hear tape hiss
Personally I say leave it alone, don’t use noise reduction in any way.
It tends to cut the natural sound and decay around instruments/vocals , suppressing some high frequencies and deafening the overall sound.
Yes technology has moved on in regards to noise reduction software for studio use but it’s effdfts are audible, certainly around pianos
Listen to some of the remasters of Elton John for example and compare them with the originals where you can hear a notes decay cut short from the use of such systems.
Everyone is talking about the volume drop on the track “Heroes” at 2:50 but has no-one heard the volume increase at 2:42?
Very noticeable.
I must say though that the album “LOW” is clearly better quality than any RCA / RYKO /EMI etc etc issues out there in comparison.
It definitely sounds like it’s from the original master tape.
Makes you wonder just which master “copy” has been used previously.
Paulix – Ryko used the master tapes held by Bowie.
The ANCIANT release of Low has the lowest dynamic range of any issue of the album.
The Ryko release has the highest dynamic range.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=david+bowie&album=low
It’s sad (to me) that the most compressed issue of the record can be considered the best. Has the loudness war really changed the way we expect to hear popular music?
Horses for courses, but I’ll stick with my rykodiscs!
cmcintyre says:
Paulix, you’re correct – there is a very noticeable volume increase after @2:42 ( followed by a drop). Here is an excerpt of one of my posts on the SHMF that identifies that, and attempts to explain why there is a “perceived” volume drop. In summary, the vocal level immediately before and after the rise is quite different, even though on all previous editions this is not the case – the vocal level remains constant.
” there are two basic vocal sections – the first (with just a close mic) and the second when Tony Visconti employed a gating system (as David sang louder and louder two mics would open up, one at a time, capturing the room reverb).
What surprised me when clicking back and forth on earlier digital versions, is in the second section, the vocals, while sung louder and with more reverb, are not recorded louder than vocals in the first section. The effect is louder, but strip away that reverb and I’d say the main unadorned vocal line in the second section is actually a little quieter. A very clever audio illusion by Tony Visconti, that’s been there all along. The original master of “Heroes” was /is a very finely tuned balance of illusion and sound.
The problem with the volume drop is there, but now I can describe it succinctly and why it’s sticks out so much – the last vocal line of the first section “just for one day”, which occurs after the change (small rise and fall @ 2.46/7) is at a softer volume than the section that precedes the change. That is not how it is presented on earlier releases – that vocal line is at the same volume as the preceding section on earlier releases.
Bring the volume up in the second section so the final vocal line (“just for one day” @ 2:54) in the first section is at the same volume as the earlier verses and it’s about where it’s meant to be. (“Meant to be” = presented on all previous editions).
In addition to any tape faults – I suspect I know what’s caused/contributed to it too – the compression that’s been added. The squashing down of the dynamics has resulted in a shift of the vocal level in both sections, and because they are at different levels in the first place, the difference has been amplified.
Am I suggesting that the perceived fault is OK? No, not at all – but perhaps it will be easier for someone related to the project to understand what it is exactly, where to ‘measure it’ and how to correct it.”
For people following that vocal line – (end of the ‘dolphins’ verse – “just for one day”) – they will find the volume drop of the vocal jarring. I believe that’s the trigger for the response we’ve observed (about the drop in volume on “Heroes”).
Thanks. Very interesting.
regan judson says:
Paul, you run a great site here! It makes me a bit Ill that Some feel the need to drag your name into this Bowie mess, as if you are some mouthpiece for the label. Nice job even getting them discuss it! Keep up the good work! We appreciate your honest assessments.
I do not get this….”Heroes” sounds like a joke now. End of discussion. The label can say what it wants. The thing itself really annoys me but this “but it all looks so nice” and “they even explained it, so it’s all good now” stuff is killing me. Yes it’s a beautiful set, but they slaughtered the title track and don’t even admit it!!!!
Rob Jones –
Companies that succeed take customer satisfaction very seriously. Ones with the attitude “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it” tend not to succeed.
This is the umpteenth re-issue of this music in several years. The law of diminishing returns has led Parlophone to maximise the profits of a small number of sales. The days of best-ofs like ChangesBowie selling millions and being in the top forty for a year are gone.
So I don’t think the “don’t like it don’t buy it” attitude is the correct one in this case either for the company, which is selling to a tiny subset of a dwindling customer base; nor that subset, who want, at last, the best possible versions that technology allows. It’s not the correct attitude because, with this set, I am sure we are in the “don’t buy it” territory.
The news of this balls-up is everywhere. The early-adopters and pre-orderers are essentially where the sales for these boxes are at. There’s a long shallow tail in sales, and these things sit on the shelf for years. These threads are not helping sales, the terrible reviews on Amazon will be crippling. It’s all over social media. Of all the songs on that set, there is one that you just have to get right. They got it wrong. It got the punters going through the rest of the set with a fine toothed comb.
I think it’s perfectly valid that the lifelong fans that are buying these products should be able to complain, whinge and moan when the company gets it wrong. And it is right that the company should listen and make things right. I don’t think there will be a recall, but am pretty sure that the wheels are in motion to get that particular song remastered, the discs repressed and replacements sent out.
Rob Jones says:
Had to skip a lot of responses on this thread just to put in my two P’s worth.
It’s the snobbery that’s crushing me.
There seems to be a lot of people with a little remastering experience (and noticeably younger ears) who are thinking they will get the remastered version that THEY want if they scream & complain about it loud and often.
Personally I prefer the original recordings and I don’t see much can be done to improve or disimprove(?) my enjoyment of a track like Heroes or an album like Lodger. So re-mastering doesn’t affect me so I have no need to own it.
If however you think there was a problem with the originals or subsequent remasters or a completist looking for your own personal mix, I feel you really are chasing a unicorn.
Bowie has gone and any subsequent work isn’t wholly his, so just don’t buy it if you’re not happy that someone else is twiddling the knobs.
Which ‘original recordings’ are you talking about? And how can we get those?
The point why many are now loudly complaining is that, with the chance that with this reissue this time they finally can get “Heroes” to sound good, they again mess it up. While the EQ of the remaster might be OK, its dynamics are crushed so it doesn’t sound good (certainly not at reasonable to high volume). Plus, on one of Bowie’s most iconic tracks they overcorrect some issue in such a way that you have a noticeable drop in volume for a large part of the song.
So yes, people will be disappointed. And complain loudly so hopefully this can be done right.
So, The Moody Blues original tape from 1967 can be repaired and used for their Days Of Future Passed, but tapes for later recordings like Heroes cannot receive the same treatment..?
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed-50th-anniversary-deluxe-set/#more-134927
Looks like you’ll be needing a bigger blog
Thanks for the YouTube link to the Heroes glitch. Now that I hear it I think you are being fed a load of nonsense. That is no tape fault. If there’s a problem with a master it usually sounds like a fluctuation between channels or on one channel, i.e. a tape crimp or damage. Tapes just don’t drop evenly in volume without additional anomalies, unless it was done during the original mixdown but then you would have heard it on all previous editions. Perhaps someone decided to bump down the volume because of the excessive compression that was happening, but did they think no one would notice? This is a very easily rectified “fault”. I once spent a total of 10 hours remastering one song (granted, it was from a very damaged acetate test pressing), but when people have the luxury of master tapes, One would think they would at least pay attention for a few minutes and correct something if they hear it, especially something this simple.
brickwalled-billy says:
that should say “can” not “can’t” – quick put a +-6db automation on that sentence before anyone notices!
Bob M says:
My CD box hasn’t arrived yet and I wish I hadn’t seen this whole thing – sorry Paul – really appreciate all you do for us music fans and collectors! But after going through all these comments, where indeed some people like it, more not, I have to wonder about the unspoken stuff. Firstly, what kind of kit you have, then how is your room acoustics, and then, your overall taste in bass and treble ratios. For example, I checked out a list on What Hi Fi of the best CDs for audiophile testing. I happened to have some of them, and checked them out with “new” ears. Some were indeed well recorded and sounded sweet on my system, but then some were average at best and one was just plain awful. To be honest, I stopped going to Hoffman as so much was about technical measuring and loudness and all this stuff when in fact you can’t claim to have the “right” opinion when others don’t have the same listening conditions. If there is an actual fault on the recording, that’s a different ball game and should be addressed properly.
Mastering discussions obviously form part of assessing the merit of box sets that feature reissued music, but I have no desire to go down the Steve Hoffman Forum route with graphs, white coats, measuring how thick the granite is that you place your speakers on and deciding one CD sounds better than another because some software told you it has DR rating of 9.2 and not 8.7. I have reasonable kit – OPPO 105, Rega Planar 3, etc. – but I’m not obsessed with hardware. I probably enjoyed Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love MORE when I was 15 listening to it on the original cassette tape than I have ever done via the Audio Fidelity vinyl remaster when in my 40s. Music is about passion, enthusiasm, discovery, connecting with people (who like the same thing) and can be truly life changing. A slightly better sounding remaster has never changed anyone’s life.
Paul, I agree 100% with you when you say that we should not decide A sounds better than B because some software told us.
But I don’t think that is happening (at least for me, and a lot of people from what I gather from review and forums).
What is happening is that flaws (and there are many of them) have been noticed by listening to the records; and that audiophiles with their software have confirmed what we can all hear.
Nearly everybody has heard the volume drop on Heroes for example. We do not need software to tell us. The record company then lies that there is not a volume drop and offers some waffly BS and a wave of the arm. So the audiophiles prove it with their software. It’s sad that it has to come to that. The honourable thing would have been for the record company to admit what the fault was (instead of lying and telling us what it wasn’t) and offering replacement discs etc. I will be gobsmacked if this doesn’t happen soon.
Agreed. Hoffman is a trail not worth traveling. They are still mad @ me since I built a stage & put nine (9) JBL monitors on it. Although twisted it sounds great & can break (crack) windows. What fun!!!!
+1 bravo Paul its the distance from its release+ how much older you are
that really counts.
the steve hoffman forum have had issues with all three sets and it’s mostly gone unnoticed outside of the site – the fact that this one has spilled over into the rest of the internet means that the errors are far more obvious for most listeners. everyone can hear the problem with heroes, you’ve got to be hard of hearing not to notice that.
paul likes to point out the packaging and original artwork etc… which is perfectly fine, nobody says he’s nitpicking when he says a cover design doesn’t look right or authentic. i don’t understand why the same shouldn’t apply for those who do the same with the music – using audiophile like it’s a dirty word – phile means a liker or lover of something.
so rather than people saying “i’m no audiophile!”, or “i’m tired of these audiophiles” maybe they should say “i’m not really a great lover of audio myself” etc… instead
Packaging isn’t as subjective as mastering. If the repackaging of a vinyl record is shoddy, most people will agree – photo is not sharp, they haven’t used the right font, etc. etc. But with remastering it’s just constant arguments and one person saying ‘brickwalled’ and another saying ‘it sounds great’. A never-ending loop of noise.
Thing is Paul, when one person listens to the music and thinks “brickwalled”, they can at least show evidence that it is: that is – empirical evidence that is independent of their subjective hearing. A completely deaf person, would see the evidence (say a waveform) and say, “yup, brickwalled”.
“Sounds great” is, as you say, a subjective never-ending loop of noise. Some people prefer “brickwalled” records (this is obvious, or it would not be the current vogue); some people prefer a larger dynamic range. I tend to find brickwalled recordings fatiguing. I cannot listen to the Next Day all the way through for example.
Most hardcore fans – the ones buying expensive box sets rather than listening to brickwalled remasters through youtube on a laptop – would tend to prefer the larger dynamic range, because most of us have pretty decent sound system in which the dynamic range is pleasant and gives the music some dimensionality. Others prefer that everything is now the same volume, and the previously quiet sax’s are as loud as the lead guitars.
True.. but it’s the “why-do-you-think-this-sounds-good-when-I’m-showing-you-a-graph-that-proves-it-doesn’t” that I object to. It verges on bullying at times. Ears always trump data as far as I’m concerned. I’ve heard masterings which sound awful and you do a bit of research and everyone agrees. But I’ve also heard stuff which I don’t mind (probably somewhere in the middle) and you get people aggressively telling you it’s a “brick-walled mess” and they’ve got the “empirical evidence” to prove it. Bugger off, is my response to that.
what would your opinion be if, say for example, peter blake was to step in on the last sgt pepper reissue and say – “back in 1967 i actually wanted to make the cover 3d, but we didn’t have the time – so now here’s the new sgt pepper cover as i always intended!” – would you feel that this was acceptable as he was the cover designer?
Revised covers are actually a thing. See The Queen Is Dead, or Phil Collins’ reissues, or kd lang’s last reissue!
i asked if you are ok with it rather than if it’s a thing. you pointing that out does, in itself, shows that there can be a subjective element to cover art etc… it’s not a cut & dry subject either. you yourself point out things on these covers that are not exact (logo obviously – although i don’t think they had to do that – slight colour change on heroes etc…).
these sets really have me promoted as replications of the albums – the cover art, the fan club leaflets and inserts etc… and the music up until this new press release was that they were giving the public the original albums in upgraded sound. they’ve refused to use anything that was not released at the time and have doubled up on a number of albums for authenticity. absolutely nothing about these sets has suggested anything other than releasing the work from the period as it was made at the time. so if they’d done something odd with the artwork i am sure you’d very quickly pick them up on it. which is why in terms of audio content – the press release about adding more bass to low because that is what they wanted at the time (and that bit about “what they wanted at the time” is really the important bit) doesn’t fit in with that ethos at all – it’s just one of the excuses which makes no sense, it’s nothing to do with being an “audiophile” to see the inconsistency in what they are saying.
Well they did that on the deluxe Pepper. ;)
“Brickwalled” is a description that can be visually identified/demonstrated, though, whereas our enjoyment is indeed subjective. Brickwalling is more likely to induce listener fatigue and take away some of the nuances at louder volumes, but equally it is not automatically going to sound bad to some people.
Waveforms and other data can reveal a lot about a recording, but ultimately it’s our ears which tell us whether it’s a pleasant experience to listen to it or not.
(As for “Heroes” debacle, that’s another thing entirely, I’m just musing on remastering in general).
The problem with brickwalling is that both can be true. Often, louder initially does sound better; it is with continued or repeated listening that the drawbacks of brickwalling (i.e., listening fatigue due to the lack of dynamic range) become apparent.
Honestly, I’m not sure I’d notice the “loss of energy” or thought much about it if I hadn’t read this story. I’m not enough of a Bowie-phile to think more than “Oh, funny I never noticed that before” and just assume it’d always been there. Now, can I unhear it now that I know it’s there? Yes, I think so.
why would you notice a “loss of energy” now, that’s the issue they’ve said they’d fixed. they’ve fixed the loss of energy with an increase in volume, followed by either a perceived (if you take the execs words as fact) or real (if you view the wav file) loss of volume straight after it.
i think you’re gettin confused about what’s going on, i can’t quite understand why – based on the pr response, though.
Mikey Roberts says:
Paul – I think it’s really great that you care so much about the music and about your SDE audience that you have taken the time to get stuck into this. Thank you!
FWIW – as for the box, I have the CD version and am thrilled with it – ‘Heroes’ sonic fudging notwithstanding.
Mark Sach says:
The shame of the Heroes track is that, despite this ‘loss of energy’ blip, the dynamics of the song has been altered too. The original as per vinyl, cd, etc, gradually builds in volume as the track becomes more dense, until just after the said 2.50 mark, it really kicks up a gear, especially volume wise. Now, it has been flat lined, which has resulted in crap dynamics.
The rest of the set sounds fantastic, especially in Hi Resolution.
Jeff S says:
Heroes is the crown jewel here, shame they couldn’t get it right
Todd Rawson says:
Sorry Parlophone – not buying your explanation or this box. What’s the point of preserving the “integrity of the master tapes” when the entire thing is a horrible brick walled mess? Has Tony Visconti gone deaf? Stop brick walling remasters and I’ll start buying them.
Has anyone noticed that if your drunk and you play heroes backwards you don’t notice any dip in sound.but it does sound different
I tried that, funny thing is it gets louder at around 3:20, and stays louder until the end, only on the title track though :-)
The drinking also brings on its own ‘loss of energy’.
Tom R says:
I am with Visconti on this one. Those Bowie records sounded overly tinny to me at the time even if you didn’t buy those wafer thin Portuguese pressings from a pile em high sell em cheap jeans store. I have bought every iteration on cd and this new (though surely not the last) version now sounds like the record I thought I had been listening to all along.
Anyone who saw Bowie play any of these songs live in that ere would have a pretty good idea of how they were meant to sound and although there was a lot of “wild mercury” in the top end of things there was plenty of dance floor bass too.
So I am glad that “Low” in particular has had the “Metal Box” treatment – in sonic terms at least. Though it would actually be interesting to have that record on three or four 12″ singles. Heresy for many, I know, but I am more interested in the overall experience than whether there is a minor sonic hiccup somewhere.
Maybe someone should ask Eno what he thinks of them?
Now if you want to talk about what is really missing from these sets lets talk about the tracks that should and could have been included.
Finally a voice of sanity.They were never very good sonically to begin with
the changes people want are imaginary .What next a sonically lush Clash lp?
remixed with synthesizers?. People want perfection from an imperfect medium.
Lee Lewell says:
I have just listened to Heroes and it just sounds plain wrong… surely the whole point of the remaster is to have it sound “better”? give it to Steve Wilson to fix
Erik van der Scheer says:
or Brian Eno?
I’m pretty shocked by some of the comments on here regarding Mr Visconti. I don’t necessarily always like his production (The Next Day and Heathen have never been to my taste) but Bowie chose to work with him. Bowie who had a very very critical ear and a great sense of what he wanted, sanctioned those albums and how he wanted them to sound. For that reason alone Visconti deserves a lot of respect (and that’s ignoring all the other production work he has done over the years).
As for the boxed set. No, I’m not happy about Heroes (whatever the whys and wherefores mayb be) but I’m not going to let it ruin my enjoyment of what is one of the greatest periods of work by one of our greatest artists (imho) or, for that matter, let it ruin my day.
As someone else said on this site – unfortunately remasters always seem to be a gamble. Lloyd Cole and Andy Partridge seem to be able to get them right but they personally put a lot of care and attention into the process. Not all artists seem to have the time or the inclination (and we, the fans, are also notoriously hard to please).
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Complained and was given 30%refund so will take that I guess
Iggie says:
Did you complain by email or did you call them.
Is your version the CD or vinyl
Daveyman says:
To be honest i’m a bit lost in all this (and with other releases which have raised issues) – what exactly is either the fan/consumer and the artist (or curator if so required) actually wanting to present or hear when more reissues/remasters of their favourite albums come out?
Is it:
1. Sonic clarity with no hiss/drop outs/mistakes etc – meaning either a full remix using the multi-tracks or at least a full digital clean up/correcting of the original master tape?
2. The album as the artist originally intended it to be heard- which means to me an exact copy of what we got as either vinyl or CD from day 1 release/pressing – which is in my humble opinion is what we all remember and cherish anyway?
3. or this strange term ‘ like you are hearing it live in the studio’ which to me is complete nonsense and would have no bearing on what the final record would be anyway, especially after mastering and cutting etc processes have been involved?
Personally i’d prefer to hear new remixed versions (á la new Lodger 2017) of the albums than yet another remaster – as at least then we are hearing something new from the original, and will gladly live with this and enjoy as such – the original staying preserved as is without all the unnecessary modern compression gubbins etc added…
In summing up, i’m confused as hell as to what we want/expect most of the time – to me these box sets (and many others like them) are an exercise in presentation with nicely included books etc to which the albums are added.
Nothing wrong with that, but all the hullabaloo about one track error – which could have been rectified at the time in all honestly – just makes me wonder what exactly are we wanting?
there, done…as you were :-)
John Barleycorn says:
Talk about kicking a label when they are down but… I was listening to the previous box (‘Who Can I Be Now? 1974-1975’) last night and played the ‘David Live (2005 Mix)’ discs but noticed that the hardback book track listing did not match the one printed on the disc gatefold sleeve itself.
Book says disc 1 has 12 tracks ending with Knock On Wood but disc 1 actually concludes on track 11 which is ‘Watch That Man’.
It’s a crummy error for sure.
And my error too.. ‘Who Can I Be Now? 1974-1976’ not 1975! Mistakes do happen… sack me.
Nice work. As of now on Amazon USA you can buy this for $109. There are 52 reviews. 10% 5 Star and 61% 1 Star. Never seen that before. Super snarky comments. In the mid-90s people like Dr. John W.C. Van Bogart (yes that is a real person) studied tape life. 1st gen master is thought to last 30 years with about 8 to 12 percent degradation. The change is audible. RCA knows this. I do not believe TV would do anything to harm David’s legacy. I think Tony & David bought a 6 pack turned up the bass and found it to be very cool. I actually like it even though it is different.
Realistically the only versions of anything worth having are the originals
The copies that were manufactured when the artist was
a) alive b) still involved in the process c) young enough and enthusiastic enough
to care .Finally all this pop ephemera was never designed to be a great everlasting work of art like classical music .It was disposable, meant to be listened to on whatever “player” you had to hand ,before moving on to the next “flavour” to paraphrase mr A Ant . Maybe its the lack of new “heroes” that makes us set impossible standards for the old ones? All i know is Bowie’s back catalogue was never designed for so much chin stroking punditry it was “pop” art of its time.
Yes, but it was so good it transcended those old rules, it became classical music so to speak. It indeed is important music and should be treated as such. The original Impressionists were considered “Fauves” and child like. Imagine if that art was treated as such!
While waiting for my vinyl box set to arrive, I purchased the hi-res download of A New Career in a New Town. To these ears, the sound of the new remasters is spectacular. They sound warm and really bring out the details and they made me feel like the Great Man was standing in front of me, singing. Can’t wait for the box set to arrive! I must say I didn’t care much for the perceived drop in volume in the Heroes title track; when I finished listening to the album, all I could think about was: “that’s such incredible music!”.
only wish rhino would address issues so quickly been trying to get in touch with dr rhino about the errors on the pressing for zztop eliminator red vinyl reissue and heard nothing.
It’s a shame to read so many disrespectful comments here. People ask for studio masters without understanding the limitations. Generation loss, degradation before you even have to tackle baking the things.
This is all subjective, what you like, I may not like if that is the case do not buy it. These sets were designed to be a comprehensive collection of all ‘officially’ released recordings. ‘The Gouster’ and ‘Lodger Visconti mix’ must have had approval from Bowie prior to his passing. These are not demos in the sense and I understand the inclusion in these sets. Do I want to hear ‘mix 4a Tuesday the 7th’?? Not really and perhaps only once. Some of the Michael Jackson demos out there are him beat boxing down a phone. Try getting a studio master of that out on a vinyl box set.
Barrie Sillars says:
Firstly, congratulations Paul on this article. Record companies are usually reticent in talking to the “punters”, but you have done a sterling job on our part. When I heard the title track from “Heroes” from the box for the first time I thought it was a different mix as it sounded so different to what I was used to. Fripp’s guitar parts seemed so much more clearly defined. The volume drop I just took as a change in dynamics of the track and didn’t find it too jarring. It is interesting how it is becoming problematic in using original master tapes now, as they are degenerating. Sometimes best to use copy tapes, or go back to the multis and remix. When I heard the recently remastered ELP track “Fanfare for the Common Man” from Works, it had a drop out near the end which I had never heard before. It did sound like tape wear, so going back to the original source does not always provide the best results.
What’s it all digital versions of Bowie cds are badly done besides the 1984 release of RCA, funny enough done by making use of casette masters… Strange, isn’t it? The best (or: less worst) release is done more than 30 years ago.
It seems the record industry does hate someone like Bowie – and even more fans of his music.
Plonk77 says:
I’m ok with most of what has been said but the Heroes explanation is total rubbish. There is no way that should have been released as is and I’m sure there are any number of things that could have been done to rectify it. It’s not as if this set is being marketed as flat transfers of the master tapes or anything like that. Even if they couldn’t fix it, why didn’t they explain it prior to the box release?
Anyway, I feel they are trying to make up a story to match the facts and that is really disappointing and insulting to the people who shelled out £200 for the privilege. I’m actually enjoying most of the set but the Heroes thing and their reaction is really disappointing.
steve carroll says:
Yes Plonk77. What Parlophone is offering up as a ‘defense’ is indeed rubbish. It is straight out of the corporate play book: “You’re holding your phone wrong”; “We had no idea that some of our engineers were cheating on emission tests” and so on. They should do the right thing and repress and re-issue ‘Heroes’. Someone at a high level decided to release a faulty product because they believed it was a more cost effective option. Do they think we’re deaf or stupid? And now they have the nerve to insult our intelligence with PR worthy of the current Whitehouse.
Indeed–at least the Heroes issue should be fixed. I also think the original Mix of a lodger needs restoration. Low was a mastering choice (a bad one) by Visconti.
Hi Paul again thank you very much for your great site and your love for music. I have been a constant visitor of SDE throughout the last year. And I am fully aware of the fact that some “audiophiles” are nitpicking on every little thing. And insulting Tony Visconti who is such a great man all over the internet is a total disgrace. But you not once stated your opinion about the “Heroes” 2017 remaster. Because for me that’s the only real flaw of the boxset, but so big it really ruins the whole set. And I do not believe that somebody does not here that flaw.
Mr X, your rights are with the UK seller regardless of whether the boxset is an import from the USA
Had an email from Amazon saying they had taken the boxset off sale until they’d heard from the manufacturer about the defect.
Mic Smith says:
My copy of the third CD box is waiting for me when I return from a short trip tomorrow so I’ll have to keep an open mind about the problems mentioned on here and over at the Hoffman Forum until I hear it for myself. Rather than get into a debate over the explanation given by Parlophone it does seem the problem was fixable without leaving the “apparent” drop in volume. I still have the Ryko versions from this set to fall back on if I don’t like the sound of the remasters but that does put a large dent in my decision to get the box set if these are not the go to versions. Parlophone’s reputation for doing right by Bowie fans leaves something to be desired (the dreadful Fashion and Scary Monsters single edits on Nothing Has Changed spring to mind for instance) so this could just be viewed as just another example of that. But I had always hoped that these boxes might be the last word on Bowie’s back catalogue (providing they do some sort of rarities mopping up exercise with the stuff they decided to omit) and it appears that isn’t the case which is a disappointment.
Schylar Shoates says:
How come the over-compressing and killing of all dynamics (in the mastering stage) on these new discs were never addressed? I understand it’s an artistic decision, but you’d think all parties involved have finally learned. I’m not opposed to some nice compression in mastering, but these tracks have had the life squeezed from them. It certainly does not make this new box set sound “modern” or “competive.” If anything, It actually sounds dated – like 2003…in a bad way. It wreaks of old guard trying to be hip and “stay relevant”. Another missed opportunity to properly present one of the great catalogs in the history of recorded music. My $0.02.
Parlophone denied that these are overly compressed – that was mentioned in the conversation.
The dynamic range on Low & Heroes, just as two examples, are the worst from ANY release of the album available on the dr-loudness war website:
It’s an utter lie.
brickwalled
yup – and the Ryko releases have the greatest DR. Ryko used the master tapes (which were 27 years younger than they are now); and used a stellar engineer, Dr Toby Mountain.
I’m not usually one to pour over waveforms; but here the use of them as evidence against Parlophone’s lies (yes, lies) are utterly justified.
Parlophone must realise that a greater part of the audience that is buying this box set knows the music inside-out and that it would be impossible to BS them? I’ve been listening to it for 30 years, many other people, for 40 years. I’ve heard every re-issue (since the Ryko discs) suck the DR out of the music to the point they sound like they were taped from an FM broadcast.
Now Bowie is dead, surely proper deluxe treatment of his music is required?
We know what happened to the Heroes bodge – they made a mistake and didn’t notice it. Simple quality control issues. We know what has happened to the rest of the music: fashion for loudness and a producer’s ego that he now knows better than the musical geniuses – and his younger, fresher, self – that made the music all those years ago.
I disagree, but thank you.
Correction: *reeks not wreaks. I thank you.
Matthew Hudson says:
What have you been saying to Amazon for them to give you a partial refund?
I really like this site and congrats for creating something like this. Nevertheless I really get the impression that this is more about rehabilitation of the product than the truth. Because that is just not a good explanation from Parlophone. Otherwise they would said something like: we tried the best available source apart from the original mastertape, but the original mastertape was so superior to the best other available source that we decided to go with this flaw. But to say we used a faulty source just on principle makes no sense to me. Furthermore, there must have been a better way to compensate for the faulty tape than that. Just jump between the song sections (before and after 3 minutes) on your iPod they sound completely different!
I do agree with you. I have the first vinyl pressing of Heroes. It sounds perfect. I think Parlophone tries to evade a megaclaim.
Philip Cohen says:
I’m reminded of the controversy over EMI’s boxed set CD/DVD editions of Duran Duran’s “Duran Duran”(debut album) & “Seven & The Ragged Tiger”, which are extremely shrill sounding, with a digital “stutter” at the start of “Girls on Film”. EMI simply denied that there was anything wrong with the discs, and was quite defensive towards criticism of the mastering engineer. They wouldn’t recall or correct the discs. Subsequently, EMI issued CD/DVD editions of “Notorious” & “Big Thing”, this time mastered properly, but with the mastering engineer’s name kept secret, but by then, the fans were too distrustful to buy them. EMI then petulantly ended the expanded “Duran Duran” series.
The policy of denying that there’s something wrong, and refusing to put things right is simply an EMI tradition, handed down to their descendants at Warner/Parlophone.
The Girls On Film thing was a disgrace, really.
The Duran Duran CD + DVD sets’ faults were not EMI’s worst mastering issues. The label issued a Manfred Mann 4-CD set (“Down The Road Apiece”) in which, during the first-ever official release of a previously unreleased song (“Let’s Go”), there is a mastering glitch(courtesy of engineer Peter Mew) that causes a skip in the middle of the second verse, causing 15 seconds of the song to be omitted….and that glitch goes uncorrected when the song appears as part of Warner/Parlophone’s Japanese Manfred Mann SHM-CD series.
Luckily, through my connections, I had access to a cassette of the song without the glitch, and permitted it to circulate amongst fans when it became obvious that EMI would never correct the problem. And, sure enough, they never did correct it.
Rhino has had a mixed history with fixing stuff. The ZZ Top album boxed set, they replaced the one disc that was audibly distorted due to high compression while the Otis Redding box they never did fix Sitting On The Dock of The a bay and the digital glitches in that disc. The ZZ Top disc wasn’t a mastering error just idiocy at choosing the wrong master for that box.
They used to be so much better but I should also note that the quality control on these later sets over the last decade have been shit.
i noticed that Amazon UK is now selling the USA vinyl boxset and was wondering if anyone knows whether the sleeves are the USA versions or UK?
Also, does anyone know whether buying this version would invalidate my rights if i want to return it?
(just in case the issues pointed out on here are as bad as claimed!)
The sleeves are all standard, there aren’t any variations. Amazon will let you return it, no problem.
i really hope this site will be able to stay as it were: as a way to talk about things without hate, insults or ranting… i understand the points but some post are clearly crossing a line (with mentioning visconti’s age and his inability to hear proberly anymore…)
“is there so much hate for the ones we love?”
As newbie to some of these recordings, I fall into the original argument category of “who are these sets made for” as I only had three Bowie discs before and have now bought all 3 boxsets this year (it’s been frightful on the pocketbook!).
I’ve never heard Low before and to these ears, the version included in this set is incredible. But I do have to agree with the “mob” (ahem) on the forums about the sound on the “Heroes” track as it is really shoddy and the argument of why doesn’t particularly make sense. It just flat out doesn’t sound good. Interested to see where this all goes!
Keep up the great work, Paul! And as another poster said, awesome that this is the site that record companies come to about reissues and issues with the reissues.
eric slangen says:
I agree with LE BARON, well done Paul.
As far as the complaints on the boxset : I think they did a good job. Very good presentation and the music “errors ” I don’t like it but errors can be made and I still enjoy this (and the other two) sets.
Donovan Whittemore says:
Great work as always Paul! What an excellent service you provide. And this vinyl set sounds great to me. Tony Visconti’s work is excellent, a clear labor of love. How so many listeners can feel obliged to abuse him is a complete mystery to me. Are they just as angry when Mom leaves the crusts on their sandwiches? Do they understand the depth of Tony Visconti’s original involvement in the making of these albums? Did they spend a lifetime working with Bowie? I’m really hoping Mr. Visconti will have a hand in revisiting the 80’s and 90’s albums as well. Have you heard any murmurings about future releases?
Tony Visconti only over saw the original mastering of these albums, and the 2017 versions. When cutting music recordings to vinyl LPs, low frequencys (bass) always cause mastering engineers difficulties. So most vinyl LPs have some bass roll-off to enable the records to ever be made.
What if the 2017 CD remasters have for the first time the original (flat) bottom end (bass)? When the past CD remasters were made by engineers they may have mimicked the original vinyl LP version, with bass roll-off?
It may be the case that we are hearing a sound closer to the one heard in the control room during the mixdown for the first time?
This rerelease illustrates the vinyl/CD distinction quite well. Vinyl doesn’t represent what the musician recorded because of the concessions made in mastering, mainly to reduce bass, as you suggest. So this remaster may well capture what David Bowie would have heard in the studio (that is, listening to the master tape, unaffected by the limitations of vinyl) and therefore what he would have wanted the listener to hear. A listener’s preference for the emasculated sound of vinyl, and later CDs that replicate the same limitations, is simply that: a preference. The warm, rich sound of vinyl is just muffled acoustics and surface noise.
Hello Bongo says:
Some really good observations here but there’s something rather vile (not to say Age-ist) about Audiophile obsessives like Daniel Wylie and ‘William’ posting above – laying into a venerable record producer for being 73 and insulting his hearing. Get this, we’re all going to age, and one day you might start to lose that pin-sharp hearing which you prize so dearly – so maybe make the most of those ears while you can?
Ultimately, the Berlin Trilogy and Scary Monsters had a seminal, huge influence on a whole generation or two – probably heard mostly on crappy sound systems, in-car on 8 Track carts or 2nd generation taped copies, or bog standard CD issues played on boomboxes – for the price of the box set you could probably pick up decent early Vinyl pressings and get the sound that everyone heard back in the day – surely that’s the definitive version anyway?
Hello Bongo
I’m in my mid 40s and already my hearing is not pin sharp. I get it tested every 12 months for work (its required). Although my hearing is perfect for my age, its not as good as it was when I was 30, and certainly not as good as when I was 20. I’m the first to admit my senses are not as good as a young man’s, and that they are better than an old man’s. That’s life.
Premier League clubs don’t have 45 year old centre-forwards. 50 year olds don’t run in Olympic track finals. Selecting on performance is never, never ageist.
Visconti’s hearing cannot be as good as what it was 40 years ago. That is a medical impossibility. Add in that he a musician and it is possible that he has more hearing damage than average for his age. Stating that is not slander, or ageist. Maybe he isn’t deaf and just has incredibly poor judgement now? Because nothing he touches sounds as good as what it did 40 years ago when he first worked on it.
Everything the man has touched since the remaster/remix of the Ziggy Motion Picture has been brickwalled, compressed, muffled and generally sounded terrible. I recently bought the Hammersmith show’s soundboard recording from the sound engineer on the night. How can this sound better, brighter and more dynamic than a professional multi-track re-mix? Why does Cracked Actor sound flatter (albiet cleaner) than Portrait In Flesh? Why is The Next Day almost unlistenable due to the dense, flat buried multi-tracked vocals?
And now, we have seen the waveforms, from two independent sources, and we know that the reason stated for the drop out (the transient energy drop) is waffle. If people cannot hear the issue, then they can now see it. A mistake was made, and nobody is fessing up.
As has been said – if Visconti wanted the record to sound like it did in the studio, and went back to the masters to ensure that; then why is the record now brickwalled?
Prior to this release, plenty of people on forums were dreading it because of Visconti’s involvement. That fear has been – again – vindicated.
Hello Bongo, (not your real name, is it?) Just so you know, my opinion is not vile. It’s my opinion and is as valid as yours . It is based on years of experience of attending mastering sessions with some of the world’s top mastering engineers. You might not agree with my opinion and that’s fine but please refrain from calling me vile. In my opinion, they should have got in someone who is currently at the top of their game in the mastering field…like John Davis, rated in the top 5 mastering engineers today, and who did all the Led Zeppelin remasters from original tapes and did a magnificent job of breathing new life into Led Zeppelin’s catalogue. John is a massive Bowie fanatic who also masters a massive amount of the current music you hear/buy today. Some of these Bowie remasters sound like mush. Especially songs on Lodger.
Daniel Wylie, I didn’t call *you* vile – I called your opinion vile. You said “Tony Visconti, is an old man in his 70s with worn out ears” – So you’ve seen his medical records have you? You’ve got evidence to prove his ears aren’t as good as yours or your preferred choice of engineer? No you haven’t. You’re making assumptions about the guy purely based on his age, because his work isn’t to *your* taste.
So what age do you think is the cut-off point for someone to be allowed to do the mastering/mixing job then? What age do you suggest John Davis hangs up his headphones? When should Steven Wilson start checking his pension plans? How old are you? Should we even trust your own hearing of these mixes?
I’m being facetious, but you see my point?
When I say “CD”, I mean the remastered EMI editions…just to be clear. Who really listens to the Ryko versions outside of the bonus tracks anyway? I always thought the Ryko versions did not sound “right”.
Very interesting to read all of these comments however I am not enjoying the Tony Visconti slander…some pretty harsh comments have been said that I believe some people will regret their comments sooner than later. I get it, we are all very passionate about these David Bowie releases and I think we have to keep things into perspective. I have not received my box set yet (I’m in Canada and will be receiving these sets on Friday…I will get back to you after I hear them).
My comments are based on the comments left by Zongadude as I think he is on to something. When is the last time anyone played an original vinyl copy of Low in the last 15 years? We have come use to playing, and hearing the CD and perhaps have come to the conclusion that the CD is the better sounding on the two. I just played my original vinyl copy of Low (UK, Canadian and US versions) and they have tons of bass on the side one! Listening the EMI CD’s, they sound “louder” then the vinyl and if fact, when playing them back to back, my lovely wife started complaining about how horrible the vinyl sounded from upstairs. She asked what was wrong with the stereo! Interesting.
Anyway, I have nothing but tons pf respect for Mr. Visconti and I sure love this web site!! The Canadian music scene isn’t nearly as exciting as what Paul has done for all of us so a huge “thanks” to you Paul. As for the Heroes sound drop…haven’t heard it yet but again, let’s wait to see what Mr. Visconti has to say before we all start casting stones.
Love on ya!
we’ll find out if the drop is really an error when they sell heroes individually. no way they would ship those out with the drop out if that wasn’t what was intended.
I cancelled my order (CD version) but that was due to a finance issue, rather than a quality issue. Despite all the justifiable complaints, the completist in me will still buy this in future. However, there will need to be a serious price-drop.
One question though…..íf Parlophone are not going to repress/replace any discs, will Amazon start selling it again? I’m not keen on paying nearly £100 for it, but I certainly don’t want to pay DOUBLE for a third-party copy. I’m still gutted about having to cancel my Dead Or Alive box-set and not being able to re-order at a decent price. (I did manage to blag the replacement discs though ;))
And another thing – I’m quite jealous of the New Zealand poster who got a refund without having to return his copy. I recently got a refund on a box-set (‘Disco Giants 1-10’) but was expected to return it (they couldn’t find another copy to replace it with). I live in Australia and it was a fairly large box-set (20 CDs in 10 jewel-cases) so the cheapest postage was $50 AUD! I was informed that if I didn’t return it, I’d be recharged for the item ($100 AUD). I was tempted to hold onto it and see if they noticed, but in the end I chickened out and returned it. Amazon’s website says they refund postage if it’s their mistake, but I’ll have to wait and see what they consider a ‘mistake’.
gwynogue, if you email Amazon with a copy of the postal receipt, they’ll refund you for it before they receive it back
KennyR says:
Thanks for taking the time to to produce this article, it has answered a lot of the questions I had. I got the vinyl box set from Amazon UK and am currently awaiting a replacement as Stage 2017 had a pressing error on disc 1 side a track 1.
True to form Amazon immediately despatched a replacement, I am hoping that these are okay and the pressing issue doesn’t arise again.
Here’s what I think…there was a drop out. Tony approved the master with the drop out maybe even thought it was kind of cool. Now it sounds as if (assuming I’m reading it correctly) that Antony wants it like this.
Here’s the problem. I realize the tapes are almost as old as me BUT this has never appeared on any version of the album and, when you get a major remastering campaign like this, one expects a restoration of the tapes where possible. I didn’t ask for a warts and all presentation nor did I want one but that’s what I got. What I did expect was a restorative and, if that wasn’t possible, a remix of the song or, using protools to repair the section in question.
Chris Gerard says:
I’m satisfied w/ the explanation and I love the set. Thanks Paul for looking into this issue – stellar work.
Paul Haze Harrison says:
I’m with Mark Reed on this. I’m not worried about the so called errors in sound as I refuse to pay £200 for a box of records I already own. The minimal exclusive content makes the expense unjustifiable.
Gisabun says:
Hmmmm. If you were re-releasing an album and it contained some hiss or whatever else, wouldn’t you remove it? I could understand if it was on purpose [artistically] done for a single track but not a bunch [or a single side].
Part of the purpose of most re-releases [remastered] is to fix small glitches that were found in the original release – not leave them in as is.
This one could be right up there with Peter Gabriel’s So and Paul McCartney’s Flowers In The Dirt as the big blunders of box sets.
