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Preview: Walsall (A)
Richard Joyce
CTFCofficial
Over a fortnight on from Cheltenham Town's last League Two run out, the Robins make the short journey to Walsall on Saturday (kick-off: 3pm).
With last Saturday's game with Newport County AFC postponed because of international commitments for the Welsh side, Michael Duff's charges have been without a League game since the draw at Oldham Athletic at the beginning of the month.
Having put together a six match unbeaten league run heading into this weekend's contest the opportunity to keep pushing at the top end of League Two and to extend that unbeaten stretch is the prize.
Walsall head into the game having suffered back-to-back defeats against the two teams promoted into the division from the National League last season and will be looking to get back to the positive form they recorded in the second half of September.
An injury picked up in training rules Tahvon Campbell out. Rohan Ince and Will Boyle are set to be part of the squad on their return to fitness again though.
Luke Varney is set to return but Max Sheaf and Josh Debayo are definitely out, as is Dan Bowry following his loan transfer to Bath City.
Watch Michael Duff's press conference previewing the match:
Watch some of the preparation on the training pitches ahead of this weekend's game below:
Walsall are back in League Two for the first time since the 2006/07 season when their title win in the fourth tier took them up to League One where they remained until last season.
Winning away at Northampton on the opening day of the season and then holding Forest Green to a draw on matchday two suggested a strong start for the Saddlers, but after then they went on a run of eight games without a win in all competitions.
A run of three straight league victories plus a Leasing.com Trophy win over Southampton under-21s built a bit of momentum in September and they head into Saturday's match 19th in the table.
Former Bristol Rovers manager Darrell Clarke is in charge having been appointed during the summer as he looks to repeat the success he achieved at the Memorial Stadium with his current employers.
He has taken some of the talented players he had at Rovers with him to Walsall. Defender James Clarke and energetic midfield man Stuart Sinclair are two key men in their ranks, while striker Rory Gaffney is another that wore Pirates colours when Clarke was in charge.
The Saddlers line-up also features former Liverpool and Reading midfielder Danny Guthrie who is back in English football after a spell in Indonesia. Academy graduate Lewis Kinsella and the versatile Gary Liddle are likely to be involved too, while there are two ex-Robins loanees in Cameron Pring and Elijah Adebayo (pictured below) who may play a part.
Yet to win against the Saddlers, Saturday's game represents another opportunity for Cheltenham to record a first competitive win over the day's opponents.
The first meeting between the two clubs was a 2-2 draw in the LDV Vans Trophy in November 2004, while the last competitive clashes came in League One during the 2008/09 campaign with both matches again ending all square.
Before then though Walsall enjoyed back-to-back wins during the 2007/08 League One season as well as a Johnstones Paint Trophy win at Whaddon Road in October 2008.
The two teams met in a pre-season friendly (pictured below) at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium in late July 2018. Walsall came out on top with a 2-1 win that day thanks to goals from Nicky Devlin and Andy Cook. Scottish forward Brian Graham netted the Robins goal that afternoon.
Tickets & travel
Tickets are available to buy on the day. Prices are:
Adults £22
18-21 year olds £18
Over 60s £15
Under-18s £10
Family ticket (1 adult & 1 under-18) £22
Supporters booked on the Travel Club coaches are reminded that they leave from the Jonny-Rocks at 11.45am.
Follow @CTFCofficial on Twitter for team news, updates and pictures throughout Saturday. The official CTFC Facebook page will also have team news and goal updates available.
After the game visit the club website to read the match report and to hear from the manager and a player on interview.
You can tune in to hear full commentary of the game too via the iFollow service online.
Walsall vs Cheltenham Town on 19 Oct 19
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Ghost Coast Distillery hosts reggae rum day for Randy Davis
By John SingerFor Do Savannah
Ghost Coast Distillery, the city’s first operating distiller since prohibition, is celebrating this year’s national rum day by giving back.
On Aug. 16, the Indian Street distillery will be hosting a Reggae Rum Day event with a portion of the proceeds from each drink purchased going to the Save Randy Davis fund.
Randy Davis, the owner of Davis Produce located on Savannah’s neighboring Talahi Island was recently diagnosed with acute renal failure and is undergoing dialysis while waiting to find a potential kidney donor.
Shortly after his diagnosis the Save Randy Davis Fund was created in March of this year to provide “financial, emotional, and prayerful support to Randy Davis and the Davis family.”
Davis Produce has been a landmark for many tourists and local beachgoers alike for over two decades. Brandished as “the home of the killer tomato” the open-air market is continually swarmed with customers seeking the freshest fruit and vegetables they can find.
“A lot of us are locals here at Ghost Coast,” said Ghost Coast’s Marketing Manager Kelcie Beausir. “So when we heard about the Save Randy Davis organization it hit really close to home and we wanted to help out any way we could.”
For the Reggae Rum Day, Ghost Coast will be turning their usual home into a temporary tropical paradise, fueled by the swaying sounds of Columbia, South Carolina’s Mystic Vibrations. The group founded in Little London, Westmoreland, Jamaica has been playing stateside since 1992, regularly touring the eastern US from Florida to New York. Their website describes the music’s themes as speaking of “…love, unity, and peace amongst all mankind; and not forgetting the trials and tribulations of oppressed peoples.”
Ghost Coast will simultaneously be celebrating its recent Gold Medal Award from the International Review of Spirits (also known as the Beverage Tasting Institute) for its Tiki Spiced Rum which received a grand total of 93 out of 100 points.
The spiced rum is made with Madagascar vanilla bean and molasses sourced less than ten miles from the distillery, and according to the full review contains “spicy aromas of cardamom, nutmeg, and vanilla with a caramel finish.”
For the event, Ghost Coast will by slinging some signature drinks, each of which will feature fresh fruit garnishes from Davis Produce Stand itself.
The Exodus is a tropical experience only offered in house. “The house-made shrub is what sets this drink apart,” said Beausir. “Customers always ask how they can make this drink at home, but making the shrub (an aged concoction of fruits, aromatics, sugar, and vinegar) is a week-long process done by our team of mixologists and bartenders.”
The drink features Ghost Coast Tiki Spiced Rum, a strawberry banana shrub, as well as pineapple juice, and is garnished with fresh Davis Produce pineapple. For those looking for something a little on the lighter side Ghost Coast will also be offering two other signature cocktails for the event.
The Mule Kick is a twist on the traditional Moscow Mule featuring Ghost Coast Tiki Spiced Rum in place of the usual vodka, combined with ginger syrup, club soda, lime juice, and is finally finished with Davis Produce limes.
The Blackberry Dream is built around Ghost Coast’s Gold Rum, a light amber colored rum lower in sugar than the Tiki Spiced Rum. The drink begins with muddled Davis Produce blackberries as the base before rum, curacao, agave nectar, and lime juice are added, before the drink is graced with a beautiful garnish of fresh Davis Produce peaches.
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Straddling the busy US Route 129 from Florida to Tennessee and US Route 90 from Jacksonville to Texas, the Suwannee County city of Live Oak sees a fair amount of traffic running through town. Unfortunately, activities such as speeding, drunk driving, texting while driving and distracted driving are forcing up accident rates year after year. A serious car accident can turn your life upside down, and figuring out how you are going to pay for your injuries and the disruption in your life is one thing you shouldn’t have to worry about. Let our Live Oak car accident lawyers deal with the insurance companies on your behalf, so you can focus on getting better. We will give you the information you need to make the best decisions and provide you with strong, effective representation to pursue the maximum compensation owed to you.
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Under Florida’s no-fault system of car insurance, you can apply for Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits without having to file a lawsuit or prove that another driver was at fault in causing the car accident. Unfortunately, PIP benefits only cover 80% of your medical expenses and 60% of your lost income, and only up to a total of $10,000. Even worse, unless you suffered an emergency medical condition for which you sought treatment within 14 days of the accident, PIP benefits are limited to $2,500. In either case, PIP benefits simply do not fully compensate you for your injury.
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Bathroom blues
AsiaFeb 8th 2001 edition
THE Japanese are far too polite to say it out loud. But every foreigner knows, deep in his heart, that he fails to measure up to Japan's dauntingly high standards of personal hygiene. In short, gaijin (foreigners) smell bad. So imagine the disappointment of one poor white man on being denied entry to a public bath on Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan's four main islands. Foreigners, said the proprietor flatly, were not welcome.
There then followed a period of confusion, as Debito Arudo (né David Aldwinckle) in fact claimed to be Japanese, and had a passport to prove it. After some discussion, the bathhouse owner still refused Mr Arudo entry, on the grounds that Japanese customers would think he was foreign. Fresh from the justice ministry's naturalisation procedures (which include, according to Mr Arudo, an inspection of the contents of one's fridge and the possession of a suitably Japanese house interior), Mr Arudo lost his patience and decided on the unJapanese step of filing suit.
As soon as Mr Arudo's intentions became clear, the bathhouse owner modestly adjusted tack. Foreigners would, after all, be allowed to bathe, but only if they met four conditions: they must have lived in Japan continuously for more than one year; they must sufficiently understand bathing customs; they must understand Japanese; and they must not cause any inconvenience to other customers—that is, they must not stink. Since gaijin do, as every Japanese knows, smell bad, Mr Arudo continues his search for justice, and a bath, in the courts.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Bathroom blues"
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The automaton goes on and on
In two years in office Stephen Harper has earned respect but not love. Yet Canadians show no sign of tiring of bloodless politics
The AmericasJan 24th 2008 edition
MINORITY governments seldom last long in Canada. So when Stephen Harper led his Conservative party to office, but without a parliamentary majority, in a federal election in January 2006, pundits confidently predicted he would soon seek a bigger mandate from the voters. Five fairly straightforward campaign promises were ticked off quickly. But the expected election call never came. Instead Mr Harper pushed through a law fixing parliamentary terms. Unless the opposition gangs up to bring him down, or unless he engineers that outcome himself, his government will soldier on until October 2009—a span exceeded only once before by a minority administration.
That is partly testament to the disarray of a divided opposition. The Liberals, its main element, were leaderless for much of 2006 before picking Stéphane Dion, a mild-mannered policy wonk, who has made a slow start. But Mr Harper has been unable to do much more than survive. Respected for his competence, he has all the charisma of an automaton. “I thought that people needed time to get used to Mr Harper,” says Roger Gibbins of the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta-based think-tank. “But it's turned out that to know Harper is not to love him.” That is especially true for women. Opinion polls show little change in allegiance since the last election—except for a brief moment of Conservative advance last autumn (see chart).
Mr Harper may come to regret not forcing an election then. For the going is getting tougher. His party has not been helped by the raking up of a scandal involving payments in brown envelopes by an arms lobbyist to Brian Mulroney, a former Conservative prime minister, in the 1990s. These claims were revived because the lobbyist, Karlheinz Schreiber, is fighting extradition to Germany, where he faces bribery and fraud charges. Although a tainted witness, he flung enough mud at Mr Mulroney during hearings by a parliamentary committee before Christmas that some of it stuck. Mr Harper felt obliged to promise a public inquiry once the committee has finished its hearings.
Then there are the problems of Canada's ageing nuclear industry. These were highlighted in November when Linda Keen, the head of the nuclear-safety regulator, refused to allow the Chalk River reactor, one of the world's main suppliers of medical isotopes, to restart after routine maintenance because of the failure to install a back-up power system. With customers fearing a shortage of isotopes, parliament passed emergency legislation ordering the reactor to restart without the back-up system. The government then ousted Ms Keen from her post, damaging public confidence in the industry.
Trickier still is Afghanistan, where 77 Canadian troops and a diplomat have died since 2002. Canada's military mission there—it has some 2,500 troops in Kandahar in the south, where insurgents are active—is unpopular, but has been strongly supported by Mr Harper. To defuse criticism, he appointed a non-partisan committee under John Manley, a Liberal former foreign minister, to consider the mission's future. On January 22nd the committee recommended that it continue—but only if reinforced by 1,000 extra troops from another NATO country as well as by more aircraft. Unless Mr Harper secures such support at the NATO summit in Bucharest in April, he could face defeat on the issue in the House of Commons.
By then the economy may have become his biggest problem. Years of strong growth, fuelled by high prices for commodity exports, risk being curtailed by the looming recession in the United States, which takes four-fifths of Canada's exports. The more pessimistic among economists reckon that Canada's fiscal and current-account surpluses could disappear. The Bank of Canada trimmed its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 4% on January 22nd and hinted at further cuts.
Nobody is panicking yet. But slower growth will redouble calls from the premiers of Ontario and Quebec for federal help for manufacturing, which has suffered from the strength of the Canadian dollar. Mr Harper this month announced C$1 billion ($990m) in aid, mainly for one-industry towns where plants close. More schemes like that might win him the extra seats in central Canada that he needs for a parliamentary majority. But he will have less money to play with in the budget, due in late February or early March, and he has already pledged tax cuts.
This year is shaping up to be Mr Harper's most difficult so far. But there is not yet any sign that the opposition will feel sufficiently emboldened to bring him down and trigger an election. Its leaders will be studying the opinion polls as closely as the prime minister. These show that “Canadians are pretty satisfied with the way the world is going,” says Darrell Bricker of Ipsos-Reid, a polling company. Too satisfied, it seems, to want to kick the government out.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "The automaton goes on and on"
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'Time running out' for UK smart meter rollout
9 March 2015, source edie newsroom
An £11bn Government plan to install smart meters in every UK home and small business by 2020 is in danger of becoming a 'costly failure', MP's have warned.
Installing smart meters will cost around £11bn, but Decc expects the costs to be offset by £17bn savings
The scheme aims to put 53 million smart meters in 30 million buildings with associated energy efficiency gains worth £17bn. But 'time is running out' to meet the 2020 installation target according to the Energy and Climate Change Committee, which has reviewed the plan.
Committee chair Tim Yeo said: "Smart meters could generate more than £17bn in energy savings for the country yet a series of technical and other issues have resulted in delays to the planned roll-out.
"This Committee first looked at this programme in 2013, highlighting issues which we urged the Government to address. While some progress has been made since then, it's not enough.
"The energy industry told us that it needs the Government to enable industry-wide solutions, rather than the less efficient alternative of letting each energy supplier develop its own solution."
--- edie explains: smart meters ---
Smart meters measure the total energy used in the same way as a traditional meter, but they can also track when energy is used and how much it costs, highlighting opportunities for savings.
Yeo concluded that the smart meter rollout could prove to be a "costly failure" unless Government made a "significant and immediate change" to its current approach.
Consumer power
Around a millions meters have been installed across the UK so far, mostly by British Gas. Asda, Tesco and the Co-Operative Group are among the big businesses who have adopted smart metering.
Responding to the report, a spokesperson for Decc – which is overseeing the scheme – said: "Smart meters will put power into the hands of consumers – they will bring estimated billing to an end, help people manage their energy use, and make it easier to switch suppliers.
"People with smart meters are already seeing reductions in their energy consumption and research out this week showed high satisfaction rates and confidence in the technology.
"The programme is still progressing and thousands of consumers are already enjoying the benefits of smart meters. Over one million meters are now in operation with the number installed growing each month."
Smart metering at Sustainability Live 2015
The three-day Sustainability Live event in April will cover measurement systems and smart metering in one of four 'topic trails'. The 'Smarter Systems' trail will focus on the software or product used for measurement, monitoring or analysis of energy use and/or environmental impact, or any software that controls, automates and reduces that usage/impact.
Meanwhile, the Energy Efficiency Theatre will feature a number of sessions that will focus on measuring and monitoring energy consumption, monitoring technology and how to make the best use of the energy consumption data.
Register to attend Sustainability Live 2015 for FREE here.
Brad Allen
DECC | Energy Efficiency | smart meters
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29 JUL 2019 Institutional
EFP executive strategy meeting sets priorities for future
Participants in the two-day strategy meeting: (from left) David Herrera, Andreas Stavropoulos, Anton Sculean, Xavier Struillou, Nicola West. Filippo Graziani, Monique Danser, Maurizio Tonetti, Mariano Sanz, Lior Shapira
The two-day meeting of members of the EFP’s “core” executive committee to review strategy and draft a new strategic plan was described as “very effective” by federation president Filippo Graziani.
The meeting in Belgium on July 17 and 18 included a review of how the current strategic plan (2017-2021) is being implemented and a “brainstorming” meeting on the key issues that the EFP faces, which will help in the creation of the next five-year strategic plan.
Among the topics discussed were:
Diversification: so that the EFP becomes less dependent economically on the triennial EuroPerio congress;
Sustainability: how the EFP can become more stable and sustainable as an organization and how it can do more for sustainability in the environment;
Drawing up the future strategic plan;
Reviewing the EFP’s general structure and bylaws;
Partners and sponsorships;
Education and e-learning possibilities;
The integration of a new head of communications in December;
Setting internal policies in areas including social media and the logistics of executive-committee meetings and general assemblies.
The meeting, at a hotel in the Sonian forest near Brussels, was attended by the “core EC”, comprising president Filippo Graziani, secretary general Nicola West, treasurer Monique Danser, past president Anton Sculean, president-elect Xavier Struillou, and elected members of the executive committee Lior Shapira and Andreas Stavropoulos.
Also present were: Maurizio Tonetti, editor of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology; Mariano Sanz and David Herrera, the current and future chairs of the EFP workshop committee; head of operations Sharon Legendre; European co-ordinator Monica Guinea; and the recently appointed head of communications Cândice Gasperin.
“It was a very effective meeting in which the core EC worked as a team to highlight the actions to implement in the coming years,” said Prof Graziani.
"The strategic meeting was very successful," added Prof West. "The time was well spent assessing our objectives and developing our strategic plan for the next five years. We are well on track for ratification of the plan in 2020."
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Biography of the Ramchal
חשיבות ספר הזוהר מדברי הרמח"ל
הילולת הרמח"ל תשע"ז
תיקון עולם
הרב מרדכי צ'ריקי
רמהל וטורה שלה
הרצאות מוקלטות
מכון רמהל
Rabbi Mordechai Shriki
The Sovereignty of Oneness
The Kabbalah of the Ari Z'al, according to the Ramhal
Books in Hebrew
אדיר במרום הוצאת מכון רמח"ל
אור עולם
איגרות הרמח"ל
ברית מנוחה
גילוי מלכותו ר"ה
גילוי מלכותו שבועות
דרך ה' (פורמט כיס)
דרך חכמה
דרך חכמת האמת
זוהר תניינא חלק א'
מלך העולם
מאמר הגאולה
סוד היחוד
מחזור כוונות ר"ה לרמח"ל
סידור כוונות לימות החול (פורמט קטן) במבצע
סידור כוונות לשבת
עינייני ר"ה ויוה"כ
קל"ח פתחי חכמה
רכב ישראל
רזין גניזין תשע"ו (2016)
תיקונים חדשים
תפילות לרמח"ל גדול
תפילות לרמח"ל קטן
מחול לצדיקים
תיקונים חדשים לרמח"ל בפורמט כיס
La voix des justes
La Voie de D.ieu
Les Voies de la Direction divine
Maamar Ha-Gueoula Le discours de la délivrance
1Les Soixante-dix Arrangements
Le Roi du monde - Le règne de l'Unité
MAAMAR HA-HOKHMA
LA KABBALE DE LA REPARATION
תיקון עולם DVD
קל"ח פתחי חכמה cd
דעת תבונות CD
דרך ה' CD
מאמר הגאולה CD
סוד היחוד CD
אדיר במרום *2 CD
מבא לחכמת הקבלה * 4 DVD
קנאת ה' צבאות CD
קבלת הרמח"ל CD
נושאים כלליים 1.2.3. CD
האילן CD
ראש השנה CD
חנוכה CD
פורים CD
פסח CD
י"ז בתמוז CD
Ramhal and its Tora
דעת תבונות לצפייה ישירה
כללים ראשונים לצפייה
Ramhal Institute
Bait Ramchal
zohar le israel
שיעורים הקבועים ברמח"ל
יום ג' פרשת השבוע ע"פ הזוהר בשעה 20:15
יום ג' קל"ח פתחי חכמה בשעה 20:30
יום ה' שיעור חדש בתיקוני זוהר תניינא תיקונים חדשים 21:00
ניתן לצפות באתר בשיעורים על כל הספרים,
דעת תבונות ,
כללים ראשונים ,
קל"ח פתחי חכמה,
קנאת ה' צבאות.
מאמר הגאולה.
ופרשת השבוע ע"פ הזוהר הקדוש
זמני התפילות בימות החול
שחרית -נץ החמה
מנחה - 13:00
ערבית - 19:00
Ramchal are the initials of Rabbi Moshe Haim Luzzatto, born in the Ghetto of Padua in Italy in 1707. Son of Jacob Vita and Diamente Luzzatto, noble, modest and pious parents, who placed him in the Yeshiva of Padua - while others preferred to study in the faculty of Medicine of the University of Padua.
From an early age, he showed an exceptional talent for the study of Kabbalah. A letter sent by his friend and student Rav. Yekoutiel Gordon, says: "He was only fourteen and he already knew by heart the Kabbalah of the Ari z"l and nobody knew about it, not even his parents."
At the age of fifteen, he wrote his first book of Kabbalah. His master, Rabbi. Isaiah Bassan, a well known Talmud Scholar and one of the most important Rabbis of Italy, writes: "I have communicated to him all the steps of the knowledge and all my spiritual possessions are at his disposal, nothing is hidden from this genius, thirsty for knowledge. . He would look in my bookshelves to find some of the writings of Kabbalah that God had granted me, then he would cross the stream, tasting the Etz Hayim . His mind would then enter the valleys of secrets and he started to love them and to delight in them."
At the age of seventeen, he had already noted certain contradictions in the Etz Hayim . Also at seventeen, he composed his book on grammar, Leshon Limmudim, in which he states the modern rules of gender, stylistics, rhetoric and versification, to guide the writer of the Hebrew language. The Ramchal showed particular abilities with metaphors and assonance and for his different dramatic writings, the Ramchal was later proclaimed as "the father of the Modern Hebrew literature."
At the age of twenty, an inner spiritual voice, a Maggid revealed himself to the Ramchal. In a letter to Rabbi Benjamin HaCohen in December 1729, he wrote: "While I was meditating on aYihud, I fell into a sleep and when I woke, I heard a voice saying: "I have come down to reveal hidden secrets of the Saintly King." I waited, trembling, for a moment, then I took myself in hand and the Voice did not cease to reveal mysterious things. The next day, at the same time, I took the precaution of being alone in my room, when the Voice manifested itself to reveal another secret; until one day that it revealed to me that it was a Maggid . .. Three months later, he transmitted to me other Yihudim to recite daily in order to come to merit a visit of the prophet Elijah .. Then the prophet Elijah came to tell me celestial secret and later announced the coming of Matatron - great Prince of the Angels. " Under the dictation of the Maggid, the Ramchal wrote thousands of pages of mysticism and revealed amazing secrets.
A small circle to study mysticism formed around the Ramchal, its goal being the continuous reading of the Zohar and Tikkun HaShehina. To join this circle one had to conform to strict rules of purity and devotion, written and signed by the members. Once the goals of this study circle and the disclosure of the Maggid became known, some Rabbis, particularly Rabbi Moshe Hagiz, began an open war against the Ramchal. For them, in view of the great divisions amongst the Community of Israel caused by the pseudo-messianic movement of the false Messiah Sabbatai Tsvi, mysticism and Kabbalah were both synonyms for falsehood and danger for the Jewish people.
This war, or rather this persecution, since the attacks were only from one direction, was well documented in the correspondence between Ramchal and his teacher, Rabbi Bassan. One letter written by the Ramchal illustrates his peaceful spirit and his superiority to such misunderstandings. "Try by your wisdom, master, to abolish their arguments . for there is no purpose in this quarrel. I do not want to create conflicts with anybody . it is peace that we need."
To Rabbi Moshe Hagiz he wrote: "To the illustrious, wise . whose name is among the greatest of the generation, son of _, a man of justice, how can it be that you, in your wisdom - like an angel of God, have gone to war without attempting to understand the depths of the problem? How can it be that you declare war against someone you have never met or even seen? No, it is not a good thing. In any way, let us stop this quarrel . let us not make room for the Satan to come and dance between us."
For nine years there was a period of persecution where, we see the Ramchal trying to defend himself and replying to accusations, particularly those of the Rabbinical Court of Hamburg, whose chief was Rabbi Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen. With what did they actually reproach him finally? There seems to be nothing, except maybe that he had written on Kabbalah, he had discussed the Messiah and he had revealed his communications with his Maggid. However, he in no way and in none of his writings, alluded to his own person as being the Messiah or indeed any kind of savior. In one of his letters to the Rabbis of Livorno he wrote, "I perform no miracles, neither do I predict the future. In reality, a lot of people gather around me simply to study Torah. After learning, I write books, as permitted by the Lord. ... Even the magicians of Pharaoh performed miracles in front of Moses. .But in my humble opinion, this is not the correct way to verify the contents of a science."
Despite this very clear declaration, on the insistence of Rabbi M. Haggiz, the Ramchal was coerced into signing an official document retracting his writing, in which he approved the following. "The duty of every Jew is to obey the orders of the Rabbis even if they say that the right hand is the left, and the left hand is the right. I will to stop writing in the language of the Zohar or in other language, about Kabbalah, in the name of the Maggid or any other Saintly Souls, in order to prevent quarrels amongst the learned men of Israel."
Following this coercion, the Ramchal sent all his Kabbalistic writing from before 1730, to his teacher, Rabbi Bassan, who sealed them in a box and sent them for safekeeping to Rabbi Moses Alperon. They were buried and lost forever. Afterwards, from 1730 to 1734, he wrote over 40 works of Kabbalah, but in more subtle or subdued language and in rational style. In 1735, at the age of 28, tired of constant harassment, he left Italy to go to Holland with his young family. On the way, he stopped in Frankfurt, where, the persecutions having recommenced, he was forced to sign another document, preventing him from writing Kabbalah or teaching Kabbalistic writing. He did maintain the right to study the work of the Ari z"l, once he had reached the age of forty. He never reached it.
It was only in 1736 that the situation became quiet, at the death of his teacher, Rabbi Bassan and the grave illness of Rabbi Haggiz. A period of calm followed until 1743, when the Ramchal was appointed Rosh Yeshiva in Amsterdam and wrote his most popular book and one of the most studied in Yeshivot to this day, Mesillat Yesharim, - "The Path of the Just." This is a masterpiece of ethics without any moralizing. In the same period, he published two other important works, Daat Tevunot - "The Knowing Heart" and Derech HaShem - "The Way of God."
In 1743, he realized his dream to go up to Eretz Israel, fulfilling the words of the learned that residence in Eretz Israel is a commandment in parallel to the entire Torah. Few details are known about his life in Israel, except that he lived near the city of Acco and near Tiberius. His stay in the Land of Israel was very short - he died together with his family during a plague in 1746 at the age of 39.
There does remain a further question: did the Ramchal write any books in Israel? To date, we know of none, but it seems difficult to accept that after all the persecutions, having reached the land of Israel, that he wrote nothing, finally having the freedom to do so, although it is probable that he felt himself bound by the document he had signed.
Like many other great geniuses, the Ramchal was recognized as such only after his death. A great master, the Gaon of Vilna (born 1729) was reported to have declared that "were the Ramchal still alive, he would go by foot from Vilna to Amsterdam, to learn from his wisdom." About Mesillat Yesharim he said: "This book bears witness to the greatness of its author and his extraordinary vision of human heights."
The Maggid of Mezeritch said. "His generation did not have the merit of this great man. Such is the case that many of our people, through a lack of knowledge or understanding, have pronounced unjustified calumny upon him." Today, we can only pray for forgiveness upon the Rabbis of his generation, who mistook him for an impostor and prevented him from learning ,teaching, writing and leaving to the nation of Israel other magnificent works. We should also pray for our own generation that we will merit of the revelation of all his writings in our day, particularly the Zohar Tiniana that was amongst those buried by the Rabbis of Frankfurt. Amen.
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موقع Fortnite الإلكتروني الرسمي
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Fortnite Battle Royale - State of Development
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We hope you all have been having a good time playing Fortnite Battle Royale. We’re working hard to make sure you have plenty to look forward to in your quest to earn umbrellas. So, we want to give everyone an update!
Our big news is the initial version of Squads coming 9/26 with support for DBNO (down but not out), duos (2 players) and squads (1-4 players). Emphasis is on “initial” as we are optimizing for getting the feature out ASAP and will continue to iterate and polish afterwards. The squads playlist will be enabled on 9/26 and we will monitor population numbers to decide when to enable duos. In-game communication (text, voice, hints, etc) is crucial for auto-filled teams and is next on the list.
We hope the introduction of Squads will reduce the desire for teaming in solo play. That being said, we stood up a system that will automatically and swiftly ban teamers. We’ve been manually running the detection tool to verify results and Player Support has been using the results to ban teamers for almost a week. The full automation will go live with the 9/26 update.
Cheating (aimbots, overlays, and such) is something we take seriously on both the legal and development front. Going free increases the challenge and is lighting a fire under our efforts. It is hard to talk about what we’re doing here without making it easier for cheat creators… so we won't :-) Cheaters are banned!
Coming in the Sept. 26 build:
1) Squads!
2) A mid-range scoped assault rifle and a mid-range SMG to round out the weapon line-up.
3) HUD tweaks to make it easier to see markers and direction indicators.
4) Lots of other tweaks that will be documented in detail in our release notes.
Coming soon after the Sept. 26 build:
Supply drops will allow introduction of some of the more zany weapons from the “Save the World” Campaign, and help us tune the timing of when specific weapons drop during a match. Our internal playtests showed supply drops adding more excitement to the mid-game over the fight to secure them. Depending on how balancing and testing goes they might be in 9/26 or the following week.
Combat feel encompasses a broad area and we have a few initiatives in the works that deserve their own post in the next week. See our post here for recent changes.
Improvements for inventory management like picking up ammo, resources, and traps by just walking over them. In the long term we are going to overhaul the inventory system.
We love stats and analytics and will show you the basics over the next few weeks.
After providing stats we’ll focus on Leaderboards / Scoreboards and Rankings. Leaderboards / Scoreboards reward successful placement and game actions, while Ranking is a direct reflection of your skill. We’re evaluating algorithms for each of them and want to be careful we don’t change the goal to be the last player standing.
Cosmetic items are coming soon. New glider skins are a first example of this and there will be other categories as well. This requires the ability to select and choose variations in the UI, and of course a way for you to earn them by playing the game.
Console controller layouts are being revisited right now to see whether there is a different approach. This is something that will take some time to get right, but we will give you updates as progress is made.
The following information is a bit more on the engineering side, but I’m an engineer so hey :-)
We are currently running dedicated servers in Virginia (USA) and Frankfurt (Germany). Our infrastructure allows us to fairly easily spin up servers in other regions once a certain population threshold has been reached to ensure a good matchmaking experience.
We are happy with, but always looking to improve the minimum network bandwidth required to play the game and server performance after the first few minutes. What we’re not yet happy with is server performance during the lobby and very early phase of the match. This is an area that is requiring some higher level optimizations to our networking code.
Overall client performance is something we need to keep an eye on to ensure it is not getting worse. Same goes for input latency. Please holler if you are experiencing issues with either.
Client stability settled at around 100 hours of MTBF (mean time between failure) for Battle Royale. That means on average the game crashes every 100 hours of gameplay. Crashes are never acceptable and we are continuously working on the top crashes. Please let us know if you are running into frequent crashes to help us track them down! The 100-hour number is on the lower end of our comfort zone, but we also want to make sure we don’t sacrifice development velocity and deliver new features at a rapid pace.
Server stability thus far has been good *knocks on wood*… which is crucial as a single crash can impact up to 100 players at once! The goal here is to be above 10,000 hours MTBF and very rapidly address crashes and deploy servers with rolling updates as to not impact players further.
Thanks and we’ll see you in game,
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Seas on Titan!
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Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, part of the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons, have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan.
One such feature is larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America and is about the same size as several seas on Earth.
Cassini's radar instrument imaged several very dark features near Titan's north pole. Much larger than similar features seen before on Titan, the largest dark feature measures at least 100 000 square kilometres. Since the radar has caught only a portion of each of these features, only their minimum size is known. Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system and is about 50 percent larger than Earth's moon.
"We've long hypothesized about oceans on Titan and now with multiple instruments we have a first indication of seas that dwarf the lakes seen previously," said Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Cassini and Huygens interdisciplinary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
While there is no definitive proof yet that these seas contain liquid, their shape, their dark appearance in radar that indicates smoothness, and their other properties point to the presence of liquids. The liquids are probably a combination of methane and ethane, given the conditions on Titan and the abundance of methane and ethane gases and clouds in Titan's atmosphere.
Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer also captured a view of the region, and the team is working to determine the composition of the material contained within these features to test the hypothesis that they are liquid-filled.
Titan landscape and ‘seas’ viewed by Cassini's radar
The imaging cameras, which provide a global view of Titan, have imaged a much larger, irregular dark feature. The northern end of their image corresponds to one of the radar-imaged seas. The dark area stretches for more than 1 000 kilometers in the image, down to 55 ° North latitude. If the entire dark area is liquid-filled, it would be only slightly smaller than Earth's Caspian Sea.
The radar data show details at the northern end of the dark feature similar to those seen in earlier radar observations of much smaller, liquid-filled lakes. However, to determine if the entire dark feature is a liquid-filled basin will require investigation through additional radar flyovers later in the mission.
The presence of these seas reinforces current thinking that Titan's surface must be re-supplying methane to its atmosphere, the original motivation almost a quarter century ago for the theoretical speculation of a global ocean on Titan.
Cassini's instruments are peeling back the haze that shrouds Titan, showing high northern latitudes dotted with seas hundreds of kilometres across, and hundreds of smaller lakes that vary from several to tens of kilometres.
Due to the new discoveries, team members are re-pointing Cassini's radar instrument during a May flyby so it can pass directly over the dark areas imaged by the cameras.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Project Scientist
Email: jean-pierre.lebreton @ esa.int
At Saturn and Titan
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A simulated view from Huygens
VIMS website
ESA Planetary Science archive (PSA)
Cassini-Huygens at JPL
Cassini-Huygens at NASA
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Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited
Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited (PlayStation Vita)
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The original game, Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, had a cast and story that was widely praised as one of the best in the series, and this PlayStation Vita version offers players a chance to relive that adventure on the go, and with brand-new content! Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited comes packed with in-depth gameplay, everlasting value, and the great sense of humor you've come to love. The graphics engine truly brings Takehito Harada's characters to life with fluid animations and high definition details. Create your own political party and take advantage of a slew of new battle and strategic features expanding upon the already staggering replay value. Grab your PS Vita and stop the Corrupternment's evil doings with the power of...sardines?
Tons of Bonus content added!: Tons of bonus content, including brand-new scenarios exclusive to this release, adding more backstory to some of your favorite characters, all in hi-res sprites.
New and Familiar Characters and Gameplay Systems!: New characters, as well as cameo appearances by characters from previous Disgaea games. A new tier of spells, job specific techniques, as well as other gameplay enhancements.
DLC: Includes all of the downloadable content that was available on the PS3 version.
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Minority Report: Ukraine as Bugbear
September 20, 2019 /44 Comments/in Energy Policy, Foreign Policy /by Rayne
[NB: Note the byline; I began writing this as one of my Minority Report pieces; it’s been in my Work In Progress folder for nearly two years, and an unfinished draft here at emptywheel for 18 months. I left off work on it well before the final Special Counsel’s Report was published. This post’s content has become more relevant even if it’s not entirely complete, needing more meat in some areas, and now requiring the last two-plus years of fossil fuel-related developments and events related to the U.S.-Ukraine-Russia triangle after the 2016 U.S. general election. /~Rayne]
This post looks at the possibility that the hacking of U.S. election system and events affecting the election’s outcome are part of a much larger picture — one in which NATO figures large, and the future of energy figures even larger.
One could attribute Russian attempts at hacking and influencing the 2016 general election to retaliation for the CIA’s involvement in Ukraine, or to a personal vendetta against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with regard to Ukraine ahead of the Maidan revolt, or to rousing anti-Putin sentiment in Russia:
… Five years ago, he blamed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square. “She set the tone for some of our actors in the country and gave the signal,” Putin said. “They heard this and, with the support of the U.S. State Department, began active work.” (No evidence was provided for the accusation.) …
But after looking at the mission and history of NATO, the integral role of natural gas to Europe’s industry and continuity, Ukraine’s role as a conduit for Russian gas to European states, one might come to a very different conclusion.
Especially given the death of Alexander Litvinenko on UK soil by radioactive poisoning and the downing of Malaysian Air flight 17, a passenger plane carrying passengers who lived across several NATO countries.
Has the U.S. been asked to provide protection to European NATO members’ supply of fossil fuels transiting Ukraine? Has the U.S. been asked during the last two administrations to push back on Russia because of incursions related to energy?
What makes Ukraine so different from Belarus, Georgia, Lithuania, and Moldova, which also have pipelines carrying Russian gas and experienced price disputes — is it the percentage of energy supplied to EU states crossing Ukraine in comparison? Of these four countries, only Lithuania is a NATO member.
How does tiny Montenegro, the newest NATO member state, fit into this picture?
In 1949, twelve North American and European countries signed a treaty creating an intergovernmental military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). They pledged a collective system of mutual defense against external forces attacking any one or all of its member states. The alliance has grown over the years to 29 nation-states with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia and Ukraine having expressed interest in joining. Each member state commits to spending at least 2% of its GDP on defense spending to support the organization’s mission.
It’s critical to note NATO members agreed under the treaty’s Article V that an ‘armed’ attack against any member in North America or Europe would be considered an attack against all of them. Response to an attack upon a NATO member does not require armed or military force. Over time, threats to NATO states were not limited to armed attacks; they were economic in the case of fuel pipeline shutdowns.
In the digital age, what is an armed attack, especially if both sides call it “cyber warfare” or “information warfare”?
Like the U.S., Europe has been entirely too reliant on fossil fuels. It has been far too lax in governance when it comes to resulting pollution let alone political and economic volatility related to fossil fuel use. Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal and the EU’s slow response to VW’s fraud and resulting air pollution offer a perfect example.
While Europe has made substantive headway to reduce fossil fuels and replace them with alternatives — Germany, for example, drew 30% of its energy from non-fossil fuel alternatives in 2014 — until the EU has completely eliminated fossil fuels including natural gas it will be vulnerable to pressure by Russia and other fossil fuel-rich countries. It has been too easy for Russia to threaten the EU and Ukraine alike by simply throttling the flow of natural gas through Ukraine’s major pipelines originating in Russia.
But this is not the only front; the “long war” (pdf) across the middle east and northern Africa is also driven by competition for fossil fuels. So, too, is much of the instability in South and central America, and increasingly in North America as the population rejects fracking, shale extraction, and related pipeline installation.
There is only one true solution to socio-economic volatility caused by fossil fuels: development and implementation of alternative energy resources which are not reliant on extraction, nor limited tightly by resource location (ex: cobalt (from DRC), lithium (South America), uranium (Australia, Canada, others)). The amount we have spent on warfare to preserve fossil fuel’s status quo would have paid for this many times over, and we might have had better education and health care along with it. NATO’s EU states could not be threatened by the loss of natural gas from Russia if it could rely entirely on renewable alternatives produced inside the EU.
Magnitsky Act and retaliation
One other key question arises from this timeline. In addition to all the other tension and conflicts between the U.S. and its NATO allies and Russia, note the passage of the U.S. Magnitsky Act of 2012 and the Russians’ corresponding retaliatory sanction which stopped all further adoptions of Russian children by U.S. parents. If the adoption issue is itself a retaliatory sanction and reversing or changing this Russian sanction requires changing or lifting the U.S. Magnitsky Act, didn’t Donnie Jr.’s June 9 talk during the campaign season with Natalia Veselnitskaya about resuming adoptions under a Trump presidency mean Donnie Jr. conspired or negotiated with a foreign government in a dispute with the U.S. — a violation of the Logan Act? Wasn’t the issue of adoptions merely cover — a coded alternative term — for negotiating Magnitsky Act and other Russian sanctions prior to the election?
Timeline: NATO and Ukraine
1949 — North Atlantic Treaty signed.
1982-1984 — Urengoy-Uzhgorod-Germany pipeline constructed; it provides transcontinental transport of gas from Western Siberia to Western Europe. The Reagan administration did not support this pipeline, preventing U.S. companies from selling construction materials to the Soviets partly in protest against the Soviets’ policies toward Poland and partly due to the perceive imbalance of trade the pipeline would create in Europe’s energy market. European countries did not respect the U.S.’ boycott of the pipeline, resulting in sanctions against some European companies.
15-DEC-1983 — A fire broke out at a compressor station in Urengoy, USSR in western Siberia. Construction of the pipeline was still underway. (Cause of the fire not clear from available resources.)
1985 — Vladimir Putin was stationed by KGB to Dresden — located north of the western end of the Uzhgorod-Waidhaus pipeline — after Urengoy-Uzhgorod-Germany pipeline began operation.
19-NOV-1990 — Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed, setting limits of weaponry between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact states.
26-DEC-1991 — USSR was dissolved; the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) formed in its wake from some of the former Soviet Union’s members. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania elected not to join CIS.
1992-1994 — Russia suspended natural gas to Ukraine for non-payment several times over the course of two years.
XX-SEP-1993 — (into November 1994) Ukrainian companies diverted natural gas from pipelines several times. The reasons for the diversions are not clear; was gas diverted in lieu of transit tariffs, topping off reserves, or due to local shortages?
XX-SEP-1993 — Russia’s Boris Yeltsin offered a deal to Ukraine’s Leonid Kravchuck: Ukrainian debts would be forgiven in exchange for control of the Black Sea Fleet and Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal. The deal is scrapped after negative feedback from Ukrainian politicians. (pdf, pg 19)
XX-MAR-1994 — Tentative agreement made that Russia could acquire a 51% state in the Ukraine pipeline system.
1995 — Early in the year, Russia and Ukraine agreed to form a joint venture, Gaztransit, which would operate pipeline system in exchange for write down of Ukraine debt to Russia.
XX-NOV-1995 — Ukraine’s parliament banned privatization of oil and gas assets. The agreement for Gaztransit was never implemented nor was debt forgiven.
1997 — Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland were invited to join NATO.
1998 — A new contract between Gazprom and Naftohaz was written linking gas prices and transit tariffs but did not resolve pre-existing gas debts. Later the same year, Gazprom claimed Ukraine diverted gas and owed USD$2.8 billion, suspending oil and gas exports to Ukraine for 1999.
1999 — Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland became NATO members (pdf).
2000 — Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Oleh Dubyna acknowledged that 7-8 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas were diverted from pipelines before export that year. (pdf, pg 22)
04-OCT-2001 — 2001 Transit Agreement signed, settling the debt between Ukraine and Russia. (pdf, pg 22)
2002 — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania were invited to join NATO.
2004 — (April?) Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania became members.
XX-JUL-2004 — Ukraine’s debt of USD$1.25 billion for gas was settled with Gazprom and NAK Naftogaz. Ukraine may have been importing more gas from Turkmenistan.
22-NOV-2004 — Orange Revolution began.
23-JAN-2005 — Orange Revolution ended; Ukraine was one of three Commonwealth of Independent States to experience a “color revolution” between 2003-2005.
24-JAN-2005 – Yulia Tymoshenko takes office as Ukraine’s 10th prime minister; she is a proponent of Ukraine joining the EU and NATO.
08-SEP-2005 – President Viktor Yushchenko fires Tymoshenko and her government; observers believe this is political trumpery targeting Tymoshenko.
01-NOV-2006 — Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive PO-210 and died a few weeks later on 23-NOV. Litvinenko met former KGB members Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun at the Millennium Hotel in London’s Grosvenor Square where it is believed he drank tea containing the poison. Multiple byzantine theories about Litvinenko’s death arose.
28/29-NOV-2006 — Energy security was a key topic at NATO’s Riga, Latvia summit. Efforts aimed at a bilateral discussion with Vladimir Putin on the topic of energy security during this summit fell through. From RFERL on the joint summit declaration:
The Riga summit declaration breaks new ground with a reference to energy, saying the alliance recognizes its security can be affected “by the disruption of the flow of vital resources.” NATO undertakes to study the risks and identify areas where it could “add value” to its members’ relevant security interests.
07-MAY-2007 — Urengoy-Uzhgorod-Germany pipeline exploded near Boyarka in central Ukraine, just west of Kyiv/Kiev. Gazprom said the 30-meter break in pipe would not cause a disruption in gas delivery.
22-MAY-2007 — UK determined Andrei Lugovoy should be charged and tried for Litvinenko’s murder, then asked Russia to extradite Lugovoy in relation to Litvinenko’s death.
05-JUL-2007 — Russia refused to extradite Lugovoy due to the terms of its constitution. This perceived lack of cooperation may have discouraged relations between UK and Russia.
02-OCT-2007 — ‘Gazprom may cut gas to Ukraine‘ due to debt of USD$1.3B
08-OCT-2007 — ‘Ukraine settles Russian gas row‘
18-DEC-2007 — Yulia Tymoshenko takes office as Ukraine’s 13th prime minister.
05-JAN-2008 — ‘Gazprom threatens Ukraine gas cut‘; Gazprom said it would throttle gas on 11-JAN if USD$1.5B still not paid.
12-FEB-2008 — ‘Russian, Ukraine gas deal averts crisis’ reported after Putin and Yuschenko announce an agreement in which Ukraine would pay for Nov-Dec 2007 gas and USD$179.5/1000cm would be maintained through 2008. They also announced the formation of new energy intermediary companies as a JV between Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftohaz.
04-APR-2008 — Accession of Croatia and Albania addressed at Bucharest summit in April. NATO pledges Georgia and Ukraine will someday become members but are not invited to this summit. Czech Republic agrees to the installation of a U.S. missile defense radar tracking system. Installation of 10 interceptor missiles in Poland remains in negotiation.
18-AUG-2008 — Georgia exited the Commonwealth of Independent States as a result of the five-day Russo-Georgian War in early August.
XX-APR-2009 — Croatia and Albania become NATO members.
27-JUN-2010 — Illegals Program spy ring broken with arrest of 10 Russian spies including Anna Chapman.
09-JUL-2010 — All 10 Illegals Program spies arrested in US were swapped in Vienna for four Russian nationals. Two other spies had left the US before they could be arrested.
XX-OCT-2011 — Litvinenko’s widow Marina won the right to an coroner’s inquest in London; the inquest is delayed repeatedly. She insisted her deceased husband had worked with UK’s MI6 after fleeing to the UK in 2000.
24-FEB-2012 — ‘Russia threatens Ukraine over gas‘ after a shortfall of gas to EU through Ukraine during a severe cold snap. It’s not clear what caused the shortfall; Russia may try to run around Ukraine by way of the South Stream pipeline to avoid future disruptions blamed on Ukraine’s state oil and gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy. The conflict could be a head fake to mask Gasprom’s inability to respond to rapid short-term uptick in gas demand in Europe.
19-JUL-2012 — Magnitsky Act was introduced in the House.
14-DEC-2012 — President Obama signed the Magnitsky Act into law.
XX-MAY-2013 — (into JUL-2013) Coroner decided a public inquiry into Litvinenko’s death would be better than an inquest. Ministers rule out the request for an inquiry.
11-FEB-2014 — UK’s High Court rules Home Office in the wrong to decided against a public inquiry into Litvinenko’s death.
18/23-FEB-2014 — Protests erupt in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Maidan Square) in Kyiv.
01-MAR-2014 — Russia’s parliament approved the use of troops in Ukraine.
01-APR-2014 — (Related/unrelated?) Russia’s GLONASS satellite location system is offline beginning at midnight and not fully back up for 12 hours. No initial cause reported though some months later the outage its blamed on software update.
14-MAY-2014 — An alleged terrorist attack blamed for a gas pipeline explosion near Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
17-JUN-2014 — Urengoy-Uzhgorod-Germany pipeline exploded near Poltave in central Ukraine, located ~240 miles northwest of Donetsk and ~210 miles southeast of Kyiv/Kiev.
17-JUL-2014 — Malaysia Air flight MH17 downed over eastern Ukraine by a missile.
01-DEC-2014 — Vladimir Putin cancels the South Stream pipeline project running from Russia through the Black Sea to northern Bulgaria. (Recall Bulgaria became a NATO member in 2004.)
01-DEC-2014 — Gazprom signed signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkish BOTAŞ for construction of a new gas pipeline running beneath the Black Sea from Russia to the Turkey-Greece border. Part of the deal includes providing Russia gas to Turkey with the rest shipping to the European market.
26-JAN-2015 — Evgeny Buryakov was arrested for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiracy; his counterparts Victor Podobnyy and Igor Sporychev had already fled the country.
27-JAN-2015 — A public inquest began into the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
21-JAN-2016 — UK public inquest into the death of Alexander Litvinenko concluded it was an FSB operation likely approved by Putin.
11-MAR-2016 — Evgeny Buryakov pleaded guilty to begin a 30-month sentence.
28-MAR-2016 — Paul Manafort joins the Trump campaign.
06-JUN-2016 — Donnie Trump Jr. meets with Russian attorney Nataliya Veselnitskaya ostensibly to discuss Russia’s ban on adoptions of Russian children by Americans.
10/18-JUL-2016 — In the run up to Trump’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, the Republican Party’s platform on Ukraine was ‘softened’; the final wording said the U.S. would provide “appropriate assistance” to Ukraine and “greater coordination with NATO defense planning” instead of “lethal” assistance. The wording was changed to coordinate with Trump’s position, in contrast with that of the original proposed by an RNC delegate.
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Something Smells — and It’s Not Burning Oil
September 16, 2019 /133 Comments/in Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, State Department, Trump Administration /by Rayne
[NB: Check the byline, thanks! /~Rayne]
Others have offered more trenchant responses after Trump’s tweets as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham’s warmongering, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s drivel about the apparent attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility this weekend. Let me offer my two cents about the attack.
This is an early assessment of what happened by a Bloomberg correspondent:
BREAKING: U.S. government releases satellite pictures showing the surgical strike against the Saudi oil facility of Abqaiq — direct hits on the critical spheroids used to treat the crude | #OOTT #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 🛢⛽️ Here’s our latest update, with @nayrazz https://t.co/ZMb9BRaN5f pic.twitter.com/l7xNIaLcIw
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) September 15, 2019
Do open the tweet to look at both images in it; this is the one on the right in the tweet.
Here’s a another image of a portion of the damage from a Bloomberg article (click to expand):
Note carefully this color image as it appears on Bloomberg’s site is an expanded, rotated view of the damage shown in the black-and-white marked up photo on the left in the Bloomberg correspondent’s tweet. The pond at the right hand of the area under smoke is the point of reference.
Now note the detail from the color satellite photo. The color image is attributed to Planet Labs, Inc. at the Bloomberg article while the black-and-white ones are attributed to Digital Globe. The detail is pretty good but not as good as the image taken of the Iranian launch site explosion Trump tweeted on August 30.
I’ll be the first to admit I am not an expert on missiles, munitions, explosions, or oil processing systems. But something about these images doesn’t make sense to me. They don’t look like what I’d expect from missile damage targeting oil facilities.
Below is an image of a BP refinery explosion in Texas from 2005; the cause was blamed on exposure of flammable vapors to a spark from a running motor.
No missile involved. No drone dropping an explosive, either. Some leak and a spark and *FWOOM* (love the technical term).
Granted, the satellite imagery didn’t catch the Abqaiq facility immediately after the explosion when there would have been more flames. But the damage afterward doesn’t look as extensive as the BP refinery explosion.
