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Summer Camp – places still available! 15th-19th Aug
Summer is nearly over but there is still fun to be had, enrol your child on SPORTSCO’s popular multi-activity camp in D4. Call 6687022 xt 0, advance booking essential
Published : 11-Aug-2016
Kay Orr’s Retirement from Facilities
After more than 36 years of outstanding service, Kay Orr retired on Tuesday 2nd August.
Kay spent much of her career in Head Office as Cleaning Supervisor. Those of us who had the pleasure to work with Kay will appreciate her immense contribution to ESB in delivering an impeccable cleaning service across Head Office Estate. Kay’s warm personality, work ethic, experience and knowledge will be greatly missed.
Kay would like to invite her friends and colleagues in ESB to her retirement function which will be held on 2nd September in Bar 51 Haddington Road from 7.30pm onwards. If you wish to be associated with Kay’s presentation, please contact Eamonn Gregg Room ext.26936, Tommy Stafford ext.26596 or Sara Farrington ext 26860.
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at Multi Storey Car Park please contact Domo
Death of Mairead O’MAOLAIN (MULLEN) mother of Michael Mullen EO Leopardstown
It is with deep regret that I inform you of the death of Mairead O’Maolain (Mullen), mother of our colleague Michael Mullen, Design, Leopardstown Road.
Funeral arrangements are as follows;
Reposing at Sheahan’s Funeral Home, 71 Upper Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire from 9.30am to 1pm and 2.30pm to 5pm. Removal on Thursday evening to St. Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire arriving for 5pm prayers. Funeral Mass on Friday morning at 10am and then immediately afterwards to Deansgrange Cemetery. Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Fr. Peter Mc Verry Trust.
Our thoughts are with Michael and his family at this sad time
May she rest in peace
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A packet address to Cecil McWilliams ESB Networks Clanwilliam Place dose anyone know about this ring Gerry at 70-27476
Missing Post
I am trying to trace a circulation envelope which was addressed to me
This was posted from Portlaoise around the 28th July. It contains invoices which need processing asap
I would appreciate it if you could be on the lookout for this envelope and if you happen to come across it can you please contact me at
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Death Notice of John Summerville Father of Des, Stations, Galway
The death has occurred of John Summerville Father of Des Summerville, Stations, Galway
Reposing in Burke’s Funeral Home, Clonbur on Tuesday 9th August from 5pm – 8pm. Requiem Mass on Wednesday at 12 Noon in Saint Patrick’s Church, Clonbur and burial afterwards at Rosshill Cemetery Clonbur
Out thoughts and prayers are with Des and his family at this time
June Draw Results
Attached are the results of our June 2016 draw. Congratulations to all our winners
Follow the South Africa Gaels tour in Ireland
The S.A. Gaels, South Africa’s national GAA team, touched down in Dublin on Sunday, 7th August for the GAA World Games 2016. The team performed a traditional African song before the semi-final clash between Kilkenny and Waterford, where they ignited the crowd with a splash of South African culture .
The only club dedicated to Gaelic games in South Africa, S.A. Gaels is sponsored by ESB International and players from both the men’s and women’s senior teams are currently preparing to play in Ireland this week.
According to David Devine, S.A. Gaels chairman, the male team is focused on making it all the way to the finals that will be played in Croke Park on Friday 12th August:
We have a strong, committed, athletic and experienced team, we are well prepared and we are confident that we will make ESB International, who have made it possible for us to compete at this level, proud of our performance at the games.
Commenting on the S.A. Gaels and the tournament, Ollie Brogan, Managing Director, ESB International said,
A huge part of developing our business abroad is looking at how we can integrate with the culture there and how we can contribute to the communities that we operate in. It’s been fantastic to see the game played in South Africa and the enthusiasm and respect that the players have for it. The S.A. Gaels are a strong and dedicated team and we’re looking forward to seeing them take to the pitch next week.
2016 marks the second World Games which first took place in 2015 in Abu Dhabi. S.A. Gaels have been in competition for two years, Keith O’Leary team coach, said,
This year will be our second year competing and we feel more prepared than ever to take the cup home. GAA is special to every member of this team and we hope to do the game justice throughout the tournament.
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A welcome to new and existing members to with Black Belt Andre Ramos starting tomorrow 8th August.
Dates for Funeral Notice for Morgan Lawlor Father of Elaine Walsh, Networks, Gracedieu Road
Please note that the dates for the funeral notice for Morgan Lawlor, father of Elaine Walsh, posted on this noticeboard last Friday afternoon were last Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th August 2016.
Retirement of Margaret Fannin, Technical Performance, Networks
After more than 40 years of outstanding service, Margaret will retire on Fri 19th Aug.
Margaret spent much of her career in Dundalk and Cavan. For the last 10 years Margaret has excelled in Mobile Support, helping NT’s from every corner of the country to deliver Meter Works orders to all our customers.
All of us who had the pleasure to work with Margaret, are well aware of her immense contribution to ESBN over the years. Her experience, her sharing of knowledge and time, and her enthusiasm will be greatly missed.
Margaret’s retirement function will be held on 16th Sept in the Errigal Country House Hotel, Cootehill – more details will follow. If you wish to be associated with Margaret’s presentation, please contact Siobhan Mannering on 086-8397647 or Susan O’Donovan on 087-7464287.
Seamus Devine
Technical Performance Manager
Customer & Business Performance
Head Office Lunchtime Runs
ESB Athletic Club is launching a new lunchtime run schedule from next week, 8 August, with three different paced groups as follows:
· Brian Gray will take the Blue group on Thursdays for beginners or people doing Couch to 5k programmes. The session will be a mixture of jogging and walking, with the aim of gradually building fitness.
· Sarah Stapleton will take the Purple group on Wednesdays. This group is for people who can run 5km continuously and will be at a relaxed jogging pace.
· Matt Reid will take the Yellow group on Mondays, for runners who are looking for a faster session, covering a distance of 5-10km.
There are lots of people running at lunchtime from Head Office, and while some people enjoy running by themselves, there are real benefits to running in a group and encouraging each other. If you are interested in joining one of the runs, just turn up at 12:30 on the day in question and give it a go.
Cyclepower
mobile bicycle service and repair will have a display of bikes on the 4th floor of head office restaurant today between 10am and 2pm please come along & check this out.
ElectricAid’s 2015 Annual Report has just been published. The report documents a really good year for YOUR charity, with a 5% growth in membership and a 6% increase in income.
Far more importantly, ElectricAid was able to fund 138 separate development projects, and to make 21 emergency fundings, touching the lives of tens of thousands of people – all on YOUR behalf, and all through YOUR generosity.
Please do take some time out to read this excellent report, we think you will find it interesting and uplifting. The Report is one way for us to discharge our responsibilities for accountability and transparency for all our members and supporters. These responsibilities are now more important than ever.
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Cricket – Willie Webster trophy finals day
ESB finished the competitive season on a high with a solid win over the Theatrical Cavaliers (Gaiety Theatre team) in the 3rd/4th playoff for the Willie Webster trophy.
ESB fielded first. Constant pressure was applied by tight bowling and excellent fielding restricting the Cavalier’s score to 113. Wickets were shared between Damian Pacitto, Baajee Dabhade and Vikas Bhagaur.
The run chase was measured, and again solid contributions from Baajee, Rahmet Ullah, Vikas with a finishing effort from Killian Morgan resulted in an ultimately comfortable 5 wicket win.
For the final match it was great to have a lot of support with a number of family members present.
There are some more photos here.
There will be a few more friendly matches before the season ends – it’s never too late to start!
Mary (Maureen) Moran RIP ( Ex C.O. Westport)
The death has occurred of MAUREEN MORAN (née Burns)Tubber Hill, Westport, Mayo ( Ex Clerical Officer, Westport)
Deeply regretted by her loving husband Pat, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and a wide circle of friends.
Reposing at McGing’s Funeral Home, Westport on Tuesday from 6pm with removal at 7.30pm to St. Mary’s Church, Westport. Requiem Mass Wednesday at 12.30pm with the funeral proceeding to Aughavale Cemetery.
Our Thoughts & Prayers are with her husband Patrick at this sad time.
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Public Release: 19-Jul-2017
Innovative nanosensor for disease diagnosis
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
IMAGE: Demonstration of mobile breath analysis using a portable sensing module. (a) Low-power sensing of simulated biomarker using MEMS sensor arrays and (b) pattern recognition of H2S, acetone, and toluene using PCA.... view more
Credit: KAIST
Breath pattern recognition is a futuristic diagnostic platform. Simple characterizing target gas concentrations of human exhaled breath will lead to diagnose of the disease as well as physical condition.
A research group under Prof. Il-Doo Kim in the Department of Materials Science at KAIST has developed diagnostic sensors using protein-encapsulated nanocatalysts, which can diagnose certain diseases by analyzing human exhaled breath. This technology enables early monitoring of various diseases through pattern recognition of biomarker gases related to diseases in human exhalation.
The protein-templated catalyst synthesis route is very simple and versatile for producing not only a single component of catalytic nanoparticles, but also diverse heterogeneous intermetallic catalysts with sizes less than 3 nm. The research team has developed ever more sensitive and selective chemiresistive sensors that can potentially diagnose specific diseases by analyzing exhaled breath gases.
The results of this study, which were contributed by Dr. Sang-Joon Kim and Dr. Seon-Jin Choi as first authors were selected as the cover-featured article in the July issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, an international journal of the American Chemical Society.
In human breath, diverse components are found including water vapor, hydrogen, acetone, toluene, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide, which are more excessively exhaled from patients. Some of these components are closely related to diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and halitosis.
Breath analysis for disease diagnosis started from capturing exhaled breaths in a Tedlar bag and subsequently the captured breath gases were injected into a miniaturized sensor system, similar to an alcohol detector. It is possible to analyze exhaled breath very rapidly with a simple analyzing process. The breath analysis can detect trace changes in exhaled breath components, which contribute to early diagnosis of diseases.
However, technological advances are needed to accurately analyze gases in the breath, which occur at very low levels, from 1 ppb to 1 ppm. In particular, it has been a critical challenge for chemiresistive type chemical sensors to selectively detect specific biomarkers in thousands of interfering gases including humid vapor.
Conventionally, noble metallic catalysts such as platinum and palladium have been functionalized onto metal oxide sensing layers. However, the gas sensitivity was not enough to detect ppb-levels of biomarker species in exhaled breath.
To overcome the current limitations, the research team utilized nanoscale protein (apoferritin) in animals as sacrificial templates. The protein templates possess hollow nanocages at the core site and various alloy catalytic nanoparticles can be encapsulated inside the protein nanocages.
The protein nanocages are advantageous because a nearly unlimited number of material compositions in the periodic table can be assembled for the synthesis of heterogeneous catalytic nanoparticles. In addition, intermetallic nanocatalysts with a controlled atomic ratio of two different elements can be achieved using the protein nanocages, which is an innovative strategy for finding new types of catalysts. For example, highly efficient platinum-based catalysts can be synthesized, such as platinum-palladium (PtPd), platinum-nickel (PtNi), platinum-ruthenium (PtRu), and platinum-yttrium (PtY).
The research team developed outstanding sensing layers consisting of metal oxide nanofibers functionalized by the heterogeneous catalysts with large and highly-porous surface areas, which are especially optimized for selective detection of specific biomarkers. The biomarker sensing performance was improved approximately 3~4-fold as compared to the conventional single component of platinum and palladium catalysts-loaded nanofiber sensors. In particular, 100-fold resistance transitions toward acetone (1 ppm) and hydrogen sulfide (1 ppm) were observed in exhaled breath sensors using the heterogeneous nanocatalysts, which is the best performance ever reported in literature.
The research team developed a disease diagnosis platform that recognizes individual breathing patterns by using a multiple sensor array system with diverse sensing layers and heterogeneous catalysts, so that the people can easily identify health abnormalities. Using a 16-sensor array system, physical conditions can be continuously monitored by analyzing concentration changes of biomarkers in exhaled breath gases.
Prof. Kim said, "New types of heterogeneous nanocatalysts were synthesized using protein templates with sizes around 2 nm and functionalized on various metal oxide nanofiber sensing layers. The established sensing libraries can detect biomarker species with high sensitivity and selectivity." He added, "the new and innovative breath gas analysis platform will be very helpful for reducing medical expenditures and continuous monitoring of physical conditions"
Patents related to this technology were licensed to two companies in March and June this year.
Younghye Cho
younghyecho@kaist.ac.kr
@KAISTPR
http://www.kaist.ac.kr
Accounts of Chemical Research
MSIP Biomedical Treatment Technology Development Project
BIOMECHANICS/BIOPHYSICS
NANOTECHNOLOGY/MICROMACHINES
Mobile Breath Analysis (IMAGE)
http://www.kaist.ac.kr/_prog/_board/?code=ed_news&mode=V&no=67677&upr_ntt_no=67677&site_dvs_cd=en&menu_dvs_cd=0601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00047
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Excited and happy Stratieva continues ERC comeback adventure in Cyprus
By ERC
Ekaterina Stratieva will continue her FIA European Rally Championship return on the Cyprus Rally later this month.
The 2015 ERC Ladies’ Trophy winner finished second in class on her Barum Czech Rally Zlín comeback last month.
Although she harboured ambitions of tackling more events, she admits the prospect of competing on the Cyprus Rally, which takes place from 27-29 September, was just a dream until main partner Petrol stepped forward.
“I feel so excited and happy,” said the Bulgarian. “The Cyprus Rally will be a big challenge because it’s an unknown race for me and I don’t have so much experience on gravel. I always wanted to participate on this rally but without my partners from Petrol it would have stayed in my dreams.
“Like in Zlín I will have the honour to start with a Peugeot 208 R2, but this time from Saintéloc Racing. I always secretly dreamed and hoped to have a really great team like this to stand behind me. I will trust fully their competence and experience to help me with set-up suggestions for the car on the gravel roads.”
Stratieva has not competed on gravel since 2014 when she took part on the ERC counters in Azores, Greece and Latvia. Her co-driver, Georgi Avramov, meanwhile, has never rallied on a loose-surface event before.
The post Excited and happy Stratieva continues ERC comeback adventure in Cyprus appeared first on FIA ERC | European Rally Championship.
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Did the Steele Dossier Lead the Democrats To Be Complacent after They Got Hacked?
November 24, 2017 /46 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe, WikiLeaks /by emptywheel
I get asked, a lot, why I obsess over the Steele dossier. A lot of people believe that even if the dossier doesn’t pan out, it doesn’t matter because Mueller’s investigation doesn’t depend on it. I’d be more sympathetic to that view if people like Adam Schiff and John Podesta didn’t keep invoking the dossier in ways that makes their legitimate concerns easy to discredit.
But I now believe the dossier may have done affirmative damage.
Consider the timeline.
Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias reportedly engaged Fusion for opposition research in April (their first payment was May 24).
April 26, Joseph Mifsud told George Papadopoulos that Russians said they had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, in the form of emails.
April 29, the DNC discovered they had been hacked. Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussman had a key role in their response.
“Not sure it is related to what the F.B.I. has been noticing,” said one internal D.N.C. email sent on April 29. “The D.N.C. may have been hacked in a serious way this week, with password theft, etc.”
No one knew just how bad the breach was — but it was clear that a lot more than a single filing cabinet worth of materials might have been taken. A secret committee was immediately created, including Ms. Dacey, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Brown and Michael Sussmann, a former cybercrimes prosecutor at the Department of Justice who now works at Perkins Coie, the Washington law firm that handles D.N.C. political matters.
“Three most important questions,” Mr. Sussmann wrote to his clients the night the break-in was confirmed. “1) What data was accessed? 2) How was it done? 3) How do we stop it?”
Sometime in May, Robert Johnston (who then worked at Crowdstrike) briefed the DNC on the hack. He told them how much data had been stolen, but he told them intelligence hackers generally don’t do anything with the stolen data.
When he briefed the DNC in that conference room, Johnston presented a report that basically said, “They’ve balled up data and stolen it.” But the political officials were hardly experienced in the world of intelligence. They were not just horrified but puzzled. “They’re looking at me,” Johnston recalled, “and they’re asking, ‘What are they going to do with the data that was taken?’”
Back then, no one knew. In addition to APT 29, another hacking group had launched malware into the DNC’s system. Called APT 28, it’s also associated Russian intelligence. Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist and security expert, said it’s not crystal clear which Russian spy service is behind each hacker group, but like many other cybersecurity investigators, he agreed that Russian intelligence carried out the attack.
So, Johnston said, “I start thinking back to all of these previous hacks by Russia and other adversaries like China. I think back to the Joint Chiefs hack. What did they do with this data? Nothing. They took the information for espionage purposes. They didn’t leak it to WikiLeaks.”
So, Johnston recalled, that’s what he told the DNC in May 2016: Such thefts have become the norm, and the hackers did not plan on doing anything with what they had purloined.
May 25 was likely the date on which the last emails shared with Wikileaks got exfiltrated.
On June 9, Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Don Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower. Both at a Prevezon court hearing that morning and after the Trump Tower meeting, she reportedly met with Fusion’s Glenn Simpson. Though there’s no sign of Baker Hostetler paying for any services anytime near that meeting. Sometime Fusion associate Rinat Akhmetshin accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting; it’s possible he was paid for work in June.
Sometime in “mid-June,” the Perkins Coie lawyer Sussman and the DNC first met with the FBI about the hack. They asked the FBI to attribute the hack to Russia.
The D.N.C. executives and their lawyer had their first formal meeting with senior F.B.I. officials in mid-June, nine months after the bureau’s first call to the tech-support contractor. Among the early requests at that meeting, according to participants: that the federal government make a quick “attribution” formally blaming actors with ties to Russian government for the attack to make clear that it was not routine hacking but foreign espionage.
“You have a presidential election underway here and you know that the Russians have hacked into the D.N.C.,” Mr. Sussmann said, recalling the message to the F.B.I. “We need to tell the American public that. And soon.”
The FBI would not attribute the hack formally until the following year.
On June 14, the DNC placed a story with the WaPo, spinning the hack to minimize the damage done.
On June 15, Guccifer 2.0 started posting. In his first post, he proved a number of the statements Crowdstrike or Democrats made to the WaPo were wrong, including that:
The hackers took just two documents
Only Trump-related documents had been stolen
Hillary’s campaign had not been hacked
The DNC had responded quickly
No donor information had been stolen
Now, you’d think this (plus Julian Assange’s claim to have Hillary emails) would alert the Democrats that Johnston’s advice — that the Russians probably wouldn’t do anything with the data they stole — was wrong. Except that (as far as is publicly known) none of the documents Guccifer 2.0 leaked in that first batch were from the DNC.
Around this same time, Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias asked Fusion to focus on Trump’s Russian ties, which led to Christopher Steele’s involvement in the already started oppo effort.
On June 20, Perkins Coie would have learned from a Steele report that the dirt Russia had on Hillary consisted of “bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct.” It would also have learned that “the dossier however had not yet been made available abroad, including to TRUMP or his campaign team.”
On July 19, Perkins Coie would have learned from a Steele report that at a meeting with a Kremlin official named Diyevkin which Carter Page insists didn’t take place, Diyevkin “rais[ed] a dossier of ‘kompromat’ the Kremlin possessed on TRUMP’s Democratic presidential rival, Hillary CLINTON, and its possible release to the Republican’s campaign team.” At that point in time, the reference to kompromat would still be to intercepted messages, not email.
On July 22, Wikileaks released the first trove of DNC emails.
On July 26 — days after Russian-supplied emails were being released to the press — Perkins Coie would receive a Steele report (based on June reporting) that claimed FSB had the lead on hacking in Russia. And the report would claim — counter to a great deal of publicly known evidence — that “there had been only limited success in penetrating the ‘first tier’ foreign targets.” That is, even after the Russian hacked emails got released to the public, Steele would still be providing information to the Democrats suggesting there was no risk of emails getting released because Russians just weren’t that good at hacking.
It appears likely that the Democrats asked Fusion to focus on Russia because they believed they had been badly hacked by Russia.
Everything they learned (and would have learned, if the June reporting on cybersecurity had been produced in timely fashion) between the time they were hacked and when Wikileaks would start releasing massive amounts of emails would have told the Democrats that the Russians hadn’t really succeeded with their hacking, and any kompromat they had on Hillary was not emails, but instead dated intercepts. The Steele dossier would have led them to be complacent, rather than prepping for the onslaught of the emails.
We don’t know how Steele’s intelligence was used within the party. But if they had paid attention to it, it would have done affirmative damage, because it might have led them to continue to rely on Johnston’s opinion that the stolen emails weren’t coming out.
Tags: Carter Page, Christopher Steele, Don Jr., Fusion, George Papadopoulos, Glenn Simpson, Jared Kushner, Joseph Mifsud, Marc Elias, Michael Sussman, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Paul Manafort, Perkins Coie, Prevezon, Rinat Akhmetshin
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bmaz says:
You have to be kidding me. There is a difference between the “Steele Dossier” and the discreet reports, facts, evidence …… or, maybe lack thereof, as to discreet portions.
And attempts, whether successful or not, respectively to corroborate the same. This is, as criminal investigations go, beyond ridiculous.
This argument portends that every state level DR and every federal 302, or any document received in a fed investigation, is COMPLETELY obviated by some minor or tangential infirmity.
Of course, that is not true in the least. Things work different than that.
emptywheel says:
Um. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say. It is totally irrelevant to any single thing I’ve said in this post.
I know you love the dossier. I think it likely it was a deliberate attempt at disinformation. So love it all you want, but at least understand it well enough to make a coherent argument.
Clarifying: I think Steele was fed disinfo. I have no reason to doubt his good intentions.
Rubbish. I neither “love”, nor scorn, the “dossier”. I think it is a complicated report that is not subject to such knee jerk characterization.
Acting like it is a singular evidentiary whole that either exists as fact, or doesn’t and fails, as a whole, is silly. Discreet parts of it are either capable of corroboration or not. Different parts seem to have been subject to one or the other, corroboration or question. And both would impinge on how they ever would be presented in a GJ or warrant app, of which the reportage (to be clear, not hear) has been mostly beyond ignorant. And they certainly will continue to evolve as to however Mueller would use them as more evidence and testimony comes in. Accepting the “dossier” or scorning the “dossier” at this point is a fools errand, and far from the point as to any current use being made of it.
Again, entirely irrelevant to the subject of this post.
This post explores what the lawyers advising the campaign would think they knew if they treated this intelligence dossier as intelligence. If they believed what was in it then they would have given Hillary and the DNC shitty advice.
That is a factual question: what do the pre-Wikileaks reports say about hacking and dirt on Hillary. On both questions, the dossier was 100%, laughably, wrong.
Time will tell. But my guess is it is a mixed bag. We shall see. There is a joke I am dying to make here, but I will not.
Peterr says:
I’d be more sympathetic to that view if people like Adam Schiff and John Podesta didn’t keep invoking the dossier in ways that makes their legitimate concerns easy to discredit.
This is exactly what bmaz is criticizing, too. Schiff, Podesta, et al. invoke The Dossier as a completely accurate whole, rather than picking it apart to distill truth from disinformation and/or fiction. Far from being irrelevant to the subject of the post, on this you and bmaz are entirely agreed.
Hate to break it to you, but there it is.
The subject of the post is not whether the dossier is credible or not. The subject of the post is whether the individual reports that Perkins Coie got between the time they asked for a RU focus and the time Wikileaks started dumping the emails led them to be less prepared for that email dump.
Bmaz’ point might be relevant in other posts I’ve done–such as where I point out how fucking stupid Dems have been on the dossier (though he has consistently disagreed that they have been). But not this one, bc this one is about what the Dems would have learned from the dossier and how those three reports might have led them not to prepare for the Wikileaks dump.
From the very end of the post:
The Steele dossier would have led them to be complacent, rather than prepping for the onslaught of the emails.
I didn’t say you were writing about whether it was credible or not, but that the Dems failed to be critical in their acceptance of it. *You* point the dossier as the capstone to your piece. If I’m following you right, you are saying here in your conclusion to the whole piece that because the Dems uncritically relied on the dossier, they screwed themselves.
Sounds about right to me.
Question 2 is but a point along the path to answering #3. By itself, it is not that important. Sussman’s questions are essentially technical, and therefore beyond the bounds of the DNC staff/HRC campaign. You hire people to answer these questions.
The missing important question is “What might the hackers do with this information?”
What Sussman’s focus misses is the “so what?” question, which is ENTIRELY within the scope of the DNC and HRC campaign. What might our opponents do with this information, should they come into possession of it? What might the ordinary voter think, if this should become generally available?
It’s not necessarily that The Dossier led them to be complacent, but that they chose to ignore the elephant in the room (so to speak). By focusing on the technical questions, they missed the opportunity to strategize around the political issues.
[There is also a certain amount of ass-covering in this approach. The problem, following Sussman’s mistaken line of thinking, is that IT screwed up. Not the candidate, not the DNC officials, not anyone with any authority, but Them. By not asking “so what,” the political folks neglected to use their expertise to mitigate the potential problems that were coming their way.]
Adding, that Sussman quote came from a NYT piece that REALLY put the Dems in the best possible light, and FBI in a crappy light.
As a former prosecutor he should have known far, far better.
pseudonymous in nc says:
As I’ve said before, my approach to the [published] dossier is not primarily the content, but what we can extrapolate from it in terms of “what was believed to be known” and “what was believed to be believed” at certain points in 2016 among those made privy to Steele’s reporting. In terms of its content, I think whatever disinfo feedback loop existed becomes more obvious after the conventions, and that Steele’s chops on digital active measures were obviously lacking because he’s an old-school HUMINT / dodgy deals guy.
I think I’m mostly in agreement with Peterr here: when you’re done over by hackers in such a comprehensive way, you have to assume that everything’s gone and can potentially be used in the most damaging way possible… but oh god you hope it won’t be. And sometimes you’re lucky or just think you’re lucky. You lose a bunch of credentials and oh fuck it was a weak unsalted hash on the password DB and you somehow don’t have a wave of exploits based on losing those credentials, and you think you’ve escaped, but maybe that’s because whoever nabbed them is seeing whether those credentials also unlock GMail accounts or iCloud or something juicier.
Johnston’s advice, if accurate, was a kind of dereliction of duty, but it was probably what the DNC wanted to hear. If the people receiving Steele’s reports felt he was sufficiently qualified to guide them on hacking, then that was a dereliction of duty. If there was nobody in the room with sufficient clue to say “you’re fucked, we’re fucked, everybody’s fucking fucked” in their best Malcolm Tucker voice, then that’s a problem. But even if you’re fucked and you know you’re fucked, there’s not much you can do. Are you going to release the entire contents of your mail server including confidential and deeply personal information to try and get the shit out before any hackers do? (If you redact, the hackers won’t, and the press will zoom in on what you redacted because that’s what they do.)
My best guess is that regardless of what Steele or Johnston said, the Dems weren’t complacent, they were just hoping for the best. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the scenario in which Wikileaks drip-drip-drip released and the political press spent every bloody day looking through dull emails for something juicy.
Yeah, mostly agree. You’d think after Guccifer had proven them wrong on June 15, they’d have snapped to. And I think you’re right: both Johnston and Steele were telling them what they wanted to hear: that it wasn’t going to be as bad as it was.
I would say, however, that the prior example of SyriaLeaks should have been a warning. Or, for that matter, PanamaLeaks, which was going on in real time.
Desider says:
Johnston was simply working on prior behavior. I don’t think the dossier was specifically responsible for that, and I think everyone understood it might be different this time – do the expressions “October Surprise” and “release her emails” mean anything? – but there was largely a hope-and-pray in absence of too much they could do about it. I don’t think the Steele dossier was expected to be the absolute latest vs a comprehensive look-see over the background landscape, and of course no one but someone with an agenda or fantasies expected the dossier to be anywhere close to 100% accurate (with that 100% being a canard Trump used), which further points to the unlikelihood of the dossier itself making Team Clinton complacent. Johnston ethically admits his possible blunder, but Hillary also knows that Clinton Rules make an exception out of every precedent, such as how FBI directors handle investigations and press releases, so I doubt if they just assumed they were out of the woods. They just didnt have too many good options, and it’s only a year later we start to appreciate the vastness of the Russian conspiracy. Sure, Steele may have made them and the FBI complacent about that because no one had stuck their head nearly far enough into the wasp’s nest to see. Last November it was easy to scoff at the idea the Russians influenced much, much less prior June. A year and a half on, it’s all rather bolshoi impressive.
earlofhuntingdon says:
It should have been obvious to the DNC that a massive hack in mid-campaign might mean that whatever was hacked would come into the open in the worst possible way. They could only assume that such a hack was unfriendly, and that once the data was “out there”, it would find its way to those who most wanted it use it against Clinton and the Dems generally.
They would know what was hacked. Senior campaign people should have assessed what it might mean if it were revealed. They should have going through war game scenarios and planned their best responses. They should have determined who would be involved, who would take lead, depending on the issue, and so on. They might have done this sort of disaster preparedness, but it’s not obvious from their messy, seemingly uncoordinated responses.
It’s really really hard to capture how badly DWS fucked the Dems. After she got fired I kept pointing out that losing her was a blessing, the Dems had just been looking for an excuse for probably over a year. But they really had to deal with two challenges on discovering the hack: the vacuum created by DWS’ failures, and the hack itself.
scribe says:
The thing is, the Crowdstrike tech telling the DNC that it was likely the info taken would not be used, because that’s how intelligence services work (“…they took it for espionage purposes…”) was a valid conclusion based upon the pattern the APT (and other intel-service hackers) had established.
The surest way to fake someone out is to first establish a pattern, get them inured to it, and then use that pattern to lead into something else. E.g., on first-and-ten, repeatedly run off-tackle left with a WR bolting down the right sideline, then on the next first-and-ten run the same play but pass to that WR. You will dupe the D. In this situation, just because they never let the stolen info out in the past doesn’t mean they won’t do it in this particular case with your info, but you can’t know they will until they do.
Was Crowdstrike’s bad advice? No. It accurately reflected the historical experience. Was it complete advice? Ehhh … he surely didn’t think deeply enough, but neither did the DNC. He didn’t say “y’know, there’s always that unguarded WR running down the right sideline on first-and-ten, so watch out for him.” And the DNC … no one with any skills other than fundraising and schmoozing.
i appreciate ew’s lengthy, very helpful summary.
not that it matters, but i no longer really care much what the past consequences for dems were, nor about the true/false content of the dossier are. that’s water under the bridge.
what i do care about now is that the fascinating mystery be solved in all its gory details of fusion gps’ involvement in oppo research (clinton and bush) + the prevezon work + the veselnitskaya overture with dt, jr. i care about enough to have spent an hour or so very early this morning puzzling about.
how the hell did this one firm get so wound up in matters involving russia? how did they end up playing both ends to the middle. if fusion gps were a law firm, they’d be in big trouble for representing parts of both sides in a conflict.
as with guciferleaks and shadow brokers, what fascinates me now is the unknown. what frustrates me is the slow grind of investigative bodies in the u. s. – congressional (various muddling committees) and executive (fbi).
as an aside, i really do appreciate ew making these two statements:
1. “… emptywheel says:
Clarifying: I think Steele was fed disinfo. I have no reason to doubt his good intentions…”
i have assumed steele worked in good faith and out of strong professional distrust of russian motives. i share that distrust and not merely because i was a cold-war kid :)
2.”… I’d be more sympathetic to that view if people like Adam Schiff and John Podesta didn’t keep invoking the dossier in ways that makes their legitimate concerns easy to discredit…”
in this case i am happy ew identified by name dems she has previously referred to as” foolishly” (my term) supporting the dossier. i’m pleased to see the miscreants listed because i doubt most dem politicians would hang an
ounce of weight on that dossier now, not out of disbelief but out of political wariness. that one or two dem pols do is their problem; maybe they even have a strategy. most dems are way beyond the steele dossier and russian involvement.
it might be useful to keep in mind that the dnc and the clinton campaign were involved in a very important contest. they were focused on what campaigns typically focus on.
this campaign was the first to experience and to fall in part due to digital/internet thievery and digital/internet manipulation of voters’ minds. you can bet no campaign from now on will make that mistake again.
oh, and according to the recent associated press report on dnc/clinton campaign hacking, the clinton campaign was well-protected – or so they thought.
zonefreezone says:
Podesta and Schiff could be fluffing up the dossier to support its use for FISA warrant?
something’s going on. it not as though these two very experienced pols were the village idiots.
It wouldn’t have been the only thing backing the FISA warrants, and the dates on known FISA warrants have changed so it’s not even clear whom it would be used on.
dalloway says:
I suspect if you were to ask any random voter in the three crucial swing states if the information in the stolen DNC/Podesta e-mails made them vote for Trump, they’d give you a blank stare and ask who John Podesta is. When Trump voters hear “e-mails,” they think, as they were conditioned to for years by right wing media, of Clinton’s private server when she was Secretary of State and the lies about her compromising national security with it. If the stolen DNC e-mails had any effect on the election, it was because the voters thought they related to the private server, not that they gave a rat’s ass about who said what to whom at the DNC. Both national parties’ leadership think they’re far more consequential and powerful than they actually are. As became obvious when Donna Brazile published her book, they’re mostly about backstabbing and jockeying for influence, not about winning or losing elections.
SpaceLifeForm says:
Do not forget Imran Awan.
Flipped by now?
Imran Awan hid secret server, backed up Democrats’ data on Dropbox
http://www.worldtribune.com/imran-awan-hid-secret-server-backed-up-democrats-data-on-dropbox/
“Imran Awan is the walking example of an insider threat, a criminal actor who had access to everything,” the senior official said.
Awan also backed up massive amounts of Democrats’ data to the Dropbox file hosting service, the official said.
“Congressional offices are prohibited from using Dropbox, so an unofficial account was used, meaning Awan could have still had access to the data even though he was banned from the congressional network,” the report said.
[And, Dropbox not really that secure]
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dropbox-and-box-leak-files-in-security-through-obscurity-nightmare/
https://www.business2community.com/cloud-computing/6-reasons-dropbox-isnt-secure-enough-business-0795298
harpie says:
Do we know if the entire dossier has been made public?
It has not. There would be other subjects covered by other reports. But given some of the timing noted in the next post, I’m not convinced we’ve seen everything Steele wrote yet.
Thanks for the reply, Marcy. I’ll trot on over there. :-)
Thank you, as always. This analysis sheds a little more, much needed, light on the subject.
The dossier has sown confusion from its inception. In so far as it has obscured the truth, and continues to, it has been damaging. All sides have been able to make use of it to the detriment of political discourse.
Either wittingly, unwittingly or indifferently, Steele presented disinformation to a presidential campaign and then to the press. His dossier wasn’t proffered merely as a collection of “rumors.” It was presented as some sort of raw intelligence gathered by the ex-head of MI6’s Russian desk from figures either within or with close ties to the Kremlin. Not your everyday opposition research, it carries the weight of Steele’s credentials and connections to lend it gravitas. But, with friends like “a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,” or “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official,”et al., who needs enemies? Unfortunately, it seems to me, Steele has allowed himself to be used.
There’s a reason “raw intelligence” is raw, if not an oxymoron. It’s like an MSM article: it might lack context or essential facts necessary to discern its meaning; it often contains mistakes or omissions, or over or under emphasis of critical facts. It might contain lies, though given its frequent reliance on unnamed sources, it should be assumed to contain lies. The question is which ones.
That’s why intel analysts exist, to turn raw eggs and flour into finished pasta more amenable to intelligent consumption. How it’s used, however, is not within their control. Ask Team B.
Rayne says:
I don’t think the DNC became complacent after the hack. I think they were complacent under Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s leadership — period.
She brought zero background as a leader of large scale networked enterprise environments. She thought only like a traditional, pre-internet campaigner — like a pre-Howard Dean campaigner. And I think she took a lot for granted about the party and candidates, based on a stale worldview. All this shaped the staff and its attitudes below her.
The NGP VAN breach in late 2015 offers an example of the problem she posed as a leader; did it never occur to her to ensure better firewalling between Democratic candidate campaigns — especially when one of the candidates had only become a Democratic Party member that year in order to run under its banner? If she couldn’t ensure there weren’t breaches intra-party in 2015 and handled NGP VAN breach sloppily, why would we ever assume she was capable of preventing or handling breaches of the entire party in 2016, before or after paying for the dossier?
Actually remember the NGP thing was the second problem.
I’m forever at a loss with the reply button — if there’s a trick to it, I can’t figure it out.
So, in reply to:
I do understand the concept of raw intelligence as such. I meant to emphasize the distinction between publicly sourced, verified, opposition research and the memos Steele produced. In the hands of political operatives and reporters, Steele’s reputation alone appears to have lent credence to his unverified raw intelligence. If the DNC took the memos seriously enough and at face value, they would have done so based on reassurances such as the author’s reputation and access to good sources. And they would, therefore, have been led astray.
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“long hold” – touch and hold – the reply button. a screen will appear with choices. select “open in a new tab”. you will be taken to a standard writing screen. comment. enter id info and hit “post comment”. software will automatically put your comment where it belongs.
Huh…thanks! Here is a comment which explains how I’ve been doing it…a little more involved, but it works, too.
On a non-touch device, instead of long press you do a right-click, open in new tab.
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To Orion @11:43 & Rayne @5:55
Re DNC incompetence
Irony. It’s very hard to give attention or emphasis to cyber matters when your candidate has done State Dept biz solely on an nonsecure server in her laundry room and erased 1/2 of emails after they are subject to subpoenae. Only 1/2 of history is known in this matter and I kind of think the most interesting bits have been not been revealed. Yet
“… Irony. It’s very hard to give attention or emphasis to cyber matters when your candidate has done State Dept biz solely on an nonsecure server in her laundry room and erased 1/2 of emails after they are subject to subpoenae….”
don’t use my comment to excuse riding your own hobby horse.
my comment was intended to give another perspective on the dnc/clinton campaign re cyber security – namely that all campaigns tend to focus on standard campaign work, not cybersecurity. the clinton campaign was the first to face a full frontal cyber assault by a powerful and determined enemy.
if you are one of the multitude of happy clinton abusers, and you want to re-interpret and yammer about clinton protecting her privacy, go ahead. just don’t use me as your lead-in.
yes, thank you.
Looks like FBI was more complacent than Democrats about hack threat. Should Hillary have policed the FBI to make sure they did their job? (could Obama have without looking partisan?)
I would not assume complacency when there are numerous investigations going on.
There is the possibility that both Johnson and Assange are correct. Johnson that intelligence services both foreign and domestic collect information for their internal use and analysis. Assange that the data he received came from an internal DNC leak (likely by DWS’s Pak IT crew or DNC IT sources). If that is the case Johnson’s assurances would still have led them astray. The damaging behavior is the same, but the cause for it varies.
Worth noting that Johnson’s prior expertise was with APT 29, not APT 28. At least publicly, the latter is believed to have been collecting for intel purposes, whereas the former is the one that leaked the emails.
If the DNC had applied standard failure modes and effects analysis, they would have identified and investigated several potential sources for the leaks, including external hacks and internal leaks from a vendor, mole, etc. After all, potentially only the election was at stake.
Instead, the DNC just whinged it, seemingly assuming that the most convenient reason was the right one. That alone should tell the Dems that continuing to do what they’ve been doing for years can only result in the 2018 elections turning out like earlier ones. Not a recipe for election victory or national renewal and a turning away from the disastrous priorities of neoliberalism.
Pretty hard to argue with that.
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The crisis caused by the Internet oligopolies has us careening toward regulation that will likely entrench those oligapolies -- to the detriment of the consumers we seek to protect (and the innovators who might benefit us). One need look no farther than yesterday's front-page stories in both WS Journal and NY Times.
However, many recognize that the real problem with the Facebook-Google duopoly on advertising stems from "the original sin of the Internet," the reliance on the ad model that mis-aligns incentives by making users "the product, not the customer." The problem is that few see how to fix that underlying problem, so very few are even trying!
How can we get services that serve all of of us affordably? It seems impossible (as Zuckerberg, himself, explains), but this is just a failure of imagination (as called out by such notables as Tim Berners-Lee and Jaron Lanier). My previous post explains in some detail how Zuckerberg has just thrown up his hands, and how we can all be far more imaginative about that.
But let's consider how our current response is likely to make matters even worse. The problem is that we are moving to regulate the symptom instead of treating the disease.
Some view this a a simple matter of regulating data privacy and control, but as many now observe, regulating that will concentrate even more power in the oligopolies. Such regulations (going into effect with Europe's General Data Protection Regulations next month, and increasingly likely here) will be cumbersome and costly in a way that will constrain innovation and market forces. They may bring some relief, but at what cost? As Zuckerberg testified: "A lot of times regulation by definition puts in place rules that a company that is larger, that has resources like ours, can easily comply with but that might be more difficult for a smaller startup." And there is high risk that regulation will overshoot.
And on the flip side, many critics of regulation point out that many consumers care little about data privacy and control as long as they get services they want at affordable cost (as advertising enables). That brings us back to the question of business models. With or without regulation of privacy, will consumers really get services they want, if we stick to the ad model?
Why regulation is a band-aid, not a cure
Maurice Stucke offers this analysis in Harvard Business Review, "Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data:"
Lower-quality products with less privacy
Surveillance and security risks (Government capture, Covert surveillance, Implications of a data policy violation/security breach)
Wealth transfer to data-opolies
Loss of trust
Significant costs on third parties
Less innovation in markets dominated by data-opolies
Social and moral concerns
Political concerns (Bias, Censorship, Manipulation)
Regulating data privacy and control will not eliminate most of these problems -- in fact, it may make many of them worse.
As Tim Wu outlines in the Times, "Don't Fix Facebook. Replace It," what we really have here is failure to align business models. He quotes Walter Lippman on "free" TV (in 1959): it is ultimately "the creature, the servant and indeed the prostitute of merchandising." Things have only gotten worse, -- merchandising has gotten far more sophisticated, and we prostitute more and more of our life to it.
This is not to say that there is no need for regulation of data privacy and control, but that it should be limited to areas that business model solutions can not address well.
Aligning the business models
What we need is to move aggressively to change the business models.
A key part of the issue is to ensure that users are compensated for the value of the data they provide, as outlined in a recent WSJ article by Posner and Weyl, "Want Our Personal Data? Pay for It." That can be done as a credit against user subscription fees (a "reverse meter"), at levels that users accept as fair compensation. That would shift incentives toward satisfying users (effectively making the advertiser their customer, rather than the other way around). Paying for user data is long overdue -- independent data agent "infomediaries" were proposed and richly explored in 1999, in Hagel and Singer's book, Net Worth.
But a the deeper challenge is to address the total value proposition -- to balance the varying value exchanges of users, platforms, advertisers, and other participants in this network market. If platforms pay users for their data, at what level? If users pay platforms for service, at what level? Different users get different levels of value and have different abilities to pay. Serving an added user costs little, but continuing to provide and improve services take investment. That is where we need real creativity in our business models. How do we make the subscription price fair and affordable to provide essentially universal access, and still make the business sustainable? (Consider this thought experiment for directional guidance.)
FairPay points to one possible market-based path to dealing with this high inherent variability in value -- as outlined in "Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)" (and in the rest of this blog and in a recent journal article). Companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter could move in in that direction on their own initiative. But they are so seduced by their tens of billions of dollars in advertising that they see little reason to try. Trying might cost them in the short term, even if it could make them more profitable in the long run.
One way to force the platforms to move toward business models to better serve consumers is with simple regulatory mandates, as outlined in my previous post: "require that X% of revenue must be user-derived by some date -- with X starting small, but then increasing in stages over time. As X increases, incentives for tolerating ad-related abuse would be reduced and offset by pressure to be customer-first. Let [each platform] figure out how best to do that, but give them targets over time, and hold them to it." This kind of light touch works well for vehicle emissions, as a market-based solution -- why not for Internet platforms?
The drunkard's search
Our challenge is much like "the drunkard's search" (as illustrated above). The light of regulation is much brighter than the light of innovative business models. But the cure we seek is down that street.
FairPay offers us a flashlight that points down that street. It is not yet clear how broadly and effectively FairPay can enable this kind of transformation of business models to work. But it illuminates a direction that should take us closer, if not all the way. Maybe others have better ideas, but FairPay is easy to try, and maybe better ideas will become apparent once we start down this road -- even if the flashlight of FairPay does not take us all the way.
But in any case, it is urgent that we start moving in that general direction -- that is where the real cure is.
More on business models: Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)
Broad suggestions on opening up the platform oligopolies are in a post on my other blog: "Architecting Our Platforms to Better Serve Us -- Augmenting and Modularizing the Algorithm"
Update 2/26/19: My article in Techonomy, To Regulate Facebook and Google, Turn Users Into Customers.
Update 5/4/18: Bloomberg reports: Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option
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For a full introduction to FairPay see the Overview and the sidebar on How FairPay Works (just to the right, if reading this at FairPayZone.com). There is also a guide to More Details (including links to a video).
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Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)
It's the economics, stupid! -- that's the fundamental problem / fundamental fix
[Update 4/10/18: Zuckerberg hints that "certainly we consider" ideas in the direction suggested here.]
[Update 5/4/18: Bloomberg reports: Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option]
[A newer post, Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Market Solution to a Market Problem, focuses on regulatory issues.]
The Facebook fiasco spotlights the perfect storm we now face, as the dream of digital media empowerment turns sour. Many have suggested a range of remedies. But at its heart this is a business model problem -- we may need a multi-pronged remedial effort, but without fixing the underlying business model, other measures will have limited effectiveness. We have not been imaginative about the business model -- but we can do much better. This post explains how.
Tim Berners-Lee (inventor and champion of the Web) put his finger on this issue:
Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it’s too late to change the way platforms operate. ...On both points, we need to be a little more creative. Create a new set of incentives and changes...will follow.
Facebook brought this to a head, but the ugly glare falls on Google, Twitter, and others. Many rightly blame this “original sin” of the Internet ad model that enabled wide access to “free” services. It is now all too clear why it matters that “if you are not paying, you are the product.” We created an “attention market” monster that seeks only to "engage" us -- an economy of clickbait and misuse of our own data. That threatens our privacy, our mental health, and the very democracy we thought digital media would enhance. Internet services have lost our trust. How can we get them to serve our needs? We must realign basic incentives.
It is true that many factors are at play: oligopolies fed by data moats and returns to scale; closed, opaque systems that confine us to anti-competitive “walled gardens;” amoral advertisers seeking profit from us; and even enemies of our democracy. We almost certainly need regulation on data ownership/privacy and concentrations of power -- but those will take time to shape, and they will always be crude and inflexible instruments.
What we can do now, to facilitate all of the rest, is to change the fundamental economics of social media by introducing new and better incentive structures -- from the operational roots, up. We need to align value creation and value capture to better serve users, and thus regain their trust. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and the others can move on their own in that direction now (and can profit from that). Lacking that, we can actively encourage competitors to do better. Doing this will change the incentives that drive our attention economy -- faster and more surely than regulation. ...But we may need regulation too.
Many see this need for a new social contract, one that recognizes that if we are to have “our” media serve us -- as people and as citizens -- we must pay to make that sustainable. When we pay for our media, we become the customer they are driven to serve. We need to vote with dollars, not just “likes” -- to pay for what we value, and motivate our services to serve us. Incentive structures determine actions. Driving engagement to sell ads drives these services in the wrong direction. So, how can we re-engineer our incentive structures for digital media services?
What we have here is failure of imagination
Zuckerberg admits to the problem, but sees no solution. The Times asked him “about Facebook’s business model -- selling advertisers and developers the ability to target Facebook users based on their personal data." He described his dilemma:
…having [Facebook] be free and have a business model that is ad-supported ends up being really important and aligned…Now, over time, might there be ways for people who can afford it to pay a different way? That’s certainly something we’ve thought about …But I don’t think the ad model is going to go away, because I think fundamentally, it’s important to have a service like this that everyone in the world can use, and the only way to do that is to have it be very cheap or free.
Zuckerberg fails to see that solutions are emerging to enable that “it be very cheap or free” for some, but sustained by user payments from others (those who can afford to pay a fair and sustaining price for the value they receive). That seems impractical only because we are stuck in our old logic.
The old logic of scarcity, rather than the new logic of digital abundance.
The old, but aberrant, logic of pre-set prices.
In this digital age we can not only deliver services widely at very low cost, but we can mass-customize prices – not secretly, to exploit customers, but openly, in ways that customers buy-in to as fair.
We are so used to the alienating 20th century model of mass-marketing based on pre-set prices (and driven by advertising) that we don’t see how consumers can work together with businesses to set customized prices that are fair for each of us.
What is fair depends on realized value (who, what, where, when, how, and why) and on ability to pay. But now we can apply the power of digital to restore and improve on the principles of value-based pricing that humans have relied on for millennia to take those value factors into account. Doing that is not only good citizenship, but good business.
We need to re-invent our business models and pricing architectures to apply a new logic more suited to our new digital economy.
FairPay points to a better way
One architecture for moving toward such a new logic, called FairPay, has gained recognition for operationalizing a solution for businesses now (as outlined in the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, and a nicely illustrated summary of that, and previously in Harvard Business Review). The details will depend on context, and will need testing to evolve and refine over time, but the principles are clear and well supported.
Digital goods and services are not scarce -- but the willingness of consumers to sustain service providers is scarce. FairPay structures an “invisible handshake” to seek a fair allocation of that willingness to sustain over the course of the relationship. (It considers total value, both to the consumer and from the consumer, including use of personal data and attention to ads). To each provider according to their ability to create and deliver actual value. From each consumer according to their willingness and ability to pay to sustain that. (...With incentives that ensure both.)
The FairPay architecture centers on the continuing relationships we have with our digital services providers. The digital economy facilitates and thrives on ongoing relationships -- many are awakening to the deep changes of our shift to "The Subscription Economy." Those relationships can be managed to work as a “repeated game” (see details) that motivates mutual cooperation, fairness, dialog, trust, and transparency – to keep the game going. We create a process that repeatedly customizes fair prices for the value realized in each relationship -- for consumers who may be rich or poor, heavy or light users, and tolerant or intolerant of advertising and uses of personal data. (See this detailed use-case example.) By doing that, these services can generate good revenue from most customers -- and can make judicious levels of advertising acceptable to many of them.
Many are calling for similar shifts in our economics: rethinking the value of our data as labor, membership models, and even proposals to turn Twitter into a cooperative. But FairPay shows how companies and consumers can embrace this new invisible handshake to move in desired directions now, fully embedded into routine operations, without waiting for new laws or new capital structures.
By harmonizing fundamental business incentives in this way, we will break the vicious cycle of exploitation and abuse, make services both affordable and sustainable, regain trust between businesses and their customers, and shape a new social contract. Working under that new social contract will reduce the need for externally imposed remedies -- and better position us to apply external remediation to our markets where needed.
Taking action now, at Facebook's initiative?
FairPay is a fundamental architecture for ongoing business-customer relationships that harmonizes the entire spectrum of current practices ranging from conventional pricing to radical extremes like pay what you want. It is applicable to profit enterprises and nonprofits alike (and it is in the public domain, for anyone to apply). Businesses like Facebook can better understand their current incentive models from this value-based perspective, and can test and gradually introduce more innovative models in ways that ensure they actually make their incentives more win-win. That can both increase profits and also empower consumers, by creating more cooperative, transparent, and trusting relationships.
Ideally, such a transition could be entirely self-initiated by Facebook (and the other platforms).
Facebook could first test FairPay at the margins, for specific "premium" services like reducing ad loads and giving users more control over filtering criteria and data privacy. [**See update below suggesting Facebook is considering this.]
This could include "reverse metering" to recognize and give credit for the value that users provide to Facebook, paying with their attention and their data. The same FairPay process can let users individually determine what level of advertising and data usage they will tolerate, in return for reduced payments.
Even with a significant level of advertising revenue continuing, sharing that revenue with the customer would shift platform incentives toward satisfying users and providing ads that the customer considers relevant (effectively making the advertiser the consumer's customer).
That reverse meter could also credit user-generated content and viral sharing.
Simple trials at the margins could begin to shift some percentage of Facebook revenue to be user-funded, rather than ad-funded. Once trialed with privacy-sensitive and social-welfare-minded users, it could be proven, refined, and extended to others to shift the revenue base more broadly. As the percentage of user revenue increases, Facebook would be inherently motivated to be more user-value-first in its decision processes.
Facebook reported that in the US and Canada it generates about $7/month in advertising revenue per user. (Of course that is now under serious threat, as based on advertising abuses and monopoly rents. Is it fair that Facebook gain such high margins? Perhaps it should be only a fraction of that, say $1-2/month.)
Whatever the fair level of revenue per user with its current model, expecting revenue of comparable magnitude from a shift to user-paid revenue does not seem outlandish, at least for a significant portion of users who want and can afford a premium, ad-free (or ad-reduced) and privacy-strict service. For them, a rate of even $10 per month may not be unreasonable (perhaps even more for some users with full-feature, high usage and high ability to pay). Gradually, the broad range of users could be phased in, including large numbers at rates that are "very cheap or free."
But still, there is the question of what is a fair profit margin for Facebook's service -- are current levels unfairly high monopoly rents and spoils of abuse? That brings us to consideration of more forceful change...
A heavier hand? -- mandated gradual improvement (the vehicle emissions regulation model)
To the extent that Facebook and the others fail to shift their incentive structures deeply and quickly enough, external measures can be applied by competitors, and by government.
Many have proposed competitive efforts, new "alt-Facebook"services that offer more customer-first business models and practices. FairPay can help make those strategies successful. But the path to scale at the level of Facebook seems slow and difficult. Given the severity and urgency of the crisis we are now facing, mandated action by Facebook may be required.
Here too, changing the fundamental incentives -- and monitoring and tuning them to ensure that they work as desired -- is the best way to achieve results.
Change can be mandated in much the same way that we mandate increasingly strict vehicle emission standards. Shifting at once to a reader revenue model would be challenging, and something Facebook management and shareowners might be very reluctant to pursue. But regulation could be staged to require that X% of revenue must be user-derived by some date -- with X starting small, but then increasing in stages over time. As X increases, incentives for tolerating ad-related abuse would be reduced and offset by pressure to be customer-first. Let Facebook figure out how best to do that, but give them targets over time, and hold them to it.
If we force digital services businesses to find more win-win customer-sustained business models, they will find ways to to do that far better that we can yet imagine -- whether with forms of FairPay, or some variation on similar themes. That will make them and their users (and all citizens) much happier. But if we as consumers and citizens and regulators don't have the imagination to push them to use their imagination, they will not try very hard.
The nuclear option? - regulation as a public utility
Of course, given the gravity of the threat to public welfare and the urgency of change in corporate mind-set -- and the fact that Facebook currently provides what some might view as "essential" communication services along our social graph that we would not want to do without -- providing utility services -- there is an obvious extreme option. Nationalize Facebook, or at least regulate it as a public utility, funded by its users, with government subsidies as needed (much as was done with the Bell System). This might be done as a temporary custodianship that would revert to private control when appropriate. Such a structure would immediately incentivize Facebook to put public welfare first. That may seem drastic, but is that so unreasonable for an essential public service that can do great harm if misused?
The Bell System was a regulated monopoly until 1982, when it was broken up into independent "Baby Bells" connecting to users, long distance services, and equipment suppliers.
Telephone service regulation followed the earlier and still continuing example of railroads being regulated as "common carriers."
Postal services have always been public services, paid in part by users, but subsidized by governments as needed.
Public radio and TV are government-funded with voluntary payments by users.
Hasn't Facebook become a common carrier? How can it be reasonable for Zuckerberg to have the unchecked, unmonitored, exclusive control of this new "Pa Mark" that that serves all of us as a utility (much as "Ma Bell" did)? Clearly, there is an antitrust case here, and the breakup of Ma Bell is instructive, as I explore more deeply on my other blog.
Toward a win-win future
Any of these options (alone or in combination) would begin to change the fundamental incentive structures of our essential digital services -- more or less dramatically. We can apply the heavy hand of regulation* -- but to the extent we can shift internal corporate operational incentives to align with consumer welfare -- we are likely to achieve better outcomes more organically, in ways that are more continuously adaptable to changing needs and ongoing technical advances. To the extent business see that and act to get ahead of this, they can solve the problem better that regulators, at least in large part.
Whatever we do, we need to move quickly and decisively. Facebook still can take the initiative, and perhaps retain a high degree of autonomy. Alternatively, we may conclude we need stronger and swifter measures. In any case, it is essential that we put the consumer (and the public) first, by putting incentives in place to drive that.
The surest way to do that is by having the consumer pay -- so that Facebook is driven at every level to satisfy them, and not the advertisers and hucksters who seek to buy consumer attention cheaply.
We need to have the imagination to rethink our obsolete economic assumptions, to get creative about mass-customizing our value propositions, and to seek a path up this ladder of value.
FairPay is one architecture that points in that direction. If you don't like that one, find another. In any case, we need to move aggressively on whatever path we can manage to find, as long as it leads toward full, fair, and transparent alignment of value creation and value capture.
[*Update 4/9/18: An excellent summary of how intractable regulatory solutions are is in today's column in The Information by Sam Lessin. I commented on it: changing the business model economics would reduce the severity of the abuses that regulation can only crudely seek to remedy.]
[**Update 4/10/18: Zuckerberg suggested in his Senate testimony that Facebook would “certainly consider ideas like that.” As reported: "By not rejecting the possibility of a paid product, Mr. Zuckerberg’s comment could be interpreted as endorsing the idea that Facebook might experiment with a version of its social network that relies on subscription revenue instead of advertising."
A newer post, Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Market Solution to a Market Problem, focuses on regulatory issues, and more on the business model problem is in Cool Hand Zuck -- What We Have Here is Failure to Innovate / Looking Toward a Better, Fairer Future.
Related points are in my previous post, Zuckerberg: How to Fix Facebook -- Stop Hanging Us With the Ad Model! -- A New Economics, and my 2012 post, Beyond the Ad Model - A New Economics for Media.
Another prior post, How Market Commerce Can Become More Cooperative, Fair, and Human, addresses Twitter (when there was some excitement about the idea of turning it into a cooperative). The same principles can apply to any digital service to consumers.
Other posts in this FairPayZone.com blog explain the key principles that enable this:
FairPay Changes the "Game" of Commerce -- the basic structure of the repeated game
The Ghost of Pricing Future -- A Thought Experiment -- pricing for value and ability to pay
An Invisible Handshake for The Digital Wealth of Nations -- a more cooperative twist on the invisible hand
Making Customers Want to Pay You -- Research on How FairPay Changes the Game -- the behavioral economics .behind this
Even better, read my highly praised new book: FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships.
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Overview of FairPay
Information Wants to be Free; Consumers May Want to Pay (in Techonomy)
Rethinking Revenue Models of Digital Services: Video, Deck
Open Letter to Influencers Concerned About Facebook and Other Platforms
FairPay -- The Book
"Anyone responsible for monetizing digital content in consumer markets should understand this radically new perspective on pricing and how to maximize lifetime customer value."
- Shelly Palmer, Business Advisor, Author, Commentator
"...an innovative and visionary methodology …what disruption could look like..."
- Lucila Pagnoni, News Corp Australia
"...groundbreaking..."
- Professor Pennie Frow, University of Sydney Business School
"...compelling ...promises to transform business..."
- Professor Adrian Payne, University of New South Wales Business School
"Highly recommended for digital business entrepreneurs, as well as established firms..."
- Jim Spohrer, IBM and ISSIP.org
Foreword by Adrian Payne
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management Article on FairPay
Australasian Marketing Journal Article on FairPay -- "AMJ Best Paper of 2019"
"When Selling Digital Content,
Let the Customer Set the Price"
Video and Slides of
FairPay Presentation at ISSIP
Peter Drucker:
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence,
it is to act with yesterday's logic."
How FairPay Works
...over a relationship, as a repeated game
...through a deceptively simple balancing dynamic:
1. Set the rules (Seller). As usual, the seller sets the ground-rules of the game, but in this repeated game, the rules favor fairness, transparency, and cooperation on both sides. The seller decides to whom to make a FairPay offer, on what terms and conditions. FairPay offers are a privilege that can be granted or withheld.