You don’t want to remove hiss from an analogue recording as Noise Reduction doesn’t just remove noise, what’s happened in regard to peopl pointing out hiss is that they’ve compressed the albums tro such an extent that the noise floor with the analogue hiss has been raised to a point where it is now more noticeable for some. What would have been far better is if they’d left the hiss AND left the dynamics – the execs reasonings on all of this is totally contradictory, each statement contradicting the one that went before it, but that is what normally happens when you start telling porky pies to save face. . . .”Always crashing in the same car!”
steve gilmour says:
Still I’ve heard if you complain to Amazon they provide a partial refund – for me 60 bucks – so that makes the box cost me $120. :)
Eric M. says:
Thanks for digging into this, Paul. For the record, I would much rather have a fly-in for four seconds than a drop out just so we can hear it “from the master tape”. But I respect where they’re coming from. Reminds me of the issue with a dropout on the beginning of “Girls on Film” from the Duran self-titled remaster. Would have saved all involved a lot of grief if they had done just a minor digital edit to replace the flaw and left well enough alone.
Great work on getting Parlophone to explain their process, Paul. I’m glad to know now they didn’t do NR of any kind. Also, it’s good to know that with the “Heroes” error, for example, it is not sloppy mastering but something resulting from what is on the original tape. I’m also glad they’ve added some oomph to Low in this edition. If I want to hear it tinny, since this’ll be like the 8th version of Low on my shelf at present (Ryko, Ryko gold, Japan RCA, Virgin, etc, RCA US vinyl) it’s nice to know there’s a listening option with a nice round bottom end.
The West German RCA is still the best of the lot IMHO.
I’ve got over three thousand of his songs including this trilogy so I’ll pass on this.
Parlophone are happy to give us answers for “some” decisions and not others. If they cared about the sound why did they compress the masters and use extensive clipping? To use the original (damaged) master tapes, then deliberately alter the way they sound because Visconti wanted to add base, then also add compression/limiting and therefore altering the sound even further makes no sense. Just use an undamaged back up tape if you don’t intend to remain faithful to the original.
Dear Mr Visconti, stop re-writing history
Dear Parlophone, stop compressing and limiting these masters
Kdoc62 says:
Paul. First thanks for getting this info out. I When I first heard Heroes from the new box set on headphones I didn’t notice the drop out ( maybe I was focus in reading the enclosed book). The second time following reading the brew haha on the Amazon ( US and U.K.) sites, there it was . My attempt for some sort of refund with Amazon US resulted in them sending me a second box ( I don’t think they even read the emails as I mentioned that I didn’t think a second would solve things). So I’ll be giving a friend a nice holiday gift thanks to Amazon. As to the bass issue on Low. I do believe them when they said they wanted to improve the bass. RCA was home to the brilliant idea of Dynaflex vinyl (some of the worst bass response vinyl ever created)
Le Baron. says:
What I really enjoy is that SuperDeluxeEdition website is more and more seen by record companies as THE reference website regarding official announcements or statements they have to publish.
Cheaper for them than organising a press conference…
So proud of you, Paul !
Thanks Paul, I appreciate you spending the time to do what individual buyers of this set could not do. I am extremely disappointed by Parlophone’s respond and it smacks of both BS and arrogance in my opinion. Obviously the party line is to try to explain away the errors as intentional, because fixing them and replacing them has been deemed too costly. As others have pointed out, if these errors were genuinely intentional, they should have been documented in the box’s book / liner notes. Parlophone are going to have a job shifting the next box that is for sure …
JonC says:
This so called technical excuse literally makes no sense at all if you know anything about EQ.
“During the album mastering some high-frequency automation (in the region of +- 6dB) has been added in order to compensate for this. “
What a complete joke this set is.
Anyone has the little errors (distortions) on Warzawa (2017 Stage)
Robert DuPont says:
I don’t own the box, as it is just too expensive. I wait for the individual releases.
But I have heard it on Tidal Hi-Fi, and on the whole, the remastering is good. The Rykos are lifeless, and the 99 remasters are way too compressed, and taxing to the ear. These new masters are more pleasing
I do notice the drop on Heroes, and that should be addressed. Parlophone should suck it up and fix it, and offer replacements. When the individual CD’s come out, I hope it will be fixed by then.
stef1205 says:
They are far more pleasing than the Rykos and the 99s, but they do in no case sound better than the RCAs. This is due to false mastering decisions and worn out tapes that have not been repaired. A real sloppy job. That given, I like the Lodger remix but where is the guitar solo on Boys keep swinging.
Part of the issue with the Rykos relate to the overuse of dpnoise reduction. They had superior sources than what came before and the tapes were in better shape as well. It also appears that any issues with the tapes that might have existed were fixed during the mastering stage.
Maybe I missed it, but has anyone got the same problem as me? My vinyl copy of LOW was very bad on side B. I guess it is a bad pressing, it has some terrible noise in between tracks 2 to 4 and in some quiet spots. Not visible scratches, but it sounds horrific.
Amazon gave me a refund of 20 pounds, to buy a new copy of LOW when it comes as a stand-alone album (guess it will be issued)
fedge says:
Curious why they couldn’t bring in that guy who remastered the Smiths and New Order singles, often re-building a song from different sources to bypass errors. Oddly, it’s also Warners that have yet to officially issue these Smiths and New Order singles box sets.
* Even a Mountain out of a molehill….!
The “Heroes” issue is a careless mistake. Whatever the execs might have said, I don’t think for one minute it was intentional. However, it’s a two second barely noticeable glitch and people both here and on Amazon reviews are really making a molehill out of a mountain.
@RJS – it is not a 2-second issue. That’s what the Parlophone rep claimed. In reality, at 2:50 the compression scheme totally changes, as if by accident.
Charles Ashmore says:
can someone tell me if the two versions of Lodger are easily distinguishable without playing them. I have just received this set via Amazon and checked contents before playing any of it. photos online suggest the covers are reversed but the two versions I have have identical covers and nothing outside or inside to suggest they are any different. Suspect this is a cockup but wanted to check so I can return before playing. very irritating.
They are different. Check out Paul’s unboxing video here on SDE.
hamicle says:
Hi Charles, I have the CD set. On the spine of the new mix of ‘Lodger’ the title is given as ‘Lodger (2017)’.
SimonH says:
Same happened to me!
Charles, the new mix says Lodger (2017) on the spine, the other doesn’t. I thought the disc said ‘Tony Visconti Mix’ on it too?
Thanks William K, hamicle and Phil Wilson – I clearly have a mis packaged set as I have two copies of Lodger original and no copies of Lodger 2017. Infuriating.
Worth posting the YouTube clip of the volume drop in “Heroes”. Because this is only an excerpt, the volume drops at 37 seconds in to this video (rather than at 2:50).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=6_jx5sVQ32s
Plainly, Parlophone is not fessing up to a major error.
spaceboy says:
My copy shipped a few days ago so I don’t have it yet, but if Visconti was involved and approved then that’s good enough for me. I’m in a unique position in that I’ll be hearing these albums for the first time, except of course for the hits.
I will say this about de-noising. I would think if a recording can be made to sound better by removing tape hiss, why wouldn’t that be done? I recently bought 5 of 6 of the 2017 SHM remasters of The B-52’s. Usually modern limiting is applied, which if I’m not mistaken helps to increase the signal to noise ratio. No limiting applied on these so I’ve got them cranked in the car. At the end of a track on the first album you can hear the tape hiss. It would’ve been nice for them to clean that up a bit…
Firstly, thank you for taking the matter seriously to discuss it with Parlophone. Just focusing on the volume drop in “Heroes”, I wonder if in your discussions what comparison and visual might have been relied on – with all the best intents (on all participants) things may be missed.
A soundwave posted to the Steve Hoffman Music Forum of the Parlophone CD , shows a number of things happening on the track – a rise and fall around the period that is referred to in the response, as well as a decrease in the overall volume and a decrease in the number of peaks and clustering of peak levels after this ‘rise and fall’ @2;46 /2:47. Prior to the ‘rise and fall’ there are many clustered peaks, much more than after.
A comparison is made with an earlier mastering (the 1990/1 RYKO), and though they have different tonal qualities – the number of peaks after the “rise and fall” actually increases, not decreases. The clustering of peaks is even throughout the track. The general volume of the RYKO stays constant throughout.
The soundwave images strongly support what people’s ear having been telling them. I’d respectfully encourage you to do some comparisons yourself.
Here’s a link to the soundwave images and (my) interpretation, in the light of the official response ;
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/david-bowie-a-new-career-in-a-new-town-1977-1982-boxset-3.683605/page-179#post-17291766
thanks for that waveform comparison.
The drop is obvious, and not transient.
The horrible loudness and clipping of the Parlaphone re-master is not great either. It shows that this is NOT a clean transfer and master to sound like what Bowie and Visconti heard in the studio; but rather another victim of the loudness war.
Thankfully, I have a full set of Ryko discs, and high-resolution FLAC rips from them.
Why didn’t they just cut in the flawed section from the single edit where there is no volume issue? 10 minute edit job and issue removed.
cloth-eared-consumer1313 says:
because that isn’t what’s happened, let’s be honest. if you look at a waveform of the track what they are saying isn’t true.
Zongadude says:
Thank you Paul for letting the people in charge setting the record straight about all this.
I just want to mention one thing: the 2017 LOW sounds exactly (to my ears anyway) like the original UK Lp of 1977. I happen to have a very good copy of this original Lp, and I checked both Lps (the 1977 one and the 2017 one) back to back, very carefully, on high-end equipment, and to my surprise they sounded exactly the same !. The 1977 UK LOW album WAS bass heavy. As much as the 2017 one :)
So to me they actually did a good job in the sens that all these new masterings sounds very much like the orginal albums.
it’s most interesting as it goes totally against what the company has said – there is more bass, tony added more on, as he always wanted to do but couldn’t at the time – so zongadude can’t be listening correctly.
Has anyone else looked at the “Heroes” waveform using Audacity? I don’t know how to upload a screenshot, but it’s quite interesting to look at; the overall shape changes at the 2:50 mark, and stays changed for the rest of the track.
Yes,i looked at several waveforms and it’s true: The volume drops after 2:50 and never fully recovers. It almost sounds if a lot of compression was used for the first minutes and then it is suddenly switched off at 2:50. Very annoying and unacceptable for me.
All sound a bit “wrong kind of snow” to me but confirms that Parlophone are not the people to be trusted with Bowie’s catalogue.
That they are prepared to take the song that perhaps more famously than any other builds in sonic intensity through TV’s series of microphone gates and deliver a version that gets quieter does not surprise me. Of course there were alternative option but they elected not to take them which is an error of judgement in my opinion even if a true reflection of the master tape.
The fact that they charged AUD$70 for a BOWPROMO lp with channels reversed and running 3% slow shows they are not on the ball. I wish you’d have slipped in a questions about that one!
Did you put it to them that including a remix of Lodger would appear to suggest that the others would not be tinkered with to suit TV’s preferences these days? Surely if you include a full remix, the others should be presented in their original form.
Did they comment on the audio issues in the Lodger remaster, specifically the glitch at 1:28 in African Night Flight? They cannot claim that comes from the master because it’s not on the remix and not on any previous edition, and I listened to all four previous cds to compare.
Thanks again for taking time out of your day to talk to Parlophone.
“and I listened to all four previous cds to compare”
Well at least you have those four CDs to fall back on whenever you have the urge to listen to Lodger…
@ Paul Sinclair – [apologies in advance for the ego boost – it is necessary though] Over the years your site has absolutely reached number one on my list of favorites visit. It’s been enjoyable watching your professional growth as an editor, reviewer, critic, etc. and you’ve reached new heights in my book by the recent invitation to Warner’s HQ Office. So it isn’t just us, the readers, who admire you- you’ve earned the respect and admiration of the artists, their labels, all the while expanding upon your fandom with SDE. Well done!
Ha! No apologies, needed for ego boost ;) But seriously, many thanks. Very kind.
If they were aware of the inherent fault in the Heroes master and still felt they had to use it then they should have put a corrected full album version of Heroes on the Recall disc or on the multi language Heroes disc.
Worst part is they are not going to correct it.
Thanks Paul for your work on this.My copy is still on its way to Australia from Amazon UK and you can guess what part I’ll be listening to first.
WBK says:
Ok, they remixed Lodger. And they remixed Low. Byt they did nit fix the loss in Heroes to stay true to the analog master?
Come on, that is totally bullshit!
Low wasn’t remixed, only Lodger. They were all remastered though.
I don’t quite understand why you would keep the “integrity of the original master tape” if that one is deteriorating to a point where there is a “loss of energy” as stated above. If that was Bowie’s intention then that’s one thing but of course it wasn’t. When will they switch to a back up master tape, when the song is barely audible? I mean, where do you draw the line? I think there is only one integrity and that is the integrity of sound. If the sound clearly suffers, you move on to the back up tape. I’m glad I’m not buying these Bowie boxes. Spares me a lot of aggravation.
Agree!!
Does anyone have a good contact email for Paralphone? I already have Dr. Rhinos. I want them flooded with complaints. They are flat out LYING about the “Heroes” issue (just look at the waveform!!!) and it needs to be corrected.
As an addendum to this discussion I would urge you to read an article in the current issue of HiFi News (vol 62 no. 11) called “If it ain’t broke, why remix it?”.
It features Jakko Jaksyck discussing his own judgment calls when remixing albums for reissue and is particularly interesting when discussing when he took a mixed master to get it prepared for a cutting master and a whole load of compromises there were made so it didn’t sound like it was intended.
I guess people get to like the “wrong” version and when this is corrected to it should of been it riles them because it wasn’t how they remembered or experienced it.
It also references Giles Martin and the omni-present Steven Wilson.
Gp says:
J’ai réécouté mon vinyle original il n’y a pas de baisse de volume, c’est d’ailleurs le cas pour les version française et allemande sur le cd du coffret 2027, l’éditeur se moque de nous
so, its a feature not a bug? what a joke.
If the original master tapes were damaged then they should not be used. The best quality tapes should have been used. To use a damaged tape, and not fix the damage, then dress the damage up as a feature is just absurd. It’s worse than absurd – its bullshit.
Visconti has never been involved in the previous re-masterings? Well, thank god for that. The man is tone-deaf. He has long lost any range in his hearing. Everything he has touched, going back to the Motion Picture Soundtrack, has been a disaster. All he manages to do is make things worse.
It is claimed he wants to make the music sound like it did in the studio. But he CANNOT. His ears are 40 years older. At age 73, he cannot listen to the tapes with the same ears as a 33 year old. What he thinks sounds correct sounds terrible.
He is ruining Bowie’s legacy, and ruining his own legacy.
Bowie’s estate needs to get the master tapes in the hands of a young, talented engineer. Get a clean, flat digital transfer and get a proper, authentic digital remaster.
Visconti is a liability.
They weren’t saying it was a feature. Also why dump the whole master tape for a rogue 3 or 4 seconds? I get that you don’t rate Visconti’s work on the remastering but he’s surely due a little bit more respect for a pretty amazing life’s work. There are ways of saying things…
Paul – I never said “dump the whole tape”. I said the best quality tapeS (notice the plural) should be used. Here I include previous digital masters if tapes do not exist. The best quality sources should always be used.
Frankly, they DID say it was a feature. It was a “feature” of the degraded tape that they deliberately chose to include. If the tape was completely trashed, would they have used it? Of course not/
If we were having a debate on Visconti’s work 40 years ago – fine, but we are not. I am rating Visconti’s present work, because that is the work that is presented here for to us to buy. And as consumers, we are right to critique that work. Every champion needs to hang up their gloves at some point. To carry on is embarrassing. Visconti does not get a free pass because of past glories. Sorry. This music means a lot to me, and I am sure it means a lot to the millions of fans who will never hear a new Bowie record. This is all we have left of Bowie’s music. It needs to be respected. It needs to be preserved for future generations.
Well kudos for them being totally upfront about it, but yes, they should have done that from the get-go and not let fan uproar warrant them doing this. Booklet should have the been the place to mention this. But I will never buy this “in order to stay true to the deteriorated master” we chose to not fix it in the best way. I mean, they still did not stay true to the original because it decomposed, so they might as well have flown in seconds of another master of second gen copy. Lesser or two evils!
I can understand people are upset that the track drops in volume, and considering the price of the box that is a shame. Now knowing that the master was getting old, etc Parlophone should really have added this as a note in the box or promo release notes so that people understand it was a conscious decision to master the discs from the original masters and it wasn’t a drop in quality control.
This still remains a beautiful looking vinyl box set and the people that have compiled it have meant the best of intentions to preserve an incredible part of music history.
And thanks to Paul to going to Bowie’s label people about this. Above and beyond – I hope the SDE readers appreciate this.
Diego Polo says:
I would like to know if this issues pertain to the vinyl box set too? Thanks for the info. Greetings.
I believe it does, yes, although I haven’t played my vinyl set yet.
I’m avoiding all the box sets for a number of reasons.
Firstly, the release of “The Gouster”was only available in the first box set, and I’m not laying out £100-£200 on several items I already own to get one I don’t.
Secondly, the complete absence of a decent set of bonus material : not even ‘new’ bonus material, but a collected set of existing and released extras, such as the Rykodisc/Sound+Vision era/BowieRare songs that have now been written out of history, as well as the already released bonus discs/mixes of 30th anniversary sets and other box sets.
Thirdly, poor quality control over “Heroes” and the presentation of alternate mixes of the albums (including the live sets) which seems largely pointless.
I’d very happily lay down big money for a comprehensive set but not a cherry picked and anorexic selection that barely covers the deep well of Bowie rarities.
There seems to be blinders when it comes to “Artist” or “Producer” approved product. Most artists are not audiophiles, and the ignorance of the artist approved Boomtown Rats reissues from 2005 prove that to the extreme. Visconti may be a great producer but that doesn’t mean he checked out dynamics and scrutinized each aspect of the mastering. Dropouts can many times be corrected with careful effort and a good ear. It sounds like they made a quick and lame effort on the Heroes glitch. I’ve repaired a number of dropouts and it can take some clever experimenting to find the best approach. Tape hiss is something I prefer most releases keep because most attempts I’ve heard at removing it is tragically uneducated and detrimental. It took me a number of years to really find a way to do it with the least impact, and none of these mastering houses put in enough time and effort. It’s not their passion, it’s their job. I’m all for re-EQing old albums, but if it becomes so intrusive that the average person is offended, it must be pretty bad. But of course they are going to stand behind all the decisions made. Corporations rarely admit fault.
I just got the Vinyl Boxset today from Amazon and I have to say on first listen I didnt notice any loss in sound on heroes. but listening to it again there is definately a drop in sound around the 2.50 mark.
Didnt notice any problems on Low at all
And Lodger I havent listened to yet so cant comment
Mark Borland says:
3 points….
The bass on Low would not have been an issue if they hadn’t compressed out all the dynamics. They are the loudest these albums have EVER been, considering how Hunky Dory had it’s dynamics in tact this is not a welcome change of approach.
It’s a matter of record that the master tapes were used for the 1990 and 1999 remasters so either the issue has happened in the nearly 20 years since the last remaster or they did a better job of fixing the error. What about prioritising the ingrity of the music over the master tape.
Also no noise was used extensively on previous remasters, not using it on these reissues is a positive (tape hiss is of course is inherent in analog recording) however it’s the extensive compression of the dynamics that is making it more prominent than it would be if the dynamics were in tact.
My 2 cent’s, I have listened to Low, and like the bass heavy driven side 1 especially on ‘Sound & Vision’ which I always thought lacked oomph on previous issues. In regards to ‘Heroes’, I can’t hear any problem with the track, it ‘drops’ ever so slightly for a mere second or two, but in the end it’s not a problem to my old ears. I guess folk failed to mention the tape hiss on the start of ‘Fashion’ single mix, and a glitch before the start of single mix of ‘Ashes to Ashes’, but in the end this set and others is better than naff all. I have waited along time for a remaster of the Berlin trilogy, it’s here but at least the product isn’t brick walled, thank God. Thanks again Paul for the update. I don’t have no problem with this box set at all.
I’m not sure the explanation holds water. They discovered there was an issue (age-related tape degradation) with the original master, attempted a fix by applying a ‘boost’ of energy, and then having heard the result decoded that, ‘yes, that’s better’. I obviously haven’t heard the untampered with master, but I’m struggling to believe it was worse than what we have now. I can’t accept the claim that the volume quickly returns to its pre-boost levels, as normal play doesn’t appear to return until the start of the next track. If it was a case that my hearing has been tricked into interpreting a very brief boost as a drop in volume, I can’t see how that sense of loss (of volume) would last for a matter of minutes.
Thus the current album version reminds me of the similar experience I had when first hearing the English/German 12” single all those years ago (where the music volume drops once he starts speaking Deutsch).
All that said, well done Paul for being the one to get to the bottom of this by going to the top.
Hey Paul, thanks for this, but I think everyone needs your final feedback.
Now that you spoke with the label creeps …what is your honest feedback about this?
I cancelled my order yesterday, and I really wanted these albums from my fav Bowie era in my collection, but I refuse to pay big money for something that was not done with the minimum effort to make the vinyl community happy, with the right audiophile consciousness.
What do you think? should we forget about this release? or should we give it a chance? what would you do?
My review of Lodger is coming tomorrow. By the way the “label creeps” thing is a bit pathetic.
“A bit pathetic”..Probably, yeah, but I think it is the only way of venting out my frustrations, after all I have been waiting for this boxset since they released the first one… :(
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the remix. Also, thanks for remaining a calm voice of reason regarding this release. I hope this excellent and informative site does not become overrun with comments of hyperbole and Hoffman forum – type ranting and insults.
Thanks Andy.
i hope that too – always loved the way people talked to each other here… without hate or insults
So, I notice these are now either unavailable or being sold for at least £225 !
Surely they’re not going to become collectors items ?
And thanks Paul for all your time you put into doing all this for us. It is very appreciated
Murray Robbins says:
Make that “there”!!
Well done Paul! Thanks for batting for us.
Parlophone clearly should have flagged up this issue. Also their should be no “colouration” of the sound based on the personal preference of the producer based on hearsay about what the artist might have wanted or not.
I have played back x3 copies of Heroes on vinyl and cannot hear the dropout.
My worry is for folk that now contact Amazon and complain. I’m assuming they will now “plead the fifth” and duck out.
I’m sorry, but the Heroes album has been released in many formats over the years without the volume issue. Are you telling me they did not have access to a source without volume issues? Just not buying it.
Rob Puricelli says:
Who knew we had so many audio experts here… *rollseyes*
I got a degree in audio production 20 years ago. In the process, I realized I didn’t like working with musicians in the studio, so I have mostly used the education for my own nefarious purposes…
Sadsackrobot says:
Did the same thing! Audio Production degree, and ended up in visual effects. Figure that one out…
“He was previously hampered by the restrictions of vinyl regarding the bottom end.” – Does that mean they have found a way of making vinyl better these days?
I’d say it’s more that current technology provides more ways to compensate for the limitations of vinyl. That, and the quality of vinyl being used is much better these days. 1977 was around the time that album sales were starting to explode (Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976, Rumours, Saturday Night Fever, the Grease soundtrack the following year, etc.), which led pressing plants to shorten pressing cycles (down to 20 seconds per disc in some cases); at the same time, quality vinyl was getting more expensive because of rising petroleum costs, so recycling (often with labels still affixed) was becoming more common, resulting in further degradation of quality. We’re still stuck with a miserly 30-second pressing cycle (45 seconds would be better), but with vinyl now considered a premium product, greater attention is paid to quality in most other respects—one of the benefits being improved sound quality.
JUAN ANTONIO AGUDELO V says:
What a good clarification and sensible reflection.
gootsy says:
Thanks for the update. Concerning the box set, I loved the new Lodger mix and the only thing I asked myself was : why didn’t TV remix the entire trilogy? He could have done the mix of those albums the way he wanted it and let original albums with a sound close to what was issued at the time. Concerning the Heroes glitch, they had to make a choice and they did it. What I don’t understand is transferring the master and then applying a patch or applying a patch to correct an aging master both soil the all-saint “mastered from the original master”. IIRC, when the Beatles catalog was remasted in 2009, they recognized that they had to address a few glitches, only a few seconds on the whole catalog, but they had to do it. So they could have fixed the defecting master (instead of keeping it and patching it anyway) for the fans ears (nobody would have noticed anyway) and explain in the book why they had to do that. Just my two cents.
That is just a Mountain of rubbish, the Heroes track is disgusting, Warner are trying just to Save their face. The masters are pure crap.
I have no problem believing that the 1999 EMI edition of “Heroes” didn’t use the original master, but Ryko made quite a fuss over having used the original masters when they put out the Au20 gold series. (Though I’ll admit that the Au20 of “Heroes” is oddly a little bass-shy) Are they actually claiming that EVERY prior CD release used a safety copy or only every prior EMI edition? Because that’s kind of a significant difference.
Not having heard the box myself (yet) I’m curious if the flaws with the original mix of ‘Lodger’ in any way match the dropouts in the first pressing Japan-for-US RCA edition.
Some interesting information. According to Jeff Rougvie who did the tape research for the Ryko reissues, all of the US RCA CDs were mastered from the RCA Cassette Masters.
From his blog. http://www.jeffrougvie.com/bowie-blog/2015/10/5/it-was-26-years-ago-today-part-1-well-get-there
“I’m sure there are some readers who have convinced themselves the RCA CDs are the best sounding Bowie CDs. Whatever works for you, but remember this is pure opinion. Recently I was sent a link to a website purportedly featuring an interview with an engineer in Europe who acknowledges that RCA in the USA sent European mastering engineers Umatic Digital Cassette Masters as sources.
These are the tapes I mentioned seeing in the New Jersey vault, labeled as cassette masters, and referred to as CD sources in the catalog of materials I got from Isolar. These are the sources that both RCA and Isolar insisted were used as the CD masters.”
Keith, your interpretation of “Cassette Masters” is understandable, but incorrect. The concept of cassettes invokes low quality reproduction. Using them for digital reproduction this was not the case.
At this period of time U-Matic Video Cassettes were used to hold a digital signal that was then used to glass master CDs – very different from using those cassettes with analog signals.
So, in the example of the RCA CDs, RCA New York prepared digital masters from the analog tapes, and those digital masters (U-matic Cassettes) were sent to Europe for production purposes. The (unsaid) implication is that RCA Europe might have preferred receiving the 2-track master themselves and performing the analog -to-digital conversion in Europe.
RYKO reportedly used the 2 track masters (though Jeff Rougvie in his blog acknowledges that sometimes they chose the incorrect masters – three tracks on the RYKO Young Americans album are alternative mixes).
Which three tracks?
RYKO used alternative mixes for Win, Fascination and Right.
Listening casually, Fascination is perhaps the most obvious – quite a bit of extra reverb on the introduction. Win and Right have a different stereo spectrum. Eg, on the original RCA album the saxophone on Win meanders from side to side. Not the case on the RYKO issue.
The 1990 EMI is the same as the RYKO, the 1999 and later EMI issues use the original mixes.
Gansbarre says:
Thanks Paul for getting to the bottom of this. Bummer this is happening, and bummer for the goof on “Heroes.” Tricky business with everyone hearing what they’ve heard for over 40 years and it getting embedded in the gray matter–the slight wrinkle will raise the hackles. On a different note, the Visconti Lodger experiment is interesting. I’m particularly chuffed with his “Red Sails” rework and bringing the sax up in the mix. Hearing it transported over me to Roxy Music’s “2 H.B.” –don’t mind that at all.
Paddy says:
It’s not a volume drop, its after the horrific (3) jumps in volume from 2:42. Same result!!! An insult to a genius and those that revere him. Insulted, much?
Electric Sydney says:
I wonder if Viscoti made a decision at some point that he would ONLY use the master tapes. It seems to me that the drop off on Heroes could have been fixed with a part or the whole song “flown in” with an explanation of the circumstances. This way it seems like “hopefully no one will notice…”.
Ken Moore says:
I would imagine their first reaction is to try to explain away the errors as intentional, because doing a fix and replacement disc program has to be very, very costly. I got this box a couple of days ago, but haven’t listened to it yet. The “Heroes” issue is the only one I am really concerned about. The new remixed albums, I figure, like Steven Wilson’s remixing work, is a reflection of how the remixer feels the LP should sound, so I’m a little more forgiving on that front.
artwwweb says:
I was reading some advice only yesterday with regards to mixing – “it may look technically perfect on screen, but use your ears as the final judge”. I’ve not heard the offending version of Heroes, but it seems from all the comments that though Warners have done what in theory they should to correct the problem, it doesn’t sound right, hence they insist it’s correct and others insist it’s not.
Re the bass boost. The Beatles remasters were similarly bass boosted, and people (including Paul and Ringo) seemed very pleased with that.
Having read Visconti’s autobiography, I’m certain he would only do what he thought would be right for Bowie, and I’m sure he did want more bass at the time, so I feel it’s unfair to criticise him. With regards to his hearing, age-related loss is greater in the high frequencies, so if anything he would be upping those if his hearing was affected.
Returning mine , this sounds like a poor attempt to save their asses
I decided against this set and purchased the Ryko discs instead. Just received Lodger yesterday for less than 30.00. Same with the 2nd set. Not regretting it. 5 years is great, though.
Thanks so much Paul for getting a response. You’re the “CD Watchdog” of the current era! I think I’m going to print this out and place it in the box.
Unfortunately (and predictably) this is not going to appease most hardcore fans. They’ve made up their minds, and nothing short of a full refund and new mastering is going to make them happy.
I’m happy with the vinyl box. I can live with the drop on “Heroes” and assumed it was an issue with the master tape. And I think Low sounds phenomenal.
Mark Y says:
Thank you for taking this up yet. I was actually about to buy the HiRes version from Qobuz – but discovered that it only has 8 CDs of music (94 tracks£ and does not include bonus material. Would you have any idea why that would be? Thanks
Dean T says:
Thank you Paul… I will continue to enjoy this fabulous set …just played the Lodger remix ..
I just don’t understand why some have said that Visconti has butchered it ..he most definitely has not… I personally believe In what Parlophone have stated and people should lay off the personal insults…now onto Scary Monsters…
James Vandegrift says:
Between two stools on this. At least some people care.
A big problem here is that fans want old recordings to sound like they were made in 2017.
That is very wrong indeed.
Sadly fans jump too quickly to assume what they are hearing is a fault when indeed it could be part of the creative.
For example, on the Prince ‘symbol’ album, there is a drop in once of the tracks. This is because the drummer made an error and it was kept in the recording. If this album was ever remastered then this creative choice to keep in the drop should remain.
Jason H says:
Top work Paul
I’ve been at mastering sessions with some great mastering engineers over the 13 albums I’ve released and even had separate masters done for the vinyl / CD versions of my albums. One of my albums was mastered by George “A Porky Prime Cut” Peckham and I attended the sessions with the great man. I know what’s possible with modern mastering gear and I know this “dropout” could have been fixed. Regarding Tony Visconti’s age…everyone loses a percentage of their hearing range with age…more so a guy like Visconti, who’s been working in studios for around 50 years…50 years of noise. People should remember also that Visconti was / is a bass player….so of course he’s going to want to have “more bass.” In my opinion, it’s a cop out and folk are being fobbed off with ridiculous excuses.
I personally have no problems and I stated yesterday that peopleare going to far.if people like the old heroes well cool you have a choice now of the old or a new version.but let’s move on .keep it or send it back .you have a choice.thanks Paul for your time spent getting to the bottom of this
Though I haven’t heard this new master, their approach to fixing the ‘loss of energy’ on ‘“Heroes”’ sounds awfully clumsy, particularly for a major-label box set by a marquee artist. Certainly there was a better way to compensate that would mitigate the problem without leaving an obvious artefact.
Firstly, thanks Paul for looking into this! Interesting that Parlophone didn’t comment on Red Sails starting a fraction too late. For me that’s as annoying a mistake as the one on “Heroes”. Also, I’ve read online that there’s an issue with ‘Neukoln’ too near the end too….
Thanks again Paul, there are a lot of understandably annoyed people out there who have parted with a lot of money for this box set on CD (and even more on LP) and they deserve a quality product, and if certain issues can’t be rectified (like the one on “Heroes”) then Parlophone should have been more upfront about it right from the start.
Thanks Paul for getting involved…
and shame on you Parlophone, it’s an atrocity what you’re doing with the Bowie legacy!
Wil Vanetie says:
All critics aside please! It is an awesome box, made with love and excellent remastering.
All so-called kwowledgeables should have stuck to the original release years ago, if they cannot appreciate any positve Changes for that matter.
Tony Visconti did an excellent Job. It is a magnificent release bringing new dimensions to David Bowie’s impressive carreer and overall catalogue.
Sincerely hope more releases Will see the light.
Can’t get enough of this!
Guy Vitti says:
First off: I do like the box and am glad that I purchased it. Secondly: I love how you only get a reactionary defensive response from the label when they are confronted by an issue. It would have been more palatable for the fans if the label had proactively notated the remastering process and Tony Visconti’s involvement in the booklet. Parlophone comes off as phony and insulting to the fans that purchased the box.
Surely some de-noising was used on the previous boxsets? I am familiar with the sound of Low as far back as 40 years ago, maybe they should have done an original and a new mix.
“During a conversation that lasted close to two hours, the team stressed how much time and energy had gone into both getting the music and the presentation of this set right.”
Just because you spend a lot if time on something doesn’t necessarily mean it must be fine. And if TV is involved his huge ego might very well get in the way of doing the job properly.
True, time doesn’t guarantee getting things right, but the more time is better than doing something quickly (normally). Do you have any specific previous examples of how TV’s ‘ego’ resulted in something poor?
how many albums did bowie make in 1977 again? and what were those albums? lol
Sorry but you are talking rubbish, Tony Visconti does not have a huge ego.
Thanks for this Paul .
I know I might get hammered here but sometimes I don’t trust what Tony Visconti says .
I listened to my original copy of Heroes and there’s no loss in sound and that pressing was one of the first .
So surely Bowie , Eno and Visconti would have noticed it before it went out to the public and nobody ever said there was a problem with the sound at that time . In fact it’s not a long album so the sound wouldn’t have been compromised because of space on the vinyl.
Visconti was there , and for the other albums so he knew how they sounded and now he wants to changed them to how they should have sounded , well to me they sounded fine back then .
The original Heroes has no loss in sound because it was created from a then pristine master tape. 40 years later and it’s a different story…
Ok I understand that but your article stated that he wants to make them sound like HE originaly wanted , well that’s not the sound on the originals and I’m sure they were the sound Bowie wanted .
I’m not having a dig at you
For “he”, I guess you should read “they”. Sadly Bowie isn’t around to confirm, but I doubt Visconti would do something that Bowie would object to. The nearest we have to ‘approval’ is the knowledge that Bowie approved some of Visconti’s Lodger remix, which does have a lot more bass on it too.
Ok agree to disagree.
I still think Visconti like Macca has a few changed memories.
That volume drop took me 5 minutes to correct in protools on my 24/96 file.
5 minutes man !! ^^
This is the problem when you go back to the original master tapes. I think the Duran Duran reissues had similar errors. My question would be whether there is any point in all of this. If the previous versions sound alright, why not just reissue them with bonus tracks etc. Remastering seems like a con. A bit like the George Lucas reworkings of Star Wars.
Heroes jumps out at you. A really obvious issue. I haven’t listened to the others yet. Very disappointing .
How are people getting a refund from amazon.
Are you emailing them or has it been automatic?
KennyB says:
Visconti worked closer than anyone with Bowie and up until his passing was gaining his boss’sapproval as it went along. I’m pretty happy with it, personally I think the more pronounced bottom end is an improvement. Some of the earlier cr releases were quite anaemic and the Davis/Murray groove was lost The remix of Lodger is a triumph there is far more clarity, depth and separation. Each to their own though.
Michael Sloanes says:
So did we really need two versions of Stage in the box?
Maybe they should have Included two of Low
(one with the alternative mix boosted bass) and same with Heroes and explained it all before release and put notes in the Book. At least we would have known more about what we were buying
I did bring that up funnily enough. With Station To Station they included remaster, RCA version etc. But of course that wasn’t a multi-album set.
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to look into this.
Secondly, the label concede that the ‘Heroes issue’ should have been explained in the booklet? How about addressing it in the promotional material (so we know what we are purchasing) – e.g. ‘Hear the now flawed original master tape like you have never heard it before!’
They should at least offer to replace the Heroes disc.
Thanks Paul for getting an explanation from the record company. It’s very interesting to hear the rationale behind the choices made in the preparation of this set. I will be perfectly happy to buy it now, but won’t ditch my Ryko CDs just yet. I do think it’s a bit it’s a bit disrespectful to have a go at Tony Visconti’s age and hearing – his great work on ‘Cracked Actor’ for example doesn’t bear that out.
David Jones says:
Customer listening to “Heroes”: oh my god . I don’t like the sound of that”
Warner : yes you do! Don’t be stupid!
Michael Benstead says:
David! Is…that…really…you?!
Robert Todd says:
I’m one of the partial complainers on this. I listened to the vinyl set over the weekend of release primarily to check for clicks, pops and any physical problems. Initially I thought Low was swamped with bass. Going to my rather flimsy RCA issue put me right, the difference between an ancient pressing and the new one is slight. The Heroes volume lowering I missed, probably because I was bopping around. Once it was pointed out it was unmissable. Not the end of the world but there all the same. I posted a one star review but will on reflection amend it and also contacted Amazon customer service to enquiry about a repress. They surprisingly offered me a 10% discount. Shy bairns get nowt as we say in Newcastle. So I took it. Here’s the thing though. I like this set a lot and find some of the rather heated denunciations online to be depressingly offensive and disproportionate.
Sean Hewitt says:
The excuse re: the title track on Heroes sounds like nonsense to me. I bought the CD set over the counter in Rough Trade and that error ruins the song. Surely it was never intended to sound like that?
I must say, however, that some of the other “problems” cited don’t bother me at all. I especially enjoyed somebody moaning about the extra dialogue on the Bing Crosby track. As if that is an error!
Parlophone should replace the Heroes disc but the rest of the box sounds fine to me. I’ve had these albums in various formats over the years and am really enjoying the remasters (apart from that one obvious exception).
It sounds as if Warner’s has been reading Microsoft’s playbook: “It’s not a bug; it’s an undocumented feature.” I would like to get a $55 credit!
eMSig says:
Fine for me, thanks for the clarification, Paul.
Mr. Newton says:
Is this ‘drop out’ on both the Vinyl and Cd releases? If so I will be returning my
vinyl box set for a refund. To be honest I don’t know why I bothered purchasing this box set, apart from it being my favourite bowie period. I’m going to be wary of future releases and spend the £200 or so dosh on something more worthwhile.
Thanks Paul for all your hard work regarding this.
Oh how jealous I am of you all!!! I pre-ordered my Set on 12 July at the bargain price of $159 from Amazon US…and am still waiting for it!!! It will apparently be delivered today….. The good news is that because of all the clusterfuckery I have been given $55 credit effectively bringing total cost including tax to just $119!!!! Can anyone beat this????
Darren – I also pre-ordered (here in the US) at $159. Were you automatically given the credit? Did you need to ask for it? Thx.
Danny….I have been on the phone every day since non delivery on Friday. Apparently USPS damaged the first set so it was returned…then they were out of stock….then the promised replacement didn’t arrive yesterday…now waiting for FedEx to deliver today….each call gave me more credit…..I do find that Amazon will give credit if asked!!!
Ahh OK Darren – thanks. I thought they were issuing credit for the issues people are noting about the mastering! But yes I agree Amazon is very reasonable about rectifying miscues!
I’m un the same position than yours regarding my preorder date and my boxset not even being sent yet.
Did you complain in any way to get the discount?
GaryB says:
How did you get the discount?
Never mind. You answered before I updated the thread.
Than you.
We are writing to confirm that we are processing your refund in the amount of £65.00 for your Order
This refund is for the following item(s):
Item: A New Career In A New Town (1977 – 1982) [VINYL]
I thought it was just me that was enjoying this set rather than looking for problems l wouldn’t have noticed unless they were pointed out.
They’re trying to resell the same albums yet again to essentially the same crowd and can only do that with the intention of improved sound and extras. When the latter has serious errors and your paying $100 or more for it then yeah, people might object as 100% of everyone else beside you have.
But a larger point is the flaw in trying to release these album sets altogether. Since these issues only affect a few albums it would be easier to address if this set was sold piece meal.
Pekka says:
Impressive Paul! Really interesting to read this. I don´t own the box, but have listened to it with Tidal (hifi quality). I have to say that I really liked how the albums sounded, huge difference to previous EMI digital remasters. Liked especially how Low was mastered (guess I’ll skip writing to the forums…) and Lodger’s new mix really makes me want to get the vinyl box later. Noticed the drop during Heroes and wondered what it was, but it went back to normal later on… Anyway, it’s nice to read that the described “issues” weren’t production mistakes than artistic statements (not Heroes though). In Visconti I trust.
Goes to show that going straight to the master tapes warts and all might not be how fans want to hear things
When the Stone Roses debut was remastered from original tapes by John Leckie you could argue sonically it was a massive improvement. However it fundamentally changed the “sound” that I’d become accustomed to for years.
There are so many remastering philosophies – ‘flat transfer’, ‘make it sound like the original vinyl’, ‘improve the bits that have always been lacking’ – that 100 percent of people are never going to happy, because each of us will have our own opinion as to what the approach should be.
Dear Paul, your opinion seems the most thoughtful. This audiophile mania on the brink of hysteria denies us the possibility of listening to the essence of music and that even the original versions at the time also had flaws, both in the specific case of Bowie and other artists. As you say, 100% of people will never be satisfied and as all human actions are always susceptible to improvement.
Ronny Mount says:
Yes, but when there is a fault on the tape and you want to use digital tweaking to try to put it right, you can either do it well or you can do it badly. They did it badly. They could have done it better.
Which they’ve now acknowledged (more or less).
Good point Mark S. Personally, I like the remastered sound of The Stone Roses debut, but I can understand why others prefer the original. As long as both versions are in print, or easily available, the audiophile and the casual fan can compare and choose. For Bowie fans, I presume the original albums are still available on CD and vinyl with a mastered sound that does not have the issues in this box set? If so, then yes, caveat emptor, and listen before you buy.