Note the size of the holes in the rounded tanks in the second black-and-white satellite image to the right in the Bloomberg correspondent’s tweet. Awfully small, more like something used on an automobile-sized target, in my uninformed opinion.
Now note the shadows in the images. These were taken before solar noon over the location; shadows appear on the north-northwest side of any object with adequate profile above ground.
What ever hit the tank-like features came from the northwest and not from the east.
Iran is to the northeast of Saudi Arabia across the gulf.
One more wrinkle — check this map from the Indian Defence Review circa February 2015, analyzing Saudi Arabia’s defenses.
The Abqaiq oil processing facility is located between Riyadh and Dammam.
How would 17 separate missiles or drones from either Iran or Yemen get by the defense network to hit the facility from the northwest?
Pompeo has now said the attack didn’t come from Iraq’s direction.
A whole cascade of questions arises from there on out if you think about it. For grins use Twitter’s search tool and look for “abqaiq.” If you scroll through you’ll see many people are noting similar issues and posing similar questions.
Recommended additional reading: Connecticut’s Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted a thread last night related to the other culture issues involved in the regional tensions. It’s worth your time.
1/ Okay, in a few tweets I’m going to try to explain what’s going on in Yemen today, so you have some knowledge to counter this claim that America needs to bomb Iran because the Houthis bombed Saudi Arabia. It’s complicated, but now you need to know.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 16, 2019
Treat this as an open thread.
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Light Cycles
June 14, 2018 /6 Comments/in Energy Policy, Environment /by Quinn Norton
In 8 minutes, 18 seconds light travels from the sun to Earth. In that time, roughly 25 million in national debt accrues. Somewhere around 157,806 tonnes of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. 113,046 years of global human experience goes by in 8 minutes, 18 seconds. Around 900 people die — a Jonestown Tragedy, if such a thing could be a unit.
Here is how to make the modern world:
Begin with light, born billions years ago at the heart of the sun. It wanders for untold time around the vast interior of our star, bumping into this and that in a world of unfathomable heat and pressure. A very small bit of that light, called a photon, meanders its way slowly past the solar surface, and starts a frenetic journey 93 million miles aimed at us. It experiences no time in all of its existence, but for us, it takes 8 minutes and 18 seconds to reach the atmospheric skin of our world. It avoids scattering in our atmosphere, or bouncing off the water back into space, or striking dead land, and instead falls on the outstretched leaf of a plant. Plants have always been the mechanism of transformation, the way sunlight energy is banked on Earth. Photosynthesis absorbs the moment of light out of the free flight between worlds and turns it into a chemical instrument.
Take crushed Jurassic ferns, the algae, the microscopic floating forests and creatures of the Devonian sea, the Carboniferous forest, and everything since, save them from being eaten by bacteria. Cook and compress them for an incomprehensible time under geologic weight, stored deep underground. Strings of hydrocarbons in their decayed bodies draw together into tighter, longer, and more pure clumps of blackened sunlight. This is fossil fuel, the borrowed and condensed light energy of past eons. Let it rest for hundreds of millions of years.
Wait for the rise of humans, who search out this stuff with an insatiable lust. And the rest — our civilizations, the mechanisms of our lives, from the machines of the industrial revolution to the construction of the LA freeways, the painting of Guernica, landing on the moon, and the building of Beijing — all of that happens in a geological eye blink.
For a half a billion years the Earth banked sunlight this way,letting the corpses of fallen life slowly simplify towards being only: hydrogen, surrounding and bound to carbon, and the energy of the sun thusly contained. It seems simple, but there’s a reason societies are addicted to it, it’s amazing stuff. The energy density of fossil fuel is such that a teaspoon could run an iPhone for a couple of months. We stare impatiently at a pump, tap our feet, glance at the time, while moving more energy in 3 minutes than our ancestors would harness in their lives. We are greedy for this energy. We use our best science to pull it out of the ground, borrowing the past’s light to make more of our world, and more of us to inhabit it. We betray each other for it, kill each other, despoil our land and sea for it. Dale Pendell, the mad and brilliant philosopher/poet of drugs, commented on fossil fuels in his book Pharmako/Poeia, namely, the practice of huffing them. In all of his Pharmako series, spanning a range of drugs that baffle, bless, and destroy the mind, the fumes of fossil fuels were the only substance he ever seemed to condemn. Whatever the high may be, he explained the practitioners of huffing don’t have the faculties left to speak of it. Fossil fuels, the normally ecumenical Pendell explained, always lead to irrevocable destruction of mind and body.
But if we are addicted to this thing that kills us, what we do with it is amazing too. We make the old sunlight into batteries, light and light switches. We move giant steam turbines with it. Plastic is made of ancient sunlight. We use it to make fertilizers and feed billions. We pour it into planes, we spoon it into our children’s mouths, we cover their heads with Devonian sunlight to keep their skin safe from new sunlight. The way we use fossil fuels is very human; we have always burned the past to make the future. But we didn’t create this situation, we found it. We can’t create or destroy anything in this equation; we move it around to the benefit and detriment of the momentarily extant creatures. The past Earth is our creditor, with the constant and rich deposits that got us into this mess. The Earth built this wealth for billions of years. Then we came along, the trust fund species that’s hooked, not listening, and blowing the family fortune on a suicidal bender.
Though as an energy source unsustainable, the process by which nature banks energy is by no means halted. Undoubtedly with the passage of sufficient time, plenty of our bodies, our children, dogs, cats, and houseplants will become part of the rich, anonymous hydrocarbon slurry. There’s nothing we could do that would really change that in the long run. We’re just digging it up and burning it much faster than it forms.
We love to talk of innovation, consumption, excess, and even entitlement when it comes to our energy use. But in truth, physics puts us in our place. We will never create a technology that can consume or create energy, only ever more ways to move it around. With every move a price is paid to entropy, the ultimate accounting of loss, the ebbing away of vital heat. With every transformation of energy, Mr. Entropy takes his fee, and moves infinitesimally closer to the quietude of universal death. The tax he puts on fossil fuels is immense.
In 8 minutes, 18 seconds, around 2,000 babies are born. 45218 barrels of oil are imported into America. We pay $3,074,824 for that 8 minutes, 18 seconds. During that time, more energy will hit the Earth in the form of solar photons than we use in a year.
No one is sure how much biomass goes into the earth to become more fossil fuel these days, though as we deforest and burn the world, it lessens. It might be as much as Somalia’s energy use every year, around 200 gigawatts. Every year we take 12 terawatts back out of the earth, most of the energy use of everything else, according to Saul Griffith, a MacArther Genius and expert on energy generation and consumption. He has an air of palpable frustration when he talks about fossil fuels. “It’s absolutely a Ponzi scheme against our kids,” said Griffith.
Right now we act like we are desperately running out of cheap energy, and we fight like starved children over fossil fuel, while we are bathed so constantly in the raw energy that made it we can barely imagine it being useful. “There is a shitload more than we need. 86,000 terrawatts hit the surface every year, and we’re too stupid or too lazy to use it,” said Griffith. A single day’s light brings us around 48,000 times as much energy as we use that day.
We don’t capture much of it, and in America, little is planned to change that. Our energy infrastructure is 30, 40, or in some places, 50 years old, and often meant to be replaced a decade or more ago. As we extend the lifetime of those old plants, we artificially lower the cost of energy. “It’s an infrastructure debt we’re ignoring,” says Griffith, “You can only get this far into monetary debt by using energy badly.”
Through heroic measures we can change all this. For a mere 4 trillion dollars, says Griffith, we could achieve energy independence in America. That seems like a lot of money, and it is. But such an effort is not without precedent, if we eliminated fossil fuel subsidies and instituted a jobs program with the money saved, subsidized the education we need, we could be well on our way in a few years, gradually lessening our dose, taking in something more pure, more healthy.
The estimate for the world is much harder to get. Sampling between different countries’ studies on energy independence, and Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi’s plan for full renewables by 2050, it’s perhaps 80 to 100 trillion dollars. This is still a bargain, because we would still have a world we can comfortably inhabit. Money at this level is not a real thing. It’s just human time and resources, focused on a goal.
The estimates for what we spend globally to subsidize the fossil fuel industry vary from $200 billion (OECD) to $5 trillion, (IMF), and none of those figures include what we pay for it. The more renewable energy caduceus cult build, the less we have to pay for fossil fuels, the less we have to dig them out of the ground.
Building a new system of energy for the world is the work of a generational at least, but right now we are living through a global pandemic of unemployment, and in particular youth unemployment. They are the people with the most to lose in a future of energy crisis, climate change, extinction, and shitty air. Nearly 75 million young people are unemployed, a huge portion of them near the very deserts from where we could get our best solar energy.
We could use our last hit of fossil fuel to build a new energy miracle. We could clean up our mess, and employ our world in a meaningful shared project while we’re at it.
We could end the Ponzi scheme before it kills our children. We could bask in the sun without the 100 million year wait. The sun would support us, for billions of years, paying all of our bills. The sun could make us rich beyond our mere dreams. But we don’t, because we believe it’s too expensive, too unrealistic a project. As if the rest of this was realistic. We keep burning the trust fund while the world around us slowly dies of it, drowning in a poisonous soup of hot air and acid oceans. We are making a choice every day we wait, about who we are and what we choose to be. It’s a terrible choice, but not without its own glories.
At the end of his meditation on the huffing of fossil fuels, Pendall concluded: “The ecologist Howard Odum once quipped that the evolutionary purpose of human beings was to release all the carbon locked up under the ground back into the biosphere. If true, our mission will soon be accomplished. That it be a suicide mission in no way detracts from its grandeur or heroism.” Ours is an amazing suicide, we’ve done so much so fast. I don’t, I can’t, regret that humanity has made civilization. But right now, it’s still a suicide mission.
In 8 minutes, 18 seconds, you can listen to most of American Pie. A person can walk .42 of a mile at a normal human pace. That person can look around them and see more energy falling on their world than they could use in their lifetime. In any 8 minutes, 18 seconds, waiting for the next rain of photons from the ever-giving sun, any one of us could decide this world is worth saving.
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https://www.ipcc.ch
http://www.ecology.com/
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-fuel-subsidies-cost-5-trillion-annually-and-worsen-pollution/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed
With much thanks to Simon Quellen Field
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The Curious Timing of Kushner’s visit to KSA and the U.S.’ EITI Exit
November 6, 2017 /19 Comments/in Congress, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Trump Administration /by Rayne
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — he of the shaky memory and a massive debt in need of refinancing — met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman within the same week the U.S. withdrew from an anti-corruption effort and Saudi Arabia cracked down on corruption. What curious timing.
Let’s look at a short timeline of key events:
Tuesday 24-OCT-2017 — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman helms a three-day business development conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, referred to as “Davos in the desert.” Attendees include large investment banks as well as fund representatives; one of the key topics is the impending IPO for Saudi Aramco.
Wednesday 25-OCT-2017 — Jared Kushner departed for an unpublicized meeting with government officials in Saudi Arabia.
Wednesday 25-OCT-2017 — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker traveled separately from Kushner to participate in bilateral discussions, which included the memorandum of understanding with the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC). The U.S. and Saudi Arabia chair the TFTC while Gulf States form its membership.
Friday 27-OCT-2017 — Reports emerged that at least one Trump campaign team will be indicted on Monday.
Monday 30-OCT-2017 — Jared Kushner met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, discussing strategy until 4:00 am. News reports didn’t indicate when exactly Kushner arrived or when discussions began. (Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopolous were indicted this day, but not Kushner; good thing “excellent guy” Papadopolous as a former Trump campaign “energy and oil consultant” wasn’t involved in Kushner’s work with Saudi Arabia, that we know of.)
Thursday 02-NOV-2017 — U.S. Office of Natural Resources Revenue sent a letter to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a multinational effort to reduce corruption by increasing transparency around payments made by fossil fuel companies to foreign governments. The U.S. had been an implementing member since 2014.
Saturday 04-NOV-2017 — At 7:49 am EDT, Trump tweets,
“Would very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange. Important to the United States!”
Saturday 04-NOV-2017 — (approximately 5:00 pm EDT, midnight Riyadh local time) At least 10 Saudi princes and dozens of government ministers were arrested and detained under what has been reported as an anti-corruption initiative. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a critic of Trump and a tech industry investor of note, was among those arrested this weekend.
Saturday 04-NOV-2017 — At 11:12 pm EDT Reuters reported Trump said he had spoken with King Salman bin Abdulaziz about listing Saudi Aramco on the NYSE. The IPO is expected to be the largest offering ever.
But wait…there are some much earlier events which should be inserted in this timeline:
Friday 03-FEB-2017 — Using the Congressional Review Act to fast track their effort, Senate passes a joint resolution already approved by the house, disproving the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rule 13q-1, which implemented Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 1504, the bipartisan product of former senator Richard Lugar and Sen. Ben Cardin (now ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee),
“…a public company that qualified as a “resource extraction issuer” would have been required to publicly disclose in an annual report on Form SD information relating to any single “payment” or series of related “payments” made by the issuer, its subsidiaries or controlled entities of $100,000 or more during the fiscal year covered by the Form SD to a “foreign government” or the U.S. Federal government for the “commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals” on a “project”-by-“project” basis. Resource extraction issuers were not required to comply with the rule until their first fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 2018 and their first report on Form SD was not due until 150 days after such fiscal year end.” (source: National Law Review)
Section 1504 and SEC rule 13q-1 enacted the U.S.’ participation in the EITI’s anti-corruption effort.
Monday 13-FEB-2017 — Trump signed the disproving resolution. (Probably just another coincidence that Michael Flynn resigned this day as National Security Adviser.)
From the earliest days of this administration, both the Trump White House and the GOP-led Congress have been ensuring that extractive industries including oil companies will not be accountable for taxes, fees, and other miscellaneous payments (read: dark money donations and bribes, the latter being a bone of contention to Trump) paid to foreign governments.
Some of the immediate beneficiaries are Exxon Mobil, for which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used to work, and the Koch brothers, among U.S. oil companies which claimed additional reporting requirements under Rule 13q-1 would make them less competitive with overseas oil producers.
What’s not yet clear: How is this reduced openness supposed to help track financing of terrorism, which Treasury was supposed to be working on?
What of transparency related to arms deals involving Saudi money or Aramco? What of transactions between U.S. oil companies and other foreign companies involved in deals with Russian fossil fuel firms like Gazprom?
Can Trump, Jared Kushner, their family and minions, and members of Congress profit from this increased lack of transparency?
What happens to the U.S. and global economy when oil prices rise without adequate transparency to the market to explain price increases?
Also not yet clear: what happened to the 19.5% stake in Rosneft sold last year, allegedly bought by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Glencore (the same Glencore now embroiled in Paradise Papers scandal)? This massive chunk of Russia’s largest oil company has increased in value in tandem with crude oil’s rise, especially since the Saudi crackdown on Saturday. What’s to keep this massive amount of Rosneft shares from being laundered through stock markets as Deutsche Bank did between 2011 and 2015?
It’s all just so curious, the unanswered questions, the odd timing: Aided and abetted by GOP-led Congress, Trump pulls out of an anti-corruption initiative while Treasury Department appears to work on anti-corruption, and Kushner meets on the sly with the Saudi crown prince just days before an anti-corruption crackdown.
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Three Things: Mas Gas, Las Vegas and Sass
August 4, 2017 /19 Comments/in Culture, Cybersecurity, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy /by Rayne
I’m not even going to touch the massive stream of news out of Washington over the last 24 hours, from the Washington Post piece featuring ‘leaked’ transcripts of Trump’s whack doodle conversations with Mexico’s and Australia’s presidents to the impaneled grand jury and subpoenas. Plenty of other material not getting adequate air time.
Speaking of air time, hope you have a chance to catch Marcy on Democracy Now. She spoke with Amy Goodman about the confirmation of Chris Wray as FBI Director as well as former Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler’s lawsuit against Fox News.
Venezuela’s state-run oil producer PDVSA is cutting oil sales to U.S. refining unit Citgo Petroleum. At the same time it is increasing shipments of oil to Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft. Venezuela is using its oil to pay down a $1.6 billion loan extended to PDVSA last year. Rosneft has loaned an even larger sum of money in the not-too-distant past, but the terms aren’t known; payments in oil as well as a hefty minority stake in Citgo were believed to be included in negotiations.
The threat to U.S. gasoline supply: though at lower levels than a decade ago, Venezuela is the third largest supplier of oil to the U.S.
Citgo has, however, been shifting its purchasing wider afield than just PDVSA:
Citgo last year started sending gasoline and other fuels to Venezuela in exchange for a portion of its crude supply. But Citgo has increased the volume of U.S. oil it refines, and has also has also expanded its crude import sources.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has promised strong economic sanctions against Venezuela’s government after a Constituent Assembly was elected last week in what United States called a “sham” vote. The new body will have power to rewrite the constitution and abolish the opposition-led Congress.
If those sanctions were to constrain Venezuela’s oil shipments to the United States, Citgo could be ahead of its competitors in finding new supply sources.
The public will feel at the pump whatever happens to Citgo and other gasoline producers. Gasoline prices are already $0.16-0.24 per gallon higher than they were last year.
Who is profiting from this?
I’ve been thinking about the tagline, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” right about now after the arrest of Marcus Hutchins, a.k.a. MalwareTechBlog following Defcon’s end in Las Vegas. You’ve probably read Marcy’s piece already (catch up if you didn’t); since she published her post the information security community has been digging into Hutchins’ past and stewing about why/what/how.
Some speculate this was an aggressive recruitment effort; this might explain why the U.K. didn’t arrest him before he left for Defcon. Or did the U.K. and the U.S. agree not to spook any Defcon attendees by stopping Hutchins before he arrived in Vegas? Responses by U.K. authorities are annoyingly banal:
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “We are in touch with local authorities in Las Vegas following reports of a British man being arrested.”
The UK’s National Crime Agency said: “We are aware a UK national has been arrested but it’s a matter for the authorities in the US.”
Others speculate he was framed as the target of revenge by someone caught up in Alphabay’s seizure. How does shutting down WannaCry fit into this scenario?
I don’t have a favorite theory right now. All I know is that WannaCry’s heat map sticks in my craw.
One thing which should come out of this situation is a dialog about coding, malware, and intent; the infosec community is having that discussion now, but it needs to be wider. If a white hat codes malware in part or whole to investigate capabilities, they are only separated from criminal malware producers/sellers/distributors by intent. How does law enforcement determine intent?
Your opinion is constantly shaped by the media you consume. Some consumers aren’t conscious of this shaping; neither are some producers.
And some producers know it but are just plain jerks.
A very important way in which opinion is shaped is by the perspective presenting a viewpoint. If only the members of one-half of the population ever gets a chance to present a perspective, consumers’ opinions are narrowed by that same factor. This is why gender equity in media is critical; if you’re only hearing men you’re not getting but part of the picture.
WIRED magazine knows that gender equity in content is important, but their last issue contained only male-written content. As a twisted tribute to the women who helped produce the issue, WIRED stuck a colophon listing important females.
Including a dog.
Really? The women of WIRED are on the same footing as a pet?
Somebody/ies at WIRED need a kick in the sass; I don’t give a fig if half the staff is female if the content itself is all-male. I’m going to do my best this next month not to cite WIRED.
Don’t think for a moment this is just WIRED, either. The VIDA Count measures annually gender equity in literary arts. There’s progress though slow.
That’s a wrap on this open thread. Let’s hope with Tiny Hands McGolfer on vacation that news slows a bit as we enter this weekend. I’m not holding my breath though. Behave.
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Three Things: Bad, Worse, and Just Deal Already
August 2, 2017 /27 Comments/in Contractors, Culture, Energy Policy, Football, Mueller Probe, Trump Administration /by Rayne
I’ve got to run some errands, only have time for a very quick three things post.
Because Trump wants a cheaper Air Force One, the Air Force bought a bankrupt Russian company’s canceled Boeing 747s.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Wanted a Cheaper Air Force One. So USAF Is Buying a Bankrupt Russian Firm’s Undelivered 747s
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— Defense One (@DefenseOne) August 1, 2017
Why does this sound like 1) a crap deal which doesn’t solve the need for an attack-resistant AF1, 2) a bail-out for some entity, whether Boeing or whoever in Russia is holding the bag on the down payment?
A few days ago I read yet another right-wing character assassination attempt aimed at Robert Mueller, distributing disinformation related to Russia and radioactive materials. Real story completely stretched beyond recognition to attack the special counsel looking into Trump-Russia.
Meanwhile, the Los Alamos National Laboratory has improperly MAILED radioactive materials repeatedly.
This highlights our long-term problems with outsourcing nuclear sites’ management to private contractors.
Please let’s not allow Trump cut a deal on this matter. It’s bad enough we have Dancing With The Stars’ Rick Perry involved in any way. And watch for more disinfo about Robert Mueller as the Trump-Russia investigation heats up.
Baltimore Ravens need to get off it and hire Colin Kaepernick. Baltimore the city needs him. Not only is Kaepernick a good Plan B because of Joe Flacco’s back, the Ravens need a reset on their image — many women still don’t have a high opinion of the Ravens (or the NFL) after the Ray Rice scandal. And Kaepernick is a solid player worth watching; he doesn’t deserve the racist bullshit he’s received from the NFL, quietly blacklisted for exercising his First Amendment rights. Football isn’t slavery demanding forfeit of human rights, after all — or is it?
Off to run the roads. This is an open thread. Behave.
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Three Things: Killing Oil, Too Money, Kaspersky’s World
July 26, 2017 /32 Comments/in Cybersecurity, Economics, Energy Policy /by Rayne
Too much going on here today but the existing threads are getting too deep and a couple are drifting off-topic. Here’s three quick things to chew on and an open thread.
The marketplace will bring death to oil long before the government. (Bloomberg). But will governments — US and oil-producing countries alike — get in the way of alternative energy in spite of the market demanding more alternatives to fossil fuels? With this trend away from combustion engines pressing on them, fossil fuel producers are shifting toward increased LNG for use in electricity production; this only shifts CO2 creation from vehicles to power plants. Will the market put an end to that, too?
There’s too much money out there if Delta can order multiple planes configured for all-first class service. I just spoke with a friend earlier today about round-trip fares from a major Midwest airport to major cities in Europe; they were quite high even with a departure date more than a month out, and higher than they had seen in a while. Fuel prices haven’t increased that much over the last year; low oil prices are threatening pipelines as financing construction costs more than the return on oil. Somewhere between slack fuel prices, firm fares and demand, Delta’s making enough money to build these let-them-eat-cake planes.
One could argue that if buyers have the money they can have whatever they want — except that taxpayers finance the infrastructure including essential safety regulatory system which will now protect the few and not the many while increasing congestion. Too money — somebody needs to pay more taxes to support the infrastructure they’re using.
Kaspersky Labs is releasing around the globe a free version of their antivirus software (Reuters). It won’t replace the paid version of their AV software, providing only very basic protection. I’m not using it, though, for two reasons: if it’s like Kaspersky’s existing free tool, it will send messages back to the parent company about infections it finds — and possibly more. Congress and the U.S. intelligence community may have concerns about Kaspersky Lab’s vulnerability to the Russian government; I’m more concerned about Kaspersky Lab having been breached at least once in 2015, compromising data in their systems. Your mileage may vary; use under advisement.
That’s it for now. This is an open thread. Behave.
P.S. The fight against attacks on the health care system isn’t over. Call your senator at (202) 224-3121. Other tools for your use in this post.
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Death of the Car(go) Cult(ure)
July 6, 2017 /12 Comments/in automobiles, Culture, Economics, Energy Policy /by Rayne
I had an epiphany recently. It sneaked up on me, right about the time I let go of my comfortable illusion of middle-class security and embraced the fact I may be faced with more than $26,000 per year in health care premiums and untold thousands in out-of-pocket deductibles and medication expenses. It could be more than my household income, forcing me to draw down on retirement savings nearly ten years prematurely.
Ticking off monthly expenses — what things could be reduced or eliminated in my household to make up for the additional health care expenses if some mutant abomination of AHCA passes — I came to an abrupt conclusion.
I don’t need a car anymore.
It costs more to own a car at my personal disposal than calling a car-for-hire, whether Uber or Lyft or local cab service.
I had to sit down after that. For nearly fifty years I’ve thought I needed a car, that every American aspired to vehicle ownership, save for big city residents for whom cars would be unmanageable. My entrance to adulthood was marked by the ability to drive a car; my personal freedom hinged upon being able to get away in my own vehicle.
But now? I might be trapped by a car. My six-year-old grocery-getter Mom mobile cost me more than I invested in the stock market the year it was manufactured — it’s worth a fraction of its original value, while my stock is worth several times over. My investment in wheels won’t pay for my future health.
I thought about my kids and the reality they face; only four years separates these two siblings, but a massive cultural shift occurred between them. My 23-year-old daughter drove off like the wind when I gave her my car keys seven years ago; she saw her first vehicle as freedom, just as I did when I was her age. She just signed her first lease on a vehicle, though; after crunching the numbers on new cars, it didn’t make sense to buy one. Leasing a car would yield a lower total cost to operate than buying one. She’s also not stuck with trying to sell it in a couple years when an electric vehicle might be preferred.
This isn’t an earth-shattering shift, but it’s a tectonic move; no one in my family has ever leased a vehicle. We have always bought and owned them over the last four generations.
And now my son. One might assume he was a car buff living here in the backyard of the Big Three Automakers, the progeny of one family which made its fortunes in auto parts and spawn of another family in which two successive generations made a living engineering in automobile manufacturing.
But no — he dragged his feet for nearly three years getting his license. He just didn’t care to get it; the only reason he got a driver’s permit was that everyone else his age had done so. He had the public school bus to get him to class every day, and me to get him to every intramural event. Why should he bother when he had it so good?
Especially when it came to the annoying expense of having his own vehicle. Being in a high-risk group — male, 16-25, driving more than 25 miles a week — he might pay more in insurance each year than the purchase price of the car he would drive. And then gas, which was near $4.00/gallon when he got his permit. And car washes, tires, wipers, oil changes, other increasingly frequent car repairs, and so on…this was not freedom.
His sister had been fortunate to land an internship for the duration of her college career, which helped defray automobile expenses. This has not been the case for her brother because of their different academic pursuits. He works at a summer job, stashing as much of his paycheck away for the academic year while living on his tips during the season. The paycheck and tips combined from his summer service job do not equal the amount his sister made each year; he simply cannot afford a car of his own.
We don’t know how long this may be the case, either. His prospects are different from his sister’s given his field of study. He may need to pursue a master’s degree immediately after he gets his bachelor’s. Leads on internships for his junior year of college are good, but the pay may be less than his sister made at the same point in their studies. A car of his own is a very iffy prospect for years.
Let’s face it: my son’s life is closer to that of the overwhelming number of American’s his age than my daughter’s is to her cohort. This is the shift in our culture, one in which we begin to let go of personal and family automobiles as a norm.
The more I thought about it, the more disturbed I became. Both of my kids will leave college without any debt; I spent what should probably have been my retirement health care savings on their tuition and board. In contrast, my prospective son-in-law carries $40,000 in debt after his graduation this month. Thankfully he has a good job and can pay it down quickly, but what of all other college students in the U.S.? The overwhelming majority will be saddled with a similar or greater amount of debt and middling jobs. They’re part of nearly 50% of America which cannot muster $400 cash in the event of an emergency, perhaps part of the 53% participating in the stock market but still one of the precarious.
These youngsters will be hard pressed to juggle health insurance premiums and deductibles under AHCA with massive college tuition debt and rising rents.
They will be hard pressed to buy a car outright. Screw all of those idiotic “Millennials are killing everything!” opinion pieces; their parents and grandparents have done little to ensure college would not burden them as much or more than an automobile payment.
Or a mortgage. I realized, too, that I am financing and paying taxes on a garage and a driveway I rarely use. I must trek out and shovel tons of snow every year to keep that rarely-used driveway clean; when it’s too much to do by hand, I break out the gas-guzzling, exhaust-belching snowblower.
All in service to a rapidly depreciating fossil-fueled demi-god with a deteriorating finish and in need of an oil change. I’ve become an adherent of a cargo cult, who has for too long believed that possessing this object would yield some greater blessing from the great god of capitalism. Instead of throwing several handfuls of dollars per mile traveled into a gaping maw I should be riding my bike or taking a bus.
When the rest of the U.S. wakes up to this same reality, the real earth-shattering shift will begin. Perhaps it already has.
What happens to a people when they lose their religion? We’re about to find out.
Food for thought:
U.S. automakers question possible excess capacity – but is the challenge too much manufacturing capacity or too little buyers’ capacity due to decades of stagnant wages?
If carmakers like Volvo are already committed to switching completely to electric while entire cities and countries are forcing fossil fuel’s phase out, are potential car buyers simply driving their gas guzzlers to death until the industry has completely migrated?
Or maybe the future isn’t on the road but in the air; will buyers save their pennies for a flying car?
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Did NSA Just Reveal Its China BIOS Story Was Made Up?
January 4, 2017 /5 Comments/in Cybersecurity, Energy Policy, EO 12333 /by emptywheel
Secrecy News just released an NSA notice to Congress of authorized disclosure of classified information. The notice was dated December 13, just two days before 60 Minutes had a solicitous piece on the NSA.
Here’s the classified information the NSA says they gave what must be 60 Minutes.
The reference to assisting in locating hostages probably map to the metadata analysis of pirates done onscreen (albeit with altered phone numbers).
But what’s not there in unredacted form — at least beyond the vague description of “USG efforts to mitigate cyber threats” was the China kaboom story told on the show.
John Miller: Could a foreign country tomorrow topple our financial system?
Gen. Keith Alexander: I believe that a foreign nation could impact and destroy major portions of our financial system, yes.
John Miller: How much of it could we stop?
Gen. Keith Alexander: Well, right now it would be difficult to stop it because our ability to see it is limited.
One they did see coming was called the BIOS Plot. It could have been catastrophic for the United States. While the NSA would not name the country behind it, cyber security experts briefed on the operation told us it was China. Debora Plunkett directs cyber defense for the NSA and for the first time, discusses the agency’s role in discovering the plot.
Debora Plunkett: One of our analysts actually saw that the nation state had the intention to develop and to deliver, to actually use this capability– to destroy computers.
John Miller: To destroy computers.
Debora Plunkett: To destroy computers. So the BIOS is a basic input, output system. It’s, like, the foundational component firmware of a computer. You start your computer up. The BIOS kicks in. It activates hardware. It activates the operating system. It turns on the computer.
This is the BIOS system which starts most computers. The attack would have been disguised as a request for a software update. If the user agreed, the virus would’ve infected the computer.
John Miller: So, this basically would have gone into the system that starts up the computer, runs the systems, tells it what to do.
Debora Plunkett: That’s right.
John Miller: –and basically turned it into a cinderblock.
Debora Plunkett: A brick.
John Miller: And after that, there wouldn’t be much you could do with that computer.
Debora Plunkett: That’s right. Think about the impact of that across the entire globe. It could literally take down the U.S. economy.
John Miller: I don’t mean to be flip about this. But it has a kind of a little Dr. Evil quality– to it that, “I’m going to develop a program that can destroy every computer in the world.” It sounds almost unbelievable.
Debora Plunkett: Don’t be fooled. There are absolutely nation states who have the capability and the intentions to do just that.
John Miller: And based on what you learned here at NSA. Would it have worked?
Debora Plunkett: We believe it would have. Yes.
As I noted at the time, the story — the claim that a country of 1.3 billion people who have become very interdependent with the United States would want to destroy the US economy — was a bit absurd.
I’ll need to go back and review this, but the jist of the scary claim at the heart of the report is that the NSA caught China planning a BIOS plot to shut down the global economy.
Shut.
Global.
Of course, if that happened, it’d mean a goodly percentage of China’s 1.3 billion people would go hungry, which would lead to unbelievable chaos in China, which would mean the collapse of the state in China, the one thing the Chinese elite want to prevent more than anything.
But the NSA wants us to believe that this was actually going to happen.
That China was effectively going to set off a global suicide bomb. Strap on the economy in a cyber-suicide vest and … KABOOOOOOOM!
And the NSA heroically thwarted that attack.
That’s what they want us to believe and some people who call themselves reporters are reporting as fact.
Anyway, like I said, no unredacted mention that this was among the classified information shared with CBS. Even accounting for the fact that NSA didn’t identify the country in question to CBS, even the description of the plot would seem to be classified.
If it were true.
But it doesn’t appear on the list of classified things revealed to CBS.
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While America Debates Rex Tillerson Nomination, Saudis and Russians Join Hands to Raise Oil Prices
December 11, 2016 /19 Comments/in Energy Policy /by emptywheel
At about 10:46 yesterday morning, Andrea Mitchell reported that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was expected to be named Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.
Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, two sources close to the transition process told NBC News on Saturday.
The 64-year-old veteran oil executive has no government or diplomatic experience, although he has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pick would put to rest weeks-long speculation of who would earn the post as the U.S.’s top diplomat, and would place Tillerson fourth in line to the presidency.
Tillerson, of Wichita Falls, Texas, has already notified his corporate board about taking on the new role, sources told NBC News.
Since then, the chattering class has discussed the Tillerson nomination at length, focusing mostly on his close ties to Vladimir Putin (see this report by Steve Coll, who wrote a book on Exxon’s private empire), not the fact that such a nomination would further demonstrate that Trump plans on reversing any efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change as President. Curiously, Russian hawks turned oil company players Condi Rice and Robert Gates reportedly recommended him. In the face of a potentially problematic confirmation battle, Trump’s campaign has since tried to deflate that trial balloon, suggesting the pick won’t be announced for another few days.
While the chattering class was focusing on Tillerson and on competing stories about why Russia hacked Hillary Clinton’s team, something else was happening: oil states were agreeing to cut production. At first, yesterday morning before Mitchell’s scoop, it was just the Saudi led OPEC states, making good on a plan announced November 30.
But then, yesterday afternoon, something unexpected happened. Russia and other non-OPEC petro-states joined in, and Saudi Arabia claimed it would cut production even further.
Saudi Arabia signaled it’s ready to cut oil production more than expected, a surprise announcement made minutes after Russia and several non-other OPEC countries pledged to curb output next year.
Taken together, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’s first deal with its rivals since 2001 and the Saudi comments represent a forceful effort by producers to wrest back control of the global oil market, depressed by persistent oversupply and record inventories.
“This is shock and awe by Saudi Arabia,” said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects Ltd. in London. “It shows the commitment of Riyadh to rebalance the market and should end concerns about OPEC delivering the deal.”
Oil prices have surged more than 15 percent since OPEC announced Nov. 30 it will cut production for the first time in eight years, rising this week briefly above $55. The price rise has propelled the shares of energy groups from Exxon Mobil Corp. to shale firms such as Continental Resources Inc.
[N]on-OPEC countries agreed to reduce production by 558,000 barrels a day, suggesting he had been waiting for the deal before committing to further cuts. The non-OPEC reduction is equal to the anticipated demand growth next year in China and India, according to data from the International Energy Agency.
We’ll see whether these commitments actually take place; such promises have a way of being broken, or at least cheated on.
Nevertheless, this signals that the petro-states — even those that worked to get Trump and his petro-cabinet elected — are finally going to work in concert to raise prices again.
Throughout the election, I kept remembering the Saudis could do such a thing, which would have tanked Obama’s “recovery.” High gas prices in 2008 were already making things difficult for John McCain, even before Wall Street crashed the global economy.
They waited, but even with dirt cheap oil prices, the pro-Saudi candidate lost.
Now prices are likely to go up — maybe not all that much, but consumers won’t be paying $2.50 for gas anymore, which will make their economic malaise all the worse.
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Oct 20, 2017. The University of Utah has a ton of information available to students, including an article, “Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation,” and links to.
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To put the cultural appropriation debate into perspective, I reached out to professor Susan Scafidi, the founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School and the author.
Oct 25, 2018 · Any cultural appropriation – defined as the adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture – can be deemed inappropriate and offensive. “Cultural appropriation is distinct from equal cultural exchange because of the presence of power inequities that are a consequence of oppression,” Moody-Ramirez said.
Jun 20, 2017. By Andrew Nurse. This is the second essay in a three part series on historical thinking and cultural appropriation. For the first part in the series,
1921 (Library of Congress) Some academic leftists believe every culture has the exclusive right to its products. Among the many silly ideas of young leftists who want to appear good without the hassle.
The term “cultural appropriation” used to be one that was familiar only to those masochistic enough to spend time a lot of time on college campuses, but like most academic drivel, it has.
Rosemary Overell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond.
Feb 23, 2016. Cultural appropriation was in the headlines (again) late this January when. Scholar and philosopher James Young defines it as a phenomenon in which. The Times of India had several articles on the topic; National Public.
Nov 17, 2016. in Tucson caused discussion about cultural appropriation in holiday. in his article, “Is Tuscon's All Souls' Procession cultural appropriation?
Manhunts A Philosophical History Feb 15, 2016. warfare: the rise of robotic manhunting in the cities of North. America and. Chamayou, G.: Manhunts: A philosophical history, trans. Rendall, 7 days ago · Manhunts, musicals and a sizzling stir-fry: the Edinburgh fringe
academic journals, and newspaper articles discussing cultural appropriation. All of this activity is fairly recent within the last decade or so, and the momentum does not seem to be slowing down. Why.
Cultural criticism is taboo. s because Chinese culture heavily emphasizes academic performance in the hard sciences, and the hard sciences tend to pay more than other fields. But the purpose of.
Sep 16, 2011. Cultural appropriation is the adoption or theft of icons, rituals, aesthetic standards , and. As hard as this article tries to hide and intellectualize its racism its still just that, racism. Do you expect everyone to be a scholar?
Dec 23, 2015 · As we conclude 2015, let’s take a look back at the culturally appropriated collections, trends and events that got us talking this year — and how.
Because of the predominant misuse of treasured customs from subordinate cultures and lack of consequences for such misuse, cultural appropriation undermines the authenticity and identification of the.
Images and elements of culture that have been appropriated commonly involve. When asked to comment about his 'borrowings' for an article in the New York Times, Academic Discourse: Readings for Argument and Analysis, Taylor and.
This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. “The theme this year was cultural.
That’s right, someone told you a Dreamtime story somewhere, or you read it in a book written by a non-First Nations academic or writer. loss that we can’t discern between cultural exchange and.
Gucci Criticised For Cultural Appropriation On A Global Scale ‘Imagine growing up being mocked for wearing a turban and then seeing it on a catwalk considered to be fashionable and its actual.
In her article in the Atlantic titled, Fashion's Cultural Appropriation Debate:. These writings have been published in scholarly journals and popular media sites,
Ut Graduation Liberal Arts The university will hold two commencement ceremonies at Hilton Coliseum for bachelor’s degree recipients. A ceremony honoring students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ivy College of. Jun 13, 2019 · O.P. Jindal Global
Feb 15, 2019. Food “Columbusing” and the Debate Over Cultural Appropriation. deal of popular and academic buzz over the notion of authenticity in cooking and who has. This article originally premiered on KEN ALBALA'S FOOD RANT.
A recent Asahi Shimbun article explained that between 1982 and 2012 kimono. event with placards to protest its “Orientalism,” “racism” and “cultural appropriation” which they claimed was.
Jennifer Whitney does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond.
Sep 28, 2017 · When does cultural borrowing turn into cultural appropriation? 28 September 2017. University of Cape Town academic Adam Haupt says that.
Jan 10, 2017 · The partnership brought the issue of cultural appropriation to the attention of a wider audience while promoting the work of Native artists. W ith the election of Donald Trump as president, the U.S. is embarking on a new phase in its history. In this climate, inflammatory rhetoric regarding protecting our borders against Mexicans, Muslims, and.
Jan 23, 2014. To paraphrase the wonderfully blunt Lesley Kinzel in her article “Casual Racism. Cultural appropriation is the use of often oversimplified, packaged. the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture,” scholar Kānaka Maoli explains why.
On our website you’ll find academic reports, community-oriented resources, almost 100 videos, podcasts and more that help to identify and explain how and why issues of cultural appropriation occur,
3. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Make a poster about cultural appropriation. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. KIM KARDASHIAN WEST: Write a magazine article about Kim Kardashian West using the word ‘kimono’ for her lingerie brand. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against.
The concept of cultural appropriation emerged in academia in the late 1970s and 1980s as part of the scholarly critique of colonialism. s done in a “culturally affirming” way. A Daily Dot article.
Although the intent behind "Kimono Wednesdays" was to increase engagement and patron enjoyment, a small group of people protested the event, complaining of racist stereotyping and cultural.
Why are fashion brands so bad at discerning the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation — and. AND misrepresenting and misappropriating these sacred symbolic articles, we must.
First of all, I’d like to point out that this is not an academic research on the subject or a formal. your favorite character per se is oppressive (unless it’s blatant cultural appropriation!).
Clayton Childress does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond.
Dec 18, 2018 · What do Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Awkwafina, and a Utah high school student have in common? In 2018, they all faced accusations of cultural appropriation, signaling how.
Mar 20, 2017 · Issues of cultural appropriation were also raised in many of the minority student protests during the 2015-16 academic year. The instance that attracted the most attention was the complaint by some Asian students at Oberlin College that Asian food offerings served in college cafeterias were not authentic and amounted to cultural appropriation.
The high price point and Marantz Lindenberg’s race have raised questions surrounding cultural appropriation and the ways in which ideas from minority groups are repackaged and sold for a white.
Considerations for Cultural Borrowing: Questions to Ask (and Answer), prepared by the 2003 UUA Cultural (Mis) Appropriations Ad Hoc Committee, Judith Frediani, Chair. This document offers a comprehensive set of questions to consider when potentially integrating culture specific practices into Unitarian Universalist worship and teaching.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE. From Cultural Exchange. ing transculturation in the conceptualization of cultural appropriation. A variety of examples. cultural appropriation. Commodification is sometimes used in nonscholarly (and some scholarly).
C. Wikipedia Article on Cultural Appropriation. class consumers, Vine Deloria, Jr., a respected American Indian scholar, suggests that cultural appropriation is.
Children's media products reflect the cultural values of their producers and. It rather involves a complex process of coding/decoding and appropriating cultural meanings. Academic work produced in the mid 1970s to the late 1980s tackled the. URL, http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/docannexe/image /.
appropriation can be utilized to help explain this process. A definition of cultural appropriation is provided in the literature review to follow. This dissertation will begin by discussing the relevant literature pertinent to this study. In this review I begin by providing an overview of.
May 2, 2017. the former have been more examined in academic studies (Leonard 2006). Richard A. Rogers writes in his article From Cultural Exchange to.
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A nice line from professor Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee), a.k.a. Instapundit. Eugene Volokh Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First.
shows a prime example of the cultural appropriation in the country,” Lynne unch writes in an article for the Daily Reveille, the school’s official student newspaper.3 Yoga and zumba have also been criticized as cultural appropriation by white people, thus violating the
Cultural appropriation has been a hot topic of debate lately. Marc Jacobs sparked headlines around the world last year with his spring 2017 show which featured white models such as Gigi Hadid.
Sep 23, 2016. While examples of cultural appropriation can be found in just about any cultural facet or artifact, the true complexity of cultural appropriation is.
Jul 3, 2019. Cultural appropriation is the adoption of certain elements from another culture without the consent of people who belong to that culture.
When I was a university student in Beijing in the early ’90s, I stumbled upon an academic article by Zhao Liming. Isn’t this the standard definition of cultural appropriation? Its traces beyond.
Jan 1, 2010. Lee, Darlene Shauntanese, "Media Effects: Cultural Appropriation And. Several scholarly articles indicate that African American females are.
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by Tina Reed |
Aug 12, 2019 6:00am
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What keeps you up at night?
It's one of the questions we like to ask healthcare executives all the time (see this week's Executive Spotlight) because it really makes a person think about their top concerns.
Are they worried about the cybersecurity of their electronic health records? Is it the astronomical jump in the cost of emerging specialty drugs?
How about figuring out how to balance the books in the transition to value-based care?
At FierceHealthcare, we want to write about the issues you care about most and tell the stories that will offer the most valuable insights on the business of healthcare. In our effort to better tap into the wealth of knowledge out there, FierceHealthcare recently convened some of the top thought leaders across the healthcare industry.
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These 19 leaders have agreed to serve as part of our inaugural Editorial Advisory Council.
What is an Editorial Advisory Council? The purpose is to create a channel for regular feedback about key industry trends and to help us better understand the news that our readers want. It's a way for us to connect with the industry and the top interests and concerns that healthcare leaders like you are facing.
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After 5-year delay, FDA approves Hospira's injectable painkiller
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Hospira touted the ease of administration of its newly FDA-approved injectable painkiller Dyloject, saying the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug "can be administered more conveniently in a small volume intravenous bolus over 15 seconds as opposed to other injectable nonopioid analgesics that are formulated in large volumes or require dilution prior to administration and typically require an infusion of 15 to 30 minutes to administer the full dose," in a statement announcing the approval.
The drug is indicated for the management of mild to moderate pain and moderate to severe pain alone or in combination with opioids. "Various medical organizations are now recommending a multi-modal approach to pain control in an effort to minimize the use of opioids," said Hospira ($HSP) Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Sumant Ramachandra in the statement. "As a leading supplier of hospital pain management medication, Hospira's Dyloject will be a complementary addition to our existing portfolio of acute-care drugs, providing clinicians an additional non-opioid option that can be administered quickly and conveniently to treat pain."
The approval counts as pain relief for Hospira. The company expected U.S. approval soon after it acquired the then-candidate in 2010 via a takeover of Javelin Pharmaceuticals for about $141 million. But shortly after the deal was announced, Dyloject was pulled in the U.K. due to safety and manufacturing issues, explains Crain's Chicago Business. Hospira then tried to wriggle itself free from the deal, but Javelin sued and the deal closed in July 2010.
Hospira told Crain's that it expected FDA approval "this year" in the January 2013 article.
In the rush to outbid Myriad Pharmaceuticals ($MYGN), which bid about $90 million, Hospira waved off due-diligence investigations, Crain's says. In addition, the failure of Dyloject in Europe also led to a lawsuit from Therabel Pharma N.V., which acquired the painkiller's European rights in 2010.
But with FDA approval now in hand, Dyloject could fill the void left by the expiration of most of the patents protecting Hospira's sedative, Precedex, which accounted for around 11% of the company's annual sales of $4 billion in mid-2014. The FDA granted Mylan ($MYL) approval to sell a generic version of that product in August 2014. Hospira sued the FDA over the generic's labeling soon after the agency approved Mylan's version of the drug, the Wall Street Journal reports.
- read the release
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Canadian punk/rock band Like Pacific have premiered new song 'Had It Coming,' taken off the band's hotly-anticipated 2nd full-length album, 'In Spite Of Me,' which comes out 27th July via Pure Noise Records.
“Had it coming is pretty straight forward. When you’re a bad person, you deserve nothing good. I guess you can blame your family for that” said Jordan Black.
Like Pacific’s sophomore album, 'In Spite Of Me,' features 10 tracks that showcase their best writing to date and further establish them as one of the best punk/rock bands to come out in years. The record also features their previously released single 'Sedatives,' and 'In Spite Of Me' video which made its debut earlier this year.
'In Spite Of Me' track listing:
01. In Spite Of Me
02. Sedatives
03. Had It Coming
04. The Spring
05. Occupy Your Skin
06. Self-Defeated
07. Steadily
08. Admittance
09. Consider Me
10. Something Missing
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Homebound release a new single 'Change of Heart'
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A Little History and a Reality Check on GM Safety Scandal
Posted By Ben Kelley On July 28, 2014 @ 8:30 pm In Commentary | 1 Comment
The Renaissance Center, headquarters of General Motors, in Detroit (iStock photo).
When General Motors CEO Mary Barra appeared before Congress in early April to apologize for the company’s 10-year cover-up of a lethal safety defect, it was a headline-grabbing moment. But it was not unprecedented. Hovering over Barra was the ghost of another momentous GM mea culpa, delivered to Congress nearly half a century ago.
On March 22, 1966, James Roche, GM’s president, admitted to a Senate investigative hearing that the giant automaker, known for its hubris, had hired private detectives to follow and harass a young safety advocate, Ralph Nader, because he had exposed defects in GM cars. In words of remorse strikingly similar to those Barra would use years later, he told the angry senators that he was “fully responsible” for the “unhappy episode.” It was done “without my knowledge … I did not know.”
Barra has found herself in a parallel situation because for a decade GM failed to recall millions of cars with ignition switch flaws that could shut down the vehicles’ electrical system in mid-travel, producing stalls, loss of power brakes and steering, and — deadliest of all — airbag failures in crashes. She was “deeply sorry … I did not know,” she told the April hearing. She has since repeated the apology, along with promises to change a decades-old GM “culture” that, she admits, has put dollars before consumer safety.
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Roche’s 1966 admission of guilt helped to fundamentally reshape the future of auto safety. It brought national fame to Nader and turned his book, “Unsafe At Any Speed,” into a bestseller. Nader sued GM for harassment; the corporation paid him nearly a half-million dollars to settle the suit, which he used to fund his aggressive advocacy projects, starting with “Nader’s Raiders,” a nemesis of corporate and government misbehavior. Meanwhile, the car companies were soundly rebuffed by Congress later in 1966 when they tried to stop the move toward federal auto safety regulation by proposing that the industry be allowed to self-regulate. The damage done to GM’s credibility by Roche’s admission was an important factor in ensuring that a virtually unanimous Congress would pass a landmark law empowering government to oversee auto safety.
For those expecting the latest scandal to lead to similarly sweeping changes, a reality check is in order. Roche’s apology was made when pro-consumer lawmakers had more influence, and were able to resist the power of huge corporations. In contrast, today’s Congress is riven by political and ideological divisions that have marginalized pro-consumer forces and thus played into the agendas of big business. Barra’s protestations of remorse thus are unlikely to lead to meaningful laws or a significant upgrade in regulatory staffing. Some members of the Senate have introduced legislation to criminalize aspects of the corporate misconduct revealed by Barra’s testimony, but such legislation has little chance of success in the current congressional climate.
And even when safety laws are passed, they may not mean much. The deadly Ford Explorer rollovers linked to defective Firestone tires led to passage in 2000 of the so-called TREAD Act, a law intended to discourage dilatory or inadequate recalls. Yet it failed to prevent Toyota from seriously delaying a fix to its car with sudden unintended acceleration defects, nor did it deter GM from hiding its ignition switch defect for years.
Ben Kelley
In her damage-control efforts, Barra has sought to characterize the ignition switch cover-up as a one-off — “an extraordinary situation… unique” — while assuring that there will be no more such deceit under her leadership. But she has also admitted that for years GM’s culture — of which, like it or not, she is a product — has been one of putting profit ahead of safety. So it is hard to believe that the automaker may not have been concealing other serious defects from the public and regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). It is also hard to believe that a “dollars over safety” mindset does not prevail at other car companies, given industry resistance to tough safety regulation and the emphasis on the bottom line.
An example: For years Chrysler resisted demands for recall of Jeep Grand Cherokees with fuel tanks that can rupture too easily in rear-end impacts, creating serious fire hazards. A year ago the company finally agreed to recall and fix some of the vehicles, but only when NHTSA belatedly insisted. Yet Chrysler still has not made the fixes — a delay that saves money for the corporation while putting Grand Cherokee owners at continued peril.