2. Set the price (Buyer). Reversing traditional practice, the buyer is granted the power to set the price to whatever value-based price the buyer considers fair -- after the sale, when the real value is experienced and known.
3. Repeat the game? (Seller). This seller power is what makes FairPay work, balancing the power of the buyer to set the price. The seller tracks the price, and determines, in the context of the overall history, whether it seems fair enough to the seller to continue the FairPay game for another round.
The buyer knows this is a repeated game, and must consider the consequences when exercising his price-setting power. That motivates the buyer to price reasonably fairly. This builds a relationship based on fair value exchange, that adapts and evolves over time. The seller manages "dialogs about value" that frame the value that was delivered, and a suggested price for that -- and nudge the buyer to be generous by offering more value for more generosity.
This repeated game structure gives buyers a strong incentive to price fairly – and enables sellers to limit their future exposure to those who do not.
More broadly, it shifts the entire focus of customer relationships from short-term transaction price to long-term relationship value.
...See Overview for more
Consumers -- Pay only what seems fair to you:
Pay what you think fair for products or services – after you try them
Make every purchase on a trial basis – so you can always be sure to get your personal fair value for your money
Agree to set your price fairly – in your judgment – and explain why you think it is fair
Keep that privilege as long as you can convince the seller that you are being fair
Businesses -- Get the most revenue from the most customers by continuously learning what each one values:
Engage in real dialog with each of your customers and listen to their perceptions of the value they get from your products/services
Make a trial offer to every potential customer who sees potential value
Suggest a price after use that you think is fair for that particular customer, considering all relevant factors
Offer incentives, such as premium tiers and perks, to entice fairness, even generosity
Let your customers self-select into segments (based on usage, value perception, willingness and ability to pay, ...)
Limit your risk from those trial offers by tracking the results (fairness) for each buyer, and limiting future offers if you judge that buyer to not pay fairly
Retain set-price plans for those who refuse to play the game fairly
Learn how much freedom (FairPay credit) to extend (or what restrictions to enforce) to get satisfactory results from each customer segment
Continue to make every offer a trial...
...as long as each buyer continues paying fairly--in your judgment
Delight your customers: give them what they really want, at a price they really think fair.
Shift the conversation from price to value, and from transactions to relationships.
Empower them to engage with you and tell you what they value.
Make commerce a repeated game that drives value creation to build a profitable relationship with high Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
Sample FairPay Offer
...This sample offer letter to consumers shows how a newspaper might frame FairPay as a privileged benefit to regular patrons – to enable them to participate in a win-win pricing process and personalize their value propositions – as an alternative to a standard freemium "soft paywall."
FairPay Application/Market Sectors
...Overview of major market sectors in which the FairPay revenue model is readily applicable
Why would anyone pay if they do not have to? ...and other FAQs
...The answer is simple: Buyers who do not pay will not get further offers.
Resource Guide to Pricing
...Annotated links and references on Pricing, Pay What You Want, and other related background
The Invisible Hand of Relationship -- An Invisible Handshake
So Last Century! - It's Time to End the Tyranny of Set Prices
Subscribe To The FairPay Zone feed
FairPay Changes the "Game" of Commerce
Business Model Generation with a new spin: FairPay Revenue Models
The IoT Cloud of Value -- New Big Data for a Customer-Centric Revolution
FairPay: "Better Strategies for Monetizing Digital Offerings" MIT Enterprise Forum 12/1/11
Winning Back Lost Customers -- Before They Get Lost
"Why should I pay you?" - Bezos' Washington Post - Mapping a New Business Model for Journalism
Post-Bundling -- Packaging Better TV/Video Value Propositions with 20-20 Hindsight
The Relationship Economy -- It's All About Valuing Customer Experiences
2020 Vision -- The Restoration of the Customer
FairPay-What-You-Want for Costly Products? Etsy? Everlane? Tiffany?
Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Marke...
Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest...
Richard Reisman - Teleshuttle Corporation
President and founder of Teleshuttle, I have decades of experience innovating in digital media industries. I have managed and consulted for corporations of all sizes, developed a variety of pioneering online services, and hold over 50 patents now licensed by over 200 companies to serve billions of users. I generally develop my work through Teleshuttle Corporation, in collaboration with partner companies. My work on FairPay is now being pursued as a pro-bono project aimed at fostering testing, refinement, and wide adoption. My book on FairPay was published in 2016 by Business Expert Press. (More at http://bit.ly/RRFPbio.)
Reisman is working on FairPay on a pro-bono basis, welcomes inquiries about it, and offers free consultation to those interested in evaluating and applying it. Please email to fairpay [at] teleshuttle [dot] com.
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January 07, 2020: The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees
© Liran Samuni
Mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass even without direct provisioning
Like humans, young chimpanzees associate with their mothers all the way into adulthood. Unlike in humans, offspring no longer depend on maternal food sharing beyond the weaning age. Therefore, the reasons for and consequences of these years of post-weaning mother-offspring associations are unclear. Using long-term behavioural and hormonal data from wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest, Côte d’Ivoire, researchers from the Taï Chimpanzee Project at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, have revealed that mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass even without direct provisioning. We compared growth of young chimpanzees with a mother until adulthood compared to those who had experienced maternal loss after weaning.
Link to press release
January 03, 2020: Less offspring due to territorial conflicts
Female chimpanzees’ reproductive success decreases in times of strong territorial conflict with other groups
Territorial conflicts can turn violent in humans and chimpanzees, two extremely territorial species. An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has studied the effects of territoriality on female reproductive success in wild Western chimpanzees and found that high neighbor pressure at times when females typically reproduce can lead to reproductive delays with longer intervals between births. Having many males in a group, however, is of advantage and speeds up reproduction.
December 18, 2019: Wild chimpanzees are sensitive to the sound properties of wood
© Ammie Kalan
Accumulative stone throwing chimpanzees like tree species with a resonating timbre
An international collaboration of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, the CNRS Lab for Perception, Representations, Image, Sound and Music (PRISM) and the Lab for Mechanical Acoustics (LMA) in Marseille, France, has discovered that one of our closest living relatives is attuned to the sound properties of external objects in their natural environment, namely the wood of different tree species. Using a unique field experiment, the researchers found that chimpanzees living in Boé, Guinea-Bissau, use tree species for accumulative stone throwing behaviour that produce more resonant sounds when hit with rocks compared to other species available in the environment.
December 03, 2019: How does language emerge?
© M. Bohn
New study from Leipzig provides insights into the first steps
How did the almost 6000 languages of the world come into being? Researchers from the Leipzig Research Centre for Early Childhood Development at Leipzig University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have tried to simulate the process of developing a new communication system in an experiment – with surprising results: even preschool children can spontaneously develop communication systems that exhibit core properties of natural language.
November 28, 2019: Monkeys inform about threats
© A. Mielke/ MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology
Monkeys cooperatively share information about the presence of snakes with group members
Humans are often faced with the choice of investing in the greater good or being selfish and letting others do the work. Animals that live in groups often encounter threats, and informing others could potentially save lives. Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show that wild sooty mangabeys, when facing dangerous vipers, do not just call out of fear or to warn their family, but will call when the information about the threat might otherwise not reach all group members.
November 12, 2019: You have to learn to understand dogs
© Juliane Bräuer
Humans’ ability to read dogs’ facial expressions is not innate
The first comprehensive study of the human ability to recognize the facial expressions of dogs suggests this ability is mainly acquired through age and experience and is not an evolutionarily selected trait, and in adults is better in those growing up in dog-positive cultural contexts. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, a team of German and British researchers assessed how experience with dogs affects humans’ ability to recognize dog emotions. Participants who grew up in a cultural context with a dog-friendly attitude were more proficient at recognizing dog emotions. This suggests that the ability to recognize dogs’ expressions is learned through age and experience and is not an evolutionary adaptation.
Link to press release (MPI-SHH)
October 25, 2019: Leipzig primate researchers initiate global collaboration
© Clara Dubois, Leipzig University, LFE
First "ManyPrimates" study published
In order to investigate evolutionary questions, scientists require the largest and most versatile samples possible. If those samples are not available in one place, research institutions can support each other. This is the rationale behind ManyPrimates, a project that aims to establish a culture of global collaboration in primate cognition research. It was set up by researchers from the Leipzig Research Center for Early Childhood Development (LFE) at Leipzig University, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Zoo Leipzig.
October 21, 2019: Macaques can make palm oil more sustainable and efficient by hunting plantation rats
© Anna Holzner
Considered an oil palm pest, macaques can in fact diminish a more severe pest: rats
In Malaysia, wild pig-tailed macaques do not have the best reputation and are even considered a crop pest. Contrary to this, they actually feed on rats, the major oil palm pest, and can provide an important ecosystem service as biological pest control agent. This was found by a team of researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA). Their research investigates the costs and benefits of macaques foraging in oil palm plantations.
Link to press release (iDiv)
October 16, 2019: How human brain development diverged from great apes
© Enrique Guisado Triay
Cell atlas of great ape forebrain development illuminates dynamic gene-regulatory features that are unique to humans
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, present new insights into the development of the human brain and differences in this process compared to other great apes. The study reveals features of brain development that are unique to humans, and outlines how these processes have diverged from those in other primates.
September 23, 2019: Male common marmosets smell female fertility
© Almuth Einspanier
Males can thus distinguish between cycle phases
Scientists from the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found that male common marmosets are able to detect the fertile phase of females based on changes in their body odor. Using a combination of chemical analyses and a behavioral test they found that female common marmosets release various substances that produce a specific smell during their fertile phase and that males can perceive these olfactory changes.
September 12, 2019: Should I stay or should I go?
© Marie Manguette/WCS-Congo
Female gorillas must balance the reproductive costs of staying with or leaving an older male
When a gorilla group’s silverback is close to the end of his reproductive years, females face a dilemma: Should they stay with him until he dies or leave him for another male? A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology has now found that both strategies bear its costs: females face reproductive costs of staying with an older male as well as costs when they transfer to a new silverback.
September 10, 2019: Sex for cooperation
© Zanna Clay, Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary
New insights help to explain why same-sex sexual interactions are so important for female bonobos
To understand the origins of human sociality studying the social dynamics of our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, is important. Using behavioral and hormonal data from a habituated bonobo community at the long-term LuiKotale field site in the Democratic Republic of Congo researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Harvard University and the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology have now shown that same-sex sexual behavior in female bonobos increases friendly social interactions, including cooperation.
August 28, 2019: A face for Lucy's ancestor
© Dale Omori, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Researchers discover remarkably complete 3.8 million-year-old cranium of Australopithecus anamensis at Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia
Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest-known species of Australopithecus and widely accepted as the progenitor of “Lucy’s” species, Australopithecus afarensis. Until now, A. anamensis was known mainly from jaws and teeth. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Stephanie Melillo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and their colleagues have discovered the first cranium of A. anamensis at the paleontological site of Woranso-Mille, in the Afar Region of Ethiopia.
August 27, 2019: More moral by playing together?
© Selma Kalhorn
How does the playing behaviour of children influence their prosocial behaviour?
This is the question scientists at the Leipzig Research Centre for Early Childhood Development (LFE) at the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have researched. It turned out that cooperative games encouraged the willingness to share with other children. The researchers have now published their new findings in the specialist journal “PLoS ONE”.
Link to press release (LFE, University of Leipzig)
August 20, 2019: Studying animal cognition in the wild
Sometimes recording what animals do not do or fail to find can lead to revealing insights into their expectations, and thus cognition
Studying cognition in the wild is a challenge. Field researchers and their study animals face many factors that can easily interfere with their variables of interest and that many say are “impossible” to control for. A novel observational approach for field research developed by Karline Janmaat at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology can now guide young scholars, who want to study cognition in the field before this opportunity disappears.
August 07, 2019: Cooperation with high status individuals may increase one's own status
© Chris von Rueden
Long-term study of Amazonian community shows the interconnectedness of cooperation and status hierarchy
While other animals tend to gain status through aggression, humans are typically averse to allowing such dominant individuals to achieve high status. Instead, those highest in social status are often those who demonstrate the most value to others. Researchers have now shown that cooperation between individuals can be driven by opportunities to acquire status over others and that decisions with whom to cooperate are often based on who has more or less status.
August 02, 2019: Unexpected nut eating by gorillas
© Adam van Casteren, Loango Gorilla Project, PanAF
A long-term study of western gorillas in Gabon has revealed an unexpected behaviour – they use their teeth to crack open and eat nuts
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Washington University in St. Louis have observed a population of western lowland gorillas in Loango National Park, Gabon using their teeth to crack open the woody shells of Coula edulis nuts. The researchers combined direct feeding observations and mechanical tests of seed casings to show that gorillas may be taxing their teeth to their upper limits, year after year, to access this energy rich food source.
July 30, 2019: How humans and chimpanzees travel towards a goal in rainforests
© Karline Janmaat
Travel linearity increases in humans when they travel in increasingly large groups, while chimpanzees travel more goal-directed when they are on their own
How do human-unique ranging styles, like large home range and trail use, influence the way we travel to our goals? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, investigated spatial movement patterns of the Mbendjele BaYaka people and Taï chimpanzees. Human foragers and chimpanzees travelled in similarly straight lines towards goals, but they showed clearly different patterns in how they change linearity and speed depending on group size and familiarity with an area.
July 24, 2019: Finding one's way in the rainforest
Human foragers of both sexes use the sun for finding direction from a very young age
How do human foragers find food or the way home in rainforests, where heavy vegetation limits visibility, without a map, compass, or smartphone? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show that rainforest-dwelling Mbendjele BaYaka people from the Republic of Congo point to out-of-sight targets with high precision. Pointing accuracy was equally good in men and women; children’s performance improved when the sun was clearly visible in the sky.
July 24, 2019: Chimpanzees' working memory similar to ours
© MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology
Contrary to humans, chimpanzees did not use search strategies to facilitate their task
Working memory is central to our mental lives; we use it to add up the cost of our shopping or to remember the beginning of this sentence at its end. Some scientists argue it is particularly developed in humans, but how do chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, compare? Researchers from the University of St Andrews, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna set out to answer this question.
July 16, 2019: Flies may also spread disease among monkeys and apes
© Jan Gogarten, Taï Chimpanzee Project
Flies carrying deadly pathogens form long-term associations with monkeys and apes following them through the rainforest
People the world over have a good sense that flies are filthy and that we do not want them landing on our food during our summer picnics. Research has justified that disgust, showing that flies associated with humans and their livestock spread a diversity of pathogens. In a collaboration with Roman Wittig of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Taï Chimpanzee Project, a research team led by Fabian Leendertz at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany has now shown that such fly associations also exist in highly mobile non-human primate groups as they move kilometers every day through the rainforest.
July 15, 2019: Chimp&See is back!
© Chimp&See
From African golden cats to zebra duikers, Chimp&See lets you get up close and personal with African wildlife
Have you ever wondered what an elephant gets up to during a typical day? Or maybe what a baboon sounds like? What about the social circles of chimpanzees? If so, then good news – you’re not alone! Thousands of people from all walks of life have come together to form a community at Chimp&See, a citizen science project hosted by Zooniverse where members of the public can volunteer their time to watch, classify, and discuss camera trap videos taken from sites all across Africa as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf) from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Link to press kit
July 15, 2019: Infanticide by mammalian mothers
© Alecia Carter
Female mammals kill the offspring of their competitors when resources are scarce
The killing of rivals’ offspring represents a violent manifestation of competition, and a significant source of offspring mortality in some mammalian populations. Previous research on such infanticide has focused on males, but a new study by Dieter Lukas from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Elise Huchard from the Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution, Montpellier shows that infanticide by females is also widespread across mammals and that females are likely to gain substantial benefits from it.
July 02, 2019: Bonobo diet of aquatic greens may hold clues to human evolution
© Cédric Girard-Buttoz, LuiKotale Bonobo Projekt
Study offers a possible answer on how our human ancestors may have met their nutritional needs of iodine in the Congo basin
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have for the first time observed bonobos in the Congo basin searching for and eating iodine-rich aquatic plants in the swamps. Iodine is a critical nutrient for brain development and higher cognitive abilities. According to the research team, these observations may explain how the nutritional needs of prehistoric humans in the region were met.
June 26, 2019: The ancient history of Neandertals in Europe
© Oleg Kuchar, Museum Ulm
Early ancestors of the last Neandertals lived in Europe already 120,000 years ago
Parts of the genomes of two around 120,000-year-old Neandertals from Germany and Belgium have been sequenced at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The analyses of these sequences showed that the last Neandertals, who lived around 40,000 years ago, trace at least part of their ancestry back to these European Neandertals that lived around 80,000 years earlier. The 120,000-year-old Neandertal from Germany, however, carried some ancestry that may originate from an isolated Neandertal population or from relatives of modern humans.
June 04, 2019: Wild chimpanzees face extinction
Mankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees – are disappearing from the earth, because their habitats are destroyed and they are being eaten into extinction
In May 2019, over 40 scientists met at a symposium in Leipzig, Germany, to talk about the wild chimpanzee populations that they have been studying for decades. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of a long-term research and conservation project on chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire.
Press release [PDF]
Signature list, speakers and guests [PDF]
June 03, 2019: Human ancestors invented stone tools several times
© David Feary, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0
Scientists discover the oldest systematically produced stone artifacts to date
A new archaeological site discovered by an international and local team of scientists working in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago. Previously, the oldest evidence for systematic stone tool production and use was 2.58 to 2.55 million years ago. A group of archaeologists and anthropologists led by David Braun from George Washington University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology suggests that stone tools may have been invented many times in many ways before becoming an essential part of the human lineage.
May 29, 2019: Emanuel Mathias - On the Margins of the Field
© Emanuel Mathias, Camera trap recording, Hjalmar Kühl, 25.10.2017; 11:23:18/ 2019
An in situ exhibition at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
In Emanuel Mathias' artistic research work “On the Margins of the Field”, the observing field primatologist becomes him- or herself the observed subject of investigation. For this project, Mathias collaborated with about 20 researchers from the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, following the traces the researchers left behind from their observational field work in the form of recordings and written documentation. The exhibition is open for external visitors from May 29 to July 19, 2019, on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig).
Link to Emanuel Mathias' website
May 23, 2019: Tortoises on the menu
© Erwan Theleste
Wild chimpanzees eat tortoises after cracking them open against tree trunks
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Osnabrück, Germany, have observed wild chimpanzees in the Loango National Park, Gabon, eating tortoises. They describe the first observations of this potentially cultural behavior where chimpanzees hit tortoises against tree trunks until the tortoises’ shells break open and then feed on the meat.
May 20, 2019: Bonobo mothers help their sons to have more offspring
© Martin Surbeck, Kokolopori Bonobo Research
Mothers’ presence influences the reproductive success of their adult sons
In many social animal species individuals share child-rearing duties, but new research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, finds that bonobo mothers go the extra step and actually take action to ensure their sons will become fathers. This way bonobo mothers increase their sons’ chance of fatherhood three-fold.
May 01, 2019: First hominins on the Tibetan Plateau were Denisovans
© Dongju Zhang, Lanzhou University
Denisovan mandible likely represents the earliest hominin fossil on the Tibetan Plateau
So far Denisovans were only known from a small collection of fossil fragments from Denisova Cave in Siberia. A research team led by Fahu Chen from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Dongju Zhang from Lanzhou University and Jean-Jacques Hublin from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology now describes a 160,000-year-old hominin mandible from Xiahe in China. Using ancient protein analysis the researchers found that the mandible’s owner belonged to a population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Siberia. This population occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and was adapted to this low-oxygen environment long before Homo sapiens arrived in the region.
April 17, 2019: Taxon-specific databases are essential for filling biodiversity data gaps
© IUCN SSC A.P.E.S.
By focusing on a group of organisms taxon-specific databases make a broad range of high-quality data accessible
We used data from the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database, to show the wealth of information that can be derived from a database that focuses on a specific group of organisms. For this study we focused on the western chimpanzee, a critically endangered subspecies of chimpanzees. Many taxon-specific databases already exist, but are largely underfunded. These databases are, however, in a unique position to fill the niche between local data collectors and global data bases to contribute to closing the large gaps in biodiversity data that still persist. More and more data on patterns and trends of biodiversity are becoming available. However, even though a lot of data have been and are being collected, they are often not accessible to researchers, decision-makers, planners and conservation practitioners.
April 11, 2019: Multiple Denisovan-related ancestries in Papuans
© Isabella Apriyana
DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family tree
As they dispersed out of Africa anatomically modern humans interbred with their close relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. An international research team examined DNA fragments passed down from these ancient hominins to modern people living in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea. Their study suggests that the ancestry of Papuans includes not just one but two distinct Denisovan lineages, which had been separated from each other for hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, one of those Denisovan lineages is so different from the other that they might even be considered an entirely new group of archaic hominins.
April 10, 2019: Attention skills in a nonhuman cooperative breeding species
© Yitzchak Ben Mocha
Songbirds that work together with raising their young coordinate its attention and exchange itself intensively with each other
Cooperative breeding may facilitate the development of sophisticated communicative abilities such as intentionality and joint attention skills. Two new studies of researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Osnabrück provide the first evidence that a cooperatively breeding bird species (Arabian babblers) demonstrates distinct hallmarks of joint-attentional skills, which have been traditionally ascribed to humans only. This result also shows that an ape-like cognitive system is not a necessary pre-condition for joint-attention skills.
Link to press release (MPI-ORN)
Original publication (Proceedings of the Royal Society B)
Original publication (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
April 05, 2019: Social insecurity also stresses chimpanzees
© Anna Preis
Male chimpanzees reduce aggression when social relationships in their group are unstable
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, conducted behavioral observations and collected urine samples for cortisol analysis of male chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, during periods of intense male-male competition. They showed that all males had higher stress levels during periods of increased male-male competition while aggression rates were actually lower during this time. This may indicate that in times of social instability animals refrain from aggressive actions to avoid escalation of conflicts and to promote group cohesion.
April 01, 2019: Human cognition viewed through a cross-cultural lens
© Leipzig University
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, welcomes Daniel Haun as new Director
Psychologist Daniel Haun is joining the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) as new Director on 1 April 2019. He was most recently a Professor for Early Child Development and Culture at Leipzig University and the Director of the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development. Haun is interested in the ways in which human cognition adapts to, shapes and enables cultural diversity.
March 29, 2019: New exhibition "Zzzz" at the Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Center
© Emanuel Mathias, Zzzz (Visitor), 2019
Visual artists Elmar Hermann and Emanuel Mathias are interested in the relationship between science and art, language and image. In their new exhibition they address simple principles of visual communication.
Yawning is contagious in both chimpanzees and humans, a possible proof that both are empathic being. Yawning is a reflexive-instinctive behavior that seems to be characteristic of all vertebrates. Yet its causes and purposes have not yet been completely identified. In addition to solely physiological causes, communicative purposes may play an important role, too. Within the context of the exhibition "Zzzz", large-format photographs of yawning humans and non-human primates are attached to window-panes at the MPI-EVA's Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Center ("Pongoland") at the Zoo Leipzig. This exhibition is part of a larger exhibition called "buchstäblich" (engl. "literally") that takes place from March 21 to April 28, 2019.
Link to the website of the exhibition "buchstäblich"
Exhibition program [PDF]
March 14, 2019: Wild African ape reactions to novel camera traps
© K. Langergraber, M. Robbins, S. Lucchesi
African wild apes notice and often react to novel items in their environment
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analyzed video from remote camera-trap devices placed in ape-populated forests throughout Africa to see how wild apes would react to these unfamiliar objects. Responses varied by species, and even among individuals within the same species, but one thing was consistent throughout: the apes definitely noticed the cameras.
March 12, 2019: Lab grown "brains" successfully model disease
© Axel Griesch for Max Planck Society
New research leads the way in validating a promising human brain model
The human brain is one of the most complex organs. Its complexity challenges our ability to study its structure and function. As a result, many brain-related diseases are not fully understood and adequate treatments are often lacking. Scientists from Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (MPI) were able to model a developmental disorder called neuronal heterotopia which can lead to intellectual disability and epilepsy. They used a model of brain development called brain organoids where human cells organize themselves in the petri dish into brain-like structures. These brain organoids enabled the researchers to accurately recapitulate the disease in the lab. They discovered that the cells contained in the organoids, derived from individuals affected by the disease, had a different morphology and navigation system. In particular the scientists were able to find a full new set of molecular signatures that are unique in the diseased cells, giving them now potential ideas of how they can identify possible targets and strategies to develop therapy for patients. Barbara Treutlein from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology contributed to this study.
Link to press release (MPI of Psychiatry)
March 07, 2019: Chimpanzees lose their behavioral and cultural diversity
© Liran Samuni/Taï Chimpanzee Project
Human impact reduces the behavioral repertoire of chimpanzees
Chimpanzees are well known for their extraordinary diversity of behaviors, with some behaviors also exhibiting cultural variation. An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) investigated whether chimpanzee behavioral diversity is reduced under high human impact. By comparing sets of chimpanzee behaviors across a large number of social groups exposed to different levels of human disturbance, the scientists found a reduction in behavioral diversity when human impact was high.
March 05, 2019: Dust affects tooth wear and chewing efficiency in chimpanzees
© Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Roman Wittig
Increased dust loads result in decreased chewing efficiency in chimpanzees
Periodical dust loads on foods places dietary-physiological stress on the digestive system in chimpanzees. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team headed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig. Their study implicates that extrinsic abrasive particles carried by dust-laden winds affect tooth wear and evolutionary fitness.
February 25, 2019: New chimpanzee culture discovered
© Cleve Hicks
Study describes unique behavioral patterns of Bili-Uéré chimpanzees in the DR Congo
Different cultures, different habits and different behavioral patterns – this applies not only to humans but also to chimpanzees, one of our two closest living relatives. A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, Germany, and The University of Warsaw in Poland now describes a new ‘behavioral realm’ of the Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Bili-Uéré region in Northern DR Congo, based on the results of a 12-year study.
February 18, 2019: Neandertals’ main food source was definitely meat
© MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology/ A. Le Cabec
Isotope analyses performed on single amino acids in Neandertals’ collagen samples shed new light on their debated diet
A specific feature of modern humans seems to be their frequent fish consumption, which can be determined by nitrogen isotope analyses of bone or tooth collagen. An international research team, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, discovered two late Neandertals characterized by exceptionally high nitrogen isotope ratios, which would traditionally be interpreted as the signature of freshwater fish consumption. By studying the isotope ratios of single amino acids, they however demonstrated that instead of fish, the adult Neandertal had a diet relying on large herbivore mammals and that the other Neandertal was a breastfeeding baby whose mother was also a carnivore. According to isotope data, Neandertals seem to have had a very stable diet over time, including after the arrival of modern humans in Europe.
February 13, 2019: To tool or not to tool?
© Alice Auersperg
Orangutans make complex economic decisions about tool use depending on the current 'market' situation
Flexible tool use is closely associated to higher mental processes such as the ability to plan actions. Now a group of cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists from the University of Vienna, the University of St Andrews and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna that included Isabelle Laumer and Josep Call, has studied tool related decision-making in a non-human primate species – the orangutan. They found that the apes carefully weighed their options: eat an immediately available food reward or wait and use a tool to obtain a better reward instead? To do so the apes considered the details such as differences in quality between the two food rewards and the functionality of the available tools in order to obtain a high quality food reward, even when multidimensional task components had to be assessed simultaneously. The study was conducted in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at the Zoo Leipzig in Germany.
Link to press release (University of Vienna)
February 06, 2019: Competent chimpanzee nutcrackers
© Christophe Boesch
Chimpanzees learn nut-cracking technique and reach expert efficiency relatively faster than humans
Humans are considered to be superior tool users and uniquely able to teach skills to apprentices. However, a clear understanding of the differences between humans and other animal species has been limited by our difficulty to perform natural cross-species comparisons. A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and from the University College London, UK, compared humans' and chimpanzees' learning to crack the same species of nuts as they forage for food in the African forest.
February 04, 2019: Word order predicts a native speakers' working memory
The language we speak affects the way we process, store and retrieve information
Memory plays a crucial role in our lives, and several studies have already investigated how we store and retrieve information under different conditions. Typically, stimuli presented at the beginning and at the end of a list are recalled better than stimuli from the middle. But are these findings universal and generalizable across languages and cultures? An international research team, led by Federica Amici from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has recently investigated this question.
January 30, 2019: Age of the earliest Denisovans and Neanderthals in Southern Siberia
© Tom Higham, University of Oxford
New studies reveal deep history of Denisovans and Neanderthals in southern Siberia
Denisova Cave is the only site in the world known to have been occupied by both Denisovans and Neanderthals at various times. Two new studies published in the journal Nature, now put a timeline on when the two groups of archaic humans (hominins) were present at the site and the environmental conditions they faced before going extinct. The studies identify the age of the earliest Denisovans and Neanderthals in Southern Siberia. One of the studies, was led by Dr Katerina Douka from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, while the other one was led by Zenobia Jacobs of the University of Wollongong in Australia.
January 11, 2019: Plant phytolith and water content influence rate of tooth enamel abrasion in vertebrates
© Daniela E. Winkler
Scientists can reconstruct the feeding behavior and habitats of extinct vertebrates
Plant phytolith and water content cause differing degrees of tooth enamel abrasion in vertebrates. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team headed by scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Featured online before print in the journal PNAS, their study has implications for how tooth wear in extinct animals is interpreted and how this information can be employed to reconstruct their dietary behavior and habitats. Ellen Schulz-Kornas of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig contributed to this research.
Link to press release (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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Sofa maker halves IPO size due to soft demand
Man Wah trims its initial public offering to $212 million, while paper recycling company Fook Woo prices at the top to raise $185 million.
By Lillian Liu
Man Wah Holdings, a sofa maker and retailer, has cut its Hong Kong initial public offering to less than half the amount initially targeted following a decision by existing shareholders not to sell any shares amid the current weak market environment.
The targeted amount has been downsized to HK$1.64 billion $212 million from $317 million to $440 million, and the previous offering price range of HK$8.50 to HK$11.8 per share has been reduced to a fixed price of HK$6.80 per share, according to a new term sheet. The deal, which is arranged by Macquarie Capital, initially closed on Wednesday, but was relaunched with the new terms yesterday morning. The company, which...
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Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr
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13 Feb 2007 (aged 65)
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US Congressman. Born in Valdosta, Georgia and educated at Georgia Southern College and Georgetown University this dentist and decorated Viet Nam War veteran served as a Congressman from his home state from 1995 until his death. The conservative's election in 1994 made him the first Republican to be elected from his eastern Georgia district since the days of Reconstruction. He was a strong opponent of what he viewes as excessive government regulation and fought to give consumers better access to health care. He died after a long battle with cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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2017 David Manierre Scholarship Fund Archive
David was a member of our congregation and a great all around kid. His family and friends remember him as a brilliant, quiet youth—an honor student with big dreams who loved to play soccer. He was also an amazing guitarist—self-taught—and played in a band with his brother Jonathan. His life was tragically cut short when he died in an automobile accident just before his seventeenth birthday. That was 15 years ago,
The David Manierre Scholarship Fund was established from the memorial gifts of his friends and family. Today, we are proud to honor his life and further his legacy by making scholarships available to young people in our church and our partner congregation, Iglesia Misión Bautista Hispana de Westchester. Over the years, these scholarships have been awarded to many deserving candidates who are being helped to chase their own big dreams!
Applications are currently being considered for the 2017-2018 academic year and awardees will be announced soon.
Raffle drawing at the 2017 Scholarship Fund dinner.
AND THE WINNER IS... The David Manierre Scholarship Fund Dinner on Saturday, June 3, 2017 was a wonderful success with many winners. Thanks to everyone's hard work and support, the fundraiser netted $5,945 after expenses. That is nearly 6 scholarships. Wow! Check out our photo gallery.
Meet the 2016-2017 Scholarship Winners
WE WERE SO EXCITED to sponsor seven students from First Baptist Church of White Plains and Misión Bautista Hispana de Westchester as the 2016-2017 recipients of awards from the David Manierre Scholarship Fund: Jonathan Alania, Daniela Castillo, Giselle Cornejo, Jeffrey Hamby, Natalie Lopez, Evans Meireles, and Matthew Perez.
Those eligible are members of either congregation or children of members. The Scholarship Committee consists of Christian Education Committee members from both congregations.
Scholarships are awarded to students attending undergraduate accredited college degree programs, accredited training programs for a specific trade, or a graduate degree in Christian ministry. Each recipient is awarded $1,000 for the academic year.
If you would like to help support the fund, please write a check to the church with “Scholarship Fund” in the memo field.
I hope to use my education in political science to raise awareness of racial and economic issues that are often ignored..., and to educate others who may not know their rights.
Daniela Castillo
Political Science and German
One of my goals is to become a school social worker. Children from all backgrounds are the future. Creating a strong foundation for them to succeed is necessary for society to continually grow.
Natalie Lopez
Jonathan Alania
Matthew Perez
Queens College
Piano, Composition, and Musicology
Jeffrey Hamby
Temple University
Environmental Science
"I hope to one day be an obstetrician-gynecologist and help bring new life into this world. To me it would be such an honor to see the miracle of birth."
– Giselle Cornejo-Casilla
Manhattanville College
Pre-Med
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"I enjoy learning about the production and transfer of wealth, specifically about the stock market and what it has to offer."
– Evans Meireles
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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell
Meet the Incredibles: New Twists in the Preferred Fragrance Legal Saga
Back in October of 2011, a group of investors bought Preferred Fragrance, Inc., a manufacturer of knock-off perfumes. The investors soon came down with a severe case of buyer’s remorse. They believe they paid too much for the company because the sellers misrepresented its value. [Wait—professional knock-off artists misrepresented value? I’m shocked, shocked!—Ed.] The investors also believe that the CEO of the acquired company violated not one but two non-compete agreements.
The investors (Uni-World Capital, L.P. et al.) eventually put their allegations into an October, 2013 lawsuit against Preferred Fragrance CEO Ezriel Polatsek and others, including Ezriel’s wife, brother, and father who were employed by PF. In the course of the lawsuit, the investors asked Federal judge Paul Engelmayer for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop Ezriel Polatsek from violating his non-compete agreements. The judge denied the request but after further discovery the plaintiffs returned with substantially stronger evidence to support the injunction.
At this point the judge decided he needed to hear live testimony from Ezriel Polatsek and his younger brother Abraham in order to sort things out. The hearings took place over several days this past June. From the snippets of transcript included in the opinion, the hearings sound at times like dialogue from a Marx brothers movie. (English is a second language for the Polatsek brothers, who grew up speaking Yiddish at home. The judge was mindful of this fact and gave it due consideration.)
THE COURT: Sorry. Wait a minute. Let me understand this. At your deposition, when you were asked, did anyone go with you on that trip, the truthful answer was your brother, correct?
THE WITNESS [Ezriel Polatsek]: Right, but –
THE COURT: Whoa. And you did not mention your brother, correct?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
THE COURT: At the time of your deposition, did you remember that your brother had gone with you on that trip?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
THE COURT: Why did you not mention your brother when you were asked the question whether anyone went with you on the trip?
THE WITNESS: Because it was a lot of Abes, and my answer to Abe Polatsek, and I just make a mistake to this answer, Abe Katz.
THE COURT: Thank you.
The Court finds Ezriel’s explanation for his false statement at his deposition—that he had accidentally confused his own brother with a business associate—wholly incredible.
That’s strong language. In addition to “wholly incredible,” the judge uses the phrase “not credible” seven times in connection with the testimony of the Polatsek brothers. (That doesn’t count “incredible,” “lacks credibility,” and “pattern of credibility-defying denials.”)
Judge Engelmayer doesn’t mince words:
The Polatseks’ original, flagrantly false testimony, is vital context. There is no benign explanation for this false testimony. The Court must conclude that the Polatseks had something to hide
The Court does not credit Ezriel’s explanations, which are repudiated by the assembled documentary evidence. They reflect a facile and unconvincing attempt to explain away emails that show active involvement by him on behalf of Exceed.
On July 10, Judge Engelmayer granted a preliminary injunction against Ezriel Polatsek enforcing the non-compete agreements. It appears to have not been a difficult call.
The judge found compelling evidence that Ezriel Polatsek “has violated his non-compete agreements, on a number of occasions and in connection with multiple competing or potentially competing entities.”
the brothers’ testimony was so substantially impeached—including by documentary proof or other testimony, and at points by its inherent illogic—that the Court is constrained to conclude that Ezriel and Abraham at points gave knowingly untruthful testimony to the Court. These adverse credibility findings contributed to the Court’s determination that Ezriel has violated the non-compete agreement and that there is a substantial likelihood that he will continue to do so absent a preliminary injunction.
The fifty-one page opinion makes for highly entertaining reading. It describes how, in 2013, two fragrance-related companies—Ouleaf and Exceed—were started by Ezriel’s brother and a former employee’s son, respectively. Abraham formed Ouleaf after a few conversations with a woman who owns a Chinese company that is PF’s main supplier. Ouleaf sells perfumes to 10 retail chains, each of which is or previously was a customer of PF. Exceed LLC was the brainchild of 22-year-old Abe Katz, son of Ezriel’s former right-hand saleswoman at PF, and its big project was a product line for the Wilhelmina modeling agency. Ezriel’s involvement with both companies was in violation of his non-compete agreement.
With the non-compete injunction out of the way (assuming that Ezriel abides by its terms), the case will now focus on the fraud charges against the Polatseks and their associates. Expect more stories from the colorful world of knock-off perfume.
The case discussed here is Uni-World Capital, L.P. et al v. Preferred Fragrance, Inc. et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Filing 156: Opinion and order, dated July 10, 2014. It is available here.
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Literary Smellscapes: Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
This is the opening paragraph of Michael Chabon’s 2012 novel Telegraph Avenue.
A white boy rode flatfoot on a skateboard, towed along, hand to shoulder, by a black boy pedaling a brakeless fixed-gear bike. Dark August morning, deep in the Flatlands. Hiss of tires. Granular unraveling of skateboard wheels against asphalt. Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine different styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat.
An old friend from California recommended the book to me the other day; he thought I’d appreciate its depiction of local color. And indeed, I’m inclined to like novels that set the scene with an olfactory grace note. And yes, the nine styles of jasmine is Berkeley in a bottle.
But there’s also something about Chabon’s style—a slow, steady accretion of descriptive detail that doesn’t really build a mood or lead to action—that feels laborious. I struggled to get through the next ten pages. His layering-on of references to specific places, names, and brands reminds me of a painter who slathers thick layers of paint onto a canvas and moves it around with a trowel. I gave up somewhere around page fifteen.
De gustibus. You might love it.
P.S. In creating the Amazon link I found that Michiko Kakutani calls Chabon a “magical prose stylist.” Well, that seals it. Michiko Kakutani is my personal counter-indicator; her assessments, back when I bothered to read them, were in perfect negative correlation to my own.
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ISDP: New Norman Bates Award™ Nominees Plus Helpful Product Reviews
A “super moon” is illuminating the battered roof of FirstNerve Manor and casting such a bright light on the weedy grounds that our lively rodent population is reluctant to venture out. So are we, frankly, yet we had to stagger to the utility shed and hand-crank the generator so we’d have enough current to keep our Toshiba T1100 lit. We take our ISDP deadlines super cereal.
For this month’s round up we begin in the Northeast: “Human Head Discovered In Hempstead Yard.” Hempstead, Long Island, that is, where a passerby who smelled a stench helped discover a decaying human head inside a bag hidden by bushes on a residential yard. Neighbors had noticed a “terrible smell” and a “horrific odor” for days but were reluctant to investigate because two human arms were found in the area the week before. [Say what?—Ed.]
Over in Waterbury, Connecticut, the decomposing remains of a man were found in the woods at the end of a dirt road “after neighbors reported a foul odor.” Results of an autopsy are pending.
Down in lovely Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, residents of a gated community reported a foul odor coming from a home. Firemen who responded to the call saw water pouring down through a ceiling and found a man’s body in the garage. Results of an autopsy are, as they say, pending.
Being from the Bay Area, this headline had us thinking of San Francisco and noir-style detective stories: “Foul smell leads police to dead man in Mission.” But the Mission in question is the Texas town on the Mexican border, where “a body was found after an officer smelled a foul odor” late on the afternoon of July 15. The body appears to be that of a 23-year-old man from El Salvador.
Jarrod Nicholas Tutko
We have a new pair of nominees for the 2014 Norman Bates Award™: Mr. and Mrs. Jarrod Tutko of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The couple had six children ranging in age from three to thirteen, “several of whom suffer from serious medical conditions, including one who is deaf.” One son was confined to a room on the third floor of the family’s house because he was mentally disabled and extremely difficult to control. His father was responsible for his care, while his mother, Kimberly, took care of the other children including a bed-ridden daughter who required around-the-clock care. On a Friday night Kimberly noticed a “strange odor” coming from the third floor and asked her husband about it. PennLive.com reporter Joel Elias fills in the rest:
Her husband, Jarrod Nicholas Tutko, went upstairs and came back with body of their 9-year-old son, Jarrod Jr., wrapped in a sheet and laid him on the bathroom floor, she said.
Believing the boy had just died, Kimberly Tutko said she pulled the sheet back and quickly realized he had been dead for several days.
Kimberly Tutko said her husband told her the child died on Tuesday.
“I said to him ‘Why didn’t you say anything?’” Kimberly Tutko said. “He said he was too afraid to say anything because of other kids in the house.”
Kimberly Tutko said she then called 911.
Thirty-eight-year-old Jarrod Sr. has been “charged with endangering the welfare of children, concealing the death of a child and abuse of a corpse.” Mr. Tutko has not been charged.
Finally, we offer an item that is not technically an ISDP incident, but which we believe ISDP fans will find intriguing. There was olfactory mayhem at the Alameda County coroner’s bureau in Oakland, California, when the staff opened a body bag received earlier in the day from a funeral home. The remains were those of a mechanic whose “body had been found partially decomposed in his garage where he worked on cars.” The remains gave off “an excessively foul odor” so strong that the coroner’s staff bailed and the building was evacuated.
According to investigators, the funeral home had applied something called Smelleze Eco Corpse Deodorizer to the mechanic’s remains; however the treatment was not thought to be the cause of noxious odor.
Just FYI, the Smelleze product is available from Amazon, at $16.99 for a 2 lb. container. [Order through the Amazon button on FirstNerve and we’ll get a few pennies at no cost to you!—Ed.] The ad copy is priceless: “For a breath of fresh air, simply sprinkle Smelleze® on corpse and smell the difference.”
The customer reviews are even better (click to enlarge).
Happy shopping and see you next time!
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Biology of Cancer
(Ades) Exam 1
Additional Biology Flashcards
What two events do elevated P53 levels cause in the cell?
1) Cell cycle arrest
2) A delayed apoptotic signal. If the mutation isn't repaired, this signal occurs.
What 2 events are required in order for a cell to become immortal?
1) Damage tolerance
2) The ability of the cells to restore their telomerases (this is the rate limiting step b/c it happens later)
If there is no response to abnormalities presented in the cell, then P53 is ____________________ or is _________________ .
1) Not present
2) Mutated
What happens is BCL2 is overproduced?
It will be tumerogenic because it will prevent the cell from going into apoptosis. It is the product of a protooncogene.
What are telomeric sequences?
They are complementary strands with one G-rich strand and one C-rich strand. These segments are found at the end of DNA and serve as a protective group. They form a loop at DNA's end and contain telomeric capping proteins. These sequences also have an overhang, the G-rich sequence overhangs the c-rich sequence.
Describe what happens after DNA damage presents itself.
Refer to paper
Why does DNA shorten after each replication cycle?
The DNA polymerase needs a space in order to place a primer and use the strand as a template, however, it runs out space and is not able to add more nucleotides. So, one segment isn't replicated.
How to compensate for lack of nucleotides on the telomeric region?
This is when telomerase comes into play. Telomerase is present in germ line and stem cells. It elongates DNA so that the primer will have enough space. Telomerase functions with RNA polymerase and a RNA sequence that is complementary to the G-rich strand. Then reverse transcriptase elongates the sequence one nucleotide at a time.
What three models can be used in humans to see if cells are carcinogenic?
Which model is most useful?
1) Irradiated host - Take healthy mice and give them a high dose of ionizing radiation. This will eliminate their bone marrow and lymphocytic and glucocytic cells.
2) Young, weanlings - Their immune system hasn't fully developed yet and they can't reject the tissue
3) Nude mice - This is the most useful model. A breed of immunocomprimised hairless mice due to a genetic mutation. They have lesions that prevent their thymus gland from maturing and they cannot make T-lymphocytes, which are required for graft rejection. They are very costly to maintain, but they will accept grafts.
What was the purpose of testing cells in the soft agar or suspension culture assay?
To see if cells could survive without anchorage and if they could, do they show contact inhibition.
The question is: Is the loss of the anchorage requirement and contact inhibition related to the carcinogenic potential of the cell?
What procedure would you use to test anchorage dependence of cells?
You would take cells and inject them into 4-6 week old mice, wait for months, and examine for tumors. Also, you take tissue culture flasks, fill them with tissue culture medium (and with FBS) plus a polymer of suger, glucose or galactose. The presence of the sugar causes the solution to become more viscous and prevents the cells from settling to the bottom of the flask. The flasks are then placed in an incubator at 38 degrees. Then you wait. If the cells have lost anchorage dependence, the cells would divide. After the waiting period, you count how many cells there are in comparison to how many were put in, then you get a percentage.
What were the results of Freedman and Shin's anchorage dependence vs malignant transformation test?
Give an example of a malignant and nonmalignant cell used in this experiment.
If the cells divide in solution, they are transformed cells.
Malignant - HeLa
Non-malignant - 3T3
If HeLa cells are put into a mouse and a tumor begins to form, which cells are proliferating: the HeLa cells or the mouse's cells?
The mouse's cells.
Describe the characteristics of:
(Chromosome #, anchorage, contact inhibition, life span)
Transformed Cells
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If we are given a piece of cervical cancer cells, how do we test if it came from one cell or many?
What are three reasons why whole animals aren't the best choice to see if an agent is carcinogenic?
-Time course
-Changes are gradual
-The animal may have a history of malignant cells
Tumors on the skin that are caused by exposure to UV light. These tumors are deep and do not normally metastasize. It forms in the keratinocytes and goes into the dermal layer. They grow very slowly. Portions of the skin with hair follicles are more sensitive. It is not invasive; it remains local. It can be detected early because it can be seen on the surface of the skin.
How can UV light form tumors without an initial exposure of cells to an initiating agent?
280-320nm (UVB) is the portion of UV light that gets absorbed by the nucleic acids. Photons of UV light exposed to 2 neighboring purimidines, T or C, can cause pyrimidine dimers.
Which 2 products can adjacent thymines form when exposed to UVB light?
1) Cyclobutane thymine dimer (more stable)
2) 6,4-photoproduct
UVC:
UVA:
UVC (200-290nm) is very damaging. That portion of the spectrum never reaches the surface of the earth. It all gets filtered by the ozone.
UVB (290-320nm) is the region of the spectrum where the photons are absorbed by the nucleic acids of the DNA and result in the activation of those bases and consequently the formation of the dimers, so this is mutagenic.
UVA (320-400nm) is more inflammatory. It's not mutagenic but it causes some inflammatory reaction. You can think of it as a promoting agent. It is harmless in a different way than UVB but it still should be filtered because of this promoting factor.
What is Xeroderma Pigmentosum?
1) A defect in the repair mechanism that reverses pyrimidine dimers.
2) Hypersensitivity to light
3) Simple autosomal recessive
4) Seven complementation groups
There are 7 different alleles whose products are involved in the DNA repair of dimers. There named XpA, XpB,...., XpG. For an individual to have Xp, they must have two defective alleles of any one of those
How would you determine how many genes are required to contribute to XP? How would you determine that there are 7 genes related to Xp?
You can take two mammalian cells and fuse them and those cells will survive for a period. They will have twice as many chromosomes, but they will survive. How do you fuse them? You can incubate the cells in suspension with the virus and polyethyleneglycol and what happens is that the membranes will fuse and then you wash away the viruses and maintain the cells in culture. Then the cells chromosomes will mix.
How How can a mouse knockout study be used to detect the difference between wild type, heterozygous, and homozygous Xp genes?
A group of knockout mice in which the gene Xpc was knocked out were compared to wild type animals and then to heterozygous. Those animals were exposed to daily doses of UV radiation of their backs. In the Xpc animals, by week 25 all of the animals had basal cell carcinoma. At the same time, the wild type animals did not have any carcinomas. The heterozygous mice were intermediate between the two. That phenomenon is referred to as haploid insufficiency. They could repair the pyrimidine dimers, but not as effectively as the wild type group.
How are pyrimidine dimers and PAH-derived adducts removed?
Explain the process.
Nucleotide Excision Repair
First 7 proteins recognize the site, bind to it and become the nucleus for the assembly of other proteins. The proteins nick the DNA about 30 bp's apart, then DNA polymerase comes in, using the unaffected strand as a template to fill the gap, this is followed by DNA lipase, which closes the gap by forming phosphodiester bonds.
Melanocytes
Melanocytes are cells that are responsible for the pigments of our hair, skin, and eyes. That come from neural crest cells. Within melanocytes are melanosomes in which tyrosine forms polymers. The bags of melanin, the melanosomes, are then carried to the keratinocytes and surround the nucleus in order to protect the cells from the effects of UV light. Skin pigmentation is a result of this process.
What causes varying skin pigments?
The type of melanin produced and the degree of exchange of that pigment between the melanocytes and keratinocytes.
Malignant Melanomas
Cancer derived from melanocytes. Melanocytes represent 10% of the proliferating cells in the epidermal layer.
It's due to the accumulation of mutations in the melanocytes that result in invasive cancer that is highly immortal and in part it's because melanocytes are predisposed to leave the sites of the tumor and invade other cells.
Neural Crest Cells
During embryonic development, the period in which the ectoderm, the outer layer of the growing embryo folds in itself causing the formation of the neural tube. That outer layer sort of folds and invaginates and results in the formation of a tube that essentially becomes the CNS. And the neural crest cells are cells that came from the ectoderm that sort of get trapped between the neural tube and the ectoderm. Those cells migrate during embryonic development and end up forming a variety of structures.
Because of their function embryonically, are predisposed to migrate.
What are 3 factors that effect malignant melanoma risk?
1) Sunburns before the age of 20
2) # of moles >2 mm diameter
3) Familial links
What happens when we get a brief tan (2-3 hours) compared to a tan that lasts 8-10 months?
A brief tan is due to us being briefly exposed to UVA & UVB. It is due to the redistribution of melanosomes and the pigments within the melanocytes.
The longer tans are cause by an exposure to UVB and an increase in pigment, melanin, production due to more melanosomes and a slight increase in the # of melanocytes. Also, there is an increase in the rate of transfer of the melanosomes to the keratinocytes.
What causes an increase in the propensity of melanocytes to metastasize when transformed?
Transformed melanocytes seem to reexpress some of the genes that existed earlier on during the fetal developmental stages. One particular gene is SLUG, whose products regulate the ability of the cell to move.
What is the main gene affected when melanocytes are transformed?
CDK1 which regulates progression through the cell cycle
What did William Henry Perkin discover and why was it dangerous?
He discovered aniline dyes. These dyes are not soluble in water, but can be dissolved in alcohol.
Workers in factories that produced these dyes developed cancer of the urinary bladder. Our body has developed ways to convert lipid-soluble compounds to soluble compounds so that they can be excreted in the urine or feces. The issue with aniline dye is that multiple mutagenic side reactions take place in the process of this conversion.
1) Are PAHs soluble in water?
2) Where do PAHs accumulate?
3) How are they eliminated?
1) No
2) In membranes and fatty tissues
3) They are metabolized for elimination. They are converted to a water soluble product in order to be excreted and in the process multiple mutagenic side reactions take place.
Describe the steps taken to detoxify PAH
Where does phase 1 take place?
1) In the enzymes embedded in the smoothER
2) In the cytoplasm
What is a cytochrome?
Any one of many proteins that consist of a protein component that is associated with a poryphin ring and typically an iron metal that can be +2 or +3.
What is the function of Phenobarbital?
What does it increase the production of?
Leads to proliferation of the smoothER
The enzymes that work in Phase 1 and monooxygenase
What is the equation for Phase 1?
Substrate + O2 ----(NADPH + H+ --> NADP+)----> Epoxide + H2O
What form of P450 are we focusing on?
How is it induced in skin?
1) CY1A1
2) By topical application of benz(a)anthracene
Describe the pathway that ends with the production of P450.
At the end of phase 1, what could happen to BP-7,8-diol that would cause it to become mutagenic?
Why is it mutagenic?
The same monooxygenase or a neighboring monooxygenase can interact with BP-7,8-diol and form BP-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide which is VERY mutagenic.
It is mutagenic because it can spontaneously form covalent bonds, adducts, with guanine and adenine bases. When DNA polymerase comes to replicate the strand, it will misread the base.
What repair mechanism corrects DNA adducts?
How do you determine if an agent causes adducts in the DNA?
You can use a plasmid and insert a small segment of DNA with a known sequence. Then this plasmid is exposed to the agent, then you let whatever happens happen. Then you insert this plasmid into bacteria and you let the bacteria amplify. Then you sequence the plasmid and look for changes in the DNA sequence. If you see G--> T or A-->T substitution, then an adduct is present.
What was the result of the experiment when benzopyrene and the mutagenic form of benzopyrene were injected into New-born Swiss-Webster mice?
The derivative was 150 times more mutagenic than benzopyrene
Describe the Ames Test
Bruce Ames developed a model to test agents for carcinogenic abilities through using a bacterial model, Salmonella typhimurium. He used His- bacteria, which prevented them from making Histidine and prevented replication. So, you have Histidine requiring bacteria. Some are serving as control and some are serving as experimental. 1 mL of those cells, basically a billion cells, is plated on an agar dish with the minimal medium so the cells that survive have to make Histidine. The experimental group is given the agent. And the number of revertants is what’s counted the next day. If you get a greater number of revertants in the experimental, it means that it was mutagenic.
What agents are most effective in chemotherapy?
Alkylating agents
What is the most prominent change when bases are exposed to an alkylating agent?
O6 alkylation of guanine causing a G-->T transformation.
This causes DNA polymerase to misread that base.
How does the cell repair DNA bases effected by alkylating agents?
It uses O6-methyl-guanine-DNA methyl-transferase that recognizes the side group and remove it.
This repair system is very expensive to cells because it will bind and then transfer the alkyl group to itself. This is then degraded. The protein is not used again. For every base that is corrected, a small protein is destroyed.
It has a limited efficiency if the cell of tissue is exposed to high levels of these alkylating agents.
What two things make tobacco a very effective carcinogenic agent?
Tobacco contains NNK, NNAL, and NNN. Two of them can function as alkylating agents and they all can form adducts with DNA bases as a result of monooxygenase activity.
The more ______________ an agent can produce, the more likely it is to be a ________________ agent.
1) Mutation
2) Transforming
What is the difference in susceptibility between slowly and quickly proliferating cells?
Slowly proliferating cells will be less susceptible to DNA damage because more would be in G1 phase and can be paused by P53 at the G1/S checkpoint. Quickly proliferating cells are more susceptible because more cells will be in S phase and will be passed the checkpoint.
How would you synchronize cells in the cell cycle using the cell in a culture plate?
1) Temperature control. Low to high
2) Remove FBS and add it back again
What repair mechanism (two types) is used to repair oxidative deamination? Explain.
Base Excision Repair
1) The repair system involves first the cleavage of the bond between the base and the sugar by DNA glycosylase, while leaving the backbone in tact.
Then one or more nucleotides are used to repair this patch.
The first reaction is the removal of the base that results in apurinic acid (DNA w/out one or more purines). The next step is the removal of the remnant of that nucleotide and the insertion of the appropriate nucleotide.
2) The next type of base excision repair involves an incision in the nucleus using a unique enzyme that will cleave the backbone of the DNA missing the base. Depending on the organism and the cell type, one or few DNA nucleotides are added to fill this gap by the DNA polymerase and the DNA ligase.
Two examples of agents tested by the Ames test
AF-2, the food preservative for meat
Hair dyes (90% were mutagenic)
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Crises still drive food safety in U.S.
Michael Taylor, co-chair of the Stop Foodborne Illness Board, traced the development and future of food safety at FSS 2019.
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KEYWORDS FSMA / outbreaks / pathogens / preventive controls / produce
When it comes to food safety, Michael Taylor, former deputy commissioner for food for FDA and present co-chair of the Stop Foodborne Illness Board, has seen it all (or most of it) from having served both publicly and privately. Taylor, a frequent presenter at Food Safety Summit, suggested that in spite of all the technology, collaboration and education to improve food safety, crisis management still drives changes.
His FSS keynote summarized the past 25 years of food safety that he witnessed as a regulator, and its present and future state now that he’s committed outside the government to food safety in the public interest. Generally speaking, despite a checkered past and a spotty present with recalls (e.g., the recent romaine recall), food safety is evolving toward a higher plane—provided some kinks can be worked out in the field, literally speaking.
Has the past really stimulated food safety progress? “The progress historically has been driven largely by the response to crises,” says Taylor. He noted the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1992 and 1993, which killed four and seriously injured 500 people, many with lifelong HUS damage. “It was a huge wake-up call because at the time the USDA policy was that the inspection program was not responsible for pathogens,” says Taylor.
“Fast forward to the spinach outbreak in 2006. There was significant loss of life and injuries to people, but also the devastation of the demand for spinach. In response, the California LGMA (Leafy Green Handler Marketing Agreement) was formed.” The industry came together in the absence of federal standards (pre-FSMA) to figure out how to solve these problems, creating standards and working with state governments.
FSMA came out of a series of events: the produce outbreaks, Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella outbreak (and other peanut problems) and melamine in dairy products, says Taylor. “We have the framework of preventive controls … but there’s an enormous amount to be done by industry and government to see that these best practices are implemented across all our diverse food system.”
Taylor broke down work to be done into three categories: comprehensive implementation of best practices across diverse supply chains, real-time trace back and forward (new technology can help), and establishment of rules governing the physical proximity of produce growers and animal agriculture, an issue about which Taylor was clearly adamant. “That quite clearly remains a significant hazard.”
On the proximity issue, Taylor says cooperation is lacking between producers—and between producers and federal agencies.
He showed an image of a feedlot that he took in Arizona near the Yuma romaine outbreak. “You can see the feedlot on the slight rise of land immediately adjacent to and above the structure you see down at the lower left, [which] is the principal irrigation canal that’s taking water all throughout a major growing area of leafy greens. If that’s not a hazard that needs to be addressed in a rigorous way, I don’t know what is,” says Taylor.
To improve food safety, LGMA established larger buffers between feedlots and produce fields, but according to Taylor, these changes aren’t an adequate solution. He asked whether a mile buffer from an 80,000 head feedlot is adequate to protect leafy greens from contamination.
Hazard analyses need to be done but the best that can happen is: producers must sample and test their own products because even the FDA is not allowed on the feedlots to do any extensive soil/water sampling and testing; the issue is outside FDA’s jurisdiction.
“There’s no extensive sampling going on just privately between the growers and the feedlot operators, so we’re dealing really with a massive hazard, and we’re trying to manage that risk in scientific ignorance of what the actual hazard is and ways that it can be controlled—if it can be controlled at all,” says Taylor.
In looking at the future, he says that consumers with rising expectations will drive food safety, simply not buying products that are perceived as not safe. New epidemiological (epi) tools will assist in diagnosing outbreaks more quickly, and social media will make or break food companies as bad news is shared instantaneously.
He cited three other ways that food safety will improve: continuing industry innovation, preventive government oversight and an alignment on goals and strategies by everyone in the food chain. “We know we need comprehensive preventive strategies; continuous improvement is recognized as a necessary element of a food safety system. We need strong food safety cultures as a foundation for sustained good performance.”