Thom Lieb says:
Thanks, Paul. Seems they don’t want to concede they made a single error. As someone who was always planning to buy the full run of vinyl box sets, this tells me it is time to stop.
G_Edinburgh says:
If it sounds bad it is bad. I don’t buy their sorry excuse of an explanation. That volume drop in Heroes is not imaginary and it does spoil my enjoyment of the song, simple as that!
I am not a recording specialist or anything, but being in a band an experimenting with some recording there are a million decisions that affect the sound. The challenges and compromises inherent with original analog sources are even more complex as there is hiss and degradation. This is tape people – it ain’t perfect. Still, many insist it is far more musical. Digital may be more sterile, but it will stay that way forever. Tape degrades, needs to be baked to prevent tape shed in other cases… Remastering decisions such as treble and bass adjustments, compression and so on affect all remastering and nobody will ever get it ‘just right’. Visconti’s involvement makes this interesting: Yes it may be different, but is this what it should have been? My suggestion is that the remastering process always be described: the industry won’t do that because the honest answer often is: compress the crap out of it and punch up the bass and treble until your ears bleed because it sounds louder (and therefore ‘better’ to most untrained ears). Simple Minds / Abbey Road had a great write-up on what they did (and why) with New Gold Dream – it was informative and educational. NB: Sometimes I prefer a different take on mastering
DavidDR says:
Thanks for staying on top of this for Bowie fans, Paul. Really. Much appreciated. Best site around.
Jon C says:
Oh brother. This sounds like Apple telling everyone that they’re holding the phone wrong.
fredpostman says:
There we have it then…the main problem i have with this statement is that Mr Visconti can retrospectively change the sound to suit his tastes really so now technology exists to make ‘Low’ in my view unalienable with that horrible overwhelming bass that swamps the pop song side.was this really the sound Mr Bowie was trying to achieve 40 years ago gut couldn’t?I would love to here Brian Eno’s views on this…..
Thanks anyway for the [non]clarity though Paul.
Not Available says:
I would also like to hear Eno’s opinion on this. However, Eno is of the same era and age as Bowie and Visconti. Seriously, is there only one Steven Wilson in the world?
Eamonn says:
Fair play Paul for getting some answers on this. The fact they’re stating that most of the perceived errors are down to digital transfers from the original master tapes is interesting. Isn’t “sourced from original analogue masters” the kind of blurb usually used to sell reissues of iconic records? I can’t remember anything like it mentioned for the promo on this box ( I may be wrong). There was also ample opportunity in the book or the interviews to go with this release to explain the remastering treatment and pre-empt the fan furore. Sounds like they’re trying to cover themselves as much as they can to get out of refunding, Re:Calling(!) and repressing these sets.
To clarify… the perceived errors aren’t “down to the digital transfer”. The Heroes error is on the analogue tape. That was then transferred and then the ‘loss in energy’ error was addressed in the digital domain. All new digital transfers were done for this box, they weren’t using old digital transfers. I think the label regret not making clearer the remastering philosophy for this release.
When they corrected the “loss in energy” are they saying they didn’t bother listening to the rest of the song, which then showed (either in the listeners imagination or in reality) a loss in volume for the rest of the song? What they are saying is that they caused a far bigger problem – whether it’s an auditory illusion or not is neither here nor there, the important thing is that it is a MASS illusion – by fixing a smaller problem.
It is not a reasonable answer, even if you take everything they are saying as fact.
Did you show them a wav form of the track Paul, or did they show you a wav form of the track so that you could see there isn’t a volume drop? Also some kind of dynamic analysis would have been nice just to prove that the people the wav form doesn’t complete change it’s dynamics after the “imaginary” sound drop.
We didn’t really get into wav forms…
that would have probably saved you 1 hour of your discussion, though. they said there isn’t a volume drop, they could have shown you an image of the wav form to prove there point. if you look at the wav form it is very easy to see that there is an entirely different level of dynamics before the 2.50 mark to what comes after – the start is more compressed, and therefore louder, and the end is less compressed and therefore lower in volume (or perceived volume – as both parts are peak limited to the same level).
What a cop out. The drop out on “Heroes”, isn’t in previous versions. Tony Visconti, is an old man in his 70s with worn out ears. How he hears it music is not how anyone with good hearing will want to hear it.
It isn’t on previous versions because they didn’t go back to the very original master tape. Obviously the original vinyl would have, but I guess the ‘issue’ with the master tape is down to time/age.
Thank you Paul for making such efforts to get to the bottom of this. A very interesting response from Parlophone. FWIW I got the original album when it first came out in late ’77. Back then I was as pernickety about sound at 16 years old as I still am now at 56 . I played that album on high rotation for the next 15 years+. I can honestly say there was no discernible drop in volume on the “Heroes” track as described here and by numerous Amazon reviewers. (It was a New Zealand pressing so don’t know if that would have made a difference – be interested to hear opinions of other original pressings). If there was age damage with the master tape you would think that it would have been mentioned in the set’s book and/or corrected. Also quite alarming that the original RCA tapes could have been left to get into such states. All seems a bit strange but I guess it’s caveat emptor. As I stated in a post yesterday Amazon UK have been brilliant and given me a full refund (mind you I do spend a lot of $$s with them lol) . I said I would be happy to send the set back to them (which hasn’t arrived yet – I am in NZ), and they said not to worry and that I could keep it or give it away. Cheers
Didn’t hear anyone complaining about Visconti’s age when he produced Blackstar?
Stephen Singleton says:
Ha ha ha , brilliant comment !
Enda Corneille says:
Nor Mr Bowies’s ahem……
Haha, great comment, quite! I feel bad for TV, he is a real fan as well as the MainMain topcat producer.
MCorba/MPatrick says:
To simplify – there is a mountain of complaint about the Heroes track; Parolophone don’t want to recall (no pun) the whole mass of box sets they have sold, but as Shakespeare may say, something is fishy in Denmark. To save face, they can simply get TV to tidy up the Heroes pressing and get a number of Bowie afficionado high profile people to authorise it. Then let this thing rest! If there are major issues with Lodger such as bits cut out, they need fixing too, so Parlophone, do the decent thing and offer replacement discs for either one or both, please! Simple!
Blackstar was released just as Bowie died. I don’t think many fans listened to that album with a critical ear.
In fact, along with The Next Day, it is easily amongst the worst produced Bowie albums. Granted, not as bad as The Next Day, which is a mess.
Gary Steel says:
William, do you mean Blackstar was ‘amongst the worst produced’ or ‘worst engineered’? I’m not even a huge Bowie fan, but Blackstar sounds PHENOMENAL on my audiophile set-up. It’s easily the best-sounding ‘popular artist’ (as opposed to specifically audiophile) release of 2016.
Dougie says:
Well said mate.
oli says:
BillyD says:
As you age you lose the high end response in your ears. Tony probably thought the bass boost just made it ‘more louder’.
Hi BillyD, as I understand it, our hearing loses its top end as we age and loud bass sounds become more noticeable. It’s why many older people can’t tolerate loud dance music – the bass is actually painful to hear. I know the loudness wars have also made it difficult to enjoy a lot of “remastered” music: it’s fatiguing listening to music with no dynamic range.
Well done, Paul, for following this up. I’m still waiting for my box set from Amazon but will be chasing a refund if these faults are obvious.
Thanks Paul, but I don’t think this is the end of it. All of those one star reviews on Amazon UK don’t just go away.
It’s a blood bath on the US site as well:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B073NXBYP6/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_top?ie=UTF8
I suspect a good portion of that is coming from the Steve Hoffman forums as they are telling people to go to Amazon and give 1 star reviews in the hopes that Parlophone will issue a replacement.
Nice to have my feelings that the SHF is the 4Chan of the audiophile world confirmed.
Robert V Ennis says:
I made just thos point on my review! And have been lambasted for it by the Steve Hoffman gestapo. Is the box overpriced? Yes. Is it perfect? No. Do the OTT one star reviews truly reflect the set? NO.
I got mine from Amazon UK, tho Vinyl is coming from Germany.
Paul you may be aware that Amazon have given out substantial discounts to many many complainees! I got £30 if the pre-order price of £267 for both CD and Vinyl, and that is not the largest, I see some getting substantially more.
Now given these statements, I wonder if they would be entitled to ask for this to be returned, personally I would have no issue, as tbh they were excellent in handling my complaint
Amazon wouldn’t do that I don’t think, they’ll just write it off.
I’ve listened the the first two boxes and didn’t feel they were any improvement over my Ryko remasters so I passed. If your old enough to have gotten them your all set. But these weren’t any better than the ’99 remasters either so except for bonus track completism I would just recommend people buy the last batch of remasters as they have been discounted now and most can be found used now that everyone is selling them off in lieu of the new boxes. Everyone’s hearing is a bit different of course so my opinion could be suspect to others.
Thank you for doing the digging Paul, your site is an absolute necessity these days.
Yes I agree, your site is da bomb Paul. When I read the reviews on Amazon I had many questions and all of them are answered in this article. Thank you for always being on top of things for us.
I agree with Lemmin, I also have all the Ryko remasters and really don’t need the boxsets. The Ryko discs have most of the bonus tracks and I did buy the 2cd versions of “David Bowie”, “The Rise and the Fall…”, “Aladdin Sane”, “Diamond Dogs” and “Station To Station”. The bonus tracks in the boxes are mostly nothing new.
Stever says:
Nice comment Lemmin.
I never purchased the Ryko remasters as I already had all the RCA original CD’s and could not justify the purchase at the time so I have not heard them at home. However I do have the 99 remasters as well as some SHM Japanese copies (just the Berlin trilogy). In comparing RCA-99-SHM-Boxset i can say that I feel that the new box set is smoooooth. The top end is just like silk. You immediately think something is missing but when you listen it is all there just with sligtly less emphasis. On first listen the bass accordingly seems to be cranked up however it isnt, it just is that to me the top end just lilts a little. However those Japanese pressings that I have to me sound best of all. And to boot I got them when a store was closing down 3 for $12. But nice to have the box set. I swear it is the last copy I will buy though!
Celtic Bob says:
RobDeighton says:
The question is ‘what would Bowie have done about this before it’s release?’
Would he have told them to fix it properly rather than this accept this bodged attempt? Probably… At the end of the day these are Bowies’ albums and not Visconti’s.
A little buck passing me thinks…
Gary Hunter says:
By the way Paul well done on taking the issues up on behalf of visitors to this website.
danmac says:
“50,000,000 Bowie fans can be wrong” seems to be what Parlophone are saying here. Let’s see how it plays out
Peter Ratcliffe says:
Absolutely costly exercise to recall (excuse pun) and replace easier to issue a half baked reply bands of lesser repute material is looked after better if this us the case. Appreciated digital platforms can disclose limitations of original tapes but most of us would prefer to hear them as we all love.
So it is CD/Vinyl loving fans that have hearing problems, is that what they are trying to say??
They insult music fans with their responses and treat them like fools.
I feel really sorry for people that have spent their hard earned cash on this box set.
Thanks Paul for getting this explanation from those who make the decisions!. I personally think overall Tony Visconti has done a great job.
Maybe they ought to let more people know about this via an online statement.p? Is this information included in the 128 page booklet in the boxset, it ought to have been. Well done anyway, nice to see you think so much of your readers concerns.
There was a concession from the label that they maybe should have explained the Heroes issue and/or the remastering approach in the booklet.
Many thanks for this info Paul. I personally didn’t/don’t have a problem with the box set, in fact I love it. Love the Lodger remix too.
I have yet to listen to Re:call 3 and wanted to ask if the single version of ‘Heroes’ is affected by the same problem as the album track.
I don’t think it is, because it’s the single edit, from different tape etc.
Same here, no complaints about the boxset. Great article, thanks for the answers Paul.
I, for one, appreciate the technical details in projects like this.
Paul Wren says:
That is a very sound comment Paul and would have been nice.
However how many other “age based” errors did Parlophone fix that we have not found.
Could they have taken up the space of the full length liner notes?
I personally love the new “bottom end” in Low and Lodger.
Tony Visconti is a bass player, and whether he knows it or not, would have been listening to that aspect intently.
It is also very interesting for me that originally both Aladin Sane and Pinups had the worst bass mastering and Tony was not involved originally with those projects. Listen to “the man who sold the world” and you know T.V. was the bass player on that album.
Maslov says:
So it sounds like the PR person or an intern mastered some of these. I understand their response but then why’d o all the older versions of most of these albums (on LP and CD) sound better that these? I had to return my sCD set to Amazon. Even my Rykos sound better but the original LPS are the way to go.
william zantzinger says:
very good point that recording limitations could have been mentioned in the booklet. this has put me off buying despite having the previous 2 boxsets & the back catalogue of CDs and LPs
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In a demonstration named "We walk for peace and live," thousands marched, to the Hugo Chavez roundabout, to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Youth creation.
By the thousands, militants of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the Nicaraguan Sandinista youth gathered to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Youth's creation and the 38th anniversary of Literacy Crusade's beginning.
Nicaragua: The 39th Anniversary Of A Triumphant Revolution
In a demonstration named "We Walk for Peace and Live," thousands marched for over five kilometers, finally congregating in the Hugo Chavez roundabout, to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Youth creation.
At the march, Sandinista sympathizers also commemorated the 38th anniversary of the Great National Literacy Crusade, which enabled more than 400,000 Nicaraguans to learn how to read and write.
The Sandinista militancy stated that they will continue taking to the streets, asking for peace, for justice to the victims of what they call the coup's terrorism as well as expressing their support to the FSLN administration.
The Sandinista youth, since its creation almost right after the Sandinista revolution triumph, has helped the Nicaraguan people in several aspects. Some of the achievements, under the FSLN governments and the Sandinista youth, include poverty reduction, sustained economic growth and support for social programs across the country.
This march comes amid a recuperation process in which the Central American country is undergoing, after the opposition protests that started in mid-April. Official figures indicate that some 198 people died in the context of these social protests in the country.
President Daniel Ortega has confirmed that the country is heading to economic recovery. The crisis left 215,000 workers unemployed, according to the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides).
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Google’s Gboard now adds phrase suggestions and a draw-an-emoji feature
Google’s Gboard is acquiring new smarts that will assist in saving typing time. The smart keyboard for android has been updated with plenty of features primarily tasked with recognizing the users’ intentions. Being an app supported by both Android and iOS, Gboard will get excellent additional features such as the potential of drawing an emoji, and phrase auto-completion. This move by Google aims at making apps even more intelligent or smarter.
Emoji feature
This feature is expected to be fun. The draw-an-emoji feature is one way of making texting easier while at the same time enjoyable. According to Google, to draw an emoji, one will just tap an emoji handwriting button, and then draw an emoji on the screen. However, its performance as compared to the other simple emojis such as the sad face or the happy face will be another matter.
Google has been trying to simplify emoji usage in Gboard over the years. Before the new feature, the Gboard has been supporting emoji search functions. For instance, a person can search for an emoji by either name, expression or sentiment without the need to browse to locate the correct one.
Furthermore, Google has been for years researching and experimenting the drawing on the display screen as a substitute to the conventional typing. In 2010, Google had the Gesture search feature for Android that allowed letter drawing on the screen to surface contacts, apps, music, etc.
As of now, there has been a significant advancement in recognition of drawings. The AutoDraw is an app that was launched on April 1st and can turn doodles and squiggles into shapes and objects that appear more professional.
The draw-an-emoji feature is an exciting and fun feature in the Gboard app. However, it is most likely used occasionally as compared to the phrase suggestion feature whose purpose will more likely to be seen on a daily basis.
Auto-complete a phrase feature
Google’s machine intelligence has for years been advancing and updating the typing quality which eventually positively affects suggestion making and mistake auto-correction. For the end user, the changes in the typing experience will be seen through the new feature that suggests phrases to the individual as they type, and is not limited to words. In fact, the advancement lets a person predict a whole phrase instead of words only.
For an individual to make a complete sentence faster, the Gboard app feature will be suggesting phrases as one continues typing. Nonetheless, the feature is only available in English but will soon be available in other languages too.
Other significant Gboard features
The Gboard Search feature
A significant milestone in the Gboard keyboard has been the search feature that allows individuals to carry out Google search straight from their keyboard and consequently share the results with other users. However, the only setback with such an excellent feature is that only one search result is displayed. Therefore, the user would have to search using the conventional way if the search results shown are not satisfactory.
As the Gboard keyboard continues to make smart solutions through is machine intelligence, more and more updates are likely to be seen. For instance, the Gboard will begin to offer several results that a person can go through while running Google searches from their keyboard.
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Another anticipated feature on the Gboard is the improved Google Search functionality. This will display even more search results to make it easier for a person to find links to the relevant information. The move will hugely strengthen the Gboard’s app keyboard search capabilities.
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Home/News/Ekki timber Hastings Pier wins 2017 RIBA Sterling Prize
The biggest prize in architecture has been won by Hastings Pier, a minimalist expanse of Ekki timber boards known by locals as ‘The Plank’.
What happened to Hastings Pier?
When the pier’s substructure was severely damaged by fire in 2010, two years after storm damage forced it to close, it looked like the end of Hastings Pier.
But with contributions from the Heritage Lottery Fund and tireless fundraising work by local residents, an architecture competition was launched to redesign and rebuild the pier to full working order.
In the end, London-based architects DRMM won the RIBA competition with a design that did not seek to rebuild a replica of a Victorian pleasure pier, but instead to construct a distinctly 21st century version.
Their minimalist structure has few permanent buildings, instead favouring an expanse of Ekki timber boards that serve as a versatile outdoor stage for performances, concerts and other uses, and have earned the reconstructed pier the affectionate nickname of ‘The Plank’ from locals.
RIBA recently announced the pier as the winner of the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize, the biggest award in British architecture, and praised its forward-thinking design.
Ben Derbyshire, president of RIBA and chair of the jury for this year’s prize, said: “Hastings Pier is a masterpiece in regeneration and inspiration. The architects and local community have transformed a neglected wreck into a stunning, flexible new pier to delight and inspire visitors and local people alike.”
Ekki timber is element resistant and ideal for construction sites
The Ekki timber used in its construction is the ideal material to ensure the pier remains in good condition for many years to come, as the hardwood boards should be well resistant to the spray from the sea, not to mention its salt content and the strong coastal winds.
Ekki timber mats are used throughout construction for these hard-wearing properties, as well as making an excellent option for use as ground protection mats in coastal and tidal works, on waterlogged land and to provide stability on soft mud and sandy surfaces. Contact us today to place an order or learn more about our Ekki wood mats.
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Netflix has transformed Little Italy for The Irishman and they're giving away tons of free stuff
By Adam Goldman Posted: Friday November 22 2019, 2:34pm
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Have you seen The Irishman? You know, the new Scorsese movie about the mafia? The three-and-a-half hour one? Neither have I. But I did check out Netflix's big-budget marketing stunt for the movie, and I have to admit it was kiiinda awesome. It's not Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, but honestly? It's not far off.
As previously reported, Netflix has "de-aged" a chunk of Little Italy to 1975 for part of this weekend, much like the film's stars were digitally de-aged in the movie. Sidebar: can we come up with a better term than "de-aged?" Because it seems like this is coming up a lot this days. The upshot of this is that there's a bunch of fun, weird stuff going on in that part of town and you should probably check it out. Especially if you like free stuff. All you have to do is walk into one of the participating businesses and tell them "Jimmy sent me."
Without spoiling too much, here are our five favorite parts of the event - consider it a little shopping list if you just want to get in, take the cannoli, and get out.
1. Stock up on red wine at Mulberry Wine & Liquor
Two words: free chianti. Who knows how long it'll last, but they're just handing out bottles of red wine.
2. Rice balls at Alleva Dairy
Alleva is America's oldest cheese shop, so believe me when I say their rice balls are not screwing around. And you can't beat the price. "Let me guess," said the woman behind the counter, "Jimmy sent you? Jimmy's sending everybody!"
3. Cannoli at Caffé Roma
Want some dessert? Follow that rice ball with a cannoli from Caffé Roma down the street. I don't know what to tell you about this cannoli, it's just... it's really good cannoli, folks.
4. Another cannoli at Ferrara Bakery & Cafe
OK before you tweet your cannoli hot take at me, let me explain. I love Ferrara as much as the next guy. But while Caffé Roma is handing out medium-large pastries, Ferrara has opted for a mini cannoli. Will I eat a mini cannoli? Obviously. But let's be real, where cannoli is concerned, bigger is better.
5. "Go for a ride" in an old Cadillac
Fair warning, there is some LARPing going on. Even if it's not your thing, hop in one of the massive old Cadillacs lining Grand Street - despite what the drivers are pitching, they don't actually want to take you anywhere, and it's a fun, immersive step into the world of the movie.
The Irishman is playing in New York right now, and it'll be available on Netflix starting November 27th.
You can check out Netflix's version of Little Italy today and tomorrow from 9AM to 7PM. Enjoy!
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Adam has lived in New York for over 11 years and he wouldn't have it any other way. It can be overwhelming unless you have someone to guide you, and that's why he appreciates Time Out.
When not writing up the weird, new and wonderful around NYC, Adam writes scripts and jokes for things and people. His work has been featured by Interview Magazine, WNYC, the LA Review of Books and Gawker (RIP), among others. You can reach Adam at adam.goldman@timeout.com or connect with him on Twitter @theadamgoldman.
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Emtee open to working with A-Reece & others after Ambitiouz exit
‘Just because I said 'F you' yesterday, it don’t mean I shouldn’t work with you"
25 August 2019 - 08:00 By Kyle Zeeman
Rapper Emtee says he is at peace after leaving Ambitiouz Entertainment.
Image: Instagram/ Emtee
Now that he has left his former label Ambitiouz Entertainment, rapper Emtee is open for business and everyone is invited.
This includes A-Reece, who apparently had a fallout with.
After he announced last week that he was leaving Ambitiouz, Emtee told Zkhiphani he was open to working with any artist that came knocking.
Emtee and A-Reece were once tight and even collaborated on a song together. But their relationship went through the most when Emtee vocally criticised A-Reece and others when they left Ambitiouz in 2017.
Emtee said this week that just because he had criticised them didn't mean he doesn't want to work with them.
“My frustration was just that these people left. It means that there's something they know that they didn’t tell us. So y’all are just leaving us here? I was just mad about that. I was like' if y'all gonna be like that, be like that.
"I feel like music is greater than words of exchange. Just because I said 'F you' yesterday, it don’t mean I shouldn’t work with you.”
A-Reece has not responded to Emtee's comments but speaking to Pearl Thusi on Behind the Story earlier this year he opened up about Emtee wanting to leave the label long ago.
"I’m gonna put it out how it is. You see, Emtee, he had the same feelings I had about the label and his were probably worse because they were bottled in. I remember we had a show in PLK and I was with him in the Van. It was me, him and Flame and he was like ‘yoh, you can’t even be an artist as yourself in this label because you are marginalized. I think I am going to leave sooner than I thought'– those were his words, " Reece said.
He also told Slikour On Life that he would only work with artists if it "makes sense".
"I don’t do features for the sake of just doing them. But if they make sense I would."
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Five shortlisted for Polari prize
Published September 20, 2011 by Katie Allen
Five titles have been shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, including Autofellatio by James Maker which began as a self-published e-book before finding...
Five titles have been shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, including Autofellatio by James Maker which began as a self-published e-book before finding a publisher.
Maker's title, published by Big Fib, joins three other titles from indies: Love, Hope & High Heels by Clare Campbell (Tollington Press); Homo Jihad by Timothy Graves (Paradise Press); and London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp (Myriad Editions). Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar by D J Connell (Blue Door) completes the list.
The Polari First Book Prize awards debuts which explore the queer experience and is open to poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction published in the UK in English during the year of submission. Self-published books or e-books are also eligible.
Rachel Holmes, head of literature and spoken word at the Southbank Centre, said: "This is a very strong list of robustly diverse voices and genres". Paul Burston, chair of judges, added: "The shortlist reflects the wealth and range of queer literary talent and the changing face of publishing today."
The winner will be announced at the Polari fourth birthday celebration on 21st November, at the Southbank Centre. The Polari First Book Prize is named after the gay literary salon' Polari, founded in 2007.
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WWF renewable energy project to light Mtwara villages
Thursday January 3 2019
A renewable energy project, currently being implemented at Miyuyu Village, in Newala District by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Tanzania) in partnership with a Mtwara-based Civil Society Organization (CSO) is bringing hopes of reversing the fortunes of Mbwinji Catchment Area and protect it from drying up, contributing to climate change mitigation. Miyuyu is one of the four villages selected to become renewable energy village models under a WWF project whose objective is to ensure renewable solutions meet all energy needs by 2050.
By George Sembony @TheCitizenTZ news@tz.nationmedia.com
Mtwara. A renewable energy project in Newala District by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Tanzania) in partnership with a Mtwara-based civil societyorganisation (CSO).
The project is being implemented at Miyuyu Village, and is bringing hopes of reversing the fortunes of Mbwinji Catchment Area and protects it from drying up, contributing to climate change mitigation.
Miyuyu is one of the four villages selected to become renewable energy village models under a WWF project whose objective is to ensure renewable solutions meet all energy needs by 2050.
The other villages are Mabilioni (Northern Zone), Pandagichiza (Lake Zone) and Mkungugu (Southern Zone).
According to WWF’s Energy and Extractive Programme coordinator Savinus Kessy, the project aims at ensuring increased capacity and engagement of the civil societies and a sustainable energy transition in the country as part of a larger sustainable energy transition in eastern and southern Africa.
Various types of technologies are tested as part of efforts of the transition towards sustainable energy.
Mr Kessy said that the project aims at, among other objectives, seeking to influence the community on the use of renewable energy technologies that reduce use of firewood and charcoal which accelerate deforestation and the climate change phenomenon.
He mentioned renewable technologies as including improved cooking stoves, solar power and the use of solar driers for food and other materials preservation and other interventions that are compatible to renewable energy at the village and Newala District, in general.
A total of 189 improved Cooking Stoves, 45 solar PVs (in five classrooms, one teacher’s house, one Village Council office and 38 households) and two solar driers have been installed in the village.
MASHA secretary Veronica Chabruma said that installation of improved cooking stoves would enhance the reduction of trips searching for fire wood per week allowing women to focus on other social and economic issues.
Ms Chabruma said that considering the number of households (280) that are covered by the project, the number of improved cooking stoves installed in the village is an achievement and a hope for contributing to rehabilitation of the Mbwinji Catchment ares and climate change mitigation.
“Project beneficiaries have been taught on how to install solar panels and installation of Improved Cooking Stoves and tree nursery management,” she added.
The project, which is currently on the second phase, also according to Mr Kessy, focuses on promoting reforestation at Miyuyu Village and around Mbwinji Water Catchment area. “The project is further looking to empower communities to switch to alternative livelihoods which are environment friendly to sustain the project,” he said.
Mbwinji water catchment is an important water catchment area in east southern regions covering Lindi and Mtwara regions. The catchment provides water to two districts namely, Masasi and Nachingwea. It supplies water to Ndanda referral hospital and Ndanda high school.
Currently, Mbwinji water catchment loss its vegetationstatus and become to dry. The outcome has started to be observed as that there’s water scarce and water deliverance shifts in mentioned districts.
MASHA Director, Allan Mkopoka said that the project desires to see a restored Mbwinji Catchment area which is crucial to Masasi and Nachingwea Township.
He said that the catchment would also facilitate the maintenance of hydro-ecological stability of the area and also act as a carbon sink due to its wetland properties.
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Professor who fled Egypt over censorship at American University in Cairo: ‘There’s still an accounting that needs to take place’
Professor Adam Duker puts his faith in faith. Specifically, the transformative power of teaching world religions to students who’ve never been exposed to them. Hired in 2016 as the endowed Abdulhabi H. Taher Chair of Comparative Religions at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Duker had the unique task of building the first religious studies… Read more
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Unfortunately, bias incident reporting policies are common at colleges and universities across the country, but they’re not all made alike — there’s a wide range in how schools define bias incidents, as well as how they say they’ll respond to them. Mount Holyoke College, a private liberal arts school in Massachusetts, misses the mark… Read more
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The best children's books: 8-12 year-olds
From the small genius of The Borrowers to the giants of children's books, the Narnia stories, Lucy Mangan and Imogen Russell-Williams pick their must-reads for 8-12 year-olds
Lucy Mangan and Imogen Russell Williams
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Stig of the Dump: Clive King
This was the first original Puffin published in 1963. The story of eight-year-old loner Barney who befriends Stig, a remnant of the Stone Age hidden in the local chalk pit, has not been out of print since. The two boys grow to appreciate each other's eras and skills as they contrive ingenious solutions to Stig's various problems living out of the junk that is thrown into the pit. A modern classic.
Charlotte's Web: EB White
"'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother" is probably the most famous opening line of any children's book. He is going to dispatch Wilbur, the runt of the litter, until Fern pleads for clemency. With the help of Wilbur's wise and devoted friend, Charlotte, the spider is able to live out the rest of his days in safety. You may feel like warning your child that Charlotte dies "as spiders do" at the end of the summer. You should resist. It's a book that teaches you that characters can be made to live for ever simply by turning back to the first page and starting again.
The Family from One End Street: Eve Garnett
This episodic collection of the adventures (in the late 1930s) of the multitudinous Ruggles family (seven children, two parents) was one of the first books for this age group to take working-class life as its central theme and to depict it with charm and without condescension. They remain as fresh as the day they were penned.
The Story of Tracy Beaker: Jacqueline Wilson
One End Street was Wilson's favourite book as a child and its influence can be seen in all her wildly popular books, which speak just as directly and unpatronisingly to and about the kind of children underrepresented in young fiction. Tracy Beaker is their totem, an irrepressibly imaginative child (though the staff in her care home say she has "behavioural problems") who writes the story of her life while waiting for her mother to come and get her back.
Matilda: Roald Dahl
It's almost impossible to choose between Dahls but Matilda is one of the most borrowed by children so let us pick her – especially as it helps refute the charges of misogyny occasionally aimed at Dahl. Matilda is the superbright daughter of horrible parents who helps free her schoolmates and her lovely teacher Miss Honey from the tyranny of Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress. All of Dahl's exuberance and cartoon brutality is on display here, just the way kids like it.
Tom's Midnight Garden: Philippa Pearce
Exquisitely written, perfectly pitched and suffused with a gentle yearning, the story of lonely Tom – who discovers that the gardenless flat in which he is staying returns at midnight to its days of Victorian splendour – is Pearce's masterpiece. And if you don't cry at the final scene, well, you'll know you're dead inside.
The Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster
Bored, disaffected young Milo receives a mysterious present – a purple tollbooth – and sets off on a journey through Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, cities at war in the Kingdom of Wisdom which has banished the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason. It dazzled, discomfited, enmeshed and then enraptured me.
The Narnia books: CS Lewis
Yes, they're very much of their time and place, an oak-panelled room in the oak-panelled 1950s – and maybe you'll want to drop The Last Battle, where the whole Christian allegory thing becomes crudely explicit, behind the sofa – but until then it's a riot of fauns, talking beavers and dancing dryad in a cracking set of stories.
Harry Potter: JK Rowling
No, they're not great literature. But, like Enid Blyton, they give new readers quick and convincing proof that reading can be fun. For that alone – although I'd argue they achieve more than that – Rowling's boy has earned his Z-shaped stripes.
The Borrowers: Mary Norton
The Borrowers – tiny people, living secretly in the houses of "human beans" and scavenging therein – are a wonderful idea. The story of young Arrietty's growing frustration with life under the floorboards speaks forever to children's irritation with their own circumscribed world. If only we could all pole vault with a hatpin out of here.
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror: Chris Priestly
Mesmerising, understated, and convincingly Victorian in tone, these grisly ghost stories are beautifully framed by the mysterious Uncle Montague, telling tales of his sinister knick-knacks to his nephew Edgar over tea and cake. A book for children who enjoy being frightened – and a perfect introduction to Saki and Edgar Allan Poe.
The Lionboy Trilogy: Zizou Corder
This riproaring trilogy crams in everything – dystopian oppression, passionate conservationism, villainous relatives, shipboard circuses and a boy who can speak to cats, all set in a petrol-poor, corporation-controlled future. Charlie Ashanti discovers his scientist parents have been kidnapped by the corporation because they're on the verge of discovering a breakthrough cure for asthma. Charlie must travel to Paris, Venice, Morocco and Haiti, in the company of the lions he has freed from a drug-administering tamer, to set the world to rights. Joyous.
Skellig: David Almond
Michael, worried because his baby sister has been born prematurely, finds a curious creature in the garage of his family's new home. Unethereal in its tastes – which include brown ale and Chinese takeaway – the being nevertheless seems to have wings. Skellig celebrates children's unfiltered, Technicolor perceptions of the exciting world in which they live. A bookshelf essential.
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Anti-CAA protests: Traffic snarls in national capital, Delhi-Gurgaon border in gridlock
PTI New Delhi | Updated on December 19, 2019 Published on December 19, 2019
Traffic Jam on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway due to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in the national capital, in Gurugram, Thursday. - PTI
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Anti-CAA protest: Students taken into custody in Hyderabad
Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act resulted in huge traffic snarls across the national capital during the morning peak hours on Thursday, while the Delhi-Gurgaon route remained in a gridlock as vehicles lined up for as long as 10 kms on the expressway connecting the two cities.
“Police have placed barricades and are checking vehicles coming from Gurgaon to Delhi due to which the traffic is affected on the stretch,” the Delhi Traffic Police tweeted.
Sources said the barricading was placed after the Delhi Police got an input about a group of people from Mewat in the neighbouring Haryana going towards the national capital to join protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and against police action on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia.
With the police raising the barricades and just one lane open for checking vehicles around 8 am, many commuters took wrong side to reach their destinations and ended up occupying the service lane as well.
The traffic coming from Mahipalpur also got caught in the snarl. According to a senior Gurgaon traffic police official, the traffic jam has reached the Signature tower from Gurgaon side.
Within the national capital, traffic is heavy in the carriageway from Delhi Gate to GPO due to a protest, police said. Traffic is also affected on the Subhash Marg, Peeli Kothi, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Marg, Red Fort and Old Delhi Railway Station. Authorities tweeted regular updates on the traffic situation.
“Traffic is heavy in the carriageway from Aya Nagar Border to Delhi and Kapashera Border to Delhi due to demonstration. Road No. 13A between Mathura Road and Kalindi Kunj is closed for traffic movement. People coming from Noida are advised to take DND or Akshardham to reach Delhi,” the Delhi Police said in a tweet.
Despite prohibitory orders issued by the Delhi Police, protestors have gathered at Red Fort and Mandhi House. Police have already detained scores of protesters at the Red Fort and taken away in buses. None of these protests has got permission from the Delhi Police to hold marches, police said. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has closed entry and exit gates of 17 stations.
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Network World did a great summary of the ten "scariest" vulnerabilities discussed at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. While we're waiting to see if the legalization of cyber privateering makes it onto the U.K. E-petition system, let me take this opportunity to remind the world why we're in such a precarious position. Without some advanced thinking on cyber security, we're well and truly screwed. Here are ten scary (but not anywhere close to my own list) vulnerabilities:
At Black Hat, NSS researcher Dillon Beresford demonstrated how to hack a Siemens S7 computer, gain read-and-write access to the memory, steal data, run commands and shut the computers off. All this is very bad when you consider these devices are used to control machines in factories, utility networks, power plants, chemical factories and the like -- a major security threat. His findings were so troublesome that he pulled out of an earlier conference where he'd been scheduled to present the information until Siemens could patch the vulnerabilities he exposed. And the Department of Homeland Security monitored his talk to make sure it didn't reveal too much.
Botmasters can use VoIP conference calls to communicate with the zombie machines in their botnets, researchers Itzik Kotler and Iftach Ian Amit of security and risk-assessment firm Security Art demonstrated at Defcon. They released a tool called Moshi Moshi that converts touchtones into commands the bots can understand and turns text into speech to capture information on compromised corporate computers and read it into voicemail for the botmaster to pick up later. The techniques enable botmasters to control their hijacked machines from wireless phones and even payphones (if they can find one). The botmasters call in to the conference bridge, the zombies connect via the corporate network and data can flow, the researchers showed.
Independent researchers Dave Kennedy and Rob Simon showed Defcon a device they customized that can tap into home powerlines to monitor and control home alarm and security camera systems. Using the device and broadband-over-powerline technology, burglars could plug the device into an electric outlet on the outside of a house and monitor devices inside the home. They could deduce, for example, that if the alarm system is turned on and security cameras activated then the residents are not at home. The device can send signals that jam signals from the security devices, leaving burglars free to break in without worry that alarms will be set off, the researchers say.
A spy drone made from off-the-shelf electronics was demonstrated at both Black Hat and Defcon by its creators, Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey. The model plane -- Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (WASP) -- was tricked out with electronics that can crack codes and pick off cellphone calls, and an onboard computer that can execute a flight plan designed to have the plane circle above a target while it does its work. The researchers say that if they can build one, so can just about any country or corporate espionage group that puts its mind to it, so beware.
Car hijack via phone networks: A demo at Black Hat hacked a Subaru Outback car alarm, unlocked the doors and started the vehicle, all using text messages sent over phone links to wireless devices in the vehicle. The same type of exploit could just as easily knock out power grids and water supplies, says Don Bailey, a security consultant with iSec Partners, who presented the research. The common thread is that the car alarm and certain devices on critical infrastructure networks are all connected to public phone networks in ways that are fairly simple to compromise, and the prospect is threatening enough that the Department of Homeland Security wanted a briefing beforehand.
Hack faces to find Social Security numbers: A demo at Black Hat and Defcon showed it's possible to acquire a person's Social Security number using nothing more than a photo publicly available in online social-network databases, face-recognition software and an algorithm for deducing the numbers. The point is to show that a framework of digital surveillance that can go from a person's image to personal data exists today, says Alessandro Acquisti, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who presented the research. The results will only get better as technologies improve, making privacy more scarce and making surveillance readily available to the masses. "This, I believe and fear, is the future we are walking into," says Acquisti.
Remotely shut down insulin pumps: Insulin pumps that diabetics rely on to keep their blood sugar in balance can be shut off remotely, a researcher demonstrated at Black Hat. Jerome Radcliffe, a diabetic himself, showed how he could pick off wireless signals used to control the pump, corrupt the instructions and send the altered commands to the machine. He could force the wrong amount of insulin to be pumped or shut the device off altogether, either of which could be fatal in the wrong circumstances. The problem, he says, is that the devices weren't designed with security in mind.
Embedded Web server menace: There are embedded Web servers that come in photocopiers, printers and scanners meant to make administering the devices easier, but they lack security, leaving them open to being pilfered for documents recently scanned or copied, Michael Sutton, vice president of security research at Zscaler Labs, told Black Hat. He says he's able to find these Web servers through scripts he wrote to scan huge blocks of IP addresses and recognize telltale Web header fingerprints. "There's no breaking-in required," Sutton says.
Spreading false router tables: A researcher at Black Hat revealed a vulnerability in the router protocol Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) that lets attackers install false route tables on uncompromised routers in an OSPF-based network. That puts networks using the protocol at risk of attacks that compromise data streams, falsify network topography and create crippling router loops. The solution? Use another protocol such as RIP or IS-IS or changing OSPF to close the vulnerability, says Gabi Nakibly, a researcher at Israel's Electronic Warfare Research and Simulation Center, who discovered the problem.
SAP flaw: A flaw in SAP's NetWeaver software enables hackers to dodge authentication into the ERP system, says researcher Alexander Polyakov of security firm ERPScan, who presented his findings at Black Hat. The implications of this are that attackers could gain access to data and delete it, he says. He was able to Google hack servers that contained the flaw, he says, which was present on about half the servers he tested. SAP says it plans to issue a fix for the problem.
Dare I say that this is just the tip of the iceberg? We should have a yea-or-nay next week on whether or not the cyber privateering E-petition is available for signatures. Stay tuned.
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Jobe Watson speaks out after CAS bans Essendon players
Josh Elliott
The end of the Essendon saga looks to be nearing. (AAP Image/Julian Smith)
Essendon captain Jobe Watson has spoken out for the first time since the Court for Arbitration of Sport (CAS) yesterday handed down season-long bans for him and eleven other Essendon-listed players.
In a statement released on the AFL Players Association (AFLPA) website, Watson said:
“The decision announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold WADA’s appeal is devastating.
“We are struggling to come to terms with this decision, and feel it does not support the players’ firm belief that we are innocent.
“Our legal team is conducting a thorough review of the decision and will explore any avenues available to us.
“The players would like to thank our families, our friends, our members and supporters for their unwavering support.
“We would also like to thank the AFLPA for their ongoing support throughout the last three years.
“We will not be making any further comment and ask the media to please respect our privacy during this extremely challenging period.”
Watson’s statement opens up some interesting possibilities, particularly his comment regarding the exploration of possibly legal activity.
One would assume that refers to an appeal against the bans now in place though this will prove a difficult task if Watson and his fellow players choose to pursue it.
A further appeal after a ruling from CAS is only possible on very limited grounds, and would require Watson and company to take their case to a higher court in Switzerland.
Of course, another potential option for legal action would be against the Essendon football club itself – whether or not Watson and the other banned players will consider this, however, is unclear.
Watson also noticeably does not make any comment whatsoever about his 2012 Brownlow Medal, and whether or not he would be willing to give it up in the light of these bans.
The AFL commission is set to meet in February to discuss whether or not to strip Watson of the medal, and AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan confirmed yesterday that Watson would be invited to address that meeting of the commission.
Josh Elliott is a rusted-on North Melbourne tragic with a penchant for pun headlines - and also abnormal alliteration, assuredly; assuming achievability. He once finished third in a hot chilli pie eating contest.
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America's Got Talent: Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., PopLyfe, Team iluminate, and The Silhouettes Headed For The Final Showdown
Written by Abel Rodriguez
iluminate forming a green silhouette of former baseball star Jose "Señor Steroids" Canseco.