NHTSA’s acquiescence in such sleight-of-hand lends support to arguments that it is too responsive to the cost-containment agenda of the auto companies. Its inability to effectively police the industry has almost certainly invited such profit-driven misconduct. Recently a top NHTSA attorney, in comments to an auto industry group, admitted that “the first line of defense against safety defects is not NHTSA.” Rather, he said, it is the auto companies themselves. “Our agency’s job is to make sure your company is doing its job, and to catch problems when it does not,” he said, leaving unaddressed the obvious question of why NHTSA failed for a decade to “catch” GM’s hidden-in-plain-sight ignition switch defect. The answer to that question is that NHTSA is abysmally underfunded and understaffed, and lacks a foundation of tough laws to support its regulatory mission. Nothing in today’s political environment suggests that is going to change very soon.
Ben Kelley is a former U.S. Transportation Department official and board member of the Center for Auto Safety.
URL to article: https://www.fairwarning.org/2014/07/reality-check-impact-general-motors-safety-scandal/
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Fantasy Golf: The Barclays Preview
It's looking more and more every week like this traditional tournament preview format that had become the staple of the Fantasy Golf Report is going the way of the beeper, the CD and Sergio Garcia's chances of winning a major* thanks to the good folks over at DraftKings. (Maybe you've heard of them. They advertise on ESPN sometimes). That may not be a bad thing as just running out some re-blended version of the odds every week doesn't serve much purpose other than to create a lot of space on the right side of the page for pretty pictures and I'm sure, if we really put our minds to it, we could figure-out some way to do that as part of the DraftKings preview.
But let's at least ride this through the Tour Championship and then decide whether to kill it. If for no other reason, we have to finish what we started with the one and done picks which continue to roll with another solid showing this week thanks to Bill Haas. Now it gets a bit tricky, however, because the pickings are slim (with one exception). I tentatively have the playoffs mapped-out with Charl Schwartzel going this week, Robert Streb at the Deutsche, Paul Casey at the BMW and Jordan Spieth only having to beat twenty-nine other players at the Tour Championship (yeah baby). As far as I can tell, the viable options that leaves unused are Danny Lee, David Lingmerth and Ryan Moore so I certainly won't have left much in the bag.
If I can get a win out of Spieth and a few other top fives, I have an outside shot at the money despite the fact that my picks through the Players appear to have been made while under the influence of some kind of Robitussin/Ambien/Jägermeister cocktail. In other words . . . you're tellin' me I got a chance . . .
The Barclays Odds
It's playoff time so let's go
ahead and feature some past
FGR All-Stars like Eva . . .
1. Jordan Spieth - 6/1
2. Jason Day - 10/1
3. Justin Rose - 10/1
5. Rickie Fowler - 25/1
6. Henrik Stenson - 25/1
8. Brooks Koepka - 25/1
9. Matt Kuchar - 30/1
10. Jim Furyk - 33/1
The FGR Barclays Picks
1. Jordan Spieth
3. Jason Day
4. Justin Rose
5. Brooks Koepka
6. Jim Furyk
. . . and Selma . . .
9. Ryan Moore
10. David Lingmerth
The One and Done Pick: Charl Schwartzel
The Sleeper Pick: Charley Hoffman
Last Week’s Report Card: C+
1. Brandt Snedeker – T43rd
2. Bill Haas – T6th
3. Billy Horschel – M/C
4. Justin Thomas – T56
5. Brooks Koepka – T6
Phoenix: Hunter Mahan - $36,729
Farmers: Hideki Matsuyama - M/C
AT&T: Dustin Johnson - $281,067
. . . and Lucy AND Rosie!!!
Northern Trust: Jimmy Walker - $24,120
Honda: Keegan Bradley - M/C
WGC-Cadillac: Bubba Watson - $540,000
Valspar: Jim Furyk - $23,600
Palmer: Brooks Koepka – W/D
Texas Open: Matt Kuchar - $99,200
Houston Open: Louis Oosthuizen - M/C
Masters: Rory McIlroy - $480,000
Heritage: Patrick Reed - M/C
Zurich: Rickie Fowler - M/C
Match Play: Graeme McDowell - $49,385
Players: Henrik Stenson - $130,857
Wells Fargo: Webb Simpson - $624,800
Colonial: Zach Johnson - $78,780
Byron Nelson: Gary Woodland - $15,407
Memorial: Justin Rose - $669,600
FedEx St. Jude: Billy Horschel - $168,000
U.S. Open: Phil Mickelson - $23,822
Travelers: Brandt Snedeker - $147,200
Greenbrier: Kevin Kisner - $500,267
John Deere: Robert Streb - $84,600
British Open: Sergio Garcia - $305,878
Canadian Open: Charley Hoffman - $174,725
Quicken Loans: Justin Thomas - $242,875
Bridgestone: Adam Scott - $55,000
PGA Championship: Jason Day - $1,800,000
Wyndham: Bill Haas - $174,825
Season Total: $6,843,684
* You know who doesn't share our enthusiasm for the youth movement led by Spieth, McIlroy, Day and Rose? Sergio, Matt Kuchar and Henrik Stenson. Sorry fellas but you had a really nice Tigerless window there from 2009-14 and you should've grabbed one when you had the chance. Now you're Tom Cruise and Kevin Costner clapping for Tom Hanks, Sean Penn and Daniel Day-Lewis at the Oscars.
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'I was screaming': Woman attacked by dog at Webber Park in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Dog parks and walking trails are filling up this time of year, but a Minneapolis woman is warning others after she says a dog attacked her while its owner was nearby.
An afternoon walk at Webber Park turned into a nightmare for Dawn Hunt.
“I came up around the corner and the dog did not growl, did not bark, it had no precursor to anything and it charged my legs and started to attack me,” said Hunt.
She tried everything she could to get away.
“I was screaming and trying to get it stop and I was trying to kick it and doing whatever could possibly think of,” she said.
Hunt says the worst part is the owner was nearby, but was not holding onto the dog’s leash and didn’t call her pet away from Hunt.
“I said, ‘Help me, help me, your dog just bit me’ – she said, ‘My dog doesn’t bite people’ and I said, ‘Really?’” said Hunt.
Then, the woman disappeared with her dog.
“I said, ‘You need to stop, I need to know who you are, who are you?’” said Hunt. “And she just kept walking away and she didn’t stop to help me.”
Hunt got help from some nearby workers in the park and called 911. A day later, she’s in a lot of pain, but is sharing her story for a reason.
“Hopefully owners can realize that you probably should hold your leash on your dog no matter where you are,” she said.
A City of Minneapolis spokesman told FOX 9, the city’s animal care and control unit is investigating the incident.
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84 Million Accounts: Digital Banking Is Quickly Expanding Across Africa
Africa is no beginner when it comes to alternative forms of banking and payments.
Mobile payment solution M-Pesa is widely adopted in Kenya and across the wider continent, with over 30 million people using the service to send and receive money. TymeBank is also hoping to become a household name in South Africa. It claims to be South Africa’s “first fully digital bank”, and recently launched its EveryDay account.
However, the big traditional branches are also getting in on the digital action and Standard Chartered is making a big play. A multitude of digital banks have been launched, and there are more to come. Jaydeep Gupta, region head of retail banking, Africa and Middle East at Standard Chartered, tells Global Data’s Retail Banker International that this is just the beginning.
“We have now launched digital banks in eight markets within 15 months as we have seen a growing demand for convenient banking in Africa. In line with this, we will be launching our digital bank in Nigeria which follows the eight digital banks which we have already launched so far. We are also working on the roll-out of the SC Keyboard to additional markets in Africa. This includes launches in Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria throughout the rest of the year.
“The SC Keyboard platform allows customers to access a variety of financial services from within any social or messaging platform without having to open the banking app. It can be configured as the default keyboard on any smartphone, making banking quick and seamless for customers who no longer need to log into their SC Mobile app for basic banking services.”
Africa is generally perceived as a cash focused continent, and while cash is still popular mobile money is catching up fast.
Gupta says: “There is still quite a high prevalence of cash usage on the continent, but you just need to look at how well mobile money has taken off over the past decade to know that Africa is moving away from cash. Mobile money is now active in 31 countries in Africa, with 84 million active mobile money accounts.”
This massive expansion in digital begs the question of whether there is still a need for the old brick and mortar establishments?
Gupta concludes: “Retaining the ‘human’ element in banking remains crucial. While digital channels are undoubtedly more efficient, hold lower error rates and have decreased cost-to-serve ratios, finding the balance between traditional and digital banking services is the key to providing exceptional customer service. Customers will always require an element of human interaction and, at Standard Chartered, we are focusing on fusing these offerings in order to provide a seamless customer experience.”
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Telluride Review: Steve McQueen's Contemplative Sex Drama 'Shame'
I've been converted. Three years ago when I saw British filmmaker Steven McQueen's debut film Hunger at the Telluride Film Festival, I hated it, with not much care or concern for McQueen. I've followed from the side as his latest film, Shame, a sexual drama set in New York City, developed with a great cast - Michael Fassbender (who was also in Hunger) as the lead and Carey Mulligan as his sister. Shame premiered at Telluride this weekend, and I will fully admit that I'm warming up McQueen in a very big way. I can now see his potential, his refined, meditative, yet brilliant filmmaking that, while may bore some, fascinated me.
Michael Fassbender stars as Brandon, a 30-something corporate worker who can't control his sex life and desire for sexual activity. His world is turned upside-down when his fragile, younger sister Sissy (played by Carey Mulligan), a beautiful lounge singer, shows up at his apartment one day. It's a story about how sex obsession and over-sexuality is often related to traumatic/troubling experiences in one's past.
Shame is a devisive film, there's no question about it. Much of the older audience here at Telluride likened it to pornography, but I could not disagree more. It's filled with sexual intensity and aggressiveness, plenty of lengthy one-shot takes that McQueen is known for, and meditative character study moments. I went in full well expecting to call some of his shots pretentious, but felt every scene was integral in building up the depths of Fassbender's character Brandon. It's intensely reflective, and it wouldn't work if Fassbender wasn't giving an utterly phenomenal performance. It's his face and every inflection that makes his character so deep, without needing to say much. I wouldn't hesitate calling this one of his greatest performances ever.
The entire film hinges upon Fassbender being so extraordinary in his edgy role. Yes, there's full-frontal Fassbender nudity and there's even full-frontal Carey Mulligan nudity too, plenty of steamy sex scenes throughout, but it's not overindulgent or tasteless. McQueen's filmmaking is refined and realistic, and every shot is always in service of the story. He even has New York City mapped out so perfectly that the subway station Fassbender rides is actually the nearest one to where his apartment is located in Manhattan. There's a scene where the camera follows along the street as Fassbender goes for a jog - for three blocks. Maybe it's just because I love New York, but I reveled in those moments, it made it feel as realistic as it needed to be.
McQueen's Shame is one of those films that sticks with you long after seeing it. Depending on your personal experience with it, it can be unsettling, but it can also be fulfilling. McQueen uses a wonderful score at the start and end to build up the intensity, and there's thrilling moment in the second half that even had me on the edge of my seat. I wasn't sure whether I'd like this film or not, given my experience with Hunger, but I loved it. The opening 15 minutes itself are pure brilliance and the rest of the film does its best to live up to that, delivering an ending that subtly caps things off, but doesn't unnecessarily explain any/everything.
I fully expect there to be both haters and lovers of this film. Deadline's Pete Hammond has already started calling it "controversial" because of its gratuitous sexual content. However, I believe it's simply a brilliant character study that delves into very edgy subject matter that is hard to present on screen without getting that pornography comparison. But that's why I loved seeing McQueen, one of the most talented filmmakers on the rise, address sex and what it means to us, both good and bad. And we need filmmakers who will challenge audiences with stories like this, that not only are shot beautifully, but occasionally make us feel uneasy addressing subject matter that Hollywood too often glosses over.
Alex's Telluride Rating: 9 out of 10
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You had me at "full-frontal Carey Mulligan nudity"...
Anonymous on Sep 5, 2011
You hated Hunger? Really? Wow... that's a shame.
Kevin on Sep 5, 2011
Yes, I did, so be it. Not a fan of the film, I thought that 15 minute scene was awful. But I've come around with McQueen. And nice unintended pun with your last word "Shame".
Alex Billington on Sep 5, 2011
hey Alex you saying that you didnt like Hunger, got me to check it out, and i actually liked it, i thought it was very well done and got the meassage across really well, what about the film didnt you like? is there a review of it on this site?
Zade on Sep 6, 2011
Paragraph 3: Should it be 'devisive'? Sorry, but I don't get how decisive works there. Hunger was amazing. You are shameful! (okay never again).
Me Nyc on Sep 6, 2011
Er , don't mean to sound the grammar police but it should be 'divisive'. Very great and finely-reviewed article, Alex; I look forward to see McQueen and Fassbender's second collaboration. Hunger was a great work of art, so to know that McQueen has a greater sense of story narrative this time makes me anticipate this movie even more.
Christiane on Sep 8, 2011
The fact that you didn't like Hunger but loved this gives me hope, because I despised McQueen's first movie, but was hopeful about this one because of Fassbender and Mulligan.
Jbaker475 on Sep 5, 2011
Fassbender is awesome, almost a Greek God. I loved every single one of his performances from X-Men to Jane Eyre 🙂
Davide Coppola on Sep 5, 2011
I'm getting more and more excited for this film with all the reviews and tidbits pouring in. I for one, adored Hunger and it appears this film is relatively more accessible while still holding the same sense of existential intensity. It's quite pleasing to hear. Very nice review, Alex. I hope to see more updates this film when they come!
Giovanni on Sep 5, 2011
@buddha1822:disqus Does the film insinuate at a possible incestual relationship between Brandon and his sister in the past? When I read the script, I couldn't help but feel that it was hinting at that.
Vitaliy on Sep 5, 2011
But is it really pornographic? The reviewer uses the word, but does not confirm or deny -- do they have X-rated explicit sex or not? Or is it like cable TV? More softcore than hardcore and everything's simulated?
Nelsie_norris on Sep 5, 2011
It got an NC-17, but the MPAA is useless (i.e. they give higher rating to sex than to extreme violence). This is another of those films that gets away with a lot more explicit stuff because it's "artsy". But Fassbender is a fantastic actor.
This review by Alex Billington has me SOLD! Well written and I like the fact this a very very New York-sy movie....looking forward to this one. P.S. Michael Fassbender is a pimp!
Conrad Williams on Sep 6, 2011
Re: relationship between siblings potentially incestuous? I felt definitely not. She was so in need of emotional/genuine cuddling, and he was so emotionally frozen. Whatever their shared family trauma, the damaged results played out in different ways. P.S. So intriguing to see Fassbender as Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method" the same weekend. Still struggling with sexual issues. He's fabulous.
Jenwilson8 on Sep 6, 2011
Michael Fassbender might as well be a God. He is bloody brilliant/fantastic. His charismatic self will always be in my top 3 favorite actors. Ever since Jane Eyre and definitely X-Men: First Class, he is by far my #1. I am excited to death to see him exposed. ^_^ Fassbender's accent always gets me excited too.
Mrcards4 on Sep 7, 2011
I LOVE MICHAEL FASSBENDER!! 🙂 This is going to be life-changing! Cannot wait!!
Jordyn on Sep 7, 2011
Michael Fassbender is one actor filled to the brim with charisma and I have loved him since 300. He just gets better as he goes.
ZONA on Sep 7, 2011
great honest review, Alex, thanks, got me very interested (aside from the obvious fact that both of them are pretty attractive). this is a great actors combination; Fassbender and Mulligan, two of the best of their generation, for my money. great to see them taking roles that challenge them, rather than several easy wins in a row. count me in. if 'it's simply a brilliant character study' and part of that character study is sexual relationships, then it's appropriate. we can all tell if it's gratuitous, just like we can tell if the violence in a film is unnecessary. as @castingcouch:disqus says, the MPAA does seem to have an obsession with rating sex NC17 and allowing violence (and sexual violence) through on an R. which is nuthouse. remember Blue Valentine's first rating?
Michael Fassbender AND Carey Mulligan? This is going to be so hot.
Miguel Angel on Sep 7, 2011
Er, pretty sure Steve McQueen died of cancer around 1980.
Stevebeer60 on Sep 12, 2011
This film could have been brilliant if not for-- -- wait, no, I'm thinking of something else *entirely.* Sexuality is not a mystery. It is not profound; self-dubbed "studies" into the dysfunctional derivatives of adjacent behavioral realms are equally as useless and intellectually vacuous as the subjects they purport to understand, or even comprehend. There is no philosophical holy grail implicit or even possible in human bodies and their genitalia, nor in how people use them, nor in what other people think and/or do regarding how and/or why they're used on/by/for/against/with each other. There is no art in sex - at least, there has not been any since human civilization as a whole has had the protracted luxury of time to think, as some few of us have indeed enjoyed in abundance these past millennia. Sex is simple. It's easy. It's *NOT* difficult, nor traumatic, nor damaging; those seeming side effects are all symptoms of good ol' indiscriminate ignorance, and ignorance is hardly--I would dare say even rarely--isolated to one's sexual expressions and perceptions in and of real life. It's easy to get caught up in it (for some people) because the subject matter is universal, because it has been re-trending in newly dysfunctional ways for the past few hundred years in particular, and--at least in modern human societies--because the laws of nature have been tamed to the point that the dregs of our species have been allowed to thrive - and, worse, to make every simple, boring facet of everyday life universally uncomfortable for everyone in the universe. But, no matter how modern puppets dress it and themselves up, an old, boring, tired taboo does not an enlightened point make. A real artist would attempt something--anything--beyond the obvious discomfort zone of the simple, useless, frivolous masses; it doesn't take a genius to recognize that "entertainment value" implies a certain level of either or both of social and psychic discomfort in this day and age - nor does it take one to exploit such an obvious fact to sell tickets to fund those back yard swimming pools and white picket fences. Steve McQueen is a pop-faux-intellectual, made painfully and irrevocably obvious with even his first film endeavor. "Shame" continued this trend - and I can not think of a more fitting title for McQueen's legacy than that of this film's. If you value intellect, you should see this movie - but not because it will enlighten--or even stimulate--you in any useful or profound fashion. It won't, because it can't. Don't allow yourself to pretend as if it's anything more than simply another in a seemingly endless cycle of reminders of what is, perhaps, the only profound--accidental--truth to be found in modern "art": that true art is, truly and perhaps literally, a lost art. Let this film serve as the reminder it is--to those very few of you who are not "you all" at all--that "you all" are bored, lost, boring and listless enough to dress up psychic turds in poet's gowns and lamely worship them as kings and queens not just of their lives - but of their very minds.
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Hezbollah leader vows bloody retaliation for US killing of Iranian general
Issued on: 05/01/2020 - 16:34 Modified: 05/01/2020 - 16:34
Supporters of Shiite Hezbollah movement hold posters of slain Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani as the movement's leader Hasan Nasrallah delivers a speech on a screen, in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on January 5, 2020. Anwar Amro, AFP
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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the US military in the Middle East would pay the price for killing Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, which he said marked ‘the start of a new phase’ for the region.
Nasrallah, speaking in a televised address marking Soleimani’s death in a targeted US air strike, said responding to the killing was not only Iran’s responsibility but the responsibility of its allies in the region too.
As thousands listened at a rally in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Hezbollah leader said the US killing of Soleimani marked “the start of a new phase and new history not just for Iran or Iraq but the whole region”. He called the killing a “clear, blatant crime” that will transform the Middle East.
Nasrallah said attacks on the US military presence in the Middle East would be “fair punishment” for Soleimani’s killing, listing US bases, naval ships and military personnel as possible targets.
Nasrallah urged Iraq to free itself from US “occupation”, moments before the country’s parliament passed a resolution urging the government to expel foreign troops from the country, notably those of the US-led coalition.
Founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is a critical part of an Iranian-backed regional military alliance.
The United States has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
“When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported ... to the United States, [US President Donald] Trump and his administration will realise that they have really lost the region and will lose the elections,” Nasrallah said, referring to the 2020 US presidential election.
Nasrallah said such an approach would force the United States to withdraw from the Middle East “humiliated, defeated and in terror ... as they left in the past”.
Nasrallah said that suicide bombers that had forced America to leave the region in the past are still there and greater in number than before, reported Reuters. He added that Hezbollah and its allies should not target US civilians, however.
Sunday’s comments were Nasrallah’s first public statements since Soleimani was killed by a US airstrike in Iraq Friday.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS)
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Satoko Fujii - Solo (Libra, 2018) *****
Monday, June 25, 2018 ***** 1 comment
Pianist and composer Satoko Fujii is celebrating her 60th birthday this year. In Japan, turning 60 is a milestone known as kanreki, and Fujii, instead of sticking to the tradition of looking back and reflecting on life so, is forging ahead by releasing an album a month with new projects. Starting in January with Satoko Fujii: Solo, the restless artist has kept to her promise, releasing so far six albums with groups big and small, like the long standing quartet KAZE and the expansive Berlin Orchestra, like clockwork. Starting today, the writers of the Free Jazz Blog will catch up with Fujii's birthday releases and more.
Satoko Fujii - Solo
By Lee Rice Epstein
In contrast with Satoko Fujii’s last solo recording, the double album Invisible Hand, this new one is a concise and stirring reflection. Befitting the straightforward title Solo, Fujii once again displays her command of the instrument. And again, as with Invisible Hand, this recording has come about because of the dedication of a fellow music lover. In this case, thanks are due to Mitsuru Itani, of Matsuyama City, who very much wanted to hear Fujii play a solo concert on a Steinway D274 and who successfully arranged the concert, even getting permission for Fujii to play inside the piano. He mentions, in his liner notes, that “[m]usic flowed unhurriedly from Fujii, who seemed a bit more relaxed than usual even as she maintained just the right tension, conveying the true magic of the piano.” Were it possible, I would end there, because it encapsulates much of what’s special about this album. Yet, there is even more to say, more praise to lavish.
Three songs are repeated from Invisible Hand to Solo: “Inori,” “Spring Storm,” and “Gen Himmel.” On the previous album, “Inori” served as a meditative break, like an actual spring shower, in the middle of the dense second disc. Here, as an opener, it’s more like the stirrings of a pond at first light. Fujii’s attack is slightly bolder, the melody ringing out with what sounds like a touch more sustain. This is followed by “Geradeaus,” an improvised piece that takes great advantage of the sonorities of the D274’s interior. Much like Myra Melford, extended solos from Fujii tend to draw out her deep knowledge and expertise of historical jazz styles. Throughout “Geradeaus,” blues, stride, and even a soulful gospel appear, as recurring rhythmic patterns give shape to the improvisation.
The centerpiece of the album is a trio of 10+ minute classics, “Ninepin,” “Spring Storm,” and “Gen Himmel.” Beginning on the strings inside the piano, Fujii turns “Ninepin,” a piece I’ve only heard her perform with a quartet, completely on its head, turning the piano metaphorically inside out. This 30-minute section that comprises the middle of the album is surely among her finest solo moments. There is patience, a careful and imaginative manipulation of the piano, harsh atonality and surprising pauses intertwined with gorgeous phrasing, and the crystal clarity of Fujii’s approach binding it all together. “Spring Storm” is, right up there with Melford’s “That the Peace,” among the finest piano compositions. Fujii’s compositional language comes through with a sharpness on “Spring Storm,” and her performance here is chillingly alive. It’s strange now to go back and listen to the 2:30 version of “Gen Himmel” from Fujii’s 2013 album, so different are the solo versions she’s released recently. Where the older version is all tension and dissonance, with the piano keys and strings in a duet, this newest version uses silence as a powerful third voice. Throughout the whole album, Fujii’s sense of the hall itself—the acoustics of the stage and airy, resonate quality of the D274—seem to embolden her to abruptly cut of phrases, to sustain chords longer, to play nothing at all for seconds at a time. Closing with a cover of “Moonlight,” by Jimmy Giuffre, Fujii turns the ballad into a reflective ode.
As she turns 60, releasing a dozen albums this year, perhaps something is changing in Satoko Fujii, perhaps her worldview, as evidenced on last year’s Fukushima, is becoming more deeply affected by things beyond her control, or perhaps she’s using her music more directly than before to communicate to us deep and necessary emotional truths. Or, perhaps, nothing at all is changing, and Fujii is simply playing the piano. But of course, she never plays the piano simply, or plainly, for that matter. In Fujii’s music, there is always something more, always another phrase, another pause, another scrape or crackle or minor to reveal itself, in due time.
I've purchased all of Fujii's 2018 releases thus far, and this solo album is easily my favourite of those albums.
Long may she release consistently excellent albums.
Great review too.
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¡ASK A MEXICAN!
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: I’m totally serious about my e-mail, so please forgive me if my question sounds ridiculous. I also mean no insult to anyone about my question or questions in this e-mail.
There are a lot of antsy/jittery people along the United States’ southern border. Lots of those antsy people seem to want to grab anyone who looks like a Mexican or acts like a Mexican and deport anyone who appears to be a Latino into the nations south of the U.S. border.
I’m mostly Caucasian in ancestry, but I’ve been told that I have American Indian roots plus American Indian facial features. So, I’m a mustached guy who looks like Freddy Prinze Sr., but I have a skin tone that makes me look like Freddy Prinze Jr. So, if I go to the Southern border states, will police check me for my papers because I look like Freddy Prinze Sr.?
— Rob, aka a Guy Called “Swarthy” by Some White
Irish Friends
Dear Gabacho: You know it!
While waiting for radiation treatment, I noticed a sign on wall: “If you are pregnant or may become pregnant …” The Spanish translation used the word embarazada. Why “embarrassed” to be pregnant for these fecund people?
— Old Fart from Vegas
Dear Gabacho: You know what they say when you assume — it makes a culero out of you and you!
Embarazada doesn’t mean “embarrassed” in Spanish; it means “pregnant.” But how two words that come from the same root took on such dissimilar meanings is one of those great etymological stories that makes this columna so pinche nerdy when it’s not shockingly vulgar.
The English “embarrass” came from the French word embarrasser, itself deriving from the Spanish embarazar, which still has an alternate mean of “to impede.” That word came from the Portuguese embaraçar, and the Royal Spanish Academy theorizes that word originated from Celtic because its root palabra existed before the Romans conquered the Iberian Peninsula.
Why a word that signifies a blockage came to represent pregnancy is unknown to etymologists, but the Mexican theorizes it’s just a pre-Christian pun for a cock block — there’s that vulgarity of mine! The proper Spanish word for “embarrassed,” by the way, is avergonzado, which originates from the Latin verecundia and more accurately means “shame.”
Hedge Fun
Dear Mexican: I work in a white-collar computer job, so when the weekend rolls around, I like to do my own yard work. Weeding, planting, pulling out stumps, trimming — you name it.
When I do it, though, there are usually Mexican workers in the neighborhood, and they always look at me strangely. Are they thinking, “Hey, we could do that work for you, buddy”? Or “How about that: a white guy who can actually do manual labor!” Or maybe something else I haven’t thought of?
— I Can Trim More Than One Kind of Bush
GOOD MEXICANS OF THE WEEK: For those of you looking for Mexican curios or ironic T-shirts with a Mexican theme (such as the Star Wars logo spelled “Estar Guars”), Calacas Inc. is for you! They’re based in the Mexican’s home base of Santa Ana but have an online store and co-sponsor one of the biggest Día de los Muertos celebrations in Southern California (happening this weekend on Fourth Street this Sábado). Best of all? The people who run it are Jackie (the gabacha) and Rudy (the Mexi) Cordova, proving that not only does the Reconquista will take over all white women, it’ll also produce cute, smart kiddies! Visit them online at calacacinc.com.
Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.net, be his fan on Facebook, follow him on Twitter or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!
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Paul Yde
“has among the most expert legal perspectives on US antitrust law”
Paul Yde, Partner
Antitrust, competition and trade
700 13th Street, NW, 10th floor
paul.yde@freshfields.com
Paul is a partner in our US antitrust group, based in Washington, DC.
Paul’s practice primarily involves representing parties before the US Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the state attorneys general on the antitrust aspects of M&A, joint ventures, distribution and intellectual property arrangements, and other competitive conduct.
Paul has acted as lead counsel on numerous complex matters in a variety of industries, including a continuous docket of merger and conduct investigations at both the DOJ and FTC. He has litigated antitrust cases before federal and state courts and in federal administrative proceedings.
Paul previously held positions in government antitrust enforcement, serving as counsel to two Federal Trade Commissioners, and as a litigation attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. Paul is trained in both law and economics, having received undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics with a specialization in industrial organization (antitrust) economics.
Advising Messer Group & CVC Capital Partners with respect to their $3.3bn acquisition of North American industrial gas assets required to be divested as a result of the FTC’s investigation of Linde/Praxair.
Advising KLX Inc. on its $4.2bn acquisition by Boeing Co.
Advising Novartis on two multibillion-dollar transactions: its joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health to form a world-leading consumer healthcare business, and the $5.4bn sale of its Animal Health business to Eli Lilly.
Advising Rexam, the leading global beverage can maker, on the FTC’s Second Request review of its $6.9bn takeover by US rival Ball Corporation, which brought together the world’s two largest producers of drinks cans.
Advising United Airlines on the DOJ investigation and challenge to its slot acquisitions in New York City, the ongoing DOJ investigation of alleged collusion among North American airlines, and in connection with various joint venture agreements requiring antitrust and other regulatory approvals.
Advising Hachette Book Group in United States of America v. Apple, Inc., an MDL class action litigation and related proceedings surrounding the DOJ and state attorneys general investigations of eBooks’ pricing, including advising on Hachette’s continuing compliance obligations pursuant to the DOJ settlement.
Advising Intel, a global manufacturer of computer microprocessors and computing devices, on its $16.7bn acquisition of Altera (the largest in the company’s history).
JD, The University of Kansas School of Law.
MA, economics, The University of Kansas.
BS, economics, The University of Wisconsin.
Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the State of Ohio.
Paul Yde is a ‘terrific’ antitrust practitioner who handles all areas of his myriad of clients’ antitrust needs. He is known for ‘getting some really difficult deals through,’ according to sources.
Paul Yde has a fine reputation in the market for his merger clearance and enforcement practice. Clients note that he is ‘highly adept at guiding us through antitrust reviews’ and is ‘very strong at providing clear advice, is very approachable, responsive and extremely hard-working.’
Noted for his merger clearance practice and experience before government agencies. ‘He has among the most expert legal perspectives on US antitrust and is one of the most effective advisers and communicators that we have among our outside counsel,’ notes one highly impressed client.
Chambers Global 2016, Chambers USA 2015
The ‘spectacular’ Paul Yde is a ‘very pragmatic’ practitioner who ‘gives value-adding advice,’ according to clients.
Novartis/GlaxoSmithKline/Eli Lilly Matter of the Year 2015, for advising Novartis on its joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health and the sale of its Animal Health business to Eli Lilly
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Pharmaceuticals, medical products and healthcare
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Cyberpunk 2077 Features Branching Prologues, May Have 80GB+ File Size
The game's lead designer shared some information about the custom player character's lifepath, and it looks like Cyberpunk could be even bigger than The Witcher 3.
Though Cyberpunk 2077's release date is still a ways off, we're getting some more information about parts of its story structure and just how much content the game's going to have. (Spoiler alert: It's going to have a lot).
VG247 conducted a lengthy interview and follow-up with Pawel Sasko, CD Projekt Red's lead designer for Cyberpunk 2077, during and after E3 last month.
E3 showed us the game begins in the Badlands area around Night City. But there's apparently more than one beginning players can experience.
Sasko said the player can create a custom character that has one of three origin stories, called lifepaths: Nomad, Corpo, or Street Kid. Each origin story has its own separate starting point and background prologue as well, meaning it'll take multiple playthroughs to see everything Cyberpunk 2077 has to offer.
It's not certain whether the rest of the story will branch depending on which lifepath players choose, as Sasko only said revealing anything else would spoil too much of the story.
It wouldn't be too surprising if it does end up with branching story paths, though, as Cyberpunk 2077's file size will likely be larger than The Witcher 3's and possibly even come close to Red Dead Redemption 2's.
Several days ago, a Reddit user spotted a PlayStation Store entry listing the game's file size as 80GB; TW3's file size with all DLC included is 51GB. Another Reddit user, PhoOhThree, said the Cyberpunk 2077 team already mentioned on the game's Discord server that the file size is only a placeholder — meaning the final product, even before DLC, could well be much bigger.
For context, The Witcher 3 takes roughly 50 hours to complete, while finishing everything the game has to offer could take upwards of 150 hours or more; while RDR2, with its 100GB+ file size, might not take quite as long to beat, it's still a massive and richly realized world.
Regardless of the recently-announced New Game+ mode, it looks like there's going to be plenty of content in Cyberpunk 2077 when it launches in April 2020.
Joshua Broadwell
Josh Broadwell's gaming career began early--1993, to be exact--when he was introduced to the Super Nintendo and Super Mario World. Despite all the magnificent games the SNES and, later, the original PlayStation had to offer, it wasn't until the GameBoy Advance era that he finally discovered RPGs, which quickly became a favorite genre. He holds a BA in history, an MA in history, and is currently pursuing an MA in strategic communication.
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New ETFs Trade on Amex
Two new Exchange Traded Funds began trading on the American Stock Exchange on October 10.
ETF Report Staff • November 01, 2000
Nuveen Will Offer an ETF
Chicago-based Nuveen Investments announced in mid-October that they will be launching the first in a series of equity exchange traded funds as soon as they receive SEC approval.
Two New OPALS from Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in London launched Optimised Portfolios as Listed Securities (OPALS), which akin to ETFs are backed by baskets of stocks in an index, on two more indices in mid-October.
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News Release 14-Jun-2019
Small cluster of neurons is off-on switch for mouse songs
With precise control, researchers could make a mouse sing or not on command
VIDEO: Ultrasonic recordings reveal the 'love song' a male mouse produces when he is pitching woo to a female. view more
Credit: Mooney Lab, Duke University
DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have isolated a cluster of neurons in a mouse's brain that are crucial to making the squeaky, ultrasonic 'songs' a male mouse produces when courting a potential mate.
In fact, they now understand these neurons well enough to be able to make a mouse sing on command or to silence it so that it can't sing, even when it wants to impress a mate.
This level of understanding and control is a key advancement in the ongoing search for the mechanisms that allow humans to form speech and other communication sounds. The researchers are broadly interested in the brain's production of speech and have worked with songbirds and mice as models for humans.
"We were interested in understanding how mice produce these 'love songs,' as we call them in the lab," said Katherine Tschida, who led the research as a post-doctoral fellow in both the Richard Mooney and Fan Wang labs at Duke neurobiology.
For this study, Tschida and her colleagues focused on a part of the midbrain called the periaqueductal gray, or PAG for short, because they knew from previous work by others that it would be a key player in the vocalization circuit, she said.
With technology developed by Wang's lab, they were able to locate and isolate the specific neurons involved in the PAG's circuitry and then experiment on them.
By turning the neurons on selectively with a light-based method called optogenetics, the researchers found they could make a mouse immediately begin singing, even though it was alone.
On the other hand, silencing the activity of the PAG neurons rendered courting male mice incapable of singing, even while they persisted in all of their other courtship behaviors.
The females turned out to be less interested in the silent types, which also shows that the singing behavior is key to mouse survival.
Both experiments firmly establish that this "stable and distinct population of neurons" is the key conduit between behavior and vocal communication, Tschida said. The work will appear in the Aug. 7 edition of Neuron, but was published early online in mid-June.
"These neurons are acting as a base for vocalization. But they don't determine the individual parts of the song," Tschida said. "It's a 'gate' for vocalization."
Tschida, who will join the Cornell University faculty next year, said the research will now trace PAG's connections to neurons downstream that communicate with the voicebox, lungs and mouth, for example. And they'll work toward the behavioral centers upstream that tell the mouse there is a female present and he should start singing.
The researchers hope to form a more complete picture of why mice produce different syllables in different contexts. "We know they do it, but don't know yet what parts of the brain drive the behavior," Tschida said.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (MH103908, DC13826, MH117778)
CITATION: "A Specialized Neural Circuit Gates Social Vocalizations in the Mouse," Katherine Tschida, Valerie Michael, Jun Takato, Katsuyasu Sakurai, Richard Mooney, Fan Wang. Neuron, Early online June 13, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.025
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30478-7
Karl Leif Bates
karl.bates@duke.edu
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Mouse Brain Vocalization Center (IMAGE)
Courting Mouse Sing (1 of 2) (VIDEO)
http://today.duke.edu/2019/06/small-cluster-neurons-switch-mouse-songs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.025
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www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz
Listed by: Lauren Clough
The Phoenix Foundation are pleased to announce their first full New Zealand tour since 2007. On the road, the band will mix songs from their three existing albums, plus a very special preview into the new material from their fourth studio album, due for release later in 2009.
Starting in the top of the South Island, the band will move around the country playing their first shows in smaller towns like Oamaru & Golden Bay as well as covering the always supportive main centres. Support on the tour will come from the one and only ‘Double Ya D!’, as well as other random guests.
The Phoenix Foundation recently released the video clip for ‘40 Years’, the third single from their latest album Happy Ending. Featuring jogging, singing, knight killing, death defying, wrestling, horse, beach enigma and more, the hilarious clip is perhaps one of the best NZ music videos …. well … at least of the summer? Check out the video at www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz
The clip is another collaboration between The Phoenix Foundation and Taika Waititi who have worked together most notoriously on the video clip for Bright Grey, and Waititi’s feature film Eagle Vs Shark.
Tickets $20 + booking fee also available from Everyman Records.
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Ashburton District
Dublin's Irish Tenors and The Celtic Ladies
Wed 22 Nov 2017, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Where: Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 211a Wills St, Ashburton, Ashburton District
Listed by: sandra roberts
Two of Ireland’s best-loved groups Dublin's Irish Tenors and The Celtic Ladies combine to present one beautiful concert tour of New Zealand this November.
Moving tirelessly from opera to pop, jazz to classical, each member of Dublin's Irish Tenors and The Celtic Ladies showcase their unique talents, from lively fiddling, to marvellous melodies, to perfected piano pieces.
These two groups bring an excellent mix of traditional Irish tunes, adult contemporary and classical music.
Hits powerfully and beautifully performed throughout the concert include Danny Boy, Cockles and Mussels, Twist & Shout, Hey Jude, Nessun Dorma, That’s Life, You Raise Me Up, Scarborough Fair, We Are the Champions, Smile, O Sole Mio, Loch Lomond, Rolling in the Deep and Ticket to Ride.
Each number carefully choreographed to combine different additional elements and actions such as dancing humour, special effects, sets and audience interaction enhance the total audience enjoyment of the show.
Dublin's Irish Tenors and The Celtic Ladies have become one of the most popular shows Ireland has seen in years. With wonderful harmonies and lilting melodies, listen in amazement as these talented singers take you on a breathtaking musical journey.
Ashburton Trust Event Centre, Ashburton, Ashburton District
Wed 15 Apr 7:30pm
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Kennaway’s Operacado Orchard, Whangarei
Sat 4 Apr 2:00pm
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Libido Supplements and Vitamins for Sex — Do They Work?
A healthy relationship requires good, honest communication, but you may be tempted to reach for libido supplements rather talk about intimate issues with your doctor. Find out if they're safe and effective.
Diana Rodriguez
Medically Reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH
If you're experiencing low libido or difficulty having an orgasm, or are not feeling sexually aroused, you may be tempted to try nature's remedies for these problems rather than going to see a doctor or sex therapist. But before you start taking so-called libido supplements promising to improve your sex life, make sure you know the limitations and potential risks of taking herbs or vitamins for sex.
The first thing to know is that there’s no magic pill that will naturally give you great sex. Vitamins for sex, libido supplements, or herbs are not going to provide instant orgasms or erections, says marriage and family therapist Isadora Alman, MFT, a board-certified sexologist and a psychotherapist in private practice in Alameda, Calif.
Before turning to any pills, natural or not, Alman suggests that you have a conversation with yourself. Ask yourself what you need to function well sexually — is it more love, more talking, more intimacy?
The next fact to understand that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not regulate herbs, vitamins, and supplements the way it regulates pharmaceuticals. That means that you cannot believe whatever performance promises are on any of these labels.
Alman stresses that, if you are considering taking any libido enhancers or vitamins for sex, you really need to speak with your doctor first. Over-the-counter libido supplements might interfere with other medications you might be taking or have unintended side effects, she says, so opening a dialogue with your health practitioner about your sexual situation and any natural and alternative treatments you’re considering is vital.
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And no matter what kind of A href=/sexual-health/sexual-dysfunction.aspx>sexual dysfunction you're experiencing — orgasm difficulties, erectile dysfunction, vaginal pain, or low libido — there's probably a better, proven way to treat it than a libido supplement or other “natural” product. Addressing the true underlying cause of your sexual dysfunction may be a far more effective way to go.
Libido Supplements: Do They Work?
Pharmacies, vitamin shops, and health-food stores may have shelves lined with bottles of pills and products promising to heat up your sex life the natural way. And a few studies do show that some herbal libido supplements can help with erectile dysfunction and low libido. But it's also important to consider the risks involved in taking dietary supplements, which includes herbs and vitamins for sex enhancement. These products often lack complete ingredient information on the packaging, such as how much of a particular herb there is in one pill and what a safe dosage is.
Among the many products claiming to correct sexual dysfunction, here are choices that have some research behind them:
L-arginine. L-arginine is called a semi-essential amino acid and is produced by the body. It converts into nitric oxide, which results in the dilation and relaxation of blood vessels. This can help to treat erectile dysfunction.
Possible risks and side effects of taking L-arginine include:
Gastrointestinal upset — stomach pain, increased bowel movements, cramping, or nausea
Electrolyte imbalances
Increased likelihood of bleeding
L-arginine has been studied as a treatment for erectile dysfunction in combination with another herb called yohimbine chloride (yohimbe) and glutamate. Yohimbine chloride is an FDA-approved erectile dysfunction treatment, but L-arginine alone has not been studied for safety and effectiveness.
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Yohimbe. In Africa, yohimbe bark is commonly used to boost libido, but it comes with a number of side effects, including:
Rapid heart rate
Increased blood pressure levels
Ginkgo. Ginkgo seeds and leaves can treat a number of illnesses, including sexual dysfunction. Ginkgo leaf extracts are turned into teas or oral pills. It's known that ginkgo biloba extract improves blood flow and helps to relax muscle tissues. It was studied as a possible alternative treatment for women experiencing sexual dysfunction. Though it was not effective as the sole treatment for sexual function, it was very effective when used in combination with sex therapy.
Possible side effects and risks of taking ginkgo include:
Abdominal cramps
Ginseng. Korean red ginseng was studied and found to promote libido and enhance arousal in women undergoing menopause. Ginseng is also commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction and can help alleviate some menopausal symptoms. Ginseng can be taken orally as a capsule or tablet, used as an extract, or used as a tea.
Possible risks and side effects of taking ginseng include:
Gastrointestinal issues, like nausea and abdominal cramping
Kava. Kava root is an herb that is ground and turned into a drink, and it has an effect similar to alcohol. It can elicit feelings of deep relaxation and happiness, but Alman warns against it. "Kava can be quite dangerous," she says. "That's something I would be quite leery of."
Kava has been associated with significant liver damage. And, Alman says, there's no proof that it's going to do anything for your sex life or sexual functioning.
Other possible side effects of kava include:
Feeling drowsy or dizzy
Nausea or stomach pain
Changes in skin or hair
Though some research points to the possible effectiveness of a few herbs, you should remember that there are potential risks involved. A safer and more lasting course is to better understand why you’re experiencing sexual dysfunction and then get the right treatment for the real issue.
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Community connections program an award winner
Creating a familiar pathway for all children, from home to early learning to school, is the aim of Goodstart Plumpton’s innovative community program.
The program, which included a forging a relationship with an existing community group and setting up a new one at a local school, has won the Community Connections category in the 2018 National Goodies Awards.
The Goodies aim to recognise excellence at Goodstart Early Learning and showcase the best practice and commitment to delivering high quality early learning for children.
Described as “building a community culture of support”, the team at Plumpton were committed to supporting the needs of families and community members.
They collaborated with a primary school to form a community playgroup to support families and joined with community group I am Community to provide fresh fruit and vegetables for children and their families.
In her nomination, centre director Susan O’Keeffe said the aim of the program was to bring families and the community together and to build a support network for carers.
“We wanted to see the burden eased on families,” Ms O’Keeffe said. “Our community is diverse with varying needs but we believed that these two initiatives would support all families in accessing support networks and easing financial burdens and stress.”
So far, the community playgroup has grown from five families to 20 families in two months. The I am Community collaboration has seen many families take up the offer of fresh fruit and vegetables, for a gold coin donation.
“At the playgroup, children who may not have had access to peers their own age now have the opportunity to engage with others and grow in a space with their family and new friends,” Ms O’Keeffe said.
“Our work with I am Community has supported another not-for-profit organisation in our community and formed a partnership that is driven and focused on working with and supporting our most vulnerable community members.”
The state judges said the programs saw the centre reach out to the community on two levels.
“The playgroup has bridged the gap between home, early learning centres and primary schools,” they said.
“The result of quadrupling numbers in such a short period of time shows they obviously needed this within the community, and families are welcoming the support.”
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Jaguar D-Type 1957, part 2: Ecurie Ecosse scoops historic Le Mans double
Paul Fearnley
Jaguar D‑Type 1957, part 2: Ecurie Ecosse scoops historic Le Mans double
The red cars continued to bleed. The leading Ferrari 335S of Mike Hawthorn threw its left-front tread before the two-hour mark; new leader Jean Behra was fit to be tied when co-driver André Simon returned on foot after a seized UJ had ruptured their Maserati’s fuel tank; and Stirling Moss/Harry Schell, simmering in the Zagato coupé version of the mighty Maserati 450S, and already delayed by a fractured oil pipe, would soon suffer the same failure.
Piston problems would then eliminate two works Ferrari – Hawthorn had set a new lap record in a doomed bid to recover the lead – and the Scuderia’s remaining car was being hampered by fading front brakes; Hawthorn had been warned by the team that its old-hat drums would not go the distance.
Whereas the disc-braked Jaguars were relentless and reassuringly reliable. Ivor Bueb was holding second place when he handed the faster of Ecurie Ecosse’s D-Types to Ron Flockhart. By 6.30pm, the Edinburgh driver was leading. The team’s other D, having run outside the top 10 in the early stages, was also making solid progress and benefiting from others’ misfortunes and unpreparedness; for now, however, it appeared to be the slowest of the privateer Jags.
The fastest – along the Mulsanne Straight at least – was that of the rambunctious Duncan Hamilton. Despite being sacked from the works team for disobeying orders to win the previous year’s Reims 12 Hours, he found himself now benefiting from the guest presence of Jaguar’s famous team manager ‘Lofty’ England and its most experienced race mechanic Len Hayden. Co-driven by up-and-coming American Masten Gregory – bespectacled, spectacular and none braver – this ex-works, long-nose car, XKD 601, featured a 3.8-litre XK ‘six’ running on Weber carbs rather than Lucas fuel injection and was clocked at 179mph – a figure of little comfort when twice its headlights failed.
The other Ds were in the vivid hues of Equipe Nationale Belge (canary yellow with a broad central stripe of forest green) and the French blue of Equipe Los Amigos. Though both were short-nose 3.4s, the former, prepped and tended to by works mechanics, was substantially the quicker. Shared by journo-racer Paul Frère and motorbike/rally convert ‘Freddy’ Rousselle, who had co-driven the same car to fourth place as the latest of late replacements in 1956 – Roger Laurent walking away mere minutes before the off – XKD 573 this time looked set for a podium result until it suffered ignition failure, stranding it on the far side of the circuit. Though Rousselle, from Verviers, used his practical smarts to fashion a temporary repair of the contact-breaker, much time was wasted and he was destined to finish fourth again.
And so it was Le Mans-born Jean Lucas, another rally man and more familiar in Ferraris, who finished on the podium, XKD 513 co-driven by rookie ‘Mary’, real name Jean-Marie Brussin, a manufacturer of synthetic diamonds. Not until the early morning was this evenly matched pairing overtaken by the theoretically faster long-nose D of Ninian Sanderson/’Jock’ Lawrence.
Thus Ecurie Ecosse was running one-two, its reliability seemingly impregnable and its scheduled, regulation pitstops – Esso fuel and oil, water and Dunlop tyres – the epitome of efficiency. While the depleted Scuderia Ferrari downed pit boards for Sunday lunch, Ecosse’s mechanics Stan Sproat and Ron Gaudion were grabbing snacks and catnaps; their boss ‘Wilkie’ Wilkinson went without sleep the entire time.
Hamilton’s race was too exciting in comparison. Slipped engine timing caused overheating that fried the exhaust pipe, which in turn seared a hole in the floor and sent flames jetting into the cockpit; Gregory, fourth at the time, kept his foot in. Patched using bulletproof steel plate – don’t ask! – they charged through the night to make up lost time and, or so Hamilton thought, passed the works Ferrari on the finish line to take fifth place. In fact, he was still a lap shy and so the quintet of D-Types had to ‘make do’ with a 1-2-3-4-6.
Hamilton almost ran over “some very stupid and overexcited Scotsmen” celebrating this incredible result. Ecurie Ecosse had remained immaculate to the end, its year-old production Jaguars defeating the serried ranks of prototypes and setting a new record: 2732 miles. It was the Coventry marque’s fifth victory since 1951 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, a hat trick for its svelte D-Type, and the second win apiece for Ecosse, Bueb and Flockhart.
The 25th running of France’s most famous motor race was almost entirely British: three-quarters of the top 16 was UK machinery. All four Lotus Elevens finished, for goodness’ sake, the brace of works cars winning the 1100cc and 750cc classes, scoring a one-two in the Index of Performance and securing the Rudge-Whitworth Biennial Cup.
Ecurie Ecosse had little time for its celebration, however. Charismatic boss David Murray enjoyed new challenges – he was the first Scottish driver to contest a World Championship Grand Prix – and could not, therefore, resist the lure of the following Saturday’s Race of Two Worlds at Monza, a supposed showdown between the best from both sides of the Atlantic. While his transporters were loaded, he, Lawrence and Wilkinson went ahead to recce the route, some Alpine passes having being shut by storms. Their advisory message was to be sent to the Automobile Club Lyon, where the team would collect it. It never arrived: the message, not the team. Erring on the side of caution, those hard-pressed transporters had to take the long way round, via Nice and Menton, a journey that took three days – and included the replacement of a broken suspension spring.
Europe’s only representative in the 500-mile race (comprised of three heats) on Monza’s bankings, the Jaguars were outgunned by the lighter, smaller and more powerful Indy roadster single-seaters, but again they proved reliable, finishing 4-5-6 in the hands of Jack Fairman, Lawrence and Sanderson.
Tired but satisfied, the long return journey could, at last, be undertaken – once one of the transporters had had a broken pin in its steering box repaired. Only when Scotch Corner was navigated did it begin to feel like a homecoming. At least now there was time for celebration. Albeit not much. The D-Types needed to be readied for the next round of the World Sportscar Championship: the Swedish GP at Kristianstad.
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Cruel Luck Denies Elfyn Victory in Corsica
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin were denied a well-deserved victory at this weekend’s Tour de Corse – picking up a puncture through the final stage and having to settle for third place overall.
The British pairing were the ones to beat this weekend and showed true class behind the wheel of their EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC. Displaying all the characteristics of a deserving winner, Evans had the speed and the determination; but was just missing a little bit of luck through the final kilometres.