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How to Improve Safety Around the Wekiva Parkway Construction Route
Staff | Accident and Injury | May 5, 2016
Construction on the second phase of the Wekiva Parkway began on May 2, bringing the Tavares community one step closer to a complete Central Florida beltway. With ongoing construction, there could be increased congestion on adjacent streets, creating a need for officials to implement safety measures to avoid accidents.
The first three-mile section of the parkway, which opened to the public earlier this year, was pitched to locals as providing a safe travel alternative to busy area roads such as US 441 and SR 46. However, many residents argue that the Wekiva Parkway project’s goal of providing safer and less congested routes to commuters is being undermined.
In the construction of the first three-mile stretch of Wekiva Parkway, temporary entrance and exit ramps have been installed on the windy 45 mph Mount Plymouth Road. Many residential roads with 25 mph speed limits feed onto Mount Plymouth. Both Mount Plymouth Road and its adjacent side streets may see an increase in traffic as drivers flock to the newly installed Wekiva Parkway, posing potential safety hazards to the residential community.
By instating tolls on such a short stretch of road, the Wekiva Parkway project may also push local drivers to take alternative routes in greater numbers, all to avoid toll costs. As Mount Plymouth Road is also a route of choice for those seeking toll-free alternatives, the increased traffic from both those avoiding and opting to use Wekiva Parkway may pose a serious traffic safety risk.
Wekiva Parkway project spokeswoman Mary Brooks told the Orlando Sentinel that once construction has finished on the rest of Wekiva Parkway, the exit and entrance ramps at Mount Plymouth Road will be removed. However, with the project slated to be complete in 2021, these entrance and exit ramps may become a long-time nuisance for those living near Mount Plymouth Road.
In anticipation of increased traffic on Mount Plymouth Road and its nearby residential roads, here are five recommendations for how Lake County officials can help people avoid getting into potentially serious car accidents.
Temporary Speed Bumps
Speed bumps are one of the best deterrents for “cut-through motorists,” or drivers using area roads and side streets to bypass construction and traffic on streets with slower speed limits. These motorists, who are often commuting to and from work, are more likely to speed through these residential areas, posing a risk to pedestrians and children at play. In addition to being effective at reducing speeding traffic, speed bumps are also one of the most inexpensive traffic calming measures to build.
Raised Crosswalks
Raised crosswalks are speed tables that are elevated to allow motorists greater visibility of pedestrians. Raised crosswalks increase safety both for motorists and for pedestrians crossing busy roads, according to transportation consultancy Fehr & Peers.
Curb Extension
Curb extensions are an effective and aesthetically pleasing way of shortening the distance pedestrians need to walk to cross the street. By extending the width of the sidewalk, often into the parking lane, the roadway is narrowed. This encourages motorists to drive slowly and pay close attention to intersections.
Chicanes
Derived from the French verb chicaner, meaning “to trick,” chicanes are a traffic calming method that involves creating artificial turns in a road, often in an S shape. This road shape requires drivers to maneuver deliberately and slowly. Chicanes can also add to the curb appeal of the neighborhood when sculptures or plantings are added to them.
Raised Medians
Raised medians are elevated islands built in the middle of the road. Along with providing a physical barrier between traffic lanes, raised medians are helpful to pedestrians, allowing a shielded space between lanes of traffic on especially wide roads that may take a long time to cross. Seen often in boulevards, raised medians can be dressed up beautifully with plants and flowers.
The full impacts of the Wekiva Parkway construction are yet to be seen, but local Tavares drivers should prepare accordingly for congestion on area roads and potential alternative routes.
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How to destroy your PS3 controller
By Justin Towell 2010-07-21T22:00:36.201Z
Home console DIY really is 'Destroy It Yourself'
It seems consoles and their peripherals are just like modern cars. In the past, you could open them up and see what's going wrong -these days you're just met with alien components and bewilderment. But that just made me more determined than ever to fix my broken DualShock 3.
I imported said DualShock when PS3 finally got rumble inthe far-off lands of the Far East a couple of years ago. It cost a pretty penny, but it was and still is my favourite PS3 pad. But while playing Formula One Championship Edition over the weekend (I'm getting some practise in for the new Codies game), the car kept shifting down a gear without me asking itto. A closer inspection revealed a very loose-feeling L2 button. Time for some DIY.
Above: Apologies for the lens flare - it wasn't a very exciting picture so I sexed it up a bit
Upon turning it over, I discovered to my utmost surprise, the thing has normal Phillips screws to hold it together. Usually, you're met with security screws that stop you doing anything to the unit without some magical tool that's only available to hardcore modders, repair centre employees and Valiente-level witches. So in I went. Out came the five screws, and then (with a little mob-style 'persuasion') the thing came apart. And stuff fell out everywhere.
Turns out the joypad is designed to be held together by its own casing. The shoulder buttons have loose bits of plastic and no real seating, and the battery is pretty much loose over the top of the PCB. My immediate thought was 'gak!', which roughly translates as 'Oh, sweet Jebus, what have I done?!' but takes less time to say.
But after a little nosing about, I discovered the problem - a tiny piece of wire coiled once to make a spring, which was coiled slightly too far to function correctly. So I took it out and tried to bend it a little. Immediately, it broke in my hands with acute little'clink'. Damn. Well, I suppose that was the bit that was broken anyway, so it's no great loss...
Above: Stupid coiled spring that is really springy until you actually need to bend it
So, rather than give in at this stage and take the pad for repair, I rummaged around and found one of my old Sixaxis pads. Five screws andmore gentlepersuasion later, it was open on the floor with its insides everywhere. And there, accompanied by angelic 'aaaahs', I saw it - the same coil of wire, which fitted in the same way.
Above:Oh, really? You thought so too? Well, I am considering becoming ahand model...
Whoever puts these things together in Japan is extremely dextrous with their fingers. Trying to keep the tiny metal axle in place with the spring above the saddle while simultaniously aligning two loose pieces of plastic is ridiculously hard. And once you've done one, you've got to do the other side without touching the first, all before getting the case back on without disturbing any of the above. It took half an hour just to do this part.
But, in a triumph for twenty-something men everywhere, I prevailed. The case clicked shut. The lights blinked on and then synced to the PS3. All the buttons worked and the rumble was strong. And best of all, the L2 button was firm and responsive. I had won.
But just as the street parade was in full swing and the crowd outside had begun to chant my name, my eyes came to rest onmy repaired pad's fallen comrade. It was bleeding heavily but its light were still blinking, trying in vain to sync with a console that no longer knew its name.
Above: Time to meet your maker, Sixaxis. Where's your tilt now? Eh?
'It's OK,' I thought. 'I can stillsave it'. All I needed to do was replace the spring in the old Sixaxis andI could put it back together. But alas, everything I tried was too thick. And it wouldn't go back together. But then, even when I tried to cut my losses and took the spring out altogether to justclick the thing shut, I couldn't. Maybe the design was older, or perhaps I hadn't found the right positions for the shoulder buttons, but it simply wouldn't go back together. I had killed it.
And sadly, that is where the story ends. I saved my beloved DualShock 3, but at what cost? Can I really condone the sacrifice of one life to save another?
Still, you know what they say: Every Sixaxis dies. Not every Sixaxis truly lives.
Above: Perfect! All the bits are back together. Possibly not quite in the same order as they were at the start
Have you tried a DIY console repair that's gone horribly wrong? Let us know in the comments.
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Eastern Redbuds
Celebrate the end of winter with an explosion of pink blossoms By Anne Balogh
Most people never forget the first time they see a redbud tree in full bloom. In my case, the memorable occasion took place at a local arboretum in early spring. The morning sun was shining on a group of nearly a dozen redbuds with flowers fully unfurled, setting off a spectacular show of pink fireworks.
The horizontal branching pattern of the redbud adds architectural interest and makes an attractive canopy for spring bulbs. Photo by: Saxon Holt.
As I returned to observe these trees throughout the year, I discovered that their beauty extends well beyond the spring season, as the fading flowers give way to heart-shaped green to bronze leaves in summer and brown pods that remain on the tree after the leaves fall. These attributes, along with the redbud’s compact size and resilient nature, have made it one of the most popular small trees for residential gardens.
REASONS TO LOVE THEM
Clusters of tiny magenta buds swell into showy rosy pink flowers in early spring before the leaves appear, with the long-lasting blossoms putting on a show for two to three weeks.
The buds appear to emerge right from the bark of twigs and branches and even on parts of the trunk, adorning the entire tree with miniature clusters of flowers.
The trunk of the redbud commonly divides close to the ground, creating an interesting multi-trunk shape with graceful arched branches and a rounded crown.
Heart-shaped leaves 2 to 6 inches in length emerge a reddish color, turning dark green in summer and then a bright canary yellow in autumn. The flowers also give rise to clusters of beanlike pods that remain on the tree into winter.
The redbud adapts to a wide range of site conditions and thrives in most types of soil and levels of sun exposure.
WHERE TO PLANT THEM
The eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) grows throughout most of the eastern U.S, extending as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and north into Canada. This tree is not picky when it comes to soil preference, but it does best when grown in a moist, well-drained location. Because of their modest size, redbuds work well as understory trees and are particularly stunning when planted in groupings. The horizontal branching pattern adds architectural interest to the garden and makes an attractive canopy for spring bulbs.
20-30 feet
Soil:
Tolerates acidic or alkaline soils as well as heavy clays
Annual growth rate:
The pea-sized blossoms of the eastern redbud emerge in early spring before the leaves arrive, covering the bare branches in garlands of pink. Photo by: Rob Cardillo.
BEST VARIETIES FOR RESIDENTIAL GARDENS
Although most redbuds have lavender-pink flowers, certain varieties and cultivars have white, deep magenta, or light pink flowers. The leaf color may also vary, ranging from deep purple to chartreuse.
'Forest Pansy’ (shown) is one of the most popular cultivars, with deep purple foliage and rose-colored flowers. The foliage retains its burgundy color throughout the summer in cooler climates, but lightens to green in the hot climates of the Southeast.
'Ruby Falls' is an excellent redbud for small spaces. Its weeping habit, red-purple flowers and heart-shaped leaves will bring elegance to any garden.
‘Texas White’ produces an abundance of bright white flowers and has leathery, glossy, bright green foliage. ‘Alba’ is another white-flowered variety, with light green foliage.
The Rising Sun™ offers spectacular color with new growth starting apricot, transitioning to vivid gold, and finally to bright green.
‘Ace of Hearts’ is a dwarf variety ideal for small gardens. It tops out at 12 feet and requires no pruning to maintain its shape.
‘Silver Cloud’ has attractive variegated foliage with splashes of creamy white and pink.
‘Hearts of Gold’ features bright golden-yellow foliage that gradually changes to chartreuse during the summer.
‘Merlot’ (a hybrid of ‘Forest Pansy’ and ‘Texas White’) has lustrous dark purple foliage and good heat and drought tolerance.
CARE REQUIREMENTS
Redbud trees tolerate moderate dry spells, but when planted in full sun, they should be watered regularly. To keep the soil cooler and evenly moist in the summer, apply a layer of mulch out to the drip line of the limbs.
To maintain the tree’s structural beauty and health, you should prune it as needed to remove weak forks, crowded branches, and dead limbs. It’s best to prune right after flowering or in late fall while the tree is dormant.
Most diseases affecting the redbud are caused by fungal infections, including verticillium wilt, canker or dieback, and leaf spots. Older trees are especially vulnerable. Early identification followed by removal of the affected areas is the most effective treatment.
The foliage of ‘Forest Pansy’ emerges a dark purple, gradually turning burgundy red as the leaves develop. Photo by: Susan A. Roth.
REDBUD FACTS
The blossoms of redbuds look very similar to pea blossoms because the trees are in the same legume plant family (Fabaceae). The blossoms are also edible and can add a bright, citrusy taste to salads. The unopened buds can also be pickled and used as a caper substitute.
Although redbuds will grow in partial shade, they will produce more blossoms when exposed to full sun.
Because the redbud is native to a wide range of climates, it’s important to plant a tree started from locally harvested seed. These trees perform better and are more cold-hardy when grown in their native environment.
The eastern redbud was adopted in 1937 as the state tree of Oklahoma, where it grows throughout the valleys and ravines in early spring, painting the landscape pink.
BEST PLACES TO SEE THEM
The Redbud Festival in Denton, Texas (also known as the “Redbud Capital of Texas”) is the city’s official Arbor Day event. Held every April, this community festival traces its roots back to an annual Texas Woman’s University festival held from the 1930s until 1981 to celebrate the school’s beautification and tree planting efforts.
The annual Honaker, Virginia, Redbud Festival, celebrated since 1981, takes place every April, when the city erupts into a brilliant display of pink, with thousands of redbud trees heralding the coming of spring. The event features live music, games, pageants, a canoe race, and auto show.
The Redbud Festival in Columbus, Wisconsin, rejoices the awakening of its redbud trees in mid-May with special events throughout the city, a city-wide garage sale, sidewalk sales, and the Columbus prince and princess contest.
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GC Volleyball Falls on the Road Against Francis Marion
Georgia College (14-8 , 5-5 PBC) 22 26 22 13 1
Francis Marion (12-10 , 6-7 PBC) 25 24 25 25 3
K: Ebony Powers - 12
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By Angela Moryan, Sports Information Assistant
FLORENCE, S.C. – Georgia College Volleyball (14-8, 5-5 PBC) dropped a tough conference battle against Francis Marion University (12-10, 6-7 PBC) in South Carolina Friday night. The 3-1 loss pushes the Bobcats down a spot in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) standings, but the Blue and Green's even .500 record in the PBC keeps them in the top-five.
Georgia College walked into the Smith University Center looking to extend its four-win streak against the Patriots, but Francis Marion used the home court to its advantage and took the first set 25-22. The Bobcats kept the Patriots at bay in the second set, forcing more time and ultimately coming out on top, 26-24. Set three was a bit of déjà vu, as the Patriots topped the Bobcats 25-22. Finally, the Bobcats hoped to force a fifth, tie-breaking set with a win in the fourth but just could not overcome the Patriot runs, which resulted from strong Patriot attacks and Bobcat errors.
"Tonight was a tough one," head coach Gretchen Krumdieck said. "It's never easy playing on the road. We are looking forward to our next match tomorrow."
Three Bobcat attackers posted double-digit numbers from the four-setter. Sophomore Ebony Powers (Jacksonville, Florida) racked up the most with 13 kills. Up next came right-sider Caroline Long (Roswell, Georgia). The senior's 11 kills granted her a .258 average, the best for the Bobcats. Sophomore Taylor Svehla (Cumming, Georgia) also recorded 11 kills for the match.
Also offensively, sophomore starting setter Kayla Brockway (Jacksonville, Florida) hit the road with 40 more assists. She also had 11 digs, her 13th double-double for the year.
Junior libero Chandler Ewaldsen (Savannah, Georgia) and Powers were the most helpful defensively. Ewaldsen dug up 14 saves, and Powers got 13. She now has eight double-doubles of her own.
Not much movement has occurred in the conference standings since the last Bobcat match. USC Aiken holds firm on the top spot with an 11-2 PBC record. Two games behind lies Flagler College with a 8-2 record. Armstrong State University takes third with six wins and three losses, and just one loss back sits Augusta University at 6-4. Georgia College holds a strong center point at fifth. The top-eight PBC schools will advance to the 2016 PBC Championships, hosted by Georgia College at the Centennial Center in Milledgeville.
The Bobcats jump state lines from Florence to Pembroke, North Carolina overnight and will play the last-ranked school in the PBC, UNC Pembroke (2-24, 0-13 PBC), with first serve scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29. The next home match for the Blue and Green will be Tuesday, Nov. 1 as they host the Columbus State University Cougars, the first match in a long four-conference-match stretch at home.
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YouTube has just launched its own music streaming portal dubbed YouTube Music. Youtube Music is a service where you get official songs, albums, thousands of playlists and artist radio plus YouTube’s tremendous catalog of remixes, live performances, covers and music videos.
YouTube Music won't be a free service, it is based on subscriptions. YouTube RED and YouTube Music has been rebranded as YouTube premium. Once you are a premium user, you will get access to both YouTube RED and Music services.
Prices for new subscribers starts from $9.99 per month to $11.99, but existing subscribers will still enjoy the current rate.
Currently, the service is now available in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
As we all know, YouTube RED provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, offline play and background playback of videos on mobile devices, access to advertising-free music streaming through Google Play Music, and access to "YouTube Red Original" series and films.
YouTube Music app is free and available for Android and iOS devices. Before using the service, you will need to sign-in to your Google account or create one if you don't have. On first use, you will get 14-day free trial of YouTube Red, which you can then extend another month in YouTube Music's settings.
The Music app will offer you location-based songs depending on your location, and you can also search for specific songs in vague terms.
If you want to know when the new YouTube Music is available in your country, head to music.youtube.com/coming-soon/.
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Scotland’s purple-clad heather moorland is heading into a new era and uncertain future.
By Dee Ward, owner Rottal Estate, Angus The final report of a two-year long review into grouse moor management, commissioned by the Scottish Government, has made a host of recommendations that would result in the biggest change for generations. Grouse shooting, of course, evokes strong opinions and there are those who would gladly see an
PLAY YOUR PART: SPEAK UP FOR GROUSE MOORS
The Gift of Grouse initiative provides a voice to all those involved in grouse moor management and helps inform about the benefits this important sector provides to Scotland’s rural communities and beyond. We want everyone to play their part in The Gift of Grouse whether you are a gamekeeper, a country sports participant, someone who
THE AREA OF GROUSE MOOR IN SCOTLAND
The area of Scotland used for grouse shooting has been alleged to be “almost a fifth of Scotland’s land” but this is based on out-dated figures. Changes in land use and economic viability has reduced this figure, and is estimated to now be no more than 10% of Scotland used for both driven and walked
AN UPDATE ON THE BRITISH GAME ALLIANCE’S FIRST SEASON
The British Game Alliance (BGA) was formed with the aim to increase demand in order to return a commercial value back to British game meat. Launched back in May 2017, the BGA laid out its plans for the season ahead and has certainly delivered, publishing a comprehensive end of season summary to the industry. Now approaching 500 shoot members have
TRADITIONAL, VIABLE AND CRUCIAL FOR RURAL AREAS
The contribution of grouse moors revealed in new Scottish Government-commissioned report. The James Hutton Institute and Scotland’s Rural College were jointly commissioned by the Scottish Government to investigate the socio-economic and biodiversity impacts of grouse shooting in Scotland. Their report, published last week, demonstrates the importance of the sector to rural areas of the country
PREDATOR CONTROL – FINDING THE BALANCE BY MARY COLWELL
I’m delighted that my next book with William Collins will be on our relationship with British predators. The idea is to explore the natural history of some of the main ones in the UK and Ireland – fox, seal, badger, crow, cormorant, buzzard, pine marten and so on – and to look at how we
MUIRBURN: CARBON LOSS OR CARBON GAIN?
Muirburn: Carbon loss or carbon gain? With recent scrutiny of moorland management practices, research into muirburn has been given a new lease of life. This review by Rebekah Strong of Scottish Land & Estates will focus on some of the most recent studies on the impact of muirburn on carbon storage in peatland. What is
DON’T GROUSE ABOUT MOORLAND ESTATES – MUCH GOOD CONSERVATION WORK IS DONE
By Tim Baynes, Director of the Scottish Moorland Group A version of this article first appeared in The Scotsman on 9 November 2018. For land managers tasked with caring for Scotland’s treasured moorland landscapes, 2018 has not been the easiest year to be out in our hills and glens. The incredibly harsh winter that
FOR THE LOVE OF GAME
THE LAUNCH OF THE BRITISH GAME ALLIANCE Guest GoG blogger – Tom Adams, Managing Director, British Game Alliance In 2017 over 50 major representatives from across the shooting community met. They felt enough time had been dedicated to idly discussing the declining market for game meat, and that something needed to be done. Unlike many
#WEHAVEWILDLIFE: SEPARATING POLITICS FROM THE FACTS
By Tim Baynes, Director, Scottish Moorland Group We Have Wildlife – a positive message for all who care and treasure biodiversity both on and away from Scotland’s moorland. The campaign, backed by the #WeHaveWildlife hashtag, was launched by Scotland’s Regional Moorland Groups and The Gift of Grouse in mid-July in response to Chris Packham’s Bioblitz.
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Miranda Lambert Is Killing It at the 2015 CMA Awards With a New Pink Hair Color
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Miranda Lambert surprised us tonight by showing up to the 2015 CMA Awards sporting a hair color change. We're talking pink-tipped ends. Not rose gold. Not subtle blush. Pink, pink, PINK. It was a fun way to stand out, just when we were becoming convinced that you weren't allowed into the auditorium if your hair wasn't root-to-tip blond. It's fun, it's playful, and it's all sorts of head-turning. Conclusion: Blake Shelton isn't the only one moving on in style from their former relationship. In case you've forgotten, this isn't the first hair change she's made since she announced her divorce. She also debuted a shorter platinum haircut in August. Seems the singer is feeling liberated these days. And those seeking light—and now pink—hair hue inspiration are benefiting in spades. Another makeover to enjoy: Want to know what's trending in beauty now? Check the Lipstick Index:
By Beth Shapouri
Miranda Lambert surprised us tonight by showing up to the 2015 CMA Awards sporting a hair color change. We're talking pink-tipped ends. Not rose gold. Not subtle blush. Pink, pink, PINK.
It was a fun way to stand out, just when we were becoming convinced that you weren't allowed into the auditorium if your hair wasn't root-to-tip blond. It's fun, it's playful, and it's all sorts of head-turning. Conclusion: Blake Shelton isn't the only one moving on in style from their former relationship.
In case you've forgotten, this isn't the first hair change she's made since she announced her divorce. She also debuted a shorter platinum haircut in August. Seems the singer is feeling liberated these days. And those seeking light—and now pink—hair hue inspiration are benefiting in spades.
Another makeover to enjoy:
Want to know what's trending in beauty now? Check the Lipstick Index:
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It has never been more important to protect the environment and the brave people fighting to defend it. The battle for the environment is also a crucial battleground for human rights. Read more
In 2012, Global Witness mourned the death of a fellow campaigner. Chut Wutty had spent years exposing how Cambodia’s political and business elite have accumulated vast fortunes by selling off the country’s land and forests. He was murdered by military police while showing journalists an illegal logging site.
Wutty’s death prompted Global Witness to research others like it. Our 2012 briefing A Hidden Crisis found that over 711 activists, journalists and community members had been killed in the last decade defending their rights to land, forests and rivers. By 2018, this death toll had risen to over 1,400. The true figure is likely to be far higher, as reliable evidence is extremely hard to find or verify.
What is clear is that the environment has become a new battleground for human rights. As demand for land and natural resources drives companies into new territories, they are increasingly striking deals with state officials without the consent of local people. While destructive industries like mining and logging continue to drive many attacks, agribusiness has risen in recent years as a major cause of threats and attacks against defenders.
Communities, many of whom have protected their land for generations, are left in the firing line of unaccountable companies, state security forces and contract killers. A lack of attention to the problem has fed endemic levels of impunity, with investigations into killings rare, and even fewer prosecutions.
In a savage irony, while the killers go free, the activists themselves are being branded as criminals. The powerful are increasingly using laws, arrests, intimidation and smear campaigns to silence those who oppose them. These subtler threats don’t make headlines like murders do – which is why they are so effective for silencing dissent.
Global Witness is campaigning to stop the killing and criminalisation of land and environmental defenders, and to ensure they can live and work without fear or intimidation.
We monitor killings and advocate for reforms aimed at stopping the extraction of resources from stoking conflict. We investigate the root causes of violence in priority countries, pushing governments to monitor and prevent abuses and bring perpetrators to justice. And we work hard to force this hidden crisis onto political agendas.
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H.R. 6233 (114th): George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act
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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the George W. Bush Childhood Home, located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, and for other purposes.
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Announcements: Anniversaries, Weddings, Engagements, Birthdays
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Joe and Benina Jaramillo of Evans celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a mass at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Saturday. A reception was held in their honor at the Mad Russian in Milliken.Hosts of the event were their daughters and sons-in-law, Loretta and Tim Towns of Tulsa, Okla., Sherrie and Tim Cook of Castle Rock and Dolores and Tim Holland of Littleton; and sons and daughters-in-law, Andy and Rita Jaramillo, Tom and Pat Jaramillo, Paul and Monica Jaramillo and Louie and Leslie Jaramillo, all of Greeley.Benina Martinez and Joe Jaramillo were married April 21, 1952, in Conejos.Mrs. Jaramillo is a housewife, and Mr. Jaramillo is retired from Eastman Kodak in Windsor. He is the owner and operator of JLR Lawn Service.The Jaramillos have lived in Greeley since 1963 and have been members of St. Peter’s Catholic Church since 1966. They have 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.Honored guests were Mrs. Jaramillo’s three sisters, Clorinda Chavez of Leadville, Eufelia Anaya of Aztec, N.M., and Berna Ruybal of Conejos; and two brothers, Jose Q. Martinez of Santa Fe, N.M. and Jose A. Martinez of Conejos; and Mr. Jaramillo’s three sisters, Arlene Farmer of Greeley, Theresa Godfrey of Modesto, Calif. and Beatrice Brown of Little Rock, Ariz.; and four brothers, Armando Jaramillo of Evans, Louis Jaramillo of Little Rock, Paul Jaramillo of Aurora and Bob Jaramillo of Greeley. Schluter
Darlene and Donald Schluter of Greeley will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a family celebration on Satruday at the home of their son, Randy, in Littleton.An anniversary gift from their sons, the couple had an earlier celebration with a trip to Europe, visiting specifically Sweden and Germany. On April 2, while in California, a surprise dinner party was hosted by Mrs. Schluter’s sister and brother, Ralph and Mary Lou Green and Gus and Jackie Peterson.Hosts of the family celebration are the couple’s four sons and daughters-in-law, Greg of Greeley, Randy and Zem of Littleton, Steve and Tonia of Birdsboro, Pa., and Rod and Annie Schluter of Highlands Ranch.Darlene Peterson and Donald Schluter were married April 26, 1952, in Greeley.Mrs. Schluter was a legal secretary in Greeley for many years.Mr. Schluter retired from USWest after 39 years of service. He is a life member of the Greeley Elks Lodge No. 809.The couple belong to the Eaton Country Club, and they enjoy playing golf, traveling, bowling and spending time with family. They have 11 grandchildren.
Bertha and Manuel Schwartz of Pierce will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary with close family and friends at their residence. Well-wishers may send cards to their residence.Bertha Knaub and Manuel Schwartz were married April 25, 1937, at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Fort Collins.Mrs. Schwartz is a homemaker. She enjoys cooking, various crafts, collecting Beanie Babies and family genealogy.Mr. Schwartz was a ditch rider after retiring from farming and cattle feeding. He enjoys woodworking, flowers, gardening and volunteer work in Pierce.The couple have lived and farmed in the Larimer and Weld county areas all of their lives. They are members of Trinity Lutheran Church in Greeley. The couple have one daughter, Jo Ann Firestein of Ault; three sons, Rodney and Donald Schwartz, both of Greeley, and Gary Schwartz of Briggsdale; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Don and Mary Figgs of Greeley will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a private family barbeque on Friday. Well-wishers may send cards to their residence.Hosts of the event are their daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Bob Davis of Couer’d Alene, Idaho; and three sons and daughters-in-laws, Dan Figgs of Colorado Springs, Jeff and Sue Figgs and John and Rebecca Figgs, all of Greeley.Mary Eschmann and Don Figgs were married April 26, 1952, in Topeka, Kan.Mrs. Figgs worked in management at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs for 24 years. She retired in 1999. Mrs. Figgs volunteers at the Greeley Senior Center and North Colorado Medical Center. Mr. Figgs worked as a pipe fitter and service mechanic for 35 years until retiring in 1992. He served in the Army from 1947-48 and also served in the Air Force Reserve. He enjoys rock collecting.They enjoy being with family, especially their seven grandchildren. They also enjoy gardening and are members of Calvary Chapel of Greeley.
Westover-Bydalek
Crystal Westover of Loveland and Travis Bydalek of Fort Lupton were married June 1 at Fourway Baptist Church in Fort Lupton. The Rev. Conley Schelander officiated.Westover, daughter of Cindy Kittinger and Mike Westover, graduated from Platte Valley High School in Kersey. She works at North Colorado Medical Center.Bydalek, son of George and Eleanor Bydalek, graduated from Weld Central High School in Keenesburg. He works for Rain for Rent Frac Tanks.Janet Westover of Greeley was the maid of honor and Roudy Bydalek of Hudson was the best man.After a wedding trip to Las Vegas, the newlyweds are at home in Fort Lupton.
Glodowski-Kloberdanz
Kathryn (Ward) Kloberdanz and Gary Kloberdanz of Greeley announce the engagement of their son, David Joseph Kloberdanz of Greeley, to Lisa Marie Glodowski of Weyauwega, Wis., daughter of Mike and Carol Glodowski of Weyauwega.A May 11 wedding at Union Congregational Church in Crested Butte is planned.Kloberdanz and Glodowski will graduate from Western State College in Gunnison with recreation degrees the morning of their wedding day.
Bennett-Buller
Kandie Bennett of Burlington, Wash., and Paul Buller of Greeley announce their engagement. A May 17 wedding Christian Congregational Church in Greeley is planned.Bennett is the daughter of Bob and Bonnie Bennett of Burlington. Buller is the son of Wayne and Susan Buller of Eaton.On Dec. 22, 2001, Paul Buller proposed to Kandie Bennett in an art museum in Seattle. After a year of long distance courtship and five years of friendship, they are announcing their plans to be married.Buller is a student at the University of Northern Colorado where he is studying graphic design. Bennett works as a freelance artist.
Reuben Bernhardt of Milliken will celebrate his 80th birthday with an open house from 2-4 p.m. today at the Fellowship Hall at First Assembly of God Church in Greeley. Friends and family are invited and asked to omit gifts.Hosts of the event are his wife, Hester; four children, Charlene, David, Jerry and Tim; and eight grandchildren, Mark, Kristi, Miranda, Traci, Abbey, Lyndsey, Matthew and Peter.Mr. Bernhardt was born May 3, 1922, to George and Anna Bernhardt in Milliken. He has lived there all his life. On Feb. 25, 1948, he married Hester Boat. He enjoys being outdoors and running the family farm in Milliken.
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Helen Gladys Hicklin of Greeley will celebrate her 101st birthday with a family gathering at the home of her daughter, Maxine Bryan. Mrs. Hicklin was born April 28, 1901 to W.C. and Flora Alice (Wallace) Parsons in Webb City, Mo. Due to her father’s illness they moved from Webb City to Keota in 1908. This trip was made by train bringing the family and the furniture. The perimeter of their house was built of wood and because of the approach of winter weather, the home was only four feet high. The remainder of the house was a canvas construction until the temperatures moderated.Mrs. Hicklin enjoyed the years spent on the prairies and has fond recollection of those years. Their entertainment consisted of school activities, literary meetings, dances, horseback riding, their one-family bicycle (that required periodic repairs), neighbors and pets.When Mrs. Hicklin’s father’s health improved, he helped construct the new Keota High School. This was razed within the last few years.Mrs. Hickin’s family eventually moved to Denver and after that back to Missouri where she met and married Ralph Hicklin. They were married for 73 years and ran a successful farming operation in Keokub County, Iowa.During the farming years, they lived through the horse-drawn machinery days and through the tractor days. Mrs. Hicklin had a large garden and canned hundreds of quarts of fruits and vegetables, then using the town frozen food locker and later purchasing their home freezer for preserving their foods.Mrs. Hicklin and her husband raised cattle, both dairy and beef, hogs, chickens and sold as well as butchered some for their own use.They also went through the changes in transportation beginning with the horse and buggy, the Model T Ford, the Model A Ford, etc. Of all their automobiles that the couple owned, they loved their new Dodge most of all.Mrs. Hicklin loves people and is devoted to her family. She has a wonderful sense of humor and likes a good joke.She has one daughter, Maxine Bryan; a son, the late Clinton “Bud” Hicklin; a daughter, the late Pauline Alice Hicklin; four grandchildren, Billie Joe Johnston of Denver, Dennis Bryan of St. Louis, Linda Kleineider of Boulder and Karen Sue Hicklin of Stanton, Calif.; five great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. She lives in the Life Care Center in Greeley.
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Greeley’s Northridge ‘changing the culture’ of its football program in 2019
On the official Day 1 of the high school football season in Colorado, Northridge starts 2019 in a stronger place from years past. Approximately 50 Grizzlies were on the District 6 Stadium turf field Monday...
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No practice? No problem. Greeley man rings up wins
Matt Schuman
Greeley’s Clarence Garner is still going strong after 25 years of pitching horseshoes.
Though the 72-year-old Garner can’t travel around the country competing like he used to because of the illness of his wife, Joan, who is battling cancer, Garner is still beating the best the area has to offer. Garner proved that again on Saturday as he finished first in the “A” Class, the second highest classification in horseshoes, at The 24th Annual North Weld Horseshoe Tournament held at Main Park in Windsor. A total of 51 pitchers participated in the tournament.
“During the summer there is a tournament nearly every weekend and I have probably hit seven or eight of them this year and won three or four in my class,” Garner said.
What makes his accomplishments even more amazing is that Garner never practices.
“I’m not like some of these guys, I never practice,” Garner said. “I never pick up my horseshoes until I go to a tournament. After the first game, I can tell how I am going to do the whole day. It seems if I want to really buckle down, I can throw pretty good. I get to horsing around a little, then I am mediocre. But I go for the fun of it.”
Garner, pitching for the North Weld Horseshoe Club, had a pretty good day Saturday, hitting right around the mid-50s in ringer percentage.
Garner was not the only Weld County pitcher to do well on Saturday. Greeley’s Gary Turley finished first in “D” Class and Milliken’s Ed Knaub finished fifth in “B” Class despite suffering a heart attack about a month ago.
But the best performance of the tournament was put in by Dee Powell, who won the Championship Class.
Powell, who lives in Arvada, pitched a 90 percent game during the tournament, pitching 36 ringers out of 40 shoes. Dee pitched 17 consecutive ringers during one of his games during the tournament.
This year’s tournament was dedicated to Bob Engle who passed away earlier this year. Powell was an active member of the North Weld Horseshoe club and pitched horseshoes competively for close to 40 years. Bob’s nephew, Gene Shuler, and grandson Cody, pitched the first shoe to dedicate the tournament.
– MOTOCROSS . Greeley’s Justin Karroll continues to take the Quad class by storm. The Eaton High School student wrapped up the Supercross season in the Supercross races at Island Grove Regional Park on Saturday, finishing as the season points winner in the Novice class. He is also currently ranked sixth in Quad motocross points. The motocross championships will be held Oct. 13-14 in Pueblo.
Karroll finished second in two Supercross races and was first in another. The worst he finished in any race was fifth.
– GYMNASTICS . Emily Wishon finished fourth in the all-around to lead a group from The Greeley Adventure Team that placed fourth in Level 5 at the USA Gymnastics Meet of the season at Chatfield High School Saturday in Littleton. Wishon also placed second on the balance beam, third on the uneven bars and sixth on the vault.
Bianca Sanchez finished seventh in the all-around, fourth on the balance beam and sixth on the uneven bars.
Sarah Hoyt was eighth in the all-around, fifth on the vault and seventh on the balance beam.
Echo Parks was fifth on the balance beam and seventh on floor exercise, while Ally Coan was 10th on the balance beam.
In the Level 6 age 7-11 category, Shelby Clay placed first in the all-around and Shannon Clay was second.
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#Oceans
China, Korea and Chile challenge Japan over Fukushima contaminated water crisis at United Nations maritime meeting
by Greenpeace East Asia
9 October 2019, London, The Japanese government was challenged today by several UN member states and Greenpeace at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization in London. States parties to the London Convention – London Protocol (LC-LP), which regulates disposal of wastes at sea, debated with the Government of Japan plans for discharging over 1 million tons of highly contaminated nuclear waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Japanese diplomats were responding to a formal submission to the IMO from Greenpeace.
Delegates from the Republic of Korea, China and Chile expressed their concerns over the potential impacts if Fukushima Daiichi contaminated water was discharged to the Pacific Ocean. China stated they shared the concerns raised by Greenpeace and Korea in relation to potential disposal of the wastes at sea and stated they hoped that Japan would provide further information in the future.
“We have seen today the depth of concern from the international community regarding what will happen with the radioactive wastes fast accumulating at the Fukushima Daiichi facility and the potential for widespread marine pollution. In response to our questions, Japan has provided some further information to the countries assembled here at the IMO, but we are still no closer to a guarantee that these wastes will not be disposed of into the marine environment,” said Dr David Santillo, senior scientist with Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of Exeter. “There is a willingness among parties to assist Japan in finding solutions that don’t involve polluting the oceans – we hope that Japan will be receptive to that and will see this as an international and not a domestic issue”.
Greenpeace has been campaigning for the Japanese government to abandon plans for discharge to the Pacific Ocean and opt instead for long term storage and processing as the only acceptable option.(1) Greenpeace, in its submission to the IMO, had called on Japan to provide detailed technical answers to questions over the contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi. These included, the failure of the ALPS water processing technology to remove dangerous radioactive materials, including Strontium-90, and failure to deploy available technology for removing radioactive tritium. A Japanese government committee is currently reviewing options for the contaminated water. Under pressure from civil society and local communities in Fukushima in Japan, the committee has now included the option of long term storage, having ruled this out in 2016. In the last months, the Japanese government has come under pressure from the South Korea government to abandon the option to discharge the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
“Korea is right that this is a matter that should be discussed and resolved internationally, including through the mechanisms of the London Protocol, and we hope that the Korean government will continue to call upon Japan for a resolution that keeps these radioactive wastes out of the ocean,” said Santillo.
In polling, commissioned by Greenpeace and released on 1 October, showed overall Japanese public opinion was 48.6% opposed to discharge of contaminated water into the Pacific, while only 12.9% were in favor.(2)
Dr David Santillo – senior scientist with Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of Exeter – [email protected]
1 – Greenpeace Germany, “TEPCO Water Crisis”, 22 January 2019, Shaun Burnie, see https://storage.googleapis.com/planet4-japan-stateless/2019/06/eef0f147-tepco_water_crisis.pdf
2 – Greenpeace commissioned Rakuten Insight a member of the JMRA (Japan Marketing Research AssociationJapan Marketing Research Association) and the ESOMAR (Europe Society Opinion and Market Research Association); poll results (in Japanese) – https://storage.googleapis.com/planet4-japan-stateless/2019/09/b3d20ee4-%E6%B1%9A%E6%9F%93%E6%B0%B4%E6%84%8F%E8%AD%98%E8%AA%BF%E6%9F%BB%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C.pdf
#Oceans #Plastic
How Greenpeace is pushing Hong Kong to go #PlasticFreeNow
by Greenpeace East Asia November 28, 2019
Plastic waste is causing a pollution crisis — overloading landfills and, even worse, poisoning our once pristine coastline. That’s why Greenpeace launched its #PlasticFreeNow campaign in 2016 to achieve reduction…
Naked shopping arrives at a major supermarket in Hong Kong
Plastic packaging is absolutely everywhere in our supermarkets and we’re fighting hard to change that. Now, for the first time, a large-scale store in Hong Kong is offering customers the…
Five jaw-dropping facts about sharks
by Greenpeace East Asia July 31, 2019
It’s shark week! A full week devoted to one of our favorite sea creatures - and one of the most misunderstood.
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Alan I. Annex
Shareholder annexa@gtlaw.com
Miami D +1 305.579.0576 T +1 305.579.0500
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Alan I. Annex is Co-Chair of the firm's Global Corporate Practice. He leads multi-disciplinary deal teams in a wide variety of large-cap and middle-market domestic and cross-border transactions. Alan has broad experience in corporate and securities matters, and regularly advises public company boards, special committees and executive management regarding their fiduciary duties; corporate governance best practices; and M&A deal strategies, structures and techniques.
Public and private offerings of equity and debt
Domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
UK Cash Shells and other alternative investment vehicles
Leveraged buy-outs and other going-private transactions
Audit committee issues
Securities Exchange Act reporting and compliance obligations
Diritto Societario Fusioni e Acquisizioni Private Equity Capital Markets
Served as counsel for issuers and underwriters on six SPAC IPOs in 2018. Greenberg Traurig was ranked a top 5 law firm for SPACs by SPAC Insider in 2018.
Representation of Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. in its $130 million IPO on the NASDAQ.
Representation of VectoIQ Acquisition Corporation in its $200 million IPO on the NASDAQ.
Representation of DFB Healthcare Acquisitions Corporation in its $250 million IPO on the NASDAQ.
Representation of J2 Acquisition Limited in its $1.25 billion IPO on the LSE.
Representation of Landscape Acquisition Holdings Limited in its $500 million IPO on the LSE.
Merger & Acquisition Transactions
Representation of Boulevard Acquisition Corporation II, a blank check company sponsored by an affiliate of Avenue Capital Group, in its business combination with Estre Ambiental S.A., the largest waste management company in Brazil and Latin America.
Representation of Jarden Corporation, a leading global consumer products company, in its $15.4 billion acquisition by Newell Rubbermaid Inc.
Representation of APR Energy Cayman Limited (APR), one of the world’s largest providers of temporary power generation solutions, and its management shareholders in the sale of APR to Horizon Acquisition Company plc.
Represented Mestel & Company, one of the largest U.S. legal recruiting firms, and Hire Counsel, an outsourcing company, in selling their stock to HCMC Legal, Inc., Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
Riconoscimenti e Premi
Listed, South Florida Legal Guide, "Top Lawyer," 2020
Listed,The Legal 500 United States, 2013-2014, 2018-2019
Mergers and Acquisitions and Buyouts/Corporate and Commercial - M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+), 2018-2019
Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts - M&A - Large Deals ($1bn-5bn), 2014
Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2007-2009 and 2012-2019
Listed, IFLR1000 United States, 2017-2020
Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2008-2017
Member, Winning Team, "M&A Deal of the Year (Over $1 Billion to $5 Billion)" for Platform Specialty Products Corporation (f/k/a Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited) acquisition of MacDermid, Incorporated and related entities, The M&A Advisor’s 6th Annual International M&A Awards, 2014
Member, Winning Team, ACG New York Champion’s Awards, Deal of the Year (over $500mm); Cross-border Transaction of the Year (over $250mm) for $1.8 billion Acquisition of MacDermid, Inc. by Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited, 2014
Member, Winning Team, "Consumer and Retail Products Deal of the Year (over $200mm)" for Merger of Burger King and Justice Holdings Ltd., ACG New York Champion’s Award, 2013
Team Member, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of "America’s Best Corporate Law Firms," 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013
Associazioni professionali e non professionali
Member, Board of Directors, The Workshop Theatre
Member, American Bar Association
Member, NYC Bar Association, Corporation Law Committee
Delegate, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2011
Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, cum laude, New York Law School, 1987
B.S., Accounting, cum laude, State University of New York at Albany, 1984
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Industry accused of "massive infiltration" of EFSA pesticides panel
Created: 13 February 2014
An investigation by PAN Europe reveals that industry-linked experts exerted control over EFSA's pesticide panel for years and prevented the toxicity of chemical mixtures from being considered - in spite of the fact that mixtures are what we are all exposed to.
While this story is about pesticides, it is highly relevant to GMOs, which are, as Prof GE Seralini says, "pesticide plants" - engineered to tolerate pesticides and/or to express pesticides. Increasingly GMOs are made to tolerate or contain not just one pesticide but many - meaning when we consider GMOs, we are considering pesticide mixtures.
EXCERPT: Policymakers made a fundamental mistake … when they mandated the EFSA to develop the methods for assessing mixture effects. Despite having methods readily available in 2005 now, nine years later, these methods have still not been published by EFSA. This leaves consumers, especially the vulnerable, unprotected.
Last year we began an intensive research project looking into the background of this delay. We wondered how it was possible that EFSA neglected its mission to protect people's health for so many years. We learned that massive infiltration by industry linked academics within the authority's scientific panels was the main cause.
Food industry accused of "massive infiltration" of EFSA pesticides panel
Hans Muilerman
TheParliament.com, 10 February 2014
http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/article/newsarticle/food-industry-accused-of-massive-infiltration-of-efsa-pesticides-panel/#.UvzSx_YvFY4
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) should put in place a science integrity officer to counter unfair industry lobbying and restore its independence, argues Hans Muilerman.
For decades European regulators have based their (safe) food standards on the toxic effects of single pesticide use. However, this does not reflect reality as EU citizens consume many different pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables at the same time.
Of the fruit and vegetables on the European market around 26 per cent contain more than one pesticide. So if you ate an apple in the morning with three pesticides, strawberries in the afternoon with five pesticides and tomatoes in the evening with four pesticides, you are exposed to a toxic mixture. And this exposure comes on top of exposure to more chemicals from cosmetics, plastics, and through air pollution.
The conclusion therefore is that the current food standards for pesticides are unsafe because the toxic effects of one pesticide could add to toxic effects of other pesticides and other chemicals we are exposed to, regulators have severely underestimated the risks involved
This was finally recognised by the European commission and the parliament when they changed the residue regulation in 2005 to take mixture effects into account. However, policymakers made a fundamental mistake at that time when they mandated the EFSA to develop the methods for assessing mixture effects. Despite having methods readily available in 2005 now, nine years later, these methods have still not been published by EFSA. This leaves consumers, especially the vulnerable, unprotected.
And this happened not only in EFSA but also within the World Health Organisation (WHO) on this issue. The industry-linked people appeared to work in a tight network and showed their commitment by trying to get seats in all the relevant scientific bodies. However, these same academics didn't perform research as you would expect them to do.
The WHO was a "walk-over" since industry-linked experts simply outnumbered all the rest. Over 70 per cent of these experts were closely linked to industry. Not one of them was an active researcher.
Within EFSA these same experts have exerted control over the authority's pesticide panel and state in a series of EFSA opinions that mixture toxicity was generally not relevant. While this opinion ignores the available scientific evidence, several experts from national institutes within EFSA's panel considered these ideas credible, unaware of any hidden agenda.
Finally after six years the commission discovered that the pesticide panel was frustrating the process and forced EFSA into a U-turn. The panel however didn't want to give up and one year later EFSA had to withdraw the panel's mandate because of a "lack of progress".
Industry, however, insists. The very same industry-linked people now gathering in the EU's Acropolis research programme, led by the food traders group Freshfel, are promoting yet another industry tool to water down standards and "prove pesticide use is safe".
Again EFSA is apparently unaware of its intentions and continues to cooperate closely with the programme.
Our main conclusion is that there is a lack of professionalism within EFSA and a lack of awareness on scientific integrity. We have proposed that EFSA should act just as the US environmental protection agency, and put in place a 'science integrity officer' whose job is to change the culture at the agency, and restore independent science by involving independent scientists.
Hans Muilerman is PAN Europe's chemicals coordinator
Download the new PAN Europe report, "A Poisonous Injection"
http://www.pan-europe.info/Resources/Reports/PANE%20-%202014%20-%20A%20Poisonous%20injection.pdf
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De Jong costs Barcelona two precious points - but disgusted Dutchman will learn from foolish red card
Rik Sharma
Spanish Football Editor
The Dutchman was dismissed for a silly second yellow card while the Catalans were leading in Saturday night's dramatic derby draw with Espanyol
There may be no keener student of football in the game today than Frenkie de Jong.
The Dutchman is obsessed with watching matches, learning tactics and improving himself.
Over the next few days he will be replaying Barcelona’s 2-2 draw at local rivals Espanyol again and again, focusing on one moment in particular.
With just 15 minutes to go and the visitors a goal up, De Jong decided, foolishly, to drag down Jonathan Calleri, and was correctly issued a second yellow card, resulting in the first red of his career.
He looked disgusted with himself and Gerard Pique immediately rushed to offer the 22-year-old a reassuring hug.
However, De Jong’s disappointment would only have intensified when Wu Lei finished superbly to level the game in the 88th minute, thus preventing Barca from restoring their two-point lead over Liga title rivals Real Madrid, who defeated Getafe earlier in the day.
The draw will, therfore, hit De Jong hard, even though almost everything he has done in a Barcelona shirt to date has ranged from good to excellent.
However, he erred badly in getting caught in possession by Calleri and only compounded his initial mistake by blatantly pulling the Espanyol forward back by the shirt, particularly as Pique and Clement Lenglet were covering.
Perhaps the central defensive duo's shaky performances left De Jong feeling like he had no choice, but when he looks back at the incident, as he undoubtedly will, he will acknowledge his sloppiness, and the gross error of judgment that followed.
As shocking as it was to see such rashness from such an intelligent player, it would be more surprising still if he ever does it again.
Still, it was an unfortunate misjudgement for Barca, who had recovered from a horribly sluggish start to take control of the derby thanks to Luis Suarez.
Indeed, De Jong was by no means the only player clad in yellow to look off-colour against Espanyol, particularly during the first half.
Aimless and sloppy, listless and subdued, Barcelona struggled dismally against their bottom-of-the-table opponents.
Former Barcelona player Abelardo was able to celebrate a goal on his Espanyol coaching debut when David Lopez headed home to break the deadlock after 23 minutes.
Barcelona offered precisely nothing until the final five minutes of the first half, coincidentally when Arturo Vidal started to warm up.
The Chilean midfielder is a wrecking ball, someone who brings chaos into any game, and the conclusion to the first half was similarly wild.
Barcelona started to create chances, with Lionel Messi seeing a header and a free-kick saved, while Suarez’s clever effort struck the post.
The Catalans eventually levelled early in the second half, when Jordi Alba provided his first assist of the season with a nice cross to the near post, where Suarez finished coolly.
It has become one of the Uruguayan’s special tricks: covering up an underwhelming display by being the man in the right place at the right time to strike.
Whatever Suarez lacks in his all-round game now – and his fiercer critics will tell you that is a lot – he still has a killer instinct.
He also remains capable of conjuring something out of nothing, as he underlined with a special piece of improvisation for the second goal by flicking the ball with the outside of his foot over the Espanyol defence and on to Vidal’s forehead.
The Chilean’s finish was emphatic – his own piece of vindication while he scraps with the club over an alleged unpaid bonus and a potential January exit.
Suarez, who has been involved in each of Barcelona’s last nine La Liga goals – scoring four and setting up five – deserved to be the match-winner but it must be said that while De Jong’s moment of madness was decisive, the No.9 could have made the game safe before Espanyol’s equaliser.
The forward blasted one chance – superbly set up by the otherwise subdued Messi – at Diego Lopez, while he could not beat the goalkeeper with a later lob.
As it was, Barca squandered two precious points in their incredibly tight title fight with bitter rivals Reals, with both sides now locked together again, on 40 points, but the Catalans in first place on account of their superior goal difference.
De Jong, of course, has played a key role in Barca’s campaign. They would hardly be top of the table without the former Ajax ace, who has dug the Catalans out of many a hole with his clever midfield play.
So, his team-mates are hardly likely to turn on him for his reckless red. They won’t need to anyway. As usual, De Jong’s harshest critic will be himself.
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Seko Fofana sent off as Udinese crash to Inter Milan
Gbenga Adewoye
4:07 PM GMT 06/05/2018
The Cote d'Ivoire international was given his marching order for the third time in his career following a late challenge on Ivan Perisic
Seko Fofana was sent off in Udinese’s 4-0 thrashing by Inter Milan in Sunday’s Italian Serie A encounter.
The 22-year-old got his marching order three minutes after the restart for a late challenge on Ivan Perisic, with referee Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni needing to consult with the Video Assistant Referee.
⏱ 48 - Mazzoleni shows #Fofana a red card after looking at the pitchside VAR replay#UdineseInter 0-3
— Udinese Calcio (@Udinese_1896) May 6, 2018
Andrea Ranocchia, Rafinha, Mauro Icardi and Borja Valero efforts handed the visitors the maximum points in the tie.
The midfielder's expulsion against the Nerazzuri makes it his third in his career. He saw his first red card when he represented France during the UEFA Under 17 championship in 2012 against Italy and the second came in 2016 while playing for Bastia in a French Ligue 1 outing versus Montpellier.
Manager Igor Tudor will have to do without the services of the ex-Manchester City player for the last two games of the season against Hellas Verona and Bologna on May 13 and 20 respectively.
The former Fulham man has been a consistent figure for the Dacia Arena outfit this season, featuring in 26 league games and scoring twice.
Udinese are now winless in their last 14 top-flight games which have seen them drop to the 17th spot with one place and one point above the relegation zone.
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Napoli v Real Madrid
Sarri wants Napoli to face Real Madrid 'with a bit of balls'
9:49 PM GMT+4 06/03/2017
The Blancos hold a 3-1 lead in the Champions League last 16 encounter and the Serie A side know a comeback will not happen without a gutsy show
Maurizio Sarri has urged Napoli to "play with a bit of balls" when they host Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie on Tuesday.
Madrid travel to Italy with a 3-1 lead despite initially falling behind at the Santiago Bernabeu and are firmly expected to progress to the quarter-finals as they look to defend their crown.
How Madrid tried to sign Maradona
But Napoli are not going to make it a comfortable trip and Sarri is hoping that his side play with guts in front of what is sure to be a partisan crowd at Stadio San Paolo.
"It may be that we'll play with a bit of balls," Sarri told reporters at the pre-match media conference.
#Sarri:"We will play the strongest side in the World, but we have the most passionate fans in the World" @ChampionsLeague #NapoliRealMadrid pic.twitter.com/TV6nun6Cof
— Official SSC Napoli (@en_sscnapoli) March 6, 2017
"The game will be difficult due to the technical qualities that Real Madrid have, plus their great physical qualities. But we're united, now our common goal is to do well.
"The pressure is all on Real Madrid. They are the ones who are world champions and are expected to win. However, our fans are world champions and all of Europe will see that.
Ronaldo returns for Napoli clash
"Madrid will probably qualify, they have scored for 46 consecutive games but certainly we will try to make it difficult for them."
Napoli captain Marek Hamsik is also aware of the task facing the Serie A side and has warned his team-mates that, although they need to attack, they cannot shirk their defensive responsibilities.
"We're a team that doesn't control games," Hamsik said.
#Hamsik: "The whole city is behind us. Our fans will give us special support as usual. @ChampionsLeague is magic"#NapoliRealMadrid #UCL
"We have to go out and attack, but we also have to be careful behind. Napoli are never poor at home in these great matches, so I am sure we will have a great match.
"Real Madrid have great attacking strength and can score goals at any time, but we have to think about doing damage with our patterns of play and those that we have prepared.
Boring, boring Serie A? No chance
"I've played in so many big games, but for me it will be a memorable game. We are trailing and we have to recover.
"It will not be easy, but we have to enjoy and play it as we know how."
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[Spoiler] "Golden Rainbow" Jung Il-woo asks UEE to wait for him
Jung Il-woo said something suspicious to UEE.
The MBC drama "Golden Rainbow" showed Baek-won (UEE) scolding Do-yeong (Jung Il-woo) for not being in touch for two days.
She almost cried saying, "I was worried sick at the thought of losing you, especially after the passing of my dad".
Do-yeong had not answered her calls for a while because he realized his father Jin-ki (Jo Min-ki) had something to do with Baek-won's father Han-joo (Kim Sang-joong).
Do-yeong comforted her saying, "I won't go anywhere without you". Baek-won cried, "It's not like my dad wanted to leave".
Do-yeong hugged her and said, "Can you trust me and wait for me despite what happens? Even if there's something that happens which goes unplanned, don't worry because I will still comeback to you".
Meanwhile, Ha-bin (Cha Ye-ryun) was jealous of Baek-won and Yeong-hye's (Do Ji-won).
Source : www.tvreport.co.kr/?c...
"[Spoiler] "Golden Rainbow" Jung Il-woo asks UEE to wait for him"
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[Spoiler] "Cheo Yong: The Paranormal Detective" Oh Ji-ho saves Oh Ji-eun
Oh Ji-ho saved Oh Ji-eun with his gift. Yoon Cheo-yong (Oh Ji-ho) discovered a great truth while ,...More
[Spoiler] "Give Love Away", Hong Soo-hyun, shocked at Cha Hwa-yeon
Hong Soo-hyun was shocked to see Seo Dong-won's moving-in contract. On the episode of the MBC wee,...More
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Police, father looking for teen who escaped from rehab facility
There's a desperate search for a 16-year-old girl who has escaped from a well-known rehab facility in the west suburbs.
Her father is begging for help as his fear grows.
Dan Dougherty is struggling to push emotions aside and focusing on finding his daughter, Meghan Dougherty. He says she was addicted to drugs and alcohol, so he drove her from Pennsylvania to Timberline Knolls -- a well-known residential treatment center.
Dougherty says just hours after he left, Meghan bolted, making it past a fence and vanishing about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Lemont police suspect Meghan may have tried to hitch hike home to Pennsylvania. She doesn’t have a phone, cash or connections to anyone in Illinois.
In a statement, Timberline Knolls wrote, “safety is our first priority and all law enforcement and appropriate agencies are notified as warranted.”
Dougherty says he warned staffers Meghan had run away before, but he’s not ready to question them.
Lemont police used canines to search for Meghan. They keep checking trains and busses leaving the area.
Police ask if anyone saw a hitch hiker or picked one up, please call them.
Suburban Chicago man convicted in a crash that killed teen
Law enforcement in south suburbs warn of multiple armed car break-ins
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Average Selling Price (ASP): Why It Matters to Apple
By Andrew TonnerFool.com
For investors examining Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), it's critical to understand how the technology giant's devices are selling, and the calculation that perhaps best expresses the health of Apple's products is their average selling price (ASP).
Image source: Apple.
Apple's overall ASPs have trended downward in recent quarters. What does that mean for Apple investors today? Let's review Apple's ASP metrics and see how the figure drives Apple's broader financial performance.
Inside Apple's ASP
A product's ASP is the revenue from its sales divided by the number of units sold in a single period.
For product-driven companies like Apple, ASP calculations provide pivotal information about its financial performance and, by extension, the performance of its stock price. In fact, there's a clear relationship between Apple's iPhone ASP and its stock price movements:
Image sources: Apple investor relations and Yahoo! Finance.
The iPhone accounts for the majority of the tech giant's revenue and profit. In Apple's most recent quarter, the iPhone segment alone produced $24.1 billion of the company's $42.4 billion in sales -- about 57%. Moreover, the iPhone's share of Apple revenue exceeds two-thirds of total sales in some quarters following new device handset launches.
And the iPhone's ASP matters even more when you begin considering how each device drives overall profitability. Apple consolidates its operations under a single profit-and-loss statement, meaning investors can't tell how costs such as marketing and R&D are spread among the company's various products. Since the iPhone has the highest gross margin in Apple's device family, though, it's safe to assume that the device generates the lion's share of Apple's profits. That makes the iPhone crucial in determining Apple's overall financial performance each quarter.
Apple's ASP outlook
Keeping in mind that the iPhone, iPad, and Mac -- the three devices for which Apple provides individualized data -- are at different phases of their product life cycles, here's how ASPs changed in Apple's most recent quarter.
Apple Average Selling Price (ASP) by Product
Y-o-Y % Change
Data source: Apple Investor Relations.
If the iPhone figure alarms you, here's some context. The financial impact of the 4-inch iPhone SE landed during the quarter, and since the base 16 GB version retails for $399 -- $250 less than the introductory price for the 16GB iPhone 6s -- a decline in Apple's ASP was almost inevitable. CFO Luca Maestri said as much on Apple's conference call, though he said he expects iPhone ASPs to improve during the current quarter.
Looking further out, the anticipated debut of the iPhone 7 next month, and perhaps a radically redesigned 10th-anniversary iPhone in late 2017, seem likely to drive a renewed interest in Apple's more expensive, and profitable, handsets. So I think concerns about a prolonged decline in iPhone ASPs seem overblown.