HOLLYWOOD - Nick Cannon and Piers Morgan were both sharply dressed and looked like they had both stepped off of a wedding cake, but not a gay one insisted Morgan. Howie Mandel looked like he'd just cut his front lawn, and Sharon Osbourne looked like she'd been playing tennis all day.
The final ten contestants on America's Got Talent were whittled down to four. The first to make it to the finals was Team iluminate who are a glow in the dark dance troupe who can best be described as a psychedelic Wii version of Star Wars Meets The Grandchildren of Marcel Marceau.
The second act to make it was the Afro-haired band PopLyfe whose members have more hair that Marcia Cross, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Kardashian sisters combined.
They were dressed in Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band outfits that they actually borrowed from the Beatles Magical Mystery Strawberry Rain Museum in Liverpool.
The third act voted to move on to the finals was The Silhouettes who are comprised of 42 members who range in age from 4 to 24.
They work behind a giant white screen and form black silhouettes of various American landmarks including Niagara Falls, the Petrified Forest, the San Andreas Fault, the Mississippi River, the Tarzan and Jane Petting Zoo, the state of Idaho, and their latest addition Dolly Parton's bosom.
And the fourth act to make it on to the finals is the nation's most famous ex-car washer, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., who Nancy Sinatra, daughter of the great crooner Frank Sinatra, said sounds more like her father than even her father did.
Pico de Gallo of Tittle Tattle Tonight, Margarita Mixx of The Tinsel Town Times Tribune, and Pia Confetti of the El Lay Informer are picking Murphy to win the $1 million first prize.
Ling Chow Rangoon of iRumors is picking Team iluminate. Fuchsia Garfunkel of The Cucamonga Chit-Chat Chronicle is picking the Silhouettes. And Buck Yazoo of Yippee-Ki-Yay Magazine is picking PopLyfe.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: A spokesperson for NBC stated that the network is presently negotiating with the Rolling Stones to have them appear on the America's Got Talent championship finale show.]
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Lengthy budget impasse taking toll on services in Michigan
By David EggertThe Associated Press
Tues., Nov. 26, 2019timer4 min. read
LANSING, Mich. - When $525,000 in state funding was cut from a popular school truancy program she runs to help students in rural northeastern Michigan, Dorothy Pintar held off as long as possible on reducing staff.
But last week, nearly two months into a budget impasse in the Capitol, she drove to Oscoda County and laid off a school liaison who works to get at-risk students to class and turn around their academics.
It’s one of two layoffs that will take effect Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. Liaisons at six more schools will lose their jobs just before Christmas and right after New Year’s, unless Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican-led Legislature resolve their differences.
The School Success Partnership Program, which depends on the state for nearly 30% of its budget, is among many services starting to face repercussions after the first-year governor vetoed an unprecedented $947 million in funding on Sept. 30 to restart broken-down budget talks.
“I really think it’s a power game going on between the two sides,” Pintar said. “In the meantime, it’s really affecting not only programs and people but communities. The schools are a hub of a community. And once we lose programs like this in these rural areas, I don’t know when other services are going to be available.”
Sheriff’s offices, jails, charter schools, private colleges, hospitals, local governments and nonprofits also are casualties of the much-longer-than-expected standoff in Michigan — one of a handful of states, including Wisconsin, with a newly split government following the 2018 elections. Whitmer and lawmakers want to reverse the vetoes but are at odds over Republicans’ push to curtail her budget powers.
Way Academies operates two charter schools in Detroit, one in Flint and a cyberschool. They are among nearly 300 charters across Michigan that saw a $35 million, or 3%, funding increase nixed by Whitmer.
To keep classrooms from being impacted by the loss of almost $150,000, superintendent Madeline Black has scaled back security guards’ hours, had custodians clean four days a week instead of five and trimmed in-home visits to students who take classes online. Not having the $240 per-pupil increase, she said, makes it tougher to entice teachers to stay because pay increases or stipends are not available.
Sheriffs are starting to cut lose up to 119 deputies whose jobs are state-funded. Michigan Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director Blaine Koops said at least two sheriffs have let an officer go.
“The roads will not be as safe,” said Koops, referring to the deputies who enforce traffic laws, investigate crashes and serve as backup on 911 calls. “I don’t want to be a doomsayer, but injuries and fatalities will go up.”
In December, 67 small-town hospitals — half of all Michigan hospitals — will start confronting a $26 million funding cut at a time when rural hospitals have closed nationwide.
About 17,000 students at private colleges are in limbo, too, following the elimination of $38 million in need-based financial aid of up to $2,400 per student. Schools largely are letting affected students enrol for the next semester by listing the tuition grant as “pending” from the state.
“We’re very nervous. The students are very nervous. They’ve got this hanging over their head now,” said Robert LeFevre, president of Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities.
The gridlock began in March, when Whitmer — who campaigned on fixing the roads — proposed a 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase that went nowhere. By September, with the deadline to fund government nearing, she and GOP legislative leaders tabled road funding talks to focus on the budget. But negotiations quickly broke down, and the Legislature sent her a spending plan she deemed a “mess.”
Republicans expected line-item vetoes but were surprised at their magnitude: $630 million, or 1.8%, of state spending ($947 million including federal funds). She also used a board to unilaterally shift other funding around, angering GOP legislators who want to curb the power as part of a deal to undo the vetoes and transfers.
“Most of those differences can be resolved. I just can’t tell you when,” said Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey.
Whitmer said she’s eager to sign a bill that reverses vetoes but also adequately funds state departments that were shortchanged, noting “enormous potential consequences” in the prison system. Agency spokesman Chris Gautz warned that 75 staffers who help educate inmates will be laid off if the stalemate extends into next year.
The Legislature will return from a three-week break on Dec. 3. That’s two days after local governments in primarily rural areas normally would have begun getting $27.3 million to offset lost taxes from government-owned land and reduced taxes from forests managed for timber production. Roughly 170 small school districts already are operating with less than anticipated due to the vetoes.
If the state acts soon, cost-control moves can be avoided or pulled back.
Pintar said while two workers in the school success program will be out of work after Wednesday and other positions have gone unfilled, she will rehire them if the funding is restored. Having liaisons at 35 sites in 10 counties helped 820 students last school year, including 80% who improved academically, she said.
Her message to Whitmer and lawmakers?
“Better late than never. Sooner would be better,” Pintar said. “I’m still hopeful. We’re not cleaning out offices but just locking them and hope that we’re going to walk back into them.”
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New Artist RAFF Debuts With ‘Sororicide’, A Song About Female Antagonism And Sisterly Affectations
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2017 has been the year of the woman. We kicked it off fiercely with the Women’s March back in January, a worldwide protest advocating legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, which estimated over 5 million in participation. What started out in Washington D.C., included 408 reported marches in the U.S. alone; with 168 reported marches in 81 other countries.
We had movies that inspired and motivated us like Hidden Figures, the true story about three brilliant African-American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit in the 1960’s.
And who could forget Wonder Woman, the D.C. Comics superhero film about amazon women fighting for truth and justice in the 1940’s. Directed by Patty Jenkins, this film set many box office records including becoming the highest-grossing film directed by a woman, the biggest domestic opening for a film directed by a woman, the highest-grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female-led comic book film. It has grossed over $821 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2017.
Women were making an impact in music as well in 2017 with songs of empowerment, finding strength after a painful break up, and breaking free from misogyny and abuse. Artists like Dua Lipa, Nicki Manaj, Lizzo, Lorde, and Hailee Steinfield released ground-breaking music without apologies. She Knows released a list including these phenomenal women and many more: 16 Most Empowering Songs for Women in 2017 so Far
The newest female artist to make her debut with a song about women is RAFF. A classically trained pianist born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, RAFF grew up sneaking into jazz clubs and dipped her toe into music by releasing covers of David Bowie, Rihanna and Bon Iver on Soundcloud. Her new single, “Sororicide” (which means, ‘the act of killing one’s own sister’) is a subversive alt-pop tune that tells of codependent jealousy and backstabbing between frenemies with equal parts youthful yearning and jaded bitterness. Her inspiration for the song stemmed from her freshman year in Southern California, “I wanted to write about my resentment of women putting other women down in their misled search for empowerment,” says RAFF, “The impossible game of achieving an idealized projection of beauty started to feel like a twisted competition.”
Now a senior at Barnard College at Columbia University where she studies French Literature and Philosophy, RAFF has connected with Los Angeles trio BRÅVES to hone her vision for her sound.
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EA Play 2019 – Here’s all the news and announcements from EA’s showcase
Ryan Jones Contact via Twitter | June 9, 2019 1:41 am BST
The EA Play 2019 video presentation unveiled both new games and content for EA’s exiting blockbuster titles.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was easily the standout title, as a gameplay demo showed off the single-player adventure’s stunning combat, story and platforming Look below to watch the demo yourself.
FIFA 20 also had a number of announcements, including FIFA Volta mode which essentially serves up a nostalgic hit of FIFA Street. Significant gameplay tweaks to A.I. defending, shooting and free kicks were also detailed for FIFA 20.
We were also treated to in-depth looks at the Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass, The Sims 4: Island Living expansion pack and upcoming Battlefield 5 multiplayer maps.
Trusted Reviews rounded up every piece of news from the event, trailers for each individual game and the whole EA Play 2019 video presentation if you fancy watching it in its entirety.
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EA Play 2019 Games – All the big news and announcements
The EA Play 2019 video revealed a 15-minute video of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gameplay footage. We saw the player use Jedi powers to blast down doors and knock down large pipes to cross over gaps. Fallen Order also features some Uncharted-esque platforming with climbing and wall-running to overcome obstacles. Your little robot ally also helped to hack into systems and provide shortcuts, suggesting it could well become very useful as the story develops.
We also saw some incredible combat, as the main character, Cal Kestis, slashes through Stormtroopers with his lightsaber and slowed down time with the Force to dodge incoming fire. The player also threw enemies off cliff edges and pulled troopers towards them using the Force, suggesting Jedi powers will very much be a big part of Fallen Order. Not every enemy could be carved open or thrown around so easily though. An even stronger trooper could deflect your attacks and counter, while having enough armour to survive multiple blows. Cal also encounters a large variety of enemies, from your typical foot soldiers to oversized bugs that can ensnare you in webbing.
Right at the end of the demo, we see Cal has been sent to save Wookiee, but just before it can be rescued, Cal is ambushed by a droid that looks like K-2SO from Rogue One. Have a look at the gameplay video demo yourself below.
Read more: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Apex Legends Season 2: Battle Pass
We also got extensive details on the Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass, which includes a new ranked mode, new character, new weapons and lots and lots of new skins. Wattson was revealed as the new Legend, who is capable of building electrified fences and can deploy pylons that can regenerate ally shields.
The new L-Star weapons, meanwhile, looks seriously powerful. It’s so powerful in fact, that it can only be found via care packages. The plasma-fueled rifle can tear through armour at a distance, and can even blast down doors. Respawn also hinted it will be slightly altering the strength of already existing weapons, making the infamous Mozambique shotgun ‘useful’.
Respawn also revealed the Season 2 battle pass will include more Legendary skins, more crafting materials and a challenge-based objectives. Apex Legends Season 2 will be available from 2 July 2o19.
Read more: Apex Legends Season 2
FIFA 20 has seen a huge number of changes from last year’s entry, with the EA Play 2019 showcase revealing a new FIFA Volta mode, which looks very similar to the old FIFA Street games. You’ll play away from the pitch in more urban settings, playing as your own customised character which can be male or female. There will both be a Story mode and an Volta League.
There have also been a lot of gameplay tweaks, including new ball physics, revamped AI defending and a new system for penalties and free kicks. EA Sports also confirmed they will be tweaking attributes such as pace, so defenders won’t be able to easily keep up with some of the speediest strikers in the world.
FIFA 20 will be arriving on 27 September 2019, with previews already open.
Read more: Hands on: FIFA 20 Review
EA is taking Battlefield 5 to the Mediterranean front, with four new maps set in the tropical setting, as American and Japanese troops take the battlefield.
The first of these maps will be called Al Sundan and will be available to download later this month. Like with other Battlefield 5 multiplayer map, players will be able to takes to the skies with planes or stick to the ground with various land vehicles.
EA also confirmed there will be many other multiplayer maps arriving for Battlefield 5, including the Marita, Lofoten Islands and Provence maps which are more compact than usual, seeing a greater focusing on infantry opposed to vehicles. The former of the three will arrive as soon as July, although we’ll have to wait longer to find out release windows for the other two.
It’s not just maps coming to Battlefield 5. EA also revealed that they will be rising the max rank from 50 all the way to 500, so it will take much longer for players to hit the maximum threshold. You’ll get new dog tags for every 50 ranks climbed too, just to give players an extra incentive.
Sims 4: Island Living expansion pack
The popular simulation game series The Sims 4 is leaving behind modern civilisation in favour of a tropical island in the latest expansion pack. You’ll be able to build a new town on the beach, and populate your community with cocktail bars and barbecues.
Given you’ll be spending your time on a tropical island, you’ll also encounter dolphins, volcanoes and mermaids, and be able to put your Sims to work as conservationists, fishermen or lifeguards.
The Sims 4 developers also revealed that a Realm of Magic expansion will arrive later on in the year around Autumn.
Read more: Sims 4: Island Living expansion
During the EA Play 19 presentation, EA Sports offered a deep look at the new Madden NFL 20 X-Factor system. Rather than being anything to do with Simon Cowell, these X-Factor skills allow you to unlock new abilities for elite NFL players by completing set objectives.
EA also talked up the Face of the Franchise feature, which allows you to create a college player and then help him raise through the ranks until you’re finally competing in the NFL.
Madden NFL 20 will launch worldwide on 2 August 2019.
How to watch EA Play 2019 video
Missed the EA Play 2019 live stream? No worries, as you can still watch it all below. Just bear in mind that it is over 3 and a half hours, so it’s probably best to pick and choose what you want to see, with each of the six games given 30-minute presentations.
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What do you think of our new Galaxy S10 review format?
Alastair Stevenson Contact via Twitter | March 20, 2019 5:04 pm GMT
Our Galaxy S10 review is live and boy-oh-boy is it a great phone. But avid readers may have noticed it looks a little different to our other reviews.
This is because it’s the launch point for a new review format we’re trialling that’s meant to make it quicker and easier for casual buyers and tech fanatics to get the information they need.
The first page will give you a general overview of the Galaxy 10’s strengths and weakness that’s not too spec heavy or technical. If benchmark and colour gamut coverage are what you’re after then you can jump to our in-depth, camera, screen, performance and battery pages, which give a technical deep dive into each area.
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If you go to the camera section you’ll also notice we’ve added a nifty new feature: picture sliders. These should let you get side-by-side comparison showing how the photos taken on the Galaxy S10 compare those shot on its closest rivals.
But never being ones to rest on their laurels this is only the beginning of our quest to update and improve our review format. We’ll be tweaking, experimenting and adding new features to the site in an ongoing effort to help make the reviews better for readers.
Which is why we want your feedback! As readers everything we do at Trusted Reviews is about helping you get the information you need to make an informed buying decision and find the product that is exactly right for you.
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As such, we want you to let us know what you think of the new review format. Nothing’s is off the table. Whether it’s a slight rejig to the structure, a new feature you want tested, an issue with the photography or information that you feel is missing we’re ready to listen. If there’s something you particularly like about the new format also let us know!
Send your feedback to our Twitter page on Trusted Reviews, or post it on our Facebook. Thanks for reading!
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December 09, 2004 Music » Rhythm & Views
Rhythm & Views
By Annie Holub
ASIN: B0006399FS
The thing about pop music these days is that there just aren't bands of the same caliber as U2 anymore. It's all about solo vocalists, and most major-label bands are vapid copycats. If you want emotional complexity and innovation, you gotta go indie, and the independent music circuit isn't designed to handle rock stars. The music industry just doesn't have quality supergroups anymore, especially politically active supergroups, probably because they spend more time creating them than discovering them.
U2 is one of the last remaining supergroups of the old guard. Their more recent records--How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb included--surrender to their original guitar-driven sound, and they've returned from their electronica journey with supergroup gusto. The result is classic, timeless rock--subtly political, beautifully produced and epic, just the way a U2 record should be.
The first track, "Vertigo," is brilliant in its simplicity; on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago, the band performed the song with just one guitar, bass and drums, and it still had that catchiness that we all know so well from the iPod commercials. "Miracle Drug" begins with the Edge's signature guitar sound--sweet and bright, soaked in chorus. "City of Blinding Lights" has every familiar U2 element, and when Bono sings, "Everywhere you go you shout it," in "Original of the Species," he might as well be standing on a rooftop, singing his heart out, as the wind from the helicopter with the camera blows his hair back and his shirt open.
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First stop Istanbul
Religious centers you can visit in a cradle of civilisations, Turkey
Turkey has been home to numerous civilizations over, each leaving a special mark, making Turkey a center of different beliefs, religions and places of worship. From Istanbul, Manisa, Hatay to Mardin, there is a wealth of religion, history and architecture for you to explore at these fascinating religious centers.
1. Selimiye Mosque
Built in the name of Sultan Selim II in the 16th century, Selimiye Mosque, with its technical perfection, dimensions and aesthetic values, is considered as one of the greatest works of back then and the following periods. Labeled as his masterpiece by Mimar Sinan, Selimiye Mosque has been accepted into UNESCO World Heritage List in 2011.
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2. Grand Synagogue of Edirne
Began to be constructed by the French architect France Depre in 1906 to replace 14 former synagogues that had been reduced to ashes in the great fire of 1905, the Grand Synagogue of Edirne opened for religious service in 1907 with the name “Kal Kados ha Godal”. As Balkan’s biggest and Europe’s third biggest synagogue, it had been used actively for service until the 1960s.
3. Ahrida Synagogue
Located in the Balat district of Istanbul and began being constructed in the 15th century, Ahrida Synagogue got its name from current day Ohrid in North Macedonia as it was the hometown of the builders who migrated to Istanbul. Synagogue’s “teva” (torah reading pulpit) resembles the prow of a ship. According to one legend, it is made so that it evokes Noah’s Ark, while according to another it symbolizes the galleys that brought the Sephardic’s to Ottoman Empire from Spain.
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4. Sveti Stefan Church
Subsidiary of the Bulgarian Exarchy in Balat, Sveti Stefan Church is the only iron church in the world that’s been able to be preserved. Cast iron framework of the church was prepared in Vienna and brought to Istanbul over Danube River and Black Sea in 1892. It’s been constructed by Armenian architect Hovsep Aznavour.
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5. Büyükada Hagia Yorgi Church
Located in Yüce Tepe (204 meters high), which is one of the higher spots in Büyükada, Hagia Yorgi Church (also referred to as Agios Georgios Greek Orthodox Monastery) is built in 1751. Visited mostly on the dates of April 23rd and September 24th by people from various beliefs, Hagia Yorgi Church is also known as “the church that grants wishes”.
6. Neve Shalom Synagogue
Opened on March 25th, 1951, 10.30 AM with a ceremony held by the leader of the congregation Rav Rafael Saban, Neve Shalom Synagogue has a dome that carries an immensely heavy chandelier and glasses that were imported from England.
7. Blue Mosque
Constructed by Sedefkar Mehmed Ağa between the years 1609 and 1617, after being instructed by Sultan Ahmed. Blue Mosque started to be called with this name by Europeans referring to it’s green and white İznik tiles and it’s blue-heavy ornamentations. Blending the traditional Islamic architecture with the Byzantine influences borrowed from its neighboring Hagia Sophia, it is the biggest of the late classical era mosques.
8. Hagia Sophia Museum
Began being constructed in 360, it is one of the most important landmarks of the world’s architectural heritage that’s been able to be preserved to this day. Hagia Sophia, with its design, magnificence and function, is among the most valuable monuments in history. Hagia Sophia is the biggest church that Eastern Roman Empire has built in Istanbul.
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9. The Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George
It was constructed by Saint Andrea, an apostle of Christ, in the 4th century. Church of St. George has gained a special place in the Orthodox world by having been located in the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and being the principal cathedral among the Orthodox churches.
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10. Süleymaniye Mosque
Constructed by Mimar Sinan between the years 1551 and 1557, Süleymaniye Mosque survived over a hundred earthquakes without sustaining any damage. Regarded as one of the most magnificent examples of classical Ottoman architecture, it’s 4 minarets represent Suleiman the Magnificent’s place as the 4th Sultan of the empire following the conquest of Constantinople and it’s 10 balconies represent this place as the 10th Sultan of the empire.
11. Iznik Hagia Sophia Mosque
One of the important temples in world history, Hagia Sophia was constructed by Byzantines as a basilica over the Gymnasium built by the Romans in the 7th century. It was renovated after the earthquake in the 11th century. After the conquest of İznik by Orhan Gazi in 1331, it was converted to a mosque and during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent and it was renovated again by Mimar Sinan.
View on map Fly to Bursa
12. Grand Mosque of Bursa
Constructed between the years 1396 and 1400 during the reign of Yıldırım Bayezid, Grand Mosque is the first monumental multi-domed structure amongst the Ottoman mosques. It has a sixteen-sided pond with a fountain in the middle with three basins circling it. Grand Mosque is regarded as the 5th highest degree mosque in Islam.
13. Thyateira Church
One of the seven churches of the Book of Revelation, meaning one of the first seven churches of Christianity, Thyateira Church was constructed in Manisa (formerly Thyateira) in the 3rd century. Connecting two of the important centers of ancient times, Pergamon and Sardis, it became a point of interest for Christians from all over the world.
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14. St. Jean Church
Constructed in 600 and located in Manisa, St. Jean Church, with the height and diam of its columns and the way they connect with the arch, is one of the most important works of the Byzantine era. One of the seven churches of the Book of Revelation, it is also known as Philadelphia Church.
15. Ancient City of Sardis
Built in 1300 BC as the capital of Kingdom of Lydia in the Iron Age, the Ancient City of Sardis is the birthplace of the coin as we know it today. Home to one of the seven churches in Western Anatolia that was essential in the expansion of Christianity towards the west, Sardis was accepted into UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2013.
16. House of Virgin Mary
Located on Mount Koressos in the Ancient City of Ephesus located in Izmir, a sanctuary for Catholics and Muslims both, it is discovered in the 19th century after the reported dreams that a Catholic priestess Anne Catherine Emmerich had.
Vİew on map Fly to Izmir
17. Ancient City of Laodicea
Located in the 6 kilometers north of Denizli, Hellenistic Ancient City of Laodicea is built in the 3rd century BC, in the name of Laodicea who was the wife to the Seleucid king Antiochus II. Since it became a seat of Christianity and a bishopric after the 4th century AD and was recognized as a holy pilgrimage site, it has great importance for the Christian world.
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18. St. Nicholas Church
More commonly known as the church of Santa Claus, St. Nicholas Church with its architectural style and ornamentations, was fully constructed by the 11th century, and it is one of the most outstanding examples of middle Byzantine period that has reached to this day.
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19. Ancient City of Pisidia
Located in Isparta where the Mediterranean, Aegean and Central Anatolia intersect in the “Lake District”, the city sits upon a hill 1236 meters high. It was built by Seleucid dynasty in the 3rd century BC. Since Saint Paul visited the place and preached Christianity, it is recognized as a holy pilgrimage site and is still visited by Orthodox Christians every year. There are numerous other holy places to explore along the St. Paulus Trail as well ancient city. The first part of the trail starts at Perge and passes Kursunlu Waterfall and ends at the ancient city of Sutculer Island Ancient City. The second stage runs from Aspendos, Koprulu Canyon, Selge, Kerime, Kasımlar and joins with the first trail at Adada and extends from Davras and Eğirdir Barla mountain to Yalvaç. Remember to use ancient paths throughout the walk.
View on map Fly to Isparta
20. Mevlana Museum
Started to be constructed in 1273 after the death of Mevlana (Rumi), the mausoleum sits on four elephant-foot columns and is a Seljuk masterpiece. Museum grounds is 6500 square meters but with the addition of new areas arranged as rose gardens, it covers 18000 square meters in total.
View on map Fly to Konya
21. St. Paul Monument Museum
Constructed in 1856 and converted to a monument museum in 2001, the church is the biggest of all churches built in the name of St. Paul. The murals on the ceiling depicting Christ, John, Matthew and Lucas, is world-renowned.
View on map Fly to Adana
22. St. Pierre Monument Museum
Hatay’daki Saint Pierre Kilisesi, Haç (Stauris) Dağı'nın batısında kayalara oyulmuş 13 m derinliğinde, 9.5 m genişliğinde ve 7 m yüksekliğinde bir mağaradan oluşuyor. Hatay’daki ilk Hristiyanların gizli toplantıları için kullandıkları bu mağara, Hristiyan tarihinin en eski kiliselerinden biri olarak kabul ediliyor. 12 havariden biri olan Aziz Petrus’un ilk vaazını verdiği yer olduğuna ve cemaatin, Hristiyan adını bu kilisede aldığına inanılıyor. Kesin inşa tarihi bilinmeyen kilise, 1983 yılında Papa 4. Paul tarafından Hristiyanlar için Kutsal Hac Merkezi ilan edildi.
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23. Saint Theodoros Trion Church
One of the monuments of the 19th century, Saint Theodoros Trion Church is famous for it’s bell tower. Also known as Üzümlü Church, every year in May a spring ceremony is held here by Patriarch Bartholomew I.
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24. Hacı Bektaş Veli Complex
Constructed in the 13th century for one of the greatest thinkers in the history of Islam, Hacı Bektaş Veli mausoleum is not just considered a historical structure but a center where the Bektashi teachings which see and accept everyone as equals. It is still felt in this day and it is where these teachings expanded into the world from.
25. Hacı Bayram Mosque
Started construction in 1427, Hacı Bayram Mosque got its name from the mausoleum in its garden, of the founder of the Bayrami sect, poet Hacı Bayram Veli. It’s been said that Bayrami is the first Turkish sect in history and it played an important role in the unification of the Anatolian peoples. Located next to the Temple of Augustus, the mosque is renovated in 1714 and gained characteristics of the 18th century.
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26. Yılanlı (Snake) Church
Located in the Ihlara Valley and housing murals dated back to the 9th and 12th century, according to the legends the church got its name from six snake figures emerging from the priest’s grave. Housing tablets depicting four sinner women getting attacked by eight snakes and murals depicting Helena holding the Ture Cross, Saint Onuphrius, Saint Theodore and Saint George, the church is one of the most interesting structures in the region.
27. Al Nazar Church
Carved into a fairy chimney in the Al Nazar Valley in the 10th century, the murals in the Al Nazar Church chronologically depicts the time since Christ’s childhood to His ascension. Aside from scenes from the Holy Bible, the depictions of Emperor Constantine and his mother Helen is also worth seeing.
28. Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital
Started to be constructed by its chief architect Hürrem Shah from Ahlat, son of Mughith (Khurramshāh b. Mughīth al-Khilātī) in 1228 and completed in 1543, the structure consists of a mosque with two domes and an adjacent hospital. With its rich and detailed examples of traditional Anatolian stonemasonry, the mosque was accepted into UNESCO World Heritage List. Another feature of the mosque is that when viewed from the front, many motifs in the decor seems symmetrical to the eye, but in reality, they are asymmetrical and are never repeated in the ornamentations.
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29. Cehennemağzı Caves
Consisting of three adjacent caves in the Ereğli district of Zonguldak, Cehennemağzı (Hellmouth) Caves are also known as “Acheron Caves”. In mythology, it is the gate where Hercules descended to the land of the dead in order to drag hellhound Cerberus to the surface. First of the caves is also known as the church cave and the columns, capitals, mosaic pavements and candle alcoves indicate that it’s been used by first Christians as a secret place of worship. The remnants found in this cave are all embellished with motifs influenced by early Christian period.
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30. Behramshah Mosque
Constructed in the name of Mengujekid ruler Fahreddin Behramshah by his son Muzafferüddin Mehmed in the 12th century, the mosque consists of congregational area covered by three domes and a harem area covered by one dome. Regarded as one of the most successful examples of Seljuk architecture, the Behramshah Mosque is the first known Seljuk monument in the Black Sea region.
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31. Soumela Monastery
Believed to be constructed by two priests from Athens in 365, the monastery was renovated and expanded in the 6th century by the order of Justinian. With the addition of grand buildings in the 19th century, the monastery got even more awe-inspiring. It got this name from the word “melas” which means “black”.
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32. Twin Minarets Madrasa
A Seljuk monument and the symbol of Erzurum, the Twin Minarets Madrasa was constructed by the daughter of Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad, Hundi Hatun. Especially the decorations on the cap stone of the madrasa is one of the most impressive examples of Seljuk stonemasonry.
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33. Ancient City of Ani
Constructed by Armenian King Gagik I in 1001 and seen many wars, the Ancient City of Ani was an important center in the region. Also known as the "City of 1001 Churches", Ani has been home to many civilizations throughout the years. Located on the border between Turkey and Armenia, 40 churches, chapels and mausoleums were discovered in Ani to this day.
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34. Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Constructed in 915, Cathedral of the Holy Cross is considered as one of the most important middle age Armenian works of art. The exterior of the church is covered with scenes from the Holy Book. According to legends, it was built to house a piece of the True Cross smuggled from Jerusalem to Iran and brought to Van.
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35. Dome of Islam, Old City of Ahlat
Dating back to 8000 BC, Kubbat al-Islam (Dome of Islam) with its cave houses and nature, is one of the most culturally rich areas of Bitlis. The title Kubbat al-Islam has only been given to three cities in all of history.
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36. Mor Gabriel Monastery
Located in the 23 kilometers southeast of Midyat region of Mardin which is known as the homeland of the Syriacs, Mor Gabriel Monastery’s foundation has been laid in 397 on a high hill covered with oak trees. It is also the most important mausoleum in the region because the saints who lost their lives throughout the times have been buried in graves built in 15 separate niches in the monastery.
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Dome of Islam, Old City of Ahlat - Bitlis 2 / 21
Cathedral of the Holy Cross - Van 3 / 21
Ancient City of Ani - Kars 4 / 21
Büyükada Hagia Yorgi Church - Istanbul 5 / 21
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital - Sivas 6 / 21
House of Virgin Mary - Izmir 7 / 21
Twin Minarets Madrasa - Erzurum 8 / 21
The Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George - Istanbul 9 / 21
Hacı Bektaş Veli Complex - Nevşehir 10 / 21
St. Pierre Monument Museum - Hatay 11 / 21
Iznik Hagia Sophia Mosque - Bursa 12 / 21
Ancient City of Laodicea - Denizli 13 / 21
Mor Gabriel Monastery - Mardin 14 / 21
Mevlana Museum - Konya 15 / 21
Ancient City of Sardis - Izmir 16 / 21
Sveti Stefan Kilisesi - Istanbul 17 / 21
Süleymaniye Mosque - Istanbul 18 / 21
Blue Mosque - Istanbul 19 / 21
Soumela Monastery - Trabzon 20 / 21
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Haiti Travel Advisory
Haiti Travel Advice
Please reconsider your need to travel to Haiti
Please reconsider your need to travel to Haiti. We detected travel advisories from 6 sources for this specific country.
Haiti shares a land border with Dominican Republic. For these two countries, the Advisory Index is 3.3.
Advice scoring history for Haiti
Chart of the risk level over that last 200 days. This is the daily calculated travel risk for Haiti.
Rating Details (single travel warnings)
These are the individual advisories published by other countries about the destination Haiti from a travellers perspective. The scoring of all messages combined is the foundation for the current rating 4.0 out of 5.0.
Danger level: 4 - Reconsider travelling.
This is the general advisory usually covering the country as a whole.
Advisory issued by: Australia
Violent protests, roadblocks and supply shortages in Port-au-Prince and other cities have been continuing since February 2019. Review your departure options. See Safety We have increased our level of advice: Reconsider your need to travel to Haiti due to the high rate of violent crime.
Source: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/haiti
Advisory issued by: United States
Reconsider travel to Haiti due to crime, civil unrest, and kidnapping. Protests, tire burning, and road blockages are frequent and unpredictable. Violent crime, such as armed robbery, is common, and incidents of kidnapping have occurred. Local police may lack the resources to respond effectively to serious criminal incidents, and emergency response, ...
Source: http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html
Advisory issued by: Canada
The Canadian goverment suggests: Avoid non-essential travel.
Source: https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/haiti
Advisory issued by: New Zealand
Avoid non-essential travel to Haiti due to high levels of violent crime and civil unrest.
Source: https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/haiti
Advisory issued by: Ireland
Avoid non-essential travel
Source: https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/haiti/
Advisory issued by: Finland
Undvik icke nödvändiga resor - Överväg noga resor till landet. Det kan förekomma oroligheter. Orkansäsong i juni–november.
Source: https://um.fi/resemeddelande/-/c/HT
Individual rating changes for Haiti
This is the recent history of individual changes of travel advices that affected the total asessment of Haiti. Most recent events first.
Changes from December 19th 2019
The total rating for Haiti changed from 3.8 to 4.0. Here are the influencing details:
The Australian government increased their existing warning for Haiti to 4.0 (of 5.0) from the previous rating of 3.0 (by +1.0).
Changes from December 3rd 2019
The Australian government decreased their existing warning for Haiti to 3.0 (of 5.0) from the previous rating of 4.0 (by -1.0).
Changes from September 25th 2019
The Australian government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
The United States government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
The Canadian government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
The New Zealand government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
The Irish government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
The Finnish government issued a new warning for Haiti with a rating of 4.0.
Changes from June 12th 2019
The United States government decreased their existing warning for Haiti to 4.0 (of 5.0) from the previous rating of 5.0 (by -1.0).
Changes from March 28th 2019
The Canadian government decreased their existing warning for Haiti to 4.0 (of 5.0) from the previous rating of 5.0 (by -1.0).
About Haiti
Haiti with its capital Port-au-Prince is a country in North America (Caribbean), slightly smaller than Maryland (27,750 km²). The country is located Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic. The climate can be described as tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds. The landscape is mostly rough and mountainous. With a population of about 8.92 million citizens.
about 8.92 million
Size comparable to
slightly smaller than Maryland
French, Haitian
Gourde (short: HTG)
These are problems Haiti is facing. Environmental issues refer to damages of the nature due to industry and society. Natural hazzards refer to potential dangers originating in nature.
extensive deforestation (much of the remaining forested land is being cleared for agriculture and used as fuel)
inadequate supplies of potable water
lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October
occasional flooding and earthquakes
periodic droughts
These are the main product industries and agricultural products of Haiti. This list indicates what this country is good at producing.
flour milling
light assembly using imported parts
sugar refining
Haitian Imports and Exports
These are the main product categories of imports and exports to and from Haiti.
What is the current travel advisory for Haiti?
Haiti is currently rated at 4,0 out of a possible 5.0. Collected from 6 official sources. Please reconsider your need to travel to Haiti.
Is it safe to travel Haiti in 2020?
The score is rather high (4,0) and you should avoid all non-essential travel to Haiti. Maybe pick another location.
How many travel advisories do you know for Haiti?
We currently evaluate 11 official sources each morning. Today, we know of active advisories from 6 individual sources for Haiti.
What is the size of Haiti?
Haiti has a size of 27,750 km² or 10,714 mi² which is slightly smaller than Maryland.
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iPod father: The first iPod was designed and released in the same year
Apple really changed the music listening game with the first iPod, and they did it all within just one year
It has been recently discovered that Apple's first iPod was designed and released in just one year. In that one year, the way people listened to music was changed forever.
CEO of Stripe, Patrick Collision, decided to share an insider story regarding Apple's Ex-SVP, Tony Fadell and the creation of the first iPod. Collision describes that Fadell pitched the idea to Steve Jobs in March 2001 regarding the iPod. Jobs greenlighted the project, and in the following weeks and months, the final design was created, and in the first week of November (same year), units were shipped out to customers.
Jon Rubinstein, the head of Apple hardware engineering, found a small form-factor hard-drive that measured in at just 1.8 inches. This drive was from Toshiba and later became the standard hard drive for the first iPod. Apple really did pull off something amazing with the iPod. Music listening was undoubtedly changed forever after its release. To think that the device, which was so innovative at the time, was designed and released in the same year, really shows a high-level of incredibility on Apple's behalf.
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To Be Resilient
By Tim Atkins
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
When I was a child, in Georgia, we took a field trip to a nature center called Oxbow Meadows. At the time, I didn’t know what an “oxbow” was; I just knew I totally loved the name.
Later on in life I learned that as a river flows, it will erode its banks over time. What might start off as a little divot erodes and erodes until it forms a classic river bend. “Oxbow” refers to this kind of U-shaped bend in the river, and an oxbow lake is when the river has eroded the bank of the bend to the point where it cuts off from the main stream—think of it like cutting a line across the top of a “U.” Well, what happens to the bottom of the U that is no longer getting access to the running waters of the river? It becomes an oxbow lake.
There are so many spiritual lessons from the natural world and—in a season filled with Ingatherings and Water Communions—this is one for me: oxbow lakes as a beautiful combination of resiliency, strength, and flexibility.
It takes a long time for an oxbow to fully form into an oxbow lake. The water doesn’t care; it just keeps going. If there’s something in the way, water will bump up against it and then go around it. If water was too rigid, it wouldn’t be able to flow down the banks of a river.
But we all know about the strength of water too. Water can do incredible things—incredibly beautiful things and incredibly destructive things. Running water can be the strongest force in our natural world: breaking down rocks, digging out grand canyons, swallowing an entire island. It’s this strength that helps water erode the walls of the river, eventually forming the oxbow.
We often think that strength and flexibility are opposite sides of the same coin. But when they are united with resiliency, you can literally move the earth. Resiliency united with strength and flexibility creates beauty in the world, and creates new spaces for life to flourish. In this time in my life, at this time in our history, I need this kind of oxbow resiliency more than ever.
May we all have oxbow strength, carving through mountains, determined to change. May we all have oxbow flexibility, bending around the curves, overcoming all obstacles. May we all have oxbow faith moving forward.
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Kelly Slater secures a place in the Quarterfinals and will look to earn an inaugural win at Haleiwa. Photo: WSL / Heff
Ten-Year Swell at Haleiwa for Hawaiian Pro, Slater Advances to Final Day
Barron Mamiya, Matthew McGillivray Keep Qualification Hopes Alive
Ethan Ewing, Wade Carmichael Earn Excellence
An all-time West swell at Haleiwa Ali’i Beach made for staggering surf in the 12-15ft. range today at the Hawaiian Pro, arguably the best conditions competition has seen in ten years. Wave heights pushed 20+ft. for Day 4 of the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Qualifying Series (QS) 10,000 event to set the stage for finals day at the first gem of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
Eleven-time World Champion and two-time Vans Triple Crown Champion Kelly Slater (USA) narrowly dodged elimination in Round 4 after hammering a critical section on a 15ft. wave face and overtaking Jacob Willcox (AUS) by less than half a point. Slater ended the heat with the one-maneuver ride and waited on the beach as judges deliberated for his final result. To the applause of beach fans, he earned a 6.93 to increase his scoreline and advance into the Quarterfinals behind Luel Felipe (BRA).
Felipe, a regular-footer from Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, is a QS veteran and has come close to the ultimate dream of qualifying for the Championship Tour (CT). Currently in his best position yet -- No. 33 -- and with 10,030 points, a final appearance would easily put him among the top athletes in the qualification conversation. But today, Felipe was just grateful for the opportunity to surf epic Haleiwa, a sentiment that was shared by all competitors.
“This is going to be forever,” said Felipe. “One day I will retire but I will remember this day forever. I’m really stoked. For me, the best part of the heat was seeing my dad and he was really stoked and I just hugged him and gave him a kiss.”
Luel Felipe carved his way into Quarterfinal 3. Photo: WSL / Heff
The day began as the long period swell filled in to create massive scoring opportunities along with broken boards and wipeouts. Slater started Round 3 Heat 9 with a 5.40 and ended it with a 6.67. The latter score turned the heat and bumped him from third to first with only five minutes remaining. With an intimate knowledge of the lineup, wave choice, power slides and laybacks earned him the heat win ahead of Peruvian QS competitor Alonso Correa (PER), while Michael February (ZAF) and Vans Triple Crown rookie Cole Houshmand (USA) were eliminated in 33rd and 49th place respectively.
Although not entered in the Vans World Cup at Sunset Beach and therefore not in contention for a Vans Triple Crown title this year, Slater made his intentions clear about the Hawaiian Pro.
“I’d love to win the event, Haleiwa is one of my favorite waves in the world,” he said. “I’ve come close, I got second to Sunny (Garcia) one year but was never able to seal this one. It’s kind of funny, I’ve had a first at Pipe, I’ve had second here, and third at Sunset and that’s kind of the order I put the waves in my categories. I like Pipe the best and this one a close second. Anyway, it’s been good to me. I’ve had a lot of freesurfs out here throughout the years.”
Slater's Post Heat Interview
CT qualification hopes heated up as athletes fought through two rounds today, including Barron Mamiya (HAW), who opened up strong with energetic surfing in Round 3 and a 7.33 for an immediate lead. Midway through the 30-minute heat, his board buckled under the pressure of today’s big wave surfing and he signaled for an equipment swap from the water. Mamiya didn’t miss a beat and exploded on a set wave with multiple power turns for a brilliant 9.60 while using his priority to keep Jack Robinson (AUS) off the wave and out of competition.
“Jack, you know Jack, he’s gnarly,” said Mamiya. “You can’t let him do anything or you could lose. I saw him out there and he lost priority and I was like, ‘I’m not letting you get a wave, I know how gnarly you are. You can easily take over the lead even if you’re in dead last.’ That wave came and I went and I surfed it to the best of my abilities.”
Sitting at No. 12 on the QS, Mamiya is approaching his first opportunity to represent Hawaii on the 2020 CT. With a home-court advantage, he is staying calm and relaxed despite the competition and qualification scenarios on most surfers' minds.