Having lost time on yesterday’s closing stage he and Martin had fallen 4.5 seconds behind eventual winner Thierry Neuville. But the pairing started the day in a positive frame of mind – confident in the knowledge that they had the better of their rival throughout the weekend.
Starting as he meant to go on, Evans set a sensational time through the opening speed test – 8.8 seconds quicker than anyone else and a full 16 seconds quicker than Neuville. The Belgian had no hope of matching the Welshman on speed alone, but fate played a hand through the final stage.
Picking up a puncture on the line, it was heart-breaking to watch the time slip away – relegating Evans to third place. But despite the disappointment, the team remain extremely proud and will take consolation from the rally-winning pace displayed here in Corsica.
Elfyn said:
“It’s disappointing right now, but overall it’s been a really positive weekend and we know that we had the speed to win. The first stage this morning felt really good, and we had a good rhythm going into the power stage. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but it felt like we were in the middle of the road and just unfortunate to hit a stone or something in the line.
Straight away I knew it didn’t sound good, and sure enough a couple of hundred metres later we got the puncture alarm. We had 11 kilometres to go and I knew that if we stopped to change it we would lose a lot of positions. We decided to continue, and thankfully made it to the end to salvage a podium.
Perhaps it’s not the result we wanted, but the pace is there and I think we can all take confidence from that moving forward. We’ve had a pretty strong start to the season so far and I’ve been really happy with the Fiesta on all four of the opening rounds. The guys back at M-sport are working exceptionally hard and making improvements all the time so I see no reason why we can’t continue this form into the coming events.”
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“This one is pretty hard to take. Elfyn and Scott were the fastest crew out there this weekend and have shown everyone what they and the Fiesta are capable of. That first stage this morning was simply sensational and I don’t think anyone can say that they didn’t deserve this victory.
To lose it on the last stage was a bitter blow for the whole team, but we need to look to the positives – and there were a lot of those this weekend. We’ve secured our second consecutive podium and the team have made some incredible steps forward with the Fiesta. Everyone is working flat-out to ensure we can continue to fight for the top results – and clearly we can!”
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Home » JBL Arena S10 Black 10″ 100W Powered Subwoofer Reviews
JBL Arena S10 Black 10″ 100W Powered Subwoofer Reviews
Every home theater or music system requires a quality subwoofer to deliver its best performance.
After all, it’s the subwoofer’s which produces the low-frequency sounds and gives you the deep bass that you crave.
Without a subwoofer, you are missing out on all the exciting sound effects that modern technology has brought to our movies and music.
Now, the good news is that there is no dearth of subwoofers in the market.
The bad news is that it’s not easy to find a subwoofer that meets all of your demands. Not by a long shot.
The JBL Arena S10, however, can spell the end of your search for a quality speaker.
JBL Arena S10 Black 10" 100W Powered Subwoofer with Special Edition...
10-inch (250mm) high-output polycellulose woofer
100-watt RMS (200-watt dynamic) digital power amplifier
Dual rear ports optimize airflow while minimizing port turbulence and audible distortion in the bass response
Variable level, crossover, and phase controls
Contemporary cabinet shape with all Black grilles provides a sophisticated, modern look
But is it really the solution to your problem?
That’s for you to decide, but after reading my review.
JBL Arena S10 Reviews
JBL is a well-known name to the audiophiles and comes with a marvellous reputation for producing high-quality subwoofers at a reasonable price. Their latest offering; the JBL Arena S10 is a powered home subwoofer and has been designed to work with the entire series of JBL Arena loudspeakers. And yes, it’s perfectly able to produce chest thumping bass with the help of its polycellulose woofer.
The Arena S10 provides 100 watts of continuous power and 200 watts dynamic and allows you to feel the subtle sound effects.
It has an adjustable crossover which ranges from 50 Hz-150 Hz (variable) and a frequency response of 41 Hz – 150 Hz. Moreover, the dual rear ports reduce distortion considerably and render loud and clear sound.
The Arena S10 has been compactly designed and has a small footprint. Therefore, you could fit this device easily in a small room without sacrificing a lot of space.
Due to its contemporary cabinet shape and black grills, it has an impressive design and looks elegant.
It is available in both black and white finishes, therefore, making it easier for you to match your current home decor.
Dual Rear Ports
The dual rear ports of the subwoofer make the most effective use of airflow and in turns reduce port turbulence and reduce distortion significantly.
Adjustable Crossover
The Arena S10 has an adjustable crossover and phase controls to ensure smooth blending with your speakers.
The adjustable crossover and phase control setting will allow you to optimize the sound of the subwoofer based on your preferences or environment.
The crossover frequencies of the subwoofer are 50Hz – 150Hz (variable).
The frequency response of this subwoofer is 41 Hz – 150 Hz and is able to handle a wide variety of sounds. However, With 41 Hz as its low-frequency response, it often fails to cope with the lowest booming sound effects.
Although there’s not a lot of content that is below 41 Hz, when it comes to playing those ultra-low-frequency sounds, it can sometimes produce port noise and loose bass response.
Polycellulose Woofer
The subwoofer comes with a 10″ polycellulose woofer. Although polycellulose woofer isn’t very common, it’s quite effective.
Rear Mounted Control
The rear panel with connectors and controls is sturdily made and enables you to integrate the subwoofer into your music system seamlessly.
In addition, it makes the setup process much easier and hassle-free.
Powered Subwoofer
One of the amazing aspects of a powered subwoofer is that it contains a built-in amplifier. Hence, there’s no need for additional power or amp from the receiver.
This device is a self-contained speaker unit, in which the features of the amplifier and subwoofer are matched perfectly. Therefore, you will get the best possible performance.
Auto power on/off
Rear mounted control makes the setup process simple and straightforward.
Aesthetically pleasing
Adjustable crossover allows sound optimization
Small footprint and suitable for small rooms
Struggles with continuous low-frequency content
Does not provide a manual on how to set up the crossover network
1. Is it possible to use my phone with the unit?
Unfortunately, this device isn’t Bluetooth enabled. Therefore, you can’t use your phone with the device.
2. Is this subwoofer the same as the JBL Arena sub 100p?
Principally it’s the same device. They have just changed the model number. However, the newer one sounds better.
3. Do I need to buy an amplifier for this device?
No, you don’t. You just need a signal, which means you can connect this to any device via a simple headphone jack or AV receiver pre-out.
4. What is the impedance rate of this device?
Actually, there’s no impedance in this subwoofer. It has, however, a powered sub preamp and crossover.
5. What kind of cable connection do you need for this device?
You would need to buy an RCA connection cable for this device.
6. Can I use this subwoofer for karaoke?
Well, it depends. You can certainly use this device with a speaker. However, you can’t use this as a substitute for a speaker as it only improves the bass in the speaker and surely not suitable for music.
7. Will this device bring fullness to my music experience?
Rest assured that this device will certainly improve your audio experience. Moreover, you can change the frequency response on the back of the unit.
8. What are the dimensions of the cabinet?
The device is 14.5″ wide, 14.5″ high, and 17″ deep.
The JBL Arena S10 will be a good addition to any sound system and will significantly improve your audio experience.
Although some high-end features have been incorporated into the device, the subwoofer comes at a relatively low price.
This subwoofer is perfectly suitable for a small to a medium-sized room; however, it might struggle to deliver top-notch performance in the large-sized room.
If you have any further question regarding subwoofer, please leave a comment in the comments section. Happy shopping!
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Hart throws shutout in second round win over #6 Ocean County
ROCHESTER, MN – Led by a complete game shutout in their second game of the NJCAA D3 National Championship on Thursday (5/19), the #2 Herkimer Generals softball team advanced to the semifinals with an 8-0 win over Ocean County Community College at McQuillan Sports Complex in Rochester, MN.
#2 Softball opens national tournament with 9-1 win over Vikings
ROCHESTER, MN – Scoring six runs in the second inning of Thursday’s (5/19) opening round NJCAA D3 National Tournament game helped the #2 Herkimer Generals move one step closer to their second national championship at McQuillan Softball Complex in Rochester, MN – defeating Central Lakes 9-1.
Softball wins fifth straight Region 3 Championship
BATAVIA, NY – Playing Monroe CC on Friday (5/13) for a second straight season in the Region 3 ‘A’ Championship at Genesee Community College yielded the same result in 2016 for the Herkimer Generals softball program, a sweep of the Tribunes, this time 9-1 and 6-0 for their fifth consecutive regional championship under Head Coach PJ Anadio.
Softball advances to Region 3 Championship on Senior Day
(Sydney Cimini drives in two with the bases loaded in the first inning Tuesday, giving Herkimer a 2-0 lead).
Herkimer travels to Monroe, takes two from Tribunes Sunday
ROCHESTER, NY – Getting a go-ahead hit by Georgie Super in game one and contributions from Taylor Daniels and Dana Nicoletti in game two, the #2 Herkimer Generals softball team traveled to play Monroe on Sunday 5/8 and defeated the Tribunes 10-8 and 6-4.
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Why Feeding Livestock Insects Could Help Save The Planet
Would you ever resort to eating insects and algae to prevent deforestation? Turns out that algae could be a tremendous health food. Most importantly, both of these sources could ease up on waste that’s created from feed for industrially-farmed animals.
The World Wildlife Fund in the United Kingdom released a report on how the world’s resources are used inefficiently to create feed for animals. It’s directly linked to the average consumer eating more protein than they need per day. Nutritional guidelines have us eating anywhere from 45 to 55 grams of protein, but instead many of us eat up to 90 grams on average daily -- over a third of that is meat products.
To keep up with demand, this has put an increase in growing feed for animals, such as soy fields. This has led to there being three times as many turkeys, geese, ducks, and guinea fowl on the planet than humans. Yes, we produce enough food to feed the entire world, yet there’s still too many places that suffer from world hunger.
All of this has been linked to 33 species becoming extinct in the United Kingdom alone. The trend is only going to get worse as the population increases, and the WWF believes that a change in both production and consumption must be done. One of those ways is by feeding animals differently.
Instead of growing soy and maize, alternatives such as seaweed and insects could be used. This wouldn’t compromise the nutritional value of animal consumption. Flies, crickets, and other insects could even replace up to 50 percent of fish feed, another source that’s caused heavy deforestation.
“Trials to date [on algae] have shown positive impacts on both livestock nutrition and aquatic environments,” the WWF UK report explains. “Insects can produce the same amount of edible protein as soy and animal products, with less land, lower greenhouse gas emissions and similar amounts of energy.” Animal health remained positive or even improved based on those trials as well.
While this would be a great start to improving deforestation, there would still be the human requirement needed. It’s up to us to monitor our diets better and stick with the recommended amount of protein required. If we simply cut back on protein alone, agricultural land would decline by 13 percent worldwide -- that’s over 1.6 billion acres.
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Subject: Artists' Newsletter - April 23, 2017
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ARTISTS' NEWSLETTER
News and Opportunities for Artists of Fairfield County, CT
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is a nonprofit service organization that supports its members through unified marketing, capacity building, professional development, and advocacy services. This newsletter is sent to all who request it - but we ask that, if you are not a member, you explore membership benefits and consider joining this community of more than 500 individuals and organizations. Sign up here
Listen to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis. If the issue is jobs, the arts and culture sector employed 4.8 million people in 2014. If the issue is trade, our arts and culture sector produces a trade surplus. And if the issue is the economy, just remember that the arts contributed more than $730 billion to our economy in a single year. But this argument is not enough. These numbers are not why we support the arts. They can’t be. To me, numbers will never explain what happens the moment the curtain rises or the lights go up. They don’t measure the quickening of our hearts in time with the music, the widening of our eyes, or the suspension of our disbelief. They don’t capture the changes of heart, the new questions sparked, the sense of possibility that is opened. They don’t capture the impact on a life trajectory that the arts can have.
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, Nancy Hanks Lecture March 20 2017
PROGRESSIVE GALLERY TOUR: browngrotta - APRIL 26
Come join us for the 7th stop on our Progressive Gallery Tour 2016-17 on Wed. April 26, 6pm. Help celebrate browngrotta arts' 30th anniversary with Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta during their once-a-year, 10-days-only, Art in the Barn exhibition, Still Crazy After All These Years at their barn/home in Wilton. Find out more and register here.
CULTIVATING COLLECTORS PANEL 2 - APRIL 27
Tickets are again going fast - so sign up now for the second Cultivating Collectors panel discussion. The Landscape of Collecting will be held Thurs. April 27, 6pm at Silvermine Arts Center. This second discussion will focus on how collectors are best educated and focused on our own Fairfield County community. Speakers include Evan Beard (U.S. Trust), Marty Baron (collector), Sharon Butler (Two Coats of Paint), Robin Jaffe Frank (writer, curator) Terri Smith (Franklin Street Works), and Dmitri Wright, painter. Register here.
DAVID DUNLOP LECTURES FOR CAFC - APRIL 29
Don't miss this special lecture by master painter David Dunlop, teacher, lecturer, writer and artist on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop and other DVDs about painting. David is giving his lecture: The Science of Expression; Art and Design as a special CAFC event at the Westport Arts Center, Sat. April 29, 2:30-4pm. We hope you will come, learn from David, and support the Cultural Alliance! Just $20 ($25 non-members). Find out more and sign up here.
JUNE 7 ACE AWARDS TICKETS NOW ON SALE
You can now purchase tickets for the Cultural Alliance's second Arts & Culture Empowerment (ACE) Awards Breakfast will be held at The Shore and Country Club, Norwalk on Weds. June 7, 7:30am. Special Guest Speaker will be Broadway star Kelli O'Hara (at right). Master of Ceremonies will again be James Naughton. Platinum sponsors: Cohen & Wolf; Hobbs, Inc., Shipman & Goodwin, and United Capital. Awards will be made in Corporate, Artist, Nonprofit, Educator & Citizen categories. Winners announced and tickets next week. For names of award winners and tickets, click here.
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EDDIE NINO
A professional fine artist and teacher based in Norwalk, Eddie Niño's rigorous academic training brings a traditional foundation but yet modern vision to both his work and art lessons. Born in Colombia, Eddie moved to the United States at the age of 14 and began classical training in the Stamford and Greenwich area focusing on portrait painting and drawing. He continued his studies in New York City at Grand Central Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York and with noted art teacher Andrew Reiss in Brooklyn, NY. After studying for more than 10 years he then launched his career as a serious fine artist and created his own art school: The Eddie Nino Art School in South Norwalk. Since then, Eddie has been sharing his knowledge with students of all levels and ages throughout a patient analytic approach of teaching. He currently specializes in realist portraiture and landscape painting, experimenting with both chiaroscuro and bright rich color. Eddie's many honors and accomplishments include private commissions, solo and group shows, numerous awards from the tri-state area, and published artwork in the book: Classical Life Drawing Studio. In 2016, Eddie showed in Artists and Residents at 22 Haviland Gallery, Norwalk, and in Latin Figures, Gateway Community College, New Haven, and had a solo exhibition, The Landscape Show, at the Greenwich Art Society Gallery. See Eddie's website, his school's Facebook page, and his Instagram account.
JOE PROVEY
Joe Provey is a largely self-taught painter, with a studio at the NEST Arts Factory in Bridgeport. He studied art history at Boston College and Brown University and eventually started to paint himself. He enjoys discovering new ways to paint, many of which can be seen in his recent series of seascapes and landscapes. His current fascination is with layering oil glazes over a “base painting” that has been roughed in with oils or acrylics. He likes when the underlying texture creates unexpected and intriguing "surprises" when the glazes are applied. He applies paints and mediums with palette knives, rags, gloved fingers, and even eyedroppers … but almost never with a brush. He says: "In my work, wiping away paint is nearly as important as applying it. My goal is to paint in ways analogous to how light falls, how the sea moves, how trees grow, and how buds bloom. I like it best when a painting just happens without a lot of intervention from me." Joe’s subjects are often from nature, especially the sea, beaches, trees, leaves, flowers, and stones. He says he strives toward presenting the natural beauty he sees and feels: “My paintings approach being abstract but always have a foot planted in “reality.”
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ROUND-UP OF MEMBERS' NEWS
GROUP SHOWS & OTHER NEWS
Michael J. Clocks, Marcella Kurowski (Looketha), Ruben Marroquin, Liz Squillace, and Lee Walther all have work in the Colorblends Artist Open House, Sat. April 22, 10am-6pm - and running through May 12. The pop-up art show takes place in the newly renovated Colonial Revival mansion, site of the Colorblends spring bulb collection at 893 Clinton Avenue, Bridgeport
Cynthia Mullins, Nancy Moore, and Chris Perry are three of the artists conducting tours and speaking about their work during the Ridgefield Guild of Artists' first Open Studio Day, Sat. April 22. The day kicks off with a champagne brunch at 10:30 at Rockwell Art and Framing (470 Main Street) and the studios are open from 11am through 3pm. Special offer: 2-for-1. $25 now buys you two tickets.
Frances Ashforth, Paul Berger, Bevi Bullwinkel, Eric Chiang, Erin Dolan, Barbara Loss, Cynthia Mullins, Phyllis Sinrich, and Karen Vogel all have work in the Carriage Barn's Spectrum exhibition, opening this Sat. April 22, 4-6pm. Curated by Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, of ARC Fine Art, the show comprises works rendered solely in gray scale -- black and white and anything in between.
Leslie Giuliani and Roxanne Faber Savage are giving a multi disciplinary "maker" class on Sewn Encaustic Books, Sat. April 29, 1-5pm at Leslie's studio, 29 Huckleberry Lane, Weston. The cost: $150 (with no charge for materials). Artists will begin by making encaustic monotypes on “Encaustiflex,” a flexible paper-like fabric material. Following the encaustic painting and printing, artists will fold and sew their monotype “panels” into unique artist’s books. Artists may create a pictorial or narrative sequence using encaustic painting, stamping, digital transfer, machine or hand stitching or lacing. For more information email Leslie
Nina Bentley, Miggs Burroughs, Susan Fehlinger, Jane Lubin, Marjorie Poe, and Tammy Winser are among the artists participating in the Westport Woman's Club Annual Fundraiser, Sat. April 29, 5-8pm and Sun. 30, 12-4pm only. The show is dedicated to the memory of recently deceased legendary local artist Naiad Einsel. Admission is free and open to the public. 30% of sales will benefit need-based scholarships for Staples seniors. Click image for full postcard invitation.
Elizabeth Hasegawa Agresta, Elise Black, Heidi Lewis Coleman, Lisa Cuscuna, Loren DePalma, Joseph Dermody, Emily Derr, Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Heide Follin, Karen Kent, Lesley Koening, Dale Najarian, and Florence Suerig all will be showing in the Greenwich Arts Council's annual ART to the Avenue exhibition of work in Greenwich stores. The show opens with a bang Thursday May 4, 5:30-8pm around town, and then there's an after-party at the Arts Council, 7:30-9:30pm. See list of all artists and a map of where they are showing.
INDIVIDUAL NEWS
Elizabeth Hasegawa Agresta is showing in the Greenwich Arts Council's annual ART to the Avenue exhibition of work in Greenwich stores. For the month of May, Elizabeth will be showing some of her local landscapes and New York cityscapes at Putnam & Vine - Wine & Spirits, a delightful retail establishment located at 39 East Elm Street in Greenwich. All are welcome to a wine and food reception on opening night, Thursday, May 4th, 5:30-8pm. At right, Elizabeth's Cabbies (2017, oil on panel, framed 24 x 28").
Spectrum will include one of Paul Berger’s latest photographs – Linked In (at right, click for larger image). This original black-and-white silver gelatin print captures intricate details on an antique piece of mining equipment. The print is 16 x 20” using traditional darkroom processes, working from a medium format film negative. The photo was taken in Death Valley, California last spring.
AMY BOCK has a solo show at the satellite gallery of The Ridgefield Guild of Artists at Sotheby’s International Realty, 470 Main Street, Ridgefield. Entitled Varied & Various, the show will contain paintings from Amy's many different series of works. Click on composite image to right for larger view. The show opens with a reception this Sat., April 22nd 10:30am-noon, and runs through July 16th.
Ann Chernow has two lithographs, I Wake Up Screaming, and Sweet Dreams Baby, (both 2016, 17 x 22," editions of 7) in the Westport Arts Center's Main Street to Madison Avenue exhibition, opening Fri. April 21, 6-8pm and running through June 23.
Heidi Lewis Coleman will be exhibiting her piece, RIVENDELL, (2016, 24x24", acrylic and cut paper on canvas, click for larger image) at J. Crew during New Canaan's upcoming ART IN THE WINDOWS, May 4th - 20th. Opening night celebration is Thurs., May 4, 5:30-7:30pm. Heidi comments that Rivendell is part of her Dreamscape Series which reflects an exploration of imaginary landscapes inspired by the ancient lands of mythology and cultural lore, whether historical, fictional or fantastical.
Carlos Davila is exhibiting four works at Portal Art Fair (Federal Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall Street, New York, May 3-12): two wall assemblages (including Saturn VII) and two large-scale floor sculptures. The scientific inventions, mathematical discoveries, architecture, and the cuneiform writing of disparate ancient cultures are a source of inspiration for his sculptures. Carlos is also installing Titanosaurus (at righ), a large scale public sculpture at a public park in Suwanee, Georgia as part of that city’s SculpTour. Titanosaurus is constructed of stainless steel and marine-grade teak and other hardwoods, and is over 16′ long and 12′ high.
Freelance illustrator Emily Derr of Stamford is featuring 11 framed illustrations for sale from 3 collections including her If it's Not Baroque, Don't Fix It series, during Art to the Avenue at Runway 85 at 85, Greenwich Ave. "I am elated to work with the store manager Martine and Runway 85!," said Emily. "My fashion illustrations are well-aligned with the fashion-forward product and ambience of Runway. It is a fun, hip, yet intimate space, with a lot of foot traffic. I am looking forward to the excitement, exposure to art enthusiasts, and the positive energy to be experienced during Art to the Avenue."
Carol Nipomnich Dixon has four oil paintings and eight embroidered collages featured at C. Parker Gallery, as part of ART to the Avenue (opening reception Thurs. May 4, 5:30-8pm). Artists’ Garden (embroidered collage, 16" X 16", at right, click for larger image) incorporates William Morris fabrics, images from Klimt’s paintings, and photo fragments from her own garden. Carol also has five art works in Spring Colors, at the Gertrude White Gallery of the Greenwich YWCA, 259 E. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich.
Loren DePalma will have her paintings on display at Bank of America for ART to the Avenue in Greenwich from May 4th through May 29th. The address is 240 Greenwich Avenue and there will be a opening reception from 5:30 to 8pm on the opening night. Lauren is showing some new work inspired by a recent trip to the Yucatán. Beautiful Agony (2017, 16x12, acrylic on canvas) is just one of the series "based on nature with emotional concepts woven in."
Erin Dolan's contribution to the Spectrum show opening at The Carriage Barn this Sat. April 22, is from her 350 series. This monochrome series appears perfectly appropriate to the show as Erin says: "I set out in this series to create 350 paintings using only black and white paint to raise awarness about the topic of CO2 in the atmosphere. 350 parts per million is the number we need to be within, in order to keep the planet healthy. We are currently around 400 parts per million. This series was created to demonstrate the mass and scale, of CO2 in our atmosphere. I personally feel this is a very black and white issue." At right, 350 Series: Alterations in CO2 (2016, oil on canvas coard, 8" x 8" each)
Philip Eliasoph’s curating, research and publications on Adolf Dehn, N.A. [1895-1968] has successfully returned the American master lithographer and watercolorist into the limelight. Dehn, critically esteemed as the “dean of American lithographers” was the subject of a recent exhibition of his Manhattan urban landscapes at the Fairfield University Art Museum. Philip’s Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan will be published this summer by The Artist Book Foundation.
Heide Follin will be showing her paintings at Steven Alan, 82 Greenwich Avenue, during ART to the Avenue. The opening reception at the store and festivities throughout participating Greenwich businesses will be Thursday, May 4, from 5:30 - 8 PM. All artwork will be in place and for sale until May 29 through the Greenwich Arts Council. Hidden Valley (acrylic, 36 x 27.5 inches framed) is about the gorgeous valleys Heide encountered while traveling in Bhutan last fall. She writes: "Each valley reveals itself as a wonderful new lush surprise as you descend from each mountain pass around the many crazy winding roads."
Sandy Garnett is showing at Art Expo NYC April 21-24 (Booth S226) - Saturday 4/22 11am -7pm, Sunday 4/23 11am-7pm, Monday 4/24 10am-3pm. He is offering free Collector Passes - Click here for your free pass.
Barry Guthertz has a solo show of his sepia photographs, Floraphilia Revisited, at the SoHoPhotoGallery, 15 White St, New York, opening Tues. May 2, 6-8pm, and running through June 3. Barry writes: "It’s a challenge to share the very essence of the flower I’m shooting-- to reveal the velvety surface of a leaf, or the fine hairs on a flower stem. I use digital sepia toning to add another layer of depth and mood to my images–while giving me the ability to better communicate the feelings that moved me to click the shutter when I did."
Karen Kent is showing eleven of her owl pieces in Richards (the clothing store on the avenue) for the duration of the Art to the Avenue show in Greenwich stores. Richards' is at 359 Greenwich Avenue. The work to the right is a detail of Karen's New Year’s Eve Party (2017, 30x40,” oil on canvas; click for complete image).
Daniel Lanzilotta's T-FREQUENCY (2015, plastic ocean debris, click for larger image) makes an appearance in Off the Walls: From Junk to Art, an exhibition curated by Willie Cole at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, opening Sat. April 22, 5-7pm.
Barbara Loss' image of a 1949 Plymouth, Going Strong (2016, 16x20," black and white metallic print) was juried into Spectrum, opening at the Carriage Barn this Sat. April 22, 4-6pm. This was the car sent to greet Barbara in Havana last year, and it was still "going strong"!
Airborne (2017, 20x24," detail at right, click for complete image), one of Phyllis Sinrich's photographs was selected for the upcoming juried show at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan: “Spectrum 2017: Grayscale.” Juror Adrienne Ruger Conzelman of ARC Fine Art gave emphasis to form, texture, perspective, context and content in making her selections. The exhibition will be on view from April 22 to May 21. Opening Reception is from 4 to 6 on Saturday, April 22.
Karen Vogel has two monochrome monoprints in the Spectrum exhibition, Grayscale, at Carriage Barn. Grounded (2016, image 18x18, paper size 22x30," at right; click for larger image) and Sounds of Silence. Both of these works, comments Karen, "represent moments in time when we need to be still and experience moments of silence."
Lee Walther has her unique One of a Kind Tables" (at right; click image for larger picture) - 20×20" handmade tables, featuring a clear acrylic, empty lidded box that becomes a see-through center piece of the table - featured both at the Colorblends Artist Open House (opening April 22; running through 22) and also included in Tiger Lily's designer vignette at Sorelle Gallery (84 Main St., New Canaan), opening Thurs. April 27, 5-8pm.
Lee Walther also has two of her "Tree Spirit" photographs included in the Earthfest2017 exhibition, My Park City at Read's Artspace, opening Thurs. April 20 and running through the end of the month. Photographed next to an old house in Black Rock - a hollow stump, less than 5 feet tall - one of many “Tree Spirits” Lee has seen and photographed: "They are very old and wise and have witnessed so much over the years," she says.
Elizabeth White will be holding a workshop at Flushing Town Hall (137-35 Northern Blvd), Sun. April 22nd 3-5pm, to demonstrate the process of life-casting leaves with cement. She will show leaf sculptures in various stages of completion and discuss simple mold making and use of pigments and finishes. Equipment and materials will be provided for participants, who will learn to make and apply mortar mix and bring home their work for a curing period. Register by calling 718-463-7700 or here.,
Tammy Winser is showing ALL U CAN EAT (2017, 20x20," acrylic and collage on canvas) in the Westport Woman's Club Art Show Fundraiser, Sat. April 29, 5-8pm and Sun. 30, 12-4pm only. The painting, from her “Pests of Westport” series explores, in Tammy's words, "what anyone with a beautiful garden struggles with during the warm months of the year: those pesky deer. They roam unchecked and often decimate flora seemingly overnight. Poking fun at their actions helps alleviate the grief they cause in their quest to survive in suburbia."
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COA SURVEY:
ARE YOU R.E.A.D.I.?
The Connecticut Office of The Arts (COA) announces that it is getting READI (Relevance, Equity, Access, Diversity and Inclusion) and your input is important. "COA is committed to these READI principles and to supporting and fully engaging diverse members of the artist community in arts policy, practice and decision-making. Changing demographics invite opportunity for responsible and responsive social change by attracting NEW perspectives connecting creative minds, a mutual purpose through arts. With that said, we are also committed to creating professional development that support artists, specifically artists that are READI. COA wants your input to help inform the development process of a READI track." The READI track will be a two-day conference that COA will be providing as an extension of its Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools Summer Institute that many teaching artists attend annually. The READI track is being designed specifically for artists. Those who have a deeper interest in becoming a teaching artist are also encouraged to attend the entire HOT Schools Institute. COA will give 3 scholarships to READI artists who are not just interested in attending the READI series but that are also interested in attending the HOT Schools institute in its entirety. Your input is vital to shaping the workshops, focus points and facilitators that we select. Take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9G9KJ22
THE NEST ARTS FACTORY NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIPS OFFERED
The NEST Arts Factory (1720 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport) is now offering Associate Memberships, for $50/year. The benefits include: being included in an annual curated group exhibition; reduced rental rates for event spaces; reduced rates for pop-up studios (when available); reduced entry fees for juried exhibits; listing on NEST Arts Factory website; a 10% discount at Artist & Craftsman Art Supplies in downtown Bridgeport; a Bridgeport Art Trail directory listing; being featured on The NEST social media pages; selling work in the NEST gift shop; “and more!” Interested? You can call Jane Davila at 203-450-6720 or sign up using the form here. You will receive a membership card by mail and further information after payment is received.
CALLS FOR ENTRIES
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: DEHN GALLERY
The Dehn Gallery at Manchester Community College (MCC on Main) Manchester, CT, invites artists to submit work for a Spring/Summer exhibition:
What is FLIGHT? Your work can touch upon several definitions of the word FLIGHT. Your work may include images of flying such as birds, planes, insects, drones etc; or flight as a term for fleeing; or flight as in tasting portions of a beverage; or a swift passage of time; or a group of creatures or objects flying together; an extravagant or far-fetched idea or account as in flights of fancy… Take a look at dictionary definitions and take off on FLIGHT. Eligibility: This is an open call for primarily two-dimensional artists who are at least 16 years of age. All work must be original and by the submitting artist. Media accepted: photography, mixed media, drawings, paintings, books, collages, prints, relief sculptures that hang on the wall, small sculptures (space is limited for 3-D work). Size should not exceed 4ft x 6ft in any direction. Work must be ready to hang. All work must be available for sale (65% to artist, 35% commission to Dehn Gallery to benefit arts programming) Cash Prizes: 1st: $250; 2nd: $200; 3rd: $100; Local Hero (CT artists only): $100. Jurors: Neil Daigle Orians, Visual Arts Coordinator at Real Art Ways in Hartford and David Borawski, an Independent Curator. Judging Criteria: originality and interpretation of theme, quality, demonstration of ability, and usage of medium. Entry Fee: $30 for up to three images maximum. Entries due by Midnight: April 30th. Accepted Work Drop off: May 14. Pay fee and apply here.
NY ART & RESIDENCY FOUNDATION
The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to announce its seventh annual Emerging Curator Open Call. The Emerging Curator Program offers an opportunity for an individual to organize a conceptually cohesive group show at the NARS Foundation Gallery. The aim of the program is to encourage new dialogue and to create a platform for emerging curators and artists to experiment and exchange ideas. No prior curatorial experience is necessary. Curatorial collectives and two-person collaborations are welcome. NARS Foundation will provide the gallery/ exhibition space, insurance for the artwork during the term of the exhibition, administrative support including marketing, postcard invitations, and email invites. Additionally, NARS will organize an opening reception and a Curator’s Talk. NARS curatorial staff will be available to provide guidance and support during the program, including promotion. The winning exhibition will take place in March/April 2018. Eligibility and Requirements: Only one application per curator, independently or in a collective. Curator may NOT be an exhibiting artist in the proposed exhibition. Curatorial proposals must contain a minimum of four artists, and preferably no more than 7. Proposed artists should be notified in advance of applying and have expressed interest and availability for the exhibition. The NARS Foundation Gallery is located on the fourth floor of an industrial building surrounded by artists’ studios. Please review photographs of previous exhibitions as well as the gallery floor plan, before submitting your proposal. To review requirements and submit, click here.
DARIEN ARTS CENTER
DARIEN ART SHOW
The Darien Arts Center encourages artists of all ages to participate in its 58th Darien Art Show and Sale, held Saturday, June 3, through Saturday, June 10. Artwork is accepted in a variety of media for this show, which offers cash prizes and a solo exhibit for the Best in Show winner. Registration for artists is online only at darienarts.org until May 22. Artists needing help with online registration may call the DAC office at (203) 655-8683, or visit the DAC office at 2 Renshaw Road, behind the Town Hall, for assistance. Drop off of artwork is on May 30, from 2 to 8 p.m. (No walk-in registrations will be accepted at drop off.) To find out more about the 58th Darien Art Show and Sale, click here or call (203) 655-8683. Register here.
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM
THE FOUR FREEDOMS
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, is calling on artists working in all media to create a new work inspired by the theme of the Four Freedoms or the meaning of freedom today. Approximately 30 works in all media will be selected by jury for inclusion in the Museum’s upcoming international traveling exhibition, Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms. Additional submissions will be available on the exhibition website and in other online media. The exhibition will be on view from June 2018 through October 2020 at several United States museums and one international museum, including the Norman Rockwell Museum; New-York Historical Society; Henry Ford Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The George Washington University Museum; and at Caen Memorial Museum, France, among others. Details here. Deadline: May 26, 2017
BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION
NATIONAL JURIED SHOW
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition announces its 3rd Black & White National Juried art show opening July 29, 2017. The show will be juried by Alison Hokanson, Assistant Curator for Nineteenth-Century European Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "We bathe in the beauty of color and spin thousands of words describing the experience that the cone cells transmit to our brain. In reality, they are not nearly as numerous as our rods, the cells that register light and dark, the black and white of our experience. Our rods are less articulated in language; fewer words are generated to describe that experience. Black & white is primal, the underneath, the foundation, of the opulence of color; black & white is where we register motion and, when the cones do not have sufficient light, our rods optimize our survival in the night woods." Black & White intends to explore this underground of survival and few words. The unique, enormous space of BWAC affords them the opportunity to exhibit really huge work, and they welcome it. Submission Deadline: Early Bird May 10, or Final Application Deadline May 31. $3000 in Cash Awards: Best of Show Gold: $1000; Best of Show Silver: $500; People's Choice: $250; Curator's Choice: $250; 10 Certificates of Recognition: $100 each. Full prospectus and application details here.
BOSTON PRINTMAKERS
2017 NORTH AMERICAN PRINT BIENNIAL
Boston Printmakers is now accepting entries for the 2017 North American Print Biennial. Presenting the best in contemporary and traditional printmaking, the North American Print Biennial has long been recognized as one of the most prestigious events in printmaking. Founded in 1947, Boston Printmakers' mission is to promote public knowledge of printmaking, encourage and support artists working in printmaking, and promote excellence and innovation within the field of print making.The juror of the Biennial is Judith Brodie, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art. Photographs, offset reproductions, or reproductions of artwork originally produced in another medium will not be considered. Submitted work may not have been exhibited in any other Boston Printmakers exhibition. Artists may submit up to three digital images of original prints completed within the past two years. Entry fee: $45 ($30 for Boston Printmakers members) allows submission of up to 3 works. Over $10,000 is available in juror-designated purchase prizes and materials awards. Complete prospectus here. Deadline: August 25, 2017
And Remember...
April 26: Stamford Art Association/Art at the Ferguson: Art in the Environment Deadline
See other deadlines below in Opportunities Calendar
Cafe.org CallforEntry.org: Run by WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation) this is a registry of opportunities, as well as an application management system. Registration required.
ArtSake: Archive of Calls for Artists, run by the Massachusetts Arts Council
ArtDeadline.com "the art world's first and most accessed resource of its kind"
The ArtGuide.com: Calls for Artists (can be indexed by state and deadline)
Scoop.It: Public Art RFPs and RFQs
NYFA Opportunities: Calls, Residencies and other opportunities. Can be indexed by date, location and type
CT OFFICE OF THE ARTS
DIRECTORY OF TEACHING ARTISTS
The Connecticut Office of the Arts is now accepting applications for its Directory of Teaching Artists. Teaching artists are individual practicing artists who specialize in teaching both in the classroom and in the community. The Directory of Teaching Artists is a reliable resource of high-quality Connecticut teaching artists who have been juried for excellence in their art form and readiness and capacity to work in schools and community settings. The Directory supports COA's education goal to advance teaching and learning along a 3-tiered "Continuum of Participation" from 1) Arts Access to 2) Arts Connection and Correlations, to 3) Arts Integration. The tiers are progressive in the amount of time an artist engages with the same audience, the type and scope of planning involved in developing each project, and the depth of the learning experience the project provides. Click here for general eligibility, selection criteria and selection process. Interested? Then review the Directory Guidelines and become familiar with the types of support documents and materials required at time of application.
EASTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY
The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) and Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) have issued a Request for Qualifications of artists for a public art opportunity at ECSU in Willimantic, CT. The committee may consider site-specific commissions and/or direct purchases by one or more artists. The budget for the project is approximately $175,000. A new site specific installation will add to the existing public art collection on campus becoming integral to the campus experience. The renovation of Goddard Hall and the Communications Building provides Eastern with an opportunity to create new state-of-the-art spaces, develop collaborative working spaces, and realign departments appropriately. The committee is looking for a work of art that celebrates student “connections” throughout their educational journey at ECSU: energetic, positive, and forward-thinking. Interested artists must first register a portfolio in the Art in Public Spaces Registry. There is no application process. The selection committee will review the portfolios of artists registered in the database and will shortlist a group of artists who will be invited to submit site-specific proposals for the project. Portfolios of artists already registered in the Art in Public Spaces Registry will automatically be reviewed.
CREATIVE CAPITAL/
ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION
ARTS WRITERS GRANTS
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art. The program issues awards directly to individual authors for articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing projects. The program supports the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship. Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories: 1. Articles; 2. Blogs; 3. Books; 4. New and Alternative Media; 5. Short-Form Writing. It is highly recommended that applicants read through the Application Guide before filling out the online application. Eligibility requirements and writing sample submission word counts vary for each project type. You may only apply for one project per grant cycle. The eloquence and coherence of your answers to the application questions are important. Although these answers are not technically writing samples, they will be considered in the evaluation process, and jurors read them carefully. Eligible applicants must be an individual arts writer; applying for a project about contemporary visual art; an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or practitioner in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts; at least twenty-five years old; a published author. Apply here.
CT OFFICE OF THE ARTS ARTISTS FELLOWSHIPS
The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA), is now accepting applications for the new, revised 2018 Artist Fellowship Program. The program will award 12-15 competitive Artistic Excellence grants of either $3,000 or $5,000 and 3-6 Emerging Recognition grants of $1,000 for Connecticut artists. The funding provides an opportunity for artists to pursue new work and achieve specific creative and career goals. Connecticut artists of all disciplines may apply. Applicants MUST be the primary creators of original works of art. Artists select one broad category (Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Dramatic Writing, Film, Digital Media, Literature, Design, Traditional Arts and Community/Teaching Artist) plus up to four general categories from a list of over 50 (from photography and spoken word to environmental art and Hip Hop). Artists then develop a one-page narrative describing their artistic practice (current work and future goals), discussing the brief work samples they submit, indicate how the fellowship award will impact their artistic development and touch on how they anticipate spending any awarded funds. Fellowship awards are highly competitive and artists are encouraged to apply ONLY when they have created a substantial body of RECENT work that can be presented professionally. See the Guidelines with application instructions here. The deadline for applying is June 21.
ALDRICH MUSEUM
WEBSITE CONTENT FACILITATOR
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
in Ridgefield, seeks a 4-days-a-week Website Content Facilitator to work with diverse Museum departments—exhibitions, education, membership, events, and visitor services—to actively organize and archive content and update The Aldrich’s newly redesigned website to ensure timely and accurate information is posted in a way to make the site dynamic, accessible, and engaging. This position will also schedule, develop, and format all Aldrich e-newsletters across all departments, and create and manage a digital archive of all exhibitions, programs, and events. Responsibilities include: format content for, regularly review, update, and maintain the Museum’s website; update, review, and maintain online retail and ticketing platforms; develop online outreach materials, including monthly e-news, dedicated program e-blasts, press e-blasts and invitations, event e-vites, annual appeals, etc.; participate in regular meetings with external affairs, education, and exhibitions staff to identify e-blast and website needs; archive and track all exhibition, program, event, and institutional video/photography; create and maintain online exhibitions archive, including PDFs of Aldrich publications; develop illustrated exhibition checklists; other special projects as assigned by the Press and Social Media Coordinator, Graphic Designer or Head of Marketing. Requirements include: fluent in Photoshop (InDesign and Illustrator a plus), with a strong understanding of producing and optimizing media for the web; ability to collaborate well; comfortable working with a broad range of Museum personnel, including curators, educators, technology designers, and development, marketing, and communications staff. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to the Museum’s mission, to working to advance its position within the museum field, and the ability to advocate effectively for the Museum and its goals in professional and social settings. Send a cover letter and resume to: jobs@aldrichart.org, with the subject line “Website Content Facilitator.” Qualified candidates will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MATTATUCK MUSEUM
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, seeks an Executive Assistant to the Director. This position provides administrative support to the Executive Director and Board President as well as support for other staff directors as necessary. Specific responsibilities include maintaining the Director’s calendar, planning and executing business meetings, and providing support to other departments as needed. Assist Director and Board President in Board Meeting Preparation, ensure meeting announcements are distributed in advance to board and committees, assist with Board meeting logistics, and maintain board and committee minutes records. They will take on many of the office managerial tasks such as mail sorting, shipping, manage office supplies and coordinate office equipment management and repair needs. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree or an Associates degree with relevant prior work experience. S/he should enjoy working with the public, meeting new people, and partnering with volunteers. Strong organizational skills are a must and the candidate should have the ability to prioritize and organize multiple activities. S/he will possess strong typing skills, proven accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines. Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel are required. See job description here. Send cover letter that addresses qualifications and interest, current resume and 3 professional references to: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR SEARCH, Attn: Robert Burns, Director, Mattatuck Museum,144 West Main Street, Waterbury, CT 06702 or via email to bob@mattmuseum.org
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY QUICK CENTER
FOR THE ARTS
EVENTS & SALES MANAGER
The Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University seeks an Events and Sales Manager who is responsible for the development of Quick Center profile and business in the community through external rentals, promotion, and in-kind partnerships and the business development of Quick Center rentals to reach annual gross revenue targets. Other responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of rental market from solicitation through event, including personnel and set up; managing all University events from booking through close of event; contracting and securing all aspects of Missoula Summer program and workshop intensives; coordinating front of house activities and managing and developing a team of external volunteers and student employees; coordinating all events through master calendar with Director of Programming; overseeing the Q-Café and all concessions activities; and working closely with relevant University and Quick Center teams to achieve goals. Requirements include: a Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent related experience; 3 years demonstrated experience in the area of business development, event management, volunteer coordination, and community service, as well as the ability to foster and sustain a climate conducive to a cooperative environment; excellent attention to detail; flexibility in working hours is required for effective event coordination. (weekday, evening, and weekend hours). Apply here.
BUCK'S ROCK PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS CAMP
Buck’s Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp is hiring Graphic Design instructors for the summer of 2017. Buck’s Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, CT, is a unique teenage program where campers have the freedom to choose their activities in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Campers work with qualified, professional artists and teachers who nurture and support their skills and interests in professionally equipped studios. Summer teaching positions are available in most visual art studios: Glassblowing, Woodworking, Ceramics, Sculpture, Metalsmithing/Jewelry, Video, Batik, Weaving, Sewing, Printmaking/ Silkscreen, Culinary, Leather, Puppetry, Graphic Design, and Web Design. Plus openings in the Performing Arts: Music, Technical Theater (Set, Lighting/Sound Design, Costume Design). Applicants should be 21 years or older (although we would consider 20 year olds), have strong communication skills, teaching experience, and sensitivity to the needs of young artists and adolescents. June 22, 2017 to August 21, 2017. Apply here.
Jobs Previously Listed and Still Available
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Education Programs Assistant
AMS Planning & Research: Analyst and Project Manager
The Bruce Museum: Director of Marketing & Communications
Fairfield Museum: Associate Educator/Site Supervisor
Fairfield County Children's Choir: Conductor of Concert Choir
Greenwich Arts Council: Executive Director
The Klein: P/T Box Office and Marketing Manager
Pequot Library: Director of Development.
Sacred Heart University, Art & Design Adjunct
Wadsworth Atheneum: Donor Relations Manager
Westport Country Playhouse: Development Fellow
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OPPORTUNITIES CALENDAR
April 22/23: Greenwich Art Society, 100th Annual Juried Exhibition, Receiving, 2-4pm
April 30: Manchester Community College: Dehn Gallery, Flight Submission Deadline
May c1: NY Art Residency & Studios (NARS): Emerging Curator Open Call Submission Deadline.
May c5: Essex Summer Arts Festival Application Deadline
May 12: Oxford Food and Arts Fest (June 11) Application Deadline
May 12: Eastern CT State Univ. RFQ Deadline for registering with Art in Public Spaces Registry
May 15: Artspace Maynard (MA): Exhibition Proposals Deadline
May 18: Rowayton Arts Center, Art in the Park Application Deadline
May 17: Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation: Arts Writers Grants Application Deadline
May 19: Harrison Public Library, NY: 2018 Library Shows: Submission 9:30am-4:30pm
May 20: Women Photograph: Pulitzer and Ona Grant Submission Deadlines
May 22: Darien Arts Center: 58th Annual Art Show Registration Deadline
May 26: CT Audubon at Fairfield: Birds & Their Habitat Submission Deadline
May 26: Norman Rockwell Museum: Four Freedoms Submission Deadline
May 27: Silvermine Arts Center: Art of the Northeast: Submission Deadline
May 31: Iconic Norwalk Instagram Contest Submission Deadline
May 31: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition: Black & White Submission Deadline
June 15: Coastal Arts Guild Artists and Artisans At the Beach Application Deadline
June 21: CT Office of the Arts: Artist Fellowship Application Deadline
June 23: Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT: Sculptfest2017 Deadline
June 30: NYFA: Canadian Women Artists' Award Application Deadline
Aug. 25: Boston Printmakers: 2017 North American Print Biennial Submission Deadline
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GST Information
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The Meaning and Scope of Supply
Composite Supply and Mixed Supply
Time of Supply in GST
GST on advances received for future supplies
Concept of Aggregate Turnover in GST
Non-Resident Taxable Person in GST
Casual taxable person in GST
Input Service Distributor (ISD) in GST
Composition Levy Scheme in GST
Reverse Charge Mechanism in GST
Tax Invoice and other such instruments in GST
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Table 11 of GSTR 1: Consolidated Statement of Advances Received/Advance adjusted in the current tax period/ Amendments of information furnished in earlier tax period: Rate wise and intra/interstate wise
GST on advance received by Composition dealer:
Time of supply determines when the taxpayer is required to discharge tax on particular supply. Time of supply provisions are governed by Section 12 to 14 of the CGST Act, 2017. As per the said provisions, the time of supply is determined with reference to the time when the supplier receives payment with respect to the supply as well as a few other references like issue of invoice, receipt of goods etc. In general, the time of supply is earliest of issuance of invoice or receipt of payment. Therefore, in case of advance received for any supply, time of supply is fixed at the point when advance is received, irrespective of the fact whether the supply is made or not. Accordingly, GST needs to be paid with reference to the time at which advance is received, if any, and this requires compliances with a few procedures, documentation and reconciliation of taxes paid on the advances and supply made.
As per the explanation 1 to Section 12 of the CGST Act, 2017 a “supply” shall be deemed to have been made to the extent it is covered by the invoice or, as the case may be, the payment. For instance, an advance of Rs. 10 lacs is receivedfor a supply worth Rs. 1 crore to be made in future. The time of supply to the extent of advance received i.e. Rs.10 lacs shall be at the time of receipt of advance and for the balance amount of Rs. 90 lacs, it shall be determined with reference to date of issue of invoice and other parameters.
It happens many a times that supply is cancelled after paying advances. In such cases, depending on agreements, the advances received may be refunded, forfeited, or adjusted for later supplies. All this may require different tax treatments.
Recognizing the fact that small businessmen may be burdened with compliance issues with regard to GST on advances, the Government has come out with Notification no. 66/2017 dated 15.11.2017, whereby all suppliers of goods who have not opted for composition scheme, have been exempted from the burden of paying GST on Advances received. For such categories of taxpayers, time of supply would arise only at the time of issue of invoice and they need to discharge GST liability accordingly. But the supplier of services are required to pay GST at the time of receipt of advances.
Many of the goods which were in the highest tax bracket of 28% have been brought down to the 5/12/18% bracket after the decision of the GST Council in its meeting held on 10.11.2017. Notification no. 41/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 14.11.2017 has also been issued giving effect to the revised rates. It may so happen that advances were given when the rate was 28% and the supplier has paid tax on it. Subsequently the rate has been reduced to say 18%. Now, assuming supply happened after the change in tax rate and the invoice for the same was also issued after the change in tax rate, the time of supply, according to section 14 of the CGST Act, is the date of issue of invoice. Therefore, 10% additional tax paid can either be adjusted against the balance payment of tax against that particular supply or claimed back as refund.
For the categories of taxpayers who are required to discharge GST on Advances, the following would be relevant.
As per Section 31 (3) (d) of the CGST Act, 2017, a registered person shall, on receipt of advance payment with respect to any supply of goods or services or both, issue a receipt voucher or any other document,containing such particulars as may be prescribed,evidencing receipt of such payment;
The receipt voucher shall contain the particulars as contained in Rule 50 of the CGST Rules, 2017 which are as follows:
a) name, address and Goods and Services Tax Identification Number of the supplier;
b) a consecutive serial number not exceeding sixteen char- acters, in one or multiple series, containing alphabets or numerals or special characters hyphen or dash and slash symbolized as “-” and “/” respectively, and any combina-tion thereof, unique for a financial year;
c)date of its issue;
d) name, address and Goods and Services Tax Identification Number or Unique Identity Number, if registered, of the recipient;
e) description of goods or services;
f ) amount of advance taken;
g) rate of tax (central tax, State tax, integrated tax, Union territory tax or cess);
h) amount of tax charged in respect of taxable goods or services (central tax, State tax, integrated tax, Union territory tax or cess);
i) place of supply along with the name of State and its code, in case of a supply in the course of inter-State trade or commerce;
j) whether the tax is payable on reverse charge basis; and
k) signature or digital signature of the supplier or his au- thorised representative.
What if the rate of tax or place of supply is not determinable at the time of receiving advance payment?The proviso to Rule 50 of the Rules ibid provides that where at the time of receipt of advance, if the rate of tax is not determinable, the tax shall be paid at the rate of 18% and if the nature of supply is not determinable,the same shall be treated as inter-State supply and GST should be paid accordingly.