As for Apple's other core devices, the iPad and Mac, the iPad continues to struggle for meaningful volume growth, with unit sales falling 9% in Q3. However, the introduction of the higher-priced 12-inch iPad Pro has helped bolster iPad ASPs in the face of that weakness.
It's unclear how much the iPad Pro has affected Mac sales. With small updates to the Mac lineup in recent quarters, it could be that consumers are waiting on the sidelines. In any event, investors will want to watch the shipment data in Apple's third largest reporting segment in the coming quarters. However, both the iPad and Mac divisions pale in comparison with the iPhone, so investors would do well to focus the bulk of their efforts on the ASPs in Apple's largest division.
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Former Player Remembers: Steve Thompson
By davieG, 6 November 2019 in Leicester City Forum
davieG 13,079
Davie Gibson
Posted 6 November 2019
https://www.lcfc.com/news/1486006/former-player-remembers-steve-thompson/featured
He played a combined total of over 800 league and cup games for six clubs between 1982 and 2001. These included 155 appearances for Leicester City between 1991 and 1995.
He was a key member of Brian Little’s sides which reached three successive Play-Off Finals and achieved promotion to the Premier League in 1994. He is currently First Team Coach at Preston North End.
When Steve, a creative midfielder, arrived at Filbert Street in October 1991, following a brief spell at Luton Town, he had already played over 400 games for Bolton Wanderers.
“I was brought up in Blackpool,” Steve began. “As a youngster I was approached by a Bolton scout and I signed schoolboy forms for Bolton, was an apprentice and then became a professional. John McGovern gave me my debut at Derby when I was seventeen. I spent 10 years as a professional there and had a testimonial year.”
In September 1991 Steve signed for Luton Town, then playing in the top flight. “After all those years at Bolton,” Steve explained, “I felt I needed a change. Quite a few clubs were interested in me but then I got a phone call from David Pleat (Luton Town’s manager). I went down there on the Sunday, spoke to David Pleat and signed on the Monday.”
However five games and six weeks later, Steve left Luton Town for Leicester City.
Expand photoSteve Thompson
The midfielder played 155 games for Leicester City over the space of four years.
Steve continued, “I was still living in a hotel, looking for houses and waiting to get my family down to Luton when David Pleat called me in and said that Leicester had been in for me. I was a bit bemused to be honest. I couldn’t understand and asked him what was happening. He said he was interested in signing two Leicester City players (Des Linton and Scott Oakes) and that Leicester wanted me. I’d heard rumours that they had an interest in me so I drove up to Filbert Street and met Brian Little, John Gregory and Al Evans. I had no hesitation. It just felt right and I signed a three-year deal. It worked out absolutely fantastically.”
Steve arrived at Filbert Street when the club, which had only narrowly avoided the drop to the third tier the previous season, was being revolutionised by Brian Little who transformed the club from one which had been relegation candidates to one which won a place in the Premier League, following three successive Wembley Play-Off Finals.
“Brian’s man management was fantastic,” Steve continued. “He got together a good group of players. There were no superstars and no big egos. There were some good players and there was good competition. We all worked together, the training was good, he had good staff around him. I learnt so much from John Gregory. He’d obviously been a quality midfield player. We were one of those teams which never knew when we were beaten. We had big characters in the team, with lads who were still hungry and who went onto another level after that.”
Recalling his Leicester City debut, Steve continued, “It was at Oxford. I came on as a substitute and scored by hitting the ball into the top corner. There was a great following of Leicester fans. It was nice to get off to a good start.
“They were great times at Leicester. The three Play-Off Finals were the icing on the cake. We were disappointed to lose the ones against Blackburn (1992) and Swindon (1993), but beating Derby in 1994 to finally get into the Premier League made up for these disappointments.
laying in the Premier League is a massive jump. Did we invest enough money? Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but we still had a group of players who always gave it their best shot. We had players who could hurt teams. What we lacked in quality, we made up with effort.
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“The Blackburn final was on a roasting red hot day. Kenny Dalglish’s Blackburn had spent a lot of money and they had some very good players. The game could have gone either way. The difference was the controversial penalty when Speedie went down. I still don’t know if was a penalty. Losing was a big disappointment. If you get promoted, a Play-Off Final is the best place to do it, but it’s the worst place to get beaten!
“We were deflated after that. Our summer had been cut short, but because of the group we had, we were just determined to give it another good go the following season. The management galvanised the players, made a few additions to the squad and we reached the Play-off final again, playing Glenn Hoddle’s Swindon Town at Wembley.”
This final was a classic. Glenn Hoddle and Craig Maskell scored for Swindon Town just before and just after half time and Shaun Taylor added a third in the 53rd minute. The Leicester City fight back was memorable. Julian Joachim scored in the 57th minute, Steve Walsh scored with a header in the 68th minute and then, a minute later, Steve scored an unforgettable equaliser.
“When we were 3-0 down you think, ‘here we go again,’ but the fightback summed up our team spirit. I remember Micky Whitlow bombing down the wing and pulling the ball back. I hit it with the outside of my right foot to score. It was great to score at Wembley, with all the noise and with all of my family there. It was one of those special moments that you look back on. But Swindon got another penalty to make it 4-3. We had chances after that, but we were disappointed again with the result. Losing another Play-Off Final was hard to take.
“I’ve got a photograph of me with the gaffer at the end of the game. There was such emotion coming back from being 3-0 down, having the momentum to try to get a fourth goal and then to get defeated by another penalty again! The emotion got to us. I remember the gaffer came over to me. I was absolutely drained. We’d given everything. I just put my head on his shoulder. I can’t deny that it hurt. There were tears as well, not because we had let the fans down, because they could tell we’d given everything, but because we had come so close to winning. We thought: 'can we bounce back from this again?’“
Steve Thompson was part of the side that gain promotion to the Premier League during the 1993/94 campaign.
They could. The following season, Leicester City again reached Wembley for another Play-Off final, this time against Derby County.
“We were under no illusion. Derby were favourites, especially with the money they’d spent on a lot of big hitters. That season I had my first Achilles problem. I remember changing my boots during the season and that did me no favours. I was struggling to get fit towards the end of the season and I probably came back too quickly. Brian Little put me on the bench for the final. I wasn’t 100 per cent fit, but I thought I could do myself justice if I could get on for the last 30 minutes.”
Steve came on to the pitch in the 68th minute. Leicester City won 2-1 with Steve Walsh scoring twice, his late winner finally securing a place in the Premier League.
“Although I’d had a disappointing season with injuries, that win at the final made up for it,” Steve reflected. “It was great to be at Wembley again, with my mum and dad and all the family watching me.”
The following season Brian Little left the club in November 1994. He was replaced by Mark McGhee and the Club was relegated back to the Championship.
“Playing in the Premier League is a massive jump,” Steve said. “Did we invest enough money? Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but we still had a group of players who always gave it their best shot. We had players who could hurt teams. What we lacked in quality, we made up with effort.
I was sorry to see Brian Little leave. He was the gaffer who brought me in. We just clicked. He stuck by you and was loyal. He looked after you on and off the pitch. I’d say he was one of the best managers I worked under. He was great for me.
“After he had gone, I was disappointed how it ended for me at Leicester. I was in and out of the team. I missed a couple of penalties against Sheffield Wednesday and Liverpool. Certain things were said after the game which I wasn’t happy about and I knew then that my days were numbered at Leicester.
“However I have great memories of great times at Leicester. I was Player of the Year twice, played in three Championship finals, and got promoted to the Premier League. We also made some great friends there.”
In February 1995, Steve moved to Burnley for a fee of £200,000.
“I didn’t know it at the time but I think my name was being circulated saying that I could leave Leicester. There were some big clubs lining up to talk to me, especially in the Championship. Then I got a phone call off Jimmy Mullen at Burnley. It ticked a lot of boxes. It was a big club and it was in the north-west where I was from. I also got a feel for the club. It felt right there, so I signed a three-year contract.”
Steve now works with Alex Neil as First Team Coach at Preston North End.
Thinking back to his time at Burnley, Steve reflected: “I was desperate to do well there but I don’t think they saw the best of me. They saw glimpses of what I could do but it was just so disappointing because I had a knee operation and two Achilles operations, and I just couldn't seem to shake the injuries off. I was having injections into my Achilles which is probably one of the worse injuries you can get because nothing seems to get it right. I was just desperate to show Burnley that they'd signed a good player but it just wasn't meant to be.
“I began to wonder if the number of games I’d played in my career was catching up on me. If I hadn’t got injured at Burnley, I think I would have got up to 800 League games and added to my tally of 104 league and cup goals.”
After leaving Turf Moor in July 1997, Steve played for Rotherham United and Halifax Town before retiring from League football in 2001, having amassed a career total of 802 League and Cup games.
Steve has subsequently had a lengthy coaching career, often working, at different times, with other coaches with Leicester City connections. These included Simon Grayson, Ian Holloway, and Michael Appleton at Blackpool and Mark Robins and Chris Powell at Huddersfield Town. He also worked with Neil Redfearn at Leeds United before moving to Preston North End in 2015, where he is currently First Team Coach working with Alex Neil.
“They were special times at Leicester,” Steve concluded. “It was a great club for me. My three best years as a footballer were at Leicester. I enjoyed it there.”
Rocket-Ron 527
I look crap with my shirt off!
Location: blabylon
Thats equaliser against Swindon.
Still makes the hairs on the back of my head stand up.
Aus Fox 4,977
Key Player
Brilliant footballer, had a way of opening up defences and creating chances. Excellent vision, was a bit sad when he moved on. Some great memories especially that equaliser!
NewquayFox 546
Newquay Fox
Location: Quintrell Downs, Newquay, Cornwall
Great player for City, always gave his all and a proper grafter. Met his Mam in Blackpool, she worked or owned a supermarket and I nipped in to get a morning paper as me, the missus and a couple of our kids were up there for a few days, one of my lads had a City shirt on and she chatted for ages about City, very very proud of her son and a lovely lady...
Izzy 18,082
Trust your vibes
Location: The Doghouse
Brilliant for us, he made us tick and everything revolved around him. One of my all time favourites.
Quality player was Tommo.
Mark 'expert' Lawrenson 1,622
Location: BBC studios
Just lacked a yard of pace to be a top top player, had great range of passing and was a real team player, great memories of Tommo especially the equaliser against Swindon, I can still picture him now running away after scoring.
At that time they were good days to be a City fan, Brian Little was doing his thing and Tommo was a big part of it, it’s funny looking back how desperate we were for any kind of success, if they could only see us now! (They can, but it fitted nicely with my memories) different times, but such good memories.
martyn 829
The signature Thompson move was a switch of play involving a Cruyff turn in and around the centre circle followed by an always accurate 30/40 yard pass out to the winger.
As someone who started following the club in the early 90's, he was the first real quality technical footballer I saw for us.
stripeyfox 3,518
Location: Melton
I will never forget the goal against Swindon at Wembley.
One of my all time favorite City memories
He just rolled it past the keeper, lovely finish
As they would say these days - "scenes"
Grebfromgrebland 1,513
dayday 645
I was there at his debut, he was a instant favourite with the fans after that game
st albans fox 5,290
Loved him ..... was a good period re Wembley visits !
pds 601
Posted 6 November 2019 (edited)
Brilliant player. One of my first favourites.
Still love watching his goal against Cambridge in the play-offs. Grayson forced his way into the area before it broke Thompson who slotted it in. The celebrations you can see were fantastic.
Edited 6 November 2019 by pds
purpleronnie 5,656
Location: Leicestershire la la la
1 hour ago, Rocket-Ron said:
Me too, I just remember the scenes around me, Wembley went crazy...well half of it.
Ric Flair 12,986
Nee ticket, Nee bother
My favourite player in the early 90's
14 minutes ago, pds said:
Still live watching his goal against Cambridge in the play-offs. Grayson forced his way into the area before it broke Thompson who slotted it in. The celebrations you can see were fantastic.
Ah yes, what a night that was, we looked like we could beat anyone that night.
12 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:
oh yes what a night
Wright from a corner in front of the Kop
Thompson made it 2-0 before half time
Rooster made it 3-0
Wright made it 4-0
Ormondroyd 5-0
What a night it was
coolhandfox 1,433
Location: Leicestershire
Great player, great memories!
Fox1970 134
His goal against Swindon to make it 3-3 prompted the loudest noise I've ever heard at a football match.
There was a veritable crack of sound as the ball rolled in.
Extraordinary scenes of celebration!
Solihullfox 133
Location: Hazard a guess
13 minutes ago, Fox1970 said:
I completely agree about the noise when the goal was scored and was the loudest I have ever heard at any match I’ve been at
fox766 74
Location: Leicester
Was one of my favorite players of that era. Proper down to earth guy. I remember City playing Watford away, he was injured and he sat with the fans to watch the game. He sang all the songs, took the piss out of the other players and didn't mind other City fans who wanted to speak to him. Can't imagine any player doing that now. And yes like many others I can still remember that goal against Swindon, what a rollercoster of a day that was.
UpTheLeagueFox 5,016
5 hours ago, Rocket-Ron said:
That equaliser against Swindon.
Iconic moment. Not the result we wanted but we had the joy of doing Derby over the following year which was very sweet.
Deeney's play off goal was also iconic and gives goosebumps and, likewise, it all turned out well in the longer term.
goose2010 1,341
I cleaned his car once as a youngster. He lived in Hinckley very close to where me and my mates used to have a kick about. He would come for a kick about every now and then as well!
Probably wont want to watch the full highlights so 7.57
Gordon the Great 98
Definitely one of my all time favourites , a skilful grafter....never gave up.one to remember.
Out Foxed 1,079
9 hours ago, davieG said:
interesting surnames in both lineups
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Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (52HZ, 2017) ***
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Solo Sax No comments
By Daniel Börker
First there is a beat. A beat built by Colin Stetson's Sax. Colin Stetson on the way to the club? Yes and no. Of course, maybe like Oren Ambarchi said Hubris was his way to the club (at least that's what I read).
To prepare myself for this review I read the last one that was published on a Stetson album, which was written by Paolo Casertano on part three of his New History Warfare. Paolo's last sentence stuck with me, he wrote that he had hoped for something new on the next record. So here we are with All This I Do For Glory and the question is, is there something new to discover?
First of all, you would recognize Colin Stetson on this album without knowing the name on the cover, his way of playing his patterns throughout the album is recognizable, and so I think the 'new thing' is the beat you hear in the beginning.
The first track 'All This I Do For Glory" starts with a strange beat, to slow to dance to. Colin Stetson's music is kind of hypnotizing. And the 'beat' on the first track does quite a good job in that respect. Over the beat he plays his sax-patterns, reminding you of minimalist music. There is already a lot to read about the way he treats his instrument to produce the sounds you hear, so I won't repeat it here. I get lost in it every time I hear it, and the first track is a very good example of it, especially if you haven't heard his music before.
The second track "Like Wolves on the Fold" also starts with sounds that build a strong beat, but in this one the singing sounds seem to be stronger (I think I can hear him breath.) The track has an urgency to it, and the beat doesn't find its way to the dance floor again.
The third track "Between Water and Wind" intensifies the urgency. The sound gets a bit darker but in the end I stick to my original musical observation: This time it's all about the beat.
I could take you through all six tracks, but I still come to the same conclusion that this is the difference, the new thing.
So what does it mean to me, the listener?
I am glad that things change. I like it to recognize an artist by his sound, his way of composing and still realize that he tries to develop new approaches, so I appreciate this step that Stetson takes on this album. While I write this paragraph I am listening to New History Warfare part 3 to compare the two once more. I am immediately captured by the energy and the urgency of the music.
All This I Do For Glory is a catchy album and I like it, but I miss the ruthless sound of the older albums including his collaboration with Sarah Neufeld. It seems as if this new album was an effort to sound a little bit more catchy than before and still be recognizable. So Paolo, he's changed.
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6,000 new doctors every year, not enough jobs
Minderjeet Kaur
About 6,000 doctors come out every year but there are not enough jobs for them, according to an NGO. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: A non-profit medical organisation has called for a review of the contract system for doctors in public hospitals, and the lack of propects for advancement to becoming specialists.
Malaysian Medics International (MMI) voiced concern over the increasing number of doctors every year, and the lack of job placements leading to some medical officers being offered contract positions thus depriving them of becoming specialist doctors.
Dr Vikkineshwaran Siva Subramaniam, chairman of the MMI international board of trustees, said the Education Ministry had allowed medical institutions to mushroom.
“There are 33 medical institutions producing 3,000 doctors every year. We have another 3,000 doctors returning home every year from overseas after completing their education.
“But there are not many jobs to cater for all of them every year,” he told FMT.
At the moment, he said about 9,000 contract doctors are undergoing housemanship of whom 4,000 are now given the position of floating medical doctors.
“Those under contract, even though they do the same job as permanent doctors or medical officers, they earn less and are unable to become specialists,” he said.
The contract positions were first introduced in 2016.
Dr Vikkineshwaran said there were no clear guideliness on who is taken on contract and who are placed as permanent staff.
“Either the government should make all medical officers on contract or permanent staff. Medical officers do the same job, but those on contract earn less and are unable to become specialists doctors,” he said.
He said contract medical officers are placed under the UD41 salary bracket and earn RM3,100 while doctors who are permanent staff earn RM3,700 a month under the UD44 bracket. The allowances are also higher for permanent staff.
During housemanship, they earn RM2,900 a month with allowance of RM600 for on-call duties and another RM500 for those placed in Sabah and Sarawak.
“After housemanship, they are placed on the UD44 grade but those under contract have remained at UD41,” he said. He questioned why the doctors in the two grades could not be paid the same salary.
He said contract medical officers are unable to progress to becoming specialists as they need to hold a permanent medical officer position for three years.
With no new jobs being created, the only openings are those left by retiring staff. “Due to that, the government had created contract staffs as there are no new openings.
“But we do not know the criteria of why some are given contract positions while others are employed on permanent basis,” he said.
He further urged the government to look at the issue as there are too many medical institutions and it was crucial to review the quality of graduates passing the exams.
This includes, those graduating overseas.” They may go to substandard medical institutions like in Russia where the language is different.”
He said an entrance exam should be held before the graduates are offered housemanship to gauge who should be employed in the government hospitals to keep up with the quality.
He also urged Putrajaya to allow contract doctors to do their specialisation after 3 years as the country was in dire need of specialists.
“Imagine in Kuala Lumpur Hospital there are only 10 vascular surgeons and 10 liver and gall blader specialists in Selayang hospital,” he said, citing an example.
He said most specialists move to private hospitals for better pay and a better work-life balance.
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HAIRCALF PORTOFINO 85
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James Corden's wife Julia shows first hint of baby bump after confirming pregnancy
The couple are expecting their third child together
August 08, 2017 - 12:44 BST Ainhoa Barcelona James Corden's wife Julia Carey has showed the first hint of her baby bump as she attended the Carpool Karaoke launch; couple expecting third child
James Corden's wife Julia is bumping along nicely! The mum-of-two was the picture of health as she made her first red carpet outing since her pregnancy was announced last month. Julia showed just a hint of her small baby bump as she stepped out in a blue shift dress that featured a floral pattern. She was accompanying her husband James to the launch of the new Carpool Karaoke series – the popular segment on James' The Late Late Show which is being made into a stand-alone TV show.
The comedian's publicist confirmed the happy news in July, with several reports claiming that Julia is due in December. The couple are clearly over the moon to be expecting another baby; they are already the proud parents to a son Max, six, and a two-year-old daughter Carey. James and Julia married in September 2012, with the reception taking place at celebrity hotspot Babington House in Somerset.
James and Julia are the proud parents to two children
With a third child on the way, life is set to get even busier for James, whose TV career is thriving in the States. His famous Carpool Karaoke segment is being turned into its own TV series with stars including Will Smith, Ariana Grande and John Legend set to take part.
The new show from Apple Music will see a celebrity pair taking a trip while singing along to their personal playlists. In Will's segment, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air star and James stand up in their car to dance along with a marching band, while Ariana dresses up for her segment with green body paint and a pair of reindeer antlers. Other stars who will feature on the show include Alicia Keys, Metallica, Miley Cyrus and Game of Thrones actresses Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams.
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Brady and Byrne leave McCarthy with midfield food for thought
Aidan Fitzmaurice – 15 November 2019 02:30 AM
Robbie Brady controls the ball. Photo: Sportsfile
Jack Byrne in action against Ryan Thomas
A night in Dublin when the B-Specials had to show just how special they were.
It was expected that they would be good enough to win a home friendly against a lower-ranked nation playing their first game in 18 months, but would they be special enough to go out and beat a classy European side, those old foes Denmark, in four days' time?
That's the food for thought Mick McCarthy has to dine on between now and Monday night, wondering if his midfield men from last night, especially Robbie Brady and Jack Byrne, did enough.
And when it comes to the team for Monday, McCarthy's heart may say yes to a return from exile for Brady and maybe even a competitive debut for Byrne, but his head will overrule that and he'll stick with the tried and trusted.
Callum Robinson has played himself out of the starting XI with a couple of very poor displays, and though he did get the morale boost of a goal last night (his first at international level), he's not what the team needs on Monday.
To beat Denmark, Ireland will need craft and guile, and while the quality of the opposition has to be taken into account, Brady and Byrne showed a fair amount of those traits in this 3-1 win.
An assist on an equalising goal for Brady and a willingness to show for the ball from Byrne were the things to take away from a tension-free night in Dublin 4.
Those B-Specials were Brady, Byrne and Browne. And it's a comfort to McCarthy that the first goal came from a set piece delivered by one of that trio, Brady's corner headed in by Derrick Williams.
It's the ploy which got Ireland out of jail so often in the past, a set play headed home by a defender, and it's probably our most likely route to goal for the meeting with the Danes.
But past experience shows that won't be enough to beat Denmark, which of course Ireland have to do on Monday night.
It was also the only time Brady's set pieces troubled the away side - a free kick on 57 minutes should have hit the target but thundered straight into the All White wall.
One regret of the night was that Brady's experience and status as captain meant he took all of the set pieces. Shamrock Rovers fans (and League of Ireland defenders) know the damage that Byrne can do from a free kick or corner and it's a pity he didn't get that chance.
This was always going to be a hard game for those midfield hopefuls, because of the context of the match and the opposition.
Easy, it could be said, to rip it up against a side playing their first international in over a year, under a new manager, with a side not exactly bursting with names and talent. Up against the Irish in midfield was Joe Bell, who plays for a college side in the USA.
Looking good against a player like that is do-able. But going up against canny operators from the European competitions like Delaney, Eriksen and Schone is another thing.
This was an audition, of sorts, an opportunity for a couple of midfielders to try and show McCarthy that they have more to offer than the ones who have played in the middle of the park in the most recent qualifiers.
They all had their moments. Brady started the game slowly, looking like a player who lacked match sharpness (he has played just 110 minutes of club football all season) yet who grew into the game, finding his legs in the second half to make more of an impact. He needed this, a rare 90 minutes, and will be the better for it.
And Byrne started very strongly. That Irish midfield in Tbilisi and Geneva was, by and large, a pass-free, attack-free zone for far too long. The team did pass last night and that midfield looked more like an attacking unit.
For Monday, it's a given that Glenn Whelan returns to the starting XI, as should be the case. Conor Hourihane, Jeff Hendrick and James McClean have all under-performed in their most recent games, those three do not deserve to have places in the starting XI nailed down. Brady, and Byrne, should be in the manager's plans for Monday.
Turning a plan into reality is now his biggest test.
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America's Healthiest Superfoods for Women
By Laurie Herr and Sarah Jio
Check out the top 10 superfoods for women that help fight cancer and heart disease, build strong bones, and burn fat.
Superfoods for superwomen
Charles Masters
You love to eat, but you also love to feel great. You can do both if you choose foods that make you smarter, leaner, stronger—and then use them in tasty new ways.
We’ve made that easy to do with Health’s top 10 superfoods for women. They were selected by our panel of experts for their mega benefits—from bone building and energy boosting to fat busting and disease fighting.
What’s even more delicious: When you mix and match these America’s Healthiest choices, you get super combos with even more power—a breakfast that’s good for your heart, a dinner that fights cancer, a sweet treat that helps keep your tummy calm and mind sharp. Plus, we’ve rounded up 15 delicious, benefit-packed runners-up, too. So read on (and start eating) for a super you.
“It’s all about omega-3s,” says health guru Andrew Weil, MD, explaining why fish like sockeye top his must-eat list for women. All of our experts agreed: wild salmon packs a wallop with two kinds of heart-healthy omega-3s, including DHA, a fatty acid essential for a healthy pregnancy.
Omega-3s also boost mood, fight depression, and may protect against Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Add in salmon’s lean protein and vitamin D (a critical nutrient many women lack), and you’ve got yourself a near-perfect food.
How much you need: Eat at least two servings of a fatty fish like salmon a week, the American Heart Association recommends. Can’t find it fresh? Canned wild Alaskan salmon is almost as good, says Steven Pratt, MD, author of SuperFoods Rx and SuperHealth.
Wild blueberries
If berries are nutritional treasures, wild blueberries are the crown jewels. “They’re truly one of nature’s ultimate antiaging foods,” says Kate Geagan, MS, RD, author of Go Green Get Lean. Research suggests the tiny gems not only help prevent memory loss but also may improve motor skills and help lower blood pressure. Another reason to love ’em: they’re high in antioxidants that help fight wrinkles.
Why choose wild? When scientists at Cornell University came up with a new way of testing the antioxidant activity in foods, wild blueberries scored the highest. They have compounds called anthocyanins, one of the most powerful forms of antioxidants. Another plus: at only 80 calories a cup, you can eat them without guilt.
How much you need: Aim for a half-cup to one cup of any kind of berries a day, but mix in wild blueberries as much as possible. Many supermarkets carry them frozen.
We all know that oats can help lower cholesterol. Now scientists say oats, rich in soluble and insoluble fiber, are also good for helping you feel full so you can control your weight. They keep you regular, too.
Which type of oats should you choose? If you’re making oatmeal, steel-cut oats take longer to cook than rolled oats but deliver more fiber, says Health Senior Food and Nutrition Editor Frances Largeman-Roth, RD. Always in a morning rush? Instant works, too.
How much you need: Add oats (and other whole grains) to your diet throughout the day. The American Heart Association recommends 25 to 30 grams of dietary fiber a day—that’s about six times the amount of fiber in an average serving of oatmeal. So eat up!
This humble vegetable is a winner, thanks to research that suggests the chemicals in cruciferous vegetables, especially broccoli, may help prevent breast cancer by fighting excess estrogen. Rich in vitamin C and a good source of vitamin A, broccoli helps you feel full on less than 30 calories per serving. And it gets bonus points for fiber, folate (folic acid), calcium, iron, and potassium.
Cooked or raw, broccoli delivers a nutrient punch, says John La Puma, MD, host of What’s Cooking With ChefMD? and author of ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine.
How much you need: Eat two or more half-cup servings of cooked broccoli per week.
"Protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and omega-3s—what else is there to say?” asks David L. Katz, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine.
Eating just a handful of walnuts a day can help you lower cholesterol, boost brain power, sleep better, cope with stress, prevent heart disease, fight cancer, and more. In fact, a new study showed that walnuts appeared to lower the risk of breast cancer in mice.
How much you need: Have one ounce (about 12 walnut halves) daily.
Yes, they’re high in fat. But in this case that’s not a bad thing. “We shouldn’t be so fatphobic,” says Cheryl Forberg, RD, nutritionist for The Biggest Loser and author of Positively Ageless.
The heart-healthy monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) in avocados can actually help you lose belly fat, a risk factor for heart disease and even some fertility problems. Avocados also pack high amounts of potassium, magnesium, folate, protein, and vitamins B6, E, and K. Add to that fiber and cholesterol-lowering plant sterols, and you have one nutrient-dense food.
How much you need: Limit yourself to one-quarter to one-half an avocado a day.
Related video: Avocado Toast, 4 Ways
Beans of any kind are nutrition dynamos. But red beans made our top 10 list for several reasons: they’re rich in antioxidants and packed with protein, folate, minerals, and fiber, including resistant starch. “That’s the hot new thing in fiber research,” says Health Contributing Editor Maureen Callahan, MS, RD.
Resistant starch seems to have several important benefits, like boosting the body’s ability to burn fat, helping you feel full, controlling blood sugars, and even reducing cancer risk.
Don’t have time to cook a pot of dried beans? Canned beans are a good option, too, says Liz Applegate, PhD, director of sports nutrition at the University of California, Davis.
How much you need: Enjoy three cups of cooked beans a week. Worried about getting gassy? Build up slowly, David Grotto, RD, suggests. Start with one tablespoon of beans a day and double the amount each week. Rinsing canned beans before using also eases the problem.
We love its thick, creamy texture and tangy taste. But when it comes to yogurt, there are plenty more reasons you’ll want to go Greek. “It’s rich in calcium and good for our bones,” dietitian Kate Geagan says. In fact, one serving supplies nearly one-fourth of a woman’s daily calcium needs, and the fat-free variety is packed with twice as much protein as regular yogurt.
Fat-free Greek yogurt is also high in probiotics, cultures that can help ease irritable bowel syndrome, a condition that affects mostly women. And even though the evidence is inconclusive, some experts say probiotics help boost immunity—a plus during flu season.
How much you need: Have at least three servings of dairy a day; fat-free Greek yogurt is a good choice. “It’s a healthy swap for artery-clogging sour cream,” Geagan says.
No list would be complete without this flavorful oil. A staple of the Mediterranean diet, it has long been linked to heart health and longevity. But mounting evidence shows that olive oil may be good for your brain, too. A study from Columbia University suggests that sticking to a Mediterranean diet not only protects against Alzheimer’s disease but also helps with mild fuzzy thinking.
And that’s not all: findings from a 2008 study in Spain suggested that compounds in extra-virgin olive oil seem to fight certain kinds of breast cancer. Want to get more of this healthy staple in your diet? Substitute olive oil for other fats: use it on bread instead of butter and in the place of less-healthy cooking oils.
How much you need: Get two tablespoons a day; it may lower your risk of heart disease.
It’s “the food you love that loves you back,” Dr. Katz says. Rich in heart- protective antioxidants, dark chocolate can help reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease. It’s loaded with magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, and phosphorus—all important for strong bones.
Studies suggest chocolate may also help hydrate the skin, lower blood pressure, and sharpen thinking. And then there’s the fun factor. “Chocolate is a sensual pleasure, something women often don’t get enough of in their food,” Dr. La Puma says. We say, let the pleasure begin.
How much you need: Eat just one-quarter ounce a day. And be sure to look for kinds made with at least 70% cocoa.
They lower cholesterol and may help you lose weight. In fact, in one study people who added almonds to a low-calorie diet were better able to lose weight and keep it off.
This beverage all-star may fight cancer and heart disease, and help prevent dementia, diabetes, and stroke. It hydrates like water, too, so it helps fight fatigue. Bonus: drink four cups a day, and you’ll kick up your calorie burn by 80 calories.
Organic milk (fat-free or low-fat)
It’s a rich source of protein, calcium, and vitamin D (a nutrient women are often low on).
Here’s a great snack with energy-boosting carbs, in addition to fiber, iron, and vitamin C. Raisins are high in natural sugar, yes, but their special phytochemicals help fight tooth decay.
High in cancer-fighting antioxidants, sweet potatoes are loaded with energy-boosting carbs, plus fiber, vitamins, manganese, and potassium.
This petite fruit contains about 70 milligrams of vitamin C—more than an orange and just 5 milligrams short of the daily recommendation for women. Research links C to improved eyesight, lower cancer risks, and better heart health.
How to enjoy: Peel and slice some kiwifruit, and mix it with bananas for a potassium-rich fruit salad; kiwifruit’s tartness complements the bananas’ mellow flavor. Or simply slice a kiwifruit in half and grab a spoon—the fruit creates its own bowl.
Pick whichever variety of mushroom suits your taste buds; all of them pack a healthy punch. But researchers from Pennsylvania State University found that two of the most commonly purchased mushrooms—crimini (the small, brown ones) and portobello—ranked as high in antioxidants as string beans, red bell peppers, and carrots.
How to enjoy: Saute a big portobello in heart-healthy olive oil, and sub for meat in burgers or enchiladas. Or slice raw button mushrooms, and toss them with chopped parsley, lemon juice, and olive oil for a simple side dish.
Raspberries are the main berry source of ellagitannins, a type of antioxidant that may have anticancer effects. They are also a good source of vitamin K, which helps increase bone-mineral density, reducing your risk of fractures.
One cup of raspberries has 8 grams of fiber, a big step toward the 25 grams of fiber per day that women need for protection against colon cancer, digestive disorders, and heart disease, says Kerry Neville, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
How to enjoy: Try Neville’s favorite: a spinach-and-raspberry salad.
Bored with spinach? Consider switching to Swiss chard. “It’s a fabulous brain food, helpful in fighting Alzheimer’s and improving mental function,” Dr. Jampolis says.
A Tufts University study found a strong association between a higher intake of B-vitamin-rich foods—like chard—and decreased risk of cognitive decline. Swiss chard is also a good source of vitamin E and folate, nutrients believed to protect the brain.
How to enjoy: Chop chard, and saute it in olive oil. Or add finely chopped Swiss chard to soups or omelets.
One cup of juicy, sweet watermelon serves up more than twice the lycopene (7.8 milligrams) of a fresh tomato. And watermelon offers healthy amounts of vitamins A and C, and it has just 40 calories per cup.
How to enjoy: Toss a watermelon-feta-and-arugula salad. Or sprinkle chile powder on chilled watermelon slices.
Pumpkinseeds
If your favorite dark chocolate treat boosts your mood—but you hate its fat and calories—have a handful of pumpkinseeds instead, Dr. Jampolis says. “Like chocolate, they’re a good source of the amino acid tryptophan, which is a mood elevator—nature’s healthy Prozac.”
How to enjoy: Buy pumpkinseeds in bulk, and toss them into salads and soups. Or add unsalted, raw seeds to the tops of muffins before baking.
Long underappreciated, eggs are a high-quality protein that’s rich in vitamins D and A and low in saturated fat. They also have choline, recently in the news for its importance in brain function. And they deliver two kinds of carotenoids essential for healthy eyes.
The zinc in lean beef may help build immunity, while its high iron content fights fatigue and iron-deficiency anemia.
An excellent source of protein, quinoa is also high in bone-boosting minerals like copper, phosphorous, iron, and magnesium. Plus, it’s a good source of PMS-fighting manganese.
Think of it as a smoothie that’s good for your gut. Rich in calcium and protein, the tangy drink has probiotics that help with digestion and can soothe intestinal problems like irritable bowel syndrome.
A great source of energy, lentils deliver protein, fiber, and antioxidants.
This leafy green is loaded with vitamins A, C, and K, and lutein—an essential nutrient for healthy eyes.
One of the highest-antioxidant foods around, they help fight memory loss, heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
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They’re a terrific vegetarian source of protein. And eating moderate amounts of natural soy foods may lower the risk of breast cancer and keep bones strong after menopause.
You can’t beat ’em as a source of lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that may help protect against cervical and breast cancers. The lycopene in tomatoes act like a sunscreen; eating them cooked can quadruple the SPF in your skin. And the polyphenols in tomatoes thin your blood naturally, so they’re good for your heart. Cook them with broccoli for even greater benefits.
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In the eyes of critics, employers — especially the country's largest — aren't doing enough to move the needle on medical costs and quality. That could change in the new year.
Rebecca Pifer @RebeccaMPifer
As healthcare costs continue to rise in the U.S., payers and providers are scrambling to find new ways to eke out savings. But often the conversation fails to loop in the entities responsible for insuring more than 55% of the country: employers.
In the eyes of critics, employers — especially the country's largest — aren't doing enough to move the needle on medical costs and quality for their employees. But over the past year, some notable employers have partnered with traditional healthcare companies and struck out on their own to provide employees with out-of-the-box options to improve their health.
E-commerce giant Amazon launched a telehealth clinic for its employees in Seattle, and its troika with J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway to lower costs quietly rolled out health plans in select markets. The country's largest employer, Walmart, has also been proactive in the space, most recently starting a program diverting its employees to local, high-quality physicians. Industry also saw increasing adoption of workplace wellness programs, on-site clinics and efforts to narrow networks in direct contracting agreements and bundled payments.
A small subset of purchasers are testing these options while others watch and wait, experts say. But pressure on employers shows no sign of abating as cost increases continue to outpace overall inflation. A 2019 Mercer survey found health benefit costs for employers were projected to rise 4.4% in 2019, above the consumer price index and employee earnings growth. That's up from a slightly lower 3.6% growth the year prior.
Employers, as the backbone of the U.S. healthcare system, have a larger role to play, many say.
"Why are the CEOs of these organizations not as outraged as their employees over healthcare? What would have to happen to change that?," Chris Skisak, executive director for the Houston Business Coalition on Health, told Healthcare Dive. "Employers pay two to seven times more than Medicare for the exact same service. Is that not enough to say, 'We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore'?"
Size, market concentration barriers to cost-cutting
Still, large employers can only do so much to branch out of traditional benefit design, as dynamics can vary widely in each local marketplace where an employer may provide coverage.
"Sometimes you see the very large employers being creative because they have the most at stake and they're thinking gosh, if we don't change things, the healthcare costs are really going to eat into our bottom line," Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, told Healthcare Dive. "But it can also be very difficult in a nationally distributed population."
Experts say it's easier for small employers operating in a single geography to leverage their market share, look for area partnerships with payers and providers and deliver targeted solutions to their employees.
Because of this, small- and mid-market employers (companies with average annual revenue between $10 million and $1 billion, according to Ohio State University's National Center for the Middle Market) represent the best chance to drive value in healthcare as they typically have one health plan, a more personal relationship with their employees and can gather data in a unified way more easily than large employers.
Skisak noted it may not make sense for large employers to deploy limited programs that can't apply more broadly to all of their covered lives. "The fear of being able to provide things nationally is a barrier to disruptive innovation," he said.
But "depending on the market they're in [and] the concentration of employees, large employers have a good opportunity to do that too," Tom Parry, president of the nonprofit research group Integrated Benefits Institute, told Healthcare Dive.
For example, accountable care organizations, defined networks of providers striving to meet a set of quality and financial benchmarks, are a popular tool of commercial and public payers to manage patient care while cutting costs.
Companies as varied as airline manufacturer Boeing and tech giant Intel have developed ACOs in markets with a significant portion of employees. Intel's New Mexico program, created in tandem with integrated health system Presbyterian Healthcare Services, went live in 2013 and has since grown to span five regions in New Mexico, Oregon, Arizona and California where Intel has outsized employee populations — and reported results like decreased system waste, better management of chronic conditions and greater health engagement.
Large employers will increasingly turn to narrow, curated networks
Employers have been moving to narrower networks for some time now, a trend experts expect to gain traction in 2020. It's a pivot from the recent past, when employers commonly sought out broad networks to attract talent. A growing number of purchasers are now contracting directly with regional healthcare organizations to deliver targeted care, whether through bundled payments, carve-outs or Centers of Excellence for a condition or episode of care.
Walmart, the country's largest employer with 2.2 million employees, launched a Center of Excellence Network in 2013 that seeks to reduce unnecessary spinal surgeries by contracting with high-quality centers around the U.S., paying one flat fee for the entire episode of care. Employees who elect to receive surgeries outside of a COE are on the hook for out-of-network costs.
According to the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer, the COE has cut down on the roughly 50% of spinal surgeries found later to be unnecessary — data that's lent weight to these approaches, as opposed to them being just a flash in the pan.
Other major players like Lowe's, General Electric, Boeing and McKesson followed in Walmart's footsteps over the next few years, joining or creating their own COEs. According to the National Business Group on Health, employer use of some type of Centers of Excellence program rose to almost 90% percent in 2019, up from 80% in 2016.
Though experts worry somewhat about costs of operating COEs, benefits experts forecast more employers, bolstered by Walmart's success, will look into the option over the next few years.
Walmart unveiled another program late last year in an effort to steer employees to higher quality doctors. The so-called Featured Providers program has patients pay more if they choose to see a provider outside of a list curated by data analytics company Embold Health starting in Walmart's medical plans this year.
The program is being trialed in northwest Arkansas, Orlando and Tampa in Florida, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area with the goal of eventually expanding it to all U.S. Walmart and Sam's Club employees. It's another strategy to narrow networks: working with a smaller pool of providers who agree to lower prices in exchange for greater patient volume.
In the Houston area, for example, surveyed plan sponsors' interest in narrow network plan options doubled between 2018 and 2019, according to the Houston Business Coalition on Health. These plans, like HMOs and PPOs, have a smaller network of providers, typically tied to an accountable care organization or quality requirement. The approach is hardly new, but still gaining traction.
Of the employers offering narrow networks, 80% are building in financial incentives for employees to select those plans, according to a survey of HBCH's mid- to large-sized employers.
"The idea of trying to curate where a given number of members are getting care has really taken off," Delbanco said, rattling off tactics like narrow or tiered networks, reference pricing and Centers of Excellence. "All of these things are getting the attention of more sophisticated and progressive healthcare purchases as viable options to consider."
Insurance experts expect networks will winnow further as employers design benefits for the 2021 and 2022 plan years. There's a lot of fat to trim, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation: 55% of employers described the network of their most-utilized health plan as "very broad," 37% as "somewhat broad" and 7% as "somewhat narrow" in 2019.
And, though narrow networks, restricted provider lists and COEs have gotten pushback from patients for reducing choice — something that goes against the American ethos — such initiatives may be necessary to incentivize patients to go toward higher performing providers.
"It's very American to have the choice you want," Delbanco said. "But we're at that inflection point where people are willing to make a choice between cost and flexibility."
Healthy economy spurs focus on primary care, wellness and telehealth
Benefits, of course, are a key way employers can attract and retain talent, especially in a tight labor market. In 2020, savvy employers are likely to become active in rounding out their offerings to attract workers in a country with less than 4% unemployment, and keep them healthy and productive.
One prong of this sea change will push payers away from high-deductible health plans over the next few years, as the plans — meant to give employees financial skin in the game — caused patients to eschew both unnecessary and necessary care.
Nearly 70% of mid- to large employers offered HDHPs to employees last year. For 13%, an HDHP was the only option offered, according to Mercer.
"We've kind of hit a wall around increasing cost sharing and hitting high deductible plans and those consumer-oriented strategies," Michael Thompson, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, told Healthcare Dive. "As cost sharing increases, it's outpaced people's ability to pay."
In the new year and beyond, experts forecast more employers will move to provide Advanced Primary Care systems, a primary care physician-centric model of delivery. In APC, the PCP isn't a gatekeeper into the health system but a navigator guiding employees to their best options possible through education, referrals, care coordination and more.
According to the HBCH, almost half of its members plan to pursue an advanced primary care strategy in 2020, with an addition 26% considering such a roadmap for 2022.
"Employers are investing more in primary care with an eye toward eliminating downstream costs, reducing admissions, being more discerning in terms of how referrals are made and more," Thompson said.
Industry is also seeing the beginning of a move toward health benefit design without a deductible altogether, experts say. Such plans are more focused on co-pays, trying to create a lower premium by, for example, narrowing the network or creating requirements, like having a primary care provider coordinate their care.
In November, J.P. Morgan and Amazon started offering health insurance through their cost-cutting venture Haven in select states for 30,000 workers in Ohio and Arizona with two separate plans, run by payers Cigna and Aetna. It's traditional insurance, except some of the plans don't require employees to pay deductibles or offer financial rewards for doing wellness activities.
It hints a shift towards trying to take patients off the hook for the price of their care, but "that's not exactly revolutionary," IBI's Parry said. "It really demonstrates how tough it is to change the healthcare system."
As stress increases to provide inexpensive preventive care, employers will continue to push wellness and telehealth programs onto their beneficiaries. Though utilization of both remains low, proponents say such initiatives hold down cost while bolstering holistic health.
Yet companies remain concerned. A September study from Willis Towers Watson found more than 80% of employers identified rising benefit costs as the main challenge they are facing over the next three years. As companies trying to turn the tide on health begin to report the results of their strategies, benefits expects can only hope more wary players follow in their footsteps and adopt solutions with proven outcomes.
"At the end of the day, employers have to put their hands on the steering wheel as purchasers of healthcare," Delbanco said. "They have to. Otherwise they'll be passive recipients of whatever comes their way."
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Scheduled maintenance: Online registration and payment system
RED DEER - Hockey Alberta’s online registration and payment system will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, and will temporarily unavailable.
The maintenance is expected to be complete by early afternoon on Wednesday, and the registration and payment platform will once again be available.
An update will be provided once the work is completed.
2017 National Women’s U18 Championship set to begin in Quebec City
QUEBEC CITY - Team Alberta U18 Female’s quest for gold begins tomorrow (Wednesday), as the 2017 National Women’s U18 Championship kicks off in Quebec City.
Team Alberta opens play on Wednesday morning at 11:00 a.m. against Ontario Blue, followed by a match-up against Ontario Red on Thursday at 2:30 p.m.. Round-robin play wraps up on Friday as Team Alberta takes on Team Atlantic in the early-bird game, which starts at 8:00 a.m.. Semi-final and consolation round games are set for Saturday, with the gold and bronze medal games to be played on Sunday.
Team Alberta U18 Roster >
All preliminary-round games, placement games, semifinals, and the bronze-medal game will be streamed live online at www.hockeycanada.ca/nwu18c.
For a full schedule, and more information on the U18 Nationals, click here.
Photo credit: Jordan Verlage/ Okotoks Western Wheel
AJHL Game Day Speaker Series - Okotoks Oilers
OKOTOKS -Hockey Alberta is proud to partner with the Alberta Junior Hockey League and the Okotoks Oilers to present the AJHL Game Day Speaker Series for local coaches on Saturday, November 4.
The Speaker Series features a game-day seminar session, with each session offering a unique professional development opportunity to learn from high profile junior coaches - as well as a chance to catch the Okotoks Oilers in action.
The Seminar will be held at the Pason Centennial Arena in Okotoks. There are only 25 seats available for the seminar, and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is $45 (plus GST) per coach, and includes the following ($200 value):
Presentation from Hockey Alberta
Presentation from Okotoks Oilers Head Coach Tyler Deis
Presentation from Drumheller Dragons Coaching Staff.
Food/drink provided
A ticket to the game (Drumheller Dragons at Okotoks Oilers)
Hockey Alberta resource package, Hockey Alberta gift
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2017
For more information, please contact Matt Weninger at [email protected]
Alberta Winter Game Regional Camp registration deadline approaching
RED DEER - The deadline for for 2005-born male athletes, as well as 2003 & 2004-born female athletes to register for regional selection camps for the 2018 Alberta Winter Games is Friday, November 3.
The Alberta Winter Games run February 16-19, 2018 in Fort McMurray, AB.
*Players must be registered with Hockey Alberta to be eligible to participate in a regional selection camp.*
Male Regional Selection Camps
All four male regional camps will take place November 23-26, 2017 at the following locations (dates and locations subject to change):
Calgary - East Calgary Twin Arenas
Capital - Leduc Recreation Centre
North - Jubilee Recreation Centre (Fort Saskatchewan)
South - Olds Sportsplex
Not sure of your region? Click here for the Regional Directory, or click here for the Boundary Map.
Space at each regional camp is limited, and registration is on a first come, first served basis. The deadline to register for a regional camp is Friday, November 3.
*Each camp has limited space for goaltenders*
Female Regional Selection Camps
Both female regional camps will take place December 8-10 at the following locations (dates and locations subject to change):
North - Ray MacDonald Sports Centre (Morinville Arena)
South - Innisfail Twin Arena
Not sure of your region? Click here for the Boundary Map.
For more information on the Alberta Winter Games, click here.
Photo credit: Ron Wassink
2018 Arctic Winter Games Selection Camp registration now open
GRANDE PRAIRIE - Registration is now open for male Bantam players born in 2003-2004 (Bantam A or lower), and female Junior players born 1999-2004 (Senior, College, Midget AAA or lower) to attend Team Alberta North selection camps for the 2018 Arctic Winter Games.Team Alberta North is coming off gold and silver medals at the 2016 Arctic Winter Games in the Bantam Male and Junior Female categories, respectively.
The 2018 Arctic Winter Games are set for March 17-24 in Fort Smith and Hay River, Northwest Territories.
Male selection camp runs December 8-10 in High Prairie, while Female selection camp runs January 5-7 in Slave Lake.
Male Registration > | Female Registration >
Communities eligible to participate in the Arctic Winter Games are located on or above the 55th Parallel. Click here to view a list of eligible communities.
The registration deadline is December 5 for males, and January 1 for females.
The Arctic Winter Games is the world’s largest northern multi-sport and cultural event, and celebrates athletic competition, culture, friendship and cooperation between northern contingents.
For more information, contact Blake Cosgrove, Hockey Alberta Northwest Regional Centre Consultant at [email protected].
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BC defeats Team Alberta in overtime to win 2017 WHL Cup
CALGARY - Team Alberta narrowly missed out on another gold medal at the WHL Cup, falling 4-3 to Team BC in overtime on Sunday.
Alberta opened up the scoring once again, with Kaiden Guhle scoring his fifth goal of the tournament on the power-play halfway through the first, with Connor McLennon adding to the lead midway through the second.
BC answered back minutes later on the power-play, before scoring again late in the second period and early in the third to take a 3-2.
McClennon scored his sixth, and most important goal of the tournament on the power-play with just 1:44 left to tie the game, and force overtime.
It was the second straight year the WHL Cup would be decided in overtime between Alberta and BC, but this time it was BC who sealed the victory, as Ben King scored 2:37 into the extra frame.
In his second start of the tournament for Team Alberta, Sebastian Cossa saw 31 shots come his way, allowing four goals. His counterpart, Dylan Garand, stopped 24 of Alberta;s 27 shots in the victory.
Kyle Crnkovic added to his tournament-leading points total with two assists in the game, giving him a total of 12 in five games. Assists were also tallied by Jake Neighbours (2) and Guhle.
Boxscore > | Game One Recap > | Game Two Recap > | Game Three Recap > | Semi-Final Recap > | Team Alberta Roster >
McClennon was fittingly named Team Alberta’s player of the game for his efforts,, while King earned the honours for BC.
The gold medal is the second for Team BC in the tournament’s seven year history, last winning it in 2012.
Earlier on Sunday afternoon, Team Manitoba took the bronze medal after defeating Team Saskatchewan 4-2.
2017 WHL Cup All-Stars
G - Bryan Thomson (Team Saskatchewan) - Moose Jaw, Sask - Lethbridge Hurricanes
D - Kaiden Guhle (Team Alberta) - Sherwood Park, Alta. - Prince Albert Raiders
D - Daemon Hunt (Team Manitoba) - Brandon, Man. - Moose Jaw Warriors
F - Justin Sourdif (Team British Columbia) - Surrey, B.C. - Vancouver Giants
F - Kyle Crnkovic (Team Alberta) - Chestermere, Alta. - Saskatoon Blades
F - Connor McClennon (Team Alberta) - Wainwright, Alta. - Kootenay ICE
1. Kyle Crnkovic (AB; Saskatoon Blades) - 3G-9A - 12pts
2. Connor McClennon (AB; Kootenay ICE) - 6G-4A - 10pts
3. Kaiden Guhle (AB; Prince Albert Raiders) - 5G-4A - 9pts
4. Jake Neighbours (AB; Edmonton Oil Kings) - 1G-6A - 7pts
5. Tyler Horstmann (BC; Edmonton Oil Kings) - 0G-5A - 5pts
Team Alberta advances to WHL Cup final with 7-1 win
CALGARY - Team Alberta will be going for gold at the 2017 WHL Cup on Sunday, following a 7-1 defeat of Team Manitoba in the first of two semi-final games on Saturday.
Kyle Crnkovic continued his strong play for Team Alberta, scoring two goals, including the game winner, along with an assist to give him 10 points in four games at the WHL Cup. Crnkovic was named Alberta’s Player of the Game for his efforts.
Ridly Greig opened the scoring less than five minutes into the game, with Crnkovic giving Alberta a 2-0 less than 5 minutes later. Seth Jarvis cut the lead in half moments later, scoring Mantitoba’s lone goal.
After that, it as all Team Alberta, with five unanswered goals from Connor McClennon, Joel Sexsmith, Kaiden Guhle, Jordan Borysiuk and Crnkovic.
Assists were tallied by Jake Neighbours (2), Ronan Seeley, Ozzy Wiesblatt, Krz Plummer, Brayden Morrison, Crnkovic and McClennon.
Alberta heavily out-shot Manitoba 50-18, and chased starting goaltender Nikulas Jerris just 12:45 into the first period, who allowed three goals on 11 shots. Dante Giannuzzi allowed four goals on 39 shots in relief.
Garin Bjorklund stopped all but one of the 18 shots sent his way for Alberta, earning his third win of the tournament.
Boxscore > | Game One Recap > | Game Two Recap > | Game Three Recap > | Team Alberta Roster >
Alberta will battle for the WHL Cup title in the gold medal game at 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the Markin MacPhail Centre (Winsport) in Calgary. It’s a rematch of last year’s gold medal game, as B.C. defeated Saskatchewan 7-0 in the other semi-final matchup on Saturday. The bronze medal game is set for 9:30 a.m. on Sunday between Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
For more stats, schedule and ticket information for the WHL Cup, click here.
Alberta edges Manitoba, 4-3, at WHL Cup
CALGARY - Team Alberta jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the second period, and then held off Team Manitoba for a 4-3 victory in the final round-robin game at the 2017 WHL Cup in Calgary.
With the victory, Team Alberta heads into Saturday’s semi-final action as the top seed with an unblemished record of three wins.
But there is not much rest either team, as Alberta and Manitoba square off in a rematch at 1 pm in the first semi-final at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Winsport.
Brayden Morrison scored what proved to be the game-winner at the 16:31 mark of the second period. Manitoba scored 35 seconds later, and added one more in the third period, but Alberta held on for the victory.
Jake Sanderson scored on the power play in the first period for Team Alberta, and Ronan Seeley and Noah Boyko scored in the second period for Alberta. Assists were tallied by Kaiden Guhle (2), Connor McClennon (2), Kyle Crnkovic (2), Boyko and Ozzie Wiesblatt.
Garin Bjorklund earned the win in net for Team Alberta. Alberta outshot Manitoba, 27-15.
Boxscore > | Game One Recap > | Game Two Recap > | Team Alberta Roster >
In the other game on Friday, B.C. blanked Saskatchewan, 6-0. Those teams will meet in the other semi-final at 4:30 p.m.
Semi-final winners meet in the gold medal final on Sunday at 1:30 pm. The bronze medal game is set for 9:30 am on Sunday.
Team Alberta defeats BC 6-2
CALGARY - Team Alberta moved to 2-0 at the 2017 WHL Cup with a 6-2 win over Team BC on Thursday night.
After opening the tournament with an 8-3 win over Team Saskatchewan, Alberta’s offence showed no signs of slowing down against BC.
Connor McLennon opened the scoring for Alberta with his second goal of the tournament, and Kaiden Guhle gave Alberta a 2-0 lead heading into the second period with his third goal in two games.
McClennon added his second goal of the game and third overall early into the second period for his second-straight game winning goal, and added an assist en-route to being named Team Alberta’s Player of the Game.
Team BC got one back moments later, but Alberta answered with three straight goals, before BC notched another goal to make it a 6-2 final.
Kyle Crnkovic also had a big night for Alberta, scoring a goal and adding three assists, giving him five points through two games.
Alberta had the slight edge in shots, out-shooting BC 29-28. Sebastian Cossa made 26 stops for Team Alberta to earn his first win of the tournament.
Boxscore > | Game One Recap > | Team Alberta Roster >
Team Alberta (2-2) closes out round-robin play on Friday night against Team Manitoba (1-1), and can clinch first place with a win. Game time is 6:30 p.m. at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Winsport in Calgary.
Photo Credit: Dave Holland/Hockey Canada
Team Alberta opens 2017 WHL Cup with 8-3 win
CALGARY - Team Alberta U16 Male opened its 2017 WHL Cup with a bang, defeating Team Saskatchewan 8-3 on Wednesday night.
Ridly Greig opened the scoring for Team Alberta, who took a 1-0 lead into the second period, and a 4-2 lead into the third before scoring four straight goals. Saskatchewan added a goal late to make it an 8-3 final.
Forward Noah Boyko led the way offensively for Alberta with a goal and two assists, while defender Kaiden Guhle added two goals from the backend.
With one assist, Captain Jake Neighbours earned Player of the Game honours for Alberta.
Alberta out-shot Saskatchewan 39-17, with goaltenders Gjarin Bjorklund and Sebastian Cossa splitting time. Bjorklund earned the win, stopping seven of eight shots sent his way, while Cossa allowed two goals on nine shots in the second half of the game.
Boxscore > | Team Alberta Roster >
Up next for Team Alberta is Team BC, who fell 3-2 in a shootout to Manitoba on Wednesday afternoon. Game time is 6:30 p.m. at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Winsport.
2017 WHL Cup kicks off in Calgary
CALGARY - The title defense is on for Team Alberta U16 Male, as the 2017 WHL Cup (formerly the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup) begins today in Calgary.
Team Manitoba and Team B.C. kick off the tournament this afternoon (Wednesday) at 3 pm, while Team Alberta’s quest for gold begins tonight at 6:30 pm against Team Saskatchewan. Team Alberta also hits the ice again Thursday night against Team BC, and wraps up round-robin play Friday night against Manitoba. All three Team Alberta games are set for 6:30 p.m. at the Markin MacPhail Centre at WinSport.
Following round-robin play, the 1st and 4th place teams and the 2nd and 3rd place teams will battle in the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon, with the bronze and gold medal games set for 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, respectively.
The WHL Cup will feature some of the top players in the under-16 age category from the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The four-team round robin tournament is the first step in Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence for players.
The majority of players participating in the event were selected in the 2017 WHL Bantam Draft or have since been listed by WHL Clubs. The WHL Cup is made possible through financial support provided by the WHL and Hockey Canada.
For more schedule and ticket information for the WHL Cup, click here.
Nine Team Alberta alumni to represent Canada at World U17 Challenge
RED DEER - Nine players from Team Alberta’s 2016 gold medal-winning U16 squad have been selected to play in the 2017 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier (Calgary), defencemen Bowen Byram (Lethbridge), Jake Lee (Sherwood Park), Rhett Rhinehart (Lloydminster), and Matthew Robertson (Sherwood Park), and forwards Connor Bouchard (Cochrane), Kirby Dach (Fort Saskatchewan), Peyton Krebs (Okotoks), and Brayden Tracey (Calgary) are among the 66 players chosen to represent Canada.
The 66 players will be divided into three teams representing Team Canada Black, Team Canada Red, and Team Canada White when they compete against the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, and the United States in their quest for a gold medal.
In July, 111 players were invited to the week-long national under-17 development camp, marking the first step in Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence.
The tournament opens Nov. 5 at the Encana Events Centre in an all-Canadian affair as last year’s silver-medallist, Team Canada Black, takes on Team Canada White at 2:30 p.m. The opening day concludes with Sweden facing Russia at North Peace Arena in Fort St. John.
Twelve Albertans named to Team WHL for Canada Russia Series
RED DEER - Alberta will be very well-represented during the 2017 CIBC Canada Russia Series, with 12 Albertans named to Team WHL’s roster.
On Tuesday, the Western Hockey League, in collaboration with the Canadian Hockey League, Moose Jaw Warriors, Swift Current Broncos and Hockey Canada, announced today the roster for Team WHL, which will compete against Team Russia in the 2017 CIBC Canada Russia Series.
Forwards Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Calgary), Tyler Benson (Edmonton), Dillon Dube (Cochrane), Matthew Phillips (Calgary), Sam Steel (Sherwood Park), and Tyler Steenbergen (Sylvan Lake) will all suit up for Team WHL up front. On defence, Jake Bean (Calgary), Kale Clage (Lloydminster), Josh Mahura (St. Albert), and David Quenneville (Edmonton) will all be part of an Albertan-heavy blueline, in front of goaltenders Carter Hart (Sherwood Park) and Stuart Skinner (Edmonton).