Barron Mamiya has the uncanny ability to consistently land on his feet; today it puts him into Quarterfinal 4. Photo: WSL / Keoki
“It’s been one of my dreams since I started surfing, since the first time I touched a board,” said Mamiya. “It’s one of my biggest goals in life. I’d love to make the CT but I’m not putting pressure on myself. I just want to go out and surf a few heats and have fun. I grew up surfing here. If I don’t make the CT I’m still going to go out and surf Pipe and hang out with all my friends. It’s no difference, it’s all the same thing.”
In Mamiya’s Round 4 heat, he attacked the risky sections with speed and power for a commanding lead with an 8.70 and 8.50. Tahitian powerhouse, Michel Bourez (PYF) also advanced with the best wave score of the heat, an 8.77. Bourez is one of the few competitors in the world to earn a victory at all three Vans Triple Crown locations -- 2013 and 2008 at the Hawaiian Pro, 2014 at the Vans World Cup and 2016 at the Billabong Pipe Masters.
In Round 3, Frederico Morais (PRT) was an image of traditional forehand carves as he and Bourez battled for the heat win. Morais’ power surfing and big-wave commitment was scored well by judges and he ended the heat with an 8.20 and 7.10, only to better this in his Round 4 heat with a 16.00 heat total. With his current points and standing in the competition, Morais is guaranteed to end the season with at least 20,000 points, the benchmark for CT qualification conversation.
Frederico Morais put it on rail with classic power surfing that is the ideal match for Haleiwa. Photo: WSL / Keoki
“I’m really excited,” Morais said. “From the looks of it, I already have 20,000 points, that should be pretty good but I don’t want to celebrate until it’s official. There’s still work to do, the comps not finished and I’d love to go for a Triple Crown if possible. The year I qualified in 2016 I was fighting for the Triple Crown with John (Florence) and Kelly (Slater), so I’ll try to do the same this year.”
Wade Carmichael (AUS) destroyed the competition in Round 4 Heat 2 by hammering out a 9.50 and 8.50 to combo the field. With the highest heat total of the day and second-best of the event, the 2015 Hawaiian Pro winner is surfing with a confidence level that comes from proven results. Currently rated No. 14 on the CT, Carmichael is comfortably within the cut-off for re qualification and is feeling good about his performance and equipment.
“I’ve been riding my big boards, I don’t think I’ve ridden under a 6’4 since I’ve been here,” said Carmichael. “Just trying to get used to it. I’m feeling really good. I think 6’6 is my magic number but I rode a 6’8 out there, that was pretty much my second surf and I felt unbelievable. I’m just psyched on my boards and psyched on the conditions.”
Wade Carmichael is surfing pressure-free, which showed today through his open-range style. Photo: WSL / Heff
With arguably some of the most polished surfing of the day, Ethan Ewing (AUS) opened up the first heat of Round 4 and utilized great wave selection to find himself a clean Haleiwa wall for excellence that seemed effortless. Ewing posted a 9.00 for smooth, stylish carves then backed it up with a 5.53 to secure a heat win to advance into the Quarterfinals alongside Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA).
Despite World Title hopeful Jordy Smith (ZAF) pulling out of the event due to injury, the South African contingent started the day off strong with Matthew McGillivray, David Van Zyl, Dylan Lightfoot and Beyrick De Vries all moving on to Round 4. Michael February (ZAF), also surfed today against Slater in Round 3, however, bowed out after putting up a stylish performance and the second highest wave of the heat, a 6.50. De Vries and McGillivray ultimately survived and will move on to the Quarterfinals when competition resumes.
Matthew McGillivray has been putting in years on the North Shore, and it clearly shows. Photo: WSL / Heff
Currently No. 14 on the QS with 14,240 points, McGillivary finds himself in similar qualification contention as Mamiya; he continued to build momentum with two heat wins today and is feeling excited for his Quarterfinal heat, where he will go against Felipe, Bourez and Alejo Muniz (BRA).
“I’m so stoked, to be able to make both my heats and to be in Finals day tomorrow is incredible,” said McGillivray. “It’s such a huge opportunity for me, I’m stoked to be here, stoked to be surfing another heat out at Haleiwa.”
Surfline, official surf forecasters for the Vans Triple Crown, anticipate an easing 6-8ft. WNW swell tomorrow that will be biggest in the morning. With only seven heats left in the 2019 Hawaiian Pro, a winner will be crowned the next time competition is called back on and a Vans Triple Crown title frontrunner will emerge ahead of the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach.
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Uncategories Bernier is almost guaranteed to win the CPC leadership
Bernier is almost guaranteed to win the CPC leadership
Bryan Breguet Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Note: si vous voulez une version plus courte mais en français, cliquez ici.
The Conservative Party members are choosing their new leader in 4 days. Polling data has been rare (and expensive to access). Some have even said this race was unpollable because of the closed nature of the race (only members can vote) and the electoral system chosen. This is why I decided to use the same indicator as for when I covered the PQ leadership race last year: fundraising. Mixed with the available polling data, I think Maxime Bernier is by far the number one favourite to win on the 27th.
Predicting leadership races is always tricky and people need to keep that in mind. With that said, I'd go as far as saying that his win is almost guaranteed. There are mostly three reasons for this prediction:
- Maxime Bernier is ahead in both the polling and fundraising data. And the only threat he was really facing (Kevin O'Leary) dropped and officially supported him.
- The electoral system (giving a 100 points to every riding no matter how many members it has) is giving Quebec a very important role (6% of the membres but 23% of the points!). Bernier will take advantage of it as he'll easily win his home province.
- Second choices are unlikely to allow one candidate trailing to climb back up because members have to indicate all their choices at once and no formal deal was made between candidates. Also, we have no reason to believe Bernier isn't doing well for the 2nd, 3rd, etc, choices. On the contrary.
Before going into the details, here are the projections for this race. You have the chances of winning as well as the confidence intervals (at 95%) for the first round.
Percentages of points
The entire field is here, in order:
Compared to the Mainstreet numbers, Bernier is higher. His lead in the fundraising has always been bigger than the one he had in the polls. Also, Bernier will benefit from the efficient votes from Quebec (worth a lot of points). Scheer dominates his province (Saskatchewan) but nowhere else. Actually, if I was only going by the fundraising data, Scheer wouldn't even be top 2. But I can't ignore the rising trend observed in the Mainstreet poll for him since early April. Leitch would be the main contender to Bernier based on the fundraising data, but she has been polling consistently low with Mainstreet and she's decreasing over time. Lemieux is here and this is a little bit surprising. But he has more donors than Scheer (although he raised less money). Also, the temporal adjustments based on the trend in the the Mainstreet polls (see detailed methodology below) has him increasing since April. Still, I wouldn't be surprise if the model overestimates his result but I won't modify the numbers arbitrarily. Finally O'Toole is currently in the top 5. His performance is similar to Scheer: polling better than fundraising and on the rise since early April.
Here are the possible results after the first round. This graph should convince you of the lead of Maxime Bernier. Even in his worst case scenario, he's still ahead. And that's with simulations including a ton of uncertainty, way more than what I usually do for a typical election.
If you think the advantage of Bernier isn't as big as what is shown here, think about this: thanks to Quebec, he'll likely receive at least 4000 points from this province alone, in the first round alone (he'll get 50% of the votes if not more). That is more points than all the other candidates are projected to receive Canada-wide, except Andrew Scheer! Quebec gives Maxime Bernier a huge advantage, one that is, quite frankly, most likely enough to give him the leadership. With the redistribution of the votes of the candidates once they are eliminated, we could imagine Bernier reaching 6000 points in Quebec alone, more than a third of what is required to win overall.
Also, O'Leary was polling higher than Bernier and raising just as much. But he officially threw his support behind Bernier and it seems that at least 40% of his supporters are following through. Something that isn't surprising since the fundraising data regarding multi-candidates donors was indeed showing a strong link between Bernier and O'Leary supporters.
Still, Bernier is highly unlikely to win in the first round. His polling/fundraising numbers are too low and there are too many candidates that split the vote. This means the candidate who finished last will be eliminated and his/her votes redistributed. And so on. So, could Bernier "pull an Ignatieff" and win the first round but lose at the end? It's possible but highly unlikely for multiple reasons. First of all, all the data available shows that there is no "anybody but Bernier" sentiment among the CPC members. Bernier is actually quite popular as a second choice. Fundraising data of multiple-candidates donors (people who gave money to more than one candidates) shows that. Polling data too. Secondly, Ignatieff lost to Dion for the Liberal leadership because the LPC was (back then) using actually delegates to vote. They had to physically be in Montreal and vote multiple times. So when Gerrard Kennedy threw his support behind Dion, he could literally tell his delegates who to vote for. But the CPC race this year isn't like that at all. Members have to indicate their subsequent choices right away. And we haven't seen any formal alliance between candidates. So I think it's highly unlikely that we'll see the second choices leaning heavily for one candidate. When Dion won, over 90% of the delegates of Kennedy followed through and supported Dion. This is the type of rate you need if you finish 15 points behind and are hoping to climb back. But even if the second votes (by second, I also mean 3rd, 4th, etc) were to favour Scheer 60-40, that would likely not be enough to catch Bernier.
By the way, it seems the ballots were so complicated that as many as 20% of them will not count because they weren't filled correctly. This is absolutely insane and it could potentially create some surprises (maybe one candidate will do better than projected because this candidate will have spent a lot of time making sure his/her supporters were filling the ballots correctly!).
You can see the detailed methodology below but let me simply say this: in order for Scheer to win some of the simulations, I had to make some adjustments. In particular I adjusted my fundraising numbers (so data going up to March 31st) based on the trend observed in the polls between early April to last week. According to Mainstreet, Andrew Scheer has been increasing quite a lot during that time (note: Scheer has always polled higher than what the fundraising data suggested). I used the trend in the polls not only to boost Scheer (well I adjusted everybody but Scheer is the one who benefit the most, along with Lemieux) in the first round, but in the other rounds as well (since I also adjusted the intentions among the 2nd, 3rd, etc, choices).
For Andrew Scheer to win, here's what needs to happen:
- Scheer to be underestimated in the polls and fundraising data. We are talking of a systematic bias here where Scheer overperforms the polls/fundraising in multiple provinces.
- Scheer to receive way more second votes than what the data suggests (and Bernier way fewer).
The path to victory for Scheer relies entirely on the polls/fundraising data being wrong. And quite wrong actually. So while it's possible, especially when we remember how unpredictable leadership races can be, it remains unlikely.
1. Using the fundraising data available on Election Canada, I looked at the share of donors and shares of amounts for each candidate in each province for the first quarter of 2017. Ideally I'd have looked at the riding level but then most ridings would only have a couple of data points. Province level isn't perfect but it captures some of the disproportions introduced by the electoral system. Based on my research for the various leadership races in Quebec, it's not clear if the amounts or the number of donors is the best indicator. I thus averaged the two.
2. Given the number of points in each province (number of ridings x 100 points), I then allocate these points proportionally. As mentioned above, we would technically need to do it riding by riding. But unless one candidate has a crazily concentrated support in a few ridings in a province, my method should give us a good idea of where each candidate stands.
3. For the redistribution of the votes of the candidates that are eliminated: I used the information from the data of the donors who contributed to more than one candidate. This gave me a big matrix of cross-voting intentions. For instance, I could see how many donors contributed to both the Bernier and O'leary campaign. Again, far from a perfect measure but it's better than nothing.
4. Adjustments based on polls. As I said, the only good polling data was from Mainstreet. But I wasn't gonna pay $110 a month to have access (actually $1000 if I wanted to then use the data on my blog). With that said, Mainstreet published the data publicly on some occasions. One of them was for the period going from April 11 to 13 (thus not too far after the end of the fundraising data going up to March 31st). Another was April 29-30 (thus providing us with a good idea of what happened after O'leary dropped). Finally, they published one last week, conducted between May 11 to 14.
Maybe surprisingly, the numbers I got with the fundraising data were actually quite close to the ones from Mainstreet. Bernier would usually be higher using the fundraising data, so would Leitch, while Scheer would be a lot lower for instance. Again though, overall it was quite similar. I thus adjusted my numbers partially to the polling ones. More importantly, in order to account for the trend between early April to now, I adjusted the numbers based on the trend in the polls. I used the same adjustments for the second choices. These adjustments help Scheer quite a lot. As a matter of fact, without them Bernier was winning 100% of the simulations.
5. Simulations: the share of a candidate in a given province is randomized. For instance for Bernier in Quebec, his share is around 50%. In some simulations it's only 40% while in other it'll be 60%. The margins of error used were of 7%, thus much wider than for my typical simulations for an election. Why? Because leadership races are more unpredictable.
For the 2nd (and subsequent) choices, I also randmonized. So in some simulations many supporters of Leitch would then vote Bernier while in another simulation they'd go to Scheer. Here the margins of error are of almost 10% because we really have limited information regarding these second choices.
I repeated this process 10,000 times, each time until one candidate reached 16901 points. I then counted the number of wins to get the probabilities of winning.
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Targetting Middle East growth with new Dubai operation
22nd August 2017 -
UK firm appoints experienced travel technology professionals to drive Gulf expansion strategy as market demand for advanced booking solutions booms.
Traveltek Group Ltd, a world-leading travel technology provider, has launched a Middle East operation as it looks to fill the huge gap in the market for advanced travel booking solutions. The UK-based firm, which counts major global travel brands such as Virgin Holidays, Flight Centre and dnata, as well as its sister companies, Imagine Cruises and Global Travel Group, amongst its roster of big-name clients, has established an office in Dubai and appointed two highly-experienced travel technology professionals to lead its Gulf expansion strategy.
Vinod Singh comes on board as Regional Manager, Middle East and India and Vivek Katheriya joins the team as Regional Sales Manager, India and MENA. Both recruits bring vast Middle East travel technology experience to their roles, having worked for reputable industry players. Between them, Singh and Katheriya are targeting the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, all markets where travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers in are in urgent need of sophisticated travel technology to help drive efficiencies, boost sales and meet the complex demands of their customers.
Traveltek has provided the global travel industry with award-winning solutions for more than two decades, with its dynamic packaging and cruise booking solutions widely recognised as world leading.
“Given our proven track record delivering a powerful and successful selling platform to the international travel trade, we are well positioned to harness the healthy growth of the GCC travel and tourism industry” said Peter Whittle, Global Sales Director, Traveltek. “Our global expertise, combined with the market and technology experience demonstrated by Vinod and Vivek, will ensure we can cater to the needs of the region’s travel trade now and in the future, particularly as demand for dynamic packaging and cruise booking solutions grows at a rapid rate.”
Traveltek’s dynamic packaging solutions have seen the company win the coveted ‘World Leading Dynamic Packaging Solutions Provider’ at the World Travel Awards in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The web-based technology enables agencies and tour operators to package and sell complex itineraries that include flights, hotels, tours, transfers, car rental, cruises, attractions tickets and more. Companies can also package their own stock, third-party stock, or a mixture of both. Consolidated cruise content from 190 of the world’s leading lines, part of an API that connects travel companies to a global database of more than 300 industry suppliers, is available to Traveltek clients, bringing supplier integration onto one single platform. Traveltek provides multi-channel sales options – B2B, B2C, call centre, mobile, etc – and can display packages in multiple currencies and languages. Options to localise solutions for the Middle East market, including Arabic-language content, will be available to travel companies that partner with the travel technology specialist. A back-office system that produces bookings reports and client documentation; a CRM that manages clients and enquiries; and a tour operating platform that controls pricing and distributes contracts are also part of Traveltek’s unrivalled portfolio.
“Traveltek offers a full end-to-end solution for multiple products and sales channels,” confirmed Singh. “For leisure travel companies looking to make the most of this fast-growing market, we also provide live access to a huge database of global travel suppliers.” Katheriya added: “In addition, the technology facilitates secure online transactions, which is crucial in a region where online travel companies are yet to realise their full potential. Factor in the ability to conduct customised search journeys and documentation for B2B and B2C websites and Traveltek has an important role to play in bring new levels of sophistication and trust to the Middle East’s online travel arena.”
Singh and Katheriya speak from experience, with both professionals boasting more than a decade of IT and sales experience in the Middle East and India. Before joining Traveltek, they both worked for Work2Meet (W2M), a hotel consolidator/bedbank based as Business Development Managers. Prior to that, Singh was Business Development Manager for Amadeus India and Katheriya was Head of Sales Middle East for QuadLabs Technologies. Singh also had a stint with QuadLabs as Manager International Business Development, based in India.
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Warbrook House
The Street, Eversley Hook RG27 0PL United Kingdom
This Grade I-listed country mansion dates back to the 18th century
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The restaurant overlooks a Versailles-style canal in the gardens
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the South Downs National Park and Winchester city centre are all less than 40 minutes' drive away
"The food. The choice at dinner was limited but it was cooked and presented reasonably well. It won't win any awards, though."
27. Nov 2018 - Dorking, United Kingdom
The Street, Eversley
Hook RG27 0PL
Situated near the small village of Eversley by the Berkshire-Hampshire border, Warbrook House is a Grade I-listed country mansion that was designed by architect John James in 1724. The property is set within 130 acres of Grade II-listed gardens, and takes its name (Warbrook) from the stream that waters them.
Reading town centre is a 25-minute drive from the hotel. Highclere Castle -- the filming location for "Downton Abbey" in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty -- is 40 minutes' drive away.
Winchester, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, is less than 40 minutes' drive away. The city has a medieval cathedral with a 17th-century library and a Norman crypt, and is also home to the ruins of Winchester Castle, originally built in 1067 for William the Conqueror. The Great Hall is the last surviving part and is now a museum where you can see Henry VIII's legendary Round Table -- an imitation of King Arthur's table that is said to date from the early 13th century.
The hotel has a bar for drinks and light meals such as salads and homemade pizzas, while the Canal View Restaurant serves seasonal dishes for lunch and dinner, and overlooks the Versailles-style canal in the gardens.
Mansion House Rooms are situated in the main house and have views of the grounds. Wi-Fi is free.
Children and additional guests: Extra guest charges will apply as follows: £10 per night for children aged 11 and under. This is room-only basis. Meals will be charged as taken. Extra beds are on request and must be requested upon booking. Extra beds are not available for older children and adults.
Pets: Pets are allowed on request and will be charged at £15 inclusive of tax per pet per night.
Pets are not allowed in the restaurant.
Ratings & reviews reflect verified member feedback for Sanderling Properties Ltd t/a Warbrook House Hotel over the past 15 months.
The hotel building is lovely
The food was virtually inedible the service was appalling very young staff that had obviously not had proper training a big disappointment as all other travelzoo trips we have been on where excellent
Lyn 28. Nov 2018 Fareham, United Kingdom
The food. The choice at dinner was limited but it was cooked and presented reasonably well. It won't win any awards, though.
The room (and particularly the bathroom) was very small. Reception was somewhat lack-lustre. The hotel seems to be struggling. It was nearly empty and nobody was making any great effort, although they were perfectly pleasant and polite. There were some hygiene problems in the bathroom and we left our comments at reception.
Peter 27. Nov 2018 Dorking, United Kingdom
The bedroom was lovely, nice and clean
The meal was nice, but disappointed with the choice of starters
June 27. Nov 2018 Hook, United Kingdom
Lovely restaurant. The staff made my birthday celebration extra special.
Christine 23. Nov 2018 South Croydon, United Kingdom
Everything was absolutely brilliant. The duty manager was extremely kind and attentive and went the extra mile to make a friend's birthday a special! Despite the fact that there were several large groups in the restaurant the food and service far exceeded our expectations. There is a very warm and friendly atmosphere in the hotel and the lounge areas with free refreshments are an excellent add on.
Please relay the above comments to the hotel. We recently stayed in a five star hotel but the food, service and attentiveness of the staff at Warbrook was far superior. Eleven out of ten!!
Irene 23. Nov 2018 Herne Bay, United Kingdom
Food was very good, could not fault it
The new owners are busy re-decorating the rooms, we were in room 3. yes it was tired!! BUT the general dirt and thick dust in the room was not pleasant. we understand, as do the owners a referb is needed which they are doing, but the house cleaner needs to be given a duster and shown how to use it.
Phil 15. Nov 2018 Worthing, United Kingdom
The staff was very nice, but there was not enough of them, in the bar area. Also breakfast time.
The rooms are ok, but my wife and I room number 5 had a big air conditioner outside our window, so we had no view. Room 4 and 6 had lovely views.
Brian 14. Nov 2018 Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom
The food was delicious, the staff friendly and helpful
First room we were given was tired and tatty, the decorative blind didn't close properly and the blind behind was mouldy. the chair was ripped and the bathroom was not what I expected in this hotel. We asked to move to another room, this one was lovely, and the kind of room which fitted this prestigious looking hotel. The hotel is more fitting for corporate events. It may be nicer place for romantic getaways once the spa is open.
Sarah 12. Nov 2018 Reading, United Kingdom
Friendliness of staff
Breakfast was good but restaurant evening menu was limited choice and small portions
Maureen 10. Nov 2018 Bury Saint Edmunds, United Kingdom
Very peaceful setting and staff very helpful
Warwick 05. Nov 2018 WorthingWorthing, United Kingdom
Food, and bar and room
Set meal was excellent
david 04. Nov 2018 Esher, United Kingdom
Relaxed , informal and comfortable hotel in good location, and very good food
Ideal place for a short break especially after the next month or so when the spa is finished. Close enough to visit Winchester and several nice walks a short drive away. Also National Trust places a short drive away. Would go back
Susan 26. Oct 2018 Romford, United Kingdom
Staff were exceptional
David 23. Oct 2018 Crowborough, United Kingdom
PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS AND CLOSE TO VARIOUS NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTIES
Peter 21. Oct 2018 Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom
You are not in the "mansion" it is an accommodation block on the right as you approach the front. Room was noisy during the night with doors banging, we were also above the reception which probably did not help. The person next door had put tv on at 4.15am.
RAYMOND 21. Oct 2018 Waterlooville, United Kingdom
Staff very good. Food very good
The rooms could do with up dating
Paul 20. Oct 2018 Rochford, United Kingdom
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Is Industrial Monoculture the Real Path to Sustainable Farming?
Driving sustainability mainstream
Image credit: Amanda Friedman/OnEarth Magazine
Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture. Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after all. In a provocative OnEarth Magazine piece written for the NRDC, one reporter argues that large-scale monoculture must be part of the solution to greener farming if we are to have any hope of digging out of the mess we're in.In a piece entitled What's New For Dinner, reporter Frederick Kaufman talks to Frank Muller, a megafarmer whose clients include Unilever, about how he has greened his operations through meticulous bookkeeping, precision management, and boosting the overall productivity of the farm.
Last year alone, Kaufman tells us, Muller sold over 60,000 tons of tomatoes to Unilever for processing into its Ragu-brand pasta sauces. That's a staggering amount, compared to the average farmer at my local market, and it is precisely this volume that makes farmers like Muller a prime target for environmentalists who want to see a cut in greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and depletion of aquifers. With organic farms making up less than 1% of cropland in the US, Kaufman argues, it's time for greens to accept that the future will not be solely made up of small family farms growing heirloom tomatoes and grassfed beef. That's where a new scheme for more sustainable mainstream farming, which NRDC helped pen, comes in:
"In the past few years, some of the world's mightiest and most profitable tomato syndicates -- including Del Monte, Heinz, and Unilever -- have allied themselves with a small, relatively unknown, and extraordinarily ambitious consortium called the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops. In 2008 the Stewardship Index began the business of gathering together many of those who share a stake in industrial agriculture, be they farmers, transnational packagers and retailers, or environmentalists. The goal is to get them to agree on what, exactly, one ought to measure to understand and gauge the environmental impact of the seed-to-shelf life cycle of any produce-based product, from frozen french fries to canned almonds to bottled pasta sauce."
Using high-tech soil monitoring systems, Muller measures everything from fertilizer use to soil temperature and moisture, and adjusts his resource use accordingly. But the scope of the Stewardship index doesn't end at the farm gate—the idea is to monitor sustainability metrics, from fuel used to waste created, at every step of the production process from field to store to get the most value out of every drop of energy expended or resource used.
It's a far cry from the urban farming and heirloom vegetables that we TreeHuggers love to gush over. But with climate change, peak oil, over population and overtaxed aquifers posing serious threats to our civilization, we need to be tackling these issues from every angle possible. Whether the future will be made up of ultra-efficient high-tech megafarms, a patchwork of artisanal growers, or a combination of the two remains to be seen. The only thing that is certain is that it will look nothing like the food system we have now.
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URC Announces Integration of DMX Lighting Control Systems
New DMX module and two DMX engines provide for quick and easy integration of URC’s Total Control system with DMX-based lighting systems supporting up to 512 channels and 255 scenes
HARRISON NY (August 6, 2019)—URC, a global leader in smart automation and control for residential and commercial applications, is pleased to announce the integration of its award-winning Total Control 2.0 system with automated lighting systems using the DMX protocol. The new DMX module, available to all authorized Total Control dealers on URC’s dealer portal, allows for two-way control of DMX-based lighting systems from a URC Total Control user interface. Additionally, authorized URC dealers can purchase their choice from 2 DMX Engines, built by Engineering Solutions, directly from URC.
Originally developed for stage, DMX protocol-based lighting systems are gaining foothold in residential and commercial installations, particularly with the advent of automated lighting controls and LED lighting systems.
“We have many customers in the commercial space that are using lighting systems based on the DMX protocol to automate the spectrum of light to mirror natural light and ease the disruption of circadian rhythms, thereby promoting wellness of occupants,” commented Lars Granoe, Director of Product Management for URC. “We see demand for this use case as well in the residential market. Additionally, the DMX protocol, combined with URC’s Total Control 2.0 system allows the user to easily automate LED lighting color changes, motion, dimming, and even chase scenes programming into the DMX lighting system.”
URC’s Total Control Module, when used with either the DMX Engine – RJ45 output or DMX Engine – XLR output can support up to 512 channels of DMX-based lighting and store internally up to 63 scenes. Both DMX Engines were developed by Engineering Solutions, Inc., a company that has 16 years of experience in building bridge interfaces for control of DMX lighting systems.
“URC is very unique – this is the first time in our 16 years of being in business that a manufacturer has reached out directly to us and developed their own module,” commented John Chapman, President of Engineering Solutions. “Our direct collaboration results in one of the most stable and reliable integrations out there.”
Sold through direct dealers, Total Control 2.0 is URC’s whole-home automation and control system featuring premium performance, highly customizable GUIs and robust third-party integration. Total Control 2.0 is also perfect for commercial facilities such as bars & restaurants, conference rooms & executive offices, common areas & amenities spaces in multi-dwelling units, hospitality and classrooms.
Authorized U.S. URC Total Control dealers can purchase URC Total Control 2.0 and compatible 3rd party products that easily integrate with the Total Control 2.0 system on the URC dealer-only portal at www.urcportal.com. Interested systems integrators can email totalcontrol@universalremote.com to learn more.
About Engineering Solutions
Since 2003, Engineering Solutions Inc in Lehi, Utah, has specialized in interface products which bridge between RS-232, ethernet, MIDI and DMX. They are proud to design, manufacture and test their products locally. In addition to their standard product line, custom, one-off and ultra-short run projects are always welcome. For more information, visit: www.response-box.com/gear.
About URC
Headquartered in Harrison NY USA, URC is a global leader in smart home automation and control. URC technology is respected for unsurpassed performance and reliability with over 100 million remote controls sold in the past 10 years alone. URC control systems include Total Control, MX HomePro and Complete Control. Legendary URC user interfaces include tabletop controllers, in-wall touchscreens, handheld remotes, keypads and mobile apps – plus voice control integration with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. URC systems are custom designed, installed and maintained by a network of URC trained systems integration professionals.
Contact URC
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As we celebrate 150 years of excellence in education, Ursinus is stronger than ever—consider just how far we have come since 1869! From a class of only five to the current Class of 2023 (one of our largest ever), we have grown as a college, both literally and figuratively. We not only offer a highly personalized, yet deeply rigorous education, but we also provide students with experiences and memories that will stay with them throughout life. And our physical footprint in Collegeville has expanded as well. Last fall, we formally opened our Innovation and Discovery Center, and the Commons will start welcoming neighbors to campus in just a few short months. Read on for more of our recent accomplishments.
1 of only 23 National Endowment of the Humanities grant Recipients
Ursinus is one of only 23 colleges awarded a humanities connections grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities this year. The $30,000 grant resulted in the project, “Trajectories of Transformation,” in which faculty examine changing landscapes in suburban Collegeville.
Network for Vocation and Undergraduate Education Grant
Ursinus earned a NetVUE (Network for Vocation and Undergraduate Education) Program Development Grant to deepen the intellectual and theological exploration of vocation among undergraduate students.
Increased Scholarships Awarded
More that $45 million was awarded to students in the form of grants and scholarships.
The Gateway Scholarship was increased to $35,000 per year to eligible students.
The college also increased its Ursinus Scholarship merit awards so that all qualified domestic applicants will receive at least $21,000 per year for four years.
Increased Size and Academic Strength of Incoming Class
Among other steps that contributed to enrollment successes, the faculty and parent engagement approach to recruitment has earned Ursinus our 6th largest class in the history of the college, one of the most diverse ever with high academic achievement. These efforts were recognized in the September 29, 2019 edition of the The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Building a More Inclusive Community
Through a new Inclusive Community Grants and Fellowships program, teams of faculty, staff and students worked together to create projects or programs that aimed to create connections and dialogue on such topics as race, socioeconomic status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, religion and disability awareness.
Bear2Bear Student Emergency Fund Growth
Alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends of Ursinus gathered on Thursday, April 11, at RiverCrest Golf Club & Preserve in Phoenixville, Pa., to raise approximately $200,000 through
the Bear2Bear Benefit & Bash, a very special evening supporting
the Bear2Bear Student Emergency Fund. The fund helps meet the
immediate needs of students experiencing crisis situations or
temporary financial hardship. It is supported through donations
from members of the Ursinus community and was initiated by
Joan and Will Abele ’61, a member of the Ursinus Board of Trustees, who matched the first $10,000 donated to the fund. The Benefit & Bash included a silent auction and also honored the Abeles for their tireless support of Ursinus and its students. The next Bear2Bear Benefit & Bash will be held on April 3, 2020.
New Fund for Student Enrichment
The new Don M. and Alethia G. White Fund for Student Enrichment provides opportunities for Ursinus students who could not otherwise afford the experience by providing supplemental support for internships or significant volunteer activities.
Eight-Spot Jump in U.S. News Ranks
U.S. News annually provides numerical rankings and lists to help prospective students narrow their college search. The rankings evaluate colleges and universities on 16 measures of academic quality, including outcomes, graduation and retention rates, peer assessment and more.
Ursinus’s 2020 rankings mark an eight-spot improvement from 2019 (90th) and a 13-spot jump over the past four years.
New Core Curriculum - Ursinus Quest: Open Questions Open Minds
Ursinus has long provided an excellent undergraduate liberal arts education, its academic rigor and prestige setting it apart from other small liberal arts colleges. So, when it came time to evolve the core curriculum, we decided to double-down on our liberal arts mission. Our Ursinus Quest: Open Questions Open Minds core curriculum leads to a more transformative personal experience and capitalizes on a residential liberal education in ways that haven’t been done
before at any institution. Our four questions (What should matter to
me? How should we live together? How can we understand the world? What will I do?) received received national media attention from Inside Higher Ed, who called it “innovative.” But we say we’re just being ourselves. Education is a conversation. Let’s skip the small talk.
Innovation and Discovery Center
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Thank you for your interest in the Peace Scholar Fellowship Dissertation program. The U.S. Institute of Peace is dedicated to supporting advanced research from top academics in a variety of fields that contribute to a wider understanding of how to manage conflict and effectively build sustainable peace. Dissertation scholarships last for 10 months, starting in September each year. Scholarships are open to citizens of any country.
When the competition opens in September of each year, applying for a Peace Scholar Fellowship is a two-step process.
Registration. Applicants must first register for an account here. After registration, login credentials will be sent to access the application portal. It can take up to 72 hours to receive these credentials, so applicants should register early.
Application. Applications must be submitted through the Fluxx online application system. On the application form, please indicate the scholarship(s) for which you would like to be considered: the USIP Peace Scholar fellowship only; Minerva Research Initiative Peace and Security fellowship only; or no preference. Both fellowships have the same application form, deadline, award amount, and selection process; the only difference between the USIP and Minerva fellowships is the source of funding. Three letters of recommendation must be attached to your application in the Fluxx system. One letter must be from the dissertation advisor, and two from current professors.
Registration and application deadlines will be announced when the competition opens in September of each year.
(Please note: The application system works best when using Google Chrome as your web browser. If you are experiencing issues with the application system, please email jrprogram@usip.org. If the answer requires more than an email, we will schedule a time to help you by phone. Please allow us up to 72 hours to respond to your inquiry.)
Proposal Topics
Proposals from all disciplines and on a wide range of topics related to peacebuilding are welcome. There are several criteria which, if met, will strengthen proposals:
All proposals should be consistent with the Institute’s mission and present a research agenda with clear relevance to policy issues. Historical topics are appropriate if they shed light on contemporary issues. Area studies projects and single-case studies will be considered if they focus on conflict and conflict resolution and/or apply to other regions and cases around the world, or both.
To be competitive, applicants must make persuasive links between theoretical, practical and policy orientations, and demonstrate the links between their projects and the mission and work of the U.S. Institute of Peace and/or the Minerva Initiative.
For the Minerva-USIP awards, strong applications should also present a persuasive argument that their research makes a basic or fundamental research contribution to the field, and discuss how their basic research contributions relate to broad concerns of conflict management and peacebuilding that may include (but are not limited to) security and stability.
Peace Scholar awards may not be made for projects that constitute policymaking for a government agency or private organization, focus to any substantial degree on conflicts within U.S. domestic society or adopt a partisan, advocacy or activist stance.
Scoring Rubric for USIP and Minerva Applications
Applications will be assessed using the five criteria below. Scoring is on a 1 to 5 scale: 1=Not Recommended, 2=Poor, 3=Satisfactory, 4=Good, 5=Outstanding.
Thesis Clarity: Is the research question or project description clearly articulated? Is the proposal soundly conceived with a central problem that has been identified and analyzed?
Topic Significance/Relevance: Does the dissertation address an important topic of relevance to the fields of conflict resolution and international peace and security, and what is the likelihood of the research to affect policy or practice? How does it align to the USIP and/or Minerva mission?
Originality: How original or cutting-edge is the dissertation topic, and/or does the dissertation fill a gap in USIP’s knowledge of the issue? Is the methodology clear, innovative and rigorous? Is a unique approach presented?
Project Design and Implementation: How clear, specific, logical, and achievable are the objectives? Can the proposal be completed according to the intended design and timetable?
Scientific and Technical Merit: Does the dissertation/project make clear the basic research contribution to social science (theoretical, methodological, and generalizable)?
What is the applicant’s record of achievement and/or leadership potential?
What is the applicant’s capacity to benefit from and make professional use of the fellowship experience in subsequent years?
Terms of Award
Peace Scholars may be awarded stipends of up to $20,000 per academic year. Awards are paid directly to the individual in three tranches. Peace Scholar fellowships may not be deferred. The Peace Scholar Dissertation fellowship cannot be combined with any other major residential award or fellowship except with the written approval of the Institute. If written approval from USIP is granted, $30,000 is the maximum combined amount from all funding sources that a Peace Scholar can receive during their tenure.
Minerva Research Initiative fellowships are divided between awards that support field-work and awards that support writing; USIP Peace Scholar fellowships may be used for any phase of work on dissertations. Peace Scholars carry out their fellowship work at their universities or other sites appropriate to their research. Peace Scholars are expected to devote full attention to their work and provide three dissertation update reports to the Institute. Peace Scholars are invited to present their dissertations to experts at the Institute during the annual Peace Scholar conference each fall. Peace Scholars may also be asked to do the following:
Work with Institute staff to present their work on the USIP website;
Conduct an interview with a USIP staff member about their research;
Publish an op-ed based on their work;
Participate in Institute workshops, conferences, and other activities.
Restrictions of Award
Please note that the Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship program does not support pre-dissertation level graduate work. Doctoral students in non-U.S.-based universities are not eligible. The fellowships cannot support research focused on U.S. domestic conflict and peacebuilding, however, research on U.S. government foreign policy is eligible for support. Peace Scholar awards may not be made for projects that constitute policy-making for a government agency or private organization, focus to any substantial degree on conflicts within U.S. domestic society, or adopt a partisan, advocacy, or activist stance.
Fellowships at USIP
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program Affiliated USIP Fellowships
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Vernier Dinner Function – 11th Dec 2014
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Our gala end of year dinner event will be held on 11th December. Please bring your partners, friends and family to this gala event at a special rate of $50 per guest.
We will have Bernie Geary – the Principal Commissioner for Children as our speaker and we will also be having two fabulous and acclaimed sopranos to entertain us.[hr][/hr]
Bernie Geary OAM has worked with vulnerable young people and their families for over 40 years. During this time he has been an advisor and advocate on issues relating to vulnerable children, young people and their families.
He began his career as Victoria’s first outreach youth worker in West Heidelberg, and managed the Brosnan Centre prior to becoming the CEO of Jesuit Social Services.
He also served on the Victorian Youth Parole Board (1988-2005), was a member of the Premier’s Drug Advisory Council in 1999 and 2001, the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council (2005–2008) and the Victorian Children’s Council (2005-2013).
Since 2005, as Victoria’s inaugural Child Safety Commissioner, Bernie has worked hard to enhance the safety and wellbeing of Victoria’s children. During this time he has contributed to broad policy reform relevant to children’s well-being; as well as service improvement for children exposed to Child Protection, in particular those living in out-of-home care. He established the Community Integration Program designed to support vulnerable children being better connected to the community, and the Independent Visitor Program for young people detained in youth custody.
Bernie received the Order of Australia in 2002 for services to young people, a Centenary Medal in 2000, and has an honorary Masters Degree in Social Work. In June 2010, Bernie received an honorary award of Doctor of the University (Honoris Causa) Australian Catholic University.
Bernie and his wife Therese have 5 children and 9 grandchildren.
Prudence Hare and Michelle McCarthy.
Prue and Michelle will sing some popular ( mostly Italian) opera and they will be accompanied on the beautiful white grand piano at Kooyong.
[hr][/hr]Prudence Hare found her love of performing in the theatre companies of Ballarat appearing in both principle and chorus roles. Prudence moved to Melbourne in 2010 to commence the Bachelor of Music and is currently completing her Honours year in Classical Voice at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music. She has received multiple placings in vocal eisteddfods including South Street, Bendigo, Warrnambool, Ararat, Warragul and Melbourne. Prudence was a member the chorus for VYO’s production of Assembly in 2011. In 2012 she was a Soprano Soloist for Mozart’s Requiem at the Melbourne Town Hall with the MCM Orchestra. Most recently Prudence presented a voice and piano recital with Peter Toohey at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and a fundraiser concert at the Diocesan Centre, Ballarat. Prue has just won the Acclaim Sleath Lowrey Scholarship.
[hr][/hr]Michelle McCarthy studied her Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Michelle’s performing credits include productions with Victorian Opera including Assembly and Play of Daniel, principle roles in Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore and Iolanthe with Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria, ‘Constanze’ in Amadeus with Melbourne University and ‘Sappho’ in the premiere of Kevin March’s chamber piece Mythweaver. Michelle is also a frequent concert performer having sung as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, Mozart Requiem and Kodaly Missa Brevis. Michelle is the recipient of numerous awards including the Florence Bradford Scholarship, Elise Weidermann Scholarship in addition to being a finalist and prize-winner in a variety of eisteddfods and competitions around Melbourne. Michelle has just returned from an Acclaim Italian study tour taking her to Jesi and La Scala in Milan.
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Where: Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Road Kooyong
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6 Ways to Help Young Children Avoid Body Image Issues
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“I’m so fat.” “I’m ugly.” Words like these may be upsetting to hear when they come from a 10-year-old or a teenager, but it can be really disturbing when they’re spoken by kids as young as preschool or kindergarten age. Various research has shown that kids may begin to worry about body weight and physical appearance as early as age 3 to 5 and that many young children express unhappiness about their bodies.
Research Surrounding Body Image Problems
Research released in August 2016 by the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY), a charitable organization that provides support to those working in childcare throughout England and Wales, found that it’s not uncommon for very young children to express dissatisfaction about the way they look. Some of what their research found:
As many as 24 percent of child care professionals have reported seeing kids as young as 3 to 5 years old express unhappiness about their own appearance or their own bodies.
A startling 47 percent of childcare professionals have seen anxiety about body image in kids ages 6 to 10—nearly double the number of body-image anxious kids among those just a few years younger.
As many as 71 of child care workers believe children are becoming concerned about their bodies at a younger age.
Phrases such as “He’s fat” or “She’s fat” are common among children; as many as 37 percent of childcare workers have heard kids say things like this and as many as 31 percent have heard a child call himself or herself fat.
Ten percent of childcare workers report having heard a child say he or she feels ugly, and 16 percent say they’ve heard kids say they wished they were as pretty or good-looking as someone else.
Nearly one in five (19 percent) childcare professionals say they’ve seen kids refuse food because of fear that it will make them fat.
A 2015 report by Common Sense Media (a nonprofit organization that works to educate and empower parents, teachers, and policymakers about ways to help kids thrive as they use media and technology) found that body image starts to develop at a very young age and that images centered around how someone looks are stereotypical, unrealistic, and gender-biased.
The report examined existing studies on how kids and teenagers feel about their bodies and found that issues around body image begin long before puberty. Children as young as age 5 begin expressing dislike for their bodies and say they want to be thinner.
Surprising findings from the Common Sense Media report include:
More than half of girls and one-third of boys as young as ages 6 to 8 say their ideal weight is to be thinner than they are.
By age 7, one in four kids has attempted some sort of dieting behavior.
As many as 41 percent of girls say they use social media to "make themselves look cooler."
A whopping 87 percent of female characters on TV that are between the ages of 10 and 17 are below the average weight.