Once an advance payment has been made and a receipt voucher has also been issued, there may be situations wherein the supply is subsequently not made and the amount of advance is to be refunded back. There could be multiple situations. One is that no tax invoice is issued till then. In that case, the advance taken can be refunded and a refund voucher need to be issued in such cases.However, if tax invoice has already been issued, credit note will have to be issued in order to square off the transaction. Credit Note can be issued in terms of the provisions contained in Section 34 of the Act ibid read with Rule 54 of the Rules ibid.
As per Section 31 (3) (e) ibid, where, on receipt of advance payment with respect to any supply of goods or services or both the registered person issues a receipt voucher, but subsequently no supply is made and no tax invoice is issued in pursuance thereof, the said registered person may issue to the person who had made the payment, a refund voucher against such payment;
The refund voucher shall be as per Rule 51 of the Rules ibid and shall contain following particulars:
b) a consecutive serial number not exceeding sixteen characters, in one or multiple series, containing alphabets or numerals or special characters’ hyphen or dash and slash symbolized as “-” and “/” respectively, and any combination thereof, unique for a financial year;
d) name, address and Goods and Services Tax Identification Number or Unique Identity Number, if registered,of the recipient;
e) number and date of receipt voucher issued in accordance with the provisions of rule 50;
f ) description of goods or services in respect of which re- fund is made; (g) amount of refund made;
h) amount of tax paid in respect of such goods or services (central tax, State tax, integrated tax, Union territory tax or cess);
i) whether the tax is payable on reverse charge basis; and
j) signature or digital signature of the supplier or his au- thorised representative.
As per Rule 56(3) of the Rules ibid, every registered person shall keep and maintain a separate account of advances received, paid and adjustments made thereto.
Table 11A of FORM GSTR-1 captures information related to advances received, rate-wise, in the tax period and tax to be paid thereon along with the respective place of supply (POS). Table 11B captures adjustment of tax periods against invoices issued in the current tax period.The details of information relating to advances would be submitted in Table 11A only if the invoice has not been issued in the same tax period in which the advance was received. Whereas adjustments made in respect of advances received during the earlier tax period,but invoices issued in the current tax period would be reflected in Table 11B.
It may be noted that dates for FORM GSTR-2 and FORM GSTR-3 have not been notified so far.
A Composition dealer is governed by Section 10 of the Act ibid which states as under:
10) (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act but subject to the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 9, a registered person, whose aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year did not exceed one crore rupees, may opt to pay, in lieu of the tax payable by him, an amount calculated at such rate as may be prescribed,but not exceeding,––
(a) one per cent of the turnover in State or turnover in Union territory in case of a manufacturer or trader,
(b) two and a half per cent of the turnover in State or turnover in Union territory in case of persons engaged in making supplies referred to in clause (b) of paragraph 6 of Schedule II, and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed.
The provisions of Section 10 are subject to Section 9(3) & (4) which would mean that the composition dealer will have make necessary compliances on account of reverse charge supplies (apart from payment of tax u/s 10 at the prescribed rate on his outward supplies). It may, however, be noted that provisions of Section 9(4) of the Act ibid has been suspended till 31.03.2018 vide Notification no.38/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 13.10.2017 . Section 10 of the Act ibid also suggests that a composition dealer has to pay, in lieu of tax payable by him, an amount calculated at the prescribed rate. The prescribed rate is applied on the turnover in the state of the composition dealer. Turnover in a state has been defined in Section 2(112) of the Act ibid as “turnover in State” or “turnover in Union territory” means the aggregate value of all taxable supplies (excluding the value of inward supplies on which tax is payable by a person on reverse charge basis) and exempt supplies made within a State or Union territory by a taxable person, exports of goods or services or both and inter- State supplies of goods or services or both made from the State or Union territory by the said taxable person but excludes central tax, State tax, Union territory.
In Table 6 of the GSTR-4, the return for composition taxpayer, the tax on outward supplies made shall be computed as net of advance and goods returned. Further, in Table 8, consolidated statement of Advances paid/Advance adjusted on account of receipt of supply need to be detailed.
A combined reading of the above provisions would indicate that a composition dealer will not have to pay any tax on advances received, if such advances pertain to his outward supplies. The advances received and goods returned do not form part of taxable supplies and do not form part of the turnover in a state at the end of the quarter (tax period) for the purpose of computing turnover in a state.
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We do solemnly pledge our commitment to the universal ideals of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity .
As we firmly pledge that we will work towards peace in the family, society community, nation region and the world through our thought word and action.
I commit myself to the Gandhian ideal of non violence will work towards a culture of peace based on the principles of the centrality and dignity of every individual.
I will strive to be inclusive in my approach, accommodating in my speech and committed in my actions towards peace and non violence.
So help me God.
1. As you are aware, the Guild has been running successfully the Sannidhi Primary School in Najafgarh since the last two years. From a humble 40 students we have enrolled 128 students upto Class 3. This has been achieved due to the incredibly supportive members and committed staff. We are very appreciative of the time that you give to the Guild.
The school in now being shifted to a bigger and more child friendly premises. To invoke the most positive energies for the school, the Guild would like to conduct a small havan on 3rd of November 20181 at 11.30 am at Sannidhi School, Shyam Vihar, Dinpur village, Najafgarh, New Delhi ( Near Max Garden) The havan will be conducted in the presence of the Chairperson, Dr Giri, who will grace the event to bless the school.
2. The Guild has been working on the capacity building of the marginalized women from its very inception. We have been involved in various welfare activities in order to act as a catalyst of social change. Group marriage has been one of them which Guild has been conducting for past forty years. These group marriages are facilitated by the Guild for those belonging to the low economic background.
We shall be organizing Group Marriage Ceremony for 15couples on 18 th November - 2018 on Sunday at 3:00 pm at Guild for Service, C-25, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi-110016.
Greetings from the Guild of Service!
The guild is privileged to invite you for the following events. Please do join us.
"Annual General Body meeting"
Date : 4th August'2018
Venue : 18 Eastern Avenue, Maharani Bagh-110065.
"Mahila Anna Swaraj"
The nation's nutrition, health, food security and cultural heritage lie in women's hands
Women of India are the primary producers and transformers and processors of diverse, nutritious and healthy foods.
Mahila Anna Swaraj, a network of women food producers and processors.
Time : 11:00 am
Venue : Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi.
"Bhaktirass & Bhakti Gyan"
We are privileged to bring together a confluence of "Bhaktirass & Bhakti Gyan" on the occasion of Janamashtami. The renowned & Vaishnava scholar Shri. Srivats Goswami ji will speak on this to help us bring Krishna into our lives. And a very famous Thumari singer Ms. Kumud Diwan & famous Sufi singer Ms. Rene Singh will also give us a rendering in their sweet voice on this occasion.
Date : 31st August'2018
Time : 6:00pm
Venue : Chinmaya mission auditorium 89, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003.
Looking forward to your presence, support & inspiration.
Without you we cannot exist, your investment is our encouragement.
Feel free to contact for any query.
Contact number : 011-41013416/17/18
Email Address : guildofserviceni@gmail.com
guildofserviceni@yahoo.com
"Invitation For 7th March" 2018- International Women's Day
Greetings from the Guild of Service.
The Guild as you know is one of the few organisations combining grass root work with advocacy both nationally and internationally. Every year on the occasion of International Women Day. The Guild focuses on issues regarding the advancement of women.
On the 7th of March 2018, synchronizing with the International Women Day, the Guild as every year, is organizing in partnership with UNIC (United Nations Information Centre), an interactive dialogue focusing on: Gender Equality for Gender mainstreaming: Lived experiences in corporate & political careers.
You will agree that the corporate world and the political world are two areas where the gender balance is still only a vision. Despite the capabilities, capacities and talents, women still are under represented both in the Parliament and in the Legislative Assemblies, despite the one million elected women at the grass roots. It is changing certainly, but not as swiftly as the women would want it to. The Journey from the Gram Sabha must lead to the Lok Sabha. In the corporate world women still hit the glass ceiling.
On behalf of the Guild I am delighted to invite you to participate in an interactive dialogue with women who have succeeded in the corporate and the political world, share their lived experiences on the career path, focusing both on the struggles, the success, and the gap between the aspiration and the reality ( if any) and of course the way ahead. The audience comprising of activists, lawyers, academicians, journalists and students would like to take away the perspectives of a success story.
The event is scheduled for the 7th of March 2018 from 11.00am to 1.00 pm at the Conference Hall, The Ford Foundation, 55, Lodi Estate New Delhi Pin: 110003
I look forward to your positive response and hearing your amazing journey
Dr. V. Mohini Giri
The Guild of Service
8th March'2018- Peace Prayer" separately
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening MK Gandhi
Dr. V. Mohini Giri, Chairperson, Guild for Service
Ms. Jasjiwan Kaur, President, War Widows Association
Collaboration with Women's Initiative For Peace In South Asia & Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti
Request your presence at
The Interfaith Peace Prayer for International Women's Week
On Thursday the 8th March 2018 at 10: 30 a.m.
Kirti Mandap, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, 5, Tees January Marg,
Prayers will be led by Smt. Gurusharan Kaur, Acharya Srivats Goswami,
Ms. Sushma Seth
R.S.V.P.
Phone:+91-41013416/17, Fax:+91-11-41013418
Email: guildofserviceni@yahoo.com / guildofserviceni@gmail.com
War Widows Association: Phone: +91-11-26965825, 26965494 PLEASE BE SEATED BY 10:25 am
Independence day was celebrated on 14TH August 2018 at all Sannidhi Primary Schools. Our freedom was celebrated with great enthusiasm with children's participation.
47th group marriage held by the Guild
Since 46 years of its existence-initiated by Guild for Service has been conducting group marriages. These expense-free marriages abolish the practice of dowry, promote inter-caste and inter-community marriages and widow remarriage. It is through such endeavors that the Guild for Service seeks to function as a catalyst for change in society.
The 47th group marriage conducted on 19th November was highlighted by the following
The brides were not be given away in Kanyadaan but it was Panigrahanam which is mutual acceptance of relationship
A woman officiated as the priest to conduct the the Nikha of two Muslim couples.
To avoid pollution the traditional Agni Vidhi was performed using anti pollutant Puja Samahgri.
All the widow remarriage, inter caste and inter community marriages were performed in the day time so that electricity is not wasted.
The dowry system is completely eliminated in the group marriages.
Family Planning Association gave awareness lecture and distributed condoms .
The marriages were sponsored by Lions Club New Delhi, Bengali Market and Ganges International Pvt Ltd The couples were given essential items and the wedding attire to start their life.
National Commission for Women: mandate, challenges and way forward
Brainstorming session: 21st June2017 Conference Room II,
India International Centre
Organized by : The Guild of Service
This year the National Commission for Women (NCW) is twenty-five years old and has matured into a significant entity, ready for an even more meaningful role in the lives of the Indian women. The Guild in partnership with UN Women and the India International Centre organized a brain storming session on the role of the Commission. The time was opportune and right to retrospect on the manifold successes of the Commission and the perceived gap between aspirations and implementation. In the course of the discussion many dimensions of the commission's role were explored in an effort to review, reinvent and rejuvenate it.
The session was enriched by the views of three Ex Chairs of the Commission: Dr Mohini Giri, Dr Poornima Advani and Ms Girija Vyas. The present Chairperson Ms Laitha Kumaramanglam despite being unwell joined through Skype. The discussions were enlightening as Dr Syeda Hameed former Member Planning Commission and NCW, Ms. Rebecca Tavares from UN Women, Ms Padma Seth, Shamina Shafique, former members of NCW, Ms. Zohra Chatterjee, Ms Beenu Sen, former Member Secretaries NCW, Ms Sujaya Krishnan former Joint Secretary Family Health and Welfare, Ms .Firoza Mehrotra, gender specialist UNFPA, Mr Sudhir Verma, former Secretary, WCD Rajasthan and a host of eminent social activists put forth their views and experiences.
The floor agreed that NCW was a vital and essential body for the protection of women's rights and there was a need to give it legislative and institutional strength as well as political and financial autonomy. The NCW should be at par in status with NHRC, National Commission for Minorities and National Commission for SC/ST. Despite being a statutory body it has become an instrument for looking into cases of violence against women, with limited powers over the police and magistrates, and a counseling center. The NCW Act has inherent weaknesses in that it it is vague and and does not give specific powers for implementation of the mandate. Nor does it give any directive to state governments to constitute a State Commission for Women. The need to define women's rights, to strengthen the letter of the law and to legislate the strength of the NCW by vesting it with punitive powers on the lines of other Commissions/ Tribunals was felt.
In the course of brainstorming it emerged that Parliament did not spend adequate time on women's issues and reports submitted by the NCW were not taken into cognizance. The Act mandates an action taken report, however there is no mechanism to ensure that recommendations are taken up and discussed within an appropriate time frame. Further , even though the NCW is an autonomous body, yet the Ministry of Women & Child Development, by virtue of its administrative and financial powers subordinates NCW in terms of its dependence on the government for staff requirements and financial grants. Time spent in convincing bureaucrats on the need and efficacy of programs and interventions is far too much, thus hampering the efficacy and performance of the commission. It was felt that directt budgetary allocation from the Finance Ministry was a must to maintain the autonomy.
Since a major chunk of the Commission's work is the cases of human right violations and contravention of the law, and these are are largely due to the prevalent social mindset; it was suggested that the cases themselves can be a catalyst for review of policies/programs and laws. It is vital for the Commission to tap the reservoir of knowledge and expertise through expert committees. There should be a Coordination Committee under the Chairperson with representatives from various Ministries MWCD, HRD, Home Rural Development, Poverty Alleviation, Health and Family Planning, Land resources etc which may meet quarterly. It should be responsible for implementing the decisions of the Commission.
The attendees expressed their dissatisfaction with the natures of the selection of the members of the Commission and its Secretary. The Secretary especially should be one who was committed to the cause and was one who could facilitate the work of Commission with governmental agencies. They suggested there be more transparency and inclusiveness from all political parties, activists and experts from different fields and various states.
In conclusion it was decided that a from the Concept paper and the discussions drafting committee will work on
documents which can be taken up with the appropriate authorities
Recommendations will be
Short term: NCW alongwith inputs from civil society organisations can create rules within the ambit of the law
Long term: Review and amend the Act.
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Arizona Mills Mall Shopping
Discover the stores & services at Arizona's busiest outlet mall!
In the slide show above, you're viewing pictures of the new Sea Life Aquarium at the Arizona Mills Mall! If you're looking for great family entertainment, this beautiful aquarium is a Phoenix attraction that's sure to please all ages...and is especially designed for kids to learn and have fun. Please see our directory of Arizona Mills restaurants and entertainment options for more info about SeaLife and other fun at the AZ Mills Mall.
Arizona Mills Mall review
Visitors to the metro Phoenix, Arizona area may wonder what the residents could possible do there when the thermometer reads 105 degrees---in the shade. The locals head to the Arizona Mills Mall for some fun indoor-style, that's what!
When it's hot outside, then the action gets "hot" at Arizona Mills outlet mall...in the "hip 'n happening" sense of the word! The mall's giant interior corridors get simply stuffed with visitors coming in to feast their senses (while cooling themselves down in the comfy air conditioning.)
A carnival-like atmosphere takes over the mall, with kiddies hopping onto coin-operated rides, cruising on a colorful carousel, or choosing from a plethora of vibrantly hued helium balloons from a strolling vendor. Older visitors admire an artist at work in his booth, receive an "aqua massage" or simply rest on one of the many park benches as the admire Arizona Mill's clever interior decor (which is themed in different ways depending on which different segment of the mall a visitor happens to be passing.)
In other words, the Arizona Mills Mall is like an old-fashioned town square, drawing locals and visitors from far 'n wide to "come join the fun!" There's also plenty of entertainment at AZ Mills. Topping the list are the meta-popular, multi-screened Harkins Theater and IMAX, at the mall's northwest entrance...showing all the latest released movies. Everyone in the family can enjoy the large Tilt Studio arcade & restaurants, the beautiful and fun Rainforest Cafe and the still-new Sea Life Aquarium (pictured in the slide show above.) Younger kids are also excited to play at the Legoland Discovery Center, the next-best thing to visiting California's Legoland Park itself!
On the other hand, despite the many diversions that visitors may enjoy, hard-core shoppers head towards the Arizona Mills Outlet Mall to enjoy its expansive list of stores...which feature some of the most popular names in the retail world! On this page, we'll talk about the shopping opportunities you'll find when you visit the Arizona Mills Outlets. If your travel plans include a stop in Phoenix, be sure to stop in and enjoy the fun at Arizona Mills!
Arizona Mills Malls Directory of Stores
You may expect to find the following listing of stores focusing on apparel for the older members of your family (children's shops will be mentioned in a separate section)---
Aeropostale clothing, phone number (480) 491-1021
All Flags and Sports, phone number (480) 775-4244
American Eagle Outfitters outlet, (480) 491-1837
Buckle clothing, phone number is (480) 839-1248
Burlington Coat Factory, telephone (480) 897-4700
Camille La Vie, formerly Group USA, (480) 491-7600
Charlotte Russe Outlet, telephone is (480) 897-3005
Chico's Outlet Store, phone number (480) 775-2830
Dress barn/Dress barn Woman, phone (480) 831-5191
Express Outlet Store, phone number (480) 281-3303
Fashion Q clothing, phone number (480) 755-2403
Forever 21 clothing, phone number (480) 820-0561
G by Guess, store telephone number (480) 777-8884
Gap Outlet Store, telephone number (480) 456-1506
Group USA now called Camille La Vie (480) 491-7600
Guest List clothing, phone number (632) 414-2295
H & M store, telephone number is (480) 839-4278
Haggar Clothing Outlet, telephone (480) 491-5245
Hot Topic store, phone number is (480) 456-2095
Hurley outlet, telephone number (480) 491-5814
Just Sports, store phone number (480) 755-7744
K-Momo hip hop clothing,phone (480) 839-9800
Levi's outlet store, phone number (480) 777-1192
Locker Room by Lids, phone number (480) 491-1231
Marshall's store, telephone number (480) 897-4940
Motherhood Maternity Outlet, phone (480) 775-1818
Nick's Menswear, phone number (480) 897-9060
Nike Outlet Store, phone number (480) 897-1312
Oakley Vault, telephone number (480) 491-0541
Old Navy Outlet, phone number (480) 752-9231
O'Neill outlet store phone number (657) 859-3714
Papaya clothing, phone number (480) 775-4300
Perry Ellis outlet, phone number (480) 839-1564
Ross Dress for Less, telephone (480) 752-0854
Rue 21, store telephone number (480) 839-4014
Stacy's menswear, telephone is (480) 839-1513
Superstar K clothing, phone is (480) 739-2899
Tilly's clothing, phone number (480) 831-3864
Tommy Hilfiger outlet, phone (480) 775-1843
Tony's Leather, phone number (480) 755-0170
Torrid clothing, phone number (480) 839-1059
Uniform Destination, phone is (480) 838-1442
U.S. Polo Assn outlet, telephone (480) 838-1180
Van Heusen factory outlet store (480) 831-1173
Vans outlet store, phone number (480) 730-5821
Victoria's Secret, store phone (480) 839-4050
Wave clothing telephone number (480) 730-3054
Windsor Clothing Outlet, telephone (480) 755-4114
Xi Clothing Store, telephone number (480) 831-8787
Zumiez, store phone number (480) 491-7707
AZ Mills Mall Accessories Outlet Stores
If you'd like to create an entire "look," you'll need more than clothing...you'll want to get various accessories to complete your new outfits, as well. Naturally, all the larger department stores (such as the Saks Off 5th outlet, the JC Penney's outlet, Marshall's, the Neiman Marcus outlet, etc.) will carry departments featuring various types of general accessories. Even the smaller stores will generally carry a limited line of accessory styles (to suit the clothing featured on their racks.) Nevertheless, quite a large listing of Arizona Mills stores are "specialists" in one type of accessory or another. In this section, you'll find information about AZ Mills jewelry stores, shoe stores, and other boutiques which specialize in supplying you with the unique merchandise that you're seeking.
SHOE STORES AT THE ARIZONA MILLS OUTLETS---
Champs, store phone (480) 491-2737
Clarks/Bostonian Outlet, phone (480) 456-0775
Crocs shoe outlet, phone number (480) 730-3410
Famous Footwear, phone number (480) 491-1018
Finish Line, telephone number (480) 839-0862
Foot Locker, telephone number (480) 491-9262
Journeys shoe store, telephone (480) 838-1270
Journeys Kidz store, telephone (480) 820-5667
Kid's Foot Locker, phone number (480) 831-3005
Nike Factory Store, phone number (480) 897-1312
Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, phone (480) 491-5450
Payless Shoes, telephone number (480) 755-4197
Rack Room Shoes, telephone number (480) 777-5978
Robert Wayne Footwear, phone (480) 456-6996
Shiekh Shoes, telephone number (480) 820-2099
Shoe Palace, telephone number (480) 897-1000
Shoeteria, telephone number (480) 456-6051
Skechers outlet, phone number (480) 755-7888
Steve Madden, telephone number (480) 730-7099
Vans Outlet, store phone number (480) 730-5821
OTHER ACCESSORIES STORES AT AZ MILLS MALL---
Arizona Diamond Center, (480) 421-5132
Capri Jewelers, telephone number (480) 456-1620
Claire's Accessories, phone number (480) 838-6860
Daniel's Jewelers, phone number (602) 491-9990
Glitter Accessories, phone number TBA
(The) Hat Club, phone number (480) 345-8900
Jared Vault, phone number (480) 755-1165
Joyeria del Pueblo, phone (480) (480) 345-4641
Kay's Jewelry Outlet, phone is (480) 491-2357
Lids, store telephone number is (480) 456-3622
Piercing Pagoda, phone number (480) 491-7181
Solstice Sunglass Outlet, phone (623) 842-6591
Sunglass Hut/SGH #1, phone number (480) 755-9189
Sunglass Hut/SGH #2, telephone is (480) 755-9184
Sun's Up, telephone number is (480) 897-3303
Zales Outlet Store, phone number (480) 897-0806
AZ Mills outlet mall---still more stores!
Children's specialty shops and services
Whether you're looking for toys, clothing or accessories for the kids in your family, you'll find the following AZ Mills stores which specializes in children's entertainment, plus merchandise for babies and toddlers, through tweens---
Carter's Outlet Store, phone number (480) 752-0760
Children's Place Outlet, telephone (480) 775-3511
Crazy 8 kids clothes, telephone (480) 491-5607
Disney Store Outlet, phone number (480) 730-3511
Gymboree Outlet, store phone number (480) 831-3001
Journey's Kidz shoes, phone number (480) 820-5667
Kids Club clothing, phone number is (480) 838-9134
Kids Foot Locker, telephone number (480) 831-3005
Legoland Discovery Center, phone (855) 450-0558
SeaLife Aquarium, phone number (855) 450-0559
Tilt Studio family entertainment, (480) 648-1222
In addition to the children's specialty shops and outlets, some of the larger stores at AZ Mills have good children's departments. This list includes Old Navy, Tommy Hilfiger, Marshall's, Burlington, Tilly's, and Ross.
Stores in other categories
In addition to the clothing, footwear and accessories stores listed on this page, the AZ Mills Mall has a whole long list of shops in other categories. These include the health & beauty category; home decor, appliances and electronics; numerous fast food and sit-down restaurants; plus a popular movie theater. Be sure to check the mall's official website (link below) if you'd like to scope out the listings for these other establishments.
Arizona Mills Mall: Address, directions & contact information
The Arizona Mills Mall phone number is (480) 491-9700.
The Arizona Mills Mall hours are as follows: Mondays through Saturdays, the AZ Mills Mall opens at 10 am and closes at 9:00 pm. On Sundays, the Arizona Mills Outlets open at 11 am and close at 6 pm. The outlet mall's major restaurants and its theaters maintain their own independent hours of operation. In addition, store hours during holiday periods may be longer.
The Arizona Mills Mall address is 5000 Arizona Mills Circle, Tempe, AZ 85282. Directions to AZ Mills are as follows: from the Interstate 10 freeway, take the Baseline exit and head east 1/2 block to the shopping center's entrance drive. If you would like to get a better visualization of where you'll be heading, you may use the following Google Map to the Arizona Mills Mall. Note: if you're coming from the US 60 Freeway, you may exit at Priest...but ONLY if you're coming from the East Valley (in other words, if you're traveling westbound.) Eastbound visitors heading in from Phoenix will not find a Priest Drive exit in the eastbound direction.
AZ Mills official website: If you'd like to check up on what events might be going on at the mall, you'll find a listing of special sales, holiday happenings, and the Kids Club news by using the following link to the Arizona Mills Mall official website.
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Home > Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt > Shark's Bay
Shark's Bay Weather April Averages, Egypt
Temperature 24°C 75°F
High Temperature 29°C 84°F
Low Temperature 19°C 66°F
Sunshine Hours 10 hrs
Rainfall 1 mm
Rainfall days 1 days
Sea Temperature 23°C 73°F
Shark's Bay Weather for April 2019
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Weather Lowdown
April sees the weather warm up in Shark's Bay, Egypt as the first full month of spring arrives. Average temperatures, average highs and lows and average sea temperature all rise. The average rainfall stays steady, but is very minimal.
The average temperature throughout April is 24°C (75°F). Average highs rise to 29°C (84°F) and are mostly experienced the first ten days of the month as the rest of the month sees daily highs getting up to 32°C (89°F). Average lows for April go down to 19°C (66°F) which are also mostly experienced the first ten days of the month. The middle and end of the month have daily lows reaching 22°C (72°F). April is characterized as having rising daily highs with only one day in ten going over 36°C (96°F) or under 24°C (76°F). Daily lows only go under 17°C (62°F) or above 25°C (77°F) one day in ten.
The average rainfall for April, as other months, is minimal with 1mm. This translates to on average 1 day of rainfall or every 1 in 30 days.
The average humidity for April is 39% and ranges from 18%, considered dry, to 59%, considered mildly humid. The humidity rarely goes under 10%, considered very dry, or above 79%, considered humid. The end of the month is the most likely to be least humid.
The wind speed in April varies between 1mph, light air, to 20mph, fresh breeze. The end of April will be most likely to have the highest wind speed. The beginning of the month will be most likely to have the lowest wind speed. The wind direction blows out of the north most often and out of the southwest least often.
The average sunshine hours in April is 10. This is the third lowest average sunshine hours for the year, which is the same amount March and October sees. As the month goes on daily sunshine gradually increases with the end of the month seeing the most daily sunshine.
The average sea temperature for April is 23°C (73°F). This is the third lowest average sea temperature for the year.
Perfect for a romantic getaway, Xperience Sea Breeze Resort in Sharm El Sheikh is located right on the beach. The private beach has gorgeous views of the Red Sea, ideal to relax and sunbathe. The resort has a private marina, which offers private snorkelling, scuba diving and excursions to the Island of Tiran. There are 304 rooms which include private balcony or terrace, satellite television, mini bar and air conditioning.
For an all-inclusive option check out Sultan Gardens Resort right in Shark's Bay. With a private beach and unparalleled view of the Island of Tiran, this five star resort will take care of your every need. There are 520 rooms and suites with four pools, seven restaurants and seven bars. There are several board options for all budgets.
The Hyatt Regency Sharm El Sheikh Resort offers a great luxurious family option. With access to three private beach coves along with a kids' club you will be on your way to a memorable holiday. There is an onsite diving centre which is PADI certified and offers a wide array of courses for all ages and experience level. There is a total of 432 guestrooms, suites and villas which boast amazing views of the Red Sea.
A great option for both families and adults is the Coral Sea Sensatori Sharm El Sheikh. This five star resort offers 470 guestrooms and suites which all include amenities such as Jacuzzi bathtubs, iPod docking stations, mood lighting and in room video on demand. There are 16 different dining and drinking options on site. Specially tailored programs exist for children as well as teens including joining a sports team and having a sleepover.
If you have always wanted to swim with dolphins, now is your chance with Dolphina. Dolphina puts on dolphin shows as well as hosts you to swim and dive with dolphins or even be a trainer for the day. If you swim with the dolphins, you will have a very personal encounter as you will dance, sing and even kiss the dolphins. There will also be a round of volleyball played where the dolphins show off their skills.
A visit to Shark's Bay is not complete without experiencing the Ghibli Raceway. This karting track has several options for fulfilling your need for speed. Some of the options include arrive and drive, sprint race, grand prix, endurance race and track exclusivity. Prices range from £21 to £223 depending on race and kart chosen. As safety is the highest priority at Ghibli Raceway, there is no need to worry.
Hit the beach
A great beach to both chill out and have a good time is Terrazzina Beach in Sharm El Sheikh. During the day this beach is perfect for families with children as there is no reef and a sandy, shallow bottom. The beach itself is pristine and has all of the amenities you could expect such as sunbeds and access to restaurants and bars. Once the early evening comes, the atmosphere shifts as the music gets louder. The bars become crowded and the area becomes very lively.
Eating & drinking out
For some great British cuisine and a taste of home, head to The Blue Fountain in Naama Bay. Famous for their burgers and oversized milkshakes, you are sure to have a great meal. Some other options on the menu include fish and chips, curry and salmon steaks. The only thing better than the food is the service, the staff here is very friendly and welcoming. The owner/chef Linda makes sure each guest is taken care of.
Have a night out at the Camel Bar & Roof at the Camel Dive Club & Hotel in Sharm El Sheikh. There are three bars in one, the interior room to watch sports and partake in karaoke or watch the live band. The roof terrace offers an incredible view of the surroundings. Be sure to arrive for the happy hour specials
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Michigan redistricting deal may lead to new state House map
David Eggert Associated Press @DavidEggert00
LANSING — At least 11 of Michigan's 110 House districts would be redrawn for the 2020 election under a proposed legal settlement announced Friday by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat who said the deal would fix "egregious" examples of partisan gerrymandering.
As part of her agreement with Democrats who sued, congressional and state Senate seats would stay intact. The Republican-led Legislature, which in 2011 drew the maps that are in question, would put in place new lines for 11 state House districts — subject to court approval. The number of newly cast seats would be higher, though, because of the impact on adjacent districts.
Benson, the state's top election official who became the named defendant in the lawsuit upon taking office this month, said there is "significant evidence" that the maps are unconstitutional. The proposed consent decree, she said, is significantly narrower than what could result from a trial the state would likely lose — the possibility of a court-ordered redrawing of all three maps, resulting in "political upheaval."
"I believe today's settlement proposal strikes a balance between recognizing the unconstitutionality of the 2011 districting maps while also reaching a remedy that is limited in scope and impact, given the length of time that these districts have been in place," she said.
Republicans, who have criticized Benson since she announced last week her intention to settle , said Friday that the agreement is an attempt by Benson and Democrats to "steal" the House in 2020. The GOP has a 58-52 edge now. Former Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, a Republican, had defended the maps.
"The Democrats know it will be nearly impossible to redraw these eleven districts without effecting countless others causing electoral chaos," said state GOP spokesman Tony Zammit. "Worse yet, outdated 10-year-old data will be utilized to draw the new lines which will not accurately reflect the demographics of our state."
Benson said she could not in "good conscience" spend public money to defend unconstitutional gerrymandering at a trial. She said it does not matter to her which party drew the districts, and her decision has set the expectation that she will be a fair, independent secretary of state.
The suit, brought in 2017 by the League of Women Voters and 11 Democrats who say the GOP-drawn maps unconstitutionally marginalize Democratic voters, initially challenged all 14 congressional districts, 110 House districts and 38 Senate districts — before the plaintiffs later narrowed the list to 34. Eleven of the 15 House districts in question would be impacted. Six are held by Republicans, five by Democrats.
They are in the Detroit suburbs, Grand Rapids and areas in or near Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Flint, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Saginaw. Few are considered marginal, or swing, districts — though that could change depending on the effect on bordering seats.
Asked if more than 11 seats would have to be redrawn given the effect on neighboring districts, Benson said: "That's up to the Legislature." Two House members, including now-Republican Speaker Lee Chatfield, were allowed to intervene in the case last month. A spokesman said Chatfield had not yet had a chance to review the proposed deal.
House Minority Leader Christine Greig said Democrats are ready to work with Republicans to ensure the new districts "are fair and constitutional."
The suit only pertains to 2020. Voters in November approved a constitutional amendment creating an independent commission to handle the typically once-a-decade redistricting process after the 2020 census.
An Associated Press statistical analysis of the 2016 election results found that Michigan's state House districts had one of the largest Republican tilts in the nation. The AP used an "efficiency gap" analysis to measure potential gerrymandering — the same statistical tool later cited in the suit that alleges Michigan's legislative districts are unconstitutional.
A separate analysis conducted for the AP by the Princeton University Gerrymandering Project found that the extreme Republican advantages in some states were unlikely to be a fluke. The Princeton analysis found that the Republican edge in Michigan's House districts had only a 1-in-16,000 probability of occurring by chance.
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Andy Preece
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Full Name Andy Preece
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Signed From Stockport County (June 23 1994)
Signed For £350,000
Sold To Blackpool (July 5 1995)
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Land Grant to Neil McKellar…transfer to William Minchin and then Anthony Fenn both of the New South Wales Corps.
GROSE, Lieutenant Governor Major Francis.
Sydney: 11 December, 1794.
Signed by luminaries of the fledgling Colony
Folio, manuscript in ink on paper, 370 x 320 mm and suspended paper seal, and on the verso two land transfers signed and witnessed. This eighteenth-century document is a rare early and interesting land grant. Dating from the first.....
Price (AUD): $10,500.00
Ref: #4504982
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A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines…
[GROSE] NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS.
London: War Office, 1807. Folio, large paper copy; finely bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco, all edges gilt. A beautifully bound copy of the entire list of the British Army of 1807 - including a list of the officers of the New South Wales Corps (p. 311) serving under Colonel Francis.....
Price (AUD): $2,000.00
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Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago…
HAMILTON, George.
Adelaide: Frearson and Brother, 1879. Octavo, with six woodcuts of sketches by the author; in modern half cloth. The distinctly rare first edition of this account of Hamilton's experiences droving a herd of sheep from Port Philip to Adelaide. He settled in South Australia on his arrival in 1839, and.....
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[HAMILTON, George]
Adelaide: Frearson and Brother, 1879.
Two important overland journeys from Port Phillip to Adelaide
Octavo, frontispiece and five wood engraved plates, in the publisher's gilt lettered cloth, bumped. A scarce and informative account of grazing life in south-eastern Australia, with vibrant and conversational descriptions of Port Phillip and Adelaide. The.....
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[HAMILTON, George].
Adelaide: J. Williams, 1880.
The corrected second edition with photographic plates
Octavo, photographic frontispiece and two other sheets (five illustrations in total); in original red cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. Rare. The second edition of Hamilton's account of two overland journeys from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1839 and.....
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Australia and its Gold Fields: a Historical Sketch…
HARGRAVES, Edward Hammond.
London: H. Ingram & Co., 1855.
Contentious claim of first discovery…
Octavo, with portrait frontispiece and folding map; rebacked with original backstrip laid down, head of spine chipped but internally good. First edition of the 'official' narrative by the discoverer of gold. Hargraves made known the existence of Australia's first.....
Price (AUD): $650.00
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Colonial Sketches: or, Five Years in South Australia, With Hints to Capitalists and Emigrants.
HARRISON, Robert.
London: Hall, Virtue & Co., 1862.
Copies deliberately destroyed by George Fife Angas.
Small slim octavo, original blind blocked green cloth, front board a little stained. Critical account of South Australia as a destination for British emigrants, by a commercial traveller resident in the colony from 1856-61. Ferguson records that.....
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The History of the Convict Hulk "Success" and "Success" Prisoners.
HARVIE, Joseph C.
Leeds: Petty & Sons, 1900.
Surprising illustrated Ned Kelly content
Octavo, 78, [2] pp. red quarter roan, with original illustrated wrappers bound in. Souvenir booklet to the convict hulk Success printed in Leeds, curiously it contains some considerable description of bushranging life 'the short sketches given of some of the.....
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Report from the Select Committee on the Seizure of Opium Per "Kate Hooper", Together with the proceedings of the committee and minutes of evidence.
HAY, John (Chairman).
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1860. Two foolscap reports, stitch-sewn, 14,44 pp, Two reports prepared for parliament, the salient issue is not the importation of opium through an Australian port, but the avoidance of the full customs tariff.
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Archive of material relating to Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures.
[HENRY WHITE] ABBOTT, William Edward and John Henry.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918.
Hunter Valley coal riches
Published quarto, bound manuscript, and other materials (full description below). An archive of material relating to the smouldering volcanic outcrop at Mount Wingen, prepared by local landholder and pastoralist William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) and his nephew John Henry Abbott (1874-1953). William.....
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Report of the Speeches Delivered at the Dinner Given to Capt. John Hindmarsh...
[HINDMARSH] MANN, Charles; and others.
London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1835.
Governor Hindmarsh honoured
Octavo booklet, 44pp., a fine and partially unopened copy preserved in a magnificent polished calf folding case lined with moiré silk by Sangorski. Rare: published shortly after the establishment of South Australia as a separate colony in 1834, this pamphlet captures.....
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Reminiscences of Australia with Hints of the Squatter's Life.
HODGSON, Christopher Pemberton.
London: W. N. Wright, 1846.
Uncommon account Leichhardt's first expedition.
Duodecimo, frontispiece and folding plate; in publisher's blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Christopher Hodgson accompanied Ludwig Leichhardt on his first expedition of 1844. Shortage of provisions for the long journey prompted Leichhardt to order Hodgson's premature return to Brisbane.....
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Gen. Holt. The Leader of the Irish Rebels.
[HOLT] ANON.
London: nd. circa 1840. Engraving, 210mm x 142mm. Transported to Botany Bay on the convict ship Minerva in 1799. Holt was part of the United Irishmen group who formed in late 1791 in order to end social, political, economic and religious discrimination against Catholics and Presbyterians, and to prevent the.....
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[HOLT] HAMMERTON, Robert (after).
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. Engraving, 210mm x 142mm, in fine condition. A wonderful portrait of Joseph Holt (1756-1826), one of the most prominent Irish convicts of the early years of settlement at Sydney Cove. In 1798 Holt joined a band of rebels engaged in six months of guerrilla conflict near.....
Joseph Holt. From an original picture in the possession of Sir William Betham…
[HOLT] HAMMERTON. R.J.
London: Day & Haghe, 1840. Lithograph, 195 mm x 126 mm (leaf size). Portrait of Joseph Holt (1756-1826), one of the most prominent Irish convicts of the early years of settlement at Sydney Cove. In 1798 Holt joined a band of rebels engaged in six months of guerrilla conflict near.....
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Journal, etc., of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (with plates and plans). 1894.
[HORN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION] WINNECKE, Charles Alexander.
Adelaide: C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, October, 1896.
The report suppressed by Horn
Foolscap folio, 32 pp., with 13 full page photogravure plates and four larger folding maps and sheets bound in (including the large map measuring 1290 x 1290 mm., and a plan of the Hermannsburg mission measuring 822 x......
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Copies of correspondence respecting American Citizens who were supposed to have participated in the late riots at Ballaarat.
HOTHAM, Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles, and James TARLETON. [PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA]
Melbourne: Government Printer, 7 March 1855.
'the prime movers were Scotchmen'
Foolscap folio, single leaf. Curious exchange between James Tarleton, U.S. Consul to Australia and Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham, laying the blame for the Eureka Stockade. Tarleton asserts in his first letter that 'the prime movers were Scotchmen' and.....
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The State of the Prisons in England and Wales…
HOWARD, John.
London: William Eyres for Cadell and Conant, 1780.
Prison reform in the 1780s
Octavo, with ten folding engraved plates including seven highly detailed architectural plans; contemporary tree calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. Second and best edition of John Howard's exhaustive and highly influential examination of the prisons.....
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Land, Labour, and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land…
HOWITT, William.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
The state of affairs before the Eureka Stockade
Octavo, two volumes, 24 pp. advertisements in the second volume not noted by Ferguson; in the original green cloth. First edition of a classic; probably the best of the digger narratives, it is a lively.....
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Printed form, with manuscript additions, titled "Return to accompany the Caption of a Convict on his removal to a Government Prison".
[HULKS].
presumably Thames river: October 1851.
Original convict transfer document
Single foolscap sheet, folded to docket-size. Paperwork to accompany a convict named William Jones, 21 years of age and convicted of housebreaking, upon his transfer from a prison hulk to gaol. A summary notation on the docket title reveals Jones was.....
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The Life of Edward John Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica.
HUME, Hamilton.
London: Richard Bentley, 1867.
Explorer and Governor of Jamaica.
Octavo, engraved portrait frontispiece, original red cloth (now stained), bookplate of Dr H. Boyd Graham. Life of the intrepid explorer, and controversial colonial governor, John Edward Eyre. This copy is inscribed by the author Hamilton Hume (not to be confused with.....
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Royal Charter of Incorporation… for the India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company…
[INDIA AND AUSTRALIA MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY].
London: published by the Offices of the Company, 1847.
Australian postal history
Octavo, 14, [ii] pp., modern boards. 'Royal Charter of Incorporation, sanctioned by Her Majesty on the 20th May, and passed the Great Seal on the 6th August, 1847, for the India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company, from.....
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Address in Surgery.
[INTERCOLONIAL MEDICAL CONGRESS OF AUSTRALIA] STIRLING, Edward C.
Melbourne: Stillwell & Co., 1889.
"accurate knowledge, infinite painstaking, and sacred reverence for human life"
Octavo, 23 pp., some foxing, old fold, and manuscript postal address and postmarks (1889), where the pamphlet has been mailed from South Australia to New South Wales; in the original printed wrappers, rather spotted and.....
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An Act for punishing Offences committed by Transports…
[IRISH FAMINE] PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN.
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1825. Printed bifolium, pp. [593]-595, last blank, armorial letterhead, fine. An Act to facilitate the transportation of convicts from Ireland. This act enforces the uniform and standardised punishment of all subjects throughout the British empire with regard to the legal status of persons transported.....
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Missing Ohio Teen Update: Body Of 14-Year-Old Boy Found In Chimney
By Thomas Kika @TomWritesNow
A month after the teenager first went missing, police in Ohio now believe they have found the body of 14-year-old Harley Dilly in a chimney.
Dilly was last seen leaving for school on in the town of Port Clinton on Dec. 20, sometime between 6 and 7 a.m.
After scouring over 150 acres searching for Dilly – with 75 agencies employing helicopters, dogs and search teams – authorities focused in on an unoccupied summer home. Once inside, Dilly’s coat and glasses were found.
“We were then able to discover what we believe to be Harley, who was caught in the chimney,” Port Clinton Chief of Police Robert Hickman said in a statement on Tuesday. “This appears to be an accident.”
Police are currently unsure why Dilly attempted to enter the home’s chimney. Hickman described the presumed sequence of events, saying that the teen climbed an antenna tower to the roof and entered the chimney. His coat and glasses dropped through a flue into the second floor and a blockage between floors trapped him.
The home showed no signs of forced entry and authorities say there is no reason to believe anyone else was involved in the teen’s death.
An autopsy was conducted Tuesday to determine Dilly’s cause of death. Results have not yet been disclosed.
“This is not the outcome anyone wanted, but ... we have some closure for the family,” Hickman said.
In this photo a teenager volunteers and hands out flyers for a missing boy. Photo: Getty Images
Body Of Missing Chicago Woman Found Wrapped In Car Trunk
Missing Connecticut Mom Jennifer Dulos Update: Fotis' Newly-Released Voicemails
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New party under the stars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
This party is chic and elegant — a chance to mingle under the stars with IndyCar drivers as live music plays and exqu...
New party under the stars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway This party is chic and elegant — a chance to mingle under the stars with IndyCar drivers as live music plays and exqu... Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1c5lZih
dana.benbow@indystar.com Published 12:29 p.m. ET March 4, 2014 | Updated 1:07 p.m. ET March 4, 2014
In its inaugural year, Rev is getting a prestigious set of honorary co-chairs: three-time and reigning IndyCar Series Champion Scott Dixon and his wife, Emma, shown here. (Photo: Chris Young)
This party is chic and elegant — a chance to mingle under the stars with IndyCar drivers as live music plays and exquisite cuisine crafted by celebrity chefs is served.
Rev, a new bash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, revealed today some details for its May shindig. The charity event is put on by Methodist Health Foundation and Indiana University Health.
Chefs Vic Vegas and Spike Mendelsohn, of "Top Chef" and "Next Food Network Star" will be at the event adding their own twists to some of the favorite foods of IndyCar drivers.
In its inaugural year, Rev is getting a prestigious set of honorary co-chairs: three-time and reigning IndyCar Series Champion Scott Dixon and his wife, Emma.
Also signed up for Rev is singer-songwriter and Indianapolis native Jon McLaughlin (you'll need a VIP ticket for his performance), along with Lockstar, a popular Midwest DJ.
Dozens of local chefs and restaurants will be on hand.
Funds raised will go to IU Health Statewide Trauma programs, including medical services for drivers and patrons of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway IU Medical Center.
For tickets and additional information, visit revindy.org. More announcements leading up to the event are expected in the coming weeks.
Call Star reporter Dana Hunsinger Benbow at (317) 444-6012. Follow her on Twitter:@danabenbow.
When: May 9.
Where: Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Time: 6:45 p.m. to midnight for VIP and 7:30 p.m. to midnight for general tickets.
Cost: $200 for general admission; VIP tickets are $300 and include cocktails and champagne, a concierge service, a private performance by Jon McLaughlin and a chance to meet IndyCar drivers.
Tickets:http://revindy.org/#tickets
Read or Share this story: http://indy.st/1c5lZih
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Questions remain about abduction of girl, 5
by Joseph A. Slobodzian, Mike Newall, and Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, Inquirer Staff Writers, Posted: February 17, 2013
PKIDNAP16-a - Suspect Christina Regusters
The arrest of a 19-year-old woman in the kidnapping and assault of a 5-year-old West Philadelphia girl may have eased the fears of parents living near the Bryant Elementary School.
But Thursday's arrest of Christina Regusters left unanswered the larger question of who else - if anyone - was involved in the Jan. 14 abduction of the kindergarten pupil by a woman wearing Muslim garb.
Regusters, a Maryland native who began living with West Philadelphia relatives about a year ago, was officially charged Friday with kidnapping, conspiracy, aggravated assault, rape, and related offenses.
The charge of conspiracy means she allegedly had one or more accomplices. But three others police took into custody with Regusters on Thursday afternoon from the house in the 6200 block of Walton Avenue were released that night without being charged.
"This is very much an active investigation," said Philadelphia Police Capt. John Darby of the Special Victims Unit.
Police first brought Regusters in for questioning last week after they executed the first search warrant on the home, police sources said.
She was taken back into custody Thursday after her DNA was found in a mixture of DNA on the shirt the little girl was wearing when she was recovered, police sources said. That and the fact that she worked at an after-school program where the child was enrolled led to her arrest.
It was unclear whether Regusters had given a statement to police, the sources said.
Police have called the taking of the child a "targeted abduction" because the woman in Muslim garb specifically asked for the 5-year-old by name and knew how to evade security at the Bryant school.
Regusters had a preliminary arraignment on the charges Friday and was held on $4 million bail. A preliminary hearing was set for March 6 in Family Court.
Police allege that Regusters is the woman in Muslim garb who is seen on a security video leading the girl from the Bryant school Jan. 14 after posing as the child's mother.
Police allege that Regusters took the child to a home on the 6200 block of Walton Avenue, where police believe the girl was assaulted before being released at a nearby park in Upper Darby. The child was found the next day hiding under a sliding board.
But Regusters' newly hired attorney, W. Fred Harrison Jr., disputed the police assertion: "I don't think it's her. They're different sizes - the woman in the video is larger."
"All I can tell you is that we will test the evidence in court," Harrison added. "I've heard that there's some DNA evidence, but that's about all."
Harrison said Regusters has been in Philadelphia for only about a year and was living with her aunt, Valerie Regusters, and cousins in the Walton Avenue house.
Harrison said Regusters had worked for several months at the day-care center near the Bryant school - where the abducted girl was in an after-school program - but he did not know anything more about Regusters' prior employment or background.
"The family has been cooperative," Harrison added. "They've had their house searched twice, and they've provided DNA. So far, she is the only one charged."
The other three - an adult male, an adult female, and a teenage boy - were released overnight, police said.
There is a $105,000 reward in the case.
The department assembled the Task Force in early February to help members of the Special Victims Unit work the case. It includes six detectives, including several from the Major Crimes Unit.
Sources told The Inquirer last week that detectives had brought in three women from the Walton Avenue house for questioning, taking carpet samples for possible DNA matches, as well as a talking parrot. The bird, a blue and yellow macaw, remains a key piece of evidence in the case, police said. The girl told police that there was a talking bird in the house and she was threatened that it would hurt her if she made too much noise.
But the most valuable clues seem to have come from the young victim herself.
Police praised the girl's courage throughout the investigation. Police have returned to the neighborhood many times with her since the abduction, hoping to jog her memory.
Last week, investigators had the girl walk through the neighborhood with her mother, hoping she would feel more comfortable. That's when the girl recognized the back of the Walton Avenue home. She told investigators her eyes had been covered when she was taken inside the front of the house, but not when she was taken out through the back door in the middle of the night.
Thomas R. Kline, the Center City lawyer representing the girl's mother, said the child's courage was especially notable because the assault caused her "devastating and horrible injuries. She is resilient, just unbelievable.
"The remarkable fact, the single most dramatic fact, is that a brave, precious little girl was able to lead police and investigators through this maze of streets to this location," Kline added.
Kline said the girl attended Bryant, at 6001 Cedar Ave., but was enrolled in an after-school program operated by the Heaven's Little Angels day-care center a block away on South 60th Street.
Typically, Kline said, the girl would be picked up at Bryant by day-care workers and taken to the center. There she would later be picked up by her mother.
Darby has said that there had been prior contact between Regusters and the young victim at the day-care program.
Kline, however, said that neither the girl nor her mother recognized Regusters from the day-care program.
Late Friday afternoon, guardians picking up children at Heaven's Little Angels were mum when asked about the center and Regusters.
The center's front door was locked, and workers let in only parents or guardians. A woman at the door did not acknowledge an Inquirer reporter seeking comment.
At the Walton Avenue house, no one answered the door, and neighbors either declined to comment or said they did not know the Regusterses.
At a West Philadelphia community meeting Friday evening, Capt. David Bellamy, commander of the 18th Police District, told about 40 people that Regusters was not cooperating with detectives, "but scientific evidence will cooperate with us."
Police are continuing to aggressively pursue the criminal investigation, and they welcome any public assistance to help bring the remaining culprits to justice, Bellamy said at White Rock Baptist Church.
"What happened at Bryant is a disgrace," said Novella Williams, a longtime community activist. "Let's make sure this never happens again."
Contact Joseph A. Slobodzian at 215-854-2985, jslobodzian@phillynews.com, or @joeslobo on Twitter.
Posted: February 17, 2013 - 3:01 AM
Joseph A. Slobodzian, Mike Newall, and Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, Inquirer Staff Writers
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Earlier this year, we teamed up with conservation organisation WWF to explore how investors could use analytical tools based on satellite imagery to assess environmental risks in sovereign debt portfolios. With forest fires raging in Brazil, it’s clearer than ever that these tools are needed urgently.
As we argued in our joint paper, a country’s management of its natural resources can influence the sustainability and volatility of its growth over the long term. In turn, this can shape a government’s ability to generate revenues to repay its debt, and become a key driver of sovereign credit ratings and sovereign bond returns.