Team WHL will face Team Russia in Game 1 of the 2017 CIBC Canada Russia Series in Moose Jaw on Monday, November 6, before continuing on to Swift Current for Game 2 on Tuesday, November 7. The Ontario Hockey League will host Games 3 and 4, while the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will welcome the festivities surrounding Games 5 and 6.
For more information on the Canada Russia Series, click here.
WHL Game Day Coach Series returns for 2017/18 season
RED DEER - A unique learning opportunity is now open for minor hockey coaches with Hockey Alberta’s WHL Game Day Coach Series.
This exciting partnership between Hockey Alberta and the Alberta Western Hockey League teams will offer nine different seminars between October and February, giving coaches the chance to learn from some of the top coaches in the game.
Each seminar costs $45 per coach, and include the following ($200 value):
A ticket to a WHL Game
Food/beverage voucher
Hockey Alberta resource package
Hockey Alberta gift and other giveaway items (may include golf shirt, hat, or quarter-zip pullover)
Coaches will have the opportunity to hear the both the home and visiting Head Coaches speak before and after each game. Additionally, Hockey Alberta’s Provincial Coach Mentor, Fran Gow, will provide professional development for coaches before each game on a variety of topics, listed by the dates and locations below:
October 24 - Medicine Hat Tigers @ Red Deer Rebels (Topic: The Transition Game) *FULL*
November 3 - Saskatoon Blades @ Medicine Hat Tigers (Topic: Developing D-Zone)
November 22 - Portland Winterhawks @ Calgary Hitmen (Topic: Effective Practive)
November 28 - Portland Winterhawks @ Lethbridge Hurricanes (Topic: Importance of Faceoffs)
December 1 - Regina Pats @ Red Deer Rebels (Topic: Importance of Faceoffs)
December 7 - Moose Jaw Warriors @ Edmonton Oil Kings (Topic: Creating Offense)
January 3 - Vancouver Giants @ Edmonton Oil Kings (Topic: Developing D-Zone)
January 19 - Kamloops Blazers @ Calgary Hitmen (Topic: Creating Offense)
February 7 - Calgary Hitmen @ Red Deer Rebels (Topic: Special Teams)
For more information, and for a full list of speakers, please click here.
** No refunds will be given for these seminars as per our refund policy fees and structure**
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AFHL Midget Elite, Bantam Elite schedules kick off Saturday
RED DEER - The 2017/18 Alberta Female Hockey League season is officially in full-swing, as the Midget Elite and Bantam Elite seasons get underway on Saturday.
The AFHL season began on October 1 for the Midget AAA division, two weeks ahead of the Midget and Bantam Elite seasons.
Eight of 12 teams on both Midget and Bantam Elite sides begin their season on Saturday, while the remaining four get their 2017/18 season underway on Sunday.
You can keep track of all the action on each league’s website, or by following the AFHL on Twitter.
October 18, 2017 Scheduled maintenance: Online registration and payment system
October 31, 2017 2017 National Women’s U18 Championship set to begin in Quebec City
October 28, 2017 AJHL Game Day Speaker Series - Okotoks Oilers
October 27, 2017 Alberta Winter Game Regional Camp registration deadline approaching
October 23, 2017 2018 Arctic Winter Games Selection Camp registration now open
October 22, 2017 BC defeats Team Alberta in overtime to win 2017 WHL Cup
October 21, 2017 Team Alberta advances to WHL Cup final with 7-1 win
October 20, 2017 Alberta edges Manitoba, 4-3, at WHL Cup
October 19, 2017 Team Alberta defeats BC 6-2
October 18, 2017 Team Alberta opens 2017 WHL Cup with 8-3 win
October 18, 2017 2017 WHL Cup kicks off in Calgary
October 17, 2017 Nine Team Alberta alumni to represent Canada at World U17 Challenge
October 17, 2017 Twelve Albertans named to Team WHL for Canada Russia Series
October 16, 2017 WHL Game Day Coach Series returns for 2017/18 season
October 14, 2017 AFHL Midget Elite, Bantam Elite schedules kick off Saturday
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Dr Bull trained at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School and then undertook senior specialty training in both Rheumatology and Acute Medicine at a Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals. He worked as Consultant Rheumatologist at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust based at the William Harvey Hospital from 1990 to 2014. During that time he developed a major interest in joint hypermobility and also held a senior management role as Clinical Director for medical services from 1994 to 2010.
Dr Bull has brings his particular experience in hypermobility spectrum disorder and service development as Deputy Chief Medical Advisor to the HMSA. With regards to his clinical practice (private), these include two rheumatology clinics, at the ‘One Hospital’ in Ashford and also ‘The Chaucer Hospital’ in Canterbury.
Dr Bull is also involved in medical education, running a rheumatology syllabus for East Kent Hospital's medical students and junior doctors as well as local GPs, health professionals and patient groups.
Dr Bull is the clinical lead for the Kent Hypermobility Network and works on a voluntary basis for the HMSA and also, as a hospital governor for East Kent Hospitals. He has a particular interest in the Alexander Technique and Mindfulness.
In his spare time, Dr Bull plays bass guitar in an acoustic rock band.
Dr Bull joined the HMSA’s medical advisory board in November 2016.
‘It is great to welcome Dr Bull to the board. His governance experience and knowledge base developed throughout his NHS career will be a significant benefit for the HMSA, as it moves forward with its plans for the next 5 years. Fantastic news!’ - Donna Wicks CEO
You can contact Dr Bull by clicking HERE.
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Win would be nice, not necessary
Munster SHL Final: Limerick v Cork, Saturday January 11, The Gaelic Grounds, 7.30pm
Cork manager Kieran Kingston prior to the Coop Superstores Munster Hurling League 2020 Group B match between Waterford and Cork at Fraher Field in Dungarvan. Photo by Eóin Noonan / Sportsfile
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Opener for ten - who won last year's Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League?
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Don't feel bad if you didn't know, for we had to look it up ourselves. It was Clare, by the way, the county completing a double along with the McGrath Cup, though it didn't prevent them from crashing out of the Munster championship with a fourth-placed finish.
Pre-season competitions are just that, designed to provide game-time as established players seek fitness and young pretenders put forward their claims for advancement. You might win and you might not, but that doesn't matter - if you do, there's no big homecoming or a trip around the schools. It's simply a means to an end, with the key benefit of playing the final being a bridging of the gap to the start of the national league at the end of the month.
If you were looking for omens, you'd take solace in the fact that Cork's only time to win the competition was away to Limerick in 2017 - oddly, the county never came out on top in its precursor, the Waterford Crystal Cup - but, win or lose on Saturday night, Cork manager Kieran Kingston can take positives from his first few weeks back in charge.
In the group-stage wins over Kerry and Waterford, 28 different players were used while another eight made their season bows in Tuesday night's one-point loss in the Canon O'Brien Cup against a UCC team that had a few Cork stars in its ranks.
Kingston answers the question as to whether there will be further additions to the panel elsewhere on this page, but of those blooded, it's likely we will see more of Courcey Rovers' Seán Twomey, whose long-range point-taking was a feature of his performances against Kerry and Waterford, while Ryan Walsh of Kanturk has done enough to suggest he will be given a chance to show his wares at midfield on a bigger stage.
Dromtarriffe's Conor O'Callaghan, fresh from last year's Under 20 campaign, may find the traffic heavy in the battle for defensive places this year, but he will nevertheless benefit from being around the panel while another of that intake, Midleton's Tommy O'Connell, could slot straight into contention in attack.
It's unlikely that Kingston and his management team of Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Ger Cunningham and Pat Mulcahy ever considered making wholesale changes to the panel - while last year was disappointing, with three defeats in six championship games, it didn't mean that Cork had become a bad team overnight.
The previous two seasons give a better indication of Cork's standing - close to an All-Ireland, but in need of a few positive tweaks as well as building a deeper squad. Kingston and his backroom and ancillary staff will be well aware of the task and winning or losing on Saturday won't change that to any great degree.
Nevertheless, winning is a habit and the players on the fringes will want to show that they can be relied upon on bigger occasions. Doing well here would be a good start.
Kingston pleased with games even if Fitzgibbon causes certain problems
Cork hurling manager Kieran Kingston expects a tough test from Limerick in Saturday night's Co-Op Superstores Munster HL final at the LIT Gaelic Grounds (7.30pm).
Wins over Kerry and Waterford have earned Cork a spot in the decider - which will go straight to penalties if level at the end of 70 minutes - and Kingston is happy that the challenge will be a good step up compared to what the team has faced to date.
"Limerick are going well in this competition and they're trying out a lot of players too," he says.
"They have a nice blend and they wouldn't have the same numbers involved with the colleges as we would, we have a very young squad. They're going well, so it's a much bigger challenge than we've faced, but it gives these lads the chance to play at another level, which is good for their development.
"It goes up another notch for the league and then again for the championship. This time of year, the game is slower and the ball is dead, it's a very different game in some ways."
Back in charge after two years away, overall Kingston has been encouraged by what he has seen.
"In the main, we have been pleased," he says.
"Training has gone well and the reaction of the lads has been good, training this time of year is winter training. We were happy with the Kerry and Waterford games, but we were disappointed with how we did against UCC on Tuesday night [O'Brien Cup].
"I know a lot of our players were playing with them and whatever, but at the same time I thought our performance wasn't at the level it should have been. Overall, the extra games we've been getting give us an opportunity to get game-time into senior players.
"Cork have been out of the championship since July and some of them are out of the club championship since around then too, so they need games. Secondly, you need to get young lads accustomed to senior inter-county, which is very different to underage, especially with Under 20, the gap to senior is bigger now.
"It's helping us to give them senior games, which is great."
One complication this weekend is the fact that the Fitzgibbon Cup commences on Sunday, meaning that the Kingston is shorn of the services of a number of players.
"We have 21 guys involved with college hurling," he says, "and that's a huge challenge for us this weekend.
"We're playing Limerick on Saturday night and the Fitzgibbon Cup starts on Sunday, so none of those players are available to us, which isn't ideal. It's an opportunity to see other players, though.
"Two players on our panel, Deccie Dalton and Ger Millerick, are still involved with Fr O'Neills and we have a few out with long-term injuries, such as Christopher Joyce, Mark Ellis, Robert Downey, Stephen McDonnell and Alan Cadogan.
"We haven't had an opportunity to get game-time into them yet but at least we have Colm Spillane back after a long time out."
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Sri Lanka ODIs is Siddharth Kaul.
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One of the new faces that the Indian selectors have picked for Sri Lanka ODIs is Siddharth Kaul. The Right arm medium fast bowler who plays for Punjab n first class Cricket and for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League has been a consistent performer in domestic circuit in all forms of the game and has finally been able to catch the eyes of the national selectors.
Kaul has made a lot of improvements in his bowling of late. He was earlier known only for his bowling with the new ball as he didn’t have a lot of pace to make an impact with the old ball too. But in the last 12 to 18 months, he has added a couple of yards to his pace and has started bowling different lengths.
Continue reading 'Sri Lanka ODIs is Siddharth Kaul.'»
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KL Rahul back in action after Illness Recovery
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KL Rahul is going to be brought back into action straightaway after his recovery from illness in spite of the decent performances of the two Indian openers who had played in Galle.
One of the openers Shikhar Dhawan had actually been named the player of the match there, while the other one Abhinav Mukund had also scored 80 odd in the second innings.
So it was believed that it would be quite tough for Virat and the Indian team management to drop any of them going ahead in the series.
But, Virat while addressing the press prior to the start of the Colombo test stressed that Rahul’s consistency in the past couldn’t be overlooked.
Virat reckons that it’s important to give a player a sense of security about his position in the XI especially if he has done well over a period of time.
If somebody loses form and subsequently loses his position, that’s okay, but, he shouldn’t lose his position because of external factors like injuries or illness. Continue reading 'KL Rahul back in action after Illness Recovery'»
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Anil Kumble says Weather can Destroy game in Caribbean
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Anil Kumble does not believe that the weather prediction should influence the game plan of a team at all as there is no guarantee for the prediction to be true and if the game plan is based on that, the team might end up having to pay a big cost for it.
Kumble says the prediction for the third day in Jamaica said that it would be pelting down throughout the morning and the afternoon and hardly any play would be possible. But, it turned out to be fairly sunny and a number of overs were bowled. So, how can one be sure that the prediction for the following day would be bang on?
As per Kumble, India was aiming to get as much ahead of the score of the Caribbean team as possible and that’s why, the declaration came late and if the heavens had not opened up at a wrong time on Tuesday when the hosts were in tatters having lost four of the top order players, the momentum could have led to India taking some more wickets and finishing the game off on that very day. Continue reading 'Anil Kumble says Weather can Destroy game in Caribbean'»
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Indian Cricket fraternity Unhappy with Steve’s Let Off by ICC
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By index, April 30, 2017 9:22 am
The Indian Cricket fraternity is totally unhappy with the fact that Steve Smith has been let go for something which perhaps deserved a ban of a couple of matches.
Smith had defended himself on the DRS controversy saying that his action was not a part of any planning. It was just a momentary thing which happened in a flow and he realized almost instantly thereafter that it was wrong, but, it was not deliberate for sure.
His opposite number Virat Kohli was, however, not ready to accept that clarification and with his statements, he gave the impression that he thought Smith was lying in front of the media.
As per Virat, he could have believed Smith if he had not seen Australia do something like that before, but, he had actually noted the same thing during his batting as well whenever there was a close umpiring decision and he had even made the umpires aware of his suspicion. And then seeing it the next day again, it’s now hard for him to agree that it would have happened in the heat of the moment for Smith. Continue reading 'Indian Cricket fraternity Unhappy with Steve’s Let Off by ICC'»
INDIA IN STRONG START TO FIRST INNINGS IN BID TO REPLY ENGLAND’S 400
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By index, January 22, 2017 2:30 pm
The third day of the fourth test, played at the Wankhede Stadium last week Saturday, saw Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara, share a century stand as India started out strong in reply to England’s total of 400 on Friday, the second day of the fourth test played at the Wankhede Stadium.
After Lokesh Rahul had fallen following an opening stand of 39 with Vijay, the right handed pair added 107 runs for the second wicket.
From both ends after seven overs, Alastair Cook, England’s captain introduced spin which saw a considerable turn on over from Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali.
In his 24, Rahul went on to hit four crisp boundaries, before Moeen, off spinner, breached his defences to bowl him.
Twice, Vijay mis-hit Rashid, with the ball landing safely beyond the reach of the fielders on the two occasions. And over the long-off boundary, the opener hit the leg spinner for six. Continue reading 'INDIA IN STRONG START TO FIRST INNINGS IN BID TO REPLY ENGLAND’S 400'»
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No Film School Podcast: Making a Movie On Your Own
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Filmmaker Parker Smith had never made a feature film before his debut “Ramblin’ Freak” played at SXSW a few weeks ago. And while the concept of first time filmmakers playing at top festivals is certainly not unheard of, try screening at SXSW with a feature documentary you made entirely on your own. A film school drop out with a remarkable vision, Parker Smith sat down with No Film School during the festival to offer up advice to new filmmakers on how to make a movie…entirely on your own. Watch the trailer for “Ramblin’ Freak”, Smith’s doc about seeking out legendary bodybuilder Gregg Valentino, below and then head over to No Film School to take a listen to his exclusive interview!
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If you are in anyway associated with the film industry, you know without a doubt: making a movie is hard. Besides money, ideas and resources, one of the most important ingredients to have to be successful is creativity. And if you have no confidence in your creative abilities? Well, get ready to make a hard task even more impossible. Need a confidence boost? Check out No Film School’s list of ways to get your creative mojo back. From owning your failures to joining a community, there’s always a way to get your groove back!
No Film School: Indie Films and the Three-Act Structure
After an inspiring week of watching innovative new indie films throughout the second annual Indie Street Film Festival in Red Bank, NJ, as a film lover, it seems only natural to keep thinking about what make or breaks a film. No Film School is here to help! Their recent opinion piece breaks down the three-act story structure we've come to recognize (and expect) in films and discusses whether this formula is helping or destroying what the concept of indie film actually offers to the world. Expand your thoughts on the subject matter and head over to No Film School to learn more!
No Film School’s 17 Indies to See This Summer
No Film SchoolLists of Cool
Going by the calendar: It’s not quite summer yet. Going by the weather: Which way to the beach?! I must get there stat! Either way you look at it, the season of sun, sand and good times is upon us! Enjoying the hot weather goes hand in hand with also enjoying the relief of a darn good AC. If you’re looking to beat the heat this summer, get inside a frosty, cool movie theater and check out No Film School’s 17 indie films that are total must-sees over the next few months. From horror films like IT COMES AT NIGHT to highly anticipated romcoms like THE BIG SICK, there’s pretty much a cinematic sun escape for everyone this year!
Does Unhappiness Drive Creativity?
So, you fancy yourself an artist, eh? A real tortured soul? Fighting against a world that just doesn’t understand you or your special brand of creativity? Whether that’s you to a T or not at all, the classic idea of the pessimistic, unhappy artist is definitely a stereotype we’ve all come to know. And Simon Cade of DSLRguide has created a video titled "Why Artists Are Never Happy" that shows this may not be such a bad cliché to fit into as a creator. Cade's suggestion? That the unhappiness and discontentment that come from failing to capture a certain artistic vision is the actual spark that ignites an artist's creativity. Watch the video below and then check out No Film School’s breakdown of Cade's logic. Now, go ask yourself, how can YOU fight against the pressures of perfectionism and make your work even better?
How to Find an Audience for Your Film
So you’ve made a film. Congrats! Now you need to get some eyes on it...pronto. Knowing how to identify and find an audience for your creation is one of the most important steps in a distribution campaign. No Film School & Christopher Rufo see the importance in finding a passionate audience and break down how to do it in 5 simple steps. From focusing on finding the smallest group possible (ironically, a great idea!) to creating mailing lists, check out how to maximize your film’s exposure by heading over to No Film School now!
No Film School: Starting a Production Company & More!
Want to start a production company from scratch but don’t know where to start? David Ethan Shapiro, CEO of Starlight Studios, and Jacob Schulsinger, film editor, sat down with No Film School and discussed their latest film, "Come Swim", the merits of film school and how to start a production company from your own bedroom. Check out No Film School’s podcast now!
Paul Trillo on How to Pull Off a One Take Drone Short
Drone. Aerial Footage. One take. One man’s total mental and emotional breakdown on film. Sound enticing? You better believe this suburban neighborhood drama is as good as it sounds. Imagined by the consistently impressive director Paul Trillo, this latest Vimeo Staff Pick, “At the End of the Cul-de-Sac”, is a mind-blowing feat of production work. Meticulous pre-production planning and overcoming daunting post-production challenges didn’t keep Trillo from delivering a one take drone shot short of epic proportions. Head to No Film School to read up on an interview with the director and to get an idea of the amount of work that goes into pulling off an entire short film as one continuous drone shot. And stay tuned for our mini-review of the short film later this week!
How to Adapt Your Short Into a Feature
Dying to adapt your pretty stellar short film into a feature? Are your friends tired of hearing you constantly talk about it? Think maybe it’s time to do something about all those dreams of yours? Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, directors of SXSW stand-out “The Strange Ones”, did just that. They adapted their short film of the same name into a successful feature that just screened at SXSW. Rumors are that it’s kinda darn good. Want to get insight on how to adapt YOUR short into a future award-winning feature? Read Wolkstein and Radcliff’s interview with No Film School and start getting inspired!
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Women of '17 Sundance Discuss the Future of Indie Film
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Yesterday, a new president. Today, a women’s march. What a time to then be in the snowy depths of Sundance Film Festival, where passionate people are celebrating a medium of storytelling. Think of all of the discussions that the independent film communities are currently having regarding their roles in the future - how they can become an even more driven, powerful force in delivering the messages we need. In light of the nationwide (heck, even worldwide) marches happening today, No Film School asked 5 female filmmakers with films at Sundance this year where they see the future of indie film. The result? Five totally different perspectives. This a total must read, so check out the full article via No Film School now!
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Philip Roper
Phil started Indigo Ross from his parents study in 1995 – yes, he is that old! Having worked in print sales he noticed a niche for a high quality service driven business and hence Indigo Ross was born. Now celebrating 25 years in business, he has a fabulous team and is looking forward to many more years to come….although hopefully not 25!
He was never designed to sit behind a desk and is an outside person at heart, so at weekends you will normally find him throwing himself around the countryside on his offroad motorcycle, mountain biking or skiing in the winter.
Trevor Cresswell
Delivery Driver / Finisher
Fancying a change from double glazing, Trevor decided to take up a new career in 2019 and we’re certainly grateful for it. He makes sure that our print jobs are finished to the highest standards and you’ll often find him driving around in the Indigo Ross vans making deliveries to our local customers.
Trevor is also a history buff and you’ll find him out and about on history walks at the weekend or just enjoying the Suffolk countryside, that’s when he’s not watching the football with a pint.
Gordon Harvey
Our clients just love Gordon. If you are lucky enough to have him on your projects, expect 25-years of design experience absorbed into your work. Branding and brochure design are Gordon’s strengths and with his London agency experience, he really does know how to get the core of a company’s brand.
Despite having worked on thousands of company campaigns, his proudest moment is coming runner-up in the Blue Peter Prince of Wales Picture of Health competition. He still has the badge, although he doesn’t wear it to work anymore.
When he isn’t designing, he enjoys DIY and curries, though thankfully not at the same time.
Lewis Wells
Lewis has been working in print since he joined our team 15 years ago. Trained by two very experienced printers and now leading our production team, Lewis is a real perfectionist and ensures that every job leaving the building is produced to the very highest quality.
In his spare time. Lewis can usually be found watching Tottenham Hotspur but he also loves his bikes and cars, which is good news for our Indigo Decals customers. He’s probably the smartest member of the office and is always clean-shaven, probably due to his inability to grow facial hair!
Melissa Frost
Melissa joined us in 2013 and is a very important cog in the Indigo Ross machine. From invoicing to helping out with the print jobs, she knows the business inside out.
In her spare time, Melissa also loves the thrill of riding motorbikes but also loves spending time with her growing family, especially her grandchildren. Just like the Queen, Melissa enjoys two birthdays, but we think the similarities end there.
Scott Meekings
Highly talented and obsessed with code, Scott is our lead web designer. Scott’s passion for websites started back in college and he certainly has seen a lot of change in his career. Always, up to date with the latest development in search engine optimisation, Scott creates sites that work hard for our clients with the perfect blend of design and function.
Outside of the world of the web, Scott enjoys packing in as much entertainment as possible, enjoying football, ice hockey, BTCC racing and gigs. He is very proud that YMCA was number one when he was born; this doesn’t reflect on his dancing ability.
Carl Lawrence
Carl joined the Indigo Ross team in 2005. Now heading up operations, Carl brings 18 years of print and design experience to our growing team. Design is in Carl’s blood as he followed his Dad into this career, becoming interested in design at school.
Little did we know… Carl used to be an avid horse rider, but he’s swapped horses for a much faster car obsession. In his spare time, you’ll find Carl behind the wheel or watching movies….probably about cars.
Rachel Whitehart
Graphic Designer/Digital Printer
Rachel joined our team in 2008, straight after completing her Foundation Studies Degree in Art & Design. Rachel has a real flair for design and brings her creativity to every job, extending her graphics ability to create stunning digital print.
Her talents don’t stop at work. At home, Rachel spends much of her time drawing, reading or planning her latest tattoo. As well as being impressed with her work, we are also in awe of the amount of tea that she can down in a day.
Adrian Byham
Digital Printer / Finisher
Adrian has been with us for 10 years, since deciding to have a career change. Supporting Lewis in print production, Adrian runs some of our most technical and expensive equipment and is a specialist in all print finishing techniques.
Adrian is also our history buff and a real-life Indiana Jones, hunting for fossils at the weekend. Never bored and always busy, Adrian also enjoys genealogy, archery, woodwork and photography. His claim to fame is being the proud owner of a 25-million-year-old fossil.
James Nott
James brings over 11 years of experience in industry-leading design. Our clients are often blown away by James’s creativity and his ability to conjure up unique branding concepts.
When he’s not dreaming up new logos, James is often out powerboating and travelling. We think his need for adventure might have started from birth; he was so eager to get out in the world that he was born three months premature. Although he does sometimes relax too by baking and gardening. He’s probably the most flexible member of the team thanks to being a bit of pro at yoga.
Wendy Meekings
With a staggering 38 years in the design and print industry, Wendy first became hooked on graphics during her art college foundation year. Wendy is a true artist and this is reflected in her highly creative work and attention to detail. We were really pleased to have Wendy join our team when we acquired Deltaprint in 2018.
In her spare time, Wendy enjoys linocut printmaking, taking her inspiration from long walks in the country.
Lindsay Simpson
Print Finisher
Leaving her career in motorbike sales, Lindsay joined the team in 2018 as a print finisher. Working alongside Adrian and Lewis, Lindsay takes real pride in a job well done and often works on our bespoke and specialised print jobs.
When she’s not at work, you’ll find her walking her dog or in a restaurant enjoying some fine dining. Following the Indigo Ross team theme, she is another petrol head and a big fan of MotoGP. Her biggest claim to fame is meeting David Beckham and being on Mastermind, although not at the same time.
Ben Cooper
Junior Graphic Designer
We’re really proud to have the talented and very creative Ben as part of our team. Ben is working with us part-time whilst also completing his Graphic Design degree at the University of Suffolk.
Design isn’t Ben’s only passion; at the weekends you’ll find him heading to the coast for a spot of wakeboarding or surfing and then taking it easy on his X-Box.
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'This Person Does Not Exist' Has Spawned a Host of A.I.-Powered Copycats
By Danny Paez
Filed Under Innovation, Computers, Google & Reddit
Last week, the internet stood in awe of the artificial intelligence-powered website This Person Does Not Exist that generates lifelike portraits of completely made-up people. The site was created by 33-year-old software engineer Phillip Wang, who tells Inverse it has been visited more than 4 million times since he first posted it online on February 11. It was only a matter of time, then, that its popularity prompted Wang to create a sister site, titled This Cat Does Not Exist.
Much like his original page, the copycats are all based on Nvidia’s StyleGAN algorithm published in December of last year. The program is a special kind of A.I. algorithm known as a generative adversarial network (GAN) that can be trained using hundreds of thousands of images to create its own renditions of whatever images you’ve fed it. To make his first, ahem, copycat site, Wang simply gave StyleGAN images of felines instead of humans.
“I [made] that because some kids on Reddit wanted to pay me for it [but] I told them I’d do it for free,” he explains. “The generator isn’t really good [but] with a bigger net and better training data, we could have infinite cats and dogs too.”
The Generative Adversarial Network behind 'This Person Does Not Exist' has already inspired copycats.
In other words, it’s a rush job that’s less refined than Wang’s than the GAN which first captured so much attention. Wang trained the Nvidia algorithm using completely random cat pictures, which included memes, outdoor shots, indoor photos, and various environmental changes that affect the quality of the final image. With a cleaner dataset — a more consistent one which features cat portraits and cat portraits only — the A.I. could generate even more scarily high-quality kitty pics.
But perhaps more interestingly, the algorithm’s replicability has since inspired other computer scientists to create versions of their own, including one StyleGAN which creates fake Airbnb listings and one that creates anime characters.This Airbnb Does Not Exist and This Waifu Does Not Exist. The Airbnb version, in particular, is the most chilling (whether you’ve stayed in one or not).
“None of the pictures, nor the text, came directly from the real world,” writes Google software engineer Christopher Schmidt. “The listing titles, the descriptions, the picture of the host, even the pictures of the rooms: They are all fevered dreams of computers.”
Every time the page is refreshed, StyleGAN creates five images of a imaginary room along with a pretty coherent description from its (also fake) AirBnb host. While the overall depiction is a bit clunkier, and less refined, than the original script first released by Wang, they do illustrate the wide range of artificiality StyleGAN’s are already capable of. The gap between fake and real, whether you’re talking about a headshot or an advertisement, grows ever-thinner.
Media via This Person Does Not Exist, This Cat Does Not Exist / Phillip Wang
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Areas to invest
The Food and Drink sector in Asturias
ICT and Creative Industries
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Advanced materials and nano-technology
Glencore to invest 100M euros in a new plant in Asturias
Posted On 30 October, 2019 By Invest in Asturias In metal, What EN /
News written by: Invest in Asturias - IDEPA
The Swiss multinational will build a state-of-the-art warehouse in the Asturiana de Zinc industrial site in San Juan de Nieva
The investment ensures a bright future for one of the most outstanding success stories of companies with foreign capital established in Asturias
The Swiss multinational Glencore will invest 100M euros in the modernization of the industrial site that its subsidiary Asturiana de Zinc, S.A. (AZSA) has in San Juan de Nieva (Castrillón, Asturias), which employs almost 800 workers.
Specifically, Glencore foresees the construction of a new electrolysis plant that will replace two of the current ones. Electrolysis is one of the final processes in the production of electrolytic zinc.
With this spectacular investment, Glencore, dedicated to the exploitation of natural resources, seeks to improve the efficiency of its production process from a technological and environmental point of view. It will do so by incorporating digital processes and Industry 4.0 in the new warehouse. This is a framework in which Asturias advances through its Industry 4.0 Programme on the road to the fourth industrial revolution.
The company acquired AZSA in 2013 and has never stopped investing in the modernization of its facilities, becoming one of the most outstanding success stories of companies with foreign capital established in Asturias. The construction of the new electrolysis plant will be carried out mostly with the company’s own resources and with the support of local companies.
Global leaders in zinc production
Glencore is one of the world’s leading zinc producers. The industrial site that Asturiana de Zinc has in San Juan de Nieva is also one of the largest and most efficient in the zinc sector in the world (with a production of more than 500,000 tonnes in 2018) thanks to the development of its own technology.
The zinc business is living a golden era thanks to the universalisation of the galvanising process, which is its main use, with the automobile and construction sectors as its main markets. With the incoming generalization of battery manufacturing for electric vehicles, the future looks bright, because according to some experts, zinc is positioned as the electric fuel of the future.
Asturias explores ways of business with the big players in the offshore wind sector
XXVIII Business Forum: Asturias, a place to invest
Green industry, innovation, talent and institutional support, key to attract investments to Asturias
Asturias, an integral partner for the offshore wind industry
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Vocus launches Indonesia link for Australia-Singapore cable
Vocus Communications has officially launched the submarine cable between Australia and Singapore in Indonesia with partner company XL Axiata.
The two companies say Monday’s launch in Indonesia celebrated the strategic and economic opportunities the cable will deliver for Indonesia as a key landing point on the ASC route from Australia to Singapore.
Attendees at the launch included the Indonesian Minister of Communications and IT, Rudiantara, Alcatel Submarine Network president Phillipe Piron, XL Axiata chief executive Dian Siswarini and Vocus Group chairman Vaughan Bowen.
“The ASC network has been designed specifically with Indonesia in mind, providing the geographic diversity required to support Indonesia’s critical information infrastructure,” said Bowen.
“Through Vocus’ transmission network and long-term capacity rights with trans-Pacific cable systems, the ASC will provide the missing link connecting Asian customers to global internet and cloud content located in the US via an alternative Great Southern Route. Indonesia is soon to be a key hub in the middle of these traffic flows, rather than an end-point of the region’s fibre optic networks.”
Vocus says forecasts suggest that Indonesia’s GDP is set to grow dramatically between 2016 and 2030, meaning the new digital trade corridors established by the ASC are critical to enabling infrastructure to support and sustain this growth.
“We are acutely aware of the growing trade and dependence between Australia and Indonesia,” says Bowen.
“In the recently released Australian Government Foreign Policy White Paper it was noted that Indonesia is of first order importance to Australia, both as a major bilateral partner and as a country that will influence the shape of the regional order.
“ASC establishes a modern, world-class system that utilises latest generation technology and equipment to provide a flexible, dependable, high performance network that’s purpose-designed for the future.”
Siswarini outlined a set of key benefits for her market, including “the availability of high capacity, high reliability international bandwidth which will enable XL Axiata customers to enjoy this luxury, including corporate, Government and Internet Service Provider customers in Indonesia”.
Piron said: “ASN is involved in several initiatives aiming to manage traffic growth and meet multi-terabit capacity demands globally and regionally. The ASC system is a building block of these initiatives and this project further strengthens the collaboration developed over the years, initially with Nextgen and now with Vocus.”
The $170-million-dollar project, owned by Vocus, will link Australia with Singapore and Indonesia. Manufacturing work is nearing completion. The cable is being made in Calais, France, by Alcatel Submarine Networks.
On the other side of the English Channel, the company is finishing work on the repeaters at a factory in Greenwich in the UK. Once the cable and repeaters are ready, ASN will assemble them at the Calais site.
The other two-thirds of the assembled cable is to be transferred from ship to ship in January near Christmas Island. From there, a second cable laying vessel, the Ile de Batz, will lay the cable as it travels south from Christmas Island to Perth. The Ile de Re will start in Singapore and head south to Christmas Island.
Graphic: courtesy Vocus
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Dr James M. Hatch
and other thoughts
Karate and Kobudo
For those not familiar with the research of Patrick McCarthy into Karate and Kobudo you may find the following links helpful - highly recommend all:
RKRS Facebook
Patrick McCarthy Facebook
IRKRS Youtube
IRKRS Blog
Also for excellent books by Joe Swift and Mario McKenna - check out their pages at : http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/joeswift and http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bechurinatgmaildotcom respectively!
Leadership Models and International Schools
Coming as I did from a grounding in the Ontario Public education system, I was quite surprised to see the variety of models of leadership employed at International schools. Specifically, I was initially taken aback at the explicit criticism often directed at Principals/Heads of School by the faculty. Indeed the questioning of decisions even after they had become policy and their belief in an ongoing agency to negotiate such policy was new to me. It made me rethink my accepted models of leadership. What follows in the coming weeks will be parts of an essay I wrote for Mike Fertig at the University of Bath as a few years back. As it is rather long, I shall post in segments. The first instalment sets the field with an academic overview of what do we mean by educational leadership?
As we prepare to enter the third decade of the the twenty-first century, many new agents are at play, creating a need to rethink traditional paradigms. Aging populations in first world nations progressively scrutinized public spending and especially publicly funded organizations. Increasingly, free markets economies through the forces of globalisation, have not only increased global trade but also increased the number of transient workers. Unprecedented access to information that the Internet has permitted has aided in the democratization of knowledge. Not surprisingly, as such forces interact, societies look to secure their future and, in particular, the future of their children. Education has become a central concern for nations and citizens as they seek to make sense of the global changes. New curricula, standards based assessment, and efficiency of spending has begun to enter the lexicon of educational debate. Arguably, no area has received greater interest than the field of educational leadership. After all, it is these very leaders who are to ensure children are prepared to become effective participants in the new global paradigm. Or are they? Are traditional educational leadership models outdated and no-longer effective in dealing with new forces and expectations at play within schools? Or are these traditional models tested and true and thus guarantee past success will continue? The central question thus is: what constitutes effective school leadership? While an exploration of all literature within this field is impossible, a healthy sampling reveals the existence of two main schools of thought in educational leadership: principle-centred and leadership-team centred. Through an exploration of the major tenets within each of these schools of thought, and an assessment of how these theories compared to actual practice, what emerges is they offer viable insights into the dilemmas and challenges leaders must address in serving and leading educational communities.
Before we begin, it is necessary to identify some key terms. Those who are assigned the role of leading schools are known by various titles within private, public and international school sectors. For our purposes we shall call this central person the principal. Additionally confounding, is the idea of leadership. Again for our purposes, leadership entails those administrative, leadership and vision activities that enable schools to create effective learning environments. Lastly, the notion of ‘effective’ varies from society to society as well as between and within schools. What needs to be explored are those leadership attitudes, practices and formats that best suit the context of the school and lead to effective decisions and actions being undertaken. Thus, herein effective means effectiveness of leadership format. Finally while there are no actual educational schools of thought that define themselves as principal-centred and leadership team-centred, these are terms we shall use to embrace a wide spectrum of theories that share commonalities. Principal-centred theories are those that perceive the principal as the central agent leading a school towards increased effectiveness; team-centred theories are those that suggest the school is most effectively guided by the work and co-operation of teams with a shared agency and responsibility.
International Education: Policy, power and sense-making
What follows is part of an abstract I wrote back in 2010 for work I was undertaking as part of my EdD studies at the University of Bath, under the guidance of Professor Hugh Lauder. I share it here to help ground what I see as a confusion in intentional schools between what constitutes policy and what constitutes practice. From my experience most of these schools confuse or interchangeably uses these terms. This is most likely a result of their situated ness outride of local educational bodies. I do hope this post proves thought provoking. I have included citations to help with identifying key ideas and thinkers within the field.
“Access”, “Meritocracy”, “Parental Choice”, “Market Economy” are sampling of the catch phrases which abound within education policy over the past four decades as calls for, and encouragement of education democratisation formed the bulk of education reform (Brown, 1990). Ironically coinciding with these calls has been recognition of a growing gap in access to quality education– a gap that is evident both intra and inter national (CfBT Trust 2007), the ‘McKinsey report’, 2007., Lauder et.al. 2011., Lauder and Brown 2001., Tooley 2009., Hirsch 1977 and Collins 1977). Indeed a whole new industry, such as that spearheaded by PISA, has developed which seeks to support stakeholders insure that their young are educated on par with their global counterparts.
Adding complexity to this educational are a new global transient workforce whose skills and knowledge are in such demand that they often live abroad for a protracted period of time only to find that when they return to their host country it may no longer meet their or their children’s needs. Partially in response to these global transients international schools have also shown dramatic growth rates since the 1960’s. While a concise definition of what constitutes an international school is still emergent (Lauder, 2007; Hayden and Thompson, 2000; Gellar, 2002) what is clear is firstly that their on-going growth appears to show little sign of abating as globalisation itself continues to expand and secondly that many of these school operate beyond the educational authority of their host countries. However, such schools have been little explored in relation to their access. While most of these schools claim to promote such universal values as peace (Thomas, 1998), global-mindedness (Allen, 2000; Thompson 1998) and capitalism (Cambridge, 2002) only one study, Wilkinson (1998), explicitly studies access to and concluded they were “very much… the privilege of the rich ” (Wilkinson, 1998, p. 234).
Bourdieu (1984), Foucault (1975), Freire (2005), Brown and Lauder (1998), Weiner (1994), Kumar (1995) and Codd (1988) are but a few of the notable names questioning the traditional rational technocratic/empiricist approach to policy analysis and understanding. While drawing upon various disciplines and epistemes, critics note that policies are rooted in the language, discursive spaces and time/space continuum in which they are constructed and as such are not normatively neutral. Therefore, to understand policy is necessary to not only explore what is said, but how it is understood and enacted; to broaden the discursive lens so it includes statement to praxis in an effort to create a coherent sense-making event.
Policy is the result of a determination which is open to input and will change depending on the time/space in which it is created, in other words policy is more than its stated content, it is a living entity (Codd, 1988; Lasswell, 1955; Gordon et al. 1977; Bourdieu and Passerson, 1977; Popkewitz, 1997; Brown and Lauder 200) and as such carries both explicit and implicit assumptions and aims. Policy therefore has at its core etic and emic actualisations wherein power relations are created and those assigned the policy enactment roles serve as gatekeepers not only to implementation but also to a membership. It is this power-relation enactment and sense making attempts of gatekeepers that the present study is grounded
Karate: A nice video by Iain Abernethy who has some wonderful, progressive ideas on the interpretations of kata!
So I will share thoughts, reflections and research under the following headings:
KoRyu Budo (Iaido, Shuriken, Jojitsu)
Arts (mostly written)
That way will help keep items organized and easy to read until I learn to use the blog more effectively. Most of the research I will share will be sure to include citations as a core goal of this blog is to inform but also to point the way for further investigation. This is particularly of importance under the above as too often discussions slip into personal opinion or unsubstantiated claims presented uncritically. Hopefully, the blog will serve as a springboard for those interested to read, think, research and discuss pertinent issues more deeply. Questions always welcome. Life is a mixture of art and discursive space.
Welcome to my blog. Here is space where I delve into items that matter to me - especially around notions of education, intercultural competencies and 'global-mindedness'. Often I will chat about these items based on research, but at other times, I will also use the vehicle of Japanese martial arts to share ideas and insights. Two-roads crossing. As 'Uncle' Walt Whitman stated 'if I contradict myself, I contradict myself for I am immense'. Anyway, let's see how this blogging lark goes!
James M. Hatch
International Educator who happens to be passionate about Chito Ryu Karate. Born in Ireland, educated in Canada, matured in Japan
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“Activism is top of Venice Biennale’s agenda,” By Gareth Harris, Javier Pes
Mark Bradford speaking about his project Tomorrow Is Another Day at the US pavillon at the 57th Biennale Arte in Venice, Italy. (Image: Awakening/Getty Images)
“Activism is top of Venice Biennale’s agenda”
‘Mark Bradford is among artists using the event to spread humanitarian message’
By Gareth Harris, Javier Pes
The Los Angeles-based artist, Mark Bradford, who is the toast of the Venice Biennale for his US pavilion, delivered on Thursday (11 May) a masterclass in making the art world part of the real world. He said that if you want to work with people facing real hardship, you really have to “listen and be prepared to write the check” for what “they want”, with the stress on the word “they”. Puncturing pretensions, he criticised those seeking a “photo-op” at others’ expense. Bradford was speaking at an event organised during the Biennale’s preview week by Pamela Joyner, a leading US philanthropist and collector of his work, and other African-American abstractionists.
The talk was moderated by Katy Siegel, the co-curator of Bradford’s exhibition, Tomorrow is Another Day, which turns the ideologically loaded space of the neo-classical US pavilion on its head. Forget ivory tower, or Camelot, think grotto and Greek myths meets the scrappy street life of South Los Angeles.
Back home in America, Bradford’s activism includes Art + Practice, a project he co-founded, which provides access to art and support to young people in foster care among others in his local community. Meanwhile, in Venice he has backed a shop where prisoners can sell the products they make in partnership with a local co-operative, Rio Terà dei Pensieri. It will stay open long after the Biennale closes in November—Process Collettivo is a six-year project—as the artist has invested in it for the long-term. Institutions have a responsibility to put others’ needs first he said, particularly when working with local communities “used to being exploited”.
Another leading artist, the Mexico-based, Belgian artist Francis Alys, is showing paintings, drawings and a film produced on the front line in Mosul last year at the Iraq pavilion in the Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti. Alys spent time meeting refugees of the conflict as well documenting a Kurdish battalion’s campaign to liberate Iraq’s second city from Isis. Why take on the role of a war artist? This war is “medieval barbarism perpetrated and spread with the most modern of technologies”, Alys recently told Artforum. The Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation, the pavilion commissioner, also invited Alys on a research trip last year to refugee camps in northern Iraq where he held a series of workshops.
Francis Alys, Untitled Mosul Iraq, 31 Oct 2016
Numerous national pavilions, works of art in Viva Arte Viva, the main show of the 57th Venice Biennale and its collateral exhibitions aim to raise awareness about people facing hardship and exploitation. In a contentious move, the Tunisian pavilion (The Absence of Paths) is issuing “freesas”—fictional travel documents permitting freedom of movement worldwide—at three kiosks around the city.
The freesa document points out that the current humanitarian crisis stemming from forced migration across the Middle East and beyond underpins the project. The imitation visas are issued by “aspirational [Tunisian] migrants”, nationals who are expected to return home after the Biennale ends.
There are, meanwhile, around 40 refugees, living in Mestre on the mainland near Venice, who are taking part in Studio Olafur Eliasson and TBA-21’s Green Light project in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini. The initiative is led by the Danish-Icelandic artist who has designed a special lamp for Venice on sale at €250 each (proceeds go towards the project). “It takes two people to create a lamp,” Eliasson told us, stressing that the creative process involves both visitors and refugees who cooperate in making the lamps, getting to know each other a little better.
This is the Biennale that wears its social responsibility on its sleeve, literally. The tote bag to be seen with is printed with the slogan: “Refugee Rights” and on the reverse: “Indigenous Rights”, spreading the message that the Australian artist Tracey Moffatt’s pavilion, My Horizon, refers to both. For Vigil (2017), Moffatt has spliced together shocking photographs of migrants in distress at sea with stills of Hollywood stars’ faces frozen in horror.
The US-Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh is living proof of how a country’s art can benefit from a migrant artist. Hsieh arrived in New York in the late 1970s as an illegal immigrant. As “Sam Hsieh”, the young artist created epic durational performances, such as Manhattan (Outdoor Piece, 1981-82). In Venice, he shows photographs and ephemera documenting the year he wandered homeless around New York. The show includes an installation documenting another year-long performance. For (Time Clock Piece, 1980-81), the artist spent 365 days with limited sleep, punching a time clock every hour. The curator of the Taiwanese pavilion Doing Time Adrian Heathfield, tells us that “Hsieh’s work is a prescient commentary on the statelessness of migrants”.
Biennale Arte 2017: VIVA ARTE VIVA
57th Venice Biennale
May 13 — November 26, 2017
Info: http://bit.ly/2r4nQAf
By Gareth Harris, Javier Pes; Reprint from The Art Newspaper, 12 May 2017, © 2017 The Art Newspaper.
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The Real Reason People Don’t Change Banks
Interesting conversation about switching accounts. I’ve had a few people saying that banks don’t have loyal customers, but they have trapped customers. By way of example, an email from a friend:
I am just exactly as loyal to my bank as they are to me, which is to say not even slightly. I swear to God, if my own experience is anything to go on, I would bet that low churn reflects not so much customer loyalty as customer inertia, and even the word “inertia” doesn’t fully capture it. It’s really more like a dread and fear that unwinding the relationship creates complexity that just feels overwhelming.
It’s like upgrading your laptop in the old days before cloud computing came along. Back then, you back everything up from the old laptop, configure the new one, upload all your stuff from the back-up, and only give up the old one when you’re happy everything works. How often did you upgrade when you had to re-key every single contact person, diary entry, re-download every app and podcast, etc?
The same is the situation when switching banks.
If I were to switch, I would have to manually write down all the account details of all the folks I pay money to regularly, or even irregularly, and then re-enter them all to the new account. That would take ages and if I mis-keyed one digit then all would fail. And it’s not just the regular bill payment details but it’s all the in-bound side, which is a nightmare for me as a small business. My business bank account is what is entered into SAP/Ariba (speaking of business models that really owe more to hostage-taking than to customer service) which links into the all of the systems of my clients. If I changed that bank account, how do I get all my client systems updated?
Why can’t there be a way that an account number at one bank automatically forwards any incoming funds to the new one at the new bank, at least for some reasonable period of time, just as your old work account can automatically forward emails to your personal mail for a while?
The bank that could take away the pain of switching away from the customer and do it all for them, would be the one that everyone would switch to. I’d bet money on it.
Aha! Is this the secret to why so few people switch accounts?
It’s interesting as this came up again in the podcast Money Never Sleeps with Pete Townsend (not the guy from The Who). Pete and Paul Smyth (a coach and recruitment specialist) were debating my blog about Anne Boden’s presentation (founder of Starling Bank). The presentation focused upon seven myths in banking that I claimed were still true, and included the myth that people don’t change bank accounts:
People are switching to Starling, Monzo, Revolut, TransferWise and others for financial service, but are they actually switching accounts? Anne claims they are. When looking at account switching data, the service offered by BACS for easy change of bank account, the numbers are rising year-on-year, but the top three banks making gains are Nationwide, HSBC and NatWest. So yes, people are moving accounts between traditional banks and yes, yes, yes, Monzo and Starling drop in at fourth and fifth places respectively, but the numbers are still low generally. Most people don’t change their bank account. Sure, 919,000 did last year … but that is a lot less than the 50 million who didn’t.
Pete and Paul talked about this and said words to the effect of (12m20s into the podcast):
I can’t wait to change my bank account. I’ve been with one Irish bank for a very long time and looking at the entry of new players coming into Ireland and making a decision as to which one I will move over to. The reason is that my business account reflects my business life and my personal accounts reflect my personal life, and I just want some level of cohesion there. But it’s hard to change a bank account. I’m looking at the list of regular payments in my personal account and trying to work out how to set those up in a new account. It’s hard to do that. I tried to do that with just one – a monthly car insurance payment – and couldn’t do it as the company said they could only take IBANs (bank identifiers) that begin with IE (for Ireland). They wouldn’t let me switch to use my N26 account because it begins with DE (for Germany).
In other words, like my American friend, if you try to change your main bank account then you have to take the responsibility for doing it. You have to be the person writing down all the account numbers and identifiers of all the people you have regular payments with. You then have to manually enter those details in the new account which, if it is not registered on domestic terrain, even with SEPA and passporting, will be very difficult. You are also going to be responsible if any of those account details are wrong and you pay the wrong person, bearing in mind that most banks will make a payment to an account without checking the account name, as that is not possible within their legacy systems structures.
Jeez. No wonder people don’t move. No wonder they leave their accounts festering in the old world and, if they move to the new world, they only move their lifestyle spending. Not their boring old bill payments.
Here’s the catch though. Regulators are sniffing this one. Regulators have realised there’s a bad smell here. Regulators are waking up and saying if you have trapped customers, we will release them.
Note, for example, my mention of the UK account switching service. What is it? A regulation introduced in September 2013. The BACS website described it well enough:
The full switch service, known as the Current Account Switch Service, applies where the customer wants a hassle-free service that automatically transfers all payment arrangements to their new account and closes their existing account. It guarantees that all payments associated with the customer’s old account will be switched to the new account and ready for use with effect from a pre-agreed switch date. Any payments that continue to be made to or collected from the old account will be automatically redirected to the customer’s new account. Redirection will be indefinite for those customers who continue to require it.
Exactly what my American and Irish friends were wishing for.
When the switching service was introduced, it promised to make it hassle-free but the one thing it didn’t do is provide account number portability. This was a wish that some had. The wish was that if I changed provider, I could keep my old account number in the same way as when I change my mobile phone provider, I can keep my old phone number.
Now, for those of us who know this market well, that would be a hard thing for any bank to do as it would mean completely changing core systems. However, it wouldn’t be hard if we were working in modern cloud API structures. It’s more to do with banks’ core systems being hard wired to operate with specific numbers in specific code developed in the 1970s or earlier.
Interestingly, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) did a review of this question two years after account switching was implemented. Section 8 of their report offers ideas of a solution to the issue of account portability but makes no firm recommendations. It is not necessarily a big requirement however, as 65% of retail customers and 60% of business customers claim it would not make them more likely to switch, according to the FCA’s research. Nevertheless, this issue crops up regularly – just do a search for ‘account number portability’, better known as ANP – and you will see, but the industry is loathe to follow this route due to the cost overhead.
All in all, it is intriguing how switching your bank provider is a big issue. No wonder most people stay with their bank for twice as long as their lover and, even when they can change bank in a hassle-free way, they don’t. I say this as, since the 2013 launch of account switching in the UK which makes this easy, there’s only around one million people changing bank provider each year. That’s about two percent of the total number of accounts out there. In other words, 98% of bank customers don’t bother switching … even when they can and it’s easy, simple and hassle-free. Ah well, that really is a truism and not a myth.
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Finn McRedmond: ‘Build more houses’ a better slogan for Fine Gael
Party seems to believe opting for unmemorable message is better than being memorable for wrong reasons
Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 00:46
Finn McRedmond
Minster for European Affairs Helen McEntee during the launch of the Fine Gael general election campaign. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
On May 8th, 2015, Britain woke up to a surprise Conservative majority, and the end to the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition years.
Fine Gael were clearly impressed by David Cameron’s campaign, majoring on economic progress and a long-term plan with the slogan: “Let’s stay together on a road to a stronger economy.”
In June that year Fine Gael strategists met Conservative counterparts in London. On February 2nd, 2016 Enda Kenny revealed Fine Gael’s slogan for the 2016 general election in Ireland: “Let’s keep the recovery going.” The similarities are hard to put down to sheer coincidence .
But Fine Gael’s slogan was roundly criticised: it focused on the recovery in the abstract, with little acknowledgment for the human stories; it failed to recognise that many hadn’t yet felt the effects of this so-called recovery; recovery? What recovery?
Jeremy Corbyn and his team could not make up their minds on Brexit for months and eventually opted for a policy that alienated leave and remain voters alike
This time around, Fine Gael have landed on something more vague. Emblazoned across their candidates’ literature is the forgettable: “A future to look forward to.”
In what appears to be an attempt to avoid a similar PR nightmare of 2016, Fine Gael seem to believe that opting for something unmemorable is a better option than being memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Brexit slogan
But as we learned from the Tories in 2019 with the “Get Brexit Done” slogan, leaning on the specifics can work, and lend an indispensable discipline to the party’s messaging.
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The Tory mantra focused the electorate’s thinking, reminding them of the precise reason to vote Tory: “I’m voting Tory because I’m sick of hearing about Brexit, I just want to get it done”, so the Tories’ imagined voter might say.
It also worked as a slogan (whether misleading or not) because it denied territory to Labour. It positioned the Tories as the one true party of leave (The Brexit Party’s time in the spotlight was but a flash in the pan).
The broader lessons from Britain in 2019 are stark. The Conservatives succeeded where Labour failed
Johnson outstripped Labour with ease, reminding voters that Jeremy Corbyn and his team could not make up their minds on Brexit for months and eventually opted for a policy that alienated leave and remain voters alike.
“Get Brexit Done” not only pointed to the mess Labour had made of the defining policy area of the past three years, but it also calmly instructed voters that a vote for Labour would allow Brexit to remain undone – dragging on, perpetuating the infighting, indecision and delay that had characterised the previous parliament. Mostly it was popular because it made it very clear what a vote for the Conservative party meant.
Staying on message
In Ireland, as reports from the candidates’ experience on the doorsteps come trickling in, Fine Gael’s recent record on housing is revealing itself to be one of the biggest bugbears for Leo Varadkar’s electoral hopes.
While housing policy may not have dominated Irish political discourse to the same extent as Brexit did in the UK – it has undeniably been a central theme for some time now.
Perhaps Fine Gael took the wrong lessons from Cameron in 2015, and are wary of doing so again. But there’s something valuable to be taken from the Tories win this time around. The success of the myopically specific “Get Brexit Done” mantra lends credence to the idea that perhaps a better slogan for Varadkar et al would simply be “build more houses”.
The broader lessons from Britain in 2019 are stark. The Conservatives succeeded where Labour failed, thanks to designing the election on their own terms, casting it as a vote entirely premised on Brexit, no matter that Labour tried – and failed – repeatedly to drag it in any other direction.
While nearly every Tory candidate’s broadcasts on social media ended with the repetition of the well-worn “Get Brexit Done” mantra, Labour confused the electorate with a deluge of policy announcements that became impossible to keep track of. With Labour it became clear that voters simply didn’t know what they were getting.
The make-up of the Dáil will never resemble anything like that of the House of Commons thanks to the vagaries of the first past the post system in the United Kingdom.
But election campaigns are still trying to do similar things. And if there is anything to be taken from late 2019 in the UK it’s to stay on message, fight on your own terms, and let people know precisely what they’re voting for.
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Analysis: Four-Month Ceasefire Prompts Cautious Optimism
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Myanmar military chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing (center) and other senior military officials arrive for the third Union Peace Conference in Naypyitaw in July, 2018. / The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy 24 December 2018
Positive news came at the end of the year with the military’s announcement of a temporary ceasefire effective in conflict areas in the north and northeast of Myanmar which prompted notes of welcome from some ethnic leaders and observers. The unprecedented move has been hailed as a constructive gesture but is also met with cautious optimism prompting further questions among ethnic groups. Kachin, Karen and Karenni groups have welcomed the news but have collectively called for a nationwide ceasefire.
The ceasefire order covers the Northern Command in Kachin State, the Northeastern, Eastern and Central Eastern commands and the Triangle Command in Shan State. Despite recent outbreaks of fighting between the Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Rakhine State, the ceasefire order does not cover Rakhine State, home of the Rohingya crisis and where the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) are said to operate. This decision upsets the AA leaders. However, the military leaders’ strategic thinking is to deter ARSA and threat of migration along the border with Bangladesh.
Over the past few months, the government and military held a number of informal talks with three armed groups in Kunming, China including the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Arakan Army. These three are part of a four-member military coalition, the Northern Alliance. The talks have had their ups and downs, but in recent months some progress has been made.
It was reported that at a Dec. 12 meeting held in China with members of the government’s Peace Commission, three groups—the MNDAA, the TNLA and the AA—pledged to lay down their arms and seek political resolutions to conflicts.
Following this gesture, the military-backed down on its six-point policy, saying that all ethnic armed organizations need only to comply with four of them: “to respect the agreements, not to exploit the peace agreements, not to burden local residents and to abide by the existing laws.”
The two policy points omitted are “to have a keen desire to reach eternal peace” and “to march towards a democratic country in accord with the 2008 Constitution.”
This change of stance will no doubt allow for more open and constructive dialogue at the discussion table—but not at the frontline.
The Arakan Army remains to be the concern. The AA was established in northern Myanmar but has now moved to northern Rakhine territory and is actively recruiting more soldiers on the ground there. AA members are estimated to be around 5,000 in number and the group claims to receive overseas funding from the diaspora, tax and black market trade. In fact, powerful Wa leaders are behind the AA and China has a certain influence over both the Wa and AA.
The United League for Arakan is the political wing of the AA and aims to implement “Rakhita,” meaning to build an independent Rakhine State and achieve self-determination.
There have been clashes between the Myanmar Army and the AA in recent weeks in northern Rakhine State. The military is accused of employing helicopter gunships and fighting is likely to intensify in the area in spite of the ceasefire in the north.
The real concern is that some top army generals suspect the AA is in contact with ARSA and it is believed that both are involved in the lucrative drug trafficking trade.
During talks between the government and the AA, questions on the latter’s stance on ARSA has been raised. The generals in Naypyitaw want to see the AA taking a tough stance against ARSA and helping to deter their threat. “If the AA genuinely wanted to protect its Rakhine kingdom,” as a senior officer put it, “they must not communicate with ARSA.”
Political observers familiar with the situation on the ground said the leaders of the AA will not take any soft stance on ARSA and they will not tolerate their existence.
ARSA is regarded as a terrorist armed group in Myanmar and the army is determined to continue to hunt down ARSA members in northern Rakhine State.
In July and August 2017, ARSA insurgents killed several dozen civilians and village headmen in northern Rakhine State and on August 25, they launched attacks on police and security outposts.
The army sent out about 2,000 reinforcement troops and launched a clearance operation across the northern part of the state, driving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in that area to the Bangladesh border.
In August this year, a damning UN report accused the military of genocide against the Rohingya and accusing the army of war crimes and crimes against humanity and against minorities across the country.
It called for Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for the crackdown that drove over 800,000 Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh and for the alleged crimes committed by security forces in other ethnic areas.
In an effort to reduce mounting international pressure, Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing called the temporary ceasefire in the north, earning himself some praise.
But he probably doesn’t lose sleep over it. At his recent meeting with members of the Myanmar Press Council, the commander-in-chief showed who is the real boss: he is media savvy and up to date with current affairs—he impressed the press corps and treated them with respect. The irony remains, however, that in the recent past the army was behind the detention and charging of several reporters and journalists.
Suspicion lingers over his motives, however. Some ethnic leaders believe the army is buying time to recharge itself before it strikes again after the ceasefire period is over. And it will. Often when the monsoon season rains ease off, the military launches offensives in ethnic regions, but this time they called a truce. Top ranking generals said that ethnic leaders would appreciate this gesture, but many ethnic leaders remain wary and some are hoping to reopen peace talks.
Leaders of ethnic armed groups also have a continued frustration with government heads, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the peace commission team. They complain that the government doesn’t understand the grievances of the ethnic struggle and accuse them of not being proactive and of condescension. They found the previous government led by former president U Thein Sein and the previous peace team more receptive.