Kids learn about body image—and develop anxieties about their appearance—from a variety of sources, including parents, friends and peers, and the media. Parents can play a crucial role in encouraging a sense of good body image in kids. Here are some tips to keep in mind:
Watch your words. Don’t say things like, “I look so fat in this,” or “I can’t eat this because it’ll make me fat.” Your child is listening and learning from you. The Common Sense Media study found that kids ages 5 to 8 who think their moms are unhappy with their bodies are more likely to be dissatisfied with their own bodies. Show confidence in your body as well as about yourself.
Try not to focus on appearance. Don’t talk about people’s appearance and their bodies and focus on more important things about a person, such as how kind or charitable they are or whether they have good manners or work hard.
Emphasize exercise and healthy eating over their weight. Spend family time doing active things like playing outside, riding bikes, and going to the park. When you go grocery shopping, let kids help you choose healthy fruits and vegetables and read nutrition labels together to teach kids about healthy eating habits.
Scan their toys. Take a look at the action figures in your son’s toy chest. Do they have unrealistic bulging muscles? Do the dolls in your daughter’s room have proportions that are not humanly possible? Try to edit these toys out or at least balance them out with more realistic representations of the human body. Better yet, stock up on brain-building board games, puzzles, and great books for kids.
Talk about gender and body stereotypes in ads and media. View content with your child and when you see commercials or TV shows or movies that feature women in skimpy costumes or make unhealthy foods look tempting, talk about what’s wrong with these images.
Limit screen time. Studies have shown that cutting back screen time can reduce kids’ risk of obesity and even improve grades. Teach kids to view junk food ads, which are now even following kids online, with an understanding of what they are trying to sell and talk about why these foods are bad for their health.
Get diet and wellness tips to help your kids stay healthy and happy.
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Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years. Children as young as 3 unhappy with their bodies. Published August 31, 2016.
Common Sense Media. Children, Teens, Media, and Body Image. Published 2015.
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The Terre Alte Group C.A.I. di Foggia did a remarkable job of analysis on the Gargano territory to identify a path that unites three places of cult of extraordinary importance in the enchanting scenery of the Gargano promontory: Santa Maria di Stignano, San Giovanni Rotondo and Monte Sant'Angelo.
Particular attention was paid to safety and enjoyment of the route, which mostly uses paths and country roads. Therefore, besides being an important pilgrimage, the "Via Micaelica" is a pleasant trek that can be done over a weekend, alternating visits to places of worship with pleasant stretches immersed in the greenery of the Gargano National Park. Currently the route is only partially marked with a hiking trail marker and is not easily identifiable in the first part. The cartography, not yet available, is being prepared thanks to the work of the former G.A.M. Foggia, today part of the C.A.I. di Foggia. One of the strengths of the itinerary is the availability of specific hospitality for pilgrims: the starting point (the guesthouse of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Stignano), the intermediate stages (San Marco in Lamis and San Giovanni Rotondo) and the point of arrival (Monte Sant’Angelo) are equipped with adequate accommodations for the pilgrims.
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The Northern Monkey is a bar that catches all that’s great in Manchester. Its interpretation of 'Northern Soul' music reflects icons from the mod scene to current Manchester artists as well as people who shaped the Manchester scene. A bar to Dance, chill out, and relax with the right music that creates an atmosphere clients over the age of 25 will appreciate.
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4 Activists Arrested Trying To Block Coal-Carrying Train In Mass.
Four climate activists who tried to block a train carrying coal to a New Hampshire power plant were arrested early Friday in Massachusetts.
The protesters were arrested in the town of Harvard just after 1 a.m. after erecting a scaffold over the tracks and refusing to come down, a state police spokesman said in a statement.
Harvard firefighters dismantled the scaffold.
Timothy DeChristopher, 38, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Adam Rice, 30, of South Portland, Maine; Cody Pajic, 21, of Pembroke; and Gia Neswald, 50, of Turners Falls, were charged with trespassing, walking or standing on railroad tracks, and obstruction of a passing train.
They were booked at the state police barracks in Leominster and transported to Clinton District Court for arraignment.
It's not clear of they have attorneys.
The group Climate Disobedience Center has held several protests recently trying to strop coal shipments to the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
"With the climate crisis and the science as we know it is, it is far past time to be shipping coal to New England and burning it for our electricity," said Jay O'Hara, a member of the Climate Disobedience Center.
Coal Is Dirty. Amid Protests, Why New England Is Still Burning It For Power
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Partly cloudy. High temperature around 56F. Dew point will be around 41F with an average humidity of 74%. Winds will be 3 mph from the SSW.
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Parks & Natural AreasWabasha-Kellogg Chamber & CVB
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ATHLETIC FIELD
Located at the foot of the Interstate Bridge on Grant Boulevard.
The Athletic Field features tennis and basketball courts, a skateboard park, volleyball courts, baseball and softball fields, restrooms, and parking. In the winter, the concession building becomes a warming house for the adjacent ice skating and hockey rinks that are open after school and weekends.
BEACH PARK AT HUNGRY POINT
Located on the west end of Main Street.
This park is situated on the Mississippi River with a large beach area. The park often hosts weddings and private romantic dinners in the park’s new Gazebo. Walking paths will wind you through the park, passing the picnic shelter with views of the marina. A campground with 48 seasonal sites and three transient sites is adjacent to the park with modern restrooms and showers.
BRUEGGER MEMORIAL PARK
Located on the west side of town on Gambia Avenue.
Approximately two acres in size, families will find a playground for children, picnic shelter, and picnic tables.
Located just off Hiawatha Drive East.
This park features a prominent WWI cannon from the early 1900s. The cannon was almost destroyed but, thanks to community members, was placed in the park and has become a landmark near the middle of town.
DENNIS PFEILSTICKER MEMORIAL PARK
Located off Hiawatha Drive East next to the city pool.
This park commemorates Dennis Pfeilsticker, a local ambulance emergency medical technician who served the citizens and the youth of Wabasha for many years. Using memorials, his family sponsored the playground equipment in his memory. Adjacent to the park is the city pool, which features three waterslides and a kiddie pool open early June through Labor Day Weekend. Great for any function.
DNR STATE PARKS
Wabasha-Kellogg Area 651-565-4158
Numerous State & Regional Parks offer an abundance of scenic enjoyment. Enjoy camping, hunting, birding, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, ATV and dirt biking.
EDWARD MALONE MEMORIAL PARK
Located off Grant Boulevard.
This four acre park has two shelters, restrooms, a children’s playground area and free parking. A handicap-accessible fishing dock offers angling opportunities for everyone! Visitors can enjoy the BBQ pit, horseshoes, portable volleyball net and walking trail.
Located under the Interstate bridge on Main Street.
This park has a pleasant picnic table area, benches, and a stage which features entertainment throughout the year. On Fridays in the summer you can see free outdoor concerts sponsored by our River Junctions Arts Council and on Thursdays, from mid-May to mid-October, the Wabasha Farmer’s Market is held here.
HEROES MEMORIAL PARK
Located on Rice & Belvidere Street, Kellogg.
In the middle of Kellogg’s downtown you will find a large, square block public park with lots of open space, a playground and basketball courts, and a large covered picnic area. Kellogg’s a great community to take the kids to play – and we’re small enough that we don’t have a stoplight anywhere in town!
IZAAK WALTON PARK
Located off Grant Boulevard across from Malone Park. Enjoy the two-acre park with shelter, BBQ pit and restrooms. The park features a large boat launch area, 16 seasonal docks, four transient docks, and an extra long dock handy for launching. A convenient walking bridge connects this park with Beach Park.
JAYCEE PARK
Located on Bailey and 12th Street.
This park’s two acres has lots of space for fun, including frisbee golf and a softball backstop. Close to the backwaters; many people can be seen fishing here.
SCHMIDT PARK
Located on East Second Street.
Originally donated to the city in the early 1900s, later the park was abandoned. In recent years, the park was donated back to the city by Wabasha resident Paul Busch. Thanks to gracious donations from the community, the park was restored to its original look, featuring a fountain, walkway, entrance posts, antique lighting and flower gardens.
Located at the intersection of Hiawatha Drive East and Hwy 60.
With its Veterans Monument and American Flag, this park serves as the location for Memorial Day services.
Beach Park Natural Play Area, Wabasha
Bruegger Park
Heroes Memorial, Kellogg
Area & State Parks
CARLEY STATE PARK
Altura, MN 507-932-3007
Birding, fishing, hunting, camping, picnic areas and hiking or cross-country ski trails.
FRONTENAC STATE PARK
Frontenac, MN 651-345-3401
2300-acre park on the bluffs overlooking Lake Pepin with camping, hunting, picnicking, trails, birding, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing and a winter sliding hill.
JOHN A LATSCH STATE PARK
Winona, MN 507-932-3007
350-acre park offers camping, hunting, picnic areas, a half-mile trail leading to the top of Mt. Charity and three overlooks 500 feet above the Mississippi River.
KRUGER CAMPGROUND & DUA
Wabasha, MN 651-345-3401
Offers wheelchair accessible trail, fishing, hunting, hiking trails, canoe access, picnic area with shelters, nature trails and campsites.
SNAKE CREEK MGMT UNIT
Kellogg, MN 507-285-7176
Two trail systems varying in length and difficulty available for all trail users except 4-wheel-drive vehicles. Hunting and on-site and off-site campgrounds available.
WHITEWATER STATE PARK
camping, hunting, cabin rental, swimming beach, hiking trail, cross-country ski trail, visitor center and rentals.
ZUMBRO BOTTOMS HORSE CAMPGROUNDS
Three campgrounds, West, Central, and North. All three can be used for picnicking, hiking trails, hunting, canoeing and horseback riding.
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Science, Technology & Medicine > Mathematics & science > Science: general issues > History of science
Popular Science & Nature > Popular science
Science, Technology & Medicine > Mathematics & science > Physics > Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism
Earth's Magnetism in the Age of Sail (Hardback)
A.R.T. Jonkers (author)
From about 1600 to 1800 scientists and mariners made increasingly sophisticated attempts to understand the earth's magnetic field and use it in navigation. Europeans had long understood the difference between magnetic and true north, but why did it vary as one traversed the sea? Could this variation be used to pinpoint longitude? Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources-including manuals, treatises, sailing directions, and logbooks in a half-dozen languages-A. R. T. Jonkers explores these early efforts both for what they reveal about the history of science and navigation and as a unique record of the actual changes in the earth's magnetic field. The result, a masterful combination of science and history, will appeal to a broad audience of specialists as well as general readers.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
A fascinating tale at the interface of geophysics, maritime history, and the history of science... A remarkable blend of scientific and historical scholarship. * Choice *
This book illuminates a dark corner of history and science from a unique and well-grounded perspective. By choosing to examine the natural phenomenon of Earth's magnetism within a historical context, A. R. T. Jonkers has found a way to lend both interest and accessibility to what otherwise could be an esoteric topic. Engaging, highly readable, and well written with sound scholarship, Earth's Magnetism in the Age of Sail is a valuable and original contribution to the history of science. * Dr. Gregory Good, editor of Earth Sciences History and Director of the West Virginia Cultural Resource Management Certificate Program *
Jonkers has provided a truly interdisciplinary study that will be accessible to scientists as well as historians. -- Kathy S. Mason * History: Reviews of New Books *
In this ambitious work, the author sets out to rescue from obscurity the thousands of measurements of magnetic declination made by European sailors in the early modern period... The monumental contribution of information and insight brought by this study... will bear fruit well into the future. -- Jordan Kellman * International Journal of Maritime History *
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History > Archaeology
Politics, Society & Education > Society & culture > Cultural studies
Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays (Paperback)
Tony Bennett (author)
Few perspectives have invigorated the development of critical museum studies over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as Foucault's account of the relations between knowledge and power and their role in processes of governing. Within this literature, Tony Bennett's work stands out as having marked a series of strategic engagements with Foucault's work to offer a critical genealogy of the public museum, offering an account of its nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century development that has been constantly alert to the politics of museums in the present.
Museums, Power, Knowledge brings together new research with a set of essays initially published in diverse contexts, making available for the first time the full range of Bennett's critical museology. Ranging across natural history, anthropological art, geological and history museums and their precursors in earlier collecting institutions, and spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries in discussing museum practices in Britain, Australia, the USA, France and Japan, it offers a compelling account of the shifting political logics of museums over the modern period.
As a collection that aims to bring together the `signature' work of a museum theorist and historian whose work has long occupied a distinctive place in museum/society debates, Museums, Power, Knowledge will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as museum professionals and museum visitors.
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Patrick Mauries
The Curatorial
Jean-Paul Martinon
The Curator's Egg
Karsten Schubert
Benet's Artefacts of England & the United Kingdom
Paul G. Murawski
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Billy's Book of Loughborough Boozers
New Museology
Peter Vergo
Yokai Museum
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Chris Caple
The Elgin Marbles
The Engaging Museum
Graham Black
The Curator's Handbook
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Dry Store Room No. 1
Richard A. Fortey
Museums in Britain
Christine Garwood
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Art, Fashion & Photography > Art & design > Art forms > Textile artworks
Art, Fashion & Photography > Art & design > Art & design styles / history of art > Modernist design & Bauhaus
The Modernist Textile: Europe and America, 1890-1940 (Hardback)
Virginia Gardner Troy (author)
Emerging from the tumultuous decades between 1890 and 1940, Modernism became the new aesthetic that was to dominate the development of art and design in the twentieth century.
Traditionally, discussions of late 19th- and early 20th-century art have not focused exclusively on the role the decorative and applied arts played in shaping the Modernist aesthetic. This book reveals the unique contribution of Modernist textiles in challenging artistic hierarchies and instigating visual and theoretical change. Textiles are, in fact, ideal historical markers that pinpoint pivotal moments of an era in transition.
Exploring the role of textile design, textile production, collections of textiles and critical responses to textiles in the period 1890-1940, The Modernist Textile provides, for the first time, a survey of textiles in the modern age. Including in-depth analysis of the trends that developed across Europe and America in the period covered, the book draws in all the major phases of the modernist period, from Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement through to Constructivism and the influence of South American ancient arts on twentieth-century American textiles.
Combining skilled analysis with a wealth of beautiful images, some of which have not been published before, The Modernist Textile is an invaluable resource for all those interested in gaining a new perspective on the significant visual and cultural developments that took place in Europe and America between 1890 and 1940.
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
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Eric Ravilious Scrapbooks
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Christopher Wood
Katy Norris
Insiders/Outsiders
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Rafael Schacter
Cook's Camden
Mark Swenarton
A Kurt Jackson Bestiary
Kurt Jackson
The St Ives Artists
Conscience and Conflict
The Urban Design Process
Philip Black
Kyffin Williams
Rian Evans
Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape
Eric Ravilious
Dark Side of the Boom
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Net migration to UK falls to lowest level in almost six years: Official data
Reuters London, United Kingdom Nov 28, 2019, 04.31 PM(IST)
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The Office for National Statistics said 212,000 more people moved to Britain than left, the lowest total since the year to September 2013.
Net migration to Britain fell to its lowest level in nearly six years during the year to June, driven by a fall in the number of European Union citizens moving to the country for work ahead of Brexit, official data showed on Thursday.
Immigration of EU citizens fell to 199,000 the lowest level since the year ending March 2013, the ONS said, extending a declining trend since the 2016 referendum, when Britons voted by 52 per cent to 48 per cent to leave the EU.
By contrast, 151,000 EU citizens left Britain in the year to June, the largest total since records started 10 years ago.
Immigration is a hot political topic ahead of the December 12 national election.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to limit the number of people coming to Britain by implementing an Australian-style points system, while the opposition Labour Party said migration policy should fit the needs of the economy.
"While there are still more EU citizens moving to the UK than leaving, EU net migration has fallen since 2016, driven by fewer EU arrivals for work," the ONS said in a statement.
"In contrast, non-EU net migration has gradually increased for the past six years, largely as more non-EU citizens came to study."
Johnson has said Britain will leave the EU by the end of January if his ruling Conservatives win a parliamentary majority in a Dec. 12 election.
Megxit: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to no longer bear 'royal highness' title
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Brian Atwood’s suede, feather, and grosgrain ribbon shoes, $1,450, at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, 212.753.4000.
Corum’s stainless steel, mother of pearl, and diamond watch, $6,900, at London Jewelers, Manhasset, New York, 516.627.7475.
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Marlies|Dekkers’s nylon and elastane bodysuit with Swarovski Elements stones, $225, marliesdekkers.com.
Longchamp’s lambskin pants, $1,610, at Longchamp, longchamp.com.
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Louis Vuitton’s silk dress, $2,400, and leather collar, $490, at select Louis Vuitton stores, louisvuitton.com.
TOUS’s sterling silver and black leather brooches, from $499 each, tous.com.
Longchamp’s lambskin top, $1,168, at Longchamp, longchamp.com.
Tom Ford’s leather gloves, $790, at Tom Ford, tomford.com.
Josie Natori’s lace skirt, $295, natori.com.
Odin’s 03 Century candle, $65, at Barneys New York, barneys.com.
Marc Jacobs’s leather bag, $1,495, at Marc Jacobs, New York, 212.343.1490.
Maybelline’s Great Lash Mascara by BCBG Max Azria in Very Black, $7, at Target, 800.591.3869.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA’s lace dress, $7,190, at Neiman Marcus, neimanmarcus.com.
Simon G’s 18k white gold and diamond earrings, $4,400, simongjewelry.com.
Andrew Marc’s lace dress, $298, andrewmarc.com.
Vince’s leather miniskirt, $495, at Vince, Los Angeles, 323.782.1007.
Atelier Cologne’s fragrance, from $75 (with case), neimanmarcus.com.
Poltrona Frau’s Chester One sofa, $14,050, poltronafrau.com.
Shiseido’s Shimmering Cream Eye Color in Leather, $26, sephora.com.
Sandro’s leather shoe, $565, at Bloomingdale’s, New York, 212.705.2000.
Ivanka Trump fine jewelry’s 18k white gold, black onyx, and diamond cuff, $29,000, ivankatrumpcollection.com.
Maje’s leather leggings, $1,075, at Bloomingdale’s, bloomingdales.com.
Design Within Reach’s Eames wire chair with bikini pad, $1,400, dwr.com.
Alexander Wang’s printed ostrich leg and rhodium calfskin bag, $795, at Alexander Wang, New York, alexanderwang.com.
FLOS’s Can Can light by Marcel Wanders, from $330, flos.com.
Coomi’s 20k white gold and diamond ring, $29,000, at Neiman Marcus, 800.944.9888.
G-star’s leather vest, $420, g-star.com.
CESARE PACIOTTI’s laser-cut suede and satin Swarovski Elements–encrusted bootie, $1,500, at Cesare Paciotti, cesare-paciotti.com.
FENDI’s wool top, $575, at Fendi, New York, 212.759.4646.
Rag & Bone’s leather jacket, $1,295, at Rag & Bone, New York, rag-bone.com.
KATE SPADE’s calfskin bag, $445, at Kate Spade, katespade.com.
Mulberry’s leather quilted skirt, $1,850, at Mulberry, New York, 212.453.4722.
Odin Fragrances’s 06 Amanu, $110, barneys.com.
Richard Mille’s aluminum, magnesium, and stainless steel watch, $90,000, at Richard Mille, Beverly Hills, 310.285.9898.
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Home > Newsmakers > Dear Ranveer, We’d Be Inspired By The #CoupleGoals You Present, If Only They Were Realistic!
Dear Ranveer, We’d Be Inspired By The #CoupleGoals You Present, If Only They Were Realistic!
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#DeepVeer give us #CoupleGoals, but what about the responsibility they have to their fans to give them a more realistic view of relationships?
#CoupleGoals that celebrity couples portray via photos and interviews are carefully curated to maintain an image, and may lead young couples to have unrealistic ideas about relationships. While one hopes that celebrities will be socially responsible and present a more honest picture it is important to remember that we don’t take such #couplegoals too seriously.
#DeepVeer are one of India’s most aspirational “brands” when it comes to celebrity couples. The media and entertainment pages are often filled with news about their holidays, their Instagram posts in which they tag each other, and cutesy stories about their life as a married couple. And not just Ranveer-Deepika. The same goes for Priyanka and Nick, Anushka and Virat etc. All of these carefully curated tidbits are what go on to create what is termed as #couplegoals or #relationshipgoals, which many young people take quite seriously.
In a recent interview in which Ranveer Singh spoke about his life after marriage and his relationship with Deepika, he claimed that they don’t fight at all. The statement struck me as odd, and led to my making a Facebook post about the same, which led to an active and insightful discussion with other Women’s Web authors on my friends list.
I wrote, “In a recent interview, when asked who gives in first after a fight, Ranveer Singh says that he and Deepika Padukone don’t fight at all. Because they are “cocooned in love” and there is “no space for doubts and misgivings” in the relationship.
While this sounds good, I wish he hadn’t said that. I wish he had said that they work together to fix whatever disagreements they may have. That no one has to “give in” because it is not a question of winning or losing, but about working together.
There is this misleading idea that “good couples don’t fight.” That there is no discord and perfect agreement on all issues. To be very clear, I am not in favour of verbal/physical abuse or violence. That is unquestionably wrong, irrespective of who does it.
When I say fighting, I mean differences of opinions.
And while fairy tale couples have a conflict free “happily ever after,” couples in real life disagree. To different levels. Some couples more, some less. The difference between relationships that thrive and relationships that don’t, lies in how the conflicts are handled.
That is why I love Michelle Obama’s honest accounts in Becoming, about her disagreements with Barack Obama, and her admission that they underwent couples therapy.
Because when we don’t accept that even the couples who are #couplegoals argue, we feed into a harmful idea about love. We let people believe that they have failed in a relationship, when all they are having is a human experience.”
Sonia Chatterjee was quick to point out that, “they are married for a few months now. The initial phase is always lovey dovey with very little space for disagreements. Let’s get back to him after a couple of years. I am sure that the story would be very different then.”
Rashmi Raj reiterated that, adding, “maybe they do have fights and maybe they don’t… but knowing Ranveer Singh and his louder-than-thou personality, maybe we should just take this with a pinch of salt”
Others like Seema Taneja and Kalpana Mannivannan agreed that while the couple was in their honeymoon phase, and they probably don’t have too many serious arguments, they still have a social responsibility because they are public figures. “Being a celebrity, these words can get misconstrued by people as a standard for successful happy marriages. It’s important that people in public eye keep things real because their words reach and affect many,” wrote Kalpana. Seema agreed, “Such words could affect young couples who are just starting their married life together and as you say, celebrities should choose their words more carefully.”
Akshata Ramesh noted that, “it sounds just like a fairytale with mushy love and stuff which we all know is not true. Feeding such unrealistic ideas about love is really dangerous. I certainly cannot relate to it,” and Surbhi Rastogi wittily pointed out that, “If they don’t fight, it’s probably coz they never talk! That’s just a juvenile statement.”
Parvadavardini opined that “it’s these disagreements which help us grow in a relationship and also understand the other person better.”
Ashvini Naik and Rachana Gupta had some wise words to add.
“No two people on earth can stand all of each other’s traits & habits. There’s always room for entropy in a marriage. But your actual #couplegoals are about winning over those turbulent moments & letting ego wear off to get stronger & fonder with time,” said Ashvini.
Rachana Gupta echoed these sentiments, “Honestly what are these #couplegoals. Every relationship makes its own goals and why should the world decide how good or bad it is. It is up to the two individuals to be living that human experience every day and that itself is enough.”
All of us are careful about what image we present to the outside world. We choose to present only those things that we think make us or our lives look good. Clinical psychologist Gemille Cribb, of Sydney’s Equilibrium Psychology calls this the “filtering process.” For celebrities, who have a “brand image” to maintain, this picking and choosing is even more important.
However, Ranveer-Deepika are among the more open and honest couples. Priyanka Chopra-Jonas too, in her recent interview to Elle shared how marriage was a different experience compared to dating. “I’d never realised having a husband and a boyfriend are such different things. When you say your vows, it’s like, this person is my family, and it’s the family I chose. There’s a weird responsibility to them. And a safety that comes from it. We are learning about each other every day,” she said.
While we can always hope that celebrities will be socially responsible, it is ultimately up to us to remember and realize that there is much more to a successful relationship than picture-perfect #couplegoals.
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CNN Reporter Spreads Fake News That iPhones Will Cost $7,500 More Under Trump Tariffs
By Joe Setyon
Published August 2, 2019 at 11:42am
A CNN reporter falsely suggested Friday that under President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be implemented tariffs on Chinese imports, iPhones could cost $7,500 more than they currently do.
Trump announced Friday he’s be implementing a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.
…We look forward to continuing our positive dialogue with China on a comprehensive Trade Deal, and feel that the future between our two countries will be a very bright one!
“This does not include the 250 Billion Dollars already Tariffed at 25%,” Trump said, referring to the tariffs he announced in May.
According to CNN reporter Joe Johns, this means the price of an iPhone could rise by $7,500.
“A lot of people are going to say 7,500 bucks more for an iPhone is not ‘de minimis,'” Johns told Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, during a media gaggle outside the White House.
“Would you guys at least just admit that these latest tariffs are going to inject a new level of volatility?”
Kudlow responded: “Well, let’s see how that plays out, because on a lot of these production supply chains and so forth, there are going to be changes.”
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“A lot of these companies have already said they are fixing to leave China and come either come back to the United States or go someplace else,” he said. “So, I don’t want to outguess that. We are cognizant of that and we want to protect it.”
Watch below, starting around the 9:30 mark:
According to Apple’s website, a 64-gigabyte iPhone XS Max, the company’s most expensive phone, starts at $1,099. A 512-gigabyte version, meanwhile, costs $1,449.
In May, J.P. Morgan estimated that if Trump decided to extend his 25 percent tariffs to the other $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, iPhones would only cost about 14 percent more.
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“We estimate a price increase of around 14% is required to absorb the impact of a 25% tariff, keeping margin dollars for all players in the supply chain constant,” J.P. Morgan said in a note to clients, according to CNBC.
Of course, Trump’s most recent tariffs are 10 percent, not 25 percent.
In short, it’s highly inaccurate to say these tariffs would cause a price increase of $7,500 for a single iPhone.
The Western Journal reached out to Johns for comment but has not yet received a response. We will update this article if and when we do.
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Joe Setyon is an associate story editor for The Western Journal with several years of copy editing and reporting experience. He graduated with a degree in commuication studies from Grove City College, where he served as managing editor of the student-run newspaper. Joe previously worked as an assistant editor/reporter for Reason magazine, a libertarian publication in Washington, D.C., where he covered politics and wrote about government waste and abuse.
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GOP Puts Schiff in Impeachment Checkmate with 8-Person Witness Request
By Jared Harris
Published November 9, 2019 at 10:31am
In the impeachment inquiry that’s shaping up to be more of an anti-Donald Trump chess game, it appears as though Republicans are homing in on the coveted “checkmate.”
Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has sent a letter to committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff requesting that nine different witnesses testify “in an open setting.”
After a scathing opening that completely dismantles the “sham impeachment process,” Nunes makes his witness requests in an attempt to bring truth to an otherwise “opaque and unfair” inquiry.
The letter pulls out the big guns immediately after, calling for both Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, former board members of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, to speak in front of lawmakers.
Archer, a longtime business partner of Hunter Biden (who’s the son of former Vice President Joe Biden), was requested in the hopes that he could explain the depth of the corruption in Burisma.
Nunes cites Archer’s “firsthand experiences” with the company as justification for bringing him into the public eye.
With a better understanding of the corruption surrounding Burisma, the truth surrounding President Donald Trump’s skeptical dealings with the country will become abundantly clear.
Hunter Biden, who was kicked out of the United States Navy for cocaine use before nailing a $50,000-per-month gig at Burisma, was also requested for his insight into corruption at the notorious Ukrainian company.
Both of these individuals’ testimony would help make it clear that Trump’s hesitations about Burisma and Ukraine were well-founded.
Will Adam Schiff accept any of these witnesses?
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Ex-Democratic National Committee staffer Alexandra Chalupa is next on the list.
Because of her work with the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C., and her subsequent confirmation that she provided anti-Trump information to both the DNC and Hillary Clinton, Chalupa is an important witness.
It’s hoped that Chalupa’s testimony will shed light on the extent of Ukraine’s alleged anti-Trump meddling in the 2016 election.
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale is also identified as an important witness.
Although Hale previously testified as part of the impeachment inquiry, his knowledge of foreign assistance reviews is going to be crucial for Republicans.
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A request for former National Security Council official Tim Morrison to appear alongside Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman (if Vindman testifies) is also vitally important for Republicans.
Morrison listened in on the July call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that sparked the entire Ukraine “scandal,” and should be able to confirm or deny Vindman’s testimony.
Nellie Ohr, a key player in the Fusion GPS controversy, is also on the list.
This may come as a surprise to some, but her potential testimony would reveal to what extent Fusion GPS secured information from Ukrainian sources.
Since Fusion GPS assisted with much of the notorious (and disproven) anti-Trump Steele dossier, this has a direct impact on allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 election.
Ambassador Kurt Volker, called as a witness for his “firsthand knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ukraine,” would be an important witness for Republicans to question in front of the American people.
Finally, Nunes requests that the anonymous whistleblower, along with anyone who helped him or her draft their original complaint, testify as well.
The whistleblower’s ties to Joe Biden and Schiff, as well as their alleged anti-Trump bias, present plenty of questions that the American people deserve the answers to.
Schiff, whose office had contact with the whistleblower before his complaint went public, was called to testify by Nunes on Friday.
Thanks to new rules voted in by House Democrats, Schiff and his cronies have the ultimate say over which witnesses are approved in this shamelessly partisan impeachment process.
Nunes has Schiff between a rock and a hard place.
If he agrees to these requests, America will get a firsthand look at the corruption Trump has been trying to fight and the origins of the impeachment sham.
Any denial of these requests will only confirm that Democrats want the president booted by any means necessary.
It remains to be seen if any of Nunes’ requests are honored.
Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard and is a husband, dad and aspiring farmer.
Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He is a husband, dad, and aspiring farmer. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard. If he's not with his wife and son, then he's either shooting guns or working on his motorcycle.
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The Press Photographer’s Year to hold expo day
Paul Nuttall
The Press Photographeru2019s Year competition, sponsored by Canon, is to hold an expo day at the National Theatre on June 22nd.
Photo Nils Jorgensen 2006 30 million journeys. 'Tight Squeeze' , London. Every day, about 30 million journeys are taken in Greater London, of which 6.3 million are by bus, 3 million by Tube, 1.4 million by rail, and 7 million on foot. Having recently stopped using my car, due to London's recent Congestion Charging scheme, I have found I have enjoyed using the public transport system very much, and that it has provided an opportunity for photography. These photographs set out to show the dynamics of chance encounters of people and places, as they go about their live in London.
The Press Photographer?s Year competition, sponsored by Canon, is to hold an expo day at the National Theatre on June 22nd.
The expo will be based around slideshow and multimedia presentations that will explore press photography?s past, present and future.
The full programme will be announced in May, but speakers will include: Tom Stoddart; award winning photojournalist, Roger Hutchings; chairman of this year?s The Press Photographer?s Year jury, Sean Smith; winner of the ?Photograph of the Year? in both 2006 and 2007, and The Guardians Dan Chung; one of the driving forces behind what the exploration of what ?new media? has to offer the stills photographer.
Canon?s Pro Division team will also be on hand to offer technical advice and tips with an impressive hands-on display of all of their latest professional imaging equipment.
Tickets are priced at £20 (£10 concessions) and are obtainable from the National Theatre directly on 020 7452 3000 or from the website at www.nationaltheatre.org.uk.
What Digital Camera readers will have the chance to win one of ten pairs in the June issue. Grab the mag from Friday 18th May to find out more?
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WhatsApp এর আইনি তথ্য
গুরুত্বপূর্ণ আপডেট
পরিষেবার শর্তাবলী
How We Work With Other Facebook Companies
How The General Data Protection Regulation Applies To Our European Region Users
How We Process Your Information
গোপনীয়তার শিল্ড
আইপি নীতি
কুকিজ
আপনি যদি ইউরোপের বাসিন্দা না হন তাহলে WhatsApp Inc.-এর নিয়ম অনুযায়ী আপনাকে এই পরিষেবার শর্তাবলী এবং গোপনীয়তা নীতি অনুযায়ী WhatsApp ব্যবহার করতে হবে।
WhatsApp Updated Terms Of Service And Privacy Policy
Our Updated Terms and Privacy Policy. Our updated Terms of Service explains our agreement with you to use our Services. Our updated Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, and the choices you have, including how to manage your privacy settings, access the information we have about you, and delete your account. We build WhatsApp with strong privacy and security principles, like end-to-end encryption of your messages and calls, which means we and third parties can't read or listen to them. Here are some important points:
WhatsApp Ireland. WhatsApp Ireland Limited provides our Services and is responsible for your information when you use WhatsApp.
Age Requirement. To use WhatsApp, you must be at least 16 years old.
How WhatsApp Works With The Other Facebook Companies. WhatsApp is one of the Facebook Companies. WhatsApp works and shares information with the other Facebook Companies to receive services like infrastructure, technology, and systems that help us provide and improve WhatsApp and to keep WhatsApp and the Facebook Companies safe and secure. When we receive services from the Facebook Companies, the information we share with them is used to help WhatsApp in accordance with our instructions. Working together allows us to:
Provide you fast and reliable messaging and calls around the world and understand how our services and features are performing.
Ensure safety and security across WhatsApp and the Facebook Company Products by removing spam accounts and combatting abusive activity.
Connect your WhatsApp experience with Facebook Company Products. For example, you could share a link to a post from Facebook to a WhatsApp chat.
Enable you to communicate with businesses on WhatsApp. For example, if you visit a business's Facebook page, you might see a button that lets you easily open a WhatsApp chat with them.
Nothing you share on WhatsApp, including your messages, photos, and account information, will be shared onto Facebook or any of our other family of apps for others to see, and nothing you post on those apps will be shared on WhatsApp for others to see, unless you choose to do so.
Today, Facebook does not use your WhatsApp account information to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook. Learn more about how WhatsApp works with the Facebook Companies.
We're always working on new ways to improve how you experience WhatsApp and the other Facebook Company Products you use. We'll keep you updated on new experiences we offer and our information practices.
New Ways To Use WhatsApp. We offer new features like improvements to group chats and video calling. We're continuing to build ways for you to communicate with businesses, and you'll be able to manage these communications.
Infrastructure And Systems. Our Privacy Policy also explains how we use infrastructure, systems, and service providers around the world, and that we transfer information outside of the European Economic Area. Learn More
সর্বশেষ পরিবর্তন হয়েছে: 24 এপ্রিল, 2018 (আর্কাইভ করা ভার্সন)
In order to provide our Services (as defined below) through our apps, services, features, software, or website, we need to obtain your express agreement to our Terms of Service ("Terms"). You agree to our Terms by registering, installing, accessing, or using our apps, services, features, software, or website.
If you live in a country in the European Economic Area (which includes the European Union), and any other included country or territory (collectively referred to as the "European Region"), WhatsApp Ireland Limited provides the services described below to you; if you live in any other country except those in the European Region, it is WhatsApp Inc. (collectively, "WhatsApp," "our," "we," or "us") that provides the services described below to you (collectively, "Services"):
Privacy And Security Principles. Since we started WhatsApp, we've built our Services with strong privacy and security principles in mind.
Connecting You With Other People. We provide ways for you to communicate with other WhatsApp users including through messages, voice and video calls, sending images and video, showing your status, and sharing your location with others when you choose. We may provide a convenient platform that enables you to send and receive money to or from other users across our platform. WhatsApp works with partners, service providers, and affiliated companies to help us provide ways for you to connect with their services. We use the information we receive from them to help operate, provide, and improve our Services.
Ways To Improve Our Services. We analyze how you make use of WhatsApp, in order to improve all aspects of our Services described here, including helping businesses who use WhatsApp measure the effectiveness and distribution of their services and messages. WhatsApp uses the information it has and also works with partners, service providers, and affiliated companies to do this.
Communicating With Businesses. We provide ways for you and third parties, like businesses, to communicate with each other using WhatsApp, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing. Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you. We do not want you to have a spammy experience; as with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the choices you make.
Safety And Security. We work to protect the safety and security of WhatsApp by appropriately dealing with abusive people and activity and violations of our Terms. We prohibit misuse of our Services, harmful conduct towards others, and violations of our Terms and policies, and address situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community. We develop automated systems to improve our ability to detect and remove abusive people and activity that may harm our community and the safety and security of our Services. If we learn of people or activity like this, we will take appropriate action by removing such people or activity or contacting law enforcement. We share information with other affiliated companies when we learn of misuse or harmful conduct by someone using our Services.
Enabling Global Access To Our Services. To operate our global Service, we need to store and distribute content and information in data centers and systems around the world, including outside your country of residence. This infrastructure may be owned or operated by our service providers or affiliated companies.
Affiliated Companies. We are part of the Facebook Companies. As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, the Facebook Companies as described in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy. We use the information we receive from them to help operate, provide, and improve our Services. Learn more about the Facebook Companies and their terms and polices here.
NO ACCESS TO EMERGENCY SERVICES: There are important differences between our Services and your mobile phone and a fixed-line telephone and SMS services. Our Services do not provide access to emergency services or emergency services providers, including the police, fire departments, or hospitals, or otherwise connect to public safety answering points. You should ensure you can contact your relevant emergency services providers through a mobile phone, a fixed-line telephone, or other service.
Registration. You must register for our Services using accurate information, provide your current mobile phone number, and, if you change it, update your mobile phone number using our in-app change number feature. You agree to receive text messages and phone calls (from us or our third-party providers) with codes to register for our Services.
Address Book. You provide us, all in accordance with applicable laws, the phone numbers of WhatsApp users and your other contacts in your mobile address book on a regular basis, including for both the users of our Services and your other contacts.
Age. If you live in a country in the European Region, you must be at least 16 years old to use our Services or such greater age required in your country to register for or use our Services. If you live in any other country except those in the European Region, you must be at least 13 years old to use our Services or such greater age required in your country to register for or use our Services. In addition to being of the minimum required age to use our Services under applicable law, if you are not old enough to have authority to agree to our Terms in your country, your parent or guardian must agree to our Terms on your behalf.
Devices And Software. You must provide certain devices, software, and data connections to use our Services, which we otherwise do not supply. In order to use our Services, you consent to manually or automatically download and install updates to our Services. You also consent to our sending you notifications via WhatsApp from time to time, as necessary to provide our Services to you.
Fees And Taxes. You are responsible for all carrier data plans, Internet fees, and other fees and taxes associated with your use of our Services.
WhatsApp cares about your privacy. WhatsApp's Privacy Policy describes our information (including message) practices, including the types of information we receive and collect from you, how we use and share this information, and your rights in relation to the processing of information about you. The Privacy Policy sets out the legal bases for our processing of personal information about you, including the collection, use, processing, and sharing of such information, as well as the transfer and processing of such information to the United States and other countries globally where we have or use facilities, service providers, affiliated companies, or partners, regardless of where you use our Services.
Our Terms And Policies. You must use our Services according to our Terms and policies. If you violate our Terms or policies, we may take action with respect to your account, including disabling or suspending your account and, if we do, you must not create another account without our permission.
Legal And Acceptable Use. You must access and use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that: (a) violate, misappropriate, or infringe the rights of WhatsApp, our users, or others, including privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights; (b) are illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or instigate or encourage conduct that would be illegal or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting violent crimes; (c) involve publishing falsehoods, misrepresentations, or misleading statements; (d) impersonate someone; (e) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications, such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialing, and the like; or (f) involve any non-personal use of our Services unless otherwise authorized by us.
Harm To WhatsApp Or Our Users. You must not (or assist others to) directly, indirectly, through automated or other means access, use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sublicense, transfer, display, perform, or otherwise exploit our Services in impermissible or unauthorized manners, or in ways that burden, impair, or harm us, our Services, systems, our users, or others, including that you must not directly or through automated means: (a) reverse engineer, alter, modify, create derivative works from, decompile, or extract code from our Services; (b) send, store, or transmit viruses or other harmful computer code through or onto our Services; (c) gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Services or systems; (d) interfere with or disrupt the safety, security, or performance of our Services; (e) create accounts for our Services through unauthorized or automated means; (f) collect the information of or about our users in any impermissible or unauthorized manner; (g) sell, resell, rent, or charge for our Services in an unauthorized manner; (h) distribute or make our Services available over a network where they could be used by multiple devices at the same time, except as authorized through tools we have expressly provided via our Services; or (i) create software or APIs that function substantially the same as our Services and offer them for use by third parties in an unauthorized manner.
Our Services may allow you to access, use, or interact with third-party websites, apps, content, other products and services, and Facebook Company Products. For example, you may choose to use third-party data backup services (such as iCloud or Google Drive) that are integrated with our Services or interact with a share button on a third-party's website that enables you to send information to your WhatsApp contacts. Please note that these Terms and the Privacy Policy apply only to the use of our Services. When you use third-party services or Facebook Company Products, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
WhatsApp's Rights. We own all copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, trade secrets, patents, and other intellectual property rights associated with our Services. You may not use our copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, patents, or other intellectual property rights unless you have our express permission and except in accordance with our Brand Guidelines. You may use the trademarks of our affiliated companies only with their permission, including as authorized in any published brand guidelines.
WhatsApp's License To You. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to use our Services, subject to and in accordance with our Terms. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use our Services in the manner permitted by our Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted to you.