The reaction to the Amazon fires – which includes EU threats to block a trade deal and talk of consumer boycotts – underscores one of the main points we made in the paper: that environmental factors can have national-level economic impacts. What the long-term impacts will be in Brazil’s case will depend on what its government does next.
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon is much lower than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. But any return to those levels could, in time, have severe economic consequences for Brazil — to say nothing of the grave consequences for the planet.
It’s worth pointing out that the spatial datasets available for Brazil are more complete and longer-running than those obtainable for some other parts of the world. The Amazon fires are deeply troubling, but at least we know about them and can assess them in a historical context.
Satellite analysis will be key in helping the world monitor developments from here on. This is why we and WWF called on the investment community to work together to develop analytical tools based on spatial datasets. Such tools will not only enable portfolio managers to gain deeper, more timely insights into country-level environmental risks. They will also help them coordinate engagement to bring greater pressure to bear on governments and other stakeholders.
At the time of writing, our analysis – based on a broad range of inputs and the medium- to long-term outlook for Brazil’s economy – suggests that Brazilian fixed income generally offers reasonably good value. But the environmental risks associated with the country are clearly rising. As the use of spatial data within investing develops, sovereign bond investors will be able to track and evaluate these risks much more accurately — and, hopefully, do more to encourage sovereign issuers to protect their precious natural resources.
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Japanese management – why is it not global? What should we do? asks Masamoto Yashiro
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Masamoto Yashiro: Japan leader and Chairman emeritus of Esso, Exxon, Citibank, Shinsei Bank
Masamoto Yashiro at brainstorming by President of Tokyo University
Masamoto Yashiro’s talk notes by Gerhard Fasol
Masamoto Yashiro is a legend in Japan’s banking and energy industry. He built Shinsei Bank from the ashes of the bankrupt Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, and served in leadership positions (Chairman, CEO, Board Member) in Esso, Exxon, Citibank, Shinsei Bank, and the China Construction Bank.
Tonight a small group of about 60 people were invited to join Masamoto Yashiro and the President of The University of Tokyo, Professor Junichi Hamada, for an evening workshop and brainstorming event about globalization of Japanese corporations at The University of Tokyo. Participating were a selected group of The University of Tokyo graduates, faculty, and selected alumni from several elite Universities associated with The University of Tokyo, and currently working at major Japanese trading companies, Ministry of Finance, financial firms, global consulting firms and other global firms.
After The University of Tokyo President Junichi Hamada’s introductory words, we heard Masamoto Yashiro’s fantastic overview of how he thinks Japanese companies need to change and why, followed by Q&A, then by a brainstorming session in the format of changing groups of four on about 15 separate tables between the participants, and then followed by buffet and drinks reception.
Topic of the evening was the globalization issues of Japanese corporations, also discussed in our work about Japan’s Galapagos issues:
The Galapagos Effect (American Chamber of Commerce in Japan)
Japan’s Galapagos effect (Galapagos syndrome)
Japan’s Galapagos effect
How to turn ‘Galapagos’ into a competitive advantage in both directions (Embassy of Sweden, Stockholm School of Economics)
About Masamoto Yashiro (八城政基)
Wikipedia pages:
Masamoto Yashiro (English)
八城政基 (日本語／Japanese)
Masamoto Yashiro graduated from Kyoto University (Law Faculty) in 1954 and The University of Tokyo Graduate School in 1958, and entered Standard Vacuum Oil Company. In 1964 he became Director of Esso, and later Special Assistant to the Chairman of Standard Oil New Jersey, and in 1986 President of Esso Sekyu KK.
In 1989, Masamoto Yashiro moved to become Japan representative of Citibank NA, and Chairman of Citicorp Japan in 1997.
IN 1999, Masamoto Yashiro became CEO of New LTCB Partners CV, the company emerging from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, and was in charge of the revival of LTCB as Chairman and CEO, with investment from Ripplewood Investment Fund, creating today’s Shinsei Bank.
He resigned as CEO of Shinsei Bank in 2005, but returned as Chairman and CEO in 2008, from which he retired in 2010.
In 2004, he was appointed Director of the China Construction Bank.
Masamoto Yashiro (former Chairman of Shinsei Bank, Chairman of Citicorp Japan and President of Esso Japan, Director of China Construction Bank)
Note: this record was reviewed personally by Masamoto Yashiro, who made some corrections.
Japanese management – why is it not global? Outline:
Some people may argue that Japanese companies need not be global. Why?
We must accept that English is an essential tool for international communication.
Some impediments that Japanese companies face:
The traditional approach is not effective in developing future leaders.
The Japanese-style board structure is not appropriate to ensure sound corporate governance.
Management structure needs to be changed to suit a global business.
The current limited role of foreign nationals in the management and board structure
What should be the most important corporate objective?
Masamoto Yashiro (standing at the podium on the right hand side) presenting and President of Tokyo University Junichi Hamada (sitting on the left) listening
Summary of Masamoto Yashiro’s talk:
Some superficial discussions about “Japanese companies” contrast “permanent employment” and excellent pensions in Japanese companies with job-hopping and bad pensions in other countries, however, Masamoto Yashiro points out that during his time at Esso and later Exxon, most employees stayed 20-30 years at Exxon, and received excellent pensions, so “permanent longterm employment” or pension system has nothing to do with globalization, and Japanese leading companies are no different than leading companies in other countries in these respects. We have to search elsewhere for the causes of current problems most Japanese companies are facing.
Around 1990, about 20 years ago, Japan was extremely self-satisfied by the successful reconstruction after the war and economic growth and success, and Japan felt that Japan does not have anything to learn from others. This time is now over, Japan is in stagnation, and many Japanese companies are not globally competitive, and Japan and Japanese companies must change to become competitive again.
Masamoto Yashiro is convinced that Japanese companies must globalize, and must make English a business tool. He feels it is a great disadvantage that Japanese political and corporate leaders, when participating in international conference, such as Davos, mostly need to use interpreters, and this reduces their global impact and exchange of ideas dramatically.
1. The traditional approach is not effective in developing future leaders.
The traditional approach in Japan is to rotate career employees every two years between totally different functions, in order to “develop well-rounded managers”. The result of this process are non-experts, which are not expert in anything.
As an example, during his leadership at Shinsei Bank, Masamoto Yashiro once requested a meeting with the IT Department leadership. To his great surprise 60 people turned up for the meeting (he had expected 2 or 3). He asked the Department Chief for particular information, and he could not understand the question and could not answer, same result one management lower. Only at the third layer from the top, Masamoto Yashiro could get his question answered – the top two management layers could not answer his questions about the work of the IT Department.
Quite generally there often far too many people at meetings at Japanese companies.
When at Exxon in the US as a relatively junior manager, Masamoto Yashiro, was asked about his opinion regarding the termination of a particular joint-venture relationship with a mid-size petroleum refining company in Japan known then as ゼネラル石油精製 who had financial trouble. Exxon had a 50% interest in this company and its relations goes back to very late 1950’s. In late 1985 at the Exxon Management Committee meeting in New York, all other managers favored to terminate the relationship with this joint venture partner in trouble in order to limit financial exposure, while Masamoto Yashiro argued that it was better to support the troubled partner and assist him with Exxon staff and expertise to return to profitability. To his great surprise the Chairman and his superiors at Exxon sided with his recommendation and changed their previous position following his advice. Generally he felt that in the USA his opinion as a Japanese manager was highly valued, because it provided a different view point.
In his experience in Japan the situation is totally opposite: Japanese senior management generally does not listen to junior employees, and particularly not to foreign nationals in the rare cases that there are any in Japanese companies. In fact, the most frequent question senior management at Japanese banks ask, is not for original ideas or creativity from junior staff, but instead: “What do other banks do?”
This deplorable Japanese situation even contrasts strongly with the situation in China, where Masamoto Yashiro was a Director of the China Construction Bank: in China leaders moved from Government agencies and Ministries to Banks, and to private industries and back.
Generally Masamoto Yashiro expressed the view, that the development of leaders is totally inadequate in Japan, and is better in China than in Japan.
In addition to the inadequate development of leaders in Japanese companies, the number of foreign nationals in management, Board and other leadership positions in Japanese companies is minute, there are no programs to attract and develop foreign nationals in leadership positions. On the contrary, when Shinsei Bank showed losses in the aftermath of the Lehman shock, Japan’s Financial Services Agencies ordered that Shinsei Bank must pay all foreign nationals on exactly the same pay levels as Japanese employees. Since foreign nationals typically have much higher schooling and other costs in Japan than Japanese staff, essentially all non-Japanese staff at Shinsei Bank left soon after.
Leaders can make a real difference.
How leaders are selected is of utmost importance.
At Exxon, senior management devote specially reserved time to identify suitable candidates for future leadership positions, “who can potentially be our CEO in the future”. The selected candidates are given special attention and special opportunities to train and develop their leadership abilities. Masamoto Yashiro has never heard about such special leadership development programs at Japanese companies.
2. The Japanese-style board structure is not appropriate to ensure sound corporate governance.
In Japan, Board Members are almost always managing employees of the company, so the question arises who’s interests they represent on the Board. Do they represent the interests of the institution (the company), the employees or the interests of the shareholders.
In Japan often the CEO of the company after his retirement remains as a Chairman for several years, keeps his office, secretary and company car, and creates large other expenses. Why? Probably because Japanese CEO pay is too low, so that the CEO does not wish to retire gracefully.
This is totally different in Western companies where retired CEOs leave the company and have no further role in the company in most cases. Masamoto Yashiro mentioned the retired Chairman of Exxon, who after his retirement naturally travelled by taxi. In Japanese it would be unthinkable according to Masamoto Yashiro that the retired Chairman of a major corporation would travel by ordinary taxi cab like ordinary people (Masamoto Yashiro did not mention subway or bus, or driving his own personal car….)
3. Management structure needs to be changed to suit a global business.
In non-Japanese companies in almost all cases have a thorough performance evaluation system. When performance is evaluated, the resulting distribution must be similar to a normal distribution, i.e. with considerable part of employees at the high end and substantial numbers at the low end of the performance curve. If this is not done, top performers cannot be sufficiently rewarded and will leave the company, while low performers would hold the whole company back.
In most Japanese companies on the other hand, if a thorough performance evaluation is done at all, in most cases a huge proportion of employees are just evaluated as average, satisfying performance, without clear distinctions between top and bottom performance.
Promotion and salary on the other hand in traditional Japanese companies is purely according to age, which leads to many problems, and causes under-performance of the whole company.
These problems are increased by the fact, that Japanese companies typically do not give the same evaluation or opportunities to non-Japanese nationals.
4. The current limited role of foreign nationals in management and board structure.
Even in the rare cases where foreign nationals are employed by Japanese companies in management or leadership positions e.g. in foreign subsidiaries, often junior Japanese employees which much lower rank and local knowledge do not respect and bypass non-Japanese management, and there is typically no fair evaluation system, evaluating Japanese and non-Japanese management according to the same standards of performance.
The change of this mindset (to keep non-Japanese out of management or leadership positions at Japanese corporations) is extremely important.
The change of mindset (to keep non-Japanese out of management or leadership positions at Japanese corporations) is not difficult at all and can be done quickly.
When considering corporate governance it is important to develop a view on the objectives. When discussing the interest of shareholders, it is important to ask “which shareholders”? The interests of large shareholders who may own 10% or 20% of the corporation, or the interests of individual smaller shareholders? Other stake holders’ interests also need to be taken into account.
In general, Masamoto Yashiro expressed the view that both the institution’s (the company’s) and the shareholders interest are best served by stable long-term growth of the company. He mentioned as an example Exxon which showed triple-A rating and annual rate of growth of 15%-17% for over 100 years.
Concluding remarks.
Around 1990 Japan was self-satisfied with the economic success, and Japanese people thought that they have nothing to learn from anybody. This time is over now, and Japan and Japanese corporations much change to regain growth and to become competitive again.
Professor Junichi Hamada, President of The University of Tokyo, listening to Masamoto Yashiro’s talk
Japanese management – Q&A with Masamoto Yashiro (selected questions)
Q. You want Japanese companies to change. What are the good things you want Japanese companies to keep?
A. Loyalty. Consideration to stakeholders.
Q. Your work at Shinsei.
A. Communication was most important. When Masamoto Yashiro took over at Shinsei, the Bank has just gone through bankruptcy proceedings, so the moral was extremely low. Masamoto Yashiro had to reestablish optimism and moral. To do so, communication is most important. Masamoto Yashiro held weekly telephone conferences and every employee who wanted to could participate: from top management to cleaning staff/janitors. Everyone could come forward with his concerns.
Another fact was that there were so many traditions which made no sense. For example, female employees with University degrees would wear their own clothes, while female employees without University degrees would need to wear company uniform. There was an issue that lower paid staff had difficulty to afford appropriate clothing for bank work – so Masamoto Yashiro decided to award a clothing allowance to employees so that they could afford appropriate clothing.
Q. Many Japanese companies cannot hire young employees, because they cannot fire/discharge non-performing older employees.
A. Firing/discharge of non-performing employees can be done by paying adequate severance compensation. Considering that a non-performing employee who remains on the payroll for several years in addition to salary also creates a lot of secondary costs, it is typically cheaper to pay an appropriate severance package, and most people are happy to leave with an appropriate severance package, and often move to a more suitable position at a different company – this helps everyone. Of course some companies want to save money at all cost, and fire employees without adequate package and that can lead to problems.
Q. Having worked much of your career at global oil or energy companies, what to you think about Japanese oil companies?
A. Japanese oil companies are not really oil companies, because they do not invest enough upstream.
Q. Leadership?
A. Japanese companies must change. The mindset must change.
Q. University of Tokyo?
A. University of Tokyo at the moment I think is ranked on 30th or 40th position globally in most rankings, maybe top in Japan or in Asia, but that does not count, we need to look at the whole world, not just Japan or Asia. I think University of Tokyo should make the changes necessary be at least in the top ten globally. To get into the top ten globally, University of Tokyo needs to hire outstanding Professors where the best students from the whole world want to come and study. To get the best Researchers and Professors University of Tokyo has to pay what is necessary. Does not matter which language, English or Japanese or any other language. No outstanding student from other parts of the world wants to study Japanese first before studying at University of Tokyo. University of Tokyo should make the necessary changes so that the best students from top Universities globally also want to come to University of Tokyo.
Mr Masamoto Yashiro’s talk and Q&A were followed by a brainstorming session in groups among all participants of four about globalization, and global leadership development.
Read more about Masamoto Yashiro
Forbes “The Outsider”
BusinessWeek “Masamoto Yashiro”
BusinessWeek Online Extra: Q&A with Shinsei Bank’s Masamoto Yashiro
CNN Transcript: Masamoto Yashiro, former chairman & CEO, Shinsei Bank
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I stumbled across Wink when searching for men’s aerial clothing online. It was tough. You’d have more luck finding a leaked copy of a new Beyonce album (trust me I’ve been looking). When it comes to men’s aerial clothing they’re either custom made expensive, or completely see-through mesh for sexy time. Wink is great. Although mostly aimed at Pole Dancing, the fabrics work really well in the air and look great on.
This year is pretty big for me, I take the challenge of presenting the first stand up comedy/aerial silks fusion show at the Edinburgh Fringe. WHAT? A stand up show with aerial silks? You mean, you’ll be telling jokes whilst hanging upside down and doing drops… err, yes, exactly that.
Why? Well, I had both the skills. I’ve been working the national comedy circuit for 6 years playing in all the big clubs such as Glee, Comedy Store, Stand. I got to provide tour support for Luisa Omielan and share bills with some of the biggest names in comedy like Jason Manford, Katherine Ryan, Joe Lycett and Tom Stade. At the same time, I was working for a circus theatre company; teaching silks and trapeze workshops whilst simultaneously touring circus theatre shows around the country.
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I’m just a regular guy. 8 years ago I’d never told a joke on stage and I’d never set foot on a rope. But I learnt to. That’s what I want to inspire in my audience.
Anyone is capable of achieving greatness if they try, and the Wink Fitness brand fits into that so well. Whether you are training for performance, fitness or just for fun they have a range of outfits to inspire and aide your achievements. I spent AAAAAGES trying to find men’s circus clothing and I’m so lucky to have Wink supporting me to do this.
Comedians always talk about “dying” on stage or a joke not “landing”, with this new element of aerial stand up… I’m the one throwing in the real possibility of those happening for real.
I hope you can come see the show. It will be in Edinburgh Fringe everyday of the festival at C Venues South, 6:50pm (except the 15th. The 15th is when we party*!)
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The Great Caruso (1951)
Approved | 1h 49min | Biography, Drama, Music | 17 August 1951 (Australia)
This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso... See full summary »
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The brilliance of one of the world's most beloved tenors and the exciting world of opera highlight this delightful romantic adventure set in the most beautiful cities of Europe. Tonio Costa... See full summary »
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The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera, but comes to... See full summary »
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To Hell and Back (1955)
Action | Biography | Drama
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
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The Student Prince (1954)
Musical | Romance
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Certificate: Passed Drama | Western
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
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In Philadelphia, the soprano Prudence Budell returns from Europe after a period of five years training in the best Europeans music schools. Her millionaire grandmother Abigail Trent Budell ... See full summary »
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A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
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This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Enrico Caruso: It is true, Señor Barretto, that right now I sing for pennies. Pennies are not very important in a big house like this. But the singing, that is important everywhere. It makes people feel good inside, takes away the ugliness, the sadness, and it fills the empty place here. That too is something Señor, isn't it?
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Since musicals have both gone out of fashion and are incredibly expensive to make without all the talent needed to make one under contract to a studio, I doubt we will ever get a real life story of Enrico Caruso.
But if everything else was in place it was no accident that no Hollywood studio attempted the task until Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Mario Lanza under contract. No one else could have done it, I doubt whether it will ever be tried again.
And why should it. I think Enrico Caruso himself would have been satisfied as to how his singing was portrayed on screen. For his tenor voice was his life, his reason for being on the earth.
To say that liberties were taken with his life is to be modest. Caruso, like the man who portrayed him, was a man of large appetites although with a lot more self discipline. He had numerous relationships with several women and fathered two out of wedlock sons who are not in this film.
His contribution to the recording industry is treated as almost an afterthought. He's shown in a recording studio once late in his life. Actually he started recording right around the turn of the last century and together with Irish tenor John McCormack for RCA Victor made the recording industry what it became.
When Caruso and McCormack were at their heights you had to practically inherit a ticket to see either of them perform live. But a lot of immigrant Italian and Irish families had a phonograph and a record or three of either of these men. It's why both became the legends that they are.
What the film does have is some beautifully staged operatic arias done by Mario Lanza, a taste of what he might have become had he the discipline of a Caruso to stick to opera. The Great Caruso won an Oscar for sound recording and received nominations for costume and set design.
Mario himself helped popularize the film with an RCA Red Seal album of songs from The Great Caruso. Unfortunately due to contractual obligations we couldn't get an actual cast album with Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, and Jarmila Novotna also.
Though Blyth sang it in the film, Lanza had a big hit recording of The Loveliest Night of the Year further helping to popularize The Great Caruso.
If you're looking for a life of Enrico Caruso, this ain't it. If you are looking for a great artist singing at the height of his career, than you should not miss The Great Caruso.
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Unfazed By Supreme Court Verdict, Boris Johnson Wants Parliament Suspended From October 8
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After a previous attempt was ruled unlawful by the British Supreme Court British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains unfazed . And according to a report by AFP , Johnson now intends to ask for parliament to be suspended from October 8 to 14, his Downing Street office said .
“These timings would mean parliament is prorogued for the shortest time possible to enable all the necessary logistical preparations” for Queen Elizabeth II to outline the government’s new legislative programme, it said in a statement.
Johnson previously advised the monarch to suspend, or prorogue, parliament from September 10 to October 14.
Pro-European lawmakers were outraged and saw the move as an attempt to stifle democratic debate on Britain’s pending departure from the European Union on October 31.
Following legal challenges in England and Scotland, the Supreme Court judged Johnson’s advice to the monarch was unlawful, and deemed the lengthy prorogation frustrated parliament’s constitutional functions. Britain’s highest court quashed the prorogation, and parliament resumed on September 25.
In a nation without a written constitution, the case marked a rare confrontation between the prime minister, the courts and Parliament over their rights and responsibilities. It revolved around whether Johnson had acted lawfully when he advised the Queen to suspend Parliament for five weeks during a crucial time frame before the October 31 Brexit deadline when Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union.
It may be recalled that in September 24,2019 delivering the unanimous verdict of 11 judges, Supreme Court President Brenda Hale said: “The decision to advise Her Majesty (Queen Elizabeth II) to prorogue was unlawful”. She said this was “because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions”. As a result, the suspension was “void and of no effect”, Hale said, adding: “Parliament has not been prorogued.”
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After Punjab And Telangana, Now Karnataka Starts Free Drop Service For Women in Night
With the objective to combat the rising menace of rape and murder of women in the country, the Karnataka Police has on Sunday started this new service for women between 10 PM and 6 AM.
Updated: December 8, 2019 5:15 PM IST
By India.com News Desk Email
Edited by Manmath Nayak Email
Photo: ANI
New Delhi: Not able to find a ride back home at night will not be a problem for women anymore in Karnataka now. They can call the police to get a free drop to their home.
“Women in the state can call any police station or use the toll-free helpline number if they are travelling alone in the night. The police will pick them up and drop them at their respective destinations,” Gadag SP Srinath Joshi told news agency ANI.
The development comes after the Telangana Police in a similar manner started the free drop service for women in the state in the wake of the rape and murder of the woman veterinarian in Hyderabad that sent shock-waves across the country.
To ensure women’s security, the free drop facility is being implemented by the officers of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda Police Commissionerates.
In the wake of the horrific incident, the Hyderabad Police has recently started deploying women for patrolling and handling women-related issues as well. Called as ‘Women on Wheels’ (WoW), the lady officers of the patrol team will pick up and drop women who need help ion the night.
Prior to this, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on December 3 said that his state police will provide free drop facility for women who are stranded in the late night. The facility would be available between 9 PM and 6 AM. The stranded women can dial 100, 112 and 181 and seek help from police.
The nation woke up to a piece of shocking news on November 28 when the charred body of a woman veterinarian, who was sexually abused and raped by four people, was found at Shadnagar on the outskirts of Telangana. However, the accused were later shot dead by police in an encounter.
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NGT anguished over pollution in Ganga, Yamuna rivers
NGT slams NMCG and DJB over pollution in Ganga and Yamuna rivers Concerned about the level of pollution in the Ganga between Haridwar and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to install display boards at a gap of 100 kilom...
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Palk Bay: Trawled and damaged
The Palk Bay is an ecological paradise located between the island nation of Sri Lanka and the South East Peninsula India. The region separates the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu from the northern parts of Sri Lanka. From the coast of Tamil Nadu to that of Sri Lanka, the water rarely run deeper than 15 ...
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Conserving Palk Bay
The Palk Bay is a 15,000 sq km biodiversity conglomeration nestled between the island nation of Sri Lanka and South East Peninsula India with a coastal length of 250 km on the Indian side. The bay is landlocked with three openings--one big eastern opening into the Bay of Bengal and two narrow...
500 year old water structure in Rameshwaram rediscovered!
The word 'Theertham' literally means ‘water’ but in Hindu mythology, it is usually the physical holy water body associated with a temple or deity. Rameshwaram has 64 such theerthams. 22 of these are believed to be sacred and are within the premises of the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple. Bathing...
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Garudeshwar dam: for a statue or for people?
Garudeshwar dam: for a statue or for people?The dam in Gujarat's Bharuch district will act as downstream storage for the Sardar Sarovar project which means it can't be used for irrigation, flood control or even net power generation.However, it will create a reservoir around the 'Statue of Unity' pro...
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Brothers in water crisis: India and China
Brothers in water crisis: India and ChinaThe countries will face a combined water shortfall of one trillion cubic metres by 2030, said former chairman of the Central Ground Water Board SC Dhiman.Supreme plan for manual scavengersThe SC has devised a rehabilitation scheme for manual scavengers that i...
MP interlinks Narmada with Kshipra
MP interlinks Narmada with KshipraThe 432 crore project includes lifting water from the Narmada with pumps upto a height of 350 metres from a distance of 50 km and bringing it to the origin of Kshipra river. Project targetted to benefit 3,000 villages and 70 towns of the Malwa region in Madhya Prade...
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40% of Delhi houses not connected with sewerage network: Census
40% people in the National capital live in houses not connected to sewerage networkAccording to the Census 2011, two in every five houses in Delhi are not connected to the sewerage network. 73% people in Northeast Delhi live in houses that use septic tanks or open drains for disposal of wastewater w...
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Symbolic yet neglected
Rameshwaram is well-known as one of India's most sacred places and is an important pilgrimage centre. However, what isn't well-known is the history behind the 64 teerthas (holy water bodies) in and around the island. 24 of these are considered to be very important and of these, 14 are in the form of...
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Dhanushkodi: stuck between science and religion
Dhanushkodi, bordered by the Bay of Bengal on one side and the Indian Ocean on the other, was a major point of entry to India until 1964, when a cyclone devastated the entire town [1]. Now, only a few fisherfolk remain. In the recent past, the town has made headlines for other reasons. The Indi...
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Groundwater quality of Rameswaram
A fuzzy set theoretic approach to analyse the potable nature of holy groundwater samples collected throughout the year
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The story of Dhanushkodi, a cyclone hit town, where reality coexists with myths, mysteries and miracles
A visit to Dhanushkodi makes one wonder as to how such peace and tranquility can at times, also unleash such fury and destruction, but then life goes on, as does for the small section of the fisherfolk who continue to inhabit the island and depend on it for their basic needs of food and drinki...
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Need navigation charts for Adam's Bridge and Rameshwaram peninsula, Tamil Nadu / Kerala
Namaste. I am Malini Shankar. I am a wildlife photojournalist, radio and TV producer from Bangalore.I am writing to you now as I need your guidance and inputs. I need navigation charts for the area of the Adam's Bridge and Rameshwaram peninsula in Tamil Nadu / Kerala, as I have to do an article on S...
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Drinking water from a fresh pit everyday - The life of people in the fishing settlements in Dhanuskodi
In an earlier post Microfinance for Water - How would it Work? I had put up a picture of a woman drawing water out from a pit.Here is a small clip showing the place, the people and a little more. This was recorded in Dhanuskodi. Water and sanitation facilities are non existent there, but still these...
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Microfinance for water: How will it work?
Lately there have been some conversations about water sector and microfinance, about bringing in microfinance to address water issues like access to clean drinking water, household water distribution and supply, associated problems of sanitation like underground drainage, and utilities. W...
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Policy matters this week
NGT slams NMCG and DJB over pollution in Ganga and Yamuna rivers
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In the last of a two-part series on the importance of conserving the Palk Bay, a video shows how trawling is spelling doom to the ecology of the bay.
The Palk Bay is an ecological paradise located between the island nation of Sri Lanka and the South East Peninsula India. The region separates the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu from the northern parts of Sri Lanka. From the coast of Tamil Nadu to that of Sri Lanka, the water rarely run deeper than 15 metres. The bay is one of India's most prominent fishing haunt.
In the first of a two-part series on the ecological degradation of the Palk Bay, a video explains the importance of conserving this biodiversity hotspot.
The Palk Bay is a 15,000 sq km biodiversity conglomeration nestled between the island nation of Sri Lanka and South East Peninsula India with a coastal length of 250 km on the Indian side.
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After 30 days of digging and removing 6000 tractor loads of sand, the evasive Dharmar Theertham was found intact with fresh water being replenished in a pit in the middle of the structure.
The word 'Theertham' literally means ‘water’ but in Hindu mythology, it is usually the physical holy water body associated with a temple or deity. Rameshwaram has 64 such theerthams. 22 of these are believed to be sacred and are within the premises of the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple.
Read more about Garudeshwar dam: for a statue or for people?
The dam in Gujarat's Bharuch district will act as downstream storage for the Sardar Sarovar project which means it can't be used for irrigation, flood control or even net power generation.However, it will create a reservoir around the 'Statue of Unity' proposed to be world's tallest statue
Read more about Brothers in water crisis: India and China
The countries will face a combined water shortfall of one trillion cubic metres by 2030, said former chairman of the Central Ground Water Board SC Dhiman.
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Read more about MP interlinks Narmada with Kshipra
The 432 crore project includes lifting water from the Narmada with pumps upto a height of 350 metres from a distance of 50 km and bringing it to the origin of Kshipra river. Project targetted to benefit 3,000 villages and 70 towns of the Malwa region in Madhya Pradesh
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News this week: 40% people in Delhi live in houses without sewerage, cyclone Leher passes off peacefully and farmers affected by erosion in Tripura sell land.
40% people in the National capital live in houses not connected to sewerage network
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The 64 sacred teerthas at Rameshwaram are historically important and also contain a wealth of knowledge in water conservation methods. Can local communities continue to maintain them well?
Rameshwaram is well-known as one of India's most sacred places and is an important pilgrimage centre. However, what isn't well-known is the history behind the 64 teerthas (holy water bodies) in and around the island. 24 of these are considered to be very important and of these, 14 are in the form of ponds, tanks and wells within the precincts of the temples while 31 are located outside the temples. The teerthas assume great cultural and spiritual significance in the history of the island. They also have immense ecological benefits.
The Sethusamudram canal might aid shipping traffic in the area but how will it impact the fisherfolk who totally depend on the sea and the island for their livelihoods?
Dhanushkodi, bordered by the Bay of Bengal on one side and the Indian Ocean on the other, was a major point of entry to India until 1964, when a cyclone devastated the entire town [1]. Now, only a few fisherfolk remain.
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
E3 2004: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey First Look
The follow-up to the classic adventure is taking very interesting turns.
By David Adams
Updated: 30 Jun 2016 8:19 pm
Posted: 14 May 2004 2:46 am
It's been five years since the release of The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - PC
, FunCom's acclaimed epic adventure title, and anyone lucky enough to play through the game's mesmerizing story has been eager to see a sequel. The characters from the original title, most especially the bright, spunky heroine April Ryan, caught between twin worlds of science and magic, were a game rarity: richly drawn, believable, and much missed once the story was over.
It turns out FunCom is not making a sequel to The Longest Journey. Instead, the next game in the franchise, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, will take place in the same universe and feature many of the same characters, but the story is new and self-contained, meant to stand alongside, rather than continue, the first game's narrative.
Also unlike the classic point-and-click adventuring of first game, FunCom describes Dreamfall as an action-adventure title, emphasizing player movement and combat as much as more conventional character interaction and puzzle solving.
Today at E3, we had a chance to meet with The Longest Journey creator Ragnar Tornquist and have an early look at the new title. While Tornquist was careful to point out that the game is still over a year away from completion and only a few rough sections were available for preview, what we did see was plenty impressive.
The most salient feature of Dreamfall is the beautiful graphics engine. Though still in rough form, FunCom's proprietary engine, based on Spinor's Shark 3D technology, is a wonder to see, full of dynamic lighting, self-shadowing, bump-mapping, and all the other hyped features defining the cutting edge. This might be par for the course in the latest FPS titles, but it's something special for a Longest Journey game. Fans of the first title will be delighted to see the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia (as well as a third world, The Winter) come alive in vivid three dimensions. A character carrying a lamp in her arm as she walks has shadows sliding across floors and up walls. Cavern interiors are alive with texture dynamically responding to light, and water shimmers with reflection. Amazing stuff.
This time around, the game will follow three characters and three stories, which will eventually weave together into a larger narrative. The main focus will be on Zoe Castillo, a spunky 20 year old with plenty of late-adolescent doubts, who discovers a sinister conspiracy related to dreams (and, in some way, the term "dreamfall"). But you'll also play as Kian, a somber warrior with his own mysterious motives, as well as a very different April Ryan, now 10 years older, disillusioned, and facing her own darkness.
Character switching will be scripted in order to tell the story. Tornquist explained that he wants each character's personal narrative to slowly weave into those of the others, as a larger pattern is eventually revealed. He also promises some real surprises and personal revelations for each of our heroes. Tornquist emphasized that, as with the first title, what will make the game will be its story, music, atmosphere, and, most importantly, characters, so expect to see plenty of depth to these three individuals.
As for the actual game play, the little we saw was fascinating. Tornquist explains that the game will control with either a control pad (such as an Xbox controller connected to your PC via XNA standards) or entirely through the mouse via an entirely new control scheme which he was not yet ready to disclose. We did see one nice new idea in the interface, and that was the "focus field," a ray of light of sorts representing the field of focused view of the character. To examine an item or creature or whatnot from a distance, rotate the focus field so that the target is in its path, then choose the Examine or Interact button. It's a nice way to replace the often tedious mouse-hunting of other adventures.
DeveloperFuncom
PublisherAspyr
Release DateApril 17, 2006
PlatformsPC, Xbox, Xbox 360
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Ben Roethlisberger: Backups grateful for extra reps
A family vacation kept Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger away from the start of the team’s organized team activities.
Roethlisberger returned Wednesday, but his earlier absences allowed backup quarterbacks Landry Jones, Josh Dobbs and rookie Mason Rudolph to secure additional repetitions during practice.
I know those guys really enjoyed it, and they were thanking me for it, Roethlisberger said, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
You’ve got to understand, too, this is football without pads on, Roethlisberger said, via the Post-Gazette. This is kind of getting back into it. That’s the way I look at OTAs and minicamps, it’s just kind of getting back into it, knocking some rust off. You start to get a feel for some young guys a little bit, but it’s all going to change once you get to camp. Once you get to camp, you get pads on and that’s when real football begins.
The Steelers wrap up 10 days of voluntary OTAs on Thursday, and then hold a mandatory three-day minicamp on June 12-14.
According to various reports, few Eagles players were planning to attend the White House event and the team is holding a workout at their facility instead.
Johnson was part of the sad avalanche of NFL superstars who saw their seasons wiped out by injury in 2017. With fresh legs, the Cardinals undergoing a transition at quarterback and millions of dollars at stake (this is a contract year), consider it a huge upset if Johnson isn’t one of the very best backs in football in 2018. His dual-threat capabilities make him a safe bet to lead the league in touches this season. For a game-changing talent just reaching his prime, a 2,000 all-purpose yardage season is in play.
Jones’ end-zone slip in the final moments of a loss to the Eagles in the Divisional Round of the playoffs acted as an effective symbol for the Falcons ‘ offense as a whole in 2017: They were right there but could never quite get over the hump. It was a frustrating season for Jones, who piled up 88 catches for 1,444 yards… but just three touchdowns. Surprisingly, Jones has never been a TD monster (he’s reached double digits just once in his brilliant seven-year career), but a healthy Jones could double or even triple his scoring output in Year 2 under offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who knows his job may depend on it.
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WATCH: Eagles’ Carson Wentz highlights from drills at OTAs
Quarterback Carson Wentz continued to whet the Eagles fan base’s appetite on Tuesday as he participated in OTA drills for the second time in front of the media.
Every day gets a little bit better, Wentz said last week. I feel like I’ve made really good strides both mentally or physically.
Even if Wentz is not ready for Week 1, the Eagles remain prepared to weather his absence with the return of Foles, who took over for Wentz when he was injured last season and won Super Bowl MVP honors in guiding the Eagles to their first-ever Lombardi Trophy.
It’s not out of the question,Trapasso said of Buffalo once again finishing second to the Pats, noting that just as many questions surround the stripped-down Miami Dolphins and rebuilding New York Jets. Speaking of questions, the real one, for Buffalo, centers on which quarterback will replace Taylor in 2018?
Trapasso acknowledged that Allen is the obvious long-term hope under center and should produce wow playsthat incumbent backup Nathan Peterman and veteran pickup AJ McCarron can only dream of doing. But he also suggested that Peterman, who threw five first-half interceptions in his first action replacing Taylor, is actually the safest bet to start on Opening Day. They really like him,Trapasso said.
He’s one of those practice stars [and] it wouldn’t absolutely stun me if he starts Week One.Asked by Brinson which quarterback he would start if given the choice, Trapasso echoed short-term support for Peterman. Anything that [McCarron] did that looked good in 2015 was boosted by that really loaded Bengals team,he said. [I’d start] Peterman just knowing that he’s been in a few quarters, just because I don’t think he’ll be as much of a deer in the headlights.
admin / May 17, 2018
Police report says Reuben Foster threw girlfriend’s dog across room
The woman who accused Reuben Foster of domestic violence earlier this year has since recanted, but prosecutors are sure to use the details of the initial police report in trying to make a case against the San Francisco 49ers star. Among the disturbing allegations is one that sounds like animal abuse.
Bucannon has not set the world on fire, but he’s had enough success to inspire the Rams to trade for Mark Barron, the Falcons to draft Deion Jones early in the second round and, most recently, the Steelers to take a big flyer on Virginia Tech safety Terrell Edmunds late in the first round.
Troy Niklas battled injuries early on and never became a factor. Bruce Arians’ scheme wasn’t the most tight end-friendly, though if Niklas had been what they’d hoped, Arians would have found a role for him. Kareem Martin and Ed Stinson provided decent depth for a few years but never carved out distinct roles. John Brown did: deep threat. But after a tumultuous 2016 (health problems) and a quiet 2017, he’s now a Raven. Grade: C Atlanta Falcons Round 1 (6 overall). Jake Matthews, T, Texas A&M 2 (37). Ra’Shede Hageman, DT, Minnesota 3 (68). Dezmen Southward, FS, Wisconsin 4 (103).
It’s a break for the Giants, who now will face the Saints in Week 4 with only half of the NFL-best tandem of Ingram and Alvin Kamara, the 2017 Offensive Rookie of the Year. Giants defensive end Josh Mauro also will miss the game after receiving the same suspension as Ingram.
I would never condone any of the behavior that was alleged and will always respect and protect the rights of anyone who has been harassed or is the victim of violence. My priorities remain the same — to move forward and strive to be the best coach, teacher, and man that I can possibly be.
When contacted this week by The News, the Lions acknowledged they had not been aware of the incident.
Owner Martha Ford, general manager Bob Quinn and team president Rod Wood released a joint statement Monday night.
Herschel Walker Says He Understands Why NFL Teams Won’t Sign Colin Kaepernick
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Herschel Walker told TMZ Sports he understands why teams won’t hire free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick based on his choice to protest social injustice and racial inequality during the national anthem.
I read where they asked him if he would still kneel if they hired him, and he said he wasn’t sure or he may, and that tells you right there that he doesn’t want to work, Walker said. My point is: I think what he was doing was great. I think what he stood for was great. Black lives matter.
Right now I think he’s got to remember that you have teams saying, ‘If you do what we ask you to do, you may have a job.’ But he don’t wanna do it. … I own a chicken company. If the guy that I hire don’t want to do what I ask him to do, why do I hire him? And I think that’s the problem right there, you know.
The move created $500,000 of cap space for the Lions.
Edge rusher: The 49ers were tied for 26th in the NFL with 30 sacks last season. The hope is Thomas can convert his freakish skill set into dominance, but it would help to have another young, viable threat to take the blocking attention off him.
While Fitzpatrick or James would be a nice piece to round out the secondary behind Thomas and Foster, those players could also use some extra support up front. The 49ers still have remnants of their old 3-4 base up front with Arik Armstead and DeForest Buckner. While Buckner has settled nicely in as a 4-3 tackle, Armstead needs to be replaced to lead the rotation opposite Thomas.
Texas-San Antonio’s Marcus Davenport is among the intriguing pass rushers gaining steam and moving up the board late in the draft process. Boston College’s Harold Landry is also in play to go ahead of his mid-first round projections.
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Limits on grammar school places for disadvantaged children in Redbridge could be scrapped under new plans
PUBLISHED: 17:00 18 October 2019
Imogen Braddick
Woodford County High School. Picture: Ken Mears
Admissions to Downshall Primary School could be cut and limits on the number of disadvantaged children admitted to grammar schools could be scrapped under policy changes proposed by Redbridge Council.
Ilford County High School. Picture: Ken Mears
The council is consulting on issues relating to school admissions in order to update and review its existing policies.
Admissions at Downshall Primary School, in Meads Lane, Seven Kings, could be cut from 90 to 60 after the governing body requested that the school reduces to only two forms of entry due to the difficulty in filling places.
The council is also proposing to remove the limits on the number of children eligible for the pupil premium who are admitted to grammar schools.
The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools which aims to improve academic outcomes of disadvantaged pupils.
The new policy means there would be no limits to the number of grammar school places offered to children who are entitled to the pupil premium and all children would be offered places.
Redbridge has two grammar schools - Ilford County High School and Woodford County High School.
"We propose to change the current priority so that it is no longer "restricted" to only 10per cent (18 places)," the council said.
"We hope that this will encourage more applications, as there would no longer be a limit to the number of places that were potentially available."
The council is also consulting on changes to the "reasonable travelling distances" tables, which need to be updated to reflect statutory walking distances.
Wording in the council's admissions policy would be changed to state that it "will make every effort to offer a child below the age of eight a place within a distance of two miles, as based on the shortest walking route, if there are places available".
The consultation on the plans closes on November 25 and residents are invited to have their say.
Comments should be made through the online consultation or e-mailed to admissions@redbridge.gov.uk under the title "Response to Admissions Consultation 2021/22".
All comments will be submitted to cabinet for their meeting on February 11, 2020.
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Corrie star Malcolm Hebden in recovery after severe heart attack
By Anna O'Donoghue
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Coronation Street actor Malcolm Hebden is in recovery following a severe heart attack.
Spending most of December in an induced coma, the actor, who plays Norris in the soap, said that he was very close to dying.
In an interview with the Blackpool Gazette, Hebden said: "I didn’t realise how bad it was; I was dying"
"I was informed by my doctor I had had at least one heart attack. I was sent to hospital, by emergency ambulance to Blackburn hospital and was there one night.
"While there I collapsed and was brought here to Blackpool Victoria – where I was operated on, in a procedure which was described by my surgeon Mr Zacharias as groundbreaking"
He went on to say that the heart attack was so severe that it tore a hole in his heart, and emergency surgery was required to save his life.
It is not yet known if Malcolm will return to the street as the much-loved character.
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From the Urethra to the Universe
Posted by: Imam Asim Khan in Islamic Thought, Latest, Latest Islamic, Month of Qur'ān, Opinion, Propagation, Scripture 21/08/2016 0
Expelled, then washed off or thrown away. It is such a despised fluid, and yet it is the biological building block of the human. That same human will grow to contempt from where he emerged, almost instinctively belittling his own self. Then a grown up sperm, proud of his size asks “How dare God do such and such?” and goes to lengths to express a case against the Most Supreme. If that conceited denier belittled his own origin then how little is he in the view of the Originator?
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أَوَلَمْ يَرَ الْإِنْسَانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُبِينٌ
77) Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an open opponent!
According to Imām al Tabari, the verse means does not man see (whereby man or ‘Insān’ is in reference to a particular disbeliever) that We created him from a sperm cell and then fashioned him into an upright creation. That particular disbeliever is Ubayy b. Khalaf or al-‘Āṣ b. Wā’il. It is reported that once Ubayy b. Khalaf came to the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) holding in his hand some decomposing bones. He took the bones and crushed them before the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) and then scattered them in the wind saying: ‘Yā Muḥammad, who will bring this back to life when it is now decomposed?’ The Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) replied, ‘Allāh will bring it back to life and then He will cause you to die and thereafter cast you into the Hellfire.’ It happened that the Prophet killed him during the battle of Uḥud.[1] Others said that it was ʿAbdullah b. Ubayy the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) recited these verses about.[2]
Therefore, the Tafsīr becomes, will not this man who says such evil words: “Who will give life to bones when they are decayed?” see that We also created him from a sperm cell and then fashioned him into the man he is? He quarrels about something that Allāh Himself promised that He will do. This quarrelling is thus evident or Mubīn.
But even if this verse were revealed in reference to a particular individual, the address is to man in general, and so the reason for revelation does not limit the application of the meaning.
وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَنَسِيَ خَلْقَهُ ۖ قَالَ مَنْ يُحْيِي الْعِظَامَ وَهِيَ رَمِيمٌ
78) He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own creation, saying, ‘Who will give life to bones when they are decayed?’
Ibn Kathīr states that ‘daraba lana mathalan’ means he thinks (by the likeness he made) that it is unlikely that Allāh, the One who created the heavens and the earth out of nothing, could possibly resurrect. He has in fact forgotten his own self, meaning his origin. This is because man can come to know through his own lowly origin that Allāh is capable of greater things. By this, according to Ibn ‘Āshūr, these individuals are likening Allāh to His creation in terms of limited capability and, in turn, negating the possibility of al-Ba’th (resurrection).
They forgot both their origin and the lowly state of this origin, from a Nutfah, and asked, ‘Who will give life to bones after they have become ‘Rameem’, decayed or rotten?’ Had they reflected on how Allāh brought them into existence from nothing they would have realised that resurrection is even easier for Him, as Allāh tells us in another verse:
“It is He who originated creation and then regenerates it. That is very easy for Him.”[3]
قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَأَهَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ
79) Say ‘He who made them in the first place will bring them back to life. He has total knowledge of each created thing;
Ibn ‘Āshūr reveals the wisdom in the way in which Allāh told the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) to respond to their claim. He told him to respond by saying that the One who will give life is the One who gave them life in the first place, so where is the difficultly in resurrection? Then Allāh concludes the verse, ‘He has total knowledge of each created thing’ as if to say that I know all the ways through which life can come about whether through a Nutfah, ‘Ithām (bones), seeds or anything else. There is nothing of creation that I do not know about.
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The expression ‘awalam yara al-insān’, according to Al-Shawkāni, expresses amazement at the ignorance of the Mushrikūn. How could they deny the resurrection? If you believe that God created you from just a lowly fluid, which indeed you do, then fashioned you into a man with His power and Might, why do you doubt His ability to bring you back to life after death? Surely bringing something back to life is easier then bringing it into existence from nothing.
The Itha is of Fujā’iyya or suddenness so it is as if verse 77 is saying look at how we made this person from a lowly fluid and now all of a sudden he stands as a grown man disputing something I made clear. Khaseem is to dispute and argue with great passion and aggression.
Man yuhyi al-‘ithām ‘who will give life to bones?’ is a form of nugatory questioning or Istifhaam Inkaari said by way of mockery, as if to say that there is no one who could possibly bring bones back to life after they had decomposed.
Ibn al-Qayyim adds that Allāh reminds people about their first entry into the world as an indication of their second life to come. Just as We made you in the first instance so too will We make you come back to life in the second instance. In the first instance We made you from a Nutfah (a sperm), from a mixture of lowly fluid. How can He not then create you from more than that i.e., clothing the bones with flesh?
Allāh’s placing of an expression of His power alongside the weakness of man is in order for the latter to appreciate the ridiculousness in disputing with his Lord, as mentioned by Ibn ‘Āshūr. Abu Hayyān clarifies that Nutfah is in reference to the reproductive fluids that exit from the same place as impurities, again showing the lowly unsophisticated origin of man. How dare you then dispute with your Lord!
According to al Razi, a sign within man, as is the one related here, is the most pertinent and far-reaching type as it relates to everyone. Everyone is able to consider it without much effort, unlike a blind person for instance who cannot reflect over many universal signs such as the changing of night and day and the sun and the moon; nor will he have necessarily seen the aforementioned animals and so on.
Ibn al-Qayyim teaches us that in the words ‘Nasiya khalqah’ ‘forgot his own creation’ is an indicator that had this polytheist or doubter in resurrection pondered over his own human existence and its origin and creation, it would have been enough to address his own doubt.
Az Zamakhshari has a profound statement on the above verse. In his Tafsīr he outlines that Allāh describes the hideousness of the Mushrikīn’s denial of resurrection and reproaches them in an amazing and articulate manner. Allāh further points to the persistence of man’s disbelief, his denial of Allāh’s favours and his insolence by indicating his lowly and mean origination, namely the sperm that exits the urethra, the channel for impurity. He is still so impressed with himself that, despite his origin from something despicable, he deems himself able to address and argue with the Supreme. He denies and he asks: “Who is able to bring the dead back to life after the bones have decomposed?” His argument is to deny something that applies most squarely on him, for he was brought to life after death and this is what he denies out of arrogance.
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[1] Tafsīr Tabari, Vol 19 pg 486
[3] Al-Qur’ān, 30:27
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An international delegation of Israel Bonds leaders from seven countries convened in Poland for the International March of the Living, marching with thousands of others along the somber route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Bonds President & CEO Israel Maimon took part in a ceremony at which six torches were lit in honor of the six million victims of the Holocaust. Maimon joined in lighting the fourth torch, in memory of the rabbis, scholars, and teachers lost in the Shoah. He later declared, “A proud Jewish nation and its powerful armed forces are the ultimate guarantee that the words ‘Never Again’ will forever be an unbreakable promise.”
Bonds President & CEO Israel Maimon joined in the ceremonial torch lighting in honor of the six million victims of the Holocaust
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Delegates view shrapnel damage from rockets fired from Gaza at the border community of Sderot throughout May 4-5
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Owner Lara Dunn started as a physical therapist before opening one facility in 2011 and The Gym on South Hill in March
Fitness center opens second site on South Hill Owner Lara Dunn started as a physical therapist before opening one facility in 2011 and The Gym on South Hill in March Check out this story on ithacajournal.com: https://ithacajr.nl/1Sykj08
Gay Huddle, Correspondent Published 2:58 p.m. ET April 26, 2016
Lara Dunn opened her second gym in March. "The Gym" is at 540 Danby Road in the South Hill Business Park building.(Photo: Provided Photo)
Owner Lara Dunn’s “The Gym” now has two locations to choose from, 323 Pine Road, at the East Hill Plaza in Ithaca and the newly-opened second location at 540 Danby Road, in the South Hill Business Park building, which means I can no longer use the excuse “it’s too far to travel to exercise!”
Conveniently located on this side of Ithaca, across from Ithaca College, this fitness center has 14 cardio machines, 10 strength training machines and a full free-weight area. There is 24-hour access and unlimited use of all equipment. Members use a key fob to enter the building, which automatically shuts off when membership ends.
The locker room space will be large and comfortable, and making this space perfect has been the reason for Lara holding off on her grand opening until May 6. Lara started her fitness business at The Rink in Lansing in 2008 and opened her East Hill Plaza facility in 2011. She sold her business in Lansing in 2014, and opened The Gym on South Hill in March. Lara is the sole full-time staff member, but her family helps out and she has certified personal trainers who are sub-contracted.
Lara is originally from the Tug Hill area of New York. She has a sister, Christie, who is a Cornell University graduate. Lara lived in Hawaii for 10 years to be near her brother Art, and when she returned to Ithaca, she decided to stay. Lara has two sons, Josh, 24 and Keane, 18, who is attending Ithaca High School.
Lara began her career in the health and fitness field by becoming a licensed massage therapist, but, she says, “I wanted to become my own boss and provide comfortable and friendly fitness center environments, which members would look forward coming to.” There is plenty of free parking available in the guest parking lot. For more information, contact Lara at thegymaaf.com or call 220-8390, or visit www.thegymaaf.com. Lara also encourages those who are interested to stop by and have a look at the facility.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Deaths from drug overdose have become the leading cause of injury death in the United States, and the vast majority of the medications responsible for these deaths came from medicine cabinets in homes like yours” notes Ed Gottlieb, Pre-Treatment Coordinator at the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility.
Please take a few minutes to clear out the expired or no longer needed medications from your home and take them to the Slaterville Fire Hall, 2681 Slaterville Road, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday during Safe Medication Disposal and Drug Collection Day. Visit www.healthyyouth.org for information on year-round drop boxes in law enforcement buildings throughout Tompkins County, or call 2-1-1.