It is likely that after the four-month ceasefire, the military will take a tougher stance towards the remaining armed groups who refuse to enter ceasefire talks and have shown no real interest in reaching a ceasefire before 2020.
China has also been a key player in recent ceasefire talks with several meetings held in Kunming, Yunnan Province which borders Myanmar’s Kachin and Shan states.
In November, Song Tao, minister of the international department of the Communist Party of China had a meeting with Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw and the meeting produced some positive outcomes according to inside sources: a top-ranking general remarked “relations are much better.”
Indeed, China holds a key to Myanmar’s peace process. In recent meetings, China pushed the members of the Northern Alliance to be more pragmatic with the Myanmar government and military.
Chinese special envoy to Myanmar Sun Guoxiang also reportedly warned Arakan Army leaders not to have any links with ARSA. China suspected that ARSA members reached out to Uighurs, a Muslim minority mostly based in Xinjiang, northwest China. Some radical Uighurs have carried out terrorist attacks in recent years and in 2009, ethnic riots resulted in hundreds of deaths in the region. China is greatly concerned by the threat of Uighur separatism and extremism and has long feared that Uighurs will attempt to establish their own national homeland in Xinjiang.
With growing challenges and impending international intervention in northern Rakhine, it is no surprise that China and Myanmar leaders are seeing eye to eye in order to maintain some stability in the state.
Whatever the case, in the next four months, if talks are going to be successful, bilateral ceasefires with some ethnic groups in the north are necessary. The ongoing talks with Wa leaders have been seen to produce some good outcomes so far.
But there has been uncertainty with leaders of Kachin ethnic armed groups. Top Myanmar military leaders claim to have solid proof that there are foreign elements playing a role behind the scenes to disrupt the peace process but they haven’t named any names. They also suspect that the same group recently approached Karen and Shan insurgents in the south to stir up more tension and misunderstanding between them. However, both the military and government leaders are hoping that Kachin leaders will be pragmatic as they signed a ceasefire in 1994 under the previous military government. The Kachin were one of the earliest ethnic armed groups to sign a ceasefire agreement and participated in the national convention at which military representative’s army and ethnic groups drafted the 2008 Constitution.
Peace won’t be easy to achieve in Myanmar and the military’s latest gesture shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Topics: AA, Ceasefire, Peace
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TOM HARRISON – Unfolding in Tempo
Lyte Records – LR038
Tom Harrison (alto sax) Cleveland Watkiss (vocals) Robert Mitchell (piano) Daniel Casimir (bass) David Lyttle (drums)
Recorded live at The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham and The Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, February 2015.
These live recordings represent my introduction to the work of Tom Harrison and capture him in performance with vocalist extraordinaire, Cleveland Watkiss in presentations from their `Ellington Project` tour. As you would expect all the tunes have Ellington associations; are either by The Duke or Strayhorn or taken from the orchestra’s repertoire as in the case of `The Minor Goes Muggin` which is credited to Sy Oliver. Watkiss plays a prominent role in the delivery of all of these but very much as a member of the band rather than the featured vocalist with a band in tow. His style is audacious and exploratory often veering away from the formal lyrics to include digressions of his own invention and even, in one case, a bit of personal biography. He also employs scat, vocalese, dialogue and glossolalia, as well as the inevitable locomotive sounds in `Take The A Train`, to enlarge his improvisational technique, at times engaging in call and response passages with the audience to their obvious delight. Mostly this works fine and only occasionally do his eccentricities irritate.
It is, however, Tom Harrison’s disc and he proves to be a fine, accomplished player, not in thrall to any particular stylistic convention but reminding me a bit of John Handy in his ability to push the envelope without distorting melody or tone in a way that departs radically from the music’s fundamental ethos, though it should be said that the overall sound is more hard-bop than swing-era oriented. An example of this is particularly evident in the final track which is an unaccompanied version of `Warm Valley` where he captures the spirit of Hodges’ playing without actually sounding like him and takes the music on a journey to more challenging environments.
The remaining members of the band also contribute massively: `Things Ain’t What They Used To Be` pits Morrison and Watkiss against a powerfully resonant bass ‘n drum backing with timely percussive accents and pressure building press rolls heightening the tension. Casmir also gets a beautifully captured extended cadenza at the opening of `The Intimacy of the Blues` and Mitchell’s expressive pianism impresses at every appearance all of which makes for a highly enjoyable musical experience that clearly thrilled the audiences in Cheltenham and Soho and will do the same for you.
Reviewed by Euan Dixon
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2007 Karlsruhe, Germany
Coauthors: Jeffrey Shaw, Bernd Lintermann, Peter Weibel
Hardware: Huib Nelissen
Production: ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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The YOUbiläums Browser was created for the ZKM exhibition You_ser: The Century of the Consumer. It is an augmented reality installation that interactively positions virtual information in the physical space of a gallery or museum. It contains video clips that present the ten-year history of the ZKM Centre for Art and Media’s activities, from 1997 to 2007.
Its physical construction is a set of rails mounted on the wall, along which a motorised video monitor can travel to ten positions. These positions are marked with labels for each year of the ZKM’s ten-year history. The viewer uses a lever on the monitor to control its movement in either direction, from one year’s location to the next. Once the screen is in a particular position, it plays a video clip that documents the major cultural events and artistic productions that took place at the ZKM during that year.
Since its invention in 1999, this ‘linear navigator’ concept has been iterated in various configurations and contexts, including the Net.Art Browser, the CityU Creative Media Centre Navigator and the Hong Kong Maritime Museum’s Pacifying The South China Sea Scroll Navigator. Chris Ziegler also used it to present his 2002 interactive artwork 66movingimages.
Exhibition Record
2007/10/21 - 2009/4/30: YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009/10/10 - 2011/5/8: IMAGINING [email protected], ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
T_Visionarium II
Eye of Nagaur
© Jeffrey Shaw
Archive facilitated by Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Produced and coded by by Raphael Chau Tsz Kin
Photography (where documented):
Pieter Boersma: Emergences of Continuous Forms (1966), Corpocinema (1967), MovieMovie (1967), Supertube (1968), Pneutube (1968), Alpevent (1968), Cushion (1969), Waterwalk (1969), Water Totems (1969), Information Pavilion (1971), Video Studio (1971), Auditorium (1971), Infinity Divided by Sixteen (1987), Sonus Lux (1987), Heavens Gate (1987), Imaginary Museum of Revolutions (1988), Propagation of the Luminous Word (1988) Balz Burkhard: Alpevent (1968) Marco Caselli: Legible City (1989) Marco de Nood: Airground Mattress (1970) Louis Drent: Auditorium (1971) Robert Ellis: Kinetic Light and Mirror Sculpture (1978) EPFL(Christian Brun): Kung Fu Motion EPFL (2018) EPFL(Alain Herzog): Kung Fu Motion EPFL (2018) Thomas Goldschmidt: ZKM Aussenkennung (1997) Anton Haakman: MovieMovie (1967) Sjoerd Holsbergen: Laser Installations and Performances (1976), Anamorphic Drawing Table (1980), Air and Liquid Display Sculpture (1982), Imaginary Museum of Revolutions (1988) Images for the Future: T_Visionarium Open City (2009) William Klein: Dragon (1969) Clay Perry: Glove Screen (1967) Steen Møller Rasmussen: reconFiguring the CAVE (2001) Wim Riemens: Going to the Heart of the Center of the Garden of Delights (1986) Salli Sachse: Laser Installations and Performances (1976) Bernhard Schmitt: Disappearance (1993), ZKM Panoramic Navigator (1997) Thys Schouten: Laser Installations and Performances (1976) Kirsty Sørensen: Pneutube (1968), Octopus (1968), Cushion (1969), Waterwalk (1969), Grassroll (1969), Brickhill (1969), Televents (1970), Auditorium (1971) Strüwing Reklamefoto: reconFiguring the CAVE (2001) Andrew Tweedie: Waterwalk (1969), Dragon (1969) Oscar van Alphen: Narrative Landscape (1985) Bob van Dantzig: Points of View (1983) C.W. van Vlijmen: Dragon (1969) Franz Wamhof: Extended Virtual Environment (1993), PLACE - a user's manual (1995), Distributed Legible City (1998), Net.Art Browser (1999) Lex Wapenaar: Disillusionary Hommage to Clovis Trouille (1966) Charlot Wissing: Televents (1970)
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Full Review: Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 Vinyl Figure by X-Plus
FIGURE SPECS
東宝30cmシリーズ 「ゴジラ（1992版）
JAPAN ORIGINAL RELEASE: 2011
NORTH AMERICAN REISSUE (DIAMOND): NOVEMBER 2016
SERIES: Toho 30cm Series
FROM: “Godzilla vs. Mothra” (1992)
ゴジラvsモスラ
HEIGHT (HEAD): 12.125 INCHES / 30.79 CM
WIDTH: (toe to toe) 9.25 INCHES / 23.49 CM
APPROX. LENGTH: 16 INCHES / 40.6 CM
FIGURE WEIGHT: 1 lbs, 6 OZ / 623 G
ARTICULATION: NONE
REVIEW AND PHOTOS: © JOHN STANOWSKI
GODZILLA: TM & © TOHO CO.,LTD.
The Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 is based on the Heisei film, Godzilla vs. Mothra. X-Plus first released this figure in 2011, very early on in the modern run of accurate vinyls which had a slow start around 2009. This was X-Plus’ very first Heisei Godzilla figure in the 30cm Series.
I had to dish out $500 for this figure in the aftermarket back in 2013. But new collectors will get a way better deal than I did.
Five years after this figure’s debut, it’s set to be re-issued for the first time, but only for the North American market. Sorry, Japan! Diamond Distributors will release it in late November 2016. It has a suggested retail price of only $160. But you will find retailers selling it for less. (You lucky bastards.)
This figure is known for not having the most accurate sculpt, but it does have other stellar qualities instead.
Like all 30cm Series figures, this figure arrives in a no frills, garage kit style, brown box. A separate, color cover is glued onto the lid.
This box is very noticeably larger than the usual 30cm Series box. In fact, it’s so big, you could open it and put a standard 30cm Series box inside it and have room to spare. Keep in mind that shipping is going to be just a little bit higher for this one.
DIAMOND REISSUE
The Diamond Reissue box will look the same with the one exception of the PX Exclusive logo added to the cover art.
ADDING THE TAIL
When you first remove the figure from the box, you’ll find that the tail is separate and must be attached by you. Use a hairdryer on the hole on the body to make the vinyl soft. You’ll want to give this one an extra blast of heat because the tail hole is up high and the figure’s legs may get in your way. It’s been three years since I had to assemble mine and I really don’t remember how easy or difficult it was.
And there it is. The Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 may have a couple of accuracy issues, but holy shit, does that thing look good. I’ve always considered it a good all around, general representative of the Heisei series. I just like damn near everything about it.
This sculpt exudes a strong sense of “power” while at the same time seeming relaxed and unimpressed by any rockets, missiles or maser beams headed its way.
The two main features which seem off to me are the face and the neck.
All of the details seem to be in the right places as far as I can tell. Yet, still, the face seems not quite accurate from certain views. The front and front 3/4 angles seem… okay but that snout appears a little fat from the side view. I don’t know. I’m not an expert that knows every nook and cranny of every suit so I really shouldn’t be talking about this. Look the photos and judge for yourself.
Now, putting aside an overreaching need for picture perfect accuracy, this portrait just screams Heisei Godzilla and is a good all around representative of that series. And it looks pretty badass.
The horizontal “ribbing” on the neck flanked by two vertical tendons (?) are right for this suit but the detail is a little overly pronounced. Again, not an issue to most casual collectors.
The signature double rows of teeth are really done really, really well here. Each tooth is individually sculpted as they should be for such a pricey figure. And the tongue isn’t simply a raised part of the lower jaw but it also individually sculpted and glued in. Even though it lays flat over the floor of the mouth, it’s still clearly a separate piece with incredible detailing. Also, you may not notice right away, but the roof of the mouth has waves of articulate ridges. Incredible work. This is why I collect X-Plus.
I hate to be repetitive, but for the benefit of those seeing X-Plus for the first time: the skin texturing in the sculpt is nothing short of incredible.
It’s like they gave separate attention to every single “tree bark” groove, bump, crease and fold.
As usual, X-Plus focuses a ton of attention to each and every individually sculpted dorsal fin. Their shapes, arrangement and even the occasional stray reaching too far to one side like wayward teeth are faithfully reproduced in this sculpt.
The attention to fin detail runs down the back, over the tail joint and runs all the way down the tail.
This figure looks GREAT from almost any angle. The side and quarter angle views are particularly cool as f**k! I’m not crazy about the front on view but I usually never am, with any of the figures. But that’s just me.
JOINTS & SEAMS
[ A joint is where two pieces connect and have not been glued and can still move. Tails are joints even though they are not intended to articulate. A seam is a meeting of two different pieces which have been glued and painted over yet can still be seen. ]
This figure is made up of at least 8 different parts. Yet, it reveals virtually no seams at all.
The arms attach to the figure right above the biceps. A noticeable “crease” can be seen here, luckily, the actual suit also had these creases.
Both lower legs attach to the figure below each knee, but you wouldn’t know it by how it looks. I had to look very hard to even find a seam.
The back piece which has the dorsal fins is expertly fitted and attached. No sign of a connection at the back of the lower jaw either.
It’s only at the tail joint where any line can be easily seen. And even there, the seam is hidden in the sculpted ridges of the tail. It also helps that the connection is up high on the figure and has both legs helping to shield it from view.
Five Stars for hiding virtually any evidence of its assembly!
I am using the original 2011 release of this figure so, future proud Diamond Reissue owners, take note: it’s been 5 years. Your newer figure may have slight paint differences.
As for this original:
The figure has the usual, reserved, dusty, realistic, off black. No toyish, shiny blacks here. There are very, very subtle highlights over the feet, chest and neck. And while not a paint application, the figure’s rough skin is a virtual playground for lights and shadows which help to complicate it’s appearance, in a good way.
The dorsal fins are painted with what I consider to be too stark of a white. Often, with dorsal fins, claws and teeth, X-Plus will use colors which are too bright to be overly realistic. And in the case of this Godzilla 1992 figure, they’re even brighter.
Despite this, the application is excellent. The tips of the fins are all white, with the off black skin color filling the flank of each fin, and feathering up to the base of each fin spike. Multiple rows of minor fins (more bumps) traverse the tail and are, again, expertly painted.
The whites may be too white, but they are well done. This is still a high end vinyl collectible for sure.
The figure’s 16 claws are painted in a dark, off tan which is only slightly glossy. Be careful with these, the paint on X-Plus toes is easy to scrape. It’s an expensive figure and should be treated as such.
The mouth has a base of a very unsaturated, off pink and completely avoids looking gaudy like lesser vinyl lines. Each individually sculpted to tooth is individually painted in an off white. The result is fucking incredible, especially with this guys double row of teeth. This kind of attention has always been one of X-Plus’ biggest selling points.
Each eye has a large, black pupil surrounded by a yellow iris. To say that they’re piercing is almost an understatement.
This figure looks GREAT from almost any angle. The side and quarter angle views are particularly cool as f**k!
FOOTPRINT / ON THE SHELF
The X-Plus 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 is a little over 12 inches tall and about 16 inches long. It takes up pretty much the same room as most 30cm Series Godzilla figures. The end of the tail curves hard to the figure’s right making it easier to fit the figure on the shelf.
SIZE COMPARISONS
Here is the Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 beside the Toho 30cm Series Battra Larva, also from 1992’s Godzilla vs. Mothra.
But, wait. Godzilla fan and X-Plus collector, Jessica Etchells, had told me that all of the water scenes during the Heisei series used the suits from the directly previous film. That means the battle at sea with Battra was done with the Godzilla 1991 suit!
And here is the 30cm Godzilla 1992 with the only other Heisei villain in the whole of the 30cm Series, the Toho 30cm Series Space Godzilla (1994).
Here is a size comparison with the ’92’s closest X-Plus relative, the Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1989. (I’m not including the Sakai series as blood relatives since they’re so much smaller, but a comparison with the Sakai ’91 is coming up).
For the longest time, if you wanted X-Plus 30cm Series Heisei Godzilla figures in your collection, these two were all you could get. That’s since changed with the arrival of Godzilla 1984. Aren’t we about due for another?
THE GODZILLAS
A size comparison with other Toho 30cm Series Godzillas: Godzilla 2014, 1984 (1985), 1999 (2000) and 2004.
Every one of the figures in the photo above will be re-issued in North America (Diamond Reissues). One will come out each month starting now thru Summer 2017.
Here is the 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 surrounded by X-Plus Kaiju recently released in Japan and in North America. (Left to right): Titanosaurus, Rodan 1964, Mechagodzilla (Kiryu) 2003, Mechagodzilla 1975 and Gigan 2004.
The final size comparison which needs to be made is with the upcoming Toho 30cm Series Yuji Sakai Modeling Collection Godzilla 1992. They represent the same suit after all.
Unfortunately we can’t make that comparison because the figure hasn’t even been made yet. So, here to stand in for the new ’92 is the Toho 30cm Series Yuji Sakai Modeling Collection Godzilla 1991. You can bet the new ’92’s height will be comparable to this one. As a bonus, the pose on the new ’92 is almost the same as this ’91.
I still don’t understand why X-Plus is including these new Yuji Sakai vinyls in the 30cm Series when they’re so short. But what they lack in height they more than make up for in accuracy. (I just keep them displayed separately.)
The Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 is one of the few Heisei entries in the series. While a few details push it the bottom of that short list when it comes to being completely movie accurate, its size and sense of power has no match. There will be a lot of comparisons when the Yuji Sakai version comes out. Despite what will be said, this figure will always have to look down to see the Sakai.
It has an amazing sculpt, pose and paint apps (despite the fins being a bit too stark). And when you get the larger than usual X-Plus box in the mail, you’ll have to fight the urge to bow to this king.
This figure has been uber rare for years. That’s all about to change when X-Plus’ North American reissues arrive at Diamond Distributors. These “Diamond Reissues” will arrive at comic stores and online sites on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. It has a suggested retail price of $160.
Diamond will have them in stock for a short while, so you can go to your local comic store and ask them to special order it for you. Tell them to search the Diamond Retailer Site for “GODZILLA 12IN SER GODZILLA 1992 BATTLE FOR EARTH VER PX FIG”. Even better, give them the Item Code: APR158701.
GET IT FROM KAIJU ADDICTS & FLOSSIE’S
Flossie’s Gifts & Collectibles is my mother’s store. She’s been online for over 15 years. And I’ve taken over a small corner of the site for X-Plus figures, Godzilla autographs and more.
You can Pre-order the X-Plus Godzilla 1992 at Flossie’s for $139.
If you are late to the table in a couple of weeks, know that we have plenty of Godzilla 1992 extras on the way which you’ll be able to order until they run out.
I will personally box your figure the way I’d want my own figure packed.
You can also order one from Vampire Robots, another small operation with a Godzilla collector you can trust at the helm.
If you prefer a bigger name, Entertainment Earth will have them for $169 and free shipping. (Even with the free shipping, the overall cost basically matches Flossie’s and Vampire Robots in the end.) They may not be ready to ship until December though. This figure will, of course, also pop up on Amazon and Ebay. Most listings there will no doubt come with inflated price tags.
• Archived Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992 page on Ric Boy Site.
• Rich Eso’s Video Review of the original release of the Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992.
• Rich Eso’s Written Review of the original release of the Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 1992.
• Leslie Chambers’ video review of the 30cm Series Godzilla 1992.
• Infiltrated by Odeean video review of the 30cm Series Godzilla 1992.
• High Resolution Images at SciFi Japan.
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Five-member audit committee to probe klia2
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai today named a five-member independent audit committee to probe safety issues at klia2.
Liow said the committee formed under the Transport Ministry, will be headed by Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and Pacific (FEIAP) president Datuk Dr Chuah Hean Teik, with members from both the private and government sectors.
The other members of the committee are Civil Aviation Department (DCA) director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Public Works Department (PWD) director-general Datuk Annies Md Ariff, G&P Professionals Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Datuk Gue See Sew, and Petronas general manager M. Shobri Abu Bakar.
Speaking to newsmen after his first official visit to the airport during which he had to trudge in ankle-deep water on the apron, Liow said the committee will:
– review klia2's compliance with all regulatory requirements;
– review all safety aspects in regard to the differential settlement on the aircraft parking apron;
– have to present its report to the ministry by mid-2015.
Liow said the report will be made public for transparency and accountability, and pledged that action will be taken against those responsible for the various problems that have arisen at klia2.
However, he maintained that the defects do not affect flight operations at klia2.
klia2 had been scheduled to be completed in 2011 at a cost of RM1.7 billion, but was delayed for three years and became operational only in May this year, after five postponements and at a final cost of RM4 billion.
Even after being opened, the terminal was fraught with safety issues, with low-cost carrier AirAsia refusing to move from the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) to klia2 until the problems were addressed.
The problems include cracked tarmac on the airport apron, soil depression and water pooling after heavy rain, a situation which presented itself for Liow to experience when he went to inspect the apron during the visit.
Present during his visit were Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad (MAHB) senior officials headed by managing director Datuk Badlisham Ghazali.
Liow had announced in the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 4 that the ministry would appoint an independent audit committee to look into klia2, after a video of MAHB staff using buckets to scoop water from the apron, went viral on social media.
The Public Accounts Committee had, however, called for a full audit on klia2 to be conducted by the auditor-general.
Liow said as the ministry takes public safety very seriously, MAHB has been instructed to give its full cooperation to the committee to facilitate investigations.
"PAC's recommendations will be answered by MAHB. They need to be transparent and accountable in all their decisions made; they will answer, they have to answer all of PAC's queries," he said.
Badlisham was evasive when queried by reporters and refused to reveal reparation costs but said the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Ikram's report which gave klia2 the green light to operate, had been sent to the PAC, as requested on Oct 30.
Original Source: www.thesundaily.my
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Pence used a private email account to conduct state business
Updated: 12:38 AM CST Mar 3, 2017
By KEN THOMAS
AP Photo/John Locher SOURCE: AP Photo/John Locher
Vice President Mike Pence used a private email account to conduct public business as Indiana's governor, according to public records obtained by the Indianapolis Star. The newspaper reported Thursday that emails provided through a public records request show that Pence communicated with advisers through his personal AOL account on homeland security matters and security at the governor's residence during his four years as governor. The governor also faced email security issues. Pence's AOL account was subjected to a phishing scheme last spring, before he was chosen by Donald Trump to join the GOP presidential ticket. Pence's contacts were sent an email falsely claiming that the governor and his wife were stranded in the Philippines and needed money. The governor moved to a different AOL account with additional security measures, Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said, but has since stopped using the new personal account since he was sworn-in as vice president. Lotter said Pence "maintained a state email account and a personal email account" like previous governors in the state. At the end of his term Pence directed outside counsel to review all of his communications to ensure that state-related emails were transferred and properly archived by the state, the spokesman said. As Trump's running mate, Pence frequently criticized rival Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, accusing her of purposely keeping her emails out of public reach and shielding her from scrutiny. Lotter said "the comparison is absurd" because Clinton had set up a private server in her home at the start of her tenure at the State Department and, unlike Clinton, Pence did not handle any classified material as Indiana's governor. The newspaper reported that the office of Pence's successor, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, released more than 30 pages from Pence's AOL account, but declined to release an unspecified number of emails because they were considered confidential. Public officials are not barred from using personal email accounts under Indiana law, but the law is interpreted to mean that any official business conducted on private email must be retained to comply with public record laws. The state requires all records pertaining to state business to be retained and available for public information requests. Emails involving state email accounts are captured on the state's servers, but any emails that Pence may have sent from his AOL account to another private account would need to be retained. At the end of his term, Pence hired the Indianapolis law firm of Barnes & Thornburg to conduct a review of all of his communications and that review is still ongoing, Lotter said. Any correspondence between Pence's AOL account and any aides using a state email account would have been automatically archived, he said.
Vice President Mike Pence used a private email account to conduct public business as Indiana's governor, according to public records obtained by the Indianapolis Star.
The newspaper reported Thursday that emails provided through a public records request show that Pence communicated with advisers through his personal AOL account on homeland security matters and security at the governor's residence during his four years as governor.
Pence criticizes Associated Press for publishing wife's email address
The governor also faced email security issues. Pence's AOL account was subjected to a phishing scheme last spring, before he was chosen by Donald Trump to join the GOP presidential ticket. Pence's contacts were sent an email falsely claiming that the governor and his wife were stranded in the Philippines and needed money.
The governor moved to a different AOL account with additional security measures, Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said, but has since stopped using the new personal account since he was sworn-in as vice president.
Lotter said Pence "maintained a state email account and a personal email account" like previous governors in the state. At the end of his term Pence directed outside counsel to review all of his communications to ensure that state-related emails were transferred and properly archived by the state, the spokesman said.
As Trump's running mate, Pence frequently criticized rival Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, accusing her of purposely keeping her emails out of public reach and shielding her from scrutiny.
Lotter said "the comparison is absurd" because Clinton had set up a private server in her home at the start of her tenure at the State Department and, unlike Clinton, Pence did not handle any classified material as Indiana's governor.
The newspaper reported that the office of Pence's successor, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, released more than 30 pages from Pence's AOL account, but declined to release an unspecified number of emails because they were considered confidential.
Public officials are not barred from using personal email accounts under Indiana law, but the law is interpreted to mean that any official business conducted on private email must be retained to comply with public record laws.
The state requires all records pertaining to state business to be retained and available for public information requests. Emails involving state email accounts are captured on the state's servers, but any emails that Pence may have sent from his AOL account to another private account would need to be retained.
At the end of his term, Pence hired the Indianapolis law firm of Barnes & Thornburg to conduct a review of all of his communications and that review is still ongoing, Lotter said. Any correspondence between Pence's AOL account and any aides using a state email account would have been automatically archived, he said.
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NOWCAST KOAT Action 7 News at 6am Sunday
Proposal Targets Road Rage
Bill Aimed At Drivers Who Terrorize
Updated: 6:11 AM MST Feb 15, 2001
A bill that would make it a criminal offense to harass another driver while driving was introduced Thursday in the state Legislature. Sen. Bill Payne of Albuquerque introduced the bill to help fight road rage. The bill targets drivers who do things to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person. Payne said that it would be up to the court system to decide whether an incident is road rage. Anyone found guilty would be convicted of a misdemeanor and lose their license for a year. Road rage has led to violent confrontations and homicides, according to police.
SANTA FE, N.M. —
A bill that would make it a criminal offense to harass another driver while driving was introduced Thursday in the state Legislature.
Sen. Bill Payne of Albuquerque introduced the bill to help fight road rage.
The bill targets drivers who do things to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person.
Payne said that it would be up to the court system to decide whether an incident is road rage.
Anyone found guilty would be convicted of a misdemeanor and lose their license for a year.
Road rage has led to violent confrontations and homicides, according to police.
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Philotheos lived as a friend of God,
Finding endless life with the friends of God.
Saint Philotheos was born in 1526 in Chrysopolis (near modern Kavala in northern Greece). His parents came from Elateia in Asia Minor, and emigrated to Chrysopolis out of fear of the Hagarenes, where they bore two sons, one of whom was named Theophilos. When they were very young, their father died, leaving them to the care of their mother Eudokia. One day, however, her two children were captured by the Turks to be raised as Turks, leaving Eudokia in great pain. After some time, having heard nothing of the fate of her sons, to bring herself some comfort and hope, she enclosed herself in a nearby convent and dedicated her life to the Lord.
Meanwhile, Theophilos and his brother remained steadfast in their Orthodox Christian faith, and taking pity on their tears and the tears of their mother, the Panagia appeared to them and miraculously delivered them from bondage. In return she instructed the two brothers to become monks at a monastery in Neapolis that was dedicated to her. The two brothers made haste to fulfill the will of the Mother of God, and with great zeal worked to acquire all the virtues, which earned them the angelic habit. At his tonsure Theophilos took the name of Philotheos.
On a great feast day, when the nuns of the convent had gone to celebrate at the monastery of their neighboring monks, Eudokia was among them, and she heard a monk call for Philotheos, and as soon as he responded, his mother recognized his voice. After a tearful and joyful reunion with thanksgiving to the Theotokos, all three devoted themselves with greater zeal to ascesis and prayer, to be found worthy of their angelic habit. The devil would not allow himself to be defeated, however, so he concentrated his attacks on Philotheos. He did this by trying to corrupt his virginity by means of a nun who was possessed by a demon of lust. But Philotheos, like another chaste Patriarch Joseph, escaped the traps of the evil one.
In around 1551, at the age of 25, Philotheos set off for Mount Athos, where he settled at Dionysiou Monastery. There his ascetic feats won the admiration of all the fathers, especially his humility and zeal in serving Christ. After some years spent in obedience, Philotheos pretended that he was sick and lost his hearing, in order to receive a blessing to withdraw into solitude, in a cave near the monastery. There he dedicated himself to pure prayer and withstood the assaults of the demons. When it was uncovered that he was not ill, but feigned it to enter greater spiritual struggles, he withdrew to another location, in order to escape the praises of the fathers. At his new location, he acquired three disciples. It was during this time that he became known for his miracles and gift of foresight.
At the age of 84, the Saint understood the time for his departure was at hand, so he instructed his disciples to not have his body buried, but to throw it without ceremony in the depths of the forest where the wild animals would devour it. Therefore, having reposed in peace in 1610, his disciples did as they were bidden, though they were sick at heart to do so. But God did not allow his honorable relic to be mistreated. Some time later, a monk of Dionysiou, who was fishing on the shore, saw a great light, which he thought was a great fire in the forest. He hurried to the place and discovered the skull of the Saint, and forthwith brought it back to the disciples of the Saint, where it was given due solemnity and was venerated by all.
The skull of Saint Philotheos is preserved till this day at Petra Monastery in Thessaly, where it is enclosed in a silver case and venerated by all the visitors. In 1972, Elder Gabriel Dionysiatis brought a portion of the relic of the Saint from the monastery in Koroni to Dionysiou Monastery.
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
By divine grace, the Theotokos, redeemed you, from the hands of unbelievers, and you lived venerably as a monastic in Neapolis, and as an ascetic at Athos O Philotheos, becoming a friend of God. Venerable father, entreat Christ God, to grant us the great mercy.
Kontakion in Plagal of the Fourth Tone
You became a stranger to friendships in the world, becoming an inhabitant of divine inspiration, and God magnified you O God-bearer. But as a genuine friend of the Savior, redeem from inferior friendships, those who cry out to you: Rejoice, Father Philotheos.
Megalynarion
Rejoice, offspring of Chrysopolis, and revered flower of the Athonite Monastery of the Forerunner; rejoice, you who served the Lord as an ascetic, thrice-blessed Philotheos, you who dwell with Angels.
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Hawkeye women upend 22nd ranked Syracuse
Updated: 11:00 PM CST Dec 5, 2013
Melissa Dixon's incredible 2nd half helped Lisa Bluder's team overcome a 14-point deficit.
Melissa Dixon scored seven of her game-high 27 points in the final 1:22 as No. 25 Iowa came back to defeat 22nd-ranked and previously unbeaten Syracuse 97-91 in the Big Ten/ACC challenge Thursday night. Dixon hit all 27 points - on 7 of 11 3-pointers - after halftime as Iowa (9-1) clawed back from a 47-37 gap. Bethany Doolittle scored a career-high 25 for the Hawkeyes, Samantha Logic added 14 and Kali Peschel 10 with eight rebounds. The Hawkeyes hadn't led since 12:06 of the first half when a Dixon 3 brought them to 71-69, and then Peschel grabbed a defensive rebound and scored for a 72-71 lead. Syracuse (8-1) was led by 25 points on 10-for-13 shooting from Brittney Sykes, who also hauled down 10 boards. Sykes scored 10 of her points in the final 7:14 as she and Iowa's Dixon and Logic traded baskets and the lead.
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Melissa Dixon scored seven of her game-high 27 points in the final 1:22 as No. 25 Iowa came back to defeat 22nd-ranked and previously unbeaten Syracuse 97-91 in the Big Ten/ACC challenge Thursday night.
Dixon hit all 27 points - on 7 of 11 3-pointers - after halftime as Iowa (9-1) clawed back from a 47-37 gap.
Bethany Doolittle scored a career-high 25 for the Hawkeyes, Samantha Logic added 14 and Kali Peschel 10 with eight rebounds.
The Hawkeyes hadn't led since 12:06 of the first half when a Dixon 3 brought them to 71-69, and then Peschel grabbed a defensive rebound and scored for a 72-71 lead.
Syracuse (8-1) was led by 25 points on 10-for-13 shooting from Brittney Sykes, who also hauled down 10 boards. Sykes scored 10 of her points in the final 7:14 as she and Iowa's Dixon and Logic traded baskets and the lead.
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Crews work to control Nevada County blaze before winds pick up
Mandatory evacuations remain in place for 1,500-acre Lowell Fire
Updated: 8:35 AM PDT Jul 27, 2015
Mike Luery
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Helicopters tackled the Lowell Fire in Nevada County as some people were forced to leave their homes as part of a mandatory evacuation.
SOURCE: u local
Four firefighters were injured Sunday battling the Nevada County wildfire that has scorched 1,500 acres, according to Cal Fire.The fast-moving, aggressive blaze crept up on the firefighters, who suffered burn injuries. Three were airlifted and one was taken by ground ambulance to a hospital.Watch report: 4 firefighters injured battling Lowell fire in Nevada CountyTwo Cal Fire personnel and one U.S. Forest Service firefighter were expected to be treated and released. The other U.S. Forest Service firefighter is being treated for serious burns, but the injuries are not life-threatening, officials said.Their firetruck was also burned by the wildfire, but it is unclear exactly what the crew was doing when they were burned, according to Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.Firefighters launched an army of weapons from the air and on the ground Sunday to continue battling the blaze, which is spreading through the rough and tumble terrain.Watch report: 2,000 homes threatened by fire burning in Nevada CountyThe so-called Lowell Fire remains 15 percent contained as of 7:30 p.m. Sunday as crews work to get a handle on the wildfire that began Saturday afternoon.Nevada County fire downgraded to 1,500 acres, 5% containedDozens of people were forced to flee the advancing flames, while others, like Ben Peterson, came back to see if their homes were still standing.25 must-see photos of Nevada County wildfire"I got everything important out except the tools," Peterson said.Mandatory evacuations have been issued for the areas of You Bet, Red Dog and Chaulk Bluff.An evacuation advisory is in place for the northeastern portion of Cascade Shores and in the Gold Run-Alta area.Red Dog Road is closed between Greenhorn Creek and You Bet Road.A voluntary evacuation order has also been issued for the north side of Interstate 80 from Gold Run to Alta, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Department. Firefighters are concerned about a possible shift in the winds, potentially adding more fuel to the fire."Today, with the wind changes, the fire's going to burn probably more towards the west, and that's what the firefighters are waiting for," said Cal Fire spokesperson Lynne Tolmachoff. "There's definitely homes in this area, and even though it's a rural area, still about 2,000 homes are affected by this fire."Fire investigators are still trying to pinpoint exactly where and how the blaze began, but a team of 1,100 firefighters is actively waging a full assault on the flames, while also working against Mother Nature."We've really got to be optimistic that we'll continue to get a good line around it to stop the head of the fire before the winds pick up," Berlant said.
NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) —
Four firefighters were injured Sunday battling the Nevada County wildfire that has scorched 1,500 acres, according to Cal Fire.
The fast-moving, aggressive blaze crept up on the firefighters, who suffered burn injuries. Three were airlifted and one was taken by ground ambulance to a hospital.
Nevada County fire continues to burn, threatens 2K homes
Fire burning in Nevada County prompts evacuations
25 must-see photos of Nevada County wildfire
2,000 homes threatened by fire burning in Nevada County
Watch report: 4 firefighters injured battling Lowell fire in Nevada County
Two Cal Fire personnel and one U.S. Forest Service firefighter were expected to be treated and released. The other U.S. Forest Service firefighter is being treated for serious burns, but the injuries are not life-threatening, officials said.
Their firetruck was also burned by the wildfire, but it is unclear exactly what the crew was doing when they were burned, according to Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.
Firefighters launched an army of weapons from the air and on the ground Sunday to continue battling the blaze, which is spreading through the rough and tumble terrain.
Watch report: 2,000 homes threatened by fire burning in Nevada County
The so-called Lowell Fire remains 15 percent contained as of 7:30 p.m. Sunday as crews work to get a handle on the wildfire that began Saturday afternoon.
Nevada County fire downgraded to 1,500 acres, 5% contained
Dozens of people were forced to flee the advancing flames, while others, like Ben Peterson, came back to see if their homes were still standing.
"I got everything important out except the tools," Peterson said.
Mandatory evacuations have been issued for the areas of You Bet, Red Dog and Chaulk Bluff.
An evacuation advisory is in place for the northeastern portion of Cascade Shores and in the Gold Run-Alta area.
Red Dog Road is closed between Greenhorn Creek and You Bet Road.
A voluntary evacuation order has also been issued for the north side of Interstate 80 from Gold Run to Alta, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Department.
Firefighters are concerned about a possible shift in the winds, potentially adding more fuel to the fire.
"Today, with the wind changes, the fire's going to burn probably more towards the west, and that's what the firefighters are waiting for," said Cal Fire spokesperson Lynne Tolmachoff. "There's definitely homes in this area, and even though it's a rural area, still about 2,000 homes are affected by this fire."
Fire investigators are still trying to pinpoint exactly where and how the blaze began, but a team of 1,100 firefighters is actively waging a full assault on the flames, while also working against Mother Nature.
"We've really got to be optimistic that we'll continue to get a good line around it to stop the head of the fire before the winds pick up," Berlant said.
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Cowperthwaite Visiting Scholar Explores Research on Mentoring in Business and Academe; Influences of Career Development
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Ph.D., professor of Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication (and professor of Engineering Education by Courtesy) at Purdue University, is the 2014 Cowperthwaite Summer Visiting Scholar at the School of Communication Studies at Kent State. Buzzanell’s public presentation on Aug. 17 will address “Taking a Sideways Glance at Mentoring.” The graduate level seminar held Aug. 18-22 is titled “Designing Career in Everyday Life.” Both events will be held in Taylor Hall.
In "Taking a Sideways Glance at Mentoring,” Buzzanell will expand upon research on mentoring in business and academe. Buzzanell will also explore under-examined areas such as spontaneous mentoring (also known as episodic mentoring and mentoring moments), the place of non-human mentors, and an evolutionary developmental network perspective.
The seminar on "Designing Career in Everyday Life” has an organizational communication base but will also address different communication and interdisciplinary directions into new media and Internet, popular culture, creative industry and knowledge work, lifespan issues (infancy through retirement), work-family communication, and dynamics of difference with local and international arenas of career. Theory and research as well as practical strategies for career will be included as discussion topics.
Buzzanell’s research centers on the everyday negotiations and structures that produce and are produced by the intersections of career, gender, work-family and communication such that people construct resilience and career aspirations, particularly in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). The editor of three books and the author of more than 130 articles and chapters, Buzzanell has been published in journals including Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Communication Theory, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Human Relations as well as in handbooks on organizational, professional, family, conflict, ethics and gender communication and proceedings in engineering education.
A former editor of MCQ and associate/special issue editor for Communication Studies and the Southern Communication Journal, Buzzanell has been an editorial board member for 22 national and international journals and handbooks as well as numerous special issues. She also is an Advisory Board member for MCQ and for Sage Open.
Buzzanell earned her doctorate from Purdue University, her master’s degree from Ohio University and her Bachelor of Science from Towson University, graduating summa cum laude.
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Good vibrations: an assessment of Ashburnham Ward candidates for Peterborough City Council
This is a simple, tongue-and-cheek assessment of the five Ashburnham Ward candidates for the October 27 election to city council in Peterborough, Ontario. La politica has also done assessments, posted separately, for Monaghan Ward, Town Ward, OtonabeeWard, and Northcrest Ward. Each post has the same introductory paragraphs provided below. So...you can skip those if you are clicking around.
Ashburnham Ward (Ward 4)
Intro to the assessments
The ward assessments rely on two scores out of five for a combined score out of ten. The first score is based on a candidate’s vibe, with the second score assessing the stuff and things (stuff n’ things) that the candidate proposes for Peterborough. The vibe scoring is purely subjective, and the score for stuff n’ things doesn’t necessarily take a stand on issues (i.e. parkway, taxation), but simply attempts to assess whether the candidate has material proposals, or is campaigning on vague promises and areas of interest.
The total score out of 10 does not provide a breakdown of the category scores out of five, because stuff n’ things can have vibe, too, and some vibe is so off the charts it might even be called a vibe economy, with material effects on stuff n’ things.
You are confused, but not for long. At the end of the Ward summary we provide an assessment of who we think might win, and why. Remember: you get two votes, as there are two council seats for each ward.
Ashburnham Ward (also known as “Ward 4”) is unusual: it covers the entire length of the city on the eastern shore of the Otonabee River. In 2010, 9,126 people cast their votes. Incumbent Len Vass took over 29% of the vote, with 2,662 ballots cast, followed by newcomer Keith Riel, with 2,102 votes, or 23%. This time around Mr. Vass and Mr. Riel are back for re-election, and are facing challenges from Donald Fraser, Paul Teleki, and Gary Baldwin.
Donald Fraser
Mr. Fraser is focusing on quality: quality of life, of governance, and of employment.
Under quality of life, Mr. Fraser wants to overhaul the central hub model for Peterborough’s transit system, and to encourage green space and trails, with the completion of a land use strategic plan. He is against the outsourcing of public works to private firms, and wants to promote local artists and access to local food. He has also made the recruitment and retention of doctors a priority.
For quality of governance, he would like to have ward-based neighbourhood associations, and participatory budgeting. He wants staff reports published at least one week before council meetings, with the City’s Official Plan Review done within the first year of his mandate.
Fraser is one of the few candidates with a specific strategy to improve employment, one area where there has been plenty of vibe and all too little stuff n’ things. He first proposes a review of Peterborough’s economic development strategy, followed by a master plan that would include sector specific opportunities. From there he wants measurable targets with a reporting process that ensures accountability.
We have seen Mr. Fraser in action, and like his vibe. We’re also impressed by all the stuff n’ things he proposes, which is why his combined score is a respectable 7 out of 10.
Paul Teleki
This is Mr. Teleki’s second kick at the can in Ward 4: in the 2010 he came in third, with 1,761 votes, about 19%. That put him only 340 votes behind second-place finisher Riel. This time around, both Mr. Teleki and Mr. Riel have been endorsed by the Peterborough Labour Council.
Mr. Teleki’s plan is to “serve on council for as many terms as needed to focus the direction of Peterborough’s vibrant community and to plan for the future.” He is an accomplished painter and musician. Importantly, he states that “When residents elect Paul to become a city councillor, they also elect his family including his wife Elizabeth Teleki.” This makes it necessary to mention that Ms. Teleki was appointed to the board at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre for 2014-2016, is the Entrepreneurship Lead at Peterborough Economic Development, and is pursuing her Masters in Sustainability Studies at Trent University, where she is on maternity leave (Teleki’s website has over thirty five photographs of their young son.) Could there be such a thing as too much vibe? Perhaps, but it would seem unfair to fault Mr. Teleki for ramping up as much vibe as possible.
Mr. Teleki does well on stuff n’ things, too. Since 2010 he has been running his own research and strategic planning business called Preferences, which turns “market research into dollars and strategic direction,” and “assists organizations to make evidence-based decisions by engaging their stakeholders.” In 2012 he also helped form AppDev Corporation, which creates applications for mobile devices. His political platform focusses on six key areas: employment, job creation, and youth retention; taxation, representation, and accountability; environment, culture, and heritage; recreation and local development; transportation and community safety; and vision. Many of these are heavily vibe-based, with promises to “collaborate” and “innovate”. But there is some real stuff n’ things here, too: keeping taxes to the rate of inflation; implementing a green waste program; support for heritage structures; residential zoning that ensures nearby amenities and community spaces; support for extra police presences in high risk times; sustainable lighting on trails.
This is, as Mr. Teleki says “an evidence-based campaign platform” supported by social media and geographical information systems mapping. What can we say? This is stuff n’ things with vibe. We might even call it a vibe economy. Mr. Teleki comes in with the highest combined vibe and stuff n’ things score of all candidates: 8 out of 10.
Keith Riel
Mr. Riel rode to a second place finish in the last election, insuring him a council seat. He is an independently-minded person who has grown into the job. He has a vibe, and that vibe appears to be based on being a good-natured, caring person who promises to listen.
Mr. Riel has targeted four major areas of concern: the need for well-paid jobs; lack of affordable housing and increased homelessness; an improved transportation infrastructure; and rising property taxes. He acknowledges that during his term “more problems have piled up with no end in sight”, but offers few clear solutions. His stuff n’ things credentials come mostly from having sat on various committees during his past four year term, though he is also on numerous boards, including Peterborough Green-up, the Peterborough Public Library, and the Council for Persons with Disability. He has been on the United Way of Peterborough Committee for the Homelessness Partnership Strategy, and the Executive of the Peterborough and District Labour Council. Notably, the Peterborough Labour Council has endorsed Mr. Riel as well as Mr. Teleki.
Mr. Riel is against the Jackson Park bridge for the parkway, has defended seniors against rising hydro rates, and has made a compelling (if sometimes unpopular) argument that councillors are underpaid. There is definitely some vibe here, but when it comes to stuff n’ things Mr. Riel has delivered few material results, and could do better. Combined score: 7 out of 10.
Gary Baldwin
Mr. Baldwin ran in Otonabee Ward in the 2010 election, placing third with 1,701 votes, about 20% of the total. He is back running in Ashburnham Ward with his “Stepping forward for Ashburnham” campaign. A retired elementary principal, Mr. Baldwin is Vice Chair of the Peterborough Lakefield Police Services Board, where he acts as budget chairman. He has a very low-key vibe, but is campaigning hard to build credibility as a retail politician.
As for stuff n’ things, Mr. Baldwin’s priorities are mostly aspirational and stylistic. He is a listener, wants to attract jobs, and believes in fiscal responsibility. He is a fan of the city’s flood control plan, wants better pavement and more sidewalks, and is keen on an “attractive gateway to Ashburnham Ward.”
This doesn’t add up to much, and anyone who puts “Member of YMCA” on his biography could be accused of stuffing his resume with straw. His closeness to the mayor could also hurt him. By all accounts Mr. Baldwin is a good-natured, likeable, even humble person – qualities that may or may not work in his favour. Combined score: 5.5.
Len Vass
Mr. Vass took first place in the last election, with over 29% of the total and 2,662 votes. He has been in municipal politics for a long time, having run for mayor twice, and is now completing his third term as councillor for Ashburnham Ward (he was first elected in 2003). Mr. Vass is Transportation Chair, and has a history of strong support for public transit. However, he could suffer some blowback due to his support of Mayor Bennett and the parkway, including the bridge over Jackson Park.
Mr. Vass has a solid vibe, and a reputation for going to bat for his constituents. Initially expressing reluctance to run again, he has since changed his mind.
As for stuff n’ things, there is the parkway, Peterborough’s first off-leash dog park at Farmcrest Park, and the recent road repair on Ashburnham Dr. between Lansdowne and Beavermead Park. Mr. Vass is a local businessman who tends to deliver on small “c” conservative issues. Combined score: 6.5.
Ashburnham Ward Rankings
The Ashburnham Ward rankings for the combined vibe and stuff n’ things score are, in descending order:
Paul Teleki: 8
Donald Fraser: 7
Keith Riel: 7
Len Vass: 6.5
Gary Baldwin: 5.5
Ashburnham Ward Election Assessment
We believe both incumbents are vulnerable in Ashburnham Ward. Riel could be re-elected, but Fraser and Teleki will eat into his support. The parkway is not as big an issue in Ashburnham Ward as it is elsewhere in the city; however, the blowback against Mayor Bennett is real, which will cut into support for incumbent Len Vass. Vass, who took first spot last time, is not the only place to park a centre-right vote: the pro-Bennett camp is also putting its money on Baldwin as a Vass alternate, and he is no novice, having taken over 20% of the vote for his third place finish in Otonabee Ward last time. That said, a centre-left candidate like Teleki is a real option – he came in a respectable third here in 2010, and is running a strong campaign. Fraser is likeable and qualified, but this is his first outing and his vibe could be stronger. Remember, everyone has two votes (though they don’t always use them). We think Vass is vulnerable; but for him to lose, two of the three centre-left candidates (Fraser, Teleki, and Riel) would have to come on strong. If so, it will be Teleki and Riel. The thing is, with three-way vote-splitting on the centre-left Vass has a path, given that he is the only strong pro-parkway, pro-mayor candidate.
Posted by TimothyEWilson at 19:33
Rob Tonus 26 October 2014 at 12:44
I look forward on your assessments on the upcoming federal election
Thanks for this! It will help my teens - voting for the first time - understand the issues they need to analyze before they vote for the first time. (It will help me too.)
Podcast: Notes From The Underground
In the podcast Notes From The Underground TE Wilson discusses historical and contemporary attitudes toward crime. Each episode features a one-on-one interview that explores a unique topic. Interviewees include authors, experts, and individuals with personal experiences of crime. These podcasts were originally broadcast through the facilities of Trent Radio in Peterborough, Canada.
Mezcalero, a Detective Sánchez novel
Bicultural and transgender, detective Ernesto Sánchez seeks a missing Canadian woman on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Moving uneasily in a world where benign tourism co-exists with extreme violence, he becomes a pawn in a shadowy power-play between corrupt police and drug cartels. Forced to make hard choices – desperate, wounded, and friendless – Sánchez takes refuge in the lawless mountains of Oaxaca. And discovers his fate.
Praise for Mezcalero:
“Wilson’s Mezcalero is a real-pager turner…While the milieu of Wilson’s novel is reminiscent of the hard-boiled tradition, his creation of P.I. Ernesto Sánchez is original, and helps Wilson push the boundaries with respect to genre. Sánchez is a hard-hitting private eye, but Wilson also depicts him as struggling with many of the issues that transgender individuals typically face; in this manner, Wilson creates both a riveting mystery and timely story about navigating life as a gender nonconforming individual.”
Heather Duerre Humann, author of Gender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works.
“Mezcalero is a remarkable read, with sustained suspense, surprise explosions of poetry and violence, and some new answers to old questions...Wilson understands something about violence and gender that I have never encountered before: that women’s violence is perhaps the most feared. Sanchez’s womanly violence in his manly body is a mystery revealed, a truth told that we suspected all along. This is a profoundly feminist book. The women in the book are the power brokers, the activators of action; even the most oppressed empleada is a container of her own complete power. Mezcalero is deftly plotted, and deploys an acrobatic narrative that is, frankly, exhilarating. Sanchez has a lot to teach us. Wilson, too.”
Janette Platana, author of A Token of My Affliction (2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize; 2016 English Language Trilium Book Award finalist).
“T.E. Wilson’s Mezcalero is, as a novel, a tacit consequence of the author’s real-world work as a reporter/journalist in Mexico. His work is rich in essence, and rich in detail, of how widespread organized crime and corruption permeate Mexican society. Highly recommended. This is great, well-grounded fiction.”
Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Economics, Columbia University, and President of the Citizens’ Action Institute (Instituto de Acción Ciudadana).
“T.E. Wilson has crafted a terrific, terrifying and yet sensationally witty portrait of modern Mexico. Detective Sánchez is irresistible. You won’t soon forget his journey through that unpredictable jungle that is Mexico today.”
León Krauze, Mexican journalist, author and news anchor.
You can order a paper copy here, and the Kindle edition here. To find out more, go to DetectiveSanchez.com.
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Yevgeni Malachite: City of Isolation
The green aura around Yev's body, which concentrated mostly around his torso, began to fade, the wound knitting itself closed as fresh flesh clothed it. Just as this occurred Jynn approached him, sword drawn, to which Yevgeni offers him a wry smile.
"What do you suppose the difference will be, between my surrendering now or fighting to the death? Either way you plan to kill me, yes? At least this way I can fulfill my promise to both Veriti and your grandfather, whereas surrendering will do me nothing. I do wonder, though"–he tilted his head considering the prince–"what is it that you would use the Source of All Life for? Would you bring your mother back?"
Yevgeni got to his feet, swaying slightly. While his wound may have healed, he was still weak from a lack of both blood and magical energy, the healing process having drained him much of his sources. His gaze did not falter from that of his nephew's. "I am truly sorry that things have come to this, Jynn. I am sorry for the pain that I have brought upon you. This was not a fate that you deserved, though I had been hoping to deliver a perfected kingdom to you, one of men and fey. Perhaps, though, there is a grain of truth to what you all say: there will always be conflict and war, whether human or fey. I had thought–no, hoped–that by purifying our worlds and uniting them we could ensure an era of peace, but there will always be new generations, and history will always repeat."
The elf lowered his head, seemingly deep in thought. "I wonder," he voiced at long last, "if the Source of All Life could grant eternal peace to both worlds, restoring that of which the humans lost while maintaining a war-free world for us fey. Perhaps it could divide our worlds fully, once and for all. This . . . deviates from the path that King Alexander considered, though it is perhaps possible."
Jynn, Dawson, and Bherna-Isopolis, City of Isolation
Jynn raises an arm towards the group, in an attempt to get everyone’s attention off of Yevgeni. He shuts his eyes as soon as Yevgeni claims that he will take his life. The prince sighs. “No, Yevgeni. Life is precious. It is a gift to be, to exist, to have a purpose. I cannot find it in myself to take your life.” He slightly turns his head to Nergal. “Your friend however, I cannot be so certain. He very nearly succeeded in killing me, and seemingly took pleasure from the fight.” The regent then proceeds to ask what Jynn’ll do with the Source of All Life, perhaps to bring his mother back. “As much as I would love to bring her back, it would not be right of me. I cannot sacrifice the hopes of thousands for the life of one.”
Yevgeni rises to his feet, swaying back and fourth slightly. He was clearly weak. At this point, he was barely a threat to the prince, but Jynn stays in his dark state should the regent try anything. He tries once again to apologize to Jynn, but the latter still does not believe his words are genuine. “I hope you understand why it is hard for me to believe you.”
Yevgeni suddenly starts to behave differently, wondering if the Source of All Life would bring eternal peace. To separate the two worlds once and for all. But Jynn shakes his head. “The last thing the worlds need is separation. That is how this whole mess started. We must all learn to cooperate with one another, to shake hands, to communicate, to help each other. Unfortunately, war is imminent, no matter how much you try to avoid it. No single person is the same, everyone has different minds and ideas.”
Mariel partially blacked out after Sifrei picked her up. The next thing she really knew was something crawling over her. She drifted back into consciousness, seeing Sifrei and Typhon standing over her. Her mind was fuzzy, making focusing difficult. She could feel big, important things drifting through her mind, but she couldn’t fully comprehend them. She just got vague feelings of anger...and shame? Something had just happened that had been bad, but what?
“I was better at this before.” She thought. “Wasn’t I?”
Through her muzzy connection with the world around her, Mariel realized that there was still more going on beyond herself and her to attending healers. Sounded like...
Her mind cleared enough for the situation with Yevgani to reassert itself as a primary problem. Anger flowed through her once again, igniting buried magic along the way. Before Typhon’s bug could get to the last wound, fresh blood welled up and scabbed over to seal it. The angel’s burned and withered arms began to throb as ancient blood ran through them, bringing a form of healing with it.
“Enough of this.” Mariel said through clinched teeth as she struggled to get up. “We still have to get that stone.”
Aura was staring at the princess as she spoke. It looked like the poor girl really believed that her wish to return to normal was a mistake, which Aura didn't agreed, the princess had the right to use that wish to cure her from her curse.
"You shouldn't worry about that wish, Princess. You did nothing wrong with it," Aura said to Athena, "I do not think Rufus' magic could have helped any of us inside this strange place. It seems as if it had a mind of its own. Whoever build it, and hid the Source of All Life, really wanted to judge the worth of whoever dared to face its trials."
Sifrei watched as Mariel's few remaining injuries began to heal by themselves. Something inside the guardian angel allowed her to heal those wounds. Such a strange being the guardian was. Sif was unable to say that, of course. Instead, he offered stood up and offered his hand at Mariel.
Rabiyu saw as Yevgeni summoned beams of light from the sky, the beams falling all around the area where Nergal was standing, obviously directed at their enemies. But something was strange. The white haired elf noticed that none of the beams of light was falling anywhere near her. It was as if...no, she was not that close to the Queenslayer, that must have been the reason. She witnessed as Alicia's spell attack hit Yevgeni on his stomach, making him collapse to the ground and rolling several times. A strange, yet familiar light surrounded the elf, the sign of a healing spell. Rabiyu aimed an arrow towards Yevgeni as she slowly made her way towards him.
The Prince and his daughter were already getting closer to Yevgeni as he was healing himself. The Prince asking Yevgeni to surrender one final time. Yevgeni wondered of the Source could split both worlds so they could have peace, and the Prince said that was how the whole mess began. She did not spoke a single word while Yevgeni and the Prince talked, but her eyes never left Yevgeni. Was it because she was waiting for him to suddenly attack the Prince, or was it because she had hope that he could change his mind in the end.
-Eclaire, Xion, and Rhea - In Combat-
Rhea winged up and up. As everyone engaged, she quickly dived and took up position. If Nergal were to avoid Henry or get up from the attack, Geirskogul was already in hand, charged with Light. Her twin swords hang at her hips, the Unaging Valkyrie ready to unleash the wrath of the Ithurians, and the Wrath of the Valkyries, upon Nergal should he managed to escape Henry. A throw of the spear and a dual blade charge at him would be her manner of attack.
Yevgeni's talk, his speeches. Eclaire's blood boiled in rage as she stood up, recovering from Nergal's attack. She was about to strike, when her mother once more grabbed her, arms wrapping around her body and holding her tightly. "I'm sorry...I'm sorry Eclaire. In that weak moment, I hurt you." She sobbed. "I can't remember your mother...I can't remember...but I know she was disappointed. And...and I never...never thought you were a mistake, Eclaire. You were my daughter. My sweet....kind...caring daughter...please...don't let the hate take you. Don't fall like I did. Don't become Consumption. You were the miracle i so needed." She whispered. "So please...don't...don't let the hate consume you...my dearest Eclaire."
She stood there, shaking. Tears streamed down her face, a torrent unending. And Yevgeni's sudden shift did not alter her...no...but her hate was eroded...it melted away...only to be replaced by such sorrow. "...I can't feel her anymore, Mom. I....I can't feel that pulse within my heart...I gave it up..."
"Shh...whatever you kept...life has an ending, Clary...life will end. What's important is you never forget how close they were...you etch their love upon your heart...so no matter what, even if you forget them, that love always lingers...so that one day, when you need it most, their face....their smile...it will bring you from the dark depths that you may have fallen." She loosened her hold. "Don't strike with your hate...it's...it's not you, Clary. You're not...you're the kindest soul...I'll ever know."
Eclaire slowly pulled away from her mother once more. She stumbled forward, brushing past Jynn and heading for Yevgeni. And she stood and raised her sword.
"To use the Source to force peace...is unforgivable. You would not create anything but hollowness. You would create existence. We would merely exist. To force everyone to peace is to remove their will, the will that causes many of us here to still persist. The will to remember what we have lost, to cling to what we have." She pointed it at his heart. "There is no room in your heart for such peace, Yevgeni. I may be every bit the bastard you are...but at the very least...I accepted I was no ruler. I accept I never will be fit to sit on the throne of my mothers! I was not fit to stand by Shiva's side! And that's why I will stand by her name to final breath, why I renamed this sword after her! Because she saw past my unholy birth, she saw past the turmoil I could create and offered me a future! She offered me hope, Yevgeni! She gave me a new life, a new chance! To use the Source for anything more than restoring humanity is ignoble, is arrogant, is wrong!" she shouted. She had dimly heard Jynn speak to the man as she stumbled over, but the tail end rang within her ears. "As the Prince said...we are all different. And to force us to think the same in the name of peace is a fate worse than death. At very least, if I die, I will die Eclaire Oathkeeper, Retainer of Queen Shiva, and the one who loved her knowing there was no chance. I will die knowing the last word Shiva said to me." Her wings once more phased in, blocking Jynn from view. "And I will protect Jynn from you and your attack dog...as I have an oath to keep with final breath. Give up the source, Yevgeni. Jynn may not be ready to kill you...but I am."