Reporting Third-Party Copyright, Trademark, And Other Intellectual Property Infringement. To report claims of third-party copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property infringement, please visit our Intellectual Property Policy. We may take action with respect to your account, including disabling or suspending your account, if you infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
WE WILL USE REASONABLE SKILL AND CARE IN PROVIDING OUR SERVICES TO YOU AND IN KEEPING IT A SAFE, SECURE, AND ERROR-FREE ENVIRONMENT, BUT WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT WHATSAPP WILL ALWAYS FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS, OR IMPERFECTIONS. YOU USE OUR SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK AND SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMERS. WE ARE PROVIDING OUR SERVICES ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY US IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR USEFUL, THAT OUR SERVICES WILL BE OPERATIONAL, ERROR FREE, SECURE, OR SAFE, OR THAT OUR SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS, OR IMPERFECTIONS. WE DO NOT CONTROL AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, CONTROLLING HOW OR WHEN OUR USERS USE OUR SERVICES OR THE FEATURES, SERVICES, AND INTERFACES OUR SERVICES PROVIDE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AND ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO CONTROL THE ACTIONS OR INFORMATION (INCLUDING CONTENT) OF OUR USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES. YOU RELEASE US, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, AND OUR AND THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, PARTNERS, AND AGENTS (TOGETHER, THE "WHATSAPP PARTIES") FROM ANY CLAIM, COMPLAINT, CAUSE OF ACTION, OR CONTROVERSY (TOGETHER, "CLAIM") AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY SUCH CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY THIRD PARTIES. YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO WHATSAPP ARE NOT MODIFIED BY THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER IF THE LAWS OF YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE, APPLICABLE AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES, DO NOT PERMIT IT. IF YOU ARE A UNITED STATES RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.
OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS, US, OR OUR SERVICES SHALL BE LIMITED TO LOSSES THAT ARE A REASONABLY FORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCE OF SUCH BREACH (EXCEPT IN RELATION TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION) AND WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS.
YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO WHATSAPP ARE NOT MODIFIED BY THE FOREGOING LIMITATION IF THE LAWS OF YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE, APPLICABLE AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES, DO NOT PERMIT IT.
If anyone brings a claim ("Third Party Claim") against us related to your actions, information, or content on WhatsApp, you will, to the extent permitted by law, indemnify and hold the WhatsApp Parties harmless from and against all liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with any of the following: (a) your access to or use of our Services, including information provided in connection therewith; (b) your breach of our Terms or of applicable law; or (c) any misrepresentation made by you. You will cooperate as fully as required by us in the defense or settlement of any Third Party Claim. Your rights with respect to WhatsApp are not modified by the foregoing indemnification if the laws of your country of residence, applicable as a result of your use of our Services, do not permit it.
If You Live In The European Region. If you are a consumer and habitually reside in a territory within the European Region, the laws of your territory will apply to any Claim you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms or our Services, and you may resolve your Claim in any competent court in your territory that has jurisdiction over the Claim. In all other cases, you agree that the Claim must be resolved in a competent court in Ireland that has jurisdiction over the Claim and that the laws of Ireland will govern these Terms and any Claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
If You Live Outside The European Region, United States, Or Canada. If you are a consumer located outside the European Region, United States, and Canada, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any Claim you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms or our Services, and you may resolve your Claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the Claim. In all other cases, you agree that the Claim must be resolved exclusively in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County, that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of either of these courts for the purpose of litigating any such Claim, and that the laws of the State of California will govern these Terms and any Claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
If You Live In The United States Or Canada. If you are a WhatsApp user located in the United States or Canada, the "Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users" section below also applies to you. Please read that section carefully and completely. If you are not subject to the "Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users" section below, you agree that you will resolve any Claim you have with us relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with our Terms or our Services (each, a "Dispute," and together, "Disputes") exclusively in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County in California, and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such Disputes. The laws of the State of California govern our Terms, as well as any disputes, whether in court or arbitration, which might arise between WhatsApp and you, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
See Below: Special Arbitration Provision For United States Or Canada Users
Availability Of Our Services. We are always trying to improve our Services.That means we may add or remove our Services, features, functionalities, and the support of certain devices and platforms. Our Services may be interrupted, including for maintenance, repairs, upgrades, or network or equipment failures. We may discontinue some or all of our Services, including certain features and the support for certain devices and platforms, at any time after a notice period of 30 days, where possible. Events beyond our control may affect our Services, such as events in nature and other force majeure events.
Termination. Although we hope you remain a WhatsApp user, you can terminate your relationship with WhatsApp anytime for any reason by deleting your account. For instructions on how to do so, please visit: Deleting your account.
We may also modify, suspend, or terminate your access to or use of our Services anytime for suspicious or unlawful conduct, including for fraud, or if we reasonably believe you violate our Terms or create harm, risk, or possible legal exposure for us, our users, or others. The following provisions will survive any termination of your relationship with WhatsApp: "Licenses," "Disclaimers," "Limitation of Liability," "Indemnification," "Dispute Resolution," "Availability and Termination of our Services," "Other," and "Special Arbitration Provision For United States Or Canada Users." If you believe your account's termination or suspension was in error, please contact us at support@whatsapp.com.
We reserve the right to designate in the future that certain of our Services are governed by separate terms (where, as applicable, you may separately consent).
You will comply with all applicable United States and non-United States export control and trade sanctions laws ("Export Laws"). You will not, directly or indirectly, export, re-export, provide, or otherwise transfer our Services: (a) to any individual, entity, or country prohibited by Export Laws; (b) to anyone on United States or non-United States government restricted parties lists; or (c) for any purpose prohibited by Export Laws, including nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, or missile technology applications without the required government authorizations. You will not use or download our Services if you are located in a restricted country, if you are currently listed on any United States or non-United States restricted parties list, or for any purpose prohibited by Export Laws, and you will not disguise your location through IP proxying or other methods.
Any amendment to or waiver of our Terms requires our express consent. You have the right to terminate your relationship with WhatsApp at any time by deleting your account.
We may amend or update these Terms. Unless otherwise required by law, we will provide you at least 30 days' notice of amendments to our Terms, which will give you the opportunity to review the revised Terms before continuing to use our Services. We will also update the "Last Modified" date at the top of our Terms. Changes to these Terms shall become effective no sooner than 30 days after we provide notice of planned changes. Please note that we may not be able to provide such notice for changes to these Terms that are required to address technical evolutions of our Services or for changes made for legal reasons, both of which will become effective immediately. Your continued use of our Services following the notice period of planned changes confirms your acceptance of our Terms, as amended. We hope you will continue using WhatsApp, but if you do not agree to our Terms, as amended, you must stop using our Services by deleting your account.
All of our rights and obligations under our Terms are freely assignable by us to any of our affiliates or in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your information to any of our affiliates, successor entities, or new owner. In the event of such an assignment, these Terms will continue to govern your relationship with such third party. We hope you will continue using WhatsApp, but if you do not agree to such an assignment, you must stop using our Services by deleting your account.
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from our Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of our Terms, and the remaining portion of our Terms will remain in full force and effect.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted by us to you. In certain jurisdictions, you may have legal rights as a consumer, and our Terms are not intended to limit such consumer legal rights that may not be waived by contract. Also, in certain jurisdictions, you may have legal rights as a data subject, and our Terms are not intended to limit such rights that may not be waived by contract.
We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about WhatsApp and our Services, but you understand that you have no obligation to provide feedback or suggestions and that we may use your feedback or suggestions without any obligation to compensate you for them.
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT CONTAINS ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE ONLY TO OUR UNITED STATES AND CANADA USERS. IF YOU ARE A WHATSAPP USER LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA, YOU AND WE AGREE TO SUBMIT ALL DISPUTES TO BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT INVOLVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES AND EXCEPT THOSE THAT CAN BE BROUGHT IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT. THIS MEANS YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE SUCH DISPUTES RESOLVED IN COURT BY A JUDGE OR JURY. THIS SECTION ALSO LIMITS THE TIME YOU HAVE TO BRING A CLAIM, INCLUDING THE TIME TO START AN ARBITRATION OR, IF PERMISSIBLE, A COURT ACTION. FINALLY, YOU MAY BRING A CLAIM ONLY ON YOUR OWN BEHALF, AND NOT ON BEHALF OF ANY OFFICIAL OR OTHER PERSON, OR CLASS OF PEOPLE. YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN, OR HAVE YOUR DISPUTE HEARD AND RESOLVED AS, A CLASS ACTION, A CLASS ARBITRATION, OR A REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
"Excluded Dispute" means any Dispute relating to the enforcement or infringement of your or our intellectual property rights (such as copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, trade secrets, and patents). For clarity and notwithstanding the foregoing, those Disputes relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with your rights of privacy and publicity are not Excluded Disputes.
Federal Arbitration Act. The United States Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this "Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users" section, including any question whether a Dispute between WhatsApp and you is subject to arbitration.
Agreement To Arbitrate For WhatsApp Users Located In The United States Or Canada. For WhatsApp users who live in the United States or Canada, WhatsApp and you each agree to waive the right to a trial by judge or jury for all Disputes, except for the Excluded Disputes. WhatsApp and you agree that all Disputes (except for the Excluded Disputes), including those relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with your rights of privacy and publicity, will be resolved through final and binding arbitration. WhatsApp and you agree not to combine a Dispute that is subject to arbitration under our Terms with a Dispute that is not eligible for arbitration under our Terms.
The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules in effect at the time the arbitration is started, including the Optional Rules for Emergency Measures of Protection and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes (together, the "AAA Rules"). The arbitration will be presided over by a single arbitrator selected in accordance with the AAA Rules. The AAA Rules, information regarding initiating a Dispute, and a description of the arbitration process are available at www.adr.org. The arbitrator will decide whether a Dispute can be arbitrated. The location of the arbitration and the allocation of fees and costs for such arbitration shall be determined in accordance with the AAA Rules.
Opt-Out Procedure. You may opt out of this agreement to arbitrate. If you do so, neither we nor you can require the other to participate in an arbitration proceeding. To opt out, you must notify us in writing postmarked within 30 days of the later of: (i) the date that you first accepted our Terms; and (ii) the date you became subject to this arbitration provision. You must use this address to opt out:
You must include: (i) your name and residence address; (ii) the mobile phone number associated with your account; and (iii) a clear statement that you want to opt out of our Terms' agreement to arbitrate.
Small Claims Court. As an alternative to arbitration, if permitted by your local "small claims" court's rules, you may bring your Dispute in your local "small claims" court, as long as the matter advances on an individual (non-class) basis.
Time Limit To Bring Claim. We and you agree that for any Dispute (except for the Excluded Disputes) we and you must bring claims (including commencing an arbitration proceeding) within one year after the Dispute first arose; otherwise, such Dispute is permanently barred. This means that if we or you do not bring a claim (including commencing an arbitration) within one year after the Dispute first arose, then the claim will be dismissed because it was started too late.
Severability. If the prohibition against class actions and other Disputes brought on behalf of third parties is found to be unenforceable for a Dispute, then all of the provisions above under the caption "Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users" will be null and void as to that Dispute.
Place To File Permitted Court Actions. If you opt out of the agreement to arbitrate, if your Dispute is an Excluded Dispute, or if the arbitration agreement is found to be unenforceable, you agree to be subject to the applicable provision in the "Dispute Resolution" section set forth above.
Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA. Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind.
If you live in a country in the European Economic Area (which includes the European Union), and any other included country or territory (collectively referred to as the European Region), your Services are provided by WhatsApp Ireland Limited ("WhatsApp Ireland"), which is also the data controller responsible for your information when you use our Services.
If you live in any other country, except those in the European Region, your Services are provided by WhatsApp Inc., which is also your data controller responsible for your information when you use our Services.
We are part of the Facebook Companies. Our Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") helps explain our information (including message) practices, including the information we process to support our Services. For example, we talk about what information we collect and how this affects you. We also explain the steps we take to protect your privacy - like building WhatsApp so delivered messages aren't stored and giving you control over who you communicate with on our Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to all of our Services unless specified otherwise.
Please also read WhatsApp's Terms of Service ("Terms"), which describes the terms under which you use our Services.
WhatsApp must receive or collect some information to operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services, including when you install, access, or use our Services. The types of information we receive and collect depend on how you use our Services.
Your Account Information. You provide your mobile phone number and basic information (including a profile name) to create a WhatsApp account. You provide us, all in accordance with applicable laws, the phone numbers in your mobile address book on a regular basis, including those of both the users of our Services and your other contacts. You may provide us an email address. You may also add other information to your account, such as a profile picture and about information.
Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Once your messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice messages, files, and share location information) are delivered, they are deleted from our servers. Your messages are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), we may keep it on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it. To improve performance and deliver media messages more efficiently, such as when many people are sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content on our servers for a longer period of time. We also offer end-to-end encryption for our Services, which is on by default, when you and the people with whom you message use a version of our app released after April 2, 2016. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them. Learn more about End-to-End Encryption and Businesses on WhatsApp.
Your Connections. To help you organize how you communicate with others, we may help you identify your contacts who also use WhatsApp, and you can create, join, or get added to groups and broadcast lists, and such groups and lists get associated with your account information. You give your groups a name. You may choose to provide a group profile picture or description.
Your Use Of Our Payments Services. If you use our payment services available in your country, we process purchase and transaction information as described in the applicable Payments Privacy Policy.
Usage And Log Information. We collect information about your activity on our Services, like service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This includes information about your activity (including how you use our Services, your Services settings, how you interact with others using our Services, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities and interactions), log files, and diagnostic, crash, website, and performance logs and reports. This also includes information about when you registered to use our Services, the features you use like our messaging, calling, Status, or groups features, profile photo, about information, whether you are online, when you last used our Services (your "last seen"), and when you last updated your about information.
Device And Connection Information. We collect device and connection-specific information when you install, access, or use our Services. This includes information like hardware model, operating system information, battery level, signal strength, app version, browser information, and mobile network, connection information including phone number, mobile operator or ISP, language and time zone, and IP, device operations information, and identifiers like device identifiers (including identifiers unique to Facebook Company Products associated with the same device or account).
Location Information. We collect device location information if you use our location features, like when you choose to share your location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app's location features. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP, GPS, Bluetooth signals, and information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers.
Cookies. We use cookies to operate and provide our Services, including to provide our Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services. For example, we use cookies to provide WhatsApp for web and desktop and other web-based services. We may also use cookies to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your choices, like your language preferences, to provide a safer experience, and otherwise to customize our Services for you. Learn more about how we use cookies to provide you our Services.
Information Others Provide About You. We receive information about you from other users and businesses. For example, when other users or businesses you know use our Services, they may provide your phone number, name, and other information (like information from their mobile address book or in the case of businesses, additional information about you such as unique identifiers), just as you may provide theirs, or they may send you a message, send messages to groups to which you belong, or call you. We require each of these users and businesses to have lawful rights to collect, use, and share your information before providing any information to us.
Businesses On WhatsApp. Businesses you interact with using WhatsApp provide us information about their interactions with you. A business on WhatsApp may also use another company to assist it in storing, reading, and responding to your messages on behalf of and in support of that business. Please note that when businesses use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services and their use of your information on those services.
Third-Party Service Providers. We work with third-party service providers and the Facebook Companies to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work with companies to distribute our apps, provide our infrastructure, delivery, and other systems, supply location, map, and places information, process payments, help us understand how people use our Services, market our Services, help you connect with businesses using our Services, conduct surveys and research for us, and help with customer service. These companies may provide us information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.
Third-Party Services. We allow you to use our Services in connection with third-party services and Facebook Company Products. If you use our Services with such third-party services or Facebook Company Products, we may receive information about you from them; for example, if you use the WhatsApp share button on a news service to share a news article with your WhatsApp contacts, groups, or broadcast lists on our Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a mobile carrier's or device provider's promotion of our Services. Please note that when you use third-party services or Facebook Company Products, their own terms and privacy policies will govern those services.
We use the information we have (subject to choices you make) to operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. Here's how:
Our Services. We use the information we have to operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people use our Services and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new services and features, and conduct troubleshooting activities. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.
Communications About Our Services And The Facebook Companies. We use the information we have to communicate with you about our Services and features and let you know about our terms and policies and other important updates. We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the Facebook Companies. Please see How You Exercise Your Rights for more information.
No Third-Party Banner Ads. We still do not allow third-party banner ads on WhatsApp. We have no intention to introduce them, but if we ever do, we will update this policy.
Measurement, Analytics, And Other Business Services. We help businesses who use WhatsApp measure the effectiveness and distribution of their services and messages, and understand how people interact with them on our Services.
Send Your Information To Those You Choose To Communicate With. You share your information (including messages) as you use and communicate through our Services.
Account Information. Your phone number, profile information, about information, last seen information, and receipts may be available to anyone who uses our Services, although you can configure your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users and businesses with whom you communicate.
Your Contacts And Others. Users and businesses with whom you communicate may store or reshare your information (including your phone number or messages) with others on and off our Services. You can use your Services settings and the block feature in our Services to manage the users of our Services with whom you communicate and certain information you share.
Businesses On WhatsApp. We help businesses who use WhatsApp measure the effectiveness and distribution of their services and messages, and understand how people interact with them on our Services.
Third-Party Service Providers. We work with third-party service providers and the Facebook Companies to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. When we share information with third-party service providers and the Facebook Companies in this capacity, we require them to use your information on our behalf in accordance with our instructions and terms.
Third-Party Services. When you use third-party services or Facebook Company Products that are integrated with our Services, they may receive information about what you share with them. For example, if you use a data backup service integrated with our Services (like iCloud or Google Drive), they will receive information you share with them. If you interact with a third-party service linked through our Services, you may be providing information directly to such third party. Please note that when you use third-party services or Facebook Company Products, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
We are part of the Facebook Companies. As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, the Facebook Companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings. This includes helping improve infrastructure and delivery systems, understanding how our Services or theirs are used, helping us provide a way for you to connect with businesses, and securing systems. We also share information to fight spam, threats, abuse, or infringement activities and promote safety and security across the Facebook Company Products. However, your WhatsApp messages will not be shared onto Facebook for others to see. In fact, Facebook will not use your WhatsApp messages for any purpose other than to assist us in operating and providing our Services.
Learn More about how WhatsApp works with the Facebook Companies.
We collect, use, and share the information we have as described above:
as necessary to fulfill our Terms;
consistent with your consent, which you can revoke at any time;
as necessary to comply with our legal obligations;
occasionally to protect your vital interests, or those of others;
as necessary in the public interest; and
as necessary for our (or others') legitimate interests, including our interests in providing an innovative, relevant, safe, and profitable service to our users and partners, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data. Learn More
How You Exercise Your Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation or other applicable local laws, you have the right to access, rectify, port, and erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. This includes the right to object to our processing of your information for direct marketing and the right to object to our processing of your information where we are performing a task in the public interest or pursuing our legitimate interests or those of a third party. You can access or port your information using our in-app Request Account Info feature (available under Settings > Account). You can access tools to rectify, update, and erase your information directly in-app as described in the Managing and Deleting Your Information section. If we process your information based on our legitimate interests or those of a third party, or in the public interest, you can object to this processing, and we will cease processing your information, unless the processing is based on compelling legitimate grounds or is needed for legal reasons. You can also object to our processing of your information and learn more about your options for restricting the way we use your information by going here. Where we use your information for direct marketing for our own Services, you can always object and opt out of future marketing messages using the unsubscribe link in such communications, or by using our in-app "Block" feature.
We store information until it is no longer necessary to provide our services, or until your account is deleted, whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the information, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs.
Changing Your Mobile Phone Number, Profile Name And Picture, And About Information. You must change your mobile phone number using our in-app change number feature and transfer your account to your new mobile phone number. You can also change your profile name, profile picture, and about information at any time.
We collect, use, preserve, and share your information if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond pursuant to applicable law or regulations, to legal process, or to government requests; (b) enforce our Terms and any other applicable terms and policies, including for investigations of potential violations; (c) detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our users, WhatsApp, the Facebook Companies, or others, including to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.
WhatsApp Ireland shares information globally, both internally within the Facebook Companies, and externally with our partners and with those you communicate around the world in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Information controlled by WhatsApp Ireland will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed, in the United States or other countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the Services set forth in our Terms and globally to operate and provide our Services to you. We utilize standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission, and may rely on the European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, for data transfers from the European Economic Area to the United States and other countries.
WhatsApp Inc. shares information globally, both internally within the Facebook Companies, and externally with businesses, service providers, and partners and with those you communicate with around the world. Your information may, for example, be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in the United States or other countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy.
We will notify you before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy before you choose to continue using our Services.
If You Are In The European Region
The Data Protection Officer for WhatsApp Ireland can be contacted here.
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us or write us here:
WhatsApp Ireland Limited
Attn: Privacy Policy
4 Grand Canal Square
Grand Canal Harbour
You have the right to lodge a complaint with WhatsApp Ireland's lead supervisory authority, The Irish Data Protection Commissioner, or your local supervisory authority.
If You Are Outside The European Region
Under European law, companies must have a legal basis to process data. You have particular rights available to you depending on which legal basis we use, and we've explained these below. You should know that no matter what legal basis applies, you always have the right to request access to, rectification of, and erasure of your data under the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). To exercise your rights, see our Privacy Policy under How You Exercise Your Rights.
For all people who have legal capacity to enter into an enforceable contract, we process data as necessary to perform our contracts with you (the Terms of Service, the "Terms"). We describe the contractual services for which this data processing is necessary in Our Services section of the Terms and in the additional informational resources accessible from our Terms. The core data uses necessary to provide our contractual services are:
To provide, improve, customize, and support our Services as described in "Our Services";
To promote safety and security;
To transfer, transmit, store, or process your data outside the EEA, including to within the United States and other countries; and
To communicate with you, for example, on Service-related issues.
These uses are explained in more detail in our Privacy Policy, under How We Use Information and Our Global Operations. We'll use the data we have to provide these services; if you choose not to provide certain data, the quality of your experience using WhatsApp may be impacted.
When we process data you provide to us as necessary to perform our contracts with you, you have the right to port it under the GDPR. To exercise your rights, visit How You Exercise Your Rights section of the Privacy Policy.
The other legal bases we rely on in certain instances when processing your data are:
For collecting and using information you allow us to receive through the device-based settings when you enable them (such as access to your GPS location, camera, or photos), so we can provide the features and services described when you enable the settings.
When we process data you provide to us based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and to port that data you provide to us, under the GDPR. To exercise your rights, visit your device-based settings, your in app-based settings like your in-app location control, and the How You Exercise Your Rights section of the Privacy Policy.
Our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, where not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms ("legitimate interests"):
For people under the age of majority (under 18, in most EU countries) who have a limited ability to enter into an enforceable contract only, we may be unable to process personal data on the grounds of contractual necessity. Nevertheless, when such a person uses our Services, it is in our legitimate interests:
To provide, improve, customize, and support our Services as described in Our Services;
To promote safety and security; and
The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:
To create, provide, support, and maintain innovative Services and features that enable people under the age of majority to express themselves, communicate, discover, and engage with information and businesses relevant to their interests, build community, and utilize tools and features that promote their well-being;
To secure our platform and network, verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences, and keep our Services and all of the Facebook Company Products free of harmful or inappropriate content, and investigate suspicious activity or violations of our terms or policies and to protect the safety of people under the age of majority, including to prevent exploitation or other harms to which such individuals may be particularly vulnerable.
For all people, including those under the age of majority:
For providing measurement, analytics, and other business services where we are processing data as a controller. The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:
To provide accurate and reliable reporting to businesses and other partners, to ensure accurate pricing and statistics on performance, and to demonstrate the value our partners realise using our Services; and
In the interests of businesses and other partners to help them understand their customers and improve their businesses, validate our pricing models, and evaluate the effectiveness and distribution of their services and messages, and understand how people interact with them on our Services.
For providing marketing communications to you. The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:
To promote Facebook Company Products and issue direct marketing.
To share information with others including law enforcement and to respond to legal requests. See our Privacy Policy under Law and Protection for more information. The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:
To prevent and address fraud, unauthorised use of the Facebook Company Products, violations of our terms and policies, or other harmful or illegal activity; to protect ourselves (including our rights, property or Products), our users or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.
To share information with the Facebook Companies to promote safety and security. See our Privacy Policy under "How We Work with Other Facebook Companies" for more information. The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:
To secure systems and fight spam, threats, abuse, or infringement activities and promote safety and security across the Facebook Company Products.
You have the right to object to, and seek restriction of, such processing; to exercise your rights, visit How You Exercise Your Rights section of the Privacy Policy.
We will consider several factors when assessing an objection including: our users' reasonable expectations; the benefits and risks to you, us, other users, or third parties; and other available means to achieve the same purpose that may be less invasive and do not require disproportional effort. Your objection will be upheld, and we will cease processing your information, unless the processing is based on compelling legitimate grounds or is needed for legal reasons.
If you are under the age of majority in your country and have a limited ability to enter an enforceable contract, we will take particular account of the fact that you are below the age of majority and adjust our assessment of our legitimate interests and the balancing of your interests and rights accordingly.
Compliance with a legal obligation:
For processing data when the law requires it, including, for example, if there is a valid legal request for certain data. See our Privacy Policy under Law and Protection for more information.
Protection of your vital interests or those of another person:
The vital interests we rely on for this processing include protection of your life or physical integrity or that of others, and we rely on it to combat harmful conduct and promote safety and security, for example, when we are investigating reports of harmful conduct or when someone needs help.
Tasks carried out in the public interest:
For undertaking research and to promote safety and security, as described in more detail in our Privacy Policy under How We Use Information, where this is necessary in the public interest as laid down by European Union law or Member State law to which we are subject.
When we process your data as necessary for a task carried out in the public interest, you have the right to object to, and seek restriction of, our processing. To exercise your rights, go to How You Exercise Your Rights section of the Privacy Policy. In evaluating an objection, we'll evaluate several factors, including: reasonable user expectations; the benefits and risks to you and third parties; and other available means to achieve the same purpose that may be less invasive and do not require disproportional effort.
Your objection will be upheld, and we will cease processing your information, unless the processing is based on compelling legitimate grounds or is needed for legal reasons.
মেধা সম্পত্তি নীতি: আপনার কপিরাইট এবং ট্রেডমার্ক
WhatsApp Inc. ("WhatsApp," "আমাদের," "আমরা,") মানুষ এবং প্রতিষ্ঠানের মেধা সম্পত্তির অধিকার রক্ষায় সহায়তা করতে প্রতিশ্রুতিবদ্ধ। আমাদের ব্যবহারকারীরা ইন্সটল, অ্যাক্সেস, অথবা আমাদের অ্যাপ, পরিষেবা, বৈশিষ্ট্য, সফটওয়ার অথবা ওয়েবসাইট (একত্রে, "পরিষেবাসমূহ") ব্যবহারের মাধ্যমে আমাদের পরিষেবার শর্তাদিতে সম্মত জ্ঞাপন করেন। আমাদের নীতি আমাদের ব্যবহারকারীদের আমাদের কোন পরিষেবা ব্যবহার করে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীর মেধা সম্পত্তি অধিকার, তাদের কপিরাইট ও ট্রেডমার্ক লঙ্ঘন করার অনুমতি দেয় না।
আমরা আমাদের পরিষেবা প্রদানের স্বাভাবিক প্রক্রিয়ায় আমাদের ব্যবহারকারীদের বার্তা রাখি না, যার আরও বিস্তারিত ব্যাখ্যা আমাদের নিরাপত্তা নীতিতে আছে। তবে, আমরা আমাদের ব্যবহারকারীদের অ্যাকাউন্টের তথ্য দিয়ে থাকি, যার মধ্যে আছে ব্যবহারকারীর প্রোফাইল ছবি, প্রোফাইলের নাম, অথবা স্থিতি বার্তা, যদি তারা সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়ে থাকে এসব তাদের অ্যাকাউন্ট তথ্যের সাথে যুক্ত করতে।
কপিরাইট বিধিলঙ্ঘন প্রতিবেদন করতে এবং WhatsApp কে এর কোন লঙ্ঘন করা বিষয়বস্তু (যেমন WhatsApp ব্যবহারকারীর প্রোফাইল ছবি, প্রোফাইল নাম, অথবা স্থিতি বার্তা) সরিয়ে ফেলতে অনুরোধ করতে অনুগ্রহ করে ip@whatsapp.com এ (নিম্নের সকল তথ্যগুলো সহ) একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ কপিরাইট বিধিলঙ্ঘন ক্লেইম ইমেইল করুন। আপনি WhatsApp এর এজেন্টের কাছেও পূর্ণাঙ্গ কপিরাইট বিধিলঙ্ঘন ক্লেইমের মেইল পাঠাতে পারেন:
কপিরাইট বিধিলঙ্ঘন ক্লেইম প্রতিবেদন করার আগে আপনি প্রাসঙ্গিক WhatsApp ব্যবহারকারীকেও বার্তা পাঠাতে পারেন। আপনি WhatsApp এর সাথে যোগাযোগ করা ছাড়াই হয়ত সমস্যাটির সমাধান করতে সক্ষম হতে পারেন।
ট্রেডমার্ক
ট্রেডমার্ক বিধিলঙ্ঘন প্রতিবেদন করতে এবং WhatsApp কে এর কোন লঙ্ঘন করা বিষয়বস্তু (যেমন WhatsApp ব্যবহারকারীর প্রোফাইল ছবি, প্রোফাইল নাম, অথবা স্থিতি বার্তা) সরিয়ে ফেলতে অনুরোধ করতে অনুগ্রহ করে ip@whatsapp.com এ (নিম্নের সকল তথ্যগুলো সহ) একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ কপিরাইট বিধিলঙ্ঘন ক্লেইম ইমেইল করুন।
ট্রেডমার্ক বিধিলঙ্ঘন ক্লেইম প্রতিবেদন করার আগে আপনি প্রাসঙ্গিক WhatsApp ব্যবহারকারীকেও বার্তা পাঠাতে পারেন। আপনি WhatsApp এর সাথে যোগাযোগ করা ছাড়াই হয়ত সমস্যাটির সমাধান করতে সক্ষম হতে পারেন।
আপনার কপিরাইট অথবা ট্রেডমার্ক বিধিলঙ্ঘন প্রতিবেদন ক্লেইম করতে যা যা যুক্ত করবেনঃ
অনুগ্রহ করে WhatsApp এ কপিরাইট অথবা ট্রেডমার্ক বিধিলঙ্ঘন প্রতিবেদন ক্লেইম করতে নিম্নের সকল তথ্যগুলো যুক্ত করুনঃ
আপনার পূর্ণাঙ্গ যোগাযোগের তথ্য (পুরো নাম, যোগাযোগের ঠিকানা, এবং ফোন নাম্বার)। লক্ষ্য করুন, আমরা প্রায়শই আপনার যোগাযোগের তথ্য যার মধ্যে আছে আপনার নাম এবং ইমেইল ঠিকানা (যদি দিয়ে থাকেন), আপনার প্রতিষ্ঠানের অথবা ক্লায়েন্টের নাম যে বা যা অধিকার সংরক্ষণ করে, এবং আপনার প্রতিবেদনের কন্টেন্ট, যার কন্টেন্ট আপনি প্রতিবেদন করছেন তাকে পাঠিয়ে থাকি। আপনি ইচ্ছা করলে আপনার পেশাদার অথবা ব্যবসার ইমেইল ঠিকানা আমাদের দিতে পারেন যেখানে আপনার সাথে যোগাযোগ করা যাবে।
কপিরাইট করা কাজ বা ট্রেডমার্ক, যা আপনি লঙ্ঘন হয়েছে বলে ক্লেইম করছেন তার বর্ণনা।
আমাদের পরিষেবায় থাকার কন্টেন্টের বর্ণনা যার কপিরাইট অথবা ট্রেডমার্ক আপনি লঙ্ঘন হয়েছে বলে ক্লেইম করছেন।
যুক্তিসঙ্গতভাবে পর্যাপ্ত তথ্য যা আমাদেরকে আমাদের পরিষেবায় উপাদান সনাক্ত করতে সাহায্য করবে। এটি করার সবথেকে সহজ উপায় হচ্ছে যে আমাদের পরিষেবায় কন্টেন্ট লঙ্ঘন করেছে তার ফোন নাম্বার আমাদেরকে দেওয়া।
ঘোষণা করা যে:
আপনি বিশ্বাস করেন যে উপরে বর্ণনা করা কপিরাইটকৃত বা ট্রেডমার্ককৃত কন্টেন্ট, যেভাবে আপনি অভিযোগ করেছেন তা কপিরাইট বা ট্রেডমার্ক এর স্বত্বাধিকারী, এজেন্ট বা আইনত অনুমোদিত নয়;
ক্লেইমে আপনার প্রদান করা তথ্য যথাযথ; এবং
আপনি শপথ করছেন, যে, আপনি একচেটিয়াভাবে লঙ্ঘনের দায়ে অভিযুক্ত কপিরাইট বা ট্রেডমার্কের স্বত্বাধিকারী অথবা স্বত্বাধিকারীর পক্ষে কাজ করার জন্য অনুমোদিত।
আপনার বৈদ্যুতিক স্বাক্ষর বা শারীরিক স্বাক্ষর।
কুকিস
কুকিস সম্পর্কে
কুকি হল একটি ছোট টেক্সট ফাইল যা ওয়েবসাইট পরিদর্শনের সময় ওয়েবসাইটটি আপনার ব্রাইজারকে আপনার কম্পিউটার বা মোবাইল ডিভাইসে সংরক্ষণ করে রাখতে বলে।
আমরা কুকি কিভাবে ব্যবহার করি
আমরা বুঝতে, নিরাপদ করতে, কাজ করতে ও আমাদের পরিষেবা আপনাদের কাছে পৌঁছে দিতে কুকিস ব্যবহার করি। উদাহরণস্বরূপ, আমরা কুকিস ব্যবহার করিঃ
ওয়েব, ডেস্কটপ ও অন্যান্য ওয়েব সম্পর্কিত পরিষেবার জন্য WhatsApp প্রদান করতে, আপনার অভিজ্ঞতা উন্নত করতে, আমাদের পরিষেবাগুলো কিভাবে ব্যবহৃত হচ্ছে তা বুঝতে এবং কাস্টমাইজ করতে;
আমাদের কোন প্রায়শ জিজ্ঞাসিত প্রশ্নাবলী সবথেকে জনপ্রিয় তা বুঝতে এবং আমাদের পরিষেবা সম্পর্কিত কন্টেন্টগুলো আপনাকে দেখাতে;
আপনার পছন্দগুলো মনে রাখতে, যেমন আপনার ভাষা পছন্দ, এবং আপনার জন্য করা আমাদের অন্যান্য কাস্টমাইজ করা পরিষেবা; এবং
জনপ্রিয়তার উপর ভিত্তি করে আমাদের ওয়েবসাইটে প্রায়শই জিজ্ঞাসিত প্রশ্নাবলী নির্ধারণ করা,ওয়েব সম্পর্কিত পরিষেবায় মোবাইল ব্যবহারকারী ও ডেস্কটপ ব্যবহারকারীর পার্থক্য বুঝা, অথবা আমাদের নির্দিষ্ট কিছু ওয়েব পেইজের জনপ্রিয়তা ও কার্যকারিতা বুঝা।
কুকিস নিয়ন্ত্রণ করবেন কিভাবে
আপনার কুকি সেটিংস পরিবর্তন করার জন্য ব্রাউজার বা ডিভাইস (সাধারণত "সেটিংস" বা "প্রেফারেন্স" এ পাওয়া যায়) দ্বারা প্রদত্ত নির্দেশাবলী অনুসরণ করতে পারেন। অনুগ্রহ করে লক্ষ্য করুন, যদি আপনি আপনার ব্রাউজার বা ডিভাইসের কুকি নিষ্ক্রিয় করেন তাহলে আমাদের কিছু বৈশিষ্ট্য ঠিকমত কাজ নাও করতে পারে।
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CO2 Emissions On The Rise For First Time In Four Years, UN Agency Warns
by: UN November 28 2018
A report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose again during 2018, highlighting the imperative for countries to deliver on the historic Paris Agreement to keep global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The report comes just days before the key UN climate change conference known as COP 24, taking place in Katowice, Poland, with the agency urging nations to triple their efforts to curb harmful emissions.
For all the ambitious climate action we’ve seen, governments need to move faster
The UNEP report comes hot on the heels of the watershed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming, which cautioned that emissions had to stop rising now, in order to keep temperature increases below 1.5°C, and reduce the risks for the well-being of the planet and its people.
“If the IPCC report represented a global fire alarm, this report is the arson investigation,” said UNEP’s Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya. “The science is clear; for all the ambitious climate action we’ve seen – governments need to move faster and with greater urgency. We’re feeding this fire while the means to extinguish it are within reach.”
Global emissions have reached historic levels.
Heat-trapping CO2 gas in the atmosphere is largely responsible for rising global temperatures, according to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence. UNEP’s 2018 Global Emissions Report, show global emissions have reached historic levels. Total annual greenhouse gases emissions, including from land-use change, reached a record high of 53.5 Gigatons in 2017, an increase of 0.7 compared with 2016. “In contrast, global GHG emissions in 2030 need to be approximately 25 per cent and 55 per cent lower than in 2017 to put the world on a least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to 2°C and 1.5°C respectively,” said the report.
What’s worse, the report notes that there is no sign of reversal of this trend and that only 57 countries (representing 60 per cent of global emissions) are on track to bridge their “emissions gap” – meaning the gap between where we are likely to be and where we need to be. Increased emissions and lagging action means the gap published in this year’s report is larger than ever.
Nations would need to triple their efforts on climate action
UNEP stresses that while 'surging momentum from the private sector' and 'untapped potential from innovation and green-financing' offer 'pathways' to bridge the emissions gap globally, the 'technical feasibility' of limiting global warming to 1.5°C 'is dwindling'.
The authors of the report note that nations would need to triple their efforts on climate action without further delay, in order to meet the 2°C-rise limit by mid-century. To meet the 1.5°C limit, they would have to quintuple their efforts. A continuation of current trends will likely result in global warming of around 3°C by the end of the century, with continued temperature rises after that, according to the report findings. “The kind of drastic, large-scale action we urgently need has yet to been seen,” said UNEP.
The report offers concrete ways for Governments to bridge their emissions gap, including through fiscal policy, innovative technology, non-state and subnational action, and more. This ninth UNEP emissions report has been prepared by an international team of leading scientists, assessing all available information. “When governments embrace fiscal policy measures to subsidize low-emission alternatives and tax fossil fuels, they can stimulate the right investments in the energy sector and significantly reduce carbon emissions,” said Jian Liu, UNEP’s Chief Scientist.
Global carbon emissions could be reduced by up to 10 per cent by 2030
"Thankfully, the potential of using fiscal policy as an incentive is increasingly recognized," said Dr. Liu, referring to the 51 initiatives already in place or planned across the world to charge for carbon emissions (called 'carbon pricing'). "If all fossil fuel subsidies were phased out, global carbon emissions could be reduced by up to 10 per cent by 2030," he added, explaining that "setting the right carbon price is also essential. At US$70 per ton of CO2, emission reductions of up to 40 per cent are possible in some countries."
The 2018 Global Emissions Report report adds yet another building block of scientific evidence to inform decision-making at the upcoming UN climate change conference – the COP 24 in Poland – which starts on Sunday and will last for two weeks. The key objective of the meeting will be to adopt an implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement.
By: news.un.org. Cover photo: Havard.udo
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A report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose again during 2018, highlighting the imperative for countries to deliver on the historic Paris Agreement to keep global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The report comes just days before the key UN climate change conference known as COP 24, taking place in Katowice, Poland, with the agency urging nations to triple their efforts to curb harmful emissions. {youtube} For all the ambitious climate action we’ve seen, governments need to move faster The UNEP report comes hot on the heels of the watershed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming, which cautioned that emissions had to stop rising now, in order to keep temperature increases below 1.5°C, and reduce the risks for the well-being of the planet and its people. “If the IPCC report represented a global fire alarm, this report is the arson investigation,” said UNEP’s Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya. “The science is clear; for all the ambitious climate action we’ve seen – governments need to move faster and with greater urgency. We’re feeding this fire while the means to extinguish it are within reach.” Global emissions have reached historic levels. Heat-trapping CO2 gas in the atmosphere is largely responsible for rising global temperatures, according to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence. UNEP’s 2018 Global Emissions Report, show global emissions have reached historic levels. Total annual greenhouse gases emissions, including from land-use change, reached a record high of 53.5 Gigatons in 2017, an increase of 0.7 compared with 2016. “In contrast, global GHG emissions in 2030 need to be approximately 25 per cent and 55 per cent lower than in 2017 to put the world on a least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to 2°C and 1.5°C respectively,” said the report. What’s worse, the report notes that there is no sign of reversal of this trend and that only 57 countries (representing 60 per cent of global emissions) are on track to bridge their “emissions gap” – meaning the gap between where we are likely to be and where we need to be. Increased emissions and lagging action means the gap published in this year’s report is larger than ever. Nations would need to triple their efforts on climate action UNEP stresses that while 'surging momentum from the private sector' and 'untapped potential from innovation and green-financing' offer 'pathways' to bridge the emissions gap globally, the 'technical feasibility' of limiting global warming to 1.5°C 'is dwindling'. The authors of the report note that nations would need to triple their efforts on climate action without further delay, in order to meet the 2°C-rise limit by mid-century. To meet the 1.5°C limit, they would have to quintuple their efforts. A continuation of current trends will likely result in global warming of around 3°C by the end of the century, with continued temperature rises after that, according to the report findings. “The kind of drastic, large-scale action we urgently need has yet to been seen,” said UNEP. The report offers concrete ways for Governments to bridge their emissions gap, including through fiscal policy, innovative technology, non-state and subnational action, and more. This ninth UNEP emissions report has been prepared by an international team of leading scientists, assessing all available information. “When governments embrace fiscal policy measures to subsidize low-emission alternatives and tax fossil fuels, they can stimulate the right investments in the energy sector and significantly reduce carbon emissions,” said Jian Liu, UNEP’s Chief Scientist. Global carbon emissions could be reduced by up to 10 per cent by 2030 "Thankfully, the potential of using fiscal policy as an incentive is increasingly recognized," said Dr. Liu, referring to the 51 initiatives already in place or planned across the world to charge for carbon emissions (called 'carbon pricing'). "If all fossil fuel subsidies were phased out, global carbon emissions could be reduced by up to 10 per cent by 2030," he added, explaining that "setting the right carbon price is also essential. At US$70 per ton of CO2, emission reductions of up to 40 per cent are possible in some countries." The 2018 Global Emissions Report report adds yet another building block of scientific evidence to inform decision-making at the upcoming UN climate change conference – the COP 24 in Poland – which starts on Sunday and will last for two weeks. The key objective of the meeting will be to adopt an implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. By: news.un.org. Cover photo: Havard.udo https://www.whatsorb.com/category/climate
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Harrowing last words of slain teen
by Greg Stolz
A CHEF has told how he held a dying, frightened teen in his arms after he was allegedly stabbed in the chest with a hunting knife outside a busy Surfers Paradise supermarket on Friday.