One is an emergency medical physician, retired Air Force captain, and goes on medical missions to Haiti. The other is a career development educator at Ithaca College, local elected official and member of an improve troupe. Together they’ve been EMTs, business partners and playwrights. Now, 31 years after they first met at Binghamton University, Caroline resident John Fracchia and his writing partner, Dr. Kerry Forrestal release on May 4 their first full-length novel, “Cataclysm: The Myst Clipper Shicaine.”
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Special guests will be K-9 Officers Rex and Bert. For more information on ways you can help the SPCA, contact them at 257-1822 or visit www.spcaonline.com..
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Margie VanDeMark reminds me that the next meeting of the Danby seniors will be at 6 p.m. on May 5 at the Danby Community Church, 1859 Danby Road. This is a dish-to-share dinner and all seniors 55 and over are welcome.
Bob Spaulding reminds me that the Caroline seniors will hold their next monthly dinner/meeting May 9 at 5 p.m., at the Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Road. Please take along table service and a dish to share. Wayne O’Brien, a member of the Board of Directors at Lifelong in Ithaca will be discussing current programs available at Lifelong. If you have any questions, call Bob at 539-7321.
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Burntwood goes yellow in honour of Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton died a year ago today Photo: PA
Residents of Burntwood in Staffordshire are tying yellow ribbons all over the town in memory of Stephen Sutton MBE.
Today marks a year since the death of the teenager, who raised almost five million pounds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Stephen's mother Jane says the ribbons will be a symbol of the community's 'grief, love and unity'.
Today, May 14th, marks the end of one and the start of a new chapter of Stephen's journey.
He may no longer be with us in person, but his infectious beaming smile, determination to not accept the word 'no' and his courage to simply 'get on with life' has impacted on so many lives that his influence will remain.
Of course I miss Stephen, there's an enormous void which he used to occupy.
However, I'm so proud of everything he has achieved. He was inspirational, authentic and courageous and his message was so incredibly powerful and relevant to us all.
– Jane Sutton
Stephen Sutton meets the Prime Minister Credit: PA
Teenage Cancer Trust and the community group Turn Burntwood Yellow, are inviting local people and those inspired by Stephen’s Story to a special event at Chasetown Football Club, at 5pm today to celebrate his life.
The gathering will include a tribute ‘thumbs up’ moment, a yellow balloon release and a book of reflections for people to sign.
Yellow ribbons were also tied around Lichfield town centre before Stephen Sutton's funeral last year Credit: PA
The tribute 'thumbs up' moment today is so appropriate as Stephen made his trademark thumbs up sign a symbol of his positive attitude.
That's the image people remember, that gorgeous smile and the thumbs up.
The yellow balloon release is such a beautiful way to remember Stephen and celebrate his life.
The actual release of the balloons will, for some, be seen as a celebration of life, for some it might be viewed as release of grief and it also has a fun element that Stephen would have approved of.
Let's not forget the colour yellow and its association with warmth and happiness. That's how Stephen would want to be remembered.
The Queen presents Jane Sutton with her son's MBE Credit: PA
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Saint Katherine of the Sinai Monastery in Heraklion, Crete
The Monastery of Saint Katherine of Sinai, to the northeast of Saint Minas, was formerly a dependency of the Monastery of Mount Sinai, which bestowed the church to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Minas in 1924.
The Monastery of Saint Katherine was founded around the 10th century and the building preserved today was its main church (katholikon). The church was built in the 16th century and is obviously influenced by Venetian architecture.
The Monastery of St Katherine had an income sufficient to support a large monastic community. In the period between 1550 and 1640, the School of St Katherine of Sinai became a school of university learning, teaching Ancient Greek authors, Philosophy, Theology, Rhetoric and Art. Many graduates of the school distinguished themselves in Greek literature.
After the fall of Heraklion to the Turks in 1669, the church was converted into the Zulfikar Ali Pasha Mosque. It remained a mosque until the last Muslims left Heraklion in 1922, at the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey.
From 1967 to the present, the church of Saint Katherine has housed an important exhibition of Byzantine icons and religious objects including manuscripts, vestments, and wall paintings, representing six centuries of Orthodox history (14th-19th century).
The atmospheric church is also home to six unique works by the famous icon-painter Michael Damaskinos, a major exponent of the Cretan School.
A service is held in the church every year on 25 November, the feast of St Katherine. The exhibition is open daily from 9.30 to 15.30, with an entry ticket.
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Cumbria's National Nature Reserves
Updated 9 July 2019
Blelham Bog
Bolton Fell and Walton Mosses
Clawthorpe Fell
Cliburn Moss
Drumburgh Moss
Duddon Mosses
Finglandrigg Wood
Gowk Bank
Great Asby Scar
Hallsenna Moor
High Leys
Hutton Roof
Moor House - Upper Teesdale
North Fen
North Walney
Roudsea Wood and Mosses
Rusland Moss
Sandscale Haws
Sandybeck Meadow
Smardale Gill
South Solway Mosses
Tarn Moss
Thornhill Moss and Meadows
Whitbarrow
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This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cumbrias-national-nature-reserves/cumbrias-national-nature-reserves
The reserve is a shallow, balanced nutrient lake in the north-west of the Lake District.
Main habitats: open water
Area: 523 ha
Management: Lake District National Park Authority
Features of interest
Further information about the National Nature Reserve (NNR), its wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Bassenthwaite Lake page of the Lake District National Park Authority website.
Email: hq@lakedistrict.gov.uk
local ranger: 01768 779633
Lake District National Park office, Kendal: 01539 724555
Lake District National Park Authority
Murley Moss
Oxenholme Road
LA9 7RL
Website: Lake District National Park
Blelham Bog NNR is a small site lying next to Blelham Tarn in the centre of the Lake District.
Main habitats: peatland
Although Blelham Bog is a small site, there is certain tranquillity in the wet woodlands and bogs of the nature reserve.
The bogs contain a number of Sphagnum moss species, aromatic bog myrtle, delicate cotton-grass and the tiny white-beaked sedge. On the southern fringe of the nature reserve, oak, birch and hornbeam grow on the erupting slate outcrops.
The tarn attracts waterfowl, and great crested grebe breeds, whilst whooper swan and golden-eye can often be seen during the winter.
The site is very important for a number of rare invertebrates, including a rich population of rare caddisflies and the rare snail Vertigo liiljeborgi.
The reserve is located on the north west side of Blelham Tarn, and lies approximately 2.5km north-east of Hawkshead, 3.5 km south of Ambleside, and about 1km from the west shore of Windermere lake.
The NNR is entered by the stile (NY 366006) from the adjacent land close to the public bridleway from the Low Wray minor road to Outgate.
The nearest train station is Windermere.
The Kendal to Coniston public bus service (Coniston Rambler 505, provided by Stagecoach) runs through Windermere. The nearest stop for Blelham Bog is Clappersgate.
Email: enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk
Walton Moss is one of the most pristine bogs in Britain. Its sister site, Bolton Fell, has previously undergone commercial extraction for peat.
Area: 416ha
Bolton Fell and Walton Mosses forms a landscape of bogs supporting features typical of raised mire but also has structural features of upland blanket bog. It has a variety of Sphagnum moss species and other bryophytes, including some nationally scarce species.
The reserve is home to rare mosses and liverworts, the rare bog rosemary and all three native species of sundew. In winter a visitor may encounter a merlin or even a peregrine falcon hunting over the Moss.
The reserve (land owned and leased by Natural England) covers 416ha of the Bolton Fell and Walton Moss Special Areas of Conservation (SAC).
You should wear suitable footwear on the reserve – wellies are required except on the boardwalk in the north of Bolton Fell Moss.
Sometimes there is machinery operating on the reserve; please keep away unless you need to contact the operator. If you do, approach from the front, stop before you get too close and wait for the operator to stop.
Deep peaty pools can be found all over the bogs, if you step in you’ll get wet and mucky but it is easy to get out. Be aware there are also a number of deep, steep-sided open water filled drains; please treat these like any other natural water body - do not enter if you do not think you will get out.
There is limited mobile phone reception in parts of the site. Please bear this in mind when visiting the site.
The nearest train stations are Brampton and Carlisle.
For details of local bus services go to the Traveline website.
The reserve is 7 km north of Brampton and 15 km north east of Carlisle. The nearest villages are Hethersgill (2 km to the west) and Walton (2 km to the south). By car, access to the area is via minor roads from the A6071 and B6318.
Hethersgill is on Regional Route 10 (Reivers Route) of the Sustrans National Cycle Network which passes near the reserve’s northern boundary.
The Senior Reserve Manager is Deborah Land.
Email: deborah.land@naturalengland.org.uk
Main habitats: limestone pavement
Area: 14 ha
This NNR is currently closed to the public. This will be because:
the site is unsafe
our tenure of the land does not allow public access
the site is so fragile that any form of access would damage the wildlife interest
For more information about the site contact:
Cliburn Moss NNR is a basin mire that supports an unusual range of fen, bog and heath communities with several rare and scarce plant species.
Main habitats: peatland, fen, heathland, woodland
Cliburn Moss is an unusual in that most of the land nearby is intensively cultivated farmland.
The wide range of habitats supports a variety of species of plants and animals. Some of these have only been recorded recently such as glow-worm and the small skipper butterfly.
The scarce mining bee Ardrena ruficrus can be spotted in the spring. It is found only at one other site in the north-west of England. Uncommon plants include lesser twayblade and bog bilberry.
Although the site is flat, the rough terrain makes it unsuitable for wheelchair users. We recommend that you remain on marked trails as the reserve lies on thin peat soils which are easily eroded and damaged.
We ask that you keep your dog on a lead at all times to protect ground nesting birds and other wildlife such as red squirrels.
There is an information leaflet for this reserve.
Ticks are present on this reserve and Lyme disease is present in this area of the country. Visitors are advised to take adequate precautions such as covering arms and legs, and checking for bites after their visit.
North Cumbria NNR team: 01697 352819
Drumburgh Moss NNR is one of 4 nationally important lowland raised bogs on the South Solway. These 4 sites form the South Solway Mosses Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Main habitats: lowland raised mire
Management: Cumbria Wildlife Trust with assistance from Natural England under the Higher Level Stewardship scheme
Further information about the wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s webpage on Drumburgh Moss.
Kevin Scott
Northern Reserves Officer
Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Gosling Sike Farm Houghton Road
CA3 0LD
Duddon Mosses NNR is a tranquil wetland habitat, hidden at the top of the Duddon Estuary
Main habitats: peatland and fen
At Duddon Mosses you’ll discover one of England’s few remaining peatland habitats, with striking views over the Lakeland Fells and the sea. This quiet haven, hidden at the top of the Duddon Estuary, provides a welcome sanctuary for plants, animals and human visitors alike.
Duddon Mosses is recognised for its international importance as a raised peatland habitat, supporting some specialist bog flora. The nationally rare and distinctive moss Sphagnum pulchrum can be found here. Look out for its bright golden-orange colour. Other uncommon bog species found here include bog rosemary and cranberry.
Birds of prey such as buzzard and barn owl will make use of the open landscape of the Mosses – perfect for hunting for small mammals – and water-loving birds such as waders and pink-footed geese enjoy the tranquillity of the reserve in winter-time.
For details about seasonal highlights and the history of the reserve, see Natural England’s webpage on Duddon Mosses on the National Archives
Ticks are found on this reserve and Lyme disease is present in this area of the country. Visitors are advised to take adequate precautions such as covering arms and legs, and checking for bites after their visit.
The nearest train station is Foxfield on the Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle line.
Stagecoach run a limited bus service (No. 7, 7A & 7B) from Barrow town hall and from Millom market square, which stops at Broughton-in-Furness, Grizebeck and Kirkby-in-Furness. For further go to the Traveline website.
For parking use Broughton or Kirkby, on the A595 which runs from Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle.
There are a number of public footpaths and minor roads providing access to the nature reserve from Kirkby-in-Furness, Grizebeck, Foxfield and Broughton-in-Furness. A limited number of footpath and boardwalks pass through the NNR.
The Cumbria Coastal Way passes along the southern end of Angerton Moss. The NNR can be found at SD 23853. For further details of public rights of way consult OS Explorer Map OL6.
A limited number of footpaths cross the mosses. Boardwalks are provided in places, but in other areas the path can be rough and sometimes very wet underfoot. While boardwalks are suitable for wheelchair users, we regret that the paths leading to these may not be; particularly after heavy rain.
Students and professionals are invited to conduct studies on our NNRs particularly studies that are designed to demonstrate management best practice. Please contact the senior reserve manager to discuss and gain relevant permissions.
We have volunteer opportunities on NNRs throughout south Cumbria.
Please contact the senior reserve manager Steve Benn for information about the reserve or volunteering:
Email: steve.benn@naturalengland.org.uk
Roudsea Wood NNR Base
Fish House Lane
Haverthwaite
LA12 8PE
Or email: enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk
Finglandrigg Wood NNR is vital to an impressive array of wildlife, including many less-common species.
Main habitats: woodland, lowland grassland, lowland heath
Finglandrigg Wood is one of the largest areas of semi-natural woodland on the Solway Plain and includes woodland, peat bog, heathland and rough pasture, that is carefully managed through grazing, planting and coppicing.
Although the marsh fritillary butterfly became extinct in Cumbria in 2005, work carried out by Natural England, Butterfly Conservation and individual volunteers successfully reintroduced the species back in to Finglandrigg Wood in 2007. The population continues to increase year by year and has now spread to new areas on the reserve. They can be spotted between mid May and early June.
Red squirrel, roe deer and otter can be spotted, as well as over 40 species of breeding birds, including buzzards, tawny owl and grasshopper warbler.
Please keep dogs on a lead at all times to protect ground nesting birds, grazing stock and to ensure they do not disturb adders, which may bite dogs.
Glasson and Bowness-on Solway are on route 72 of the Sustans National Cycle Network. Cycle racks are available at Haverlands Green car park.
The nearest train station is in Wigton (8 miles to the south), but there is no bus link to the reserve. Taxis are available from outside the train station.
From Carlisle the site is served by bus route 71 Silloth/Anthorn - Carlisle (limited service). The bus stops at Kirkbampton, Fingland and Kirkbride and a request stop for Finglandrigg Wood may be possible.
The reserve is approximately 8 miles west of Carlisle. Follow the B5307 Kirkbride road, go through Kirkbampton village and after 1 mile you will see Haverlands Green lay-by on the left. You can park here by the Natural England sign.
From Wigton, the reserve is approximately 8 miles. Follow the B5307 from the Wigton by-pass. Go through Kirkbride and Fingland and approximately 2 miles further on is the Haverlands Green lay-by on the right.
Two major trails cross the area; the Cumbria Coastal Way and the Hadrian’s Wall National Trail.
There are marked paths around the reserve, including the 2km blue route, which is suitable for those with limited mobility. This passes through woodland, meadows and sculptures, including an intricately carved bench in memory of Derek Ratcliffe, the former Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy Council.
Email: cumbria@naturalengland.org.uk
Gowk Bank contains one of the most diverse upland meadows in Britain. Over 185 different plant species have been recorded. The reserve lies on the western bank of the upper reaches of the River Irthing which forms the boundary between Cumbria and Northumberland.
Main habitats: upland hay-meadow communities, semi-improved flood-plain meadows and steep banks with tall-herb vegetation.
The reserve was purchased from the Forestry Commission in 1984 and has been managed as a NNR ever since.
Species typical of northern meadow communities include globeflower, marsh hawks-beard and wood crane’s-bill. The population of eyebright (Euphrasia rostokoviana) is probably one of the largest in the United Kingdom. There is a very small population of the uncommon small white orchid.
Birds such as dipper, grey wagtail, sand martin and common sandpiper can be encountered on the River Irthing. Crossbills are often seen or heard feeding in adjacent forestry plantations.
The reserve is at its peak between mid June to mid July. There is an abundance of many species of orchids, Ragged robin and eyebright. Species typical of northern hay meadow such as wood crane’s-bill and melancholy thistle can also be seen. However, an earlier visit in May is needed to see species such as early purple orchid and globeflower. Late flowering plants such as devil’s-bit scabious and grass-of-Parnassus can be seen in late August.
The nearest train station is at Haltwhistle which lies 9km to the east.
From Gilsland a minor road heads north and then east to Butterburn.
Gilsland is on Route 72 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
For further information about the site and details of volunteering opportunities, contact the North Cumbria NNR Team on 01697 352819.
Great Asby Scar NNR contains some of the best examples of limestone pavement in Britain.
From 1 March through to 31 July, keep your dog on a short leash.
Main habitats: limestone pavement and grassland
The extensive limestone pavements of the Orton Fells present a wonderful and wild landscape that was once typical of upland Northern England. Limestone pavements are nationally rare and have been extensively damaged in the past by removal for garden rockery stone. Great Asby Scar contains some of the best remaining intact examples in Britain.
The limestone pavement is home to rarities such as angular Solomon’s-seal, dark red helleborine, bloody crane’s-bill, rigid buckler fern and limestone fern. On top of the limestone pavement you can find other specialities including bird’s-foot sedge, autumn gentian and salad burnet. Dwarfed trees dot the limestone landscape, their growth stunted by the rock itself and the very dry conditions found here.
For a detailed description of the reserve’s seasonal highlights, see Natural England’s pages on Great Asby Scar on the National Archives.
Great Asby Scar NNR is part of the Orton Fells in east Cumbria. The reserve is 4km south west of the village of Great Asby and 4km north east of Orton village. Public footpaths and bridleways provide access to the reserve and to the wider Orton fells area.
The nearest train station is Kirkby Stephen, 10 km to the south east.
By car, leave the M6 at Junction 38 and follow the B6260 to Orton and beyond. The NNR can be found to the east of this road before you have reached Great Asby village. Alternatively, leave the M6 at Junction 39 and follow the B6261 to Orton, then follow the B6260 to Great Asby and beyond. The nature reserve can be found to the east before you reach the village of Orton. The B6260 can also be accessed from the A66 from Penrith and the A685 from Kirkby Stephen.
Limited parking can be found on road-side lay-bys on the B6260 between the villages of Orton and Great Asby. Parking is also available within the villages themselves. The reserve can be found at NY 656099.
The nature reserve can be accessed on foot or by bike on footpaths and quiet bridleways from Orton and Great Asby. An extensive network of paths link the reserve to the surrounding Orton fells. A suggested walking route around the NNR can be viewed on the reserve map.
Great Asby and Orton are both on Route 68 (Walney to Weir) of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
Volunteers and activities
Natural England holds a number of events and activities at Great Asby Scar each year. Past events have focused on moths, butterflies, fungi, trees and birds of the nature reserve. For details of current events please visit our North West Events Page or see posters at the nature reserve.
We have volunteer opportunities on NNRs throughout South Cumbria. Whether you have specialist skills you wish to use, or are looking for a chance to get some hands on experience, we’d love to hear from you. Please email volunteer.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk for more details.
For more information about the site:
Hallsenna Moor NNR is one of the few remaining lowland heath and peatland habitats in Cumbria.
The moor is notable for the fact that it has never been cut for peat and supports a diverse collection of plant communities including those typical of woodlands, valley peatland, wet and dry heathland and fen. These habitats are rare in the UK and this is one of the few remaining sites in the county, and the largest in West Cumbria.
The insect-eating sundew is an excellent example of how the plants here have adapted. Although it’s red and yellow ‘mouth’ is tiny and easily missed by the human eye, it is perfectly adapted for attracting small insects, which is captures and digests. This helps it to flourish in an environment where nutrients are hard to come by. Other peatland plants add a splash of colour to the bleak bog in summer-time. Bog asphodel blooms in bright yellow star-shaped flowers, whilst the cotton grasses soften the landscape with their white fluffy heads.
The reserve is also a haven for bird-life. Watch for buzzard hunting over the moor, curlew hiding amongst the peatland flora and warblers flitting amongst the scrub and tree cover on the reserve edges.
The Hallsenna Moor information leaflet gives more details about the species on the reserve.
You can also view some details about the history of the reserve and how it’s managed on Natural England’s page on Hallsenna Moor on the National Archive.
Hallsenna Moor NNR is in south west Cumbria, near the village of Seascale.
The reserve can be accessed on foot using public footpaths and bridleways from Drigg, Holmrook and Seascale. Drigg is the closest village, just 1.5km away.
The nearest train stations are in Seascale and Drigg.
There are no bus services in the local area.
The reserve lies just off the A595, 1.5km north of Drigg and 3km south east of Seascale. There is no local parking, so it is recommended that you park in local villages and continue on foot to the reserve.
Natural England runs a year-round programme of family-friendly events on our NNRs, including guided walks and other nature-related activities.
We have volunteer opportunities on NNRs throughout South Cumbria. Whether you have specialist skills you wish to use, or are looking for a chance to get some hands on experience, we’d love to hear from you. Email the senior reserve manager steve.benn@naturalengland.org.uk for more details.
Students and professionals are also invited to conduct studies on our NNRs. Email the senior reserve manager steve.benn@naturalengland.org.uk to get the relevant permissions.
There is no site office at Hallsenna Moor. To contact site staff please use the following details:
High Leys represents one of the best species rich Hay Meadow sites in Cumbria. The entire site covers a total of 8.83 hectares, with 3.9 hectares of this being referred to as a traditional hay meadow. The remaining areas of the site also offer a rare and floristically interesting experience in wetter grassland and mire communities.
Although permission is not required to access the reserve, visitors are advised to contact the site manager in advance, on 01697 352819.
Main habitats: hay meadow, wetter grassland and mire communities
This reserve is an important remnant of a species rich meadow habitat. It supports a rich and diverse range of plants and invertebrate species. The reserve management has remained unchanged since the 1940s which has preserved the flower-rich grassland.
The importance of the site is not represented by one single species present. Its uniqueness is due to its diversity of species, which today is a rare and special sight in our countryside. The site comprises of dry, damp and marshy grassland offering an impressive visual spectacle during the summer months. Flowers such as the bright and colourful oxeye daisy, yellow rattle and marsh marigold can be found alongside the rarer greater butterfly orchid and adders tongue fern.
The nearest train station is in Whitehaven (9 km to the west)
For details of local bus services go to the Traveline website .
High Leys is located 0.5 km east of Rowrah and 1 km west of Kirkland. It adjoins the minor road linking these two villages, off the A5086 Cockermouth to Egremont road. There is no official car parking at the reserve, but there is a lay-by at the site’s entrance.
The reserve is on Route 71 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network
Walking your dog: From 1 March through to 31 July, ground-nesting birds breed at High Leys. In order to minimise disturbance to these birds all members of the public are required to keep their dogs on a short lead (of no more than 2 metres) during these months, under the Countryside Rights of Way Act.
Parking for 3 cars is available at the entrance to the reserve in a small lay-by which is situated opposite Lamplugh primary school. At the weekends extra parking is available in the parking area for the school which is directly next to the reserve lay-by.
Two site interpretation signs are present on the edge of the reserve. One at the lay-by where visitors can park their cars and the other on the north east corner of the site, which can be seen from the Sustrans track which runs along the boundary of the reserve. They both provide a map of the site and the contact details for the NNR.
The nearest toilet and refreshment facilities are in local towns and villages.
For more information about visiting the reserve or volunteering please contact the North Cumbria NNR team on 01697 352819.
Hutton Roof NNR is an ancient ash-maple woodland on limestone, with areas of limestone pavement and limestone grassland.
Main habitat: woodland
Management: Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
Further information about the NNR, its wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Hutton Roof page of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s website.
Email: mail@cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk
Remote, dramatic and exhilarating-the landscape of the Pennines forms the backbone of England, and this reserve gives you the chance to see some of its most spectacular geological formations, waterfalls and panoramic views.
Main habitat: upland, including blanket bog, northern hay meadows and limestone grassland
Rare arctic-alpine plants, remnants of the ice-age, can be found here. During the breeding season (April to June) many species of wading birds such as lapwing, curlew, redshank and golden plover can be seen displaying. Explore using the network of well signed public footpaths and find three dramatic waterfalls , Cauldron Snout, High Force and Low Force.
The reserve is famous for the rare spring gentian as well as England’s largest juniper wood. The rare black grouse also breeds here, as does the golden plover and ring ouzel.
There is a wide range of different walks and trails across the reserve, from the difficult to the moderate. The Widdybank Fell Nature Trail is a surfaced track and suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs, accompanied by helpers to push up 2 slopes.
For your own safety, please keep to the waymarked routes – there are hidden mineshafts in the area.
Beware of unexploded ammunition in the MOD Danger Areas. Access to the Mickle Fell area (MOD Danger Area) is by permit only – applications to The Range Officer, Warcop Training Area, Warcop, Appleby, Cumbria CA16 6PA.
Take care with children – especially along the river bank where water levels can rise quickly, and in the juniper woods around High Force, where there are unfenced cliff edges hidden amongst the bushes
Sustrans National Cycle Route 68, the Pennine Cycleway, the Eden Valley Cycleway and the C2C all run close to the Moor House side of the NNR.
Secure bike parking is available at Cow Green Reservoir, at Tees Bridge on the Garrigill to Moor House track, and at the NNR entrance on the Knock to Great Dun Fell road.
A limited bus service runs from Middleton-in-Teesdale to Langdon Beck (and Cow Green on request). There is no bus service to the Moor House side of the reserve.
The Upper Teesdale side of the NNR can be reached from the B6277 Middleton-in-Teesdale to Alston road. The nearest car parks are at Cow Green Reservoir (along a minor road signposted from Langdon Beck), High Force, Hanging Shaw and Bowlees.
Access to the Moor House side of the NNR is along minor roads from Garrigill and Knock, and then on foot or bicycle to the NNR.
For more information about the reserve please contact the reserve office:
Widdybank Farm
Langdon Beck
Forest-in-Teesdale
DL12 0HQ
The Fen has developed in an area of land between the head of Esthwaite Water and Priest Pot, a small pond which was separated from the Water around 400 years ago.
Area: 2 ha
Priest Pot might once have been a private fishery for the monks of Hawkshead Hall, an off-shoot of Furness Abbey - hence its name.
North Fen is most notable as an example of a ‘hydroseral’ succession from open water, through reed swamp, sedge fen, bog and carr woodland to drier oak woodland.
The reserve is 0.5 km south of the village of Hawkshead.
By car, access to the site is via tracks and minor roads from the B5286. The nearest car park is in Hawkshead.
The nearest train station is Windermere 5 km to the east.
Although there are no public rights of way across the reserve, there are no access restrictions. However, the land is difficult to cross even under the best conditions.
North Walney NNR is a wild and windy coastal site featuring some nationally rare and important habitats such as sand dunes, dune heath, hay meadows, inter-tidal mud flats and salt marsh.
Main habitat: ungrazed saltmarsh, vegetated shingle, inter-tidal mudflats and ‘scars’, hay meadows, sand dunes and dune heath
North Walney is one of the best coastal nature reserves in the country, retaining a real wilderness feel in a largely industrial local landscape. With stunning mountain and sea views, this is the place to stretch your legs and ‘get away from it all’ - and there’s always the chance you might spot some remarkable wildlife.
The reserve’s most famous resident is the noisy natterjack toad. One of the UK’s rarest amphibians, it is only found at around 40 sites in England. These nocturnal amphibians are rarely seen, but during the spring mating season, males can often be heard calling at dusk. The reserve is also a real haven for birdlife. From breeding wildfowl, to wintering waders, birds of prey and passing migrants, the reserve provides year-round interest to any naturalist.
The reserve can be accessed on foot from Earnse Bay and is approximately 1.2km north of the car park and facilities found there.
Due to the remote nature of the site, North Walney can only be accessed by pedestrians. We regret that there is no access for wheelchair users, mobility scooters or pushchairs.
A path directs visitors on a circular route through the reserve, taking in some of the best habitat and landscape features. A bench provides a well-earned resting spot half way along this route, and a chance to enjoy the impressive views.
Three coloured way-marked routes direct visitors on walks of varying lengths through the NNR. These walks aim to show off the best sights and sounds that North Walney has to offer, whilst guiding visitors safely around the nature reserve.
From 1 March through to 31 July, ground-nesting birds breed at North Walney. In order to minimise disturbance to these birds all members of the public are required to keep their dogs on a short lead (of no more than 2 metres) during these months, under the Countryside Rights of Way Act.
There is no site office at North Walney. To contact site staff please use the following details:
A North Walney wildlife blog has been set up by local enthusiasts who love the nature reserve and visit on a regular basis. To find out more about recent sightings and news from the nature reserve, please visit their website: Wildlife on North Walney.
Roudsea Wood and Mosses NNR is a complex site comprising four main habitats: coastal saltmarsh, acid woodland, limestone woodland and lowland raised mire; plus the transitional zones between these habitats.
Main habitats: woodland, peatland
Roudsea offers a plethora of wildlife-spotting opportunities in peaceful and inspiring surroundings. Over 500 plant and 280 fungi species are found in the reserve, including the very rare large yellow sedge, and the endemic Lancaster whitebeam.
Animals found at the site include hazel dormouse, otter and brown hare and the area supports over 50 species of breeding birds such as nightjar, hawfinch, sparrowhawk, woodcock and marsh tit.
A large number of rare and scare invertebrates are found at the site including the short-winged cone-head cricket, bog-bush cricket and raft spider. The diverse moth population includes the barred tooth-stripe, beautiful snout and green silver-lines. Scarce butterflies found here include the silver-washed fritillary and the large heath.
Please note, there are no public rights of way across the reserve and access is by permission only.
To request a permit, email: john.osborne@naturalengland.org.uk providing an email or postal address to which you would like the permit to be sent. Permits enable visitors to visit the reserve using only the permissible footpaths.
The hazel dormouse is on its very north-west limit in Europe at Roudsea Wood. Much effort goes into maintaining the coppice woodlands here to ensure the survival of this tiny creature.
The rosy marsh moth was discovered at Roudsea in August 2005, having long been presumed extinct in England. Its caterpillar can be found feeding on the buds and leaves of bog myrtle on warm May nights.
The wet peatlands on the nature reserve are home to the raft spider, which is able to run over the surface of bog pools in search of prey. It is easily distinguished by two yellow lines running down its back. This fierce hunter is capable of killing small fish and even large dragonflies.
Find out more in the information leaflet for this reserve.
The peat bogs are beautiful but hazardous, so please do not wander from the boardwalks. Ticks are present on this reserve and Lyme disease is present in this area of the country. Visitors are advised to take adequate precautions such as covering arms and legs, and checking for bites after their visit.
The reserve is located on route 72 (Walney to Weir) of the National Cycle Network.
The nearest train stations are at Cark (5 km to the south) and Ulverston (7 km to the south).
Take the A590 from Junction 36 of the M6 to Haverthwaite village. Then follow the B5278 through the village towards Cark. Immediately after crossing the River Leven turn right onto a one track lane. Follow this lane along the river for 2 km to reach the NNR at SD329827.
There is a small permit holders’ car park to the north of the reserve, which must be used at all times as there is a possibility of flooding along the road at exceptionally high tides.
The reserve is at the head of the Rusland Valley and is the northern part of one of the few remaining raised mires (peat bogs) in the country.
Management: Lake District National Park Authority.
Though it has suffered past damage from drainage and peat-cutting, the reserve retains peat forming vegetation and has some surrounding fen.
Sphagnum (bog) mosses dominate the uncut areas of the Moss, with purple moorgrass in the cut areas and fen and carr woodland at the edges. Past drainage has enabled trees and rhododendron to colonise the Moss and they are currently being removed from the mire expanse to allow the peat-forming vegetation to recover.
Rare invertebrates found at the site include the large heath butterfly and money spider.
Please note that there are no public rights of way across the reserve and tree stumps, flooded ditches and wet footpaths can make this site hazardous to visit.
For information about the site contact Lake District National Park Authority.
The name Sandscale Haws is derived from the Scandinavian words ‘sandra’ and ‘skali’, meaning sand and temporary hut, and the site was probably a wintering ground for sheep. ‘Hawns’ is an old Norse word meaning hill.
Main habitat: coastal
Management: National Trust.
Further information about the NNR, its wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Sandscale Haws page of the National Trust website.
Email: sandscalehaws@nationaltrust.org.uk
Sandscale Haws National Nature Reserve
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The reserve is a rich area of neutral grassland. This small site is divided in two by the beck from which the site gets its name.
Although permission is not required to access the reserve, visitors are advised to contact the site manager in advance on 01697 352819.
From 1 March through to 31 July, you must keep your dog on a short leash.
Main habitats: neutral grassland
Sandybeck Meadow is one of the smallest NNRs in the country. It is a rare fragment of species rich meadow habitat and offers a spectacular show during the summer months when the diverse range of flora is in bloom.
There are good numbers of greater butterfly orchid on the site, predominately on the northern field.
The reserve is situated in the Lorton Vale about 4 km south of Cockermouth and lies just within the Lake District National Park. The meadow is located at the junction of two minor roads approximately 3 km to the east of the A5086 Cockermouth to Egremont road.
Grid ref: NY134526801: OS Landranger No 89
The nearest train station is in Workington (15km to the west).
The reserve is in Lorton Vale, at the junction of Sandy Beck (which drains into the river Cocker) and Mirk Lane, a minor road from the village of Brandlingill to Lanefoot Farm. By car, access to the area is via minor roads from the A5086, B5292 and B5289.
Lorton Vale is on Route 71 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
The reserve is part of the disused Darlington to Tebay railway line.
Further information about the NNR, its wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Smardale Gill page of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.
South Solway Mosses NNR is a composite of 3 large lowland raised bogs: Bowness Common, Glasson Moss and Wedholme Flow.
Main habitat: lowland raised bog
The reserve (land owned and leased by Natural England) covers 1000ha of the South Solway Mosses Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Local plant life includes a range of sphagnum species, hare’s-tail cotton grass, bog rosemary, cranberry, and cross-leaved heath. All 3 native sundew species are present.
A range of breeding birds is found on the reserve including sparrowhawk, curlew, snipe, sedge and grasshopper warblers. Invertebrates found include large heath butterfly, bog bush cricket and banded demoiselle dragonfly.
You should wear suitable footwear on the reserve – wellies are required except on the boardwalk on the north edge of Glasson Moss.
South Solway Mosses NNR is in North Cumbria, centred around Kirkbride which is 12 miles west of Carlisle on the Solway coast or 6 miles north of Wigton on the A596.
Bowness Common and Glasson Moss are north of the B5307, near the villages of Glasson, Whitrigg and Bowness-on-Solway. Wedholme Flow is south of the B5307, near the villages of Newton Arlosh and Kirkbride.
Glasson and Bowness-on-Solway are on route 72 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
The nearest train station is in Wigton (6 miles to the south).
By car, access to the area is via minor roads from the B3507 (Carlisle to Silloth road) and A595/ A596 (Carlisle to Aspatria road).
Two major trails cross the area, the Cumbria Coastal Way and the Hadrian’s Wall Path.
Tarn Moss NNR is a basin mire which supports nutrient-poor fen communities. Although permission is not required to access the reserve, it is a sensitive habitat and visitors are advised to contact the site manager in advance. Contact the North Cumbria NNR Team on 01697 352819 for more details.
Main habitats: peat
The mire communities are of special interest comprising areas of typical acid mire within a matrix of nutrient poor fen, the latter being unusual in true basin mires. In comparison with other Cumbrian basin mires, Tarn Moss is remarkable in being almost entirely devoid of tree or scrub cover, as well as being little disturbed with no obvious signs of past peat cutting.
The poor-fen is the most extensive and best developed community at Tarn Moss. It is characterised by the dominance of Sphagnum bog mosses and various sedges. Other species include marsh pennywort, marsh cinquefoil, water horsetail, marsh violet, common marsh-bedstraw, lesser spearwort, bog asphodel and cranberry.
The nearest train station is in Penrith.
Tarn Moss is south of, and immediately adjacent to, the A66, 1km east of its junction with the A5091. The nearest towns are Penrith (12km to the east) and Keswick (14km to the west).
The Moss has some hidden ditches and wet hollows and great care should be taken when walking across its surface.
The reserve is on Route 71 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
Thornhill Moss NNR is a valley mire and a remnant of a formerly large area of wetland created by two waterways - Holme Dub and Crummock Beck.
Thornhill Moss is one of only 3 known examples of a sloping valley mire in west Cumbria. The site displays a range of nutrient-poor and nutrient–rich conditions typical of a valley mire and supports a particularly rich and varied flora.
Rare species include lesser-butterfly and early-marsh orchids.
The NNR is almost all that remains of a once large valley wetland complex which has been drained and used for agricultural purposes. The flora communities are maintained by grazing with a small number of Highland cattle in late summer and autumn. Additionally, scrub is selectively controlled by cutting and removal.
The nearest train station is Wigton.
Thornhill Moss is 10 km west of Wigton. The nearest town is Abbeytown, 3 km to the north east. By car, access is via minor roads from the B5301 and B5302. You can park in a layby on the B5302 to the north of a farm track which leads to the reserve.
Although permission is not required to access the reserve there are no connecting public rights of way or informal rights of way. Visitors are therefore advised to contact the site manager in advance via 01697 352819.
For more information about visiting the reserve or volunteering, please contact the North Cumbria NNR team on 01697 352819.
The reserve lies on Whitbarrow Scar, a carboniferous limestone outcrop just over 200m high.
Main habitats: woodland, lowland grassland, limestone Pavement
Although most NNRs are managed by Natural England, some are wholly or partly managed by other bodies approved under Section 35 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Whitbarrow NNR is owned and managed by the Forestry Commission, Lake District National Park Authority and the Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
Further information on the NNR, including the wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.
Joe Murphy (reserve manager)
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Horse owner charged with 2 felonies, 14 misdemeanors
Margaret Fisher / The Free Press
Dec 13, 2013 at 12:01 AM Dec 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Donations needed to feed emaciated Greene County horses
SNOW HILL � The former owner of 16 Greene County horses, two of which were found dead and the rest malnourished, was arrested Thursday night.
Carl Shelton Davis, 68, a farmer who resides at 1771 Mark Edwards Road in Goldsboro, was charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty and 14 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Sheriff Lemmie Smith said Davis was found at his residence in Wayne County and charged.
After receiving a call about a dead horse from a neighbor of Davis, authorities found the horses in a pasture with no food or water.
The dead horses appeared to have been deceased for several days, Greene County Health Director Michael Rhodes said.
The 16 horses hadn�t been fed and watered for more than a month, Rhodes said, but Davis had been feeding daily another horse in an adjoining pasture that was owned by his father.
Davis was placed under a $15,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in Greene County District Court on Dec. 20.
Smith said the 14 horses were in poor condition.
�When they (find) a couple of horses dead, it�s kind of severe,� he said.
Davis signed the horses over to the county and they are currently under the care of a veterinarian until they can be adopted.
Greene County�s animal control budget currently is depleted.
To donate money for horse feed, call the Greene County Health Department at 252-747-8181.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or Margaret.Fisher@Kinston.com. Follow her on Twitter @MargaretFishr.
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‘Beauty bandit’ accused of stealing wigs that help cancer patients from Colo. store
Updated: Wed 4:22 AM, Aug 14, 2019
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR/CNN) - The owners of a costume store in Colorado are hoping a woman dubbed the “beauty bandit” will be caught after she allegedly stole two wigs that could have benefitted cancer patients.
The owners of a Colorado costume store say a female customer stole two wigs that could have benefitted cancer patients. (Source: The Life of the Party/KDVR/Tribune/CNN)
Marcia and Brandon Lilly own The Life of the Party, a costume store in Fort Collins, that they say is home to the largest selection of wigs in northern Colorado.
The couple says on July 9, a female customer wearing a pink T-shirt ripped them off after spending nearly an hour in the store. The woman allegedly bought a pair of tights then asked to use the bathroom.
"She seemed very nice. She was asking about our kid. She was asking about the store,” Marcia Lilly said.
But Marcia Lilly says the woman was just waiting for the right opportunity. She allegedly stole two wigs.
"You could very distinctly see her in the camera look and see that I was on the phone and then make the decision to go,” Marcia Lilly said.
The wigs are not just a monetary loss for the business but also a loss for people in need.
"One of the companies we carry, they donate. For every wig they sell or we sell, they will donate a wig for free to a cancer patient,” Marcia Lilly said. “It’s not just taking from us. It’s taking from people in need who couldn’t maybe afford a wig otherwise.”
The Lillys are hoping someone in the community will recognize the “beauty bandit” from surveillance footage and help get her off the streets.
"Keep an eye out, but be aware: she’s probably wearing a wig,” Brandon Lilly said, jokingly.
Officials are asking anyone who may have information on the case to call Larimer County Crime Stoppers.
Copyright 2019 KDVR, Tribune, The Life of the Party via CNN. All rights reserved.
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Measuring the scientific quality of research is common practice, but the question how to measure the impact of research on society is still largely unanswered. The reverse question is no less relevant: how does society impact science?
A European consortium of knowledge/academic institutes called SIAMPI has received a EUR 800,000 grant from the European Commission to develop assessment methods to answer these questions. This effort, which is expected to take two years, is envisaged to produce a ready-to-use set of indicators to measure the (productive) interaction between science and society.
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As the global academic community has grown into a more interactive, but also a more competitive one, and as research funders increasingly demand measurable valorisation of research, the development of methods to measure the actual social impact of research lags behind. While the concept of social impact is often included in general scientific assessment protocols, it is rarely prioritised or made operational. Furthermore, efforts to properly measure social impact often do not exceed the national level. SIAMPI, a consortium of four European knowledge institutes, will cross these national boundaries and develop an interdisciplinary, internationally applicable method that fits a variety of research areas.
Measuring social impact through four tracks of productive interactions
The premise of the SIAMPI exercise is that knowledge develops in constant interaction between science and society, in which feedback is given, results are assessed and improvements are suggested by all stakeholders (researchers, universities and funders, but also governmental organisations, NGO's, industries and the general public).
SIAMPI's method will be developed to measure the social impact of research along four tracks of productive interactions:
direct personal contacts (ranging from mere meetings to complex arrangements for research collaboration)
mediation by specific outputs (expert reports, clinical guidelines, scientific advice etc)
transfer of goods (products, social practices, policy tools)
funding or other support mechanisms (people, social practices, artefacts and support).
After this analytical exercise, SIAMPI will conduct case studies in the following fields: nanotechnology, ICT, health, and social and human sciences. The case studies will take place in both national and supranational settings. These case studies are considered elemental as they will show to what extent the method can be applied in a diversity of research disciplines.
A hallmark of the SIAMPI approach is the involvement from the onset of not only researchers that produce socially relevant research, but also of stakeholders from society. Both groups are brought together to help develop criteria and indicators that best represent productive interactions that lead to social impact of research.
About SIAMPI
SIAMPI is an acronym of the project 'Social Impact Assessment Methods for research and funding instruments through the study of Productive Interactions between science and society'. This project has received a grant worth EUR 800,000 for the duration of two years in the context of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) - Science in Society (SiS).
The SIAMPI-approach takes its roots in the sci_Quest method for the evaluation of research in the context of policy and social questions. The development of the method was commissioned by the Dutch Consultative Committee of Sector Councils for research and development (COS), and further developed by the platform Evaluating Research in Context (ERiC). This platform has coordinated several pilot projects testing the method at various universities, in such fields as architecture, law and electrical engineering.
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The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) promotes the quality of scientific and scholarly work and strives to ensure that Dutch scholars and scientists make the best possible contribution to the cultural, social, and economic development of Dutch society. KNAW is the coordinator of the SIAMPI project.
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INGENIO was created in 1999 as a joint Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research [CSIC] and the Polytechnic University of Valencia [UPV]. It carries out high-quality basic and applied research in the field of innovation studies and focuses on knowledge transfer studies, science policy and innovation studies.
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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institutes (Les Maisons de Sciences de l'Homme (MSH)) bring together research as well as researchers in Social and Human Sciences. The network, which now includes 21 institutes, was mainly set up between 1990 and 2000 with the strong support and encouragement of the Research Ministry (Ministère de la Recherche).
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The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research is a centre of study into questions surrounding science and technology policy and strategy. This area of research is one that is evermore important given the shift toward a 'knowledge-intensive' society in which scientific and technological knowledge play central roles.
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Website Evaluating Research in Context (ERiC)
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Website European Commission -Science in Society (FP7)
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Article Measuring the social impact of research: Difficult but necessary (BMJ 2001;323:528 (8 September)
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The Duchesses Come Out Swinging in Dukes: Restoring the Balance in Class Certification
by Jay L. Himes
Restoring the Balance in Class Certification
With its much-anticipated en banc decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.,2 the Ninth Circuit became the most recent federal court of appeals to address the district court's role in deciding whether a plaintiff has met Federal Rule 23's class certification requirements. Like several other federal circuits in recent years, the Ninth Circuit considered whether the district court may analyze the underlying merits of the dispute in determining the class certification issue. The en banc Dukes majority upheld the district court's merits inquiry where essential to ruling on class certification. At the same time, however, the majority declined to require the district court to resolve disputed expert testimony offered in class certification proceedings, holding instead that such resolution may appropriately await a later stage of the litigation. As we discuss below, while this approach differs from that of other circuits, it is more faithful to the language of Rule 23 and to the function of class certification as a procedural device for managing complex litigation and for framing the substantive issues that these cases present.
Dukes itself arises in the employment discrimination context. However, the majority's ruling could well have a significant impact on class actions generally, including antitrust cases, both in the Ninth Circuit and in those other circuits where the court of appeals has not yet addressed similar issues.
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S.510 Passed Thanks to Congressional Trickery
Written by Joe Levi Published December 14, 2010 Discussion Leave a Comment on S.510 Passed Thanks to Congressional Trickery
The so-called food safety bill passed. It took corrupt procedural tricks to do it.
We told you last week that the Senate made a mistake when they passed their version of the Food Safety Bill (S.510). Under the Constitution only the House can introduce revenue measures. The Senate trampled on this prerogative, and the House leadership wouldn’t stand for it.
Because of this . . .
We thought the so-called food safety bill was dead, and that we had won. Not so. Instead, we lost. Badly.
I’ll tell you how this happened, and what we can do about it. You’ll need to be motivated, smart, and intuitive to understand what’s been done to you, and that there IS a way to defeat these bastards.
So . . .
The “food safety” bill did NOT die as it should have because House leaders used what I’ll call a “Dead Shell Bill” to trick their way past their Constitutional and procedural problems. This “Dead Shell Bill,” HR 3082, was . . .
Dead in the sense that it was a numbered bill that was never going to reach a final vote.
An empty Shell because the Congressional leadership removed its original contents.
In other words, the House leadership took a bill that hadn’t reached final passage, but that had already jumped through a bunch of procedural hoops, deleted all its contents, and then poured new, unrelated content into it. In this particular case . . .
The Dead Shell Bill was something called the “Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.” Back in November of 2009 this defense bill was amended by the Senate and then sent back to the House. The Senate even appointed conferees to work out the differences between the House and Senate versions, but the House NEVER responded to the Senate’s action. So the bill was just laying around dead, until . . .
House leaders picked it up and emptied it of its contents. They did this because . . .
New bills must go through a committee, while a Dead Shell Bill has the virtue of already having passed out of committee. This set up the next move . . .
The House leadership created a Special Rule to pass the Dead Shell Bill immediately, instead of starting over with a normal, parliamentary review procedure. The Special Rule is H. Res. 1755. House leaders hurriedly passed this Special Rule by a single vote.
Now, with the new Special Rule in hand Congressional leaders . . .
Took the “food safety” bill that we’ve been fighting against and combined it with other unrelated, but sure-to-pass issues.
They then poured all of this new content into the Dead Shell Bill — the one that had once been a military appropriations bill.
They also slapped a new title on the Dead Shell Bill, one so broad that it described none of the current contents.
Next came passage under the Special Rule. Here’s how that worked . . .
HR 3082 would be considered “in order” immediately. That means it wasn’t going to be assigned to a committee. It also meant that NO normal procedural measures would occur.
Reading was waived, of course.
No “points of order” would be permitted.
Only 40 minutes was provided for debate.
Amendments to the bill were not in order. The debate was strictly on final passage.
This Special Rule procedure moved race-car fast. There was no time for public comment. The Democrats had already heard enough from the likes of you, thank you very much.
On Thursday afternoon, the Special Rule was introduced and considered read. 50 minutes later, it was passed.
Then Congress passed the Dead Shell Bill by six votes, just 2 hours and 22 minutes after installing the Special Rule.
All of this is ironic, because outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised you back in 2006 that if you gave her party the majority they would . . .
Enact ethics reforms.
Stop the practice of using your tax dollars to buy votes in Congress (earmarks and other forms of tax-funded bribery)
End the Republican practice of last-second surprises — bills crammed down our throat in the last hours before every recess — the most infamous of which was the Medicare Prescription Drug bill.
Nancy Pelosi promised you, in a campaign document titled, “A New Direction for America,” that . . .
Procedural rules would be made available no later than 10 PM the night before a vote (page 24), not 50 minutes before.
You would get at least 24 hours notice of a scheduled vote upon the final written version of a bill (page 24)
As you can see, this week — the last month of Pelosi’s Speakership — those “Page 24” pledges were thrown out the window.
So here’s what we need to do to change things. Please contemplate the fact that . . .
The Read the Bills Act would’ve stopped the Special Rule process
The One Subject at a Time would’ve blocked the use of the Dead Shell Bill scheme
A bigger army would’ve been a huge impediment to this whole corrupt process
What happened is infuriating. Many people on “our side” will be content to whine and complain about it. That’s all they’ll do. Others will blame it only on the Democrats while ignoring the fact that the Democratic leadership was using old Republican plays to do what they did. Still others will say that it’s all hopeless, that we always lose so what’s the point?
All of this is baloney. DownsizeDC.org has proposed a realistic strategy to stop ALL of the things Congress just did.
The Read the Bills Act would’ve required . . .
Publication of the entire bill online for 7 days so you could read it
A public scheduling of the vote on the online calendar 7 days in advance so you would have time to comment
A full, verbatim reading of the bill
This last point is sooo important. Sitting through the out-loud reading of the bloated Dead Shell Bill would have been too time-consuming for this lame-duck Congress. They never would have — wait for it — sat still for it! Instead, they would have passed the buck to the next Congress, which might well have ended the matter, permanently, because the new Congress will have its own agenda.
But it gets better. Our One Subject at a Time Act would also have constrained the Congress from . . .
Expanding the FDA with new regulatory powers, with 4,000 additional agents to swarm our farms and gardens
Inserting broad, new FDA powers into something called the “Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010”
Changing the name of that Dead Shell Bill to something as non-descriptive as the “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.”
Finally, in conjunction with RTBA and OSTA, having a vast army of opposition, including your Downsize DC Army, would’ve cowed the Congress, as we have on so many other occasions. After all, the Special Rule that facilitated this craven process, passed by just one vote!
And so I conclude . . .
All that is necessary for the triumph of legislative evil is for good men to . . .
give nothing to DownsizeDC.org, which is doing the right things consistently.
We informed you last week that there was remaining legal review, updates, and presentation details for our Downsize DC Agenda bills. THIS WORK MUST BE DONE BEFORE THESE BILLS ARE INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS BY OUR NEW CONGRESSIONAL ALLIES. The response to our appeal was decent, and we’re grateful. But frankly, more is needed.
I confess that I don’t understand why EVERYONE who claims they want smaller government isn’t working for the passage of our other Downsize DC Agenda bills. We must complete the legal work on these bills. To complete our legal expenses, we could really use a $1,500 donor, right now.