Yevgeni Malachite -- City of Isolation
The elf nodded upon Jynn's words. "It would seem that you have indeed grown since we have been apart. It takes a strong man to curb his desire for revenge in exchange for mercy. I am surprised that you would spare my life, considering I have taken that of your mother, along with countless others from the world below."
Rabiyu's arrow came whizzing overhead, arresting Yevgeni's attention. He rose and jerked to the side to avoid its range of fire, before landing a mere few feet in front of Jynn, Eclaire and Rabiyu now at the future king's side.
Yevgeni smiled sadly. "It would seem that we are at an impasse, then. You are unwilling to change your mind, and I cannot meet you at your request. Everything sacrificed would be in vain, something that I simply cannot allow. King Alexander has given up too much, as have I, as has Shiva herself–" He lifted his rapier, though did not point it at any of them. "As I mentioned earlier, I do not wish to do either of you harm. Goodness knows that I have taken enough lives to weigh on my mind, however"–he straightened, sword outstretched–"I will do what I must to serve, even to the last breath."
(Sorry for the short response; I'll try to make up for it next time)
"Everyone here has lost so much to reach this point. Memories, feelings, senses, people. A whole world ended because you choose to honor late king Alexander's will to the best of your abilities," Rabiyu said as she stepped away from Eclaire and the Prince, "But what gave Alexander the right to choose the fate of those not under his reign."
Rabiyu was still aiming at Yevgeni, although her eyes moved slightly towards Eclaire, in case she decided to attack him. At this point it wasn't possible to fully comprehend what was going on inside Yevgeni's head, but Rabiyu didn't wished for him to perish at the moment.
"Do not continue with this senseless cycle, Yevgeni. Surrender and hand over the source," Rabiyu said quietly, " Let the human world be restored. Let us work together with the humans so we can truly attain peace. This doesn't have to end with the death of any more people. You included."
~Aqua: The City of Isolation and Aqua's Suffering~
Aqua had been pulled away from the fighting by Yev. The action had left the elf shocked. The thought that Yev cared about her caused her to smiled ever so faintly. It was touching to see that, but at the moment, she was more worried about Yev. Before she could voice this, however, he had already gone back into the battle. Aqua still felt his lingering touch on her cheek. She sat her stunned, a light blush on her cheeks. “Yev…” She whispered so quietly even she wasn't sure if she had said it out loud or not. Aqua watched him fight with attentiveness, but then Yev had got hit by a rather deadly blow. The thought that Yev could die terrified her. Aqua was frozen in fear, even as she watched him heal himself. She saw as Yev got up in a very shaky manner. He was still injured.
Jynn and Bherna then did something unexpected. They offered Yev a chance to make up for his mistakes, but others didn't share the same sentiments. She saw Eclarie point her weapon toward the male elf. Aqua ran toward Yev. “You idiot, work towards a true peace! Don’t die here! Isn’t there something worth living for or even someone?! If you die here you’ll really become the traitor they say you are! You would have killed others for nothing!” Tears had made there way down her cheeks by the time she had gotten close to Yev. “Please just give up this plan! I can’t watch you die…” Aqua’s voice quieted down to barely a whisper “I can’t lose you too…” She looked directly at Yev's eyes, the desperation was written all over her face and in her voice.
- Odin, Holder of a New Wish -
The noisome commotion was expanding further and further as everybody's strengths were tested. Yevgeni and the assassin Nergal were putting all of their effort against the pooled strength of Mystras, Kilkes Seres, humankind, and the envoys of the North, and they were holding their own very well. However, everyone exhausted their strength in this massive clash, all except a few who declined to step into the fray.
Odin stayed within the shadows of one of the surviving pillars near the entrance, pulling out Nihil's lamp from a shimmering tear in dimensions. The shadow within its lampshade started to materialise and slip a head out, then an arm as it reached for something to support. Odin could have sworn that Nihil looked afraid for a moment or two, an initial dread that soon was replaced entirely with a slipshod smile hastily made. Whether this was real or not did not matter. What mattered most was that he had to fully prepare for what was to come.
"Nihil," he voiced in a rumble, as if thunder crackled within him, "it is time. I have my wish prepared and am ready to make use of it."
The umbral creature formed a beaming smile of unsettling light as it listened intently, withdrawing from the lamp and polluting the surrounding area with his darkness.
"What is the wish you bid, master?" the shade responded in question, utterly elated.
"I wish for the ability, the power, to vanquish my foes and gain control over the Source of All Life. My search for the greatest of pursuits must continue, regardless of the cost I have suffered, regardless of the cost I will suffer. Only I am suited for the task of wishing upon the Source. That whining, inexperienced son of mine must not touch it. None of my allies, no matter their skills, should lay claim to it either."
"A wish! Another wish! A fine wish, one I grant as your boon . . . and your newest vice!" Nihil returned, his grin only expanding within the growing ocean of utter blackness. "You would have done well enough on your own, old one, but we will see what you are capable of after you obtain this new facet to you. Your wish is now fulfilled!"
Odin accepted without compromise, even after feeling a torrent of new sensations and lurching forward. His body rippled and rolled up into a ball as his insides shredded themselves as if pureed by a million knives. After some time spent rearranging themselves, his aged muscles reformed, leaned, tightened, and strengthened. His mind honed with portions of innovations and wisdom that were stripped from him by the final trial of Isopolis. His spirit rallied arcane magics that he previously could not call upon.
In the end, he had the sensation of being reborn as a new individual, a phoenix superior in many ways to his former being. However, something must have left. He felt a cavity within himself, a missing something near and dear to him, but in the advent of new power that was a topic for another time, a time after the psychological or physical destruction of those that dared get in his way.
Odin stepped forth from the shadows, his eyes chiefly focused on the Source as he watched the explosive combat continue on in the foreground. His mind was abuzz with various tactics and strategies that he assumed people were using, eyes glittering in interest as he observed it all, but within his eyes a change was made. Instead of seeing his allies and his enemies, he saw weapons that can be used against each other, rival factions he no longer held commonality with. His prize awaited him, and that was the only thing that mattered.
Thanks to Nihil's granted wish, his relations to his comrades meant nothing to him anymore, existing but not in any way prominent to his decision-making, much like what occurred with Sifrei. However, unlike Sifrei, he felt no obligation to help either party, only hinder them and gain the Source of All Life for himself.
His first course of action was one almost unthinkable: once Helios was done with his basilisk-empowered strike upon Nergal, Odin rushed forward with Flying General, a straightforward and fast-moving sprint he once used upon the dragon. In order to prevent Henry from reaching Nergal and blasting him back to who-knows-where, he countered Henry's superpowered fist with a bent arm to deflect the powerful blow, and in the meantime his other hand reached out to his sword Lysander, aiming a sword-draw pommel strike at the human's stomach to knock the breath out of him. If successful, he would aim a quick rotational slice in an attempt to behead Henry with a downwards strike from the side. Why did he do this? He did not fully know, and yet it came so naturally. Part of the reason was likely that he wanted the Source and this was a stepping-stone to obtaining it, either through confusion or through gaining the trust of Nergal. Another part was simpler: he did not want to suffer the possibility that Henry could match toe-to-toe with him. To kill him off would be better than to keep him alive, and thus Henry was on the priority list.
Next, Odin strove to rush towards Nergal himself, no matter the result to Henry. With quick speed, he sheathed his blade and reached out toward Nergal's free arm, the one containing the Source. With luck Nergal would have been rather stupefied by what he had witnessed and snagging the stone would be quick. Without luck, he would probably have to obtain the Source like everybody else, only with an added apology to Henry later on.
((All right; here's my sleep-deprived post. Hopefully it makes sense to folks, but Odin is making his long-awaited move. P.S.: Sorry, Henry.))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWTYuBn4rM
Helios' eyes would widen as he was pretty much tackled out of the way. It disrupted the roll, knocking him to the side. What was Odin doing?! "Henry!" Helios called loudly. Helios would be sent flying across the platform, rolling right off the edge. He tried to stop it as it happened, claws digging against the slates as he scratched to stop himself from falling. But he went over the edge anyways, not like it mattered. He let out a hiss, smoke covering him up as he would transform once more. He would exit the smoke in the shape of a white bird, flying right back up into the sky and above the scene. It was only at this point of view that he saw the gravity of it all. Nergal held the source of life. Henry had been stabbed. Odin was after the source. There was an inexpiable pain in his chest as he would allow himself to drop from the sky. He hurt Henry. He couldn't allow him to reach the source of life. His eyes would dilate as smoke covered him once more. There would be a growl from it as it would aim right at Nergal. Right from above, a large wolf like beast would roar was it exited of the smoke. It opened its jaws wide open, showing the rows of knife like teeth as it would proceed to reach for the Source of Life. If Nergal didn't dodge, he would be losing the source of life...and his hand. The energy would only seem to respond upon the actions of Odin. It would suddenly dart straight from where it stood, straight towards Odin. What could something without a body possibly do? He didn't know. But he would reach out for Odin regardless. Was...was it trying to absorb his energy?
Edited September 27, 2018 by Stardustblade358
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- Henry, Alicia, Typhon, Mikhail and Alastor - City of Isolation Chaos -
Henry barely had any time to react as Raiden, of all people, now with the persona of Odin appeared in front of him, protecting Nergal, deflecting his punch and delivering a hilt bash right to Henry's stomach, all in quick succession, surprising and shocking Henry to his core at the sudden attack, Stunned by the blow to his stomach, time seemed to slow down again as Odin went for the beheading slash, Henry was still stunned, he barely had time to reach for his sword and attempt to block Odin's, even with time slowed down, Odin's speed was insane. Henry did his best to block, or deflect the blow with his sword, avoiding beind beheaded, but Odin's sword still broke through Henry's sword and slashed him on his chest, slashing through Henry's energy barrier like butter as Henry lost focus for a second, and in turn made his body fail him considering his focus was what was keeping him standing. Henry fell backwards, his sword escaping from his grip as his glowing eyes and the energy keeping him alive subsided, leaving him practicaly dead as his body landed on the floor behind him. And he stood there for a good few minutes, lifeless. Whether anyone cared or not, he would lay on the floor until someone came to check on him and get him out, or not.
Albeit Henry seemed dead, anyone with a magical sense would feel that a faint trace of energy still remained on him, and that small trace of energy was multiplying itself...and within moments, Henry gasped for air, clearly struggling to breathe and recuperate his stamina. Coughing out blood at the same time. While trying to raise his head to look at Odin, with a look of determined anger as he struggled to even breathe.
Everyone would see that Henry was very much out of comission, at best temporarily, Alastor turned to look at his old friend, now a traitor. "Raiden?!" Alastor spoke in surprise, clearly shook by the scene. Alicia stared silent, but shocked. Mikhail even more so as he ran over to Henry to check on him.
Typhon just looked at the scene, as everyone else was most likely, and understandably in shock. And he decided to say what was most fitting to the situation.
"Holy shit."
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It was clear that Yevgeni still held on to his loyalties with Alexander. He vows to stay loyal to Jynn’s grandfather until the very end, even if it meant killing those he wished not to. Jynn merely sighs. Nothing was getting through to this fey was it? “Being a leader should not be based on who you used to serve. It is creating your own path to follow. A leader must be strong, knowledgeable, selfless, honest.........” He pauses for a moment. Grabbing La Justiceré by the shaft, he starts to realize his own current flaws. “....... mindful and level headed. For the past week or so....... I have been driven by vengeance. I was consumed by it, and it got me this far. But....... all it did was bring more pain, more sadness, and more hate.” He looks back to Alicia, the one who makes him feel at ease. He then turns his attention back to his sword. “I am done being consumed by it.” He tosses La Justiceré aside. It lands on the ground with a hard thud.
Jynn looks back to Yevgeni, with his hands to his sides. He was ready for anything the regent was about to attempt. “Do what you must then. But know this; I shall fight as a servant to both worlds, no longer out of personal gain, because the worlds depend on it.” He quietly announces his plan to Rabiyu, Bherna, and Eclaire. “We need to subdue him. Don’t kill him.”
But suddenly, he hears the chaos Odin was creating nearby. Jynn turns to see Henry seemingly dead from Odin’s onslaught. “RAIDEN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” But Jynn could sense something odd about Henry. His aura hasn’t vanished, and it seems to be getting stronger. While shocked, Jynn still remained aware of Yevgeni’s aura and movements.
Mariel looked up and nodded to Sifrei. Despite not being physically up to it, her returning rage drove her to finish that blasted elf off. She reached up and took the Archangel's hand, then froze in fear and horror as she looked upon her hand. It still bore scars from the burns and not quite regenerated from the withering effects, but it also had fresh red veins running through them, knotting and crisscrossing all over her fore arm and hands. The rage froze within her as she stared at the sight.
"Sanguis vindicta..." she murmured, her mind racing to when she had seen this before.
~*Flashback*~
"Pull back!" Mariel cried, waving the remnants of the 12th Legion to keep moving.
The humans and their fiendish weapons had proved too much for the Legion, forcing a withdraw. But they should have fallen back before this level of loss. What had Asmodel been thinking? Neither Mariel or Zauriel would give the young archon any quarter when demanding answers.
Mariel stopped an officer as he tried to fly past.
"Where is your archon?" She shouted to be heard above the sounds of battle.
"He was at the front." He answered. "He stopped issuing orders, and just kept fighting."
"He didn't call the retreat?" Mariel asked, shock in her voice.
"No, one of the archon's aids gave the order when she saw the 7th begin retreating, falling shortly after."
This was insane. What madness had taken Asmodel? Mariel jerked her thumb for the officer to keep moving as she herself headed for the front. It didn't take long to find the young Archon of the 12th Legion, though Mariel secretly wished she hadn't. He was in the middle of the fray, cutting down swaths of humans, his sonic screams echoing through the battle. His wings had gone from pure white to red, and not just from blood. Parts of his armor were ripped off, revealing angry red veins covering him. His eyes glowed red like the blood he spilled.
"Asmodel!" Mariel called out to him, legends of old coming to mind.
Surely the Sanguis Vindicta had been purged and long forgotten by all save its former people. He couldn't have forgotten his duty and training.
As Mariel watched, one of the 12th's healers ran out to pull Asmodel back. The Archon roared something, ripped his great sword out of a human and whirled it around to behead the healer! Mariel felt as if she had been struck by a mountain. The strike hadn't been a wild swing, or a rebounded attack! Asmodel had brutally killed one of his own.
Sick to her core, Mariel finished pulling back what was left of the 12th Legion, using Asmodel's blood lust as cover the retreat. She saw him fall to the Feyslayers, still trying to reap more blood. After regrouping with the 3rd Legion, Mariel confessed what she had seen to Archon Zauriel. He had been as grave as she. Despite the divine duties and sacred training of the Guardian Angels, the monsters they had once been still lurked...
~*End*~
Mariel blinked back tears as the horrid truth settled into her soul. She had given up her claim on the title of Guardian Angel, leaving the blood a way out. She had been lost in it's haze. If she had not been brought down by Yevgani, would she have stopped?
The name Raiden being called out snapped the former Guardian Angel out of her own shame and horror. She looked around, seeing that Odin and attacked Henry!
"No." She said weakly, Asmodel's actions ringing through her mind again.
Pulling herself up with Sifrei's hand, Mariel started to move unsteadily towards her former charge.
"Odin!" She called out. "Enough! Are you so far gone that you can not tell friend from foe?"
- Nergal, the Queenslayer, Receiver of a Thousand Blows - Isopolis: City of Isolation, Unexpected Aid -
The hatred those present in Isopolis held for Nergal seemed unending, for many more attacks were thrown his way, while the so-called King attempted to make nice with Yevgeni, trying to end their battle peacefully. It brought great relief to Nergal to see him refuse the petulant Prince, who held fast to his hope of subduing Yevgeni and bringing him to justice...no such mercy seemed possible for Nergal, but it didn't matter to the Queenslayer: He had no intention of dying, or losing this day. Thus, he would evade Rabiyu's lightning barrage with a deft dodge to the side, spinning a little as he manages to block Rhea's hurled weapon with the follow-up smack with his Glaive from the twirling dodge's momentum, having had enough experience with thrown blades already today, it had become too predictable.
More attacks were ready to impact, but Yevgeni had shielded Nergal from the unholy combination of Light and Hellfire and Alastor's kick was met with the Elf's retribution, as Nergal had come to expect, but his gratitude did not wane. Soon, however, aid came from someone truly unexpected, a man Nergal hadn't paid much heed to up until he had acted:
Odin threw the shapeshifted Helios off course and damn near killed Henry Hansees with a swift attack, saving Nergal from their onslaught, much to the great surprise of all of his allies.
"My my...interested, are we?"
Nergal began, but was met with Odin now further showing his true colours and attempting to claim the Source from Nergal, attempting to grab his hand. The now Source-free hand, which caught Odin's easily.
"It's not in my hand anymore...Odin One-Eye."
With a deft motion, Nergal cut away Odin's eye patch with his Glaive in such a way that wouldn't cut Odin at all, while twisting Odin around by his arm to change his position in a swift motion, almost like a dance, to avoid the angered Helios's counterattack, sending a pulse of nothingness from his Glaive that would knock back Helios if he didn't react soon enough.
"Did losing your old flame really hurt you so, Odin? If so, I am sorry, but you cannot have the Source to bring her back. It must serve our purposes, not yours..."
Nergal explained softly, still calm despite this development, unlike Soren, who had seen Henry lifeless upon the ground, Helios repulsed and Odin betraying them for his own ends, who was absolutely furious.
- Soren Monroe, The Sentinel Renewed, Human Form - Isopolis: City of Isolation -
"Raiden?! What the hell are you doing!?" Soren bellowed, his demonic voice taking over at the trailing end, his throat glowing yellow-orange as the hellfire rose to the surface, his eyes glowing the same colour as his anger and surprise mounted. It seemed that Odin had joined forces with Nergal, but then he had attempted to claim the Source from him, meaning he had no side anymore, only himself. It was then as well, that Nergal revealed that Lord Raiden was now Odin One-Eye, through and through...
"O..O-Odin?! The Odin?!" He shouted in both an enraged and...scared tone of voice, knowing only what he's heard from history about the One-Eyed Thunder Lord as a mighty warrior who once held Shiva's heart in their youth, now he was attempting to claim the Source of All Life for himself against all who once followed him.
The finesse and power of Hektor couldn't be denied, as Meksis beheld his deft evasive motions against the Maddened Maxis's barrage of strikes, even when it seemed his slam infused with Madness had destroyed him utterly...he was atop Maxis's very blade, mocking him casually, yet so properly. Then he struck again; locking Maxis's counterattack into a blade-lock, giving Meksis a clear shot at his back and so he took it: Charging with a faster than the eye could see Stinger, while summoning several blades to lock into Maxis as to cause him problems while he impaled his blood brother in the spinal cord, hoping this would end their terrible conflict sooner.
"Even if this brings him down a peg, he'll still want to fight...and he'll die, Meksis."
"I won't allow it...I owe it to him to save his life."
"But--"
"He. Will. Not. Die."
Edited September 28, 2018 by Nero Kunivas
Yevgeni Malachite -- Isopolis: City of Isolation
Despite stating his stance, it seemed that some were hesitant to kill him, and some even pleading for him to change his mind. This did give the elf pause. Were there some people that, despite all the lives he stole, still had a fondness for him and didn't wish for his demise? Did people actually care? For so many centuries he had been alone, with no friends and no one to confide in, and yet Jynn had confessed looking up to him, and Aqua and Rabiyu seemed greatly disinclined to harm him. Eclaire seemed interested, though it was understandable; he had, after all, ordered the death of her beloved. If that didn't attract some hate, what else would?
Yevgeni sensed Rabiyu's reservations; while her bow was aimed at him, her eyes kept darting toward Eclaire. Was she considering aiding him? Would she turn on her fellow comrade? As much as he would've appreciated the sentiment, he didn't wish for her to make such an action. If she turned on her allies it would cost her her life, and enough lives were already being paid.
It surprised Yevgeni when Aqua returned to his side, his expression looking as though he'd been slapped before his emerald eyes narrowed. "I thought that I told you to take cover and get away," he said crossly to her. "No good will come being near me. I am their target, and thus you are in danger." He listened as Aqua asked if there was anything or anyone that he cared about, to which he took a moment's pause before answering. "Those who care about me, and who I cared about, have long since perished in the Great War. I have been without anything, anyone, for too long that I do not even remember what it was like to have someone to call a friend or loved one." He rubbed his chin. "Perhaps . . . there are a few individuals who would fall into this category of mine, but none who would deter me from my vow to King Alexander. To live and die as his will has been my purpose for over a thousand years. That is a very long time to be devoted to a cause; it is hard to dissuade from."
He then tilted his head, considering Rabiyu's words. "I suppose we all have made many sacrifices, and yet it seems that we all will not get what we want in the end. But tell me: should I decide to relent to your cause, what would that even mean? I certainly don't suppose your human friends would welcome me with open arms, and–"
The words died in his throat, his sword arm falling to his side, as he watched the spectacle that Odin had created. Astoundingly, the Mystran lord had seemingly slain Henry while brusquely harming Helios, all to rush Nergal. "Well, that is certainly quite the scene. I thought that most of you were serving Raiden, and yet he seems not to care about his fellow comrades. It seems that you all have been played."
Yevgeni turned toward Rabiyu once more. "I do not have the Source, even if I desired to give it to you. Though presently it seems we have another matter to deal with. I wonder: what did the lord give up in the final trial? Did it spawn such . . . madness?"
Amidst the confusion of Odin's betrayal would've presented Yevgeni with the perfect opportunity to strike, and yet he chose not to. Perhaps he viewed fighting these individuals as pointless, or perhaps he didn't wish any of them harm. Even he wasn't certain which it was.
Elia Cabret -- Isopolis: City of Isolation
"NOOOOOO!!!!! HENRY!!!" The fairy dropped what she was doing and flew over to Henry's side, shaking her head and murmuring "no" repeatedly as she clumsily landed. She scuffed her knee and her leggings tore, but she didn't care. Her small pallid hands fled over his chest, eyeing his injuries and feeling the tears begin to well and blur her vision.
"No, I'm so sorry!" she sobbed. She wished to heal him, and normally she could, but . . . her white magic was the price that she paid to come there, and thus she could only watch, helpless, as a dear friend died before her. She placed her head against his chest, listening for a heartbeat but could hear none. "I'm sorry, Henry," she murmured through tears. "This is all my fault. I'm the one that suggested that you come to this accursed place. I'm the one that enlisted your help."
Her gaze met Mikhail's solemnly, which she averted quickly as she murmured an apology to him, as though she somehow held the burden alone of his death. His coughing caught the raven-haired fairy by surprise, causing her to blink several times before tackling the wounded man in a big bear hug (which should be dubbed Elia hugs, as she gives them often). "Oh, Henry, you're alright! I thought that we lost you!"
Athena and Alderon Niles -- Isopolis: City of Isolation
"Perhaps you are right about the djinni's powers," Athena agreed with Aura. "You would probably know more about the way this world works than myself. I have not been here for very long and am still learning."
They had barely reached the human king's side when Raiden had portrayed his true colors, striking Henry and moving on for Nergal. At the sudden outburst of Raiden's name throughout the chamber, Alderon began to grow curious as to what occurred. "Daughter? Aura?" he inquired, hoping to arrest the attention of one of the young women. "What has happened? Why is everyone disgruntled toward Raiden?"
It seemed that Raiden had betrayed them, though Alderon could not believe it. He had spoken in length with the Mystran lord, confided in him, befriended him! Surely he was not merely using him, as Alderon had little the offer and only to gain. Raiden seemed like a man desirous of true peace, so what could have happened? And then it occurred to him.
"No," he murmured darkly, shaking his head. "He couldn't have . . . . The chamber back there . . . . Did he give up his desire for peace and unity?!"
And, if this were so, it would mean that they would have something very terrible to reckon with.
The moment Aura heard Helios calling for Henry she turned her head around to look in his direction. She squinted her eyes to try and focus what little eyesight she had left. Henry was down and people were gathering around him.
"That can't be happening," Aura said, "Henry can't be gone"
It took a moment but Aura did managed to hear the voice, and hint of relief, of Elia as Henry came back to the world of the living. What a surprising turn of events they were living at the moment. Raiden, for some reason, had decided to attack Henry. Was that his plan from the very beginning? To use them to find, and claim, the Source for himself?
Sifrei helped the Guradian Angel to get up, he also noticed how her eyes were focused on her hands and the red veins running through them. He knew of the source of such strange condition, as he had seen it many times millennia ago. The strange condition simply dubbed "Sanguis vindicta". A condition that, more often that not, drove angels into a frenzy madness, making them more agressive, more pysically powerful, but at the cost of sanity. Watching Raiden, or Odin as Mariel called him, made Sifrei stare at his form. Even from this distance he could feel his powerful aura. He was not an opponent to take lightly, unless you wanted to met a swift death. The Archangel followed Mariel from behind.
Rabiyu was surprised that Aqua dared to put herself between Yevgeni and those who he was fighting. Aqua was trying to change Yevgeni's mind, Rabiyu only hoped that could work. At some point Yevgeni looked like he was considering chanching his mind, as he asked Rabiyu what would it mean if he decided to relent to their cause. Rabiyu was about to answer him when the voice of Helios made her turn around only to see Henry laying on the ground and Raiden going towards Nergal. Yevgeni's voice made ehr turn to look at him.
"That is a question that we won't be able to answer. Whatever he gave up to enter this chamber must be the reason for his current behavior. That is what I hope, at least," Rabiyu said to Yevgeni, "Unless this was his plan all along. Nevertheless, it seems that the situation has change."
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Odin frowned as Nergal cut his makeshift eye patch cleanly off, the hidden, pitch-black orbit glaring out at him angrily, yet his remaining eye seemed unfazed. This fey was fast enough to catch his hand throughout all of the mayhem, and he seemed to mock his attempt to grab the Source. He activated search magic and scanned over Nergal as he was lobbed sideward, and yet Odin did not let go. He went along for the ride, and while he did so he came upon a discovery. It was true, there was nothing in Nergal's hand. If so, it must have been there in that pouch, if judging from the weight and size of the whatever was lying within.
Catching the lightning beast's mad lunge towards him as he landed squarely on his feet, Odin held his free hand in front of him with a unique handsign, one which absorbed lightning strikes in order to fuel his own power. If Arthur was after his energy, he would likely be disappointed to know that he lost more energy than he took in after Flying General's Lightning Channel took effect.
Using the recently gained energy, Odin riposted against Nergal with another interesting use of magic: Flying General's Lightning Arrow. With such a short distance between the two, the arrow would fire out of Odin's index finger past Nergal and towards Nergal's pursestrings, allowing the pouch to drop and the Source of All Life with it. If successful, claiming the power source would be easy.
Unfortunately, the cat was out of the bag with the rest of the group. They learned of his actual identity and muttered, talked, and even shouted among themselves about his sudden changes, but he stayed silent and wondered what they would do. Would they try to reason with him? Rush him? Try to kill him? Unfortunately he was beyond all of them, above needing any of them. Connections with others was a meaningless pursuit, he realised this now. He did well to discard this . . . or was it removed of him through the wish? He mused quickly over this before shaking his head free of uncertainty. Odin needed only Odin, and while his previous selves, especially Raiden, strove for connections he did not need it.
One last thought crossed his mind before he refocused on the task at hand: Henry survived. Quite sadly the walking corpse still harboured enough strength to recuperate, but now was not the time to attempt to finish the job. Once the Source was claimed, he would be more than happy to deliver the coup de grâce and finish the abominable merger of man and fey blood.
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Helios was tossed across, rolling on the floor before standing up on his feet. He roared, the wolf like beast he took form of slowly fading into his original form among smoke. He would look up, his eyes wide as he looked over. "Henry!" He screamed, panic rising across his chest. Was he dead? Was Henry dead? "Henry!" He screamed, rushing from where he stood straight to his friend. "Henry!" He yelled, dropping down next to him and Elia...he was still alive. He was coughing up blood, but holy crap, he was still alive. How?! He wasn't going to be the one to question the ancients on a given miracle. "Henry, you're fine, you're fine!" Helios whispered, looking down at his friend. He pressed his hands against the floor beneath. His mind was spinning, there was so much going on...and they still had yet to gain a hold of the source. He was surprised...why hadn't Nergal used it yet? He could have ended this long ago, yet he has continued to play with them as it was. He reached into his bag; one potion left. He looked down at Henry. He was half-fey due to the blood transfusion, this could work. This could help him speed up the recovery. He looked up at Elia. "Help me." He spoke, looking back down and carefully lifting Henry up. With Elia's help, he had him sit up and opened his mouth. "You're going to hate the taste, but this is for your own good." He hissed, opening the potion and pouring it down his mouth. The more he looked at Elia, the more familiar she seemed...it must have been his imagination. "Please work." Helios whispered. What was once Arthur would disappear into static, only to reappear further away, blinking in between reality and myth. There would be some sort of a growl. A static voice, sparking as it spoke with a distorted echo. "RaidEn?" It hissed, sounding confused, concerned...hurt?
--Athena, Everyth, and Alderon – Isopolis: City of Isolation
The princess seemed confused when Aura voiced her concerns about Henry, not being particularly familiar with the dreadnaught. While he had been imprisoned by her father at one point in time, she was seldom privy to the activities that went down in the labs and prisons. She glanced over in that direction, though there was so much chaos that she had difficulty pinpointing which one was Henry.
"It seems that Raiden has betrayed us," Athena explained to her father in short. "He has attacked one of our own, Henry, and proceeds to move toward our opponent."
The king chortled at the mention of Henry. "It is odd to think of Henry as being 'one of our own,' though trust me: if anyone can survive a death blow, it would be him. I have been . . . surprised by how resilient he is." Feeling his way around, the king rose to his feet, using his claymore as a cane for guidance. "I would like to speak to Raiden myself. If one of you young women would help me over . . . ?"
"No, Father," Athena insisted. "I will not get you that close to the fighting. It is too dangerous with your eyesight being robbed of you."
"It is what I must do," he explained to her grimly. "I have an obligation to my people to serve, Athena, regardless of my current state. Surely you must understand to some extent?"
"I do not," Athena replied stubbornly, folding her arms over her chest. "You cannot see. I do not know what you can possibly do that would–"
"Raiden was a companion, ally, but also friend," Alderon said, his tone imploring. "I must speak with him. Surely there must be some explanation to his actions other than treason. He would not double-cross us so, or at least I should think not."
"I beg your pardon, milord, but you did not assume that Lady Midnea would double-cross you, and there she is." The aged Everyth appeared from seemingly out of nowhere, causing Athena to give a start. Alderon did not seem bothered, though was uncertain of who she was. When he inquired the aged woman merely gave a hollow laugh, before gripping the king's upper arm.
"Oh, what we've become. I being a ragged hag, while you a blind king. We both have been made rather useless, but we might as well put ourselves to the best of use that we can. Come, my lord, allow me to be your eyes and lead you to Lord Raiden."
"Lady Everyth," Athena muttered sadly, watching as the shadow of her former guardian led her blinded father away in the direction of the action, before Nergal and the altar.
Alderon could not see, yet this did not weaken his determination. He stood proudly, head and shoulders held high, his claymore rooted firmly between his feet. He turned his head in the direction of Odin's voice, though his gray eyes did not leave the ground as he spoke.
"Lord Raiden," he said, voice strained. "What is the meaning of your actions? Why have you forsaken one of our own? Have you gone back on your word, your promise to me? What about our dream of unity and peace–has it been all but forgotten to you now?"
--Yevgeni Malachite -- Isopolis: City of Isolation
"I seldom knew Raiden," Yevgeni admitted. "But I somewhat doubt that this was his plan all along. Very few even knew of the existence of the Source of All Life. For him to predict this turn of events and play us all from the beginning would've been highly unlikely, considering he has been preaching unity and peace for over a millennia. Something must have changed for him, whether it have been at the Gate or otherwise."
The blond paused, recalling the Infiltrator that he had met, negotiating a war and recalling the individual's disdain for Raiden. Was the infiltrator somehow involved? Yevgeni had no way to determine it, and the present was no time for him to reflect upon this longer.
This was the moment, the perfect moment to get the upper hand while there was confusion among their ranks, and yet . . . why could he not bring himself to attack? Instead he moved past their group, pausing at Rabiyu's side as he spoke. "Things have indeed changed. For now I must protect the Source of All Life, because, while my motives are far from pure, at least they are not involving further destruction. If Raiden has forsaken his life's ambition, who knows what his goal is with the Source of All Life? If you will permit me, Lady Eliltari, I would like to aid you in stopping the Mystran Lord. I will not set aside my goal, but for the time being I would like to lend you my blade, if you will accept. There is no telling what harm he will do if the Source is in his hands, which I cannot permit. We have a common goal."
- Rabiyu and Aura - Isopolis: The City of Isolation -
Aura listened to the king and princess bicker about if the king should go near the battle that was happening at the moment, with the princess telling him that it would be dangerous in his current state. Aura agreed with the princess, it was certainly dangerous for the king to get closer, and without his eyesight it could prove fatal
She also could hear Helios's voice calliong Henry's name, which made her worry about both her partner and her friend, until Helios said he was fine. This made Aura let out a sigh of relief. Aura heard an unknown, yet familiar voice, and as she turned to look around she saw the figure of a woman, an old woman, judging by the voice. Apparently this was Everyth, if what the princess said was to be believed. Apparently she had also lost something, her youth.
"I may not be of much use at the moment princess," Aura said, "but I will try to protect you, even if my sight is limited."
Rabiyu's bow sloly went down as Yevgeni stopped next to her. She listened to what he had to say while also watching Raiden's movements. What had changed inside the once fair lord of Mystras that made him attack one of his own allies without any sign of hesitation.
"Whatever his goal is now, he attacked his own ally. I am sure Henry will see that as a treason, and I do not blame him," She said to Yevgeni, "I will accept your help Yevgeni, but know that I haven't lost the hope that you can change your path. I do not want to see more bloodshed. My mind has already seen enough of it."
The last part was barely a whisper, something that was only for her. With the loss of her happier memories Rabiyu only had the bad times to remember, times where others would insults her, children that would throw pebbles, or worse. It was for those reasons that she left her life in the city. To escape the pain of not remembering what she had done to deserve such hate. But she had to focus at what was going on at the moment. Raiden and the Source had to be her priority.
"We will fight together for the time being, as I fear Raiden will be a tough opponent. It would be unwise to fight him alone," She said, "Let us stop him before something that we won't be able to change happens."
Mariel gritted her teeth at Odin's silence. Was this due to his sacrifice to get here, or had this been brewing from before? That change in him before they came to Isopolis. The angel cursed herself for not paying closer attention. For not following the signs that were right in front of her. This self recrimination became an avenue for the rage to trickle back into her mind. Fueled again, the Sanguis Vindicta helped her push past her wounds.
With her steps more assured, Mariel marched on Odin.
"It looks like you sacrificed more than you could afford." She challenged Odin, a small part of her trying not to think that she had done the same. "I should have seen this coming. One more mess I let happen. Well, I'll make sure to clean this one up!"
The last sentence was more of a growl. With eyes beginning to glow again, the angel paused a moment to set her feet before launching herself into a charge at her former charge.
- Nergal, the Queenslayer - Isopolis, City of Isolation, Odin's Gambit -
The betrayal of Odin was not well-received by anyone present, as to be expected, though it seemed to exceed Soren's as Odin was unsympathetic, uncaring and uninterested in the complaints, outbursts and threats hurled his way, even with a lightning entity attacking him. All he focused on was Nergal...a little too much, it would seem. Soon enough, Odin acted once more, focusing his power from earlier toward the string that held Nergal's Purse in place, astonishing him but the Queenslayer was able to catch the pouch mid-fall, but Nergal's grasp was too fast and as such, flawed, for he gripped it in such a way that forced the Source of All Life out of its cloth sheath, requiring a second grab from Nergal, meaning even with his absurd speed; Odin could still be within a shot of taking the Crystal, even with it in Nergal's hand.
"The Source is not yours to bear, Thunder Lord!"
- Soren Monroe, The Sentinel Renewed, Human Form - Isopolis, City of Isolation, Betrayal of Odin -
Nothing was deterring Odin One-Eye...not their words, not their attacks, not even Nergal's speed. It was like the Thunder Lord of Legend just didn't give a damn, not a care in the world would be spared for any of them and that would be just fine for Odin, even if it killed them all. For a while even, it seemed that Henry was dead to rights, though he managed to survive that shattering blow he took. One swipe of his sword and the Dreadnought almost fell for good...it terrified Soren to no end, but if he were to show it, it would be both weakness and a disservice to his comrades, those he swore to himself to protect with his life. So Soren simply gritted his teeth, breathing deeply, before raising his arms down and outward, transforming into his Demonic Form with an enraged roar and a pillar of hell's flames.
In his three fingers, he gripped his blade aflame harder and looked to Yevgeni, advancing toward him.
"That's not Raiden." Soren began in a low voice, his other hand totally clenched as he held back his anger. "The man I knew would never, ever, do such a thing as this...even your treachery pales." He went on, his gaze piercing as he stopped before the elf, who seemed to want to ally with them as to stop Odin, seemingly forsaking Nergal, unless he too was pragmatic. "I should kill you...but, you're right. If we do not stop Odin, I...I don't even want to think about it." Soren admitted, relaxing, albeit just a little bit, looking to the Queenslayer engaged with the Thunder Lord.
"Even he shouldn't be left alone with Odin, so if you want to stop him, then consider calling your lackey to attention!" His words developed into a bellow, eyes back to Yevgeni as he leaned in just a little as to add another sentiment.
"He's been loyal to you, after all. The least you could do for him is repay that which you never gave us." Soren's words were seething with venom, yet it was a quiet utterance rather than a hateful spitting, as if to put things into perspective for Alexander's Retainer.
- Odin, within Isopolis -
If Odin had time to marvel at Nergal's speed, or answer Alderon, he would likely have done so, though he only had enough time to fixate his attention on his goal and strike while the iron was hot. In the fortuitous moment of opportunity, he seized upon Nergal's hand, this time truly having the Source of All Life within his grasp, and held true.
"The Source shall be mine for some time!" he spat back to Nergal, smiling wickedly in triumph before his eye led towards the charging angel, Mariel arresting his immediate attention. While she was fast, he was faster and held out a palm above him. "Thunderbird's Egg," he muttered, creating a protective barrier of intense electricity that spiraled around him in a spherical manner.
This field about him was able to defend him from all but small projectiles (and underground assaults) with its incredibly high voltage. The magic would not last long, but anybody stepping close to the cage of spiraling electricity would be horrifically shocked. Both unfortunately and fortunately, Nergal was currently not at risk of the electric barrier, being within the sphere of influence, though in the case that he tried anything funny that could shock them both he gripped the stone tight and voiced a prayer.
"Source, yield me a portion of your power and become the fuel for my ambitions," he intoned, his remaining eye lit up in eagerness.
After so many sacrifices and painstaking labours, he finally reached a reward worthy of all the hard work and toil he put into his many years. It was too early to make a wish, and Nergal seemed to be keeping the wish for Yevgeni if that time came. It is too bad Odin was about to ensure that such a time will never come.
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- Henry and Mikhail - The wounded man - Near Death Delirium -
As everyone did their actions, some of which went over to help Henry: Helios, Elia and Mikhail all went to him, sat him up and Helios even administered a potion to Henry, who drank it without any motion or reaction, while Henry's breathing was pained and low, it was enough for him to remain alive through it, but he was basicaly in a state of semi unconciousness, where he couldn't really make out what was happening as his brain was failing due to the little ammount of air coming to it. He could hear everyone else's voices, and the potion did its work on some parts of his body, though his body would unconcioussly recoil and twitch due to his human side of his physiology rejecting the fey potion. Causing his wounds to heal at an accelerated pace, but his organs to fail due to the complications.
"Damn, the part of his human body is rejecting the potions, its causing organ failure!" Mikhail exclaimed much to Helios and Elia's horror, "It is healing him alright, but I have to give him something so his organs don't fail...but..." Mikhail said as he slowly pulled out a yellow-ish orange potion phial, and administed the yellow liquid to Henry, letting hit go down his throat and onto his body, the potion's name was Gadwall, a well known and used Witcher potion which accelerated the body's nautral healing by over 10 times the normal ammount, but it was extremely toxic and could kill a fully grown fey in minutes, let alone a human. But there was a small chance of success. It was their only shot at saving Henry's life. Henry's body stopped twitching and spasming, but he remained motionsless, His eyes seemingly that of someone who was dead inside. But his breathing was steady, and the energy within him kept building up...
Typhon Junior also flew into the scene, quickly beginning to patch up and close the wound on Henry's chest.
"Am I dead?"
"No...it doesn'tseem that way...but where am I? I can't see anything..."
"Yet I feel so peaceful here..."
"I don't remember anything..."
"Am I going to die here?"
"No...I can't..."
"But I don't know what to do..."
"I can't protect anyone."
"I can't even protect myself..."
"Then what is this feeling of...sorrow?"
"Who was I with? and why?"
"Just to lead to my own death?"
"I don't know..."
- Typhon, Alastor and Alicia - The Isolated Fight -
"Well aren't you two astoundingly apathetic..." Typhon snarked at Athena and Alderon's comments about Henry's fate. "Guess thats royalty for you. Everyone's expendable but your own..." Typhon remarked and walked off before giving them a chance to even retort, as he simply walked foward to face off whatever it is that was their enemy now. Following along with Soren and Yevgeni. "Well knowing how hopeless you feys are, I wouldn't be surprised if he harbored different personalities within himself." Typhon commented, adding his own brand of snark as well. as he stood silent to see what Odin would do.
Alicia stood silent, powering up meanwhile, focusing on assisting anyone that attacked to get Odin's attention.
Alastor however, followed straight up with Mariel who charged headfirst at Odin, Alastor did as well, arriving beside him much earlier than Mariel with lightning step, a shock from Odin's electric barrier shot towards him, it was hopelessly absorbed by the Lightning Master's power, adding it to his own, now draconic infused power.
He extended his hand "Al Spaan Magicka". He chanted a draconic spell of incredible power, capable of piercing and destroying any barrier by tearing it apart, whether it would had immediate effect or not remained to be seen, but Odin's spell would barrier would be rendered vastly weaker, if completely nulled.
Following up with his chant, he summoned his sword, and with a draconic infused slash, shot a massive draconic energy shockwave at the barrier, if it hadn't been broken by his dragon spell, it would be utterly destroyed by his attack. Allowing Mariel to do her charge almost danger free.
- Maxis - Terminal corruption -
Maxis reacted too late for Meksis's attack, as he was distracted by Hektor, Meksis ran him through from behind with his stinger-like attack, Recoiling and flailing wildly Maxis attempted to knock him off, but was merely met with Hektor dashing at him, delivering a knee strike to his face and proceeding to shove his entire arm into his chest again, This time with much more force and ferocity. Maxis screamed loudly, seemingly in pain. Trying to shake them both off.
"Meksis...now!" Hektor shouted at Meksis, to do his domination attack
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Upon Odin's prayer the blue crystal began to glow, its eerie light casting a blue aura upon the faces nearby. A loud hum filled the chamber, though only the words spoken could be heard by Odin and, ironically, Nergal. It seemed as though several voices were speaking, though their words were perfectly synchronized, its voice being neither masculine nor feminine.
"Odin One-Eye," it said, its words falling to Odin and Nergal alone. "We have awaited your arrival for many a millennia and knew this day would come. Inside your heart may be a desire for power, yet your desires for that power are darker still. We have awakened from our slumber and descended upon the Overworld due to a great loss, in order to revive that which has been devoid of all life. Your use of us is not in our design, and yet we will not prohibit you from your wish. The results, however, may not be as you would envision them."
With that, a wind began to blow through the changeless city, slow at first before picking up into a violent gust. It began to swirl around Odin, ensnaring him in a mini typhoon, though Nergal, too, was barely caught within its radius. What should happen if Nergal were to do anything to prevent Odin from obtaining the Source's power?
Yevgeni Malachite
The blond said nothing to Rabiyu's words of optimism, the fellow elf believing in his ability to change. His loyalty to his late father was unwavering, though his ambition had indeed wavered. Several times, in fact. In his heart he secretly doubted his actions, though he did not voice his concerns to the others. Odin was a nice distraction from his inner reflection, albeit an unwelcome one. The Mystran Lord seemingly embraced the Source of All Life as his own, having snatched it up from his friend and fellow comrade.
Yevgeni shot a glare at Soren, whose words cut through him nearly as sharp as any blade. "To what are you insinuating, traitorous demon?" he snapped. "That I will not aid him, or switch sides so flippantly that I might as well be trying on hats? That was you, dear friend, and not me. At least I have been consistent in my dealings, even if they were abhorrent." He flicked his blond locks over his shoulder, emerald eyes flashing over toward the position where Nergal and Odin stood. "However, you would be correct. Nergal has not known me for long, but never have I seen such a loyal soul, willing to do the bidding that even I myself couldn't be entrusted with. He has followed me through it all, and I cannot abandon him. Even if we haven't seen eye-to-eye always, I must at least do my part and aid him."
With that, he turned toward his new temporary allies, eyes falling upon his nephew, Jynn. "Your Highness, I would advise you to not get too close to Odin just yet. The humans and fey of Kilkis Seres need you alive. Without you, who else could possibly lead them to prosperity? Allow me and Lady Eliltari to take up the front." Yev nodded toward Rabiyu respectfully, entirely ignoring Soren–deliberately–and gliding along the battlefield swiftly. Not swiftly enough, however, for before he could make a motion toward Odin he found himself and Nergal to be ensnared by the winds of the Source of All Life.
"No," he murmured, eyes darting between them frantically. "There's no way that this could be happening. Not like this."
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"Please don't let him die," implored the fairy, glancing at the Witcher with a tear-stained face. "Do what you must. We have come so far."
Even still, Elia was blaming herself for Henry's current affliction. Never would she have guessed that the Mystran Lord would betray even his own, but had Elia not insisted she wasn't so sure that Henry would've been within the line of fire that he had.
A handkerchief was visible from the corner of Elia's eye, which she turned to accept. It was being extended by an elderly woman, her violet gaze vibrant and fixated on Henry. "He will be alright," she assured Elia. "I've seen him go through worse, or nearly. Henry is strong, and he knows that we need him. He'll pull through, child, just watch."
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG), which has been unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of ITG and Virtu. Virtu has agreed to acquire ITG in a cash transaction valued at $30.30 per ITG share.
Clients to benefit from the combination of ITG’s world-class execution services, workflow solutions, and analytics offerings with Virtu’s technological excellence, operational efficiency, and deep liquidity
Virtu to increase operating scale and organic revenue growth profile through the addition of ITG
Transaction further diversifies Virtu following the successful acquisition of KCG, increasing stability of future earnings
This significant acquisition underscores Virtu’s commitment to its institutional client franchises and is a natural next step in its growth by offering its clients a complete suite of agency services, including transparent trading and workflow technology, analytics, and liquidity solutions that all leverage Virtu’s global, scaled technology infrastructure.
Douglas A. Cifu
Virtu’s focus and investment in our agency offering is evidenced by the continued growth in our business and the strong uptick we’ve seen this year and through October. The combination announced today brings together complementary strengths that amplify our ability to help our clients source liquidity and improve their workflow,” said Douglas A. Cifu, Virtu’s Chief Executive Officer.
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ITG has built a first-class global institutional client franchise with incredible people that will benefit from this strategic combination. We are fully committed to growing and improving the complete agency execution offering that ITG’s clients use every day – Liquidity, Execution Services, Workflow Technology and Analytics. This combination will leverage Virtu’s financial technology – the same technology that drives our market making performance – to optimize all aspects of the business, from order routing and algo performance to middle- and back-office efficiency.
The transaction is expected to close during the 1st half of 2019 after receipt of ITG shareholder approval and all required regulatory approvals.
Significant Value Creation through Operating Scale
In addition to enhanced client experience, the transaction is expected to provide a significant amount of additional scale and financial benefits to Virtu. Within two years of the completion of the transaction, Virtu expects to realize approximately $123 million of net pre-tax expense savings, in addition to $125 million of capital synergies. These savings do not include any revenue enhancements that Virtu anticipates will result from the transaction.
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The transaction further diversifies Virtu by increasing its revenue contribution from Technology and Execution Services from 10% to 37%, which will lower quarter-to-quarter earnings volatility. Technology and Execution Services is highly complementary to Virtu’s core market making business, providing further opportunities to organically grow revenue with existing clients and technology.
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Virtu intends to fund the all-cash transaction with new gross borrowings of $1.5 billion. Virtu intends to repay the $400 million aggregate principal amount outstanding under its existing term loan.
Virtu has received committed financing from Jefferies and Royal Bank of Canada for up to $1.5 billion of debt financing for the transaction.
Virtu intends to maintain its annual dividend of $0.96 per share after the close of the transaction.
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Following the close of the transaction, Douglas A. Cifu, Chief Executive Officer of Virtu Financial, will remain CEO of the combined company. Joseph A. Molluso, Virtu’s Chief Financial Officer, will remain the CFO of the combined company.
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All That Ultraviolence Bothers The People Who Make Video Games, Too
Evan Narcisse
Jun 17, 2012, 10:30am
Did all the neck-stabbing, animal-killing, city-destroying carnage at E3 stand out to you this year? Whether you were there in person or not, it was hard not to notice the uptick in egregious on-screen violence at the 2012 edition of the expo and that rising trend dominated much of the talk coming out in the aftermath of the show.
Hell, even the high-powered folks behind some of the show's biggest games and platforms found themselves surprised at the amount gore and pain doled out at E3. In a recent interview with Games Industry International, Warren Spector says that the following:
The ultraviolence has to stop. We have to stop loving it. I just don't believe in the effects argument at all, but I do believe that we are fetishizing violence, and now in some cases actually combining it with an adolescent approach to sexuality. I just think it's in bad taste. Ultimately I think it will cause us trouble.
Spector's currently working on Epic Mickey 2 but once upon a time he himself helped make Deus Ex, a first-person game with its own share of violent gameplay. But the approach that he and his Ion Storm colleagues took was a bit different, he says:
We've gone too far. The slow-motion blood spurts, the impalement by deadly assassins, the knives, shoulders, elbows to the throat. You know, Deus Ex had its moments of violence, but they were designed - whether they succeeded or not I can't say — but they were designed to make you uncomfortable, and I don't see that happening now.
I think we're just appealing to an adolescent mindset and calling it mature. It's time to stop. I'm just glad I work for a company like Disney, where not only is that not something that's encouraged, you can't even do it, and I'm fine with it.
Aside from Spector, Microsoft exec and longtime games industry insider Phil Harrison said that he was also taken aback by all the ultraviolence in an Edge interview:
"I was surprised, I must admit, at some of the games. I think it's an inevitable progression of visual reality and visceral immersion that games can get quite ultra-realistic.
Harrison's less worried, though, because he feels other offerings can counteract violent games as far as the big picture is concerned:
"Thankfully, everybody adheres to a very good ratings system, and makes sure that consumers are well-informed before they buy their games. I think it's more coincidental than anything — I don't think it's a strategy that everybody has adopted simultaneously. So long as it's part of a balanced portfolio, it's OK."
At a sensory overload extravaganza like E3, loud, noisy and shocking tends to win the day. The goal of the gameplay demo, trailers and booth babes is to turn attendees' heads and steal their attention from competing games and publishers. But what both Spector and Harrison's comments have in common is a sense that the relationship between what gets prominently shown at E3 and what the video game medium is capable of is proportionately off.
zombieface777 @mikezombie777
We don't have to stop loving it and they don't have to stop making it. Sure, some games rely far too much on gore to sell but in the long run the market will deal with that automatically. As an adult why the hell would I be overly interested in children's Disney movies? Get real. Yes many games take a highly adolescent approach to certain elements but who cares? If you don't like it, don't play it.
garble Guest
They will keep doing it until hopefully, one day, it starts getting old.
Too much blood and gore desensitizes me to it. I didn't feel impacted by Mortal Kombat at all.
SaltyBlakey Guest
because mortal kombat is a fucking cartoon.
Gabbleduck Guest
Stu Guest
Jun 17, 2012, 12:00pm
Violence has been in entertainment for as long as entertainment has existed, and gaming have just come up with a new way to express it. I don't think they're any more or less likely to breed psychopaths than any other medium out there, and if there's a market for it, that's what's going to be produced.
Personally, I play Mario just as much as Bioshock;so long as the game is good, the violence isn't important.
malk @malk
I think alot of people who have responded negatively to the remarks by spector and co arent responding to what he has said. They are responding to stuff they remember other people saying.
Case in point, spector hasnt made any connection at all between violence in games and breeding pyschopaths, thats not what he was talking about at all.
TEA-REX @Trex
I've always wondered why the world is obsessed with violence but is so offended by nudity/sex?
Jeebuz Guest
They use one to vent their frustration at a lack of the other?
scruffy @Scruffy
It's more the USA than anyone else, most likely due to their extremely serious view on religion. The Bible is littered with extreme violence, but very little in the way of sex, apparently.
Having said that, it'd be nice if more games at least gave us some less-violent options, i.e. Deus Ex.
thetacoman @Steven
'Please play my Mickey Game and not those other ultraviolent ones'
prohass @Calum
People who say things like "we have to stop doing this" when it comes to media, I feel like saying, how about you do something different and convince us that its better? Its such a narrow and absurd argument ,as if their own predilections should govern what an entire industry produces. Im sorry, if you find ultraviolence bad in video games, produce non-ultraviolent video games which are more compelling.
Everyone always says how violence is so easy and dumb, its kind of an insult to creative people who make amazing games which have violence in them.
Axley Guest
I look forward to a whole new generation of people raised with more and more realistic video game violence, hardcore online porn, virtual friends and a myriad of internet social disorders.
Its a bright new world, but they'll always have their ipads.
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Aussie Nintendo Store: About Muddy Time
Daniel Vuckovic
It's been a long time coming but the retro-styled platformer Mutant Mudds is finally here on the eShop. It's the only game this week but that doesn't matter everyone's waiting for Wii U now right?
Mutant Mudds (Renegade Kid, $13.50) A brilliant plat former from Renegade Kid. We might have been waiting a while for it but Renegade Kid have been working on it for even longer with the game initially starting off as a project on the Nintendo DS for retail. Mutant Mudds doesn't stray too far from most platformers out there for the most part apart from the rocking water jetpack which you'll need to master to proceed further in the game.
The game also looks amazing. Many people complain the 3DS screen is low resolution and it is, but with Mutant Mudds you won't notice the game pops and looks great in 3D. The 3D effect also allows for multiple planes of platforming. It's great fun.
I've had the US version of the game for a while now and have nearly finished it, I can't often recommend a game in these updates because well I'm not buying them all. But this one is worth the money.
For all the latest Nintendo news, head to Vooks
Ben J @Ben J
Damn that's expensive.
Still waiting for VVVVVV. I tried asking the developer when/if it's arriving but he won't answer me :l
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Kessler & Solomiany, LLC > Info > Books
Educating lawyers and the public on Family Law Issues is very important to our firm. For this reason we have helped various authors and have even authored a few family law books of our own. Please feel free to review the books listed on this page that cover a variety of topics such as divorce, mediation, child custody, and others. Others will be added over the coming months. Click here to see a list of other Recommended Books.
DIVORCE: Protect Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Future
By Randall M. Kessler This book is what every good divorce lawyer wishes their clients had read before the case. It will provide the reader with insight that often takes months or years and thousands of dollars to acquire. "Divorce: Protect Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Future" will give you a head start in this difficult process. Knowledge is power, so why not become knowledgeable about the process, and why not gain that knowledge now, before you spend more time and money learning many of the same lessons the hard way?
A CUP OF COFFEE WITH 10 OF THE TOP DIVORCE ATTORNEYS IN THE UNITED STATES
By Marvin L. Solomiany and Randy Van Ittersum A Cup Of Coffee With 10 Of The Top Divorce Attorneys In The United States – This book is for anyone contemplating a divorce or currently going through a divorce. Ten of the top divorce attorneys in the United States will provide you with valuable insights and guide you through the unfamiliar territory of the legal aspects in a divorce. This book will provide accurate information about the most stressful issues you will face during a divorce, such as which process you should use in your divorce: collaboration, mediation, or litigation, and issues surrounding child custody, alimony, and fathers’ rights? You will also learn how to find the best attorney to represent you in your divorce. Divorce can be one of the most life changing events that you will ever experience, and the decisions you make during the divorce proceedings will affect you and your children long after the divorce is final. This book provides powerful insights into the divorce process and should be required reading for anyone facing a divorce.
How to Mediate a Georgia Divorce
By Randall M. Kessler Topics include:
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LIBRARY OF GEORGIA Family Law Forms
By Randall M. Kessler What if you had the magic language that could get your client what the best outcome in their divorce? What if you knew that you were starting with tried-and-true letters, motions and other documents? These are questions that Randall M. Kessler kept in mind as he crafted Georgia Library of Family Law Forms, containing more than 235 practice-oriented forms and sample letters from the library of Atlanta domestic relations boutique Kessler & Solomiany LLC. The anthology includes a CD-Rom of the MS Word forms and Excel worksheets that can be customized for each firm and modified for each case. Georgia Library of Family Law Forms is organized into 27 chapters, including Service, Discovery, Financial Affidavits and Worksheets, Paternity/Legitimatization, and a 45-part sample settlement agreement.
Hanging On By My Fingernails: Surviving the New Divorce Gamesmanship, and How a Scratch Can Land You in Jail
Legal commentary Randall M. Kessler In Hanging On By My Fingernails: Surviving the New Divorce Gamesmanship, and How a Scratch Can Land You in Jail, seasoned journalist, author, and set-up victim Janie McQueen warns women about destructive divorce tactics and nasty traps legal professionals have defended against for years--but which most divorcing people are not savvy to until it’s too late. Randall M. Kessler, Esq., founding partner of Kessler & Solomiany, LLC, is a primary source of legal insights in this vital and extremely timely resource for women. Not only does Kessler offer keen insights into how these tactics are used, he also shares ways potential victims might avoid them, and remain safe throughout the difficult divorce process.
The Forensic Accounting Deskbook: A Practical Guide to Financial Investigation and Analysis for Family Lawyers
Forward by Randall M. Kessler For as long as I have known Miles Mason, he has been a thoughtful leader and practitioner in the domestic relations arena. I first got to know Miles over 10 years ago when we were traveling the Tennes- see circuit together, lecturing from Knoxville to Nashville to Mem- phis. From that experience, as well as from observing him present two exceptional CLE programs in Atlanta, I have come to understand that Miles Mason is indeed one of the foremost authorities in the country on forensic accounting and business valuation in family law cases. Over the years, Miles has always been available to me and to others in our Atlanta, Georgia, firm to help with questions in this area, and we have benefited greatly from his advice. The Forensic Accounting Deskbook is the end result of over 10 years of thought and energy that he has devoted to the subject, and it is wonderful that he has decided to share it with the rest of us.
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Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Debate In Iowa Ahead Of Caucuses
By Danielle Kurtzleben & Asma Khalid • Jan 14, 2020
Originally published on January 14, 2020 3:05 pm
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The Democratic primary has turned into a slugfest recently, just as the candidates prepare to meet in Iowa. It's likely to be an unpredictable debate tonight in Des Moines, less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, which also appear totally unpredictable. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben and Asma Khalid are in Des Moines getting ready to cover tonight's debate.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: Hi there.
DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Let's start with who's going to be on the stage. It's a smaller group than in the past. Danielle, give us the rundown.
KURTZLEBEN: Right. We have six candidates on the stage this time, down from seven last time, the smallest stage yet. We have former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar and billionaire activist Tom Steyer. Those are the six. You notice I said, down from seven last time. The seventh candidate who was on the stage last time and is not this time is entrepreneur Andrew Yang. So this will be the first all-white slate of candidates we have on a debate stage yet here.
Also, in the last week, we had Senator Cory Booker drop out of the race, an African American man, of course. So the field of candidates will be the whitest yet up there, and that is something that has not escaped many Democrats' attention.
SHAPIRO: We mentioned how unpredictable the race seems at this point. Asma, do you expect that tonight's debate will help sort things out?
KHALID: So in the past, I would say debates have not really led to sort of substantive changes in the polls. But if there is a debate to possibly have an impact, I would argue that this might be the one. It is smaller, and it is in Iowa, just a couple of weeks before the caucuses begin.
You know, also, we've begun to see some of the candidates take really public jabs at one another. For one, Sanders has been hitting Biden over his Iraq War vote. We also saw one of Sanders' senior campaign advisers write an op-ed saying that the former vice president had not delivered for African American voters. And so, you know, I could expect to see some of these sharp critiques filter onto the debate stage tonight.
SHAPIRO: Let's talk specifically about this rift between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, which has gotten intense, over an allegation that Sanders told Warren a woman can't win. Sanders denies that. What do you think that'll mean tonight at the debate?
KURTZLEBEN: Well, I - first of all, the thing that it will mean for tonight is that the two candidates will have to address it to each other, with each other in person, on stage, as opposed to via surrogates and via emailed statements and that sort of thing.
Aside from that, I'm curious how much they will get into the substance of what Sanders allegedly said, the substance at the center of this discussion, which is sexism in politics. You know, voters have been saying to us throughout this campaign that they are, at the very least, nervous about whether or not a woman can be elected against Donald Trump in 2020. So to the extent that we get a frank discussion of sexism in politics on that stage, that could be something interesting and something new.
KHALID: I mean, we should also point out that this is a fight - or a rift, we should say, that some progressive organizations don't want to see happening. You know, they have seen Sanders and Warren really lead, they feel, on progressive issues this campaign cycle. The two candidates have largely been on agreement on things. And they worry that any sort of rift between them, especially on the debate stage, might help a candidate like Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg, who they see as a more moderate candidate in the field.
SHAPIRO: There are other candidates, of course. What are you watching for from them?
KURTZLEBEN: Well, one is Pete Buttigieg, who is doing very well in Iowa. He is in that top sort of bunch of four candidates here. And he is doing better here pollingwise than he is nationally. He has a great organization here. And he may be very happy to just watch Sanders and Warren fight it out and Sanders and Biden fight it out and to try to fly under the radar. So that's possible.
One other is Amy Klobuchar, senator from a neighboring state here. She hasn't been getting a whole lot of traction in the polls, but she has been working hard to hit as much of Iowa as possible, to hit every county. And she's gotten a lot of attention in that last debate especially, where she got more time to break through.
KHALID: And lastly, you know, we should mention Tom Steyer. I do think it was surprising to some folks that he qualified for this debate. And in part, he saw an increase in his poll numbers because he's been spending a lot of money on TV ads. So, you know, Ari, you can expect that this is an attack line we're going to see from progressives, you know, questioning whether or not a candidate can essentially, quote-unquote, "buy" their way into this race.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Asma Khalid and Danielle Kurtzleben in Des Moines, Iowa.
KHALID: My pleasure.
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Local News in Brief : Santa Clarita Bans Flyers on Windshields
The Santa Clarita City Council has banned the distribution of commercial handbills on car windshields.
The anti-handbill ordinance, approved by a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, would impose a $50 fine on anyone distributing the handbills on private property without the permission of the property owner. A violator could be fined up to $250 for repeated violations within one year.
Councilwoman Jo Anne Darcy proposed the measure, calling handbills a nuisance and litter problem.
Councilmen Howard P. (Buck) McKeon and Dennis Koontz voted against the ordinance. McKeon said he disliked finding handbills on his windshield but said he did not want to limit the ability of small business owners to advertise.
The ordinance is constitutional because it does not affect non-commercial handbills, such as those carrying religious or political messages, said Assistant City Atty. Michael Woods. State courts have recognized the right of cities to regulate commercial speech, he said.
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Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen goes for a casual balk
Dodgers pitcher Kenley Jansen, right, shakes hands with catcher Russell Martin after earning a save against the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium on Friday.
(Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Getty Images)
By Mike DiGiovannaStaff Writer
With two outs in the ninth inning Friday night, Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward on second base and the Dodgers holding a two-run lead, Kenley Jansen turned to second base umpire D.J. Reyburn and said, “I’m going to balk.”
The Dodgers closer then wiggled his back leg, Reyburn awarded Heyward third base, where he wouldn’t have a clear view of catcher Russell Martin’s signs and glove placement, and with that the intentional balk was born.
“It’s something Bob [Geren, Dodgers bench coach] and I have been talking about since spring training, but I keep forgetting to do it,” said Jansen, who struck out Victor Caratini to end a 5-3 win and notch his 20th save. “I thought it was a good time to try.
“I’m not saying the Cubs are stealing signs or tipping location, but you always have to be on your toes. ... Whether you give up a bloop or a base hit, the guy is going to score from second with two outs.”
Rick Honeycutt, who pitched 21 years in the big leagues and has been the Dodgers’ pitching coach for 14 years, on Saturday was still trying to wrap his head around the move.
“I don’t think I’ve seen an intentional balk,” Honeycutt said, “but I was called for four balks in a [game] when I wasn’t trying to.”
Honeycutt balked four times in a four-inning relief appearance for the Oakland Athletics in a 12-7 win at Seattle on April 13, 1988, giving him a share of the American League record for balks in a game.
Bump in the road
Jansen’s blown save opportunity and loss Saturday night, which came when the right-hander gave up a two-run home run to Anthony Rizzo in the ninth inning, ended at 10 games a scoreless streak that was sparked by a walk-off grand slam that Jansen yielded to San Diego’s Hunter Renfroe on May 5.
“It’s not fun giving up a grand slam, especially at the end,” Jansen said. “It definitely made me angry and put me on a mission. I let that anger be a motivation. That’s what I’ve been doing my entire career, dealing with criticism sometimes. … I kind of let it push me to get better every day.”
Jansen’s ERA jumped from 2.70 to 4.67 after the slam. In his next 10 appearances beginning May 12, he didn’t give up any runs and only four hits in 101/3 innings, striking out 16, walking one and limiting opponents to a .114 average (four for 35) and .391 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.
Jansen converted all eight save opportunities during the run and lowered his ERA to 2.93 before Saturday night’s slip, which knocked his ERA up to 3.45.
“I think that San Diego outing really got him fired up, to be honest,” manager Dave Roberts said. “I know he took that one personal.”
Jansen said he began to feel more locked in after spending much of a May 20 day off before a series in Tampa Bay studying the immaculate inning — nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts — he threw against Miami on May 19, 2017. He found a mechanical flaw in his front arm that he quickly corrected.
“It helped my delivery so much,” Jansen said.
Jansen has done a better job of mixing in his slider and four-seam fastball so hitters can’t lean too heavily on his cut-fastball. His average fastball velocity (91.8 mph) has been good but not as important as the shape of his cutter. Jansen threw 16 cutters Friday night, inducing four swinging strikes and four called strikes.
Jansen was not as sharp Saturday. He hit Kris Bryant with his first pitch and threw a flat 90-mph cutter on a 2-and-0 count to Rizzo, who crushed the mistake for a go-ahead home run.
“Even in the bullpen, I was trying to grind, trying to get the feel [of my pitches],” Jansen said. “It was just a frustrating day today overall. I have to let it go and be ready for the next one.”
Short hops
Matt Beaty was able to retrieve the ball from his first big league home run Friday night without haggling over a price. He plans to give the ball to his father. “It wasn’t hard,” Beaty said. “I just signed a ball, and Belly [Cody Bellinger] signed a ball.” … Reliever Scott Alexander (left forearm inflammation) and outfielder A.J. Pollock (right elbow infection) began playing catch this weekend. … The Dodgers reportedly signed fourth-round pick Brandon Lewis, a power-hitting third baseman from UC Irvine, for $372,500.
Things have turned around for Kenley Jansen after giving up that grand slam against the San Diego Padres on May 5.
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Mike DiGiovanna is a sports writer who contributes to the coverage of the Dodgers, Angels and Chargers for the Los Angeles Times. He won Associated Press Sports Editors awards for feature-story writing in 2017 and game-story writing in 2001 and Orange County Press Club Awards for feature and game-story writing in 1996 and 1997. A native of East Lyme, Conn., and a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, he began writing for The Times in 1981. He has been covering Major League Baseball since 1995 and spent 19 years as the paper’s Angels beat writer and two on the Dodgers.
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Taxing budget for solicitors
By Michael Cross2015-03-19T14:01:00+00:00
The government has moved to legislate in haste to close tax loopholes. But history suggests this is unwise.
One legal figure to crop up in the chancellor’s budget statement published yesterday was the ubiquitous Sir Brian Leveson. The president of the Queen’s Bench Division receives a namecheck in the budget’s section on cutting the cost of government.
With uncharacteristic caution, the budget says the government ‘notes’ the recommendation of Sir Brian’s report on the efficiency of court proceedings and ‘will explore’ how his recommendations can be taken forward.
The budget is less cautious on other matters that may interest solicitors – notably on closing tax loopholes and on those who give professional advice on the subject.
There is particular bad news for principals planning on taking advantage of entrepreneurs’ relief when selling up. The history of entrepreneurs’ relief, introduced by the last government to encourage a start-up culture, could provide a case study of the perils of nudging businesses through targeted tax breaks. Last year, when the chancellor clamped down on tax benefits enjoyed by ‘disguised employees’ of LLPs, it looked like a good move for partners to divert profits into companies, paying the ‘entrepreneur’ rate on liquidation.
Yesterday’s announcement that ‘we will close loopholes to make sure entrepreneurs’ relief is only available to those selling genuine stakes in businesses’ seems to mean that liquidation partners will now face the full capital gains tax rate of 28% – at least until the next targeted tax break comes along. Does anyone fancy investing in my symphony orchestra?
We are also still waiting to see the small print of the government’s response to the Office of Tax Simplification’s review of partnerships, though the budget says the government ‘will consider or take forward over 70% of its recommendations’.
The offshore tax evasion stance seems to be a panicked imperative to be seen to be fighting twin evils
However, potentially the most worrying aspect of this low-key, no-rabbit-out-of-hat budget, is the haste with which the government is rectifying its historic failure to tackle offshore tax evasion. Undeterred by responses to a consultation last year, the Treasury is pressing ahead with the creation of a strict liability offence of offshore tax avoidance.
As the Law Society said last year, ‘the introduction of strict liability for what has traditionally been understood as a crime of dishonesty is a very serious matter which, if it is to be pursued, must be supported by a strong policy rationale’.
Here, the policy rationale seems to be a panicked imperative to be seen to be fighting the twin evils of avoidance and evasion.
See for example, the decision to implement the new diverted profits ‘Google tax’ at the end of April. The hasty introduction of a new strict liability offence is even more alarming, especially as no politician in the current wants to be seen standing up for tax evaders.
The history of legislation rushed through in times of outrage - the Official Secrets Act, the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the Dangerous Dogs Act - provides warning enough against haste. It is unlikely to be heeded.
Michael Cross is Gazette news editor
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Peteet, D.; DelGenio, A.; Lo, K. K. W.
Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres
Faroe-Iceland Ridge Experiment .1. Crustal structure of northeastern Iceland
Staples, R. K.; White, R. S.; Brandsdottir, B.; Menke, W.; Maguire, P. K. H.; McBride, J. H.
Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth
Long-term trends of temperature, salinity, density, and transient tracers in the central Greenland Sea
Bonisch, G.; Blindheim, J.; Bullister, J. L.; Schlosser, P.; Wallace, D. W. R.
Faroe-Iceland Ridge Experiment .2. Crustal structure of the Krafla central volcano
Brandsdottir, B.; Menke, W.; Einarsson, P.; White, R. S.; Staples, R. K.
Feasibility of using sand dunes as archives of old air
Severinghaus, J. P.; Keeling, R. F.; Miller, B. R.; Weiss, R. F.; Deck, B.; Broecker, W. S.
Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change
Cook, E. R.; Peters, K.
Thermohaline circulation, the Achilles heel of our climate system: Will man-made CO2 upset the current balance?
How long and how stable was the last interglacial?
Kukla, G.; McManus, J. F.; Rousseau, D. D.; Chuine, I.
Quaternary Science Reviews
A mechanism for emplacement and concentration of diatoms in glacigenic deposits
Burckle, L. H.; Kellogg, D. E.; Kellogg, T. B.; Fastook, J. L.
Analysis of diel variability in chlorophyll fluorescence
Marra, J.
Journal of Marine Research
Decadal variability of hydrography in the upper northern North Atlantic in 1948-1990
Reverdin, G.; Cayan, D.; Kushnir, Y.
Millennial pulsing of environmental change in southern California from the past 24 ky: A record of Indo-Pacific ENSO events?
Heusser, L. E.; Sirocko, F.
Subsurface quasi-decadal fluctuations in the North Atlantic
Houghton, R. W.
Climate connections between the hemisphere revealed by deep sea sediment core ice core correlations
Charles, C. D.; LynchStieglitz, J.; Ninnemann, U. S.; Fairbanks, R. G.
Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys
Behrendt, J. C.; Saltus, R.; Damaske, D.; McCafferty, A.; Finn, C. A.; Blankenship, D.; Bell, R. E.
Teleconnections between the subtropical monsoons and high-latitude climates during the last deglaciation
Sirocko, F.; GarbeSchonberg, D.; McIntyre, A.; Molfino, B.
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral coiling) as paleoceanographic tracers in polar oceans: Evidence from northeast water Polynya plankton tows, sediment traps, and surface sediments
Kohfeld, K. E.; Fairbanks, R. G.; Smith, S. L.; Walsh, I. D.
A high-resolution marine sedimentary record of geomagnetic intensity during the Brunhes Chron
Schneider, D. A.; Mello, G. A.
Direct U-Th dating of marine sediments from the two most recent interglacial periods
Slowey, N. C.; Henderson, G. M.; Curry, W. B.
Reinterpretation of the RRISP-77 Iceland shear-wave profiles
Menke, W.; Brandsdottir, B.; Einarsson, P.; Bjarnason, I. T.
Geophysical Journal International
Simulation of the mixed-layer circulation in the Arctic Ocean
Holland, D. M.; Mysak, L. A.; Oberhuber, J. M.
Plio-pleistocene megacycles: Record of climate and tectonics
Kukla, G.; Cilek, V.
On the influence of bottom topography on the Agulhas eddy
Kamenkovich, V. M.; Leonov, Y. P.; Nechaev, D. A.; Byrne, D. A.; Gordon, A. L.
Changes in Antarctic Bottom Water properties in the western South Atlantic in the late 1980s
Coles, V. J.; McCartney, M. S.; Olson, D. B.; Smethie, W. M.
Cosmonaut polynya in the Southern Ocean: Structure and variability
Comiso, J. C.; Gordon, A. L.
Tracking the sources of icebergs with lead isotopes: The provenance of ice-rafted debris in Heinrich layer 2
Gwiazda, R. H.; Hemming, S. R.; Broecker, W. S.
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Home News Our biggest algorithm update in years
It’s no secret that we closely monitor our review algorithm continuously. This means, are our ratings still okay? Are we (and you) still happy with the overall rating? And can the algorithm handle certain review patterns (like fraud or review boosting)? From time to time we make minor tweaks to the algorithm, but this time, we felt the algorithm needed a big update and that’s why we’ve just launched our biggest algorithm update since 2012.
This is going to be quite a long blogpost. So let’s start with the conclusion of our algorithm changes. After that you can decide for yourself if you want to know the data behind the changes.
By updating the algorithm:
Our rankings will be more up-to-date and recent
The rating for the golf course becomes an even more important element
Members who write complete reviews are rewarded
Members will keep their contribution points over time
Golf courses have to work harder to keep an active ranking
Want to keep reading? Below is an explanation of what our Algorithm is. You can also skip directly to the various changes we have made to the algorithm:
Contribution Points
Completeness of reviews
Weight of individual items
Depreciation over time
What is the Leadingcourses algorithm?
Nowadays we feel that Leadingcourses.com is much more than just a review platform, although it still is our biggest passion and reason to exist. When we started years ago, our platform was really only about gathering golfers’ reviews about golf courses. To do so, we needed to think of a way to create a honest and transparent rating system for golf clubs. Below a quick explanation how this works.
When a golfer rates a golf club, they do so by giving a grade for 7 different items:
The general impression of the golf club
The course(s) played
The facilities (practice facilities, parking, etc.)
Course maintenance (greens, fairways, tee-boxes, etc.)
Clubhouse (appearance, atmosphere, etc.)
Some people think that the sum of these 7 items divided by 7 gives you the rating for that specific review. That’s not correct. We’ve always felt that certain items (like the golf course) should have more weight than others. We also believe that older reviews are less relevant than new reviews (as things might have changed over time) and that some people are more knowledgeable and credible when rating a golf course.
That is why we created a formula that takes all of this into account, an algorithm. Our rating is one of our main assets and therefore we closely monitor and guard that rating algorithm. We have several mechanisms in place to check if our rating is still correct and robust. We also make sure that our rating algorithm can detect and withstand any fraud or abuse. As our rating is becoming more and more important, people will try to find ways to influence our rating. And it’s our job to make sure our rating is correct at all times.
What we have changed to the algorithm
When we thoroughly reviewed the algorithm we decided to make changes to the following items:
When a member writes a review about a golf club, he gets points for his review. Points used to depreciate over time, so people had to keep contributing to stay at the same level (beginner/bronze/silver/gold). We asked ourselves: “Is it fair that people who join Leadingcourses today and write about their experiences, have more points than older members whose points have already depreciated?” The answer: No.
So, from now on a member will keep the points he received when writing the review(s). This means that more golfers will have a higher status which will have an impact on the overall rating.
A golf club also gets points for every review they get. Based on the number of (total) points, a golf club will have an active (orange) or inactive (grey) ranking. Contribution points for clubs will always keep depreciating so our information stays relevant.
Members also get points for completing their profile. The more complete the profile, the better we can help golfers find the courses that are best suited for them. Because we added some extra fields it was possible to go from a beginner to a bronze user status just by filling in all the fields in your profile. We believe this is not fair, so we amended the number of points you get per filled in field in your profile.
Adding photos to your review also gives you extra points. We found out however, that some people upload way to many photos with their reviews. We are not kidding when we tell you that some users upload an average of 70 – 100 photos per review. One member actually uploaded 178 photos with one single review 😲. This behavior is not really helping other golfers, so we wanted to stimulate golfers to pick out the most relevant ones.
“One member actually uploaded 178 photos with one single review”
Therefor we decided to change the amount of points for photos drastically. You can still upload as many photos as you want, but you will only get points for the first 10 photos per club you upload. We hope this helps golfers to pick the best or most relevant photos of a golf club while preventing people to upload every random photo.
As all changes are implemented retroactively this will have a negative effect on the points of users who have uploaded a lot photos per golf club.
An overviews of the amount of points you get per uploaded photo per club in the old and new situations.
Points per Reputation
Members of Leadingcourses.com can increase their reputation (Beginner/Bronze/Silver/Gold/Pro/Expert/Ambassador) by writing reviews, adding photos and receiving likes on their reviews. We believe that the more someone contributes, the better he is capable to rate and compare a golf club with others.
In the old situation the weight of statuses varied from 50 points for beginners, to 500 points for Pro’s and Experts. In the new situation the weight of statuses varies from 50 points to 300 points. That way a golf club cannot get an active ranking just by having 3 reviews of users with the highest gold status.
Weight of review per reputation:
Beginner: 50 points
Bronze: 150 points
Silver: 250 points
Gold/Ambassador/Pro/Expert: 300 points
“Good course”
Sometimes we get reviews with only one or two words. Although we do approve them (not everybody is a Hemmingway), we do appreciate it when reviews are a little bit more informative and complete. Reviews are meant to tell other golfers how your experience at a certain golf club was. Based on your review, another golfer might decide to play at that golf club. That’s why we had a close look at the completeness factor of a review.
In the old situation, a member could get 50 or 100 points for his review. 50 points when the review had less than 100 characters, 100 points when the review had more than 100 characters.
In the new situation every aspect of the review gives you points. So you get points for:
The overall rating
The course rating(s)
The sub item rating(s)
Your handicap while playing
Date played
Motivation length
So the more complete your review is, the more it will help others and the more points you will receive.
A small but very important change we made is the weight of each individual item in a review. As we said in the beginning, some people think that the sum of the 7 items you score a golf club on divided by 7 gives you the rating for that specific review. That’s not the case.
The golf course on the other hand is the most important item in a review, because that is what it is all about. Without going into individual specifics, we can say that in the new situation the weight of the golf course is a little bit bigger than it was and that makes it the most important of the 7 items. Also a championship course is now more important than an executive course. We do not want a club to receive a lower rating just because they also offer a par 3 course or pitch & putt course. It’s actually great for the sport if they do!
We already mentioned that some items are more important than others. Value for money for instance is a difficult one, as a € 100 green fee might be a lot of money for one person, but mere peanuts for another. That’s why it only counts for a small percentage in the total weight. Value for money does not really ‘say’ something about the course or club, it just indicates that you feel that the price is right (or not).
Depreciation over time (for golf clubs)
To make sure we stay relevant, we depreciate the points over time for reviews given to a golf club. That way golf clubs are motivated to keep gathering reviews by golfers so the rating stays accurate. This is very important as golfers will base their choice on the ratings of a golf club.
Let’s say a golf club received their first 6 reviews in 2011. Their ranking went from inactive (grey) to active (orange). If a golfers would visit the profile page of that club in 2011, they would be able to make a solid choice based on those 6 reviews. But what if the golf club didn’t gather any more reviews since then? Are those 6 reviews still relevant in 2019? We believe not.
And that’s why reviews depreciate over time. It has always been like that, but this time we’ve made the depreciation go even faster to stay as relevant as possible. In the old situation the review points would stay at 100% for the first year. After the first year – and every year to come – the review would loose 30% of its total points. In the new situation the review still stays at 100% for the first year, but then looses 50% every year after that.
The depreciation of points over time. Light green is the old situation, dark green the new.
So if a golf club doesn’t get any new reviews, in time they will loose their active ranking and become less visible on Leadingcourses.com as golf clubs with an active ranking are shown before clubs with an inactive ranking in our country and region listings.
The golf course becomes the most important item of the review
If you have any questions or suggestions, don’t hesitate to comment below or to send us an email at info@leadingcourses.com.
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You are here: Home / Shop / Illustrators / Amanda Graham / Fancy Pants
Written by Kelly Hibbert and illustrated by Amanda Graham
In this fun, rollicking, rhyming tale, we meet Dingo and his friends, who are getting dressed up for the Outback Dance. They are all so excited to show off their fancy pants. All except Dingo, who has nothing but his coat to wear.
ISBN:978-0-9943853-5-2
Age:2-6 years
Pages:32 pages + cover
Published:November 2016
Dimensions:280mm x 230mm (portrait)
1090 in stock (can be backordered)
SKU: FPPB Categories: Amanda Graham, Books for Preschoolers, Books for Toddlers, Fiction, Kelly Hibbert, Paperback, Paperback, SPA Tags: Amanda Graham, Kelly Hibbert ISBN: 978-0-9943853-5-2.
The Outback Dance is drawing near and the animals are excited to show off their dazzling outfits. But poor Dingo has nothing to wear! With the help of his friends, and a little imagination, Dingo finds a fancy solution to his dilemma. Emerging author Kelly has written a heart-warming story about resilience and friendship that is sure to become an all-time family favourite. Amanda has created stunning pictures which not only capture the Australian outback but our unique animals in a very endearing and often dazzling manner. A great, fun picture book to share with children of all ages.
Author – Kelly Hibbert
Most days Kelly Hibbert can be found relief teaching in a southern suburbs primary school classroom. Sharing great books and her love of language has been her passion for more than 20 years. At home with her husband, Steve, reading has always been an important part of the daily routine with their two sons, Coby, 7, and Owen, 4. Having her debut picture book Fancy Pants selected for inclusion in the 2017 LBBC Book Pack has made her writing dream turn into a reality. As an emerging writer and a passionate advocate for children’s literacy, she feels truly privileged to have this opportunity.
Illustrator – Amanda Graham
Amanda is an author and illustrator. She has produced over 100 books, many of them for the early reading/educational market.
Her first book, Arthur, published by Era Publications, appeared in 1984. In 1985, it won the UK Children’s Federation Award and was short-listed for the CBC Awards.
Amanda’s most recent book Wilbur was written by Phil Cummings. Wilbur is a multilingual picture book with 13 languages plus English. The picture book has been distributed across Australia to support new arrivals coming in Australia.
Amanda currently writes, illustrates and teaches in and around the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
From Kids Book Review
We all love dressing up in our fanciest togs for a special occasion. Well, it turns out, the animals of the Australian bush are no different.
In this fun, rollicking, rhyming tale, we meet Dingo and his friends, who are getting gussied up for the Outback Dance. They are all so excited to show off their fancy pants. All except Dingo, who has nothing but his coat to wear.
As each animal prepares for the dance, parents and children will find at least one of the scenes excruciatingly familiar. There’s the animal that makes a huge mess while trying to decide, the one with an irritating tag at the back, the grumpy one who doesn’t like anything and, of course, the one that rips their favourite pair of pants. Ring any bells?
But, despite their own dilemmas, the animals are quick to rally around Dingo and help him find something fancy to wear.
Resilience and friendship are key themes in this delightful book, with its vibrant and endearing illustrations and flawless rhyme. It’s a gem that’s sure to be read over and over again.
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Wilbur – Dinka, Hindi, Khmer, Nuer and English
Once Upon My Legs (Hardback)
My Mini Meals
Jump and Shout (paperback)
Little Chicken Chickabee (paperback) Let’s Play
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Support Live Action
VA Gov. McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal
By Calvin Freiburger | July 17, 2015 , 02:48pm
Despite calls to do so by state Republican lawmakers, the Washington Post reports that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood over this week’s aborted baby parts sale revelations.
“Governor McAuliffe was disturbed by the content of the video in question,” spokesman Brian Coy said,” but does not believe it should be fodder for political attacks on women’s access to health care.” According to Coy, McAuliffe “is confident that” the state’s existing health laws and regulations are sufficient to ensure “any violation of those laws and regulations will be reported and appropriate action taken.”
Leaders in Congress, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas have all launched investigations into how widespread the practices in the video are and whether Planned Parenthood is violating organ trafficking laws.
But Virginia Delegate Jackson Miller suggests McAuliffe’s reluctance to join them is political: “Governor McAuliffe received nearly $2 million in campaign contributions from the abortion industry.”
As Live Action News has previously covered, McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said while campaigning for governor he would be a “brick wall” against “any restrictions” on abortion, including abortions past 20 weeks, and that he would oppose implementation of health regulations that only one of eighteen abortion clinics in Virginia meets, despite extensive reporting of health violations in the state’s facilities.
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Alleged people smuggling mastermind detained in Liverpool 'seeks asylum in UK'
Jamal Owda was the alleged ringleader of a trafficking racket that could have made £7m since 2013
John Siddle
National Crime Agency undated handout photo of the arrest of of Jamal Owda. Photo by NCA/PA Wire
The alleged head of a people smuggling gang accused of trafficking 100 Syrian refugees a day into Europe will argue he cannot be extradited because being held in a Greek prison would breach his human rights.
Palestinian national Jamal Owda, 26, who was arrested in Liverpool in December , was one of 23 people held in raids across Europe over an operation authorities claim could have made £7m since 2013 by preying on desperate civilians fleeing the civil war.
He was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant by National Crime Agency officers at an asylum shelter on Greenbank Drive, just a few yards from the edge of Sefton Park .
Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London heard today he is applying for asylum in the UK.
Greece is seeking his extradition to stand trial over the alleged smuggling operation it says was based in the country.
But his lawyer said today that prison conditions in the country may breach Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which covers the right to life.
Asylum seeker's shelter on Greenbank Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool where Jamal Owda was arrested
Amelia Nice told the hearing that the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) had investigated Greek prisons.
She said: “(The committee’s) report says things are not getting better, they are getting significantly worse, so it becomes an Article 2 case.”
She added that Owda’s legal team was trying to arrange for an expert to independently inspect a Greek prison before a full hearing in the case.
She also said: “Subsequent to extradition one of the issues is that he is likely to be sent back to Palestine. It might be open to argument that there is a risk extradition will result in deportation that may...result in human rights breaches.”
The court also heard Owda suffers from unspecified mental health problems.
The December raids saw 13 other alleged members of the gang arrested in Greece, seven in Austria and two in Sweden, the NCA said at the time.
Owda was remanded in custody by District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe ahead of a hearing on May 10.
He was living in a flat inside Greenbank Court.
The building is a well-established asylum seeker refuge, once used to house those arriving in Liverpool from the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early to mid-1990s.
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Homeland Security to Test Social Media as Disease-Tracking Tool
By Livescience.com 2012-11-14T15:49:53Z
(Image: © Twitter image via Shutterstock)
Can Facebook or Twitter reveal the spread of the ordinary cold or a possibly deadly pandemic? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to find out by monitoring popular social media networks in a yearlong project.
The project will search for disease-related warning signs by using publicly available data found through Facebook, Twitter and blogs, according to news site NextGov. Accenture, a global consulting firm, won a $3 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to set up a pilot program that will try to predict possible public health crises.
"Rapidly collecting and understanding what information is being shared will help OHA [Office of Health Affairs] meet its mission to detect and respond to potential threats to national health security,” said John Matchette, head of Accenture's Public Safety agency work.
Such a plan could theoretically provide better surveillance of incidents such as the 2001 anthrax letters, the 2003 SARS outbreak or the 2009 bird flu pandemic. But NextGov points out that Homeland Security's online monitoring efforts have also sparked concern from some members of Congress and the public about whether they violate free speech and privacy rights.
Private companies have already begun using the idea of online tools or social media to track disease trends — startups such as Sickweather scour social networks to track everything from depression to the stomach flu. Internet search giant Google uses people's online searches to track flu trends.
Source: NextGov
This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow TechNewsDaily on Twitter @TechNewsDaily, or on Facebook.
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Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Adam Carr
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
School: Liverpool School of Art and Design
Email address: A.Carr@ljmu.ac.uk
Adam Carr is a Curator and writer, and Senior Lecturer. He teaches Fine Art; History of Art and Museum Studies; and Exhibition Studies here at LJMU.
Carr currently holds a number of guest curatorial positions worldwide. He has recently curated 'POST-IT: COLOMBIA', an exhibition opening in Bogota, Colombia and co-founded Espacio Mango, a new gallery space and exhibition programme in Bogota, Colombia which opened September 2019. He is currently preparing; a solo exhibition of the work of Ryan Gander opening May 2020 in Porto and an exhibition for Collecteurs, New York opening January 2010.. His research interests cross contemporary art and curating, including uses of exhibition-making, its typologies and historical context.
He has curated over 60 exhibitions worldwide to date – previously a guest curator for Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; ICA, London; e-flux, New York; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles and Arezzo City Arts Festival. In addition, he has curated exhibitions for Francesca Minini, Milan; Yvon Lambert, Paris; Artissima, Turin; T293, Naples; Johann Konig, Berlin; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Frutta, Rome; josegarcia, mx, Mexico City; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, among many others.
Since 2017 he has been an advisor for Art Brussels where he sits on the International Advisory Board.
He is a contributing editor to Mousse Magazine and CURA., and in 2019 he was appointed contributing editor of Collecteurs, New York for whom he will also serve as an advisor for curatorial and editorial content. He is also on the editorial board of The Exhibitionist, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maria Lind, Massimiliano Gioni, Jessica Morgan and Fernanda Brenner.
From 2012 to 2017 he was Head of Exhibitions / Curator at MOSTYN I Wales (UK), Wales' largest contemporary visual arts centre where he curated solo exhibitions of the work of Amalia Pica, Ryan Gander, Annette Kelm, Keith Arnatt, Bedwyr Williams, Sean Edwards and Nina Beier, among others, as well numerous group exhibitions including 'Return Journey' and 'Dear Portrait'. His programme of exhibitions at MOSTYN also featured the 'History Series', a sequence of shows he conceived and curated – with support from Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council, Wales – that investigated the rich heritage of MOSTYN’s building and the surrounding area, and used that history as starting points for the making of exhibitions in the present.
From 2006 to 2007 he was Adjunct Curator at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.
As writer, he has had over 200 texts published on art and curatorial practice, contributing to a large number of catalogues and monographs which have been published by ICA London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; Renne Collection, Vancouver; Liverpool Biennial; and Gamec, Bergamo among others.
He has delivered lectures and given talks at many of the institutions, museums and galleries mentioned above, as well as elsewhere, including a number of Universities and at many conferences worldwide.
Senior Lecturer, Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017 - present
Guest Lecturer, Fine Art / Curating, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015 - 2015
External assessor, Fine Art - Art & Design, University of Chester, 2014 - 2014
Guest Lecturer, Fine Art / Curating, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2007 - 2007
Highlighted publications
Carr A. 'Under the Weather' Louisa Gagliardi Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 'E X I T', Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Curated by Adam Carr Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 'Original Fake' Curated by Adam Carr, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 'Miles of Creativity', MOSTYN I Wales, Curated by Adam Carr Author Url
Carr A. 'By Boat (Farewell)' Curated by Adam Carr, Jose Garcia ,mx, Mexico City Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 'POST-IT: COLOMBIA', Curated by Adam Carr & Jens Hoffmann Publisher Url
Carr A. Ryan Gander 'The union and cooperative of people: 1974-2020 Curated by Adam Carr, Porto, May 2020-
Carr A. 'POST-IT: PANAMA'
Carr A. '1-31', Curated by Adam Carr, Collecteurs, NY
Carr A. 2020. Hugh Hayden 'Meet Hugh' by Adam Carr Carr A. Mousse Magazine,
Carr A. 2019. 'Untilted': Hannah Levy by Adam Carr Mousse Magazine, Author Url
Carr A. 2019. 'Near the Weather' Louisa Gagliardi by Adam Carr Carr A. Mousse Magazine, :90-99 Publisher Url
Carr A. 2019. Lydia Ourahmane 'CASSETTE PULLED FROM CAR CRASH' Carr A. Mousse Magazine, :254-259 Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 2019. Circuit - Test, Risk, Change TATE and Paul Hamyln Foundation 978-1-52723751-3 Author Url
Carr A. 2019. Photo Boom Photo Bust: Mladen Bizumic Revolver Books, Berlin. Berlin 978-3-95763-415-3 Author Url Publisher Url
Carr A. 2018. Lara Favaretto Carr A. :8-17 Rennie Collection, Vancouver 978-0986596193 Publisher Url Public Url
Carr A, Leahy O. 'She sees the shadows' Curated by Adam Carr & Olivia Leahy, MOSTYN I Wales Author Url
Carr A. Mike Perry 'Land/Sea'
Editorial boards:
The Exhibitionist, Editorial Board, with Pablo Leon de la Barra, Fernanda Brenner, Adam Carr, Massimiliano Gioni, Maria Lind, Carol Lu, Jessica Morgan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adriano Pedrosa, https://the-exhibitionist.com/. 2019
Collecteurs, New York, Editorial contributor and advisor for curatorial and editorial content, https://www.collecteurs.com/. 2019
Membership of professional bodies:
Art Brussels, International Advisory Board, https://www.artbrussels.com/en. 2017
http://atpdiary.com/adam-carr-war-ii-mostyn-exhibits/, Interview 'WAR II', how to engage history with the contemporary (and vice versa)..
http://moussemagazine.it/return-journey-mostyn/, 'Return Journey'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHVGvWhbgrU, Curatorial talk of 'MILES OF CREATIVITY'.
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20 Things That Only 90’s Kids Will Understand
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10 Actors Who’ve Never Been Nominated For An Oscar
The Academy Awards is without a doubt one of the most highly recognized and respected award shows in Hollywood. It brings some of Hollywood’s finest actors, directors, and producers together to celebrate one thing we all love, movies! The majority of the people in the world of Hollywood dream of the day they’ll get recognized and awarded for their hard work. Despite being successful and having longevity in Hollywood, many actors have never been nominated for an Oscar award. This list consists of successful actors that have starred in critically acclaimed films, have had long careers, but never received an Oscar nomination.
Richard Gere has had a successful career in Hollywood since the early 70s. Despite acting in some critically acclaimed films through his career, Gere has never been nominated for an Academy Award.
Many of today’s young movie goers may recognize the late Alan Rickman as Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series. The actor also had a phenomenal role in Die Hard.
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The King's School
Fabulous boating boys
Sailing PRESTBURY brothers Joe and Elliot Hanson hope selection for the Royal Yachting Association's West squad will be the first step towards Olympic glory.
PRESTBURY brothers Joe and Elliot Hanson hope selection for the Royal Yachting Association's West squad will be the first step towards Olympic glory.
The boating boys started sailing in the King's School's Saturday morning club just five years ago and are now heading for national selection.
"Like any young sports people we want to aim for the very top," they said proudly.
Racing single-handed Topper boats, the siblings are fierce rivals but also firm friends and wish each other the very best.
Joe, 14, said modestly: "I have to say that Elliot probably has the edge over me and as he is younger, he has more potential, but I will be doing my very best to close the gap."
The purpose of the RYA Zone Squad Programme is to feed talented sailors into the National Squad at the appropriate age and then to enable them to progress towards the World and European Championships at Junior and Youth level.
The RYA Zone squad delivers a comprehensive range of coaching, training, off-water workshops and competition guidance. Each sailor's progress is continually assessed by top coaches at events and Joe and Elliot, 11, will be encouraged to attend the National Selection events next year.
In addition, Elliot gained a first position and Joe an overall third in the under-14s North West Junior Traveller Trophy, racing in a series of ten events all across the region.
Their parents now face a series of long weekend treks cross-country to supplement their regular in-land sailing at Redesmere Sailing Club, opposite Capesthorne Hall, with more challenging work out at sea.
Dad Peter Hanson, from Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury said: "We will probably spend 30 weekends each year taking the boys to and from races and squad training. Alongside all the young sailors there is a whole community of parents acting as support."
Elliot added: "We enjoy both inland and sea sailing. Though sea sailing is generally more challenging as you have to account for the tides and there is usually more wind and choppier water."
Joe added: "We love our chosen sport. It is both physically demanding and a testing mental challenge. You have to be strong, fit and flexible both in mind and body."
King's respected sailing coach Barry Edwards said: "It is always fantastic to see young people develop a passion for a sport and Joe and Elliot have exactly the right attitude and approach."
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Liebherr Group: Products & Services for India
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Something big is happening in Rostock
Something is moving in Rostock’s international port. Something big – with load capacities that are unique within Europe. A 164-metre-high portal heavy-duty crane is adorning the Baltic coast at this point. But even this colossus on rails only serves the purpose of building an even more impressive crane: the HLC 295000. Dr Reinhard Krappinger, the technical director of the Maritime Cranes division, reports in an interview on the challenges involved in manufacturing the largest crane ever built by Liebherr.
Mr Krappinger, what were Liebherr’s objectives when including the HLC 295000 in its product programme?
Reinhard Krappinger: Our objective is to consistently fulfil the needs of our customers. The HLC series has been designed, among other functions, for the development of offshore wind turbines. These are growing consistently and their components continue to expand to greater dimensions. Therefore, the heavy lift crane series was the logical answer to the trend towards increasingly larger offshore wind turbines.
Will the Maritime Cranes division focus even more strongly on heavy-duty cranes in the future?
Reinhard Krappinger: Yes. The expansion of the heavy-duty crane programme is anchored in our strategy because it enables us to serve a forward-looking, growing market segment. The background to this is the energy revolution: offshore wind turbines are being built more and more to guarantee sustainable energy provision. The energy revolution is also the driving force for the increased reduction in offshore oil and gas installations. One tries to dismantle as large parts as possible in order to reduce transport routes – another task that the HLC 295000 can easily manage, with its hub capacity of 5,000 tonnes. We are currently planning an annual turnover of one to two cranes from the HLC series, so there is a lot of potential.
The expansion of the heavy-duty crane programme is anchored in our strategy because it enables us to serve a forward-looking, growing market segment.
The first HLC 295000 is being produced for the Belgian DEME Group. Why did the customer choose Liebherr?
Reinhard Krappinger:Due to the complexity and size of these cranes there are only a few producers that can fulfil the required technological requirements and have adequate production capabilities. In addition to that, customers for this type of crane have extremely high quality demands and place importance on the fact that the place of production is Europe. We produce in Rostock, and with regard to quality we have the added advantage that basic components are from Liebherr’s own production. In addition to this, our customers require a competent, reliable service. We can fulfil all these requirements, that’s why they chose us.
What did these customer requirements look like in detail?
Reinhard Krappinger: The requirements were primarily to lift high loads from plant parts and foundation structures. For example, it requires lifting heights of up to 175 metres to lift the topside, i.e. the entire part of the wind turbine that lies above the waterline. For this work, the HLC has a capacity of 8 megawatts as well as Litronic crane control, which we developed in-house.
What challenges does the construction of the HLC 295000 pose?
Reinhard Krappinger: A crane of these dimensions was something new, even for us. The size of the components alone as well as their transport to the individual production sites on our company premises make a respectively intelligent planning and logistics process necessary. For example, a processing machine had to be extended and installed in the production hall for the final revolving stage weighing in at 3,000 tonnes. We also constructed a portal heavy-duty crane for the initial assembly of the crane based on the MTC 78000 and built it up in our plant, the TCC 78000. It has a hub capacity of 1,600 tonnes and towers over the – to date – highest building in Rostock port at 164 metres, the cooling tower of the Rostock power plant. It is also one of the largest inland portal heavy-duty cranes worldwide.
How many employees are involved in the project?
Reinhard Krappinger: The HLC core team consists of inter-disciplinarian and cross-company participants. We have pooled competences from Liebherr plants in Rostock, Nenzing and Biberach. The employees come primarily from the sales, development, purchasing, production, initial assembly and customer service sectors. Depending on the development and construction phase, the team is comprised of 30 to 40 employees. Approx. 250 people are employed in the production sector.
And finally, Mr Krappinger, could you tell us how far the construction has progressed at the moment?
Reinhard Krappinger: The steel construction is more or less completed and we have begun with assembly. If you walk through our production halls, you can see the impressive main modules and the first major components such as large anti-friction bearings, winches or rotators. In total 800 tonnes of components come out of the Liebherr plant in Biberach.
Mr Krappinger, thank you for the interview.
Come join the Revolution!
INTUSI, a new piece of control technology, marks a revolution in machine communication. It was created in a joint development project of the Technical University (TU) Dresden and Liebherr.
Heavy lift crane series
The Liebherr heavy lift crane series (HLC) is designed especially for the installation of wind farms and for the oil and gas as well as the decommissioning sector.
In this section you will find several stories around exciting topics from the Liebherr Group.
To the stories
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Feeling Disengaged At Work? Here’s The Solution
Employee engagement, or a serious lack of, is a common problem amongst many companies and organisations. Here, we have a possible solution!
Occupy Meetings
According to Gallup, only 13% of employees around the world are engaged at work. Despite this, many would happily welcome more work.
Stop Wasting Time
More than half of the workers surveyed said they attend one to three meetings per week, which is about four to ten hours. However, they often aren't focusing entirely on the meeting: 69% check their mail, 49% do other work, 44% eat and have other conversations. Overall, 92% confess to multi-tasking during meetings.
Consider What The Impact Of Low Engagement Is
Low employee engagement is estimated to cost the United States somewhere between $450 to $550 billion a year. Higher engagement increases profitability, turnover and safety.
How You Can Get Your Employees More Engaged: Video
Where many employees confessed to being distracted during face-to-face meetings (16%) only 4% felt the same during video conferences. 63% said they were more likely to prepare thoroughly before a video meeting, and 67% admit video conferences help breakdown geographical boundaries which encourages deeper engagement.
Want More Engaged Employees? | Fusebox
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1 Is It Time for a Career Change? (And How to Make the Change) 2 8 Things to Consider When Making a Career Change 3 6 Important Interview Questions for Employers to Ask 4 15 Best Interview Questions to Ask Employees 5 10 Ways to Build Positive And Effective Work Relationships
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Are you challenged at work? Do you regret career decisions? Are you happy? If the answer to the questions leads to a negative feeling, it is time to determine next steps.
Many people settle for a career that no longer brings satisfaction. Most will respond by stating, “I am surviving” if a colleague asks them “How’s work?”
Settling for a job to pay bills and maintain a lifestyle is stagnation. You can re-direct the journey of a career with confidence by taking control of future decisions. After all, you deserve to be live a happy life that will offer a work-life balance.
Let’s look at the reasons why you need a career change and how to choose a career for a more fulfilling life.
How to Know if You Need a Career Change?
Physical Signs
Mental Signs
Are You Sure You're Not Changing for the Wrong Reason?
How a Career Change Will Change Your Life
How to Make a Career Change Successfully
More About Career Change
The challenges of dissatisfaction in a career can have a negative impact on our mental health. As a result, our mental health can lead to the obvious appearance of stress, aging, weight gain and internal health issues.
You deserve a career that will fulfill the inner desire of true happiness. Here are common factors that it is time for you to change your career.
Are you aging since you started your job? Do you have anxiety? What about work-related injuries?
It feels amazing to receive a pay cheque, but you deserve to work in an environment that brings out the best of you. If the work environment is hazardous, speak to your boss about alternative options.
In the case that colleagues or your boss take advantage of your kindness, feeling the anxiety of fear of losing your job because of a high-stress environment may not be right for you.
One out of five Americans has mental health issues, according to Mental Health America.[1] In most cases, it is related to stress.
I remember working at a job in a work environment where harassment was acceptable. I had to walk on eggshells to avoid crossing the line with colleagues. My friends started to notice the difference in that I seemed out of character. It was then that I knew that changing a career to freelancing was the right decision.
Here is a list of mental signs of workplace unhappiness:
The tension in your neck
Difficulties with sleeping
Unable to concentrate
If you start to feel your self-esteem is diminishing, it is time to consider if working in a high-stress industry is for you. The truth is, this negative energy will be transferred to people in your life like friends and family.
Are You Sure You’re Not Changing for the Wrong Reason?
Most people that feel they need a career are frustrated with their situation at work. Do you really understand your current situation at work?
The reason it is important to think about the work situation is some people decide to change career for factors that are insignificant. Factors that can potentially change if the person works in a different department or new organization.
Here is a list of unimportant factors to think about before you decide to make the transition:
Desire for an Increase of Salary
The desire for a higher income can persuade some to believe they are in the wrong career. The issue with this is more money requires more time in the office or taking on several positions at a time.
At times, pursuing a high-income role can be the complete opposite of what one is expected. It is what happens when a colleague leaves a company to a new one and returns several years later.
Overnight Decision
Let’s face it. We make overnight decisions when stressed out or disappointed with situations at work. The problem with a quick decision is the negative and positive points is overlooked.
Rejected for a Promotion
I have heard stories of managers that applied ten times for a position throughout a 5-year period. Yes, it sounds to be a lengthy process, but at times, a promotion requires time. Avoid changing a career if you do not see the results of a promotion currently.
Bored at Work
Think deeply about this point. If you work a job that is repetitive, it is normal to feel bored. You can spice it up by changing the appearance of your desk, socializing with new employees in a different department, joining a leadership committee at work or coming to work with enthusiasm. Sometimes, all it takes is you to change jobs into a fun situation.
A career change can take time, networking, education and the job search process can be a journey. Here is a list of things to consider before making a final decision:
How long have you worked in your career?
What is the problem at work? Do you work well with the team?
Do you receive recognition?
Can you consider working in a new department?
If after reviewing your work situation and none of the above recommendations can help, then it’s time to make a career change.
I have a friend that works in the medical industry. She was once a nurse working directly with patients in one of the top hospitals in her area. After five years, she started to internalize the issues with her patients to the point where she felt depressed after work hours. It impacted her relationship with her family and she almost lost herself.
One day, she decided to wake up and take control of her destiny. She started applying for new medical jobs in the office. It meant working on medical documentation of patients which is not an ideal career based on what society expects a medical professional to perform. But she started to feel happier.
It is a classic example of a person that was negatively impacted by issues at work, stayed in the same industry but changed careers.
A career change can fulfill a lifelong dream, increase one’s self-esteem or revive the excitement for one’s work.
You know a career change can be the right decision to make if you experience one or all of these:
Working in a negative workplace: Don’t be discouraged. A negative workplace can be changed by working at a new organization.
Working with a difficult boss: The challenges of working with a difficult boss can be stressful. All it takes is communication. You can address the issue directly with a manager professionally and respectfully.
Feeling lost about what you do: Most people stay at their jobs and settle for mediocrity because of the fear of failure or the unknown. The rise to success often comes with working a tedious role or stepping outside of one’s comfort zone. If you fear the idea of being involved in activities that are new, remember that life is short. Mediocrity will only continue to make you feel as if life is passing you by.
The ultimate key to success is to go through a career transition step by step to avoid making the wrong decision.
1. Write a Career Plan
A career plan has a dead line for action steps that includes taking new courses, learning a new language, networking or improving issues at work.[2] A career plan should be kept in your wallet because it will motivate you to keep pursuing the role.
You can learn how to set your career plan here.
2. Weigh Your Options
If you have a degree in Accounting, write down five positions in this industry of interest. The good news is diplomas and degrees can be used to a variety of roles to choose.
You don’t have to stick to what society holds a top job. In the end, choosing the right role that will make you happy is priceless.
3. Be Real About the Pros and Cons
It is time to be honest about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the job market that are impacting the current situation.
A SWOT Analysis of a career can include:[3]
Direct competition: Is this role in high demand?
Location: Do you need to move? If the goal is to work in tech and living in Cincinnati is not realistic, consider moving to San Francisco.
Achievements: To stand out from the competition achievements like awards, committee involvement, freelance work or volunteering is a recipe for success.
Education: Do you need to go back to school? Education can be expensive. However, online courses, webinars or self-study is an option.
A career blueprint is the first step to creating realistic goals. A person without goals will be disappointed without a clear direction of what to do next.
4. Find a Mentor or Career Coach
A mentor or a career coach that works in the desired position can share the pros and cons of working in the role. Here is a list of questions to ask a mentor:
What is required to be successful in the role?
What certification or educational development is needed?
What are the challenges of the role?
Is there potential for career advancement?
A chat at a coffee shop with a mentor can change your mind about the desire for a career change.
Find out how to pick a good mentor for yourself in this article: How to Find a Mentor That Will Help You Succeed
5. Research Salary
Some people decide to change careers for a role that pays less or perks like benefits to make up for the difference in previous to potential salary.
It can reveal the cities throughout the country that offer a higher salary for those that have an interest in relocating for work.
If your goal is to move up into an executive position, it is time to be honest about where you are in your career.
For example, if boardroom meetings, high-level discussions about financials or attending weekly networking events are boring, an executive role may not be right for you. If you are an introvert and working with people every day is nerve wrecking, you need to reconsider a job in sales.
Ask yourself if you can work in this role for the next five years of your life. If other benefits that come with the role are enticing, other roles are fit that will make you happy.
7. Volunteer First
A person that wants to become a manager should take on volunteer opportunities to experience the reality of the position.
Becoming a committee member to pursue a presidential opportunity can provide a perspective on leadership, maintaining a budget and public speaking.
Volunteer in a role until you are certain that it is the right opportunity.
8. Prepare Your Career Tools
I recommend asking a boss, colleague or mentor for career tools. If you prefer professional assistance, you can seek out resume writing assistance. Here is a list of things to consider when preparing career tools:
Online search: Search your name online to see what shows up. I recommend searching images that are on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat or other sites on a personal account. The last thing you want to realize is the job search is unsuccessful because there is unprofessional content you posted online.
Be LinkedIn ready: Recruiters conduct a LinkedIn search to see if the work experience is the same on a resume. Remember to change the wording on LinkedIn from the resume, or it will appear there was no effort put into creating the profile.
Portfolio: A portfolio of work is recommended for people that work in the arts, writing, graphic design and other fields. I recommend a portfolio online and one that is available in hand when attending job interviews or networking meetups.
Cover letter: A good cover writer will always impress your potential employers. Here’s how to write a killer cover letter that stands out from others.
It takes time to move towards a new career. Pay attention to the physical and mental signs to maintain your health. You deserve to work in happiness and come home stress-free. If you avoid the common mistakes people make, you will find a job and discover the role in a career field that is the best fit with your skillsets.
Master these action steps and changing career paths will be on your terms to make the best decision for your future.
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[1] ^ Mental Health America: The State of Mental Health in America
[2] ^ MIT Global Education & Career Development: Make a Career Plan
[3] ^ Creately: Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself
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What Is a Text File?
Computer Concepts
How to open, edit, and convert text files
Lifewire / Tim Fisher
A text file is a file containing text, but there are several different ways to think about that, so it's important to know the kind of text document you have before dealing with a program that can open or convert it.
Some text files use the .TXT file extension and don't contain any images. Others might contain both images and text, but still be called a text file or even abbreviated as a 'txt file,' which can be confusing.
Types of Text Files
In the general sense, a text file refers to any file that has only text and is void of images and other non-text characters. These sometimes use the TXT file extension but don't necessarily need to. For example, a Word document that is an essay containing just text can be in the DOCX file format but still be called a text file.
Another kind of text file is the 'plain text' file. This is a file that contains zero formatting (unlike RTF files), meaning nothing is bold, italic, underlined, colored, using a special font, etc. Several examples of plain text file formats include ones that end in XML, REG, BAT, PLS, M3U, M3U8, SRT, IES, AIR, STP, XSPF, DIZ, SFM, THEME, and TORRENT.
Of course, files with the .TXT file extension are text files too and are commonly used to store things that can be easily opened with any text editor or written to with a simple script. Examples might include storing step-by-step instructions for how to use something, a place to hold temporary information, or logs generated by a program (though those are usually stored in a LOG file).
"Plaintext," or cleartext files, are different than "plain text" files (with a space). If file storage encryption or file transfer encryption is not used, the data can be said to exist in plaintext or be transferred over plaintext. This can be applied to anything that should be secured but isn't, be it emails, messages, plain text files, passwords, etc., but it's usually used in reference to cryptography.
How to Open a Text File
All text editors should be able to open any text file, especially if there isn't any special formatting being used. For example, TXT files can be opened with the built-in Notepad program in Windows by right-clicking the file and choosing Edit. Similar for TextEdit on a Mac.
Another free program that can open any text file is Notepad++. Once installed, you can right-click the file and choose Edit with Notepad++.
Notepad++ is just one of our favorite text editors.
Most web browsers and mobile devices can open text files too. However, since most of them are not built to load text files using the various extensions you mind them using, you might need to first rename the file extension to .TXT if you want to use those applications to read the file.
Some other text editors and viewers include Microsoft Word, TextPad, Notepad2, Geany, and Microsoft WordPad.
Additional text editors for macOS include BBEdit and TextMate. Linux users can also try the Leafpad, gedit, and KWrite text openers/editors.
Open Any File as a Text Document
Something else to understand here is that any file can be opened as a text document even if it doesn't contain readable text. Doing this is useful when you're not sure what file format it's really in, like if it's missing a file extension or you think it's been identified with an incorrect file extension.
For example, you can open an MP3 audio file as a text file by plugging it into a text editor like Notepad++. You can't play the MP3 this way but you can see what it's made up of in text form since the text editor is only able to render the data as text.
With MP3s in particular, the very first line should include "ID3" to indicate that it's a metadata container that might store information like an artist, album, track number, etc.
Another example is the PDF file format; every file starts off with the "%PDF" text on the first line, even though it'll be completely unreadable.
How to Convert Text Files
The only real purpose for converting text files is to save them into another text-based format like CSV, PDF, XML, HTML, XLSX, etc. You can do this with most advanced text editors but not the simpler ones since they generally only support basic export formats like TXT, CSV, and RTF.
For example, the Notepad++ program mentioned above is capable of saving to a huge number of file formats, like HTML, TXT, NFO, PHP, PS, ASM, AU3, SH, BAT, SQL, TEX, VGS, CSS, CMD, REG, URL, HEX, VHD, PLIST, JAVA, XML, and KML.
Other programs that export to a text format can probably save to a few different kinds, typically TXT, RTF, CSV, and XML. So if you need a file from a specific program to be in a new text format, consider returning to the application that made the original text file, and export it to something else.
All that said, text is text so long as it's plain text, so simply renaming the file, swapping one extension for another, might be all you need to do to "convert" the file.
Also, see our list of Free Document Converter Software Programs for some additional file converters that work with various types of text files.
Is Your File Still Not Opening?
Are you seeing jumbled text when you open your file? Maybe most of it, or all of it, is completely unreadable. The most likely reason for this is that the file is not plain text.
Like we mentioned above, you can open any file with Notepad++, but like with the MP3 example, it doesn't mean that you can actually use the file there. If you try your file in a text editor and it's not rendering like you think it should rethink how it should open; it's probably not in a file format that can be explained in human-readable text.
If you have no idea how your file should open, consider trying some popular programs that work with a wide variety of formats. For example, while Notepad++ is great for seeing the text version of a file, try dragging your file into VLC media player to check if it's a media file that contains video or sound data.
What's a BAT File and How Do You Open One?
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What's an TEX File and How Do You Open One?
What's a SEARCH-MS File and How Do You Open One?
What's an MD File and How Do You Open One?
What's an EDS File and How Do You Open One?
What's an RTF File and How Do You Open One?
What's an IDX File and How Do You Open One?
What's a CSV File and How Do You Open One?
What's an M3U8 File and How Do You Open One?
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What's a C File and How Do You Open One?
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Mark Pople
writer, editor, tutor, artist
Rogers Park reviews
BIO / ARTWORK / TUTORING and EDITING
Mark Pople's literary thriller, Rogers Park, is a classy crime noir homage to Alfred Hitchcock. I think he would have loved this book. Rogers Park is most highly recommended. - Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite
With a sparkling and fresh writing style, Mark Pople spins a truly relevant story from a teacher's point of view. This is a bright spot in contempoary storytelling and I recommend Rogers Park to readers of all genres. Enjoy! -Barbara Andrews, author of Hetty's Song and Death of the Skylark
Pople’s sharp prose style—rich with descriptive detail and hints of the hardboiled detective genre—fuels a story that grips its reader tightly and recreates a Chicago neighborhood as it once was. The sturdy brick apartment buildings, dingy alleyways, and brutal winter winds of his Rogers Park build just the right atmosphere for the layers of mystery, malaise, guilt, and redemption that unfold within. Balanced out with wry humor, these elements all come full circle by the end, with some great twists and turns along the way. - Jennifer Malkowski, Ph.D. in Film & Media from the University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Miami University
Warning, this page-turner will make you skip your other duties. The story is riveting. The writing is crisp and witty and the characters complex. -Theresa McClellan, retired crime reporter for The Grand Rapids Press
Mark Pople has written an engaging suspense thriller that I enjoyed from the first sentence. Definitely recommended. I shall look forward to reading more from this author. - Jane Finch, Readers’Favorite
A fine first novel that leaves me hopeful that Pople will give us more. -James Murtha
An inspiring novel of forgiveness. Mark Pople has done a fantastic job of weaving all the complicated threads of Brian Casey’s life together and drawing everything towards the conclusion. Rogers Park is an intriguing and compelling read.
- Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers' Favorite
Look for full reviews on amazon.com, goodreads.com and barnesandnoble.com
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