"He just said 'it hurts, it hurts … I don't want to die," a shaken Zac Saimoun said as he recounted the ordeal.
Jack Beasley
Parkwood teenager Jack Beasley, 17, was allegedly fatally stabbed and another teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was wounded in a fight with youths outside Surfers Paradise IGA about 8.15pm on Friday night.
Mr Saimoun, head chef and manager at Nicolini's Italian restaurant across Surfers Paradise Blvd from the shop, was clearing tables when he heard the fight erupt between about 10 males.
He said he dropped plates, leapt a barrier and ran across the road to help after Jack, who graduated from Pacific Pines State High School this year, was left for dead.
"I just heard the commotion and looked over - there was a big bunch of blokes wrestling and grabbing each other's T-shirts and some punches," Mr Saimoun said.
"Then everyone bailed, scattered.
"I saw one fellow clutching his chest and blood on his hands. I just ran over and helped him as best as I could.
"Everyone had left him, pretty much. I didn't realise he'd been stabbed until I've seen all the blood when I got over there.
"I just kept the pressure on his wound and tried my best and started some CPR once he died. He went and he was gone … I gave him a bit of CPR and he came back.
"Then he went (died) again about five minutes later. The ambulance seemed to take forever."
Zac Saimoun, 33, head chef and manager of Nicolini's, performed CPR on Jack Beasley after he was stabbed. Picture: Liam Kidston.
Mr Saimoun said he tried to keep Jack conscious and offered to call his mum.
"I knew it was pretty bad and I didn't think he was going to make it," he said. "I just feel for the family. It's a tragedy, man. Some little sh-- has done this and probably jumped on the tram back to Brisbane. The cops told me they have a heap of trouble with kids coming down from Brisbane."
Police said they were hunting a group from Logan, some of whom were believed to have arrived by tram.
Late yesterday after images circulated of the youths police wanted to speak to, three teenage males attended Beenleigh police station.
Last night a 15-year-old Waterford boy was charged with murder and acting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
As tributes flowed, shattered family and friends gathered at Jack's Parkwood home yesterday to comfort his parents, Brett and Belinda.
"They're too devastated to talk - there's nothing more tragic than losing a child," a woman at the house said.
Mr Beasley yesterday changed his Facebook profile to a photo of him and the boy, first posted two years ago.
Friends of murder victim Jack Beasley gather to pay their respects at the scene of the tragedy outside the Surfers Paradise IGA. Picture: Liam Kidston.
Yesterday a large group of Jack's friends converged on the scene of the tragedy to pay their respects.
Weeping and hugging, they laid flowers where he was stabbed and wrote tributes on paper taped to a shop window as upbeat Christmas tunes rang out from a neighbouring business.
"We love you. always have, always will," one friend wrote.
"You are a bright light in a lot of people's lives. Thank you for being you in a world full of crazy. We will miss you forever and always xx."
The Helensvale Hornets junior rugby league club, where Jack had played footy and his mum was a long-serving treasurer, also paid tribute on its Facebook page.
"He was a fantastic kid loved by all that knew him. We are absolutely devastated and lost for words. RIP Jack," the club wrote.
An impromptu memorial was also held by students at Pacific Pines State High School.
Flowers, handwritten notes and other items left by Jack’s friends. Picture: Liam Kidston.
A GoFundMe page was set up by family friend Natasha Evans to raise money for the Beasley family, with almost $7000 donated within hours.
"It is with a very heavy heart that I need to share that our beloved Beasley family have lost one of their own," Ms Evans wrote.
"The boys were attacked in Surfers Paradise, resulting in Jack being taken from our lives...
Jack Beasley (right) with dad Brett. Picture: Facebook
"(The parents) are experiencing unimaginable pain as they grieve this terrible tragedy so please respect their privacy at this time.
"They will let everyone know when ready.
"Nothing will ever replace this precious life that was taken from us too early but all we can do is assist them financially, no matter how small the donation."
The other boy remained in Gold Coast University Hospital with stab wounds to the chest and back but police said they had been able to speak with him about the incident.
Detective Acting Inspector Mark Procter said the groups involved in the fatal fight were not believed to have known each other.
"We believe words were exchanged before they got to Surfers Paradise Blvd," he said.
Insp Procter appealed for witnesses, particularly those with footage.
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Aspiring Stripper’s Guide to Brisbane Strip Clubs
January 11, 2018 March 22, 2019 Jack Comment(0)
Many may not consider working in strip clubs Brisbane has to be decent in every sense of the word, but it is still a good-paying job.
So what if the profession is in the adult industry? Many men and women made a career out of it and lived to tell an interesting story or two.
What is even better is that adult entertainment is heavily regulated.
In fact, strip clubs have had their share of licence stripping after getting caught breaking adult entertainment laws. There are also specific rules and regulations that ensure the safety of strippers.
Sex is not part of the job either since stripping is not prostitution.
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In high-end clubs, managers are firm but fair. No male or female stripper is mistreated, abused, or cheated out of their pay. Strippers are given the same kind of treatment as the rest of the staff with no crude comments on the side.
Touching may be allowed in Queensland but that’s how far the rules loosen up. If patrons start acting nasty or rowdy, they will be kicked out without question.
It has been known to happen, however, when a high-paying client gets away with everything. If this is the case, time to switch employment. With plenty of other strip clubs Brisbane has, anyone can easily get another gig.
It’s a strip club, with neon lights and great music! No other job has that kind of work environment. Compared to working in an office, you work and have fun at the same time in an adult lounge. It’s also one of the few workplaces where dancing and drinking are allowed.
And don’t get me started on the work clothes.
For a woman who wants to dress sexy and with as little fabric as possible while working, a strip club is the perfect place to be.
A job much different from others
Most professions are serious and stressful that professionals have to hit a club or go somewhere fun to de-stress and relax.
A stripper, on the other hand, is working in a place where a lot of people go for stress relief and to work out the day’s worries.
It is like strippers are doing things backward where a job is concerned and it’s fun and unique.
Good tip, great income
How much a stripper earns greatly depends on where she works. Some clubs give dancers 65% of every dance to take home. A 10-minute dance, for example, lets a stripper earn $50, a 30-minute dance for $110, and an hour’s dance for $195.
And they can earn that every night and more than once in one night during peak days.
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Catwalk Puts On a Show
Innovations abound on Baron's new 133.
GO FOR A STROLL: Instead of side decks at the main level, there is a "catwalk" on the upper deck that connects the subathing and whirlpool areas.
If KaiserWerft, the German builder of the Baron line of custom motoryachts, set out to explore the two extremes of yacht design, Ocean of Love and Catwalk would appear to be at opposite ends of the spectrum. But looks can be deceiving. Two years ago, when the firm debuted its second large yacht, the 102-foot Ocean of Love displayed some of the most curvaceous lines ever to grace a motoryacht superstructure. This year's delivery, the 133-foot Catwalk, has deck lines that are starkly straight in profile. Beyond this obvious, but largely superficial difference, however, the two yachts share a great deal.
When I visited Ocean of Love in Monte Carlo, I was immediately taken with her innovative split-level floor plan, which included a raised dining room, lying just forward of her pilothouse. As I sat at the spacious table and shared refreshments with the Baron folks, I couldn't help but marvel at what a wonderful difference a little extra height and a broad span of panoramic windows made. The view of Monaco's harbor and hills was magnificent, and my mind soon wandered to images of other venues that the yacht would likely visit. This room was sure to become a favorite of every guest.
The newest Baron, Catwalk, not only shares that great design feature; it also takes it a step further. The raised room is still fitted for dining, with a large split-circle table and a matching banquette all around, but this time it serves double duty as an observation lounge as well. The forward windows, raked well aft on Ocean of Love, are vertical on Catwalk, in keeping with her modernist profile, and enable a clearer view of the world ahead.
Catwalk also shares Ocean of Love's full-beam deckhouse, with no side decks at the main deck level. Instead, the full-length side decks are on the upper deck level. These "catwalks that give the yacht her name also give the captain a great view over the side while docking and provide easy access to the foredeck for the crew as well.
The catwalks also enable the guests to move easily from the sunbathing areas forward to the whirlpool spa that anchors the upper aft deck. Built into the aft-deck bulwark at centerline, the spa is flanked by a large sunpad to port, with open deck space for lounge chairs. There are two sunbathing areas forward: One is built into the cabin top just forward of the dining/observation lounge and is the larger of the two, and includes a folding cabana to protect guests from breezes and sun when desired; the second sunbathing area is a few steps down on the foredeck and consists of two U-shaped settees, facing each other so a table can be put into place for alfresco dining.
Just abaft the pilothouse is a space that normally would be used as a skylounge. However, since the observation lounge forward already serves this purpose, this cabin has been outfitted as what KaiserWerft terms an "owner's penthouse. Master staterooms on yachts of this size are normally situated forward on the main deck, and Catwalk is no exception. When the weather gets rough, however, this is not the most comfortable spot for sleeping because of the exaggerated rolling and pitching motions.
Theoretically, most owners aren't aboard for rough passages. This doesn't always hold true, however, and the penthouse, with a convertible single/double berth, will be a welcome refuge for sleeping when Mother Nature kicks it up a notch. It can also be used as a small spare bedroom, secondary lounge or an owner's private study.
In good weather, or when anchored or moored, the master stateroom forward on the main deck will serve the owners quite nicely. It has a king berth, and dressers line the port and starboard hullsides. The bath has twin lavatories and a spacious shower, and the head and bidet are located in a private compartment off the adjacent dressing area. Three hanging lockers and another dresser sit behind the berth's headboard, providing ample clothing stowage for extended cruises.
The view from the master stateroom rivals that of the upper observation lounge, with a three-panel skylight, spacious side windows and a semicircular array of vertical forward windows. In fact, another observation area, a small private one for the owners, lies at the top of a short spiral stair, reminiscent of a nautilus, built into the forward end of the stateroom.
Catwalk will primarily be boarded from the stern, but there's a spacious entrance lobby to starboard, just abaft the master stateroom. Nothing unusual there, except it's located directly under the observation lounge, recessed a few steps down to assure ample headroom. This places the side gangway at a more convenient height for boarding when moored alongside.
The offset in the main deck height also makes a nice physical differentiation from both the master stateroom and the saloon, rendering this lobby a private little world of its own. That's important, because it is another part of the yacht that does double duty. There's an L-shaped dinette here, similar to ones found on many smaller family yachts, that can be used for informal dining when the guest list is short.
Abaft the lobby is a day head, and to port is the galley that includes a bar for the crew to grab a quick snack (the main crew mess is below, aft of the engineroom). There's also a stairway adjacent to the galley that leads directly up to the dining/observation lounge. The galley is outfitted with a full set of Miele appliances, from the range and oven to the steamer and coffeemaker.
The saloon, up a few steps from the entrance lobby, spans Catwalk's full beam and thus has room for several separate areas. To starboard is a large conversation area, with a spacious L-settee and several loose chairs. Two swivel lounge chairs are situated to port for TV viewing, and a wet bar is located in the aft corner of the saloon, matched and in line with another on the open aft deck, just through the curved glass doors that form the saloon's aft bulkhead.
The guest accommodations, belowdecks and forward of the engineroom, are reached via two stairways down from the entrance lobby. The forward stair leads to a pair of guest staterooms that are fitted with convertible berths, changeable from twins to queens as sleeping requirements demand. The aft stair serves the two VIP staterooms, each fitted with queen berths as well as sofas, hullside vanities and more spacious baths than the forward staterooms have.
The crew accommodations are split fore and aft. Forward are the captain's and a steward's cabin, each with head and shower. Aft are two engineer/mate cabins, each with upper and lower twin berths, which share two heads and showers. There's also a crew mess, with seating for four, in the aft crew area. A RIB garage is also built into this area, with the boat launching across a swim platform that folds out of the transom.
There is no question Catwalk is an unusual yacht. Her modernist profile will appeal to some, not to others, but the flexibility of her guest-friendly arrangement will find many fans-and probably a few imitators as well. Baron has two more yachts under construction, both slightly longer at 138 feet. The next, Great White, is scheduled for delivery in August. She has an arrangement similar to Catwalk's, but the curves of her profile are more reminiscent of Ocean of Love. The following yacht, The Kaiser, is of a different design, still modernist but with a lower profile and revised arrangement plan.
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Dozens of animals killed in zoo fire after sky lanterns seen nearby
Yahoo News UK• January 1, 2020
Firefighters stand in front of the burning monkey house at Krefeld Zoo, in Krefeld, Germany. (Alexander Forstreuter/dpa via AP)
A fire at German zoo has killed more than 30 animals, including apes, monkeys, bats and birds.
The fire, which police believe may have been caused by sky lanterns launched to celebrate the New Year, took place in the first minutes of 2020 this morning.
Krefeld Zoo - which is north of Dusseldorf - said the ape house burned down completely and animals including five orangutans, two gorillas, a chimpanzee and several monkeys, as well as birds and fruit bats, died.
“We have to seriously work through the mourning process,” zoo director Wolfgang Dressen said, adding that his animal handlers are in shock.
“This is an unfathomable tragedy.”
Witnesses said they saw cylindrical paper lanterns with small fires inside flying in the night sky nearby, according to Krefeld’s head of criminal police Gerd Hoppman.
“People reported seeing those sky lanterns flying at low altitude near the zoo and then it started burning,” Mr Hoppmann said.
Police and firefighters were called to the blaze at 12.38am local time.
The burnt down monkey house after the fire. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa (Photo by Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Two chimpanzees were rescued by firefighters, having suffered burns. They are in a stable condition, according Mr Dressen.
“It’s close to a miracle that Bally, a 40-year-old female chimpanzee, and Limbo, a younger male, survived this inferno,” he said.
He added that many of the dead animals were close to extinction in the wild.
A gorilla garden, which is near the ape house, was spared from the fire. Gorilla Kidogo and six members of his family group are alive.
Use of sky lanterns is illegal in Krefeld and other parts of Germany.
Mr Hoppman urged the people who launched them or witnesses to come forward to police.
He added that some of the white paper lanterns, which measured 34cm long, had not burned up entirely and some had handwritten notes inside.
Krefeld Zoo, which opened in 1975, attracts some 400,000 visitors annually.
Mr Hoppmann said investigators found some used lanterns on the ground that had not burned entirely.
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Spot News, 1st prize
A hostage is executed on hijacked train no. 734, near Wijster in The Netherlands. A group of South Moluccans hijacked the train. appealing to the Dutch government to press for an independent state for their people in Indonesia. Their parents, many of whom fought on the side of the ruling Dutch during Indonesia's war of independence between 1945 and 1949, left Indonesia for fear of reprisals. For about 25 years they lived in temporary camps, often in poor conditions. They hoped to return but were gradually integrated into Dutch society. Currently some 40,000 South Moluccans live in the Netherlands. Photographer Jan Stappenbeld was present at the World Press Photo press conference on 4 March 1976 in the Amsterdam Hilton hotel, where the winners of the 1976 contest were announced. When Plug journalist Aloys Ginjaar asked Stappenbeld if he was happy with his prize he said surprised: ‘Happy? Ofcourse I am not happy. I think it is horrible that acts of violence, such as the one I photographed, still happen in our world, even in our country. But I am a press photographer and my boss tells me to come back with news pictures. If news means the hijacking of a train, I cannot do much else than showing pictures of this. I would be a bad photojournalist if would not press the button if I encountered something that is worth photographing.’
A hostage is executed on hijacked train no. 734, near Wijster in the Netherlands. A group of South Moluccans hijacked the train, appealing to the Dutch government to press for an independent state for their people in Indonesia. Their parents, many of whom fought on the side of the ruling Dutch during Indonesia's war of independence between 1945 and 1949, left Indonesia for fear of reprisals. For about 25 years they lived in temporary camps, often in poor conditions. They hoped to return but were gradually integrated into Dutch society. Currently some 40,000 South Moluccans live in the Netherlands. Photographer Jan Stappenbeld was present at the World Press Photo press conference on 4 March 1976 in the Amsterdam Hilton hotel, where the winners of the 1976 contest were announced. When Plug journalist Aloys Ginjaar asked Stappenbeld if he was happy with his prize he said surprised: ‘Happy? Ofcourse I am not happy. I think it is horrible that acts of violence, such as the one I photographed, still happen in our world, even in our country. But I am a press photographer and my boss tells me to come back with news pictures. If news means the hijacking of a train, I cannot do much else than showing pictures of this. I would be a bad photojournalist if would not press the button if I encountered something that is worth photographing.’
A hostage is executed on hijacked train no. 734 near Wijster in the Netherlands. A group of South Moluccans hijacked the train, appealing to the Dutch government to press for an independent state for their people in Indonesia. Their parents, many of whom fought on the side of the ruling Dutch during Indonesia's war of independence between 1945 and 1949, left Indonesia for fear of reprisals. For about 25 years they lived in temporary camps, often in poor conditions. They hoped to return but were gradually integrated into Dutch society. Currently some 40,000 South Moluccans live in the Netherlands. Photographer Jan Stappenbeld was present at the World Press Photo press conference on 4 March 1976 in the Amsterdam Hilton hotel, where the winners of the 1976 contest were announced. When Plug journalist Aloys Ginjaar asked Stappenbeld if he was happy with his prize he said surprised: ‘Happy? Ofcourse I am not happy. I think it is horrible that acts of violence, such as the one I photographed, still happen in our world, even in our country. But I am a press photographer and my boss tells me to come back with news pictures. If news means the hijacking of a train, I cannot do much else than showing pictures of this. I would be a bad photojournalist if would not press the button if I encountered something that is worth photographing.’
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Queen Elizabeth gets candid about her coronation
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth speaks publicly for the first time about her 1953 coronation.Get the full story in the video below.
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Video of dancing police officer goes viral
Officer Sean Bulow decided to bust a few moves while volunteering for the Salvation Army Red Kettle drive
Updated: 9:52 AM EST Dec 11, 2016
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A video of a dancing Tennessee police officer is making the rounds on the internet. Officer Sean Bulow with the Cleveland, Tenn. Police Department made quite an impression with shoppers while he volunteered for the Salvation Army outside a local Walmart. The police and local Sheriff’s department made a friendly wager to see which department could raise more money for the Salvation Army. Officer Bulow wasn’t afraid to break it down to show his dedication to the cause. And it seems his strategy paid off. CNN reports the police department raised $1,141.06 in just a few hours. The video of Officer Bulow dancing is closing in on 1,000,000 views on the Cleveland Police Department Facebook page.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. —
A video of a dancing Tennessee police officer is making the rounds on the internet. Officer Sean Bulow with the Cleveland, Tenn. Police Department made quite an impression with shoppers while he volunteered for the Salvation Army outside a local Walmart.
The police and local Sheriff’s department made a friendly wager to see which department could raise more money for the Salvation Army. Officer Bulow wasn’t afraid to break it down to show his dedication to the cause.
And it seems his strategy paid off. CNN reports the police department raised $1,141.06 in just a few hours.
The video of Officer Bulow dancing is closing in on 1,000,000 views on the Cleveland Police Department Facebook page.
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Companies say IoT matters but vary on how to secure it
An IDC survey shows a majority of enterprises consider IoT strategic to their future
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A majority of enterprises say the internet of things is strategic to their business, but most still take a piecemeal approach to IoT security.
Those results from a global IDC survey conducted in July and August reveal both the promise and the growing pains of IoT, a set of technologies that may help many industries but can’t simply be plugged in. The 27-country survey had more than 4,500 respondents, all from organizations with 100 or more employees.
For 56 percent of enterprises, IoT is part of their strategic plans for the next two or three years, IDC analyst Carrie MacGillivray said on a webcast about the results. But the state of adoption varies widely among industries. Manufacturing companies are investing the most in the technology, with retail and financial services – especially insurance – also on the cutting edge.
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Governments, health-care companies and utilities are moving more slowly, IDC says. One reason is the work of making sure these new systems comply with regulations, especially in health care. And despite vendors heavily promoting “smart cities” filled with countless integrated IoT systems, most governments have only deployed point solutions so far, MacGillivray said.
Overall, their biggest challenges in deploying IoT revolved around security and privacy. But most are taking an “ad hoc” approach to security, doing things like securing individual devices using firewalls. However, 23 percent said they are integrating security processes into their IoT workflow. No single approach has won out yet, MacGillivray said.
Finding people with the right job skills is another thing that makes IoT difficult, respondents said. That's a pain point especially in terms of crunching all the data that flows in from the new systems.
Also, most enterprises haven’t taken advantage of edge computing, which may be one of the most important parts of IoT, according to IDC. A majority of organizations that have deployed IoT devices just use them to collect data and send it to the cloud or a data center for processing.
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That’s not the best way to use IoT, MacGillivray said. Deep analysis of long-term data sets can yield insights, but real-time monitoring can allow IoT systems to take corrective action in case of failures or hazardous conditions. This requires some computing at the edge in IoT devices or gateways.
“The faster you process the data, the more valuable it becomes,” MacGillivray said. Doing analysis at the edge also reduces the need for network bandwidth to get data to the cloud.
Big vendors like Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM and Intel are pushing edge computing, but most IoT users apparently aren’t using it yet. However, 43 percent do at least some processing at the edge, the survey said.
IDC also said most adopters of IoT so far are using it internally to improve their operations and get products and services to market more quickly. Fewer are using IoT in ways that their customers actually see. This echoes a Gartner survey conducted late last year, which found only 40 percent of enterprises with IoT were using it to boost revenue or give customers a better experience. That report predicted a shift in 2016 toward externally focused deployments, but IDC’s numbers suggest that move may be happening more slowly.
Stephen Lawson is a senior U.S. correspondent for the IDG News Service based in San Francisco.
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Community News and Notes Community briefs and calendar for the local area Check out this story on zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: https://ohne.ws/2zJiUUO
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Kellie Brown, superintendent of Muskingum County Board of Developmental Disabilities Starlight Programs recently received a $1,200 check from Ted Paul and Mark Hill of the Knights of Columbus Council 505’s Measure Up Program.(Photo: Submitted)
Locals attend Marietta College
MARIETTA - Several local students have started classes this fall at Marietta College.
They include Tyler Cowgill, Kendyl Hatfield, Emily Kinney, Blake Wilfong, Tess Nicholas and Caleb Craig of Zanesville; Dylan Curtis, Taiylor Williamson and Colton Neptune of New Concord; Claudia Freuh and Alyssa Shawger of Nashport; Jensen Greer of McConnelsville; Jackie Huhn of Cumberland; Booklyn Oliver of Dresden; Anna Priest of Frazeysburg; and Morgan White of Malta.
Students graduate Columbus State, named to dean’s list
COLUMBUS - Brianna Bice of Dresden, Alex N. Lawyer of Glenford, Sarah L. Davis of Thornville and Cain A. Ruby and Catherine N. Aponte of Zanesville graduated from Columus State Community College during the summer semester.
Named to the dean’s list for the summer semester were Chantel Johns of New Lexington, Cody Mack of Norwich, Sarah Paisley of Zanesville and Sarah Davis, Hannah Luft, Leslie Smith and Laura White of Thornville.
Art museum elects board members
ZANESVILLE - Blair Tom, Susan Hasseler, Sarah Gormley, Danielle Barry and Melanie Klotzbach were all recently named to the Board of Directors of the Zanesville Museum of Art.
The 17-member board is comprised of community members and is responsible for the museum’s continued growth.
Zane State installs trustees, honors Knight
ZANESVILLE - Geraldine Zylinsky and John W. Knight were reinstalled as trustees to the board of trustees at Zane State College for three-year terms.
Zylinksy was appointed by the governor’s office and has been on the board since 2003. Knight was appointed to the board by local caucus and has been on the board since 2002.
Knight has also been awarded Director Emeritus status with the Zane State College Foundation Board of Directors. He served on that board from 1984 to 2002, being the chair from 1998 to 2002. He received the Ohio Association of Community Colleges’ Maureen C. Grady Award for Special Achievement in 2012.
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CORNING - A craft bazaar will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at Miller High School, 10397 Ohio 155, Corning.
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Auction at healthcare center
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Donations will go to the residents Christmas fund. Call 740-342-5161 for more information.
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Old Lash High School Class of 1951 Luncheon 11:30 a.m., Golden Corral, 3761 Northpointe Drive, Zanesville.
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The All Ohio Contemporary Ceramics 2018 Biennial 5-10 p.m., also noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, PSZ Clay Center, 952 E. Main St., Zanesville. Works to be judged by Sherrie Hawk, Christian Johnson, Patrick Doust and Richard North. Meet the artists and buy original ceramic pieces.
Pancake Breakfast 7-11 a.m., Masonic Hall, Main St., Norwich. Cost is a donation.
Zanesville Farmers Market 9 a.m.-noon, Muskingum County Fairgrounds, 1300 Pershing Road, Zanesville.
Guided Gallery Sketch Hour 10-11 a.m., Zanesville Art Center, 620 Military Road, Zanesville. $7 for non-members. Sketch directly from work in the different galleries.
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Microsoft Is Keeping Paint Program For Now
Posted by zentekds On May 14, 2019
Back in July 2017, Microsoft created a bit of an uproar when they released a build of Windows 10 that promoted their new Paint 3D app.
Paired with the new arrival was an announcement that the classic Windows Paint program would be deprecated and ultimately removed from the OS in subsequent versions.
Paint has been part of the Windows ecosystem and landscape since the very beginning. It has little to recommend it, featuring only the most basic of functionality and a skimpy set of features. Given that, the company was amazed at the outcry from the user community when the announcement was made.
Despite its many shortcomings, it turns out that the little program was much loved, and its diehard core of users rabidly defended it. As a result, the company gave MS Paint a stay of execution, but insisted that the day would inevitably come when the program would be no more.
The company's stay of execution took the form of leaving paint, but each time a user opened it, they'd receive a message in the form of a pop-up box that read: "Product alert: Paint will soon be moving to the Microsoft Store. Don't worry; it will still be free to download once it moves there."
That was the situation for more than a year, but then, the message suddenly vanished. This renewed concerns that the aging program might be back on the chopping block.
Microsoft recently confirmed, however, that for the time being, Paint isn't going anywhere. They reaffirmed that if and when it is removed from the OS, it will still be freely available as a download. If you're a fan or even an occasional user of MS Paint, that's good news. Say what you will, but the venerable program certainly has staying power.
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UK Begins Preparations For Grexit
As recently as two years ago, even the merest hint that any entity was preparing for what then was unthinkable, namely the Greek exit from the Eurozone, was enough to get one burned at the stake. After all, recall what happened when none other than the head of the ECB lied on the record to Zero Hedge, saying there is no Plan B for an ex-Greece Eurozone (even if he was technically right: Europe defined it as "Plan Z").
Now, supposedly just because the ECB started monetizing about 100% of German gross Bund issuance two weeks ago (and monetizing debt all across the Eurozone for as long as said Eurozone exists: at this rate it may not be too long) "things are different", and no longer is it taboo to either incite bank runs in Greece (in fact it is encouraged as both the ECB, Germany and S&P have tried to do in the past week), but outright discussions about preparation for a Grexit are a daily occurrence.
From the WSJ:
The U.K. government is stepping up contingency planning to prepare for a possible Greek exit from the eurozone and the market instability such a move would create, U.K. Treasury chief George Osborne said on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the Treasury declined comment on the details of the contingency planning.
The U.K. government has said the standoff between Greece’s new antiausterity government and the eurozone is increasing the risks to the global and U.K. economy.
“That’s why I’m going tomorrow to the G-20 [Group of 20] to encourage our partners to resolve this crisis. It’s why we’re stepping up the contingency planning here at home,” Mr. Osborne told the BBC in an interview. “We have got to make sure we don’t, at this critical time when Britain is also facing a critical choice, add to the instability abroad with instability at home.”
Then again, judging by Tsipras' historic fire and brimstone speech in parliament, in which he just threw up all over the Eurozone ultimatum, and rejected all European demands for Syriza to concede any/all of its demands and is instead sticking to his party line and showing the world how "going all-in" is really done, the UK probably has good reason for its preparations. As of this moment it is not alone.
There are only two questions now: whether the ECB, the SNB and the BIS will be able to buy up all the Euros that will suddenly be put for sale, just to show the world how any fears of Grexit contagion are contained... if only by a central bank whose political capital, as we pointed out earlier, just ran out with what now appears to be the first Eurozone exit: an even that as recently as a year ago was absolutely unthinkable.
And question #2: what time does the Kremlin provide its own term sheet for a Greek bridge loan. Of particular interest: what currency and what interest rate.
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Can erosions on MRI of the sacroiliac joints be reliably detected in patients with ankylosing spondylitis? - A cross-sectional study
Weber, Ulrich; Pedersen, Susanne J; Ostergaard, Mikkel; Rufibach, Kaspar; Lambert, Robert Gw; Maksymowych, Walter P (2012). Can erosions on MRI of the sacroiliac joints be reliably detected in patients with ankylosing spondylitis? - A cross-sectional study. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 14(3):R124.
INTRODUCTION: Erosions of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) on pelvic radiographs of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are an important feature of the modified New York classification criteria. However, radiographic SIJ erosions are often difficult to identify. Recent studies have shown that erosions can be detected also on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the SIJ early in the disease course before they can be seen on radiography. The goals of this study were to assess the reproducibility of erosion and related features, namely, extended erosion (EE) and backfill (BF) of excavated erosion, in the SIJ using a standardized MRI methodology. METHODS: Four readers independently assessed T1-weighted and short tau inversion recovery sequence (STIR) images of the SIJ from 30 AS patients and 30 controls (15 patients with non-specific back pain and 15 healthy volunteers) ≤45 years old. Erosions, EE, and BF were recorded according to standardized definitions. Reproducibility was assessed by percentage concordance among six possible reader pairs, kappa statistics (erosion as binary variable) and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) (erosion as sum score) for all readers jointly. RESULTS: SIJ erosions were detected in all AS patients and six controls by ≥2 readers. The median number of SIJ quadrants affected by erosion recorded by four readers in 30 AS patients was 8.6 in the iliac and 2.1 in the sacral joint portion (P < 0.0001). For all 60 subjects and for all four readers, the kappa value for erosion was 0.72, 0.73 for EE, and 0.63 for BF. ICC for erosion was 0.79, 0.72 for EE, and 0.55 for BF, respectively. For comparison, the kappa and ICC values for bone marrow edema were 0.61 and 0.93, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Erosions can be detected on MRI to a comparable degree of reliability as bone marrow edema despite the significant heterogeneity of their appearance on MRI.
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The Police Are Not Animals*
Posted on December 11, 2014 by You Monsters Are People
I’ve heard that the best strategy when dealing with the police is to “remain silent and stand still.” That’s the kind of advice you’d give someone to avoid being attacked by a bear. The police aren’t killer sharks or poisonous snakes and we should not have to deal with them as a potential liability or natural hazard to be coped with. If the police aren’t making you feel safer, the public should do something to remedy that. They’re called public servants for a reason and it does not seem unreasonable to expect better from a group of individuals that I believe we all know still has quality members and is capable of a gold standard.
It’s largely understood that the days of chasing around criminals with a whistle and stick are gone. Nobody would expect Constable Ferguson from 1871 to strut his mustachioed ass into the middle of a twentieth century turf war between rival gangs and then limp out victorious saying, “I hate to have had to kick up such a shine but these bad eggs put me through the mill. Yet I toed my mark and gave them all a good thrashing. They’ll not trouble the good people of this town again. Absquatulate, you pathetic coves, before my dander is up once more and I place you all behind bars!”
But we also might not need the Officer Ferguson from today pepper spraying and electrocuting his way through a crowd of non-violent protestors like some kind of dystopian prick. The police are starting to genuinely resemble those oppressive thugs that Kipling, Orwell, Wells, and Bradbury had warned us about in their bleakest works of fiction. Heavily armed SWAT teams are storming more private homes than ever and I’ve been to enough protests to know that it’s usually just a matter of time before demonstrators are sprayed, cuffed and made an example of. Challenging the authority of police is often worse than committing an actual crime.
However it is my opinion that the police are a necessity for society to function smoothly, despite never having a positive interaction with them myself. My direct involvements with officers of the law involve several random searches as a youth and one “get the fuck out of here” as an adult. Even though I am just the sort of antiestablishment crackpot that scowls at most authority figures, I know that most cops are just like the rest of us. They’re average individuals just trying to collect a paycheck. The force is comprised of mid-grade humanoids, a few real standout class acts, and a handful of reprehensible scumbags. So when I see an officer in uniform any disgust I have isn’t focused on the poor bastard inside of it. I can’t read their minds but it’s difficult for me to assume that every single one of them spends the entire day fantasizing about the day they can finally shoot somebody (half at most).
But there has been still a surge of incidents that are beyond worrisome. You might have forgotten about them because they recently released a Star Wars trailer and America has a goldfish-like attention span. Allow me to bring you back up to speed:
This month a grand jury decided not to indict police offers whose actions directly resulted in the unrelated deaths of two unarmed men last summer and people were understandably outraged. In fact, the citizenry was so despondent that many resorted to taking to the streets in both civil protests and violent riots. While some think those reactions were uncalled for, I have already mentioned that I don’t feel that it’s unreasonable to want better service from public servants. Most of us would politely send back a chicken if we thought it was undercooked so it’s probably fine to say something when your taxes contributed toward the death of an innocent man. But these two men were just the frontrunners in a disturbing trend.
Despite the F.B.I. originally claiming fewer, a cursory examination suggests that a reasonable estimate of 400 “justifiable homicides” take place at the hands of the police in an average year. When you consider that at least fifteen of those homicides involved unarmed black citizens based off recent information released by the NAACP, you’ve got a nearly 4% chance of murdering a defenseless person. That’s pretty rough when you consider that figure comes from the NAACP’s short list of only fifteen. That doesn’t include incidents involving victims of other ethnicities or black victims not included in that list, which would likely push that average up quite a bit. While 4% might be an acceptable margin of error in terms of statistical analysis on a random sampling of people who like hotdogs over hamburgers, it’s not the kind of number you want to hear followed up by “that’s the number of people the police accidentally murdered this year.”
So the odds of being unintentionally shot or strangled to death by the police are a little higher in America. So what, right? Crime is down! Why is everyone protesting and all huffy about this seemingly non-problem? Well, it is worth noting that the officers involved in these killing incidents are almost never indicted. Even in the Garner case, which was deemed a homicide by a city medical examiner and included video evidence of the fatal choking, did not yield an indictment of any of the arresting officers. I’ve heard that a lot of people casually attribute Garner’s death to his obesity and asthma, which would be a fair statement if fat asthmatics were choking themselves to death on a more regular basis. As I cannot think of any recent examples, we’ll have to hold the police somewhat responsible. And holding the police responsible is going to be the only thing that will yield some kind of change. The riots were a result of the people’s fear and anger exacerbated by aggressive posturing by the offending parties and a perceived failure in the justice system.
When you couple this with the fact that nearly every town’s law enforcement has been receiving surplus military equipment form the Federal government for the last decade, you can sort of see where all of this fear stems from. Armored vehicles and riot gear make an appearance at most organized protests and rallies across the nation. SWAT teams are better funded, outfitted, and larger than ever. In the late 1970s there were roughy 300 SWAT deployments in the country per year, now there are roughly 4 raids per day in the state of Maryland alone. The ACLU reported that SWAT raids are now commonly used to serve search warrants for minor crimes, often entering the home through force before announcing themselves. As a result bystanders are often injured and some have even been killed. This is a far cry from SWAT’s original purpose to be the last resort in dealing with emergency situations and heavily armed suspects.
Looking back at The Andy Griffith Show and Car 54 Where Are You police almost never shot anyone, especially black people. Although, to be fair, Andy Griffith rarely carried a gun and I do not recall seeing a lot of African-Americans in Mayberry anyway. Regardless, those gentle programs couldn’t have possibly prepared us for the brutal shirtless takedowns of COPS and a future law enforcement that included the war on drugs, military grade hardware, the seizing of property for profit, and taking DNA samples by force. Barney Fife is only funny when he’s goofing and doofing around as a character on TV. It’s not nearly as entertaining when his real life counterpart is doling out tickets for minor infractions, harassing minorities, and accidentally shooting your son at the grocery store. The only thing that kept an insecure blowhard like Fife from causing real damage was a sheriff with enough foresight to keep him in check. But, in the real world, police departments have like six Barney Fifes for every Andy and they’ve both been encouraged to act more aggressively since 2001.
But that’s all going to change, people simply won’t tolerate it for much longer. Cops are safer than they’ve ever been, which is great, but I think people are genuinely starting to wonder if the same can be said for the citizens interacting with them. Maybe these senseless deaths will be the tipping point on the matter. The poor, the downtrodden, and the reasonable people of this country cannot possibly continue to sit idle after years of things getting worse for them. That person you went to high school with who never left home and keeps posting vaguely racist “news articles” from two years ago is fighting a losing battle. Maybe I’m being naive for the first time in my life but I don’t believe America will continue to weather against an overly-aggressive police force and a criminal justice system that has put thousands of the wrong kind of people in for-profit-prisons. Black America should not stand for it neither should any other American.
*Bears only killed six Americans in 2014
*Snakes only killed two Americans in 2014
*Sharks killed no Americans in 2014.
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33 Responses to The Police Are Not Animals*
Noise Pollution says:
I don’t actually have anything interesting to add, or any real input of my own, but I agree with you.
starhazel18 says:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This hits the nails right on the head! We all need to hold each other accountable for our actions. Seeing these horrific occurrences slip by the justice system without batting an eyelash should scare everyone. It’s not just about race anymore, it’s about doing the right thing. We need to retrain our police to replace brute force with thoughtful action. Every situation doesn’t call for violence, people don’t have to die because you fear them. We can all live in a peaceful world even if it seems a little far fetch, it’s something worth working towards.
circusinpurgatory says:
Jack Meahoff says:
Your footnotes make a strong argument: Let’s have bears as law-enforcement. It’ll be like Bear City!
Google search “Bear City.”
That footnote is just because I don’t want to make bears and snakes out to be monsters.
seaofcarnage says:
I thought this was so well written! I expected some sort of down with the police, I got a well thought out essay with humanity aspect to it. Very good sir, BTW I can totally hear a British voice in your copper cartoon, and that makes me smile.
Reblogged this on ChaCha AlaMode's babblings. and commented:
In all of our anger, we should consider intelligent thoughts not just angry lashing out.
unusualisbeautiful says:
Spot on, sir.
You’d be surprised on how many people on Facebook didn’t think so.
Agreed. Disturbing.
Reblogged this on Insights, Laughs, Tears….
Perhaps people feel the same way about police as they do about lawyers: they hate them until they need them!
Truly. But I’ve needed both before and found the experience to be a mixed bag.
I suppose that’s true, like everything in life, right?
DiatribesAndOvations.com says:
I’m sharing this bad boy!
megankris says:
I absolutely love your writing style. This could not be more accurate in my opinion.
I am a big fan of your reading style as well.
I live in the UK and if an officer shoots somebody, or someone dies during arrest then there’s a MAJOR enquiry, but these days the Police don’t want to be identified in case of reprisals, so there’s currently a big case underway to allow the press to name the officers who killed a guy!
A far cry from what we’ve seen in the USA where being black is a death sentence and officers don’t appear to ever stand trial… :(
Katie Prescott Beasley says:
I tend to be quite jaded and assume that we are all writing our opinions and rarely change anyone else’s–with the result that it’s all just noise. This post rose above the din and gives me some things to consider. Cheers.
That’s incredibly kind of you.
Okey Chima says:
Reblogged this on maxichimaximind.
dantewest says:
Reblogged this on The Nigerian Dream.
Speaking from the other side of the pond (ahoy from Scotland!), I’ve been having a similar feeling for the past few years that a ‘something’ is coming, an unrest maybe? But on a much larger scale than what has happened so far – you can just feel the bubble ready to burst. This is in no way an excuse (and I’m already aware it’s a hated argument) but America is still a young ‘un in historical terms – they still have a few revolutions, civil unrests and perhaps a battle of some kind in the bank to use up if global history is anything to go by. It’d be wonderful if none of those happened, mind…
Also, I’m new to your wonderland, and I like it here. Can I stay? :)
I’m back from vacation so I’ll think about it. No promises.
The suspense!
Just relax, it’ll be okay.
questtocreativity says:
Your writing has a very distinct way of communicating your personality…its beautiful. Thank you also, for your opinion.
Bowrag says:
If the police have stopped me for something…speeding, hiding in the shadows, wearing a hoody as I walk down the street at 3 am… I am going to act like the policeman is a bear. I am going to stand quietly and very still. My only words are “yes sir no sir”. Being a cop is a stressful job. At any moment someone may try and take your life just to keep their freedom. I understand why they are a little nervous when they approach me. SO, I’ll be quiet.
I think that’s an okay plan for everyone so long as the police are made accountable for their actions.
catinmythroat says:
Love your work:)
Thanks. Your condom free sausages are making me hungry.
Ha. You can get donkey sausage at that stand. Never seen anyone buy it yet.
toddfisk says:
Like your take on things. Its valuable to infuse current events topics with enough humor to keep people reading. That being said, there is a gigantic dirigible landing on my lawn. Should probably go check that out.
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