And to pay for our ongoing budgeted expenses we also need scores of donors who can give $500 or $50, $250 or $25, $100 or $10, and everything in between.
Most important of all, we have to think about a stronger and growing response to the coming 112th Congress. We need the bigger Downsize DC Army. Even if you’re hopeful and optimistic about the incoming Republicans (I’m still skeptical), we must maintain our vigilance and increase our pressure. That’s why monthly pledges are so crucial.
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To all who fought the Food Safety bill every step of the way, “Thank You!” We’ve lost one battle, and only for now. The fight continues. We can use this anger to fuel us, or defeat us. Which will it be for you?
Jim Babka, President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.
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Millennials, Gen X committed to marriage and driving down divorce rates
By: Carla Wade
Millennials helping drive divorce rate down
LAS VEGAS — It seems millennials are always being blamed for a lot of bad trends, but now it seems they along with Generation X are getting credit for something good — lowering the divorce rate.
According to the United States Census Bureau people under 45 are helping drive down the divorce rate.
Cristina and Geovanni Hernandez walked down the aisle for a second time Wednesday night at the Little White Wedding Chapel on Las Vegas Boulevard. It was their 10-year anniversary.
They are millennials who renewed their vows. While they personally are bucking the trend of millennials who are choosing to marry later; Geovanni said while their timing may be out of step with their peers,
"There's the pressure of wanting to do social things and be out there still and travel," Hernandez said.
He believes millennials are deeply invested in commitment.
"I personally wanted a family and to settle down," Hernandez said.
According to census information Baby Boomers who married young like Geovanni and Cristina were more likely to have divorced and remarried.
Cristina believes that example made Gen X and Millennials pickier.
"I think they are having success when they wait because they don't go through those struggles," said Cristina.
She believes they are more conscious of the previous generations relationship failures.
"Personally for me taking advice from my elders," said Cristina "You stick with it."
In Las Vegas, a drive-through wedding ceremony is actually a thing, but experts aren't surprised that the road to matrimony for millennials is longer and filled with more twists and turns.
"I just think they are savvier," said Nancy Gabriel who sees the trend as a divorce mediator.
"I think it's financial," Gabriel said. "They are going to school establishing their financial histories, perhaps buying a house. They are certainly having kids and they are coming into my office. Not for divorces. More for parenting plans."
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North Carolina State University. Department of Statistics -- History
North Carolina State University. Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University. College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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Size: 11.5 linear feet (17 boxes, 1 carton, 1 oversize box, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: UA 135.016
The records of the North Carolina State University Department of Statistics contain agreements, correspondence, grant progress reports, grant proposals, handbooks, manuscripts, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, project outlines, project proposals, research project reports, seminar announcements, study guides, surveys, photographs, ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Department of Statistics contain agreements, correspondence, grant progress reports, grant proposals, handbooks, manuscripts, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, project outlines, project proposals, research project reports, seminar announcements, study guides, surveys, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and work contracts. These materials range in date from 1940 to 2007. The North Carolina State University Department of Statistics is among the nation's oldest, having been founded by renowned statistician Gertrude Cox in 1941. It receives support from both the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Less
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Preston on track for City Deal
Preston is one of 20 regions to have progressed to the next stage of the City Deal process which could unlock millions of pounds to be managed and spent without Whitehall involvement.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made the announcement last night in London as part of a decentralisation speech and Preston can now begin negotiations to secure the freedom, powers and tools needed to shape its economic future.
The deals will be reached between Government and cities so that local areas can bid for new powers that will enable them to grow. In return for cities’ strong plans for growth the government will devolve financial and planning powers to let cities take charge of their own destinies – from autonomy over how to spend their training and skills budgets, to creating local investment funds to build roads and unlock developments.
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg said: “Even more places will be free from Whitehall control and have the tools to power their own growth. These deals help cities and their wider areas make once in a generation changes that will be felt by everyone across their region.
“Letting go of power and money doesn’t come naturally to Whitehall. Over time, the economic importance of other parts of the country has been devastatingly downplayed, as the economic elite have narrowed the debate towards a London-centric view.
“Rather than let our industries and communities wither, we need to free up cities outside of London that have their own unique selling points.”
The Government will now work closely with cities to develop the proposals in more detail and to negotiate a final deal which, it is hoped, will see more than 20,000 jobs created, 15,000 homes built and around £1bn injected into the local economy over the next decade.
County coun Geoff Driver, Leader of Lancashire County Council, said: "It is superb news for Lancashire that the government has decided to support the bid.
"Preston has enormous potential as a focal point for economic growth, but this bid is on a vast scale and it is not just the city itself but the whole of Lancashire that stands to benefit. It also complements our existing programmes for job creation and apprenticeships.
"The City Deal will form the basis for large scale investment in transport and housing, and provide the ideal conditions for companies to invest and create employment."
Securing the City Deal is expected to provide the basis for a number of major schemes to be realised, including new roads and widening of existing routes to greatly improve access to and from the motorway network.
It will also support a series of new housing developments that are constrained by the existing transport infrastructure, and complement plans to develop the city centre.
Edwin Booth, chairman of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, said: "I'm delighted that the bid has received the green light and particularly pleased with the feedback the proposal has had from government.
"The indications are that this is one of the most advanced of the 20 bids put forward for consideration, which suggests Lancashire could be among the first to capitalise on the benefits of the City Deal.
"The priority now must be to work with government to sign the deal as soon as possible and begin to turn what is an extremely significant proposal into a reality for residents and businesses across Lancashire."
Coun Peter Rankin, Leader of Preston City Council, said: “This is very encouraging news for Preston. When finally agreed by government, City Deal would represent a huge boost for the Preston area and a massive vote of confidence for our local economy. Preston has a proven track record to thrive and deliver major economic growth.
"We just need the shackles to be unleashed to provide the infrastructure and freedoms that will enable more businesses to grow and flourish here.
"The council will give its full backing and commitment to working closely with Lancashire County Council and all partners to achieve this.”
Jim Carter, chairman of Preston Vision, added: "Preston's track record on economic growth over the last decade was matched by few other areas, so the private sector clearly recognises its potential.
"However the capacity of the infrastructure in and around the city is limiting further growth so the proposal set out in the City Deal is vitally important.
"I understand the government has been particularly impressed that the private sector has been engaged in the preparation of the bid and that is a theme that must continue as we move forward to deliver it."
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Home Featured News Landscape Institute Elections 2019: results announced
Landscape Institute Elections 2019: results announced
The LI extends its congratulations to the successful candidates, including new President Elect Jane Findlay, Vice President Carolin Göhler and Honorary Secretary Romy Rawlings
Elections officer Dr Wei Yang announced the result at the #LI90 Festival of Ideas launch party on Friday 7 June
On 1 July 2019, the Landscape Institute (LI) will welcome 12 new members to its Board of Trustees and Advisory Council.
This follows the 2019 LI Board and Council elections, the results of which were announced at a members-only reception on Friday 7 June 2019.
Jane Findlay CMLI, elected with 370 out of 907 votes (40.8%)
Carolin Göhler FLI, elected with 458 out of 876 votes (52.3%)
Romy Rawlings CMLI, elected with 516 out of 870 votes (59.3%)
Non-Chartered Board Member
Niall Williams (Student), elected unopposed
Advisory Council Ordinary Members
Catherine Birkin CMLI, elected with 491 out of 842 votes (58.3%)
Peter Neal FLI, elected with 467 out of 842 votes (55.5%)
Charlotte Ann Cottingham CMLI, elected with 440 out of 842 votes (52.3%)
Wing Lai CMLI, elected with 423 out of 842 votes (50.2%)
Diana Ispas CMLI, elected with 412 out of 842 votes (48.9%)
Anna French CMLI, elected with 372 out of 842 votes (44.2%)
Michele Lavelle CMLI, elected with 370 out of 842 votes (43.9%)
Advisory Council Student Member
Cara Pedley (Student), elected with 27 out of 51 votes (52.9%)
See the full results in the LI members‘ area.
Left to right: Dr Wei Yang, Adam White PLI, new Vice-President Carolin Göhler FLI, new President Elect Jane Findlay CMLI, new Honorary Secretary Romy Rawlings CMLI
‘Terrific turnout’
LI President Adam White was thrilled to see such a high turnout in this year’s elections. 988 ballots were returned in total (19.2%) – the highest since 2011.
‘The LI’s efforts these past 2 years have centred around collaboration, engagement and inclusive growth,’ Adam said. ‘We’re thrilled to see so many members responding to this positive message and taking the opportunity to have a direct say in how their Institute is run.
‘It’s also great to see a diverse list of candidates, with different disciplines, ethnic and regional backgrounds represented. We’re particularly delighted that so many leading women in the landscape profession stood for election.
‘Two thirds of this year’s candidates were women – including 3 out of 4 of our presidential candidates – and each of the directly elected Officer roles on the Board went to female candidates.
‘Our research has found an increasing wage gap in the landscape profession as men and women progress to senior levels. Helping more female members into leadership roles is a huge priority in our Diversity and Inclusion strategy, and it’s really fantastic that so many women will be taking on key leadership roles from July.’
Adam will continue to work with the new Board and Council as President until July 2020, and then until July 2021 in the role of Immediate Past President.
‘I’d like to offer my congratulations to Jane and the rest of the successful candidates,’ he said. ‘I look forward to working with you all during what I am sure will be a hugely successful and exciting 2 years!’
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Research Paper for Csusb advanced studies in california archeology
Advanced Studies in California Archaeology – ANTH 314
Professor Dr. Jew
Friday, October 25, 2019
The Snow Creek Rock Shelter Site (RIV-210) was documented as a temporary camp with possible ceremonial activity. With the 2,836 specimens cataloged combined with the pictograph descriptions, I surmise that this site was used as a healing place and as a production site for spiritual healing points to trade. RIV-210 was excavated in 1964. The site was used by bee keepers, and was heavily looted by this time. Michels and a team of University of California Los Angeles students used a grid pattern to excavate 12 inches deep using the grid system. They also excavated the surrounding area. (Michels, 1964) The people who were known as Pass Cahuilla and were later defined as the Wanikik Clan, lived in the San Bernardino and Riverside County area. Pre-Tribal Era, small pox was a major concern for the Cahuilla. By applying a broader cultural understanding of the Cahuilla and time period, will add the shelter’s purpose to the “The Snow Creek Rock Shelter (RIV-210) Report” by Joseph W. Michels in 1964.
The Snow Creek Rock Shelter is located in the San Gorgonio Pass Area, 10 miles south of HWY 111 in Southern California. The Snow Creek Rock Shelter is named after the seasonal Snow Creek, which is a half a mile east of the site. Up further from the Snow Creek Rock Shelter was a permanent village of the Wanikik Clan. (Michels, 1964) The site is currently on U.S. Forest Service property.
Description Of The Site
RIV-210 is at the base and hugs Mt. San Jacinto. In front of the rock shelter numerous rocks and boulders scattered the area around 70 feet. The Shelter is 18 feet in height resembling a cathedral ceiling with a 17 foot base. A large curved granite slab form the outside wall. (Michels, 1964) The South wall no longer has traces of a pictograph. The West wall has a mixture of damage pictograph and a well preserved section. On the West side is a long narrow room about 20 feet long. The end of this long narrow room contains burnt marks on the wall. Located next to the site, sits a rock with a few cupules.
The Clan Using The Area
Pre-Tribal Era, Cahuilla clans married into, and also joined other clans in Southern California. The Teshana Wanikik Clan occupied the Snow Creek area. (Doody, Meltzer, 2007) The Cahuilla were patrilineal clans, and lived in areas from the San Gorgonio Pass to the Desert. People could not marry within the same clan or moiety. These clans were either the Wildcat or Coyote. Moieties were establish for marriage purposes. Large clans could consist of different moieties from other areas. (Harvey, 1967) According to Dr. Lowell Bean’s field notes with a Morongo Elder “the Pierce family (Pierce girls, as she put it) were descendants of the Cahuilla lineage that lived in Snow Creek Canyon”. (Bean, 1979) The Teshana means “something hanging at” and the word “evonakiktum” were applied to the clans at Snow Creek. The last clans to make their home at Snow Creek Canyon are now members of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs. It is recorded by Francisco Patencio that Evon ga net (the Fox) named Snow Creek “Na hal log” meaning “center of an open place”. (Wagstaff, et al, 1982) This establishes that the Wanakik Clan were located at the Snow Creek Canyon and joined the Palm Springs Clans.
Small pox
Small Pox had effected the Cahuilla Territory between 1862-1863 and did not spread to the Desert area because Tribal leaders called for a quarantine. In 1890, the Cahuilla population had increased in size compared to the over all aboriginal population of California due to the devastating effects of Small Pox. One of the reasons for the ending of small pox was quarantine of infected Indians. (Harvey, 1967) Indian Medicine Men began addressing the disease with sweats, herbs and isolation. Tribal leaders held meetings concerning Small Pox and accepting clans into their fold. One of these meetings took place in Palm Canyon/Tahquitz Canyon. Before any clans could come into their group the leader stated “My sons and daughters, as the Great Spirit arises in the East, he comes to help us and he has given me the medicine and the power to cure all those of you who are sick. You will now go to the big cave where you will receive proper care and treatment. All of you shall go, even those who are not suffering from this devil’s disease. And you will all be treated alike so that your blood shall be purified to guard you against the disease.” There were many caves in the San Jacinto Mountain ranges used for cave-hospitals and used as treatment centers. (Romero, 1954) Due to quarantine of the Cahuilla people, Small Pox did not spread further into their territories.
RIV-210 has two areas of pictographs with little information of their makers or meanings. Taking in the history consideration at the time combined with the items excavated, these ancient markings could be marking the clan area and healing intention. There are no oral histories from the Cahuilla’s on the meaning of rock art in rock shelters or caves. Before 1970, few rock art studies were done, they were not described well and there were very little interpretations. (McCarthy and Mouriquand, 2005) Pictographs are made from pitting the rock surface with hematite, leaving a red history of the makers intent. There were two pictograph areas at the RIV-210 site documented by Michels with drawings not photographs. He notes there is weathering damage to both. Michels interprets the markings to be hands. (Michels, 1964) Archaeologist David Whitley argues that almost all rock art is due to shamanism practice. Dr. Lowell Bean stated that rock art “were places known to be dangerous because of the presence of powerful beings. Shamans and other ritual leaders frequently had sites of this kind for their own exclusive use, where they carried out esoteric activities.” According to Francisco Patencio, Evon ga net (the Fox) marked territories for his people. (McCarthy and Mouriquand, 2005) Others such as Romero interrpreted that rock art is evidence of the healing. (Romero, 1954) The Wanikik Clan had a permanent village not far from the rock shelter. The pictographs on RIV-210 indicates the shelter was for special ceremonial use.
A clay pipe stem fragment was recovered at RIV-210 with the mouth end intact. (Michels, 1964) Smoking pipes has been part of ceremonial Cahuilla culture since time immemorial as told through their creation story. The twin creators Mukat and Tamaioit took tobacco and clay from their bodies to create pipes. The smoke from the pipes took away the darkness and from this median men used smoke from pipes for healing. (Hooper, 1920) Alejo Patencio also relates the pipe smoking by the twin creators to an archaeologist in 1929. Pipes were made out of stone or pottery. (Langenwalter, 1980) Not only were pipes and smoking part of the creation stories and used by medicine men, smoking is currently used in traditional Cahuilla wakes.
Clear Quartz and Shell Bead
Excavated from the RIV-210 site were evidence of quartz point production and one purple olive shell bead. Taking into account the sacredness of this site, the quartz points created here were intended for ceremonial purposes. 38 bifacially pressure flaked points were identified. Of these 12 were clear to opaque quartz. Also collected at RIV-210, were chipping detritus. Of the 368 chipping detritus, 32% was quartz. (Michels, 1964) At five sites in Bolsa Chica Mesa and Huntington Beach Mesa, a study showed a strong probability that the quartz crystal specimens were connected to magical arts or ceremonial behavior. Through out much of California archaeological science shows long term crystal use. The quartz found at the five coastal sites in the study are not from the area. The study states that the quartz supplied to the shamans along the coast must have been supplied from various areas including San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. (Koerper, et al, 2002) With the evidence of point production, the shell bead was an indication of bilateral trade.
Steam Cave and Fauna
Located inside RIV-210, is a long narrow room with fire marks on the wall. Michels stated this was an indoor fire hearth. A fire hearth was located outside as well. I surmise that this long narrow inside room was used for steaming, a method used for healing. Shaman were healers and also filled many roles of leadership. The word Shaman originated from the Asian Tungus language. Common maladies were treated with herbs, sweating and with songs. (Bean, 1992) There were deer bones found at the site without any indication butchering. A number of burnt smaller animal bones were recovered as well. This indicates that food was butchered and brought to the site, possibly to feed the sick occupants at the time. Sweating was part of the healing process, the long narrow room at RIV-210 was used for healing.
When “white mans” disease came, native people needed quarantine and healing. Such a sacred place logically is a location for production points. The Snowcreek Rock Shelter RIV-210 was used as a quarantine and healing place. Michel’s documentation of the items recovered was extensive and limited in scope. Taking a closer look at the items found, leads one to the conclusion that this shelter was indeed used for healing during the Pre-Tribal Era. The long narrow room inside, the pictographs on the wall and evidence of food brought to this shelter, all indicate RIV-210 was a healing hospital and sacred production point location.
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THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS: WHEN REALITY CONTRADICTS NUMBERS
Sticky Post By Lone Felix On April 1, 2016
The third item, the Jubilee Administration, is an activity driven government, unlike the Kibaki regime that mainstreamed vision in its approach. The consequence is that Jubilee has a lot of numbers to throw around, but not actual impact on the people, and I think the greatest show of failure, is if you have to shout that this is what I am doing for people to see it.
The President yesterday in Parliament gave his third state of the Nation address. He outlined the various steps and strides, which in his opinion, the country was making under his leadership.
Unlike his second address that was inspirational, even offering hope that the President was willing to face history and the ills of corruption, the third address was a flat repetition of the everyday rhetoric that people so easily associate with the government.
The President dedicated the first pulse of his address to speak to the unwritten contract between the Kenyan communities. The spirit that was cultivated at Lancaster. To my surprise, he suggested that the opposition has disagreed with and was undermining this spirit.
It was a surprise, for other than Dr. David Ndii, who does not fall within the formal ranks of either CORD, AMANI or Eagle coalitions, I have not heard any opposition leader, not Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi, Peter Kenneth or Martha Karua front anti-nationalistic sentiments.
Still, the President went on, to refer to nationalism 25 different times within his address, reminding us that our irreducible minimum was a one to all’ and ‘all to one. He suggested that by opening up roads in all parts of the country, doubling the constitutionally minimum, by way of monetary remittance to the counties, his administration had demonstrated undying commitment to devolution and the nationalist covenant.
I agree with the President, that indeed the unwritten one to all’ and ‘all to one contract is the very basic unit of the fiber Kenya, but I disagree that his administration in the last three years, or his own beliefs has supported this value. The government still stands acutely accused of exclusion by through token inclusion, and at maximum, the relationship between the national government and county government, can only be a betrayal of what in his own words was the re-imagination of our nationalist covenant.
It is impossible to reconcile the idea of a regime that supports devolution, yet that same regime has resisted re-aligning the provincial administration structure to accord with the true intents of Devolution. The one to all’ and ‘all to one remained unwritten because it was founded on trust. Having a Marwa in Mombasa to pounce on elected leaders because of divergent opinion does not exemplify trust. Avoiding including counties in security systems, does not exemplify that trust.
I think this nationalist lecture emanates from a sense of vulnerability. An understanding by the President, that a case can be made against his government.
The President seems is fully persuaded, that certain rights, such as freedom of expression, our pursuit for security, the threat of terrorism, must necessarily qualify how Kenyans enjoy their rights. This philosophy saw his government essentially suggest legalizing detention because of terrorism. Thank God, the High Court quashed the provision.
The President seems to suggest that under his administration, the media can now freely function, and that article 34 has come to absolute being. The reality is different, formerly free media houses are now prisoners of the state, journalists dismissed for writing articles critical of the government. Dennis Galava, Godfrey Mwampembwa popularly Gaddo, being but examples. The President himself is on record reducing the press to meat wrappers. An about turn seems hypocritical.
The country was denied an opportunity for honest grief, because today, no one knows the number of Kenyan soldiers we lost in Somali recently.
I must however take extreme exception to Hon. Bosire for not giving our men in uniform the honor of standing. This is a new low in partisanship.
The President gave reference to the Grand coalition government, noting that his government has prioritized finishing the projects dreamt by the regime. Here he referred to the roads and the standard gauge Railway.
We must applaud his government for a speedy implementation of the SGR. Still, the project has ballooned our public debt to China disproportionately.
While still at this reference to the Grand Coalition; let us point out three things. The Grand Coalition government was a good example of true inclusion in government, and that is why it recorded historic successes. Secondly, even with the squabbles, they still recorded extensive results in economic growth, helped realize a new constitution and corruption perception was low than today.
The Uhuru Kenyatta government has for instance chosen to scale down the ambitions of Kibaki, announcing this week the terminating the upgrade of the Green Field Terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. In this financial year, the project did not receive funding within the budgetary allocations.
The President instead chose to commission two new terminals — 1A and 1E — by May 2016. He stated that the new terminals would increase passenger-handling capacity by 5.1 million new passengers, total capacity to JKIA to 7.5 million passengers a year. GTF was supposed to increase that capacity to 18.5 Million, making JKIA number one Airport in Africa.
Rwanda Air is consolidating her hold on air transport within East Africa, and performing better than Kenya Airways. Ethiopia Airlines is a show of African excellence elbowing us out. President Magufuli is keen on starting a national airline for Tanzania. To claim our position as a true hub of air travel, we do not need little upgrades, but truly ambitious commitments that communicate to the future we aspire.
The President and his deputy are now deflecting blame to the Judiciary. They seem to suggest that the non-dispensation of these corruption cases some-how has an impact on the levels of corruption. That is partly true. The other truth however is that the law guides the Judiciary and the law is enacted by parliament.
I would suggest to the President, to take the step that Lee Kuan Yew took, and reversed the discharged of the burden of proof in corruption cases. All the government needed to do, was establish a prima facie case, that you could reasonably be suspected to have obtained wealth through corruption, and it was the accused’s prerogative to discharge the burden, within set timelines.
A starting point would be to audit the legal framework and make it clear and devoid of technicalities. Ours is a common law system, the judge but an arbiter, not a prefect of the process. The true Achilles heel in this process lies with the Directorate of Public Prosecution and Investigative Agencies.
The presidents’ move to order the Communications Authority and the National Construction Authority to review their prohibitive levies is extremely welcome, and while Kenya has improved on the ease of doing business, a commendable work, we need to do more.
On one thing, I agree one hundred percent with the President, his acknowledgement that as a government, his work, is to walk with each individual in the path of personal transformation by ensuring that the country is transforming with you; and that as we transform one individual at a time, we will fulfil the Nationalist Promise.
Nations grow more sustain-ably when each individual is inspired to work for their own transformation. This can only happen in an environment, where everyone feels they have a chance at opportunity, this is where he must put his focus on. Investing further symbolically and really in pursuit of equity and equality for all.
I am hesitant to share in his conclusion that the state of our nation is strong, but I willingly agree, that our nation holds a promise for everyone.
Lone Felix
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Mount Kineo State Park
The sheer face of Mount Kineo, with 700-foot cliffs, forms the centerpiece of a spectacular landscape long cherished for its natural beauty and plentiful resources.
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Mount Kineo has gentle slopes to the northwest and steep southeast faces shaped by a mile-thick ice sheet that moved across the region from northwest to southeast. The trails on Mount Kineo highlight the results of this glacial movement which occurred between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago.
Indian Trail (0.9 miles, moderate): climbs steeply along open ledge, making it the shortest but most strenuous route to the summit and fire tower. While more challenging, The Indian Trail also provides the best views of any trail.
Bridle Trail (1.1 miles, easy): is the original fire warden trail and provides a less steep route to the summit for hikers. It begins 0.3 miles along the Carriage Trail, traversing through stands of maple and birch before converging with the Indian Trail just shy of the summit.
Carriage Trail (2.2 miles, easy): parallels the west shore of the peninsula, following the waters of Moosehead Lake to Hardscrabble Point. The Carriage Trail then connects to the North Trail creating a perimeter hike of the peninsula.
North Trail (1.9 miles, moderate): offers a view of the eastern peninsula and when combined with the Carriage Trail, the longest hike to the summit of Mount Kineo. From Hardscrabble Point, the North Trail winds through the low level mixed hardwood forest and then rises more steeply up Mount Kineo's southeastern cliffs.
Eventually, all trails lead to the summit, which has a converted fire tower, used until about 1960 by the Maine Forest Service. From the summit, hikers can indulge in 360-degree views: Little Kineo, Big and Little Spencer Mountains in the northeast; the Lily Bay Mountains in the southeast; Big Moose in the south; the peak of Coburn in the southwest and Boundary Bald Mountain in the west. Of course, all around Kineo is the magnificent expanse of Moosehead Lake.
In addition to the breathtaking views offered by the summit of Mount Kineo, the peninsula is permeated with historical and natural significance. The name Kineo derives from a Wabanaki warrior of legendary power, Kinneho. The geological attributes of Mount Kineo also provided utilitarian purposes for original inhabitants. Native Americans utilized the flint-like felsite and rhyolite from Mount Kineo to craft stone tools. Today Mount Kineo is peregrine falcon territory. After near extinction in the 1960s, the first wild pair of peregrine falcons returned to nest on the cliffs of Mount Kineo in 1987.
When traveling to Mount Kineo via the boat shuttle in Rockwood, confirm departure times before hiking and gauge plans accordingly. Moosehead Lake water is cold and winds can arise suddenly and create dangerous conditions for boats. Children 10 years of age and under must, by law, wear a Type I, II, or III PFD while on board all watercraft. All boaters should wear a PFD at all times in small boats; notify someone of your intended route and time of return; and monitor conditions carefully (particularly when crossing open waters, including the crossing to Mount Kineo). Exercise caution near cliffs, particularly in damp and slippery conditions.
This trail passes through a property that was acquired in part with funds from the Land for Maine’s Future program. For more information about the LMF program and the places it has helped to protect, please visit the LMF webpage.
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Mount Kineo is accessible by water only, with the nearest public boat launch site in Rockwood. Take ME Routes 15/6 through Greenville (also known as the Rockwood Road). Rockwood is 15 miles northwest of Greenville. Turn right on a road marked with signs for the Rockwood town landing and docks. A commercial boat shuttle (fee charged) to Mount Kineo leaves routinely from Rockwood in summer months. From the Mount Kineo docks, turn left and follow the shoreline path, an old carriage road, for 0.8 miles leading past private property to the State lands. Bear right on the Indian Trail or left for the other trails.
My wife and I got the early boat over today and hiked the Indian Trail up and the Bridal Trail down. Indian was a little steep but we took our time ( both of us over 65 yrs old!) and made it fine. Super views on Indian. Fire tower gives an awesome view. All woods on Bridal but fine coming down. Colors were at their peak (Oct 2). Well worth every step!
gregbem
Hiked this past weekend. Did the Indian Trail to the summit, which was steep but not too crazy (but I'm from Washington and am used to steep hikes). The peregrine falcons are beautiful to look at, but we were warned that people die hiking off trail to get closer to them, so we kept our distance. Nice fire lookout at the top that is sturdy and historic. Wish there was more information about it posted. Friends hiked back down the Bridle Trail, but I decided to solo the North Trail (heading down) and then wrap back using the Carriage Trail from Hardscrabble Point. All was really beautiful. Bugs only bad in a few places. Didn't see anyone else on the trail the entire time (we had gotten a pretty early start though--took the first ferry over). Glad I didn't run into any animals, though a lot of prints in the mud--maybe a type of large cat?
STEVEN DUPLESSIE
My wife and I just did the Carriage to the North Trail loop and I would advise that the north trail is very unused and unkept. Also once we got to the backside of the mountain it was as vertical as you can get without needing ropes. 1/2 way up we met some people coming down the backside to North Trail and they said that the Indian Trail was harder than expected and they had just done the knife at Katahdin.
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First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
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6 Free Printables and Ebooks to Track or Change Habits
Mihir Patkar December 7, 2019 07-12-2019 5 minutes
Whether you’re breaking a bad habit or trying to form a good one, a little nudge in the right direction can go a long way. These free printables and ebooks promise to help you track or change habits easily.
As the year draws to a close, we often succumb to the pressure of setting resolutions. But if you’re serious about changing habits, you need the right advice and tools to get you going. You can use habit apps to reach your goals or go old-school with a pen and paper. There is just something more satisfying about the tactile feel of crossing or ticking a box.
1. Habit Print: Create a Printable Seinfeld-Like Chain
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld famously shared his productivity habit. He wrote a joke every single day and crossed it out on the calendar. The visual chain of his successful habit kept him going every day. Several people now swear by this trick.
Habit Print is a free web app to create such a visual habit tracker and print it. Just write whatever task you want to accomplish (maximum 35 characters), and the app will create a printable page for it. The page includes the seven days of the week in a grid of circles, with 10 rows of these circles.
There’s a productivity principle that if you want to form a new habit, you need to do that task for 66 days. Habit Print will take you to a chain of 70 days, ensuring you meet your goal and are better off for it.
2. Flowcharts for Changing Habits: Charles Duhigg’s Science-Backed Method
Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, has spent a long time researching the science behind habits. He has studied people’s behavior to figure out what makes them stick to a habit or change it.
Duhigg believes the key to changing habits is the “habit loop.” Habitual behavior activates based on a cue, like a time or when you’re at a certain place. Our brain then seeks a reward, which we indulge through some destructive behavior. In the end, this forms a routine.
But if you change the reward, you’ll break the habit loop. Find a reward that is healthy, without altering the cue, and you’ll end up making a new routine that is good for you. Over time, this will become your new habit.
Duhigg has converted his theory into two easy-to-follow flowcharts while you try to form a new habit loop:
A flowchart explaining how to break a habit
A flowchart explaining how to create a habit
Register for the newsletter and you can download high-resolution versions of both flowcharts, which you can then print.
3. Clementine Creative’s Habit Tracker: Month-Long Tracker for Multiple Habits
Habit Print is a single page to focus on a single new routine. If you want a more comprehensive habit plan with several tasks and practices, try Clementine Creative’s habit tracker.
You get 31 columns for the dates of the month, along with a space to write the day. And there are 15 rows to list all the habits you want to form. Every time you complete a habit, check, fill, or draw a pattern in that column.
You can print it in Letter, A4, or A5 size. The writer recommends using different colors for different tasks to add a little oomph to the calendar and to also make it easy to distinguish how well you’re doing on different habits.
The website also has an editable version of the habit tracker, where you can first add the different tasks and print after that. But this needs a small payment.
4. Habit Tracker Templates: Weekly, 10-Day, 15-Day, and More
Like the month-long habit tracker from Clementine Creative, there are several others. Teal Notes has compiled the best of them into well-designed free downloads that you can print.
There are weekly, 10-day, 15-day, and monthly habit tracking templates, available in both vertical and horizontal formats. The vertical monthly tracker even has a color version.
The 10-day and 15-day trackers stand out because of their columns for notes. The 15-day version even looks different, presented like a hand-fan. The first day is the smallest to fill, but as your streak continues, you get to fill larger boxes, making you reflect longer about your accomplishments.
5. Hipster Habit App: Printable Mini-Book to Fold Into Your Wallet
The best habit app is not an app at all. In fact, it’s a little guide that sits in your pocket. Download the Hipster Habit App PDF and print it out. Then fold it as shown in the instructions and stick it in your wallet.
Follow the instructions of the Hipster Habit App page by page. This habit-changing guide follows all the basics that will set you up for actually making a lasting change. It encourages you to figure out the purpose, breaks the task into easy steps day-by-day, and gives you things to do through your journey.
The Hipster Habit App also includes habit streak calendars, and even a little bit of gamification to encourage you to achieve new titles. All you need is a pen to fill the blanks. It’s super cool and will be a talking point wherever you go.
6. All About Habits: Crash Course in Habit Science
Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, wanted to understand the science behind habits, and different studies conducted about it. After much research, he compiled all the data into an easy-to-understand article, also available as a 21-page ebook. The ebook is worth it for this longread.
Manson’s focus is on willpower since that seems to be what drives whether you can successfully change a habit or not. From the famous marshmallow test to real-life examples of people, the ebook traces different data about how we undertake habit-changing behavior.
If you are serious about forming a new habit, it’s important to understand how your mind and body will react to behavioral changes. The more you know, the easier it is to set plans to tackle pitfalls. Habit change isn’t overnight, as the ebook will tell you. But you can change your life in small steps.
Try Micro-Challenges for Habit Changes
With these downloads and printables, you’ll have an easier time in effecting meaningful change in your life. But we all know it won’t happen overnight. A neat trick is to try mini-challenge apps for life-altering habits Want to Create a Life-Altering Habit? Try a Micro-Challenge Today Want to Create a Life-Altering Habit? Try a Micro-Challenge Today Habits can be difficult to change. The secret is in taking small steps. Make or break your habits with the help of these challenge-based apps. Read More . A lot of people are having some success this way.
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Major surgery on an old Teutonic war-horse
Philip Tom
(This is an old article so the images are fairly low resolution)
Over the past few years, local collectors and antiques dealers have brought in a number of different variations of the Prussian Dreyse needle-fire rifle for various repair jobs. Not that these are commonly-encountered guns in our era, but certain quirks about the way they were made help keep restorers in business.
They are interesting rifles, and are a truly ground-breaking development in the history of the bolt-action, but in terms of workmanship and materials, they are a bit of a disappointment to those who associate German military arms with Mercedes automobiles. Mechanical tolerances are on the loose side, fit and finish are only adequate at best, and many operating parts seem to be crafted of iron as opposed to the ordnance steel that we’re used to. I’ve handled a couple of mint unissued ones and they’re just fine, but these guns don’t seem to wear as well through hard service as their French and British counterparts of the period – or the Mausers that replaced them.
By far the most frequent problem with Dreyses is damaged stocks. There’s something about the way the stock is designed that makes it prone to breaking at the action or wrist. The rather inferior grade of lumber found on many examples doesn’t help, either. The example here is one of the biggest Dreyse stock fixes I’ve done: about 2/3 of the buttstock was ravaged by dry rot and powder-post beetle infestation, then roughly patched up with a plastic wood filler. Eeesh!
I wasn’t bright enough to take a pic of the stock before I started work, but in Fig. 3 “Shaping” you can see the hunk of rotted wood, already detached from the gun, in the lower right corner. In this case, the buttplate screws were frozen in place, making the job even more enjoyable. Fig. 1 summarizes the basic approach -- saw out the infected area and precisely joint and fit a block of new wood to replace it. The “patient” is prepared for surgery by disassembly and meticulous cleaning of the stock to remove as much accumulated oil and grime as possible. Failure to do this will make finishing very difficult. When cutting the filler block, care has to be taken to match the wood and the direction of grain as best as possible. The pic shows the filler block glued in place, before being shaped to final contour. It’s essential to allow enough length at the rear to accommodate the curve of the buttplate. Failure to account for this may result in “daylight” visible between stock and buttplate when it’s screwed back on.
Fig. 2 gives you an idea of the assortment of tools needed for the job. Except where table- and band-saws are absolute time-savers in the rough stages of the work, I prefer to do everything else by hand. Sawing out the damaged area required several longitudinal cuts – it’s hard to determine from the outside how bad the rot really is and if you want to keep as much original wood as possible, several “exploratory” passes with the saw should be done in order to see what’s going on inside.
There are any number of saws that will do the job providing they are sharp and straight. In the pic is a frame-saw from Portugal (similar ones using German blades are made by a few artisanal tool-makers in the US). I like this type of saw because the blade operates under considerable tension and with minimal friction so that it cuts accurately and effortlessly. The mating surfaces of the filler block were trued-up with a block plane (see Fig. 3, “Shaping”, top) and the cutout area on the stock were dressed up with the chisels you see here in Fig. 2. I prefer Oriental planes and chisels because their blades are tempered harder than Western ones and being laminated, are less brittle. The wooden blocks of such planes (the one in the pic is antique Chinese but the same style but with non-lamellar blade is also made by an Australian firm as well) are also lighter and more responsive in the hands than the cast-iron Western tools. The chisels in the pic are part of a large assortment I have, mostly Chinese and Japanese, the majority made well back in the last century. As you can see I prefer the now hard-to-find triangular blade styles which produce very clean dovetail cuts. A straightedge and engineer’s square (not shown in pics) are necessary to ensure accurate joints.
For joints at structurally-sensitive areas such as the wrist, or for stocks on guns that will be shot, internal pinning and high-strength epoxy-type adhesives are de rigeur. For guns that are considered collectors’ items only, or for areas that are not affected by recoil, a high grade wood glue is adequate. For these applications I’ve had success with “Titebond” glues, since they are strong and since they don’t darken the wood at the joint, it helps make the repaired area less noticeable on medium- to lighter-colored woods.
After the glue sets comes the shaping process -- this is fun because you’re just “over the hump” and can see the finish line ahead. Fig. 3 shows the filler block shaped to final contour, all by hand. Using a variety of tools like a golfer pulls clubs out of his bag, the work can proceed remarkably quickly. You don’t need machines! Speaking generally, I typically go in stages, selecting tools accordingly.
A. “Hogging out” using an adze (Fig. 3, top right). It removes material fast and can’t be beat for basic shaping of irregular or curved surfaces. I like the ergonomics of a type called an enxó de mão from Portugal which is what you see in the pic -- you see these on EBay once in awhile. Alternatively, the smaller north European style adzes by Iltis Oxhead (Germany) and Granfors (Sweden) are wonderful tools but they are pricey. Also, I’ve heard that at least one custom toolmaker in the US has revived the ancient Hawaiian adze, but using a steel blade.
B. Intermediate smoothing with a drawknife (see Fig. 2, center). For stock work, one with a curved blade (cutting convex surfaces) is better than the common straight blade.. These tools are getting hard to find, the one I use is from a firm in France, one of few makers left offering the curved type.
C. Fine shaping to match contours of original stock with a spokeshave (Fig. 3 lower left). Mine is the trusty British-made Stanley 151, which I’ve used for about 30 years. Off-the-shelf it’s a pretty crude and basic tool, but it’s inexpensive, indestructible, and easy to upgrade with a “tuneup” and after-market thick HSS blades. During all of the shaping process, frequent checking with the straightedge will help avoid any bulges and dips in the work.
D. Final surface smoothing is done with a scraper (the little rectangular piece of steel in Fig. 3). Use your edge tools carefully and in proper succession, and you don’t need to do much sanding at all!
E. Don’t forget that buttplate! A rasp is indespensible for cutting across the end-grain so that the plate fits precisely. The machine-made Nicholson wood rasps made in USA do the job but they cut roughly and you need to be careful about “tear outs” on the edges of your work. In the pic is a French-made Auriou rasp, with hand-cut teeth that don’t tear-out the grain, yet eat through the hardest woods with ease. There is an innovative and much more affordable rasp made from sections of saw blade in a single bar, produced by the Shinto Co. of Japan, which is also excellent.
Now, for minor fitting. In this case, the filler block extends forward enough so that part of it goes under the trigger plate/trigger guard assembly. In Fig. 4, you can see a small half-moon cut, made with a gouge and narrow “bullnose” chisel (not shown in pics) that inlets these metal parts flush with the surrounding wood. It’s also necessary to drill the pilot holes for the lower sling swivel (the original had vanished but the customer provided an antique of suitable appearance that anchored with a single screw) and the 5 buttplate screws.
The “eggbeater” hand drill (Fig. 2) did the job neatly and quickly enough. An important thing to remember that woodscrews for guns are tapered, and it’s best to drill the pilot holes using a TAPERED or STEPPED bit of proper size. Choosing just one normal drill bit won’t do it – either it’ll be too small and the screw might bind when you’ve got it 2/3 home, or it’ll be oversized and the wood will not grab the bottom threads properly.
After the sawdust settles and the surfaces all faired-out and blended seamlessly, it’s time for finishing: “whiskering” and final sanding, staining, filling, and the oil and wax finishes. Everybody seems to have their own approach to these processes and enough has been printed in “how-to” gun books and past issues of THE AMERICAN RIFLEMAN so I won’t regurgitate any of that stuff here. Just a couple remarks on staining that aren’t adequately addressed in those sources: 1. For work on antiques, especially matching new wood to old, the Birchwood Casey gunstock stains are woefully inadequate. Far better to use good quality, professionalgrade leather dyes, not available in general retail, but through specialist dealers like Tandy or Jantz Supply. The ability to mix colors to get the proper shade for a “spot” touchup is something that comes from experience, there are no recipes. Like playing a concert at Carnegie Hall, it takes lots of practice. A blend that looks great on white paper may not look the same on the wood itself because of the varying density and fibrous structure of the materials. 2. To get light colored new wood to match grungy dark old wood, it helps to first stain the new using a blend of diluted black and some browns to darken it as close to the old as possible. Then go over the whole surface with a lighter brown “wash” to even things up. In case of this Dreyse, the foreward part of the stock was fairly dark brown (the wood is a rather cheap grade of walnut) with some almost- black blotches so I made sure that the repaired area was similarly dark. Figs. 5 and 6 show the finished job.
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It is one of the largest stupas in Kathmandu and was assigned UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Boudhanath Stupa is the marvelous work of architecture, which makes it the famous tourist destination in the Kathmandu. To witness the beauty of this stupa, visit it at night when it is lit by hundreds of candles all around.
Dharahara
The Dharahara or Bhimsen Tower is a 9-storey, 6.88-metre tall tower situated in Kathmandu. It was built-in 1832 by the Bhimsen Thapa, Prime Minister of that time. The eighth floor of the tower has a balcony that provides a 360-degree view of the Kathmandu. The architecture of Dharahara based on European and Mughal style.
Kathmandu Durbar Square is the place from where the city’s kings used to rule. It has many palaces, courtyards, and temples within the compound. The main feature of the square is the Hanuman Dhoka Palace and Kumari Bahal. The Hanuman Dhoka Palace named after the monkey god, Hanuman. This palace was the residence of Nepal’s royal family till 1800s and a ‘living goddess’, a young girl selected from the Kathmandu lives in Kumari Bahal.
Kopan Monastery
It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in the suburbs of Kathmandu. Lama Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche founded this monastery in the year 1972. Kopan Monastery is the perfect place to attend the teachings of Tibetan monks and learn about the Buddhism. It is an ideal location to relax and meditate amidst the lush green gardens.
Thamel is the commercial area of Kathmandu. It has many hotels, restaurants, shops, nightclubs, and cafes that cater the need of tourists at the reasonable price. It is a heaven for shopping lovers as the visitors can find clothes, jewelry, and handicrafts in this area. Thamel is the first wi-fi internet zone of Nepal.
Chitwan National Park is the first national park in Nepal. It is famous for the protection of one-horned Rhinoceros, Bengal tigers, and Gharial crocodiles. You can go for the jungle walk, treks, and elephant rides in the park. The dazzling landscape covered with abundant green vegetation makes a spectacular view.
Garden of Dreams is a neoclassical historical garden created by Kaiser Sumsher Rana in early 1920. It is a fantastic place to spend some leisure time in the greenery or take a stroll away from the hustle bustle of the city. It has a small museum, an amphitheater, and a café within the garden area.
National Museum Of Nepal
Situated in the city of Kathmandu, it is the largest museum of Nepal and a famous destination among tourists. The museum exhibits the collection of ancient statues, sculptures, and paintings of Nepal. It also displays the weapons used during the wars in the 18th-19th century. It has a Buddhist art gallery that stores the Buddhist paintings, sculptures, and ceremonial objects.
Pashupatinath is the sacred Hindu temple in Nepal dedicated to Lord Shiva. It lies on the banks of the famous river, Bagmati. Every year, thousands of pilgrims come to visit this temple from all over the world. Only Hindus are allowed to go inside the temple and worship the God. Within the area of Pashupatinath lie 518 temples and monuments.
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium is the biggest stadium in Nepal built in 1956 in the memory of the great martyr, Dashrath Chand. The stadium holds all the national and international tournaments of Nepal. Apart from the football matches and tournaments it also hosts the cultural and entertainment programs in Nepal.
Lip smacking cuisine of Kathmandu
Kathmandu offers a variety of local cuisine to satiate your taste buds. Momo is the quintessential Nepali food served with the spicy dip. Chatamari is a kind of Nepali pizza served with filling inside. It is prepared using the local spices and rice flour. Choila, a seasoned grilled buffalo meat is the most famous cuisine best served with the local liquor. Sekuwa is barbecue meat prepared using local spices and herbs.
How to get around in Kathmandu
Auto-rickshaws and cycle–rickshaws are the common means of transport in various parts of Kathmandu. You can also hire a taxi to roam around in different areas of the city. Kathmandu also offers the local bus service, but that remains so crowded and not considered a good option for tourists. You can also rent a bike to visit the nearby places of Kathmandu.
Where to shop in Kathmandu
Thamel is a paradise for Shopaholics where you can buy Pashmina shawls, silver jewelry, singing bowls, handicrafts, and trekking gears at the reasonable price on bargaining. Patan is the best place to buy Thangka paintings and Tibetan jewelry, and Bhaktapur is famous for carved-wood items and pottery. In Asan Tole, an open market located near the Annapurna temple you can find local spices, dry fruits, and brass pots.
The spectacular architecture, magnificent temples, and the lip smacking delicacies of Kathmandu will force you to go there and have the pleasant experience of the lifetime. So, quickly book a cheap flight to Kathmandu and witness this incredible beauty yourself.
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Aviation Weather, Environment and Society
This three-hour lesson describes the impacts of weather on aviation operations and highlights the role of the National Weather Service (NWS) in supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic management organization. The lesson contains an Introduction (40 min), several cases (10-20 min each) focused on various weather phenomena, and a detailed case (35 min) allowing forecasters to follow the planning for and evolution of an event. The content emphasizes best practices for aviation forecasters, including identifying and communicating the threat, understanding partners' needs, and anticipating the impacts to airspace operations.
Chris Woods 2018-03-15 14:17:25
Nice course!
Zeb3lKs 2018-01-07 12:55:35
As a Commercial Pilot and past CFI, and retired FAA AFSS Pilot Weather Briefer, I found the material quite challenging because of the requirement to thoroughly and carefully analyze each situation to arrive at a critical solution. As realistic as it gets. Highly recommended for ALL pilots and flight organizations (CAP, Fire Service, Medevac, SAR, Military, etc.)
pic2 2017-12-02 17:04:19
this is on the job training.
SPC MP 2017-10-27 11:40:12
A good course for analytical purposes!
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Questions did not really reflect the lesson material. Needs more emphasis and explanation of the different programs and how they interact with each other.
john.heyman@noaa.gov 2017-03-01 17:46:37
Overall, this was a good training lesson. I believe more illustrative animations and audio elements would help auditory and visual learners.
njtree 2017-01-11 12:53:59
I am not a meteorologist, but I needed to know more about weather decision support for the national airspace weather system. I did have a familiarity with some of the aviation terminology which may have helped as I took the module. I would recommend this module to others like me.
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I was amazed at the number, and variations, of abbreviations used. Does the average United States forecaster really understand them all? Your humble UK forecaster certainly did not which made not only understanding of the lesson but also answering the quiz difficult. A constantly available Glossary would be very helpful. Commander (ex-UK and NATO Navy) David Dacam PhD.
Identify the components of the National Airspace System (NAS)
Describe the components of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO)
Identify how various weather events affect the NAS and its different components
Describe the needs of the FAA for weather information
Produce a briefing that meets these needs for various situations, in a language appropriate to the FAA
Given various weather or natural hazards, follow best practices for forecasters in the Center Weather Service Units (CWSUs), Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs), Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC), Aviation Weather Center (AWC), and Alaska Aviation Weather Unit (AAWU) to:
Identify their aviation partners’ needs and decide what coordination efforts to initiate
Communicate weather information about the issues of greatest concern to their FAA partners for terminal and en route operations
List key ways that aviation meteorologists provide Decision Support Services to the NAS
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The complex computer models for numerical weather forecasting are based on the analysis of large amounts of meteorological observations. They mainly comprise observations near the surface of temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind and precipitation. These observations are performed worldwide in some thousands of weather stations (so called synoptic stations) where the measurements are all performed several times per day at the same time. Performing and distributing these observations makes part of the international obligations of each national meteorological service such as RMI.
The weather stations of RMI that make part of this network, were gradually automated over the past years. In consequence the measurements can be performed much more frequently and human errors are excluded. This will benefit our public service, which is in agreement with the vision of RMI.
In addition the weather stations are equipped with a number of sensors for additional measurements that are used for research in the field of climatology, hydrology and radiation.
The map shows the position of the actual automatic weather stations of RMI, along with the automatic weather stations that are planned for the coming years. It is also indicated in which area useful information can be deduced from weather radars in Belgium and in the surrounding countries.
A great deal of attention is paid to the construction of long time series that are used, among others, in climate studies. For these applications use is made of - besides the automatic weather stations - more than 200 manual stations where observers collect meteorological data for RMI, on regular time intervals. In all these networks continuity and quality of the measurements are essential; for that reason RMI pays considerable attention to these aspects.
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Home » Android, Applications, HolidayIQ, Internet, Mobile, Travel
HolidayIQ now offers activity based travel packages
Vivek Pai
By Vivek Pai vivek@medianama.com June 30, 2015
HolidayIQ has added a new feature to its Android app called ‘Holidays’, a marketplace that showcases various activity based travel packages. The company currently claims to host over a 1000 packages which customers can browse based on budget, vacation type, activity and duration among other factors.
The new feature can be found in the HolidayIQ app listed as ‘Discover Holidays’. On selecting the feature, it displays a list of holiday categories like adventure holidays, relaxing beach trips, camping trips, waterfront holidays, heritage trails and wildlife holidays etc. Users can select one of the categories to see a listing of various packages in the category. These packaged listings include information about the location, the cost per person, number of days the package lasts and an option to call the agent and book the trip.
The app also lets users check the detailed listing of each package. This includes information like the itinerary, places to visit, pictures of these places and which hotels the user will be put up in etc. As of now, the only way to book a package is by calling the agent or sending an enquiry by email, with no way to pay directly via the app. According to HolidayIQ the update was made to help customers browse holiday packages based on activities they would like to do rather than based on location. The company mentions this initiative is mobile only for now.
Focus on mobile: Note that, just last month, HolidayIQ acquired the mobile development team (travel vertical) of California based web and mobile development company SourceN to strengthen its mobile capabilities. It specified that the newly acquired team’s specialisation lay in developing iOS travel apps and before the acqui-hire, the team was developing apps for both Indian and US clients. The company had not disclosed the financials of the deal. HolidayIQ, however, did mention that it would make other investments to enhance its mobile capabilities.
HolidayIQ funding: In February 2013, the Bangalore based company raised an undisclosed amount of money in a Series B funding from Tiger Global and Accel Partners. In 2013, HolidayIQ.com, which had merged with Wego in 2010, announced its demerger from the company in February 2013 and raised Series B funding for its demerged operations. The combined entity had previously raised (also) Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.
Founded in 2004 by Hari Nair, HolidayIQ claims that over 65% of their user activity is through mobile devices (April 2015). It claims to have over 3 million users across 80 cities in India and lists over 2,000 tourism destinations with 50,000 accommodation options. It has partners in MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Expedia, Thomas Cook and SOTC among others.
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